I997 20I5GROWING UPEighteen years after Halsey Platt ’88 and toddler son Gordon posed on Garcelon Field during Back to Bates, they reenacted the photo on a great day: Gordon’s arrival with the Class of 2019 on Aug. 31. See more about the Class of 2019’s arrival: bates.edu/orientation-stories

17 Great day to be a Bobcat: Rowing wins NCAA title!

36 Your winter primer: How Bates handles a blizzard.

Fall 20I5 48 In figuring out Kingston, Jamaica, students ponder their own future selves.

bates m

ag

azin

e WO

RK

ING

PA

RT

S fa

ll

bjae “Purposeful Work is about helping students align who they are with what they do.” Page 26

purposeful work is a powerful machine of the liberal arts

Non-ProfitU.S. Postage Paid

Bates College

BatesBates CollegeLewiston, Maine 04240

MA

RC G

LASS

’88

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

2 Letters 4 Bates in Brief24 Amusements26 Features56 Notes98 History Lesson104 From a Distance

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

Take a closer look at the object of this Bates student actor’s intense gaze. Page 19

5

A June topping-off event to mark the end of steelwork for the new residences on Campus Avenue featured a ceremonial final steel beam, affixed with symbols, hoisted into place. At the end, here’s what it looked like.

1A spruce tree, a nod to the ancient Scandinavian tradition of appeasing arboreal spirits displaced during construction.

2The ceremonial beam, signed by 400-plus Bates community members in the days prior.

3An American flag and Bates banner, which fluttered in the breeze when lifted and for weeks after.

4 Atop the crane that hoisted the beam is an FAA-required orange and white safety flag.

5The steel was fabricated by Norgate Metal of La Guadeloupe, Quebec.

6The beams are primed with different colors because they’ll have different final coatings, e.g., paint or fire-resistant.

7Hand-written numbers on the beams are piece-marks to indicate where each piece goes.

Event multimediabit.ly/topping-bates

FROM A DISTANCE

Fall 2015 1

OPENING THOUGHT:B. VANDERBURGH ’I5

Source: VanDerburgh’s poem, “The Liberal Arts,” read at theBaccalaureate Service for the Class of 2015 on May 30.

To purposefully work in memory of and with the stamina learned from this time we’ve shared here,alive together and in love together,all of us, in complicated honest courtship with a community we chose for its very alluring promiseof transformation.

Fall 20152

Carrying on a TraditionAs director of the Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan, I was intrigued by the mention of then-Rep. Smith being carried across the Quad as part of Mayor- alty hijinks in 1948 (“Com-ments,” Fall 2014).

Sure enough, a clipping of a Lewiston Journal news story about the stunt is in one of her scrapbooks. Oh, what my colleagues and I would give to see a photo of Margaret in the arms of Norm Parent ’50!

Thank you for paying tribute to historian Charlie Clark ’51. I was his graduate student at the University of New Hampshire, and his strict editorial standards influence my writing to this day.

I still remember him asking why I went on so long about some 1894 baseball games (even though four of the players were Batesies) during the defense of my doctoral dissertation, a project that became Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age.

The best compliment I can pay to Charlie Clark is that of imitation. His history of Bates was the model I used in writing Northwood: The First 50 Years, a history of that university.

I will be forever indebt-ed to Professor Clark for teaching me to write about history with a combination of intellectual passion and literary precision.David Richards ’84Skowhegan, Maine

Marking TimeWith regard to the leather “Stanton Strip” (“Archives,” Fall 2014), I believe that it is meant to be a bookmark. I have one of these strips, which was in an old German book that I got when Bates was culling volumes. The book I have has the name of Mabel Libby and the year 1918 penciled on the flyleaf. The Uncle Johnny book-mark has possibly been in it since then. Jackie Gendron ’77Exeter, N.H.

Casting SpellsWhat a surprise to find an article about the Pettengill/Pettingill name (“What’s in a Name,” Fall 2014).

One of my 18th-century ancestors was Daniel Pettingell. During the mid-19th century the name was spelled Pettingall. Then it became Pattangall.

Did it change because someone didn’t know how to spell? Did someone in the fam- ily decide to cut themselves off by changing the spelling of the name? We’ll never know.

The Pattangalls were Maine mariners, mostly out of Searsport and Addison. My great uncle was William R. Pattangall, chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. A cousin, Kathleen Pattangall, Class of 1907, also attended Bates.

I was told that “gill” was short for “guild” and that a “patten” was a shoe, so the name meant someone who made shoes. Since no one really knows the answer, we’ll stick to the more logical meaning: “someone from Portugal.”Alberta Pattangall Irwin ’59Atlanta

Memory of MullerWatching the documentary The Roosevelts by Ken Burns, L.H.D. ’02, I was taken back to a class with Professor of History Ernie Muller.

Dressed in his character-istic tweed jacket and knit vest, he broke from his minimal notes that wrapped up the FDR era and recounted how, as a naval aviator home on leave in April 1945, he stopped to get his shoes shined as he passed through Grand Central Terminal.

The African American man laboring over his shoes was sobbing deeply, so he asked the man what was troubling him, and learned that FDR had died that afternoon.

Professor Muller’s brief personal story painted a picture of FDR’s reach across American society and gave us a deep insight into America at that moment in our history. Thank you, Professor Muller.Patrick Murphy ’79Portland, Ore.

Reach and VisionMy sense is that Bates is surging.

In 1984, Joseph Underhill, Class of 1917, donated $1 mil- lion to Bates for a hockey rink. It took 10 years of carefully shepherding that gift before Underhill Arena opened.

Now things move fast. Squash needed a fifth court to host tournaments; rowing needed a boathouse to continue its ascent to na-tional prominence; baseball needed a batting cage to shorten those Maine winters — all were funded and have moved forward quickly.

At recent Boston events, I have felt the energy and upswell. In May, President Clayton Spencer and Trust-ee Chair Michael Bonney ’80, joined by Bates pro-fessors Amy Douglass and Rebecca Fraser-Thill, made a compelling case that Bates is doing great work in an

Energy and upswell marked the 2015 Presidential Events. At the San Francisco event, Chris Barbin ’93, CEO and co-founder of Appirio, and Patrick Pichette P’17, former senior vice president and CFO at Google, joined President Spencer for a discussion on “The Liberal Arts in a Digital Age.”

“Age of Innovation.”As a class agent, I am

gratified that classmates are giving for the first time ever or are returning to the ranks (including a once-reluctant former baseball captain stepping back up to the plate). Another classmate has sponsored an intern-ship at his business, paying forward his debt as a former Bates intern himself.

Bates people find dazzling ways to support the college. Stu Abelson ’97 personally piloted a helicopter sight- seeing trip as a prize to a winning fundraiser, after donating his corporate offices at Ora for a Bates phone-a-thon.

These are exciting and uplifting times for Bates — backed by passion, resolve, and giving that galvanizes action.Bob Muldoon ’8IAndover, Mass.

Ted, JH, and ChickI loved reading the things about Chick Leahey ’52 (“As Chick Leahey’s jersey number is retired, 11 things to know about the great Bates coach and man,” Bates News, Oct. 24, 2014.)

Brian Bonollo ’87 and I were senior captains the fall John Henry arrived on campus. I remember meeting with Chick the first week of school and him saying to us, “Guys, I’ve got good news and bad news. Ted Williams’ son is a freshman. That’s the good news.” I asked what the bad news was. He replied,

“Reports are that he’s not very good.”

Ted showed up on campus in March after John Henry was cut from the team. I was upstairs in Gray Cage (this was before the renovation), where equipment manager Frank Levesque let me use a room to work on my thesis. One Sunday night I heard hitting and went out to see. There was JH, working with Ted and Chick in the batting cage. Pretty damn funny. In the end, Ted said that Chick was right to cut JH.Eric Schlapak ’87Dover, N.H.

comments

AM

AN

DA

HA

RRIS

Fall 2015 3

Taking to TaskIn his letter, James Wakely ’82 (“Practical Advice,” Fall 2014) says he finds little value in the education and exploration of gen-der, sexuality, and racial issues, at least as applied to preparing for a career in the investment field. “These extraneous issues distract from the needed focus on the task at hand,” he writes, asking Bates to “keep your eye on the prize.”

But what exactly is this “prize”? Is it a successful career? Is it nailing a tough interview? Or, perhaps, it might be a world in which “gay rights, minority hiring, [and] gender equality” might not be labeled as extraneous.

I challenge Mr. Wakely to not compartmentalize our world, not to separate industry and society. How the world works reflects the way social issues con-nect and intersect with the economy.

To me and many of my classmates, our Bates education is more than our academic major. Our “task at hand” is more than pursuing a successful career. We also want to improve our world and communities.

Perhaps a world of equal-ity is “starry-eyed idealism,” but why is idealism some-thing to scorn? Why should we not strive for the ideal, reach for the unreachable?Gil Taylor ’I5Hallowell, Maine

Piping UpMy wife, Sarah Tolford Selby ’04, and I were sur-prised and pleased to see the picture of Rob Simmons (“Piper Man,” Fall 2014). Rob was a mentor of Sarah’s growing up, and we were honored that he played bagpipes at our wedding on Peaks Island in 2008.Luke Selby ’05New York City

editor’s note

Please Write

We love comments. Comments may be edited for length (300 words or fewer preferred), style, grammar, clarity, and relevance to college issues and topics discussed in Bates Magazine.

Email your letter to: magazine@bates.edu

Or post it to: Bates Magazine Bates Communications Office 141 Nichols St.Lewiston ME 04240

Though I caught this smallmouth bass on a vacation day, it made me think about work.

My fishing hole was a rocky spot on the Androscoggin River in Lisbon Falls, just a couple hundred yards from the yellow Kennebec Fruit Company store, aka the Moxie Store.

I bought my soft bait up the street at Big Dag’s, a hyperlocal landmark that deserves a few words.

“Dag” is short for “Daigneault,” the surname of the guy who runs the store. Up until the early 2000s, Dag and his parents operated a Dag’s store in Auburn. After the Daigneaults retired and sold the store, it went out of business.

Sold at auction, the Auburn store reopened in 2009 as Dag’s Bait and Tackle for father-and-son co-owners who are unrelated to the Daigneaults. Meanwhile, the Daigneault son opened Big Dag’s in Lisbon Falls.

Having patronized Big Dag’s, I decided to check out the Auburn Dag’s. Well, I was hooked. The shop is jammed with fishing gear and bait, and I got a lesson on how to work my bait over the river bottom without so many snags. Online fishing forums rave about the place, too.

(Note to curious reader: Higher in the corporate world you’d never have an L.L.Bean and a Big L.L.Bean operating 15 miles from each other. But it does happen down here. Can’t explain it.)

So, why this digression on Dag’s? It has to do with an idea about work and place that Bates psychology professor Michael Sargent put in the water last spring. (See “Lewiston” in Bates in Brief.)

Referencing two U.K. marketing theorists, Sargent says that when it comes to marketing a place like Lewiston-Auburn — with its historically troubled reputation — the focus should be less on slogans and tag lines and more on “people doing things.” Excellent, distinctive, and authentic things.

The Auburn Dag’s, I think, is a microcosm of Lewiston-Auburn and an example of what Sargent is talking about.

It’s humble-looking on the outside, but if you bother to look inside, people are doing excellent things. And if excellence can flow into the local narrative about this place, “people here and elsewhere will eventually notice,” Sargent says.

Of course, Dag’s would be dead in the water without a fishable Androscog-gin, and while I knew all about the Androscoggin’s resurgence since its horrid state years ago, I had never actually fished the river.

So when that 2-pound bass jumped and dove before me, and as I lifted it from the river, removed the hook, and took that selfie (bassie?), I gained an experience that I did not have to go along with knowledge that I did have.

That interplay, between knowledge and experience, infuses the college’s Purposeful Work initiative, this issue’s cover story.

Purposeful Work is about helping students gain the knowledge and experiences necessary, the skills and self-awareness, to be successful in finding meaningful work after Bates.

So read on. I promise: It’s no fish story.

H. Jay Burns, Editor magazine@bates.edu

Fall 20154

BATES IN BRIEF

FALL20I5

JOSH

KU

CKEN

S

Fall 2015 5Fall 2015 5

Nathan Stephansky ’17 skips a rock into the Atlantic from Hermit Island in Phippsburg at sunset on Aug. 13. He was hanging with Cailene Gunn ’16, Dana Cohen-Kaplan ’16, and Adam Auerbach ’16, each of whom did summer research with professors, or similar work, in and around the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area, using the Bates Coastal Center at Short- ridge as a home base.

Fall 20156

JESS“We’re really close. It’s nice to be living with your best friends.”

Jess Duserick ’18 of Arlington, Mass., in her room in the 280 College Street residence a couple of days after celebrating her first birthday away from home. Two of her new friends showered her with balloons.

PH

YLLI

S G

RAB

ER J

ENSE

N

Did You Know?When authorized by the college, students with documented disabilities can have a service animal live with them on campus. A service animal must be a dog or, in limited cases, a miniature horse.

Book TagWhen a bright idea hits the student psyche just right, it’s lights out.

Late into the night of March 13, some 300 students played laser tag on the darkened ground floor of Ladd Library, scurrying and stalking amid the government documents, art books, and bound periodicals.

When the event was first announced, the 300 available slots — about a sixth of the student body — filled in three hours, with many more being turned away. With the library shut down for the night, 30 students competed at a time, each group getting 15 minutes of playtime, until 1 a.m.

The idea for the event came from two first-years, Ben Roop of Littleton, Mass., and Emma Russell of Pacific Grove, Calif., and was sponsored by Ladd Library, the Chase Hall Committee, and Late at Bates, a grant-funded program supporting student-initiated weekend programs. First-years, from left, Sadie Mae Palmatier of Missoula, Mont., Chloe Oslin of Edmonds, Wash., and Bella Miller of New York City, all members of the rowing team, play laser tag in Ladd Library.

STUDENTS Students can build a loft in their room if they get a college permit.

To create a new club, organizers must first write a constitution.

BATES IN BRIEF

FALL20I5

KEIT

H T

AN

NEN

BA

UM

Fall 2015 7

* The numbers for Mac OS X and Windows represent mostly laptops — few students bring desktop computers to campus.

Writing with the Moon

With illumination from the Garcelon Field lights and a full moon, Max Huang ’18 of Suzhou, China, created this light-graffiti photo a little after 7 p.m. on April 3.

The name of the April full moon, by the way, is “Full Pink Moon.” According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, the name comes from moss pink, or wild ground phlox, an early spring flower that, at Bates, is seen in front of Olin Arts Center by early May.

Mac OS X computer* 2015 – 1,428 2013 – 1,517

Windows computer* 2015 – 430 2013 – 481

iPhone 2015 – 1,5242013 – 1,295

Android phone2015 – 2762013 – 265

BlackBerry 2015 – 132013 – 4

iPad 2015 – 2172013 – 260

iPod Touch 2015 – 572013 – 171

Left to Their Own DevicesTwo years ago, our 1,700 students had 4,200 Internet-enabled devices (computers, smartphones, streaming devices, and the like), an average of 2.5 per student. The total number hasn’t changed much since then, down to 4,130, but as with the rest of the world, the trend is toward mobile.

Fall 2015 7

Kindle2015 – 192013 – 65

XBox2015 – 452013 – 81

Playstation 2015 – 22 2013 – 29

Apple TV 2015 – 152013 – 8

Chromecast2015 – 62013 – N/A

Roku 2015 – 22013 – 3

50 percent of graduates complete a minor.

Campus jobs paybetween $7.75 and $8.25 per hour.

Students are allowed to work up to 20 hours a week at a campus job.

Fall 20158

On a Clear Day You Can See 3,540 FeetEven with trees in full leaf, campus pathways offer some long, unobstructed sightlines. Here are the longest distances, in feet(approximated using Google Earth):

And then there’s one that extends way off campus:

3,540From the steps of Hathorn to the spires of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in downtown Lewiston

Fall 20158

1,198From Alumni Gym steps to 280 College Street residence (Rand Field)

861From the Ladd Library flying staircase to Rand Hall

536From Hathorn steps to Lindholm House

500From Coram steps to Rand Hall

There are two long unobstructed sightlines that depend on elevation:

1,440From the Campus Avenue Turf Field to the tip-top of the Garcelon Field scoreboard

2,040 From the Russell Street Field to the top of an elm outside John Bertram Hall

Under Common BannersOver the winter, each Bates class got to choose a banner of their own to hang in Commons.

Students were given seven options and voted online by ranking their top three favorites and giving their class year. When the results were tallied, it was a happy outcome: Each class had ranked a different image as its favorite. They were installed in February.

Come fall, the Class of 2019 will get its crack at choosing a banner. And the Class of 2015 banner will belong to the graduates, for Reunions and other class-specific celebrations.

A fun way to foster class spirit, the banners that now hang in Commons also share a visual identity that emphasizes Bates community.

PH

YLLI

S G

RAB

ER J

ENSE

N

1,271

CAMPUS Defibrillators are in a few key buildings plus security vehicles and at sports events.

The student-run Ronjcoffeehouse offers treats like hot chai and café au lait.

BATES IN BRIEF

FALL20I5

Fall 2015 9

1,271 feet from Commons, the length of Alumni Walk, to Dunn Guest House on Mountain Avenue

You Break It...Accidents will happen, sang Elvis Costello and, more recently, Thomas the Tank Engine. When stuff gets broken in a Bates residence, here are a few of the costs of repair or replacement, which include labor, materials, and overhead. The individual(s) responsible pay the bill; and if that person isn’t known, then the cost is prorated across the residence and everyone gets billed.

Hammocking It UpHammocks and their suspended students were a daily sight on Alumni Walk this spring. Some students studied in theirs, while for others, well, it was yet another place on campus to take a nap.

Here, from close to far, are Adair Andre ’18 of Adina, Minn., Katie Hartnett ’18 of St. Paul, Minn., and Bruno Zicarelli ’17 of Santa Cruz, Calif.

“Being in the library is really not fun on a nice day like this,” said Hartnett, who was studying her French on this day. “It’s a nice way to get outside and still do work. I feel fabulous being out here. Sun. Vitamin D. All of it’s just great.”

Sofa $1,125

Love seat $925

Upholstered chair$650

Smoke detector$398.82

Metal cabinet$304.64

Bookcase$273.29

Coffee table$255.74

Bed frame$245.71

Microwave$239.43

Window glass$190

Oak chair$135.38

Small wall gouge$96.93

Baluster $93.66

Table lamp$75.22

Window screen$73.66

Toilet seat$63.93

Clothes iron$58.92

Ceiling tile$51.19

Floor tile$51.71

Soap dispenser$45.13

Shower curtain$41.35

PH

YLLI

S G

RAB

ER J

ENSE

N

Children under age 2 eat free in Commons.

Per-load cost of laundry in dorms is $I.25 (wash) and $I (dry).

Beds in residences are extra long twins, 34 by 80 inches.

Fall 201510

PH

YLLI

S G

RAB

ER J

ENSE

N

IREM“ An experience like this is a two-way street because he works as hard as I do, pushing me to elevate my standards.”

Irem Ikizler ’15 of Nashville, Tenn., describes working with her senior thesis adviser, Associate Professor of French and Franco-phone Studies Alexandre Dauge-Roth. Her thesis explores the concept of silence in films on the Rwandan genocide.

2 0 1 4 • 2 0 1 5

U.S. STUDENT TOP PRODUCER

Bates a Fulbright ‘Top Producer’ (Yet Again) The college’s smooth-running Fulbright machine has produced a Bates-record 19 Fulbright U.S. Student grants for 2015, with 14 going to grad- uating seniors and five to recent grads.

Bates has been a Fulbright Top Producer in four out of the last five years, including last year, with 10 Fulbright U.S. Student awards.

Supporting an academic year of research and teaching in more than 155 countries outside the country, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program is funded primarily by the U.S. Department of State and sends some 1,500 U.S. citizens abroad annually.

Have Grant, Will TravelCaroline Caldwell ’15, an environmental studies major from Gambier, Ohio, won a $30,000 Watson Fellowship, perennially one of the most prestigious postgraduate awards available to graduates of 40 of the top U.S. liberal arts colleges.

During her funded year abroad, Caldwell will visit Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island. She will then head to a massive Australian cattle ranch, and she will conclude her travels on a small Finnish farm above the Arctic Circle.

Along the way, she’ll do hands-on work to under- stand how farm and ranch communities in each place use very different sustainable mechanisms to achieve agricultural goals.

“Since these communities have few economically or environmentally viable alternatives, they sustain their livelihoods through holistic management, out of necessity rather than to fit the newest trend in farming,” Caldwell says.

In all three countries, there’s no safety net if things go awry on the farm.

“American farmers have more alternatives, which I’ve seen growing up in Ohio. If you mess something up one year, the government will back you. And in Ohio, the land is just so bountiful.”

In summer 2014, Caroline Caldwell ’15 worked at Zapata Ranch, a bison and guest ranch in Mosca, Colo., owned by The Nature Conservancy. The job fulfilled the internship requirement for all environmental studies majors at Bates.

Fall 201510

EMIL

Y D

UN

CAN

ACADEMICS Students use an online tool to track their progress toward graduation requirements.

Spanish had five majors and the most minors (36) of the Class of 20I4.

BATES IN BRIEF

FALL20I5

Fall 2015 11

ELLIOT

“ It’s really cool as a first- year to work closely with a professor and participate in the Summit. It’s awesome.”

Posing with his mother, Michelle Chun, Elliot Chun ’18 of Bedford, N.H., talks about joining a panel discussion on Arthurian literature moder- ated by his English professor, Sylvia Federico, at the Mount David Summit on April 3, 2015.

PH

YLLI

S G

RAB

ER J

ENSE

N

THIS JUST INA sampling of recent faculty-authored articles.

Where Houston Met Hollywood: Giant, Glenn McCarthy, and the Con- struction of a Modern City

Publication: Journal of Urban History • Author: Claudia Calhoun (rhetoric) • What It Explains: Why a major metropolis like Houston doesn’t get the same attention from urban historians as other American cities: because the mass media have ignored Houstonians’ attempts to define their city as modern, insteaddepicting it as “anti-modern,”as seen in the 1956 movie Giant.

Seatbelt Use Among Drunk Drivers in Different Legislative Settings

Publication: Economic Inquiry • Authors: Nathan Tefft (economics) and two coauthors • What It Explains: That when states adopt stricter drunk-driving laws while also enforcing seatbelt use, drunk drivers will react by increasing their use of seatbelts to avoid being caught by police. The net effect is fewer fatalities related to drunk driving.

Finding the Best Predictor of Reproductive Performance of Leach’s Storm Petrels

Publication: The Auk (American Ornithologists’ Union) • Authors: Don Dearborn and six coauthors • What It Explains: That over two years, 2009 and 2010, the storm petrels’ diet and energy balance (the relationship between intake of food and output of work) were not predictors of their reproductive performance.

Have movies like Giant played a role in making the city of Houston seem backward and “anti-modern”?

Fall 2015 11

If you’ve changed your name as an alum, Bates will provide a new diploma — for $30.

It can take up to six months to process a visa for an international scholar visiting Bates.

A shared database drives the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin online library catalog.

Fall 201512

Viewers in U.S. States

AlaskaArizonaCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutWashington, D.C.FloridaGeorgiaHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisiana

Same Bates TimeSame Bates ChannelThe Bates “thank-a-thon” on March 31, live from Lane Hall, was the college’s most-viewed livestream ever. Running from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the event attracted a worldwide audience of 3,000 viewers.

MaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaSouth CarolinaTennesseeTexas

UtahVermontVirginiaWashingtonWisconsin

InternatioalViewers

ArgentinaAustraliaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEnglandFinlandFranceGermany

Spencer Joins ACE BoardPresident Clayton Spencer was elected to the board of directors of the American Council on Educa- tion in March. ACE is the nation’s largest and most influential advocacy organization representing colleges and universities.

“Clayton Spencer has been a part of almost every major discussion involving higher education policy over the last 20 years,” said ACE President Molly Corbett Broad. “Her work on Capitol Hill, at Harvard, and now at Bates gives her a unique and important perspective — partic- ularly during this time of dynamic change in higher education.”

GuatemalaIcelandIndiaIndonesiaIsraelItalyJapanMexicoPortugalSerbiaSpainSwitzerlandTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesVietnam

President Spencer answered questions from Alfred Russo ’15 of Garden City, N.Y., and Jordana Gluckow ’16 of New York City during an interview on student radio station WRBC-FM in March. Here’s an edited exchange that gets at Spencer’s perspective on running Bates College.

Q: With the prioritization of Purposeful Work, how is the college tackling other longstanding issues, like faculty retire-

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

ments [30 percent of the Bates faculty are forecast to retire in the next 10 years] and the fact that some courses are frequently over-enrolled?

A: It’s not an either-or. My philosophy is that we need to make as much progress, as effectively as possible, on as many fronts as possible. While we are working on Purposeful Work — designing a philosophy and program, raising funds to do the programming, and funding internships for students

now — we are working on other fronts, including the core academic enterprise.

Every year we are doing searches for five or six existing tenure-track lines, [so] we are already engaged on a yearly basis in the renewal of the faculty. With grant funding we can get creative, and we have developed Diversity and Faculty Renewal Postdocs, which will bring new postdoctoral faculty to Bates to couple renewal with faculty diversity — the more you focus on diversity, the more excellent you will become because you are searching in a wider pool of talent.

At the same time, in too many majors there are classes that are too crowded for your experience. A new faculty position costs about $3 million in new endowment, and I am actively out talking with donors to raise money for adding new faculty lines.

There is also the question of wheth- er the Bates curriculum is meeting all the needs of the contemporary age. I think we need stronger digital and computational courses and studies. We are working on designing a pro- gram, and the faculty is now discuss- ing the proposal.

Audio clips of President Spencer on WRBC bit.ly/spencer-wrbc

Fall 201512

‘It’s Not an Either-Or’

THE COLLEGE

The female-male gender breakdown of faculty and staff is 52-48 percent.

About 24 percent of applicants are admitted. For transfers, it’s around 5 percent.

BATES IN BRIEF

FALL20I5

Fall 2015 13

Rule of ThirdsGiving to Bates increased by a third for the second consecutive year, as the college received $21.6 million from alumni, parents, and friends during the fiscal year ending June 30.

This past year’s 35 percent increase in philanthropy follows an increase of 33 percent in fiscal year 2014.

“We have tremendous momentum due to the generosity of alumni, parents, and friends of the college. In a clear and demonstrable way, this trend tells us that they take pride in what’s happening at the college,” said Sarah Pearson ’75, vice president for college advancement.

“I am especially grateful to the more than 700 alumni and parents who supported this effort as committed and tireless volunteers.”

“I am deeply grateful to our donors for their generosity and steadfast com- mitment to Bates,” said President Clayton Spencer. “This steady rise in giving allows us to strengthen core aspects of the Bates experience — strong academics and curricular innovation, generous financial aid, and dynamic student programs that nurture our students’ rich array of talents and interests.”

Some highlights:• Total gifts were $21,594,453.• Gifts to the Bates Fund totaled $6.36 million from alumni, parents, and friends. • Within the Bates Fund total, gifts from Friends of Bates Athletics in support

of Bobcat teams exceeded $579,000, an increase of 18 percent from 2014. • The month-long Great Day to Be a Bobcat fundraising challenge ended on

March 31 with a one-day record 1,675 gifts to Bates, meeting a $250,000 challenge gift from an anonymous donor.

• Reunion-year alumni increased their giving nearly 75 percent in 2015.

Engagement was on the rise, too. The 2015 Presidential Events saw signifi- cant attendance increases over 2014 — up 76 percent in New York, 70 percent in Portland, Maine, 18 percent in San Francisco, and 10 percent in Los Angeles.

The nearly 400 alumni, parents, and friends who attended the New York event at the Whitney Museum of American Art made it one of the best-attended off-campus Bates events ever.

“The growth in giving to Bates reflects a deep affection for the college and strong commitment to the Bates experience,” Pearson said. “It has been a very special year, and we are deeply thankful. On behalf of the entire campus com- munity, I offer my gratitude.”

PH

YLLI

S G

RAB

ER J

ENSE

N

CALENDAR BASICSFall 2015October 2–4Back to Bates —A two-fer as Homecoming and Parents Weekend are now one great event

October 21–25 Fall Recess —Who said recess is a thing of the past?

November 7Bates vs. Bowdoin Football — The CBB finale on Garcelon Field

November 13–14C3 Summit —Colleges gather at Bates to further goal of bolstering faculty diversity in higher ed

December 10Oren Cheney born 1816 —Happy birthday, dear Bates founder

December 11Fall Semester Classes End —One semester down…

December 31Calendar Year Ends —As does the tax year, for most

Winter 2016January 18Martin Luther King Jr. Day —Bates’ theme is mass incarceration in the U.S.

January 22The Puddle Jump —Alumni welcome (if you dare)!

February 20–28Winter Recess —Chill out and relax

Spring 2016April 1Mount David Summit —Dazzling student ideas on display, no foolin’

April 8Winter Semester Classes End —Spring has sprung (we hope)

Please go tobates.edu/calendar for more complete event information.

Fall 2015 13

The Dean of the Faculty oversees the Department of Athletics.

Facility Services has a“showroom” of used furniture for campus use.

Bates hasn’t regularly granted master’s degrees since the I950s but canaward them.

During the festive Great Day to Be a Bobcat livestream on March 31, Advancement staffers Cary Gemmer ’07 (left) and Genevieve Leslie thank William Moore ’53, who made one of a record 1,675 gifts to Bates on the day.

Fall 201514

“My food philosophy: Eat healthy, eat a lot,” says Alex Tritell ’16 of Bethesda, Md., whose shirt reads “Bates” in Hebrew.

Fall 201514

BATES IN BRIEF

FALL20I5

Fall 2015 15

BESTFOOD

FORWARDphotography by

phyllis graber jensen

Students show off their food in Commons.

But where are the trays? They’re passé; today,

students prefer a one-dish-at-a-time

experience. For more dining trends, see the feature in this issue.

Fall 201516

Jim Murphy congratulates his team after defeating Bowdoin on Feb. 1, 2005, the 200th win of his Bates hoops career, en route to 343 career victories.

Murphy’s RetirementIn June, Jim Murphy ’69 retired as head coach of women’s basketball after 21 seasons, 343 victories, and six NCAA tournament appearances.

Murphy’s successor is Alison Montgomery, previously an assistant at the U.S. Naval Academy and at her alma mater, Bowdoin.

Murphy, who also coached women’s soccer between 1994 and 2011, “led his pro-grams with the utmost integrity, an amazing work ethic, and a passion for excellence,” said Director of Athletics Kevin McHugh.

Of his coaching approach, Murphy said this in 1997:

“The things in life that are earned are much more valuable than something that’s given to you. Competing for your school is the greatest opportunity someone can have, and you have to earn the right to be on the team, or to get playing time, or to start.”

Women’s basketballathletics.bates.edu/sports/wbkb/

Fall 201516

Two of 111Bates and the NCAA became fast friends in 2015, as a record 111 Bobcats competed in NCAA championships. Two were Marcus Delpeche ’17 (left) and Malcolm Delpeche ’17, identical twins and hoops standouts from Wilmington, Del. With the most wins in program history (21), the men made their first-ever appearance in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen.

AVER

Y B

OU

RKE

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

Pride and JoyAhmed Abdel Khalek ’16 of Cairo won the College Squash Association men’s individ- ual championship, the first in Bates history.

“I really can’t explain how I feel,” he said after the March 1 match. “But I know I’m very happy that I made Bates proud, and my teammates proud, and my coach proud.”

In April, Abdel Khalek appeared in Sports Illustrated’s iconic “Faces in the Crowd” feature.

SPORTS Men’s lacrosse’s II wins in 20I5 tied the teams of I984, I985, and I986 for most wins.

Hammer thrower SeanEnos ’I5 set Maine and NESCAC meet records in consecutive weeks.

BATES IN BRIEF

FALL20I5

Fall 2015 17

Best DirectorBates earned a best-ever 27th in the 2015 Directors’ Cup, a national competi-tion for colleges achieving NCAA-level success in a variety of sports.

Bates earned points for participating in NCAA championships in men’s basketball, men’s and women’s swimming, men’s and women’s outdoor track, skiing, men’s lacrosse, and women’s rowing.

Not included in the ranking were Bobcat successes in sports with no NCAA championships: CBB title for football; New England champion- ship for men’s rowing; No. 15 national ranking for women’s squash; and a national squash title for Ahmed Abdel Khalek ’16.

That Championship SeasonWhen the women’s rowing team won the college’s first-ever NCAA team champion- ship in California on May 30, it made a splash all the way back in Maine.

During the Baccalaureate Service on campus, senior Cody Tracey of Baltimore, Md., got a huge cheer as he broke the news to the crowd — right before he and his fellow Senior A Cappella singers performed Phillip Phillips’ “Gone, Gone, Gone.”

Post-season spoils included All-America honors for Jenna Armstrong ’15 of Floram Park, N.J., and Mallory Ward ’15 of Pittsford, N.Y.; and for head coach Peter Steenstra, Coach of the Year honors. Steenstra and his assistants, Andriel Doolittle and Andrew Blum, were also named Staff of the Year.

Steenstra says his team was never “rattled by all the attention of being ranked No. 1” going into the national regatta. “They wanted that. They liked being in the position of being expected to win, and they wanted that top spot.”

Bates rowing athletics.bates.edu/sports/rowing/

Women’s varsity eight coxswain Kate Traquina ’17 of Wayland, Mass., brandishes the championship trophy, flanked by Mallory Ward ’15 (left) of Pittsford, N.Y., and Alison Simmons ’16 of Indiana, Pa.

MA

SON

D. C

OX

’07

President Spencer serves as the faculty partner, or liaison, to men’s basketball.

Men’s track won its sixth straight Maine State Championship this year.

Soccer player Luke McNabb ’I7 sings the national anthem for home lacrosse games.

Fall 201518

Going DeepWorking in studio art, theater, dance, creative writing, and music, five seniors explain the benefits of doing a thesis in the arts.

Fall 201518

‘Songs grew and transformed’ “My music thesis comprises a saxophone recital and a written component: Songs are written in particular musical and cultural contexts, and evolve through performances by different artists in different contexts, accruing unique and interesting narratives. I ana- lyzed important recordings of three songs from the recital, and showed the various ways the songs grew and trans- formed over their lives.”

Sam Scribner of Kenne- bunkport, Maine, double major in music and English

‘An unfathomable experience’

“The performance compo-nent of my dance thesis was a response to a survivor’s story from the Rwandan genocide. Making the piece taught me to trust my choreographic voice and pushed me to break my cho-reographic habits and move toward an unknown and unfathomable experience: that of a genocide survivor.”

Talia Mason of Silver Spring, Md., double major in French and francophone studies

‘Poetry’s place in the world’

“A creative writing thesis was a rare opportunity where another person would look at my work with the same scrutiny that I do — or more. That’s been the greatest gift throughout my poetry project: working with [advisers] Eden Osucha and Rob Farnsworth to better access language that needs tweaking, bring out a theme better, and just consider poetry’s place in the world.”

B. VanDerburgh of Portland, Maine, English major

Artistic FreedomA compelling sight in Ladd Library over the winter and spring was this painting by Maine artist Jonathan Frost, one of a series depicting episodes from the civil rights movement, including the story of Claudette Colvin, the 15-year-old girl who was arrested in March 1955 in Montgomery, Ala., for refus-ing to give up her bus seat for a white woman.

Frost visited Bates on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to discuss his work.

Colvin, whose act of nonvi-olent protest occurred several months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, once retold the incident with these words:

“I started crying, but I felt even more defiant. I kept saying over and over, in my high-pitched voice, ‘It’s my constitutional right to sit here as much as that lady. I paid my fare, it’s my constitutional right!’ I knew I was talking back to a white policeman, but I had had enough.”

The college’s 2015 MLK Day observance addressed the theme From Selma to Ferguson: 50 Years of Non- violent Dissent.

ARTS & CULTURE

The 20I5 Senior Thesis Exhibition featured works by II studio art majors.

New England Foundation for the Arts made grantsof $24,235 to the 20I5 Bates Dance Festival.

BATES IN BRIEF

FALL20I5

Fall 2015 19

‘Immersed in my practice’

“Thesis allowed me to be immersed in my practice and imagine what life would be like as a practicing artist. Being a full-time ceramic artist isn’t a profession, it’s a way of living, and this experience allowed me to practice that. I made amaz-ing progress in my work.”

Edward Poneman of Larchmont, N.Y., studio art major

‘Inherent in its nature’

“I adapted and directed the medieval morality play The Castle of Perseverance. In taking on a play written and performed in such a different time from our own, putting the research and time into understanding the play was very important. Doing it as my senior thesis allowed me to make Castle the theatrical spectacle that was inherent in its nature.”

Max Pendergast of Green-wich, Conn., double major in English and theater

Keila Ching ’15 of Hono- lulu plays “Pride, Wrath, and Envy” in the morality play The Castle of Perse-verance directed by Max Pendergast ’15 of Green-wich, Conn., who employed puppetry to add to the play’s allegorical power.

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

Giving VoiceHere’s what students of John Corrie, lecturer in music, sang for their April 8 voice recital in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall:

Courtney Parsons ’15 of Jonesboro, Ga.

“Per la gloria” Giovanni Bononcini

“Turning Tables” Adele Adkins and Ryan Tedder

Minh-Tam Pham ’15 of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

“Già il sole dal Gange”Alessandro Scarlatti

“Itsumo Nando Demo” Youmi Kimura and Wakako Kaku

Audrey Burns ’17 of Topsham, Maine

“Chanson triste” Henri Duparc

“One Night Only” Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen

Angel Arango ’15 of Fort Worth, Texas

“Endless Night” Lebo M, Hans Zimmer, Jay Rifkin, and Julie Taymor

“The Song that Goes Like This” Eric Idle and John Du Prez

Laura Franke ’15 of Littleton, Colo.

“Someone to Watch Over Me” George and Ira Gershwin

Aubyn Link ’17 of Houston, Texas

“Spring Sorrow” John Ireland

“When I Look at You” Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton

Jacqueline Ordemann ’15 of Groton, Mass.

“Caro nome” Giuseppe Verdi

Ryen Martinez ’17 of Ridgewood, N.J.

“Der Erlkönig” Franz Schubert

Deshun Peoples ’17 of Chicago, Ill.

“Après un rêve” Gabriel Faure

“All I Could Do Was Cry” Gwen Gordy Fuqua, Berry Gordy, and Roquel Davis

Grace Huang ’17 of Flagstaff, Ariz.

“Bester Jüngling” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Julia Eyman ’15 of Franconia, N.H.

“Trees on the Mountain” Carlyle Floyd

“O mio babbino caro” Giacomo Puccini

“Sous le dôme épais” Leo Delibes

Mark Charest ’15 of Westbrook, Maine

“Alma del core” Antonio Caldara

“I Do” Ilaria Graziano and Yoko Kanno

A recent Jazz Band program ranged from big-band swing to the Flintstones theme.

Asia Night celebrates cultures ranging from Japan to Pakistan.

Honors in playwriting go to seniors who have written at least two one-acts or one full play.

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

Fall 201520

DARBY“ I am struck almost daily by the seren- dipity of this college being in this town. Bates is its own unique and wonderful community, but it’s also a community within a community, and that larger community grounds us, challenges us, and enriches us in countless ways.”

Darby Ray, Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Professor of Civic Engagement and director of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships

PH

YLLI

S G

RAB

ER J

ENSE

N

Vive La Résilience!Understanding the history of the local Franco-American community isn’t as easy as 1, 2, 3.

“We have a notion of the American melting pot that the first generation doesn’t speak any English, the second generation learns English, and the third generation is assimilated,” says Mary Rice-DeFosse, professor of French and francophone studies.

But Lewiston-Auburn’s Franco-Americans “do not follow that pattern.”

Rice-DeFosse is the co-author of The Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn (The History Press, 2015), the first compre-hensive history of this community written for a general audience. Her co-author is James Myall, former coordinator of the University of Southern Maine’s Franco- American Collection and current director of the Freeport (Maine) Historical Society.

Their book reveals an extraordinarily resilient community of Americans who have managed to preserve their French and French-Canadian roots since their mid-19th century arrival in the Twin Cities to work in the mills along the Androscoggin River.

Over the years, Rice-DeFosse and her Bates students — particularly those in her “French in Maine” course — have collected oral histories of local Franco-American residents.

“I have a record of a number of people’s lives, their life stories…that was the reason we were able to do the book,” Rice-DeFosse says.

Though the book is about local history, it will resonate with anyone who “is fully American, in every sense, but who also [has] retained culture and sometimes language over generations.”

COU

RTES

Y O

F TH

E U

NIV

ERSI

TY O

F SO

UTH

ERN

MA

INE

FRA

NCO

-AM

ERIC

AN

CO

LLEC

TIO

N

Staff of Lewiston’s French-language newspaper Le Messager pose for a photograph, circa 1910.

LEWISTON Lewiston is named for Boston merchant Job Lewis, one of the area’s I8th-century landowners.

May 25 was the 50th anniversary of Lewiston’s Muhammad Ali vs. SonnyListon fight.

BATES IN BRIEF

FALL20I5

Fall 2015 21

Name: David DavisBorn: Sept. 1, 1775Died: Jan. 5, 1851

Davis’ Dad: David’s father, Amos Davis, was Lewiston’s third settler. A Quaker, Amos was a farmer, shoemaker, and surveyor who drew one of the earliest maps of the area, dated 1776. His son David was the second male born in Lewiston.

Early Teachings: In 1798, when public education was still a haphazard affair, David Davis and four other citizens teamed up to hire one of the first Lewiston schoolteachers.

$5 and a Mountain: In 1803, David Davis paid $5 for 100 acres of land that included the mountain. He then named it for himself, according to some accounts.

Bates’ Mountain: David Davis farmed the land until his 1851 death. His heirs bequeathed the mountain to Bates, which hoped to build an observatory on its summit.

House of David: The original David Davis home on Main Street was the oldest building in the city, and one of the most run-down, when it was torn down in 1989.

Street View: Davis, Frye, and White streets near cam-pus are all named for the same family.

Firm as Granite: At the opening of the new Maine State Seminary on Sept. 1, 1857, a local pastor said that if David Davis were present, he would tell the new students to “go up that mountain, where you will obtain a view of our united villages. Make your principles as firm as the granite base on which the mountain rests.”

The Mount David Brand: The mountain lends its name to the college’s leadership giving group, the Mount David Society, and the annual academic showcase, the Mount David Summit.

David’s Legacy: A number of David Davis’ direct descendants are Bates alumni. The youngest is his great-great-great-great-great-grandson, Toby White ’94.

Mount David’s namesake, David Davis, is buried near campus in the Davis family cemetery, on the corner of Sabattus and Franklin streets.

What’s in a Name?Mount David soars 381 feet above sea level. Chided as a “mountain by courtesy” by a newspaper writer a century ago, the peak is also known as “Mount Davis,” “Davis Mountain,” and “David’s Mountain,” tautonymic variations due to its namesake: David Davis.

Michael Sargent hosts an edition of The Corner, a monthly story- telling event that he founded, at Guthrie’s in Lewiston.

Don’t Just Say ItIf you’re a Parks and Recreation fan, you know that city slogans are ripe for satire: “Pawnee: It’s Safe to Be Here Now.” Humor aside, are marketing campaigns that try to alter a city’s reputation even effective?

Probably not, says Michael Sargent, associate professor of psychology at Bates and a longtime Lewiston citizen.

In an op-ed in the Lewiston Sun Journal, he says that the perception of a place like Lewiston-Auburn (slogan: “It’s Happening Here”) is “ultimately not under the control of the marketers.”

Sargent, who has lived in Lewiston since 1999 and teaches a course that touches on community reputa-tion, cites a scholarly paper by Gary Warnaby and Dominic Medway that focuses on how narratives about a place are created.

They argue that “the notion of a place itself is something created and produced by people and their actions.”

They argue that a campaign “can- not erase the perception” of a given city as an unattractive or undesirable place “for those still wishing to under-stand, perceive, or create it as such.”

The answer, says Sargent, is “few-er cheerleaders singing [LA’s] praises, and more people just doing the best they can to do good work.” In this bot-tom-up approach, people’s perception of a city like Lewiston is altered by evidence of “excellence in craft.”

In other words, Sargent says, “Whatever you make or whatever you do, do it as well as you can, and find partners and mentors and do it even better. If enough people here in this community do that, people here and elsewhere will eventually notice.”

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

JAY

BU

RNS

Downtown Lewiston has a Friday art walk from May through September.

A summer festival in the nearby town of Lisbon celebrates the soda Moxie.

Lewiston is one of twolocations in Maine where Dunkin’ Donuts are made.

Fall 201522

Taking It Away The annual Barlow Off-Campus Photography Exhibition features images taken by students while abroad.

“The exhibition is part of how we help returning students reconnect to the Bates community,” says David Das, assistant director of off-campus study and curator of the annual show.

Here are a couple of images and descriptions from this year’s show, which was mounted in Perry Atrium during the Mount David Summit on April 3.

Ugerløse, Denmark, right

“Eigil Rasmussen shows off his top-rated carrots grown on his farm, Kiselgården, the largest biodynamic farm in Denmark. He and his wife, Lis, produce many of the vegetables used by chefs at Noma, the famous restaurant in Copenhagen. I studied food systems through a program offered by the Danish Institute for Study Abroad and traveled to the farm during a field study. Experiences like this exposed me to fundamental actors in the environmental field and led to the decision to write my thesis on Copenhagen’s sustainable initiatives.”

Annie Horstmeyer ’16 of New Canaan, Conn., is an environmental studies major and mathematics minor.

Valparaíso, Chile, left

“On March 11, 2014, Chile inaugu- rated Michelle Bachelet as presi-dent. This policeman stands guard on Avenida Argentina as crowds wait expectantly for Bachelet to emerge from the National Congress Building. I was taken by the way the officer’s eyes are hidden by the shadow of his brimmed cap. The nametag on his uniform formally identifies him, yet his face is hidden — a metaphor for the nameless, mechanized nature of state author-ity and the pivotal role it plays in a country that only 40 years ago was governed by a military dictatorship.”

Elena Jay ’15 of West Hartford, Conn., majored in sociology, minored in Spanish and completed a public health concentration.

THE WORLD Bates faculty will lead a semester program in Berlin, Germany, this fall.

Eight of 40 honors theses in 20I5 explored topics outside the U.S.

BATES IN BRIEF

FALL20I5

Fall 2015 23

Cash and CarryFor Phillip Dube ’16 of Norton, Zimbabwe, a trillion dollars and 50 cents will buy a cup of coffee.

Dube likes to collect international banknotes, often trading notes with friends and acquaintances, and the ones that get people talking are his trillion-dollar bills from Zimbabwe, notes issued when the country’s hyper- inflation was at its worst several years ago.

By October 2008, for example, a loaf of bread could cost ZW$550 million. As currency, the notes are worthless now.

“Coming to Bates from Zimbabwe, I thought the notes might fascinate anyone from the U.S.,” said Dube, and he was right. “I showed them to my friends, and they said, ‘How cool!’”

His fellow international students offered to exchange banknotes, and a hobby was born.

He has traded bills with his roommate, who has connec-tions to Mexico, “as a symbolic gesture of our friendship,” Dube says. He picked up a note from Pakistan during dinner in Commons.

In downtown Lewiston, Dube has exchanged notes with a man who had emigrated from Burundi. In Cape Town, Dube exchanged notes with a vegetable vendor from Benin.

He also has notes from South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, and Guatemala. “When I look at the notes, I remember the stories of how the people gave them to me.”

This winter and spring, Dube has traveled abroad, as juniors are wont to do. “I hope to collect notes from India, Brazil, and maybe Saudi Arabia,” he says.

Short TripsAn off-campus excursion during Short Term can mean an afternoon at Range Pond or a couple of weeks in Kingston, Jamaica. In the spirit of the latter, these were the way off-campus courses this past Short Term. Place: Kingston, JamaicaCourse: Place, Community, and TransformationDiscipline: AnthropologyProfessor: Charles CarnegieGoal: To explore the potential role of green initiatives, including parks and civic spaces, to create shared community resources, improve the quality of life, and serve as incubators for social renewal. (See feature story this issue.)

Place: Addis Ababa, EthiopiaCourse: Teaching English in EthiopiaDiscipline: EducationProfessor: Patricia BuckGoal: To introduce students to the sociocultural politics of English-language instruction and offer pedagogical strategies for teaching English as a foreign language.

Place: Corning, N.Y.Course: Melts, Glasses, and Magmas Discipline: GeologyProfessor: Geneviève RobertGoal: To explore factors that control magma behavior in geologic systems by studying fossil magma chambers in Maine; performing hands-onexperiments in the laboratory at Bates; and working with industrial glass in the glassblowing studios of the Corning (N.Y.) Museum of Glass.

Place: Bloomington, Ind.Course: Archival Research in Film and Television: The Cinema of John Ford Discipline: RhetoricProfessor: Jonathan Cavallero Goal: To introduce students to archival research practices and careers in film and television by focusing on the work of Hollywood filmmaker and Maine native John Ford, including travel to the Lilly Library at Indiana University, where Ford’s papers are collected. Place: Budapest, HungaryCourse: Central European Theater and Film Discipline: TheaterProfessors: Kati Vecsey and Martin AndruckiGoal: To study the effect on film and theater of cataclysmic social and political changes in Central Europe since the 1956 Polish and Hungarian uprisings.

Phillip Dube ’16 displays a ZW$100 trillion Zimbab- wean note and a 20 rand South African banknote that features NelsonMandela’s portrait.

JAY

BU

RNS

Fall 2015 23

The 20I5 Commencement speaker, Manjul Bhargava, was born in Canada.

Mike Retelle is a geology faculty expert on environ-mental change in the North Atlantic and high Arctic.

Trian Nguyen is an art and visual culture faculty expert on Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc’s I963 self-immolation.

Fall 201524

Each issue we offer book suggestions from the eclectic and reader-friendly Good Reads summer reading list, published by Sarah Potter ’77, manager of the College Store, and featuring titles suggested by Bates people.

dishing it outBOOKS

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Suggested by Assistant College Librarian Laura Juraska:“A remarkable story — a thriller, really — but you are more actively drawn up into the setting and characters of the New Zealand gold rush of the mid-19th century by Dickensesque descrip-tions.”

Einstein’s Jewish Scienceby Steven Gimbel

Suggested by Professor of Physics John Smedley:“In attempting to answer the question of whether Einstein’s relativity theory is Jewish, this book explores the notion that religion and world-view shape scientific discovery.”

The Smartest Kids in the Worldby Amanda Ripley

Suggested by Professor Emerita of English Anne Thompson:“A provocative critique of American education by way of three case studies of high school exchange students who spent a year studying in South Korea, Finland, and Poland.”

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Societyby Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Suggested by Associate Professor of Environmen-tal Studies Sonja Pieck“This epistolary novel, written in a series of let-ter exchanges and with much warmth, humor, and compassion, tells of the German occupation of Guernsey during World War II.”

Six-Word Stories“This memoir’s boring.” Ctrl A Delete.Nathan Faries, lecturer in Asian studies

Six words can’t possibly describe me.Sam Lagerstrom ’18, Edina, Minn.

Hemingway stole my six-word story.Eliza Gabriel ’15, Bloomington, Minn.

Will this jacket be warm enough?Martha Schnee ’15, Newton, Mass.

“Time?” “Forty seconds.” “Let it fly.”Julia Szeto ‘17, Lake Oswego, Ore.

You’re more stubborn than I am.Nicholas McCarthy ’15, Winnetka, Ill.

I can’t say that I’m jealous.Elise Emil ‘17, Washington, D.C.

Bates. March. Let’s order lamb.Kirk Read, professor of French and francophone studies

Kill the dragon, get the girl.Alyssa Morgosh ’15, Oceanside, Calif.

I’ll play, if I can win.Kai Myers, age 11, as heard by Susan Stark

Sex blog. No time to blog.Brian Pfohl, assistant in instruction, psychology (Pfohl came up with his story after reading about a couple who were going to have sex every day and blog about it.)

Ode to SmoreosBenjamin Roop ’18 of Littleton, Mass., won first prize in Dining Services’ annual Valentine’s Poem contest with a set of poems, dubbed “The Commons Collection,” highlighted by a loving ode to smoreos.

The sign at the bakery,called them smoreos.Shining amongst the cakery,they sat neatly stacked in rows.

The chocolate smelt like heaven,the marshmallows felt like silk.I helped myself to seven,Then poured a glass of milk.

When the treat first hit my lips,I thought that I might spasm.It tasted just so sweet and crisp,When I had my first smorgasm.

amusements

POETRY

Good writing means getting to the point, whether it’s a tweet or a novel.

That was the idea behind last winter’s Six-Word Story contest by the college’s Peer Writing and Speaking Center. Some entries are at left.

The six-word story concept is based on the tale that Ernest Hemingway suppos- edly won a bet that he could write a “novel” in six words. His six-word story: “For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.”

The Bates contest invited memoirs, too, hence the first entry.

Fall 2015 25

BATES.EDU/ST0RE

NEWS

How strong is your knowledge of Bates’ quirky, cool,

and colorful past?

Fifty years ago this spring, The Bates Student described a “new craze” that results in “bruised knees and

elbows,”not to mention injuries that should be “reported to the infirmary immediately... for not only sprained limbs but shattered prides.” Peril

notwithstanding, the aficionados of this fad were undeterred: “Let no one

try to take our beloveds from us.” What was the fad?

Answer: The “fad” was skateboarding, as popular on today’s campus as ever.

B A T E S H I S T O R Y

Q U I ZLost and Found2:35 p.m., March 24, Ladd Library

Among other things, two water bottles, two textbooks (Plato’s Erotic Dialogues, Race and Crime), eyeglasses, hair clip, four earrings (two matched, two mismatched), Ital-ian-made sunglasses (Gecco brand), various notebooks (economics, physics, planning), pink and white mittens, and a birthday note with the sweet sentiment that “I hope you’re feeling happy and grounded.”

little mysteries

Eine Sprache ist niemals genug*

Joined by the Bobcat himself, students in Assistant Professor of German Jakub Kazecki’s language class cheer ”It’s a Great Day to Be a Bobcat” in German: “Es ist ein schöner Tag Bobcat zu sein!” They joined the fun on March 31 for the record- setting end of the monthlong Great Day fundraising campaign. See “The College” for more about how Bates unlocked a $250,000 challenge gift.

*One language is never enough.

Something You Didn’t Know YouNeeded from the Bates College StoreBates Gnome with Scroll

$32.99

PH

YLLI

S G

RAB

ER J

ENSE

N

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

JAY

BU

RNS

©20

15 J

OH

N H

ERSE

Y C/

O T

HEI

SPO

T.CO

M

WORKINGPARTS

Fall 201526

The Purposeful Work initiative givesshape to the claim that a liberalarts education is the most powerfulpreparation for a meaningful life

edited by h. jay burns

WORKINGPARTS

Purposeful Work at BatesWork is fundamental to our lives. It helps define who we are and who we will become while sustaining us practically and providing us with the means to shape our lives.

The Purposeful Work initiative at Bates builds on the work that students do in class, in the arts, on athletic teams, with clubs and organizations, and through community en- gagement. It helps students identify and cultivate their interests and strengths and provides opportunities for them to acquire the knowledge, experiences, and relationships necessary to pursue their aspirations with imagination and integrity.

We immerse students in questions related to “purposeful work” beginning with their first days on campus and continuing through-out their college career by offering opportu- nities for them to explore, reflect, and build their skills.

The initiative encourages collaboration and risk-taking and supports failure and reinvention as students learn to recognize the answers to the big questions that will shape their lives. When coupled with the skills learned through a liberal arts education — the ability to think critically, to communicate effectively, and to solve complex problems creatively and in collaboration with others — students graduate from Bates prepared to be successful in the contemporary world.

Fall 2015 27

Purposeful Work at Bates is about helping students discover the joy and power that arise from aligning who they are with what they do.

Why Purposeful Work?Purposeful Work at Bates is about helping students discover the joy and power that arise from aligning who they are with what they do.

Preparing students for lives of meaningful work has always been a powerful dimension of the liberal arts education we provide at Bates, but in today’s world this goal needs to be pursued with greater intentionality and effectiveness.

With the increasing ve- locity of change and demands of the global marketplace for talent and employment, we aim to build on the fun-

‘Every Chamber of Their Being’The constant obligation to prepare students to lead

rewarding lives in changing times was noted as far back as 1894, by President George Colby Chase in his

inaugural address.

The aim of the college should be to produce graduates whose rounded education shall

have prepared them to live in every chamber of their being, to be at home in the world as

the world presents itself today, and to be master of the opportunities that the many-sided life of our age may offer.

Fall 201528

damentals of the liberal arts with a mission-based, target- ed, and pragmatic approach to preparing our students with the knowledge, skills, and values they will need to be effective and contributing members of society.

By working closely with faculty, staff, alumni, and a broad range of organizations and businesses, students sharpen their analytical skills and become better problem solvers and collaborators. We connect students with experiences that allow them to pressure test their inter-ests in employment contexts.

Meanwhile, we encour-age students to ask some

basic questions about life and work — Who am I, really? What am I good at? What kind of work do I want to do? What can I contribute to the world?

Purposeful Work also aims to help students understand and appreciate the work of others. In this way, their teachers and mentors are not limited to the faculty, but also include staff from across the college as well as alumni, parents, and others from the com- munity and beyond.

Developmental and PragmaticStudents experience the possibilities of purposeful work across campus and throughout our curriculum, programming, and events.

It starts with our New Student Orientation, and continues with our dynamic Q-and-A-based “Purposeful Work Unplugged” speaker series, student showcases of purposeful work-related experiences, workshops to augment students’ profes-sional skills, and job shad- owing programs through the college’s Career Devel- opment Center.

Across the curriculum, dozens of professors have chosen to infuse their

Our Unique Approach

Almost every college has programs or departments that help students find in-

ternships and provide career counseling. But Purposeful

Work at Bates goes distinctly beyond jobs or careers. It has

four key characteristics:

It is mission-based.Our programming is built

on the premise that preparing students for lives of meaning-

ful work lies at the heart of the liberal arts mission.

It is developmental in its approach.

Our initiative encompasses cycles of exploration and reflection that integrate

questions about work and meaning into the intellectual

and personal growth that define the liberal arts

experience.

It is holistic. We focus on the whole

person and weave concepts related to purposeful work

into all aspects of the student experience: curricular,

co-curricular, athletics, and residential life.

It is highly intentional and pragmatic.

We don’t just talk about work — we enable students

to get deeply involved in work in its many forms.

‘Deep Aspect of Our Obligation’ In her 2012 inaugural address, Clayton Spencer promised

that Bates would re-engage the question of how to “prepare our students for a life of purposeful work.”

We see the growing concern of students and parents with employment prospects not as a

domain beneath our proper notice, but rather as a deep aspect of our obligation as a liberal arts

college to prepare our students for a life of purposeful work. At our best, we challenge our-selves as an institution to wrestle actively and joyously with the world as we encounter it. In

so doing we model this mindset for our students as they work to construct their own lives.

Fall 2015 29

teaching with exercises that expose students to diverse types of work, questions of identity and purpose, and opportunities for reflection on what “work” means. These exercises help students see the connection between academic fields and possible career paths.

The five weeks of Short Term also offer opportuni-ties for students to explore more practical and applied areas of study than are available within the core liberal arts curriculum. We are tapping the reservoir of expertise within the greater Bates community to bring alumni and other industry leaders to campus to teach “practitioner-taught courses” during Short Term.

Over the last two Short Terms, these courses have covered digital innovation, healthcare administration, graphic design, community organizing, entrepreneur-

ship, urban planning, mediation, and music production.

Meanwhile, the Purpose- ful Work Internship Program, launched this past summer, has been woven into the Bates experience and culture and is supported by our network of core-employer partnerships — employers who work with us directly to create internship possibil-ities for Bates students.

Our ultimate goal, dependent upon fundraising, is to provide every Bates student with the opportunity for at least one internship paid for by either Bates or the employer.

Across a variety of fields, these internships are specifically designed to help students test their interests, build their skills, develop their networks, reflect on what they’ve learned, and connect the experience to their studies.

DiscoveryHow can students find out if a path is right for them? Many take advantage of summer opportunities, including the Purposeful Work Internship Program that enables students to tap into a Bates-specific network of opportunities, to apply for funding to support their work, and to deepen their learning through preparatory and reflective exercises. Other summer opportunities offer students a chance to develop their strengths and discover new interests, such as by pursuing an undergraduate fellowship at a research university or working in the community with support from the Harward Center for Community Partnerships.

Purposeful Work intern Alexander Eaton ’17 of Lake Oswego, N.Y., worked with Dr. Michael Ricci this past summer at the Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.

JOSH

KU

CKEN

S

Fall 201530

JO

SH K

UCK

ENS

Building Skills How about a business boot camp? Bates students have the opportunity to join Koru’s career immersion program for a month of professional and personal growth. Working in small groups with high-growth companies like Zulily, PayScale, and REI, they set about solving a “business challenge,” an actual company dilemma with a tight timeline. Meanwhile, company executives coach them in broadly applicable skills, such as design thinking, rapid prototyping, financial analysis, and high-impact presentations. As with all Purposeful Work experiences, reflection is a key part of the Koru program.

Daniel Oyolu ’15, Hannah Chory ’15, and Bryan Lehrer ’15 were the first Bates students to use the Koru program in summer 2014.

PATR

ICK

HA

GER

TY

ExplorationPressure testing one’s deepest interests means getting your feet wet. That can be literal, as when students tromped into the Maine woods during Short Term to look for an invasive insect, the hemlock wooly adelgid. More often it is figurative, requiring reflection, perseverance, and the willingness to take risks and learn from failure. Students at Bates actively explore throughout the curriculum and co-curriculum, and the Purposeful Work initiative offers them the tools and resources to absorb and integrate the lessons they learn about both themselves and the world.

Claire Bartell ’16 takes field notes during the Short Term course “The North Woods.”

PH

YLLI

S G

RAB

ER J

ENSE

N

Fall 201532

NetworkingThe Bates network of alumni and parents is central to the success of the Purposeful Work initiative. Students are provided with many opportunities to access this network, whether in the classroom in practitioner-taught courses during Short Term, through speakers, through formal networking events, or in summer opportunities provided by Bates alumni, such as this one at LMCG’s Boston headquarters. Helping students understand the value of the Bates network and effective ways to access it gives direction and concreteness to their aspirations.

Daniela Rossi De Camargo ’15 (seated) was a Bates intern at LMCG in Boston with CEO Ken Swan ’82 and associate Kristen Poulin ’12 in summer 2014.

SARA

H C

ROSB

Y

Purposeful Work On the Ground

Koru PartnershipOffering students intensive, four-week skill-building sessions, Koru has centers in Seattle, San Francisco, and Boston. Students work inside a high-growth company, receiving consistent mentor-ing and deliberate training about work-relevant skills. Bates is a founding partner of Koru. Through this summer, 22 Bates students will have participated in the program.

“Koru is a nitty-gritty career boot camp. The premise is that there are talented graduates from liberal arts colleges, and there are com- panies that need that talent but they also need employees with some hard skills. Koru bridges that gap by teaching those skills. I worked with Julep, the nail polish retailer, and our team worked on a product that would capitalize on the social aspect of how people use nail polish. It was an amazing experience. And if I can add value to a manicure product, I figure that I can do it with anything!”

Daniel Oyolu ’15 of Houston, Texas

Practitioner-Taught CoursesTaught during Short Term primarily by accomplished alumni, these courses teach practical skills, impart work-relevant knowledge, and provide in-depth exposure to different fields.

“I had zero coding skills, so during Short Term 2014 I took ‘Digital Innovation,’ taught by Ben Schippers ’04 and Will Schenk. The course focused on entrepreneurship with a focus on digital platforms. We learned about brainstorming, pitching, and coding and wireframing, culminating in a final product — an app or website. Besides hard skills, what I learned was how to take ownership of my ideas. I’ve always put my ideas on paper and am always thinking of startup ideas. But until that course I never knew how, or had self-confidence, to move forward. I now have confidence. That’s valuable.”

Seba Martinez-Miranda ’15 of Makati City, Philippines

Purposeful Work UnpluggedFeaturing industry leaders in a variety of fields, this campus speaker series features moderated con- versations about career trajectories and the personal and professional traits that support meaningful work.

“Don’t work where you don’t want to be with the people. Do not work with people you do not like. Life is too short. Seek out truth-tellers: people in your network, friends, who will tell you the truth even if it hurts. It’s OK to have weaknesses, to ask for help, and to say you don’t under-stand. Be at peace with that.”

JP Maheu, head of global branding and agency strategy for Twitter

Bates students are now experiencing the realities of the Purposeful Work initiative across campus and throughout ourcurriculum, programming, and events.

Fall 201534

Internship ProgramSupporting 99 paid intern-ships this summer, the Purposeful Work Internship Program offers both prepara-tion and reflection resources to position students to maximize their internship experience.

“My goal with my Purposeful Work Internship at Ocean Spray was to discover ways to use my Spanish major in my career. I’m the daughter of a Spanish teacher and psycholo-gist, so corporate America and the business world was foreign to me. My title was ‘International Marketing Intern.’ This was not the kind of internship where you get coffee or make copies. My focus was on Latin America, and I used my Spanish to help with translations during conference calls. I was also given a 12-week research project on global e-commerce and its potential in the food and drink market.”

Kelsey Mehegan ’15 of Duxbury, Mass.

Infusion ProjectBased in the curriculum, this project supports faculty as they help students link ideas about work with their aca-demic experience through guest speakers, activities, readings, and writing assignments. Currently, 39 professors teaching 58 Bates courses have partici- pated in the project, creating 1,400 student experiences.

“When you’re in college, you think your career will be linear and logical. But I’ve learned that finding work with meaning and purpose will involve exploring and sometimes taking steps back. In my Purposeful Work Infusion courses, I’ve met professionals who talk about having done just that. They talk about their work and about how they’ve gotten to where they are. Knowing what that looks like gives me an idea of how someone else has taken those steps — and how they were just as unsure of themselves when they were where I am now.”

Joe Maffly-Kipp ’16 of St. Louis, Mo.

Working WeekendThe Working Weekend program in May braided together two driving inter-ests of the college: preparing students for lives of mean-ingful work and giving them opportunities to engage with alumni representing diversi-ty in breadth and depth.

“I did not initially feel compelled to work in Veterans Affairs. It was unfamiliar to me. But I learned that my voice is necessary to create the sort of new conversations in the workplace that will help create spaces that are affirm-ing and nurturing both to me and to the people that I want to serve. That is exactly why I went to the VA.”

Stephen Gresham ’03, who has a Ph.D. in counseling psychology, is a mental health clinician with the Department of Veterans Affairs supporting LGBTQ veterans

The Purposeful Work initiative is supported in part by The Catalyst Fund,

a collective gift from current and past members of the Bates Board of

Trustees that funds the Engaged Liberal Arts, Purposeful Work, and

Opportunity & Excellence. To date, Bates has received an additional

$1 million in gifts to support Purposeful Work, including leadership gifts

from two families to create the Campbell Fund for Purposeful Work

Internships and the Rice Purposeful Work Internship and Program Fund. n

Fall 2015 35

“ I consider myself a fairly tough Mainer but even with bundling up this morning, it seems like I was no match for today’s blizzard,” says Sarah Stanley ’16 of Springvale, Maine.

9:07 a.m.

BIG DEAL

IT WAS

During the Jan. 27 blizzard that layered

the campus with 27 inches of snow, a

lot of Bates people kept right on going, one hour at a time.

Here’s a look back at a day that defined

a historic winter — and epitomized the

Bates mindset.

chilling photography by phyllis graber jensen

Fall 2015 37

Clockwise from top left:

Mike Adams of Facilities Services takes on the snow. Hathorn Hall stands sentinel behind man and machine.

Geology professor Dyk Eusden ’80 arrives on campus from South Paris to teach his class. Nineteen of 21 show up. “And the missing two have the flu!”

In Carnegie, students listen to Dyk Eusden during their class on earth structure and dynamics.

Alone or together, students move across the campus as the fierce storm continues.

Tea in one hand and phone in the other, Essence Hill ’17 of Chicago pauses for a portrait.

Fall 201538

Right, Keenan Shields ’18 of Pittsford, N.Y., says that wearing shorts has been part of his identity for

so long that he’s not quite ready to give up the habit.

Left, Dan Willsey ’18 of Glastonbury, Conn., finds more snow — blown inside each time the door opens — as he enters Hathorn Hall from Alumni Walk.

Clockwise from top:

As the storm rages, Pat Sheehan ’18 of Springfield, Ill., and Julia Rosen ’18 of Weymouth, Mass., study in Perry Atrium for a multivariable calculus class.

Saleha Belgaumi ’18 of Karachi, Pakistan, studies in the Fire-place Lounge of Commons to stay warm and be close to food.

Tricked by the deep-ening gloam of heavy snow, lights on the Historic Quad turn on early, at 2 p.m.

First cook supervisor Michael Staffenski checks out the big drift outside a rear door of Commons, facing Alumni Gym.

Fall 2015 41

4:I9 p.m. Still Snowing

As daylight fades and the storm slowly winds down, Bobcat

swimmers take a break from Tarbell Pool to gambol in the snow.

Fall 2015 43

COMMONSSeven years after moving into the “new” Commons, here are

seven secrets from the kitchens of Bates Dining Services

h. jay burns

CREATIVE

Fall 201544PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

The lights of Garcelon Field illuminate Commons on a March night. Clad in brick, granite, slate, copper, and ample glass, Commons “is not a hip, swinging building but...it has enormous architectural integrity,” said the late architectural critic and author Philip Isaacson ’47.

In the mid-2000s, as Bates worked with archi- tect Sasaki Associates on plans for a new dining facility, it was up for grabs whether Bates would continue with its distinctive tradition of a single dining hall where ev- eryone dines under one roof.

But during their campus interviews, the architects heard a common response from students, faculty, and staff.

They wanted one Com- mons. “The traditional model still held,” says Christine Schwartz, assistant vice president for dining, confer-ences, and campus events.

“Maybe because our students are so busy, it felt even more important for them to have a home base where they can come together and reconnect over meals.”

Bates didn’t always have a single dining hall. The college once had two, one for men

and one for women, until 1967, when dining became coed with the closing of the women’s dining hall in Rand Hall.

From then until 2008, Bates’ single dining hall was Memorial Commons, in Chase Hall.

In February 2008, the new Commons building opened. Located between Garcelon Field and Alumni Gym, at the terminus of Alumni Walk, the 60,000 square-foot structure is clad in brick, granite, slate, copper, and ample glass.

In the collegiate gothic style, “it is not a hip, swinging building, but it is great com- plement to the Bates campus, and it has enormous archi-tectural integrity,” said the late architectural critic and author Philip Isaacson ’47.

The Commons dining operation comprises one large dining hall plus two smaller dining rooms and a

mezzanine; a multi-platform servery; kitchen and storage space; and office space.

Long a leader in sus- tainable dining, in 2013 Bates Dining earned a third star for sustainability from the Green Restaurant Association, joining just a handful of U.S. colleges or universities with the rating.

It’s also distinctive that Bates runs its own dining operation rather than out- sourcing to a commercial food service. With some 90 employees, Dining Services serves more than 4,800 meals every day of the academic year to 1,700 students.

As they’ve turned a building into a commu- nity-builder, Schwartz and Director of Dining Cheryl Lacey recently talked about both the simple lessons they’ve learned (such as “never install any shelving that’s higher than your shortest employee!”) and the big ones.

3 Stay FlexibleThe servery features a marketplace model, where students take their food from one of several platforms — the Round, with a deli, brick oven, and salad and pasta bars; the Bobcat Bar, featuring a range of hot dishes, including the famous shepherd’s pie; plus the Bakery, Grill, and Choices, for alternatives such as gluten-free foods.

The Bates team resisted the temptation to define the platforms by menu item. “We didn’t name a ‘taco station,’ for example,” Schwartz says. “We wanted versatility, and that has paid off.”

The flow of diners to and from the platforms is fluid, easily handling 500 students in a 30- to 45-minute period. “Combine that with open seating areas on two levels, and you have a very appealing dining environment,” Schwartz says.

4 It’s a Classroom TooCommons is a place to feed intellectual curiosity as well as the body, and Bates Dining gets valuable help from stu- dents and faculty who wish to conduct dining- or food- focused projects.

“We live for this sort of thing because it allows us all to be part of a larger Bates experience,” Schwartz says.

Recent projects have included vegan trends and a scholarly paper by two faculty members who investigated the college’s 2009 H1N1 virus outbreak.

A recent senior’s thesis compared traditional food

Fall 201546

The Napkin Board lets Bates students comment, criticize, request, and praise. This napkin’s request for a BLT station gets a hopeful response.

1 Change Means OpportunityAs Bates planned its new Commons, Schwartz used the impending change as a catalyst for professional development among her staff.

“The profile of our work was going to very different in a new building,” she says. “So we invited the staff to tell us if they wanted to do something different. If it was possible, we’d help them make the move.’”

The plan paid off in staff satisfaction. Longtime servers moved into the kitchen, dish- room workers moved to the bakery, and so on.

“In some cases, this was the first time in their lives that someone asked them, ‘What do you want to do?’ ” says Schwartz.

2 Be TrendyTo keep tabs on changing stu-dent tastes, Lacey and Schwartz use the venerable Napkin Board, a wall in Commons where students pose questions or make comments on a napkin, and an anonymous student working for Dining Services writes replies on the napkin. (There’s an online version, too: bates.edu/dining/napkin-board.)

Recent napkin comments suggest that hot sauces are, well, hot. Frank’s and Tabasco were big; now it’s Sriracha and Tapatio. And students, surprisingly, “seem to be connoisseurs of fake maple syrup,” Lacey says.

“Some requests are important today and gone tomorrow,” she says. “But some persist, like the latest fad: Reddi-wip.” Cereal tastes change, too. Lacey just finished a survey that shows a new favorite, Fruit and Yogurt Special K.

7Seven Lessons for

Seven Years:

JAY

BU

RNS

thermometers to a newer style, specifically looking at their self-sanitizing capacity to prevent bacterial and allergen cross-contamina-tion. “We found out that the traditional, and much cheaper, style is more effective at preventing cross contamination,” Lacey says.

5 Know Your ChefThe old Bates dining oper- ation in Chase Hall was cramped and outdated, and the chefs did their work far away from — and two floor levels below — students.

Now, chefs work at platforms out front. Speaking literally and figuratively, first cook Roland Theriault notes that “we’re on the same floor as everybody else.”

A first cook at the Bobcat Bar, he spent his first 19 years at Bates working in the base- ment of Memorial Commons. Now, he gets the chance to talk with his diners.

For students increas- ingly curious about their food, this has been a boon for Bates, and for the Dining Services chefs. It’s more than just a service relationship where students grill chefs on what’s in the sauce.

“It goes beyond that,” says Schwartz. “They can talk about home, studies, life, and what’s happening in their lives. Sometimes students just need an adult they can vent to.”

6 Trays, Begone!Even before Bluto piled his tray high with foodstuffs in Animal House, the tray has

been a symbol of the college dining experience.

But trays are on their way out. As Bates students take more ownership of their dining experience, they treat each serving like a course in a restaurant.

“And that’s what we want,” Schwartz says. “We don’t want you to fill a tray so half the food gets cold while you eat the other half.”

New students still grab a tray and load up, but older students know better, Lacey says. “When you’ve been here awhile, you realize you don’t need to — you don’t want to!”

7 The Menu Is Just a Starting PointBates students are savvy about what they want to create by mixing and matching items from several platforms. The

most popular foundations are pita pockets, bagels, tortillas, and wraps.

What emerges can be anything from bruschetta to a strawberry tart, or almost anything with pesto on it.

A Bates version of Iron Chef last spring yielded dishes like “Pita with Spiced Shredded Beef and Home-made Yogurt Sauce,” “Toast-ed Rosemary Borealis Turkey Sandwich,” and “Chicken Pasta Primavera.”

“They are invested in their food. They are always thinking about it,” Schwartz says. “And they don’t want a cafeteria experience. They want a dining experience.”

That takes creativity, she adds. “I equate it with being in your own kitchen. They feel comfortable enough to say, ‘We own this.’ And that’s wicked cool.” n

For first cook Roland Theriault, moving from the old kitchen in Chase Hall’s basement to Commons means that “we’re on the same floor as everybody else” — literally and figuratively.

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

‘IT TAKES MORE THAN ONE SENSE’For a week in May, Phyllis Graber Jensen visited Kingston, Jamaica, where Professor of Anthro-pology Charles “Val” Carnegie and 14 students were working to understand green-space devel-opment in a city where the class disparities are vast, the political situation is polarized, and the economy struggles.

Each day, she photographed and inter-viewed Carnegie’s students as they headed out in two-person teams to do ethnographic field-work in city parks, civic spaces, food gardens, and other green initiatives in Kingston.

They looked at how these green spaces create shared resources, improving the quality of life and serving as incubators for social renewal.

As they explored, they asked questions. What do residents think about their neighbor-hoods? Do they travel to other parts of Kings-ton, and why? How far do residents travel for recreational activities? What is their experi-ence growing food?

Their experiences in Kingston included working with professionals — urban planners,

In Kingston, Jamaica, for a month of Short Term, students explored the role that green space plays

in the work to build stronger communities

photography and reporting by phyllis graber jensen

environmentalists, sociologists, architects, engi- neers, and community organizers.

“Place, Community, Transformation” is a new course for Carnegie, and his syllabus re-flects both a Bates hallmark — our robust culture of community-engaged learning — as well as a new Bates initiative, Purposeful Work, which is placing ideas about work and careers at the forefront of the Bates liberal arts experience. (See feature in this issue.)

Carnegie asked his students, as they en-gaged in fieldwork and learned about the lives being lived in Kingston, to think about their own future lives. He asked his students to consider how their own roles as citizens shape their ideas about work.

He asked them to reflect on their career motivations, about the social ideals and goals that motivate them. And he asked them to imagine translating those ideals into action.

In these words and photographs are some, but not all, of the answers to those questions.— h. jay burns

Fall 201548

FATIMA “What I’ve learned about observing   is that it takes more than one sense

to do it.You’ve got to hear, see, smell, touch, and talk to really get

   the full sense of what you’re doing.”

Fatima Sacko ’17 (right) of New York City observes Emancipation Park with Denise Del Villar ’16 of Maywood, Calif.

ALI “There is something about crouching beside  

someone, digging your hands into the same soft earth, cultivating the vegetables that will serve as the meal you will share together, that     creates the strongest bonds of community.”

KEENAN “This has been the definition of experiential learning —

our classroom is wherever we are, and everyone is a teacher. It’s a whole different breed of learning

that enables and values personal development parallel to intellectual and academic development.”

Fall 201550

In the Parade Gardens neighborhood, Keenan Shields ’18 of Pittsford, N.Y., looks at murals, part of the grassroots Paint Jamaica project of democratic art and urban beautification.

Ali Rabideau ’17 of Natick, Mass., works with organic community gardeners in the Southside neighborhood.

GIDEON “Even though peace and security

should be everyday guarantees, given the direction our world is

heading, it is increasingly becoming a luxury and privilege.”

ALEXA “I am continually amazed by how

much people give in these inner-city communities. I met a woman with

nine kids in her house: three of her own and six she’s taking care of.”

Gideon Ikpekaogu ’17 of Amsterdam joins a discussion about curbing gang violence in the Rose Town neighborhood.

Alexa Adams ’17 of Williamstown, Mass., does an ethnographic interview with a young mother in the Rose Town neighborhood.

IZZY “I hope my love of the game

can rub off on the young girls here and incentivize them to develop

their own skills and style.”

MARIA-ANNA “You don’t need to

be rich to help conserve our planet.

All you need is a good idea.”

Maria-Anna Chrysovergi ’18 of Eleones, Greece, walks with students at a Rae Town neighborhood school after teaching them to make hanging planters from plastic bottles.

Isabel Koyama ’16 of Cambridge, Mass., urges girls to join a soccer game at an August Town school, though the boys object.

Fall 201552

NICOLE “Anyone can look out into this schoolyard and

observe the creativity these children have put into making their space exciting. When I think about some

of the things I played with as a child, I attribute the creative use of space to the open mind of a child.”

CHARLES “Our students are being grounded

in a historical and contemporary understanding of Kingston in ways

that even most locals do not have.”

Nicole Kanu ’15, of Little Rock, Ark., teaches a clapping game to children at an August Town school.

Professor of Anthropology Charles Carnegie talks with Frances Madden, a 40-year veteran of social work in Kingston.

CLARA “Sitting in a three-hour meeting

shows me how long it really takes to make progress. It takes commitment

to your own community to really want to make a change.”

JEREMY “Guys from the area, professionals

on break, and fishermen were all very accepting — every day I would learn something. I’ve been blessed

to have this experience.”

Jeremy Mack ’16, an East Asian studies and Chinese major from Brooklyn, N.Y., surveys Kingston’s waterfront.

Clara Jessup ’16 (second from left) of Seattle, Wash., attends a planning meeting for Labour Day in the Woodford Park community.

Fall 201554

Ali Rabideau ’17 of Natick, Mass., stands in front of a mural that’s part of the grass-roots Paint Jamaica project of demo- cratic art and urban beautification.

bates notesPH

YLLI

S G

RAB

ER J

ENSE

NM

USK

IE A

RCH

IVES

AN

D S

PECI

AL

COLL

ECTI

ON

S LI

BRA

RY

Joyously if unknowingly, Joyce Mantyla ’65 reprises an iconic moment from her Bates days (left). Back then, she famously leapt from a cake at the 1963 Back to Bates rally, surprising President Phillips. Five decades later, the occasion was the 2015 Reunion Alumni Gathering in June, where she, classmates, and fellow alumni gave loud cheers as President Spencer ran down a prodigious list of Bates highlights and accomplishments.

Fall 2015 57

bates notes

1934class presidentDoris Neilson Whipple216 Nottingham Rd.Auburn ME 04210

1938class secretaryMarion Welsch Spearmspear1@attglobal.net

1940class secretaryLeonard Cloughleonard_clough@yahoo.com

1941class presidentEdward Rafteryrafandjane@sbcglobal.net

1942Reunion 2017, June 9-11

class presidentRose Worobelrworobel@cox.net

1943Reunion 2018, June 8–10

1944Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class secretaryVirginia Stockman Fisherdiginny@aol.com

class presidentDick Keachrichardkeach@att.net

1945Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class co-secretariesCarleton FinchArline Sinclair Finchzeke137@aol.com

Who, What, Where, When?

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

1946Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class secretaryHelen Pratt Clarksonhclarkson1@juno.com

class presidentJane Parsons Norrisjanenorris@roadrunner.com

Sally Adkins MacFarlane Wil-bur published a memoir, From There to Here, My Journey from Constantinople to Fayetteville, N.Y....Sadly, Herb Knight lost his wife, Olga, on Aug. 12, 2014....For Merol Meyer Spooner’s 90th birthday, her children prepared a CD that included the voices of Sylvia Gray Sears ’45, Joyce Cleland Goad, and Gerry Nick-erson Coombs....Joan Merritt Ireland is coping with the loss of her husband, Bud Ireland, who died Feb. 9, 2014....Succeeding Muriel Ulrich Weeks as class secretary, Helen Pratt Clarkson writes, “Muriel, I hope I can halfway fill your shoes.”...Don and Penny Gumpright Richter are in Manchester, Conn. She is in a care facility; he lives alone with the help of caregivers....Al-den and Sylvia Gray Sears ’45 attend events at Moravian Col-lege where he retired 25 years ago....Fran Sudhalter Pliskin facilitates two book groups and plays bridge and mahjong to give her brain skills a workout....Elizabeth Widger Arms had lunch with Priscilla Ohler.

1947Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class secretaryJean Labagh Kiskaddonjean.kiskaddon@gmail.com

class presidentVesta Starrett Smithvestasmith@charter.net

Sadly, Charlotte Akers Mat-thews lost her husband in April 2014....Jane Doty McCune enjoys life in Carmel, Calif., taking walks along the beach and volunteering....Roxanne Kammerer, confined to a wheel-chair, contemplates moving to an assisted-living facility....Jean

Labagh Kiskaddon officiated at the wedding of her youngest grandson....Jane Sedgley McMurray keeps house, drives, and enjoys her solitude....Vesta Starrett Smith celebrated her 90th birthday in France during a family trip.

1948Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class secretaryRoberta Sweetser McKinnell33 Red GateaneCohasset MA 02025

class presidentVivienne Sikora Gilroyvgilroy@verizon.net

1949Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class secretaryCarol Jenkinson Johnsonrollincarol@comcast.net

class presidentNelson “Bud” Hornebudhorne@gmail.com

John Heckler has written a nov-el, Select Agents, which he de-scribes as a love story wrapped around a unique terrorist threat.

1950Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class secretaryLois Keniston Penneyhulopenney@sbcglobal.net

class presidentWes Bonneywbonney@maine.rr.com

Barbara Galloupe Gagnon ’50, in Edge-comb, Maine, visited an island settled in the 1600s by her grandfa-ther’s people. “Ornery independence must be a genetic trait. I live on an island, as do two of my children — if you count Singapore.”

Bob Baal received the Alumni of the Year Award from Con-cordia College in Bronxville, N.Y., which he attended before Bates....Wes Bonney and Elaine joined many other alumni for the wedding of granddaughter Erin Bonney ’09 and Brendan Casey....Barbara Galloupe Gagnon, in Edgecomb, Maine, visited the burying ground of an island 11 miles at sea settled in the 1600s by her grandfather’s people. “Ornery independence must be a genetic trait. I live on an island, as do two of my chil-dren — if you count Singapore.”...

In Kennett Square, Pa., Ella Loud Wilmot and Bud ’48 stay closer to home now....Hugh and Lois Keniston Penney “rejoice that we have covered all 50 states, seven continents, and 83 countries because our traveling days are now by car.”...Sylvia Stuber Heap says Walker’s memory loss has provided innumerable challenges. “But he still has his sense of humor and his charm.”...David Turell’s last book, The Atheist Delusion: Science IS Finding God, has been sent to the Bates library....Rae Walcott Blackmon and Lee ’51 maintain their Connecticut home and gardens....Delight Wolfe hosted Elaine Hubbard for a visit.

1951Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class secretaryDorothy Webb Quimbydwquimby@unity.edu

class co-presidentsBill DillJean McLeod Dillwmrdill@gmail.com

Will and Lissa Meigs Bar-beau welcomed their first great-grandchild....Sally Clout-man Gilrain and Jim spent time with Walt and Marty Rayder Ulmer and with Bob and Mary Lou Conron Hayes....Glen Collins is volunteer secretary for the Public Lands Foundation. He and Marion had a great visit with Bob Greene and Ellen....Lee Faulkner and Ruth went to Edinburgh to see the Military Tattoo, No. 1 on their list for years....Jim Kelly, recovered from a serious illness, and Lu Mainland Kelly ’52 spent time with their children and fami-lies....Peg Moulton McFadden and Bob lost their oldest son, Dan, in 2014. A supportive few days with Walt and Marty Rayder Ulmer, who had lost their Jane, helped them face their grief....Dick Nair still has his investment advisory practice, and Katie is busy with the Vermont Symphony....Attending her granddaughter’s wedding in Virginia, Norma Reese Jones stayed with cousin Edie Pen-nucci Mead....Bob Stone moved to live with his “significant oth-er,” beginning a new phase of life at 85....Grace Ulrich Harris and Gladys Bovino Dunn talk week-ly. Grace also visits with Carolyn Carlson Leys ’52 and had a visit with Tom Jones ’52....Jim and Ginger Buhl Vetrano ’54 keep busy as volunteers with Kiwanis and dancing....Rob and Jane Seaman Wilson enjoy the good life in Santa Fe, N.M. He published a short novel....Dot Webb Quimby helped celebrate Unity College’s 50th birthday on July 25. She’s been there since day one.

Fall 201558

SARA

H C

ROSB

Y

1952Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class secretaryFlorence Dixon Princefdprince2000@yahoo.com

class presidentJohn Myersjohnmyers52@comcast.net

Nate Boone of Winhall, Vt., was among the former Marines who celebrated the U.S. Marine Corps’ 239th anniversary at a gathering in Manchester. He and other African American Marines were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2012 for the achievement of integrating the Marine Corps in the 1940s. On the current state of the corps, he said, “Going back to receive that medal, I was just amazed at the progress minorities and women have made in the Marine Corps. It was like night and day compared to when I served.”

1953Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class secretaryRonald Claytonrondot@comcast.net

class co-presidentsVirginia LaFauci Tonervatoner207@gmail.comRichard F. Coughlindcoughlin@maine.rr.com

Jean Chapman Neely was named honorary chair of her town’s $3.5 million library proj-ect....Dick Coughlin played in a golf tournament to benefit the Bates football team. He teamed up with Jim Moody, Bob Russell, Charlie Pappas and Lee Faulkner ’51 in the Alan Goddard Memorial Golf Outing, in pursuit of the Bob Hatch Cup....K.D. Day Chase enjoys her job as a historic role player at the state farm museum. Her husband, Len, passed away after more than 60 years together....Mauri Hight serves as chair of the Cape May (N.J.) Fare-Free Transportation Advisory Coun-cil and on the town’s environ-mental committee....Mary Van Valkenburgh Kashmanian and Kash stay busy with church and community activities....Dotty Morris ’52 feels well despite several recurrences of thyroid cancer. Ron Clayton plays a little golf and does a lot of birding....Curt Osborne says he met “a nice lady in town who has decided he needs looking after”; she insisted he get lens implants, and now Curt sees much bet-ter....Bob Russell moved into an independent-living facility in Kennebunk. He visited Jane Haworth Beck, who is in an assisted-living home in Florida, and talks every week with Gordon Hall. Bob also makes occasional trips to see Ken Griswold, who is affected by post-polio syndrome.

1954Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class secretaryJonas Kleinjoklein@maine.rr.com

class presidentMarion Shatts Whitakerpetmarwhitaker@gmail.com

The class was proud to see Lynn Willsey named to the Bates Scholar-Athlete Society during Commencement Weekend in May. Besides his well-known golf and basketball prowess during college days, the college also noted Lynn’s contributions as a longtime Bates trustee and volunteer as well as his service to his community and church in Glastonbury, Conn. Three sons of Lynn and Bev (Hayne ’55) Willsey are Bates graduates, Rob ’79, Dave ’81, and Jamie ’89, and their grandson Dan Willsey ’18 is at Bates now.

1955Reunion 2020, June 12–14

acting class secretaryMerton “Mert” Rickermertr33@gmail.com

class presidentBeverly Hayne Willseystonepost@cox.net

For six decades Janet Linn Coombs ’55 has written round-robin letters with classmates. “I’ve kept all my letters since 1967 when I real-ized they were a good story of my life.”

Petie Peters Ern and Ernie enjoy summers at their cabin in Pemaquid Harbor....Carolyn Gove Bennett has been busy as a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) volunteer....Sprookie Ham Dalrymple and Lee exercise, volunteer, and enjoy plays and opera....Sadly, Ruth Haskins Bass lost her husband, Milton, last October. Their grandson Sam ’18 is at Bates. Their daughters are Elis-sa ’85 and Amy ’92....Will Hills teaches computer skills to adults as a volunteer....Retired teacher Nancy Howe-Payne’s favorite activities include painting and photography, for which she’s won several prizes; playing bridge; water exercise; and cooking. “One of the most chal-lenging and rewarding things I’ve done is join a group from my church that reads to children, in inner-city classrooms, in Boston.”...After being diagnosed with MDS, a rare, incurable cancer of the bone marrow, Mel King says he was inspired to write his second book, A Sticky

bates notes

• future • legacy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • on • build • create • hope • opportunity • institu tion • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • nity • institution • trust • promise • generosity sity •endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • acy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • institution • trust • prom t • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow future • legacy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • on • build • create • hope • opportunity • institu tion • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • nity • institution • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspi acy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • institution • trust • prom promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • on • build • create • hope • opportunity • institu tion • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • nity • institution • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspi ration • belief • loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • institution • trust • promise • gen-erosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • lega-cy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • institution • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • on • build • create • hope • opportunity • institution • tr tion • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • institution • trust • promise • generosity • enendowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • institution • trust • promise • gen-erosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • lega-cy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • institution • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • legacy •ty • build • create • hope • opportunity • institution • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • institution • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • build • create • hope • hope • opportunity • institution • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • institution • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • ty • build • create • hope • opportunity • institutiotion • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief • belief• loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • institution • trust • promise • generosity • endowment • tomorrow • future • legacy • aspiration • belief • loyalty • build • create • hope • opportunity • institution • trust • promise

make your plan to support w

hat you love at bates

Learn about will and estate planning by calling Susan D

unning at 207-786-6246

PHILLIPS SOCIETY

THEPH

I LL I P S S O

CI E

TY

✦BA G E

✦

T ES CO L LE

Business and Short Stories, a fact-based novel about a Boston priest in 1919 who witnesses a tragic incident. A retired trial attorney, Mel lives in Califor-nia....Jim Leamon was excited to have a grandson enter Bates last fall. “This renewed personal connection to the college in-spired me, an alum and former faculty member, to don my academic garb and participate in the convocation ceremonies — and there he was!”...Janet Linn Coombs writes, “For all these 60 years, Esther Ham Dalrym-ple, Pris Hatch Stred, Sylvia Magnuson Cook and I continue our round-robin letters. I’ve kept all my letters since 1967 when I realized they were a good story of my life.”...Paul MacAvoy co-authored a two-volume book, The Causes and Effects of Deregulation....Sally Perkins Poland is president of the Ocean Park Bates Club, which has been meeting for over 100 years on the first Monday of August....Ettore and Laura Trudel Rac-cagni ’60 celebrated their 50th anniversary with a riverboat cruise from Nice to Paris.

1956Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class secretaryFrederic Huberhimself@fredna.com

class co-presidentsAlice Brooke Gollnickagollnick@valley.netGail Molander Goddardacgpension@tds.net

Wej Baker Malcolm and Dave now live in a continuing care community, she in the inde-pendent part and he in assisted living. She hikes, volunteers for RSVP with local blood drives, and belongs to two book clubs....Sybil Benton Williamson has great fun leading tours at Dartmouth’s Hood Museum....Alice Brooke Gollnick plays in various early music ensembles....Brenda Buttrick Snyder and Bruce enjoy trips and activities sponsored by their retirement community....John Davis is doing well after open heart sur-gery. He’s slowly retiring from his financial planning business, and Jill Farr Davis reduced her volunteering....Freshman dorm mates Dinny Felt Swett, Nancy Glennon Baumgardner, Gail Molander Goddard and Paige Scovill Negus had a marvelous time at Hilton Head, S.C., their second trip together....Waner and Dee Hirst Holman have made many new friends in the retirement community they moved to outside Albany, N.Y., near their youngest son. Ruth Foster Lowell and Neil visited....Nancy Johnson Wiegel writes, “I’m so glad that I was never all that good at math. If I were, my age might scare me.”...From his home office in Nashville, Peter Kadetsky buys and sells radio

time across the country and in Canada....Loe Anne Kimball Pino writes, “Life is like a roll of toilet paper: closer to the end, the faster it goes.”...Gail Mo-lander Goddard volunteers for the food pantry, church, garden club, driving for the Council on Aging and feeding the home-less....The Daily Independent of Lagos, Nigeria, caught up with Odewale “Rufus” Oguntoye. He earned an MBA at Penn’s Whar-ton School before returning to Nigeria for a career with Nige-rian Breweries and the United Africa Co. conglomerate where he held several managerial positions. He and his wife then had a stockbroking firm. She died in 1989. Now fully retired, Rufus toggles between home and church and is the overseer of The Apostolic Church, Yaba Assembly. To the younger gen-eration he says: “They should put God first in all they do. Most of my contemporaries, who felt they could do things by their own power, never experienced fulfillment.”...Cappy Parker and Manon had a great visit with Kay ’58 and Gene Taylor....Mar-cia Rosenfeld Baker enjoyed meeting Alice Gollnick, Sybil Williamson, Wej Malcolm and Gail Goddard for lunch again. “We just take up where we left off last time, and the years melt away.”...Peggy Sharpe Reider continues to be an interpreter at Drayton Hall Plantation in Charleston, S.C...Jessie Thompson Huberty spent time with Dodie and Ray Moffett ’54, Petie ’55 and Ernie Ern ’55, and Greenie ’54 and Pat Tobey Greenberg ’57. Not to mention the usual Maine gathering which includes June Ryan Gillette ’55 and John Moore ’57 and Liz.

1957Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class co-secretariesWilma Gero Claphamclaphamwilma@rogers.comMargaret Leask Olneypegolney@verizon.net

class co-presidentsJudith Kent Patkinactionpsj@aol.comRichard H. Piercerhpierce52@gmail.com

Carolyn Cram enjoys many activities in New York City and Pelham with family and friends....After living a single life for 36 years, Ralph Davis married Kathy Sweeting while on a Caribbean cruise....Wilma Gero Clapham attended a Cape Cod mini-reunion with Cynthia and Dick Pierce, Bob and Judie Roberts Williams ’60, Doug Campbell and Jim Muth’s widow Margo....Dick Pierce is chair of the Rhode Island Board of Elections....Pepi Prince Upton looked forward to a trip to Amsterdam and Zurich with Carol Bacon Emmons....

Grant Reynolds reports life in Vermont is exciting and fulfilling with both cultural and service opportunities for him and Jo Trogler Reynolds ’58....Bill Ryall plays in two concert bands and subs often in the Long Island Senior Pops Orchestra....Charlie Sanborn finds reward-ing volunteer work with the World Affairs Council of NH and as a Derryfield School trustee....Sidney Staudenmayer Treyz is still guiding at Historic Deerfield museum in Deerfield, Mass.

1958Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class secretaryMarilyn Miller Gildeamarilyn@gildea.com

class presidentJohn Lovejoylovejoy@crocker.com

Cook and Marjorie Koppen An-derson report life at their CCRC remains very satisfying....Will Callender published a book on religion, Abdication: God Steps Down for Good. He and Bev Husson Callender ’59 are happy their family live nearby....Pat Carmichael Waugh maintains contact with Muriel Wolloff Brooks and Sally Morris Thwing....Myra Guild is active in a liberal United Church of Christ in Maine and a fundamentalist church in Puerto Rico (the only one within an hour where English is spoken)....Bill and Coe Jenkins Huckabee remain ac-tive in their UU Fellowship, Arts Castle and Great Books Group....Ken and Nancy Tyler Harris ’59 are active in Slippery Rock, Pa.: church, service club, learn-ing-in-retirement, and Ken’s seat on the borough council....Lew Heafitz is an industrial real estate developer and investor based in Boston. “I was just offered the TD Bank building in the Bates Mill complex in Lewis-ton. It’s a small world.”...Dottie Hutch moved to Piedmont, Calif., close to her daughter and family....Bill MacKinnon stays in touch with Phil and Pat Baker Main ’59, Don Dickey, Norm Jason, Pete and Jane Ander-son Post, Dick Jeffers, Ken Parker, Betsey Gray Kirsch, and his Bates roommate Jim Ekstrom....Phil and Pat Baker Main ’59 are active in church, Lions Club, Community Fund and Historical Society....Marilyn Miller Gildea still spends most of her time organizing the neigh-borhood association’s newsletter and events and has learned to edit its website....Ken Parker got together with old roomie Norm Jason....Judy Rice Colby lives in Sabattus, Maine, with a longtime friend, David. Both are widowed, “so sometime over the past few years we decided we’d like to live together. Who said there were no adventures after 70?”

1959Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class co-secretariesJack DeGangejack.degange@valley.netMary Ann Houston Hermancedonmar23@gmail.com

class co-presidentsBarbara Van Duzer Babinbarbarababin@comcast.netChristian O. Miller milleridge@sbcglobal.net

The New Jersey Law Journal honored Anita Kastner Hotchkiss ’59 with a Lifetime Achievement Award for the impact she has made on the practice of law.

Vicky Daniels Aberhart and John met up unexpectedly with Lois and Jay Tanzer on Cape Cod and spent a delightful afternoon at their summer home....Davio Danielson and his wife designed a net-zero- energy passive solar home in Haydenville, Mass....Jack DeGange planned a bucket-list trip with son John ’91 this summer to London, Paris, and Normandy....Fred Drayton is completing a book called Bossing: God’s Way, which “re-counts lessons I learned about ‘bossism’ while journeying that 60-year stretch of life.” He’s in touch with Gerry Davis, Mac Makowsky, and Dave Walsh....Peter and Mary-Ellen Crook Gartner ’60 spend summers on Schoodic Lake, returning in the fall to Bryant Pond where they are active in Senior College....The New Jersey Law Journal honored Anita Kastner Hotch-kiss with a Lifetime Achieve-ment Award for the impact she has made on the practice of law and the defense of complex pharmaceutical, medical device, and other products liability cases....Chris Miller enjoyed a couple of cruises and visits with Fletcher Adams. “We also steamboated up the Mississippi and lo and behold, there were Clif and Mary Lou Jacobs when we docked in Dubuque, Iowa. He just happened to be in the area.”...Oscar Mullaney writes, “I am feeling terrific and leading a very uneventful life. Actually every day I awake is a significant event and a contribu-tor to my feeling terrific.”...Don and Delight Harmon Reese ’61 have lived on Main Street (in Hampstead, N.H.) for 50 years. She’s an organic gardener, poet, and photographer. He’s a court-appointed special advo-cate for abused and neglected

bates notes

Fall 201560

Fall 2015 61

Singin’ in the Plane A viral YouTube video (five million views so far) shows former Deansman Jim Curtis ’63 and his barbershop quartet, Port City Sound, singing “Under the Boardwalk” aboard a delayed flight on Jan. 7. The quartet was heading to New Orleans to compete in a seniors’ barbershop competition.

YouTube videobit.ly/plane-singing

jim curtis ’FC

children....Sabe Scoville Vacca is in close touch with Joan Per-ry Smith....Charlie Updegraph is busy with a $9 million new organ project at his New York City church.

1960Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class secretaryLouise Hjelm Davidsonl.davidson@sbcglobal.net

class presidentDean Skelleydean_skelley@alumni.bates.edu

Ken McAfee ’60 tells a story about the humility of then-Gov. Edmund Muskie ’36. Preceded by a long-winded speaker at a meeting, the governor simply rose, said, “My name is Ed Muskie, lawyer, Waterville, Maine,” and sat down.

In a letter to the Maine Sunday Telegram about the centennial celebration of Edmund Muskie ’36 and his legacy, Ken McAfee shared an anecdote illustrating Muskie’s humility. At a meeting at Bates, the moderator asked everyone to introduce them-selves and keep it brief. One man went on for 15 minutes, much to everyone’s chagrin. “When Gov. Muskie’s turn came,” Ken related, “he simply rose and said, ‘My name is Ed Muskie, lawyer, Waterville, Maine,’ and sat down, breaking up the whole meeting in laughter!”

1961Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class secretaryGretchen Shorter Davisgretchend@alumni.bates.edu

class co-presidentsMary Morton Cowanmmcowan@gwi.netDick Watkinsrwatkcapt@aol.com

Gretchen Shorter Davis and Jerry enjoy Road Scholar programs and Dixieland Jazz Festivals....Continuing to work at the Eldredge Public Library in Chatham, Mass., Paula Grund-berg enjoys traveling....Author Mary Morton Cowan gave a book talk at Midcoast Senior College at the recommendation of Jack Henderson, who is active in that group....Bill Smith and Roberta have described their lifestyle as “four-pointed” with a mailing address in Texas, licenses in Washington, a cabin

in Wisconsin and an RV site in California....Joel ’62 and Rachel Smith Young enjoyed a Danube river cruise....Frank Vana says being chairman of his home-owner’s association landscaping committee, with Deb as his right-hand assistant, is like hav-ing their own 25-acre botanical garden....Active in their commu-nity, Dick Van Bree and Gisela enjoy the California desert....After 43 years in Boxborough, Mass., Channing Wagg is still active in town matters.

1962Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class secretaryCynthia Kalber Nordstromcknordstrom@verizon.net

class presidentEdmund J. Wilsoned-wilson@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Sara Ault Fasciano’s grand-daughter, Amanda ’18, is at Bates....Larry Cohn enjoys an exciting career as a psychia-trist and psychoanalyst....Jean Cushman Holt keeps track of nine grandchildren, volunteers at church, and manages Ocean Park. She and Bill ’63 celebrated their 50th anniversary....Tom and Linda Eichorn Day ’64 enjoy traveling in the states and abroad....Sandy Doubleday DeCosta and Joe celebrate

250 years in 2015: 50 years of marriage, 75 birthdays, and his ordination 50 years ago....Sharon Fowler Kendrick had a fun reunion in Florida with Ann Ridlon and Coralie Shaw....Cindy Kalber Nordstrom’s daughter Leana ’03 married a Bates classmate, James Gifford ’03....John Lawler enjoys playing ASA Senior Softball and golf. Sue Ramer Lawler enjoys teaching part time at Rhode Island College....Dick Parker observed the 50th anniversary of his ordination into the Christian ministry this June. Wife Karen is battling mantle cell lymphoma....Sandy Smith Boynton shares a great winter story of her young-est son’s New Hampshire wed-ding on Valentine’s Day. To avoid a snowstorm, with less than 24 hours’ notice, they changed the ceremony from 4 p.m. to 11 a.m. and notified all the guests with a marathon calling and emailing session. “All gathered for a most wonderful ceremony.”...Retired social worker/administrator Ken Snow enjoys his new role as an elected member of the New Hampshire House. He and Mar-nie Webb Snow ’63 celebrated their 50th anniversary....Lyn Webber Nelson and Bob Maiz were married Oct. 18, 2014....Ed Wilson, wife Jean, Howie Vandersea ’63 and Jim Calla-han ’65 attended an Alabama football game in Tuscaloosa as

guests of Bob Witt and Sandee. Bob, chancellor of the Univ. of Alabama System and former UA president, was named one of the 2014 Pillars of West Alabama by the Community Foundation of West Alabama. (There is anoth-er Bates and ’Bama connection: Harold “Red” Drew, who coached the Crimson Tide from 1947 to 1954, was a 1916 Bates graduate.)

1963Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class secretaryNatalie Shober Moirnataliemoir@netflash.net

class presidentBill Holtwholt@maine.rr.com

Linda Antoun Miller is in her 16th year as a docent at the Worcester (Mass.) Art Muse-um....Skip and Judy Mosman Butler hosted a mini-reunion on Vinalhaven attended by George and Dottie Selden Stone, Jim and Betsy Curtis, and Natalie Shober Moir and Jim....Butch Sampson believes he’s the oldest student at Pensacola (Fla.) Christian College, where he’s studying flugelhorn....Marion Schanz Ratcliff and Jim love living in Georgetown, Texas, where they volunteer at church, the library, and in the commu-nity....Natalie Shober Moir and

bates notes

Fall 201562

media outlet: Morning Edition

headline: NFL looks to training to prevent domestic violence by players

date: Sept. 22, 2014

takeaway: Domestic abusers have fewer places to hide

Professional football being a violent game does not mean that its players are more likely to commit acts of domestic violence, Richard Gelles ’68 told NPR’s Morning Edition.

Gelles, an expert on domestic violence at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, also does not believe that the NFL has a greater domestic-abuse problem than other areas of society, including the U.S. military. “The training of people to be violent, and violence as part of your work culture, is not a sufficient explanation,” he says.

What is happening, he believes, is that we’re seeing the end of when an athlete on a profes-sional team could keep playing despite acts of domestic violence. It’s because “what has been private is now becoming public,” he says, in the form of online videos and the cascade of public opinion that follows.

takeaway:Richard Gelles ’68

Jim looked forward to another get-together with Butch and Marti Sampson. They hoped to be joined by John and Elvis Farr....C.J. Snow’s granddaugh-ter Caroline Carreras ’19 carries the family’s Bates legacy into a third generation when she enrolls this fall. She follows parents Andrea Snow ’90 and Ismael Carreras ’90; maternal grandparents Lee H. Smith ’62 and C.J.; and aunt Rachel Snow Kindseth ’93....George and Dottie Selden Stone travel as often as possible to visit children Sarah ’90 and Andy and grand-children. They got together with Debbie Mawhinney and Jim Curtis and spouses....Howie Vandersea reports the annual Ed Rucci Golf Open in 2014 in Westerly, R.I., was eventful be-cause it was Ed’s first association with classmates since his heart surgery. He’s doing very well. Web Harrison, Monty Wool-son, John Curtis, Al Marden, Thom Freeman, and Bill Farrington ’66 also attended....Ken Woodbury is the new town manager of Sangerville, Maine.

1964Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class secretary-treasurerJohn Meynjemkpmeyn@aol.com

assistant secretary-treasurerRhoda M. Silverbergrhodaeric@att.net

class presidentGretchen Zieglergretchenz958@gmail.com

co-vice presidentsJoan Spruill AndrenRichard J. Andrendixmont258@gmail.com

historianDorothy March Harrisdots@centurytel.net

Dick and Joan Spruill Andren are busy with environmental education and land conservation projects....Norm Bowie and Maureen now enjoy living near Woodstock, N.Y....Nancy Day Walker had a delightful visit with Gail Tupper Hayden and Dave....In Bayfield, Wis., Gran Harris remains heavily involved in land conservancy. Dot March Harris is working on her second local history book....John Holt and Nancy help take care of grandson Arthur Jack Holt, the first child of son Nathan ’04....Paul Holt enjoys his new home on Melbourne Beach, Fla. Good friend Don Delmore is a neighbor....Liz Metz McNab and Dave ’62 have fun hearing from grandson Doug ’18 at Bates....Anne Packard teaches at St. Joseph’s College in Maine....Pat Parsons Kay worked to recon-nect with more Bates visitors this summer at her house in Pe-maquid....Animal welfare leader Esther Rosenthal Mechler still works, but as a volunteer

and mentor now....Eric and Rhoda Morrill Silverberg live in Austin, Texas, and Vinalhav-en, Maine. She works part time for Wilson Language Training; he does taxes for low-income clients....Alan and Sandy Prohl Williams enjoyed a riverboat cruise down the Seine and a trip to Italy....Jennifer Wingate Gilchrist had a fun visit with Joanie Morris.

1965Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class secretaryEvelyn “Evie” Hortonehhorton@me.com

class presidentJoyce Mantylatiojack@aol.com

Cynthia Bagster-Collins Pow-ers works as the town gardener and clerk in the assessor’s office in Brimfield, Mass....George Beebe and Karin harvested their 30th corn crop in Great Barrington, Mass. Daughter Brooke ’04 teaches at the Fay School in Southborough, Mass....Bruce Cooper is busy singing with the Pittsburgh Concert Chorale and serving on the board of Three Rivers Rowing Assn....Laura Deming Beckwith does volunteer work developing and maintaining local rail trails for walking and biking....Peter d’Errico is busier than ever as a member of the Leverett (Mass.) Town Select Board....Howard Dorfman sees Irwin Flashman once a year in Virginia and Joyce Mantyla on occasion in Florida....Jani Downing works for The Pittsburgh Foundation handling grants to nonprofits. She spends a lot of time with her father, Frederick Downing ’40, who lives nearby....Jim Fine does some business consulting and is a trustee at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Daughter Lauren ’93 has two children; daughter Susan ’97 and her husband Wylie Hosmer ’97 have three boys....Bill Goodlatte reports he is still working in beer and burgers as senior vice pres-ident of The LDF Companies in Wichita, Kan. Daughter Suzanne ’04 and her husband Nick ’04 live in Vermont....Al Harvie announc-es Bates home track meets and football games on the Internet....David Heckman is presi-dent-elect of the United States Academic Decathlon State Direc-tors....Peter Heyel opened three businesses in Boston and Rhode Island and looked to hire younger people who can take them over in a year or two....Richard Hillman published a novel, Tropical Liai-son, about political intrigue in the Caribbean....Karen Hjelm started a community garden at her church which provides produce for a local food pantry and a soup kitchen....Dennis Keith keeps in touch with Bates roommate Russ Wagenfeld....Louise Kennedy Hackett and Dave ’64 visited with Mary Ingraham Agostino

CAN

DA

CE D

ICA

RLO

in Ocean Park, Maine....Ted and Judi Laming Krzynowek ’66 say the joy of their life is daughter Darcy ’94 and their 6-year-old granddaughter....Linda Leard Parkin serves as a coach for schools on school improve-ment plans. She and Ray ’64 appreciate that their children and grandchildren live not far away....Karin Mueller Mcelvein visited with Ellie Quatropani in Florida and Jean Hager Rich in Ocean Park, Maine....Barbara Sikes visited with Bates roomies Linda Olmsted and Sue Smith Copley. She and her sister Martha ’62 travel together....Curt Talbot travels extensively as a consulting geologist....Russ Wagenfeld keeps in touch with John Lund, Dennis Keith, and Bob Houlihan ’66....Charlene Wakefield works full time at Vermont Legal Aid. She connected with Judy Wells Wait....Karl Wolf volunteers as a National Park Service tour guide in Washington, D.C.

1966Reunion 2016, June 9–12

class presidentAlexander Woodawwood@mit.edu

1967Reunion 2017 June 9–11

class secretaryAlexandra Baker Lymantoads@snet.net

class co-presidentsKeith C. Harviekcharvie12@gmail.comPamela Johnson Reynoldspreynolds221@gmail.com

Consulting psychologist Carol Gaffney, CEO and president of Six Dimensions Sports Consulting and PeopleSolutions, returned to Bates for a Q-and-A with Bates Treasurer Geoff Swift. The session was part of the college’s Purposeful Work initia-tive....The Danbury (Conn.) Old Timers Athletic Assn. honored Marty Sauer for outstanding achievements in track and field. He starred at Bates, then served as a coach at Brookfield High for nearly 30 years....Ann Warren Turner, who has written more than 50 children’s books and now writes adult short stories, did a Q-and-A with the Daily Hamp-shire Gazette of Northampton, Mass. She wrote her first book at age 8 with her mom, Marion, “a marvelous illustrator.” Besides her books, she writes a faith blog for young-adult Catholics. Her life-changing experiences include “converting from atheism to Christianity while listening to St. John Passion in Oxford, England” and “the birth of both my children when I was in my 40s.” She and her husband, Rick, designed and helped build a passive solar house in the hills of Williamsburg, Mass. “It is glorious up here, but not easy on aging joints!”

1968Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class secretaryRick Melpignanorickmel713@gmail.com

class presidentRichard J. Gellesgelles@sp2.upenn.edu

1969Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class secretaryBonnie Grovesbeegroves@comcast.net

class presidentRichard Brogadirdbrogie1@aol.com

Philadelphia artisan and climate change advocate Peter Handler received the Audu-bon Award for Art Inspiring Conservation from the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Pa. The award honors an individual who uses art to communicate the value of nature, interpret conservation challenges and inspire human-ity to protect wildlife. Peter’s series of tables and reliquary about climate change, called “The Canaries in the Coal Mine,” reflect the consequences of burning fossil fuels....Jeff Sturgis received the David G. Russell ’66 Alumni-in-Admis-sion Award for outstanding commitment to the volunteer AIA program. “Your deep en-gagement with all things Bates has made you an invaluable resource for prospective stu-dents,” his citation reads. “You exemplify the power of this community and remind us that a student’s relationship with Bates lasts a lifetime. For many of our students and alumni, that relationship began with you.”

1970Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class co-secretariesStephanie Leonard Bennettslenben@comcast.netBetsey Brownefant127@yahoo.com

class presidentSteve Andricksteve.andrick@chartis  insurance.com

John Pardee ’70, in London to visit his daughter, found himself cast in As You Like It at the Rose Theater, elder sister to Shakespeare’s Globe. “Small role but a real thrill.”

After many years of teaching creative writing at MIT and Oberlin, Pam Alexander is traveling North America in a small RV. She has published four collections of poetry and is now working on essays and short stories too. She’s available to lead writing workshops and for individual tutoring....Jim Athearn and his family are in their 40th year of farming on their home island of Martha’s Vineyard....Mark Bergeron of The MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, Mass., won a first-place award for arts and entertainment reporting from the New England Newspaper & Press Assn....In Lancaster, Pa., Betsey Brown loves working as the house manager at the Fulton Theatre, the oldest continu-ously operating theater in the country....Natalie Castagnacci Allen works part time doing post-adoption and adoption search for the New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth and Families....Joyce Elliott retired after 40 years in higher education, 26 of them at Empire State College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She served as a dean, provost, acting president, and faculty member....Jim Glinski teaches AP Summer Institutes, including two in Maine. He lives in Scituate, Mass., with his artist wife, Su-san Denniston ’72....Now living in Bangor, Randy Hatch had a wonderful reunion with Donna Dustin....Linnea Haworth Hallee and Alan connected with Marcy Plavin, Barbara Hampel, and Marcia Weston Haas and Dick....Stephanie Leonard Bennett edits and publishes the nationally acclaimed Stretch Glass Society Quarterly....Mike and Paige Ulrey Oristano ’71 enjoyed a cruise that traced Amerigo Vespucci’s route on his trip to the New World....John Pardee and Terry were in London visiting their daughter when John found himself auditioned and cast in a small role in As You Like It at the Rose Theater, elder sister to Shakespeare’s Globe. “Small role but a real thrill,” he says....Alice Pump Bouley is managing editor for the Society of Economic Geologists. She thanks Mary Davis for staying in touch....Tom and Ann Nagel Stone vacationed in Nashville with friends including Marilyn Molloy Henault.

1971Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class secretarySuzanne Woods Kelleysuzannekelley@att.net

Bill Sherwonit ’71, a geologist who became a writer about the Alaska wilderness, says, “Sci-ence is one way of look-ing at the world, and a very valuable one, but I think it would be wrong to be dismissive of the other ways of knowing.”

Ray Potter, director of envi-ronmental health and safety at Bates since 2003, retired April 30. “Ray has partnered with college administrators in developing, implementing, and enforcing health and safety related policies and procedures. His role often goes unnoticed in the hectic pace of everyday college life, but his contributions to this important aspect of the operations of the college have been invaluable,” said Mary Main, assistant vice president of human resources and environmental health and safety....The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman of Wasilla, Alaska, profiled writer Bill Sherwonit, who “has come to understand the Alaska wilderness in a way that bespeaks an immersion in the state’s indigenous culture.” His 11th book, Animal Stories: Encounters with Alaska’s Wild-life, is a compilation of 34 essays intended “to get people thinking about their own relationship with our wild neighbors, our wild relatives, and the inherent value that these animals have, irrespective of what they give to us,” Bill writes. The Connecticut native first went to Alaska as a geologist in the ’70s. One day, when he finally found significant traces of minerals in the Brooks Range, he experienced some-thing of an ethical dilemma. “Of course it was exciting at first ’cause that was my job, but the more I thought about it, I was like ‘Wow, if this actually did turn out to become an economic development,’ it would be ... ru-ined, to me.” A former outdoors editor for the Anchorage Times who also has taught creative nonfiction writing, he says, “Sci-ence is one way of looking at the world, and a very valuable one, but I think it would be wrong to be dismissive of the other ways of knowing.”...In Gloucester, Mass., the Times noted the retirement of Dave Welbourn, who for more than 40 years focused his career on developing resources for the growth of non-profit institutions. He stepped down after six years at the helm of the Essex County Community Foundation, which he turned into “a flagship resource for philanthropists and nonprofits across Massachusetts,” the

Fall 2015 63

bates notes

Fall 201564

valerie smith ’ge

Swift and strong praise for Swarthmore College’s 15th presidentThe praise from Bates was swift and strong after Val Smith ’75 was appointed president of Swarthmore College on Feb. 21.

“She will be an important voice in the national conversation about the value of the liberal arts,” said President Clayton Spencer. “She is a brilliant scholar, a creative academic leader, and a human being of extraordinary depth and grounding.

“She will be an exceptional president.”A member of the Princeton University

faculty for 23 years, Smith has served as dean of the college since 2011. She assumed office at Swarthmore on July 1.

Smith, who retired from the Bates Board of Trustees in May, “has been a thought leader on the Board of Trustees for more than a decade, to whom we all turn for precision, nuance, and unerring institutional judgment,” Spencer concluded.

newspaper said. Previously he was senior vice president at the Lahey Clinic and in senior leadership at the Univ. of Ver-mont and Tufts Univ., raising a half-billion dollars throughout his career. ECCF trustee emer-itus Joe Grimaldi said Dave “is an inspirational advocate of col-lective philanthropy.” Dave and his wife, Lynn Bitzer Welbourn, live in Andover, Mass.

1972Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class secretarySteven H. Mortimerstevenhmortimer@gmail.com

class presidentWayne V. Loosigianwloosigian@exeter.edu

John Amols received a Bates’ Best award as one of his alma mater’s “most valuable players.” He has served on his Reunion Committee, the Alumni Council, as a Bates Fund class agent, a career adviser to current students, and as a member of the Alumni-in-Admission program. He was also instrumental in developing the Friends of Bates Athletics and established a scholarship to honor his parents....Writer David Lentz of Greenwich, Conn., published Sonnets from New England, a book of sonnets composed as love songs to his wife....John Sninsky was named chief sci-entific officer at CareDx Inc., a molecular diagnostics company based in Brisbane, Calif.

1973Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class secretaryKaylee Masurykmasury@yahoo.com

class presidentTom Careytcarey@bates.edu

The Journal Star in Peoria quoted Tom Griffiths’ research on bat populations. A biology professor at Illinois Central College who has studied bats since he was a Bates student, Tom said Illinois bats face the same fatal fungus that has killed millions of the flying mammals across the coun-try. While the public might not notice any reduction in the bat population, they may well notice a rise in the mosquito population, just one of the nocturnal bugs devoured by bats, he said. “Bats will ultimately bounce back, but it will take awhile.”

1974Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class secretaryTina Psalidas Lamsontinal2@mac.com

class presidentDon McDadedmcdade@llbean.com

Artist Jim Bean’s exhibit “Life Drawing Life: Figurative Works and Portraits” was shown at The Art League of New Britain (Conn.)....The Roanoker magazine profiled Virginia 6th District Congressman Bob Goodlatte, “one of the most powerful members of Congress” as House Judiciary Committee chairman. “The fact that most Roanokers don’t know of Goodlatte’s massive influence on Capitol Hill is a testimony not just to his down-to-earth personality, friendliness, and time spent in town, but also to his political shrewdness,” the magazine said. Bob makes a habit of turning some of his drives to Washington from a four-hour commute into a 10-hour marathon of meetings with constituents. Despite his 22-year tenure in an increasingly partisan Congress, it’s hard to find someone who personally dislikes him, the magazine said. The Massachusetts native and raging Red Sox fan met his wife, Maryellen Flaherty Good-latte, in student government at Bates. “His integrity was hugely appealing to me,” says Maryellen, principal at the law firm of Glenn Feldmann Darby & Goodlatte. “He’s also funny — you don’t see that as much in the public perso-na.”...George Kamberelis is the new director of Colorado State Univ.’s School of Education....Seacoastonline talked with Neal Ouellett, CEO of Living Innova-tions, a Greenland, N.H.-based for-profit agency that serves the elderly and people with devel-opmental disabilities. He said he became interested in the helping professions as a Bates student when he worked part time for a private agency helping kids in legal difficulties. “We provided counseling to get them to stick with school. I was getting a psy-chology degree, but here was a chance to apply it.” He started his for-profit agency in 1996 because “I thought that having an entre-preneurial spirit would be more motivating for our managers and employees.” It now has 550 employees, including part-timers, with 14 offices from Maine to Rhode Island and serves 1,100 people on any given day.

1975Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class co-secretariesDeborah Bednar Jasakwjasak@comcast.netFaith Minardminardblatt@comcast.net

class co-presidentsSusan Bourgault Akiesusieakie@aol.comJanet Hainesjanethaines@alumni.bates.edu

Roy Madsen was named deputy comptroller for strategic management at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Washington.

LAU

REN

CE K

ESTE

RTO

N /

SWA

RTH

MO

RE C

OLL

EGE

‘She Will Be an Exceptional President’

bates notes

Fall 2015 65

media outlet: The Boston Globe

headline: Gathering meaning in the goods of the recent past

date: Dec. 2, 2014

takeaway: Get ready: The 20th century is now historic

Nancy Carlisle ’77, senior curator of collections at Historic New England, tells The Boston Globe that the famed preservation society is now col-lecting more 20th-century domestic objects as that century recedes into the past.

“We have two microwaves,” Carlisle says, one being the Amana Radarange, introduced in 1967 as the first countertop microwave oven, at a time when Amana’s parent company was Massachusetts-based Raytheon. “We have good stories of how the owners bought them, where they bought them, and how they used them.”

She would love to get more boomers with overstuffed attics and garages to think like curators. “We get weekly offers of wedding dresses,” she says. “It’s hard for donors to realize that we’re really more interested in their Crock-Pots.”

takeaway:Nancy Carlisle ’77

1976Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class secretaryJeffrey Helmjeffrey.helm@verizon.net

class presidentBruce Campbellbrucec@maine.rr.com

WCSH-TV profiled Jim Nutting, who has fused two of his passions together under one roof in Lisbon Falls — the Maine Art Glass Studio and the Butterfly and Insect Museum. Jim worked his way up the ladder at Central Maine Medical Center for 25 years until he became a corporate fundraiser. “After four-five years of dressing up in a suit and tie every day, I decided this really is not what I want to be doing. At that point, I decided to become a starving artist.” In 1998 he turned his hobby of making stained glass into the Maine Art Glass Studio. “Anything you could imagine to do in glass, we do it here.” Upstairs in the former church he created the Butterfly and Insect Museum. He owns thousands of butterflies and has been collect-ing them since he was 5.

1977Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class co-presidentsJoel Feingoldjoelafeingold@me.comDervilla McCannmeistermcn@aol.com

class secretarySteve HadgeSteve_Hadge@alumni.bates.edu

Lisa Barry stays very busy as a Bates trustee and loves recon-necting with Bates colleagues, including Scott Bierman and Dervilla McCann, who are also trustees, and Keith Taylor, who plays a big role on the Bates Fund Executive Committee....Peter Brann is still in private law practice and also teaches part time at Columbia and Harvard....Dave Brooks is in his third decade as a reporter for The Telegraph daily newspaper in Nashua....Marcus Bruce marked his appointment as the first Benjamin E. Mays Distin-guished Professor of Religious Studies at Bates with a lecture that probed the impact the Paris Exposition of 1900 had on the work of historian and civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois....Molly Campbell says Nils Bonde-Hen-riksen, Barb Griffin Arsnow, Lisa Peterson Chew, and other Bates connections help her stay sane and happy after all of these years away from Lewiston....Laura DeFrancesco McLaugh-lin and George are completing a move to the Greenville, S.C., area....Sarah Emerson Potter works at the Bates College Store and is excited about the con-struction project that will create a new store across Campus

Avenue....Joel Feingold’s new talent representation business is starting to turn the corner....David Foster is doing financial publishing work and growing his company....Achieving a goal he set over a decade ago, Jim Geitz officially became an Adirondack Forty-Sixer last fall by climbing two more peaks with five hiking buddies. The term refers to individuals who have climbed all 46 peaks over 4,000 feet in New York’s Adirondack Mountains....Bruce Ginsberg loves coaching baseball at Babson College....Lynn Glover Baronas is now the director of strategic partner-ships at the Univ. of Hartford....Jane Goguen Baronas had a nice visit with Mark Reddish ’76 and looks forward to seeing Pam Walch Constantine and Lynn Glover Baronas at one of their Cape Cod gatherings....Carl Grove relocated to South Carolina and now works at Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg....Steve Hadge loves his job as a library media specialist in the Manchester, Conn., public schools where he finished his 31st year....After 33 years in the wine and spirits industry, Steve Lancor still has fun....Charlie L’Esperance saw old friends Steve and Vicki McCormick and Harry ’78 and Patty Steuber....Bob Lincoln is environmental and product compliance manager at ChemTreat....Pat Mador works for the state of Maine as a pros-ecutor, now in Auburn....Terry Maillard Keyes stays fit and young running around after four grandchildren....Jennifer Malia Takahashi works with young children and looks forward to doing that part time in private practice....Ken Maloney is still in the tech business, focusing on mobile health tracking of patients-at-home....Marybeth Pope Salama works at Family Hospice as med director of three teams....Dan Quinn works for PTFS, a Maryland-based IT product and service provider for the federal government. He’s been in contact with Marc Schnabolk, Mark Sabia, and Paul DelCioppio....Tom Ryan joined a startup, Power Green-house Integration, which plans to grow fresh produce all year in an optimized environment....The Daily North Shore profiled Stuart Strahl, president and CEO of the Chicago Zoological Society, which operates the Brookfield Zoo. “Our mission is to inspire people and engage them in caring about wildlife,” he says. Hired in 2003, Stuart oversees a $60 million operating budget at the zoo, which attracts more paying customers — 2.3 million annually — than any other cultural institution in the Midwest. “When I give people an experience with an animal they’ve never had before and to have their face light up — I see that spark that ignited my own passion for wildlife and con-

ALE

X SC

ALA

servation,” he says....Elizabeth Strout says the HBO adaptation of Olive Kitteridge, her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is “its own thing.” When she attended an advance screening of the mini-series, a network staffer handed her a package of tissues, she told the Maine Sunday Telegram. “I thought, ‘Oh, please, I wrote this, I’m not going to need these.’ But I did need them. I was aware I had come up with this, but (the film) is so much its own thing that I’d lose myself. Then I’d say, ‘Oh right, of course that happens.’ ”...Peter Sucsy reports daughter Anna ’17 has had an incredible Bates experience thus far....Keith Taylor received a Bates’ Best award as one of the college’s most valuable and hard-working volunteers, especially as a dedicated Bates Fund class agent. One year he rallied 122 classmates to give and reconnect with Bates. In the most recent recruitment process he found 12 new agents. “With relentless positivity,” his citation reads, “you help your fellow alumni see clearly the value and benefits of supporting Bates.”...Deb Thyng Schmidt and Doug ’78 look forward to the college graduations in the next academic year of daughters Sarah from Colorado State and Amy ’16 from Bates. Deb plans a mutual 60th birthday weekend in October with Jennifer Malia Takahashi, Mary Trigg, Lisa Pelletier Ferguson, Cindy Rockwood Wang, and Martha Farr....Pam Walch Constantine works at The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund in Salem, Mass., and serves on the board of an affordable housing organization....Jackie Wolfe is starting a new business, coaching baby boomers to become experts of their own bodies....RoseAnne Wyand Holladay and husband Breck travel widely, including mission trips to Eastern Europe and Latin America.

1978Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class secretaryChip Beckwithchipwith@yahoo.com

class presidentDean M. Bermandean@oceanedgefoods.com

Mark Mickalide ’78 has been baking artisanal breads for 23 years. “People ask me if I get sick of it. How do you get sick of bread? That would be like get-ting sick of cold water on a hot day.”

Rick DeBruin is now classified advertising manager for the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram....Peter Edel-man, a fellow in research and development at Boston Scientif-ic, was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Insti-tute for Medical and Biological Engineering....Mary Henderson Pressman received a Bates’ Best award. A Bates trustee and mother of Emily Pressman ’10, she chairs the Committee on Campus Life, staying close to the student experience. A former college admission professional, she has served for many years as an Alumni-in-Admission volun-teer. Besides serving as a Bates Fund class agent, as a member of the Bates Fund Committee and the Bates Athletics Leadership Council, she and her husband Ronald joined the Benjamin Bates Society in recognition of surpassing $1 million in lifetime gifts to the college....The Portland Press Herald caught up with Mark Mickalide, owner of Black Crow Bakery in Litchfield. “Twenty-three years into making bread at his rustic 1780 farmhouse, Mickalide has pretty much figured out a recipe for the good life,” the newspaper said. Mark bakes 750 loaves each week of artisanal breads that are sold at the bakery and at eight stores in Maine. He has a family heritage in bread-making, the trade his Greek grandfather plied when he first came to the U.S. With his wife, Tinker, he has built a comfortable career and lifestyle. “People ask me if I get sick of it. How do you get sick of bread? That would be like getting sick of cold water on a hot day.”

1979Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class secretaryMary Rafterymgraftery@gmail.com

class presidentJanice McLeanjanmcle@charter.net

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley appointed Dana Petersen Moore to the Baltimore Board of License Commissioners....Sue Schulze Kozik joined Group Health Cooperative in Seattle as executive vice president and chief information officer. Sue is a Bates trustee....Lee Lynd, a professor at Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering, and a colleague founded the Mascoma Corp. in 2006 to convert waste paper sludge and inedible biomass into ethanol fuel to help wean the world off its addiction to crude oil. Last fall, the Lebanon, N.H., company made a long-hoped financial score by selling off its chief asset — a genetically modified yeast that makes it cheaper to produce ethanol — to Lallemand Inc., a Canadian developer and produc-er of yeast and bacteria products.

Lallemande had already been making and selling Mascoma’s proprietary yeast to ethanol plants around the country since 2012. Lee told the Valley News, “I am proud that Mascoma became a viable commercial enterprise, of the company’s team and culture, and that technology has been de-veloped that can make a positive difference in the world.”

1980Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class secretaryChristine Tegeler Benemancbeneman@gmail.com

class presidentMary Mihalakos Martuscellomary@martuscellolaw.com

Richard Broome is executive vice president of corporate affairs and communications for The Hertz Corp., based in Naples, Fla....Dave Trull and Nick Kofos ran their 12th Annual CFC Golf Tournament two summers ago. The surprise winner was John Whiting ’78, his first win, at anything, Dave insists. Defending champ Brad Smith succeeded in his strategy of not defending his title. David Greaves begged off from playing in the event for the 12th straight year but promised to make it “one of these years.”...After nine years, Kim Wettlaufer stepped down as the head of the Trinity Jubilee Center, Lewiston’s loose, come-as-you-are community center and soup kitchen. He made few rules during that time, the Sun Journal reported. “Rules wouldn’t work. It’s like a family, a little dysfunctional at times, but it’s a family,” Kim said. Now a volunteer at Trinity, the former All-American runner continues coaching the Lewiston High cross-country team and working as one of four partners who own a dozen Subway restaurants. Erin Reed ’08, Trinity’s devel-opment director, succeeded him as executive director. Erin, who began volunteering at Trinity as a Bates freshman, said she wants to be there for decades. “This is my place. I love it here.”

1981Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class secretaryKatherine Baker Lovellcklovell@verizon.net

class presidentKathleen Tucker Burkesburke4155@aol.com

Kathy Baker Lovell remains development director of Bridge of Hope Lancaster & Chester Counties, raising funds to help homeless single mothers and children move into permanent housing....Seacoastonline caught up with the Rev. Lillian Buckley, a Kittery native who for the last 15 years served as the pastor of Bow Lake Free Will Baptist Church in Strafford, N.H. Feel-

ing that the time had come to move on to something new, she recently resigned that position and is exploring new ways of serving while she teaches philos-ophy and world religion at Great Bay Community College. Talking about her life experiences — she is also a musician and a visual artist — Lillian recalled working with battered women and hospital patients while earning a master’s at Harvard’s School of Divinity. “I feel I was born to be involved in people’s lives at the worst times of their lives,” she said....Craig Comins is a vice president for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America,...Thankful to stay afloat in grant funding in science at the Univ. of Washington, Leslay Correll Schecterson has a sewing business on the side....Laurel Dallmeyer is a family physician, with some of the same patients for 26 years....Maria Galvagna Mesinger, a partner at Lawson & Weitzen in Boston, sits on the board of her town library with Eva Hamori ’84....Francine Garland Stark, who has been working in the movement to end violence against women for 30 years, is the executive director of Hope and Justice Project in Aroostook County....Sparky Gardner is vice president of NJR Clean Energy Ventures in Wall, N.J....Gary Paul Gilbert works for NY State Assembly-member Michael DenDekker as community liaison....Walter Hoerman runs Lilac City Pediat-rics, providing pediatric care in southeastern New Hampshire....Scott Keenen enjoys applying his B.S. in physics as a HR execu-tive in the oil and gas industry....Practicing equine medicine in the Hudson Valley, Linda Kutrubes is also a union actor with many credits....Patti Lane had another successful winter of ski racing with New England Masters, culminating in being named to the USSA Masters Eastern Regional Team....Valerie Lasserre Coppens and Vincent travel widely across Europe and have a house in Bretagne, France....Anne Loewenthal Shain says her homemaker job continues to evolve and satisfy....Sue Lovett got together with Felicia Garant ’82, Melissa Weisstuch ’82, Kathy Stien Kastrinelis and Mike Kastrine-lis ’82, Ed Stanley, and Mindy Hanssen ’80....Nancy Madsen Cummings started a new job at the Mayo Clinic. She is the head team orthopedic physician for the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA and a team physician for the Timberwolves....Minoo Malek Saghri will join husband Faraj, who was transferred to London, once their twin sons enter college in the fall. She at-tended Karen Just’s daughter’s wedding and was with Kate Hickson on a sailing trip.... M.C. McNeill McBain celebrat-ed 34 years with IBM....Jean Monahan is a senior manager

Fall 201566

bates notes

bates notes

Fall 2015 67

media outlet: Canadian Business

headline: CEO of the Year 2014: Louis Vachon of National Bank

date: Nov. 5, 2014

takeaway: Not every problem needs to be fixed fast

Louis Vachon ’83, president and CEO of the National Bank of Canada, tells Canadian Business magazine, which named Vachon its top CEO of 2014, that he got hooked on finance during his first year at Bates, reading Paul Erdman’s novel The Billion Dollar Sure Thing (it was on the syllabus of his economics class) about financial markets.

Vachon took over as the National Bank’s CEO in 2007. Reporter Joe Castaldo writes that Vachon had previously worked on the trading side of the bank, where rapid-fire decision- making is de rigueur, so he was “used to mak- ing decisions quickly, which doesn’t fly in the CEO suite.”

Vachon explains that he “had to learn that not every problem has to be solved in the next five minutes, and you can investigate and vali-date a little more before making a decision.”

On the other hand, when a decision needs to be made, Vachon will make it. “More value is being destroyed by analysis paralysis than by bad decisions.”

takeaway:Louis Vachon ’83

of interactive marketing at the Partners hospital in Salem, Mass....Buddy Pope sells real estate at the Bean Group in Bedford, N.H. Marcy Irwin Pope teaches art and enters shows....Winnie Skeates was ordained to the diaconate in the Episcopal Church and expects to join the priesthood by year-end. She connected with Jim Amaral ’80, Dolores Carbonneau ’80, Deb Burwell ’80, Rachel Fine Moore ’80 and her husband Harry Dodson....Scott Smith works as director of commercial operations for Hyundai Capital. Cathy Barry Smith is a certified volunteer instructor for Canine Assistance, which trains service dogs....Kathy Stien Kastrinelis and Mike ’82 are grateful to Bates friends for their love and support after the death of their daughter Jackie....Rick Sullivan is now CEO of the nonprofit Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts....Jean Wilson returned to Bates for a dance re-union that honored Marcy Plavin, founder of the Bates Modern Dance Company. She enjoyed this spectacular event along with 100 past and present Bates danc-ers. She was excited to perform a dance that was created that day. In her professional life, Jean has been at L.L. Bean for 18 years and is the senior vice president of information technology. She and her husband have four children, two of whom are Bates graduates. They just welcomed their first grandchild into the family!... Yvonne van Bodengraven works for Salem, Mass., public schools, enjoying the diversity of its school system.

1982Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class secretaryJerry Donahoemaineescape@aol.com

class presidentNeil Jamiesonnjlaw@maine.rr.com

Jennifer Begel Riggle, who specializes in business and health care law, joined the law firm Bernstein Shur as a share-holder in its Portland office....Walter Dillingham, managing director for endowments and foundations at Wilmington Trust, authored a study on independent schools in New York state and the convergence of factors pressuring them. Independent schools nationally, which represent 10 percent of K–12 students, face flat and declining enrollments; great pressure to expand programs and facilities; and rising tuition costs that impact affordability. These trends all point to a more important role for fundraising and endowment management, he said....Wayne State Univ. Law School Professor Gregory Fox was a scholar-in-residence in June at the law firm WilmerHale in London. He’s researching an

ongoing project on “The Mul-tilateralization of Armed Con-flict.”...The Gazette-Times caught up with Roen Hogg, in his third term as a volunteer city councilor in Corvallis, Ore. He recently retired as a computer project manager for the state of Oregon and now has more free time. He took up the accordion at age 50 and performs monthly. “It was a challenge,” he said. “I would leave at 5:30 in the morning, rush home, get my lesson, and head off to an executive (council) session. I made a commitment to practice every day. But I was always rushing off to a meeting.” He and his partner, Doug Eaton, were married in 2014 soon after same-sex marriage became legal in Oregon....Biofuels Digest talked with Michele Jalbert, chief operating officer of re:chem, The Renewable Chemicals and Materials Alliance. She calls it “an exceptionally nimble alliance of elite renewable chemical companies....We advance federal policies laser-focused on the dis-crete needs of this bioeconomy subset.” Michelle said that “being laid off 15 years ago was the best thing that ever happened to me. I ended up on Capitol Hill, dis-covered the intoxicating sense of helping bring about change in the world and never looked back.”...Jon Marcus is higher-educa-tion editor for The Hechinger Report and a higher-education correspondent for The Times of London as well as a journalism instructor at Boston College....Jeff Melvin was named a vice president for enterprise sales for the Americas at SevOne....Jean Thompson, founder and CEO of Seattle Chocolates, returned to campus to be interviewed by Bates Trustee Steve Fuller, CMO at L.L. Bean, for Bates’ “Pur-poseful Work Unplugged” series. The Q&A sessions with notable alumni, faculty, and staff focus on career trajectories and the traits that support meaningful work.

1983Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class secretaryLeigh Peltierlpeltier@prestonagency.com

class co-presidentsJames D. Tobinjamestobin@att.netTerence M. Welchtwelch@mfs.com

Louis Vachon ’83, named 2014 CEO of the Year by Canadian Business Magazine, is a voracious reader, juggling seven or eight books at a time. “It’s like candy.”

Fall 201568

Linda Walters ’83 poses with Trish Morse ’60 after receiving the Patricia Morse Award last winter.

In the Name of ScienceGetting a professional award is great. Having a personal connection to its namesake is even better When Linda Walters ’83, professor of biology at the University of Central Florida, received an award last winter for her contributions to science education, she sure didn’t need any briefing on the award’s namesake.

That's because the award, for excellence and innovation in science education, is named for M. Patricia Morse, a 1960 Bates alumna and a nationally known marine biologist and science educator.

And, says Walters, Morse was “the first person to speak to me at Bates about graduate school opportunities.”

For her part, Morse says she is “so proud of this award — and then to have it awarded to Linda, a Bates graduate! That was wonderful.” A Bates trustee emerita, Morse has also served as an NSF program director and consultant, and is past president of Sigma Xi.

The award is sponsored by the Society for Inte- grative and Comparative Biology — Morse is a past president of that professional organization, too.

Today, Walters is the Pegasus Professor of Biology and director of the Center for Success of Women Faculty at UCF.

Linda Walters’ awardbit.ly/walters-morse

linda walters ’hc

Griff Braley is artistic director of the Heartwood Regional The-ater Co. in Damariscotta, which he founded in 2003 and where he has presented more than 80 productions. He also teaches acting and film at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle. His wife, Joy Tyner Braley, is executive director of Heartwood....Alumni, spouses, and friends, many of whom were Bates alpine skiers back in the day, headed out on a bucket-list bicycle ride from Maine to Vermont last fall. “A great weekend in a fantastic environment,” reports Victor Otley. Joining in were Craig Woodard ’86, Martha Gelbein Woodard ’86, Christoph Menzel ’82, Grace Samolis Menzel ’84, Kathy Bellucci, Randy Hoder, Tom Germano ’84, Monica Samolis ’87, David DeSantis ’84, Scott Lindsay ’84, Liz Stark Otley ’85, James Alden ’86, and Mark Stevens....Rock Hill, S.C., attorney Christo-pher Wellborn was installed as treasurer of the National Assn. of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

1984Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class secretaryHeidi Lovettblueoceanheidi@aol.com

class presidentLinda Cohen linda@lscdesignstudio.com

Foster’s Daily Democrat inter-viewed James Campbell of Dover, N.H., a dermatologist and community benefactor. Besides his dermatology practice, he formed the Skin Health Med Spa as a preventive measure. He and his staff have held clinics to advise kids about being outdoors in the sun and helped raise money for melanoma research and breast cancer survivors. He studied medicine at Dartmouth. “I was going to focus on heart studies when I was diagnosed with melanoma, which had some relevance as my family had some history with it. It changed my focus.”...David DeSantis, chief of staff at Reid Hospital in Rich-mond, Ind., received the Paul S. Rhoads Humanity in Medicine Award. The award recognizes a career distinguished by ex-cellence in compassionate care for patients and their families and outstanding support for the area’s health care community....Jim Weissman, chief business officer of Dicerna Pharmaceu-ticals in Cambridge, Mass., returned to Bates to talk about career success....Stephen Whet-stone joined Stroz Friedberg LLC, a global investigations, intelligence, and risk manage-ment company, as managing director and global lead of its data discovery practice. He’s based in Boston.

1985Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class secretaryElissa Bassbass.elissa@yahoo.com

class presidentLisa Virellovirello@comcast.net

Renowned metal-ware designer Michael Aram Wolohijian, known for his unique take on home furnishings and tableware, launched his first fine jewelry collection. It debuted at Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale’s, and his flagship store in New York City....Phillip Crawford Jr. published a book, The Mafia and the Gays, which looks at the mob’s involvement with gay bars from the post-war years through the mid-1980s. A retired New York attorney, he blogs about organized crime at Friends of Ours....The New York Times talk-ed with Patricia Hickson, the contemporary art curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, as the Hartford museum opened two permanent galleries dedicated to contemporary art. One work now on display is a rarely seen collage by Lee Kras-ner, Jackson Pollock’s wife, titled “Broken Gray.” “She was break-ing away from painting,” Patricia said of Krasner. “She started doing collages where she would tear up her discarded drawings along with work by Jackson Pollock and adhere them to canvas.” Noting several dribbles of black paint in Krasner’s collage, she said, “I look at these drips and I think, they have to be Pollock.”...Colleen Quint, interim executive director of Educate Maine, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald story about why it’s important to track the state’s progress on key education benchmarks. As the group released its second report on Maine education indicators, she noted that many education laws and policies, such as ones aimed at improving test scores, graduation rates, and expanding pre-K, are already in place. “We need to continue to pay attention to make sure the vision of those policies continues.” Colleen is president and CEO of the Alfond Scholarship Foundation.

1986Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class co-presidentsErica Seifert Plunkettericasplunkett@gmail.comAnne Robertsonanne-tom@juno.comBill Walshmessagebill@gmail.comCatherine Lathrop Strahanstrahanc@comcast.net

Sean Carlos was chairman of the 2014 Search and Social Media Marketing Expo in Milan, Italy, where he teaches at Bocconi Univ. and runs a digital

bates notes

Fall 2015 69

media outlet: The New York Times

headline: When the world went pop

date: April 8, 2015

takeaway: Think again when you think about Pop art

Darsie Alexander ’88 co-curated last summer’s show, International Pop, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The ambitious exhibi-tion, now at the Dallas Museum of Art, examines the various and surprising origins of the 1960s Pop art movement.

In its extensive review, The New York Times says the exhibition makes the case that Pop art, far from having a solely American birth, was “sprout in countless homegrown versions” worldwide, and that the term has, for too long, been “too narrow to encompass the revolution in thinking it represented for a generation of artists.”

Alexander, who in 2014 left the Walker to become director of the Katonah Museum of Art in Westchester County, N.Y., is credited by the Times with “tracing complex international crosscurrents” — fueled by jet travel, television, and the proliferation of picture magazines — that “led to germinations of Pop that are only now starting to be explored.”

takeaway:Darsie Alexander ’88

CHA

RLES

LEW

IS/T

HE

BU

FFA

LO N

EWS

to MODERN Magazine before the museum reopened last December. Interviewer Al Eiber, a collector and museum trustee, praised her “intelligence, dedication and enthusiasm — a perfect combination to lead the newly renamed museum to the next level.” Caroline said every aspect of the museum has been renovated and reimagined, with 60 percent more gallery space — 16,000 square feet. “We’ve also completely reinvigorated the visitor experience by incorpo-rating a number of interactive elements. Chief among these are a breakthrough Pen device, ultra-high-resolution digital tables, and dynamic spaces that encourage engagement. The Pen is really key to the whole experience” and in conjunction with the interactive tables “will allow visitors to play designer and explore the collection like never before.”...John Blanch-ette, who often acts and directs at L-A’s Community Little Theatre and coaches the Bates competitive ballroom dance team, joined the L/A Arts board.

1988Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class committeeMary Capaldi Carrmary.capaldi.carr@gmail.comAstrid Delfino Bernardflutistastrid@sbcglobal.netRuth Garretson Cameronruth.eg.cameron@gmail.comSteven Lewislewiss@umhelena.eduJulie Sutherland Plattjulielsp@verizon.net

Kelly Fitzpatrick Martin is operations manager of the Maine Women’s Fund, which focuses on advancing the eco-nomic security of women and girls....Steve Morin, a leader in higher education philanthro-py, is now vice president for university advancement at the Univ. of New Haven....Steven Robins was named president of Milestone Scientific Inc., a medical R&D company based in Livingston, N.J.

1989Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class secretaryDonna Waterman Douglass4498donnad@gmail.com

steering committeeSally Ehrenfriedsallye@alumni.bates.eduDeb Schiavi Cotedebscote@yahoo.com

Frank Barbieri is senior vice president of corporate development at YuMe, a video advertising technology company headquartered in Redwood City, Calif....Dancer-choreographer Michael Foley and his Fuzion Dance Artists previewed their spring concert and talked about the choreographic process at

marketing agency....Andrew Gorayeb is now the boys lacrosse head coach at Sisters High School in Sisters, Ore., where he is also city manager....Deborah Hansen, chef-own-er-sommelier of Taberna de Haro in Brookline, Mass., talked with The Boston Globe about wines she likes to recommend. She thinks wine drinkers should follow the example of Catalans in northeastern Spain who enjoy the sparkler cava any time of day. “It’s common to have a glass in the afternoon when friends come over,” she says. She thinks a cured gravlax-style salmon would be splendid with the cava, as well as squid ink paella, a spe-cialty of her restaurant....Rick Russell is the new president and CEO of GREER Laboratories Inc. in Lenoir, N.C. a developer and provider of allergy immuno-therapy products and services. He is also CEO of Ares Allergy Holdings Inc., which includes GREER and other allergy-fo-cused companies.

1987Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class secretaryVal Brickates Kennedybrickates@gmail.com

class presidentPeggy Brosnahanmmb263@cornell.edu

Caroline Baumann ’87, the new director of the expanded Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, says interactive technology “will allow visitors to play designer and explore the collec-tion like never before.”

Back from serving in the Peace Corps, Joyce Bareikis El Kouarti talked with Foster’s Daily Democrat in Dover, N.H., where she’s known for her roles with the Dover Chamber of Commerce, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, and the Moose Moun-tains Regional Greenways. In 2012, “my wanderlust returned full force” and she joined the Peace Corps, serving two years in Cameroon. She worked with NGOs to foster economic development among farmers, created village savings-and-loan associations and conducted HIV outreach campaigns. “It was a very rewarding two years of my life.”...Caroline Baumann, the new director of the expanded Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, gave a wide-ranging interview

the New College of Florida in Sarasota. Now an associate professor of dance at the Univ. of South Florida, Michael was the co-director of the Bates Dance Festival for 11 years....Russ Libby, PGA general manager at Hidden Hills Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla., and Jeff Price ’87, the new chief commercial officer of the PGA of America, got together at PGA headquar-ters in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. “We may be the only two Batesies involved with the PGA,” Russ wrote....Ian Wilson gave up his two coaching jobs at Water-ville High School to become an assistant track and field coach at Colby College. He won 25 state championships in track and field and two state titles in girls soccer as head coach of both sports at Waterville, where he continues as an English teacher....Catherine Wygant Fossett is executive director of the Institute for Family-Owned Business in Portland.

1990Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class secretaryJoanne Waltonjoannewalton2003@yahoo.com

class presidentEric Knighteric_knight@verizon.net

Rachel Clayton was named to the Bates Scholar-Athlete Society during Commencement Weekend at the college. In 1989, she was named Bates’ first All-American volleyball player and was a key member of the un-defeated Bobcat team that won the 1989 ECAC championship. The former executive chef at the Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton, Mass., she is now culinary director for Boston College High School — and, in her off hours, the lead singer for Aerochix, an all-female Aerosmith tribute band!...Maine Sunday Telegram art reviewer Daniel Kany praised Tom Denenberg for his leadership of the Shelburne (Vt.) Museum. Since Tom left his post as curator of the Portland Muse-um of Art to become director at Shelburne in 2011, “he has done amazing things in that short amount of time. Most notable is the new Pizzagalli building ... it’s a great building for art.”...Thomas Goetz, an acclaimed writer, entrepreneur, healthcare innovator, and leading voice in the ways technology connects to people’s lives and work, received a Bates’ Best award. “You are a Renaissance man for the digital era,” his citation says. His book The Remedy was selected for the Class of 2018’s Common Read. This spring he joined the college’s Purposeful Work pro-gramming as a guest speaker in five different courses, riffing on graphic design and healthcare, digital innovation, epidemiology, and social justice activism....Stephen Muggeo opened Ste-

phen S. Muggeo Psychotherapy LLC in Darien, Conn., providing individual, couples, and family psychotherapy. “After several years of living and working in California, Florida and Rhode Island, I am thrilled to return to Fairfield County where I grew up.”...Christian Poulin joined the certified public accounting firm Macpage LLC as an associ-ate....Lisa Utzschneider joined Yahoo as a senior vice president responsible for Yahoo’s adver-tising business across North and South America....Chris von Jako is now president and CEO of NinePoint Medical Inc. in Cam-bridge, Mass., which develops medical devices for advanced optical imaging.

1991Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class secretaryKatie Tibbetts Gatesktmorello@alumni.bates.edu

class presidentJohn Duckerjducker1@yahoo.com

Pamela Batchelder Johnson received a Bates’ Best award. A Bates Fund committee member, class agent, Reunion committee member, career adviser and Alumni-in-Admission volunteer, she became co-chair in 2013 of the Mount David Society, the college’s leadership giving soci-ety, serving alongside co-chair Jason Verner ‘95. “In nine short months you recruited new com-mittee members who are diverse along gender, class year, and geographic lines, helping make the MDS committee more rep-resentative of the entire Bates community,” her citation reads....Sports agent Peter Carlisle was named to the Maine Sports Hall of Fame....Marine Corps Maj. Jon Custis worked as an exercise planner at U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla., and completed a military exercise at Camp Edwards on Joint Base Cape Cod. “Locals to the Boston area may remember the stir caused by three Afghan officers who decided to take off and head to Canada to seek asylum. Yeah, those were participants in my exercise, and I got no small ration of ribbing from Dean Putnam when I visited him and Beth Doran before I returned to Florida.”...Jim James is the new head of school at Trinity School of Frederick, Md., an indepen-dent coed K-8th-grade school....Joshua Macht, executive vice president and group publisher at the Harvard Business Review, received a Bates’ Best award. “You are a tremendous partner to the Bates Career Develop-ment Center and to the college’s Purposeful Work Initiative, blending private-sector savvy with a firm commitment to the liberal arts,” his citation says. He hosted Bates students in Boston for the BCDC’s marketing com-munications roadshow and fa-

friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athlet-ics • alumni • stories • family • pride • connect •

volunteer • performance • research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest

• autumn • athletics • alumni • stories • family mily • pride • connect • volunteer • performance

research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athletics • alumni

• stories • family • pride • connect • volunteer • performance • research • classes • students •

bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athletics • alumni • stories • family • pride •

connect • volunteer • performance • research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate

• harvest • autumn • athletics • alumni • stories • es • family • pride • connect • volunteer • performance • research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athlet-ics • alumni • stories • family • pride • connect •

volunteer • performance • research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest

• autumn • athletics • alumni • stories • family ily • pride • connect • volunteer • performance •

research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athletics • alumni

• stories • family • pride • connect • volunteer • performance • research • classes • students •

bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athletics • alumni • stories • family • pride •

connect • volunteer • performance • research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate

• harvest • autumn • athletics • alumni • stories • • family • pride • connect • volunteer • perfor

mance • research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athlet

ics • alumni • stories • family • pride • connect • volunteer • performance • research • classes •

students • bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athletics • alumni • stories • family

ily • pride • connect • volunteer • performance • research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athletics • alumni

• stories • family • pride • connect • volunteer • performance • research • classes • students •

bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athletics • alumni • stories • family • pride •

connect • volunteer • performance • research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athletics • alumni • stories

• family • pride • connect • volunteer • perfor-mance • research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athlet-ics • alumni • stories • family • pride • connect •

volunteer • performance • research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest

• autumn • athletics • alumni • stories • family ily • pride • connect • volunteer • performance •

research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athletics • alumni

• stories • family • pride • connect • volunteer • performance • research • classes • students •

bobcats • friends • celebrate • harvest • autumn • athletics • alumni • stories • family • pride •

connect • volunteer • performance • research • classes • students • bobcats • friends • celebrate

• harvest • autumn • athletics • alumni • stories • ies • family • pride • connect • volunteer • performance • research • classes • students • bobcats •

BACK

TO BA

TES 20

I5h

omec

omin

g an

d fa

mil

y w

eeke

nd: o

ctob

er b -d

Lea

rn m

ore:

bat

es.e

du/b

ackt

obat

es

lisa genova ’IB

Still PowerfulAt left, Lisa Genova ’92 poses with the women who brought her novel Still Alice to the screen last year. Julianne Moore (fourth from left), who played the title role of Alice Howland, a linguistics professor diagnosed with familial Alzheimer’s, won the Best Actress Oscar in February. From left, Genova; Kristen Stewart, actor; Sandy Oltz, early-stage adviser for the Alzheimer’s Association; Moore; Maria Shriver, execu- tive producer; Pam Koffler, producer; Dr. Maria Carrillo, Alzheimer’s Association chief science officer and film adviser; and Elizabeth Gelfand Stearns, co-producer.

cilitated an internship program between Bates and Harvard Business Publishing. He joined other Bates business leaders for the Purposeful Work speaker series....Media outlets including Newsweek covered research by Ed Meloni suggesting that xenon gas could hold the key to “unencoding” traumatic mem-ories, such as those that tormet sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder. When rats and mice were exposed to the noble gas gas, the rodents stopped con-necting a traumatic event — in this case a small electric shock — to continued feelings of distress. “The results suggest it could be used as a tool to help people suf-fering from post-traumatic stress disorder,” reports Newsweek....Debbie Parrott is now president of Highmark TechSystems in Fort Wayne, Ind., a supplier and developer of advanced modular exhibit systems for exhibit designers and producers.

1992Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class committeeAmi Bergerami_berger@hotmail.com Kristin Bierly Magendantzkristin.magendantz@trincoll.eduKristen Downs Brunoalfredbruno@sbcglobal.netRoland Davisrdavis@bates.edu Peter Friedmanpeterjfriedman@gmail.comLeyla Morrissey Baderleyla.bader@gmail.comJeff Mutterperljeffmutterperl@aol.com

Lori Haskins Houran ’92 has written more than 20 children’s books. “When I write, my audience is myself at age 6, because I still remember that feeling.”

Kaela Curtis, a high school Spanish teacher in Hanover, Mass., talked with Wicked Local about her job. She taught for 10 years, took time off with her daughters and is now in her third year in Hanover. The best thing about teaching is “when students tell me they heard, spoke, or read some-thing in Spanish outside of the classroom. That’s when I know I’m helping them to connect to a bigger picture.”...Rush Filson is a lieutenant colonel now and the commanding officer of Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment. He leads 1,385 Marines and sailors in a ground combat task force assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit. “We’re currently deployed to the Middle East as a crisis

response force, postured to conduct a wide range of military operations in support of our national security objectives. Living the ‘interesting times’ Chinese proverb out here would be an understatement, and I can’t help but say that my Bates experiences are serving me well when making multi-dimensional decisions. I only wish my Officer Candidate School classmate Maj. Jon Custis ’91 and former Army Specialist Dean Putnam ’91 were with me.”...The Palm Beach Daily News (Fla.) caught up with local author Lori Haskins Houran as she offered a class on writing children’s books at the Palm Beach Recreation Center. Lori, a former editorial director at Golden Books and senior editor at Random House, is a mother of two and has written more than 20 children’s books. She calls them the purest form of reading. “As a kid, I would read to escape and for pure joy. When I write, my audience is myself at age 6, because I still remember that feeling.”... News-week turned to John Tooker, an insect ecologist at the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences, who explains why slugs are deci-mating U.S. soybean crops. He says that an insecticide is killing

beetles that would otherwise keep slug populations in check. Slugs consume the insecticide, known as neonics, then ground beetles eat the poisonous slugs and die. As the beetle population suffers, their slug prey enjoy life with a smaller predator base. John’s research encourages scaled-back and more informed use of neonics, and he tells Newsweek that “one of my main concerns with neonics is that they’ve been used regardless of need.”...Carolyn Treiss is now executive director of Connecti-cut’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, which works to end sex discrimination.

1993Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class secretaryLisa A. Bousquetlisaannbousquet@gmail.com

class co-presidentsMichael F. Charlandmfc@wilkinsinvest.comJason R. Hanleyjhanley@wrightexpress.com

Michael Bosse, a lawyer in the Portland office of Bernstein Shur, co-authored a book, Building the Construction Case:

A Blueprint for Litigators, published by the American Bar Assn....Pianist Duncan Cumming and his Capital Trio paid tribute to the late pianist Frank Glazer at a concert in the Olin Arts Center....Anna Louise Englund and her husband Mark Arienti welcomed Anders Englund Arienti on March 23, 2014....David López-Carr was named a fellow of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science. He was recognized for advancing the scientific understanding of the coupled process of human population dynamics and environmental change. He is a professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Geography and director of the Human-Environment Dynamics Lab....Evan Medeiros is the senior director of Asian affairs for the U.S. National Security Council....The Portland Press Herald interviewed Jennifer Mooradian Levin, the new own-er of Chilton Furniture, known for its hand-crafted wood furni-ture and Shaker-inspired cherry designs. It has showrooms in Scarborough and Freeport. Jennifer and husband Jared live in suburban New York and spend summers in Ocean Park. “This is not only a chance to be

Fall 2015 71

bates notes

ALZ

HEI

MER

’S A

SSO

CIAT

ION

Fall 201572

Making WavesIsland swim raises $150,000 to create innovative curricula for dyslexia “I’m sort of going back to kindergarten right now, which is totally cool,” said Dean Bragonier ’95.

A former Bates varsity swimmer, he was back on campus and back in the pool in May for a coaching session at Tarbell Pool with Bates swimming head coach Peter Casares.

A social entrepreneur, Bragonier was getting in shape for his 27-leg, 50-mile summertime swim around Martha’s Vineyard to raise aware-ness and funds for the nonprofit NoticeAbility.

He successfully completed the swim on Aug. 16, raising $150,414 along the way.

NoticeAbility seeks to create curriculum for students with dyslexia and to capitalize on the neurological and cognitive strengths of students with dyslexia that are reflected in abilities in entrepreneurship, engineering, architecture, and the arts.

Bragonier and his wife, Sally Taylor, both have dyslexia.

Getting into shape meant a lot of work. But work is something he’s used to.

“My dyslexia has enabled me to cultivate a work ethic that I would never have achieved without it because I had to work twice as hard as everybody else,” Bragonier says.

dean bragonier ’ie

creative, but it will deepen my connections to Maine and also, hopefully, get us (to move there) permanently,” she said....Aaron Worth, assistant professor of rhetoric at Boston Univ., pub-lished a book, Imperial Media: Colonial Networks and Informa-tion Technologies in the British Literary Imagination, 1857–1918 (Ohio State Univ. Press).

1994Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class secretaryJonathan Liljajonathanlilja@gmail.com

class co-presidentsCourtney L. Fleishercourtney.fleisher@gmail.comJonathan M. Lewisjlewjlew@mac.com

Writer Ru Seneviratne Freeman received the 2014 Janet Hedinger Kafka Prize for Fiction, presented by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies at the Univ. of Rochester. The award was given for her novel On Sal Mal Lane, about a Sri Lankan neighborhood in the years leading up to the country’s civil war. She returned to Bates in March to read from her work....The Boston Globe interviewed John Morrissey for a story about Little League’s adaptive baseball program for children with cognitive and physical disabilities. John, director of alumni relations and head baseball coach at Middlesex School in Concord, Mass., has coached Challenger baseball for a decade. He uses the program to help challenged players — and his privileged students at the school where he works — to gain confidence and self-respect. “I think the game can teach kids a lot — about handling adversity, responding in a positive way,” he said....Craig Nussbaum has been promoted to senior vice presi-dent at Waramaug LS Hotels in Boca Raton, Fla.

1995Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class co-secretariesScott Marchildonsmarchildon@une.eduPhilip Pettisppettis@nhlawfirm.com

class co-presidentsJason Vernerjcv@nbgroup.comDeborah Nowak Vernerdebverner@gmail.com

Brian Eckblom, a 10-year veteran of the South Windsor (Conn.) Police Department, was promoted to agent. He is assigned as a school resource officer at South Windsor High School. He completed a master’s at Central Connecticut State Univ....Heather Josselyn-Cran-son, an associate professor of music at Northwestern College

in Orange City, Iowa, won a hymn writing contest sponsored by Southern Methodist Univ.’s Perkins School of Theology. The contest sought hymns that focus on the struggles and hopes of working people. Heather’s hymn touched on seeking justice through neighborly love, living wages, fair working conditions, and speaking out against abuse.

1996Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class co-presidentsAyesha Farag-Davisfaragdavis@aol.comJames D. Lowejameslowemaine@yahoo.com

Andrew Cyr returned to Bates to lead his Metropolis Ensemble chamber orchestra as they performed a world premiere by Bates composer William Matthews and other works....The Boston Globe and other media reported on singer-songwriter Mark Erelli’s homage to the late folksinger Bill Morrissey. Believing that Morrissey’s legacy isn’t as celebrated as it should be, Mark pays tribute on Milltowns, his ninth solo album, with 12 interpretations of Morrissey’s songs, plus an original that relays the story of their friendship. “You could look at this as ‘Mark Erelli Sings Bill Morrissey,’ but I came to think of it as personal of a project, or maybe more, than anything I’ve ever done,” Mark says....Tyler Fish, a wilderness expedition leader for Voyager Outward Bound in Ely, Minn., spoke at Bates as part of the Bates Outing Club’s 95th anniversary celebration....Boston-based documentary filmmakers Amy Geller and Allie Humenuk have nearly finished The Guys Next Door, their feature-length documentary that celebrates a new and inclusive family: Erik Mercer ’91 and Sandro Sechi, a married gay couple with two daughters birthed by their friend Rachel Segall ’91. Rachel and her husband, Tony Hurley ’91, have three biological children of their own and have been close friends with Erik since their Bates days. The film premieres in 2016. (See Bates Magazine online Winter 2011 issue.)....Jo-seph Kim appeared in the West Coast premiere of Takarazuka!!!, produced by the East West Play-ers, an Asian American theater organization in Los Angeles....Devens MacMillan Hamlen welcomed Noor Jahan Post Hamlen on Oct. 26, 2014....Col-leen Matlen Ippolito and Jamie live in Cumberland, Maine, with their two children. She works as HR director at MaineToday and has taken up running, including two marathons. He’s a partner at Dirigo Design & Development, a web/ecommerce marketing and design firm....Jason Ryan was promoted to chief financial officer at Foundation Medicine

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

bates notes

Fall 2015 73

media outlet: The Boston Globe

headline: Allagash’s Interlude started as an accident

date: Jan. 21, 2015

takeaway: A little experimentation can turn bad beer to good.

Allagash brewmaster Jason Perkins ’97 tells beer blogger Gary Dzen ’05 of The Boston Globe how the brewery created its Interlude beer by accident.

A decade ago, the Portland brewery found a “rogue yeast” in a batch of beer. Brewers tend to fear rogue yeasts for good reason — they can destroy beer. So the brewery dumped that batch, but the story didn’t end there.

The rogue yeast was a strain of Brettano-myces, a wild yeast that, with some daring, can be used to make good beer. And that’s what Perkins did, creating Interlude, where the yeast joins a complex brewing process to craft one of Allagash’s “wild fermentations” — beers crafted with wild strains of yeast.

“It’s a little sour but mostly fruity,” writes Dzen, “a little funky but not enough to remind you of wet socks.”

takeaway:Jason Perkins ’97

Inc. in Cambridge, Mass....Steven Young was named vice president-marketing director at Bank of Canton (Mass.).

1997Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class co-secretariesChris Gaileygaileycj@gmail.comLeah Wiedmann Gaileyleah.gailey@gmail.com

class presidentStuart B. Abelsonsabelson@oraclinical.com

Stu Abelson, CEO of Ora Inc., a leading ophthalmic clinical re-search and product development firm, received the Bruce Stan-gle ’70 Award for Distinguished Service to the Bates Community from the Alumni Assn. His citation reads: “You not only love Bates, you show us how much, too. We honor your leadership in business, your contributions to the career development of so many Bates students and alumni, and your skill as an ambassador of the liberal arts who speaks distinctively about Bates’ capacity to prepare students for lives of purposeful work.”...Rob Blood is one of the new owners of the 113-year-old Whitehall Inn in Camden, Maine, which underwent a $1.7 million cos-metic lift and reopened with a new restaurant. On the National Registry of Historic Places, the inn is associated with poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and the movie Peyton Place. “The Whitehall has a great tradition of hospitality. We want to be good stewards of it,” Rob told the Pen Bay Pilot....Nathan Cole, a partner at Heifetz Rose in Needham, made the 2014 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list of Rising Stars for the second straight year. The announcement was sent in by Monica Rodriguez ’12, a legal intern and paralegal with the firm....Billy Hayes joined Southeast Toyota Distributors in Deerfield Beach, Fla., as vice president of sales operations....Jack Martilotta, an Iraq war veteran, teaches science and coaches the varsity football team in the Greenport, N.Y., school district....Boston TV station WCVB visited Eric Stirling’s West Branch Pond Camps near Greenville, which calls itself Maine’s longest continuously operating sporting camp. The camps have been in Eric’s family since 1910. “We like it just the way it is,” he said. “We like to keep it real, authentic, rustic, and made from original materi-als in the area.” That’s not to say things never change. “You really have to expand what you offer because the fishing crowd, it just isn’t what it used to be. What we see a lot more is couples looking for just peace and quiet. It’s more of the eco-tourism type thing.”...The Boston Globe spoke with Matt Tavares about his latest book, Growing Up Pedro,

which chronicles pitcher Pedro Martinez’s journey from the Dominican Republic to Fenway Park. Matt, the author and illustrator of more than a dozen children’s books, met Martinez in 2012 while both were signing books for a Jimmy Fund event. Unlike his earlier books profiling historic players like Babe Ruth and Ted Williams, Matt added, “it was great to be able to draw on my own memories of being at Fenway and watching Pedro pitch.” After all, “he was the greatest pitcher any of us have ever seen.”

1998Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class committeeRob Curtisrobcurtis79@gmail.comDouglas Beersdouglas.beers@gmail.comLiam Leduc Clarkeldlc639@yahoo.comRenée Leduc Clarkerleducclarke@gmail.comTyler Munoztylermunoz@gmail.com

Annie Bourdon is founder and executive director of CarShare Vermont, Vermont’s first car-sharing organization. A sustainable-transportation enthusiast, she has been involved in the car-sharing industry since its arrival in the U.S. over a decade ago....Erica Ellis Suter was named a Best Lawyer Under 40 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Assn. She has a solo criminal defense appellate and post-conviction practice in Maryland and has successfully advocated for the modification or vacatur of six of her clients’ life sentences and convictions based on actual innocence, due process violations, or ineffective assis-tance of counsel....Mike Ferrari, wife Meg, and big brother Rowan welcomed second son Quinn Robert Mitchell on Nov. 7, 2014.

1999Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class secretaryJennifer Lemkin Bouchardjlemkin@alumni.bates.edu

class presidentJamie Ascenzo Trickettjamie.trickett@gmail.com

Orion Magazine says Hannah Sessions ’99 and Greg Bernhardt ’99 are examples of “The New Farmers,” young farmers commit-ted to small-scale ag-riculture out of a deep environmental ethic.

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

Fall 201574

media outlet: Forbes

headline: Penney Wise: Q-and-A with Dynasty Financial Partners CEO Shirl Penney

date: April 27, 2015

takeaway: Entrepreneurs can’t rely on past success as a future predictor

In a Forbes Q&A with Shirl Penney ’99, CEO and founder of Dynasty Financial Partners, reporter Dan Simon notes that Penney has developed “a game-changing integrated platform of technology and services for top independent financial advisors.”

Penney left a major brokerage house five years ago to create Dynasty.

Describing the intensity of building a com- pany, Penney tells Simon that “when you go out on your own, your business card has just your name on it. Period. And to a certain extent what you did in the past does not matter.”

“Raising capital, attracting people to make your vision theirs, convincing clients to come on board early, managing expectations at home, and not wavering on your belief in yourself can be difficult....Then, when you launch, it gets harder.”

takeaway:Shirl Penney ’99

Orion Magazine cited Hannah Sessions and Greg Bernhardt as examples of “The New Farm-ers,” young farmers who have committed themselves to small-scale agriculture, largely out of a deep environmental ethic. In 2000 the couple established Blue Ledge Farm in Leicester, Vt., their family-owned and run goat dairy and cheesemaking op-eration. Their cheeses have won national awards, and Blue Ledge received the Editors’ Choice Food Award from Yankee Maga-zine in 2013....Sachi Feris start-ed a blog, Raising Race Conscious Children, for parents who are trying to talk to their children about race. She describes herself as a white, Jewish woman of Russian, Polish, Lebanese, Syri-an, and Cuban descent. She and her husband, who is from Ar-gentina, have a young daughter and speak Spanish as a family....Writer and sociologist Rebecca Gasior Altman published an essay in Aeon Magazine about the legacy of plastics and being the daughter of a former plas-tics-maker. She recounts a 2013 visit she made with her father to the grounds of the former Union Carbide plant in Bound Brook, N.J., the birthplace of modern plastics, where her father worked for a decade. She writes that “all living organisms have absorbed the products of 20th century petrochemistry.... And though we already have clear reason for concern about [the role of industrial chemicals] in human health, development, and reproduction, not even the sci-entists know exactly what their combined presence means for our future.” Rebecca, who serves on the board of the Science and Environmental Health Network, is writing a book about the legacy of persistent pollutants....Liz Kay is the new head girls basketball coach at Wahconah High School in Dalton, Mass....Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard received a Bates’ Best award for her leadership as “a voice for the diverse and engaged universe of Bates graduates.” An Alum-ni-in-Admission volunteer, a career adviser through the Bates Career Development Center, and a member of her Reunion Gift Committee, Jenn in 2013 became president of the Alumni Assn., “where you led a culture change within the Alumni Council, helping to reimagine the role of the group to better serve the entire alumni community,” her citation reads....Todd McCoy works at the Hanger Clinic of the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford as a certified orthotist, making and fitting medical supportive devices for pediatric patients. “I have a strong desire to introduce new technology to the pediatric population and to their referring physicians to improve patients’ rehabilitative pathways. Technology will continue to alter our professional landscape

and offer new possibilities for treatment,” he told OandP.com, a website dedicated to orthotics and prosthetics information....Julie Weiswasser and Andrew Hyman were married Nov. 8, 2014. She’s a senior counsel in Wyndham Worldwide Corp.’s legal department. He’s a director in the legal department of Goo-gle’s New York office.

2000Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class secretaryCynthia Macht Linkcynthiafriedalink@gmail.com

class co-presidentsJennifer Glassman Jacobsjenniferellenjacobs@gmail.comMegan Shelleymhshelley@aol.com

Taylor Lee and David Carlson ’00 spent their wedding day scaling high rope courses, zip-lining, bouncing on bungee trampolines, and water-skiing until about an hour before the ceremony.

Jonathan Adler, assistant professor of psychology at Olin College of Engineering, continues to get media attention for his re-search that suggests that the way we tell our own stories — our narratives — affects our mental health. “[Y]ou have a choice in how the narrative plays out,” he told The Wall Street Journal. “You tell the story and the story really matters.” As the Journal reporter wrote, “[P]eople who frame events in their lives — even negative ones — in positive ways have better mental health, and those who frame events in negative ways have poorer mental well-being.” Jonathan also spoke about his work for a WBUR and Slate podcast....Karen Bilodeau, a partner in the Topsham firm McTeague Higbee, is listed in the 2015 edition of The Best Lawyers in America....Taylor Lee and David Carlson were married Oct. 4, 2014. She’s a human resources consultant at Deloitte in Man-hattan. He’s a senior manager at American Express. The New York Times recounted how they met, playing on opposing volleyball teams in TriBeCa. “We had so much in common,” Taylor said, in particular their desire to seek out adventure. The two spent their wedding day scaling high rope courses, zip-lining, bouncing on bungee trampolines and water-skiing until about an hour before the ceremony....Jason Coulie returned to

baseball nearly 15 years after he was drafted in the ninth round by the Anaheim Angels. Jason, a three-sport star at Bates, played minor league baseball for several seasons before his career was cut short due to injury. Last fall, playing for the Tri-Valley Shockers in the Men’s Senior Baseball League in California, the 36-year-old outfielder was the championship tournament MVP, hitting .625 with nine RBI and six doubles....The Springfield (Mass.) Republican caught up with Nick Deysher, who’s now a music teacher at Smith College’s Fort Hill Center for Early Childhood Education and continues his side career as a children’s music artist. Nick, whose new CD is called Fun O’Clock!, also appeals to adults with his diverse kinds of music. “I go through my record catalog and think of what it would be like if Queen or the Rolling Stones or Johnny Cash wrote a kids’ song. So I think of bands or artists that I like and try to emulate the sounds they are producing.”...The New Hamp-shire Union Leader named Steve Dutton one of its “40 Under For-ty” professional and volunteer leaders. A lawyer at McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton in Manchester, Steve volunteers on the Goffstown School Board and the YMCA Allard Center Advisory Board....Lindy Forrest-er works as an ESL high school teacher with immigrants, mostly unaccompanied minors from Central and South America, and serves as the ESL liaison for the STEM program. She made a presentation at the TESOL inter-national conference. She enjoys life in Jamaica Plain, Mass., with her kitten and nieces and has a monthly symphony date with her dad....The Kennebunk Post profiled Lisa Howe Dries, an OB/GYN at PrimeCare Women’s Health Clinic in Biddeford and the author of four children’s books. Her books grew out of the bedtime stories she told daugh-ters Maddie and Anna — little morality plays with anthropo-morphic characters based on animals the girls knew from the family farm in Kennebunkport where Lisa and husband Bill raise organic-fed chickens and livestock. “The goal was to teach or reinforce those little life les-sons that we’ve all been taught, but in a fun way,” Lisa said....Maine Gov. Paul LePage named Carlisle Tuggey McLean, his chief legal counsel, to serve on the Maine Public Utilities Com-mission, an agency that plays a key role in the energy matters that lie at the heart of the gov-ernor’s policy priorities. Carlie told the Portland Press Herald that her biggest challenge will be to get a handle on rising electric rates. “We have an energy crisis upon us,” she said. “It continues to challenge the Legislature and

regulators in other New England states, as well.” On a personal note, she said her 1980s-era home in Cumberland reflects how Mainers adapt to changing energy markets. Her family relies on a pellet stove, oil burn-er, direct-vent propane heater and wood-burning fireplace to stay warm. On the road, she transports her young family in an all-wheel drive Mazda CX-5, a fuel-efficient crossover.

2001Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class secretaryNoah Petronpetro@gmail.com

class co-presidentsJodi Winterton Cobbjodimcobb@gmail.comKate Hagstrom Leporekhlepore@gmail.com

After seven years at the Massachusetts State House, most recently as chief of staff and general counsel to the Committee on Financial Services, Jen Crawford joined the newly rebranded law and legislative consulting firm of Smith, Costello & Crawford as a partner. “I’m enjoying this new opportunity and the ability to continue working on policy and legislative matters but from a different perspective.”...Jennifer Giblin and Noah Petro welcomed Amelia Petro on March 31, 2014....The Sun Journal reported on the close relationship between Victoria Wyeth and Sarah Blondin, who met in 1999 when Vic became a mentor to Sarah, then 11, under the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. They’ve remained so close that when Vic got married last year, Sarah was her maid of honor. Sarah, who now works in health care and is studying for a career in financial services, says of Vic: “I grew up with her. She has taught me to be independent, to take school and education very seriously.... I know we’re not blood, but we both think of each other as family.” Vic calls Sarah her best friend and says she got as much out of the relationship as Sarah did. While at Bates, “my parents’ marriage fell apart. It hurt. It was a big wound. Sarah helped me. I needed her as much as she needed me. She became my family.”

2002Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class secretaryStephanie L. Ebysteph.eby@gmail.com

class co-presidentsJay Surdukowskisurdukowski@sulloway.comDrew G. Weymouthweymouthd@gmail.com

John Dubzinski is the new head football coach at North Andover (Mass.) High School....For International Women’s Day, Vancity Buzz named Jessica Houssian one of “10 Vancouver women doing amazing things.” The Vancouver native works out of New York City with Women Moving Millions, a nonprofit that encourages women to make gifts of $1 million or more for the advancement of women and girls. Jessica also serves on the board of the Canadian Women’s Foundation....Andrea Irwin was named the executive director of the Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center in Bangor....Jen-nifer Sall of Lander, Wyo., was named to the Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse and Burro Management Board. She’s the program man-ager for the Rocky Mountain Branch of the National Outdoor Leadership School....Jay Surdu-kowski was elected a member of the law firm Sulloway & Hollis, based in Concord, N.H....Sing-er-songwriter Matthew Szlach-etka talked with the Springfield (Mass.) Republican while on tour to support his solo album Waits for a Storm to Find. The former lead singer of Northstar Session says he feels his work is more authentic as a solo artist. “There’s definitely a lot more autobiographical stuff on this album than I’ve written in the past. I think it’s my most honest work to date.”...Heang Kim Tan and Porthira Chhim were married Sept. 6, 2013....Courtney Mitchell and Ted Trafton were married Oct. 4, 2014. They live in Providence, R.I., where Ted continues to grow his wealth management practice.

2003Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class co-presidentsKirstin McCarthy Boehmkirstincboehm@gmail.comMelissa Wilcox Yanagimelissayanagi@gmail.com

Andrew Taylor ’03, co-owner of three Port-land restaurants, says, “Sometimes I think I am the luckiest guy in the world doing what I love every day. And sometimes I think it’s a curse because I need to be here every day.”

Sarah Donnell Bowen is the new director of marketing at The Watermill Group, a private investment firm in Lexington, Mass....Geoffrey Eisenberg

received a Bates’ Best award for strengthening and supporting the Bay Area Bates Network. “As the Network co-chair,” his citation reads, “you have made inroads with alumni of all ages. The Network’s events and steer-ing committee meetings have attracted new volunteers eager to build a strong Bates presence in San Francisco. That’s where you excel — in bringing people together.”...Olivia Ester is now vice president of financial services at Phoenix Marketing International, a market research firm....Carla Flaherty is now head women’s basketball coach at Roanoke (Va.) College. After starring in basketball at Bates, she was an assistant women’s hoops coach and co-women’s soccer coach at Bates....Leana Nordstrom and James Gifford were married Aug. 23, 2014....Graham Keithley is an associate in the law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in its aviation, aerospace, and transportation practice and works in Washington, D.C....Ellie Kreischer and Nathan Spangler were married June 14, 2014....Kirstin McCarthy Boehm and Eric welcomed Nash Daniel Boehm on Sept. 10, 2014. They live in Washington, D.C., where Kirstin works in international development. She was visited by Bates roommates Melissa Wilcox Yanagi, Maggie Parker Barlow, and Ali DeVita Mill-er....C.J. Neely is now head boys basketball coach at Franklin (Mass.) High School and a well-ness teacher and cross-country coach at Foxboro High School....Dominick and Kristin Smith Pangallo ’02 and big sister Aurelia welcomed Lucy Rachel Pangallo on Feb. 15, 2014. Domi-nick is chief of staff to the mayor of Salem, Mass. Kristin is an assistant chemistry professor at Salem State Univ....Chef Andrew Taylor and colleague Mike Wiley, semifinalists for a 2015 James Beard Foundation award, talked about their restaurant careers with the Portland Press Herald. They co-own Portland’s Eventide Oyster Company, Hugo’s, and The Honey Paw. Andrew, who always loved cook-ing, said, “I love the business side of running a restaurant. I enjoy being responsible for it. Trying to make good decisions, seeing those decisions pan out with the numbers. Sometimes I think I am the luckiest guy in the world doing what I love every day. And sometimes I think it’s a curse because I need to be here every day.”

2004Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class co-presidentsEduardo Crespoecrespo@alumni.bates.eduTanya Schwartz tanya.schwartz@gmail.com

Fall 2015 75

bates notes

Tina Browne and Catanna Berg-er were married July 12, 2014....Jared Cash was named interim vice president for enrollment at UMaine Farmington. He’s been at the Sen. George J. Mitchell Institute for Scholarship and Research as scholarship director for four years....The Boston Globe caught up with Lauren DuBois, who continues her passion for basketball as the varsity girls’ coach at Manchester Essex Regional. “Basketball was always such a big part of my life. I was happy to get the opportunity to continue to be part of the sport and try to share my passion for the game,” Lauren said. A star at Bates, she’s in her 11th year at Manchester Essex, where she teaches U.S. history and psy-chology and is chair of the social studies department. Her teams have twice reached the Division 4 state final....Rebecca Kushins and Jennifer Valente were mar-ried in August 2014....Caroline Renyi Del Percio and Matthew welcomed Emelia Del Percio in July 2013....Ben Schippers, co-founder of software develop-ment startup Happy Fun Corp. in Brooklyn, N.Y., was inducted into the Bates Scholar-Athlete Society during Commencement Weekend on campus and was also the keynote speaker at the induction ceremony. A Bates squash player who played at the No. 1 spot and captained the team, Ben was lauded for his athletic accomplishments and for his contributions to the college as an alumnus. He has provided internships at HFC, mentored and advised students, and, in 2014, joined the college’s Purposeful Work initiative to co-teach a new Short Term course on digital innovation.

2005Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class co-presidentsLarry Handerhanlarry.handerhan@gmail.comSarah Neukomsneukom@alumni.bates.edu

Charlotte Birkner Zawel is senior associate, media solutions at Millward Brown Digital in Boston. She and her husband, Marc, welcomed Lily Alexandra Zawel on May 8, 2014....Grant Brown received the 2014 Martin Rosenberg Academic Achieve-ment Award from the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries. He is vice president and a retirement plan consultant at Compensation Planning Inc. in Warwick, R.I....Bill Cartun is the director of basketball oper-ations on the Univ. of Colorado men’s basketball staff....Michael Corey Brown Dowling and Su-zannah Cyr Dowling welcomed Cora Alyce Dowling on Oct. 17, 2014....Ryan Fitzpatrick, senior

director of category manage-ment at online retailer Wayfair in Boston, was named to the new retail advisory board of Home Accents Today, which covers the home furnishings field....Dan Frost, a math teacher at Thorn-ton Academy, traveled to Nor-way to take part in climate re-search. As teacher-in-residence, he worked with Bates professors Will Ambrose and Mike Retelle and colleagues from other in-stitutions in launching a project to create a 1,000-year record of ocean conditions from evidence found in clamshells. Ambrose and Retelle received a $337,228 National Science Foundation grant for their three-year research project, which will ana-lyze the natural record archived in clamshells over the course of a millennium to plot changes in sea temperature where the Barents and Norwegian seas meet. Dan studied with Retelle and served as teacher-in-resi-dence with the research team during its first session of field work two summers ago. “He was involved in every aspect” of the research, Retelle said....Mashfiq Haque, director of business development at Ora Clinical Inc., returned to Bates to talk with students about careers in the pharmaceutical industry. Ora is the world’s leading indepen-dent, full-service ophthalmic clinical research and product development firm. Bates trustee Stu Abelson ’97 is CEO of the company, and many Bates graduates have joined the firm....As Harvard’s defensive line coach, Mike Horan helped lead the Crimson football team to a 10-0 season and the Ivy League title in 2014. “It’s nice to be at a place where winning is such an important part of the culture,” he told a Stoughton newspaper. A star defensive back at Bates, Mike is in his seventh season on the Harvard staff....Stacy and Laurie Lau Layton welcomed a son, Charles Ethan Layton....Leah Skowron Kingman is now assistant director of European and decorative arts at the Robert C. Eldred Co., an auction and appraisal firm in East Dennis, Mass....Janele Lynn (Penn State ’04) and James Tuttle were married Sept. 20, 2014.

2006Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class co-presidentsChelsea Cookchelsea.m.cook@gmail.comKatharine M. Nolanknolan@alumni.bates.eduJohn Ritzojritzo@energycircle.com

Maggie Boudreau and Matt Biggart were married July 27, 2014....Katherine Kokosinski and Joel Colony were married Sept.

13, 2014....Chelsea Cook and Jon DeCarlo welcomed Owen Frederick DeCarlo on Aug. 17, 2014....Kathleen Keif and Mitch Cote-Crosskill were married June 27, 2014....Allison Coville Bray welcomed a daughter, Aurora Bray, on Nov. 11, 2014....Kara Dietrich Shuler welcomed Chase Andrew Shuler on Sept. 3, 2014....Marisela Fermin-Schon ’08 and Jacob Grindal were married Aug. 30, 2014....Keelin Godsey was inducted into the Bates Scholar-Athlete Society during Commencement Week-end in June. He was honored both for his outstanding athletic accomplishments as the most decorated athlete in Bates history — a 16-time All-Ameri-can, two-time winner of NCAA Division III titles in the women’s hammer, and an NCAA record in the hammer that still stands to-day — and for his “activism, lead-ership, and intentional visibility as a transgender athlete,” said Whitehouse Professor of Art and Visual Culture Erica Rand, who introduced Keelin. She told the audience that Keelin’s story has been featured in numerous pub-lications, including the import-ant 2010 think-tank report that formed the basis of the NCAA’s transgender inclusion practices; a 2012 Sports Illustrated cover story on transgender athletes; and in Keelin’s own publica-tions, including an essay for the jock issue of Original Plumbing. “Beginning in his senior year,” said Rand, “when he competed for Bates as an out transgender athlete, he has, in addition, influenced the institutional work that continues to make Bates a nationally recognized leader regarding the participation of trans and gender-nonconform-ing athletes, as well as LGBTQ+ athletes in general, at all levels of competitive and recreational sport.” Keelin earned a doctorate in physical therapy at Northeast-ern Univ. and is now on staff at the Center for Rehabilitation at Berkshire Medical and serves as an assistant throws coach at Williams College....Molly Graham is assistant director of the Rutgers Univ. Oral History Archives....Kate Hluchyj and Matias Stella (Virginia Tech ’00) were married Nov. 2, 2013. Both have MBAs, Kate from the Univ. of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business and Matias from Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business....Emily Hoffer and Brendan Levine (St. Lawrence ’06) were married Aug. 2, 2014....Margaret Joyce Zuehl welcomed Zachary Thomas Zuehl on Aug. 11, 2014....Kristin McCurdy Motley and J. Brooks Motley welcomed a son, Warren H. Motley. They live in Portland....The online news site BostInno featured Todd Myers, a foodie who launched a startup

Fall 201576

bates notes

to give digital pros and cons of Boston’s restaurants. “There are so many personal stories,” he said of Yelp reviews. “But all you really want to know are the basic takeaways.” He seeks to solve that problem with Tally, a social Web application designed to capture the crowd’s opinion on virtually any subject. Tally limits users to 140-characters, which keeps the reviews to the point. But people can post as many times as they want under a category and classify their comments under “The Good” or “The Bad.” The result: an easily digestible, digital pros and cons list that makes it simple to share opinions. “It’s as if you asked everyone on the Internet a question, and people could just raise their hand,” Todd said....Michael Nelson is the new di-rector of student services for the Old Rochester Regional School District in Massachusetts....Brenton Pitt, a financial profes-sional with Centinel Financial Group LLC in Marshfield, Mass., was named a Five Star Wealth Manager by Five Star Professional for 2015....Christina Saunders is a Denver-based attorney and partner at the law firm Sparkman + Foote LLP....Laura Tomaselli is involved in a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for Memorias Del Fuego, a documentary about the women who fought in Nicaragua’s San-dinista movement and are still fighting for social equality four decades later. She traveled there to interview some of the women. Laura has shot, produced, and edited documentaries for publications including The Atlantic Monthly, SAVEUR, and Vice Magazine....Emily Trono and Tim Klein (Ithaca College ’06) were married Aug. 9, 2014....Sarah Wilson and Kristen Fries Wilson ’07 welcomed twins, Penelope Margaret Wilson and Maxwell Fries Wilson, on Nov. 8, 2014.

2007Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class co-presidentsKeith Kearneykdkearney@gmail.comRakhshan Zahidrakhshan.zahid@gmail.com

Eric Obeng ’07, a lead-er of the Bay Area Bates Network, received a Bates’ Best award. “No matter which city I live in or company I work for, there’s always one constant: Batesies are just around the corner.”

students • value • loyalty • laughter • generos-ity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • reputation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • com-munity • academics • pride • knowledge • friend-ships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • reputation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • repu-tation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • reputation • op-portunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • ex-cellence • athletics • reputation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generos-ity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • reputation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • com-munity • academics • pride • knowledge • friend-ships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • reputation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • repu-tation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • reputation • op-portunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • ex-cellence • athletics • reputation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generos-ity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • reputation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • com-munity • academics • pride • knowledge • friend-ships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • reputation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • repu-tation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • reputation • op-portunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • ex-cellence • athletics • reputation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generos-ity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • reputation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • com-munity • academics • pride • knowledge • friend-ships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • reputation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors • arts • excellence • athletics • repu-tation • opportunity • students • value • loyalty • laughter • generosity • community • academics • pride • knowledge • friendships • professors •

20I5 BATES FUNDth

anks to your generosity the beautiful cycle goes on.

Support Bates: bates.edu/give

Megan Birmingham Wolf blogs for Kitchen Daily. A New York City-based registered dietitian, she has a nutrition counseling and consulting private practice specializing in women’s and pediatric health....Ben Chin, political director of the Maine People’s Alliance, is running for mayor of Lewiston in the November elections. He has worked on wage, housing, immigration, and other issues for the progressive advocacy organization....Lauren Gold is engaged to Chris Mechem (Hamilton ’06). They have a tradition of watching the Ham-ilton-Bates football game each fall....Kay Gonsalves and PJ O’Neill (Mount St. Mary’s ’07) were married Nov. 16, 2013....Aislinn Hougham White is director of development at Co-lumbia Univ. Medical Center in New York....Stephanie Howson ’09 and Jordan Williams were married Aug. 30, 2014. They live in Chicago....Marsha Larned, “a role model for the meaningful connections young alumni can sustain with their alma mater,” received a Bates’ Best award. A member of the College Key, she has served as an Alum-ni-in-Admission volunteer, on her Reunion Gift Committee and as a leader in the New York City Bates Business Network. “Thanks to your leadership, the New York network has enjoyed multiple events with strong at-tendance,” her citation reads. It noted that she is off to her next big adventure, in Hong Kong....The Sun Journal featured Nate Libby in an article about “An-droscoggin County’s political youth movement.” The Lewis-ton Democrat was one of three men under 30 whom voters sent to the state Senate. Nate, who moved from the House, said the challenges facing young people in Maine have made them more interested in electing people who can relate to their needs and concerns....Jordan Manly and John O’Connor were married Aug. 30, 2014. They live in Hingham, Mass....Mari Wright and William McElhinny were married Aug. 2, 2014....Researcher Taegan McMahon, an assistant professor at the Univ. of Tampa, spoke at Bates on “Understanding Amphibian Decline: The Role of Pollu-tion and Disease.” She studies amphibians because they are considered the world’s most threatened vertebrate group....Eric Obeng, “a natural ambas-sador who connects people and ideas,” received a Bates’ Best award. As a leader of the Bay Area Bates Network, he has been instrumental in attracting new volunteers. He serves with enthusiasm on the Alumni Council and as a member of the College Key, on his Reunion

Gift Committee and as a Bates Fund class agent. The citation quotes Eric: “No matter which city I live in or company I work for, there’s always one constant: Batesies are just around the corner.”...The website Paste talked with photographer Ithai Schori and his friend Chris Taylor, the bassist for Grizzly Bear, about their new cookbook, Twenty Dinners. Writer Carrie Havranek calls it a laid-back, approachable cookbook with recipes like “Ithai’s Kind-of Sundae,” which isn’t quite a recipe but a list of ingredients. Ithai wrote his thesis at Bates about the rhetoric of the Food Network, became a professional photographer and dove head-first into professional kitchens. “If someone picks this book up and doesn’t need it by the end of it, I’m suuuuper pumped,” he said. “We want people to not be stuck with their head in cookbooks.”...Lauren Woo and Andrew Volkert (UC Santa Barbara ’07) were married Sept. 6, 2014.

2008Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class co-presidentsElizabeth Murphyelizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.comAlison Schwartzalisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com

Nicholas Bauer earned a Ph.D. in biological and biomedical sciences from Emory Univ. and started a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard....Abby Samuelson ’10 and Matt Dunlap were married Aug. 30, 2014....Allie DuPre and Ben Reed were married June 8, 2013....Mira David ’09 and John Murphy were married July 19, 2014. Both teachers, they bought a house in West Philadelphia....George Gregory joined the financial and pro-fessional services firm JLL in its Boston office as an associate in capital markets....Profiling “southwest Connecticut’s best and brightest,” CT Post caught up with Liz Murphy, a registered Washington lobbyist. The Fairfield, Conn., native knows her profession is subject to public scorn, but Liz says she is “Glinda, the good witch of lobbying.” She works for the Sheridan Group, and among her clients is the Save the Children Action Network, the political arm of the Fairfield-based Save the Children. “We work for clients with strong social mis-sions,” she said....Kim Nelson and Lindsey Pryor ’11 were married Sept. 27, 2014....Tommy O’Connor, manager of digital sales at Mohawk, joined the board of the Printing Industries Alliance, a trade association....Megan Patey, a board-

bates notes

Fall 201578

media outlet: Food Republic

headline: Take Root’s Elise Kornack challenges convention, and herself, at every turn

date: Feb. 5, 2015

takeaway: Being thoughtful doesn’t preclude being bold

Food Republic profiled Elise Kornack ’09, whose restaurant, Take Root, has gotten great reviews from The New York Times and Esquire, plus a coveted Michelin star.

Located in Brooklyn, the 12-seat restaurant, only open Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., is run by Kornack and her wife, Anna Hieronimus.

Writer Richard Martin says that “for all the accolades and chatter” about Take Root, “Kornack’s cooking is ultimately personal and thoughtful rather than flashy or stylized.”

That personal and intimate style is matched by Kornack’s interest, as she says, in “pushing...New Yorkers out of their comfort zone...whether it be through an ingredient, or through a plat-ing, or through a preparation, or through your environment.”

The goal, she says, is for “people to feel just a touch uncomfortable before they start eating. So they’re like, ‘Oh, okay, I need to settle, relax. I’m in good hands; I can handle it.’”

takeaway:Elise Kornack ’09

certified women’s health nurse practitioner, joined the staff of Bedford (N.H.) Commons OB-GYN....Lucia Piacenza and Franz Ritt were married Nov. 28, 2014.

2009Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class co-presidentsTimothy Gaytimothy.s.gay@gmail.comArsalan Suhailarsalansuhail@gmail.com

Erin Bonney and Brendan Casey were married June 14, 2014....Rachel Kaplan and Nathan Cooper were married March 7, 2015....Sulochana Dissanayake, who has worked extensively in traditional Indonesian performance forms, returned to campus to join the Bates Gamelan and Indonesian guest artists for a performance of music and wayang golek puppetry....Standout Nordic skier Sylvan Ellefson is the new vice president of sales and marketing at Cirque Mountain Apparel, headquartered in Jackson, Wyo. He won the U.S. Cross-Country Championships leading up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics, where he earned a spot as an alternate racer. Now retired from competition, Sylvan was also named to the Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s first Wall of Excellence....Sam Evans-Brown is environment and education reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio. His work has won several local broadcast journalism awards....Mac King is a reporter at Fox 5, WNYW-TV in New York....Cait-lin Murphy Dufault welcomed a daughter, Julia Addison Dufault, on Dec. 10, 2014.

2010Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class co-presidentsBrianna Bakowbrianna.bakow@gmail.comVantiel Elizabeth Duncanvantielelizabeth.duncan@  mail.com

The Daily News spoke with Tom Beaton and wife Robyn of West Newbury, Mass., before they ran the Boston Marathon together in support of a 6-year-old boy with leukemia whom Robyn, a nurse, cares for at Mass Gener-al. The two former Pentucket High School standouts regis-tered for the race soon after they were married last year. “Running a marathon, we knew we wanted to do it after we got married, so we decided to do it right now,” said Tom, who starred in football and baseball at Bates....Will Brunnquell is an associate lawyer with Faegre Baker Daniels in Minneapolis....David Curley is now a leasing

officer at Cummings Properties, a commercial real estate firm in Woburn, Mass....Rachel Tofel and Cameron Ferrante were married Nov. 1, 2014. She has an MBA from New York Univ. and works in Washington as a mar-keting manager at Uber Tech-nologies, a smartphone-based taxi service. He has a law degree from Northeastern and is a legal fellow at FairVote, a nonprofit dedicated to voting and election law reform, in Ta-koma Park, Md....Sarah Hunt, a student at Rutgers School of Law-Newark, received a public interest fellowship from the law firm Proskauer Rose and in-terned at the pro bono program Volunteer Lawyers for Justice....EcommerceBytes caught up with Elliot Moskow, CEO and cofounder of online retail marketplace Pricefalls.com, which he launched in 2009 while he was still a student. Since then, the company has gone through various phases. Originally, sellers on Pricefalls could offer merchandise and let their prices fall over time until they were either purchased or reached an “If It Hits” price set by the seller. Now, all products are offered at a fixed price, though many items bear “Make the price fall” coupons that customers can claim if they share deals with their friends on social networks. The company has launched a new website and last year it raised $4 million in funding. “We will be using a substantial portion of these funds on marketing to drive traffic to our sellers’ products,” Elliot said....Alicia Orkisz joined Greysteel, a commercial real estate company in Bethesda, Md., as an analyst with its mid-Atlantic multifami-ly investment sales team....Doug Ray is studying museum an-thropology at Columbia Univ....Christine Roemer and Timothy Bacon were married July 12, 2014. Both work in New York, she as an associate at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, he as an associate at Deutsche Bank. The New York Times recounted how the two met at Blair Academy and survived a disastrous outing on the golf course. Christine, a member of the school’s golf team, was giving Tim pointers on his swing when she stepped too close and was struck in the head with his club. “I was terri-fied and freaking out at first be-cause there was a ton of blood everywhere,” Tim recalled. Two staples were needed to close the wound. “A week or two later, when it was clear that she was OK, we both saw the humor in it,” he said....Abbie Morse (Colby-Sawyer College ’10) and Dan Roop were married May 25, 2014....Kate Thorson aggre-gated 10 bits of social science

Four TeamFour alumni are with the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa. From left, Joseph Ekpenyong ’12, math teacher; Desmond Mushi ’13, economics and African studies teacher; Theo Sutherland ’11, manager of West and Central Africa for the school-sponsored Africa Careers Network; and Lisa DiIorio ’91, head of writing and rhetoric. Focusing on academic achievement, leadership, entrepreneurism, and public service, the school enrolls students from 40 African nations. Three ALA graduates, in fact, are now Bates students.

lisa diiorio ’iatheo sutherland ’aajoseph ekpenyong ’abdesmond mushi ’acresearch about Facebook, which turned 10 years old in 2014, for the online magazine Greater Good. Her No. 1 finding, from a 2013 study, is that the more time users spent on Facebook, the more “their life satisfaction levels declined over time.” Her No. 2 finding, from Carnegie Mellon researchers, offers a way to use Facebook that doesn’t leave you feeling down: “Active interactions, like leaving wall posts or ‘liking’ friends’ con-tent, predicted less loneliness and more social capital.” Kate is a doctoral student in social psychology at New York Univ....The Wall Street Journal featured Krystina Zaykowski Cruise and her mother as examples of how a growing number of women managers and profes-sionals are mentoring their own daughters as the young women build careers.

2011Reunion 2016, June 10–12

class co-presidentsTheodore Sutherlandtheodoresutherland89@  gmail.comPatrick Williamsdapatch20002000@yahoo.com

Anna Abelson is a 2014–15 Global Health Corps Fellow working in Zambia with The Population Council as a program officer. She works on research around wom-en’s reproductive and sexual health....Katherine Bailey has been living in Ho Chi Minh City and teaching ESL with Viet-nam-USA Society in addition to private tutoring. She wrote about her experience on the website Women’s Innovation Lab....Los Angeles-based actor Rory Cosgrove signed with Cylence Media Management....The Sun Journal profiled state Rep. Jared Golden, a Marine Corps veteran of the wars in Af-ghanistan and Iraq who is serv-ing his first term in the Maine House. The Lewiston Democrat said he will offer legislation that would create a legislative commission on veterans. Some younger veterans “feel like the services that are being done are in some ways lacking or just not up to date with their needs.” Jared, who was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder upon his return from a combat tour in Afghanistan, said he hopes to help remove some of the singular focus that creates a stigma that vets like him face every day. “A lot of veterans feel like, ‘Yes, I have PTSD,’ or, ‘I’m struggling with the transition, but I don’t need you to just focus on these issues. I need the counseling to be available and I need those resources to be there, but that doesn’t sum-

marize who I am as a person.’”...Briana Gross, a lacrosse stand-out at Bates, is the new coach of the Hamilton-Wenham (Mass.) Regional High School girls lacrosse team....Christopher Murtagh received Bates’ Distin-guished Young Alumni Award. Among other volunteer work, Chris is the BOLD (Bobcats of the Last Decade) co-chair on the Bates Fund Executive Committee. His citation reads: “Your dedication to Bates in-spires support from classmates and alumni of all ages. You help us set our sights higher and farther.”...Several recent alumni returned to Bates for a panel discussion of how their experiences in Latin America have influenced their working lives. They included Hannah Rae Porst, who has continued a project she started during her junior year, working to support the indigenous culture of a Quechua community in Peru; Rodrigo Dias ’05, now with the Ministry of Health in Brasilia, Brazil; Alberto Means ’10, who studied in Brazil and now works in public engagement technology for Purpose, a New York consultancy; and Sydney Hare ’12, who studied in Chile and now works in institutional equity sales at Deutsche Bank Securities in New York....Sim-one Pathe covers congressional campaigns for Congressional Quarterly’s Roll Call....Kate

Webber returned to Bates to talk about her new book, Swan’s Island Chronicles: Borrowed, Exaggerated and Half-Forgotten Tales of Island Life (History Press). Kate, whose Bates degree is in anthropology, spent two years with the Swan’s Is-land Historical Society through the Island Institute’s fellow program. She now works for the Maine Humanities Council.

2012Reunion 2017, June 9–11

class co-presidentsMikey Pasekmikeypasek@gmail.comSangita Muralimurali58@comcast.net

Sarah Vigne and Alison Corn-forth were married June 21, 2014. They changed their last names and are now Sarah Covie and Alison Covie....James Dow-ling-Healey spent the fall 2014 semester at the National Univ. of Ireland, Galway’s School of Law. Upon graduating from the UMaine School of Law in May, he received an Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award for excellence in international and oceans law....Ben Hughes is now program coordinator for Haverford College’s Office of Multicultural Affairs....Rob Little was featured in a Morning Sentinel article about the Making it in Maine Filmmakers’

Networking Brunch, co-hosted by the Maine International Film Festival. A freelance filmmaker, editor, and writer, Rob is mak-ing an educational Web series, “Detect Earth,” that teaches children about ecology and the outdoors....Addie Pelletier and James H. Smith ’14 were married Aug. 2, 2014.

2013Reunion 2018, June 8–10

class co-presidentsRyan Sonbergrsonberg9@gmail.comMegan Murphy megan.a.murphy@gmail.com

Cara Garcia-Bou, an advertis-ing and marketing associate at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, organized and curated a pop-up art show in Bronxville that showcased the work of emerging artists....For its “most powerful women in Boston” story, Boston Common featured pairs of women who share a common outlook. One pair was Samantha Landi-no, a research assistant at Harvard’s McLean Hospital, and novelist and neuroscientist Lisa Genova ’92, and the two talked about gender issues in the medical field. Lisa talked about mentoring young women, “having always viewed women’s mentorship as a necessary com-pensation for the disadvantage”

Fall 2015 79

bates notes

Fall 201580

The Business of BerriesOcean Spray is about cranberries — and BatesiesRocking the hipwaders, the traditional gear for harvesting cranberries, are Peter Wyman ’86 (right) and Pat Quinn ’12 of Ocean Spray, joined by Ladd Intern Kelsey Mehegan ’15, posing last summer at Ocean Spray headquar-ters in Middleborough, Mass.

Wyman is a senior vice president for global business development at Ocean Spray, while Quinn is an associate trade marketing manager. Mehegan, who just graduated, has started a position at Boston Children's Hospital as a research associate in women’s health.

In May, Wyman was inducted into the Bates Scholar-Athlete Society during Commencement Weekend on campus. A two-sport varsity ath-lete, lettering in football and baseball, Wyman has been a dogged contributor to Bates as an alumnus, making gifts to support Bates athletics and volunteering his time to the college’s career- development efforts, including sponsorship of an annual Ladd Intern at Ocean Spray.

After hearing his citation, he told the audi-ence that “it’s amazing how memories can fade in 30 years. I’m a much better student-athlete than I thought I was!”

Fellow alumni inductees were Keelin Godsey ’06, Lynn Willsey ’54, Rachel Clayton ’90, and Ben Schippers ’04. Bob Flynn, who has served in many capacities as a Bates coach, was the faculty-staff inductee.

They were joined by 37 inductees from the Class of 2015, whose academic and athletic achievements were recited for the audience.

“After hearing all the inductees’ amazing senior thesis titles, I’m not sure I could com- prehend them let alone pronounce them. Now I know why I sell and market cranberries for a living,” Wyman quipped.

peter wyman ’hfpat quinn ’abkelsey mehegan ’aeof being in a male-dominat-ed field. Woman-to-woman mentorship, she said, because women tend to talk more about work-life balance and so, “as a woman, you’re able to talk to other women about other creative ways you could use your education and training that would lead to a fulfilled life.” Samantha said it’s been great to speak with Lisa “about how she has been able to launch her career in a nontraditional way, become so successful, and make an impact on the field.”...Nicole Santosuosso works as a retail analyst at Kantar Retail in Boston, a market insights and consulting firm where Leon Nicholas ’93 and John Rand ’72 are both senior vice pres-idents. “Both John and Leon have years of experience in the consumer goods and retail in-dustry,” she wrote. “I have been learning and working with both to deepen my knowledge of the industry and my particular area of focus which is e-commerce and its impact on the retail landscape.”

2014Reunion 2019, June 7–9

class co-presidentsHally Bert hallybert@gmail.comMildred Arokomildredaroko@gmail.com

The East Hampton Star pro-filed tennis standout Timmy Berg, whose victories include overcoming a cancerous tumor growing behind his eye. He was in eighth grade when he was diagnosed. “I was playing a lot of tennis at the time and just noticed some weird stuff with my vision,” he said. He under-went major surgery to remove the tumor, then six months of chemotherapy and two months of radiation at Massachusetts General Hospital. “It’s not something I bring up,” said Timmy, an All-American in his senior year. “Most of my friends from college didn’t know until I played this tournament (in 2013) that was for cancer research and they did a story, which somehow our athletic department posted.”...Jordan Buetow, the new Nordic de-velopment team coach at Bend (Ore.) Endurance Academy, did a Q-and-A with The Source Weekly. The native Alaskan spent a summer training at the academy, a nonprofit that pro-motes healthy living through active, outdoor experiences. He had an impressive career racing for Bates, including a fourth-place finish in the U.S. Cross Country Championships in the 1.5-kilometer freestyle sprint. Jordan said “coaching comes natural for me; it was just a

matter of deciding when the right time was for me to stop racing.”...Both Boston Magazine and the online publication BostInno caught up with Julia Hanlon, a yoga instructor in Cambridge and a cross-country coach at Concord Academy. Despite her packed schedule, she keeps up with Running On Om, her 40-minute local radio podcasts that focus on nutri-tion, running, and yoga. Since she started them in 2013, she has interviewed more than 70 people, including many health experts from the Boston com-munity. She began listening to podcasts during her junior year at Bates when she was traveling to and from school. “At the time, I was just getting into running, and the podcasts were a way to learn about the sport of running and the science behind it.” As a little girl, Julia added, “I always thought my dream job was to be a therapist. I liked the idea of talking to people and listening to their stories. For me, my pod-cast is similar to a therapist. It’s an avenue to share stories, talk with inspirational individuals, and have it shared for other people to hear.”...Photographer and filmmaker Cam Held joined the Schoolhouse Gallery staff in Kingfield, Maine, as a full-time employee. His work has been shown in several galleries in the Northeast and his filmmaker projects have had more than a million views online....McNally Lee joined the Brooklyn, N.Y., division of Massey Knakal Re-alty Services as an associate....Hannah Miller is Bates’ new academic administrative assis-tant for Pettigrew, supporting the departments of Theater and Dance and Rhetoric....Fortune magazine featured Matt Neckes in an article about finding jobs after graduation. Through Bates, he connected after graduation with Koru, one of several companies that have sprung up in recent years to give the uninitiated an im-mersion in business. Only one in four applicants is accepted. Koru shows them how to use Excel, read a basic profit-and-loss statement, and gives them practice in “soft skills,” such as how to communicate cogently with a boss and colleagues. It costs $2,750, with scholarships available to those in need. As part of his training, Matt was thrown in with three peers on a special project for Amazon, one of about 50 companies affiliated with Koru in Seattle, San Fran-cisco, and Boston. “This was the first time that I was put into a high-pressure environment like that,” Matt said. He learned to cull and analyze data, then present a case to managers at Amazon. Doing this “was really, really uncomfortable at first.”

SARA

H C

ROSB

Y

bates notes

Fall 2015 81

Front and CoverEzra Wolfinger ’14 did the photography for the cover story about the movie Selma for the Winter 2015 issue of MovieMaker. He did the shoot, featuring director Ava DuVernay and stars David Oyelowo and Carmen Ejogo, at the Mandarin Oriental New York.

Lately, Wolfinger has been working as a camera assistant on the Animal Planet reality show Yankee Jungle, which looks at life at the DEW Animal Kingdom and Sanctuary in Mount Vernon, Maine, about 40 miles northwest of Bates.

Wolfinger’s landscapes of Bates, Lewiston, and Maine were featured in the Fall 2014 issue of this magazine.

ezra wolfinger ’ad

With Koru’s coaching, he even-tually got the hang of it. Matt also learned to network. At a Koru event, he was introduced to executives from Smartsheet, a fast-growing company based in Bellevue, Wash., that makes an online project-management tool. He landed a job there within two weeks of finishing at Koru and is now an account representative earning about $70,000 annually....Eric Ruta has brought the craft beer boom to northern New Jersey, building Magnify Brewing, a 10-barrel brew house and tasting room in Fairfield. He told the Daily Record that when he graduated with an environmental studies degree, he was already six months into the development of Magnify — writing a thesis by day while drafting plans for a bar by night. He worked at Baxter Brewing during his senior year. He was also inspired by Downeast Ci-der co-founders Tyler Mosher ’11 and Ross Brockman ’11 and got their helpful advice. “I see them, and I know I can do it.”...Lila Wilmerding is now direc-tor of perfection development

at Gelato Fiasco, a Brunswick- based creator of artisanal ge-lato and sorbetto....The Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center selected Kelly Yardley as a runner to help represent Team BCNC in the 2015 Boston Marathon charity program. She pledged to raise $18,000. Kelly joined BCNC as an 11-month AmeriCorps fellow for strategic planning and evaluation.

2015Reunion 2020, June 12–14

class co-presidentsJames Brissendenjames@brissenden.org Benjamin Smileybensmiley32@gmail.com

MO

VIEM

AKE

R

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

Fall 201582

Morse & Roop ’10

Abbie Morse (Colby-Sawyer College ’10) and Dan Roop ’10, May 25, 2014, Ocean Edge Resort, Brewster, Mass. Garrett Kopeski ’11, Dan and Abbie, Ryan Mannelly ’10, Josh Linscott ’10, Benjamin Roop ’18, Ryan Horvath ’10, Katewatson Prins Horvath ’11, Wesley Chaput ’10. Not pictured: Bill Mees ’60.

Kreischer ’03 & Spangler

Ellie Kreischer ’03 and Nathan Spangler, June 14, 2014, Housatonic, Mass. Abigail Poe ’03, Andrew Akre ’04, Hilary Benson ’03, Asaph Glosser ’02, Nathan and Ellie, JD Lichtman ’03, Jenny Guillaume ’03, Chris Westcott ’03.

Fermin-Schon ’08 & Grindal ’06

Marisela Fermin-Schon ’08 and Jacob Grindal ’06, Aug. 30, 2014, Buxton, Maine. Front row: Liana Schapiro ’08, Emily Maistrellis ’08, Andrea Lyons ’08, Annie Barton ’08, Jacob and Marisela, Adrien Cohen ’07, Ben Peck ’05, Anna Stockwell ’08, Rachel Laaff ’10; back: Christopher Petrella ’06, John McNulty ’06, Scott Priest ’06, David Squires ’06, Jacob Berkowitz ’06, Devens Hamlen ’96, Mitch Cote-Crosskill ’06, Matthew DeFina ’06, Jeffrey Addis ’06.

Lynn & Tuttle ’05

Janele Lynn (Penn State ’04) and James Tuttle ’05, Sept. 20, 2014, the Mansion at Linden Hall, Dawson, Pa. Front row: Tahsin Alam ’04, Janele and James, Michael Philbrick ’04; back: Scott Partenheimer ’03, Amy Hempstead ’04, Matt Lipstein ’06, Amy Saffer Lipstein ’05.

Woo ’07 & Volkert

Lauren Woo ’07 and Andrew Volkert (UC Santa Barbara ’07), Sept. 6, 2014, The Crane Estate, Ipswich, Mass. Nathan Libby ’07, Benjamin Stern ’07, Carl Lyon ’07, Kathryn Covello ’07, Kaitlyn Hyde ’07, Lauren,

Christopher Foster ’07, Joshua Dennee ’07, Andrew, Madeline O’Donnell ’07, Kristin Barber ’07, Jessica Liberman Weiler ’07, Nick Tierney ’07, Alexandra Hughes ’07, Alison Morris Skelton ’07.

Keif & Cote- Crosskill ’06

Kathleen Keif and Mitch Cote-Crosskill ’06, June 27, 2014, Somerville, Mass. Jeff Addis ’06, John McNulty ’06, Sela Fermin ’08, Kathleen and Mitch, Jake Grindal ’06, David Squires ’06, Matt DeFina ’06.

Pelletier ’12 & Smith ’14

Addie Pelletier ’12 and James H. Smith ’14, Aug. 2, 2014, Greenville, Maine. Chomba Kaluba ’10, Kim Sullivan ’13, Zak Kofos ’13, James Meyo ’14, James, Negin Smith ’02, Addie, James Reese, Stephanie Caplan ’14, Sam Ingram ’97, Daniela Rossi De Camargo ’15, Lianna Cohen ’13, Graham Oxman ’15, Jethro Trenteetun ’13, Cristal Martin ’13, Graham Safford ’15, Erik Bou ’14.

Nelson ’08 & Evans-Brown ’09

Aubrey Nelson ’08 and Sam Evans-Brown ’09, Aug. 18, 2012, Trenton, Maine. Stuart Ryan ’09, Ben Smeltzer ’10, Mike Detweiler ’08, Leah Dembinski ’09, Lincoln Benedict ’09, Erin Bond ’09, Matt Offenbacher ’08, Jack Murphy ’08, Jake Lewis ’09, Emily Hopkins ’08, Amelia Hagen-Dillon ’09, Stu Johnson ’06, Val LaRiviere ’07, John Reuter ’07, Cat Wilson ’10, Daphne Braden ’09, Russell Richie ’09, Ethan Warren ’08, Jason Buxbaum ’08, Josh Olsen ’08, Aubrey and Sam, Margaret Koerber ’10, Jake Mark ’07, Jade, Drew Drabek ’08. Not pictured: Rachel Sorlien ’06, Gina Capalbo ’08.

Tan ’02 & Chhim

Heang Kim Tan ’02 and Porthira Chhim, Sept. 6, 2013, Wadsworth Mansion, Middletown, Conn. Marissa Borin Leaversuch ’02, Susan Taccini ’02, Heather Thomson Rinke ’02, Voot Yin ’96,

Michael Leaversuch ’00, Jason Cliche ’02, Porthira and Heang, Krista Chase Matto ’02, Mary Dorman Hyde ’04, Scott Turner ’02, Hilary Pope Stern ’02, Bobella Tes Daley ’03.

Hoffer ’06 & Levine

Emily Hoffer ’06 and Brendan Levine (St. Lawrence ’06), Aug. 2, 2014, Danville, Vt. Row one: Tyler Kipp ’01, Julia Simons ’06, Kate Nolan ’06, Helen Minsky ’06, Laura Director ’08; row two: Rachel Sorlien ’06, Meg Germscheid ’06, Brooks Motley ’06, Kristin McCurdy Motley ’06, Warren Motley, Brendan and Emily, Tabitha Abrazinski Poorvu ’06, Ari Rosenberg ’06, Barbara Burnham Leary ’68; row three: Matt Biggart ’06, Nick Martin ’05, Colin Hollister ’06, Jeremiah Vernon ’06, Brian Dupee ’06, Gabby Voeller ’06, David Rabinowitz ’05, Helon Hoffer ’08.

Rafalovich & Hanley ’95

Dasha Rafalovich (Tomsk Polytechnic University ’08, Siberia, Russia) and Henry Hanley III ’95, Sept. 21, 2013, Big Sur, Calif. Henry and Dasha, Emlyn Whipple, Bradford Whipple ’95.

Bonney ’09 & Casey

Erin Bonney ’09 and Brendan Casey, June 14, 2014, Georgetown, Maine. Standing: Nik von Huene ’80, Melissa Bonney Kane ’81, Mike Bonney ’80, Tim Connolly ’79, Erin Bliss ’09, Lizette Panet-Raymond Greaves ’81, David Greaves ’80, Iris Lim ’09, Chris Tegeler Beneman ’80, Josie Cutts ’09, Hilary Jacobs ’80, David Beneman ’80, Deacon Marvel ’80, Alison Grott Bonney ’80; seated: Christine Chiu ’09, Weston Bonney ’50, Mai Hoang Ha ’09, Erin and Brendan, Devon Bonney ’12, Garret Bonney ’15.

Please email your high-resolution digital Bates group wedding photo to magazine@bates.edu. Please identify all people and their class years, and include the wedding date, location and any other news. Wedding photos are published in the order received.

Fall 2015 83

Fall 201584

Murphy ’08 & Blanchard ’08

Liz Murphy ’08 and Jonathan Blanchard ’08, Aug. 10, 2013, Bates’ Gomes Chapel. Front row: Emily Katz ’08, Eugene Kim ’08, Jon and Liz, Molly Balentine Paul ’08, Tatum Fraites ’09; back: Dylan Eberle ’08, Qinglan Wang ’10, Charlotte Gerrish ’08, Sarah Hoyt ’08, Max Patinkin ’08, Ted Talbot ’08, Graham Proud ’08, Emily Pressman ’10, Tyler Paul ’06, Brad Sherman ’08, Christian Ford ’08, Matt Boller ’08, Michaela Schneier Boller ’10.

Nordstrom ’03 & Gifford ’03

Leana Nordstrom ’03 and James Gifford ’03, Aug. 23, 2014, Town & Lake Motel and Cottages, Rangeley, Maine. Back row: Dave Bear ’03, Jake Garber ’03, Nathaniel Richards ’03, Carole Calderone Glass ’03, Dave Sek ’01, Tim Kirkman ’03, Eric Knackmuhs ’03, Jon Mellen ’03, Rob Fallon ’03; middle: Danielle Matteau ’03, Kim Rogers ’03, Keith Nordstrom ’93, Luisa Carvajal ’03, Olivia Ester ’03, Ian Stevenson ’03, Cate Murray Stevenson ’03; front: Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom ’62, Leana and James, Lauren Sterk ’03.

Howson ’09 & Williams ’07

Stephanie Howson ’09 and Jordan Williams ’07, Aug. 30, 2014, Edgerton, Wis. Forrest Walker ’07, Katy Rodden Walker ’07, Monica Hayden ’07, Dave Rosenzweig ’07, Frank Saccomandi IV ’07, Missy Coito ’07, Jordan and Stephanie, Mira David ’09, Jack Murphy ’08, Katie Conkling ’09, Alicia Oas ’09, Rose Schwab ’09, Rebecca Jimenez ’09.

Preston ’06 & Greene

Hallie Preston ’06 and Philip Aaron Greene, March 28, 2014, Santa Barbara, Calif. Sarah Kellar Hvozda ’03, Rachel Kellar ’06, Whitney Warren ’06, Helen Minsky ’06, Gabby Voeller ’06, Hallie and Philip, Nick Hvozda, Jon Greer ’04, Alex Battestin Foster ’06. Not pictured: Caitlin Olmstead ’06, Liza Roberts ’06, Colin Hollister ’06.

Wright ’07 & McElhinny ’07

Mari Wright ’07 and William McElhinny ’07, Aug. 2, 2014, Bolinas, Calif. Sarah Janoff ’07, Kirsten Terry ’07, Christine Woll ’07, Rachel Stern ’07, Alex Salton ’07, Mari and Will, Chris Papadopoulos ’07, Greg Marcotte ’07, Nils Johnson ’07, Chris McGuire ’07, Tim Walsh ’07.

Innes ’81 & Pontbriand

Marcy Innes ’81 and Dan Pontbriand, June 7, 2014, Enfield, N.H. Linda Herr O’Donnell ’81, Jennifer Lloyd Mirabile ’81, Marcy and Dan, Dot LeBaron ’81, Tom Johnson ’81.

Nelson ’08 & Pryor ’11

Kim Nelson ’08 and Lindsey Pryor ’11, Sept. 27, 2014, Peaks Island, Maine. Front row: Afton Pavletic ’08, Kate Brodoff ’11, Molly Wolkin ’09, Lindsey and Kim, Dionne Akiyama ’08, Margo Silverman ’10, Julia McCarrier ’09, Elizabeth Hartfield ’08, Amelie Hopkins ’08, Haley Campbell ’11; second row: Mike Tetler ’11, Devin Wigler Tetler ’09, Hillary Fink ’11, Maggie DePoy ’11, Samuel Leichter ’08, Liz Miller ’10, Scott Pierce ’08; third row: Sam Farrell.

Kokosinski & Colony ’06

Katherine Kokosinski and Joel Colony ’06, Sept. 13, 2014, Harrisville, N.H. Mark Boccard ’06, Joel, Chris Eldridge ’06, Caitlin Henderson Eldridge ’07, Katherine, Jeremy Fisher ’06, Zola Porter Brown ’93, Will Colony ’12, Valentina Calastri ’09, Christopher Petrella ’06, Daniel Johnson ’06.

Tofel ’10 & Ferrante ’10

Rachel Tofel ’10 and Cameron Ferrante ’10, Nov. 1, 2014, The Barn at Flanagan Farm, Buxton, Maine. Back: Graham Proud ’08, Brianna Belanger ’09, Emily Pressman ’10, Rachel and Cam, Francis Suozzo ’11, Dan Tausanovitch ’10, Sarah Hunt ’10; front: Asa Curry ’10, Sam Boyer ’10, Kristin LaConte ’10.

Samuelson ’10 & Dunlap ’08

Abby Samuelson ’10 and Matt Dunlap ’08, Aug. 30, 2014, Brunswick, Maine. Kathryn Graff Low, Deborah Loux Fuller ’82, Nathan Winebaum ’10, Becky Flynn Woods ’89, Emily Poole Bates ’07, Katie Bash ’10, Megan McClelland ’11, Kate Reilly Thorson ’10, Abby and Matt, Steve Monsulick ’07, Harrison Little ’08, Tim McCall ’08, Matthew Biggart ’06, Alison Leonard ’10, Jay Hartshorn, Andy Walter, Al Fereshetian; second row: Martin Benes ’07, Sylvan Ellefson ’09, Brandon Cooper ’10, Stephen Fuller ’82, Scot Wilks ’07, Kevin Thorson ’10, Lisa Hartung ’10, Kirsten Gill ’11, Connor Cushman ’09, Harry Poole ’10, Ingrid Knowles ’11, Andrew Percy ’08, Esther Kendall ’10, Avery Masters ’10, Ben Hester ’10, Ben Dunlap ’94.

Fall 2015 85

Fall 201586

Fall 2015 87

Tolis ’05 & Nucete

Diane Tolis ’05 and Jayne Nucete (Univ. of Missouri ’01), Oct. 19, 2013, Buxton, Maine. Tyler Fish ’96, Victor Tolis ’74, Lois Phillips Tolis ’73, Jayne and Diane, Diana Wilkinson ’05, Nikki Schulman ’05, Sally Steinbach ’04, Carrie Gillispie ’04.

Levine ’04 & Meyer ’03

Sarah Levine ’04 and David Meyer ’03, Sept. 10, 2011, Samoset Resort, Rockport, Maine. Sam Duvall ’05, Matt Marshall ’05, Paul Gastonguay ’89, Brad Easterbrook ’88, Craig Legault ’05, Alex Macdonald ’03, Brett Carty-Hetchler ’04, Jeff Grom ’03, Jeff Critchlow ’03, Andrew Rahedi ’03, Kathryn Rice ’05, Emily Parker ’05, Rob Weller ’05, Dave Carlson ’00, Whit Albohm ’03, Brian Finegan ’03, Carla Flaherty ’03, Lindsey MacFarlane ’03, Brooke Tardiff ’04, Cami Dyson ’04, Emily Levine ’09, Liam Ryan ’03. Not shown: Lissa Moses ’06.

Gonsalves ’07 & O’Neill

Kay Gonsalves ’07 and PJ O’Neill (Mount St. Mary’s ’07), Nov. 16, 2013, Baltimore. Christine Chmura Farber ’06, PJ, Ashley Wentworth ’06, Kay, Ann Lovely ’07, Kate Luddy ’07, Aubrey Van Kirk ’07, Jack Keigwin ’59.

DuPre ’08 & Reed ’08

Allie DuPre ’08 and Ben Reed ’08, June 8, 2013, The ViewPoint Hotel, York, Maine. Front: Kelsey Clements ’09, Danielle Touhey ’06, Leah Citrin ’09, Allie and Ben, Molly Ladd ’09, Erin Reed ’08; back: Bethany Mitchell ’08, Catherine Wilson ’10, Mike Wilson ’07, Bill Jack ’08.

Trono ’06 & Klein

Emily Trono ’06 and Tim Klein (Ithaca College ’06), Aug. 9, 2014, Grand Isle Lake House, Grand Isle, Vt. Julia Simons ’06, Pennie Taylor ’06, Helen Minsky ’06, Gabby Voeller ’06, Emily and Tim, Rachel Sorlien ’06, Jesse Klein Seret ’98, Rachel Kellar ’06, Joel Anderson ’05.

Vigne ’12 & Cornforth ’12

Sarah Vigne ’12 and Alison Cornforth ’12, June 21, 2014, The Intervale Center, Burlington, Vt. Back row: Kate Doria ’10, Meagan Doyle ’09, Alison, Harold Cornforth ’51, Sarah, Elsa Buschner Carpenter ’52, Robert Carpenter ’51, Rachel Spence ’14; front row: Flora Chan ’11, Rachel Hastings ’11, Jocelyn Rice ’12, Catherine Elliott ’12, Kate Lyczkowski ’09, Haley Sive ’12, Margaret Pickoff ’13.

Browne ’04 & Berger

Tina Browne ’04 and Catanna Berger, July 12, 2014, Hudson, N.Y. Front row: Brigid Beech ’05, Tina and Catanna, Sara Kravitz ’04, Anne Conway ’04; back: Jake White ’03, Jackie Fullerton ’04, Valerie Wicks ’04, Megan Hallan ’04, Lindsay Harvey ’04, Kristen O’Toole ’02, John Scott Johnson ’04.

Boudreau & Biggart ’06

Maggie Boudreau and Matt Biggart ’06, July 27, 2014, Simsbury, Conn. Robert Gomez ’05, Tim McCall ’08, Steve Monsulick ’07, Matt Daly ’05, Andrew Percy ’08, Rachel Kellar ’06, Harrison Little ’08, Joel Anderson ’05, Matt Dunlap ’08, Nic Hansen ’05, Teah Muller ’07, Aviva Goldstein Pruzinsky ’08, Kathryn Moore ’07. Not pictured: Ari de Wilde ’05, Patrick Wales-Dinan ’05.

French ’07 & Rigby ’08

Laura French ’07 and Sam Rigby ’08, June 15, 2013, Camp Ohana, Fairlee, Vt. Front row: John Leavitt ’08, Pete Marsters ’08, Sam and Laura, Kat Farmer ’07, Nate Eichelberger ’07; second row: Zand Martin ’08, Anna Bernhard ’08, Tim Howard ’09, Marsha Larned ’07, Zach Risler ’08, Alida Ovrutsky ’08; third row: Jon Steuber ’08, Lee Spivak ’08, Naima Murphy ’10, Henry Myer ’08, Wiley Todd ’08, Dylan Atchley ’08, Sara Culver ’07, Grace Nehring ’07; fourth row: Rachel Kurzius ’10, Nick Salcido ’10, Alexis Grossman ’07, Katie Liston ’07, Rose Gold ’10, Lori Noble Risler, Will Kidney ’08; back row: Nate Sweet ’11, Missy Ducommun ’11, Andrew Karp ’10, Ben Speyer ’09, Lawrence Graham Jones ’09, Jacob Bluestone ’07.

Saunders ’08 & Stiff

Mary-Carson Saunders ’08 and Joshua Stiff, Oct. 5, 2013, Suffolk, Va. Christian Stiff ’11, Mike Simel ’08, Greg Waters ’08, David Al-Ibrahim ’09, Kelly Wakeham ’08, Ben Reilly ’08, Victoria Thomas ’08, Demian von Poelnitz ’08, Tommy Broge ’08, Tinsley Iselin ’07, Charles Kayajian ’08, Marissa Tripolsky ’08, Eleanor Yee ’08, Dylan Atchley ’08, Sumner Crosby ’08.

Edited by Christine Terp Madsen ’73in memoriam

1932

Helen Foss SaxtonJanuary 22, 2014Before she was 25, Helen Foss Saxton graduated from a one-room schoolhouse in New Hampshire, earned a bachelor’s degree from Bates and a master’s from BU, and traveled to Macon, Ga., where she taught at the first public school for black children. She also lived in the desegregat-ed teachers’ housing, something very radical for the times and scandalous in Macon. She wrote to her mother about riding the public bus: “It makes me feel like a fool to sit down on the front seat and watch [her black friend] take a seat farther back, when she is so much older and far superior to me in practically every way. But it is a law that whites are seated from the front seats toward the rear and the colored take the very back seats and up to the center.” She met Carlisle Saxton there, whom she would marry, and they moved to Wallingford, Conn., where she raised three children and taught for 25 years. Survivors include children Thomas Saxton, Gail Tucker, and Lynn Smith; and one grandchild.

1933

Rosamond Melcher ToomeyAugust 28, 2014Ronny Melcher Toomey remem-bered most of the children she taught: where they sat (especial-ly the troublemakers), what they were like. She loved teaching. She was a math teacher, mostly in Manchester, Conn., before stopping to raise her family. She retired from teaching in the 1970s but stayed active, lament-ing having to rent a golf cart because of a sore hip when she was 89. She also played croquet and figured out everyone’s taxes at her retirement home, where she was the oldest resident. Valedictorian of her South Portland High School class, Phi Beta Kappa in math from Bates, captain of the basketball team at both, she played other sports at

Bates and directed the Winter Carnival her junior and senior years. She also caught the eye of super-athlete Chick Toomey ’35, who somehow plastered 12 varsity letters onto a Bates sweater during his years at the college and then married her to boot. He died in 1993. She is survived by sons David, John, and Kevin; eight grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Her sister and brother-in-law were Margaret Melcher Chamberlain ’37 and George Chamberlain ’37.

1936

Carolyn Jerard BaroneJuly 17, 2013She lived to be 99, and Carolyn Jerard Barone was busy until the last minute. She was active in Eastern Star as matron and deputy grand matron; as regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution; as state chair to restore the Madonna of the Trail statue in Upland, Calif., after earthquake damage; as past president of the local Woman’s Club; and as a member of the Spiritual Living Church. She also enjoyed traveling with her hus-band before he passed away. In addition to her degree in French from Bates, she held a master’s in social work from the State Univ. of New York at Buffalo. She taught for a few years in Vermont after college, which is how she met her husband, a musician and band director, and later became a social worker and supervisor of adoptions for San Bernadino County in California. Survivors include children Cynthia Parker, Charles Barone, and Linda Bar-one; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Lawrence Benaiah LaphamAugust 29, 2014Larry Lapham taught only one subject: strong body, strong character, sound mind. Get along with others, treat others with respect, understanding, and equality. On paper, he was a phys ed teacher and director of the department, but to 22 years of students at York High School,

he was a celebrated coach and mentor, whose girls varsity bas-ketball team compiled a record of 315-53, with 16 league cham-pionships; his girls JV basketball team’s record was 163-32. He also coached the boys baseball team for many years, winning 179 games and the league championship twice. He taught and coached at several other schools before York, notably in Kittery, where he met Marion Ewan, who became his wife. During World War II, he was a chief specialist in athletics in heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney’s U.S. Navy Re-serve physical fitness program. He celebrated his 100th birthday in his own home on March 26, 2014. Survivors include son Mark; two granddaughters; and four great-grandchildren.

Fred Carleton Mabee Jr.December 18, 2014Carleton Mabee was a writer and historian whose atten-tion was caught by disparate subjects. In turn, he took that hook and dangled it in front of the curious in the form of a tan-talizing book on the subject. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F.B. Morse, which paint-ed a rather unpleasant picture of the artist-inventor. It grew out of his master’s thesis and Ph.D. at Columbia. It laid bare Morse’s social prejudices, and perhaps espoused Mabee’s own princi-ples as he struggled through five years of conscientious objector status during World War II, working as an attendant in a mental hospital and then assist-ing in the recovery in Europe as a relief worker. After, he taught liberal studies at Clarkson and wrote an exhaustive history of the St. Lawrence Seaway, The Seaway Story. He traveled on a freighter from Toledo to Mon-treal working as a photographer as part of his research for that book. He later taught at Delta College, Keio Univ. in Tokyo, and SUNY New Paltz. Among his many books, he wrote with his daughter, Susan Mabee New-house, Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend, a well-received, no-myth-too-sacred look at the legend. A final book about the Shawangunk Mountains is still scheduled for publication. Besides his daughter, survivors include son Timothy Mabee; two grandchildren; two great-grand-children; and sister-in-law Martha Blaisdell Mabee ’42, the widow of his brother, Irving Mabee ’42.

1937

Jane Ault LindholmDecember 11, 2014Jane Ault grew up the daughter of the wealthy owner of an established shoe company, forced by the Depression to

come home after her freshman year at Wheaton and attend the (sigh) local college, only to fall in love with the hunky senior captain of the football team. Thus was formed one of the most dynamic couples in Bates history: Milton ’35 and Jane Ault Lindholm. Milt, of course, became the legendary dean of admissions who practically hand-selected generations of Bates students; together they touched the lives of nearly every student who climbed Hathorn’s steps. Jane worked in the library, the registrar’s office, and in the publications office at Bates, and accompanied Milt on many of his recruiting trips. She also wrote these obituaries for a number of years. Her family describes her as “a lover of lan-guage...an avid reader of classic literature, books of all kind, and a prolific poet, if mostly unpublished.” Her poems, both melancholic and philosophical as well as irreverent and whim-sical, showed a spirit of social justice, her love of people and an understanding of human foibles, the latter with the poem “Love Thy Neighbor”: “My neighbors are such worthy folk: / They give me very sage advices. / But though I hold their virtues high, / I cherish all their little vices.” Her poems, often delivered directly to family members, “did her bidding,” wrote her son, Karl. Milt officially retired in 1977, which allowed them plenty of time to travel without wor-rying about recruiting duties, and they enjoyed trips to France and Sweden especially. They continued to greet students — and students of alumni — in their home until moving to a retirement home. Milt died in 2010 after 71 years of mar-riage. Three endowed funds at Bates honor the Lindholms, in support of scholarships, library purchases, and an award to the senior male and female varsity athletes achieving the highest grade-point averages. Survivors include daughter Martha Lentz ’64 and son Karl Lindholm; six grandchildren; five great-grand-children; brothers Peter Ault ’52 and David Ault ’57; sister Sara Ault Fasciano ’62; nieces Wendy Ault ’76 and Leslie Ault ’85; and nephew William Ault ’82. Her father, Charles Ault, was a Bates trustee from 1925 to 1938.

1938

Howard Hancox BeckerSeptember 9, 2014Howard Becker picked up a new hobby when he was 90: model railroading. And he went about it in a big way, devoting his entire backyard to it, ponds and tunnels and bridges, everything that a Florida garden could offer. It was all inspired by something he saw when he was in Maine, one suspects perhaps when

Fall 201588

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

in memoriam

coming or going to a Bates event. He was class president for 35 years until his death and co-chaired his 50th and his 60th Reunion Gift committees. In be-tween his active alumni career, he squeezed in a successful one in insurance. After seven years at Liberty Mutual as a claims adjuster, he joined the Life In-surance and Marketing Research Assn., where he remained for 33 years and retired as vice president, secretary-treasurer. He was a longtime member of Westminster Presbyterian Church in West Hartford, Conn. His first wife, Kathryn “Kitty” Thomas Becker ’37, died in 1989. Survivors include his second wife, Nancy Heinze; daughters Carol Becker Olson ’67 and Ann Wiersma; seven grandchildren, including Peter S. Olson ’92; and five great-grandchildren. David Olson ’65 is his son-in-law. His late Bates relatives were brother Richard H. Becker ’43 and brothers-in-law Charles P. Thomas ’29 and Howard Thomas ’31.

Jean Rivard FraserMarch 11, 2014Jean Rivard’s first marriage to Roland Hudon ended with his death in 1950. After maintain-ing and expanding his retail business, she married Ernest Fraser in 1965 and went to work in his medical office. Her second husband died in 1987, and she moved to Colorado to be near her son, William Hudon. Until then, they had continued to spend summers in Maine, where she had grown up in a large fam-ily in Lewiston. An enthusiastic traveler, she remembered every detail and, as a talented artist, often captured them on canvas. Besides her son, survivors include two grandsons; nieces Lisa Bousquet ’93 and Claire Bousquet Comstock ’80; and great-niece Colleen Louise McManus ’10.

John Kimball SkeltonJune 7, 2014By the time John Skelton ambled into the lounge named for his grandfather, the leather chairs were no doubt nicely worn in. One wonders if he and his grandfather, William B. Skelton 1892, a trustee from 1908 to 1964 and chair of the board starting in 1942, ever sat before its fireplace together, or if the distractions of the day were as distracting to grandsons then as now. Distractions or not, he graduated cum laude as pres-ident of the Lawrance Society and with a degree in chemistry, and went on to Bentley College and a 35-year career in banking in Maine and New Hampshire, preceded by a stint as a U.S. Army warrant officer during World War II. He was the exec-utive vice president of Durham Trust Co. and president of both

Franklin Savings Bank and Rochester Savings Bank and Trust Co. He climbed all the White Mountains’ 4,000-foot peaks not once but twice, the second time on snowshoes (the first time, sans snowshoes, he was the 99th person to do so). He also traversed the rockier cliffs of Monhegan many times, which allowed him to pursue his avocation of birding. His wife, Pearl Alex Skelton, died in 2003. Survivors include daughters Janice Whitaker and Martha Borsh; five grandchil-dren; nine great-grandchildren; and nephew Robert W. Skelton ’70. His grandparents were William Bertram Skelton 1892 and Florence Larrabee Skelton 1891. His aunt was Ruth Skelton Hartley ’29.

1940

Casimara Poshkus McIntireDecember 15, 2013Cassie Poshkus McIntire wasn’t particularly inspired by her studies at Bates, until she heard a voice, a particularly musical voice, around the corner in Hathorn Hall: Lavinia Schaeffer had arrived on campus. That, said Cassie, was “a turning point in my life.” She had wanted to leave Bates, four years older than the other students, discour-aged and disillusioned, but Miss Schaeffer “revolutionized the theater,” so much so that Cassie returned to campus in fondness 17 years after graduation to be married to Merton McIntire in the chapel. She and her brother, Algirdas Poshkus ’36, created the Charles and Ann Poshkus Fund in honor of their parents to ben-efit the chemistry department, Ladd Library and the college theater. Miss Schaeffer taught her well: Cassie was a leading lady in numerous plays in Port-land and Boston, in addition to teaching in Maine, Massachu-setts, and New Jersey. In later years, she was a real estate agent with her husband. Survivors include a sister and nephew.

Ruth Gray RussellFebruary 9, 2014Ruth Gray Russell graduated with a degree in history and government, which makes sense for someone with an interest in archaeology, and went on to earn a master’s from the Hartford Seminary. But she soon switched to a career in nursing, earning a master’s from the Yale School of Nursing. She was a psychiatric nursing instructor at Danvers (Mass.) State Hospital for 20 years and later its assistant director of nursing. She satisfied that archaeological urge by traveling widely, discovering what other people had already discovered, and writing a book about her experiences. Survivors include daughter Barbara Mal-phrus and one grandson.

1941

Elizabeth Swann JonesSeptember 3, 2014Betty Jones was living in Addis Ababa with her diplomat hus-band when she learned that girls were being sold into prostitution by their fathers. Wanting to help them escape that life, she gathered as many as she could into her home to teach them how to knit items to sell instead of selling themselves. When she left Addis, she gave each a letter of recommendation on embassy letterhead, hoping it would be the key to their success. Twenty years later, another diplomat’s wife told her she had recently hired a “knitting woman” in Ad-dis after the woman produced a much folded, much soiled letter of recommendation on embassy letterhead from Betty Jones. She had succeeded. Betty traveled to at least eight countries as a Foreign Service wife, teaching school in some places, starting a library in another. She even had a soccer — er, football — team named after her. Once back in the U.S. “for good,” she taught ESL to the wives of graduate students at the Univ. of North Carolina. She also enjoyed being a docent at the Ackland Art Museum. She was a volunteer for her 50th Reunion Gift Committee and her Reunion committees. Survivors include husband Curtis Jones; children Curtis, Steven, and Leslie Jones; five grandchildren, including Geoffrey Jones ’02; and two great-grandchildren.

Edward Ernest OberstMay 29, 2014When Brud Oberst was in high school, he and his brother came up to Bates and stayed in J.B. so he could take a German exam, hoping to qualify for entry to Bates. He managed to pass it, shakily — Harry Rowe had mercy — and he spent the next four years selling pipes to students and working for Dean Rowe to finance his education. He worked hard at his education, too, making it to Yale Law School, with a detour through the U.S. Navy, where he was a skipper on a sub chaser in the South Atlantic and then shipped over to the Pacific. Once he started to practice law, he continued in the Naval Reserves until he retired as a lieutenant commander. In New Haven, he was secretary and general counsel to the Marlin Firearms Co. and served on its board. He was the retired judge of probate for the Town of Cheshire, Conn., having previously been the pros-ecuting grand juror and the trial justice. An inventor, he had 10 or so patents, many in the firearms area. According to his family, the inventions include a tide clock, an adjustable celestial globe, a grip insert for workshop vises

and several rifle safety enhance-ments. He was instrumental in setting up the Harmon Leonard Youth Center as well as the pur-chase and use of Mixville Pond for a town park by Cheshire. A member of The College Key, Brud was always active at Re-union, especially if his son and daughter-in-law were involved. They are William Oberst ’70 and Gail Sturtevant Oberst ’70. Other survivors include his wife Jean Schorer Oberst; daughter Nancy O. Clark; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Gale Rice PowersJune 20, 2014After receiving her degree in French from Bates, Gale Rice Powers earned a master’s in education at the Univ. of Hart-ford. She taught Spanish in West Hartford, Conn., for many years. She served as president of the Class of 1941 from 1996 to 2005 and was a class agent for nearly 20 years. Her husband, Foster Powers, died in 1999.

Martin Harris SlobodkinOctober 8, 2006“If you don’t have fun every day, it’s your own fault,” Martin Slobodkin told The Provincetown (Mass.) Banner in an interview. The well-known Boston bon vivant had slowed down from three parties a night to three a week, but he sped up from a 10-speed Peugeot bicycle to a five-speed lime-green Saab convertible, all this after one year at Bates, the rest at Harvard magna cum laude with a stint in the Army thrown in for good measure. President emeritus of the L Street Brownies (famed for their New Year’s Day swims in Dorchester Bay), member of Mensa, student of Proust, art publisher, and cultural director of Creative Allies, he orga-nized, coordinated, and hosted multiple cultural events year round. Survivors include wife Teresa Craig; stepsons Michael and Sebastian Grasso; and five grandchildren.

1942

Barbara McGee ChasseAugust 7, 2014With three small children, Barbara McGee Chasse didn’t anticipate a teaching career, but it became a necessity when her husband, Alfred Chasse, was killed in a car crash in 1956. She found a job as an elementary school teacher in Sanford, soon became a principal there, then a junior high teacher. She earned a master’s in education from UNH and taught in Sanford for over 30 years. She volunteered in class-rooms into her 90s and helped out at Maine Medical Center, teaching children in long-term care. She even donated her body to the medical school at UNE to continue her habit of

Fall 2015 89

teaching. Secretary of her class from 2008 until this year, she was also an alumni club officer in the early 1970s. Survivors include daughters Karen Hopkins, Ellen Chasse, and Susan Stilphen; five grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Her sister was Lorraine McGee Roberts ’42.

Marjorie Lewis ForbesApril 28, 2014Lester Everett ForbesJune 2, 2013Rodgers and Hammerstein must have been lurking in the corners of Chase Hall that Saturday night when Lester Forbes and Marjorie Lewis fell into each other’s arms. It was “Some Enchanted Evening.” That’s how Lester and Marjorie described how they met at the very first Chase Hall dance their freshman year, and they were together un-til Lester’s death some 75 years later. Both were at Bates for only two years, but remained close to Bates friends throughout their lives. He headed off to business school, she to secretarial school. He became a buyer at GE in the small-engine department; she became assistant to the clerk of the First Church of Christ, Sci-entist in Boston. They traveled the world, both for business and pleasure, but always made it back for Reunions and were volunteers for several, including their 60th.

Hugh Joseph McLaughlin Sr.September 24, 2014Hugh McLaughlin was a gifted athlete who played semi-pro basketball and remained an avid golfer. He was a police officer in Chelsea, Mass., a state representative in the Massa-chusetts House and eventually a two-term mayor of Chelsea. Survivors include daughter Diane; one grandchild; and one great-grandchild.

Beatrice Wilson ShepherdMay 13, 2014Because Bee Wilson Shepherd always volunteered for Reunion committees and Alumni Funds, and because her husband, Harry “Shep” Shepherd ’40, chaired so many of those committees, everyone tended to forget that Bee attended Bates for only one year before leaving for Radcliffe on a full scholarship. But Bates was never far from her heart. One of her sons and his wife are graduates, as are her sister and a grand-nephew. She said once that her sister, Marcia Wilson Lindberg ’47, chose Bates “after listening to our rave reviews.” Her Radcliffe degree was in psychology. She earned an MLS at Simmons in 1967, then became a reference and young-adult librarian in Andover, Mass., before moving to Lynnfield to become an audio-visual librarian, where she remained until retiring to boat, ski, golf,

and travel. A president of the North Shore Radcliffe Club and a member of the Lynnfield His-torical Committee, she taught Sunday school and, after moving to Maine, was a corporator of the Bath Library. Harry passed away in 2012. In addition to her sister, survivors include sons Richard and Robert ’69; and five grandchildren. Bob’s wife is Alice Grant Shepherd ’71. Her grand-nephew is Zachary Altman ’01.

William WorthyMay 4, 2014“Americans have a right,” Wil-liam Worthy declared, “to know what’s going on in the world in their name.” The firebrand African American journalist made the remark in 1982 to the Associated Press when asked why he had brought back from Iran reprints of intelligence documents taken from the U.S. embassy in Tehran after revolutionary militants seized it three years earlier. The contents of those papers, deemed clas-sified by the FBI, were already circulating widely in Europe and became the source of a series of articles by The Washington Post. As a journalist, Worthy was drawn to societies that had revolted against oppressive, U.S.-backed regimes. At the same time, he believed the U.S. media’s foreign coverage favored American interests. “You have to talk about the imperialist press when you talk about the mass media,” he told an MIT audience in 1973. The U.S. government was frequently nipping at his heels. In a well-publicized incident in the 1950s, he couldn’t get his passport renewed after traveling to off-limits China. To a Senate subcommittee investigating the affair, Worthy said, “I want my passport. And I want it now.” A self-described pacifist and civil libertarian with a “rebel temperament,” he never tired of the hassle nor wavered from a belief in the value of his work in a democratic society. In 2008 he received the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism from Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. In 1986, he wrote in The Nieman Reports, “The longer it takes our media to come to terms with revolution-ary realities, the more dangerous the world becomes.” He inter-viewed Nikita Khrushchev in the Soviet Union, Chou En-lai in China, and Fidel Castro in Cuba. He lacked the proper American passport to enter China, but did so anyway. Four years later, he went to Cuba. He was arrested when he returned for traveling without a passport, despite moving successfully through customs by showing his birth certificate. Folksinger Phil Ochs wrote “The Ballad of William Worthy,” the lyrics of which read

in part: “William Worthy isn’t worthy to enter our door, went down to Cuba, he’s not Amer-ican anymore. But somehow it is strange to hear the State De-partment say, ‘You are living in the free world, in the free world you must stay.’” His degree from Bates was in sociology. “Still a pacifist,” he wrote at his 50th Class Reunion. “Still a rebel temperament.” He is survived by his sister, Ruth Worthy.

1943

Robert John CôtéAugust 8, 2014Except for paddling around in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Bob Côté worked as a chemist his entire career. Actually, it was a bit more glamorous than that: His work took him close to the Manhattan Project, and he went on to work at Eastman Kodak and the Monsanto Corp. He also taught chemistry for the Navy at North Carolina State and Iowa State. He retired from Mobay, now Bayer Material Science. He was a member of the Birds and Blooms club in Livingston, Texas, and active in Cedar Bayou Grace United Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife Carolyn W. Côté; children Pete Côté, Cecile Ross, and Janine Schrock; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Merle Montana EastmanApril 5, 2014It’s a name made for the stage: Merle Montana Eastman. And he made the most of it. Playing alto sax and clarinet with the popular Bobcats band, he was always ready for the downbeat. Big Band, Dixieland, or Chase Hall — any stage was just fine for Merle. Shortly after graduation he joined the Navy and was sta-tioned in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he served as leader of a torpedo bomber squadron. He went on to a career in insurance in New Hampshire and Vermont for Aetna and then Blue Cross Blue Shield, and he was appoint-ed director of underwriting for the two states. But he never let his reed get dry, playing lead alto sax in the Freese Bros. Big Band for many years. He led Dixieland jam sessions in his home weekly and enthusiastically joined in at the Bobcats band reunion in 1984. He came by his dry New Hampshire wit almost by birth, but he spent his first four years in Montana (whence his middle name). Survivors include wife Ruth Bergstrom Eastman; daughters Linda Eastman and Jane Dobson; and two grand-children.

Francis Carlson GingrasAugust 10, 2013Gene Grass. That’s what the stu-dents in the special-education class in Gardner, Mass., called Frank Gingras, and that’s what

they wrote on the huge poster they made when he retired. He taught high school chemistry for 19 years, rounding out a career in which he alternated between teaching and working in the private sector. He also taught in Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. During World War II, he taught chemical warfare sessions in the U.S. Army at what is now Fort Lee. In addition to his degree from Bates, he held a master’s from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Survivors include a cousin, Shari Steiner Mulvey ’89.

V-12

Donald Neal LukensMay 3, 2014Donald Lukens was a member of the V-12 unit at Bates and grad-uated from Bowdoin in 1946. He served in the Navy as an execu-tive officer on PT boats and after the war was a watch officer on the USS Constitution. He earned a master’s degree in business from Harvard. Survivors include son Dana Lukens ’84.

Robert E. MichaudFebruary 7, 2014Bob Michaud came to Bates as part of the Navy V-12 officer training program, and that training here and at MIT gave him the start he needed to co-found Computer Control Corp. after the war. He went on to cofound Keymatch, Inc., which developed the use of barcodes in supermarkets, and then Easel Corp., where he created a prototypical touch screen. He held degrees from MIT and was a passionate singer. Survivors include his wife, Ellen.

Robert B. Stevens Sr.March 21, 2014Bob Stevens graduated from BU and coached nearly every sport at Bridgton High School before returning to his native Farming-ton to teach and coach for nearly 30 years at what became Mount Blue High School. He was its first athletic director. Survivors include his wife, Jeannette Thompson Stevens.

1944

George Edward Curtis Jr.June 4, 2014After flying his 65th bombing mission in the Army Air Corps as a radio man, George Curtis prepared to ship out and return home. The rest of his crew took off for another mission. They never returned. He completed his degree in history in 1948, while working as a nationally ranked deejay on WGAN known as “The Man With The Golden Voice.” In 1953, he helped bring the first, short-lived TV station to Portland, serving as its gener-al manager. He then became the

Fall 201590

in memoriam

administrative assistant to Gov. Burton M. Cross and was later a state senator. He worked on a bill requiring driver education for teenage drivers and helped Gov. Percival Baxter prepare his home and land on Mackworth Island to become the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf. After an unsuccessful bid for Congress, he started a successful career in insurance and financial planning, which continued into his 80s. Survivors include wife Violet Paquin Curtis; children Georgia Porter, Tracy Curtis, George III, Jerri Tounge, and Scott; 14 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren.

Donald Sheldon DayOctober 1, 2014Donald Day, one of only 13 of 135 U.S. Army soldiers to survive a botched offensive against the Germans during World War II, lived through enough misery and torture during five months in an all-Jewish POW camp to write in his battlefield diary on the day that Germany surrendered: “Never forget. Never forget. Never forget.” He escaped from that camp using maps given to him by a seriously wounded British paratrooper. In the sweetest of coincidences, it was that paratrooper’s division he “ran into” that gave him safety. He returned to Bates — having grown up in Auburn — finished his degree in economics Phi Beta Kappa, and continued on to Cornell Law School cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He joined the firm of Saperston, McNaugh-ton & Saperston in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1948; eventually he became its chairman and the firm became Saperston & Day. From 1981 to 1985, he was chairman of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, an organization of over 1,000 Reform syna-gogues in the U.S. and Canada. He was president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism 1988–95 and later served as a world union representative on the executive committees of the Conference on Material Claims against Germany (representing Holocaust victims, survivors and families) and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. He was also active in several local hospital boards of directors and charitable associations. He received an honorary doctorate from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, where he served as a trustee. Survivors include his wife, Edythe Greenberg Day; children Clifford, Richard, and Halee Burg; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. His late brother was Melvin Day ’43.

Daniel W. GibbsNovember 29, 2014Daniel Gibbs’ education at Bates was interrupted by three and a

half years of service in the Army Air Corps during World War II. A warm, caring man with an outgoing personality, he was beloved for his long career in education, as a teacher of social studies in Massachusetts and in many administrative positions, including several principalships and his election as superinten-dent of schools in Williamstown. He later paused his public school service for several years to become director of the An-glo-American School in Moscow. He and his wife, Louise Gifford Gibbs ’44, loved to travel, and he proudly displayed his photo collections from trips to Europe, the Soviet Union, and Asia. The two were class agents for Bates in the 1990s, co-chairs of their 55th Reunion social committee and members of their 50th Reunion committee. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Thomas Gibbs, Linda Gutterman, and Deborah Gibbs-Brooks; five grandchildren; and siblings Patricia Russell and Timothy Gibbs. His late brother was Joseph F. Gibbs ’58.

Elizabeth Kinney JonesJanuary 11, 2009Betty Kinney followed brother Bob Kinney ’39 to Bates and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in sociology. She held government jobs during and after the war, then was a social worker until she married Edmund Jones and began a family. Eventually she earned a master’s in teaching from George Washington Univ. and taught elementary school for 16 years. Her husband passed away in 2001. Survivors include sons Russell, Malcolm, and Brian Jones; niece Sally Greenlaw Kinney ’69; and grandniece Samantha Kinney Leone ’93. Her brother, former Bates Trustee E. Robert Kinney ’39, died in 2013; his son, E. Robert Kinney Jr. ’70, died in 2011.

Vincent Lee McKusickDecember 3, 2014Vincent McKusick could have become a dairy farmer like his father. He could have become an electrical engineer: The U.S. Army singled him out for the Manhattan Project, trained him as an engineer, and even sent him to MIT to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degree. Or he could have followed his identical twin brother, Victor, into medicine. But they had deliberately decided to not dog each other through adult life, and Vincent had always wanted to be a lawyer. That MIT master’s in engineering would come in handy for patent law, he figured. He graduated from Bates summa cum laude in history, which didn’t hurt either. And just as his brother succeeded in his field, so did Vincent: He was president of the Harvard Law Review,

clerked for Chief Judge Learned Hand just before he ascended to the Supreme Court, and then for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. He returned to Maine to begin an illustrious career with Hutchinson, Pierce, Atwood & Scribner. In 1977, Gov. James Longley appointed him chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. He was elected to the Bates Board of Overseers in 1952 and elevated to the Board of Trustees in 1972, serving until 1992. He was also honored by Bates with an LL.D. and the Benjamin Mays Medal. In 1991, he became “of counsel” to Pierce Atwood, enjoying an extended career until age 90 as special master on U.S. Supreme Court cases, as counsel on legal matters to his firm and as an arbitrator. The home in Cape Elizabeth that he made with his wife, Nancy Green McKusick, and their four children was a favorite gathering place for four generations of their family and countless friends. In 1993, when his portrait was hung in the Maine Supreme Court courtroom, one of his law clerks noted his “sense of humor, warmth, curiosity, and enthusiasm” that endeared him to his staff. Even after retiring, he was known lovingly to all as “The Chief.” In her tribute, Leigh Ingalls Saufley, current chief justice of the Maine court, wrote that “The Chief was an absolutely brilliant man. He was also the kindest and most col-legial and gentlemanly jurist I ever had the pleasure of appear-ing before. He treated everyone with the absolute respect that is shown by the best of jurists. He was a role model for every one of us.” Every college and university in Maine awarded him an honorary degree of one sort or another, it seems, and the national recognition is no less noteworthy. In 1993, President George H.W. Bush appointed him to the Perma-nent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Barbara McKusick Liscord ’74, James E. McKusick ’76, Kay Ralston, and Anne McKusick; 10 grandchildren, one of whom is Robert McKusick Lord ’11; and four great-grandchildren. His cousin is Margaret McKusick Gray ’37, and two of his neph-ews are Karl W. McKusick ’67 and Victor W. McKusick ’87. A son-in-law is Paul Liscord ’74. Other family members, now deceased, include his father, Carroll L. McKusick 1904; uncle Leon R. McKusick 1911; sister Grace McKusick Storms ’30; and brother Harry A. McKusick ’33. In 1989, Bates awarded Vincent’s twin, Victor, a pioneer in genetic medicine, an honorary degree.

1945

Alice Gates HaughwoutSeptember 1, 2014 In the records that the college keeps for each student, it required extra room to list all of Penny Gates Haughwout’s activities. And her studies didn’t suffer because of them: She was a dean’s list student every year and listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. She edited The Garnet, rang the carillon, sang in the choral society, and acted in the Robinson Players. And she won the Senior Prize speaking contest. Music was central to her life; she went on to receive both a bachelor’s and master’s in music from NYU, and to teach organ, piano, and voice lessons for the rest of her life. Her family says that she was known to sniff out abandoned pianos in dark rooms in restaurants and start playing them, just to liven things up; that piano students who’d moved away to college were likely to get a letter from her out of the blue. None of this should surprise anyone: She was born to missionary parents in Burma; her father, Gordon Enoch Gates, was an expert on earthworms at the university there and later at Colby. She used her writing ability to create oral histories for the Greenwich (Conn.) Library’s Oral History Project, interview-ing scores of people for their re-cords. She was also active in the revitalization of Williamsburg, Va., and the Lisle Development Project, which funds small de-velopment projects around the world through its Global Seed Fund. Her first husband, from whom she was divorced, was the late John F. McDonald ’43. Her second husband, Theodore E. Bott, and third husband, Alex Haughwout, also predeceased her. Survivors include children Nichola and Timothy Bott; and five grandchildren.

John Fogg Kneeland Sr.April 7, 2014 John Kneeland started life with a fumble: He nearly dropped an entire tray of dirty dishes into Eleanor Roosevelt’s lap while working as a busboy at Sebasco Estates when he was 15. But he managed to miss her, or the dishes managed to, and good manners prevailed. There is, alas, no photographic evidence. He went on to serve in the European theater during World War II, was commissioned as an officer in France, and came home to Lewiston a lieutenant. He entered Bates as a chemistry major, met Mary Constance Peck ’45, and they married in 1946. He went on to a long career as a chemical salesman for Maine paper mills and other textile producers along the East Coast. Mary died in 1989. Survivors include his second wife, Janalie

Fall 2015 91

in memoriam

Brannan Desjardins; children Patricia Howes, Nancy Knee-land, Mary-Ann Peck, Jeffrey, and John Jr.; nine grandchil-dren; 11 great-grandchildren; Janalie’s children, Phyllis Ouel-lette and Dennis Desjardins; her three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

1946

Marilyn Abbott GentileJune 7, 2013Marilyn Abbott attended Bates for one year, leaving to marry Frank Gentile ’44 during World War II. She earned an MSW at Wayne State and became a social worker in the Detroit area while he ministered in Unitarian Universalist congregations. She was active with the UUA’s Women and Religion committee during this time. Frank died in 1984. She eventually realized her deepening love for a close friend, the Rev. Jody Shipley, and the two became partners. She worked closely with the Modesto (Calif.) UU church and community ministry. The Rev. Shipley died in 2002. Marilyn is survived by daughters Alice and Patricia.

Catherine Patalano GrilloMarch 1, 2012Catherine Patalano moved to California shortly after receiving her degree and lived there for the rest of her life. She was an instructor at Laney College in Oakland. She married Evelio Grillo and had four children, Elisa, Antonio, Evelio, and Trina.

Kathleen Reilly ParkingtonApril 25, 2014Four of Kathleen Reilly Parking-ton’s granddaughters comprise the Parkington Sisters musical quartet, and they took a poem she wrote to her husband and put music to it shortly before his death several years ago. Music and literature defined her life, whether it was singing, editing The Garnet, teaching English and French, or playing the mandolin on her 90th birthday with family and friends. All of her children learned that music is the language of the soul, they said. She and husband Harry owned cabins on Cape Cod, and she taught high school French and English in both Orleans and Provincetown. They also owned the lighthouse keeper’s house in Wellfleet for a while. Survi-vors include children Dawn, Margaret, David, Daniel, Joanne, and Andrew; 18 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. William Canty ’46 is her broth-er-in-law.

Clifton Ellis RawcliffeApril 1, 2014Like so many of his generation, Cliff Rawcliffe’s years at Bates were fractured by the war, and he was part of the V-12 group

as well as the regular student body. He received his degree in mathematics in 1947 after serving as a lieutenant aboard a PT boat during the war. He earned an engineering degree from Northeastern and went on to a long career with the Com-monwealth of Massachusetts as the principal civil engineer at the department of public works and the assistant district maintenance engineer for the state. He was a past master of the Lynnfield Masonic Lodge. Survivors include children John Rawcliffe and Susan Smith; and five grandchildren.

1947

Doris Adams BeverlinOctober 7, 2014 Doris left Bates with a degree in sociology for Hartford, where she earned a master’s in Chris-tian studies. From there she moved to Michigan, where she met and married Donald Siebert. She worked as a Christian edu-cator and later operated a motel with her husband before they moved to Florida. He passed away in 1994. She married Don-ald Beverlin in 2001; he died six months before she did. Survivors include daughter Mary Joslin and one grandchild.

1948

Charles ChakoumakosJuly 21, 2014“Everybody had one inspira-tional person who taught them how to be successful in life. Chuck was mine.” That’s what one student wrote about Chuck Chakoumakos, his high school chemistry teacher in 1964 in Goshen, N.Y. A beloved teacher, Chuck taught chemistry at Gould Academy in Bethel as well as in Goshen before moving to the Univ. of Maine at Farming-ton, where he taught for 22 years before retiring. He held degrees in chemistry from Bates and the Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison as well as a master’s in education from the Univ. of Maine. Before starting his teaching career, Chuck served in the U.S. Army during World War II during the Battle of the Bulge. He married classmate Mary Alice Golder shortly after graduation. Besides his wife, survivors include children Scott, Bryan, Alison, and Andrew Chakou-makos; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. His sister-in-law is Donna Golder Henderson ’49, whose husband is Milton E. Henderson ’50; their son is James L. Henderson ’82.

Thomas Raymond MansfieldOctober 5, 2014Subordinate teaching to learn- ing! — a thought expressed by many, and espoused by Tom Mansfield, an educator known

primarily for his long association with the Trevor Day School in New York City. He left Bates before graduation and completed his degree at Wesleyan. His ideas on education meant teaching children to read or to do algebra with the same enthusiasm as one helps them learn to walk: no preconceived notions, no judgments, no biases. He and his wife, Sumiko, opened their farm in Putney, Vt., to students as an outdoor education center. Be-sides his wife, survivors include children Sarah, Elizabeth, and Tony; nephew Robert M. Thomas ’79; and cousin Maralyn Davis Mazza ’49. His father was Allan W. Mansfield 1915; his aunt and uncle, Laura Mansfield Davis and Donald Davis, were both 1918.

Glendon Herbert McAlisterMarch 23, 2014Glen McAlister went to Harvard at 17 before he came to Bates — but only for Navy training to serve in World War II. He had the good sense to enroll at Bates after the war, then went on to a successful career in education. He earned a master’s in edu-cation from Bridgewater State and designed curricula for both academically challenged and tal-ented students. He worked with prison inmates seeking high school and college diplomas; in all, his career in education spanned 40 years. He also was a consultant to McGraw-Hill through the Office of Economic Opportunity and a training director for Job Corps. Survivors include children Jean Cowhig, Marjorie McAlister-Hynes, Frank, Terri, Mary, and James McAlister; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

1949

Raymond Linscott Bond Jr.September 29, 2014Ray Bond was at Bates both before and after service in the U.S. Army during World War II, but graduated from Boston Univ. with a journalism degree. His career was primarily in public relations with Central Maine Power and the Maine Assn. of Real Estate Boards. He also remained active with the Army, attaining the rank of captain in the reserves. Survivors include children Jeffrey, Duncan, Thomas, Peter, Steven, Laurie Denis, and Lucy Bond; nine grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren.

Richard Maurice BriggsJune 8, 2014Chemistry students today only hear the name W.A. Lawrance in the name of their society, but Emeritus Professor Richard Briggs studied, worked, and published papers with him. After receiving his degree from Bates cum laude, he earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Boston

Univ. He was appointed an instructor of chemistry in 1956 while Professor Lawrance was on a leave of absence and promoted to associate professor in 1965. In 1971, he was selected to appear in “Outstanding Educators of America.” He left Bates the following year. He is survived by his brother and sister-in-law, Norman and Nancy Briggs.

Valjean Ripley IenelloOctober 24, 2012Valjean Ripley Ienello continued her studies at New Haven Teachers College. She married Frederick Ienello ’50 and was involved with the Women’s Army Corps in Virginia before her children were born, then taught high school English in West Babylon, N.Y. Survivors include children Michael, Lila Ann, and Sandra.

Beatrice Jane O’BrienMay 10, 2014Bea O’Brien was a librarian and a poet, and it’s hard to know which gave her more satisfac-tion. She earned a master’s in library science from Southern Connecticut State and worked for many years at the Connecticut State Library Service. Retire-ment gave her more time to travel, including a trip to Rome, where she was blessed by Pope Benedict. She was a founding member and past president of the Catholic Singles connected to her parish in Middletown. In 1997, a poem of hers won first place in a competition sponsored by the Famous Poets Society. She also had a notoriously delicious habit of stopping off at Hebert Candies between her house and that of her sister Helen O’Brien Good-will ’33, now deceased. Survivors include a cousin, Jane Langley Stanton ’84. Helen’s husband was John J. Goodwill ’33; her cousins were George H. Langley ’52 and Richard M. Langley ’54.

Rita Edith StuartJune 16, 2014Rita Edith Stuart worked at Boston Five Cent Savings Bank throughout her career. She used her free time to volunteer in children’s programs at her Methodist church, where she was treasurer for over 20 years. A loving aunt and great-aunt, in retirement she became active in an elementary school’s reading program. She also managed to squeeze in regular trips to her favorite bakery and ice cream store. A class agent for 20 years, she was a member of her 40th and 45th Reunion Committees as well as her 45th and 50th Reunion Gift Committees.

Kathryn Robish TopliffApril 23, 2014Kay Robish Topliff left Bates after two years and graduated from Eastern Connecticut State Teachers College. Nevertheless,

Fall 201592

in memoriam

she was faithful to a group of Bates alumni who got together every year for over 50 years. She taught in Pembroke, N.H., for over 20 years. She loved her flower and vegetable gardens and took part in many church activities. Survivors include chil-dren Kristine, Ross, and Alan; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

1950

Wesley Damon BakerMarch 25, 2014Wes Baker went to Harvard be-fore he came to Bates, but it was only for training so he could join the Navy to fight in World War II. He ended up in an apartment at Bates as a student, and lucky thing, too, because that’s where he met Joyce Hunnewell, who had come down from Bingham to attend classes at Central Maine General Hospital to become a lab tech, and who lived in the same building. They married before he graduated and he spent summers in Bingham before they moved there permanently. His first job was as a meat cutter at the local grocery/general store, and he ended up owning the place. An enthusiast for the Upper Ken-nebec Valley, he was a founding member of the Bingham Moscow Chamber of Commerce, serving as its president and on its board. As a member of the National Scenic Highway and Byways Committee, he was instrumental in naming the old Canada Road (the road that Benedict Arnold traveled on through Bingham) as a scenic byway. Sen. Susan Collins applauded his efforts at the town’s bicentennial in 2012. He helped replace the rope tow at Baker Mountain with a T-bar ( just a coincidence — the moun-tain’s been named that forever) and eventually became the direc-tor of the ski area. He also found-ed the Annual Gadabout Gaddis Fly-in, volunteered for the Bing-ham Fire Department for over 50 years, and worked with the Boy Scouts and the PTA. Survivors include children Jo Carpenter, Mike Baker, Connie Atwood, Chuck Baker, Kim Roy, and Carol Doyon; 15 grandchildren, one of whom is Kevin Lee Carpenter ’02; and 11 great-grandchildren. David L. Baker ’70 is his nephew; Robert Jens Baker ’10 is one of his grand-nephews. His brother was Howard L. Baker ’43; he was married to Lucile Davis Baker ’43, who survives him. His uncle was Lawrence Damon 1911.

Richard Perkins Boothby Jr.August 28, 2014The great-grandson of the found-er of Bates, Dick Boothby was schooled in the college’s tradi-tions from birth, and his family is steeped in its history. His entry to Bates was delayed by World War II, during which he served on the Liberty ship James C. Cameron

in the South Pacific. He joined his father in the shoe industry after leaving Bates, remaining in it in several companies as an executive for a good portion of his career. He married classmate Carolyn Coburn and together they enjoyed the rambling summer cottage on Pleasant Pond in Turner that his father, Richard Jr. 1916, had purchased, the site of family gatherings for two generations and affection-ately called “Boothby’s Labor Camp” by his four children. He took them hiking and skiing. Photography, golf, and tennis rounded out his list of activities. Carolyn died in 2010. Survivors include children James, Richard, David Boothby ’87, and Barbara Perry; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and sister Barbara Boothby Wendt ’44. In addition to his father, his mother, Pauline Jameson Boothby, was a member of the Class of 1916. His great-grandfather was Oren Burbank Cheney, the founder of the college, whose daughter, Emeline, married James Frank Boothby, a Bates overseer. His uncles were Willard Sands Boothby 1909 and Oren Cheney Boothby 1896.

Herbert Leo Livingstone Jr.March 29, 2013Herb Livingstone, a lifelong Red Sox fan, lived for 59 years with his wife, Helen, a lifelong Yankees fan, without once resorting to fisticuffs. A veteran of the Korean War, he earned a master’s in education from Co-lumbia and taught history and coached at Northport (N.Y.) for a number of years. He was rec-ognized as teacher of the year there. He left teaching to work for Elmhurst Dairy in Queens. Survivors include children Thomas, Herbert III, Mary, and Andrew; and five grandchil-dren. His cousins were Michael Harkins ’27, Bernard Harkins ’45, and David Harkins ’53.

Thelma Hardy PasqualiMarch 31, 2014Thelma Hardy Pasquali traveled around the world, but she always lived within 100 miles of where she was born. Flying to such places as Morocco or Turkey was of great interest to her, but she was just as happy to travel by canoe or hiking trail. Her degree from Bates was in biology, and she added one in zoology from Smith. She went on to teach at the Massachusetts Audubon Society, then in Hol-liston, and finally in Attleboro, Mass. She also was an accom-plished poet and a member of the Bates Key. Her first husband, the Rev. Ray M. Marshall, died in 1976. Survivors include her second husband, Frank Pasquali; sons Philip R. Marshall ’80, John, and Peter; seven grand-children; three great-grandchil-dren; sister Doris Hardy Crosby ’52; and niece Ellen V. Crosby ’77.

William Robert PerhamMay 12, 2014Bill Perham was a campus leader, president of the student council, a proctor, member of the football team, and active in intramural sports. He turned his degree in sociology into a mas-ter’s by continuing his studies at the Univ. of Chicago. He became a social worker who focused on child welfare with the Illinois Department of Family Services. He changed his athletic focus to tennis, however. Survivors include children Leslie Strauss and Bruce Perham, and three grandchildren.

1951

Edgar Nathan DarbyJuly 1, 2014Edgar Darby entered Bates after serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, and after marrying Corinne Kinney — and quickly joined the campus Ball and Chain club, most of whom lived in Sampsonville. He earned a master’s from Boston Univ. and taught briefly, but mostly he was an education specialist for the Maine Depart-ment of Special Education. He enjoyed fishing and boating. Besides his wife, survivors include children Gary Darby, Gayle Houston, and Glenn Dar-by; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Elizabeth Thomes HobbsJuly 29, 2014 Liza Thomes Hobbs made her own way in the world, worried from the beginning if the man with whom she chose to spend her life (Robert Hobbs ’50) was the right one (he was), worried her grades wouldn’t be good enough for scholarships (they were), worried she wouldn’t find a satisfying career (she did). But she resolved all those traumas and felt she lived a fascinating life and never had to abandon her “bohemian-ism,” even though it took her years to find what she loved to do. She acted, she taught, she worked in radio and television. She never quite got over the conservatism she found at Bates (she never did wear that bib), but she credited the college for introducing her to the concepts of the Montessori schools, and for Cultch and the core courses. And when she started writing poetry of her own, she found what became the focus of her life. She published two books of poetry, gave numerous readings (including at Reunion in 2006), and spoke out passionately for peace whenever she could, just as she had with her valedicto-rian speech at Portland High School in 1947. Besides her husband, survivors include daughter Rebecca Romaine and four grandchildren.

Janet Beechey HowatFebruary 8, 2014Janet Beechey was at Bates for two years before leaving to mar-ry William Wallace Howat. She worked as a secretary at Perkins School for the Blind, where her husband headed the industrial arts department, and then as the secretary to the school super-intendent in Rockport, Mass. Survivors include son William L. Howatt and three grandchildren.

Dana JonesMarch 13, 2014Dana Jones didn’t play football at Bates, but he cheered his heart out for the team as a cheerlead-er, and he kept on doing it as an alumnus. He wrote letters to the admissions office, the athletic director, and the president de-manding that the college should recruit better football players. He reminded everyone that Dean Milton Lindholm ’35 knew how to recruit athletes who were also students, or students who were also athletes. But he still cheered for Bates and was a volunteer for Alumni-in-Admis-sions. He worked for Itek Corp. for 35 years after serving in the U.S. Navy shortly after college. Survivors include his wife, Peggy Stewart Jones ’49; children Karen Austin, Peter, and Donald Jones; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Robert Lees ShawOctober 9, 2014Bob Shaw left Bates after two years to enlist in the U.S. Navy and serve in the Korean War, participating in several six-month tours in the Mediterra-nean aboard the USS Salem. He was an insurance adjuster for Kemper Insurance Co. before retiring to Newburyport, Mass. Survivors include daughters Nancy Shaw Kilty and Barbara Shaw; and eight grandchildren.

Richard Francis SomersAugust 17, 2013As Chick Somers put it, he had to marry Betty Templeton — otherwise, the CIA would send them to different postings. In any event, their marriage happily lasted through every far-flung posting: Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Subic Bay, the Marianas, even St. Johnsbury, Vt. All this before 1959, and then it was off to the quieter environs of Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia and Greece before boredom set in while posted in the nation’s capital, so excruciating that he begged to go to Cuba just in time to con-clude that Castro would outlive us all. So he resigned to take on a job with GE and earn a master’s from Temple. That led to a job with TRW and then North American Rockwell. In 1980 he rejoined the U.S. government as director of four regional solar energy centers in the Depart-

Fall 2015 93

in memoriam

ment of Energy. He retired in 1992. Besides his wife, survivors include children Daniel, Sandra, Michael, and Kevin; four grandchildren; four great-grand-children; brother Gary P. Somers ’52; and grand-nieces Kathryn Somers DiGregorio ’06 and Meghan Claire Somers ’09.

1952

Patricia Harhan HudsonJanuary 19, 2014Pat Harhan Hudson swatted or swung at anything that came her way while she was a student at Bates — basketballs, baseballs, birdies, volleyballs — but she managed to earn her degree in English as well, enabling her to teach English for a number of years in Vermont and become chair of the department in Swanton. Survivors include her husband, Samuel Hudson; daughter Barbara Rescott ’75; and two grandsons.

1953

David Cornelius HarkinsApril 11, 2014When Dave Harkins bled, he bled garnet. That’s how much he loved Bates. No matter where his life and career took him, he always circled back to Lewiston and Bates. Born in Lewiston, he graduated from its high school with seven varsity letters in football and basketball, and quarterbacked its football team to an undefeated state champi-onship. He played both sports all four years at Bates, too, and as-sisted in the biology department, where he earned his degree. He went on to Columbia for a cer-tificate in physical therapy, the field in which he built his long and distinguished career. He was director of physical therapy at Pineland Hospital and Training Center; director of physical therapy services at St. Mary’s General Hospital; director of orthopedic and sports medicine physical therapy for the Central Maine Sports Medicine Clinic; and retired as director of ortho-pedic/sports medicine physical therapy at Lewiston Orthope-dics PA. He was active in the college’s career services; he also ran the timer at most home foot-ball games and attended every Reunion for dozens of years. He served as class president 1973–78 and was a member of The Col-lege Key and the Phillips Society. A close friend of the Bates dining staff, he directed many gifts to benefit its members. In 2004 he was inducted into the Lewis-ton-Auburn Sports Hall of Fame. Survivors include children Christopher and Julie; grand-daughter Melanie Harkins ’10; and cousin Herbert Livingston Jr. ’50. His brother was Bernard Harkins ’45.

Elizabeth Gartmann Miller NolanJuly 1, 2014Elizabeth Gartmann Miller’s gift was one for music, and from an early age she performed as an organist and pianist. She was the organist for the Bates choir as a student, and for many years was the pianist for First Church of Christ, Scientist in Newark, Del. She also loved to square dance. She did additional academic work at Brown following Bates, and worked for John Roebling’s Sons Corp. shortly after graduation. Both her husbands, Herron W. Miller Jr., and John Nolan, pre-ceded her in death. Survivors in-clude sons Herron III, John, and Edward Miller; one grandchild; two step-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren.

1954

Sally Reisner BurbankMarch 24, 2014Sally Reisner was at Bates for two years, leaving to marry David Burbank. She graduated from Chamberlain School of Re-tailing in Boston, but raising four sons soon occupied her time. She later became a volunteer for a number of organizations. In addition to her husband, survivors include sons Richard, Russ, John, and Jeff Bur-bank; 10 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and sister Linda Reisner Bockover ’65.

John Warren LeonardJune 29, 2014John Leonard took that job — and shoved it. He walked away from a 20-year career with Raytheon as an operations analyst to become a kindergarten teacher at half the salary, with the blessings of his family. He never looked back, and he loved it. His double major in math and physics from Bates, his masters’ in both subjects, as well as early childhood education from Northeastern, all contrib-uted to his success in guiding the youngest learners as they grappled with the conundrums of group dynamics, peer pressure, and individual accountabili-ty. He enjoyed photography, wildflowers, and contra dancing. He coached Little League when his boys were young and was a member of the Lexington Civil Rights Commission and the Photographic Society of America. Survivors include his wife, Lark Leonard; sons Philip, John, and Christopher Leonard; stepchildren Michael Madigan and Isobel Solaqua; and three grandchildren.

1956

Barbara Morton HerlongJuly 7, 2014Barbara Morton Herlong loved to travel: She made it to all seven continents. But one suspects she

most enjoyed the three trips she made with her three grandsons, the ones each got to choose for themselves. One chose to whale watch off the California coast; the second decided to travel to the northernmost point in the United States in Alaska, ice floes and all; and the third wanted to see The Lion King in New York. She taught for a few years before her children were born, then became a travel counselor after they were grown. Survivors include daughters Joy Boan and Jill McCallie; and three grandsons.

Thomas Martin MooreJuly 13, 2013Tom Moore was an athlete at Bates who played basketball and baseball, a strong competitor in both. He went on to a long career in insurance, working for Allstate for 25 years before joining Millers Mutual Insur-ance. He retired as senior vice president in charge of insurance operations. He served on the boards of Lockhaven Country Club and St. Anthony’s Health Center. He and his wife, Mar-jorie Connell Moore ’56, were class agents and Reunion volun-teers. Besides his wife, survivors include sons Michael, Timothy, Steven, and David Moore; and nine grandchildren.

James Louis RiopelMay 30, 2014Jim Riopel was a well-re-garded biologist with several important accomplishments to his credit, one involving a particularly nasty agricultural pest that sucked the life out of subsistence farming crops. He figured out how this plant, striga hermonthica, or witchweed, got its grips into the roots of these crops by using a structure called a haustorium. Understanding this underhanded maneuver has allowed scientists, farmers, and aid workers to develop strategies to defeat the weed, efforts that are now coming to bear in Africa and Asia. “Twenty years later, scientists are still trying to determine the details of many of the phenomena described by Jim and his students and collab-orators,” wrote Michael Timko, a fellow biology professor at the Univ. of Virginia. His family recalls the time in 1973 that Jim led them by dead reckoning in their beautifully hand-refur-bished 50-foot wooden schooner down the inland waterway all the way from North Carolina to Bimini — except they ended up trapped in the sandbar that is the Grand Bahama Island, some 70 miles away in Freeport. His wife, Joan Gibson Riopel ’56, re-fused to leave Freeport until Jim mastered the sextant, something he did reluctantly. His 39-year career at UVA started in 1960 after he completed a Ph.D. at Harvard. He was the co-director

of Mountain Lake Biological Station, a summertime research and teaching field station, from 1960 to 1982. His family lived in a farmhouse he restored — he built four others from the ground up, using any materials he could recycle, salvage, or harvest, always with a gorgeous result. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Nan-cy Riopel Smith ’79, Amy Clark, Caitlin Riopel, and David Riopel; and eight grandchildren.

1957

Ruth Warfield BauerMarch 3, 2014When Ruth Warfield Bauer retired after teaching middle school for 25 years in Cheshire, Conn., she became an adjunct professor of education at a half-dozen colleges: Long Island Univ., Pace Univ., Quinnipiac Univ., Manhattanville College, Univ. of Bridgeport, and West Point. She also was a consultant to the federal Department of Ed-ucation “Blue Ribbon Schools” program and many school departments around the country. She held a master’s in education from Yeshiva Univ., a certifi-cate in advanced studies from Wesleyan, and a Ph.D. from the Univ. of Connecticut. She also was a musician, the co-director of music and the organist at the First Congregational Church of Cheshire, Conn., and she helped to establish the Westchester Oratorio Society. Survivors include husband Hans Bauer ’56; children Hans Jr., Paul, and Betsy; and four grandchildren.

Jerome Herbert BeckerMay 11, 2014Jerry Becker left Bates for Springfield College and went from there to Tufts Univ. for a medical degree. He completed ophthalmology training at the Univ. of Penn. School of Medi-cine and practiced for 50 years in California, performing some of the first laser eye surgeries in the Kaiser hospitals. Survivors include wife Marlene Stein Becker; children Robbyn, Todd, Rayna, and Brett; and seven grandchildren.

Alice Hilterhaus SchmutzJune 10, 2014Alice Hilterhaus Schmutz came to Bates because she wanted to go someplace where she would know no one, so as to “expand her social horizons.” She loved Bates, she said, and made lifelong friends among her classmates. She married Charles Schmutz ’57 and had three children with him before divorcing in 1967; she trea-sured her college friendships, especially with Audrey Arnold Lindquist ’56 (who died in 1994). She lived in several towns in Connecticut, devoted herself to her three children and then

Fall 201594

in memoriam

to her artwork and to her com-munity, volunteering through her church and her yacht clubs. Survivors include children Anne Peterson, Chris Schmutz, and Jim Schmutz; and five grand-children.

Charles Douglass SiseApril 2, 2014Doug Sise graduated with a de-gree in math and also attended Trinity College. He was a pio-neer in computer programming and an aficionado of the histor-ical Richard III (as opposed to the theatrical version). He is survived by wife Elizabeth.

Joseph Roach WelchOctober 11, 2014Joseph Welch gave attorneys a good name. He was the founder, executive director, and gen-eral counsel for the Randolph (Mass.) Housing Authority for many years. Known for his fairness and optimism, he also served as the town moderator. He founded the Norfolk Bar Advocates program, which rep-resented indigent defendants in all the courts of Norfolk County and served as its president, pro bono, for 10 years. He was the assistant district attorney in Norfolk County from 1968 to 1975. He served as president of the Massachusetts Heart Assn. and as vice president of the American Heart Assn.’s New England chapter. He received the Paul Dudley White award in 1993, given by the AHA in honor of the famed Boston cardiologist. He was appointed to the bench by Gov. Michael Dukakis in 1990, and retired in 2004. Survivors include wife Barbara West Welch; sons George and Joseph Welch; daughter Breena Holmes; six grandchildren; and nephew Kevin M. Coakley-Welch ’79.

1958

Edwin Sebastian CunhaJune 2, 2014Edwin Cunha left Bates after two years for Northeastern, where he earned a B.S. in elec-trical engineering. This led to a 33-year career with AT&T as a planning engineer. Survivors in-clude children Elizabeth, John, and Edwin Cunha, and Carolyn Ziogas; four grandchildren; and companion Theresa Nardone.

Suzanne Yancho HallFebruary 10, 2014Suzanne Yancho earned a nursing degree at Bates and pursued that career for over 20 years, marrying classmate Dick Hall after graduation and moving with him to New York, Massachusetts, Indiana, and finally Georgia, where they lived for over 30 years before retiring to Texas. But the pull of the New Jersey shore, where she had summered as a child at her parents’ Seaside Park beach

house, always drew her back. In addition to her husband, survivors include children David and William Hall, and Pamela Clarke; and seven grandchildren.

Mary Elizabeth Bennet HastingsJanuary 15, 2014Mary Elizabeth Bennet Hastings left Bates to graduate from Columbia with a B.S. in nursing. She worked as a registered nurse in Hanover, N.H., and White River Junction, Vt. Survivors include her second husband, Paul Hastings; children Dan Ford, Jeanette Mitchell, Bill Ford, Anne Kaplan, and Tim Ford; stepchildren Jeff, Brad, and Chris Hastings; and 16 grandchildren.

Ronald William WaldenDecember 11, 2013Ronald Walden devoted his life to his family, church, and friends. A philosophy and reli-gion major at Bates, he earned an S.T.B. degree (analogous to today’s M.Div.) from Boston Univ. During his career, he held ministries in Farmington, Bangor, Orono, and Greenville. He came from a family long associated with the Greenville area and was a direct descendant of the first white woman settler, Deborah Walden, according to local history. Survivors include his wife, Alice Gerrish Walden; sons Kendall Walden ’84 and Cameron; and four grandchil-dren. His brothers-in-law were Judson Gerrish ’30 and Henry T. Gerrish ’31.

1960

Kari Singsaas HastingsSeptember 23, 2014Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Kari Singsaas Hastings maintained close ties to Norway, the native land of her parents, and her first job upon graduation was at the Univ. of Oslo. She spent her summers growing up on a mountaintop near Woodstock, N.Y., in a community of Norwe-gian families, and later built her own house on land her parents had purchased in 1927. She held a master’s in public health administration and epidemiol-ogy from Quinnipiac Univ. in addition to her biology degree from Bates, and she worked for 30 years in research and public health administration for Vet-erans Administration hospitals in Connecticut, Boston, and Washington, D.C. After retiring from the VA, she worked for the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in research. In 2004, she retired to Woodstock and volunteered for the Ulster County Office for Aging, helping Medicare-eligible people wade through the paperwork. Survivors include daughter Kirsti Hastings McCabe and two grandchildren.

1961

Richard Kenneth GloverSeptember 6, 2014Sometimes it pays to read those airplane magazines. Dick Glover saw an ad in one for a business guaranteed to be a “gold mine” and decided to take a chance. It turned out to be for a chain of beauty salons. He bought three franchises and struck gold. He arrived at Bates after serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and just before marrying his Edward Little High School sweetheart, Meredith Bragdon. He hadn’t been the best student in high school. Dean of Admis-sions Milton Lindholm ’35 waf-fled a bit about his qualifications to enter Bates and sent him off to Portland Junior College (now USM) for a year, for which Dick later expressed his gratitude. He wrote that Dean Lindholm’s two acts, “one year apart — gentle rejection and then full admission — made an indelible and positive impression” on him. He worked for several textile companies after graduating with a degree in psychology, then became in-volved in systems management, and finally human resources with Towers Perrin Forster & Crosby before the beauty salons were established. He and his wife enjoyed traveling the world in an RV for six months every year. They spent the rest of the year in their lovingly restored farmhouse and property in Bucks County, Pa., before retiring to Arizona. His wife is among his survivors.

1962

Michael John Macdonald IIIJuly 6, 2014Michael Macdonald liked competing in marathons and thought he did pretty well — “for a whale.” He also didn’t shy away from Iron Man competi-tions, especially when he had his Hawaiian home as a base to train, although he professed to miss New England. A career Navy man, he spent 26 years wearing the uniform and saw service in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Commen-dation Medal for Valor. And just to keep you on your toes, he was a second-degree black belt in taekwondo. He left the Navy as a commander. Survivors include his first wife, Carol Smith ’62; children Michael John IV, Chris-topher, and Natalie Macdonald; and four grandchildren.

1964

Donald Frederick BlumenthalJune 6, 2014When Don Blumenthal saw a good thing, he stuck with it. He spent 39 years working at Quinnipiac Univ., starting when it was a mere college and he a

mere counselor in the student personnel department, growing into one job after another until he ended up as senior associate dean of student affairs. He earned a master’s in education from Springfield College. In 2005, he was recognized by the National Assn. of Student Per-sonnel Administrators with its Pillars of the Profession award. Survivors include his wife, Elaine Stromfeld Blumenthal; children Steven, Michael, Eric, and Carrie Canavan; and seven grandchildren.

John Gower DavidSeptember 12, 2014 John David’s death was the most unfortunate one-in-a-million death from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. His death left his third master’s degree uncompleted, this one from BU in philoso-phy. His others were from the Univ. of Connecticut, also in philosophy, and an MBA from the Univ. of Portland. His career was mostly in technical sales and marketing. He worked for Digital and for Cushcraft, a big name in amateur radio. Involved in ham radio since he was 12, he was awarded a graduate intern-ship in radio and television at the Univ. of Texas after gradua-tion from Bates with an English degree. He taught philosophy for three years at Nassau Com-munity College. He started a technical career in Oregon with Tektronix and moved to New Hampshire in 1980 to work with Digital and Cushcraft. A member of the Congregational Church of Amherst, he sang in the choir and played cello for special ser-vices. Survivors include children John R. David ’96 and Katherine David; and three grandchildren. He was engaged to Bates class-mate Elizabeth Dowd Rubino. He was divorced from his first wife, Mary Eva Reque David. He married Nancy Dillman Larson ’64 after reconnecting at their 30th Reunion. Her first husband, Ken Larson ’62, died five years earlier. She died in 2011. His parents were John A. David Jr. ’34 and Muriel Gower David ’32. His grandparents were John A. David and Emma Bray David, both Class of 1904. His aunt was Doris David Brookes ’29; his uncle was William J. Brookes ’29; his great-aunt was Marjorie Pillsbury Ross ’23.

Joseph Leo McLaughlin Jr.September 29, 2014Joe McLaughlin applied the laws of physics to skiing while at Bates — he was active in the Outing Club, including the Hickories while a senior — and held both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree (from North-eastern) in the field. He helped build reconnaissance systems for space missions, cameras for missions to Mars and the moon, and ground-based telescopes. He

Fall 2015 95

in memoriam

worked at Diffraction Ltd. Optics and ITEK, where he eventually became principal engineer and manager of optical engineering. He later moved to MIT’s Lincoln Lab where he worked on laser communications and radar until he retired. Vertical sports gave way to nautical speed once he moved to Marblehead, Mass., and he became a serious sailboat racer and kayaker. Survivors include wife Jill Chamberlain McLaughlin; children Ian and Maria McLaughlin; and two grandchildren. His father was Joseph L. McLaughlin Sr. ’37.

Mark Steven SilversteinSeptember 19, 2014A political science major at Bates, Mark Silverstein owned and operated several success-ful small businesses in New Hampshire before becoming a Realtor in the Concord area. He regularly assisted others in building their businesses.

Ralph William Turner Jr.April 15, 2014Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm fame had nothing on Bill Turner. She got to live on the farm only in fiction. He lived there in real life. His parents bought author Kate Douglas Wiggin’s summer house in Hollis, Maine, where she wrote the 1903 classic children’s novel, just before he was born, after the state decided it was not feasible to maintain as an historical site. They set about re-collecting the furnishings owned by Mrs. Wig-gin and her sister, Nora Archibald Smith, also a writer. Bill, a history major at Bates, taught history in Maine and New Hampshire for over a decade before going to work for the U.S. Postal Service. He completed graduate studies at the Univ. of New Hampshire in the education and education-al management program. He chaired the local school board, served on the Hollis planning board and the land use steering committee, and the Saco River Corridor Commission. He was as meticulous about his gardens as he was about the authenticity of the furnishings of his home. Survivors include his second wife, Carla Baade Turner; sons Thomas and Chad; stepdaugh-ter Candie Mayhew; and seven grandchildren. His first wife is Evelyn Hathaway Horton ’65. His mother was Frances Eckhardt Turner ’35.

1965

Ronald Winthrop PitchfordMay 9, 2014Ron Pitchford’s career was in property appraisal, especially commercial properties. He served as president of the New Hampshire chapter of the Appraisal Institute before he and wife Lin moved to Florida, where he became a contractor for the Department of Social Security

Disability. His degree from Bates was in history; he also held a master’s in business from Boston Univ. He and his wife welcomed his twin siblings into their home when their mother died during their teenage years. He was trea-surer of his class in the 1990s and a member of his 25th Reunion Committee. Survivors include his wife.

David Luis ZurettiApril 16, 2014David Zuretti transferred to Bates as a sophomore and prepared himself for a lifetime of teaching. It wasn’t until later, with his bachelor’s in biology in hand and in the midst of earning two masters’, one in education, while teaching middle school mathematics, that he began to enjoy his real passion: architec-ture and antiques. Together with his good friend Lawrence Brana-gan, an art teacher, he hunted through galleries and flea mar-kets to find the perfect fabrics and furnishings to restore the Stanwood House, which he then was proud to pass along to the Wellesley (Mass.) Historical Society. The care he took in its restoration reflected the care he took as a teacher with developing innovative curricula, participation in international student exchanges, and math competitions. Survivors include sisters Janet Nicalek, Penny Wightman, and Madelyn Good; and cousin Amanda Zuretti ’81.

1966

John Roger PedrickAugust 8, 2014John Pedrick relished the challenge of making things better. Three times he moved the campus of The Pennfield School (formerly The New School) in Portsmouth, R.I., during his 22-year tenure there. And every summer he packed up his family and made the 107-mile journey to Nobleboro where he ran Camp Kieve. Not to waste a minute of time, he and his wife bought a derelict 1760s Vermont farmhouse to restore for their retirement. He earned a master’s from the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He also served as president of the Independent Schools Assn. of Rhode Island and was a director of the Assn. of Independent Schools in New England. He was a member of his 25th Reunion Social Committee and an alumni officer in the 1990s. Survivors include wife Nancy Jackson Ped-rick; sons Chandler and Webster; two grandchildren; and niece Na-talie J. Searle ’90. His grandfather was L. Prescott Cox 1914.

1971

An incorrect version of the obit-uary for Peter Hine was printed in the Fall issue. We deeply regret the error.

Peter Lanman HineNovember 2, 2013Peter L. Hine of Harpswell, Maine, formerly of Marlbor-ough and Glastonbury, Conn., was a dedicated pediatrician to children in the Marlborough area for more than 32 years. One year after retiring, he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer. He fought the battle with grace, always showing love and concern for his family and friends, and died in his cherished home with his wife and children by his side. After graduating cum laude in chemistry from Bates, Peter earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins Univ. in 1975, and completed his residency in pediatrics at the Univ. of Con-necticut. He opened his private practice in Marlborough in 1978, retiring in 2010. While at Bates, Peter was one of the founders of the Medical Arts Society, an organization that provided students who were interested in the medical profession a chance to shadow a local doctor. Peter continued this tradition by in-viting Bates students to shadow him at his pediatric practice in Connecticut. As an assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Univ. of Connecticut, Peter had the opportunity to mentor many medical students over the years. He was both a brilliant clinician and teacher. Peter also enjoyed serving as president of Bates Class of 1971 and doing Alumni-in-Admissions inter-views with prospective students. In his spare time, Peter was an avid kayaker and hiker. He was a talented craftsman, working both in wood and stone. His favorite project was a beautiful Flemish harpsichord that he built for his wife, Candis, for their 10th anniversary. Peter also loved music and sang in church choirs in Connecticut and Maine. Peter’s survivors include his wife of 43 years, Candis Yimoyines Hine ’71; children Rook Thomas Hine, Katherine Hine Smith ’99 and husband Corey Smith ’99, Theodore Hine; and five grandchildren.

1973

Judith Ann Pines BlaisdellApril 23, 2014She missed being a Mainer by 1,800 miles. Judy Pines Blaisdell was born on an Air Force base in Florida, and her parents didn’t move to Limestone until she was a few months old. She spent the rest of her life in Maine, but you know the rules. She and her husband, Brian Blaisdell ’73, raised four children in a 200-year-old farmhouse in Mon-mouth. He worked as a lawyer for the state of Maine while she kept the house going and made twice-weekly trips to the town library. Brian died in 1988. Judy moved to a modular home with

two bathrooms, which aston-ished her, and returned to work as a legislative proofreader until 2004. Survivors include children Karen Day, Jason, James, and Merrick Blaisdell; and three grandchildren.

Barbara Smith StarkJune 15, 2014Barbara Smith Stark, one of the first art majors at Bates, started her career as secretary to the editor of the mail order depart-ment of House Beautiful Maga-zine, but she went on to become its editorial production manager. She also held significant posi-tions at PSC Publishing before becoming business director of manufacturing and distribution at The New Yorker. Active with the Office of Career Services, she enjoyed helping Bates students gain a footing in their careers. Survivors include her second husband, Richard Stark; mother Vesta Starrett Smith ’47; and children Alexandra and Samuel. Her cousin was Marcia R. Dwi-nell ’47.

1974

Robert Francis PrestonMarch 10, 2014An economics major, Bob Preston held a master’s from the Univ. of Hartford School of Busi-ness Administration and worked as a CPA. He practiced for many years in the Middletown, Conn., area. He was an eager golfer and tennis player.

1976

Thomas Wright PaineJune 28, 2014Tom Paine joked that he fol-lowed the five-year plan at Bates: He entered with the Class of 1976, but graduated in 1977. But his degree in English was just as good, and so was his game of tennis. He wrote for the Student, was a deejay for WRBC, and went on to a career in the field of rare coins. He was a member of the American Numismatic Assn., settling in the Tampa Bay area after living in Boston, Philadel-phia, and Newport Beach, Calif. In each city, he made lifelong friends who marveled at his quick wit and knowledge of his field. Survivors include brothers Frederick and Robert Paine; and sisters Judith Furzer, Deborah Gardner, and Catherine Metz.

1979

Timothy Michael SheaMarch 5, 2014Timothy Shea left Bates for the Univ. of Maine after one year, and worked in the firearms industry. Survivors include his wife, Margot Archibald Shea ’80, and children Erin and Andrew Shea.

Fall 201596

in memoriam

1990

Josephine Dannette PeloteApril 7, 2014Josie Pelote dedicated her life to emergency services. She worked as a dispatcher at the Lewis-ton-Auburn 911 center after serving in a similar capacity in Jay. She also worked in Auburn and for the college in security roles. She held professional certificates in several fields. But what she was known for was her voice. A music major at Bates, she had a deep, beautiful alto that could reach into the tenor range. She sang tenor with the College Choir and Early Music Ensemble. She sang alto in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance and later joined the Androscoggin Chorale. Survi-vors include sons Joey Pelote and Richard “Punky” Grant.

1991

Peter Kiril OratowskiMay 31, 2014Peter Oratowski surprised his family and friends — especially those from The Bill — when he enlisted in the Army at age 40, the oldest possible age to enlist, because he felt the skills he gained as a surgical technician at New York Presbyterian would be of most use there. He was so physically fit that he ran circles around the younger recruits in basic training, and went on to a successful tour in Germany and Afghanistan. In Germany, he supervised an enthusiastic volunteer crew of painters who transformed a bare concrete wall into a handsome mural of artwork inspired by children’s drawings. Along with his degree in art from Bates, he held a mas-ter’s in education from the New School in New York, which he used to teach Spanish in the city for several years. He also led bus tours of Manhattan, showing off his expert knowledge. After his accidental death on a military base in Georgia, friends gathered at his home in Brooklyn to memorialize his many gifts, artistic, musical, and other-wise. Survivors include parents Leonard and Letty Oratowski and sister Danae Oratowski. He was divorced from Michelle Min Kim ’94.

1992

Kristin Kelly McCarthyJuly 17, 2014Look at the records that Kristin McCarthy holds in Bates sports history: fewest goals against per game in a lacrosse season, 5.4 in 1992 (tied with Anne Marie Van Heuven in 1987), and most saves in a season, 224 in 1989. She also swam and played rugby and could coax her team to a win even when they were short of players. Her enthusiasm was

such that she was the one her co-workers turned to when an office party was in order, according to one note left on a website. She worked as a bene-fits analyst for Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., law firms, and most recently as a legal assistant in Wilmington, Del. Survivors include parents Thomas and Carrol McCarthy, twin sister Megan King, and brother Ste-phen McCarthy.

2010

James Gerald Bouchard DonahueMarch 22, 2014Jamie Donahue liked to dream up bizarre combinations of ice cream flavors — mint chip and strawberry, for example — and coax Erica Long ’12 to try them. They worked together at an ice cream store when Erica was in high school, before she decided to attend Bates, and it was Jamie who convinced her that she was a Bobcat-in-waiting. He also was behind her decision to become a disc jockey at the college’s radio station, WRBC, something that occupied a great deal of his time as a student, as did his passion for music. He was studying for a degree in library and informa-tion science at Simmons College Graduate School at the time of his death from a brain hemor-rhage. Survivors include parents Rita Bouchard and Joseph Do-nahue, sister Kathryn McIntosh, and brother Joseph Donahue.

faculty

Atsuko HiraiJuly 14, 2014Atsuko Hirai was a witty and exacting teacher and scholar who broadened the college’s curricular offerings in history and Asian studies. She joined

the Bates faculty in 1988 as the first Kazushige Hirasawa Professor, honoring the late 1936 Bates alumnus who was a noted journalist in Japan as editor of The Japan Times and news broadcaster. She studied international relations at Tokyo Univ. and earned a doctorate in government from Harvard. Appointed to one of Bates’ first endowed chairs, Hirai was a research associate at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute for Jap-anese Studies at Harvard, where she lectured on the history and politics of her native land. The professorship was designed to reflect Hirasawa’s lifelong com-mitment to promoting greater understanding between Japan and the U.S. Professor Hirai had an enduring friendship with Hirasawa’s widow, Asako Hirasawa of Tokyo. Her highly popular courses brought depth and breadth to the study of Japan and were consistently oversubscribed. In addition to courses in Japanese history, she taught specialized courses on Japan in the age of imperialism, World War II in the Pacific, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, postwar Japan through film and literature, gender in Japanese history, pacifism in 20th century Japan, and food in Japan. Her research focused on the comparative and intellectual history of modern Japan and the West, the state and pre-war liberalism in Japan, and women in modern Japan. An accom-plished musician and classically trained soprano, she gave several concerts at Bates featuring arias by Mozart and lieder by com-posers from Schubert to Richard Strauss, often accompanied by Bates artist-in-residence Frank Glazer. “Atsuko was a devoted musical pilgrim,” said Professor James Parakilas, “seeking out

concerts by great singers and sites associated with great composers. It was important to the feeding of her soul.” She was also a gourmet cook who hosted elegant, intellectually lively dinner parties. Survivors include a sister, Hideko Misawa.

honorary

Seamus Justin HeaneyAugust 30, 2013At one point, the BBC reckoned, Seamus Heaney accounted for two-thirds of all books of poetry sold. That was a good 12 years after he won the Nobel Prize, and 20 years after Bates awarded him an honorary degree. The oldest son of a cattle farmer who was the son of a peat digger, He-aney saw himself as writing his way out of that life: “But I’ve no spade to follow men like them./Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests./I’ll dig with it.” In the Spring 2014 Bates Magazine, writer Carrie Barnard Jones ’93 wrote about how Heaney inspired her during a visit to Bates.

Chinua AchebeMarch 21, 2013Things fall apart, wrote William Butler Yeats, in “The Second Coming,” an apocalyptic poem about the dissolution of Western civilization after World War I. Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist, borrowed the line for the title of his first book, certainly with irony in mind, as he told the story of his own Igbo people, victimized by the racism of British colonial rulers and then by the brutality of military rulers from other Nigerian eth-nic groups. The novel, published in 1958, has sold more than 10 million copies in 50 languages. Achebe received an honorary degree from Bates in 1996.

Fall 2015 97

in memoriam

JOSH

KU

CKEN

S

history lesson

Boxed OutThe extinction of student mailboxes represents a stunning

fall from their once-lofty place in Bates life

by h. jay burns

if you want a hint as to why Bates will eliminate student mailboxes, look no further than the example of Noah Morasch’s coffee cake.

Morasch, a first-year student from Vancouver, texted his mom one Sunday asking if she’d bake him a coffee cake.

Using the old family recipe, “Aunt Babe’s Super Special Coffee Cake,” Lisa Morasch baked the cake Sunday and shipped it Monday. It arrived Wednesday.

After an auto-generated Bates email informed Noah that “you have a package ticket in your mail-box,” he visited his Chase Hall mailbox to pick up the yellow ticket, which he used to claim the cake at the college’s Package Center, also in Chase.

Noah’s mailbox, you’ll notice, was barely a bit

player in this transcontinental transaction. He used it only to retrieve the package ticket. The actual package, his ultimate destination, was a few hun-dred steps away at the Package Center.

In short, says Laurie Henderson, director of Bates Office Services, “from what we know of our students, we see no downside of getting rid of mailboxes.”

By 2016, perhaps sooner, Bates students will still have mailbox numbers, but no physical boxes.

Next year, Office Services will pack up its ship-ping, print, and package operations, now spread across Chase and Lane halls, and consolidate them on the ground floor of a new building at 65 Campus Ave., one of two new student residences planned along that street as part of the Campus Life Project.

history lesson

Students in this mid-1950s photo get their mail in Chase Hall,

outside the College Store — a scene that didn’t change much until the mid-2000s.

The tall man with head showing at left is Dick Pierce ’57; woman in doorway is Bea Douglas Massih ’57; next to her is

Fred Jack ’56; with letter is Maud Agnalt Linde ’57; leaning against mailboxes is the late Jacquie Gillis Fennessy ’57; and at far

right is the late Arnie Fickett ’56. Kudos and thanks to Doug Campbell ’58

for crowd-sourcing these IDs.

MU

SKIE

ARC

HIV

ES A

ND

SPE

CIA

L CO

LLEC

TIO

NS

LIB

RARY

Fall 201598

The new digs for Office Services will have bells and whistles, but no mailboxes. Notified by email that they have mail, students will arrive and scan their IDs at a service counter, which will alert the staff to bring the student’s mail, including packages as well as letters and magazines.

Henderson estimates that Bates will save around $64,000 by not installing physical mail-boxes in the new mail center.

Sarah Keith ’18 of North Andover, Mass., was with Morasch as he retrieved his package slip. Asked if it makes sense to eliminate the mailbox step of getting packages, she ponders the question, but only briefly. “It would be a lot easier.”

With the move, Bates joins just a handful of U.S. colleges that have eliminated physical mail-boxes in favor of the one-stop, package-center approach. Lehigh and Loyola have similar systems.

The extinction of Bates student mailboxes represents a stunning fall from their once-lofty place in college life. They were enchanted spaces from which mostly good things flowed: letters, newsmagazines, and postcards.

From left, Steve Brown, Jim Murphy,

Jeff Sturgis and Tom Lopez at a

Homecoming 2008 celebration honoring

the Class of 1969 alumni who played on

four winning teams.

When Henderson arrived in the 1990s, focus groups told her that students liked sharing a mailbox because they liked socializing with their box-mates.

But as package volume has seen huge growth, the only reason that mailboxes ever existed — to hold first-class and other time-sensitive print mail of a certain size — has practically disappeared.

“There’s been an explosion and a shift,” says Henderson. Since the mid-2000s, “we’ve seen growth of between 5 and 14 percent per year in package volume. We don’t know when or if that trend will drop off.”

Today, Bates students receive around 32,000 packages each year (“packages” being defined as anything that won’t fit in the mailbox or has a tracking number). That’s 18 per student annually, from care packages and birthday gifts to e-com-merce merchandise and textbooks.

“We also get odd stuff,” says Ed Jawor ’93, Of-fice Services assistant director. “Like a set of four tires and an entire bed including frame, mattress, and headboard.”

Indeed, we’ve become savvy package-senders. When Lisa Morasch baked the coffee cake, she knew which of her pans would fit the cheapest flat-rate USPS box.

Until a few years ago, Bates mail and package deliveries went to the small, 376-square-foot room right behind the student mailboxes outside the Bookstore.

In 2008, when dining moved into the new Com- mons building, Henderson snapped up a former recycling room, conveniently located off a loading dock, and turned it into the Package Center.

Jessica Nichols ’15 of Lincoln, Mass.,

picks up a package from student worker Sam Maliska ’15 of Palo Alto, Calif., at the Package Center

in Chase Hall.

SARA

H C

ROSB

Y

history lesson

Today, when packages arrive at the Package Center, they’re scanned by Office Services staff using a tracking software, SC Logic, that talks to Banner, the college’s database that includes stu-dent information.

The system spits out two tracking labels. One gets affixed to a card that’s put in the student’s mail-box and the other is put on the package, which is placed in a section of the room according to the stu-dent's last name. An email notice goes to the student.

With 850 student mailboxes in Chase Hall for 1,750 students, Bates has a long tradition of shared mailboxes, and that also used to be part of the mailbox charm. When Henderson arrived in the 1990s, focus groups told her that students liked sharing a mailbox because they liked socializing with their box-mates.

Now, the mailboxes are mostly just a stopping-off point, so the fun and camaraderie of picking up packages happens at the Package Center.

Jawor recalls the scene in the Package Center the week before President Obama’s first inaugural.

“I was surprised at how many students were getting overnight packages with tickets to inaugu-ral balls and other events,” he says. “One student cried when she picked up her package. It spoke to their passion and involvement in that election, and the role played by e-commerce and online communications.”

Coffee cake in hand, Noah Morasch decided to share it with his First-Year Seminar class, “Choic-es and Constraints.” The cake's rapid cross-coun-try journey ended there.

“It was eaten quickly.” n

history lessonPH

YLLI

S G

RAB

ER J

ENSE

N

Jacqueline Cooper ’17 of Chicago

pulls a yellow slip from her Chase Hall mailbox

alerting her that she has a package: A DVD of

The Great Gatsby from her mother.

JAY

BU

RNS

How we kept our eyes on those boxes — each time we went to the Den or Bookstore. — brenda kaulback ’65

The mailboxes were a great gathering place during my Bates years. I got a four-page letter from my mother every week I was there, and LIFE magazines were a welcome diversion. — lois phillips tolis ’73

Oh, mailbox, my mailbox! Mine was 573. I used to know everyone’s mailbox number! I worked in the post office every year I was at Bates with Mrs. Wardwell, even visited her house in Lisbon Falls. Everyone was desperate for mail, always coming to the door asking if the mail was “out” and looking relieved when they found out there was still a chance they might get the hoped-for letter.— christine terp madsen ’73

Comment BoxAn edited version of this story was posted on the Bates News website last fall, prompting a number of responses. Here are a few.

It makes sense to do away with mailboxes, but I will be sad to see them go. I met one of my best friends at our shared mailbox in the basement of Chase Hall.— andy wood ’11

I’ve attended three Reunions and have the 25th in 2015. I’ve always stopped by and checked my box: A2T was the combination. I noticed the space was more obscure and out of the way with the new Commons. It’s a fond memory but very difficult to explain why you’d run across campus to get a card from a family member half a continent away. — larry carbonneau ’90

One of my recurring dreams is that I’m walking around from class to class, and I remember that I haven’t checked my mail, like since the start of the semester.— steve pitcher ’72

You quickly learned how to glance at your mailbox glass window from 30-plus feet away to see if it was full or empty. Box 193, combo E2S.— richard favreau ’85

My box was number 373. When I was at Bates, women ate in Rand so it was some-times not possible to get to Chase Hall until late in the afternoon. So one person would do mail call for a whole group of friends. One of my friends knew enough combinations so that she could open many boxes and, by reaching through, put a funny card or note in adjacent boxes. We could get her to do that and avoid buying a postage stamp, which was all of five cents. — jill jillson ’68

We used to visit our boxes twice a day back in the early ’90s. I also received email back then, but after all that was the days of Netscape Navigator 1.0. Few things made the occasion-ally lonely spell disappear faster than did a letter from home or a friend.— david wisniewski ’93

Fall 2015 101

Aside from the all-important package

tickets, student mailboxes are quiet spaces these

days, filled mostly with flyers, junk mail, and the

occasional first-class letter.

archiveso u r s u m m e r t i m e f i e l d t r i p t o s e e s t u f f e d b i r d s i n c a r n e g i e s c i e n c e h a l l

Birdland

The nameplate on this case of stuffed birds in Carnegie Science says it’s the Waterman Collection. That would be Willard Waterman, an avid local birder a century ago and director of the Stanton Bird Club, which gave the collec-tion to Bates.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN

The tag on this specimen indicates it was taken on July 10, 1949, on Herring Island, famous for its puffins, off the coast of Labrador.

Resplendent quetzal Pharomachrus mocinno

OspreyPandion haliaetus

Spruce grouseFalcipennis canadensis

Great horned owlBubo virginianus

Common snipeCapella gallinago

Eastern rosellaPlatycercus eximius

Atlantic puffinFratercula arctica

Common bullfinchPyrrhulapyrrhula europoea

Above, the style of this tag indicates that it was part of the bird collection assembled by legendary Bates pro- fessor Johnny Stanton, namesake of the Stanton Bird Club. Most of Stanton’s collection went to the Maine State Museum around 1980, but a few stayed behind and are now in the Waterman display case. While stuffed birds are still used in biology classrooms and research today, these older birds aren’t — the poison arsenic was likely used to preserve them.

Below, Stanton poses with his pro- digious collection of stuffed birds in Carnegie, circa 1918. It’s said that he netted the kestrel in his collection in the ruins of the Parthenon.

Fall 2015102

Bates Magazine is pub-lished twice annually using Forest Stewardship Council-certified paper created with 30 percent postconsumer fiber and renewable biogas energy. Inks are 99.5 percent free of volatile organic compounds. Bates Magazine is printed near campus at family-owned Penmor Lithographers.

On the CoverComplex yet delightfully sensible, Purposeful Work is a powerful approach to equipping Bates students with the knowledge and skills they need to pursue meaningful work.

Illustration ©2015 John Hersey c/o theispot.com

Bates MagazineFall 20I5

EditorH. Jay Burns

DesignerMervil Paylor Design

Director of Photography Phyllis Graber Jensen

PhotographerJosh Kuckens

Class Notes EditorJon Halvorsen

Contributing EditorsKent FischerDoug HubleyGrace KendallAndy Walter

President of Bates CollegeA. Clayton Spencer

Chief Communications OfficerSean Findlen '99

Bates Magazine Advisory BoardMarjorie Patterson  Cochran ’90Geraldine FitzGerald ’75David Foster ’77Joe Gromelski ’74Judson Hale Jr. ’82Jonathan Hall ’83Christine Johnson ’90Jon Marcus ’82Peter Moore ’78

Contact UsWe welcome your letters, comments, story ideas, and updates.

PostalBates MagazineBates Communications141 Nichols St.Lewiston ME 04240

Email magazine@bates.edu

Phone 207-786-6330

Online bates.edu/magazine

The setting summer sun silhouettes Hathorn’s bell tower and illuminates Pettengill’s entryway. I’ve entered this beautiful building countless times, but I've never seen it this way. “Imperial bricks,” commented Palo Peirce ’12 on Instagram, where I first posted the picture. Was he referring to the brick size? Or what I felt: Pettengill as palace.

— Phyllis Graber Jensen

outtakeouttake

Fall 2015 103

3

6

4

7

1

2

H. J

AY B

URN

S

2 Letters 4 Bates in Brief24 Amusements26 Features56 Notes98 History Lesson104 From a Distance

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN

Take a closer look at the object of this Bates student actor’s intense gaze. Page 19

5

A June topping-off event to mark the end of steelwork for the new residences on Campus Avenue featured a ceremonial final steel beam, affixed with symbols, hoisted into place. At the end, here’s what it looked like.

1A spruce tree, a nod to the ancient Scandinavian tradition of appeasing arboreal spirits displaced during construction.

2The ceremonial beam, signed by 400-plus Bates community members in the days prior.

3An American flag and Bates banner, which fluttered in the breeze when lifted and for weeks after.

4 Atop the crane that hoisted the beam is an FAA-required orange and white safety flag.

5The steel was fabricated by Norgate Metal of La Guadeloupe, Quebec.

6The beams are primed with different colors because they’ll have different final coatings, e.g., paint or fire-resistant.

7Hand-written numbers on the beams are piece-marks to indicate where each piece goes.

Event multimediabit.ly/topping-bates

FROM A DISTANCE

I997 20I5GROWING UPEighteen years after Halsey Platt ’88 and toddler son Gordon posed on Garcelon Field during Back to Bates, they reenacted the photo on a great day: Gordon’s arrival with the Class of 2019 on Aug. 31. See more about the Class of 2019’s arrival: bates.edu/orientation-stories

17 Great day to be a Bobcat: Rowing wins NCAA title!

36 Your winter primer: How Bates handles a blizzard.

Fall 20I5 48 In figuring out Kingston, Jamaica, students ponder their own future selves.

bates m

ag

azin

e WO

RK

ING

PA

RT

S fa

ll

bjae “Purposeful Work is about helping students align who they are with what they do.” Page 26

purposeful work is a powerful machine of the liberal arts

Non-ProfitU.S. Postage Paid

Bates College

BatesBates CollegeLewiston, Maine 04240

MA

RC G

LASS

’88

PHYL

LIS

GRA

BER

JEN

SEN