Bates Magazine: Spring 2014 by Bates College

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7 Student rooms are certifiable, in a green way.

42 “Teacher-scholar” is a tired phrase and other thoughts from Matt Auer.

36 Who gets what from the $II.5 million Catalyst Fund.

The Fund

Catalyst

in a turf bog, poet seamus heaney, litt.d. ’57

Afterward, he grabbed my hand in his and said, “So you are a poet?” And I said, “No.” Page 56

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2 Letters 4 Bates in Brief 24 Amusements 26 Features 58 Notes 92 History Lesson 96 From a Distance

Take a closer look at why this duck gives honking approval of Nezinscot Farm. Page 26

OPENING THOUGHT: JAMES RICHTER, PROFESSOR OF POLITICS Source: Panel discussion sponsored by the Bates Law and Politics Club on March 19, 2014, led by Richter and Associate Professor of Russian Dennis Browne.

The press has framed this as a victory, as has Putin. But it should be seen as a strategic defeat. Putin hoped to bring the Ukraine into its customs union and prevent the country from partnering with the European Union. But heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done the opposite â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and Crimea will be expensive for Russia to maintain.

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Student members of the Bates Energy Action Movement urge divestment from the fossil fuel industry during Parents & Family Weekend last September.

Fossil Fuel Investments

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Although it is true there are risks involved in divestment, I must disagree with President Spencer’s statement that the endowment is not meant to be a political pawn (“President Clayton Spencer’s statement on climate change and divestment,” Jan. 21, 2014). The situation is inherently political. Choosing to invest in and endorse the fossil fuel companies is a statement equally strong as divesting. Ellen Southworth ’16

Durango, Colo.

The policy adopted seems appropriate. Bates continues to be a leader in addressing environmental sustainability issues. The current policy seems completely appropriate. Congratulations to Bates for the significant study of the inclusion of fossil fuels companies in its endowment, including a careful consideration of the views of its many constituencies. Weston Bonney ’50

Portland, Maine

Tommy Holmberg ’13 gave a wonderful speech — and what he said is so very true (“Commencement: Not the End But a Beautiful Cycle,” Summer 2013). As a Bates student, I felt the way Tommy describes it in his speech — surrounded by my peers who became my heroes, inspired by certain professors to reach for my dreams, passionate about the things I believed in, and part of something endlessly and wholly good. I have heard a fair number of senior speeches, all of them seeking to inspire graduates to move forward. Not one has been a love letter to the institution that nurtured those graduates, to the community that raised them during their college years and to the peers that made up the mosaic of each of their days in college. This speech was unique, and I’m glad that I read it. Twenty-five years after my own graduation, each word of it rings true for me. Clara Avalos ’89

Leesburg, Va.

Maine, Bates, Young People In 1980, when the CEO of General Mills was Robert Kinney ’39 (“In Memoriam,” Summer 2013), I was a Ladd intern in Minneapolis in General Mills’ marketing research department. It was a great opportunity for an undergrad economics major, made possible by Mr. Kinney and his commitment to Bates. There were M.B.A.s from Harvard, Dartmouth, Stanford and elsewhere doing marketing internships — and there was me. At that time, General Mills had its standard brands like Wheaties, Cheerios and Betty Crocker, but also Gorton’s, Yoplait, Izod Lacoste, Red Lobster and others. I seem to recall a frozen pizza brand and two men in fake moustaches auditioning to play a chef for a TV commercial. I requested and was granted a meeting in Mr. Kinney’s spacious office, and I recall a coffee table book on Maine sitting in plain view. It was clear that he loved Bates, Maine and helping out young people.

I’m glad to see that some of the Catalyst Fund money is going towards Opportunity and Excellence, and I hope that segment is substantial (“$11.5 million Catalyst Fund will support ‘transformational change,’” Oct. 28, 2013). Thinking back, I wish I could have had more socioeconomic diversity as part of my wonderful Bates experience. Many people I work with today who went to great institutions like Bates have lots of empathy in most matters, but they have trouble truly putting themselves in the shoes of someone who needs to choose between feeding their kids and paying for heat. Many of these folks have trouble being “resourceful.” Having more people around who have grown up with less will not only help other students to more completely recognize their privilege, but also to recognize that growing up “poor” might also entail a whole lot of richness, not to mention the development of innumerable skills.

Bob Muldoon ’81

Aubrey Nelson ’08

Andover, Mass.

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In Others’ Shoes

Concord, N.H.

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Better than Good The Bates production of In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) last fall was fantastic. I had the privilege of being in numerous productions while a student, and again seeing a production on campus reminds me of how special the Bates theater department is. I am a professional actor in New York largely because of my experiences at Bates under the tutelage of Kati Vecsey, Martin Andrucki and the whole department. Having seen and been in many shows in New York, I can say I wish many of them were half as good as this production was. The acting was superb, the set design was immaculate and the costumes were popping right off the stage. Congratulations to all! Thomas Wesson ’09

New York, N.Y.

See this issue’s Arts & Culture section for more about the play. — Editor

Frye’s Family I enjoyed the article on William P. Frye (“What’s In a Name?” Summer 2013), especially since Sen. Frye was my great-great grandfather. As a history major, I chose the senator’s career as the topic for my senior thesis. So far, six of the senator’s descendants have graduated from Bates: me, my mother, three of her siblings and a cousin’s son. Also, the first U.S. merchant ship sunk by the Germans in World War I, in 1915, was the William P. Frye, a four-masted steel bark built in Bath, Maine. Cindi Byrkit ’74

Rob Farnsworth is teaching his course on modern Irish poets this semester, and he said he’s finding it more challenging than usual. When we spoke, I had been writing about new classroom, things related to what rhetoric professor Charles Nero calls higher education’s “age of the screen.” So I thought that maybe Farnsworth was talking about a balky livestream or hiccupping audio player. It wasn’t that, he said. “It’s been emotionally challenging.” One of the Irish poets that Farnsworth has taught for many years is Seamus Heaney, a generous friend to Farnsworth since they met in the early 1980s. “He was the most naturally gracious man I ever met,” said Farnsworth. Heaney died last summer; his passing prompted author Carrie Barnard Jones ’93 to write this issue’s cover essay about meeting Heaney at Bates, through Farnsworth’s introduction, and what Heaney did for her own sense of self. Heaney read at Bates a few times over the years, and whenever he was north of Boston, says Farnsworth, “I tried to catch up with him. I just never supposed that I would never cross paths with him again.” In 1986, Heaney received an honorary degree from Bates, nominated by the late Peter Gomes ’65, a Harvard colleague. On Commencement Day that year, Heaney surprised the gathering with a spellbinding reading of his poem “Digging.” The poem is about generational self-identity, not a bad theme for a Commencement offering. It’s about the poet trying to define his own life and work in relation to his grandfather and father, who are recalled in the poem wielding their spades, digging for peat and digging for potatoes. “But,” laments the poet, “I’ve no spade to follow men like them.” Instead: Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests. I’ll dig with it. Cultivating similar ground is the college’s Purposeful Work initiative, one of three supported by the $11.5 million Catalyst Fund (see page 36). If the poem “Digging” is about the poet finding his own calling, then Purposeful Work is about Bates wanting to be more deliberate in helping students find — and love — their own set of work tools. “Preparing students for lives of meaningful work lies at the heart of the liberal arts mission,” says President Spencer. Bates was founded for students who had little and wanted to improve their lot through education. They were “thoughtful, intelligent people, desirous of getting on in the world,” wrote Alfred Anthony in Bates College and Its Background. Maybe this pragmatic founding allows Bates to be especially forthright in discussing work — rewarding, satisfying work — as a necessary outcome of a Bates education. Back in the 1950s, President Phillips placed preparation for a career at the forefront of his “Bates Plan.” While his vernacular was different, his message remains the same. A liberal arts college, he said, must be where the teaching of “culture and competence goes hand in hand.” H. Jay Burns, Editor magazine@bates.edu

Auburn, Maine

Cheerio! In reference to the April 1958 food fight (“Amusements,” Summer 2013), our class cheer went something like this: Grilled cheese sandwiches Boston cream pie, From the Class of ’58, Here’s mud in your eye. John Fresina ’58

Bedford, Mass.

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At the Imaging Center studio in Coram, Margaret Pope ’16 of McCall, Idaho, gets two helping hands as she prepares to model a scarf by Himalayan Spirit 8848, an ethical clothing company based in Nepal. The College Store now sells the scarves, thanks to the work of the firm’s creative business director, Suraj Karmacharya ’14 of Kathmandu.

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STUDENTS

A “frisky” place in the library is in Periodicals, according to The Bates Student.

The name of the Bates student coffeehouse has morphed from The Ronj to Le Ronj.

TRIP CALCULATOR Mined by The Bates Student, a few numbers from last August’s outdoor AESOP trips for the Class of 2017. These rented vehicles: 39 passenger vans 11 minivans 5 trucks PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN

burned: 900 gallons of fuel on: 48 trips while carrying: 338 first-years 96 upperclass trip leaders who slept in: 65 tents

Schless Picks Up Where the Last Letter Ended

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In September 1793, at the start of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, an imprisoned French lord named Laurent Basset de Châteaubourg wrote a letter to his wife. Knowing he would soon face the guillotine, Basset de Châteaubourg titled his correspondence La Dernière Lettre, “The Last Letter.” On Dec. 15, 1793, death found Basset de Châteaubourg, but the letter survived, passed down from generation to generation. A few years ago, Hank Schless ’14 of Old Greenwich, Conn., the doomed lord’s five-times-great-grandson, used his high-school French language skills to translate the letter. From the letter, Schless learned that Basset de Châteaubourg was trying to help his wife go on without him, giving advice on how to raise their two children, telling her that they will discover “the principles of honesty...in your beautiful spirit, a spring that is just as beautiful.” He tells her to seek her inheritance rights as a widow. If she is denied her inheritance, “you will know how to live with little,” he writes. He suggests where to flee, whom to trust and, above all, the need to keep faith in God. “It is late, my love, I am going to sleep,” he writes. “Alas, it could be for the last time but know that I loved you dearly…. [W]hen one has this kind of good Christian life, one does not fear the point of death on the scaffold, and it is an expiation that calms.” Schless has always been “very proud” of his family’s French heritage, but reading the letter helped turn pride into action, and he decided to major in French. “I decided to really delve deeply into the academics,” he says, and take an educated look at his French family history. Studying abroad in France last year and during a summer, Schless expanded his knowledge of his ancestors by visiting family members and reviewing a trove of documents passed down through the generations. Schless recently completed his French thesis, and La Dernière Lettre forms “its base,” he says. Exploring Basset de Châteaubourg’s use of language helped Schless “learn about the nobility” at the time of the French Revolution. He looked at “representations in literature of different ‘types’ of nobility at a time when the country as a whole was redefining itself,” and examined the broader topic of de-Christianization of France during the French Revolution. In the end, La Dernière Lettre has moved Schless to a new understanding of his family’s French heritage. “I’m very happy about where this letter has taken me.”

and ate: 3,072 oatmeal packets 2,176 Nature Valley bars 1,572 Nutrigrain and Quaker Chewy bars 1,088 Hershey bars 388 Boxes of Annie’s Mac and Cheese

A student who has an overnight guest can borrow a mattress from the college.

The Health Center offers light therapy to help treat Seasonal Affective Disorder.

7.2 percent of students live in non-Bates, off-campus housing.

Bates debaters Taylor Blackburn ’15 and Matt Summers ’15.

Keep windows shut in winter

Green Certified

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Green Badge of Honor

Third in the Nation If you want a quick shot of Bates pride, check out the national rankings at the American Parliamentary Debate Association website: apdaweb.org/standings. As of mid-February, you’d see the third-ranked team of Taylor Blackburn ’15 of Atherton, Calif., and Matt Summers ’15 of Short Hills, N.J., pictured here just before heading off to a Harvard tournament. You’d notice Zoe Seaman-Grant ’17 of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Matthew Kahn ’17 of Newington, Conn., the first- and second-ranked novice speakers in the nation. And as an entire team, the Brooks Quimby Debate Society is seventh in the nation. A big accomplishment? “Enormous,” says Jan Hovden, director of debate and lecturer in rhetoric.

We all need a little recognition for a job well done. Even the Cowardly Lion got a medal, after all. In that spirit, Bates roommates can have their dorm room “green certified” by the college’s Sustainability Office — and get a nifty patch and sticker — if they agree to execute 22 of these 26 tasks. (College offices can also go through a similar certification.)

It’s confusing to register for courses the first time around. Worse, you might have your parents telling you what to take. For dazed and confused first-years, there’s help. Summer 2013 saw an expansion of a pilot program that has faculty members from a range of disciplines taking phone calls to help students navigate the course-selection process. Last summer’s professors included Margaret Imber (classical and medieval studies), John Kelsey (psychology and neuroscience), Jennifer Koviach-Côté (chemistry and biological chemistry), Lisa Maurizio (classical and medieval studies), Karen Palin (biology), Clarisa PérezArmendáriz (politics) and Eric Towne (assistant in instruction in mathematics).

Unplug cords when chargers, etc., are not in use Waste Recycle more than what’s thrown away Use a reusable water bottle and don’t purchase plastic-bottled water Use reusable items such as bags, water bottles and coffee mugs Make sure residence hall recycling bins are located next to trash and signage is clear Transportation

Energy Turn lights off when leaving a room, or when seeing a light on in an empty room

Be aware of the college’s sustainable transportation options Seek to carpool during outings and breaks

Use CFL or LED bulbs in personal lamps

Do not drive for trips under two miles

Set computers to standby/ hibernate when not in use and turn them off at night

Do not keep a car at Bates

Use window shades to reduce heat in hot weather

Did You Know?

Use energy-efficient settings for laundry, and wash full loads

Keep room thermostats between 66 and 70 degrees during winter During breaks, turn radiator controls down, empty and unplug refrigerators, turn off energy-using devices, close windows and pull the shades Contact Facilities Services to fix drafts, leaks and temperature problems Limit showers to five minutes Turn off faucet when washing hands, brushing teeth and shaving

Have at least one Zipcar membership among roommates Leadership and Engagement Attend at least one campus sustainability event, such as an EnviroLunch, the Otis Lecture or the Trashion Show Read the EcoRep newsletter Challenge friends and neighbors to pursue Green room certification Be aware of environmental groups on campus Bring one sustainability idea to your sports team, club, class or campus group Spring 2014

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CAMPUS

You can charge a device on outlets located among the Keigwin Amphitheater rocks.

The campus grew by two acres in 20I3 with the purchase of three rental properties.

Breathing Life Into Campus Life Two new residence halls along Campus Avenue will be in place by fall 2016, the first step of a multi-year project to establish a dynamic center of college life on the south side of campus, President Clayton Spencer announced in December. The Campus Life Project will also create a more defined and welcoming gateway to Bates on the southeast corner of campus and ultimately transform Chase Hall into a contemporary center of Bates life. “The Campus Life Project represents a crucial step forward in our commitment to deliver a highly personal liberal arts education that locates the academic experience in a residential community,” Spencer said. The new buildings, which will be across Campus Avenue from Carnegie Science Hall, Chase Hall and Muskie Archives, will also provide a new space for the College Store, currently located in Chase’s lower level. Groundbreaking is set for September, and the new buildings will open in fall 2016. College offices now housed in woodframe buildings on and near Campus Avenue, including the Bates Career Development Center and the

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Office of Intercultural Education, will be relocated to other spaces beginning in June, and those buildings will be razed. The project will be funded through a combination of tax-exempt financing and significant college fundraising, including naming opportunities at a variety of levels. The college has retained Ann Beha Architects, a Boston-based planning and design firm, as project architect. By adding some 200 new student beds, the project continues a strategic effort to improve Bates student housing. Campus enrollment will remain at 1,750 (with another 250 studying abroad), so the new beds will effectively reduce overcrowding in other residences, like Smith Hall. Following completion of the new Campus Avenue buildings, Bates will undertake a comprehensive reimagining and expansion of Chase Hall to serve as the hub of campus life, offering social, meeting and organizational spaces for students, faculty, staff and alumni. Chase has undergone a number of additions and renovations over the decades, the most recent in 2012. Supported by generous alumni and

parents, Bates made significant improvements to the lobby, Memorial Commons, the Bobcat Den and Chase Lounge, and created meeting space for the Bates Outing Club. “Our goal is to complete the reclamation of Chase Hall for today and to place this beloved building front and center as a hub of Bates campus life,” Spencer said. In the end, the Campus Life Project will turn a few blocks of Campus Avenue into a lively center of Bates life, and “will renew and extend Bates’ identity and resources along Campus Avenue, while establishing a vibrant campus gateway and a hub for community activity,” said architect Beha. Campus Life Project bates.edu/campus-life-project The yellow highlighted area below, directly across from Chase Hall, marks the Campus Avenue location where Bates will erect several new residence halls by fall 2016. The next project is to turn Chase into a true campus center.

The tiniest Bates structure is the Russell Street utility shed (204 gross square feet).

The library has study spaces for 840 students.

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Bates owns 85 rental units (houses or apartments) on 57 different properties.

Ladd’s New Look The rejiggering of various Ladd Library spaces included a change in the layout of the main floor workstations. Rather than forcing students to work shoulder to shoulder, the arrangement of the new touch-screen computers reflects what students like: informality, group work and multitasking.

Snow Job

MARC GLASS ’88

A snow-free Garcelon Field benefits not just athletes looking to get a jump-start on their spring sport but anyone trying to shake that cooped-up, cabin fever vibe. “By January, students can’t wait to get out there and use it,” says Mike Adams of Facility Services. After a snowstorm, plowing late at night works best. Students aren’t around, and the snow “seems to move better,” Adams says. The truck’s plow has a neoprene edge “set an inch or so above the surface,” Adams explains, “so we don’t scrape off the crumb rubber” — the loose, spongy rubber granules that are integral to the FieldTurf surface. Spring 2014

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ACADEMICS

A student’s oral defense of an honors thesis usually lasts 90 minutes.

59 percent of students graduate with a minor.

New to the Party Bates’ four new assistant professors occupy disciplines as old as Western thought itself — history, rhetoric, physics and theater — yet each professor brings a contemporary twist.

Name: Lydia Barnett

Name: Jonathan Cavallero

Name: Travis Gould

Name: Brooke O’Harra

Field: History

Field: Rhetoric

Field: Physics

Field: Theater

What Barnett brings to the party: A triumvirate of thematic interests.

What Cavallero brings to the party: Expertise in film and television.

What Gould brings to the party: Insights into scientific collaboration.

What O’Harra brings to the party: Experimental perspectives.

A scholar of early modern Europe, Barnett has thematic interests in science, religion and environment. Her historical expertise gives her insights that are highly contemporary. Take today’s widely held notion that climate change is, in a sense, “punishment” for human abuse of the environment. That idea comes straight out of the Enlightenment, from a “way of understanding natural disasters that was simultaneously deeply religious and deeply scientific,” she says. “We can talk about the natural processes that put them in place, but at the same time it’s also all about human sin and morality and God.”

Since the field of rhetoric deals with human communication, having a grasp of how visual media speak to us is Human Citizenship 101. Cavallero is keen on the “cultural place of the movies, and how they help us think about social identities that we attached to others or ourselves.” Take his course on Bollywood. Students look at how Bollywood and other filmmaking centers have emulated one another in hopes of reaching still larger audiences. “At what point do those crossovers water everything down to the point that it’s all homogenized, and you lose some of that local flavor?” he asks.

As a postdoc at Yale, Gould and other physicists joined cell biologists to explore applications of a fluorescence-based microscopy technology called STED. By embedding physicists with cell biologists, Gould and the other physicists had an “easier time matching our ideas with their research interests,” he says. Gould wants to help Bates students make those kinds of connections, between concept and result. “It’s easier to make an impact if you can directly take your ideas about the technology, put them into an application and allow something to be done that couldn’t be done before.”

O’Harra was an undergraduate engineering major, which perhaps explains why she likes to explore new and experimental texts, often with a research mindset. “What are the questions and problems of the work going to be?” she asks. “How do I create systems to address those?” Lately, O’Harra has been noticing how student actors gravitate toward plays written by men. Could be, she says, that plays by men have the conflict “mapped out,” while contemporary plays by women place “all this anguish and tension underneath. And that’s a much harder thing for an actor to perform, because they want to perform that kind of, ‘I’m in love with you,’ ‘I hate you.’”

THIS JUST IN Recent Bates-authored articles in academic journals, including some with alumni co-authors who contributed senior thesis research.

Identity and Mechanisms of AlkaneOxidizing Metalloenzymes from Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents Publication: Frontiers in Microbiology • Authors: Rachel Austin (chemistry), Erin Bertrand ’05 (marine biogeochemist, J. Craig Venter Institute) and colleagues from Rutgers and Princeton • What It Explains: A key aspect of the global carbon cycle. Certain organisms known as aerobic alkanotrophs can metabolize, or “eat,” hydrocarbons. This article is one of the first to look at how alkanotrophs that live at deep-sea hydrothermal vents do their thing. 10

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Collaborative Understanding of Cyanobacteria in Lake Ecosystems Publication: The College Mathematics Journal • Authors: Meredith Greer (mathematics), Holly Ewing (environmental studies) and colleagues from Dartmouth and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies • What It Explains: Results from a math-ecology research collaboration seeking insight into lake eutrophication, the process by which excess nutrients lead to algae blooms. While ecologists know about ecosystems and collecting field data, mathematicians know about modeling to interpret large data sets. In this case, researchers from each discipline developed mathematical approaches and obtained field results that would not have happened if ecologists and mathematicians worked separately.

Some I30 students share $225,000 in Bates research grant support annually.

At a typical Mount David Summit, 20 percent of students make scholarly presentations.

Can’t You Smell That Smell?

CH EM I CAL? F RAG RANT? F RU I TY ? LEMO N? MI NTY ? P O PCO RN? SW EET? WO O DY ? DECAY ED?

The ‘One-Man Band’ and Entrepreneurial Selfhood in Neoliberal Culture Publication: Popular Music • Author: Dale Chapman (music) • What It Explains: The implications of the “one-man band.” A solo musical performer who uses digital technology to gather and loop sounds of several instruments is a compelling example of self-sufficiency, economic thrift and competence. However, this “heroic individualism” might also reflect neoliberal thinking. That is, in today’s society and economy, each of us is an isolated and autonomous economic unit — a oneperson band.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, PRINTS & PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION, LOMAX COLLECTION

P U NG ENT?

Here’s a question for those of you old enough to recall that the Androscoggin River was once stinky. How would you categorize that smell? Thanks to researchers at Bates and the University of Pittsburgh, you now have 10 options. Using advanced statistical techniques, the Bates-Pitt team, led by Jason Castro, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Bates, was able to create a 10-category system for describing smells, one that may help guide future studies pertaining to how smells are represented in the brain. The researchers’ paper, titled “Categorical Dimensions of Human Odor Descriptor Space Revealed by Non-Negative Matrix Factorization,” is published at PLOS ONE, an open-access online journal. In the past, smells have resisted categorization, Castro says, “in striking contrast to olfaction’s ‘sister sense,’ taste, where we know that five basic qualities” — sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami — “seem to organize sensations.” To develop their categories of smell, the researchers worked with a familiar set of data from the Atlas of Odor Character Profiles, a 1985 publication that gives the odor profiles for 144 chemicals. Using what’s called “non-negative matrix factorization” on the smell data, the team achieved “dimensionality reduction.” In other words, they simplified the information into coherent categories,

sort of how compressing a massive digital file throws away information without hurting the file’s usefulness. The method, successfully used in the financial world and other arenas, had never before been applied to a smell database. In academic parlance, the team’s data crunching yielded a “10-dimensional descriptor space for human odor percepts”: chemical, fragrant, fruity, lemon, minty/peppermint, popcorn, sweet, woody/resinous, decayed and pungent. “For any given odor, we can assign it to one of 10 of these perceptual buckets,” Castro told the Los Angeles Times. The researchers are now approaching the problem from the other direction, applying the current research to a bank of chemical structures in an attempt to predict how a given chemical is going to smell. “That’s something that nobody’s really done with any kind of compelling accuracy,” Castro says. “And obviously perfume, flavor and fragrance companies are really interested in doing that well.”

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The most popular minors are economics and Spanish.

In today’s economy, is each of us just a one-person band? Spring 2014

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In Commons, little goes to waste: Dining Services Board Plan Manager Elizabeth MersereauSears bakes breads made from surplus cereal.

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The most frequently entered search term on the Bates website is “employment.”

Seven Bates staff members are also notaries public.

Scanned Mirror yearbooks are online: archive.org/ details/batescollege.

Bates licenses 200-plus software applications for academics and administration.

45 percent of visitors to the Bates website are Apple users.

CALENDAR BASICS

✪✪✪ Three Stars for Bates Dining How far is the journey from here to a star? For Dining Services, the answer to Irving Berlin’s musical question is 65 steps. Seeking a coveted third star for sustainability from the Green Restaurant Association, Bates Dining Services recently implemented 65 action steps. It worked. Bates’ newly improved rating puts the college into rarefied company: Only five other U.S. colleges or universities boast three stars. The 65 steps ranged from watersaving faucet aerators to a high proportion of vegan and vegetarian items in Bates’ food purchases. Action also came from students. The committee PAWS (Personal Awareness, Wellness and SelfHappiness) offered an eye-opening statistic: If every student took one

ounce less food than usual at each meal, about the equivalent of three french fries, Bates would save $45,400 annually. The three-star rating recognizes best practices in seven categories: energy, food, water, waste, disposables, chemicals and pollution reduction, and buildings. As a matter of historic pride, Bates wastes not. “We divert 82 percent of our waste,” says Cheryl Lacey, director of Dining Services. “Very few of our peers can make that claim.” The college reduces waste through traditional recycling and composting, and by sending post-consumer waste to a local pig farm. The six U.S. schools with threestar ratings are Bates, Harvard, Boston University, Northeastern, Kent Career Technical Center in Grand Rapids, Mich., and the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum at the University of Minnesota.

Spring 2014 April 21–May 23 Short Term — One month. Endless possibilities. April 23 Great Day to Be a Bobcat — One-day giving celebration May 13 President Spencer in Portland — Maine, that is May 23–25 Commencement Weekend — Kiss and cry May 24 Scholar-Athlete Society Induction Ceremony — Brains and brawn June 6–8 Reunion Weekend — Make your mark all over again

Summer 2014 June 23 Annual Football Golf Outing — Trading pigskin for surlyn

Williams Leads Diversity Efforts

LEAH NASH

In Crystal Ann Williams, Bates has appointed an experienced and passionate college leader to direct efforts to “reclaim and refashion for the present” the college’s historic commitment to inclusion, said President Clayton Spencer. Williams, a former dean for institutional diversity and a faculty member in creative writing at Reed College, began her work as associate vice president and chief diversity officer at Bates in November. She oversees the Office of Equity and Diversity and the Office of Intercultural Education and serves as a member of the president’s senior staff. A widely published poet and author, she is a professor in the English department. “Thrilled” to be working with President Spencer, Williams is also “excited and looking forward to working with students, staff, faculty and alumni to move the dial forward, truly honor Bates’ tremendous history of inclusion, and collaboratively envision and set forth an exciting and innovative 21stcentury agenda for the college.”

June 26–27 Admission Alumni Legacy Program — College-search advice from the pros June 30 Bates Fund Deadline — Thanks in advance July 8–August 9 Bates Dance Festival — Commencé au festival! August 15–17 Great Falls Balloon Festival in L-A — They’ll see us from such great heights September 3 Fall Semester Begins — Who’s up for an 8 a.m. class?

Please go to bates.edu/calendar for more complete event information. Spring 2014

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TEACHING STYLE photography by phyllis graber jensen As they walked across the Library Quad to join their colleagues in the academic procession at Convocation, these nine faculty members, with gowns (mostly) on, stopped briefly for photographs.

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SPORTS

What Does It All Mean?

What does it mean to play for Bates? For these athletes, it means more than what any of them alone can bring to their sport. Bates students talk about Bates athletics bates.edu/what-it-means

Bates is now a “Special Olympics College,” devoted to advocacy, inclusion and involvement.

Swimmers Whitney Paine ’I6, Sara Daher ’I7 and Andrew Briggs ’I5 each set a pool record at the first meet.

Gabrielle Naranja ’14 Fort Kent, Maine

Cross Country, Nordic Skiing, Outdoor Track and Field

You need drive, but you also need teammates and people who support you. You need professors who help you figure out that if you race this weekend and miss class, maybe you can come in during office hours. You need teammates you’re not afraid to laugh with, cry with and really see each other beyond a surface-level friendship. You need a coach who can listen when you say, “These are my goals or my team’s goals for this season,” then tell you what you need to do to make that happen.

TOM LEONARD ’78

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Abby Alexander ’14 Freedom, N.H.

Soccer, Track and Field

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There’s no finger-pointing in Bates athletics. There are teams you really don’t like to play — they’re chippy or maybe not the best examples of sportsmanship. Which is fine, but I think it’s more fun when you have good camaraderie with the teams you’re playing, and Bates is definitely perceived as a school that has good camaraderie. Then there are teams where you say, “OK, they may have won, but I would so much rather be on my team, rather than playing with people who constantly yell and get frustrated at each other.”

Luke Matarazzo ’14 Shelton, Conn.

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Basketball

As a Bates athlete, you need to carry yourself with respect. Respect the people around you and your sport. You need to be dedicated in everything you do. You need to be loyal to your teammates and the program, and you need to be courageous every time you step out on the court to hang with those powerhouses and to really make a name for yourself.

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The Bobcat mascot suit comes with a cooling ice vest.

54 Bobcats made the NESCAC All-Academic Team last fall.

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The Bates athletics Twitter handle is @BatesSports.

Ahmed Abdel Khalek ’16 Cairo, Egypt Squash

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My identity as a Bates athlete is to never give up and always show effort on court — whether to win or lose, that’s not the problem. What it means to be a Bobcat is just being always on top of your work and just thinking about the team. If I do this and I keep being on top of my work, if I go to bed early and do everything correctly, that’s going to affect me positively. I’m going to be productive on court 100 percent, and that’s going to help the team too.

Julia Rafferty ’14 Reading, Mass.

Soccer, Basketball

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Being a captain and leader means helping the team work on the little things — each year, each practice, even each day — just getting a little bit better at a different skill. Maybe other people don’t see it, but we as a team know we’re working toward the right thing and that eventually it will result in success for the program.

Mike Lee ’16 Bealeton, Va. Football

Putting on the uniform is like when people used to get ready for battle by putting on their armor, knowing that the person next to you has your back. That’s a unique feeling you can’t get in the classroom. You don’t take your pencil in the classroom and act like, “I’m getting ready to go to war with this paper.” It’s a great feeling – going out there and having a unit work together to accomplish a common goal. Spring 2014

ARTS & CULTURE

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Spring Spring 2014

Admission to a Filmboard movie is $I.

Between I2,000 and I5,000 people visit the Museum of Art annually.

The Museum of Art offers life-drawing sessions to area artists each week.

Singer-guitarist Corey Harris ’9I, D.Mus. ’07, inaugurated the Concerts on the Quad series last summer.

‘How Do You Go On?’ In this scene from last fall’s production of In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), the character of Elizabeth (Brittney Davis ’14 of Chicago, standing) speaks about the death of her infant son and how she feels to now be the wet nurse for the infant daughter of Mrs. Givings (Singha Hon ’14 of New York City, seated). Davis explained to Bates Magazine what the monologue meant to her as an actress: “Throughout the play, my character Elizabeth is on stage, but she’s not center stage. She’s on stage being talked about or examined by the other, white characters, but we never see who she is until the very end, in her monologue. “It bothered me that Elizabeth only became Elizabeth when it was time for her to be Elizabeth no longer. But as an actor, I got to develop her and give my all every night for that monologue. I got to show you that Elizabeth could be happy. She could be sad. She could be loyal. She could be kind. She could be generous. That’s what I think people took away from that moment — that Elizabeth was all of those things, and that we all are so much more than what we seem.” The monologue begins when Mrs. Givings asks the question “How do you go on, after?” and Elizabeth replies: My mother told me to pray each day since I was a little girl, to pray that you borrow

The art and visual culture major offers two tracks: studio art, and history and criticism.

everything, everyone you love, from God. That way your heart doesn’t break when you have to give your son, or your mother, or your husband, back to God. I prayed Jesus, let me be humble. I borrowed my child, I borrowed my husband, I borrowed my own life from you, God. But he felt like mine, not like God’s — he felt like mine, more mine than anything. God must have this huge horrible cabinet — all the babies who get returned — and all those babies inside, they’re all crying even with God Himself to rock them to sleep, still they want their mothers. So when I started to feel something for this baby, for your baby, I thought, no, take her back God. When I first met her all I could think was, she is alive, and Henry is not. I had all this milk — I wished it would dry up. Just get through the year, I thought. Your milk will dry up and you will forget. The more healthy your baby got, the more dead my baby became. I thought of her like a tick. I thought, fill her up and then pop! You will see the blood of my Henry underneath. But she seemed so grateful for the milk. Sometimes I hated her for it. But she would look at me, she would give me this look — I do not know what to call it if it is not called love. I hope every day you keep her — you keep her close to you — and you remember the blood that her milk was made from. The blood of my son, my Henry. Good-bye, Mrs. Givings.

Instrumental, My Dear Bobcat The college’s applied music faculty teach the following, either privately or for academic credit:

• Banjo • Bass

upright and electric

jazz, classical

classical, jazz

classical, jazz, popular

• Bassoon • Cello • Clarinet • Double bass • Drum set • Dulcimer • Euphonium • Flute • Fiddle • French horn • Guitar

• Harpsichord • Lute • Mandolin • Middle Eastern percussion • Oboe • Orchestral percussion • Organ • Oud • Piano • Saxophone • Sitar • Tabla • Trombone • Trumpet • Tuba • Ukulele • Viola • Violin • Voice

More music and more than music: Olin Concert Hall audiences were treated to breathtaking concentrations of worldly performance this fall — and not just once, but twice. Nov. 14–17 brought a revue of Vietnamese arts, Indonesian shadow puppetry and gamelan music, and two performances of German composer Carl Orff’s masterpiece Carmina Burana by the College Choir. Then, as if that weren’t plenty, Dec. 4–8 saw Bates’ jazz and Caribbean-flavored steel pan ensembles, Swedish classical guitarist Göran Söllscher and orchestral popsters Arc Iris on the Olin stage.

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Olin ’Round the World

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LEWISTON

Campus Avenue was once called Skinner Street, after an associate of Benjamin Bates.

Volunteer Matt Gee ’I6 often cooks brunch at Blake Street Towers public housing.

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‘Yeah... Friendly’ Shortly after joining the 2013 Dempsey Challenge as a marketing volunteer, Hillary Throckmorton ’15 came up with the idea of a Colby-Bates-Bowdoin participation competition. Held each October, the two-day event, hosted by actor Patrick

Dempsey, is a run, walk and bicycle fundraiser drawing more than 4,000 participants and raising more than $1 million for the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing in Lewiston. Bates won the inaugural CBB challenge with 94 participants, raising $23,300, more than triple the combined totals of Bowdoin and Colby.

Director of Museum L-A Rachel Desgrosseilliers talks with Bates trustees Stu Abelson ’97 (left) and Rick Smith P’12 (right) during a dinner party at the museum, located in former Lewiston mill space, to celebrate the $11.5 million Catalyst Fund gift to Bates (see feature story this issue). The logo behind them isn’t a college logo but that of the Bates Manufacturing Co., the famed textile and bedspread maker that kept thousands employed in Lewiston’s mills into the 1960s.

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Night at the Museum

“There was a pride factor there,” says Throckmorton, of Bangor, Maine. Dempsey, an avid cyclist, best known for portraying Dr. Derek Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy, is a Lewiston native. “He got an honorary degree from Bowdoin last year, and we wanted to reclaim him,” Throckmorton says. “Patrick was calling it a ‘friendly rivalry.’ I was like, ‘Yeah...friendly.’”

The traditional 3-mile loop — College to Montello to Central and back — is 2.75 miles.

School committee member Jama Mohamed is the first African immigrant to win elected office in Lewiston.

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A venue dispute led Portland’s AHL hockey team to play its 20I4 games in Lewiston.

Water Watcher The source of drinking water for Maine’s second-largest metropolitan area, Lake Auburn shocked the Twin Cities when more than 200 trout turned up dead on its shores in September 2012. The fish likely perished because of an unusual algae bloom. Algae decomposition depleted the oxygen at the chilly depths the trout prefer, forcing them upward into water atypically warm for September. The warmth killed them. A new collaboration between Bates and the Auburn Water District will allow authorities to better monitor temperature and oxygen levels in the lake in real time. Installed in July, a high-tech buoy records temperature and oxygen levels, with data uploaded to a website every 10 minutes. “This is valuable for understanding how weather events affect the lake as they happen, and what the conditions are like for organisms,” says Bates environmental scientist Holly Ewing, who obtained the buoy and worked with the water district to install it.

What’s in a Name? Garcelon Field is distinctive — it’s one

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of the oldest U.S. college football venues — and so is its namesake. That’s Alonzo Garcelon, the notable 19th-century Lewiston physician, leader and politician. Name: Alonzo Garcelon Born: May 6, 1813 Died: Dec. 8, 1906 Deep Roots: Garcelon’s great-grandfather was a French Huguenot who settled in “Lewiston Falls” in 1776. The Great Convincer:

Alonzo Garcelon, seen here with his daughter on East Avenue in Lewiston, drove his one-horse shay to appointments all around town.

In 1855, Garcelon persuaded Oren Cheney to locate his new school in Lewiston.

Republican but switched to Democrat to protest Andrew Johnson’s impeachment.

Bates Connections:

Controversy:

Garcelon was a Bates trustee from 1855 until his death — 51 years. The college’s Alonzo Garcelon Society, comprising local leaders, provides scholarships to local students.

Political Affiliation:

As governor in 1879, Garcelon faced the “Great Count-Out Crisis,” in which gun-toting Republicans, Democrats and Greenbackers nearly clashed in Augusta over a disputed election.

Accomplishments:

As surgeon general for Maine during the Civil War, Garcelon ensured that each regiment was served by qualified surgeons.

Quirks:

Given a sombrero while attending a medical conference in Mexico City at age 83, he wore it proudly around Lewiston.

Final Praise:

He “towered in character as in stature over the generality of men,” according to his obituary in The Boston Daily Globe.

Secret to Longevity:

“Mingle with young people and cultivate their society.”

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THE WORLD

The Dean of Students mails The Bates Student to students who are on abroad programs.

From campus, the closest U.S.–Canada border crossing is II2 miles away at Beecher Falls, Vt.

Have Core, Will Travel Alexandra Balter ’14 (right) of Wellesley, Mass., studied in the Norwegian Arctic last summer with Professor of Geology Mike Retelle (center) and a team of climate researchers that included Greg de Wet ’11 (left), who is at UMass– Amherst doing graduate work. What is your research about? I’m studying climate change using sediment core samples from Arctic lakes in Svalbard, Norway, as part of my senior thesis. I just recovered an 84-centimeter-long core sample that should span several hundred years of sedimentation. I hope to tease out warm and cool periods in Svalbard’s past and understand more about how this lake system will respond as Svalbard warms. What advantages have you gotten from being in Svalbard?

Many undergraduate students in this line of research are simply

given a sediment core to analyze and write about. I have the opportunity to see my project through the whole scientific process — from learning about my field site firsthand to taking a sediment core, packaging the core for travel, performing lab analyses and writing about my results for my senior thesis.

‘They should put Lebanon up there.’

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That’s what Suraya Atallah ’15 (right) of Beirut, Lebanon, said while posing for a selfie in front of a replica of the famous road sign showing Maine towns named after foreign locales. Taking the photo is Sara El Assaad ’14 of Aix en Provence, France. The replica was set up outside Commons for Harvest Dinner; the actual sign is in Lynchville, Maine. By the way, the Maine town of Lebanon is about 70 miles southwest of Lewiston.

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What made you want to spend your summer doing research in Norway? In the most selfish way possible, I really wanted to experience the Arctic! Mike Retelle brings students to Svalbard every summer, so when it came time to choose my thesis project, I knew I had to find a way to tag along.

7.3 percent of students in the Class of 20I3 are from outside the U.S.

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Rembetiko, music known as “Greek blues,” was the topic of a lecture by a Bates professor.

David Das is an assistant director of Off-Campus Study Programs who curates the annual Barlow Photo Exhibit, featuring images taken by students while abroad. He talks about the implications of taking photographs abroad — taking, and not giving. We hope students will think about what it means to take a photograph

while abroad — and how to do it in a meaningful and respectful manner. Sometimes that’s hard for them to figure out. They go abroad and they think everything is fair game. They don’t ask themselves, “What would happen if someone came to Bates and took a photo of me and a friend on the Quad so they could tack it to the wall back home? Would I want that?” Where are the boundaries in terms of taking a photo? Do you have to ask for permission before you take a photo?

And just because someone’s in public, are they fair game for a photo? What’s the subject of a photo? Those cute, dark-skinned children that tug at the heartstrings — is that always a necessary subject to photograph? Maybe a more even playing field is photographing someone you know — in your host family or your dorm — someone with whom you’ve established a relationship, someone you’re not thinking of as a symbol or object of the culture you’re in.

Bisola Folarin ’14 of Grand Prairie, Texas, models a dress during the annual Inside Africa Fashion Show on Nov. 8, 2013, in the Olin Concert Hall.

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Think Before You Click

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am use me n ts

BOOKS

w h at d o es i t a l l mean ?

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway

Suggested by Michael Sargent, associate professor of psychology: “I love America, warts and all. This is a story about its warts — the injustices inflicted upon people across its history.”

Suggested by Margaret Imber, associate professor of classical and medieval studies: “It’s a great romp through 18th-century England with an interesting sci-fi, time-travel twist.”

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Suggested by Emily Kane, professor of sociology : Patchett “highlights the tensions of globalization and imperial power as they intersect with gendered patterns.”

Suggested by Kerry O’Brien, assistant dean of the faculty : Eugenides “reconsiders the trope of most 19thcentury novels — securing a mate — in 1980s post-collegiate America. (Cue the Duran Duran!)”

What I Mean When I Say Futurist and author George Orwell detested jargon. On the other hand, theorist and philosopher Judith Butler said you need a specialized vocabulary to explain difficult ideas. Here, rhetoric professor Stephanie Kelley-Romano, explains the special

Her Finals Run This photo by Avril Dunleavy ’15 won the Judge’s Choice prize in last semester’s finals-themed Instagram contest. It shows fellow Bates alpine skier Kathleen Fitzpatrick ’15 clutching her German homework atop a run at Sunday River during a pre-season meet right before the start of finals. “I thought it was a good way to show that we’re student-athletes,” says Dunleavy, a rhetoric major and All-East alpine skier from Salt Lake City. The photo was chosen by Bates Communications Office staff. Winning the popular prize, by online vote, was the aptly titled “Buried in #thesis,” depicting Jivko Kozarov ’14, an economics major.

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meaning of the word “myth” when it comes to the discipline of rhetoric: “An overarching, ideological system of beliefs that runs our lives, somewhat unbeknownst to us. Religions, political ideologies or things we think are ‘natural’ are actually beliefs and socially constructed systems. These myths allow us to feel as though we are participating in a life that is predictable and safe.”

{ MYTH } MIKE BRADLEY

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

pa st m e ets pas s ed

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H I STO RY T EST

When Earth events are plotted on Garcelon Field, most of the action (including crucial events like the first bobcat) takes place near the goal line.

The Garcelon Epoch A couple dozen geology students tromped over to Garcelon Field on a January morning to execute a simple but effective time-space drill. Using the length of Garcelon Field, they showed, among other things, that animals have been on Earth for barely a cup of coffee. “People tend to think in terms of a single year or maybe a decade,” said their professor, Mike Retelle. “At best, they think in terms of generations. It’s hard to comprehend billions of years.” If the Earth’s been around for 4.6 billion years, then each yard of a 100-yard football field equals 46 million years. Holding posters noting various Earth events, students in the course Geology 103, “Earth Surface Environments and Environmental Change,” stood on various yard lines. A few students stood near one end zone with posters noting the formation of the Earth itself, followed by the first rocks.

After that rocky start, it was yards and yards, billions of years, where nothing happened. Finally, at the 15-yard line at the other end of the field, animals appeared, about 600 million years ago. And inside the 10, the action really picks up, with a gaggle of students and posters:

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

10-yard line

Fish (460 million years ago) 5-yard line

Dinosaurs (248 million years) 4-yard line

Mammals (200 million years) 1-yard line

Primates (55 million years) 2 inches

First bobcat (2.5 million years) .001 inch

Roman Empire (2,000 years) .0001 inch

Bates College founded (159 years)

Bates received the bowl above after going undefeated in the GE College Bowl TV quiz show in spring and fall 1961. Can you name the seven colleges that Bates vanquished? Answer: Muhlenberg, George Washington, Brandeis, Trinity (Texas), Macalester, North Dakota– Grand Forks and Wheaton.

Of the thousands of Bates students who have strolled past Lake Andrews over the years, some probably thought, “I should build a boat!” Rush Milam ‘16 of Nashville, Tenn., both thought it and did it. Milam, pictured here, teamed with Sam Glasgow ‘16 of Dedham, Mass., to build this canoe-style craft from PVC pipe, duct tape and plastic sheeting. They named it the Rat Bastard. The phrase, at least the way Milam uses it, is an exclamation after something goes awry. Glasgow told The Bates Student that the name seemed appropriate “because inevitably something will go wrong.”

MARY ANN BODNAR ‘16

Paddling the Puddle

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Learning

Off the Land

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Ashleen O’Brien ’15 tends to the animals of Nezinscot Farm, including a bull, goat and duck. Above is the roadside Nezinscot farm store and café.

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At Nezinscot Farm, students grow their understanding of life’s basics

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any students spend their summer internships working side-by-side with movers and shakers in politics, science or high finance. During her 2013 internship, says Ashleen O’Brien ’15, “I spent more time with goats than I did with people.” O’Brien began her 10-hour work days at 6 a.m. by milking goats at Nezinscot (neh-ZIHN'-skuht) Farm, about 13 miles from Bates in the rural town of Turner. She milked again at 4 p.m., and her caprine duties didn’t stop there, as O’Brien was in charge of feeding, watering and providing other care for the 14 milkers, their offspring and a couple dozen yearlings.

O’Brien, with no prior farming experience, also looked after poultry, sheep, alpacas, donkeys and occasionally the cows in the big red barn on Turner Center Road. She started, watered and weeded plants, worked in the farm’s store-café and helped Gloria Varney — who owns the farm with her husband, Gregg — dye yarn, make cheese (cow’s and goat’s milk) and harvest and prepare herbs for the farm’s apothecary products. The latest in a succession of Bates students to intern at Nezinscot, O’Brien is double-majoring in politics and environmental studies. Her days on the farm afforded not only specific skills, but, in Spring 2014

conjunction with her Bates course work, fundamental life lessons. At Bates, she says, “we don’t cook our own food, we don’t clean our own houses, so we don’t really have to think about the day-to-day things that are sustaining us.” But her days at the farm were all about those day-to-day things: the natural processes that produce food, the measures that keep those processes sustainable — and the hard work that makes it all happen. 30

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Nezinscot, she says, “made me think a lot about what it means to be human.” The farm may be best known to Bates people for food made at the farm, or by other Maine producers, and sold at its café-store. But O’Brien’s internship was the latest chapter in an academic partnership first forged between the farm and Bates in the mid-1990s. In spring 2014, the partnership will hit a new height as the Varneys and Myron Beasley, associate

“Nezinscot Farm made me think a lot about what it means to be human.”

professor of African American studies and American cultural studies, collaborate on a Short Term course exploring the culture of food. Looking at the farm’s cultural context, the course will combine research into local history with Nezinscot workshops on various skills — baking, gardening, small animal husbandry, etc. It will culminate in a “performative” dinner for 100, mixing student presentations and farmraised food, in a field at the farm.

As an academic resource, says Beasley, Nezinscot “is what the liberal arts is all about. Everything is in play — from the natural sciences to the arts to the social sciences, everything is right there. If you think of the liberal arts as being about interdisciplinarity, you can see all of that functioning.” “We want people to understand the importance of what farms do for communities, the environment, social change, character-building, overall health, stress management, happiness — the list goes on,” Spring 2014

More than anything, Gloria Varney wants to use Nezinscot to teach people where their food comes from.

says Gloria Varney. More than anything, she wants to use Nezinscot to teach people where their food comes from. Both Gloria and Gregg grew up on farms — Gregg at Nezinscot, which has been in his family since the 1940s, and which he and Gloria purchased from his parents in 1986. They own 250 acres and rent an additional few hundred. (The farm fronts on, and is named for, the Nezinscot River, which connects Buckfield to the Androscoggin River at Auburn. “Nezinscot” is Abenaki for “place of descent” or “to descend upon.”) Nezinscot became Maine’s first certifiedorganic dairy farm in 1994. Dairy remains central to the operation, with the national Organic Valley cooperative its prime customer. That’s largely Gregg’s bailiwick — although he also fabricates much of the farm equipment. Gloria oversees the complex across the hilly, winding road — a sprawling collection of barns and sheds, gardens and working fields, and the café-store. 32

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O’Brien of Edmonds, Wash., was the first Bates student to intern at Nezinscot with support from an Otis Environmental Internship. Facing a 200hour internship requirement for her environmental studies major, she sought an experience through which she could get her hands — literally — onto the concepts she was learning about in class. She was primed intellectually for the farm by a political theory course taught by professor William Corlett. “Garbage and the Politics of Disposition” explores the political effects of our everyday choices, such as what we throw away; and how, in turn, political and social systems shape our choices, often without our realizing it. O’Brien was deeply influenced by two authors that Corlett assigned, both French philosophers: Jacques Derrida, writing about how humans define themselves in relationship to other animals; and Gilles Deleuze, who explores how people can define individual ethics independent of societal constructions. “This made me want to explore alternative ways of life and self-sustenance,” she says. Her time at Nezinscot, O’Brien says, “allowed me to challenge, in a micro way, the norms I’ve grown up with. I thought about that class almost every day at the farm.” From the Varneys she learned about biodynamic farming, which brings ethics and spirituality into the equation and considers a farm as a holistic organism. In the micro view, she spent long days of kneeling on the ground weeding, making cheese and other prepared foods, and tending to animals that were bound for the stewpot. She slept well and she learned mindfulness. “It was wonderful for us to have somebody like her,” Varney says. “Because a lot of people would have stressed out and said, ‘You know, I can’t handle this.’ “She just got up every day and it was like, ‘Today’s another day, and we’re going to tackle it again.’” Coming to Nezinscot with a longtime interest in the politics of agriculture, O’Brien left the farm with a whole new understanding of food. “It seems weird to me now that I used to buy a package of food having no idea where it was produced or what’s in it.” Now, she sees food as a responsibility. “If you’re going to grow food you have to do it well, because you’re creating this life. It’s something you have responsibility for because it impacts the rest of the world.” n

“If you’re going to grow food you have to do it well because it impacts the rest of the world.”

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Lab Sweet Lab In Room 219 of Dana Chemistry Hall, the chemistry is better when there’s someone next to you by h. jay bur ns Located on the ground floor of Dana Chemistry Hall, a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer helps scientists determine the chemical structure of various compounds. It’s powerful — so powerful that a sign on the door tells you not to step inside if you have a pacemaker or a metallic implant. I have neither, but steer clear anyway. Upstairs from the NMR is a room with no warning on the door but still a lot of power inside. “It just looks like a computer room,” says Jennifer Koviach-Côté, associate professor of chemistry and chair of the department, “but it’s one of the most important rooms in the building.” Room 219 is basic enough: 24 feet by 30 feet, with blackboards on one wall, the periodic table on another and about 15 Dell computer workstations on long tables. Here, the only cautionary words to be found are the caffeine warning labels on cans of Red Bull that students toss back during Reading Week. But besides serving as a computer lab, Room 219 is an incubator. It’s a place where students — en route to someday joining their Bates professors in the research

lab — learn that science isn’t a solitary pursuit, but one that demands collaboration and teamwork. And it's where students learn to pass the lessons they’ve learned along to the next generation. I ask Logan Greenblatt ’14 of South Berwick, Maine, if he spends much time in the computer lab. He laughs. “There are nine chemistry majors in the senior class,” he says, “and we are always, always in the Dana computer lab together.” Partly, it’s convenience — the lab is right off the building entrance and near faculty offices. And partly it’s necessity, as the computers have disciplinespecific software you wouldn’t find on personal computers or on computers in Ladd Library. But the lab’s popularity as a gathering spot also suggests that chemistry majors, like their brethren

in other disciplines, tend to be both collaborative and nonhierarchical. “Sure, you can stare at your notebook and try to solve problems by yourself, and maybe you’ll come to a conclusion,” says Greenblatt. “But it’s so much better to have someone next to you.” Less formal than the study groups of old, the gatherings in Room 219 are still all about advancing understanding and helping each other gain knowledge. On any given night in the lab, says KoviachCôté, “you can just sort of lift your head up and ask for the value of the gas constant, and somebody will be able to tell it to you in whatever units you want.” “You can ask someone a question, or they’ll ask you a question,” Greenblatt says. “You can explain something, or they can explain it to you. You interpret what they’re saying and see if it makes sense.” In other words, he says, “It’s helpful to have help.” To a greater or lesser degree, most Bates professors involve students in their research and try to create camaraderie among majors. But the chemistry department seems to have this down, pardon the pun, to a science, and a big reason is the demand: Science research requires a large number of student assistants. A look at last year’s report of faculty scholarship, published by the Dean of the Faculty’s Office, lists 11 students or recent grads who co-authored scholarly articles with their chemistry professors, more than any other academic program. Alas, today’s student is tomorrow’s alum. “One of the biggest challenges of running a research lab at a place like Bates is that students don’t stay for very long,” explains Rachel Narehood Austin, professor of chemistry. “This can lead to a sort of sine wave of skill development. A student acquires skills, then graduates, leaving the next cohort to do the same.” To keep this sine wave moving, chemistry students must master the theory and problem-solving aspect of the discipline, what Sarah Charley ’11, now a science writer, calls “math with pictures.” Then, she says, students need to be handy in the lab, physically and cognitively, from “being able to run a good gel” — a method of separating mixtures to identify their components — to “being able to plan the steps of an experiment.” So Austin and her colleagues work closely with students, “almost holding hands as we pipette together the first few times,” she says, and they also rely on upperclass majors to teach skills and habits to younger students, along the way fostering what Austin calls “a sense of community knowledge” in the Bates chemistry department. So it might happen that in Austin’s lab, a sophomore who’s just declared his major works alongside a senior who is deep into thesis. “She shows him how

“ One of the biggest challenges of running a research lab at a place like Bates is that students don’t stay for very long,” explains Rachel Narehood Austin, professor of chemistry. to pull a gel out of the developing solution and how to put it onto the tray, how to scan it with the right resolution,” explains Austin — “all of these details that lead to really nice work.” Now in a biophysics graduate program at Harvard, David Born ’13 majored in biochemistry with honors and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He says he spent as much time as anyone in the computer lab, but it wasn’t just an upperclassmen clubhouse. True, he says, “you have your juniors and seniors in upper-level courses who come together both to do their work and be able to discuss their work with their peers.” But then “there’s another subset,” he says, like the sophomores taking organic chemistry. “They come into the computer lab in waves, corresponding to when their lab reports are due. You kind of pass the torch to them. They realize what a community there is for them even if they come on days their lab isn’t due.” Even though majors might spend eight to 10 hours hanging out together in the Dana computer lab, their sense of solidarity isn’t exclusionary. “It’s not like we were a clique,” Charley says, “but more like a family that you can come to for a while while still maintaining your own life outside.” Keyana Sandridge ’14, a chemistry major from North Little Rock, Ark., says that the lab feels right because “it’s nice to be surrounded by people who are doing similar things as you, who are all kind of on the same page.” For unusual proof that the Bates chemistry program is about getting newbies up to speed, consider the experience of Charley. Rather than a traditional thesis reflecting her skill at the bench, she got the go-ahead to produce, instead, a full-blown magazine, the Bates College Molecular Research Journal. The journal was loaded with articles that explained faculty research in lay language. Charley explained, for example, the work of Dana Professor of Chemistry Glen Lawson on protein “degradation” — where a cell breaks down unneeded proteins into smaller parts for future use — by calling cells “the ultimate recyclers.” Charley calls Dana a family, a word that Austin uses, too, gesturing to the walls of her office, plastered with greeting cards. “If you want,” Austin says, “you can have a home in a lab.” n — Reporting by Martin Connelly

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The Catalyst Fund

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How the $11.5 million Catalyst Fund came to pass, and how it’s already being passed along to support students and faculty by h. jay bu r ns

“It takes resources to achieve ambitious goals.” Those words belong to President Clayton Spencer, spoken back on Oct. 25 as she and Board Chair Mike Bonney ’80 announced the Catalyst Fund, a gift to Bates of $11.5 million from current and past members of the Board of Trustees. Collective gifts are rare in philanthropy, and this one is easily the largest in Bates history. More important, the gift makes it possible for Bates “to drive our initiatives forward. Not tomorrow, not next year, but now,” said Bonney.

Indeed, the fund is already being put to work to support three college initiatives. They are:

the engaged liberal arts

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

purposeful work

This initiative is built on the premise that preparing students for lives of meaningful work lies at the heart of the liberal arts mission. When fully developed, the initiative will include: • Improved co-curricular programming to help students engage the cycle of exploration, reflection and skill-building; • Practitioner-taught courses during Short Term; and • A highly structured, Batesspecific network of internships, with the goal of providing all Bates students with the opportunity for an employer- or college-funded internship during their four years.

opportunity and excellence

Our commitment to opportunity and excellence grows directly out of Bates’ history and mission and responds to contemporary geographic, demographic and economic realities. It means recruiting talented and motivated students from a broad range of backgrounds, providing them with the financial aid that will enable them to enroll, and supporting them for academic and personal success once here. It also means creating a campus community and climate that capitalize on diversity and inclusion as necessary and powerful dimensions of preparing our students to live and work in an increasingly interconnected world.

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Here is more background on the Catalyst Fund, how and why it came to pass and how it is already benefiting students and faculty.

Is the Catalyst Fund a permanent endowment? No. In the parlance of philanthropy, the $11.5 million gift is a “spend-down fund” that is available to Bates above and beyond the college’s current operating budget. It’s money that “Bates can spend in the next five years to move forward on our three initiatives,” said Bonney.

How will the Catalyst Fund and the three initiatives benefit bates students? The Engaged Liberal Arts means Bates is “approaching new developments in knowledge and pedagogy with zest and openness,” says Spencer, embracing new technology throughout the curriculum, developing new approaches to signature Bates programs like the senior thesis and community-engaged courses in Lewiston-Auburn, and creating innovative ways to bring professors and students even closer, such as the Short Term course-redesign pilot program explained below. Speaking of benefiting students, how about jobs? The Purposeful Work initiative, along with its promise of an expanded network of Bates-funded internships, adds an important element to the college’s commitment to equity. All students, not only those with inherited parental networks, will have access to work-relevant knowledge, job connections and professional contacts. Our Advancement Office has made internships a fundraising priority, and Bates has recently partnered with Koru, a Seattle-based startup that provides immersive business internships that teach relevant workplace skills and provide networking opportunities and professional support. Unlike a typical internship where a student depends on the employer to provide a meaningful experience, Koru’s own staff members run their internship programs. This summer, six to eight Bates students will benefit from Koru internships. Every aspect of the Bates experience will be strengthened by the college redoubling its support of Opportunity and Excellence; that is, recruiting talented students from all backgrounds and supporting them for success at Bates and beyond.

What will the Catalyst Fund mean for alumni and parents? Each initiative will involve alumni and parents either directly or indirectly.

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Success with Purposeful Work, for example, depends in part on creating a robust internship program drawing on the interests, talents and initiative of alumni and parents. Financial support from alumni and parents has always been part of the college’s commitment to Opportunity and Excellence — both through the Bates Fund and through the establishment of endowed funds for financial aid.

What is happening now? It’s full speed ahead in all directions — in a good way. “We have urgency, we have ideas and we have ambition,” says Spencer. The college will deploy two pilot programs this spring to strengthen Short Term, that Bates bastion of highly personalized human interaction. The first program turns the concept of a traditional course on its head. Instead of signing up for a typical Short Term course — you remember, where a professor teaches students — students can sign up for a chance to spend the spring helping a professor redesign one of the professor’s own courses. For example, rhetoric professor Stephanie Kelley-Romano says her course “Presidential Campaign Rhetoric” is a “pretty great course.” But when she offers it this fall, she wants it “to be even better.” A centerpiece of the course is a mock presidential campaign where students create party platforms and policy positions, hold debates and a convention, and respond to crises through social media. For some time, Kelley-Romano has wanted to involve students and faculty from other disciplines in this immersive learning experience. “Environmental studies students might be climate change policy advisers,” she says. “Music students could create musical scores at the ‘convention.’ Politics students could do polling.” She could make changes — if only she had time, as Gene Pitney sang. But now she does. This Short Term, she and a group of students will have five weeks to revamp the course. They’ll brainstorm with faculty and students in other disciplines, asking them to think about how the elements of the mock campaign intersect with their interests and needs. Based on that feedback, Kelley-Romano and her team will develop new assignments for the course. New assignments must be clearly written, pedagogically sound and well-organized. “We don’t want to create more work for professors in other departments,” says Kelley-Romano. For faculty, moving to a collaborative approach to course design is different — it means giving up some control. It’s like a conductor asking the

Sociology professor Emily Kane leads two pilot projects that take advantage of Short Term’s tradition of experimentation.

orchestra to help interpret a piece, or an NFL coach asking the players to help design a defense. But professors like Kelley-Romano see the Short Term course redesign project as a win-winwin-win. For one, it uses Short Term’s tradition of experimentation in a smart way. It gives students a new way to learn by asking them to think about teaching. It creates an incentive for faculty to redesign their courses (faculty get teaching credit), and it stimulates fresh ideas. “It’s an exciting chance to find time and space for the creative work of pedagogical innovation,” says sociology professor Emily Kane, who is spearheading the project.

What is the other Short Term pilot program? In support of the Purposeful Work initiative, Bates will deploy four practitioner-taught courses (PTCs) this spring. Led by non-faculty experts, the courses will help students move from theory to practice in various areas. This time around, the courses are all alumnitaught, “which is great,” says Kane, who is leading this pilot program too. Shannon Banks ’85, a vice president at Martin’s Point Healthcare in Portland, will teach a course on healthcare administration. Brandy Gibbs-Riley ’96, a graphic designer who has created branding and marketing campaigns for corporate and nonprofit clients, will teach graphic design. The third course, on digital innovation, will feature Ben Schippers ’04 and Will Schenk, co-founders of the Brooklyn-based software development shop HappyFunCorp. The fourth course, on social-change organizing and advocacy, will bring to campus documentary filmmaker and Lewiston city councilor Craig Saddlemire ’05, along with Sarah Standiford ’97 of Planned Parenthood and Aditi Vaidya ’00 of the social-justice focused Solidago Foundation. The new PTCs will give students direct, practical experience in a potential career area. As such, the PTCs exist outside the college’s academic framework, Kane says. “They have a specific focus on career-relevant exploration and tangible final products that could be useful in preparation for future career work.”

Currently, 44 percent of our students receive need-based financial aid, with the average financial aid award being more than $40,000. Once admitted, all Bates students require access to support systems and programs that help them succeed. The most visible recent step in strengthening this core part of the Bates mission is the recruitment of Crystal Williams from Reed College to join President Spencer’s senior staff as associate vice president and chief diversity officer.

Why did the donor families agree to make a collective gift? The donors, who chose to remain anonymous, are current and former members of the Board of Trustees. The Catalyst Fund, said Mike Bonney, reflects not only the donors’ love for and loyalty toward Bates, but also their “singular excitement and enthusiasm about the direction that Bates is taking — and an eagerness, almost an impatience, to get going.” n

What is happening with the Opportunity and Excellence initiative? Dollars from the Catalyst Fund are already at work supporting the college’s financial aid program, one that meets the full demonstrated need of all Bates students.

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HAPPY

MEALS Matt Perejda ’14 and Jack Gonsalves ’14, impresarios of the Bobcat Den Delivery service, are delivering more than food interview by m ar c g lass ’ 8 8 pho to g raphy by billy c olli ns ’ 14

At the Den, Jack Gonsalves ’14 (left) and Matt Perejda ’14 review orders placed on the Bobcat Den Delivery Facebook page.

Perejda bikes past Roger Williams Hall with orders stowed in his backpack.

Perejda returns to the Den to pick up the next round of deliveries.

At Page Hall, Barrett Busscher ’17 pays with a card that Perejda will swipe through a Square reader.

ach Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evening during the school year, Matt Perejda ’14 and Jack Gonsalves ’14 deliver bags of hot-and-fresh Bobcat Den fare to paying customers, at all corners of campus, in about 20 minutes. Here’s how the Bobcat Den Delivery service works. Peckish students place orders on a form embedded on the Bobcat Den Delivery Facebook page (slogan: “We

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deliver deliciousness from the Den to your door.”) The form dumps the orders into Google Drive, and Perejda and Gonsalves review the orders on their laptops and place them, in person, at the Den. Joined by co-workers Jordan Cargill ’16 and Sam Warren ’16, the team gangs up orders, around four at a time, filling backpacks in the order of campus delivery. They then head out on mountain bikes to

drop off orders and collect payment. They accept cards only, using a Square card reader on their iPhones. Delivery fees range from $3 for orders under $8 up to $4 for orders under $20. Perejda of Newry, Maine, and Gonsaves of Portsmouth, N.H., who are both economics majors, recently told Bates Magazine what they’ve learned about the student palate, quick routes across campus and supply-chain management.

“I look at some of the orders and think, ‘I never knew that was possible.’”

Who are your heavy users? Matt: Freshmen and sophomores. They socialize in large groups. By the time students get to be seniors, they’re probably living in a Frye Street house with a kitchen and stocking up on food from Walmart or Costco.

What’s the most popular Den item? Jack: Grilled cheese sandwiches. People will pimp out a grilledcheese sandwich with bacon, avocado, tomato. It’s an inexpensive item to begin with, so it’s easy to add extras without the order getting too pricey. I look at some of the orders and think, “I never knew that was possible.”

What's been the reaction of Dining Services? Matt: They’ve been incredible. We used to pay for each order individually throughout the evening, but then they offered to let us run a tab and pay at the end of the night. Bates people root for you. Jack: The Den staff are so helpful. They’ll make just about anything if they have the ingredients. And I just like chatting with them while the orders are being made.

What’s a good night for you, in terms of volume? Matt: A heavy night is 25-plus orders. On our first night last March, we did 35 orders. On the first night this year we did 30 orders.

What have you learned about Bates students through doing business with them?

Do you use GPS to plot the quickest delivery routes across campus?

Jack: Bates people are generous with tips. The button for including a tip on the Square checkout screen is just as big as the no-tip button. But people always tip really well — always. Especially when it rains.

Matt: Not yet. I think of campus like a topographical map. If I have to deliver to Smith and Page, I go to Smith first and then downhill to Page. Delivering on a mountain bike, you wind up sometimes making your own trails.

Matt: One of the reasons this works so well is because we’re working with the Bates community. These are good people.

In a way, you’re dealing with the same fundamental logistics issues that FedEx and UPS face. What have you learned about efficiencies and supply chains? Jack: Small moves can have a big impact. For instance, we get all the sauces and ketchup ready ahead of time. We’ll fill all those little cups and stack them so they’re ready to pack with the orders. Matt: We’ve learned to bag up everything right at the counter, instead of taking it back to a staging table and packing everything there. The more you move the food, the more likely you are to mix up orders or run into someone and drop something. We write names on the front of the bags and the amount on the back. We’re high-tech on the front end, but old school with the delivery.

Speaking of the mountain bike, how is winter delivery different? Matt: Our only overhead thus far will be from getting the bike tuned up, and buying some studded tires for the winter. Obviously, when there’s a foot of snow on the ground, a big storm, we won’t be able to deliver. But they’re pretty good about plowing, so it’ll be fine.

What do you like about being entrepreneurs? Jack: It’s fun. I don’t think of it as delivering food. We’re delivering happiness. Matt: Entrepreneurship isn’t something you say you're interested in. It’s something you do. I tried to create a delivery service on Nantucket when I was caddying there. It flopped hard. But I got the experience to try it again, at Bates. n

Jack: We didn’t know to staple the bags — we rolled them up like Burger King, and stuff would fall out. The stapler is huge.

“I don’t think of it as delivering food. We’re delivering happiness.”

“Entrepreneurship isn’t something you say you’re interested in. It’s something you do.”

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The challenge before new Dean of the Faculty Matt Auer is to lead a faculty of 218 members — each of whom is expected to deploy myriad professional identities photog r aph y by phy lli s g r abe r je nse n

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often use “teacher–scholar” as shorthand to sum up the work of a typical Bates professor. But after an hour with Matt Auer, the college’s new dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs, maybe the phrase should go the way of the Den jukebox. Young academics were always taught that to advance in academia “you needed only to publish and teach well,” says Auer. Yet the college’s 218 faculty members each have identities that branch out beyond the two main trunks of teacher and researcher. They cross from one academic department, like history, into a related interdisciplinary program, like Latin American studies. They cross Campus Avenue to partner with a Lewiston bank to develop a set of best practices for Somali customers, and they cross the Atlantic to join a multidisciplinary research team looking at climate change in the Norwegian Arctic. As thesis advisers, they need to be fierce and

friendly, both a manager and guide. As committee members, they’re called upon to review the tenure process, adjudicate student-conduct cases, hire new colleagues and approve new courses. Meanwhile, Auer brings his own set of identities to Bates. He came to Bates after 18 years as a professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, including five as dean of the Hutton Honors College, the university’s undergraduate honors program. A 1988 graduate of Harvard, he has an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a Ph.D. from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. An expert in environmental policy, energy policy, sustainable development and foreign aid, he’s been engaged with issues and institutions on a global scale for years. As the fall semester was winding down in December, he spoke with me for an hour. — H. Jay Burns

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“ Lecturing tends to be a passive endeavor. And, by golly, if the lecture is not electrifying then the learning experience is really rotten.”

Nearly anyone who’s come to Bates, as a student or employee, has answered a version of this question: “Why Bates?” I got some exposure to Bates a few years ago as an outside evaluator for the college’s Program in Environmental Studies. It was the dead of winter and cold as can be when I visited — definitely below zero — but the campus was hot with lots of activity and energy. That energy struck me, how you had this beehive of activity in an otherwise frozen landscape. But what really got my attention was the dedication of the faculty to the students. I had never seen anything like it, even considering that paying attention to students is the liberal arts model. The intensity with which the faculty has internalized that ideal was and is profound and incredibly authentic. I’d be having a one-on-one chat with a faculty member, and he’d say, “I’d love to talk some more, but I’ve got to talk to a student about their thesis right now.”

You graduated from college in 1988. Besides the obvious changes since then — technology’s massive impact on society, culture and commerce — what should alumni know about how undergraduate teaching has changed? Teaching is a much more involved, intricate and deliberate kind of endeavor than it was in the 1980s. The faculty thinks about teaching in a really intentional way, as opposed to, “Well, I hope my enthusiasm for a topic just kind of spills over and infects students.” You have fewer “sages on the stage” today, where the expectation is that you’ll open your notebook and jot notes as pearls of wisdom pour forth. Lecturing tends to be a passive endeavor. And, by golly, if the lecture is not electrifying then the learning experience is really rotten, especially if the lecture is the only channel for learning in that course. Today when the faculty’s Committee on Curriculum and Calendar pores over a proposed course, they look at different ways students will learn. A course might have some lecturing along with other methods. Exercises embedded into a class session to break up the learning experience, so that students are taking charge of their own learning. Small discussion groups are forming. There’s flipping the classroom, using clickers or giving one-minute quizzes to see if someone learns a concept.

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Your academic career has crisscrossed fields and topics like economics, environmental policy, foreign policy, climate change and forestry. And your work has a strong international flavor. How does your own academic experience reflect what life is like for professors today? One of the concepts I learned as a graduate student was the notion that people have different identities. Your name is Jay, but you have different identities, maybe as a husband, father, journalist, colleague and volunteer. My professional identities, the ones you mention, are typical for someone in a professional school at a university, where the expectation is that your identity will go beyond that of scholar and teacher. You will also take your scholarship outside the university and translate it into another setting, perhaps at another institution or for another organization. But it seems to me that you don’t need to be in a professional graduate school to have that same kind of very engaged, multi-identity type of professional life. It seems like every faculty member I’ve encountered has a really complex professional identity, which is great. They cross boundaries all the time. At Bates, the archetypal place where this is true is within the Harward Center for Community Partnerships. Faculty and professional staff work together in a way that no one really anticipated when they were getting their graduate training and being indoctrinated to believe that to move ahead you merely needed to publish and teach well. It doesn’t have to be locally — they all seem to be engaged with an academic association or a community related to their research and teaching. I can’t think of anyone who is just teaching their courses and working on some narrowly defined academic project.

Can you offer an influence on what has made you who you are today? And why? My father was a professor at Cornell, and his life and his career influenced my going into the professoriate and what type of community I wished to belong to. Bates has this very strong, very palpable sense of community, and if I reflect on it, well, I’ve often lived in places with very intense community sensibilities. What you’re doing on a day-to-day basis is either directly embedded in what’s going on in campus, or you’re kind of a satellite around campus and your fellow travelers are people that you work with and their families. That was true when I was growing up as a kid, and it’s been true for much of my life.

Auer, with President Spencer, addresses Bates parents during Parents & Family Weekend.

In India, a group is founding a new liberal arts university, Ashoka, because they worry that Indian universities’ focus on engineering, technology and management has left graduates without a “21st-century skill set,” according to a New York Times story. That must make you smile. It’s ironic. Countries that are catching up to or have surpassed the U.S. when it comes to testing and aptitude in math and sciences recognize that their educated citizens have this 21st-century gap in critical learning and thinking skills, oral expression, creativity — the kind of mental crosstraining that you get from a liberal arts education. Yale, where I did my graduate work, has partnered with the National University of Singapore to open a new liberal arts college. Singapore recognizes that the country’s educational model — topdown, testing-oriented, hierarchically driven, with an emphasis on rote memorization — has led to great reading, writing and math scores but has not produced the creative and nimble qualities you see in students coming from liberal arts colleges. The same would be true of the experiment that New York University is doing in a variety of places, like in Abu Dhabi, and the Ashoka project in India. They are embracing the liberal arts ideal, even as here in the U.S. some doubt the value of college altogether, or believe vocational training and the liberal arts are substitutes.

“Purposeful Work” is the college initiative that, in President Spencer’s words, is about building a “sustainable structure to help our students explore, understand and strengthen their relationship to work.” As your office oversees the college’s Career Development Center, how do you describe Purposeful Work in the context of the academic program? What I like about the Purposeful Work initiative is the idea that we will not only help you identify your interests and values but also, very intentionally, help you actualize and operationalize those interests to prepare you for the life of work. We will help you do this through coursework and training, through relationships inside and outside of the classroom — in the residence halls, and through student organizations, athletics and internships. We will help you take your deep interests and values and tether them to what you’re hoping to do professionally after you leave Bates. So while the BCDC is instrumental to the process of self-discovery, it’s really all hands on deck: your adviser in your first-year seminar, your roommates, your mentors in the Dean of Students Office. It’s

On the Auer Widely quoted in the media over the years, Auer is an expert in environmental policy, energy policy, sustainable development and foreign aid. His scholarship has included: • 60 academic articles, chapters and reviews • 20 reports for government agencies in the U.S. and abroad • The 2004 book, as editor, Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environ- mental Policy Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia • 17 teaching or research honors • Five visiting appointments at universities in Sweden, the United Arab Emirates and South Korea

‘You’re Being Seduced’ As an expert in public policy, Matt Auer has looked at how governments use social media to influence public opinion and policy. Writing in Policy Science Journal in 2011, Auer notes that while social media can have democratizing functions, “allowing ordinary people to enter and influence the many arenas of public life,” we must also be aware of “the influence of powerful intermediaries who filter and shape electronic communications.” Referencing a prolific and charming Twitter user in the U.S. State Department, Auer told the School of Public and Environmental Affairs Magazine at Indiana University that “social media’s essence is that it’s a spontaneous, casual way to communicate, but for political actors, it has a very formal purpose. Behind the tweets about coffee and lunch and movies, you’re being seduced.”

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the epiphany you get when you attend a campus lecture in a field completely removed from your own. It’s your relationship with your coaches and what happens to you in athletics. These experiences are part of the rich fabric of Bates life. At the time and in the moment they might not seem connected yet we know they’re crucial to the development of a person between the ages of 18 and 22. Purposeful Work means that instead of saying, “You’re smart and you’ll figure it all out as you grow and mature,” Bates will take a much more deliberate approach to making connections between all your experiences here. All this interpersonal work has a lot to do with this notion of discovering your own core identity — it seems I keep coming back to identity.

About 120 years ago, Bates President George Colby Chase said that “few can appreciate and none can observe the slow process by which the crude boy develops into the scholar. Valuable things require fine scales, and the most valuable things cannot be weighed at all.” Notwithstanding what Chase said, how does a college like Bates assess its academic program, and figure out whether its students are getting what they pay for? I tend to agree with Chase’s quote, to the extent that there are these intangibles that you can’t really assess. But there is a whole set of reasons why we need to do assessment. Assessments make you better at the things you want to do in the first place. So, if we have a course in modern British fiction, we are going to include the learning objectives for that course in the syllabus. If I really care about the learning objectives, after the course is done I will try to determine whether I was effective as the teacher with respect to those a “priori” objectives. In the past, the grades — on tests, homework and the final — were a form of assessment. It drilled down to the level of the student: If you got an A in the class that meant you met the learning objectives. But I don’t think that’s sufficient. I think you need assessment tools that help you discover if students really met the core objectives because those objectives may not have anything to do with modern British fiction. They have to do with writing and communication, organizing your thoughts, and developing, supporting and defending a thesis. These are abilities that, frankly, a student who never looks at modern British fiction again will still need after Bates. We already spend a lot of time on assessment, and the life of assessment is only going to become richer as we go forward. 46

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One of the things that faculty say is different today is the amount and scope of committee work. Part of a faculty member’s identity that is more complicated than certainly 50 years ago and even 20 years ago is the sheer amount of institutional decision-making they take part in through committee work. In 1964, Bates had 17 faculty or faculty-student committees, including one called the Faculty Lounge Committee. Today we have 38, overseeing everything from admission and financial aid to biosafety and the care of animals in research. Some of our faculty committees now involve members of the community. I know that the faculty would love to be able to find structures for decision-making that are more efficient than what we have now. I suppose Bates could hire a cadre of assistant academic deans to handle some of the committee work. But while we beat our heads against the wall because there seem to be so many convoluted ways to make decisions — and I share that frustration at times — I see a very healthy desire among the Bates faculty to have a seat at the table. I would rather have a faculty that wants to drill down into the weeds versus a faculty that has checked out and not participating in making the institution great. I enjoy having colleagues with whom you can celebrate all of Bates life and all the tasks you have to do together. That’s the feeling I get here, an extended-family quality. At other places, it is much more compartmentalized and you have this notion that we’re not all swabbing the deck or hoisting the sail together because someone else is handling that.

It’s not every dean of the faculty who also oversees a varsity athletic program. What have you learned about the “fit” between academics and athletics at Bates? It’s one of the wonderful things about Bates that athletics is within academic affairs because it sends important signals. It signals that the goal of learning a sport is more than being a great field hockey player. It represents a broader kind of learning, but similar to what is happening on the academic side, that has to do with leadership, time management, organization and dealing gracefully with both winning and accomplishment, and losing and disappointment. This is all part of the broader notion of how we teach students to become whole people. Whether

“ Whether in athletics or academics, we seek the same kinds of outcomes.”

in athletics or academics, we seek the same kinds of outcomes and we use the same sort of instruments to help make students complete people.

This spring will be your first Short Term. What are you looking forward to understanding about Short Term? There seems to be this magical, mercurial quality about Short Term that I’ll have to see to fully understand. After driving on the autobahn for two semesters, you’re now on a different road. What happens now, when you are unharnessed from other obligations, whether curricular or extracurricular? Are you coasting? Are you taking a new, intrepid path of intellectual inquiry? Either way, you’re taking just one class and there are fewer academic distractions. It’s fun to stretch your legs a little bit. Students can do things they’ve had to postpone during the academic year. They can pick up a book or a hobby, or rediscover a hobby. They can get to Bates–Morse Mountain or other really cool places Maine has to offer — Maine is a big part of Short Term. In this sense, I also know that students love Short Term for a whole set of experiences that may or may not have that much to do with Bates directly but that make their bond to Bates that much stronger. Students associate Bates with their out-of-classroom experiences in Short Term, so Short Term ends up having a lot to do with their affection for Bates.

destroyed nine buildings and displaced some 200 residents in downtown Lewiston.] The exhibit shows the quality of engagement between Bates and any number of Lewiston and Auburn organizations. The people in the posters came here last night to roll out the exhibition. They were right here for students to chat with and interview. These people are incredibly busy but they’re eager to have us as partners. I don’t know if it’s Maine friendliness or what, but I haven’t seen it in many other towns where I’ve lived. It’s palpable. n

Matt Auer in Perry Atrium, Pettengill Hall.

What has surprised you about Lewiston and Maine? It’s striking how accessible everything is, but I’m not talking just about being close to the cool things like beautiful lakes, mountains and the ocean. Maine leaders are accessible even though they’re really busy. They’re ready to work with you after 10 minutes of conversation. You can come into a group, roll up your sleeves and immediately get to work. I’ve never really seen anything quite like it, except perhaps in a Nordic country where citizens expect to have access to organizations that they support and hear about. Here in the U.S. that’s not always the case. You have to know somebody who knows somebody in order to get a meeting in City Hall. But not in Maine. I saw this happen just the other day, in Commons. Students in Cynthia Baker’s religion course on human suffering created a poster exhibition, about the response of people in the community to the fires last spring. [Note: Three fires, all by arson, over an eight-day span last April and early May Spring 2014

JOHAN “ It’s all about practice.”

Johan Mohtarudin ’16 of Malaysia does the rumba with Erin Kirk ’14 of Great Falls, Va.

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BEINGSOFBATES Exploring another way to get close to the people of Bates pho to g raphy and i ntr odu c ti on by phyllis g r abe r je nse n Roman Vishniac, a biologist and photographer, once made a gorgeous photo of a cross-section of his own skin, magnified 200 times with a microscope. He said, “You can see how beautiful I am. Are we not all this way when one gets close enough?” Vishniac’s quote comes to mind when I'm asked: “What do you do at Bates?” My job is to get "close enough" to people here so I can tell their stories with photographs and words. I got the idea for this feature, Beings of Bates, after I’d read a story in American Photo about photographer Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York phenomenon. For those who are unfamiliar with HONY, Stanton interviews and photographs New Yorkers then posts brief but artfully edited captions. Together, caption and photograph tell a story. My own picture-and-word postings began online last June and, with this issue, move to Bates Magazine. You can see more at bates.edu/beings-of-bates.

CAITRIN “ I like to study in empty and unorthodox places. I find them more peaceful.” Caitrin Griffin ’16 of Geneva, Ill., studies on the second floor of Commons.

ANDRIA “ It works. It’s time to yourself. You get to think.” Laddy Library student worker Andria Bhagwandeen ’15 of Boston finds that shelving books is a stress-buster.

BILL “ This is not a lot of fun, but it’s something that should be done, so we’re doing it.” Landscape architect Bill Bergevin pulls weeds from bricks.

CHARLIE “ The placekicker is not too valuable during practice. But during games everyone hopes you can make the kick. When it comes down to the wire, I want to be that person.” Charlie Donahue ’14 of Plymouth, N.H., made 11 straight field goals from 2011 to 2013, one shy of the New England Division III record.

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DANIEL “ Building a set for a play takes a long time. Then you see the whole thing that was in pieces come together, all painted, on stage. It’s wonderful.” Daniel Paseltiner ’16 of Devon, Pa., works in Pettigrew Hall’s set construction workshop.

CHRIS “ This is the first time I feel like a real scientist.” Chris Halsted ’14 of Lincoln, Mass., examines geology specimens he gathered from an ancient Shetland Islands village.

SARAH “ It’s what we’ve been working for, hoping for, dreaming for his whole life.” Sarah Harrison shares what she was thinking as she sat with her son, Raymond ’17, at parent orientation last August.

BRITTNEY “ My friends can stop calling me ‘baby senior.’ I can do things with my friends, like get into Buffalo Wild Wings at night. I got rejected once. It was so sad.” Brittney Davis ’14 of Chicago has turned 21 years old. Her grandmother made the hat. It has Betty Boop on it.

RACHEL “ We’re here to listen, no matter what you want to say.” Eliza Gabriel ’15 of Minneapolis, Minn., Brendan Davidson ’14 of Duxbury, Mass., and Rachel Spence ’14 of Edmonds, Wash., are role models and mentors for queer and questioning students.

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THERÍ “ Truth be told, no high school student comes to college equipped to do college work. The only thing they have mastered is high school work.” English professor Therí Pickens

MATTHEW “ I like to sit down at the piano and see what I can come up with.”

Matthew MossHawkins ’17 of Newton, Mass., plays the piano in Olin.

DENNIS, ROB & CHIP Rob: “I play tennis for bonhomie and the experience of being harpooned by fate.” Chip: “Did he just talk about the harpoon? You can’t top the harpoon.” Dennis: “I’m not quotable.” Rob: “Really? Nothing about the good fellowship, the amusement, the endless verbal imitation and invention that goes on?” Dennis: “No, there’s no camaraderie here whatsoever. I’m just working on my own thing with these guys.” Professors Dennis Browne, Rob Farnsworth and Chip Ross deliver a few verbal volleys as they change sides. (The photographer was their fourth.)

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With three words from the poet Seamus Heaney, she finally felt understood by carrie barnard jone s ’ 9 3

‘‘Yes You Are’’ W

hen I was a kid at Bates, I spent a lot of my time feeling like less. My family had been kind of poor after my stepfather died. My nana would get us big orange blocks of commodity cheese for the week to supplement our $30 grocery budget. My mom didn’t answer the phone because she was so afraid of credit card companies calling. When I went to college I wanted to forget all that. I wanted to be an intellectual like everyone else. I wanted to have gone to private school in Manhattan, and to have a summer home in the Hamptons and clothes that weren’t from Kmart, which was sort of the Walmart equivalent back then. But I got over it because I knew it was pretty shallow. What I had a harder time getting over was class issues that had less to do with materialism and more to do with hatred and intellectual history. In one of my directing classes, one of the sexier straight guys actually announced about Beckett, “People who are not wealthy don’t care about this. A truck driver doesn’t watch public television or listen to NPR. They don’t care, they’re too busy humping and eating and drinking.” My dad was a truck driver. He watched public television.

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He listened to NPR. I don’t want to think about him humping. He ate food. He didn’t drink. In one of my playwriting classes the professor announced, “The working people of this country don’t give a shit about nuclear power. They don’t give a shit about a man of color.” When I was in elementary school my dad would bring me with him to protest the same nuclear power plant that my stepdad was helping to build. My dad helped me try to get New Hampshire to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day and do a hundred other civil rights things. And one of my college friends would love to say, “Carrie is too poor to be pro-intellectual.” He’s a minister now. That still doesn’t make what he said right. And one of my female poetry teachers told me over and over again, her voice trilling up with her patrician accent, “Carrie, you have the potential to be a poet, but your voice is too raw, not refined, not artistic enough.” My voice was poor. My cadence was public school. I was not from rich. Every sentence I spoke showed that.

hose are just four of the incidents that made me angry and intimidated and focused,

but in the back of my head it just inflamed my self-doubt. I could never be a poet because I wasn’t wealthy, private-school educated. My parents weren’t intellectuals. I could never move people with words because my words were too stark and my sentences too short. I would never fit in because I didn’t have the background that most of the other students had. And then two things happened. I read Sherman Alexie, an amazing not-wealthy Spokane and Coeur d’Alene poet. And I met Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney came to our college at the invitation of Robert Farnsworth, who is an awesome poet and professor. He met with our class, he gave a reading and we all got to hang out with him at a reception. “I can’t go,” I told my boyfriend at the time. He bit into his pizza. He was always eating pizza. “Why not?” “Because it’s Seamus Heaney,” I answered, staring at the little bits of sausage on the pizza. “So?” “Seamus Heaney!” “So?” I didn’t know how to explain. Seamus Heaney was the poet, the Nobel Prize winner. He was Irish, for God’s sake. Those people were

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Seamus Heaney in his native Bellaghy, County Londonderry, in 1986.

gifted with words. They had so many amazing poets — Heaney, Yeats, Wilde, Clarke, Moore. I was from New Hampshire. We had Robert Frost but pretty much every New England state tried to claim him. Heaney wrote things like: A hunger-striker’s father Stands in the graveyard dumb. The police widow in veils Faints at the funeral home. History says, Don’t hope on this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. “You will regret it if you don’t go,” my boyfriend said. “I’m going to just be playing Leisure Suit Larry anyway.” So I went, as anxious as if I was going on stage myself. He transfixed me. And when I met him afterward, he grabbed my hand in his and said, “So you are a poet?” And I said, “No.” And all he did was nod and say, “Oh, yes you are.” But in his eyes was this knowing, this connection, and maybe it wasn’t really there. Maybe I just saw it because I wanted him to understand me, because I wanted someone to get

who I was and who I wanted to be. Or maybe not? I don’t know, but one second later my professor said, “Oh, yes she is. I told you about her. She is like you.” And then one of them said something about growing up not wealthy, and I can’t remember the exact words but what I do remember is that I finally felt understood. Later, I looked up Seamus Heaney’s past, about how his dad was a farmer and neither of his parents were big on words really, not in the intellectual way that everyone in college seemed to be.

found out that he was like me a little bit not because he was a poet and I was trying so desperately hard to write just one decent poem, but because we were both human, that we both came from humble places, that we both looked in people’s eyes when we said hello. And that was enough for me. That was enough for me to believe in myself. Seamus Heaney performed a miracle when I met him. He made me believe that I could be whatever the hell I wanted to be and that it didn’t matter how hard I had to fight or work, or whether or not I fit in. What mattered was that I wanted the miracle of being a writer, of a metamorphosis from

Carrie Barnard, the poor neurotic kid from Bedford, N.H., into Carrie Jones, the neurotic best-selling author who lives on the coast of Maine. He gave hope and miracles in his poems and in his person, and I am so thankful for his existence and so sorry for the world’s loss. The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here. And don’t be so earnest....

— seamus heaney

A writer young-adult fiction, Carrie Jones’ books have appeared on The New York Times best-seller list. She lives in Bar Harbor, Maine, and wrote this essay after Seamus Heaney’s death last summer.

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1942 Reunion 2017, June 9-11 class secretary Barbara McGee Chasse bchasse6@gmail.com

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class president  Rose Worobel  rworobel@cox.net Elaine Humphrey Meader suffered three falls last year and had a cast on her forearm. She writes, “70 years proud of Bates! Met Ray ’44 there! Teaching still.”

1943 Reunion 2018, June 8–10

1944 Who, What, Where, When? Send your Bates news, photos, story ideas, comments, tips and solutions to magazine@bates.edu.

1934 class president Doris Neilson Whipple 216 Nottingham Rd. Auburn ME 04210

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

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

1940 class secretary Leonard Clough leonard_clough@yahoo.com Kate Gould Ball writes, “My life stays about the same, but moving more slowly. I am still in my own home and still driving my old Taurus, but only to the ShopRite, church, rec center for swimming and to a friend or two who haven’t died. I have been spending a couple of months in a Tucson apartment near son Tom. I also spent a week at Chatauqua in July with daughter Anne Louise and then a few weeks in Maryland. Because my sister, who lived in Leeds, Maine, died last year, I have not visited Bates as I used to. My iPad, my knitting and watching the news on TV fill much of my time. I had

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my 95th birthday recently and hope that all you classmates are well and busy. The last time I checked with Ginny Yeomans Ansheles she was enjoying life in her Portland apartment near family.”...Leonard Clough and Betty are active residents in The McAuley in West Hartford when they are not vacationing in Maine, taking a cruise or spending a couple weeks on Siesta Key in Florida. Len reports that his 18th great-grandchild was born recently and the 19th will be here soon. Like other members of our class, he hopes to be able to attend our 75th Reunion in 2015....Fred Downing writes, “At 96, I am disgustingly healthy. No pills, and I use a cane only on uneven ground. With daughter Jane ’65 I thoroughly enjoy the Pittsburgh Symphony, opera, brass and baroque ensembles, baseball games, annual family visits to East and West coasts. I spend much time reading, computing, researching 800-plus Downing and related families in four northern New England states. I’m looking forward to our 75th Reunion and Jane’s 50th.”...Charles Parker and Lorraine are happy residents at Heatherwood on Cape Cod, where they are enjoying life without major ailments. They are very proud of their grandchildren: a working graduate pharmacist, an MBA business consultant, a legal assistant at a D.C. ABA law firm, a law school student and two college freshmen. Charlie and Lorraine go on bus and boat trips, play bridge and croquet and enjoy the beach. They hope to be at our 75th Reunion....Earle Zeigler began year 95 in August. Only his two index fingers aren’t arthritic, but he was able to publish his long-awaited autobiography. It is available as a free email book by request at efzeigler@shaw.ca. If you prefer paperback, check out Going Out a Winner...and a Loser at www.trafford.com.

1941 class president Edward Raftery rafandjane@sbcglobal.net

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

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

1946 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Muriel Ulrich Weeks muweeks@comcast.net class president Jane Parsons Norris  janenorris@roadrunner.com

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

1948 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Roberta Sweetser McKinnell 33 Red Gateane Cohasset MA 02025 class president Vivienne Sikora Gilroy vgilroy@verizon.net

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

Serine Ferrigno Rossi ’49 says becoming a

great-grandmother “means I’m slowing down — I can only play nine holes of golf.”

Elaine Porter Haggstrom writes: “Don’t forget to mark your calendars for Reunion, June 6–8, 2014. You should have received a letter with the details of the weekend that the college has planned. Save the dates and look for your old ’49er Reunion costume from the past. I don’t think the style has changed. I’m planning to be there, God willing and if the creek don’t rise. I hope you will join in the fun.”...Marilyn Bayer DeLaney writes that she and John are in good shape and still live in their house that used to be a barn. They love Cornwall, Vt. She has worked in the president’s office at Middlebury College for more than 30 years. She would like to retire but is waiting for the president to retire. When not working, Marilyn sings in the church choir, is a member of a women’s group that provides scholarships to women, keeps the local restaurants in business and attends many college functions. She keeps in touch with Bates friends Jane Diefendorf Simonds, Peggy Stewart Jones and Topper Odegaard Russell. Over the years they have taken many trips to Europe, with a couple of cruises thrown in but not on Carnival!... Art Bradbury and Charlotte see all their kids, including oldest daughter Lynn ’70, grandkids and great-grandkids pretty regularly.... Joyce Cargill Korten is happy in her new home in Elim Park in Cheshire, Conn....Deedy Carr Foster lives in Florida and spends summers in her family home in Lancaster, N.H....Sadly, Rachel Eastman Feeley lost Tom, her husband of 61 years, in September 2012. She still teaches piano at Studio 88 Music School in Auburn, her business that she co-owns with daughter Martha.... Serine Ferrigno Rossi became a great-grandmother. “I think that means I’m old now. I’m slowing down, I can only play nine holes of golf and have cut back on my walking and gym time. Still enjoy playing bridge.”...Be it known that our class Co-President Bud Horne, on a beautiful August day, ran in the 2.7-mile Old First Night Marathon, a benefit for the community of Chautauqua, N.Y., where Bud and wife Betty live. He ran with daughter Mary Ellen, who was proud to be with her dad but said they did some running and some walking. Bud was the oldest participant and wore No. 1 on his shirt. His son Doug and his wife, Conny, also ran the race so the Horne family was well represented. Bud was third in his class. He says that in two years he’ll be

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90 and no doubt will be in a class by himself, assuring him of first place. Good luck, Bud!... Because of failing health, Nikki Jones Thomas moved in with daughter Alison and her family. “There is enough activity to prevent any lonely hours.”...Elly Kraupner Kveton and Frank enjoy six months in Florida and six months on Long Island, N.Y.... Evie Kushner Perlman is “doing what I love, helping children and families in my private practice as a semi-retired psychologist.”... Topper Odegaard Russell attended the wedding of granddaughter Kimberly Russell ’09 and Joshua Tompson on July 14, 2012....Charlie Plotkin reports he and Natalie “are living the un-Bates sybaritic life in Delray Beach, Fla.”...Danny Reale “adopted the late George Burns’ philosophy of life: ‘I get up every morning and check the obituaries. If my name isn’t there, I shave,’ and then we plan our next cruise or trip.”...Bill and Shirley Pease Sawyers, in Lakeland, Fla., report Florida Southern College has many fine programs....Betty Schoenherr Miller and Burnie now live in the Heatherwood retirement community in Yarmouth Port, Mass. “We are making new friends and renewing former people involved in our past and also Bates grads.”... Albert Sparks retired because of poor health and turned over his business, Sparks Department Store, to daughter Amy. He spends most of his time in Florida.

1950 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Lois Keniston Penney hulopenney@sbcglobal.net class president Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com

1951 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Dorothy Webb Quimby dwquimby@unity.edu class co-presidents Bill Dill Jean McLeod Dill wmrdill@gmail.com

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

1953 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Ronald Clayton rondot@comcast.net

class president Virginia LaFauci Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Ron Clayton reports, “Our 60th Reunion was a rousing success, with almost 40 classmates, spouses and others on campus. The weekend gave us all a good chance to reconnect with Bates, and to see how our school has changed and progressed since we left.” The class earned high marks for giving ($441,066) and participation (79 percent).... Judy Allen Dudley and Frank planned a trip to one of their favorite places, Shaker Village near Lexington, Ky....Mary Ann Brynnen Ferro gave up tutoring high school math to spend more time knitting prayer shawls, reading, cooking and relaxing.... Jean Chapman Neely remains active in environmental and nature endeavors....Ron Clayton reports wife Dotty Morris ’52 has fully recovered from surgery and treatment for thyroid cancer and they are back to walking a couple of miles most days....Along with his Bates involvement, Dick Coughlin continues to golf several times a week....Sad news from Clark Griffith: His wife of 42 years, Geraldine, passed away on July 16, 2013....Dave Harkins has been honored with an annual scholarship in his name, awarded to a member of the Bates football team....Maury Hight remains active on the local Environmental Commission, Fare-Free Advisory Council and their church, where he and Pat edit the newsletter....Sadly, Alice Huntington Vannerson and Bob lost their daughter, Molly. She passed away the day after their grandchild, Molly’s child, graduated from high school....Norma Judson stays active compiling local history for the library, playing bridge and taking part in her book club....Joanne Kennedy Murray and Floyd decided to spend the entire year in their Colorado home, partly because all their children are in Colorado....Ginnie LaFauci Toner thanks all those classmates who planned and attended the 60th. She and Don (Hamilton ’54) have not been traveling much because of her spinal problem, though they did get to Georgia to visit her son Wes ’86 and his family, as well as Judy and Frank Dudley....Nancy Lowd Hanby swims every day and stays active with church and friends....Selma Machanoff Raskin and Ed celebrated their 60th anniversary. She still works as an interior designer but finds time for golf, bridge, museums, concerts and opera....Nard Maskiewicz O’Brien and Jack ’52, who celebrated 60 years of marriage, both continue to deal with serious health issues....Jim Moody says his golf and tennis games are deteriorating, but he plays with people his own age, so it’s still fun....Curt Osborne enjoyed a three-week exploration of Turkey....Cynthia Parsons

Good Accompany A Reunion doyenne celebrates her 100th At her birthday party in August, newly minted centenarian Doris Neilson Whipple ’34 sits near her beloved piano, flanked by cousins Maurice Hight ’53 and Sara Mrosovsky P’02. At the party, held at her home in Auburn, Whipple was presented a Bates’ Best award from the college. The honor recognizes Whipple’s various contributions to Bates, including many years as the official pianist for the singing of the “Alma Mater” at Reunion, including the 2013 edition. “You have generously shared your musical talents wherever you go, and kept your fellow alumni in tune with the times,” said the citation. Her gig as Reunion pianist was hardly her first. As a teenager in the 1920s, Whipple accompanied silent movies in local theaters.

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Final Frames A striking photograph gets its due This black-and-white photograph shows Martin Luther King speaking at an interfaith rally at San Francisco’s Cow Palace in May 1964. A beam of light illuminates King at the podium, as if conferring a celestial blessing. George Conklin ’53 remembers the scene well. He took the photo. Last April, Conklin and his photograph received a DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Award from the Religion Communicators Council, a national interfaith association. The award recognizes the photo’s installation at San Francisco’s McLaren Park, overlooking the Cow Palace. Engraved on a stone, the photo is part of a “musing station” on the park’s new Philosopher’s Way. In 1964, Conklin, an ordained United Church of Christ minister, was communications director for the Northern California Council of Churches. He was photographing King’s appearance using Tri-X, the go-to film of the day for photojournalists who prized its high speed — meaning they could shoot in difficult, low-light conditions without a flash. And that’s what Conklin was doing on the night of May 30, 1964. “The long evening wore on, the humidity in the vast hall increased and I could see the beam appearing. I got up and took the last frames of a 36-frame roll.” Conklin has also photographed such notables as Cesar Chavez, theologian Karl Barth, Yasser Arafat in his Ramallah bunker and then-Sen. Barack Obama. “I often say, ‘Join the church and see the world.’” In a sense, Conklin’s photography is part of his ministry. “I have expressed the ideas of action for justice and social change through my avocation of photography.”

Menck and Herman live near Poway, Calif., in an assistedliving facility close to a son and his wife....Pat Scheuerman Pfeiffer thanks classmates and other alumni who attended and gave helpful feedback at the New York production of her play Fish, a fact-based drama about the Vietnamese fish wars in Texas.... John and Barbara Earl Sturgis still enjoy life in Sedona, Ariz.... Marguerite Thoburn Watkins and Gordon have moved into a cottage at Westminster Canterbury in Lynchburg, Va....William Thurston recommends “geezer community living” (his words) — no yard work, no home maintenance, no living demands....The Boothbay Register caught up with historian Milton Van Vlack, who has been on a mission for 50-plus years: to bring the truth about Silas Deane’s life and activities during the Revolutionary War to light and expose the lies. Was he really a traitor or did his contemporaries conspire to take the man down? In his new book, Silas Deane, Revolutionary War Diplomat and Politician, Milt argues that Deane suffered one of the most vicious character-assassination conspiracies ever carried out. Milt, who has a master’s degree in history from Trinity College and taught U.S. history and social studies, first became aware of Deane while he was a student at Bates. He uncovered letters by Deane that reveal his love of country and the exhaustion borne of his covert activities in France. He documents Deane’s pivotal role in such events as the Battle of Saratoga and the taking of Fort Ticonderoga; his success in securing military aid for Washington’s army; and as the architect of the first draft of the Articles of Confederation. “I was really starting to wonder if I would finish it for a while there,” Milt said. “I’m very pleased with how it turned out.”...Mary Van Volkenburgh Kashmanian is involved with her food pantry, thrift store, Family Promise/ Interfaith Hospitality Network, hand bell choir and other church activities....Pete Whitaker and Marion ’54 moved from their spacious Vermont country home to an efficient condo.

1954 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com class president Marion Shatts Whitaker petmarwhitaker@gmail.com Excitement is building for our 60th (yikes!) Reunion in June. Organizing with Bates staff is active, gift and social committees have been formed, and class officers along with committee chairs and volunteers met on campus during Parents Weekend to plan. A goodly number of classmates have already indicated they are

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looking forward to joining with others on campus for the gala occasion....From Washington state, Ginger Buhl Vetrano writes that in June, “Jim and I took our ‘Omega’ trip back East,” for a great vacation visiting relatives and Bates friends from Virginia to Maine....Two months in Holland, with trips to France and Italy, were enjoyed by Floridians and travelers Glenn and Lois Johnson Carson last spring. Twice each year they also head west to California to visit daughters Beth ’81 and Julie ’85, and have a fall New England journey scheduled....New Yorker Rouben Cholakian writes: “I continue ... as an aging retiree ... to explore the wonders of this amazing city, which still seems to have so much to offer. Scholarly writing for the tiny and barely interested readership I address also takes up a good part of my time and energy.” He wonders if any have read Murder under the Elms, by his late wife, Patricia Francis Cholakian ’55, which takes place on a campus remarkably like Bates....Joe Green, suggests that if anyone has a sinkhole, an abundant problem in his home state of Florida, please let him know. Joe has one and has learned a great deal about how to address the issue. “No big deal, except for the insurer and payer,” he writes....Bob Greenberg enjoyed his South Bristol, Maine, summer highlighted by the annual “but sadly trimming down” get-togethers at the homes of Jessie Thompson Huberty ’56 and Diana Cosimini Maginnes ’56. Ray Moffett also joins. Bob writes that he does “not report physical stuff because we all have ’em, and it is boring!” We hope to see Greenie, an ever-loyal regular, at Reunion....Another regular at Reunions, Don Hamilton, has volunteered to repeat his social committee role as banqueteer this June in Lewiston....Chris Hendrickson Kunz laments that although she can’t “reune,” she has an excellent excuse. Her granddaughter graduates from Dartmouth on the very weekend we meet. By coincidence, Jonas Klein also has a granddaughter graduating Dartmouth and the same dilemma. Both Dartmouthians are very active members of the Class of ’14, share similar interests and organization leadership roles, and both had Boston internships last summer. Chris suggests that she and Jonas wave Bates banners while proudly celebrating in Hanover....And y’all take notice that Bill and Carolann McKesson Laird, “God willin’ and [if ] the creek don’t rise,” will venture north to Bobcat land for our 60th. The ever-intrepid Lairds made their way to Casco Bay’s Great Chebeague Island last summer for a “celebration of life” service for Marianne Webber Brenton ’55, wife of our late classmate Dick Brenton. Bill notes that the Bates sticker on his Tennessee car invites some comments, if

not necessarily recognition.... From Kennebunk, Angela reports that she and Art LeBlanc stay active despite his Alzheimer’s. Their youngest daughter married at Point Lookout in Northport, Maine, in June, and Art walked their Alaina down the aisle in his USAF dress uniform. “There wasn’t a dry eye to be found.” They plan to join Reunion and Angela is “sure that Art will know everyone in the group.”...Dividing his year between Hammondsport, N.Y., and Tucson, Ariz., Dick Liebe struggled for six months to overcome a prolonged bout of pneumonia along with associated medical problems. He’s now feeling better and, fortunately, he was able to enjoy a great hiking trip in Switzerland in 2012 before pneumonia kicked in....“We’re OK ... just older,” write Jill Durland LoMonaco and Mario. They live in the Rochester, N.Y., suburban town of Irondequoit (the “land between the waters”), about a mile from Lake Ontario. Their middle son, John, has health issues and, at their request, moved in with them last year. “It has been helpful and nice for all of us.” They regret that they’re not able to again take the long drive to Maine....From out in Colorado, Char Wilcox Weiler laments no overseas trip this year, but she did manage a Texaco/Chevron retiree cruise from Los Angeles to Vancouver recently with members of the Denver chapter. Char took her first riverboat cruise in 2012, journeying from St. Petersburg to Moscow, and she extols the virtues of river cruising: “Unpack once, sleep in the same bed, eat most meals on board!” She enjoyed the St. Petersburg sights, ballet, canal boats, quaint villages and tea with villagers. Moscow was very different ... modern and noisy, but she took in the Moscow Circus, a wonderful private art museum and her personal favorite, Kizahi Island, a restored Russian settlement of about the same period as Colonial Sturbridge Village....Washington stater Tom Whitney enjoys life after a summer of 70-degree days. Winters are more like London, so the Whitneys travel when possible. All four daughters live in the Western U.S., and visits with them make their Eastern trips less frequent. The Whitney grandchildren range from those already out of college to their first-grader ... quite a spread!... Mainers Betty Sherman Wildes and Glenn will downsize from their Sanford home to a new Blueberry Commons apartment under construction at popular OceanView at Falmouth, an active independent retirement community 10 minutes from Portland’s pleasures. Seven Bates alums (’48–’67), including Jonas Klein, await with pleasure the 2014 arrival of the Wildes. Their eight grandchildren include two college graduates, four in college and two in high school....Lynn and Bev Hayne Willsey ’55

are back in Connecticut after a Vermont summer with more than half of their family. They enjoyed visits with Bob ’51 and Elsa Buschner Carpenter ’52, Pete ’53 and Marion Shatts Whitaker, and Ann Hoxie Brousseau ’55. Lynn, ever ready to serve Bates interests, has accepted the leadership of the Gift Committee and looks forward to conversations with many classmates.

1955 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 acting class secretary Mert Ricker mertr33@gmail.com class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net

1956 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Frederic Huber himself@fredna.com class co-presidents Alice Brooke Gollnick agollnick@valley.net Gail Molander Goddard acgpension@tds.net

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

The “Bates hello” is alive and well at the retirement community of Barbie and Bruce Farquhar ’57. “Everyone says hello as we walk across the village. It’s like walking from JB to Hathorn years ago.” Carolyn Cram attended her 60th high school reunion.... Bruce Farquhar and Barbie are happily settled in Bridgewater (Va.) Retirement Community. “The ‘Bates Hello’ is alive and well here. Everyone says hello as we walk across the village and it’s almost like walking from JB to Hathorne almost 60 years ago — so life is good.”...Wilma Gero Clapham is busy with activities of the Canadian Federation of Univ. Women-Ottawa but as past president her duties are much lighter....Nan Henson Hey had fun at her annual mini-reunion

in NYC with Margot Turitz Elkin, Marion Glennie Olsen and Peggy TenBroeck Sabin....Roger King married Barbara Mackey on May 24, 2013. “An actress, musician and theater historian, she and I met performing in plays at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Ann Arbor,” he reports....Helen Milam Staveley still teaches dance classes, and she and Mike try to stay healthy....Janet Neal Allen and her husband lead a quiet life as they try to decide whether to stay or move....Dick Pierce and Cynthia celebrated their 50th with a Mississippi cruise from Memphis to New Orleans....The Tinmouth (Vt.) town participation committee published a book Grant Reynolds wrote about how the town works. He (shoulder replacement surgery) and Jo Trogler Reynolds ’58 (broken arm at the shoulder) both underwent physical therapy....Joe Roberts reports all is well in LA....Judy Root Wilcox is proud that new college grad Sarah Crawford, daughter of Linda Wilcox Liversidge ’81, is following in Gramma’s footsteps as a first-grade teacher....Bill Ryall and Edie took a cruise to the Baltics with his brother, Larry ’62, and wife Shirley. They also made Edie’s 60th Bartlett High School reunion in Webster, Mass., and Bill’s 60th at Pittsfield High School....Sad news from Sidney Staudenmayer Treyz: Her husband, George, died Feb. 14, 2013, their 54th wedding anniversary. She continues to work at Historic Deerfield....Ruth Warfield Bauer is in nursing care in the late stages of Parkinson’s disease, husband Hank ’56 reports.... Joe Welch enjoys retirement from Massachusetts Trial Court and does some civil arbitration....David Wilkinson reports grandson Andrew Howard ’17 enrolled at Bates following his mother, Ellen Wilkinson ’82, his dad, Kevin Howard ’84, and proud grandpa....Bob Williams is doing well except for persistent sciatic pain in his right leg. Judie Roberts Williams ’60 traveled to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia....Jim Zepp is on the brink of getting into the TV, radio and film voiceover business. Fran Hess Zepp enjoys tutoring and testing for Literacy Suffolk, working with people from all over the world.... Retiring Class Secretary Pepi Prince Upton writes, “It has been a joy and privilege to be your secretary these past few years. And I thank you for your many well wishes. We are truly a remarkable group of not just classmates, but of friends. The joys and sorrows we have shared through the years have kept us close and connected.”...Peggy Leask Olney writes, “We had a very enjoyable minireunion in Camden. Thanks to Judy Larkin Sherman and John, who made all the arrangements, we were able to enjoy being with each other for three days (Sept. 16–18). Highlights included: a comfortable hotel with space for

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us to gather, the view from atop Mount Battie, sailing on a schooner, a lobster dinner, plus perfect weather.” Attending were Sue Manwell Ames and Roger, Doug Campbell, Wilma Clapham, Carolyn Cram, Helen Joerger Einstein and Tom, Margo Elkin and friend Jesse, Don Flagg and Jean, Bob Harlow and Caroline, Dudley Moses, Peggy Olney and Dave ’56, Marion Olsen, Judy Kent Patkin, Dick Pierce and Cynthia, Grant and Jo Reynolds ’58, Bill Ryall and Edie, Charlie Sanborn and Wendy, Judy Sherman and John, Helen Staveley and Mike, Sidney Treyz, Pepi Upton, Ann Lombard Vartabedian, Judy Wilcox, Bob Williams and Judie ’60, Jim and Fran Zepp. Also, Bill ’58 and Colleen Jenkins Huckabee ’58 joined the group for dinner the last night.

1958 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com class president John Lovejoy lovejoy@crocker.com Marilyn Miller Gildea writes, “The 22 class members and their spouses who attended our 55th Reunion had a great time. Our only complaint was that there was so much to do that we couldn’t fit it all in. It’s fun to see Hickories Ski Club founders Lori Beer and Grant Reynolds ’57 leading off the Reunion video.”... Lori Beer adds, “Reunion 2013 was great ... good turnout, lots to do, many remembrances.”

1959 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class co-secretaries Jack DeGange jack.degange@valley.net Mary Ann Houston Hermance donmar23@gmail.com class co-presidents Barbara Van Duzer Babin barbarababin@comcast.net Calvin Wilson ccoolidgewilson@comcast.net In Chiefland, Fla., Mary Ann Burdett has had a rough year, including hospitalizations and home healthcare, reports husband Allan Hodgkins. But she is a fighter and keeps in touch with classmates, he said. They hoped to be up in their Lancaster, N.H., home and camp on Piper Pond in Abbott, Maine, this past summer. “She hopes to get back to Bates soon,” he added....Anita Kastner Hotchkiss, a partner in the Princeton law firm Goldberg Segalla, is named in the 2013 New Jersey edition of Super Lawyers, a ranking of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

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

1961 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Gretchen Shorter Davis gretchend@alumni.bates.edu class co-presidents Mary Morton Cowan mmcowan@gwi.net Dick Watkins rwatkcapt@aol.com John and Sue Kimball Adams love living in Bonita Springs, Fla., and have made many friends.... Bill and Beryl Bixby Anderson welcomed their first grandchild, Poppy Althea. Tom Brown ’63 and wife Gail surprised them with a “grandparents shower.” Sharing in the fun were Steve and Joan Bishop, Scott and Carolyn Brown, and Sally Larson Carignan ’62....Still teaching half time at Virginia Military Institute, Doug Ayer reports he’s doing lots of “outdoorsy” stuff....Sally Benson continues her work with a small foundation supporting projects re: the environment, war legacies and youth empowerment....Steve Bishop and Joan hosted Sally Carignan ’62 for two weeks last winter in Venice, Fla....Carl and Mary Morton Cowan say 2013 was their “northern” year. They traveled to Scandinavia, Newfoundland and Labrador....Jerry and Gretchen Shorter Davis still do some traveling with Road Scholar and keep up with some Dixieland jazz festivals....Addie Dorfman Fu met up with David Chamberlain and Carl Tobie ’59 for lunch and Bates chatter. All of them live in Albuquerque....Bill Gleason and Doreen enjoy a world of travel and adventure....Jack Henderson continues his love of learning as a volunteer with the Midcoast Senior College, having served on the board, as treasurer and now webmaster....As part of the Rotary Group Study Exchange program, Art ’60 and Sara Kinsel Hayes enjoyed hosting a young professional woman from Norway. Their house in Belfast was featured in the May/June 2013 issue of Antiques magazine....Dick Larson spends winters in Florida, where he loves to kayak, and summers in Rhode Island....Paola Mangiacapra says her painting remains the highlight of her life. She is represented by Spring Bull Gallery in Newport, R.I....Bill Smith and Roberta plan to return to Senegal in April 2014 to visit the community development group they initiated in the late ’90s....Joel ’62 and Rachel Smith Young enjoy retired life with travel to Florida

in the winter, community activities at home, and time with family in Maine and Maryland....Joyce Stinson Cote and Galen enjoy traveling widely....Dick Watkins golfs, skis and does some consulting....Sad news from Dick Yerg: His wife, Sandi, died in February 2013 after 47 years of marriage.

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

1963 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Natalie Shober Moir nataliemoir@netflash.net class president Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com

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

1965 Reunion 2015, June 11–14 class secretary Judith Morris Edwards juded@comcast.net class president Joyce Mantyla tiojack@aol.com

1966 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class president Alexander Wood awwood@mit.edu

1967 Reunion 2017 June 9–11 class secretary Alexandra Baker Lyman toads@snet.net class president Timothy E. Hall hallte@aol.com

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hung up his baseball cleats this year despite advice from his best friend: “When you can’t lace ’em up any more, it’s time to die.”

With Ed Abbott’s retirement at the end of 2012, he and Stephanie Young Abbott are trotting the globe. In June they again visited son Michael in Dakar, Senegal, where he and his family have lived for 10 years. Earlier destinations were the Galapagos and Machu Picchu, and August found them on a Baltic cruise. “Are we crazy?” asks Steph. “Maybe, but we’re doing it while we can.”... Maintaining his law practice in Towson, Md., with partner and wife Marika, John Baldwin still has teenagers at home and will soon be visiting colleges with them. He and Marika enjoy their beach house on the Delaware coast and their Jack Russell terrier. John stays in touch with Bates roommate Alan Lewis.... Mel ’66 and Linda Bartlett Burrowes finally surfaced by mass email on their cross-nation travel in a motor home. On a dreary Fourth of July in Seward, Alaska, they sent photos of Denali and Fairbanks, the latter by a statue of a grizzly....In western Maine, Don and Karen Gulbrandsen Bean celebrated their 45th anniversary. He does small carpentry jobs and repairs and restores furniture. She teaches community college classes and works as a consultant in education. Children and grandchildren are close by to provide good company. Their younger son was recently married; their older grandson started kindergarten....Janis Beatty-Lobdell writes that she moved to Saranac Lake, N.Y., 17 years ago. She found working as a teaching assistant in the local elementary school fulfilling and fun. Now retired, she luxuriates in a morning cup of tea without pressure of schedule. She and her husband converted part of their house to accommodate guests and have operated for nearly a year as a tourist stop in the Adirondacks....After retiring from Lockheed Martin, Bill Bensch does the retired-guy thing: works around the house, eats breakfast or lunch with other “old” men, digitizes his movies and slides, rides his bike, and plans to ski if knees allow. Wife Anne works in real estate and notes an upturn in the market of late. Bill and Anne are travelers, with their most recent junket to the Mediterranean. They met up with Mac and Beth Krause Reid ’68 at The Inn at Lower Farm, a B&B in North Stonington, Conn., operated by Jon Wilska and wife Mary....In Pennsylvania, Geoff Boyer continues to operate Boyer Financial Group and refuses to retire just yet. He is a director of Embassy Bank, named 31st best in its category, size-wise. His wife, Wenda, creates horsehair jewelry and markets her wares internationally. They have four children: Geoff Jr., with wife and three children in Norway; daughter Aegis with husband and two children in Tennessee; son Scott in pilot’s training; and

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daughter Julie in nursing school. The Boyers are champion gardeners and welcome any visitors who happen to pass near Emmaus, Pa....Kathy Butler Carlson is working her way to full retirement. Recently, she merged her law practice with that of a larger firm and is gracefully reducing her workload to an end. Glenn has long been accustomed to a zero workload, though he keeps busy with fishing, gardening and hiking....In Canaan, N.Y., Bob Fair and Betty live in their remodeled Grange Hall home, close to children and grands. Bob has become a painter in acrylic folk art, with an agent, and has sold many paintings to Bits and Pieces puzzles as well as his originals at area shows. He was accepted last spring by Early American Life magazine for its carefully juried Directory of Traditional American Crafts. Bob attended his 50th high school reunion....Tim Hall has had a lot of practice retiring. In 2008, he stepped down as president and CEO of the Chelsea School in Silver Spring, Md., a school for children with learning differences. He and his wife moved to Florida, where Tim became the starter and an on-course adviser for a country club, “a dream job for those of us who enjoy the wonderful game of golf.” The next year, Tim returned to the banking community, working closely with the FDIC, and in 2011, he joined a real estate equity fund that purchased portfolios from the FDIC. Tim’s son lives in Philadelphia and his daughter in San Francisco, with two granddaughters in each location. Now fully retired, Tim lives not far from Bryan Carlson and wife Anne and appreciates the renewal of that old friendship between Bates roommates....Joe Iacobellis continues his work as technical editor for Dating for Dummies by Joy Browne. His home is in Stratford, Conn....Dick and Ellie Master Kilbourne ’69 were reminded that parenting little ones is best left to the young, when they gathered with daughters Kristin ’97 and Cindy ’00 over the Fourth of July in Bridgton, Maine. The Kilbournes spent two months in the South Pacific and two weeks sailing the Leeward Islands and BVI. Ellie works as a hospice volunteer, and Dick is very slowly restoring his 1931 Packard....From his home in Pepperell, Mass., John Ladik enjoys travel to the beaches of the Keys, Bermuda and Maine with his family....The Class of ’67 was well represented at the naming ceremony for the Gomes Chapel and the inauguration of President A. Clayton Spencer in fall of 2012, writes Judy Lanouette Nicholson. She and Ingrid Larsson Earn Shea also attended a Bates event over Memorial Day weekend, a Rockies-Diamondbacks baseball game at Denver’s Coors Field. “We looked like a couple of

grannies sitting in the midst of Bobcats of the Last Decade (BOLD). Then we tested our mettle by running the Bolder Boulder 10K and were within a field of 55 females of age 67.”... Archie Lanza and Diana enjoy retirement. They stay busy with projects, volunteer activities and visits to kids and grandkids. Archie hung up his cleats this year and is taking his chances, despite advice from his best friend: “When you can’t lace ’em up any more, it’s time to die.”... The Rev. Anita Miller White is now a part-time interim minister at Second Congregational Church in Norway, Maine. Retired from Hebron Academy, where she served as chaplain and chaired the English and religion and ethics departments, she has served many churches in Maine.... Tony and Shirley Murphy Mongillo traveled to Tuscany for daughter Laura’s wedding. Shirley attended her 50th high school reunion....In Boston, Sally Myers McGinty geared up for her 50th high school reunion. She published her latest college advisement book in 2012 and is still in practice, doing college, graduate, MBA and overseas admissions work....In Stephentown, N.Y., Marilyn Osgood admits that she loves the home she chose in the Route 22 valley some years ago, but she is ruminating about an apartment. She enjoys painting and drawing, gardening, reading and canoeing, along with the expected music. Like many new retirees, Marilyn finds the freedom from responsibility very welcome. A reunion of members of her mother’s family is in the offing, with the old stories and mysteries that such gatherings bring forth.... Still working full time as a speech pathologist in the Capital District of N.Y., Anita Preston Stanley loves spending time with her seven (nearly eight) grandchildren. She is also an activist in the peace movement....Rocky Wild Harvey and Marti Sander Salomon live an hour apart and get together almost every month, in Santa Cruz or Pleasanton, Calif. Marti accompanied Rocky on a trip to find a new home near son Tom and his children Amanda and Ella. The two friends met up with Mel and Linda Burrowes on their journey in their motor home....In Williamsburg, Va., Bryant and Jeanette Smith Cureton’s life is interwoven with board work at two colleges, community commitments, a little travel and special family celebrations. The highlight of their year was the June wedding of daughter Elizabeth at Colonial Williamsburg. Elizabeth, a surgeon, and Shawn, a bassoonist with the San Francisco Opera, live in the Bay Area near Bryant and Jeanette’s other daughter, Sarah, and husband Robert....In Portland, Ore., Rita Sorensen Leonard has loved her work for the past 20 years in the public

schools as a special-ed paraeducator. She is a freelance writer, doing interviews for The Bee. Her flower garden captures her imagination in spring and summer, as do grandchildren Ethan, 3, and Rachel, 2. Daughter Katie teaches at Portland Community College, and Sally is a licensed massage therapist. Rita’s Bates roommate, Helen Woodruff Paganucci, has visited....In good old Lewiston, Anne Stauffer Behnke teaches fourth grade. In summer she travels, recently to Peru. Her adventures make good stories for the classroom....Helen Woodruff Paganucci and Fred left Maine in 2009, ending up in Las Cruces, N.M., where they stayed for two and a half years. While they enjoyed aspects of the locale, they found it hot and remote and moved to Reno, Nev. Surrounded by mountains and nestled near the Truckee River and Lake Tahoe, they find life to be good. They visited Maine last summer.

1968 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Rick Melpignano rickmel713@comcast.net class co-presidents Gerald Lawler Jill Howroyd Lawler lawlerjer@aol.com Peter Ellis, the editor of The St. Augustine (Fla.) Record since 2004, stepped down to become opinion page editor. He said that will enable him to work partly at home and spend more time as caregiver for his wife, Laurie, who has ALS.

1969 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Bonnie Groves beegroves@comcast.net class president Richard Brogadir dbrogie1@aol.com Mary Buckson Fuller retired as supervising law librarian with the Connecticut Judicial Branch in 2011....Peter Handler works as a custom furniture maker using wood, metal, glass and fabric. He is the Philadelphia group leader of Citizens Climate Lobby, an activist group working to mitigate climate change by changing national policy.

1970 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Stephanie Leonard Bennett slenben@comcast.net Betsey Brown efant127@yahoo.com class president Steve Andrick steve.andrick@chartis insurance.com

1971 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Suzanne Woods Kelley suzannekelley@att.net class president Peter Hine phine@snet.net Susan Cragin Cole and her husband moved to Honolulu in September 2012 “after a wonderful trip across the country visiting all of our relatives. We love living here and enjoy spending lots of time at the beach. We had a great visit with Alan and Jan Face Glassman. They were here visiting their daughter Jennifer Glassman Jacobs ’00, and it was great to have a Batesie minireunion.”...Minneapolis-based Dolan Co., a leading provider of professional services and business information to the legal, financial and real estate sectors, promoted Chris Eddings to vice president in charge of its Business Information Division.

1972 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Steven H. Mortimer stevenhmortimer@gmail.com class president Wayne V. Loosigian wloosigian@exeter.edu

1973 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Kaylee Masury kmasury@yahoo.com class president Kitty Kiefer beesweet1@gmail.com Jeff Goble was named a professor of criminal justice at Central Penn College. He has a law degree from the Univ. of New Hampshire School of Law....The Meriden (Conn.) Record-Journal caught up with John Hogarth as he retired after 31 years as director of the Meriden Senior Center. “The seniors love him. He’s not a sit-around guy,” said John’s boss. John initially thought he might follow in his father’s footsteps and become a stockbroker. While studying psychology at Bates, though, the subject resonated with him and he sought a service-oriented professional life. His demeanor helped him to be successful. “It’s in my nature to be patient and laid-back. This is why it’s a good fit,” he said. He’s served as president of the Connecticut Coalition of Aging, at which directors and elderly providers talk about issues and trends. There’s been a big focus on helping elderly people live at home longer. “We want to keep them independent in the community,” he said.

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

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Save the Date: 40th Bates Class Reunion June 6–8! Happy to report that classmates have already started to let us know they hope to attend this milestone Reunion. Ideas are coming in for activities and topics for presentations.... After the death of her mom, Sally White Byrkit ’47, in January 2012, Cindi Byrkit decided to leave Colorado and return to the East Coast. She moved to Raleigh, N.C., “thinking that I wanted to escape from winter. Along about March, I realized where I really wanted to be was back in Maine, and as of June 2013, I have relocated to Auburn, where my roots are. The cats and I are settling into our new condo, and I’m about to start working for a former boss, at his health insurance administration firm located in Gray. Can’t wait for Reunion! In the meantime, I enjoy touching base with classmates on Facebook.”...Bill and Karen Lord Cunningham, retired for nearly two years, compiled a fun list of varied activities to exercise your body and mind that can be done in and around Bates.... Bernie Heath, happily settled in Durango, Colo., plans to retire in about six years. He and Deb celebrated their 28th anniversary. His organization, Axis Health System, is now a first of its kind, fully integrated health care system in Cortez, treating the whole person (primary care, mental health, substance use and wellness). Daughter Sarah graduated from the Univ. of Wyoming and works in Sanibel, Fla., at a wildlife reserve. Becca is a senior at the Univ. of Northern Colorado, and her brother got an associate’s degree and started at Univ. of Western Kentucky in photojournalism. Bernie is in regular contact with Randy Rizor, who lives in Atlanta after completing two tours in the Middle East as a physician....Julia Holmes Reuter has added Zumba fanatic to her resume. Son John Reuter ’08 got married last August to a — wait for it — Colby grad, Lexie Praggastis! Her sister is Alissa Praggastis Corcoran ’07....Tina Psalidas Lamson and Steve happily report it’s been a very busy year. All three sons married three wonderful young women between Sept. 2, 2012, and Sept. 7, 2013!...Bob Lastowski has also volunteered to help with contacting classmates for Reunion. Before retiring in a year he will continue teaching AP and honors English at Holyoke (Mass.) High School and continue as the head coach of both football and indoor track. He received a special honor when the senior class

dedicated the yearbook to him. Sue Brown Lastowski ’75 has her own tax and accounting business. “We are healthy and active in our church and community and relax playing tennis, bike riding, or going to the gym or pool. Son Joe, 35, and wife Niki live nearby and he works in HR. Tim, 31, is a wildlife photographer in Montana. Alyson, 29, and husband Peter live a half-hour away and have two children, Samantha, 2, and Vincent, 3 months. Grandparenthood is simply the best!”... Paul Liscord has a wealth of experience and knowledge about energy-efficient building and designing homes that can be heated with the occupants’ natural body heat, a subject he has volunteered to talk about at Reunion. He and his wife, the Rev. Barbara McKusick Liscord, are actively engaged in their community of Milford, N.H., and in Barb’s Unitarian Universalist congregation. Paul’s activities range from organizing the town Democratic committee election efforts to serving on the school budget committee and leading church youth programs including working with eighth- and ninthgraders in a comprehensive sexuality education program. Barb enjoys a rewarding ministry and continues meditation and study, mostly Buddhist Vipassana tradition, as well as more earthly activities like farming, hiking and even taking up the ukulele. With both children married, Barb and Paul are now grandparents and enjoying and appreciating the richness of their lives and grateful for all the connections and relationships they have with neighbors, friends and their community....Norm Olsen and Tasha live in Portsmouth, N.H. He has a new position at EMC Corp. managing global programs for its professional services division. Norm, Vicky Aghababian Wicks and Bruce Wicks have agreed to chair our 40th Reunion Gift Committee....Neal Ouellett was elected to a three-year term as a trustee of the Foundation for Seacoast Health in Portsmouth. Neal, who lives in Portsmouth, is the CEO of Living Innovations, which provides services to seniors and people with disabilities....Carol Prochazka Spencer has also volunteered to help with planning activities and even more important making use of social media (Facebook, Twitter). With her help we should be able to make it easy for classmates to connect and make plans to attend Reunion. As the digital and social media manager for Morris County, N.J., Carol developed a social media emergency notification system in one social stream called MCUrgent (Morris County Urgent). It has received national recognition and she has been doing quite a bit of public speaking about social media use during emergencies. She continues as Northeast region director and treasurer of the National Assn. of Government Web Professionals.

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She bought a house in Austin in anticipation of becoming a Texas resident upon retirement. She travels extensively and in 2014 she and Kaylee Masury ’73 plan a trip to the Serengeti after which she will go to Uganda to see her son who lives there....Dirk Visser lives in Brussels, Belgium, and continues to work trading grain. He and his wife have two sons, including new Bates student Nicolas ’17....Katanya Woods and Paul have made the leap across the ocean to Rockport, Mass., and officially retired. Their two children, Paul and Lisa, live and work in New York City. Katanya and Paul are happily reconnecting with many Bates friends and look forward to our 40th Reunion in June. Katanya is also ready to help make it the best one ever!

1975 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Deborah Bednar Jasak wjasak@comcast.net Faith Minard minardblatt@comcast.net class co-presidents Susan Bourgault Akie susieakie@aol.com Janet Haines janethaines@alumni.bates.edu

The annual “Boys Do Bumps” ski trip to Saddleback Mountain is “named for our longforgotten penchant for skiing moguls,” says Mike Genetti ’75. George Anders, who works with a database marketing company, and Donna have built a new home in Farmingdale, N.J. They enjoy family vacations to national parks....Deb Bednar Jasak, longtime president of the Hopkinton (N.H.) Garden Club, is retired and spends as much time as possible in her organic vegetable, herb and flower gardens. She and Bill enjoy traveling.... Jeff Brigham and Ruth had a wonderful “pilgrimage” to Israel in 2012 with a group from Pilgrim Pines Conference Center in New Hampshire....Carol Burgess Goetz is vice president of development at the Family Planning Assn. of Maine. She spends as much time as possible at her “retirement home” (in five-six years) on Deer Isle....Fred Demers, who lives in Baltimore but spends half his time on Highland Lake in Bridgton, Maine, is busy with leadership and career transition coaching. He stays in touch with Joe ’73 and Sally Danforth Grube and Roy Madsen....Chris Fahy’s daughter, Zoe ’13, graduated from Bates with a double major in environmental studies and dance....Debbie

Gray Alexander, who retired in 2010, and Mike ’74 have been traveling to places they always wanted to go, like a gorilla trek in Uganda and Rwanda....Jackie Henrion still writes songs, recently expanding into poetry after taking a writing class with Berklee’s online Music College.... Jon Howard celebrated 30 years of marriage to Gayle Gifford as well as 16 years of being business partners with her in their strategy consulting firm for nonprofit clients, Cause & Effect Inc. in Providence, R.I....Longtime Twin Citians (Minn.) Jeff and Lindy Larson Howe get together with Chuck and Sandi Korpela Radis ’77 and Gina Chase ’77 whenever they can. “We all laugh so much it hurts!” Lindy works as a librarian at the Stillwater (Minn.) Public Library, an ever-challenging and exciting job. Jeff works at Dovetail Inc., the nonprofit environmental “think tank” he founded that disseminates science-based information about land use, especially forests....Becky Hutto is the principal at Robert Hunter Elementary School in Flemington, N.J. She and her husband, David Gottlieb, spend as much time as they can at their second home in New Portland, Maine....Bob Marso retired from the marine business and is busier than ever. He does some landscape designing, refinishes antique furniture and is writing a new cookbook....Faith Minard happily works as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Manchester, N.H. She and husband Stephen Blatt, a physicist and software engineer, spend many weekends on Long Lake in North Bridgton, Maine....Sandy Shea is the year-1 curriculum director at the Southern Illinois Univ. School of Medicine, “so I hang out with really smart medical students all the time and help them learn what they need to become good physicians.” She’s a double cancer survivor....Gary Sinclair is now working with the public defender’s office out of Malden and Somerville, Mass. He says it doesn’t pay much, but it’s interesting work....Liz Spamer Enas works part time and loves life in Colorado. She volunteers with the city parks and travels quite a bit....Marty Welbourn Freeman works part time for the Alaska Division of Forestry. She quilts, sings in the UU choir and skis cross-country....The 30th annual “Boys Do Bumps” ski trip took place in March 2013 at Saddleback Mountain in Rangeley. The event, “named for our long-forgotten penchant for skiing moguls,” is a weekend filled with skiing, lobsters, kegs of beer, Foosball, whist and renewed friendship. The boys included Ken Queeney, Guy Roberge ’73, Mike Genetti, Bob Littlefield, Joe Burke ’73, Jim Dachos, Rick Jack, Matt Gilligan, Steve McCusker, Bob Watt ’76, Pete Williams ’74 and Alan Hill.

1976 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Jeffrey Helm jeffrey.helm@verizon.net class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com

1977 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Joel Feingold joelafeingold@me.com Dervilla McCann meistermcn@aol.com class secretary Steve Hadge Steve_Hadge@alumni.bates.edu Singer-songwriters Barbara Cassidy and Eric Chasalow are the heart of the Barbara Cassidy Band, which released a new album, Fly Away. The six-song EP features four songs the couple wrote together. Eric and Barbara began songwriting and performing together in 2010. Besides their originals, they perform American and Irish traditional songs. Eric is also a professor of music at Brandeis Univ., where he teaches composition and directs BEAMS (Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio). Last summer he composed a piece of music inspired by the Dead Sea Scrolls. “Where it Finds Nothing But the Wind,” which features lyrics taken directly from the scrolls, was performed Oct. 5 at Brandeis’ Slosburg Music Center....Laura deFrancesco McLaughlin says it’s been a year of surprises: Youngest stepdaughter Megan gave birth to a second pair of twins, and Laura’s husband George had a surprise hip replacement. “Fortunately, the twins are healthy, and the hip replacement went well. I continue to volunteer as president of the Kent (Conn.) Chamber of Commerce and to perform paid consultant work at the Kent Memorial Library. There was no summer travel, but we plan to get to Halifax to meet the twins this fall, winter in Florida again and are exploring an African safari for 2014!”...Along with her regular work teaching and doing therapy in Pennsylvania, Landi deGregoris Turner co-directed a gender studies summer course in Maine. “Students lived in community a few blocks from the beach, and we read, wrote, explored and talked together for three weeks. It was wonderful, although a bit odd to be in Maine and not vacationing! My oldest son graduated from Muhlenberg College and is living back home with a good job, and the youngest is a sophomore at Dickinson. Life is good!”... After a nice, relaxing hiatus of nine months, Lynn Glover Baronas returned to work as the assistant director of student and alumni engagement at the

Univ. of Hartford. “Feels great to be back on a college campus!”... Jane Goguen Baronas writes of a busy year in Boston. Anna graduated from Boston Latin and is off to SUNY Purchase to study in the Conservatory of Theatre Arts. “We are very proud of our artful daughter! I hope she is as lucky with roommates as I was; Pam Walch Constantine and I moved all over the Bates campus together for four years. Our son, John, will be doing it all in another two years, so we have a busy stretch coming up. As a result (!), Matt and I have no immediate plans for retirement, but we both enjoy our jobs, so that’s a bonus. I see Pam and sister-inlaw Lynn Glover Baronas as often as I can, especially for our ever-daring Cape Cod weekends!”...Steve Hadge “began my 30th year in the Manchester (Conn.) public schools — seventh year as a library media specialist, which I love! My daughter recently entered the teaching profession, seventh-grade math, after several years as a research chemist. I am thrilled and very proud. Everyone in my family is well and healthy. Couldn’t ask for anything more!”...Joe and Anne Allen Majsak say life is just fine in White Plains, N.Y. Joe is winding down his insurance career at GenRe, and Anne’s engaged in multiple nonprofits and churches. They expect to add the grandparent title when eldest daughter Carrie gives birth. David, their young man with Down syndrome, works at IBM in food services and is proud to bring home a paycheck. He loves riding with dad. Emily is in her third year at Northpoint College in Haverhill, Mass., and enjoys her collegiate experience. Joe and Anne ran a three-day, 1,000-plus-mile motorcycle endurance event through the Finger Lakes, Catskills and Allegheny Mountains....Ken Maloney reports Maggie is a sophomore at Connecticut College and Lucy a senior at Dana Hall School, bound for Vanderbilt next year. “Sara and I are each hanging tough with our businesses.”... Heather Ouimet McCarthy writes, “Life in Maine is good ... if absurdly wet. I am still at the Sun Journal, loving my eclectic job that includes everything from news page design to creating story illustrations to writing editorials. Bill and I are grandparents to two beautiful girls, Katie, 3, and Elizabeth, 11 months, and having the time of our lives. We still travel afar whenever we can: up next, Aruba in March. Also love to tour the New England roads in our fire-orange Solstice convertible.”...Marybeth Pope Salama had a busy year. “Still at Family Hospice and Palliative Care struggling with the sequester impact on reimbursement for what is already a labor of love. Happily we are still healthy and thinking longingly of retirement (too soon, I know). We are think-

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Peter Weyand ’83

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The Wall Street Journal

headline:

Physics of flopping: Mark Cuban backs a study

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June 7, 2013

takeaway : Can science help tell the difference between a foul and a flop?

In this photo, is the Bates player “flopping” — trying to draw a foul — or has he really been fouled by the Bowdoin player? If researcher Peter Weyand ’83 is successful, basketball officials might go from guessing to knowing the answer. The Wall Street Journal and other outlets describe how Weyand’s research into basketball collisions, funded by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, could yield a way to use video to tell the difference between fouls and acting. Weyand, an expert in applied physiology and biomechanics at SMU, tells the Lexington Herald-Leader that we have few clues about how athletes in contact sports stay on their feet. That’s why the project intrigues him. “If you don’t know what’s behind that closed door, you have no idea once you open it where it might lead.”

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ing of getting a pop-up trailer to take advantage of Pittsburgh’s location near wonderful outdoors. If any have had good or bad experience with any, I’d love to hear. Our daughter, Naomi, finally graduated Vet School at Cornell last May and is in Ithaca this weekend rubbing shoulders with Lisa Pelletier Ferguson, helping with goat-related activities. Small world! Our son, Noah, is finishing his final year at Washington & Jefferson and thinking about medical research future. Guy still works at the Univ. of Pittsburgh and has exciting research pending for treating atrial fibrillation and fibrosis of the heart. I’m still singing with The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh (since ’81!) and will be going to NYC Carnegie Hall with the PSO to perform Mozart’s Requiem with John Lithgow reading quotes from his life (think Amadeus).”... Nancy Schroeter Werner went “back to insurance work these last several years, for Travelers Insurance, mostly to have funds to propel my two gals through the college years. Mission accomplished. Emily lives in D.C. (so fun to visit) and works in an accounting department for an environmental consulting firm and loves it! Katie is now accepted at physicians assistant school in N.C., and we are excited! Had a great summer with lots of Batesie visits, to Robin Hodgskin ’76 in Yarmouth, Maine; Minnesota to see Kate Flom; Detroit to see Trina Fennel; and did the Jimmy Walk with Robin Lee.”... Teri Thomas Tornroos writes, “Hard to believe we have been living in Marietta, Ga., 15 years but still love it! When my kids were getting older, I went back to school for my CFP and started a fee-only planning business six years ago. Life is good and we go to Savannah often. I’m heading to Seattle for our annual reunion with Robin Lee, Nancy Schroeter Werner, Trina Fennell, Kate Flom, Deb Kupetz Hart and Merle Bragdon.”... Ellen Walker enjoyed a brief visit with Lisa Ferguson, and her goats, in Ithaca, N.Y., last May. On the home front, Ellen is keeping bees in top-bar hives for the second year running, gardening and attempting to learn about permaculture....Jackie Wolfe “decided it was time for me to downsize so I could focus on my priorities — like promoting my book and writing the next one. Ray wanted to travel. So we have moved into a 35-foot travel trailer full time (380 square feet). We bought a little teardrop trailer to pull behind the Volvo to actually do the traveling from. Of course, life being as full of surprises as it is, I got a diagnosis of malignant melanoma on my face that needs surgery....So we’re back East where my insurance is functional. I believe all will be well, but I do appreciate prayers and best thoughts. Even Paradise is hard work, but I have no regrets.”

1978 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-secretaries Deni Auclair dauclair56@gmail.com Melanie Parsons Paras melaniep1010@aol.com class president Chip Beckwith chipwith@aol.com Allan Boyer is the new COO of SERV Centers of New Jersey, a company of SERV Behavioral Health System Inc....Ship Bright, a professor of social entrepreneurism at Charles Univ. and Univ. of Economics in Prague, and Rebecca Merten ’12, an Englishlanguage teaching assistant, got together at a meeting of Czech and Slovakian Fulbright scholars in February 2013....Barb Stewart retired from the National Park Service after 33 years. “My fun meter — or something — pegged, and it was time for the next chapter,” she says....Lynn Pittsinger is now director of pediatric emergency services at Hasbro Children’s Hospital/Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. She also is a per-diem nurse practitioner providing pediatric and adolescent urgent care for Harvard Vanguard in Wellesley, Mass.

1979 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com class president Janice McLean janmcle@charter.net

1980 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Christine Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@gmail.com class president Mary Mihalakos Martuscello mary@martuscellolaw.com A group of classmates gathered in early September to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a Labor Day camping tradition. Batesies attending last year were Mike and Alison Grott Bonney, David and Lizette Panet-Raymond Greaves ’81, Nik von Huene, David and Chris Tegeler Beneman, Mike Lane, Bob Umberfield, Tim Connolly ’79, Brad Smith and Deacon Marvel. Also stopping in were various children including recent grads Erin ’09 and Devon Bonney ’12 and Sara Beneman ’10. Previous attendees Michael and Elizabeth Kalperis Chu and John Gillespie were sorely missed. The Benemans and Brad also did the inaugural Bike Maine ride Sept 7–14, 400 miles of riding and camping with 250 other biking enthusiasts. Chris adds, “I’m sure I will find out there were lots of

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other Batesies on the ride, but I enjoyed connecting with Jerry Quinlan ’74 and Cindy Andrews ’74”....Matt Buchman writes, “After 30-plus years as a project manager, and 20 years of study and 15 novels, I finally made the jump in 2013 to being a full-time writer. Whee!”...Dave Trull and Nick Kofos invited Brad Smith to join them in July for their 11th Annual CFC Golf Tournament in Gray, Maine. Brad graciously accepted and then went out and won the prestigious event. The wild celebration that ensued went well into the evening in Lewiston. John Whiting ’78 participated for the fourth time. “Jeff Wahlstrom, Bill Bogle ’79, Bill Dean ’79, Dave Reinhart and Jim Hopkinson boycotted the 2013 event for unspecified reasons,” Dave Trull adds.

1981 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Katherine Baker Lovell cklovell@verizon.net class president Kathleen Tucker Burke sburke4155@aol.com Elaine Belanger Swart works at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn., in the pulmonary medicine department. She still enjoys working respiratory therapy on a per-diem basis....Continuing to raise funds for and awareness of homelessness in southeastern Pennsylvania, Kathy Baker Lovell enjoys her downtime with her boys (all-male household, male dog, only nephews . . . need she say more?)....Now in his 15th year in Singapore and Southeast Asia, Greg Clancey is an associate professor in the history department at the National Univ. of Singapore and “master” of a residential college. He misses autumn and winter, as it’s always “August” where he lives....Valerie Lasserre and Vincent Coppens were married June 1, 2013. She runs two trade associations in the field of refrigerated logistics and transport. She had nice visits with Beth Carson Greenwood and Nancy Higgins....A full-time mom for two decades, Anne Loewenthal Shain reports one son graduated from Pomona and the other is at Yale. Relishing her newfound freedom, she says her tennis game has never been better....Don Mayer and Emily, who were married April 14, 2013, in Las Vegas, live in Newbury, Vt.... Judy Normandin and husband Rob Bernardin looked forward to the empty nest with their youngest at Penn and their UConn student in Europe for his junior year....After becoming an empty nester four years ago, Laura Peterson Hull took up triathlon and is totally hooked, spending all nonworking hours training for her first Ironman....Nina Vassalotti Bandoni is happy that both her daughters are Bobcats:

Mia ’13 graduated, and Emily ’16 is still at Bates. Nina works as assistant business manager at Vail (Colo.) Mountain School.... Attorney Amanda Zuretti is title insurance underwriter at CATIC, a New England regional title insurance company. She teaches and facilitates continuing education courses for lawyers and real estate brokers. Because she and her spouse, Lisa, often travel to Connecticut, she has reconnected with Donna Fiorentino ’78.

1982 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Jerry Donahoe maineescape@aol.com class president Neil Jamieson njlaw@maine.rr.com Kristen Silcox Bell still competes in cross-country ski races locally and around the globe in the Worldloppett Marathon Series. “Great fun with my husband Steve and other members of my family.”

1983 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Leigh Peltier leighp727@live.com class president Sally Nutting Somes ssomes@netzero.com

With funding by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, scientist Peter Weyand ’83 is investigating basketball collisions, hoping to one day identify “flopping” by video data. Laura Hollingsworth finds it very rewarding to be a K–8 school principal. She invites education students to get in touch with her if she can be helpful....Leigh Peltier writes of Reunion: “Thanks to everyone from the Class of 1983 who made it; to those who made the effort and didn’t; and for everyone else, we hope you might join us for the 35th. We broke an attendance record for the 30th Reunion class, and we broke a record for donations as well. But in addition to those successes, it was a big hit for everyone that attended. The weather was better than forecast, although many people drove north in torrential rain. It cleared enough for the Friday fireworks over Lake Andrews (OK, the Puddle), and the alumni parade on Saturday was a lively event. We played Bates Trivia in our lounge and my team, the Quads, won. Our team consisted of me,

Clare Federspiel Hounsell, Kathryn Whitenack and Laurie Carlson Taylor. Saturday night we had a banquet and our Hospitality Committee, composed of Reeven Elfman and Lisa Harvie McIlwain, put together some Class Awards. First award was to the classmate who registered first for Reunion: Sue LaLumia, who sadly was unable to attend due to family obligations. The last to register was Steve Kates. Classmate who traveled the farthest was Chris Burns, 3,112 miles, narrowly beating Ann Ryer Bittaker by seven miles. On the other hand, Shannon Kenneally Coray came the shortest distance at 21 miles. We gave out a 30-Something Award to Shari Sagan McGuirk because she looked the most like she could still get carded, and Kai Rose was the classmate in the best shape. Legacy Award went to Gail Fons as she has a daughter at Bates, but also Tim Lyne has a son at Bates as do Laurie Carlson Taylor and husband Keith ’82. The Hair Club for Men, or Best Hair Award, went to Jonathan Hall. However, honorable mentions go to Mark Young, Charles Brown and Jim Tobin. It’s worth mentioning that these events don’t happen by themselves. Special thanks go to Laura Howard DePree for the logo and shirt design; Dave Liegeot for getting the shirts made; Kai Rose for doing an Insanity class; Lisa and Reeven for the trivia game and banquet awards, and the rest of the committee who helped us with developing ideas, working on attendance and asking for donations: Jayne DePanfilis, Laurie Taylor, Marie Regan, Martha Pigott Donelan, Sally Nutting Somes and Shannon Coray. Last, I want to extend special thanks to Terry Welch, who always is there to help out, bounce ideas off of, and keeps his head when everyone else is losing theirs. Look forward to 2018 and the 35th.”

1984 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com class president Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com Steffani Catanese Lomax moved to South Florida and built a new house on a lake in 2012. Once in a while she sees the pet alligator in the lake. She competes in tennis tournaments and was working on national ranking in her age division for 2013. She enjoys the great tennis and weather that South Florida has to offer....Nobuo Fukuda, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. D.C., and former Jakarta bureau chief for the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, returned to Bates to speak about “Challenges Ahead

for Asia’s Authoritarian States.”... Eva Hamori stays busy with her corporate relocation work at Diversified Project Management, where she sometimes run into fellow Batesies involved in the Boston real estate market. At home she and husband Dan are constantly entertained by miniature dachshunds Piper and Puck....Vivienne Kaye West was back in Maine last summer for the first time in 20 years, for the wedding on Bailey Island of Shannon Banks ’85 and L.K. Gagnon ’88. It was nice to show her kids the quintessential rocky Maine coast. Vivienne’s son is a sophomore at Northeastern Univ., and her daughter is a sophomore at the Emma Willard School. She and her husband enjoy the empty nest but always look forward to having the kids home. She was happy to report sister-in-law Laurie West Van Hook is back in the states after four years abroad and she looks forward to seeing her more often than every two years....Heidi Lovett and her family enjoyed an exciting week traveling around Kentucky last summer, visiting Mammoth Cave National Park, Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace and the Louisville Slugger factory and museum. Her boys started baseball last year, making the museum more fun than expected; they saw one of Babe Ruth’s bats (with notches for each home run), watched old clips of Ted Williams and Hank Aaron, and saw bats made for current sluggers. Heidi’s kids have torn allegiances: Mom (Heidi) roots for the Red Sox, Dad is a Yankees fan (boooo), they were born in St. Petersburg (Go Rays!), and now they live between the D.C. Nationals and Baltimore Orioles....Leigh Michl’s oldest son graduated from UCSB in June, his daughter is a senior at NYU, and his “middle” son is a freshman at Duke. He said “middle” because he has a new baby boy, Maximilian, born May 15! He’s enjoying Manhattan’s Upper East Side, as are his parents.... Earle Morse enjoys summers on Rangeley Lake and winters at Sugarloaf. Oldest son Ben is a senior at Dartmouth and captain of the ski team. Younger son Sam graduated from Carrabassett Valley Academy and is chasing the ski racing circus for the next several years before college. Earle still ministers at the Sugarloaf Chapel and runs his home furnishings business, Birchwood Interiors. His family loves having visitors....Karen Palermo Saxena’s youngest daughter is a high school senior, so the final round of college picking is underway. Her middle daughter is heading to medical school and will spend two years in Australia and two in Louisiana. Her son is an assistant AD and assistant football coach at Westfield State. Karen and her husband went to Russia to watch the Track and Field World Championships in

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August. She’s still up to the same work and exercise, but getting slower each day!...Loyola Univ. New Orleans granted tenure to Artemis Preeshl. She directed The Winter’s Tale with the Zadar Puppet Theatre in Croatia and The Taming of the Shrew with the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane. Her book chapter, “The Many Faces of Brighella: The Knave We Love to Hate,” will appear in The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte. In February, she returned to her French Canadian roots directing Albertine in Five Times....Ruth Slocum notes that she sees Betsy Dower Nickerson at soccer games. Betsy’s son Charlie plays soccer and is a senior at the Wheeler School in Providence (where Betsy teaches French), and Ruth’s daughter Lily is a senior at Falmouth Academy on Cape Cod (where she teaches English and does college counseling). The schools play each other a few times a year (Wheeler, the bigger school, seems to always win) and their matches provide a wonderful chance for the two to catch up. In years past, Betsy’s older daughter Molly (now a junior at Brown) played lacrosse against Falmouth Academy. Ruth’s younger daughter Celia is a freshman at Falmouth and perhaps one day will lead a soccer or lacrosse team to victory against Wheeler. One must dream....Peter Ulicny, a partner with the law firm of Bourne, Noll & Kenyon in Summit, N.J., took part in a panel discussion hosted by SAGE Eldercare on how baby boomers and their parents can discuss transferring financial responsibility.

1985 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com class president Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net

Leanne Belmont Valade ’85 spent a

beach weekend with Bates friends. “Gas $40, wine $40, calzone $20, belly laughing and reminiscing with people who have been in your life for 30plus years — priceless!” Elissa Bass writes: “It was The Summer of Taylor Swift, as her seaside mansion is in the next town over from where we live in Stonington, Conn. After ruthlessly stalking Tay Tay with my 15-year-old daughter and her friends, we hit celebrity gold in late July, when Taylor and her

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opening act, Ed Sheeran, stopped for ice cream at a local place. My daughter Summer’s dream came true as she met Ed (and got a hug). We continued our musical theme with road trips to see Ed on the Today Show (did you see me on TV?), out to Jones Beach for an amazing Imagine Dragons show, and then both Taylor Swift shows in Foxborough. Like being a teenager all over again.”... Leanne Belmont Valade says: “Like many others, our house now has a high school student — freshman — in it! And a seventh-grader. Don’t know how and when that happened, perhaps at the same time I was turning 50! Great summer for our family as we made it to one of the countries that is on ‘the list’ — Italy. Excellent trip with 11 families from our town. We proudly represented the U.S. in an international baseball tournament for ages 14–16 in Sala Baganza. Phenomenal, two-week trip of a lifetime! Gearing up for a season of hockey, soccer, basketball, etc., always fun. Just returned from a weekend with four other Batesies on the beach in Westerly, R.I.: gas $40, wine $40, calzone $20, belly laughing and reminiscing with people who have been in your life for 30-plus years — priceless!”...Amy Coffey lives and works on Martha’s Vineyard, now in her 21st year as an islander. Previously a freelancer working with NBC Olympics and running her own events company, she decided after turning 50 to rejoin the corporate world by accepting a job with Vineyard Vines. “Vineyard Vines has been a terrific move for me as it is the best of corporate (benefits, stability, retirement (ahhhhhh!) and a great management team) ... while also being the best of noncorporate. I wear flip-flops to work and our meetings are usually held at the local pub here in Edgartown. Part of my new job will be to work with the Boston market to continue brand growth through events, custom branding and corporate giving.” She’s honored to be “Aunt Amy” to lots of friends’ kids, including the three children of Sophie Main Mirra ’86. As a volunteer, Amy loves serving on the board of the annual Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby and she’s very involved with the American Heroes Saltwater Challenge that brings wounded combat vets to the Vineyard to fish each fall. “I could write on and on about how wonderful it has been to reconnect with Bates classmates through Facebook.”... Elana Conarck Webb is very excited to have son Zach ’17 enroll at Bates. “It was quite a trip down memory lane moving him into his room on the fourth floor of Smith. The dorm furniture is a lot nicer than when we were there, but the rooms are a bit tight for four boys! Hope to see some classmates at Parents

Weekend.”...Jole Daelen Berlage still lives in Hamburg, Germany, and is still in the same marriage. “I started to work as a vocal coach and I deeply enjoy that. Furthermore I am just beginning to establish myself as a music therapist. Life is more fun than during the big financial crisis!”...Bill Deignan and Molly Ruffle’s “biggest accomplishment this year was successfully launching our oldest, Cam, off to college at UVM, since Bates doesn’t offer mechanical engineering. We still don’t know where the math and science gene came from. Our youngest son, Nate, is a sophomore, playing soccer this fall and the sole focus of our attention at home (maybe unfortunately for him). Spent lots of time in July and August on the Maine coast, and Molly finished the last week of her sabbatical from Appalachian Mountain Club doing family stuff and hiking. Did a little sailing with David Flash too.”...Dana DeNault and his family are in Marblehead, Mass., but anticipate a move to Rio de Janeiro within the next year due to wife Nina’s work. “I work as an organizational and leadership psychologist/consultant. Most of my work is academic as an adjunct professor teaching org. psych and doing doctoral work on leadership. My kids, Diego and Gaia, are thriving and represent the best part of my responsibilities and life.”... Georgeanne Ebersold DiCenso’s son, Peter, is a freshman at Providence, and Sara is a high school junior. Georgeanne is in her ninth year of teaching and seventh year of coaching softball at Glastonbury (Conn.) High. She spent a 50th birthday weekend with Paula Pomponi Christofori, Elana Conarck Webb, PJ Levin Tobasky and Jeanmarie Hester Cooper....Laurie Forsman says she and Brian Walsh “have become, well, groupies, I guess, of Willie Nile. He’s the best musician you’ve perhaps never heard of: To me, he’s like a combination of Dylan, Springsteen, Elvis Costello and the Clash ... and he’s been around since ’81.” They’ve seen him perform several times, “like Deadheads, but for Willie! We find this hysterical, especially at our age!” Laurie and Brian also enjoy being grandparents to the son of Brian’s eldest daughter.... After 14 years in San Francisco, Allison Groves opted for an adventure abroad. “Michael and I moved to New Zealand in November 2012. Wellington, where we live, is a wonderful and compact city — a lot like SF, with hills, Victorian houses, a bay, cafes and earthquakes (lots of those recently). I’m working as the fundraising manager at the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and spend weekends enjoying all the stunning nature and outdoor activities that NZ offers. (I’m enjoying my fair share

of food, wine and beer, too!).”... Dan Hoffman and Kim live in Washington, D.C., with sons Jerron and Nathan. Dan has been working on Middle East and North Africa since returning from his last overseas post at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in September 2010. “Quite a busy and exciting time, with the region undergoing levels of unrest unprecedented since the fall of the Ottoman Empire! Still finding time to swim, often with my wife and children.”...Greg Johnson was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in July, an honor conferred on one union member in a thousand each year....Doug Kaufman and family spent most of the summer in Santiago, Chile, where he worked at the Universidad de los Andes, developing partnerships with the Univ. of Connecticut and working with teachers to bring writing into schools. “My Spanish got no better, but we had a glorious time living in a beautiful, sophisticated city after several years in rural Connecticut. This past year I was also honored to receive UConn’s Teaching Fellow Award, a thrill for me because teaching is the part of my job that I value the most.”...John Kroger says: “Only six kids still at home with two off to college and one on her own living in Roanoke, Va. Christina (Martin Kroger ’84) still home-schools all the rest. I am still very busy as the medical director for all of the physician practices at Rumford Hospital, in addition to my role as one of the six physician leaders for Central Maine Healthcare (as in Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston). I have now been working at Rumford Hospital as a family physician (and I still do obstetrics) for 20 years.” For the ninth year in a row, John volunteered at the Greek Festival in Lewiston....CJ May continues to advance his career in sustainable sorcery. During his 22 years as Yale’s recycling coordinator, he began using magic to augment on-campus training and off-campus public education in recycling. Talks about recycling become more interesting when he instantly turned a crumpled-up piece of aluminum foil into a new aluminum can. CJ has added shows on energy, climate change, water, open space preservation and even lead-poisoning prevention. Before kids he assumes the role of Cyril the Sorcerer. Speaking to adults or doing professional training, he is CJ May — Resourcerer. He has even worked up what may be the world’s first environmental act in his newly developed skill: juggling!...Jeff McCulloh is back teaching advanced history sections at the Univ. of New England: “‘History for Pharmacists,’ as my father-in-law says. I am in regular contact with about two dozen Batesies from ’85 and ’84. The highlight of the

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summer was hiking up Mount Washington with Mike Fanning and Andrew McBreen.”... Camille McKayle is serving year two as interim provost at the Univ. of the Virgin Islands. “On Aug. 31, my daughter went off to college. Liked Bates, but went to Brown!”...Checking in after a long time, Patty Monte Uy reports she and husband Edward live in Irvine, Calif., with Alexander, a high school sophomore, and Maria, a second-grader. They just moved into an older house (which in SoCal means 1970s) that they’ll be renovating. Patty has worked for the American Assn. of Critical Care Nurses for over a decade, now as project manager for strategic initiatives. She also volunteers for Bates Alumni-in-Admissions. They travel to Massachusetts and Rhode Island twice a year to visit family. “Otherwise, I attend a lot of baseball and soccer games, gymnastics and karate classes, and drive kids around constantly to various other activities. I’m very grateful for the life I lead!”... Chris Mullin’s younger child, Rachel, is in her first year at UNH, leaving him and Molly Marchese Mullin ’87 empty nesters with a quiet house and a little more free time. “I’ve started a business selling handmade and personalized wood baseball bats at QuincyBats.com — they make great Christmas gifts!”...Kevin Pomfret lives in Richmond, Va., with a daughter who graduated from Virginia Tech last December and a son who is a sophomore at the Univ. of South Carolina. “I remarried three and a half years ago to a wonder woman — Janie. I am a practicing lawyer with my own law firm that focuses on the legal issues associated with all the ways that location information is collected and used. I am also the founder of a nonprofit organization that focuses on many of the same issues from a policy and education standpoint. As a result, I have been fortunate to travel to many parts of the world to work on these issues with governments and organizations such as the United Nations.”...Lynne Tatirosian Perez has been teaching Spanish at Marblehead (Mass.) Middle School for five years. Lucas is in seventh grade, and Olivia is a sophomore. “Our family travels when we can, visiting friends in London last April and then a trip to Ireland in July to celebrate my 50th.”...John Taverna dropped off son Willem ’17 at Bates. “A wonderful experience. Charlotte Koudijs Taverna ’86 and I are very proud of him.” Willem will row for the Bates crew team. Daughter Beatrice is embarking on a gap semester to Fiji, Australia and New Zealand and is enrolled at Elon Univ. for next fall. Caroline is a high school junior....From Debbie Valaitis Kern: “Just finished getting together with Batesies Elissa Bass, Leanne

Belmont Valade, Lisa Peace Tito ’87 and Kathy Leonard Bertagna ’87. We missed seeing Kate Sweeney and Karla Austin! It was sun and fun!”... Veronica Valentine loves being a school counselor in Howard County, Md., where she has been for 10 years. “I’m working on a second master’s in mental health counseling so I will have an income after retirement. I’m planning a bucket list trip to South Africa after completing another bucket list trip to Alaska in 2012. I have two fur kids: a 5-year-old Bichon named Cotton and a 6-month Maltipoo named Bella who keeps me on my toes and up at 4 a.m.!”...After 10 years at AHP Educational Consulting, Allison Webster Matlack became the director of the practice. “We help families with school and college placement and it’s wonderfully rewarding work. My daughter is in her sophomore year at Dickinson, which in a very roundabout way is because of the wonderful influence Professor Williamson was on me. My son is a junior at the Salisbury (Conn.) School.”...Brad Weeden took a junket to Ontario to visit long-lost friends and watch the ’Jays; local day camps for Adelaide, 8, and Ben, 11; lots of swimming at Brooks; and “community outreach” at UMass for Lori. “I just hung out and watered my beloved bluegrass. Saw Jay Farwell, Chris Lynch and Chris White last spring. David Flash works down the street but only stops by when he needs something.”...Rick Wells writes: “Having dropped my son Sam ’15 off at Bates for his junior year, I’ve thought a lot about how fortunate I am to have gone there. Most important, I wouldn’t have met my wife Jennifer had I not gone there, as her brother, Will Donham (’87, transferred to NYU after his sophomore year), was my roommate senior year. Nearly as important are the enduring friendships with so many people that I got to know there. I’ve been lucky to see a lot of them recently: Sam’s room this year in Small House was occupied by Chris Lynch and Brad Weeden during our senior year. Brad’s quiet, charmingly cantankerous ways have not changed. I see Chris frequently; he lives in Newton with his wife Ellie and their kids Shay and Natalie. He returned to SquashBusters as COO in 2011, the nonprofit he helped start in 1996. I saw Chris and Ellie at his 50th, along with David Flash, who has been working at Phillips Academy in Andover since 2001; he’s now director of gift planning and daughters Willa and Claire both go there. Because his daughter Honor ’17 was doing an East Coast college visiting trip last year, I reconnected with John Moshay. Happily, Honor is now a Bobcat. Jennifer and I spent a weekend in LA with John, an excellent and hilarious host and

tour guide. In addition to his digital marketing/advertising agency, he started a gourmet hot dog company in the LA farmers’ market, Fritzi Dog. We’ll return the hosting duties when John comes to Parents Weekend. I was also happy to spend a few days with Dave Graves ’86 when he and his son Owen visited in August. Dave has lived in Osaka, Japan, for years, with his wife Kazuko, Owen, 10, and daughter Koharu, 5. We also had a visit from Jack Deamer in August, which was as always a blast. Jack lives in Sag Harbor, N.Y., and runs his design firm and retail shop, JED, from there and NYC. We also frequently see Bill Deignan and Molly Ruffle, who live practically next door to us in Winchester, Mass. Bill is a city planner in Cambridge, and Molly works in development at the Appalachian Mountain Club. We see Patty Hickson now and then; she is the curator of contemporary art at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. We see Cait McCarthy Kelly and Mike ’83 all the time, as Cait and Jennifer are friends from high school, and our families spend time in South Bristol, Maine, in the summer. We had a great time at their son Caleb’s wedding in 2012, and our kids are good friends with their daughters Maggie and Emma. And, while it’s been a while, I see Jim Arsenault, who has lived in Arrowsic, Maine, with his wife Lisa and their kids Henry and Maddy since the colonial period. Jim is a dealer — of books, art and prints — and like all the rest of our classmates mentioned herein, is a lot of fun to spend time with.”

1986 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Erica Seifert Plunkett ericasplunkett@gmail.com Anne Robertson anne-tom@juno.com Bill Walsh messagebill@gmail.com Catherine Lathrop Strahan strahanc@comcast.net Bob Peretti joined Bermudabased AXIS Capital as head of broker relations and distribution....Carolyn Ryan is now the top political editor at The New York Times. Her “perfect political pitch” and passion for the great political story were cited as reasons for her appointment. Carolyn, who joined the Times in 2007 from The Boston Globe, previously served as metro editor.

1987 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Val Brickates Kennedy brickates@gmail.com class president Margaret M. Brosnahan mmb263@cornell.edu

Caroline Baumann’s appointment as director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, was noted by many media outlets, including The New York Times. Smithsonian secretary Wayne Clough praised her for being “especially adept at forming substantive partnerships in New York, in Washington, across the nation and, indeed, around the world.” Since joining Cooper-Hewitt in 2001, Caroline has held many leadership positions at the museum, most recently as acting director. In her mission overseeing the only U.S. museum devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design, she has an immediate major challenge: overseeing extensive museum renovations and the reinstallation of its galleries. Now closed, the museum is set to reopen in fall 2014. She’s more than up for the job, says Clough. “Caroline is passionate about design and reaching people — physically and digitally — with its lessons and insights.”...Val Brickates Kennedy decided to celebrate her 50th birthday early with a family trip to Australia. Val, husband Brian and son Alex, 5, first visited Queensland, where they snorkled the Great Barrier Reef and toured the Wet Tropics rainforest. Next stop was Ayers Rock, which lived up to its iconic reputation, followed by a week in beautiful Sydney. Alex was delighted to be able to cuddle a koala bear while mom was thrilled to finally see a real, live platypus and swim with a kaleidoscope of fish at the famed reef....Ted Bucknam is now president of the national health care company Concentra, a subsidiary of Humana Inc. Previously he was the company’s COO.... Jacqui Drain Cronin enjoyed her first whole summer off in 12 years with trips to Maine and a month on Cape Cod. She teaches at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham (Mass.) with Chris Averill, who has two daughters attending Noble. Jacqui’s children, Michaela, 9, and Chase, 12, and husband David hope to make a family trip to Mexico for a Spanish and surfing intensive....Nate Grove writes: “Last summer had an interesting bookend feel for us as parents. I built a tree house for my 8-year-old, whose feet are firmly planted in childhood, and at the end we dropped my oldest son off at Connecticut College, as he begins to find his way into adulthood. I was taken back 30 years, remembering the excitement of my new beginning at Bates and meeting my roommates Chris Blanchard and Chris Hobler. There also was the sting of letting a child go in this full-circle event. Good luck to all the parents of high school seniors! It’s kind of a roller coaster...”...Jamie Kircaldie and his family had a busy summer around the pool. Emma, 9, had a great first season as part of their club’s swim team. She finished with both the coach’s award and the distance swimming title for her age group. Maybe a future Bobcat

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swimmer! The family spent a few days on the beach in Long Island before making their way up to the Kittery/Portsmouth area....After 20 years in children’s publishing, Chris Mangiafico Steiner changed careers and is now director of the Parent Annual Fund at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn.... Lynne Margulis Buscher, in Falmouth, Mass., has been teaching fifth grade for almost 25 years. Her husband teaches seventh-grade math and coaches the girls varsity basketball team. Sara is a high school junior, and Hannah’s in eighth grade. Luckily, both girls love basketball, and the younger one loves to dance, like her mother! Sara and Lynne attended the Bates Alumni Legacy Program, which served as a perfect springboard for their college search, and highly recommend this enlightening program to Bates parents and their teenagers....Rob Milofsky “had a blast last summer — climbed Kilimanjaro (19,340 feet), went on safari in Tanzania and met up with Chris Averill for a Sox game in May and for the 100 on 100 Relay race in Vermont in August! Chris and his family are doing well. My wife Amy and I are still enjoying the outdoor life in the Southwest.”...Cocky Schmitz Bise, of Bethesda, Md., has one daughter in Montessori preschool and the other in first grade, making more time for her job at SiriusXM. They rescued a yellow Lab and now spend more time hiking at Great Falls and other D.C. area trails. She looked forward to getting both girls on skis this winter in Colorado.

1988 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class committee Mary Capaldi Carr mary.capaldi.carr@gmail.com Astrid Delfino Bernard flutistastrid@sbcglobal.net Ruth Garretson Cameron ruth.eg.cameron@gmail.com Julie Sutherland Platt julielsp@verizon.net Adrienne Terry D’Olimpio adonddo@hotmail.com

Veterinarian Amy

Dowd Bartholomew ’88 works on cows,

horses, sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas, pigs and the occasional chicken, “although I try to avoid those calls.” Mary Capaldi Carr finished another year at Cisco selling collaboration technology to the federal government. “Sequestration is a word I wish I didn’t have to understand! My daughters (ages 13 and 9) and I live in

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Fairfax, Va., and continue to enjoy all that the DC metro area has to offer. Our 25th Reunion was just so much fun; thank you to all who attended and to those that couldn’t travel but followed along with the fun on Facebook. At the time I am sending this in, I am getting ready to spend some annual summer fun with Laura Young Connelly and Tracy Camenisch-Smith! And I am looking forward to seeing Barbara Leahey Sullivan in Virginia Beach in the fall.”...Amy Dowd Bartholomew lives in Enosburg Falls, Vt., eight miles south of the Canadian border, and owns a large animal veterinary practice with husband Rick. “We work on cows, horses, sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas, pigs and the occasional chicken, although I try to avoid those calls. We have three fabulous kids: Noah, 14, Emily, 12, and Travis, 10. We spend most of our nonworking hours helping Noah with his own maple sugaring business, B and R Maples, and running the roads to skiing, snowboarding, baseball, softball, Girls On Track, drum lessons and horseback riding. I figure I will catch up on my sleep when they are out of high school (I hope). I serve on the board of Chester’s Promise Inc., an equine assistance program for neglected horses. This can be quite rewarding, as we have placed some previously starved and poorly cared-for horses in some terrific homes. Anyone visiting the northern half of Vermont, please visit!”...Tracy Goodridge reports: “Our son, Kane, started kindergarten in September, when many of our classmates were sending kids off to college, etc. My partner, Kelly, and I were thrilled with the recent DOMA and Prop 8 rulings, and since we live in Maine where same-sex marriage was approved in November 2012, we are getting married! Hoping for an October 2013 wedding! I am still writing grants for Community Health and Counseling Services in Bangor, a home health, hospice and mental health agency. And I really, really, really regret not attending Reunion this year! Looking forward to our 27th — haha!”...Steve Lewis “was awarded tenure at Helena (Mont.) College (name change but the same place I’ve been full time since 2008) in May 2013. I’m an instructor ... no professor titles at our place. It was more stressful than I ever thought it would be. The hard part (sort of ) was doing all the right stuff for the last five years, if that makes sense. Being involved in both senate and union, chairing various committees and still being effective in the classroom — that’s what was ‘hard’! So my official title is Instructor, General Education, Composition and Literature.”...Patrick McNamara “recently celebrated

my 25th anniversary with United States Customs and Border Protection as a customs and border protection officer. This position has been extremely interesting and has allowed me the opportunity to see the world, some good places and some not so good ones. I live and work in Boston. I have also lived in Miami, twice, and Montreal. For the past six years I have been deployed for various lengths of time to Iraq and Afghanistan where I was responsible for the training of Iraqi and Afghan customs officials as well as U.S. military personnel in proper border security practices and technology use. I have also been assigned to Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Uzbekistan and the Republic of Georgia in the same capacity. These assignments have allowed me the opportunity to experience cultures, people and places that I would otherwise have never seen. I also have a 19-year-old daughter who is starting her sophomore year at UMass Amherst where she is enrolled in the honors nursing program.”... John Rossi talked with New England Cable News about his company Visible Good, which has created what NECN called “literally an out-of-the-box approach to emergency shelters.” Called the Rapid Deployment Module, it’s a rugged, reasonably weather-insulated shelter the size of a small cabin. Visible Good, in Newburyport, Mass., sent four to Oklahoma to provide shelter after last May’s tornadoes. Typically it takes well under an hour to connect the roughly 50 pieces into a shelter building. The list price is around $15,000, although Visible Good plans discounts for organizations or government agencies ordering them by the dozens or hundreds. John, an architect who founded the company with two partners, said the boxes are so compact that 20 can fit into a standard 40-foot shipping container. In Oklahoma, two of the units provided a temporary functional replacement for a family that operated an at-home day-care center for eight children. “We felt we were very fortunate to be able to provide one building for the day care for the eight children, and another for the people to live in while they were rebuilding their home,” he said. Elizabeth Gibbons, a visiting scientist at Harvard’s School of Public Health who served as the top UN official in charge of relief efforts in Haiti and Guatemala, lives on the North Shore and has gotten to know Visible Good. “I thought it was just remarkable, the potential that it has to really transform humanitarian assistance,” she said. “It’s very durable, compared to tents as an alternative, and very versatile. They could be classrooms, they could be administration centers, health clinics.”...Michael Schindelman

continues to have a grand ol’ time, recently joining Darius Shahinfar and family at Eve of Destruction. He opened his third massage clinic, a Massage Envy Spa just north of Boston in Stoneham, joining his clinics in Burlington and Waltham....Brian Shea writes, “After 20 years working in equity research and analyzing European insurance companies (13 years at Merrill Lynch and seven before that at Salomon), I decided to take a break. I retired from Bank of America Merrill Lynch in March 2013 and the plan is to take about a six-month sabbatical before starting a new job (perhaps working for an insurance company). This has been in the pipeline for nearly a year and I’m really enjoying the break. I’m busy now doing a lot of cycling, including training for the Marmotte sportive in July (109 miles going over three mountain passes in the French Alps). Having been at home every day for lunch for the past two months, I am apparently already driving Shuna crazy, and she is insisting that I redouble my job-hunting effort and take the first job — any job that comes along. The hardest part of the transition has been going from about 200 emails per day to about three (with one-two of those coming from the cycling coach I’ve hired, partly to make sure I get at least some emails). We have three beautiful girls, 16, 14 and 9. The 16-year-old is squirreled away in her room studying for her GCSE exams, and the 14-year-old is completely absorbed by her iPhone. The 9-year-old, thankfully, is delighted to have me around! We’ve been in London for 22 years now. We live in a nice leafy suburb, the girls are all comfortable in good schools, Shuna has her network of friends (I call her the Duchess of Richmond) and I like living here too (and I can still see Cardinal baseball games on TV).”...Julie Sutherland-Platt and Halsey enjoy living in Groton, Mass., with sons Gordon (a high school junior this fall) and Alexander (a high school freshman). Halsey celebrated 20 years of continued success with Platt Builders, the remodeling and millwork company he founded in 1992. He has employed 25–28 people steadily over the past 10 years. Two of his projects just won Chrysalis Awards on both the regional and national level for the attention to detail and remarkable use of existing space and materials, and his company also won a Best of Houzz Award for 2013. Julie chauffeurs the boys (until one gets his license) to their various activities but in between makes time for working at the Acton Discovery Museum with kids of all ages who visit the museum on school field trips. She has also been instrumental in keeping the online portfolio for

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Platt Builders current and has truly enjoyed working with the photographer and staging of the completed jobs. “It was wonderful to see so many of the Great ’88 back at Reunion!”... John Swartley was promoted to associate vice provost for research and executive director of the Center for Technology Transfer at the Univ. of Pennsylvania....Laura Young Connelly enjoyed seeing lots of classmates at the Reunion. “Still having fun in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with daughters Katie, 14, Megan, 12, and husband Bryan. Have been working at the Maine Community Foundation since 2005. Visited with BFFs Tracy Camenisch and Mary Carr this past summer!”

1989 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Donna Waterman Douglass 4498donnad@gmail.com steering committee Sally Ehrenfried sallye@alumni.bates.edu Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com In a series of profiles of female college Nordic coaches for FasterSkier, former Olympian Nancy Ingersoll Fiddler ’78 checked in with Bates Nordic coach Becky Flynn Woods. Becky said a big part of her job is to help her skiers meet the dual challenge of Bates-caliber academics and Division I-caliber skiing competition. “Academic schedules combined with daily, consistent training and racing is a tough combination but something that is so worth it.” Among her former skiers are four AllAmericans — Sylvan Ellefson ’09, Justin Easter ’03, David Chamberlain ’98 and Justin Freeman ’98. Justin Freeman is a former Olympian, and Sylvan had his sights set on Sochi, Russia, for 2014. “When skiers from Bates are skiing on the World Cup and at the Olympics, it certainly feels like we are having an influence at a level larger than just collegiate skiing,” Becky said. Still, most Bates skiers will not continue racing after Bates, so her overall goal as a coach is to prepare all her athletes for “what is to come” in life, she says, “physically, mentally and emotionally.”...Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick nominated attorney Joseph Labadini to the Industrial Accident Board at the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents. He has many years of litigation and workers’ compensation law experience....Martha Sulya gave a lecture on ceramics and common archaeological techniques as part of the lunchtime lecture series at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Mass., where she is the longtime curator of colonial reproductions. She can often be seen in the museum’s Craft Center creating and

interpreting the reproduction 17th-century pottery featured in the museum’s exhibits.

1990 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com class president Eric Knight eric_knight@verizon.net Kathryn King Byrn, husband John and daughter Kelly, 14, now live in Frankfurt, Germany. “Frankfurt is a very livable city, and we are enjoying all of the museums and ethnic markets here.”

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Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Kathryn Tibbetts Gates kathryngates@gmail.com class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com The Maine Sunday Telegram profiled Peter Carlisle, named one of the “15 Most Influential Sports Agents” in the world by Sports Illustrated. He worked for months toward the February Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. His job is to market his clients, many of whom were medal favorites, to global corporate sponsors. “I look at it this way. There are 10 major stories going into the games and 10 major stories coming out of the games. Sometimes they’re not the same,” said Peter, who lives with his family in South Portland. His clients include swimmer Michael Phelps, snowboarders Seth Wescott, Ross Powers and Kelly Clark, speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno and gymnast Aly Raisman, all Olympic gold medal winners. His friends say Peter’s very competitive. Powers said, “Whenever we get together, the weekend becomes a bit of a competition. We keep a points system on everything.” And he seldom loses, whether it’s at golf or board games. “It’s kind of funny,” said Wescott, “to have your agent beating up on all these Olympic athletes.” While experience gives Peter an edge, he knows he still has to work hard to sign new clients. “But I’ve always had that confidence that I could outwork anybody. Part of that is outworking them, part of that is hating to lose.”...Kate Faragher Houghton welcomed Arlo Perry Faragher Houghton in January 2013. Noah is 7. “My consulting business continues to thrive, though I have taken on less work with a baby in the house again. I am enjoying various organizational development projects as well as working on state and federal projects that fuel my passion for violence prevention.”...Albert Hansen joined the Portsmouth,

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takeaway:

Amy Donahue Friend ’96 N.H.-based law firm Bosen & Associates, working primarily in the areas of criminal defense and marital family law....Kathryn Tibbetts and Brant Gates were married Aug. 24, 2013. “Brant is a friend from middle school. I gained a 19-year-old stepson. Stacia Oakes Johnson and her husband Kurt Johnson ’94 were able to attend with their three children. We also recently saw Catherine Boosales Chandler ’90 and her husband Rick, here in Oregon, and Rob Jones in Seattle.”

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Quilt flags on display in the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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From around the world, flags honor Boston

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May 23, 2013

takeaway : Works of art, from the heart, offer hope to a healing city

Right after the April 15 bombings in Boston, Berene Campbell of Vancouver had an idea: Ask quilters worldwide to send handmade tokens to Boston to let the people “know the world stood with them,” as she tells The Boston Globe. Campbell had no way to make the idea real, so she turned to one of her online friends, artist and fellow quilter Amy Donahue Friend ’96 of West Newbury, Mass. As the project’s local organizer, Friend put out a call for quilt squares, or flags, through her blog, During Quiet Time (she’s an at-home mom). After receiving some 1,700 flags from around the world, Friend contacted the Museum of Fine Arts, which displayed the flags in the exhibition To Boston With Love, which ran May 25 to July 7. It will be presented again this April on the anniversary of the bombings.

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class committee Ami Berger ami_berger@hotmail.com Kristin Bierly Magendantz kristin.magendantz@trincoll.edu Kristen Downs Bruno alfredbruno@sbcglobal.net Roland Davis rdavis@bates.edu Peter Friedman peterjfriedman@gmail.com Leyla Morrissey Bader leyla.bader@gmail.com Jeff Mutterperl jeffmutterperl@aol.com Brad Adams, one of the top go-to alumni in Boston for Bates students interested in finance, received the Bruce Stangle Award for Distinguished Service to the Bates Community. Established in 2012 in honor of Trustee Emeritus Bruce Stangle ’70, the award recognizes Bates leaders whose body of work has touched countless Bates people and helped them become better in their careers or volunteer work. Co-founder of Boston Corporate Finance and now a managing director of TM Capital, Brad has served as a mentor to countless Bates students and young alumni entering the world of finance. “Seeing a need for helping Bates students navigate those sometimes-rough waters,” the citation reads, “Brad worked tirelessly with the Bates Career Development Center to establish two fantastic programs.” The Finance Bootcamp brings alumni speakers to campus to teach students the ins and outs of the financial career search path. The Boston Finance Roadshow takes students to Boston to meet alumni who work in finance where they gain advice about the industry and partake in a networking event with alumni and parents....Amy Bass and her NBC research team won an Emmy Award for their coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Amy, a professor of history and director of the honors program at the College of New Rochelle, worked eight Olympics as a researcher and supervised the network’s Olympic Research Room at the London games. Her Emmy was in the “Outstanding Live

Event Turnaround” category, for live-to-tape edited segments of an event. She brings robust scholarship to her work. Her books include Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympic Games and the Making of the Black Athlete (2004), the edited collection In the Game: Race, Identity and Sports in the 20th Century (2005) and Those About Him Remained Silent: The Battle Over W.E.B. Du Bois (2009).... John Tooker received the Entomological Society of America’s Early Career Innovation Award, which honors young professionals in the field of entomology who have demonstrated innovation through contributions in an area of specialization. John, an assistant professor and extension specialist in Penn State’s Department of Entomology, was cited for helping farmers of Pennsylvania better manage insect pests that attack their field and forage crops.

1993 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Kimberly Donohue Kavanaugh k.kavanaugh@alumni.bates.edu class president Madeline Yanford Gorini madelinegorini@me.com Forbes Magazine told how Chris Barbin “took his company’s fitness activities to the next level and devised the CloudFit Program to help hundreds of employees track their activity, nutrition and sleep.” He is the co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco company Appirio, which helps businesses move their systems to the cloud, and he’s made self-quantification a core part of his company’s culture. A track and cross-country athlete who has run eight marathons, Chris “is taking self-quantification from the individual level to the enterprise level, and seeing impressive results,” Forbes said....Bryant and Laurie Roath Frazier ’94 moved to the Texas Hill Country. He is now a physician at the Student Health Center at Texas State Univ. in San Marcos. “We needed to reclaim our lives from the demands of Houston and private practice and have never been happier!” he writes. They welcomed a third son, Ryland James Frazier, on March 6, 2013. He joins Jackson and Keenan.

1994 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Jonathan Lilja jonathanlilja@gmail.com class president Susan Spano Piacenti susanpiacenti@cox.net Lori Alison Heller published her first novel, The Love Wars

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(Penguin), in 2013. Her second is scheduled for 2014. She also writes for The Huffington Post. A divorce attorney, she lives in Brooklyn with her family....Mark Doctoroff and his wife Lydia welcomed twin girls Chloe Sylvia and Zoe Cynthia Doctoroff on April 30, 2013.

1995 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Scott Marchildon smarchildon@une.edu Philip Pettis ppettis@nhlawfirm.com class co-presidents Jason Verner jcv@nbgroup.com Deborah Nowak Verner debverner@gmail.com David Gillette and Loren Hayes ’96 reunited for the first time since 1995 at the Univ. of North Carolina–Asheville, where David is an assistant professor of environmental sciences. David invited Loren, an assistant professor of biological and environmental sciences at the Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga, to give a seminar about his research on a social mammal in Chile. Both conducted research on electrical signaling of marine skates at Bates.

1996 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Ayesha Farag-Davis faragdavis@aol.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com When Andrew Cyr founded Manhattan-based Metropolis Ensemble seven years ago, a goal was to attract nontraditional classical audiences and give young classical music composers a chance to be heard. So far, it’s worked out well, says the Maine Sunday Telegram. Last April, a composer Andrew championed won a Juno Award, the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy. Vivian Fung won Classical Composition of the Year for her violin concerto, which Andrew recorded with the Metropolis Ensemble and released on the Naxon label imprint Canadian Classics.... Attorney, conservation advocate and Wisconsin native Magill Weber joined Milwaukee-based Mayes Wilson & Associates, a nonprofit and conservation consulting agency. She’s based in Phoenix and works on behalf of MWA throughout the country.... Chris Weinberg was promoted to chief information officer at FlightSafety International, a professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, based at LaGuardia Airport in New York.

1997 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-secretaries Chris Gailey gaileycj@gmail.com Leah Wiedmann Gailey leah.gailey@gmail.com class president Stuart B. Abelson Kimmochi Eguchi “just wanted to say hi to all from Tokyo and confirm that I am alive after leaving Facebook.” He had dinner with Rachael Scholz in Tokyo while she was doing business there....Craft Sportswear North America of Beverly, Mass., hired Katie Gould Swenson as sales and marketing manager for Craft baselayers and Nordic skiing. A Nordic skier at Bates, she later coached for several programs and was manager of the U.S. Nordic team....Jason Hall, who was a top economic adviser to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, joined the St. Louis Regional Chamber as vice president for business development and corporate counsel....Nicole Woodson Hanover works at the International School of Boston, a bilingual French school in Cambridge, as the student life coordinator at the middle school. She lives with her husband, Conor, and son Eli in Arlington.

1998 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class committee Rob Curtis robcurtis79@gmail.com Douglas Beers douglas.beers@gmail.com Liam Leduc Clarke ldlc639@yahoo.com Renée Leduc Clarke rleducclarke@gmail.com Tyler Munoz tylermunoz@gmail.com Sarah Brauner-Otto writes, “My life after graduation has been a tour of the South (Washington, D.C., North Carolina and Mississippi) with a short (seven-year) stay in Michigan for grad school. I got married, had a daughter, and last summer finally made my way back north to be an assistant professor of sociology at McGill Univ. in Montreal.”...Renee Leduc Clarke writes, “Just want to send a shout out to the amazing classmates who came up to campus for our 15th Reunion in June. We were a small group, but hanging out in Small House was great. A real highlight was sharing our Reunion dinner with the Class of 1943 — amazing stories! Alumni Office has a great photo of all of us. (And this means you all need to join us for No. 20 in 2018.) There are 154 of us, but we are missing quite a few of you. Please join our Bates College Class of 1998 Facebook page. Get great updates from your classmates. If you have trouble finding it, drop an email

Mountain Men What goes up must ski down “It was an unforgettable day,” says Pete Kawada ’98 (right), describing the tour and hike he and Pete Mason ’96 made up 9,934-foot Col du Passon in Chamonix, France, and their subsequent ski descent, over untouched powder, into the valley below. For Mason, Chamonix means business. A mountain guide, he is only the second American to receive international guide certification through the French credentialing body Union Internationale des Associations de Guides de Montagnes. Kawada, meanwhile, was at play on that April day. His day job is as a managing director at The Seaport Group in the U.K., where he’s now a citizen.

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takeaway: Jonathan Adler ’00

to me or Liam Leduc Clarke.... Seen on Facebook: Postell Pringle and Greg Qaiyum (Bates/ NYU) are tearing up London’s Unicorn Theater with their Othello: The Remix, which was deemed by thestage.co.uk as “the glitteringly energetic all-rapping version” of the classic.

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As Vermont’s new health care finance czar, “Michael Costa ’00 has a daunting task before him, and he’s staring it down with cool confidence.”

Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard jlemkin@alumni.bates.edu class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com

media outlet: Scientific American

headline:

Negative emotions are key to well-being

date:

May 2013

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Feeling good and bad may be best for you Scientific American cites research by Jonathan Adler ’00 pointing out that both unpleasant and enjoyable feelings play a big role in helping us make sense of life’s ups and downs. Adler, an assistant professor of psychology at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, and a colleague at NYU evaluated a group of people undergoing psychotherapy. Participants who said they felt cheerful and dejected at the same time later reported an improved sense of well-being, even if those mixed feelings were unpleasant at the time. “Taking the good and the bad together may detoxify the bad experiences, allowing you to make meaning out of them in a way that supports psychological well-being,” Adler and his colleague found.

The Jamestown, N.Y., Post-Journal spoke with Peter Beeson, the new director of the recently formed Chautauqua County Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Coalition. He helps the coalition raise community awareness about the increasing availability in STEM opportunities. “STEM is a huge part of my life,” Peter said. “As someone who has spent many summers here in Chautauqua County, I’m very glad to be back full time. I see enormous opportunity to enhance STEM learning throughout the area in an effort to meet the workforce needs of the community, and to support economic growth.”... Julie DeLaite Mulkern is executive director of WinterKids in Portland, a statewide nonprofit focused on getting kids outside and active. She and her husband, Ric, live in Gorham.... Brian Kuser is now the director of education at Fernbrook Farms Environmental Education Center in Chesterfield, N.J. “My classroom no longer has walls as we provide hands-on educational experiences on a 230-acre working farm through summer camp, school field trips and home-school classes.”... Jenn Lemkin Bouchard now teaches history at Needham High School. She and Ryan ’01 relocated to the Boston suburbs last summer with Grant, 6, and Avery, 2. They enjoy the proximity to the ocean, Fenway Park and of course Bates....Amy McInnis and husband Croft Young welcomed Evelyn Acadia Young on June 24, 2013. Amy is enjoying maternity leave in NYC and returns to work at Pfizer in early 2014....Eric Sanders and Christin welcomed Olivia Grace Sanders on Aug. 16, 2013. Sister Maddie is 3.

2000 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class secretary Cynthia Macht Link cynthiafriedalink@gmail.com class co-presidents Jennifer Glassman Jacobs jenniferellenjacobs@gmail.com Megan Shelley mhshelley@aol.com

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As Vermont’s new health care finance czar, “Michael Costa has a daunting task before him, and he’s staring it down with cool confidence,” Vermont Business Magazine reported. The Vermont Tax Department’s policy director is developing the tax structure for a publicly funded health care system. In essence, he is Gov. Peter Shumlin’s czar on developing a finance plan for Green Mountain Care, said Jeb Spaulding, Shumlin’s secretary of administration. Michael says that by the 2015 legislative session, the administration will show several avenues the state could take to implement a single-payer system. “We know we can provide all Vermonters with quality health care and save money,” he said. “My task is to continue the work we’ve done on financing, so that we can provide a way to pay for it.” Michael lives in White River Junction with his wife, Kristina Godek ’01, a scientist at the Dartmouth School of Medicine....Kurt Deschermeier and Kara welcomed Charlotte Elizabeth, their first daughter, in December 2012. He is now director of marketing and communications for Columbia Univ.’s annual fund. He and his family also moved to a new apartment in Brooklyn....Jenn Glassman Jacobs and Nate, in Haleiwa, Hawaii, welcomed a son, Jackson Kai Jacobs, on Oct. 20, 2012....Allyson Kelley Bailey and Tucker welcomed Hamilton Turner Bailey IV on May 23, 2013....The Portland Press Herald caught up with Ben Shaw, CEO of Vets First Choice, No. 25 on Inc. magazine’s ranking of fastest-growing companies. The company offers a service that takes over a veterinary office’s medication operations, setting up a Web-based “store” for each veterinarian and shipping medicine and supplies directly to pet owners. Vets First Choice began in 2008 as part of FetchDog, a catalog and website started by actress Glenn Close and husband David Shaw, the founder of Westbrook-based Idexx and Ben’s father, before Vets First Choice was spun off in 2011. It has signed up more than 10,000 veterinarians, and last year collected $15 million in fees from vets. The company, with nearly 100 employees, has been profitable in some years, Ben said. “The veterinarian is the one who has a relationship with the pet owners. We actually set up an online store that allows the pet owner to buy directly from the veterinarian — it’s really

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reinforcing the vet-client/patient relationship.”...Maine Gov. Paul LePage promoted Carlie Tuggey McLean to chief legal counsel.

2001 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Noah Petro npetro@gmail.com class co-presidents Jodi Winterton Cobb jodimcobb@gmail.com Kate Hagstrom Lepore khlepore@gmail.com A Boston Spirit Magazine blog profiled actor John Ambrosino, who had a lead role in the production of On the Town at Boston’s Lyric Stage. John, who played Gabey (Gene Kelly’s part in the film version), said that while he recalls being “enthralled by the performances” when he watched the movie as a boy, no one should expect him to channel Kelly. “I’m going to stay away from the movie now and let [the director] lead us down the road.”...Elena John and Joseph Toce III were married April 20, 2013, not 2012, as Bates Magazine erroneously reported in the Summer issue.

2002 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Stephanie Eby steph.eby@gmail.com class co-presidents Jay Surdukowski surdukowski@sulloway.com Drew Weymouth weymouthd@gmail.com Jenny Blau finished a fellowship in endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health.... Charis Campbell Loveland graduated with honors from Northeastern Univ.’s high-tech MBA program. She continues as a senior global program manager in the Flash Products Division of EMC, and looked forward to spending more time with daughter Lucinda, 4, and husband Bryan ’99....Jack Sandler is now head men’s lacrosse coach at Colby, after eight seasons as head coach at Skidmore where he was the Liberty League Coach of the Year in 2007 and 2011. A fouryear lacrosse starter at Bates, he’s the second all-time leading scorer in Bates history.

2003 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Kirstin McCarthy kirstinmccarthy@yahoo.com Melissa Wilcox Yanagi melissa.yanagi@staples.com Katie Austin Adema and Thomas welcomed Daniel Thomas Adema on April 22, 2013....Bangor Metro magazine caught up with

Nicole Ouellette, happily settled in Bar Harbor where she runs her business, Breaking Even Communications. It helps small businesses and nonprofits do more online through social media, blogging, Web development and email marketing. Her business was born out of a personal finance blog she started while working at The Ellsworth American. When a friend asked for help setting up a blog, Nicole knew she had found a niche. Now in her fourth year of running her company full time, she has an office space as well as employees. She also offers workshops in Ellsworth, teaching the public how to use Facebook for their businesses, how to market via email and, her most popular, One-Day Website. “I started my business in Bar Harbor without knowing anyone. But enough people had faith in me to give me a shot. There are a great group of year-round people here who are really friendly. After one week of living here, I felt like I already had friends.”...Melissa Wilcox Yanagi and Tad welcomed Blake Steven Yanagi on July 7, 2013. Jack is 2.

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2004 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class co-presidents Eduardo Crespo ecrespo@alumni.bates.edu Tanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com Dana DiGiando and Andrew Jennings ’06 were married May 26, 2012. They welcomed a son, Charlie, on March 4, 2013.... Emily Marsters and Peter Morse (Colorado College ’03) were married Sept. 2, 2012.

2005 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-presidents Larry Handerhan larry.handerhan@gmail.com Sarah Neukom sneukom@alumni.bates.edu Marselle Alexander-Ozinskas has transitioned from the nonprofit to the philanthropic sector, and from East to West Coast, to work in the environment program of a private family foundation in San Francisco. She has been SF dreamin’ for a while now and is thrilled to be there, though overwhelmed by all the scenic vistas, artisanal eating, urban trekking and general yuppy-hippy living to be had. She might stay a while....Kristina Bakis and Matt Barsamian were married June 9, 2012....After leaving the World Bank in June, David Burns joined the National Wildlife Federation, where he manages the Tropical Forest and Agriculture Project, promoting deforestation-free agricultural commodities....Shoni Caine completed her Ph.D. in biology at Tufts. Her doctoral research focused on the repair and regen-

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Gabe Clark ’02

media outlet: Bangor Daily News

headline:

Experts are bullish on Maine’s ability to sell high-end beef

date:

May 3, 2013

takeaway:

Where’s the beef profit? Ask Maine’s growers of grass-fed beef The Bangor Daily News features Gabe Clark ’02 in a story about Maine farmers’ ability to make money selling grass-fed or other specialty beef. The demand for specialty beef is growing due to higher grain prices (which push up the price of conventional beef ), drought in beef-growing states and more consumer demand for healthier food. Clark owns Cold Spring Ranch in New Portland and is president of the Maine Grass Farmers Network. He says that while Maine farmers can’t do what Big Agriculture does (make money through small profit margins and huge volume), they can compete in the specialtybeef field. “This is one of the best ways for Maine farmers to generate the kind of profit margin necessary to stay in business.”

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eration of the pronephric kidney in Xenopus laevis tadpoles, and her dissertation has been selected by Tufts as the school’s entry for the national CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the field of biological and life sciences. Shoni also published an article in the journal Developmental Dynamics in which she introduces a new injury model for inducing mechanical damage in the pronephric kidney. Her research provides the first evidence of kidney regeneration of any amphibian studied to date.... Elizabeth Cebula and Tomasz Chrzan were married Sept. 2, 2012. She earned a master’s in nursing from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and is pursuing a career as a nurse practitioner. He has a private dental practice in East Longmeadow, Mass.... Noah Davis lives in Brooklyn and works as a freelance writer for Grantland, The Wall Street Journal, Details and Playboy. He recently teamed up with old buddy Dave Hurley to create a captivating piece on the future of sport psychology. When he’s not writing (or tweeting) — which is never — he spends time losing rec league soccer games or doing pushups in his living room. In the past two years, he ran his first marathon, did his first triathlon and is now gearing up to train for his first Ironman....Melissa Geissler and Zack Scott (Harvard ’05) were married May 19, 2012.... Emma Giorgi and Brendan Brier were married Aug. 17, 2013....Lindsey Hamilton moved to Colorado with her family and teaches biological psychology at the Univ. of Colorado Denver. She is trying to be as good a professor as John Kelsey, but that is a lofty goal!...Larry Handerhan has settled back in Washington, D.C., after earning a master’s in public affairs in 2012. He works as a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and stays busy by espousing the merits of sustainable urban development and attending weddings (looking at you, Ben Hagberg)....In September, actor Andrew Haserlat was on the set of HBO’s adaptation of Olive Kitteridge. “I play the caterer at Olive’s son’s wedding. We’re filming these scenes in Essex, Mass., and my scenes help to accentuate the domineering persona that is Olive Kitteridge (Frances McDormand). It’s been a pleasure working on a close-tohome project, as I was raised in Ipswich, and on a project based on such a touching novel by Elizabeth Strout ’77. (I have to be vague with plot lines — though am excited to share this moment with the Bates community!)”... Dave Hurley lives in Cambridge, Mass., with his wonderful girlfriend, Amy, and their ferociously small dog, Harvey, whom he frequently takes on walks while pondering the latest sport psy-

chology dilemma. He — Dave, not Harvey — is a doctoral candidate at Boston Univ. and a faculty fellow at Stonehill College. In his spare time, he plays softball with Chet Clem and Josh Kleinman, counts down the days until the release of Anchorman 2 and, occasionally, drinks a Bud Light Lime-a-rita or two....Ian Livengood and Katie Carroll were married June 29, 2013, in Hopewell, N.J. “Plenty of Bates alums in attendance,” he writes. “Also, I’ve got a book coming out in February 2014 titled Sit & Solve Sports Crosswords....Juliette Wallack and Dave Metz were married May 11, 2013. She helps develop marketing for new products in the media licensing and distribution group at Bloomberg news service in New York. He has a new job as director of product development at AccentHealth, a patient education media company. They live in Brooklyn and couldn’t imagine it any other way. He had been playing in a local soccer league with Jon Horowitz, Noah Davis and Nate Purinton ’06, who also live in Brooklyn — and who are all better at soccer than he is. Dave is (as always) loving life, though he frequently cites his later years in college as some of his favorites....Caitlin Miller and husband Jesse Sheldon welcomed William Gregory Sheldon on March 26, 2013.... Elizabeth Pemmerl and Drew Cantor were married last June. They enjoy life in northwest DC with their Jack Russell terrier Teddy. Elizabeth manages the federal government division of NIC Inc., an eGovernment company, and Drew is a congressional lobbyist....Andy Peters has “kept in good touch with Taku Furukawara, who studied at Bates during the 2001–02 school year via Tokyo Univ. Taku opened his own organic vegetable farm, Aromaful Vegetables, in Japan last April. The purpose of the farm is to educate consumers on the aromatic wonders of organic vegetables that are grown in the magic organic soil that Taku has cultivated over the past couple of years. As usual, Taku is in great spirits. I am very excited to visit his farm some day and get my hands dirty working alongside an old friend.”...Sally Pratt-Heaney Wu and Matt Wu ’04 celebrated their third wedding anniversary and bought their first house in Weston, Conn. She has been working as a neonatal intensivecare unit nurse at Stamford Hospital for the past six years. Matt recently joined one of the top private wealth management groups in the country, LLBH, based in Westport, Conn....Lewiston City Councilor Craig Saddlemire received Bates’ Alumni Community Service Award. “Whether sitting on the Downtown Neighborhood Task Force or managing the work of Spoke Folks, the community bike shop he helped found, Craig dedicates hundreds of hours a

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Allison Mann ’08

2006 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Chelsea Cook chelsea.m.cook@gmail.com Katharine M. Nolan knolan@alumni.bates.edu John Ritzo jritzo@energycircle.com Shelly Davgun and James Maldonis were married June 16, 2012.... Keelin Godsey was named one of the “55 Inspiring LGBT Athletes for Pride” by Advocate.com. The first openly transgender athlete to compete for a spot on the U.S. Olympic team, Keelin was the most-decorated athlete in Bates history, a collegiate and national recordsetter in the hammer throw.... Lissa Moses launched Mosa Mack Animations, a nonprofit that produces animated videos geared toward engaging children — particularly girls and children of color — in the STEM fields. While teaching science in Harlem, she realized there were few Web-based resources that spoke directly to her students. Using inspiration from them, she created an animated mystery series. Her students immediately liked it and wanted more. In 2011, Lissa was named a Discovery Channel/ Siemen’s STEM Institute Fellow....Sarah Wilson and Kristen “Hero” Fries ’07 were married Oct. 27, 2012.

2007 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Dr. Michael Ambra joined Alliance for Dental Care in Rochester, N.H....Ben Chin spoke at a Portland rally demanding immigration reform, saying his own family “traveled a twisted road to arrive at this country.” He is political director for the Maine People’s Al-

liance, which organized the rally. Ben said his grandfather came to the U.S. from China at age 9, spoke no English and bused tables to make a living. He eventually was accepted into Columbia Univ. and served in World War II. Ben said the current immigration system has produced 11 million people who can “pick our blueberries and apples, die in our wars, care for our elderly but cannot vote, get a driver’s license and cannot sleep without fearing a knock on the door that might drag them away from a husband or wife or child.”...Niraj Chokshi joined The Washington Post as a reporter for its new GovBeat, an online site that focuses on how actions taken in Washington play out in cities and states across the country. He previously was a policy reporter for National Journal....Laura Harris and Philip Aurigemma (Brandeis ’06) were married May 11, 2013....ESPNW explains how former Bates Nordic skier Kaitlyn McElroy, after a training accident during her junior year left her with a broken arm, broken ribs and injured back, switched from skis to the kayak. Today, she and her kayaking partner have a chance to reach the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the 500-meter sprint, says her coach, Shaun Caven of Oklahoma City University, where Kaitlyn is pursuing a second bachelor’s, in behaviorial studies, and applying to graduate programs in neuroscience....Vienna Shea (Babson College ’07) and Ben Morrill were married Sept. 1, 2012.

year to the Lewiston-Auburn community,” the citation said. “Just search for his name in the local papers and you will find dozens of quotes and letters from Craig advocating for issues that range from growing small business to healthcare reform to supporting the growing African immigrant community.”...Chris van der Lugt works at Hill Holliday as an advertising executive and manages a team of business consultants to deliver more value to their clients (Bank of America, Dunkin’ Donuts, MLB...). He’s in his seventh year of leadership at the Head of the Charles Regatta as a co-chair of the race. But, most importantly, he became engaged to Laura Gross, who completed her Ph.D. in criminology last spring and now works at the Boston Police Department as director of re-entry initiatives.

media outlet: Los Angeles Times

headline:

Making sure Mad Men is ’60s authentic

date:

June 21, 2013

2008

ta keaway : Making TV fiction ring true is worth the work

Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Elizabeth Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Alison Schwartz alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com

Emmie Twombly ’08

interviewed Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth — whose grandmother, Post icon Katharine Graham, was the focus of Emmie’s political science thesis. Beth Lakin and Forrest Bault were married Sept. 22, 2012.... Lori Noble and Zach Risler were married Sept. 8, 2012.... Julia Sleeper received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award for exceptional volunteer service to Bates and distinction in her career. As executive director and co-founder of Lewiston’s Tree Street Youth Center, she exemplifies the “intellectual discovery and informed civic action” championed at Bates, the citation says. She began her service to the Lewiston-Auburn

In its profile of Mad Men head researcher Allison Mann ’08, the Los Angeles Times explains that Mann upholds “the period drama’s well-earned reputation for authenticity” and mines “the tumultuous history of the 1960s for potential fodder for series creator Matthew Weiner and his writing team.” Before each season, Mann gives the writers a news, event and pop culture timeline. She calls upon historians and also interviews real-life Don Drapers and Peggy Olsons to learn about Madison Avenue in the 1960s. “I talk to them about relationships, how people might interact with a certain company at a client meeting. I also ask really simple questions, like ‘Where did you eat lunch?’” No period detail is too hard to find, Mann tells Rock Center with Brian Williams. “If you are curious enough, you will uncover it.”

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AMY PALMER

louisa demmitt ’ji

Pattern Shift Youthful hubris can come back to wear on you This is the first sweater I ever made. It is big and fuzzy and cozy. I made it my freshman year at Bates, that fantastic time in life when I thought I knew everything and thought I could get away with not reading all of the instructions. Sleeves? Length doesn’t matter. Seaming? No problem, just stitch it. Blocking? Unnecessary. I used a pattern as a general guideline, but was completely haphazard with stitch count, sizing and finishing. I ended up wearing this creation as a coat for fall and winter in Maine. While it isn’t waterproof, the ribbed pattern made a thick fabric that kept the frigid New England wind at bay. Also, the ridiculously long sleeves ended up being perfect for keeping my hands (and the space well beyond my fingertips) warm. I have since learned a great deal about knitting and about reading instructions — following them being the most important. But when I was 18 no one could tell me how to do anything. I thought that, obviously, my teenage self knew better (hubris!). With this sweater, as with most other things, that turned out not to be the case. I love this thick, fuzzy, awkward sweater despite and perhaps actually because of its imperfections. When I look at it now, I’m reminded of how much I really didn’t know then, about life and knitting, and how far I’ve come. And really, another layer, no matter how beautifully imperfect, is always appreciated come winter. — Louisa Demmitt ’09 Demmitt is an assistant editor for the magazine Knitscene, and this essay is adapted, with permission, from her blog post at Knitting Daily.

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community as a student, helping to establish a successful afterschool homework help program at Trinity Jubilee Center, a local soup kitchen and safe haven. Upon graduating, she continued working there as an AmeriCorps volunteer and eventually co-founded Tree Street Youth Center with Kim Sullivan ’13, in partnership with Trinity Episcopal Church and local community members. Through academics, the arts and athletics, as well as a robust college prep program, Tree Street strives to empower downtown youth and their families to be fully participating members of their communities. Many Tree Street volunteers are current Bates students...Allegra Timperi and Zachary Wilson were married July 28, 2012.... Emmie Twombly is a writer for CosmoGIRL, Vital Voices and The Huffington Post. She interviewed Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth for The Huffington Post, a fitting conversation since, as Emmie noted, she had written about Weymouth’s grandmother, Washington Post icon Katharine Graham, for her Bates thesis....Nate Walton earned a master’s degree in public policy and international relations from Brown. “I now serve as a principal at Sachem Strategies, a public policy consulting firm. I recently hosted U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte ’74, R-Virginia, in Boston for a series of events with local business leaders. Bob chairs the House Judiciary Committee, and it was fun to talk with him about his time at Bates during the 1970s. And it was great to see everyone at our 5th Reunion in June!”

2009 Reunion 2014, June 6–8 class co-presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com The Sri Lankan business marketing magazine Echelon named Sulochana Dissanayake one of its “40 Under 40” successful young people who are adding value to Sri Lanka’s economy. As founder and artistic director of Power of Play, she “is exploring new ways of communicating and encouraging change using puppets,” the magazine said....Mark Flaherty is now a benefit analyst with Longfellow Benefits, a Bostonbased employee benefits consultancy....Allie Goldstein earned a master’s degree from the Univ. of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment. She and grad school colleague Kirsten Howard undertook “The Great American Adaptation Road Trip”: They traveled around the U.S. for three months last summer collecting stories of people and places using their wits and resources to adapt to climate change. The two published their stories on a blog....The New York

Times praised the “remarkable meals” served by chef Elise Kornack at her tiny Brooklyn restaurant, Take Root. Under the headline “Satisfying the Body and the Mind,” reviewer Ligaya Mishan said Take Root “is an improbable enterprise. By day, it is a yoga studio for children.... Three nights a week, it turns into a restaurant serving multicourse, unascetic, remarkable meals.”... Chloe Viner and Shane Collins (UMass–Amherst ’10) were married Aug. 17, 2013. She earned a law degree from Vermont Law School and works as a development and volunteer coordinator at Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee. He is pursuing a master’s in creative writing at USM in Portland and works as a tour guide at Harpoon Brewery. They live in South Royalton, Vt.

2010 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 class co-presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@ gmail.com Michaela Boller teaches English at Hamden (Conn.) Hall Middle School....Kaleigh Pare is the new program coordinator at the Haverhill (Mass.) Historical Society’s Buttonwoods Museum, where she volunteered in 2008, documenting and cataloging its doll collection. She is pursuing a master’s in museum studies from Harvard’s Extension School.... Kate Reilly and Kevin Thorson were married July 27, 2013.... Hannah Roebuck and Sawyer Broadley (Dartmouth ’08) were married May 25, 2013....Lila Totino maintains a blog devoted to the travels of Harvey, the traveling puppet. He sports a Bates T-shirt. Lila shared a photo of him on Twitter, and Bates alumni shared the blog on Facebook.

2011 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class co-presidents Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@gmail.com Patrick Williams dapatch20002000@yahoo.com Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2014 in the Food and Wine category are Tyler Mosher and brothers Matt ’08 and Ross Brockman of the hard-cider startup Downeast Cider. “Cider is having a moment, and these boys have made it their mission to build New England’s first and largest craft hard cider company,” says Forbes. The company has recently relocated to Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood.... Matt Cocciardi, a policy analyst at the Massachusetts House of Representatives, was elected to a three-year term on the Masconomet Regional School Committee....Micaela Holland is now an assistant alpine ski coach

at Clarkson Univ....Judson Peck wrote a blog post for Notes on the World discussing his grant-funded work last spring to deliver and install two prototypes of a greenhouse for high-elevation use. One model, half-arc metal pipe construction, attaches directly to a house. The other is a full-arc model using less expensive and easier to transport plastic pipe. Judson traveled to the village of Thamo to install the prototypes. There, “curious neighbors and kids came to watch me work, and request greenhouses for their families. The women fed me endless cups of black tea and potato pancakes expressing their thanks. Despite their generosity, I walked out 10 pounds lighter, experiencing on a small scale the limited access to food.” A month later, his Sherpa translator returned to the village to photograph the greenhouses. “They were full of green, leafy vegetables — evidence that I had a hand in helping to develop one solution toward ending food insecurity in Nepal.”...Natalie Ruppertsberger and Noah Lynd were married July 6, 2013.... Theodore Sutherland writes, “I work at African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa, with Lisa DiIorio ’91, who teaches English here. We have just added two new faculty — Desmond Mushi ’13 and Joseph Ekpenyong ’12. We were visited recently by a current student, Edwin Mapfuwa ’15.”...Eliza van Heerden had a birthday party in NYC, and guess who showed up? Mackenzie Dreiss, Rachel DiStefano, Lauren McAllister, Cambria Hempton, Chelsea Pennucci and Nora Collins.

2012 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Mikey Pasek mikeypasek@gmail.com Sangita Murali murali58@comcast.net Mikey Pasek is a first-year Ph.D. student in social psychology at Penn State studying prejudice and stereotyping as a University Graduate Fellow.

2013 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Meg Murphy megan.a.murphy3@gmail.com Ryan Sonberg rsonberg9@gmail.com The Newburyport (Mass.) Daily News explored the coaching aspirations of former Bates runner Lindsay Cullen, who began her coaching career in August at Dickinson College as an assistant with the cross-country and track programs. “I like the way most Division III schools mix athletics and academics. It’s not an athlete’s entire life, like it might be at a state school or university,” she said. A graduate of Newburyport High School,

Lindsay majored in history at Bates and captained the cross-country and track and field teams her senior year.... Travis Jones, a 2012 NCAA Academic All-American Division III diver, was the model for a series of swimwear shots for Parke and Ronen, a New York-based fashion label with a strong sporting connection. He lives in Brooklyn and works as an instructor at the New York Trapeze School....Neighbor Newspapers in suburban Atlanta caught up with Atlanta native David Pless for a conversation about his memorable Bates track and field career during which he won three Division III indoor shot put championships and earned 10 All-America honors. “I don’t necessarily use as the metric of my accomplishment my place in the national championship,” David said. “It was really a learning experience I had along the way with the team that I was a part of and what we were able to accomplish as a team.” David is now a salesman for Internet company Salesforce.com in San Francisco.

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‘I knew I was hooked’ A Bates primate course changed her career course Years after Kaitlin Wellens ’11 did a fifth-grade book report on her hero, Jane Goodall, the iconic expert on chimpanzees is again part of Wellens’ reporting. While doing field research in Tanzania last summer, Wellens met and talked shop with her childhood idol, pictured here. “I first met her in the forest — my wildest childhood dream come true,” Wellens says. Wellens, who is in a hominid paleobiology Ph.D. program at George Washington University, was doing fieldwork at Gombe Stream National Park, made famous during Goodall’s 45-year study of wild chimpanzees. “My first day there, I ran into the alpha male, Ferdinand, grooming his nephew Fudge,” Wellens says. “They are both part of the F family that was made famous by Jane’s work, making it a surreal experience.” Wellens’ specific research involves juvenescence in chimpanzees, which lasts about three years, from weaning to sexual maturity. Is the relatively long juvenile period needed to learn social skills, foraging skills, both? Or is it for body and brain growth? A bio major at Bates, Wellens grew up intending to become a veterinarian. She had even completed her pre-vet requirements at Bates when she took a course on primate behavior, taught by the “fabulous” professor Sonya Kahlenberg, that changed her career path. “I knew I was hooked.”

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Please email your high-resolution digital Bates group wedding photo to magazine@bates.edu. Please identify all people and their class years, and include the wedding date, location and any other news. Wedding photos are published in the order received. Marsters ’04 & Morse Emily Marsters ’04 and Peter Morse (Colorado College ’03), Sept. 2, 2012, Tyrone Farm, Pomfret, Conn. Peter Marsters ’08, Natalie MacDonald Truesdell ’02, Jenna Mullen ’04, Kate Fink Cheeseman ’01, Alyssa Asack Rawlins ’04, Peter Mertz ’03, Emily and Peter. Poole ’07 & Bates Emily Poole ’07 and Jeff Bates (Middlebury ’08), Aug. 18, 2012, Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Back: James Pelletier ’07, Peter Boston ’07, Kate Allen ’07, Molly Lanigan Carr ’07, George Carr ’07, Peter Meisel ’07, Harry Poole ’10, Sandy Bandhu ’07, Martin Benes ’07; front: Robin Lin Hodgskin ’76, Samantha Forrest ’13, Becky Flynn Woods ’89, Alissa Praggastis ’07, Jeff and Emily, Becca White ’07, Sarah Drosdik ’07, Victoria Thomas ’08, Gabe Plourde ’07, Rob Schuler ’07, Abby Samuelson ’10. Doukeris ’04 & Superina Christina Doukeris ’04 and Nick Superina, July 21, 2012, Saco, Maine. Tory Peterson ’04, Julie Gage ’04, Kelley Kugel ’04, Sarah Gray Richards ’04, William Richards ’06, Beth Greene Grabowski ’04, Carrie Masur Gillispie ’04, Melissa Palmer Lacy ’04, Colleen Maloney Dietrich ’04, Jennifer Stasio ’07, Alicia Doukeris ’07, Brandon Colon ’08, Matthew Lacy ’03. Shea & Morrill ’07 Vienna Shea (Babson College ’07) and Ben Morrill ’07, Sept. 1, 2012, Lake Champlain, Ferrisburgh, Vt. Front: Leo Menard ’08, Adam Bristow ’07, Katie Graeff ’07, Vienna and Ben, Scot Wilks ’07, Tyler Maynard ’07, Peter Carlisle ’91, Harry Poole ’10, Sixto Alonso ’06; second row: Hannah Meyer White ’07, John Anderson ’07, John D’Ascenzo ’07, Nick Morrill ’01; back: Len White ’07, Nick Leonard ’07.

Kemp ’05 & Malcuit Katherine Kemp ’05 and John Malcuit (North Carolina State ’02), Oct. 6, 2012, Washington, D.C. John Getchell ’05, Marsha Larned ’07, Phil Barr ’05, Kara Stenback ’05, Kristina Bakis ’05, Nate Curll ’05, John and Kate, Lauren Carlyle ’05, Christina Strong ’05, Nicole Langelier ’05. Delgadillo & Strobel ’07 Carolina Delgadillo and Mark Strobel ’07, Nov. 24, 2012, Viña del Mar, Chile. Tim Buckley ’07, Mark and Carolina, George Brandley ’07. Reidy ’01 & Schullman Meghan Reidy ’01 and Joshua Schullman, Oct. 10, 2010, Highfield Hall, Falmouth, Mass. Seated: William Gunther ’01, Katie Hammond ’01, Phoebe Larson ’01, Meghan and Joshua, Julia Phelan Sylla ’01, Sarah Kaufman ’01; standing: Paul Zinn ’01, Nate Thomas ’00, Tom Armet ’01, Dave Vensel ’01, Steve Dutton ’00, Emily Winsett Dutton ’01, Steve Mague ’01, Katherine Saegh Tully ’01, Michael Tully ’01. Olson ’07 & Zubiate Jackie Olson ’07 and Jesus Zubiate, wedding April 5, 2013, Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico, reception April 13, Millis, Mass. Luke Feinberg ’07, Mary Bucci ’07, Jesus and Jackie, Jeanethe Falvey ’07, Jane Mellors ’07, Emily Williams ’07, Kristen Anderson ’00. Schwartz ’08 & Egelson ’08 Alie Schwartz ’08 and Alex Egelson ’08, Sept. 15, 2012, The Inn at Longshore, Westport, Conn. Back: Gage Eberlin ’08, Michael Canova ’08, Whitney Stowell ’08, Michael Keohan ’08, Andrew Canova ’11, Kevin Spencer ’08; first row: Michele Piazza ’08, Amy Rosania ’08, Alex and Alie, Avalon Dibner ’08, Olivia Philipp ’08, Katie Rocklin ’08, Meghan Somers ’09.

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Pilato ’04 & Jarrett Margherita Pilato ’04 and Kevin Jarrett (Colorado College ’03), Aug. 12, 2012, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay. Bill Spirer ’04, Helen O’Donnell ’04, Leslie Shages ’04, Thaddeus Curtz ’02, Kevin, Christopher Regan ’04, Margherita, Caryn Repaci ’04, Jeremy Fisher ’06, Ian Foster Jones ’04, Karen Moore Lambek ’04, Peter Pawlick ’05, Carola Cassaro ’09, Graham Veysey ’04, Dom Lambek ’04. Schierberl ’08 & Kidder Kathryn Schierberl ’08 and Alexander Kidder, Sept. 22, 2012, Mountain Top Inn, Chittenden Vt. Alida Ovrutsky ’08, Mallika Raghavan ’08, Jennifer Linton ’08, Elyse Wiechnicki ’08, Rachel Warner ’08, John Baxter Leavitt ’08, KC and Alexander, Josh Parker ’08, Annie Barton ’08, Whitney Thomas ’08, Brittany Clement ’08, Amanda Chisholm ’08, Liana Shapiro ’07.

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Schneier ’10 & Boller ’08 Michaela Schneier ’10 and Matthew Boller ’08, Sept. 2, 2012, Lounsbury House, Ridgefield, Conn. Liz Murphy ’08, Christy Zink ’10, Esther Kendall ’10, Grace Haessler ’12, Bill Mortimer ’10, Tim Henderson ’09, Christine Roemer ’10, Brad Sherman ’08, Michaela, Jon Blanchard ’08, Matthew, Matthew Martone ’09, Eugene Kim ’08, Christian Ford ’08, Graham Proud ’08, Emily Pressman ’10, Gary Kan ’07, Taylor Smith ’10, Emily Howieson ’08. Cole ’07 & Reihing ’07 Sachi Cole ’07 and Greg Reihing ’07, Aug. 25, 2012, Isle au Haut, Maine. Front: Josh Dennee ’07, Ben Stern ’07; back: Ben Keller ’07, Amy Radke Keller ’07, Sachi and Greg, Jessica Sarfati ’07, Rachel Judson ’07, Greg Musso ’07, Ann Speers ’07, Bob Yamartino ’07, Carl Lyon ’09. Maurin & Rodden ’00 Ashley Maurin and Paul Rodden ’00, July 28, 2012, Kansas City, Mo. Top: Jason Beyer ’00, Adam Greenlaw ’00, Jen Brine Greenlaw ’00, Jamison Girard ’00, Paul and Ashley, Jessica Healey Beyer ’03, Christopher Patuto ’00, Zahid Rathore ’00; bottom: Joshua Howes ’00, George Recine ’00. Noble & Risler ’08 Lori Noble and Zach Risler ’08, Sept. 8, 2012, Bryn Athyn, Pa. Front: Kat Farmer ’07, Elyse Wiechnicki ’08, Becca Buckler ’08, Alida Ovrutsky ’08, Alexis Grossman ’07; back: Dylan Atchley ’08, Zand Martin ’08, Zach, Sam Rigby ’08, Lori, Laura French ’07, John Leavitt ’08, Pete Marsters ’08, Nate Eichelberger ’07, Sadie White ’09, Jeremy Grant ’08, Lee Spivak ’08. DiGiando ’04 & Jennings ’06 Dana DiGiando ’04 and Andrew Jennings ’06, May 26, 2012, Jamestown, R.I. Back: Will Gluck ’04, Lara Engert ’04, John Hamlin ’04, Jan DeMeo ’70, Julio DiGiando ’70, Adrian Cohen ’07, Ben Peck ’05, Darcy York ’05, Laura Tomaselli ’06, Dom Lambek ’04, Matt Rosler ’05, Chip Means ’04; front: Sarah Barnes ’04, K-Fai Steele ’04, Dana and Andrew, Karen Moore Lambek ’04, Hanna Sterzel Means ’04, Ellie Means.

Geissler ’05 & Scott Melissa Geissler ’05 and Zack Scott (Harvard ’05), May 19, 2012, wedding, Tolland (Conn.) Congregational Church, reception, Lord Thompson Manor, Thompson, Conn. Front: Caitlin Miller Sheldon ’05, Kate Sadler ’05, Zack and Melissa, Maggie Smith ’05, Leah Skowron Kingman ’05, Kathryn Rice Duvall ’05; back: Don Geissler ’70, Chris Abernethy ’66, Kevin Madden ’05, Randy Bumps ’95, Craig Legault ’05, Sam Duvall ’05, Shawn Kingman ’04.

Davgun ’06 & Maldonis ’06 Shelly Davgun ’06 and James Maldonis ’06, June 16, 2012, Spruce Point Inn, Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Front: Andrea Lichtman ’06, Eric Williams ’06, Shelly and James, Anna Skeele ’06, Sarah Bryan ’04, Elizabeth Scannell ’07, Karl-Gustav Rueggeberg ’06; back: Matthew Pooley ’05, Diana Birney Pooley ’03, Blake Wayman ’05, Katrina Bergevin Wayman ’05, Alex Godomsky ’95, Daniel Pitts ’06, Tiffany Kasper ’06, Kyle Dunmire ’08.

Ruppertsberger ’11 & Lynd ’11 Natalie Ruppertsberger ’11 and Noah Lynd ’11, July 6, 2013, Cornish, N.H. Noah Burke ’11, Josh Linscott ’10, Patrick Murphy ’11, Dan Brodhead ’13, Marissa Maliwanag ’11, Connor Cushman ’09, Sam Forrest ’13, Kirsten Gill ’11, Ryan Heide ’12, Kelsey Dion ’12, Chris Burke ’11, Beth Taylor ’12, Miles Davee ’11, Hannah Nienaber ’13, Sophie Leonard ’12, Luke Wamboldt ’11, Sean VanderVliet ’08, Brit Hastings ’11, Katewatson Prins ’11, Ryan Horvath ’10, Becky Flynn Woods ’89, Betsy Rybeck Lynd ’79, John Houde ’84, Lee Lynd ’79, Jen Rybeck Houde ’86, John GregoryDavis ’80, Bob Flynn, Noah and Natalie.

Fragner ’07 & Dilsaver Rachel Fragner ’07 and Andrew Dilsaver, Aug. 11, 2012, Manhattan Beach, Calif. Jenny Sadler ’07, Sarah Catignani ’07, Katherine Forester ’07, Sarah Janoff ’07, Rachel and Andy, Jennifer Yee ’07, Melissa Baker Linville ’07, Ellen Wilson ’07.

Roebuck ’10 & Broadley Hannah Roebuck ’10 and Sawyer Broadley (Dartmouth ’08), May 25, 2013, Canaan, N.H. Lila Totino ’10, Kate Doria ’10, Don Hill ’81, Sawyer, Holly Ewing, Hannah, Emily Treat ’10, Julia Caffrey ’10, Nicole Kahn ’10. Harris ’07 & Aurigemma Laura Harris ’07 and Philip Aurigemma (Brandeis ’06), May 11, 2013, Black Point Inn, Scarborough, Maine. Ian Gemmell ’03, Melissa Ostuni ’03, Brooke DenneeSommers ’07, Shelby Graham Larsson ’04, Claire McClintock ’07, James Pelletier ’07, Jordan Manly ’07, Sarah Drosdik ’07, Laura and Philip, Sarah Oremland ’07, Jordan Swaim ’07, Stephanie LeBourdais ’07, Kate Aurigemma ’08.

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Timperi ’08 & Wilson ’08 Allegra Timperi ’08 and Zachary Wilson ’08, July 28, 2012, Hanson, Mass. Cary Gemmer ’07, Kristen Fries Wilson ’07, Sarah Wilson ’06, Mark Grande ’08, Alex Wilson ’02, Craig Blake ’08, Dan Ricciardi ’08, Tommy Broge ’08, Dave Lonardo ’08, Kevin Berry ’08, Alex Connor ’08, William Warren ’08, Nick Petrucelli ’08, Michael Wilson ’73, Will Akie ’08, Joshua Galvin ’08, Travis Granger ’08, George Gregory ’09, Katherine O’Connor Gregory ’09, Casey McCormack ’08, Katherine Nickerson ’08, Nicole Svirsky ’09, Sarah Jordan ’09, Victoria Thomas ’08, Rachael Garreffi ’08, Rebecca Kunzendorf ’08, Megan Patey ’08, Erin Pitt Sherman ’08, Kathryn Donnelly ’08, Sarah Parker ’08. Wilson ’06 & Fries ’07 Sarah Wilson ’06 and Kristen “Hero” Fries ’07, Oct. 27, 2012, Quonquont Orchards, Whately, Mass. Back: Allison Coville Bray ’06, Erin Culbreth Hotchkiss ’06, Sam Hotchkiss ’05, Tracey Begley ’06, Zachary Wilson ’08, Alex Wilson ’02, Elise Ogden ’09, Matt Ohlheiser ’11, Michael Wilson ’73, Sam Farrell; front: Lauren White ’06, Allegra Timperi Wilson ’08, Mary Beth Lee ’06, Joanna Good Balogh ’06, Hayley Anson ’06, Sarah, Craig Angevine ’07, Kristen, Afton Pavletic ’08. Lakin ’08 & Bault Beth Lakin ’08 and Forrest Bault, Sept. 22, 2012, Moab, Utah. Stacia Saniuk ’09 and Beth. Rubin ’07 & Ziino ’07 Madelyn Rubin ’07 and Matthew Ziino ’07, July 28, 2012, Warwick, R.I. Bryan Laverriere ’07, Taisy Conk ’07, Alex Smith ’07, Ray Alicea ’07, Frank Saccomandi IV ’07, Missy Coito ’07, Luis Rodriguez ’07, Matt and Maddie, Tim Buckley ’07, Katie Pearce ’07, Monica Hayden ’07, Katy Rodden ’07, Forrest Walker ’07, George Brandley ’07. Reilly ’10 & Thorson ’10 Kate Reilly ’10 and Kevin Thorson ’10, July 27, 2013, Toad Hill Farm, Franconia, N.H. Gina Petracca ’10, Brendan Julian ’10, Marlee Weinberg ’10, Alissa Horowitz ’08, Emma Arenstam ’08, John McDonald ’09, Lily Conover ’07, Ben Levin ’09, Kate and Kevin, Emily Maistrellis ’08, Larry Hinkle ’09, Beth Rogers ’09, Abby Samuelson ’10, Ebbe Sweet ’11, Carol Dilley, Kolby Hume ’09, Sarah O’Loughlin ’11, Mike O’Gorman ’10, Kelly Griffin ’09.

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Edited by Christine Terp Madsen ’73

1936 Yvon Weippert Marcotte December 1, 2009 Yvon Marcotte left Bates after two years but remained close to the college with a dental practice in Lewiston. His dentistry degree was from Harvard. He opened his practice and ran it successfully for over two years before realizing the need to serve in World War II, which he did as a dental surgeon in the Army Dental Corps. Survivors include his wife, Ursula Roy Marcotte; children Una, Margaret Marshall, Norman and Donald; and three grandchildren. His late brother was Lucien Marcotte 1922.

1939 As a teacher, Ev Copeland ’39 mastered all kinds of media. Even her Christmas letters, laced with fragments of poetry, were masterfully written. Evelyn Mae Copeland June 7, 2013 “Witches, Warlocks and Weirdos?” Only Ev Copeland could come up with a English course called that and get it past a nervous school board in 1970s Connecticut. Then again, she titled the autobiography of her teaching career, one of five books she wrote, Dancing on My Desk, giving one the idea that the sky might be the limit. Actually, she really hit the limit the day she wore slacks to school; she was the first woman in the Fairfield school system to do so. She made frequent trips to her beloved Great Britain, including a year on a Ford Fellowship that led to another book titled Very Nearly Me: Adventures of an Anglophile. In 1973, Bates awarded her an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters; she also was a member

of the Alumni Council. She was a John Hay Fellow at the Univ. of Oregon 1968–70, which she called “the most significant single event in my professional life” because of its broad view of the humanities. She twice chaired national humanities conferences and was a member of the National Commission on Humanities in Schools. Her careful note-taking and photography turned into more than books: She prepared multimedia presentations in whatever the modern format happened to be. Her tenure stretched from filmstrips to DVDs, and she mastered them all. Even her Christmas letters, laced with fragments of poetry, were masterfully written. Her 1997 letter contains these lines: “I think that Sister Theresa was a saint; Charles Kuralt, an original; and Princess Diana, a phenomenon. We shall not look upon their likes again.... I think that friend and sister are two of the loveliest words in the English language.” She leaves behind many friends. Her late sister was Virginia Copeland White ’41. Fred Leavitt Riley January 9, 2013 Some men were sent overseas during World War II. Fred Riley was sent to Oklahoma. And Kentucky. And Indiana. His understanding of chemistry made him more valuable at munitions facilities than wielding a gun, thanks to his degree from Bates, so the DuPont Co. (or its forebears) sent him around getting labs up and running. After the war, he moved closer to home, to Berlin, N.H., where he worked for Brown Paper Co., eventually becoming general superintendent of the mill. He retired in 1973, giving him the chance to move right back home, to Lewiston, where he could enjoy skiing, golfing and other interests. Survivors include several nieces and nephews. His late uncle was Charles H. Riley 1929. Eleanor Smart Parker June 25, 2013 In 1988, when the Maine Times dared to refer to Lewiston as a “cultural desert” and tried to

depict it as such on its front page, Eleanor “Smarty” Parker rushed to its defense: “I do believe we often see what we want to see, but Bates has always shared its plays, its concerts, its art.... Maine Times sees the desert. I see the oasis — and so many things we have that others spend their lives trying to obtain.” She got to know classmate Chet Parker when she and a high school boyfriend picked him up hitchhiking home to Massachusetts on Thanksgiving break their freshman year. Chet convinced his mother to drive him back to Bates so they could pick her up in Portland on the way, and thus a romance was born. They married in 1941. Their first child was born weeks after Pearl Harbor; their second days after the atomic bombs were dropped. As Chet took on increasing responsibility with each teaching or school administrative job, the family moved from Maine to Vermont to Massachusetts and back to Maine in a dizzying array of towns, finally retiring to North Bridgton, where they had perched the longest along the way. In each of those towns, Eleanor took on some sort of teaching assignment, even if it was just substitute teaching. Finally, just before she retired, she completed her master’s in education at the Univ. of Maine. They threw themselves into Bates alumni activities once they settled down, Chet as president and El as class secretary, organizing Reunions all the way up to their 70th. (They called themselves the Hardy Perennials.) They indulged their love of dressing up by putting on a Halloween party for the kids of North Bridgton (they also dressed up for Mardi Gras and Easter). El made a point of swimming any warm day from May through October, as well as planting enough tomatoes to make enough juice to make enough Bloody Marys to last until the next growing season. Chet passed away in 2011. Survivors include children Lynn Schiavi ’64 and Randolph Parker; two grandchildren, one of whom is Deborah Schiavi Cote ’89; five great-grandchildren; and cousin Andrew G. Lovely ’75.

1941 Winifred Brooks Turner June 2, 2011 Winnie Turner left Bates after one year. She lived on a 40-acre tobacco farm in southern Maryland with her husband, Jesse Turner, who died in 1995. Survivors include daughter Patricia Pounds and two grandsons. Nancy Field Ahlquist April 24, 2013 “Pouvez-vous commencer le lundi?” “Mai oui!” And with that exchange, Nancy Ahlquist landed a job with the Italian microbiologist Salvador Luria at MIT, finding French (her college major) to be their common

language until she figured out his accent. She helped him set up his cancer research center, and was his personal administrator for 27 years, including the day his Nobel Prize was announced. But that job didn’t start until 1959, after her kids were safely established in school. Before that, she’d spent five years as the director of priorities for Webster Manufacturing Co. in Ohio. Then, when her children were small, she taught leather carving in her home, and arts and crafts at a Girl Scout camp. A troop leader for many years, she enjoyed camping and gardening. She retired in 1985, and knitted themed threedimensional quilts. Her husband, Richard G. Ahlquist, predeceased her. Survivors include daughter Maija Ahlquist ’68 and son Richard. Richard Arthur Wall April 30, 2013 Dick Wall had one regret about his Bates years: He should have gone back and argued with Doc Britan about that “B” he got on the final exam instead of an “A.” But Dick was worried about doing so. He didn’t want the professor to notice that he had skipped the exam entirely. He married his high school sweetheart, Adele Loecher, shortly after graduating, but not before he secured a good job with Mobil Oil Co. He kept that job despite being called to service with the Coast Guard during World War II, and stayed with Mobil until 1982. During those years, he circumnavigated the world several times, retiring as international marine sales manager. He also became involved with college football, working as a referee for 28 years with the Eastern Assn. of Intercollegiate Football Officials, a sideline that put him directly in the path of football coaches from colleges large and small — from Joe Paterno on down. As a Bates alum, he was class president for many years and served on the Alumni Council executive committee. He also was a member of the College Club. In addition to his wife, survivors include sons Rick, Ron and Randy, and five grandchildren. Harriet Elizabeth White November 15, 2009 This Harriet White cannot be let into Cicero! That was the cry that went out when Peg, then the program director for the National Conference of Christians and Jews, tried to organize a workshop called “Rearing Children of Goodwill” in the Illinois city in the 1960s. One suspects, however, that she was let in, when one recalls her record at the college: four years a debater, president of the Debating Council her senior year, four years in the Speakers’ Bureau, secretary for two, winner of the Freshman Debate, winner of the Junior-Senior Speaking Contest, Ivy Day speaker — no wonder she could never forget hearing Brooks Quimby tell her:

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“Peg, be sure to wear hose.” A psychology major and a member of Bates Key, she also held a master’s from Ohio Univ., was a member of the National Assn. of Social Workers, and was named to Who’s Who of American Women. She used those debating skills to “plead for ‘social justice’ as the Bates Christian Assn. called it when I was its chairman.” Her “métier,” she said, was to work against discrimination on the basis of “race, religion, ethnicity or gender.” She retired in 1985 as director of affirmative action for Illinois Bell. Survivors include her companion, Jean Williams, and many nieces and nephews.

1942 Lloyd George Morrison March 29, 2013 There are no fraternities at Bates; any alum can tell you that. Yet Lloyd Morrison joined one as a student — Omega Psi Phi, a national fraternity founded at Howard Univ. in 1911. (Benjamin Mays was a member.) This affiliation remained important throughout his life, this brotherhood becoming one branch of his family tree. He also had the branch of his birth family, six brothers and sisters in Boston, and the branches from two wives, one of whom, Grace West Morrison, gave him six children before she passed away, and the other, whom he married 26 years later, Bertha Burns Morrison, brought along her own branch. He served in China, Burma and India as a medic in the U.S. Army during World War II, receiving a Bronze Star, before joining the physiology department at Harvard, where he worked on a variety of health projects, including the birth control pill, until he moved in 1961 to the Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical School. He retired from there in 1982. He had begun tutoring high school students interested in college, and continued this work at Goodwill with adults following retirement and a move to Clarksville, Tenn., in 1999, where he and Bertha moved to be near her daughter, Maria Elliot. They survive him, as do children Lloyd Morrison, Mildred Morrison, Michael Burns, Marion Burns Elliott, Michelle Burns Mitchell and Lori Burns Ward; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

When Barbara Putney Todd ’42 was assigned by her husband, Harold Todd ’44, to research and write up their town’s history for the Bicentennial, the result was four books and two maps.

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Barbara Putney Todd December 23, 2009 Barbara Todd — “Put” to her Bates friends — never met a flower she didn’t like. She founded the flower club in Brookfield, Conn., and served as its president, as well as president of the clubs in Cumberland and St. Mary’s Garden Club in Falmouth. She also was a life and master judge through the National Council of State Garden Clubs and chair of the Maine board. Her other major preoccupation became history, and she helped found the historical society in Brookfield. Her husband, Harold Todd ’44, was chairman of the town’s Bicentennial commission, and he assigned her to research and write up the town’s history; the result was four books and two maps, more than anyone expected. The town named her Woman of the Year. Since she grew up in Lexington, Mass., where there are Revolutionary War re-enactors every year, perhaps this Bicentennial research was bound to lead her to become one herself: She was a member of the 2nd Continental Light Dragoons — but she refused to stay overnight in a tent. Her husband passed away in 2012; his obituary follows. Survivors include children Jeffrey Todd and Jennifer Tymula; and one grandchild.

1943 Edmund Janes King May 3, 2013 When Edmund “Red” King reached 13 grandchildren by count, he whispered a prayer to the admission gods that grandchild No. 12 would be interested in Bates. It was not to be. But another grandchild, number uncertain, did in fact choose dear old Academia Batesina — we only know it wasn’t No. 12 because No. 12 was a girl, and the inspired grandchild was a boy, Scott Dondero ’89. Red ended up with 20 grandchildren, only one a Bates graduate, a terrible batting average, but for a schoolteacher like he was, getting one student per class to Bates is pretty decent, especially when you average in his son, Douglas King ’73. Red actually left Bates early because of World War II, served in the U.S. Army, and then finished up at Boston Univ. He taught primarily in the Quincy (Mass.) school system, and was the principal of the high school there, too, but preferred to just teach math. He was an officer of the South Shore Bates Club in the 1970s. Survivors include wife Barbara Andrews King; children Robert, William, Edmund Jr., Donald and Douglas King and Carolyn Dondero; 20 grandchildren; and 27 greatgrandchildren. Lucile Moussette Beckmeyer December 18, 2012 Lu Beckmeyer came to Bates at just the right time to develop her love of languages. Her affin-

ity for learning languages sent her to the Army Signal Corps during World War II, where she learned enough Japanese and Russian to be “often intriguing, sometimes frustrating, but hardly ever boring,” to borrow some of her words. She also witnessed President Truman declaring an end to the war, which she called a “truly joyous and unforgettable event.” She continued to work in what she called a “garret” that had originally been part of a girls finishing school, one of a group of 16, another of whom was Richard Beckmeyer. They married in 1950. She resigned in 1959 and raised two children, Karen and Mark, who survive her. Her husband passed away in 1996. Thomas Capron Winston April 10, 2013 Thomas Winston was at Bates briefly before leaving to work at the South Portland Shipyard during World War II. While at the college, he played basketball and ran track. He later worked in the life insurance industry as a training consultant and manager. He won the Maine State Senior Golf Championship and in 2010 was inducted into the Maine Golf Hall of Fame. He also received the Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Assn. Media Award for outstanding sportscaster and the Thornton Academy Sports Hall of Fame Media Award. His wife, Anna Honan Winston, passed away in 2005; son Michael died in 1973. Survivors include sons John and Thomas; daughters Susan Hazlett, Mary Deveneau and Jean Donald; 12 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. His late sister was Elizabeth Winston Scott ’36, and his late brother was Edward C. Winston ’35.

V-12 Ivan A. Knutsen April 11, 2013 Ivan Knutsen became a CPA after graduating from the Univ. of Wisconsin following service in the Navy. He retired from Ronald Mattox and Assoc. as a partner in 1979. His wife, Ruby, and daughter, Shelby, predeceased him, as did one grandson. Survivors include daughters Karla Kading, Leslie Campbell, Kaia Kalscheuer and Edel Philippi; 13 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

1944 Marjorie Jean Childs Black February 2, 2013 Jean Black, the daughter of the longtime secretary to President Clifton Daggett Gray, Mildred Leah Childs, transferred to Columbia after two years, where she earned a nursing degree in 1945. She worked for various occupational health nurses associations, as well as for TRW, the aerospace firm, for which she eventually

became a manager. Her husband, Norman Black, and two children survive her. Leland Cunningham Davis Jr. June 6, 2013 Lee Davis played baseball and football at Bates — and golf into his 80s. In fact, he swung that club so well that one of his partners kept demanding jokingly to see his birth certificate. And that wasn’t the only way he kept in shape. He was well-known for keeping up with technology, emailing and texting his children and grandchildren. He was a combat pilot in World War II, flying B-17s, and remained in the Reserves for many years, retiring as a major. He saw the wisdom there of downsizing to a float plane, using it for fishing. In other endeavors, he was a teacher and principal in the Winthrop school system, and had an insurance and real estate business in Monmouth. He also served in the Maine Legislature for nine years, including in several House leadership positions. He held board positions with such community groups as the town of Monmouth, the Lions Club, Key Bank, Kennebec Valley County Realtors Assn. and Monmouth Academy. His wife, Betty Sands Davis, died in 1999. Survivors include children Penny Robertson, Leanne Preble, Brenda Jillson, Scott Davis and Jan Davis; nine grandchildren; seven greatgrandchildren; and companion Theresa Wahlen. Louise Otis Smith March 2, 2013 Louise Smith showed bravery in several ways. During World War II she took on the task of deciphering enemy messages. As a teacher, she faced a classroom of potentially unruly students. And in retirement, she rented a camp on a lake for all of her grandchildren, nieces and nephews for an entire week. Note: She had 10 grandchildren. A French major at Bates, she went on to earn a master’s at Columbia in 1947 after teaching in Rocky Hill, Conn., and Bucksport, Maine. She then joined the faculty at Richmond High School, eventually becoming the librarian there. She retired in 1976, and later worked part time for Maine School Management. A member of the United Church of Monmouth and clerk of the church for 25 years, she was also a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, a society of women educators, and Phi Sigma Iota, an international foreign language honor society. Her husband, Clement H. Smith, died in 1999; her daughter, Linda Smith Dyer, died in 2001. Survivors include children Nancy Deane, Carol Davis, David and Jeremiah Smith; 10 grandchildren, one of whom is Lauren Elizabeth Jacobs ’07; and 15 great-grandchildren. Her sister is Marion Otis Donnell ’45. Her niece is Kathryn Skinner Server ’71.

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George Edward Silverman March 19, 2013 George Silverman left Bates after two years and completed his degree at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He was married to Beverly Opper Silverman for 59 years before her death. Survivors include children Diane Stockton and Gary Silverman; four grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and his partner, Norma Dinnerstein. Harold Hayward Todd Jr. January 9, 2012 Harold Todd got in enough time on campus to catch the eye of Barbara Putney ’42 before the Navy whisked him away for training at Northwestern. They married after the war ended, after his service in the Pacific, after he received a Bronze Star and after he completed his degree at Bates. Most of his career was with Connor Engineering Corp. in Danbury, Conn., where he was vice president of sales. As president of the Brookfield (Conn.) Historical Society, he was pressed into service to chair the Bicentennial commission. He also was part of the library building committee there. Once he and Barbara moved to Falmouth, Maine, he remained active as a volunteer with the Portland Museum of Art, the Portland Concert Assn. and Nantucket Lightship Restoration. He retired in 1992, but continued to do work for the New Hampshire Department of Transportation. His wife passed away in 2009; her obituary appears above. Survivors include children Jeffrey Todd and Jennifer Tymula; and one grandchild.

1945 Ruth Howard Sherblom June 1, 2013 A few days after graduating from Bates, Rae Howard joined her life with that of Ed Sherblom ’44. They were together until his death in 1992. While he attended divinity school at Andover Newton, she was the director of a settlement house in East Boston. They founded a new congregation together in Portsmouth, R.I. Together, they raised 10 children while ministering to their congregation at Founders Memorial American Baptist Church on their hilltop farm. She earned a master’s in education from the Univ. of Rhode Island and taught kindergarten once her youngest was in school. Nine of her children survive her: Peggy, John ’72, Don, Jim, Pat, Steve, Paul, Becky and Joe. Son David died in 1989, which made fighting AIDS a major cause in Rae’s life. Other survivors include nine grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Edwin Wilson Tooker February 26, 2013 Ed Tooker started with a bachelor’s in geology from Bates and went all the way to the nation’s

highest award in his field, the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service from the Interior Department. He was the chief officer of the Office of Mineral Resources of the U.S. Geological Survey. In nearly 25 years with the USGS, his work included searching for uranium and precious metals, and in defining areas with potential for exploration. He held a master’s from Lehigh Univ. and a doctorate from the Univ. of Illinois. His work centered on the Western states, and he researched clay mineral alteration through a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation. His arrival at Bates was delayed a bit by service in the military, which had the favorable twist of him meeting Polly Beal ’45, who would be his wife and partner for 67 years, moving ever westward with him from Pennsylvania to Illinois to Colorado to Utah and finally to Los Altos, Calif. He retired in 1992, but continued to work three days a week finishing up publications and maps. He also became active in the local Camellia Society, as program chairman and eventually as president. Besides his wife, survivors include children Carol Stewart, Jean Stephens and Christine Thomas; and five grandchildren. Shirley Beal Dallam ’52 is his sister-inlaw; and Deborah Beal Ahle ’80 and Sandra Beal Carpenter ’84 are his nieces.

1946 Elizabeth Marie Morse April 29, 2013 Beth Morse was born, raised and died in Saco, Maine, specifically in Ocean Park. She attended Thornton Academy, and was thrilled when she was named its head math teacher. She also was thrilled when she became the postmaster at the Ocean Park Post Office after teaching for 25 years in Portland, Conn. Very active in her church, the United Baptist Church of Saco, she taught at Ocean Park’s Senior College, was active at its library (she herself had over 1,200 books) and with the York County Retired Teachers Assn. Janice Sunn Paskewitz March 10, 2013 Janice Paskewitz, who held a master’s in social work from Boston Univ., had retired from her career as a social worker in the Somers (Mass.) school system. She was active in Somers Congregational Church and in Faith United Church in Springfield. Survivors include children Bradford, Karen, Sabra and Charles; and nine grandchildren.

1947 Jacqueline Coventry Davis December 23, 2012 Jacqueline Davis was at Bates for two years before leaving to

marry Howard Davis. He passed away in 2003. She is survived by children H. Thomas Davis, Julianne Garvey and Eric Davis; 10 grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild. Edith Lydia Hary March 26, 2013 Edith Hary knew she wanted to be a librarian from the time she was 11, a goal made possible by a job at the burgeoning law library in Augusta to earn money before she could even start college, and then internships every summer. Lucky for her the director’s position at the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library was waiting when she graduated, a position she held until retiring 35 years later. She defined the job, winning the admiration of everyone she met. She only called it quits when she realized that she didn’t want to go to the bother of learning about computers, but knew the library needed to keep up with the times. Until then, however, she incorporated every change as it came along: The library quickly put into place a newspaper clipping service, for instance, and she expanded its card catalogue to hold much more information than a normal catalogue. She made it more than a law library; she made it a circulating library for the entire state. She recalled in an interview with the Muskie Archives that she would race to the State House chambers whenever Sen. Muskie (Class of 1936) was about to speak because “he had such ideas that you were just galvanized, and it made everything about the State House seem more exciting.” Although money was tight throughout her Bates years, she used a gift of $1,000 to purchase a “cottage” her great-grandfather built next to the Pemaquid Lighthouse in 1885, a purchase she called “the best decision I’ve ever made.” She retired there, and found winters were the best time of the year. Active in many national and regional law librarian groups, she was appointed to the criminal law revision commission and the board of bar examiners, the only lay member of these groups. She also was instrumental in bringing to life the famous diary of midwife Martha Ballard, which had sat in printed galleys in a barn for 60 years and in handwritten notes since 1795. She was a class agent for many years and active in the Kennebec Valley Alumni Club. In addition to her history/government degree from Bates, she held a master’s in library science from Simmons. In 1975, USM honored her with an LL.D. The following year, the Maine State Bar Assn. gave her its distinguished service award, and in 1978, Westbrook College gave her its Deborah Morton Award. In 1982, the Maine State Bar Assn. noted her retirement with a special award at a dinner attended by 280 people, including Chief Justice Vincent L. McKusick ’44 and then-Gov. Joe

Brennan, who as a young man had been a stock clerk in her library. She is survived by her dear friend of 43 years, Mary Irvine; sister Marion Abramo, and many nieces and nephews.

Phil Isaacson ’47 traveled the world, possessed multiple talents, knew countless high-powered people, but couldn’t wait to get home to Lewiston, Maine. Phillip Marshal Isaacson June 20, 2013 Phil Isaacson traveled the world, possessed multiple talents, knew countless high-powered people, but couldn’t wait to get home to Lewiston, Maine. He loved his custom-designed home near the college so much that he patted it goodbye many times when he left. He thought so highly of Maine’s architecture that he salted one of his three books heavily with photos of buildings from the state. His own contemporary house was included in 2012 on the National Register of Historic Places for its functional, modern design. His degree from Bates was in biology, partly because he loved to draw; he was part of the V-12 unit at Bates. His law degree was from Harvard, and he entered law practice with his father, Harris Isaacson ’22, in his Lewiston office. His commitment to public service ran deep. Among his many positions, he served as a Lewiston Public Library trustee, chairman of the city’s board of finance, chairman of the Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities, as Maine representative to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and as a member of the federal study committee to the National Endowment for the Arts. Bates awarded him a doctorate in humane letters in 1997. He also wrote an unerring column on contemporary art for the Maine Sunday Telegram for around 50 years, three books on architecture, and was categorized as “the most cultured man in Maine” by the Maine Times. His wife, Deborah Rosen Isaacson ’54, despaired when she realized he was taking his tripod along on vacation: She knew he would be lost behind his camera most of the time, because he was a careful, skilled photographer. Many of the photos in his books are his own; one is in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art. He sometimes planned trips to remote locations simply to get a photograph of a desired building, such as one trip he took — alone — to Uzbekistan. Deborah Isaacson passed away in 1993. Survivors include children

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Elizabeth, Thomas and John; four grandchildren; his dear friend Mary Hatch; cousin Irving Isaacson ’36, who is married to former Dean of Women Judith Magyar Isaacson ’65; and cousin Rhona Isaacson Shoul ’46. His late cousin was Frances Isaacson Miller ’37. John Frederick Stone March 10, 2013 John Stone was at Bates for barely a semester before going on to a storied Navy career. He received the coveted Navy Wings of Gold in March 1946, and went on to fly over 7,500 hours in 20 different propeller and jet aircraft. He also had over 500 “arrested” landings on aircraft carriers, making him a member of the exclusive Naval Aviators club. While serving as a flight instructor in Florida, he met Betty Burleson, whom he married in 1951. Following other posts, he became executive officer at Brunswick Naval Air Station in 1971. He retired as a commander the following year and started the Maine Coast Sea Plane Service, based on the Androscoggin River. He was a member of West Harpswell Baptist Church and active in Brunswick town committees. His wife died in 1982. He had recently married Ruth Holbrook Sligar, a longtime friend, who survives him. Other survivors include sons John Jr., Thomas and Douglas; and four grandchildren. His father was Frank Stone 1919; his late brother was Raleigh Stone ’49; his late uncles were Harold Stone ’09 and Carl Stone ’17; and his late cousin was Richard Gould ’38.

1948 Robert William Towse March 11, 2013 Bob Towse was at Bates for only one year, but he never forgot the college. He never forgot Professor Rayborn Zerby, either. “He didn’t teach me what to think,” he told a Bates staff member once. “He taught me how to think.” Zerby also helped him understand that men of God are only human, which he said was a turning point for him. He left Bates to serve in Korea, then went on to a life of cattle ranching, horse breeding and theatrical stage management in eastern Washington, far from his originally intended life in organized religion in suburban Massachusetts. He is survived by Jack Towse ’57 and another brother.

1949 Elaine Gray Barlow February 3, 2013 Elaine Gray followed her sister, Sylvia Gray Sears ’45, to Bates, but left after two years to marry UNH student Frederick Barlow Jr. She was busy in those two years: president of Milliken House, member of the WAA board and the Outing Club

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council, and head of the Winter Carnival awards committee. Her husband passed away in 2006. Survivors include children Emily Vonada, Bruce and Frederick Smith; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Her sister is married to G. Alden Sears ’46; their son is Douglas A. Sears ’75. Russell Anderson ’05 is her great-nephew. Emina Paladino Ravalese October 16, 2012 “Al” Paladino Ravalese worked as a secretary and office manager for several insurance companies before earning a master’s in education at Farmington State in Connecticut. She taught in Framingham, Mass., and West Hartford. Her first marriage to Carl Hampton ended in divorce. She later married Pat Ravalese, who, along with four stepchildren, survives her. Emil Stephen Rzasa June 23, 2013 The son of Polish immigrants who found their way to the mills of Lewiston, Emil Rzasa also found the city and the college to be special. He built his life here, becoming a generous donor to Bates: Today one of the houses in the Residential Village is named in memory of his parents, Ignacy and Antonia Bak Rzasa. He was a member of the Benjamin Bates Society and the Phillips Society. A U.S. Coast Guard veteran, he returned to the house he grew up in to earn a degree in physics. He worked for the U.S. Postal Service for over 35 years, supervising employees in downtown Lewiston. Conscious of his heritage, he remained close to the Polish community and was a devout Roman Catholic. His dearest friend and companion was Carolyn Burke, who lived two doors away. She survives him. Edith Skolfield Powers May 8, 2011 Edith Powers was a nursing student at Bates. After graduation, she taught nursing classes at Central Maine Hospital for several years before switching to occasional private duty nursing. Once her children were old enough, she worked part time as a staff nurse in Gardiner. Her husband, William K. Skolfield, died in 1985. Survivors include daughters Linda and Judith; and four grandchildren.

1951 Judith Litchfield Van Liew July 8, 2013 Somewhere along the way, Judy Van Liew learned to really write. She authored or co-authored 62 research papers in scientific journals over her career, all the while as a professor of physiology at the State Univ. of New York at Buffalo. She specialized in diseases of the kidney. She also had a lab at the VA Medical Center for 20 years and an appointment there

as a research professor of medicine. Her doctorate in physiology was from the Univ. of Rochester. While her children attended the Park School in Buffalo, she was a member of the board of trustees, president for three, and received its Pioneer Award, the school’s highest honor, in 1983. After she retired, she and her husband, Hugh Van Liew, moved to Barnstable, Mass., where she became active with Wild Care of Cape Cod, a wildlife rehabilitation center, sharing her scientific knowledge as well as serving on its board. Besides her husband, survivors include children Gregory, Andrea and Joel; and five grandchildren.

1952 Mordecai Eugene Berkowitz July 7, 2013 Mordecai Berkowitz was the first orthopedic surgeon in the Gloucester, Mass., area. Before he opened his practice there, all orthopedic work was performed by general surgeons. He was a graduate of Tufts Medical School and completed his residency at Boston City Hospital. He then went to San Francisco to volunteer with the U.S. Public Health Service, followed by a period of volunteering for the Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston. He was also a talented musician and athlete. Survivors include his wife, June Freeman Berkowitz; children Andrew and David Berkowitz and Beth Gordon; and seven grandchildren. Priscilla King Bergier April 1, 2013 Priscilla Bergier followed a path from Western medicine through holistic medicine into Buddhism in her search for the best healing methods for her patients. A fiveyear nursing student at Bates, she worked at several hospitals in Massachusetts and Maine, including Miles Memorial and St. Andrews hospitals in Boothbay Harbor, Beverly (Mass.) Hospital and the Laboure School of Nursing in Boston. In the 1970s, she became a therapist in transactional analysis, and by 1981 was the regional director of the American Holistic Nurses Assn. and director of the Down East Transactional Analysis Center in Boothbay Harbor. By 1995, she had added hypnotherapy and hypnotic anesthesia to the services she offered. During her first marriage to the late Russell Woodin ’51, which ended in divorce, she was active in Eastern Star. Later, she was an active member of Soka Gakkai International, a Buddhist organization that promotes peace, culture and education through personal transformation and social contribution. She also worked with North Windham Union Church to help establish its open and affirming guidelines. Survivors include her second husband, Thomas Bergier; children Thom-

as K. Woodin, Andrew Woodin, Christopher Bergier and Tanja Bergier; and seven grandchildren. Her late mother, Florence Nelson King, was a member of the Class of 1916.

In 1965, James Nabrit ’52 wrote the plans, down to the tiniest detail, that the civil rights marchers from Selma to Montgomery were to follow. James Madison Nabrit III March 22, 2013 When you grow up sharing the dinner table with Thurgood Marshall and discussing school desegregation while passing the string beans, chances are you’re headed somewhere in life. James Nabrit maintained that childhood friendship with the future Justice Marshall, who at the time was a young lawyer, later to argue Brown v. Board of Education with Jim’s father, James Madison Nabrit Jr., himself a civil rights legend. Before that, though, when he was a Bates senior, Jim maintained a lively correspondence with the future justice, as he wrote his thesis on litigation against school desegregation. A government major, he received his law degree from Yale in 1955, spent two years in the U.S. Army, and then joined a Washington law firm started by Frank Reeves, a civil rights lawyer. He recalled from his earliest days with the firm sitting in a client’s living room in 1959, well over four years after Brown was handed down, as their white Virginia congressman made a “last ditch appeal” that they not send their children to the white school. “Bravely, they refused,” he told Washington Lawyer magazine in a 2001 interview. Soon after that living room incident, he joined Thurgood Marshall’s staff at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. This led to the fulfillment of one of his boyhood dreams: being Marshall’s co-counsel in a successful case in the Supreme Court. In 1965, he wrote the plans, down to the tiniest detail, that the marchers from Selma to Montgomery were to follow, which The New York Times labeled “a biblical trek through the wilderness.” He mused that it was his only biblical writing. He was involved with the LDF for over 30 years and argued a number of cases before the Supreme Court during that time; observers agree that the most significant might be the 1973 case, Keyes v. School District No. 1, since it was the first that involved a school district from a state, Colorado, that did not have segregation laws. He retired in 1989. Outside the law, he had an early interest

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in computers, and bought an Apple II and taught himself how to program using something from an unknown company called Microsoft. He also was an avid scuba diver, making over 1,000 dives. In 2007, he declined the Benjamin Elijah Mays Medal from the college because of poor health. His wife, Roberta Harlan Nabrit, passed away in 2008. His father, the son of former slaves, was the president of Howard Univ. for many years and received an honorary degree from Bates in 1963. Carol Woodcock Record June 26, 2013 Carol Woodcock attended Bates for two years but left to marry Horace “Hod” Record ’50, who was entering the U.S. Air Force. She completed her degree at the Univ. of Illinois and became a kindergarten teacher. Later she took up silversmithing after studying at the Maine College of Art. She also was a skilled photographer and a member of the Portland Camera Club. From her walks along the coast of Maine, she gathered small stones to fashion into jewelry and other pieces of art, memories of her summers in Cushing and her life in Cape Elizabeth. Besides her husband, survivors include sons Andy and Scott. She was from a large Bates family, including survivors brother and sister-in-law Richard Woodcock ’48 and Mary Gibbs Woodcock ’49, parents of Laura Woodcock ’81; and niece Wendy Woodcock Mitchell ’71. Other Bates relatives, all deceased, include her parents, Karl Woodcock 1918 and Hazel Luce Woodcock 1922; uncle George D. Luce ’30; aunt Rubie Woodcock Day ’25; and brother and sisterin-law Eugene Woodcock ’45 and Carolyn Peterson Woodcock ’45. Betty Zinck Momenthy June 25, 2012 Betty Momenthy, an English major at Bates, was a regular with the Robinson Players and became its manager during her junior year. She also was active with the campus social committee and the women’s athletic association. She married Frederick A. Momenthy ’53 shortly before graduation; their marriage ended in divorce. He passed away in 2005. Among her survivors are children Scott Momenthy and Lyndi Horn; four grandchildren; and significant other Charles McDonald. Two children, Barry and Pamela Momenthy-Collins, predeceased her.

1953 George Herbert Bateman June 22, 2013 In these days of 18-month career cycles, younger people marvel when they hear about people like George Bateman. He left Bates, found a job with Sprague Electric Co. as a time analyst and stayed there his entire career.

Sure, he changed departments — that’s what happens when you’re good at your job and the company keeps growing — but he left happy when he retired in 1989 as corporate director of human resources, one of only a few remaining original employees. He and his wife, Jacqueline Desnoyers Bateman, retired to East Dennis, Mass., where he continued to enjoy hiking, sailing, canoeing and skiing. Besides his wife, survivors include sons Matthew, John, Thomas and Stephen; and eight grandchildren. Kathryn Burdon Naegeli February 23, 2013 Kay Naegeli was a Mainer through and through, with parents and aunts and uncles and cousins all graduates of Bates, but once she had that five-year nursing degree in her hand, it didn’t take long for the lure of sunshine and warmth to get her and three friends into a dependable Chevy for the long drive across the country to California, where they found what they wanted: jobs and dates — and we’re not talking fig trees. She married a Georgia Tech engineer, raised three children, and worked part time and then full time for 20 years at Menlo Medical Clinic. She also volunteered at numerous community organizations, especially while her children were growing up. After retirement, she became active in the retirement community that she and her husband, Charles Naegeli Jr., moved to, editing the newsletter, serving on the board of directors and acting in plays. Besides her husband, survivors include children Kristine Naegeli, Charles Naegeli and Peggy Etzler; and three grandchildren. Her cousins are Ruth Asker Wilbur ’46 and Carol Wilbur Menke ’71. Her late parents were Harold ’23 and Dorothy Wheet Burdon ’23; her late aunts were Ruth Burdon McGown ’23 and Naomi Burdon Rand ’28; her late uncle was Mark Rand ’28. Herbert Greenleaf Mayo November 23, 2010 Herbert Mayo, a Lewiston native, transferred to Bates from the Univ. of Maine. He moved to Connecticut after graduation, where he built a successful career at YMCAs in the state. He was the director of the Northern Middlesex YMCA for 26 years, where he pioneered state-funded daycare programs, programs for women, shelters for teens and a halfway house for former psychiatric patients. He also guided the facility through a major expansion, served on the City of Middletown’s recreation commission and was a consultant to Middlesex Community Technical College. His wife, Madelyn Luce Mayo, predeceased him. Survivors include children Theodore Mayo and Rebecca Cubeta; four grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild.

Gordon Vinton Perkins April 9, 2013 Gordon Perkins started out as a social studies teacher but spent most of his career in the publishing world working for Addison-Wesley. He found clever ways to combine his interests. While teaching, he coached sports. When he traveled on the trans-Siberian railroad, he freelanced articles for his local newspaper. And for many years he and his wife, Nona, volunteered at national and state parks near their home in Texas. His Bates degree was in government and he served in Korea as a Marine Corps infantry officer. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Scott Perkins, Gail Gigantino and Tana Perkins; and two grandchildren.

1954 Irving Upton Knight November 13, 2012 Irving Knight left Bates after three years to graduate from Trinity with a degree in economics. He went on to a career in finance at brokerage firms after a stint in the U.S. Marine Corps. He also served as a town elections monitor and justice of the peace in West Hartford, Conn. Survivors include wife Elizabeth Wallace Knight, children Katherine Schuele and Jonathan, and two grandchildren. His father was Herbert Hastings Knight 1925.

1956 Charles John Mangan July 27, 2012 As personnel manager for Sears Roebuck in North Bergen, N.J., Charlie Mangan was dedicated to employing people with disabilities. His efforts led to the formation of a company-wide policy. Retiring from Sears in 1992, he then owned and operated Lincroft (N.J.) Liquors until 2002. His first wife, Marilyn D. Mangan, passed away in 1988. Survivors include his second wife, Gail Mangan; sons Daniel and Thomas Mangan; stepsons Jay and Keith Abbes; and eight grandchildren. Walter Leonard Taft June 24, 2013 Wally Taft worked for Western Electric/AT&T for 33 years developing high-speed telephone switch circuits and microwave applications. He also worked on the SAGE and ABM defense missile systems, and negotiated defense contracts with the federal government. A member of the College Key, he was vice president of his class in the 1990s and a volunteer for his 40th and 50th Reunions. Survivors include his wife, Henrietta Swain Taft ’57; children Philip Taft, Janice Silva, Martha Mazza and Cheryl Greany; and eight grandchildren. The late Blaine Taylor ’55 was his cousin.

Philip Raoul Tetu II April 7, 2013 Philip Tetu combined his careers as a police officer, attorney and magistrate to write a book on navigating the criminal legal system called Probable Cause: Between the Police Officer and the Magistrate, intended to present a positive picture of the interaction between the two officers of the court, so that they may make the correct decisions in many complex situations. A history major at Bates, he earned a law degree from Georgetown and practiced law in both Boston and Virginia. He also taught law at Northeastern Univ. and was a magistrate in Spotsylvania (Va.) County. He also was a pilot, obtaining his license in 1975. Survivors include wife Barbara, and children Philip III and Nina.

1958 Richard Forrest Hechtl May 28, 2013 Perhaps he learned from all those World War II vets who had their years at Bates interrupted by military service: Dick Hechtl served in the Navy before he came to Bates. He also married the love of his life before classes started, immunizing him from the legendary “60 percent of Batesies are married to other Batesies” myth. (It’s actually about 13 percent.) He was also a bit prescient with his major. With his psychology degree, he was perfectly positioned to join the faculty of St. Anselm College in New Hampshire and found the psychology department there, which grew to be one of the largest majors at the college under his guidance. He served as its director for many years, often driving to Lewiston to confer with Bates Professor Richard Wagner. In addition, he served as faculty adviser to the St. Anselm jazz band — and as its piano player, picking up on a musical career he had abandoned after leaving the Army and Bates. He retired after 30 years, the better to enjoy the 200-yearold farmhouse he and his wife, Elaine Stevens Hechtl, restored and the gardens where they and their three children grew acres of vegetables that won hundreds of ribbons (even a Grand Trophy) at the Hillsboro County Fair. His wife survives him, as do children Patty Kilar, Tina Langley and Eric Hechtl; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Paul Charles St. Hilaire December 11, 2012 Paul St. Hilaire grew up in Lewiston and loved Maine, but he said he always had his eye on the big city. That’s why he left for Washington, D.C., as soon as he graduated, earning a Ph.D. in physics at Georgetown. He taught physics briefly at two colleges in Pennsylvania, St. Francis College and the Univ. of Scranton. His doctoral thesis on the orthopedic uses of ultrasonics was pathbreaking at

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the time. He worked for the Department of the Navy in several capacities during his career, doing technology and development projects concerning submarines and sonar research. He retired in 1995, allowing him to take up painting as a serious hobby. Maynard Lester Whitehouse July 16, 2013 Maynard Whitehouse pursued his passion for chemistry all the way to a Ph.D. from Purdue in 1966. He held positions at several firms over the next few years before settling in 1978 at Sandoz, now known as Clariant, in Aiken, S.C., as a chemist, where he remained for 27 years. He retired in 2006 as senior chemist and returned to his “picture perfect” hometown of Camden. Survivors include brother Carl and sister Roxie Hill.

1959 Betty Cook Miller ’59 liked to pass along the expression: “There is a light for you straight ahead, but you have to keep your chin up to see it.” Elizabeth Cook Miller March 21, 2013 Betty Cook Miller liked to pass along the expression: “There is a light for you straight ahead, but you have to keep your chin up to see it.” A government major, she quickly and happily fell into a career teaching elementary school in Connecticut, where her classmate husband Chris Miller was from. They taught in several cities and towns around the state — Branford, Cheshire, Danbury and Ridgebury among them — but she still worried that as a native New Yorker (Bayside, no less) she didn’t qualify as a true Connecticut Yankee. In 1966, she earned a master’s in education from Southern Conn. State Univ. In 2008, she followed up on her thesis, “Statehood for Alaska,” and confirmed that Alaska had indeed become a state by traveling there and proving that no passport was needed to cross its border. Besides her husband, survivors include children Carole Bishop and Christian O. Bishop III; and two grandchildren.

1960 Frances Scarpace Annello October 21, 2012 Neighbors would come by to see the orchids in Frances Annello’s gardens in Atlantis, Fla., said her ex-husband, Thomas. She always had her hands in the dirt, he said, and could make anything

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grow. They were married for 30 years before divorcing in 2006. They met in Connecticut, where she worked for Pfizer. She was a biology/chemistry major at Bates. Later, she worked as an accountant and invested in restaurants and other businesses with her husband. He is among her survivors.

1961 George Drury ’6I was the captain of the spring 1961 College Bowl team, the team that won the first two of the seven-game streak, the longest streak in College Bowl history. George Herbert Drury June 21, 2013 Imagine sending off your resume on a lark to your dream employer and getting back a job offer. That’s what George Drury did. He was knocking around San Francisco, working for Southern Pacific as a computer programmer, when inspiration struck. Within weeks he was off to Milwaukee to become an associate editor for Trains magazine and Kalmbach Publishing. He’d grown up mesmerized by the Boston and Maine trains rumbling through Reading, Mass., and now he was getting paid to be mesmerized by them. Eventually he moved from editing books to writing them, and eventually writing them took on more and more importance and time. He left Kalmbach in 1996 to become the senior tour director for the Society of International Railway Travelers, his warehouse of guidebooks occupying his garage. George was the captain of the spring 1961 College Bowl team (the first year), the team that won the first two of the seven-game streak, the longest streak in College Bowl history, considered the most remarkable team ever to appear on the show. He was a longtime member of Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Milwaukee and a member of the choir. Survivors include sister Lee Drury ’64 and brother Harold.

1962 Robert Martin Gibbons July 9, 2013 Perhaps the words of this biology student, posted as a condolence to Bob Gibbons’ family, sum it up best: “I made it through with a passing grade because of his efforts and his confidence in me. I will not forget his kindness as he handed me a test with a B-plus on it. Smiling, he looked

as proud as I looked shocked. His impact on our world will not be forgotten as he inspired many to become whatever they wanted to be. I only wish I would have sent these words while he was alive.” Bob, who held a master’s in education from Worcester State College, taught for 37 years at Hudson (Mass.) High School, officiated high school football games, obsessed over Syracuse Univ. football and fussed over his grandchildren. Survivors include his wife, Carolyn Carl Gibbons; son Scott; and two grandchildren. Son Craig Gibbons died in 1990.

1967 Nancy Carvalho Fraze ’67 spent her junior year abroad in Spain, and it shaped her life. Nancy Carvalho Fraze May 27, 2013 To Nancy Fraze, nothing was as significant at Bates as her junior year abroad. She spent it in Spain, and it shaped her life. In fact, she encouraged her students at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Mass., where she taught Spanish and Portuguese for 30 years, to spend a year abroad, and lamented that the Ivy League school her daughter Meghan attended “doesn’t have an enlightened view” about the importance of JYA. She graduated from Bates with top honors in Spanish and French, and was awarded the Gilbert Townsend Fellowship, which she used to study in Madrid, where she earned a master’s from NYU. She used professional sabbaticals to study in Portugal and Puerto Rico; during the latter trip, she visited several ESL programs and incorporated some of her discoveries in her advanced Spanish literature classes. Thirty years after her JYA, she retraced her steps in Spain with her daughter, and moaned at the crush of tourism on quiet medieval towns. Besides her daughter, survivors include husband Walter Fraze Jr. and son Grant. Mary Ellen Marcarelli Johnson May 30, 2013 A Dean’s List student her entire time at Bates, Mary Ellen Johnson was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior. She graduated magna cum laude with high honors in history and went on to Brown for a master’s in teaching. There, she met M. Arthur Johnson; they married within a year. They lived for many years in Enfield, Conn., and she worked as a reference librarian in nearby Windsor. After his death in 2007, she retired to Portland and learned to speak Italian, so she

could travel to Italy and write and visit relatives easily. Survivors include children Allison Greco, Greg and Marty Johnson; and four grandchildren.

1968 Janet Tompkins May 18, 2013 Janet Tompkins left Bates after one year. She was a lifelong resident of Easton, Conn. Survivors include her brother, Gene Tompkins, and several nephews.

1972 Bryce Kent Carpenter Jr. April 25, 2013 Bryce Carpenter started at Bates but went on to graduate from Eastern Connecticut State Univ. Most of his career was with Hamilton Sundstrand in Windsor Locks, Conn., where he was a Cubmaster, Little League coach and Midget football coach. Survivors include wife Terri-Denine Hamblett Carpenter; sons Eric and Adam; and two grandchildren.

1974 Lorraine Diaz Smith December 18, 2010 Lorri Smith had an ear for languages and a voice for singing. She spent her junior year at the Univ. of Neuchatel in Switzerland, where she earned a certificate in French, and she was a member of the Russian Club on campus. She went on to teach Spanish and German, as well as French, in middle school. She was a member of the Merimanders at Bates, and the lead singer for the Sounds of LA. She sang in other local groups, and performed on radio and television. She taught piano in Billerica, Mass., and also taught social studies and history. She earned a master’s in education from Suffolk Univ. in 1975. Her life changed dramatically when her school was re-roofed in 1994, and she developed multiple chemical sensitivity. Completely disabled by the condition, she refused to accept the prognosis that it was incurable and set out to find a way to heal herself. Her quest led her to explore herbology, energy balancing, energy meridians, naturopathy and hypnosis, all supported by her unwavering Catholic faith. As her health improved, she became a naturopath with a degree from the Trinity College of Natural Health, earned a doctorate in clinical hypnotherapy from the American Institute of Hypnotherapy, and self-published a book in 2000 to help others recover from multiple chemical sensitivity, Heal Environmental Illness and Reclaim Your Life. Her husband, David C. Smith, passed away in August 2010. Survivors include her mother, Matilda Diaz; and brothers Stephen and Anthony.

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Roy William Reitsma July 25, 2012 Roy Reitsma, affectionately known as “Hippie” because of his long hair when he arrived at Bates, lived on fourth-floor Adams for all four years at Bates. There he enjoyed the company of his “Adams 4” family while he was studying or listening to music: Led Zeppelin, The Who and the J. Geils Band were a few of his favorites. After receiving his degree in psychology and biology from Bates, he moved to Myrtle Beach, S.C., where he was an independent computer software professional. He had a lifelong love of sports, especially skiing and tennis, and a passion for the Red Sox that followed him all the way to South Carolina. Survivors include his wife, Kimberley Thomas.

1976 Gordon Campbell Bergen May 31, 2013 Gordon Bergen and his wife, Carolyn Nosal Bergen, set out in 1996 on a whim to build their own Internet gift business, and called it — what else? — On a Whim. You can find it online under that name. It really wasn’t such a whim. After all, Gordon’s degree from the college was in economics, and he left a successful career with Cadbury Beverages in Stamford, Conn., to start the business. They built it up slowly from a small room in their home. Besides his wife, survivors include son Alexander. Thomas Ettore Meehan May 30, 2013 Tom Meehan was a history major at the college who played intramural sports and was active in the Big Brother program. He was a parishioner of St. Joseph Church in Suffield, Conn., and worked at Modern Drug Store. He is survived by his wife, Stella Durand Meehan. Lydia Gladys Milne July 11, 2013 Lydia Milne was a biology major, but graduated at just the right time and place to step into the computer industry along Route 128 around Boston. She found her niche in project management, and received her master’s in it from Brandeis. The faculty there thought so highly of her that the university ended up hiring her to teach it to other students. A member of the Congregational Church in Wellesley, she enjoyed skiing and sailing. Survivors include brothers Bruce Milne ’78, Jeffrey and Roger.

1991 Theodore Leo Coulombe June 8, 2013 Ted Coulombe used his degree in French from Bates to get a job at Bowdoin working with the books of masters of the English

language. That’s overstating the case a bit, but his fluency in French was an asset when the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library needed to catalog volumes from the two authors’ collections, pulling him away from his usual circulation duties. He worked there until 2003, when he returned to Bates as technical adviser and editor, designing Web pages from concept to execution for E-clectic, the online magazine showcasing student work in the humanities, and as digital technician for the office of the dean of faculty. He graduated magna cum laude from Bates and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Survivors include his father, Larry Coulombe, and sister, Grace Coulombe ’94. Mary Elizabeth Marshall November 20, 2012 As a student, Mary Marshall directed choirs and played the organ at three different churches. She was an actress, and the assistant musical director of a Gilbert and Sullivan production. A psychology major, she volunteered as a mathematics teacher and was a medieval art historian. She brought several of her interests together with her final job at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, N.Y., where she developed a curriculum about this founder of the Hudson River School of painters. She sang in musical groups at Bates and afterward, continued to play the organ and worked avidly in the garden. She taught ESL in Budapest while speaking “very bad Hungarian”; English to Virginia eighth-graders; and creative writing in high school where she played piano for the musicals. Along the way, she earned a master’s in education from George Washington. Survivors include her mother, Edith Marshall Roberts, stepfather John Roberts, and brothers Peter and David Marshall.

2002 Vân Vu Brantner March 11, 2013 The Vietnamese name she was given at birth — Vu Thi Hong Vân — means “dancing pink cloud” and seems to personify the vivacious young woman who graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in economics and East Asia studies. Her professors marveled at her ability to shrug off problems in her data sets, make things right and keep working. She relished the opportunity to study at Nanjing Univ. in China during Short Term. She studied at the Univ. of Hanoi before coming to the U.S. and earned an M.B.A. from the Univ. of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. She worked as an economics analyst for the Federal Trade Commission before becoming a vice president at Bank of America in 2007. Her three dachshunds vied for her spare time. Survivors include her husband, Jeffrey Brantner, and son, Cuong Nguyen.

2015 John Durkin ’I5 avoided easy answers, offering “nuanced, balanced and interesting” contributions in the Bates classroom. John Nolen Durkin February 20, 2014 John Durkin of Rye Beach, N.H., died in Rome while studying abroad on a program sponsored by Trinity College. An economics major and Asian studies minor, he is remembered as a superb student who avoided easy answers, offering “nuanced, balanced and interesting” contributions in the classroom, said Margaret Mauer-Fazio, the Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics, who taught John in her course on China’s economic reforms. A linebacker on the football team, John brought his smarts to that endeavor, and Bates head football coach Mark Harriman said that he will always remember John’s “commitment to excellence in all phases of his life, which was inspirational to the team. We will remember John’s fortitude and character and attempt to emulate those standards.” In the summer, John was a crew member for the Isles of Shoals Steamship Co., and after work each day he and teammates in the area did their football workouts together. Survivors include his parents, Liz and Tim Durkin; siblings Ted ’11, Clare ’12, Ginny and Trevor; grandmothers Mary Nolen McGrath and Virginia Hewitt Durkin; aunt Kathy McGrath, uncle Bryan McGrath, uncle John McGrath and wife Barbara, uncle Bill Durkin and wife Martha, uncle Patrick Durkin and wife Kristen, uncle Tom Durkin and wife Sue, and uncle Dan Durkin and wife Susan. He was predeceased by his grandfathers, William A. Durkin and John J. McGrath. The Durkin family has asked that in lieu of flowers, memorial gifts be made

to the John Nolen Durkin Scholarship Fund at Bates College, 2 Andrews Road, Lewiston, ME 04240.

faculty David Arthur Nelson June 24, 2013 David Nelson, a student of Shakespeare, a student of drama, a student of the Buddha, traveled to the four corners of the world pursuing his intellectual and cultural interests, always returning to his home in Maine ready for his next challenge. Appointed to the Bates faculty in 1959, he taught Shakespeare and English drama. His Short Term courses included “Art of the Film” and “Shakespeare in the Theatre,” for which he led student groups to England. He retired in 1992. His book, The Laughing Comedy of the Eighteenth Century, was published in 1965. He served for three years in the U.S. Air Force, after which he earned a B.A. and M.A. at the Univ. of Chicago and a Ph.D. in English literature at Cornell. Survivors include his wife, Dirane Kelekyan; children Stephanie and James; and four grandchildren. Alfred William Painter June 14, 2013 A religious person would tell you that a gracious god always provides a way. That was certainly true for Alfred Painter, who realized after a year in the insurance business that his true love was philosophy and world religions. After earning a Ph.D. in philosophy and the psychology of religion at the Univ. of Chicago in 1945, he taught at Bates for four years before moving to the Univ. of the Pacific. Ordained as a Methodist minister in 1956, he served as the associate minister at Westwood Community Methodist Church in West Los Angeles and then as pastor at a church in Long Beach. He returned to teaching at Orange Coast College as chairman of the philosophy department for 18 years. His first wife, Frances, died in 1977. His second wife, Anita, passed away in 2010, and his daughter, Susan, died in 1983. Survivors include daughter Joni Younie; stepdaughters Tally Thorsen and Andrea Smith; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Candlelight vigil for John Durkin, Garcelon Field, Feb. 23, 2014. PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN

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In 1948, this “display of livestock” won best costume for the Class of 1903. The sign holder, Class President Alexander Maerz, is next to classmates George Ramsdell, a longtime Bates math professor, and Carl Sawyer. Ralph Johnson, right, wrangled the sheep for the class.

We Love a Parade

Madness within reason, the Alumni Parade debuted 100 years ago by h . jay burns p h o t o g r a p h y c o u rt esy of t h e ed mund s. mus k ie arc hives a n d s p ec i a l c ol l ec tio ns library

by 1914, Bates was hitting its stride as a college.

And having sent college graduates into the world for nearly 50 years, it was time for some grown-up alumni programming. Which meant getting a little silly. 1914 was a big year, marking the 50th anniversary of the college’s transition from Maine State Seminary to Bates College in 1864. The college chose to celebrate the semicentennial during Commencement, in June. The Bates Student, doing double duty in those days as both a campus and alumni publication, noted in May that “this Commencement of all

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Commencements should belong to the alumni.” The big new feature of this alumni-focused Commencement was an Alumni Day, “a program of merrymaking by the different classes...such as is carried on at many of our larger colleges.” And the centerpiece of Alumni Day was an Alumni Parade, a “historico-humorous parade of classes about the field.” In its buildup to the event, The Student exhorted the classes to portray “historical incidents associated with the development of Bates, illustrated soberly or unsoberly; ‘things you did,’ wise or otherwise.... Class statistics, mention of members who

have won honored places...may well be carried on large cards or any other way. Class banners of olden days…should be there.” One hundred years later, the Alumni Parade hasn’t deviated from the 1914 playbook. Stop by the Alumni Walk on June 7 and you’ll see. Back in 1914, lest a parade seem like a frivolous way to celebrate the college’s 50th, there were sober events, too. A pageant on the steps of Coram Library commemorated great college events: founder Oren Cheney reading about the burning of Parsonsfield Seminary, the incident that inspired Cheney to found his own school for poor and disadvantaged Maine youth; and the seminary students marching off to the Civil War, 175 of them, including two from Georgia who fought for the Confederacy. Stepping up to the parade challenge was the Class of 1912. The Student of May 21 noted that class members would dress in all white and assemble “a band composed of the men of 1912 who played in the college band.” The June 11 edition noted that the Class of 1904 “will be on hand with something good,” yet the class refused to divulge exactly what that might be. Using a trendy phrase from the early

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The Class of 1905 went political in 1940, playing off the upcoming presidential conventions in Chicago (Democratic) and Philadelphia (Republican).

1900s, the class wanted to conceal their plans until the “psychological moment.” While coverage of the first Alumni Day is scant, the Bates Bulletin reports a successful event, as “the costumes, movements and performances awakened universal enthusiasm and great merriment.” In contemporary parlance, the first parade fostered greater alumni engagement, and the good feelings carried over to Commencement the next day. In full spring bloom, the campus was, at least to Bates eyes, “the most charming place in all the world.” n

This being from 1974, we’re pretty sure only the caps are part of the costume, and not the plaid trousers and pantsuits.

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Around 1910 smokers of the Turkish cigarette Murad found a college trading card in each pack (smoking = college = cool, right?). Murad issued cards for 150 colleges, according to collectors, and most show a track and field athlete or other college sports ﬁgure, while the cards for Bates and other Northern colleges show a hunter in snow. Well-Troweled

The engraved text on this trowel notes that it was “used on Dec. 14, 1925, in the laying of the cornerstone of the Athletic Building given by William Bingham II.” Bingham, a philanthropist who lived in Bethel, requested that the building be named for President Clifton Daggett Gray.

Sign of the Times

This photo of a peace sign on Lake Andrews isn’t dated. But by the look of the cars, it’s in the early 1970s.

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Can You Dig It?

Straight from the ’70s, even with a hint of burgundy (Ron Burgundy, that is), is this sorta-calfskin display box and silver sculpture given to Bates in 1973 as a Maine state architecture award honoring Ladd Library. The award praised Bates for “a rare refinement of taste and a willingness to commit substantial resources to an unseen result.” Sally Harkness, the architect who designed the unabashedly modernist library building, as well as Olin Arts Center, died in 2013.

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Here’s the Varsity Club paddle owned by the late Don Webster ’41, and among the doodles is one suggesting that boxing back then had the full attention of Bates students, and the nation, specifically Joe Louis’ defeat of Al McCoy on Dec. 16, 1940, at the Boston Garden. The paddle, and others like it, were part of Varsity Club initiations.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE BRADLEY

o u t ta k e I was drawn to this bicycle parked outside Commons because of its candy-colored complexion, popping out from the slate surface where it rested. But the simplicity of its design also called out, reminding me of the bike I learned to ride through the streets of my childhood in Kew Gardens, New York. — Phyllis Graber Jensen

Bates Magazine Spring 20I4 Editor H. Jay Burns Designer Mervil Paylor Design Director of Photography Phyllis Graber Jensen Photographer Sarah Crosby Class Notes Editor Jon Halvorsen Contributing Editors Marc Glass ’88 Doug Hubley Victoria Stanton Andy Walter Nicholas Dow

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

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Published three times a year, Bates Magazine is printed with vegetablebased inks on Forest Stewardship Councilcertified paper, featuring exceptionally high (50 percent) recycled content, of which 100 percent is postconsumer recycled material. Bates Magazine is printed near campus at family-owned Penmor Lithographers. On the Cover The inspiration for one Bates writer’s journey, Seamus Heaney, Litt.D. ’87 stands in a turf bog in his native Bellaghy, County Londonderry, in 1986. Photograph courtesy of the Bobbie Hanvey Photographic Archives, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

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FROM A DISTANCE

The Class of 2017, gathering in Gomes Chapel on Sept. 1, obliges the photographer’s request for a big wave.

The Class of 2017 numbers 504, nearly filling Gomes Chapel, capacity 600.

A banner with the Taoist yin-yang symbol, joining banners with symbols of major faith traditions: Indigenous American, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. The eighth banner shows Earth, a symbol of human community.

Yale’s official seal, joining those of Bates, Harvard, Brown, Williams, Bowdoin, Colby and the University of Maine installed on the rafters. We’re not sure when or why the seals were placed.

Here, within the chancel, the carved wooden reredos shows St. Augustine on the left and Thomas Aquinas on the right.

The stained glass window displays Christ the lamb flanked by Matthew and Mark on the left and Luke and John on the right.

The Class of 2017 comes from New England (43.1 percent), the Mid-Atlantic (22 percent), the Southwest and West (14.2 percent), Midwest (8 percent), Southeast (5.4 percent) and around the world (7.3 percent).

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