Bates Magazine, Spring 2019

Spring 20I9

13 Crowdfunding yields loaner laptops.

44 Favorite 20I8 photos (but not the best).

54 From slave to venerated nun, hear her voice.

“It’s bright and open, which elevates my mood. I’m going to work here more often.” Page 34

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2 Comments 4 Bates in Brief 24 Amusements 26 Features 58 Notes 90 History Lesson 96 From a Distance

Take a closer look at what sport this hand and foot are playing — and where. Page 6

OPENING THOUGHT: STACY SMITH LECTURER IN THE HUMANITIES Source: A discussion about professors’ favorite writing assignments at bates.edu/writing-favorites

At this stage of my teaching career, I’m interested in cultivating the “alive” human being — within both the student and the teacher — in an academic setting.

The personal is intellectual, and the intellectual is personal.

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MUSKIE ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

essay, just say it.” An English teacher for 30 years, I say the same thing to my high school students.

When he learned that I played squash, Jim taught me to play competitive badminton. We met evenings in the gym, set up a net over the indoor tennis courts, and played for hours.

Dave Reynolds ’86

Colorado Springs, Colo.

In 1926, John P. Davis ’26 (seated, left) began the protest against Bates’ membership in the racist debate society Delta Sigma Rho. Clockwise from top left are debate coach A. Craig Baird, H.H. Walker ’26, and Erwin Canham ’25.

Delta Sigma Rho Thank you for the article about Bates’ experience and work to desegregate Delta Sigma Rho (“Recalling When Bates Fought, Yet Benefited from, a Racist Debate Organization,” BatesNews, March 1, 2019).

It’s always easy to read news about Bates doing something awesome, but I appreciate that this article focuses on a part of Bates history that was difficult and had different people picking different approaches for how to pursue change and perhaps not always taking as strong a stand as we might wish in retrospect.

Sarah Stone ’90

One wonders what daily life must have been like for the token black people admitted to elite schools then. Clearly they were outstanding and multitalented students.

As noted in the article, John Preston Davis ’26 later worked to make the New Deal applicable to people of color.

But for the most part it wasn’t: Racist policies prevented access at one or more points in the qualifying process.

Rosemary Kean

Somerville, Mass.

It is wonderful that Bates opposed injustices in the early 20th century. I myself would wish it opposed serious injustices in the 21st century in which we live!

Kirkland, Wash.

Douglas Hayman ’71

Bates, unfortunately, skirted its founding ideals and buttressed institutional racism. Not Bates College’s finest hour.

Hepburn

Lawrence, Mass.

Freeport, Maine

Recollections in the Fall 2018 issue by Peter Moore ’78 of the late English professor Jim Hepburn prompted a few more.

The virulent, unyielding racism in Delta Sigma Rho was in step with lynchings going on throughout the South.

I received a C on my first paper in his class, and I still remember one of his comments: “Don’t tell me what you’re going to say in your

Stephen Goetz ’74

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I remember taking his senior seminar. We read Wilfred Owen, and he sang us songs from the trenches of World War I for our enlightenment.

My best memory is picking up raw milk from the food co-op somewhere out of the campus orbit (I had a car), and leaving a bottle at his office door. He liked the fact that the cream was still on top. I suppose it brought him closer to his English country life.

After I graduated, I would write a letter to him in Sussex every decade or so.

He would always reply, with one of those blue, airmail onion-skin letters. I could hardly decipher his spidery handwriting; I had to use my psychic powers. I loved receiving those letters.

Joanne Stato ’74

Safety Harbor, Fla.

Renewable Fuel Oil Could you provide a bit more information about the process of making the Renewable Fuel Oil that’s used in the burners of the campus steam plant (“Campus Construction Update,” BatesNews, Jan. 18, 2019)?

The description says the process applies “extreme heat to sawdust in an oxygen-free environment” to create a biocrude oil, and that this process, “once started, is self-fueled.” How does that work? Wouldn’t the benefits of this new system be lessened by the amount of external heating required to obtain the oil?

Roger Ames, husband of Sue Manwell Ames ’52 Tulsa, Okla.

Doug Hubley, the Bates Communications writer who produces Campus Construction Update, answers: The process is called rapid thermal processing, and it’s a variant of a chemical process called pyrolysis.

Pulverized woody biomass is blown into an oxygen-free chamber together with very hot sand. In just seconds, the heat breaks the biomass down into vapors, gases (not the same thing as vapors), and char.

The vapors are condensed into pyrolysis oil, aka biocrude, while the gases and char are recycled and burned to dry the feedstock and reheat the sand — this happens outside the pyrolysis reaction itself. It’s this recycling of the gases and char to produce heat that makes the process mostly self-sustaining.

Using Renewable Fuel Oil in two of the college’s three burners is a big reason why Bates has been able to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions to a mere 5 percent of its 2001 baseline.

Joyce White Vance ’81 I have long been drawn to Joyce Vance’s expert advice, wise insights, and measured tone in her analysis of various legal maneuverings in the special counsel’s ongoing investigations. (“Bates in the News,” BatesNews, Feb. 15, 2019).

As the news becomes ever more preposterous and confusing, I know I can count on her to bring clarity and wisdom to any judicial subject, and always with her signature poise.

She reflects what is best about a Bates education: a propensity for fierce debate, an enlightened perspective, and respect for history, facts, and getting the story right.

Jamie Farquhar Mueller ’85

Shaker Heights, Ohio

The letter writer is no relation to the special counsel, Robert Mueller.

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Cline and Golden In November, Jared Golden ’11, D-Maine, and Ben Cline ’94, R-Va., were elected to Congress, with Cline succeeding Bob Goodlatte ’74. See this issue’s Bates Notes section.

I came up to Maine to canvass for Jared, and while I’d have done it for any Democrat, it was that much sweeter knowing it was for a fellow alumnus.

It’s wonderful news for Maine to have such a fine young person representing the 2nd District.

David Wisniewski ’93

Maynard, Mass.

Some Bates congressional trivia: This is the second time two Bates alumni have served in the House of Representatives together, and the first time representing both major parties.

The first time was in 1933–35, when Carroll Beedy of Portland and Donald Partridge of Norway, both Republicans, represented Maine’s 1st and 2nd districts, respectively.

Nate Walton ’08

Boston, Mass.

Look Around Not only is this great, it is incredibly brave! (“Bates criminologist shares $499K federal grant to study mass shootings,” BatesNews, Dec. 14, 2018).

Regardless of one’s political identity, this country has had too many mass shootings and done nothing about it. Look around the world: It only took one catastrophic event for developed societies to rethink policy.

For a minute in our country’s history, we should focus on what the data tells us. The story behind that data should not be muddied with political identities. Each data point is a life lost. Respect it, and do justice by it.

Irene Wood Frohlich ’09

Long Island City, N.Y.

Bates’ I64-year existence sometimes feels as brief as a single toll

of the Hathorn bell.

The other day, I received an email that began: “With sadness I report the passing of my father, Robert Carlyn ’35, at age 106.”

That got me thinking how this alumnus, born in 1912, was alive for more than two-thirds of the college’s entire existence. Placing Bates within that human frame gave me an odd feeling, like that zoom effect in Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

There was another example of how the Bates space-time continuum sometimes collapses the other day when Carolyn Ryan ’86, now one of The New York Times’ top editors, answered a question asked by her 22-year-old self.

On campus for the Purposeful Work Unplugged speaker series, she talked with students about her journalism career, which began with stories for The Bates Student.

By her senior year, Ryan was writing for Bates Magazine. That spring, she wrote about a senior’s typical trifecta of worries: finding work, paying student loans, and the value of her English major.

Ryan also had existential concerns. For her, Bates had been an expansive intellectual experience: “The world got big.” But after college, how would she stay a “seeker of knowledge, ideas, and meaning, in a modern, complex, bureaucratized world?” she asked.

Today we might describe her search for meaning in a complex world as a search for purpose. Thanks to a major recent Gallup survey — see bates.edu/ gallup — we know that achieving a sense of purpose in our lives, particularly in our work, gives us a greater sense of well-being.

And that’s the raison d’etre of Purposeful Work at Bates: to help students align their interests and talents with post-college work that gives them that feeling of purpose.

I moderated the Purposeful Work discussion with Ryan, joined by senior Sarah Rothmann, the current Student editor. We read Ryan’s 1986 words back to her. At first, she laughed: “What a pompous kid!” Still, we asked her: How would you answer your 22-year-old self?

First, she gave context. “I never wanted to be cynical,” she explained. “As a kid — maybe in movies, maybe in real life — I’d seen people get bitter as they aged. It frightened me.”

A journalist uncle told her, “Some people work so that they can have fun when they’re not working. Other people have fun because they love their work.”

Ryan loves journalism because it taps her “innate curiosity”; it connects with her on an existential level. And that’s pretty much how Ryan 2019 answered Ryan 1986.

So the past wraps into the present. And the future arrives at our doorstep in surprising ways.

In the last week of his life, Robert Carlyn got some good news: His granddaughter had just been accepted, Early Decision, to the Bates Class of 2023.

“That makes two of us,” he said, a Bobcat of yesterday speaking to a Bobcat of tomorrow.

H. Jay Burns, Editor magazine@bates.edu

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Sankofa, a word in the Twi language of Ghana that suggests returning for something forgotten, is an annual dance showcase on MLK Day at Bates. During this year’s performance, Osceola Heard ’22 leaps past judges Areohn Harrison ’20, Sean Vaz ’22, and Justice Prewitt ’20.

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STUDENTS

This year’s Winter Carnival “Late Night Breakfast” was served I0 p.m. to midnight on Feb. 8.

In lieu of overdue fines, Ladd Library accepts nonperishable items for a local food pantry.

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After lighting the Winter Carnival torch, Maine Gov. Janet Mills cheers as Gordon Platt ’19 of Groton, Mass., holds the torch.

Carry a Torch February saw the reignition of a famous Bates Outing Club tradition when newly elected Maine Gov. Janet Mills lit a ceremonial Winter Carnival torch outside the State House in Augusta.

Taking a few light moments from her big duties on Feb. 8 (e.g., delivering her first state budget), Mills met eight Bates students, including torchbearer Gordon Platt ’19, BOC vice president from Groton, Mass.

The Bates torch-lighting tradition was sparked in 1958 when then-Maine Gov. Ed Muskie ’36 lit one up to kick off that year’s Olympic-themed Winter Carnival. Into

On the Scene the 1990s, subsequent Maine governors followed suit, lighting a torch that students ran back to campus.

After Mills lit the 2019 torch, the Bates students set out accordingly for campus, 30.1 miles away, on foot.

Some 20 students — members of the Outing Club and the Bates Running Club — ran the distance in four-person relay teams, delivering the lit torch to campus by 3 p.m. to commence the annual Puddle Jump.

The college’s Winter Carnival has been a Bates Outing Club tradition since the club’s formation in 1920 — next year marks the club’s centennial.

ESME The hands, foot, and disc belong to Esme Goldfinger ’21 of Portland, Maine, a member of Cold Front, the women’s club ultimate frisbee team, who enjoyed barefoot disc-tossing on Garcelon Field as temperatures hit the 50s on Feb. 5.

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“It’s cold and wet.

But it feels so good.”

Students in a video production course taught

by Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture Carolina González Valencia assume their places for an exercise in which they recreate a scene from a movie — in this case, the movie Lost in Translation and the scene where Bob (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) lie and talk side-by-side in bed.

The students had these filmmaking roles: director, cinematographer, camera operator, art director, set decorator, sound recorder, gaffer, grip, cast, and a production assistant.

One paid campus job is to allow Admission tours to visit your dorm room.

Bates has a High Altitude Ballooning Club.

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As of December 20I8, nine Bates students had declared selfdesigned majors.

Matching Up workshop’s logistics.

“When you first learn how to debate, it’s completely overwhelming. The Match students really rose to the challenge.”

And what a way to encounter a college: Instead of walking around the campus on a traditional tour, the high schoolers spent the day immersed in one of Bates’ most esteemed extracurriculars, the club that defined the college experience of their teacher, Andrew Jarboe ’05.

“My students are high-achieving juniors,” said Jarboe, who teaches AP history at Match.

“Many of them will be first-generation college students. They have the stuff to succeed at a college like Bates. Saturday was, for many of them, their first exposure to a top liberal arts college.”

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Most weekends, Bates classrooms resemble ghost towns, with desks and chairs askew and semi-erased chalkboards hinting at bygone activity.

But one Saturday morning in mid-January, Room 300 in Pettigrew Hall was a different story.

A whirl of activity descended upon the classroom as members of the college’s Brooks Quimby Debate Council led a workshop for 20 or so juniors from Match High School, a public charter school in Boston.

“The kids are super engaged,” said Harry Meadows ’19 of Princeton Junction, N.J., who led the morning workshop.

“They’re picking it up really fast.”

“The quality of debating they did was wonderful,” said Katie Ziegler ’19 of Katonah, N.Y., coordinator of the

Bates debater Trisha Kibugi ’21 (sitting) of Nairobi, Kenya, and Priscilla Sopitan of Match High School prepare arguments for their practice debate.

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CAMPUS

In 20I8–I9, Parsons House is a theme house for civic engagement in LewistonAuburn.

Ventilation duct improvements in Pettengill Hall’s Keck Classroom have reduced air noise.

Dinner Is Served

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It’s 3:30 p.m. on a Tuesday, and behind the scenes in Commons there’s the smell of baked goods, the sting of freshly diced onions, and the flicker of the brick oven’s flame.

All the while, Dining Services staff hustle and bustle in their work to make Commons a home away from home for 1,800 students.

“The students live here, so this is their home, this is their kitchen,” says Dining Services sous chef Michael Staffenski.

“It’s our mission to provide all the

things that their kitchen at home

does, whether it’s an ear to listen

or the comfort of warm soup

when you’re not feeling well.

Food makes you whole.”

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From left, Dining Services bakery supervisor Daisy Taylor, baker Krystin Perreault, and production worker Mumina Abdi shape flour, sugar, and butter into treats.

Hangin’ Around This Town More questions than answers: A pair of Nike high-top football cleats — in garnet, even! — hang from the overhead utility lines on Central Avenue.

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The newly rebuilt Ladd Library Plaza now has radiant heat to melt snow.

The Historic Quad flagpole flies a lightweight flag in summer and a weatherresistant winter flag.

Among items in the college’s surplus furniture storeroom is a grandfather clock.

Meme Scene

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It was one of the biggest internet memes of 2018. It also gave the Bates Instagram account its top-ranked post of the year, according to SproutSocial engagement metrics.

Designed to capture the collective student zeitgeist of any given April (final exams and surprise snowstorms, anyone?) the juxtaposition of images played on the meme “If you don’t love me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best,” while reminding students just how beautiful Bates was six months prior (and will be again!).

Stage Left One harbinger of Commencement — installation of the temporary stage in front of Coram Library in mid-May — won’t happen this spring.

That’s because there’s no need for the wooden stage, across which generations of graduates have trod.

Last summer and fall, a college construction project extended the library’s porch some 15 feet outward to provide a permanent “stage” for public events.

Meanwhile, behind Coram, the old plaza was dug up to replace a leaking rubber membrane that was letting water into Ladd library spaces below. The restored plaza’s concrete furnishings combine planters and benches, the latter covered with extremely durable ipe wood.

Beneath the new pavers, a radiant snowmelting system keeps plaza walkways clear and reduces the workload for Facility Services crews after a storm.

Top right, new granite pavers have expanded the Coram Terrace so there’s no need for the temporary Commencement stage.

Right, landscapers fill new concrete planters on Ladd Plaza last October.

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ACADEMICS

Psychology I0I students take part in seniors’ thesis research projects for course credit.

Twenty-three qualified local high school seniors took free Bates courses last year.

PATRICK In the mid-2000s, before becoming an academic, Assistant Professor of History Patrick Otim was a journalist and relief worker in his native Uganda. He noticed how scholars from afar described the rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army in highly critical terms, yet Otim heard “a different story” from LRA supporters on the ground who had suffered “real violence” at the hands of the Ugandan army. Otim told his story on Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Bates.

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“ Always listen to people.

And consider your sources.”

Handling the Truth Last fall, two popular Bates professors, Alexandre DaugeRoth and Michael Murray, partnered on a Bates rarity: a team-taught First-Year Seminar, addressing a word whose meaning is more contested than ever: “Truth.”

The course got its start last year as Murray, the Charles Franklin Phillips Professor of Economics, pondered how “notions of truth are under siege in society.” Perhaps it would be useful for Bates’ newest students to be exposed right off the bat to “a sophisticated sense of questions about truth.”

In developing their course, the two professors had a lot of support. Last spring, they invited eight juniors and seniors to shape the syllabus as part of a Bates program that lets students spend Short Term helping professors create or redesign a course.

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Alexandre Dauge-Roth (left) and Michael Murray confer before class.

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The professors cast their own wide net, too.

Murray wrote to the philosopher and ethicist Sissela Bo, author of Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life, who directed him to the book Truth: A Guide, by English philosopher Simon Blackburn.

A professor of French and francophone studies, DaugeRoth told Murray about one reading, Charlotte Delbo’s memoir Auschwitz and After. The first book of her trilogy opens with the line, “Today I am not sure that what I wrote is true. I am certain it is truthful.”

“The main goal is not to solve the question but more to instill a higher sense of methodological awareness within students when they deal with issues of truth,” Dauge-Roth says.

Two activity courses in physical education are required at Bates.

The rhetoric department was recently renamed the Department of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies.

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A First Year Seminar looks at the gut microbiome, a burgeoning frontier of medical research.

Wasp wings could inspire the design of micro flying vehicles.

Human Context “What’s lost or gained if we actually concede that humans are machines? And what is lost or gained if we concede that machines can become human?”

If you roll those questions around in your mind for a minute, you’ll get a sense of how Bates approaches neuroscience teaching.

As exemplified in a talk last fall by Nancy Koven to celebrate her appointment as the inaugural John E. Kelsey Professor of Neuroscience, the approach considers not just the science of neuroscience, but the rapidly changing cultural context into which that science and its subjects are inextricably woven.

It’s an approach that points “specifically to the value of humanistic inquiry to help students evaluate the context in which neuroscience operates,” Koven said in her talk.

Endowed by trustee chair Michael Bonney ’80 and Alison Grott Bonney ’80, the new professorship is named for a revered professor who retired in 2012 after 37 years on the Bates faculty.

When Koven arrived at Bates in 2006, she immediately grasped what John Kelsey and Bates were all about. “I was surprised by an uncanny sense of having returned rather than having just arrived,” she recalls.

“John and colleagues welcomed me like family, and the overall rapport among Bates faculty and staff, the rich integration of campus and community, and the close working relationships between faculty and students were, and still are, vital to that sense of belonging.”

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

An Insect-Inspired Collapsible Wing Hinge Dampens Collision-Induced Body Rotation Rates in a Microrobot

Publication: Journal of the Royal Society Interface • Author: Andrew Montcastle (biology) and coauthors • What It Explains: Wasp wingtips have flexible joints that function like shock absorbers during collisions, providing ideas for the design of next-generation micro flying vehicles.

Nancy Koven dons a mask to helps neuroscience major Adelae Durand ’19 learn how to administer a neuropsychological test that asks clinical subjects to identify shapes by touch while blindfolded.

Paternalism and Right

Publication: Journal of Political Philosophy • Author: Paul Schofield (philosophy) • What It Explains: Those who think that paternalistic laws, like ones requiring motorcycle helmets, infringe on personal liberty might embrace such laws through the lens of justice: they help us treat ourselves rightly and justly.

Measuring Away the Importance of Institutions

Publication: Social Science Quarterly • Author: Vincent Geloso (economics) • What It Explains: In 1851 in what is now Quebec, the government misestimated wheat and oat production, with implications for understanding the history of land-use systems in Quebec.

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‘Ich bin ein Betweener’

Publication: Canadian Slavonic Papers • Author: Jakub Kazecki (German) • What It Explains: German-Polish author and performer Steffen Möller presents himself as a “betweener” in his narratives about Poland, using the motif of train travel, and its shifting sense of time and place, to evoke themes of existential migration.

Whole-Tree Nonstructural Carbohydrate Storage and Seasonal Dynamics in Five Temperate Species

Publication: New Phytol • Author: Brett Huggett (biology) and coauthors • What It Explains: Accepted ideas about how trees store important nonstructural carbohydrates, such as starches and sugars, are pretty much wrong.

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THE COLLEGE

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New Application Record (Again) Bates received a record 8,222 applications from prospective first-year students for the Class of 2023.

Seven percent ahead of last year’s record, the pool shows double-digit growth in several key demographic categories, including geographic expansion, first-generation-to-college students, and U.S. students of color.

As in past years, Bates seeks to enroll an incoming class of approximately 500 students.

By the Numbers Total Applications

8,222 First-Generation-to-College

Bates attracts 50,000 visitors to Maine each year.

Number of Bates First Year Applications have increased by nearly 70% since 2013.

7,688

4,906

5,031

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2013

5,636

2014

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5,316

2015

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International Students

Countries Represented

Up 12.2 percent

137, including U.S.

U.S. Regions with Highest Increases

Countries Rejoining the Applicant Pool After Being Absent for Two or More Years

Up 12.2 percent

West (up 16 percent) and Southwest (10.6 percent)

U.S. Students of Color

U.S. States Represented

Up 13.3 percent

Bates has been named a Fulbright top producer for eight consecutive years.

50, plus D.C.

Dominica, Estonia, Hungary, Kuwait, Madagascar, Maldives, Niger, Montenegro, Papua New Guinea, Slovakia, Venezuela, and Yemen.

Chaddock Appointed VP for Equity and Inclusion

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Noelle Chaddock becomes vice president for equity and inclusion at Bates on June 1.

“Noelle brings a wealth of experience to this role, a clear and compelling vision of why the work is important, and a record of exceptional diligence and effectiveness in carrying it out,” said President Clayton Spencer, describing Chaddock as “an inspiring leader, partner, and colleague as we continue to challenge ourselves to better realize the founding promise of this college.”

Chaddock, currently associate provost and deputy Title IX coordinator at Rhodes College, succeeds Crystal Williams, now associate provost for diversity and inclusion at Boston University.

More about Noelle Chaddock bates.edu/chaddock-vp/

Gillespie Elected Trustee Chair At its February meeting, the Board of Trustees elected John Gillespie ’80 as its next chair.

He succeeds Michael Bonney ’80, who retires from the board on June 30 after 17 years as a trustee and nine years as chair.

Founder and managing partner at Prospector Partners LLC, Gillespie is respected as one of Bates’ most hard-working and effective trustees.

He joined the board in 2004 and has chaired or served on 10 of the board’s 12

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President Clayton Spencer described Gillespie as “ambitious for the college and always prepared to ask the difficult questions that help us move the college forward in a way that is faithful to our mission and designed to ensure a sustainable future for the college.”

With Bonney and fellow trustee Geraldine FitzGerald ’75, Gillespie is one of three co-chairs of the current Bates Campaign.

More about John Gillespie bates.edu/gillespie-chair

THE CAMPAIGN

Bates Campaign total as of January: $202 million.

The goal for alumni donor participation is 45 percent in 20I9.

Students’ need to be mobile inspired the college’s first — but not last — crowdfunding effort.

Loaner Laptops for Ladd

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In the context of the $300 million Bates Campaign, it’s hard to know if your $50 gift really makes a difference.

To show donors how all gifts, great and small, touch Bates students, the Advancement team has turned to crowdfunding — the practice of seeking smaller gifts from many donors to fund a specific project.

In January, the team’s first project was to raise about $2,000 to expand the number of laptops available from the Ladd library loaner pool.

It’s a pressing student need. Last fall, after the library purchased 10 Chromebooks as loaners, they’d been checked out 108 times by 76 different students within the first six weeks.

Laptops are increasingly essential, says humanities librarian Christina Bell, because students “need to be mobile. They need to have this technology wherever they need it.”

And while classroom work often requires a laptop, professors recognize an equity issue at hand: They’re reluctant to require laptops for class for fear that a student doesn’t own a laptop or theirs is being repaired.

Hosted on the GiveCampus platform, the inaugural microcampaign exceeded its goal within three hours, ultimately raising $4,950 from 110 donors — for an average gift of under $50 — enough for 12 new laptops as well as the necessary licenses, charging stations, and accessories.

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Bates crowdfunding bates.edu/crowdfunding

The Schuler Initiative will help Bates better engage with millennial alumni.

After penning 110 whiteboard thankyous to Bates donors during her hourlong hosting stint for the Great Day to be a Bobcat livestream on March 5, President Spencer wrote one more: “THANKS EVERYBODY! YOU ROCK!” Rolling to a total of 2,281 gifts, the annual community giving event, held during the first days of March, easily surpassed its goal of 1,855 gifts.

Spencer, by the way, returned to host again in the evening, writing another 56 thank-yous in half an hour.

Bates is one of five leading national liberal arts colleges addressing an emerging trend in higher education philanthropy — declining participation rates among younger alumni.

Launched with support from the Illinoisbased Schuler Family Foundation, the threeyear initiative comprises Bates, Carleton, Middlebury, Wellesley, and Williams colleges.

The Schuler Initiative colleges were chosen on the basis of their national leadership in alumni giving, plus their capacity to conduct research, analyze trends, and, ultimately, create recommendations that can be scaled nationally.

About the Initiative bates.edu/schuler-initiative

From left, Director of Alumni & Family Engagement Cary Gemmer Blake ’07, President Spencer, and Vice President for College Advancement Sarah Pearson ’75.

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Done Great!

Age Old Question

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This page: “ They’ll all be asleep in a half-hour,” Doug Morency (above), director of security and campus safety at Bates, says of his fellow travelers heading south on a Concord Coach Lines bus on Dec. 14.

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BUS START photography by phyllis graber jensen For many students departing campus after finals, the bus stop outside Chase Hall marks the symbolic start of winter break. For Bates Director of Security and Campus Safety Doug Morency (left), it means the start of a weekend in Boston.

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SPORTS

Posing Views

Clockwise from top left: Amanda Kaufman ’21

Somers, Conn Track and field (hurdles) Chris Draper ’22

Armonk, N.Y. Swimming (backstroke, freestyle, breaststroke) Zack Campbell ’19

Brooklyn, N.Y. Track and field (hammer, weight throw) Meghan Graff ’22

South Portland, Maine Basketball (guard)

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During the sports photo session prior to each season, each Bobcat gets two poses: the familiar head-and-shoulder version, plus a chance for photographer and student to get creative together.

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NESCAC mascots are a human (for Hamilton’s Continentals), eight other mammals, and two birds.

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The women’s rowing team has won three of the last four NCAA Championships.

Five Bates alumni are head coaches of Bobcat varsity sports teams.

The men’s squash team has defeated Bowdoin 29 consecutive times.

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The track and field program has produced at least one All-American thrower every year since I99I.

The women’s rowing team hopes to successfully defend its NCAA title at the 2019 championships in Indianapolis.

Bobcat Nation Each year, Bates individuals and teams qualify for various NCAA Division III championships.

Below are the dates and sites for this spring. As always, gobatesbobcats.com has the latest Bobcat sports information.

Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field

May 23–25 Geneva, Ohio

Women’s Lacrosse

May 25–26 Ashland, Va.

Men’s Lacrosse

May 25–27 Philadelphia, Pa.

PAT “ I’m proud of who they were when they were here. I’m more proud of who they’ve become.”

Reflecting on his former players, Pat Cosquer ’98, head coach of men’s and women’s squash, holds a beaded ostrich egg. The egg was a gift from Lauren Williams ’16 of Bulawyo, Zimbabwe, who is now a history teacher and head coach of girls’ squash and tennis at Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn.

Female artists from Ndebele tribes in South Africa and Zimbabwe craft the beading on the eggs by hand.

Women’s Rowing May 31–June 1 Indianapolis, Ind. Men’s Rowing* May 31–June 2 Gold River, Calif.

Men’s and Women’s Tennis May 20–25 Kalamazoo, Mich.

Baseball

May 31–June 5 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Softball

May 23–28 Tyler, Texas

* The championship meet for men’s rowing is the Intercollegiate Rowing Association’s National Championship regatta.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Instruments taught by Bates’ applied music faculty include bluegrass banjo, ukulele, and sitar.

Kate Gilmore ’97 used 500-plus pieces of wood for a piece in her Bates museum show.

and the conflicts that arise in the communities — such as Lewiston — to which they flee.

Ching, who brought Sandglass residency to Bates, first discovered the troupe through a workshop in 2016. “I thought, ‘Wow, I’d love to be in a company like this one day.’

“Then I heard that they were going to do a play about the refugee crisis, and I thought, ‘I’d love to make work like that one day.’ And sure enough, they had an opening, and I got the part.” Ching adds, “And once I got involved with this, I thought, ‘This piece needs to be in Lewiston.’”

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Sandglass Theater performer Keila K. Ching ’19 animates a puppet during a dress rehearsal.

Known at Bates for work as a dancer and actor, Keila Ching ’19 showed another facet of their performing skills to the campus in January.

Ching is a member of the Putney, Vt.–based

JULIA “ I love improving myself, trying to get my best tone.”

Julia Jesurum ’22 of Weston, Mass., practices the trumpet following a jazz band rehearsal in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall in January.

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Sandglass Theater, which emphasizes puppetry.

Sandglass visited Bates for a residency that included performances of Babylon, Journeys of Refugees.

Developed by the performers from interviews with refugees, Babylon explores the relationships between refugees, their homelands,

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Bates’ spring theater season includes a Pulitzer-winning play: Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog.

The English course “I, too, sing America” examines poetry attuned to social and political issues.

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The Bates dance program celebrates its 50th anniversary with a concert in April.

Choreography Unpacked “I’m very interested in this collusion of Europe and Africa. In my work, this collusion returns again and again, constantly trying to unpack this crucial historical moment, I think, for the entire world. What happened there has repercussions, I believe, for everyone.” — Nora Chipaumire, a choreographer and performer raised in Zimbabwe. A resident artist at Bates last fall, Chipaumire created a piece for Bates student dancers about Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana, who led a 19th-century popular revolt against British colonial occupation in what is now Zimbabwe.

“I’m thinking about how I view these things differently when they’re not bundled together in a heap of trash — and it makes me think they’re kind of disgusting now,” said Jake Michael ’21, a prospective English major from Ketchum, Idaho.

Michael was responding to the art installation Out of Sorts shortly after it was placed on the grass between Com-

mons and Alumni Walk last fall. Maine artist Adriane Herman’s installation comprises five bales of plastic refuse that has been processed for recycling.

Intended to provoke closer examination of our use and disposal of consumer goods, the installation is part of the Bates College Museum of Art exhibition Anthropocenic, in which more than a dozen artists interpret human impacts on the natural world.

“We created” the plastics, Michael continued, “and we don’t think ‘disgusting’ when they’re not bundled together, when we don’t see this product.” So he’s seeing this collection of flattened vinegar jugs, ketchup bottles, throwaway coffee cups, etc. through new eyes.“In that respect, I would say that it is art, yes.” He added, “In a way, it’s aesthetically appealing, the way they’re lined up.”

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A skateboarder flies past the bales of recyclable plastics outside Commons last fall.

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Earthquake activity in Lewiston is 9I percent lower than in the rest of the U.S.

There are I0 Dunkin’ Donuts locations in Lewiston-Auburn and just one Starbucks.

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Grace Ellrodt ’20 hoists pine frames during a Window Dressers community workshop on Nov. 29 at St. Mary’s Nutrition Center in Lewiston. When wrapped with polyolefin film and edged with weatherstripping, the frames become low-cost, heatconserving window inserts.

Insertion Point Bates students have helped solve a knotty problem for a Maine-based nonprofit that manufactures low-cost window inserts to block chilly drafts.

The nonprofit’s business model is distinctive: To keep down the price of the wood-frame inserts, Window Dressers asks prospective purchasers to help build the inserts at community workshops. It also has a special rate for low-income households.

Since its 2012 founding, Window Dressers has operated mostly in small Maine towns. Last fall, the nonprofit came to Lewiston, whose downtown, among other attributes, is home to a large immigrant population and has a high percentage of rental housing.

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To help pull off the first Lewiston window-insert “build” — and to develop strategies to recruit more families who are eligible for the special rate — Window Dressers turned to the college’s environmental studies program. Each fall, the ES program tackles local projects through the aptly named course “Community-Engaged Research in Environmental Studies.”

This year, course instructors Francis Eanes, a visiting assistant professor of environmental studies, and biology lecturer Karen Palin handed the project to Grace Ellrodt ’20 of Lenox, Mass., Newell Woodworth ’19 of Lambertville, N.J., and Griffin Golden ’19 of Riverside, Conn.

The students, in addition to helping recruit workshop participants, also

identified barriers to taking advantage of the program.

Some residents felt uncomfortable getting the inserts without landlord approval. And the workshops were conducted only in English, though Lewiston is a multilingual community.

The Bates team recommended various strategies for overcoming the obstacles, such as involving trusted community partners in outreach efforts and teaching insert-making through physical demonstrations, so that knowing English isn’t necessary.

“They offered great suggestions, were incredibly committed, and followed through with everything,” said Laura Seaton, director of community workshops for Window Dressers.

MUSKIE ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY

The Lewiston office of newly elected Congressman Jared Golden ’II is on Lisbon Street.

The proportion of teetotalers in Lewiston is I2.9 percent, vs. 9 percent for Maine as a whole.

In 1895, John Bertram Hall was known as Nichols Hall and housed the Nichols Latin School. (Note students sitting in fourth-floor windows.)

The Androscoggin Land Trust celebrates its 30th anniversary in 20I9.

What’s in a Name: Nichols Terminating at Campus Avenue across from Carnegie Science Hall, Nichols Street is named for Lyman Nichols, a 19th-century investor in Lewiston’s mills.

Good Jobbing Born in 1806, Nichols built a prominent Boston “jobbing house” — a wholesale purchaser of imported goods — before becoming a Boston bank president in 1861.

Along the way, Nichols invested in Lewiston mills owned by Bates benefactor Benjamin Bates.

The Long Hall Like Benjamin Bates, Lyman Nichols supported Oren Cheney’s fledgling college, serving as an early trustee.

The building now known as John Bertram Hall was dedicated in 1868 as Nichols Hall, and it housed Nichols Latin School, a feeder prep school for Bates that operated until 1899.

Together Again Nichols and Benjamin Bates both died in 1878 and both are buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass.

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Nichols Park After his death, the heirs of Lyman Nichols gave Lewiston a small public park near campus, Nichols Park, bounded by Webster, Pine, and Leeds streets.

“These kids have to be really brave.”

Matt Golden ’20 of New Bedford, Mass., discusses the children’s book Let the Children March with thirdgraders at Lewiston’s Martel School on Jan. 23. He read the book, which recalls the 1963 Children’s Crusade in Birmingham, Ala., as part of the college’s Martin Luther King Jr. Read-In.

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THE WORLD

A Short Term course will study sea level rise in coastal Virginia and North Carolina.

What I Mean When I Say: Emergence

southern Africa, is studying another emergent situation: how artists and natural gas dealers made their livings in the years after the 2008 financial crisis in Zimbabwe, when the country experienced massive hyperinflation.

In such an environment of “widespread economic precarity,” Rubin says, “nobody knows quite where they stand.”

Emergence also happens in lower-stakes situations — like rugby matches.

Rubin knows rugby well, and it formed the basis of his doctoral dissertation, which looked at the sport in the context of South African politics and race relations.

“Once a rugby game starts, it’s emergent,” he says. “Nobody knows what’s going to happen. It’s not like one of the players is orchestrating where the game is going to go.”

For most of us, emergence is an act of coming forth: a butterfly from its cocoon, or a monster from the Black Lagoon.

For Lecturer in Anthropology Joshua Rubin, emergence is a scholarly term that “describes processes of change that are dramatic enough that old forms of social interaction don’t apply anymore, but new ones haven’t taken shape.”

Emergence can happen during political revolutions, when old hierarchies and ways of acting fall by the wayside, leading people to act in unpredictable ways.

“In the Russian Revolution, people stopped wearing the clothes they were expected to wear and dressed in really creative outfits,” Rubin says.

At the moment, Rubin, whose research focuses on

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South Africa takes on the U.S. in World Cup Rugby in 2015.

The action of a sporting event, like rugby, is an example of emergence, says Josh Rubin.

Bates debaters headed to Mexico City for the 20I8 World Universities Debating Championship.

Stretch of the Imagination Mike Seltzer is the strength and conditioning coach for Bates athletics, and last spring he took his talents to the African nations of Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Swaziland.

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In this photo, Seltzer is teaching Kinstretch — an exercise program that focuses on body control, strength and flexibility — to students at Education Matters, a nonprofit based in Harare, Zimbabwe, that sponsors a range of college-access programs.

Seltzer was part of a two-Bobcat team during that African trip: With his wife, Senior Associate Dean of Admission Johie Farrar Seltzer ’03, he visited schools and collegeaccess programs and gave public presentations as part of Bates recruitment efforts.

Bates’ top Facebook post of 20I8 was about Olympic skier Dinos Lefkaritis ’I9.

Bates’ rate of study abroad is consistently the highest among the NESCAC schools.

Some students in French and francophone studies volunteer as interpreters for asylum seekers.

Casablanca, Morocco Environmental studies major Josh Klein ’19 of Williston, Vt., took this photo in February 2018 on an SIT abroad program in Rabat, Morocco. The image was featured in the 2019 Barlow Off-Campus Study Exhibition.

COURTESY BROOKS QUIMBY DEBATE COUNCIL

“A mother plays soccer with her son outside the Hassan II Mosque. Crowds of people gathered in the expansive square after leaving the International Book Fair that takes place in the capital every February. The largest on the African continent, the mosque overlooks the Atlantic Ocean and was built to memorialize King Mohammed V.”

Posing an Argument Members of the Brooks Quimby Debate Council strike a pose (well, many poses) in Cape Town, South Africa, during the 2019 World Universities Debating Championship in early January. From left, Jacob Nishimura ’21, Phil Maniscalco ’21, Trisha Kibugi ’21, Harry Meadows ’19, Arianna Fano ’21, Director of Debate Jan Hovden, and Dylan Gyauch-Lewis ’21.

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BOOKS

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

Ninefox Gambit

by Yoon Ha Lee Suggested by Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies Hamish Cameron Mathematics, calendrical manipulation, and the minds of dead people inside the minds of the living. Followed by No. 2 in the series, Raven Stratagem.

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

by Samantha Irby Suggested by Humanities Librarian Christina Bell Probably the best book I read in 2017. Irby blogs at Bitches Gotta Eat, and her work is honest, funny, and unapologetic.

Broad Band

by Claire L. Evans Suggested by Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies Margaret Imber A fascinating and sometimes infuriating history of the role women played in the development of the internet and the reason for their erasure from most histories of the technology.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot Suggested by Professor Emeritus of Physics Jack Pribram Personal stories, scientific discoveries, and a discussion of the changes in medical ethics.

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

Lost & Found A catalog of items left in Ladd Library during December finals week Various USB flash drives, pens, jewelry • Paris-themed pencil pouch • Prettycare kneecap support strap • Notebook with drawing of the chemical structure of glucose • Spanish notebook with tarea (homework) • Baseball cap of the minor league New Hampshire Fisher Cats • “Kick Plastic” stainless steel water bottle • Bates nalgene water bottle • Burton winter hat • KB-brand sock • Lip balm ball with logo of a Chestnut Hill, Mass., shopping area • Empty orthodontic appliance case • Visitor pass to Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health • Euripides’ Bacchae, edited by E.R. Dodds • Fingerless knit gloves.

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Four by Four Winning the annual #BatesFinals Instagram contest in December was this post by Sara Hollenberg ’19 (right) of Stamford, Conn., with the caption “four dozen cookies and four (almost) completed theses later....”

The four theses represent the double majors of Hollenberg (dance and mathematics) and classmate Claire Sickinger (left) of Simsbury, Conn. (dance and environmental studies).

The “almost” theses got real: All were handed in on time on Dec. 14.

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Fifty years ago, the consumption of a once-popular beverage had sunk to historic lows, prompting a national ad campaign, including ads in The Bates Student, aimed at the college crowd.

What was the drink?

Answer: Coffee. Developed by McCann-Erickson, Coca-Cola’s ad agency, “The Think Drink” campaign posed a problem — “You keep flunking your best subject?” — then the tag line: “Think it over, over coffee.”

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Bates photographer Theophil Syslo can’t recall what cracked up (most of) these volleyball players during their team photo last October. But, he says, “I want to give a shout-out to the ones who managed to keep it together.”

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window treatment As restoration of the Gomes Chapel resumes, its signature stained glass windows are being painstakingly rebuilt by d o u g h u bley

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viously, plus the portico that protects the chapel’s entrance, all the building’s stained glass, and the Ours is being able to see right through the Peter J. concrete tracery embellishing the windows.

Gomes Chapel.

November 2019 is the planned end point for two It’s true. We know a secret spot on College Street aspects of the current work. One is the masonry, from which we can see clear through the chapel and whose restoration commences just after Commenceobserve the front of Coram Library, which faces the ment. Second is the stained glass windows and winchapel’s opposite side from across the Historic Quad. dow tracery in the chapel’s east and west walls (facWhile it’s not a talent we can use to save the planet ing the Historic Quad and College Street, respectively), from destruction, more’s the pity, it does make us which were removed early in the winter. feel kind of special.

Finally, the north and south windows and tracBut we also have to give some credit (grudgingly) ery will come out next fall and come home in Septo a recent change in the 106-year-old chapel: the tember 2020. removal of its signature stained glass windows from The restoration will renew a structure that’s a two walls, and their substitution with startlingly landmark both visually and culturally. In addition to transparent polycarbonate panes. some religious events, the Gomes Chapel is home to Those keep the weather out while the stained concerts and such milestones of the Bates calendar glass windows are rebuilt — which is just one facet as the Martin Luther King Jr. Day keynote address. of a long-term chapel restoration project whose It’s also a community resource, a venue for wedlatest chapter commenced last fall. dings and post-funeral gatherings.

Bates launched the first phase of this major resIn fact, the chapel’s community orientation is toration in 2011. During that 15-month effort, the integrated into its location on College Street: By a building’s entire slate roof was vote of the college trustees in 1912, replaced, the copper cupolas on the no structure can be built nearby corner towers repaired, and the that would block views of its main masonry sheathing on the towers entrance from the direction of fully restored. downtown.

Just to put things in chronoWater damage is driving the Bates Communications logical perspective, the first phase restoration.

Back in 2011, penetratwriter Doug Hubley began the year before the Bates ing moisture had degraded mortar produces Campus College Chapel was renamed in joints, eroded masonry, frozen into Construction Update, honor of the Rev. Peter J. Gomes giant icicles inside the towers, and a popular online series ’65, an icon at both Bates and Hardamaged spaces used for chapel acthat apprises the Bates vard, where he was the Plummer tivities, notably the choir loft. (We community on facilities Professor of Christian Morals and witnessed the extraction of a time projects with wit and Pusey Minister in the Memorial capsule from a tower wall during detail, plus an occasional Church.

Phase One. It was full of water, and photo of his shoes.

Begun last November, the secthe original contents — apologies It’s all at ond phase encompasses repairs for the technical lingo — were “a bates.edu/CCU. or replacement of all the exterior slimy pile of goop,” says Pat Webber, masonry that wasn’t treated predirector of the Muskie Archives.)

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Facing page: With the chapel’s stained glass removed, one can look straight through the building and see Coram Library on the other side of the Historic Quad.

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The stained-glass depictions of Italian painter Fra Angelico and the poet Dante Alighieri (center section) were restored a few years ago and remain in place.

Meanwhile, the rest of the building’s stained glass has been removed for restoration.

“The longer we wait to do the work, the worse the situation will get,” says Shelby Burgau, the Facility Services project manager directing the restoration. “The need is pretty obvious: It’s not preventative maintenance at this point, it’s work needed to keep the building intact and to prevent future damage.”

Further delay, she says, could elevate repair costs to a whole new order of magnitude. In particular, the college is concerned that seeping moisture at the rear of the chancel could damage the hand-painted reredos. “If we don’t address these issues now,” Burgau says, “the scope of work could just blow up.”

Consigli Construction, a familiar name to CCU readers, oversaw Phase One for Bates and has returned to see the project through.

Burgau notes that the chapel will be open, for the most part, through April. It will be out of service thereafter until late fall, with additional closures possible thereafter.

dutchmen and tracery and rabbits, oh my.

Now for some specifics of the restoration. On the exterior, stones will be repaired or replaced as needed, and all the masonry joints will be repointed. The repairs will include a technique apparently new to the project — and new, even after 12 years of

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construction reporting, to the ears of Campus Construction Update: “dutchman.”

“Rather than replacing an entire stone,” Burgau explains, “they basically shave off the front of the stone and put a new face on it.” (If only poor old Campus Construction Update had that option.)

Thinking of the myriad English-language slang, not all of it open-hearted and complimentary, that uses the word “dutch,” this revelation piqued our curiosity. And indeed, a little time on the Google revealed that in fields from carpentry to railroading to theatrical set-making, along with masonry, a “dutchman” is a repair made by cutting out a section of damaged material and replacing it with a matching section of like material.

“Dutchman” applies in stained glass work, too: a dutchman is a lead strip used to hide a crack in the glass. Such repairs actually weaken the window and are no longer an acceptable practice.

So no dutchmen for the company rebuilding the Gomes windows: Phoenix Studio of Naples, a firm highly esteemed in Maine stained-glass circles.

Phoenix owner Nat Croteau says that his firm submitted the winning bid on the Bates job about a decade ago. Circa 2012, Phoenix restored one five-window grouping on the west wall as a pilot project. That set, depicting the painter Fra Angelico and the poet Dante, is remaining in place through the current work.

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Crumbling cast stone trim around a window on the east side of the Gomes Chapel.

The chapel’s cast stone window tracery, including this familiar section in the portico, will be scanned and replaced with exact duplicates.

The restoration will entail the complete dismantling and documentation of the remaining windows, cleaning of the glass and replacement of damaged pieces, and reassembling the whole works with new lead.

The Gomes stained glass includes depictions of 20 key figures in Western culture in the east and west walls of the nave; and, in the chancel, glass portraying Christ as the Lamb of God, flanked by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Having sorted out “dutchman,” we next tackled “tracery.” This is cast concrete, also euphemistically known as cast stone, that makes a decorative pattern around a window or other opening. In the Gomes chapel, there’s tracery in the portico and around each stained glass window.

The existing tracery will all be replaced. The original sections will have been laser-scanned to produce virtual three-dimensional models, and these will serve as templates for the replacements.

Which brings us to yet another specimen of building-trades jargon: “rabbit.” That’s a crevice in the tracery into which stained-glass panels are fitted during installation. The panels are secured in the rabbit with mortar and caulk. (Try reading this aloud in your best Elmer Fudd voice.) Removing the glass, therefore, is a time-consuming chore because all that gunk needs to be gouged out.

As for the portico, which Burgau says is “severely deteriorating,” Bates and Consigli have plans A and B. Plan A, she explained, “is to restore all the stonework, the tracery, the steps leading up, and the concrete slab it sits on. So there’s already a decent amount of work associated with it.”

And hopefully there will be no call for Plan B: razing the portico and rebuilding it completely. “We are accounting for that, budget- and schedule-wise, and we’re hoping for the best. But it’s going to be one of the first pieces that Consigli tackles next year in case a full teardown is needed.” n

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The Phoenix Studio team prepares to remove a set of stained glass windows in Gomes Chapel.

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Bates faculty and students share their best language-learning tips by e m i ly m c c onv i lle photo g ra ph y by ph y lli s g r abe r je nse n

learning a new language keeps the mind sharp,

facilitates communication, and makes for richer travel experiences.

It also helps you see your own culture from a different perspective.

“You won’t know your own culture or language until you learn another language or culture,” says Keiko Konoeda, a lecturer in Japanese whose research focuses on teaching languages.

While Bates offers countless resources to learn a language — from courses and clubs to language tables and study-abroad opportunities — learning a language isn’t just for college kids. Language learning can happen at home, at school, or abroad.

Here are some creative strategies from Bates faculty and students on how to get started and keep going, whether you’re learning français, Deutsch, or 日本語. Bon voyage! immerse yourself

tell stories

listen to music

Communicating involves speaking, listening, reading, writing, and nonverbal expression. So does learning a new language.

“The best students practice writing by hand, read grammar explanations, listen to audio, practice speaking on their own, practice speaking with others, watch movies in the target language, and even practice acting out verbs or adjectives with their faces and bodies,” says Justine Wiesinger, assistant professor of Asian studies.

Language-learning resources are particularly abundant in libraries, says Associate Professor of German Raluca Cernahoschi.

“All the major newspapers have an online presence.

There are international editions of all major fashion magazines and many more online resources.

“Have a favorite novel?

It’s probably been translated into your new language, too.

The resources are endless and often only a click away.”

Especially when a new language has a different writing system from English, it helps to associate feelings, images, and narratives with concepts you’re learning, says Wiesinger.

In kanji, one of the Japanese writing systems, characters represent things or ideas as opposed to sounds. Research has shown that narratives help with memorization — for example, Wiesinger encourages her students to think of the Japanese character for charcoal, 炭, as made up of symbols that look like a mountain, a cliff, and a fire.

“If you can imagine the shape of the mountains as you climb and the coolness you feel on your skin as you walk out onto a cliff, and then the smell of the charcoal fire you kindle, it will help retain the elements of this character in your mind and help distinguish it from similar characters, such as 岩,” which means rock, Wiesinger says.

“People are wired to remember rhythms and rhymes — song lyrics in a new language can help build vocabulary and grammar,” says Michael Lombardi ‘21 of Kittery, Maine, who tutors Japanese at Bates. “My advice is to find a band you love to listen to in your target language. You’d be surprised by how much variety there is out there!”

keep a language notebook “I like to have a little notebook to write down new vocabulary, grammar paradigms, writing exercises or diary entries in the target language,” says Katherine Ziegler ’19 of Katonah, N.Y., a German minor who tutors Latin at Bates.

“It’s also a nice place to write down any poems or phrases that you like. This helps remind me why I’m learning the new language in the first place.”

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Ancient Latin and Greek are somewhat different from modern languages, says Laurie O’Higgins, Euterpe B. Dukakis Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies — the learning focus is often on reading, rather than speaking and listening.

O’Higgins recommends setting aside quality time with the language. “Give 20 to 30 minutes, six days a week, to learning new forms and vocabulary. Those must be the best 20 to 30 minutes you can spare, when your brain is at its best.

“Have the environment as quiet as is possible. Focus exclusively on saying the words, reading them, and writing them too, if it’s Greek. Then stop.”

Dennis Browne is an associate professor of Russian who’s been learning German for several years.

Browne likes to rehearse personal stories — for example, learning carrelated vocabulary in order to talk about a time his car broke down — and tell the stories to native speakers of German.

“You tell that story and find they don’t use those words in everyday German,” Browne says. “That’s useful because you realize that there are these technical terms, and then the terms people actually use.”

Language learning happens in community, says Professor of Spanish Baltasar FraMolinero.

“You learn a language not speaking to another person but by speaking to two, three, four, five other people. That’s how the process of language acquisition happens.”

Use your own interests, like a favorite book, to learn a language, says Associate Professor of German Raluca Cernahoschi.

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Talk in groups instead of only with individuals, advises Spanish professor Baltasar Fra-Molinero.

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Katherine Ziegler heightens the tech just a little.

“I really like to use sites like Quizlet to learn new vocabulary,” she says.

“Quizlet is a website that allows you to make your own flashcards and then quiz and test yourself in a variety of ways. This is particularly helpful for Latin, which involves a lot of memorization.”

Try to find opportunities “to be immersed in the language,” says Lecturer in Asian Studies Keiko Konoeda.

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But he recommends copying native speakers’ words and forms as much as possible.

“Imitating good syntax, playing with it, feeling it and how it guides your thoughts, is the way to go. It will get you away from word-byword translation, which is silly, wrong, and ineffective, though often hilarious.”

Kirk Read, professor of French and francophone studies, recommends copying native speakers’ words and forms as much as possible.

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“Language learning, the first time you do it, is all about hearing, mimicking, reproducing. No child ever turned to their parent and said, ‘How do I conjugate that verb?’”

Mary Rice-DeFosse, also a professor of French and francophone studies, asks students to “give up total mastery” once they’re at the intermediate level.

“It’s important that students not look up every word and instead begin to get the gist of a reading based on what they think they understand,” she says.

“My job is to provide a safety net as they develop that skill. Eventually, they start to think — and even dream — in French.”

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“Put sticky notes with new vocabulary on furniture and your belongings in your room, listen to a lot of news and podcasts in the language, pick up a few lines from songs and sing them out loud, enjoy any silly language joke you can find,” says Associate Professor of German Jakub Kazecki.

“Because, you know, the German sausage is the Wurst.”

Studying a language like Latin or ancient Greek demands “quality time,” says Laurie O’Higgins, Euterpe B. Dukakis Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies.

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“Learning a new language can be greatly intimidating or even feel embarrassing when you mispronounce or misuse a word,” says Claudia Glickman’19 of London, a student tutor of German.

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What works for you?

German professor Jakub Kazecki taught his students the famous Bates cheer: “Es ist ein schöner Tag Bobcat zu sein!” (It’s a great day to be a Bobcat!).

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We’ve got something for everyone after spending 16 hours following all the action in and around Bates’ biggest academic building

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January 31, 2019 Facing page: Sunrise is still 90 minutes away, but it’s already the dawn of another day in Pettengill Hall.

Research shows that if you ask prospective Bates students what they’re seeking in a college, “great academics” is high on the list.

But their definitions of “great academics” tend to be all over the place, from facilities and class sizes to postgraduate outcomes.

Pettengill Hall on a typical winter day — Jan. 31 — is a 16-hour parade of professors, students, staff, classes, and, yes, dogs.

Designed to spectacular effect by Shepley Bulfinch and dedicated 20 years ago, Pettengill is home to the college’s social sciences — but it’s so much more, and most academic programs use it. Of Bates’ 35 academic majors, 26 of them held courses in Pettengill during the winter semester.

Pettengill’s four levels, plus the Moody Room, contain 70 faculty offices, 15 class and seminar rooms, and eight department or program lounges. Then there’s Perry Atrium, a signature space whose threestory glass wall offers a great view of Lake Andrews. (One look out those windows during a winter snowstorm explains why students call it “the snow globe.”)

Twenty years ago, then-President Don Harward said the design of academic spaces can either “restrict or liberate how well we teach.”

With Pettengill, the result was liberation.

And that’s great academics. — h. jay burns

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Custodian Randy Maxwell cleans a classroom chalkboard.

His shift began at 4 a.m. — four hours before the start of classes, three hours before the dining hall opens for breakfast, and just two hours after Chase Hall closed to students for the night.

For most of the day Maxwell covers the second and third floors, each with two long hallways, a large computer lab,

lounges, offices, and seating areas near the stairs.

But he likes to start on the first floor, vacuuming carpets (which collect buckets of sand each day in the winter) and wiping down chalkboards and tables in the classrooms. His custodial and faculty colleagues will arrive later in the morning.

“I like to give them a good start,” he says.

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This office door belongs to Associate Professor of Anthropology Elizabeth Eames. The bin has a “short prof alert”: Put your delivery in the green folder, or else she won’t see it.

7:21 a.m.

Every...single...day. Associate Professor of History Joe Hall, who lives in Auburn, arrives at Pettengill on his bike.

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“We got a quiet morning, so we decided to go in,” says groundskeeper Jon-Michael Foley, running a water hose to one of two ficus trees that reach two floors high in the three-story atrium.

Foley and horticulturist Michael Fox are preparing to re-soil the trees, possibly for the first time in the 20 years the trees have lived in the atrium.

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the atrium. It’s a moment of tranquility before students arrive for 8 a.m. class. — EM

8:38 a.m.

In Room G52, the large Keck Classroom, Matt Jadud works with Christine Cho ’19 of Novato, Calif., during a course on data visualization.

Jadud, the Colony Family Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies, is team-teaching the course on data visualization with DCS assistant professor Anelise Shrout, and they begin the class by checking their 40 students’ understandings of various programming concepts.

Students work on their laptops, using the programming language Python, then break into pairs to work on their latest assignment: creating animated visualizations of temperature, wind speed, and wind direction data collected

around Lake Auburn last fall by environmental studies professor Holly Ewing.

Meanwhile, up on the third floor, Professor of Psychology Amy Douglass’ psychology and law class is deep in a discussion about Perry v. New Hampshire, a U.S. Supreme Court case that gets at the heart of her research, which shows that eyewitnesses are unreliable, yet their impact on juries is powerful.

Douglass and her students are asking questions about the role of juries in evaluating eyewitness testimony. Indeed, juries often aren’t aware of the phenomenon of eyewitness unreliability.

So why doesn’t every defendant elect a bench trial, in which a judge delivers the verdict instead of a jury? someone asks.

Some kinds of cases require a jury trial, Douglass replies. And juries tend to be more lenient anyway. It depends on the case.

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There’s being asleep, and there’s being awake. Then there’s the fantastical if frustrating in-between, well-known to generations of college students. That’s where Pieter Cory ’22 of Dublin, Calif., is right now. Dozing and studying in Perry Atrium, he’s trying to prepare for a politics class on states and markets.

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Some give in to the lure of the nap. Saylor Strugar ’21 of Boulder, Colo., was taking one in the Lindholm Sociology and Economics Lounge several hours later.

A double major in biochemistry and environmental studies, Strugar hoped the nap would be rejuvenating.

“I’m working up the energy to keep studying.”

9:24 a.m.

The 10 minutes between class sessions in Pettengill are like the tide. Students and faculty spill from classrooms and into stairwells and the atrium, exiting through the front doors or one of many side doors on the first or ground floor.

The next batch of students at first trickles in through the

front doors one or two at a time, heading towards the larger classrooms on the ground floor or the seminar rooms upstairs.

Then it’s a flood. Dozens of students stream across Alumni Walk and into Pettengill. Soon the just-buffed floors are gritty with sand. Perry Atrium echoes with shuffling feet, opening doors, conversations.

Then, just as the clock strikes 8, or 9:30, or 11, silence falls and traffic stops, leaving some students sitting in the atrium or in the stairwell nooks. You can hear the tap of keyboards and the rustle of turning pages. The ding of an elevator. The unzipping of backpacks. The muffled chatter over custodians’ radios.

Quiet good-mornings. — EM

11:21 a.m.

“Our predecessors dutifully kept everything,” says Assistant Dean of the Faculty Kerry O’Brien.

O’Brien is our guide into what’s long been called the “bomb shelter”: a series of underground chambers created in the early 1960s during construction of Lane Hall and a maintenance building where Pettengill Hall now stands.

Stored in one section of the bomb shelter, the files for the Office of the Dean of Faculty include resumes, applications, journal articles, correspondence, grant documentation, course evaluations, event programs, etc., spanning the entire Bates careers of just about everyone who has ever taught here. — DH

11:47 a.m

As if awaiting further instruction, these cranium casts sit on a table in Room G17, the anthropology lab, where they’re used in an introductory course on human evolution.

11:57 a.m.

In Room G21, Lecturer in Anthropology Kristen Barnett sits cross-legged on a table as she teaches a session of “North American Archaeology and Colonial Entanglement.”

The topic is settler colonization, how indigenous peoples were removed and erased from their land so settlers could take over forever.

It’s a difficult topic, she says: “really, really hard.”

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The ebb and flow of Perry Atrium is at an ebb. Natural light illuminates the room, adding to the atrium’s feeling of great openness.

The floor-to-ceiling windows offer a view of the Puddle, coated in a fresh layer of snow.

Students sit and sprawl on couches and chairs, headphones on (or earbuds in), catching up on their reading or editing papers.

Then there’s a faint jingle of metal.

Louder now, a squeaky toy nearby. Then, a clatter of paws and heavy breathing. Chaos ensues. Two small furry bodies fly through the atrium. Jumping onto a couch, they collide, ricochet, and then bound back onto the floor, where they return to their owners.

One is Teddy, academic administrative assistant Catie Moran’s brindle pug. His companion, Coco, belongs to politics professor James Richter. Coco doesn’t come into work every day, but she and Teddy have play dates about once a week.

Several students, including Elise Lambert ’22 of Amherst, N.H., Elise Grossfeld ’21 of Bethesda, Md., and Saylor Strugar ’21 of Boulder, Colo., take a break from their studies to take their phones out and record the dogs’ escapades as they scamper from one end of the room to the other.

“Oh wow, the snorting!” a student exclaims as the pugs happily wheeze about the atrium.

Charlotte Lynskey ’21 of Costa Mesa, Calif., looks up from her statistics homework to watch Teddy and Coco frolic.

“I don’t come here often, I’m more of a Ladd girl,” she says. “But I like it. It’s very bright and open, which elevates my mood.” She adds, “I think I’m going to work here more often.”

After their 15 minutes of playtime is up, Teddy and Coco are put on their leashes and made to say goodbye as they are ushered back to their owners’ offices.

The quiet resumes.

— Eleanor Vance ’21

1:02 p.m.

Earbuds in and laptop open, Ursula Rall ’20 of Kent, Ohio, works on a summer fellowship application on the third-floor landing of Perry Atrium.

1:13 p.m.

In Room 116, a smallish space, 20 or so students have gathered for the class “Black Resistance in U.S. History.”

Leading the class is Andrew Baker, assistant professor of history. He’s an upbeat and energetic teacher who asks the class to break into groups for peer reviews of an assignment in progress — “whatever it takes to get you from Point A to Point B” with the assignment.

Baker’s students sit around a rectangle of tables, a setting that makes plain the impact furniture choices can have on interaction: Tables promote it, while single desks discourage it.

Even with the tables, the physical configurations of the teams reflect the internal dynamics.

The groups whose members can all face each other seem livelier and more productive. In contrast, members of another group are aligned along the table edge, making it harder for the students at either end to take part. — DH

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Ben Pinkham (left) an audiovisual analyst for Information & Library Services, arrives in Room G67 to straighten out a videoconferencing problem affecting a class session of “African Perspectives on Justice, Human Rights, and Renewal.”

The course is team-taught

by Associate Professor of Anthropology Elizabeth Eames and other faculty, including Assistant Professor of History Patrick Otim (right).

The person at the other end of the conference call is Milton Allimadi, a key character in the documentary film A Brilliant Genocide, about the Ugandan government’s campaigns against the country’s Acholi people.

3:17 p.m.

Like all Bates students, psychology students have the opportunity to conduct research, often in a suite of laboratories on Pettengill’s third floor.

Here, Gabe Siegel ’19 of Bethesda, Md., is studying eyewitness identification; in the hallway is fellow psychology major and research assistant Ahimy Soto-Garcia ’21 of Trenton, N.J. The labs have seating and computers for experiment participants. Some have dividing screens so that participants doing solo tasks don’t get distracted, and one has a colorful carpet and toys. There’s also a small observation room, complete with two-way mirrors and cameras.

Research subjects are often fellow students, who participate for credit in psychology classes or a small payment. For this experiment, Siegel asked his classmates to sign up with a friend — once they get there, they’ll go through the tests together or swap partners with another pair. — EM

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By mid-afternoon, most of the tables and chairs in Perry Atrium are occupied. Studying together at a table near the window wall are, from left, first-years J.D. Glenn of Carbondale, Colo., Seren Parikh of Bedford, Mass., and Anna Reaman of Hingham, Mass.

Parikh works on a chemistry assignment involving crystalline structures, Glenn studies for a chemistry test tomorrow, and Reaman watches lacrosse highlight videos.

The three agree that the atrium is a great place to study, right up there with the library.

“It’s really open and comfortable,” Reaman says of the atrium.

“You have the opportunity to look out the window, take a little break.”

Bates administrative hours conclude at 4:30 p.m., but the students follow the circadian rhythms of college life. Among their activities tonight are classes, squash, and a cappella.

They might find themselves back here, late at night. — EM

7:05 p.m.

An economics study session in Room G10 draws, from left, Will Zimmerman ’21 of Weston, Mass., and teaching assistants

Jason Lu of Westborough, Mass., and Andrew Berg of Titusville, Fla., both juniors.

7:55 p.m.

Room G65 is a whirl of nervous energy. Dozens of students have an organic chemistry test tomorrow, and the twice-weekly Peer Assisted Learning session is jam-packed.

Packets of handouts and worksheets with diagrams of various carbon-based molecules are available. “They’re my lifesaver,” says Sofia Esquibies ’21 of Rocky Hill, Conn.

Some students work on them solo, earbuds in; others confer in groups. Student PAL leaders circulate to answer questions — the sessions are meant to be noncompetitive and inclusive, promoting learning strategies as well as course content.

Pettengill’s flexible classroom spaces were designed for moments like this. “People can sit around tables and actually work with each other,” says PAL leader Nathan Frederick ’19 of Orono, Maine.

Ernestine Whitaker ’20, a PAL student leader from San Luis Obispo, Calif., checks in with a group. “It’s going,” Brittany Seipp ’21 of Glen Head, N.Y., tells her.

Jag Lally ’20 of Yuba City,

Calif., offers them some advice for the exam: “Get a lot of rest, eat well, know the mechanics — don’t memorize them, but understand them.” — EM

8:17 p.m.

In various ways, such as notes left behind in study spaces, students and faculty show their appreciation to custodian Franky Urueta. He keeps some of these mementos on his cart, others in a room near G65.

He likes working the late shift on the Pettengill’s ground floor — the schedule permits him to take his kids to and from school. Right now, he’s cleaning the floor with a scrubber, pausing to give his signature fist bump to passing students.

Urueta tries to make all students feel welcome, especially international students.

“They have come in from far away,” he says. “I like to make them comfortable here, a second house for them.”

When Urueta’s shift ends at midnight, he’ll go to the students who are still in the building. He’ll tell them he’s leaving and to have a good night.

“Before you leave, please turn out the lights. Be careful outside.

“See you tomorrow.” — EM n

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PLAYING Bates photographers share their favorite photographs — but maybe not their “best” — of 2018 Each year, the Bates Communications photographers gather and present online their favorite photographs of the past year.

As he went about his compilation, photographer Theophil Syslo asked, “What makes a photograph your favorite? The photo you feel is your best? And, what is ‘best’”?

Subjectively or objectively, this year’s favorites aren’t necessarily Syslo and Phyllis Graber Jensen’s “best” images.

In fact, if you check out the whole gallery at bates.edu/2018-favorites, you’ll see that Syslo chose a Bates football action shot as one of his favorites.

It’s wonderful — but out of focus. He explains why he chose it, musing about the magic and frustrations of modern camera technology.

Which means that in choosing these images as favorites, the photographers are showing us what any creative person does when trying to create and, importantly, present effective work. It’s a process that comes down to “what to leave in, what to leave out,” as Bob Seger sang.

“You try to let your creativity take the lead,” says Graber Jensen, an approach that yields thousands of photographs every year. “And then you make your choices.”

More photo favorites bates.edu/2018-favorites

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I N THE SW I N G When I last photographed him, back in mid-January 2018, Tommy Sheils ’21 was swinging on a hammock outside Gomes Chapel. Two months later, spring-like temperatures drew him outdoors once again, offering an Admission tour an optimistic glimpse of March in Maine as Sheils soaked up the sun. “It’s a beautiful day at the beach,” he said.

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B UM P I N T H E NI G HT Here’s a saying: Make your own luck. You can prepare as much as you want, visualize what you want to capture, and believe you’re doing what is the best — and then accidentally bump your tripod during a long, 8-second exposure and, to your surprise, create something better.

The photograph I took before this frame was exactly what I envisioned; there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it.

But for me, the accidental jostling of the tripod added another element to this image of a Hathorn Hall window framed by the famed magnolia tree, and gave it an art quality that the other photographs in the sequence lacked. — TS

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Commencement is like the Super Bowl or World Cup of photo assignments at a college.

I’ve had the opportunity to work/intern/freelance for several newspapers in my photojournalism career, all of which had me cover all types of graduations: high school, college, culinary school, police and fire training, and even a Marine Corps ceremony at Parris Island.

So, covering my first Bates Commencement, I was all in, aiming to do something different from my normal coverage. At one point during the event, I used the power granted me as one of the college’s photographers, taking to the back of the Coram stage (discreetly, of course) to make some frames from this different and distinctive perspective. — TS

CATCHIN G T HE CATCH “What’s that lens for? Looking at Mars?”

When sports fans see a photographer with a huge lens, they ask how far you can see with it, how much it weighs, and what brand it is. Let’s just say it’s big and heavy (about 12 pounds), it only gets heavier the longer you hold it, and it can see pretty far. What I’m most certain of is that it’s a 400mm 2.8 Canon lens — and it’s beautiful.

What I like most about this photograph is that I didn’t need to crop it much to fill the frame: just a little bit off the top. Bates catcher Jack Arend ’20 of Newfields, N.H., is diving very close to me and I’m still “follow focusing” with a ginormous lens. Great catch, great shot. — TS Spring 2019

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PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN D OW N B UT N OT O UT S ET T I NG FOR SI B L IN GS I saw this scene as a I passed a Kalperis Hall room on move-in day for the Class of 2022.

On the bed, Anders Landgren, age 15, is taking what I am sure was a well-deserved rest after he and his sibling Lizzie, age 8, had helped big sister Anna ’22 settle into her new digs.

For me, this is the kind of family picture (Anders lounging as the sisters bustle about) that speaks to the future. As the years go by, their collective memory of his help that morning might just fade away. Decades from now, I can imagine a certain nostalgia as the threesome reviews their sibling dynamic. — PGJ

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At this point in the Bobcats’ first home squash match of the season, Benni Magnusson McComish ’20 of Williamstown, Mass., trailed his opponent but still had a chance to win, and his teammate McLeod Abbott ’19 of Bronxville, N.Y., is making full-court press to help McComish mount a comeback.

I didn’t overhear their exchange, but what I saw was hope and camaraderie under stress.

While McComish did not win his match, the Bates team did, giving the Bobcats’ their 29th straight win over Bowdoin. — PGJ

N O RA’ S E Y E I hadn’t met resident artist Nora Chipaumire when I barged into her late-afternoon rehearsal.

As I photographed her watching Bates dancers from the foot of the Schaeffer Theatre stage, I sensed that the Zimbabwean choreographer, whose work merges the personal and the political, would allow me to get close, really close.

A 35mm f1.4 prime lens allowed me to focus on just one of her eyes. She didn’t bat an eyelash, and I ended up with what I had hoped for. Is it an intimate portrait or an invasion of personal space? Both? You decide. — PGJ n

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Gillian Coyne ’19 (left) works with Alice Kopij, staff attorney for the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, in the organization’s Lewiston office.

When Gillian Coyne ’19 of New York City started as a language interpreter at meetings between French-speaking asylum seekers and their potential lawyers, she learned to be prepared for anything.

“You have no idea what sort of case you’re getting, what stage of the process they’re in, where they’re from, what their story is,” she says. “You just have to interpret as you go along.”

She is one of a group of French and francophone studies students at Bates who volunteer to provide a key service to the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, which gives free and low-cost legal services to new Mainers.

Many of ILAP’s clients need language interpreters during those meetings, which are often the start of a lengthy process to gain asylum in the United States.

“Language is fundamental to everything that we do here, in terms of being able to communicate with clients and create a welcoming space,” says Alice Kopij, an ILAP staff attorney who runs the Lewiston office of the Portland-based organization.

But “as a small nonprofit agency, it can be hard to afford language services,” she says. Bates students “help us save our resources to provide legal services, but we still get high-quality interpreting.”

While Bates students have interned or volunteered with ILAP for years, the partnership with French students began in 2015, when Professor of French and Francophone

Studies Alexandre Dauge-Roth taught a course called “Borders and Disorders in French and Francophone Literature and Film,” which explored migration and identity in the French-speaking world.

For the course’s Purposeful Work infusion component — in which professors are encouraged to make connections between the course material and the real world — Dauge-Roth invited ILAP executive director Susan Roche to tell the class about the organization’s work.

The students learned that people often come to ILAP for help seeking asylum, a status under which an applicant can stay in the U.S. if they fear persecution in their home country.

In Lewiston, many asylum seekers come from francophone countries like Djibouti, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi. Some speak very little English; others can understand and speak English but need interpreters to help them grasp complex legal concepts and ensure that their own stories are clear.

In some instances, like court proceedings or medical appointments, interpreters need a formal certification. Bates students don’t need to be certified to interpret for lawyer-client meetings, but they still must follow a set of ethical standards.

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“As an interpreter, you are being trusted with someone’s story in a way that is incredibly intimate and profound.”

skills development and language services manager for the Immigrant Resource Center of Maine.

Before coming to Bates, Abdi trained and managed interpreters for a variety of circumstances, from school meetings and medical appointments to community events.

He’d teach a range of considerations.

For example, interpreters should use first-person pronouns. They should also be aware of differences in dialect — people from Somalia and neighboring Djibouti both speak Somali, but certain words and phrases have different meanings in each country. What happens in a meeting has to stay confidential — no relating information to others, even without the client’s name attached.

And though an interpreter might come from the same background as a client, or be moved by a client’s story, it’s critically important to be impartial.

“The interpreter might feel himself or herself in the story of the client, and that’s what we don’t like to see,” Abdi says. “You have to pull yourself off the story and convey the message that the person is saying.”

The Bates students had the requisite language skills to interpret during ILAP client meetings — they grew up speaking French, took French courses at Bates, or studied in French-speaking countries.

And francophone studies covers a lot more than the French language. With the French colonial legacy encompassing places in North and West Africa, the Caribbean and North America, francophone cultural production “is a lot about multiple identities, migration, displacement, various forms of racial, economic, and gender inequalities and discrimination,” Dauge-Roth says.

Dauge-Roth selected students with the language skills and cultural competency to interpret. At the time, ILAP didn’t have an office in Lewiston; staff attorney Meg Moran traveled to the Lewiston Adult Education Center once a week to consult with asylum seekers. (Moran now works at a legal services firm in Boston.)

Gillian Coyne, who started interpreting during her sophomore year, says she quickly picked up legal terminology in French and English, but she also came to understand her own power as an interpreter.

“As an interpreter, you are being trusted with someone’s story,” she says. “You’re being trusted with someone’s words in a way that is incredibly intimate and profound and leaves the person who is telling

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you their story in a vulnerable position.

“That leaves you in a position of incredible power, in a position where you really need to pay attention because this person is telling you all of the horrible things they’ve suffered, what they’ve gone through, any persecution. It’s up to you to be able to relay that story and do it justice.”

Gradually, Coyne and some of her classmates began to do more than interpret.

During her junior year, Coyne interned with Berman and Simmons, a Maine law firm that works closely with ILAP. Asylum seekers have to prove that they fear persecution in their home country due to a protected status like religion or political opinion, and that the government of that country can’t protect them — criteria that require a lot of documentation.

Once ILAP has evaluated an asylum seeker’s case, a staff attorney may represent them through the legal process, or they might be referred to a network of pro bono attorneys, including several at Berman and Simmons.

Coyne and her fellow interns would research the conditions in asylum seekers’ home countries and look for French-language social media posts and news reports that could back up an individual’s claim.

In the meantime, ILAP’s presence in Lewiston grew. In April, the organization opened a full-time office, with Kopij at the helm, expanding the range of legal services and outreach it can provide. It also hired a certified court interpreter.

“Providing translation services makes clients feel welcome and makes clients feel they can express themselves,” Kopij says. Bates students, she says, “bring professionalism, confidentiality. I can count on them.”

Through the Purposeful Work internship program, Coyne is working as an intern at the new office. She schedules Bates interpreters, provides interpretation at community workshops, and does country research and some paralegal tasks.

Coyne says her internships at Berman and Simmons and ILAP have sparked an interest in law school and strengthened her resolve to work with migrants in the francophone world.

“It’s given me so much more direction on the work environment that I want to find myself in, the type of people that I want to work with in a professional environment, and the people that I want to work with on a more global scale,” she says. n

“Accuracy and impartiality are two big things when you are working as an interpreter,” says Hamza Abdi, a Bates academic administrative assistant who has trained and managed interpreters for a variety of circumstances.

Gillian Coyne ’19 started interpreting during her sophomore year, and quickly came to understand her own power as an interpreter.

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A French course taught by Alexandre Dauge-Roth led to Bates students becoming translators for the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project in Lewiston.

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Facing page: Providence College’s St. Dominic Chapel features this stainedglass depiction of Sister Teresa Chicaba, whose life story resonates with Black Catholics today.

Two Bates scholars explain how Sister Teresa Chicaba, who went from slavery to venerated nun in 18th-century Spain, made her voice heard by emily mcconville Sometime in the 1740s in Salamanca, Spain, an aging Dominican nun sat down with a priest to tell him her life story.

Sister Teresa Chicaba was not an ordinary nun.

Born in West Africa, she had been kidnapped at a young age, enslaved in Spain, and ultimately freed in order to join a religious community, where her extraordinary piety made her fellow nuns believe they had a saint in their midst.

Her interviewer, Father Juan Carlos Miguel de Paniagua, was gathering details of her life in order to write a hagiography, a kind of spiritual biography supporting the cause of sainthood.

Teresa Chicaba understood the stakes of such an interview, say two Bates professors, Sue Houchins and Baltasar Fra-Molinero, who have studied Chicaba’s life for two decades. The Spanish priest had the power to validate this African woman’s spiritual experiences to European audience.

Chicaba also understood that in a hagiography, the details of her life — including her upbringing in “pagan” Africa and the abject brutality of her enslavement — would be in service of a narrative that put her in a greater union with God and further glorified the Catholic Church.

And she knew that, ultimately, Paniagua would have full editorial control over her life story.

“She was a literate woman,” says Fra-Molinero, a professor of Spanish. “She knew what was going to happen after her death. She’s telling him her life with the idea of, ‘I know you’re going to write whatever you want about me.’”

In 2018, Houchins, an associate professor of African American studies, and Fra-Molinero, a professor of Spanish, published Black Bride of Christ, the first English translation of the hagiography Paniagua wrote.

The book includes a comprehensive introduction that pools the two Bates professors’ expertise in Spanish, Africana studies, religious studies, and gender and sexuality studies to explain the complex world in which Sor Teresa Chicaba lived and became a candidate for sainthood.

The Bates professors’ work raises questions that have implications from literary scholarship to pop culture: what stories do we tell, who gets to tell them, and how do the subjects of stories, especially if they lack power in their societies, make their voices heard?

Chicaba was born in the 1670s in a West African region known as La Mina Baja del Oro, which comprises parts of present-day Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria.

Kidnapped and enslaved by Portuguese slavers at a young age, she was baptized, renamed Teresa, and raised in a noblewoman’s house in Madrid.

“She knew what was going to happen after her death.”

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Detail from Providence College’s St. Dominic Chapel’s stained glass.

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Though the noblewoman treated her as a sort of companion, hers was “not a soft life,” Houchins says. Other members of the household physically abused her, leaving injuries that she still remembered in old age. The threat of sexual assault was ever-present.

Paniagua, in the hagiography, “claims that she was privileged,” Houchins says. “She learned to read and write. But the book also gives you enough of a sense that she was a slave, that she lived in the slave quarters.

“We think she did a certain amount of labor, but we know that she must have been treated differently enough so that other servants disliked her.”

In her will, the noblewoman freed Chicaba and set aside money so that she could become a nun — at that time, most convents required the payment of a dowry. Chicaba’s freedom, however, was incomplete.

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Chicaba’s piety “must have seemed even more special because she was a Black woman,” says Sue Houchins, associate professor of African American studies.

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“In a slave society, the freedom of those who have been slaves is always problematic,” Fra-Molinero says. “What were the chances of a free Black woman in a city like Madrid in the early 18th century? The choices were few.”

Most religious communities, in fact, rejected Chicaba because of her skin color. Ultimately, a Dominican convent in Salamanca accepted her, but even then, the nuns did not fully welcome her into the community. They subjected her to menial tasks and did not even allow her to take formal vows to become a nun, though Chicaba considered herself fully in union with Christ. She became well-known in Salamanca for her spiritual counsel and healing abilities.

“Besides the gifts she had for curing and for counseling, she exhibited a kind of piety that made her very, very special,” Houchins says. “It must have seemed even more special because she was a Black woman.”

Those details, of course, come primarily from the hagiography written by Paniagua, who had his own motivations for writing about Chicaba. True, he wanted to help her become a saint, but perhaps more importantly, he wanted to support the canonization cause of a fellow priest, who had been Chicaba’s confessor.

“One of the ways to canonize someone was by promoting the causes of everyone around them,” Fra-Molinero says. If Paniagua’s fellow priest had mentored such a saintly woman, surely it was evidence of the priest’s own saintliness.

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A more modern and romantic depiction of Sister Teresa Chicaba, this oil painting is at the Convento de las Duenas, a Dominican convent in Salamanca, Spain.

“ There are no other hagiographies like this in the Catholic tradition, in which the story of enslavement is so central,” says Professor of Spanish Baltasar Fra-Molinero.

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Hagiographies tend to be highly metaphorical and symbolic, and Chicaba’s is no different.

For example, the brutality of Chicaba’s enslavement is recast as an example of Christ-like suffering. And, as is typical of Christian stories about non-Christian places, Paniagua “Christianizes” elements of her early life in West Africa.

The hagiography also says she came from royalty, a tactic to counter the low social status of her enslavement. Her dream of a woman and child is cast as a vision of the Virgin Mary and Jesus and a “betrothal” to the latter.

And, once she is in Spain, the hagiography tells us that Chicaba learns that her parents have converted to Catholicism, retroactively giving her the Christian ancestry she needs to become a saint.

The requirements of hagiography, Paniagua’s political considerations, and the disadvantages of Chicaba’s race and gender could serve to mute her

voice — and some argue that they do. In Black Bride of Christ, however, Houchins and Fra-Molinero suggest that Chicaba was able to “[finesse] some small control over the recounting of her story through her notes, her selective memory, and her analysis of particular events she makes available to the priest.”

In other words, they argue that Chicaba speaks through the text.

In great detail Chicaba told Paniagua about the brutality of her enslavement in the noblewoman’s house — so much so that Houchins and Fra-Molinero argue that the hagiography is an early slave narrative, an important literary genre that emerged in the decades after Chicaba’s death.

“There are no other hagiographies like this in the Catholic tradition, in which the story of enslavement is so central,” Fra-Molinero says.

The abuse she suffered was not at the hands of enemies of the Catholic faith, but by fellow Catholics, yet those details appear in the hagiography anyway. That such an indictment of the Church and its adherents appears in a work of religious literature is Chicaba’s doing, the professors argue.

“These acts are in plain daylight, and [committed by] people from the system,” Fra-Molinero says.

“That is where we find her voice. She succeeds in telling us, ‘My life was hell, and these were the culprits.’”

Today, Chicaba is considered “venerable” in the Catholic Church, a few steps removed from sainthood.

Houchins has noticed that Chicaba’s life story — as Chicaba helped tell it — resonates among Black Catholics, and among growing numbers of nuns of color.

“I go and give a paper, and someone says, ‘I have to show you something,’” Houchins says. “They take me to a downtown Catholic church, and there is a side altar with Chicaba’s picture. She already has people devoted to her.

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class president Nelson “Bud” Horne budhorne@gmail.com In Chautauqua, N.Y., Bud Horne ran/walked the 2.7-mile Old First Night Run/Walk and won his category. “Winterizing home in Chautauqua and staying yearround,” he adds.

1950 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 Who, What, Where, When?

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

1938 class secretary Marion Welsch Spear

1940 class secretary Leonard Clough leonard.clough@yahoo.com Leonard Clough celebrated his 99th birthday. “Still in good health but getting low on energy. My four years at Bates were some of my happiest and prepared me for the years that followed.” He enjoys life at a retirement home in West Hartford, Conn….Charles Parker and Lorraine celebrated their 73rd anniversary. He was still driving, dining out, and shopping. “I have deteriorated considerably but manage to contribute to daily household chores.”

1941 co-presidents Elizabeth Gardner Margaret Rand alpegrand@aol.com

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He got involved with Habitat 30 years ago, shortly before retiring as a computer services coordinator for the Leominster School District. He is seen as the “poster guy” for volunteering, he said, because he has continued to help over the years. This has included painting homes and serving as the affiliate’s treasurer for 12 years. He and his late wife, Arline Sinclair Finch, raised five biological children, including Joanne Finch Tulonen ’70, and four foster children.

1946 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Helen Pratt Clarkson hclarkson1@juno.com class president/treasurer Jane Parsons Norris janenorris@roadrunner.com Gary Richardson ’75 writes to ask if any alumni from the classes of 1946 to 1950 knew his grandmother, Caroline Vance Richardson, “or better still, lived in Milliken House while she was the house director. I’m writing to ask for any stories or folklore that can be shared. We’re not quite sure how Caroline wound up at Bates, but we’re fairly certain she made an impression on everyone she met. In later years, my cousin Carol Richardson (’76) my brother Kip (’79), and I all matriculated at Bates, never realizing that Gramma Carol had beat us to it!” Gary’s email: gar3131@msn.com; phone: 401465-8809

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Reunion 2020, June 12–14

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class secretary Carleton Finch cfinch612@gmail.com

class secretary/treasurer Jean Labagh Kiskaddon jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com

In Fitchburg, Mass., the Sentinel & Enterprise caught up with Carleton “Zeke” Finch, a founding member of the North Central Massachusetts Habitat for Humanity and its longest-serving volunteer. “It’s always been part of my life to do things for other people,” he said. “I can’t escape from being involved with something for some reason.”

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class president Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com Lois Keniston Penney lost husband Hugh on Nov. 12, 2017.

“I miss him, but have adjusted to my loss with the help of our large family and several new great-grandchildren. Helen Papaioanou (’49) lives here and is doing well with the assistance of a friend who is a great help in so many ways.”

1951 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Dorothy “Dot” Webb Quimby dwquimby@unity.edu class co-presidents Bill Dill wmrdill@gmail.com Jean McLeod Dill Robert J. Carpenter and his wife Elsa Buschner Carpenter ’52 passed away within 20 days of each other, Elsa on Dec. 17, 2018, and Bob on Jan. 6, 2019. Their obituaries will be in the next issue. Survivors include granddaughter Sarah Vigne Covie ’12, who is married to Ali Cornforth Covie ’12. “This devastating loss has made us even more fond of the true Bates connection that runs in both of our families, and we were glad to be with family over the holidays,” they wrote….

Rob and Jane Seaman Wilson are happy to greet each new day as it arrives. “Jane is still painting up a storm, and I am probably signed for too many activities. I serve on the board of a private school here in Santa Fe, have been a volunteer consultant with SCORE for 10 years. I’m also taking an online course in creative writing from the Iowa Writing School, and am writing a historical novel about the Missouri River in the 1870s. Outside of that not much going on here.”

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class secretary Marilyn Coffin Brown mcbrown13@verizon.net

class president Vivienne Sikora Gilroy vgilroy@verizon.net

class president John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net

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Carol Hollingworth Collins still corrects the English on papers to be published by her collegues at the Institute of Chemistry of the State Univ. of Campinas in Brazil, but doesn’t write them anymore.

“Keeps the brain awake. Also watch a lot of BBC and CNN International (whose content bears no relationship to the CNN channel in the U.S.).”…Marshall Solomon would love to talk to classmates: 561-998-5773 in Florida or in the summer at 781593-9066. “Perhaps we can get together to relive the old days.”

1953 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Ronald Clayton rondot@comcast.net class co-presidents Virginia LaFauci Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Richard F. Coughlin dcoughlin@maine.rr.com

Don Peck ’53 went trail hiking in Zion National Park. “Level, OK; downhill, easy; uphill, can’t say it here.”

Chuck Fischer does lots of watercolors. “Had a big show couple of months ago — sold a few. Otherwise, as I say. ‘doing the best I can with what I have to work with.’”…Don Peck really enjoyed the Reunion and time with classmates. In October he went trail hiking with his daughters and son in Zion National Park. “Level, OK; downhill, easy; uphill, can’t say it here.”…Pat Scheuerman Pfeiffer’s latest play, fish, will appear in the Lights Up Festival at City Lights Theater in San Jose, Calif. Researched under a Writers Guild Fellowship, the fact-based drama portrays three young boys, one a Vietnamese refugee, caught in the crossfire of the shrimp wars on Galveston Bay. It captures the initial hostility faced by most new immigrants in the U.S.

1954 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary/treasurer Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com class president Dwight Harvie dwightwharvie@gmail.com We have learned of the sad passing of Joanne Waldo Bixby on April 1, 2018, in Norton, Mass.

Husband William writes, “Bates meant a lot to her,” and was instrumental in guiding her sons to pursue college and to pursue her further studies. Joanne was one of the very few women graduating from the Colgate Rochester Divinity School “who would ulti-

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mately fulfill the duties normally offered only to men.”…From Tlalnepantla, Mexico, Mildred Browne deCastellanos enjoys hearing from Bates through the class letters “that are important to me!” She misses the “close friends that are no longer with us.”…Bob Greenberg keeps “as busy as our bodies allow.” He and Pat (Tobey ’57) get to Maine and family when they can from their home in Williamstown, Mass….

Class Secretary Jonas Klein meets often with Class President Dwight Harvie for lunch, the conduct of class business, and sharing oft-repeated stories of Bates, friends, careers, and families. Dwight lives in Portland and Jo in neighboring Falmouth, and that provides ample opportunity to meet or to motor to Lewiston for Reunion and Homecoming, and to stroll around campus and meet with alumni staff….The irrepressible Bill and Carolann McKesson Laird write that “distance makes the Lairds grow fonder!” In a Franklin, Tenn., retirement and assisted-living community, the Lairds “thank God for smart phones” to keep in touch with far-flung children….

Bruce McIntyre waxes poetic about talented granddaughters and their exciting lives….From hurricane-threatened South Carolina, Ted Thoburn reports they escaped those challenges while weathering major health issues….

After visits to Madrid, Spain, Stow, Vt., and visits with her granddaughter and two greatgrands, Nancy Leland Towne stays busy with volunteering at her church council for the aging….From Kennewick, Wash., Ginger Buhl Vetrano reports she and Jim ’51 cruised up the New England coast in glorious autumn. They’re “healthy and having fun.”

1955 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net Helen Anderson Prothero lost husband Dick on Jan. 5, 2018, after a debilitating bout with Parkinson’s. They were married 61 years, with five children and nine grandchildren….

Peter Davis still practices law in Holliston, Mass., “although I am not particularly busy, keeping in mind a lot of travel and skiing.”…

Ruth Haskins Bass attended graduation at Bates for grandson Sam Bass ’18, who is now in graduate school at Columbia. She also visited with Dave Wyllie in Belgrade and Priscilla Hatch Stred in Hallowell….Bev Hayne Willsey focuses on two Bates highs in 2018: Grandson Dan Willsey ’18 graduated, and Bev and Lynn ’54 welcomed a new granddaughter, Teagan, who was adopted by son Jamie ’89 and wife Cyndi. Teagan has two brothers still at Bates, Mitch ’20 and Camden ’21….In South Carolina, Will Hills and Lil felt fortunate when the eye of

Hurricane Florence passed near them and they got only a little wind and rain….Hal Hunter wrote with deeply sad news. He lost both his wife and daughter to cancer in 2017….Calvin Jodat enjoyed a great family reunion with Dorothy’s family….Caroline Keiger enjoys a quiet life. “Play bridge, involved in Senior Center, read, read, read.”…Melvin King took up writing at 79 and recently published his third book, Journey Through Hell Almost To Heaven, a novel about a young doctor’s experiences during the Civil War….Jim Leamon and wife Nicci maintain their old house in Casco. Occasionally he’s invited to give a talk on some aspect of the American Revolution in Maine….Silver Moore-Leamon writes, “Thanks to the good offices of Jessie Thompson Huberty ’56, The Goose hosted a mini-reunion with three of our four senior class roommates, missing only Sue Ordway Pfaltz. Bruce Morrison, Dodie Cosimini, Ralph Davis, and a couple other assorted characters weren’t even asked for IDs!”…

Sue Ordway Pfaltz is grateful to be well and living with her partner on the “farm” in central Virginia, 14 miles from Shenandoah National Park, where she hikes and camps….Sally Perkins Poland and Ted enjoy life in Ocean Park, Maine, a Chautauqua community bustling with activity in summer and close to deserted in winter. “We’re ready for each when it arrives!” They were delighted to have Marlene (Haskell) and Bob Hefferman join them for worship and a long lunch….Mert Ricker enjoyed recent visits to campus, including a luncheon for veterans, a great barbecue, a fine Bates improv group, and an outstanding Dahlov Ipcar exhibition at the museum….

Roger TannerThies is in his 20th year of substitute teaching in all subjects at the local high school. “My wish for now is to live long enough to see America return to democracy.”

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 Fred Huber spent over five months at Moosehead Lake where he’s had a place for 40-plus years. “Classmate Kirk Watson on one side and fellow Outing Club pal Reid Pepin ’55 on the other. Lost Reid in 2017.

Goes with the time gone by, I guess. All y’all come up and see us sometime. Open all year for fun of one kind or another!”…

Having a great time in their retirement community, Elise Reichert Stiles and Phill started another recorder group. She teaches pottery classes, tutors

a child from El Salvador, and both do a lot for their shrinking church….Marcia Rosenfeld Baker writes, “All is well in Vermont as we face yet another strange weather year. Green grass and melting snow banks!

Bill enjoys shoveling and is hoping for more of the same. I enjoy my knitting and books — 130 read in 2018, a new record?

May 2019 be a better year for all.”…Franklin Smith is still at dialysis three days a week.

“Gave up driving a year ago.

Enjoy Minneapolis area with two sons and four grands.”…

Jessie Thompson Huberty writes, “As the Maasai said to Robert Redford in Out of Africa, ‘God is great.’ At 84 I am still able to enjoy life in the semi-fast lane, living and learning from continued travel and from my 12-year-old grandsons Nick and George, who live with me. From a birthday in Shanghai, to a royal wedding in Windsor, to playing gin rummy into the night in Madrid, life carries me along and I cherish every minute. Thank you, Dr. John Willis, for Cultch which started it all.”

1957 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 email coordinator Douglas Campbell dougcamp@comcast.net co-secretaries Wilma Gero Clapham claphamwilma@bell.net Margaret Leask Olney pegolney@verizon.net Marion Glennie Olsen visited her best high school friend in Alaska as she had recently lost her partner. “It was fun but I think I have done enough travel for this lifetime. Ablutions of an 83-year-old are more easily performed at home sweet home.”...Judy Kent Patkin’s oldest grandchild graduates from college this year and another grandchild starts. “It’s great to watch them grow up. I wish the world were in better shape for them.”…Judy Root Wilcox looked forward to seeing Charlie and Wendy Sanborn for lunch along with Pepi Prince Upton….

Bill Ryall enjoyed seeing classmates at the Mystic (Conn.) mini-reunion. He and Edie will celebrate their 60th in 2019. They were in Hawaii with brother Larry ’62 and wife Shirley before the eruptions — “good timing!”…Bob Williams is doing better after a long rehab due to a rupture of the left quad and a broken arm. He’s facing an aortic valve replacement in the future.

1958 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com class president Peter Post postp@gmail.com

Coe Jenkins Huckabee ’58 goes ballroom dancing.

“My teacher-partner is the same age as one grandson. Second childhood? Could be, but c’est la vie!”

Coe Jenkins Huckabee plays cello with the Ohio Wesleyan Chamber Orchestra and goes ballroom dancing. “My teacherpartner is the same age as one grandson. Second childhood?

Could be, but c’est la vie!”…Kay Johnson Howells and Mike enjoy time in Hawaii and Salt Lake City, and also in Redwood City, Calif., which allows visits with roommate Marilyn Miller Gildea….Marilyn Gildea’s post-cancer-surgery checkups continue to be negative. “I still urge friends to have an annual checkup and to report everything to their doctor.”…Donald Moses, who has semi-retired, and Sally Dean Moses ’60 soon will reside full time in Vermont.

They look forward to skiing, fishing, and sailing. Sally still has the responsibility for their real estate business, but spends her spare time with Oriental brush painting and watercolors. Younger son Erik ’87 is a supply-chain management executive with Nature’s Bounty health products….In Fayetteville, N.C., Wendell Small Jr. says Hurricane Florence forced them to evacuate. That and the California fires reminded him of the fires that surrounded Biddeford in October 1947. “I was a petrified boy of 12 watching my uncle’s truck being prepared to remove us if the back woods ignited.”…Jerome Stanbury, a retired lawyer, lives in Annapolis, Md. His hobby is sailing….Jo Trogler Reynolds is back ringing in a handbell ensemble at the community church in Tinmouth, Vt. Grant ’57 is busy serving on the district school board. Both are opera fans and go to lots of concerts….Bruce Young took a fantastic Viking River cruise on the Rhine, visiting several places where he spent time 60 years ago while serving in the Army.

He’s booked a cruise on the Danube for October.

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 ridgemiller313@gmail.com

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media outlet: The Washington Post

headline:

Failure is just a pit stop to success

takeaway: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again The Washington Post included the latest book

by Mary Morton Cowan ’61 in its selection of four children’s books that “show the upside of failures.”

Named a 2019 Best STEM Book by the National Science Teachers Association, Cowan’s Cyrus Field’s Big Dream tells the story of Field, who spearheaded the 19th-century effort to lay a telegraph cable from Newfoundland to Ireland — only to see it break down just a few weeks after going live.

Books like Cowan’s, says the Post’s Abby McGanney Nolan, look at failures in terms of “the lessons they teach, the toughness they develop, and the new paths they create.”

As Cowan told another reviewer, “I’d like young readers to realize that they too can dream, can aspire to achieve lofty goals, and with perseverance, can achieve them.”

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Bev Husson Callender and Will ’58 moved to a smaller house in South Portland. They enjoy reading and “inkagraphing,” for which they secured a trademark; Will takes photographs and Bev inks them. They mourn the loss of Bev’s friend Eileen McGowan Guthrie. They get together with her husband El Guthrie, and also see Carol Heldman Flynn and Jack ’60, Audrey Kilbourne Flanagan and Jim, Joan Perry Smith, Pauline and Ross Deacon, and Joan Scott Candelmo ’61 and Phil ’60….In Connecticut, Alan Coykendall sails in races in Niantic, attends high-speed driving schools, and demonstrates airbags. He drives folks to medical appointments at slower speeds and does some political work. Betty Drum Coykendall is the official Farmington historian, helping the two museums in town….Jack and Jane Lysaght DeGange are “three years into the rest of our lives,” living independently at The Woodlands in Lebanon, N.H. “The phrase ‘aging in place’ is new to us and it’s an inevitable reality. What the ‘place’ may be depends on you.

For us, we didn’t lose friends but gained many new ones.”…Burt Harris and Shirley now live in Florida full time, but her love for travel keeps them on planes and ships at least two months a year.

“After 58 years I finally learned that protesting is not productive.

No one ever accused me of being a quick learner.”…Tom Johnson, retired from a Fortune 500 as a lobbyist, and his wife of 58 years share time between St. Augustine, Fla., and Broad Brook, Conn.

“Hydrocephalus (used to call it water on the brain) interrupted my life as not avid but rabid golfer. I actually got paid to take folks golfing.”…Anita Kastner Hotchkiss still practices law but not so much. “About four years ago, I decided the ‘other side of my brain’ needed more exercise and I began taking courses at Rutgers. Fast forward — I’m supposed to graduate in May (yet again) with a double major in art history and Italian. Hoping to someday translate simple books from Italian to English. I’m loving it.”…Jack Keigwin writes, “As I get older, the more I think about our class and our time at Bates. I am looking forward to our 60th Reunion, hoping that as many ’59ers as possible will attend!”…Howie Kunreuther is teaching his last two classes on risk analysis and environmental management this spring at Penn’s Wharton School, but will continue as co-director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center.

He and Gail have traveled with Frank Holz ’60 and his wife to the Baltics and Southern Africa….

Chris Miller is “still on my pins and playing pickleball twice a week, and lap swimming during the week.”…Joan Perry Smith says Bates and the friends she made there are still a huge part of her life. She communicates at least once a week with roommates Sabe Scoville Vacca,

Jeanette McDonald Topham, and Casey Parker Ward….Don Reese quit after 30 years on the planning and zoning board, 10 with CASA, five with Forest Society. “Now I just fool around full time. Delight (Harmon ’61) only lets me fly drones after eight ultralight crashes by her count.

Most of them I walked away from and some I could even use the plane again, so my count is lower.”…Michael Vartabedian and Betty moved to Chicago to share time with family including two grandchildren. A member of the Illinois Bar, he says “law practice and the children help curtail the passage of time for us.”

1960 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Louise Hjelm Davidson l.davidson@sbcglobal.net class president Dean Skelley dskelley@satx.rr.com Don Beal and Marcia celebrated 50 years of marriage. He’s chair of both the Holland (Mass.)

Zoning Board and the Pastor Parish Relations Committee at the Charlton City Methodist Church….Jerry Feitelberg and companion Ila Loeb travel widely….In Mansfield, Mass., Sandra Folcik Levine is involved in town government and serves on the executive boards of the Rotary Club and the Massachusetts Music and Arts Society….

Bruce Fox and Eleanor are happy residents of a new retirement community in Torrington, Conn., Keystone Place, an exciting, relaxing home….After 45 years in Connecticut, Lillian Sharp Hoag and Hoagie moved to Cape Cod. He keeps busy with his Gun Club and target shooting and various committees. She’s busy with book, bridge, and wine-tasting clubs….In the Roanoke, Va., area, Barbara Hoehling Vinal and Dick are active in church and community volunteer work. He served a year as trustee chair of their church.

Her favorite mission is Meals on Wheels….Jackie Hughes Cote loves knitting and crocheting hats. She made 125 last year that were donated to high school students, who “especially love the ones I make in their school colors (but with no two ever made alike).”…Hank Manwell and Sally are active in UU churches in both Central New York and Melbourne, Fla., where they enjoy being close to neighbor Ross Deacon ’59….Trish Morse went to Tampa, Fla., for a SICB (Society for Integration and Comparative Biology) meeting.

Bates students and faculty also attend, and an education award in science teaching excellence was created in her name….David Nelson published a letter in the Worcester (Mass.) paper advancing the concept of an American Little Ivy League. Given Forbes Magazine evaluations, Bates ranks seventh among the

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Janet Russell Baker spent a perfect week in a Jamaican villa with friends 20 and 30 years younger — “and kept up with them, I must say.”…Pete Skelley is the English editor for Open Theology, a journal from Europe, with contributors from around the world….Linda Swanson Bradley got back to the traveling she enjoys so much. She serves as the clerk of session and chair of her church’s finance team and is also on the advisory board of the local Life-long Learning Institute….Richard Teeven and Beverly enjoy retirement on St. Simons Island, Ga., where he sits on county boards.

1961 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Gretchen Shorter Davis norxloon@aol.com class co-presidents Mary Morton Cowan mmcowan@gwi.net Richard “Dick” Watkins rwatkcapt@aol.com Doug Ayer teaches part time at Virginia Military Institute but may hang it up and devote more time to travel and other activities….Sally Benson is involved with a foundation supporting programs re: Agent Orange, UXO’s and mine risk education, reconciliation, and community development in various parts of Asia. Her daughter Lauren Nichols ’00, a board director, and Lauren’s husband Nick Gurnon ’01 have also traveled in the region in support of this work….Jerry and Gretchen Shorter Davis are working on the capital campaign committee for the Millinocket Memorial Library, where they spend summers….Priscilla Hjelm Sylvia still enjoys Martha’s Vineyard, where she’s lived since shortly after graduation….

Tim Devlin retired from family practice and codirectorship of a residency program. He lives on Virginia Beach’s Linkhorn Bay, “two sons and six grands a five-minute bike ride away.”…

Sara Kinsel Hayes and Arthur ’60 stay involved in community affairs, Rotary for him, PEO for her, the Belfast Historical Society and Senior College for both….

Jack Henderson and Mary Jane celebrated their 50th anniversary….Betty Bonnar Kepner and her husband celebrated their 55th anniversary….In Ocala, Fla., Beverly Graffam Ketchum belongs to a group who sing for nursing home residents….Marcia Putnam O’Shea writes, “Visits with Rachel and Joel Young (’62), Freda and Paul Maier, Roz and Jim Boyle, Barbara and Bruce Woodford and regularly seeing Priscilla Miller at book club help to keep me ever grateful for Bates and the friendships that began there.”…Bill and Carol Sisson Vose moved to coastal Rhode Island to be near family.

She’s now a great-grandmother.

1962 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom cindyknordstrom@gmail.com

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1963 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Natalie Shober Moir nataliemoir@netflash.net class president Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com Natalie Shober Moir and David H. Hosford were married Oct. 20, 2018, at their home in Southfield, Mass. The ceremony was written and conducted by Robert Sampson.

1964 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary-treasurer John Meyn jemkpmeyn@aol.com class president Gretchen Ziegler gretchenz958@gmail.com Dick and Joan Spruill Andren continue their double life, six months each in Center City Philadelphia and Dixmont, Maine. Visiting children and grandchildren in California, they got together with David and Dinah Campbell and Linda Rolfe Raiss and Ahmed. In Maine they see Pat Parsons Kay and Esther Rosenthal Mechler as well as Rhoda Morrill Silverberg and Eric….

Ros Avery Fishbaugh and Jim celebrated their 55th anniversary. “Though now into his fourth year of Alzheimer’s, we try to meet each day of new challenges with love and gratitude for a full and fulfilled life. Our three daughters and six grandchildren continue to bring us joy.”…

Steve Barron says as a young man he never anticipated the joys he would have in watching and participating in the growth and accomplishments of his children and grandchildren….

Dave Campbell and Dinah enjoyed a Road Scholar trip to Alaska that included Denali and Kenai Fjords national parks.

“National parks may well be on this administration’s chopping block. I encourage us all to make some national park visits and to make it clear that there is a constituency out there, and it is us!”…Marion Day Czaja is now a permanent resident of Vero Beach, Fla., where she’s a busy volunteer with Shining Light Gardens, the Women’s Refuge, and her church’s social justice committee….Active volunteer Nancy Day Walker bases all her actions on her spiritual

Dave and Louise Hackett pose with their son, Tim, on his 50th birthday in December 2017.

media outlet: Nashua Telegraph

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Pioneering parents brought autism awareness, education to NH

takeaway: Committed advocacy can build a social movement The Telegraph of Nashua, N.H., profiled Dave ’64 and Louise Kennedy Hackett ’65, who “paved the way for autism awareness and education in New Hampshire,” wrote reporter Adam Urquhart.

Few services were available when the Hacketts’ son Tim, who has autism, was born in 1967. Tim’s parents quickly got to work on making sure some were created — they went to conferences, advocated for services in public schools, and formed a New England chapter of the National Autism Society.

“When we started our organization, we had to beat the bushes to find six people in the state,” Louise Hackett said. “Now, we have like six people on our street.”

For their work promoting inclusion for people with disabilities, the Hacketts recently received the Sandy Garrity Award from Gateway Community Services, a Nashua-based organization serving people with developmental disabilities.

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path, attending seminars three times a year out West for “a wonderful grounding and guide to living.”…Pat Donovan got two “new” knees and plans to keep officiating high school soccer, basketball, and baseball….Dick Dow remarried two years ago, three years after the death of his first wife. He and Lynn met and were married at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, Calif., where both are active….On Cape Cod, Paula Downey Bacon reports, “A home by the High Bank bridge and interests by the Route 28 Bass River bridge are keeping my golden years busy.” She sparked the creation of Bass River Park in West Dennis….Linda Eichhorn Day and Tom enjoyed great journeys to Ecuador, the Galápagos, Peru, and Israel as well as quality time with five grandchildren….Kevin Gallagher has been traveling widely. He still sings with the Harvard Radcliffe Chorus and the Harvard Summer Chorus….

Diane Gallo DeFrancisci works full time in real estate sales, travels to Italy and other destinations, and does volunteer work….Linda Gramatky Smith and Ken ’55 love living in the Cedar Crest retirement community in Pompton Plains, N.J., near their daughter and family.

She was elected to the Resident Advisory Council. “The Class of `64 taught me well about how to follow through on tasks and give back and listen to people and make a difference.”…Ron Green mourns the recent loss of Bill Young and Barb Ann Tuttle ’63. “The Roger Bill rowdies will never be the same without a leader and our den mother.”…

Jeff Hillier and Linda ’65 are in the 52nd year in their home in North Hampton, N.H. Daughter Laura ’90 and her 10-year-old son live in nearby Amesbury, Mass., where she works at Merrimack College….Tod Lloyd and Deb downsized to a condo and have high hopes for their new life. He made a solo paddle of the Noatak River in Alaska, “to live in the silence and appreciate the wondrous immediacy of the changing countryside.”…

Dot March Harris relocated to Missoula, Mont., with daughter Leah’s family. She takes guitar lessons, teaches basket making, and enjoys university music and art….Liz Metz McNab enjoys many things, from playing violin in the URI Orchestra to chatting with grandchildren and helping to plan special events such as Reunion. Grandson Doug ’18 regaled her and Dave ’62 about Back to Bates events….John Meyn reports from Friendship, Maine, “These retirement years count as the best of my life. But what do I actually do?” He mentions two-mile field walks, building puffin lookouts on Maine Audubon islands, and doing the treasurer’s work for the church.

“I also have my very own anti-Trump Twitter account.”…

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visiting grandkids….Scott Norris and Susy live very full lives in beautiful Chincoteague Island, Va. He does volunteer work for the Episcopal church and at the Chincoteague Wildlife Refuge….

Jon Olsen lives on the family homestead in Jefferson beside Damariscotta Lake where he and his brothers grew up. He does some low-level organic farming….Still hiking, Anne Packard finished the N.H. 4,000-foot peaks, again. She and Roger also went to Machu Picchu….Lynn Parker Schiavi looks forward to sharing more stories at Reunion.

“We can catch up on the ‘joys’ of aging and delights of grandchildren then.”…Esther Rosenthal Mechler had a memorable visit with 10 classmates at the beautiful home of Kathy Mincher Harding in Georgetown. “The feeling of the meeting was so warm and reminded us all of why we chose Bates in the first place. And here, 55 years later we are still glad we did.”…Eric and Rhoda Morrill Silverberg enjoy summers on Vinalhaven, Maine, and the rest of the year in Austin, Texas. Rhoda likes being involved with the Women’s Storybook Project of Texas, taking books to women’s prison units and recording the moms reading to their kids, then sending the books and recording to the children. Eric built another kayak….Joanna Starr and Ron Dennenberg, happy in Boston, are involved in many things including the sports teams….

Dave Stockwell and Carol have been to China, South America, Africa, and spent their 50th anniversary literally traveling around the world….Richard C. Walker wrote with sad news.

His wife Susan Stanley Walker passed away on Dec. 3, 2018….

Scott Wilkins is enjoying life in Southwest Florida and volunteers with Freedom Waters Foundation, taking sick and underprivileged children plus veterans with PTSD boating….

Alan and Sandy Prohl Williams bought an apartment at a continuing care development in Pleasanton, Calif., an hour from son Scott. They won’t move west until they sell their house in Kiawah Island, S.C…In Griffin, Ga., Alice Winter Empie and Jeff are in charge of a food pantry on Mondays, rotate into a soup kitchen on Wednesdays, and help with a laundry ministry on Fridays….Gretchen Ziegler had a “year of recovery” with a knee replacement and a bilateral mastectomy following a diagnosis of breast cancer — “luckily very early!”

1965 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Evelyn “Evie” Horton ehhorton@me.com class president Joyce Mantyla tiojack@aol.com

At a family reunion, Carol Stone Beyna ’65 writes, “We were trying to stage a group picture of all 23 of us, which included six Bates grads. A very nice woman from across the road came over and offered to take the picture. She turned out to be Cilla BonneySmith ’65, one of my Bates classmates!”

Newt Clark and Pat (Lord) ’67 have settled in quite well in their Thornton Oaks cottage in Brunswick and look forward to reconnecting with alumni in Maine. They planned winter time in Singapore before an Overseas Adventure Travel trip to Japan in April in time to catch the cherry blossoms….Natalie Fischer Heling moved to Cornelius, N.C., to be closer to her younger son and his family….Richard Hillman, enjoying life on Clearwater Beach, Fla., is finishing his third novel….Brenda (now Brynna) Kaulback has a blog. Classmates have called it fascinating….Susan Smith Copley is mostly retired, though still an active volunteer and nonprofit board member. She completed six years as a trustee of the Harris Center for Conservation Education based in Hancock, N.H. At its 2018 meeting, she enjoyed talking with Sam Evans-Brown ’09, the keynote speaker. “He’s an outstanding N.H. Public Radio journalist, and his wife is also a Bates grad!”…

Carol Stone Beyna writes, “At our family (Stone/Selden/Beyna) reunion in Vermont last August, we were trying to stage a group picture of all 23 of us, which included six Bates grads. A very nice woman from across the road came over and offered to take the picture. She turned out to be Cilla Bonney-Smith, one of my Bates classmates! Much laughter and hugging followed. Batesies are everywhere!”

1966 Reunion 2021, June 11–12 class president Alexander Wood awwood@mit.edu The “Katahdin 8” from the Class of ’66 held their first reunion last September since backpacking the slopes of Mount Katahdin before their 50th Reunion in 2016. They included Mel Burrowes, Chris Falk, Pat Gilbert, Bill Hiss, Judy Marden, Jan McEachern, Barbara Remick, and Alex Wood. Trading hiking boots for paddles, they camped on Pierce Pond. Besides exploring

the pond by canoe and kayak, swimming and fly-fishing, the group discussed The Good Book

by Peter Gomes ’65, sang songs around the campfire, and dined well….Kel House’s company House & Sun Inc. is doing more and bigger projects, such as supplying and installing the SIPs (structural insulated panels) for the new Waynflete Lower School in Portland.

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 Mollie Anderson Sperry retired from educational administration 10 years ago and found herself busy with clear passions in life: faith, family, and tutoring.

She lives in Honolulu and is secretary-general of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the Hawaiian Islands. She traveled to Haifa, Israel, the World Center of the Baha’i Faith, where members of 180 national assemblies consult and vote for the governing Universal House of Justice. She also participated in the seventh Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto with 8,300 others from different faiths. “I write this thinking that perhaps other Bates alumni were among the crowd and earnest in interfaith work. These 50-plus years later, I highly value my Bates experience.”…Tim Hall is retired but busy in volunteer efforts including church, Habitat for Humanity, and Collier County Honor Flights that escort war veterans to Washington….John Hanisch and Alice, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., visit their three grandchildren in the NYC area….Dick and Ellie Master Kilbourne ’69 were presented with a grandson by daughter Kristin ’97. After seven years of labor, Dick’s restoration of his 1931 Packard 840 roadster won a national first prize at the Antique Automobile Club of America national meet….Alan Lewis and Susan celebrated their 50th anniversary….Bill Paris retired a second time and is now a docent at the New Britain (Conn.)

Industrial Museum….Stephanie Young Abbott and Ed hiked the Amalfi coast.

1968 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Rick Melpignano rickmel713@gmail.com class president Richard J. Gelles gelles@sp2.upenn.edu After a long, satisfying career as a pediatric hematologist/ oncologist, Philip Herzog and

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his wife Cam Nguyen retired from Seattle to Medellin, Colombia, to begin a new adventure together. “Medellin has come a long way from the days of Escobar/‘Narcos’ and, although not without the problems of any big metropolis, is a modern, first world city with an amazing climate.”…Carla Hoag White, a volunteer at the San Francisco SPCA, was happy to help find homes for hundreds of cats and dogs, some burned from the Butte County fire. “It was a chore of love trying to help these terrified, burned little ones rediscover love in the world. About half were microchipped and are back with their owners. The rest have been/ will be adopted.”…Jane Hippe Reilly still works at Child Care Services in Middlebury, Vt., and Russ ’66 continues to volunteer as assistant men’s basketball coach at the college….Craig and Melanie Kocima Lindell ’71 are enjoying more time together with three grandchildren nearby.

He co-authored the new book The Coherence Factor: Linking Emotion and Cognition When Individuals Think As a Group….

Henry Seigel writes, “Still coming down off the high of 50th Reunion. Both Michael and I loved the event and the great work that the Reunion team did.

Now I have an expanded and lively correspondence network of Batesies.”…For Pittsfield’s Bicentennial this year, Jane Woodcock Woodruff authored and compiled a book with a number of local people to showcase the community. Pittsfield: Then & Now looks at the town and its people today, 225 years after the first family made their way to settle on the shores of the Sebasticook River and 200 years since the town’s incorporation.

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300 Won, And Done After 40 years, 303 career wins, and three Massachusetts high school football Super Bowl titles, Tom Lopez ’69 has retired as head football coach at Lincoln-Sudbury High School.

“I told the kids, to coach 48 years at one place, I’ve had the best job in America,” Lopez told The Boston Globe upon announcing his retirement. “I’m leaving with a lot of smiles on my face. It’s a great place to coach, a great school, great kids.”

He won his 300th career game on Oct. 19, becoming just the fifth high school football coach in Massachusetts to do so.

At Bates, Lopez was an outstanding end for the football team. Talking to the Bates Bobcast following his 300th victory, he recalled being “very fortunate” to play under coaches like Bob Hatch, Bob Flynn, and Chick Leahey ’52 at Bates.

Lopez noted that more than a dozen members of the Class of ’69 were on the team. “We were extremely close-knit, and I’m still close with many of them and see them on a regular basis.”

1969 Reunion 2019, June 6–9 class secretary Bonnie Groves beegroves@comcast.net class president Richard Brogadir dbrogie1@aol.com Bonnie Groves and Dick Brogadir, 50th Reunion co-chairs, write: “The Reunion Committee has been hard at work to lay the groundwork for our best Reunion ever. We hope everyone is planning to attend, especially if you haven’t been to many (or any!) others. Marya D’Abate and Debbie Bliss Behler have pulled together lots of info for our Reunion yearbook to be mailed to all prior to June. George and Jan Moniz Peters have worked diligently to organize four interesting seminars to be led by classmates, alums, and faculty. They start on Thursday afternoon so we hope you can plan to be in Lewiston by then.

Class functions officially start late Thursday. We will be staying in one of the newest dorms (opened in September) with air condition-

ing and many other amenities our old dorms and houses never had.

Please think seriously about staying with classmates instead of at a hotel. Some of us have already committed to doing that! We are in great shape to have a once-ina-lifetime blast, including great food, music, learning, fireworks, and — most of all — friendships old and new. Don’t miss it! We look forward to seeing you there and catching up!”…The Sun Journal profiled David Bowie, who has been teaching Lewiston High School students and coaching fellow teachers for 51 years. He’s witnessed dramatic changes over his five decades in the classroom.

Standardized testing became more important, technology progressed — David was one of the first to learn to use computers — and the student population became far more diverse. Now some of his former students are teachers at the high school, and he sees people he taught at LHS in town. “I usually run into somebody I had in a class, which makes it kind of fun,” he said.

1970 Reunion 2020, June 11-14 class co-secretaries Stephanie Leonard Bennett slenben@comcast.net Betsey Brown efant127@yahoo.com class president/treasurer Steve Andrick steveandrick15@gmail.com

The Boston Globe quoted actor John Shea ’70 on Nantucket’s thriving theater scene. “There’s more creative energy and chance for expression than there’s ever been before,” said John, artistic director emeritus at Theatre Workshop of Nantucket.

Jim Athearn and his wife now have eight grandchildren. “They all live on Martha’s Vineyard with us, and two sets of parents work on the farm with us; the other, my daughter, goes for long runs with me every Sunday.

There seems to be no limit to the work on the farm, we are always behind, but we get by.”…Dave Rogers retired from full-time work at Lee Hecht Harrison but remains connected as a parttime associate. He loves doing leadership development and senior-level career transition coaching for them….With wife Kathy and a friend who was a social worker, Jim Rurak helped develop and then teach (physics and carpentry) in a special program for high school “misfits.” It was his last job and Jim feels it was his most rewarding teaching experience. He and Kathy care at home for their youngest child, who has Down Syndrome….The Boston Globe quoted actor John Shea in an article on Nantucket’s thriving theater scene.

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and chance for expression than there’s ever been before,” said John, artistic director emeritus at Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, for years the only theater on the island. “Now, on any given night in Nantucket, there are four productions going on.”…

Marji Solomon Baker, in Boca Raton, Fla., is a school principal at Academic High School after a 30-year career as a financial planner and stock broker. She travels widely and looks forward to more as retirement starts soon….Dick and Marie Jackson Welsh ’68 moved their winter residence from Connecticut back to the Portland area, closer to their areas of interest and their summer residence in Monson….Ellen Yeaton Perry reports, “My advanced lung cancer has responded to targeted treatments for four years, and I hope to see all of you at the 50th Reunion.”

1971 Reunion 2021, June 10-13 class secretary Suzanne Woods Kelley suzannekelley@att.net class president Michael Wiers mwierse@mwiers.com Ken Johnson, enjoying retirement, hiked the Grand Canyon and went mountain biking to Moab in Utah. He now has three grandsons….Bill Matteson goes saltwater fishing with his son around Block Island….Dave Riffelmacher published a memoir, There Were No Czechoslovaks: Velvet Revolution to Mobile Uprising. It chronicles the history of the Central European mobile communications industry from 1989 to 2004 based on his experiences as CEO of communications companies in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia during this period….Suzanne Woods Kelley and Doug celebrated their 50th anniversary.

Both retired from part-time teaching at Holyoke Community College, but she still does some work for the Hampden County (Mass.) Juvenile Court.

1972 Reunion 2022, June 9–12 class secretary Steven H. Mortimer stevenhmortimer@gmail.com class president Wayne V. Loosigian wloosigian@gmail.com Ruth Ashe Fagen, a counselor with the Foxborough (Mass.)

Public Schools, loves helping students with a variety of social/ emotional issues. She met up with Margie Maczokas Clark….

Mike Attinson, retired from the Israeli civil service, does volunteer work around the world during natural disasters, including Haiti, Nepal, Ecuador, Japan, Turkey, and Indonesia.

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but extremely satisfying and a real learning experience.”…Sue Bates Ahnrud loves playing indoor soccer year-round and with her over-65 outdoor team in spring and fall….Joyce Blakeman Baron, retired from the Duxbury (Mass.) Public Schools, is the primary caregiver for her 102-year-old mother….Melinda Bowler DeVoe and Glenn live in Idaho Falls, Idaho. A retired nurse, she works in public health and has volunteered in Central America and with Idaho Fish and Game, which is “amazingly fun and educational.”…Sue Cooper Sawyer enjoys working with her team as a contractor for a specific program within FEMA in Denver….Donna Crapser Stuart is the leader of the New England branch of the Taoist Tai Chi Society, an international volunteer organization that works to promote health, well-being, and cultural exchange….Randy Glenney passed the two-year retirement mark and has not missed work yet….Marty Grenon Wallans is coping with the loss of Michael ’69, her husband of 46 years, in March 2017. She’s in contact with Sue Ciampa Sklivas and Sue Bates Ahnrud….Caroline Haworth Wandle and Bill continue to be busy training and preparing their dogs for shows….

Steve Hill, retired, says, “I love my freedom and life. I live frugally and enjoy my friends and many collections, as well as the Internet.”…Annie Hosmer Wells finished her 20th year on the Portland Museum of Art board, having recently served as chair….

Marilyn Lantery Anderson teaches reading to English Language Learners in first and second grade. “It can be challenging work but it sure feels good to see the kids learn to read!”…

Wayne Loosigian finds life at Apple Annie orchard in New Hampshire to be a lot of physical labor, but also a great joy….Pam McCormack Green brushed up her rusty French major skills during a family gathering in Provence….Mike Miskin reports that after 30 years he and Liz are transitioning their college publishing business to their daughter….Peggy Montgomery Williams enjoys retirement and likes playing with grandkids after 37 years working for Montana state government, mostly in vocational rehabilitation….

Linda Oliwa Machalaba lives in Vermont and works part time teaching ESOL at an elementary school in Hanover, N.H….John and Lee Kennett Paige ’76 live in back of the Bowdoin campus.

He’s essentially retired with plenty of time for grandchildren, including the child of daughter Bonnie and Raj Saha ’03, a professor at Bates….John Rand, retired, reports mileage in his RV in cross-country travel is 7,000 and counting. Paulette Nadeau Rand continues reorganizing thousands of critical things at Astra-Zeneca and refuses to retire….Jocelyn Penn Bowman loves living in Fairbanks,

Alaska, where she works for the superior court as a child-custody investigator….Bob Roch and husband Steve are enjoying retirement….Howie Scher, now in his 38th year at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, enjoys hearing updates on Bates “from the students who have joined us as full-time members of our Prostate Cancer Research Group. We focus on the development of new drugs and treatment approaches.”…Wendy Scher Irwin, now in part-time private practice with a group of psychiatrists, especially enjoys being a grandmother….Dennis Shevlin is busy in his 41st year as a professor of biology at the College of New Jersey….Homa Shirazi retired after 46 years in the field of psychology, then found a good fit working three days a week in a private school as a school psychologist….

Sharon Smith volunteers for End 68 Hours of Hunger, which collects and distributes weekend food to food-insecure kids. She and Lynne Merrill Johnston went on a Road Scholar trip to Sedona and the Grand Canyon….

Dick Thomas and Anne, back in Maine after 40 years in New Jersey, are building a home at Highland Green in Topsham….

As a volunteer, David Troughton helps coordinate immigrant legal clinics through the Justice for Our Neighbors program in Lowell and Lawrence, Mass….

Jeff Tulis published the book Legacies of Losing in American Politics (Univ. of Chicago Press) in 2018….Douglas Weik and his family had a wonderful trip to Thailand for his son and daughter-in-law’s formal Thai wedding….Mark Winne, in Santa Fe, N.M., does some consulting work on food policy with the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

1973 Reunion 2023, June 8-11 class secretary Kaylee Masury kmasury@yahoo.com class president Tom Carey tcarey@bates.edu Merrill Bunce Hurst and Tom ’74 now live in Trumansburg, N.Y., so they can be part of their three granddaughters’ lives. She helps out with local and national elections on the grassroots level.

“Tom has had Parkinson’s disease since 2000, but is doing incredibly well, thanks to a pump that delivers his meds.”…In Viña Del Mar, Chile, Julio Elorriaga-Gonzalez is sharing his retired days in a writers group and a senior citizen club where his fiancee is the president and he serves as a secretary….Bev Nash Esson has been a local election official for 10 years and volunteers for the Wells Public Library. She met up with Ira Waldman at the inauguration of Maine’s new governor.

1974 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Tina Psalidas Lamson tinal2@mac.com class president Don McDade dmcdade@llbean.com In Wilton, N.H., Ron and Jan Neugebauer Brown are nearing the end of an external makeover of their 1793 farm house, the Moses Putnam House….Paul Erickson’s new book is Don’t Mess With Me: The Strange Lives Of Venomous Sea Creatures (Tilbury House). Kirkus Reviews said, “Though the text in this entry in an admirable series may be challenging for young readers, the subject has guaranteed kid appeal.”…Karen Harris writes, “Still love living in Maine.”…

Craig Hotchkiss retired as the director of education at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford. He now works there part time performing a one-man “Living History Tour” as “Rev. Joseph Twichell, Mark Twain’s Best Friend.”…Cindy Mildram Foster, widowed in late 2017, now makes their house in Carrabassett Valley her year-round residence. “Surrounded by a tremendous number of friends, I am very fortunate to be healthy and active in the Sugarloaf and Carrabassett Valley communities.”…Norm Olsen continues his international work as global program manager at Dell Technologies. He skis and hikes with Neal Ouellett, Karen Harris, Jerry Quinlan, Al Green ’75, John Egan, and Carol Rosseland….

Woody Petry is now professor emeritus of psychological and brain sciences, having retired from the Univ. of Louisville after 27 years….Rob Sollmann, at Accenture, is leader in the firm’s life insurance industry management consulting practice. His and Kathryn’s oldest daughter (Bates ’13) lives in NYC and is thriving in advertising….Carol Prochazka Spencer, who got married in 2016 after 20-plus years of being single, and husband Henry enjoy retirement in Texas. Her political involvement continues….Joel West, retired as the chief probation officer of the Plymouth County Juvenile Court, and wife Deborah Dunn, retired as a Massachusetts District Court judge, spend their time in Deerfield Beach, Fla., Cape Cod, and East Bridgewater, Mass….David Wilcox, who continues in his 40-year career in emergency medicine, received two major honors in 2018. The American College of Emergency Physicians gave him one of its highest awards, the John A. Rupke Legacy Award. And the Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School Dept. of Emergency Medicine inaugurated its annual David E. Wilcox National Service Award.

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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 Gary Ferguson is in his 20th year heading the Downtown Ithaca (N.Y.) Alliance. Downtown has more than doubled in size, making Ithaca one of America’s premier small cities. Lisa Pelletier Ferguson ’77 owns and manages Laughing Goat Fiber Farm, producing an array of high-end wearable products from a herd of up to 100 animals….

Nancy Johnson Young and Jon enjoy retirement in South Carolina with lots of hiking opportunities. They celebrated their 40th anniversary and her Medicare birthday….After 18 years as a high school principal, Bob Littlefield took on a central office leadership position as the director of secondary schools for the city of Warwick, R.I….Steve Mates lives in paradise (Hilo, Hawaii) and is now assistant medical director of the emergency department….The Forecaster talked to Chuck Radis, an osteopath who practiced on the islands of Casco Bay for more than 30 years and has now written a book about his experiences. He worked out of the Peaks Island Health Center, often reaching patients by police boat. He hopes the book will “provide historical background for some people who looked at the islands as upscale and homogeneous,” he said.

Chuck, who now practices rheumatology in Portland and has founded a nonprofit that works in a refugee camp in Uganda, still lives on Peaks.

1976 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Jeffrey Helm bateslax@gmail.com class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com Jim and Dot Wilkins Anderson ’78 celebrated their 40th anniversary. He’s the financial aid director at Montclair State Univ.

She’s a CPA serving as the director of finance and administration for a mid-sized accounting firm….

John Rogers writes, “I was sad to hear of the death in May 2017 in London of David Eisenberg ’78, who attended Bates for two years. A history major, David went on Junior Year Abroad at SOAS, Univ. of London, to study Middle Eastern history. He became so involved in the subject and enjoyed London so much that he did not return to Bates.

Instead, he stayed on at SOAS

for two more years, receiving a BA from the Univ. of London in 1979. Inspired by his account of life at SOAS and in London, I followed him there to do an MA over the 1978–79 academic year.

One highlight of that year was occasional visits to the Gay Hussar in Soho, a Hungarian restaurant frequented by prominent authors and Labour Party politicians. David then went on to do graduate work in Near Eastern studies at Princeton, before switching gears to pursue a legal career. After getting a JD from the Univ. of Virginia, he spent 30 years with White & Case, mostly based in London, where at the time of his death he was a partner and cohead of the firm’s global telecoms practice. Always cheerful and enthusiastic, he will be missed.”…

Karen Stathoplos’ a cappella group Mosaic is performing Emily Dickinson poems, set to music by a composer/singer friend, this March during Women’s History Month. She met up with Donna Clarico for lunch….Claudia Turner has written a sequel to her first novel called The Scions of Atlantis. Like her first book, Scars and Stripes Forever, it has received 5-star reviews.

1977 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Steve Hadge schmuddy@yahoo.com class president Keith Taylor drkeithtaylor@msn.com

Airline pilot Leo Jaskoski ’77: “For 10 years I have been flying almost exclusively to places like Hawaii and occasionally Cancun.

It’s a rough life, but somebody’s gotta do it.”

Jeff Brown reluctantly stopped full-time work as a pediatric hospitalist due to challenges with MS. He and his wife are new empty nesters, “definitely a learned skill.”…Whit Burbank practices law in Rochester, N.Y. Diane Parker Burbank ’76 is a title insurance underwriter for a company of which he’s examining counsel….Eric Chasalow, the Irving Fine Professor of Music at Brandeis University, took a writer and videographer from the school’s Communications Office on a campus mushroom hunt last fall. A longtime amateur mycologist, Eric says that walking and seeking mushrooms achieves mindfulness: “finding a meditative space and clearing your head and just taking a walk.” And, “if you find things and it’s a treasure hunt, well that’s a bonus.”...Landi DeGregoris Turner moved her

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Bill Jeter ’76 works on a bronze casting of The MARTIN Bell using the lost-wax process: a wax model is melted away, leaving a hollow space that becomes the form for the molten bronze.

Let It Ring It was a busy winter for Bill Jeter ’76 in Minneapolis.

In addition to curating the annual Black History Month Emporium at Homewood Studios, a North Minneapolis gallery and artist workspace, Jeter contributed to the Minnesota Black Fine Arts show, an exhibition that will travel the state for the next two years.

In the Homewood exhibition was The MARTIN Bell, a bronze bell Jeter created in 2013 that evokes the refrain “Let Freedom Ring” from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. It’s displayed in a belfry that is 5 feet, 7 inches tall, the same height as King. Jeter said he made that choice to humanize King and to highlight the power of individual action.

“If someone who is this size can make this big of an impact,” he says, “it puts people on notice.”

An art major at Bates, Jeter taught at the Perpich Center for Arts Education for more than two decades and has been involved with multiple community organizations in Minneapolis.

He grew up learning from the Black Arts Movement, and “a lot of what I do is in service to social thoughts and processes,” he says.

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parents into assisted living, saw her oldest son get married and her youngest engaged, all within three months….Joel Feingold and Houda took the trip of a lifetime and then moved to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He got the rights to produce a Broadway musical based on the life and music of Peter Tosh….Jane Goguen Baronas and Matt celebrated their 25th anniversary. Some of her favorite weekends continue to be getting together with Pam Walch Constantine and Lynn Glover Baronas….Linda Greason Yates, retired after 40 years in the human resources field, looks forward to skiing with husband David and getting back into her artwork….Carl Grove is the director of pharmacy at a hospital in Orangeburg, S.C….

Steve Hadge’s retirement from Manchester (Conn.) Public Schools lasted about three weeks before he was hired as an EL (English Learner) tutor….Leo Jaskoski is being forced to retire from his airline pilot gig but wants to find some other way to make a living flying airplanes.

“For 10 years I have been flying almost exclusively to places like Hawaii and occasionally Cancun.

It’s a rough life, but somebody’s gotta do it.”…Wendy Korjeff Bellows retired after 41 years at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. She enjoys more time with her horses, spinning and weaving. Husband Alan ’78 is busy with the local land trust….

Steve Lancor retired after 36 rewarding years and wide travel in the wine and spirits business.

He and Ann Marie celebrate 40 years of marriage in August….

Marybeth Pope Salama, now retired, was part of a concert broadcast on PBS to honor the victims and families of the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh….

Dan Quinn, nearing retirement in northern Virginia, enjoys working on a 200-acre farm he manages for wildlife….Paul Sklarew is in year three with wife Mari and excited for his children’s adventures….Stuart Strahl, who completed his 15th year as CEO of the Chicago Zoological Society and Brookfield Zoo, is receiving an honorary degree from Dominican Univ….Chris Taylor, in Stratham, N.H., sells Enterprise Cyber Security Software….Vicki Tripp Gordan feels fortunate to still be working at Unum in a new job she loves….In Oregon, Jackie Wolfe has loads of fun teaching Tai Chi for older bodies.

1978 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Chip Beckwith chipwith@yahoo.com class president Dean M. Berman deanocean@aol.com Laurie Chambers Duke and her husband are snowbirds, spending the winter in Vero Beach, Fla. They still have their ranch in Colorado, but are downsizing the

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cattle herd….Mary Henderson Pressman looks forward to some big changes as husband Ron heads toward retirement.

She loved seeing everyone who attended the 40th Reunion and felt lucky to have granddaughter Abby on campus as son-in-law Graham Proud ’08 celebrated his 10th Reunion with his wife Emily Pressman Proud ’10….For a review of a new art exhibit on the infamous “Black Sox” scandal of the 1919 World Series, the San Francisco Chronicle spoke with Richard Johnson, curator of the Sports Museum in Boston and a friend of the artist, Thom Ross.

“He gets into a subject and researches it assiduously and has a real attraction to the quintessential American stories that almost morphed into fables,” Richard said. “The Black Sox seem to fit into that mold.”…After 30 years in pharmaceutical corporation communicatins, Kyra Najnigier Lindemann has moved on to consulting. She’s enjoying the good life straddled between New Jersey and Cape Cod….

John Sacci enjoys teaching and doing research at the Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine but contemplates retirement as he sees Nancy Dodson Sacci ’76 enjoying hers. They went on a hike in Virginia with Jerry Donahoe ’82 and other Batesies….

Chris Sentementes still enjoys travel abroad after over 30 years of working in China, Vietnam, and Western Europe. “But love to come home to Maine after every trip.”

1979 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com class president Janice McLean janmc79@gmail.com

Sue Schulze Kozik ’79: “I just moved to Baton Rouge, La., and nobody is going to convince me that crawfish are ‘mini-lobsters.’”

Wendy Kolb Harris retired but teaches math part time at Madison (Wis.) College….Mark and Leslie Joy Massa ’82, happy in Old Lyme, Conn., spend a ton of time visiting their two children in San Diego and South Boston….

Chuck McKenzie and Kelly, in Tokyo for their fifth and final year of an overseas assignment with Fidelity Investments, return to the USA in 2019 — “and maybe time to travel full time!”…Jackie Miller, enjoying retirement, volunteers with a cat rescue and serves as newsletter editor for the Georgia Botanical Society….In Portland, Ore., Patrick Murphy

and wife Mary Margaret “rack up countless happy hours with her delightful, nonagenarian parents who thrill us with their grace and thirst for life.”…In Rockland, Maine, Karen McHugh Pier reports Dave’s dental practice is growing so much it will allow son Eric ’09, also a dentist, to join him when Eric finishes his Navy stint. Karen is an RN with a specialty in wound care. They see Gary Gabree and Rich Stanley….As head of academic affairs at Pine Point School in Stonington, Conn., Mary Raftery has a broader impact on the whole school but there are days she misses the classroom connection. “Fortunately, I continue to coach middle school field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse so I still have the chance to laugh and play each day!”…Sue Schulze Kozik works in IT to try and help solve the healthcare crisis of access and cost. “I just moved to Baton Rouge, La., and nobody is going to convince me that crawfish are ‘mini-lobsters.’”

dance concert was wonderful.”…

After 27 years in Paris, Paul Yntema and his partner moved to London. They spend a great deal of the year on Ibiza, Spain.

1982 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Gerard “Jerry” Donahoe maineescape@aol.com class president Neil Jamieson neil@southernmainelaw.com

Former Bates football star Larry DiGiammarino ’82, now a realestate attorney, told The Boston Globe: “I learned through sports to never give up and stay as positive as I can.’’

1980 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Christine Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@gmail.com class president Mary Mihalakos Martuscello mary@martuscellolaw.com Jennifer Cartmell has been working with Bates students for three years in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, serving Longley Elementary in Lewiston.

It’s a 100 percent-level poverty school with 80 percent ELL (English language learning). “Bates ‘Bigs’ have been instrumental in changing ‘Little’ lives as mentors and friends to these children facing adversity. I’m grateful to be involved, and for the chance to work with these Bates students who show sensitivity, dedication, and compassion.”…Boon and Beth Hefferman Ooi enjoy retirement and time in D.C. with grandchildren Nellie and Calvin.

They met up with Liane Wilbur and Kippi Fagerlund in D.C., Jim Curtin in N.Y., and Duncan Morton ’79 and Tim Lundergan ’79 in Mass….Lisa Stifler O’Hanlon and Ray live on the Hudson River and enjoy life in and around the city….Jim Taylor crewed on the smallest sailboat, 32 feet, in the Newport to Bermuda race to finish second in their division.

“Almost as eventful as my eldest daughter getting married, which also happened in 2018.”

1981 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class president Henry Howie hhowie@gmail.com Jane Cynewski Elkin received a master of fine arts degree from Bennington Writing Seminars….

Jean Wilson enjoys life in Maine and getting up to campus frequently. “The Marcy Plavin fall

Kathy Bruns and Michael Kennedy ’80 are happy up in northern New Hampshire where they have lived for over 30 years in the house he built. Both work at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. “We still have our 500-plus album collection and still get to concerts.”…The Boston Globe chatted with Larry DiGiammarino, who holds or shares Bates football records for career and single-game receptions. He was named a Kodak Little All-American, the ECAC and New England Football Writers Player of the Year. He’s now a real-estate attorney in Marblehead, Mass., where he’s on the school committee and the youth football and softball boards. “I learned through sports to never give up and stay as positive as I can,’’ he said. “If things don’t work out today, there’s always tomorrow.”…Kee Hinckley and Mollie are still on the ocean in the San Juans in La Conner, Wash., but moved a couple miles down the road into the home where she spent all her summers growing up. He works remotely for TiVo, although keeping his eyes open for something new….

Beckie Swanson Conrad, president and CEO of the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, co-authored an op-ed in the Press Herald urging Maine voters to approve a $49 million higher education bond.

Question 4, which passed, will help the Univ. of Maine System plan investments to address workforce needs, the editorial said….Joyce White Vance has been swamped after shifting careers. She teaches primarily criminal law-related courses with a civil rights focus at the Univ. of Alabama School of Law and enjoys her students. She’s also a legal analyst for NBC and MSNBC. She finds time to visit her Bates ’21 daughter who loves the college.

class secretary Leigh Peltier leighp727@gmail.com class co-presidents Pamela Johnson Dearden tribecapj@yahoo.com William Zafirson bzaf@maine.rr.com Democrat Donna Bailey of Saco won re-election to the Maine House. She’s an attorney who has served in the Legislature since 2016….Andrea Gelfuso represented the Sierra Club on Clean Air Act litigation challenging a highway expansion, and has a new job working on childhood lead exposure prevention for EPA….Leigh Peltier celebrated 30 years at her job by moving to a different team with new leadership, helping her feel valued and productive again….

Lisa Veilleux Piker works in investments at Cigna. She’s also involved with the CFA Society Hartford as treasurer and chair of the Investment Committee….

David Wolf is executive director of Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington, a faith-based nonprofit empowering unemployed, underemployed, and homeless persons to experience positive transformation. He saw Janet Morford Cheibub for a family visit….Kenneth Worthy’s second book is just out: After the Death of Nature: Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Environment Relations (Routledge).

1984 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com class president Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com

John ’84 and Jennifer Rybeck Houde ’86 saw oldest daughter Nell ’18 graduate from Bates.

“We kept telling her to enjoy every minute because your time at Bates goes so quickly, but we didn’t expect it to go that quickly!”

Pam French Peek now has eight grandchildren. The family’s newest member is a puppy who keeps daddy/trainer Bob Peek ’64 very busy….John and Jennifer Rybeck Houde ’86 saw oldest daughter Nell ’18 graduate from Bates. “We kept telling her to enjoy every minute because your time at Bates goes so quickly, but we didn’t expect it

1985 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com class president Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net John Kroger reports four of his sons performed in The Dance Center production of The Nutcracker at the Gendron Franco-American Center in Lewiston….Colleen Quint, president and CEO of the Alfond Scholarship Foundation, coauthored an op-ed in the Press Herald about the kindergartners who started school last fall — among the first baby Mainers who automatically received the $500 Alfond Grant for higher education. For all babies born as Maine residents on or after Jan. 1, 2013, the award has been made automatically….

Robin Waterman, in Golden, Colo., celebrated 10 years of the nonprofit she founded, Aurora Community Connection family resource center, which provides programs to increase access to health and education for families living in poverty. She had a happy reunion with dear friends Dan MacDonald, Judy Kohin, Patty McAndrew, Mark Payne, Jeanne Cahill, Joe Zaia, Becky Jones, and Stefanie Fairchild ’87. She also enjoyed seeing Julie Vallone and Jeff McCulloh.

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to go that quickly! She absolutely loved her time at Bates.” They “had a terrific time last year digging up lobster traps that had washed ashore on Morse Island near Popham Beach on Bates Gives Back day.”…Julie Jackson Flynn, Garrett, and son Eric (14) traveled to Madrid and Florida where Eric plays tennis at IMG Academy….Tim Jones watched daughter Sydney, a sophomore at Williams, win her second consecutive NCAA Women’s College Soccer National Championship. She also earned her first All-American honor….Heidi Lovett, in her 12th year with NOAA Fisheries, now works with a relatively new Columbia River Partnership Task Force, traveling to places throughout the Columbia River watershed.

“It’s great to get to know a new part of the country.” More active in temple life, she was voted onto the board as the new treasurer….Leigh Michl has adult children in San Francisco, New York, and North Carolina, with a 5-year-old at home….Artemis Preeshl, a visiting assistant professor at Elon Univ., completed her doctorate in education. Her new book, Reframing Acting in the Digital Age: Nimbly Scaling Actor Training in the Academy (Routledge Press), will published in 2019….Michelle Rowland loves being an assistant district attorney for Essex County, assigned to Newburyport District Court. She moved to Hamilton, Mass., to be closer to work.

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1986 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Erica Seifert Plunkett ericasplunkett@gmail.com class co-presidents Bill Walsh messagebill@gmail.com Catherine Lathrop Strahan catstrahan@gmail.com

media outlet: Haaretz

headline:

A crusade to recover Jewish art lost during the Holocaust

takeaway: For art to have a voice, it must be found Haaretz interviewed Elizabeth Rynecki ’91 ahead of the premiere in Jerusalem of a documentary about Rynecki’s quest to track down the many lost paintings of her great-grandfather, a Polish artist who died in the Holocaust.

“My great-grandfather’s paintings were survivors…with no voice,” she said.

Moshe Rynecki, who lived in Warsaw, was able to hide some 800 of his paintings before the war. Though members of his family survived, including his wife, only a fraction of his paintings have been recovered.

Attracting widespread media attention, Elizabeth’s efforts to recover more of her greatgrandfather’s paintings include a database of his works and the book Chasing Portraits: A GreatGranddaughter’s Quest for Her Lost Art Legacy.

The paintings “are a powerful reflection of life in Poland before the war that not many people are aware of,” she said. “I felt that I could rescue that legacy and share it with the world.”

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Kelli Armstrong is the new president of Salve Regina Univ. in Newport, R.I. Currently vice president for planning and assessment at Boston College, she takes over in June as the first lay president of the Catholic liberal arts university….In Laramie, Wyo., Bill Burleigh and his family are gearing up for their 23rd season as a guest ranch. “Together again on the ranch with our two boys, Chris and Alex, and our horses. It’s the best time of the year.”…Kerry Crehan Dunnell and Randy ’84 had a big adjustment in 2018 with son Jackson off to Tufts.

She’s “running” her fourth half-marathon in 2019 for the Crohns and Colitis Foundation Team Challenge. “I’ve had UC since the ’90s and discovered I could kick back at this horrible disease with Team Challenge.”

She works as a program manager for the Activist Lab at BU School of Public Health….Jon Green and Sue now live in Prineville, Ore., where she got a job. “I am currently between jobs (sounds better than unemployed!) and enjoy exploring the high desert landscape with juniper and sage.”…Deborah Hansen lives in Brookline, Mass., where she’s owned her Taberna de Haro restaurant for 20 years and moved to once her nest was empty. “The tiny commute on the T allows me more time to work on my cookbook and get my 54-year body to yoga every day!”…Eric Hoffer reports 2018 was a good year for reconnecting with fellow Bobcats, including Adam Frary, Eric Hamilton, Drew Williams, Lance Matthiesen ’85, Brad Hobbs, and Alex Johnson ’85. Eric and Lauren’s son, Greg, worked on Bill Burleigh’s Wyoming dude ranch last summer. “He then went away for a marine ecosystems semester, and the head of that program turned out to be another Batesie, Heidi Hertler (’89)!”…Allen Loyd is now president of Space Machine & Engineering Corp., which manufactures aerospace and satellite parts in St. Petersburg, Fla. “This is a big change from being executive director of a not-forprofit arts organization!”…Ben Robinson was appointed college chair (dean) of the School of Business at Johnson and Wales Univ. in Charlotte, N.C. He retired from financial services after 30 years in the industry….

Beth Simermeyer enjoys living in the Twin Cities and her job at Ecolab as EVP of global marketing and communications and general manager of life sciences.

“A sign of the times — two jobs at once.” Her kids are 17, 15, and 12. She enjoys oil painting in her free time….Darrell Williams moved to the Miami area three years ago to resolve his mother’s estate, but decided to stay. “Was born in Miami in 1961 and left in 1968 at age 7. Fifty years later, I am back home.”...Karen Wood Cartier is a compliance risk analyst at the Rutland (Vt.) Regional Medical Center. “I have been mentoring an at-risk youth in the community for over two years now, and it is by far the most fulfilling thing I have ever done!”…After a 25-year career with Ocean Spray, Peter Wyman started his own sales, marketing and consulting company, Bullseye Targeting LLC. He also joined a former manager of his as a partner in his sales and marketing company, The Brand Partners. He and Julie celebrated their 30th anniversary and are building a new home in Falmouth on Cape Cod.

1987 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Evanthia “Evie” Kennedy brickates@gmail.com class president Erica Rowell Caroline Baumann married John Malcolmson on Sept.

17, 2018. Their son Hugo (4) served as ring bearer….John Cutler is the new vice president of business development at Tropical Aquaculture Products Inc., a seafood sales, distribution, and marketing firm….After almost 20 years in Bordeaux, France, David Farrington lives in Annapolis, Md., with his wife and daughter (5). He’s the sales manager for North America for a French-built line of luxury cruising catamarans….Laura Giles Longacre started a new role as chief academic officer at Cheshire (Conn.) Academy. She continues to teach one section of French along with leading all things academic. She and Tim ’86 live in Cheshire….Erik and Susanne Morrison Jarnryd are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Bacaanda Foundation, a nonprofit that benefits rural schools in Oaxaca state, in one of the poorest regions of southern Mexico. This year they are launching their most ambitious effort — the introduction of Internet services through a network of transmission, distribution, and reception towers in a multi-year process that will eventually benefit over 120 schools. They want to obtain 500 iPads as part of the effort….Mark Kausel now works for Vee Technologies. “Two weeks into my new role, I was off to India for 10 days. What an experience!”…

In Santa Rosa, Calif., Lisa Peace Tito works as a breast cancer surgeon. “Love the area and have adjusted from East Coast to West Coast living quite well, especially during winter.” Kathy

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Crowley and other Batesies have visited….As vice president for policy research and translation for the American Heart Assn., Laurie Pinchbeck Whitsel works on translating scientific and experiential evidence into policy that improves health and well-being. She was part of the release of the 2nd edition of the “Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.”…Rick Werwaiss is taking a hiatus from his career in nonprofit management to spend time with his teenage daughters and the best dog in the history of the universe while doing some pig farming, heading up a local library board, and doing a lot of personal writing. He publishes under a pseudonym, though not often enough.

1988 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class committee 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 Mary Capaldi Gonzales writes, “It was great to watch friends celebrating our 30th Reunion via social media while I was ‘stuck’ home celebrating my oldest daughter’s high school graduation. I won’t miss the next one!”…Mark Desjardins completed his 20th year as a head of school, the last nine at St. John’s School in Houston. He and Maro celebrated their 25th anniversary. “Almost an empty nester with one still in 11th grade.”…In Santa Monica, Calif., Dawnmarie Fitzgerald has her own business helping people navigate through the healthcare system as a coach and advocate.

For fun, she sings in a rock and roll cover band. She often sees James Owens, who lives two blocks away….The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner profiled Christa Mulder as part of a series on immigrants in Alaska.

A native of the Netherlands, she grew up there and in Brazil and Colombia. She majored in biology at Bates; earned a master’s in Ontario and a doctorate at Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks; and has had academic jobs in Sweden, New Zealand, and, finally, back at UAF, where she’s a professor of plant ecology. She says globetrotting has given her helpful life skills. “I learned to make friends with people of all different ages, and I also became very flexible.

I don’t think you could have taken me at age 20 and plopped me down on Banks Island in the middle of nowhere with three other people after a several-hour [flight in a Twin Otter] if I hadn’t gone through the experience of being moved around and being plopped in a new place every so many years.”…Susan Otto

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Erin Lydon Hart ’92 (without cap) poses with her Junior Olympic cross country team.

In the Running In December, Erin Lydon Hart ’92 took her 32-member North Idaho XC team to the National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championship in Reno, Nev. Her runners did, to put it lightly, really well: one won a national championship, 12 earned All-America honors (by finishing in the top 25 of their age groups), and another seven placed in the top 50. Sixty percent of her team ended the year as top-50 runners.

A professional speaker on women's leadership topics and an adjunct professor in Whitworth University’s MBA program, Lydon Hart says that her business background — she’s a former investment banker for JP Morgan Chase — translates well to the race course and coaching.

“I always dream big and expect the same from those around me, whether it is in the boardroom or on the practice field,” she told the Coeur d’Alene/Post Falls Press.

Goodell enjoys work and all the outdoor activities that Vermont has to offer. She and Jeff are experiencing life without kids at home. Their daughter went off to college last fall, and their son is a senior at Bates. “He loves being a Bobcat and I have enjoyed reconnecting with Bates!”

1989 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Donna Waterman Douglass 4498donnad@gmail.com steering committee Sally Ehrenfried sjehrenfried@gmail.com Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com Carolyn Bassett is an academic dean in the UMass Amherst College of Social & Behavioral Sciences and serves as associate

provost for student success….

Phil Bonasia is in his 19th year with Sunovion in Marlborough, Mass., as the head of CMC for North America. He travels often to Japan for work….Katie Carpenter Tokarewich is back teaching after being home with the kids for 21 years. The elementary school is right behind their house and the same one her kids attended….Brian Cullen celebrated his 50th by climbing 21,000-foot Illimani in Bolivia.

His and June’s oldest is a junior at Bates….Andrea Fasciano Dardis has loved spending more time on campus seeing daughter Sara ’20 and ’89 classmates with their own kids there….Grace Tallman Gooding is a substitute teacher mostly at the high school level. Husband Andrew Gooding is the director of Marshall Univ.’s Regents Bachelor of Arts program….Wendy Harris Garber celebrated the big 50

with Susan Mankowitz Fink, Tracy Donahue, Christine Behr Sarrazin, Laurie Kidder Donahue, Sarah Griffin Ashworth, Drew Carson, and Ruth Persson ’88….Laurel Hemmer and Kirk Upton ’88 live in Charlton, Mass., with son Jefferson. She’s a social worker and play therapist….Linda Johnson still works in corporate communications for CenturyLink in Washington, D.C….Anthropologist Caitrin Lynch and psychologist Jon Adler ’00, colleagues at Olin College of Engineering outside Boston, coauthored an article in The Conversation about the need to work across academic disciplines to solve the world’s problems. Citing global climate change as the biggest problem facing humanity, the two and a third colleague, a historian, wrote, “The only real solution to the climate problems facing our planet is to change mindsets,

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media outlet: Rolling Stone

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Rosanne Cash, Lori McKenna join Mark Erelli for anti-gun violence song “By Degrees”

takeaway: The power of a simple observation Rolling Stone praised singer-songwriter Mark Erelli ’96 for his anti-gun violence song, “By Degrees,” which he recorded with Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, and others.

Erelli “shines an essential and sobering light on a topic that remains among the most heavily debated in the country,” wrote Stephen Betts. “With a lyrical hook that suggests ‘you can learn to live with anything when it happens by degrees,’ Erelli crafts a modern protest song that finds its power in poignant observation.”

Song proceeds go to Giffords: Courage to Fight Gun Violence.

an approach that requires a complex understanding of all the ways that individuals and institutions interact with the natural world. In other words, students should not only study the social sciences or the natural sciences, but also learn how the insights gained from both can be combined to be even more powerful.”…Susan Mankowitz Fink, an ELL teacher for 23 years, enjoys working with children who speak multiple languages and come from a variety of cultures….Anne Millham helped start a new law firm in the Lehigh Valley and enjoys her new role there. Husband Jim Huleatt ’88 works at Sanofi Pasteur as a director of global clinical immunology. They’re happy son Ethan ’20 enjoys his precious college years on campus as much as they did….Anne Mollerus enjoys living in Minnesota and balancing urban living with the outdoors.

She’s closing in on 30 years at Cargill….In San Jose, Calif., Jo Seavey-Hultquist manages an obesity-prevention program for low-income residents….Lauren Walsh is an attorney living with her family in the Seattle area….

Donna Waterman Douglass is now an outpatient physical therapist at Lee Health working at its Babcock Ranch facility in America’s first solar-powered community.

1990 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com Nancy Aordkian Pelaez is in her 11th year in alumnae relations and development at Westover School in Middlebury, Conn.

She’s had the pleasure in recent years of working with talented Batesies Eric Mathieu ’12 and Myriam Kelly ’15….Eric Knight was elected commander of The Wheelmen antique bicycle club at its annual meet at Oberlin College. He continues to curl at the Philadelphia Curling Club in the winter. He enjoyed separate meetups with Lisa Miron Sidel and Greg Manthei….Marnie Patterson Cochran switched imprints at Random House and is now executive editor at Harmony/Rodale Books.

Son Tom ’22 started at Bates and loves it, she reports….Lisa Utzschneider, a Bates trustee, has been named CEO of Integral Ad Science, a company that measures the value of digital advertisements and helps prevent fraud, the entertainment trade magazine Variety reported.

1991 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Kathryn “Katie” Tibbetts Gates kathryntgates@gmail.com class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com

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Kyra Belcher Freeman and her family relocated to Western North Carolina in 2018….Peter Carey lives in Philadelphia with wife Lisa and children Zach (16), Sam (13), and Lily (11).

He’s an Episcopal priest at St. Mary’s-Cathedral Road, a parish in the Roxborough neighborhood….Scott and Megan Hollis Clough ’93 live in Hampden, Maine, with Tate (15) and Sophie (11). Megan is the head of education and training for the Univ. of Maine System; he practices pediatrics at Northern Light EMMC in Bangor. They had a great time celebrating the 50th birthday of Terri Lynn Hockman Byerly….Karla Jackson lives in upstate New York at a women’s monastery where she manages the sheep, goats, and chickens, hones her singing skills, and leads the choir. “I continue to reread and entertain myself with things I learned in good old English 170.

What a great gift that was.”…

Roger Sion is a partner in Deloitte’s government and public services practice. Lisa Comer Sion continues in her solutions marketing role for Cloudera and is preparing for a big merger in 2019. Daughter Avery is a sophomore at the Holton Arms School where she is a teammate of Hadley Nolan, daughter of Rich ’90 and Heather Falk Nolan ’92.

1992 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class committee Ami Berger ami_berger@hotmail.com Kristin Bierly Magendantz kristin.magendantz@trincoll.edu; kmagendantz@comcast.net Kristen Downs Bruno alfredbruno@sbcglobal.net Roland Davis roldav92@gmail.com Peter Friedman peterjfriedman@gmail.com Leyla Morrissey Bader leyla.bader@gmail.com Jeff Mutterperl jeffmutterperl@gmail.com The Boston Globe interviewed Lisa Genova for its “Bibliophiles” Q&A. Lisa, who has a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard, published her fifth novel last year, Every Note Played, which follows a pianist with ALS, commonly called “Lou Gehrig’s disease.’’ What’s her favorite book about the brain?

“My favorite-favorite is Oliver Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. It turned me on to the humanity behind neuroscience,” she said….Sukey Soukamneuth Leshnick and Sam live in San Francisco with their two children, 15 and 13.

She leads a team of researchers specializing in education policy at Social Policy Research Associates; he’s a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. They occasionally see Vee Thomsak and his family in the Bay Area.

class secretary Lisa A. Bousquet lisaannbousquet@gmail.com class co-presidents Michael F. Charland mfc@wilkinsinvest.com Jason R. Hanley jason.hanley@wexinc.com Jesse Brown Bird lives in Lee, N.H., with husband Ron and daughters Kendall (19) and Addy (16). Jesse is in her 26th year as a teacher at Great Bay Kids’ Co. in Exeter and still loves pre-K students. They saw Rebecca Sanferrare Gravel and Jon Wall at Rebecca’s house in Lee….Bill Egan reports he’s growin’ older but not up in suburban Charlotte, N.C., where he lives with wife Libby, Molly (8), and Grant (6)….Lindsey Goodwin Grayzel had an interesting few years making The Reluctant Radical, a feature documentary that follows activist Ken Ward as puts himself in the direct path of the fossil fuel industry to combat climate change. Husband Bo ’92 is 10 years into his business ReRack, with locations in Portland, Ore., and Seattle….Bill Ingate is a vice president and investment officer at Wells Fargo Advisors. He and Soraya have two daughters, Sarah (16) and Julia (15). He serves on the finance and endowment committees of the Jewish Assn. for Residential Care, which provides services to adults with mental disabilities….Dean Jacoby and Karla Vecchia live in Albuquerque with daughter Ainara (13) and son Lur (10).

Karla was the treasurer for the political campaign of a friend who won election as a state representative and helped flip the house. Dean is the assistant soccer coach to a powerful woman coach of the Albuquerque Academy boys team which has won three state championships in four years. “Proving — no surprise to any of Dean’s teammates at Bates — that he is better holding a clipboard than trying to play.” Jerod Gillies came to visit.

1994 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Courtney L. Fleisher courtney.fleisher@gmail.com Jonathan M. Lewis jlewjlew@mac.com Sheila Brennan left George Mason Univ. after 13 years to work as a senior program officer in the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her first book, Stamping American Memory, was published in print and as an online open access (aka, free) edition….Kimberly Crichton is now the proud owner of a fabulous fixer-upper fairy cottage in Lovell, Maine. “The

1995 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents Jason Verner jcv@nbgroup.com Deborah Nowak Verner debverner@gmail.com

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woods, lakes, and mountains that surround me are providing me heaps of inspiration for my art and social change work!”…

Carrie DiRamio and Tom Ronan celebrate their 20th anniversary in July. They enjoy raising Allison (16) and twins Michael and Emma (13) in Northbridge, Mass., where Carrie works as a family physician in a group practice that is supportive and fun….Courtney Fleisher applied the rowing skills she learned on the ’Scog when she paddled on the Dragonheart Vermont Fire Premier Women’s dragon boat team at the Club Crew World Championship in Szeged, Hungary. “Our team finished in the middle of the pack for our division, but it was a fabulous experience.”…Matt Grove started his 15th year in environmental consulting and fifth with Wood (formerly Amec Foster Wheeler) and feels grateful to work on a wide variety of site investigation and remediation projects….Maureen Gwinn, a federal government employee since leaving Bates, works at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a senior science adviser in the Office of Research and Development.

Most of her work focuses on chemical risk assessment and researching ways to more quickly understand chemical effects in the environment. She ran her first 10K last year at the Beach to Beacon….Kim Howland enjoys life in the Tahoe area.

She gets a few runs in almost every day while dealing with all the fun challenges of a startup….

Michele Ott Prestowitz and Chummy ’93 live in Truckee, Calif., with two daughters, 17 and 16. She manages watershed restoration projects and geeks out about geomorphology. They see Mike Sidore ’92 often and spent time with Matt Bogyo ’93, Hyun Jang ’93. Dan Blatt ’93, and Scott Yusah ’91….Kathryn Sanders is a self-employed, international board-certified lactation consultant helping support moms and families in their breastfeeding journeys.

She travels widely in rural northeast Georgia meeting moms in homes and clinics. Her children are Rosalyn (14) and twins Fieldon and Nell (12)….

Pritu Singh Sampeur joined Astex Pharmaceuticals Inc. as vice president, clinical operations….Rachel Smith Spieczny lives in Sweden with her husband, son (13), and daughter (11). She leads additive manufacturing (3D printing) and new technology initiatives at Volvo.

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Erica Fish Shein ’95 and her three daughters honored husband and father Justin Shein ’95 “with a day of kindness” on Dec. 6, 2018, one year after his death.

“We plan to continue this day of service each year in his honor.”

Toby Dykes loves his new job as university counsel for the Univ. of Alabama System in Tuscaloosa.

He, wife Melanie, and kids Katy, Ellis, and Molly enjoy spending time at the university….

Brian Eckblom was promoted to lieutenant, assigned as special services division commander, at South Windsor (Conn.) Police Department….Erica Fish Shein and her daughters honored husband and father Justin Shein “with a day of kindness” on Dec. 6, 2018, one year after his death.

“We plan to continue this day of service each year in his honor,” Erica wrote. Julia is 19, Katherine 16, and Laura 13. “I’ve picked up a part-time job as a nanny and it is a great joy to be around a baby again.”…After almost 20 years as an associate veterinarian, Erica Parthum Leitzelt purchased her own practice in Brunswick where she and Charlie live with Hannah (16), Owen (14), and Isabel (11)….Phil and Heather Chichester Pettis ’97 live in Portsmouth, N.H., with Maddie (14) and Sydney (12). Heather is still saving the Right whales at the NE Aquarium; he practices law downtown….Robin Postman Benson completed her personal training certification; nutrition specialist certification is next.

“My passion for helping others live a healthier lifestyle continues.”…Meridith Ritter Greenbaum, in Philadelphia, is raising two preteen kids solo while working as a therapist in the public sector. Her big news: She made the Team USA Dragonboat team and competed in Canada, Hungary, China, and all over the U.S….Amy Smith Wilmot lives in Hallowell with her husband and son (10). She works close to home at a nature preserve and historic house museum, Vaughan Woods & Historic Homestead in Hallowell….Jason and Deb Nowak Verner traveled with their three kids to Hungary and the Czech Republic for a family vacation. Deb joined the board at Indian Hill Music Center in Littleton, Mass.

1996 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Sarah Ayesha Farag ayesha.farag@gmail.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com

Allie Bruch, liking New Haven more and more, is growing her own interior design studio. Son August is 3. She sees Kate Martin most of all Batesies as their sons are the same age and keep them smiling together. Allie enjoys stepmothering as they prepare for their first college student adventures with her stepdaughter….

Mike Cramer is the CFO of Slade Gorton, a seafood distributor. He lives outside Boston with his wife and two boys and is in frequent contact with the same group of Bobcats that he was 20-plus years ago….Jay Lowe moved back home to sunny Saco with Amy and sons Jake and Mac….

After 22 years on the West Coast and in the Midwest, Teri Page moved to central Vermont with her family. Her new book, Family Homesteading: The Ultimate Guide to Self-Sufficiency for the Whole Family, was published last October….Voot Yin of the MDI Biological Laboratory and other scientists have discovered that genetic material in the cell that was previously thought to be “junk” likely plays a part in regulating genetic circuits responsible for regeneration in highly regenerative animals. Voot and a UMaine scientist identified these “long noncoding RNAs” by studying genomic data from highly regenerative animals. The discovery could lead one day to the development of drugs to trigger humans’ dormant genetic pathways for regeneration, MDI said.

1997 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class co-secretaries Christopher Gailey gaileycj@gmail.com Leah Gailey leah.gailey@gmail.com class president Stuart B. Abelson sabelson@oraclinical.com Kimmochi Eguchi reports from Tokyo that he married Arisa Sekiguchi on April 30, 2018. “She sings opera and I accompany her with piano. Our first anniversary will be a national holiday (Japan Emperor’s Coronation Day).” Kimmochi now works as a project manager at Tech Mahindra Japan. His Bates-related activities include two college fairs in 2018 and serving as a Bates alumni rep for 18 years….

Washington State Univ.’s student newspaper covered the opening of Kate Gilmore’s art exhibition that shows women moving into labor-intensive, female-dominated space. Kate Gilmore: In Your Way, which was first shown at Bates, consists of nine videos and a new piece that welcomes the public to use a sledgehammer to make their mark on five steel fabricated cubes. Kate said, “I want the audience to engage in the piece, physically and emotionally, and I want to remove myself from the work.”…Rebecca Grossberg lives in Lille, France, with her husband and two children. She’s

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William Innis marked 10 years with Boston ENT, a private otolaryngology practice in Needham. He and his wife have two girls….Tom LeBosquet and his family now live in the hippie mecca of Asheville, N.C. Gwyneth is 6, Amelia 3. He works as an emergency physician at Mission Health….Katy McCann lives on Spain’s Costa Blanca with her husband and three kids during the school year and Chebeague Island, Maine, in the summer.

She teaches movement, learning all kinds of new things and managing their bi-continental, alternative schooling lifestyle….

Angela Pizzo Tillotson is still in Portland with her husband and 3-year-old and has no plans to leave. “Why would we with all of the new restaurants and breweries? In fact, we continue to recruit others to relocate and join us!” She works at InterMed as its diabetes specialist/NP and assists her mom with her business, Papa’s Juicy Noodles….

Courtney Scott and partner Tim bought a home in North Andover, Mass., a true fixer-upper they renovated for the better part of a year. She works as the VP of marketing and business development for a Wakefield, Mass., firm that focuses on securing federal benefits for disabled workers….Miltos Vafiadis reports 2018 was a year of meeting Batesies around the world. In Thessaloniki, Greece, where he lives, he enjoyed time on the beach with Jeremy Poore ’99 in August, and in October there was a nice city weekend with Volga Kurbanzade ’99.

December included an express reunion with Zainab Khaleeli in London.

1998 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 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 Kate Bishop is the senior monitoring and evaluation technical adviser for USAID in Haiti….

Petulia Blake is an assistant professor of management at Bryant Zhuhai (Beijing Institute of Technology Zhuhai campus)….

Vanessa Carroll enjoys teaching English at a charter school in Boulder, Colo., and being outdoorsy with Violet (11), Seth (8), and Asher (6). They look forward to their annual camping trip with Rachel Agoglia and her family….

Kristen Connolly enjoyed great travel in 2018, including a humanitarian aid mission to Jordan

and the Syrian border. “That was an extraordinary trip, and I hope to do more such humanitarian volunteering in the future.” Her career in genome sequencing operations data viz and analytics is cranking along well, and she hopes to extend it to encompass more interdisciplinary art/ science crossover and more collaborative work. “Thanks for that bizarro double major, Bates; it’s working out nicely!”…Nils de Mol van Otterloo is a doctoral candidate at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. He was elected to the Greater Los Angeles Fulbright Assn. board.

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1999 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard jennifer_bouchard@hotmail.com class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com Rebecca Gasior Altman relocated to Providence, R.I., with her sons and in-laws in tow. Her recent essays on plastics, industrial history, and related topics have appeared in The Atlantic, Aeon, Topic, Orion, and Terrain.

She now writes full time and is at work on a hybrid memoir-sociology-intimate history of plastics….

Jenn Lemkin Bouchard presented at the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference in Chicago on using Twitter in the government classroom, tackling teacher stress, and implementing a congressional hearing when teaching the Gilded Age in U.S. history. Jenn teaches AP government and U.S. history at Needham (Mass.) High School….Dave Silverman and Ana Davis live in West Hartford, Conn., with Molly (10) and Will (6). Dave is senior vice president, human resources for Amphenol Corp., a Fortune 500 electronics manufacturer. Ana is chief communications officer for Miss Porter’s School. She’s excited to be able to use her women’s studies degree at the all-girls independent high school….Cameron Donaldson moved to Portland and joined Maine Medical Center as a vascular interventional cardiologist. “Shocking how much the city has changed. By the time the magazine is out, I should have some lobster pots in Casco Bay.”…

In exploring the drastic disruption climate change has wreaked on the Antarctic Peninsula’s animal populations, National Geographic talked to Doug Krause and Ari Friedlaender ’96, experts on leopard seals and humpback whales, respectively.

As sea ice melts and leopard seals have fewer floes to rest on, they’ve moved closer to land, where they decimate fur seal populations, Doug said. “What we’re seeing is extraordinary. No one saw this coming,” said the research scientist who has visited Antarctica 12 times since 2002.

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A young Alaskan surveys the damage on Vine Road, just north of Wasilla, Ala., the morning after the Nov. 30 earthquake.

Could’ve Been Worse The morning after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked southwestern Alaska on Nov. 30, Tim Leach ’99, an accomplished amateur photographer, headed out to document the damage.

About a dozen miles from his Palmer home, Leach found this scene as curiosity seekers clambered over giant sections of damaged asphalt road.

A longtime environmental and energy advocate in Alaska, Leach also helped to document visits by Alaska’s U.S. senators and governor-elect as they toured damaged buildings in the local school district, where Leach’s wife, Jillian, is public information officer.

The couple, who have a 9-year-old son and two huskies, didn’t have to contend with much home damage. Framed pictures fell off the walls and items on shelves crashed to the floor, but there were no gas leaks, water leaks, or structural damage.

“The doors still open and shut, the windows are intact, and the chimney is still standing.”

Over the next few days, hundreds of aftershocks followed. “Quality sleep was hard to come by, and it was difficult to focus on work,” says Leach. But, mindful of the state’s catastrophic 9.2 quake and tsunami in 1964, “as Alaskans, we collectively felt like we dodged a bullet.”

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to Antarctica, said melting sea ice is actually better for humpback whales — they have more open ocean and more time in which to hunt for krill, fueling a population boom….Brian Kuser is on his family farm in Chesterfield, N.J., running the nonprofit environmental education center Fernbrook Farms with its mission to get kids outside and engaged with nature.

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

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takeaway: Whether an athlete is disabled or not, core training principles don’t change FasterSkier writer Gabby Naranja ’14 reached out to Martin Benes ’07, the new head coach of Nordic skiing for U.S. Paralympics, a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee.

An assistant ski coach at Bates from 2009 to 2011 and most recently the Nordic ski director at Sugar Bowl Academy, Benes told Naranja that the coaching philosophy for a para-athlete is the same as for a non-disabled athlete.

“The training principles don’t really change,” Benes said. “Yes, there are things to be aware of physiologically, but in terms of the core principles, it’s not that different.”

“With this level of athlete,” he added, “you’re helping guide them and giving them the framework to be successful and helping them be their own best coaches.”

After almost a decade working with adolescent immigrants as a high school English-language and history teacher, Lindy Forrester now works with immigrant adults as a coordinator at the Jamaica Plain Community Centers Adult Learning Program. “I feel connected to my community here in Boston, and inspired by our students and my colleagues.”

As a guest blogger for Aequitas Educational Consulting, she wrote a two-part series, “Teaching While Female: Shouldering the Pedagogical and the Personal in the #MeToo Era,” about changes to Title IX legislation under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos….Bloomberg’s “Small to Big” feature profiled Jesse LaFlamme, owner and CEO of Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs in Monroe, N.H. A third-generation egg farmer, Jesse brought his Bates education back to the family farm after graduation and helped his parents transition to a relatively novel business model: contracting with farms around the country to supply organic and free-range eggs under the Pete and Gerry’s brand. The company’s flagship brand of eggs is now in 53 percent of the country’s grocery stores. “We found farmers who were just interested in being farmers and not marketers or processors or distributors of eggs,” Jesse said. “It ended up being an incredibly mutually beneficial relationships with family farms.”…After eight years in Montreal, Emilie Soisson has returned to New England with her husband and three children.

She’s a medical physicist at the Univ. of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington.

2001 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Noah Petro npetro@gmail.com class co-presidents Jodi Winterton Cobb jodimcobb@gmail.com Kate Hagstrom Lepore khlepore@gmail.com

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The Bangor Daily News covered Vicki Losick, a researcher at the MDI Biological Institute who received a $50,000 grant to use fruit flies to study age-related eye diseases. The grant, awarded by the William Procter Scientific Innovation Fund, will allow her to model the “cellular dysfunction” that occurs in age-related macular degeneration, among other causes of blindness. She’ll use fruit flies in her work, since macular degeneration takes hold more quickly due to the creatures’ shorter lifespans. “With the aging of the population, age-related macular degeneration is increasingly being viewed as an impending epidemic,” she said….

Noah Petro and Jennifer Giblin welcomed Miles Petro on Sept.

25, 2018. He joins Liam and Amelia….Skip Wilson has a new job as director of development for the Univ. of Rhode Island’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences. He lives in Waterford, Conn., with wife Candi, Luke (9), Lydia (7), and Levi (3)….In 2016, Melissa Wong co-founded a startup, Retail Zipline, that focuses on transforming retail operations, based on her experience working in retail ops for over a decade. The company recently had its best year, with customers including Gap Inc., Lululemon, LUSH, LEGO, Nike, and TOMS shoes.

2002 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Stephanie L. Eby steph.eby@gmail.com class co-presidents Jason Surdukowski jsurdukowski@sulloway.com Drew G. Weymouth weymouthd@gmail.com

Jenn Strahle ’02 reports she and Rejean Guerriero ’01 work together at Washington Univ. in St. Louis children’s hospital. He’s a pediatric neurologist; she’s a pediatric neurosurgeon.

Matt Dominici finally got around to becoming an adult and welcomed his first daughter, Mae, on Aug. 22, 2018….Jesse and Rebecca Larkin Minor ’03 are back in Maine. He’s an assistant professor of geography and environmental planning at UMaine Farmington. Neal is 4, Lilla almost 2….Natalie MacDonald Truesdell works in public health at John Snow Inc. and enjoys supporting communities in health planning to improve access to care for the most vulnerable. She and her husband live in Yarmouth. “We say we are

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‘living the dream now,’ enjoying day trips to Popham, dinners in Portland, Bates Homecoming weekends, and much cheaper childcare than Boston.”…Jenn Strahle reports she and Rejean Guerriero ’01 work together at Washington Univ. in St. Louis children’s hospital. He’s a pediatric neurologist; she’s a pediatric neurosurgeon. Both were neuroscience majors at Bates….

Drew Weymouth writes, “As we get older, I find many friends and their families going through major life challenges (as well as exciting events). This helps me continue to remind myself to enjoy each day and be thankful for health, family, and friends.”

2003 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class co-presidents Kirstin Boehm-McCarthy kirstincboehm@gmail.com Melissa Wilcox Yanagi meslissayangani@gmail.com Ryan Champagne is an architect and owner of hocWORKSHOP llc, a small firm based in Eugene, Ore., practicing architecture and design in the Pacific Northwest….

Sam Goldman works as the donor relations and gifts officer for Burning Man Project, the nonprofit that runs the well-known arts and culture event, Burning Man, every summer in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. He’s working to build the organization’s global mission by raising funds for civic engagement projects….Craig Madsen started a workforce analytics consulting practice as a certified partner with The Predictive Index in Grand Junction, Colo., serving companies worldwide….The Salem News quoted Dominick Pangallo on the death of Sen. John McCain. Dominick, now chief of staff for the mayor of Salem, was a Bates student in 2000 when he worked in New Hampshire for McCain’s first presidential campaign. He wrote that though McCain was the only Republican he ever voted for, he admired the senator’s stance on campaign finance reform, his relationship with the press, and later, his position on climate change and his vote against the repeal of Obamacare….Marieke Slovin Lewis, who has a master’s in environmental education and a PhD in sustainability education, co-created a method of songwriting called “Story-toSong,” wherein a song is shaped from a person’s spoken story.

Her research focused on this songwriting method and the concept of self-sustainability.

She works “to help build a more sustainable world by offering songwriting workshops with refugees in Brussels.” Her work was highlighted in The Bulletin, a Belgian publication. She lives in Boitsfort, Belgium, with her husband….Batesies gathered in Portland last November for some food and brew with award-winning chef Andrew Taylor (Eventide Oyster, Hugo’s, Honey Paw) and Allagash brewmaster

Jason Perkins ’97. As experts in the restaurant-brewing industry, they shared how a passion for their work became a driving force behind their success.

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2004 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Eduardo Crespo eduardo.crespo.r@gmail.com Tanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com Justine Cohen-Bolduc and Jeff Bolduc welcomed Eliza Lyn Bolduc on Oct. 28, 2018….

Nate McConarty was named to the board of Boston Partners in Education, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting students in the Boston Public Schools. He’s an associate at Hemenway & Barnes, a Boston-based law firm.

2005 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents Kathryn Duvall duvall.kathryn@gmail.com Melissa Geissler melissa.geissler@gmail.com Cricket Alioto Fuller and husband Ben welcomed their first child, son Baxter Douglas Fuller, in August 2018. They live and work in D.C., where she’s a director at a national education nonprofit….Lindsey Hamilton is now the director of undergraduate research and creative activities at the Univ. of Colorado Denver. “Conducting neuroscience research at Bates with Dr. John Kelsey was the highlight of my undergraduate experiences and I’m thrilled I get to bring those transformational experiential learning opportunities to more students.”…After 10 years of teaching in D.C. area schools, Nathan Harrington is starting a local environmental organization, the Ward 8 Woods Conservancy. A pilot program that pays unemployed residents to remove trash and invasive plants from the 500 acres of forest in the southernmost portion of District of Columbia. Long-term plans include an extensive network of hiking trails, and educational and recreational programs to connect marginalized residents to the land….In January, Kelton McMahon ’05 visited campus to speak to a biology junior seminar that doubles as a Purposeful Work “infusion course,” where visiting practitioners help students see how their major studies can lead to fulfilling work after Bates. An ocean ecogeochemist, Kelton has been researching how two species of sharks are able to thrive in certain nutrient-poor Pacific waters. Turns out, rather than compete for food, the species feed amidst two totally different food webs....Sarah Overmyer lives in Austin, Texas, where she loves the winters. Aside from trying to maintain her lucrative field hockey career through an adult club team, she works as a

Zak Ray ’07 (center) poses with Larry Handerhan ’05 and Jennifer Crawford ’01, the respective president and vice president of the Alumni Association, after receiving the Distinguished Young Alumni Award on Oct. 5 during Back to Bates.

Hoop Dreams Win Brown ’89, Zak Ray ’07, and Sarah Bartos Smith ’98 received alumni awards at Back to Bates Weekend in October.

Ray, who received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award, has founded New Day Academy, a nonprofit that serves young men from low-income Boston neighborhoods using basketball to inspire personal, academic, and professional development.

“Zak has empowered scores of youth...and has given them tools and opportunities that will help them excel in life,” his award citation reads.

Brown, whose daughter attends Bates, received the Bates Alumni Community Service Award. President and CEO of Heywood Healthcare in Massachusetts, he heads initiatives that tackle urgent issues including behavioral and mental health, food insecurity, and addiction.

“Win has worked tirelessly to promote the health and well-being of the people of the communities in which he’s lived and worked,” the award citation reads.

A 15-year volunteer for the Alumni in Admission program, Smith received the David G. Russell ’66 Award for her commitment to interviewing prospective Bates students. She’s a lecturer with Dartmouth’s Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.

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making connections 2007 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class co-presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Emily Cohen-Shikora is a lecturer in the Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington Univ. in St. Louis.

She and Brent welcomed baby Arlo in January 2018….Allison Marshall and John D’Ascenzo were married Nov. 3, 2018….Mari Wright and Will McElhinny welcomed Warren James McElhinny on Jan. 6, 2018. Will is an attorney in San Francisco; Mari works in private philanthropy in Silicon Valley.

2008 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class co-presidents Elizabeth Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Ali Schwartz Egelson alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com

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Business of Diversity From left, Donelle Durham ’09, Irene Wood Frohlich ’09, and Brandon Drew Shields ’07 pose at the annual conference of The PhD Project, held last November in Chicago.

The PhD Project seeks to catalyze efforts to increase workplace diversity by increasing the diversity of faculty who teach at U.S. business schools.

“I wasn’t surprised that two other Bobcats were there,” writes Frohlich, who is regional vice president of population health at Sound Physicians, a medical staffing company.

Durham is a graduate student in clinical counseling psychology, and Shields is with JP Morgan Chase in Wilmington, Del. “It was a proud moment,” Frohlich says.

content marketer at Indeed.com.

She started a blog with friends on career and work-life balance for women….Jason Rafferty was appointed to a faculty position at Brown Univ.’s Warren Alpert Medical School. He continues to work with marginalized youth in Rhode Island and was the lead author on a policy statement on affirmative care for gender diverse and transgender youth published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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

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Chelsea Cook and Jonathan DeCarlo welcomed Aislinn Marie on July 27, 2018….Marissa Corrente, an elections coordinator who coordinates early voting for the Orange County (Fla.) supervisor of elections, was featured in “The Engaged Citizen” podcast last November.

Her interest in politics started when she was a child because her own parents were involved, she said. Bates “did a lot of intentional work about student voter engagement and making sure we were exercising and utilizing our voice in that way.” At Rollins College, where she worked at the Center for Leadership and Community Engagement, “I started doing voter engagement work with students. That’s when I realized I was really passionate about this stuff, especially getting young people out to vote.”…Erin Culbreth Hotchkiss and Sam ’05 welcomed a son, Teddy, on

March 27, 2018. They live on New York’s Upper West Side….

Ben Haley completed a master’s degree in historic preservation from the Univ. of Vermont and since 2017 has worked in Boston for the Massachusetts Historical Commission as a preservation planner focusing on the National Register of Historic Places program….Michael Williams and Andrea Hopkins ’05 expected their child, a boy, in February.

He joins Molly. Michael was named managing partner of the Kalamazoo, Mich., office of the law firm of Bush, Seyferth & Paige….Oli Wolf and Lisa Harinstein were married Oct. 6, 2018. He was promoted to vice president at DCI Group LLC, a global public affairs and communications firm. Lisa is a pharmacist at the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation & Research. They live in Washington.

class co-presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com Max Cutchin and Rachael Lichter tied the knot in May 2018….Ryan Dean, an English teacher and printmaker in Providence, R.I., started his own business creating classic card games that are bilingual, “so people of all ages can engage new languages in a fun way.” He launched a Kickstarter campaign for the business, LUMUKU. A double major in art and visual culture and German studies, he was inspired while running an art studio for Turkish children in an intensive English-language program in Istanbul. The company name comes from the sign-off he and friends in Turkey used in their emails in the off-season and means: Love You, Miss You, Kiss You….Louisa Demmitt lives in Colorado and works for NBC/ Bluprint in video education. “I focus on hand crafts and cake decorating, and it continues to be an awesome and fun challenge.”…As the second season of Strangers wrapped, director and producer Mia Lidofsky talked to HuffPost about how her own life has inspired the Facebook Watch show and the importance of narratives created by and featuring queer people.

Strangers follows a bisexual woman and her lesbian best friend, a “self-discovery tale against the backdrop of Airbnb,” writer Curtis Wong wrote. Mia, who worked on the shows Girls and Nurse Jackie as an assistant to director Jesse Peretz, said she wanted to make women “feel more seen, more heard, and less

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alone. I wanted to show queer women in a positive light, and show their hilarity, their beauty, and their charisma. The more depictions of queer people onscreen by queer people, the better.”…Helen Paille and Kyle Enman are engaged and planning an October wedding in Maine. In January, Helen began a new position as a staff attorney at The Waterfront Project in Jersey City, N.J., providing free representation to low-income clients in housing court….Janneke Petersen and her husband are sailing around the Pacific for two years on their 40-foot boat. They left from Seattle in the fall of 2017 and will return in the fall of 2019. “I am writing middle-school earth science curriculum for a Seattle-based curriculum development company called Educurious, on the boat, as we go.”…Joe Szerejko is now an associate in the Litigation Dept. at Murtha Cullina LLP in Hartford.

2010 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@ gmail.com Cameron and Rachel Tofel Ferrante welcomed Oscar Robert Ferrante on Dec. 6, 2018….Chris Joyce was promoted to associate vice president for strategic communications and chief of staff to the president at Bentley Univ.

2011 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@ gmail.com Pat Williams Patw.williams@gmail.com United Soccer Coaches named Sam Polak to its 2018–19 class of 30 Under 30, an award for the top up-and-coming U.S. soccer coaches under age 30….Claire Parker Till and husband Ralph are in the “rock and droll” band Droll Weevil, and play shows regularly in Humboldt County, Calif., where they live. Their EP is available to listen to online….A day after their wedding on Nov. 10, 2018, Flora Rice-Chan and Jocelyn Rice-Chan ’12 took a trip to Commons with some of their BatesBesties to continue the celebration. Flora and Jocelyn met as lab partners in the Bates class “Plate Tectonics and Tectonic Hazards.”

2012 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class co-presidents Michael Pasek mikeypasek@gmail.com Sangita Murali sangitamurali12@gmail.com

R. Casey Andersen says one of her favorite parts of working in the Bates Alumni Office is talking with lots of alumni and learning about their unique experiences and what Bates means to them….In the Bangor Daily News blog Summer in Maine, a writer spoke to Kristy Andrews, assistant director of Camp Wawenock in Raymond. She spent her childhood summers at Camp Wawenock and later became a counselor, working there before and after a stint as an English teacher in Chile. Now, she’s one of a few year-round employees at the camp. Kristy spoke to the community the camp offers girls, allowing them to “be their true selves.” “There’s a whole group of people who love you and support you.”…

Boston architect Erik Barth was recognized with a merit award for a nationwide architecture competition to design a lodge in Maine near Sugarloaf Mountain using mass timber. The new construction technology uses sustainably sourced wood to create buildings as small as a home or as tall as 20 or 30 stories, he explains. Erik is one of the firmwide experts in the technology at Gensler’s Boston office….Ali Cornforth Covie has begun their first year of graduate school at USM to become a school counselor.

They are passionate about this career change and enjoy being back in academia….Mikey Pasek completed a PhD in social psychology at Penn State and is now a postdoctoral researcher at The New School for Social Research, studying how religious beliefs affect intergroup cooperation.

He conducted field work with Christians, Hindus, and Muslims in Fiji….Israel Piedra was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He will continue practicing law in Nashua during his two-year term….Monica Rodriguez now works in-house as a staff attorney for United Rentals Inc., the largest equipment rental company in the world….Hope Staneski graduated from Duke Law School and is spending two years in Missoula, Mont., as a law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy….

Dylan Taylor is finishing his MBA at the Univ. of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. After graduating he will move back to Boston to work in strategy and operations consulting.

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takeaway: Creating an ‘oasis of opportunity’ can strengthen a community NBC News featured the Rev. Marshall Hatch Jr. ’10, a youth minister at New Mount Pilgrim Church who has created a residential program for young African American men in Chicago’s West Garfield Park. The area has a lower life expectancy, due to poverty and violence, than other Chicago communities.

Hatch, who earned graduate degrees at the University of Chicago after majoring in politics at Bates, created the Maafa Redemption Project to give young men stable housing, mentors, job training, and identity and purpose development, and, in turn, to strengthen their communities.

“We wanted to see what impact we could have with the young men in our neighborhood if we created an oasis of opportunity,” Hatch said.

More than 90 percent of Maafa Fellows enroll in community college or work in construction.

2013 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class co-presidents Ryan Sonberg rsonberg9@gmail.com Meg Murphy megan.a.murphy3@gmail.com Eleanor Anaclerio got engaged to Kevin Cahalane. They are living in Boston while he pursues his MBA and plan an October 2019 wedding….Linnea Fulton is excited to begin her career

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as a physician assistant at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Inpatient Oncology service….

Michael Hanley is finishing his second year at the Tuck School of Business and then heads to Seattle to work full time at Microsoft….James Mulholland is now an investment consultant at Merrill Lynch in New York. He graduated on full-merit scholarship from the Univ. of Florida’s business school with an MBA in finance and passed the final levels of the CFA and CAIA exams….Corinna Parisi works at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston. “I enjoy the New England weather I fell in love with while at Bates!”

Jared Golden ’11 greets supporters at the Gendron Franco Center in Lewiston on Election Day, Nov. 6.

Newly elected Congressman Ben Cline ’94 hugs his predecessor, Bob Goodlatte ’74, before giving his acceptance speech in Roanoke, Va., on Election Day.

Party Lines Three alumni — Bob Goodlatte ’74, Ben Cline ’94, and Jared Golden ’11 — were part of the comings and goings in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 3 as newly elected congressional representatives took their seats and others left office.

Cline’s and Golden’s elections were both unusual.

Cline succeeded a fellow alumnus, Goodlatte, who had held Virginia’s 6th District seat since 1992.

“Being a part of the checks and balances our founders envisioned is a responsibility I will guard seriously,” Cline said in his victory speech. “Our values are timeless, and I don’t believe we should start doing wrong just because more people choose not to do right.”

And in Maine’s 2nd District, Golden’s election took more than a week to decide after neither he nor incumbent Bruce Poliquin got a majority in the four-candidate race. Gaining national attention, the election was decided

by Maine’s new ranked-choice voting mechanism.

“Mainers want a new generation of leaders who will fix our dysfunctional political system so that it serves the people first and foremost,” Golden said during his victory speech.

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2014 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Hally Bert hallybert@gmail.com Mildred “Milly” Aroko mildredaroko@gmail.com Jennifer Bergeron married Tristen Ripley, a fellow Mainer and medical school classmate, in October 2017. They graduated in 2018 from Tufts Univ. School of Medicine, Maine Track Program, and she started her internal medicine residency at the Univ. of Vermont in Burlington….The Bangor Daily News reported the town of York now knows it’s mostly on track to eliminate municipal greenhouse gas emissions, thanks to research conducted by AmeriCorps volunteer Lucy Brennan.

Lucy, who is also the sustainability program coordinator for the city of South Portland, started out by organizing data from York’s municipal power bills.

Overall, her research has shown that emissions from heating fuel, electricity, and streetlights have all gone down in recent years, but the town’s vehicle fleet remains a significant source of emissions. The fire department has done a particularly good job — thanks in part to a solar array on its rooftop — with reducing emissions, she said….

Mariya Manahova married Jacob Steyn on Jan. 9, 2019, in the Netherlands. “We’re feeling very loved and glad that we’ve found a warm haven in each other.“…

Sam Metzger is an actor and company member of Irondale Ensemble Project and a teaching artist in Brooklyn, N.Y….Chelsea Thompson Russell’s family grew with the birth of Julien Russell in October….Catherine Strauch got engaged. She and fiancé Nour hope to see lots of the class at Reunion.

2015 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents James Brissenden brissendenja@gmail.com Ben Smiley bensmiley32@gmail.com

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Jenna Armstrong began medical school at Duke Univ. School of Medicine….Alex Millström was on the USA triathlon team and competed in the ITU World Triathlon Championship last September in Gold Coast, Australia. At Bates, the biochemistry major was on the women’s rowing, soccer, and track teams.

She works as a clinical research coordinator at the Ragon Institute, a medical institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and Harvard….Michelle Pham, Kelsey Freedman, and Hannah Goldberg ’16 returned to campus in November to talk to students in the OIE about navigating a tech career. Kelsey and Hannah work at HubSpot, while Michelle is a Google account manager for ecommerce and retail.

Interviewed last year by Women of Silicon Valley, a publication on the Medium platform that highlights women and genderqueer people in tech, Michelle says that what makes her proudest is her Bates education. A first-generation-to-college student, she says that education is her “passport to the world.”...Hannah Weiss is in her second year of a PhD program in clinical science and psychopathology research at the Univ. of Minnesota.

2017 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class co-presidents Jessie Garson jgarson4@gmail.com Matthew Baker mattdbaker13@gmail.com Gina Ciobanu and James Karsten were married Oct. 20, 2018….One of 48 recipients of a competitive Marshall Scholarship, Chris Crum will take a hiatus from the University of Chicago Law School to study at the University of Oxford. He’s interested in legal measures that governments might take to protect the integrity of elections, journalism, and data privacy, with an eye on new data-sharing agreements between the U.K. and the U.S. He’s the first Marshall Scholar from Bates since Linda Griffiths Johnston ’79.

2018 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class co-presidents John Thayer john.robert.thayer@gmail.com Jake Shapiro shapirojacob6@gmail.com

2016 class co-presidents Sally Ryerson sallyryerson@gmail.com Andre Brittis-Tannenbaum andrebt44@gmail.com

Max Alley ’16 and Gordon de M Batchelder ’16 work together on the same team at Twitter in San Francisco.

Folashade Ade-Banjo moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and started a new role as a product marketing manager at Google….

Max Alley and Gordon de M Batchelder work together on the same team at Twitter in San Francisco. “We’re analyzing content (and memes) to keep Twitter’s users safe from global fraudsters. Outside of work, we bike the Marin Headlands in the summer and shred the slopes of Tahoe in the winter.”…Chrissy McCabe obtained her MSc in petroleum geoscience from the Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology. She lives on the Pacific island of Yap, Micronesia, where she volunteers as a math and science teacher at Yap Catholic High School….In Bogota, Colombia, Noah Riskind coaches soccer and teaches English….Mara Woollard joined the throngs of seasonal park rangers, finishing a season in the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Great Falls in Potomac, Md.

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AK Wright '17 (standing) talks with a group, including Lewiston resident Sarah Barton, during an MLK Day workshop.

Lifting Every Voice On MLK Day at Bates, a presentation by AK Wright ’17 drew a full crowd to Room G21 in Pettengill Hall.

A doctoral student in feminist studies at the University of Minnesota, Wright made a compelling argument that the notoriously racist U.S. criminal justice system — one that particularly harms black transgender people — can only be solved through its abolishment.

“One in two black transgender individuals has been incarcerated” in America, Wright said.

“That’s a staggering number.”

Wright’s scholarly work uses a critical tool called decolonial feminism, which “understands that the root of gender- and race-based oppression lies in coloniality.”

The legacies we see today in race, gender, and sexuality “connect back to the origins of slavery in America and ideas about gender established by the continent’s white colonizers and those who profited from colonization.”

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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.

Manchester ’12 & Small ’10 Haley Manchester ’12 and Brendan Small ’10, Aug. 18, 2018, Bristol, R.I. Alex Downs ’09, Brendan and Haley, Jessica Howard Olsen ’12, Flora Chan ’11, Jocelyn Rice ’12, Rachel Hastings ’11.

Keppler & Arsnow ’10 Ali Keppler and Dan Arsnow ’10, Aug. 4, 2018, Beverly, Mass. Eric Brown ’10, Barbara Griffin Arsnow ’77, Liz Leberman ’10, Nate Biagetti ’10, Elle Torrey ’10, Helena Turner ’10, Rachel Kurzius ’10, Jake MacNaughton ’10, Kara Sullivan ’10, Paul Cocchiaro ’10, Mikey Arsnow ’14, Segundo Guerrero ’12, Katherine Buckley ’12, Naima Murphy ’10, James Preiss ’14, Nick Salcido ’11, Sammy Rothkopf ’10, Christine Arsnow ’08, Jay Bladon ’10, Zach Abbott ’14, Will Field ’10, Aisling Ryan ’14, Zach Bain ’10.

Reilly ’12 & Fidler Maggie Reilly ’12 and Leland Fidler (Bowdoin ’10), July 21, 2018, Princeton, Mass. Back: Dave Littlefield ’70, Bobby Burns ’12, CJ Chu ’12, Jeff Beaton ’12, Santo Dettore ’12, Josie Reinhardt ’12, Cam Powel Mize ’11; front: Ellie McDonald Bicknell ’12, Maggie and Leland, Joan O’Neill ’12, Jess Waters Duryea ’12.

Thomas ’08 & Arnold Victoria Thomas ’08 and Boyd Arnold, Sept. 8, 2018, Conservatory of Flowers, San Francisco. Nate Witherbee ’08, Allegra Timperi Wilson ’08, Kevin Berry ’08, Zach Wilson ’08, Alex Connor ’08, Emily Bates ’07, Peter Marsters ’08, Josh Galvin ’08, Lily Hanstein ’09, Dan Ricciardi ’08, Nini Spalding ’08, Jeremy Grant ’08, Tinsley Iselin-Hadley ’07, David Al-Ibrahim ’09, Mary-Carson Saunders Stiff ’08, Marissa Tripolsky ’08, Demian von Poelnitz ’08, Bronwen Hanna-Korpi Sterling ’00, Dan Loman ’08, Greg Waters ’08, Sophia Brown ’09, Rachel Hiles ’08, Max Patinkin ’08.

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Bal & Friedman ’11 Sharan Bal (McGill Univ. ’09) and Rob Friedman ’11, Sept.

1 (Sikh ceremony) and Sept.

2, 2018 (Jewish ceremony), Roxbury, N.Y. Cam Urban ’11, Marta Solomianko ’11, Avi Farber ’12, Tim Howard ’09, Will Gardner ’09, Madeline McLean ’09, Sarah Codraro ’09, Deb Altman ’11, Ben Latham ’11, Sharan and Rob, Mira David ’09, Maayan Cohen ’10, Andrew Karp ’10, Jack Murphy ’08, Mike Pickoff ’09.

Concepcion ’15 & Taveras Gabrielle Concepcion ’15 and Elkin Taveras, July 23, 2018, Santiago, Dominican Republic. Bottom: Cristal Martin ’13, Sebastian Martinez-Miranda ’15, Sugeiry Betances ’15, Gabrielle, Rokya Samake ’15, Michelle Pham ’15, Paul Fourgous ’15, Fadia Felfle ’15, Felix Xie ’15; top: Graeme Welds ’15, Becca Carifio ’15, Eric Adamson ’15, Hannah Siegel ’15, Julian Hackney ’15, Rakey Drammeh ’14, Kat Brea ’15.

Rorimer ’03 & Chen Sarah Rorimer ’03 and Peter Chen (Dartmouth ’08), Aug. 11, 2018, Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

Top: Andy Dalton ’01, Peter Mertz ’03, Caroline Coffey Zedella ’03; bottom: Sarah and Peter.

Cook ’11 & Nadler ’10 Taylor Cook ’11 and Mike Nadler ’10, June 30, 2018, Point Lookout, Northport, Maine.

Haynes Johnston ’10, Kelsey Mehegan ’15, Mark Murphy ’12, John Bay ’09, Matt Knortz ’09, Erin O’Connor ’13, Dave Barrett ’10, Andrew Laflam ’10, Taylor and Mike, Evan Bagley ’10, Luke Strathmann ’10, Nick Woods ’10, Rachel Vaivoda ’11, Sarah Moore Frechette ’11, Jenny Krupski Gusella ’11.

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Zimmermann ’07 & Bleidorn Catherine Zimmermann ’07 and Matthew Bleidorn, Oct. 8, 2016, Highfield Hall, Falmouth, Mass. Brad Merchant, Hannah Merchant ’07, Matthew and Catherine, Laura Cook Mehta ’07, Danielle Rettinger ’07.

Snyder ’14 & Place ’14 Jenny Snyder ’14 and Charles “Matt” Place ’14, Aug. 10, 2018, Woodlands Club, Falmouth, Maine. Back row: Alison Travers ’14, Michael Iannotti ’14, Ryan Sonberg ’13, Michael Bernstein ’14, Liam O’Neil ’14, Nick Anania ’10, Craig Blake ’08; middle: Jack Gonsalves ’14, Andrew Kukesh ’14, Kelly Yardley ’14, Alayna Garbarino ’14, Caroline O’Sullivan ’14, Cary Gemmer Blake ’07; front: Kara Garland Hodgson ’14, Katie Meade ’14, Jacqueline Thompson Thurlow ’47, Jenny and Matt, Lauren Dobish ’12.

Lucia & Shaughnessy ’13 Melinda Lucia and Kevin Shaughnessy ’13, Nov. 3, 2018, Ridgefield, Conn. Back: Michael Hanley ’13, Nicholas Karlson ’13, Taylor Gartley ’13, Ryan MacDonald ’13; front: Allie Skaperdas ’15, Tess Ferguson ’14, Melinda and Kevin, James Mulholland ’13, Scott Olehnik ’13.

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Bosques & Hatch ’10 Zulmarie Bosques (Bowdoin ’11) and Marshall Hatch Jr. ’10, Aug. 25, 2018, Chicago.

Bob Kubacki, Corey Yates, Yaritza Peña, Dauhjee Kelly, Zulmarie and Marshall, Jonathan Dowdy ’09, Caleb Dowdy ’18, Anthony Phillips ’10.

Wicks ’08 & Fulton Christine Wicks ’08 and Jim Fulton, July 7, 2018, Newport, R.I. Front row: Vicky Aghababian Wicks ’74, Val Wicks ’04, Christine and Jim, Molly Balentine Paul ’08, Rachel Katz ’08, Caroline Ginsberg ’08, Becky Rubenstein ’08, Amy Rosania ’08, Emily Concannon ’08; second row: Max Patinkin ’08, Ron Brickett ’74, Barb Welch ’74, Marissa Corrente ’06, Sophia Brown ’09, Erin Kelly ’08, Alexander Connor ’08, Bruce Wicks ’74, Scott Aghababian ’89, Tyler Paul ’06, Elle Yee-Olano ’08, Katie Rocklin Donnelly ’08, Lily Rossow-Greenberg ’08, Luis Rodriguez ’07.

Liantaud ’12 & Fong ’12 Franceska Liantaud ’12 and Matt Fong ’12, June 8, 2018, Miami, Fla. Top to bottom: Kaitlin Weinman ’12, Colin Hanrahan ’12, Neal Goldberg ’12, Alex Koster ’11, Tamara Wyzanski ’09, Liana Blum ’12, Adam Dolin ’12, Carver Low ’12, Jane Salpeter ’12, Bradley McGraw ’10, Meredith Greene ’12, Jess Horowitz ’12, Caroline “Kit” Sheridan ’12, Liane FitzGerald ’12, Reid Whelan ’13, Kelvin Gutierrez ’13, Noah Cohn ’12, Claire Lampen ’12, Daniel Schiffer ’12.

Gwynne ’13 & Fratus Lindsey Gwynne ’13 and Devin Fratus, Oct. 21, 2017, North Andover, Mass. Jessica Heiges ’13, Mollie Kervick ’13, Aly Goldstein ’13, Devin and Lindsey, Caroline Cook Stanton ’13, Larisa Collins ’13, Pamela Ross ’13, Melanie Sklar ’14, Kelly Kruger ’14, Shashi Shankar ’12.

Dorison ’13 & Padellaro Liza Dorison ’13 and Joe Padellaro, Aug. 24, 2018, Westport, Conn. Ted Okamoto ’13, Cara Garcia-Bou ’13, Eve Boyce ’13, Rebecca Bernhard ’13, Liza and Joe, Eleanor Anaclerio ’13, Taegan Williams ’13, Perrin Bernard ’13.

Sharma & Naparstek ’11 Mahika Sharma (Univ. of Connecticut ’08) and Dan Naparstek ’11, Sept. 22, 2018, Mount Hope Farm, Bristol, R.I. Standing: Robert Lindon ’11, Samuel Polak ’11, Aron Bodwitch ’11, August Felix ’11, Leigh Michael ’12, Ben Manter ’11, Keegan Runnals ’11, Billy Hines ’11, Katie D’Angelo Manter ’11, Edward Sturtevant ’11, Greg Flynn ’11, Will Field ’10, Mahika, Luke Nichols ’11, Dan, Jon Rubin ’11, Tom Bloch ’11, Ali Hare ’11; floor: Eliott Morgan ’11, John Laude ’12, Jane Salpeter ’12, Alex Koster ’11, Andrew Wilcox ’11.

Magid & Anderson ’07 Hannah Magid and John Anderson ’07, Oct. 20, 2018, Hidden Pond Resort, Kennebunkport, Maine. Back row: Ben Morrill ’07, Adam Bristow ’07, John D’Ascenzo ’07, Tyler Maynard ’07, Nick Leonard ’07, Phil Taylor ’07, Scot Wilks ’07, Jordan Swaim ’07, Claire McClintock ’07, Ryan Boyer ’09; front: Craig Blake ’08 (holding Clara), Cary Gemmer Blake ’07, Allison Marshall ’07, Katy Corrado ’07, Hannah and John, Hannah Meyer White ’07, Len White ’07.

Fanning ’12 & Dikmen Carolyn Fanning ’12 and Mert Dikmen, June 9, 2018, Wave Hill, Bronx, N.Y. Kristy Andrews ’12, Eve Boyce ’13, John Harvey ’09, Chris Cason ’11, Carolyn and Mert, Meghan Napier ’12, Hannah Wilken ’12, Christopher Calahan ’12, Caitlyn DeFiore ’12, Nora Brouder ’12.

Hogan & McCall ’08 Charlotte Hogan (Boston Univ. ’13) and Tim McCall ’08, June 30, 2018, Zion Episcopal Church/The Inn at Manchester, Manchester, Vt. Matt Dunlap ’08, Matt Biggart ’06, David Krause ’08, Abby Samuelson ’10, Andrew Percy ’08, Tim Natriello ’09, Tim and Charlotte, Matt Savas ’08, Harrison Little ’08, Steve Monsulick ’07, Teah Muller ’07.

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Church in Indiana and northern Michigan, and a strong supporter of civil rights, she received a special mission recognition from the United Methodist Women National Office in December 2017. Survivors include daughter Marvine Stamatakis; two grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and niece Anita Miller White ’67.

Her late sister and brother-in-law were Claire Greenleaf White ’42 and Wallace H. White ’42.

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1936 Ann Drobnis McMenamin Reynolds June 30, 2018 Ann Drobnis McMenamin Reynolds finished her degree at Albertus Magnus College after some time at Bates. She was active in the Visiting Nurses Assn. while living in Scranton, Pa. Survivors include sons Hugh and Brian McMenamin; and two grandchildren.

1938 Mary Alice Vannah Fairley August 17, 2018 After her husband died in 1949, Mary Alice Vannah Fairley renewed her teaching certificate and went back to school. She taught in Rockland for several years before moving to Westfield, Mass., where she taught fifth and sixth grade for 30 years.

Retirement in 1982 allowed her to return to her home in East Boothbay. She was active in the East Boothbay Methodist Church and worked in its thrift shop, was a member of the women’s society and served as the church treasurer. Survivors include daughter Frances Fairley Sherburne ’65; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

1940 Robert Franklin Spencer February 9, 2017 Bob Spencer, ordained as a Baptist minister in 1942, was a pastor at churches in Almond and Batavia, N.Y., and Bennington, Vt. He served as chaplain of both the New York and Vermont civil air patrol, and was president of the Genesee city council of churches. He was also president of the New York State Ministers Council and a senator to the National Ministers Council. An avid sailor, he and his second wife Joy spent three years on their sailboat, covering 5,000 miles from the Gaspe Peninsula to Key West. He later wrote a weekly newspaper column on creative retirement and taught “Introduction to Computers.”

His late first wife was Priscilla Bowles Spencer ’42.

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Earle Frederick Zeigler September 29, 2018 Earle Zeigler, a three-sport athlete at Bates in football, wrestling, and swimming, entered the field of physical education shortly after college when he became assistant physical education director at the Bridgeport (Conn.) YMCA. After earning a PhD at Yale, he started a long affiliation with the Univ. of Western Ontario in 1949. He became the first dean of the department of physical education in 1972. In between, he taught at the universities of Illinois and Michigan. He was a pioneer in arguing the merits of studying the sociocultural dimensions of sport and physical activity, arguments that helped establish academic curricula and the first professional societies dedicated to sport history, sociology, philosophy, and management, and the international/comparative study of sport and exercise. The author of 50 books and 430 scholarly articles, he was named president of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education in 1981. Later, he was awarded the academy’s highest accolade, the Clarke Heatherington Medal of Distinction. Survivors include wife Anne; daughter Barbara; and one grandchild. His first wife, now deceased, was Bertha Bell Zeigler ’40.

1941 Dorothy Doten Bentley October 11, 2018 An English major, Dorothy Doten Bentley was an elocution specialist who enjoyed drama, reading, classical music, arts and crafts, dogs, yellow cats, and meerkats.

While living in Gloucester, Mass., she worked as a teacher. She later was an office manager for the YWCA in Lewiston, her hometown. Survivors include daughter Annie Rasmussen. Her late brother was Richard O. Doten ’44.

Helen Greenleaf Cook May 21, 2018 Helen Greenleaf Cook served in the WAVES during World War II as a radio operator in Seattle, no doubt putting her German degree to good use. She worked as an elementary school teacher and social worker, and as a pastor’s wife for her husband, Marvin.

Always involved in her community and the United Methodist

John Kelley McSherry April 24, 2018 Jack McSherry’s degree was scarcely dry when he began service in the U.S. Army Air Corps, helping to bring the first B-29s into World War II. He went on to earn six battle stars and six Bronze Stars. His career was mostly in the insurance industry; he worked for MetLife for 25 years before retiring in 1981 and opening his own agency.

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Irish Mayor of the Day in 2011 (he gave all children the day off from school), and in 2008 he was honored by the Ancient Order of Hibernians as the St. Patrick’s Day parade marshal. A life member of the Elks, he was given Naugatuck High School’s patriotism award in 2013. He was a member of his 45th, 50th, and 55th Reunion gift committees and a class agent. Survivors include sons George, Kevin, J. Brian, and Michael McSherry; and five grandchildren.

1943 Marilynn Parkhurst Bonenfant May 1, 2018 Marilynn Parkhurst Bonenfant left Bates and graduated from the Chamberlain School of Fashion and Retailing. She was active in the Congregational church and an avid golfer. Survivors include children Pamela Raymond and Edwin Bonenfant; four grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. Her nieces are Candace Cameron Alden ’69, Rosemary Cameron Hooson ’74, and Julia M. Cameron ’72. Her late relatives include sister Carolynn Parkhurst Cameron ’44, brother-in-law John D. Cameron ’46, aunt Evelyn Parkhurst Folsom ’25, and uncle J. Paul Folsom ’26.

Charles Gilbert Hamlin September 3, 2018 Charles Hamlin interrupted his Bates studies to serve in the U.S. Navy. He helped capture a German submarine, the first enemy “man-of-war” captured at sea since 1815. News of the capture was withheld because of the trove of enemy secrets found on board. He was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for his role. Following his delayed graduation in 1946, he went to work for the Greater Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., where over the course of 30 years he rose to become personnel director for all of New England. He walked four or five miles every day well into his 80s, and was still driving at 96. He was a member of his 45th Reunion gift committee and

a class agent in 1998. Survivors include sons Richard and Jeffrey; two grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren. Two of his cousins, both deceased, were Mary Hamlin March ’45, whose obituary is also in this issue, and Ruth Hamlin Gutowski ’38.

V-12 G. Dana Bill May 16, 2018 Dana Bill came to Bates as a V-12 student and graduated from Tufts.

He was associated with Malden (Mass.) Trust Co. for over 40 years, retiring as president and CEO. William Crowther August 15, 2018 Bill Crowther enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the start of World War II. After coming to Bates for the V-12 program, he went to Harvard as part of the midshipmen’s school.

He graduated from Colby in 1947.

He worked for Richardson-Vicks Inc., retiring as director of marketing communications for its Americas/Far East Division.

Philip F.M. Gilley Jr. May 16, 2018 Phil Gilley traveled up from Bowdoin to attend V-12 classes at Bates and returned to Bowdoin after U.S. Navy duty in World War II to complete his degree. He had a career in dentistry, maintaining an orthodontic practice in Fitchburg, Mass., from 1956 to 1987, and teaching orthodontics at Boston Univ. He was vice president of the Fitchburg YMCA and the local United Way.

1944 Elizabeth Cort Brooks May 10, 2018 Betty Cort Brooks was a master bridge player who also excelled at cross stitch and crosswords. She traveled the world and was active with her late husband Jimmie in many civic organizations at her home in North Carolina. She was a member of her 50th and 55th Reunion committees. Survivors include children John and Judy; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Charles Harold Marr May 31, 2018 A B-17 commander during World War II, Charles Marr held a commercial pilot’s license as well. He was president of Southern New England Federal Credit Union in New Haven, Conn., where he worked for 30 years, and he was on the board of New England Federal Credit Union for 21. In retirement, he bought a little farm in Florida and learned to raise cattle.

Survivors include daughter Janet Marr and one grandchild. His late brother was Donald I. Marr ’46.

Raymon Francis Meader Jr. October 4, 2018 Raymon Meader finished the degree he started at Bates at Parks Air College in St. Louis. Survivors include daughters Candace Meader, Gail Anderson, and Joyce Meader; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

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His Bates relatives, both deceased, were his wife Elaine Humphrey Meader ’42 and sister Barbara Meader Roof ’54.

Virginia Hunt Moulton May 23, 2018 Ginny Hunt Moulton became a history enthusiast early in life through the efforts of a beloved aunt. She maintained close ties to her aunt, helping to write a 350-year family history and restore the family homestead in New Hampshire so her aunt could continue living there through her 100th birthday. Ginny and husband George W. Moulton ’46 also restored their own 1800s farmhouse. A driving force in the restoration of The Fort at No. 4, a colonial fortification in Charlestown, N.H., she served leadership roles on the conservation commission, promoting a local recycling program and leading educational programs to initiate the archaeological excavation and recognition of the Horace Hall stone grist mill.

She was also active in the AAUW, League of Women Voters, and PTA. Survivors include children Lynda and Christopher Moulton, and Marsha Campaniello; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and sister-in-law Margrett Moulton McFadden ’51.

Besides her husband, her late Bates relatives include father-inlaw George B. Moulton 1915 and sisters-in-law Barbara Moulton Scott ’44 and Marjorie Moulton Perkins ’41.

Joan Hammond Underkuffler October 25, 2018 In retirement in Farmington, Maine, Joan Hammond Underkuffler grew and exhibited remarkable dahlias for the Franklin County Fair. During her working days, she helped children grow into remarkable people. She taught first grade in Barrington, N.J., and especially enjoyed working with small children challenged with perceptual or other learning disabilities.

She held a master’s in education from Rutgers in addition to her sociology degree from Bates. After her husband Frank’s death in 1987, she returned to Maine and lived in Farmington for almost 30 years, working for her church, other community organizations, and the social service causes of her retired teachers’ organization.

Survivors include children Frances Mochida, Laura Underkuffler, and Frank Underkuffler; and four grandchildren, one of whom is Katharine S. Knight ’19. Her sister is Esther Hammond Cooper ’53, and her brother is Oswyn K. Hammond ’50. Her nephews are Paul E. Hammond ’82 and Kenneth J. Hammond ’80, and her great-nieces Julia Hammond ’03 and Leah Sturman ’17. Her other Bates relatives, all deceased, were her mother Marjorie Thomas Hammond ’20, sister Alice Hammond Humes ’49, and brother George S. Menger-Hammond ’43.

1945 Kurtland Herrick Lord June 27, 2018 Kurt Lord started his medical

career while still at Bates, working the switchboard at Central Maine General Hospital on the nightshift. After graduating in three years, he graduated from Boston Univ. School of Medicine in 1949. He served in the U.S. Navy Hospital Corp. from 1944 to 1946 and in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division as captain-regimental surgeon from 1949 to 1956. He completed a urology residency at McGuire VA Hospital in Richmond, Va., and practiced for 31 years at Mease Hospital in Dunedin, Fla., where he also served as chief of staff. Survivors include wife June Mathews Morgan Lord; children Darryl and Michael Lord, and Sharon Lord Wardlaw; stepchildren S. Mark Morgan and Jacqueline Morgan-Ogle; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Mary Hamlin March December 29, 2017 Mary Hamlin March waited until her children were grown before starting to work as a physical education teacher in Millis, Mass. After retiring to her summer home of Bridgton, she became active in the Hospital Guild, the Ladies’ Guild at the First Congregational Church, and the Literary Club.

She also was a member of her 50th Reunion committee. Survivors include children Meredyth Goss, Judith March, and Jeffrey March; five grandchildren, including Christie Goss Oberg ’97; and seven great-grandchildren.

Her late cousin was Charles G. Hamlin ’43, whose obituary is also in this issue. Her late sister was Ruth Hamlin Gutowski ’38.

1946 Richard Steele Buker Jr. June 29, 2018 Richard Buker could choose from many options after graduating from Yale Medical School, but he chose to open a practice in a small town in Montana, a place that really needed a doctor. He served Chester for nearly 50 years.

An international traveler from a young age — his parents were missionaries — he spent three years in the U.S. Air Force, including a posting in the Philippines. He remained in the Reserves for many years, retiring in 1981 as a colonel.

In 1992, he was named national rural health practitioner of the year by the National Rural Health Assn. As a solo practitioner, he delivered upwards of 100 babies a year, and his daughter claims he never got through one of her school programs without being called away. A civic leader, he took an active role in many organizations in the community, especially his church. His late wife was Jean McEnaney Buker ’46. Survivors include daughter Candace Chang; and nine grandchildren. His cousin is Daniel B. Clarke ’65.

Other Bates relatives, all deceased, are father Richard S. Buker 1921, sister-in-law Lois McEnaney Foss ’49, uncles Harold W. Buker 1916, Gerald H. Buker 1920, and Raymond B. Buker 1922, and cousin Norman K. Buker ’51.

Marjorie Walther Keach May 17, 2018 Marjorie Walther Keach used her time as a minister’s wife to raise four children, train as a reading specialist, work in real estate, and volunteer at the local hospital. The work of her late husband Richard L. Keach ’44, an American Baptist minister, took them to Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Connecticut, and Massachusetts as well as Maine. She was a member of her 50th and 55th Reunion committees, a class agent, and an alumni club officer. Survivors include children Alison Keach Shenkus ’70, Kathlyn Keach Horner ’77, and David and Rick Keach; seven grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and cousin Marion Louise Hamilton ’53.

Barbara Miller Rowell August 3, 2018 Scottie Miller Rowell was a docent at Fort De Soto Park in Florida and a volunteer with the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. This followed a career in teaching, first at the elementary level and then for many years at Wachusett Regional High School in Holden, Mass., where she soon became a guidance counselor. At the high school, she called herself the Vampire Lady because she ran the annual blood drive. She developed a love for photography in her later years, taking portraits of fellow residents at her retirement community. She chaired the endowment committee at the Unitarian Universalist church in St. Petersburg. She graduated magna cum laude in chemistry from Bates and also held a master’s in education from Clark and a certificate of advanced graduate study in guidance from Assumption College.

Survivors include sons John and Steve Rowell; four grandsons; and six great-grandchildren.

1947 Jane Doty McCune September 26, 2018 Jane Doty McCune had a gift: She could make Army housing into a home. Her husband was the late Col. John R. McCune ’49, and they enjoyed postings to Germany and various places in the U.S., retiring finally to Monterey, Calif.

She volunteered for the Monterey History and Art Assn., the Fort Ord Thrift Shop, and from 1988 on, the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. Active until the end, she was feted the week before her passing for her 30 years of hospital volunteer service. Her degree from Bates was in psychology. Survivors include children Lori Reiser and William McCune; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

1948 George Athan Billias August 16, 2018 George Billias, son of Greek immigrants, was a professor of American history at Clark Univ. from 1962 to 1989 and one of the foremost authorities on Colonial America. He came to Bates after

commanding an ambulance battalion for the U.S. Army during World War II, earning a Bronze Star for helping evacuate wounded men from the Remagen Bridge on the Rhine. His division liberated a number of camps containing Allied prisoners, displaced persons, and victims of the Holocaust. His grim wartime experiences, he once said, were the defining moment of his life.

Graduating magna cum laude from Bates with a degree in history, he earned a doctorate from Columbia. At the time of his death, he was working on a second volume of his masterwork on the impact of American Constitutionalism. The first volume, American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776–1989: A Global Perspective, published in 1990, won widespread acclaim from historians. It took 20 years to write what he called his “800-pound gorilla” that he “pushed out of the house.” He also wrote, edited, and co-edited 14 other volumes in biography, military history, historiography, and American constitutional history. On his retirement from Clark, more than 100 scholars in early American history attended a symposium in his honor. Papers presented were published in The Republican Synthesis Revisited: Essays in Honor of George Athan Billias. Proud of his Greek-American heritage, he served for many years on the Hellenic Arts Society board in Worcester. Survivors include wife Margaret Neussendorfer Billias; children Stephen, Athan, and Nancy Billias; and three grandchildren. His first wife, who died in 1976, was Joyce Baldwin Billias ’48. His late mother- and father-in-law were Grace Conner Baldwin 1913 and Grover Baldwin 1915.

Mary Alice Golder Chakoumakos March 23, 2018 A bird-watcher, bridge player, and math whiz who loved her own excellent cooking, Mary Alice Golder Chakoumakos met her husband, Charles Chakoumakos ’48, and moved with him from Farmington to Holmes Beach, Fla. In Maine, she was active in the Maine Chapter of AAUW and the Farmington Planning Commission. Survivors include children Scott, Bryan, Alison and Andrew; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; nephew James L. Henderson ’82; and brother-in-law Milton E. Henderson ’50. In addition to her late husband, her Bates relatives include her late sister Donna Golder Henderson ’49.

John Franklin Radebaugh July 3, 2018 When Dr. John Radebaugh encountered a Finnish immigrant who was skeptical about him, a substitute for her regular doctor, he did what any good doctor would do: He got out his harmonica and played “Finlandia.” It brought tears to her eyes, and the house visit went well. Radebaugh, a U.S. Army medical technician during World War II, went on to

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graduate from Harvard Medical School. His career expanded from pediatrics into general practice as he found himself in remote situations without adequate staffing: attending to Biafran refugees in Cote d’Ivoire, caring for migrant farm workers and developing clinics for Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. He was inducted into the Farm Worker Advocate Hall of Fame for his many years of service helping to improve living and working conditions for migrant farm workers.

He served in other community health care clinics before teaching and mentoring medical students at both Stanford and Dartmouth medical schools. He received a lifetime achievement award from the Maine Health Care Assn.

His book House Calls with John tells the story of his life’s work caring for the poor. Survivors include wife Dorothy; children George, Allan, and Susan; and two grandchildren.

1949 Calvin Woodrow Brown September 25, 2018 Calvin Brown left Bates after two years when he received an invitation to join the newly formed U.S. Air Force and re-enter military service. This was after his successful career as an Army Air Corps pilot and instructor during World War II. He eventually received a degree from the Univ. of Maryland. Survivors include sons Tom, Dick, and Bob; seven grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.

Jeanne Gillespie Ferrell May 12, 2018 “When I went to kindergarten,” Jeanne Gillespie Ferrell would say, “I couldn’t recite my alphabet, but I could play the piano in three flats.” She became an accomplished accompanist after the death of her husband Oliver in 1984, playing for churches and choirs in New York and New Jersey. She and her husband owned a business that sold short-wave radios. Survivors include children Carolyn Ferrell, Leslie Ann Koch, and Michael Ferrell; and four grandchildren.

Ellen Larsen Geer June 25, 2018 Ellen Larsen Geer left Bates after one year to care for her mother.

She soon married her childhood sweetheart (they met on her first day of school in Ledyard, Conn.).

She graduated from Eastern State Connecticut Teachers College.

Survivors include children Kristen Kaiser, Earl Geer III, Susan Geer, and Karen Donovan; and eight grandchildren.

Elaine Porter Haggstrom May 24, 2018 Elaine Porter Haggstrom couldn’t say no to a good cause. Her family called her a professional volunteer. She served as the district representative for the CT/NY District of the United Methodist church and was active in the United Methodist Women, serving in numerous capacities

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including president. She was a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts of America, belonged to the Welcome Wagon, drove her neighbors for FISH (Friends in Service to Humanity), taught at Beardsley Terrace in Bridgeport, Conn., when the Head Start program was first implemented, and welcomed international students into her home through the American Field Service program.

A mathematics major at Bates, she served as class secretary, class agent, and as a committee member for four Reunions.

Survivors include husband Olle Haggstrom; children Carl and Susan Haggstrom and Emina Darakjy; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

May Whitelaw Webster November 19, 2018 For over 30 years, May Whitelaw Webster owned and operated Wood’s Rubber Stamps in Paoli, Pa., working into her 70s. She was active in her children’s schools, working in the PTA and volunteering in the library. Survivors include children Mariann Smith and Stephen Webster; and three grandchildren.

1950 Lyla Nichols Barclay July 10, 2018 Lyla Nichols Barclay moved to Toronto to complete her master’s of social work at the Univ. of Toronto; her career was as a social worker with the Toronto Board of Education. She was active in local politics, including the boards of Frankland Home and Schools Assn. (PTA) and a shelter program. Survivors include husband Tony Barclay; children Martin, Mark, Douglas, and John; and eight grandchildren.

Phyllis Day Danforth May 11, 2018 More than 30 years after she retired, former students, now grandparents, would recognize Phyllis Day Danforth and tell her she was one of their favorite teachers. She taught English and social studies in Andover and South Dartmouth, Mass. With a degree in English from Bates, she earned a master’s in education from Boston Univ. She was a life member of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and spent many hours researching and recording 53 branches of the Day, Lovejoy, Foster, and Cleasby families. Survivors include sister Carolyn Day Chase ’53; niece Melissa Chase Doukmak ’84; and cousin Thomas D. Woodman ’53. The late Eleanor Lovejoy Woodman ’52 was also a cousin, and her late brother-in-law was Leonard R. Chase ’53.

Robert Allen Schmidt May 19, 2018 Bob Schmidt came to Bates after serving in the U.S. Army infantry in Europe during World War II. A math major, he taught briefly at Edward Little High School before joining Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut. He retired from there after 35 years as the manager of

programming in data processing.

He retained his allegiance to UConn women’s basketball despite living in the shadow of Notre Dame in retirement. A lifelong member of the Lutheran church, he served as an elder, Sunday school superintendent, and sang in many choirs, Survivors include children Bruce and Mary Beth Schmidt; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

1951 Gladys Bovino Dunn November 5, 2018 Gladys Bovino Dunn and her husband, the late Robert Dunn ’50, a former trustee, were deeply entrenched in the Bates community. She served Bates in many capacities, including service on the Alumni Council Executive Committee, as a member of the Bates Career Conference, as an adviser in the Career Discovery Internship Program, as a volunteer for several Reunion social committees, and as a member of the College Key. In 1962, they received an award for distinguished service, and in 2008 they received the Helen A. Papaiaoanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award. The Dunn Guest House is named in their honor. Gladys was a teacher and guidance counselor, having earned a master’s in education and a sixth-year certificate in counseling from the Univ. of Hartford. She worked at King Philip Junior High School and Middle School in West Hartford until her retirement in 1990. She and Bob then made traveling a full-time occupation, visiting all parts of the globe.

They spent five years in Seoul, South Korea, where she worked as director of admissions, testing and advanced placement, and he was deputy headmaster, at the Seoul International School. Bob died in 2017. She is survived by many friends.

Nancy Jones Lowe September 17, 2018 With a master’s in Latin and classics from the Univ. of Missouri, Nancy Jones Lowe became a teacher, working at every level from elementary school (Wareham, Mass.) to university level (Univ. of Missouri). She and her husband traveled all over the Rocky Mountains before deciding to build a home in Snowmass, Colo. A music lover, she was involved in the Aspen Music Festival, serving as a docent for many years. Survivors include children Edie Auner and Sandy Lowe; and six grandchildren, one of whom is Eric Auner ’08.

1952 Laurence Richard Birns August 30, 2018 Larry Birns studied at Bates and graduated from Columbia Univ., eventually doing postgraduate work in the social sciences at St. Catherine’s College at Oxford Univ. He taught at Hamilton College and served with a U.N. mission in Chile during the Salvador Allende government. The military

coup that overthrew Allende in 1973 led to his founding the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, D.C., in 1975. He directed the liberal, not-for-profit group, which monitors human rights and political developments in Latin America, for more than four decades. Survivors include son Nicholas.

Lucille Mainland Kelly June 22, 2018 Before marrying Jim Kelly ’51, Lu Mainland Kelly worked as a chemist in Rhode Island. In 1978 she received a master’s in environmental sciences from Texas Christian Univ. and then taught high school biology, chemistry, and environmental science at Fort Worth Country Day School, retiring in 1991. She was an active member of First Congregational Church in Fort Worth and served on the board of the South Central Alliance of Churches. She was a member of the College Key, a class agent, a Bates Fund executive committee member, served on her 50th and 55th Reunion committees, and as an alumni club officer. In addition to her husband, survivors include children Luanne Cullen, Nancy Kelly, and Curtis Kelly; and three grandchildren.

James George Pirie May 8, 2018 Jelly packets. Getting the cover off the damn things can be a big problem for the elderly, Jim Pirie discovered. And he thought that issue is just as important as accessible housing or health care.

A religion major, he earned a master’s in divinity from Andover Newton Theological School and served Congregational churches in Massachusetts and New Hampshire as a pastor until turning his attention to seniors.

He held a certificate in gerontological studies from the Univ. of Michigan and was the director of elderly affairs for the city of Marlboro, Mass. An advocate of ecumenical worship, he worked to build bonds across denominations. Whether organizing a march for civil rights during the ’50s and ’60s, working with legislators to eliminate the listing of race on marriage licenses, establishing programs to assist the elderly, or bringing his dream for a state-of-the-art community senior center to fruition, he spent his life making the lives of others better. Survivors include children Lisabeth and Christopher Pirie, and Sandra Pirie-St.Amour; and seven grandchildren. His late wife was Lucille Higgins Pirie ’53.

Priscilla MacCharles Rice July 13, 2018 “Cil” MacCharles Rice and her husband, Bob Rice Jr. ’52, learned to ski at Sunday River and were soon active members of the Prime Time skiers, a class for older learners that they soon turned into a social club as well. She became interested in working with Maine Handicapped Skiing, training one skier who competed — and won — in the Paralympics.

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Ohio, New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin. She earned a master’s in allied health education from the Univ. of Buffalo, and taught at Buffalo State College, Trocaire College, Rutgers, and Hackensack (N.J.) Hospital. She used her administrative positions to improve patient care and implement procedures to ensure nursing home compliance with various laws, and she organized and chaired committees that worked for social justice, civil and social rights throughout her life. In addition to her husband, survivors include children Thad, Dorothy, Robin, and Bernice Rice; and four grandchildren. Her mother-in-law was Robertine Howe Rice 1924.

Everett Vickery Tufts May 27, 2018 Everett Tufts left Bates to serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was assistant chief of income maintenance for the state of Connecticut. Survivors include daughter Sandra Nanalis; and two grandchildren. His late brother was Kenneth H. Tufts ’52.

1953 Sylvia Bernard Larson June 25, 2018 Sylvia Bernard Larson had two abiding interests: Canadian government (fitting for a government major) and Abraham Lincoln. She and her husband often vacationed in Canada’s provincial capitals, and she was a special assistant for the Abraham Lincoln collection at Bridgewater State Univ. She also wrote of the sites in all six New England states that concerned Lincoln. She held a master’s of library studies from Southern Conn. State Univ. and a master’s in history from Bridgewater State. Most of her career was as a university librarian. She was a member of the College Key. Her cousins are Sara Lougee Haupt ’88 and Sara Bernard Buckingham ’62.

1954 Beverly Walford Danielson July 19, 2018 Beverly Walford Danielson earned a master’s in psychiatric social work from Smith College and established the inpatient psychiatric unit at University Hospital in Cleveland. After raising her children, she taught herself botany and enjoyed an 18-year second career at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. In psychiatric social work, a job “was never finished, never satisfying. This is fresh and exciting every day,” she told The Plain Dealer in 1990.

She was named adjunct curator of botany by the museum. She was an Alumni-in-Admission volunteer for many years and served as the Northern Ohio Bates Alumni Club president from 1973 to 1984.

Survivors include husband Robert and sons Eric and Steve.

Lois Hall Saunders July 15, 2017 Lois Hall Saunders was a nursing student who went on to earn a master’s in nursing from Yale.

She worked as a psychiatric nurse for a number of years before joining Hill Health Care Center in New Haven, Conn., from which she retired after 20 years. She was active in the Unitarian Society of New Haven, where she volunteered for the Waverly Program, which offers tutoring and “fun experiences” to local youth, and started a memoir writing group.

She was also active in the AIDS Project New Haven. Survivors include daughter Laura Saunders and three grandchildren.

as funny and a pleasure to work with, she was an ardent feminist.

“The most stunning characteristic about Nancy was that she had that rare combination of having a very high intellectual capacity, matched by an equally high capacity for compassion,” said former colleague John Porter. She was a member of the College Key, her 50th Reunion Committee, and the Alumni Council. Survivors include children Carol and Caroline Grape, and Cathy Mitchell; and three grandchildren.

Elizabeth Sherman Wildes November 1, 2018 Betty Sherman Wildes met her husband, Glenn Wildes, at a 4-H awards banquet; 4-H was a lifelong interest. She worked briefly for MIT and the Univ. of Rhode Island before moving with her husband to Sanford, where she was trustee and financial secretary to her church, served on the Wilson Lake Assn. board, was secretary-treasurer to Maine Holstein Futurity, and manager of the York County soil conservation office. She also worked with her husband in a livestock fencing business. In addition to her husband, survivors include sons Douglas, Bruce, and David; and eight grandchildren.

Marvin William Kushner March 23, 2018 Marvin Kushner went on to Boston Univ. School of Law after Bates, and practiced real estate law in the Greater Boston area, founding several law firms over his career. He served as past president of the Massachusetts Assn. of Bank Counsel, and later on the Massachusetts Conveyancers Assn. board of directors, and as the founding chair of the association’s residential conveyancing committee.

Survivors include children Ellen Kushner, Michael Kushner, and Cynthia Kusher-Mancebo; three grandchildren; and sister Evelyn Kushner Perlman ’49.

1955 Kenneth Elmer Cook Jr April 22, 2018 A philosophy major at Bates, Ken Cook studied at Andover Newton Theological School and Wesleyan, from which he received a master’s in liturgical studies. He earned a PhD from the Univ. of Connecticut in 1983. Survivors include wife Sylvia Magnuson Cook ’55.

His sister-in-law and brother-inlaw are Carol Magnuson Freeman ’54 and Jeffrey V. Freeman ’56; his nephew is Eric H. Freeman ’79.

Pauline Jackson Emery May 28, 2018 A theology student at Bates, she left to attend the Chandler School for Women in Boston. She was active in the Union Congregational Church in York, Maine, for over 50 years. Survivors include daughters Pamela Lyon, Deborah Hanson, and Cynthia d’Entremont; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Nancy Cole Grape June 20, 2018 Nancy Cole Grape worked summers and nights during college at the Lewiston Daily Sun, covering state news and doing general assignment reporting. She parlayed this into a full-time position after graduation, eventually becoming a political writer and columnist for the Evening Journal. She was also a regular panelist on Maine Public Broadcasting System’s public affairs program. She joined the Portland Newspapers in 1982 as an editorial writer and columnist, writing about local, state, and national issues. She retired in 1997, but continued writing a weekly column for the Maine Sunday Telegram through 2008 and regular book reviews until 2013. Described by colleagues

Joan Smith Lord October 29, 2018 A biology major, Jodie Smith Lord became a physical therapist during her years in the Women’s Medical Service Corps. of the U.S. Army. She left the Army as a 1st lieutenant after working at Walter Reed Army Hospital, and went to work at Grace-New Haven Hospital. She practiced for many years as a PT with the Visiting Nurses Assn. of Madison, Conn., and later established her own physical therapy practice in Madison. Survivors include sons Peter and Parker; one grandchild; nephew Christopher M. Averill ’87; and former husband Warner P. Lord ’55.

Marion Buschmann True September 11, 2018 Marion Buschmann True claimed she got credit for baton twirling at Bates, but she was a sociology major. The daughter of the esteemed German professor August Buschmann, she grew up on the Bates campus and tried to get away by enrolling at Gorham Teachers College. She lasted a semester before returning to Bates. She married classmate Robert C. True Jr. ’55 a year after graduation; he survives her. They lived in Ohio and New York before settling in Westborough, Mass. She was program coordinator and senior advisor at the Westborough YWCA, where she also planned day trips for the Westborough Council on Aging. She served as executive director of the Westborough United Fund, and from 1987 to 2001, resident services/activities coordinator at The Willows Retirement Community. She served as co-chair of her 40th Reunion gift committee; was a member of her 35th and 60th Reunion gift committees; and an alumni club officer in the 1960s. In addition to her husband, she is survived by children Sharon, Laury, and

Robert True III ’91, Tracy L. Truzansky, and Stephanie True Peters ’87; and 10 grandchildren.

Other survivors include brother and sister-in-law Fritz Buschmann ’71 and Margaret Kendall Buschmann ’72; daughter-in-law Nancy Collins True ’91; and niece Dorothy L. Barnes ’72. Her late sister was Caroline Buschmann Barnes ’51.

1956 Robert Charles Drayton April 24, 2018 Born Robert Dreyfuss in Aachen, Germany, less than a year after Hitler took power, Bob Drayton fled Aachen as a child to escape the Holocaust. He grew up in Boston and served in the U.S. Army after graduating from Bates with a degree in psychology. He worked in the photoengraving business, retiring in 1992 as vice president and general manager of Capitol Engraving Co. in Nashville, Tenn. He returned to Aachen that year when the city’s mayor invited former citizens who had scattered all over the world. He spent a week in Germany visiting a daughter and cousins. “It was an unbelievable experience for all of us,” he wrote.

Survivors include wife Marta; children Lisa Black, Jennifer Durham, Charles Drayton, and Rebecca Hudmon; stepchildren Zachary Zellars, Jessica Zellars, and Nick Irvine; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Nancy Holmes Lamborn September 10, 2018 An English major, Nancy Holmes Lamborn worked as a medical secretary in New Jersey and as an instructional aide in San Diego.

Survivors include children Patricia Rahn and Bruce Lamborn.

Jackson Eugene Perkins July 31, 2018 Jackson Perkins left Bates for the U.S. Air Force and eventually graduated from Memphis State Univ. His career was spent in banking in Tennessee and Texas.

Survivors include two brothers.

Janet Sue Hudson Raugust October 8, 2018 Sue Hudson Raugust worked as a nurse (her major) before her children were born. Her second career was in real estate in Minneapolis, where she was also a volunteer guardian ad litem. An avid gardener, she loved to travel and spent three years in the Netherlands with her family. Survivors include husband Tony; and daughters Karen, Ellen, and Janet.

Sybil Benton Williamson June 20, 2018 Sybil Benton Williamson was a talented artist; her silk screenings were sought after at the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. She was the director of the Friends of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth.

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Enfield Shaker Museum. A class agent for over 20 years and a former class officer, she served on five different Reunion committees and was a member of the College Key. Survivors include daughters Anne, Sarah, and Julia Williamson; and two grandchildren.

Joan McGuire Wohlpart August 11, 2018 A biology major, Joan McGuire Wohlpart worked as a librarian for the General Foods Research Laboratory until her retirement.

She enjoyed raising and showing her American water spaniels. Survivors include husband Kenneth.

1957 Edward Gerard Dailey Jr. June 11, 2018 A master swimmer, Ed Dailey enjoyed trips to the beach. His work life revolved around water as well: He served several years in the U.S. Navy before becoming a civil engineer with the Navy shipbuilding program at Bath Iron Works. He also coached Little League and Sea Scouts. His wife, Agnes Beverage Dailey ’57, died less than six months later, on Nov. 21, 2018 (her obituary will appear in the Fall issue of Bates Magazine). Survivors include children Catherine, Edward III, Paul, and John; and three grandchildren.

Dudley Kingsbury Moses June 7, 2018 A chemistry major with a master’s in microbiology, Dudley Moses was an expert in herbicides, pesticides, and water treatment.

He worked as a research chemist for PPG Industries in Barberton, Ohio, for most of his career, and remained active as an environmental consultant in retirement.

Passionate about music, he also was a singer and once auditioned for the New York Metropolitan Opera. He sang with many choirs and choruses in Ohio, as well as solo performances. He was a longtime Mason and member of the United Church of Clinton, Mass. He was a committee member for his 45th, 50th, and 55th Reunions and served as president of the Northern Ohio Bates Club.

Survivors include sons Thomas and Peter; and four grandchildren. His late wife was Dorothy Halbert Moses ’57.

1958 Robert Hensel Rohrer August 31, 2018 A U.S. Navy veteran, Bob Rohrer was a bookbinder and worked for both Lancaster (Pa.) Press Inc. and Capital City Press in Montpelier, Vt. After retiring, he and his wife, Joanne, opened their large house as a bed and breakfast in Woodbury, Vt. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Elizabeth and Kenneth; and two grandchildren.

George W. Stinson June 6, 2018 George W. Stinson came to Bates as a Royce Purinton Scholar; he later transferred to Northeastern

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Univ., where he earned a bachelor’s in history. His M.Ed. was from Oregon State Univ. He taught history and economic geography at West Bridgewater (Mass.) High School before entering the U.S. Army and serving as a lieutenant colonel. Survivors include children George Jr., William Stinson, Pamela Hunt, and Margaret Stinson; and two grandchildren.

and imaging group at Baystate Medical Center. He was an avid traveler, wine connoisseur, and longtime supporter of the Boston and Springfield symphony orchestras. Survivors include wife Therese; children William, Brian, Steven, and Glenn LaPierre, and Karen Glass; and four grandchildren. Two of his nieces are Jennifer Smalley Kaufman ’88 and Caroline Smalley O’Brien ’91.

Appleton, Wis., from 1966 until his retirement in 2011 after 45 years of teaching and writing textbooks. He authored a book on Itanium architecture, processors for enterprise servers and high-performance computing systems. He was a member of the College Key and his 35th Reunion gift committee and a career adviser for the college. Survivors include his sister Dolly Guillen.

Owen Leslie Wood August 12, 2018 As he wrote many years later, two admitted failures led Owen Wood to a successful career as a virologist with the U.S. Navy.

First, he failed to cut the mustard as a teacher at Andover Newton Theological School, and then, once he joined the Navy, he couldn’t slice tissue samples adequately. This led him to the virology lab, where he worked first with the deadly Lassa virus, taking the first electron microscopic photos of it. His work with this virus was elemental in bringing about the biological containment labs we see today.

After completing a PhD at Yale, he was assigned to Ethiopia and then Egypt, giving him the opportunity to study yellow fever and Rift Valley fever. He also was admitted to the American Board of Medical Microbiology in 1982.

By now, he had reached the rank of lieutenant commander. In 1992, he retired from the Navy and started work for the FDA searching for anti-AIDS drugs, a position he held for six years.

A philosophy major at Bates, he graduated magna cum laude. Survivors include wife Nancy Belden Wood; children Jeanie Estes, Betsy Boyd, and Andrew Wood; and six grandchildren.

Beverlee Duncan Smith January 1, 2018 Beverlee Duncan Smith tried to retire from teaching three times; the third time, in 2010, did the trick. She had been the librarian and reading coach in Naples, Maine, following teaching assignments in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Ohio. She held a master’s in education from the Univ. of Hartford in addition to her English degree from Bates.

Survivors include sons Todd and Mark; and five grandchildren.

Marguerite Clark Gardner August 2, 2018 Meg Clark Gardner gave extra meaning to the phrase “English teacher.” She used her degree to help Vietnam-bound soldiers earn GEDs, forming lifelong bonds with them, and later taught English as a second language to immigrants. She held a number of positions for the state of Maine, including working at Augusta Mental Health Institute. She became a champion for those suffering work-related injuries while working for the Department of Workers Compensation, traveling statewide to ensure workers were treated fairly and rehabilitated successfully. She was a volunteer for the Buxton-Hollis Historical Society and a member of several Reunion social committees.

Survivors include children Beth, Geoffrey, and John; and one grandchild.

1959 David Arthur Danielson August 27, 2018 David Danielson left Bates in his junior year and received his degree from Boston Univ. He spent over two decades working in what he called an “alphabet soup of state and federal agencies” advocating for health care reform in the United States and abroad, but later shifted his career emphasis to facilitating interpersonal growth and environmentally conscious real estate development. He was a member of his 50th Reunion Gift Committee.

Survivors include wife Deborah Watrous, children Robin Adesode, Benjamin Stiles, Maria Ellsworth, Jason Danielson, and Lucia Danielson; stepdaughter Azana Watrous; and six grandchildren.

Other relatives, all deceased, were father Arthur W. Danielson ’37, mother Hope Flanders Bailiff ’39, and aunt Bernice Mayhew Humphreys ’25.

Gerald Neil LaPierre May 19, 2018 Gerry LaPierre received his medical degree from Boston Univ. and served his residency at Hartford Hospital, where he was chief resident his last year. He then went into practice with the radiology

1960 Nancy Stewart Kipperman October 4, 2018 Nancy Stewart Kipperman was an accomplished artist, taking up watercolor painting only 20 years ago. She exhibited her work at the Palace Theatre in Tennessee and at a variety of venues in Vermont. Her paintings are in a number of private and corporate collections. Prior to her art career, she was a successful teacher, teaching English and serving as an assistant high school principal in Jaffrey, N.H. She was also an editor and writer for several publications. She sold greeting cards, paintings, and jewelry in local shops. Survivors include husband Dick Kipperman; children Bruce and Jeffrey Kipperman, and Amy Lanza; and six grandchildren. Her late niece was Sara J. Schenck ’67.

Carol Lux Zacher June 29, 2018 Carol Lux Zacher spent much of her childhood on the Bates campus before joining the Class of 1960. Her father was Professor Lloyd Lux, director of athletics from 1949 to 1974. In the days before Bates offered a degree in music, she majored in English and enrolled at Juilliard following graduation, earning a master’s in piano there. Once her children were grown, she spent many years teaching piano and music appreciation as well as performing. Her mission was to provide others with both the tools and the ears to appreciate the pure and transcendent nature of classical music, and to experience the joy it can bring to one’s life. Survivors include children Glenn and Nicole; and three grandsons.

1962 James Stuart Evans April 23, 2018 Jim Evans went from the family farm near Bridgton to a PhD in chemistry from Princeton. He taught chemistry and computer science at Lawrence Univ. in

Barbara Fitz Wilson July 18, 2018 Barbara Fitz Wilson met her husband at Bates, and they both transferred to the Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst. In addition to raising five sons, she volunteered at a variety of organizations and was awarded the Linzee Coolidge Philanthropy Award in 2017 from the city of Gloucester, Mass. Survivors include husband Richard D. Wilson ’62; children Rick ’83, Glenn, Steve, Gary, and Chris Wilson; and 12 grandchildren.

1963 Frederick Ross Sullivan June 22, 2018 A lifelong resident of Marblehead, Mass., Fred Sullivan taught at the Glover Elementary School there, which he himself had attended.

Even after retiring, he returned to volunteer for several more years. An environmentalist and avid photographer, he served on the town’s conservation commission for over 30 years and was a consultant to the historical commission and the engineering department. He was active at St. Andrews Church and a member of the Marblehead Yacht Club for over 40 years. He is survived by several cousins and many friends.

1964 Richard Patterson Coombs July 31, 2018 Following graduation with a degree in sociology, Dick Coombs was commissioned as a Navy officer in 1965 and served two years in the Philippines and Vietnam as part of the Navy Reserve.

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the commander of Naval Forces Europe, at Guadalcanal, and as commander of the Naval Reserve Center in Watertown, N.Y. He retired from the Navy in 1984, then spent 17 years working for it as a civilian. Survivors include daughters Victoria Coombs Fitlow ’91 and Nina Coombs Smith; and seven grandchildren.

Other relatives, all deceased, include father Robert L. Coombs ’35, grandmother Gertrude Irish Coombs 1907, and grandfather Richard L. Coombs 1908.

1965 Prudence Grant November 16, 2018 Prudy Grant dedicated her life to teaching, working for 37 years as an English teacher at Lisbon High School. She was, she said, “a strong advocate for teacher rights,” and put this into practice by serving as the president of the Lisbon Education Assn. She earned a master’s in teaching from UMaine Orono in addition to her degree from Bates. When she retired in 2002, she cleaned out her file cabinets and found she had saved copies of 1965 and 1966 issues of the student newspaper containing original stories by Stephen King, full of high school-level horror. She sold the copies for hundreds of dollars on eBay. She became an antiques collector, and also owned four retired harness race horses.

Karen Cunningham Johnson May 30, 2018 Karen Cunningham Johnson added to her Bates degree with a master’s in guidance and psychological services from Springfield College. She worked for SUNY Oswego and SUNY Plattsburgh, and eventually moved to Burlington, Vt., where she was assistant director of Spectrum Youth and Family Services. She earned a second master’s in administration and management from St. Michael’s College. She volunteered at United Way and local theater groups in retirement.

1967 Linda Bartlett Burrowes September 25, 2018 Linda Bartlett Burrowes changed majors twice — from math to biology to psychology —and found careers bridging them all, first as a “domestic engineer” and then as a tax accountant (the biology part is obvious to anyone who’s applied bandages to three children). She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and decided she’d paid off the degree in her 40s.

She also volunteered to teach English to Spanish-speaking children, and was a teacher’s aide to learning-disabled children. She loved Mozart and sang soprano in choruses and choirs, from high school through to the Suncook (N.H.) Chorale and the Shaker Singers. She and her husband, D. Melvin Burrowes ’68, loved the outdoors and spent parts of many summers at their cabin on David Pond in Maine. In addition to her husband, survivors include

children Jeffrey and Daniel Burroughs, and Susan Ohashi; and seven grandchildren.

1971 Neill Edwin Miner May 5, 2018 With his degree in sociology and his master’s in social work from West Virginia Univ., Neill Miner built a successful career in addiction prevention. He served as director of the Office of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Prevention for the state of Maine and later became a founding director of the New England Institute of Addiction Studies, and also of AdCare Educational Institute of Maine. In those roles he organized and ran conferences for professionals in the field of alcohol and drug abuse prevention, as well as mentoring the next generation of substance abuse prevention workers. Captain of the cross-country team at Bates, he ran until his knees forced him onto a bicycle. He was a member of the College Key and his 25th Reunion committee as well as a career adviser. Survivors include wife Mary Ellen Lewis Miner ’69; sons Andrew and Zachary; and two grandchildren. Several of his cousins attended Bates: Robert E. Beverage ’70, Allan C. Snow ’66, Barbara Snow Beverage ’71, and the late Julian F. Dodge ’31.

1972 Mourad Meregian October 28, 2018 A chemistry major, Mourad Meregian worked for the family business, State Street Diner and Catering. He later owned and operated Andon’s Restaurant in Springfield, Mass. Survivors include sisters Arlene and Marguerite Meregian.

1975 Margaret Ruth Young March 16, 2017 Peg Young held an interdisciplinary degree in physics, psychology, and math from Bates as well as a master’s in engineering management from Vanderbilt and a PhD in business administration from Penn State. Prior to retirement, she was a professor at George Mason Univ. and had previously worked at Western Electric and TRW.

1979 Andrew George Goodband June 23, 2016 A biology major, Andrew Goodband worked for the Chewonki Foundation shortly after graduation. He taught for several years and then became a nurse practitioner.

1980 Elaine Curran Laine November 16, 2018 Elaine Curran Laine — affectionately known as “Elf” to her Bates

friends — thought she would be a journalist or creative writer. Her thesis was a collection of poetry.

But she happily ended up as a family advocate for Cape Cod Child Development Head Start, indulging her love of children.

She later worked for ARC of Cape Cod and as a volunteer for the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod. Survivors include former husband Andrew T. Laine ’82 and her father, Arthur S. Curran.

1984 Mark Guy Elwell October 8, 2017 Mark Elwell was a professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Survivors include wife Yumi Elwell and son Makoto J. Elwell ’18.

1987 Paul Joseph Andal August 14, 2018 Paul Andal worked for several technical companies before joining Netskope in California in 2017. He always spoke highly of his Bates education; he took part in Alumni-in-Admissions to encourage others. Survivors include wife Julie E. Andal; daughter Justine; and parents Andres and Nancy Andal.

1995 Danny Michael Chouinard May 10, 2018 Dan Chouinard’s path through college was unusual. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Korean studies magna cum laude at Bates after serving 12 years in the U.S. Army, including in Korea, and earning an associate’s degree from Pierce College in Tacoma, Wash. He also earned a master’s from the American Military Univ.

2013. For the past 14 years he worked at the U.S. Department of Defense induction test center in Portland. A member of Moss Brook Church in Paris and the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Assn. in Portland, he enjoyed studying Korean culture and cooking Korean foods. He was a member of the College Key and worked briefly for Bates’ history department after graduation. Survivors include children William Chouinard and Michelle Becker; and four grandchildren.

2002 Thaddeus Samuel Curtz May 30, 2018 Tad Curtz was a restaurateur and young star in the District of Columbia’s dining scene. He and business partner David Rosner opened their 14th Street beer garden, now called Garden District, in 2011 and quickly drew crowds for their barbecue, giant beer steins, and sidewalk doughnuts.

In 2013, they teamed up with two other partners to open Etto, specializing in salumi, anchovies, and pizza. The restaurant has repeatedly ranked among Washington’s best. “His staff remember

him as a leader and mentor who loved life to the fullest,” Rosner said. “He was a creative force and an inspiration behind both restaurants.” Among his cousins are Sarah Kellar Hvozda ’03 and Rachel Kellar Anderson ’06.

2004 Laura Cody McNaughton June 28, 2018 An automobile accident took the life of Laura Cody McNaughton.

Valedictorian of her high school class in Springfield, Vt., she graduated from Bates summa cum laude with a self-defined major in public health. She also held a master’s in that field from Boston Univ. Her junior year abroad at Bates was spent trying to sort out the transmission of the AIDS virus among Cameroonians. While living in Boston, she held a series of public health positions, volunteered with HIV and domestic violence hotlines, and trained as a doula. In 2012, she and her family moved back to Vermont, where she worked with the Vermont Department of Health assisting community groups in preventing youth tobacco and substance abuse.

She became the district director of the department’s White River Junction office in 2013. She was widely praised for her thorough work and cooperative nature.

“It was always, ‘What can I help with?’” said co-worker Regina-Anne Cooper. Survivors include husband Ethan McNaughton; sons Isaac and Gaelen; and parents Thornton S. Cody ’71 and Ruth Cody.

2013 Kyle Lewis Butler June 5, 2018 Kyle Butler died at home in Bennington, Vt., due to sudden complications from Type 1 diabetes.

Aspiring to become a physician, he was doing medical research and was scheduled to start medical school a month after his death.

He played guitar and piano, loved reading and writing, and was a committed lifelong learner with interests in physics, mathematics, computer science, visual arts, and literature. Survivors include parents Linda and Bret Butler; brother Justin Butler; grandfather Raymond LaCroix; and girlfriend Deana Lorenzo.

honorary Asako O. Hirasawa March 5, 2018 Asako Hirasawa was awarded a doctorate of humane letters in 1988 for her lifelong work of promoting international peace and unity. Her late husband was Kazushige Hirasawa ’36, whom the Hirasawa Scholars Program honors by funding a year at Bates for Japanese students. He was the editor-in-chief of The Japan Times, the largest English-language newspaper in Japan. Their late daughter was Yoko Hirasawa Munakata ’65.

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In a defining moment that captured his fearless insistence on civil discourse, vice presidential candidate Edmund Muskie ’36 invited college student heckler Rick Brody (left) to the stage to speak in Washington, Pa., on Sept. 25.

Muskie’s Magical Moment You know Edmund Muskie ’36: the U.S. Senate legend who authored laws to clean up our water and air. Here’s another side of Muskie: the amazing political candidate for national office in 1968 by h . jay burns

fifty years ago this spring, Edmund

Muskie ’36 was heading toward one of his towering achievements as a U.S. senator: passage of the Clean Water Act, which would come in 1970.

Muskie’s political muscle was growing, thanks in part to — of all things — a losing campaign the fall before as Hubert Humphrey’s vice presidential running mate.

Indeed, by 1969, Muskie was a household name. (He shared the cover of Look magazine with soul singer James Brown that February.)

Muskie’s ascent began, appropriately, from a very low spot in September 1968. As the presidential

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campaign kicked off in the wake of the notorious Democratic National Convention, the Democratic ticket seemed dead on arrival, with initial polls showing Republicans Richard Nixon and running mate Spiro Agnew leading the Democrats, 43 percent to 28 percent.

The Democrats were also fighting a rearguard action against independent George Wallace of Alabama. Polling at a stout 18 percent, Wallace was courting blue-collar voters with his populist and racist rhetoric.

“We were supposed to lose,” says Don Nicoll, who was Muskie’s campaign manager.

But no one figured on Muskie. In a span of just a few weeks, the Democrats closed the gap, with Muskie running one of the “exemplary national campaigns of modern times,” says Muskie scholar Joel Goldstein.

In the end, Nixon won the election by less than 1 percent of the popular vote.

Muskie “outperformed not only the other candidates for national office that year but virtually every other national candidate in my lifetime and, I suspect, in most lifetimes,” says Goldstein.

Mostly famous today for his landmark environmental efforts as a senator, including sponsorship of the Clean Air and Clear Water acts, Muskie ought also to be remembered for running one of the great political campaigns in American history.

And here’s how he did it: 1. Muskie preached Muskie is often framed as a fierce rhetorical combatant. And why not: He was a great debater at Bates and a legend in the U.S. Senate.

“The Muskie legend is that he was a great debater who had a superb legal mind. He was and he did,” says Eliot Cutler, an assistant press secretary during the campaign who was on Muskie’s Senate staff for six years. “But a political campaign is more about the pulpit than the rostrum.”

Watching and hearing Muskie connect with voters in 1968 — “in Polish halls, on college campuses, with organized labor, and liberals disaffected by the Vietnam War and Lyndon Johnson — was an extraordinary experience. And one that was all about his values, vision, and voice.”

In 1968, “Muskie wasn’t a debater reaching into voters’ heads, but rather a preacher touching

their hearts and stoking their souls,” says Cutler.

“He was the best preacher ever.”

2. He didn’t play to fear In a series of events in early October, Muskie spoke to blue-collar Democrats in Chicago, Camden, N.J., Philadelphia, and Yonkers who were slipping away from the party.

Once part of the Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition, these older voters were now “tempted by the Wallace candidacy,” says Goldstein, which was “fanning resentment about racial policies” of the Johnson administration and the decisions of the Supreme Court under Earl Warren.

Speaking to these voters, Muskie talked about his father, Stephen Marciszewski, a Polish immigrant who became a tailor in Rumford.

“My father did not come here looking for fear,” Muskie would say. “He came here to escape fear and to find freedom. He did not come here looking for hatred. He came here to escape it and to find freedom.

“He did not come here seeking to deny other people opportunity. He came here to find it for himself, thinking it was available to all people who lived in America. He came here believing that freedom here was freedom for everyone.”

3. He looked (and sounded) the part Cutler called Muskie’s voice “sonorous with an extraordinary, remarkable range.”

Today, most people only know Muskie through photos and text. “He was impressive-looking and highly intelligent,” says Harold Pachios, who supervised advance operations for the Muskie campaign in 1968.

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Muskie speaks to supporters in Kennedy Park in Lewiston on Nov. 3, 1968.

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“He had the voice, a wonderful voice.

He had impeccable timing, a cadence, a remarkable gift of cadence. He was rational, honest, and a solid human being.”

At a Virginia airport, Muskie sits on a stage during a campaign stop in 1968.

“But, oh, could he speak. Could he speak!” he adds. “He had the voice, a wonderful voice. He had impeccable timing, a cadence, a remarkable gift of cadence. He was rational, honest, and a solid human being.”

4. He had something to say Muskie “crept into the consciousness of the American electorate” in 1968, says Cutler, a “consequence of what I call the ‘open-mic’ character of American democracy.”

“If you have something to say and can connect with the American people, you can become a powerful and significant voice. And you don’t have to be loud and bombastic. Muskie demonstrated that in 1968.”

5. He bridged the generation gap The violence that erupted outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago left some Americans wary of the anti-war movement — and the mostly young Americans behind it.

Both Nixon and Wallace pounced on the opportunity to widen the split, telling older and/or conservative voters to equate protest with disloyalty.

“America: love it or leave it,” was their refrain.

But instead of telling older Americans to tune out the protesters, Muskie told them to listen up.

Even when he spoke to well-heeled donors (“fatcat groups” and the “brie and chablis crowd,” in Goldstein’s words), Muskie would say that the protesters “have honest doubts about the American system, which often closed doors to the disadvantaged.”

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Indeed, “many of the inequities are your fault and mine,” Muskie would say, imploring his audiences to listen seriously to the critiques and to encourage meaningful participation by the young to improve America.

He wasn’t letting the younger generation off the hook, either, often reminding young audiences that while “you are privileged to kick the government around,” with that privilege comes “the duty and responsibility of using your head, your heart, your capacity for understanding to do what is best for everyone concerned.”

So when Muskie was asked by college students if he supported one of their pet causes, an all-volunteer Army instead of the draft, Muskie demurred.

While a volunteer Army might satisfy the selfinterests of privileged, mostly white college students, it wasn’t fair, he said. Muskie supported a program of national service supported by a lottery to spread the obligation of service more equitably through society.

Muskie “told the older generation that they’d screwed up society and should listen to their scruffy kids,” Goldstein says. “He told the scruffy kids to be constructive and responsible.”

6. He used his Bates education Muskie learned to debate from Brooks Quimby, Class of 1918. The namesake of the Quimby Debate Council, Quimby was a speech and rhetoric professor from 1927 to 1967.

Quimby taught his debaters to persuade an audience, not to defeat an opponent. “Persuasion: This was the key to Ed Muskie,” says Nicoll, the ’68 campaign manager. “A political campaign isn't about beating an opponent. It’s about persuasion.

That was the way he operated, and he learned it right here under Brooks Quimby.”

Persuasion means putting the audience first.

Under Quimby, Bates took a “leading role in the effort to...diminish the perception of intercollegiate debate where ‘winning is everything and the audience is nothing,’” wrote the late Robert Branham in Stanton’s Elm, a history of Bates debate.

7. He was fearless On Sept. 25, in Washington, Pa., Muskie famously invited a college-student heckler to join him on stage.

Like other young Democrats, the hecklers that day were angry that the party — and its candidates — weren’t aggressively opposing the Vietnam War. As the hecklers taunted Muskie, the candidate asked them to give him a chance to tell his story. “You have a chance. We don’t,” one reportedly yelled.

Muskie told the protesters to send one of their own to the stage to state his position. The ensuing

8. He demanded to be Muskie Muskie’s candidacy tapped into a concept that was gaining traction in the 1960s: authenticity.

Muskie demanded to be “his own man,” recalls Jane Fenderson Cabot, a campaign intern and later a member of Muskie’s Senate staff. “He didn’t want to be ‘bent out of shape.’ I remember hearing that a lot.”

“He told listeners what he thought, not what they wanted to hear,” says Goldstein.

The press took notice. “Muskie is revealing himself by simply being himself — nothing more and nothing different,” wrote syndicated columnist Roscoe Drummond in October. “He doesn’t

have to think of what is prudent to say.... He speaks his convictions — because he just can’t do otherwise.”

Four years later....

As we well know, Muskie sought, but didn’t win, the Democratic nomination for president in 1972.

While external forces, including interference from Nixon’s “dirty tricks” team, hurt the campaign, Muskie himself “didn’t jump into that campaign with the eagerness you often see,” says Cutler.

Though he was the presumptive nominee, “I’m not sure, in his soul of souls, if he was eager to run for president.”

“There was a tension in him,” says Cabot. “He now had a national voice. But at his core, he hadn’t changed.” n

inside perspectives Information for this story comes from “Inside Perspectives and the Long View,” a discussion at the Muskie Archives last November celebrating the 50th anniversary of Muskie's vice presidential campaign and comprising former Muskie staffers and insiders Jane Fenderson Cabot, Eliot Cutler, Joel Goldstein, John Martin, Charles Micoleau, Don Nicoll, and Harold Pachios.

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discussion — with Muskie insisting that the otherwise partisan audience respect the student, Rick Brody — was reported nationally on television and in print.

The moment was both “a campaign metaphor” and an “application of a commitment to and practice of civil discourse that defined Muskie’s public service,” says Goldstein, where “information and ideas were tools of civil discourse, and civil discourse was the indispensable instrument of democracy and constitutional government.”

As Muskie would often say, “It’s better to discuss a question without settling it than settle a question without discussing it.”

Muskie supporters in Wichita Falls, Texas, greet the vice presidential candidate on Oct. 29, 1968.

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a r ch iv es show and tell from the muskie archives and special collections library Quimby’s Key

In 1964, legendary debate coach Brooks Quimby, Class of 1918, earned a distinguished alumni award — and this key — from the collegiate debating honor society Delta Sigma Rho–Tau Kappa Alpha.

A Nice Run

This photo trophy honors three straight Maine state titles, 1968 through 1970, won by Walt Slovenski’s cross country runners. From left, Joseph Grube ’73, John Emerson ’73, Kirk Ives ’73, Slovenski, Neill Miner ’71, Jim Leahy ’71, Steve Fillow ’71, Joe Bradford ’73, and Wayne Lucas ’74. And, Joe Gromelski ’74 took the photo.

Star Bright

Sporting Interest

This Service Flag hung in Gomes Chapel throughout World War II, eventually displaying these 30 gold stars, symbolizing Bates students or alumni killed in the war, and the number 1,305, the total who served.

This Women’s Athletic Association key belonged to Virginia LaFauci Toner ’53. Formed in 1905 to

offer organized sports to Bates women for the first

time, the WAA initially

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Betrayed

Ash trays aren’t seen much in homes anymore (or anywhere, for that matter).

This one — with an image of Coram Library, and belonging to the late Melvin ’42 and Natalie Webber Gulbrandsen ’42 — is safely in the Archives.

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o u t ta k e It rained all day on Dec. 21, so winter solstice 2018 — the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere — provided no stunning campus vistas. In need of an image for Instagram, I instead posted a 48-hour-old Historic Quad sunset, reflected here on the front door of Hathorn Hall, and presented it as a celebration of winter light.

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As players cheer him on and colleagues await his arrival at center court, Professor of Politics Stephen Engel listens to his introduction at a faculty recognition event prior to a men’s basketball game in Alumni Gym: bates.edu/faculty-hoops