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prestigious Booker Prize. (Her My Name Is Lucy Barton made the Booker long list in 2016.) And Liz released Lucy by the Sea, in which her now-familiar character Lucy Barton and her ex, William, seek refuge in Maine from the pandemic. That novel provoked a flood of positive press, including from The New York Times, which used the new novel as the launch pad for an in-depth Strout profile. And Liz appeared on the First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing podcast in December.

1978

Reunion 2023, June 9–11

CLASS SECRETARY Chip Beckwith chipwith@yahoo.com

CLASS PRESIDENT Dean Berman deanocean@aol.com

Sam Apicelli is in his 24th year at the Philadelphia law firm Duane Morris LLP, where he chairs the patent and opinion division. “No intention of retiring — having way too much fun!” He and Andrea celebrated their 33rd in March. “My son Jackson continues his career at Goodwill. During the pandemic, while working from home in Bryn Mawr, I began re-learning German as a hobby and have become reasonably fluent.” Sam keeps in touch with Gary Coorssen and Roger and Marcia Owen Clark — and misses “snowy days walking through the Quad.”...After 18 years as managing partner at the Cleveland law firm Calfee, Halter & Griswold, which he joined in 1985, Brent Ballard is now chief strategy officer. As managing partner, Brent led the firm’s growth to its current six offices in three states and D.C. As CSO, he’ll continue to attract top attorneys who are committed to the goals of supporting diversity and inclusivity, and serving clients in an entrepreneurial and collaborative manner. Brent and Ann are the parents of daughter Isabel Ballard ’13 and sons Brent and Walter ’16….Chip Beckwith gets right to the point: “Hello, Classmates! Looking forward to our 45th Reunion!”...Kevin Cox has retired after 25 years of teaching physics, but stays active in education through his company Scorton Creek Publishing, which produces puzzles and other intellectual exercises for classroom use.

Living in Worcester, Mass., Kevin has three grandchildren — “the youngest of which is 4 and played Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.”...Mary Henderson Pressman has been busy. “We are loving Portsmouth, N.H., but my husband, Ron, has failed retirement and taken a new job in D.C.” Mary brunched in January with Mel Parsons

Paras, Jackie Alpert, and Deni Auclair, and has seen Amy Gordon ’79 and Karin Bjorkman Steiner ’79 during travels to and from D.C....Jacki Johnson Rivero is still on Cape Cod and “reveling in all my old-lady activities. Retirement is excellent.”...Richard Johnson is in his 41st year as curator of The Sports Museum in Boston. He has also finished his 25th book, the official centennial history of the Boston Bruins hockey team.

“Could I possibly be the first Bobcat to be awarded a Stanley Cup ring, which I received as an employee at TD Garden in 2011?”...Tim Jones has been happily retired since early 2022, having spent most of his career with PR Newswire, the financial and business news service. Last year, he traveled to Aruba, the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and Yosemite National Park with his kids, Tim and Megan....

Tina Kabb Diaduk and Bill are “thoroughly enjoying retirement! We have been line-dancing at least twice a week, along with taking day trips to sites we always wanted to go to but couldn’t due to work schedules. We have been to plays at the local community theater” — they live in southern Maryland — “as well as community theaters in other states, mainly Pennsylvania.”...

Paul McGovern retired four years ago after 40 years in the insurance industry. Between volunteering at a nonprofit educational farm in Hingham, Mass., where he lives, working at a country club, and playing golf and soccer, he keeps busy. His kids, Tim and Caitlin, both had to cancel weddings in 2020 because of COVID, but proceeded to get hitched in 2021. He adds, “Did my bucket list trip in New Zealand in 2022 with my wife, Barb McCord McGovern ’80, but had to cancel the Fiji visit due to catching COVID.” Paul visited with Chuck James last year....Bill McMurray “stopped in my tracks when I read of the death of one of my favorite professors at Bates. Lew Turlish was engaging, challenging, fair, invitational, and most of all, encouraging. He was 80. Lew told great stories and made compelling connections between 19th-century America and contemporary life in the mid-’70s. He’s someone I have quoted — well, paraphrased — in many an encounter with my own students.”...Ron Monroe retired after teaching and coaching for 44 years, 35 of them at the Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford, Conn. “I’m enjoying life in Middlebury, Vt.”... Peter Moore, on the other hand, is “not retired. How do you quit being a writer? I still have a full docket of ghostwriting projects and clients. And it seems that I’m a cartoonist now, with a column online at The Colorado Sun website. Never saw that coming!”

But as master of his own schedule, Peter can still “fly to Utah to ski with Gail Cushman Rose ’80 and her husband Larry Rose, and catch up with old pal Doug Sensenig ’79 over dinner in Park City.”…Todd Nelson published a book of essays about his life in Castine, Maine, in April 2022. Cold Spell: The View from the End of the Peninsula (Down East Books) is available from Amazon and most independent booksellers….Albert Profy has retired from a “fun career in biopharmaceutical R&D. Janet and I live in Needham, Mass., and will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary this year.”...John Sacci retired from the Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine late last year. “I will miss many aspects of the academic environment, but am looking forward to more travel with Nancy Dodson Sacci ’76, biking, hiking, and a lot of deferred projects around the house.”...

Christopher Sentementes retired last July after 38 years in the performance textile and apparel industries, a career that “allowed me to see the world and live abroad, as well as work with many incredible people. I’ll still consult, but will mainly work on our mini-farm.” Chris’s retirement gift to himself was to hike the famous Camino de Santiago in Portugal and Spain last fall....Writing in February from Concord, N.H., Virginia Smith Wright had already been skiing 14 times. That’s one way to enjoy retirement, and here are some others: “Russ and I had an amazing trip to Alaska last summer. We saw humpback whales, orcas, seals, sea lions, otters, puffins, and bears. We also enjoy regular visits with our 4-year-old granddaughter.”...

Jim Westerman hopes “to see everyone at an upcoming Reunion, maybe 2023?” He’s still working in the manufacturing business applications practice at Avanade, a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture. “Sue and I visited Egypt last fall, and spent the winter in Steamboat Springs, Colo.”

1979

Reunion 2024, June 7–9

CLASS SECRETARY Mary Raftery mgraftery@gmail.com

CLASS PRESIDENT Patrick Murphy patrickm@paceengrs.com

Nancy Arey Cohen’s most recent book is available on Amazon and Kindle, and in local bookstores. “Running Home tells the relatable story of a woman who looks back on her life and contemplates her unfulfilled dreams,” Nancy explains. “She then has to decide if her past or present will determine her future.” She adds, “If you like it, pick up my first book, Faraway Love!”...John Casey and Susan celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary in September — “and two months later welcomed our second grandchild, Finnegan Thomas Carroll. We enjoy spending time with Finn and his sister, Murphy Joan Carroll. This July I will have completed my five-year term as chief justice of the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court. Not interested in retirement at this time.”...Chuck McKenzie and Kelly split their time between the East and West coasts, doing volunteer work and traveling again in the new endemic world. “Retired life is pretty good!”...Patrick Murphy looks forward to retiring from full-time structural engineering this year and “spending more time traveling, canoeing, hiking, gardening, and being with family and friends!”

1980

Reunion 2025, June 6–8

CLASS SECRETARY

Chris Tegeler Beneman cbeneman@gmail.com

CLASS PRESIDENT

Mary Mihalakos Martuscello mary@martuscellolaw.com

“Pandemic breeds madness — it must!” Matt Buchman notes. “After nearly two years of work and planning, I launched Thrill Ride — The Magazine” in February. “Nothing but madness could make someone take on an editing project of this scale: four issues, 30 authors from five countries, more than 45 stories.”

Janet Leary-Prowse, having worked full time since graduation, finally retired this year, just after her 65th birthday. She spent her career in hospital research administration, managing education and compliance programs. Spencer Prowse ’82 had retired in 2021. Janet is heavily involved in Toastmasters, belonging to three clubs and serving as an area director monitoring six clubs in Delaware, where she lives. Not bad for someone who hated public speaking. Son Kendall is in his second year of residency at Albany Medical Center, and Graham is a geologist at an environmental consulting company in Delaware. When Janet checked in, Graham and his girlfriend were anticipating their move into a new apartment — “in the same place Spencer and I lived when we first moved to Delaware.”

1981

Reunion 2026, June 12–14

CLASS SECRETARY

Cheryl Andrews dr.cheryl.andrews@gmail.com

CLASS PRESIDENT

Hank Howie hhowie@gmail.com

Betsy Kennedy writes: “After 20 years in Wisconsin raising my children, I moved back East to Concord, N.H., in September 2021 to be near my Dad, who is now 93 and still driving... safely! So glad to be able to see classmates, including Sue Lovett and Brad Fenn — I finally made it to his summer party!” Betsy is a registered occupational therapist and a lymphedema specialist, and puts in occasional days at the L.L.Bean Outlet Store in Concord….Anne Loewenthal Shain and Eric have moved to Woodway, Wash., after six decades in the Midwest. “We love it! We have a new community of friends and the activities are great, but best of all, my husband and I are extremely involved grandparents.”...Don Mayer moved to Crested Butte, Colo., three years ago. “I can cross-country ski about 80 days a year, and other times of the year run trails at a 64-year-old, developmental-mile pace.”... James Miller was promoted to chief executive officer of TowneBank Mortgage of Suffolk, Va., last October. He has been president of the company since 2019 and retains that title in his new position. A banking veteran, he was previously chief operating officer at TowneBank and held that same position at Monarch Mortgage….Jean Wilson has “enjoyed meeting other Bates alums through a local book club in the Portland, Maine, area. The discussions are stimulating, and making new Bates friends has been really fun!”...Amanda Zuretti joined the Framingham, Mass., office of the law firm Bowditch and Dewey in May 2022, returning to real estate practice after seven years representing municipalities. “My spouse, Lisa Cagliandro, retired (technically) in December after 42 years as a public middleschool administrator and teacher. We spend our spare time outdoors with friends and family.”

1982

Reunion 2027, June 10–12

CLASS PRESIDENT Neil Jamieson neil@southernmainelaw.com

Ruth Mary Hall “had a wonderful trip to our 40th Reunion in 2022! Great to see classmates after the dark days of the pandemic. I was also pleased to learn more about the Androscoggin Land Trust’s work. When I was at Bates, the river was a polluted mess. Now it is cleaned up and supporting wildlife. I even saw a bald eagle — in Lewiston, soaring along the river!”...Kee Hinckley is semiretired, following a transition from TiVo to Meta, where he spent nine months as tech lead for the group that manages software for the tech behemoth’s

30,000 content reviewers. “It was not a good fit for my leadership style, which both they and I saw,” he says. “But about the time it became clear it wasn’t going to work, they kicked off the industry layoff trend, so the timing was very good.” He’s now doing opensource software development and consulting, and helping out with the consulting company operated by his wife, Mollie Pepper, which aids forcibly displaced people. “We’re exploring spending part of the year working from nice, warm, and cheap locations, starting with a month in Guanajuato, Mexico.”...Michele Jalbert is finally working in Rhode Island, after having lived there for many years. She leads the Providence Resilience Partnership, a nonprofit addressing local impacts of climate change. “I know more about stormwater systems and hurricane barriers than I ever thought possible.”...“We had a great 40th Reunion!” writes Neil Jamieson. “Thanks to our classmates who helped plan and organize our weekend. Although it is difficult to comprehend that we have been graduated for 40 years, the memories and endearing friendships confirm that we were fortunate to spend our college years together.” Neil wrote us in February as he and Heather were visiting daughter Lexie Jamieson ’20 in Taiwan, where she was completing a Fulbright experience, and Japan. In fact, it was a family reunion, as Ainsley Jamieson ’18 joined them — taking a break from her job as a senior staff member for U.S. Rep. Jared Golden ’11 of Maine….Communications expert John Lipman has published a biography of Alfred DelBello, a New York state politician whose terms as mayor of Yonkers, county executive of Westchester County, and lieutenant governor under Mario Cuomo revealed an extraordinary public servant. Alfred B. DelBello: His Life and Times appeared in September (Atmosphere Press)….Stephen Mackenzie is working out West again, “this time with the Ute tribal government as chief prosecutor. It’s a nice opportunity in that it is a much smaller tribe, and with a lower caseload I can actually develop sentences that make sense for each case, rather than the cookie-cutter approach many prosecutors have to take due to the volume of cases they handle.”...Writing in The Hechinger Report, Jon Marcus explained how Maine’s public universities and colleges have long coped with a problem now worrying higher-ed leaders nationally: decreasing numbers of high school students. The Univ. of Maine and Maine community colleges have managed to expand enrollment despite a shrinking prospect pool, but now “Maine college and university administrators are bracing for what they say will be an even more challenging time: the next 15 years, when the number of new high school graduates in the state is projected to drop by yet another 7 percent” — while nationally, the equivalent number is “forecast to fall by 5 percent.”

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

After five years in Washington, D.C., “I’m happily back in northern New England,” notes Dr. Karen George. She joined the Univ. of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine in August after serving as clinical associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at George Washington Univ., and chairing the Council for Residency Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists….Susan Hay Clevenger has retired, but stays busy caring for husband Michael’s mother, who is 96. Susan feels “fortunate to see the grandkids frequently. Realizing how quickly time is fleeting, and looking forward to Reunion!”...

Laura Howard, an “Atlanta Batesie,” is also looking forward to Reunion, but already got some Bates exposure in December. She attended the Bates in Atlanta gathering — “yep, I was the ‘old’ person in the room.” Meanwhile, “this art major–turned-architect is still at it, drawing and designing houses around the South.”...When she wrote in February, Class Secretary Leigh Peltier was about to embark on a Swiss ski trip. But by now she’s working with Co-Presidents PJ Dearden and Bill Zafirson to put together, she says, “the Best 40th Reunion Ever! See you there!”...BCE Inc., Canada’s largest communications company, in October appointed Louis Vachon as a director of BCE and Bell Canada. Louis is an operating partner at J.C. Flowers & Co. and previously served as president and CEO of the National Bank of Canada…. Daniel Watson was promoted to the position of chief revenue officer at the Beauty Health Company, becoming responsible for sales operations and growth around the globe. He had served as the company’s executive vice president of sales for the U.S. and Canada beginning in 2017 and took leadership for all of the Americas in 2020. He and Sharon Teasdale Watson ’81 live in Seal Cove, Calif., and have two children, Daniel Watson and Melanie Watson

’14….Christopher Wellborn, a board member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers since 2010, became First Vice President of the NACDL in August. A resident of Rock Hill, S.C., he is a solo practitioner defending South Carolinians accused of crimes ranging from misdemeanors to felony charges in state and federal courts. In 2019, he received the NACDL’s annual Heeney Award.

1984

Reunion 2024, June 7–9

CLASS SECRETARY

Heidi

Lovett

blueoceanheidi@aol.com

Joan Keck Campbell relocated to Golden, Colo., in 2021 to be closer to family. “My Bates roommate, Linda Webster, and her daughter were my first visitors!” Why move? “After nearly two decades teaching and chairing the World Language Department at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, it was time to get some more slope time,” she says. “When I’m not skiing, I’m hanging out with my wonderful adult children, fixing up my new house, or volunteering at a women’s shelter in Denver.”...Performer, director, and scholar Artemis Susan Preeshl presented several papers at academic conferences in 2022, including “At First Blush: Eleonora Duse in Shakespeare” online at the Asian Shakespeare Assn. gathering; “Consent in Titus Andronicus” at the Armenian Shakespeare Assn. event in Yerevan; and “Gender Fluidity and Identity in Boccaccio’s Decameron, All’s Well and Cymbeline” at the American Boccaccio Assn. in Padova, Italy. She also reprised her role as St. Margaret in the Joan of Arc Parade on Twelfth Night in New Orleans....Lisa Quintal Loeb becomes head of the Upper School at Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford, Conn., in July. She worked at K.O. 1995–2012 and, as she said in announcing her appointment, views her return as “coming home.” Despite the passage of a decade, “what makes K.O. a special community has not changed.” Lisa comes to K.O. from online educational platform One Schoolhouse….

Stephanie Richards left her biology-teaching position at Bowdoin last July. Now living in Nashville, she recruits students to biomedical doctoral programs at Vanderbilt Univ. and runs a summer program for undergraduates in STEM....The Lincoln County News profiled Charlie Richardson when he joined the Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty office in Damariscotta, Maine.

Chris Lynch, president of Legacy Properties Sotheby’s, told the paper that “I have known Charlie for more than 40 years, all the way back to our Bates College days. He is a terrific person who has the passion and drive to be an incredible asset to his clients.”

Charlie and Annie have deep roots in the Midcoast, having lived in Nobleboro 1996–2005 as they raised their two children, and returning for good in 2010.… Linda Webster celebrated the big six-zero “with four days and three nights of hiking Mount Washington with my family. Who knew those Bates Outing Club excursions would plant the seeds for lifelong outdoor adventures? I even met a fellow Bobcat, Class of ’23, who was a ‘hut leader’ coordinating food and activities for us weary souls. Their name I can’t remember, but their pancakes I’ll never forget.” Linda still works at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and lives in the suburbs. “Bobcats have a standing invitation to visit.”

1985

Reunion 2025, June 6–8

CLASS SECRETARY

Elissa Bass bass.elissa@yahoo.com

CLASS PRESIDENT

Lisa Virello virello@comcast.net

Judy Kohin stepped away from running an arts school in Telluride, Colo., to concentrate on her own art in 2021. Last summer, the Slate Gray Gallery showed her work in the exhibition Re-Wired. Judy “fills her new body of mixed-media work, these quiet but juicy canvases, with flattened planes, a mix of bright and muted colors, and pared-back compositions that capture close-up and personal details of the majestic landscapes that surround her home, her playground,” wrote a reviewer for Telluride Inside… and Out. Judy and Mark Scholtes ’84 operate Wild Hare Snowshoe and Hiking Tours…. Greg Otis has been named managing director of fiduciary services for the Southwest Florida Wealth Leadership operation of Wilmington Trust. With more than 30 years’ experience in wealth advising, Greg previously served as CEO for a billion-dollar family office in Florida, worked for banks including HSBC, and practiced as a trusts and estates attorney. He and Julia live in Naples, Fla.

1986

Reunion 2026, June 12–14

CLASS SECRETARY

Erica Seifert Plunkett ericasplunkett@gmail.com

CLASS PRESIDENTS

Bill Walsh messagebill@gmail.com

Catherine Lathrop Strahan catstrahan@gmail.com

Sean Carlos is marking his sixth year as a real estate broker in Tuscany. In addition to giving him reasons to roam around Italy, his work with clients sometimes taps the German-language skills he began developing at Bates. Look him up if you’re in the area — or, he says, “looking for a second home!”...President of R. W. Holmes Commercial Real Estate since 1995, Garry Holmes spoke with Boston Real Estate Times in January. Topics included the effects of office vacancy rates that have increased as working from home has taken hold. “Municipalities aren’t feeling the pain right now,” he noted, but as owners of substantially vacant buildings start seeking property tax abatements, that will “be a major tax impact on these municipalities. It’s not just the developers’ problem, it’s not just the lenders’ problem, it’s an issue for all these towns and cities.”

1987

Reunion 2027, June 11–13

CLASS SECRETARY Val Kennedy brickates@gmail.com

CLASS PRESIDENT Erica Rowell ericarowell@mac.com

Margaret Brosnahan is an associate professor of equine medicine at the Midwestern Univ. College of Veterinary Medicine in Glendale, Ariz. “I’m also still in perpetual student mode, nearing completion of a Master’s in Medical Humanities through Creighton Univ. This effort has enabled me to merge my lifelong love of humanities with my career as a veterinarian, and facilitated the writing of my publication in the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education titled ‘Life, Death and Humanity in Veterinary Medicine: Is it Time to Embrace the Humanities in Veterinary Education?’”...David Farrington has a new position within Groupe Beneteau, the internationally known boatbuilder and his employer since 1994. He lives in Annapolis, Md. “Working from a home office has given me quality time with my wife, Leopoldine, and daughter.”...Congrats to James Gleason, who earned a doctorate in liberal studies from Southern Methodist University…. Kari Heistad continues to lead a global team within her company Culture Coach International, which provides products and services in the diversity, equity, and inclusion space. She’s now based in North Andover, Mass…. In August, Regina Marchi published a new edition of her 2009 study, Day of the Dead in the U.S.A.: The Migration and

Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon. Revised and rereleased on the 50th anniversary of the first Day of the Dead celebrations held in the U.S., the book lays out the history, meaning, and evolution of this profound and increasingly popular celebration. Regina is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers Univ.–New Brunswick….Cindy Snell “had so much fun at our 35th Reunion! Great to see old friends and meet new ones. I loved how we pretended we were in our 20s at night (I’ll leave that to your imaginations) and then acted our age during the day — talking about retirement and shingles vaccines! Always love to room with Kathy Leonard Bertagna like the good ol’ days!”

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 mary.capaldi.gonzales@gmail.com

Steve Lewis mojofink@gmail.com

Julie Sutherland-Platt julielsp@verizon.net

Lisa Romeo romeoli66@gmail.com

A veteran of more than 25 years with the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, Sarah Carroll was approved by the city council for a second term as commission chair in September. Chair since 2018, she manages a staff of approximately 80 architects, archaeologists, preservationists, historians, attorneys, and administrators. Prior to her appointment as chair, she was LPC’s executive director, overseeing the designations of more than 4,000 buildings and sites across the city. Originally from New York, Sarah majored in art history at Bates….Christina Hummel Grenier started the new year with a new job. After 20-plus years of teaching, she now leads operations and communications for the nonprofit Gloucester (Mass.) Education Foundation, which supports teaching and learning in Gloucester’s public schools. She enjoys going home without a book bag filled with student papers….“It’s been a loooong time,” Steve Kramer says, since we’ve heard from him. “I am still here, an insignificant collection of energy in an infinite universe. I am a living stereotype of a disestablishmentarianist.

I am a personal assistant to my dog and my mother — when they allow it, I provide armchair solutions to the world’s problems, binge-watch every show, create masterpieces that nobody sees, and fill out poorly written consumer surveys to ensure my supply of life-supporting junk food. For some reason (unknown if you didn’t read any of the previous sentences), I remain free from romantic entanglements. I am taking applications, though.” His advice: “Breathe deeply, smile, and enjoy the moment. Makes for a much better world!”

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

Now in her second year as the president of St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md., Nora Demleitner spoke with What’s Up Media about St. John’s. Topics included the college’s annual financial standing, including its $297 million endowment. Given the college’s relatively small alumni pool, “this achievement is really startling,” Nora said. “The vast majority of our donors are alumni, plus parents and people who have taken our summer courses. There is a lot of passion.”

Nora’s formal inauguration was scheduled for March.… media outlet: Small Boats Monthly headline:

Michael Foley still divides his time between St. Petersburg, Fla., where he has been promoted to full professor of modern dance at the Univ. of South Florida, and Paris, where he directs two studyabroad programs. “I taught at the Bates Dance Festival last summer for the last time, culminating my 35-year relationship with the BDF. Bittersweet, to say the least!”...Jennifer Gibbons now works at Georgetown Univ., where she is director of development at the Walsh School of Foreign Service. “Let me know if you’re in D.C.”...Andrew and Grace Tallman Gooding look forward to the graduation in May of their younger child, Chris Gooding ’23, a double major in politics and philosophy. Older brother Evan graduated from Earlham College last year and is an assistant language teacher for the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program in Akita, Japan. Andrew still helps get returning students through college at Marshall Univ. while Grace is substitute-teaching at Huntington High School in West Virginia. Their three cats will keep them company as they adjust to an empty nest.…Donna Waterman Douglass “recently met an ’86 alum on the tennis courts in Florida. The grandson of a neighbor is a freshman at Bates now.” She and Troy live in Fort Myers.

More than a decade after its first launch, Al Demany Chiman takes to the water again with (from left) Tim Shaw ’91 and his children, Helena and Aidan.

Al Demany Chiman: A skin-on-frame outrigger canoe takeaway:

A project with a purpose provides a feeling of renewal

Ten years after Tim Shaw ’91 first floated his handmade outrigger canoe, he decided to renovate it for a specific purpose: to take his daughter, Helena, on the water.

Writing about the project in Small Boats Monthly, Shaw described wanting to find ways to allow Helena, who has limited mobility following a seizure, to stay active. And after building a trail-ready wheelchair and a kicksled for the winter, Shaw decided to tackle the water, since paddling was something they could both do.

“What I really wanted, though, was to get back on the water more, and I wanted to bring Helena,” Shaw wrote.

He named the boat Al Demany Chiman, three words meaning “the” in Arabic; “sail” in Malagasy; and “canoe” in Algonquin. The project gave Shaw “not only the experience I had hoped for but also many lessons.” The boat has “proved to be a vehicle — and metaphor — for perseverance and renewal.”