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6 “Real connection”: Bobcat Den Delivery in its seventh year.

26 A beloved Bates professor’s last year of teaching.

46 Let’s rock: Maine alumni summers, Katahdin to the Clam Shack.

MEET AGAIN

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Like most colleges, Bates moved to remote learning in March due to COVID-19. At midfield of Garcelon Field on March 16, Alex Gailey ’22 and Christine Bourdeau ’21 say their goodbyes. “He’s going abroad next year,” said Christine. “This is our last time together on campus.”

“Bobcat339 is the result of hard work — and a splash of luck. That makes me hopeful.” Page 32

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

OPENING THOUGHT: CLAYTON SPENCER PRESIDENT

FROM A DISTANCE

Source: President Spencer’s March 13 announcement that Bates would move from on-campus learning to remote learning due to COVID-19. See bates.edu/covid-19

This aerial photo taken in December shows the Bonney Science Center construction site and, in the background, Carnegie Science Hall and Hathorn Hall.

A photo of this 8-foot wreath was part of a holiday slideshow sent to donors Michael ’80 and Alison Grott Bonney ’80.

The members of this community share a seriousness of purpose, a generosity of spirit, and a commitment to educating students who1will be ethical and effective actors in the world. This moment of challenge and uncertainty calls on all of these qualities and more. 2

Employees of Consigli Construction, Bates Facility Services, and project subcontractors gather for a photo.

The building’s steel comes from Structure SBL of St.-Benoît-Labre, Quebec.

These panels will form a concrete exterior wall. Wall-building took much of the winter.

This areaway will be the center’s air intake. The center’s scientific work requires continuous air change.

This temporary square cover is where the elevator shaft will be placed.

Ample stockpiles of rebar, used to strengthen concrete, hint at the fast pace of wall and floor placement.

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2 Take a closer look at who’s wearing these colorful tea bag wrappers, and why. Page 15

The Carnegie greenhouse grows plants for academic purposes as well as veggie seedlings for the college garden.

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OPENING THOUGHT: CLAYTON SPENCER PRESIDENT Source: President Spencerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s March 13 announcement that Bates would move from on-campus learning to remote learning due to COVID-19. See bates.edu/covid-19

The members of this community share a seriousness of purpose, a generosity of spirit, and a commitment to educating students who will be ethical and effective actors in the world. This moment of challenge and uncertainty calls on all of these qualities and more.

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I read with interest the letter by Richard Derby ’66 in the Fall 2019 issue (“Bed Rest”). He recalled how, as a freshman, he’d been threatened with expulsion because he’d allowed his high school girlfriend (accompanied by his church minister) into his dorm room on move-in day. I can answer his question, “And what about mothers?” I, too, was summoned to the dean’s office the day after arriving on campus in September 1962 and was given a similar lecture about having a female in my dormitory room. In my case, the female in question was my mother! Bob Parker ’66

Pittsford, N.Y.

Dave Clarkson ’60 I am deeply saddened to read in the Fall issue of David Clarkson’s death. Dave and I pioneered the Bates junior-year abroad program, each of us challenging the administration to do what we felt strongly we needed to do. He attended a Danish Folkehøjskole in 1958–59, and I was in the first JYA class at Stockholm University in 1959–60. I picture us as the 20year-olds we then were, still imagining we would one day share our tales of cold, dark

OMG! I loved, as always, seeing the Puddle Jump photos, but this year there’s not enough truth told in the photos: They’re virtually all happy! Usually there are more “OMG!” faces as they enter or exit the water. Those are often the funniest. Julia Holmes Reuter ’74

Bethel, Maine

Right, with such a balmy day for this year’s Jump, shocked faces were few and far between. Here’s one of a startled jumper, just before she was helped from the water by Bates Outing Club assistants. — Editor

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winters in Scandinavia. When he returned I was in Sweden, and when I was back on campus he had graduated. Alas, 60 years have passed and I regret so long postponing my dream of finding him again. Today, Bates has among the highest percentage of U.S. students studying abroad. Our college understands, as Dean Zerby and as Dave and I did so long ago, that “the world is a classroom.” Sally Benson ’61

Palm Springs, Calif.

Full Story I just read the article about David Nash ’68 (“A Debt of Gratitude,” Bates Magazine, Fall 2019). I played baseball at Bates, and Chick Leahey awarded me the David R. Nash Memorial Award my senior year. I never knew the full story behind David’s life. I was honored when I originally received the award but, having read your article, am so much more honored now. John Ames ’80

Crystal Beach, Fla. Back in 1991, I wrote an article for the Steamboat Review for Memorial Day, recalling a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. I was looking for the names of two college classmates, Dave Nash ’68 and Bob

Ahern ’64, though I did not name them. Writing that article was a rush of emotion for me, and seeing this article in Bates Magazine brought back that familiar rush. Ralph Whittum ’66

Steamboat Springs, Colo. The story about Texas teenager Annakate Kelley’s high school project to tell the story about Nash, who was killed in Vietnam in 1970, is at bates. edu/david-nash. — Editor

Wenzel Awards Tom was instrumental in helping me join science with social justice in my own teaching career — this is well-deserved! (“A national award and Bates tribute to legendary chemistry professor Thomas Wenzel,” BatesNews, Nov. 15, 2019). By the way, the Grateful Dead Bears T-shirt that Tom’s wearing in one of the photos is a classic. Time for a reprint! Jen Stankiewicz ’02

Uintah, Utah

See page 12 for more about Tom Wenzel’s career-capping honors. — Editor

Reconnections So many connections: That’s what I treasure most about Bates (“My Last Year,” BatesNews, Nov. 15, 2019).

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I was a biology major but had the pleasure of taking Jane Costlow’s “Country Life in Russian Literature and Culture” course around 1994 — a wonderful exploration of environmental writing. I got to know the late Phil Otis ’95 by taking a course in environmental education with him, and was so saddened by his death shortly after we graduated. I was able to hear Ross Gay, who was this year’s Otis speaker at Bates, give a reading in Tampa in 2018, and he only needs to say, “Friends...” and you all become family. I’m sure that Phil would be so pleased to know that he helped bring all these speakers to Bates who are working so hard to reconnect us with the more-thanhuman world. Yes, there is too much to do, but I thank every one of you who tries. Erin Schaaf Robertson ’95

Louisville, Colo.

The online series “My Last Year,” produced by Bates photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen, chronicles the experiences of Bates professor Jane Costlow in her 34th and final year in the Bates classroom, including her efforts hosting Ross Gay last fall. This issue includes a selection from that series. — Editor

The Passing of Carl Benton Straub It was a delight to see and hear Dr. Straub speak again at Reunion last summer. He was a young professor when we had him for Cultch. He represented the best of what Bates offered. Thank you, Professor Straub. I am so glad our paths crossed. Dawn MacPherson-Allen ’69

Bradenton, Fla.

Carl was a great professor, a great dean, and a good friend. He was very kind to me during my time at Bates, and taught me never to take “No” as the final answer without challenging it. Stephen Comee ’72

Chiba, Japan

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I had many a session with the good Dr. Straub. I tried to take as many of his courses as I could. He occasionally had group discussions at his house (I’m not sure what he made of the characters that showed up in the late ’60s). He was gracious, engaging, endlessly curious, and certainly not afraid to offer intellectual challenges to his students. I still remember a few stinging critiques. Linda Gilmore ’71

Lancaster, N.H.

The obituary for Carl Benton Straub is in this issue; additional content is online at bates.edu/straub. His memorial service is at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, in the Peter J. Gomes Chapel. — Editor

Seeing Spots Much has changed in 60plus years, which gives me problems identifying some of those spots on campus (“Then and now: Winter campus then, colorful autumn now,” BatesNews, Nov. 1, 2019). While I don’t remember skating on Lake Andrews, I do remember there being a telescope building on the northwest side of that bog, which I frequented often as an astronomy buff. Astronomy 100 was the first elective I got to take as a chemistry major, in the second semester of my senior year! It took nearly an act of Congress to get approval to take a freshman course as a senior. Ah, the memories.

As this is written — Monday morning, March I6 — it’s a sad day to be a Bobcat.

Typically at this hour, students would be heading to Commons for breakfast or to class in Hathorn, Carnegie, or Pettengill. Typically during this month, with thesis deadlines looming, spring sports starting, and the annual Mount David Summit ready to draw hundreds of Bates friends, alumni, and parents to campus, the winter semester would be rollicking right along. And typically during the spring, we would await ice-out on Lake Andrews and the blooming of the magnolia tree outside Hathorn Hall. Instead, due to COVID-19, students are right now trudging to the intercity bus stop outside Chase Hall or to waiting vehicles. With suitcases in tow, and wearing sad and worried faces, they’re heading home or elsewhere, where they’ll hunker down and resume classes online, an experience no student body at Bates has ever known. (For information about Bates’ response, see bates.edu/covid.) Many alumni will remember that the Chase information desk was called “the Concierge.” Today, the entire building is a concierge, as staff from Advancement, Accounting, and Dining Services help students with travel arrangements, offer move-out advice, not to mention boxes, and give emotional support and, for those who need it, financial assistance — no questions asked. Outside Chase, free chartered buses have been leaving five times a day, supplementing regular bus service. Bates donors have stepped up to help underwrite all this support. If you’re interested, head to bates.edu/covid-fund. Of course, this isn’t the first virus to disrupt Bates. During the 1918 flu pandemic, chapel services were held “in the open” in front of Parker, rather than in the Chapel. In 1923, a student tried to dodge a college-wide scarlet fever quarantine by boarding a train for home. He was detained in Portsmouth, N.H., and put into solitary quarantine there. “It is only to ward off a possible epidemic that the radical measures have been pursued,” said The Bates Student. The “radical measures” of the present crisis, of course, are different: Our students have lost what matters so much to them: the comfort of our physical campus and the comfort of being physically close to their friends, professors, coaches, and staff. To that point, much of this issue of Bates Magazine has a pre-COVID poignancy, showing the joy students feel with friends, professors, and staff on this beautiful campus. Now we’re spread out, whether by six feet or by 1,600 miles. To me, the campus feels as untethered as it did right after 9/11. Then-President Don Harward spoke to that deep unease when he reminded us that the Bates community transcends the physical: “It is less a place than it is a set of ideals, a history, and a community of people.” We can, he added resolutely, “draw strength and confidence in reminding ourselves of our common connection to those ideals...and to our reliance on one another.” We hope this issue is a reminder of how deep and long that connection is, whether we’re apart or together. H. Jay Burns, Editor magazine@bates.edu

Fred Huber ’56

Merrimack, N.H. As Fred Huber notes, the original location of the Stephens Observatory, given to Bates in 1949, was where Page Hall now is. In 1962, following an addition to Carnegie Science Hall, it was placed atop that building. — Editor

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During the annual Sangai Asia Night show in Schaeffer Theatre, photographer Theophil Syslo was a floor below the auditorium, in the theater department’s scene shop, where he deployed a pop-up studio to capture performer portraits. For this one, of Bollywood Dance Team members Sukanya Shukla ’20 (left) of Dehradun, India, and Anne Trapp ’20 of Brunswick, Maine, he pulled back the camera to show the surroundings. Spring 2020

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STUDENTS

Students no longer use the term “blue slip” to describe scheduling a campus event space.

The Class of 20I9 included four sets of twins.

Surrounded by the tools of their trade — computer, phone, and condiments — Bobcat Den Delivery operator Grace Warder ’20 of New York City (left) and team member Elly Beckerman ’22 of Washington, D.C., review orders. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

It’s 15 degrees at 9 p.m. on a winter evening, heading toward a low of 10. Wet snow that fell earlier has iced over, turning parts of campus into a Slip ’N Slide. Not the best conditions for a bike ride around campus. Yet neither snow nor rain nor icy sidewalks stay the Bobcat Den Delivery team from their appointed rounds: delivering bags of hot french fries and mozzarella sticks — plus maybe a milkshake — to hungry students across campus. “We all wear Buffs,” says Olivia Kranefuss ’22 of Madison, N.J., referencing the brand of multifunctional accessory that can be worn around the head or neck as an extra cozy layer. This is Kranefuss’ first semester with the BDD delivery crew but she isn’t fazed by the weather. “When you’re biking, your body tends to heat up pretty quickly,” she says. Entirely student-run, the BDD has a straightforward business model. Students order online (a new app debuted in January), then the evening’s delivery crew, having commandeered a table or two in the Den as their evening HQ, place orders with the Den staff under the name “Bobcat.” When several orders are ready, the deliverers head out. A small markup creates the revenue to pay the BDD teams, including this year’s operator, Grace Warder ’20 of New York, N.Y. The sustainability of the business, now in its seventh year, gratifies founder Matt Perejda ’14. “There are so many failed and struggling concerns in the food delivery 6

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space,” he notes. “But BDD has endured and thrived because it’s by the students and for the students. There is a real connection to the Bates community and the Bobcat Den.” That connection appeals to Moud Yousry ’20 of Cairo, a four-year BDD veteran. A former Den cook, he enjoys the chance to hang out with Den staff on the job. “I’ve created relationships

Kranefuss bikes through the Library Arcade to a Parker Hall delivery.

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From Den to Den

with a lot of them,” he says. “It’s fun to see new faces every shift and see where people live and what they’re up to.” As a limited liability company, BDD operations are in the hands of a single owner/operator, Warder. Besides running the show, she will also select and train her successor. Autonomy and responsibility are key to the business’s sustainability, Perejda

All clubs and teams appoint a member to support communityengaged work.

One student spent I00 hours making a dress out of old tents for the annual Trashion Show.

This year’s AESOP program offered 57 trips.

Bobcat Den worker Roman Hudgins ’21 of Winchester, Mass., hands a Den Delivery food order to courier Olivia Kranefuss ’22 of Madison, N.J.

believes. Each operator has full control — “skin in the game,” as he puts it. “For the business to continue to thrive, someone must always bear the full burden of ownership — and the full reward that comes with it, too.” “We all work so hard on it, and it is student-run,” Warder says. “Everybody cares about it a lot.”

Higher Degree Frankly speaking, the weather was nearly perfect for this year’s Puddle Jump: calm and a balmy 40 degrees. Here’s what the temperature has been at Jump time (around 4 p.m.) each year since 2009.

— Eleanor Vance ’21

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Source: Weather Underground, Time and Date

Jump Temp

Jump Date

40° 44°

Jan. 31, 2020

26°

Jan. 26, 2018

35°

Jan. 20, 2017

20°

Feb. 12, 2016

29°

Jan. 23, 2015

35°

Jan. 17, 2014

15°

Jan. 18, 2013

22°

Jan. 20, 2012

23°

Jan. 21, 2011

28°

Jan. 22, 2010

24°

Jan. 23, 2009

Feb. 8, 2019

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At the Peter J. Gomes Chapel, now undergoing extensive renovations, there’s steady progress on repairs to the building’s prominent stained-glass windows. Meanwhile, being replaced are the ornate concrete frames, known as traceries, that both hold the windows and give them still more visual pizzazz. The tracery work was a high-tech process that involved making three-dimensional digital scans of the traceries, creating molds from the scans, and casting replicas of the originals. The stained-glass restoration is in the hands of Vintage Glass Works of Lisbon Falls, whose proprietor is Jim Nutting ’76. His work will include repairing any broken pieces of glass and damaged came, the divider bars between small pieces of glass that make up the larger window. The Gomes stained glass is notable for depicting 20 key figures in Western culture. They are Beethoven, Marie Curie, Goethe, and Isaac Newton (Modern); Copernicus, Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus, Hugot Grotius, Martin Luther, and Shakespeare (Renaissance); Peter Abelard, Fra Angelico, Roger Bacon, Dante (Medieval); Aristotle, Euclid, Homer, Phidias, Plato, and Virgil (Ancient).

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This winter has been a story of stories at the Bonney Science Center construction site. The building has grown from one story to two, on the way to an eventual three. The center is “going to keep getting taller and taller. That’s the exciting part right now,” said Chris Streifel, Facility Services project manager, in early February. By spring, “we’ll shift to a higher gear,” he adds, “with new trades starting both inside and outside,” including bricklayers and glass installers. Located across Campus Avenue from Carnegie Science Hall, the building will gather programs in biology, chemistry, and neuroscience. As of early April, the COVID-19 crisis had not curtailed progress on the building, scheduled for a fall 2021 opening.

Ladd Library has a Campus Avenue address — though it doesn’t border a street.

Chapel Restoration

The installation of a newly restored stainedglass window is underway in Gomes Chapel, whose window opening is covered by poly sheeting.

Story Time

Bates has three campus sites to recycle cellphones and rechargeable batteries.

At the Bonney Science Center construction site, a visual motif over the winter has been metal rebar topping the ever-taller walls like porcupine quills.

Dining Services inventory comprises some 2,500 food items at any given time.

As of Oct. 30, 20I9, the under-construction Bonney Science Center weighed 2,575 tons.

The Diverse BookFinder collection contains 3,000 children’s picture books.

Frustrated Cray-ving After capturing an osprey-vs.-goldfish tussle (pp. 8–9, Fall 2019 Bates Magazine), college photographer Theophil Syslo photographed this hooded merganser snagging a Lake Andrews crayfish. The meal belonged to the merganser only temporarily. A moment later, Syslo says, “a seagull swooped in to steal the bounty.”

TALIA “I’d run even if it was snowing. I like feeling the wind.”

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Talia Sperduto ’21, an environmental studies major from Canterbury, N.H., goes on a December run as the temperature soars into the 50s. Through mid-February, winter at Bates featured about normal snowfall and warmer-than-average temperatures, including another 50-plus-degree day, on Jan. 11.

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ACADEMICS

One Short Term course takes students to Maine coastal islands by sea kayak.

All environmental studies majors do communityengaged research.

Bloom, Like That

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Holly Ewing (left) and environmental studies major Topher Castaneda ’20 take water samples from Lake Auburn, the source of Lewiston and Auburn’s drinking water, last summer.

Bates professor Holly Ewing is central to a new effort, supported by a $5.9 million, four-year National Science Foundation grant, to use high technology against a low-tech problem: the increasing hazard posed by cyanobacterial blooms in lakes. Ewing, the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, is an expert in lake ecosystems. She will collaborate with scientists from other institutions who specialize in computer science, robotics, sensor technology, and “big data.” Together, they will create models for predicting harmful blooms of the organisms formerly known as “blue-green algae.” Some data will come from existing sources, such as ongoing water sampling programs and an automated sensor buoy that Ewing placed in Lake Auburn in 2013. The researchers will also deploy sensor-equipped autonomous robots — boats and aerial drones — to gather information with minimal human oversight. While it’s generally understood that climate change and changes in land use drive cyanobacterial blooms, there’s still much to learn about what provokes blooms in individual lakes. Under certain conditions, these organisms undergo population explosions that produce, among other problems, toxins at levels that may be hazardous to people and pets.

Image This Two Bates scientists — physicist Travis Gould, an expert in the field of fluorescence nanoscopy, and biochemist Paula Schlax, who researches gene expression in spiral-shaped bacteria, such as Lyme bacteria — have received nearly $373,000 from the National Institutes of Health for first-of-its-kind research into the genetic functioning of bacteria that cause Lyme disease. The project draws on new capabilities in high-resolution microscopy that make it possible to observe spatial arrangements of RNA in Borrelia burgdorferi, one of four species that cause Lyme disease. An innovator in imaging technologies, Gould has adapted an existing Bates microscope that he built and that uses a process called stimulated emission depletion, or STED, to capture images of the B. burgdorferi RNA.

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These two images depict Borrelia bacteria expressing a fluorescent protein. The image at right has better resolution thanks to a process called stimulated emission depletion.

CLARISA “Ten years ago, students were more likely to say that democ racy is a system of government where people choose their leaders through elections. Today, they’re more likely to say, ‘Democracy is a governing system where people’s rights are protected.’ They talk a lot more about equality and outcome-oriented things as opposed to process-oriented things.” Associate Professor of Politics Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz describes a fundamental change she’s noticed in how her students define democracy.

Lost your diploma? A graduate can get a replacement for $30.

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Bates offers a Dual Degree Engineering Program: 3 years at Bates & 2 at a top engineering school.

Tax and Consequences Sin taxes — levies on consumer products deemed harmful like alcohol or tobacco— have a history of creating unintended consequences. When Minnesota raised excise taxes on cigarettes in the last decade, for example, it caused a spike in blackmarket smuggling. Now you can add another item to the tax-and-consequences list: vaping products. Raising taxes on e-cigarettes in an attempt to cut vaping may “induce some vapers to increase traditional cigarette smoking while vaping less,” says Associate Professor of Economics Nathan Tefft, coauthor of a new study on the topic. In fact, the study finds that for every 10 percent increase in e-cigarette prices, sales drop by 26 percent — yet sales of conventional cigarettes rise by 11 percent. While vaping-related illnesses are a public health concern, conventional cigarettes kill nearly 480,000 Americans each year, according to Centers for Disease Control data. Twenty states (including Maine) and the District of Columbia now tax vaping products, and Congress is contemplating a federal tax.

Each academic program has a research librarian liaison.

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

High-Latitude Warming Initiated the Onset of the Last Deglaciation in the Tropics

Publication: Science Advances • Author: Alice Doughty (geology) and coauthors • What It Explains: Even before a rise in global carbon dioxide caused the last ice age to end 20,000 years ago, the Earth was warming and glaciers were retreating. Periodic Coulomb Tree Method: An Alternative to Parallel Particle Mesh Ewald

Publication: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation • Author: Henry Boateng (mathematics) • What It Explains: For high-performance computer simulations, the new periodic Coulomb Tree Method is as accurate as the standard method for computing electrostatic interactions between two charged molecules, but quicker. Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices Across the United States

Publication: Economic Development Quarterly • Author: Michael Osei (economics) and coauthor • What It Explains: Higher demand for labor leads to increased housing prices, though the effect varies by time period and type of city. A 100-Kiloparsec Wind Feeding the Circumgalactic Medium of a Massive Compact Galaxy

Publication: Nature • Author: Aleksandar DiamondStanic (physics) and coauthors • What It Explains: The role of galactic winds — ejections of gas from galaxies — in creating the circumgalactic medium, which plays a role in the cosmic evolution of galaxies. Rethinking the School Closure Research: School Closure as Spatial Injustice

Publication: Review of Educational Research • Author: Mara Tieken (education) and coauthor • What It Explains: Urban and rural school closures disproportionately affect poor communities and communities of color and reduce access to educational and community institutions.

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THE CAMPAIGN

Bates Fund goals for fiscal 2020: $7.3 million in gifts and 43% alumni participation.

2,600-plus volunteers support Bates fundraising and engagement programs.

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Tom Wenzel and Jim Weissman ’84 reconnect in a laboratory in Dana Chemistry Hall last September.

Two for One Two recent honors have put an exclamation point on the storied career of Bates chemistry professor Tom Wenzel, a national leader in the teaching of chemistry, a model for involving students in research, and a prolific researcher. Last August, the American Chemical Society awarded Wenzel, the college’s Dana Professor of Chemistry, its George C. Pimentel Award for “outstanding contributions to chemical education.” Soon thereafter, one of Wenzel’s former students, Jim Weissman ’84, paid tribute to his mentor by establishing the Thomas J. Wenzel Endowed Fund for Undergraduate Chemistry Research, to

support students conducting summer research on campus. “It’s hard to imagine a more gratifying way to end my career,” says Wenzel, who retires in 2020 after 39 years on the Bates faculty. Weissman and his wife, Kyoko Oba Weissman, have funded the endowment with a $100,000 gift to The Bates Campaign. “That a former student of mine gave money to the college to provide summer support for future undergraduates — forever — I truly don’t think there could be any more meaningful honor to me than that,” Wenzel adds.

Tom Wenzel, the college’s Dana Professor of Chemistry, is retiring in 2020 after 39 years on the Bates faculty.

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Of Wenzel’s 96 published research articles, 67 have had Bates student coauthors. One of those authors was Weissman, who recalls how he came to Bates wanting to study chemistry but found his early classes to be a “rocky road.” Wenzel encouraged Weissman to stick with the major and helped him as he caught up with course work. Then he hired Weissman to work in his lab. For his senior thesis, Weissman studied methods for detecting pharmaceuticals and pollutants and, along with Wenzel and three fellow students, coauthored an article, “Lanthanide ions as luminescent chromophores for liquid chromatographic detection.” Wenzel “touched the lives of a lot of chemistry majors,” Weissman says. “Had he not been at Bates, those opportunities that I had would not have been realized.” That influence is sharply evident in the paper that Weissman coauthored. His fellow authors, Elsie DiBella ’85, Maureen J. Joseph ’83, and Joshua R. Schultz ’83, all earned doctoral degrees. They’ve all forged careers in biotech, as has Weissman, who is now chief operating officer at Dicerna Pharmaceuticals.

Bates is part of the Schuler Initiative supporting engagement with young alumni.

The first Friends of Bates Athletics giving challenge drew I,333 donors.

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Donors can help cover student costs in the move to remote learning: bates.edu/covid-fund.

Posing with the Legislative Sentiment outside the Maine State House on Jan. 31 are, from left, Bates Run Club member Alexandra Salazar ’20 of Ridgefield, Conn., BOC past president Danielle Ward ’20 of Atlantic Highlands, N.J., and State Sen. Nate Libby ’07, D-Lewiston.

On a bluebird morning outside the Maine State House, a small gathering celebrated two big moments: the traditional lighting of the Bates Winter Carnival torch and the presentation of a Legislative Sentiment congratulating the Bates Outing Club on its centennial. In Gov. Janet Mills’ absence, State Sen. Nate Libby ’07, D-Lewiston, handled the Jan. 31 torch-lighting duties and presented the sentiment to BOC members. Joining the group were longtime BOC advisor Judy Marden ’66 and supporter Ken Spalding ’73. Afterward, members of the BOC and the student Run Club ran the torch back to Bates. The sentiment praised the BOC for introducing generations of Bates students to myriad outdoor pursuits and inspiring them to “pursue careers in the fields of outdoor and experiential education and exploration as well as the natural and environmental sciences.” In recognition of the centennial, Bates has announced fundraising

Danielle Ward displays the lit Winter Carnival torch as Nate Libby, right, looks on.

toward an endowed Bates Outing Club Centennial Fund. The fund will support a founding concept of the BOC: that all students, regardless of prior experience or ability or ownership of outdoor gear, should have friction-free access to the club’s offerings. As Bates education professor Robert A.F. McDonald said in 1920, the new Bates club should “appeal not only to experts but to everybody, so that those who have usually been spectators will be transformed into active and enthusiastic participants.” Among its goals, the Centennial Fund will support professional certifications for students, including rock climbing, paddling, and wilderness first aid, and establishing a path to trip leadership — including support for training and professional development — making it more approachable for newcomers. BOC Centennial bates.edu/BOC100th

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‘Appeal to Everybody’

$300M GOAL $230M

76 Percent As of March, The Bates Campaign has topped $230 million in gifts and pledges — 76 percent of its goal of $300 million. Spring 2020

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This page: Elise Lambert ’22 of Amherst, N.H., wears a Trashion Show outfit made from back issues of The Bates Student. It was created by fellow members of the women’s track and field team, seen taking a reading of the outfit.

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More Trashion Show photos bates.edu/trashion-2019

TRASH AND WEAR photography by theophil syslo Featuring outfits modeled and created from campus trash by students, the annual Trashion Show held last November asks not “what the trash can make for you,” says participant Danielle Meng ’20 of Beijing, “but what you can make with the trash.”

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SPORTS

Field hockey achieved its highest-to-date national ranking, at No. I3, in 20I9.

Varsity teams participated in 22 different communityengaged activities last fall.

Cat Quotes

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Quotes from recent editions of the Bates Bobcast, the weekly podcast on Bates athletics.

1. “I know when to jump. I know when not to jump.” Basketball player Omar Sarr ’23 of Dakar, Senegal, on his shot-blocking ability by noting that he’s played a lot of volleyball.

Omar Sarr ’23, a 6'8" forward who led the team in blocked shots this year, goes up for a rebound against Hamilton in a Jan. 18 game at Alumni Gym.

Nordic skier Cal Schrupp ’23 of Gilford, N.H., on why he and his siblings took up skiing. His dad wanted them to play hockey while his mom, a former Dartmouth skier, preferred skiing.

Swimmer Andrew Hall ’22 of Little Silver, N.J., explaining a lesson he learned in his first year as a Bobcat swimmer.

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Runner Paige Rabb ’20 of Stamford, Conn., on her thoughts the first time she was asked to run a 400-meter race in high school.

5. “When you’re going for your team, it’s easier to swim faster.”

“I feel the history.”

2. “I was like, ‘How am I going to run that fast around the entire track?’”

4. “My mom won the fight of what the children will do.”

JUSTIN Justin Phillips ’23 of Old Saybrook, Conn., tries on the four World Series rings that belong to Ken Joyce, a Portland native and longtime minor league coach who joined a Purposeful Work discussion in psychology professor Su Langdon’s first-year seminar, “The Sporting Life” last semester. Joyce earned the rings for his contributions to the Florida Marlins (1997) and San Francisco Giants (2010, 2012, 2014) in their championship seasons.

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3. “That was just insane.” Runner Elise Lambert ’22 of Amherst, N.H., on her thoughts after anchoring Bates’ winning and meet-ending 4x800 relay, yielding a first-place tie, with Bowdoin, in the Maine State Meet. Minutes later, the men won their 4x800 relay for a first-place tie, again with Bowdoin. The meets had never before ended in a tie.

Most football players use SpeedFlex Insite helmets that record blows to the head.

Women’s rowing has won the Head of the Charles Collegiate Eights race three straight years.

Men’s club hockey played in a tournament in China, organized by a Bates student.

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45 Girls, 25 Schools

Ellie Bauer ’22, a field hockey goalkeeper from Denver, was teaching a young girl how to hold her stick during a recent sports clinic offered by Bates Athletics. After a few minutes, the girl looked up at Bauer and asked, “Can we just dance?” And Bauer replied, “Of course!”’ “So we took a time-out, she danced and shook everything out, and then we went back to the sport,” recalls Bauer. The lesson — sports can offer unexpected fun and friendship — was a good one as Bobcats from the college’s women’s teams celebrated National Girls and Women in Sports Day by hosting 45 K-8 girls for a free clinic in the Gray Athletic Building on Feb. 8. Another lesson from the day: Sports help young people on the road to self-discovery. “I really found myself through softball and athletics,” says Kirsten Pelletier ’20, a softball pitcher from Readfield, Maine. Paying it forward is what she liked most about Women in Sports Day, “providing a platform for younger girls to really find themselves through athletics.”

The 45 schoolgirls who participated in the college’s second annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day clinic came from 25 schools throughout Maine and Massachusetts; another two, visiting a relative on the Bates coaching staff, came from Portland, Ore. Acadia Academy, Lewiston Atwood Primary, Oakland Coffin Elementary, Brunswick Connors Elementary, Lewiston East Auburn Community Elementary Elm Street Elementary, Mechanic Falls Farwell Elementary, Lewiston Geiger Elementary, Lewiston Gray-New Gloucester Middle Hebron Station Elementary Holy Family Elementary, Portland, Ore. King Middle, Portland Lewiston Middle Lyman Moore Middle, Portland Maranacook Middle, Readfield McMahon Elementary, Lewiston Minot Consolidated Elementary Montello Elementary, Lewiston Park Avenue Elementary, Auburn Poland Community Elementary Poland Regional High

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Saccarappa Elementary, Westbrook

At top, Bates rowers cheer on a youngster trying out a rowing ergometer machine during the National Girls and Women in Sports Day clinic at Bates. Above, Allison Greuel ’23 of Freeport teaches a young girl some lacrosse basics.

Sherwood Heights Elementary, Auburn Turner Elementary Wilson Elementary, Cumberland

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ARTS & CULTURE

Bates Dance Festival director Shoshona Currier was born in Fort Kent, Maine.

Miura Firsts

Hiroya Miura takes a curtain call after the world premiere of his concerto, performed by the BERG Orchestra, in Prague’s Domovina Hall.

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Whatever else Hiroya Miura accomplishes during his current sabbatical year, he can point to a few weeks of 2019 as a high point in his career. Associate professor of music and director of the Bates Orchestra, Miura is also a composer. And last fall he had the rare distinction of premiering two pieces of music, one in Prague and the other in San Francisco. What’s more, each work represented a compositional venture into new territory for Miura. Premiered on Sept. 16 by the BERG Orchestra, Galactic Monarchs was the composer’s debut concerto — and the featured instrument, a traditional Japanese wooden flute called the shakuhachi, was an instrument he’d never written for. The concerto premiere at the International Shakuhachi Festival won Miura four curtain calls. Next, in performances Oct. 5–6 in San Francisco, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble premiered Miura’s first-ever opera — Sharaku Unframed, a one-act

micro-opera featuring Hidejiro Honjoh, a master of the shamisen, another traditional Japanese instrument, this one with strings. Miura was already at work on the

JACK “ This is my second semester taking lessons, and I love it.”

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Jack Ryan ’22 of Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., describes his growing interest in the ukulele after taking lessons with applied music faculty member Seth Warner. It’s easy to play, Ryan says, noting that he just picked up Train’s “Hey, Soul Sister.”⁣

The Portland Press Herald covered both winter exhibitions at the Bates Museum of Art.

opera when the shakuhachi festival offered him the concerto commission. But, he says, “I couldn’t say no.” Still, he adds, “it was a bit like jumping off a cliff.”

A student wrote a poem per day as she walked Maine’s power-line corridors last summer.

Bates’ Program in Africana chose drama as its medium for Black History Month presentations — and put Bates people in the spotlight in the process. The five plays presented in February by the Africana program (formerly African American studies) used historical events as a basis to explore white oppression and black resistance. Four of the pieces, each based on real incidents involving African American slaves in 18th-century New England, were penned by Lecturer in Theater Clifford Odle. Why theater as a vehicle for Black History Month programming? As a performance medium, it gives every audience its own unique experience, says Odle. “It makes things, to me, more immediate, more alive, more visceral.” Presented during the busy noon hour in the Fireplace Lounge in Commons, three of Odle’s plays were short segments from a longer work in progress, Blood in the Revolution. The fourth was Deerfield Homecoming, which fictionalizes historical episodes in Deerfield, Mass. The series debuted with Odle’s According to Mark, about a Massachusetts slave, Mark, “who could read and was looking for a way to free himself

During the reading of According to Mark in Commons’ Fireplace Lounge, the character Quaco (Dawrin Silfa ’21) makes a point to Mark (professor Charles Nero) and Phyllis (Perla Figuereo ’21).

from an oppressive master,” Odle explains. “And he felt the Bible provided a path to murdering him as long as he didn’t spill blood.” So Mark poisoned his master and was hanged for the murder on Sept. 18, 1755. Performed by Jes Washington ’13, the fifth play staged during the month was Janice Liddell’s Who Will Sing for Lena? The one-woman show retells the story

of Lena Mae Baker, a domestic worker in Georgia who was executed in 1945 for killing her white-male employer, who had sexually and physically abused her. While grappling with oppression based on skin color and on gender, the play is a broad indictment of the abuse of power — or as Washington puts it, someone exercising “dominion over you just for the sheer hell of it.”

Left, Lena Mae Baker, photographed at Georgia State Prison in 1945 shortly before her execution. Below, Jes Washington ’13 plays Lena Mae Baker in the one-woman play Who Will Sing for Lena? at Bates during Black History Month.

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Performing Black History

The Department of Music owns an I8th-century replica fortepiano made by a Maine craftsman.

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No more than two credits of private instruction or ensemble performance can be applied to a music major.

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LEWISTON

Bates recyclables go to a sorting facility in Lewiston.

To honor Maine’s bicentennial, in 2020, Lewiston will host a statewide parade.

Painting Tribute The Hartley Block — Lewiston’s newest “mixed use” building (that’s commercial and residential, for those not familiar) — opened in 2019 and revealed two works of public art with a Bates connection. The building’s namesake is Lewiston-born painter Marsden Hartley, a major figure in American Modernism, and it pays tribute to the artist with 9-by-9 mosaics depicting two of Hartley’s best-known paintings, “Smelt Brook Falls” and “Jotham’s Island, Georgetown, Maine.”

The mosaics were created by New York artists Stephen Miotto and Nancy Blum. At Bates, the Museum of Art houses the Hartley Memorial Collection, comprising artwork, his personal library, and a treasure trove of the artist’s personal effects. The Lisbon Street building offers the downtown area 63 new apartments, both market-rate and rent-restricted units, plus 4,000 square feet of retail space, with plans for a work space for the local creative community.

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Shown near completion last year, this mosaic, titled After Marsden Hartley: Jotham’s Island, is one of two on the Hartley Block on Lisbon Street in Lewiston.

Shoe In Belonging to Associate Professor of Theater Christine McDowell, these fabulous 19th-century shoes were part of the recent Museum L-A exhibition Footwear: From Function to Fashion. Known as “straights” — no difference between left and right — they’re embroidered with dyed straw and decorated with metallic threads and lace. They date to the 1850s. McDowell researched the show, designed it in collaboration with others, and provided

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shoes from her collection to display. (The Bates Museum of Art and theater department also loaned shoes, as did the Androscoggin Historical Society, in addition to supplying research materials.) Shining light on the economic might that shoemaking once wielded in Lewiston and Auburn, the exhibition explored the shoe as a medium for social history, the stunning range of footwear styles, and the craft and artistry of shoemaking.

Lake Auburn, the area’s water source, holds about 29 billion gallons of water.

An illuminated 30-foot aluminum sign reading “Hopeful” now hangs from the brick exterior of Bates Mill No. 5, visible to anyone coming or going from Lewiston on lower Main Street. Its creator, renowned artist Charlie Hewitt, told the Lewiston Sun Journal that the medium sends a message. “My family came down those rivers in the ’20s, and there’s new (immigrants) here now,” the Lewiston native said. The artwork “is just a silent prayer…for my community, that we can get together again and embrace what makes this great.”

Workers install Charlie Hewitt’s Hopeful sign on the exterior of Bates Mill No. 5 on Dec. 20.

Semper Bates After Jordan left Lewiston High School, the local school board tried to lure him back by offering a much larger salary than what he was earning at Bates. Jordan declined, saying that his duty was to the college. Taken ill in February 1921, Jordan was still “directing the work of his department,” according to his faculty colleague Fred Pomeroy, the day before his Feb. 27 death.

Lyman Granville Jordan, Class of 1870

What’s in a Name: Jordan Once home to Lewiston’s high school and now containing apartments, the handsome brick building between Nichols and Wood streets is named for Lyman Granville Jordan, Class of 1870.

School of Thought The Jordan School building, located between lower Wood and Nichols streets, was built in 1902 in the Italian Renaissance style. The architect was William R. Miller, himself a Bates graduate, of the Class of 1889. He also designed Lewiston’s St. Mary’s Hospital. Jordan School became a grammar school in 1931 and, in 1983, apartments.

Park Place In 1881, Lyman Jordan helped to establish Ocean Park, a Chautauqua community along the Maine coast with strong Bates ties. He Was Beloved At Jordan’s death, faculty colleague William Henry Hartshorn praised Jordan as “wise, sincere, kindly, and genial, a man of real intellectual power.” Every Bates student, Hartshorn added, found in him “a friend and ease of access — affable, sympathetic, ever-ready to render any assistance in his power.” What’s in a Nickname? Jordan’s nickname was “Foxy.”

Now an apartment building, the Jordan School still proudly wears its history as a high school.

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Lewiston received a $3.4 million HUD Choice Neighborhood Planning and Action Grant in 20I8.

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Lewiston Summer Fun & Films presents free, family-friendly outdoor movie nights.

Bates to Lewiston Born into a Freewill Baptist family in the western Maine town of Otisfield, Lyman Jordan was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bates. From 1874 to 1889, he was principal of Lewiston High School, then joined the Bates faculty as a professor of chemistry and biology. Spring 2020

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THE WORLD

Each year, a student from Japan spends the year at Bates as a Hirasawa Scholar.

Applications from Peru rose from I to 9 in 20I9.

Makewe, Chile “This is Juan, who lives in Makewe, a primarily Mapuche indigenous community in southern Chile. He is pictured on his farm, where his animals — including this pig — are like his children. I interviewed him for my senior thesis project on a pressing public health issue: loneliness among older adults. “Juan is alone while his wife gets medical treatment for three days at a time. His church community and his faith are loneliness antidotes. He told me, ‘El creador de arriba, el es lo que te cuida de la noche. Entonces, uno no puede sentirse demasiado solo’: ‘The creator above is the one who cares for you at night. So, one can’t feel too alone.’”

KHUSHI “It’s magical” On the Historic Quad last November, Khushi Choudhary ’23 of Kolkata, India, takes a moment to experience her first-ever snowflakes.

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Environmental studies major Grace Ellrodt ’20 of Lenox, Mass., took this picture in May 2019 during a School for International Training program on public health, traditional medicine, and community empowerment in Arica, Chile. The image was featured in the 2020 Barlow Off-Campus Study Exhibition.

Bates financial aid is available to students who take off-campus study programs.

A Prague orchestra performed an opera composed by music professor Hiroya Miura.

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Entering first-year students may participate in a Fall Semester Abroad.

Eden Rickolt ’20 (right) of Landenberg, Pa., poses with her Fulbright mentor, Carolina González Valencia, assistant professor of art and visual culture.

First in Fulbrights Bates is again the No. 1 producer of Fulbright Student awards among U.S. liberal arts colleges in 2020, The Chronicle of Higher Education announced in February. With 24 alumni having received Fulbright grants for teaching and research in Fulbright-sponsored teaching and research experiences worldwide, Bates tops all U.S. bachelors’ colleges — including the most selective liberal arts institutions — for the second time in three years. The college’s two dozen Fulbright Student awards are the most ever by a U.S. liberal arts college. “This extraordinary accomplishment is the result of a genuine team effort — beginning with the talent and creativity of our student candidates, the generosity and diligence of their faculty mentors, the leadership of our program director, and the efforts of many other members of our community,” said President Clayton Spencer. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Central to Bates’ historic Fulbright success are wide-ranging opportunities for highly talented students to develop one-on-one mentoring relationships with faculty and staff, said Robert

Strong, lecturer in English and the college’s director of national fellowships. Such mentorship can take the form of small classes, experience in cuttingedge research, collaboration in extracurricular activities, and senior thesis advising. In turn, the power of mentoring is built into the Bates fellowship application process. As students prepare their applications, each Fulbright hopeful participates in an intensive interview with a faculty and staff committee. Feedback from these sessions helps students refine and better articulate their goals, said Strong. “Bates students are talented, curious, and eager to understand the world and their place in it, which makes them strong Fulbright candidates already, as well as set up for success in any endeavor,” he said. “It’s amazing what Bates faculty and staff will then do to help them grow intellectually and personally, and to help them identify their interests and goals.” Also supporting the college’s Fulbright success is the college’s robust off-campus study program. More than half of Bates students study abroad, often on programs that center around their budding research interests.

24 in 2020 The number of Fulbright Student awards earned by Bates seniors and young alumni has grown from three to 24 since 2010. This year’s total is the most ever received by a liberal arts college. Number of Awards 2020: 24* 2019: 13 2018: 23* 2017: 13 2016: 18 2015: 10

2014: 9 2013: 6 2012: 4 2011: 2 2010: 3

* Ranked first in nation among liberal arts colleges.

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BOOKS

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

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez Suggested by Stephanie Pridgeon, Assistant Professor of Spanish A Mexican American teen navigates coming of age as she and her parents are reeling from the sudden loss of her sister.

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Suggested by Alice Doughty, Lecturer in Geology Kimmerer’s work connects indigenous wisdom with plant ecology and personal journeys.

Suggested by Tom McGuinness, Director of Institutional Research, Analysis, & Planning A hockey version of Friday Night Lights (with a dash of Coen Brothers-style dark comedy).

The Human Shore: Seacoasts in History by John Gillis Suggested by Joe Hall, Associate Professor of History This book describes how humans have always been a species on the edge, living in the productive places between different ecosystems.

Deck the Hall Each year, the Bates Magazine printer, Penmor Lithographers, gives us a Bates-themed gingerbread house. And each year, photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen takes a picture of the creation somewhere on campus. This year it was in front of Hathorn Hall. (After the shoot, we eat it.)

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Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Mario Badescu–brand lip balm • Doctor Dan–brand lip balm • Halloweenthemed pinwheel • Book, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None • Notebook for Chemistry 107 • Hoop earrings • Casio FX-CG10 graphing calculator • Buttons featuring the transgender pride flag and the initials “JR” • Faux ID card invoking Russian fashion designer Gosha Rubchinskiy • Gold, red, and white pendants with the Timberland logo • Yaroce computer glasses • Plastic rulers • Water bottles, including one from the Mathematics and Statistics Workshop and another from the New England Patriots’ 2019 Super Bowl win • Black cotton gloves • Popup mirror and hair brush • Pendant necklace with pyramid-shaped stone • Bluetooth ear buds • Footie sock

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Items seen in Ladd Library’s Lost and Found during December finals week

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Cat’s Palate The Bobcat sandwich has been a student favorite for a decade. Want to make your own? Here you go! Serves: One hungry Bobcat • 4 ounces shaved ham (or 4 slices) • 2 slices deli pepperoni • 2 slices salami • 1 slice provolone (more if you’re feeling cheesy) • 1 slice American cheese (same!)

• Finely chopped Spanish onion • Finely chopped green pepper • Crinkle-chip dill pickles • 8-inch sub roll

• Heat oven to 350 F. • Slice sub roll in half lengthwise. • Layer bottom half of roll with chopped green pepper and chopped onion, then layer ham, pepperoni, American cheese, salami, pickles, and provolone. • Place layered side on cooking pan. • Heat 4 to 5 minutes. • Cover with top half of roll and heat 2 to 3 minutes or until it’s warm enough for you. • Serve with condiment of choice.

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QUIZ

Twenty-five years ago, Bates seniors Zoë Miller and Colleen Sumner created Girlie Jones, a specific kind of publication. What was Girlie Jones?

Gearing Up Top Bates swimmer Dan Waterland ’22 of Chadds Ford, Pa., found a fun way during the team’s annual photo shoot to show how swimmers train, donning all kinds of training gear at once: paddles, snorkel, fins, and a resistance parachute. Point 1: “ We don’t just jump in the water and swim laps. We use equipment just like other sports to help us per form better.” Point 2: “ We like to have fun, too!”

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Above, Costlow walks onto the Quad for the Opening Convocation in September. Opposite, Jane Costlow and her students spy a pileated woodpecker during a class nature walk at Thorncrag Sanctuary.

Exemplifying a wave of baby-boomer retirements from academia, Jane Costlow — esteemed Bates teacher, scholar, and colleague — embarks on her 34th and final academic year with an unwavering focus on the trinity of faculty responsibilities: teaching, research, and service p hoto g raphy and text by ph y lli s g r abe r je nse n

a rriving for a buffet luncheon in Commons last

October, Jane Costlow was hungry in more ways than one. For a meal, yes, but also for a chance to learn about her future. Organized by recently retired Bates professors Margaret Creighton and Leslie Hill, the regular lunch gathering gives emeriti faculty and those approaching retirement, such as Costlow, a forum to share ideas about how they might enrich their post-pedagogical lives. “The folks who are organizing this are wonderful and generous,” Costlow said later. Yet, she added, attending the lunch felt a bit premature. “I’m not thinking too much beyond next week, actually.” Indeed, there was scant evidence of Costlow’s pending retirement last fall as I began a project to document the Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies’ 34th and final year of teaching at Bates. I followed her onto the Quad for Opening Convocation and then into Bates classrooms, where she taught 54 students in two courses and advised several more. I saw her engagement with her students on and off campus, including a trip to Portland to document her support of Bates students at a student-led climate protest and, weeks later, a rejuvenative, albeit snowy, visit to nearby Thorncrag Nature Sanctuary. In late October, I rode the bus for seven hours to New York City to photograph her presenting scholarly research about oil pollution in the Volga River in the late 1800s and early 1900s. And in November, I tagged along as Costlow, in

her capacity as chair of the college’s Philip J. Otis Committee, orchestrated a three-day visit to campus by poet and essayist Ross Gay, who visited classes, dined with faculty and students at nearby Nezinscot Farm, and delivered the annual Otis Lecture. By semester’s end, I had ample proof that Costlow continues to excel at teaching, research, and service, the holy trinity of faculty responsibilities by which professors across the land are judged and measured. My interest in this documentary project is both micro (Costlow is among the most respected members of the faculty) and macro. She personifies a sea change in U.S. higher education as baby-boomer professors retire en masse. In fact, during the just-completed decade, roughly a third of the Bates faculty has retired. When Costlow came to Bates, in 1986, the number of living retired Bates faculty stood at just 19. When she and several colleagues retire this year, leaving behind the world of the academy to which they’ve devoted much of their adult lives, the number will swell to nearly 80. When she was appointed to the Bates faculty 34 years ago, Costlow was a budding scholar in Russian language and literature. Then, by the 1990s, she was exploring environmental topics, including an early course on country life in Russia that examined how ideas about nature have permeated the Russian psyche. In 1998, she joined the college’s nascent Program in Environmental Studies, and in 2012 she was appointed to the Griffith chair, succeeding the late Carl Benton Straub.

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Just as her academic focus has changed over three decades, so too have pertinent global concerns. Back then, the Cold War was a constant backdrop for classroom discussions. Today, it’s climate change. And while Costlow is no stranger to teaching the topic, she says there’s still a “huge dilemma in how to communicate about climate change. Everybody gets why this is so important. But how do we communicate the urgency? How do you get people engaged? What policies are you promoting in your communication?” She points to a pivotal autumn class discussion in her course “Lives in Place,” which explores ideas about place and sustainable living, including how “place comes to mean something important to people in different cultures and different places, and how people can be displaced from where they feel connected.” One of Costlow’s students, talking about the impact of images on political issues such as climate change or immigration, wondered if the proliferation of heartbreaking visuals in the media, such as emaciated polar bears, can really influence policy. Costlow asked her students to consider the influential images created by Dorothea Lange, one of several Farm Security Administration photographers who depicted a climate- and human-created environmental disaster of another time, the Dust Bowl. That example got the students to think about “political transformation,” Costlow says, and “how artists, photographers, and writers can make a difference by creating a language for how we’re going to contend with these enormous problems.” Whether as journalists or activists or engaged citizens, her students will need such tools “to try to change people’s hearts and minds.” During the Cold War, Costlow’s classroom practices — “I could show movies, have readings, and do exercises in class to talk about the history” — helped to demystify the issues and even reduce the tension her students felt in an era when global nuclear Armageddon was a threat just as real as climate change. But the climate crisis presents “a different narrative arc,” she says, one that places “all of us right in the middle, trying to figure out how we can change our systems and our infrastructure so human lives, and non-human lives, can continue to flourish.” And the narrative arc of the Soviet Union had an end: the USSR’s dissolution in 1991. “I don’t think that the climate crisis is going to end the same way. It’s going to be something we’re going to live with for a long time.” No wonder, then, that Costlow reports that climate topics in the classroom are often met with “a kind of very disturbing silence” from her students. “I think that it derives from that sense of fear, of not knowing where we can go. And I struggle with where to go from that.” One approach, she says, is to show examples of how communities now cope with climate change. “Sometimes those are really inspiring stories,” she says. “And sometimes they’re just hellishly depressing stories.”

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STILL S O M E FIRSTS Though the fall semester represented the beginning of the end of her long career on the Bates faculty, Costlow was still experiencing some Bates firsts. Take, for example, her judging debut at the annual Trashion Show, in November. Organized by student EcoReps and held in the Gray Athletic Building, the event features students modeling outfits made from campus trash as a way to raise awareness of the amount and variety of waste Bates produces. Costlow was one of the judges, with Associate Dean of International Student Programs James Reese and Dining Services staffer Flo Laflamme. She’d never attended before, but immediately fell under the show’s spell. “As the weather gets gray outside, I love these big indoor events. It’s kind of a nice community feel,” she says. “And the level of creativity and enthusiasm on the part of the students is just great.” The experience reflects her belief in the value of experiential learning. “I love the kind of surprise that can happen when you go out into the world and encounter things differently,” she says. In early December, Costlow and students in her course “The Question of the Animal,” which looks at human-animal interaction through poetry, essays, fiction, and film, went on a birding excursion to Thorncrag. Leading the trek was Nick Lund of Maine Audubon, who had visited the class a few weeks earlier. The excitement in the woods was already palpable when Lund suddenly called out: “Follow me!” He had just spotted a pileated woodpecker, nearly the size of a crow, atop a towering tree in the distance. Costlow, who has led generations of Bates students on academic trips to Russia, adores getting everyone out of the classroom when she can, whether abroad or in Lewiston. “There’s something about the constraints of sitting in chairs, even if they’re in a circle, that can really have a suppressive impact.” And the woods offer especially wonderful opportunities for mindfulness, says Costlow, whose publications include the book Heart-Pine Russia, which explores the power of forests in Russian culture and history. A slow walk in the woods offers time for attention — to really focus on the woodpecker, or the deer tracks, or the sounds of birds communicating with each other. That, says Costlow, is “fabulous.” And in the day-to-day, she adds, “Instead, we rarely ever pay attention to only one thing at a time.” Instead we often have multiple things piling atop one another. For a professor, three big ones are teaching, research, and service. “Ideally, all three feed into, nourish, and sustain each other,” Costlow says. “There are ways in which my teaching has led me into new kinds of scholarly questions. And your own intellectual curiosity can be fed by your scholarship, and that can come back into the classroom.” The service part, meanwhile, typically manifests itself as committee work, and there are nearly 30 committees at Bates that a faculty member could be part of. Such work “can sometimes feel really integrated,”

Sharing a quiet moment with faculty and students before dinner with a visiting poet at a nearby farm.

Holding a session of one of her courses.

In solidarity with students at a Portland climate protest.

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Watching fellow scholars reacting to her scholarly paper at a conference at New York University.

Attending and judging (lower left) the Trashion Show for the first time.

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although, Costlow adds, it’s “more likely to sap energy than necessarily nurture energy. Sometimes it’s just part of what we need to do to keep the household of Bates College going.” During October, Costlow took on all three tasks nearly simultaneously: teaching in the classroom and advising students; traveling to New York to deliver her paper; and hosting poet Ross Gay’s campus visit. All of which left her wiped out. “It’s just too much,” she says. “I don’t think that’s healthy for anybody.” But she knows that such multitasking has become an American norm, and she worries about its effect on her students. “I have a first-year student violinist who’s very excited about everything. I heard someone ask him after class, ‘Oh, are you going to be playing in the orchestra?’ And he said, ‘Well, technically, I don’t have the time to play in the orchestra. But I might try to anyway.’ “And I just found myself laughing because I thought, ‘There it is: You don’t really have enough time to do all these things, but you’re kind of ramming more things into your day.’ I worry about us trying to get too much done in too little time at Bates.” Similar to the way the Thorncrag birdwalk was an opportunity to take one thing at a time, Costlow points to another oasis moment during the fall: an unrushed dinner with Gay, the Otis speaker, at Nezinscot Farm. This 250-acre organic operation in nearby Turner features a year-round community-supported agriculture operation plus a cafe, gourmet food shop, yarn shop, and artisanal bakery, among other ventures. “It was just incredibly relaxed,” Costlow says of the dinner, which brought together a dozen or so professors and environmental studies majors. “We sit around this long table and have a sort of Thanksgiving dinner. We chat, and then at a certain point, somebody tries to ask a good question that we can all have a conversation around.” The next day, a colleague told Costlow how, on the ride back to Bates, the students expressed wonder at being able to just sit and talk with their professors, “just to have that big, rambling, relaxed conversation, and that we don’t do it enough. And they’re absolutely right. “I guess I’m thinking that we just live in a world that is not conducive to reflection. And that impacts me and it also impacts my students. For example, to write well, you really do need space to be reflective — space to empty and clear your mind and get ready to write. Do we give our students that space for deep creative work?” The public phase of Costlow’s fall semester ended at 10:50 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 6, with the last class session for her course “Lives in Place.” For her students, the semester was over; for Costlow and many of her colleagues, there remained another round of grading papers and exams, which in her field means paying particular attention to writing. “I always hope that my responses to a student’s writing are more complicated and helpful than just the grade,” she says. “I learned years ago to start your remarks with something positive and supportive about their ideas, even if something hasn’t come together very well or there’s a really interesting idea

that’s kind of buried on page four.” She also tries “not to get bogged down in minutiae or get lost in the weeds. I try to give some general comments” — in green or purple ink, not red — “that can be helpful for the development of their writing. Everything that I’ve learned about student writing says that while the mechanics of the paper, the grammar and the like, are important, it’s a lower-order importance. You have to try to look at the overall organization: the structure and the ideas.” After three decades of reacting to her students’ writing, Costlow has developed a sixth sense that tells her whether they’re engaged in their work. A tipoff might be a new take on a reading or movie that Costlow has seen dozens of times. “That’s exciting,” she says. “It’s hard to put a name to it, but there’s this intangible feeling in the tone of the paper that you can recognize.” Earlier in the fall, on that visit to New York City, it was Costlow’s turn to seek feedback for her own writing. She submitted a new paper, “Seeing Oil: Transporting the Volga into the Modern Era,” at the conference Energy Aesthetics: Force, Flow, and Entropy in Russian Culture at New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Similar to the intimate vibe of a college seminar, the conference was a small one, more of a “workshop, a relatively small, focused, and interactive gathering of scholars,” Costlow says. “We have a shared language: We all speak Russian. But we also share a deep love for some of the same texts and have similar kinds of questions about Russian culture. “I like that kind of conference, where you can actually have sustained conversations with people over the course of a day.” Reflecting on how research and teaching often, but don’t always, complement one another, Costlow says that progress on “Seeing Oil” paper had languished during the fall. “I’d been working on this paper all summer and was super into it,” she says. “Then the semester began, and I had to basically say, ‘Okay, all those files have to go down on the floor, because the student papers have to come onto the desk.’” Commissioned for a volume of essays mostly by environmental historians, Costlow’s paper was overdue (yes, professors are sometimes late handing in their work too). “I didn’t know where I wanted to go with it. So the comments that I got from people at the workshop were just amazing and really helpful.” It was a reminder, she adds, “that in the best situations, our work can be involved in dialogue with each other. And so as much as I like going and closing the door of my study and doing a deep dive into the material, there’s something about being in conversation with other people. “That’s true of my students and colleagues, too, where we can get to that ‘ah-ha’ moment and figure out a way through a project. That’s kind of cool.” n

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GOOD NAME Created by Bates students in their professor’s lab, the new molecule nicknamed Bobcat339 speaks to pharmaceutical promise and a “splash of good luck” by h. jay bu r ns

For a chemist in the lab, it’s simple to create a new molecule, just as it is for a chef creating a new soup. A chemist can “quickly make a molecule that’s never existed on this planet — probably never existed in the universe,” says Andrew Kennedy, an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry. “The possibilities are infinite for molecular structure.” But while creating a new soup or molecule is easy, it’s far harder to create a dish that dazzles the palate — or in the field of drug discovery, to design a new molecule that accomplishes a specific task. But that’s just what a team of Bates students has accomplished in Kennedy’s lab at Bates, creating a novel compound with a Bates-inspired nickname that carries enough pharmaceutical promise for Bates to file a provisional patent application for the molecule. Initially synthesized in 2017, the molecule nicknamed Bobcat339 (see page 35) has the

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potential to govern the function of genes related to memory loss and genes that aid and abet the spread of cancer. A provisional patent application protects the college’s intellectual property for a year until a formal patent application is completed. All told, seven Bates students (now young alumni) broadly contributed to research leading to the creation of Bobcat339; they’re credited as coauthors of the scholarly article “Cytosine-Based TET Enzyme Inhibitors,” which outlines the synthesis and promise of Bobcat339. The Kennedy lab works in epigenetics, a field that looks at how genes can change their function without being altered themselves. Kennedy’s ongoing work includes important achievements in potential therapies for the autism-spectrum disorder called Pitt Hopkins Syndrome. The field of epigenetics tries to answer a question that confounded early cell biologists. If nearly every cell in our body

contains our entire genome, how is it that some cells become the liver, and others become brain cells? “How does this happen?” Kennedy asks, rhetorically. “It’s as if you handed the exact same blueprint to three different contractors, and they create three different homes.” At one level, “it just doesn’t make sense,” he says. The answer, he explains, resembles how two libraries might arrange the same collection of books. The Neuron Library would place neuron-specific books up front for frequent use, and put books about liver cells into storage so they’re inaccessible until needed. The Liver Library, however, would do it the other way around, putting the liver books up front for frequent access and storing the neuron books. To extend the library metaphor, there’s a very powerful “librarian” at work: Known as DNA methylation, it’s a process that decides where and how genes are either read or put into

“The analogy I think of is, it’s like finding a kid on a farm who can throw 90 miles an hour. He might be the next Walter Johnson or Cy Young, but we don’t know yet.” tors as an avenue to potentially dial back the aggressiveness of some cancers,” he explains. He says the discovery is promising, but not a lock. “The analogy I think of is, it’s like finding a kid on a farm who can throw 90 miles an hour. He might be the next Walter Johnson or Cy Young, but we don’t know yet,” Kennedy told television station WGME last year. Like any realm of invention, creating a specific molecule involves trial and error, plus some creativity and luck, says Kennedy. “One of my students made a couple dozen molecules, very quickly, over a summer,” he recalls. “Then she spent the last two semesters trying to make one molecule, and failed. And I think that’s really common in this work.” He compares the creative process to how a climber might

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storage, and thus what kind of cell the genome produces. Methylation refers to the placement of methyl groups (parts of molecules comprising a single carbon atom bonded to three hydrogen atoms), directly onto DNA. This placement “alters whether or not genes near that methyl mark are expressed or silenced,” Kennedy explains. Bobcat339 works by throwing a “wrench in the gears,” he says, preventing, or “inhibiting,” a certain enzyme, known as TET1, from doing its usual job of removing a methyl from a gene. Importantly, it’s this ability as a so-called enzyme inhibitor that gives Bobcat339 promise in the world of drug discovery: Kennedy’s team, using a mouse model, has found that Bobcat339 affects genes that relate to cancer and memory. “There’s great interest in creating TET inhibi-

imagine a new route to a peak. “You can see the peak. And you might imagine that the north face is the easiest way up. But then you start the climb and find an obstacle you couldn’t see from the ground. So you have to backtrack and try again.”

This 3D “space-filling” model of Bobcat339 depicts the effective shape and relative dimensions of the molecule. The gray, blue, red, green, and white spheres correspond to carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, chlorine, and hydrogen atoms, respectively.

The Bobcat339 Team With their professor, Andrew Kennedy (right), three of the seven student coauthors of the scholarly article, “Cytosine-Based TET Enzyme Inhibitors,” which outlines the synthesis and promise of Bobcat339, posed last May in a Dana Chemistry lab. They are, from left, Michael Bennett ’19, Haoyu Sun ’19, and Nathanael Kuzio ’19. Their four fellow coauthors are Emma Jarczyk ’17, Joseph Alp ’18, Gabriella Chua ’18, and Kelly Wassarman ’18. Kennedy is a coauthor, too, as is Assistant Professor of Biology and Neuroscience Martin Kruse, who contributed a cell culture experiment.

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Instrumental in the creation of Bobcat339, Gabriella Chua ’18 is the lead author of the research paper describing the novel compound.

Chemical Biology, jointly sponsored by Weill Cornell Medical College, The Rockefeller University, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. For her, the name “Bobcat339” says something about the mindset needed to do research. “You can work as hard as you want, and things might still not turn out well. All the compounds that we tested could just as easily have not worked.”

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“My students and I will go to the chalkboard and design dozens of ways to make a molecule,” he says. “And we try to rationalize, based on what we know, the most likely route to success.” Which brings us to the lead author of the paper describing Bobcat339, Gabriella Chua ’18. She’s the lead author, Kennedy says, because she knew “more about the genesis and trajectory of the project” than even her professor. During her senior year, Chua served as the Kennedy lab’s eyes and ears as the team churned out and evaluated dozens of new molecules, including Bobcat339. To Chua goes the credit for envisioning how the lab could successfully synthesize the new molecule. Chua was well-prepared for that leadership role thanks to earlier courses with Kennedy and other Bates professors, including her junior-year advanced organic chemistry course, where Kennedy “pushed us to do our own, more independent problem solving and thinking,” she says. Instead of just seeking answers to questions, as she had so far in her coursework, she was now being asked to frame original research questions. That meant “grappling more with uncertainty than with certainty,” she says. “I became curious with the process of science, and how we’ve been able to make definitive conclusions about the things we consider ourselves to understand.” Senior-year research in Kennedy’s lab was a “way to follow these curiosities in a productive way,” she says. Kennedy “gave me the space and trust to do these things.” Chua’s job was to evaluate the lab’s progress and develop new approaches, tracking “what was working and what wasn’t, trends that we wanted to aim for, or trends that I saw that weren’t working.” After considering offers from a variety of top doctoral programs, Chua has chosen the Tri-Institutional Program in

When it does work out, Chua says it’s good to be grateful — and a bit humble. “Bobcat339 is the product of really hard work and great relationships, but there’s also a splash of good luck.” And, she adds, believing that there’s good luck out there, that maybe something can tip the scales in mysterious ways, “makes me excited and optimistic for the future.”

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Funding at Work The Kennedy lab’s work has been supported in part by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, the Foundation for Pitt Hopkins Syndrome Therapeutics, the University of Pennsylvania’s Orphan Disease Center’s 2018 MDBR Pilot Grant Program, the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, and Bates College.

Importantly, the name Bobcat339 tells a story: Bobcat: This places the creation at Bates. 3: The first “3” identifies a member of Kennedy’s lab, Haoyu Sun ’19, who did the synthesis of the molecule on May 31, 2017, shortly after starting her summer job in the lab. She’s the third of four students, thus far, who have synthesized molecules for testing in the Kennedy lab. 39: The last two numbers, “39,” indicate the specific page of Sun’s lab notebook where she hand-wrote a description of Bobcat339’s creation — its recipe, if you will. Each page of each student’s lab notebook, front and back, describes the synthesis of one molecule that the Kennedy lab will test, totaling upward of 50 molecules.

Below, Haoyu Sun ’19 displays the pivotal page 39 of her notebook, describing the synthesis of Bobcat339 in May 2017.

Andrew Kennedy’s work at Bates focuses on epigenetics, a field that looks at how genes can change their function without being altered themselves.

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For Kennedy, the achievement of Bobcat339 speaks to his students’ rapid intellectual growth over their four years. “They go from receiving knowledge and memorizing information they need to know, to the mindset of, ‘How do we, as scientists, tackle a problem?’” he says. “They make that transition very quickly. It’s like they become different people.” n

Nicknaming a novel compound like Bobcat339 is useful, says Andrew Kennedy — a vast understatement considering the molecule’s full name is 1-([1,1’-Biphenyl]-3-yl)-4-amino-5chloropyrimidin-2(1H)-one.

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arts gallery Enjoy this three-day visit with artists and their art, musicians and their music, in Olin Arts Center

At the dedication of Olin Arts Center in 1986, the late Carl Benton Straub, then dean of the faculty, observed that “none of us will ever know the countless moments of discovery and self-discovery which will occur in and around this place.” True, we won’t know them all. But here are a few moments — images and impressions of artists and their art, musicians and their music, captured over three days in February by Bates writers Emily McConville and Doug Hubley and photographers Phyllis Graber Jensen and Theophil Syslo. The home of the Bates College Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center also houses a signature 300-seat concert hall, the Department of Music, and the Department of Art and Visual Culture. The building features classrooms and faculty offices; practice rooms for musicians and art studios including a ceramics studio and kiln room; a slide library of digital and film artwork and photographic darkrooms; and, of course, a lot of talent.

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In Olin Room 321, the course “Animation II: Experimental Methods” is underway. Under the eyes of six students, Carolina González Valencia, assistant professor of art and visual culture, is demonstrating the use of cutouts and layers in a technique called under-camera animation. She works at an animation stand. At the bottom of the stand is a baseboard marked with a grid, on which she has created a scenario from a drawing of two open windows and a few cutouts — a banana, a paper plane, a dancer. She dims the room.

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frames of her composition. She moves something slightly and snaps a few more (the standard frame rate for animation is 24 per second). “When there are multiple things that I’m moving at different times, I like to keep a log,” González tells the students, who will soon be creating their own trial animations. Restrict the variables, she says. “Experiment with intention. Don’t move things in a random way.” She plays back the frames she’s been recording. Voila! A paper plane flies in one window and back out the other.

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As he and his classmates take in an exhibit at the Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston Middle School student Michael Caron notices an unexpected part of a sculpture: himself, reflected in one of the mirrors scattered through-

out the museum installation. The class is touring Miracles and Glory Abound by Pittsburgh artist Vanessa German. As they settle in, museum education curator Anthony Shostak gives the students two tasks: Come up with at least one question about the art, and find “one really cool detail.” There’s plenty to choose from. German’s work is immense, expansive, intricate. The middle schoolers are quick to point out the details, and their feelings about them. “That’s scary,” one observes about a pile of plaster baby legs adorning one sculpture. “There are keys everywhere,” says another. Museum education fellow Elizabeth Boyle gathers the students around the exhibit’s centerpiece, a sculpture that reimagines Emanuel Leutze’s iconic painting Washington Crossing the Delaware, depicting the boat’s passengers and the

first U.S. president as Black women: LaQuisha Washington Crossing the Day Aware. Boyle explains the characters in the sculpture and challenges the students to think about the importance of depicting Black women as part of a story from which they are often excluded.

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speed, and articulation — the clarity of touch. Both use pencils to make notes or tap out rhythms. Several minutes into the lesson, Zelbo starts to play through several bars. “Yes!” says Naruse. “You can do it.”

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For now, Olin’s concert hall is still and empty except for the hum of the auto scrubber, which custodian Bruce Audet uses to

clean the stage about three times a week. He starts at an outer corner and works his way in; later he’ll need to move the piano that’s now in the middle of the stage. Working in Olin is “like a puzzle, fitting everything together,” Audet says. There’s standard cleaning and maintenance, plus a carousel of events to set up and take down. Audet likes it that way.

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The sound of pianos, a constant on Olin’s second floor, mixes with that of a vacuum cleaner running on carpet. Alek Zelbo ’23 of New York City waits for a moment outside a practice room for his piano lesson to start. Zelbo started piano about a year and a half ago, during a gap year before college. He took to the instrument so well that he hopes to major in music performance as well as chemistry. In the practice room, Zelbo runs through some scales before resuming a piece he’s been learning, Beethoven’s “Pathétique” sonata. He is guided through a section of the sonata by Chiharu Naruse, an accomplished pianist and Bates piano instructor. Naruse has him pay attention to volume,

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The lower level of the Museum of Art is currently home to Ralph Meatyard: Stages for Being, an exhibition of the Kentucky photographer’s eerie, enigmatic images. It’s also the home of Wednesday lunchtime yoga for faculty and staff. Surrounded by surreal black-and-white photos of children and adults in masks, yoga regulars roll out their mats. Instructor Heidi Audet puts on some music, and the session begins. Roll shoulders. Straighten spine. Roll head, drop chin. Exhale — “hah!” Then cross legs, and, if you like, three rounds of ohm.

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Associate Professor of Music Dale Chapman, teaching his jazz history course, is explaining how “exoticized, racialized” jazz performances gave way, during the Great Depression, to public dances, the audience becoming part of the entertainment instead of just watching it. Emerging from this milieu was Duke Ellington, whose orchestra’s polished and sophisticated sound was thanks in no small part to trumpeter Cootie Williams. Chapman plays a recording of “Concerto for Cootie,” an Ellington composition that gave Williams the spotlight. Students in the class point out the dynamics of rhythm and loudness. Chapman adds that the piece contains internal harmonies, and that the rest of the band answers Williams’ melody — a musical dialogue, he says.

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In a ground-floor room with wall-to-wall windows looking across the lawn toward Russell Street, E.B. Hall ’20 of Boise, Idaho, works on her pieces —

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grand sculptures and figurines made of donated clothes, Goodwill rejects, and even dryer lint. A floor above, Mayele Alognon ’20 of Louisville, Ky., uses a wash technique to make semi-transparent figures on cardboard, many of them locked in embraces. “I’m juggling a lot with this idea that there are multiple authentic versions of self, rather than one objective version of oneself,” she says. The studios are shared spaces, and among Alognon’s studio-mates is Philip Wu ’20 of New Taipei City, Taiwan, who across the room is using ink pens and brush markers to make intricate, dystopian cityscapes. Whereas Alognon likes to work in the afternoons (“I’m definitely with the light,” she says), Wu is more of a night owl, coming into the studio after dinner and working past midnight. “I kind of like it quiet and peaceful,” he says. “That’s the environment I enjoy working in.”

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As the late-afternoon light causes shadows to descend on the Olin

lobby, Myron Beasley, associate professor of American studies, offers advice about summer jobs and art spaces to Ollie Penner ’22 of Pasadena, Calif., a double major in American studies and in art and visual culture.

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Live figure drawing starts at 6 p.m., and many artists arrive several minutes early. The nude model will pose on a small platform in Olin Room 259, with participants set up around her — or, on other weeks, him — in a semi-circle, so their easel placement will determine the angle at which they can draw her. Sponsored by the Museum of Art, the three-hour session attracts both Bates students and community members — including noted landscape artist Joel Babb. The model starts with a short five-minute pose. Using pencil or charcoal, the artists work quickly. Bodies take shape on paper within the first minute, followed by rough details and, for some artists, shadows.

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Outside Olin, Alex Paton ’21 of Charlotte, Vt., breaks up snow and ice behind the soda kiln to make space for the kiln burners. This kiln creates a particular ceramic glaze.

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“We want the sound to be dense,” Alan Carr tells the low-end contingent — three trombonists and a euphonium player, plus a drummer — of the Bates Brass Ensemble. “Imagine the sound oozing through the wall, out under Russell Street.” Hidden in the back of Olin’s

ground floor, the rehearsal room was built big but looks small, jammed with musical instruments. The musicians sit on folding chairs in a small clearing anchored at one end by two pianos. Carr, brass ensemble director and a trombonist himself, is conducting the students through an angular, propulsive passage from Martin Fondse’s “Low End HiFi.”

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The brass ensemble rehearsal has light moments, too. Trombonist Alice Li ’21 of Bellevue, Wash., enjoys one.

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With an hour left in a three-hour photography course, Senior Lecturer in Art and Visual Culture Elke Morris talks with Cate Day ’20 of Montclair, N.J., about her photography projects. Elsewhere, a special guest, Maine fine arts photographer

Jack Montgomery, sticks around and chats with students.

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Johnny Loftus ’22 of Palo Alto, Calif., heads across the hall to the darkroom. The “film guy” in the class, he likes how film constrains his choice of settings and number of shots; his photos come out better in the end, he believes. Loftus works late at night, sometimes coming in as the late-shift custodian is leaving. “You do your own thing in here,” he says — which helps his art. On evenings and weekends, when Alexandra Hood, the center’s operations supervisor, is away from the front desk of Olin, a battalion of capable student workers takes over. Sandia Taban ’22 of Changsu, China, likes the job because she gets to interact with lots of different people. Among her duties: giving students keys to the ceramics room, helping people book concert tickets, scanning said tickets, answering prospective students’ questions. A nice side benefit of working the front desk is that Taban is familiar with the arts calendar, so she goes to almost every concert. “Sometimes my friend will be in the choir, or my friend will be playing the violin in the orchestra,” she says. “I usually hear of it, and I’ll come.”

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Walking into the Bates Gamelan Ensemble rehearsal room, one feels a sense of tranquility. The wood and bronze of the Indonesian instruments cast a warm aura. Even when the student and staff players are practicing individual parts of Sundanese songs all at once, the melodic percussion has, well, a nice ring to it.

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“Our rule,” says Anthony Shostak of the Bates Museum of Art, “is that art objects are really safe when they’re not being handled.” Fair enough. But inevitably, the museum’s Marsden Hartley drawings or pre-Columbian ceramics or Yvonne Jacquette prints, etc., need to be handled sometimes. There’s a right way to do that and lots of wrong ways, and teaching the museum’s collection-management interns which is which is important to Shostak’s training process. This afternoon Shostak is working with intern Helen Pandey ’22 of Nashville, Tenn., in the museum’s collection room, on Olin’s ground floor. Some precautions are self-evident. For instance, gloves are worn to protect art from skin secretions, and they should be textured gloves for a good grip.

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Also, says Shostak, “If you have to cough or sneeze, definitely turn away.”

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A so-called conveyance — in this case, a rolling table with an enclosed top — is used to, er, convey items from Point A to Point B. Three-dimensional objects like those old ceramics are swaddled in felt to protect them on the ride.

Both hands are needed to carry an object, and don’t lift that ancient jug by the handle — it doesn’t need any more stress. “Whenever you’re moving art,” Shostak says, “just be slow and crazily obsessive.”

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It’s late Friday afternoon, the start of the Bates Arts Festival, a new student arts showcase and whirlwind of displays,

demonstrations, and, of course, performances. The senior art and visual culture majors are back in their studios together, showing friends and strangers what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve created. Students lead discussions of photography and poetry. The Bates circus club

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And the Olin Concert Hall features performances big and small, classical and modern, sung and spoken. The Robinson Players perform a song from

their recent musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The Crosstones bust out contemporary hits a cappella. The Bates Arts Festival is a showcase of student artistic creativity in its every manifestation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; nurtured, of course, in the Olin Arts Center. n

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SUMMER Maine has always been an inseparable part of the Bates experience. From Kennebunk to Katahdin, from lobsters to lakes, we offer My Maine Summer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; profiles of alumni whose work, play, and family have a distinctive Maine-in-summer vibe.

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SUMMER KINGSTON OF THE LOBSTER ROLL For tourists trekking to Maine on a hungry quest for lobster, Steve Kingston ’88 of the Clam Shack is their deliverer by h. jay bu r ns photo g raphy by phyll i s g r abe r je nse n You could describe a lobster roll from the Clam Shack, an iconic summer eatery in Kennebunk owned by Steve Kingston ’88, as chunks of crustacean meat tucked between a couple pieces of bread. But that’s like saying an L.L.Bean boot is just leather stitched to rubber. Both deliver more than just the sum of their parts — a slice of authentic Maine itself. “The whole package is Maine,” says Kingston. In the case of a Clam Shack lobster roll, it’s not a slice but big, delicious bites, chunks of Maine lobster drizzled with Maine-churned butter and served on a purpose-baked bun from a few miles away. (Plus mayonnaise? Your choice.) On a humid mid-July morning, the around Kennebunkport’s Dock Square feels like the epicenter of the Maine tourist season. (Local note: The Clam Shack, perched overlooking the Kennebunk River, is technically on the Kennebunk side of the river, while across the bridge is Kennebunkport and its touristy/quaint Dock Square businesses. Locals call this cusp area “Taint Town,” as in, “’Taint Kennebunkport, ’taint Kennebunk.”) At the Clam Shack, Kingston’s staff, smartly

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branded in red caps and blue shirts, prepare to open, moving tables around and putting into position a lemonade stand, the very one Kingston once used to sell lemonade in town as a Bates sophomore. Helping repair one of the outdoor wooden picnic tables, Kingston has a to-do list in hand and his eyes flash about, checking his stage before the curtain goes up. Gawking and strolling, tourists wander around Taint Town with a delightful lack of purpose — except the ones who’ve begun to line up outside the Clam Shack even before its 11 a.m. opening. They want their lobster roll. Or fried clams. Or boiled lobster dinner. They’re on a quest, says Kingston. “Just by coming to Maine, a tourist is going to have lobster on their radar because it’s iconic to Maine,” he says. “They’re in search of it. They’re coming to Maine for the weather, to eat outside, and to have lobster.” Kingston has owned the Clam Shack since 2000, a 20-year stretch that nicely coincides with the rise of both social and food media, and the Clam Shack

has become a darling of both, giving the business a worldwide reputation. His operation has appeared on innumerable food-related TV networks, plus many magazines and newspapers. Four times in recent years, Kingston’s signature dish won “Best Lobster Roll” at the Lobster Roll Rumble in New York City (once joining another winning lobster roll with Bates connections, from Eventide, co-owned by Andrew Taylor ’03, which won Editors’ Choice). In 2007, when Vladimir Putin visited President George W. Bush at the family compound at nearby Walkers Point (a visit dubbed “the Lobster Summit” by the media), it was Kingston who cooked lobsters for one of the meals. “So at one point, I’m cooking lobster with Secret Service over one shoulder and the KGB over the other,” Kingston recalled for October magazine. “We packaged them up and raced them over, and I think they went from the cooker to being plated in, I think they said, seven minutes.” Though none from Russia, Yelp reviews for the Clam Shack come from nearly everywhere else, both the U.S. (e.g., Texas, Virginia, Florida, California, New Mexico, and Hawaii) and worldwide (Canada, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, and France).

Top left, Kingston scoops freshly cooked lobsters from a kettle that dates to the 1930s. On a busy summer day, the Clam Shack will process 1,000 pounds of lobster. Left, Kingston checks in at the Clam Shack as his daughter Piper, 19, takes orders. Below, a daily summer sight at the bridge in Kennebunk: a line of tourists waiting to place their order at the Clam Shack.

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Right, a slice of lemon makes a piquant garnish on the finished product, a lobster roll from the Clam Shack. Opposite, as owner of the Clam Shack since 2000, Steve Kingston ’88 has given the iconic Maine tourist business a worldwide reputation.

Indeed, Kingston is a media pro, both affable and on-message during an interview. “I love talking with people who love the food,” he says. In that way, “I feel we’re in the entertainment business.” Gary and Lois Griswold of Wyoming, Ohio, are regulars on the Clam Shack quest. Shortly after 11 a.m., they’re seated outside waiting for their order, taken by Kingston’s 19-year-old daughter, Piper. Gary knows his lobster rolls. “Last year when we came to Maine, I had a lobster roll every day.” Asked to describe a Clam Shack lobster roll in one word, Gary says, “Best.” Then two words: “Best anywhere.” And what makes it the best? “Just look at the line,” he says, gesturing to the growing queue. On its busiest days, the Clam Shack will process 1,000 pounds of live lobsters, which will yield enough cooked meat for around 400 rolls. The sandwich’s quality begins and ends with the meat, says Kingston. “We produce great lobster meat.” As he gives a tour, Kingston puts an authentic Maine stamp on his operation. Out back in the prep area, he scoops a batch of cooked lobsters from the kettle. It’s not just any pot: It’s a pot that hasn’t left the building since the 1930s. “And it’s never seen chemicals.” He sets down the red lobsters. “Summertime in Maine!” Until they’re cooked, the lobsters live in a tank fed with fresh salt river water. They’re cooked in salt water in the historic flame-heated pot. “Very few places are doing this,” he says. Don’t get him started on eateries that use frozen lobster meat. “That should be against the law in Maine,” he jokes. All this prep takes place behind the scenes at Kingston’s next-door venue, Seafood Market. Out

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front, the market offers sit-down seating, beers on tap, and swag for sale. Buoys of lobstermen who’ve fished for the Clam Shack hang from the ceiling, and the legs of certain stools are painted to match the buoys. At the back of the market is the lobster pound and prep area, where cooked lobsters are handshucked by members of Kingston’s team, mostly local high school and college kids, plus international students from countries like Kosovo and Ukraine who spend the summer in Kennebunk on J-1 visas. When the students go back to school, Kingston’s crew is replenished with local retirees who’ve been part of his operation for years. Once cooked and shucked, the meat is cooled. “What we shuck this morning will go into tonight’s sandwiches, and what we shuck this afternoon will go into tomorrow’s sandwiches,” he says. Kingston does not buy his lobsters from dealers. Nothing wrong with them, per se, he says, “but a lobster from a dealer could come from anywhere on the Maine coast.” Instead, three local boats serve the business full time. Each day, they pull up at the Kennebunk River bridge and hand-deliver big totes of lobsters to Kingston. “Our lobsters are literally coming from right here,” he says, gesturing downriver toward Cape Porpoise Harbor. The rest of a Clam Shack lobster roll is local, too, the roll specially made at Reilly’s Bakery in Biddeford (25 minutes away) and butter churned at Kate’s, a creamery in Arundel (20 minutes away). Though lobsters are his claim to fame, Kingston, when asked what threats his business faces, points

“The Clam Shack is still a local place. And I’m the guardian.” to the title bivalve of his business. Recent annual clam harvests in Maine have been the lowest in decades. “We’re worrying about clams. There’s definite stress on them,” he says, noting the threat posed by invasive green crabs, which damage shellfish beds. Occasional closures of various clam flats due to pollution also reduce supply, he says. “Prices have gone through the roof.” The Clam Shack is open May to October, Mother’s Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. And if Kingston’s brand promise is a Maine summer experience, he’s single-minded in how he delivers it. “I’m a pretty linear thinker,” he says. “I know what I want.” In the case of the Clam Shack, “I want to serve summer all the way through the end of the shoulder season” in early October. To that end, “I hoard kegs of Shipyard Summer Ale,” he admits, noting that craft breweries often run low on their summer selections by September. “They’ll try to get you into their fall flavors.” Not at the Clam Shack. Not under Kingston’s watch. “If it’s a beautiful weekend in September, it’s summer. It’s summer here, and we need to have a summer beer.” Kingston is laser-focused on lobster, but he’s not a noodge about it. “Yeah, I love lobster,” he says. “But I also do a lot of entertaining in the summer,” which means a lot of lobster on his plate. “Halfway through the summer, I’m like, ‘Will someone just go get me a steak?’” Kingston’s Kennebunk connection began when he was a kid. He grew up in a couple different New England towns — the family moved for his dad’s work with IBM — but one constant was summers in nearby Goose Rocks Beach. That’s when he got the

bug, he says, “to sell food to tourists. And it’s never left my blood.” His first food-to-tourist gig was during his Bates summers, selling lemonade from a pushcart in the parking lot of the Kings Port Inn, just up the hill from the Clam Shack. His was no crappy powderin-a-pitcher production. Quite the opposite: fresh lemons, muddled in a glass with ice, sugar, and water, then shaken (with a grand flourish, visitors remember) by Kingston. One day during the summer before his junior year, an old-timer who ran a hole-in-the-wall ice cream shop in Dock Square, Aunt Marie’s, asked Kingston to pay him a visit. “He wanted to sell,” Kingston recalls. “And I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, I get a chance to move to Dock Square!?’” He took out a loan — $13,000 — to buy Aunt Marie’s. With that, Kingston became an integral part of the Kennebunk scene. Besides the Clam Shack and the ice cream shop, which he still owns, Kingston’s other local food-totourist businesses are the Sugar Shack candy store and Satellite Doughnuts, which is run by his oldest daughter, 23-year-old Colby. (Kingston and his wife, Jeni, have three daughters, including Shae, age 21. All three, Colby, Shae, and Piper, have worked at the Clam Shack.) From family to food, Kingston is a local Maine operation, and that makes him both proud and protective. “When local places are bought out [by developers], they can lose their Maine soul.” “The Clam Shack is still a local place,” he says, noting that the building dates to the 1930s, and the prior owner, from Biddeford, had run it since 1968. “And I’m the guardian.”

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Lewiston: Sharing summer moments with children

SHE’S EVERYWHERE

Last summer, Megan Guynes ’11 was “pretty much everywhere” around Lewiston, she says. She ran a sprawling summer youth program, worked with children at Christ Temple Church in Auburn, and was heavily involved in the state music and theater scenes. It was also a bittersweet summer for Guynes. A native of Los Angeles who majored in theater at Bates, Guynes has lived and worked in Lewiston nearly since graduation, most of the time working at Lewiston’s Tree Street Youth, a center founded by Bates graduates Julia Sleeper ’08 and Kim Sullivan ’13 that serves primarily immigrant and refugee children in Lewiston’s downtown. And after seven years, she was preparing to leave to pursue music full-time in Portland. “It’s really hard to go, because I’ve literally known the kids since they were in first grade, and I’ve watched them grow up and known their families,” she said. “I love that they’ve shared so many of their special moments with me.” — Emily McConville

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LETTING GO

The energy and the vibe make Maine summer special. Attitudes are different, pressures are lower, and people are more carefree. I love that: being able to just be free. It’s not always easy, when you have life going on, to just let go and release. In Maine, you’re able to be one with nature, whether it’s mountains or wooded areas. There are so many cool things to do — bridge jumping, kayaking, skydiving. You

can do that pretty much anywhere in the world, but it’s different here because you have the nature aspect of it. It’s authentic. I feel like everyone changes in the summer in general. You’re less grumpy, you’re not freezing, you have more smiles, you have more pep in your step. Across the board, people shift their frame of thought and how they interact with the world around them in the summertime, when you’re in Maine.

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FRANK PERHAM ’56 Greenwood: Mining for minerals on the mountain

It’s a hot Sunday in July, and famed Maine geologist and mineral hound Frank Perham ’56 and his three-man crew are mining the Hayes Quarry on Noyes Mountain in the tiny Oxford County town of Greenwood. Perham is in his element, amidst rock piles, big trucks, jackhammers, blasting dynamite, and friends. The noontime temps are well into the 80s. Perham is asked, “Isn’t that uncomfortable for someone well into their own 80s?” “Well, I was 25 feet down in a hole in the ground,” he counters. “And it’s cold down there. On a damn hot day I’m glad it was like that.” In Maine, the Perham name is synonymous with mineral mining and collecting. Frank has been involved in the business all his life. So was his father, Stanley Perham ’31, and his grandfather, Alfred Perham, on whose farm feldspar was discovered in 1923

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after a cow exposed the mineral while crossing a pasture. For many years, the family operated Perham’s Maine Mineral Store on Route 26 in West Paris, a destination that drew rock hounds from around the country. The newly opened Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, in Bethel, features a recreation of the famed Perham store. “He’s an incredibly good geolologist,” says Bates geology professor Dyk Eusden ’80. When it comes to the geology of the western Maine hills, “Frank knows everything.” — H. Jay Burns

LOVE IT STILL

The fun of mining is all the other things that go along with it: the people and the challenges. It’s the thrill of the hunt and the chance to uncover a pocket and find a crystal that one else on Earth has seen before you. It’s the interactions between people and figuring out where and how to mine, making equipment work, fixing things that go wrong, and so forth. I’ve had a whole lifetime of this and I love it still. (Excerpted from Frank C. Perham: Adventures in Maine Pegmatite Mining.)

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NICOLAS LINDHOLM ’86 Penobscot: Organic wild blueberry farming

BERRY NICE

“What you’re getting is 100 percent cold, plump, ripe berries,” says Nicolas Lindholm ’86. It’s noon on a hot day in early August on the Blue Hill

pensinsula in Down East Maine. Pop music mixes with the whir of a custom-built winnower, the machine that separates a crop of freshly raked organic wild blueberries from the leaves and twigs and stems that got caught up in it. Workers in shorts or overalls feed the blueberries into the machine and watch what comes out the other side, picking out

any debris or mushy berries the winnower misses. Lindholm and his wife, Ruth Fiske, have run the Blue Hill Berry Co. since the late 1990s. The vast majority of their summer harvest gets sold the same week or even the same day. The ones going from field to winnower to retail container are bound for the Portland Farmers’ Market. —EM

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BLUER THAN BLUE

Wild blueberries express themselves in so many different colors, so many different flavors, so many different shapes and sizes. If you pick up a handful of wild blueberries, out of 10 blueberries there will be almost 10 different colors and sizes. The flavors are just amazing and complex — some are sweeter; some are more rich and fruity; some are tart. Each year it’s like opening up a whole new unknown.

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EVA MELTZER MURRAY ’85 Matinicus Isle: Doing good things

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As one of the few year-round residents of Matinicus Isle who isn’t in the lobster business, Eva Meltzer Murray ’85 does pretty much everything else. She’s the municipal clerk, the voter registrar, an EMT, an author, and a freelance writer for several newspapers. In the summer she runs a bakery, and in her “spare” time she enjoys blacksmithing, ham radio, and piloting planes. She’s also in charge of recycling and solid waste disposal. A 2.3-square-mile island 20 miles off the coast, Matinicus has been Murray’s home since 1987. Like other remote communities, the island attracts residents who march to a dif-

ferent drummer; the few dozen year-round islanders tend to be “an extremely, oddly diverse group of people,” Murray says. Many do lobstering, but there are veterinarians, engineers, doctors — even, Murray suspects, former spies. —EM

IMPACT PLAYER

People can do some bad things here if they want to, because nobody’s going to stop them. On the other hand, you can do some good things without being stopped as well. You don’t have to go through a whole lot of layers and bureaucracy and consultants and engineers and committees to do something like start the municipal trash program. It was simple to start it. It was simple to start the library. You can have a positive impact, do some small thing for society without being told, “You can’t do that.”

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Ocean Park: Seaside community for families

Millinocket: Overseeing 209,644 acres of wilderness

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BILL HOLT ’63 AND JEAN HOLT ’62 COMING HOME

KEVIN BENNETT

His memories of the historic summer community of Ocean Park, says Dr. William Holt ’63, go “all the way back to when I just was learning how to walk, because I remember walking to the beach holding my mother’s hand.” Holt’s wife, Jean Cushman Holt ’62, associates her first memories of Ocean Park with a different kind of life transition. In 1965, she and Bill honeymooned there. And they’ve vacationed at Ocean Park ever since. An enclave within the unbuttoned resort of Old Orchard Beach, Ocean Park was established in 1881 as a Free Will Baptist assembly center, with Bates founder Oren Cheney key to its creation. Bill Holt went on to become a prominent Maine ophthalmic surgeon, while Jean focused on family and a variety of volunteer positions. These days, the Holts’ cottage at Ocean Park is a multigenerational summer vacation spot. Three of their five children are Bates alumni, and among their grandchildren is a Bates rising sophomore. In keeping with its roots in the U.S. Chautauqua movement, today’s Ocean Park Association (Bill is treasurer and past president) and other community groups offer concerts and theater, lectures, wellness classes, nature and youth programs, and more. — DLH

PARK PLACE

Eben Sypitkowski ’05, director of Baxter State Park, has always been an outdoorsman. During his Bates years, he spent summers maintaining wilderness trails in Idaho, learning to keep a log of bear and wolf tracks at Yellowstone, and, with pants tucked into socks, counting fire ants on Mount Desert Island for a UMaine researcher. The summer before his senior year, Sypitkowski did field research for his senior thesis in environmental studies — the field being coastal mudflats, where he researched marine worms and the people who harvest and sell them for bait. Now he directs a state park that’s considered the Emerald City of wilderness recreation in the state, comprising more than 209,000 acres, 215 miles of trails, 10 campgrounds, and more than 40 peaks and ridges, including Maine’s highest mountain, Katahdin. — Doug Hubley

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Many people feel like they’re coming home to Ocean Park in the summer. Families reunite here, and friends. People met here and got married. — Bill Holt

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TIMING IS EVERYTHING

Maine is such a wild place to call by one name — you’ve got the coast, the mountains, the country of pointed firs Down East, and the vast unorganized territory in the north. Maine as a whole offers a sense of a step back in time, back towards a slower time when the natural world was more a part of our lives. The park and Katahdin are just iconic expressions of that. How do I know summer’s over? It’s the bright colors on the bellies of brook trout coming up river to spawn, and just the fishing coming back. They’re harder to find in the summer. When those fall rains start falling, the water’s cooled down and the brook trout come back.

COMING HOME When you walked into the cottage just now, you saw the gathering of family shoes. Sometimes that’s extremely extensive, and over the years it’s gone in waves, from little shoes to big shoes. — Jean Holt

Nobleboro: Children’s camp leader

Damariscotta: Chamber music on the river

MIRIAM SMITH ’85

CHARLIE RICHARDSON ’84 PETER FELSENTHAL

ANYTIME, ANYWHERE

“Education can happen at any time,” says Charlie Richardson ’84. That’s the philosophy Richardson has developed over 30 years at Kieve Wavus, a renowned camp for children on Damariscotta Lake. As education and operations director, he’s responsible for much of the camp’s administration, but any given summer day you’ll most likely find him out and about with the boys and girls on the lake, or the beach, or somewhere deep in the mountain wilderness of Maine. Richardson’s first taste of Kieve was in his junior year at Bates, during a Short Term course on experiential education. The place was captivating, and he returned summer after summer in various capacities before making it his yearround home. — EM

BY THEIR NATURE

There are so many starts of spring and summer. The ice goes out in April, then you hear the first loon, then you hear the peepers. There’s the first time you can go in the lake and not freeze. It’s always unique, it’s always new, it’s always different, and it’s always fun. But the best thing to say is that it hasn’t changed. Today, you hear about things like maker spaces and helping kids learn about 21st-century skills like grit and resilience and collaboration. Camps, in general, do that by their nature. The kids are outside playing and experimenting and learning all the time. n

The tradition of Maine summer music festivals and camps dates back at least to 1902, when violinist Franz Kneisel founded a chamber music school, Kneisel Hall, that’s still going strong in Blue Hill. In a former dairy barn along the Damariscotta River in the coastal town of the same name, there’s Salt Bay Chamberfest, which counts Miriam Smith ’85 as a founding board member. A summer tradition for her family, the festival was founded by Miriam’s sister, Mina Smith; Miriam’s husband, Michael Acton ’85, has served as a board member. “It’s two weeks of summer that we can plan for — that we know, no matter which concert or concerts we make it to, we’re going to be remembered by people we’ve seen there before,” Miriam says. For example, Brentano String Quartet violinist Mark Steinberg “has been there almost every year since 1995. He has watched my children grow up — my oldest child was born the year the festival started. And we’ve watched the musicians’ children grow up.” — DLH

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HAND IN HAND

When you hear great chamber music, you’re watching the communication amongst the musicians and it’s really exciting. Maine chamber music in the summer was just a huge part of my growing up. For me, Maine and summer and music just go hand in hand. A lot of the musicians’ children are also becoming accomplished musicians, and so you see this kind of generational legacy every year. So it really feels like a family.

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b ate s not e s Sylvia Stuber Heap reports a big year for the Heaps: Family members came from all over to celebrate her 90th birthday. “With considerable help in driving, we were able to spend a beautiful week at Little Kildare in the Adirondacks, and two weeks at the old cottage on Southport Island, Maine. Adding to the joy were our three children, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.”

1951 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Dorothy “Dot” Webb Quimby dwquimby@unity.edu

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class secretary Leonard Clough leonard.clough@yahoo.com Leonard Clough looked forward to his 100th birthday on Feb. 12, 2020. “Still driving our auto, go to church most Sundays, in reasonably good heath for my age. Have four children and 21 great-grandchildren. One of the best decisions I have made was to enter Bates College in 1936.”

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

Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Helen Pratt Clarkson hpclarkson7@gmail.com class president/treasurer Jane Parsons Norris janenorris@roadrunner.com

1947 Reunion 2022, June 10–11 class secretary/treasurer Jean Labagh Kiskaddon jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com class president Vesta Starrett Smith vestasmith@charter.net

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1945 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Carleton Finch cfinch612@gmail.com

Carleton Finch’45 says he and Lou Scolnik ’45 were the only V-12 veterans at the Veterans Reunion Luncheon last October. “However, Bates has graciously accepted the host role for the Reunion of all her veterans, so we used this opportunity to make new friends.” Carleton Finch writes, “Lou Scolnik and I went up to the Veterans Reunion Luncheon

last October. We were the only V-12 veterans there. However, Bates has graciously accepted the host role for the Reunion of all her veterans, so we used this opportunity to make new friends.”

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1949 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Carol Jenkinson Johnson rollincarol@comcast.net class president Nelson “Bud” Horne budhorne@gmail.com Bud Horne lives in Chautauqua, N.Y., with retired son David, who is minister of music at First Presbyterian in Jamestown. “Have preached there several times. House is winterized, warm, and cozy. Just came home from large family gathering. Hope to do Old First Night run/walk again next summer, 2.7 miles around the grounds.”

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

Dorothy Fryer Hoyt ’51 “Acquired four more great-grandchildren last year, after complaining that I only had one.” Dorothy Fryer Hoyt is still in the same house in Burnt Hills, N.Y., after 59 years. “Acquired four more great-grandchildren last year, after complaining that I only had one. Grandkids are scattered in Vermont, California, Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia. Now my children know what it’s like to have your kids move far away. Have survived over two years of treatment for non-small cell lung cancer and its side effects.”…Jim and Ginger Buhl Vetrano ’54 are still happily immersed in a retirement community. “We are looking forward to two big events — 67th wedding anniversary and family reunion in Palm Springs, Calif. Still enjoy tinkering with my 1947 Bentley.”…Rob and Jane Seaman Wilson are chugging along, “me with my novel of the Missouri River in the 1870s and Jane with her watercolors. But Jane is hampered more than I since she struggles with arthritic hands. I can still use the typewriter/computer. Though we are in Santa Fe, far removed from New York, we get almost daily Skypes from The Big City about our new great-grandson.”

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class secretary Marilyn Coffin Brown mcbrown13@verizon.net

class president Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com

class president John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net

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Marilyn Coffin Brown reports the two highlights of 2019: “a family reunion on Nantucket with 24 of us enjoying perfect weather, and a total knee replacement, painful but very successful.”…In Campinas SP, Brazil, Carol Hollingworth Collins has “almost really retired. I only correct the English for the researchers that are in the same ‘area’ (chromatography) as I. But I do enjoy doing it as a way to keep in touch with ‘the world.’ Thankfully my health is still good, although I no longer go anywhere that cannot be reached in two hours by car. (No Bates Reunions.) And, since he retired, son Roy can now spend half a year, broken into two-month units, here with me.”…John Myers writes, “Keeping upright while reading, gym, breakfast with the boys, humanist, retired faculty club and looking forward to our 70th with all who can come.”

1953 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Ronald “Ron” Clayton rondot@comcast.net class presidents Ginnie LaFauci Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Richard F. Coughlin dcoughlin@maine.rr.com Don Peck writes, “As the Irish say, I am still on the right side of the sod. Best to all my Bates classmates and friends!”…Bud Terrile and Ellie live in a condo in Atkinson, N.H. “I’m still doing a lot of biking in the good weather and skiing at Sunday River in the winter.”

1954 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary/treasurer Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com class president Dwight Harvie dwightwharvie@gmail.com

Ralph McLean ’54 writes, “The Class of ’54 pushed me to do something for others after living through the Depression and World War II. Sorry for all the missed alumni gettogethers, but thanks for helping a World War II vet make a difference for so, so many off campus.”

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Glenn and Lois Johnson Carson were very disappointed to miss the 65th. “We were pleased to learn that Dwight (Harvie) and Jonas (Klein) were recognized for their longterm dedication to our class and to Bates.” They celebrated last September with a family gathering near the lovely village of Kenmore in southwest Ireland. They were joined by son Peter from the Netherlands, daughters Beth ’81 and Julie ’75 from California, Andrea from Tennessee, and spouses….Ralph McLean writes, “I was the only veteran of World War II to graduate in the Class of ’54. I lived off campus and walked to my classes. I selected Bates for the quality of its offerings. It enabled me to obtain my doctorate and serve for 40 years as an educator. I know no class members and have never attended a class Reunion, yet the classes and the professors were top-notch. I married a local Lewiston girl — that and Bates were my guidelines. She earned her master’s. All of our children have their degrees — thanks to that Bates. After I saw the picture of the 10 graduates — I was touched — the Class of ’54 pushed me to do something for others after living through the Depression and World War II. Sorry for all the missed alumni get-togethers, but thanks for helping a World War II vet make a difference for so, so many off campus. Bates Boy.”…Marion Shatts Whitaker, who lost her husband Peter ’53 in January 2018, moved to an independent senior place, “just the next town from the condo I’ve been in for eight and a half years. Now that I am alone, I didn’t want to face another long Vermont winter without much social contact, and I think this will be a great place — very friendly residents that treat you like you’re part of a family.”

1955 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net

Ann Hoxie Brousseau ’55 “had the blessed pleasure of walking with my great-grandson, Jules Griffin, in the climate justice protest.” Helen Anderson Prothero often sees many of her family. She has nine grandchildren, ages 4 to 26….Ruth Haskins Bass has another grandchild at Bates, Emily Bass ’21, following her brother Sam ’18. Ruth had a shoulder replaced and is back to pain-free (but high-scoring)

golf….Bev Hayne Willsey and Lynn got together with Gail Molander Goddard ’56. Bev keeps busy with church choir, the music committee, bridge, and a fitness class. “Lynn and I call our naps after lunch our happy hour!”… Nancy Howe Payne still plays bridge and collects the occasional master’s point. “Painting and drawing continue to nourish my retirement. Recently my husband cut back on his work schedule to three short days a week. This allowed us to become Friday afternoon Boston Symphony subscribers, our new drug of choice.”… Ann Hoxie Brousseau “had the blessed pleasure of walking with my great-grandson, Jules Griffin, in the climate justice protest.”… Caroline Keiger reports, “I’m here, driving, lurching along, losing weight, 50-plus pounds — so all in all I can’t complain!”… Ed “Bill” Kent entered his first Masters Athletic Track and Field Meet, the 2019 World Championship in Torun, Poland. In the 85–89 age group, he won silver in discus, bronze in shot put, javelin, and pole vault….Carole Lindblow Kull loves retirement on Cape Cod. She works three days a week at the Thrift Shop and Food Pantry….The late Paul MacAvoy was inducted into his hometown Haverhill (Mass.) Hall of Fame last fall, an award that is only given posthumously. A renowned economist and teacher who served as a Bates trustee, he died in 2016….Nancy Ann Ramsdell Chandler and Bruce ’53 now live in Birchwoods, an assisted-living community in Portland, where they enjoy the planned activities. They became great-grandparents with the birth of Rain in Alaska…. Petie Peters Ern and Ernie are busy and happy in Charlottesville, Va. They sold their cottage in Pemaquid Harbor on the Maine coast as they simplify and downsize….Roger TannerThies recalls that in the winter of 1952–53 his dorm room was on Bardwell Street. “One morning I ran out the back door and into the water that would be Lake Andrews some day. There was ice on the bottom. My roommate, Richard Gillespie, took a photo of me waist deep in the water. Unfortunately, the photo is lost. I suspect that I was the first ‘puddle jumper.’”…Mert Ricker enjoys watching the changes at Bates as he drives by from his gym class and the “Y” three times a week.

1956 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Fred Huber fredna56@comcast.net class presidents Alice Brooke Gollnick agollnick725@gmail.com Gail Molander Goddard acgpension@gmail.com

John and Jan Richardson Mellecker ’57 still enjoy life but at a slower pace. She’s in good health but he has sight and mobility problems. “As my smarty-ass doc says, ‘Other than the fact you can’t walk and are going blind, you are in awesome shape.’” They have four kids, six grandkids, and two great-granddaughters. John, retired after a lifetime in financial services sales and marketing, and Jan love to travel. They live in a fabulous senior living facility, Laurelwood at The Pinehills, in Plymouth, Mass. “Jan and I have been married 65 years and it has been one grand time. And it all started at Milliken House. Our first date was the Sadie Hawkins dance. And hopefully the finish line is still a long way off. We have such fond memories of our time at Bates.”…Sylvia Small Spradlin and Lou are fine, “just slower at about everything than we used to be. With a son in Port Orange, Fla., we found our way to New Smyrna Beach 20 years ago. We still return each summer to Glenville, N.Y., to visit with our daughter. I recently found through genealogy research that my ancestor William Brewster was on the Mayflower in 1620.”…Kirk Watson has 10 grandchildren. “Been working at retiring for eight years — did nine surgeries on Dec. 27 but definitely less scheduled and way fewer office hours in future. Will try for 64th Reunion in 2020. How is that possible? Miss Reid Pepin ’55.”

1957 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 email coordinator Douglas Campbell dougcamp@comcast.net secretary Margaret Leask Olney pegolney@verizon.net presidents Judith Kent Patkin actionpsj@aol.com Richard H. Pierce rhpierce52@gmail.com Judy Larkin Sherman and John are much less active than a few years ago, but still enjoy life in Rockport, Maine. “The view of Penobscot Bay from our windows brings back memories of all the time we spent sailing on those waters.”…Dick Pierce keeps busy with the Rhode Island State Board of Elections and as church treasurer. “Still enjoying my place in Chatham with lots of visits with kids and grandkids (seven of them).”…Charlie Sanborn had another good year with a combination of trustee commitments at The Derryfield School in Manchester, N.H., and the Canterbury Historical Society and singing with the Canterbury Shaker Singers and church choir. He and his wife are delighted to live in an independent cottage in the active Taylor Community in Laconia, N.H.

1958 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com class president Peter Post postp74@gmail.com George and Lorrie Allen Adams welcomed their second great-granddaughter in December. Lorrie is in her 72nd year of singing in the Episcopal Choir….Cook and Marjorie Koppen Anderson are both well and enjoying life at the Taylor Community CCRC in Laconia. They visited with his roommate Ted Russell and his wife in Cornish, Maine, for lunch last fall….Lori and Lyn Beer are enjoying life and would love to hear from classmates, or see them if traveling near Vienna, Va….Patricia Carmichael Waugh helped plan her 65th high school reunion. She continues to live in her 1850 family home in Mattapoisett and welcomed her second great-granddaughter….Al and Marcia DeSantis moved from Texas to The Villages in Florida but visit family members spread around the country and the world….Kay Dill Taylor had the joy of having all three kids, plus spouses and grandchildren there (with her son’s family at the house they have bought next door) for the Christmas holiday. Kay and Gene ’56 are “basically fine and grateful for each day.”…Paul Hoffman is working on a painting on (German philosopher Martin) Heidegger and the Holocaust, and noted, “What we do in college stays with us.”…Dottie Hutch is now officially on the ministerial staff of Piedmont (Calif.) Community Church. She also serves the United Church of Christ as a member of the Coordinating Council of the Northern California Nevada Conference and the Executive Board of the Bay Assn. “Staying busy keeps me young (?).”…Norman Jason coordinated his 65th high school reunion, traveled widely for graduations, and plays golf with George Adams….Coe Jenkins Huckabee participated in a ballroom dance competition; took over a leadership role in her U-U Fellowship; saw plays at Stratford, Ontario; played cello with the Ohio Wesleyan Univ. Chamber Orchestra; and released her second book, Such Men, a novel based on her male mentors….Kay Johnson Howells enjoyed driving the California coast while visiting her and Mike’s family members.... Art and Gail Baumann Karszes are doing well. Gail and her weekly breakfast friends laugh as they recall all the things they said they would not do when they got old, while doing them all….Jim and Betsey Gray Kirsch are very happy that they moved to a continuing care retirement community in Exeter, N.H., while they are healthy and able to take advantage of all it has to offer. Their advice to those

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considering a change in lifestyle is to not wait. Selling their home and downsizing was hectic, but it’s a distant blur now, and their children thank them for simplifying their lives, too….Mary Lawlor Dionne lives in Augusta in the home that Peter and she bought 55 years ago. “Sadly, Peter isn’t here to share it as he died suddenly in March 2018. My daughter and her family (two teenage boys) live in Auburn and my son lives in Hallowell with his family. I keep busy reading, gardening (flowers only), and playing bridge at the Senior Center, and with friends, one of whom is Carol Stevens Woodard. I haven’t made any plans to move, but realize this is a decision I will have to make.”… John and Donna Liljestrand took their whole family to Mohonk Mountain House near New Paltz, N.Y., where all had a fabulous time....Phil and Pat Baker Main ’59 keep busy with community activities, family, friends, “and yes, we are both active golfers and she a bowler. Blessed with good health we were able to travel to Ireland last fall and learn a great deal of the history of that wonderful country. Spent a week on the Rhode Island shore with family for the 21st year. Our youngest grandchildren are 18 years old.”… Marilyn Miller Gildea’s 6- and 8-year-old grandkids help prepare her weekly family dinner....Peter Post received a 2019 Bates’ Best award. A dedicated Bates volunteer for many years, he has been a class agent, alumni class officer, a member of his 60th Reunion Committee and the Alumni Council, and a volunteer for Friends of Bates Athletics. “Your tireless fundraising efforts on behalf of the College have been inspiring,” his citation reads. “You go above and beyond, reaching out to each classmate who has made a gift, asking for insights as to why they support the college and how they might wish to stay connected. You keep your classmates informed about news from campus — and you do so with a discipline that is awe-inspiring. You have even been spotted doing your class agent work while visiting campus — making calls and writing personal notes from Lane Hall. In addition to this dedicated outreach, you’ve stayed involved with Bates Athletics, as reflected in your encyclopedic knowledge of the teams and players.” Peter’s roots at Bates run deep. Family members who are Batesies include wife Jane ’58, brother Garret ’63, son Benjamin ’87, daughter Debra ’82, and grandson Tyler ’18….Elaine Prentice Flynn and Bill ’59 are living a quiet life in a CCRC. Pauline and Ross Deacon ’59 and Sally and Hank Manwell ’60 are winter neighbors….Pete and Jane Ryers will take a Viking cruise around the British Isles and to Bergen, Norway, in May. Pete recommends Rachel Maddow’s Blowout....Paula Schilling Foreman and Bruce enjoyed

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wonderful family gatherings for their granddaughter’s wedding, their 60th wedding anniversary, and his 90th birthday….Ann Schultz Keim had a total hip replacement last fall, but is now getting around well. She and Charles are still active volunteers: Ann with mid-Atlantic Rotary Districts and the Rotary Leadership Institute and Charles with the Lehigh Valley Hospital.... Barb Stetson and Jim Munkres are doing well and waiting for a unit at a retirement community in Bedford, Mass., to become available. In the meantime, they enjoy the activities there now. Music and art are still very much a part of their lives. Barb studies with a watercolorist, and Jim is a pianist at their church.... Jane Taylor’s greyhounds and two cats keep her healthy and happy in the house in Denver she’s lived in for 40 years....Grant ’57 and Jo Trogler Reynolds are healthy and happy, and still love living in the small village of Tinmouth, Vt., where they walk to the town office and library, church, Tinmouth Mountain School, and visit neighbors. The Vermont Symphony comes for a five-concert winter series, and broadcasts of the opera are a short drive away in Rutland.... Tom and Carole Carbone Vail enjoy their northern and southern homes. They enjoyed the snow in Maine and having all 23 family members for the holidays in Windham....Nancy Wickens is active in her church’s vestry and participates in several knitting groups. She and Al take pride in her four grandsons….Bruce Young’s cataract surgery was a great success. Budapest and Salzburg were the highlights of his October Viking River Cruise on the Danube; this October’s cruise will be from Paris to Normandy. Bruce is involved this year in the campaigns of local Democratic congressional candidates.

1959 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretaries Jack DeGange jack.degange@comcast.net Mary Ann Houston Hermance donmar23@gmail.com class president Anita Kastner Hotchkiss ahotchkiss@goldbergsegalla.com Jerry Davis gmdavis@maine.rr.com Alan and Betty Drum Coykendall enjoyed the 60th Reunion. He especially enjoyed Anita Kastner’s scrapbook documenting events that would otherwise be only foggy. Betty, who got a shiny new hip, continued to research Farmington history despite retiring as official historian. Alan sailed when weather permitted. A big surprise was the discovery of their son John’s biological family. “We have now all met and

become friends. John enjoys his brothers, sisters-in-law, a niece, and a nephew.”…Ross Deacon wrote from Melbourne, Fla., where he was playing 18 holes once a week and walking 9 twice a week. “Had great fun playing on the Maine Senior Tour last summer.”…John Makowsky lost his wife after 58 wonderful years. “We were in the same class year in high school but never dated until our 5th year reunion. It is an adjustment to make as some of you have experienced. I hear from Fred Drayton a lot as well as Dave Walsh. We played football together and were roomies. Still living in San Ramon, Calif., and see our three daughters, nine grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren as they all live close by.”…Fred Ziegler published his second book on his community, The Settlement of the Greater Greenbrier Valley, West Virginia. After a career of researching and teaching geology at the Univ. of Chicago, he moved to Greenville, W.Va., buying Cook’s Old Mill and researching it. He has served two terms as president of the Monroe County Historical Society and led the effort to build a carriage house to protect the society’s wagons, omnibus, and other carriages.

1960 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Louise Hjelm Davidson l.davidson@sbcglobal.net class president Dean Skelley dskelley@satx.rr.com John Flemings reports, “My ‘Heart Failure’ health limits my activity; I will hate to miss our Reunion.”…Ray Hendess and Rory do 5-10-mile hikes regularly, go on bike rides, and ski in the Sierras just three hours away. “We enjoy a lot of live theater (no TV). Our garden provides just about all the fruits and veggies we need. I am on the board of Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Assn. where I do the website, mailings, and database, and Rory is on the board of the American Assn. of University Women.”…Dick Krause enjoys regular contact with JB roommate Jim Hall. He and Jan have fun traveling, with an April trip to Italy planned…. Lillian Sharp Hoag and Bill ’59 still love to travel and went to Greece and Italy last year. “We are busy at our now full-time residency on Cape Cod. Lucky to have our children and grandchildren nearby. However, one is living in Paris. It gives us a great excuse to go over there, which we are planning this spring.” She’s taken up mahjong and loves it. Hoagie belongs to a gun and rod club and enjoys target shooting…. Richard Teeven writes, “Hope to see my classmates at Reunion.”

1961 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Gretchen Shorter Davis norxloon@aol.com class presidents Mary Morton Cowan mmcowan@gwi.net Richard “Dick” Watkins rwatkcapt@aol.com

Jerry ’61 and Gretchen Shorter Davis ’61 completed fundraising for the Millinocket Memorial Library. “This was a major project and especially meaningful as we celebrated our 50 years of spending summers at our camp there.” Jerry and Gretchen Shorter Davis enjoyed a trip to London with the Maine State Music Theater, seeing five plays in five days, and also visited Costa Rica. On Martha’s Vineyard they saw Priscilla Hjelm Sylvia. “We completed fundraising for the Millinocket Memorial Library which is being rebuilt and will be finished in the spring. This was a major project and especially meaningful as we celebrated 50 years of spending summers at our camp there.”…Dick Larson writes, “Bates College opened my eyes to the world! In 2018 we went to Greece (Athens and the islands), walking in the steps of those philosophers. Summer (2019) it was Italy (Rome, Florence, and Venice) and Alaska’s Inside Passage. This year (2020) Paris and Cezanne. Amazing!”… Jean Richards Unger of Forestdale, Mass., shared her memories of school lunch in Sandwich with the Cape Cod Times. After two years at Bates, she graduated from Cornell and worked for the Stouffer Corp. Management Food Service Division at MIT for 11 years. “Moved back to the Cape and lo and behold there was a job opening in Sandwich for a food service director.” She ran the food service for 22 years “and loved every day on the job!”

1962 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom cindyknordstrom@gmail.com class president Edmund J. Wilson ed-wilson@kellogg.northwestern. edu Sandra Doubleday DeCosta and Joe spent two months last summer camping in their pop-up as they traveled across the U.S.,

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with emphasis on the Oregon Trail. “Found some fascinating sites, especially in Idaho. My favorite was a geyser in the center of the small town of Soda Springs. Our final destination was camping with our son and his family in Oregon. Camped several times in national forests for $5/night or less!”…Peter Green continues throwing pots at Portland Pottery….Joy Scott Meyer and Al are doing well in Virginia. One grandson graduated from college; eight grands are in college or a work/study program, and the last two are in high school….Carol Smith reports son Alex Robertson ’95, daughter-in-law Erin Schaaf Robertson ’95 and their two children, Owen (12) and Cedar (9), are on a yearlong adventure around the world. She planned to join them in New Zealand this past January. “My daughter May Robertson ’94 and her family are joining them in Costa Rica, and my daughter Kira Corngold (Oberlin ’97) and her family will meet them in Peru, or maybe the Galapagos.” Carol still enjoys qigong and yoga and loves living in beautiful Colorado.

1963 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Natalie Hosford nataliemoir@netflash.net class president Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com After six years in The Highlands retirement community in Topsham, Arlene Wignall Nickerson and her husband moved to a mixed-age community at 4 Carriage Walk Lane, #126 in Scarborough….Having moved from Florida to Denver, Ken Woodbury is getting used to the mile-high altitude. “I teach daily in the Denver School District and enjoy frequent trips to the many scenic attractions of the Rockies.”

1964 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary-treasurer John Meyn jemkpmeyn@aol.com class president Gretchen Ziegler gretchenz958@gmail.com

Jon Olsen ’64 visited professor Carl Straub at his home “for three hours of meaningful discussion. Two weeks later he was gone. I was hoping for a sequence of visits, but glad I got that one with this remarkable humanitarian.”

Dick and Joan Spruill Andren traveled to Alaska, Australia, and New Zealand. Dick still bikes regularly, works with environmental organizations, and gardens. Joan works with the local historical society and on their travel adventures….Russ and Sharon Fisher Baker ’65, in New Hampshire, “are the prototypical, semi-boring, non-Florida, snuggled-in retirees.”…Steve Barron reports: “I still have my health and my hair, my wife of almost 54 years, three beautiful daughters, and 10 even more beautiful grandchildren.”…Becky Beckwith Walsh writes, “After living all over during my husband’s career but always identifying myself as an Easterner, I have permanently settled on Bainbridge Island, Wash., near Seattle, where two of my children have also made their homes.”…Norm Bowie continues to be active with his professional association the Society for Business Ethics. He also teaches in a lifelong learning program….Marion Day Czaja writes, “If you want to visit in Florida, come quickly. I plan on moving to a Twin Lakes in Burlington, N.C., within the year. It is a continuing care community so it is something that I need to keep in my sights as I have no children and do not want to be a drag on anyone.”…Nancy Day Walker lives happily in her small community, contributing by being the “head” of the grounds team for the homeowners association….In South Dennis, Mass., Paula Downey Bacon reports she has been able to play her flute in the Harwich Band and tennis with friends. “Every year I can do this is a victory at my age. My Spanish is getting better in spite of memory issues.”…Realtor Diane Gallo DeFrancisci has had a successful career selling in Vero Beach, Fla., where she lives. She will retire only when it is no longer fun….Linda Gramatky Smith and Ken ’55 enjoy living at Cedar Crest, a fabulous Erickson Living nonprofit CCRC in Pompton Plains, N.J. “We have gotten so much healthier with this lifestyle.”…Ron Green enjoyed nothing more than community theater, pretending to be a different person for a couple of hours. But he can’t memorize a page of dialogue like he once did. “There was a time I would have walked over broken glass for a shot at Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Latke, Joe in All My Sons, or Brother Laurence in Romeo/Juliet. It’s been a long, friend-filled run.”…Bill Haver teaches one class most semesters to teachers who are preparing to be mathematics specialists/ coaches of other teachers. He’s also co-leader of a curriculum development project involving 10 different colleges nationwide…. This winter, Paul Holt and Pam, in Melbourne Beach, Fla., were playing tennis, oil painting, and

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Mazzy Star Tenor banjoist Jimmy Mazzy ’65— known as James Mazzanovich at Bates — was inducted into the American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City last fall. Mazzy became immersed in the New England jazz scene in the 1960s, while at Bates, as traditional Dixieland jazz made a brief renaissance mid-decade. Born in Westport, Conn., he was raised in Lexington, Mass., and has lived in the Bay State all his life. Well-known in the traditional jazz world since the early 1970s, he’s played banjo for The Paramount Jazz Band of Boston, The Wolverine Jazz Band, The Riverboat Stompers, and many other groups around the Northeast. Mazzy won reader’s polls in The Mississippi Rag for both his playing and his singing and is still a regular at festivals nationwide. For years he was a regular at the Colonial Inn in Concord, Mass., with The Last Minute Men Band, one of seven bands he played with, so named because he’d never be sure who would show up until the last minute.

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Sign of Friendship Posing before the iconic World Traveler Signpost in Lynchville, Maine, are, from left, longtime friends and members of the Class of 1968 Elizabeth Thompson, Gretchen Hess Daly, Nancy Hohmann, and Beth Robinson Sauer. The friends met in Cheney House in their first year and later dubbed themselves “the five fingers,” along with the late Jill Jillson ’68, who died in 2017. Last October they gathered for a weekend at Keoka Lake in nearby Waterford. “When I asked if they had all seen ‘the sign’ they all said no, so off we went on an adventure,” says Hohmann. “We don’t remember when we realized we were so important to each other. We weren’t always all in the same dorm, nor did we hang out as a group,” she adds. But after graduation, “we somehow always kept in touch, through thick and thin, and have been fortunate to have had many happy get-togethers.” Adds Daly, “Being friends for 55 years, despite various careers and moves, is such a reassuring part of all our lives and growing older together.”

recuperating from summer work in Northampton, Mass., where he redid another old property…. Dave Johnson says 2020 marks his 50th year at the Univ. of Alberta, which makes it a good time to stop working. He spent the last 10 dealing with professors upset with their chairs or deans or each other. “I have contemplated getting a bronze plaque for my door which says Office of Outraged Persons Services. (Note the acronym.)”…Sadly, Elizabeth Metz McNab lost her brother Bill ’66 last year. She still enjoys playing violin in the URI Orchestra, serving as a Kingston Fire District warden, proofreading and writing historical articles for the church, morning hikes, and much more….Nancy Nichols Dixon volunteers at the library, which keeps her inundated with books to read….Jon Olsen visited professor Carl Benton Straub at his home last November “for three hours of meaningful discussion. Two weeks later he was gone. I was hoping for a sequence of visits, but glad I got that one with this remarkable humanitarian.”…Lynn Parker Schiavi and John sold their Florida condo in Naples and moved five miles up the road to a continuing care retirement community. They still have their summer camp on a Maine lake….Retired on Cape Cod, Bob Peek says his life is pretty much unstructured while Pam French Peek ’84 continues to work as a math teacher at Barnstable High School. They visit their six children and nine grandchildren and have taken three cross-country road trips recently….Esther Rosenthal Mechler and Michael are delighted to live year-round in Maine. A travel highlight in 2019 was a trip to Peru….Irwin Shiffer notes this is a fateful election year. He’s a precinct chairman for the Democrats in Garner, N.C. He and Susan and will celebrate their 50th anniversary on a Disney cruise with family….Eric and Rhoda Morrill Silverberg enjoy Austin, Texas, in the winter and Vinalhaven, Maine, in the summer. Rhoda still works for Wilson Language Training and picked up her fiddle again after many years. Eric continues to volunteer as a tax preparer for low-income people….Sally Smith Halliday loves trips into nearby New York City and hears lots of good music at the Met and Carnegie Hall. Her volunteer work continues.

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Burlington, Vt., and Delray Beach, Fla. His primary pursuit in Burlington remains the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum. They closely follow the activities of daughters Kirstin ’96 and Heidi and their families….Sam Aloisi is pleased that a plaque on the Bates chapel’s portico will give the public notice it is being renamed the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Chapel.…Nick Basbanes is pleased his 10th book, Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, will be published in June by Alfred A. Knopf — just in time for the 55th Reunion….Newt and Pat Lord Clark ’67 had lunch with Don ’67 and Karen Gulbrandsen Bean ’67 in Bethel. Newt looks forward to celebrating the Bates Outing Club’s 100th anniversary year….Linda Glazer Perlmutter lost her dear husband Jon last June after a long struggle with cancer. Her other sad loss was the death of Prudence Grant, her college roommate all four years. Two years ago Jon and Linda relocated to be nearer their son and grandchildren. The move has been great for her…. Karin Mueller McElvein bought a co-op not far from her house. She works two days a week as finance secretary for the Methodist Church district office…. Sally Smyth timed out after nine years as a board member of the Vital Ground Foundation, “to my dismay as well as relief. Dismay because what I care about most is to enable wildlife to coexist with us, and to be acknowledged as worthy of consideration as community members. Relief because Vital Ground is on an upward trajectory and can spare me as a fundraiser: Species diversity and ecosystem health have been recognized as vital to our own interests.”…After 51 years in the Salem community in southeastern Connecticut, Frank Sroka and Linda moved to lower eastern Delaware. “We are enjoying a new experience while still adjusting to the change.”

1966 Reunion 2021, June 11–12 class president Alexander Wood awwood@mit.edu Judy Marden says 2020 is all about the Bates Outing Club Centennial Celebration, with events happening all year long. “We’re creating a schedule of alumni-led trips, all over the world, and invite everyone to join in the fun”: https://www.bates. edu/alumni/boc....Having moved to Sherman, Conn., in 2014, Linda Taylor Hubbard has left her Hudson Valley organizations — RiverWinds Gallery, BeaconArts, and Art Along the Hudson. But she is slowly becoming involved in running the art shows at the Sherman Library and Great

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Hollow Nature Preserve plus having her photographs in Connecticut — Gaylordsville, Kent, New Milford, and Sherman — and in nearby Pawling, N.Y. “We always need to keep reinventing ourselves.” She also helps take care of two grandsons and her husband, who is in dialysis three days a week.

1967 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Alexandra Baker Lyman toads@snet.net class presidents Keith C. Harvie kcharvie12@gmail.com Pamela Johnson Reynolds preynolds221@gmail.com Tim Hall had a wonderful visit with Jon Wilska last Thanksgiving. He also visited with Dmitry “Chip” Makowsky ’68 in Sonoma, Calif….Rita Sorensen Leonard visited Oklahoma, New York City, and Connecticut with daughter Katie and grandkids Ethan (9) and Rachel (8). She still writes monthly articles for The Bee newspaper….Steph Young Abbott and Ed took a trip to Vietnam and Siem Reap, Cambodia, with Smithsonian Journeys. “It was a very interesting experience. There were a few Vietnam War veterans in our group. We shared the impact that the war had on our lives.”

1968 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Rick Melpignano rickmel713@gmail.com class president Richard J. Gelles gelles@sp2.upenn.edu Norrine Abbott Williams died Dec. 3, 2019. Her Bates relatives include her husband Paul J. Williams ’69. Her obituary will appear in the next issue….Dr. Louis Weinstein was elected chair of the Senior Physician Section of the American Medical Assn. He was also appointed to the board of Volunteers in Medicine of America, the largest organization of free medical clinics in the U.S. He invites visitors to Charleston, S.C., to see his restored historic 1835 home in the downtown area, one of the few built by a single free woman of color, Silvie Miles, before the Civil War.

1969 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Deborah Bliss Behler debbehler@aol.com class president George Peters geo47peters@gmail.com

Attending the 50th Reunion spurred Debbie Bliss Behler to schedule more travel to see countries and places on her to-see list. “This year, tentatively Greece in May and definitely France in October. Travel at any age has only gotten more difficult, so it’s time to get up and go.”…Greg DeLisle retired as director of educational services at Willie Ross School for the Deaf in Longmeadow, Mass., in June 2018 but works part time as director of outreach services, working with deaf and hard-ofhearing students in public school districts in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

1970 Reunion 2020, June 11-14 class secretaries Stephanie Leonard Bennett slenben@comcast.net Betsey Brown efant127@yahoo.com class president/treasurer Steve Andrick steve.andrick15@gmail.com

Actor John Shea ’70 spoke of two poignant encounters — youthful and mid-career — with the legendary James Cagney. Dana Basney and Cathy are still in San Diego, but spend about a month a year in Ohio visiting their six grandchildren. He teaches accounting ethics and fraud examination at the Univ. of San Diego and fraud and ethics classes for the CalCPA Education Foundation, which honored him as the instructor of the year last year. Cathy delights in being a grandma….Kathy Brown’s high school class in Greenville, Maine, celebrated a milestone when the endowment it established made its first grants to the school system. Students will travel to Jackson Lab in Bar Harbor and the New Balance factory in Skowhegan for field trips. A second grant will fund expansion of the school library’s Makerspace. “The fund will be making an annual grant from this point forward. Rural Maine has many needs, so I’m glad our small class has been able to make a difference for today’s students.”… Actor John Shea played Captain Ahab in a production of Orson Welles’ Moby Dick Rehearsed at Nantucket’s Whaling Museum. The artistic director emeritus of the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket also treated a packed audience at an impromptu storytelling session at the Sconset Chapel, speaking of two poignant encounters — youthful and mid-career — with the legendary

James Cagney, The Boston Globe reported….Dorothy Thompson Marecaux “finally and in some ways sadly gave up living in the wilds of northern Maine. After 41 years in Aroostook County, I sold my house and purchased a capestyle condo in South Portland. There are so many theater productions to attend and interesting restaurants to sample. The senior group at South Portland’s parks and rec is very robust with field trips and activities. Best of all, besides making many new friends, I’ve been able to reconnect with other Batesies.”

1971 Reunion 2021, June 10-13 class secretary Suzanne Woods Kelley suzannekelley@att.net class president Michael Wiers mwiers@mwiers.com In West Gardiner, Susan Emmet volunteers at the library and helps the West Gardiner Democratic Committee, primarily with getting out the vote, and community service and recycling. She also helps write and edit the town’s quarterly newsletter The Weathervane. “Glad to be in our final home, and trying to keep up with grandchildren!”…Bill Matteson is making wreaths and fishing….In October 2019, Peggy Liversidge, Nan Ciano, and Bev Dunlap Rodrigues, who all live in the Boston area and see each other often, trekked to upstate New York for a reunion with Joyce Elliott ’70. Retired from any “regular” jobs, all are active in their areas of interest, Bev reports. Peggy is involved in land conservation efforts; Nan runs a busy B&B; Bev performs with several bands; and Joyce heads up a chapter of Planned Parenthood.

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ing symptoms, which have slowly gotten worse. We bought a motor home and spent 12 years traveling slowly up and down the East Coast, and west as far as Big Bend National Park in Texas. We spent several seasons volunteering at both Acadia National Park in Maine and Big Cypress National Preserve in south Florida. We made good use of our 12 years. By now, shortly after our ‘normal’ retirement age, we’re unable to continue the RV life style.” They live in The Villages, Fla…. The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC recently added to its collection a sterling and glass kaleidoscope created by Ann Webster Lester and her husband Shawn. Ann, baffled by a buzzy connection on their initial phone call, nearly hung up on them….Mark Winne is busy promoting his fourth book, Food Town, USA, which includes a chapter on Portland, Maine. “Part of my promotion tour will include an April visit and talk at UMaine Fort Kent, a place I never managed to get to during my years at Bates.”

1973 Reunion 2023, June 8-11 class secretary Kaylee Masury kmasury@yahoo.com class president Tom Carey tcarey@bates.edu

Dave Read Doolittle ’73, “one of the most recognizable voices on the Cape,” has been sharing stories for 40 years as morning DJ, local weather forecaster, and commercial producer Dave Read in Hyannis.

Reunion 2022, June 9–12 class secretary Steven H. Mortimer stevenhmortimer@gmail.com class president Wayne V. Loosigian wloosigian@gmail.com

Mark Winne ’72 is busy promoting his fourth book, Food Town, USA, which includes a chapter on Portland, Maine. Steve Pitcher and his wife Marjory Zissa Pitcher ’75 retired in 2005. “Thank goodness. Three months later she started develop-

Ed Glaser was re-elected to the Rockland City Council. Now semi-retired, he served as the city’s harbormaster for 12 years…. CapeCod.com caught up with Dave Read Doolittle, “one of the most recognizable voices on the Cape.” As morning DJ, local weather forecaster and commercial producer Dave Read in Hyannis, “he has been sharing stories for 40 years.” He talked about meeting his wife, Elaine Michaels Doolittle ’75, at Bates where he started in radio. “One of my dorm mates had a cold and talked me into doing his show for him,” he says on the CCB Media website. “He gave me a 20-minute crash course in playing records and turning the mike on and off and then left me on my own on our 10-watt FM station.

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By the end of that week, the station’s manager had offered me my own slot.”…In Vina Del Mar, Chile, Julio Elorriaga-Gonzalez is “living a twilight and religious new marriage life with Carmen Aguirre. Retired but doing a little poetry writing, a few English tutoring sessions, and showing fine art. Observing the crisis happening in cities. Hoping a more peaceful and happy life for all Chileans.”…Franklin Haskell and Joan Faella ’74 are back in the U.S. after serving 2.5 years at the Baha’i World Center in Haifa, Israel. They are also freshly retired to the old family homestead on Cape Cod….In Natal, Brazil, Humberto Torres enjoys the company of grandchildren. Three girls were born in 2018 and 2019.

1974 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Tina Psalidas Lamson tinal2@mac.com class president Don McDade dmcdade@llbean.com Writer Paul Erickson and Paige Ulrey Oristano ’71 presented a show about coral reefs to kids at the Hope Rural School in Indiantown, Fla. “The students, many from Guatemala, were great! Paige gave a copy of one of my books to each of 70 students,” Paul says. “Thank you, Paige.”…H. Edward Lane is a longtime orthopaedic surgeon with OrthoVirginia serving patients in Fair Oaks and McLean, Va…. Two years after retiring from a 40-year parish ministry, Lindsay Bates is running what was to have been a small, part-time Reiki practice. “Now I’m busy seeing clients, teaching classes, offering animal Reiki, doing continuing education. Since Reiki is what I would call ‘non-rational,’ I’ve surprised myself with how much I love the practice. I’m now a Usui/Holy Fire® III Reiki Master Teacher, affiliated with several professional groups, working on official certification for Animal Reiki, and preparing for the Karuna Reiki Masters Class in April. Going purely on the empirical evidence with all this — it works.”…After 26 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Bob Goodlatte retired. He’s pleased Ben Cline ’94 was elected to succeed him. Bob splits his time between his home in Roanoke, Va., commitments in Washington, and traveling with Maryellen. He enjoyed spending a couple of days with students at Bates…. After retiring in 2017, Tom Losordo and Amy spent one final year in North Carolina (for a total stay of 30 years). They moved to the South Waterfront of Portland, Ore., in January 2019. “Good urban living with everything nearby. Perhaps the most handy retirement neighborhood asset is

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the Oregon Health Sciences Univ. Clinics and Hospital.”…Woody Petry enjoyed his first year of retirement and actually spent four months of it back in Maine. “We got a place on the coast in Blue Hill to escape the unbearable heat and humidity in Louisville during the summer months (and now in the fall as well).”… Carolyn Sauer Hoefer writes, “In November 2018 a brush fire destroyed our home of 39 years in Malibu, Calif. We got out with just the clothes on our backs and the cat. Rather than go through a multiyear rebuild process, we have bought a new house in Pinetop, Ariz. Life is good!”

1975 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretaries Deborah Jasak Deborahjasak@gmail.com Faith Minard Blatt minardblatt@gmail.com class presidents Susan Bourgault Akie susieakie@gmail.com Janet Haines jbh580@aol.com A big thank-you to everyone who contributed to our amazing Class Letter over the winter! Our notes below are excerpted from the letter. See you all at Reunion!... George Anders and Donna live in an active 55+ community in Farmingdale, N.J. Both retired, they celebrated their freedom with a family trip to Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Scotland…. Rick Baker is still working; he and his son own a marketing company. He hopes to spend more time in his favorite place, St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he has a home…. James Balano, who has lived in Florida the last 10 years, is still working; wife Kate just retired. “Visited the Bates campus in 2018 — beautiful, but I miss the old Hedge dormitory.”…John Balletto and Janet enjoy their partial retirement, restoring their home, working their gardens, spoiling their grandchildren. He retired from the Massage Therapy Foundation board after 25 years; his fellow trustees created the John Balletto Distinguished Service Award in his honor….In Hopkinton, N.H., Deb Bednar Jasak says her full-time job is her garden which she “plays in” from snowmelt until first snowfall. She’s the longtime president of the Hopkinton Garden Club. She and Bill have traveled to 47 states, with Washington and Oregon coming up this spring….Susie Bourgault Akie and her husband retired to their Cape Cod vacation home in 2017. They make frequent trips to visit their sons and families in Southern California….Jeff Brigham retired after a long career in libraries but keeps up his

professional skills as a part-time volunteer librarian at the Spellman Museum. He and Ruth looked forward to a short-term mission trip to Guatemala this winter….Mark Delaney enjoys the southern Colorado pines, but in a “pretty much” retired fashion. He’s usually found working on his off-road vehicles for trips among the Colorado and Utah mountains….After a long career at McCormick & Company (spice makers), Fred Demers works with a Baltimore nonprofit whose mission is to support folks seeking to join the workforce for the first time or return after an interruption….Mark Evans retired from the American Medical Assn. after 30 years directing the development of national continuing medical education programs for physicians. To keep busy, he freelances for physician-directed education projects.…Chris Fahy, a professor of humanities at Boston Univ., does a six-week course in London for freshmen each year. Carolyn retired from teaching kindergarten in Boston while daughter Zoe ’13 started teaching third grade in the Boston system….In Ithaca, N.Y., Gary and Lisa Pelletier Ferguson ’77 live an urban/rural split personality life. He’s in his 21st year running the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, helping to create America’s top-rated small college city. They live on a 50-acre farm where Lisa owns and operates Laughing Goat Fiber Farm….Paul Ferry semi-retired from his 44-year life insurance practice, “with two goals — to play more golf (which I have certainly done), and to spend more time with my grandchildren, 5 and 3, which is a real blast.”….Cindy Gengarelly Shimp writes, “While many of my days are just pedoodling around the small rural town of Berryville, Va., I’m grateful for lots of laughter and lots of wonderful people.”…The 35th annual “Boys Do Bumps” ski weekend, in North Conway, N.H., brought together Matt Gilligan, Bob Littlefield, Jim Dachos, Mike Genetti, Rick Jack, Steve McCusker, Joe Davin ’77, Pete Manning ’77, Joe Burke ’73, Bill Holm ’73, Pete Williams ’74, and Bob Watt ’76. “While fewer bumps are skiied now than in the past, there continues to be plenty of laughs and beer,” Matt reported….Janet Haines is a housing planner for the City of Cambridge, Mass. Both her children married within a 10-month period in 2018–19. She got together with Susie Bourgault Akie in San Diego, met Chrissy Buck Owens in Boston, and gets up to Bates two or three times a year….Becky Hutto’s fun retirement job is serving as a per diem consultant for the Center for Responsive Schools. She presents teacher workshops throughout the U.S.… Nancy Johnson Young and Jon

live in their Lake Keowee community home in Seneca, S.C., where they enjoy the lake as well as exploring waterfalls and mountains in the southern Appalachians with their hiking group….In La Conner, Wash., Sandy Krot says she and partner Peter Remick are typical Northwest outdoor lovers. She works as a business consultant, traveling and sharing the book she co-wrote, Invisible Power: Insight Principles At Work…. Cindy Larock says music, especially folk music, has always been her primary passion, so she mentors a group of gifted young fiddlers in the Lewiston area, arranging for them to share their talents….Michele LeComte Chambers and David split time between Westport, Mass., and Marco Island, Fla. They have two grandchildren. “I am enjoying retirement and the freedom to work on my golf game and travel to unusual destinations.”…Bob Littlefield was inducted into the Rhode Island Interscholastic Sports Hall of Fame for his contributions to athletics during 27 years as a school leader in Rhode Island. Surprise attendees were Jim Dachos, Mike Genetti, Joe Burke ’73, and Pete Williams ’74….Margaret McCann Wilcox enjoys life as a Realtor and team leader with William Raveis Real Estate in Glastonbury Conn. She and David ’74 are working through the bucket travel list but their real joy are four grandsons….Pat McInerney has a new job as head of school at a small summer/ camp school, Wolfeboro (N.H.) Camp School. “Interesting to be very busy during the summer, and quieter during the school year.” He stays in touch with John Willhoite, George and Wendy Henderson Waymouth ’76, Bill Franklin, and others…. Faith Minard Blatt is a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Manchester, N.H., providing medications and counseling for people dealing with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and ADHD. She looks forward to Reunion, adding, “Don’t worry about getting around campus — Bates Star volunteers are eager to drive us around in golf carts (a perk for being ‘old’).”...Ruth Nickerson Robbins works at the Smithsonian Associates creating educational programs for the public. “It’s a fun, intellectually stimulating, and creative job — but I am hoping to retire in the not too distant future.”…Mary Nucefora Buck and Fred report life is good in Hampstead, N.H. Both retired in 2012. Their three adult children and four granddaughters all live within an hour of them. Mary’s long been involved in her local church choir and both enjoy volunteer work at the Sonshine Soup kitchen.… Sarah Pearson enjoys her work at Bates “and can’t wait to welcome everyone back to

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campus in June. Let’s repeat the Friday night cocktail party in my garden!”…John and Diane Kounkoulas Peterson still enjoy country living in Loudon, N.H. He keeps busy as a girls college volleyball referee and working race events at the track. She helps with dance classes and takes tap classes (with her daughter as the teacher)....After retiring as Maryland assistant state superintendent for instruction in 2010, Colleen Peterson Seremet was involved in consulting work for the U.S. Department of Education until 2018. “I have now embarked on retirement 2.0 and hope to get it right this time!”…After 40 years of optometry, Bob Poole retired in December 2018, allowing him to downhill ski at the Camden Snow Bowl more than ever. Last July, he, Dave Ferrucci, Bill McMurray ’78, and Bruce LeDoyt ’77 gathered at Rick Rizoli’s for a wonderful visit.… Enzo Rebula is enjoying retirement after a rewarding career in human resources and heading up HR at FM Global. Their kids and families keep them busy….After over 20 years in IT at the phone company (SNET/SBC/AT&T), Hope Ropke finally has a job that actually involves phones. “I do BVoIP support and I love my job.”…Susan Russell-Robinson and Rob enjoy the retired life. She says summers and early fall in Norway, Maine, are great. He volunteers with the local mining/ geology community. She explores the arts, mastering silversmith techniques and working on pastel paintings….Dotty Sammons just retired from the faculty at Idaho State Univ.’s College of Education. “I look forward to being master of my time! My three children are all within a day’s drive, so I get to visit beautiful country on a regular basis.”…Gary Sinclair and Jan moved to Bluffton, S.C., in 2017 after he retired from the public defenders office in Massachusetts. He now works as a tennis court technician at Montage Palmetto Bluff where he grooms tennis courts….In Smyrna, Ga., Henry Skoog and wife Kathie Neyman are retired and enjoy charity work, gardening, and beekeeping. They also raise puppies for the Guide Dog Foundation based in New York…. Betsy Slocum Markesich and Steve welcomed two new grandsons. She retired and now plays in two orchestras. She and Steve, who retired this February, enjoyed a trip to Alaska and meeting Marty Welbourn Freeman for a hike….Janine Ventura Richards reports the idyllic retirement in their new home in Newburyport, Mass., was disrupted when Nicholas fell and shattered his tibia. Several surgeries and more to come but they were “cheered by

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Elizabeth Strout ’77 greets Martin Andrucki, Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater, following her Q&A with President Clayton Spencer on Oct. 21 in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.

Author! Author! Reprising a similarly popular Q&A discussion during Reunion 2017, novelist Elizabeth Strout ’77 joined President Clayton Spencer in front of a packed Olin Concert Hall to talk about her latest work, Olive, Again, a sequel to Olive Kitteridge, for which Strout won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009. As the titular character, Olive Kitteridge is “very much a part of the Maine landscape, in her particular Olive barnacle-like way,” she told Spencer. Strout shared that her two favorite classes at Bates were a criminology course with Professor Emeritus of Sociology Sawyer Sylvester, and a theater class with Martin Andrucki, Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater, who guided his students through the work of classic American playwrights like Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams. She learned a valuable lesson from their plays. “Reading dialogue was very helpful,” she said. “When you write dialogue in a story or a novel, there has to be a translation between what people are actually saying to the page. You can’t write what people are actually saying, because it’s too boring — there are too many ‘uhhs.’ You’ve got to translate it to the page in a way that sounds authentic.”

visits with many of our dear Bates friends whom we hope to see again at Reunion.”...Pammy Wansker is in her 37th year as a primary care family physician in Greene, Maine. She and Jim, also a physician, live the warm weather months in their Falmouth, Maine, house on a lake and are rehabbing a house in

Tucson for the cold weather months. She’s active in many sports….In Alaska, Marty Welbourn Freeman is retired and taking courses just for fun. She volunteers with the Unitarian Fellowship and is learning to skull….Dion Wilson writes, “My calendar is marked for Reunion.”

1976 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Jeff Helm bateslax@gmail.com class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com

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Foursome Fun “I was happy to see my classmates from 1979 at our Reunion in June,” notes Bill Bogle ’79, at left. “And then, in October, I connected with 1980 friends,” from left, Jeff Wahlstrom, David Greaves, and Dave Trull, for a round of golf at Renaissance Golf Club in Haverhill, Mass. Adds Trull, “Four old farts, alive and well, enjoying fall golf!”

retiring, I started working at the Curtainshop in South Portland. Love it.”…Steve Lancor enjoys retirement, “especially when you get to take your grandkids to Disney World for the first time.”…Dervilla McCann is in her seventh year as a Bates trustee, “which has been a wonderful and fulfilling experience.”…John Paszko retired. He and Liz spend much of their time with their two grandsons….Retired, MaryBeth Pope Salama enjoys new grandbabies and volunteers with a local social justice group and fighting food insecurity…. Kevin Soucy is doing OK healthwise, but dealing with cancer medication side effects…. Dave Terricciano retired, began a new chapter in life moving to Portland, Maine, and saw his youngest daughter off to college….Frank Sopper writes, “Since 1973, every day has been a great day to be a Bobcat.”… Jackie Wolfe, officially retired and living on the Oregon coast, bought a kayak and has ample opportunities year-round to go paddling….Former Minnesota Department of Transportation Commissioner Charlie Zelle was appointed chairman of the Metropolitan Council, the powerful regional agency that manages public transit, affordable housing, wastewater, and land use planning in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

1978 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 Attorney and housing counselor Jordan Fiore was re-elected to the Taunton (Mass.) School Committee….Linda Hermans and Rich Goldman now live in a beautiful new home which rose from the ashes of a devastating fire in July 2018. “This process of loss and recovery has been such an education — making us acutely aware of our life of abundance. For what remained we are forever filled with gratitude — our wonderful children and extended family, our amazing friends and neighbors, this lovely spot in the Eastern River valley, our very fulfilling careers, each other.”…Susann Pelletier Lysen read from her poetry as part of the Franco-American Collection’s Meet-A-FrancoAuthor programs at USM’s Lewiston-Auburn College…. For Women’s History Month and National Poetry Month, Karen Stathoplos’ four-person singing group Mosaic performed a program of Emily Dickinson poems set to music. Last June, she, Donna Clarico, and Martha Wright Nelson traveled to North Carolina to meet up with Ann Marie Blackmon for a festive reunion. For their anniversary in October, Karen and husband Kim traveled to their favorite spot in Brittany and then Paris.

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“It’s so rewarding to me to be able to speak French and live for a very short time like the French people do. Professors Caron and Wright would be proud.”

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

Laura deFrancesco McLaughlin ’77 thought she was doing very well. “Then I received my Medicare card in the mail. I guess I’m old!” Peter Brann writes, “Still living in Maine (Harpswell), still practicing law (Brann & Isaacson), still teaching (Harvard), and still traveling (Vietnam and Cambodia in 2020). All good.”… Laura deFrancesco McLaughlin thought she was doing very well, staying busy with volunteer

activities, reading, exercising, walking the dog. “Then I received my Medicare card in the mail. I guess I’m old!”…Joel Feingold and Houda are delighted to be in their renovated house in Fort Lauderdale. Fla. They had a good visit with Bill and Liliane Deighan in Portland…. Jane Goguen Baronas and Matt are still working at jobs they love but planning for retirement….Carl Grove retired Feb. 15. “Going from all that money and no time to all that time and no money.”…After 40 years in the field of human resources, most recently as VP of HR for Milford Regional Medical Center, Linda Greason Yates (“Carly”) has retired. She serves on the board of the Worcester Area League of Women Voters and volunteers at the town library, community center, and Arts Worcester…. Steve Hadge continues with the semi-retirement-working as a tutor in the Manchester (Conn.) Public Schools. “I can’t ever see myself not working with young children in some fashion.”…John Haile teaches English at Brooks School and enjoys reading Liz Strout’s Olive Kitteridge with his seniors….After 35 years in the mortgage lending industry, Jo-Ann Kayatta retired in 2017. “Not ready to not work after

class secretary Chip Beckwith chipwith@yahoo.com class president Dean M. Berman deanocean@aol.com As she gets closer to retirement, Laurie Chambers Duke is “shifting my priorities to spend more time playing, traveling, and relaxing. My husband and I spend three weeks in Vero Beach, Fla., escaping the cold Colorado winters. I am learning golf and finding it a fun challenge. I am also trying to play more tennis. I still love birding and do a few bike rides and triathlons in the summer.”… Sports historian Richard Johnson started his 39th year as curator of The Sports Museum in Boston. His new book is A Stitch in Time, A Boston Baseball Love Story as Told Through the Greatest Collection Ever Assembled (Assouline)….After 36 years in automotive coatings as a scientist and eventually technical director, George Mauer has retired from PPG Industries in Cleveland. Retired wife Mary and the dogs are trying to adjust to an extra guy around the house. More skiing, hiking, biking, and vintage motorcycle restoration come next.

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1979 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com class president Patrick Murphy patrickm@paceengrs.com Allyson Anderson-Sterling is trying to stay healthy in 2020. She looked forward to a trip to the Florida Keys, biking from Charleston to Savannah this March, and a visit to the Smoky Mountains this summer….David Beaulieu, a veteran healthcare industry executive adviser, was named to the board of Beacon Healthcare Systems. He founded David Beaulieu Consulting in Avon, Conn., last year….John Casey outlined his vision for the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court as he entered his second year as chief justice last summer. In an article for the Boston Bar Journal, he noted the court had received additional funds to hire sessions clerks and legal research and writing staff, as well as address the need for case management triage and alternative dispute resolution resources….Carlie Graves retrained to do landscape design and now works on designing native plantings locally in the Hudson Valley. “Love it! This past year I’ve begun a pilot program training adult community mentors (through a local Lifelong Learning Institute) to support first-generation students in their college applications processes. Love this too! And finally, last summer I discovered rowing, and encourage anyone near a rowing club to give it a try — it’s wonderful!”

1980 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Christine Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@gmail.com class president Mary Mihalakos Martuscello mary@martuscellolaw.com

Borealis Breads owner Jim Amaral ’80 encourages people to bake, even if it costs him business at his popular bakery. “It’s a life-affirming thing when you bake — you’re nourishing yourself, you are nourishing your family.”

Maine’s Lincoln County News interviewed Borealis Breads owner Jim Amaral, who wrote a cookbook with food writer Cynthia Finnemore Simonds. Jim said the goal of the book, Borealis Breads: 75 Recipes for Breads, Soups, Sides, and More, is to encourage people to bake, even if it costs him business at his popular bakery. “It’s a life-affirming thing when you bake — you’re nourishing yourself, you are nourishing your family.” Jim’s wife Dolores Carbonneau ended her 28-year midwifery career including nearly a thousand births….On Cape Cod, Sem Aykanian continues his law practice and as chairman of the board of Main Street Bank….Katie Baird Burns got a new job as a paraprofessional in the local school working with kids on reading and math….Tad Baker, a history professor at Salem State Univ., was named vice provost for academic affairs there….Brian Baldwin and wife Nancy Reichert spent three weeks in Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda during the amazing Great Migration of wildlife….Paul Barrett is president of the board of Native Future, a nonprofit working with indigenous peoples in Panama on education, land rights, and conservation…. David and Chris Tegeler Beneman are tuition-free with all three daughters graduated. He’s in his 14th year as federal public defender for Maine; she does part-time art gallery work and her own artistic endeavors…. Carol Biggers Teasley, retired, and John now live in Savannah, Ga. She has a “grueling schedule of the morning crossword puzzle, an episode of Perry Mason, and a yoga class.” She caught up with roommate Polly Cole Swanson....Mike and Alison Grott Bonney are lovin’ their risky 60s. She has become a one-named celebrity (think Madonna, Kanye, etc.) in Georgetown, Maine, where she’s the proud owner of a marina, retail shop, rental cottages, and is helping the local community diversify the marine economy. He has developed a CEO-advising practice that he finds rewarding and an unexpected way to pay it forward….Eric Carboneau of Winter Garden, Fla., traveled to Cape Flattery, Wash., the farthest northwest point in the continental United States. “A woman saw my Bates sweatshirt and remarked, ‘You’re a long way from home’... So the Bates word is indeed out!”… Steve Cluff still works for Kuraray America but targets the end of 2020 for retirement. They have moved to Beaufort, S.C., but spend summers at their place in Brooksville, Maine….Dave Covill teaches classes in mountaineering at the Colorado Mountain Club and is president of the

Highpointers Foundation, a nonprofit that benefits the 50 U.S. state Highpoints….After 35 years at Mount Snow, Laurie Croot Newton retired in October. She gets together annually with Alyson Patch, Mary Raftery ’79, Sue Howard ’79, Allyson Anderson-Sterling ’79, Sue Doliner ’81, MC McNeill McBain ’81….Gail Cushman Rose and Larry launched a new blog designed for active seniors called Senior Rippers….Avid sailor Maura Dahlen Garvey enjoys sailing and racing with her brother on his 42-foot Beneteau….Marn Davis retired from a very short but lucrative career in commercial real estate in Sedona, Ariz. She’s being an artist again, painting mandalas…. Tom Denegre is in his third career as an information technology security officer for an international company. He’s also involved in the Kairos Prison Ministry helping former gang members….Tim Dewey, who has lived in the U.K. for 37 years, is CEO of Timothy Taylor’s brewery in Yorkshire…. Chris Gammons, a professor in the Geological Engineering Department at Montana Tech, and Colleen raised three kids in Butte and are now empty nesters….Chris Gorayeb, an attorney who lives in Manhattan, often visits the Bates campus to see his son, a Bates senior. “The campus continues to grow and become more impressive and beautiful.”…Both David Greaves and Lizette (Panet-Raymond) ’81 retired in December 2018. “We are busy trying new things, new hobbies, house projects, volunteering gigs, a bit of involvement in local political efforts, etc.”…Julia Groom is self-employed as a nonprofit consultant, primarily for the Virginia Diabetes Council….Kenneth Hammond works as an actuary at Sun Life of Canada (U.S. operations in Wellesley Hills, Mass.) and mostly enjoys it, but with corporate reorganizations could become retired sooner than he’d prefer….Beth Holmes Bradley teaches high school math half time, “a perfect gig to leave time to play with five grandboys and a sixth due.”…Greg Kechejian is chief of surgery at the BID-Milton Hospital. “The practice is rewarding beyond words (and only 1.2 miles from our home).”…Ann Kees Fieldhouse is in her last year of teaching seventh- and eighth-grade science at Sidwell Friends School and looks forward to retirement. Richard enjoys “semi-retirement,” serving on an independent advisory board part time….Anne Keenan Shields reports son Keenan ’18 loves his AmeriCorps job in Lewiston at Tree Street, his second year working with first-gen high

schoolers….Cathie Kimball is the lead physician at Northern Light Primary Care. “Alan a little closer to retirement than I am though I am thinking more about it!”…Nick Kofos, in Marlboro, Mass., loves practicing optometry with no plans to retire. His three Bates children are son Monthe ’11, a psychiatrist; Zachary ’13, in his fourth year at Tufts Dental School; and daughter Leah ’15, an attorney doing wills, trusts, and estate planning. “We are so proud that Bates gave them all opportunities to succeed in their chosen fields.”…Joyce Kornetsky Groemmer lives in Marstons Mills, Mass., with husband Peter and is in her 18th year as marketing director for Catania Hospitality Group…. Janet Leary-Prowse and Spencer ’82 are officially empty nesters. He works for Chemours, an offshoot of DuPont, consulting on a variety of projects. She received a job change and promotion at ChristianaCare, where she’s now the research education and compliance manager in the Office of Sponsored Programs…. Susan MacDonald and Ted Stein ’79 live outside NYC but are building a house in Rhode Island which will be their permanent residence eventually. They caught up with close Bates friends including Jay Riley ’79, Tracy Howe ’79 and Dan Welling ’78, and Rob Cramer ’79….Phil Marshall works in high tech, currently driving marketing for cyber security startup IntSights….Mary Mihalakos Martuscello is very excited about seeing everyone at the Big Reunion and really impressed with how many still keep in touch with classmates on a regular basis….Elizabeth Newell retired from teaching biology at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. She’s busy with hiking club trips, work on the Geneva Music Festival Board, and her church….Boon and Elizabeth Heffernan Ooi are both retired and spend most of their time in Washington, D.C., where both their kids and grandchildren live….Greg Peters and Sara Rosenbloom are mostly retired “so it’s time to travel and visit before early dementia sets in (or have we waited too long)?”…Sue Pierce Gorman is settling into the emptier nest phase of family life. Still living in Sudbury, Mass., she works in a CPA practice in neighboring Concord….Ann Prince was featured in a blog about alumni of the WilliamsMystic Maritime Studies Program, an interdisciplinary ocean studies semester of Williams College and Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Conn. She was a student in the program’s first year, 1978. She recalled studying marine ecology, reading

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Moby Dick and other Melville books, and taking boat building as a maritime skill. “So profound was the influence of that semester that I will never regret choosing Mystic instead of going for a year abroad,” she said. After completing her MST in environmental studies, Ann was a writer and editor for the Massachusetts Audubon Society for 30 years. She continues to work as a freelance editor….Rod Proust works on the left coast as an environmental geologist. “Once in a while I go on martini runs with DeDe Soeharto ’82. It’s all about staying fit!”…Pierre Redmond and Karen “are totally on the WFPB, no-oil bandwagon. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, watch Forks Over Knives and The Game Changers. I was diagnosed with coronary artery disease and prescribed statins. I refused, changed my diet, and stopped and reversed the disease.”…Katy Reid and her husband live in Wellesley, Mass. Their two daughters are in college, but thankfully they have a faithful dog to keep them company….Dave Reinhart retired from MeadWestvaco Corp. after 31 years and moved to the Berkshires. He spends most of his time doing volunteer work….In Norway, Maine, Lucy Saunders-Kish and Glenn tend their massive bulb, perennial, fruit, and vegetable garden they have maintained for 30-plus years….Doug Sensenig and Jenny live on the Big Island of Hawaii where he’s busy organizing a land trust to protect some of the places that make the island so extraordinary….David Soley is a real estate trial lawyer in Portland and dabbles in Portland’s commercial real estate….Jamie Slimmon Somes lives in Wellesley, Mass., but spends summer near beautiful Acadia National Park. She’s knee deep in elder care issues….Brad Smith connected with Bates friends at the wedding of Tim ’79 and Cookie Connolly’s daughter Molly. He cycled the mid-coast of Maine with Chris and David Beneman and Greg and Sara Rosenbloom Peters. And he caught up with David and Lizette Greaves ’81 for a nice hike….Lisa Stifler and her husband are “stripping the age out of 25 years in our house. Not easy, but we have had lots of advice from our three DIY specialist children — and some good help as well!”…John and JoAnne Brambley Stillmun enjoy splitting time between Cape May, N.J., and Philadelphia. She retired from teaching and coaching, he’s still at FMC…. Alicia Tierney Guinee reports. “No weddings yet, but my son (Bates ’15) proposed to his girlfriend (Bates ’15) and we are happy for them as they make their plans.”…Dave Trull is now a member of the professional staff

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at Renaissance, a private country club in Haverhill, Mass. “I am the old guy on the staff, as everyone else is younger than my own kids.” He is also the Maker of Arrangements for the annual CFC golf tournament; his duties include organizing classmates Nick Kofos, Brad Smith, and Jeff Wahlstrom, among others….Mark Weaver, now in his 15th year as a Circuit Court judge, and Heidi Duncanson ’82 celebrated their 35th anniversary….Liane Wilbur Paulson has a tiny hobby/business teaching fermentation skills. She and her husband became grandparents last October.

1981 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class president Henry Howie hhowie@gmail.com

Winnie Skeates ’81 returned to Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, N.H., where she once worked as compensation manager, now as the interfaith chaplain. “I’m enjoying the switch!” Kathy Leonard Williams was inducted into the Windsor Locks (Conn.) Athletic Hall of Fame Although she played many sports in high school and college, she excelled in cross-country and track. The school record set by her Bates 4x800 meters relay team stood for 25 years….Minoo Malek Saghri and Faraj spent a month in Italy, inspiring her to study Italian upon their return. Their twin boys graduated from college. Faraj retired from JPMorgan Private Bank. “We are now enjoying travel and time with family and friends. Also doing volunteer work (teaching English) and picking up old hobbies. We like to call it rewiring, not retiring!”…Winnie Skeates writes, “In a move from leftbrained to right-brained work, I have returned to Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, N.H., where I once worked as compensation manager, now as the interfaith chaplain. I’m enjoying the switch!”…In La Porte, Ind., Superior Court Judge Greta Westphal Friedman is running for re-election to a six-year term in 2020. First elected in 2014, she was chosen “Indiana Judge of the Year” in 2016 by the Indiana Criminal Justice Assn. for her success in guiding La Porte County’s Drug and Alcohol Court.

1982 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Jerry Donahoe maineescape@aol.com class president Neil Jamieson neil@southernmainelaw.com Jane Calderwood is “so very glad I left D.C. (after 32 years) and returned home to Maine. Love having the coast to the east and the mountains to the west for exploring, being closer to family, and actually having a yard larger than a postage stamp! Had a terrific visit with fellow Cheney House alum Jennifer Locke Berkenstock. We had a great time roaming the nearby Bowdoin campus, catching up and telling stories!”…John Garofano is off to the Vienna Diplomatic Academy on a Fulbright this year. He looks forward to some time with the family and for writing and research in addition to his teaching duties. And definitely some skiing….After 10 years running the tourism office in Spartanburg, S.C., Chris Jennings and his family have returned to New England. His wife Manya took a job in Portsmouth, N.H., and two of their adult daughters have joined them living in Kittery. “I lived in York County for a few years after graduating Bates. It’s good to be back home!”…Patrick Madigan is now president of Fowler High Precision in Newton, Mass., a supplier of inspection, leveling, control, and calibration equipment…. In an interview on “The Oath with Chuck Rosenberg,” MSNBC legal analyst Joyce White Vance talked about her long legal career and also shared the deeply personal tragedy of the murder of her beloved father-in-law. In 1989, federal appellate court judge Robert Vance was killed by a mail bomb delivered to his home in Alabama. The bomb also grievously injured the judge’s wife. The murder inspired Joyce to become a federal prosecutor in her adopted home state of Alabama. The convicted murderer was finally put to death by the state of Alabama in 2018, 29 years after the murder. Initially, “I was strongly in favor of the death penalty in this particular case,” Joyce said. “I loved my father-in-law, I was emotional about losing him, I was emotional about him never getting to meet his first grandchild, and very much eye for an eye, at that point in time, as was his sister and a number of other family members. My mother-inlaw never was a supporter of the death penalty and her point of view was it wouldn’t bring Bob back…. Because there’s a long lag between sentencing and execution, something that I experienced personally is how your view can change over time…. I ultimately came to believe that my motherin-law was right, that there was

nothing that would bring Bob back and it really was part of a change in my viewpoint about the death penalty.” Joyce teaches at the Univ. of Alabama’s law school. She and her husband spend as much time as possible visiting daughter Ellie ’21 at Bates.

1983 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Leigh Peltier leighp727@gmail.com class presidents Pamela Johnson Dearden tribecapj@yahoo.com William Zafirson bzaf@maine.rr.com Mitch Marcus of Marblehead was promoted to senior vice president/commercial lending team leader in Massachusetts at Newburyport Bank….From a scientific perspective, Peter Weyand knows more about the mystery of NBA “flopping” than almost anyone, The Guardian reported. Peter, a professor of applied physiology and biomechanics at Southern Methodist Univ., has studied the phenomenon since 2014, funded by Houston Rockets owner Mark Cuban. Peter, who played basketball at Bates, and his team set out to measure how much force it takes to knock someone over and what it looks like when a basketball player is genuinely set off balance vs. embellishing a hit or faking — that is, flopping. In fact, it doesn’t take much force to knock someone over. “In many cases, if the defender just doesn’t move their feet, then down they go,” Peter said. “I’ve been through thousands of charge-block collisions, and never realized how easy it was.”

1984 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com class president Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com David Braslau and Yain Lu are incredibly proud that Hannah chose to join Bates as a member of the Class of 2023. “Coming back to Bates as parents (and alumni) has given us an interesting perspective, and we are amazed by the transformation of the campus and academic programs. We look forward to visiting the campus and participating in the 100th anniversary of the Bates Outing Club,” David writes….Dan Bungert “had been unable to go to Reunion for many years until last June for the 35th and really had the best time with a mix of old friends and classmates I had never gotten to

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know at all while at Bates. It was not a large turnout for our class but that may have enhanced the experience for those who did come. Maybe others will consider coming to the 40th!”…Susanna Burger Muzzin hopes to graduate this May from Luther Seminary (ELCA) in St. Paul, Minn., and to be ordained soon after. For her internship, she’s serving as the “sole pastoral presence” at Amazing Grace Lutheran Church in Warren, Mich., “where I get to preach, teach, plan and lead worship, and more. I love it.” She and Michael live in Farmington Hills….John Houde reports “it was really nice having Nell ’18 at Bates and having a reason to go back and visit.” Nell now teaches at Kieve Wavus outdoor leadership school in Nobleboro. In it’s a small Bates world twist, Charlie Richardson ’86 is the school’s director of education and operations and one of her fellow counselors is Ross Richins ’17, son of Rob. John and Jennifer ’86 have kept in touch with Art and Ginny Rich Lee, “who are now older than us because they are now giddy grandparents. It has been really terrific reconnecting with Dave Eberhart ’85, Charlie Adams, Bill Bell, Dana De Nault ’84, Peter Grant, and Mark Thorburn. To have Bates friends reach out has meant the world. Watching Nell make and develop the relationships that she has at Bates just reinforces for us what a special place it is.”… Lori Kimball Swenson lost her husband in January 2019 after a long battle with cancer. “And now, after launching my sons off to college, one in technical school and the oldest starting medical school, I have hit my reset button on my own journey and decided to go back to school in a one-year, intensive program to become a surgical technician. All three of us are freshmen. Even after being out of school all these years, I am thriving and learning that this old dog can learn some new tricks.”… Raymond Lanza-Weil and his wife live in Shelburne Falls, Mass. Daughter Cali ’06, her husband, and their two future Bobcats live in the Boston area, so they see their grandchildren regularly. Continuing 20-plus years of work in community development finance, in 2019 Raymond became president of Common Capital, a nonprofit and community development financial institution that makes loans to “unbankable” and other underserved small businesses throughout Western Massachusetts….Heidi Lovett “enjoyed a long-awaited family vacation to Europe, visiting Amsterdam, the northeast of Germany, and Sealand, Denmark. I was most excited to reconnect with two families I lived with when a high school student in Faxe, and my family loved Copenhagen. Once back, life got hectic with final preparations for our younger son’s bar mitzvah.

My other son decided to go out for football for the first time, rather than play soccer, so that was exciting and slightly scary for mom and dad.”…Artemis Preeshl returned to Bates last year, sharing a workshop in “Intimacy Choreography” for the Bates Modern Dance Company’s 50th anniversary. She also offered theater workshops for professor Marty Andrucki. This spring she is teaching “Introduction to Theatre, Understanding Dance, and World Drama” on Semester at Sea in Asia and Africa. “I’m representing by wearing my Bates Bobcat sweater!”…Lisa Quintal Loeb is in her first year as director of professional growth at Miss Porter’s School where her MSEd in school leadership from UPenn is getting put to great use. Living in Farmington during the week, she’s back in Wallingford on weekends where David continues to teach and coach at Choate. “We’ve got our health, love our jobs, and are proud of our kiddos. Life is good.”…Jim Weissman joined the board of Receptor Holdings, a biopharmaceutical company. He’s executive vice president and chief operating officer of Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc.

1985 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com class president Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net Heather Beebe and her husband are heading back to the Eastern Townships of Quebec after 21 years in Calgary, Alberta. They’ll be closer to daughters Laura ’20 and Anna (Skidmore ’22). “I’m also looking forward to putting my French major back to good use. I ‘retired’ from management consulting and enjoyed monthly travels to visit aging parents and childhood friends. We joined Laura for a wonderful tour of New Zealand prior to the start of her semester abroad.”…Steve Brackett was promoted to president and co-head of alternative investments at Shepherd Kaplan Krochuk, an investment advisory firm in Boston….Meg McNamara misses Maine but spent time there last summer with husband Jeff Clayton, their three kids, and extended family when they celebrated their 25th anniversary. “We’re still in San Francisco where I am now the residency program director for pediatrics at the Univ. of California San Francisco. I’m hosting eight Bates students for ‘shadowing days’ in clinic in the next few months — will be fun.”… Mari Smith-Negron returned to Florence, Italy, after 25 years with Denise Viola ’87, her mother-in-law, and spouse. Mari’s in

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New IMAS exec seeks cross-culture experiences

takeaway: Experiential learning can lead to an arts career Francisco E. Jimenez of The Monitor of McAllen, Texas, profiled Ann Kranjec Fortescue ’84, the new president and executive director of the International Museum of Art and Science. Fortescue said her 35-year career in museums was inspired in part by a Bates course on 19th-century European history that included a visit to a historical farm. “We spent two days on this farm, harvesting rye with a scythe and experiencing what it was like to live as closely as we could to 19th-century peasant farmers,” she told Jimenez. “That was when a switch went off in my head in terms of, ‘I could actually work in a museum and teach with objects.’” Fortescue joins IMAS after nearly nine years as executive director of the Springfield (Ill.) Museum of Art.

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her 33rd year of teaching as a bilingual teacher in elementary school. Her recent art shows have included a solo art show in May 2019 and the Open Studio Hartford in November 2019. She’s happily married to Charles Sadosky, a musician, and living with her three adult children in East Hartford, Conn.

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

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Kelli Armstrong inaugurated as eighth Salve Regina University president

takeaway: The world needs mercy more than ever Inaugurated as the eighth president of Salve Regina University on Sept. 20, 2019, Kelli Armstrong ’86 told a story about her grandmother, orphaned along with seven siblings as a young child in Portland, Maine, after her mother and father, both Irish immigrants, died within a year of each other. The siblings were able to continue their parochial education at Cathedral School, run by the Sisters of Mercy, who also founded Salve Regina. “These sisters ensured not only that they were able to continue their schooling, but that they were grounded with a strong moral compass and a deep love of education that my family and I have benefited from generations later,” Armstrong told the audience. She defined “mercy” by quoting a colleague, who defined mercy as “entering into the chaos of another person’s life and answering them in their need.” Of her vision for Salve Regina, Armstrong said that “this is our time to show the world what a Mercy education means because the world needs us more than ever.”

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Deborah Hansen ’86 is “still loving the day-today thrills of running my restaurant Taberna de Haro (in Brookline, Mass.), even after 21 years. It’s wonderful when Batesies come to dine!” Deborah Hansen is “still loving the day-to-day thrills of running my restaurant Taberna de Haro (in Brookline, Mass.), even after 21 years. It’s wonderful when Batesies come to dine! Working steadily on my cookbook and seeking an agent.”…Maria Packett Cashdollar is in her 34th year at Riverview School in East Sandwich, Mass., where she’s the assistant head of school and director of education. Last fall, she ran her first 5k. Knee surgery temporarily moved her to the injured reserve list but she looked forward to walking a 5k in Key West with Kerry Crehan Dunnell and Kathleen Flaherty ’87, who are doing yet another half-marathon. “These women inspire and amaze me! This past year resulted in three mini-Bates reunions with our gang, and I see Jill Wittmer more now than I did at Bates.” Maria and Todd live on Cape Cod.

1987 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Val Kennedy brickates@gmail.com class president Erica Rowell Joe King completed a two-year term as president of the Frank J. Murray Inn of Court which is affiliated with the American Inns of Court. The Inns of Court are composed of judges and lawyers and are dedicated to promoting excellence, civility, and ethics

in the practice of law….George Stewart was named head of school for the new EF Academy in Pasadena, Calif., an international boarding school slated to open in 2020.

1988 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 executive committee Astrid Delfino Bernard flutistastrid@sbcglobal.net Ruth Garretson Cameron ruth.eg.cameron@gmail.com Mary Capaldi Gonzales marcapcar@me.com Steven Lewis mojofink@gmail.com Julie Sutherland-Platt julielsp@verizon.net Lisa A. Romeo romeoli66@gmail.com

Artist, chef, and teacher Robin Leventhal ’88 writes from Walla Walla, Wash.: “I finally feel like I’m all grown up; some of us took longer to arrive, but the journey has been one amazing trip!” Boston commercial real estate attorney Eric Freeman was named chief operating officer and general counsel for RK Centers, based in Needham, Mass….Artist, chef, and teacher Robin Leventhal writes from Walla Walla, Wash., “It’s been an exciting year for me both personally and professionally. I have reconnected with a love from my past and we are engaged; no date set yet but I assure you, the food won’t suck.” In the professional arena, The Seattle Times wrote about how she’s created a line of oyster plates and much else at her pottery studio. She’s also a culinary arts instructor at Wine Country Culinary Institute in Walla Walla. “I finally feel like I’m all grown up; some of us took longer to arrive, but the journey has been one amazing trip!”…Leslie Morison has lived and worked for 15 years in Seattle as a principal at ZGF Architects. “We do fabulous and meaningful work across the country.” Last fall she returned to Bates to drop off daughter Sophia ’23. “She is happy as a clam and friends with the sons of Becca Stevens Fasciano, Hans Gunderson, and Halsey and Julie Sutherland-Platt. It’s great to see such legacy!”…Eric Scharrer and wife Jo still enjoy teaching chemistry at the Univ. of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. They are coping with an empty nest as their daughter is in her first year at Macalester College….Brian Shea, Shuna, and their three daughters are still in London.

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He cut back his job to four days a week, “which has been great (except for the long to-do list I get from Shuna on my day off ). It was great to catch up with Clare Sheldon Manz and Julie Sutherland-Platt when they came to visit last summer. A highlight of 2019 was an impromptu trip to Boston to see my St. Louis Blues play the Bruins in the Stanley Cup with Jon Terhune.”…David Tavilla and Yuanyuan Zhu welcomed Julia Ann Tavilla on Feb. 24, 2019.

1989 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Sara Hagan Cummings cummings5clan@gmail.com steering committee Sally Ehrenfried sjehrenfried@gmail.com Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com Paul Guenette was promoted at New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to director, division of support operations….Desh Hindle is excited that oldest son Ethan ’24 will matriculate at Bates this fall and will play for Coach Sheikh on the varsity soccer team. “Our family looks forward to visiting campus in the coming years!”… Matt Jones returned to Huggins Hospital in Wolfeboro, N.H., and Wolfeboro General Surgery as a general surgeon of the group. He was a general surgeon at Huggins from 2005 to 2011….Susan Klein Matos “never dreamed I would be where I am today, in year 11 of teaching middle school in Buffalo, N.Y. Recently took on the task of gutting and refurbishing an old (1900) house in an ‘up and coming’ part of the city.”… Wendy Mahannah Bawabe and Dan have a small farm in Norwell, Mass. “When the summer heat gets too much, I’m thrilled to move indoors and work on graphic design.”…Shaun Moran loves life in Ashland, Ore., with wife Romi and their three children. Anyone looking for a fishing buddy, and who can tolerate his whiskey affinity and outrage with local politics, can give him a ring….In Belmont, Mass., Jim and Megan Falk Pickette ’91 celebrated their 25th anniversary. He’s been at Deloitte & Touche for over 28 years; she’s an educational consultant….Matt Schecter enjoys being an empty nester as daughter Samantha ’20 is in her senior year at Bates. He runs a medical communication agency, which was recognized as an Inc. 5000 company for the third year in a row….Debra Scherer, a veteran journalist, photographer, and filmmaker, is the founder and CEO of The Culture Crush Inc., based in New York. She describes it as “a new kind of media company using creative activism and aesthetics in publishing original essays, documentary photography,

printed matter, and short films through a curated submissions process.” It’s fiscally sponsored by Creative Visions, a nonprofit that supports creative activists who use the arts and media to ignite social change….Beth Tener, in Portsmouth, N.H., works as a facilitator with New Directions Collaborative, helping organizations collaborate on complex challenges….Donna Waterman Douglass and Troy still enjoy southwest Florida living. Troy joined her at Lee Health working as a plant operations technician. She does outpatient PT at Babcock Ranch, America’s first solar-powered master-planned community.

1990 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com Nancy Aordkian Pelaez is in her 12th year in development at Westover School in Middlebury, Conn., where she’s enjoyed working with other Batesies over the years such as Myriam Kelly ’15 and Eric Mathieu ’12. At Thanksgiving she connected with Diana Estey ’88, “now back in California expanding her amazing yoga and travel business. I would love to send a virtual hug to my old roommates Christine Henshaw and Alyson Ewald, and my geology professor Mike Rotelle.”…Mara Lipner joined Guggenheim Securities, the investment banking and capital markets division of Guggenheim Partners, as a senior managing director on the Institutional Equity Sales team….Donald Moulds was named the chief health director of CalPERS, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System…. Christopher von Jako was named president and CEO of BrainsWay, a commercial stage medical device company.

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

Christina Chiu ’91 is the Grand Prize winner of the James Alan McPherson Award. Her novel Beauty debuts May 1. She will give a reading at Bates on Nov. 5.

Madeline Belliveau works at Google as the business affairs and partnerships lead for the Doodles team. Some recent projects include partnering with the B.B. King estate for King’s 94th birthday Doodle and collaborating with astronaut Michael Collins for the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing Doodle. Madeline lives on a vineyard in Sonoma, Calif., with her husband and 12-year-old daughter….Christina Chiu is the Grand Prize winner of the James Alan McPherson Award. Her novel Beauty debuts May 1. She’s thrilled that fashion designer Anne Fontaine is hosting her book party May 21 at her NYC Madison Avenue location. She will give a reading at Bates on Nov. 5….Lyn Dorman Mozden started a new job in the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development….Traci Higgins and her family are still in Upton, Mass. She works for TERC, a STEM education research and development nonprofit. One kid’s in college and the other is soon to be. “I keep active playing in local sports leagues, tending chickens, gardening, and mushroom hunting.”…Bowdoin women’s basketball coach Adrienne Shibles joined the 400-win club last December. She had 262 wins and counting in her 12th year at Bowdoin. The first 138 came as head coach at Swathmore. She led Bowdoin to the Division III national championship game the past two seasons and was named 2019 D-III National Coach of the Year….In a profile of outstanding high school swimmer Ryan King of Montrose, Colo., The Daily Sentinel noted he started young because of his mother, Suzi Ziegenhagen King, a collegiate swimmer at Bates. She’s also one of the coaches for his club team. Now a freshman at Northwestern Univ., Ryan said, “I’ve been swimming competitively since I was 5. My mom was my first coach, so she was involved heavily, of course.”

1992 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 executive committee Ami Berger ami_berger@hotmail.com Kristin Bierly Magendantz kmagendantz@comcast.net Kristen Downs Bruno alfredbruno@sbcglobal.net Roland Davis roldav92@gmail.com Peter Friedman peterjfriedman@gmail.com Leyla Morrissey Bader leyla.bader@gmail.com Jeff Mutterperl jeffmutterperl@gmail.com

Author Amy Bass ’92 paid heartfelt tribute to Mike McGraw last fall as the longtime Lewiston High School boys soccer coach retired. “McGraw was the heart of the high school long before the city’s latest transformations began.” As executive chef of Sonoma Family Meal, Heather Ames continues to feed families who lost homes in wildfires as well as ongoing disaster relief in Sonoma County, Calif. During the Kincade Fire it provided meals to evacuees, first responders, and shelters….Writing in the Sun Journal, author Amy Bass paid heartfelt tribute to Mike McGraw last fall as the longtime Lewiston High School boys soccer coach retired. Her book, One Goal: A Coach, A Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together, chronicles the inspiring story of McGraw and his multiracial team as they won the 2015 state soccer title. “McGraw was the heart of the high school long before the city’s latest transformations began, always voted ‘most school spirit’ in the yearbook, always the guy leading the back-to-school pep rally,” Amy wrote. “The changes he’d made, from his own understanding of the world to the way he coached the game he loved, gave people hope for Lewiston’s future, as he — Lewiston-born, Lewiston-educated — represented everything the city had been, and everything it could be, some of his more recent players even occupying apartments where his own family once lived.” Amy started a new position at Manhattanville College as professor of sport studies…. Kristen Belka Rosenfield is in her 10th year living overseas and working at international schools. “Just signed on for our fourth year at Luanda International School in Angola where I’m the high school counselor, my husband is deputy principal of the secondary school, and our sons are students, grades 7 and 9. I get back to the south coast of Massachusetts each summer and always make a loop up to Maine. Looking forward to visiting Bates this year when we bring our boys to swim camp at Tarbell Pool!”…Kristin Bright is now an assistant professor of anthropology at Middlebury College….Bill Guidera joined Netflix as the head of state policy for the U.S.; he’s based in D.C. but still lives in Minnesota. “It was wonderful to see Rich

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’90 and Heather Falk Nolan and their daughter Hadley ’23 over Christmas!”…Gillian Kahn Hargreaves has lived in Berlin, Germany, for over three years with her husband and two kids and they will be there for the foreseeable future. “My job right now is helping to run our school’s PTA, plus learning German. Seems harder than Russian ever was!”…Brooke Oliver Fritz is now an assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Haverford College. She was a first-team All-American in lacrosse at Bates and also played soccer…. Judith Robbins published the third collection of her poems, To Bury or Burn (North Country Press), last fall….Tad Stewart was named chief business officer of Ribon Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotechnology company in Cambridge, Mass.

1993 Reunion 2023, June 9-11

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Critical weather data threatened by FCC “spectrum” proposal

takeaway: Allow scientific insights to inform policy decisions A recent Federal Communications Commission action could harm meteorologists’ ability to forecast the weather, including dangerous hurricanes, says Renee Leduc ’98. At issue is an FCC decision to auction off specific wireless radio frequencies to commercial wireless providers for next-generation 5G networks. The scientific community, including Leduc, says that giving these frequencies to 5G networks will interfere with unique measurements from weather satellites that are very important to weather forecasting models. Leduc told The Washington Post that it’s “crucial” that the question of interference is “decided in a way that is informed by atmospheric science since the measurements are so crucial to sound weather predictions.” Founder and principal of the consulting firm Narayan Strategy, Leduc is a member of the American Meteorological Society’s Board on Enterprise Economic Development and its International Affairs and Radio Frequency Allocation committees.

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class secretary Lisa A. Bousquet lisaannbousquet@gmail.com class presidents Mike Charland mfc@wilkinsinvest.com Jason R. Hanley jason.hanley@wexinc.com

Valerie Belz Kathawala ’93 and Lisa Denning ’82 found each other in a wine shop and quickly realized some key connections: Batesies, New Yorkers, mothers of three — and dedicated wine professionals. The Mount Desert Islander spoke with author and Bar Harbor resident Carrie Barnard Jones about her new young-adult thriller, In the Woods. The novel, co-written with Steven E. Wedel, follows a teenage girl as she investigates possibly paranormal events. “I have to write — all the time,” Carrie said. “If I don’t get my ideas onto the page they pile up. But I love seeing where my characters will take me. It’s always a new adventure.”…Valerie Belz Kathawala and Lisa Denning ’82 found each other in a wine shop and quickly realized some key connections: Batesies, New Yorkers, mothers of three — and dedicated wine professionals. As freelance journalists focused on the world of wine, they write, both have parlayed their Bates degrees into immensely satisfying careers in ways they never could have expected. Lisa travels the world in pursuit of outstanding

bottles, visiting the top echelon of winemakers and writing about the experiences for Grape Collective magazine. She also hunts down ideal food and wine pairings for her own blog, The Wine Chef, which was a 2017 winner of the prestigious Millesima Blog Award. “I’ve always followed my passions and worked hard to realize my dreams. The education I received as a psychology major at Bates has been a solid foundation for each chapter in my life,” Lisa says. Valerie has built on her German and history double major to give her a platform from which to examine wines in their cultural contexts, with a special focus on those of Germany, Austria, and Northern Italy. With an interest in biodynamic farming, she investigates and reports on developments in regenerative viticulture as well. She writes for a variety of publications, including the indie natural wine journal Pipette. She advises undergrads: “When ‘grownups’ ask you what you’ll do with that degree in a ‘useless’ language, don’t be discouraged! No one expects Americans to be bilingual, so when you can meet another person in their comfort zone, there’s no underestimating the power that can have to unlock conversations and idea exchanges that may remain closed to others. Follow your passion and study on!”… Several media outlets quoted Alex Messore Baldwin, president of the Korn Ferry Tour, the PGA’s circuit for top golf prospects, when it announced it will hold one of its events at Falmouth Country Club in Portland through 2024. The tour is partnering with Shamrock Sports & Entertainment to hold The Live + Work in Maine Open June 8–14, 2020. The event will include 156 players competing for a $600,000 purse.

1994 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Courtney Fleisher courtney.fleisher@gmail.com Jonathan Lewis jlewjlew@mac.com

U.S. Rep. Ben Cline ’94 is a Virginia Republican but tries to work with Democrats. “You need to understand where the other person is coming from in their position and recognize that they come at it from a position of morality as well.”

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class presidents Jason Verner jcv@nbgroup.com Deborah Nowak Verner debverner@gmail.com

Valerie Borden Farkas embarked on a fun adventure with husband Mike in January 2020, relocating from NY to London for her job in Bloomberg LP’s legal department. “Excited to live there for a few years and travel as often as we can!”… Mike Coggins married Vickie Myers at Belvedere Castle in New York’s Central Park on Dec. 21, 2019. They live on Manhattan’s Upper East Side…. John Kramer’s composition, The Immigrant Experience, written in 2017, has had over 30 performances throughout the Boston area and across the country. The 30-minute cantata for chorus and soloists presents the U.S. as a place of welcome for immigrants while exploring many issues surrounding immigration….Jess Macomber is a social worker in southern Maine….U.S. Atty. Gen. William Barr appointed David Norkin as an immigration judge in New York. David, who began hearing cases in January, was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy JAG Corps. from 1999 to 2016….Phil Pettis reports Heather Chichester Pettis ’97 and the girls “finally convinced me to move in 2019 ... but only 500 yards down the road. We are still in Portsmouth, just with more space.” Heather is now a world traveler, having been to Spain for a whale conference (among other trips in 2019), and just published a new book on right whales, Disappearing Giants. Phil enjoys boating, fishing, and water skiing. He had a great weekend in Lewiston with Vern and Millsy to watch Bates beat Bowdoin in football….Katherine Segal Frekko, an attorney and Chicago-area civic leader, was elected to the Bates Board of Trustees. Long active in alumni affairs, Katie is a former member of the Alumni Council and Bates Fund Committee. She has co-chaired each of her class’ Reunion Gift efforts since graduation, including her 25th this year….Robin Postman Benson enjoyed competing in local summer rodeos as a family last summer and looked

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Kevin Rodriguez ’95 is “up to my ears in crumbs at an utterly ridiculous cracker company, The Matzo Project. If anyone’s in Brooklyn, pop by for a hello and a snack (we know a thing or two about snacking!).”

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U.S. Rep. Ben Cline was profiled in The Roanoke Times. A firstterm Republican representing Virginia’s 6th District, he’s aligned himself with the GOP and President Trump, while simultaneously reaching across the aisle, wrote reporter Amy Friedenberger. Ben succeeded longtime Rep. Bob Goodlatte ’74, who retired in 2019. Now a member of the Judiciary Committee, Ben is part of important decision-making around issues like gun control and immigration — all overshadowed, of course, by the impeachment hearings. He voted “no” on articles of impeachment against Trump, though the Judiciary Committee as a whole voted to send the articles to the full House for a vote. Still, in one of the most partisan environments imaginable, he tries to work with Democrats. “You need to understand where the other person is coming from in their position and recognize that they come at it from a position of morality as well.”…Katherine Frank is the new chancellor of the Univ. of Wisconsin–Stout, the state’s only polytechnic university. Previously she was vice president of academic innovation and professor of English at Central Washington Univ. In an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio, Katherine, the first female chancellor, said she was impressed with Stout’s 98.7 percent job placement for new graduates, calling the rate “simply incredible.” “I love the mission of the institution, the way that the institution describes itself as a comprehensive polytechnic that focuses on career readiness, applied learning, collaboration but also has deep understanding of the liberal arts as part of that experience.”…Kim Kessler Bragg, her husband, and Connor (10) have fun spending family time with Jennifer Kessler and her boys Ethan (11) and Owen (8)….Barnaby and Kate Ganley Wickham ran into Grace Coulombe, Mei Lun Chau, and Wallace Shawn in Budapest last June. “OK, we might have planned to meet two of those three people there. Kate studied abroad in Budapest, so she enjoyed showing off her fav places. We also visited Bavaria and Croatia.”

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AUTHORITY MAGAZINE

2001

media outlet: Authority Magazine

1996 Reunion 2021, June 11–13

headline:

Fear will tell you the craziest things

takeaway: Our fear is often a poor guide, in business as in life Building a company, Melissa Wong ’01 told Authority Magazine, requires fearlessness — even when you think you should be afraid. Wong is CEO of Retail Zipline, a company that helps retail brands improve intra-office communication between headquarters and their stores. “Fear is a liar,” she told reporter Carly Martinetti. “Fear will tell you the craziest things. When I first started, I legitimately feared our company would fail.…When you’re in the moment, don’t let feelings of fear lead your actions or choices.” For Wong, the idea for Retail Zipline came after working in communications for Old Navy, where she learned that it’s hard to get individual stores to implement ideas and initiatives from HQ. “Over the years, different CEOs and heads of stores would always express the same pain point: That stores weren’t doing what we were telling them to do. When I dug in, it always came down to a breakdown in communication.”

forward to cross-country skiing through their woods this winter. “We love having the time to spend together as a family on our ranch, and growing several small businesses from our home base.”…Chris Record, assistant superintendent for Gorham Public Schools, was named Maine’s 2020 Assistant Superintendent of the Year for his commitment and focus on creating an environment where all students can learn. The award is given by the Maine School Superintendents Assn….Kevin Rodriguez reports “a head-spinning mishmash of milestones, challenges, and a tiny dash of achievement. In just one month my baby took his first SAT, we joined the electric car cult, and our dog found actual minutes that I enjoyed for myself (we cleared that up with extra walks). The rest of the time I’m up to my ears in crumbs at an utterly ridiculous cracker company, The Matzo Project. If anyone’s in Brooklyn, pop by for a hello and a snack (we know a thing or two about snacking!).”

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class presidents Sarah Ayesha Farag ayesha.farag@gmail.com James D. Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com

Marc Sorel ’96 reunited with and married Bates sweetheart Monika Koehler ’97. They live in Nyack, N.Y., and Rhode Island with two girls, a boy, three cats, a golden (“yes, complete Animal House chaos”), and a baby on the way. CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, announced a $12 million investment in WorldLink, the largest private sector internet service provider in Nepal. WorldLink was founded by Dileep Agrawal when he was still a Bates student. He remains its managing director. “We feel honored to be the first CDC equity investment in Nepal,” he said. “It is a recognition of our 24 years’ hard work and commitment to Nepal’s internet and telecoms industry. With CDC’s backing, our ambition is to transform WorldLink into a world-class company that will serve as a model and inspiration to other companies in Nepal.”…Jessica Anthony, a Bates lecturer in English, read from her new novel Enter the Aardvark (Penguin) at the Muskie Archives…. Artist Caren Frost Olmsted, the owner of CFO Design in

Basking Ridge, N.J., is assisting in the painting of a mural in the neighboring town of Bernardsville. The community project is to be completed by Memorial Day….Vermont weekly Seven Days editor Pamela Polston reviewed a solo exhibition of gouache-and-collage works at Northern Daughters gallery in Vergennes by Hannah Morris. Her works evoke “the magical realism we remember from children’s books,” Polston wrote, as well as elements of the far-flung locales where Hannah has lived. She “asks viewers to accept that the ground we walk on can be salmon-pink; that figures can appear in both color and blackand-white in the same scene; that dimensionality doesn’t have to play by the rules,” Polston added….After many years of working with innovative health programs as the deputy general counsel for information technology at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts HHS, Kathleen Snyder moved to the law firm Wilson Sonsini to spearhead the firm’s digital health initiative. Her practice focuses on startups at the intersection of health and technology. “I’m still in Newton, Mass., with my husband and our two boys.”…Marc Sorel reunited with and married Bates sweetheart Monika Koehler ’97. They live in Nyack, N.Y., and Rhode Island with two girls, a boy, three cats, a golden (“yes, complete Animal House chaos”), and a baby on the way.

1997 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretaries Todd Zinn tmzinn@hotmail.com Pat Cosquer patcosquer@gmail.com class president Stuart B. Abelson sabelson@oraclinical.com

Yona Segal Abrams ’97 and family live in Berkeley, Calif. “Kids are 5 and 7 and I’m proud to say that they really like numbers. They count noodles and ask for fractions problems at dinner.” Trading Maine for the Finger Lakes of New York, and after 11 years, two individual national championships, and more than 300 combined victories as head men’s and women’s squash coach for Bates, Pat Cosquer moved on to take the same position at Hobart and William Smith Colleges last August….Jack Martilotta, a 19-year veteran of the U.S. Army and New York

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1998 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class committee Douglas Beers douglas.beers@gmail.com Rob Curtis robcurtis@eatonvance.com Liam Clarke ldlc639@gmail.com Renee Leduc renee@narayanstrategy.com Tyler Munoz tylermunoz@gmail.com Jon Allen continues to teach at William & Mary during the academic year and conduct marine biological research in Maine, Washington, and Australia when he is not in the classroom…. Mark Lear joined Piper Sandler Companies, an investment bank and institutional securities firm, as senior research analyst in its New York office….Nils de Mol van Otterloo completed his doctorate of social work at the Univ. of Southern California. His capstone project, “Minimizing Social Isolation in Low-Income Communities: Practice and Implementation Strategies for Dementia Care,” was built off work he did in Kerala, India, in 2016. He applied for his second Fulbright that would build on his doctoral work….Chris Raffensperger, associate professor of history at Wittenberg Univ., gave a talk at Bates on “Reimagining Europe: Medieval Networks and the Kingdom of Rus’.”

class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com Rebecca Gasior Altman, in Providence, R.I., is working on her first book, based on her TEDx talk delivered in 2017 in San Francisco. It tells the history of plastics through the lens of her father, who once made polystyrene for Union Carbide. She’s had recent bylines in Orion, Aeon, and The Atlantic….Jenn Lemkin Bouchard presented at the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference in Austin, Texas, last November. She’s a high school social studies teacher in Needham, Mass., and is presenting on collaboration and building community in the classroom as well as on infusing debates and skits into the history curriculum.

2000 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Cynthia Macht Link cynthiafriedalink@gmail.com class presidents Jennifer Glassman Jacobs jenniferellenjacobs@gmail.com Megan Shelley mhshelley@aol.com

Claire Donohue ’00 works in nonprofit international relief as a logistics and supply chain adviser. “I have reduced my travel but still visit fun places like South Sudan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Yemen, etc.” Claire Donohue works in nonprofit international relief as a logistics and supply chain adviser. In 2019 she bought a home in Hudson, N.Y., and works remotely while enjoying the country life. “I have reduced my travel but still visit fun places like South Sudan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Yemen, etc.”… Christina Hirsch Townsend is a director and head of platform strategy for BNY Mellon’s Pershing Advisor Solutions.

2001 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Noah Petro npetro@gmail.com

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class presidents Jodi Winterton Cobb jodimcobb@gmail.com Kate Hagstrom Lepore khlepore@gmail.com

class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard jennifer_bouchard@hotmail.com

David Blaney is now the head coach of the varsity swim team at Mount Desert Island High

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National Guard, received a Meritorious Service Medal as first sergeant of Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion 258 Field Artillery. He’s a science teacher and coach at Greenport (N.Y.) High School and a Greenport village trustee…. Yona Segal Abrams and family live in Berkeley, Calif. “Kids are 5 and 7 and I’m proud to say that they really like numbers. They count noodles and ask for fractions problems at dinner.”… Matt Tavares’ 20th book was a first for the acclaimed children’s writer and illustrator: It was the first to make The New York Times’ bestseller list. Dasher is a lushly illustrated tale of how Santa got his reindeer. Matt, who wrote and illustrated his first picture book for his senior thesis at Bates, under Robert Feintuch, lives with his family in Ogunquit. He told Ray Routhier of the Sunday Telegram that the beautiful Maine winters are inspiring. “I do a lot of my writing during the winter,” he said. “I find winter in Maine is a good time to clear your mind and really focus on your story.”…Todd Zinn welcomed the New Year in Hawaii with family.

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Portland Press Herald

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Pioneering mussel farmer buys rival, plans expansion

takeaway: Expanding production is key to bigger profits Bangs Island Mussels, a Portland, Maine-based producer of rope-grown mussels and kelp owned by Matt Moretti ’06, has expansion plans, reported the Portland Press Herald. Noting that Moretti is known “for bringing innovation to Maine’s aquaculture scene,” the paper reported that he “plans to more than double production and expand its workforce after buying nearby shellfish and kelp farms in Casco Bay.” The key to sustainable mussel farming, Moretti told reporter Peter McGuire, is scale. “The economics of it are such that the faster you can add on volume to your production, the sooner your costs drop and profits go up,” he said. The company has bought 4 acres of kelp farms, gained state approval for an 11-acre lease, and last fall bought another 5.75 acres of ropegrown mussel farms this fall. Founded 20 years ago, Bangs Island recently partnered with the University of New England to “research the diet and stresses on mussels to better understand their growth rates and tissue quality,” the paper said.

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takeaway: Carine Warsawski

media outlet: The New York Times

headline:

It’s Jewish, It’s nostalgic: It’s camp!

takeaway: You can go to camp again Founded by Carine Warsawski ’07, Trybal Gatherings organizes popular retreats for Jewish adults in several places across the country, including one in California’s Simi Valley. In a first-person essay, New York Times contributor Rachel Levin described her Trybal weekend, complete with archery, horseback riding, kosher mess halls, an “Abe Weissman workout” (straight from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), and challah making. “Whereas traditions like Birthright Israel offer free trips to the homeland,” wrote Levin, “Ms. Warsawski’s aim is to offer an immersive, low-commitment experience closer to home — one rooted not in Zionism or religious doctrine, but in the shared nostalgia of a Jewish-American rite of passage,” the Jewish summer camp. The experience was “all so familiar to me,” wrote Levin. “There is something easy and assuring about spending a summer weekend like I used to...with my people. Or, at least with people who remind me of my people. New friends bonded by old memories.”

School, his alma mater, as well as the director of its Math Lab. He was an All-New England Small College Athletic Conference swimmer all four years at Bates…. Dylan Cruess, chief operating officer of TFMoran in Manchester, was named one of “New Hampshire’s 200 Most Influential Business Leaders” by New Hampshire Business Review….Jaime DeSimone, associate curator of contemporary art at the Portland Museum of Art, talked with the Press Herald about the PMA’s plan to replace its Maine-focused biennial with an international triennial. The new North Atlantic Triennial will be a curated exhibition that includes artists from Maine and Arctic countries and will reflect Maine’s growing presence in international trade across the Arctic region, she said. The museum will collaborate with the Reykjavik Art Museum in Iceland and the Bildmuseet in Sweden. The exhibition will open in Portland in February 2021 and travel to Iceland, Sweden, and possibly Norway….Carrie Noel Richer, her husband, and 4-year-old daughter moved from their longtime home of Jackson Hole, Wyo., to Missoula, Mont. She’s the artistic director of the 43-year-old International Wildlife Film Festival as well as a few other annual film festivals at The Roxy, an arthouse theater. “Loving the new gig and our new Montana home.”...Reyna Pijanowski Taylor joined the National Council for Behavioral Health as vice president of public policy….The legal trade publication Vanguard profiled Golin Tahmasebi Kosowitz, the general counsel for procurement for Honeywell. When she joined the multinational company in January 2019, one of her first orders of business was to don a safety hat and glasses and venture out on one of the company’s plant floors. She wanted to solicit input from plant managers about the supply chain, their relationships with various suppliers, and ideas for improving flow and function. “Often you don’t have the perspective until you talk to people who live a situation day-to-day,” she said. “They have facts you don’t necessarily find at a very high level.”…Andrew Tepper, a licensed clinical social worker, joined The Community Fund of Darien (Conn.) as an adviser to the Youth Asset Team, a student-run branch of the fund.

2002 Reunion 2022, June 10–12

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The Times-Free Press caught up with Jeff Benecchi, who runs the general dentistry practice in Revere, Mass., started by his father, John. Both graduated from Tufts Dental School. He has 10 employees, most of whom also worked for his father. “I still like that personal touch,” Jeff said. “It’s been a good job to help people and be able to see things done with the artistry of dentistry.”…Kim Bosse Livingstone graduated from City Univ. of New York with a PhD in social welfare. Her dissertation, “The Moving On Program and Supportive Housing Residents with Histories of Homelessness,” considered the avenues and barriers that influenced one’s decision-making process as he or she contemplated moving from supportive housing to an independent residence. Kim is in her third year at Plymouth State Univ., where she’s an assistant professor of social work, and sits on the board of Bridge House…. Charis Campbell Loveland now works as a manager of artificial intelligence and machine earning business development for the Amazon Web Services Cloud Intelligence team. She returned to Maine on March 7 to present a confidence and empowerment workshop at the Mitchell Institute’s MILE II event….The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit appointed Whitman Holt as judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Washington. He started a 14-year term last fall, based in Yakima. “I like the challenge of bankruptcy law,” he told the Daily News in Havre, Mont., where he went to high school. “It’s an interesting dynamic. I like to use the analogy that you’re at dinner and everybody wants a piece of pie and there’s just not enough pie to go around, so you have to figure out who gets how much pie and to do that in a fair and equitable way.”…Ben Lamanna is now head coach of the women’s tennis program at Bowdoin after 14 seasons as both the men’s and women’s tennis coach at Brandeis, where he was named Division III National Coach of the Year….Jesse Minor is a geography professor at UMaine Farmington, where he and Rebecca Larkin Minor ’03 ski, paddle, and play outdoors a lot with their two children….Kristin Smith Pangallo was elected to the Salem (Mass.) School Committee. Kristin, who has two children in elementary school, is a chemistry professor at Salem State Univ. Her husband, Dominick ’03, is chief of staff to the Salem mayor.

class secretary Stephanie Eby steph.eby@gmail.com

Reunion 2023, June 9-11

class presidents Jason Surdukowski jsurdukowski@sulloway.com Drew Weymouth weymouthd@gmail.com

class presidents Kirstin Boehm-McCarthy kirstincboehm@gmail.com Melissa Wilcox Yanagi meslissayangani@gmail.com

2003

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Isabel Aley is director of community relations for Shoals Marine Laboratory, a partnership between the Univ. of New Hampshire and Cornell Univ., offering immersive marine science education and research opportunities…. Max Bergmann co-authored a paper on “European Politics in an Age of Fragmentation and Disruption” for the Center for American Progress. He’s a senior fellow at the nonpartisan policy institute, focusing on European security and U.S.-Russia policy…. Dan Berkley joined Chicago Public Schools after spending the last few years at a progressive independent school. “I’m teaching physics at Kenwood Academy in Hyde Park and was able to experience what it means to be in a union during the 11-day strike last fall.”…Environmental educator Sophie DeMaio joined Fields Pond Audubon Center in Holden, Maine….In Medford, Mass., the Transcript interviewed Syrah Merkow McGivern, who works for the city of Medford as Mass in Motion coordinator. Mass in Motion is a statewide movement to prevent obesity in Massachusetts by increasing opportunities for healthy eating and active living. “The main part of my job is to help people get access to food and change our environment so it’s easier for residents to get physical activity in their daily lives,” Syrah said. A nature lover, she grew up as a ski racer and joined the ski team at Bates. “Being outside is my favorite place to be.”

2004 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Eduardo Crespo eduardo.crespo.r@gmail.com Tanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com Matt Baline, Lorraine, Lily (6), and Maggie (4) are excited to be back in Denver after a few years exploring West Texas….Kim Cinco was promoted to associate of San Francisco-based Jensen Architects. She has a master of architecture degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design….Lori Jessup Lombardo

was promoted to principal at Entrepreneur Partners LP, a Philadelphia-based private equity firm….Family nurse practitioner Elise MacVarish Rozendaal joined Northern Counties Health Care in Hardwick, Vt.

2005 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class presidents Kathryn Duvall duvall.kathryn@gmail.com Melissa Geissler melissa.geissler@gmail.com

Baxter State Park Director Eben Sypitkowski ’05 has proposed dropping the word “Mount” from Mount Katahdin. Katahdin means “Greatest Mountain,” and dropping Mount would be more respectful of the Native American name and would avoid redundancy, Eben says. HSC News featured Michaela Cyr Patterson in a story about postdoctoral trainees from USC’s Keck School of Medicine who have landed coveted jobs as tenure-track assistant professors. Michaela is at the Medical College of Wisconsin where she started her own lab in the Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy. When it came to building her new lab, “I dove into the deep end,” she said. “I have two technicians, a PhD student has joined, and I just hired a postdoc. I’m also rotating students this year. So I feel like I’ve reached critical mass, which is lovely.”…Ben Jones, president and chief investment officer of Allegiant Private Advisors in Sarasota, Fla., was named one of Forbes’ 2019 Next-Gen Best-In-State Wealth Advisors….Nonprofit Quarterly magazine interviewed Craig Saddlemire for a story on the revival of Lewiston and Auburn. Craig, who helped form Lewiston’s first housing co-op, the Faire-Op, in 2008, is now cooperative manager of Raise-Op Housing Cooperative. Its board reflects the diversity of the neighborhood, which includes longtime Mainers and many immigrants. “We are creating affordable, inclusive, and democratic homes for our people,” Craig said. “Through our organization, residents are also able to become more civically engaged, and many are leading neighborhood redevelopment projects, educating their neighbors about cooperative economics, and

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Syrah Merkow McGivern ’03 works for the city of Medford as Mass in Motion coordinator. “The main part of my job is to help people get access to food and change our environment so it’s easier for residents to get physical activity in their daily lives.”

Keep Good Company Like many college graduates starting out in the world, Mbali Ndlovu ’09 found that she struggled to sustain an exercise routine. Then she found people to work out with. “I started a meetup group for women of color in New York who were also looking for workout buddies,” Ndlovu, founder of activewear brand Lukafit, told students during an alumni discussion on entrepreneurship last November sponsored by the Center for Purposeful Work. “That grew to almost a thousand women. Through conversations with all those women, I got inspired to start my company.” The result is Lukafit, which sells workout gear like leggings and bike shorts designed for women of color. Ndlovu says she’s found great support from a community of “peer mentors” — fellow entrepreneurs who talk regularly to share ideas, resources, and emotional support. “Entrepreneurship is very hard emotionally, financially, and socially,” she said. “It’s very important to have support.” Chris Barbin ’93, a Bates trustee and founder of the IT consulting firm Appirio, moderated the career discussion, which was hosted by the Center for Purposeful Work and also featured Julia Sleeper ’08, co-founder and executive director of Tree Street Youth in Lewiston, and Google account manager Michelle Pham ’15.

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finding strength in collective action.”…Juyoung Shim earned a PhD in biochemistry from UMaine and was hired as a postdoctoral research fellow at the MDI Biological laboratory in Bar Harbor in 2018. Last fall, she got a full-time faculty job in UMaine Augusta’s biology department….Baxter State Park Director Eben Sypitkowski has proposed dropping the word “Mount” from Mount Katahdin, Maine’s highest and best-known mountain. He believes the name change is long overdue. The mountain was named Katahdin — meaning “Greatest Mountain” — by the Penobscot tribe, and it remained that way until the federal government added “Mount” and made that its official name in 1893. Dropping Mount from Katahdin would be more respectful of the Native American name and would avoid redundancy, Eben said. “I think the idea of changing the name would do no harm to anyone and it would benefit many,” he told the Press Herald. “I’m putting this out there to see if the time is right for a change.”…Vanessa Williamson, associate head swimming and diving coach at Bates, was named head coach of the YMCA of Auburn-Lewiston Twin Cities swim team. She was an eight-time All-America performer in the butterfly and individual medleys at Bates.

2006 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class presidents Chelsea Cook chelsea.m.cook@gmail.com Katharine M. Nolan knolan06@gmail.com John Ritzo johnnyritzo@gmail.com

Lindley Brainard ’06 shares her passion for woodworking as the wood shop teacher at the White River Valley Middle School. “A lot of kids need more balance in their day — time to get up and do things with their hands, because so much of our daily interface these days is digital.” In Bethel, Vt., The Herald caught up with Lindley Brainard, who shared her passion for woodworking as the wood shop teacher at the White River Valley Middle School. A medical anthropology major at Bates, she went into clinical research but

decided it wasn’t the right field for her. She took a three-month woodworking course. “I’m working with a small group of teachers to slowly implement a makerspace to help students learn a broader view of the design process and how to create using more modern technology.” Although the shop is full of modern woodworking machinery and tools, she also does a lot of focusing on working with hand tools. “Why I ended up in woodworking was that I wasn’t satisfied with sitting at a desk. I really missed working with my hands and creating something. I think a lot of kids need more balance in their day — time to get up and do things with their hands, because so much of our daily interface these days is digital.”…Joel Colony and Katie welcomed a daughter, Eleanor “Nora” Ann Colony, on Sept. 1, 2019….Cali Lanza-Weil Burstein, husband Dan, and big brother Isaac (3.5) welcomed Ruth Pearl Burstein on Oct. 24, 2019….Chris Petrella had a major editorial role in an issue of PAPER focusing on human rights. The issue, called a “bastion of black excellence and wokeness,” by the New York Daily News, carried the theme “Know Your Rights” and featured Q&A interviews with 10 black thought leaders. The issue’s lead story, “Colin Kaepernick Wants You To Know Your Rights,” was co-written by Chris. The entire issue was guest-edited by Kaepernick, the football player-turned-social activist. A friend and part of Kaepernick’s inner circle, Chris is director of engagement at American Univ.’s Antiracist Research & Policy Center…. Oli Wolf and Lisa Harinstein welcomed a son, Zachary Asher Wolf, on Sept. 26, 2019. They live in Washington, D.C.

2007 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Akiko Doi and Chris Theile welcomed a daughter, Emi, on Aug. 1, 2019. Brother Kenji is 3. Chris is a chemist at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals working on therapies for central nervous system and ocular diseases. Akiko is a researcher at MIT working for Nobel Laureate Bob Horvitz on cell differentiation…. Lauren Gold and her husband welcomed a baby Bobcat, Jamie, in January 2019….Allison Marshall and John D’Ascenzo welcomed their daughter, Isla Fleming D’Ascenzo, on Oct. 14, 2019….Alex Salton and Chris McGuire welcomed a son, Elliott Rian Salton-McGuire, on Sept. 2, 2019.

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2008 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class presidents Elizabeth Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Ali Schwartz Egelson alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com Bill Jack met up in Las Vegas with Oscar “OC” Cancio and Drew Hagstrum. After over 11 years away from Bates working at three other admission offices, two of which were fellow NESCACs, Bill was super-excited to return to Bates last November as one of the college’s wintertime adjunct admission readers…. Harrison Little tied the knot with Sarah Vlachos on June 29, 2019, in Manchester, Vt…. The Press Herald quoted Alec Maybarduk in a story about a government workforce crisis that has Maine state and local officials scrambling to hire staff at a time of record low unemployment. Alec, executive director of the Maine State Employees Assn., the largest union of state and municipal workers in Maine, said then-Gov. LePage made a big problem even bigger. “The state has not done nearly enough to remain competitive,” he said. “For eight years the state simply refused to adequately increase wages to keep up with the rising cost of living.”…Kim Nelson Pryor and Lindsey Pryor ’11 celebrated the first birthday of their daughter, Meg, in February….A Sun Journal article on what motivates community members’ work featured Julia Sleeper-Whiting, co-founder and executive director of Tree Street Youth. “Work is about creating solutions to things happening around us and solving challenges in the world,” Julia said. “As long as your focus remains on the greater purpose, the work itself remains relevant and meaningful.”

2009 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com David Marr Jr. was promoted to vice president of Marr Crane & Rigging in Boston…. Sean O’Brien was promoted to senior associate at the Buffalo, N.Y.-based law firm of Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman…. Helen Paille and Kyle Enman were married on Oct. 12, 2019, in Minot, Maine….In Big Sky, Mont., optometrist Erica Perlman-Hensen opened Big Sky Eyes, an optometry and eyewear medical and retail business…. Courtney Stachowski married Zach Williams on Sept. 7, 2019, in Jonesport, Maine, at the home of Courtney’s grandmother, Maralyn Davis Mazza ’49….

Arsalan Suhail graduates this June from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. He’s the president of Tuck’s Men as Allies organization and co-chairs four other clubs on campus, including Tuck’s Public Speaking Club (“representing Brooks Quimby Debate Council forever!”)…. Elizabeth Wilcox married Owen Baxter on Sept. 28, 2019.

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2010 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@gmail. com Emily Treat Atwell and husband Wayne (Johns Hopkins ’08) welcomed Aria Elizabeth Atwell on May 28, 2019.

2011 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class presidents Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@gmail. com Patrick Williams Patw.williams@gmail.com

Maine Congressman Jared Golden ’11 made headlines when he was the only member of the House to split his vote on impeaching President Trump. Maine Congressman Jared Golden made headlines as the only House member to split his vote on impeaching President Trump. The freshman Democrat voted for Article I, which accuses Trump of abusing his power, but opposed Article II, which says Trump obstructed Congress. He drew criticism from both parties. The Marine Corps veteran narrowly defeated a GOP incumbent in 2018 in the first federal race ever decided by rankedchoice voting. Jared laid out his reasoning for voting yes and no in a 2,546-word Facebook post. He opened his post by noting that he had promised to work with Trump “whenever possible” and stand up to him “whenever necessary.”…Frangely Ventura Rojas welcomed Baby Rojas.

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Chomba Kaluba ’11 (right) poses with friends Jerry Davis ’61 and Gretchen Shorter Davis ’61 after receiving the Alumni Community Service award. “They are a huge part of my Bates experience,” Kaluba says.

Active Doers Four alumni received Alumni Association awards in recent months. Chomba Kaluba ’11 and Ben Ayers ’99 received the Alumni Community Service awards. Kaluba has been a mentor, advocate, and volunteer for youth, women, and the poor in Boston, Portland, and his native Zambia. He was honored for “dedication, advocacy, and service to many groups and communities.” Honored at the Bates Outing Club’s 100th anniversary kickoff event in January, Ayers has spent most of his post-Bates life in Nepal supporting sustainable economic development in remote villages. His award citation quoted his friend and longtime Bates Outing Club adviser Judy Marden ’66, who calls Ayers an “active doer.” Katie Burke ’03, chief people officer at HubSpot and an active Bates volunteer, received the Bruce Stangle Award for Distinguished Service to the Bates Community for being a “tireless advocate for hiring and promoting women in the workforce.” Meredith Traquina ’13 received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award. Involved in myriad Bates programs, she is an “example for other young alums, modeling that it is possible to build a meaningful career and at the same time demonstrate commitment to our communities.”

Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class presidents Michael Pasek mikeypasek@gmail.com Sangita Murali sangitamurali12@gmail.com

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Phillip Dube ’16 (right) talks with Mike Lydon ’04 during the Jan. 22 alumni discussion on environmental careers.

Working Environment An alumni discussion sponsored by Bates’ Center for Purposeful Work focused on careers in environmental fields. “The writing really resonates with me from my time here,” said Mike Lydon ’04, an internationally recognized city planner, writer, and advocate who is a principal of Street Plans, heading its New York City office. “So much of my course load was about writing and expressing ideas and trying to get better and more clear with that. In my work, the writing has helped me take my passions and my angle and my lines of inquiry and my questions and express them in a way that was very clear to people.” Joining Lydon was Phillip Dube ’16, a graduate student at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Emma Conover ’16, with the sustainability nonprofit Ceres to mobilize food and beverage companies to address water risks in their agricultural supply chain; Lucy Brennan Perkins ’14, with the city of South Portland's sustainability office; Hannah Broadley ’10, a biologist, ecologist, and entomologist at the University of Massachusetts; and Jeffrey Porter ’85, a top environmen-tal lawyer who chairs the environmental law practice at the firm Mintz. "Equity is so much more becoming central in this question of sustainability,” said Perkins. “Everyone’s going to feel the effects of climate change, but people are going to feel them differently and some of us will feel them to a greater extent."

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Casey Andersen loves hearing any sort of update from classmates and is excited that two members of 2012, Monica Rodriguez and Leah Elsmore, are part of the Alumni Council…. The Philadelphia Inquirer told the Bates backstory of Tess Glancey Crampton and Rob Crampton ’13, who got married last Aug. 30 in Philadelphia. They met in a seminar on American political development and went on their first date at the Blue Goose. “Rob is the first person outside my family with whom I just felt 100 percent unafraid to unabashedly be myself,” Tess said. “He is the most hardworking and kind person I’ve met.” Rob said that “once we were dating for a couple of years, I knew we would be good partners together, and I realized I didn’t want to be with anyone else but Tess.”… Michelle Paquette married Kyle Kaplinger on Oct. 12, 2019, at the Point Sebago Resort in Casco. They have a son, David Anthony (2)….Lee Smith formed a startup named AcuityMD that aims to help medical sales professionals better organize their prospective clients. He also won his Fantasy Football league last year, beating out 11 other Bates alumni for the coveted Subaru Baja Bowl Championship Belt….Alix Vandeventer and Pat Quinn were married on Sept. 14, 2019. They live in Seattle where he works for Amazon and she works for Planned Parenthood….Caroline Webb and Alexander Greenberg were married Aug. 10, 2019, at Peconic Bay Yacht Club….Roya Yavari graduated from medical school at New York Medical College in May 2019 and started residency in family medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital/Institute for Family Health in NYC.

2013 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class presidents Ryan Sonberg rsonberg9@gmail.com Meg Murphy megan.a.murphy3@gmail.com Catherine “Cat” Djang received a Bates’ Best award for her volunteer leadership. “Your tireless work on behalf of Bates is remarkable — and your enthusiasm is infectious,” her citation says. “Despite the demands of a busy career in law, you’ve managed to stay actively engaged in numerous efforts supporting Bates. In the six years since you graduated, you have served on the Alumni Council as co-chair of the Virtual and Volunteer Engagement committee, as an Alumni in Admission representative, as a member of the New York Network Steering Committee Chair, and as a Class Agent. You are known as a passionate and eloquent advocate for the college, inspiring classmates to reconnect with Bates by donating time and

resources. We are grateful for your commitment to fostering engagement in meaningful ways, such as the faculty panel on the 2018 midterm elections, or the summer social networking reception that you coordinated. Whatever the opportunity, you take charge and gracefully lead the way.”…In Holyoke, Mass., the Dowd Agencies LLC hired Evan Dowd as an account executive. He joins his brother, Jack Dowd, as a fifth-generation employee of the company….Nick Friedman joined the NBA Charlotte Hornets as a player development coach. He’s serving in a hybrid role with both the Hornets and the G League affiliate Greensboro Swarm’s coaching staff.

2014 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Hally Bert hallybert@gmail.com Mildred “Milly” Aroko mildredaroko@gmail.com Mariya Manahova married Jacob Steyn in January 2019. They welcomed a son, William, last November….James Smith and Addie Pelletier ’12 welcomed Knox Raymond Pelletier-Smith on Dec. 27, 2019….Chelsea Thompson Russell is pursuing a master’s in public policy and working part time at ILAP (Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project) in Portland.

2015 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class presidents James Brissenden brissendenja@gmail.com Ben Smiley bensmiley32@gmail.com Kendra Asklof graduated from UPenn Veterinary School and is now a practicing veterinarian in Philadelphia….Caroline Kern and Marcus Privitt are engaged to be married June 20. She works as a nurse practitioner/midwife in Rochester, N.Y. He works at Alight: Human Capital and Benefit Solutions of Atlanta and is also an assistant pastor at the Highrock Church in Haverhill, Mass….Meredith Miles is finishing a PhD in evolutionary biology at Brown Univ.; her written work can be found in scientific journals including The American Naturalist and eLife. She lives with a blue heeler pup in Providence, R.I., where they train in agility and competition obedience.

2016 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class presidents Sally Ryerson sallyryerson@gmail.com Andre Brittis-Tannenbaum andrebt44@gmail.com

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Gordon Batchelder reports “a great few months of growth as a freelance product designer since graduating from General Assembly’s bootcamp.” He joined Adjacent Academies as a career coach, user experience design instructor, and program manager. Adjacent Academies is a new study “abroad” program in San Francisco for students from Davidson College to learn how to break into tech and navigate the ethical dilemmas within the industry. “I’m very excited to help them navigate their impending post-grad life just like Koru did for me.”…Megan Lubetkin, science manager with the Ocean Exploration Trust, returned to Bates to give a talk on “Ocean Exploration and Research with Remotely Operated Vehicles.”… The Univ. of Cape Town announced that Nolwazi Nosisa Ngwenyama, a graduate student in gender studies, won a prestigious Mandela-Rhodes scholarship. The scholarships are awarded to African citizens with “exceptional leadership capacity” and provide funding for postgraduate study in South Africa. Since graduation, Nolwazi, a native of Eswatini, has worked in fundraising, marketing, and advertising, and volunteers for the United World Colleges Eswatini National Committee, which helps to place and fund Emaswati at any of the 17 UWC colleges worldwide.

2017 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class presidents Jessie Garson jgarson4@gmail.com Matthew Baker mattdbaker13@gmail.com Maddy Bruno is a staff geologist at Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions….Alex Ulin and Max Silverman ’16 got engaged last September. They are planning a Maine wedding.

2018 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class presidents John Thayer john.robert.thayer@gmail.com Jake Shapiro shapirojacob6@gmail.com Kiernan Majerus-Collins was elected to the Lewiston School Committee representing Ward 3, which includes about half of the Bates campus.

During the college’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance, Marquise Clarke joined a Purposeful Work discussion about identity in the workplace. The session examined how identity — gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. — impact one’s pursuit of meaningful work. Marquise, who works in human resources at Barclays, said, “When I was here, I had just come out as queer, so Bates was a transformative experience — to really figure myself out. But also, as a person of color, it was, ‘How do I maneuver through a predominantly white institution?’” Also on the panel were Samreen Fatima ’16, Jason DeFelice ’17, Audrey Puleio ’17, and Bates Communications Office designer Olivia Orr.… The Cape Cod Times reported that George DeLana captured second place and a $750 check in EforAll’s latest Pitch Contest. The quarterly competition gives entrepreneurs the chance to showcase their small business concepts to judges and spectators. George showcased his Nook storage business plan before spectators at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History. An “Airbnb for storage,” Nook is a peer-to-peer storage platform offering on-demand, localized storage spaces for students at half the price of traditional self-storage units. Nook won the $10,000 first prize for George and business partner Rachael Rosow in the 2019 Bobcat Ventures student pitch competition….The Sun Journal quoted Kylie Martin, a first-year English teacher at Poland Regional High School, in an article about the opening of the $5.7 million addition to the middle school. Kylie was a seventh-grader from Poland when the middle school welcomed Mechanic Falls and Minot students. Uncertainty about the new students soon gave way to friendliness and self-assurance, she said. The middle school changed her life, she said, and because of that experience she approaches each day as a teacher with the sense of “open arms and happy heart.”

takeaway: Deshun Peoples

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media outlet: China Icons

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Deshun & Xingda — Encounters in China

takeaway: Cultural exchanges happen in many ways Deshun Peoples ’17 was featured on the YouTube channel China Icons in a film exploring the relationship between Peoples and Jiang Xingda, a ceramicist in Jingdezhen, the “capital of Chinese porcelain,” during the year that Peoples spent in China on a Fulbright U.S. Student award. Peoples and Jiang met in 2016, when Peoples, himself an accomplished ceramicist, was on a junior semester abroad program in Jingdezhen. When Peoples returned for his Fulbright, he wanted to pay Jiang for teaching him about color and patterns in pottery. Instead, Jiang suggested that Peoples give him English lessons in exchange. Along the way, “we found out in our lived experiences we have so many things in common,” said Peoples, “from family situations to food and music — overlapping things that solidified our friendship.” He added, “I learned a lot about friendship and about engagement with people. I can’t imagine my experience in Jingdezhen without Jiang.”

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

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Levine ’09 & Javitch Emily Levine ’09 and Jake Javitch (Union College ’06), Sept. 1, 2019, atop Mount Sunapee Newbury, N.H. Bottom row: Lisa D’Oyen ’09, Jake and Emily, Julie Farugia Gutierrez ’09, Spencer Meyer; second row: Ashley Elysee ’09, Sarah Levine Meyer ’04, Chase Meyer, David Meyer ’03; top row: Mbali Ndlovu ’09, Ana Nicole Rodriguez ’09, Amy Lareau ’09, Katelynn Bell ’10. Saucier ’11 & Gallant ’11 Abby Saucier ’11 and Alex Gallant ’11, Aug. 24, 2019, Kingsley Pines Camp, Raymond, Maine. First row: Masid Cader ’11, Abby and Alex, Noah Burke ’11, Andrew Steiker-Epstein ’11, Charlie Carey ’13; second row: Tim Fox ’11, Cecily Mauran ’11, Elizabeth Glennon ’11, Mara Krueger ’11, Rachel Colby Van Wickle ’11, Cameron Powel Mize ’11, Katherine Bailey ’11, Ingrid Knowles ’11, Molly Dilworth ’10, Emily Sheehan Carey ’11; third row: Lucas McNulty ’11, Chris Fox ’81, Julie Macdonald Fox ’81, Gordy Webb ’11, Basil Ferenczi ’11, Larry Williams, Ben Thayer ’09, Valerie Beckwith Thayer ’09, Chris Burke ’11, Hyun-Woo Kang ’11. Johnston ’11 & Tanner Liz Johnston ’11 and Scott Tanner (Swarthmore), Sept. 14, 2019, Chatham, Mass. Jen Mitton ’11, Meredith Greenberg Friedman ’11, Liz and Scott, Doug Johnston ’79, Heidi Duncanson ’82, Mark Weaver ’80.

Graves ’13 & Goodman Chelsea Graves ’13 and Ben Goodman, June 29, 2019, Graves’ residence, Paxton, Mass. Chelsea, Julie Naidu ’13, Nora Hanagan ’13, Tina Pruyn ’13, Elise Levesque Ryan ’13, Sam Rose ’13. McLaughlin ’05 & Patriarca Kerry McLaughlin ’05 and Dan Patriarca, June 30, 2019, Wellesley, Mass. Top row: Austin Faison ’05, Jon Steingold ’05; second row: Matt Flores ’05, Katie Carroll ’05, Kelly Larsen Shannon ’05, Erin Fitzpatrick Barden ’05, Lindsey Kettinger ’05, Kerry and Dan. Pedersen ’14 & Taylor Rachel Pedersen ’14 and William Taylor (Princeton ’14), July 20, 2019, Gladstone, N.J. Back row: Emilie Geissinger ’14, Alex Smachlo ’15, Bill Wallace, Will Patton ’15, Cody Jenkins ’14, Amanda Moore ’14, Elle Sergi ’14, Carly Hinkle ’14, Mollie Corcoran ’14; front row: Lyndsay Wallace ’14, Rachel and William. Vandeventer ’12 & Quinn ’12 Alix Vandeventer ’12 and Pat Quinn ’12, Sept. 14, 2019, The Pavilion at Pinehills, Plymouth, Mass. Alix and Pat, Aron Bodwitch ’11, Leigh Michael ’12, Keegan Runnals ’11, Greg Flynn ’11, Basil Ferenczi ’11, Brendan Murphy ’11, Clare Durkin ’12, Mariah Barstow Piazza ’12, Lyndsay Beaton Shea ’12, Sarah Merullo Murphy ’12, Will Taft ’12, Patrick O’Neill ’12, Kelly McManus ’12, Tyler Kuehl ’12, Kevin Helm ’12, Johnny Murphy ’13, Amanda Brusca ’12, Chase Radice ’13, Keller Wilson ’12, Jill Conway ’15, Tina Tobin ’12, Sam Alper ’12, Andrew Scichilone ’12, Topher Piazza ’10, David Wood ’12, Lee Smith ’12, Tom Finkenstaedt ’12.

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LeVeen ’11 & Allen Dencie LeVeen ’11 and Parker Allen, Dec. 1, 2018, Brooklyn, N.Y. Tom Bloch ’11, Ali Hare ’11, Dencie and Parker, Anna Abelson ’11, Liz Rowley ’11. Fannon ’13 & Quinn ’11 Alicia Fannon ’13 and Ryan Quinn ’11, July, 19, 2019, State Room, Boston. Front row: Doug Goulding ’11, Ryan, Drew Gallagher ’11, Alicia, Hillary Chisholm ’13, Steve Fukuda ’10, Emily Staszak Carroll ’10, Pat Carroll ’11; second row: Andrew Simon ’09, Kallie Nixon ’14, Ellen Schneider ’13, Lisa Reedich ’13, Lindsay Cullen ’13, Tommy Leonard ’15, Alison Leonard ’10, Chris Hernandez ’13; back row: Chris LaBrecque ’11, Taylor Piers LaBrecque ’12, Alex Jorge ’09, Brett Epler ’11, Bud Arens ’13, Molly Chisholm ’17, Zach Polich ’15, Kevin Lentini ’13, Elizabeth Schulze ’13, Kaitlin McDonald ’14, Kevin McDonald ’11, Griffin Stabler ’10, Nick Barron ’13, Joe Musso ’15.

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Humes ’16 & Silvey ’14 Leah Humes ’16 and Tyler Silvey ’14, Aug. 17, 2019, Seaport Hotel, Boston. Front row: Sean Thomas ’15, Aisling Ryan ’14, Katie Meade ’14, Jack Gonsalves ’14, Tyler and Leah, Lauren Williams ’16, Maggie Coco ’16, Hannah Beinecke ’16, Meg Ogilvie ’14, Chris DeBrase ’14, Laura Entwisle ’14; back row: Anthony DeBenedictis ’14, Garret Bonney ’15, Andrew Grillo ’14, Zach Abbott ’14, Tyler Harwood ’14, Ezra Wolfinger ’14, Garrett Johnson ’14. Chandhoke ’14 & Novello ’16 Bridgette Chandhoke ’14 and Peter Novello ’16, Nov. 1, 2019, Paradise Springs Winery, Clifton, Va. Allen Sumrall ’16, Tyler Sheffield ’16, Thomas Sacchetti ’16, Peter and Bridgette, Jüergen Kritschgau ’16, Henry Finkelstein ’16, Ebbe Sweet ’11. Sorlien ’06 & DeBenedictis Rachel Sorlien ’06 and Stephen DeBenedictis, Aug. 10, 2019, North Sandwich, N.H. Front row: Helen Minsky ’06, Brooks Motley ’06, Kristin McCurdy Motley ’06, Julia Simons ’06, Rachel and Stephen, Charlene Impey ’06, Siena Calabro ’06; back row: Don Locke ’68, Peg Hosmer Locke ’69, Rachel Salloway ’09, Eliza Roberts Beitman ’06, Aubrey Nelson ’08, Sam Evans- Brown ’09, Gabby Voeller ’07, Mitch Crosskill ’06, Francis Eanes, Jeremiah Vernon ’06, Pennie Taylor ’06, Emily Trono ’06

Becerra & Warn ’97 Daniela Duran Becerra and David Warn ’97, Aug. 31, 2019, Moran, Wyo. Kieran Dulin ’97, Daniel Pontes ’97, Gillian Schreiber Pontes ’98, Tim Brady ’97, Carter Jons ’97, Ashley Hooker Jons ’97, Kina Pickett ’97 (with wife Nellie, Asher, and Story), Sean Clark ’97, Travis Emery ’97, Elizabeth Wray Emery ’99, Gavin King ’97, David Peters ’97. Hodges ’15 & Hammond Kendall Hodges ’15 and Jim Hammond (RPI ’15), July 5, 2019, Wadsworth Mansion, Middletown, Conn. Evan Goldin, Adina Brin Goldin ’15, Frances Jennings ’15, Brenna Callahan ’15, Caroline Kern ’15, Kendall and Jim, Natasha Kalra ’15, Olivia Jacobs ’15, Emily Regan ’15, Ryan Newson ’15. Cadden ’11 & Ross ’11 Meg Cadden ’11 and Zach Ross ’11, July 27, 2019, Willowdale Estate, Topsfield, Mass. Matt Moschitto ’11, Hannah Mack ’11, John McSorley ’11, Emily Mulligan ’11, Ben McCall ’11, Meg Curran ’11, the newlyweds, Bryan Harrison ’11, Marissa Maliwanag ’11, Dava Wool Harrison ’11, Matt Gordon ’11, Keith Tannenbaum. Not pictured: Mikey Pasek ’12.

Staskawicz ’06 & Quezada Kerrin Staskawicz ’06 and Robert Quezada, Aug, 11, 2019, Berkeley, Calif. Marilyn Finley ’73, Jemma Stromwick ’06, Liz Santy ’06, Lissa Moses ’06, Divna Wheelwright ’06, Sheridan McCafferty ’06, Devon Carroll ’06, Anna Schechter ’06, Sarah Willhoite ’06, Emily Rand ’06, Martha O’Shea Staskawicz ’73, Brian Staskawicz ’74. Paille ’09 & Enman ’09 Helen Paille ’09 and Kyle Enman ’09, Oct. 12, 2019, Minot, Maine. Megan Arnold ’09, Chloe Viner Collins ’09, Ken Paille ’78, Helen and Kyle, Andrew Simon ’09, Anne Mueller ’09, Joseph Williams ’09, Sarah Hemenway ’09, Kate FitzGerald ’10. Pals ’12 & Nicol Tessa Pals ’12 and Ally Nicol (Wisconsin-Madison), June 8, 2019, Adler Planetarium, Chicago. Mike Dorfman ’12, Katie Black ’12, Jeff Higgins ’12, Ally and Tessa, Leah Maciejewski ’12, Nikki Bugajski ’12, Kathryn Wolf ’12.

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Eugene John Remian November 12, 2019 Eugene Remian left Bates to complete his degree at Holy Cross. He also earned a master’s from Boston Univ. A U.S. Army Air Corps veteran, he was a tail gunner of a B-29 crew that flew many combat missions over Japan. He taught English and coached several sports at five high schools over 35 years. Survivors include many nieces and nephews.

1938 Marion Welsch Spear May 29, 2019 “Bunny” Welsch Spear lived in Lisbon Falls for 25 years, where she must have read practically every book in the local library; she knew the librarians well. She was a homemaker for her husband, the late William Spear ’37, and their three children. After graduating from Bates with an English degree, she attended Massachusetts Memorial School of Nursing, earned an RN degree, and became a nursing instructor at what is now Central Maine Medical Center. She was a member of the College Key and class president for 10 years in the 1970s. She served on her 55th, 60th, and 70th Reunion committees. Survivors include children Robert ’65, Stephen, and Kathryn Lacey; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and nephew Eric Hoffer ’86. Her late brother was Melvin S. Welsch ’34.

1942 Paul Herbert Farris July 25, 2019 Paul Farris started Bates with the Class of 1941, but received his bachelor’s in economics in 1942. He also earned a master’s from Boston Univ. and did work towards a doctorate at Harvard. A teacher and school administrator, he started out at Tilton Academy as a history teacher and became a high school principal in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York. In retirement, he traveled widely. Survivors include children Cathy, Peter, and David; and longtime partner Marcia Forgays.

1943 Annette Stoehr Daggett June 1, 2019 Anne Stoehr Daggett fell in love with a fellow teacher in Attleboro, Mass., and he whisked her off to Cape Cod for a lifetime of motherhood, volunteering at the West Dennis library, teaching swim lessons to students with special needs, and work on the historical record for the Wrinkle

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Point Assn. She taught for 10 years in all, and raised two sons. David and Brian survive her, along with six grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Her late sister was Ruth Stoehr Smith, and her late aunts were Marie Stoehr Schutze 1921 and Theresa Stoehr Harland 1919.

1945 Jean Purinton Maynard November 4, 2019 Jean Purinton Maynard left Bates without a degree to get married. She spent many years in Pittsfield, where she developed lifelong friendships, before moving to Georgia 10 years ago. Survivors include children Jack and Jim Maynard and Peg Olson; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Her father was Edwin M. Purinton 1919. Muriel Baker Smith October 8, 2019 Muriel Baker Smith started college at Bates but graduated from Penn State. She was valedictorian of her class at Hall High School. Survivors include children Gail, Charles, and Michael; nine grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and cousin Patricia Baker Main ’59.

1946 Joan Merritt Ireland July 21, 2019 Joanie Merritt Ireland used retirement wisely: She and her late husband, Elwood “Bud” Ireland ’46 sailed the Intracoastal Waterway south to Florida where they lived for the last 30 years of her life. She left Bates to marry Bud, later graduated from Boston Univ., and they enjoyed a medical career that took them from Boston to Germany and finally to Fairfield, Conn., where they settled for many years. She joined and then spearheaded many volunteer efforts, working with the Junior League, the Near and Far Aid Assn., and the Bridgeport Hospital Foundation. Survivors include children Jane Silvestro and John, Doug, and Elwood Ireland; 10 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Rohna Isaacson Shoul October 24, 2019 Rohna Isaacson Shoul’s message on her answering machine never changed: “Keep working for peace and social justice; it‘s more important now than ever before.” This declaration summarizes her life. She protested lynching in the South in the 1940s and nuclear testing in Nevada in the 1980s. (She was arrested alongside Daniel Ellsberg.) She founded Voice of Women, one of the earliest groups protesting the Vietnam War, and the Green Decade Coalition as an early environmentalist. Active in the Democratic Party for over 50 years, she was surrounded by strong, assertive men. She listened to what they asked and then did as she pleased. She earned a master’s in social work from Boston Univ. and was a social worker in the Newton, Mass., public schools. She was especially concerned about children of divorce, writing pamphlets and books about the topic. Survivors include sons Mark and Paul; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Her late cousin was Philip M. Isaacson ’47.

1947 James Robert Greenfield September 5, 2019 Jim Greenfield was a biology major who changed direction after graduation and went on to law school at Yale. After earning his law degree in 1950, he practiced matrimonial law in New Haven, Conn., until retirement in 2012. He was part of the V-12 program at Bates, and served in Guam. Serving the New Haven community in many ways, he was president of the New Haven County Bar, the Connecticut Bar Assn., the Connecticut chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Some of his most gratifying work was with Hillary Clinton on the Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession, whose work improved the working environment for women in the law. He received numerous awards for his service, including ones recognizing his commitment to equal access to justice. He served on his 50th Reunion gift committee and as president of the Southern Connecticut Bates Club. His first wife, now deceased, was Phyllis Chaplowe Greenfield ’47. Survivors include wife Joyce MacDonald Greenfield; stepchildren Kristin Alexander, Kurt Koehler, and Heidi Rogers;

and five step-grandchildren. His late brother-in-law was M. Lewis Chaplowe ’56.

1948 Rella Sinnamon Dickie October 28, 2019 Rella Sinnamon Dickie taught high school English in Maine, Vermont, and Connecticut, retiring from the West Hartford schools. An English major at Bates, she held a master’s of education degree from Hillyer College. She and her late husband Donald Dickie enjoyed square dancing, sailing Long Island Sound, traveling, and entertaining. She is survived by several nieces. Her late cousin was Elizabeth Trotter Paiva ’58. Vivienne Sikora Gilroy November 17, 2019 Vivienne Sikora Gilroy spearheaded the creation of the Lavinia Miriam Schaeffer Scholarship Fund, honoring the late professor of speech and director of the Robinson Players. She came to Bates sight unseen (wartime gas shortages), on a full scholarship, and discovered theater. She was chosen for leading roles in several productions; after graduation, she starred in community theater productions in Maine and Florida. For many years, she was an active member of the Cranford (N.J.) Dramatic Club. Kean Univ. awarded her a master’s in behavioral sciences in 1969. She then joined the faculty at Union County College as a lecturer in psychology. When the Union faculty voted in 1974 to seek collective bargaining, she joined the team that negotiated the first contract. She also became active in the American Assn. of University Professors. In 1994, the AAUP’s collective bargaining congress awarded her the Marilyn Sternberg Award for her work in collective bargaining. And in 1998, the New Jersey conference of the AAUP recognized her for her contributions to AAUP’s principles. She retired in 2000 as a full professor. She was a member of the College Key, a class president, and served on four Reunion gift committees. Survivors include children Peter and Timothy Gilroy, Mary Hogan, and Patricia Reidy.

1949 Jane Harrigan Ensign July 31, 2019 A sociology major, Jane Harrigan Ensign made a career of it: She was a social worker in the Chattanooga, Tenn., public schools for 25 years. Retirement didn’t slow her down. A beloved fixture in the Northside community, she volunteered at the local children’s museum, the Northside Neighborhood House, and many other worthy causes. Her enthusiasm in running in a one-mile Chattanooga foot race as the “Melrose flyer” (paying homage to her Massachusetts birthplace) until she was 90 made her a crowd favorite —

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she was even featured in the magazine Runner’s World. She served on her Bates 55th Reunion gift committee. Survivors include children Beth, David, Tim, and Peter; and 12 grandchildren. Carolyn Egger Fleming May 5, 2019 Carol Egger Fleming was a history and government major. A homemaker, she and her husband Robert Fleming ’49, who died in 2017, enjoyed Big Bands, bridge, entertaining, and travel. They also were eager listeners of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She served on her 40th Reunion committee. Survivors include children Jane Murdock and Thomas Fleming; and four grandchildren. William Lawrence Jiler July 28, 2019 William Jiler survived three days afloat in the Caribbean during World War II after his B-29 went down. The Air Force let him spend the rest of the war as commander of a German POW camp in Georgia. He came to Bates afterward, left with a degree in chemistry, and discovered how to crystalize streptomycin while working for E.R. Scribb. This opened the door to new ways to purify and deliver drugs, especially when used to fight TB. He earned a degree in finance from USC, giving him entry into his true passion, the stock market. He became an expert in financial charts: He founded Trendline, a financial chart service, and eventually sold it to Standard & Poor, becoming president of S&P’s Trendline division. His 1962 book on the topic is still used in college curricula. An index of commodity prices that he invented was used by the U.S. Department of Labor to gauge inflation. In 1976, he served on a presidential advisory committee under President Ford that set up the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He retired in 1986. Survivors include wife Janice Gardner Jiler; children Wendy Sherman and James Jiler; five grandchildren; and niece Amelia Tolins Coughlin ’74. Shirley Mann Nelson October 31, 2018 Shirl Mann Nelson loved to teach. An ominous “D” from Professor Berkelman during her first semester caused her to switch majors from English to psychology, but “with what amounted to a minor in English,” she once said. She formally taught in New Jersey and Connecticut, and continued to tutor and teach adult education well into her 70s. She especially liked teaching English as a second language and U.S. citizenship classes. Survivors include children Eric Nelson and Amy Saulnier; and two grandchildren. Helen Antonette Papaioanou December 29, 2019 When Helen Papaioanou applied to medical schools as a senior

biology major, she was told by Professor of Biology William Sawyer that “the only drawback in the process is that you’re a woman.” As a medical student, she was told that women in medical school were taking places that men deserved. But she persevered because, as she once said, “I wanted to be part of solutions, not part of problems.” A native of Springfield, Mass., Helen was the daughter of a Greek immigrant father and a mother who was the daughter of Italian immigrants. Earning a medical degree from Boston Univ. in 1953, she became a pediatrician who specialized in allergy, asthma, and immunology, establishing private practices in suburban Massachusetts and Michigan before spending a decade serving children at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. “I wanted to be working where medical and social needs simply were not being met,” she said of her time in inner-city Detroit, which included research. The depth and breadth of her service to Bates is nearly unrivaled. A Bates trustee for 34 years, she served as national chair of the 1991–96 comprehensive campaign and, in 2003, received the college’s highest alumni honor, the Benjamin E. Mays Medal. The Alumni Assn.’s service award, which she received in 1984, is now named for her. She was a member of the College Key and innumerable Reunion committees. In 1999, Ralph Perry ’51 and Mary Louise Seldenfleur endowed a professorship in the biological sciences in her honor. A seminar room in Pettengill Hall and a room at the Dunn Guest House are named for her. The citation for her 1997 honorary Doctor of Science degree praised her “witness to the power of love and science in service to others, her integrity and relentless optimism, the model she has been for other women to pursue science at Bates, and her ability to draw the friends and graduates of this college together to serve present and future students.” The late Dean Emeritus of the College James Carignan ’61 described Helen’s friendship as “unconditional, genuine, and authentic. Helen Papaioanou does not take people lightly. She accepts you for all that you are.” Survivors include a sister, Antoinette; nieces and nephews, including Mark Price ’79; and cousins, including Iris Papaioanou Hardin ’84 and Madeline McGonagle ’18. Mary Galt Vimmerstedt August 23, 2019 A math major, Mary Galt Vimmerstedt completed her bachelor’s degree at the Univ. of Michigan. She later received a teaching certificate from Ohio State Univ. She was a swimming instructor in the Wooster (Ohio) parks and recreation program for many years; she loved teaching adapted aquatics, helping children overcome barriers. Survivors include children Carol Crawford, and Margaret, William, and Laura Vimmerstedt; and 10 grandchildren.

1950 Oswyn Kenric Hammond July 25, 2019 Ozzie Hammond tended the family farm in Auburn while working on his degree in chemistry at Bates. He put that degree to good use as a research chemist during a 35-year career at S.D. Warren in Westbrook, work for which he received a patent in printing technology. In retirement, he worked with Ingraham Volunteers handling phone services for the hearing-impaired. He also volunteered at hospitals in both Maine and California, being honored as volunteer humanitarian of the year by a medical center in California. He was a member of the College Key, a class agent, a member of his 75th Reunion Gift Committee, a former alumni class officer, and former Bates Fund executive committee member. He came from a large Bates family; four of his six children are alumni, as are four of his siblings. Survivors include children Lark ’74, Kenneth ’80, Paul ’82, and Arleth ’88; eight grandchildren; and sister Esther Hammond Cooper ’53. His first wife was the late Nancy Churchill Hammond ’52, and his mother was Marjorie Thomas Hammond 1920. His late siblings were Joan Hammond Underkuffler ’44, Alice Hammond Humes ’49, and George Menger-Hammond ’43. Joan Hutton Swann August 23, 2019 Joan Hutton Swann taught for 21 years at Brimmer and May School in Brookline, Mass. After retiring in 1989, she taught English as a second language for 10 more years. All this with a sociology degree and some classes at Framingham State College. She was also deeply involved with the Westwood Historical Society, where she led the initiative to move and restore a one-room schoolhouse, the society’s current home. Survivors include children Karen, Richard, Donald, and Scott; and eight grandchildren.

1951 Robert William Hayes January 10, 2016 Bob Hayes left Bates after two years for the U.S. Army and eventually graduated from Norwich Univ. After the Army, he began a long association with Boston Univ., earning a doctorate from it and joining its faculty. He became a full professor and chairman of the department of psychology and counseling. Survivors include wife Mary Lou Conron Hayes ’51. Karl Louis Koss October 2, 2019 Karl Koss had three passions: piano, curling, and gardening. He won his event at the senior men’s curling competition in 1996. A classically trained pianist, he played numerous Christmas gigs, such as the annual General Electric children’s party, on the

piano. He was employed by GE in its advertising and marketing department, working on TV films such as Audubon TV specials or planning the GE pavilion at EPCOT. He was a member of the College Key and volunteered for several Reunions. Survivors include children Judson and Gretchen; and five grandchildren. Janet Brown Orr August 27, 2019 Bonny Brown Orr and her husband did everything “from scratch.” They chopped down trees on their land in Vermont on Lake Memphremagog and built a two-level home for themselves. They also ran a successful apiary. She was an elementary school teacher in Wilbraham, Mass., for 20 years. Survivors include children Muriel Ryan, and Paul, Lindsay, and Richard Orr; and four grandchildren. Her late cousin was Doris Lyman Krohmer ’43.

1952 Paul Lewis Balise May 22, 2019 Paul Balise served four years in the U.S. Marines, including in Korea during the Korean War, and worked for his father’s car dealership in Springfield, Mass., for 25 years before retiring to start his real career: sailing and fishing. He accomplished this by moving to Florida for the winter and Montana and Idaho for the summer. He fished the Intracoastal Waterway near Jensen Beach, Fla., and fly-fished with moose in his front yard in the West. He also worked as a charter captain on a Pearson 365. He served on his 40th Reunion gift committee. Survivors include children Paul, David and Lynda; and two grandchildren. Larch Foxon Miller August 29, 2019 Larch Foxon Miller was a wardrobe supervisor in New York City, keeping track of hundreds of costumes for Broadway shows such as Gypsy and La Cage Aux Folles and for the New York City Ballet. A speech major, she got her start as shop foreman at Tufts’ theater. She could pack 60 tutus into a 4-foot-high trunk, and she kept track of every costume in a book she called her bible, which included details about where the costume was stored, who would wear it, and any alterations or repairs that had been made. She also ran her own costume shop for seven years. Retiring in 2001, she moved to Wilder, Vt., became a regular volunteer at a homeless shelter, and knitted countless “Vermont Inca-style” hats, socks, mittens, and sweaters, which she sold at the Norwich Farmers Market. Survivors include children Eric, Peggy, and Peter; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. David Ford Sweeney May 30, 2019 Dave Sweeney parlayed his Bates degree in physics into a career Spring 2020

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in printer and peripheral technologies with the assistance of a degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern. He worked for a variety of companies, including Honeywell, Anelex, Friden, and Centronics before retiring as a vice president at Digital Equipment Corp. He liked to draw and paint with watercolors, sail, and play golf; he was a strong supporter of humanitarian, preservation, and conservation activities. His late wife was Jeanne Darnell Sweeney ’54. Survivors include children Janet, Peter, Michael, and Kathleen; and two grandchildren.

1954 Dawn Colburn Bennett August 28, 2019 Dawn Colburn Bennett, an English major, started life after Bates by going to work for Travelers Insurance. She said it was a toss-up as to who was more relieved when she quit, herself or the company. She went back to school, earned a master’s in education from Harvard, and began her teaching career. She taught in Connecticut and Newton, Mass., before becoming a learning disability teacher in Newburyport. In 2001 she received the Edward Molin Award for Teaching Excellence. Active in at least three book clubs, she was a longtime member of the Friends of the Newburyport Public Library. She traveled with Senior Hostel to 11 countries, including a hot air balloon safari over the Serengeti National Park. She had season tickets to the Boston Symphony, the Celtics, and Huntington Theater. She was a former class agent and volunteer on her 55th Reunion Committee. Survivors include children Bill, Frank, Elizabeth, and Alison Bennett; and three grandchildren. Her late father was Frank F. Colburn Jr. 1929. Charles Peter Calcagni October 25, 2018 The Rev. Charles Calcagni was ordained at Hartford Seminary and later studied for a doctorate at Mansfield College at Oxford, England. He served as pastor for the Congregational Church in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and California. He was a member of the College Key, a former alumni club officer, and served on his 50th Reunion gift committee. Survivors include children Ellen Ford and Charles L. Calcagni; and several grandchildren. His cousins are Norman ’73 and Beth Russell Campo ’73. Robert Michael Sharaf September 8, 2019 Bob Sharaf racked up about 100,000 miles on his bicycle, through 16 states and 14 European countries. He did this in between real estate law cases in Connecticut and serving on the Simsbury board of selectmen. He also was chair of a local Democratic committee and ran for Congress. He earned a law

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degree from Yale and a master’s with distinction from Trinity College. At Bates, where he graduated magna cum laude in government, he won the Libby Prize for debate. In a debate against Harvard, he admitted that women are equal to men but different. He was president of the Bates Barristers as well as of the student body. He was a member of the College Key and served on his 50th Reunion committee. Survivors include children Adam Sharaf ’81; and two grandchildren, one of whom is Benjamin Sharaf ’14. Hugo Ralph Usala June 17, 2019 Hugo Usala earned a PhD in organic chemistry from Purdue. He remained there as an assistant instructor, completing post-doctorate work in physical chemistry. In 1972, he received his MBA from the Univ. of Delaware. He joined E.I. DuPont in 1959 as a senior research associate, acquiring several patents. In retirement, he authored a collection of poems dedicated to his grandchildren. Survivors include wife Johanna; sons Stephen, Anton-Lewis, and Paul; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

1955 Marjorie LeClair Pires August 2, 2019 Marjorie LeClair Pires left Bates before completing her degree. An avid quilter, she co-founded the Pembroke (Mass.) Quilting Bees. Survivors include children Judith Catino, Susan Wood, Greg Pires, and Richard Pierce. Charles Price Ridley November 16, 2019 Following his graduation from Bates, Charles Ridley served in the U.S. Army for three years, during which time he studied Chinese at the Army Language School and was posted to Japan. After working as a research assistant at the Jackson Lab in Bar Harbor, he earned a doctorate in Chinese studies from Stanford. He was a research associate at Stanford’s Hoover Institution from 1966 to 1969 and the author or co-author of several books, including The Making of a Model Citizen in Communist China. From 1976 until his death, he worked as a free-lance technical translator and editor of Chinese and Japanese. In addition, he learned Italian, Norwegian, French, Russian, and other languages as he strived to understand the world’s cultures and religions. He was an Alumni-in-Admission volunteer, served on his 55th Reunion committee and his 50th Reunion yearbook committee, and was a former steering committee member. He was also president of the Northern California Bates Club from 1974 to 1980. Survivors include wife Kyoko; and children Marie and Wallace. His mother was Mary Briggs Ridley ’29.

1956 James Winston Sawyer September 10, 2019 Jim Sawyer leapt into the relatively new field of television, taking his bachelor’s degree in speech to Syracuse Univ. for a master’s in television. He became a professor of radio and TV communications at The College of William & Mary, remaining there for 10 years before moving to Oregon State Univ. Upon retirement, he and his wife moved to New Gloucester, where he designed and built their log home. He discovered a passion for family history and wrote a semi-fictional account of the voyages of Captain Abram Healy in the 19th century, A Sea-Farer’s Journal. He was a volunteer for his 55th Reunion. Survivors include wife Elaine Elenbaas Sawyer; children Michael Sawyer and Karen Marsalek; and four grandchildren. Franklin Adams Smith April 4, 2019 Frank Smith earned his medical degree from Tufts and interned at the Boston Naval Hospital. Joining the U.S. Navy, he underwent a strenuous interview with Admiral Hyman Rickover to win assignment to the nuclear submarine program, in which he served for three years. He then spent 13 years at Naval Station Great Lakes. In all, between active duty and the reserves, he served 26 years in the Navy. He then became medical director of what is now Thrivent Financial in Wisconsin, retiring in 1996. He was a class agent and served on his 50th Reunion gift committee. Survivors include wife Irmeli; children Christofer, Erika, and Rolf; and five grandchildren.

1957 Carol Michaud Sanz July 15, 2019 Carol Michaud Sanz joined the State Department after graduation, and later worked for the U.S. embassy in Bogota, Colombia. She and her family lived there before moving to Buenos Aires and later Madrid, returning to the U.S. in 1968. She taught at an alternative high school in Marion, Mass., and later worked for Tabor Academy, her alma mater, for many years. Survivors include daughters Mary Carol Hebert and Lindy Daley; and four grandchildren. William Cheney Worthington November 1, 2019 Bill Worthington was literally a rocket scientist. He majored in physics at Bates — time interrupted by service in the U.S. Army — and earned a master’s in applied physics from Dartmouth. He worked for MIT’s Lincoln Labs on ballistic missile reentry for the space program before moving to Varian and Leybold in various capacities. He retired in 2001. A diabetic, he was one of the first

people to have a programmable insulin pump, and one of the first to install solar panels at his home in Truro, Mass. A nature lover who loved walking the trails in Truro, he served on the town’s planning board and energy committee. Survivors include wife Vicky; children Kate and Michael; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

1958 Benedict George Mazza August 2, 2019 Ben Mazza was an English teacher in Wayland, Mass., and Franklin Lakes, N.J., where he was department chair. His degree from Bates was in English, and he later earned a master’s in education from Harvard. In 1987, he received the Princeton Prize for distinguished secondary school teaching from Princeton Univ. He had a habit of phoning his sons’ school and reporting them sick, so the three of them could travel into New York City to see a play or movie. Afraid to fly after a terrifying trip to Italy, his love of literature allowed him to travel far. He was class president in the early 1960s. Survivors include wife Edith; and children Benedict Jr. and Kenneth Mazza. Wendell Greenleaf Small Jr. June 16, 2019 Wendell Small held a MLS from the Univ. of Rhode Island and a MEd from Worcester State College. But that didn’t complete his education: In 1973, he finished a four-year program to become a lay minister in the United Methodist Church. He served as a lay pastor for 22 years in Methodist churches in Maine, Massachusetts, and Hawaii. He was the director of religious education for the Army’s Fort Bragg (N.C.) garrison from 1985 to 1997 and completed his career in the same role for the United Methodist Church in Fayetteville, retiring in 2001. After graduating from Bates, he served as a Japanese linguist for the U.S. Army and taught at Oxford Hills High School. He worked for 15 years as the corporate librarian for State Mutual Life Assurance Co. in Worcester. Survivors include wife Chungsim Small; and son Wendell III.

1959 David Christopher Hessler October 19, 2019 Dave Hessler left Bates before graduation and later studied at the Univ. of Mexico. He was an electronics engineer who worked for NASA and Boeing. Survivors include wife Jean Felsberg Hessler; children David, Steven, and Kathleen; and six grandchildren.

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when she was 12. A history major, she taught elementary school in New Jersey. She was an avid sports fan who cheered fervently for the Philadelphia Eagles. Survivors include children Ellen Ebert Sage ’87, Christian Ebert, and Natasha Cottrell; and five grandchildren. Her late husband was Richard T. Ebert ’60. Alan Barrett Wayne June 29, 2019 Some 75 photo albums. That’s what Alan Wayne accumulated from many travels during his career with United Airlines and from many sailing trips on his 25-foot sloop. A history major, he earned a master’s in communication from Boston Univ. and went to work for the Boston Herald and Waltham News Tribune. After a stint as a UPI reporter, he joined the United Airlines public relations department in Chicago, launching a 39-year career. He later became director of governmental affairs in Los Angeles, representing United and all the airlines, and at the same time served as legislative coordinator in California for the Air Transport Assn., the industry’s trade group. In addition to his career with the airlines, he served for almost 40 years as a stringer for UPI and AP covering college and pro football games. An avid sailor and skier, he served on his 50th Reunion committee and was a former class agent. Survivors include wife Gail.

1961 Welles Treat Brandriff October 22, 2019 Welles Brandriff left Bates for the Univ. of Connecticut. He was a financial manager at Yale Univ. for 20 years and later taught high school business classes, Survivors include wife Maria Kukil Poirier Brandriff. Steven Edwin Wardwell July 29, 2019 Steve Wardwell had been married only a day in the spring of 1961 when he had to travel to New York as a member of the first Bates team competing in the GE College Bowl quiz show. That team and a different Bates team in the fall of 1961 reeled off seven straight victories and retired without a loss, the winningest undefeated school in the history of the 1959–70 TV show. A religion and history major, Wardwell went on to Andover-Newton Theological School, where he earned a bachelor’s in divinity. An ordained minister, he served eight churches over 55 years, in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Michigan. He sought out community choirs wherever he lived, served on library boards, and was a member of Kiwanis. At Reunion in 1993, he and members of both Bates College Bowl teams reunited. Before a large alumni audience in the Chapel, the teammates viewed films of two shows and faced off for a quiz. Wardwell wrote shortly afterward that it

was a “wonderful Bates reunion experience. The program was delightful fun and a nostalgic high.” He was a former alumni club officer. Survivors include wife Susan Wilkinson Wardwell; children Stephanie, Benjamin, and Gabriel Wardwell, and Rachel Gabriele; and five grandchildren.

1962 Joan Ritch Hick November 20, 2019 Joan Ritch Hick started off as an elementary school teacher (she held a master’s in education from Central Connecticut State Univ.), but that lasted only five years. After her children were old enough, she began a 33-year career in real estate. She served as president of the Duxbury Newcomers Club as well as the Plymouth and South Shore Assn. of Realtors and was active in her church. She was a former alumni club officer and served on two Reunion committees. Survivors include husband Donald W. Hick; children Kristen Cunningham, and David and Douglas Hick; and eight grandchildren. William Frank Lersch Jr. October 24, 2019 Bill Lersch was a colonel in the Marine Corps, joining it while still a student and serving 30 years, including two tours of duty in Vietnam and active duty during the first Gulf War. He retired as a colonel. He also taught in the schools in Hingham, Mass., for 25 years, coached football at the junior high, and was an assistant coach at the high school. Survivors include wife Sylvia Cromer Lersch; her children Gwyn Brittigan, Craig Marden, and Carey Shaulus; and six grandchildren.

1963 Richard Herbert Brown November 23, 2019 Dick Brown was a chemistry major who stuck to his plan. He went to work for Pfizer as a research assistant and stayed 35 years, retiring as a senior developmental chemist. He also earned a master’s in chemistry from the Univ. of Connecticut. He was a member of the College Key, a class officer and alumni council member, and served on two Reunion committees. Survivors include wife Marjorie Mulcahy Brown; children Jennifer and David Brown, and Tracy Brown Phillips ’96; and three grandchildren. His father was Samuel Brown ’30, and his brother was Louis B. Brown ’59. Betty Jane Clark March 27, 2019 B.J. Clark earned a master’s degree in social work from the Univ. of Colorado and had a long career as a social worker for the Santa Clara County (Calif.) Child Protective Services, evaluating child abuse and neglect cases. She loved to quilt and make

unique gifts for friends and family. Survivors include her sister Winifred Sears and nephew Charles W. Kaufman ’72, whose late mother was Madelyn Clark Kaufman ’48. Stephen Bradley Goddard November 4, 2019 Steve Goddard found a use for his senior thesis: He turned it into a book on the demise of railroading as caused by the automobile. It was the first of his three books, all dealing with transportation. By day he was an attorney, earning a law degree from the Univ. of Connecticut in 1973. The years between Bates and law school were spent as a newspaperman at The Hartford Times and in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. In 1967, he won a congressional fellowship and spent a year in Washington, where he worked in both houses of Congress. He started his own law firm, which he ran for 40 years. The author of numerous essays on history and public policy published in newspapers nationwide, he taught history courses at Trinity College and the Univ. of Hartford and was a trustee of the Hartford Public Library for 30 years. He was a member of the College Key, a former class agent, and served on two Reunion committees. Survivors include wife Patricia Blaney Goddard; children Taegan, Bradley, and Chelsey; and six grandchildren. His father was Harvey B. Goddard 1920, his brother was Harvey B. Goddard Jr. ’51, and his sister was Marian Goddard Mullet ’50. Edward William Rucci August 22, 2019 Ed Rucci — “Rouch” — was a history major who worked with an ancient artifact: oil. He was employed by Mobil Oil Corp. as an advertising and marketing executive. A varsity athlete at Bates and an avid outdoorsman, he became a fly fishing instructor in retirement. He also learned to pilot a small plane. For years he hosted the annual Ed Rucci Golf Open, attended by many classmates and friends, at his home in Rhode Island. It was later renamed the Paul Castolene Memorial Golf Outing in memory of a classmate. A member of the College Key, he volunteered for several Reunions and was a class agent. Survivors include wife Kathleen Lawliss Rucci; daughters Wendy Langston, Jodie Rucci, and Jennifer Warwick; eight grandchildren; and nephew Mark A. Rucci ’83. Joseph William Tamburino November 3, 2017 Joseph Tamburino worked in many hospitals as an administrator and consultant. He did graduate work at Suffolk Univ. and Northeastern. His career took him to hospitals in Concord, Newton-Wellesley, Lowell, and Lawrence, Mass. He was a certified Master Gardener with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Survivors include daughter Amy Tamburino.

1964 Paul David Planchon July 18, 2019 Paul Planchon still holds the Bates football record for longest punt return — 72 yards against Bowdoin in 1960. This sort of statistic suited him: He was a sociologist cum statistician. He worked for the federal government for most of his career, first with the Office of Management and Budget and then with Health, Education, and Welfare. He retired from the Department of Education as director of the elementary and secondary statistical divisions of the National Center for Educational Statistics. He held a master’s from Kent State and did work toward a doctorate at Indiana Univ. An avid golfer, he won a number of tournaments in retirement. He volunteered with the Berkeley (W. Va.) County Historical Society studying and documenting the history of the area, focusing on the lives of free blacks. He also volunteered at the Cedar Creek Battlefield for many years, donating his extensive library of Civil War books to the national park there. A 50-year smoker, he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2015 and essentially cured of it by immunotherapy. (Other health issues caused his death.) He was a member of the College Key and a volunteer for his 40th Reunion. Survivors include wife Susan; daughter Sarah Pope; and one grandchild.

1965 Susan Jane Jennings August 10, 2019 Susan Jennings left Bates after one year. After a divorce, she returned to college to earn both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree at the Univ. of Hartford. She retired from United Health Care as a project manager. Survivors include children Stephen, Mark, Scott, Jeffrey, and Craig; and four grandchildren.

1966 Alan Brian Feltmarch November 11, 2019 Alan Feltmarch turned his biology degree into a medical degree via the Univ. of Vermont Medical School. His field was emergency medicine, and he worked at North Country Hospital in Newport, Vt., for 29 years. Deeply involved in the nearby town of Coventry, he was a justice of the peace, performing many marriages on his property, enjoyed politics and helping out at polling stations. He volunteered on his 25th Reunion gift committee and was an Alumni-in-Admission volunteer. Survivors include brother David Feltmarch. William Clinton Metz August 13, 2019 Bill Metz graduated with a degree in history, then enrolled in a certificate program at Makerere Univ. College in Uganda. While there, he spent 10 days with Dian Fossey Spring 2020

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on a gorilla census expedition. He returned to the U.S. to earn a master’s in geography from Univ. of Rhode Island. He had imagined a life as a college professor, but his education was interrupted by a call from the U.S. Army to serve in Vietnam. He earned a Bronze Star and air medal during his duty there. Exposure to Agent Orange was a factor in his death. He continued his education by earning a doctorate in geography from the Univ. of Pittsburgh. He went to work for Westinghouse, conducting studies for planned coal and uranium mines, nuclear power plants, and transmission lines. He took a research position at Brookhaven National Laboratory performing national energy policy studies for the Depart-ment of Energy, then moved to Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago in 1983. He spent 33 years assessing nuclear power plants, emergency preparedness, and city disaster plans. He also earned an MBA from Dowling College and a MIS from Aurora Univ. Survivors include wife Carol Giles Metz; children Christopher and Jennifer; and five grandchildren. His sister is Elizabeth Metz McNab ’64, who is married to A. David McNab ’62; his nephew is Allan D. McNab ’88, and his great-nephew is Allan Douglas McNab ’18. His late father was William D. Metz ’37; his late aunt was Mary Metz Calder ’37. Russell Lewis Reilly July 24, 2019 Russ Reilly cut his teeth as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Bates, working with the Bobcats for eight years before moving to Middlebury to coach the Panthers. A longtime pillar of the Middlebury community, he was head basketball coach there for from 1979 to 1997 and athletic director from 1997 until his retirement in 2006. In retirement he volunteered as an assistant basketball coach for 13 more seasons. He once recalled a meeting he had scheduled with the Bates basketball coach to find out why he wasn’t getting more playing time. He left the meeting realizing he wanted to coach rather than play. During his tenure as Middlebury’s athletic director, the college won 22 national championships and 35 NESCAC championships in a variety of sports. He was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. He also served as the women’s soccer coach (inaugurating the team) and men’s golf coach at Middlebury. He held a master’s in education from Boston Univ. He was a mem-ber of the College Key, a former Alumni-inAdmissions volunteer and alumni class officer. Survivors include wife Jane Hippe Reilly ’68; daughters Jennifer Lukela, Jody Reilly Soja ’98, and Lindsay Bradley; and eight grandchildren.

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School and came to Bates on a full scholarship. She returned to Edward Little to teach chemistry for three years; she was also a tutor to special needs college students. She was a member of the College Key. Survivors include husband James A. Bristol ’68; children Jonathan, Jason, and Jennifer; and five grandchildren. Recognizing that she would not have been able to attend Bates without a scholarship, The Bristol Living Trust, along with a partial matching gift, has established The Suzanne Paradis Bristol ’68 Financial Aid Fund, for students from Lewiston or Auburn.

David Lee Clay October 10, 2019 After serving in the U.S. Army, including a year of combat infantry duty in Vietnam, David Clay struggled to cope with PTSD in the early ’70s, “before it had a name or diagnosis o treatment,” he wrote for his 25th Reunion. “I cried an ocean of tears for so many nights without knowing why. With the help of Bob Dylan, Richie Havens, and Jackson Browne, I survived those years of troubled waters. Part of the healing process was visiting The Wall in Washington, D.C.” He also mentioned the May 1970 death of his friend Dave Nash ’68 from wounds received in Vietnam. Clay moved from job to job after the war, even serving as a psychiatric aide in a mental institution “while I was going crazy; I always wondered why they let me go home at night,” he said. He found his calling as a self-employed real estate appraiser. In retirement he enjoyed life to the fullest: fishing, golfing, drinking beer, rooting for the Red Sox and UConn. He concluded his 25th Reunion comments: “And in case I forget, David Robertson Nash, this Bud’s for you!” Survivors in-clude his mother, Georgia Brown; and brothers Jim and Bob Clay. Edward James deLuccia September 16, 2019 Ed deLuccia was a certified trust and financial adviser. He held an MBA from Suffolk Univ. and graduated from National Graduate Trust School at Northwestern Univ. He served in the U.S. Army Reserves. Survivors include his wife Kathy Purcell deLuccia.

1969 Rick Stephen Spooner June 8, 2019 When Rick Spooner started to play volleyball at the Y, he became such a fanatic about the game that he started a middle school team at Rumsey Hall School, the private school in Washington, Conn., where he went to teach Japanese history and health education after graduating from Bates. He received a master’s degree in counseling from the Univ. of St. Joseph in Hartford. He held a number of administrative positions at Rumsey: dean of students, assistant headmaster, academic dean, dean of faculty, and ultimately associate headmaster. In all, he was at the school for 47 years. He received the Rumsey Medal of Honor and the distinction of Master Teacher. Survivors include wife Celine Pelleti-

er Spooner; children Allison Spooner-Linley, Jason Spooner, and Stephen Spooner; and one grandchild.

1971 Hal Joseph Wilkins September 13, 2019 Hal Wilkins was a selectman in Windham, Vt., and served on several environmental boards. He studied forestry at UNH and held an MBA from Norwich Univ. Besides working for dozens of businesses and organizations throughout his life, he ran his own business for 30 years. His many interests included forestry, logging, construction, engineering, land planning, education, and law enforcement. Survivors include wife Virginia Maloney Wilkins; children Caitlin Jane Rawson Wilkins, William Wilkins, Virginia G. Cave, Emily Wilkins, Ramsey Williams, Ian MacLean, and John Dick; and one grandchild.

1974 Daniel Charles WalshDavenport September 29, 2019 Dan Walsh-Davenport held a bachelor’s from Bates in govern-ment, a master’s in international relations from the Univ. of Pennsylvania, and an MBA in marketing from American Univ. He worked at three different Belk stores as well as at Geico Insurance Co. He taught HIV prevention at Horry County (S.C.) Community Coalition and helped raise funds for the Care Team, which assists people with HIV. When health issues forced him to retire, he volunteered at the Rice Museum in Georgetown, S.C. Survivors include husband Johnny Davenport.

1976 Mary Sheila Morgan Noon September 25, 2019 As a cognitive psychologist, Mary Sheila Noon worked on the initial development of computerized learning. She built on her knowledge of psychology from her Bates degree through a doctorate at the Univ. of Louisville. She spent almost 40 years working in the field of education, holding senior operations roles at a variety of organizations, including Academic Systems, Lightspan, Pearson, and Tutor.com. She was an Alumni-in-Admissions volunteer, a class agent, and served on her 40th and 20th Reunion committees. Survivors include husband Patrick Noon and son William.

1980 Patrick John Horgan November 3, 2019 Patrick Horgan attended NYU’s Stern Business School after Bates. He worked in a variety of capacities at Hannaford Bros. and at L.L. Bean before returning to

his home state of Massachusetts in 2011 and working as a consultant to many private schools. He enjoyed volunteering at the schools he attended. He served on his 10th and 15th Reunion committees and was a class agent. Survivors include father John Horgan; sister Mary Jo Nurney; and brother Christopher Horgan.

1989 Joan Pedrick-Lindholm October 13, 2019 Joan Pedrick-Lindholm fell in love with debate in high school in Laramie, Wyo. This drew the Westerner to Bates, where she won the Irving Cushing Phillips Award for most important debat-er. She received her law degree from Lewis & Clark College and earned her LLM in international law in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she also spent her junior year abroad. She served as a judicial law clerk in Portland, Ore., and was an attorney at the Defender Assn. in Seattle. She was a judge pro tem in both the Seattle and San Juan County courts. She opened her own practice in Friday Harbor, Wash., in 2001, and later served on the faculty of the Univ. of Phoenix. She loved the Orcas Island com-munity where she lived, coaching the high school debate team and volunteering for the local land trust. An avid traveler, she drove her motorcycle throughout the Western U.S., climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, wrote her name on the Berlin Wall, took cooking classes in Italy and Thailand. Survivors include husband Ladd Lindholm.

2001 Andrew James Sisto July 30, 2019 Andy Sisto was an insurance professional. He worked for New York Life Insurance Co., AAA, and Coldwell Banker, among others. He also had a career as a wardrobe consultant at Men’s Wearhouse. Survivors include children Dominic and Isabella Sisto; and brother Jeffrey Sisto ’97.

2016 William Mead Regan September 21, 2019 Billy Regan died in an accident in New York City. He worked at Teitler & Teitler in Manhattan as a legal assistant and planned to attend law school. An avid outdoorsman, he loved skiing, hiking, and whitewater kayaking. He also was a devoted water polo player. Survivors include parents Andrew and Elizabeth Regan; and sister Alexandria Regan.

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deans to visit the then-Soviet Union to meet officially with university rectors and faculty in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Odessa. He was a fellow of the Society for Values in Higher Education and received an honorary degree from Unity College in 1990 for service to higher education, the arts, and the environment in Maine. He held a lifelong appreciation for the natural world. For decades he cherished his land and camp in Sumner. It offered a concrete place to think, to slow down and to foster a spiritual connection with nature. He cared for the land as a retreat and would often convene friends and students there. He believed strongly in the arts’ ability to help us better understand our place in the world. He served as president of Maine Audubon’s board and on the board of the Maine Tree Foundation. Local friends will remember him as a member and officer of the Stanton Bird Club, a dedicated donor to Thorncrag Sanctuary and member of the Community Forest Board. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, in the Peter J. Gomes Chapel at Bates.

honorary Roswell B. Perkins March 10, 2019 Roswell B. Perkins received an LLD from Bates in 1988. He served in President Dwight Eisenhower’s sub-cabinet as an assistant secretary to the then-new Department of Health, Education and Welfare and as counsel to New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. A partner of Debevoise and Plimpton, he retired in 2001 after opening the firm’s Moscow office. He was active in the Republican Party and headed Rockefeller’s domestic policy platform in the governor’s proposed 1964 presidential run. He served as chair of the New York Urban Coalition and co-chaired the National Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Survivors include wife Susan Harfield Perkins.

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Carl Benton Straub November 15, 2019 Carl Straub joined the Bates faculty in 1965 and retired in 2005 as dean emeritus of the faculty, professor emeritus of religion, and Clark A. Griffith Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies. He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and religion from Colgate in 1958. He also earned a bachelor of sacred theology degree and a doctorate from Harvard Divinity School, the latter in 1971. At Bates, Straub first served as an instructor in religion and in the Cultural Heritage program. In 1970 he was promoted to assistant professor of religion and assistant dean of the faculty, becoming dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs in 1974. He had a profound effect on the Bates community, appointing a generation of scholars to the faculty and helping to expand the breadth, depth, and excellence of the Bates academic program under then-President Thomas Hedley Reynolds. Retiring from the deanship in 1991, Straub returned

to teaching and in 1996 was appointed the inaugural Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies. As a scholar, he focused on religious interpretations of the American landscape and on environmental ethics, as well as on the relationship between religion and other cultural expressions, such as art and political mythologies. He had a particular interest in the American Shakers, and in 2009 published the book Honorable Harvest: Shakers and the Natural World. As a professor, Straub mentored many students, helping to cultivate a deep sense of wonder, especially for the natural world. He created a classroom culture and relationships with students that fostered curiosity, humility, and compassion. He encouraged students to wrestle with fundamental human questions about who we are, where we are going, and our place in and relationship to the natural world. His love of writing, art, and ideas inspired those fortunate enough to spend time with him. He was the past chair of the American Conference of Academic Deans. In 1987, he was selected to the first-ever delegation of American academic

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In June 1972, Lewiston Deputy Police Chief Laurent Veilleux (left) instructs the Bates crew who would serve as summer patrolmen: Tom Carey ’73, John Sninsky ’72, Gerard Williams ’72, Jay Scherma ’72, and Mac Herrling ’72.

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Working as a summer Lewiston cop seemed like a good way to get a clue about life beyond the campus by m a c h er rling ’ 72

i became a cop on a lark.

In 1968, our class had entered Bates through a shifting portal of immense social change. Already traumatized by the death of JFK in 1963, we lost Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy in April and June. The week before we moved in at Bates, Chicago police beat war protesters senseless at the Democratic National Convention. In April 1971, I marched against the Vietnam War with 500,000 others in Washington, ready to enroll in McGill University, in Canada, if my conscientious objector application were rejected. Fortunately for me, they called up men with draft numbers from 1 to 100; mine was 153. I wrote my senior thesis on the Black Power movement after working and learning in Spanish Harlem during Short Term, where we witnessed firsthand the effects of our racist society on a community. By the time of our graduation in 1972, we had replaced Shakespeare with experimental guerrilla theater; Haffenreffer with weed, speed, and LSD; wait-’til-marriage with free love. And Hair became a musical because none of us cut any of it anywhere on our body. Back then, living on campus was like living in the Forbidden City. Yes, we ventured out for a draft at the Blue Goose, to cheer strippers at the Manoir Hotel, to pick up girls, and bum rides to concerts. We surfed for bohemian clothing at Goodwill and picked up posters and pipes at The Grand Orange. But that was about it. On campus, maids cleaned the men’s rooms, workers served our food, and 92

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others secured the perimeters of our cocooned existence. We were clueless about life in downtown Lewiston and Little Canada. Working as a Lewiston summer patrolman — my first job as a Bates graduate — seemed a good way to get clued in. Idealistically, I probably wanted to see “the Revolution” from street level before hitchhiking the country or backpacking through Europe. So it was that in the summer of ’72, the city of Lewiston hired five of us — me, Tom Carey ’73, and fellow new Bates graduates Jay Scherma, John Sninsky, and Gerard Williams — as temporary summer patrolmen. Publishing a photo of us that June, the Lewiston Evening Journal reported that we were hired to “make it possible for the department to meet its commitments during the summer months, while regular members are taking vacations.” It was a time of tension over police pay, and some believed we were brought in to deny regular patrolmen summer overtime pay. Our few days of “training” were a sign that my real education was about to accelerate. We chitchatted with Deputy Chief Laurent Veilleux, watched antiquated police training films, and, for one afternoon, learned to shoot our Smith & Wesson .38-caliber revolvers in a local sand pit. Sninsky, who had been my Bates roommate, recalls that our training also included spending time sitting in a small trailer with cannabis burning so we would know what it smelled like. Said Sninsky, “We just smiled!” Then they let us loose

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Downtown Lewiston, circa 1969: Mac Herrling '72 (second from right) poses with, from left, Jackie Kopco ’71, an unidentified friend, Ted Barrows ’71, and Ned Ayers ’72.

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on the downtown streets like a Country Kitchen bakery conveylitter of untrained puppies. or belt and free coffee and food By 1972, it felt like the world from merchants. I found a new was bypassing Lewiston. For a girlfriend by looking up her regnewly minted college graduate, istration plate on the system after his head stuffed with critical reshe drove ’round and ’round my alism, Émile Durkheim, and the downtown beat. It was a different In May 1970, Bates students poems of Dylan Thomas, it was a time. on Lisbon Street in Lewiston protest the expansion of the rude awakening to live and work By October, my stint was over. Vietnam War into Cambodia. in Lewiston. I was ready to share newfound Students of the era entered The mills that once pumped street epiphanies and a chastened Bates through “a shifting portal of immense social change,” out textiles and shoes were berevolutionary fervor on a larger writes Mac Herrling ’72. coming empty brick mausoleums. stage. I worked as an inner-city Lower Lisbon Street had become journalist reporting on the lives infamous, particularly after dark. of people similar to the ones I Drugs were just arriving but everyone we met on encountered on Canal Street and, after a career the street after hours seemed to be drunk, trying to change, returned to Maine as a school social workget drunk, or had passed out. er eager to listen to the broken and disheartened. We arrested alkies and made them sleep it off. In the years since that summer, Lewiston has A staggering, bleeding man greeted me my first changed in unexpected and graceful ways, emday on the job, so I learned about first aid, trauma bracing a revival brought on partly by an influx of care, veteran’s services, and social work all in one immigrants from African nations. And Bates is an encounter. Abortion was illegal but domestic viointegral and important influence in the transformalence was not. I tended to women who were beaten tion. But I can still get pickled eggs with my draft at and desperate to get away. The Goose. We ignored prostitution being transacted at I think I've changed, too, making my own peace the bus terminal and happening in our midst. My with the chaos and upheaval of the early years. fellow officers were not immune to misbehavior. On a May night back in 1972, shortly before our One hapless patrolman kept his microphone open graduation, my classmate Steve Hoad said, “The while he carried on a tryst in his cruiser. dogs of the past are nipping at our heels.” I’ve given We were paired up with regular officers, them a good chase, befriended them, and let them most of whom were professional and seemed to pass me by. The present is enough. appreciate our help. Sninsky recalls following an And although I'm not a Mainer by birth, I am officer into a bar to help break up a fight. “He said fitting in a bit more. As a school principal once he was surprised that I followed him even though said to me, “You’re pretty down-to-earth for a I was just a ‘college kid.’ I said that I wore the same Bates guy.” blue uniform and it was my responsibility. I think Maybe my improvident choice to be a fledgling he was impressed.” cop has finally paid off. n We enjoyed the benefits — some illicit — of being peace officers: hot doughnuts fresh off the Mac Herrling ’72 lives in Bradley, Maine.

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remembering the late carl benton straub — scholar, teacher, and academic leader Take a Bow

Words to the Wise

Straub purchased this copy of Webster’s New World Dictionary — photographed in 2004 — the day he arrived at Colgate University in 1954 and kept it “on my desks almost every day since.”

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Carl Straub, pictured circa 1975, joined the faculty in 1965 as an instructor in religion and Cultural Heritage. He retired as dean emeritus of the faculty, professor emeritus of religion, and Clark A. Griffith Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies. Straub died Nov. 15, 2019, and his obituary is in this issue.

Positive Review

In 1977, then–Dean of the Faculty Carl Straub reviews the processional at Commencement, an event he loved as an “annual, earnest, and effective gathering to acknowledge our heritage and confirm our mission.”

Teach Them Well

Circa 2000, Straub sits on the steps of his cabin in Sumner, Maine, with three of his students, from left, Matt Schlobohm, Ethan Miller, and Matt Ensner, all Class of 2000.

Among Friends

Circa 1980, Straub (center) laughs with Dean of the College James Carignan ’61 (left) and Associate Dean James Reese.

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Straub poses for his friend Judy Marden ’66 at his Sumner property in May 2016.

o ut ta k e “There's still work to be done, and so the door to Hedge Hall opens once again.” That’s the caption I wrote after taking this picture. Feeling low at the end of a February day, I gave myself five minutes to make an Instagram post. The building's incandescent glow attracted my attention, and the figure walking through the entryway provided the small thrill I needed to exit my mood. Cheers to light. — Phyllis Graber Jensen

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FROM A DISTANCE

8 This aerial photo taken in December shows the Bonney Science Center construction site and, in the background, Carnegie Science Hall and Hathorn Hall.