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14 Pix of package pickup at Post & Print.

38 We dig it: the sweet feeling of getting in touch with soil.

52 Like father, like daughter: Ed Walker ’02 and Tiauna Walker ’2I.

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spring b j b A “I’ll just come outside to juggle — to relax, cool off, and clear my head.” Page 44

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

Take a closer look at what this spider plant means to its beholder. Page 44

OPENING THOUGHT: LESLIE HILL PROFESSOR EMERITA OF POLITICS Source: The January 2021 BatesNews article “Not so fast with the ‘time for unity’ say Bates scholars”

It takes an active citizenry to actually make democracy real.

And, I would argue, we need not the noun. We need the verb.

We need democracy-making.

And we each need to see our own responsibility in making democracy.

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Photographed by classmate Joe Gromelski during their Bates days, John Jenkins ’74 touched many lives deeply.

‘No Belly Laughing’ Last year’s death of John Jenkins ’74, a beloved alumnus, educator, and community leader who served as mayor of Lewiston and Auburn, reverberated through the Bates community, especially among alumni of Walt Slovenski’s track program, of which Jenkins was a member.

His obituary is in this issue.

For more information about the John Jenkins Scholarship Fund being established at Bates, contact Eric Foushee at College Advancement: efoushee@bates.edu or 207-755-5985.

To contribute to a story collection about John Jenkins, email your story to Chuck Radis ’75, cradis@maine. rr.com, by July 1.

John and I never met in person but exchanged a number of messages on Facebook.

With all of the racial tension and everything going on, John continued to feed me little pieces of advice and suggestions that were honest while also almost transformational.

To some extent I definitely took it for granted.

I wish I asked him more questions and picked his brain a bit more than I did.

He not only welcomed it but he encouraged it. He wanted to be a resource, he wanted to help keep the ball rolling forward, and for that, I’m incredibly grateful.

Adam Spencer ’14

Medford, Mass.

On a very cold Vermont Saturday morning in February 1972, John, Joe Grube ’73, and I were left behind when

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the team bus left the Holiday Inn for our meet at the University of Vermont.

Walt did it on purpose: He was tired of waiting for us. As Joe recalled, we missed the bus probably because he and John were watching cartoons together. It ended up being an adventure. We hitchhiked to the meet, arriving just in time for our events. We did well in our events, and Bates won the meet.

Bob Littlefield ’75 remembers the long bus ride home on Route 2, how the silence was broken every 15 minutes or so by John, a city guy from Newark, N.J., loudly proclaiming how we had been left “way the hell up in Ver-mont.”

The story of our day didn’t show up in the meet results, of course. But many years later, John told our story at Walt’s memorial service in the Chapel. His retelling, as with everything he did, was filled with humor, grace, and love.

Joe Bradford ’73

Plymouth, Mass.

On those long bus rides I can remember him toward the back of the bus holding court, keeping everyone laughing throughout the trip, with Walt eventually standing up and yelling, “No belly laughing!” — fearing that someone might pull a stomach muscle by laughing too hard.

James Anderson ’76

Oak Ridge, N.J.

When I met John as a freshman, he was the first Black person I ever met. It was a time when racist jokes about many groups were common

and felt “innocent” enough — but, I promise, if you ever had the privilege of meeting John, it was no longer possible to be an unknowing racist. He touched everybody he met.

I was serving as president of the Maine State Bar Association when John received our highest award, the John Ballou award, for his contributions to the public good. When he accepted the award, he spoke about growing up in a tough, tough area and how influential his single mom was in keeping him out of trouble. RIP John, you made a difference!

Lester Wilkinson ’78

Augusta, Maine

Inspiring The Marshall Hatch ’10 story was inspiring on many levels (“Resist, Inspire, and Rebuild,” Fall 2020). I have shared this story with a dozen others to illustrate how important his kind of community-building is for the sake of the young men he counsels and the surrounding community that needs them as much as they need it.

Ann Phillips Hotchkiss ’78

Durham, N.H.

We white-male folks have had systemic racist attitudes built into us since birth, and need to have this process reverse. I’ve been working on mine since 1961 when, following my Bates graduation, I began to learn the depths of the racial divide in this country. Very subtle stuff.

I’m proud of Bates’ effort to bring racial attitudes to the surface.

Richard B. Larson ’61

Englewood, Fla.

Feat of Clay I always enjoy insights into the Bates construction process (“Clay Play,” BatesNews, Feb. 25, 2021). But I’m left wondering: What happened to the clay that was excavated from the Bonney Science Center construction site? Where did those trucks go? And could Bates clay be

suitable for bricks made onsite? That is, is it different from clay used by Morin Brick Co.?

Gene O’Rourke ’89

Amelia, Ohio

The Bates clay was taken to a landfill. Morin clay and Bates clay are roughly the same “species,” so bricks could have been made from the Bonney material, although clay composition always varies from site to site.

A Good Deal The item about Luiggi’s (“What’s in a Name: Luiggi’s,” Fall 2020) takes me back to the ’70s, when I would sometimes go to Luiggi’s and buy a cheese pizza for 75 cents, take it next door to the Blue Goose and buy an Old Milwaukee for 30 cents. Lunch or dinner for $1.05. Even when I was making $2.25 an hour as the concierge in Chase Hall, that was a good deal.

Ken Paillé ’78

Chapel Hill, N.C.

Veterans Plaza Thank you for the video and the information about the dedication of Veterans Plaza. My father, Everett W. Kennedy, Class of ’37, was killed at Anzio during World War II when I was an infant.

My mother, Esther Strout Kennedy Allen ’40, would have been thrilled with what you have done to honor veterans. She died in 2016, but if she were alive, she would be the first one to visit the plaza. Thanks to Bates for having it done!

Louise Kennedy Hackett ’65

Merrimack, N.H.

In addition to photographs of the plaza on page 9, a story about the dedication is at bates.edu/veterans-plaza.

1991 and Angela Davis Many thanks for your beautiful and engaging piece about that unique night at Bates and in the world back in 1991 (“30 years ago: Gulf War, Angela Davis,

e di t o r ’s no t e and a memorable night,” BatesNews, Jan. 15, 2021).

I was a student on campus and remember bits and pieces of the night. Your story helped me recall so much more, plus the behind-thescenes work and thoughts of Angela Davis on that night and the day after.

Jason Yaffe ’93

Addison, Texas

I’ll never forget that night.

As the brilliant Leslie Hill, who, luckily for me, was my amazing professor, said about hearing Davis: She felt “pride in the power of a Black woman speaking truth to power: national, institutional, socially privileged power. Affirmation for an analytical approach that recognizes the significance and consequences of gender and racial politics. And inspiration to keep doing that work in ways that call forth collaboration and community-building.”

It was indeed powerful and a turning point for many of us.

Melanie Mala Ghosh ’93

Boston, Mass.

In 1991, I was a civilian lawyer for the Secretary of the Air Force. On the night of Jan. 16, I was in an Air Force Learjet, returning to Washington, D.C., from a meeting in New Mexico.

We heard from Air Force dispatch that the planes had been launched to bomb Baghdad. The passengers — some of whom had been World War II pilots, and several who were Air Force officers — broke into cheers with cries of, “It’s about time.” It was a very different place that evening than the Bates Chapel. Wish I’d been there instead of in the jet.

One Bates student said, “I’ve just been really thankful to get my hands dirty.” And another said, “Playing in the dirt was the best thing.”

In different contexts and at different times, these two students both had good reason to heap praise on dirt this year, suggesting there are still ways to find what’s elemental — getting what we need although we can’t get what we want — even during a pandemic.

The first quote is from Sam Gilman ’22, talking about the joy of getting off campus last fall to do fieldwork for his environmental studies course “Soils,” in which students dug holes and pawed around in the dirt to learn about soil characteristics at a historic coastal farm (see the feature in this issue.)

The second is from dancer Britt Seipp ’21, who spoke about a different kind of dirty dancing in the course “Dance Repertory” (see page 18.)

Just being with soil is like hitting psychological paydirt. During the early months of the pandemic, I came to enjoy walking a bike path along the Androscoggin River, in Lisbon Falls. But I more enjoyed leaving the pavement to walk into the woods, navigating ravines — kicking back slick leaves to get a firm footing in the dirt — hopping over brooks, sinking into muck, and picking a route through the puckerbrush. As Thoreau said, “The same soil is good for men and for trees.”

As a rule, we modern Earth dwellers have fewer and fewer flirtations with dirt. It’s true at Bates as well, notwithstanding the 2008 addition of Alumni Walk and its dirt, grass, and trees, which replaced a paved road.

A famous Bates football photo shows fullback Jamie Walker ’07 moving a pile of Colby defenders during a rainy game at Garcelon Field in 2006. Everyone’s covered in glorious dirt and mud.

Garcelon’s dirt is now covered by an artificial surface, which does offer benefits. It can be scraped clear of snow, creating a four-season outdoor space, complete with a warm microclimate, for physically distanced frolicking.

Gone, too, are the clay tennis courts that once dotted the campus. Gone (thankfully) is the use of a dirt pile to break the fall of pole vaulters.

The Gray Athletic Building once had a dirt floor for indoor track and other sports, including baseball. In March 1947, the baseball team drew crowds to its intrasquad games featuring a regulation infield diamond. Instead of an outfield, coach Ducky Pond decided whether a ball hit into a net suspended behind the infielders was a hit or an out.

It must’ve felt like being outside, playing in the dirt. “While the game is proceeding,” reported The Bates Student, “some of the squad members are seen lounging on the bench sitting in the hot sun streaming in through the skylights.”

At this writing, we’re planning an in-person Commencement (two sessions, for distancing purposes).

Seniors will walk along the Quad’s paved paths, then to their seats in front of historic Coram Library. With their feet on Bates grass and dirt — terra firma Batesina — they’ll watch their classmates walk across the Coram porch. We hope they will all feel, and find, something elemental.

H. Jay Burns, Editor jburns@bates.edu

Grant Reynolds ’57

Tinmouth, Vt.

The story recalling campus happenings on the night of Angela Davis’ talk at Bates, Jan. 16, 1991, coinciding with the outbreak of the first Gulf War, is at bates.edu/angela-davis-1991.

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Centering body and mind in the prayer posture, Amelia Keleher ’21 of Brunswick, Maine, joined a physically distanced yoga session on Lake Andrews in early March.

Katia Ryan ’23 of Amsterdam, N.Y., led the morning gathering.

“Yoga on ice is quite wacky, which matches the wackiness of this past year,” said Ryan, who did her part to keep Bobcats healthy by finding safe spaces for yoga during the 2020–21 pandemic year.

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More than I00 Bates faculty, staff, and friends recorded video congratulations for the Class of 2020.

Magical Opportunity On and off campus, Abby Segal ’23 of Chelmsford, Mass., brings a little magic wherever she goes.

An accomplished magician, she appeared on the TV show Penn & Teller : Fool Us in February.

On campus, she’s found ways to integrate magic into her academics. In an animation course, she created a flipbook magic trick And in a cognitive psychology course, she explored how magic catches an audience off guard, prompting an unconscious response.

“Bates has provided a spark to learn that I do more than just perform magic. I can combine it with other things I’m interested in.”

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800 students each year take a community-engaged learning course.

What Didn’t Get Canceled

through a Bates Phillips Fellowship. “That was canceled,” he said.

In his first three years at He received another, smallBates, theater and English er grant to fund a trip to the major Deon Custard ’21 of Folger Shakespeare Library, Chicago gained experience in Washington, D.C., last fall. and knowledge, including “That was canceled.” a summer 2019 Purposeful But what wasn’t canceled Work internship at the vaunt- was his winter-semester ed Steppenwolf Theatre Co. thesis production of Shaketo work on sound design and speare’s Twelfth Night. production.

Custard knew to expect all Then came the pandemic. sorts of logistical challenges.

He’d been funded to do “But I’m surrounded by an summer 2020 thesis research incredibly flexible production in London and Cambridge team,” he said prior to the show. “They’re taking even the most abstract ideas and turning them into concrete pieces of art to share with the entire community.”

Custard set his production of Twelfth Night around New Year’s Eve 1969. Well-versed in theater history, he notes that from the “vantage point of today, it’s clear how history continues to repeat itself — over and over. Stories of revolutionary love and social resistance will always be worth telling.”

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After an extended winter break, students returned to campus Feb. II.

OK Now If you remember the 1960s, you may remember the famous self-help book, I’m OK — You’re OK. As Bates students navigated 2020–21 within COVID-19 protocols, another saying came to the fore: “It’s OK not to be OK.” That’s how Kenza Nadifi ’21 of Bethesda, Md., approached the most difficult year in college history: Be kind to yourself. Equally important, she said, is “being extra careful with people.”

The protocols stripped away many favorite campus pursuits. There was no sit-down dining in Commons and no competitive sports, and few in-person activities for clubs and organizations.

But there was mandatory physical distancing and masking nearly all the time.

The presidential election and its disturbing aftermath added yet another

One free lockout is allowed per semester, after which you’ll be charged $20 per lockout.

layer of stress to everyone’s life.

“I started to feel almost frantic,” said Nadifi, as she tried to balance and reconcile the pressures of the pandemic, academics, internship work, the political divide, and the environmental crisis.

“I remember lying on my bed and suddenly deciding I needed to journal for the first time in my life. I wrote two pages — then dropped my journal behind my bed, and then became too busy to fish it out and continue my self-care journey.”

The fate of the journal, misplaced amidst dust bunnies behind a bed, is a metaphor for what’s happening to a lot of people now, Nafidi says.

“Bates students are so busy and driven. Taking time to check in with ourselves is sometimes left in the dust.”

That’s why, she said, “it’s so important to be open about the challenges

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Around I50 Bates students are considered international students, meaning they are in the U.S. on a student visa.

you are facing, if you feel comfortable doing so. If I can help someone feel less alone simply by communicating my own struggles, then it is 100 percent worth it, to reach a mutual understanding that things are tough.

“It’s important to recognize that it’s OK not to be OK. It’s also important to recognize that some students carry the added weight of fearing for their rights and even their lives in our country.”

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It wasn’t COVID but a bit of cabin fever — brought on by pandemic protocols that constrained everyone’s movements around campus — that prompted Ed Zuis ’24 of Monmouth, Maine, to start a new routine of early-morning runs. His first was after a light snowfall in late February.

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Last fall’s Harvest Meal theme was, punnily for 2020, “Life’s a Beach.”

Most Pettengill Hall furnishings are from Thomas Moser, founded by a former Bates professor.

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Seen in an early architectural rendering (above) and as it looked on a winter night (right), the glass curtain wall dubbed “the Beacon” is a signature feature of the Bonney Science Center, now nearing completion across the street from Carnegie Science Hall.

Timeless and resplendent, the Gomes Chapel wears a mantle of snow in February.

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Recently completed after two decades of planning and execution, Bates’ exterior restoration of the Peter J. Gomes Chapel was recognized by a major statewide historic preservation organization, Maine Preservation, with a 2020 Honor Award.

The restoration addressed numerous issues, including failing and bulging masonry; shifting and weakening stained-glass windows; and deterioration of the building’s slate and copper roofs, which led to water damage to the building’s timber framing.

Commons expanded its plant-based breakfast options this year.

A stainless steel cuboid, seen with a light topping of December snow and frost, marks the entrance to Veterans Plaza. Its inscription invites “reflection on the impact of war on the lives of everyone it touches.”

Sign, Symbol, Celebration New on campus last fall, Veterans Plaza makes both an offering and a request.

The plaza’s design, featuring benches, a central stone focal object, and a screen of trees, offers a tranquil place to reflect on the impact of war on our lives.

Its request, meanwhile, is that we recognize and honor the contributions and sacrifices of Bates veterans This contemplative power makes the plaza “part and parcel of our mission to educate and transform lives,” said President Clayton Spencer at the Oct. 9, 2020, dedication.

It is “sign, symbol, and celebration of the service and sacrifice of those who have preceded us.

The event’s keynote speaker was Navy Capt. J.J. Cummings ’89, joining the gathering from the flight deck of the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, of which he recently concluded service as commanding office .

He expressed hope that Bates students appreciate the connection between military service and a democratic nation.

“I hope they understand that every service member volunteers to raise their right hand to recite an oath to support and defend — not one man, a king, a queen or a tyrant or political party — but the Constitution of the United States.”

Janell Sato ’22 of Honolulu, the scion of a family with a long military service history, spoke on behalf of students. “When you sit on the benches and hear the rustling leaves and feel the slight breeze blowing softly on your skin, you are able to take a moment in, and honor all those who have served.”

The dedication also featured remarks from U.S. Rep. Jared Golden ’11 of Maine, a Marine Corps combat veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq; Jane Costlow, Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies and a scholar of Russian literature; and retired Facility Services staff member Danny Sands, a Vietnam combat veteran and member of the committee that developed the project.

The Rev. Brittany Longsdorf, the college’s multifaith chaplain, offered the concluding benediction, including these words: May those whose bodies still carry the terror and wounds of war find healing here.

May those whose minds still feel haunted by violence and hardship find calm here.

May those whose hearts still ache with grief, loss, and woe for a beloved lost in warfare find remembrance here May those whose souls have felt heavy with the burden of duty and service find peace here.

May this space invoke in all of us an awe for freedom, liberation, and justice, and inspire us to honor all those who have served and strived to amplify these ideals.

Veterans Plaza at dusk.

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More than 336 historic Hathorn Hall images can be seen in Muskie Archives’ digital collection.

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Bates recycles I00% of its electronic equipment.

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Nick Gonzalez ’24 of Chappaqua, N.Y., visits Veterans Plaza last October. The inscription on the plaza’s granite focal object says, “This space honors the service and sacrifice of Bates veterans.”

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In 2020, the Geology department was renamed Earth and Climate Sciences.

Teacher ed. students in their final semester are in local schools for 4 to 5 class periods a day.

Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences Beverly Johnson holds a water-quality sonde as she works with environmental geochemistry students collecting and analyzing water samples at Lake Andrews last fall.

True Blue Maine has tens of thousands of acres of coastal salt marshes and eelgrass meadows that are photogenic, great for kayaking, and teaming with wildlife.

Equally important, “they also serve a vital function in mitigating climate change,” explained Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences Beverly Johnson in a recent op-ed in the Portland Press Herald. (Formerly “geology,” Johnson’s department is now named “earth and climate sciences,” befitting the scope of its work.)

Coastal marshland helps to remove carbon dioxide — known as “blue carbon” when it’s coastal — from the atmosphere, much like forests do. “They are absolute powerhouses of carbon absorption and storage,” Johnson wrote.

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“On a per-acre basis, healthy blue carbon coastal ecosystems are up to 10 times more efficient at capturing and storing carbon than forests. But they rarely get the recognition they deserve.”

Johnson and others are changing that. She’s a member of the International Blue Carbon Scientific orking Group and recently had a hand in developing the state’s new climate action plan, Maine Won’t Wait, which recommends protecting and restoring the state’s blue carbon ecosystems.

The marshes where Johnson does much of her research, in and around the Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area in Phippsburg, endured degradation in the 19th and 20th centuries, primarily as a result of grass cutting to feed livestock and ditch digging to reduce mosquito habitats. “But fortunately,

they are now conserved,” she wrote.

Other Maine marshes and eelgrass beds haven’t been so lucky. For example, antiquated or poorly designed road crossings and dams that cut salt marshes off from tides can lead to the release of methane, “a greenhouse gas 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide.”

On a federal level, Congress has introduced the Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act of 2020, which would protect and restore 1.5 million acres of blue carbon ecosystems nationwide over the next 10 years.

State and federal blue-carbon efforts, she said, “are just one of a variety of strategies for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions while creating jobs as we transition to a clean-energy economy.”

The theme for 202I’s MLK Day programming was “Confronting Our History: Justice for Coming Times.”

Rhetoric majors must take courses related to performance, theory, race/ethnicity and gender/sexuality.

A grade above D minus is considered passing.

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

Brett Huggett works with students during Short Term 2016 at Maine’s Saco Heath Preserve.

What It Means Five faculty received promotions, including tenure, in 2020–21.

Brett Huggett of the Department of Biology and Geneviève Robert of the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences were promoted from assistant to associate professor with tenure.

Promoted from associate to full professor were Meredith Greer of the Department of Mathematics, Therí Pickens of the Department of English, and Sonja Pieck of the Program in Environmental Studies.

We asked each a deceptively simple question: “What does being a Bates professor mean to you?”

Huggett: “From my early years as a jazz musician, to a naturalist for Massachusetts Audubon Society, and now as a Bates professor, I have always found immense joy in teaching and inspiring curiosity in others. Working closely with talented students, Bates is an incredible place to incorporate my passion for plant biology into teaching and research.”

Robert: “It’s about empowering students to view themselves as scientists. It’s about learning from my colleagues.

And it’s about working toward a common goal. I love that

students come to class with an open mind, ready for a challenge.”

Greer: “It has always been about the people. I chose to work at Bates because of the people I met when interviewing here — every single one was friendly, intellectually curious, helpful, and excited about what we could learn together. That has stayed true throughout.”

Pickens: “My scholarly work — centering the theories, ideas, and creative endeavors of Black people, Arab Americans, disabled people — presses me and others to think more explicitly about how to make a just world. In doing so, I’ve become even more convinced that the study of literature, and the humanities writ large, is vitally necessary to our world.”

Pieck: “I love drawing connections between different perspectives, theories, scales, places, interests, groups, and species. I believe environmental problems at their core derive from uneven power relations — among humans, but also between human and non-human communities — and we need multifaceted and synergistic approaches to understand them and develop effective solutions.”

Publication: Journal of Plankton Research • Authors: Holly Ewing (environmental studies), Meredith Greer (mathematics), and coauthors • What It Explains: Toxin-producing cyanobacteria are responsible for increasingly common “algal” blooms on ponds and lakes.

To predict future bloom dynamics, scientists need to know more about the complete life cycle of these organisms, both the benthic stage near the sediment at the bottom of a body of water (of which little is known) and their activities when in the pelagic environment near the surface.

Cultivating Inclusive Instructional and Research Environments in Ecology and Evolutionary Science

Publication: Ecology & Evolution • Author: Carrie Diaz Eaton (digital and computational studies) and coauthors • What It Explains: How ecologists, evolutionary scientists, and science educators can better cultivate an inclusive environment in their classrooms, research laboratories, and fieldwork through empath , flexibilit , and a growth mindset. It also provides references for further readings on best practices and strategies.

The Bose-Einstein Condensate and Cold Atom Laboratory

Publication: EPJ Quantum Technology • Author: Nathan Lundblad (physics and astronomy) and coauthors • What It Explains: How a planned new ultracold laboratory on the International Space Station, a German/American joint venture and successor to the current NASA Cold Atom Laboratory, will allow scientists, including Lundblad, to do experiments on a state of matter known as the Bose-Einstein Condensate. The microgravity environment of orbit is key to such experiments.

Discrimination and Social Exclusion in the Outbreak of COVID-19

Publication: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health • Author: Leshui He (economics) and coauthors • What It Explains: How Chinese people, and people of Chinese or Asian descent worldwide, have faced discrimination during the pandemic. In response, governments and the media must foster understanding and provide support.

Metro riders wear masks in Qingdao, China, in November 2020.

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Predicting the Effects of Climate Change on Freshwater Cyanobacterial Blooms Requires Consideration of the Complete Cyanobacterial Life Cycle

THE COLLEGE

202I’s Great Day to Be a Bobcat fundraiser coincided with Bates’ birthday, on March I6.

In FYI9–20, nearly II,000 individuals made gifts to Bates.

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Right This Way Two professors, Jennifer Koviach-Côté and April Hill, joined fellow Bates faculty and staff members in February to greet and guide students as they arrived at the college’s Testing Center upon their return to campus for winter semester.

Koviach-Côté is an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Hill is the Wagener Family Professor of

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Ten Years Running For the 10th straight year, Bates was named a Top Producer of Fulbright Student awards among U.S. liberal arts colleges. Bates was awarded 10 Fulbright Student awards for 2020–21.

This is the 75th anniversary year of the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program.

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Equity and Inclusion in STEM. Here, Koviach-Côté and Hill guide a student to a waiting area in Merrill Gymnasium, where students awaited results of their rapid-antigen test taken next door in Underhill Arena.

With the start of the winter semester in mid-February — a later start than usual, to avoid bringing students back during the worst of the mid-winter pan-

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Horn-tooting is always sweeter when someone else does it for you. The Bates Center for Purposeful Work experienced just that with Ron Lieber’s new book The Price You Pay For College.

Lieber, a New York Times columnist, described the Bates Center for Purposeful Work as one of the “genuinely reinvented career counseling offices.

He added, “The office wasn’t just some acronym. The name was designed to convey not just a message but a mission, a standing order, really.”

demic surge — Bates doubled down to fight the virus, adding rapid-antigen screening to students’ testing routines.

Antigen screening, while not the gold standard for confirming COVID-19, nevertheless offers near-instant results, compared to the one-day results from the customary PCR test. Quick results mean that an infected person can enter isolation protocols immediately.

2I,000-plus readers saw a 2020 Facebook post about Dr. Anthony Fauci’s I993 honorary degree.

64% of Bates employees live in Androscoggin County.

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

Great Rate The college’s belt-and-suspenders approach to achieving an in-person academic year — through testing, masking, physical distancing — did the trick, with an overall positivity rate of 0.14 percent through early spring among students, who were required to test twice weekly, and employees, who had the option to test once a week. Note: Total tests through April 27.

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$65M To Go! $95M Given!

Golden Advice The college’s Communications and Admission teams got golden news in 2020 when their joint project, a web series called Ask the College Experts, won a Grand Gold award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.

The series features Bates faculty and staff addressing topics that often bedevil prospective students — such as the financial aid process and writing an effective admission essay — while providing a helpful resource for secondary school guidance professionals.

Bates recently premiered Season 2, which promises to illuminate more about admission and the college experience itself.

Endowment Progress Scan to watch Ask the College Experts (See page 22 for tips from Associate Dean and Director for Global Education Darren Gallant about getting the most out of study abroad.)

Donors have given $95 million toward The Bates Campaign’s goal of $160 million in endowment gifts. The ultimate aim: greater financial sustainability for the institution.

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After picking up packages at Post & Print, Sydney Childs ’24 of Cohasset, Mass., called her mom, who had sent her a few items.

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SHIP SHAPE photography by phyllis graber jensen Whether contact lenses or a new gaming computer, packages shipped from families (or from elsewhere) are like those letters from home of bygone times, providing a bit of care and connection for Bates students during a disconnected time.

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Despite seasons canceled due to COVID-I9, Bates athletes practiced with teammates and coaches.

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ERICA “ Now that I look back, I realize that everything I learned was worth it, and probably worth more than a trophy.”

Erika Parker ’23 of San Salvador, El Salvador, remembers a teaching moment with her father after a crisis of confidence as a young squash player, when match losses became harder and harder for her to deal with. “He asked me if I didn’t enjoy every training session, and if representing my country was not worth it. He also asked me if the time we spent together as a family, playing and talking about squash, was a waste.” With that, she was able to recover a love for her sport.

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2020 saw the creation of the Bates Athletes of Color Coalition.

Being A Part, Not Apart Growing up in Plymouth, N.H., Jevan Sandhu ’21 saw the difference between her brown, Indian skin and the whiteness of her community, friends, classmates, and softball teammates.

But she didn’t know what it meant.

At Bates, through coursework in psychology, gender studies, and education, “I was able to put some of those feelings that I was having when I was younger into models and theories,” she said. “[I was] reading about other people that also have these experiences, and realizing that I’m not the only one who has these feelings.”

Education about issues of race and equity took place on her softball team too, with Sandhu as a teacher.

Last spring, she and teammate Dulce Alcantara ’21 worked with the staff of Bates Athletics to offer a workshop on racial equity for the team. “We did scenarios and broke down different definitions of things like white privilege and white fragility,” she said. “It was very powerful.”

In addition to being an athlete, Sandhu is a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, the newly formed Bates Athletics Agents of Change, and the South Asian Students Association.

Sandhu’s senior thesis in psychology looks at the racial experiences of students of color who come to Bates from both predominantly white and racially diverse places. It’s often the case, she says, that Bates students of color feel “ostracized or separated from other students, unfortunately.”

In February, she presented her research at Columbia University’s Winter Roundtable Conference, “A Pandemic of Racism.”

She hopes to attend graduate school, with an eye on eventually working in higher education to support students of color — “so they can feel like they are a part of a college campus.”

Bates Athletics held a virtual panel for 202I’s National Girls and Women in Sports Day.

7I Bobcats received NESCAC All-Academic honors in fall 2020.

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Bates football uses the Wilson GST I003 ball.

together, outside on Garcelon Field, doing one of the things that is most important to their happiness and sense of self-worth,” said head men’s lacrosse coach Peter Lasagna.

Rethink practices Despite canceled seasons, sports held physically distanced practices so athletes could maintain their skills and build community.

Noah Jankowski ‘24 of Methuen, Mass., awaits a pitch during a fall baseball practice. Due to COVID, NESCAC permitted for the first time traditional spring sports to have full practices, with coaches, in the fall.

Tools to Succeed What a way to start a college athletic career. For the 238 students in the Class of 2024 who plan to play varsity sports, their first year was like no other, as the fall and winter intercollegiate athletic seasons were canceled.

How, then, does a first-year find their place on a team? Get creative.

Some of the innovations — as well as tried and true approaches — have included: ’Cats, CAPS, and conversations Weekly meetings with the college’s Counseling and Psychological Services helped student-athletes navigate an unprecedented year.

Mentoring Many teams have longstanding mentorship programs, where each first-year regularly meets with a returning student to talk about any number of topics, such as academics, organization and time management, or navigating campus life.

Take Advantage of New Rules Last fall, NESCAC allowed spring sports, like baseball, softball, and lacrosse, to hold fall practices with their coaching staffs present.

“I am not sure what could be more productive and beneficial for our firstyear students and their teammates and coaches than spending time

Zoom welcome panels Returning Bates athletes and Bates Athletics staff helped welcome firstyears virtually.

Get with the group COVID-19 protocols restrict large gatherings, so “we meet in smaller groups, set up times to lift together, play wall ball together, and get to know them more personally,” said men’s lacrosse player Peyton Weatherbie ’21 of Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

Keep it simple Tennis player Salma Alsikafi ’24 of Lake Buff, Ill., recalls how, back in August, her new teammates instantly helped her feel settled simply by introducing themselves while she ate dinner outside with a few other first-years from her dorm.

Why I Coach Tyler Sheikh Head Coach, Men’s Soccer

Partly borne out of his own unsatisfying undergraduate athletic experience, Tyler Sheikh’s coaching philosophy focuses on giving students control of their experience, when possible.

So rather than creating a cult-ofcoach program, he wants players’ guidance. “The more the merrier,” he says. “I want their opinions, I want their feedback. It’s their experience.

How can I help it be more memorable?”

And it’s worth it, he says. “It’s absolutely a joy. Bates kids are pretty darn special.”

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“I want to make sure they feel like they have a home and they belong.”

ARTS & CULTURE

This year’s MLK Day programming included virtual readings of two plays.

Parts of the Bates Museum of Art’s collection are searchable at museum.bates.edu.

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Feel the Earth As the projected Zoom image of guest artist Kendra J. Ross loomed like a benevolent Oz, Claire Kaminski ’24 (center) of Montclair, N.J., and fellow dancers rehearsed an unusual dance piece during a very unusual time.

The course was “Dance Repertory,” a staple of the dance program in which students work closely with professional guest choreographers as well as faculty.

In the course’s fall 2020 iteration, seven students worked on two pieces, both informed by the pandemic.

One was Ross’ How the Wind Blows, which explores the energy of Oya, a female warrior deity of African origin who controls wind and lives at the gates of cemeteries. It asks the viewer to ponder “our relationship to death and rebirth during COVID,” said Ross.

To ensure physical distancing, students performed within 10-foot squares in the Plavin Studio. That created safety, but meant giving up the skin-on-skin physicality that often defines dance So Ross decided to dish the dirt, adding bags of soil to each dancer’s square, making possible a “more visceral and tactile excavation” of the dance’s themes. In turn, the dancers used their bodies to create “phrases in the dirt to discover what 18

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that unearthed,” said Ross, who joined the class remotely from her home in Brooklyn.

Assistant Professor of Dance Brian Evans contributed Seven at Stake to the course, in which 10-foot poles splayed on the ground in various patterns or held like yokes guided the dancers in evocative sequences, all while keeping them safe and physically distant.

(The course spanned both modules of the fall semester, with Evans teaching the second module and Professor of Dance Carol Dilley the first.

The course’s seven students came into the course with trepidation, but left feeling triumphant. “Unlike what a lot of people think, during a pandemic performance is possible,” said Kaminski. “We just have to completely change the definition of what that means and what it consists of. Its something we are all proud of.”

In the end, Kaminski and her fellow students learned the art of the possible.

“We’re doing everything in our power to not let art and dance die. We’re being safe, and striving to create and work through the boundaries of COVID.”

Bates’ museum has continued to hold socially distanced Paint Nights throughout the COVID-I9 pandemic.

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Olin Arts Center began offering virtual concerts in 2020.

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The museum’s collection includes a I986 oil painting celebrating Maine’s famed Dysart’s Truck Stop.

The Art of Advice

The Bates Photography Club, dedicated to sharing advice and techniques, organizing photo trips, and highlighting student photographers, shared this image by George Natsis ’24 of Wayland, Mass., on the student club’s Instagram feed.

The image is a composite, in which two or more photographs are melded together to create a surprising effect — in this case as if we’re looking right through a student sitting on a Quad walkway.

“It was a cool way to capture the beautiful foliage of the fall season in Maine while adding my own twist,” Natsis says.

Bates Photo Cats on Instagram instagram.com/batesphotocats

1. Any poem can be yours

“I tell children to work to find you voice in the printed word of the poem.

Then the poem is yours,” said Bryan.

“Poems are like songs,” Giovanni added. “And every time we sing them we sing them differently.”

2. First, write for yourself “People forget you’re writing for yourself,” Giovanni said. “I say that all the time to my students: ‘You are your firs reader.’ As you read it, it has to please you. It has to make you smile.”

3. When all else is gone, your voice is what matters “You have nothing that’s more important than your prophetic voice,” said Bryan.

4. You can find inspiration anywhere “There is always magic and mystery in every moment,” said Bryan. Try looking at one little thing in your life — a word that sounds different from the way it looks — and asking, “What can it do? What is it saying to me?”

5. Work at it The work doesn’t stop when a painting is on a wall. “You are the one who has to bring this alive,” Bryan said.

“You have to make it work.”

6. Stay hopeful (because what else is there?)

“Go forward with hope for human beings,” Giovanni said. “If you don’t hope, what else do you have? What else are you going to try to do?”

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Mirror Image

The virtual opening of the Bates Museum of Art’s exhibition Let’s Celebrate Ashley Bryan! featured a loving discussion between Bryan (above left), a Maine artist, author, and illustrator, and poet Nikki Giovanni (above right).

The longtime friends and collaborators, with a combined 174 years of wisdom between them, offered six joyful lessons about creativity and life.

Sharing the Love Second-grade teacher Kayla Grier reads Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan to her class at Sherwood Heights Elementary School in Auburn.

In January, Bates Museum of Art Education Curator Anthony Shostak visited Sherwood Heights and other Lewiston-Auburn elementary schools to deliver Beautiful Blackbird and other education materials about Bryan, a Maine artist and author whose work was exhibited by the museum through March.

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Boldly illuminated against dark storm clouds, the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul — and its familiar eight spires — stands tall.

After less than 3 years, L/A’s only Krispy Kreme closed in March 2020…

...But Maine’s Holy Donuts opened an Auburn location on Minot Avenue in January 202I.

Dedicated in 1938, the basilica is clad in Mainesourced granite from the town of Jay. In fact, you can view the quarry. Just

head to North Jay White Granite Park, 14 Woodman Hill Road in Jay, where a one-mile hiking trail leads to a view.

Bruce Campbell ’76 (right), pharmacy director at Central Maine Medical Center, places COVID-19 vaccines into an ultra-cold freezer loaned by Bates as St. Mary’s pharmacy director Vahid Rohani opens the door.

Cold Comfort With COVID-19 vaccines set to arrive in Maine early last winter, local hospitals needed more than just space to store the incoming vials. They needed wicked cold space — cold as in minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit.

What’s in a Name: Sabattus It’s the name of a street in Lewiston, a neighboring town, and other places.

Sounds Like...

Not related to the word “Sabbath,” the name “Sabattus” is an alternative pronunciation of “Jean Baptist,” a common Christian name given to Native Americans

by French missionaries. Other spelling variations are “Sabattis,” “Sebattis,” and “Sabatis.”

Crossing Sabattus If you’ve been to the Goose or Luiggi’s, you’ve crossed Sabattus Street, which begins at the intersection with Main Street and extends to the town of Sabattus.

Sabattus Cabin In the mid-1920s, the Bates Outing Club built a cabin on the southern slope of Sabattus Mountain in nearby Wales. (“Sabattus” is also the name of a nearby pond and river.) By 1974, the cabin had been damaged by vandals. That October, in the spirit of leaving no trace, an Outing Club work group dismantled the cabin, removing all shingles, bricks, and other material from the site.

Bates donates more than 30,000 meals to local food banks each year.

After hearing a Maine Centers for Disease Control briefin that outlined the acute need, Associate Professor of Biology Brett Huggett emailed Geoff Swift, vice president for finance and administration.

“Basically I said, ‘Geoff, there’s a need for [ultra-cold] freezers within the state of Maine and I have one that could be freed up completely,’” recalled Huggett, a dendrologist who uses ultra-cold freezers to store tree-tissue samples before chemical analysis.

Swift took that idea and reached out to other members of the Bates natural science faculty and staff. After assessing what was available, he invited representatives from nearby Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center to come see what Bates could share — five freezers in all At CMMC, pharmacy director Bruce Campbell ’76 had thought he’d have to make do with his single, tiny freezer, as demand for new units had outstripped supply. “If we couldn’t prove that we had the storage ability, then the vaccine would, appropriately, go elsewhere,” he said.

Ultimately Campbell asked for and received two Bates units, a 19-cubic-foot upright from the chemistry department and a 5-cubic-foot chest-style freezer from biology.

Said Huggett, “Many of us on the Bates faculty and staff have been constantly thinking about how we can help out through this pandemic. This really seemed like an obvious way in which Bates could help.”

According to Webster A town adjacent to Lewiston was renamed Sabattus in 1971 to honor an 18th-century Native American tribal leader who, it’s said, guided Benedict Arnold as he ascended the Kennebec River to attack the British in Québec in 1775, during the Revolutionary War. The town was originally named Webster, after the orator and statesman.

The Sabattus town seal depicts a Native American leader wearing a feathered war bonnet, but such war bonnets were worn by tribes of the Great Plains, not the Northeast.

Name That Band “Sabattis” was the name of a circa 1970 hard rock band that never quite made it. Their demo album, Warning in the Sky, is on YouTube.

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A 2020 honors thesis identified four types of renewable heat/energy generators suitable to Lewiston.

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Collaboration with Museum L-A resulted in silkscreen-inspired wall art in Chu and Kalperis halls.

Circa 1934, Burt Dunfield ’34 and Ted Lynch ’36 pose outside the Bates Outing Club cabin on Sabattus Mountain, in Wales.

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The Bigger Picture Newly appointed to the Bates faculty this year, Assistant Professor of Economics Nivedhitha Subramanian delves into development economics, focusing on economic and social conditions in developing nations.

Why development economics?

“Part of the joy of this kind of research is learning about other contexts,” she says. “About what other communities and societies look like — and then understanding the bigger picture of your work.”

What she’s asking: For her dissertation, Subramanian looked at how gender norms affect women job seekers in Pakistan. She looked into questions like, “How do we hire people? What are the constraints that people, particularly women, might face in the labor market?”

To gather data, she used Job Asaan, a Lahore-based platform for female job seekers created by a team of development economists at Duke, including Subramanian.

Applications from Peru rose from I to 9 in 2020.

What she’s learned: In one experiment, some female job seekers were given extra information about job postings, such as the supervisor’s gender. Among those job seekers, application rates doubled. In addition, job seekers with that information were more likely to apply to a job with a female supervisor.

In another experiment, some job seekers were asked if they had discussed their job search with their family. Among this cohort, applications dropped by 30 percent. “This is consistent with women knowing that their families might not be supportive of their job search,” Subramanian says.

At the same time, women who got the family reminder were more likely to apply to jobs when also given information about the gender of coworkers.

“They believe their families care whether they will be working with men or women,” explains Subramanian.

“There’s this discrepancy between what women want for themselves and what they think that their parents or their families want for them. And that was really impacting which jobs they apply to.”

64% of the Class of 2020 studied abroad.

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The Experts Weigh In In Season 2 of the college’s hit web series Ask the College Experts, Associate Dean and Director for Global Education Darren Gallant offers tips for students looking to get the most out of study abroad.

Tip 1.

Study abroad is a means to an end: learning about a place. “It’s not a vacation or trip or travel opportunity,” Gallant says.

Tip 2.

While you will have lots of support as you plan your studies, you’re in the driver’s seat. “You’re the one who makes the decision of when you go, how you go, and where you go.”

Tip 3.

Expect an academically different semester, “steeped in learning a new culture, society, and way of life.”

Tip 4.

Expect to learn things about yourself that you’d never thought you’d learn.

Tip 5.

Expect the need to be flexible.

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Tip 6.

And finally: “Pack less! ou don’t need as much as you think you need when you study abroad.”

More from the Experts bit.ly/CollegeExperts Created to support Bates admission goals, Ask the College Experts won a Grand Gold award last year from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the preeminent

organization for higher education communications and advancement professionals.

Application fees are waived for non–U.S. citizens applying for first-year admission to Bates.

Bates is a Davis United World College Scholars Program partner institution.

Summer 2020 Purposeful Work Internships included one at Entro Gate, a consulting agency in Jordan.

MUSKAN “The fact that I didn’t even have a choice — that hit harder.”

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Reflecting on life as an international student during a global pandemic, Muskan Verma ’21 of Shimla, India, spoke about the death of a close family member in the fall semester. She acknowledged that in a “normal” year she probably would not have chosen to return home for services, but the fact that she didn’t have that choice was especially painful.

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BOOKS

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

The Mike Bowditch series

by Paul Doiron

Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernadine Evaristo

Suggested by Elizabeth Durand ’76: Set in World War II Europe, this is one of those books that makes the outside world disappear.

Suggested by Jim Bauer, Director of Network and Infrastructure Services: Written by Down East magazine’s editor emeritus, the series follows Bowditch, a game warden in the wilds of Maine who struggles with a haunted past.

Suggested by Shoshona Currier, Bates Dance Festival Director: Beautiful and challenging fiction that weaves through characters’ intersecting identities.

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

by Kim Michele Richardson Suggested by Pamela Baker ’69, Helen A. Papaioanou Professor Emerita of Biological Sciences: Inspired by the true story of the 1930s WPA rural book program and the blue-skinned Fugate family of Kentucky.

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The World That We Knew

by Alice Hoffman

LOST & FOUND Items seen in Ladd Library’s Lost & Found in winter visit:

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Quarter-zip hoodie by Toad&Co • Book: Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe • Four pens, including a classic Bic Crystal • Scrunchie • Two water bottles • Several chapters of a senior thesis • Book: My Face is Black is True • Pop-up hairbrush • Eyeglasses by Longchamp • One earring • Apple charger • Single glove

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

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Wooden Bobcat Wine Stopper

$5.99

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QUIZ

Twenty-five years ago, a ad for this item in The Bates Student promised, “It talks.

It talks to your Mom. It talks to Moscow.” What was it?

A Hard Winter Its arms made of branches blown down by unrelenting winds, its base the stump of a tree lost to disease, this forlorn snowman created on the Quad in February seemed to capture the mood of a dystopian winter. Here’s to spring and better days!

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Answer: With advanced multimedia capabilities, a Macintosh computer could do those things, with “no complicated commands needed to get up and surfing on the Internet.

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When students are feeling down, or need help getting their feet back on the ground, someone on the Bates staff will be there for them pho to g ra ph y and i nte rv i ews by phyllis g raber je nse n w i th th e oph i l syslo

the day-to-day work performed by many

Bates staff members is often described as “support.”

Academic support. Technology support.

But after seeing our students work so hard to navigate Bates life during a pandemic — physically distant, under a new academic calendar, and minus many college comforts like Commons — we chose another word, a near-synonym, to sum up what these

Bates staff members have often provided to students this year: “Help,” the way the Beatles sang about it, when they’re feeling down and not so self-assured.

From Sports Medicine to the Department of Chemistry to Ladd Library and the Multifaith Chaplaincy, here are a few of the many Bates staff members who are around when students need somebody — not just anybody.

Rick McQueeney Rick McQueeney is behind the wheel most days as a Bates Bobcat Express driver, helping students access places and services off campus, from medical appointments to shopping excursions.

Some students like to talk, and others less so.

It’s like everywhere else in this world: Everybody has their own comfort zone of reaching out. I’ve talked to students from every continent but Antarctica!

It’s amazing what they’ve gone through and how they’ve gotten here. I learned that some students from Lithuania or Estonia got to Bates through China. Wow, what a trip!

Sometimes they just want somebody to talk to. We’re not really in a position of authority, so we’re just someone they can share concerns with or look to for advice or an opinion.

My wife and I have gardens at home, and I brought in produce for students to use in their cooking. I had a gentleman from Pakistan that was complaining about not having any hot peppers. I love hot peppers! I brought him home-canned peppers and some very hot peppers that my wife and I had grown over the summer.

I’ve really missed meeting students who go into the community through the Harward Center. I really got to know some of them. I’m still in contact with some; I like to see what they’re doing now.

I can say out of all this, the one thing of working here at Bates and meeting these students is, they’ve renewed my faith in what the future’s going to be like.

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Justin Moriarty Technical director for the theater and dance department, Justin Moriarty taught his first theater course at Bates, on stage management, during the fall semester.

On Friday, March 13, 2020, we got word that Bates would move to remote learning due to the pandemic.

That evening, around 100 of us gathered in Gannett Theater to show our support and watch a remarkable group of students stage a production that was far from complete.

The set was half-finished. Lights still needed to be hung and focused. There was so much still to do. No one was ready to go dark, and so we rallied together and did something unforgettable.

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would sound like some nightmare super-spreader event. We loved absolutely every moment of it.

Our students, like so many of us, just wanted to feel connected. This is why we love live performance. The space we create together is sacred.

We returned in the fall to a new world — where 16 people would be our new max capacity in Gannett, where air fist bumps replaced the long-held embraces.

It was even more important to do what we do best. Treat each student as an individual, look for ways to help them succeed, and encourage them to step out of their comfort zones and fail brilliantly.

Raymond Clothier As the associate multifaith chaplain, Raymond Clothier works with students to plan activities that create space for conversation, art, reflection, and social action. He also meets with students, faculty, and staff for private conversation and spiritual care.

Realizing that big meetings would no longer be possible during a pandemic, I envisioned a new program called Thresholds that offers small groups of students ways to find belonging and community at transitional points in their college careers.

I had fun working with two of our Multifaith Fellows who dreamed up an online meeting based on the “36 Questions That Lead to Love” popularized by The New York Times.

I don’t know if any of the students fell in love, but they felt less alone. I also attached a pingpong net to the conference room table belonging to our colleagues at the Harward Center next door, but please don’t tell them.

This year, I’ve learned how surprisingly difficult it is for first-year students to make friends.

That is especially true with masks and COVID restrictions, but it contributes to the loneliness that many college students feel every year. Bates staff do a remarkable job of offering programming, but the way we live today — always looking down at our phones — keeps people from looking up to see others.

It’s not cheery to say that I have noticed more sadness and a general lack of joy. Maybe springtime and traditional events, like senior thesis binding, will help bring back some joy. If not, there is pingpong in the Harward Center conference room.

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Timothy Kivus Timothy Kivus and his fellow Facility Services groundskeepers have helped Bates provide more outdoor opportunities for students by setting up furniture and clearing snow from Garcelon Field, a space that he — and Bates students — have dubbed “Garcelon Beach.”

Especially during the pandemic, Garcelon Field has become nearly a year-round space.

Students eat there, play sports there, and have fun at night there. I enjoy watching the students on Garcelon Field. I’m so glad that they can be out there.

When we plow Garcelon Field — it has a synthetic turf surface — we use three vehicles. I use a pickup truck with a Teflon blade to push the snow to the edge. A Bobcat skid-steer with a small front-loading bucket grabs the snow and pushes it through the gate. A large front loader piles the snow outside the gate.

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During the last 10 years since the turf was installed, we’ve noticed that it’s a lot better to plow it every storm than to let it build up before plowing it. Luckily, this was a very mild winter.

We’ve also helped add outside seating for hanging out and eating. We’ve added undercanopy seating. I think students have really enjoyed these opportunities to be outdoors.

But some things have changed, such as the maintenance in the Library Arcade, where students often eat. With to-go dining in throwaway containers, there’s been more outside trash, and that’s now a really big factor on campus.

Lorna Clark An assistant in instruction in the Department of Chemistry, Lorna Clark works closely with students, setting up laboratory experiments and training students on how to use various instruments.

Assistants in instruction spend a lot of time helping students learn techniques and methods in the laboratory. Being close by is a big part of the job, but physical distancing guidelines in 2020–21 meant I couldn’t be right beside them to help them with an instrument or an experiment.

To help with that, our faculty, Jen [Koviach-Côté] and Andrew [Kennedy], made videos of every single laboratory experiment we were doing. By watching the videos, students could see exactly what they were coming into the lab to do.

To physically distance, we went from 24 students down to 11 in the lab.

Under ordinary circumstances, students feed off each other — they really work with each other to figure things out. When we went to 11, with everybody spaced out, that became very challenging.

It also got quiet in the lab, almost unsettling. I missed all the chatter. So we started playing music. It helps students just relax.

I’m usually smiling behind my mask. I think about how I believe in science, how I’m just so thankful that soon we’ll be out of this mess because of science.

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Brenda Reynolds Brenda Reynolds is head of access services for Ladd Library, managing the circulation of materials, borrowing from Colby and Bowdoin and within the state of Maine, helping students access library resources, including reserves, and ensuring physical distancing.

We took out half the chairs in the library because of COVID-19, to reduce density. Because of COVID, the library is more of a locked-down space than an open hangout space.

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chairs, they have to wear their masks, and it’s just a very different vibe for them. This year, students come in mostly because they’re solely looking for something, or just to study. It’s like it might be at other libraries!

And we miss having the students hanging out. At Bates, the library is one of the places that a first-year student who hadn’t joined a club or activity yet, and hadn’t really gotten into coursework yet, could come to and meet other people.

Tonya Bailey-Curry A licensed clinical social worker, Tonya BaileyCurry works as a staff therapist for the college’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS).

She recognizes that students are coping with two pandemics: COVID-19 and white supremacy.

It is emotionally dysregulating, tremendously so, to navigate life in the midst of two pandemics: one being COVID and the other, white supremacy, which reached heights impossible to ignore.

Working with BIPOC students, with whom I may racially identify, has provided an opportunity to allow them to hopefully feel a sense of comfort while addressing fears that I relate to, as well.

Lessons learned from the prior year: We have to continue to meet students where they are at.

We will continue to remind them that it is OK not

to be OK, and continue to hold space for them as they process what that means for their lives.

Also, I like to remind students that they — not I — are the experts in their lives. My role is to walk alongside them and hopefully provide them with some useful tools along their journey.

We at CAPS always try to elevate the importance of students using their voices, in all aspects of their lives, including their experience in therapy. Often students are spoken for and not with.

Self-advocacy is essential, and we are listening.

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Hoi Ning Ngai Hoi Ning Ngai wears two Bates hats these days.

She’s an associate director for employer engagement and business advising for the Bates Center for Purposeful Work and also an interim associate dean with the Office of Intercultural Education.

The pandemic has simply pushed us to be more ourselves than ever before — more engaged, more intentional, more thoughtful, more purposeful.

We pivoted from in-person to virtual platforms in everything we do. In some ways, it’s been a boon.

Students have better access to us and our programs, and we’ve been able to “bring to campus” alumni and employers for panels and information sessions without the challenges of travel, time, and cost.

For individual student appointments, it’s Zoom or, weather permitting, the outdoors. I’ll always remember sitting with a student on the porch at Canham House, our headquarters, as freezing rain came down around us last fall.

Students have been doing their best, but they’re simply worn out and Zoomed out — all of us are.

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Their inboxes are overrun, their eyes are strained, all of their days blend together. There are no perfect solutions to any of these challenges, especially when we’re all experiencing them.

We’re now helping students craft their COVID resilience stories to share with interviewers for internships and jobs. Interviewers want to know how someone has dealt with unexpected situations — if the pandemic isn’t the best example, I’m not sure what is.

And that’s what we need to help students focus on: The world continues to turn, so they need to show how they’ve faced ongoing uncertainty with critical reflection and thoughtful action. And they have been resilient — we need to help them see and highlight that resilience.

Bobby Bosse Bobby Bosse is supervisor of Mail & Package Services. He oversees the “Post” aspect of Post & Print and manages the facility’s student employees as they process every package that comes in and out of Bates.

In 2020–21, students ordered many more things online rather than shopping locally. We saw a lot more grocery and food orders coming from places like Amazon Pantry and Thrive.

Honestly, they’re ordering everything: beef jerky, cans of soups, ramen — just anything you can think of, they will order it all.

We’re also seeing an uptick in toiletries coming in, most notably razors, from Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s. Bates has teamed up with Central Maine Medical Center to make prescription deliveries so students who used to go to a local pharmacy can come pick up all their prescriptions here.

During the first 10 days of the winter semester, we processed and handed out 7,517 packages, a 40 percent increase over last year.

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Ben Walker A certified athletic trainer with Sports Medicine in the Department of Athletics, Ben Walker transitioned to a new role in 2020–21 as director of Student-Facing Contact Tracing.

Our goal is to accurately identify students who meet the CDC’s definition of a close contact in cases of COVID-19. By doing this, we help limit the potential spread and help keep our campus and local community safe.

Students have lots of stressors in their lives, especially in the last year. The added stress of finding out that you have tested positive or have been a close contact does not make things any easier.

The most important trait of a contact tracer is the ability to make a student feel comfortable. We are in the business of delivering unwelcomed news — sometimes before a student has even gotten out of bed. n

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Holly Ewing talks with Sophia Miller ’21 during fieldwork at Pettengill Farm. Ewing uses a knife to scrape the side of a soil pit to expose a clean surface for examination.

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The chance to get off campus to do some physical fieldwork on gorgeous coastal Maine farmland was like shaking off the shackles of the pandemic, if only for a morning p ho to g raphy and text by ph y lli s g r abe r je nse n Holly Ewing knelt down, knife in hand, at the edge of the pit that Sophia Miller ’21 had just dug at Pettengill Farm in Freeport. Ewing, the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, deftly scraped loose material from the side so she and Miller, a student in her “Soils” course, could get a better look at the distinct layers of the soils of this saltwater farm, perched on an estuary of the Harraseeket River.

Before it became a historic preserve, Pettengill Farm was cultivated for centuries, so the soil was often plowed, mixing everything at the surface into one deeper layer, or technically speaking, a horizon.

Below that tilled horizon was a layer of marine clay,

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known as the Presumpscot Formation, deposited when the area was covered by ocean after the glaciers receded.

“It’s pretty hard to dig through because it’s so dense,” Miller says.

But Miller, an environmental studies major from New York City who took two courses with Ewing in the fall, including “Soils,” was happy to dig in, especially when the pandemic canceled or curtailed so many hands-on and in-person opportunities, including sports and other extracurriculars.

There’s no sit-down dining in Commons; instead, students pick up their meals. Even the once basic freedom to roam about the Bates campus was limited,

as students were not allowed to visit residences other than their own. The result, say many students, was an unavoidable feeling of social isolation.

But there was also the art of the possible, with faculty like Ewing and others able to offer fieldworkintensive courses, albeit while following COVID-19 rules of distancing and masking — and lots of hand sanitizer.

For example, geologist Dyk Eusden ’80 mounted field trips for his introductory Maine geology course, using busses, ferries, rental vans, and sea kayaks to examine geology from the coast to the mountains.

“We normally do a few more, but the fact that we were able to pull off four trips during a pandemic, with pretty challenging logistics, was amazing,” he said.

Likewise, Ewing knew she had to take her “Soils” class, an environmental studies course that digs into the science of dirt, outside whenever possible.

“The course absolutely relies on students being able to see, smell, and feel soils in a variety of landscapes,” Ewing says. “These field explorations make the properties of the soil tactile and help the students come to see soils as bodies in the landscape.”

“I’ve just been really thankful to get my hands dirty.”

Beyond the science, Ewing’s trips to Pettengill Farm or Thorncrag Bird Sanctuary were a blessing for students, even if the excursions required three rental vans, and six people spread out across each 15-person van, another measure to ensure physical distancing.

Normally Ewing could have gotten the whole class there in one van, with maybe one other small vehicle. And she wouldn’t have needed to have every window in the vehicles open the whole way. For her students though, the inconveniences were worth it.

“I’ve just been really thankful to get off campus and get my hands dirty,” says environmental studies major Sam Gilman ’22 of Mendham, N.J. In late winter, Ewing reflected on her fall experience, while looking ahead to fieldwork with students in her “Scientific Approaches to Environmental Issues” course this spring.

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The core class is a requirement for any environmental studies major and at 45 students, was oversubscribed by six. She’d had to curtail some of the time typically allotted to being in the field because of strict rules around how much time students can spend together; typically there is additional time built into the schedule for lab work. And April in Maine isn’t exactly prime time to drive any distance with the windows open.

“This is all logistically complicated,” Ewing says.

The compromise? Stick close to campus, including fieldwork you can actually walk to.

“Some of it is going to be designing a study here on campus,” Ewing says. “I’ll have them figure out how many trees there are on Mount David. They’ll go to Thorncrag and identify trees. We’ll go to Garcelon Bog and do some fieldwork to figure out how much carbon is sequestered in the bog. It will be a series of problems like that that are all very local.”

What’s essential, though, is seeing it all in person to place it within the context of land rather than pages in a book or a computer screen. As Ewing

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explained at Pettengill Farm, soil characteristics are shaped by a variety of factors, ranging from vegetation, slope, and drainage to the parent materials from which they form.

“The physical, chemical, and biological properties we discuss in the classroom can be connected to what we have seen and done in the field — something that can clarify and connect concepts in a way that no textbook can,” she says.

At Pettengill Farm, the work began. Shovels in hand, the students, some working alone, some in pairs, dug holes in the farmland, then set about exploring transitions in soil characteristics from hole to hole and comparing what they found in the field to how the soils are mapped in the area’s soil survey, which describes and classifies soil types and properties.

Students looked closely at soil structure, texture, and color among the different soil horizons that they unearthed.

“The changes that can occur within just a few feet of each other are incredible,” says Gilman. He

and his lab partner, Zoe Knauss ’23 of Buffalo, N.Y., dug about eight holes during the course of the morning. (Meanwhile, a student studying remotely, in New Hampshire, dug her own holes there.)

Ewing had prepared students for their fieldwork by teaching them about differences in soils and what causes those differences, from redox reactions to erosion. The classroom/fieldwork dynamic appealed to Gilman: “It’s really cool to then have the ability to get outside and actually see how what we’re learning in class applies to real landscapes.”

Knauss agrees, saying what prompted her to declare a major in environmental studies was “being able to relate what we learn about in the classroom to the actual environment we are living in,” she says.

As the students spread across the old farmland in Freeport with their analysis assignment in hand, Ewing, joined by Camille Parrish, a lecturer in environmental studies, moved from one group to another to check in and give feedback.

At the time of the fieldwork last September, Miller was working especially closely with Ewing

because of the module system, a schedule change responding to the pandemic. Miller’s two courses for the first “module,” the soils course and her thesis work, were both led by Ewing. “She’s my only professor at the moment,” Miller says. “It’s been pretty incredible to get to know a professor on that level.”

Taking notes, Miller kneels on the grass beside her excavated hole, the soil from the hole piled neatly on a blue tarp, ready to be shoveled back into the hole at the end of the day’s work.

The Presumpscot Formation extends inland to Lewiston and beyond. The connectivity between the campus in Lewiston and this saltwater farm in Freeport was literally within her grasp. “Experiential learning has always been big for me,” she says.

“That’s part of why I came to Bates.” And particularly welcome this fall, when she’s been spending so much time in her room.

“I’m socially more isolated than I have been in past years,” she says. “So the opportunity to be around peers in a socially distant way, to get off campus, and be learning from Holly is especially special.” n

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OBJECTS OF THE HEART The things that students — aka emerging adults — bring from home to campus help them navigate the throes of identity development while providing peace of mind during tough times p h otog raphy and interviews by ph y lli s g r abe r je nse n

“Anything that makes you feel more comfortable and brings you a sense of normalcy definitely helps,” says Maria Rocha, a first-year student from Porto, Portugal.

For Rocha, comfort comes in the form of Ping, the stuffed penguin she’s had since she was eight, who keeps watch over her Zoom classes and is always there when she returns to her dorm room.

For as long as humans have left their homes, it’s likely they’ve carried beloved items to help them through whatever ordeal might confront them. In young children, such comfort items are called “transitional objects” by attachment theorists. Linus’ blanket is the most famous example.

In attachment theory, explains Rebecca Fraser-Thill, a member of the psychology faculty at Bates, such items can “offer a concrete way of connecting to our (hopefully) safe and secure childhood, and to our caregivers in particular.”

College students — or “emerging adults,” as developmental psychologists call them — use transitional objects to help them navigate the throes of identity development in college, says Professor Emerita of Psychology Georgia Nigro.

“The transitional objects they bring to college probably serve the dual functions of supplying comfort in moments of uncertainty and assisting young people in the important business of identity development.”

The uncertainty brought on by the pandemic has certainly touched us all, including these seven emerging adults who told us about the beloved objects they brought from home, from juggling clubs to house plants, that play a greater role than ever in helping create peace of mind.

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madeleine lee ’24 Hometown: Providence, R.I. Major: Undeclared What she brought: Parents’ wedding photograph Madeleine says: The story that my family tells is how, on my first day of preschool, I was so nervous that I went to school clutching this picture of my parents on their wedding day and one of my mom’s shirts.

There’s a picture of me that day, looking terrified, which I recreated on my first day of senior year in high school.

On my first day of classes here at Bates — my first day of classes ever in college — I went to Post & Print, and my parents had sent me the photo. It’s a sweet little reminder that they’re always with me, and I just love having it in my dorm room. It was the best kind of care package.

On your first day of school when you’re a child, you take the pictures by the door and have all these little traditions. So at Bates, on my first day of school without my parents, receiving the photo made me miss them — it was so special that they would remember to send it.

I’m sure I’ll have it with me on my last first day of classes in my senior year at Bates, too.

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ben hoffinger ’22 Hometown: Arlington, Mass.

Major: American studies What he brought: Juggling clubs Ben says: I always bring juggling clubs to campus, but this year they’ve been especially nice to have. Juggling relieves stress and helps to re-center myself, clear my head.

Maybe I’ve had a rough night with work, stuff like that, and I will just come outside at night — I have light-up ones too — and I’ll just juggle to relax and cool off.

I mostly use the Keigwin Amphitheater because I live in Adams and it’s convenient.

I am co-president of the Circus Club.

That’s been especially important to me because we can’t always be socializing as much as we did in the past.

It’s nice to have a hobby that I can work on in my free time that also, even outdoors, sparks social interaction because when people see you juggling they will come up to you — not right up to you — but to say, hey, like that’s kind of cool.

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jasper beardslee ’22 Hometown: Miami Major: Environmental studies What he brought: Conch Jasper says: This is a conch shell, and I brought it because Maine’s really different from Florida. Growing up in Miami meant that I was pretty connected to the ocean — and being near it at all times — through diving, surfing, and swimming.

I found this conch off Elliott Key, which is right next to Miami. I was doing some free diving, and it was lying on the bottom, just empty and perfect-looking so I picked it up and brought it home and decided to bring it to college with me. I’ve had it all three years at Bates. I put it right by my window so the light hits it in the morning.

Even though it’s been really tough to not be with my family during these trying times, especially last winter, as it grew colder and the sun got low in the sky, I appreciated these trinkets more and more.

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maria rocha ’24 Hometown: Porto, Portugal Major: Undeclared What she brought: Plush penguin Maria says: His name is Ping, which is short for pinguim, which means penguin in Portuguese.

My older sister, Beatriz, gave him to me when I was about eight, so I’ve had him for just over 10 years. I take him everywhere with me. I went to boarding school in India, also very far away from home, so I took him with me. It helped make my room feel homier, because the whole environment was foreign to me. At least I had this one constant thing.

And it’s similar at Bates. I always have him in my room; he’s just there.

I think because of the pandemic this year, we end up spending more time in our rooms. I have an online class when, even if I don’t notice him there, I feel that subconsciously seeing him there makes me feel a little bit better.

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linnéa selendy ’23 Hometown: Stockholm, Sweden Major: Environmental studies What she brought: Wall calendar with pictures of her cousins Linnéa says: Being really far away from home is tough, especially not seeing my two baby cousins. They’re really special to me, like the sisters I never had. But I only see them maybe twice a year.

This photo is for October, and they are dressed for Halloween. Seeing them every day just puts a smile on my face.

Aléa, on the left, is nine (oh my gosh, she’s so old!). On the right is Yara, seven. I literally remember them as if they were babies.

I remember holding Aléa when I was 11. And she was taking her first steps when she was visiting me. They’re my mother’s sister’s daughters. They were born in Sweden, and their father is from Uruguay.

I get a calendar like this every birthday from my cousins and my aunt. It’s a tradition. At first I brought it with me because I thought, “Oh, it’s so cute. It just kind of keeps some Swedishness in my dorm.”

Ever since I’ve been here it’s become more and more comforting to me, more than I realized it was going to be from the start. When times get hard, just the daily reminder of just crossing off each day, especially now, is making me feel I’m taking day by day more than I did earlier in the year.

Marking things that are going to be fun, to look forward to, Dunkin’ Donuts or a hike I’m taking, and also schoolwork.

It’s right by my door, so every time I leave for class, I get to see those things — and my cousins.

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helen carr ’21 Hometown: Tarrytown, N.Y. Major: Politics and French and francophone studies What she brought: Three mugs Helen says: Each of these mugs has a story that’s important to me: someone who gave the mug to me, or a funny joke.

But what I really love about them is that even on my worst day — or my best day — I can always make a cup of warm tea and it’ll always make me feel better. It will make me feel like I’m back home with my mom sitting on the couch drinking tea together.

The pottery mug was made by a Bates studio art major who is now a graduate, Sarah Daehler ’19.

The Kellogg Hansen mug was given to me and all the other Purposeful Work interns from Bates at the law firm in D.C. And lastly, the mug with the bagpipes was a gift from my sister that she got when she was living in Scotland. It says, “Ceci n’est pas une bagpipe” — “This is not a bagpipe” — a reference to the painting This is Not a Pipe by René Magritte, who wanted to kind of demonstrate that a picture of something is not the thing itself, even though we understand it to be the thing itself. But she got it in Scotland, so it’s a bagpipe.

The benefit of Zoom classes is that I can always take tea breaks in the middle of class. So I’ll see how my day’s going and pick out which mug I want to use that day and make myself a cup of tea in the middle of class.

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adam banks ’21 Hometown: Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Major: Environmental studies What he brought: Plants Adam says: Plants really help me be mindful of the space I’m inhabiting.

You’re co-existing with living things and you have to watch them and take care of them. It keeps a nice daily rhythm for me.

This spider plant in particular might be from a larger one that I have. That larger one came from a plant that my mom had, and she gave me one of the babies.

Basically, whenever I see any of that line, it makes me think of her. It’s a nice little connection to home in that way.

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COURTESY OF THE WALKER FAMILY

Tiauna Walker ’21 was born when her father, Ed Walker ’02, was a first-year student just finding his place on the Bates campus.

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ne of the earliest memories Tiauna Walker ’21 has is of walking into her father’s dorm room at Bates. “It was a very small room,” she says, specifically a single, with a twin bed, extra long. And there was one of the now-laughably large computers of the era: “This like, huge box computer.”

Listening to his daughter describe the scene, Ed Walker ’02 squints against the late-winter sun in front of Hathorn, trying to summon up his own mental snapshot. “It had to have been Hedge,” he concludes. That’s where he lived senior year, when Tiauna would have been 3 and visiting the campus with her mother.

There may be another Batesie who’s had the distinction of having watched her dad play basketball in Alumni Gym, or who’s gummed French fries at the Den with baby teeth while her dad was in class.

Though if not unique, Tiauna Walker’s Bates roots are undeniably rare and unusual; she was welcomed into the Bobcat family on the very day she was born.

Her middle name is Divine. “Divine intervention,” Ed Walker says. “Which is what she was.” The baby and Bates changed his life at roughly the same time. Just starting his second semester at Bates when she was born, he chose her middle name as a reminder to himself.

Her first name was plucked from the lyrics of the Notorious B.I.G. song “My Downfall,” in which

the rapper sang of his own daughter: “Apologies in order, to T’Yanna my daughter / If it was up to me you’d be with me.”

Walker picked the name Tiauna as a sign of his commitment to being present, because at 19, the last thing Ed Walker wanted to be was an absentee father.

He had arrived at Bates in late summer 1998, a bright prospect from Roxbury, Mass., with not much more than the clothes on his back. He was 19, smart, charismatic, a gifted musician, and a leader on and off the basketball court. But he had been through a tumultuous childhood.

Joe Reilly, then the new head basketball coach at Bates and only 29 himself, had recruited Ed Walker from Charlestown High in Boston, where Walker played for Jack O’Brien, a Massachusetts coaching legend who had a reputation for guiding his players toward college opportunities.

As Reilly got to know his recruit, he understood that Walker was food- and housing-insecure.

The youngest of seven, Walker was bouncing from house to house, often sleeping at his high school teammates’ houses. “He called it ‘house hopping,’” Reilly says.

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taking care of their younger siblings,” Walker says.

“We had to work together to find dinner together.”

Charlestown High was close enough for an easy day trip and Reilly formed a bond with Walker over at least a dozen recruiting trips. But the regular phone calls from the coach were particularly vital for Walker. “He asked about life and my circumstances and he never once mentioned basketball,” Walker remembers. “And I saw value in that.”

One day, as Walker recalls, Reilly said this to his young recruit: “If you come to Bates, you have my word. I’m going to see that you cross that stage, whether you play basketball or not.”

“And that’s when I felt human again,” says Walker.

“I knew that he was invested in me and not just basketball. I knew that if they said yes, I would say yes.”

He remembers being very emotional during his interview with the Office of Admission in December 1997. Katie Moran Madden ’93, then an associate dean, asked him a question he didn’t understand, about AP classes. “I didn’t even know what an AP class was,” he says. So he bluffed, and then, as he realized his misstep, broke down in tears. “I was really young and raw.” Madden, who now works in admission at Dartmouth College, doesn’t remember tears, but she does remember how genuine Walker was. “And also vulnerable.”

Still, the conversation convinced Madden that Walker was ready for the challenge that Bates would provide. “I remember just being blown away after meeting him,” Madden says.

Joe Reilly was relieved. He had been truly worried about what would happen to Ed Walker after high school. The players he coached in the NESCAC usually had options. Family to fall back on. Not Walker. “Bates was his only safety net,” he says.

But by late spring of Walker’s senior year at Charlestown in 1998, there was another layer of complexity. His high school girlfriend, Starkia Benbow, was pregnant. For some this might have meant staying in Massachusetts, even giving up the dream of college. But for Walker, the promise of Bates took on a whole new meaning. “It was in that moment that I knew: Now I have to make something of myself.

I have to think about someone other than myself.”

“His vision was, if he was going to be the best provider and the best dad he could be for Tiauna, he had to get that Bates degree,” Reilly says.

Walker asked for a single room at Bates, so that mother and his soon-to-be-born child could visit, not a request first-year students could count on.

“Bates was extremely supportive,” he says.

But initially, he didn’t exactly fit in. “Everything about me was different,” Walker remembers. “My attitude. My style of dress. The language I spoke, the slang that I spoke. It was very clear. I understood that right away.”

And like many other Black students who’ve arrived at Bates, Walker quickly saw white supremacy in action. On his first day, moving into Hedge Hall, another student assumed he wasn’t a Bates student

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and confronted him. “Essentially asking, what was I doing there? Like, ‘Why are you here?’” Walker told the other student, “I’m here to be a student.”

That day Joe Reilly dropped by Hedge and found Walker still fuming about the incident. “He was wearing a Carolina Panthers NFL authentic jersey,” Reilly remembers. The room was sparse.

“Ed came with very little.” He talked his new player down, but he never forgot that window of insight he got into the stark reality of being Ed Walker. “There were a lot of things you forget over 23 years,” Reilly says. “That’s not one of them.”

Reilly, now the head basketball coach at Wesleyan University, checked in with Walker before sharing that story. It felt too private not to. “I don’t want it to seem like Bates was not a welcoming place for Ed because I think it really was. But there were some challenges for Ed and students like Ed. I’m really proud that, in my 11 years there, great progress was made. Bates was a great place when Ed got there. It really was. And it was just a better place when Ed left.”

Teammate Billy Hart ’02 had never heard that story. He shakes his head at the telling, saying he and Walker talked about a lot of things, but not about such big-picture issues as being Black at Bates. “I feel bad that I probably never even asked the most simple questions,” Hart says. “Which is the privilege I had and he didn’t have.”

Hart says Walker brought a unique kind of maturity to Bates. “If anything, he thrives and is able to focus and do better in uncomfortable situations.

He had a mental toughness that I didn’t have.” The whole team understood that Walker was preparing for fatherhood at the same time he was adjusting to academia. And that was taking a lot of energy too.

Walker was in Charles Nero’s class that first semester, trying to keep up while processing the bigger life lesson Nero presented: an openly gay Black professor with dreadlocks. “He delivered a sense of comfort in his skin that was new to me,” Walker says. It was a blessing, particularly at that time, “because I was so focused on learning what it meant to be a young Black man in this space.”

The basketball court was an easy space for him though, and one where he quickly became a leader.

The Friday night that Tiauna Walker was being born, Feb. 12, 1999, her dad poured in 17 points in a loss to Williams.

“We’re getting ready to play,” Reilly recalls.

“And Ed comes in and goes, ‘Coach, it’s happening tonight.’ And I’m like ‘Ed, we play in an hour.’”

Reilly offered to have his wife, Isabel, drive Walker, who didn’t have a license, immediately to Boston.

Or they could all leave after the game. Walker chose the latter, wanting to play.

“You can tell I was a young boy back then,” Walker says. “Because you know, I’m a grown man now, and if you said to me, ‘Your child might come within the week,’ I’m canceling my entire calendar.”

(Walker is now married and has four children.)

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Walker played in Bates basketball games on the night of, and the day after, Tiauna’s birth. “Now, if you said to me, ‘Your child might come within the week,’ I’m canceling my entire calendar.”

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In concept and execution, Walker’s senior thesis in hip hop was “daring and brilliant,” said his adviser, Charles Nero.

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Right after the game, Reilly skipped the postgame speech, Walker skipped the shower, and they both jumped in Reilly’s Honda CR-V, with Isabel, and headed to Boston, arriving about an hour after Tiauna’s birth. “She looked like a little version of me,” Walker recalls.

The Reillys headed back to Lewiston, arranging for Joe’s brother Luke to pick Walker up on a corner near the hospital the next afternoon and drive him back to campus for Bates’ Saturday afternoon game vs. Middlebury.

In his first game as a father, Walker scored a game-high 23 points as Bates defeated Middlebury for the Bobcats’ first conference win of the year.

The week his daughter was born, Walker earned NESCAC Rookie of the Week honors.

After the Middlebury game, longtime dean James Reese, heading to Connecticut, offered to drop Walker off in Boston. Himself a former basketball captain at Middlebury, Reese had watched Walker with keen interest, noting the physicality of Walker’s play — standard at Charlestown High, but not typical of NESCAC play.

“Was he smart enough to know how to pull it back?” Reese asks, rhetorically. “Well, yes. He’s the kind of guy who could get two fouls or three fouls in the first half and then never foul again for the rest of the game.” Reese, who was just getting to know Walker, wanted to be present if Walker had things he wanted to talk about. Like a test he was worried about. Or money.

But the drive to Boston was uneventful — until they arrived and Reese said farewell. Walker didn’t get out of the car. Instead, he turned to Reese and said, “You have to come inside. You have to see her.’” Reese was touched, but not sure it was his place. He demurred. Walker insisted. When Reese understood Walker meant it — “Every word of his is intentional” — he parked the car and went up, hoping Walker’s girlfriend didn’t mind meeting another person from Bates. “It was fantastic,” he said.

Over the next three and a half years, Walker created a routine, however unusual the routine was for a Bates student.

Whenever he could, he got on a Greyhound for Boston, and when Starkia could bring the baby up to Bates for a weekend, she would. In between visits, Walker juggled a lot of campus jobs: “Everywhere from the weight room to the gym.” He kept on scoring for the basketball team, amassing 1,409 career points by the end of his senior year, which now ranks him seventh for scoring in Bates men’s basketball history.

He was a junior advisor. He worked in Admission. He also had a side hustle, performing as a hip hop artist, sometimes as Versatyle — opening for Mos Def in spring 2003 at Bowdoin’s Jack Magee pub — and sometimes as Lyrikal, making a name for himself at Bates.

He “tore it up” at the Ben Mays Center in January 2001, according to The Bates Student, and again

that March as Lyrikal, “who has kept heads nodding with his smooth rhymes at shows and parties throughout the year.”

When it came time to present his senior thesis in African American studies (now Africana), Walker asked his thesis adviser, Charles Nero, if he could perform it, through music and photography. The concept and execution were “daring and brilliant,” says Nero, the Benjamin E. Mays Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies.

Schaeffer Theatre was the venue. “It was overflowing,” recalls Carmita McCoy, then associate dean of admission and director of multicultural recruitment. She remembers sitting in the 10th row, with her son, Nicholas. “Ed was one of his heroes,” she says. “He’s that kind of a guy. He could relate to kids. He could relate to adults.”

Walker could have pursued music as a career. As The Bates Student put it then, go see Ed Walker so “you can say you knew him before he got big.”

But that wasn’t the path Ed Walker chose. After graduation, he worked for nearly four years in admission at Bates, focusing on multicultural recruitment. He made it his business to return to Charlestown High. “Ed is loyal beyond loyal and leads with his generous heart and spirit,” says Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Leigh Weisenburger, who met Walker during her first year at Bates. “He immediately took me under his wing.”

After three years, Walker began looking for work closer to his daughter and took a position at Wheaton College. He went on to get a master’s in education from Cambridge College in Boston and founded Independent Consultants of Education, with the aim to help students like the one he’d been.

Now based in Milbury, Mass., he works as a guidance and school counselor at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. “Looking back, I’ve always taken jobs to do for young people what I wish someone was able to do for me when I was their age,” he says. That includes sending many young people toward Bates.

He’s been a motivational speaker (when Billy Hart brought him in to speak to a group of middle schoolers at the school where Hart was working, the students were rapt and then rushed Walker at the end. “It was just, like, flocking,” Hart says). He still makes music, but faith-based rather than rap. Last year he started a clothing company, R3Raiment, athletic leisurewear that speaks to his spirituality, the three Rs standing for Repent, Reborn and Redeem.

Tiauna is one of his models for the clothing line.

For the record, he did not push his first-born, who attended Lincoln-Sudbury High School, into applying to Bates. “Surprisingly, no,” Tiauna Walker says, smiling. “He definitely heavily reps Bates,” she concedes. But they did look at other schools and in the end, Bates was her top choice. “It was all me,” she says.

On campus, she has encountered many who were floored that the baby they knew was now on her own Bates journey, and seemingly in the blink of an eye.

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Tiauna (second from right) has taken courses from professors Charles Nero (left) and Baltasar Fra-Molinaro (right), who also taught Ed (second from left, with wife Bonnie). They’re seen during a campus meetup in her first year.

Like Charles Nero and his husband, Professor of Hispanic Studies Baltasar Fra-Molinero, who met her and the whole Walker family outside Commons during her first year. “We’re so old now,” Nero quips.

Her major is psychology, with a minor in Africana, so she’s taken a couple of courses from her father’s former mentor. She’s also studied Spanish with Fra-Molinero, who admires her globalist perspective. She has campus jobs as an Admission Fellow and in Post & Print.

There are physical similarities between father and daughter: Height, cheeks, smiles. But there was a generational difference Nero observed. Ed arrived with drive but less direction; he was a sponge, soaking up the experience. His daughter arrived “with a very clear idea about her direction.” Junior year, she studied in Ghana. And as she prepares to leave Bates, she says she’s thinking about going into education.

“I want to be a principal or a head of school, most likely middle or high school.”

Her favorite class was a developmental psychology course with Rebecca Fraser-Thill, which entailed an immersive community engagement component. Tiauna signed up for visits to D’Youville Pavilion, the elder-care center adjacent to the Bates campus. That’s often a tough assignment to get students interested in, Fraser-Thill says, but “Tiauna was one of the people who was like, ‘Oh yeah, I’m all in.’” “I love infants and elderly people,” Tiauna says. “I like that bluntness that they have.”

In the memory unit, Walker grew close to Joan, a sassy woman who wore earrings and lipstick and was always happy to see Tiauna and tell her stories about her life. For a student, sitting and just listening is a crucial part of the lesson, Fraser-Thill says.

“It might sound like someone just rehashing their life, but that’s actually a huge psychosocial journey that a resident is going through.” In those moments, Tiauna was empathetic and thoughtful, Fraser-Thill

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adds. “She was the only student to reach out and say, ‘I want to write to my resident over the summer.’”

When James Reese looks at Tiauna, he sees the quiet strength of her father. A similar posture and approach to life. “They both reflect an openness,” Reese says.

Tiauna Walker is leaving Bates with a host of connections to last a lifetime and stretching around the globe. This makes Ed Walker very happy. “Hanging out with her and her friends is like the United Nations. It’s so diverse. Right? She has friends from all walks of life.”

Soon, she will enter a time where it is fine, even natural, for her father to be hands off. (Yes, he proofread her thesis.) To let her fly as he did. “I’m just grateful for what we have and how far we’ve come,” Ed says.

A few years ago, in fall 2017, Tiauna arrived at Bates as a first-year student. As he’s done for so many students, James Reese was there to welcome her.

Reese didn’t want to presume by telling her about meeting her in 1999, when she was a day old, but he wanted her to understand what he remembers: how her father felt so strongly that she was a person who had to be met. “Because that’s really a statement about Ed Walker.” n

Below, Tiauna and Ed pose on Alumni Walk last winter.

Right, while studying abroad in Ghana in early 2020, Tiauna does the famous canopy walk in Kakum National Park.

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1940 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Leonard Clough lgcclough@gmail.com

1941 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class presidents Elizabeth Gardner Margaret Rand alpegrand@aol.com

1942 Reunion 2022, June 10–12

1943 Reunion 2023, June 9–11

1944 Reunion 2024, June 7–9

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

1946 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class secretary Helen Pratt Clarkson hpclarkson7@gmail.com class president/treasurer Jane Parsons Norris janenorris@roadrunner.com Barbara Carter Moore retired as a radiologist in her 80s. She has been able, with help, to stay in her home in Marblehead, Mass., and enjoy the views of the harbor, as well as reading, radio, and friends.…Gloria Finelli DeVoe shares an apartment in Lakewood, Colo., with sister

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Alma Finelli ’49. Gloria enjoys genealogy as well as theater and music at the University of Denver, where she got her master’s.

Still driving, Gloria will resume lunching with her “clubs” as soon as it’s safe. There’s a lot left of the spirit of the girl who boarded the train to Colorado after Bates with the late Pat Wilson Sanborn ’46.…Peter Guglietta is still in his own home, in Somerville, Mass. His retirement is “a quiet one but a good one.”…Mary Frances Langille Randall, now 95, lives in Sarasota, Fla. Daughter Susan visits regularly from Virginia. Mary’s hearing makes phone calls impossible but she’s generally in good spirits despite having lost her husband, Henry.…

Jane Parsons Norris reports that, while her activity is limited, she has plenty to hold her interest. She’s comfortable at home in Auburn, Maine, and appreciates frequent family visits.…Agnes Patterson Warren and John still live in their own home in Lyme, Conn., with help from their kids.

She manages with a walker and they still drive. Agnes is an alumna of one of the Bates classes that started their term in June. Later she taught for 20 years and is glad not to be teaching under today’s conditions….Now 97, Roula Petropulos Kottaridis resides at Wentworth Senior Living in Portsmouth, N.H. She keeps in touch with son Jim and daughter Kathy. Though Roula uses a wheelchair, her physical health is mostly good even as she struggles with short-term memory loss.

Her long-term memory remains sharp, including her Bates years.

A townie, Roula lived near campus and still recalls faculty who lived in the neighborhood.…

After 30 winters enjoying the Arizona climate, Helen Pratt Clarkson “reluctantly accepted that I needed to cut down to one home and that I should be near family.” A nephew brought his RV south from Denver to drive her to Freeport, Maine.

Helen notes, “I am lucky to be comfortably settled by the water next door to my daughter.” She adds, “there have been so many things to enjoy, such as the car parade on my 95th birthday and

receiving 228 birthday cards.”…

Dorothy Strout Cole claims to be the world prize-winning procrastinator, but was the first of her class to respond to a call for news. She manages well with a walker and still travels from Orlando to Harpswell, Maine, in the summer. In a chat with Helen Clarkson about how their Bates degrees helped them find jobs, Dorothy recalled that her first job was dissecting cockroaches at Tufts for $25 a week.…Mary Tibbetts Kelly writes of being “a town girl” and having to take a year out of college to earn the $300 tuition to go back. Though a fall has left her mostly housebound, she lives more or less independently with her daughter and son-in-law in Fairfax, Va. She enjoys knitting colorful afghans for nursing homes, thankful she can give rather than receive.…

Muriel Ulrich Weeks lives independently in a retirement community near Pittsburgh.

“I feel surrounded by love and support from my family and my community,” she says. Though they’ve lost sister Ruth Ulrich Coffin ’42, the remaining Ulrich sibs — Muriel, Helen Coorssen ’43, Grace Harris ’51, and Art Ulrich ’55 — all live independently and stay in touch. Formerly an advocate in the mental health field, Muriel has observed how “the pandemic has highlighted the long-term consequences of under-supporting the needs of the mentally ill.”…Elizabeth Widger Arms gets out of her New Hampshire home most days, enjoying the lake and mountain views and the visiting birds.

Widge does miss Priscilla White Ohler, who passed away last March. Widge recalls how other students would serenade their Bates house with “Deck the halls with Widge and Holly” — the late Holly Hawkes Stoughton.

1947 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary/treasurer Jean Labagh Kiskaddon jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com class president Vesta Starrett Smith vestasmith@charter.net

1948 Reunion 2023, June 9–11

1949 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Carol Jenkinson Johnson rollincarol@comcast.net class president Nelson “Bud” Horne budhorne@gmail.com class vice president Beverly Young Howard 9415 Ashley Drive Weeki Wachee FL 34613

1950 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class president Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com

1951 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class presidents Bill Dill wmrdill@gmail.com Jean McLeod Dill class vice presidents Lissa Barbeau wbarb@cox.net Wilfred Barbeau wbarb@cox.net Betty Kinney Faella and Tony welcomed four new great-grandchildren in 2020....“The world without Jane seems a lot gloomier,” notes Rob Wilson, who lost Jane Seaman Wilson last August. “She’s not here to share my joy in finishing the new book.”

The Irish Brahmin is his novel about a young woman in the 1870s who travels from Boston to Fort Benton, Mont., where Rob’s grandfather was born in 1876. “I researched a lot about his birth and how his mother brought him back to Boston, but I could never find out why she went out to Fort Benton in the first place. So I made it up.”

1952 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Marilyn Coffin Brown mcbrown13@verizon.net class president John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net Peter Ault just turned 90, but nevertheless, “I seem to have some classmates still hanging in there and looking forward to 70th Reunion in 2022. I hope to make it and visit with the Class of 1947.” A resident of Wayne, Maine, Peter says he’s “still driving and shoveling snow, so no complaints, but lots of memories.”

1953 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Ronald “Ron” Clayton rondot@comcast.net class presidents Ginnie Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Dick Coughlin dcoughlin@maine.rr.com

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

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class president Dwight Harvie dwightwharvie@gmail.com Writing from Leesburg, Gilbert Grimes is “still alive in sunny Florida!”...Happy 65th wedding anniversary to Lynn and Beverly Hayne Willsey ’55! College records reveal that since the 1950s, a member of the Willsey family has graduated from Bates in every decade except the ’60s and the ’00s. Grandson Camden Ty Willsey ’21, son of James ’89 and Cynthia, is the youngest.

1955 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net class vice president Merton Ricker mertr33@gmail.com Ann Brousseau is grateful that “my children and grandchildren all kept their jobs” and stayed free of COVID-19, as did she. But she regrets the recent discovery “that alcohol and my medication do not mix. I really miss that nightly cocktail with the news!”...“What a challenging, depressing, exciting upheaval of a time we are living in!” says Silver Deane Moore-Leamon. “We’re struggling to come to grips with the horrifying evidence of racial bias in the criminal justice system presented in The New Jim Crow, and how to find a way to demand and work for change. Certainly, this pandemic has exposed societal fissures that White Privilege papered over for most of us.”

Silver notes that “Sue Ordway Pfaltz, June Ryan Gillette, Petie Ern, and I, roommates as seniors, have been so blessed in being able to continue our friendship into our 80s.”...Donald Gochberg is “staying at home most of the time with my lovely, still youthful wife, Joan, after 65 years of togetherness. Happy to be alive and in Michigan after a long career as a professor of humanities, and then of English literature at Michigan State.”...The pandemic kept Cal Jodat and Dorothy at their second home, in Dewey, Ariz., all summer.

“Temperatures there are typically 15–20 degrees cooler than in Phoenix,” where they live and where high-temperature records fell like dominoes last year. Cal adds that macular degeneration “is claiming my eyesight.” The Jodats can no longer drive, but “we shall survive.”...A successful lawyer for 45 years, Melvin King is grateful for his good fortune, and has never forgotten a childhood episode from the Depression. As punishment for some kind of mischief, Mel’s father wouldn’t let him go to a ball game — instead, they went to a soup kitchen with a long

line of hungry people out front.

“Don’t make a fuss because you cannot go to the baseball game,” his father said. Mel resides in the assisted living community San Clemente Villas by the Sea in San Clemente, Calif. ...Sue Ordway Pfaltz remembers “walking back from Smith to Rand one winter night of senior year. The lamps were lit and lights were on in the dorms. As I passed by the chapel, I heard Dick Hathaway playing Pachelbel on the piano, and I thought, ‘I’ll never feel this kind of peace and safety!’” Sue still lives on the farm in Ruckersville, Va., and is “caring for my partner of 36 years, who is very sick but still practicing law by phone.

That’s very hard, but so many have such worse agonies.”...

Nancy Ann Ramsdell Chandler lost Bruce last August. “We had 66 wonderful years together, and three great children and five grandchildren who brought much happiness to our lives. I am still at Birchwoods in Portland, Maine, hoping to move back to Kennebunk when an apartment becomes available.”...A self-described loner, Mert Ricker hasn’t minded pandemic-induced solitude for the most part, but did have to curtail some organizational ties. “I’m no longer the musician for the Maine State Grange, for example, but I am contributing as a board member of the Androscoggin Historical Society.”...Writing from Jefferson City, Mo., Roger TannerThies reports that “daily life has not changed much since we sheltered in place last year. We enjoy our five-acre homestead with pond, orchard, vegetables, flowers, bees, and chickens. We continue our monastic-like style with reading, contemplation, and work on the land. We just don’t drive anywhere.”

1956 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class secretary Fred Huber fredna56@comcast.net class presidents Alice Brooke Gollnick agollnick725@gmail.com Gail Molander Goddard acgpension@gmail.com “Although most of our Cornwall Manor activities screeched to a halt in March 2020,” Brenda Buttrick Snyder writes from Lebanon, Pa., “caring and thoughtful staff and neighbors have allowed us to stay upbeat and still enjoy the many benefits of continuing-care retirement community living.” She adds, “Because I’m primarily an indoor person anyway, it’s been a great time to write more chapters of Brenda’s Story, as well as plow slowly” through a collection of New York Times crossword puzzles. “Thank heavens for Cultch!”...Arthur Curtis reports

that new residents at The Overlook retirement community in Charlton, Mass., last year included three Batesies: Pepi Prince Upton ’57, and Peter and Jane Anderson Post ’58.

For Arthur, treatment for heart problems was a theme of 2020: “The doctors say I’m on the road to recovery, but I still have significant shortness of breath and I’m told there is still room for one more mitral valve clip. So, I guess that all means I’m getting older.”...Trying last December to come up with words for 2020, Diane Felt Swett ran across a New York Post piece that spoke to her. Columnist Steve Cuozzo wrote, “The pandemic disruption of holiday celebrations pales in comparison to World War Two’s family separations that were tragically permanent.” He continued, “We won that war and we will win this one, too.”...Ruth Foster Lowell reports that “Neil and I are well and busy with projects here at home” in Greensboro, N.C. “We get together with our five sons and their families on Zoom. I enjoy gardening, swimming, painting, and reading, and look forward to returning to band rehearsals with my trombone.”...

Fred Huber writes: “Sixty-five years since graduation, and I sit here wondering where the time went. A week after I began a new life, I married Edna, my high school sweetie. It lasted 56 years and lives on in happy memories.

Three weeks after graduation I began a career in the chemical industry — thanks to professors Lawrance and Thomas — and that lasted for 45 years. Fifteen years after graduation I got us a house on the shore of Moosehead Lake, with roommate Kirk Watson and Outing Club pal Reid Pepin ’55 nearby. That’s where the time went, and I shall be ever thankful for the start Bates gave me.”...About six months before the pandemic, Alison Mann Etherton and Bud sold their house in South Burlington, Vt., and moved to Wake Robin, a continuing-care retirement community in Shelburne. “A timely move,” says Alison. “People here are great.”...

In 1954, recalls Bob McAfee, a French Foreign Legion–themed Bates Mayoralty pitted M. Lewis Chaplowe, or “Latin Lew,” against Lucky Pierre, aka Adrien Auger ’55. “About 10 of us put on French Army uniforms, and a photographer filmed us marching over the dunes at the Desert of Maine, defending the Homeland with Lucky Pierre leading the charge. Unfortunately we lost, but it was a fun campaign!” Last November, Bob said goodbye to Doris, his wife of 63 years. “She always said that the secret to our marriage was that we are both in love with the same fellow.”...

Nancy Mills Mallett is “sure we all look forward to approaching a likely ‘new’ normal this year.

Hopefully we can soon go out to eat, drink, and party — if we can

stay awake!” She and Russ live in a retirement community in Basking Ridge, N.J. “Our grandchildren are mostly in their 20s,” she adds, “and following their careers is joyful.”...

Gail Molander Goddard was looking out at three feet of snow as she wrote from New London, N.H., a few months ago. “It is a winter wonderland and everything is taken care of.” She notes that “staying at home with a good book and getting out to walk were my normal activities for 2020,” but she has added volunteering for a food pantry and driving for the Council for Aging to the schedule....Jean Penney Fickett lives at The Forum at Rancho San Antonio, a retirement community in Cupertino, Calif. “Life is very uneventful” except for gaining her second and third great-grandchildren. “I’ll be so happy when I can finally see them.”...What’s Elise Reichert Stiles been up to? “Lots of reading, making myself a T-shirt quilt, baking, having Zoom meetings with family and other groups,” she reports....Sylvia Small Spradlin is hereby “virtually reporting my pride in my five grandchildren.”

Three are attending or have just graduated from college, all virtually. Another works for Google, remotely. “But our 23-year-old radiation technologist is on the ‘front lines’ in an emergency room in Jacksonville, Fla. — nothing virtual about her job.”...Jessie Thompson Huberty longs to hear the words, “Ladies and gentlemen, please put your tray tables in an upright position and fasten your seat belts.”

When lockdown began in March 2020, “I thought I would be happy with my books and music for a few months — life spent in Keatsian ‘delicious diligent indolence.’

Forget that!”...Gail Waterman Fraser and Howard “have made our home at Greenwich Farms — a very good assisted-living facility” in Warwick, R.I., writes Howard.

“They are doing their best to keep us from going stir-crazy. This is difficult if you maintain all the safety precautions. A little nip of gin doesn’t hurt, and Baileys Irish Cream for Gail.”

1957 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 secretary Peg Leask Olney pegolney@verizon.net email coordinator emeritus Douglas Campbell presidents Judy Kent Patkin jpatkin@gmail.com Dick Pierce rhpierce52@gmail.com In the fight against COVID-19, Judy Larkin Sherman notes, “fortunately Maine has fared better than many other states and coastal Rockport is still a good place to live. I do miss our weekly breakfast and lunch outings.”...Grant Reynolds enjoyed watching snow

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fall in Tinmouth, Vt., though he and Jo Trogler Reynolds ’58 no longer ski. “She suffered an old-fashioned ski injury in January,” Grant explains. “I’ve been fine, but my turn, no doubt, will come.” (Jo describes her injury in the 1958 section.)...“I’m so pleased,” writes Sidney Treyz.

“My grandson Eric Treyz ’25 applied for Early Decision and was accepted.”

1958 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com class president Peter Post postp74@gmail.com George Adams and golfing partner Norm Jason look forward to playing again. Loraine Allen Adams was scheduled for a shoulder replacement in February....Cook and Marjorie Koppen Anderson are healthy and living their independent lifestyle, if a bit more slowly. Cook donated his skis to a local ski shop to be passed on to deserving kids....For Larry “Lori” Beer and Lyn as for so many others, “2020 was the year of Zoom,” Lyn reports. Lori was attending an online memory group twice a week and “we look forward to being able to invite the members over in person.”

Living in Vienna, Va., “we have great windows that face the back yard, and we watch the animals, plants, and sunsets every day.”...

Patricia Carmichael Waugh spent six months in New Mexico with son Mike, who thought it would be safer from COVID-19 than Massachusetts....Al DeSantis wrote during the winter: “The weather in central Florida has been great; we do not have to shovel sunshine.”...On Peaks Island, Kay Dill Taylor is grateful to have two daughters living nearby on the island off Portland, Maine. “If Gene ’56 or I call, they are here in minutes.”...Charlie Dings and Laurie missed holding their usual annual mini-reunion with classmates in 2020 but plan to catch up this year....Painter and writer Jude (Judith) Frese Danielson’s website is www. judanielson.com....Virus fears kept Carol Gibson Smith in Florida last summer. She missed her pool and hopes to return to Plymouth this summer....Paul Hoffman continues to study the phenomenological philosophers and the role of American corporations supporting Hitler: “Profits über alles.”...Colleen “Coe” Jenkins Huckabee enjoyed “respite and renewal” with family last June at the Maine camp she shares with classmates. She also visited Bates and was awed by the Bonney Science Center under construction....Kay Johnson Howells had a scare when fires threatened her family cabin in the Wasatch

Range, but they ended up safe.

She got a new hip in September....Alan Kaplan reports, “We are doing things we probably would have never done without the pandemic: using Zoom, reading more, watching more travelogues, and bingeing on programs such as Downton Abbey.”...After 60 years in Somers, Conn., Art and Gail Baumann Karszes are retiring to Ferris Hills Retirement Community in Canandaigua, N.Y....Phil and Pat Baker Main ’59 have moved from the home they built in 1960 to a senior community nearby in Granby, Conn. Phil serves on town and church boards....During 2020, Marilyn Miller Gildea replaced weekly family dinners with video chats, purged her files, and finished compiling a book of “Grandma’s memories.” After a strict quarantine, a dozen family members gathered for a joyful Christmas....Peter and Jane Anderson Post now live at The Overlook retirement community in Charlton, Mass., about an hour from children Debra Munsen ’82 and Ben Post ’87....Jane Reinelt Brown reports that “the year at Brown’s Harvest Farm in Windsor, Conn., was surprisingly good despite the pandemic. People were happy to roam the farm and enjoy safe activities. We’re busy from May to November, then spend much of the winter in Florida.”...Paula Schilling Foreman was “so grateful for Zoom contacts with family, church, and others as we wintered in place.

We both miss opportunities for singing with our barbershop and Threshold Choir groups.”...The Androscoggin River photo in the Fall 2020 issue (“From a Distance”) prompted Jerome Stanbury to write from Riva, Md. As a student, he worked for chemistry professor Walter Lawrance, who as state-appointed River Master worked to clean up an Androscoggin made nearly lifeless by human activity. “My first summer on the job was taking water samples every quarter-mile,” Stanbury explains. “The second summer I was captain of the work boat. We would take two to five tons of sodium nitrate to the lowest spots each day and dump the 100-pound bags into the river” to raise oxygen levels.

“I was most happy to see that effective measures have brought this beautiful river back to life.”...

Barb Stetson Munkres and Jim “are still plugging along happily in our home in Lexington, Mass.

We have lots of help, doing the things we prefer not to do and the things we cannot do, such as mowing the lawn and shoveling the driveway.” They plan to move to a nearby retirement community this summer....“As long as I have something to read, I am happy,” writes Jane Taylor. “I lost a very dear friend to the virus and I miss her, especially because I couldn’t visit her in the hospital.” Jane also lost all three of her

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greyhounds, but a retired-greyhound adoption group found her another. “She even smiles at the mailman.”...Jo Trogler Reynolds “had some complicated medical problems last year, but was feeling a lot better, so on Jan. 6 I went cross-country skiing on the lawn. Didn’t notice how dark it was getting, and started going too fast, and crashed, injuring both legs.” She spent a month in rehab, but “the injuries didn’t seem likely to affect my mobility longterm. The no-visitors policy was a nuisance because my family couldn’t check me out visually and I couldn’t hug them.”...Tom and Carole Carbone Vail avoided Florida and spent their first winter in Maine in 20 years.

Carole celebrated by having a stroke — fortunately, a small one, and has recovered well. Tom is holding his own....Bruce Young had a difficult 2020. “I was hospitalized twice, fell twice, and broke several ribs. Tests revealed that I had a (minor) stroke in November, and an EEG showed evidence of dementia.” On the positive side, Bruce now has two great-granddaughters.

1959 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretaries Jack DeGange jack.degange@comcast.net Mary Ann Houston Hermance donmar23@gmail.com class president Anita Hotchkiss ahotchkiss@goldbergsegalla.com Jerry Davis gmdavis@maine.rr.com Ross Deacon was able to get his second Moderna COVID-19 vaccine dose in just 20 minutes — including the required 15-minute post-shot observation period.

“Shockingly great efficiency,” notes Ross, who winters in Melbourne, Fla., and summers in his apartment at son Bill’s home in Cape Neddick, Maine. “Still walking nine holes every other day first thing.”...For Barbara Smith McIntosh and Keniston, it has been a “quiet time in our lives. We do miss interacting with friends, but we take part in outside activities that can be done by social distancing.”

1960 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Louise Hjelm Davidson lchdavidson011@gmail.com class president Dean Skelley dskelley@satx.rr.com “Fifty-five years married” to Elizabeth, writes George Deuillet — “can’t miss sending a Christmas letter now! It’s been a year to be especially thankful for each of you, and to enjoy the

calls, cards, and prayers,” not to mention Zoom, “that keep us connected.” He adds, “We find real joy with our six awesome grandchildren.”...Sandy Folcik Levine offers a tribute to Judy Schramm Westrate, who passed away in December (Editor’s note: an obituary will appear in the Fall 2021 issue): “She lived her freshman year in West Parker, the corner room across from the house mother, with Patty Parker and me.” The three were inseparable at first, but different interests and academic goals pulled Judy toward other companions and ultimately a different college. “She did not return to Bates for a Reunion until perhaps the 40th. Funny thing, the three of us became closer from then on than we ever were when we lived on campus.

Judy seemed to have found a very comfortable niche in life, married a man who thought the world of her and she him, and raised a family that extended to great grandchildren.”...Bruce Fox and Eleanor are healthy, happy, but homebound at Keystone Place at Newbury Brook in Torrington, Conn. “We see people daily and are kept entertained to a degree,” says Bruce. “However, we seldom do more than take a short ride in our car.”...After a February 2020 visit to Martha’s Vineyard to see sister Priscilla Hjelm Sylvia ’61, Louise Hjelm Davidson reports that she and Alan laid low the rest of the year. The travel hiatus “turned out to be fortuitous since Pete Skelley, Nan Harrington Walsh, and I had the time to work on the Class Reunion Book.

I had very few distractions!”...

Nancy Harrington Walsh misses “seeing Sandy Folcik Levine at Boston Ballet outings, our annual gathering at Bates for the Big Game weekend in the fall, and our Bates women’s semi-annual luncheons.” She adds, “Although I and my sons are dealing with other issues, I do endeavor each day to see that my cup runneth over, trusting in our Lord who is in control.”...In Essex, Vt., Jackie Hughes Cote has spent a lot of time with her youngest grandsons while their parents work. Meanwhile, while travel has been on hold, she’s been glad for hobbies. She’s been making hats and mittens to donate, as well as making “jewelry and all my greeting cards, which is great fun. Recently I have taken up watercolor.”...Richard Krause divides his time between St. Petersburg, Fla., and Millinocket, Maine. “I’m absolutely loving it.

Activities are kayaking, hiking, visits from family, and model ship making — just finished a destroyer that I served on during the Vietnam War.” He stays in touch with Bates roommate Jim Hall and is proud that son Doug ’99, a biologist, is with NOAA leading the pinniped (or seal) program for the Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division. (Doug is

profiled in the Fall 2018 issue.)...

David Nelson points out that a family treasure is part of the mineral collection displayed by the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences (formerly Geology) — the Nelson Gemstone, an amethyst. Nelson’s father “stumbled upon the stone, literally” during one of the family’s annual camping trips in Waterville Valley, N.H., in the 1950s. “During those formative summers, I developed a profound love of nature as well as a wealth of mountain climbing experience, which put me on track to serve as president of the Bates Outing Club.” Subsequent travels have given David “a concrete idea about what constitutes the magnificence of the North American landscape,” a sensibility that has driven his support for the BOC during its centennial....

Dean “Pete” Skelley continues to serve as a director of clinical labs in Austin, San Antonio, and Houston, and will also work with a lab in Southaven, Miss. In his spare time he takes bookbinding and watercolor classes....

Linda Swanson Bradley lives in a retirement community in Harrisonburg, Va. In lieu of in-person travel, last fall Linda “took a weeklong virtual trip to Portugal through Road Scholar.

It was fantastic.” In daily sessions each lasting up to four hours, she experienced lectures, interviews and field trips on Portuguese history, culture, politics, and more....Laurie Trudel Raccagni writes to express her gratitude and that of Ettore ’55 “that all of us are healthy. We’ve looked forward to 2021, a new president, a vaccine, and a return to the things we cherish.”...Judie Roberts Williams and Bob ’57 celebrated their 60th anniversary in an outdoor gathering with family in September. She says, “It isn’t easy coping with all this uncertainty. We have been most fortunate to have lived in the best of times, and we hope normalcy will return sometime in 2021.”

1961 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class secretary Gretchen Shorter Davis norxloon@aol.com class presidents Mary Morton Cowan mmcowan@gwi.net Dick Watkins rwatkcapt@aol.com Suzanne Kimball Adams and John “are so grateful that we moved to a senior community in Naples, Fla. We are in an independent apartment and have made many friends. Here’s to a better year for us all.”...Penie Allalemdjian Papazian and Richard “hibernated in 2020, duh!”

They love their White Mountain location in New Hampshire, “even running into classmates in our town of Madison — Carol

Smith and Dianne Lynch Izzo.”...

Doug Ayer retired for the second time, stepping down from his post as professor of international studies at Virginia Military Institute after 29 years — which, he says, “followed the better part of 30 years in the Foreign Service.” In addition to doing more volunteering with his Bates class, “I may start prospecting for vacation property near the Maine coast.”...

Alan Cate writes: “Since our last Reunion five years ago, some water has flowed down rivers and canals, new sporting adventures have happened, we’ve blossomed our interest in Native American issues, and we’ve enjoyed being involved in our grandchildrens’ lives.”...“Still proud to be an original Merimander,” Lois Chapman Knight stays involved with The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, which she helped found in 1995. Her pandemic experience stands out: “We’re all following my husband, Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center and the CDC, on his many TV appearances as an expert on the COVID virus.”...Beverly “Bev” Connolly, an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, continues to give public programs such as “Ancient Egypt: Land of Firsts,” “Napoleon’s Battle of the Nile: Birth of Modern Museums,” and “Suite to Symphony: It’s Totally Sonata.” Also a jewelry designer, she divides her year between Stratham, N.H. (13 Baron’s Way, 03885) and Delray Beach, Fla. (7655 Francisca Club Lane, 33446)....Carl and Mary Morton Cowan of Cumberland, Maine, live near Judy Rogers McAfee and Ken ’60, and have been looking forward to a post-pandemic visit....

Gretchen Shorter Davis and Jerry report that in the travel-free year of COVID-19, their camp in Millinocket, Maine, was “especially welcoming! We spent more time than usual there and made it into October.” Jerry played golf every day, Gretchen found friends for bridge, and both helped with the renovation of the Millinocket Memorial Library. Gretchen adds, “We continue to enjoy Highland Green, our senior community in Topsham, Maine. Social activities ceased, but Zoom came to the rescue and for New Year’s Eve we enjoyed a virtual cocktail party with 81 people.”...Sally Drew Cokelet states that her “biggest pleasure this year was finally finding the Wilson House Seven from 1961.” She and Giles live at Highgate Senior Living in Bozeman, Mont. They look back fondly on years of volunteering in schools, museums, and the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, but their pursuits nowadays are lower-key: Sally embroiders and is learning to paint and use sign language....“In this last quarter,” writes Dick Gurney, “I’m in Amagansett, N.Y.” He and Deborah have the ocean “and Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, and Alec Baldwin.” Yet, Dick adds, “I still think of Maine and classmates living there, and have especially fond Spring 2021

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thoughts of teammates like Dick Watkins.”...Jack Henderson writes from Phippsburg, Maine: “Mary Jane and I are thrilled that our granddaughter, Samantha Gamber, has been accepted Early Decision to the Bates Class of 2025! Having another Batesie in the family is a complete joy, and we look forward to hearing about her great experiences in the coming four years.”...Dick Hoyt still enjoys retirement in South Lubec, Maine, having helped set up and coordinate a year-round farmers market. He enjoys “country living while internally raging at the injustices in the wider world. A small group of us stands in peaceful vigil on our town common Saturdays 11–noon, rain or shine. It don’t do a damned bit of good, but we feel better for doing it.”...Vera Jensen Bond, a native of Denmark, previously wrote a book for her family about their Danish heritage. Now she’s compiling a genealogy for Joe, who died in 2017. She adds, “It is hard to believe that I have been fighting multiple myeloma for over 16 years. I am grateful for these extra years with family and friends.” She stays in touch with Joel and Rachel Smith Young ’62, and still lives on Lake Livingston, north of Houston. “I awake to a glorious sunrise, birds chirping, fish jumping and an occasional alligator gliding by.”...

Nadine Parker is still in Nashua, N.H., “with the beautiful Merrimack River in my back yard.

Nashua is a great little city with access to the ocean, mountains, and Boston. I have no plans to go anywhere else.” She is in her 40th year as an industrial sales rep, now on an independent, part-time basis....This from Jack Simmons: “Margo and I are reasonably healthy, and happy our minds still work. Hard to believe we have been married for 60 years.”...The Rev. Harold Smith and Roberta landed in Los Angeles from Hawaii the day before California locked down in 2020, and ended up sheltering in place for a “long southern California summer” at the Jojoba Hills SKP RV Resort. (“SKP” refers to the national Escapees RV Club.) “We’re looking ahead to going ‘on the road’ to Maine and Wisconsin.”...Channing Wagg writes, “I’m doing more reading than I have for some time. I plan to tackle a few oldies I somehow missed during Cultch.”

1962 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Cindy Kalber Nordstrom cindyknordstrom@gmail.com class vice-secretary Lyn Nelson lynnelson10@gmail.com class president Ed Wilson ed-wilson@kellogg.northwestern. edu

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1963 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Natalie Hosford nataliemoir@netflash.net class president Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com class historian Dottie Stone dottie@stone-stonect.com Writes Judith Outten Badavas, “After swearing I would not get another dog, I adopted Mia. She is a 4-year-old, 7-pound, mostly Yorkshire from a hoarding situation. She is cute and challenging.

She gives me a much-needed focus.”

1964 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary-treasurer John Meyn jemkpmeyn@aol.com class assistant secretary-treasurer Rhoda Silverberg rhodaeric@att.net class president Gretchen Ziegler gretchenz958@gmail.com class vice presidents Joan Andren dixmont258@gmail.com Dick Andren dixmont258@gmail.com class historian Dot Harris dotharriswi@gmail.com Dick and Joan Spruill Andren “followed the national trend” last year in Dixmont, Maine. “We enlarged our vegetable garden, painted the house, and did other long-neglected landscaping and repairs.” Dick continues, “We’ve been able to see a small group of friends safely and carry on carefully with other activities.

Dixmont is a wonderful alternative to Philly.”...“Where’s the most dangerous place for seniors since this COVID business started?” Russ and Sharon Fisher Baker ’65 ask. “You guessed it: a senior retirement community!”

Nevertheless, they sold their house and moved to Birch Hill, a continuing-care retirement community in Manchester, N.H. “Our health is good — but looking forward to our 80s, with the waiting lists to get into these places, the onslaught of boomers coming on the market, and our family history, we decided to make the move when exactly the right apartment came

available.”...Marion Day Czaja points out that Twin Lakes, the name of her CCRC in Burlington, N.C., is fitting “since I am a twin anyway.” (See next item.)

Twin Lakes, where she moved from Vero Beach, Fla., suits her in more fundamental ways, too. Amenities include “a pool, your own garden plot (music to my ears as a Master Gardener), medical center, restaurants/cafes, and a pub (no alcohol). Lots more but that is enough of a sales pitch.”...“Exploring new areas of Chapel Hill, N.C., is one of the special fun things I do in good weather,” notes Marion’s twin, Nancy Day Walker. “This town is blessed with people who care about the environment. There are many preserved places and trails for people, animals, and birds!”...

Pat Donovan enjoys assigning and refereeing high school soccer on the Cape. He and Carolyn sold their house in Bridgewater and are now full-time residents of Harwich, Mass....Paula Downey Bacon finds inspiration in Jennifer Wingate Gilchrist, someone who faces adversity squarely.

“A layoff from Raytheon at age 55 did not deter Jenn from finding new employment in a new field,” and she became a nurse. Nor did rheumatoid arthritis slow her down — and “when cancer threatened, Dana-Farber saved her life because of her willingness to try new treatments.”

Indeed, Jenn helped to get the cancer treatment Yervoy on the market. “Jenn’s values, honed at Bates, make the raw material of a life well-lived,” Paula concludes.

“Fame and fortune may come to some, but basic values are where they are found. Jennifer embodies quality. And she is our classmate.”...Diane Gallo DeFrancisci writes from Vero Beach, Fla.: “I have not made any masks as they are easily available now, but I have knitted seven scarves. In Florida they are pretty useless, so if anyone needs a warm scarf, let me know.” She adds, “My hope when this is all over is that we’ll have learned to treasure the small joys of life and be grateful for each day.”...Dave Harrison, a senior staff scientist at Maine’s Jackson Laboratory, suggests that classmates view COVID-19 as a long-term proposition. “Even with vaccines that are effective in the general population, older people may not respond well,” he writes. And older people have a markedly higher risk of death. “We must continue to be careful.”...Bill Haver has “really retired!” Though he officially retired in June 2015, Bill stayed involved with mathematics instruction, in both the classroom and program development.

“COVID stopped that. So it was time to really retire” — meaning that nowadays he’s devoting only a couple hours a day to mathematics education....Paul Holt writes that thanks to advances in technology, “wheelchair tennis

has been a great experience that I wish more people with disability could or would take advantage of.” Today’s chairs allow players like him “to compete against other wheelchair players and standup players alike. I’ve traveled all over the country to take part in USTA-sanctioned tournaments.

And to be able to play tennis with my wife Pam again is very gratifying.”...John Meyn “walked into old age unprepared for its difficulties. In our Bates time together we were just beginning to fill our individual life vessels. Now I struggle, as my vessel empties, trying to diminish that diminishment. On the remedial physical side, hydration, stretching, and light cardio exercise head the list. On the mental side I must cope and adjust to a seriously failing memory capacity.” Yet, he continues, “overall my life is enjoyable in its mostly sedentary comfort. Each day is a privilege.

We live in Friendship, Maine, on an inland sea bay. Now and then we catch sight of a harbor seal or a young adult eagle. We stand surrounded, as the seasons pass, in an environment of seasonal green, lightless nights, and quiet.”...Nancy Nichols Dixon and Richard have “survived just fine during COVID. Luckily we have a big house and a yard so we have lots to keep us busy, and we are thankful that we didn’t move into a retirement/care community.”

In warmer weather, they can “get together with friends on our big front porch.” Nancy adds that though pandemic precautions stalled her volunteer work at the local library, “we still deliver Meals on Wheels.”...Jon Olsen describes 2020 as a “whirlwind year.” Early on, there were family visits and COVID-19 encounters, including a “medium case” afflicting his former wife, Lilia.

After recovering, she spent the summer at Jon’s farm in Jefferson, Maine, lending invaluable aid with the blueberry and tomato harvests. Jon also notes that he was active with the Green Party during the fall campaign, supporting Lisa Savage for the U.S. Senate....Pat Parsons Kay points out that it’s been about a year since she drove from Bethesda, Md., to Pemaquid, Maine, where she’s now a permanent resident.

All on Zoom, she has taken part in a craft group, practices Pilates, and takes courses on astronomy and literature about the Maine coast. She has met up with Esther Rosenthal Mechler, Dick and Joan Andren, and Linda Rolfe Raiss and Ahmed....

What’s new with Bob and Carol Kinney Sherman? “We bought a condo, an old carriage house, in downtown Kennebunk, Maine!

It is 19 minutes away from our beach cottage. Lots of character.

No closets.”...Rhoda Morrill Silverberg and Eric are “doing pretty well,” Rhoda writes from Austin, Texas. As a daughter pointed out early in the pan-

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demic, astrophysicist Eric “had a lifetime of preparing for social distancing. Rhoda not so much.”

Eric enjoys fishing and riding his bike, but unlike him, Rhoda hasn’t yet retired, continuing to work for Wilson Language Training....Alan and Sandy Prohl Williams “have been healthy and safe here at Stoneridge Creek in Pleasanton, Calif. Playing duplicate bridge online has been our salvation.” And they’ve been safely able to gather with her son’s family, including a wonderful August weekend on a houseboat on Lake Shasta.

1965 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Evie Horton ehhorton@me.com class president Joyce Mantyla joycemantyla@gmail.com vice presidents Newt Clark newtonclark@comcast.net class vice president Peter Heyel JPTraveler@gmail.com Newt and Patricia Lord Clark ’67 enjoyed the Bates Outing Club Centennial Zoom presentation that reflected on club activities from the late 1960s to the early 1970s....Still living in Westport, Conn., Peter Heyel has closed his heritage tour and cruise office in Westerly, R.I. “I was told by one of my previous employees, ‘Peter, you just have to reinvent yourself. So I will spend a few years ‘reinventing myself.’” He’s regularly in touch with Ted Foster, among other classmates....

Richard Hillman has published his third novel, The Condo, about a New York couple who move to Florida seeking early-retirement bliss. But “stress abounds, even in paradise, much of it comic with some underlying threats and a few surprising plot twists” as the husband gets embroiled in conflicts with the homeowners association....Leon Hurwitz reports that he and Fran are healthy, and he has offset Netflix and Amazon Prime consumption with treadmill time in the basement: four miles per session, five days a week....Joyce Mantyla sends greetings from Palm Beach, Fla. “It’s easy to survive here, as it is an outdoor life: sun, birds, boats and sunsets. Yes, dear ones, we can still count our many blessings!”...John Norton has written The Adventures of Eva and Buckskin Charlie, a series of six books for ages 9–14, plus a prequel. The prequel, titled The Fortune Teller on the Train, and the first book of the series, Eva’s Secret Name, are available on Amazon. Best Publishing Company will also publish the second book, Eva’s New Older Brother. “I need some help from

Bates friends,” John says. “I’d like to find advance-copy readers for two new young-children’s books in a birthday series,” When Is Santa’s Birthday? and Dear Tooth Fairy. He will email copies to willing readers.

1966 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class president Alex Wood awwood@mit.edu “Technically 2020 ended the Bates Outing Club’s centennial year,” notes Judy Marden, “but festivities were extended into 2021.” For her personally, pandemic restrictions amounted to something of “an introvert’s paradise: staying close to home and exploring nearby woods and waters by foot and kayak. I feel so fortunate to live in this beautiful state, with the great outdoors right outside my back door, and rivers, ponds, and streams just down the road. I’m grateful to be surviving and thriving, in good health, where the wild things are.”

1967 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class presidents Keith Harvie kcharvie12@gmail.com Pam Johnson Reynolds preynolds221@gmail.com Marty Braman Duckenfield’s memoir of her JYA experience at the Univ. of Leeds, Blind Luck: A Year Abroad, is now available in paperback and Kindle formats....

Keith Harvie writes that classmate David Howe died last July after living with Alzheimer’s disease for years. (Editor’s note: an obituary appears in this issue.)

Dave was a respected businessman in Maine’s Saco-Biddeford region and a devoted volunteer.

He and Sally traveled a good deal, usually managing to find a bakery or ice cream shop along the way.

A visionary, savvy, and practical man, Dave was always known to travel with a charged flashlight.

He is much missed by his dear wife, children, and grandchildren....A frequent traveler to Bermuda and Key West, John Ladik was grounded by the pandemic in Pepperell, Mass., when he wrote. “Not much new other than splitting firewood, working on the town budget, and helping my granddaughter navigate hybrid first grade.”...Maren Elouise Panton Barnett started out in the Class of 1967, spending two years at Bates before transferring to the nursing program at Columbia Univ., whence she graduated in 1968. (Noted Maine politician Margaret Chase Smith was one of her patients while she worked at Columbia-Presbyterian during her master’s program.)

She married Fred Barnett in 1968, in 1970 became a professor of

Arms Race In a now-familiar scene, Dr. Louis Weinstein ’68 gets his COVID-19 vaccine. But in his case, the dose was part of a successful clinical trial for one of the vaccines.

“To stress the importance of everyone receiving the vaccine, Andrea and I enrolled early in a vaccine trial and were informed that we received the actual two doses of the vaccine — not the placebo — with no side effects,” he said.

In April, Weinstein joined Bates biology professor Larissa Williams for the Zoom panel discussion “Understanding the COVID-19 Vaccines: Facts and Fallacies.”

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nursing at the Univ. of Rochester, and later moved to Albany. In 2001, Elouise writes, “we got sick of snow and moved to Florida, outside of Tampa. I continued working into my 70s when the dreadful discovery was made that I had Parkinson’s. No more driving and no more work.”...

Still living in Boxborough, Mass., Malcolm Reid and Beth Krause Reid ’68 stay in touch with about a dozen Bates friends of 50-plus years. Mac keeps busy with the MARS Consulting Group, which helps school districts with strategic decision-making. He is replicating the ’32 Chevy hot rod that he took to Bates in 1964 and that infamously burned on campus. To “celebrate” the pandemic, Mac grew his first beard….“While 2020 was not what we wanted,” note Dick and Pam Johnson Reynolds, “the great news as it ended was granddaughter Sofia being accepted Early Decision for the Bates Class of 2025!”...Annie Warren Turner and Richard live on a hill in Western Massachusetts, “over 1,200 feet up, which means it usually does not get too hot. I have noticed an astonishing amount of wind this year, in all seasons, and assume this, as well as the frequent torrential rains we experience, is part of climate change.” They enjoyed a 10-day visit from son Ben, a substance abuse counselor, and his wife Amy, a music teacher. “We have never spent that much time together probably since grad school.” Son Char “continues to work on his fantasy novel, a gender-bender, while also walking dogs in the hills.” As for her own writing, Annie reports that she’s done writing books but still produces short faith articles, short stories, and a blog, at faithismyos. blogspot.com....Edward Wells Esq. has celebrated 45 years as a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association.

1968 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Rick Melpignano rickmel713@gmail.com class president Karen Goober goober@comcast.net Nancy Hohmannk nhohmann@yahoo.com Richard Alexander and Ellen have been married 50 years, he says, and “after 40 years or so of not seeing each other much while I worked, we were happy to find out we still like each other.” He has been retired for six years after putting in 40 at an internal medicine practice, the last 15 as medical director and full-time physician. “I would not have traded that for anything, but it was time to get out.” They live in Marblehead, Mass., and were looking forward to travel opening up so he could resume writing

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humorous travelogues. “Do not know where that came from.

Never wrote anything at Bates that I did not have to.”...Philip Herzog wrote from Medellin, Colombia, where he and his wife, Camthuy Nguyen, retired in 2016 after long careers in healthcare in Seattle, she as a contract negotiator and he as a pediatric oncologist. Camthuy’s daughters each work remotely for the mayor of a major city, New York and Seattle, while Philip’s son, daughter, and grandchildren are in Seattle....Jane Hippe Reilly sold the house that she and Russ ’66 had built outside of town and moved back into Middlebury, Vt., last fall. She is still employed at the Mary Johnson Children’s Center and got many lectures from her daughters about masks and handwashing, “being in that demographic.”...Craig Lindell does development for AquaPoint, an environmental business he started in New Bedford, Mass., and works with the international Water Environment Federation to create a governing system to enable the management of wastewater as a resource. Craig’s family is doing well, with the grandchildren living with him and Melanie Kocima Lindell ’71. Craig chats with Gene Schiller ’70 several times a week....Here to vouch for Zoom is Anne MacMillan Dolan and five classmates who continue to meet via the app each week. Host Nancy Blackburn Rogers, Jane Woodcock Woodruff, Nancy Harris Riley, Val Wallace, Judy Leard Nicholas and Anne found this weekly connection to be one of the best pandemic coping mechanisms. It’s a way to find out “what’s going on in different states coast to coast, how to safely see grandchildren, how to find lots of laughter in the midst of uncertainty, what to read, and so much more,” says Anne.

1969 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Deborah Bliss Behler debbehler@aol.com class president George Peters geo47peters@gmail.com “My new novel, Emily’s House, will be published in August by Berkley,” Amy Belding Brown says. Her fifth book, it adapts the story of the real Irish immigrant Margaret Maher, who was maid to Emily Dickinson and played a pivotal role in sharing the poet’s work with the world....Lynne Bishop Noyes writes from her small neighborhood in Ridgefield, Conn., that during 2020, “we all realized just how broad the benefits of a neighborhood are. Children were home, but during breaks from schoolwork, they rode or skipped along the

road saying ‘hi’ to everyone.

Gyms were closed, so neighbors walked and waved to each other from safe distances. Travel was curtailed, yet we found so much to see right around the corner.”...

Debbie Bliss Behler is at heart “what some call a gym rat.”

So in response to COVID, “I dusted off the spin bike and paid for a Zoom account for online exercise classes. I wish the bike had an odometer — I’d like to know how far I’ve pedaled. In any event, it has helped keep me sane.”...Dick Brogadir and Tina weren’t “greatly impacted by COVID-19. Tina has been retired from teaching for four years and I was working only one day per week, so we are not exposed to a lot of people.” During the lockdown, he says, “I’ve jogged about three days a week, played the guitar every day for about an hour (much to my wife’s dismay), have read many books, and have watched more TV than ever in my life.”...Marya D’Abate reports that two Pfizer-BioNTech doses are in her arm and all is well....Carol Drewiany Johnson coped with COVID by ramping up her bicycling.

Unlike Debbie Bliss Behler, she bought an odometer. When she had racked up 699 miles, in September, her daughter suggested trying for 777, which she hit on Sept. 28. “Why not 888, and ultimately 999?” October brings snow in Alaska, so now it was a race. “After a blitz of 222-plus miles in 14 days, the odometer was retired at 999 on Oct. 14. It snowed two days later.”...George and Jan Moniz Peters celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last August, safely hosting children and grandchildren on the Maine coast for a week....

Garry Neil and Catherine Fay Roberts ’70 bought a derelict farm, a beautiful property on the Hudson River, in the early 1970s.

“With Cathy’s gardens and my woodworking with the many wood varieties coming from our land, we have been blessed to be surrounded by beauty and solitude,” Garry says. While his Bates degree sure didn’t hurt, “hard work and luck have played a huge role in any success Cathy and I have enjoyed. As I get older I appreciate how lucky we have been.”

1970 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretaries Stephanie Leonard Bennett slenben@comcast.net Betsey Brown efant127@yahoo.com class president/treasurer Steve Andrick steve.andrick15@gmail.com class vice president Barbara Hampel barbaraph@live.com

Susan Cragin Cole and Steve are enjoying retirement and grandparenting in Athens, Ohio.

“We live with my youngest son, Devin. And my son Colin, his wife, and our granddaughters live not far away.” Other offspring live in Hawaii and Spokane, so they have looked forward to the easing of travel restrictions....Susan Emmet and Michael Wing are still in West Gardiner, Maine, “in our final home, all on one floor with radiant heat. I write and edit for the Gardiner Library Association, the West Gardiner Weathervane newsletter, and the local Democratic committee.”...During Women’s History Month in 2020, U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) honored Jan Face Glassman for her dedication to her community and for the impact she has made helping women and girls in Southern Florida. The congressman read a citation before the 116th U.S. Congress, an official entry into the Congressional Record....Frank Foster reporting: “I am active in Neighbors Eating All Together, a group in Arlington, Mass., that works to alleviate food insecurity.

We’ve met about once a month to supply soup to more than 100 people in need.”...What’s Charles McAleer up to? He’s the cook of the household, favoring “wholesome but monotonous stews.” He recommends Open the Wall on Amazon Prime. “It’s a Cold War film about the night the Berlin Wall came down,” he explains.

“Imagine The Lives of Others meets the Keystone Cops.”

1971 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class secretary Suzanne Woods Kelley suzannekelley@att.net class president Michael Wiers mwiers@mwiers.com class vice president Jan Face Glassman jfaceg1@hotmail.com

1972 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Steve Mortimer stevenhmortimer@gmail.com class president Wayne Loosigian wloosigian@gmail.com Sue Ahnrud volunteered to do nasal-swab COVID-19 testing near home in Chepachet, R.I. “All brains remained intact,” she reports....Mike Attinson has been characterized by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee as its “boots on the ground” in assessing the needs of people affected by disaster. In that role, this resident of a farmers cooperative in central Israel has

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“been all over the place since retiring,” from the Bahamas to Nepal. Yet, he says, “the most satisfying thing I have done over the last 10 years is volunteering as a medic in Israel’s national ambulance service. The adventures are different, but are a real education in understanding the different elements of Israeli society.”...Jan Hotaling Bass and Ivan ’71 of Holderness, N.H., mark their 50th anniversary this year. “We have three well-accomplished children and six wonderful grandchildren,” says Jan. She has taught in the health and human performance faculty at Plymouth State Univ. for 26 years and now is “trying to decide when to retire.” She adds, “The lifestyle here is wonderful. We have the lakes and the mountains in our backyard.”...Rachel Belanger sends greetings from Rockland, Maine, where she moved 18 years ago after 21 years inland, in the Dover-Foxcroft area. In both communities, she provided public-school psychological services, but in Rockland “the salary was better.

And that was good for my retirement pension!” She was able to retire early, in 2008. Since then, “I have reconnected with my oldest friend from childhood — 67 years of friendship — and with my college friend, Jane Pendexter Delson. We were both ‘townies’ though we did not meet until Spanish class with Miss (Barbara) Garcelon. I spent a lot of time at her house on Russell Street. I remember watching a vehicle crash through the ice on the Puddle from her kitchen window.”...Nancy Bowden Maynard retired from Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H., five years ago.

Since then, “I’ve spent a lot of time in my kayak photographing birds during the warm weather, and dogs at the dog park in the winter.” She still lives across the Connecticut River from Hanover in White River Junction, Vt....

When she wrote in, Melinda Bowler DeVoe had just totaled 3,000 miles of hiking and walking for 2020. Living in Idaho Falls, she and Glenn “are still doing lots of outdoor adventures, including Fish and Game volunteering.”

She adds, “I just learned that 2021 is the year the film Mad Max was set in. In comparison, our world looks upbeat.”...Donn Brous got back to work managing the Main Street Gallery in Clayton, Ga., when COVID guidelines permitted reopening a couple days a week. She eschews Zoom but partakes of “many long phone chats and video calls.” She adds, “I’ve made masks and wear a mask whenever I’m out, and have been fascinated (and to be honest) horrified that maskwearing has been so controversial.”...The Rev. Steve Comee feels that “2020 turned out to be

a year that even Stephen King would have had trouble writing about! It sometimes seemed as if we were reliving the plagues of the Old Testament!” (Who could disagree?) In spite of all, though, this resident of Chiba, Japan, is busier than ever: he works as an English-language consultant for a trading company and an organization related to Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and took on editing and translation projects including one for a member of the Imperial Family....

Sue Cross Kelly retired in 2017 after 43 years teaching high school history, but she’s not resting on her laurels. Living in Manchester, N.H., she keeps idleness at bay with part-time work for the N.H. Historical Society and primary-source transcription projects. For six years a member of the state Juvenile Parole Board, she also “recently became chair of the Juvenile Justice Statewide Advisory Group and New Hampshire’s voting member on the national Coalition for Juvenile Justice.”...“The circle of life keeps rolling!” Randy Glenney writes from Vernon Rockville, Conn. “I lost my brother to COVID-19 in spring 2020, and more recently my brother-in-law (non-COVID).

But my older daughter has had a second son, and we took a rare excursion to Chattanooga for our younger daughter’s wedding — on the banks of the Tennessee River.”...Pam Green retired from the Maine Bankers Assn. four years ago and feels “fortunate to be out of the demographic of working remotely during the pandemic while juggling kids trying to learn from home.” She and Bill welcomed their first grandchild last June, she adds, “so 2020 wasn’t as big a bust for us as it was for many.”...Caroline Haworth Wandle reports: “Two of our grandsons are active hockey players in Rhode Island, and we enjoy seeing photos and videos from their games. Our granddaughter turned 1 year old and seems to be thriving. I continue to work on genealogy from both my and my husband Bill’s families, and have made connections with cousins across the world. Also keeping in touch with my Bates roommate Jocelyn Penn Bowman and other classmates as members of our 50th yearbook team.”...Bill Hawkens enjoys semi-retirement in Warwick, N.Y., and continues to play bagpipes with the Orange County AOH Division 1 Pipes and Drums….Wayne Loosigian and Laurie switched houses with their daughter, Emma, in 2019 to give her both more living space for her growing family, and a chance to run the family orchard in Brentwood, N.H. Wayne and Laurie left the house at Apple Annie’s and moved into Emma’s smaller place

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Longtime Landmark School leader to retire

takeaway: From teacher to leader, a career supporting students with learning disabilities “Helping to build this school into the respected institution that it is today has been the greatest honor of my life,” said Robert Broudo ’71, who is retiring after three decades as head of Landmark School.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2021, Landmark specializes in evidence- and research-based teaching of students with dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities.

One of Landmark’s first faculty members, Broudo joined the school shortly after his graduation from Bates as a psychology major. His final year as head will be 2021–22.

At Landmark, Broudo has served as teacher, supervisor, department head, houseparent, residential coordinator, founding director of the Outreach and Prep programs, and head of the high school. He was elected president and headmaster in 1990.

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Bar None In December 2020, Charles Turner ’76 (second from left) and his team from the Alameda County (Calif.) Workforce Development Board visited the county’s Santa Rita Jail to present the board’s annual partnership award to Sheriff Greg Ahern (far right) and his department.

Turner is ACWDB’s re-entry coordinator, helping previously incarcerated individuals rejoin their communities. A former recipient of the California Workforce Association’s Professional of the Year award, Turner continues the work “to help with re-structuring our broken criminal justice system.”

nearby — and now they have switched back. “Emma and Michael realized that running an apple orchard was more work than they anticipated, and we really missed life in the orchard!”

So Emma’s house has been enlarged and her parents are back among the apple trees....Mike Miskin writes that he and Liz are still active in Tapestry Press, their 33-year-old custom textbook firm. 2020 was especially busy, with so much learning being done off campus. “We needed to provide e-texts to our colleges,” Mike says. “Far more efficient business-wise, but I still prefer print.”...Steve Mortimer happily reports that Alice has retired.

Settled into their log home in Raymond, Maine, “we love being back among the woods and lakes, and we enjoy the wildlife around our house, which so far has included a baby bobcat — how did it know?”...Linda Oliwa Machalaba writes, “Thank heavens for Zoom! I can stay home and still tutor or socialize from my dirt road in Vermont.”...

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of cancer. This followed “many years of determined struggle with a stroke that had left him cortically deaf,” says Jocelyn. She retired in September 2019 from a career as a clinical social worker helping to resolve conflict in court-identified families. She adds, “I am grateful for the affection of close family and friends (shout-out to my Bates roommate, Caroline Haworth Wandle) who stay in touch. I’d welcome any classmates who are traveling to the Alaskan interior to come share my home for a few days or longer. The guestroom is ready!”...John and Paulette Nadeau Rand have moved to two acres of woods in Fremont, N.H., “about 10 miles from Plaistow, just a wee bit north of Mass. and a wee bit south of Maine — 30 minutes or less from at least two of our kids and two grandkids.”...Chris Riser was joined in retirement by Julie two years ago. They’re gardening and working on their 1774 house in Edgecomb, Maine, but “arthritis and joint damage put a dent in physical activity.” Chris adds, “My two daughters are grown and living on this peninsula.”...

Mike Schwartz says that “for us

70 and above, 2020 was a stolen year. For my children and grandchildren, I believe it will simply be a blip in their lives — at least I hope so.” Janine, his wife of 35 years, is seeking an agent or publisher for her growing lines of children’s books. As she plans a trip to Africa in June, Mike adds, “I’ll have several weeks in Tampa should anyone enjoy visiting Florida before it gets too hot.”...

Homa Shirazi drew a number of lessons from the pandemic. Here are two: “Instead of complaining about what they don’t have, there is a lot that average people have to be thankful for — most of all for good health!” She adds, “One’s loved ones must be contacted and appreciated verbally, and in every way, very much. One does not know when he or she will expire!”...Roy and Carolyn Travis Standing ’73 look back on a 2020 distinguished by Roy’s newfound enthusiasm for fitness. He credits Mike Touloumtzis’ pandemicthwarted plan to run seven marathons to celebrate his 70th year. “Mike inspired me to finally get off my butt and start daily walks” — and as of November, Roy was topping 12 miles a day.

Speaking of COVID, Roy noted that “neither Carolyn nor I have had our hair cut since the pandemic began. My neighbor thinks I’m a red suit and a toy sack short of breaking into homes to exchange toys for milk and cookies. She is wrong, of course — I already own a toy sack.”...

Mike Touloumtzis and Paula Foresman “have a long list of things we did not do this year.

Family gatherings, of course, and road races and musical rehearsals and concerts.” He adds, “I’m guessing this non-news heavily overlaps with classmates’ experiences.”...“Twice-retired” and living in Chelmsford, Mass., David Troughton has parlayed his long career in public education into teaching graduate courses on school law, school finance, and education policy at the UMass Lowell College of Education. He also works with a national faith-driven ministry that provides free immigration legal services to low-income immigrants....Jeff Tulis stepped up his public writing in response, he says, “to the national political crisis.” The Atlantic, The Bulwark and Public Seminar have all run his essays, and he is now a regular contributor to the online publication The Constitutionalist.

The newest generation of Batesies will know Jeff from virtual lectures he gave last fall, and he’s still teaching political science at the Univ. of Texas at Austin....John Zakian supposes that he’s “one of the dwindling members of our class who have no plans to retire.” He continues to serve as the disaster recovery grant administrator for the city of Minot, N.D., and, as a consultant for the state of Texas, provides technical assistance on federally funded economic recovery from Hurricane Harvey. Metaphorically speaking, John keeps one foot at home in New Bedford, Mass., where his wife, Cynthia Wallquist, is the city’s human services director.

1973 Reunion 2023, June 9-11 class secretary Kaylee Masury kmasury@yahoo.com class president Tom Carey tcarey@bates.edu Chuck Gaputis is “almost retired” from medicine after 30 years in practice in a small Alabama town. He and Kelli now live in the Atlanta area, close to kids and grandkids, and they summer in northern Michigan....

Beverly Nash Esson confirms that 2020 “was a very challenging year to be an election volunteer.”

She put in 140 hours as a deputy registrar for the town of Wells, Maine, and “our team had to quarantine after exposure to

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COVID.” Increasingly popular in Maine, absentee voting “exploded for the presidential election.”

She adds, “Dozens of former seasonal residents became full time, and a surprising number of middle-aged people registered for the very first time. Meanwhile the phone rang constantly with panicked folks terrified that their votes would not count.”...

Joanne Stato “retired” to Safety Harbor, Fla., in 2016 — “fulfilling a lifelong desire to live in a place where I can swim, kayak, and walk barefoot year-round.”

These days she supports herself doing transcription work for such clients as NASA, the U.S. Forest Service, and WWE. And she’s still writing and performing music.

1974 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Tina Psalidas Lamson tinal2@mac.com class president Don McDade mcdadecbb@gmail.com Peter and Ellen Brown Hollis received the COVID-19 vaccine during the winter, sparking hope for a “return to some sense of normalcy,” Peter writes....Peg Kern says that retirement seems “just as busy as my ‘working’ days, as I stay heavily involved in volunteer activities, primarily as a search and rescue volunteer for the sheriff’s office” in Yavapai County, Ariz. “Not only do I respond to call-outs and training, but as a system administrator for our dispatch and recordkeeping system, I use my career skills in software development and implementation to support all search units for the county.”

1975 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretaries Deborah Jasak Deborahjasak@gmail.com Faith Minard minardblatt@gmail.com class presidents Susie Bourgault Akie susieakie@gmail.com Janet Haines jbh580@aol.com

1976 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class secretary Jeff Helm bateslax@gmail.com class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com Diane and Michael ArratoGavrish, now retired, have enjoyed taking care of their granddaughter four afternoons a week. “Having been a children’s

librarian most recently, I’ve enjoyed the transition to having story time at home,” Diane writes.

Michael enjoys photography, political activism, and searching for UFOs....Pete Basiliere is retired and living with Gail Virtue Basiliere in Milford, N.H. Pete stays active as Milford town moderator. “I am responsible for one of the largest polling places in the country, with more than 13,100 registered voters eligible to vote in the high school gym.

My team of 120 volunteers plus 30 town employees and officials ensured safe, secure, and trustworthy elections in 2020 — as did poll workers around the country.”...Martha Brown Bomely still lives in Charlotte, N.C., and enjoys both her work as a technology manager for Wells Fargo and her location, less than 45 minutes from her six grandchildren. She adds, “After 20-plus years here, I think I’m finally acclimated — this winter it really felt cold when the temperature went below 40!”...

Carolyn Gordon Ladd and Mike still live in Wayne, Maine. Son Chris and his wife joined them at the start of the pandemic, bringing one child with them and welcoming a second at Central Maine Medical Center just days after arriving. Carolyn keeps busy as board chair at a tennis facility in Augusta, as well as volunteering, playing tennis, and being Grammie. Mike continues his counseling work and also plays tennis. They were pleased to see Cindy and Fred Foster-Clark in October....Sharon Spencer Parsons launched a second career in 2015: scoring teacher certification tests for Pearson. “It keeps my mind active and supplements my retirement so that Earle and I can travel again.”

1977 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Steve Hadge schmuddy@yahoo.com class president Keith Taylor drkeithtaylor@msn.com For Lisa Barry, the pandemic’s silver lining was “the opportunity to connect with Bates friends via Zoom as well as in person.” She adds, “I treasure my work as a Bates trustee and am so proud of President Spencer and her team’s efforts to ensure a safe on-campus experience for our students and to strengthen efforts at diversity and equity in campus operations.”...Peter Brann has been able to do his legal work and teach remotely from home, in Harpswell, Maine. His twins, David and Michelle, are scientists, and David has published research into COVID–related loss of the sense of smell....Eric Chasalow released Ghosts of Our Former Selves, a new recording of his

compositions, in October. After seven years as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis, he will step down July 1 and return to the faculty....

Carol Crow Clark has worked in the ER at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, just down the road from Bates, for about 15 years. “No plans to retire yet, but I’ve got that red, white, and blue card — quite a rite of passage we are all experiencing. When not at work, I enjoy playing keyboard in my church’s worship band.”...

Landi deGregoris Turner expected to retire in May from her full-time faculty and co-chair position in the Eastern Univ. psychology department, but will continue to teach as an adjunct.

“The best of all worlds!” She and her husband inherited her parents’ cottage in Maine, and now divide their time between here and Pennsylvania....The Rev. Mark Diters is still the minister of the Flagg Road United Church of Christ in West Hartford, Conn., and has been married for more than 40 years to the former Susan Moneymaker, who is a nurse in the Family Birthplace in the Hospital of Central Connecticut....Donald Earle reports “that we celebrated my younger daughter Caroline’s wedding last August. It was a scaled-down version of what was originally planned, but we managed to stay within safety guidelines by hosting it under tents at our home” in Boothbay Harbor, Maine....As a talent agent during a year of shuttered performance venues, Joel Feingold shows considerable restraint in calling 2020 “tense.”

He adds that “Houda is loving retirement,” thanks in part to his efforts in the kitchen. Meanwhile, “we have not used weed killer out back for some time and enjoy the frequent flocks of Muscovy ducks, Egyptian geese, and white ibis with occasional great white egrets, a great blue heron or two, and less often, a wood stork.”...David Foster and Mina Samuels spent much of the pandemic “in California’s Sierra Nevada, enjoying the gift of long trail runs, mountain bike rides, and cross-country ski adventures where seeing another human is a surprise.” Zooming has encompassed “cooking and celebrating together, making sure my business publishing company and our employees are thriving, and talking to friends to try to keep some fresh thinking alive.”...In Milford, Mass., Linda Greason Yates is in Year Two of retirement. For her and David, 2020 included a three-month precautionary visit from her 96-year-old father and the arrival of their first grandchild — not to mention a summer sojourn with son, daughter-in-law, and the new bundle of joy at the Yates’ Maine cottage. Linda is on the board of the League of Women Voters Worcester Area

and was active in election-related activities....Barbara Griffin Arsnow and Ed “have seen Bates friends outdoors, on short hikes and around the hard-working fire pit,” she reports. “Last summer our family all got tested and gathered at a lake house on Lake Sunapee, a high point.

Thanksgiving was on the porch, with everything in crockpots and us in our woolies!” She has also resumed taking piano lessons, “and have almost achieved my fourth-grade level of expertise.”...

Steve Hadge is in the third year of his semi-retirement from teaching — “semi” referring to ELL tutoring that he provides.

Meanwhile, he has become an enthusiastic backyard birdwatcher. “An experienced birder friend told me it is good to learn the sounds of the birds as well as the visual aspects. That was all well and good until I discovered that most birds make multiple sounds and many of them sound alike. It is like being back in school taking a class! But fun.”...Last year, Leo Jaskoski’s airline employer retired him early because of the coronavirus. “Thus ended an airline career that covered 38 years and eight airlines.” He still flies for pleasure, and “now that I’m an old retired guy, I hang around drinking coffee in the morning, single malt or añejo in the evening, and I swap lies and insults with other old captains.”...Wendy Korjeff Bellows has found that “being retired and living in Maine during the pandemic is a rather nice combination.” She has gotten lots done around the farm in Boothbay: “laid one horse to rest, adopted another, also adopted a new dog.” There was plenty of hiking — Alan ’78 did much work on the Appalachian Trail....Terry Maillard Keyes and Bob ’74 have been “safe in sunny California — survived fires and virus this far, staying close with the family pod and navigating ever-changing school and business situations.”...Dervilla McCann found her role as Bates trustee during the pandemic “particularly challenging as the college has worked to increase its endowment, continue an in-person learning experience, and engage meaningfully in all the debates that have gripped the country this year. I learn a great deal at every meeting and have great pride in what the college has accomplished.” She worked with fellow Trustee Paul Marks ’83 on a project to boost Maine’s PPE supply, and donated organic produce from her garden to a Lewiston restaurant that provides meals to elderly residents with food insecurity....Classmates may know that MaryBeth Pope Salama’s sister Suzy Pope ’79 attended Bates for a year before finishing her undergrad education at Carlton. MaryBeth is sad to report that Suzy had been “fighting (and winning!) a

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battle with glioblastoma, only to die in a terrible car accident with her husband of 16 years the day before Thanksgiving, just shy of her unprecedented third-year diagnosis anniversary. She leaves a legacy of living a most authentic life with enthusiasm and passion.

Thanks to those who knew and loved Suzy and have reached out to me during these dark days.”

(Editor’s note: Suzy’s obituary is included in this issue.)...Dan Quinn retired from PTFS, Inc., in October, though he’s still consulting part time, and he and Renee Beerman now live in Smith Mountain Lake, Va....“Even given the challenges of COVID,” says Liz Skinner King, she and Rufus were pleased to be able to reunite with a few classmates in Vermont in September....Paul Sklarew reports that 2020 was a big year “for Mari and me as we retired from medical practice on Sept. 30. We sold the practice and our Cape Cod home and moved to Denver, where Mari lived for 40 years. We love our 11th-floor apartment with a view of the Rockies and we love city life!”...

Kevin Soucy has “settled down nicely on a new set of chemotherapy and things are looking up for us.”...Stuart Strahl is CEO of the Chicago Zoological Society, which operates the Brookfield Zoo and is widely recognized for its education and conservation programs. Until the pandemic, he says, the zoo was the “most-visited ticketed cultural attraction in the Midwest” — but the facility ended 2020 with its lowest attendance since World War II. “Last March I extended my contract through August 2021, and the search for my replacement is on!”...Keith Taylor reopened his Marblehead, Mass., optometry practice in July 2020 after a pandemic-induced shutdown. Revamping the office to meet COVID-safety guidelines, they installed plexiglass screens, new doors, barriers for patient flow, and enhanced air filtration.

“The most important thing is that everyone is healthy. Wendy can teach remotely, which she enjoys, and I’ve adjusted my schedule to allow for more time off.”

1978 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Chip Beckwith chipwith@yahoo.com class president Dean M. Berman deanocean@aol.com Claude Guerlain writes to share the pride that she and husband Scott Karpuk take in the accomplishments of their sons, Michael Karpuk and John Karpuk, who both earned mechanical engineering degrees at McGill Univ. Mike works at coronavirus vaccine producer Moderna as 70

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an applications engineer, while John has followed fiancée Riley into medical school. Both retired, Claude and Scott divide their time between his childhood home, in Northborough, Mass., and their vacation home on Block Island....Jean Roy has served as the labor representative on the Maine Unemployment Insurance Commission for nearly five years. She worked at home, in Lewiston, during the pandemic — and during the winter, began exercising her new knee in her College Street neighborhood. “I now enjoy walking around the campus and seeing how it has changed since I graduated!”...

Chip Beckwith couldn’t go to the gym during the pandemic, so he started walking two to seven miles a day. Not only that, but “I taught myself to make sauerkraut and lost 35 pounds. I think they are all connected.”

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— and nearly 30 years in a solo law practice. She and Nick have moved to Cornville, Ariz., where “the sun shines every day!”

1980 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Chris Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@gmail.com class president Mary Martuscello mary@martuscellolaw.com Mark Hurvitt has retired after a long career in education. His last post, as superintendent for Maine’s School Union 93 (comprising five communities on a Down East peninsula), “was my longest stay, 15 years. My family and I will spend most of July on Monhegan, where I will be figuring out the next chapter!”

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class secretary Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com

class president Hank Howie hhowie@gmail.com

class president Patrick Murphy patrickm@paceengrs.com Allyson Anderson-Sterling has fingers crossed for a trip to Yellowstone this summer....Sue Calhoun and Jack Cole have moved from Portland, Maine, to nearby Windham. “We very much enjoy being in the country, within walking distance of the Presumpscot River.” She adds that “after a short stint as admin at Windham Adult Ed, I have officially retired!” She’s happy to see fellow Windham resident Stephanie More Vary from time to time....Steven DiPirro gained grandchildren since his last update: Zoey and Sasha. “I’ve challenged my three sons to see who can be the first to give me a grandson. I hope it’s not my youngest, who’s still in college!”

Steve has visited via social media with Gary Page, Bill Pitts, and Bob Snell. “It’s like nothing has changed between us in more than 40 years.”...The pandemic taught Mark Massa that “I can survive without sports on TV! I also learned how technology can keep me close to my business and my family.” He still lives in Old Lyme, Conn., and Chatham, Mass....

Mark Price has retired after 35 years of practicing pediatrics in St. Johnsbury, Vt. “I’ve been disappointed not to be able to play old-man hockey” during the pandemic. “I enjoy the skating but never score any goals or get any assists because I don’t have Willy Ring to make me look good anymore.”...Bonye Wolf Barone finally retired fully, after almost 20 years with the Middletown (Conn.) Police Department — she attained the rank of lieutenant

Don Mayer has moved to Crested Butte, Colo. “Wonderful trail and mountain running out here, and also a fabulous cross-country ski center. Get in touch if you’re coming out this way!”

1982 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class president Neil Jamieson neil@southernmainelaw.com The class is deeply saddened by the death of our longtime class secretary, Jerry Donahoe, in March. Jerry spread good words and good cheer to us all. His obituary will be in the fall issue....Walter Dillingham wrote a white paper about community-college endowment strategies that was mentioned in Community College Journal last fall. Managing director of endowments and foundations for Wilmington Trust, Walter also teaches endowment concepts at New York Univ....Heidi Duncanson writes: “It’s hard to believe we are old enough to do this, but Mark Weaver ’80 and I have bought property for our future retirement home in Maine!”

They found “a problematic house on a beautiful oceanfront lot in Harpswell,” and will replace that structure with an energy-efficient home. This pied-à-terre will put them near Portland, where their son and his fiancée plan to settle — “plus there are lots of Batesies around.”...For Scott Hoyt, the pandemic year at least provided some professional interest: At Moody’s Analytics, where he’s senior director of consumer economics, “we had to determine

how the pandemic would impact the economy while we were all working from home.”...Sue Purkis, most recently a customer-experience leader for IBM, has retired — “finally! And I have returned to Maine,” specifically Acton. “But I don’t recommend moving from North Carolina to Maine during a pandemic.”...

Melissa Weisstuch joined the New York Proton Center last July as the company’s first full-time marketing and communications manager. The center provides a highly precise form of radiation therapy with fewer side effects than other techniques....Known as an MSNBC commentator on legal issues involving the Trump administration, Joyce White Vance and some lawyer friends have launched a new venture, a legal podcast called #SistersInLaw. In other news, the Vances “have become chicken farmers.

We now have 10 of them and a big backyard coop.” Daughter Ellie Vance ’21 just graduated.

1983 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Leigh Peltier leighp727@gmail.com class presidents PJ Dearden tribecapj@yahoo.com Bill Zafirson bzaf@maine.rr.com Eric Leimbach has taught fourth grade in Madison, Maine, for 12 years. “I enjoy it immensely.

COVID has made for an interesting time in education, but I’ve discovered just how resilient the kids and I are.” He and Marilyn celebrated their 30th anniversary during the spring, and Eric stays in touch with Andy Kling, as well as Tom and Lori Norman Campbell, Nick Kent, and Greg Pizzo, all ’82.

1984 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Heidi Lovett blueoceanheidi@aol.com class president Linda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com Lou Kimball Swenson is now a certified surgical technologist at Southern Maine Healthcare’s Biddeford hospital after graduating with honors last December from her intensive 15-month CST program. She passed her certification exam a week later.

“I decided to change careers from counseling to be able to help people in a new way. It has challenged me and given me a new chapter following the loss of my husband, Boyd, two years ago from cancer.”...Heidi Lovett and family have adopted a “beautiful,

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1985 super sweet, 5-year-old rescue poodle, Ruby. Life is different with a dog around, and we are all getting used to the new routine.”

1985 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com class president Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net Derek Anderson published a book in October that in many ways, he believes, “represents the culmination of my Bates education.” Improbable Voices: A History of the World Since 1450 Seen From Twenty-Six Unusual Perspectives looks at 26 individuals who made essential, but now largely forgotten, contributions to places and eras as diverse as Reformation Europe, Tokugawa-era Japan, and post-colonial Kenya....

Shannon Banks reports that she and LK Gagnon ’88 “have sold our family home in Brunswick and relocated to Harpswell — just eight miles away, but a different world.” Shannon became COO of MaineHealth’s Accountable Care Organization last year, while LK continues as associate director of student aid at Bowdoin....Elissa Bass tells us that her daughter wrapped up a bachelor’s from Lang College in 2020 and is completing a BFA from Parsons School of Design. Her son attends Worcester Polytechnic. Elissa adds, “Stayed in touch with my Bates girls as best we could with our annual September beach weekend canceled.”...Heather Beebe comments that 2020 reminded her of a word she learned at Bates: bouleversement, meaning upheaval, dislocation, or disturbance. Career changes accompanied the upheaval wrought by coronavirus, as Heather retired from management consulting and husband Luc Jarry took a new job in the Eastern Townships south of Montreal, far from their Calgary home of 21 years. “House finally sold, in July we made a beautiful cross-Canada drive complete with masks, hand sanitizer, and social distancing. We are now a quick drive away from our East Coast friends.” Their daughters are Anna and Laura Jarry ’20....

Leanne Belmont Valade speaks for many: “So grateful for family and friends — they are always there! I keep sane because of people like Debbie Valaitis Kern, Kate Sweeney, Lisa Virello, Elissa Bass, and Kathy Leonard Bertagna.”...Adam Caper and Rebecca Yang moved from Boston to New York City early last year. The move, and then the pandemic, gave Adam more time to refine and attract investment for his latest startup: dineoutwith.us, which enables users to

host dinner parties at selected restaurants. Adam explains that the platform is designed to handle organization, invitation, messaging, and payment chores, with the goal of “reviving the dying art of the dinner party” for folks who aren’t equipped to host fancy dinners at home.

Incidentally, Adam’s former Page hallmate is the firm’s CTO: Rick Myers ’86. The two hadn’t been in contact until a mutual business associate reconnected them....Allison Groves and Michael Sovik “are enjoying life in Wellington, New Zealand, and we feel very fortunate to be here now.”...After retiring from the CIA, Daniel Hoffman enjoys a new career as an independent consultant and a “nonpartisan, straight-shooter national security analyst” for the news media. “I’m now focused on tending to my own garden, raising two sons, and caring for my wife, Kimberly, who has been battling cancer for almost four years.”...Of their nine children, John and Christina Martin Kroger ’84 “are down to only three at home,” John notes. The three are all sons: twins Stefan and Othniel, 21, and 16-year-old Christoph.

They all performed last fall in the Dance Center of Auburn’s online production of The Nutcracker.

Christina “is nearly done with homeschooling — all of our children were homeschooled until they started college,” John notes.

He practiced at Swift River Family Medicine in Rumford, Maine....

Patty Lemay Lufburrow recently became vice president for quality at Exelixis, a small Bay Area biotech company focused on oncology medicine. “After working at small companies that became large companies, I’m enjoying the small-company culture once more.” Daughter Emily Lufburrow ’19 has started at Drexel Univ. College of Medicine....Lance Matthiesen has joined McKinsey & Company as its global manager for McKinsey Black Network programs, designed to enhance the management consulting firm’s success in recruiting, retaining, and developing Black talent.

Meanwhile, he’s in touch with fellow D.C.-based classmates Kevin Pomfret, Mark Rees, and John Luddy II....Cyril May was one of several Connecticut individuals and organizations to receive an Environmental Champion award from Aquarion Water Company last fall. As refuse and recycling coordinator for the city of Waterbury, Cyril uses “enviromagic” presentations to give the city’s 110,000 residents a better understanding of their power to protect the environment. “My environmental magic shows on recycling, water, energy, and other topics will never likely lead me to besting Penn and Teller on Fool Us, but it is nice that they are recognized.”...Allison Webster Matlack and Dan are still renting

takeaway: Beth George

media outlet: The New York Times

headline:

The cradle of global baking? (It’s not New York)

takeaway: Bagel-makers worldwide turn to Beth George for help Beth George ’85 “is one of the world’s few, and most sought-after, bagel consultants,” reports The New York Times.

George’s bagel-baking expertise started in Maine more than a decade ago with Spelt Right, a bakery she founded that used flour made from spelt, a grain with different properties from wheat that is also more difficult to bake with.

Since then, she’s become a kind of worldwide bagel guru, now working from a commercial kitchen in Fair Lawn, N.J., under the name BYOB Bagels, in partnership with a New Jersey distributor of bagel-making equipment.

“From the Bahamas to Saudi Arabia, from India to the Horn of Africa, dozens of aspiring bagel bakers — novices and professionals — have hired her to provide and adapt recipes,” the Times notes. George helps with business plans, kitchen layouts, and troubleshooting “for issues from kneading and rolling to boiling (or steaming) and baking.”

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digs in Needham Heights, Mass., but are pondering their next adventure. “We look forward to settling into a new community and new routines. Stay tuned!”

1986 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class secretary Erica Seifert Plunkett ericasplunkett@gmail.com class presidents Bill Walsh messagebill@gmail.com Catherine Lathrop Strahan catstrahan@gmail.com Neil Adams moved on last fall from John Wiley & Sons to join Karger Publishers, a health sciences publisher in Switzerland. Neil continues to work with editors, authors, and industry partners to publish important clinical research in all areas of medicine....Kelli Armstrong, Salve Regina Univ. president, reports that the past year was consumed with efforts to keep campus open so that the school could offer as much of an in-person experience as possible.

“Weekly calls with the Rhode Island Department of Health and daily emergency team meetings became the norm, and although it was a weird year for faculty and students, they rallied as a community.” It’s been a gift to have Dan Ludden nearby and to witness his creativity as general manager of Boston Baroque, she adds....Carol Bagshaw Murphy still lives in Chicago’s North Shore suburbs and is still with John after 30 years. One daughter attends Smith College, a second just graduated from high school, and the third is close behind, graduating in 2022….Charles Baldwin and his wife, Shizuka, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last year. In June 2020, he started a new job at a New York financial company.

Onboarded remotely, he finally got to meet his new co-workers face-to-face during spring 2021....

Denise Barton, deputy general counsel for the Univ. of Massachusetts, lives in an old saltbox in Westborough. Her parents, both in their 80s, live just a few miles away. “Their proximity during the pandemic has fostered a unique symbiosis,” she writes. “I do their errands, Dad reciprocates by doing yard chores — giving him exercise, since I banned him from the gym last March — and this, in turn, gives my Mom a few hours of peaceful alone time now and then.” Denise adds that Bates relationships continue to matter and feed her soul: shout-outs to Ben Robinson, Lisa Petrini Bell, Maria McCann Ghazal, Mary Bartlett Petrini, Staci Warden ’87, Betsy Klebanoff-Hills, Ashley ParkerSnider, Carol Rosenau,

Krissy Murray Thomas, Dave Reynolds P’22, Susan McCulley, and Kent Sinclair....

Andrew Beardsley and family have lived in Charlottesville, Va., for six years. Andy and Andrea Preston Beardsley ’87 teach at St. Anne’s-Belfield School, an independent school in Charlottesville. A personal highlight for him has been pushing his best friend from high school, who’s living with cerebral palsy, on a bike in races including the Boston Marathon. “So much fun!”...John D. Boyle and his wife, Bisi, live in Laguna Beach, Calif. A mechanical engineer, John is vehicle systems lead for Nuro, which makes autonomous delivery robots. Bisi is vice president of product planning and mobility strategy at Hyundai Motor North America, in Fountain Valley....John J. Boyle serves on the boards of the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps and The Base, a nonprofit in Boston, and is executive managing director at Cushman & Wakefield, in Boston.

“As you might assume, the commercial real estate market has been in a real time of change,” he notes. John sees Greater Boston friends like Peter Noonan, Jay Spinale ’85, and Dave Campbell when he can....

Bill Burleigh and Krista are now empty-nesters, with sons Chris and Alex on their own again after their pandemic pause at the ranch in Wyoming. Bill adds that Laramie River Dude Ranch is now just Laramie River Ranch.

No more dudes nor employees, just hay to grow, animals to tend, and quiet to enjoy. “Visitors are welcome,” says Bill. “There is always a fence to fix.”...To Jay Cleary, closing in on 60 seems bizarre. “It used to sound old, but not anymore.” President and CEO of Bridge Financial Group in Littleton, Colo., Jay has lived in the Centennial State for 30 years.

He and Lisa have two girls in college and two boys working in finance, one in NYC and one in Denver....To Lisa Cogan Brown, in her 30-somethingth year of teaching, 2020 “must have been the weirdest year of all. I was amazed daily by the resilience of my students and their ability to manage hybrid education. Who would have guessed that teachers would learn to recognize students by their hairstyles and mask preferences, and not by their smiles?” Lisa and David have lived in Durham, Maine, for 22 years....Laurette Cousineau Carle has resided outside Nashville for 20-plus years and has been married to Jay for 13.

She is executive director of teaching, learning, and assessment for the Williamson County Schools, a public district of about 40,000 students. She credits her Bates education with preparing her for the challenges imposed on educators by the

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pandemic. Laurette treasures long friendships with Jennifer Goodwin Oates, Cathy Kiley, Kathy Gundlach Austin, and Megan Kelley....Kerry Crehan Dunnell manages a training center for public health workers in Massachusetts. She also joined her local board of health in 2020 — “I was concerned about being able to commit the time, but knew it would be irresponsible not to contribute my knowledge.”

Since 2016, supported by friends, Kerry has run half-marathons on Key West for Team Challenge and the Crohns and Colitis Foundation, netting more than $25,000 for the cause. She stays in touch with Bates friends including first-year roomie Sharon Williams, buddy Nadeem “Bobby” Bezar and Gina Bezar, Kathleen Flaherty ’87, Molly Marchese Mullin ’87, and Tim Nelson. Her Bates connections “have an authenticity that makes me grin from ear to ear.”...Maura Curtin Lundie writes that both of her and Bruce’s children have graduated from college, Ainsley from Colorado College and Nate from Case Western….Fred Dockery and Catherine are finally experiencing the empty nest. One child is in grad school and the other two are still close to home in Charleston, S.C., but living on their own as they attend the College of Charleston. Fred still works for the state of South Carolina, “driving various boats as much as the pandemic has allowed,” and Catherine works in health services at the College of Charleston. “When things get better, Charleston is a wonderful place to visit,” Fred hints....Karen Drugge Kemble and Jay were happy to have their two college kids home in Bangor, Maine, for much of 2020. Being home gave Peter an opportunity to work for a local optometrist — he expects to start an optometry program in the fall. Meanwhile, Anna was able to return to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Through all of this, Karen and family have felt lucky to live where they can enjoy the outdoors....Actress Pamela Dubin, who played opposite Martin Landau in the 2017 film Abe and Phil’s Last Poker Game, loves reconnecting with Bates folks....Tom Duff has enjoyed several different careers with one employer, Willis Towers Watson, for 34 years. Peggy Simmonds Duff teaches English to adults and, she says, “really enjoys meeting these hard-working folks.” Their third child has finished college, so they are contemplating new futures. But their love for making music won’t change: Peggy sings with a dozen women and Tom plays diverse instruments with whoever drops by....April Durant Hutchinson still lives in Cohasset, Mass., though she and Jon regard Oregon as their second home.

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White Water Around this time last year, it wasn’t a case of COVID but perhaps a bit of cabin fever that prompted Pam Rawson Morse ’85 (in front) and Earle Morse ’84 (behind the camera) to set up a photo with son Sam (in back) outside their home in Maine’s Carrabassett Valley. The Morses are in their 31st year of pastoring at Sugarloaf Christian Ministry at Sugarloaf Mountain.

Still, the pandemic made time for “exploring our most beautiful corner of our most beautiful state!” she writes. Sam is on the U.S. Ski Team, competing in World Cup downhill events, and is a Maine Guide as well.

Son Matt is in a doctoral program in molecular biology at UMass Boston, and Harrison works in hospitality in Burlington, Vt. April looks forward to faceto-face time with classmates including Mary Sulya Powell, Heather Larlee Ries, and Kris Falvey Freeman....Chris Flanagan has arrived at that age when he perceives time more in decades than years. (Tell us about it.) He and Anna have been married for close to three decades, and their children are in their third decade. For two decades, Chris and Anna have lived in Holliston, Mass., and Chris has worked at Harvard Pilgrim. The pandemic posed unique challenges, as he was lead attorney for the company’s COVID response to state and federal requirements while ensuring that members were covered for needed testing, treatment, and vaccination...Kristine Falvey Freeman and Scott ’85 were thrilled by the graduation of daughter Caroline Freeman ’21, making a Bates trifecta with Samuel ’16 and Andrew ’18. Kristine still serves on the board of Svaroopa Vidya Ashram, a nonprofit that trains

yoga and meditation teachers....

Kristen Carlson Garnett and Jeffrey ’83 send greetings from Madison, Conn. Family life transitioned during 2020: Kristen’s dad passed away at 96 after living with them for the past seven years, and daughter Katharine completed her undergraduate degree....Peter Gluck, who practices as Patnstr, APC, was recognized as a Distinguished IP Lawyer for 2020 following the issuance of his 1,111th U.S. letters patent. He spends a third of his time counseling start-ups pro bono publico and has garnered sufficient equity to plan his imminent retirement by the time his youngest son graduates from the Univ. of Colorado Boulder....

Jonathan Green continues to be a house husband (“minus the apron and heels”) and to explore the desert around Prineville, Ore., with his and Sue’s dog. Sue has been subbing online for a school district, while one son works with folks with mental health issues in Washington state and the other approaches senior year at Pacific Lutheran Univ. “We have all survived due to the ability to order wine online!”...

Melissa Hambly-Larios reports that she and family have moved to Panama after five years in Peru. She still works for the International Potato Center....

Eric Hamilton lives in the Philadelphia area and works for Prudential, “trying to impart some wisdom to the younger generation.” He and his wife have two kids and regularly travel between Cape Cod, Maine, and Arizona....Deborah Hansen has retooled her highly regarded restaurant in Brookline, Mass., Taberna de Haro, several times in response to changing pandemic guidelines. These past many months, “finding the silver lining in any frightening or maddening or just plain terrible situation was the only constant, along with unwavering love and fun over Zoom with my kids, Camille and Inés. It’s a joy to see their creativity and spirit as they forge new lives in these formidable times.”...John Harris is keeping busy. Still an account manager for Pfizer, he also runs a travel and leisure business that has taken him around the world. And good works keep him on the go, too, as he pitches in with a Christian mission foundation whose

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takeaway: Christina Chiu

media outlet: Publishers Weekly

headline:

Why are men still writing about sex?

takeaway: Cis white men feel entitled to write about sex, however poorly Since 1993, the British magazine Literary Review has given its whimsical Bad Sex in Fiction Award to the worst description of a sex scene in a novel. Most winners (25 out of 27) have been male, including Thomas Wolfe, Norman Mailer, and, in a lifetime achievement award, John Updike.

Why is that? asks Christina Chiu ’91, a novelist who won the James Alan McPherson Award for her 2020 novel Beauty. “If there are as many female writers as there are male writers, shouldn’t we suck equally?”

A couple things are in play when writers write about coupling and the like, says Chiu.

For one, because women are expected “to write from their lives” while men are “able to use their imaginations,” women might avoid sex scenes altogether for fear that readers will assume it’s autobiographical.

That leads to male privilege. “Cis white men feel entitled to write sex scenes,” however poorly. “Women less so.”

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projects have included the building of 130-plus schools in Guatemala. On top of all that, John also published a new book, Breakthrough Success, available on Amazon....Eric Hoffer writes that the kids are out of college, he and Lauren have sold their house of 27 years in New Jersey, and they’ve fetched up in Biddeford Pool, Maine, “while waiting for the right home to reveal itself.”

He adds, “we’re looking forward to reconnecting with anyone in or passing through the area.”...

Garry and Elaine Coombs Holmes are well. He still runs the family business, R.W. Holmes Realty in Wayland, Mass., with daughter Elizabeth and Dean Blackey ’98 on board. Two other daughters are working too, and the fourth has finished high school and is eyeing nursing programs. Elaine works part time and volunteers for a nonprofit that helps get homeless families back on track....Erin Hourihan is in her 25th year as CEO of Childhaven, a child advocacy center, shelter, and foster care agency in New Mexico, serving children and families involved in the child welfare system. She has hosted four Bates interns there through the Center for Purposeful Work. Meanwhile, her husband, Mike Eisenfeld ’85, works on energy transition issues for San Juan Citizens Alliance. Daughter Mia Eisenfeld ’21 graduated with a double major in psychology and sociology, and son Max studies at St. Olaf....Lisa Kelley Finneral and Gary were fortunate that their jobs stayed intact during the pandemic. The home-improvement boom has benefited Gary’s window business. Lisa’s Kelley Solutions, a strategic-sourcing company in print and promotional products, was deemed essential. She talks with Martha Gelbein Woodard, Diane Meahl Ryan, and Julie Derry Glauninger and “it appears we are all in very similar places. I also caught up with Lance Matthiesen ’85 after quite some time — so nice to chat with him, too!”...Dave Kennedy writes that his and Holly’s oldest has graduated from college, their middle two are in college, and the youngest finishes high school in ’22. Dave teaches math at Shippensburg Univ. and plays chess when he gets the chance....

Beth Landry Ostaszewski is senior research assistant in the Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she’s worked for 32 years and these days helps determine potential biomarkers for Alzheimer’s. Her husband of 32 years, Lee, is an account manager at Eastern Insurance and writes a humor column in the MetroWest/ Milford Daily News. One son teaches science at Walpole High School and the other is a doctoral candidate in chemistry at the Univ. of Pennsylvania….Ken

Lanik is finishing up a doctorate in public policy and educational leadership through the Muskie School of Public Service at the Univ. of Southern Maine. His dissertation examines the experiences of school administrators in predominantly white communities in Maine when they are tasked with attending to issues of race....Althea Latady reports that sons William and Thomas live on Ware Street near Bates and work at Carbonite.

Daughter Sarah has finished up courses for chemical engineering at Santa Rosa Junior College and hopes to attend the Univ. of Maine. Althea herself, working as quality and food safety supervisor at local bottler Boston Brands, is “trying to keep ahead of things.”

She’s grateful to family and friends for their support during the trial and conviction of ex-husband R. Kenneth Lindell for theft and tax evasion. “You never know what the future will bring — never give up!”...

Catherine Lathrop Strahan has retired from real estate and volunteers in a leadership role at the Newton (Mass.) Food Pantry.

“Sadly, during COVID this became a full-time job,” she notes. She’s been uplifted by the commitment of pantry volunteers and the generosity of local residents....Heather Larlee Ries still teaches math at East Carolina Univ., where she’s been for almost 30 years (“Yikes!”).

She resumed in-person teaching last fall in a large room wearing a mask and a microphone, but ECU went remote two weeks later.

(The university resumed some in-person classes in January.)...

Jenny Lidsky Van Beckum and her husband, John, live in a 100-year-old house in Florence, Mass., near Northampton. Jenny works for Melaleuca.com, an online wellness shopping club.

John teaches middle-school math and science, while their elder daughter is a senior publicist with Basic Books and their younger daughter is a strategic planner for Planned Parenthood….Maria McCann Ghazal has worked in Washington, D.C., since graduation and still finds her career at the Business Roundtable rewarding.

As senior vice president and counsel, she is the chief advocate on corporate governance issues and works on racial equity and justice initiatives. She and Jay have two children and live in Arlington, Va. She notes that “the Zoom catch-ups with Denise Barton, Lisa Petrini Bell, and Staci Warden ’87 kept me sane!”...In September, Susan McCulley launched The Age of Becoming, an online community offering embodied practices and support for women over 50 (bit. ly/becoming-community). During COVID-19 reclusion, she found that the house in Charlottesville, Va., that husband Frank Bergland designed and built has been “a

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fiancé, Chris, are grateful that 2020 left them and theirs healthy and happy. Tracey is in a new position, working for the Massachusetts Department of Family Medical Leave — and loving it....Jenny Moore Rynne enjoys her work as an environmental, social, and governance analyst covering utilities at Wellington Management in Boston. “We now have three Bobcats on our team of 123!” she reports, and she has hosted job-shadowing Bates students. Meanwhile, she was pleased to reconnect with Robin Cameron Dietz and Heidi Galpern….Assistant city manager for Aspen, Colo., Diane Murphy Foster spent month after month working at home. Using the strategy of “connection before content,” she started in the position by meeting as many of Aspen’s 400 employees as possible, and also joined the local Rotary Club, which has been 100 percent online. She has looked forward to a “second start” in Aspen once the pandemic is under control....Bright spots in Kathleen O’Brien Pagano’s 2020 included the wedding of her and Joe’s son, Leo, to his college sweetheart in a small but beautiful ceremony, and spending summer days on Laurel Lake — socially distanced — with Kristen Carlson Garnett, Cat Lathrop Strahan, and Erica Seifert Plunkett and families.

“We missed you, John Howard!”...Assistant head of school and director of education at Riverview School on Cape Cod, Maria Packett Cashdollar and two colleagues last year assumed the role of COVID response leaders at this independent school for students with learning and cognitive challenges. Their goal was to resume in-person learning as soon as it was safe — and by early October, all students and staff were back. “I have never been prouder of the Riverview students, staff, and families,” Maria says. She and her Bates gang Zoomed when they could for cocktails....Writing from Santa Barbara, Calif., during the winter, Ashley Parker-Snider noted that, “miracle of miracles, it’s raining! When you haven’t had measurable rain since April 2020, it’s a big deal.” As with hospitality-focused businesses all over, the pandemic has posed problems for the Fess Parker Winery and Wine Country Inn, and she’s been “grateful for e-commerce.” On the bright side, the family acquired an English bulldog–American bulldog–pit bull–mastiff mix that they named after Maggie Smith’s Downton Abbey character. Violet Crawley “wormed her way into the heart of our 8-year-old pit mix, Toby, and they are now fast friends.”...

Heather Payne-Mello writes, “I hope that you each have your own list of what the year has

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beautiful and inspiring place to be on lockdown.” It overlooks a river and waterfall, and contains studio space that enabled Susan to move her movement teaching and coaching online....Michael Meehan of Alexandria, Va., remarks that his “choice of starting a crisis communications company,” Squared Communications, 13 years ago “was the right call for a future pandemic.” He lost friends to COVID, but Michael’s goddaughter, a COVID nurse, survived the disease after a week in hospital. In general he has preferred to focus on 2020’s good news, including the rare opportunity to summer on the Cape, take fishing trips off Nauset Beach, and play golf on Martha’s Vineyard with Peter Wyman, Michael Shea, Steve Sughrue, and Andy Doyle....Susan Megroz Rosenzweig writes that she and Dean have been blessed with two wonderful milestones: daughter Emma graduated in December from the Univ. of Kentucky with a degree in hospitality and tourism. And back in June, in a small backyard ceremony, son Jacob became a bar mitzvah. “The rain stopped 20 minutes before they began, the sun came out, and amazingly, a catbird landed on the limb over Jacob and accompanied him as he chanted his Torah portion. It was perfect!”...Eva Meltzer Murray still lives with Paul some 20 miles offshore from Rockland, Maine, on Matinicus Island. (She was profiled in the Summer 2019 issue.) She guesses they’re essential workers, as Eva is a volunteer EMT and runs the freight truck, and her husband handles local telecommunications and other utilities. As town clerk, Eva took a lot of satisfaction from running a clean election in November — “but that wasn’t too hard in this tiniest of municipalities!”...Jamie Merisotis last fall released a new book, Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines (RosettaBooks) that, he says, has done surprisingly well. He and Colleen O’Brien “will see son Ben off to college in the fall.”...Silvia Milkovits Harper reports that she and Steven were happy to host their daughters at home during summer 2020, though it came at the cost of some serious planscrambling — notably, the couple’s plan to sell most of their belongings and their house, in New Hampshire, and resettle in London. “But the dog was really happy to have us all at her beck and call!” she writes, adding that “we still hope to move to the UK in 2021.”...Jane Miniutti of Portsmouth, R.I., recently became dual board-certified in both family medicine and a new specialty, lifestyle medicine, that focuses on a plant-based diet, exercise, stress and sleep management, and preventative measures....Tracey Misins Geary writes that she and her

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Game On It’s just another day at Lucasfilm: Christine Beebe ’95 sits at the controls of the Jedi Order frigate Athylia on the set of The Jedi Temple Challenge, the first-ever Star Wars–themed game show, for which she was an executive producer.

Ars Technica describes the game show, available on YouTube, as a fun throwback to the kid-friendly Nickelodeon shows of the 1980s and ’90s, like Double Dare and Guts.

The format has three teams of two kids, each competing in three elimination stages. The final team faces the challenge of the Jedi temple itself.

The Lucasfilm project, Beebe says, “finally gave me the highly coveted ‘cool’ status with my 14-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter.”

As the show’s target audience, Beebe’s children pitched in by testing the show’s obstacle courses and helping with casting.

“We wanted to cast nice kids who would be great team players,” Beebe explains. “So each night I reviewed the tapes with my kids. I found that their opinions were invaluable and perceptive about which kids were genuine and kind.”

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given you rather than taken.” Her list includes: having her three cats and a dog hanging out in her office every day; getting to know the neighbors because they’re all out walking to escape the house; living in Fort Lauderdale, a city proactive with pandemic precautions from Day One; and curbside pickup — “love it! I was never a shopper.”...Robert Peretti works as head of distribution for the Americas at AXA XL, part of the multinational French insurance giant, AXA. “I wish I had taken French more seriously in high school!” Longtime residents of Ridgewood, N.J., he and Patricia have two children, one in and one out of college....Barbara Peskin still teaches digital literacy to sixth-graders in Concord, Mass., and notes that her curriculum has been a good fit for remote learning. She also runs an Animals and Planet Club, whose projects promote positive change for animals, the environment, and the community….Lydia Pollard-Miller is happy to report that Pebble Cove Farm, an inn and animal sanctuary, survived 2020 — “a weird, challenging year” for the hospitality industry.

She and John experienced that weirdness as consumers as well as purveyors, ending an early 2020 trip to Asia aboard the Holland America cruise ship that was “stranded” at sea for two weeks: After passengers boarded in Hong Kong, no countries on their itinerary would allow the ship to dock because of coronavirus fears. Finally, Lydia notes, Cambodia accepted them....John Ramsdell has for years urged the Shoreline (Wash.) City Council to establish a public park in his Westminster Triangle neighborhood. “Serendipitously, a beautiful lot in the middle of the neighborhood became available” and the park is moving ahead. Moreover, he became a member of his local Democratic legislative district organization and was subsequently elected as a precinct committee officer. He and his wife, Nicki, enjoy their sailboat — named Bobcat by the prior owner. “It was meant to be!”...

David Reynolds and Kaja Beenhouwer Reynolds ’88 are still teaching in Colorado Springs.

Empty-nesters, Kaja makes jewelry and Dave writes haiku.

He says, “It’s been a blast to reconnect with fellow alumni virtually,” including Nicolas Lindholm, Alex Johnston ’84, John Abbott ’87, Dan Calder ’84, Mark Scholtes ’84 and Judy Kohin ’85....Charles Richardson has served nine years in the Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s advancement office.

He sees classmates and ’85s every once in a while, usually over dinner in Boston. “It’s tough to bust each other’s chops texting — we’d rather do it in person.”

The usual suspects include John

Anderson ’85, John Boyle, Peter Noonan, Greg Petrini, John Simourian, Jay Spinale ’85 and Scott Truncellito....

Hagar Riley wishes she could say that in 2020, she danced in the rain and gathered raindrops to make ice for margaritas, or learned to weave a basket or fly a plane. But none of that would be true. So what is true? Hagar made pretzels from scratch. Her husband, Lewis Farberman, built a wooden canoe that they paddled on a nearby lake while wearing silly sailor hats. And their teenagers have started cleaning up around the house in Scarsdale. “Wait, that’s not true!”...Ben Robinson is excited about “a new beginning with a fantastic firm”: the marketing strategy company Taylor Global.

As chief administrative officer, he oversees critical operational and strategic functions, and has a leadership role in diversity, equity, and inclusion....Joseph Rufo reports that he and family are doing fine. Joe is back at Verizon and loving it, while his wife, Kate Spurrier, still works at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Their son has applied to New England colleges and their daughter is a high school freshman....Carolyn Ryan lives in Manhattan and has moved up The New York Times masthead to become deputy managing editor.

Before the pandemic made such things impossible, she notes, she took in a Red Sox–Yankees game at Yankee Stadium with John Howard. They remained zealous Sox boosters despite the setting and the occasional hostile glances from nearby fans....Erica Seifert Plunkett is still a research associate and project administrator at the Wellesley (Mass.)

Centers for Women. She has researched the prevention of depression in teens, work that has encompassed in-school screenings and a federally funded assessment of ways to treat teens with subsyndromal depression.

Her husband, Conor, works in information technology for Gannett Newspapers....Peter Senghas still has a blast teaching fifth-graders, and has been proud of the resiliency and kindness of 10-to-11-year-olds and their families. He and Kellie Thibodeau ’87 remain content in Acton, Mass., but he looks forward to the reopening of the world so he can resume making music with local friends such as Pat Tambor ’87....Beth Simermeyer enjoys her role at Minnesota-based Ecolab as executive vice president and president of global healthcare and life sciences. Her firm supports healthcare systems, pharmaceutical companies, and any business that uses hand soap or sanitizers — needless to say, COVID has kept them hopping.

She lives with her three children, her 92-year-old dad, and three dogs and three cats....Scott

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Chris and Elaine Bailey White anticipate moving from Byfield, Mass., to Connecticut this summer so that she can take over as head of Westminster School in Simsbury. Chris will transfer his chiropractic license to Connecticut, but plans to spend the next year supporting Elaine in her work and traveling with her as they get to know the alumni base. “This adventure comes at a good time,” Chris notes, as their youngest daughter will be starting college and they will be empty-nesters....Even aside from the pandemic, Julia Wiellette has undergone challenges in recent years. She and Cherie both lost their fathers, and they also said goodbye to their beloved golden retriever at age 13. Julia was also diagnosed with an immune system disorder that left her with mobility issues for a while. “But no one keeps a Bobcat down for long!” She still loves teaching after 24 years, and in addition to her high school position is an adjunct English professor at Univ. of Connecticut’s Hartford campus....Julie Wilkinson Thomas usually hesitates to write because it is always the same news — “still teaching, blah, blah, blah” — but the difference now is that she is retiring, effective July 1. “This was not the original plan, but with a husband who is eight years older and already retired, I’m taking the bull by the horns and jumping in!” Julie and Jeffery will divide their time between Connecticut and Florida. “The number of things to do down there is downright amazing, especially for a bunch of old folks.”...Darrell Williams moved back to his birthplace, Miami, five years ago. He remains busy with startups and small firms nationwide, helping them acquire seed and early capital funding to develop health technologies or medical devices....John Wilson and Denise have lived in Cary, N.C., for 16 years. Their daughter is a junior at the Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and their son just graduated from high school. Denise works at a friend’s boutique and, says John, “has done an incredible job keeping the kids and me organized and achieving.” John is now in his 27th year in financial services. He often speaks with Robert Ricci, looks forward to fine beers with Chris White and Jim Alden, and notes that he and Denise enjoyed a 2020 visit with John Weiner and Kristi Wesslen Weiner ’88....Karen Wood Cartier works in quality and patient safety at Rutland (Vt.) Medical Health Services, and honestly hopes never to work on PPE grids again.

2020, she says, “made me incredibly proud to be part of a healthcare team that has done such an amazing job for our

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Maine’s largest private university emphasizes the health professions, and Scott says that “being at UNE during the pandemic has made him appreciate our front-line healthcare workers even more.” Thanks in part to the pandemic-driven booms in real estate and home improvement, Sarah McKnight Steinberg ’96 has been busy with her design business, focusing on custom kitchens and bathrooms. Their older daughter is a rising senior at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, and the younger is looking ahead to college....Joanna Stevens still lives in her family home on Cape Cod with her spouse and daughter. She retired in December after more than 20 years in education, the last few as director of a special education preschool program in Eastham.

“I’m happy to have less stress in my life,” she reports, and “fortunate to live in a place that offers ample opportunities to be in nature.”...John Stewart has enjoyed living, working, and raising a family in the New York City area for the last 25 years, but is still a New Englander at heart.

He was happy to dine during the winter with Bill Dunn....James Tarbox became assistant vice provost and executive director for career education at Stanford University at the first of the year and was “honored and thrilled to take on this role.” He went to Stanford after 15 years at San Diego State Univ. James and his husband, Felix, also celebrated 15 years together in 2020....Wesley Toner finds it hard to believe that 35 years have passed since graduation, and that he and Norma have lived in Georgia for 27 years (24 in the same house, in Roswell). Wes still supplies data and products to insurance companies. One daughter has a mechanical engineering degree from Tufts and works at an engineering design firm, and the other is studying health sciences at Furman University. Wes keeps in touch with Brad Hobbs, Al Kropp ’87 and C.J. Fasciano ’87....Bill Walsh and family moved to Fairfax, Va., last year for better schools for his and Katherine’s second-grader. The coronavirus has sown irony where you’d least expect it: “Of course, Naomi has never actually set foot in the new school because it has been closed,” Bill notes. Vice president of communications at AARP, he was appointed in spring 2020 to lead the organization’s national pandemic response, and has done many news interviews and hosted health experts in tele– town halls attracting millions of listeners. In November, he was

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Wendy Wood Meaden is in her 20th year as professor of theater, and fourth year as associate dean, at Jordan College of the Arts, Butler Univ. She was pleased to receive funding for research and travel in Europe before the pandemic hit, and looks forward to incorporating it into a bigger project. She’s excited about visiting Maine and seeing Lisa Cogan Brown and other Batesies....Craig and Martha Gelbein Woodard are still in South Hadley, Mass., after 26 years. Craig is a professor of biology at Mount Holyoke College, Martha continues to practice as a clinical psychologist, and their two sons have started careers….Margaret Webb Wright and Steve ’83 moved to the Charlotte, N.C., area a year ago, finding a great church and enjoying both the area and renewed proximity to their adult children. They welcomed their first grandchild in March....Tracy Zordan Nudo and Sal celebrated their 31st anniversary in 2020, and they still make each other laugh, “which is good for long-term survival in many situations,” she says. Tracy has a chronic illness that, a few years ago, led to one of her vertebrae fracturing and a long hospital stay. “Yes, in Canada that can happen and you don’t end up broke!” says this resident of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec. She now walks with a cane and has given up teaching.

And she’s had to re-evaluate her life plan earlier than expected as she figures out the “retirement lifestyle”: Time to read what she wants, whenever she wants?!

Pursue arts and crafts she’s left behind? Well, OK then!

1987 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Val Kennedy brickates@gmail.com class president Erica Rowell David Farrington, Leopoldine, and daughter have stayed healthy in Annapolis, Md....James Gleason has moved to Santa Fe, N.M., and writes that it’s the smallest town he’s ever lived in, other than Lewiston. “Please come visit!”...Kari Heistad continues her work in the diversity and inclusion space through both of her companies, Culture Coach International and her tech startup, the Diversity Dashboard. With the deepening interest in race and social justice, Kari is thrilled at the unprecedented buildup of momentum for this work....Erik and Susanne Morrison Jarnryd have designed an online educational curriculum that students in rural Oaxaca state, Mexico, can access through shared tablets.

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Their Bacaanda Foundation last year undertook the construction of a dedicated network designed to bring WiFi to more than 100 schools....During the winter and spring, reports Sarinda Parsons Wilson, “the 2021 work-life balancing act continued to challenge and push me in the classroom” at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., where she teaches French. “Language proficiency, Zoom, experiential ed, hybrid or in-person, antiracism, and a diverse francophone curriculum all shape my approach.” She adds that the graduation of Elliot Wilson ’21 put her in mind of May 25, 1987....A resident of Barrington, R.I., Arnold Robinson is happy to be back on the water with the East Bay Rowing Club along with Molly Snow Robinson ’90. These days, he adds, he’s with national engineering firm Fuss & O’Neill. “I’m working with New England communities adapting to climate change, focused on protecting historic resources in the face of sea level rise.”...George Stewart “spent the last two years building a new boarding school, EF Academy, for international students in Pasadena, California. The pandemic delayed the opening from fall 2020 to fall 2022, so now I’m a head of school with no students! I’m back home in Concord, Mass.”

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 Steve Lewis mojofink@gmail.com Julie Sutherland-Platt julielsp@verizon.net Lisa Romeo romeoli66@gmail.com A class note submitted as a prank “on behalf” of Steve Lewis erroneously suggested he had left academia to work in Republican politics. In a brief conversation between Steve and the Bates Magazine editor, he confirmed that was definitely not the case and he continues to work happily in higher ed at Helena College Univ. of Montana.

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

Michelle Bennett, a lead buyer specialist with Keller Williams Realty in Yarmouth, Maine, reports that as the state became known as a good place to ride out a pandemic, the Portland-area market went crazy. “I’ve helped people from all over the country move to our beautiful city. If any classmates need help, just reach out.” She has enjoyed lots of FaceTime, Zoom, and plain old phone calls with Bates friends since their 30th Reunion — Win Brown, Katherine Wittenberg Pluhar, David Morris, James Olson, Ed Wiser, Andrew Henderson, Emily Buchanan, Sally Ehrenfried, Elizabeth Breed Allen....Phil Bonasia is living in Needham, Mass., and closing in on 21 years with Sunovion, a pharma company that’s only his second employer since graduating from Bates and from the Univ. of California, Berkeley. Head of chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences, he works with Sunovian’s Japanese parent, Sumitomo Dainippon, in regenerative and cellular medicine. One day Phil found a picture of junior-year roomie Mark Cromett. “Mark had a busted foot and was standing next to another kid with a busted foot, so I texted Mark to ask who this other guy was”: Rick “Rocket” LaFleur ’90. “It was great to catch up with Mark and learn about all the salmon and squid fishing he’s doing in the Pacific Northwest.”...As Mark Cromett himself says, “Early retirement after 26 years at Starbucks continues to be great, with lots of fishing in the summer and skiing in the winter.” His and Sherry’s twin daughters attend Seattle Prep and “are competitive soccer players far better than their father ever was.”...Brian Cullen counts his family “fortunate to live in rural N.H.” — specifically, Amherst — “where the pandemic was largely in control and we could enjoy outdoor time with the surprise return of the three college kids,” including Alexandra Cullen ’20.

Along with Alex’s graduation, Bates highlights from past months include “a day with Gary Mantha, his family, and their puppy during the August COVID lull”; and January’s Disrupting Racism program organized by Sara Hagan Cummings and Beth Tener — “super great” (see next item)....Sara Hagan Cummings and J.J. are still in Virginia Beach. A U.S. Navy captain, J.J. become chief of staff to the Second Fleet in February after two and a half years commanding aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, seeing the new ship and crew most of the way through post-delivery tests and trials. Sara, who owns an organizing and productivity business, worked with friend Beth Tener to create Disrupting Racism, a 21-day racial-equity learning challenge for classmates.

During January, participants received daily emails with resources explaining how racism works and proposing means of disrupting it, while weekly Zooms provided a forum for discussion. Beth, now in Portsmouth, is working with New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility to offer a similar series for workplaces statewide….Nora Demleitner, Roy L. Steinheimer, Jr. Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee Univ. School of Law, spent her sabbatical writing articles about recidivism, sex work, and sentencing in rural America, as well as a proposal for a popular book on a criminal justice system that, she says, “sometimes has little to do with crime and even less with justice.”...Paul Dill has completed his 25th season as head coach of women’s volleyball at MIT and is “looking forward to getting back on the court with my team after losing a year of competition due to the pandemic.”...

Since the start of COVID-19, Tim Donovan and Bates friends have sustained a text string that started as routine social contact but has evolved in an interesting way. “To provide a distraction from the real world, we decided to make it a daily text with a requirement to pick a song from our youth that triggered a good memory,” Tim explains. “It’s been a great reminder of the fun we’ve had together, why we became friends, and why we’re still friends after all these years.”

Among the friends are Mark Mandel, David Cogliano, Michael Farhm, Jim Pickette, Todd Murphy, Jay Contis, Paul Guenette, Bill Whalen, J.J. Cummings, Sean Maloney, and James Ash ’90....Amy Freeman Winslow, a high school counselor in Aurora, Ill., was deeply struck by ways that COVID isolation affected students and families. “I feel most students have realized how much they crave the social interaction and the structure that daily in-person class attendance gives them.” She and Jim were glad to spend the winter holidays not only with son Cooper, still in high school, but son Josh, who drove home from the Univ. of New Hampshire — and picked up Amy’s 94-year-old mother in Maine en route....Ann Frenning Kossuth has moved to Lincolnville, Maine, and looks forward to more engagement with her Bates community....Jennifer Gibbons sends greetings from Charlottesville, Va., where she oversees major fundraising in the Northeast and Midwest for the Univ. of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. “If you are passing through C’ville or your kids are looking at UVA, please let me know,” she says....Wendy Graham’s 2020 highlights included a new pup and a summer escape from Hoboken as she spent time in Skaneateles, N.Y.,

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2008 with her dad, David Graham ’60....Tony Grima and Peter Muise live in Brookline, Mass.

Tony is marketing manager for the National Braille Press, while Peter is director of events for the MIT Alumni Assn. On the side, Peter’s second book on New England folklore comes out this fall from Globe Pequot, and Tony helped create 21 online speaker events for The History Project, Boston’s LGBTQ archives....Clark Hill has been with Spirit Airlines since 2012, but has also owned or worked for a variety of large painting companies and is helping one such firm franchise its business. Living in Las Vegas, he’d love to see Bates friends once the pandemic permits....

Linda Johnson’s department at the telecommunications company CenturyLink, corporate communications, led a major rebranding effort in September that transformed the company into Lumen Technologies....

Heather Jones continues to teach high school math in Maryland, but has transitioned to a new specialty: “I have all the students who have run out of the traditional high school math classes. So this year has definitely been more intense with teaching Calculus 3 and Linear Algebra.”…

Writing from Belmont, Mass., Bruce Kozuma says he has “zero about which to complain.” His family is healthy, he and Livia Racz have jobs that are deemed essential “and haven’t required crazy amounts of exposure,” and their kids have done OK with remote schooling....Tom Kugeman has joined Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northhampton, Mass., as finance manager, “which has the benefit of allowing me to see Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin and Craig Pepin ’88 more often. Most of our meetings have been centered around socially distanced hikes in Amherst with their dogs, which provides me much-needed exercise. I am usually able to work from home, with my wife Jen Eifrig ’90, our two girls, one dog, 11 outdoor chickens, and two cockatiels.”...Martha Marriott moved to London from Derbyshire in 2020, and has a new job, as the registrar at the Royal Academy of Arts....Anne Mollerus is “doing as well as can be expected” and continues to “marvel at dog Ruby’s limberness.”...Helen Previdi is “still making Girls’ Weekend work during COVID with Kat Urner Schott.”...Matt Schecter and Jill moved from Connecticut to Palm Beach, Fla. “After living my life in New England,” he says, “we decided to get out of our comfort zone. Looking forward to connecting with classmates who live down this way.” He adds that daughter Samantha Schecter ’20 lives in Cambridge, Mass., and works in a lab affiliated with Brigham and

Women’s Hospital, and son Zach is at Cornell Univ. College of Engineering and playing video games at a semi-pro level....Sue Stich is “so grateful to be working. Kids are healthy.”...

Stephen Swallen still went to his office at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Platteville, where he teaches chemistry, during the academic year, but it was all Zoom. “Definitely less personal, but the silver lining was that all the many meetings were more efficient.”...Grace Tallman Gooding’s pandemic experience included quarantining in the spare room at her home in Huntington, W.Va., after exposure to a COVID carrier at the daycare where she tutors. But she did have both of her own kids, including Christopher Gooding ’23, home for a while....Susan Wong, a teacher at Holy Cross School in Lewiston, says that her job “during COVID-19 was an adventure and a half” for her and Bates math professor Peter. “It has been difficult to weigh the needs of our children and students against the health of aging parents. But so far, all has been fine.”...“Here in California,” writes Jack Yang, “our family has a lot of privilege.” He has been able to do his work for Netflix at home, and he and Suzanne Blazon-Yang ’90 “have young adults for children who can fend for themselves. I’m truly grateful for that. I hesitate to write all that, because I know so many are struggling for the basics. I’m also grateful that my privilege affords me the opportunity to remain curious, not get set in my ways and views, and to figure out how to give back in my own way. Finally, grateful for all of you and the experiences that connect us.”

1990 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Joanne Walton joannewalton2003@yahoo.com Mona Patel Shah is happy to report that pandemic aside, “living in Hillsborough, California, for 11 years with my three kids and husband, Nahir, has been a dream. After 14 years of driving kids around, I went back to work as director of development at the Mid-Peninsula Boys & Girls Club. Who knew that as an art history major, I would end up in fundraising?” She adds, “Reconnecting with Sarah Stone, Lara Strong, Betsy Davies Mercier, Laura Hillier, Andy Smith, and Bill Savage over Zoom has been so fun!”...Ann Elise Rodrigues Record and Dan have changed jobs since 2019. Dan is now a school counselor at ConVal Regional High School in Peterborough, N.H., helping students with their academic schedules and college applications. Ann

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Inspirational Woman: Shayna Waldman

takeaway: Do your best, and when you know better, do better Shayna Waldman ’08 is an executive with The ATS Team, an entertainment industry production-services company. Asked what single piece of advice she’d give to her younger self, she said: “I experienced a lot of bullying in my earlier career, particularly from a very successful top executive producer in Los Angeles…and I wish I stood up for myself. The entire team knew about their behaviour and allowed it. I was not the only victim; it was the environment he created.”

In a recent essay in Broadcast magazine, Waldman said that such behavior is part of the “toxic culture” in the industry that has long been “internalised and excused,” creating a mental health crisis that “has long gone unchecked.”

Her advice: “You learn with age and experience, so I try really hard not to be so hard on myself. Maya Angelou had better advice than I can ever give: ‘Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.’”

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Elise is an elementary-level math consultant “sharing my passion for the subject in ways that set a foundation of understanding for students’ entire math journeys.”

Their children, Matt ’14 and Kathryn, live in Wisconsin. “With them so far away, we welcomed our first dog into our lives.”...

After almost 30 years in Hungary, Daniel Swartz has become a dual U.S.–Hungarian citizen. He works part time as the World Wildlife Federation’s communication manager for central and eastern Europe, and recently “took on additional part-time roles as the communication manager at WWF’s Global River Dolphin River Initiative and as a communications officer at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee,” a nongovernmental human rights association.

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Lessons from Love Is Blind for socially distanced daters

takeaway: When listening, take a beat before responding Cameron Hamilton ’12 and wife Lauren Speed, who met on the hit Netflix reality show Love Is Blind, spoke with NPR’s All Things Considered about their unique perspective on social distancing.

Contestants on Love Is Blind date without ever seeing each other’s faces, at least until they become engaged. Fan favorites Hamilton and Speed married in November 2018. The couple, whose book, Leap of Faith, comes out this summer, talked about the importance of “truly listening...really focus in and take a beat and try to process what they’re saying and respond to that.”

Hamilton told the Portland Press Herald that getting to know Lauren without seeing her helped their budding relationship. “Looks can be distracting. Removing that component definitely allowed me to dig deeper and talk about some difficult things” right off the bat, such as having kids. “When I started talking to Lauren, I was shocked at how deeply we connected.”

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class secretary Katie Tibbetts Gates kathryntgates@gmail.com class president John Ducker jducker1@yahoo.com The Rev. Peter Carey is rector of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, many of whose parishioners are older folks.

“Doing this online has left me longing for gathering,” he says. His other news involves a younger generation: His eldest child will attend the University of Virginia, “his dream school,” and Peter was gratified to write a recommendation for a woman who was subsequently accepted into Bates’ Class of 2025....Cathy Pendergast Shay and John are still reverberating from the experience son Nathaniel ’20 had at Bates. “We are so proud of Nate for maximizing his time and the opportunities that Bates offered,” she writes. “Debate team allowed for travel and making close friends. A year studying in London offered him an amazing experience in world culture and travel, and a great education. One of my favorite things is that he became an avid climber of the rock wall in Merrill — while I ran track, I watched as the original wall began to take shape. To think my son now has a passion for it makes me smile.”

1992 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 executive committee Ami Berger ami_berger@hotmail.com Kristin Bierly Magendantz kmagendantz@comcast.net Kristen Downs Bruno Kris10DBruno@gmail.com Roland Davis roldav92@gmail.com Peter Friedman peter.friedman@ alum.dartmouth.org

Leyla Morrissey Bader leyla.bader@gmail.com Jeff Mutterperl jeffmutterperl@gmail.com Craig D’Ambrosia let us know that son Tim passed the Massachusetts bar exam, and his first job as an attorney is with the law practice of Jeff Steinberg, in Framingham. Craig adds that he and Ann have celebrated their 27th anniversary.

1993 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Lisa Bousquet lisaannbousquet@gmail.com class presidents Mike Charland mfc@wilkinsinvest.com Jason Hanley jason.hanley@wexinc.com

1994 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Courtney Fleisher courtney.fleisher@gmail.com Jonathan Lewis jlewjlew@mac.com Paula “PJ” Redes Sidore, living in Bad Honnef, Germany, and New York–based Valerie Belz Kathawala ’93 continue to publish trinkmag.com, the “first and only English-language digital publication dedicated to the ‘German-speaking wines’ of Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.”

They met through their mutual interest in wine — and were pleasantly surprised to discover the Bates connection.

1995 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class presidents Jason Verner jcv@nbgroup.com Deborah Verner debverner@gmail.com Joseph Franzino and Laurie Burgan Franzino ’94 are happy to report that son Luca was accepted ED for the Class of 2025....

For Carolyn Kavanagh Gaither and Edmund, COVID’s clouds bore silver linings: a new puppy, extra time with kids Kerrigan and Clayton, and reconnecting with friends and family from Houston via Zoom. Carolyn has been glad to talk “to my Bates Girls — every single week since March 2020!”

Edmund left Shell Oil after 18 years and secured a position at mining company BHP....For Deb Nowak Verner and Jason, 2020’s highlights were spending time with their three kids, ages 14, 17, and 18 — “we realized that we actually really like each other” — and rediscovering their love of hiking.

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Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class presidents Sarah Ayesha Farag ayesha.farag@gmail.com Jay Lowe jameslowemaine@yahoo.com

class presidents Jenn Glassman Jacobs jenniferellenjacobs@gmail.com Megan Shelley mhshelley@aol.com

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class secretary Noah Petro npetro@gmail.com

class secretaries Todd Zinn tmzinn@hotmail.com Pat Cosquer patcosquer@gmail.com

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

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class president Stuart Abelson sabelson@oraclinical.com RJ Jenkins illustrated a children’s book that was published last August: A Visit to the Bahamas from A to Z, written

by Veronica McFall. A visual arts teacher for 17 years at the Kents Hill School in Kents Hill, Maine, RJ “had to carve out some serious time in my busy schedule” for the three-year project, “but I’m glad I did. I learned a lot about the culture and people of the Bahamas as well as book illustration, and really enjoyed the process. The book promotes cross-cultural understanding and exploration, and encourages children to seek out facts as they learn.”

1998 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class committee Doug Beers douglas.beers@gmail.com Rob Curtis robcurtis@eatonvance.com Liam Clarke ldlc639@gmail.com Renee Leduc rleducclarke@gmail.com Tyler Munoz tylermunoz@gmail.com Liam Clarke continues to lead operations in Saudi Arabia for APCO Worldwide, an advisory and advocacy communications consultancy. While international travel has been curtailed, he says, “I’ve enjoyed exploring the kingdom more.”

1999 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Jenn Lemkin Bouchard jennifer_bouchard@hotmail.com class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com

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

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Robert Ayres is training for his second Ironman in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. And he has started a new position with the Unified Fire Authority in Salt Lake City: EMS training captain.

“After years in the fire station, it’s nice to have a day job and be at home at night and on weekends.”

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class presidents Jay Surdukowski jsurdukowski@sulloway.com Drew Weymouth weymouthd@gmail.com Drew Weymouth reports that “I’ve been blessed to have our family stay healthy so far. Our boys are 6, 9, and 10, and a lot of fun. They enjoy skiing and riding, and I’ve loved getting back at it! I’m inspired by many of our classmates who have gotten in great shape during this time, so I’ve amped up my running and hope to keep it going (and not injure myself ).” He and Lauralynn are public-school educators in Massachusetts and have been eager to see students in person — safely, of course. Drew runs a career technical education program for the Worcester public schools. In that role, “I’m always looking for business relationships to expose students to potential career paths. Reach out if you’re close by!”

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

Croatia denies migrant border attacks after new reports of brutal pushbacks

takeaway: The pandemic plays a part in the uptick in violence against refugees entering Croatia Twice in the last year, The Guardian turned to Jack Sapoch ’18 for stories about increasing violence against refugees and asylum seekers trying to enter Croatia from Bosnia.

Sapoch works with No Name Kitchen, an NGO operating in Bosnia that monitors violence at the Bosnian-Croatian border.

He spoke with The Guardian last fall about an uptick in refugee mistreatment by Croatian police. Last May, the paper reported that Sapoch’s organization reported that Croatian police were spray-painting migrants’ heads as well as robbing and otherwise trying to humiliate them.

Sapoch linked the increase in violence to the pandemic and the “increased autonomy that state authorities have gained during these times.

More than ever, it is important for us to keep these forces accountable for their own actions.”

Croatia is in the European Union while Bosnia is not, so many migrants try to seek asylum in Croatia, only to be (illegally) returned to Bosnia.

2004 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Eduardo Crespo eduardo.crespo.r@gmail.com Tanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com

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John Scott Johnson and husband Andrew Borchini had two baby boys, Conor and Jack, in March 2020. “They are happy and healthy!”

2005 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class presidents Kathryn Duvall duvall.kathryn@gmail.com Melissa Geissler melissa.geissler@gmail.com Nathan Harrington was featured in The Washington Post last December for his work as founder of the Ward 8 Woods Conservancy in Washington, D.C.: bit.ly/Harrington_Ward8.

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media outlet: The Guardian

headline:

How millions of Americans lost the right to vote

takeaway: Since ancient Greece, criminal punishments have included disenfranchisement In a powerful historical overview of how America has disenfranchised millions of citizens, Ayesha Sharma ’18 explored the concept of civil death, “a form of punishment that extinguishes someone’s civil rights.”

Such criminal disenfranchisement began in Athens and continued in the Roman Empire and medieval Europe. It was typically applied to individuals for particularly grave or election-related crimes, and resulted in civil death.

Since then, the concept of civil death has been “reshaped and reinterpreted over many generations, persisting in the form of felony disenfranchisement, through which a citizen loses their right to vote due to a felony conviction,” Sharma writes.

Today, some six million Americans “cannot vote in the country’s elections because of some form of civil death.” In its racist underpinnings, civil death in America “goes back to the Colonies. It’s a history that has disproportionately affected black people.”

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class presidents Chelsea Cook chelsea.m.cook@gmail.com Katie Nolan knolan06@gmail.com Johnny Ritzo johnnyritzo@gmail.com Lauren Perreault Zinsser and Austin welcomed a second son, Tobias, last July. It was a bright spot in the year, although big brother Avery might disagree.

Lauren works for the U.S. Geological Survey and enjoys communicating applied science to policy makers to improve water resource management. Life is busy in Boise but “Batesies are always welcome to say hello.”...

Alex Smith married Kat Smith in February 2020, eloping to Disneyland. They live in Rhode Island with many small dogs....Molly Stoddard earned a master’s in speech-language pathology and works for the San Luis Coastal Unified School District in California....Gabby Voeller and Andy Mention welcomed their second daughter, Frances Carver Mention. “We’re excited for her to meet other Bobcat babies born in 2020, but it may be a while.”

2007 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class presidents Keith Kearney kdkearney@gmail.com Rakhshan Zahid rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com Sara Culver, a graduate of the Yale School of Nursing, is a certified nurse-midwife and women’s health nurse practitioner in New Haven, Conn....Dylan Morris, M.D., completed an MBA from the Univ. of Pittsburgh’s Katz School of Business. An EMS medical director with the Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center and with STAT MedEvac, Morris earned the MBA to support his administrative duties. He and Kathy Wunderle celebrated

Brienne’s first birthday in January....Christopher Theile is a chemist at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, where he contributed to a recently approved drug for a rare kidney stone disorder. He is now developing drugs for central nervous system diseases. His wife, Akiko Doi, researches gene therapy technologies at Ascidian Therapeutics, in Boston.

2008 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class presidents Liz Murphy elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com Ali Schwartz Egelson alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com

2009 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Tim Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com

2010 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Tiel Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@gmail. com A story on the website for TeenSharp, a college-access program serving youth in Delaware, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, introduced readers to Bates firstyear Anthony Morton ’24 and Anthony Phillips, TeenSharp's pre-college success manager.

The story notes that Morton’s commitment to attending a top college didn’t kick in until he was a high school junior and met Phillips, who issued a challenge.

“I said, ‘Anthony, you’re not as bad as you think you are. But you have the strong qualities and characteristics to be as bad as you think you are.’” He challenged Morton to get straight A’s, which he did, paving the way to Bates....

Rachel Straus Ferrante and Cam welcomed their second child, Elliott Straus Ferrante, in January.

2011 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class presidents Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@gmail. com Patrick Williams Patw.williams@gmail.com Jane He Kelly and Dan welcomed daughter Emma last November.

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Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class presidents Mikey Pasek mikeypasek@gmail.com Sangita Murali sangitamurali12@gmail.com Tina Tobin and David Wood welcomed a new baby, Tobin Wood, last August. “We are overjoyed to have this healthy, happy future Bobcat!”

2013 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class presidents Ryan Sonberg rsonberg9@gmail.com Megan Murphy megan.a.murphy3@gmail.com Tori McKenna Baker-White and Matt welcomed a new Bobkitten into the world in January 2020 — “proof that the whole year wasn’t bad! Sage loves time outside, running with his mama and hiking with his dada.”

2014 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class presidents Hally Bert hallybert@gmail.com Milly Aroko mildredaroko@gmail.com

2015 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class presidents James Brissenden brissendenja@gmail.com Ben Smiley bensmiley32@gmail.com

2016 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class presidents Sally Ryerson sallyryerson@gmail.com Andre Brittis-Tannenbaum andrebt44@gmail.com Phillip Dube finished graduate studies at the Yale School of the Environment and is working as a senior project associate for the Trust for Public Land in Portland, Maine....Nate Henneman is in the second year of doctoral studies and working at the Institut Necker Enfants Malades in Paris, researching molecular mechanisms that dictate how our bodies adapt to feeding and fasting conditions. He completed a master’s in cellular and molecular biology at the Université de Paris....Sunny Hong has moved from northern Maine, where she taught Spanish for four years at the Maine School of Science and Math, to the Midcoast and a new job at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle. “Being right by the water and having easy access

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to nature trails is a dream come true.”...Alex Tritell has moved to Nashville and is studying at Vanderbilt Univ. Law School.

2017 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class presidents Jessie Garson jgarson4@gmail.com Matthew Baker mattdbaker13@gmail.com

2018 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class presidents John Thayer john.robert.thayer@gmail.com Jake Shapiro shapirojacob6@gmail.com

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2019 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 Harry Meadows harry.meadows4@gmail.com Cara Starnbach cara@carastarnbach.com Hannah Londoner is one of four Bates graduates working at BioSig Technologies, in Westport, Conn. She’s a public relations associate, while Chardon Brooks and Graham Bonnell ’20 are communications associates and James Lee is an associate clinical strategist. BioSig’s premiere product is the PURE EP System, a signal-processing platform designed to help the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.

Under CEO Ken Londoner, Hannah’s father, BioSig has hosted interns from Bates through the Purposeful Work initiative.

“Chardon, Graham, James, and I all attribute our professional development and applied skills to our outstanding Bates education,” says Hannah.

2020 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 Priscila Guillen priscila.guillen65197@gmail.com Maya Seshan mayaseshan55@gmail.com

media outlet: The Boston Globe

headline:

Boston’s Black women activists walk a historic path and look toward the future

takeaway: There’s power in the past when pushing for change today The Boston Globe quoted Alexandria Onuoha ’20 for a story about the city’s young female Black activists.

Onuoha is director of political advocacy at Black Boston 2020, an advocacy organization founded by Black college-aged women in 2020 that creates programs and curricula for citizens; advocates for city- and state-level policy changes; and protests police brutality.

Onuoha, a doctoral student in applied developmental psychology at Suffolk University, said, “It’s very rewarding to know that you’re part of something bigger and that there are also Black women that share the same values as you.”

The Globe notes that “Black Bostonian women have a history of getting things done....

Contemporary activists say they proudly carry on the legacy of these women and countless others like them who may not be as well-known today as they ought to be, but who changed the history of this old, obdurate town.”

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Lawson Rudasill ’00 and Elizabeth Merrill ’00 close their physical distance after getting married in 20l8 at the Gomes Chapel.

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Where are the Weddings?

A recent scholarly article confirmed what we all know: Marriage rates have plummeted during the pandemic. The decline has rippled into Class Notes, so we’ve placed our wedding-photo section on hiatus.

Looking toward the post-pandemic potential for nuptials, one scholar noted, that “the preference for marriage has been historically robust.”

See you in the fall!

Please email your high-resolution Bates group wedding photo to magazine@bates.edu.

Please identify all people and their class years, and include the wedding date, location, and any other news.

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Ralph Wessinger Hilton September 3, 2020 Ralph Hilton attended the U.S. Navy’s wartime V-12 program at Bates and studied at Colby and Bowdoin. He held a master’s in math and education from the Univ. of Maine. He taught math and coached basketball and track at Lincoln Academy, Kents Hill School, and Wiscasset High School, where he also served as principal. He later became a salesman for educational publisher Scott Foresman. Survivors include children Holly Carignan, Lorie Tweedy, and Peter Hilton; and seven grandchildren.

1941 Velna Adams Evans August 20, 2020 Vel Adams Evans wrote half a novel, she used to say — the other half was written by her late husband, Robert J. Evans.

She enjoyed bridge and poker, classical guitar and popular piano music, and making and keeping friends. Survivors include daughter Deborah Murray; a granddaughter; two great-grandchildren; nine stepchildren; and two step-grandchildren.

Montrose James Moses September 26, 2011 Meiosis: Most of us can barely pronounce the word. But Monte Moses was an expert in the topic it refers to, a reproductive process that reduces the number of chromosomes in an offspring cell.

Enamored by magic as a child, he was given a microscope to “break the spell.” It worked, and he spent his career peering through regular and electron microscopes. A biology major at Bates, he quickly went on to earn a master’s and then a doctorate from Columbia.

He discovered the synaptonemal complex, a protein structure that forms between pairs of chromosomes during meiosis. He was on staff at Brookhaven National Lab and at the Rockefeller Institute.

He also worked for the American Cancer Society and taught at Duke Univ. His wife was Constance Roy Moses ’41.

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Priscilla Simpson Boyan November 20, 2020 Priscilla Simpson Boyan established herself as a Vermonter by being born when her parents were vacationing there, extending the line of Green Mountain Staters started by her grandparents. She managed one year in Vermont schools before moving to Hartford and then Albany. Her favorite poem was “No Vermonters in Heaven” (because they miss Vermont so much). A biology major, she called herself a “lab rat.” She intended to be a doctor, but World War II intervened and she became a lab technician instead. Priscilla worked in labs in Cambridge, Mass., and taught bacteriology at what was then Massachusetts State College.

She served on her 60th and 65th Reunion committees, and was an alumni club officer. Survivors include sons Craig and Cory; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Her late sister was Isabel Simpson Hall ’39. Priscilla’s husband, who died days after her, was Norman J. Boyan ’43; his obituary follows.

1943 Norman John Boyan December 2, 2020 Norm Boyan built a high school out of a potato field — The Wheatley School, in New York state. He also built a federal program from an idea. He considered these among his biggest accomplishments, along with building a graduate school of education. He held a degree in history from Bates (Phi Beta Kappa), and earned a master’s in history in 1947 and an Ed.D. in educational administration in 1951 from Harvard. A four-year basketball player at Bates, he had hoped to become a coach, but World War II and the U.S. Army Air Corps changed things, and he ended up in school administration. It was a successful choice.

He spent 44 years in education, including 11 years as dean of the graduate school of education at

the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara. Norm had previously served as an associate professor in the school of education at Stanford, concentrating on secondary school administration in a new program supported in part by the Ford Foundation. During a stint with the U.S. Office of Education, he directed a new educational research program and later handled grants, including one that funded public television’s Sesame Street. He served on a number of U.C.S.B. committees, both administrative and academic.

He was a member of the Bates College Key and a former alumni club officer, and served on his 50th Reunion gift committee.

Survivors include sons Craig and Cory; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. His wife, Priscilla Simpson Boyan ’42, died in November; her obituary appears above.

Virginia Currier Stickney July 1, 2020 Ginnie Currier Stickney, a transfer from Duke who entered Bates as a junior, worried that she would find it difficult to make friends. What she found instead was people who would be her friends for the next 50 years: an apartment-mate, a teaching companion, someone to bring the champagne to her wedding.

She and her late husband, Dean “Rick” Stickney, owned and operated a pharmacy and gift shop in Colebrook, N.H., for more than 20 years. They lived in the oldest house in town, renovated to its original glory. She served on her 50th Reunion gift committee. She is survived by nieces, nephews, and cousins, one of whom is David C. Boothby ’87.

1946 Marilyn Meyer Spooner September 22, 2020 A geology major at Bates, Marilyn Meyer Spooner worked at the Boston Children’s Museum before her marriage. A move to Fort Wayne, Ind., led to work at the public library and the dept. of public works there. In Orange, Mass., she was a kindergarten teacher and a real estate agent.

She was active in the community in Orange: she was the governor’s appointee to the Orange Housing Authority, a member of the local elementary school committee, a trustee of the library, and a trustee of a scholarship foundation.

She was active in the historical society and a member of the Athenaeum Club. She served on her 50th Reunion gift committee.

Survivors include children Jane, Carol, and James Spooner, and Lauren Wick; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

1947 Jean Wilkinson Moore Miller September 25, 2020 After graduating from Bates with

a bachelor’s in chemistry, Jean Wilkinson Moore Miller worked as a chemist for eight years at the U.S. Rubber Co. Chemical Division in Naugatuck, Conn.

Jean completed graduate work in education at Eastern Connecticut State Univ. She was a Brownies and Girl Scout leader and sang in church and school productions. She taught for 20 years in Tolland, Conn., and in 1990 was named Teacher of the Year. In retirement in Waldoboro, Maine, she received the Golden Arrow service award from St. Giles’ Episcopal Church in Jefferson.

Survivors include daughters Margaret Jones and Nancy Dunmyer; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Frank Emerson Mullet September 14, 2020 Frank Mullet came to Bates ready to catch for the baseball team, but World War II intervened. He served as a signalman on destroyers protecting convoys traveling to and from Europe and North Africa. With his physics degree, he became a science teacher at the high school in Fort Plain, N.Y., and soon rose to the position of principal. He later was superintendent of the Edmeston (N.Y.) Central School district. After “retirement,” he became principal of Pathfinder Village School, part of a community founded by his wife, the late Marian Goddard Mullet ’50 HD ’88, to serve people with Down syndrome. Survivors include children Martha Winsor, and John and James Mullet; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

1948 Phyllis Smith Baldwin January 19, 2020 Phyl Smith Baldwin was a wood carver, active in several carving groups. She was a founding member of the Bremen (Maine) Historical Society, and a member of the Bremen Town House Assn. and of the library board of directors. Her husband was Richard Baldwin ’47; together they traveled widely and happened to be in Berlin when the Wall came down. She worked on and off as a secretary before joining Connecticut General Life Insurance, where she became an underwriter. She was a former class officer and served on various committees for her 40th, 50th, and 55th Reunions.

Survivors include children Judith and Glenn.

1949 Carolyn Schneider Dowds November 6, 2020 Connie Schneider Dowds spent two years at Bates before marrying. Survivors include daughter Sharon Hearn Mattis; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

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Dorothea Carr Foster October 17, 2020 Deedy Carr Foster, a sociology major at Bates, became a military wife who taught briefly before having children. She was a Jeopardy enthusiast and an avid reader. Survivors include children Susan, Lee, Andy, and Robert; five grandsons; and three great-grandchildren.

Elizabeth Schoenherr Miller November 25, 2020 A history major, Betty Schoenherr Miller was a special education teacher and retired with 21 years of teaching in Massachusetts. Prior to earning a master’s in special education from Columbia, she taught junior high. She was a published author, writing for Teacher Magazine as well as a history of Northbridge, Mass., where she lived. She also wrote a food column for the Blackstone Valley Tribune titled “The Mixing Bowl” for 16 years. She was active in several quilting groups, serving as president of one of them. Betty also won regional and national awards for her cooking, and was a member of the College Key. Survivors include children Judy Whittaker and Don Miller; and two grandchildren.

Marion Dodge Moseley May 6, 2020 Marion Dodge Moseley was a math major active in the choral society and student government.

She worked briefly as a secretary and lived on a small farm in Buxton, Maine. Her brother was Brenton Clinton Dodge ’48, and her cousin is Ruth MacLean ’84.

Arlene Finch Reynolds July 5, 2020 Arlene Finch Reynolds left Bates before completing her degree.

After the death of her first husband, she attended night school at Capital University, earning a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education. She eventually received an Ohio State master’s degree in that field and became director of the first interracial nursery school in Columbus, Ohio, and was also one of the first cadre of Head Start teachers.

Survivors include children Annette Salser and Robert, Paul, and Louis Flocken; 10 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Albert Bailey Sparks June 20, 2020 Downtown Malden, Mass., and six other New England towns proclaimed his name in bold letters: Sparks Dept. Store. A joint venture of Albert and his brother George, Sparks was a Malden mainstay for 94 years until its closing in 2014. The store was about fashion, plain and simple.

Albert was a member of the Rotary, and in 2012 the Malden Chamber of Commerce awarded him a lifetime achievement award for his decades of service

to the city. He was also a 69-year Masonic member in Melrose, and in 2000 received a 50-year veteran’s level award. The son of a Ukrainian immigrant, he served in the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II and came to Bates following the war. He served on his 40th Reunion Committee.

Another brother was the late Harold N. Sparks ’44. Survivors include daughters Lorri Kleiner, Joan Kessel, Debra Stevens, and Amy Kremer; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Enid Jones Thomas October 3, 2020 A sociology major, Nikki Jones Thomas worked for about eight years for the Connecticut Dept. of Children and Families as a social worker. While raising her children, she earned a master’s in early childhood development from Eastern Connecticut State Univ. She then taught kindergarten in the Norwich, Conn., public schools for 28 years. She and her husband, the late John Nelson Thomas ’48, enjoyed building floats and sewing costumes for the Rose Arts Festival parade. She was an alumni class officer and served on her 50th Reunion gift committee. Survivors include children Gregory and Debora Thomas, and Alison Thomas Nelson; and six grandchildren. Her brother was Austin M. Jones ’50; his surviving wife is Norma Reese Jones ’51.

June Cunningham Walch December 2, 2020 June Cunningham Walch was the matriarch of a three-generation Bates family: her daughter and a granddaughter are Bates grads.

Her skills ran a gamut from teaching English to heading that department at Illing Junior High School (Manchester, Conn.), and from sewing to building stone tree wells (enclosures protecting a tree from changes in the level of the soil around it). She held a master’s in education from Eastern Connecticut State Univ.

An English major at Bates, she undertook all kinds of activities, from student government to the Robinson Players to the choral society. She was a member of the College Key, a former class agent, and served on her 50th and 60th Reunion committees. Survivors include husband Allan Walch; children Barry and Bryan Walch and Pamela Walch Constantine ’77; seven grandchildren, including Kara Johnson Constantine ’08; and two great-grandchildren.

1950 Barbara Galloupe Gagnon June 16, 2020 Dawn Galloupe Gagnon taught in several Maine school systems before becoming an antiques dealer. A varsity debater at Bates, she was always ready for a lively exchange of views. Her love of reading was lifelong;

she was an English major.

Survivors include children L.K. Gagnon ’88, Cynthia J. Cave, and Peter and Stephen Gagnon; eight grandchildren, including Phoebe Tamminen ’14; and five great-grandchildren.

1951 Janet Hayes Sterling June 27, 2020 Jan Hayes Sterling didn’t want an obituary or a service memorializing her life. She considered her 90th birthday party celebration enough. A psychology major, she went on to help start a division of a Seattle employment firm. Earlier, she served on the board of directors of the Cleveland League of Women Voters. She was a former class agent and alumni club officer, and served on her 55th gift and Reunion committees and her 60th Reunion committee.

Survivors include daughters Sally Sterling and Nancy McKallor; and three grandchildren.

Jane Seaman Wilson August 14, 2020 Jane Seaman Wilson was a longtime reading-skills specialist and a prolific watercolor artist.

In addition to her degree in English from Bates, she held a master’s from SUNY. She was the reading specialist at the Advent School in Boston for many years, and taught teachers how to take advantage of learning biases in their students. Survivors include her husband, former Trustee Robert Gould Wilson ’51; children Richard and Roberta; three grandchildren, one of whom is William Rudolph DiBlasi ’10; and a great-grandson.

1952 Norman Elmer Brackett October 15, 2020 Norm Brackett retired in 1995 after a 20-year career with Hannaford Bros. Co. as a CFO. He had also worked for companies such as General Dynamics, American Metal Climax, and General Electric. His degree was in economics, and he received an MBA from Boston Univ. in 1960. He was on the boards of the National Grange Mutual Insurance Co. and the Univ. of New England, as well as Big Brothers Big Sisters.

He was also the founding chair of the United Way Foundation, and was honored with its Legacy Award, which recognizes exceptional leadership. He received the Alumni Community Service Award from Bates in 2002; served on six Reunion committees; was a member of the Maine Council; and a member of the College Key. Survivors include his wife, Carolyn Ann Brackett; children Debra, Janice, Paula, and Stephen Brackett; and two grandchildren.

Sally Haynes Smith August 8, 2020 Sally Haynes Smith left Bates to graduate from Northeastern.

Survivors include children Robert Haynes Smith and Pamela Gurrisi; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

1953 Bruce Warwick Chandler August 26, 2020 For 10 years, Bruce Chandler served as a justice on the Maine Superior Court, following several years as an attorney in the Waterville area. A speech major, he graduated from Georgetown University with an LL.B. in 1960. He was chairman of the Maine Board of Bar Examiners for a number of years, and was active in the Maine Democratic Party, serving as a delegate to several national conventions and acting as general counsel. He also was an assistant Kennebec County district attorney. He was president of the Unitarian Church in Waterville and the Unitarian Universalist Church in Green Valley, Ariz., and served on the board of the First Parish UU Church in Kennebunk, Maine. He was a member of the College Key and a former alumni club officer. Survivors include wife Nancy Ramsdell Chandler ’55; children Brooks, Kimberly, and Kristin; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Shirley Veale Davenport October 14, 2020 A nursing graduate, Shirley Veale Davenport was proud that her license was always current, even when she left the field to raise her children. She worked side by side with her husband, Dick, in his snack distribution business, applying common sense when business sense wouldn’t do. She was also active in whatever level of Scouts her children were in, and was a deacon of the local Congregational church. Survivors include children Doug and Steve Davenport, Nancy Kearne, and Janice Russell; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Her cousin is Maxine H. Tuxbury ’50.

Lorraine Dittrich Eyde July 10, 2019 Dr. Laurie Dittrich Eyde was an early proponent of women in the workforce. She left Bates to graduate from Tufts, where she also earned a master’s degree.

Her doctorate was from Ohio State Univ. She worked for half a century as a psychologist for the federal government, including the Office of Personnel Management and the Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Survivors include a son and a grandchild.

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Marion Louise Winter Hamilton August 3, 2020 Lou Winter Hamilton was a math teacher. She majored in math at Bates, and did graduate work at Rensselaer, Univ. of Mass., and Cal State L.A. After teaching in Vermont, California, and Massachusetts, she tutored privately for many years. Survivors include children Laurel Fremgen, Charles Hamilton, and Karen Sabbs; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Her uncle was Oscar Voigtlander Jr., Class of 1920; her cousin was Marjorie Walther Keach ’46.

Richard Everett Runyon August 19, 2020 Richard Everett Runyon started at Bates and later studied at New York Univ. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, and served for 25 years as a naval aviator. He earned a degree in electrical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School. He was proud that the early-warning squadron he commanded was named top squadron in the Western Pacific. Survivors include his wife, Mary Lou Runyon; children Ann C. Runyon, Richard E. Runyon Jr., Averill C. Springer, Lynn M. Maxwell, and William M. Smith; and four grandchildren.

Marjorie Lee Smart Udy September 1, 2020 Lee Smart Udy held a variety of jobs during her life — program director at three YWCAs, administrator at Dartmouth College, assistant to the dean at that college — but her favorite was grandmother. In Hanover, N.H., she volunteered for the Red Cross, Meals on Wheels, the League of Women Voters, and Girl Scouts. She was elected to and held the position of Supervisor of the Checklist, a role in which she took great pride.

Survivors include daughters Martha Cassidy and Beth Taylor; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

1954 Leona Davis Hendricks December 1, 2020 Leona Davis Hendricks spent 25 years in third grade — teaching it, that is. A Lewiston native, she spent her life in the area, teaching in the city’s Thomas J. McMahon Elementary School.

Her first career was with the Girl Scouts, where she was a district supervisor in Lynn, Mass. A former member of the local YWCA, she kept in contact with the Y by diligently swimming laps and attending “aquacise” classes in the pool. She served on her 35th and 50th Reunion committees.

Survivors include daughters Debra Bellemare, Donna Alexander, Diana Tucker, and Dayle Boucher; 10 grandchildren; and

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12 great-grandchildren. Her late husband was William Hendricks Jr. ’51; her late brother was Lester E. Davis Jr. ’47.

1955 Jean Elinor Albro July 9, 2018 Jean Albro completed her degree at Boston Univ. An insurance agent, she had her own agency in New Hampshire. She also was an avid traveler, and twice bought VW vans in Germany that she used to tool around. She was a former alumni class officer and served on her 40th Reunion committee.

William Joseph Driscoll December 9, 2020 Bill Driscoll left Bates to complete his business degree at Fordham. He could sell anything, according to his family, from stocks, bonds, and oil and gas tax shelters to long-term care policies. Survivors include wife Jeanne Snee Driscoll; children William Jr., Tim, and Sean Driscoll, and Kathleen O’Meara; and 11 grandchildren.

Jack Eisner December 8, 2020 Jack Eisner got his start flipping “stacks of wax” for the Bates radio station, and ended up in the New Jersey Broadcasters Assn. Hall of Fame, receiving a lifetime achievement award in 2012. Many credit him with “inventing” talk radio: on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Eisner took his microphone out to the street to interview passers-by. He quickly changed the format of his show from music to talk about current affairs. “He gave everybody a sense of community, a sense of belonging, a sense of relevance,” New Jersey state Sen. Patrick J. Diegnan Jr., D-Middlesex, said of him. “He was literally the voice of Central Jersey.” He spent 26 years at WCTC in New Jersey. Eisner was also a leading on-air personality in Miami, Philadelphia, and New York City, where he hosted the NBC news program Monitor. Survivors include wife Selby; daughter Amy Strobel; and two grandchildren.

Robert Eugene Hefferman October 9, 2020 Class valedictorian with a degree in English, Bob Hefferman considered the ministry as a career and enrolled in a “trial” program at Harvard Divinity School. But he decided against it and attended Boston Univ. for a master’s in English. In 1958 he joined the faculty of Dean College, where he taught English, chaired the English dept., and served as dean of faculty. He was most proud of his two letters of censure, received for agitating against the Vietnam War. He met his wife, Marlene Haskell Hefferman ’55, when

they were sophomores at Edward Little H.S. She survives him, as do children Elizabeth Hefferman Ooi ’88 and Nathaniel Hefferman; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Bob was a member of the College Key and a class agent. He also served on his 50th Reunion yearbook committee and his 55th Reunion gift committee. His sister is Lois C. Hefferman ’49. His father was Gerald H. Hefferman, Class of 1928.

1956 Ruth Stockinger Miller July 26, 2020 Ruth Stockinger Miller received a master’s in public health nursing from the Univ. of Michigan.

She became an instructor at the St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing in Hancock, Mich., and then a charge nurse in the psychiatric wards of the United States Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor. In the early 1970s, she helped design the nursing dept. at Michigan Technological University. Survivors include sons David, Wayne, and Richard Miller; and seven grandchildren.

1957 Phillip Stanley Carletti August 24, 2020 Phil Carletti was a no-nonsense type of guy. He played baseball and football at Bates, was a member of the state champion football team, and received All-State honors. He honed that direct approach with 27 years in the U.S. Marines, active and reserves, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He brought that approach to coaching.

He was head football coach at Masconomet Regional High School in Topsfield, Mass., while earning a master’s in special education from Simmons College. He taught history, his Bates major, at the high school, and later coached track. He also taught and coached at Staunton Military Academy in Virginia.

He was a member of the College Key. Survivors include wife, Lois Demasters Carletti; sons Michael and Steven; and six grandchildren.

William Dixon Clark Jr. September 5, 2020 Bill Clark turned his love of rocks and minerals into a business built around creating fine jewelry. He was an English teacher at East Windsor (Conn.) High School for 23 years and then ran a computer lab there for 12 years, retiring from the school dept. in 1994.

He then joined Ahlstrom in its IT dept., leaving there in 2005.

A speech major, he also held a master’s from the Univ. of Connecticut. Survivors include wife Evelyn Vezina Clark; daughter Marie Clark; son William Clark; and two granddaughters.

Anita Adams Potts August 30, 2020 Anita Adams Potts was a social worker for children. She worked with child and family services in Connecticut, United Cerebral Palsy’s Little White Schoolhouse, the state of Connecticut’s Mystic Oral School, and public schools in Norwich, New London, and Salem, Conn. She augmented her bachelor’s in sociology from Bates with an MSW from the Univ. of Connecticut. Anita was a member of the Niantic Community Church for more than 50 years, and served as a board member of its children’s center.

Survivors include sons Douglas C. Potts ’94, Stephen, and Kevin Potts; and two grandchildren.

Adele Brody Silverman October 28, 2020 Adele Brody Silverman was a reading specialist who earned a teaching certificate after her children were fledged. She taught in Lewiston at St. Patrick’s School and Jordan School before a 27-year stint as a second-grade teacher at the Governor Longley School. In 2011 she received the Yellow Bus Award from the cities of Lewiston and Auburn for her devotion to the reading success of elementary students. She came to Bates as a transfer from the Univ. of Maine, and received a master’s from the Univ. of Southern Maine. Her brother was Morton A. Brody ’55. Survivors include children Louis Silverman and Nancy Silverman Levinsky; and four grandchildren.

1958 B. Joeann Berry DeVeaux August 19, 2020 B. Joeann Berry DeVeaux started at Bates with the Class of 1958, and completed her undergraduate studies at the Univ. of Minnesota. She was a database administrator at MIT. Survivors include son Darrell Edward DeVeaux; two grandchildren; and sister and former Trustee Constance Berry Newman ’56.

Nancy Knapp Miles October 26, 2020 Nancy Knapp Miles left Bates early. She worked briefly as a medical technician. Survivors include children Steven and Ruth Ann Mazo.

William H. O’Connell Jr. August 17, 2020 Bill O’Connell started out as an underwriter trainee at an insurance company after graduating with a degree in economics, and ended up founding and running two successful companies, Financial Insurance Services and OM Financial Group, where he finished his professional career in 2018. At Bates, he was a football and baseball standout, and the trainer for the basketball team.

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dents as interns and was a career advisor. Survivors include his wife, Cynthia Mancini O’Connell; children William H. O’Connell III ’81, Kelly A. O’Connell ’84, Darci M. Detorie, and Christopher R. Colapietro ’99; and nine grandchildren.

Mary Hudson Roby July 27, 2020 A physics and math major, Mary Hudson Roby started out at Raytheon as a junior electrical engineer. After raising her children, she joined Polaroid in the purchasing department and rose to become the purchasing administrator. A singer while at Bates, she continued to sing throughout her life, especially at Edwards Church UCC in Framingham, Mass. She served on her 50th Reunion committee and was a former class agent.

Survivors include sons John and Fred Adair, and Michael Roby; daughter Nancy Trunzer; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her sister is Barbara Ann Hudson Fuson ’63.

Her parents were H. Kenneth Hudson ’28 and Aurie Balch Hudson ’30.

Ruth-Elizabeth Garner Walker June 23, 2020 Ruth-Elizabeth Garner Walker left Bates for Burdett College in Boston. She was a lover of the ocean, and lived happily at Pine Point and later at Marco Island, Fla. Survivors include children Joanne McKenney, Jayne Walker, and Dean Walker; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

1959 Thomas William Johnson Jr. November 5, 2020 Tom Johnson’s career spanned teaching social studies, serving in school administration, and lobbying for United Technologies Corp. (now part of Raytheon). He was director of state government affairs for United Technologies, and served on many boards and committees in the District of Columbia and Connecticut. He also was chief congressional aide to U.S. Rep. Toby Moffett. He held a master’s in education from the Univ. of Hartford as well as his degree in history from Bates. A U.S. Air Force veteran, he worked for McGraw Hill as a district manager. Survivors include his wife, Mary Jane Connor Johnson; children Tim, Mike, and Kevin Johnson, and Kate McCabe; and eight grandchildren.

1961 William Allen Gleason February 28, 2020 Growing up on the water in Marblehead, Mass., Bill Gleason developed a love of sailing — and proficiency in it — early on. This

love and skill lasted throughout his life. In 1960, while still at Bates, he sailed in the Pan American Games. While in the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Corps, he carried out missions in Laos and Cambodia via parachute from Thailand. He often sailed against the king of Thailand at the Royal Varuna Yacht Club in Pattaya, and won the first national championship trophy there. Later, he would defeat catamaran innovator Hobie Alter himself in the first Hobie Cat international championship.

After completing an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management, he joined Crown Zellerbach, the large pulp and paper company. He would stay in this field for his working life, building two companies out of the growing demand for recycled paper. Survivors include wife, Doreen Ash; children Nat Gleason and Liza Gleason ’95; and three grandchildren.

Kevin J. Kerrigan August 17, 2020 After a year at Bates, Kevin Kerrigan completed his studies at Becker Junior College. He was an Air Force veteran and served 20 years in the Air National Guard. He was also a lineman for Massachusetts Electric.

Survivors include children Sean and Stephen Kerrigan, and Susan Reardon; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Delight Harmon Reese April 21, 2020 For many years, Delight Harmon Reese and husband Don Reese ’59 made wooden clothes dryers that were available through L.L. Bean, among other stores. She was also a prizewinning photographer as well as a welder and blacksmith.

Her husband survives her, as do children Charles and Jeffrey.

1962 Sally Larson Carignan August 23, 2020 An advocate for affordable housing, Sally Larson Carignan was also a dedicated educator. She served as a librarian, substitute teacher, and adult education teacher — and was once honored as an adult education Teacher of the Year. She was a member of the College Key and served on her 50th and 30th Reunion committees. She was a member of the board for Tedford Shelter in Brunswick and volunteered as a respite worker. Survivors include sons Mark, Steve, and Paul Carignan; daughter Sarah Carignan Belanger ’95; and ten grandchildren. Her brother is Lee E. Larson ’59. Her late husband was longtime Dean of the College James W. Carignan ’61.

Charles Edward Moreshead December 14, 2020 Charlie Moreshead always main-

tained he was a country lawyer, even though he had large corporate clients. He earned his juris degree from Boston Univ. in 1965, building on his history degree from Bates. After working for a large firm in Augusta, Maine, he started his own firm, Sanborn, Moreshead, Schade, and Dawson.

He was a state representative in the 104th Maine Legislature and a Kennebec county commissioner for 12 years. He held the position of chairman of the Maine Republican Party for two years and worked on many gubernatorial and congressional campaigns.

He was also Augusta’s municipal attorney from 1974 to 1999 and counsel for the Maine Bond Bank, and he served on the Maine Harness Racing Commission (enjoying the conflicts between the tracks in Lewiston and Scarborough). Charlie was an alumni club officer and served on his 25th Reunion social committee.

Survivors include wife Nancy; children Andrew Moreshead, Cynthia Mauzerall, and Susan Rice; and seven grandchildren.

His first wife is Janice Carroll Moreshead ’62.

Henry George Stenberg Jr. September 13, 2020 Tip Stenberg immersed himself in history. From 1966 until retiring, in 2002, he was a professor of history at Salem (Mass.) State College, where he taught courses in world civilization, English history, and American transportation history. He was especially enamored of railroads, and enjoyed watching livestreams of train arrivals and departures around the world. He served on the executive committee of the New England Assn. for Oral History for nine years, and authored book reviews for the Oral History Assn. In addition to his Bates degree in history, he held a master’s in history from the Univ. of Maine. He was part of the archives committee of the First Church of Salem (Mass.).

Survivors include nieces and nephews.

1963 Marjorie Oberheim Degnan September 6, 2020 Midge Oberheim Degnan left Bates for Katharine Gibbs College. She married the love of her life, Dr. Robert Degnan, after knowing him only six weeks.

He survives her, as do children Deena Lorraine, Tara Albertson, Colleen Perkins, Shannon Allen, and Shane, Devin, Klancie, and Riley Degnan; her sister, Audrey Oberheim Swift ’53; and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Jean Stahlin Lacher July 18, 2020 From her first job shelving books as a teenager (25 cents an hour), Jean Stahlin Lacher was in love

with books. A history major, she went on to receive an MLS from Rutgers in 1965, and worked for a number of years in various library jobs, including at the Univ. of Northern Colorado. When she and her husband, Bob Lacher, moved to a 20-acre farm in South Dakota, she set about raising her two daughters, selling vegetables, and doing overnight alterations of men’s clothing. She also volunteered for the Episcopal church at the local, state, and national levels, including serving three times as delegate to the national convention. She was board chair of the only bicultural church camp in the state. In 2019, she was selected as the Honored Woman of the Year by the South Dakota Episcopal Church Women. Survivors include husband, Robert; daughters Jennifer Lacher-Starace ’96 and Stephanie Lacher; and two grandchildren.

1964 David Kholisile Dhliwayo June 23, 2020 David Dhliwayo was dedicated to telling Africa’s story from an African perspective. He was an educator and the first Zimbabwean ambassador to Nigeria, at a time when the Pan-African ideal was in its infancy. He also served as chief of protocol to the president of Zimbabwe and as deputy secretary for special duties to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For five years, he taught at Franklin and Marshall College, and later taught at Africa University. He held a bachelor’s in history from Bates; a master’s in history from the Univ. of Pennsylvania; and a master’s in African history from the Univ. of London. He conferred with countless heads of state, attended numerous conferences, and taught at several other schools in the States and in Africa. He spoke four languages and read two more. He wrote books on African democracy, African capitalism, the liberation of Zimbabwe, African international relations, African civilizations, and trade. Survivors include children Qelani, Gwinyai, and Sondelani.

Morris Marshall Lelyveld October 8, 2020 A history major, Mark Lelyveld went on to New York Univ. for a law degree, graduating in 1968. He had a private practice in Rockland, Mass. He served on the board of directors of the Rockland Federal Credit Union and was active in the Duxbury (Mass.) Rotary Club. Survivors include his wife, Susan Siles Lelyveld; children Josh, Sara, and Matthew; and three grandchildren. His brother is Louis Lelyveld ’66. Other relatives, all deceased, were father Edward I. Lelyveld ’34, cousin Sandra Lelyveld Marill ’55, and uncle Mark Lelyveld ’40.

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1965 Lois Anderson Butka January 9, 2019 Lois Anderson Butka entered Bates with the Class of 1965, but earned a BS at the Univ. of Bridgeport. Word of survivors was not available.

Barbara Fuller Sikes September 14, 2020 After graduation with a degree in French, Barbara Sikes saved her money for another year abroad (JYA was great) and spent it in Italy learning Italian. She was a diehard liberal. She lived on a commune, did part-time family planning and abortion referral for Planned Parenthood, and was a social worker for Head Start.

She was a VISTA volunteer and became a chiropractor. Survivors include sister Martha Lee Sikes ’62.

1967 David Huntington Howe July 7, 2020 David Howe took his time at Bates: he graduated five years after his classmates. But he made good use of that time. He was a VISTA volunteer in Kentucky, and worked for the Salvation Army, Ronald McDonald House, and Meals on Wheels. His focus was on the elderly, and he worked at the Wardwell Home for the Aging and, for 14 years, as the administrator of The Pines at Ocean Park. He was a member of the board of directors of the Saco and Biddeford Savings Bank. He was active in the Ocean Park Bates Club, and served as its vice-president and president.

Survivors include his wife, Sally Howe; children Lara Favreau, Chris Howe, Jennifer Dadiotes, Julie Cloutier, and Randy Plummer; and nine grandchildren. His brother is John H. Howe ’77. His father was David B. Howe ’39; his uncle was Harris Howe ’30.

Frederick Jessup Kahrl July 11, 2020 Fred Kahrl left Bates for the U.S. Coast Guard, and was stationed in Kodiak, Alaska, where he began his newspaper career. He retired as editor of the Coastal Journal in Maine. Survivors include wife Lynne Wolfe; children Heather Reedy, Allin Kahrl, and Andrew Kahrl; five grandchildren; a stepdaughter; two step grandchildren; and two great-step grandchildren.

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violence and served as a building block for the academic field of social policy. His 1996 book The Book of David helped raise awareness of the tragic, sometimes unintended, consequences of trying to reunite children in foster care with their biological families, whatever the domestic history. That book advocated the view that children do best when they are positioned in the child welfare system to find permanent adoptive homes. He held a master’s degree in sociology from the Univ. of Rochester, and a doctorate in sociology from the Univ. of New Hampshire, falling into the field that would become his life’s work while conducting doorto-door interviews on family violence. Rich moved to the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1998 from the Univ. of Rhode Island, where he had taught and conducted research on domestic violence since 1973. In 2001, he became interim dean of what was then Penn’s School of Social Work, and was named dean in 2003. He retired in 2014, after changing the school’s name to the School of Social Policy and Practice, raising nearly $34 million for it, and expanding course offerings.

He trained and consulted with federal, state, and municipal child protective agencies and served as an expert witness on child welfare issues in courts across the country. As a consultant to the U.S. Army on domestic violence issues, his work showed that the highest rate of domestic violence was not among those deployed for combat or special assignments abroad, but rather those who stayed home and restocked supplies for foreign missions. Rich was a member of the College Key, a class agent, a former Alumni-in-Admission volunteer, a former Alumni Council member, and he served on his 50th Reunion gift committee.

Survivors include sons David and Jason Gelles; three grandchildren; and a cousin, Paula Stick Horowitz ’89.

John Joseph Lyons III December 9, 2020 John Lyons’ real estate company was the largest in western Massachusetts when he sold it in 1987.

He retired at 44, but continued to advise New England companies on their growth. His early retirement gave him and wife Carol Barry Lyons ’68 the opportunity to travel to six continents, missing only Antarctica. He served on his 50th Reunion social committee. Survivors include wife Carol; children John J. Lyons IV ’91 and Beth Strachan; and five grandchildren.

1969 Linda Bowman Moberg October 7, 2020 Linda Bowman Moberg was a three-year graduate of Bates with a major in English. She taught

that subject to middle-school students in South Portland and Stoneham, Mass., before turning her attention to raising her children, Lisa and James.

They survive her, along with four grandchildren. Her cousins are Robert ’74 and Susan ’75 Lastowski.

1970 Mwalimu Gideon Odokano Nyundo ’70 May 20, 2020 Gideon Nyundo was a chemistry major who returned to his native Kenya to become headmaster of a school there. Survivors include children Simiyu Odokano, Lavenda Masinde, Elizerbeth Murabula, Pius Ngayo, and Sandra, Jossy, Pericilla, and Sirima Nyundo.

Clara Ellen Yeaton Perry September 4, 2020 Ellen Yeaton Perry served as president of her class for 30 years. She was a former alumni class officer, class agent, and Alumni-in-Admission volunteer.

She served on her 25th Reunion gift committee, her 45th Reunion social committee, and her 50th Reunion yearbook committee.

In her spare time, she taught high school social studies at schools in New Hampshire. She was chair of the department at Oyster River High School in Durham, N.H., where she taught for 20 years. In addition to her Bates history degree, she held a master’s in teaching from UNH. She was active in teachers union organizations. Survivors include stepchildren Charles, Kenneth, Malcolm, and Annette Perry; and five step-grandchildren.

1971 William Randall Alsop April 19, 2020 Bill Alsop knew acid rain. He studied its effects at North Carolina State Univ., where he earned a master’s in botany and plant physiology. His Bates degree was in mathematics and biology.

An avid intramural athlete, he also was a photographer for The Mirror and The Bates Student.

He continued his love of sports after Bates with a lifelong passion for golf. Survivors include wife Susan Gerrold Alsop; stepchild Amy McLaughlin; and two grandchildren.

Lee E. Merrill June 6, 2017 Lee Merrill completed his degree at NYU after starting college at Bates. He owned and operated Barrows and Fisher Oil in Brattleboro, Vt., for many years. His survivors include two sisters and their families.

James Henry Norton Jr. 2019 A chemistry major, Jim Norton pursued a number of interests —

music, photography, motorcycles, and computers — until his life was changed at 33 when he recognized his need for a relationship with Jesus. He enrolled at New Brunswick (N.J.) Seminary and was ordained in 1988. Prior to this, he earned an MBA from Rutgers. He and wife Susan Graves Norton ’71 served three years in the 1990s with the English-speaking community in the Netherlands, where they opened two churches in Rotterdam. In addition to his wife, survivors include children James H. Norton III and Carolyn Norton Trevino ’99.

1972 George William Thurston III December 4, 2020 After Bates, George earned a master’s in counseling from the Univ. of Maine. He worked at Maine Medical Center for 11 years, and then moved from Portland to Vermont, where he became a licensed alcohol and drug counselor. He retired in 2019. A lifelong clarinet player, he indulged his love of music by being a sound engineer for the Portland Symphony Orchestra.

Survivors include wife Deborah Lindquist Thurston ’72; daughter Phebe; and one grandchild.

1973 Susan Stone Wickwire September 11, 2020 Susan Stone Wickwire and her husband, James D. Wickwire Jr. ’74, were big fans of Pearl Jam, and traveled all over North America to see more than 30 live concerts. Her tastes ran the gamut: she also loved ballet. An honors French major, she worked briefly in banking before leaving the workforce to raise a family.

In addition to her husband, survivors include sons Matthew and Scott Wickwire; and two grandchildren.

1974 John Theodore Jenkins September 30, 2020 No matter if he was strolling between classes in a T-shirt and shorts or striding in a dashiki, John Jenkins commanded respect. But that respect was one laced with smiles. A product of the bitter streets of Newark, N.J., he emerged with a “learn, baby, learn” attitude, thanks to an inspiring encounter with Martin Luther King Jr. just days before the civil rights leader was assassinated. John came to Maine determined to get — and give — all he could. Already a martial arts expert, he opened the John Jenkins Academy for Personal Development as a first-year student, and ran it for 24 years, during which he was a five-time world champion in a variety of martial

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arts disciplines. He was inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame after becoming a four-time international karate champion and world jujitsu titlist. He was also a member of the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame (inducted twice, for master instructor and outstanding contributor), as well as the Lewiston-Auburn Sports Hall of Fame. He was characteristically modest about all of this, telling The Associated Press, “I’m just a regular person struggling to live a life of integrity, honor, and passion. If I am successful at this, then I would have achieved the greatest of all rewards.” John was a wellness and safety consultant for CBS, a personal trainer, an insurance agent, the operator of the website peptalk.com, and a successful motivational speaker.

As he once told the Lewiston Sun Journal, “It’s not coincidental that all of my small successes happened...in Maine. This area has been good for my personal and professional growth.” His “small” successes include being elected mayor of Lewiston, mayor of Auburn (the only person to hold both titles), and the first and only Black elected to the state Senate. He ran unsuccessfully for governor as an independent, losing to Paul LePage. John was a member of the College Key, and worked briefly for Bates as the dean of housing. He received the Alumni Community Service award in 2000. He served on his 25th Reunion social committee.

In addition to his martial arts skills, he was a talented football player and a championship track runner. Survivors include his close friend Ann Parker; sister Mujiba Wadud; and brother Walter Jenkins.

Deborah Jean Roy October 9, 2020 If you have ever walked out to Race Point Lighthouse in Provincetown, thank Debbie Roy — one of the volunteer lighthouse keepers, as well as a frequent resident of the dune shacks there.

She used her degree in sociology to underpin 35 years as an economist with the U.S. Labor Dept.

She also volunteered as a United Way reader working with and reading to early elementary-age students. Debbie co-founded the Northern Connecticut Vegetarian Society, was an amateur radio operator, and participated in animal rescue, particularly with cats, for many years. Survivors include husband Michael Gruber.

1977 Cathy Anne Gallant-Morello July 2, 2020 Cathy Gallant-Morello completed her degree at Boston College after starting at Bates. Her degree was in political science; she also held a master’s in anthropology from Northern Arizona Univ., where she had opportunities to take part in archeological digs including sites at the Homolovi Ruins. Survivors include her husband, Tom Morello.

1978 Susan Venturo June 20, 2020 A government major, Susan Venturo worked primarily in marketing, making use of her writing ability. Survivors include sisters Joyce D’Aoust, Judith Boksanski, and Pamela Kellan.

1979 Susan Jean Pope November 25, 2020 Suzy Pope left Bates to complete her English degree at Carleton College. Not content with that, she also earned a bachelor’s in education from Boston Univ. and a master’s in education from the Univ. of Maine. Not content with that, she went on to Massachusetts School of Law. She was an assistant district attorney for Penobscot and York Counties.

Survivors include children Kate, Shannon, and Brendan; and five grandchildren. Her sister is Marybeth Pope Salama ’77.

1980 James Martin Curtin June 30, 2021 After starting at Bates, Jim Curtin graduated in 1981 from Fordham with a degree in communications. He was a television programming executive. Survivors include parents Brian and Clair Flood Curtin.

1983 Mark Phillips Fachada October 17, 2020 Mark Fachada started at Bates but completed his degree at Keene State College. He went on to Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine, and became a podiatrist in 1986. He retired in 1992 to become a ski bum, and left that to work in retailing and

manufacturing. Survivors include brothers Paul and Peter.

1984 Kendall Cummings Walden October 19, 2020 Ken Walden, a history major, was an analyst for Bank of America in Belfast, Maine. He was an enthusiastic supporter of all the Boston sports teams, as well as Univ. of Maine teams. Survivors include his son, Judson Walden.

His late father was Ronald William Walden ’58. Other relatives, all deceased, include grandfather Judson Gerrish ’30; great-uncle Henry Gerrish ’31; and great-aunt Louise Abbott Gerrish ’29.

2009 Michael Jamal Brooks July 20, 2020 Michael Brooks believed in bringing people together, something he sought to do through writing and podcasts. A transfer from Bennington College, he was a political science major, and spent a semester abroad in Turkey. He described his podcast as a “history driven, politics and entertainment program,” the “vanguard of the New Left.” In addition to The Michael Brooks Show, he was part of The Majority Report podcast. His writing appeared in Jacobin, Al-Monitor, Al Jazeera, The Washington Post and openDemocracy. He also wrote several books, among them The Buddha’s Playbook (with Josh Summers), a collection of tools and strategies for practicing mindful meditation, and Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right, in which he challenges the “intellectual dark web.” He was also a frequent commentator on HuffPost and SiriusXM. He had fun as a standup and sketch comedian, doing impressions such as “Nation of Islam Obama.” Survivors include a sister, Lisha.

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Beverly Heaton Kimball December 4, 2020 Beverly Heaton Kimball developed a program for students with complex learning disabilities on Cape Cod from 12 to more than

200 students, turning it into a nationally recognized school-towork program. She had previously taught special education in Acton, Mass. She held a master’s in special education from Boston Univ. She trained dogs to become therapy dogs, and earned her certification as a shamanic energy healer from the Four Winds Society. She also was a certified Reiki master. The second enhanced edition of her book, Sometimes the Magic Works: A Synchronistic Journey, will be published this year. She was a member of the College Key and a former class agent. Survivors include husband Russell Kimball.

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Members of the Student Army Training Corps go through drills on a cold 1918 day behind Hathorn Hall. The old wood-frame gym is at left; Roger Williams is in the distance at right.

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A century ago, quarantines, distancing, and washing up were key to beating infectious bugs at Bates by h . jay burns

in april of this year, a surge of COVID-19

cases among students prompted Bates to implement a campus-wide quarantine.

Students were restricted to their residences, except to pick up meals at Commons or go outside, physically distanced, for fresh air and exercise.

It was the first (and last, we hope) quarantine of the pandemic at Bates — and the first in nearly a century.

During three quarantine episodes in the early 1900s, measures included such extremes as sleeping with dormitory windows wide open as the “fury” of cleansing October winds whipped through and one dramatic recapture of a student who fled quarantine and made it all the way to Portsmouth.

1907 Some Outside Institution Whittier House and Cheney House went into quarantine in November 1907 for a time due to diphtheria, a bacterial illness now largely eliminated thanks to vaccines. The illness was “brought in by some outside institution,” the Student believed.

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In April of that year, a room in Parker Hall was quarantined after one of its residents became ill.

The college credited its excellent drainage and sewage system with stopping the spread, though diphtheria is more of an airborne disease spread person-to-person by respiratory droplets.

1918 Avoidance of Crowds The global 1918–19 influenza pandemic, which killed around 675,000 Americans and many millions worldwide, came in three waves, the deadliest being the second, in fall 1918.

The Bates Student, in its debut issue of the academic year, on Oct. 18, 1918, reported the recent deaths of five alumni, four of them in the military.

In Maine, more than 2,500 people died in October 1918 alone. That month in Lewiston, most businesses and gathering places were shut down. (Lewiston’s Catholic churches, meanwhile, held indoor services, against the city’s Board of Health advice.)

The Bates campus was in quarantine for most of October. Even so, the flu hit hard. “On the first Friday of the year, a case of influenza appeared. For

weeks thereafter every energy was bent to securing proper care for the sick,” said President George Colby Chase in his 1918–19 president’s report.

Frye House and the top floor of Rand Hall, a women’s residence at the time, were turned over to the sick.

Most of the cases, about 40, were among female students. The gender disparity was likely due to the fact that residences and most activities were single-sex in those days. And, in 1918, the men’s side of campus was largely taken over by the Student Army Training Corps, similar to today’s ROTC. About 150 male students, or about a third of the total student body, were SATC trainees, and they lived life under strict Army command — and heightened protocols.

Case in point: During the quarantine, chapel services for the men, presumably including those of SATC, were held outside, “in the open” in front of Parker Hall, rather than in the Chapel. The women had their services in the Chapel “as usual.”

Wary of the pandemic, Bates postponed its January reopening for the winter semester for two weeks. (Bates did something similar this year, extending winter break by nearly a month.)

For the SATC soldiers, Parker was one of their “barracks.” The Student exhorted students to follow “rules laid down by the authorities and keep the barracks free from disease.” The rules sound a lot like today’s protocols: “avoidance of crowds and careful cleansing — these are the best preventive that we have."

In the Parker barracks, windows remained open all night. A student recalled a cold and windy morning with the windows “wide open, so that the above mentioned wind can sweep through the rooms in all its fury and thus keep colds and other ills away.”

(In February 2021, the CDC recommended the same thing to prevent the spread of COVID in schools and daycares: Open the windows!)

When the quarantine was lifted, in late October, two popular hangouts for students, the Quality Shop and the George Ross ice cream shop, “had a sudden boom in trade.” “The Qual” was at 145 College St., now home to Lewiston Variety, while George Ross, Class of 1904, ran the famed ice cream parlor just west of campus on Elm Street.

“No one who was not helping in the crisis could realize the difficulties,” wrote Chase in his president’s report. “We shall never cease to be thankful that our ranks were not broken.”

“The quarantine has worked hardships on civilians and soldiers alike but results have been obtained,” the Student reported.

Students were restricted to their residences; faculty and staff were told to stay home — no Zoom in those days.

Several students tried to beat the quarantine by leaving for home. They didn’t get far. One was detained in Portsmouth, N.H., and put into solitary quarantine there for seven days. “It is only to ward off a possible epidemic that the radical measures have been pursued,” the Student promised.

In the spirit of keeping the presses rolling, the campus newspaper went to great lengths to publish its Feb. 9 edition, sending copy to the local printer by telephone and postal mail, even though, at the time, the students were not permitted to send letters home, lest their mail carry the fevercausing strep bacteria far and wide.

The editors promised that they did not violate the “safe and sane regulations” that had been imposed during the quarantine. “All copy, before passing through the mail, has been fumigated.” n When the 1918 campus quarantine was lifted, students flocked to their favorite off-campus spots, including the ice cream parlor run by George Ross, Class of 1904 (below), on Elm Street.

1923 In 1923, a college-wide quarantine due to scarlet fever lasted Feb. 3–26.

“College activities at a standstill,” headlined the Student, noting postponement of Winter Carnival as well as exams.

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Throughout the late 19th century, nearly all Bates professors (who were all men) as well as most male students had facial hair — from walrus mustaches to mutton-chop sideburns.

Thomas James Bollin, Class of 1879, wears “friendly” mutton chops, distinguished from typical mutton chops by how the sideburns meet the mustache. Bollin once described social equality as the “brotherhood of man in every condition,” which 2014 Commencement speaker Isabel Wilkerson called a “beautiful definition.”

The Goat

Edmund Randall Angell, Class of 1873, sports a full goatee. A chemist who worked in his own New Hampshire lab, he patented a snowblowertype contraption that removed ice from sidewalks with rapidly rotating metal teeth.

He is the Walrus

Sporting a walrus mustache is Frank Hartford Smith, Class of 1873. Smith was a lawyer in Stockton, Calif.

It’s Curtains

Getting a Handle

Irish-born Thomas Singer, Class of 1890, had one of the longest handlebar mustaches at Bates in the hairraising 1800s.

Singer died while at divinity school at Yale in 1894.

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Philosophy and theology professor Benjamin Francis Hayes, circa 1872, wears a chin curtain beard, also known as a Shenandoah.

ou t ta k e Seeking an emotional and visual boost at the end of a difficult year, I headed to Main Street on New Year’s Eve to photograph artist Charlie Hewitt’s 30-foot Hopeful sign, brightly lit on an exterior brick wall of Bates Mill No. 5 and framed by holiday lights. Finding hope allowed me to sidestep the hurdles of cynicism and despair; abandoning hopelessness vaulted me into the land of common cause. Hopeful.

— Phyllis Graber Jensen

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On the Cover Presenting a visual metaphor for the 2020–21 pandemic year at Bates — constant flux, constant adjustment — Ben Hoffinger ’22 gives his juggling clubs a workout near Lake Andrews. “Juggling relieves stress and helps to clear my head,” he says. (Amen to that.) See feature story beginning on page 44. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen.

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FROM A DISTANCE

What’s changed since this aerial photograph was taken in 1928?

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This smokestack is at a bygone Lewiston lumber yard, site of a planned apartment complex.

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Behind the President’s House, this path up Mount Davis is the old ski jump.

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The old maintenance center, heating plant, and its smokestack were razed in the 1990s to make way for Pettengill Hall.

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Named “Lake Andrews” in the early 1900s, this swampy land was excavated in 1958 to create the Puddle.

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This ramshackle grandstand burned in 1939 as students, eager for a better structure, cheered.

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Tennis was a growing sport in the 1920s, hence all the courts.

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Now named Leahey Field, the baseball field had two locations on Garcelon Field before moving here in 1986.

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Until Ladd Library was built, Bardwell Street passed right through campus.

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The new Bonney Science Center nears completion here.

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38 We dig it: the sweet feeling of getting in touch with soil.

52 Like father, like daughter: Ed Walker ’02 and Tiauna Walker ’2I.

MAGNOLIA

This year especially, the annual blooming of the beloved magnolia next to Hathorn Hall was more than a harbinger of spring; it seemed to promise better days ahead. Adam Banks ’21 of Jamaica Plain, Mass., dropped his mask to smell the blossoms on April 27. “Amazing,” he said.

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“I’ll just come outside to juggle — to relax, cool off, and clear my head.” Page 44