Bates Magazine Winter 2011

Bates winter 2011

Why the national salmonella outbreak didn’t surprise Maine alums

Good Eggs

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

The surrogacy of Rachel Segall ’91 Our man in Russia A day at the dude ranch Garcelon’s big debut

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F E AT U R E S 16 Family Affair

By H. Jay Burns Rachel Segall ’91 gives birth to a baby for Erik Mercer ’91, helping to create a new family — and a new definition of family.

22 Our Man in Russia

By Peter van Dyk You can still make money in Russian business, says Jere Calmes ’92, just not in the same wild ways.

26 A Day at the Ranch

Text and photographs by Shauna Stephenson An idyllic but hardly idle day at the Laramie River Dude Ranch of Bill Burleigh ’86 and family.

30 Good Eggs

By Edgar Allen Beem Here in Maine, the national eggsalmonella scare didn’t surprise social-justice Batesies.

P RO F I L E S 34 George Billias ’48

Billias’ book on American constitutionalism is hailed as “magisterial” and “pioneering.”

43 Portia Hard Clark ’98

Clark’s handmade wedding gift of pearls became a business.

45 Jesse Reich ’01

Government dithering means Reich’s biofuel biz faces a ludicrous situation.

On a Snowy Evening

After a northeaster dropped several inches of snow on the Bates campus on Dec. 3, 2007, photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen stopped by the Historic Quad to capture an illuminated Hathorn Hall.

The Cover

Illuminated with bright light, in a process known as “candling,” eggs are inspected for cracks and other flaws at Pete and Gerry’s Organic Egg Farm in Monroe, N.H., operated by Jesse Laflamme ’00. On page 30, faculty and alumni discuss their experiences with a factory egg farm near Bates linked to the national egg-salmonella scare last summer. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen.

DE P ARTM E N TS 3 Bates Matters

14 Sports Notes

4 Open Forum

32 Class Notes

A networked approach lies behind three key Bates initiatives, writes President Hansen.

Questions and answers about our story on drug development.

6 Quad Angles

The dedication of Garcelon Field helps refocus the center of campus.

13 Scene Again: 1940

A pre–World War II pilot training program gave Bates students a bird’seye view of Maine.

Barbados native Cheri-Ann Parris ’13 contributes an island attitude to Bates squash.

58 Connections

Bates PRIDE examines the intersection of careers and sexual orientation.

60 Your Page

Getting to Matinicus Island is none of the fun.

Let’s Celebrate Together! How could you forget your years at Bates, and the people with whom you shared them? Mark your calendar and join classmates and friends for a memorable weekend at the place that “knew you when.”

Questions? Contact the Office of Alumni and Parent Programs: 207-786-6487 alumni@bates.edu

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Network Change Bates uses a networked approach to pursue innovation in three key initiatives

Our math and science faculty are also reconsidering how they teach material that crosses disciplines.

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y now, most people will have already abandoned their New Year’s resolutions, which reminds us once again that change is always hard. Nor do colleges easily change. Skeptical of trends and fads, we serve our enduring mission by taking the long view. But let us not confuse this with resistance to growth and improvement. Indeed, at Bates, a clear and compelling desire to innovate, pursued through a sustained campus planning process, has given rise to Choices for Bates, a planning document presenting three strategic initiatives designed to take areas of already-proven Bates strength to the next level: The Arts Initiative, rooted in the development of a multidisciplinary team of arts practitioners and advocates known as the Bates Arts Collaborative, is enhancing the vitality and visibility of our cutting-edge programs in the arts. The Learning Initiative is improving the coordination and consistency of the Bates learning environment, starting with the creation of a Learning Commons as an incubator and workshop for forward-looking academic collaboration. The Mathematics and Science Initiative is improving the coherence and reach of the science curriculum while creating more and earlier opportunities for student research. Endorsing the potential of these initiatives to foster change, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Bates and Choices significant start-up funding, particularly appreciating and enabling our networked approach during and after the planning process. We have eschewed a top-down, “rational” model, and instead recognized the power of complex, interconnected groups of on-theground experts — faculty and staff leaders from multiple disciplines and departments who interact to develop the next generation of educational strategies. The Math and Science Initiative, for instance, is led by chemist Matt Côté, physicist Hong Lin, mathematician Pallavi Jayawant, and biologist Rebecca Sommer. One thrust of this initiative focuses on increasing student-research opportunities, reflecting Bates’ strong reputation in this area. Meanwhile, the curricular aspect of the Math and Science Initiative has a few more moving parts. We’ll start with two longtime Bates professors, physicist Eric Wollman and geologist John Creasy, who created and team-taught

a new introductory course this fall, “The Unexpected Earth.” The course showed how geology and physics are behind various crucial and difficult discoveries about the Earth, such as the fact that the Atlantic Ocean is growing wider and the Pacific Ocean is shrinking — about as fast as a fingernail grows. Importantly, the course also taught students how ideas flow across departmental walls, and how, like the social sciences and humanities, the sciences are seeing disciplinary silos become more and more permeable. Tanner Cunningham ’14, who took “The Unexpected Earth,” said it was “refreshing” to have two experts teaming up to teach geophysical concepts, just the way scientific discoveries often come “from the meeting of discrete minds.” Creasy, who has team-taught courses with Wollman in the past, said the experience is a chance “to get outside of myself,” adding that “Eric routinely had ideas and approaches that I would not have thought of” — a confirmation that our math and science faculty are also reconsidering how they teach material that crosses disciplines. For example, consider a typical introductory physics and chemistry sequence. Firstyear student Susan learns about electron shells in introductory physics in the fall, then again in introductory chemistry in the winter. Meanwhile, Razin takes chemistry before physics, and thus sees the atomic treatments in the opposite order. And Kim, taking only chemistry, sees the material just once. In response to this disconnected approach, a Bates faculty team is now developing an integrated chemistry-physics sequence to deliver overlapping material more coherently. Once it is in place, professors will be aware of, and thus able to tap into and build on, their students’ evolving scientific knowledge. A similar goal lies behind mathematician Meredith Greer’s efforts to develop a course that teaches math concepts often seen in science courses. By doing this quiet, hard, and collaborative work now, our network of scientists and mathematicians are also positioning the College to address a major facilities need — an integrated science and math building — envisioned some years hence by our updated Campus Facilities Master Plan. Like the Arts and Learning initiatives, our work today is in fact all about building, in multiple senses of the word: carefully working together to frame choices and strategies that will define our future. WINTER 2011  Bates  3

Drug Response

I read “A Drug Story” (Summer 2010) hoping for some precise insights into this high-risk and highreturn industry, whose central challenge is, as Steve Kates ’83 puts it, that “many people don’t realize how many failures there are in this process and the costs involved in bringing a drug to market.” It is critical to understand the numThe Drug Makers ber of failed attempts versus winning ones that drug companies are used to and thus what sort of justification they can offer in support of their pricing and other business practices. To say that “without profit you wouldn’t have the incentives or resources to innovate” only nibbles around the edge of the issue. Exactly what amount of investment versus payoff is typical for drug companies? Wouldn’t knowing this help readers understand why drug companies should be allowed to (1) pay physicians to prescribe their drugs and (2) “pay to delay” the introduction of cheaper alternatives to market? And shouldn’t this discussion recognize that these companies compete in and affect a worldwide market including, for example, Africa, where human need is nearly immeasurable? David Farnsworth P’11, P’13, South Royalton, Vt.

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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Off-Broadway director Arin Arbus ’99 Exploring the Bates marriage myth Chris Danforth ’01 knows if we’re happy Where have you gone, Popham? Greenhouses in Everest’s shadow

summer 2010

Pharmaceutical scientist Steve Kates ’83 and fellow alums discuss drug development — and why their industry faces scrutiny

Steve Kates speaks to the risk-return question: “The return on pharmaceutical R&D isn’t as productive as in other industries and the profits are often lower. In 2006, a Congressional Budget Office study, Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry, noted that pharmaceutical firms invest as much as five times more in research and development, relative to their sales, than the average U.S. manufacturing firm. The study also noted that increasing sales revenue has been matched by increases in drug R&D spending. “In addition, it’s not the return from the investment that’s key, but the return to continue to invest, and drug discovery is more and more difficult because addressing the indications (diseases) and targets (biological pathways) is so complex. The increased investment and shorter patent lifetimes mean that companies do what they can to recoup investment and future costs. While profit-based and research-driven innovation is aesthetically unappealing, it is the only system that’s proven effective.” Adding another voice to this discussion, Associate Professor of Chemistry Jennifer KoviachCôté posed Farnsworth’s final question, about 4  Bates  WINTER 2011

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the global context of drug development, to students in her first-year seminar, “A Drug’s Life.” The students wrote: “Human need is certainly immeasurable in both developed and developing countries. However, there is a limit to what pharmaceutical companies can do based on the economics involved in the discovery and production of new drugs. We must recognize that providing drugs to developing countries will result in higher prices locally and less availability to Americans. In addition, the current means of delivering drugs to the needy are not effective due to corruption and lack of personnel and infrastructure. In the future, the creation of re-engineered products to suit developing countries’ economies may offer a solution to the current problems.” — Editor Since the whole pharmaceutical industry is exploitative and loads its pills with such high costs, why give them free advertisement? Admittedly, Steve Kates ’83 is Bates, and thus bears mentioning, or at least he needs to be recognized. But frankly, I’m not impressed with people who say that without the drug profits there would not be the incentive to innovate. That’s apparently how their revenues grow, as you say, at about 8.6 percent per year. Why not do something which is not corporate blandishment, such as Bates and education or Bates and the military, both of which would involve a number of less self-seeking graduates? Arthur Knoll ’51, Sewanee, Tenn. JAKE SIMKIN

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pharma business model leaves many potential investors scratching their heads. Jaleen Milligan ’90 and I (yes, we’re another statistic) will continue to happily pay large amounts of money on drugs to manage our younger daughter’s Type 1 diabetes because we know that those life-saving drugs would not have been developed without that incentive for companies to invest in their development. And the cure for Type 1 diabetes will not be developed without that incentive either. Michael Siekman ’90, Lexington, Mass.

Making the Most of Marriage

I appreciated Maura McGee’s article and Marty Braun’s illustration (“The 60 Percent Solution,” Summer 2010). The illustration shows, I believe, that marriage, Batesie or otherwise, is not just a white heterosexual privilege, which I interpret as a subtle statement in favor of marriage equality. Thanks! Emily Blowen Brown ’65, Ely, Minn.

Cover Question

Several things came to mind as I read the Spring 2010 issue and the articles revolving around Islam. On the cover, Joanie Meharry ’07 is wearing a hijab while in Afghanistan. Was this a way

As a patent attorney representing Steve Kates’ firm, Ischemix, I should clarify the article’s explanation of the 20-year patent term for new drugs. The clock does not start running when a drug is patented, but actually several years earlier when a patent application is first filed. The first patent application for Ischemix’s CMX-2043 was filed in 2000, and the drug is not projected to be approved by the FDA for several years. Similarly, While living in Kabul and working at the National Museum of the first patent application for Afghanistan, did Joanie Meharry ’07 wear a hijab to fit in, or to Ecallantide, which Mike Bonney adhere to Shariah law? ’80 of Cubist discussed abandonto fit in, or a requirement under Shariah law? ing in the article, was filed in 1994, and the drug There’s a world of difference. As a Bates religion was not approved by the FDA for any indication major, I and others were encouraged to challenge until 2009. (Ecallantide was developed by anour beliefs, and rightfully so. other client, Dyax.) As a Marine reservist, I left Bates during In both cases, these companies invested milOperation Desert Storm to serve in Saudi Arabia lions of dollars and the passion of their employand Kuwait. When I got back, many students ees to develop a drug to meet the unmet needs assumed I did not want to go overseas, figuring of a population of patients, only to be faced that I joined the military for the GI Bill. They with perhaps five years of patent exclusivity, out were surprised when I told them I learned more of the hypothetical 20, to recoup their investabout life and the world during my six-month dement. ployment than I ever did in a college classroom. Fortunately, there are ways for these comFor example, in Saudi Arabia, we were told only panies to extend their patent and non-patent Islam could be practiced. Unaffiliated with any market exclusivity, but Bonney is right: The

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religious tradition, it did not bother me as much as it did the many Christians in our unit, who were told they were not allowed to pray. Then, I read the article “Folks Back Home,” about the friendship between two students, one an Afghan and the other a Marine combat veteran. I am glad to see veterans going to a school such as Bates, and have to say that I was treated with respect by all my fellow students, as well as staff and professors, when I returned to the classroom. Will Selling ’93, Oxnard, Calif. Joanie Meharry explains why she wears a hijab: “As a foreign woman living in Kabul, the choice to wear a headscarf is my own. It is considered good etiquette and a demonstration of respect for the culture where I am a guest. While walking the streets of the city I feel safer and at public events I feel more comfortable. Indeed, I am often more concerned about the position of my scarf than my Afghan friends. Aesthetically, a headscarf frames the face even more elegantly than when a Western woman dons a hat; and the raw silk scarves from Mazar-i Sharif or the range of soft cotton and silk scarves imported from India are coveted items. Practically speaking, it better protects the hair and neck from the dust and wind, whether in Kabul or Connecticut. Thus, I appreciate my right to choose, but I would never choose to do otherwise.” — Editor

Location, Location, Location

A correction to the story “They Love the Sixties” (Summer 2010). The SNCC 50th gathering was indeed at Shaw University, but that school is in Raleigh, not, as the story said, in Charlotte. Frances Curry Kerr ’50, Matthews, N.C.

P RE AM BLE Getting Help from a Professor

It’s time to fess up. The bylines and credits sprinkled throughout each issue don’t account for all the key contributors to Bates Magazine. For many stories, Bates professors are informal story consultants, helping us develop the best, and bestinformed, interview questions. Take the story by Moscow-based journalist Peter van Dyk about the remarkable Russian business career of Jere Calmes ’92. Van Dyk is well-acquainted with the Russian business culture, but because I didn’t know the difference between an oligarch and a gargoyle before this story, I asked for help from Bates politics professor Jim Richter and Russian professor Dennis Browne. Both know Calmes from Bates and from visiting him in Moscow on Bates study-abroad programs. Browne correctly told me that Calmes’ early years in Russia would prove “very fascinating.” Richter urged van Dyk to ask Calmes about how doing business in Russia has changed, and what it’s like for non-Russian companies trying to do business in Russia. The story touches on these topics. Our feature on Rachel Segall ’91, the gestational carrier of a baby for Erik Mercer ’91 and his husband Sandro Sechi, got behind-the-scenes help from Rebecca Herzig, professor of women and gender studies. After I outlined the complex story for her, her first comment was simple: “I’m so happy for them!” But she then cautioned me not to expect that the alums’ real-life thought processes would mirror what might unfold in a classroom discussion of surrogacy. That is, in the safety of Pettengill or elsewhere, students and professors tend to think “incisively and articulately about tough questions of gender, sexuality, class, economics, and distributive justice.” On the other hand, she observes, people often “stop thinking altogether when our own real lives are at stake.” Yet Mercer, Sechi, Segall, and her husband Tony Hurley ’91 nearly pounced on questions that raised tough issues, and their insights had multiple facets, like a sparkly dance ball. (Later this winter, plans are afoot for these Batesies to bring their real world experiences to Herzig’s course on “Blood, Genes, and American Culture.”) Herzig coached me, explaining how current thinking in her field tries to untangle the many ways that surrogacy can revise “canonical kin networks.” That is, surrogacy complicates traditional ideas of family and relatedness far more than The Brady Bunch ever did (or Modern Family, for that matter). She also suggested some questions, around religion and whether the race or physical appearance of the egg donor affected their selection. The alums responded candidly and, in how Mercer explained how he and Sechi chose their egg donor, with humor. Finally, when we received a letter — see opposite page — with questions about our Summer issue cover story on drug development, we naturally invited Steve Kates ’83, a big part of that story, to reply. But also offering us some help was Assistant Professor of Chemistry Jennifer Koviach-Côté. In a nice twist on the notion of faculty consulting, she asked her first-year seminar on “A Drug’s Life” to pen a response. I say we give A’s to everyone. H. Jay Burns, Editor jburns@bates.edu

Body Art

Thank you for your story “Sharp Pencils and Sweat” (Summer 2010) celebrating Joseph Nicoletti’s Bates career and artistic accomplishments. I was not an art student at Bates and never took one of Professor Nicoletti’s classes. I was, however, in many of those classes as a model. Being a model for figure drawing classes is still the most physically strenuous job I have had. Taking my clothes off in front of a room full of my peers was a daunting experience but also one of the most empowering of my life. Joe taught his students to look at me like art — they noticed the shape between arm and torso, knee and shin, chin and neck. I would often stay through the full class to listen to students’ critiques of each other’s pieces — it was intellectually challenging work. I heard the intensely personal feedback he provided to each artist as he circled the room during those classes. I noticed the care with which he offered praise, and constructive feedback. For me personally, though, Joe gave me an incredible gift: The ability to think of my own body as a work of art. Kirstin McCarthy ’03, Washington, D.C.

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Looking Good

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Above, a full house on Oct. 9 watches the first game on renovated Garcelon Field; near right, tricaptain Brendan Murphy ’11 paused to greet Paul Perry ’57, a member of the 1956 Maine title team; far right, Al Harvie ’65, wearing a vintage sport jacket once belonging to Bob Hatch, the late Bates AD, calls the game in the new press box.

H. LINCOLN BENEDICT ’09

Makeover complete, Garcelon Field re-asserts itself as prime Bates real estate By H. Jay Burns

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President Hansen and Director of Athletics Kevin McHugh cut a garnet band to dedicate the renovated field on Oct. 9 as Jim Wylie ’60 (left) and Jim Callahan ’65 (right) look on.

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The new Garcelon grandstand is tucked much closer to the action.

Brett McAllister ’12 grapples with Colby’s Phillip Amato during a Homecoming punt return.

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triding en masse from Merrill Gym to Garcelon Field on game day, the Bates football team used to be an express train — no stops along the way. But all the hoopla surrounding renovated Garcelon Field turned the Bobcat train into something of a local this fall. On game day, the team’s first stop is the Bobcat statue, where coaches and players tap the cat’s muzzle, a tradition begun after the statue’s 2009 installation. And on Oct. 9, as players and coaches walked to Garcelon for their home opener vs. Williams, the team stopped right before stepping onto the field. There, as part of dedication ceremonies, the players accepted greetings from President Hansen. In turn, the tricaptains gave Hansen a game ball signed by the members of the Board of Trustees. The ball now sits in Muskie Archives. Also that day, as the Bates and Williams captains gathered at midfield prior to their kickoff, the zebras allowed a Bobcat toss the coin. The honors went to Susanne Morrison Jarnryd ’87, who, with husband Erik Jarnryd ’87, made the lead gift for the $2.6 million, donor-funded Garcelon renovation. Proving that the fix wasn’t in, Williams won the toss. At Homecoming — on Oct. 30, vs. Colby — the Bobcat train paused again at the Garcelon entrance to say hello to members of the glorious 1956 football team that won the Maine State Series title. Like anything at Bates, what goes on over here produces ripples over there. Garcelon Field is now sitting pretty, right next to Pettengill (academic), New Commons (dining), and the Village (residential life), and soon to be joined by academic centers Roger Williams and Hedge halls, now undergoing renovations. Bates campus planners call this our “distributed use pattern” — studying, living, dining, and sporting are all interwoven. In more lofty language, “every dimension of the campus community is visible, valued, and contributes to a shared experience.” So how does the new Garcelon — FieldTurf, lights, grandstand, press box, scoreboard — compare with the old? Well, it’s like when I was age 8, and I put on my first pair of glasses. Suddenly, everything got a lot more interesting. That’s what it’s like now. Just like that, Garcelon Field is back in focus.

Joevrose Bourdeau ’11 and Jasmine Beane ’11 enjoy the Parents & Family Weekend game.

The inaugural game ball, signed by all the Bates trustees, is now in Muskie Archives.

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From Mine to Ours

Refresher Recent Bates Magazine stories, updated

Gohar Shahinyan ’12 picks up where the Soviets left off

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fter Armenia declared independence from the question of who would own once-common the Soviet Union, on Aug. 23, 1991, spaces, says Shahinyan. Even today, “people everything related to Soviet rule had to go — only seem to be interested in ‘my property, my even the good stuff, like well-tended neighborownership.’ All that is common suffers,” she hood commons where townspeople and their adds, and the civic pulse weakens as people children once gathered, socialized, and played. “become disinterested and disconnected from “The Soviet concept of ‘our neighbortheir environment.” hood, our city, our country’ disappeared,” A prevailing worry was that nothing explains environmental studies major Gohar would last in the garden. Shahinyan was Shahinyan ’12. repeatedly warned that “people steal: ‘Why Born in Armenia and raised in the U.S., would they not after all? They could have it Shahinyan traveled back to her homeland last for themselves to put it in their dachas,’ their summer to work on a small-scale project with vacation homes.” a big idea. But ShaSupported by hinyan’s goal an Otis Felwas nothing lowship, a less than civic Bates academempowerment, ic program helping townsthat funds people feel a innovative stusense of comdent projects munity stewdriven by perardship and sonal concern ownership. And for the natural apparently it world, Shahinworked because yan traveled stealing wasn’t a to a peripheral problem. (True, neighborhood a pair of boots in the capital being used as city of Yereflower pots were van to create pilfered, “but a bit of shared were returned green space. after someone She enrealized that listed townsthey could not people to be worn,” she turn an empty says.) plot of land Recently, into an area a middle-aged Townspeople reclaim a neighborhood green space in Yerevan, Armenia, woman, while for rest and entertainment. part of an Otis Fellowship project by Gohar Shahinyan ’12. leaving her They planted apartment flowers, installed benches and trash cans, building, threw a food wrapper on the ground and created a small, safe play area for the at the garden and kept walking — a notlittlest citizens. uncommon occurrence. But this time, a group It was one thing for townspeople to clean of teenagers confronted her. A man who had up the space and throw out the garbage; it was been looking out the balcony also spoke to the another for them to shed years of social, ecowoman. nomic, and political baggage. After some back-and-forth bickering, the With the end of Communist rule, Armewoman picked up her litter and threw it into nians became “consumed and engrossed” by one of the newly placed trash cans.

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PENNEY’S PROGRESS Five years ago, Shirl Penney ’99 was completing a rags-to-riches climb from a hardscrabble childhood Down East to a thriving career on Wall Street (“A Penney Earned,” Summer 2005). In December, Penney created major Wall Street buzz with the launch of Dynasty Financial Partners, of which he is president and CEO. The Wall Street Journal and others say the firm could challenge the existing Shirl Penney ’99 wealth-management model, as Dynasty seeks to serve independent financial advisers who are trending away from traditional wire houses.

Penney and Dynasty bit.ly/penney-dynasty VOLUMES OF VOLUMES Afghanistan native Mustafa Basij-Rasikh ’12, an advocate of education’s power to relieve that nation’s burdens (“Folks Back Home,” Spring 2010), led a book drive last summer that amassed some 2,000 volumes for Polytechnic University of Kabul. Bowdoin and Colby students pitched in, and Chris Robinson ’07 and others paid for shipping. Basij-Rasikh has also established a charity to help land-mine victims and, with a friend, founded the Afghan Youth Initiative.

Book drive bit.ly/Kabul-books RECITING SITES After last year’s earthquake in Haiti, Myron Beasley reflected on his experiences curating the inaugural Ghetto Biennale exhibit in Port-au-Prince (“Ask Me Another,” Spring 2010). Beasley, an assistant professor in the African American and American cultural studies programs, has won a Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant to support his book project Reciting Sites. The book takes an intensely subjective view of ways in which artists in the African Diaspora incorporate ritual death practices into their work.

The award bit.ly/warhol-beasley MARTHA’S PROGRESS Five years ago, in a story about his daughter Martha’s autism (“Just Our Martha,” Summer 2005), Chris Dall ’93 wrote about seeking effective strategies to improve her social and communication skills. Today, Dall reports great progress, as Martha is a “thriving 8-year-old who engages with the world, excels in school, fits in with her peers, and is a budding musician.” Martha attends Chris Dall ’93 public school, and though technically a special-ed student, she no longer receives any therapy. “Her biggest issue right now is that she is socially a little different from her peers, so at school they work with her on social skills.”

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In the 1980s, lecturer Gene Clough famously created a time-lapse film of Olin Arts Center’s construction. Last fall, the Digital Media Center created a time-lapse of Garcelon’s renovation. Back then, the setup featured an electric device that wound the film camera and pushed its single frame button — while the modern setup featured a digital camera hooked to an iMac with software controlling nearly everything. But if the two tool sets were quite different, says Colin Kelley of the Digital Media Center, “at their mechanical hearts they were doing the same thing — one with film, the other with a hard drive.” Project Length Then March 26, 1985–Jan. 10, 1987 Now May 28–Oct. 9, 2010 Camera Then Third floor, Lane Hall Location Now Second floor, New Commons Camera

Then Paillard BOLEX H-16 Reflex camera; Kern Vario-Switar f/2.5 lens Now Canon EOS Rebel XS hooked to iMac (2GHz, Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM)

Photographic Then 16 mm Eastman Ektachrome color Format reversal film Now JPEGs become ProRes movie file Image Then One taken every 6 minutes Frequency Now One every 7 minutes Quality Then Setup in Registrar’s office (‘nuff Control said); to ensure clear shooting, Clough installed a motor drive that opened a single window pane for each image Now Setup in locked closet; password- protected computer; sign on setup said, “Do not to touch, move, or turn off any equipment” Total Images Then 47,000 frames, 1,200 feet of film Now 28,000-plus images Privacy Issues Then None Now Camera location noted on website and positioned to keep passers-by un- identifiable and residences out of focus Presentation

CULTURAL MAKEOVER

Last October, craft and interior design expert Evette Rios ’99

joined student collaborators to give a fresh look to the Intercultural Education Center, formerly the Multicultural Center, at 63 Campus Ave. Rios, a regular contributor to the Rachael Ray Show, oversaw interior work and also led her charges around Lewiston-Auburn to procure various items and materials. The major IEC makeover, also including new furniture and appliances, got support from Trustee Emerita Carole Segal P’95, co-founder of Crate and Barrel; Auburn-based and family-owned Agren Appliance; and The Home Depot.

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Then Movie projected at dedication on Oct. 11, 1986, and elsewhere Now Shown on flat-screen TV during Oct. 8, 2010, dedication; also embedded in Bates website and shown on campus digital signage: bit.ly/garcelon-timelapse

Quiz Q After Bates purchased land near Russell Street to expand Garcelon Field in the 1930s, the project moved exceptionally fast. Why? A A shovel-ready project of another era, the field prep proceeded “with requisite speed as a project to aid the unemployed,” according to the Bates Alumnus of February 1932.

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Ask Me Another Competitive mindset is a losing proposition, argues sociologist Francesco Duina Americans are among the most competitive people in the world — but they’re far from the happiest. And that’s no coincidence, as Associate Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina explains in his new book, Winning: Reflections on an American Obsession (Princeton University Press). He talked with staff writer Doug Hubley.

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know, the underdog who never wins anything but goes down fighting. OK, but what does that mean? It means that we’re separating the outcomes, which were negative — “he never won anything” — from the mental processes within that person, which we tended to ignore in other cases when victory was realWhat inspired the book? ized. We say, you’re still a Various things. Seeing Michael winner in our hearts. Jordan flashing his fingers, You can also fall from minutes after winning his fifth grace quickly — Pete Rose, Al NBA title, indicating that he’d Gore. With Gore, it doesn’t go after No. 6. The first lines even matter that he won the in the movie Cars — “I eat Nobel Prize. He had won all losers for breakfast.” George his life, but people see him as “We need to discover what we’re really after as we compete, and it takes some Bush’s insistence on “winning a loser because he should have introspection,” says Associate Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina. the peace” in Iraq. won the election, because his The book challenges the opponent was perceived as Nature is full of winners and losers. What makes assumption that most of us share: that winweaker. That’s a type — the loser who throws the obsession that you describe different? ning is a worthy objective in and of itself, and away what he should have won. The lion may or may not get the zebra, but we should avoid losing at all costs. Instead, According to one set of measures, Denmark is the if you ask the lion, “Did you win or lose?” I argue that there is much more behind our happiest of industrialized countries. Yet the Danes, that’s not how the lion thinks of it. The lion desire to win besides simply wanting victory socially speaking, are governed by a set of princiis after something and either gets it or not. or avoiding loss. We’re looking for things like ples that would strike Americans as soul-crushing But Americans’ construction of winning and differentiation from the crowd, proof that — basically, sit down, shut up, and play along. losing is relatively novel in the way it is domwe’re right, a sense of space, even looking for It’s called Jante’s Law, his 10 principles. They inant in our society. “Winning the peace” our place in the world. literally tell you, don’t stand out too much, is an absurd concept. How can you win the don’t stick your neck out, don’t boast. It has This worldview sounds like an addiction. Each big peace? And if you do think of it that way, it some advantages and some disadvantages. If win leaves an emptiness that craves another win. comes with certain baggage. It might not be you are of average ambition, average intelliWe’re not cognizant of what we’re really afthe baggage you want. gence, the Danish system is wonderful for you. ter. Why do we care so much about Indiana If you have ambitions and are driven and you Has this research turned up in your teaching? winning the basketball game against Illinois? want to really succeed, the American system What’s in there for us? We need to discover I think Bates students are really thirsty for this is better. what we’re really after as we compete, and it kind of stuff — more than half are on one type I think the Danish system is more civitakes some introspection. We don’t have to of team or another. Most of them are very lized, but it does deprive people of a lot of justify it, it doesn’t have to be legitimate, but competitive, but not all, and some of them freedom in the end. They say that they are then we know what we want. have reacted negatively against this stuff. We the happiest, but I know that they’re not the read a draft of this book last year, and some You do allow that the American obsession with happiest — but they are content. That’s the kids were like, “I don’t see myself in this. I winning has some upside. difference. don’t know what you’re talking about.” And The advantage is that, obviously, it motivates that’s good. Are you a winner for having published this book? people a great deal, especially if you are not Of course, you could construe it that way. I clear why you’re doing something. You will The book includes a sort of field guide to types of had to compete to get this book published, push yourself, get to know yourself differwinners and losers. the press only publishes a certain number of ently, if you subject yourself to such stress For instance, you could win all the time. Or books. But did I beat anyone? The right way and pressures. lose a lot, but win once, a big one — the Red to think about it is that I had a concept and I The disadvantage is that, because we Sox in 2004. They became big-time winners wanted to get something done, whatever that typically do this in a mental fog, we’re not for that year, and all the losses were forgotten. was, and I got it done. That’s a feeling of emtruly at peace with what we’re doing. And that There are patterns. You can actually be powerment, a good feeling, and that’s where I creates tensions within ourselves, and with the a loser all the time and still be considered a want to leave it. rest of the world. winner. And why? You fought very hard, and that’s a little bit of our mythology too — you

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Turning Points PROMOTED To tenured positions as associate professor: Cynthia Baker, religious studies; Holly Ewing, environmental studies; Sylvia Federico, English; and Pallavi Jayawant, mathematics. To full professor from associate professor: Charles Nero, rhetoric. IN TRANSITION Jill Reich, after 12 years

as vice president of academic affairs and dean of the faculty. Effective June 30, Reich will take a sabbatical and then become a tenured member of the psychology faculty. President Elaine Tuttle Hansen specifically praised Reich’s oversight of efforts to improve faculty salaries, revisions to the Gen Ed requirements, and early development of the Mount David Summit and Harward Center for Community Partnerships. Reich transition bit.ly/bates-reich APPOINTED As associate dean for

admission and student transition — that is, “swing dean” — Michael Martinez, effective Dec. 1. Martinez previously served as director of the Dallas-based Academic Success Program, which helps low-income and minority students get into college.

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PROMOTED From associate director to director of Alumni and Parent Programs, Marianne Nolan Cowan ’92, effective Sept. 8. Cowan, a 10-year member of the Advancement division, “brings a deep passion for Bates, a strong connection to a vast swath of our constituency, a clear understanding of the College culture, and an entrepreneurial spirit,” said Advancement VP Kelly Kerner. PUBLISHED The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth by Lillian Nayder, professor of English. In the first comprehensive biography of the wife of Charles Dickens, Nayder debunks the common view — fabricated by the novelist as he wriggled out of his marriage and pursued a bit o’ crumpet named Ellen Ternan — that Catherine was mentally infirm and an unfit wife and mother. AWARDED A $150,000 grant from the

George I. Alden Trust to support the $15 million expansion and renovation of Hedge Hall and nearby Roger Williams Hall into academic buildings. CURTAILED The burning of fossil fuels to heat empty buildings during Bates’ end-of-the-

year break. Physical Plant turned down thermostats to 55 degrees in unoccupied buildings and 65 degrees when occupied, for a predicted savings of $50,000. Curtailment bit.ly/bates-energy BURNED A mock dorm room, set up near

Garcelon Field on Oct. 27, as a Fire Safety Day demonstration of the incendiary hazards presented by tapestries, cooking equipment, candles, and other illegal amenities in student residences. Though rare, room fires are typically caused by amorous Batesies lighting candles to enhance the mood, says longtime dean James Reese, who gave out flickering electric candles at the event. DECEASED John Margarones, professor emeritus of education and passionate historian of his hometown of Old Orchard Beach, on Nov. 15, at 87; Joseph Woodhead, assistant track and field coach who achieved unequaled success in throwing events, on Oct. 18, at 76; L. Ross Cummins, faculty member from 1952 to 1989, on Sept. 21, at 91; Louis Vaillancourt, custodian for Physical Plant from 1992 until 2004, on Sept. 4, at 74.

AN OPEN BOOK

The current Bates

Museum of Art exhibition Bound to Art features more than 40 rare books from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, including this 1846 edition of Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Designed by Owen Jones, the edition reflects 19th-century advances in print technology and social trends, according to archives director and exhibition curator Katherine Stefko. Specifically, Europe’s Gothic revival coincided with the invention of chromolithography, which made color printmaking economical, and designers like Jones capitalized on the market. Imitating the illuminated (that is, lavishly decorated) manuscripts of the medieval era, this Elegy features elaborate floral borders of primary colors and gold surrounding text rendered in a Gothic script.

Bound to Art catalog ordering bit.ly/bound-to-art

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Bates in the News Swing deans Chronicled The Bates “swing dean” program for underrepresented students got the spotlight from The Chronicle of Higher Education early in the new year. (You read about it here first in “Ask Me Another,” Fall 2009.) Rich in detail and personal testimony, Beckie Supiano’s Jan. 2 article germinated in a November story meeting between Chronicle editors and Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen. Supiano talked to 10 Bates people in preparing the piece.

Faith Full The Multifaith Banquet reveals a kaleidoscope of beliefs Feeling torn between two colleges on the eve of the acceptance deadline, Leena Nasser ’12, of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, turned to prayer. Using a Muslim prayer that asks for help with a choice, “I asked Allah to put a feeling in my heart that made me comfortable with one choice or the other.” Nasser told her story during the Multifaith Banquet, an annual event that gives students who hold diverse beliefs an opportunity to share heartfelt blessings and personal journeys of faith. In affirming the rightness of her college choice, “the perspectives I’ve gained, the people I’ve met, and the goals I’ve been inspired to pursue at Bates” have all proved the power of prayer for Nasser. Sponsored by the Multifaith Chaplaincy, this year’s banquet drew 18 speakers who ran the gamut of beliefs from Baha’i to Buddhist

New books put two professors into the media. Taking on the American worldview that casts all things in terms of competition, Francesco Duina’s Winning: Reflections on an American Obsession caught the attention of Albany’s Northeast Public Radio. Explaining why the U.S. ranks poorly in terms of personal happiness, this associate professor of sociology spoke on the “Academic Minute” segment, which airs on 14 stations (see page 10). English professor Lillian Nayder was twice represented by The Wall Street Journal. First there was a thoughtful review of The Other Dickens, her revelatory new biography of Catherine Dickens, wife of Charles (see “Turning Points,” page 11). She then turned up on the WSJ blog “Speakeasy,” discussing Charles Dickens’ contemporary relevance in light of two of his novels being named to Oprah Winfrey’s book club. The WSJ also selected Shalini Sharan ’11 to write for its “Hire Education” blog, depicting the ups and downs of college seniors as they prepare to enter a tough job market. SHORT TERMS Bates hosted a Maine Public Broadcasting debate among state gubernatorial candidates in late October. The ultimate winner of the Blaine House race, Republican Paul LePage, declined to take part, but the Maine Public Broadcasting Network telecast from Olin Arts Center was a lively success anyway. The media were full of Bates students during the second half of 2010. For its “World Class” travel column, The Boston Globe selected Avi Farber ’11 of Santa Fe, N.M, to report on his academic sojourn in Argentina...Meanwhile, Brigit Anderson ’12 of Redding, Conn., told the Sierra Star of Oakhurst, Calif., about her experiences apprenticing at the Three Springs Flower Garden in North Fork. The work will bear on her geology senior thesis, exploring effects of climate change on high-altitude agriculture. An Exeter News-Letter story traced native son Eli Huebner’s fascination with Revolutionary War re-enactors. A sophomore classical and medieval studies major, Huebner is intrigued by the Loyalist perspective...Finally, the Providence Journal profiled Erik Bou ’14 of Cranston, R.I. The story chronicled Bou’s own progress from life as “a teenager who went from barely making it in the classroom to...one of the nation’s most prestigious colleges.”

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Bates’ multifaith chaplain, likened the resulting interplay of revelations to a kaleidoscope; and associate chaplain Emily Wright-Timko ran with the metaphor in a subsequent interview. “The differences between the traditions, and even within the traditions,” she says, “play off one another to create a complex beauty.” Held in a Benjamin Mays Center decorated with colorful tablecloths and the College’s multifaith banner, the program began with short blessings that ranged from a Catholic prayer to a passage from the Quaker Book of Wisdom. A junior from Nepal shared a Hindu story she learned from her grandmother. A woman, returning from the temple where she had prayed for the recovery of her ailing son, arrived home to find that he had died.

Seen here at Baccalaureate 2010, the Rev. Bill Blaine-Wallace compares the sharing of religious traditions at the Multifaith Banquet to how the shapes and colors of a kaleidoscope play off one another.

— including secular humanists and folks selfdescribed as spiritual but not religious. Enlisting speakers takes some persuasion, notes Erica Long ’12, a Unitarian Universalist who organized the program and also spoke. “Religion is not something usually discussed between students” at Bates, she said. But the result is worth it. In remarks during the event, the Rev. Bill Blaine-Wallace,

Responding not with anger nor by challenging God’s action, she went back to the temple instead and asked God to take care of her son. “Faith never dies,” the storyteller said. “If our faith dies, then there will be nothing to motivate us to live our lives.” — Gabrielle Otto ’11

Bates’ interesting past

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Women were given 10 percent of the slots — 2 of 20 at Bates

rom high in the sky, Maine looks like “a land of lakes, all within a stone’s throw of each other,” wrote Catherine Winne ’41 in the Oct. 30, 1940, issue of The Bates Student following her pilot training flight. Winne is believed to be the only Bates woman who learned to fly through the government-sponsored Civilian Pilot Training Program. She’s seen here in November 1940 standing in front of the program’s training plane, a two-seat Piper Cub, at what is now the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport. Begun in 1938 to increase the number of civilian U.S. pilots, the CPTP gave flight training to hundreds of thousands of men and women, mostly college students. The program is specifically credited with creating a path for African Americans to eventually become military pilots, notably the Tuskegee Airmen. Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, and UMaine offered chapters in Maine, as did several high schools and American Legion chapters. Women were given 10 percent of the slots, which meant two spots among 20 at Bates, though they were excluded after the U.S. joined World War II. Winne, who died in 2007, was one female Bates trainee; the late Pauline Giles ’41 attended classroom sessions but it is unclear if she ever flew. The CPTP’s military importance was readily known, especially after Germany invaded Poland and France. “We knew it was a pre-screening thing for military pilots,” says retired Marine Col. Armand Daddazio ’42, who was a CPTP trainee as a Bates student. After graduating, Daddazio saw active duty in air defense artillery in the Pacific. He was on Tinian when the USS Indianapolis delivered the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima. “Headquarters called to ask for officers for a work party,” Daddazio recalls. “We pointed out that officers don’t go on work parties. The reply was, ‘Well, they do on this one!’ For security, they wanted officers to unload the bomb.” Now living in El Paso, Texas, after a career in financial services, Daddazio did not fly during or after the war. Initially interested in the Army Air Corps, he instead chose the Marines. “The casualty rate ended up pretty bad for the flying services,” he recalls. “Maybe the dear Lord didn’t want me to fly.” — HJB WINTER 2011  Bates  13

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Barbados native Cheri-Ann Parris ’13 contributes an island attitude to Bates squash under head coach Pat Cosquer ’97 By Andy Walter Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen

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he Barbados squash community is as small as the 166-square-mile island, so Cheri-Ann Parris quickly heard about a U.S. college coach trying to schedule matches for the team’s winter training trip. The coach wasn’t getting anywhere, which didn’t surprise Parris, then 16. “It’s the Caribbean,” she says. “We have in our heads that things just happen as they happen.” Cultural realities notwithstanding, she felt the coach’s pain — the prospect of a team traveling 2,300 miles to play among themselves. “Now that would’ve been kind of pointless,” she says. “I’m glad he talked to me.”

The coach she helped was Pat Cosquer ’97. At the time, in 2007, he was director of squash programs for StreetSquash, a community youth-outreach center in Harlem. He had volunteered to help with the Bates trip after head coach John Illig decamped for Middlebury in August. And at the time, Parris was an emerging Barbadian squash standout. In fact, when the Bobcats visited Barbados in 2008, she was on another island, Great Britain, competing in the Scottish Open. Today, of course, both Cosquer and Parris are at Bates, each coming off accolade-filled

Bobcat News seasons. Appointed women’s and men’s squash coach in May 2008, Cosquer won NESCAC Coach of the Year honors in 2010, while Parris, Bates’ No. 1 player from the start, was named NESCAC Rookie of the Year. For her, Bates is part of a trajectory. The better she got in squash, and the more international tournaments she experienced, the more she wanted to test herself. “Once I love something, I just go for it,” she says. “I have to have some sort of goal. With squash, I wanted to play in college and represent squash to the best of my ability.” Parris met Cosquer face to face when she visited campus in September 2008, arriving straight from a tournament in Ecuador. She hasn’t been fazed by going to college in a country famous for its busy-ness and scheduling. “I prefer to be on a schedule and stick to it,” she says. “I don’t want to be up in the air. I would rather have planned stuff to do. It’s a bit hectic, but it’s fine.”

“Cheri could have just done her own thing, won every match at No. 1, and not helped anybody else,” Cosquer says. “And we would have finished 13th or 14th. Instead, she said, ‘I’ll work on myself for a little bit and then I’m going to coach the No. 8 player so she wins her match.’ That’s what separates her.” Cosquer’s own path back to Bates wound not through a prep school coaching job or an Ivy League assistantship but through Harlem and StreetSquash, one of a handful of intensive and disciplined urban programs that meld squash and academic instruction to further students’ college opportunities. His vision for Bates squash is similarly amalgamated. He wants players from varied walks of life who can bask in each other’s life experiences and perspectives. “All that friendly, fuzzy Bates stuff makes it easier for kids who have never been in an environment like this,” he explains. “Other

“Once I love something, I just go for it.” Growing up, Parris was also an accomplished chess player, and although that interest waned, she clearly enjoys one-on-one competition that rewards strategy and mind games. “In squash, like chess, you need to think about this shot and the next one,” she says. “You think about how to place a shot so the opponent can only make his shot based on your shot. You have constantly to be thinking about what to do, how to retaliate, how to put your opponent out of position.” Same as chess, she says. “If your opponent moves a pawn to near a bishop, you know the next moves, the squares where they can go.” In turn, Parris is the type of player Cosquer wants for the Bates squash program. By American standards, her Caribbean background makes her appear easygoing. In truth, she’s a charismatic leader who can kick a teammate’s butt at practice then lead the cheering for her during a match. “She’s always putting someone else before herself,” Cosquer says. In her first season, Parris won her final 10 team matches en route to an 11–0 NESCAC record and rookie honors. The women’s team ended the season ranked No. 11, and the men’s team at No. 12.

schools are as academically rigorous as Bates but are more cutthroat. We are very competitive and want to be great at everything we do — but not at your expense.” Cosquer, who played both squash and baseball at Bates, says coaches like George Wigton and Bob Flynn personified those ideals. “They turned me from a boy into a man,” he says, while always letting him know that “at Bates, once you’re here, you’re part of this family.” For Cosquer’s squash program, it means the off-campus Bates Squash Center can be both a comfortable hangout and a competition site. Team hiking trips and yoga sessions can be equally as valuable as practice time. And it means that a men’s player like captain Patrick Williams ’11, a product of SquashBusters in Boston, a cousin of the StreetSquash operation in Harlem, can establish the Aspirations Squash Enrichment Program in Lewiston to support Somali and Sudanese children. Parris is all for Cosquer’s one-for-all ethic. “Everyone is together in Bates squash,” says the island native. “We’re cool and collected.”

Sea Dog to Bobcat Former Red Sox minor leaguer and All-Big East catcher Mike Leonard was appointed Bobcat head baseball coach in November. Leonard, head baseball coach at Elms College in 2010, takes over a Bates team that went 25-11 in 2010, posting a Bates record for wins. After earning a political science degree from the University of Connecticut in 2004, Leonard advanced to Double A ball with the Red Sox’s Portland Sea Dogs. He concluded his pro career in 2009 as a player-coach with the independent Worcester Tornadoes, whose manager is former Red Sox catcher Rich Mike Leonard Gedman. Leonard succeeds Edwin Thompson, who last summer accepted an assistant coach position at Duke. Thompson led the Bobcats to a 12-22 record in 2009, his first year at Bates, then headed the remarkable turnaround in 2010. WOODHEAD’S OTHER LEGACY A poignant and astonishing aspect of the late Joe Woodhead’s life extends beyond his impact at Bates, where he was a throwing coach for 25 years, to include his earlier coaching career at Lisbon High School, next door to Lewiston. Woodhead, who died in October of a heart attack, was a Lisbon coach and teacher for 27 years, leading Lisbon’s football program to state titles in 1960, 1961, 1968, 1971, and 1978. “He would

In April 2006, Joseph Woodhead high-fives Keelin Godsey, who won two NCAA titles under Woodhead’s tutelage. see what he had for material and then build the team around that,” former assistant coach Tim Mynahan told the Sun Journal’s Kalle Oakes. “To build a program like that, you need that discipline and that continuity. He’s left a mark everywhere he’s been. He knew how to build champions, and he did it.” That’s what he did for Spencer Potter ’97, an All-American in the weight throw at Bates. “I was an uncoordinated man, but he was a great coach,” Potter told Oakes. “He could take a great athlete and make them a thrower, but he could also take a mediocre athlete who wasn’t a thrower and make them a thrower.” LET’S GET SMALL Cozy Alumni Gym got a little more so after new fire code rules forced revised seating policies for the 82-year-old gym. Balcony seating and standing are now prohibited, and a second entryway is now available through the gym’s Central Avenue doors. Fans entering the gym are now counted and marked upon entry. WINTER 2011  Bates  15

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From left, Tony Hurley ’91, Rachel Segall ’91, Erik Mercer ’91, and Sandro Sechi gather at Mercer and Sechi’s baby shower on July 31 at Il Passatore in Brooklyn. Inset: Cookies decorated with the baby’s name, Rachel Maria.

Rachel Segall ’91 gives birth to a baby for Erik Mercer ’91 and Sandro Sechi, helping to create a new family — and a new way to think about being a family

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in Massachusetts at Newton City Hall. The union, among other things, ensured that they would be the legal parents of the child upon birth. Segall’s pregnancy was covered by her insurance; all other costs were paid by Mercer and Sechi. And on Aug. 14, in Boston, she gave birth to the baby, who is named for her: Rachel Maria Sechi Mercer. And behind all these facts are the stories.

pRachel At Bates, Rachel Segall admits that she fell for classmate Erik Mercer, his ’80s-style quiff and all. “That was before I knew he was gay,” she recalls. “He was the kind of guy that a lot of girls would have a crush on because he was just so easy to talk with and fun to be with.” Aside from losing Mercer to the “other team,” as Seinfeld would say, Mer-

cer’s homosexuality made little difference to Rachel. Their friendship grew and deepened over time. A few years ago, Segall saw a TV news story about how difficult and expensive it is for gay men and women to adopt or have biological children. Immediately, she called Mercer and made an offer that not many can pull off: “I told Erik that I would have a baby for him.”

pErik By the time Rachel made that call, Mercer had given up on being a father. He recalls telling his own father (both parents are Congregationalist clergy) over a glass of wine back home in Maine that he figured he’d be a good uncle, but never a father, and that he was OK with that. Mercer, a career social worker who does sentence advocacy for people facing

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oung Zeke Hurley needed only about 16 words to explain his mother’s pregnancy to the teenager bagging groceries at a local food store. “You see my mom? She’s pregnant for her gay friends. And it’s not even her egg!” Taking Zeke’s lead, here are other facts of the story of how Rachel Segall ’91 carried and gave birth to a baby girl for Erik Mercer ’91 and his husband, Sandro Sechi. The egg came from a donor. Mercer and Sechi provided sperm to fertilize the egg, but just whose gamete did the trick isn’t known (more on that later). The embryo then was implanted in Segall’s womb. She is married to Tony Hurley ’91, and they have three children, the aforementioned Zeke (9) and daughters Jordy (11) and Maddie (13), and live in Newton Highlands, Mass. Erik Mercer and Sandro Sechi, who live in Brooklyn, were married last March

Mercer holds his daughter, Rachel Maria Sechi Mercer, after her birth. “Traditional narratives of marriage and family have never been real for me,” he says.

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the death penalty, had buttressed his beliefs with political and social reasons. “I’ve seen so much pain and suffering. I just didn’t know if the world needed more people.” But then, “I met Sandro.”

pSandro Last summer was dubbed the “summer of homophobia” in Italy after a jump in incidents of homosexual harassment. Add to the equation the ban on surrogacy, the prohibition against homosexual marriage, and the Roman Catholic Church’s firm stance on homosexuality. Given the context, Sechi was hardly surprised when the Italian media pounced on the story of a native son having a child with a surrogate. “This was the perfect story,” says Sechi, who was born on Sardinia, studied Russian literature at Milan University, and is now a writer and language teacher. The Italian media framed the story to play on the nation’s ingrained religious notions of what is natural, hence the headline “Two Gay Fathers and Two Mothers for One Child” in La Repubblica (though this and other stories were, Sechi says, mostly supportive). “I saw our story on an Albanian news site along with stories of the bizarre, like a gigantic banana,” Sechi laughs.

“I just didn’t know if the world needed more people.”

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Mercer touches Segall’s stomach during the baby shower as Sechi looks on. “I don’t think she understands the way she touches people,” Mercer says.

After a socially conservative upbringing in a Catholic family and Episcopalian boarding school, Hurley fell in love with Segall, a gregarious Jew from Boston. He lived in Rand; she in Cheney House. “We were opposites, and that was the attraction,” he says. “She was exotic to me.” If there’s a family in this story that might not feel great connections to all that has unfolded for one of its members, it would be Hurley’s. “My family could never have imagined one of their kids getting involved with a Jewish woman who is doing all these nutty liberal things like carrying a friend’s baby,” Hurley says. “I certainly never imagined this happening to me.” Which is why the note he received from his stepmother hit him hard. It said, in so many words, “You are doing a good deed for a friend.” Hurley felt that she had graciously put aside the politics of same-sex marriage, surrogacy, and in-vitro fertilization to ac-

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Sechi washes Rachel Maria’s hair as Mercer watches. “I am living far ahead of what I thought my life would be like when I lived in Italy,” Sechi says.

knowledge “the generous thing we were doing for our friends.” In their circle, Hurley has been cast as the unsung hero in this story, and he quips that his main job was as “Giver of Shots.” (Because this was a fresh embryo transfer, Segall received hormone shots to synchronize her menstrual cycle with the egg donor’s, to ensure that her uterus would accept the embryo.) Hurley describes himself as self-effacing; he’s the type of guy who knows that being tagged “unsung hero” means he’s actually being sung. “I mean, I’m not unsung because people kept telling me,” he says

“I think people were very conscious of the ‘what about Tony?’ angle to this story.”

with a chuckle. “I think people were just very conscious of the ‘what about Tony?’ angle to this story.”

pRachel Besides his announcement to the bagboy, Zeke Hurley provided another Reader’s Digest moment as he and his sisters listened to his parents explain surrogacy, and how the egg would not belong to Segall. “But what about the race?” Zeke asked. The family just stared at their youngest. “We were all like, ‘What race is that?’” Segall recalls, laughing. “You know,” Zeke said, having recently learned the concept of the sperm and egg from a book his dad had read to him. “The race where the things race from the man to the egg. How’s that gonna happen?” Good question, Zeke. In fact, three embryos were implanted in Rachel, two fertilized in the laboratory by Mercer’s sperm and the other by Sechi’s. (Doctors typically

implant three fertilized eggs into a woman’s womb to up the chances of a viable birth.) It’s not known which embryo took hold, though Mercer says that if the baby has dark Mediterranean good looks, there will be no doubt. Segall is able to sustain circle upon circle of deep friendships with both humility and apparently inexhaustible reserves of humanity. “I don’t think she understands the way she touches people,” says Mercer. “It is just so innate.” She is quick to deflect the difficulty of carrying and delivering a baby, saying that her pregnancies have all been easy. Yet it’s clear she was the carrier of this baby in more ways than one, and it was Segall who was behind the gathering of all the principals last year, where the group discussion made it real for Mercer and Sechi. It took place at her family’s home on Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire. “We had margaritas, sat around their great room, and just talked,” Mercer recalls. Segall’s

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brother-in-law, an ob/gyn who would ultimately deliver the baby, was there, and as he went through the sequence of a gestational birth, Mercer felt for the first time that a child could really be in his future. “I could imagine taking that first step.” By August, as the delivery room loomed closer, Rachel knew, certainly, that Sandro and Erik should be present for the birth. Maybe, she thought, Erik’s mom should be there too, since it was her first grandchild. Then she felt another answer. “I realized that most of all, I really needed Tony with me,” she says.

pTony You can tell both where the pressure points are in Hurley and Segall’s marriage, and the fact that it emerged a bit stronger from this experience. She is capable of sustaining so many friendships so deeply that it sometimes leaves Hurley “bewildered. It’s so beyond my comfort zone. Yet she expands my universe of what is possible. “If there is something I can provide Rachel, it is that quiet calm for her. It is refreshing for her at times.”

pSandro Sechi jokes that he speaks Italian, Russian, Spanish, French, and English, yet he cannot find a word to explain how he feels about Rachel Segall. “So I was thinking, why don’t I make a new word? RachelSegally!” And it was very RachelSegally when, in the delivery room as the baby’s head was crowning, she looked at Erik and Sandro and said, “Are you guys OK?” “Because of her, I am living far ahead of what I thought my life would be like when I lived in Italy,” Sechi says. “Having a baby was beyond fantasy, something you cannot reach with your mind because you are in a society that says, ‘How do you dare to be like that? How do you dare to call Erik your husband?’”

pErik Homosexuals can rarely place themselves into one of the easy, polished narratives created by straight society. Such as how to fall in love and get married. Or how to have a baby and to parent. “Those narratives have never been real for me,” Mercer says.

Yes, Mercer did have the “what-am-I-doing” feeling. After his baby was born, people approached Mercer and gushed, “Isn’t your heart just bursting with love?” No, he explained to more than a few shocked people, he wasn’t yet madly in love. “I’m still getting to know this baby. That’s the way attachment works. It’s not just bam!” It’s a point Mercer wants to make, how there’s a lot of human pain caused by being told you’re supposed to have a certain feeling when you just don’t. “I imagine it’s a more common human experience than people let on,” he says.

That helped. “I thought, ‘OK, I can get my head around this,’” Mercer says. “This is more the way I will experience this.”

pThe Egg Donor She’s anonymous, of course. Sechi and Mercer do have photos of her, as an adult and child, and know her medical history. They know she’s pursuing a master’s degree. Choosing among potential egg donors is actually rather bizarre, says Mercer, because one can select for various physical traits, like tall or blonde or whatever.

Only after Sechi and Mercer read all the answers did they turn the page to view the photograph. They couldn’t help but laugh as they moved from their mental response to a purely physical one. “She was totally hot!”

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Looking at baby photos and spreading the news a couple days after the birth are, from left seated, Segall, Hurley, Mercer, and Jordy Hurley, and standing, Erik’s mother, Ellie.

So yes, Mercer, admits, he’s had those disconnected “what-am-I-doing” moments, when he’d be at someone’s house “and there’s a screaming kid and I’d think, ‘Oh, f****.’” He shared these feelings with Whitney Wright ’90, a good friend and career social worker who, in the 1990s, teamed with Mercer on HIV-related work in New York City. A new mother herself, Wright said that it’s very possible to reconcile those opposed emotions. “You know, Erik, I never wanted to be a mother,” she said. “And I still don’t want to be a mother. I want to be Rex’s mother.”

Mercer and Sechi were sold when they learned the answer to why the donor was doing it, and whether she wanted to know if a child was born from her egg. “Most women said they were doing it to help humankind. Our donor said she was doing it for the money, to pay for graduate school. That made us feel that she was a straight shooter,” Mercer says. Her answer to the second question was unintentionally poignant. The woman wrote “yes,” she wanted to know if a baby was born from her egg. “Then she crossed it out and wrote ‘no,’ then crossed that out and wrote ‘yes,’ then crossed that out and wrote ‘no’ and circled it three times. She was struggling to figure it out.”

Mercer knows the evil that humans can do, and as a social worker with advanced training in psychotherapy, has a pretty good idea of why they do it. A professor once told him that psychopathology is about knowing when love goes wrong. “When I meet someone in jail for doing something really horrible,” Mercer says, “there’s always in their history a place where love went wrong.” Mercer shares that idea to explain why he wanted a child of his own. Even though neglect, dysfunction, and addiction roil within the people he helps, Mercer says he still often finds evidence of the human spirit. What, then, could make more sense than having the opportunity, as he puts it, “to put all my heart into creating a safe, nurturing, and delightful environment for a little kid”? He adds, “I think she has the potential, in a small way, to be someone who can show that there’s an alternative way of thinking about family.”

pRachel There was another RachelSegally moment at the hospital. The baby had been born, and the new family was ready to leave the hospital. Mercer and Sechi would be in town for a few days, so there was no need for big goodbyes. As everyone milled around, Segall unobtrusively picked up her bags and departed. She and Mercer both remember the moment — an eloquent acknowledgment that however intimate her role in this baby’s creation and birth, it was now over. Now it was the fathers’ turn.

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By Peter van Dyk Photographs by Erin Calmes-Keta

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You can still make money doing business in Russia, says Jere Calmes ’92, just not in the same wild ways

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hen a capitalist country was born out of the remnants of the Soviet Union two decades ago, many adventurous young Westerners found an unlikely land of opportunity. One of them was Jere Calmes ’92 — and he has now spent most of his working life in Russia. It is still, he says, a land of opportunity, even if the opportunities have changed. In well-appointed offices behind the unobtrusive front door of a renovated period building less than a mile from the Kremlin, Calmes says Russia’s healthcare sector is ripe for investors to make money, and he’s putting together a private equity fund to do just that. It’s a far cry from what he found in Moscow a few months after graduating from Bates in 1992 with a political science major and a secondary concentration in Russian. “It was a crazy time when you could do almost anything you wanted to,” he recalls. “Everybody was doing anything. You didn’t need money. You just needed an idea.” For him, the idea was cell phones. About six months after arriving in Moscow to teach introductory macroeconomics in English at a university, he helped launch VimpelCom. He was the 11th employee. “We didn’t have money,” Calmes says. “We rented an office from the Moscow News for barter of two telephones.” VimpelCom became the first Russian company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is now worth around $19 billion. Much of that value is built on the Beeline cell-phone network. Calmes was VimpelCom’s

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first marketing manager, and he is fiercely proud of the success of the Beeline brand, considered one of the most valuable brands in the world. “We hired a guy that I met at a party drinking vodka one night, and we did the entire Beeline branding for less than $5,000,” he says, explaining: “He was really dying to have the job.” Starting with just 13 base stations, the company quickly made money. And in Russia in the early 1990s, that attracted attention. “Things were pretty chaotic here, and we ran into some issues, like everybody doing business in Russia, and then I left the country in 1994 kind of in a quick way, to make sure that everybody would be OK.” Calmes gives a little laugh, suggesting he’s understating things a little, but he won’t be drawn out further. “Without going into details, we had some problems. Those problems were resolved over time and VimpelCom continued to flourish.” If Calmes seems, well, calm in the face of what some might consider professional catastrophe, it’s a trait he carried with him from Park City, Utah, to Bates back in 1988. In high school he was a daring hot-shot alpine skier hoping to move up the U.S. Ski Team development ladder. But he just wasn’t fast enough, so he headed to Bates, obeying the rule among young skiers: “Ski slow, off to college you go.” At Bates, Calmes skied four years and captained the team his senior year. He also took Russian courses and studied in St. Petersburg in the fall of his junior year. He once said that his father gave him one piece of advice for college: Learn to speak Russian or Chinese. Calmes’ choice of Russian reflected his priorities at the time: Afternoon Chinese classes conflicted with ski practice, so he opted for the morning Russian classes. If no longer a hot-shot, Calmes is still daring. He left Russia in 1994 and joined Motorola, working in London, Egypt, and Russia. Then, in 2001, with VimpelCom struggling as Russia started to boom under the presidency of Vladimir Putin, Calmes returned to the company. Calmes remembers the original business plan envisaging 10,000 subscribers

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within 10 years. When he became vice president for operations in 2001 the company was adding 30,000 subscribers a month. And that was small potatoes. Less than five years after the millionth customer signed up, there were 45 million Beeline numbers in operation. Despite the potential for profits, Western confidence in the Russian business environment has taken hits over the past decade. The biggest blow was probably the 2003 arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky, founder of the Russian petroleum company Yukos, on fraud charges. Khodorkovsky’s supporters have long said that the case against him is political, arguing that Putin wanted to punish Khodorkovsky for funding opposition groups. The Kremlin maintains that the judiciary is independent and says it has no influence over the cases involving Khodorkovsky or anyone else. But in the years following the Yukos case, government or judicial involvement in business disputes, especially those involving foreign entities, routinely seemed to favor the Kremlin’s side. A prime example was Calmes’ own company, VimpelCom. In the 2000s, a well-chronicled dispute between the company’s two main shareholders, Norwegian telecom Telenor and a Russian conglomerate owned by tycoon Mikhail Fridman, spilled into the Russian courts. Sure enough, the courts ruled against Telenor in decisions deemed “dubious” and “bizarre” by the Western media.

At near left, VimpelCom’s Beeline cell phone logo from the 1990s.

cemeteries and guns were used. The good thing about what we saw was the courts were used.” Calmes says you have to factor the judicial doubts into the go/no-go of every business decision. “Can your rights be enforced? It’s always something to be asked. Are you going to buy a factory if getting control means going through the courts? No, absolutely not,” he says. “And I think one of the biggest problems photo was This Beeline marketing that Russia has today for going forward is this s wa en it taken in the 1990s, wh lack of a functioning judicial system.” ka ush bab a t tha odd d considere phone. Today, Calmes and his family — a Russian wife would even use a cell s say they own and three children — left again in 2006, 82 percent of Russian a cell phone. this time for Italy and with no drama. (In Italy, he worked for the mobile group Wind, which was recently bought by VimpelCom to create the fifth-largest global operator by subscriber count.) Calmes brought his family back to Russia The feud didn’t end until 2009, and then only because the within two years to take up the new challenge of the healthcare Russian government, in reaching out to the private sector, was seen sector, first as CEO of a chain of pharmacies called 36.6, and now as trying to “remove a stain from Russia’s troublesome record with with the private equity fund. He is also a member of the board of foreign companies,” in the words of The New York Times. directors of Tele2, a European telecommunications company with Calmes says the Telenor dispute, and in particular the way the 24 million customers in 11 countries. courts were misused, undoubtedly shook Western confidence in “There’s a certain bit of surprise that after all this time I’m the security of private investments in Russia. He laments that some still here, but I’ve changed my concept of how the world works. I people have the ability “to use a legal system in Russia that is not don’t consider my home is Russia — I consider Russia as one of my entirely functional, that can be exploited.” bases, America is another,” he says. “If someone asked me where I “In my world, [issues around the judiciary’s functionality] was going to retire, I don’t know, but I hope it’s in America, probstarted when Khodorkovsky went to jail,” he says. “That was the ably somewhere in the Swiss Alps, and in Russia.” watershed event.” But he’s a long way from retiring yet — he says there are too A day after Khodorkovsky’s jailing, so-called price lists — many opportunities to make money in Russia. specific bribe amounts needed to influence the court case — were “You’ve got this dynamic country that continues to grow, and available to lawyers on the streets of Moscow. “Russia’s got a very you still have a bunch of sectors that are underdeveloped, underinstrong executive branch with nothing else. So the checks and balvested, fragmented, and it just makes a wonderful field for playing ances of the legal system pretty much aren’t there.” business. And that’s what I’m doing right now.” On the other hand, Calmes says that it is a sign of progress that business disputes turn to the Russian courts. “Back when everybody Peter van Dyk is a Moscow-based journalist who regularly was running by the seat of their pants, there wasn’t time for the reports for National Public Radio. courts, and quite frankly, the courts weren’t used — meetings at

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A Day at the Ranch

Bill Burleigh ’86 saddles a horse that will be assigned to a guest for a morning ride.

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An idyllic but hardly idle day at the Laramie River Dude Ranch of Bill Burleigh ’86 and family

“It felt like it had a history,” says Burleigh of the family’s decision to reopen Laramie River Dude Ranch in 1995.

Text and photographs by Shauna Stephenson

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ill Burleigh ’86 stands at the bedroom door of his sons, Christopher and Alex. Cowboy clothes, he tells them gently. You need to find your cowboy clothes. It’s time to get up. There is a grumble from within, and then two bright, yet less-than-impressed faces emerge. Life is both tough and exhilarating for boys growing up on a dude ranch. This notion does not seem to faze the even-keeled Burleigh. Cool, calm, and collected, he talks to his boys the same way he talks to everyone, from his guests down to Tex, the old and nearly blind cat eating his breakfast in the bathroom. Outside, morning has arrived at the Laramie River Dude Ranch, in Colorado just south of the Wyoming border, as the sun chases away the chill of the night, painting the peaks of the Rawah Mountains. Inside the main lodge, guests eat breakfast in a large, lofted dining hall. A bear skin hangs on the wall and guests dab their mouths with red, yellow, and blue bandanna napkins. A sliver of light slides in the window, highlighting a stocking hat, prompting a twinge of remorse on this midSeptember day. Where has summer gone? Shocking things happen in these parts this time of year. First, you spot a yellow leaf in a stand of aspens, and it takes your breath away. Then you wake up one morning and the entire forest has gone from green to golden overnight. By winter, the guests who walked the halls and grounds of this 1,360-acre ranch will be long gone. In the gin-clear waters of the Laramie River, which winds through the heart of this place, trout that snapped at guests’ fly-fishing lures in the summer will

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Loaner boots, hats, and helmets are neatly arranged for guests.

At right, the Burleigh family gathers horses for the morning ride.

Horses cross the Laramie River. The ranch sits at the river’s headwaters, 25 miles from its source in the snow-capped mountains seen in the distance.

Son Chris says hello to a horse with a gentle pinch of his nose.

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be left alone. The willows that line the riverbanks will be bare. Which suits Burleigh just fine. “It doesn’t ever get lonely,” Burleigh says. “Just about the time I need some space, the fall arrives and it’s just us on the ranch.” The Burleighs used to live year-round on the ranch, but as the boys got older it made less sense to drive 50 miles to Laramie for school. “A pretty hairy commute in the winter,” Burleigh says. So the family bought a winter home in town, and Bill and his wife visit the ranch a few times a week. As a chemistry major at Bates, and later a consultant in information technology, owning a dude ranch was never on Burleigh’s radar until his wife, Krista Kaplan, weighed in. “Her dream, of running a dude ranch, was definitely more interesting than mine,” he says. In 1995, the two purchased the Laramie River Dude Ranch, re-opening a place that had housed guests from 1937 to the 1970s. “It felt like it had a history,” he says.

Now in its 14th season, the ranch welcomes guests from around the country and abroad. About 30 percent of their clients are international, mostly from Europe, and many return year after year to the dude ranch. (The word “dude” came into use in the 1800s and originally meant a fop or dandy; it soon came to mean someone from the East unfamiliar with Western farm life.) Out in the corral, horses have been saddled up for the morning’s ride. Other horses get the day off, and they’re led to pasture by Alex, age 9, who then joins his dad for a drive to the spot chosen for the guests’ lunch. In a grove of aspens, checkered table cloths are set out on picnic tables scattered among hammocks. Cribbage boards and cards are laid on the tables, a clear sign of the mission here: Let go of the stress of your life, relax, and enjoy. True, the ranch is idyllic, but rarely idle. Even inexperienced riders work on “team penning,” a game that involves “cut-

It’s those things that a dose of nature can give to the unsuspecting soul.

ting” a steer from a group and moving it into an open pen. Experienced riders help with larger cattle drives, helping Burleigh’s neighbors move cows and their new calves from mountain pastures leased from the U.S. Forest Service (much of the land around the ranch is federally owned) back down to the owner’s ranch. “Most ranches have crews only big enough to get daily tasks done,” Burleigh explains. “They’re more than happy to have us come down with a trailer load of horses and guests to help on those big cattle moves.” And contrary to the dramatic cattle drives seen on TV, “the secret to successfully moving cattle is to move them slowly,” he says. “They stay together and go in the right direction if you take it easy.” Take it easy. That’s the watchword. So detach yourself from that cell phone (there’s no service anyway), because a visit to this ranch is a time to sit and reflect, to contemplate life, mortality, and love — all those things a good dose of nature can give to the unsuspecting soul. Burleigh shrugs and says he’s not saving lives by running a dude ranch. But in a way, lives are in play on the ranch, a place where people just discover the value of a life lived intentionally. After all, what is better than a horse, a hammock, and a cool fall breeze in a setting that takes your breath away? Shauna Stephenson is a Wyoming-based writer and photographer.

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Good Eggs By Edgar Allen Beem Illustration by Marty Braun

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ver the summer, a salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 1,600 people nationwide was traced to an unsanitary factory farm in Iowa, prompting the recall of some 550 million eggs. One of the farms involved in the massive recall, Wright County Egg, is owned by Austin “Jack” DeCoster, an industrial farmer whom the Iowa Supreme Court in 2002 labeled a “habitual offender” against state environmental laws. Here in Maine, headlines involving Jack DeCoster and eggs are nothing new.

Nate Dorpalen ’06 Nate Dorpalen ’06, who helped to produce the Fowl Play documentary referenced in this story, died Oct. 8 in a hiking accident while backpacking on the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway.

Here in Maine, the national egg-salmonella scare didn’t surprise social-justice Batesies

In 1999, when DeCoster workers won In fall 2004, Sam Haaz ’06, Andrew a settlement in a class-action lawsuit to Currier Stokes ’06, and the late Nate Dorrecover unpaid overtime, Bates students palen ’06 collaborated on a 20-minute and faculty were on the front lines, doing documentary film about the DeCoster egg legwork and phone calling for the workers’ farm entitled Fowl Play. attorney, Donald Fontaine. Haaz, now a law student at Drexel Taylor and others worked the phones University, recalls how he and Dorpalen to track down 1,275 former DeCoster were nearly overcome by the reek of amworkers in Maine, Texas, and Mexico who monia when they sneaked into the DeCoster ultimately received a reported $5 million barns to shoot rare footage of the millions in overtime. A typical class-action lawsuit, of laying hens packed so tightly into cages Fontaine explains, locates about 5 to 10 that they could barely move. percent of those entitled to money. “In this The documentary also features extencase, we found almost 50 percent of the sive interviews with local farmers. “What people,” he says. we were trying to show is, ‘Who needs facAn organization with an ongoing prestory farms?’” Haaz says. “All you really ence at the Turner egg farm is the Maine need are local eggs and family farms.” Migrant Health Program, which delivers Amen to that, says Jesse Laflamme onsite medical services to migrant and sea’00, manager of Pete & Gerry’s Organic sonal workers in a range of Maine farming Eggs, based in New Hampshire and one of ventures, from egg farming to apple picking. Over the last decade, MMHP director Barbara Ginley ’88 has involved a dozen students and alums, some directly from Bates, others through programs like AmeriCorps. Like Taylor, Ginley stresses the importance of students’ learning to work for the farm workers and their families, recognizing the realities of their difficult lives. “For volunteers, the experience is a values-check. They have Jesse Laflamme ’00, manager of Pete & Gerry’s Organic Eggs, oversees to realize that the end game an operation that’s the antithesis of factory farming. Hens live cage-free in open barns, lay their eggs where they wish, and have outdoor access. is about empowering people to do for themselves.” the largest organic egg farms in the counGinley highlights two such projects try. “We’re the antithesis of DeCoster,” that involved Batesies: one to evaluate Laflamme says. the capacity of the DeCoster community “The irony is that I almost couldn’t go to serve migrant workers’ transportation to Bates because DeCoster was putting famneeds, and the other to create a resource ily farms out of business.” By the 1990s, guide to help foreign-trained healthcare family egg operations were rapidly disapworkers transfer their skills to the U.S. pearing from the New England landscape, workplace. their big chicken barns often becoming win“The goal of both was to create greater ter storage for boats and cars. capacity for independence within the farmBut his family farm has rebounded, in worker community,” she says. “While we part because of the growing awareness of often advocate on issues like workplace the social and environmental evils of factory farming. “In a roundabout way,” Laflamme safety, we also know when to get out of the says, “Bates had a hand in the survival of way, so to speak.” our family farm.” PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN

Over the years, DeCoster’s mega-egg farm in Turner, about 14 miles from campus, has been investigated for myriad problems, from child-labor and immigration violations to the illegal dumping of chicken carcasses. (Now known as Quality Egg of New England, the operation was not involved in the 2010 national egg recall.) Mostly, however, the farm has Barbara Ginley ’88 directs drawn fire for its the Maine Migrant Health poor treatment of Program. migrant farmers, who live on farm property in what some have described as ramshackle, Grapes of Wrath housing. Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, LL.D. ’01 once said that the DeCoster farm in Turner was “an agricultural sweatshop.” By virtue of this multifaceted ignominy, the farm and its largely migrant work force have long been a real-world, hands-on classroom for Bates students, professors, and alumni, who have helped address a host of human rights, health and safety, labor, and environmental issues at the DeCoster facility. “The best thing about it,” Professor of English Carole Anne Taylor says, “is that it gives students a sense of what it’s like to do social-justice work that really is workercentered — it’s not about themselves. It’s not charity work.” From 1998 until 2003, Taylor was an adviser to the Maine Rural Workers Coalition, whose goal was to help rural workers develop leadership skills. Along the way, the group got help from Bates students as translators and English tutors. Mike Travers ’00 helped organize the MRWC and served on its board of directors, otherwise made up mostly of migrant workers. A double major in American cultural studies and Spanish, Travers was an invaluable translator, yet he exhibits a healthy perspective about his contributions. “I didn’t know the answers,” says Travers, a bilingual coordinator at a Los Angeles elementary school. “All I could do for them was translate what they wanted translated.”

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Postcard from Campus Sept. 23, 2010, 5:42 pm On a cloudy evening on the first full day of fall, the Bobcat football team practices on newly renovated Garcelon Field, viewed here from the large second-floor stairway window in New Commons. The major Garcelon facelift included a new FieldTurf surface, Musco lights, grandstand, press box, and scoreboard, visible at the left side of the far end zone. Completely funded by Bates alumni, parents, and friends, the project was dedicated on Oct. 9 during Parents & Family Weekend. See previous page for more photographs. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen. Photographs of Bates life bit.ly/bates-slideshow

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In Warwick, R.I., Jerry Latham Jr. celebrated his 100th birthday in May at a party attended by his 92-year-old wife Doris, son Peter Latham ’66, daughter Nancy Cornish, and friends. Asked his secret to such longevity, Jerry smilingly told the Warwick Beacon, “I guess the Lord doesn’t want me.” The World War II veteran, who served on the battleship USS New York in the Pacific, still drives much younger “elderly” people to medical appointments. That caught the attention of Good Morning America’s Willard Scott, who wished him happy birthday on air and pointed out that Jerry still drives a stick shift to boot. Reports his son with admiration, “He hasn’t had as much as a fender bender since he’s been driving.”

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Class Secretary: Ruth Carter Zervas, c/o Cindy Brown, 65 Belmont Ave., Randolph ME 04346 Class President: Doris Neilson Whipple, 216 Nottingham Rd., Auburn ME 04210

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Peggy Perkins Skillings, prompted by friends’ insistence that winters were much milder in Philadelphia than Massachusetts, agreed to visit with her daughter, Judith, and son-in-law over the holidays last December. “I was barely settled in before I broke a hip trying to keep their cat from attacking mine. I ended up snowbound during the snowiest winter ever on record in Pennsylvania!” But according

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to her surgeon, Peggy “healed ‘like a 20-year-old’ Ha!” Next came the hottest spring and summer in decades, so she stayed put where it was air-conditioned. “The hardest transition of the spring was switching allegiance from the Red Sox to the Phillies.” Peggy vacationed last summer with son John in Dansville, N.Y. “Aging eyes have forced me to give up driving and bridge, since I can no longer tell spades from clubs. But thanks to large-print editions I can still do crosswords and check out the headlines in the news, such as it is. The cats still hate each other, but I don’t try to referee. I’d love to hear from any classmate still inclined to pick up a phone, 610363-8510, or write a note: c/o Judith Skillings, 162 Valley View Dr., Exton PA 19341.”

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Class Secretary: Ruth Rowe Wilson, Apt. B-331, 3350 Cherry Hills Ct., Fairfield CA 94534, miminance@comcast.net York High School’s Class of 1969 dedicated its yearbook to teacher and coach Larry Lapham for demonstrating the importance not only of a strong body, but of a strong character and sound mind. Those principles continue to ring true in his life, Seacoast Newspapers noted. At 96, Larry still exercises every day, cares for his own home in Kittery, and watches baseball and basketball. Of his impressive health, he says: “I try to keep my weight down and exercise. I don’t smoke and I don’t drink. It’s God’s way, I guess.”

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Class Secretary: Jane Ault Lindholm, 12 Nelke Pl., Lewiston ME 04240

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Class Secretary: Marion Welsch Spear, 890 West Rd., Bowdoin ME 04287, mspear1@attglobal.net Class President: Howard Becker, 1223 Pine Needle Rd., Venice FL 34292, howardb999@aol.com

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Class Secretary: Eleanor Parker, Apt. 414, 200 Stetson Rd., Auburn ME 04210, elchetparker@ roadrunner.com

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Class Secretary: Kathryn Gould Ball, 11 Kramer Ave., West Caldwell NJ 07006, macleodball@gmail.com Scores of colleagues, lawyers, and friends turned out for the memorial service for Frank Coffin last May at the Univ. of Southern Maine, remembering the retired federal judge as a wise man who took the law seriously but not himself. David Cohen, one of his first law clerks, recalled how the judge responded when a lawyer criticized one of his opinions. He walked over to books of prior rulings, opened one, and said, “If you thought that one was bad, you ought to read this one!” Margaret McGaughey, another former law clerk, said the judge would sometimes move conferences on rulings from the courthouse in Portland to the summer house he and his wife, Ruth Ulrich Coffin ’42, shared in South Harpswell. Those conferences often turned into boat rides on a small outboard the judge had, and he even swore in a few lawyers to the bar aboard the boat. “He would say he had to do it within (U.S.) territorial limits to make sure he had jurisdiction,” McGaughey said. Judge Kermit Lipez said, “We were always eager for Frank’s company and that company was one of the lights of my life. Once in Frank’s orbit, you never left it.”

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Class Secretary: Barbara Abbott Hall, Apt. 614, 1055 W. Joppa Rd., Towson MD 21204 Class President: Edward J. Raftery, 11 Wyndwood Rd., West Hartford CT 06107

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Class Secretary: Barbara McGee Chasse, 14 Charles Cir., Scarborough ME 04074, bchasse@maine.rr.com Class President: Rose Worobel, 39 Hampton Ct., Newington CT 06111, rworobel@cox.net

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Class Secretary: Virginia Stockman Fisher, PO Box 7631, Portland ME 04112, diginny@aol.com Class Co-Presidents: Edmund H. Gibson, 13 Wheeler Pk., Brunswick ME 04011; Richard L. Keach, 52 Missionary Rd., Cromwell CT 06416, richardkeach@att.net

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Class Secretary: Muriel Ulrich Weeks, 4941 Simmons Cir., Export PA 15632, muweeks@comcast.net Class President: Jane Parsons Norris, 93 Field Ave., Auburn ME 04210, janenorris@roadrunner.com

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Class Co-Secretaries: Elizabeth Hill Jarvi, 286 Dublin Rd., Ludlow VT 05149, bjarvi2@tds.net; Jean Labagh Kiskaddon, Apt. 1AA, 375 Riverside Dr., New York NY 10025, jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com Class Co-Presidents: Stanley L. Freeman Jr., 7 Longwood Ct., Orono ME 04473, freemansun@verizon .net; Vesta Starrett Smith, 222 Dartmouth College Hwy., Haverhill NH 03765, vesmith@together.net Barbara Bartlett Hammond is a retired kindergarten teacher after 21 years of teaching. “Am enjoying my large family, five children and their offspring: 12 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren. We miss Burton ’49, who died March 6, 2009. I still go to Bailey Island to our summer place, but the children use it more often than I do.”... Stan and Madeleine Richard Freeman enjoy Penobscot Valley Senior College: courses on Islam, model railroading, Darwin, and Edith Wharton’s works. “From long distance, we cherish the adventures of six step-greatgrandchildren, four of whom we cuddled at a family reunion at our Southport cottage. We were there again in August for the 62nd anniversary of our marriage in the Bates Chapel, fulfilling the promise of our first date in 1944.”... Joyce Hawkins Parker offers a recap of life since Bates. She was a registered occupational therapist for children, then in the rehabilitation department at the VA hospital in Castle Point, N.Y. Her husband, Jefferson, now retired, was for many years an elementary school principal in their town of Pine Bush, in the Hudson Valley area of New York. “We have three sons, daughtersin-law, and 11 grandchildren. Our special times are their visits to us, or our visits to them. I enjoy the piano, reading, sketching, and traveling.”... Muriel Henry Tinkham, whose husband, Wes, died in 2007, is “still here at home and with the help of our boys and good friends I’m doing OK.”... In Tyson, Vt., Betty Hill Jarvi writes that she and Bill “are fine. I can’t see very well, and Bill doesn’t hear well, so together we make a great team. He drives for Meals on Wheels, tends to a big veggie garden, and mows the lawn when he’s not toting me around. I’m still active with our little library and the Historic Society.”... Phil Isaacson spent two weeks in Russia in June in pursuit of old architecture. “Russia, as a place, an entity, was much more rewarding than I had anticipated. Other than practicing law, writing a column and occasional short papers on the arts, and working on my legs for the process I still call skiing (my children dispute this!) I have a sense of occasional tranquility. It doesn’t last long.”... Roxane Kammerer

still enjoys living in Manhattan but retired from her activities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is still able to volunteer at the New York Philharmonic and to meet Jean Labagh Kiskaddon now and then for lunch.... Betty Kragelund Bois moved to 257 Canco Road, Apt. 226, Portland ME 04103.... In Manhattan, Jean Kiskaddon moved to the Williams Residence for Seniors and now has more time for other activities like book groups, lectures, Bible study, and volunteer work. “I can walk to Riverside Church, travel 10 minutes by bus to Lincoln Center, and it is a 20-minute bus ride to Carnegie Hall.”... Mary Meyer Harvey’s granddaughter, Sydney, a high school junior in Boca Raton, Fla., visited Bates recently “and really loved it and especially admired the coach who interviewed her. Who knew? Needless to say, I agree with her and am happy she feels that way.”... Ruth Moulton Ragan was fortunate to be able to spend some of the summer at their family cottage on Chebeague Island in Maine.... Kenneth Munroe has great memories of his year at Bates, then he was off to the service (Naval Academy ’50). “Went to a fairly recent Reunion and met Betty Jarvi! Great — talked a lot. I still drop in to the gym — used to go there a lot when I lived in Auburn.” He lives in Augusta now.... Jean Rosequist Howlett is still driving and active in community affairs.... Jane Sedgley McMurray doesn’t drive as much as she did but still manages to keep her independence... Jackie Thompson Thurlow and Skip enjoy life at Piper Shores in Scarborough. Youngest grandchild, Jenny Snyder ’14, plans to major in biology and run track. “We sold our place in Naples, Fla., last winter and will be here in Maine year-round from now on. We spent 25 wonderful years in Naples.”... Marcia Wiswall Lindberg lives in Florida in a small gated community, and her porch overlooks an inlet of the ocean. Living close by is daughter Cassie and her doctor husband. “And my grandson, Zachary, his wife and three adorable little girls have moved down here from Illinois. I’m also thankful that my daughters, Lucy and Martha, toot over from Texas now and then. Another treat is when my sister, Bee

Wilson Shepherd ’42, and her husband, Shep ’40, come down from Maine for a month every year.”

48 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Secretary: Roberta Sweetser McKinnell, 33 Red Gate Lane, Cohasset MA 02025 Class President: Vivienne Sikora Gilroy, 1009 Ridge Dr., Union NJ 07083, vgilroy@verizon.net Frances Briggs Stinson was hospitalized last March with pneumonia. Her husband, who has Alzheimer’s, is doing fairly well.... Harold Hurwitz ’45 set up a website, www.cheney-duesler.com, to honor Jean Cheney Duesler, who died Dec. 26, 2009.... Besides speaking with classmates while serving as a class agent, Brenton Dodge says the sources of his pleasure include putting the final pieces together on his memoir about 18 years on a small farm in Scarborough, going on Road Scholar programs with Karen, and participating in interfaith dialogues sponsored by Interfaith Partnership/Faith Beyond Walls in St. Louis.... After 70 years of golfing, Roger Howard shot his first hole-in-one, at Castine Golf Club. He had a second hip replacement and removal of a large aneurism last summer; he and Bev Young Howard ’49 attended a grandson’s wedding in October.... Jeanne Mather Roach had a stroke that cut short her trip to Mazatlan, Mexico, but the prognosis is good. “I have added an hour’s worth of exercise to my daily regimen and, using my colorful, attentiongetting Mexican cane, I seem to be doing quite well.”... John Radebaugh weighed in on the 65th anniversary of Hiroshima in a letter to the Portland Press Herald. “We must continue to utilize pressure against rogue countries which claim to have produced such bombs or are in the process of making them.”... Perry Schwarzer, widowed in 2009 with the passing of Carol Johnson Schwarzer ’51, planned to sell their house in Fitchburg and may live with their oldest son.... Roberta Sweetser McKinnell goes back to Auburn as often as possible to see her sister-in-law and her family after the death of her

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Maine’s former Chief Justice Vincent McKusick ’44, LL.D. ’79 talks with President Elaine Tuttle Hansen and Associate Professor of Biology Rebecca Sommer (right) at Portland’s Eastland Park Hotel in September. It was the first of 15 visits by President Hansen in a cross-country (then on to London) road trip to meet with alumni, parents, and friends. This spring, Vincent’s grandson Robert McKusick Liscord ’11 will become the fourth generation of McKusicks to graduate from Bates. Carroll McKusick 1904 was a school principal and later a state legislator and farmer in Parkman, Maine, “a suburb of Guilford,” Vincent once quipped. (Carroll’s brother, by the way, was Leon McKusick 1911, which began another line of the family at Bates.) Vincent and his siblings Harry ’30 and Grace ’33 comprise the second McKusick generation, while his daughter Barbara McKusick Liscord ’74 and son James McKusick ’76 are the third generation. Robert ’11 is Barbara’s son. (And, of course, the McKusick-Bates connection also includes Victor McKusick ’87, son of Vincent’s late twin brother, geneticist Victor A. McKusick.)

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George Billias ’48

History in the Making There may be no author more tenacious than one trying to prove a point. When historian George Billias ’48 decided to write a book on American constitutionalism, he spent nearly a quarter-century researching the topic, expanded his grasp on history, and even convinced Harvard to loosen its security policies to accommodate his voracious appetite for library books. “I would sometimes take out 40 or 50 books,” he recalls. “I had to call campus security to have them take down the chains and stanchions [on the campus lawn] so I could park my car on Harvard Yard to return them.” Now that Billias’ book has hit the shelves, it’s clear that the effort has paid off. American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776-1989 has been called “magisterial” and “pioneering” and received the New England Historical Assn.’s 2010 Book Award. Billias is the Jacob and Frances Hiatt Professor Emeritus at Clark Univ., and at age 91, he recognizes that most people expect him to be

brother, Dennis Sweetser ’62, in June 2009. “We do still travel, but not as often as we used to — airlines are almost impossible.”... Our thoughts go out to James Towle, whose wife, Arlene, passed away four days after they celebrated their 60th anniversary. He expected to visit New England this fall .... Bud and Ella Loud Wilmot ’50 have enjoyed 10 years in their Quaker life-care community in Kennett Square, Pa. After attending her 60th Reunion in June, they had a pleasant visit by Brenton Dodge and Karen on their way to Maine. Bud and Ella planned to attend their 61st Elderhostel program in October.

49 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Barbara Cottle Aldrich, 2213 Ashlar Village, Wallingford CT 06492, bacaldrich@ aol.com; Elaine Porter Haggstrom, 21 Candlewood Rd., Trumbull CT 06611, ephag@aol.com Class President: Arthur B. Bradbury, 221 Country Ln., East Hartford CT 06118; chartbury@comcast.net Bud Horne again ran in the 2.7-mile Old First Night Run around the perimeter of the Chautauqua, N.Y., grounds where he and Betty live. Bud has usually

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By Erin Peterson mastering the minutiae of shuffleboard, not world history. But he felt confident that he had a better way to measure the influence of American constitutionalism in foreign countries. “Previous historians had focused on a single document, the U.S. Constitution, when looking for American constitutionalism abroad,” Billias says. He argues instead that American constitutionalism is a “different species completely,” one whose definition should broadly embrace the ideas embodied in “six seminal documents”: the Declaration of Independence, the first state constitutions, the Articles of Confederation, The Federalist Papers, the Constitution, and the federal Bill of Rights. Point is, “American ideas and institutions were not exported lock, stock, and barrel into other countries,” Billias says. “They served to motivate foreign constitutionalists to rethink the alternatives available to them.” Over the next two centuries, ending with the Eastern European revolutions in 1989, America’s six seminal documents reverberated worldwide. “For the first time in history, the forces of democracy exceeded those of autocracy,” Billias says. After spending most of his career immersed in American history, Billias had to step up his knowledge of world history to write American Constitutionalism. When a respected colleague read Billias’ initial 1,500-page draft, Billias realized that even his most diligent studies were not yet enough. “He really cleaned my clock,” says Billias of the initial assessment. “But he also encouraged me to go on.” Billias’ achievement has inspired younger colleagues to stay focused on their writing projects. “When I turned 90, a colleague who was 80 called me up and said, ‘George, you’ve just added years to my life! I know I’ve still got at least another 10 years to go!’”

won in his category, although once a man six years younger nipped him at the finish line as he didn’t see him coming. This year there was another runner in his class, so next to last or first, take your pick. Next year the man six years younger will move up to Bud’s age category, so we’ll see what happens.... Helen Papaioanou is happy to say she made the right move (from Michigan to New England) at the right time, and is settled in at Covenant Village of Cromwell, Conn., where her sister and brother-in-law are residents. Helen said there were many interesting and friendly people who made her welcome, including Lois Keniston Penney ’50 and Hugh ’50.... Natalie and Charlie Plotkin, in Delray Beach, Fla., enjoy the idyllic time of life after working for 60 years in the family furniture business in Athol, Mass. “I am forever grateful to Angelo Bertocci, a French professor. He was the hardest-working teacher I have ever known, and he has made my later trips to France a happy part of our lives. Angelo also used to advise freshmen in a Chase Hall lecture on Bates and on life. ‘First love,’ he explained, ‘is like a hot furnace. When the heat inevitably cools, a couple needs to work together to create a more profound warmth.’ Now in our 61st year of marriage, and I remember those

words. The good old days of Bates have become the good new days.”... In turn, Elaine Porter Haggstrom recalls what math professor Percy Wilkins said about problem-solving. There’s usually an easy way and a more difficult way, so “don’t pick up a sledgehammer to crack a peanut.” Elaine says that she’s “thought of that so often as life is filled with problems. Many can be solved quite simply if we think through a variety of solutions. Professor Wilkins taught more than math.”... Leon Wiskup invites classmates to walk with him at 6 in the morning along sage-lined gravel roads in Corrales, N.M. Leon promises “the brightening, bluest sky ever; a cool morning breeze soughing hither from the Rocky Mountains; geese honking in V formation as they wing to Bosque del Apache for winter; long-tailed roadrunners — as crazily comic as the one in cartoons — scooting after a breakfast lizard; ground-dwelling Gambel’s quail with dark plumes jiggling from their foreheads; finches singing their long, warbling songs; and thumb-sized hummingbirds joining in chorus with their whirring wings. On Sundays, Dorothy and I stroll along the Rio Grande where we’ll likely see eagles above and hear roosters crowing, horses neighing, donkeys braying, and goats bah-bahing. Of course, a New Hampshire person, I do miss the glory of New England’s autumn foliage.” Leon and Dorothy planned to spend three weeks in November in Egypt.

50 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Secretary: Lois Keniston Penney, Apt. 302, 52 Missionary Rd., Cromwell CT 06416, hulopenney@ sbcglobal.net Class President: Weston L. Bonney, 263 Clifton St., Portland ME 04103, wbonney@maine.rr.com Wes Bonney, writing in the Bangor Daily News, wrote about a Maine initiative to refocus attention on education as a moral and economic imperative. “We have united behind three clear goals for educating Maine’s people: all young children have access to quality programs...; all students graduate from high school prepared with the knowledge and skills they need for college, career, and citizenship; and many more Mainers complete a college degree or occupational certificate.” A board member of the Maine Coalition for Excellence in Education, Wes is a former member of the Maine Board of Education and is a Bates trustee emeritus.... Glenn Kumekawa, our after-dinner speaker at Reunion, writes: “Continuing our redevelopment efforts for downtown Providence is almost complete. We revel in the Water Fire experience held 15 times a year as a result of our development effort, bringing some 100,000 visitors for each event, enlivening our downtown Providence.”... Lois and Hugh Penney enjoyed their “Russia Revealed” Grand Circle Travel river cruise from Sept. 16 to Oct. 1. A poignant moment took place on the final day of the cruise when three Russian World War II veterans, two men and one woman, came aboard to speak to the group. “They asked any U.S. World War II veterans to stand,” Lois recalls. “Two men stood. The first man had been on Coast Guard duty in California, making Hugh the lone veteran who had served in active duty during the war. He was thanked profusely, presented with a book authored by one of the Russian men, and applauded vigorously by all. It was a sobering moment for him to realize how few World War II veterans are still living and a fitting finale for our journey.”

51 l reunion 2011, June 10–12 l

Class Secretary: Dorothy Webb Quimby, PO Box 417, Unity ME 04988, dwquimby@unity.edu Class Co-Presidents: William R. Dill and Jean McLeod Dill, 25 Birch Ln., Cumberland Foreside ME 04110, billdill@alumni.bates.edu, jmdill@ maine.rr.com Hal Cornforth was inducted into both the Fairhaven and Barnstable (Mass.) high school halls of fame. A

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decorated veteran of the Korean War, he was head track coach and football coach at Fairhaven where his spring track athletes rewrote every record during his tenure. He continued his coaching career at Barnstable where his track teams had three consecutive undefeated seasons and won a Class C state championship. Hal lives in West Yarmouth, Mass.

52 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Secretary: Florence Dixon Prince, PO Box 594, Monument Beach MA 02553, fdprince@alumni .bates.edu Class President: John F. Myers, 37 Eagle Wing Ln., Brewster MA 02631, johnmyers52@comcast.net Peter Ault is “hanging on to engineer and surveyor’s licenses which require 30 to 40 hours of professional training every two years.” He and Eloise enjoy visiting son Will ’82 and his wife and two girls in Southport, Conn.... Dewey and Martha Barton live on Lake Norman, north of Charlotte, N.C. Martha has a “paint horse” which they keep in a nearby barn.... Mary Berryment Needham has a George Burns quote on her refrigerator that says it all: “Remember you can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.”... Nate and Harriet Howell Boone remind us to support Bates in whatever way we can, just as alumni helped us out when we, too, needed financial aid.... At her family’s summer home overlooking Narragansett Bay in Jamestown, R.I., Carolyn Carlson Leys was joined by Eleanor Wolfe Watt, Dotty Pierce Morris, Marilyn Coffin Brown, Ruth Potter, and Flo Dixon Prince for their annual potluck lunch.... Marilyn Brown enjoys computer classes and library courses. The homework they required made her feel like she was back at Bates.... Norma Crooks Coughlin and Dick ’53 manage to get over to Bates for various events, even though her health limits her to Dick providing “chauffeur service.”... Enjoying life in a continuing-care retirement community in Doylestown, Pa., Jean Decker Brooks quotes a special aunt: “I just love being an old lady — you can do and say whatever you want.”... Flo Prince and her family spent a joyous weekend in Boulder, Colo., at the wedding of her grandson Tom and fiancé Andrea.... Frank and Judy Allen Dudley ’53 enjoy family who live in the nearby Dunwoody, Ga., area. Dud writes that Cirque du Soleil borrowed two of their colts for a show.... Ginny Edge Shedd, whose husband died in 2008, met a man, Wil Bloom, she knew as a child and the two had a commitment service (like a wedding but with no legal papers) last May. Nine of her grandchildren and all five of her children joined them. She and Wil had previously traveled to Prescott, Ariz., where she met all of his children and grandchildren.... Bill and Jean Eveleth enjoy winters at the Glades Country Club in Naples, Fla., where golf and tennis keep them active. They spend summers in Vermont but have found it too much trouble to maintain two homes and hoped to sell their Quechee condo.... Larch Foxon Miller finds life good up in Wilder, Vt. She says it’s exciting to see how much more her grandchildren know than she did at their age, mostly because of the Internet.... Gene and Connie Harley say they are slowing down but they’re still riding trail bikes and took a two-day canoe trip to the Okefenokee observing alligators.... Carol Hollingworth Collins and Kenneth are still in Brazil at the Chemistry Institute of State Univ. of Campinas. Holly writes and speaks at scientific meetings in Brazil, Europe, Mexico, and the U.S. She met up with Bates roommate Doris Hardy Crosby, who was on a cruise visiting Sao Paulo’s art museums.... Paul Koehn reports his son-in-law published The Fence, a tale of a Boston police murder case that involved city race relations.... Nancy Kosinski was adjusting to sleep apnea hardware every night. She quotes Gilda Radner: “It’s always something!”... Lucille Mainland Kelly and Jim ’51 have their three children living nearby in Texas. On a riverboat cruise from Paris to Normandy, they were moved by the American Cemetery and Omaha Beach.... Jack and Nancy Larcom Manter moved to Atria in Rocky

Point, Conn., for proper care after he took a bad fall last April.... Susan Martin Ames, who lost John ’53 in July 2009, has her own apartment in the Sarasota, Fla., Lifetime Retirement Facility among friends.... Jack and Noy McLaren continue to make their annual trip back to her home in northern Thailand. When Flo Prince’s grandson and his wife decided to honeymoon in southern Thailand, Flo wrote Jack, “who sent me a wonderful list of all the places they might take in while there,” she reports.... John Myers spent his 18th week (one week a year) at Gettysburg College Civil War Institute.... Now retired and recuperating from a knee replacement, Earle Onque researches family history, works at his computer, and paints watercolors. He keeps in touch with Nate and Harriet Howell Boone and Jim Nabrit.... Ruth Parr Faulkner and Lee ’51 planned an Aegean cruise to celebrate his clean PET scan after he had a throat cancer removed and radiation.... Stan Patterson had a gliosarcoma tumor in his brain removed followed by radiation and chemotherapy. An MRI showed a dramatic reduction of the area, a most positive outcome. Stan writes: “The support of old friends in many ways is the best medicine and therapy that I for one can point to as aiding recovery.” Katie Lang Patterson ’55 had cataracts removed from both eyes, improving her vision.... Dotty Pierce Morris and Ron Clayton ’53 celebrated the 100th birthday of Ron’s mother. On the same trip to Florida, Dotty had a good visit with old friend Betty Zinck Momenthy at her home in Bradenton.... Ruth Potter works part time, sometimes at home, and keeps fit by taking a daily run with her dog.... Austin and Zell Wilcox Rich have been coping with health issues. He had his fifth back surgery in January, then therapy. She suffered an attack of shingles.... Bill and Sue Rust took a “wonderful but wearing trip” to Bhutan in the Himalayas, trekking in the mountains for two weeks, “during which time I made the startling discovery I was no longer 23.”... Bob Rudolph’s widow, Nancy, reports Bob’s family is still expanding with the birth of grandson Stephan. Nancy remarried in May.... Mal Shaylor Mullen taught some friends to play bridge and now there are two tables playing every week. She and Ernie launched the tugboat he spent four years building.... Marshall Solomon is recovering from two separate major surgeries for five different spinal stenosis vertebrae and too many laminectomies.... Edwin Swain and Eleanor welcomed their first grandson in January and celebrated their 50th anniversary in May with both sons and their families in Salem, S.C.... In Hernando Beach, Fla., Bob Williams took a few lessons at a music studio in order to enjoy playing his Lowery Parade organ.

53 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Secretary: Ronald Clayton, 5 Augusta Way, North Chelmsford MA 01863, rondot@comcast.net Class President: Virginia LaFauci Toner, 11 Juniper St., Portland ME 04103, vatoner@aol.com Sally Bidwell McBride and Dick have the best of both worlds: winters on Marco Island, Fla., and summers in New England. She says Dick plays golf and is very good at it, while she paints watercolors and is not very good. She planned a mini-reunion with Alice Huntington Vannerson, Kaye Kirshbaum Harvie, Barbara Koch Milne, Mary Lewis Meltzer, Nancy Lowd Hanby, Martha Schoman Keelan, and Barbara Swett Pappas.... Mary Ann Brynnen Ferro is retired from teaching, but still does quite a bit of tutoring. She lives in East Haven, Conn., with her special son, Matthew; she looked forward to visiting Ginnie Toner.... Ron Clayton and Dotty Pierce Morris ’52, who celebrated their 10th anniversary, walk two miles or more most days and spend a lot of time with their kids and grandkids.... George Conklin visits friends in New York and elsewhere regularly. At home in California he’s a director of his neighborhood association, works at his church, and camps with his daughter and her husband.... Dick Coughlin and Norma Crooks Coughlin ’52 were among the project donors honored at the dedication of major

Garcelon Field improvements in October, as were Marjorie and Jim Moody, Dave Harkins, and Charlie and Barbara Swett Pappas .... Bob Ernst and Janice are back living in the United States (Pittsford, N.Y.) after years in Toronto. They enjoy all the green spaces and the nearby Finger Lakes.... Chuck Fischer is still adjusting to cooking, shopping, and cleaning for himself. He is doing well with his artwork and also does carpentry.... Joan Fretheim Barlow is active again after a successful hip replacement.... Clark Griffith reports Gerry has been in pain ever since major back surgery. He serves as caregiver, taxi driver, cook, shopper, and cleaner.... Gordon Hall and Linda enjoyed a Florida sojourn to escape the Ohio winter.... Maurice Hight reports Pat is recovering well from a broken hip. He remains active in the YMCA Retirees Organization and the Cape May Lutheran Church.... Alice Huntington Vannerson does volunteer transport at Emerson Hospital, next door to her and Bob’s digs at Newbury Commons in Concord, Mass.... Norma Judson has been busy organizing the material at the Westport (Mass.) Library’s new history room.... Joanne Kennedy Murray reports their youngest grandson is enrolled at an Arizona college, so she and Floyd see him often in the winter.... Bob Kolovson recalls the camaraderie of freshman year at Bates, when the men sat around and talked about girls and sports and “life lay before us like a yellow-brick road.”... Ginnie LaFauci Toner and Don Hamilton ’54 are active in the Woodfords United Congregational Church in Portland as well as in various community groups.... Bob Lennon and Emma enjoy sunny Florida in the winter and dynamic North Carolina in the summer.... Nancy Lowd Hanby swims daily and stays active with local and regional church events.... Selma Machanoff Raskin says Ed retired from his dental practice but she is still doing interior design in and around New York City. Both play bridge and golf.... Curt Osborne is having a good time with his new knee, which works a lot better than the old one. He is traveling again.... Cynthia Parsons Menck and Herman moved to their own condo in Marina del Rey. His work as a cancer researcher involves a lot of traveling, and Cyn can go along now that she has retired from teaching and public speaking.... Bob Russell lost Betty, his wife of 51 years, on April 24, 2010, after a nine-year struggle against several illnesses.... Fred Russell is almost fully recovered after having an implanted heart defibrillator replaced twice, first in January and again after he suffered a severe staph infection while he and Barb Atkinson Russell ’56 were on a Caribbean cruise in February. He’s back to volunteering and other activities.... Pat Scheuerman Pfeiffer and Rob spent an idyllic month on Molokai to celebrate their 50th.... Happy with their move to a continuing-care retirement community, Lee Smart Udy and Stan have added new interests and made stimulating new friends.... Barbara Earl Sturgis and John enjoy yearlong outdoor activities, beautiful scenery, and many volunteer activities living in the foothills of Sedona, Ariz.... Marguerite Thoburn Watkins continues to write as well as hike with her Appalachian Trail group and enjoy church and volunteer activities. She and Gordon live in the Virginia countryside.... Bill Thurston and his wife are moving to a place where all the maintenance will be taken care of, giving them more freedom for reading, writing, woodworking, and travel.... Mary Van Valkenburgh Kashmanian and Kash are busier than ever at their church and retirement community in New Jersey.... David Welch and Alice have moved back to Palm Coast, Fla., after three years in Massachusetts.

54 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Secretary: Jonas Klein, 19 Whipple Farm Ln., Falmouth ME 04105, lojoklein@maine.rr.com Class President: Neil A. Toner, 17 Bluegrass Dr., E. Longmeadow MA 01028, cat3sat@aol.com Lynn Willsey was among the project donors honored at the dedication of major Garcelon Field renovations in October. W I N TER 2011  Bates  35

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Bernard Staples retired last summer after more than 21 years as a Maine District Court judge, but at 77 he is studying to be a minister at Grace Evangelical Seminary in Bangor. “I hope I treated people fairly,” the Bar Harbor resident told the Bangor Daily News of his years on the bench. “Above all, I hope that I

Bill and Coe Jenkins Huckabee had a wonderful Alaskan adventure last summer with an extended family group of 17 aboard the MS Ryndam. For Coe and daughter Anna, it was the last of the 50 states for

Class Secretary: Marianne Webber Brenton, 16 Nelson Rd., Burlington MA 01803, mab4160@rcn.com Class President: Beverly Hayne Willsey, 324 Hollister Way W., Glastonbury CT 06033, stonepost@cox.net

Class Secretary: Marilyn Miller Gildea, 2418 Thaddeus Dr., Mountain View CA 94043, marilyn@ gildea.com Class President: John Lovejoy, 425 Mountain Rd., PO Box 158, Wilbraham MA 01095, lovejoy@ crocker.com

Retired Maine judge Bernard Staples ’55 is studying to be a minister. “My kayak buddy and I often seek a quiet cove to read Holy Scripture in a church that is like no other on this Earth.” have protected children.” Much of his work focused on domestic relations, such as divorce, child custody, and child protective cases. Bernie said he has seen firsthand over the past two decades the dissolution of the family structure and the impact it has had on the children of Hancock County. “One thing I would hope [for the future] is that we can reach a point in our society when two people become married that it is a lifelong commitment and their children can have the benefit of constant contact with both parents.” After the death of his wife, Jeanette, in 2006 and his own health issue two years later, Bernie began thinking about what he might do after retirement. “I decided that for whatever years I have left, I can’t think of a better way to spend them than in a classroom with a teacher and other students.” His favorite place to study his Bible, however, is not in a church. “My recreation is kayaking, and my kayak buddy and I often seek a quiet cove or some other place to sit in our kayaks and read Holy Scripture in a church that is like no other on this Earth.”

56 l reunion 2011, June 10–12 l

Class Secretary: Sybil Benton Williamson, Box 222, Etna NH 03750, sybilw@alumni.bates.edu Class President: Richard Lee Hilliard, 139 Glen Echo Shore Rd., Charlton MA 01507, richard.hilliard@ nichols.edu Robert McAfee received the 2010 Hon. Edmund S. Muskie Access to Justice Award for his leadership in addressing family violence in Maine and across the country. The award was established in 1995 to honor Muskie’s lifelong commitment to justice for low-income and elderly adults and to celebrate extraordinary citizens who share this commitment. Bob, a past president of both the American Medical Assn. and the Maine Medical Assn., was also quoted in a Portland Press Herald story on the Univ. of New England and its new College of Pharmacy building. “In the past 25 years, we’ve already trained more students in health professions than any university in the world,” said Bob, a trustee emeritus at UNE.

57 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Secretary: Barbara Prince Upton, PO Box 810, York ME 03909, pepiu@earthlink.net Class President: Paul D. Steinberg, 106 Peninsula Dr., Babylon NY 11702, imasearch@aol.com Patricia Burke Rodan and Bill are back to their old habits of skiing in Vermont and beaching in New Hampshire following his spinal surgery in 2008. “‘Regular’ activities are terrific after many months without them,” she adds. “Now, beware on the highways because we both just passed our (New Hampshire-required) driving tests.”

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them to visit. For grandchildren Mara, Ben, and Sam, it was an ever-expanding world. “For all of us it was a thrill,” Coe writes. “Grandeur” is the word that that catches it best: “Endless mountain peaks, fjords, and glaciers are a humbling experience. Plus thousands of salmon with attendant bald eagles in goodly supply.”... Marilyn Miller Gildea’s son, Stephen, married Sola Grantham last August in a local park. They and their friends (mostly fellow MIT grads) love puzzles, so the ceremony was preceded by a treasure hunt that required solving very complicated puzzles to find the wedding vows, which were hidden in the park.

59 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Jack DeGange, 52 Farr Rd., Lebanon NH 03766, jack.degange@valley.net; Mary Ann Houston Hermance, 35 Briarwood Ln., Scituate MA 02066, donmar23@verizon.net Class Co-Presidents: Barbara Van Duzer Babin, Apt. 711, 197 Eighth St., Charlestown MA 02129, barbarababin@comcast.net; Calvin C. Wilson, 125 Markham Dr., Pittsburgh PA 15228, ccoolidgewilson@comcast.net Ross Deacon, who still swings clubs regularly at The Villages, that intimate community of more than 70,000 homes near Orlando, Fla., reports this smallworld encounter: “I’m doing yard work in 90-degree heat, look up, and see a guy walking by my house. He stops to ask a few questions, and I realize the guy under the big hat and behind the Foster Grants is old friend and basketball teammate Ralph Davis ’57, who has rented a house two doors down Whisper Lane.”... Taking a breather after last spring’s Class Letter, your co-secretaries are in cruise mode, tooling up for a winter round of news updates. Jack DeGange cruised over to the College in early September and reports that Garcelon Field, a patch of shaggy grass at our 50th, has been given a modern FieldTurf surface (the kind the Pats and other NFL teams play on), and a new grandstand and press box has replaced the old structure. In fact, our own Carol Heldman Flynn and Jack Flynn ’60 were among the project donors honored at the dedication ceremony on Oct. 9. This all confirms a Newsweek special edition on colleges that ranks Bates fourth in the nation (ahead of peers Bowdoin and Williams, plus several Ivy League colleges, behind Nebraska, Tulsa, and Alabama) among colleges that “value sports as much as class.” Nearby, two old dorms — Roger Williams and Hedge — are gutted ghosts that, by next summer, will be new academic facilities. “Which leads us to welcome, from gents who lived in the Bill, any good tales of memorable moments,” Jack says. “We’ll prime the pump by recalling great water fights, including a deluge into Harry Rowe’s office on the first floor, and the all-hands meeting in the basement in May 1959 that led to the demise of Mayoralty.” During his visit, the daughter of a good friend who’s

a member of the Class of 2014 was settling into 280 College Street, the newest residence. Jack advised her to enjoy the digs because there’s none better on campus. “Which leads to a fund-raising update since we, Jack and Jane DeGange, are 1959’s new class agents. Over the past three years, including our Reunion year and with thanks especially to a very generous classmate, we’ve supported the Bates Fund to the tune of $525,531. Keep up the good work in 2010–11.”

60 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Secretary: Louise Hjelm Davidson, 5823 Rushwood Dr., Dublin OH 43017, l.davidson@ sbcglobal.net Class President: Dean S. Skelley, 16330 Hidden View, San Antonio TX 78232, dean_skelley@alumni .bates.edu

61 l reunion 2011, June 9–12 l

Class Secretary: Gretchen Shorter Davis, 315 Chandlers Wharf, Portland ME 04101, gretchend@ alumni.bates.edu Class Co-Presidents: George H. Drury, 4139 W. McKinley Ct., Milwaukee WI 53208, geodrury@ alumni.bates.edu; Mary Morton Cowan, 7 Hearthside Rd., Standish ME 04084, mmcowan@gwi.net Bill and Berry Bixby Anderson are returning to Florida for the winter after a two-year absence. Berry’s health continues to improve.... Moving to Highland Green in Topsham are Jerry and Gretchen Shorter Davis, who are building a new home there. They’ll be joining Parker and Ann Marden, residents there for several years.... Helen Geils planned a trip to the Southwest this fall. She’ll also travel to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and North Carolina in the coming months. She enjoys living in Ellsworth, Maine.... Frank Vana had a special time caddying for his son, Frank Vana Jr., for the first time in 10 years. The younger Vana went on to win the Ouimet Memorial Tournament in Massachusetts for a record fifth time.... Serving as a board member with the Taos (N.M.) Men Against Violence, Dick Watkins has the most fun as a mentor to a fatherless 8-year-old.

62 l reunion 2012, June 7–10 l

Class Secretary: Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom, 917 Major Potter Rd., East Greenwich RI 02818, cknordstrom@verizon.net Class President: Al Squitieri, 24 Dorset Dr., Medford NJ 08055, asqurol@yahoo.com We are deeply saddened by the passing of our co-president Art Ridlon on Nov. 27 of cancer. The class extends thoughts and condolences to Ann and the Ridlon family. Art’s obituary will appear in the Spring issue.

63 l reunion 2013, June 6–9 l

Class Secretary: Natalie Shober Moir, 50 Mill St., Baden ON N3A 2N6, Canada, nataliemoir@ netflash.net Class President: William S. Holt, 15 Running Tide Rd., Cape Elizabeth ME 04107, wholt@eyecaremed .com

64 l reunion 2014, June 5–8 l

Class Secretary: John Meyn, 57 Salt Pond Rd., Friendship ME 04547, jemkpmeyn@aol.com Class President: Elizabeth Metz McNab, 151 Cherry Rd., Kingston RI 02881, ejmcnab@cox.net The Westport (Conn.) Patch caught up with Linda Gramatky Smith for its “Westporter of the Week”

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Judith Magyar Isaacson ’65 publishes German-language sequel to her memoir, Seed of Sarah

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Reason to Rejoice

Judith Isaacson ’65 accepts greetings from Dean of the Faculty Jill Reich during the summer luncheon celebrating the publication of her memoir.

College store manager Sarah Potter ’77 chats with Isaacson.

Book editor Gerda Neu-Sokol makes a point during the gathering.

t a summertime luncheon in New Commons, Judith Magyar Isaacson ’65, LL.D ’94 launched Freut euch, ihr Lebenden, freut euch (All who live, rejoice, rejoice), a German-language sequel to her 1990 memoir Seed of Sarah, which recounted her experiences at the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Hessisch Lichtenau concentration camps Isaacson’s editor for the new book, which tells stories about Isaacson’s pre-war family life in Kaposvár, Hungary, is Gerda Neu-Sokol, a recently retired lecturer in German. The pair became friends during Isaacson’s visits to Neu-Sokol’s classes. “Often, she would read one of these new stories that she had written,” Neu-Sokol told the Lewiston Sun Journal. “They tell so much about Hungarian Jewish life before the war.” Neu-Sokol collected several stories, translated them from English to German, and sought a Berlin publisher. The resulting paperback also includes precious photos that were hidden or sent away before the Germans came. “I hid a few in a cellar cave, very few,” Isaacson says. “Most of them my parents sent to my father’s brother, and he saved them all.” There are no plans to publish the new book in English. “It doesn’t matter,” she said. “My family will have it. My descendants will have it.”

Isaacson displays her book, which features on its cover a portrait of her when she was 16.

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feature. Linda first lived in Westport in 1946 when her father, watercolorist and author Hardie Gramatky (Little Toot), moved there because it was regarded as an artists’ colony. “That still is why we love being here,” said Linda, who with her husband, Kendall Smith ’55, has lived in her original home for the past 17 years. “This town has so many programs with well-known authors and activists and interesting people, and both the library and the senior center offer these programs for free.”... In his blog in The Atlantic, James Fallows recalls the difference that the late John Strassburger made in the life of Fallows’ father and other World War II-era Ursinus College alums who didn’t get a chance to earn a college diploma. A few years ago, John, president emeritus of Ursinus College who died of cancer on Sept. 22, made a “big, celebratory deal” of presenting diplomas to the alums-but-not-graduates who had gone through Ursinus on the Navy’s V-12 program, including Fallows’ father (Bates had a V-12 program, as well). John, writes Fallows, “was an accomplished historian and a polymath, and he really represented the American small-school liberal-arts tradition at its finest.” John’s obituary will be in the Spring issue.

65 l reunion 2015, June 11–14 l

Class Secretary: Judith Morris Edwards, 2720 Timberlake Rd., Charlottesville VA 22901, juded@ comcast.net Class President: Joyce Mantyla, Apt. 6, 2150 Ibis Isle Rd., Palm Beach FL 33480, tiojack@aol.com John Achenbach and Lynn summer in Colchester, Vt., and winter in Delray Beach, Fla. He “added the pastime of mediation to golf. Most of my time has been spent with pro bono court-ordered civil mediation.”... Sam Aloisi returned to his hometown when his senior year high school team was inducted into the local football hall of fame. “I would have preferred Cooperstown next to Willie Mays,” quips Sam. “My oldest grandson was duly impressed and unimpressed at the same time.”... After 31 years with Paine Webber/UBS, Bill Arata and his team moved to Morgan Stanley/Smith Barney, also in Bangor. He and Sally celebrated their 42nd anniversary.... Sadly, Alan Bemiss lost Barbara, his wife of 43 years, to a brain tumor last year. “We were probably one of many ‘Bates couples’ with an asterisk in the sense of having had some of our ‘first dates’ take place on campus.”... Emily Blowen Brown and Elton, who retired from parish ministry, moved into their vacation retreat in Ely, Minn., where many others share their interest in the environment, human rights, education, and the arts.... Cilla Bonney-Smith and Nat are engaged in life in a small Vermont town and especially enjoy winter because of its quiet beauty. Two book groups keep her reading.... Penelope Cande Wyman enjoys being a nanny and doing lots of gardening in Charleston, S.C.... Kendra Chandler Hough loves retirement after 24 years of labor and delivery nursing. Beside travel, yoga, and volunteering at the library bookstore, she’s found a passion for African djembe drumming.... Bruce and Carol Johnson Cooper ’67 love to travel and have made it to all seven continents — Antarctica two years ago and Africa last year.... Linda Cummings Messer and Paul now have six grandchildren with the arrival of Brendan Lorio.... Norm Davis and Sheila live in The Villages, Fla., where he’s a member of Rotary, Sumter Landing Bike Club, Sumter County Village Democrats, ME/VT Noreasters (former president), the local AARP (current vice president), and the Corbett Connection.... Laura Deming Beckwith retired after 37 years of teaching high school math. She does some trail-clearing work for the local hiking trails and a few things for her church.... Tony DiAngelis’ work consists of patient care, research, and lecturing throughout the world. “My idea of retirement is doing what I like, which is precisely what I am doing; I just want to do a little less of it and dedicate more time to my family (especially three gorgeous grandsons) and friends.”... Howard

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Dorfman retired from the practice of orthodontic/ periodontics. “The best part is I no longer need to wear a watch and I can visit our place in Palm Beach, Fla., to have dinner with Joyce Mantyla and Jack.”... Bill Gosling serves on the boards of the Ann Arbor Book Festival and the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, and is president of his neighborhood association board. He plays tennis year-round, and Jean enjoys golf in the summer.... Peggy Grimmeisen Gardiner teaches yoga to seniors and completed a yoga book for seniors that she wrote with her students, Yoga at the Kitchen Sink, which will be used for several hospital-related yoga grants. She and Bill ’64 have a camp program for their grandchildren each summer.... Evelyn Hathaway Horton keeps very busy and physically active and hopes Mike will also retire so “we don’t have to spend a whole winter in Maine again!” Their 11 grandchildren all live nearby.... Louise Kennedy Hackett volunteers with Special Olympics and works a little as a service coordinator in the disabilities field. David Hackett ’64 continues a part-time job advocating with families who have children with autism, such as their son, Tim. Louise’s mom, Esther Strout Allen ’40, celebrated her 70th Reunion last June.... Joyce Mantyla writes that all is well in Florida.... In Charlottesville, Va., Judy Morris Edwards enjoys photography, birding, and hiking in the mountains.... Ann Noble sells wine aroma wheels which she created at UC–Davis and teaches short courses about wine sensory evaluation in the U.S. and in Italy’s Barolo region. She and her husband, a Swedish musician, enjoy music of many genres.... Jeannette Smith Mead and her husband love living in Boston with so many things to do in retirement.... Carol Stone Beyna and Ron relish time with their two grandsons. She continues to focus on doing watercolors, exhibiting with art friends, and even selling some of her work.... Merry Webber Stockwell is trying to adjust to life without Dan ’64.... Donna Whitney Mathias retired after 22 years as manager of volunteer services at Fairview Lakes Medical Center in Wyoming, Minn. She and Jack get together with Linda Paquet Bias ’66 and her husband each year.

66 l reunion 2011, June 10–12 l

Class President: Alexander W. Wood, 76 Marlborough St., 16, Boston MA 02116, awwood@mit.edu Peter Latham was quoted in a Warwick (R.I) Beacon article about his father, Jerry Latham ’33, who celebrated his 100th birthday. Peter, who retired as a captain in the Navy, runs his own dental practice and is chief of dental operations at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Providence.

67 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Alexandra Baker Lyman, PO Box 214, Woodstock CT 06281, toads@snet.net; Ingrid Larsson Shea, 4735 McKinley Dr., Boulder CO 80303, chezshea4@comcast.net Class President: Robert B. Bowden, 29 Clearview Rd., White House Station NJ 08889, rbbowden@ aol.com The Old Colony Memorial interviewed Andrew Kusmin, who led the town group that converted the former Plymouth, Mass., library building into the Plymouth Center for the Arts. Andrew, who had a dental practice in Westford for many years, got involved in that town’s arts scene when he started taking painting lessons at age 37. The town’s art group at the time was “without a permanent setting for being serious about art,” he recalls. “Some of us decided to seek a permanent home, and we found a former church, right near the town green.” In 1998, he and Judith returned to Plymouth, where he grew up. “I joined the Plymouth Guild for the Arts, which had the same homeless situation as the Westford group.” A former Methodist church came on the market, “but the floor plans wouldn’t work well for an art center.” When the former library came on the market, Andrew learned that the state would fund

renovations to historic buildings. “That was a good sign,” he says. “We solicited for donations and got a surprising response. And many of the contractors gave us big discounts or didn’t send a bill. The biggest factor was the help from our membership. We have no paid staff, but volunteers can accomplish a lot.”... Incumbent Elaine Makas won a three-way race for the Democratic nomination for her seat on the Androscoggin County Commission. There was no Republican challenger on the November ballot. Elaine, who was appointed a county commissioner in 2008, served six years in the Maine House.

68 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Secretary: Rick Melpignano, 79 Farm St., POB 119, Bellingham MA 02019, rickmel713@comcast.net Class Co-Presidents: Gerald A. Lawler Jr. and Jill Howroyd Lawler, PO Box 167, Dublin NH 03444, lawlerjer@aol.com GateHouse News Service interviewed Diane Akers Libbey on the eve of her retirement after 31 years as Westborough (Mass.) High School librarian. The article noted that she and husband David ’70, a Westborough High graduate, met at Bates. “I never thought I’d work for the high school that my husband, as well as much of his family, graduated from,” she said. She advises students: “If you are reading a book for fun and you find that you don’t like it, then don’t finish it. There are too many good books out there.” Asked her favorite book, she settled on three: Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, for whom she named her daughter, Laura.

69 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Secretary: Bonita E. Groves, 507 Eastview Dr., Wilton NH 03086, beegroves@comcast.net Class President: Richard A. Brogadir, 43 Richard Sweet Dr., Woodbridge CT 06525, dbrogie1@aol.com

70 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Stephanie Leonard Bennett, 76 Elm St., Medford MA 02155, slenben@comcast.net; Elizabeth E. Brown, Apt. E6, 1909 Oregon Pike, Lancaster PA 17601, efant127@yahoo.com Class President: Stephen J. Andrick, 15 Eastway, Reading MA 01867, steve.andrick@chartisinsurance .com The Cape Cod Times told the story of Jim Athearn and wife Debbie, owners of famed Morning Glory Farm in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard. They began farming more than 30 years ago, selling produce from their garden out of Jim’s pickup truck, and now work about 150 acres with vegetables and pasture for the beef cows, pigs, and chickens they raise. The farm stand itself has expanded through the years and includes a kitchen and bakery. A recently published cookbook, Morning Glory Farm and the Family that Feeds an Island, features recipes from the farm-stand kitchen, family members, kitchen employees, and several island chefs. The book also tells the farm’s remarkable story. “They’re deeply dedicated island people and now there’s the second generation who is running the farm,” said publisher Jan Pogue; indeed, Jim and Debbie are thrilled their sons, Simon and Daniel, have stepped up to the tractor with their own ideas and enthusiasm. “Just seeing them get involved is great,” said Jim, who was also quoted in a recent Vineyard Gazette story about the farm installing the island’s largest wind turbine.

71 l reunion 2011, June 10–12 l

Class Secretary: Suzanne Woods Kelley, 25 Silver St., Monson MA 01057, suzannekelley@att.net Class Co-Presidents: Sally Kayser Tan and Joo Eng Tan, 2635 Leisure Ln., Little Elm TX 75068, brightdrms@aol.com, jootan@aol.com Send news to magazine@bates.edu

72 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Pamela McCormack Green, 34 Val Halla Rd., Cumberland ME 04021, green1@ maine.rr.com; Dave E. Lounsbury, 1913 Greene St., Columbia SC 29201, davelounsbury@gmail.com Class President: Robert R. Roch, 150F Brittany Farms Rd., New Britain CT 06053, robert.roch@ alumni.bates.edu Erik Bertelsen is director of college counseling at Buffalo Seminary, a private college preparatory school for girls in Buffalo and where Jody Douglass is head of school.... Hersam Acorn Newspapers caught up with Greenwich (Conn.) resident David Lentz, who recently published a play, Bloomsday; a volume of poetry, Old Greenwich Odes: Collected Verse; and his newest novel, For the Beauty of the Earth. Charles Maddaus, a friend who teaches English, said, “Dave has a talent for blending a compelling storyline with pathos and humor, a measure of literary and historical allusion and vivid imagery.”... In Lewiston-Auburn, Steve Mortimer was a member of the leadership committee for this October’s Dempsey Challenge, the annual fundraiser for the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. In helping to recruit volunteers, he met Bates field hockey captain Zoe Donaldson ’11 of Mount Vernon, N.Y., who organized the Bobcat team to help with the bicycling segment of the event on Sunday, which complements a road race on Saturday. “They did an absolutely superb job,” Steve reports. “There were 2,000 cyclists and 1,000 volunteers, and it seemed like everyone was talking about the Batesies and their incredible support. Every rider I spoke with or overheard was excited about, and thankful for, the amazing support the field hockey cheer team provided, raising their falling spirits and getting them through the tough final miles. The Bates field hockey team was unquestionably the toast of the Dempsey Challenge riders!”... Loretta and Jack Papadonis of Lexington, Mass, have recently retired and are fulfilling their lifelong ambition of traveling and visiting various sites throughout Europe,

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the U.S., and the Caribbean. Jack was a high school history teacher and department head. The author of four teaching manuals — Ellis Island and Beyond, Heading West, Teaching Geography Through Literature, and Differentiated Instruction for Social Studies — Jack continues as an adjunct faculty member at Lesley Univ. in Cambridge, Mass. Daughters Katie ’04 and Tiffany were both married in 2009. Jack and Loretta enjoy a summer home on Cape Cod.... Last summer, six Whittier House friends got together for the first time since graduation, as Mel Lipes, Judy Fraser, Jody Douglass, Chris Love Pac, Mary McMahon Gulezian, and Pam McCormack Green spent a weekend in Wilmington, Vt., getting caught up on the last 38 years. Mel lives in Plainville, Conn., and works at MidState Medical Center in Meriden. Judy lives in Longmeadow, Mass., and is director of human resources for the Springfield newspaper, The Republican. Jody is head of school at Buffalo Seminary and lives with her husband Dan Warthman in Buffalo, N.Y. Chris, married to Greg Pac, lives in Somers, Conn., and does accounting work at a small firm called Welch & Company. Mary and husband Dean live in Cumberland, Maine, and Mary teaches at the Nathan Clifford School in Portland. Pam, who lives with her husband Bill practically next door to the Gulezians in Cumberland, is director of member services at the Maine Bankers Assn. in Portland.

73 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Secretary: Kaylee Masury, 174 Moses Gerrish Farmer Rd., Eliot ME 03903, kaylee.masury@ yahoo.com Class President: Katherine Kiefer, PO Box 177, Taconic CT 06079, Katherine.Kiefer.esq@gmail.com Carol Lovejoy sold her Marblehead house and now lives year-round in her condo in Tarpon Springs, Fla. “Trying to downsize and simplify my life in retirement.”

74 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Secretary: Tina Psalidas Lamson, 1 Intervale Way, Ipswich MA 01938, lamsonfamily@comcast.net Class President: Donald W. McDade, 838 Brighton Ave., Portland ME 04102, dmcdade@llbean.com Craig Hotchkiss, the education program manager at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, led a book talk entitled “Huck and Tom: A Boy Comes of Age” at the Redding public library as part of a Connecticutwide community read of Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

75 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Co-Secretaries: Deborah Jasak, 595 South Rd., Hopkinton NH 03229, wjasak@comcast.net; Faith Minard, 88 Blanford Pl., Bedford NH 03110, minardblatt@comcast.net Class Co-Presidents: Susan Bourgault Akie, 8 Mayfair Rd., Dedham MA 02026, sakie@ mountalverniahs.org; Janet B. Haines, 223 Hunnewell St., Needham MA 02494, janethaines@ alumni.bates.edu On Capitol Hill last summer, Rep. Bob Goodlatte ’74 (R-Va.) greets Matt Cocciardi ’11, a summer intern in the office of newly minted Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts. Cocciardi says they talked about how Bates prepared Goodlatte for the real world, and the two Batesies also chatted “about professors we both have had.” The internship, he says, taught him that Capitol Hill is a “fast-moving” place. “There is always something to do, always meetings with constituents, always committee or subcommittee hearings.” Cocciardi is president of the Bates Republicans.

Jim Dachos and Matt Gilligan report that they “spanked” Joe Burke ’73 and Mike Genetti in a friendly game of golf at Joe’s club, the Woodland Golf Club in Auburndale, Mass., in July. Equal time is offered to Mike and Joe if they want a rebuttal.... As oil continued to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, environmental risk assessment expert Valerie Ann Lee trekked to Capitol Hill in June to explain the challenges of measuring the impact of the Gulf oil spill. Testifying before a congressional subcommittee, she spoke about the massive gaps in the information needed to predict the extent and trajectory of the spill and accurately conduct any kind of natural resource damage assessments. “We are behind the curve in scientific knowledge of the ocean ecosystems and the

species that live there and support our economy.... We are having on-the-job training in the worst of jobs.” Valerie is executive vice president of Environment International Government Ltd. and the author of The Natural Resource Damage Assessment Deskbook. She also told the subcommittee: “Humans are not well-suited to understand the importance of what they cannot see and feel within their personal spheres, even if the threats are large and real. The world beneath the surface of the ocean...has not been recognized in the way that it should have been by all of us.”... Marty Welbourn Freeman enjoyed a brief visit to Bates for the Outing Club reunion. “Wonderful to see friends from different classes and to canoe on the Cobbosseecontee Stream once again. Our family had a great six-week trip to Europe: a great age for our girls (10 and 15), a chance to celebrate a niece’s wedding in Switzerland, and fun to see the enthusiasm for the World Cup and Tour de France.”... Jon and Nancy Johnson Young “thank all who had a part in Reunion planning.” In July they enjoyed celebrating the wedding of Steve and Betsy Slocum Markesich’s son — even though it was on the Colby campus! “We also enjoyed a few nights in Baxter State Park with other Batesies, the Ladds and the Spaldings.” Nancy is back in South Carolina to start her retirement while Jon continues teaching in Auburn. “We’ll see if ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder!’ Looking forward to staying with Colleen Peterson Seremet in November while attending another wedding in Maryland. We’re also anxiously awaiting our elder daughter’s wedding next May in the Bahamas.”

76 l reunion 2011, June 10–12 l

Class President: Douglas V. Shick, 1101 West Hill Rd., Warren VT 05674, doug_shick@alumni.bates.edu In Stoughton, Mass., Bob Cedrone was named USA Track & Field New England’s Athlete of the Month for August. Bob, who competes for the Twilight Throwers, won three golds and one bronze at the 2010 USA Masters Throws Championships at Benedictine College in Lisle, Ill. The gold medals came in the pentathlon (hammer, shot put, discus, javelin, and 25-pound weight throw), the super weight throw, and the ultra pentathlon, where throwers toss weights of increasing size. For Bob’s age group, the range was from 25 to 300 pounds, and he won the 300-pound throw, with a heave of 3 feet, 2.5 inches. The ultra throws, he says, “are the ultimate testosterone event.”... Jeff Helm was named to the board of directors for Campus of Caring Inc., a not-for-profit funding and constructing a hospice home on the South Shore.... The town of Kennebunk recognized outgoing selectman Tom Wellman for his many contributions to the town during his 20 years of service. Tom, who decided not to run for re-election (without ruling out future service), looks forward to motoring around Kennebunkport with Sally (Booth) in their Mini Cooper and watching their grandchildren, Brady, Megan, and Kelsey, grow.

77 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Co-Presidents: Joel A. Feingold, 10 Oakwood Ct., Framingham MA 01701, blammo@rcn.com; Dervilla M. McCann, 178 Narrows Pond Rd., Winthrop ME 04364, meistermcn@aol.com Class Secretary: Steve Hadge, 8 Timber Trail, Tolland CT 06084, Steve_Hadge@alumni.bates.edu Carl Grove is caring for his wife’s granddaughter (4) for six months while her mother is on deployment in the Air Force. “Also got a cat and Chihuahua in the deal! We both just received a certificate in anticoagulation management, and I hope to become involved in an outpatient clinic to do just that.” He suffered a stroke last year but is “doing just fine though a lot has changed. Celebrating 30 years out of pharmacy school. Daily amazed at how good God has been to me in spite of myself. I continue to co-lead the praise and worship team at our church and that is a

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blessing. Love to sing and it really ministers to my heart.”... David Hough is still doing donor relations at Northeastern, where his boss’ boss is another Batesie, Joe Donnelly ’83. He saw Darrell Waters (“who hasn’t aged at all — which is rather rude if you ask me”) at a recent dinner party. David went to Paris to visit friends.... Marty Kunofsky lives in Atlanta and works for L3 Communications, a large defense contractor doing computer programming. “And to keep things interesting we opened a Carvel Ice Cream store six years ago. My wife works the day shift and I do some nights. Lots of work but the perks are great.” His son began Air Force basic training in August.

and/or to a failure to stay true to the industry’s focus on productive lending.”... On a rare business trip to North America, Hakan Lonnqvist had a great time in Ottawa, Ontario, with Ian Horne, who drove up from Albany, N.Y. Hakan looked forward to seeing Gil Crawford and his family in Sweden.

78 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Diana Dalheim Thomas has been living in Geneva, Switzerland, since August with her husband and two daughters. “Finally getting to use the degree in French. Any Bates folk nearby?”... Tony Dias has two novels in manuscript: Shoal Hope, set in 1912 and focusing on Provincetown before World War I, and Something for Nothing, set in 1927 and looking at the town, Prohibition, and the aftermath of the war. “Both look at the cross-currents of traditional fishing, the Portuguese immigrant experience, and the development of the town’s art colony and its close ties to New York,” Tony says. “Shoal Hope is structured around the curves and spirals of the tip of Cape Cod acting as traps and concentrators for humans as well as fish. Something for Nothing deals with surfaces — above and below.” True events included in the novels include the sinking of the U.S. submarine S-4 in December 1927 when it was rammed by an American destroyer, the Paulding, on anti-rum-runner duty for the U.S. Coast Guard. “The two novels take us from the brink of World War I to the precipice of the stock market crash, providing a unique perspective into the first stirrings of 20th-century trends whose impacts reverberate to this day.” Tony lives in Narragansett, R.I., with his spouse of 23 years, Katherine Mehls, and their Portuguese Podengo bitch, Delfina.... Jean Monahan and daughter Lilah (10) will journey back to Cambodia in December. They are going with a group that specializes in homeland journeys for adoptive families. They will spend several days in Angkor Wat, as well as in Phnom Penh and the coastal town of Sihanoukville. “We’re very excited to experience this amazing country. Part of the trip will be about giving donations and other items to children at some schools we’ll visit. It’s an exciting step for our family.”... Bob Muldoon will be publishing a novel titled Brass Bonanza Plays Again: How A Hockey Goon Brought Back Mark Twain and a Dead Team — and Made A City Believe. Based on his 10 years working for the now-defunct Hartford Whalers of the National Hockey League, Bob’s book tells the story of a

Class Co-Secretaries: Deni E. Auclair, Apt. 5M, 300 Pelham Rd., New Rochelle NY 10805, d_auclair@ yahoo.com; Melanie Parsons Paras, 14 Whispering Ln., Holliston MA 01746, melaniep1010@aol.com Class President: George E. “Chip” Beckwith, Apt. 44, 200 Cabrini Blvd., New York NY 10033, chipwith@aol.com Hotel real estate veteran Roger Clark joined CHM Partners LLC, a new division of Capital Hotel Management, as a managing partner. Previously he was senior vice president of acquisitions and development for HEI Hospitality.

79 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Secretary: Mary G. Raftery, 16 Hobart St., Westerly RI 02891, mgraftery@gmail.com Class President: Janice E. McLean, 15 Bristol St., Worcester MA 01606, janmcle@charter.net

80 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Secretary: Christine Tegeler Beneman, 105 Spurwink Rd., Scarborough ME 04074, cbeneman@ maine.rr.com Class President: Mary Mihalakos Martuscello, Apt. 12B, 410 E Sixth St., New York NY 10009 Microfinance Insights sought out Gil Crawford, CEO of MicroVest Capital Management, for his reactions to India’s largest microfinance institution, SKS, announcing an initial public offering, the first by an Indian MFI. Gil said that while the IPO certainly reflects SKS’ growth and the need to attract capital, “I have concerns that we may see lending standards slip and consumer protections erode in a rush to cash in.... A short-term mentality could lead to poor decisions about growth, underwriting and governance,

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Class Secretary: Katherine Baker Lovell, 6 Elston Dr., Downingtown PA 19335, cklovell@verizon.net Class President: Robert L. Jobrack, 32 King Georges Grant, Fredericksburg VA 22405, jobrack@aol.com

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Pupfish Shakeup

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Paul Barrett ’80 is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expert on the endangered Devil’s Hole pupfish, several of which appear in this photograph. Only around 100 of the pupfish exist, dwelling in a geothermal pool within a limestone cavern in Death Valley. When last spring’s Baja California earthquake roiled the pupfish pool, a permanent monitoring station caught the sloshing on underwater video — some of the action looks like a slowly exploding lava lamp. Barrett told The New York Times that the splish-splashing may have been a “good thing” for the fish because it stirred up nutrients and removed silt from a ledge where fragile fish larvae spend their early days. In any event, he adds, the video is just “pretty phenomenal” to watch. See for yourself: bit.ly/ pupfish-video. Barrett is the science adviser to the regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, based in Albuquerque, N.M. The pool’s monitoring station is maintained by the University of Arizona in conjunction with the Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and Nevada Department of Wildlife.

one-eyed, cauliflower-eared hockey fighter who stays behind when a team moves away and suffers like the fans. Tiger Burns lives homeless under a bridge and spends his days picking up trash before rising up and leading a dead team out of the stands for a chance at the Stanley Cup. The book is described as Rocky (on skates!) meets Field of Dreams. As much about Mark Twain and Sam Colt as Ron Francis and Kevin Dineen, it’s a tale of redemption: a man’s, a team’s, and a city’s. It is also a love story.

82 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Secretary: Gerard P. Donahoe Jr., 1339 Independence Ct. S.E., Washington DC 20003, maineescape@aol.com Class Co-Presidents: Thomas E. Campbell, 41 Copley Woods Cir., Portland ME 04103, tom_campbell@waynflete.org; Neil D. Jamieson Jr., Prescott Jamieson Nelson & Murphy, PO Box 1190, Saco ME 04072, njlaw@maine.rr.com Karl Mills, president and chief investment officer of Jurika, Mills & Keifer in the San Francisco Bay Area, was profiled in the Dow Jones Financial Adviser blog, which called him “The Artful Contrarian” because his firm “prides itself on an investing philosophy that emphasizes value and a certain contrarian spirit.” The mutual fund he and his partners launched in 2006 is called the Counterpoint Select Fund. “We wait for a good company to get taken out to the woodshed irrationally,” he said. Karl said many asset-allocation strategies are based on assumptions — such as stocks will return 10 percent or more in the long run — that no longer apply in the current topsy-turvy market. “You have to be a dynamic allocator of a client’s capital, both in reaction to and in anticipation of changing events. We’re in a whole new world.”

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Class Secretary: Leigh Peltier, 451 Williams Crossing Rd., Coventry RI 02816, leigh11@cox.net Class President: Sally Nutting Somes, 27 Foreside Rd., Cumberland Foreside ME 04110, ssomes@ netzero.com Glenn Martin was named vice president and general counsel at Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems. Previously he was chief internal audit and compliance officer.

84 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Secretary: Heidi B. Lovett, 1618 Cody Dr., Silver Spring MD 20902, blueoceanheidi@aol.com Class President: Linda S. Cohen, Apt. 3, 7866 Greenlake Dr. N., Seattle WA 98103, linda@ lscdesignstudio.com Bill Bell resides in Cohasset, Mass., and enjoys the balance of government consulting work and family life with wife Susan and sons Andrew (19) and Colin (15). The house is a lot quieter with Andrew off for his sophomore year in college.... Jim and Joan Keck Campbell report things are very busy in Jim’s growing dermatology practice in Dover, N.H. He tries to find time for the Red Sox and fly fishing. Joan looked forward to another busy year teaching German at Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School in Sudbury, Mass. This November, she was recognized by the American Assn. of Teachers of German as the National Secondary School German Educator of the Year. Her summer highlight was helping Bates roomie Linda Webster prepare for the arrival of her daughter, Emily, from China. As the mom of a recent college graduate and a college junior, it was a blast for Joan to return to the toddler aisle at Target.... In August, Steffani Catanese Lomax started a new business called Partner Power to help high-tech companies build strategic partnerships that drive revenue

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for their businesses. Last winter she became a snowbird and spent time in Florida living and training at a tennis center with senior women national tennis players. This summer it was great to see Kathy Evans Wisner and her family at Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.... Last year, Cheryl Croteau Orr’s oldest son, Matthew (18), was accepted to Bates, among other great places, but decided to stay in California and attend USC as an astronautical engineering student — Cheryl’s last-minute pitch for the Bates dual-degree engineering program didn’t succeed. “It feels like I was stepping on to the Bates campus and starting college just yesterday,” says Cheryl, who hopes to create a new Bobcat through her youngest son, William (16). The family vacationed in London, Paris, and Normandy. She fondly remembers traveling around Europe during JYA, but notes “it was nice to go back on more than a poor student’s budget and not have to stay at youth hostels. My French was rusty, but their English much better! The D-Day sites were simply awe-inspiring; the fear, the courage, the sacrifice of so many, including men the same age as my son, is something I hope we never forget.” Cheryl hopes to see college buddy Leslie Yim Walters and reminisce about when they were fresh-faced new students.... Pamela French MacPhee was rehired at Barnstable (Mass.) High School as an alternative-learning program math teacher. She is grateful for the opportunity to teach in the same school where son Tom graduated in ’09 and Will graduates next June; Andrew is in third grade. Pam married Bob Peek ’64 last July at their Free Christian Church in Andover, Mass. Some of you met Bob at our 25th Reunion. He was the first Bobcat mascot!... Maureen Graves-Anderson and her husband took their two kids, 13 and 11, on a bicycling trip to Iceland and Denmark. “If not now, when? They are at the right ages to endure some hardships and yet see some wonderful places.”... Eva Hamori loves her job as a senior project planner with Diversified Project Management in Newton, Mass., a good match for an organization aficionado like her. She plans and executes corporate relocations for clients and has happily run into some Bates alumni on her projects. In her North Andover, Mass., community, she serves as a library trustee and on a number of other boards. After a bout with cancer last year, she has made a full recovery and looks forward to a happy and healthy future with her longtime boyfriend, Dan.... James “Bill” Hunt has “returned from exile! I am back living in Bath, Maine, after two (long) years in Georgia.” He’s still in the software business as director of product development for Cicero Inc. of Cary, N.C. He moved back to Maine in May and had a wonderful summer sailing with daughter Caroline (13). Bill’s stepdaughter, Alexis, is a senior at Colby (“I know, I know”). He continues to study the philosophy of Objectivism and the works of Ayn Rand and maintains active discussions on Facebook with freshman year roommates Rick Pinard and Ken Morrill.... Vivienne Kaye West saw classmate and sister-in-law Laurie West Van Hook last summer in Vienna, where Laurie and her family live. They traveled in Austria, Slovakia, and Germany. That started off a busy summer for their kids, including a first trip to look at colleges for Vivienne’s son, who is starting his junior year.... Lou Kimball got married (for the first time) on July 12, 2009, to Boyd Swenson. “He has been an amazing mate and stepfather and is weathering the obstacles to being married to someone like me!” Lou has two boys, Trevor (15) and Casen (9), and stays busy around their school and sport schedules. She works as a mental health counselor in a community mental health setting in York County, Maine, and for the past two years has worked closely with psychiatrists doing intakes of clients for medication management. Lou has happily stayed in southern Maine (Kennebunk) and enjoyed a family vacation with the boys this summer.... Work this year has taken Heidi Lovett from Honolulu to Juneau, Alaska, to Seattle. She helps organize and facilitate meetings of the Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee, which advises the

Secretary of Commerce on all living marine resource matters. Her husband landed a job with the Small Business Administration, and they are house-hunting in the Silver Spring, Md., area. Happily, Heidi got her boys, Isaac (6) and David (4), out for the Bates National Day of Service in May in D.C. to help clean up a part of Rock Creek Park.... Heather Wygant McDonough and Don continue to enjoy life in Charleston, S.C., with their two oldest children in college and the youngest a high school sophomore. As early “Tea Partiers” they have become politically active, meeting with Sen. Lindsey Graham in addition to several visits to Washington, D.C., and had a blast at the NRA Convention in Charlotte. Don is still in home building, and Heather took a job with

Fitzmaurice Voicework and she was promoted to associate professor at Loyola University New Orleans in the spring.... David Richards spent another glorious summer leading book discussions for the Maine Humanities Council in Greenville. While attending the Forest Heritage Days competition in August, he happened upon his long-lost roommate, Greenville native Kendall Walden. He also took a fascinating tour of the Black Forest created by Peter Kliem ’60, and, sadly, mourned the loss of Berit Pepin, wife of book group regular and Moosehead summer resident Reid Pepin ’55. David is now on the Humanities Council board.... Stephanie Richards is a visiting assistant professor of biology at Bates and spent part of the summer teaching a forensic science

In Prague, Rick Pinard ’84 hosted a celebration for the Indian festival Onam. “It must have been unusual for neighbors to see men in lunghis and ladies in sarees running around. I also discovered that instead of racing with eggs on spoons, Indians use lemons.” the Charleston Museum, working in their historic homes.... The third ’84 marriage reported this year came from Leigh Michl, who married Shannon Seymour, a graduate of Mount Holyoke and Boston Conservatory (master’s in opera vocals), on Feb. 20, 2010. They headed to Greece (where Shannon lived for nine years) in September for their honeymoon.... Marjie Needham has responded very well to chemotherapy for breast cancer and was scheduled for a mastectomy this fall, followed by radiation. She appreciates all the well wishes and support and is happy she has still been able to work full time as the dean of students at Darrow School in New Lebanon, N.Y. “I never thought the mountains could replace the coast, but the beauty of this original Shaker village on the edge of the Berkshires is awe-inspiring.” Toni (her oldest) is a paramedic in Boston; Ben (her first-born) graduated from college in June and is a company member with the Louisville Ballet; after two years of college, Lea is taking time off to dance in NYC; and Drew got his license and has started his junior year at Darrow.... Karen Palermo Saxena and her husband competed in the Duathlon World Championships in Scotland for age-group runners. Karen’s son graduated from college, her older daughter is starting her second year of college, and her youngest started high school.... 2010 has been a busy year for Rick Pinard in Prague. He still works at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Program Evaluation Department supporting the development of democracy and civil society in countries with problematic regimes. Rick hoped to wrap up his doctoral thesis at Charles Univ. He was involved with the Stolpersteine Holocaust memorial organization, placing engraved commemorative stones in Prague in front of houses from which Holocaust victims had been deported. In August, he and his family hosted (probably the first) Onam celebration (the main festival of the Indian state of Kerala) at their home. With Keralite friends, they jointly prepared the Onamsadiya (traditional foods), pookalam (colorful floral design), and played traditional games in the garden. “It must have been unusual for neighbors to see so many men in lunghis and ladies in sarees running around, but it was great fun. I discovered also that, instead of racing with eggs on spoons, Indians use lemons.”... Artemis Preeshl is on a Fulbright as a senior researcher at Kalakshetra, the arts and cultural academy that’s considered the Juilliard of India. She is researching two- and three-dimensional visual literacy, which will culminate in a cross-cultural presentation in film, theater, and dance. She is presently at Osho, an ashram center that promotes dynamic meditation in Pune. Last summer, she completed certification as an assistant teacher of

course with Lee Abrahamsen to 10 incoming firstyear students known as Summer Scholars. Stephanie, husband Tony, and son Tristan (12) enjoyed summer travels to Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks. The highlight was a week at Pine Butte Guest Ranch in Montana. Owned by the Nature Conservancy, it was a great opportunity to relax and learn about the local flora and fauna. “The science geek in me comes out,” she says. Among the things she learned is that thatcher ants taste like zesty Italian dressing.... Laury Schwartzberg is in the Seattle area and invites classmates to get in touch when they are passing through. There are a few Batesies around and she could pull together friends for a drink or a coffee. (Of course, it’s Seattle!).... With wife Kathy, Glen Strong enjoyed hosting a couple of Bates interns through the Career Discovery Internship Program. They shadowed him at his investment advisory business in Canton, Ohio, now five years old. Glen and his wife will celebrate 20 years of marriage in 2011 with a trip to Italy. He happily reports he traded a smoking habit for a running habit that included a 10k the day he wrote this note!... Linda Webster and her parents traveled to China to adopt Emily on July 26, returning home two weeks later, a day before Emily’s second birthday — a lucky date in Chinese: 080808. So while other classmates are looking at colleges redux, Linda won’t be thinking about college until, well, near our 40th Reunion. That said, Emily is a wonderful, amazing, tough, curious, bright little girl! Linda is still in Philadelphia, and would be delighted to hear from any Batesie with or without advice on potty training, sleep issues, toddler feeding, etc.... Tim Wright, the popular morning radio host on WMGX, 93.1 FM, left the station over the summer, the Portland Press Herald reported. It was “a fun 15 years,” Tim said. “I’m looking forward to getting some sleep, to not hearing the music of John Mayer as much, and not having to constantly discuss the legal problems of Lindsay Lohan.” He said he and his family plan to stay in Maine.

85 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Secretary: Elissa A. Bass, 203 N. Main St., Stonington CT 06378, bass.elissa@yahoo.com Class President: Lisa Virello, 2 Standish St., Hingham MA 02043, virello@comcast.net Rich Maloney completed a Ph.D. in law and public policy at Northeastern, where his research focused on cultural and urban policy. While teaching a class for Boston Univ. in London last summer, he spent some time with Linda Tamkin Waller and her lovely family.

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86 l reunion 2011, June 10–12 l

Class Secretary: Erica Seifert Plunkett, 56 Morton St., Holliston MA 01746, esplunkett@comcast.net Class President: Anne D. Robertson, 10024 Nord Rd., Bloomington MN 55437, anne-tom@juno.com Laurette Cousineau Carle is the professional development coordinator for Williamson County Schools in Franklin, Tenn. Laurette, who is pursuing an educational specialist degree in educational leadership from Middle Tennessee State, has served as a curriculum specialist and science teacher in the county schools since 1997.... Lumina Foundation president Jamie Merisotis is quoted in The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World. In a discussion of how college rankings affect the global competition for the best students, Jamie says that “the reason [college] rankings are popular is that they actually serve a purpose.” Higher-education leaders who like to pooh-pooh rankings just might be missing the point. “Rankings are basically reflecting the market’s desire for more information.”

87 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Secretary: Margaret M. Brosnahan, Apt. E6, Apple Creek, Stillwater OK 74075, MargBros@aol .com Class President: John L. Fletcher, 672 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach FL 32233, john@mgfagency.com Christopher Averill has been teaching science long enough at Nobles to earn his first teaching sabbatical, starting in January. Travel, service work, and lots of fishing are on the docket. Oldest daughter Jordan starts at Nobles next fall as a seventh-grader, while younger daughter Sarah is finishing third grade. Chris’ wife, Kristie, trained for a half-marathon in Napa, Calif., this past summer to raise money for Crohn’s disease and colitis.... Back in school at George Mason Univ., Theresa Brennan Geissler is pursuing an M.Ed. in special education. She still finds time to manage some real estate work. Her children are 3, 7, 12, and 14.... Peggy Brosnahan is working toward a Ph.D. in immunology at Cornell’s Baker Institute for Animal Health, where she recently was awarded her first grant from the NIH.... James Owens is an assistant professor of clinical management communication at the USC Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles. Last year he launched The World is Just a Book Away, a nonprofit that builds libraries for children in developing countries, starting in Indonesia. James’ wife, Sabine, has a boutique on Montana Avenue, Platino, which specializes in designer handbags and jewelry. Son Alexander is 5; they live in Santa Monica with their dog, Moile.... Sarinda Parsons Wilson, with husband Jonathan and children Maren and Elliot (ninth and sixth grades), did a sabbatical year from Hotchkiss in Annecy, France, a couple years ago. “It was good to see the U.S. from a slightly different sociopolitical viewpoint,” she writes. In 2009, with a colleague, Sarinda ran a language-immersion homestay trip to Quebec, then co-led a three-week adventure to Morocco. Maren, in high school, is a dancer, ski racer. Elliot is a skier, and loves soccer, baseball, tennis, and Legos — and making duct-tape wallets and inventing ‘stuff that goes.’”... Scott and Melinda Potts Quigg spend weekends during ski season at their house in a vacation community at Elk Mountain in northeastern Pennsylvania where Mike Everett also spends the ski season with his family.... The Sun Chronicle News interviewed author Stephanie True Peters, in Mansfield, Mass., who has forged a career out of publishing company assignments and her own ideas, writing more than 40 books. Her 2006 book, A Princess Primer, cracked The New York Times best-seller list. She said she’s been aided by her two children, Jack (13) and Chloe (11), whose development has allowed her to see how children respond to certain events and situations. “It’s been great having kids growing up as I’m writing kids’ books. I can bounce ideas off them.” In addition, “I’m really 42  Bates  W I N TER 2011

lucky to have a career where I can be home when my kids come through the door.”... The Nature Conservancy in New York named Rick Werwaiss executive director of the Eastern New York Chapters. He has worked with the National Audubon Society, Wildlife Conservation Society, American Farmland Trust, and most recently the Albany Medical Center Foundation.

88 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Committee: Mary Capaldi Carr, 5778 First Landing Way, Burke VA 22015, mary.capaldi@ gmail.com; Astrid D. Delfino Bernard, 35 Blueberry Hill Dr., Madison CT 06443, acbernard@sbcglobal .net; Ruth Garretson Cameron, 12 Norton Farm Rd., Freeport ME 04032, ruthc@suscom-maine.net; Julie L. Sutherland Platt, 2 Old Ayer Rd., Groton MA 01450, julielsp@charter.net; Adrienne Terry D’Olimpio, PO Box 202, Lyndon Center VT 05850, adrienne.dolimpio@lyndoninstitute.org The Palm Beach Post interviewed Joan Bering Kennedy, president of Liberty Medical Supply, a billiondollar business providing diabetes-testing supplies (well-known for ads featuring actor Wilford Brimley). She alluded to her Bates experience when asked to name the best business book she’s read. “In college, I read a research piece on how men and women work differently. I think women should capitalize on how we work differently.” She also shared the best business advice she’s gotten: “Always think about the customer. Be humble. Focus on a noble cause.”

89 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

“transformative,” Don Goodrich says. “It has put our suffering in perspective in a way that has allowed us to experience joy, to experience a sense of wonder, having kids in our home.”... An extensive USA Today story looking at how Americans contribute to war efforts led with Dave Cummings, who is trying to make one million basketball free throws to raise donations to help military servicemembers with traumatic brain injuries. The project, called Hoops for Heroes, is his way connecting to the sacrifices made by military families. “I could go along and not feel a thing about the war, I have so little exposure to it,” he told USA Today. “The sacrifice of military families blows me away, but I’ve been shielded.” Dave, who lives with his family in Epsom, N.H., says part of his inspiration came from a line in President Obama’s inauguration speech: “As much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies.”... Promoted to captain, Andy Henderson is now commanding officer for Legal Service Office Southwest in San Diego, where he serves essentially as the Navy’s district attorney for a six-state region. The ceremony took place on Naval Base Coronado. He and his wife welcomed son Jake last January.... Lance Johnson is head coach of the Scarborough High School football team after 21 years as an offensive and defensive coordinator at Portland High School, his alma mater.... Hiram Sibley is assistant principal at Portland’s King Middle School, where he has worked since 1996. He began working there as an educational technician, then became a technology education teacher, lead teacher, and teaching strategist.... Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter appointed Mark Thompson to a two-year term as 5th District Court judge. Mark, a shareholder of the Breckenridge law firm West, Brown, Huntley, and Thompson, was selected among three finalists.

Steering Committee: Sally J. Ehrenfried, 1173 Plantation Ln., Mount Pleasant SC 29464, sallye@ alumni.bates.edu; Deborah Schiavi Cote, 18 Little Androscoggin Dr., Auburn ME 04210, debschiavicote@alumni.bates.edu Class Secretary: Donna Waterman Douglass, 355 Pond Rd., Wales ME 04280, ddouglass4498@gmail.com

90 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

The parents of Peter Goodrich, who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, spoke with The Times Argus in Bennington, Vt., about the foundation established in his memory, which has helped to create a school for girls in Afghanistan and supported Afghan students in getting an education in America, among other initiatives. Some of the Afghan students have lived with the Goodriches, an experience that has been

Tom Denenberg, the Portland Museum of Art’s chief curator, commented on the museum’s acquisition of an oil-on-panel painting by Marguerite Zorach, Les

Class Secretary: Joanne E. Walton, 10411 Ashcroft Way, Fairfax VA 22032, joannewalton2003@yahoo .com Class President: Eric D. Knight, 836 Potter Ave., Berwyn PA 19312, eric_knight@alumni.bates.edu

Water Patrol On a hot day in Rig District in southern Helmand Province, Marine Major Jon Custis ’91 tries to find out why water levels in various irrigation canals, critical to local farmers, are too low. Helping Afghans improve canals, roads, and buildings has been basic counterinsurgency strategy, the goal being to empower Afghans and win their support in Helmand, a former Taliban stronghold. “In a nutshell, Marines do windows,” Custis quips, explaining how the Marines deploy civil-affairs units alongside combat units to support “non-kinetic” tactics. Custis, executive officer of the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, says he works to synchronize the efforts of his civil-affairs team, his unit’s British stabilization adviser (a non-military strategist who designs programs), and the unit’s information operations leader. The experience is “a complete 180 from my previous three tours to Iraq,” in terms of how connected he is to counterinsurgency efforts, whether checking canals or dining casually with the district governor to talk about security and infrastructure and civilaffairs projects. “I’ve drunk more than my share of chai again this go-around, but that is at the core of what we are trying to do,” says Custis, who concluded his deployment in October. “It is daunting and challenging, but still rewarding.”

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91 l reunion 2011, June 10–12 l

Class Secretary: Kathryn Tibbetts Morello, 6010 Wake Crest Ct., Haymarket VA 20169, ktmorello@ alumni.bates.edu Class President: John A. Ducker, 252 Baker St., Walpole MA 02081, jducker1@yahoo.com

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Baux (1910), at an auction at Barridoff Galleries in Portland. Zorach “played a key role in the creation of the image of Maine,” Tom said.... Christopher von Jako joined a medical device startup company, ActiViews Inc., as president. The company specializes in high-tech, innovative solutions for interventional radiology applications such as lung-needle biopsies and therapies.

Jenny Ruma Bova and husband Clint launched Bova Creative, a Powell, Ohio-based firm specializing in retail, manufacturer, and service-provider design solutions. Collectively they have more than 40 years of experience in the creative design field. They welcomed a son, Joseph C. Bova, on Dec. 2, 2009.... David Strupp joined Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group Inc. as a managing director. He has more than 17 years of healthcare investment banking experience, most recently at The Maxim Group.

92 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Committee: Ami Lynn Berger, 1401 Portland Ave., St. Paul MN 55104, ami_berger@hotmail.com; Kristin Bierly Magendantz, 33 Glen Hollow, West Hartford CT 06117, kmagendantz@foundation .uconn.edu; Kristen Downs Bruno, 10 Mac Connie Ct., Seymour CT 06483, alfredbruno@sbcglobal.net; Roland S. Davis, 8 Infiniti Way, Auburn ME 04210, rdavis@bates.edu; Peter J. Friedman, 10 Brownstone Turn, Simsbury CT 06089, PeterJFriedman@ googlemail.com; Leyla Morrissey Bader, Apt. 8M, 405 E. 54th St., New York NY 10022, leylabader@ nyc.rr.com; Jeffrey S. Mutterperl, Apt. 4D, 340 E. 80th St., New York NY 10075, jeffmutterperl@aol.com Following six years with the Bates admission office, Kristen Belka Rosenfield and her family moved to New Delhi, where she is college counselor at the American Embassy School.... Kristin Bierly Magendantz joined Trinity College in Hartford as director of faculty grants and sponsored research.... As part of a comprehensive reorganization to advance diversity and inclusion, Roland Davis has been appointed director of the College’s new Office of Intercultural Education and promoted to associate dean of students. As an assistant dean of students since 2002, his broad range of responsibilities have included supporting all students with academic and personal issues and teaming with faculty and administrators to address the needs of students of color and lowincome students. .... Brooke Oliver Fritz is the new girls lacrosse coach at Radnor (Pa.) High School. As defensive and goalie coach at Radnor since 2008, she helped take the team to two state titles. A Radnor native, Brooke was captain and first-team All-American in lacrosse at Bates in her senior year.

93 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Secretary: Kimberly Donohue Kavanaugh, 5 Everell Rd., Winchester MA 01890, k.kavanaugh@ alumni.bates.edu Class President: Madeline F. Yanford, 22 Shirley Ter., Southwick MA 01077, madelineyanford@earthlink.net

94 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Secretary: Jonathan E. Lilja, Apt. 6, 6 Bayridge Ln., Rockport MA 01966; jonathanlilja@gmail.com Class President: Susan Spano Piacenti, 432 Butterfly Dr., Chesapeake VA 23322, susanpiacenti@cox.net Monika Burk loves her work as a traveling physical therapist in Alaska, Wyoming, Maine, and

A Beautiful Business As she planned her wedding in 2002, Portia Hard Clark ’98 knew she was embarking on a new phase of her life. But she had no idea she was also starting a new phase of her career. Clark wanted to do something special for her two bridesmaids, and when she came across some uniquely shaped freshwater pearls, she hit on the perfect idea: She would make them each a pearl necklace. Giving each piece an individual twist, she strung the pearls on gold or olive silk, instead of the traditional cream-colored silk. The jewelry earned raves, and Clark soon realized that she had created more than a simple gift. “By the time the honeymoon was over, I realized that [making pearl accessories] could work as a business,” she says.

Washington state. “Bought a ‘camp’ in the Maine woods and now have roots once again in my native state.”... Amy Clary joined Bates’ Writing Program this fall as a writing specialist for the humanities. Amy, who has a Ph.D. in English from the Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, was previously at the American Univ. of Beirut, where she taught literature and advised M.A. theses of students from a variety of disciplines.... Heather Doyle McPeake is the IP manager at Goodwin Procter LLP. She lives in Amesbury, Mass., with husband David and daughter Hannah (5).... After two and a half years as the regional legal adviser in the Caribbean, Jason Fraser went to Ethiopia as the deputy director for USAID/Ethiopia, helping to manage close to $1 billion of development assistance, HIV/AIDS, education, and food security funding. “My work in the Caribbean has been extremely eventful culminating in the disaster relief and assistance that was mobilized for the people of Haiti.”... Maureen Gwinn enjoys her work at the U.S. EPA in human health risk assessment and does a lot of K–12 outreach for both the EPA and the Society of Toxicology. She’s also more involved with the Washington Bates Club and caught up with Mac McLean, Audra Kelly, and Mei Lun Chau at one

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A small shop in Portland, Maine, where she lives, agreed to sell her creations — earrings, bracelets, and necklaces — and strong sales during that holiday season gave Clark the confidence to buy more supplies and expand her offerings. Though the idea and the business seem remarkably fortuitous, Clark has long been interested in fashion. She majored in French at Bates and wrote her senior thesis on fashion at the turn of the century in Paris; not long after she graduated, she landed a job as a fashion assistant at Good Housekeeping. When she moved from New York to Maine to be closer to her future husband, Josh Clark ’96, she was already thinking about how she could turn her love of fashion into a business. “I thought about going into a business designing skirts,” she says. “But I liked the idea of creating pieces myself that match a person’s personality, or designing jewelry that has color themes or fits specific occasions.” Her business has grown by word of mouth, aided by a few appearances on models in fashion magazines like Allure, with the nifty credit “Pearl necklace by Portia Clark.” Recently, her work got a boost when L.L. Bean asked her to design pieces for their Signature line. It’s been especially rewarding, she says, to partner with a creative, Maine-based company that’s committed to small, local businesses. While her business is growing, don’t expect a Portia’s Pearls necklace to appear on the Home Shopping Network anytime soon. “I want to continue to remain small enough to offer a personal touch to every piece that I make,” she says. That means hand-selecting each cultured Chinese freshwater pearl, creating the piece locally in Maine, and placing it inside a custom, handmade felt case instead of a throwaway box. “Pearls are classic, and I like to challenge myself every day to keep the designs fresh and always moving forward.”

event.... Denis Howard is now a part-time teller at Bangor Savings Bank. He continues to host a weekly Americana and eclectic roots music program Friday mornings on Community Radio WERU-FM 89.9 in Blue Hill. He lives with his girlfriend, Kristy Pottle, and her two children, Emmit (6) and Althea (4).... Kim Howland still lives in San Francisco and skis in Tahoe.... Amy King, who works at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., earned a master’s in information technology from Harvard Univ. Extension School.... Jonathan Lilja is a financial planner in Wellesley, Mass., spends his free time with son Pete, and volunteers on the Rockport town ambulance.... Catherine Muldoon completed a Ph.D. in biblical studies at Boston College and began a teaching job at the College of the Holy Cross. Her dissertation is being published in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series. She lives in Somerville, Mass., with husband Tom Lawton.... Jonah O’Hara is a college counselor at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas. He expects to move on campus in two years when faculty housing is available for him, Rebecca, John David (4), and Patrick (1). He had a fabulous dinner with the Bates crew teams that trained there last March.... Arlen Percival and W I N TER 2011  Bates  43

Wesley Shim ’93 live in Cary, N.C., near Raleigh. She works as an attorney for the state, and he’s a computer programmer. They welcomed a daughter, Olivia Bokyung Percival-Shim, on Sept. 17, 2009. She joined big brother Sebastian (4).... Now living in Rhode Island, Susan Spano Piacenti is “thrilled to be replanting myself back in hardy New England soil.”... Jamie Wallerstein does juvenile court care and protection law in Massachusetts and recently expanded to do mental health litigation. Tess is 5.... Christina Wellington Traister is very busy with work and kids’ activities.... Barnaby Wickham is now marketing director at MET Laboratories, an electrical testing and certification company for product safety, electro-magnetic compatibility, and environmental hardiness. Kate Ganley Wickham is a guidance counselor and budding novelist at work on her second book.

of Law. The center develops comprehensive and creative ways to use the law to promote society’s health and well-being. Her areas of focus are bioethics, including beginning- and end-of-life issues, and international health and human rights, including human trafficking.

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Andrew Byrne is assistant principal at Middlesex Middle School in Darien, Conn. Previously he was dean of faculty at Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich.... Greg Donoghue was promoted to vice president of human resources at Tedeschi Food Shops. He previously served as the general counsel for the convenience store chain.... In a letter to the Lewiston Sun Journal, David Kingdon, who works as a paramedic in Maui, Hawaii, commented on the May 26 confrontation between some Bates students and Lewiston police who arrived to break up a large party outside Smith Hall (“Quad Angles,” Summer issue). David wrote about seeing “a small but significant detail” in the newspaper’s photo of a police officer, who, after falling and injuring himself during the incident, was being loaded onto an ambulance stretcher. “Who is that emergency medical technician on the left-hand side of the frame, attending to the wounded officer? It appears to be a responder with Bates EMS — a volunteer, student-run, and state-licensed emergency service. I hope that residents of greater Lewiston-Auburn recognize that although a subset of students displayed inexcusable behavior during that party and its aftermath, their numbers pale in comparison to the legions of Bates students and alumni who have worked with and for the Twin Cities community.”

Class Co-Secretaries: Scott R. Marchildon, 31 Windy Hollow Ln., Bowdoinham ME 04008, smarchildon@ une.edu; Philip Pettis, Boynton, Waldron, Doleac, Woodman and Scott, 82 Court St., PO Box 418, Portsmouth NH 03802, ppettis@nhlawfirm.com Class Co-Presidents: Jason C. and Deborah Nowak Verner, 4 Wilson Ln., Acton MA 01720, theverners@ juno.com Laike Stewart is director of operations at Pfizer Inc. in Groton, Conn., overseeing a staff of 42 in drug safety and toxicology research. He and Melanie are now the proud owners of a new home in Pawcatuck and enjoy getting to know the local area. They often get together with Tracy Brown Phillips ’96, husband Paul, and daughter Elizabeth.

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Class Co-Presidents: S. Ayesha Farag-Davis, 8 Infiniti Way, Auburn ME 04210, faragdavis@aol.com; Ellen Mary McDevitt, Apt. 2, 160 Coyle St., Portland ME 04103, ellen.mcdevitt@gmail.com Jessica Christie Morowitz and her family moved to Pittsburgh. They welcomed Jack Satter Morowitz on March 18, 2010. He joins big sister Anna (3).... Folk singer/songwriter Mark Erelli released two records this year, a collection of murder ballads recorded with Jeffrey Foucault called Seven Curses, and Little Vigils, his ninth full-length studio album. Mark tours regularly both solo and in support of Kris Delmhorst, Lori McKenna, and Catie Curtis. He and his wife, Pauline, welcomed Caleb Matthew Erelli on June 25, 2010... Ayesha Farag-Davis is now principal of Bruce M. Whittier Middle School in Poland, Maine. She was previously principal at Poland Community School.... Michael Maccaro joined the Massachusetts law firm of Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP. His practice focuses on labor and employment in the public and private sector, litigation, and employee benefits.

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Class Co-Secretaries: Christopher J. Gailey and Leah Wiedmann Gailey, 8 Deerfield Rd., Freeport ME 04032, thegaileys@myfairpoint.net Class President: Lawrence L. Ackerman, 48 Sunrise St., Plainview NY 11803, larryack@hotmail.com Kimmochi Eguchi helped to welcome Batesies to Tokyo on Sept. 16 during the annual Bates in the City reception held in various cities around the world. After years as our Bates Club man in Tokyo, Kimmochi is turning over his volunteer cap to others, as he heads to the U.K. for a full-time Ph.D. program at the Univ. of Leeds. “There may be some that I was unable to serve enough, but it was my pleasure to serve you for the 10 years.”... Jerri Nims Rooker is associate director of the Center for Law, Health & Society at Georgia State Univ. College 44  Bates  W I N TER 2011

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Class Committee: Robert R. Curtis, 960 MacArthur Dr., Ballston Spa NY 12020, robcurtis@eatonvance .com; Douglas R. Beers, 14 Prescott Ct., Basking Ridge NJ 07920, douglas.beers@gmail.com; Liam Leduc Clarke and Renee Leduc Clarke, 639 Lamont St. NW, Washington DC 20010, ldlc639@yahoo.com, rleducclarke@yahoo.com; Tyler W. Munoz, Unit 3, 24 Upton St., Boston MA 02118, Tyler.Munoz@ avenuea-razorfish.com

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Class Secretary: Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard, 369 W. Windsor Dr., Bloomingdale IL 60108, jlemkin@ alumni.bates.edu Class President: Jamie Ascenzo Trickett, 35 Fairview Ave., Reading MA 01867, jamie.trickett@gmail.com Kelsey MacMillan Banfield, author of the popular Naptime Chef blog, has finalized a publishing deal with Running House Press, and her first cookbook, The Naptime Chef: Fitting Great Food Into Family Life, will be in stores spring 2012. “My website was redesigned in August and is doing well,” Kelsey says. “Daphne is having a great fall, adoring her first year of preschool and helping me ‘do mixing’ in the kitchen.”

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Class Secretary: Cynthia Macht Link, 17 W. 73rd St., Apt. 2F, New York NY 10023, cynthiamacht@ hotmail.com Class Co-Presidents: Jennifer Glassman Jacobs, 107 W. 68th St., Apt. 1D, New York, NY 10023, jenniferglassman@gmail.com; Megan H. Shelley, 329 Branch Dr., Silver Spring MD 20901, mhshelley@ aol.com Lori Buffum is now regional sales executive, based in Chicago, for Wachovia Global Securities Lending. Previously she was with Wells Capital Management.... Sara Milstein earned a Ph.D. in Bible and ancient Near-Eastern studies at New York University and is now pursuing a post-doctoral fellowship for 2010–11.... Kirsten Walter, director of the Nutrition Center of Maine in Lewiston, received the annual Katherine O. Musgrave Public Service Award from

the Maine Nutrition Council. She was nominated by colleague Erin Guay for her advocacy to ensure the availability of safe and healthful foods for all Lewiston-Auburn residents and leading nutrition and food system education efforts statewide.

01 l reunion 2011, June 10–12 l

Class Co-Presidents: Katherine H. Enfinger, 1272 Becket Dr. SE, Huntsville AL 35801, kenfinger@ gmail.com; Francis E. Tate II, 825 Central Rd., Rye Beach NH 03871, ftate@unibind.com Jesse Connolly served as senior adviser to Democrat Libby Mitchell’s campaign for Maine governor. A political consultant, he most recently served as Maine House Speaker Hannah Pingree’s chief of staff and ran the “No on 1” campaign that tried, unsuccessfully, to keep the state’s gay-marriage law.... Joshua Sanford is now a special-education teacher at Mansfield (Mass.) High School. He has a master’s in special education from Lesley College.... Daniel Snow is now a search account manager at IMPAQT, a search engine marketing firm based in Pittsburgh.

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Class Secretary: Drew G. Weymouth, 7 Briarwood Rd., Rutland MA 01543, drew@weymouthtech.com Class President: Jason M. Surdukowski, Apt. 2, 91 School St., Concord NH 03301, surdukowski@ hotmail.com Jane Barlow is an associate veterinarian at the Weare (N.H.) Animal Hospital. Her husband, Adam Roy, works as a project scientist at Nobis Engineering. They were married Sept. 11, 2010, in Milford, N.H.... Whitman Holt joined the law firm of Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, a national boutique based in Los Angeles, as an equity partner. Whitman’s practice focuses on all aspects of bankruptcy and insolvency law, including the representation of debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, official committees, asset purchasers, and other parties with an interest in troubled corporations, banks, thrifts, and insurers. Whitman lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Adina Mori-Holt.... JD Lichtman writes, “It continues to surprise me how easy Bates made it to fall in love with Maine.” A Portland resident, he’s a clinical social worker providing trauma-focused treatment to children and families. He’s also busy working on his new house “or talking about it while enjoying the arts and food of this city.” In the summer he works at Camp Tapawingo in the foothills of the White Mountains.... Jane Macy-Painter lives with her husband in downtown Hartford and works at the new Connecticut Science Center.... Chris Rogers owns Rogers Special Projects in Penobscot, Maine, which specializes in boat building and advanced composite marine-parts fabrication. He’s a member of the team building Puma Ocean Racing’s 2011 sailboat entry in the Volvo Ocean Race; the boat will be built in Portsmouth, R.I. In 2008 and 2009, he was on the boat-building team for BMW Oracle Racing’s 2010 America’s Cup entry, which won the cup. Chris and Rebecca Whidden were married July 17, 2010. She is an architectural designer at Perry Dean Rogers Partners Architects in Boston and a studio instructor at Boston Architectural College.

03 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Co-Presidents: Kirstin C. McCarthy, 1334 13th St. NW, Washington DC 20005, kirstinmccarthy@ yahoo.com; Melissa Wilcox Yanagi, 20 Braddock Park Unit 1, Boston MA 02116, melissa.yanagi@ staples.com In Southern Maine, Isabel Aley works with SunriseGuide, a program that aggregates information and resources, coupled with valuable coupons, to support a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. She’s studying nutrition through the Nutritional Therapy Alumni events at community.bates.edu

Assn.... After Amanda Bellino married UVM grad Luke Owen in June on Peaks Island (joined by 20 Batesies) they honeymooned on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. They’re now at home in Cambridge, Mass., and Amanda works in human resources at State Street and recently completed a master’s in human resource education at Boston Univ. She is also training for her fifth marathon, in November in Philadelphia.... Joisan Decker married Rob DeHaan last summer in Stetson Chapel at Kalamazoo College, where her parents are alumni and she now works. But Joisan and Rob, both natives of Kalamazoo, didn’t exactly rush into it. “In total, Rob and I dated 10 years, off and on, before marrying,” she reports. “I met him the summer before my sophomore year at Bates, and we’d date each summer but break up when I returned to Bates. We started dating again when I was in grad school at Tufts then living in New York and he continued to live in Kalamazoo. In 2009, we bought a house together outside Kalamazoo, he proposed, and a year later we were married.” Batesies at the wedding kept good friend Suzi Andrew South ’04, at home with her new baby, “up to date with texts and pictures of the ceremony via phone.” See their wedding photo in this issue.... The St. Petersburg Times chronicled the “adventurous engagement” of Stetson Univ. law student Suzie Eldridge and environmental photojournalist Carlton Ward Jr. “A mutual friend introduced them, seeing how they saw the Big Picture, from the fragility of the ecosystem to the frailty of humanity,” the Times said. Suzie, who helped start two nonprofits that focus on emotional health issues in young women, is now the managing director of the Univ. of South Florida Hope House for Eating Disorders. She and Carlton, whose work supports nature conservancy projects, met at a charity benefit in 2007. Traveling together to Brazil, the Bahamas, and Cuba stretched and strengthened their friendship. He proposed in Thailand after they surfed on Nai Harn Beach, giving her a ring from his surfboard shorts pocket. “I turned to my right and he’s in a foot of water, on his knee. I still can’t stop smiling,” she said. They were married June 5, 2010, in Tampa, Fla.... Brent Jarkowski was training for his fifth marathon, slated for October in Toronto. By now he expects he’ll have another great run behind him!... Mike Masi took over as head coach of the boys soccer team at York High School this season. A 1999 York graduate who played soccer at Bates, he was the second of three Masi brothers who excelled at York and later played soccer in college. “I’ve had my eye on this for a while, so I was happy to get it,” Mike told Seacoastonline.com. Previously he was a volunteer assistant to the boys soccer teams at Oyster River High School, where he teaches physical science and astronomy.... Kirstin McCarthy’s new position as an education and development specialist at DevTech Systems Inc. took her to Ghana and Colombia this past summer to work on USAID projects. In September she completed her fifth Olympic-distance triathalon at the Nation’s Triathlon in DC. Other Batesies competing included Tom Sheridan, Michael Jensen ’01, and Gudrun Mirick ’01.... Congrats to Rick Morrill, the new resource manager for Baxter State Park. He’ll manage the park’s Scientific Forest Management Area located in the northwest corner of the park. At 29,587 acres, the area is actively managed to demonstrate exemplary and sustainable forest management. Rick has a master’s in forestry from UMaine–Orono. He’s a member of the Society of American Foresters and serves on the board of directors of The Forest Guild.

04 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l

Class Co-Presidents: Eduardo Crespo, Apt. 714, 33 Gold St., New York NY 10038, ecrespo@alumni .bates.edu; Tanya M.L. Schwartz, Unit 612, 1225 13th St. NW, Washington DC 20005, tanyaschwartz@alumni.bates.edu Abigail Adams and Robert Graves were married in September 2010 on Martha’s Vineyard. Abby works

Jesse Reich ’01

A Misfire for Biodiesel Entrepreneurs sometimes strike it rich. Other times, says Jesse Reich ’01, “you get hosed.” Reich is talking about the biodiesel business in Massachusetts and the situation facing his startup, Baystate Biofuels, the state’s first fullscale commercial facility dedicated to biodiesel distribution. When the North Andover company went online in 2009, Massachusetts was fired up about biofuel. A federal $1 per gallon tax credit was spurring biodiesel production nationally, and Massachusetts had passed a law mandating a biodiesel blend for home-heating fuel. “It was beautiful,” Reich recalls. “The first three months we had well over $1 million in sales. We were just flying.” The business got rave reviews for using the existing infrastructure of a massive, shuttered telecom manufacturing plant, with the firm retrofitting large tanks once used to store fuel oil. “We didn’t kill a tree” to create the green Baystate Biofuels facility, he says. The beautiful situation turned beastly last winter. First, Congress allowed the federal biodiesel tax credit to expire — sort of. Then, in July, Massachusetts regulators, after waffling on implementing the state biodiesel mandate, decided not to implement it at all.

as a director of marketing for Market Platform Dynamics, a consulting firm based in Boston. Robert, a chartered financial analyst, is a vice president for Columbia Management in Boston.... Timothy Cooke, wife Sita, and daughter Sibel moved last summer to Stuttgart, Germany, where he works as the academic coordinator for the Defense Department’s U.S. European Command.... Carrie Curtis began her master’s of music education degree at the Univ. of Northern Colorado in Greeley. She misses the mountain lifestyle of Vail but is excited to be moving in a new direction.... Leslie Shages is in her second year in BU’s graduate business program. She went to Senegal last summer to do business development consulting with the West Africa Trade Hub.... A Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist profiled a group of young “Cleveland believers,” including Graham Veysey, who are “bright, energetic, and committed young people — people who not only love this city, but are obsessed with making it better.” Dubbed the Cleveland Coalition, the nine young leaders have

By H. Jay Burns “Losing the federal tax credit in itself isn’t so bad,” Reich says. What’s bad is that Congress hasn’t killed it completely, and the resulting uncertainty is killing Reich’s company. He explains: Oil companies are mandated by the federal government to use biofuels alongside conventional fuels. One way they can get credit for compliance, besides purchasing biofuels, is by purchasing a credit known as a Renewable Identification Number. And who sells these credits? Yup, companies like Baystate Biofuels. “We can sell RIN as well as fuel to make a profit,” Reich says. But right now, Baystate Biofuels faces a ludicrous, heads-I-win, tails-you-lose situation. Because oil companies believe that the biodiesel tax credit might come back, they’re not buying RINs. Nor is anyone buying much biodiesel, since biodiesel without the dollar-a-gallon credit isn’t competitive with petrodiesel. “Our business model works whether the tax credit is or isn’t in place — but not when there’s regulatory uncertainty,” Reich says. Reich, a Bates chemistry major who earned a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Texas A&M, got his biodiesel idea after working in sustainable product development for chemical company BASF. “We looked for sustainable products where the cost is the same [as an unsustainable product] but where the environmental footprint is less. Then it’s a beautiful product.” Reich and his wife, Alene Wilmoth Reich ’02, live in Ayer with their daughter. When not running BayState Biofuels, he teaches at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. “If Baystate Biofuels fails, we’ll move on,” Reich says, “and figure other ways to support the environment and create a better future for our family, friends, and community.”

begun “sharing ideas to make Cleveland better,” wrote columnist Brent Larkin. “The Cleveland Coalition is no social club. The only entrance requirement is a willingness to act and a burning desire to make Cleveland a better place.” Graham, who grew up in Shaker Heights, now owns his own media company, North Water Partners. He’s “passionate,” wrote Larkin, about his work on a six-acre urban farm on the near West Side, where “we can walk that produce to the West Side Market.”

05 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l

Class Co-Presidents: Lawrence J. Handerhan, 3915 23rd St., San Francisco CA 94114, larry.handerhan@ gmail.com; Sarah K. Neukom, 78 Westland Ave., 307, Boston MA 02115, sneukom@alumni.bates.edu Marselle Alexander-Ozinskas now works as a foundations grant-writer for Ceres, a sustainability nonprofit in Boston. She and her boyfriend moved W I N TER 2011  Bates  45

Burning Interest

Stephanie Eby ’02 discovers that after the Serengeti burns, herbivores come calling

Management-set fires in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park prevent grass from becoming moribund.

Cheetahs and other predators find it harder to sneak up on prey after fires remove taller grass.

Zebras and wildebeest pass through a recently burned area of the park.

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hese photographs of Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park illustrate research by biologist Stephanie Eby ’02 that explains how the park’s large mammals, especially herbivores, are affected by fires intentionally set by park management. Eby, who did the research for her Ph.D. dissertation at Syracuse Univ., explains that fires are set to ensure that grasslands do not become moribund and to lower the risk that fires from outside the park will spread into the park and destroy large areas. Each year, intentional fires burn a third of the park. Far from harming herbivores, Eby has documented that some species — such as Thomson’s gazelles, Grant’s gazelles, wildebeest, impala, and warthog — are actually attracted to burned areas for about six months following a fire. As she began her research, Eby postulated five possible reasons for this attraction: Herbivores could be seeking nutrient-rich, post-burn plants; eating ash as a nutrient supplement; avoiding parasites and predators; or utilizing the warmer microclimate. Her research uncovered two primary reasons. “First, the herbivores are attracted to the newer, more nutritious plant growth that sprouts after burning,” Eby explains. “Second, the fires decrease vegetation height, making it harder for carnivores to sneak up on the herbivores. Ash may also play a minor role shortly after burning as it is higher in nutrients than unburned vegetation.”

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Zebras and other herbivores prefer to eat the new plant growth after a fire.

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to Cambridge.... Kelsey Barrett spent the summer in Seattle helping Cle Franklin ’02 with her Halfpint Homemade Ice Cream business and volunteering at Helping Link where she taught math to Vietnamese immigrants.... Siri Berman finished her contract at the American School of Mexico City, where she got a master’s in international learning styles.... Dave Burns earned a master’s in environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, focusing on natural resource and conservation policy. He’s applying for positions related to climate change mitigation/adaptation, protected areas, and international development.... Eli Clifton, who writes on U.S. foreign policy as well as trade and finance issues at the Washington bureau of Inter Press Service, contributes to journalist James Lobes’ Lobelog, which focuses on neo-conservatives and their worldview. Eli has a master’s in international political economy from the London School of Economics.... Katherine Creswell runs a two-acre organic garden for Bowdoin College and has begun her own farm in Brunswick, growing grains and beans.... Joanna Dove received the Post-Graduate Award from the Assn. of Bermuda International Companies. Joanna, who worked at Eze Castle Software in Boston for the past four years and was promoted from quality assurance analyst to associate product manager, plans to earn an M.B.A. at Oxford Univ.... Brian Gerrity went from working in athletic operations at the Univ. of Hartford to working in athletic marketing. He’s also in charge of corporate sponsorships.... Robert Gomez finished third among Maine men in the annual Beach To Beacon 10K Road Race in Cape Elizabeth last August. He was interviewed before the race by the Portland Press Herald, which noted that the former Bates running star, who is working on a master’s degree in chemistry from UMaine, won five 5K races in Maine the month before.... After five years in the real world, Larry Handerhan has returned to academia. He is pursuing a master’s degree in public affairs focusing on urban policy and planning at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. When not promoting transitorientated development or performing regression analysis, Larry hopes to see any Batesies living in the greater NYC area.... After traveling to Tanzania, Thailand, and Laos last summer, Cara Howieson started a full-time M.B.A. at the Univ. of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.... Collin Keyser joined the law firm of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin in Lansdale, Pa., as an associate in the litigation department. Previously he was a law clerk to a judge in the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court.... Meredith Maller started law school at Maryland “and am a sometimes Charm City Roller Girl.” She was appointed to the board of A Taste of Home, an organization that supports the Maryland National Guard, and does a lot of work with the Homeless Persons Representation Project and Equality Maryland. She and her boyfriend, Ben, are engaged.... After five years in Boston, Sarah Neukom moved to Chicago and started a new position as an event coordinator at Red Frog Events. “I’m excited to join the other Batesies in the Windy City and explore what my new environment has to offer!”... Sally Pratt-Heaney and Matthew Wu ’03 were married Aug. 28, 2010, at the Plaza Hotel in New York. “We met spring semester when I was a sophomore and he was a senior...been together seven and a half years!” Sally wrote.... Gregory Rosenthal is still studying for his Ph.D. in history at Stony Brook Univ. and enjoying living in New York City. He’s engaged to Caroline Gillaspie (Mount Holyoke College ’08).... The latest creation of Lewiston filmmaker Craig Saddlemire is Cat Window, an experimental short film about two indoor cats and what they see out of their second-floor apartment window. “I have seen a lot of interesting things from these windows,” Craig told the Sun Journal. So have his cats Blake and Maple, sisters named after the streets that surround their home. He filmed Cat Window during the spring, summer, and fall of 2009. “Spring is when

the neighborhood gets interesting. There is a lot of opportunity for spontaneous education,” he said about his walks through downtown.... Zach Seely wrapped up two and a half years at the Internet startup Hulu and began his first year at the Wharton School.... Juyoung Shim works at UMaine–Orono as a research associate/lab manager. Daughter Hana is a high school sophomore. The family is hosting a student from Japan for a year.... Jon Steingold was quoted in a Variety article about the boutique talent agency Evolution Music Partners, where he manages its licensing operation. He joined the Los Angeles company to oversee its catalog and create opportunities for clients in video games, advertising, and film and television trailers. Variety described the seven-year-old company, which has an eclectic roster of film composers, songwriters, and music supervisors, as “an indie outfit with street cred that’s also strong when it comes to catapulting their artists into high-profile projects.” Jon told the publication: “We’ve found that licensing and creating original work opportunities for our clients go hand in hand. For example, we were able to get Dan Licht to score Konami’s latest Silent Hill game and Brian Reitzell to score THQ’s Red Faction: Armageddon, after I initially approached them about licensing from our catalog.” Jon sees Emma Giorgi pretty regularly.... Carrie Trevisan and Noah Corwin ’04 were married Aug. 28, 2010. She works as a registered nurse at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. He is the operations manager of the Redwood Restaurant and Bar in Bethesda, Md.... Christopher van der Lugt, now in his second and final year for his M.B.A., secured a job as a principal consultant

agroecology at the Norwegian Univ. of Life Sciences. He had worked for the federal Bureau of Land Management on the Forty Mile River near Tok, Alaska, assisting with cleanup of gold mine sites and monitoring peregrine falcon nests. His obituary will be in the Spring issue.... Kelsey Engman was named the first head coach of the women’s squash program at Columbia Univ., which was elevated to varsity status this fall. Previously she spent two years at Tufts Univ. as a coach and was also an assistant squash pro at the Fairmount Athletic Club in King of Prussia, Pa. Kelsey was a standout player at Bates and captain of the team as a senior.

08 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l

Class Co-Presidents: Elizabeth Murphy, Apt. 601, 1931 N Cleveland St., Arlington VA 22209, elizabeth.jayne.m@gmail.com; Alison Schwartz, Apt. 904, 2351 Eisenhower Ave., Alexandria VA 22314, alisonrose.schwartz@gmail.com Tim McCall was awarded a fellowship toward a master’s degree by the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation of Washington, D.C. The fellowships support aspiring teachers of American history, government, and social studies.... CBS News anchor Katie Couric interviewed Scott Pierce, who co-writes the blog Tales from the Recently Laid Off, for a trend story about joblessness in America. One of two young bloggers interviewed by Couric, Scott had actually just gotten a job at Metacafe as a junior editor. He explained that after arriving in San Francisco, he got an internship at Wired (where he

Meredith Maller ’05 started law school at Maryland and is “a sometimes Charm City Roller Girl.” at a healthcare IT consulting company, NaviNet.... Daniel Vannoni was named the managing director of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, the world’s largest and oldest student-run business plan competition. The competition celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2010, fostering the creation of over 130 companies worth more than $15 billion over the last two decades. Dan is also an M.B.A. student at the MIT Sloan School of Management, focusing on entrepreneurship and innovation.

06 l reunion 2011, June 10–12 l

Class Co-Presidents: Katharine M. Nolan, 3188 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville TN 37215, knolan@alumni .bates.edu; John F. Phelan, Apt. 510, 1954 Columbia Rd. NW, Washington DC 20009, johnf.phelan@ gmail.com In a letter to the Portland Press Herald, Ali Vander Zanden, a member of the Maine People’s Alliance, hailed congressional passage of healthcare legislation. “Over the next few decades, the healthcare reform bill will aid millions of people, save our country billions of dollars, lower the cost of health insurance for those who can least afford it, and benefit small businesses all over America,” said the alliance’s former healthcare organizer.

07 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l

Class Co-Presidents: Keith D. Kearney Jr., 3013 Sunset Ln., Suitland MD 20746, kdkearney@gmail.com; Rakhshan Zahid, Apt. 2B, 350 W. 18th St., New York NY 10011, rakhshan.zahid@gmail.com The class extends condolences to the family and friends of Nate Dorpalen, who died in a hiking accident in northern Norway on Oct. 7, 2010. Nate was studying for his master’s in environmental

was hired by executive editor Thomas Goetz ’90), then did freelance work before landing the Metacafe job. (He continues to freelance, recently interviewing actress Angelina Jolie and director James Cameron for Wired.) “It’s nice to know what it feels like to make money,” he joked. “I don’t feel bad about paying $2 for the bus.” Job-search author Ellen Gordon Reeves, who offered expert advice during the segment, said Scott did his job search the right way: by “showing initiative” with his blogging, which shows “writing skills and marketing skills,” and by doing “something every day, not just sitting home waiting for something to happen.”... Nate Walton is pursuing graduate studies in public policy and international relations at Brown Univ.

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Class Co-Presidents: Timothy S. Gay, 88 Hancock St., Cambridge, MA 02139, timothy.s.gay@gmail .com; Arsalan Suhail, Apt. 2709, 400 N 4th St., St. Louis MO 63102, arsalansuhail@gmail.com Sulo Dissanayak returned to Bates in September to recount her experiences researching theatrical practices in Africa and Indonesia as a Watson Fellow. One of 40 recipients of the 2009 fellowship, she studied performance traditions in Indonesia and contemporary theater companies in South Africa. She hopes ultimately to teach contemporary drama in her native Sri Lanka.... Bio major Brian Klein, in graduate school at Tufts, had a proposal up for vote during one of the recent Pepsi Refresh grant cycles. The proposal was related to dairy “probiotics”: body-friendly microorganisms in certain dairy products that could serve as effective and safe treatments for oral diseases.... Molly Ladd is making a difference as a de facto teen librarian at the Lewiston Public Library, the Sun Journal reported. Now in her second year at the library, the AmeriCorps VISTA

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Strategy pays off for Jurgen Nebelung ’04, winner of the Yarmouth Clam Festival Bike Race

DON MCEWAN

The Big Break

CHRISTOPHER PARKER GARDNER

Jurgen Nebelung ’04 takes a corner on his way to victory in the Yarmouth Clam Festival Bike Race.

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n these photographs, cyclist Jurgen Nebelung ’04 heads to victory at the popular and highly competitive Yarmouth Clam Festival Bike Race on July 8. Like any race — whether on feet, wheels, or hooves — strategy plays a huge role, so Nebelung offered to explain the running of the Yarmouth race, in which he was one of six cyclists from the Embrocation Cycling Journal team, based in Boston. The 36-mile Yarmouth race is a circuit race, meaning it’s over a closed course, in this case 10 laps of a 3.6-mile loop in and around the town center. “We had six racers for Yarmouth so we had some options,” he says. “Two rode the front to collect ‘primes’ — mid-race sprints for cash. A teammate and I paid attention to any breakaways. And two of our better sprinters stayed with the field to clean up” at the finish in case a final breakaway didn’t develop. Nebelung’s breakaway-focused teammate went with an early break. “But they came back,” he says. “Then, with four laps to go, I formed a break with six other riders, and we joined a lone rider already up the road.” From there to the finish, he tried to “ride smart, make my contribution to the breakaway effort, and wait for the right time to attack.” That moment came less than a mile from the finish. “The breakaway was a little complacent as to who was going to take up the pace in preparation for the sprint finish,” he says. “I took advantage of the disorganization and attacked to hold a gap all the way to the finish.” Nebelung, a newcomer to the team, relished the win. “I was a fairly anonymous guy in the bunch, kind of a wild card,” he says. “After the win I was put on more breakaway duty, the guy who makes sure we get into the breakaway should one develop.” Nebelung and his wife, Isabel Aley ’03, live in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

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At the finish Nebelung is exultant.

During the awards ceremony he acknowledges his win.

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volunteer created an art night for teens, a reading program, a writing group, and a free summer camp. “She helps them with their homework. They go to her for advice. Once a stranger who couldn’t be trusted — many teens refused to tell her their real names when she first arrived — Ladd has become a mentor to them,” the newspaper said. Ellen Gilliam, library deputy director, said, “They’re not at loose ends and they know there are people here who care about them. That’s huge with kids.” The Muskie School of Public Service in Portland manages the 24 AmeriCorps VISTA members who work with children in Maine. Molly is the only one they’ve placed in a library in the past 10 years. “In a way, it’s almost like a default youth center,” Molly said. “I just kind of went with it.”... Corey Pattison received a Fulbright to teach English in Yogyakarta, a city in Java, Indonesia. He plans also to research contemporary Islamic political groups, a topic related to his politics thesis at Bates, and hopes to work alongside the Islamic studies faculty at a nearby university. He plans to go into international law. Corey previously worked with the American NGO Relief International in Gaza, Palestine.... Matthew Paul, a seaman recruit, completed U.S. Navy basic training in Great Lakes, Ill.... Jessie Sawyer is a staff reporter at The Register Citizen in Torrington, Conn. “I really enjoy writing. It’s not just a job for me — it’s part of who I am,” she told the paper.... Meghan Somers works as an admissions assistant and cross-country coach for Fontbonne Academy in Milton, Mass.... Charlotte Weidlein and Andrea Svigals ’10, interns at the Bates Museum of Art, helped organize an exhibit displaying works that Lewiston’s beloved artist Delbert Dana Coombs painted from 1880 to 1905 in the company of contemporary landscapes from the corresponding period a century later, 1980–2005.

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Class Co-Presidents: Brianna R. Bakow, 28 Percy Rd., Lexington MA 02421, bbakow@bates.edu; Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan, 3 Ivanhoe Dr., Topsham ME 04086, vantielelizabeth.duncan@gmail.com The Newburyport (Mass.) Daily News saluted hometown grad Tommy Beaton after he received Bates’ Senior Sportsmanship Award. Tommy was a captain on the football and baseball teams and was named All-Conference in both sports. The newspaper says the Beatons are like “the first family” of local sports: Tommy is the son of former Pentucket High School field hockey coach Ruth Beaton, the brother of field hockey player Lyndsay Beaton ’12, and the cousin of top tennis player Jeff Beaton ’12. “My sister and cousin saw how much fun I was having up at Bates, and they made the same decision to go there,” Tommy said. “It’s definitely like anything else — you get out of it what you put into it.” Tommy is working on a master’s in education at Tufts, where he is also a graduate assistant football coach this fall. “I’m not sure what level yet, but I definitely want to go into college coaching,” he said.... David Curley works as an associate for O’Brien Commercial Properties Inc. of Marlborough, Mass. He had internship experience at the Burlington, Vt.-based commercial real estate firm Donahue and Associates and at Avidia Bank.... Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan was a Top 30 nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year.... Bradley McGraw started a job with Analysis Group in New York.... Emily Pressman now works for Barclays Group and has moved to New York City.... Doug Ray has begun a master’s in journalism at Stanford.... Daniel Engelberg spent the summer traveling the Midwest and West Coast and continued his travels this fall with a friend from high school.... Jamie Cragnoline started an AmeriCorps job in Portland. Last summer she traveled to Israel with Ariela Silberstein, who is living and working in Spain for a year.... Danny Gimbel started law school at the Univ. of Florida.... Naima Murphy and Marshall Hatch work for the Bates Admissions Office.... Bill Mortimer works in admissions for Marlboro College in Vermont.... As part of his internship with The

Laguna Beach (Calif.) Independent, Ben Hester interviewed soccer fans watching Spain win the World Cup on TV at a Mexican restaurant in Laguna Beach. He included comments from his sister, Eva, a Laguna Beach High School senior who studied abroad in Santander, Spain, in July. “She hoped to better her language skills and absorb some culture. Fate and luck provided her a window on an epic event in Spain’s history,” he wrote.... WCSH-TV, southern Maine’s NBC affiliate, updated its 2007 story on Chomba Kaluba, who received a Teens Who Care award three years ago. The update noted that Chomba, who grew up in Zambia, “hasn’t stopped helping others.” He has worked with efforts to eradicate HIV/AIDS in Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa. He went to Guatemala with the Maine-based group Safe Passage to help families who work at the garbage dumps, and he’s started a foundation to help people in Zambia.... Avery Masters received a Fulbright to teach English in a secondary school in a Madrid suburb for 20 hours a week, and devote the rest of her time to researching the relationship between identity and community involvement in Spain. A double major in rhetoric and Spanish, she studied in Argentina during the 2008–09 academic year, and more recently worked in Nicaragua with the nonprofit Partners in Health Maine.... Maura McGee received a Fulbright to teach English to high school students in Saint-Ouen l’Aumône, near Paris. A double major in French and politics, she already had experience working with French youth, including two weeks of research with young people in Paris for a senior thesis, and a semester of study and teaching school in Rennes. She expects to make teaching her career. “During the Rennes internship I really got to test the way I run a classroom. I tried to pull my Bates experience into that, to show my passion for the subject matter and transmit that to the students,” she said....

Emily Monty is pursuing a master’s in art history at Tufts.... For its Project Economy series, southern Maine ABC affiliate WMTW-TV spotlighted Pricefalls.com, the Dutch auction website founded by economics major Elliot Moskow. Reporter Keith Baldi interviewed Elliot during Commencement week; the startup also includes Chad Casey ’09, creative and marketing director, and Peter Schaefer, CIO and executive vice president.... Marilla Pender-Cudlip was honored with a top prize and 100 euros in prize money for her research poster at the 10th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, held in June in Thessaloniki, Greece. The conference represents the best work in the field of bioinorganic chemistry, the study of metal ions in biological systems. Most of the presenters were graduate students presenting doctoral work or postdoctoral associates and professors — “a very competitive field,” said chemistry professor Rachel Austin. Marilla is pausing before graduate school, now in Boston at Massachusetts General Hospital, assisting a medical researcher who studies Omega 3 fatty acids... Abby Samuelson celebrated her graduation from Bates by running a road race with her mother, 1984 Olympic marathon champion Joan Benoit Samuelson, for the first time. Before the 5K Freihofer’s Run for Women June 5 in Albany, N.Y., where they finished as the top motherdaughter team, Abby told The Times-Union with a laugh: “I don’t like running with her. She’s always pushing the pace. She says it’s going to be easy, and then it’s not.” Abby, who was on the cross-country and Nordic ski teams at Bates, mostly runs to keep in shape for Nordic skiing, her preferred sport. Said Joan, “It’s the beginning of a new life for both of us, so we thought it would be fun to do something like this together.” In October, Abby ran her first marathon, in Chicago, and finished in 3:23:45. Her father, Scott, clocked 3:39:57, while Joan finished in 2:47:50, a world record for a woman over 51.

Only Have Pies for You

At the reception following their July 31 wedding outside Madison, Wis., Keith Hengen ’06 and Catherine Pautsch changed the recipe just a bit, eschewing a wedding cake and instead serving nearly three dozen pies to their guests. The couple has nothing against wedding cakes — except that they’re “generally overpriced, impersonal, and a bit more like cardboard than they ought to be,” Keith says. So, after “not very much deliberation,” the couple realized that Keith’s family has a number of skilled piemakers. “Cate and I ran the idea past them — ‘Would you mind making 20 pies?’ — and they were keen.” Friends also volunteered, resulting in 35 pies of all varieties, plus ice cream from the University of Wisconsin’s agricultural school. The pie reserved for the bride and groom was a Maine blueberry pie made by Keith’s mother. Otherwise, it was a free-for-all. “I watched ‘respectable’ friends spooning samples of five or six pies into their mouths as they passed the tables,” Keith chuckles. Keith is pursuing a doctorate in neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin, while Cate works toward a Ph.D. in educational policy and administration.

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T H E B AT E S W EDDI NG Please e-mail your high-resolution Bates group wedding photo to magazine@ bates.edu, or postal mail a print to Bates Magazine, 141 Nichols St., Lewiston ME 04240. 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.

BROLIS AND GIRARD ’00 Aelita Brolis and Jamie Girard ’00, July 3, 2010, Hunter, N.Y. Front: Lauren Lynch Granquist ’00, Chris Patuto ’00, Paul Yamin Rodden ’00, Jamie and Aelita, Zahid Rathore ’00, Kristen George ’00, Alissa Menovich Snowden ’00, Lucas Adams ’00; middle: Jennifer Brine Greenlaw ’00, Ashley Theil ’00, Lori Buffum ’00, Christina Hirsch Townsend ’00, John Tucker ’00, Josh Howes ’00, Allyson Kelley ’00, Jennifer Peterson ’00, Lauren Nichols ’00; back: Charlie Granquist ’00, Adam Greenlaw ’00, Tim Campbell ’00, Peter Townsend ’00. Also attending: George Recine ’00.

EGUCHI ’03 AND WRIGHT Yuko Eguchi ’03 and Bryan Wright (William & Mary ’05), May 16, 2010, Lynchburg, Va. Front: Sarah Rorimer ’03, Bryan and Yuko, Kimmochi Eguchi ’97; middle: Naomi and Koichi Eguchi P’03, P’97, Bonnie Laird Marsh ’44, John Marsh ’43; back: President Emeritus Don Harward, Roger Zimmerman P’89, Laura and Scott Fisher P’82, GP’14.

PAUTSCH AND HENGEN ’06 Catherine Pautsch and Keith Hengen ’06, July 31, 2010, near Madison, Wis. Craig Saddlemire ’05, Alex Verhave ’05, Kelton McMahon ’05, Jess Otis ’05, Catherine and Keith, Hannah Gaines ’03, Fisher Qua ’06, Roxanne Prichard holding Gayla, Jim Horwitz.

CARLETON ’99 AND VAUGHAN Emily Carleton ’99 and Troudy Vaughan, Feb. 20, 2010, Kiawah Island, S.C. Lisa Gralnek ’99, Julie Weiswasser ’99, Natalie Herald ’99, Emily and Troudy, Michelle Braunsten ’99, Rosie Zaklad ’99, Willy Carleton ’05, Rachel Walls ’99. Also attending: Elizabeth Wray Emery ’99, Travis Emery ’97.

BELLINO ’03 AND OWEN Amanda Bellino ’03 and Luke Owen, June 5, 2010, The Inn on Peaks Island, Peaks Island, Maine. Front: Luke and Amanda, Syrah Merkow McGivern ’03, Daniel Lindner ’03; middle: Adam Stern ’02, Mika Kanda ’03, Anna Purtell ’02, Amelia Haas ’03, Amanda Golden Berg ’03, Maya Levine ’03, Leah Clark Velez ’02, Vanessa Amaya Roman ’05, Josie Idoko ’03; back: Chris Jones ’02, SooAe Shaneyfelt ’04, Taiki Kubota ’03, Julia Stawiski ’03, Naira Arellano ’05, Jeff Berg ’03. Also attending: Mayuko Yoshida ’03.

HESLIN AND LOPEZ ’04 Erin Heslin (Fairfield ’03) and Michael Lopez ’04, July 9, 2010, Farmington Club, Farmington, Conn. Steven Brown ’69, Jim Murphy ’69, Jane Bode Brown ’69, Meg Helms Cimini ’04, Justine Cohen-Bolduc ’04, Susan Gangemi Murphy ’70, Jordan Upton ’04, Courtney Sullivan Strekel ’04, Alex Strekel ’04, Lynn Worthy ’04, Dave Hurley ’05, Mike, Pete Cimini ’04, Adam Crossman ’04, Erin, Jeff Davis ’04, Sandy Rubin Upton ’04, Liz Wanless ’04, Tom Lopez ’69, Matt Gagne ’04, Rebekah Friedman ’04, Ron Mallette ’69.

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BERNAT ’97 AND APPRILLE Deborah Bernat ’97 and Brian Apprille, Sept. 27, 2008, Bedford Village Inn, Bedford, N.H. Mimi Poon ’98, Lara Cartwright-Smith ’97, Deborah, Boren Chap Lon ’97, Lori Beth Bernat (Union ’00).

SAUERBRUN AND CUTLER ’01 May-Tal Sauerbrun and Alex Cutler ’01, May 13, 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel. Front: Paul Zinn ’01, Alex and May-Tal; back: Mark Warner ’01, Joe Reynolds ’01, Nate Michelsen ’01, Burke Davis ’01.

WEBB ’01 AND DICKERSON Amanda Webb ’01 and Jason Dickerson, Sept. 26, 2009, Bolton Landing, N.Y. Front: Amanda and Jason; middle: Erin Mullin Shank ’01, Jennifer Giblin Petro ’01, Kate Hagstrom Lepore ’01, Susan Perlman Wiadro ’01; back: Noah Petro ’01, Michael Costa ’00, Kristina Godek ’01, T.J. Lepore ’01, Carly Dell’Ova ’00.

DECKER ’03 AND DEHAAN Joisan Decker ’03 and Rob DeHaan, Aug. 21, 2010, Stetson Chapel, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mich. Morgan Carter ’03, Abbie Wescott Garrells ’03, Jaime Phalen Kullak ’03, Joisan, Sara Smith ’03, Kristin Carlson Gollub ’03, Nyssa Green ’03.

REYNOLDS ’05 AND CARLYLE Lauren Reynolds ’05 and Brent Carlyle (West Point ’03), Sept. 12, 2009, Manlius, N.Y. Sienna Vorono ’05, Rebecca Dessain ’05, Suzy Dowling ’05, Mike Brown ’05, Kate Kemp ’05, Sarah Tolford Selby ’04, Luke Selby ’05, Laurie Lau Layton ’05, Lauren and Brent, Cara Howieson ’05, Kelsey Barrett ’05, Stacy Layton ’05, Lauren Fisher ’05, Gretchen Gough ’05.

GRANT ’09 AND KALECZYC ’09 Emily Grant ’09 and John Kaleczyc ’09, July 24, 2010, Norwich, Vt. Front: Jess Adelman ’09, Kate Lyczkowski ’09, Grace Burton ’09, John and Emily, Dave Bohl ’09, Lee Abrahamsen, Maddie White ’09, Erin Bond ’09; back: Stuart Ryan ’09, Charlotte Coulter ’09, Tom Bowden ’09, Oleg Alekseev ’07, Mark Andrews ’09, Dave Broder ’09, Les Wade ’09.

KIRKLAND ’08 AND STAMBAUGH ’06 Cassandra Kirkland ’08 and Nate Stambaugh ’06, June 20, 2009, Norwich, N.H./Quechee, Vt. From top left: Ben Lebeaux ’06, John Neal ’78, Paul Caron ’76, Juliana Kirkland ’12, Elizabeth Sheridan-Rossi ’06, Jon Gay ’06, Diana Gauvin ’06, Tanya Nauvel ’06, Kelsey Omstead ’08, Ben Levin ’09, Jeanethe Falvey ’07, Nate Hubbell ’06, Aviva Goldstein ’08, Isabel Alexander ’09, Sara Ellen Godek ’11, Alison Leonard ’10, Windy Black Jansen ’07, Dustin Jansen ’06, Ngoc Pham ’10, Patrick Wales-Dinan ’05, Kathryn Moore ’07.

WHITING ’06 AND SIFF ’05 Annie Whiting ’06 and Sean Siff ’05, Feb. 27, 2010, Church Landing, Meredith, N.H. Front: Taryn Craig ’06, Kathryn Somers ’06, Kyla Decato ’06, Annie and Sean, Meg O’Dowd ’06, Evan Michel ’05; back: Laura Davenport Rollins ’00, Tom Rollins ’00, Elizabeth Whiting Andrews ’01, Kristin Whiting Mantius ’03, Derek DiGregorio ’06, Hannah Lund ’06, Eric Renkens ’05, Todd Myers ’06, Nick Martin ’05, Brian Wilmot ’05, Jeff Ramsayer ’05, Erica Feldman-Boshes ’05. Also attending: S. Rob Andrews ’01.

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V I TA L STATS

Who, What, Where, When? To have your news included in this marriages and births/adoptions compendium, please e-mail alumni@bates.edu or magazine@bates.edu with complete information, including full names and dates.

Marriages 1964

Pamela French MacPhee ’84 and Bob Peek, July 30, 2010

1984

Lorraine Kimball and Boyd Swenson, July 12, 2009 Shannon Seymour and Leigh Michl, Feb. 20, 2010

1993

Jen Begasse and Rocco Duardo, Rocco Antonio Duardo, Dec. 19, 2009 Karen Gleason Graham and Nicholas Graham, Wyatt Winston Graham, June 9, 2010 Arlen Percival ’94 and Wesley Shim, Olivia Bokyung Percival-Shim, Sept. 17, 2009

1994

Erin Riley and John Garesche, Aug. 1, 2009

Michelle Duffy and Christopher Duffy, Madeline M. Duffy, Feb. 3, 2010 Sheryl Nussbaum and Craig Nussbaum, Henry Nussbaum, May 25, 2010

1994

1995

1993

Naledi Norwebb and Jason Fraser, Dec. 15, 2009

1998

Katie Hut and Ben Levy, June 5, 2010

1999

Emily Carleton and Troudy Vaughan, Feb. 20, 2010

2002

Jane Barlow and Adam Roy, Sept. 11, 2010 Polly Carter and Nick Antol, Aug. 23, 2009 Rebecca Whidden and Chris Rogers, July 17, 2010

2003

Amanda F. Bellino and Luke Owen, June 5, 2010 Yuko Eguchi and Bryan Wright, May 16, 2010 Suzie Eldridge and Carlton Ward Jr., June 5, 2010 Sally Pratt-Heaney ’05 and Matthew Wu, Aug. 28, 2010 Elizabeth Wallace and Allan Smith, May 22, 2010

2004

Abigail Adams and Robert Graves, September 2010 Anne Wrigley and Seamus Collins, Oct. 3, 2009 Carrie Trevisan ’05 and Noah Corwin, Aug. 28, 2010 Erin Heslin and Michael Lopez, July 9, 2010 Courtney Sullivan and Alexander Strekel, July 24, 2010

2006

Sarah Mengel and Jesse McCree, Sept. 26, 2009 Anne Tiernan and Guillermo Moronta ’07, Aug. 28, 2010

Megan Fairfield and Schuyler Fairfield, Alec S. Fairfield, May 19, 2010

1996

Jessica Christie Morowitz and Michael Morowitz, Jack Satter Morowitz, March 18, 2010 Pauline Mathewson and Mark Erelli, Caleb Matthew Erelli, June 25, 2010 Hilary Holbrook Schneider and Michael Schneider, Eli Thomas Schneider, Aug. 4, 2010 Lauren Muckian Lindenfelser ’97 and Niles Lindenfelser, Merrin Bridget Lindenfelser, June 15, 2010 Sarah Spitz and David Jellinek, Avalon Reid Jellinek, June 25, 2010

1997

Letitia Apstein and Daniel Apstein, Daphne L. Apstein, May 28, 2010 Kristen Barricelli and Jeffrey Barricelli, Katherine Elizabeth Barricelli, May 12, 2010 Sabrina Carroll and Peter Rossi, Nina Anne Rossi and Jocelyn Anita Rossi, Aug. 22, 2010 Vanessa Turner and Bryan Turner, Vivian Kara Turner, June 11, 2010

1998

Sonia Szlyk and Ivan Petrovitch, Zander Ivan Petrovitch, June 13, 2010 Michele Zunic and Jeffrey Troughton, Stephen C. Troughton, May 24, 2010

1999

Births and Adoptions 1984

Dana Murray and Thomas Murray, Emerson B. Murray, Aug. 27, 2009 Linda Webster, Emily, born Aug. 8, 2008, in China, adopted July 2010

1988

Tracy Goodridge and Kelly Jo Cookson, Kane Joseph Cookson-Goodridge, born Jan. 22, 2008, adopted March 18, 2009

1990

Rachel Klein-Ash and James Ash, Bennett Klein McKillop Ash, March 17, 2010 Manjari Datta and Michael Reidy, Nikhil P. Reidy, Nov. 5, 2009

1991

Sandro Sechi and Erik Mercer, Rachel Maria Sechi Mercer, Aug. 14, 2010 Jennifer Ruma Bova and Clint Bova, Joseph C. Bova, Dec. 2, 2009

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Julie AhnAllen and Christopher AhnAllen, Noah Jun AhnAllen, Feb. 12, 2009 Jamie Ascenzo Trickett and Eric Trickett, Anderson A. Trickett, July 1, 2010 Laura Regan Gomes and Jack Cameron Gomes, Aiden Parker Gomes, March 3, 2010 Emmelyn Kim and Jason Kim, Alexander James Kim, May 4, 2010 Jessica Kremen-Kotlen Musiak and Bill Musiak, Jacob Kremen Kotlen Musiak, May 16, 2010 Jen Yanoff Silva and Jason Silva ’00, Dylan Jack Silva, April 1, 2010

2001

Jen Giblin and Noah Petro, Liam Petro, April 21, 2010 Jennifer Moore Meger and R. Andrew Meger, Westley Andrew Meger, July 28, 2010 Pamela Murchie Mehr and Kevin Mehr, Kieran Otto Mehr, Aug. 2, 2010 Virginia Nelsen Place and Jason Place, Christopher Michael Place, June 4, 2010

2002

Kristin Smith Pangallo and Dominick Pangallo ’03, Aurelia Marie Pangallo, May 18, 2010 Amanda Slocum Stevens and Daniel Stevens, Noah L. Stevens, June 15, 2010

Jessica Walls Wallaert ’03 and Gautier Wallaert, Henry David Wallaert, May 27, 2010 Lauralynn Weymouth and Drew Weymouth, Tyler Weymouth, April 5, 2010 Molly Haddon Hagstrom and Andrew Wilkie, River Haddon Wilkie, August 2010

2003

Rebecca Sheldon Gibboney and James Adam Gibboney, Nathan James Gibboney, January 2010

2004

Eileen Levesque and Justin Levesque, Nora E. Levesque, June 7, 2010

Deaths

Edited by Christine Terp Madsen ’73 1927 Elizabeth Alden Wassell, Sept. 15, 2005 Betty Alden Wassell and her husband, Albert, were both teachers, she of English and he of music. She taught in New Jersey, New Hampshire, Delaware, and Massachusetts. In 1931, the received an award from the Rotary Club in Worcester, Mass., for outstanding service to the community. After retirement in 1964, they moved to Florida where music, reading, and travel eventually gave way to swimming, gardening, and bridge. A Mainer by birth, she was always happy to hear a Maine accent in the Sunshine State. She also held a master’s from Boston Univ., and became a life member of Delta Delta Delta, which was founded at BU, while there. 1932 Ruth Brown Hedges, July 12, 2009 Ruth Brown Hedges was living in Massachusetts at the time of her death. Her husband, Gregory, predeceased her. Richard Calder Eliott, July 21, 2010 Dick Eliott was a man who stuck with things. A four-year member of the band, YMCA, and Outing Club at the College, he went on to work for W.T. Grant Co. (19 years) and King’s Dept. Store (18 years) for his entire career. He managed stores in Massachusetts and Connecticut for both companies, His career in retail was interrupted by service in the Army during World War II. Following retirement, he and his wife, Alice, moved to Arizona, but soon found they preferred Cape Cod winters to Arizona summers. His wife passed away in 2008. Survivors include daughters JoAnne LasCasas, Kathleen Rua, and Susan Searles; 10 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. 1933 Marjorie Arlington Anderson, Dec. 28, 2009 Marge Arlington Anderson arrived in Lewiston as a 10-year-old and immediately got to know the students on campus, who crowded into her stepfather’s ice cream store near the College. (Her stepfather, George A. Ross, was a member of the Class of 1904.) She left Lewiston with a degree in English and enrolled at Simmons to earn a bachelor’s in library science. For 31 years, she was the children’s librarian for the New York Public Library. Her husband, Carl, died in 1987.

1935 Morton Newell Arnold, April 3, 2010 Morton Arnold was a national sales manager for TV Guide and other publications. His late brother-inlaw was John H.W. Marquis ’35. Kenneth Lewis Bates, June 15, 2010 Ken Bates was born in Orono and went to high school in Damariscotta. He considered his time at Bates his first foray into the “real” world, and once said he would be glad to repeat it. In addition to his accomplishments both academic and athletic, he met his future wife, Marjorie Coggeshall ’35, at the College. A math major, he taught high school math in Massachusetts before joining Norton Mfg. Co. in Worcester, where he served as an instructor and sales supervisor. The highlight of his career there was a year in Brazil, where he organized and trained sales personnel. He was a registered professional engineer and a member of the Worcester Engineering Society, the American Society of Tool and Manufacturing Engineers, and the Massachusetts Society of Professional Engineers. As an alumnus, he served as president of the Worcester Bates Club and as a class agent. His wife died in 2008. Survivors include three sisters and a number of nieces and nephews. His late sister was Toni Bates Brown ’36, whose daughter, the Rev. Karen Brown Johnson ’65, briefly served the College as chaplain. Harry Fenton O’Connor, March 25, 2005 Phi Beta Kappa and an honors graduate in chemistry, Harry O’Connor worked as a research chemist until 1956, when he became president of Teulon Inc. in Cleveland. Four years later, he was appointed assistant sales manager for Carbic-Hoechst in Providence; in 1970, he became vice president and sales manager at Graphic Printing Ink. He retired from that company as president in 1976 and moved to Florida. Even there, he set up two corporations, one in sales and one in consulting, as a retiree. In 1938, he married Elizabeth Allen, and in 1960 he married Peggy Harrell, with whom he had a son. 1936 Damon Mitchell Stetson, May 31, 2010 Damon Stetson made his decision to attend the College when he was 10 and found that the outdoor track was to his liking. He visited the campus often as a child when his mother, Marion Mitchell Stetson 1905, returned for reunions. Not only did he run track and cross-country, he won the freshman prize in speaking, the sophomore prize in debate, and spoke at his graduation. He worked for The Bates Student and played on the College’s last varsity hockey team. His honors English thesis was on social change as seen through the works of Charles Dickens, a subject, he acknowledged, that might have sparked his interest in the labor movement, which he covered for many years as a reporter for The New York Times. His career in journalism started even before he completed a master’s at Columbia, when the Newark Evening News hired him as a copy boy, the traditional entry job. He left to join the Navy, conducting surveillance of potential officers and writing training manuals before applying for training in air combat intelligence. This eventually landed him in the middle of the battle for Okinawa aboard the USS Bataan. At war’s end, he flew along on missions that dropped supplies on former POW camps around Tokyo. He returned to the Newark newspaper, but soon started to teach at Columbia, where an editor for the Times also taught. In 1953, this editor offered him a job at the Times, and he remained with the paper until he retired in 1984. In addition to covering labor and employment issues, he covered some political campaigns and was part of a group of reporters who wrote an extensive series about desegregation in 1956. He recalled sitting in the office of Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus as Faubus struggled to avoid his questions about the issue. He followed Ed Muskie ’36 when he campaigned for vice president

(yes, the Times traded shamelessly on the Bates connection), and he toured the Midwest with John F. Kennedy and his wife, along with a young Teddy Kennedy. As an alumnus, he served as president of his class, and was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1980. He and co-class agent Lewis Davis received the Peabody Award that year for their innovative appeal letter. Following retirement, he and his wife, Shirley, moved to Cape Elizabeth. She survives him, as do children Nancy and David and four grandchildren, one of whom is Erik Remsen ’01. 1937 Electa Corson Tubbs, Dec. 29, 2009 Electa Corson Tubbs and her late husband, Paul Tubbs ’36, grew vegetables and fruit, enough to feed nearly 20 friends and family members at the holidays with enough left over to see them through the colder season. She enjoyed teaching neighborhood children how to cook and bake, as well as tend garden. She taught English for many years in New London, Conn., after her children were grown enough. She also taught in Maine before they were born. At the College, she was active in athletics and student government. Survivors include children Catherine Burdeshaw and David P. Tubbs ’64; five grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and nephew Everett Corson Barclay ’66. Her father was D. Herman Corson 1908; other Bates relatives are uncle Linwood Corson 1907 and cousin Muriel Corson Newman ’36, both deceased. 1938 Margaret March Randell, April 15, 2010 Margaret March Randell grew up in what is now Stillman House on Wood Street. A member of Lewiston’s state championship basketball team in 1933, she turned her attention to the Heelers and the Student once she reached the College. In addition to her bachelor’s degree from Bates, she held a master’s from Middlebury. She worked as a medical secretary in hospitals in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Survivors include son John M. Randell; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Her husband, William, died in 2007. Her father was Clarence E. March 1915. Gordon Louis Williams, Aug. 8, 2010 Gordon Williams enjoyed a Bates experience only a few other alumni have savored: watching his child receive an honorary degree from the College. When NBC newsman Brian Williams accepted the honorary degree, he pointed out that it was in fact his first college degree — he dropped out to work at the White House — and that it would not have been possible without Bates, since his parents, Gordon and Dorothy Pampel Williams ’40, had met while students. Their oldest son, David ’65, passed away in 2001, and Mrs. Williams died in 1992. A physics major, Gordon paid part of his way through college by cleaning the chapel. He was the editor of The Mirror, managed the cross-country team, and served as a physics assistant. He began his career with W.T. Grant in 1938. Army service interrupted his career. His college degree placed him in a special group that received intelligence training, work which kept him stateside for the duration. For a time he worked with Helen Keller, rehabilitating soldiers blinded by battle. Afterwards, he earned an M.S. in retailing from NYU while continuing at W.T. Grant. He later held management positions at John Wanamaker in Philadelphia, Grand Union, and Corning Glass. In 1974, he became the manager of the operations division of the National Retail Merchants Assn. Two years later, he was appointed the group’s vice president, and retired in 1982. As a consultant, he finally got overseas — to four different continents, including a lengthy stint in Brazil as part of the International Executive Service Corps. Along with Brian, he is survived by son Richard; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. His daughter, Mary Jane Esser, predeceased him.

1939 Austin Eaton Briggs, Feb. 18, 2010 Decades before Chesley Sullenberger safely crashlanded in the Hudson River, Austin Briggs was co-pilot on a flight from Boston to New York that crashed into the East River just 300 yards from Rikers Island on Jan. 15, 1952. Despite the plane sinking almost immediately, all 33 passengers and three crew members made it safely onto rescue boats, because of the cool-headedness of rescuer and rescued alike. The cold, wet, and injured survivors helped each other aboard the small ferry that arrived to help them. At the time, Mr. Briggs had been with Northeast Air Lines for only a few years. He went on to become a captain in 1969, staying with the company when it became part of Delta in 1972. He retired in 1977. He played football, basketball, and baseball and had a double major in economics and sociology at the College. In his senior year, he captained the football team and was president of the Publishing Assn. and the Varsity Club. He also met his wife, Carolyn Moyes ’41, and married her in the College Chapel in 1939; she passed away in 2000. He served as a Navy pilot during World War II after teaching aeronautics for several years. In retirement, he became an avid golfer. Survivors include children Frederick Briggs, Stanley Briggs, Austin E. Briggs Jr., Beverly Lamanna, Susan Richardson, and Carol Ann Richardi; 17 grandchildren, one of whom is Benjamin Lamanna ’02; and 19 great-grandchildren. Irene Edwards Parker, March 13, 2010 Rene Edwards Parker, a history and government major, taught English for many years in her hometown of Auburn. She worked briefly for the Federal Works Agency following graduation and before becoming a “cadet teacher” at Webster Grammar School in Auburn. Her husband, Charles Parker Jr. ’40, who was also an Auburn native, passed away in 1989. 1940 Lawrence Owen Wheeler, June, 25, 2010 Larry Wheeler worked briefly in Boston before joining the Navy in 1941. He served in the South Pacific and left the service in 1946 as a lieutenant commander. He made his career in the packaging industry, first with Continental Can Co. and then with several carton manufacturers. He eventually rose to senior vice president with Robertson Paper Box Co. Ltd. Later, he owned and operated a printing business in Portland. His wife, Adela, worked with him as bookkeeper and salesperson. A history and government major, he was active in debating at the College and graduated cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key. He went on to earn an M.B.A. from Harvard. He served as class vice president as an alumnus. Survivors include his wife; children Richard Wheeler, Katherine Pryor, Mary LaDouceur, and Robert Wheeler; and seven grandchildren. 1941 Charles Alfred Baulch, April 3, 2010 Charlie Baulch graduated with a degree in sociology and the intent to be a social worker. He did so for two years, until the U.S. Air Force rescinded his medical deferment. Trained as a cryptographer, he served in Australia, the Philippines, and Japan, among other assignments. The G.I. Bill helped him earn a master’s in business from NYU and he had a long career in industrial relations and personnel work, most of it with IBM, where he managed procurement distribution and training. He developed a purchasing education program that was used worldwide, and that took him to Paris, Latin America, and the Far East. Throughout his career, he also taught at local colleges. Even in retirement, he continued to work with purchasing professionals by founding his own company. His first wife, Marion Becker Baulch, died in 1981. His second wife, Gertrude Miller Baulch, survives him. Other survivors include children Robert Baulch, Arthur Baluch, and Barbara Manning; stepchildren Lawrence Kilduff, Patricia

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Reavy, Kathleen Lawrence, and Diane Walker; 15 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. His cousin is Betty Baulch ’57. Roberta Evans Bennett, May 23, 2010 “Our children...go into paroxysms of laughter when they recall that their parents met at a freshman mixer,” Bert Evans Bennett wrote in her 50th Reunion booklet. After Bates, she and husband Frank C. Bennett Jr. ’41 “stuck it out,” as she wrote, for 48 years of marriage, until Frank’s death in 1991, just before their 50th Reunion. They co-chaired their 40th. She held a degree in occupational therapy from the Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy and an M.S. from the Univ. of Penn. She and her husband considered Rochester, N.Y., the best place to live, and she was deeply involved in community groups. Their standards were “do something for your church, something for your community, and something selfish for yourself.” Girl Scouts, YWCA, church groups, and garden clubs were just some of her interests. She was also an accomplished weaver and gave demonstrations at the museum in Rochester. She was a member of both the Rochester Weavers’ Guild and the Boston Weavers’ Guild. Survivors include children Nancy Evans-Bennett, Douglas Bennett, and Kate Bennett; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Rowena Fairchild Hewitt, June 23, 2010 Rowena “Boots” Fairchild Hewitt delayed her teaching career to work for the Red Cross in New Jersey during World War II, caring for wounded soldiers returning from Europe. She received an M.A. from Cornell in 1948, and also met her husband, R. Hugh Hewitt, there. She taught in Presque Isle and Lewiston before moving to the Albany, N.Y., area, where she taught at Albany Academy for Girls and Hackett Junior High School. She also taught briefly at Bates. She was deeply involved in the Reconciling Congregations movement of the United Methodist Church; volunteered at the Albany Institute of History and Art; and was a member of the Slingerlands Garden Club. She was outspoken about human rights and the situation of Palestinians. At the College, she was active in musical groups and theater groups, and earned a degree in English. Survivors include daughters Roxanne Hewitt, Rebecca Coughtry, and Ruth Wiseman. Marjorie Moulton Perkins, June 8, 2010 For a while, Jerrie Moulton Perkins thought she had 21 relatives who graduated from Bates, but after studying family records, she put the final count at 23 — 22 plus herself. From her parents, Joseph and Florence Hooper Moulton Class of 1915, through uncles, aunts, sisters, and cousins down to her daughter, Deborah Perkins ’64, the list is too long to give here. Her parents were missionaries in India, where she was born and educated. She left India for good when she came to Bates, blazing the path for two of her three sisters who followed her, the late Barbara Moulton Scott ’44 and Margrett Moulton McFadden ’51. She excelled in biology (Phi Beta Kappa), was vice president of Spofford Literary Club her senior year, and earned her WAA numerals. She turned her passion for biology into a teaching career, first in elementary school and then in high school, in New Hampshire. She served as state chair of the Science Professionals Organization and became department head in Somersworth, N.H. She received two master’s degrees from the Univ. of New Hampshire, and was designated a Master Teacher. She married Elmer “Perk” Perkins the same month she graduated from the College; he died in 1982. Her son, Edward Perkins, also predeceased her. Along with her daughter and sister, survivors include four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, and another sister, Ellen Bedington. Her son-in-law is Meredith (Jerry) B. Handspicker ’54.

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MARY DERDERIAN BROWN ’43 created and published crossword puzzles. “When you work on puzzles,” she said, “you get so involved you forget your cares for awhile.” Norma Field Varanka, Jan. 29, 2010 After graduating with a degree in German, Norma Field Varanka worked as a bookkeeper, salesperson, and teacher. But her life found its focus when she married Raymond Varanka in 1949; their marriage lasted until his death in 1996 and gave her two children, Robert Varanka and Mary Calabrese, who survive her. Other survivors include four grandchildren. Ruth Beal Winter, Sept. 29, 2010 Ruth Beal Winter lived for 50 years in the house that she and her husband, Henry Winter, built in Horsham, Pa. Always athletic (she was an assistant in P.E. at the College), she skied enthusiastically until she was 80 and was the top-ranked skier for her age group for several years in the late 1990s. At Bates, she was also active in student government, Robinson Players, and Heelers. She was president of the Basketball Club as a senior, and graduated with a degree in English. She taught and coached in Brownville Junction and Bar Harbor before marriage. Survivors include sons Henry Winter Jr. and Robert Winter and three grandchildren. Paul Albert Wright, April 13, 2010 Classified 4-F during World War II, Paul Wright spent the war years completing his education, first with a master’s and then a doctorate from Harvard. Both degrees were in biology, as was his degree from Bates. He and wife Claire “Ginger” Wilson Wright ’42 traveled across country and back as Paul took positions at the Univ. of Washington, Boston Univ., Univ. of Michigan, and the Univ. of New Hampshire, arriving there in 1958. It was there that he caused quite a stir with his then-controversial course on sex education, which had an enrollment over 2,000 one semester and reached about 11,000 students over 10 years. His area of research was in comparative endocrinology. He chaired the department of zoology for six years, retiring in 1982. He and Ginger then ran a chowder restaurant in the house she had designed underneath a covered bridge, one of five houses she designed for them and their children. They closed the restaurant in 1991 and retired again, this time to Port Charlotte, Fla., to another house Ginger had designed, this one incorporating six old live oaks. Ginger passed away in 2007. Paul’s interest in music was lifelong: He played organ at his childhood church and again at the College, for chapel services and as accompaniment to the Choral Society, Choir, and Glee Club. He even played at his own wedding, accompanying Ginger as she sang. He built two organs from kits, in between traveling the world with his wife. Survivors include sons Loren, Darryl, and Barton Wright; two granddaughters; and cousin Jane Woodbury Quimby ’42 and her daughter, Barbara Quimby Libby ’72. His sister was Elizabeth Wright Carter ’44. 1943 Mary Derderian Brown, June 23, 2009 A mathematics major, Mary Derderian Brown put her number skills to use in an unusual way: She authored more than 100 crossword puzzles for a number of publications, including The New York Times.

“People almost bow when they hear you’ve had a puzzle in the Times,” she once told Bates Magazine with a laugh. That work, along with writing short stories and poetry, drawing, and painting, filled her years after retiring. “When you work on puzzles,” she said, “you get so involved you forget your cares for awhile.” She had worked as an engineering assistant at General Electric in Massachusetts and as a substitute teacher in New York. An accomplished pianist, she also taught piano to children in Scotia, N.Y. It was at General Electric that she met James Brown, to whom she was married for a happy 54 years, though he did not enjoy trying to solve her puzzles. “He didn’t think like I do. He was an engineer, and everything was black and white, while I love puns, and my puzzles were sometimes silly.” She is survived by her children, Sandra Houck, Randall Brown, and Deborah Brown; and four grandchildren. Other survivors include nephew Scott K. Derderian ’77. Her late brother and sister were Setrak “S.K.” Derderian ’43 and Agnes Derderian Devejian ’48. Phyllis Hicks Wood, Feb. 24, 2010 Phyl Hicks Wood raised two children while her husband, classmate Horace (Woody) Wood, pursued a career that took them to Massachusetts and Connecticut, interrupted by a sojourn in Morocco when Woody was called up by the Navy during the Korean War. In 1968, she became a college counselor at Dana Hall in Wellesley, Mass., where, she said, she put her Bates education (B.A., sociology) to good use. She retired in 1985 and they moved to Saco, close to where she had spent summers growing up (and where Woody had worked in Phyl’s father’s restaurant years earlier). There they became the backbone of the Ocean Park Bates Club. She became interested in various crafts, especially quilting, and taught herself to use computers. She also volunteered for the Red Cross and was active in the Congregational Church in Saco. Her husband predeceased her by eight months. Survivors include children Judith Bunting and Robert Woods, and three grandchildren. 1944 Edith Hale Ferguson, June 14, 2010 With a degree in English and a Phi Beta Kappa key, Edith Hale Ferguson started out in the editorial world at King Features Syndicate. But five years later, she married Troy Ferguson, and turned her attention to raising her children. They settled in her hometown of Bronxville, N.Y., where she was active in the PTA, Girl Scouts, DAR, and the Bronxville League for Service. Her PTA work led to a position as an elementary school registrar, a job she thoroughly enjoyed because of the children. In retirement, she and her husband moved to North Carolina, where he was from, where she was active with the New Bern historical and preservation societies and the garden club. She also served as vice regent of the local DAR chapter. Her husband predeceased her. Survivors include children Anne Leach, Troy Ferguson III, and John Ferguson, and five grandchildren. 1945 John Prescott Cushing, Feb. 27, 2010 Jack Prescott Cushing left Bates after two years to enlist in the Marine Corps during World War II. After its conclusion, he earned a bachelor’s and a master’s from Cornell. His career was at Scott Paper in industrial relations. Survivors include wife Marion, whom he met at Cornell; sons William, John Jr., Stephen, and Scott; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Paul Joseph LaFlamme, April 24, 2010 Paul LaFlamme, a Lewiston native, returned to his hometown after completing medical training to serve his community, first as an internist and later as a cardiologist. His medical degree was from McGill

Univ., and he was an intern and resident in New Jersey. He also served in the military in Germany and Hawaii after World War II, and as a medical officer at the Air Force hospital at Westover Air Force Base. He joined the staff at St. Mary’s General Hospital in Lewiston in 1955, remaining there for the rest of his career. He served two terms as president of the hospital, one of only a few to do so, and as its chief of internal medicine for 10 years. He was very active in planning the hospital’s intensive and coronary care unit in 1975. He was a past president of the Androscoggin County Medical Society. In all, his medical career in Lewiston spanned over 40 years. Survivors include daughters Donna LaFlamme, Susan LaFlamme, Janet LaFlamme ’81, Laura Reynolds, and Elaine LaFlamme, and seven grandchildren. His wife, Marion Sullivan LaFlamme, predeceased him. Shirley Raymond Blanchard, April 18, 2010 After marrying Dick Blanchard ’42 in the College Chapel just weeks after graduating with a degree in English, she and Dick moved to Gorham, N.H., for four years before returning to Maine. They lived in Dixfield for 13 years before returning to Lewiston. She held secretarial positions at the Bates Mill and with the Lewiston School Department, and worked briefly in the Bates development office. She retired in 1988 as deputy clerk of the Eighth District Court. While in Dixfield, she served as president of the Maine Federation of Women’s Clubs Advance Club. In Lewiston, she served as president of the Women’s Legislative Council of Maine 2001–2003. She was a member of Calvary United Methodist Church. At the College, she played in the Orphic Orchestra and rang the carillon. She also was a member of the Portland Symphony. Her husband died in 2008. Survivors include son Gary Blanchard ’81 and two grandchildren. 1948 David Bailey Ramsdell, June 25, 2010 Dave Ramsdell delayed college until after World War II, during which he was stationed in Burma, China, and India in the Air Force. An English major, he worked on the Student and other publications, preparing himself for a career as a writer. He wrote print, television, and radio copy for consumers and industrial services at Davis Advertising, after working as a copywriter and trade show manager for Dennison (now Avery). He also worked for the Worcester Film Corp., New England Electric System, and McKinney/New England. He was a freelance copywriter for 10 years before retiring in 1994. He was a past director of the Advertising Club of Worcester (Mass.) and past chair of Family Services of Central Massachusetts. Survivors include wife Barbara Boger Ramsdell; children Christopher Ramsdell, Catherine Ohlinger, and Kimberly Ramsdell; and seven grandchildren. John Nelson Thomas, April 4, 2010 John Thomas, a three-sport athlete at Bates, served as an Army Ranger before coming to the College. He had the distinction of having his Expert Infantry Badge pinned to his uniform by Winston Churchill. (He also played football with future boxer Rocky Marciano in high school.) His degree from Bates was in physics, and he went on to earn a master’s in education from BU, and completed further studies at UConn. He taught math and physics at Norwich (Conn.) Free Academy, and coached JV and varsity football. He later became vice principal at South Windsor (Conn.) High School, a position he held for 20 years. A skilled carpenter, he spent summers building houses. He was also a certified master gardener, a Mason, and a 50-year member of Central Baptist Church. After retiring from public schools, he continued to teach two days a week, both physics and carpentry, at an alternative high school in Norwich. Survivors include his wife, Enid “Nikki” Jones Thomas; children Gregory Thomas, Debora

Thomas, and Alison Nelson; and six grandchildren. His sister-in-law is Norma Reese Jones ’51, whose late husband was Austin Jones ’50. 1949 Francis Roland Berry, April 27, 2010 Francis “Hi” Berry lived most of his life in Bethel — except of course for the summers he spent at his campground in Newry. His teaching career at Gould Academy in Bethel gave him summers free to build houses and pine furniture, as well as run his Lone Pine Campground. He entered Bates after serving in the Air Force during World War II, and in fact returned to service as a paratrooper after graduating with a degree in physics. At Gould, he also coached various sports; the award to the outstanding senior athlete is named in his honor. In 1974, the Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce awarded him its Henry H. Hastings award for citizenship. In 1994, he built a baseball field for the town’s Little League team. His first wife, Pauline Graham Berry, died in 1955; his second wife, Helen Conroy Berry, died in 1989. In 1991, he married his high school sweetheart, Mary Lou Chapman; she survives him. Other survivors include children Denise Roderick, Marjorie Osgood, David F. Berry ’83, and E. Scott Berry; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and three children of his third wife. Arlene Tufts Cook, April 23, 2010 Anyone who drives to the very end of Bailey Island in Harpswell recognizes Arlene Tufts Cook’s name. She and her husband ran Cook’s Lobster House there until they divorced. Before that, she used her degree in sociology as a social services worker for the State of Maine Department of Child Welfare. Later, she taught social studies at Lewiston High School, where her first husband, the late Norman A. Parent ’50, was the athletic director. At the College, she sang in the Choral Society and the choir. She was active in Lambda Alpha and the C.A. Committee. Lois McEnaney Foss, June 27, 2010 A French major, Lois McEnaney Foss was active in La Petite Academie as well as vocal music groups. She was an assistant in both French and Spanish. She taught high school in Vermont and then second grade in Canton, Mass., for many years before retiring to Montana in 2005. Survivors include children Pam Foss Lambott and Mark S. Foss; four grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and her sister and brother-in-law, Jean McEnaney Buker ’46 and Richard Buker ’46. Kenneth Morton Smith, May 31, 2010 Ken Smith came to Bates after service in the Army during World War II. He earned a degree in sociology, and went on to earn an M.S.W. from the College of William & Mary. He worked for the Connecticut State Department of Health for many years, including 30 as chief of the public health social work section. Earlier, he was the director of the social services department at Hartford Hospital when the infamous fire broke out there in 1961. The fire resulted in 16 deaths and forced a thorough review of safety standards at hospitals, schools, and other public spaces. Among other improvements, sprinklers became required in all patient rooms. He also was an assistant professor in the department of preventive medicine at the Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine early in his career. An avid gardener, he worked in his garden each morning before work and liked to hike and camp. Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Priscilla Hainsworth Smith; children Douglas Smith, Debra Bock, Robyn Audette, and Wendy Smith; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. 1950 Carolyn Coburn Boothby, May 1, 2010 Lynn Coburn Boothby worked briefly as a social worker for the State of Maine (her degree was in

sociology) before building a home with her husband, Richard Boothby ’50, in Cape Elizabeth. Ten years later, they built another home in Cumberland Foreside. At the College, she was part of the Robinson Players and served as a proctor. As an alumna, she and Dick served on their 50th Reunion social committee and as Alumni-in-Admissions volunteers. He survives her, as do children James Boothby, Richard Boothby, Barbara Perry, and David Boothby ’87; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Her sister-in-law is Barbara Boothby Wendt ’44. Allison Graham Catheron II, June 15, 2008 Allison Catheron attended Bates for one year before transferring to the Univ. of Maine to pursue a degree in forestry. Nevertheless, he remained close to classmates and said several times that he wished he had remained at the College. After an injury forced him to retire as a forester, he became a college instructor. Survivors include wife Shirley; son Kevin Catheron; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Another son, Lloyd Cameron, predeceased him. His father was Robert Catheron Class of 1903, and his uncle was Allison Catheron Class of 1900. Robert Alan Foster, April 29, 2010 Bob Foster made his mark as a journalist early on when a tornado ripped through Worcester, Mass., in 1953, killing 93 people. His articles interviewing people trapped inside the twister caught the eye of national magazines, such as Women’s Day, and propelled him upwards through the newsroom ranks at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. He had started there as a beat reporter in the suburbs, but soon was reassigned to the city desk. From there he became assistant city editor, assistant news editor, news editor, and finally an editorial writer, a plum assignment at any newspaper. He also wrote business stories and reviewed movies. A history and government major at the College, he was editor-in-chief of the Student, chair of the Christian Assn. publicity committee, an assistant in the College’s news bureau, and active in the Spofford Club. In 1951, he was awarded a master’s in journalism from Columbia. In 1967, he won two first-place prizes, from the Univ. of Missouri and John Hancock Insurance Co., for a series on industries merging in Worcester. In 1987 and 1989, his editorials won first prizes from the New England Press Executives Assn. He also wrote numerous articles for national publications such as Newsweek and The New York Times Magazine, and taught journalism at Becker Junior College. Even after he retired in 1989 and moved to Kennebunk, he continued to write for the Portland Press Herald. He is survived by his wife, Catharine Foster; children Mark Foster and Cynthia Smith; and four grandchildren. 1952 Prescott Wilfred Harris Jr., June 26, 2010 “Buzz” Harris played basketball, baseball, and football at the College, and served as president of the student council. A government major, he married Grace Ulrich ’51 shortly after graduation and went to work for Milliken Woolens in Lewiston. He stayed with the company, which today is a leading textile and chemical manufacturer, in sales until 1987, when he joined Brooks Brothers. In 2001, he became vice president of Raritan Enterprises Inc. Survivors include his wife; children Dana Harris and Gail Zolluccio; and four grandchildren. Miriam Olson Morrell, June 25, 2010 “Mim” Olson Morrell’s profession and passion was teaching people to read. Her Bates degree in English (Phi Beta Kappa), combined with a master’s in education from the Univ. of Maine, prepared her for a career in the Bangor schools, where she taught reading for 15 years. She served on the Maine Reading Assn. executive board and coordinated its international reading association in the early 1980s. At the College, she was involved with the dance program

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and served as president of the Modern Dance Club as a senior. She also was the director of the Winter Carnival Ice Show as a junior. In Bangor, she was active in the Shakespeare Club, the Junior League, the YWCA, and served as a trustee at All Souls Congregational Church. She started every day with a swim at the Y’s pool, and had recently become interested in Pilates. She and her husband, the late Malcolm E. Morrell Jr., sailed the coast of Maine every summer, and she held a season pass at Sugarloaf for 45 years. Survivors include children Stephen Morrell, Catherine Morrell, and Susan Morrell, and six grandchildren. Constance Fales Schilling, Jan. 28, 2010 Born and raised in Lewiston, Connie Fales Schilling found Maine weather much too cold when she returned to visit her parents in the 1980s. After all, she’d been living in New Mexico and Nevada, where she worked as a geologic secretary. (Her Bates degree was in geology.) A few years after that visit, she earned a pilot’s license and later managed the office at a flight school in Reno. She also worked as an elementary school librarian there. At the College, she worked as a geology assistant and was an officer in Lambda Alpha. Her husband, John Schilling, predeceased her. Survivors include daughters Lynn Schilling and Lisa Shipman, and two granddaughters. Her late parents were Elton ’17 and Aurelia Griffin Schilling ’26. Her brother was Roscoe Fales ’54. 1953 Joanne Taylor Kellogg, Jan. 13, 2010 After teaching for several years in Connecticut, Jo Taylor Kellogg worked with her husband, Bud Kellogg, training and racing harness horses in Maine. She also wrote weekly articles for three national harness horse magazines. In 1967, she joined the staff of the Portland Public Library, and continued library work at the Pompano Beach (Fla.) Public Library when they moved there. They returned to Maine in the mid-1970s, and she became a real estate agent. She and Bud built a house for themselves on Sebago Lake. In 1982, she became the adult services librarian at the Windham Public Library, and later became the head librarian. During her tenure, she oversaw the expansion of the library’s building and established a series of talks by Maine authors, including Stephen King and Carolyn Chute. 1954 Louis Joseph Rose, April 14, 2010 They called him “Lieutenant Columbo,” after the TV character. Lou Rose, rumpled, coffee-stained, self-effacing, doggedly chased down stories for 31 years as an investigative reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And like his prototype, he always closed the case, exposing government fraud, conflicts of interest, political corruption, and cronyism. He investigated St. Louis city hall employees who spent most of their day not working; he exposed how DUI offenders got away with their crimes (which eventually led to stiffer sentences); he uncovered how the government ignored radioactive waste dumped in and around St. Louis; and he broke the story on a prominent circuit attorney who had siphoned off thousands of dollars of city money to pay prostitutes. He received a number of awards for his work, including one from the American Bar Assn., and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. An English major at the College, he played football and was the features editor of the Student. He also held a master’s in journalism from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. He was a member of Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc., and past president of the St. Louis chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. His book, How to Investigate Your Friends and Enemies, was released in 1981; now in its fifth edition, it is used as a textbook in journalism classes. In 1999, he wrote Make the Jerk Pay, a guide to shaking money loose from deadbeat dads, with fellow reporter Roy

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Malone. Survivors include his wife, Carol Ramp Rose; children Leslie Howell and John Rose; and two grandchildren. Another son, Neil Rose, predeceased him. Roger Clayton Schmutz, May 17, 2010 “The Bates attitude is, if you want to do it, do it! Do it with passion and enthusiasm....” That is how Trustee Emeritus Roger Schmutz summarized his Bates experience. Coming from a high school where he couldn’t even try out for the tennis team because he wasn’t part of the “right” group, encountering the egalitarian atmosphere at the College was a revelation. He wanted to write, and he wanted to run track — and he did, excelling at both, at Bates. Part of the Student staff all four years, sports editor as a senior, and part of The Mirror staff all four years, editor as a senior, he had ample opportunity to indulge in writing. And he was the fortunate recipient of savvy training from a passionate track coach, Walter Slovenski, who inspired him to train harder and think harder. With a degree in English polished by a master’s from the Columbia School of Journalism, he started out as a reporter for the Worcester Telegram. Soon his interest centered on financial news, and he joined Brookmire Investors Service in 1956. Two years later, he joined Standard & Poor as a financial analyst. He retired from there in 1981 as group vice president for financial publishing. He served on the Bates Board of Trustees for 31 years, including a stint as secretary of the corporation, and worked on every Bates capital campaign, advising three presidents along the way and mentoring several generations of trustees. His service to Bates included club leadership, student recruitment, and Reunion leadership. In 2004, he received the Helen A. Papaioanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award for his service to Bates. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Fleet Schmutz; daughter Anne Hovey; and a grandchild. Other survivors include sister-in-law Alice Hilterhaus Schmutz ’57, widow of his brother, Charles A. Schmutz ’57. His father was Charles A. Schmutz, who received an honorary degree from the College in 1965. Everett Avery Waldo, April 3, 2010 Everett Waldo left Bates after three years to pursue a degree in music at Miami of Ohio. He served in the Army during the Korean War, and entered divinity school afterwards. In 1961, he received a master’s of divinity from Wesley Seminary, and served churches in Bucksport and Maryland. He then became a civil servant and worked primarily for the Commission on Civil Rights, rising to become the deputy director of its mid-Atlantic region. His interests there ranged from police and community relations to desegregation to migrant workers. He was the founding president of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington (D.C.), and sang a solo at one of his last concerts with them before moving to San Diego. In San Diego, he was an active lay member of First Unitarian Universalist Church. Survivors include sons Jonathan and Matthew; four grandchildren; former wife Liz Waldo; and sister Joanne Waldo Bixby ’54. 1955 Philip Walker Cowan, May 1, 2010 Phil Cowan was another of Walt Slovenski’s protégés, running indoor and outdoor track during his years at Bates. An economics major, he worked in insurance, first for Aetna in Buffalo and then in New Hampshire (where he was head of the office), and later for E.T. Clauss & Co., where he remained for 26 years. In 1993, he opened his own agency in nearby Amherst, N.Y., affording him the flexibility for extended family vacations. He spent six weeks hiking in Nepal with his son, and with his family visited places from the Arctic Circle to New Zealand. He moved to Austin, Texas, shortly before his death. He served as president of the Presbyterian Homes Foundation, of the Buffalo chapter of the Property

Casualty Underwriters Society, of the New York Insurance Agents Assn., and of the Orchard Park (N.Y.) School District Insurance Board. Survivors include wife Joan Kittinger Cowan, and children Elizabeth Kelley and William Cowan. His uncle and aunt were former College Alumni Secretary Randall Webber ’36 and wife Priscilla “Happy” Walker Webber ’36. 1956 Caroline Louise Schaffrick, April 9, 2010 A teacher by profession, Caroline Schaffrick’s first love was the theater. A Robinson Player at Bates, she was part of a group of friends who formed the Civic Theater in Bristol, Conn., her hometown. She preferred backstage work and was stage manager for dozens of productions, eventually working up the courage to star in one. She taught first and eighth grades in Bristol, and was involved with the mentoring program in town. At the College, she also worked on the Student and played sports. She is survived by many nieces and nephews, one of whom, Laurie Moore, she raised after the death of her sister. Paul Henri Tranchemontagne, May 27, 2010 When Paul Tranchemontagne ran his first marathon at age 56, he had three goals: finish alive, finish in under five hours, and finish better than last. He met all three (beating nine others). An avid sportsman, he loved the view of the third green from his condo in New Hampshire, played softball and tennis, and skied whenever he could. He left Bates during his sophomore year and went on to graduate from Nasson College. Survivors include wife Rachel; children Michael, Anne, and Scott Tranchemontagne, Claire Pouliot, Christine Hagen, and Teresa Tranchemontagne; and 11 grandchildren. 1957 Sally Smith Cooke, July 10, 2010 Sally Smith Cooke had a taste for adventure. She climbed 32 of the 48 4,000-foot mountains in New Hampshire. She relished skiing at Waterville Valley, Jackson Hole or the Alps. She and husband Phil Cooke sought out the unusual in destinations and were especially fond of Spitsbergen, a Norwegian island well within the Arctic Circle. Her Bates degree was in biology, which she turned into a career as an occupational therapist by earning a master’s from Tufts in that field. She interrupted her career to raise three children, but returned to work with children with cerebral palsy once they were launched. Active in town life in Marblehead, Mass., she was a deacon and trustee of Old North Church, a past president of the Cottage Gardeners, and a longtime member of the Corinthian Yacht Club. She also made time each month for lunch with Bates classmates. At the College, she was secretary of the Outing Club as a senior, a member of the Jordan Ramsdell Society, and a biology assistant. She sang in both the choir and the Choral Society. Survivors include her husband; children Peter Cooke, Jonathan Cooke, and Jennifer Rotman; and six grandchildren. Her late uncle was Frank Benvie ’16. Before her death, she established the Sally Cooke Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Brookline, Mass. Brian George Flynn, April 27, 2010 After running over the competition on the football field at Lewiston High School, Brian Flynn did the same at Bates. He was part of the 1956 state champion team, winning All-State honors as an offensive and defensive end. He played baseball, too, all four years. (It runs in the family: His brother is longtime Bates coach Bob Flynn.) He entered the Marine Corps after graduation, then started a career in education. He taught and coached at high schools in Rockland, Bellows Falls, Vt., and Westbrook, and at Thornton Academy. In 1968, he completed a master’s in education at the Univ. of Maine–Orono, and soon after became the assistant principal at

Telstar High School in Bethel. In 1971, he moved up to principal, remaining in that position until 1977, when he asked to return to the classroom. In the summer, he often coached baseball teams or supervised baseball leagues. Survivors include wife Jeanne Gladu Flynn; children Kara Pidgeon, Brian Flynn Jr. ’82, Kelli Aitken, Michele Lever, and Amy Boucher; 13 grandchildren; and nieces Becky Flynn Woods ’89 and Susan Flynn Dorris ’85. His late father was Lawrence J. Flynn ’29. 1960 Jon Michael Whitten, July 7, 2010 Jon Whitten attended Bates for two years before leaving for the Univ. of Maine. He taught physical education at Lee Academy and was the athletic director at Bonny Eagle High School, where he led the baseball team to the state Triple C championship in 1966. He worked for S.D. Warren from 1966 until retirement in 1991. Survivors include wife Charlene; children Michael Whitten and Julie Fitzherbert; and a grandchild. 1962 Julia Terry Gillispie, April 1, 2010 For 25 years, Julia Gillispie and her second husband, John Sly, happily lived “off the grid” — no electricity or running water — in the Cascade Mountains in Washington state, moving to a similar setup in Cabo, Mexico, during the coldest months. She worked as a massage therapist and personal caretaker. Her first husband, from whom she was divorced, is Nicholas A. Maistrellis ’62. Allan Leland Pollock, April 1, 2010 Al Pollock’s life and career centered on ways to live harmoniously within the landscape. Professionally, he loaned his skills as a scientist to organizations such as the Merrimac (Mass.) Environmental Commission, the Merrimack River Watershed Council, and the Office for Resource Efficiency in Crested Butte, Colo., where he moved in 2001. More personally, in both places he built energy-efficient homes for himself. He taught anatomy and physiology for 30 years at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, Mass., and indulged his love of ocean sailing. He moved to Montana to indulge his love of skiing and the Western mountains. At the College, he served on the board of the Outing Club for three years and was active in the Jordan Ramsdell Society. A biology major, he also held a doctorate from Northeastern in his field. His marriage to Linda Corkum ’64 ended in divorce. Survivors include brother Leland Pollock ’64 and sister-in-law Sylvia Woodaman Pollock ’63. 1966 Elizabeth Margaret McLeod, July 4, 2010 Betty McLeod built a career for herself at Aetna Insurance Co. A French major at the College, she turned herself into a technical writer and worked for Aetna for 30 years, retiring in 1994. An avid golfer, she was part of the Cedar Knobb Women’s Golf League and a member of the Southern New England Women’s Golf Assn. At the College, she was a faculty assistant, worked for The Mirror, and sang in the Choral Society. Survivors include her mother, Marguerite McLeod, and sister Linda Phelps. 1968 Robert Alan Neal, April 22, 2010 Bob Neal left Bates after one year to transfer to the Univ. of Maine and to marry his high school sweetheart, Linda Higgins. In 1974, he started Maine Poly in his garage, to produce flexible packaging (think of a bag of frozen beans), and built the company to 250 employees. He held a number of patents in plastic packaging. After selling the business in 1998, he and a partner started Purestat Technologies in Lewiston, which produces packaging for items that demand extreme cleanliness. Survivors include his wife; children

John Cole recalls joining Dean of the Faculty GEORGE HEALY and family for dinner after a day of interviews for his Bates faculty position. “Good food and gracious hospitality. They wouldn’t remember. I can’t forget.” Robin McFarren, Scott Neal, Katherine Landry, and Rebecca Smith; and 11 grandchildren. His cousin is John Neal ’78. His aunts were Beatrice Neal Class of 1912 and Patricia Patterson Murphy ’61. 1969 Michael Thomas Rossi, May 19, 2010 Mike Rossi was the kind of teacher who always had a crowd of students hanging out in his classroom. Nearly 300 of them attended his funeral. He had taught math for 11 years in Burlington, Conn., at the time of his death. (Previously, he taught in St. James, N.Y., and Thompson, Conn.) He also coached lacrosse and encouraged cross-country runners with a simple motto: “Run fast. Run long. Run hard.” Students recalled his sense of humor: “Whenever I think of some of the things he used to say to us,” said one, “I end up laughing again.” His Bates roommate, Peter Bates ’69, also recalled his humor: “We formed a singing group that we enjoyed but no one else did,” he wrote to this magazine. “He wanted to name our group ‘The Fussbudget, Yidkin, and Prangrap Railroad.’” In addition to his economics degree from the College, he held a master’s from the Univ. of Bridgeport. Survivors include his mother, Helen Rossi, and brother Edward Rossi Jr. 1973 Karen Ward Crisman, March 16, 2010 Karen Ward Crisman was a technical editor for McLaughlin Research Group before returning to school to earn an associate’s degree in science at Ventura College. This enabled her to become a respiratory therapist, in California and then at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, Mass. Survivors include husband J. Alan Crisman; children Joshua Crisman and Jeremy Crisman; two grandchildren; and her mother, Barbara Ward. 2004 Benton Randall Lyster III, May 1, 2010 Ben Lyster followed his love of the American West to Bozeman, Mont. He worked with a small theater group coordinating its marketing, but his heart never left the tall peaks he loved. It was there that he died of an undiagnosed heart condition while skiing with his closest friends. He excelled at baseball and basketball, was an All-New England runner in high school, and an enthusiastic rock climber and hiker. He traveled to Fiji, the Caribbean, and to the Great Barrier Reef, among other destinations. A philosophy major at the College, he lived his life to the fullest in keeping with his personal philosophy. Survivors include his partner, Cameron Bohn; parents Benton Randall Lyster II and Dianne McKinnon Lyster; sister Amy Lyster; and grandmother Amy Carter Lyster.

2005 Kerry Adam Lewiecki, June 24, 2010 Kerry Adam Lewiecki — known as Adam at Bates and as Kerry afterward — wanted to minimize inequalities and injustice, said his family. To that end, he worked for Habitat for Humanity for a year after Bates and before entering law school at the Univ. of Oregon. There, he served on the board of the university’s chapter of the ACLU, and won a summer stipend to work at the Disability Law Center. For two years, he taught an undergraduate course entitled “Competition not Conflict.” An associate editor of the Oregon Review of International Law, he earned a joint J.D./M.A. in law and conflict and resolution. Survivors include his fiancée, Sara Miller; parents E. Michael Lewiecki and Maura Lewiecki; sisters Kathrine Lewiecki and Amy Buono; and brother Brendan Lewiecki. Former Faculty George Robert Healy, July 8, 2010 Professor George Healy, an 18th-century historian, arrived at Bates in 1957 to teach Cultural Heritage. He was appointed dean of the faculty in 1961 and departed Bates to become vice president for academic affairs at William & Mary 10 years later. The last half years of his Bates deanship coincided with the College’s transition from President Phillips to President Reynolds, and during that time Healy is credited with employing strategies and tactics to support Reynolds’ efforts to rejuvenate the Bates faculty. John Cole, the College’s Reynolds Professor of History, recalls how Healey recruited Carl Straub back to Bates — Straub had left to complete his Harvard doctorate — in part by creating for Straub a part-time assistant deanship. Straub, in turn, would become a long-serving dean of the faculty and Bates faculty-builder himself. Cole recalls how his own recruitment to Bates involved a whirlwind day of interviews that ended with a family dinner at the Healy house. “Good food and gracious hospitality,” Cole recalls. “They wouldn’t remember. I can’t forget.” Healy was president of Christopher Newport College, 1986–87; Longwood College, 1987–88; and executive vice president at Old Dominion, 1988–89. He retired in 1992 as the acting director of the Institute of Early American History and Culture at William & Mary, and received awards for distinguished service from both that college and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He was a veteran of World War II who served in the Army Air Force in Saipan as a B-29 armament specialist. He graduated with honors from Oberlin College in 1948 and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Univ. of Minnesota. For 50 years, he owned a farm in East Sumner, where he worked to ensure that the original 1820 house (and his own hand-built barn and cabin) reflected that era. He was co-author of the town’s history published for its bicentennial in 1998. His wife, Dorothy Kohli Healy, died in 1997. Among his survivors are sons David Healy, Thomas Healy, and Roger Healy; and six grandchildren. Friend Stanton H. Whitman, May 14, 2010 Stanton Whitman’s affinity for the College came from his father, Emerson Whitman Class of 1900, who said that everything he was he owed to Bates. Stanton said he loved the College because of its values, its people, and its “sound financial policies.” A graduate of Dartmouth and Boston Univ. Law School, he practiced in Orange and Worcester, Mass., before being appointed assistant city solicitor in Worcester. He climbed all 48 New Hampshire peaks over 4,000 feet and was chairman of the Worcester chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club, as well as president of the Green Mountain Club-Worcester Section. His wife, E. Thelma Benton Whitman, died in 1995.

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here, exactly, does a homosexual student put “I am gay” on the job resume? Grappling with this figurative question, three alums who spoke during a Homecoming panel discussion on LGBT career issues urged students to integrate their sexual orientation into their job search. Above, Jason Hall ’97 makes a point during the Homecoming panel discussion as Bates PRIDE founder Larry Handerhan ’05 looks on. At right, LK Gagnon ’88 says two simple goals of any job search are “to be paid and be comfortable.”

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“I am always candid about who I am,” said Larry Handerhan ’05, a graduate student in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. Being forthright, he says, allows you to “call on every network and every ‘affinity bucket’ you have.”

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The Saturday afternoon Homecoming gathering at the Benjamin Mays Center was co-hosted by the student group OUTfront and the alumni group Bates PRIDE. The latter group, founded by Handerhan in 2010, seeks to be a forum and clearinghouse for LGBT alumni and their allies. It receives College support through the Office of Alumni and Parent Programs. The panel also featured lawyer Jason Hall ’97, a high-level official in Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s administration, and LK Gagnon ’88, information services manager for the Maine Association of Nonprofits. Nikki Rankine, a senior from Brooklyn, N.Y., and coordinator for OUTfront, moderated. After graduation, Handerhan joined AmeriCorps and headed to the post-Katrina Gulf Coast, then moved to California. He worked for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (“We told each other our comingout stories, and he hired me on the spot”), then landed a job with the state Democratic Party “largely as a result of my LGBT political work.”

While each alum agreed that a successful job search means being “paid and comfortable,” as Gagnon put it, Hall noted that such forthrightness wasn’t always part of his presentation. When Gagnon urged job-seekers to “be clear about who you are,” Hall responded, “I’m conflicted on this.” Hall did not come out until his late 20s, after he attended Vanderbilt, made Law Review, and began a law career clerking for a federal circuit court judge. Would the same doors, specifically Law Review, have swung open had he not been perceived as straight? “I just don’t know,” Hall says. That said, Hall has built what he calls a “platform” around his orientation. The first bit of framing occurred around 2004, when he was a new associate with the prominent St. Louis firm Bryan Cave. At that time, Missouri was heading toward passage of a constitutional ban on gay marriage. Hall, quietly out at the time, began to do some networking around the vote, quickly discovering a robust gay law community.

Hall responded, “I’m conflicted on this.”

Gagnon offered the Mays Center audience some historical perspective, recalling Bates’ Gay-Straight Alliance of the 1980s. Founded as Gay at Bates in 1979, the campus organization added “straight” in November 1980. The idea was “for straights to be comfortable with gays,” she said, adding, with a laugh, that more than a few of those straight members later came out as gay. Hall, now executive director of the public-private Missouri Technology Corp., said that the mid-1990s at Bates seemed a quiet time around gay issues. “I would’ve stood out more by being blue collar and Midwestern,” he quipped, quickly adding that “I give Bates a lot of credit for how it goes about seeking diversity.” In the early 2000s, Handerhan says the climate was OK for gay students, though he says he was cautious about expressing overtly his sexuality. “It kind of had to be put to the side.” Going back to tips for LGBT job-seekers, the panelists agreed that researching a firm’s culture is important. Karen McRoberts, director of the Bates Career Development Center, notes that a firm might have a specific LGBT or other diversity program, in which case “acceptance is sort of stated.” If a firm’s culture is uncertain, says McRoberts, Bates PRIDE announced its formal presence as a Bates alumni group with an informal a LGBT jobgathering at Reunion 2010. seeker should By November 2005, Hall was leading the use discretion during the interview. “An imrollout of Lawyers for Equality, the first gay portant part of the interview is being able to lawyers’ association in St. Louis. The St. Louis read what’s happening in the interview room Post-Dispatch published a news story on Nov. itself,” McRoberts says. “In some situations it 16, and the next day Bryan Cave had posted might be very appropriate to share that in the the story on its website with a quote from the interview process. In others discretion might firm’s partners: “We think it’s great that Jason be better. Your orientation is something that is taking a leadership role such as this one. should be handled case by case, based on the Diversity is one of the firm’s core values.” who, what, when, where, why, and how.”

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When Gagnon urged job-seekers to “be clear about who you are,”

Remembering Leonard Plavin The Bates College Modern Dance Company Reunion this spring will celebrate the late Leonard Plavin through the mediums of dance and photography. Date: April 29—May 1, 2011 Concert: April 30, 8 p.m. Location: Schaeffer Theatre Bates dancers are invited to return to campus, join together, and create new dance works inspired by Leonard’s own photography of the Modern Dance Company through the years. The husband of dance company founder Marcy Plavin, Leonard was a devoted chronicler of Bates dance, his photographic artistry and partnership with Bates dance evident in the thousands of dance photographs he took over the years. With Marcy, he was an adviser and confidante to Bates dancers, dispensing wise advice on life, love, money, and career, often around the dinner table at the Plavin home on Mountain Avenue.

To register for the Modern Dance Company Reunion, go to community.bates.edu/dancereunion2011. For more information, contact Kathleen Bilodeau, Alumni and Parent Programs, 207-786-6487, kbilodea@bates.edu, or Marcy Plavin, lecturer emerita of dance, mplavin@bates.edu.

Of course, says Handerhan, students should be bold about reaching out to alumni, though he understands their hesitancy. “I realize that I didn’t do it as much as I should have,” he said. When Handerhan says he also wished he had “called in” more favors during his job search, that made Gagnon grin, and she turned to Handerhan. “Larry, you’re like 27, right?! I think you’ll have time to call in those favors!”

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couple of times every year, a well-meaning mainlander, someone who believes he’s an islander “at heart” because he “loves the ocean,” calls Matinicus Island with some business or other. This tightly scheduled do-gooder wants to observe our one-room school or meet the town fathers or fix all our problems. His eager, chipper inquiry comes over the microwave telephone link: “What time’s the morning boat?” Uh... The silence lets him know that he’s blown it. We know that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. “Well, there is no boat,” we explain, “and we’ve already had the ferry this month.” That usually results in a confused lull. “Well, don’t you have your own boat?” “Don’t fish, can’t afford it,” we explain. Safe year-round transit across 22 miles of leaden sea would require considerably more boat than the open summer runabout he’s no doubt envisioning. “Well, how do you...?” “Air service.” As most people outside Alaska consider charter air service slightly less than real, the next question makes clear that the eager mainlander thinks the service is like Amtrak or Greyhound: “What times do they fly?” “Whenever you need them — except when they can’t.” “What does that mean?” Oh, if it’s foggy or raining or snowing or the wind is blowing too hard out of the wrong direction or the island’s dirt airstrip is too muddy. A passenger has to “make a flight” with the air service. That means make a reservation in a tentative sort of way. You have to work around the weather, mail flights to other places, and the occasional medevac flight and aircraft maintenance. Thinking himself a top-notch planner, a visitor will book a flight several months hence, only to arrive on the designated day in condi-

tions variously described as “dungeon thick o’ fog” or “thicker’n boiled owl shit.” On Matinicus, “You can’t get there from here” isn’t lame Maine humor; it’s a weather report. Island residents do this transportation dance year after year, but that doesn’t make it any more convenient. Hearing about the airservice limitations, the visitor will ask, “Won’t one of the fishermen give you a ride?” Yes, they might, but this isn’t like college. There’s no ride board where people stick a little note, “Am going to Bangor on Saturday, would

This isn’t like college.There’s no ride board. like to share gas.” Lobstermen have no reason to call half the neighborhood just because they have plans to steam across the bay to buy rope and beer. Here’s a scenario most of us on Matinicus have experienced. After doing your mainland shopping, you wait four or five hours at the Knox County Regional Airport, hoping for a window in the spiteful weather. You make multiple phone calls back to the island to ask about the fog and the ceiling, or the likelihood of finding someone on the mainland going home by boat today.

By Eva Meltzer Murray ’86

The phone rings. Somebody on a bad cell phone connection crackles something about having heard a rumor that one of the fishermen is “over there somewhere” (that means on the mainland). “We think Fred is over there and he might give you a ride.” “What time is he leaving?” “I heard maybe around four.” (It is now, of course, about 3:45.) “Where does he go out of?” “I don’t know. Spruce Head, I think.” (There’s a mythology that residents of an island community know where everyone is and what they’re doing, all the time.) Convinced that this is actually going to happen — that you will sleep in your own bed tonight — you now have 15 minutes to get from Owls Head to Spruce Head. You organize the children and dogs, pull the milk and pork chops from the airport cooler, and head down Route 73 in a harried hurry. In Spruce Head, there’s too much fog to see any distance. Is he here? Is he not here yet? Was he ever here? Did he leave already? You’re also now wondering where you’ll leave your vehicle for the next few weeks. Yes, weeks. When you live on Matinicus, you can’t go to the mainland every time you need a can of beans. After driving between a few lobster company wharves, you call the airport and ask about the flight’s status. “The ceiling picked up for a few minutes,” you’re told. “We just made the flight.” Freelance writer Eva Murray ’86 moved shortly after graduation to Matinicus, where she and her husband have raised two children. This essay is adapted from “Getting Here is None of the Fun,” which first appeared in Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors and is included in Murray’s collection of essays, Well Out to Sea (Tilbury House, 2010).

Isn’t it good to know that there are still fundamental values you can count on?

Bates Fundamentals Residential life programs are fundamental.

A Junior Advisor helped Ryan Espiritu ’13 start his Bates career right. Now Ryan is giving back. Arriving from Vancouver, B.C., says Ryan, “I didn’t know a single person. My Junior Advisor helped me out.” Now Ryan is guiding first-year students as a JA. “Coming into adulthood takes place in college, and a lot of that occurs in the dorms,” he says. “JAs can make that a little smoother if you hit rough patches.” Your Bates Fund gift helps support the $170,000 residential life budget — of which nearly 90 percent pays the salaries of Residence Coordinators and Junior Advisors like Ryan. At Bates, the whole school educates the whole person. Your contribution keeps the residential life program robust as it brings the Bates education beyond the classroom. That’s a Bates Fundamental.

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Steeped in Trashion The annual Trashion Show in the Gray Cage included Erin Kirk ’14 of Great Falls, Va., modeling a kimono designed by Hilary Gibson ’14 of Freeport, Maine, and styled from tea packets, trash bags, coffee stirrers, and old memory cards. The evening’s other trash couture featured discarded items like coffee bags, campus posters, cardboard, computer parts, latex gloves, and beer cans. Sponsored by Dining Services and Sustainable Bates, the Trashion Show highlights campus recycling efforts and is organized by the EcoReps, students who keep tabs on all things sustainable. Trashion slideshow bit.ly/trashion-2010. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen.