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13 The Bates Campaign total so far is.…
26 A statue for Benjamin Mays, Bates' "prophet of freedom."
34 Lessons from alumnae business leaders.
“He’s kind of a presiding genius — a tiki who keeps an eye on me.” Page 42
Comments Bates in Brief Amusements Features Notes History Lesson From a Distance
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Take a closer look at this student’s reaction to visiting a Maine landmark. Page 52
OPENING THOUGHT: JOHN COLLANTES ’I8 Source: Neuroscience major John Collantes ’18 of Park Ridge, Ill., who was on a Martin Luther King Jr. Day panel addressing the challenges often facing students of color who are STEM majors.
A lot of Bates students are from better high schools than mine. I don’t compare myself to other people, though it’s easy to go down that hole. I am my own person with my own skills. When I see challenges, I think, “I’m going to learn from this, and if I fail, then I’ll move on and use what I’ve learned in my future.” Spring 2018
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The Fall Issue
The Spring Cover
Ice Anniversary
I’m so glad you featured Rob Gomez ’05. He’s the embodiment of a true Bates spirit, that’s for sure. I was proud to read of his action at the Beach to Beacon race, and I am pleased that you highlighted Rob in the magazine. I was also pleased to see my friend and colleague, Anne Sibley O’Brien, in the children’s book article. Anne’s wonderful, and I’m sure Krista Aronson is happy to have her as a collaborator.
Like many others, I too was struck by the image that graced the cover of the Spring 2017 issue of Bates Magazine. However, my reaction was a little different from some of the ones quoted in the editor’s note in the most recent issue. My initial thought was, “Man, some people are going to find this strange or even bothersome,” and that thought troubled me a bit. To me, being a Bates student always meant being part of a comprehensive community, the one at Bates and the greater Lewiston one together. Bates taught me to be curious, to be accepting, and to get involved, among many other things. The greater Lewiston community helped me to achieve those things and only enhanced my four years there. I believe it is an integral part of the Bates experience. Thanks for the great explanation of the cover in the most recent editor’s note.
My favorite way to remember the 1998 ice storm is to look at the magnolia tree beside Hathorn. It split, it drooped, it lost branches, and we thought it was a goner. Now, every April as I walk by its resplendent flowering beauty, it whispers renewal and hope and perseverance.
Mary Morton Cowan ’61
Standish, Maine
The story about Rob Gomez ’05 and his act of sportsmanship during the Beach to Beacon last summer is at bates.edu/ gomez. — Editor Thank you for the Fall 2017 issue of Bates Magazine. Among other things, I love the heartfelt photography, the punchier stories, and quotes in combination with longer, more in-depth articles. Plus, I’m obsessed with Elizabeth Strout ’77, and I like knowing that President Spencer is, too! Sophie Nelson ’09
Bath, Maine
President Clayton Spencer’s Q&A with Elizabeth Strout ’77, recent winner of the Story Prize for Anything Is Possible, is at bates.edu/ strout-spencer.
George Merrill ’16
Morrisville, Vt.
When the Spring 2017 issue arrived, the colorful wedding cover drew me right in immediately. Bates is much more integrated into the Lewiston-Auburn community than it was in my day, and that’s a very good thing! Beverly Nash Esson ’73
Wells, Maine
Judith Ann Marden ’66
Greene, Maine
The 20th anniversary story about the historic January 1998 ice storm is at bates. edu/1998-ice-storm. One of the most vivid memories I have of my time at Bates was that Thursday night of the 1998 ice storm, walking across the Quad to Commons. The sky was lighting up every few seconds, and I remember thinking it was odd that there was lightning in a January ice storm. It wasn’t until a nearby transformer on Campus Avenue sizzled and popped, sent sparks flying, and died in a flash of blue that I realized something different was happening. After cleanup, and as spring came, my friends and I dubbed the tree near Hathorn (which, of course, had been reduced to mostly a trunk at that point) our “shade tree.” It was one of a few around campus I
remember actively rooting for over the next couple of years. To hear it sprouted new growth is like finding out a friend you’ve fallen out of touch with has found their way in the world. George Recine ’00
Andover, Mass.
Good Company Thanks for all the fun and exciting news about Bates! Our Baptist church in Charlotte, N.C., was in good company this past year as we also read Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy, the book that was the Common Read for the Class of 2021. It was an eye-opening experience to learn about a justice system in the U.S. that often is not so just! Frances Curry Kerr ’50
Matthews, N.C.
In fact, Bryan Stevenson, a national leader in the effort to correct racial and economic inequities in the criminal justice system, is this year’s Commencement speaker. You can watch his address on May 27 at bates.edu/live.
Not Poor, but Patriotic This story is a direct analogy of Obama’s “poor people cling to their guns and religion” comment. How can Francesco Duina arrive
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I found the story “By the Books,” of keen interest. My work as an early childhood educator depends on access to diverse literature for young children. I will put the search engine created by the Bates team to good use, and I encourage Professor Aronson and her team to bring it to the attention of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, so that other teachers of young children will know about it. Gail Cushman Rose ’80
Park City, Utah
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A 20th anniversary story about the 1998 ice storm prompted recollections from readers. In the eerie aftermath of the storm, heavy equipment took to the Historic Quad to begin the huge cleanup.
e dit or’s not e at his “conclusion” after interviewing a total of 60 people? This is complete garbage, and as a patriotic American who is not poor, I am appalled. Does that mean wealthy people are less patriotic? David Muelken ’87
Denver, Colo.
Published online in the fall, the Q&A with Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina about his book Broke and Patriotic is featured in this issue.
Mays, Worthy, Gomes Thank you for compiling the profiles of six African American Batesies. I had the honor of meeting Benjamin Mays ’20, William Worthy ’42, and Peter Gomes ’65. Chuck James ’78
Herndon, Va.
Created for Black History Month, the profiles of six African American alumni from Bates’ past are at bates.edu/ african-american-alumni.
Benjamin Mays Statue The article and video regarding Benjamin Mays was inspirational. It is truly an honor to realize that Dr. Mays was a fellow alum. James Callahan ’65
Lynnfield, Mass.
A story about the Benjamin Mays Statue dedication in Greenwood, S.C., appears in this issue. The video about the ceremony, attended by a number of Bates alumni, is at bates.edu/mays-statue-video. I attended Benjamin E. Mays High School in Atlanta and was fortunate to see him twice before he died in 1984. His legacy in our community — I also attended the Atlanta University Center — was exceptionally strong, and his ties to Bates were drilled into us as teenagers. Gail Towns
Lakewood, N.J. The writer is the executive director for marketing and communications at Georgian Court University.
At the Den the other day, I saw two alumni poets, Gabe Fried ’96
and Craig Morgan Teicher ’01, sitting with novelist Jess Anthony ’96, who teaches creative writing at Bates. The poets were in town, along with fellow poet Christian Barter ’90, to honor Robert Farnsworth, retiring from the English department after 26 years. (That’s his Robert Frost bust on the cover.) I mentioned to this impromptu Bobcat literary salon that the feting of Farnsworth, the college’s de facto poet laureate, was happening around the time of a retirement event honoring Bill Bergevin, the de facto gardener laureate and landscape architect for 35 years. It intrigued me, I said, how one honoree creates meaning through symbolism and metaphor; the other through the real and physical. And without missing a beat, both Fried and Teicher said, “So, which does which?” Well-played, poets — you got me ruminating about metaphor and maples, symbolism and shrubbery. Oren Cheney was figuratively and literally correct when he said his radical new college was “occupying and cultivating ground, which before had lain waste.” The early Quad had stump fences bordering what was called a “rough, hummock-sown cow pasture.” Since then, the campus (and its students) have been well-tended. Years ago, bursar Norm Ross, Class of 1922, famously attentive to the Quad lawn, had the elms trimmed to give the grass more sun. In one way, Bill’s tenure has been less hands-on. To paraphrase poet Robert Herrick, he knew that the natural campus could be more “bewitching” than a perfectly manicured place when everything’s “too precise in every part.” But he was hands-on (and feet- and knees-on) during the mad dash from April mud season to the green glory of Commencement. You’d find him, maybe beneath the Hathorn magnolia, on hands and knees, trowel or rake in hand, tidying and planting. A quiet guy, Bill preferred to let the plants do his talking, yet when I’d bug him to explain things I saw on campus, he always sowed wit and wisdom into his answers. Me: “Bill, is there a name for the grove of trees between Merrill Gym and the Wallach tennis courts?” Bill: “Other than ‘Survivors of Progress,’ none that I know of.” Me: “Bill, why do you prefer black mulch over red?” Bill: “It brings out the colors and details of the plantings.” Me: “When was the ginkgo tree outside Carnegie Science planted?” Bill: “2003, and I planted it by Carnegie [home of geology and other natural sciences] because I think it’s one of the few species for which we have fossilized records.” And so on. Speaking of Bill’s farewell reception, his grounds-crew colleague Mike Adams got a big laugh when, stepping to the large Bates podium, he said, “I’m usually moving these things, not speaking from them.” From that lectern, a letter from President Emeritus Don Harward was read. In it, he praised Bill for cultivating the campus as a “place that teaches us.” Yes, the natural campus teaches us. And, the more we understand it, the more meaning it conveys. It’s poetry. H. Jay Burns, Editor magazine@bates.edu
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In the Black Box Theater, Michael Reidy of Bates theater prepares technical cues for some of the 18 monitors comprising the backdrop for Diary of a Madman. A multiple award winner at the 2018 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, the Bates adaptation, by theater colleague Katalin Vecsey and starring Nate Stephenson ’18, moved Gogol’s 19th-century short story into the present day.
More about Madman bates.edu/diary
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STUDENTS
AESOP, the student-run Orientation program, began more than 30 years ago.
88% of 20I7 graduates believe they can transfer classroom learning to real life.
How to Buckle Down Netflix. Instagram. Staying in Commons till it closes. Making six-hour music playlists. When it comes to putting off work as the semester winds down, Bates students get creative. But they’re just as creative with getting stuff done. Students tell us how they manage their time and beat procrastination:
Oriana Lo Cicero ’20 rewards herself with a ukulele study break.
Turn procrastination into productivity If you’re putting off one task, take up another, says Korbin Houston ’18 of Chicago. “I usually have a lot of emails to send, so I do a lot of emailing instead of doing other substantial things,” she says. Put on blinders On her laptop, “I take the page I’m supposed to be working on, usually a Word doc, and maximize it so it fills the whole screen,” says Halley Posner ’18 of Southport, Conn. “When I can’t see the clock on my laptop, it’s easier to focus in on the work.” Set a goal and a reward Oriana Lo Cicero ’20 of Bellingham, Wash., says she sometimes tells herself that if she gets a certain amount of work done, “you can play ukulele for 20 minutes, and then you have to get back to it.”
Ties That Bind The senior thesis workflow is becoming more digital these days. Still, departments often ask for a hard copy along with a digital version, so seniors get to continue a Bates tradition: Having a younger student or friend help bind the final product (and sometimes kiss it, as a blessing). Here, Rakiya Mohamed ’18 of Auburn, Maine, watches her brother Ahmed (left), a freshman at the University of Maine–Augusta, and Samatar Iman ’21 of Auburn bind her biochemistry thesis, a comparative analysis of lead-detecting instruments and commercial home kits. Mohamed, whose family emigrated from Jijiga, Ethiopia, to Maine when she was a young child, is also an African American studies major. 6
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Know when to move on “As my grandfather says, ‘Do it good enough for government work,’ so that’s a good 75-percent effort,” says Oaklea Elfstrom ’21 of East Haddam, Conn.
For Sex Week, debaters argued “Self-identified feminist women should not fake orgasms.”
Students ate 300 pounds of bacon during a celebration of new class banners in Commons.
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Bates grants $400,000 annually to support student academic research and travel.
Classically Curious Isa Barrengos ’19 (left) of Mill Valley, Calif., and Caroline Barnes ’19 of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., wanted to connect with others who enjoyed Greek myths, Roman politics, or ancient literature. “We found ourselves talking about liminality and Artemisian rituals, and we thought, we should make a club,” said Barrengos. So they did, creating a Bates chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, a national honor society for classics students. Last fall’s inaugural induction ceremony involved everything you might expect of a community of Latin and Greek scholars: candles, olive branches, and recitations in the voices of Plato and Homer. What it signified was something greater: a growing community of enthusiasts of antiquity. “They’re creating a community where conversations about the way classics intersects with the modern world can take place,” says their adviser, Lisa Maurizio, associate professor of classical and medieval studies.
Glean Team A team of Bates students won a Maine pitch competition last fall geared to sustainability projects. The students will use their $2,500 first prize to advance their ReHarvest concept, which aims to maximize gleaning, the harvesting of excess crops that farmers don’t bring to market, by helping gleaners, farmers, and emergency food suppliers coordinate. Eleven Bates students are involved in ReHarvest, most of them EcoReps — students who lead and execute projects for the Bates sustainability office. Bates went up against teams from Bowdoin (second place), Colby, Harvard, and Saint Joseph’s colleges in the Maine Food System Innovation Challenge.
Taste of Winter Sophomores Danielle Ward of Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Will Green of Swampscott, Mass., and Maggie O’Shea of Somers, Conn., dig into what they call Fried Apple Pie — aka apple-yogurt-oatmeal balls — which they created during a Winter Carnival “camping stove cookoff” sponsored by the Outing Club in January.
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This 1912 painting Gleaning by Arthur Foord Hughes shows a woman gathering oats left after a harvest.
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CAMPUS
The Gomes Chapel capacity is 640.
The mint-green coloring above the Lane Hall columns is Colonial Revival.
Each year, Bates’ Committee on Environmental Sustainability gives out up to $10,000 in Green Innovation Grants for campus projects that boost sustainability. The grant budget is funded from savings achieved as Bates has dramatically reduced its energy consumption budget in recent years — from a high of approximately $4 million annually to the current $3 million. Here are the 2017 grants:
$2,000
Install high-speed dryers in dorms.
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Building sustainability, $2,000 at a time
$2,000
Expand composting and paper-towel recycling.
Sculpting Harvest
$1,885
Support creation of a new campus vegetable garden.
$900
Replace Merrill Gym shower heads with low-flow models.
$900
Install water bottle filling station in Carnegie.
$600
Recycle single-use lab gloves in Dana Chemistry Hall.
$400
Send used Keurig K-Cups from the Admission Office back to the manufacturer for recycling.
$250
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Support a pilot project by the Digital and Computational Studies program to create temperature sensors to support campus heating control.
The Bates Chemical Society, including Jake O’Hara ’21 of Milford, Conn., received a Green Innovation Grant to recycle gloves used in labs.
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Outside Commons on the loading dock, Dining Services executive chef Owen Keene chisels an ice sculpture for the annual Harvest Meal in November.
Firing Up Cold weather means Bates’ fuel use shoots up — but carbon emissions do not. That’s because one of the college’s two boilers burns Renewable Fuel Oil, made by vaporizing wood feedstock and condensing the vapor into an oil. Bates is the only college in the U.S. using the fuel. The move has drastically reduced Bates’ carbon emissions and put the college “within striking distance of our long-term goal of carbon neutrality,” says Sustainability Manager Tom Twist.
Chase House is the “Eco-Justice” theme house for 20I7–I8.
The lobby floor of Pettengill Hall has a compass inlay.
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Local residents may apply for a courtesy card to use in the Ladd Library.
Darrel Scribner of Preferred Utilities Manufacturing Corp. starts the college’s RFO burner by inserting an ignition coil gun.
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“ It’s a beautiful afternoon with the warmest temperatures we’ve had all week.” Tommy Sheils ’21 (left) of Portland, Maine, explains why he and Gavin Blair ’21 of Hailey, Idaho, decided to hit the hammocks on the Quad in mid-January. Spring 2018
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ACADEMICS
Bearing (Eye)witness
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When an eyewitness in a criminal trial says the defendant did the deed, that’s “really powerful and strong evidence,” says Professor of Psychology Amy Bradfield Douglass, who spoke to an audience at Lewiston Public Library recently. Yet, Douglass says, eyewitnesses are “wrong a lot.” Douglass dedicates her research to reducing that error rate, investigating the causes of mistaken IDs and advocating techniques for making them less common. One technique is elegantly simple: informing an eyewitness that their suspect might not be in a police lineup. That dramatically reduces eyewitnesses’ tendency to finger an innocent person.
You can host a party. You can host a TV show. But in Associate Professor of Biology Lee Abrahamsen’s profession, a “host” is more likely to harbor a parasite. A host, Abrahamsen says, “is really anything that harbors something else in a way that allows the ‘something else’ to survive.” 10
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What I Mean When I Say ‘Host’
The Thesis Cafe in Ladd Library offers drop-in thesis support (and chai!) for seniors.
I2 of 27 tenure-track faculty appointments in the last three years reflect embodied diversity.
Off-campus Short Term courses must enroll between I2 and I6 students.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
History department trivia night prizes: $50 Forage gift card, $30 for the College Store, or $20 for the Den.
DON DEARBORN
Candidates for faculty positions give public academic talks when visiting campus.
During the Civil War in Union-occupied Beaufort, S.C., African American children and their white teachers pose in front of the historic Beaufort College Building, then a public library.
THIS JUST IN A sampling of recent faculty-authored articles.
Performing Refuge/Restoration: The Role of Libraries in the African American Community — Ferguson, Baltimore, and Dorchester
Publication: Performance Research • Author: Myron Beasley (African American and American Cultural Studies) • What It Explains: Though historically exclusionary, public libraries are, for African American communities, sites of restoration and refuge and places to enact power.
Imperiled Petrels Bates biologist Don Dearborn and his research colleagues wanted to know why a population of storm-petrels off the Maine coast are breeding less and less successfully. As they sifted through various climate factors in play, one predicted the stormpetrels’ decline since 1988: the rise in global mean temperature. It’s believed that changes in food availability and food quality are causing the birds’ decline on Kent Island, home of the Bowdoin Scientific Station. Global temperature offers promise as a predictor of other animal populations around the world, the researchers say, because it’s “an index of an entire planet’s worth of interactions. It is the great integrator.” The findings by Dearborn, Professor of Biology Robert Mauck of Kenyon College, and the late Professor Emeritus of Biology Charles Huntington of Bowdoin College were published in Global Change Biology.
Religion and Civic Engagement
Publication: The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement • Author: Darby Ray (Harward Center) • What It Explains: Elements in many religions foster compassion, volunteerism, and civic engagement, often geared to interfaith dialogue and action. Conflicts of Desire: Dispositions and the Metaphysics of the Mind
Publication: Causal Powers • Author: Lauren Ashwell (philosophy) • What It Explains: When desires conflict, our propensities to behave in certain ways also conflict. Midwestern US Farmers Perceive Crop Advisers as Conduits of Information on Agricultural Conservation Practices
Publication: Environmental Management • Authors: Francis Eanes (environmental studies) and coauthors • What It Explains: For the first time, we know that farmers will trust crop advisers’ advice on conservation practices. Spring 2018
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THE COLLEGE
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49% of Bates employees identify as male and 5I% as female.
Bates yearbooks from I900 to 20I2 are online: archive.org/details/batescollege.
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Bates has welcomed two new members of the Bates senior staff.
First-year students who move in this fall will be selected from the largest applicant pool in Bates history.
Applications Set Record An all-time high number of prospective first-year students — 7,688 — applied for admission to the incoming Class of 2022. This year’s pool is a 45 percent increase over last year’s total of 5,316; the previous high-water mark was 5,636 in 2014–15. “We are meeting more prospective students where they are and telling a Bates story that is more compelling and relevant than ever,” said Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Leigh Weisenburger. Among applicants, across-the-board increases in important demographic categories — including greater geographic reach and an increase in first-generation-to-college students and students of color — “move the overall pool, and thus our incoming class, in the right direction,” she added. The increase comes on the heels of expanded admission travel in 2017–18 and, in the digital realm, a more robust suite of web, social media, and email strategies. Also, Bates simplified the application process by eliminating the application requirement of a supplemental essay. “Just as Bates was the first to show that standardized testing can narrow the door of college opportunity for talented students, we found that the essay is also an unnecessary barrier to talent,” said Weisenburger.
Malcolm Hill, Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Professor of Science and former associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Richmond, will joins Bates as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty on July 1. Hill succeeds Matthew Auer, now dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.
Patricia A. Schoknecht, formerly chief information officer and assistant vice president for business services at Rollins College, arrived Jan. 1 as vice president for information and library services and college librarian. She succeeds the late Katie Vale, who passed away in November 2016.
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Bates is the No. 1 producer of Fulbright Student award recipients among all liberal arts colleges in 2017–18, and only six universities exceed Bates’ total of 23 Fulbright awards. “We are honored to be recognized by the Fulbright Program and proud of what it signals — that our students graduate prepared to contribute on a global stage,” said President Clayton Spencer. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. The 23 current Fulbright Student recipients are now engaged in multi-month research and teaching experiences in 18 countries that stretch from Canada to Thailand.
Bates leads the list of top-producing Fulbright colleges after several years of increasing awards.
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The Bates Campaign seeks $75 million for financial aid.
Campaign launch events were in Boston, NYC, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Portland, Maine. RENE ROY
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Bates’ new partnership with Amazon, PayPal, and Facebook makes online giving easy — and as easy as it should be. “As the ecommerce user experience improves globally, Bates needs to keep its online giving experience just as competitive,” said Genevieve Leslie, director of annual giving. Appearing on most Bates web pages, the options give donors something new, yet familiar. “Many alumni, parents, and friends already make online transactions through Amazon, PayPal, or Facebook,” Leslie said. “This empowers donors to give on their own terms.” Plus, it’s fast: A gift can be made through Amazon in less than 10 seconds. Of course, the new giving platforms are optional. Donors can still use the traditional Bates form, bates.edu/give, which is “especially helpful for setting up recurring gifts through the Bates Beacons program, for designating a gift to a specific program or purpose, and for initiating matching gifts,” Leslie said.
Walter Washington ’19 speaks to a Bates Campaign audience in Washington, D.C.
George and Ann Colony pose with their son Charles ’17 outside Pettengill Hall on Mount David Summit Day in 2017.
‘Unique American College’ In a Q&A feature in this issue, Matt Jadud, the inaugural holder of the Colony Family Professorship in Digital and Computational Studies, talks about building an innovative and inclusive DCS program. Jadud’s and the college’s vision for this new academic program is supported by The Bates Campaign. With their $3 million pledge, Bates parents George and Ann Colony endowed the Colony professorship. “We make Bates a philanthropic priority because we believe it’s a unique American college. Bates is a special place of friendship, learning, and inclusion,” said the Colonys, whose sons William ’12 and Charles ’17 are alumni, as are their cousins Joel Colony ’06 and Izola Porter Brown ’93. “Thanks to George and Ann’s philanthropic leadership and foresight, Bates students have the opportunity to become highly competent programmers, data engineers, and digital architects, as well as innovators within an evolving digital world,” said President Spencer.
On the Campaign Trail Walter Washington 19, of Fleetwood, N.Y., speaking to last fall’s Bates Campaign gatherings in Washington, D.C., and in Portland, Maine, used his time at the lectern to explain how he’s gone from uninvolved first-year to student body president and member of the Deansmen by junior year. “I could not have gotten this far without a few special professors,” said the politics major and rhetoric minor. Here are three: Michael Sargent: “My First Year Seminar professor, in psychology. At first, he scared me. But over time, through our talks about everything from college football to jazz music, he became someone I did not want to let down. He challenged me, he’s tough, and he pushed me to work my hardest.” Stephen Engel: “My major advisor, in politics — one of the most intelligent men I’ve been around. I’ll go to his office hours just to hear him speak. He has reaffirmed my desire to pursue a career in law and politics.” Stephanie Kelley-Romano: “My rhetoric advisor. She’s encouraged me as a writer and public speaker. She, out of everyone, helped me recognize my untapped potential, and it is because of her that that same quiet freshman can stand in front of you today.”
So Far, So Great
Announced in the spring, The Bates Campaign has raised $182 million in gifts and pledges toward a $300 million goal.
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This page: Teal Otley ’18 of Cumberland, Maine, shows off her psychology thesis following a Bates ritual: placing the pages into a traditional black binder with the help of friends.
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FACING FINALS photography by phyllis graber jensen During the intensity of finals week in Ladd Library, students tend to keep their heads down — though they’re always amenable to a photographer’s request for a portrait for Bates Magazine.
SPORTS
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With a 9-3 record, Bates softball got off to its best start since I994.
20I8’s first outdoor game was the Feb. 28 men’s lacrosse win vs. Babson.
106 Years of Bates Olympians Bates alpine skier Dinos Lefkaritis ‘19 of Larnaca, Cyprus, is Bates’ latest Olympian, having competed at the Pyeongchang games for his homeland, which typically sends just one or two athletes to each winter games. Lefkaritis is a double major in economics and engineering, and he joins these Bobcat Olympians, who date to 1912. Athlete
Nation
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Sport
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Emily Bamford ’15
Australia
Sochi 2014
Alpine skiing
50th in giant slalom
Andrew Byrnes ’05 Canada
Beijing 2008 Rowing London 2012
Gold in men’s eights Silver in men’s eights
Haley Johnson ’06
U.S.
Vancouver 2010
Biathlon
80th in 7.5km sprint
Justin Freeman ’98
U.S.
Turin 2006
Nordic skiing
52nd in 15km classical
Mike Ferry ’97
U.S.
Sydney 2000
Rowing
Semifinals in double sculls
Nancy Ingersoll U.S. Fiddler ’78
Calgary 1988 Nordic skiing Albertville 1992
Relay: 8th in 4x5km classical Individual: 25th in 5km classical
Art Sager ’26
U.S.
Amsterdam 1928
Javelin
10th
Ray Buker 1922
U.S.
Paris 1924
1,500-meter run
5th
Harlan Holden 1913 U.S. and Stockholm 1912 Sweden
800-meter run – U.S. Baseball – Sweden (demonstration sport)
Semifinals in 800-meter run
Vaughn U.S. Stockholm 1912 Blanchard 1912
Hurdles and baseball (demonstration sport)
Semifinals in 110-meter hurdles
PHOTO BY RONALD MARTINEZ/GETTY IMAGES
Note: Arnold Adams ’33 of the U.S. was selected to run in the 1,600-meter relay at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics but did not compete due to a foot injury.
His country’s sole Olympian, Dinos Lefkaritis ’19 carries the flag for Cyprus during the Opening Ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Feb. 9.
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Bates football has won four CBB titles since 20I2 and 26 since its first title in I897.
60% of students participate in intramural sports.
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A major redesign of the Bates Athletics website debuted in December.
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“ It’s like stepping back in time. Everything looks the same and feels the same. I wanted to come back to Bates to feel the energy, to be among the team, and tell about the legacy of Bates throwing.”
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David Pless ’13, a three-time NCAA indoor champion in the shot put, talks about returning to campus for the Bates Invitational in January, where he set the facility record in the shot put at 62 feet, 9.5 inches. He lives and works in Portland, Ore., where he trains toward the 2020 Olympics.
She’s Cooking In shattering Bates’ indoor record in the 5,000-meter run during a January meet, Katherine Cook ’18 recorded the seventhfastest time in Division III history. Running in Boston University’s BU John Thomas Terrier Classic, Cook recorded a time of 16:39.07, winning her section and shaving 40.17 seconds off the former Bates record, set by Abby Anthony ’03. The meet, open to all college and post-collegiate amateurs, attracted alumna Jessica Wilson ’17, who ran the meet’s second-best time, 16:19.45, in a different 5K section. “Jess and I always ran together at Bates, so it was exciting to be at the meet with her,” Cook said. “She’s so impressive. She cheered for me, I cheered for her, and we cooled down together.”
In December vs. UMaineAugusta, Nina Davenport ’18 became the 20th women’s basketball player to score 1,000 career points. As the three-pointer dropped, “I felt a sense of relief,” said Davenport. “I was happy to get that out of the way and say, ‘let’s just play basketball now.’” Which the Bobcats did, winning 67-58.
1. Emily King ’00 1,478 2. Val Beckwith ’09 1,470 3. Olivia Zurek ’05 1,440 4. Sarah Bonkovsky ’97 1,407 5. Nina Davenport ‘18 1,273 6. Meg Coffin ’08 1,252 7. Kate McLaughlin ’01 1,208 8. Meredith Kelly ’14 1,207 9. Allie Beaulieu ’13 1,170 10. Lisa Kelley ’86 1,166 11. Carla Flaherty ’03 1,143 12. Gail LeBlanc ’83 1,117 13. Julie Roche ’91 1,110 14. Amy Schrag ’91 1,092 15. Jolene Thurston ’00 1,082 16. Priscilla Wilde ’77 1,079 17. Matia Kostakis ’08 1,037 18. Amy “A.T.” Taylor ’99 1,016 19. Adrienne Shibles ’91 1,005 20. Lauren Yanofsky ’10 1,001
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ARTS & CULTURE
A Bates exhibition in 20I8 will celebrate Dahlov Ipcar, one of Maine’s best-loved artists.
Bates presented the landmark play Angels In America: Millennium Approaches in March.
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Marcy Plavin in 1998.
Marcy’s Legacy
Let’s Be Frank The soundtrack to the Academy Award–nominated movie Call Me by Your Name includes a 1970 recording of Erik Satie’s Sonatine Bureaucratique, performed on the piano by the late Frank Glazer, the longtime Bates artist in residence.
Past and present, the people who teach dance at Bates believe that “modern dance is many points of view,” says Associate Professor of Dance Rachel Boggia. In the 1960s, Marcy Plavin used that philosophy in creating the Bates dance program. Since then, the annual Fall Dance Concert has put that philosophy on stage as students perform work by various choreographers, including faculty and guests. “We choose them to bring diverse points of view,” says Boggia, “so we felt that this concert really represents Marcy’s legacy.” So it’s only fitting that the signature fall concert is now known as the Marcy Plavin Fall Dance Concert. Plavin, who died in 2016, had a fierce, deep, and irresistible dedication to dance and to her students. When her children — David Plavin ’77, Stephen Plavin, and Lynda Plavin Fitzgerald ’79 — asked Bates to find a way to honor her, Boggia suggested renaming the concert. “I thought it was a great idea,” says David Plavin.
Together Again for the First Time Painter Robert Feintuch, who teaches at Bates, and sculptor Rona Pondick have been notable presences in the art world since the 1980s and have been a couple since 1975. “A few people who followed our work talked about seeing relationships” between his and hers, says Feintuch, senior lecturer in the art and visual culture department. But “on a superficial level, we kept seeing the differences.” So these New York City-based artists didn’t rush into showing their work together: It was only a year ago that they undertook their first joint exhibition, Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying.
When the show debuted in February 2017 at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Feintuch wasn’t the only Bates connection. The organizer of Heads, Hands, Feet was Dan Mills, director of the Bates College Museum of Art. He brought it to his own museum last October. Pondick’s sculptures combine forms from the human body with those from non-human animals. Feintuch’s paintings situate unheroic older men in dreamlike settings that express vanity and vulnerability. Both artists “believe the body speaks,” says Mills. “They represent subjective experience and psychological states through a physical vocabulary — gesture, posture, naturalism, and expressive distortion. Their work is materially very different, but this psychological interest in the body and gesture that they have in common fascinated me.”
Rona Pondick’s painted bronze sculpture “White Beaver.”
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Artist in residence with the gamelan is Darsono, a Javanese musician and shadow-puppeteer.
The audience helps shape the action in a Bates Dance Festival piece this summer.
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A reading by alumni poets honored retiring senior lecturer and poet Robert Farnsworth.
NATE “ You have to find how to play one person who can be anyone.” Nate Stephenson ’18 of Ellsworth, Maine, on his portrayal of Everyman in Bates’ adaptation of Gogol’s Diary of a Madman. The role earned him a nomination for a prestigious acting scholarship.
Robert Feintuch’s painting “Another Assumption.”
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In November, Lewiston and Auburn voters rejected a proposed merger of their cities.
Painted hot dogs appear between the lines of the crosswalk outside Simone’s Hot Dog Stand.
The smell of malted barley wafts through the brewery as forklifts and other machinery roars in the background. A conveyor belt deposits cans of IPA onto pallets. Over the din, Andrew Sheffield, director of brewing at Baxter Brewing Co. in Lewiston’s Bates Mill complex, tells a group of Bates students how the beer is made. In fact, the students had arrived knowing a thing or two about the topic. The brewery tour capped “Plants and Human Affairs,” a 100-level biology lab course taught by Assistant Professor of Biology Brett Huggett that delved into the use of plants to make everything from perfumes to industrial products to, of course, beer. “It was fun to see people make a business about something they’re passionate about, and to hear them talk about what drives them to do their work daily,” says politics major Alyssa Alexander ’18 of Lambertville, N.J.
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Near Beer
Students wind their way through the Baxter brew room during their tour.
What’s in a Name: Tree Streets The downtown Lewiston neighborhood where streets have names like Oak and Maple is dubbed “the tree streets.” Pin It on Penn William Penn originated the street-naming practice in 1682 when he gave Philadelphia’s north-south streets names like Locust, Spruce, and Vine. Other cities soon followed Penn’s path. Franklin Speaking Lewiston’s street naming occurred mostly in the mid-1800s. The Franklin Co., a holding company for the Lewiston mills that owned most of the downtown land, laid out the street plan. It’s thought that one of Franklin’s engineers, John Straw, gave tree names to the streets that run nearly east and west.
The Bad Rap The two U.S. Census tracts overlaying the tree streets are among the poorest in Maine. The neighborhood is also young, vibrant, and diverse. A third of its citizens are nonwhite, including many families who emigrated from Somalia and other African nations. In a state worried about its aging population, the tree streets help make Lewiston younger (median age 39) than the rest of Maine (median age 43.5). Taking Back the Tree Streets Located on the corner of Birch and Howe streets, the nonprofit Tree Street Youth serves the children of downtown families. The name is an act of cooptation, says its cofounder, Julia Sleeper ’08, “a big opportunity to take back ‘tree street’ from its stereotype” — as a place to avoid — “to meaning a place where the youth are going to college, being successful, and doing great things.”
The tree streets are…
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There are 44 Lewiston structures on the National Register of Historic Places.
42% of Lewiston residents are married, the highest percentage of any Maine city.
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The college’s free shuttle runs to Lewiston locations on the half hour, Auburn on the hour.
SEEING THE NEED Bates makes annual grants to community organizations from a fund honoring the late Dean Emeritus of the College James W. Carignan ’61 and his wife, Sally Larson Carignan ’62. A committee of Bates students convened by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships selects the grantees. In their deliberations, “they help each other see things they wouldn’t see otherwise,” said Peggy Rotundo, Harward Center director of strategic and policy initiatives. “That’s beautiful to watch.” PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN
Noah Morasch ’18, Dacota Griffin ’18, and Joe Tulip ’18 prepare to log the “natural amenities” in and around Kennedy Park.
Know Thy Neighborhood On a chilly day in November, seniors Joe Tulip, Dacota Griffin, and Noah Morasch drove to Lewiston’s Kennedy Park with clipboards and GPS trackers. Their task: to evaluate and log coordinates for all the natural amenities, such as trees, sidewalks, benches, or vacant lots with the potential for green space, that they could find in Lewiston’s downtown neighborhood. By semester’s end, the three had used the data to produce a series of amenities maps. When combined with other information (on crime, lead poisoning, and residents’ relationships with the neighborhood), the information will give city leaders a detailed picture of the neighborhood — what exists, what doesn’t, and what needs to be fixed — that can inform future improvements. The students’ work was part of a capstone course in environmental studies that focuses on community-engaged research.
This year’s grants: Art Van $1,067 to add 10 weeks to the Art Van’s service at Lewiston Middle School for children who have little or no arts access. JAY BURNS
Branching Out Bangor, Maine, also has a selfdescribed tree-street neighborhood, as do the California cities of Costa Mesa and Laguna Beach plus Norwood, Mass.; Princeton, N.J.; Nashua, N.H.; Yonkers, N.Y.; Elko, Nev.; Johnson City, Tenn.; Provo, Utah; Waynesboro, Va.; Bunbury, Wash.; Bluefield, W.Va.; and Casper, Wyo. This story includes information from Frontier to Industrial City: Lewiston Town Politics 1768– 1863, by Professor Emeritus of Political Science Douglas Hodgkin.
Alisa Amador ’18 of Cambridge, Mass., helps a child with her art project during an Art Van visit to the Lewiston Public Library in 2016.
L /A Arts $1,800 to create an online directory of artists who live and work in Lewiston/Auburn. Lewiston Housing Authority $1,000 to create a new reading space for middle school and high school youth at Hillview Apartments. Lewiston Middle School $300 to purchase “hi-low” books (high interest, low reading level) for a classroom for English Language Learners.
A historic school building at the corner of Walnut and Bates streets is now home to St. Mary’s Nutrition Center.
Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services $2,000 to fund a winter indoor soccer program for immigrant and refugee youth. Museum L-A $1,620 to create cards that tell stories of Lewiston-Auburn workers. Museum visitors will wear the cards on a lanyard during their tour. Pine Tree Legal $1,000 for a computer and phone to support Bates interns working at the free legal aid group.
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THE WORLD
Short Term 20I8 courses go to Brazil, India, the Shetland Islands, and England.
Senior Jack Sapoch’s politics honors thesis examines NGOs’ assistance to refugees in Serbia.
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Jhansi Kolli ’21 of Murfreesboro, Tenn., Armaan Mecca ’21 of Chennai, India, and Prarthana Mocherla ’21 of Old Tappan, N.J., light sparklers in the Muskie Garden.
Festival of Lights Center for Rangoli chalk decorating and dinner, then walked to the Muskie Garden for sparklers. For Armaan Mecca ’21 of Chennai, India, Diwali is about “coming together
Ivy Nguyen ‘21 of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, applies eye shadow before taking the Schaeffer Theatre stage for the annual Sangai Asia Night in January. She wore an áo dài, a traditional Vietnamese dress, for the show’s international fashion show. She also joined a hip hop performance. Held Jan. 27, the night of performing arts celebrates the diversity of Asian cultures and community solidarity at Bates. “I love the whole show since it makes me feel like the Asian culture is getting closer to and accepted into the rest of the Bates community,” Nguyen said.
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It’s a Hip Hop World “I came to really appreciate the complexities of thought within the Japanese hip hop dance scene,” says Emilio Valadez ’18 of San Antonio, Texas, who spent summer 2017 in Tokyo on a Bates Phillips Student Fellowship. Valadez, whose interests and studies include hip hop dance, philosophy, and Japanese, walked Tokyo’s streets to meet fellow hip hop dancers. He asked them to teach him moves and tell him why they danced. Here’s something he learned: Whether they’re popping, breaking, or voguing in bars or on street corners, dancers in Tokyo are really, really good. “I saw such great mastery,” says Valadez. Many of his subjects were aware of hip hop’s origins in the U.S., yet didn’t understand the English lyrics of songs. Some felt a disconnect between their craft and the music’s history, while others believed “hip hop can save the world,” Valadez said.
to have fun, and spending time getting to know people.” His first Bates Diwali was “so special, because I didn’t think I’d experience something like this outside India.”
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Leaves crunched and a match took flame. Sparklers lit up the night as part of last October’s celebration of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. About 50 gathered, first at the Benjamin Mays
Bates’ advice to studyabroad students: “Pack light. Seriously. You will not regret this.”
Students sampled 30 dishes from around the world at the International Dinner.
Half of students who study abroad go to the U.K., Italy, Denmark, New Zealand, or Spain.
Petra, Jordan “This cat climbed a mountain with me. From the Treasury of Petra, he followed me up a steep, rocky hiking trail to the Monastery, waiting on the edge of a cliff for us to get off our donkeys and give him the attention he deserved.”
Neuroscience major Hannah Smith ’19 of Sandwich, Mass., took this photo while on the SIT Study Abroad program in Jordan last fall. The image was featured in the college’s 2018 Barlow Off-Campus Study Exhibition.
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B O O KS
Book suggestions from the college’s annual Good Reads summer reading list:
Making Refuge by Catherine Besteman
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Suggested by Assistant Dean of the Faculty Kerry O’Brien The origin story of Wonder Woman: entangled with emerging psychology, Margaret Sanger, women’s rights, plural marriage, a supreme huckster, and a female superhero.
Suggested by Professor Emerita of Economics Anne Williams Great reporting on Somali Bantus in Lewiston — their origins, reactions, and impacts. I was shocked to realize I knew so little of their lives and backgrounds.
Suggested by Professor of French and Francophone Studies Kirk Read Profoundly moving novel imagining the Underground Railroad as an actuality — an under ground train that runs to the north. Vivid, difficult, and exquisitely written.
Suggested by Associate Professor of Dance Rachel Boggia A beautifully raw and inspiring book. Each chapter starts with a quote from another author, so it is a great way to be exposed to even more great reading.
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
LOST & FOUND 10:23 a.m. | Sept. 23 | Ladd Library
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Can you tell it’s winter? Two pairs of gloves; academic paper about measuring and comparing teaching practices for college STEM courses; knit cap with “Panthers Wrestling,” which could be from one of several schools; two scholarly books, The Foundations of Ethnic Politics by Henry Hale and The Garden Party and Other Plays by Vaclav Havel; two hotel keycards; Carmex lip balm; Bates water bottle with Cocoa Puffs decal; various tech gear; daily planner belonging to Lewiston Middle School student; custom-beaded Bates mug; cheap sunglasses with one lens missing; single costume diamond earring and other jewelry; an obligatory scünci; and big, black, puffy ear muffs!
Et Tutu, Bobcats? Bates students never need much reason to dress up, evidenced by the well-coordinated garb donned by two friends at the Puddle Jump on Jan. 26.
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Smile and Say “Chowder”! “It’s about their reactions — the big smile,” says Cheryl Lacey, director of dining at Bates, describing the reward for serving great food to students at the annual Harvest Meal in the fall. Servings: 11 portions (6 ounces) • 2 teaspoons canola oil • 2 stalks celery, medium diced • 1/4 large onion, medium diced • 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic, minced • 1 1/4 cups butter or margarine • 1 1/4 cups flour • 2 tablespoons fish base • 2 quarts milk
• 1/2 pound cooked potatoes, diced • 1/4 pound scallops • 1/4 pound peeled, de-veined raw shrimp • 1/4 pound lobster meat • 1/2 pound fish of your choice; can be a variety • 1/2 teaspoon tabasco sauce
• In a pan over medium heat, melt butter or margarine. Whisk flour into the butter until a thick, rough paste forms (roux). As it cooks, the roux will become smooth. Stir often and avoid burning. • After about 5 minutes, remove from heat and set aside. • Heat oil in a large soup pot over medium-high heat. Add onion, celery, and garlic and sauté for 5 minutes. • Mix fish base and milk, then add to vegetables and bring to a simmer. • Thicken with roux. • Add potatoes, scallops, shrimp, lobster, fish, and tabasco. Bring back to a simmer, and simmer for 10 minutes. Check seasoning.
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“He proceeded to ruin his equipment and do strange things to his guitar. He played it with his teeth, his tongue, either hand, the microphone stand — anything he could find.” Who was “he”?
Answer: Fifty years ago, on March 16, 1968, Jimi Hendrix played the Lewiston Armory next to campus — Bates’ own Hanseatic League opened — and Andrews Tolman ’70 reviewed the concert for The Bates Student. It was “the best psychedelic performance Lewiston has recently seen.”
This look at Catherine Merton ’18 of East Longmeadow, Mass., studying in Ladd was a winner in the annual #BatesFinals Instagram contest. The Bates Communications judges said, “We loved the composition of the desk, chair, and subject, along with the angular arrangement of papers, notebooks, and study materials.”
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moment The life of a ‘prophet of freedom’ is permanently recognized in the place where it began by em ily m c co nv i lle
when he visited Greenwood, S.C., in early
November, Benjamin Robinson ’86 saw the house where Benjamin Mays, Class of 1920, grew up. In the museum next door, he saw the plaque that chronicled the civil rights leader’s time at Bates, the photo of Mays on the debate team, the long list of his subsequent honorary degrees. “It was an opportunity for me to reconnect with history,” Robinson said. “It was an opportunity for me to connect with someone who made it possible for me to attend Bates and, more importantly, who served as a role model.” Coming from Charlotte, N.C., Robinson was one of several Bates alumni visiting Greenwood for the unveiling of a seven-foot statue of Mays. Created by Florida-based artist Jon Hair, the statue depicts Mays as a young man, holding a Bible; its home is the Benjamin E. Mays Historical Preservation Site, located a few miles from Epworth, the tiny crossroads town where Mays was born in 1894. Mays’ story has been well-told, of course. How he grew up “on the ragged edge of poverty,” as he wrote in his autobiography, amidst Jim Crow violence. How he attended Bates, then became a respected theologian, civil rights leader, and longtime president of Morehouse College. How he became, in the words of biographer Randal Maurice Jelks, “the schoolmaster of the movement” for inspiring generations of African American leaders to “develop their intellectual talents and calibrate their ethical compass in order to challenge injustice.” And how Martin Luther King Jr. famously called Mays “my spiritual mentor and my intellectual father.” Just as Mays is celebrated at Bates and at Morehouse, Greenwood County has stepped up efforts to recognize Mays, said Mays Preservation Site director Chris Thomas. That effort began in 2004, when the GLEAMNS Human Resources Commission, a community organization in Greenwood, bought Mays’ childhood
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Home and moved it to Greenwood from a pasture in Epworth. The Mays Preservation Site, established in 2011, contains the house, a one-room schoolhouse that resembles the Brickhouse School where Mays excelled, and a barn-like structure that serves as a museum and theater. Thomas said the site gets local visitors but also sees church groups from around the country and, importantly, students from schools named after Mays and students touring historically black colleges and universities nearby. “People come away in awe of seeing his life and where he came from, all the obstacles and determination and grit,” Thomas said. “How he ended up at Bates College is a phenomenal story, the childhood dream of a man who lived in this house and was troubled by the idea of black inferiority.” Troubled, Mays took action, leaving the South for the North in order to “prove my worth, my ability” as a person. “He wanted to lay to rest any doubts that he, or anyone else for that matter, might have about his intellectual ability,” said Marcus Bruce ’77, professor of religious studies. “He thought Bates was a place where he could do that — where he would be accepted but also where he could challenge himself and learn to overcome any anxieties or obstacles that might arise.” Throughout his life, “Mays always stated that Bates was an incredibly special part of his life, in addition to his education,” said James Reese, associate dean for international student programs. Those who attended the afternoon unveiling on Nov. 4, which featured talks and musical performances, represented the range of people whose lives Mays touched. There were members of predominantly African American fraternities and sororities. There were Mays’ own family members. There were local government officials. There were the Bates alumni, who were joined by longtime dean Reese.
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Unveiled in Greenwood, S.C., last November, the Benjamin Mays Statue depicts the 1920 Bates alumnus as a young man, holding a Bible.
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Mays “fought for freedom with every fiber of his body and being, all of his life.”
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For Reginald Floyd ’86, driving nearly three hours across South Carolina to witness the unveiling of the Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Statue wasn’t too much trouble to honor a civil rights giant. As Floyd approached Greenwood on the Benjamin Mays Highway, he thought about how his generation stands on “the shoulders of the giants who paved the way for our opportunities. I would not have missed this for the world.” The Rev. Otis Moss, a Mays protege, delivered the keynote address. He described the segregation and violence Mays witnessed growing up. He described how Mays believed deeply that each person was valuable. He admonished the audience to celebrate Mays but to remember those who had lost their lives to racist violence. “We thank God for the life of Benjamin Elijah Mays, a prophet of freedom,” Moss told his audience. “He fought for freedom with every fiber of his body and being, all of his life. We celebrate a life and a legacy, remembering the greatness of an individual who blessed this nation and the world.” Mays demanded excellence from his students at Morehouse, Moss recounted. Through a bequest to Bates, Mays established the Benjamin E. Mays Scholarship Fund, supporting excellence in Bates students as well. Robinson, a Mays Scholar and debater at Bates, said attending the ceremony was “a tremendous honor.” After a career as a bank executive, Robinson recently moved into higher education and now chairs
the business college at Johnson & Wales University. He tries to emulate Mays when he works with students. “To be genuine, to be authentic, to be a listener, to be disciplined, to be firm, to lead by example — you talk to many students of Dr. Mays, and they say these are all the things he did and did very well,” Robinson said. “When a student comes and meets with me, my job is to make them the most important person in that half-hour.” At the unveiling, Alicia Hunter Warner ’94 said the symbolism of the event offered an important historical counterpoint. While the Mays statue was conceived well before the move to take down Confederate monuments gathered momentum, the new statue sends an important message for “civil rights and human rights in our country right now,” she said. Confederate statues, many of them erected decades after the Civil War, reflect the white supremacist values that were prevalent in the South at that time. But the Mays statue says the opposite, reflecting the values of those who reject racism, Thomas said. “Erecting the statue on the site permanently acknowledges that the life and legacy of Mays is what’s best about America and best about American history.” n Video story about the Mays statue dedication bates.edu/mays-statue-video
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OUT OF THE BOX
You can learn a lot about Bates students from the things that are shipped to them by em ily m c co nv i lle p hoto g raphy by phyllis g r abe r je nse n
in 2017, Bates Post & Print
handled (and handed out) more than 70,000 incoming items, from letters to packages to poster tubes to cupcake boxes. On Oct. 10, Elizah Laurenceau ’19 of Astoria, N.Y., picked up two of those items and loaded them onto a hand dolly. One box contained products — maybe a face mask or soda, she thought — that the online magazine Her Campus sent for her to review.
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Another, smaller box contained a few things from home, Laurenceau said — glasses, shoes, and her Halloween costume, an American League baseball jersey with David Ortiz’s name on the back. She and her friends were dressing up as professional athletes’ significant others from the reality show WAGS. Halloween-related deliveries, Post & Print staff had noticed, were going up this week in early
October. In fact, with a package processed about every two minutes, you can learn a lot about Bates students by the stuff they pick up on the first floor of Kalperis Hall. Longboards are now more popular than Razor scooters, said Laurie Henderson, Post & Print director. Yogibo bean bag products are all the rage, and students are increasingly having rugs and bedding shipped to them.
Post & Print staff member Laurie Grimmel helps Elizah Laurenceau ’19 of Astoria, N.Y., load her packages onto a hand dolly last October.
Many students get food and clothes from subscription services like Blue Apron and Stitch Fix, or trust Post & Print’s refrigerator to keep Made by Melissa cupcakes fresh until they can pick them up. What used to require a trip to the Radio Shack in Lewiston Mall (since closed) or Best Buy in Auburn (also closed), or what was simply gone without, can be found online. Joe Inger ’21 of Yarmouth, Maine, used scissors to unwrap a pair of earbuds — “for working out,” he said. Inger said he gets a package about once a week, anything from granola bars to gifts through Amazon. When a package comes in, staff or student workers sort and scan it, creating a label for the item and sending an email notification to the recipient, who picks it up by scanning an ID card. Students can open their packages right in Post & Print or cart larger boxes away in backpacks or with a borrowed hand dolly. Some days, Henderson said, are busier than others. Move-In
Day for first-years is a big one — 244 people received 783 scanned items on Aug. 28 last year. Labor Day, when most upperclass students move in, netted 1,132 items for 632 patrons, and on Valentine’s Day 2017, 660 patrons received 1,176 items. Students receive letters, cards, food, electronics, and more. But mostly it’s packages — many more packages than were delivered even a few years ago. That’s part of why Post & Print is so central-
ized, and why the college eliminated student mailboxes. The one-stop shop was a boon to Katie Stone ’19 of Riverwoods, Ill., who, during a small lunchtime rush on Oct. 10., came away with an armful of packages and letters. Stone said her mail was usually limited to cards and absentee voting information, but relatives and friends had sent her gifts for her upcoming 21st birthday. A Crate & Barrel box came from her
Joe Inger ’21 of Yarmouth, Maine, opens a new pair of earbuds in Post & Print.
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Katie Stone ’19 of Riverwoods, Ill., carries away birthday gifts sent by friends and relatives.
All at Once A steady stream of students crosses Campus Avenue daily en route to Kalperis Hall to pick up packages. But some special days are way busier than others. Here were the top five in 2017:
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best friend, but she declined to speculate on what was inside. “She told me not to open it until [my birthday],” she said. Post & Print has responded to significant shifts in how people send and receive things — “hundreds of pounds” of catalogs have been replaced by postcards or online marketing, said Post & Print assistant director Ed Jawor ’93. But some things, like care packages from relatives, don’t change. Libby Masalsky ’18 of Warwick, R.I., picked up a box sent by her
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Ed Jawor ’93, assistant director of Post & Print, serves a queue of students.
grandmother in Cape Cod and opened it on a nearby table, chatting with friends who were picking up packages themselves. “She’s killing it,” Masalsky said as she pulled out chips, oatmeal, a sweater, and a necklace — her grandmother sends her yardsale finds, she said. Masalsky smiled as she read a Halloweenthemed card, then re-packed the box and went on with her day, her grandmother’s gifts and good thoughts now part of life on campus. n
Up and Up Since 2011, the number of packages received by Post & Print has more than doubled. Source: Post & Print Note: Numbers reflect courierbranded barcodes (e.g., UPS, USPS). Letters and local deliveries are not included.
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Bates alumnae in business know about leadership, and they’re happy to pass their wisdom along to young grads. (But please: come prepared!)
PAIGE BROWN ’96
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The Boston Bates Business Network discussion in September presaged the national discourse on questions of power, voice, and gender-based discrimination.
How can a young woman in business
make her voice heard? How can she find people she can learn from? How can she create opportunities for herself and others — and to what extent should she tolerate a toxic company culture? In September, the Boston Bates Business Network brought together three Bates people who’ve been there: Lisa Utzschneider ’90, former chief revenue officer at Yahoo; Peggy Koenig P’17, co-CEO and managing partner at Abry; and Katie Burke ’03, chief people officer at Hubspot. They shared what they’ve learned in a well-timed
discussion: as the #MeToo movement emerged in the following months, questions of power, voice, and gender-based discrimination have come to the forefront of national discourse, permeating every industry. Jennifer Guckel Porter ’88, a managing partner at The Boda Group, moderated the event. “I’d like to see more women at Bates become great leaders,” she said afterward. “Bates is a perfect preparation for leaders — everything we teach our students about how we think and be discerning, open, and unbiased are hallmarks of great leaders.”
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train yourself to speak up. Utzschneider started her career at Microsoft, where, she said, she was often the only woman at a meeting or on a call. She quickly realized that she needed to make herself heard early and often. Speaking up, Utzschneider said, is like working out. “I worked it like a muscle,” she said. “I said, ‘This is going to be like exercise every single meeting. I’m going to write out my notes; I need to make sure I make three points in the first five minutes.’ I did it over and over and over until I got to the point where it’s second nature.”
find people to lift you up. Early in her career, Burke worked for a political communications firm. A potential client, she said, believed that everyone in a meeting should add value to the gathering. At one meeting, which included the firm’s founders, the client pointed at Burke and said, “I want to hear from her.” As she spoke — “I think I blacked out for a second” — she realized she had added the value the potential client sought. What happened next was just as important: her bosses told her they were proud of her. “It’s a great lesson on both sides,” she said. “I found my authentic voice inadvertently, and I also got great sponsorship and leadership from people who believed in me.”
be prepared and flexible. As a student at Cornell, Koenig volunteered to help with a new student newspaper. Soon, she was in charge of the paper. Though she didn’t expect to be running a publication, she discovered her own entrepreneurial streak and management abilities. Now, she encourages young women to explore their strengths and interests. “Get as many different experiences as you possibly can,” she said. “Expose yourself
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to as many disciplines — like the liberal arts education you get at Bates — or as many different styles of doing things as possible.”
jump at every opportunity. As a junior employee, Utzschneider took the jobs that others avoided. Some of the jobs, such as meeting and greeting top executives, put her in the sight of those executives. They soon knew her by name and listened to her ideas. “Take the job no one wants, tune out the skeptics, and turn it into a success,” she said.
have something to demonstrate. Whether you’re looking for a job or promotion, Burke said, “show, don’t tell.” In other words, don’t just talk about a possible interest. “One of the blessings and curses of a liberal arts education is that we are all curious people,” she said. But a career is not based on what “you might be interested in. I want to hire people at Hubspot who have demonstrated their interests by actually doing something about it.” Burke, who moved up at Hubspot in media and analyst relations and then in recruitment and employee experience, has plenty to show. Her insights on employee experience have been sought out by the mainstream media (also see Class Notes), and she blogs frequently about marketing, tech, and hiring.
ask smart questions. Utzschneider is eager to give advice to younger leaders, but they should come prepared, she said. “The more prescriptive the person is — [telling me] specifically what they need versus a vague, ‘Hey, let’s have coffee and I’ll learn about your 20-year career’ — the more I am able to contribute and give back and do it in a way where it’s constructive and it’s not a waste of time.”
Burke agreed. “Show another person respect by not just asking for their time but doing a little bit of homework and asking some really smart, thoughtful questions.”
find a sponsor. Try looking for sponsors, rather than mentors, Burke said. The two are different: “Mentorship is connecting with people you admire. Sponsorship is asking those people to match what you’re talking about with action and advocacy on your behalf. It’s asking people to open doors for you or recommend you for positions.” The idea gets at the concept that everyone has something to offer, and anyone can be of help. “Rather than waiting for the second coming of the person who can teach you everything that you need to know,” Burke said, “assume that everyone you meet knows something you don’t,” and learn from them.
lead by example. The best advice Koenig ever got, from a predecessor at Abry, was that everyone was always watching. “You lead by example, and that means how you act and behave and treat people is really what people are going to key in on,” she said. Utzschneider put that into practice during a tumultuous time at Yahoo, which ended when the company was acquired by Verizon. (Utzschneider left after the acquisition.) Being a leader at Yahoo, she said, reminded her of sailing, one of her hobbies. When the boat is on the water and a storm brews, everyone on the boat looks to the captain. “Something I’ve really developed over time, especially when there is so much going on internally and externally, is to show up calm and consistent every day,” she said. “That’s something I’m very proud of with my team at Yahoo, because I weathered that storm with them, and we got through to the acquisition. “If you’re calm, they’re calm.”
know your workplace.
create your own opportunities.
At Microsoft, Utzschneider started at the “most junior level that you could start at. I walked miles in the shoes of almost every function on my team. I think that makes me a very authentic leader.”
During a question-and-answer session after the panel, a young Bates alumna said her boss’s feedback was demeaning and her company’s culture unfriendly to women. “Think about what’s fixable,” Burke said. “Your leadership is not the problem. Often, companies’ problems are more entrenched.”
create opportunities for other leaders. There is enough room for everyone, Burke said. “I believe there are places for women, and the best male leaders create space for these female leaders. The best men I ever worked for, including the men I work with now, create active opportunities.”
think big. Try for the grand slam, and it’s OK to strike out once in a while. “Anyone can have average ideas. So, do courageous, remarkable things,” said Burke, who added that she’s a “big believer in crazy big ideas: that power of loneliness and courage, being the person raising your hand and saying, ‘I have a really good idea, and I don’t actually care if anyone else thinks I can do it.’” n
communicate. and communicate. “I try to be as transparent as possible,” said Utzschneider. “I over-communicate. I communicate often. I try to lead the way I want to be led.”
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Newcomer Matt Jadud is building — or rather inventing — a distinctive digital and computational studies program at Bates by em ily m c c onv i lle photo g raphy by ph y lli s g r abe r je nse n Appointed to the Bates faculty this year, Matt Jadud has a rare task in higher education: building a brand-new academic program, in this case the college’s nascent Digital and Computational Studies program. The inaugural Colony Family Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies — a new faculty position funded though The Bates Campaign — Jadud will oversee the hiring of two more professors in DCS while developing the overall look and feel of the curriculum, following a roadmap developed by Bates faculty over the last couple of years. Jadud knows what kind of people he wants for the DCS program — and what type of program Bates should have. “I want people who are thinking hard about the human condition behind the technological condition,” he says. “And the Bates program will have a commitment to structures that are fundamentally inclusive and that value diversity.” In training and temperament, Jadud is well-equipped for the job. A physics major at Kenyon College, Jadud studied education and computer science in graduate school. For his doctoral thesis at the University of Kent, in England, he explored how beginners go about writing computer programs and developed ways to determine if and how a student is struggling with learning to program. Jadud comes to Bates after five years at Berea College, a Kentucky liberal-arts college with a profound commitment to justice, equity, and accessibility. He wants Bates students, like his Berea students, to be heavily involved in his “fundamentally human-centered” teaching and research, which focuses on how students learn computing as well as on designing and developing low-cost, open hardware for sensing and automation.
What will distinguish Bates’ DCS program?
First and foremost, the program will have that commitment to structures that are fundamentally inclusive and that value diversity. I take that very seriously. In a reasonable number of years, I want more than 50 percent of the students graduating from DCS to be women, because more than 50 percent of the students at Bates are women. There should be nothing structural — nothing about how we design and build the program — that discriminates implicitly or explicitly against any of our students. Second is its commitment to integration with the liberal arts. Most computer science departments are silos, charged with graduating computer science majors. We’ll move beyond a model where every student takes one course in programming, but instead ask, what does it mean as a student of literature to have a background in computing and apply that to your field of study in a way that is true to what you’re pursuing?
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Matt Jadud works with students in his course on the design of digital and computational systems.
What do you hope a student who majors in DCS takes away from the experience, both in terms of technical knowledge and how they think about computing in relation to the world around them?
There are three big themes. First is learning to program. Second is learning to think about problems, decompose them, integrate the needs of both technical and human concerns into the solution to that problem — that’s design thinking. Third is thinking about the broader human context in which the work is situated. We’ve been talking a lot this semester about issues of race and gender in computing and how they impact the way we view ourselves, others, people we work with, the way we approach solutions. If students only took DCS I or II and never programmed again, within five years that technical knowledge likely would have faded away. But I would hope they would remember to question themselves and those around them, when it comes to assumptions we make about people and how our biases can negatively impact how we try to solve problems in the world. You were a physics major at Kenyon. How did you become interested in computer science? At some point did you think, “I’m going to do this long-term?”
Computer science snuck up on me. It was the opportunities that presented themselves along the way that shaped my direction. In college, I taught myself a little bit of programming and did independent study with a professor.
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In grad school, at Indiana University, I enjoyed the courses in computer science. I thought I would get a master’s and go into industry. But I was funded through a teaching assistantship, and I enjoyed teaching more than I expected. Then I discovered at Indiana, there was an entire school of education — crazy, I know — and people could actually study education. I started taking courses in education and picked up most of a master’s in education along with my master’s degree in computer science. I realized I could dive deep into the intersection of education and computer science and look at how students learn programming, and I grounded my Ph.D. work in that interdisciplinary space. What do you find most fascinating about computer science?
I think most questions involving the human condition are hard, so I like questions about how we learn and how we can support students in learning most effectively. I also enjoy some of the technical questions and the constructive aspects of the discipline. I have learned over the years how to design and build hardware, and it provides me with an easy space to collaborate with others. It’s hard for me to walk up to most faculty and say, “Would you like to collaborate on a computing education research project?” That’s a little tricky. It’s easier to say, “Is there a way we can integrate sensing and computing, and use that as an interface between the work that we do?” That’s a lot more common, and it creates a lot of spaces for students to engage.
What was your experience at Berea, and how did it inform what you are doing at Bates?
Berea was really very formative. It’s a mission-driven institution. Bates’ and Berea’s founding stories are almost identical: Both founded in 1855 by an abolitionist minister who believed, regardless of the color of your skin, man or woman, you should have access to an education. That story of access still resonates strongly at Bates today. It’s something I was drawn to, and is part of what I’m most excited about with the DCS position. At Berea, every student must work at the institution for a minimum of 10 hours a week. It reshapes how you think about working with students. A TA becomes an integral part of the classroom experience, because you must employ them 10 hours a week. I’m looking forward to leveraging aspects of that model here through our Purposeful Work program. What drives you to make the tech field more inclusive?
We know that diverse teams produce better solutions. We should know that intuitively, and research bears it out time and again. Diverse teams are more creative and more productive. That said, we have implicit and explicit biases that, unfortunately, students start to experience from an early age, so we have an uphill battle at the college level. Whenever we fall into easy patterns, it’s easy to gravitate towards the people who are like us. I imagine community-engaged learning playing a critical role, students working with the community and applying what they’re learning as students of DCS — and then the capstone
or thesis experience. That’s the skeleton of the program. We want Bates graduates to be the most prepared to succeed in a global economy, in a diverse world, in a world that’s wrestling with its diversity, especially when we’re seeing a rise of people closing their borders and closing themselves down to people who are not like them. We need to honor and respect diversity and difference. So why in computing?
Computing touches everyone, and when graduates of DCS go on and, for example, work in the AdWords group at Google and develop algorithms that shape what people see based on keyword searches and advertising marketplaces, they become part of shaping what we see and think every day in invisible ways. I want people who are thinking hard about the human condition behind and beyond the technological condition for all of those reasons and more. Your website says that your research is “fundamentally human-centered.” What does that mean in the context of the DCS program and your work with students?
A lot of my work, which I’m doing with colleagues at Virginia Tech and UNC Charlotte, looks at how students learn. It’s not uncommon for students to come in with a growth mindset — “I can learn programming” — then experience programming and go, “Oh, you have to be really smart to learn programming, and I’m not really smart.” That’s a fixed mindset, the belief that you can only succeed if you have whatever the magic is, and you believe other people have that magic, not you. How can we structure the learning and the tools we use for that learning to move students towards that growth mindset instead of that fixed mindset? It’s more about the people than the technology. Often, when I think about doing sensing research, we’re informing decisions that people are making.
Sometimes it’s about the environment that we’re living in — the air quality in homes, for example. There aren’t many things that I do that aren’t ultimately about students or about the lived experience of people. With that in mind, what are the most meaningful projects that you’ve done?
All of the computing education work and work around sensing and robotics have served as fertile ground for students to engage in research. In that regard, making that work accessible to students has been very impactful for those students, to provide them with a place to explore and grow. I’ve had the opportunity to publish with my students and work with them to see the entirety of the research process, from ideation through reporting and publication. What does the ideal DCS program look like?
There are two or three courses that are essentially focused on fundamentals of programming. There’s probably a two-course sequence about learning to work in teams to solve complex problems. We need some space for depth both in terms of programming and team-based problem solving. Integrated throughout this should be conversations about diversity and inclusion and how we work with and on the human condition. I imagine community-engaged learning playing a critical
role, students working with the community and applying what they’re learning as students of DCS — and then the capstone or thesis experience. That’s the skeleton of the program. A student majoring in DCS will have a foundation for lifelong learning in computing, and they will have the depth to acquit themselves well walking into a technological space. What can your students expect from you as a teacher?
They can expect me to listen to them when they talk about what does and does not work for them. They can expect me to challenge them to take risks, and to have fun doing it. One of the things I have the hardest time with is getting students to move past, “Is this right?” and instead say, “Look what I did!” We condition students over the course of 18 years that’s there’s an answer they need to come to, when what’s more important is learning to take risks and learn from the experiences they have, successful or otherwise. I want a mindset of showing up and doing and reflecting, then we’ll layer on how to achieve excellence so we can go out into the world. If you learn to learn, that’s a powerful skill, and the only way to do it is to practice it, to experiment, and to take risks and try things. That’s what I want for these students, because computing is full of so many cool things. Go out there and do something with it. n
Matt Jadud shows off his “textbook,” a gadget that teaches the young and young at heart how to code, in his Pettengill Hall office.
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LOOK WHAT WE FOUND The stuff in a faculty office opens a window into the soul of its occupant p hoto g raphy by phyllis g r abe r je nse n “When you ask professors to choose something to be photographed, they know right away what they’ll select,” says Bates photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen. She ought to know. For BatesNews, Graber Jensen photographs and writes the online feature “Look What We Found,” which presents images of cherished faculty and staff belongings paired with their comments. For this magazine feature, she’s chosen a few recent installments; it’s a collection that harkens back to a similar Bates Magazine story 14 years ago. As the late George Carlin said, “That’s all you
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need in life: a little place for your stuff. That’s all your house is: a place to keep your stuff.” And our work offices, like little houses away from home, are places to keep our stuff. Most offices are filled with prized possessions and mementos, and when it’s time to retire, a professor has to move their stuff out. It can’t stay. Or can it? More than a few items stay in circulation, passing from an older professor to a younger one. “It’s a rite of passage for retiring faculty,” says Graber Jensen: “Give away all that you can’t bear to trash.” — HJB
‘SHEER JOYFULNESS’ who: Associate Professor of Theater Christine McDowell what: 1970s-era platform shoes where: Room 206, Pettigrew Hall The groovy platform shoes are among 200-plus pairs of vintage shoes belonging to McDowell. Some she found, and some have been given to her. The most spectacular ones end up in her office, either on the bookshelves or in a walk-in closet where she stashes various costume and design treasures, such as a still-trendy Victorian piece of mourning jewelry made from hair.
“It’s curious how when you show an interest in something particular, people start giving things to you. In and of themselves the shoes are fantastic works of art, but they are also a marker for period color palettes and overall cultural aesthetic. They’re another aspect of costume history, and a way to identify eras and look at cultural and aesthetic trends. Students really connect with them because they’re like toys. Other than the sheer joyfulness of those shoes, I like to put them on. I feel quite cool — and tall — when I put them on.”
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‘THE RIGHT INSTRUMENT’ who: Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Andrew Kennedy what: A vintage gold-plated Bausch and Lomb compound microscope where: Room 322, Dana Chemistry Hall The microscope was once owned by Kennedy’s great-grandfather, T. Francis Kennedy, a prominent early-20th century physician in Rhode Island. His son, John Kennedy, used it during his own medical studies, and John’s wife, Muriel Kennedy, used it when she was a nurse.
“My grandmother told me, ‘You can see anything if it exists and you have the right instrument.’ Some of my students arrive set on a certain career path. Then they see new things through the lens of Bates, and have different experiences and ideas. This instrument has been useful to different people in different ways, and has been owned by a scientist, by a physician, and a nurse: three professions that have commonalities. A Bates student who graduates in a STEM field can travel in many different directions.”
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‘PRESIDING GENIUS’ who: Senior Lecturer in English Robert Farnsworth what: Robert Frost bust where: Room 300, Hathorn Hall Robert Farnsworth, poet and senior lecturer in English, has a beautiful view of the Historic Quad from his third-floor office in Hathorn Hall. The poet is being viewed, too. High atop a bookshelf sits a bust of Robert Frost, a gift from a retiring colleague 20-odd years ago.
“He’s kind of a presiding genius — a tiki, a Polynesian saint — who keeps an eye on me, and I hope he’s an influence on the students who come to study poetry. Frost is indispensable. He had one of the best ears for how people actually talk, for the meters of prosody in American English. And he put those things to work in extraordinary ways — with canniness, a slant way of getting at big truths without rhetorical flourish in a very immediate and ordinary sort of way.”
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‘IT WAS COMFORTABLE’ who: Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken what: Green pleather chair where: Room 304, Pettengill Hall Tieken, an expert in rural education, was a young college grad in 2002 when she made a spontaneous visit to an elementary school in Vanleer, Tenn., and sat in the chair as she talked with the principal. Two months later, she was hired, and she acquired the chair when the school moved into a new building.
“It was the chair I sat in when I read to my third-graders. We read all sorts of books in this chair. I sat in that chair in my apartment to study. I wrote my dissertation in that chair. So much of teaching is about the human element. It’s about having the courage to put yourself out there as a teacher or learner, because there’s still a third-grader in all of us. I like that that chair reminds me of all that.”
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‘THOSE GUYS, THAT CONNECTION’ who: Assistant Professor of History Patrick Otim what: Life-size cutout of Frederick Douglass where: Room 111, Pettengill Hall The cutout was created by the history faculty to attract prospective history majors. Then it moved into Otim’s office. A native of northern Uganda, Otim attended high school at Sacred Heart Seminary in the city of Gulu, where the library had a picture of Frederick Douglass with this quote: “Some men know the value of education by having it. I know its value by not having it.”
“I know now that photo and quote was strategically placed in our library to inspire us to take our studies seriously. I didn’t grasp that then, but the name Frederick Douglass stuck with me. The cutout transports me back to when I was in the seminary. Some of the memories are good, some bad. There was violence at the hands of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Some of my classmates were arrested by the rebels, some died. I can’t stop thinking about those guys, that connection.”
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‘ALL THE ISSUES’ who: Dana Professor of Anthropology Loring Danforth what: Barbie and Fulla dolls where: Room 206, Pettengill Hall Barbie dolls are iconic messengers of gender, class, sexuality, sexual orientation, and race in American culture. But Leena Nasser ’12 of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, told Danforth about Fulla dolls, a Barbie alternative marketed to children in Islamic countries. She gave Danforth a Fulla doll, and he later acquired another.
“The dolls’ juxtaposition raises all the issues about burkini bans and hijab bans and the relationship between what women wear and women’s rights. I try to get people to think about their own culture the way they think about other cultures, and vice versa. Anthropologists make small, trivial things like Barbie dolls or Fulla dolls speak to larger issues like the role of women in Islam or women’s rights in the Middle East.”
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‘INCREDIBLY DISRESPECTED’ who: Associate Professor of Politics Leslie Hill what: Laminated newspaper ad where: Room 167, Pettengill Hall A laminated, but yellowed, newspaper clipping recalls a historic moment of protest. During confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991, Hill and 1,600 other black women signed a full-page ad in The Sunday New York Times titled “African American Women in Defense of Ourselves.” The ad protested the treatment of Anita Hill (no relation to Leslie), the black attorney who accused Thomas of sexual harassment.
“The hearings took place when it was becoming very clear that black women do not experience oppression and discrimination in the same way as white women. So there was this fury about both Anita Hill’s treatment and how black women’s experiences were being dismissed. I use this in my teaching today because I do think it is now possible to talk about these issues in ways that do not exclude the experience of women of color.”
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‘PART OF MY LIFE’ who: Assistant Professor of German Jakub Kazecki what: Vintage German Club medal where: Room 229, Roger Williams Hall This medal was produced for members of the Bates German Club shortly after the club’s 1905 founding. One side is adapted from the German empire coat of arms, with an eagle holding two shields, one for Bates and the other for the U.S. The flip side reads, “Deutscher Verein zu Bates, 1905” (German Club of Bates). The medal was given to Bates by Cecelia Mittman of Virginia, who purchased it at an estate sale.
“Alumni who had these medals probably looked at them many times. They remembered their German Club parties with apples and popcorn, lectures about German culture, and German songs. Students graduate and start their lives, but they produce pieces of material culture at Bates that anchor their experience here and bring them back to Bates. I think that is why it’s important to me. It’s part of my life now — part of my own Bates identity.”
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‘I LIKE HER SMILE’ who: Associate Professor of Biology Lee Abrahamsen what: Tiara-wearing taxidermy pig where: Room 313, Carnegie Science Hall The pig is not a Wilbur-type pig but a javelina, common in South America and the U.S. Southwest. The pig entered Abrahamsen’s life in 1989 when she and colleague Pamela Baker ’69 began to share a faculty position and an office in Carnegie. The pig was in a trash pile, part of the cleaning out of the old Stanton Museum.
“I like her smile — I’ve always liked her smile. And her snout. And it’s a reminder that all the cells and molecules that we taught about really did add up to be organisms of amazing kinds. Pam and I just always called her ‘the pig.’ We thought about it over the years and just couldn’t come up with a good name, which is odd. I name everything. At one point, Pam and I decided that everybody should have a tiara.”
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FOR FIRST-GENS, SUCCESS THAT LASTS The Bobcat First! program helps Bates’ first-generation-to-college students thrive by d o ug hubley
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support, and, crucially, a certain sense of identity and self-confidence — all designed to promote participants’ success at Bates and beyond. Nationally, degree attainment for first-gen students tends to lag behind continuing generation students. (Over a six-year average, 4 percent fewer first-gens in the cohorts starting at Bates from 2007 to 2010 attained a degree than continuing-generation students.) “First-generation students don’t have the same resources as students whose parents have college degrees,” says Nina Flores ’20 of Floresville, Texas. One of 30 B1st participants in 2016, Flores is now a peer mentor in the program. “There’s no one in our families to talk with us about their college experiences,” she explains. That means, among other things, that academic customs, procedures, and jargon can come as a complete surprise to the first-gen student. “And often we come from school systems that leave us less prepared for college courses,” Flores continues. “It’s a lot of pressure to keep yourself motivated, especially if there’s no one at home who can relate to the difficulties and guide us through them.” A yearlong program for each cohort of first-year, first-
Portland Head Light is reflected in the sunglasses of Perla Figuereo ’21 of the Bronx during a Bobcat First pre-Orientation trip last August.
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Breaking the ice with a group of first-year students, Darby Ray says, “Tell me, in one word, how you’re feeling.” It’s a morning in late August, and the group fills a lounge in Bates’ Harward Center for Community Partnerships. Ray, the Harward Center’s director, goes on to label her own mood: curious. The students chime in. One, like Ray, is curious. Another is surprised, a third anxious. Nervous, observant, happy — all perfectly credible feelings for students new to college. But these young adults are “new to college” in a way that’s uncommon in the Class of 2021 and at Bates generally: They are among the 66 members of the incoming class, or about 13 percent, who represent the first generation of their families to go on to higher education. This first-generation leap forward comes with some distinctive experiences. Equipping first-gen students to encounter those experiences is the Bates initiative Bobcat First!, now in its third year. The program builds community and a sense of belonging for first-gens, and enriches their understanding of the (often unspoken) rules for navigating college. Bobcat First! provides practical know-how, networking
“There’s no one in our families to talk with us about their college experiences.”
generation students, B1st consists of an immersive week on campus just prior to regular first-year Orientation, followed throughout the academic year with monthly group lunches and other gatherings, both social and informational. The program is opt-in: Both this year and last, roughly half of eligible students chose to take part. During that initial August immersion, participants “live together and participate in pro-
grams designed to help them transition and feel at home here,” explains Jessica Perez, assistant dean of students for student transition and support. She co-directs the program with Julisa De Los Santos, interim director of the Office of Intercultural Education. “So by the time regular Orientation starts, they are feeling pretty good about being here.” During the 2017 pre-Orientation week, participants resided
in Small and Cheney houses, wood-frame houses a few doors apart on College Street. Faculty and staff led workshops on such practical topics as time management, student employment, and academic planning. There were visits to campus departments and resources, such as the session that introduced the group to the Harward Center. First-gens, says Perez, may “walk into a college not knowing
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what ‘office hours’ are. When a professor says, ‘Sign up for office hours,’ you’ve never heard that phrase before. It’s helpful for someone to actually define that.” “Talking to professors was a lot easier” after the pre-Orientation week, says Ryan Lizanecz ’20 of Portland, Maine. Like Flores, he was in B1st in 2016, the inaugural year for the current programming, and is now a B1st peer mentor. “Talking to, really, any staff or faculty, being comfortable on campus — just everything was so much easier.” Also during the first week, a campus scavenger hunt powered by the GooseChase app helped the newbies learn Bates landmarks. (Overheard during the hunt: “The lake is over there.” “You mean the Puddle?”) But the hunt was also intended to help the students learn about each other. “I couldn’t imagine living the first year at Bates without knowing the group first,” says participant Jinzhi Wei ’20 of Liuzhou, China. “I was lucky to
Clockwise from top left: Firstyear students cheer a bowling strike during a pre-Orientation Bobcat First! outing last August; Nour Al Twal ’21 of Madaba, Jordan, attends a B1st party at semester’s end in December; Ryan Lizanecz ’20 of Portland, Maine, says his first year at Bates was “so much easier” thanks to B1st; Tiffany Cervantes ’21 (center) of New Haven, Conn., poses with her family during a Back to Bates reception in the Office of Intercultural Education.
find people that can empathize and resonate with me.” “I found the closest group of Bates friends that I have” through the program, Lizanecz says. “We all stay in touch. We can always talk to each other.” In short, making connections both within and beyond the B1st cohort is key to the program. And it’s connection-building on a broad scale. During Back to Bates Weekend, in September, the Office of Intercultural Education hosted a reception for B1st students and their families. It was a warm and festive event attended by President Spencer and members of the college’s senior staff. Parents “want to connect with someone,” says De Los Santos. “They are really thoughtful and want to be a part of the process. We tell parents that this is also for them, this is their process — ‘This is a celebration not just of your student, but of yourselves. This is a family accomplishment.’” B1st students also meet alumni who were themselves first-gen students at Bates. As De Los Santos says, the Bates education is “not just about their experience here but beyond.” And first-gens also often lack the career-enhancing social connections that accompany a family history of higher education. “It’s great to hear from alumni who are first-gen,” De Los Santos says. “They talk about their first jobs, and how you negotiate a salary. Or, if you have multiple, intersectional identities, how does that play out in a position?” De Los Santos adds, “Sometimes first-gens and their parents have a very linear way of thinking of careers. In my family it was a lot about doctor,
lawyer — careers that we were familiar with. And alumni allow students to think creatively about using what you have learned here and about your purpose in life.” (A theme echoed in Bates’ Purposeful Work programming.) Lizanecz agrees. “I discovered through alumni that not all their paths were so clear-cut,” he says. “Maybe you don’t have to do everything perfectly to get where you want to be. That was really important, and for me it was an eye-opening experience.” By example as much as anything, Bobcat First! also imparts signature Bates values — community and diversity. “I’ve seen that through this program very easily,” Lizanecz says. And in keeping with the fundamental Bates notion of the transformational power of differences, the program encourages its participants to embrace their first-gen identity, rather than feeling like it’s something they have to compensate for. “Your first-gen identity, you essentially carry it for the rest of your life,” De Los Santos says. “You can name it and let them know, ‘A lot of other folks are feeling how you’re feeling, and struggling the same ways that you’re struggling, and this is why.’” (A total of 235 Bates students are first-generation.) “It’s really rewarding to see them get invested in the Bates community,” says Perez, “and find ways to become leaders here, and do things that they might not have thought that they would do otherwise. “They bring a lot of strength and grit with them,” she says. “These students are often very proud and excited that they can be here. And they should be.” n
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By many measures, America’s poorest citizens are also its most patriotic. A Bates sociologist wanted to know why by d o u g h u bley The bottom line for impoverished Americans is, of course, that they have less money than their fellow citizens. Which leads to other things they likely have less of: nutritious food, personal safety, health benefits, vacation time, career opportunities, child care, retirement funds, peace of mind. And the list goes on. Still, there’s one thing the poorest Americans do possess in abundance: patriotism. It’s a fact: By many measures, the Americans who have the least nevertheless love their country the most, despite ample cause for feeling the opposite. Paradoxical, no? It struck Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina that way, too. But, as he learned in researching his latest book, it isn’t really a paradox after all. Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country lets economically disadvantaged people explain their devotion to the United States. Published last year by Stanford University Press, it’s a compilation of views that may move readers to think again about America’s poorest citizens — whose patriotism, as Duina suggests, fueled the 2016 White House aspirations of both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Visiting four municipalities in Alabama and Montana, Duina interviewed more than 60 subjects who had poverty in common but were otherwise quite diverse. The book is his third study of American culture, after Winning: Reflections on an American Obsession, from 2011, and 2014’s Life Transitions in America. Duina notes that while social scientists have studied the patriotism of many groups, this is the first research to look specifically at the patriotism of low-income Americans. What led you to write Broke and Patriotic? I could understand why those Americans who were well-off would be patriotic. But I wanted to understand why low-income Americans are so patriotic when there are reasons to think that they would have issues with their country or its underlying social contract, considering their personal circumstances. As you point out, worse-off folks in places like Sweden and France typically enjoy greater public benefits than America’s poor. And yet poor Americans are more patriotic than their counterparts in other wealthy countries. What I thought to be a puzzle is, for them, not a puzzle at all. First, they don’t attribute their situation to their country — they don’t say, “I’m
in this situation because of the society I live in.” They take ownership of their life histories. And so why would they be resentful toward their country? Also — and this is one of the most moving things that I discovered — if anything, the idea of the greatness of America actually gives them something to hang onto, despite everything. “Everything else has gone poorly for me. Don’t take my being an American away from me, because it’s the one thing that I can still hang onto with pride.” I would push them by saying, “Well, what about rich people? Do you think it’s unfair that they have what they have?” They’d say, “No, they’ve earned everything they’ve made.” You describe three common elements, broadly speaking, within your respondents’ love of country. They feel that America represents an exceptional promise of hope, and also that the U.S. is both wealthy and generous — the land of milk and honey. But what hit home for me was how they explained America’s greatness in terms of American freedoms. One of the interviewees who most struck me was Marshall, in Montana, who chose to be homeless, in a way. He said, “Look, I am so free. I can be homeless, and they don’t force me to go anywhere. I live on the prairie, I’m working on an app right now, and I’m taking a sabbatical from life. What other country would allow me to just do my thing?” That is really a trait of American society in many ways: “We’re all equal and therefore this equality guarantees me some sense of freedom. I may have nothing, but I have that freedom. I can come and go, do whatever I want, and say whatever I want. This country guarantees that.” And the fact that they would recognize and hold onto that was really moving. What I heard satisfied my curiosity. Culturally, the United States is very free — freedom of religion, freedom of thought, freedom of saying and doing whatever you want to do. And they’re accurately describing that. There’s certainly more conformity in many countries, a lot more pressure to do things in certain ways. A respondent that you call Eddie said the U.S. is “the last best hope of man on Earth.” That’s quite a sentiment. Great guy, very talented. Many of the people I spoke with perceive the country to be a special project designed to give deliverance, to free humanity from problems that have plagued people throughout history. The hope that the U.S. represents for humanity is what gives them hope and dignity as well, and what makes them continue, despite the odds.
Left, Francesco Duina interviewed Becky, who lives in rural Montana and is a fervent patriot with a family history of military service. “She feels that in America, nothing can hold one back from achieving their dreams,” says Duina. Spring 2018
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“We should all try and understand their patriotism. Much depends on it.” Many of them were very optimistic as a result. Something I heard a lot was, “Tomorrow something is going to change. I’m poised for a change.” And then there’s the American Dream, the U.S. as the land of milk and honey. Yeah, despite all of the data that suggests that, in fact, there’s less social mobility nowadays in the United States than in many other advanced countries, and your personal financial success is tied to contextual and structural things, not personal qualities — there’s clearly a sense that this is a place of enormous wealth, and that the American Dream is still alive. I would say, “But you know, you don’t get as much as other people in other countries.” And they would say, “Well, I don’t know what other people get, but I get a lot. I’m not going to go hungry tonight. There will be kitchens and shelters that I can go to and churches that will help me. So the wealth will reach me. And if I have a problem, it’s my problem, not the system’s problem.” How is this book relevant to our current politics? I think this discourse of American greatness is something that Trump tapped into very, very much. To the extent that one wonders why
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“Make America great again” resonated so well, you have elements of the answer in this book, whether with low-income people or middleclass people. I would think that Bernie Sanders also tapped into it a bit, but in a very different way. Who is the book written for? People who are interested in understanding the United States, how it functions, what keeps it together — what is at the heart of its social contract, its national identity. My respondents have a genuine attachment to the idea of America, and I think that’s because, in the end, what one discovers is that America is for the people and the people own it. We should all try and understand their patriotism. Much depends on it. They contribute heavily to the military — their investment in the country, in a way, contributes to stability and social peace. As long as they believe in the American Dream and in the United States as a country, they are unlikely to demand fundamental changes of society. And so, if we want to understand why the United States is a stable country, we have to understand why people latch on so tightly to it, even though they appear to be suffering and getting a lot less than the poor elsewhere. n
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As Michelle, a middle-aged black woman in Birmingham, told me, a relatively senior job as manager at a McDonald’s restaurant means a paycheck of only eight hundred to nine hundred dollars a month, while working in construction in Billings translates, at least for Kevin, a young white man, into ten thousand dollars a year. Even without children or other dependents, these are inadequate amounts for a decent living. These Americans struggle. But in their minds and hearts there is little doubt that their country is exceptional. They feel that there is something transcendental about America. It has a special place in the history of the world. They view the United States, despite its shortcomings, as still the shining city on a hill: a place designed and intended to represent deliverance from the ills that have plagued humanity throughout history to this very day. America, in a word, represents hope, both for humanity and for each individual person in the country, including, crucially, themselves. This belief in the exceptionality of the United States became all the more stark when the interviewees spoke of other countries. Pictures of oppressive and destitute places were frequently evoked. While other countries deprive their citizens of all kinds of basic necessities, America — with its principles and immense practical generosity — offers reprieve and the possibility of a better future. For someone struggling every day to make ends meet, such promises are particularly valuable. The idea of exceptionality was further reinforced by a belief that, while God is kind and loves everyone equally, he holds America in a special place in its heart: America is God’s country. And with this there was also an almost tragic sense, described by several, that one has to believe in America: when all else seems to be a struggle, faith in country, and in America in particular, is a must. An excerpt from Francesco Duina’s book Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country
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class president Vesta Starrett Smith vestasmith@charter.net
1948 Reunion 2018, June 8–10
1938 class secretary Marion Welsch Spear mspear1@attglobal.net
1940 class secretary Leonard Clough leonard.clough@yahoo.com
class secretary Roberta Sweetser McKinnell c/o Roberta Sawyer 1711 SW Foxpoint Trail Palm City FL 34990 class president Vivienne Sikora Gilroy vgilroy@verizon.net
1949 Reunion 2019, June 7–9
1941 class co-presidents Elizabeth Gardner Margaret Rand alpegrand@aol.com
1943 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class president Samuel Stoddard sstoddard@gmail.com
1944 Reunion 2019, June 7–9
class secretary Carol Jenkinson Johnson rollincarol@comcast.net class president Nelson “Bud” Horne budhorne@gmail.com
1950 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class president Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com
1951 Reunion 2021, June 11–13
1945 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Carleton Finch cfinch612@gmail.com
1946 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Helen Pratt Clarkson hclarkson1@juno.com class president Jane Parsons Norris janenorris@roadrunner.com
1947 Reunion 2022, June 10–11 class secretary Jean Labagh Kiskaddon jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com
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class secretary Dorothy Webb Quimby dwquimby@unity.edu class co-presidents Bill Dill wmrdill@gmail.com Jean McLeod Dill
1952 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Marilyn Coffin Brown mcbrown13@verizon.net class president John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net Nate Boone received the Alumni Community Service Award. In addition to his service to Bates and his community in Manchester, Vt., Nate and 419 fellow U.S. Marines, known as the Montford
Point Marines, collectively received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2012 for their pioneering achievements as the nation’s first African American Marines. The citation for Nate’s Bates award reads, in part: “Nate persevered in the face of prejudice, heeding the call to service, and helped to break the color barrier for future generations serving in the U.S. military. Nate, thank you for your courage and heroism, as well as your long dedication to the Bates values of service and civic responsibility.”
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closer to Manon’s sister and family outside Dallas. Cappy struggles with oxygen 24/7, which she doesn’t need at sea level, i.e., Dallas. “This downsizing stuff is a pain in the you know what! Especially after 44 years in the same house.”…Franklin Smith is tied to dialysis three days a week. “Legs don’t work as well as I’d like (we have two wheelchairs), and I’ve given up driving, but enjoy living next to four of six grandchildren plus 8-year-old twins visiting from Boulder, Colo., so life is never dull.”
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class secretary Ronald Clayton rondot@comcast.net
email coordinator Douglas Campbell dougcamp@comcast.net
class co-presidents Virginia LaFauci Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Richard F. Coughlin dcoughlin@maine.rr.com
class co-secretaries Wilma Gero Clapham claphamwilma@bell.net Margaret Leask Olney pegolney@verizon.net
The Rev. John MacDuffie published a chapter entitled “Mental Health as I Age” in a new book, Aging Wisely...Wisdom of Our Elders (Jones & Bartlett Learning), edited by Irving I. Silverman and Ellen Beth Siegel. The book is a compendium of essays by 75 seniors and the professionals who care for them, on a wide range of topics about how people age and how they can do better.
class co-presidents Judith Kent Patkin actionpsj@aol.com Richard H. Pierce rhpierce52@gmail.com
1954 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com class president Dwight Harvie dwightwharvie@gmail.com
1955 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net class vice president Merton Ricker mertr33@gmail.com
1956 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Frederic Huber fredna56@comcast.net class co-presidents Alice Brooke Gollnick agollnick725@gmail.com Gail Molander Goddard acgpension@tds.net After nearly 25 years of living on the shores of Lake Lanier, Nancy Glennon Baumgardner moved to Lanier Village Estates, a retirement community on the northern edge of Gainesville, Ga., within sight of the North Georgia Mountains and Lake Lanier....Cappy Parker and Manon are moving to Texas, hopefully this fall, to be
1958 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com class president John Lovejoy Marilyn Miller Gildea writes, “As I prepare the class newsletter, I’m getting a good response from classmates planning to attend our 60th Reunion. We know that it will be the last one that many of us will attend.”…Paula Schilling Foreman is “grateful for life, love, family, and health. At the same time I weep for our world, sign petitions, lobby, send money, and march!”…Jerome Stanbury lives and sails in Annapolis, Md....Jane Taylor, in Denver, plays with her retired racing greyhounds, gardens, and plays bridge. “Would love to see any Bates people who come to Denver.”
1959 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-secretaries Jack DeGange jack.degange@comcast.net Mary Ann Houston Hermance donmar23@gmail.com class co-presidents Barbara Van Duzer Babin barbarababin@comcast.net Christian O. Miller milleridge@sbcglobal.net Don and Delight Harmon Reese ’61 are active in the UU church. Her gardens are a little smaller but still beautiful. He’s still on the Hampstead (N.H.) Board of Adjustment and continues as a CASA, court-appointed special advocate for children. He hopes to concentrate on skiing, fat
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bike, and quadcopter videography....Clif Jacobs serves as the organist at the Mount Carroll (Ill.) First Baptist Church and frequently performs old-time tunes on the piano at nursing homes and community events. In 2017, he and Mary Lou celebrated 50 years of marriage....Bud Martin does limited work at the law firm he’s been affiliated with for 55 years. He spent 35 years as a district judge on family cases. He cares for 56 apple trees which produce 200 bushels of apples, selling some and pressing the rest to make sweet and hard cider. Wife Margaret practices law and manages lawyers and staff....Ralph Posner is “working some, gambling some, traveling a lot.”…Jay Tanzer and Lois are “quasi-retired, enjoying what we do, getting our fill of concerts, theater. and good reading. Deeply troubled about what is happening to our beautiful country.” He’s “quite exercised” about a recent journal report of a 10-year study of American Indian children, who have caries at rates 10 to 30 times higher than the severe childhood caries rates in the American population at large. “Have written letter to the editor in hope of producing a stir in the literature about this. I and colleagues have proposed that one must address this phenomenon primarily as failure to control endemic caries bacterial infection among this population, not just with fluoride and brushes, and casual advice to avoid sugar consumption. The tricks will be to get support from the U.S. granting agency to take a fresh look at caries as infectious disease.”…Cal Wilson’s second novel, A Box of Crosses, features a Scottish Presbyterian minister who wrestles with the age-old paradox of a loving God who allows evil in a beautiful world.
1960 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Louise Hjelm Davidson l.davidson@sbcglobal.net class president Dean Skelley dskelley@satx.rr.com Joe and Wanda Jones Corn ’62 are basking in the light of her achievements: Bates conferred an honorary degree on her, and her museum exhibition on the artist Georgia O’Keeffe and her self-fashioning drew crowds in Brooklyn, North Carolina, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.…Jerry Feitelberg keeps busy in retirement, covering the Oakland A’s, San Jose Sharks, Golden State Warriors, Stanford football, and men’s basketball. “I do two podcasts a week and am loving it.” He took a fantastic cruise with his companion Ila Loeb. “Just remember, every day is a great day to be a Bobcat.”…Dick and Jan Krause moved to St. Petersburg, Fla., planning to spend seven months there and five at their camp in
Millinocket....Hank Manwell wishes he could get back to campus between Reunions. “We do at least have Ross Deacon ’59 as a neighbor in our Melbourne, Fla., trailer park. We’re still snowbirds half the year, and Sally still sells her miniature dolls all over the country. We’re both active in our Unitarian Universalist congregations north and south.”…Dave Nelson regrets he has lost touch with fellow Batesies and would be delighted to correspond with persons who prize the life of the mind. nelsonhumanities@gmail. com....Sarah Rubin Blanshei continues in retirement to be active as a scholar. In 2017, Brill published a book she edited (A Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Bologna). She also finished editing another book (Violence and Justice in Bologna, 1250–1700) that is in production for Lexington Books. She presented an invited paper in Bologna at the presentation of the Italian translation of her 2010 monograph (Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna). “I spend most of my time in my apartment in Atlanta and confess I miss the long sojourns in Italy that marked most of my earlier retirement years.”
1961 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Gretchen Shorter Davis norxloon@aol.com class co-presidents Mary Morton Cowan mmcowan@gwi.net Dick Watkins rwatkcapt@aol.com John and Sue Kimball Adams had a great trip to many national parks. They started in South Dakota, finished in Albuquerque, and especially enjoyed Bryce and Zion....Bill and Berry Bixby Anderson are snowbirding in Florida, but with the Internet’s help they keep up with their three granddaughters....Garry and Judy Arlt Walker spent most of last year selling Judy’s mom’s Long Island home and moving her to an assisted-living facility near their home in Kennett Square. They also attended Garry’s 60th high school reunion in Butler, N.J., and his 55th reunion at RPI....David Chamberlain writes, “After placing first in funds raised in the Lobo Cancer Challenge 2017 for the Univ. of New Mexico Cancer Center, I am gearing up for the 2018 fundraising effort with intentions of blitzing the competition once again!”…Jerry and Gretchen Shorter Davis had a great trip on the Douro River in Portugal and look forward to Ireland in June. They are busy with fundraising for the public library in Millinocket, where they spend summers....Meeting her daughter and family, Addie Dorfman Fu enjoyed a week in England’s Lake District. They visited the Beatrix Potter sights, and she especially liked a William Wordsworth
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Zeke Finch ’45 talks with reporter Steve Collins during the veterans lunch last September.
When They Served Last September, the guests of honor at the annual veterans luncheon during Back to Bates weekend were Carlton “Zeke” Finch ’45 and Lou Scolnik ’45. During World War II, the pair went through the Navy’s V-12 program on campus, receiving officer training and accelerated college instruction. After serving in the Pacific theater during the war, they returned to Bates to complete their degrees. Speaking to Steve Collins of the Lewiston Sun Journal, Finch recalled how, while dating his future wife, the late Arline Sinclair Finch ’45, he always managed to get back to his dorm before the Navy’s 10 p.m. curfew. The campus bugler’s nightly taps would let him know when it was time to hurry back. “He would hold that last note forever,” until Finch got in the door.
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while rock climbing. They live in Missoula but spent time during the winter at her family homestead on Hawaii’s Big Island.
1963 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Natalie Shober Moir nataliemoir@netflash.net class president Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com
Puddle Perspective Decked out in Bates wear, Gail Dow ’60 of Greene cheers students during the annual Puddle Jump in January. When asked by the Lewiston Sun Journal if she considered joining the jump, Dow, who swims at Tarbell Pool three times a week, replied, “The pool is cold enough.”
museum. Addie enjoys her classic book club....Still enjoying Florida, Beverly Graffam Ketchum works as a life enrichment assistant for an assisted-living suite, helping residents participate in games and crafts and singing. It’s fun for her, and she gets paid to do it! She also met her first great-grandchild, Ava Christine Ketchum, when she joined son Andy’s family in California.... Dick Hoyt enjoys retirement in Down East Maine. “Coordinating Lubec Market, planting seeds, volunteering at West Quoddy Head, renting out a room or two now and then, writing occasional letters to the editor (the angers run deep), and maintaining our 1820s farmhouse here in South Lubec.”…Paola Mangiacapra still enjoys painting and traveling. Recently she was in Cuba and in June is taking a cruise to Scandinavia....Douglas Rowe recently completed a film entitled Besetment and will soon begin production on a new one, Witch House, both starring Marlyn Mason....Jack Simmons has taken of-counsel status at his law firm. “We spend the cold and snowy Maine winter on Longboat Key in Florida.”....Joel ’62 and Rachel Smith Young had a busy fall. They spent time at Cape Cod and caught up with Skip and Marcia Putnam O’Shea, then visited Iceland where they traveled with other friends. They saw the Northern Lights
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twice. Their usual winter spot at Big Pine Key was devastated by Hurricane Irma, so they won’t return until 2019. But they were able to get to Athol, Mass., to be with Paul and Freda Shepherd Maier and hear Paul’s holiday concert....Channing Wagg “held off senility for another year!”… Dick Watkins attended his high school reunion in Amesbury, Mass., and visited Bates. He was impressed by all the construction on campus, but really impressed with the students he met and talked with. They were excited about being at Bates and all it had to offer, including a first-generation student who was benefitting from financial assistance. Dick and Deb keep busy maintaining the “ranch,” volunteering, golfing, and, in Deb’s case, fishing.
1962 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom cindyknordstrom@gmail.com class president Edmund J. Wilson ed-wilson@kellogg.northwestern. edu Erika Hanloser Kliem had lunch in Florida with Co Shaw and husband Bill, “resulting in a dynamic conversation outlasting other diners. I also had a great visit to Bridgton, Maine,
exploring with Jim Evans his family’s homestead and the White Mountains.”…Lorrie Otto Gloede and her older daughter had a wonderful trip to Scotland. In Edinburgh, they saw the apartment building where her mother and her family lived before they came to the U.S. and the site where her parents were married in 1903.... Larry Ryall retired after 35 years of teaching and 18.5 years as a financial adviser in Pittsburgh.... Carol Smith is grateful to live in Colorado where “two of my children, the Batesie ones, live with their children. The other two grandchildren live in Tulsa. I share them with Sally Marshall Corngold. My daughter-in-law, Erin Schaaf Robertson ’95, is helping me with family history and genealogy. And I found out that I have India and Greece in my DNA, two of my favorite places. Maybe a gypsy passing through.”…Al Squitieri presented a well-received paper to the Society of Government Service Urologists on “The German Military Cemetery in Glen Cree, Ireland.” He and Harriet have been traveling widely. “I reiterate to all my classmates what I said in the yearbook as a former class president: ‘Keep Moving.’”…Gray Thompson, emeritus professor of geology at the Univ. of Montana, reports all’s well with him and Eloise, although he was recovering from surgery and using a leg brace after rupturing a tendon
Howard Blum retired from law three years ago. He was apprehensive about unstructured days, but “happily, I found lots to do and enjoy freedom from stress. I joined the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Northwestern in downtown Chicago, became a docent at the Grant Park Music Festival, and am in my third year as treasurer of my condo. Oh, most important, am in a weekly FaceTime book club with my 11-year-old grandson living in London.”…Dick Love and Lois are taking their granddaughter to England and Ireland after her high school graduation and the Bates Reunion. “I have decided to stop riding motorcycles and recently bought a 1929 Ford Model A which I plan on modifying. Nice to be working on something that is older than me.”… Evelyn Shepherd Malloy and her husband enjoy spending summers at the family cottage in Stonington, Conn....Lou Winkler does some volunteer pediatric and geriatric rehab work; Dawn volunteers in the local assisted-living facility. They travel mostly to visit three grade school-age granddaughters and spend two weeks on the Maine coast in late spring.... Ken Woodbury left his town manager position in Greenville, Maine, and now lives in Orlando, Fla. He’s now a full-time social studies teacher for grades 6-12 at a charter school serving students with disabilities. He also sings in the choir of Holy Family Catholic Church, serves as a cantor, and is a Fourth Degree Knight in the Holy Family Council of the Knights of Columbus.
1964 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary-treasurer John Meyn jemkpmeyn@aol.com class president Gretchen Ziegler gretchenz958@gmail.com
Bill Braman ’64 returned to Alumni Gym for the first time in more than 50 years for Bates’ season opener in basketball. “It has not changed!”
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Russ and Sharon Fisher Baker ’65 “entered into the next stage of life by moving from our house by the lake to a 55-plus condo community where many physical chores are part of condo experience. Coincidently it moves us closer to grandkids and opens up greater social opportunities.”…Steve Barron winters in Fort Myers, Fla., summers in Rhode Island. “Golf is up and down.” He and Jackie were coming up on their 52nd anniversary....Bill Braman and Ellen sold their farm in Ware, Mass., and moved to Bath. They love the proximity to the ocean and the waters of Merrymeeting Bay. “We are close to Bates, and I made my first return to Alumni Gym in over 50 years for Bates’ season opener in basketball. It has not changed!”…Nancy Day Walker gardens with friends, volunteers at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, does serious birding on her backyard patio, and takes regular country hikes. “A very nice retirement.”…Don Delmore and Jeannette go back and forth between Deep River, Conn., and Melbourne Beach, Fla.; the latter home is “about a mile from my Bates roomie Paul Holt.”…Kevin Gallagher likes working four hours a day at Harvard. Besides some enjoyable travels, he “sang a new completion of the Mozart Requiem with the performance quirk of having to perform the piece amplified and outdoors! The roughly 1,000 audience members will not likely ever hear it again done outside.”…John Holt reports grandson Robin was born Aug. 21, 2017, to son Nathan ’04 and Amanda. John’s a trustee and secretary of a land trust and founding member of a chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby. “Content with personal life, anxious about national political life, and feeling grateful in general.”… Paul Holt lives in Melbourne Beach, Fla., most of the year and Goshen, Mass., during the summer. “Wheelchair tennis has evolved into playing tournaments around the country. Good to see Thom Freeman ’63, baseball teammate ’61–63, while in Fort Myers.”…In Friendship, Maine, John Meyn “finds the aging process, with its insidious deterioration (i.e., had to look up the last two words for correct spelling), a serious challenge. In decent shape for his age and infirmities (another look up), he would prefer to be in real ‘decent’ shape! But, not willing to pay the price for such, it remains an unfulfilled bucket list item.”… Bob and Pam French Peek ’84 enjoy life in Hyannis on Cape Cod. He formally retired, she teaches math at Barnstable High School. “We are both active in a church. I am putting together a curriculum that uses recent scientific findings to support the historicity of the biblical creation account. Yes, after a lifetime of skepticism, I am being persuaded that we have been led astray by science rooted in the 19th century.”
1965 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Evelyn “Evie” Horton ehhorton@me.com class president Joyce Mantyla tiojack@aol.com Lyn Avery Gray hosted Betty Davis Johnson and Jean Hager-Rich at her home for a wonderful reunion. “We had a great time catching up on our lives since our Reunion in 2016. Jean knit us each a hat which has been put to good use this winter.” …Emily Blowen Brown reports she and Elton “continue to fight for a healthy wilderness here in northern Minnesota.” They are delighted to be mentioned in the Acknowledgments of Amy and Dave Freeman’s book A Year in the Wilderness: Bearing Witness in the Boundary Waters, “a powerful testament to what we have now and what we need to keep safe from the most toxic industry in America, copper-nickel mining.” Emily and Evelyn Breck Morgen have been in touch because of the passing of the mother of the family they lived with during their Junior Year Abroad in Manchester, England....Jim Callahan and Elsa remain in the Boston area near their daughter, son-in-law, and three grandsons. They also visit two sons and four granddaughters in Southern California. He reports, “Bill Goodlatte finally retired and moved back to New England. We managed to get together briefly last fall and watch the Bates football team win another CBB title with its win over Bowdoin. We also enjoyed the company of Al and his brother Keith Harvie (’67) along with other members of the Class of ’67 at one of their regular semiannual reunions.”… Newt Clark and Pat ’67 have been traveling widely: to India; an 1800s farmhouse in Sweden, Maine, for the annual Clark Family Vacation; to South Carolina to see the eclipse; to Gettysburg, California, Nova Scotia, and Eleuthera in the Bahamas. “The year ended with all 10 of us (two daughters, two sons-in-laws, and four grandchildren) spending the last week of the year celebrating my 75th birthday. So when asked what I do now, I say I travel the world, grandparent, and do Meals on Wheels.”…Elizabeth Davis Johnson had a fun visit with Cindy Bagster-Collins Powers....Norm Davis welcomed his first grandchild, Sheila Herro, named for his deceased wife, on Jan. 6, 2017. She was born to his daughter Kerry and her husband Erik....After 50 years in Holden, Mass., Laura Deming Beckwith moved to Virginia Beach, Va., to be closer to her son and daughter-in-law. She lives in an over-55 community. “This is a totally new way of life and I am just overwhelmed at the warmth and kindness of people and the many things to do and places to visit. One of my goals is
to live healthy until I’m 120 so I can do it all.”…Doing some work last fall at the Navy Postgraduate Dental School in Bethesda, Md., Tony DiAngelis caught up with Irwin Flashman and Howard Dorfman. “It could not have been better. Irwin and I also had six years together at Boston Latin while Howard and I had another four years together after Bates at Tufts Dental. Both carry within themselves a virtue that sustains friendship over the years.”… Bill Gosling keeps active with tennis, service on two boards, and fun times with Jean. They plan a week in Hawaii for a family get-together “to celebrate five big events collectively: Bill’s 75th; Jean and Bill’s 45th anniversary; and one son and two daughtersin-law’s 40ths. Hope to connect with Ned Brooks in N.C. in March. Reading Nick Basbanes’ About the Author. Masterpiece like all of his writings.”…Karen Hjelm enjoys retirement, caring for her beautiful granddaughter Olivia (16). “I am in the process of adopting Olivia to give her some stability and savings.” She also volunteers with Mid-Ohio Workers Assn., works for justice and peace with the Presbyterian Women and her Presbyterian church....Leon Hurwitz and Fran celebrated their 50th anniversary with children Elise and Jonathan and friends. They’re going to Alaska in July....Ted Krzynowek and Judi ’66 have been traveling more, trying to check off items on their bucket list. They cruised down the Danube, golfed in Florida, and planned an annual fly fishing trip to Montana. “Grant Farquhar visited from Tucson. We had just booked a cruise to the Baltic for this coming August, because St. Petersburg is on our bucket list. We convinced Grant to join us. How great is that!”… Joyce Mantyla was busy traveling in 2017: The Netherlands, the French countryside and Paris, and the northern Italy lakes region. “All very educational with lectures daily from professors who travel with these small group trips from Brown Univ.”… Linda Reisner Bockover looked forward to a couple of weeks camping in Florida. “My roomie, Sharon Fisher Baker, and Russ Baker (’64) have a house rented down there, so we will camp near them. The guys have golfing plans while Sharon and I do what we do best … gab!”…Susan Shea Melander and Larry ’66, both retired, reached their domestic goal of traveling to all 50 states, including 52 national parks, and are approaching 75 countries. “We both feel that part of this quest was initiated by four semesters of Cultch and a general wanderlust.”…In Peterborough, N.H., Susan Smith Copley enjoys leadership positions with three education-related nonprofit boards. She also loves having more time for hiking with her British husband Doug (whom she knew in 1963–64 during JYA at the Univ. of Nottingham). “One of our wonderful Bates classmates, Merry Webber
Stockwell, lives in Peterborough, and we attend the same church! Also talk with my Bates roomie Linda Olmsted, who continues to serve as the librarian in her hometown of Danbury, N.H. We wish we lived closer to our third roommate, Barb Sikes, who lives and works in Virginia Beach.”…Charlene Wakefield cut back to 60 percent time doing accounting at Vermont Legal Aid. “Nice because I can sleep in. In my spare time (besides sleeping in), I make pictures using broken dishes (breaking the dishes with a hammer is the best part).” She broke her neck in a car accident a few years ago but is fine now. “Work, entertainment, health: that’s it from me!”…Judy Wells Wait and Chip continue to thrive near rural Buena Vista, Colo., at 9,000 feet elevation. Chip works part time for a rafting company; she substitutes occasionally as a home health PT. They spent last summer driving north to the Yellowknife area, exploring the Northwest Territories, especially around the Great Slave Lake of Canada. “When not boondocking, I recommend the territorial and provincial parks for roomy and comfortable camping or RVing.”… Brad Wyman reports a good year. “My multiple myeloma remission is now in its 26th month and has grown deeper with time. We have taken advantage of our good health to travel.” They went to Chile for a reunion of Peace Corps colleagues on the 50th anniversary of their arrival in the country, and narrow boating on the British and Welsh canals with Ray ’66 and Hildy Spooner Danforth ’67. When not traveling, “we are heavily engaged with our younger son and his family, who live nearby. Susan volunteers at the hospital on Mondays and plays bridge Tuesday evenings.”
1966 Reunion 2021, June 11–12 class president Alexander Wood awwood@mit.edu Jan Beauvais enjoys retirement in Litchfield, N.H., with wife Chris. They report daughter Stephanie Beauvais Dennig ’07 was awaiting the arrival of her second child....Mark Biel, the senior partner in his law firm, enjoys practicing law in South Jersey too much to retire yet. He and Irene have a home there and another in Bucks County, Pa., their real love on most weekends....Royce Buehler and Sarah sold their Cambridge house. “Now settled on my ancestral farm in the Berkshires, added two acres so that the grandkids have a stream to splash in when they come. I still keep one toe in, helping operate the Chandra satellite.”…Judith Dietz Win works half time as a therapist at Bard College at Simons Rock, leaving lots of time for travel. She wrote from a Myanmar village “where we have been undertaking projects for 13 years.
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‘Beyond Expectations’ Al Harvie ’65, a Bates track standout as a student and later a popular announcer for countless Bates sports contests, acknowledges the crowd as he receives an Honorary Letter Award from the Department of Athletics during halftime of the Bates-Bowdoin football game last fall at Garcelon Field. The award honors “service and loyalty to Bates College, and the athletic program in particular, which extends beyond normal expectations.” “Al is an icon,” says Kim Wettlaufer ’80, an All-American distance runner at Bates who, like Harvie, has lived and worked in LewistonAuburn since graduation (Harvie is a retired high school educator). “Through the generations, as a coach, athlete, teacher, mentor, and announcer, Al is as connected to Bates and Bates athletics as anyone, ever.”
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Our website is mettapartners. org.”…Chris Falk Fonoti writes, “It’s been great sharing news and adventures with the seven classmates I climbed Katahdin with at our 50th Reunion. So many different directions, but they all come back to our time at Bates. I’ve stayed busy substitute teaching so I can still feed all the critters I’ve accumulated over the past 15 years.”…After the wonderful Reunion and Mount Katahdin expedition in 2016, Pat Gilbert Keane had “my winter for knee replacements — one in September 2017 and the other in January 2018. Soon I should be ready for just about anything!”… Karen Hastie Williams retired, back to the Watergate in Washington with husband Wes, after 14 years in the U.S. Virgin Islands. “As we live next door to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and surrounded by both George Washington Univ. eateries and the university hospital (and HMO offices), we are abundantly cared for.” They are celebrating 50 years of marriage....Kel House of Harborside, Maine, still runs his business House & Sun Inc., specializing in energy-efficient, sustainable construction. House & Sun was awarded the contract to supply and install his super-insulated structural insulated panels (SIPs) for the walls and roof of a large addition to Waynflete School in Portland. When the project is completed, Kel and Sher will head to their Symi Island home in Greece. “We had a fun visit from Bob Houlihan and his wife Susan last summer, and got them out for a picnic on Penobscot Bay in our boat.”…Judy Marden received a grant from the Natural Resources Conservation Service to combat invasive plants on her old farmstead. After some expert instruction, she spent last summer spraying, mowing, and pulling nasty invaders. “Fortunately, kayaking on the Androscoggin, the ocean, and at Pierce Pond provided some relief from the spray and heat.”…Joe Matzkin is “still working, wife still working, not thinking about retirement, which is all good. Granddaughter beginning to think about college. Pushing for third-generation Bobcat.”…Susan Pitcher Haines wrote with sad news: “My journey took an unexpected turn this past September as my husband of nearly 47 years passed away, after battling pneumonia all summer. I am learning to deal with this harsh winter in an old house alone (with the strong support of my two sons).”…Russ Reilly continues to serve as legal guardian to a gentleman wheelchair-bound with cerebral palsy. He also continues as volunteer assistant basketball coach for the Middlebury College men’s team. He and Jane ’68 enjoy time with seven grandchildren....Paul Savello invites all classmates who plan to visit any (or all) of the “Mighty Five” national parks and monuments in Utah during 2018 to stop by his home in Cedar City, Utah. Classmates who have
done so include Alex Wood (and spouse Barbara) and Peter Allen (and partner Bruce). Paul lives exactly halfway between Zion and Bryce national parks, so a visit provides a wonderful opportunity to catch up. Another Cedar City offering during summer is the Shakespeare Festival.... Two highlights of the fall for Alex Wood were (i) a “Cultural Heritage 301 refresher” through a 10-day vacation in Athens and several of the Greek Isles, and (ii) watching two days of the 53rd Head of the Charles Regatta where classmate Barbara Remick-Newhouse crewed for the Marin (Calif.) Rowing Assn., and Bates took first place in the Women’s Collegiate Eights.
1967 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Alexandra Baker Lyman toads@snet.net class co-presidents Keith C. Harvie kcharvie12@gmail.com Pamela Johnson Reynolds preynolds221@gmail.com Last fall, Cynthia Goodwin Riley “had the pleasure of meeting my classmate Joanne Hayes Healy, who lives in Wells, Maine, as I do. We took her two happy dogs for their exercise along the nearby beautiful marsh, river, and beach. After 50 years, we meet again.”… Joseph Iacobellis published the book Pruning Away The Underbrush: Uncovering the Principles of Healthy Relationships, under the name Azure....Sarah Myers McGinty spent two weeks “Down Under connecting with distant relatives descended from a shared 18th-century undersheriff in Winchester, UK; his sons headed to Melbourne (them) and Philadelphia (me). Secondary goal: completing attendance at all four Grand Slam tennis events ... quick before Paris moves to China!”…Having retired from their second careers of running a B&B in North Stonington, Conn., Jon and Mary Wilska are contemplating their next move, preferably some place akin to utopia where the weather is always perfect, neighbors friendly, all amenities close by, etc. Suggested locations are welcome....Steph Young Abbott and Ed had a fantastic 50th anniversary trip to New Zealand.
1968 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Rick Melpignano rickmel713@gmail.com class president Richard J. Gelles gelles@sp2.upenn.edu After a 35-year academic medical career, Louis Weinstein now does all-volunteer medical work. He was elected to the Governing Council of the Senior Physicians Section of the American Medical
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Assn. At the 50th Reunion last June, he was honored to receive Bates’ Sesquicentennial Award for a single academic, artistic, or scientific achievement. In May 2017, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine.
1969 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Bonnie Groves beegroves@comcast.net class president Richard Brogadir dbrogie1@aol.com Jim Burch completed a bucket-list project by visiting all 50 state capitol buildings, doing the last 18 in a year....John Holt enjoys life on the coast of Maine at Lamoine, where he does a bit of organic farming, some maple syrup production, runs a drinking water cooperative, and serves as town planning board chair. Retired after 39 years in the ministry, he’s in good health and happily married....Charlie Kolstad reports daughter Kate ’04 accepted a position as a rheumatology fellow at Stanford Univ., effective June 2018.... Jeff Sturgis received a Bates’ Best award for “a remarkable record of volunteer service” to the college spanning half a century, which has brought honor to Bates and his Bates family, including his father, Dean Sturgis ’49; mother, Erma Rowe Sturgis ’46; and daughter, Jodi Sturgis Coppetta ’93. Jeff is president of the College Key and a member of the Alumni Council. He served as a Bates trustee 2000–05 and is now a member of the Cheney Society. He was class president for more than 20 years and has been a lead class agent, a Reunion Committee member, and Reunion Gift Committee chair. He has been a leader in the Androscoggin Bates Club and the Bates Alumni Fund Committee. A Deansman and member of the Bates football team in his student years, Jeff coordinates and participates in Deansmen reunions and provides commentary for football webcasts. He’s also a recipient of the Helen A. Papaioanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award.
1970 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Stephanie Leonard Bennett slenben@comcast.net Betsey Brown efant127@yahoo.com class president Steve Andrick steveandrick15@gmail.com After leaving her faculty position at Oberlin College in 2012, Pam Alexander spent over three years traveling the country in her RV. She settled in Tucson for two years, but the road is calling
again. She’ll be traveling in 2018 and working on her mystery series under the pen name Pam Fox. The first ebook, Drawing Fire, was published on Amazon, and the second is planned for this March....In 2017, Betsey Brown finished cleaning out and selling two properties for a friend for whom she is POA and caregiver. “The whole process to liquidate a 25-acre farm near Wilkes-Barre and a great row house in Lancaster (Pa.) actually took about 18 months, including two auctions and tons of trash, but I learned a lot. I’m still a caregiver, but I don’t have to worry about water leaks and bears at the farm.” She still loves working as a house manager at the Fulton Theatre.... Kathy Brown had a grand time at her 50th high school reunion in Greenville last summer. After losing two classmates before their 40th, the class of ’67 decided to establish an endowment for the school system and raised $22,000 —“not bad for the 22 remaining class members” she said. “The Greenville Learning Opportunities Endowment will support teachers and students for projects not covered by the regular budget. We hope the principal will grow in the years to come with contributions from other classes.”…Wendy Howland Foley and Jim enjoy an active retirement. “We cycle with our club, golf a few times a week, walk, garden, and visit our daughter and her family in Maine several times a year.”…David and Diane Akers Libbey ’68, both retired, visit their three grandchildren. Their other interests include travel (Antarctica, Africa, Europe) and antique cars. “We’ve acquired three Model A Fords from the 1930–31 era. We’ve participated in Model A gatherings each year, and I’ve invested a small fortune in specialty tools for the neverending maintenance these fun old cars require. 2018 will include an eight-day driving tour through Nova Scotia – hopefully all that maintenance will pay off.”…Jay Parker and Debra relocated to San Diego where both sons and granddaughter Marlie live. He’s now a docent on the USS Midway aircraft carrier museum.
1971 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Suzanne Woods Kelley suzannekelley@att.net class president Michael Wiers Friends and family of Marshal Dutko gathered in Portland last fall to celebrate his life, a decade after his untimely death in October 2007. A psychology major who played football at Bates and was active in Alumni-in-Admissions during the 1990s, he owned Baldwin Formals in Manhattan, a well-known company that supplies tuxedos for the Grammy and Tony awards. Attending the dinner were his wife, Julie Osborn, and their son Peter, a
teacher in New York; daughter Katy was unable to attend because she’s working overseas. College friends and partners included Jim Burke, Duke Dufresne, Betty Ireland Dufresne, Ginny Remeika, Buck Rogers, Richard Lutz, Scott Williams, and Dave Pierson. “Glasses were raised at the Cumberland Club in his memory and what gifts he gave us all during his life. And stories and tall tales were recounted — many of them true. He is missed.”…Elizabeth Fenjves wrote, “Haven’t done this before so way too much to catch up on. I left Venezuela (fortunately). I am living part time in Miami, part time in Los Angeles where I have two sons and two little granddaughters and visit Israel where I have one son and three grandchildren. I’m pretty much retired from a science career and find that my days are still pretty full. Lots of fun traveling.”…Bill Matteson and Pam, both retired, had a wonderful time ocean fishing in 2017. “We are now waist deep in caring for our parents.” They added a greenhouse to their home so they can keep flowers over the winter. Bill added, “I feel an incredible debt to Bates for preparing me for life.”
1972 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Steven H. Mortimer stevenhmortimer@gmail.com class president Wayne V. Loosigian wloosigian@exeter.edu Mike Attinson, writing after more than 45 years in Israel, reports he’s a grandfather of one with another on the way. Retired from the civil service, he’s involved with disaster response for a large “American/ Israeli NGO that deals with nonsectarian humanitarian aid wherever needed that’s taken me to most of the major natural disasters in the world. Try and do ambulance shifts once a week for the national ambulance service as a volunteer EMT and an assortment of other things to keep me engaged with the world around me. Despite what you may see and hear in two-minute sound bites, this place is very safe and a fascinating place to see from an historical, geopolitical, archaeological, theological standpoint, etc. It always has been great to see my Bates classmates here, and it always contributes to my understanding regarding the significance that four years at Bates has had in my life.”… Susan Bates Ahnrud enjoys retirement. “My quilting business and soccer continue to keep me out of trouble. My over-65 team came in second in a national tournament, so feeling proud.” She sees Sue Ciampa semi-regularly....Retired and living in Arizona, David Cook enjoys building wooden toys and crafts for grandkids (five) and simple furniture for his summer home in
Pinetop. Having taught a mining history course, he’s preparing for a similar course on baseball for the Retirement Learning program at SaddleBrooke near Tucson.... Caroline Haworth Wandle fulfilled a dream with husband Bill to spend Christmas in Sweden visiting extended family. Despite 14 days of rain and little snow, it was a wonderful trip....John Rand retired as SVP from Kantar Retail last October. “Four days later they asked me to be available as a contractor.” Still, numerous woodworking and house projects and four grandchildren occupy most of his time. Paula Nadeau Rand continues her work in chemistry at Astra-Zeneca and plans to work another few years.... Wendy Scher Irwin left her position as vice chair for education in the psychiatry department at New York Medical College in 2014. “Currently in part-time private practice and enjoying a less hectic lifestyle. My husband is retired, so we have had time to travel to Europe, China, and India and visit my children in California and Michigan.”…Don Smith just retired. “I was fortunate enough to spend the last 41 years teaching math, coaching (soccer, wrestling, and track), and administering at Albuquerque (N.M.) Academy. My wife Lucy and I are now enjoying the ability to relax and travel during nonpeak times, and I am just thrilled by not having to use an alarm clock any more. Last October saw my first visit back to the campus in 27 years, and I was absolutely astonished by the changes and improvements.”…Sharon Smith loves retirement. “Now I get to read with schoolkids, volunteer with a program that feeds hungry kids on weekends, and help coordinate the local chapter of 100+ Women Who Care. It’s all worthwhile — and it’s all fun!”…Connie Tuller, retired from teaching, lives in Frankfort, Maine. She volunteers at WERU and Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust, both in Orland. “I still enjoy seeing friends from Bates, now 50 years after we arrived on campus!”… Bob Winston thoroughly enjoys retirement after 38 years teaching English and serving in several administrative positions at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. “I look forward to spending more time with my wife of 43 years, Deb Fulham-Winston (’74), and our sons Paul and Sam.” He has a stack of books to read, “and there’s that traveling thing …”…“Returning to my Bates government degree roots,” John Zakian now works for the city of Minot, N.D. He’s the Disaster Resilience Grant Program manager and chief resilience officer.
1973 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Kaylee Masury kmasury@yahoo.com class president Tom Carey tcarey@bates.edu
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takeaway: Will this staunch conservative be replaced by a fellow alumnus? Republican Bob Goodlatte, who has represented Virginia’s 6th Congressional District since 1992, is retiring. Chair of the Judicial Committee since 2013, he’s “staunchly conservative on most fiscal and social issues,” reported The Associated Press. He’s taken conservative stances on immigration, “but did find common ground with Democrats on technology and national security,” recently sponsoring a bill to require a court order to view NSA intelligence. Goodlatte’s tenure as chairman ends in December 2018 due to term limits. He described that as the “natural stepping-off point.” The AP reported that among those seeking Goodlatte’s seat is Ben Cline ’94, Goodlatte’s former legislative director, who is serving his eighth term in the Virginia House of Delegates and leads the state’s conservative caucus.
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Jay Baker is “alive and well and living in God’s country, Tucson, Ariz. After two divorces, I have found the love of my life and we are both retired and traveling.” They drove through six states in the West and spent three weeks in China. “Standing on the Great Wall, a wave of gratitude washed over me, realizing how great my life is.”…Roger Bennatti left the Friends of Fort Knox after 14 years, where he served as the assistant director. “I shall now pursue my lifelong interest in trains through an involvement with the New England Steam Corp. and the DownEast Rail Preservation Trust.”…Rick Betterley and Joanie celebrated 40 years of marriage with a trip to New Zealand. She’s an artist working in acrylics, often of landscapes of mid-coast Maine, where they have a home in Friendship. Rick is almost full time with his consulting practice, but makes time for tennis and teaching high-performance driving for the Porsche Club.... Moe and Anita Moulin Dube both retired for a second time in 2016–17, she from teaching high school Spanish at St. Dominic Academy in Auburn, and he from business counseling at a community development agency. After Moe’s 50th reunion at St. Dom’s, they moved to The Villages in central Florida. They will vacation in Maine in summer. “Busy with new home, new friends, new activities and opportunities, and getting reacquainted after 44-plus years of marriage, raising kids, etc.” Moe does volunteer business counseling and training with SCORE.... Mitchell Grosky published his first photography book, The North Quabbin and Beyond: A Pictorial Tribute by Mitchell R. Grosky, and co-published his first calendar, Journey to Africa, based on the 2016 photo safari that he and wife Anne took to Tanzania and Kenya. He was re-elected to his second term on the Athol-Royalston District School Committee, and received the Margaret Grazis Citizen of the Year Award for the town of Athol, Mass. He serves as vice president of the local Democratic Committee and runs social and political websites.... Heidi Hoerman and husband Bill Urton moved from South Carolina to Hingham Mass., in January 2018. “So glad to be back in New England!”…Stan Wojcik retired after one career writing and producing for Boston-based television and a host of cable outfits, followed by another writing for Bose Corp. “‘Deep, rich bass’? Yeah, that was me. Who says English is a worthless major? Hobbies: music, reading, gardening, hiking, brewing beer, wiffleball. My wife and I recently journeyed to Amsterdam by way of Iceland, kicking off what we hope is a steady diet of travel, too.”
1974 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Tina Psalidas Lamson tinal2@mac.com class president Don McDade dmcdade@llbean.com After retiring at the beginning of 2017, Cindi Byrkit enjoys being able to walk at Merrill Gym three times a week. “I think I’ve spent more time on campus in the last year than in the previous 40-plus years!”…John Jenkins, the former mayor of Lewiston and then Auburn, filed papers to run for governor of Maine as an independent....After almost 25 years in private prosthodontic practice in Olympia, Wash, Rodger Lawton sold his practice and cut back to two days a week. He practices in the same office, “but it’s nice to be an employee instead of the boss. Still happily married to my wonderful wife, Melissa.”…After years in one location, Don McDade and Risa “moved to another Portland neighborhood, a promising new chapter. Classmates and friends, let’s reconnect in the months ahead and get ready for Reunion 2019 — our 45th celebration! We have much to share about our journeys, ambitions, and this world that changes daily.”…Dirk Visser looks forward to retiring in April, and hopes to see some alumni friends at the May graduation ceremony when son Nicolas graduates. “Will continue living in Brussels and Sitges/ Barcelona, Spain.”…Debbie Wood Burns loves retirement. “So much time for travel and other hobbies.”
1975 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Deborah Bednar Jasak Deborahjasak@gmail.com Faith Minard minardblatt@gmail.com class co-presidents Susan Bourgault Akie susieakie@gmail.com Janet Haines jbh580@aol.com
Janet Haines ’75, now a housing planner for Cambridge, Mass., decided that “learning new skills, meeting new people, and adding my experience to a new environment would be the best road to take. Retirement will have to wait.”
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Susie Bourgault Akie and her husband “are (finally) both retired, so we decided to try out life full time on Cape Cod. Since our children and grandchildren all live in Southern California, we expect to spend a lot of time visiting them.”…Gary and Lisa Pelletier Ferguson ’77 continue in Ithaca, N.Y. She operates Laughing Goat Fiber Farm, specializing in Angora and cashmere goats and alpacas. The farm has its own lines of yarn and finished goods and does tours for visitors. Gary is nearing 20 years as executive director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, helping to grow and shape Ithaca into one of America’s most recognized small cities. “My Bates government major has helped me navigate the crazy world of downtown development and management, and I even got my start working on the revitalization of downtown Lewiston back in 1980.”…Matt Gilligan reports many Bobcats gathered for their 35th annual Boys Do Bumps skiing weekend in North Conway, N.H. on March 10, 2017. Besides Matt, they included Bob Littlefield, Jim Dachos, Rick Jack, Alan Hill, Mike Genetti, Steve McCusker, Pete Williams ’74, Bob Watt ’76, Joe Burke ’73, Bill Holm ’73, Joe Davin ’77, and Pete Manning ’77. By tradition there was an educational component to the weekend. The discussion topic was “The Road to the Legalization of Marijuana in Maine: 1971–2017.”…Janet Haines had a year of adventures in 2017. “Traveled with my favorite travel companion, Susie Bourgault Akie, to London and then an impromptu trip to Edinburgh. Then, while many of us are contemplating or starting retirement, I have just started a new job, 45 minutes from my house, as a housing planner for the City of Cambridge. Decided learning new skills, meeting new people, and adding my experience to a new environment would be the best road to take. Retirement will have to wait.”…Ruth Nickerson Robbins reports, “It’s been a crazy year: two of my three ‘kids’ got married, and I will very soon be able to add the moniker ‘nana’ to my other names — a grandson is expected. Still work at the Smithsonian Associates, though I am beginning to think retirement is an option at some point soon. My job is creating continuing education programs, and it feels like I am still in college, lucky me!”…Cindy Peaco Brakey works part time from their lakeside home in Maine for her family’s energy management business. “We are also running an Airbnb out of our home.” They enjoy spending time with four sons and six grandchildren.... LuAnn Strine Phillips is “taking a break from my educational technology consulting business to advance my skills in virtual and augmented reality development. Russ (’73) and I are still living in the Lake George, N.Y., area.”… Marty Welbourn Freeman “had the pleasure of visiting Bates in
December with my high school senior daughter (Sarah). While she toured the campus, I got to visit with Sarah Pearson (vice president for college advancement), an extra treat.” Marty plans to re-retire from her forest policy job with the state of Alaska this summer....Rich Zawalich joined Debby Radding Zawalich ’74 in retirement. “After 40 years at the same investment firm, it’s time for some new adventures. Debby has a brand-new knee, so some of the new adventures will include some great travel plans.”
1976 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Jeffrey Helm bateslax@gmail.com class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com Santa Barbara, Calif., residents Glenn Bacheller and Amy Batchelor Bacheller ’77 were honored for their work with the homeless. The nonprofit New Beginnings Counseling Center in Santa Barbara named them 2017 Community Champions. The center’s executive director said, “Glenn and Amy generously supported New Beginnings at a time of major transformation for the agency. Their ongoing assistance at a financial, spiritual, and practical level has been key to our success.” Glenn and Amy moved to Santa Barbara in 2008 and have been involved with numerous organizations, with a special interest in those that assist the homeless. He sold his home health care company and is officially retired. She now has a holistic health practice, Scent from Heaven....In The Netherlands, Jitske Fennema, with less than two years to go before retirement, feels “lucky to have just started a new challenging job working with sex and violence offenders in an outpatient clinic. We have put plans about traveling to the U.S. on hold, waiting for a better political climate. But I am still in touch with several Bates friends, and we enjoy sharing the news about our lives and living.”…Carol Gordon Ladd and Mike, in Wayne, enjoy time with three grandkids. They had a great river cruise in Vietnam and Cambodia and have two trips planned to Jamaica. “We had our annual rendezvous with Cindy and Fred Foster-Clark and Jon (’75) and Nancy Johnson Young (’75) and their children.”…Tom Hendershott lives in St. Petersburg, Fla., with sweetie Linda Mase. “I’ve decided to not pass quietly into Senior Citizenship (this May), and have registered to run my first sprint triathlon in St. Petersburg in April. Still working at WellMed Medical Management of Florida and loving it.”… Deborah Weatherbee and Fred had such a great time in London with daughter Jennie, studying abroad, that she “decided to change the ratio of work/travel a
bit. The 38-year career in HR at Bloomingdale’s comes to a close at the end of March. Looking forward to appreciating life at a slower pace, skating in Central Park, traveling ... first stop Hong Kong where daughter Lillie ’17 is working, second stop the cottage on the lake in Maine with Fred.”
1977 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Steve Hadge schmuddy@yahoo.com class president Keith Taylor drkeithtaylor@msn.com Peter Brann is still working, teaching, “and feeding the travel junkie habit. This year will include New York, Bordeaux and Dordogne, France, and exploring new backroads and islands of Maine.”…David Bugbee had successful gastric bypass surgery in January 2017 that “has led to some very positive changes. In addition, I retired in December 2017 and have moved to Wyoming. I am enjoying life as a new retiree!”…Nancy Carlisle and Alex moved out of Boston and are in over their heads trying to restore an 1886 Queen Anne Victorian in the center of Ipswich. She celebrated her 30th anniversary at Historic New England where she is senior curator of collections.
1978 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Chip Beckwith chipwith@yahoo.com class president Dean M. Berman deanocean@aol.com
Mitchell Pearce ’78 recalls the late Dean Judith Magyar Isaacson ’65, a Holocaust survivor: “Just being around her and seeing her composure, her love of every moment of life, her joy, was deeply inspiring.” Cherie Ames Wenzel is newly retired and busy as ever. She and Mike spent two delightful weeks in France. They’ve also been helping aging parents. “We stay active snowshoeing and skiing. I continue to sing in a community choir, and I’m a hospice volunteer.”…Sam Apicelli is a partner at Duane Morris LLP in Philadelphia, where he chairs the patent prosecution and opinion section of the intellectual property practice group. He and
wife Andrea have been together for 30 happy years and live with son Jackson in Bryn Mawr, Pa.... Chip Beckwith “passed the 30-year mark for living in Washington Heights, NYC. Adria and I are getting used to having the apartment to ourselves after our son, Toby, started as a freshman at the Univ. of Pittsburgh. I continue to work in the incredibly arcane field of billing for digital advertising, and while I enjoy the challenges, I’m looking forward to possible retirement in twothree years! I can’t wait to see everyone at our 40th Reunion!”… Ship Bright, in Exeter, N.H., does “nonprofit consulting for BrightNGOsolutions for my heart and commercial/residential real estate for my wallet to help get my youngest child through UNH. I have two twin grandsons now, which blows my mind since that would make me old ... denial is more than a river in Africa.”… Chris Callahan and Scott Copeland plan to explore and visit friends in their sailboat....Having worked at six of Maine’s seven daily newspapers, Rick DeBruin hopes to finish his career as a classified ad manager at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He and Michelle live in Biddeford “and will likely retire here, as we’ve got a garden we enjoy, and Biddeford has been undergoing a transformation as younger folks move into the converted mills downtown.”…After over 30 years in working federal healthcare contracts, Paul Duplinsky is the analytics manager at Univ. of New England’s online graduate programs. “At last, a job I can walk to! Enjoying being a grandfather and spending time in Ossipee, N.H.”…Mary Henderson Pressman and Ron love life in New York City and were delighted to welcome their first grandchild last June. Abby Proud is the daughter of Emily Pressman Proud ’10 and Graham Proud ’08....Still in the Washington, D.C., area, Chuck James downsized from Hewlett Packard Enterprise to a smaller company, ServiceNow. He’s having fun working with millennials half his age who wear clothes that are too tight. He hopes to catch a few Batesies on the bicycle trail in 2018....Tina Kabb Diaduk continues at the Maryland State Department of Education as a licensing specialist. She travels between two counties inspecting licensed child care center facilities and licensed family providers to ensure that all the COMAR regulations are being followed. She also conducts joint investigations with social services, child protective services, and the local sheriff’s department when complaints are called into her agency. She and Bill enjoy their backyard oasis with hot tub, pool, and fire pit....After 20 years as an environmental consultant and teaching college chemistry for nearly 30 years, David Lingner is a full-time chemistry instructor and lab manager at Point Loma Nazarene. He and Susan, who live in San Diego, enjoyed
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trips to Thailand, Singapore, and Italy, and visit Ocean Park, Maine, every August....After 24 years as a hospital chaplain and social worker in Chapel Hill, N.C., Peter Maffly-Kipp moved with his spouse to St. Louis. Laurie is on the faculty at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington Univ. He teaches sometimes at Eden Seminary in the area of ministry to the mentally ill, “but most of my days are now spent with local musicians. I started a new business called Pete’s Pedals. I repair, restore, modify, and build electric guitar pedals. I am constantly busy.” Youngest son David ’20 is at Bates. Joseph ’16 is applying to graduate schools for a PhD in social psychology....Linda Mansfield Carroll changed her position from school secretary to kindergarten aide seven years ago at a Marblehead, Mass., elementary school. “I still love to play tennis!”…Mitchell Pearce is CEO of his wife’s geographic information systems company, USgeocoder LLC in San Jose, Calif. “Since we are a small company, much of my time is responding to sales inquiries. Just before Christmas, I received a call from the Claims Conference, an organization that cares for and advocates for restitution for survivors of the Holocaust, asking us to match addresses to congressional members. As we were talking, memories of my conversations with Dean (Judith Magyar) Isaacson (’65) flashed in front of me. In all those memories, she was smiling and so gracious in movement, attentive and sensitive. At one time, she was attending to needs of a student whose difficulties I was describing. The other times we were just conversing on a variety of topics. I marveled at how composed and sparkling bright, especially in her eyes, she was. Just being around her and seeing her composure, her love of every moment of life, her joy, knowing she had been through the concentration camps was deeply inspiring. Of course, this resulted in discounts to serve Claims Conference’s needs. We fulfilled their request.”…Marty Pease retired in 2014 and moved to La Conner, Wash. “My current main interest ‘career-wise’ is pet therapy with my Lab, Ramus. We visit schools, hospitals, hospice, and assisted-living facilities. My other main focus is Rotary International: both in local and international (Honduras) efforts.”… John Reisch’s career as a research chemist is winding down, and he plans to retire in June. He and Judy, already retired, plan to sell their house in Rhode Island and move to their lake house in NH. “We enjoy skiing, biking, and hiking and plan to do a lot of traveling in the winters.”…Bill Seixas and his wife still find NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., “to be about the best place in the world to work.” Their family fun included trip to Peru where they hiked to Machu Picchu....Dave Skinner writes, “Life is great for me! After many
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years in Asia, I retired for good two years ago and am living just outside of Hilton Head, S.C., in a beautiful golf community. My two kids and two granddaughters are great as well. My new career? Music. We don’t really retire, right? Really enjoying my music adventures with various local groups!” Dave plays saxophone.... In the past couple of years, Barb Stewart and husband Ken “got to experience the profound silence of the mountaintop and the fab hubbub of a four-generation family reunion.”…Doug Tate and Beth sail and refit their Westsail 42 ketch, Harmony, while living in Pelham, N.H....Susan Venturo enjoys life in Florida and New England after retiring in 2015. She’s in touch with Diane Bonardi Davis, Bonye Wolf Barone ’79, Leslie Wilcox Briggs,’79, and Brenda Hio-Hamdan. “Looking forward to time in Maine and a trip back to campus this summer.”…Sarah Wardner lives in a small village in the Adirondack Mountains of New York with husband Dave Chapin. She’s enjoyed 32 years of a varied nursing career, including 11 in hospice and palliative care, and now loves working two nights a week as a registered nurse at the local hospital. She and Dave curl with the Lake Placid Curling Club, a quirky and fun sport. They spend summers in Alaska where they fish for halibut and salmon.... Maureen Wright Viglielmo and husband Jeff are biologic holistic dentists who have been practicing together since 1989 in Kingston, N.Y. “We ski and hike and love living in the country!”
1979 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com class president Janice McLean janmc79@gmail.com
1980 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Christine Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@gmail.com class president Mary Mihalakos Martuscello mary@martuscellolaw.com Doug Daniell and Susan live in Eugene, Ore., where she’s an infection preventionist and he’s a senior analyst for Lane County Health and Human Services. “I haven’t been in touch for the last, ahem, 35 years or so, because I lived in the Congo (then Zaire) for most of the 1980s (first with the Peace Corps and then, after grad school and marriage to Susan, with the U.S. Agency for International Development). We then led a nomadic consulting life that took us all over. We grew tired of that life, so in ’97 we moved to Eugene, had Owen (in ’99), and settled down. And now things have come full circle. A couple of years ago, we were vis-
iting my parents in NH and Owen asked, ‘Dad, what’s Bates like? I know that you went there but you never talk about it.’ Susan and I had been hoping that he would start thinking about college — any college — so he and I took a day and visited. And he liked it. Now Owen (’21) is there, and we have lots of tuition payments ahead.”… Hilary Jacobs was promoted to president of Lahey Health Behavioral Services, a provider of behavioral health and substance abuse services on the North Shore. She was previously vice president of addiction treatment, youth residential and education services....Janet Leary-Prowse and Spencer Prowse ’82 moved to Delaware 20 years ago. “What we thought was a brief stay turned into forever for our work and family.” Spencer “retired” from DuPont in 2015 when the performance chemicals business he supported was spun off into Chemours. He now works on special projects for Chemours. “I’ve been at Christiana Hospital for 14 years, supporting the Institutional Review Board by instructing medical professionals on the submission process for human subjects research projects. My current focus is on oncology, nursing, pharmacy, and surgical/critical care research. Now that we’re empty nesters we’ve acquired two dogs, both rescues. Retirement is about five years away. We have a plot of land in Saco near where I grew up and plan to start building our dream house in a few years. Looking forward to returning to Bates for Reunion!”
1981 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Katherine Baker Lovell cklovell@verizon.net class president Kathleen Tucker Burke sburke4155@aol.com
1982 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Jerry Donahoe maineescape@aol.com class president Neil Jamieson neil@southernmainelaw.com
1983 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Leigh Peltier leighp727@gmail.com class co-presidents James D. Tobin jamestobin@att.net Terence M. Welch twelch@mfs.com Paul Marks, a Bates trustee, spoke on campus about his path as a Chinese major to entrepreneurship in the field of aerospace composite materials....Leigh
Peltier writes, “My 2017 started with a total knee replacement of my left knee. It felt so good, that I decided to do the right knee 11 weeks later. So 2017 was all about rehab. But I’m looking forward to showing off my new knees at our 35th Reunion June 8–10. We are planning a great weekend, and we are going to have a great number of classmates back joining us. I have the biggest Reunion committee ever, excitement is generating, and we will have a great turnout! Please join us!”
1984 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com class president Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com
“The problem with U.S. healthcare, writes Michael Katz ’84 in The Hill, is a “fundamentally flawed business structure underlying its delivery.” Ginny Addison Siegler continues to work in wraparound services in Los Angeles County. She is now a case manager heading up a wraparound team at 5 Acres Agency and providing wrap to Kaiser Permanente youth. Wraparound works with youth who are struggling with mental illness and assists the families to provide support and a healthy dynamic in the home. Ginny’s three boys continue to challenge and amaze her. Granddaughter Aida (3) is a delight, even as obstacles confound the family system. Ginny urges everyone to get involved and support agencies and other efforts to deal with the country’s mental health crisis. On a personal note, she enjoys being in a loving relationship — with a Bowdoin graduate!... Michael Katz, a pediatric anesthesiologist, wrote an opinion piece for The Hill on healthcare reform, saying that “Washington’s raging battles over healthcare finance reform are missing a fundamental point.” The real problem with U.S. healthcare, he says, is the “fundamentally flawed business structure underlying its delivery.” The answer, he says, is to force the system to evolve through new policies, creating “a highly consolidated industry,” rather than the current fragmented one, that “will drive health systems to compete on price.” Replacing the current, expensive “fee-for-service payment model with a value-based system” will give patients “higher-quality, lower-cost care with better health outcomes.” The
class secretary Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com class president Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net
Camille McKayle ’85, provost at the Univ. of the Virgin Islands, reports that last fall’s two Category 5 hurricanes “took my home when they left.”
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Justina Alsfeld McGettigan lives in Portland and works in York County as deputy district attorney. “27 years at the office and still enjoying every day. Big changes coming in the fall when daughter Julia heads off to college.”...Graham Anderson and Shannon Billings had a special trip to Amsterdam to celebrate their 30th anniversary. They have regular visits from Gregory Johnson and Patty Lemay Lufburrow. Graham ran into next-town neighbor Meg Morrow and had a nice chat. “We had a wonderful visit to Maine last summer and the great fortune to attend the wedding of the eldest son (Josh) of Colleen Quint and Bill Hiss ’66.”…Leanne Belmont Valade enjoys life with Jay, Jared (18), and Emma (16). “We love the time we spend in Norway, Maine, on the lake, in the snow, pretty much all the seasons. Happy to have established a Bates annual weekend in September with a crew of ’85ers (Lissa, Debbie, Katie, Karla, Lisa) and ’83ers (Lisa, Kathy). We all do our best to make it there! Always puts a smile on our faces.”…Laurie Candelmo McCammon published her second book, a companion hands-on guidebook to Enough! How to Liberate Yourself and Remake the World with Just One Word (Conari Press, 2016)....Dana De Nault and Nina resettled back in California after an amazing expat experience in Brazil. He works as a leadership psychologist for Solomon Edwards and enjoys the challenges of assisting with large company transformational change. She continues as an executive at Cisco Systems.... Mike Diehl is in his 21st year at Desert Archaeology Inc. in Tucson, Ariz., doing privately funded and NSF paleoethnobotanical research on prehistoric and historic agriculture and land use in the Southwest. “I’m regularly in contact with Bates alums via Facebook, so if you want to find me, even just to ask ‘what’s a paleoethnobotanist anyhow?’ you can look for me there. Here’s a big hello to John Droescher, who pretty much never uses a computer.”… Jeanmarie Hester Cooper and her husband Colin Cooper received a Bates’ Best award. Their citation reads, in part, “As co-chairs of the Parents Executive Council, you have made the college a philanthropic priority and modeled the importance of volunteerism for other Bates parents and alumni. As a result of your personal outreach, 81 families joined the PEC and made gifts totaling $738,000 to the Parents Fund — more than half of all annual giving from Bates parents. You have also graciously opened your home in Guilford to welcome new families to the Bates community in Connecticut. Whether you are cheering your son, Eli ’19, and his lacrosse teammates at home and away games, encouraging the Class of 1985 to make special Reunion-
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imperative to achieve a morehealthy society, Katz says, means that our leaders should feel a “moral obligation to achieve health equality.”...Foster’s caught up with Paul Slovenski as he settled into his new job as athletic director at Noble High School in North Berwick. The Lewiston native spent close to 30 years as a coach and physical education professor at MIT and as athletic director at Bayview Glen School in Toronto, a private school where his teams won 31 championships in a variety of sports. His late father, Walter Slovenski, was a legendary track and field/cross-country coach at Bates. Paul competed for his dad, doing the pole vault and long jump, earning NCAA Division III All-American honors. He also played soccer. Older brother Peter is in his 31st year as the head track and field/cross country coach at Bowdoin. Paul said he’s received plenty of support from the Noble community. “My priorities are: No. 1 academics, No. 2 sportsmanship, and No. 3 to be competitive.”…Artemis Preeshl received her doctorate of education in 2017. For her dissertation, “Theatre Training in the Digital Age: Acting in Theatre and Film BA & BFA Programs,” she interviewed decision-makers and artists in American theater programs. She teaches acting, movement, and dialects as a visiting professor of performing arts at Elon Univ. where she co-directed Twelfth Night and Elon’s Instant Laughter improvisational comedy show. In 2017, Routledge published her book, Shakespeare and Commedia dell’arte: Play by Play....Pam French Peek reports she and Bob ’64 “are so blessed with eight grandchildren now,” five boys and three girls. “Teaching is still overwhelming and greatly rewarding, one student at a time. We are looking forward to our next Reunions in 2019. We are coming up to the third anniversary of our Tom’s passing. God continues to bless us in our grief and the healing of our broken hearts ... one day at a time.”
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year gifts, or serving as career advisors for the BCDC, you always go the extra mile to support the college and the Bates community.”…Dan Hoffman retired from government service. “I’m enjoying the glorious private sector and more time with my wife Kim and sons Jerron and Nathan. Still trying to stay in shape with swimming and other activities so I can chase down my kids. And in my spare time, playing Nirvana songs on my guitar.”…Mike Hogan received a Bates’ Best award for being one of the college’s “most active volunteers, coast to coast.” His citation reads, in part, “Through your involvement in the Bay Area Bates Network, you helped coordinate a volunteer leadership seminar to ensure a splendid turnout for the San Francisco Campaign launch event. As a member of the Alumni Council, you were one of an intrepid few to attend all three Campaign launch events in Boston, New York City, and San Francisco. Through your business travels as senior vice president for Charles Schwab in San Francisco, you make yourself available to meet with Bates alumni across the country, keeping them connected to their alma mater. And by making Bates a philanthropic priority, you have provided students with financial aid support so that they can take advantage of a Bates education.”… Clarissa Hunter Basch still lives and works at The Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conn., as the director of college counseling. “Each crop of students brings new challenges, so the work is never dull.” She and Alan enjoy summer weekends with (and without!) their kids at their lake home in East Haddam....After 17-plus years with Genentech, Patty Lemay Lufburrow “found a great company with passionate people and inspiring patients — BioMarin Pharmaceutics. Working on solutions for people with rare diseases is my new purposeful work.” She and Bob are still in California and enjoy coming back to see Emily ’19 on campus....Bill Locke will celebrate a momentous moment with daughter Madeline ’18 when she graduates in May.... Lance Matthiesen and Tracey are close to becoming empty nesters. After 20-plus years in the private sector, he remains committed to the social sector and for five years has been part of a great organization, Management Leadership for Tomorrow. He reconnected with Kevin Pomfret, John Luddy, Mark Rees, and AJ Johnson....C.J. May studied water magic in the desert to bring his new environmental magic show, “The Water Wizard,” up to the Vegas level. The residency allowed him to work closely with master magician Jeff McBride....Camille McKayle, provost at the Univ. of the Virgin Islands, reports that last fall’s two Category 5 hurricanes (Irma and Maria) “took my home when they left.
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In comfortable temporary housing, but now the rebuild begins. We resumed classes on Oct. 9, with its own set of challenges (spotty Internet, generator power, curfew, etc.). Looking forward to a smooth spring.”…Meg McNamara, who moved to San Francisco in 1990 for residency training in pediatrics, has stayed on as faculty at UC San Francisco. She teaches and develops curriculum in the medical school and cares for patients at the local county safety net hospital. “Our young patients at the General Hospital are from indigent families, mainly immigrants, and many have been deeply, personally affected by recent political turmoil. It is amazing to reflect on the way the seemingly disparate threads from my college majors of biology and Spanish and my fascination with politics that grew throughout my time at Bates have woven together over the years. I give tremendous credit to my inspiring Bates mentors, Professor Joe Pelliccia and Professor Reggie Harrison, for their encouragement to pursue medicine since it’s a great way to combine all those interests.” She and husband Jeff Clayton have enjoyed occasional visits with Diane Olivera Hagerty, Laura Hollingsworth, and Eric Price.... Susan Menzer celebrated her 27th year with the U.S. Department of Justice; she now serves as an assistant U.S. attorney in Raleigh, N.C. Her husband enjoys the numerous golf courses. Both sons are nearby. She gets back to New England as much as she can for yoga teacher training. She earned her second 500-hour certification from the Kripalu Center....Rediscovering a long-buried passion for the visual arts, Eric Price left a 30-year career in book publishing and is now a candidate for an MFA in painting at the New York Academy of Art. “Thank you to all of my Batesies who have been supportive, including Dan MacDonald, Meg McNamara, and Allison Webster Matlack.”…Jim Ross’ career has been focused on re-engineering U.S. equity trading and markets, but his passion has been advocating for people with disabilities. He chairs the Westport (Conn.) Commission on People with Disabilities “to help ensure that people with disabilities have the opportunity and support to live lives of independence, inclusion, and self-determination. I credit Bates for promoting the importance and power of individual impact through public service.” He enjoys staying in touch with Dan Hoffman and Pete Cassat.... Sean Ryan continues his private practice in ob/gyn in Amsterdam, N.Y., and started a new business, MedSpa Amsterdam. He and Yvonne met up with several Bates grads as they hosted a gathering in NYC....Allison Webster Matlack still runs her educational consulting business, which has brought her back in
touch with classmates in a variety of ways. “Some of my favorite people I reconnected with last year were my roommates Cathy O’Keeffe and Stephanie Wood. I’m glad to have both of them back in my life.”
1986 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Erica Seifert Plunkett ericasplunkett@gmail.com Anne Robertson mnannetom@gmail.com Bill Walsh messagebill@gmail.com Catherine Lathrop Strahan catstrahan@gmail.com In Italy, Sean Carlos passed the Italian real estate broker certification exam covering tax, legal, and technical areas.... Jon Green’s son Joshua will be a freshman this fall at Pacific Lutheran Univ. from which his brother Matthew graduates this spring. Jon has worked with the Washington State Department of Early Learning for over 10 years. Wife Sue teaches music. “Did I mention it rains a lot during the winter here in Olympia? I must say I preferred the snow during winters in Lewiston!”…Alice Miller, who has 30 years of real estate expertise, was promoted to vice president and managing broker of Coldwell Banker’s sales office in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass….Joanna Stevens and her partner, Aimee Eckman, enjoyed a long weekend visit with Sharon Williams and her family in Arlington, Va. “We loved exploring the DC area via city bikes and were positively spoiled by Sharon’s wonderful cooking! We also have a new dog in our life named Ozma, whom we inherited from our daughter Emma, now a sophomore at UMass-Amherst. Like mother like daughter ... I ‘gifted’ my dog to my parents soon after college when I realized I couldn’t take adequate care of him!”
1987 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Val Brickates Kennedy brickates@gmail.com class president Erica Rowell erica@ericarowell.com
“In the midst of the exquisite pain on the rowing machine,” Arnold Robinson ’87 thinks back to his Bates rowing teammates. “Who’s up for a Founders’ Row at the new Bates boathouse?”
John Abbott lives in Jericho, Vt., with wife Katy, Cally (8), and Hazen (6). He directs the outdoor programs and is a senior lecturer in the Univ. of Vermont’s Rubenstein School for the Environment and Natural Resources. Last fall he was part of a Maine-based expedition that retraced Benedict Arnold’s 1775 attempt to take Quebec City from the British. “My friend Hodding Carter, father of Annabelle Carter (’18), and I built a replica bateau that we rowed, paddled, poled, and portaged across 350 miles in six weeks.” In June, he and his family traveled to Peru’s Cordillera Blanca range for a month of trekking and mountain biking....Joyce Bareikis El Kouarti works in Washington, D.C., as a public affairs specialist for the U.S. Forest Service....Rich Barnard’s youngest son Harrison (14) achieved Eagle Scout, making him the proud dad of two Eagle Scouts. Both boys are also following in dad’s footsteps in competitive swimming....Virginia Berman quit her job of 20 years with organic coffee fair-trader Equal Exchange to co-found a design firm, Invent Boston. “Our first product, the Two Minute Turtle, is aimed at getting children 4-11 to brush their teeth more thoroughly by helping them visualize where and how long to brush. We’re making them in our basement and selling them through our webstore.”…Jacqui Drain Cronin continues to teach Spanish and coach (strength and conditioning) at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Mass. She enjoyed a 2016-17 sabbatical and traveled to Mexico for Day of the Dead celebrations and research. She’s organizing a teachers’ literature seminar for June in Cuernavaca. When not working, she enjoys time at the beach with her family in Cape Cod and teaching Pilates and Barre classes....After 20 years in France, David Farrington moved back to the USA with his wife and daughter. He works for the same company, a French shipbuilder, and is now based in Annapolis, Md....Nate Grove finished his master’s in education at UNH. His daughter is a freshman at Colgate with the son of Jeff Zacks and the daughter of Dave Tobin.... Kari Heistad started a second company in the field of diversity, a tech company called The Diversity Dashboard, which helps companies measure their diversity work. She also enjoys being part of the WIN Lab Boston business accelerator program.... Mark Kausel reconnected with Jennifer Gibbons ’89. He loves working at RevCycle+.... Regina Marchi is the co-author of a new book, Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism (Cambridge Univ. Press). Based on 10 years of ethnographic research, it discusses how youth under 21 learn about news and develop a sense of political consciousness and civic
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1988 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class committee Mary Capaldi Carr marcapcar@me.com Astrid Delfino Bernard flutistastrid@sbcglobal.net Ruth Garretson Cameron ruth.eg.cameron@gmail.com Steven Lewis mojofink@gmail.com Julie Sutherland Platt julielsp@verizon.net Lisa A. Romeo romeoli66@gmail.com Mitchell Rosen sold his partnership in a dental office and is now senior associate in a DSO. “Much less stress and am so much happier just treating patients and taking care of their dental needs. Also just got a new rescue dog named Prince.”
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engagement. She’s an associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers and an affiliate professor at its Center for Latin American Studies.... Sarinda Parsons Wilson’s son is now a happy member of the Bates Class of 2021. She’s hosting a Batesie this year through the CDIP, a career program she participated in during a spring break. “I’m still living, learning, hiking, and traveling with (French) students at Hotchkiss.” She has almost annual summer visits with Jim Owen....Lisa Peace Tito moved to Santa Rosa, Calif. and is the new breast cancer surgeon for Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. “We arrived just in time for the fires. We evacuated in the middle of the night with a wall of fire heading our way. Our area, Fountaingrove, was devastated, but somehow about 80 percent of the houses on our street, including ours, survived. The destruction is inconceivable. However, it showed the amazing strength of the community, which pulled together to get through the crisis. Now the rebuilding of thousands of homes begins.”… Laurie Pinchbeck Whitsel still works for the American Heart Assn, translating science into policy, trying to improve cardiovascular health. Son Christian was accepted to Bates but decided to join his sister at Gettysburg College. “We are adjusting to the empty nest.”… Arnold Robinson has been training and racing with East Bay Rowing in Rhode Island. “In the midst of the exquisite pain on the rowing machine, I think of my Bates teammates Josh Galdston, Andy Henderson ’89, Dave Morris ’89, Win Brown ’89, Rich Ramsey ’89, and Steve Dickinson ’88. Who’s up for a Founders’ Row at the new Bates Boathouse this spring?”… Deborah Smith works as an associate manager at Pelletier Realty Group, a boutique-style real estate agency in North Weare, N.H., where she’s been successfully buying and selling residential real estate for 11 years. “Mountain climbing in the White Mountains with my dog Mr. Peabody and weekends at Lake Sunapee keep me outside and active. And, when I absolutely have to get out of town, I head to North Palm Beach, Fla.”…Nadia White led 15 college students on a monthlong reporting trip to northeastern Japan, where they covered stories related to rediscovering homes six years after the Fukushima triple-disaster. She lives in Missoula and is an associate professor at the Univ. of Montana School of Journalism. She’s also director of the graduate program in environmental science and natural resource journalism and teaches both journalism skills and global news honors classes. “We currently have two recent Bates graduates in our graduate seminar, Amelia Hagen-Dillon (’09) and Kitty Galloway (’11).”
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Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Donna Waterman Douglass 4498donnad@gmail.com
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1990 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com class president Eric Knight eric_knight@verizon.net Cindi Baker Wight is the new director of the Burlington (Vt.) Parks, Recreation, & Waterfront Department. Her 24 years in the field include four as superintendent in Rutland where under her leadership park and theater projects gained national attention for their creative approaches to expanding services. “I sure didn’t know that I’d end up in municipal parks and recreation when I graduated from Bates,” she wrote. “My Bates education prepared me for it, and my Outing Club leadership landed me my first municipal P&R job in Friday Harbor, Wash. We ended up out there due to a Bates professor, Liz Francis, who was doing research at the UW Marine Labs.”
1991 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Katie Tibbetts Gates kathryntgates@gmail.com
Harvard Business Review
How to give feedback people can actually use
takeaway: Good feedback in a workplace is specific, based on facts, and focused on the goals of the organization Too often, feedback doesn’t help people improve, wrote Jennifer Guckel Porter ’88 in the Harvard Business Review. Porter, managing partner of The Boda Group, recommended “strategic developmental feedback,” which is: • Big-picture focused • Organizationally aligned • Behavioral and specific • Factual, not interpretive • Both positive and negative • Focused on patterns • Linked to impact • Prioritized Using these strategies, Porter wrote, your feedback about a conflict-averse employee might look like this: “Our organization is very direct and values leaders who confront issues head on, without inauthentic positivity. The pattern for Juan is that when he does not agree with a colleague’s position, he remains silent about his opposition. I’m not sure why he does this, but the impact is that I think he is in agreement when he is not.”
class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com Corey Harris returned to Bates to perform blues and other music from the African diaspora. He was a Watson Fellow, and the
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A Fifth of Bates Last fall, Kali Brown ’21 stopped by the Muskie Archives, where her father, Win Brown ’89, and granduncle, Scott Brown ’61, were delivering historical documents once belonging to Kali’s great-great-grandfather, Winfield Scott Brown, Class of 1895. From there, the elder Browns headed over to Martindale Country Club for a Friends of Bates Athletics golf outing. Kali, the fifth generation of her family to attend Bates, grew up hearing all sorts of Bates stories. Like how her great-grandfather may (or may not) have been behind the 1925 fire that consumed the rickety old gym — a blaze that delighted Bates students by hastening construction of Alumni Gym. Or how her father was one of the earliest members of the Bates rowing team — of which Kali is now a member. Now that she’s here, Kali has asked herself, “What Bates stories will I tell?” Well, she’s building a story stockpile of her own, about new friends, “crazy dinner conversations, dance parties in Frye House, and latenight adventures on the Puddle in the snow!”
concert honored the 50 years the Watson Foundation has offered fellowships to Bates students.... Friends from the Class of ’91 and their families gathered last May at the bar mitzvah celebration of Robert Lifson, youngest son of Alex Lifson and wife Jacqueline. They included Chris and Kristin Bierly Magendantz ’92, Greg Mulready, Mike and Ellen Rhodes Evans, Scott Higgins, Mike Taylor, and Matt Pedone....Cathleen Pendergast Shay graduated from Widener Univ. with a doctorate in physical therapy in May 2017. “I am working for Good Shepherd Rehab in the Lehigh Valley area of Penn. I had the pleasure to be home to raise three wonderful boys (one currently a second-year Batesie), to volunteer at their schools, to serve on the board of our athletic association, and to coach a variety of sports teams. I am grateful for all these opportunities in my life and look forward to more adventures as I begin my career in physical therapy.”…Elizabeth Rynecki’s 2016 book Chasing Portraits: A Great-Granddaughter’s Quest for Her Lost Art Legacy (Penguin Random House) explores her search across two continents for the lost paintings of her Polish Jewish great-grandfather, Moshe Rynecki. He is believed to have painted as many as 800 works depicting everyday life in Poland between World Wars I and II before he perished in a concentration camp. She expects her companion film to be released in 2018. It documents her quest to locate the paintings — not to seize them, but to gain deeper understanding of the painful repercussions of the Holocaust on multiple generations of her family and the ways in which art both defines and reflects the times....The Maine Sunday Telegram noted that Adrienne Shibles “has kept Bowdoin a power” since taking over as women’s basketball coach in 2008. She won her 200th game with the Polar Bears in November. This season’s stellar team had five players from Maine. “I definitely have an affinity for Maine high school players,” said Adrienne, who grew up in Knox and played basketball at Mount View High in Thorndike before going on to star at Bates.
1992 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class committee Ami Berger ami_berger@hotmail.com Kristin Bierly Magendantz kristin.magendantz@trincoll.edu Kristen Downs Bruno alfredbruno@sbcglobal.net Roland Davis roldav92@gmail.com Peter Friedman peterjfriedman@gmail.com Leyla Morrissey Bader leyla.bader@gmail.com Jeff Mutterperl jeffmutterperl@aol.com
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DeDe Alexander reports, “2017 was a super year for me! I started my sixth year teaching thirdgrade Spanish immersion in the Catalina Foothills in Tucson, Ariz. I sent my oldest off to college in Syracuse (bittersweet). Like her mom, she had to adventure far from home for college! Also, I got married! Jeff and I now have a blended family of six (yes, I’ve heard all the Brady Bunch jokes). I love staying in touch with Batesies on Facebook and hope to travel back to Maine when picking up or dropping off my daughter.”…Jere Calmes writes, “Still living in Moscow, Russia, and had nothing to do with Drumpf.”…Eric Halvorson left his job at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School to join a private practice in Asheville, N.C. “I am married with three children, and getting to spend more time with my family in the mountains has been great. I am mountain and road biking as much as I can to counteract the effects of living in ‘beer city USA.’”…Jesse Miller had a busy year in the U.S. Army. In May 2017, he was promoted to colonel; in September, he led the U.S. service contingent during a multinational training exercise in the Ukraine; and in October he took command of the 115th Regional Support Group, a brigade-sized mission command unit in the California Army National Guard, headquartered in Roseville. Jesse has served in the Army since 1991, originally enlisting as a rifleman in an Army Reserve infantry company in Auburn, and commissioning through OCS in 1995. He and his family live in San Francisco. He finds some time to devote to his “second job” as a litigation partner at Reed Smith LLP, where he also serves as the head of the firm’s veterans affinity group.... Marianne Nolan Cowan writes, “It was so great to see everyone who came back to campus for our 25th Reunion! Thank you to everyone who made that weekend such a success and such a fun party. I have been back at Bates working for about 17 years, mostly in the Alumni Office, but now in Purposeful Work, more closely tied to the students’ curricular and co-curricular life. A lot has changed on campus, but these kids are still Batesies through and through, and always will be, and I love having an impact on their college experience. Tim Cowan ’91 and I have two college kids — so, an empty nest — and have been loving this new phase of life. Did you know that you can take vacation in September? After the tourists with school-age kids are back home? This is our new tradition, after dropping kids off at Skidmore (Patrick) and Franklin & Marshall (Katie). Ahh-mazing. Come see me when you’re on campus! Those of you with high school kids need to make the trip, if only to practice a college visit, but moreover because it’s still a great place to spend four of their best years.”
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1994 1993 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Lisa A. Bousquet lisaannbousquet@gmail.com class co-presidents Michael F. Charland mfc@wilkinsinvest.com Jason R. Hanley jhanley@wrightexpress.com Mike Charland writes, “I had a blast attending my wife Aya Murata’s (’92) 25th Reunion in June 2017. I’m really looking forward to doing it again June 8–10 when our class gathers to celebrate our milestone year! Mark your calendars and make your attendance a priority in 2018!”
1994 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Courtney L. Fleisher courtney.fleisher@gmail.com Jonathan M. Lewis jlewjlew@mac.com
Heather Brummer ’94 and her husband live on two and a half acres in Washington state with a huge garden and big dirt jumps. “We have no children, but hope to have a herd of goats someday.” Chip Balser lives on the beach in North Florida with wife Sherbrooke and daughters Trish (15) and Tori (13). He’s the managing director for the Southeast region for Aon Consulting, one of the world’s largest insurance consultants. He gives back to the community by coaching the local middle school football team and several girls basketball and lacrosse teams. He got together with Pat Fleming and reports Jay Yuskis ’93 lives in the same town....Heather Brummer and her husband live on 2.5 acres in Washington state with a huge garden in the front and big dirt jumps in the back. “We have no children but hope to have a herd of goats someday.” She has two master’s degrees from Bastyr Univ., in nutrition and acupuncture and Oriental medicine....Ernie Cloutier, his wife, and their four daughters moved in 2017 to Zurich, Switzerland, which they’re really enjoying....Derek Cook owns a headhunting firm in Scottsdale, Ariz....Kim Howland writes, “Stepping out of the madness of corporate life in the Bay Area and moving to Tahoe. Joining a startup in health IT so won’t be bored. But at least I won’t be bored while getting to ski every day this winter!”...Audra Kelly enjoys life in Silver Spring, Md.,
with two boys (9 and 12), her history professor husband, and black Lab Hera. She’s celebrating her 14th year at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, as head of education, in Washington.... Kristina Marcussen is still in Vermont....Tracy O’Mara Peacock received a Bates’ Best award for being “instrumental in providing Chicago-area alumni and families with highly engaging programs” that “celebrate not only the venues and organizations that make Chicago special, but the contributions that alumni make to your community.” In 2016, she and husband Brad ’92 brought the Bates community together at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater to see Othello: The Remix, featuring acclaimed actor and director Postell Pringle ’98. Last year, she introduced alumni and families to Jonathan Pereira ’98, executive director of Plant Chicago, who hosted a tour of his organization’s farmers market, followed by a craft beer tasting. Her citation adds, “Your collaboration with Chicago’s after-school program MetroSquash and Bates squash Coach Pat Cosquer ’97 has brought many accomplished student-athletes to the college. Tracy, your energy and enthusiasm inspires those who serve with you on the Alumni Council and your Reunion Committee.”…After 15 years in Berlin, Germany, Paula Redes Sidore and her family moved in 2016 to the tiny wine village of Königswinter, across the river from Bonn. “The switch has been good, and I feel at home in the mountains and bad jokes of the Rhineland. I am a wine writer, translator, and occasional seminar instructor for the company I founded, weinstory.de. I spend my days writing about, tasting, and visiting wines from around the world.”…Kurt Rosenberger and Taryn welcomed their third child, Finley Bree, “finally a girl!” He still enjoys doing research on coastal issues with USGS, and getting to travel some (Western Australia, Puerto Rico, Maui), though budget cuts continue to hurt....Bea Waters Kalinich gets up to campus “every two months or so; it looks amazing! I see Christina Wellington Traister frequently, as we live five minutes from each other, and our daughters play field hockey on the same eighth-grade team.”
1995 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Philip Pettis ppettis@nhlawfirm.com class co-presidents Jason Verner jcv@nbgroup.com Deborah Nowak Verner debverner@gmail.com
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Emily Jackson Sanborn
media outlet: Popular Mechanics
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Whatever happened to 3D printing?
takeaway: Once the hype dies down, 3D printing’s educational value remains With the hype gone, wrote Ryan D’Agostino and Eleanor Hildebrandt of Popular Mechanics, 3D printing has settled into niche uses, such as education, where the devices can teach elements of science, technology, and engineering. Emily Jackson Sanborn ’94, librarian at middle and high schools in Orono, Maine, realized this when she dug out the school’s old 3D printer and recruited a group of students to help her figure it out. “My goal is for the kids to work toward a project with a real-life application,” Jackson Sanborn told the magazine — “a problem that we can create a fix for,” such as the gimbal camera mount that a student printed to film projects for his acting class. One of 3D printing’s most important lessons, D’Agostino and Hildebrandt wrote, is the value of trial and error. “3D printing is not really printing at all. It’s manufacturing. It’s making.” 3D printers “make it easy without making it simple. They help get you to a place where you can fail, and that’s what makes us create.”
Jessica Backer Brand and her family live in upstate New York. She enjoys time with her family and working as an attorney for a not-for-profit that advocates for kinship caregivers....Robin
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Bitner lives in Marin County, near San Francisco, with husband Scott, son Milo (4), and dog Tom. “I am working as a psychiatrist and formed a new medical group with two colleagues two years ago at Marin General Hospital. I also have a small private practice. I’m lucky to see several Batesies on a regular basis. Rebecca Wood (former roommate) lives down the road, and we see each other regularly. Susie Shaw (’96) and I have kids at the same preschool! Kristin Wolcott Farese (’91) and I work together on a team at the hospital.”…Jon Bowden and Brogann welcomed Wilhelmina Jane Bowden, “Billie,” on Feb. 12, 2017. She joins Connor (12), Stevie (12), and Clementine (10)....After getting a master’s in information security, Rebecca Bradley took a security analyst job at Hologic, a women’s health company. “I’ve enjoyed the work so much I moved to Marlborough, Mass., to be closer to work and friends.”… The Boston Globe reported on how Dean Bragonier and his wife, musician Sally Taylor, have teamed up to help children with dyslexia. Both are dyslexic, as is their 10-year-old son Bodhi, several of Dean’s family members, and hers — including Sally’s mom, musician Carly Simon. They share similar stories from their youth about being viewed as “slow” by teachers and peers. “What we heard was, ‘You are broken because you don’t read well. You are insufficient,’” Dean said. A former restaurant owner on Martha’s Vineyard, he founded NoticeAbility, a nonprofit aimed at helping dyslexic children. He has teamed up with educators from Harvard Business School, Harvard School of Education, and MIT to create a curriculum that uses teaching methods other than the written word to focus on the abilities of dyslexic students. “Take graphic, pictorial, and video-based methodologies.… We learn very, very quickly when we are presented information in these formats,” Dean said. The first installment — entrepreneurship — debuted last year in the Martha’s Vineyard public schools and was well received. Sally was a touring musician before she founded the nonprofit Consenses, an interactive arts initiative. Dean teamed up with his wife and her Consenses platform to develop an arts-based curriculum for the dyslexic community. The pilot program was unveiled in Martha’s Vineyard public schools last fall, with plans to expand the curriculum and make it available to other school districts....Chuck D’Antonio got married. “My wife Angela Vitulli (MA Tufts ’99) and I had a small celebration with Tom Ulrich ’96 and Erik Holm ’96 in attendance. We skipped the honeymoon to spend time with our now formally blended family of Lila (13), Trey (11), and Carson (4).”…
Carl Dragstedt lives with wife Alissa and two children (12 and 10) in Gainesville, Fla., the heart of Gator Nation. He’s a full-time practicing cardiologist and operates his own medical consulting company....Kate Drummond Zimmerman lives in Maine with her husband, dog, and two children (7 and 8) and works at Maine Medical Center and with Maine EMS as an EM physician. “We became Sugarloafers this year, where you can find me skinning up the mountain while my children are in lessons ... serenity. Thank you to all of you who have donated to the Bates Fund and tolerated my haggling as one of your class agents.”…Amy Haas is in her eighth year of business at her practice, Path of Life Chiropractic. Last December, she published a research paper on improvements in heart rate variability observed in patients undergoing a corrective care program. “This is one of the first papers in my field to demonstrate quantitative improvement in human adaptability via chiropractic care. I’ve been honored to be asked to present this research at conferences in Massachusetts and Connecticut this past year, and this upcoming year I will give presentations in Colorado, New Mexico, and Amsterdam. When I’m not busting tail at work, I am out hiking New Hampshire’s 48 4,000-footers with my two Labradors, Sagan and Roxy. Sagan and I are on No. 40, Roxy is on No. 3!”…Amanda Hosmer writes, “The biggest bit of news from 2017 is that I got engaged!”…Heather Josselyn-Cranson’s book, The Reason Why We Sing, was reviewed in the journal The Hymn. The reviewer said she “not only offers a broad vision for how diverse traditions of congregational song can reproduce the church global, but she provides the reader with specific ways to employ this vision within the local congregation.”…Carolyn Kavanagh Gaither writes, “2017 was a landmark year for Houstonians — from hosting the Super Bowl to winning the World Series. But watching Hurricane Harvey annihilate our city was by far one of the most impactful experiences we have ever been witness to. Thank you to everyone who reached out to us and contributed to relief programs in our community. Amazingly, we collected over $4,000 in gift cards from friends across the nation (through Facebook posts alone!) which we then distributed to people from all walks of life in the hurricane’s aftermath. Joey Gaither continues to travel the globe in his role at Shell Oil but also found time for a bike tour around Cuba in January. “We are all looking forward to a break at our family home on Cape Cod this summer.”…After five years at home raising her daughters (13 and 10), Nisha Koshy returned to lawyering at her old firm. “I
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1996 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Ayesha Farag-Davis ayesha.farag@gmail.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com Hilary Holbrook Schneider, Maine government relations director of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, took part in a discussion at the Harward Center on public health....Teri Page, Brian, Ella (10), and Everett (7) celebrated their five-year anniversary of living off the grid in Northeast Missouri. “I’m finishing up my next book and continue to write about our homesteading adventures on my website, Homestead Honey.”…Jay Lowe writes, “Life is good still in Maine, the way life should be! Recently moved the family back to hometown of Saco, where oldest son Jake is a freshman in high school at TA and his brother Mac is a seventh-grader. Had a blast at Mike Maccaro’s wedding, unfortunately missed Mike Pavlic’s, and see Mark Peabody on occasion for lunch or coffee now that he’s back in NH.”
1997 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class co-secretaries Chris Gailey gaileycj@gmail.com Leah Wiedmann Gailey leah.gailey@gmail.com class president Stuart B. Abelson sabelson@oraclinical.com Michelle Blair Wilker, a Los Angeles-based writer and producer, is publishing her first book of short stories, Chain Linked: Stories (Post Hill Press), in June.... Tanya Stepasiuk and Jeff Barz-Snell ’91, who didn’t know each other until recently, worked together to help make Salem, Mass., a “Sanctuary for Peace” city. She was the chair and he was the treasurer of a ballot question committee that asked voters to affirm a City Council ordinance protecting undocumented immigrants. On Nov. 6, voters did so, 6,756 to 5,030. Tanya said she was “grateful to the voters of Salem for affirming the values of this city, because this ordinance keeps Salem safe and welcoming,” The Salem News reported. “We hope this helps the Safe Communities Act on the state level, especially with the continued anti-immigrant sentiment on the federal
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enjoyed some QT in 2017 with Beth Lurvey, Bayne Gibby, Ing Voosen, and Amy Bourne. Traveled to Ireland with my partner, who is from Belfast, and met his whole family.”…Pianist and composer John Kramer returned to Bates to give a concert at Olin. He’s an assistant professor at the Berklee College of Music....Carrie Levesque and family are living back in The County while her husband completes an accelerated nursing degree. “It’s great to be back home, close to family and Maine friends, after being away in Bergen, Norway, for the last four years. The kids (Genna, 10, Ellie, 8, and Isaac, 2) love small-town life.” She enjoys the flexibility of teaching online for UNC Greensboro....Gene McCabe completed his 11th year as head men’s lacrosse coach at Washington and Lee Univ. In December, he became president of the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Assn....Robin Postman Benson’s last year has been filled with change. “Our first full year in our new Minnesota home, new ventures in Brazil with friends, and we continue to help others thrive. Sage started a Mommy and Me program with the local school, we added a new pony to the herd, and we had a summer of travel, including Brazil. We have also added a cow herd to the farm, and we plan to continue growing the diversity of farm animals, as well as the garden, much to Sage’s delight, so we can be less reliant on outside sources for food.”…William Somers left his job as a Monmouth County assistant prosecutor after 15 years and used the time away from the daily grind to hike Vermont’s 273-mile Long Trail. The first week he hiked with sons Nathaniel (15) and Andrew (13). “After my wife Elizabeth Polizzi Somers picked them up, I headed on solo, completing the whole trail in three and a half weeks. It was an amazing trip, and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys backpacking. Lizzy continues her career at Merck and I hope catches the hiking bug soon!”…Amy Starer Gifford and Jason ’97 feel lucky to live in Richmond, Vt., with sons Jabes (14) and Eben (11). She moved her business, Richmond Community Kitchen, out of their home and into a professional space in town. “We still produce locally sourced, from-scratch meals, but now we have much larger production capacity and can also host cooking classes, pop-up dinners, and other food-related events.”… Laike Stewart and Melanie now live in Wynnewood, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, with Maxwell (5) and Hannah (4). Laike is now attending veterinarian and senior director of the Department of Veterinary Resources at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He leads a team of professionals that supports and facilitates groundbreaking
Courting Success While on campus for trustee meetings last fall, Garth Timoll ’99 took part in a Purposeful Work discussion with men’s basketball coach Jon Furbush ’05. Timoll, a former Bobcat basketball captain and current Bates trustee, is a managing director at Top Tier Capital Partners, a venture capital firm based in San Francicso. Here’s what students heard about his path toward purposeful work.
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Looking to get into finance after graduation, Timoll realized that firms didn’t know what he and his Bates education (psychology major, economics minor) could deliver. So he learned to be direct, telling interviewers that he could write, do math, work hard, and understand people. “Once I got my story right, I started getting second-, third-round interviews,” he said.
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Timoll brought hoop skills to his work. In terms of management, “every single tool I use comes from those experiences on the basketball court — dealing with adversity, having difficult conversations, getting people to get along.”
Learn from failure
Celebrate your wins, “then you got to get back to work,” he said. Failure, on the other hand, doesn’t exist. “If you think of something as failure, you’ve made the decision that there’s nothing to learn from it. There’s something to learn from everything you do.”
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Classmates Andrew Reece ’01 and Chris Danforth ’01.
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Your Instagram posts may hold clues to your mental health
takeaway: Faces, filters, and colors on Instagram can predict a clinical diagnosis Research by Chris Danforth ’01 and Andrew Reece ’01 found marked differences between the Instagram posts of people who have clinically diagnosed depression and people who do not. Their analysis of nearly 44,000 Instagram photos suggested that people “who were depressed tended to post photos that, on a pixelby-pixel basis, were bluer, darker, and grayer on average than healthy people,” Reece told The New York Times’ Niraj Chokshi ’07. While fascinating, the results speak “more to the promise of their techniques,” Chokshi wrote. “We reveal a great deal about our behavior with our activities,” Danforth said, “and we’re a lot more predictable than we’d like to think.” Danforth is the Flint Professor of Mathematical, Natural, and Technical Sciences at the University of Vermont. For Reece, a behavioral data scientist at BetterUp Inc., the paper was his Harvard doctoral dissertation.
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level. We need to come together with our neighbors here.” The City Council voted 7-4 in March, and again in April, to pass the “Sanctuary for Peace” ordinance, which affirms that police officers and other city officials will not ask about immigration status or seek proof of citizenship from anyone in need of service. The “Vote Yes on 1” committee was based out of First Church in Salem, where Jeff is the pastor. He spoke in favor of the ordinance when it came before the City Council. “I read part of Matthew 25,” he told the News, “and I said, ‘It’s right there. When I was hungry, you gave me something to eat. When I was thirsty, you gave me something to drink. And when I was scared my mother and father would be arrested when I was at school, you passed this ordinance.’ There are innocent, poor people in our midst, in our communities, who are being harmed, who are scared — and that’s not right. We’re better than that.”…A new book by acclaimed children’s book author-illustrator Matt Tavares made holiday book lists in USA Today, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, among others. Red & Lulu tells the story of two cardinals whose Christmastime journey takes them from their suburban home to the heart of Manhattan. “With its bird’s-eye views, this wonderfully imagined, gorgeously illustrated ode to the world-famous Rockefeller Center Christmas tree will have young travelers begging Mom and Dad for a trip to the Big Apple,” said USA Today. The Times said Red & Lulu “lets the holiday note waft lightly, bringing equal cheer to the celebration of pair-bonding and New York City.”
1998 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class committee Rob Curtis robcurtis@eatonvance.com Douglas Beers douglas.beers@gmail.com Liam Leduc Clarke ldlc639@yahoo.com Renee Leduc Clarke rleducclarke@gmail.com Tyler Munoz tylermunoz@gmail.com
1999 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard jennifer_bouchard@hotmail.com class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com John Bechtold, a performing arts teacher at Amherst Regional High School in Massachusetts, used a Barlow Alumni Travel Grant from Bates to learn more about Punchdrunk, a London-based theater company that practices immersive theater, which brings the audience into
the world of a show. For example, The Guardian called the company’s fall show, Kabeiroi — designed for an audience of just two — “by turns tourist experience, treasure hunt, and descent into an unsettling world.” “I learned about design process and practices,” John said, “including an approach to immersive storytelling that is the foundation for their work — and very applicable to mine. I’ve already rewritten the syllabus for my stagecraft class, I’m restructuring big elements of my acting classes, and I’m preparing for future theater projects that will no doubt be inflected by my time and knowledge gained here.”... The horse-show magazine The Plaid Horse interviewed Alexandra Cherubini, owner of the equestrian-products company EquiFit, about ShouldersBack, a posture-improving device she invented in 2001. Since then, ShouldersBack has “successfully crossed over from the equestrian world to the mainstream market, with mainstream sales exceeding equestrian sales,” the magazine said. “I love the horse industry, and that’s what we are about,” Alexandra said. “But, it is fun to have a product that crosses over.” Worn like a vest, ShouldersBack gently encourages equestrians to maintain good posture, which helps horse and rider work together....Jenn Lemkin Bouchard presented last November at the National Council for the Social Studies conference in San Francisco. She presented a poster entitled “Gov is All Around,” about real-life government applications and civic engagement, and gave a talk on “Creating a Culture of Community and Collaboration,” about how she fosters teamwork in her AP government classes. Jenn teaches at Needham (Mass.) High School.
2000 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Cynthia Macht Link cynthiafriedalink@gmail.com class co-presidents Jennifer Glassman Jacobs jenniferellenjacobs@gmail.com Megan Shelley mhshelley@aol.com Jesse Laflamme was elected to the board of St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy, his alma mater. He’s the owner and CEO of Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs, headquartered in Monroe, N.H., and is in the midst of expanding the family’s 60-year-old business nationwide....Angela Perkins graduated from the Univ. of Texas at Austin with a master’s in information studies in May 2017. It’s her second master’s; she earned an MFA in screenwriting from the American Film Institute in 2007. She also gave birth to her first child, Thomas Ray, on May 27, 2017. She lives in Pennsylvania as she seeks employment as a librarian/archivist.
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class co-presidents Jodi Winterton Cobb jodimcobb@gmail.com Kate Hagstrom Lepore khlepore@gmail.com
co-class presidents Jay Surdukowski jsurdukowski@sulloway.com Drew G. Weymouth weymouthd@gmail.com
Jaime DeSimone ’01, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Fla., is delighted to be collaborating with Kate Gilmore ’97 on a group exhibition. Jaime DeSimone, a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (Fla.), writes that she is delighted to be collaborating with Kate Gilmore ’97 on a group exhibition at her museum. Entitled “A Dark Place of Dreams,” the exhibition runs from April 28 through Sept. 2, 2018, then travels to the Gibbes Museum in Charleston, S.C. It revisits the monochromatic assemblages of pioneering sculptor Louise Nevelson alongside three contemporary artists, including Kate, who created a new site-specific work for the exhibition. The performative sculpture not only recalls Nevelson’s practice and mode of working with scrap material and assemblage, but epitomizes how Kate appropriates and expands notions of sculpture today. The final work is installed alongside a video of the performance that captures the act of creation....Vicki Losick, of the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, was recognized as an “outstanding investigator” by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, an institute of the National Institutes of Health, for her research on wound healing. The designation carries a grant award of about $1.7 million for five years, supporting her research on the regulation of polyploidization in wound repair. Polyploidization is a mechanism that supports cell enlargement by duplicating chromosome number. Her research has implications beyond wound healing, however, since polyploid cell growth is also associated with cancer and other degenerative diseases, including heart and liver diseases. Her goal is to identify the factors that regulate the creation of these extra-large cells in order to promote a beneficial response and to limit the degenerative consequences.
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2003 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Kirstin Boehm-McCarthy kirstincboehm@gmail.com Melissa Wilcox Yanagi melissa.yanagi@staples.com Elizabeth Cunha Wright was promoted from associate to counsel at the law firm Robinson+Cole where she focuses on construction law, commercial litigation, and surety and fidelity law. She works primarily in the firm’s Boston office.
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Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Eduardo Crespo eduardo.crespo.r@gmail.com Tanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com Rachael Madden-Connor Bolton opened her own counseling and psychotherapy practice in Fairbanks, Alaska, last September....Curt and Jennifer Ambrose Lyford welcomed their second child, a daughter named Rowenna Lyford, on June 10, 2017.
2005 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents Kathryn Duvall duvall.kathryn@gmail.com Melissa Geissler melissa.geissler@gmail.com Brian Gerrity reports he and Rachel Sabbath Gerrity ’04 “are loving life in the Deep South.” Daughter Freida (named after Freida Sahady ’04) is 4. Rachel opened her second yoga studio, Homegrown Yoga, in Warner Robins, Ga., and started a 200hour teacher training program certified by Yoga Alliance. Brian is now senior associate athletic director at Mercer Univ. He recently published a book, Building the Bear: A Mid-Major Fundraising Story, about the success of the Mercer Athletic Foundation, the fundraising arm of the Mercer Athletic Department. “Rachel and I visited campus over Thanksgiving — everything looks fantastic!”...The Portland Press Herald/ Maine Sunday Telegram named Rob Gomez a finalist for “2017 Mainer of the Year,” noting that “his split-second instinct to lift a fellow runner set a new bar for Maine sportsmanship.” During last August’s famed Beach to
headline:
Free beer isn’t enough anymore
takeaway: Potential hires want work-life balance, not flashy perk The Boston Globe sought out Katie Burke ’03, the chief people officer at HubSpot, for its story on the changing nature of company perks. Reporter Scott Kirsner said that “offering dazzling benefits,” like beer taps and catered lunches “just for the sake of grabbing a candidate’s attention” isn’t the goal any more. In the Boston area specifically, firms are finding that workers prioritize benefits that create worklife balance. “The thing we are working the most on for the year ahead is infusing flexibility into our experience,” said Burke. That includes “exploring more remote work options” and “making no travel or minimal travel an option for senior positions.” But Burke noted that hype about benefits might mean other aspects of the hiring process are overlooked. “No one talks about the hard, gritty work of training good managers or training people to develop new skills,” she said.
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Beacon 10K Road Race, Rob helped struggling rival Jesse Orach, who was slumped on the ground and suffering from heat stroke, get up and finish ahead of him. Orach thus won the Maine men’s division of the race. At Orach’s request, organizers split the prize money ($1,000 for first, $500 for second), with each runner also donating $150 to race charity Let’s Go. “I tried to deflect some of that praise because I really don’t feel like I deserve it,” Rob said. “The one thing that did change for me is that getting the accolades I did made me realize I want to live up to what people think I am.”
2006 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Chelsea Cook chelsea.m.cook@gmail.com Katharine M. Nolan knolan06@gmail.com John Ritzo johnnyritzo@gmail.com Hallie Preston Greene welcomed identical twin daughters, Sallie Karen Greene and Annie Elizabeth Greene, on April 7, 2017.
2007 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class co-presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Sarah Catignani and Steve Spatafore were married Oct. 7, 2017....Ryan Griffin and his husband Hugo Lopez adopted their 5-year-old son Julio on Oct. 27, 2017, after Julio spent about 3.5 years in foster care (two of those with Ryan and Hugo). They are starting early on Julio’s Bates application for matriculation in 2031. Ryan also completed five years as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Lynn, Mass. Ryan, Hugo, and Julio live in Malden.... Bryan Laverriere is the new public services operations manager for the town of Kennebunk.
2008 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Elizabeth Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Alison Schwartz Egelson alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com
David Miller ’08 “loved getting back up to Bates in August to help train AESOP student leaders in risk management before they head out.” Andrew Breece had a big year in 2017. He became publisher of both Wooden Boat and Profes-
sional Boat Builder magazines, married Dr. Megan Flenniken (Mount Holyoke ’07) in summer, welcomed a puppy named Abby, and took ownership of the 41-foot wooden sailboat Passage....Jason Buxbaum is a research associate with the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design at the Univ. of Michigan and a project manager with VBID Health. He manages VBID Health’s Task Force on Low-Value Care, dedicated to reduction of wasteful medical care. He has a master’s of health services administration from the Univ. of Michigan School of Public Health and is starting a Ph.D. in health policy at Harvard in 2018....Bryan Frates got engaged last July to Lisa Hillary in Barbados. They are expecting a boy in May....Charlotte Gerrish and Simon Koster were married last summer. “We are enjoying life in NYC while getting out to adventure in the outdoors as much as possible.”…Rachel Katz will complete her PhD at Tufts’ Department of Child Study and Human Development in May. “I’m on the job market, planning my wedding for next year, and still playing music on the side.”… Zack Lapin, associate editor at Nature Communications, returned to Bates to give a talk on “Optical Antennas for Imaging and Spectroscopy.”…David Miller enjoys life and work at Deerfield (Mass.) Academy. Now in his sixth year, he’s the assistant dean for global and academic affairs and the director of Deerfield’s Center for Service and Global Citizenship. “For the past three years, I have loved getting back up to Bates in August to help train AESOP leaders in risk management before they head out with incoming firstyear students.”…Katie Nickerson and husband Brian welcomed baby Finn on April 17, 2017. “We enjoy meeting up with fellow Bobcats in the Boston area for play dates.”…Dar Vanderbeck is chief innovation officer for CARE, a global humanitarian aid and international development nonprofit that works in over 93 countries. She and Alana Corbett ’07 completed their annual sand dune tribute, celebrating Viva Baja at the Monterey Aquarium.... Molly Wagner and Aaron Morse were married July 15, 2017.
2009 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com
Marine scientist and educator Adam Ratner ’09 was named a 30 under 30 by the North American Assn. for Environmental Education.
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2010 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@ gmail.com Julia Bedell is now the Clinical Fellow for the Univ. of Washington School of Law’s Children and Youth Advocacy Clinic. She’s involved with the Doorway Café project, which aims to create a pilot café/navigational model to address youth homelessness in Seattle’s University District....Alison Frye completed her master’s in marine biology from Northeastern Univ....Andrew Johnson was appointed the chief creative officer at Binway, a multi-family logistics and management application/startup in Chicago.... Hannah Laverty expanded her role as PR and marketing director at DSTLD, a direct to consumer luxury fashion brand, to include investor relations. In addition to day-to-day PR/marketing, she handles its online public offering, a new type of public financing that allows anyone to invest in a private company. “Last year I raised over $1.7mm for the company, which lead to over 300 percent growth in the company’s revenue plus extensive media coverage in outlets like MSNBC, TechCrunch, Digiday, Fast Company, and more.”…Kat Moraros and Nate Speckman were married Sept. 16, 2017. Both professional actors, they live in Chicago....Graham Pearson got
engaged to Gwendolyn Cody. He graduates with an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson School of Management in May and will start at Deloitte Consulting in NYC as a senior consultant.... Hannah Roebuck Broadley is in her final year working on her PhD dissertation research on the invasive forest insect, winter moth. She has a number of publications in science research journals and looks forward to getting more of her research findings distributed in journals and other media outlets. Last year, with a group of other graduate students, she co-founded a new blog, That’s Life [Science]....Mimi Sanada welcomed a second boy, Ren Sticker, last summer. “We live in Austin, Texas, and have been enjoying milder winters.”… Cory Sanderson reports, “2017 was a big year! I completed my sixth year coaching the USRowing Men’s Junior National Team, working with 73 athletes from around the country. I was named the executive director of Nashville (Tenn.) Rowing, a nonprofit rowing organization, with rowers from middle school up to 70. On Dec. 21, I got engaged to Emy Noel. We are looking forward to a fall wedding and enjoying our new house together.”…Emily Treat and Wayne Atwell (Johns Hopkins Univ. ’08) were married in August 2017....Lauren Yanofsky Wirth and Sean welcomed Kate Anna Wirth on Oct. 7, 2017.
2011 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@gmail. com Patrick Williams Patw.williams@gmail.com Megan Guynes, who oversees the summer and after-school programs at Lewiston’s Tree Street Youth, sang with the Gospelaires, the Bates gospel ensemble that she founded, during Bates’ Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance in January. “It’s a beautiful feeling to have so many different kinds of people come together,” she says. “The Gospelaires has always been a community — it’s a connection of students, faculty, and community members.” Tree Street Youth was founded by Kim Sullivan ’13 and Julia Sleeper ’08, and serves the growing number of families in the downtown area, including a large influx of immigrants and refugees....Kim Suvak works as a primary care nurse practitioner for cognitively and physically impaired adults in the Boston area, “while planning a September wedding and training a puppy!”
2012 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class co-presidents Mikey Pasek mikeypasek@gmail.com Sangita Murali sangitamurali12@gmail.com
takeaway: Sara Sol
Sara Sol ’11 (left) and Mariam Santamaría.
media outlet: ElSalvador.com
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Producción salvadoreña Fragmentos de infancia gana premio Ovación 2017 (Salvadoran production “Fragments of Childhood” wins Ovación 2017 award)
takeaway: A thoughtful play about a national issue wins deserved recognition ElSalvador.com reported that actresses Sara Sol ’11 and Mariam Santamaría won the 2017 Ovation Award, given annually by the Poma Foundation and the Luis Poma Theater to support scenic arts in El Salvador. Worth $5,000, the prize will allow them to develop an original play, Fragmentos de infancia (Fragments of Childhood). Aimed at audiences aged 7 and up, the play will be a “theatrical journey through the dreams, fears, and obstacles that abandoned children face,” reported Mireya Amaya of ElSalvador.com. Sol and Santamaría will conduct research at an orphanage; train at the Teatro de los Andes in Bolivia; write and produce the play; and create workshops and presentations at orphanages, theaters, schools, and community spaces. Sol and Santamaría, both graduates of a threeyear acting program at the National Arts Center in El Salvador, told Amaya that “we want to do justice to such a delicate subject with innovative and quality theatre, that raises awareness, but at the same time inspires strength.”
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Outside his Carnegie Science Hall shop, machinist Peter Beach stands next to the chalkboard that has Kelly Kruger’s thank-you message.
Standing Out In June, Kelly Kruger ’14 was on campus with her mother, Sarah Daniels ’77, who was celebrating her 40th Bates Reunion. While here, they sought out Peter Beach, who oversees the Carnegie Science Hall machine shop. Beach wasn’t in. But there was a blackboard outside the shop, so Kruger wrote a message. “Hi Peter,” she wrote. “Sorry we missed you. We still display ceramics on the beautiful stands that you made for me! Hope that you are well and I hope to see you when I come back for my Reunion in 2019!” The note recalls Kruger’s senior year, when she asked Beach for help with her studio art thesis. Would he create stands to display her stoneware cups, bowls, and plates? Beach, who thinks of his job “as a playground, basically,” was happy to step in. “He was such a great part of my senior thesis,” Kruger said. “His willingness to take time out of his day and make a final product that I will have forever is a huge thing for me.”
2013 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class co-presidents Ryan Sonberg rsonberg9@gmail.com Megan Murphy megan.a.murphy3@gmail.com Francesca Aborn went back for a second master’s in social work, “because I want to become a therapist for people who are in prison. I am also working full time as a case manager for people who are 50 or older coming home from prison.”…After four great years in Washington, Eleanor Anaclerio moved to Boston. “I’m continuing to work for POLITICO remotely, which gets me back to DC often, but I’m loving
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being back in New England.”… Nadine Beaupierre teaches at KIPP Metro Atlanta Schools.... Linnea Fulton is finishing her second year in the George Washington Univ. physician assistant program and is excited about returning to the Boston area after graduation....Hank Geng traveled to Mexico City, Shanghai, Beijing, and Reykjavik. “Started a new job in development at Boston Univ., and will be traveling to FL and DC areas often.”…Conor Maginn earned his aviator wings and is now a Twin Otter pilot for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Lakeland, Fla. The aircraft conducts a variety of national and international low-level research missions such
as whale/seal reconnaissance, snow survey, post-hurricane aerial assessments, and coastal mapping projects....Lucas Milliken teaches history and English at Carrabassett Valley Academy.... Rachel Morrison finished a master’s in marine geosciences from the Univ. of Kiel in Germany. “I traveled in Europe while I was there, and am now back home in New England.”…Angel Peña works for a Japanese robotics company as Mexico operations supervisor. He’s working on an MBA in international business and marketing. He also bought a home in Rhode Island....Rachael Perlman is applying to PsyD programs to pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology so she can become a therapist.
2014 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Hally Bert hallybert@gmail.com Mildred Aroko mildredaroko@gmail.com Allie Balter was one of four Bates alums who traveled to Antarctica last December. Three went to perform fieldwork associated with their individual graduate research: Allie, from the Univ. of Maine, earth and climate science; Hank Woolley ’13, Univ. of Southern California, paleontology; and Carrie Harris ’11, Montana State Univ., ecology and environmental science. Billy Collins, also at Montana State and working on an MFA in film and photography, was the outreach coordinator/videographer for a subglacial lake drilling project.... Lorenzo Bonacini got engaged to Mariah in September 2017. “Mariah and I have also relocated to Los Angeles for a job offer I obtained from Boston Scientific where I am now leading the technical support engineering department for the Deep Brain Stimulation Franchise. Lastly, we adopted a cat, Easton, and she is filling the house with affection!”… Mohdis Delijani and Chase Baker (Colby ’11) were married Sept. 2, 2017. “My husband and I have been coaching the Bates women’s Ultimate Frisbee team (ColdFront) together for the past three years. We qualified for nationals in 2016 and 2017, flying to North Carolina and Kentucky with the team, and hope to make another appearance in 2018.” She works at IDEXX Laboratories in Westbrook as a cell culture scientist; Chase works at Unum.... Logan Greenblatt finished term one at St. George’s Univ. medical school on the beautiful island of Grenada. “I am having a wonderful time!”…Sam Metzger has been working for the Irondale Ensemble Project in Brooklyn as an actor and teaching artist, using improvisation to help NYPD officers and community members communicate on a deeper level.... John Wisener is thrilled to be a first-year medical student at New Jersey Medical School.
2015 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents James Brissenden james@brissenden.org Benjamin Smiley bensmiley32@gmail.com Jackson Emanuel spent 2017 doing research at Rocky Mountain Labs in the Bitterroot Valley. “Generated a novel recombinant vaccine against Zika and Ebola virus.”…Shoshana Foster is in her third year teaching at the same school she started at through her Teach for America placement. Last summer she attended a 16-day wellness and yoga teacher training through Breathe for Change in New York.
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2017 Reunion 2022 June 10–12 class co-presidents Jessica Garson jgarson4@gmail.com Matthew Baker mattdbaker13@gmail.com Abigail Abbott joined the Bates College Museum of Art as the museum education fellow. A studio art and psychology major, she assists with community educational outreach work.
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teaching assistant and mentor to 11 ETAs in the southern city of Curitiba....Addie Cullenberg writes, “Still living in and loving Portland, Maine, where I own and operate a design company (Little Ivy Paper Goods) and live with two other ’16ers. I began coaching cross-country at Cheverus High School last fall — switching from athlete to coach has been a humbling experience.”…Phil Dube moved to Southern California and works for a groundwater consulting firm in Claremont....After a year working in healthcare consulting in diabetes care, Filip Michalsky started a master’s of engineering in data science at Harvard and MIT. “The level of skill of people here is just astonishing! Like I ask myself sometimes of the people here, can you try a little less? I have also co-founded a diabetes management social platform. I would love for you guys to like us please!” Checkmate is a blood-glucose-monitoring app empowering diabetes patients to better manage their disease by providing encouragement and support via gamification, social platforming, and support groups, he says. “Through increasing diabetes management accountability, we help patients to reduce risk of secondary comorbidities and improve their quality of life.”… Javier Morales is in his first year of a physics master’s program at Lund Univ. in Sweden. “One of my classes used a Bates resource as source on scientific writing!”…Katharine Wick is “pleased to be working toward my goal of becoming an acute care nurse practitioner at the Yale School of Nursing in the class of 2020!”…Mi Hui Wong is excited about her new job. “Very lucky to be selected as one out of 2,000plus applicants for a position in an international bank to work in the CEO and deputy CEO office. Current work involves strategy, governance, finance, risk management, and business management. My interviewer said I was selected because the committee was very impressed with my liberal arts education and my breadth of studies, both in terms of study areas (double major in math and econ, minor in Japanese) and location (I studied abroad in Denmark and participated in a summer exchange to Japan). So, thank you, Bates, for giving me the opportunity to pursue everything I was interested in to develop myself holistically.”
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As a result, she now uses mindful movement and yoga with her first-graders and also teaches yoga to school staff.…Alexandra Millstrom will compete for Team USA at the September 2018 ITU Triathlon World Championships in Gold Coast, Australia....Alyssa Morgosh “bought my first house, in Lewiston!”…Kathleen Morrill joined the PhD program at UMass Medical School in 2016 and has started thesis research in the Karlsson Lab. She’s researching the genomics of behavior and psychiatric conditions by studying dogs with closely related conditions (OCD and anxiety) and interesting behavioral differences (retrieving and herding). She went to Canada to work with wolf litters, taking DNA samples and performing behavioral tests for a project featured in The New York Times....Danielle Muñoz started a new position as an events and program coordinator at Georgetown Univ.’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. She assists the senior associate dean for graduate and faculty affairs, Professor Anthony Clark Arend, and plans a variety of graduate events....Grace Pezzella is now the finance assistant and call time manager for a national congressional campaign based out of Lowell, Mass. She’s starting at Georgetown Univ. Law Center in the fall....Rokya Samake is excited to begin classes this spring at The New School in New York, pursuing a degree in media studies. “My intentions are to study a combination of screenwriting and directing.”… Adnan Shami Shah finished an MS in chemistry and chemical biology and is halfway through his graduate school career.... Cody Tracey “relocated back to BeanTown (alongside the homie Lyddis Mitchell) where I am soaking up the familiarity of community in both place and people. I’m selling my labor via the 9-to-5 grind but I’m truly appreciating the return to a regular routine, particularly after wrapping up a couple food-serving, beer-pouring, and music-gigging opportunities amid the Chicago nightlife during much of 2016 and 2017. Generally speaking, I have very little career direction, no graduate school prospects, and too many long-term goals to realistically achieve. So, uh... Here’s to the ‘defining decade’~ amiright, Jess Nichols?”
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Please email your high-resolution Bates group wedding photo to magazine@bates.edu. Please identify all people and their class years, and include the wedding date, location, and any other news. Wedding photos are published in the order received. Tuttle ’13 & Korona Catherine Tuttle ’13 and John Korona, July 15, 2017, Lawrence Chapel and Fontainebleau Inn, Alpine, N.Y. Larisa Collins ’13, Marisa Mohrer ’13, Catherine, Emily Egan ’13, Elizabeth Bowling ’13. Yee ’08 & Olano Eleanor Yee ’08 and Stephen Olano, April 8, 2017, Harper Fowlkes House, Savannah, Ga. Demian von Pöelnitz ’08, Elias Bahou ’08, Mary-Carson Saunders Stiff ’08, Thomas Broge ’08, Sumner Crosby ’08, Lily Rossow-Greenberg ’08, Erin Kelly ’08, James Beaty ’08, Sophia Brown ’09, Marissa Tripolsky ’08, Kelly Wakeham Rozowsky ’08, Alexander Conner ’08, Christine Wicks ’08, Max Patinkin ’08. Laaff ’10 & Thigpen Rachel Laaff ’10 and Nicholas Thigpen (East Carolina Univ. ’09), July 15, 2017, Topsfield, Mass. Christine Roemer ’10, Paul Cocchiaro ’10, Kara Sullivan ’10, Gabby Voeller ’06, Shauna Mulvihill ’12, Kailey Worboys Mulvihill ’13, Helena Turner ’10, John Leavitt ’08, Dana Bennett ’10, Ben Flanders ’10, Larry Block ’77, Chris Joyce ’10, Liz Miller ’10, Amanda Kesselman ’10, Rusty Milholland ’10, Ketner Lappetito ’10, Emily Kuehn ’10, Sela Fermin ’08, Kurt Schuler ’10, Jeannie Larmon ’10, Devie Hamlen ’96, Will Loopesko ’10, Alexandra Disney ’10.
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Bustamante & Stabler ’10 Paola Isabel Vicuna Bustamante and Griffin Stabler ’10, Nov. 25, 2017, Santiago, Chile. Jac Stewart ’14, Joe Musso ’15, Alex Stewart ’09, Andrew Simon ’09, Ryan Quinn ’11, Griffin, Steven Fukuda ’10, Alicia Fannon ’13, Kevin McDonald ’11. Baig ’11 & Lombardi ’11 Afroz Baig ’11 and Paul Lombardi ’11, Sept. 23, 2017, Washington, D.C. Diane Saunders ’11, Caroline Barr ’11, Matt Parker ’11, Anna Abelson ’11, Simone Pathe ’11, Don Dumayas ’11, Ana Santos ’11, Dan McKeigue ’12, Erin Bourgault ’11, Alicia Gilman Lazarev ’10. Simmons ’02 & O’Donnoghue Megan Simmons ’02 and Kelley O’Donnoghue, Oct. 9, 2016, Peirce Farm at Witch Hill, Topsfield, Mass. Molly Watson Shukie ’04, Megan and Kelley, Kate Humphrey ’02. Treat ’10 & Atwell Emily Treat ’10 and Wayne Atwell (Johns Hopkins ’08), Aug. 5, 2017, Ambler, Pa. Lila Totino ’10, Harita Dharaneeswaran ’10, Emily, Julia Caffrey ’10. Islas & Dennehy ’08 Christina Islas and Pete Dennehy ’08, May 28, 2016, Lake Tahoe, Calif. Alexander Connor ’08, Jon Brennan ’08, Brian Machunski ’08, Christina and Pete, Willy Warren ’08, Lindsey Ferguson Warren ’08, Lincoln Tirpaeck ’08, Will Akie ’08.
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Walsh ’08 & Fitzgerald Kailey Walsh ’08 and Brendan Fitzgerald, Sept. 23, 2017, York Harbor Reading Room, York Harbor, Maine. Ali Puffer Mattson ’08, Christine Arsnow ’08, Jared Cassin ’08, Victoria Libby ’08, Rachel Wardell ’08, James Highsmith, Jeanne Lothrop Gurney ’08, Brendan Fitzgerald, Olivia Philipp ’08, Katie Hagan ’08, Kerry Glavin ’08, Julie Berman ’08, Mark Grande ’08, Nithya Sabanayagam ’08. Neal ’12 & Eger Mimi Neal ’12 and Bryan Eger, Aug. 19, 2017, Kittansett Club, Marion, Mass. Caroline Webb ’12, Tess Glancey ’12, Kristen Finn ’12, Jeffrey Beaton ’12, Santo Dettore ’12, Jess Waters Duryea ’12, Ellie McDonald Bricknell ’12, Maggie Reilly ’12, Joan O’Neill ’12, Alex Greenberg ’12, Rob Crampton ’13, Elizabeth Stege ’13. Moraros ’10 & Speckman Kat Moraros ’10 and Nate Speckman, Sept. 16, 2017, Deertrees Theatre, Harrison, Maine. Marilla Pender-Cudlip ’10, Brianna Bakow ’10, Grainne Hebeler ’10, Kat, Laura Smith ’10, Elizabeth Casline ’10, Danielle Schaefers ’10. Delijani ’14 & Baker Mohdis Delijani ’14 and Chase Baker (Colby ’11), Sept. 2, 2017, Dunegrass Country Club, Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Bates alums from left: Ben McCormack ’14, Phoebe Tamminen ’14, Hank Geng ’13, Mohdis.
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Subik & Wilson ’95 Jeff Subik (Castleton Univ. ’90) and Jefferson Wilson ’95, June 22, 2017, Greenville 32 Drive-In, Greenville, N.Y. Sophia Carson, Diana Iwaszkiewicz Carson ’93, Erik Carson, Chris Carson ’91, Erica Frew Secor ’94, Sabrina Martin ’94, Jefferson and Jeff, Fairchild McGough Dixon ’94, Joshua Holdeman ’93, Rachel Cohen ’94, Miriam Sohn ’95, Stephen Figge ’94, Ji-mi Lee Brighi ’95, Hanna Brighi, Ian Alteveer. Panzer ’12 & Kageleiry ’12 Megan Panzer ’12 and Andy Kageleiry ’12, Sept. 16, 2017, Buxton, Maine. Ben Williams ’12, Meg Ramey ’12, Greg Watts ’12, Kellen MacFadyen ’12, Matthew Pope ’12, Emily Harrop ’12, Mike Sagan ’12, Maria Rouvalis ’12, Sarah Panzer ’18, Meaghan Doyle Sullivan ’12, Christopher Calahan ’12, David Cutler ’12, Sawyer Lawson ’12, Andy and Megan, Kelsey LaFreniere ’12, Christopher Speers ’12, Erika Blauth ’12, Meg Anderson Watts ’12, Greg de Wet ’11, Elizabeth Stege ’13, Hannah Nienaber ’13. Garreffi ’08 & Dennen Rachael Garreffi ’08 and James Dennen (UMass Dartmouth ’11), Aug. 2, 2015, Wianno Club, Osterville, Mass. Sarah Jordan ’09, Megan Patey Leonard ’08, Katie Nickerson Boylan ’08, Allegra Timperi Wilson ’08, Zachary Wilson ’08, Sarah Parker ’08, Erin Pitt Sherman ’08, Kristin Sahagian Scott ’08, Rebecca Kunzendorf Melaas ’08.
Ester ’03 & Millett Olivia Ester ’03 and Jedrek Millett (Merrimack College ’03), Oct. 17, 2015, Jackson, N.H. Top row: Leana Nordstrom ’03, Jamie Gifford ’03, Jake Garber ’03, Tim Kirkman ’06, Rob Fallon ’03, Nate Richards ’03, Brent Jarkowski ’03, Jake Crowell ’03, Ian Gemmell ’03; bottom: Lauren Sterk ’03, Kym Menton Cheever ’03, Abby Newcomer ’03, Cate Murray Stevenson ’03, Carole Caldarone Glass ’03, Olivia and Jedrek, Danielle Matteau McNinch ’03, Allison Riesel ’03, Leah Drew ’03, Luisa Carvajal ’03. Hennessy & Dominici ’02 Megan Hennessy (Holy Cross ’07) and Matt Dominici ’02, July 29, 2017, Longmeadow, Mass. Kevin Porter ’02, Vanita Jain Porter ’02, Lauren Bonenberger O’Neil ’04, Kate Dockery Burns ’02, Sam Huleatt ’02, Tina McCarthy ’02, Chris Callagy ’02, Scott O’Neil ’02, Dave Kitendaugh ’05, Shane Delaney ’02, Josh Feuer ’02, Jon Bognacki ’04, Jason Pinkham ’02, Billy Hart ’02, Ben Lamanna ’02, Ben Donaldson ’02, Sam Kieley ’02, Jake Riley ’02, Alex Wilson ’02, Matt Meyers ’02, Ben Smith ’02, Jason Burns ’02, Eric Folkemer ’02, Braden Johnson ’02.
Belcher ’91 & Freeman Kyra Belcher ’91 and Melvin Freeman, Aug. 20, 2017, Middlebury, Vt. Kristy Bright ’91, who officiated, Kyra and Melvin. Hartigan ’84 & Martineau Dana Hartigan ’84 and Jeffrey Martineau, Sept. 3, 2016, Longmeadow, Mass. Julie Flanders ’84, Christy Friedrich Bunn ’84, Dana, Eva Hamori ’84, Kathy Powers Greenfield ’84. Dreiss ’11 & Haeflich Mackenzie Dreiss ’11 and Michael Haeflich, Aug. 12, 2017, Hartford Golf Club, West Hartford, Conn. Luke Matarazzo ’14, Kim Neubert ’11, Jessie Igoe ’11, Christine McCall ’11, Kristen Gieras ’11, Cambria Hempton Brockman ’11, Ross Brockman ’11, Lauren McAllister ’11, Eliza van Heerden ’11, Rachel DiStefano ’11, Chelsea Pennucci ’11.
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Marcia Berry Anderson July 23, 2009 Marcia Berry Anderson worked a variety of jobs, everything from pharmacy clerk to a clerk for the U.S. Forest Service. Even in retirement, she kept busy by coordinating the local Mealson-Wheels program with her husband. At Bates, she was active in a similarly wide range of activities, from student government to captain of the hockey team. She also played baseball, soccer, and tennis.
1935 Helen Dean Gordon June 6, 2017 On the occasion of her 100th birthday in 2014, Helen Dean Gordon was thrilled to receive cards and congratulations from many of the students to whom she had taught French and Latin over the years in New Hampshire. She taught at Kennett High School in Conway and Keene High School, and coached several sports, including girls basketball, which she came to love. This followed a full plate of athletic activities at Bates. She held a master’s in education in addition to her degree in French from Bates. Her busy life included multiple terms as town tax collector, school census officer, and church treasurer at Federated Church in Marlborough, N.H. She served as a class agent and on several Reunion committees. She is survived by children Carolyn Johansen, Virginia Dennis, Marcia Goodnow, and Irvin and Robert Gordon; 12 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.
1937 Esta Isaacson Carp May 16, 2010 Esta Isaacson Carp went back to school after 25 years as a homemaker — but on the other side of the desk. She taught kindergarten for 13 years before retiring to Florida. She was living in San Francisco at the time of her death.
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Cornelia Breitmoser DiFrederico October 25, 2013 Cornelia Breitmoser DiFrederico was at Bates for two years before transferring to the school of commerce in Auburn. She worked for Boise Cascade in Rumford as an accountant. She was a member of the Historical Society of Early American Decorators and the Maine Evelyn Holmes Chapter. Her late sister and brother-in-law were Amelia Breitmoser Sanders ’36 and Stephen J. Sanders ’34. She is survived by nieces and nephews. Virginia Oberton Grazier November 10, 2001 “Voggie” Oberton Grazier left Bates to pursue a degree at Simmons College. She worked as a librarian in various locations, including acting as the state librarian of Florida. Mary Lawrence Stiles January 10, 2011 Maria Lawrence Stiles left Bates prior to graduation. She and her husband traveled the world before settling in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
1939 Ross Elliot Phipps May 26, 1999 Ross Phipps left Bates after one year. He went on to start his own insurance and real estate company, and he served as an alderman in Meriden, Conn. Esther Rowe Tallamy January 30, 2017 The passing of Esther Rowe Tallamy closed her generation’s chapter of the Rowe family’s 110-year association with Bates. Her parents were Dean Harry W. Rowe 1912 and Eleanor Chandler Rowe 1912. Her brother was Robert C. Rowe ’37; her sister was Ruth Rowe Wilson ’36, whose husband was Valentine H. Wilson ’38; her sister-in-law was Roberta Holmes Hayes ’39. Suviving is her nephew, Richard H. Rowe ’57. From her father, Esther gained a deep appreciation of history and responsibility to community. From her mother, she received an
understanding of and commitment to family and friends. These two aspects of her life, along with her own adventurous and ebullient spirit, informed both her professional and personal life. Active in Loners on Wheels, chiefly senior citizens who travel the country solo in motor homes, she was known as the “Tiger Lady on Wheels,” because her only traveling companions in her Winnebago were stuffed tigers. Prior to assuming the large steering wheel, she volunteered for Girl Scouts of Long Island, progressing from one capacity to another and becoming one of 10 in the country to train board and committee members in best practices for organizations to provide effective services. She then became a professional staff member. In 1958, following graduate courses in social work, she began a full-time career as a social worker for Suffolk County (N.Y.) child welfare services. In 1970, she was honored as the Civil Servants Employees Assn. employee of the year. In retirement she was a “professional volunteer,” working for several organizations on Long Island, including the local battered women’s shelter and the Interfaith Nutrition Network. Asked what her favorite parts of her life were, she would say without hesitation, “travel and jazz.” It was only Hurricane Sandy that forced her to abandon Long Island, her home of 55 years. She moved to the California desert on her 95th birthday. There, she rode in a top-down Thunderbird and delighted in her favorite Hollywood restaurant. In addition to nephew Richard Rowe ’57, survivors include many other nephews and nieces.
1940 Frederick Willard Downing November 5, 2017 Fred Downing, a “townie” who lived at home in Auburn and walked to Bates to attend classes, said the ability to attend Bates in that way gave him professional and civic opportunities he might never have had otherwise. He always advocated for the opportunity for students in the Lewiston/Auburn area to do the same. Despite a hip replacement operation, he was determined to attend his 75th Reunion in 2015 and managed to convince the doctor and the physical therapist that he could. He was grateful for his Bates education and never stopped giving back. In addition to his political science degree from Bates, he earned a master’s in education from Columbia. He served five years of active duty in the U.S. Navy, then 20 in the Reserves, retiring as a lieutenant commander. He worked for 10 years as executive secretary of the Maine State Employees Assn. and then became the Vermont state director of personnel. He and his late wife, Judith Chick Downing ’42, moved to the field of education, she as teacher and he as director of guidance in Augusta.
In the summers, they worked for Aloha Camps in Vermont, where he slung hash for the residents. After retirement, he really got busy: He volunteered up to 40 hours a week at the Kennebec County Jail, where, as director, he saw the education program grow from an actual broom closet to a full-sized classroom, library, and over 20 computers. He helped dozens of inmates learn to read and earn GEDs. He was a member of the College Key, served on his 45th, 50th, 55th, and 60th Reunion committees, was a former class agent, and a former alumni club officer. Survivors include children James ’68 and Jane Downing ’65; and two grandchildren. His other Bates relatives, all deceased, were his brother Paul M. Downing ’48; sister-in-law Phyllis Barron Downing ’47; and aunt Ethel E. Downing 1912. James Albion Dunlap Jr. September 23, 2017 James Dunlap used his mathematics degree to forge a career as an actuary; he also held a master’s in the field from the Univ. of Michigan. Between earning these two degrees he served four years in the U.S. Army during World War II as a captain with an anti-aircraft battalion. He eventually became a director at Marsh & McLennan and its subsidiary, William M. Mercer. He was a member of the school committee in Harvard, Mass., and a trustee of the Bromfield School there. He also was a member of the executive committee of the local Boy Scouts district. A member of the College Key, he served on his 50th and 60th Reunion committees. Survivors include children Beverly Dunlap Rodrigues ’71 and Robert Dunlap; four grandchildren; and cousins Dorothy Webb Quimby ’51 and Marilyn Webb Mayhew ’55. His late father was James A. Dunlap 1906; his late sister was Alison Dunlap Blake ’37; his late aunts were Lois Dunlap Ingram 1908, Minerva F. Dunlap 1912, and Genevieve Dunlap Webb 1917; and his late uncles were Vining C. Dunlap 1914, Philip R. Webb 1917 and Albert A. Dunlap ’23.
1941 Francis Stafford Bernauer March 12, 2011 Frank Bernauer left Bates prior to graduation. A U.S. Army veteran of World War II, he ran his own construction company in the Binghamton, N.Y., area, specializing in building and renovating churches. Alice Morrill Dickinson September 23, 2017 Alice Morrill Dickinson, a history and government major, taught in several New Hampshire towns before settling in for 35 years as an English teacher at the high school in Merrimack. The school’s English classroom wing is named in her honor. She and her late husband, Richard A. Dickinson, owned the last farmhouse to be found on the Daniel Webster
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Highway. She was a member of the Litchfield and Richmond historical societies and the holder of the Richmond Boston Post cane. She also served as a trustee and docent at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry. At a recent meeting of the Colby family reunion, she was the oldest Colby descendant in attendance (her mother was a Colby). Survivors include nieces and nephews. Lois Walton Fellows April 27, 2013 Lhasa Apso dogs were an abiding interest for Lois Walton Fellows, who left Bates after two years. She bred and showed the dogs during time off from working in the unemployment office for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She is survived by nieces and nephews. Her father was Leon W. Fellows 1910. Clyde Pershing Glover May 6, 2007 When Clyde Glover was 65, he encapsulated his year as follows: “went down the Grand Canyon, spent a week XC-skiing in Norway, canoed down the St. John in Maine one week after the ice went out, climbed Mount Rainier in Wash., ski patrol all winter, and played squash, ran, and cycled for regular exercise.” He was working full time for Eastman Kodak as a physicist and lab supervisor. His grandson is Eric P. Glover ’20.
1942 Mary Curtis Hall July 27, 2017 Mary Curtis Hall liked to joke that she went back to high school after Bates and finally found the right grade level in second grade — she was a teacher who started out in secondary education but was happiest at the elementary level. She taught after raising five sons and helping to manage the family dairy farm. In addition to her degree in sociology from Bates, she studied at Springfield College and Cornell. She retired in 1986, turning her attention to her passion: quilt-making. She also was a 75-year member of St. John’s Church in Ashfield, Mass., serving in many volunteer capacities. She is survived by sons Addison, Walter, Seth, and Philip; five grandchildren; and nephew Richard B. Curtis ’76. Her late mother was Ruby Whitehouse Curtis 1913; her late stepmother was Leila Jordan Curtis 1913; and her late brother was Donald W. Curtis ’39.
1943 Winston Spencer Greaton November 13, 2017 Winston Greaton claimed the title of being the first Bates student to enlist in the U.S. Army for World War II. He fought in the “forgotten theater” of China, Burma, and India. A proud “townie,” he loved that he could walk from home to all his classes, from
grammar school through college. His first career was as a mail order salesman of Maine seafood. He then joined First National Stores, working as personnel manager until 1978. He then went to work as manager of employee benefits at Great Northern Paper in Millinocket, retiring in 1986. He held various offices in the Gideons International, including past president of the Maine Gideons. Survivors include sons Everett and Robert. His late sister was Roberta Greaton Austin ’40.
V-12 Robert Edward Crozier September 2, 2017 When he was still in high school, the Red Sox expressed an interest in Robert Crozier as a pitcher. After he graduated from Bowdoin (including a stint in Bates’ V-12 Program and the U.S. Navy) and Georgetown Univ. School of Medicine, he traveled the Atlantic as the ship doctor aboard the SS United States, the fastest passenger liner of all time. He moved on to a 39-year career as a gastroenterologist at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass., where he founded the Esophageal Motility Laboratory. Survivors include wife Mary Clayton Crozier and children Matthew and Julia Crozier. Benjamin D. Lunt October 24, 2017 Ben Lunt attended UMaine Orono and graduated from one of the first classes of Portland Law School. A U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, he was an enthusiastic participant at his annual V-12 reunions at Bates. Succeeding his mother, Helen, as the unofficial historian of the South Portland neighborhoods of Willard Square, Ferry Village, Cape Cottage, and Loveitts Field, he likely knew the family connections of almost everyone he met. Survivors include children Terry Lunt, Holly Lunt Stickney, and Daniel Lunt; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
1944 Fayette Hoyt Bassey October 13, 2014 Fay Hoyt Bassey left Bates to pursue a degree as a dietitian at the Univ. of New Hampshire. She lived in Michigan for most of her adult life before moving to Tucson in 1990 to be nearer her family. Survivors include children Don Bassey and Joy Hager; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Donald Leighton Harms September 1, 2017 Don Harms chose his field early and stayed with it for his entire career. A chemistry major, he earned a master’s in it from the Univ. of Colorado and worked for General Electric for over 30 years as an organic chemist. He wrote a foundational paper on the insecticide DDT. He was a
longtime member of Tabernacle Baptist Church of Schenectady, N.Y., serving as a trustee, deacon, and usher. He served on his 50th Reunion Gift Committee at Bates and as an alumni club officer. Survivors include wife Theodora Kopris Harms; sons Randall and Eric; two granddaughters; and seven great-grandchildren. His late parents were Samuel Harms, a Bates professor of German and Spanish for many years, and Aletha Rollins Harms 1913; his late sister was Dorothy Harms Alexander ’39; his late brother-inlaw was Charles R. Alexander ’38.
1945 George Kenneth Baldwin September 21, 2017 Ken Baldwin and his wife Muriel Hampel Baldwin were the first married couple to move into Sampsonville. He graduated with the Class of 1949 after service in the Coast Guard during World War II. He worked for Exxon for 40 years in sales. He served on his 40th and 50th Reunion committees and was an enthusiastic class agent. He was a member of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Lebanon, Pa. Survivors include children Stephen, Susan, Brian ’80, and Wendy; and three grandchildren. David Lindsay Kendall September 4, 2017 A chemistry major, David Kendall went on to earn a Ph.D. from Purdue in the field. Both before and after his stint in the Midwest, he worked for Eastman Kodak in Rochester, N.Y., retiring from there as a product engineer. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Survivors include wife Mary Alice Pile Kendall; children Anne Casella, Robert, and Steven; and seven grandchildren. His nieces are Beverly M. Snow ’72, Lorraine Bellows McKay ’75, Elizabeth Bellows Dachos ’76 and husband James R. Dachos ’75, and Wendy Korjeff Bellows ’77; his nephews are Kendall A. Snow ’62 and wife Martha Webb Snow ’63, Marshall W. Snow ’66, and Alan R. Bellows ’78. Phyllis Jones Twichell May 25, 2012 When she was 77, Phyl Twichell fulfilled a longtime dream and joined the Peace Corps. Although she called it a “wonderful interval,” three bouts of pneumonia forced her to be air-lifted out of Albania, just two weeks before riots engulfed the country. She squeezed in her Peace Corps stint between dancing and swimming: She won four medals (one in aerobics and three in swimming) at the Senior Olympics in 1990, and she was dancing with a group in Portland well into her 70s. A prep school teacher for years in Pennsylvania, California, and Colorado, she performed in theaters throughout her life. She was a member of her 45th and 50th Reunion Committees and the Alumni Steering Committee in 1988 and 1989.
1946 Geraldine Weed Malatesta June 19, 2017 Geri Weed Malatesta taught for five years in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts before taking a sabbatical to raise her four children. As soon as the youngest was off to college, she returned to campus herself, as the history department administrator at Harvard. Her late husband was Richard J. Malatesta ’46. A debater who won many national and regional competitions and awards, she and her husband were members of Delta Sigma Rho and Phi Beta Kappa scholars. Survivors include children Phyllis Meade, Joan Storey, Jan Malatesta Penney ’77 and husband Bruce Penney ’76, and Steven Malatesta; eight grandchildren, including Melissa Jo Penney ’03; and three great-grandchildren. Jane Gumpright Richter September 29, 2017 Penny Gumpright Richter carried her love of theater far beyond her years on the boards in college. She was a founding member of Center Thespians (now Little Theatre) in Manchester, Conn., and acted in many leading roles during the 1950s and ’60s. Prior to that, she taught English and history in Mechanic Falls. Active in community service for many years, she served on the boards of the Manchester Scholarship Foundation, the Lutz Children’s Museum, the Auxiliary of Child and Family Services, and she volunteered with the Meals-On-Wheels program for more than 10 years. For Bates, she served as an alumni club officer and a regional volunteer. Survivors include children Christopher Richter ’77 and Cynthia Richter; and cousin Dorothy A. Richter ’70. Her late husband was Donald P. Richter ’46. Jeannette Packard Stewart August 23, 2017 Jay Packard Stewart lived Bates every day. One would be hardpressed to find an office she did not hold, or a club she didn’t join, among all that Bates has to offer. To start, she garnered every award possible from the Women’s Athletic Assn. She served on the Outing Club council and the Winter Carnival court. She was class president as an undergrad, earned the Bates Key, and was a Dean’s List student. As an alumna, she was a trustee from 1979–96; secretary and then president of the Hartford Bates Club; and on the executive committee of the Alumni Assn., including serving as president in 1966–67. With her degree in sociology, she worked for the YWCA and the Greater Hartford United Way. She and her late husband, George E. Stewart ’46, hosted 16 Rotary exchange students. She received the volunteer of the year award from the Greater Hartford Red Cross in 1990 and was named a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary in 1984. After she retired, she continued to work on United
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Way’s board and to organize Red Cross blood drives. In 2000, she was honored with the Helen A. Papaioanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Service award, having received a similar award in 1962. In 2010, the East Hartford YMCA awarded her its volunteer leadership award. Survivors include sons Randy ’72, Doug, and Bob; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
1947 Helen Hochstuhl Goehry May 9, 2017 Helen Hochstuhl Goehry took the long road to a bachelor’s degree: She received it from William Paterson College magna cum laude in 1969. She taught in Bloomfield, N.J., her hometown, for several years. Survivors include children Suzanne Neumann and Arthur Goehry; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Robert Laurence Harris July 19, 2017 Bob Harris devoted his work life to plastics research at Allied Chemical and his private life to nature at Deer Isle, Maine, where his late wife’s family had settled in the 1760s. She was Ruth Small Harris ’46. He held a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Univ. of Wisconsin in addition to his chemistry degree from Bates. His years at Bates were interrupted by World War II and the army: He started out with the Class of 1945, graduated in 1947, and preferred to be associated with the Class of 1946, since that was his wife’s graduating class. After retirement from Allied Chemical, he worked for the EPA on Superfund sites. His cousin is Martha Wills ’81. His late brother was Jean H. Harris ’51; his late uncle was Wesley A. Small ’20. His wife’s parents were Melville L. Small ’21 and Isabella Morrison Small ’21; his late aunts were Mabel P. Small ’23 and Frances Small Stinson ’23; his late cousin was Ann Small Stinson ’49. Roxane Kammerer January 18, 2017 Roxanne Kammerer used the occasion of her retirement to go ice skating in Central Park, one of the many benefits she enjoyed while living in New York City. Her career was with Mutual of New York, where she eventually became director of compensation. A member of the College Key, she served Bates in many ways: on her 60th, 55th, and 50th Reunion committees, as a class officer, and as an Alumni Club officer. Her cousins are Heidi Lee Hoerman ’73 and Walter A. Hoerman ’81. Daniel Novotny October 18, 2001 Daniel Novotny left Bates before graduation and went on to earn undergraduate degrees from Springfield College and Union Univ. He was a minister in the United Church of Christ and retired to Cape Cod.
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1948 Keith Wayne Cunningham September 12, 2017 The only thing that interrupted Keith Cunningham’s career as a teacher and principal was a two-year term on the Maine state board of education. Other than that, he taught history and social studies in Monson and South Paris, and was the high school principal in Paris, Oxford Hills, Telstar, and Lisbon, from which he retired in 1984. He also served as president of Bliss College for two years until it closed in 1969. He earned a master’s in education at Columbia and was elected to two honor societies there, complementing his membership in Phi Beta Kappa. His second career was as a diamondologist: He worked at an Auburn jeweler as a salesman. He was a member of his 40th and 45th Reunion committees. Survivors include Gordon Dunlop, his companion and caregiver for the last 10 years, and several nieces. Tracy Ann Squires LaPointe ’84 is a cousin. His late uncle was Franklin S. Cunningham 1918, and his late cousin was Sylvia Cunningham Squires ’53. Glen Robert Hansen November 19, 2017 Glen Hansen came to Bates after service in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. He returned to service during the Korean War. In between, he attended Tufts Dental School. A dentist in Portland for many years, he was president of the Maine Dental Society and a member of the state board of dental examiners. A passionate golfer, he was a longtime member of the Portland Country Club. Survivors include children Stephen, Jim, John, and Sally Hansen, Margaret Churchill, and Elizabeth Weeks; 13 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. His late wife was Elizabeth May Hansen ’47, and his late brother was Arthur C. Hansen ’48.
1949 Robert Fleming May 6, 2017 Bob Fleming transferred to Bates from Seton Hall Univ., where he was editor of the school newspaper. A U.S. Navy veteran who served in the South Pacific during World War II, he attended Bates on the GI Bill, and it was at Bates that he met Carolyn Eggers ’49, who would become his wife. His love of writing continued throughout his career, mostly at Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co., where he was in public relations and advertising. An avid reader, he usually completed a book every week. Besides his wife, survivors include children Thomas Fleming and Jane Murdock; and four grandchildren. Joyce Cargill Korten September 3, 2017 Jo Cargill Korten exhausted the sports opportunities available
to women during her years on campus. Tennis, volleyball, basketball, and badminton: All benefited from her skills. She won the badminton doubles title her junior and senior years, and was team coach her final year. She also exploited all the publications Bates offered: assistant news editor of the Student, senior write-up editor of The Mirror, and a three-year term on the Garnet. An English major, she started out in public relations at an insurance company but soon switched to her first love, teaching. She taught first grade in Cheshire, Conn., where she employed the two important lessons Professor Robert Berkelman taught her: compassion and understanding. She earned a master’s in education from Central Connecticut State Univ. She volunteered in the local garden club and at the Squam Lake Nature Center in New Hampshire. She was an alumni club officer, served on a campaign committee in the 1980s, and was a member of her 40th Reunion Committee. Survivors include husband Robert; children Suzanne Litwin and Peter Korten; and five grandchildren. Mary Ramsey McPhillips October 2, 2017 Molly Ramsey McPhillips was an avid sportswoman who inherited her athletic ability from her father, a star college halfback at Cornell Univ. She won numerous sailing regattas and speed skating championships and played first base on a professional women’s baseball team. She lived on the shores of Lake Oswego in Oregon after working for the Bonneville Power Administration for many years. Survivors include son Ramsey. Vincent Stephen Michniewich March 18, 2013 Vincent Michniewich came to Bates after serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. A chemistry major, he worked in that field for 30 years at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Survivors include children Jed, Glen, Stephan, and Lynne Bartlett; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Eugene Sumner Zelch July 7, 2017 A history and government major, Gene Zelch came to Bates after serving 28 months in the U.S. Army during World War II and earning a Purple Heart. He received a master’s from NYU and served as head of the history department at Fair Lawn (N.J.) High School and as principal at Nanuet (N.Y.) High School. He was active at both Temple Avodah and the Fair Lawn Jewish Center. A class agent for Bates in the early 2000s, he served on his 50th and 55th Reunion committees. Survivors include wife Eileen Zemmel Zelch; daughters Beth Siegel and Lynne Butan; and two grandchildren. His late brother was Raymond T. Zelch ’53.
1950 Robert Elbert Dunn July 18, 2017 Bob Dunn, a distinguished educator for many years in Connecticut, and his wife Gladys Bovino Dunn ’51 were deeply entrenched in and devoted benefactors to the Bates community. He served as a trustee from 1970–75, and the two received the Helen A. Papaioanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Award in 2008. A class officer and member of the College Key, Bob served on his 60th, 55th, 50th and 40th Reunion Committees. In 1989, the two established the Gladys B. Dunn ’51 and Robert E. Dunn ’50 Scholarship. In 1999, they funded the Lindholm Sociology and Economics Lounge and the Myhrman Office in Pettengill Hall. Bob received an honorary degree the same year. They also provided funding for a guest house for college visitors, Dunn Guest House, which was dedicated in 2001. Bob Dunn served on the faculty of West Hartford’s William H. Hall High School for 38 years as history and social studies teacher, department head, guidance counselor, assistant principal, and school principal, from 1962 until his retirement in 1990. During his tenure, he was chosen as Connecticut’s Principal of the Year. He taught graduate courses at Trinity College and the Univ. of Connecticut, where he earned a PhD, and the Univ. of Hartford. In 1989, he received the Noah Webster Award for extraordinary commitment to the West Hartford community from the chamber of commerce. After he retired, he spent five years at the Seoul International School in South Korea as deputy headmaster. He and his wife traveled to over 100 countries, stopping only because of the encroachment of Bob’s Parkinson’s. Besides his wife, survivors include cousin Wendy-Lee Zeliff Bartley ’72; her husband is Geoffrey T. Marshall ’72. Robert Louis Hobbs July 24, 2017 When asked to list activities in which he was involved, Bob Hobbs replied, “None — my work consumes me.” He was one of the country’s leading teachers of acting, developing and running training programs at Duke, Boston Univ., Ohio Univ., and the Univ. of Washington. He earned a master’s in fine arts from the latter school and a Ph.D. from Northwestern. He was a founder of the League of Professional Theatre Training Programs and authored Teach Yourself Transatlantic, a text for performers to learn a stage dialect (a cross between American and British English) for heightened language and translated plays. He taught at Carnegie Mellon, the North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Colorado, Champlain, and Virginia Shakespeare festivals. Among the hundreds of professional actors whose careers he helped launch are Linda Emond, Kyle MacLachlan, Richard Dean Anderson, and Pamela Reed. An actor himself since childhood, he
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enjoyed playing a variety of roles such as Prospero in The Tempest and Polonius/Gravedigger in Hamlet, especially when surrounded by actors he had trained. With his wife, the late Liza Thomes Hobbs ’51, he worked on such issues as racial equality and gay rights. Survivors include daughter Rebecca Romaine and four grandchildren. Hugh Burrill Penney November 12, 2017 Hugh Penney and his wife, Lois Keniston Penney ’50, the founders of a multi-generation Bates family, made remarkable contributions to both their alma mater and their community. The first of their respective families to attend Bates, they have been followed by children, grandchildren, and no doubt, eventually great-grandchildren. “You have given your best to Bates for more than six decades,” the college said when it gave them a Bates’ Best award in 2016, the most recent of several tributes. In 2005, the Alumni Assn. honored them with the Helen A. Papaioanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award, which celebrates service to Bates deemed extraordinary in both quantity and quality. At the time of his passing, Hugh was the lead agent for the Class of 1950. A member of the College Key, he served on his 65th, 60th, 55th, and 50th Reunion committees and several capital campaigns. Generous donors, he and Lois were charter members and former co-chairs of the Mount David Society and members of the Bates Fund Executive Committee. He was a graduate of Chicago Theological Seminary and the Univ. of Chicago. During World War II he served from 1944–46 in the infantry in the European theater, beginning with the Battle of the Bulge, and was awarded three battle stars. Ordained in 1953, he served churches in West Auburn, Chicago, Andover and Holden, Mass., and New Britain, Conn. Since 1964 he had lived in Connecticut where he served countless nonprofit organizations. He held leadership positions in the New Britain Human Resource Agency, New Britain YMCA, Erwin Home, Senior Volunteer Program, North Central Area Agency on Aging, New Britain General Hospital, and Covenant Village of Cromwell Resident Council, to name just a few. He held positions in the wider church as moderator of both the UCC Central Assn. and UCC Connecticut Conference, and president of both the Connecticut Bible Society and Hartford Seminary Pastoral Union. Hugh’s “concern for social justice, fair treatment, equal opportunity, and mutual respect for all of our citizens were values he imparted to all with whom he worked,” New Britain civic leader Don DeFronzo wrote. “Wealthy or poor, white or black, healthy or ill, English speaking or not — all were equally important. His contributions were many and his efforts have left New Britain a far better place.” He and Lois trav-
eled extensively, covering every state, more than 80 countries, and all seven continents. In 1993 they were the first couple to receive the New Britain United Way Volunteer of the Year Award, and in 2000 they received the Bates Distinguished Service Award. In 2013 they were honored as CCARC Persons of the Year and by the New Britain YMCA for their community service. In addition to his wife of 67 years, survivors include children Hugh ’74, Bruce ’76, Paul, Kurt, and Shakeela Penney; daughters-inlaw Susan Pratt Penney ’73 and Janice Malatesta Penney ’77; 13 grandchildren, including Melissa Jo Penney ’03, Alexandra Rose Bowers ’07, and Shannon Keniston Penney ’09; seven great-grandchildren; and sister Jean Penney Fickett ’56, who was married to the late Arnold P. Fickett ’56.
1951 John Frederick Benedix June 12, 2017 Jack Benedix was drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War and left Bates early. He also attended Stratford Business School. He was employed as a field manager for IBM for 31 years. Survivors include wife Ann Hull Benedix, children John D. Benedix and Cori A. Kingsley; and three grandchildren. Robert Barlow Davis October 20, 2017 Bob Davis attended Bates on the GI Bill after service in the Army Air Forces. He enjoyed a 30-year career in banking, virtually all of it at Gardiner Savings Institution, from which he retired as president. He was there long enough to not only write people’s mortgages but to see them retired. He got hooked on banking at a summer job when people started asking for him, rather than the seasoned vets. He had good luck with summer jobs: It was at another that he met his future wife while both were camp counselors. A longtime resident of Randolph where he served two terms as a selectman and as a trustee of the United Methodist Church, he was vice president of the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce. He also served as president of the Kennebec Valley Regional Health Agency, Kennebec Valley United Way, Gardiner General Hospital, and the Savings Bank Assn. of Maine. For Bates he was a member of his 50th Reunion Committee and a career adviser. Survivors include wife Beverly Anne Clark Davis; children Craig, Eric, and Kimberly; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. His late father was Sumner M. Davis 1917, and his late uncles were Walter S. Barlow 1921 and Myron B. Barlow 1921. Joan McCurdy Elton May 20, 2017 Her motives were to meet people, but Joan McCurdy Elton had a way of rising to the top in the many charitable organizations for which she volunteered. She was,
for example, named “Woman of the Year” at Fort Sam Houston in 1972 for all her contributions, and she was an honoree at the Antelope Valley (Calif.) Hospital Gala in 1998; a year later, she was selected as one of California’s “People of the Year” by its legislators. She also did educational puppet shows in the schools using puppets with disabilities, and she was a published poet. A biology major, she earned a master’s in education from UMass Amherst and taught for five years before moving to motherhood and volunteering. After her husband, an orthopedic surgeon, retired from the U.S. Army, she served as his office manager for 19 years. She was a board member of United Way and past president and newsletter chair of the Los Angeles County Medical Assn., an organization of physician spouses. She was a sustaining member of the Alpha Charter Guild to the Antelope Valley Hospital, a board member of the visiting nurse association, and a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts. She served as a class agent for Bates, on several Reunion committees, and as an Alumni Club officer. Survivors include husband Richard Elton; children James, David, Laura, and June; nine grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Her late parents were Ralph E. McCurdy ’28 and Sylvia Meehan McCurdy ’26.
1953 Neil Hopper Borden Jr. October 22, 2017 Pete Borden married his college sweetheart, Beverly Bragdon Borden ’53, on the day they graduated from Bates. He served in the U.S. Navy while at the college but joined the U.S. Army afterward. He earned a doctorate in business administration at Harvard and went on to a career teaching marketing at the Univ. of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. He also taught at an international business school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and lectured at locations around the globe. He retired in 1999 as the Richard S. Reynolds Professor of Business Administration at Darden after serving terms as the associate dean. The consummate tinkerer, he never stopped improving his family summer camp in Grand Lake Stream, where he had summered since boyhood. A founding board member and driving force behind the creation of the Downeast Lakes Land Trust in 2001, he received its conservation award in 2014. Besides his wife, survivors include daughters Mary Ann Borden-Neary, Kimberly Arnold, and Sarah Holman; and five grandchildren. Lois Keirstead Butler September 7, 2017 After two years, Lois Keirstead Butler left Bates for UMaine-Orono. She taught English in Belmont, N.H., and later prepared students for the GED exams in Laconia. A member of the Laco-
nia Congregational Church, she sang in the church choir for many years and brought music to area nursing homes. Survivors include children David, Janet, and Diane Butler; and two grandchildren. Thomas Henry Case December 27, 2016 Tommy Case worked in insurance and tire sales, retiring as the owner of Winner Sales in Auburn. Survivors include wife Armande Brault Case; children Marguerite DeSanctis, Deanna Wall, Kathi Keene, Michael Case, Susie Littlefield, and Ted Case; 11 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. His late father was George A. Case ’21. Kenneth Guy Griswold October 21, 2017 Ken Griswold followed the math, and it led to a 30-year teaching career. He held a bachelor’s from Bates in math, an MEd from the Univ. of Rochester, and a master’s in math from Bowdoin. Much of his career was at Salem State Univ., where he became chair of the department. A beloved teacher, his passion for educating and his quick wit made him a campus favorite. He served on several Reunion committees. Survivors include wife Patricia Healy Griswold; children Keith, Brian, Kyle, Matthew, Nancy, Tracy, and Natalie; and eight grandchildren. Maurice Hutton Hight Jr. July 13, 2017 Maurie Hight might not have realized it at the time, but he started his career while still a junior sociology major at Bates, when he started to work for the Auburn YMCA. He would stay with the organization in various locations and positions, mostly in Massachusetts and New Jersey, for his entire career. He was named to the 1967 edition of Outstanding Civic Leaders of America, and as a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary in 1990. He retired as executive director of the Camden County (N.J.) YMCA in 1993 after serving in the same position at two YMCAs in Massachusetts. During his career, he was responsible for constructing three new buildings. He was also active in the Lutheran church and chairman of the FareFree Transportation Commission in Cape May, N.J., and a member of the Lower Township Environmental Commission there. He was a member of several Reunion committees, most recently his 60th Reunion in 2013. He was also a BCDC Career Advisor and a CDIP Internship Host. Survivors include wife Patricia Small Hight; children Stephen, Jeffrey, and Susan Unverzagt; and five grandchildren. Barbara Koch Milne July 18, 2017 Barbara Koch Milne puttered around in Boston for a few years after graduation working in banking, but then she made the big move to Denver where she, as she put it, skied her brains out. She also met her husband while skiing in Aspen; his career took
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them to Michigan. She remained an active skier and was a member of the National Ski Patrol for many years. She also taught first aid and winter survival for the Red Cross and worked as a volunteer EMT with her husband after retirement. She also was a competitive tennis player. Survivors include husband Kenneth T. Milne; children Patricia Veillette and Peter Milne; and five grandchildren.
1955 Esther Ham Dalrymple November 19, 2017 Esther Ham Dalrymple studied at the Univ. of Kentucky and Chicago Theological Seminary before earning a master’s in education from Michigan State Univ. She taught in the Lansing school district for 20 years. A docent/tour guide at the capitol building and very active in the Golden K Kiwanis Club, she and her husband Lee taught ballroom dancing on cruise ships for a number of years. A member of her 60th Reunion social committee, she was known to many classmates by the nickname “Sprookie,” though she insisted she was “just Esther” after graduation. In addition to her husband, survivors include children Scott, Melanie, and Amy Carter; and four grandchildren. William Reid Pepin Jr. June 3, 2017 Reid Pepin, a dentist, joined forces with Kirk Watson ’56 in a boatbuilding enterprise. They lost their shirts but enjoyed the experience and were very proud of the sailboats they built. His dental practice was in Lowell, Mass., where he had an office for 44 years. His lifelong love of the mountains was kindled by his activities with the Outing Club, and he loved skiing so much that he went in on an ownership partnership with Kirk and Fred Huber ’56, among others, at Squaw Mountain. The three were also known for their boating competitions on Moosehead Lake. He served as class president and class agent, on several Reunion committees, as an Alumni-in-Admission volunteer, and as a career adviser. He was also a member of the College Key. Survivors include children Craig K. Pepin ’88 and wife Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin ’89, and Nora Hogan; and three grandchildren. His cousin is Dean F. French ’69, and his late uncle was E. Tilson Peabody ’31. Dorothea Manelas Price September 21, 2017 Dottie Manelas Price transferred from Bates to Simmons. She enjoyed a long career as a cosmetics, skin care, and fragrances buyer, earning awards and accolades for her leadership at Filene’s and then Macy’s. She is survived by nieces and nephews. Suzanne Munson Winkemeier September 28, 2012 Sue Munson Winkemeier left Bates for the Univ. of Delaware. She earned a nursing degree and
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1956 Elizabeth Joan McLeod June 23, 2017 Betty McLeod left Bates for Boston Univ. She served in the U.S. Navy on active duty until 1961 and in the Reserves until 1970. She lived in Vermont for many years and later Florida and traveled widely with her spouse, Jane States Kelly, who survives her. Jean Hobbs Vandale July 12, 2017 From the time she was 4 years old, Jean Hobbs Vandale knew she wanted to be a nurse. At first, it might have been idolizing her mother, but she made it official with her joint degree in nursing from Bates and the New England Baptist School of Nursing. A longtime registered nurse for the Spencer (Mass.) Visiting Nurse Assn., she also worked as a school nurse during the school semesters and a camp nurse in the summer, and as a home health care aide supervisor with the Spencer Good Samaritans. She was a member of the Grand Executive Board of the International Order of Rainbow for Girls, and a longtime Mother Adviser to Spencer Assembly No. 72. Survivors include husband Robert E. Vandale; children Mark, Jeffrey, and Lisa Ann Lynch; and six grandchildren.
1958 Mary Jane Hamilton Thomas September 22, 2017 A five-year nursing student, Mary Jane Hamilton Thomas graduated as a registered nurse and worked in that field for several years before joining International Computaprint Corp. (later Reed/Thomas Tech.). She never stopped believing in the idea of health care for all. She was active in the Episcopal church. Survivors include daughters Laura Thomas and Beth Secor; two granddaughters; and friend William Gross. David Lester Whipple August 21, 2017 David Whipple left Bates for a degree from Boston Univ. He was a successful basketball coach, leading the Ipswich (Mass.) boys team to the state finals twice. He was an excellent golfer who developed and managed a family-owned golf course. Survivors include wife Bernardine, daughters Andrea Whipple and Martha Whipple Anastas, and one grandson.
1959 Alan Lee Comen June 16, 2017 Al Comen retired to Horseshoe Bend, Ark., but that didn’t mean retirement. He soon found himself involved in all sorts of small-town activities. He served on the sewer
commission and as an alderman, and he chaired the finance committee. He was a director of the fire and rescue association, an ambulance driver, first responder, and fireman. This followed a 30-year career with Hercules Inc., where he started as a research chemist and worked his way into sales supervision and management. He held a PhD in chemistry from Purdue, supplementing his degree in chemistry from Bates. During his working years, he was chairman of the Delaware Workshop for the Blind State Commission and a Scoutmaster. Survivors include wife Joanna Legro Comen ’59; sons David and Stephen; and six grandchildren. Janice Hunter Neary November 9, 2017 Jan Hunter Neary was a Spanish major who found a lifetime career as a secretary, first at Eastman Kodak and then as founding executive secretary at Clovis Community Bank, now Central Valley Community Bank, in Fresno, Calif. She formally retired in 2002 but continued part time through 2015. She loved music, theater, and traveling, visiting six continents and over 20 countries. Survivors include children Brian Neary and Peggy King; and two grandchildren.
1960 Brian Karl Bogle October 4, 2017 Brian Bogle transferred to Keene Teachers College from Bates. He taught history at Claremont, N.H., Junior High for 32 years. He was a football official and Babe Ruth baseball coach and umpire. Survivors include wife Nancy; children Karen Leahy, Peter Bogle, and Scott Bogle; and six grandchildren. Mary Shortill Gledhill September 7, 2017 An economics major, Mary Shortill Gledhill worked for several years as a high school math teacher in Maine before leaving the workforce to raise her family. Later, she assisted with marketing for her husband’s software program and taught religious education at St. Mark’s Church in Attleboro Falls, Mass. Survivors include husband Thomas Gledhill; children Kathryn Gledhill-Earls, Maria Walsh, John Gledhill, and Susanna Gledhill; and 11 grandchildren.
1962 Brenda Huston Clarke October 6, 2017 A math major, Brenda Huston Clarke moved to California after graduation “to avoid lifelong incarceration in either a Hartford insurance company or a Hartford suburb,” she wrote 25 years later. She worked as a lab technician for Chevron Chemical Co. in Richmond, Calif., before retiring to Oregon. She was an avid traveler, both in the U.S. and abroad,
so much so that she set out on a cross-country trip for her 30th Reunion only to realize that she was a year early. She was an Alumni in Admissions volunteer and worked on several class Reunions. Johanna Babiarz Conant June 29, 2017 Johanna Babiarz Conant’s interests ranged from glass recycling to edible wild plants. She taught secondary-school English, ESL, and GED classes, as well as expository writing and technical writing at the college level. She also was an independent technical writer for several organizations. She held a master’s in English from Trinity College and a master’s in research from Andover Newton Theological School, in addition to her English degree from Bates. Survivors include children Lisa Conant and David H. Conant III; and four grandchildren.
1963 Leslie Love Costello October 26, 2007 Les Love Costello left Bates before graduation, but remained in close contact with her class, which rallied around her when multiple sclerosis made her homebound.
1968 Carol Elizabeth Jillson September 14, 2017 Jill Jillson preferred teaching fourth grade to fifth because the younger students “didn’t have hormones yet.” She was a career educator at the elementary school in Great Barrington, Mass., having earned a master’s in special education from UMass-Amherst to accompany her history degree from Bates. She was the first woman, and the first elementary teacher, to be president of the Berkshire Hills Education Assn. She claimed she was so busy with school and personal activities that she didn’t have time to think about stress. She was active in the local camera club; in canvassing for the heart fund, the M.S. society, and the cancer fund; in organizing the bloodmobile and in the PTO and parish council. At Bates she was active in Alumni-in-Admissions, served on her 40th Reunion Committee, as a class agent, and as an alumni club officer. She is survived by nieces, nephews, and cousins Arthur F. Amend ’65 and Roberta Handy Whitney ’79. Her late mother was Carol Handy Jillson ’42; and her late cousin was Ruth Handy Amend ’41. Paul Douglas Mosher April 10, 2012 Paul Mosher found a career in human resources after working at Goodwill Industries in Boston as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. He went on to work at McGraw Hill, the Architects Collaborative, Arthur D. Little, and Softbridge. He also struck out on his own as a consultant and recruiter. He held a master’s in
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industrial law from Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. As a gay man, he wrote in his 25th Reunion note of how he felt after “coming out to the folks (what relief, great joy and gratitude to my parents).” “I feel good about the progress,” he continued, “because as I look back 25 years, the distance covered has been great, indeed, and the milestones significant and compelling.” His late uncle was Robert W. Andrews ’50, and his late aunt was Irma Reed Andrews ’50.
1969 Stanley Paul Needles July 11, 2017 Stan Needles was very active as a student, serving as business manager of the Publishing Assn. at Bates and as a member of Students for Peace, the Student Life Committee, and the track team. He was the first Bates graduate to be awarded a prestigious Watson Fellowship, a one-year grant to study outside the U.S. His interests led him to Europe where he studied various human potential movements. He served in the Peace Corps in Ghana in the early 1970s. After earning his law degree from Suffolk Law School in Boston, he practiced law in Massachusetts and in England before joining an international investment management firm in 1985. He and his family lived in Portugal for many years before returning to the U.S. to care for his parents. He was a member of the College Key at Bates. His many interests included politics, economics, and foreign affairs. He loved kayaking and in his last 15 years became an explorer of birds. He continued to work as a financial planner, visiting clients in Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States until the onset of ALS. “He faced his final battle with ALS with courage, humor, and grace,” said a friend, Jim Gallaher ’69. “He was simply an amazing force to all who knew him.” Survivors include wife Jacy; daughters Amy Romano, Katherine Mann, and Samantha Needles; and three grandchildren.
1971 Margaret Ann McCauley November 27, 2017 Peggy McCauley started at Bates but graduated from the Univ. of South Florida. She received a PhD from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2008. She held a variety of odd jobs — ski patrol, cemetery crew, camp counselor — before working as a book editor for a number of publishers. Survivors include sons Robert and Richard Graham; and three grandchildren.
1977 Carolyn E Bower June 29, 2017 Carolyn Bower also attended the Univ. of Southern Maine. She worked at UNUM as well as
at the Freeport Public Library. Survivors include son Randall A. Poore and parents William H. Bower Sr. and Charlotte Bower. Deborah Linstone Salamites Wood November 12, 2017 Debbie Linstone Wood was an English teacher with the Portland Public Schools for nearly 40 years. Her infectious enthusiasm for literature and the humanities inspired many students, several of whom became lifelong friends. She held a master’s in education from Wesleyan. Survivors include her partner Jim Lunt and son Taylor Salamites.
1978 Jennifer Joan Nadeau October 19, 2017 Before realizing her calling to a religious vocation, Jennifer Nadeau worked in the publishing field, befitting her degree in English. But in 1996, she became a Discalced Carmelite nun. In 2005, she received permission from Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston to live as a hermit, following the teachings of Saint Theresa of Avila. Survivors include parents John and Marceline Mayo Nadeau; and sisters Marcia Nadeau Andrade, whose husband is Paul J. Andrade ’74, and Monica Nadeau Williams ’77.
1981 Robert Gerard Gilroy October 29, 2017 A Jesuit priest, Bob Gilroy professed that one could encounter God through the arts. He was a mixed-media artist who became artist-in-residence at Fordham Univ. in early 2017. His degree from Bates was in art, and he also held a master’s in expressive therapy from Lesley Univ. and a master’s in divinity from Loyola Univ. “Through art, we co-create with God,” he wrote in a magazine article. “He was really gifted at sharing his love and passion for art, and using art as a portal into the sacred to allow us to pause and reflect,” said Carol Gibney, associate director of campus ministry at Fordham’s Rose Hill. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1986 and was ordained in 1997. In addition to serving as a spiritual director at the Sioux Spiritual Center in Plainview, S.D., and as a chaplain at St. Francis Mission on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, he provided spiritual direction at Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester and at the Campion Renewal Center in Weston, Mass.
1984 David Daniel DeSantis June 5, 2017 Put him on skis or a bike, and Dave DeSantis was unstoppable. Captain of the ski team his senior year, he was also the national barefoot waterski champion in 1992, a dedicated bicyclist, and off-road triathlete. After being
diagnosed with melanoma in 2013, he devoted himself to raising money for the Challenged Athletes Foundation and was named the 2015 XTERRA Warrior of the Year. In 2016 he cycled in 13 different countries and participated in 11 XTERRA races on four continents, all while undergoing chemotherapy. An economics major, he was president of a car dealership in Massachusetts. He was a member of his 15th and 20th Reunion Gift Committees and sponsored a Career Discovery intern. Survivors include wife Kathy Curran Doyle and son Mark.
1985 Geoffrey Robins Wright October 6, 2017 Jed Wright’s work took him to Mozambique and Angola — and to Falmouth, Maine. He developed a national land use and mapping program for rural planning and refugee resettlement for the Southern Africa department of the World Bank. In 1994, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hired him to work on the Gulf of Maine Coastal Program/Fisheries Stewardship Project in Falmouth, where he worked until his death. He earned a master’s in geography from SUNY-Buffalo and an MES from Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Through his work managing the Atlantic Salmon Conservation Fund, he was able to help permanently protect thousands of acres of riparian habitat, strengthen local conservation organizations, and develop innovative restoration approaches. He also mentored young environmentalists, as interns in his office, through his volunteer work with the Falmouth schools, and as an employer through Bates’ Purposeful Work program. Survivors include mother Polly Wright; wife Stefanie R. Fairchild ’87; children Ania and Zachary; and niece Hannah Woods Fairchild ’18.
1994 Maurice Parsons Kinney July 13, 2017 Moe Kinney wasn’t done with undergraduate work after he received his BS in economics from Bates. He went on to the Univ. of Maine for a BS in mechanical engineering, graduating summa cum laude. He worked for IBM and for Global Foundries, both in the Burlington, Vt., area. A well-known political activist in Vermont, he was a member of Toastmasters International and a division director of its New Hampshire and Vermont clubs. Survivors include his mother, Janet Kinney. His late aunt was Alice Purington Collet ’33.
faculty Leland Peterman Bechtel December 14, 2017 Bud Bechtel had never been to Maine before he came for a daylong interview over July 4
weekend in 1957. He retired as professor of psychology and education in 1990. He also was an ordained minister, serving congregations in Winthrop, Auburn, and Farmington as well as Newark and Camden, N.J. He earned undergraduate degrees from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (now Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern Univ.), a master’s in counseling psychology from Temple Univ., and a doctorate in educational psychology from New York Univ. He grew up in Pottstown, Pa., where he won the local All-American Soap Box Derby at age 14 and competed in the finals in Akron, Ohio. He also taught education and psychology classes for the Univ. of New Brunswick and the University of Maine system during summers and evenings. In the early 1970s, he directed a demonstration project funded by the federal Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to identify and develop strategies for potentially dyslexic preschool and elementary-school children in the Lewiston-Auburn area. He also chaired a curriculum study committee for the Lewiston public school system that, among other innovations, implemented the teaching of French beginning in the fourth grade. The former Bechtel home on Campus Avenue is now Lindholm House, the college’s Admission office. “Whatever you do, you should use it for human betterment,” he said. “Once you get into the applications of psychology to human needs, you’re consumed by it. You’re helping someone.” Survivors include wife Claudina Stafford Bechtel; children Mark, Carl, Kurt, and Jane Lafleur; and five grandchildren. He was predeceased by a son, Eric Stafford Bechtel ’76. Marcia A. Makris June 3, 2017 A passionate educator, Marcia Makris capped her career as an associate professor of education at Bates from 1996 to 2005, chairing the Education Department. All her degrees through her doctorate were from the Univ. of New Hamphire. She taught English at the high school, community college, and university levels prior to Bates and served as academic dean at New Hampshire Technical College. At the time of Makris’ retirement, her colleague, Patricia Buck, said, “Her reach has been broad, and the part she has played in advancing K-12 education in Maine, preparing future teachers, and helping Bates faculty become better teachers has been significant.” In the words of one senior who did her thesis with Makris, “It doesn’t matter where we go, because she has encouraged us to examine who we are and what we are there for.” A competitive Scrabble enthusiast, she loved music, especially opera, and gardening. Her zest for learning even led her to become a sheep farmer. Survivors include husband Charles DeGrandpre; daughter Susan Niemi; and two grandchildren.
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No longer the place for campus news, can the Mouthpiece still be an ‘evocative object’? by em i ly m c c o n ville
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board, notices had to be typewritten on letter-size paper, and they were posted twice a day: 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. One side, facing College Street, was for the official college calendar. The other side, facing Coram Library, was for student notices. And from the time of its 1927 installation up through the 1980s, “the Mouthpiece” was the definitive spot to learn about campus goings-on and FYIs — Winter Carnival schedule, location of classes early in the semester, or Outing Club trips. Today, the Mouthpiece still stands sentinel outside Hathorn Hall, but it no longer exerts a pull on students passing by. A few years ago, students in a course on material culture taught by Myron Beasley, an associate professor of African American studies and American cultural studies, took a deep dive into the bulletin board’s rise and decline: Why it was created, what it once meant to students, and what it might mean today. The Mouthpiece, they found, was the result of literally decades of student clamor for a central information hub. In 1881, for example, The Bates Student wondered, “Would it not be a good plan for the faculty to place
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a bulletin-board at one of the entrances to Parker Hall, so that we might know just where to find appointments for rhetoricals, lectures, etc.?” In 1927, the graduating class finally answered the call, giving a bulletin board as its Senior Gift — one of several physical mementos given in the early 1900s. The bulletin board was appreciated. “We are indebted to the Class of 1927 for the convenient and artistic bulletin board now standing in front of Hathorn,” wrote President Clifton Daggett Gray in his 1928 annual report. As Nancy Kozinski ’52 and Sally Haynes ’52 reported in The Bates Student in 1950, “the bulletin board...probably receives more attention in a day than the campus beauty does in a week.” Like the illuminated Telechron clock that hangs above the Hathorn porch, the Mouthpiece was high-tech for its time. “The new gimmick that so popularized the bulletin board was not only its new central location, but also the electronic aspect, which allowed it to be lit every night,” Beasley’s students wrote. The Mouthpiece, the 21st-century students argued, can tell us a lot about how Bates has changed through the years. One shift is geographical, as the Mouthpiece’s location, on the Historic
Quad before it was historic, was once the busy campus crossroads. As the campus expanded northward, the popular center of campus shifted north, too, reducing the number of students who pass by the Mouthpiece every day. The other shift is, of course, technological. Campus was “wired” in 1995, and as the internet gained steam, physical bulletin boards gave way to electronic ones. In other words, physical centrality became less important for communication; virtual centrality more so. Today, a single daily campus email delivers all the announcements, deadlines, and event details that years ago appeared on the Mouthpiece and, until recently, went to students in dozens of daily “Announce” emails. The Quad, an online web portal, gathers useful information, links, and directories for the campus community. Meanwhile, the Mouthpiece is more of a seasonal mood-setter for passersby, featuring welcoming messages to the incoming class or posters for major campus events like Reunion or the Mount David Summit. In true academic fashion, Beasley’s students deployed theoretical frameworks to explain the changing significance of the Mouthpiece. They offered a Marxist critique, offering the idea that the technology revolution and the expansion of the campus, driven by capitalism, has alienated the Bates community from objects like the Mouthpiece. A more salient analysis by the students, perhaps, looks at how we relate to objects around us, how objects become “companion[s] in life experience,” in the words of Sherry Turkel, MIT professor and editor of the book Evocative Objects. In this sense, an older graduate returning to campus for Reunion might “feel an emotional bond with the Mouthpiece,” the students write. “Perhaps this alumnus found out some very vital information from the bulletin board.” On the other hand, the Mouthpiece for today’s students is what Turkel calls an “uncanny object”:
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In 1950, the bulletin board received “more attention in a day than the campus beauty does in a week.”
something familiar, yet lacking in meaning — a bit “off.” Yet despite the different ways they regard the bulletin board, an older alum and young student might still find common ground, Beasley’s students say. Students, by learning the history of a Bates object like the Mouthpiece — not to mention buildings and places and people — can connect with older generations. “We could speak about the differences and similarities between how we were notified of information, and where we found our true physical representation of the Bates campus.” “We can find common ground with others,” they write. “We can effectively communicate and share ideas and emotions with each other.” n This story uses material from the website “The Mouthpiece of Bates College,” bates.edu/mouthpiece-history, created by Shawn Doherty ’14, Jake Starke ’14, Owen Mahan ’15, and Michael Bernstein ’14 for the course “The Story of Things: Introduction to Material Culture.”
Second only to a cozy fireplace, the Mouthpiece is a hot spot to gather on a winter day in the mid-1900s.
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a r ch iv es dancing through the muskie archives & special collections library Knight Time
The Royal Knights, seen here playing Chase Lounge, were a popular Lewiston garage band in the 1960s — especially after they scored Beatles-style jackets in Boston.
You Can Dance
After Bates lifted a long-standing ban on student dancing in December 1921, the Bates Outing Club sponsored one of the first post-Prohibition dances, the Carnival Dance, during Winter Carnival on Feb. 10, 1922.
Sadie Says
A mid-20th-century tradition, the annual Sadie Hawkins role-reversal dance faded away in the 1980s.
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Let the Cards Speak
Part of President Harward’s inaugural, the Gala tradition started 28 years ago, in March 1990, an era of dresses with enough fabric to sail a ship. “We liked fabric — a lot,” recalls Tina Brickley Engberg ’90.
On this student’s dance card from the 1932 Commencement Ball, four dances were reserved for “Herb.” That was Herbert Berry ’32, and the cards belonged to Doris Mooney ’33, and they married in 1937. He died in 1980; she in 1996.
o u t ta k e Après le Puddle Jump, students make a beeline for the bonfire. Nothing looks or feels better than these logs blazing on the banks of Lake Andrews. The scene suits the photographer, too. The hot air above the fire is expanding wildly: light passing through this jumble of more- and less-dense air changes speed — bending, or refracting — creating this heat shimmer, a kind of mirage. Hence, a simple posed moment with friends becomes freakish and Fellini-esque. What fun. — Phyllis Graber Jensen
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Photographer Theophil Syslo captures the Merrill Gymnasium field house during track and field practice on a busy winter night.
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The Slovenski Track has a Mondo multi-use surface.
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Rakes, shovels, and brooms keep the pit tidy along with this blue auto-scrubber that cleans sand from around the jump pit.
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After a taxing exam in differential equations, three math majors pause outside Ladd Library to “breathe, smile, relax, and enjoy the snow,” said Adena Bernot ’20 (right, also an econ major) with classmates Avery MacMullen (left) and Katie Crossin (center).