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NORTHWARD OVER THE GREAT ICE 100 YEARS AFTER PEARY’S QUEST TO THE NORTH POLE,THE RACE IS STILL ON

DR. JONATHAN MARTIN ’92 • VACATIONLAND ALUMNI • A BOWDOIN BOOK OF QUOTATIONS BowdoinMAGAZINE WINTER 2009

20 Northward Over the Great Ice BY EDGAR ALLEN BEEM PHOTOGRAPHS BY BOWDOIN COLLEGE ARCHIVES On April 6, the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum will CONTENTS celebrate the centennial of Commander Robert E. Peary’s attainment of the North Pole. Ed Beem puts the 1909 journey into context and talks to some of 20 Bowdoin’s current faculty to explain why the race is still on, and what’s at stake.

28 The Education of Dr. Jonathan Martin BY MEL ALLEN Jonathan Martin ’92, now a member of the department of neurosurgery at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, tells writer Mel Allen the harrowing and inspiring story of his military service as a neurosurgeon in Iraq and how it changed him. 36 36 The Bowdoin Book of Quotations BY FRED SHAPIRO A world-recognized authority on quotations and on refer- ence in general, Fred R. Shapiro is associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at Yale Law School. In compiling his recent Yale Book of Quotations, he encountered many of 28 Bowdoin’s most illustrious—and eloquent—graduates. 42 Bears in Vacationland BY EDGAR ALLEN BEEM PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHELE STAPLETON 42 Planning a trip to Maine this year? While most alumni live outside of this beautiful state, there are many Bowdoin graduates who make a living sharing Maine’s attractions with others—in fact, you could plan a vacation just staying (and eating) with fellow Polar Bears.Writer Ed Beem out- lines a few stops you might make on your way.

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Extending the Conversation Volume 80, Number 1 Winter 2009

hances are, whatever line of work you are in, you haven’t escaped MAGAZINE STAFF hearing the term “social networking.”And, as with many buzzwords, Editor Cyou’ve probably learned what to call it sometime after you had already Alison M. Bennie begun doing it. Apparently, all day, every day—whether at work or on vacation, Associate Editor sitting in a conference room or an armchair—many of us are sending out 140- Matthew J. O’Donnell character messages to our “followers,” sharing videos and articles and Web sites with hundreds of people at once, declaring ourselves fans of bacon or “This Design Charles Pollock American Life” or Shania Twain—essentially putting our lives and selves online. Jim Lucas While we do all that, we are keeping up with all that same information for, on Pennisi & Lamare average, 150 others. Portland, Maine Contributors Like everyone else, I have been doing this, too.When I open up my Facebook Douglas Boxer-Cook page, I have the sense that I am hosting a party to which I’ve invited a very odd James Caton Susan Danforth cast of characters.There are current colleagues, Bowdoin alumni, both my present Darren Fishell ’09 boss and my boss from twenty years ago, family members near and far, high Selby Frame school and college classmates I knew well or not at all, some of our children’s Scott W. Hood Alix Roy ’07 friends (who would do well to remember that people like me get a “feed” every time they post a photo), and even our dog Noah.As much as I think it is good to Advertising Manager mix up your guest list from time to time, I can’t imagine doing this in real life. Hannah Scheidt ’10 Photographs by James Marshall, Michele The value of this kind of networking is real. I read recently that the surge in job Stapleton, and Bowdoin College losses has led to a boost in sign-ups on the business networking site, LinkedIn. Archives When times are tough, we look to each other, and there are digital ways to do BOWDOIN (ISSN, 0895-2604) is pub- that.After years of reading articles in parenting magazines telling us to limit our lished four times a year by Bowdoin kids’ screen time, lest they become socially isolated, it now seems that the only College, 4104 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011. Printed by J.S. real concerns are ones of physical inactivity. But there are challenges to this McCarthy, Augusta, Maine.Third-class phenomenon, too—how do you redefine intimacy when so many people know postage paid at Augusta, Maine. Sent so much about you? Who is special and what do you tell them about yourself free of charge to all Bowdoin alumni, parents of current and recent under- that the world doesn’t know? We all have heard the cautionary tales about the graduates, faculty and staff, seniors, and Internet being one big public billboard, privacy settings or not, but there is a selected members of the Association of deeper question, too: what happens to our sense of identity when the private self Bowdoin Friends. and the public self are the same? Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors. And I have an even bigger question.This year is my 25th college reunion.With all Send class news to classnews@bow- the small talk already covered through our virtual conversations, what could doin.edu or mail to the address above. possibly be left to say? Advertising inquiries? Please e-mail mag- [email protected] or fax 207-725- 3003. Please send address changes to I would worry about this more if I had a different job. I know that alumni the mailing address above. Send letters magazines have been practicing social networking for a very long time, and they to the editor to that address or by e- have proven that the more we read of each other in class notes, the more we feel mail to [email protected]. connected to our class and college, and the more we actually want to come back to campus and visit in person. So,“tweet” your heart out—the conversation may digress, escalate, or stall, but it always continues.

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A lonely outpost… on the front lines in South Korea during the Korean War. Photo by international correspondent John Rich ’39. Rich’s recently rediscovered personal photographs are thought to be the only collection of color photos from that war.

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Come Inside A late February storm may not have been winter at its most charming, but the campus was beautiful and Farley Field House welcoming. Photograph by Michele Stapleton.

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Other Green Grads? Dear editor: As the wife of one of Bowdoin’s graduates, and with two sons quickly reaching college age, I read each issue of the Bowdoin magazine with great interest.Your last issue had a wonderful article,“Deep Green.” I thought you might be interested to know that Rob Smith (Worthington Robert Smith ’75), my husband, has been with the Sierra Club for almost 30 years, working on wilderness, wildlife, immigration/diversity/native and global warming issues, both on the ground and in Congress. Beyond the large impact he has had on public practice and policy, he has personally taken on the challenge of greening our tract home (rather than build new), installed a solar electric system and reduced our carbon footprint, even while living in Phoenix, one of the most auto dependent cities in America. I would be interested in seeing what other grads, not just the ones highlighted in the article, are doing to Jay Vivian atop the Senior protect and improve the environment in other parts of Center (Coles Tower) and the country. Is there some way you could solicit that below ground in a steam input and continually share that information each issue? tunnel, from the ’73 Bugle. I think a lot of alumni would be supportive and curious about the topic. On the Edge Sincerely, Dear editor: Joni Bosh Regarding the picture in the summer Bowdoin magazine of Jay Pratt ’40 atop Searles; there is a similar picture of Thwarted me on top of the Senior Center (now called Coles Dear editor: Tower). Dean Nyhus similarly never heard about it, thank [Recently, my son] Pete and I visited the Science goodness. It’s in the Class of 1973 yearbook.There’s also a Building and found Sue Theberge. I showed her my picture of me in the steam tunnels, also in the yearbook. picture in the magazine and asked for permission to Unfortunately, he did hear about that. He sent a letter access the roof so Pete could take my picture on the saying that if such activity reoccurred an expulsion would chimney again, 70 years later.The look on her face! She be in order. continued looking at the picture, looking at me, started Jay Vivian ’73 smiling and shaking her head side to side. Utter disbelief! “There are laws – we have rules – the insurance company (is this old fuddy- duddy completely nuts?) – absolutely not!” Bless her heart! I just wanted a picture of the long Send Us Mail! ridgepole and empty Thank you to those of you who took the time to chimney – and to wonder complete our magazine reader survey! whatever prompted me. I was one of the very few in We are very interested in your feedback, thoughts, and my class that didn’t take up ideas about Bowdoin magazine.You can reach us by drinking during my four e-mail at [email protected]. Jay Pratt ’40 examines the years there. Still don’t. Submission deadline for Class News,Weddings and locked trapdoor keeping him Mailbox for the next issue is March, 31, 2009. Sincerely, from peering across the roof of J. Pratt ’40 Searles again.

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The Baja Project “man’s sacrilegious infringements on Ecosystem Planning In his first novel, Jim nature’s delicate balance,” which have in Florida Hughes ’67 takes readers released a forgotten Indian curse. In a race Samuel David Brody ’92 inside the beginning of a against time, their distraught parents must argues for the need to “new cold war.” Professor overcome marital tensions to save their understand ecosystems at William Abbey accepts a children. Beech River Books, 2008. the local level, where most consulting assignment on Mexico’s Baja planning decisions are made in the U.S. Clear Vision:The Story Peninsula, only to later discover that his Brody asserts that ecosystem decline and of Clear Channel client has plans for more than beach rapid development are community-level Communications resorts. He realizes that millions of problems and that with the understanding In the only corporate history American lives are in his hands and that and focus of local and municipal govern- authorized by the company, he must stop the Baja Project. BookSurge ments, more sustainable levels of environ- Reed Bunzel ’78 takes a Publishing, 2008. mental planning is possible. Ashgate, 2008. look at the emergence and growth of the Catamount, a North largest radio and outdoor-advertising Just Politics: Human Country Thriller company in the world.This history Rights and the Foreign Rick Davidson ’69’s novel includes interviews with top-level Policy of Great Powers is set in northern New executives and examines controversy that C.William Walldorf Jr. ’90 England, where two children has surrounded Clear Channel along the examines the power of human are stranded between a way. Bright Sky Press, 2008. rights issues to shape states’ wildfire and a mountain lion enraged by foreign policy.With an eye to the U.S. and

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Thomas Kohnstam ’98 Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism

rior to the release of Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? Bowdoin: Do you write to travel or travel to write? Should (Three Rivers Press, 2008), Thomas Kohnstamm ’98 a travel writer do one or the other? Pfound himself at the center of a global media Kohnstamm: Neither. I am a writer who enjoys traveling controversy over the ethics of travel journalism. His memoir whenever possible.The two spheres takes an unvarnished look at the sometimes compromising frequently overlap, but are not always and impossible task of writing authoritative guides to connected. I also think that it is a mistake to foreign destinations. decide that you specifically want to become Bowdoin: What are the most common misconceptions a travel writer. It is best to become a writer. about the life of a travel writer? Learn about character, dialogue, place, plotting etc. and if you happen to focus on Kohnstamm: That you actually get to travel and you international issues or travel themes, so be it. actually get to write. Most of the time, you are racing through a foreign country at a pace akin to “The Amazing Bowdoin: What has been your most satisfying work? Race” (if the publisher sends you there at all) and then Kohnstamm: Aside from Hawthorne-Longfellow Library penning cookie-cutter reviews or updating contact Security ’95-’96? Probably my book, or the screenplay that I information. Competition with free am in the process of completing. In on-line travel information has really “A comic rogue who seems to have truth, I’m never satisfied with skewed the travel publishing anything that I write. I always look industry.That’s not to say that you modeled his life and prose on Hunter S. back and want to change all sorts of can’t ascend to a more fulfilling Thompson’s…I could not get enough of the stuff. Perhaps that sentiment is what level of travel writing – say, travel most depraved travel book of the year.” keeps pushing me forward to try literature – but, in general, the new and different types of writing. industry is a bit of a sweatshop. —The New York Times

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Britain, this study demonstrates the Organizational conditions in which legislatures exert Integrity: How to Apply pressure on executives to end commitments the Wisdom of the Body on my to allies with poor humanitarian standards. to Develop Healthy Cornell University Press, 2008. Organizations nightstand Torin M. Finser ’77, Lady Liberty: Director of the Waldorf Teacher Education A Biography Program at Antioch University New Matt Tavares ’97 England, examines the nature of illustrated this history of professional and governmental the construction of the organizations through the lens of the Statue of Liberty, showing natural world, crafting a vision for what the work of engineers, plasterers, he calls a “new ecology of organizations” carpenters, and coppersmiths working that ultimately aims to “organ-ize” Tim Foster Dean of Student Affairs together to erect the monument. From organizations. Steinerbooks, 2007. • Ishmael:An Adventure of the Mind and Pulitzer’s call to readers to help fund the Spirit by Daniel Quinn cost of a pedestal to the significance of NATO and the • The Road by Cormac McCarthy immigrant labor in its construction, this Warsaw Pact: book tells the story of the famous and Intrabloc Conflicts • The Things They Carried by Tim symbolic statue. Candlewick, 2008. Co-edited and with an O’Brien introduction by S.Victor The Maritime World of • The Far Side Gallery by Gary Larson Papacosma ’64, professor Ancient Rome • With Love and Prayers:A Headmaster of history and director of the Lemnitzer Robert L. Hohlfelder ’60 Speaks to the Next Generation by F. Center for NATO and European Union edited this collection of Washington Jarvis Studies at Kent State University, this proceedings from the volume features essays on Cold War conference,“The Maritime Selby Frame, Associate Director of tensions within NATO and the Warsaw World of Ancient Rome,” including Academic Communications Pact. Kent State University Press, 2008. contributions from eminent scholars • Seabiscuit:An American Legend by around the world, and building upon the Shift Laura Hillenbrand American Academy in Rome’s first volume In her latest novel for young • Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner on maritime life.The collection traces the adults, Charlotte Agell ’81 emergence of Rome as a dominant projects a vision of an • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice maritime power after the fall of Egypt in ominous world in which the for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron 30 BCE. University of Michigan Press, 2008. governing body of • The Cuisine of the Sun: Classical French Homestate controls every aspect of Our Daily Tread: Cooking from Nice and Provence by society. In a mission to change the course Thoughts for An Mireille Johnston and Milton Glaser of the universe, fifteen-year-old Adrian Inspired Life Havoc travels to the dangerous Deadlands Marilyn Reizbaum, Professor of English Lisa Belisle ’92 edited as the end of the world becomes an ever- this collection of daily quotations, • Indignation by Philip Roth increasing threat. Henry Holt, 2008. personal essays, documentary photography, • Yesterday’s Weather: Stories by Anne and children’s artwork, paying tribute to Why We Hate Us: Enright the work of her late classmate Hanley American Discontent in • The Senses of Modernism:Technology, Denning. Hanley founded the non-profit the New Millennium Perception, and Aesthetics by Sara Danius Safe Passage to educate children whose This study of American families earn their living picking through social self-loathing by Dick • The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel trash at the Guatemala City Dump.All Meyer ’80“takes us on a Spark proceeds from the book benefit Safe rollicking, laugh-out-loud ride across the • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of Passage. Aerie River Books, 2008. brittle American landscape,”Atlantic the World:A Novel by Haruki Monthly’s Jeffrey Goldberg writes,“and by Murakami ‘us’ I mean all of us—liberal and • Mob Culture: Hidden Histories of the To order any of these titles from the Bowdoin conservative, black and white, city- Bookstore, phone 1-800-524-2225, dwellers, suburbanites, and farmers.” American Gangster Film, edited by Esther Sonnet, Lee Grieveson, and e-mail [email protected], or visit Crown, 2008. Peter Stanfield www.bowdoin.edu/bookstore.

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Dropping the puck on a new logo: A new Polar Bear logo proudly owns center ice at the equally new Sidney J.Watson Arena.The College recently finished an in-depth process to unify the look of the famed Polar Bear mascot, spurred, in part, by the need for a long- term icon in the new arena.

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|campus| |campus| FULL CIRCLE FOR HYDE DESK Growing a Spirit he desk of William DeWitt Hyde, of Community TBowdoin president from 1885 to 1917, resides once again in the president’s n 2006, Elliott Wright ’04 and the garden more than acre of land office, thanks to Steve Hyde,Associate IJoel Cartwright ’06 led an initia- to farm. Vice President/Director of Gift Planning. tive to establish the Bowdoin “It was easy to fall under Joel’s President Hyde used the desk in his Organic Garden with the assistance spell and be carried along by his office and then moved it to his home on of Bowdoin Dining Service.The passion and commitment,” Kennedy goals they projected then for 2009 says.“He was an avid learner, net- have been realized, and the success- working with successful local farm- ful program continues to grow, ers and applying those lessons educating and working to close the toward developing the Bowdoin environmental loop and provide a garden.” source of sustainable agriculture for The garden continues to develop Bowdoin and its environs. and grow, as Wright and Cartwright “Like many programs at envisioned it, deeping relationships Bowdoin,” Director of Dining with local farmers and looking Services Mary Lou Kennedy says, toward building a permanent “the organic garden reflects a small, greenhouse, an irrigation system, but high quality and significant and better integration of the garden contribution to the goal of a more into the College curriculum. sustainable college and world.” Proceeds from the sale of the Garden T-shirts in memory The initial 2006 plan included of Joel Cartright ’06 benefit the operation of the hiring a full-time garden manager Bowdoin’s organic garden, which he co-founded. (currently Katherine Creswell) building a hoop house, adding a second on-campus plot, and obtain- ing Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association certification. “Having a full-time, seasonal President William Dewitt Hyde, circa 1915. Courtesy of the employee to run the garden has George J. Mitchell Dept. of Special Collections & Archives. been key to its success,” explains 85 Federal Street (now the Office of Kennedy. Development).The desk eventually made Creswell, who’s been with the its way to President Hyde’s son, Steve’s garden for five seasons, also helped grandfather, George, Class of 1908, who, design this year’s Garden T-shirt, a “on a side note,” Steve points out,“was tribute to the late Cartwright, who born in what is now [Associate Vice tragically committed suicide last President/Director of Capital Giving] Eli summer. Cartwright, whose energy Orlic’s office.” George used the desk in and spirit of community and giving his law practice and then while treasurer belied his struggle with severe of Smith College, and Steve’s father, Bill depression, was instrumental in ’38, eventually inherited the desk, which developing many key relationships he used at his home.“I thought it would that led to the garden’s success, nicely close the circle by coming back to including one with the Brunswick the College,” Steve says. Land Trust that continues to afford

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Fall 2008 Alumni Trip to New Orleans

n September 2008, a team of eight Bowdoin alumni Itraveled to New Orleans to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity to construct new homes, marking the inaugu- ral trip of the Alumni Service Travel Program. For more on the program and upcoming trips, visit the Alumni section of the Bowdoin Web site: polarnet.bowdoin.edu. Photos by Assistant Professor of Art Michael Kolster.

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McDreamy Sports Bowdoin T-Shirt

merica’s favorite television neurosurgeon was quickly Aglimpsed wearing a Bowdoin T-shirt during prime time. Dr. Derek Shepherd, played by Maine-native Patrick Dempsey on the hit ABC television series Grey’s Anatomy, sported the Bowdoin tee in multiple shows in October. The Bowdoin-Grey’s Anatomy connection was hardly a random event. It is the culmination of a campaign to adopt Dr. Shepherd as a Bowdoin grad conceived and spearheaded by Cole Harris of the Class of 1978.

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on Fisher ’71 is involved in work concerning the road; the second stage of the study focuses on Ddriving distractions and attention levels, and has attention maintenance. The study tracks eye move- recent research to indicate the real danger of text mes- ment on the road and on in-vehicle tasks, revealing saging and using an iPod while driving. Now a pro- that novice drivers are more prone to look away from fessor in the Department of Mathematics and the road for dangerous periods. The tendency to focus Engineering at The University of Massachusetts in on such tasks, like navigating through screens on an Amherst, his interest in trends among inexperienced iPod, is linked to high crash rates. drivers began in the early 1990s. The father of two Fisher writes,“I am so thankful that I get to work girls, he saw the crash rate among young drivers and on something that hopefully prevents a loss one can pursued a means of locating potential distractions with never really recover.” He and his team currently work the hopes of helping to correct this problem. in a state-of-the-art laboratory with three driving sim- The research comparing novice and experienced ulators. He is currently contributing toward the leg- drivers has advanced through several stages. Initially, islative effort to ban text messaging while driving in Fisher focused on the ability to anticipate hazards on Massachusetts.

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The plight of the Polar Bear and its connection to the College were the focus of an article in the December 29, 2008, issue of ESPN the Magazine. Informed by interviews with Susan Kaplan, director of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, and Phil Camill, program director and Rusack Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology, the feature, "Save the Mascot, Save the Planet," notes how global warming continues to melt the Arctic ice, which Polar Bears use as platforms for hunting dives….

ssistant Professor of Government Michael selected to receive an Award for Design. The Museum AFranz, co-author of Campaign Advertising and was also selected by a jury in Athens, Greece, as American Democracy (Temple University Press, 2007) has one of 66 new American projects to be awarded made several media appearances in which he has an American Architecture Award by the Chicago discussed the strategies involved in political cam- Atheneum: Museum of Architecture and Design, paigns: on the topic of lawn signs that proliferate dur- the European Centre for Architecture Art Design ing campaign season in the August 7, 2008, edition of and Urban Studies, and the Metropolitan Arts The Christian Science Monitor, on the WCSH magazine Press.The American Architecture Awards program hon- show “207” on Sept. 25, 2008, Franz spoke about specu- ors and celebrates the most outstanding new accom- lation that the presidential election will draw a larger plishments for new architecture designed and built in number of younger voters, and on Al Jazeera’s “Min the United States by leading American and international [From] Washington,” on Monday, October 27, 2008, he architecture firms practicing in the U.S…. Kate appeared as part of a panel of three political scientists. Epstein ’10 was among Maine’s 23 other delegates ….The newly renovated and expanded Bowdoin and eight superdelegates at the Democratic College Museum of Art is the recipient of a National Convention in Denver, Colo. Epstein, an design award from the Boston Society of anthropology major and English minor from Harvard, Architects 2008 Honor Awards.The Museum of Art Mass., attended the Brunswick caucus, where she was was one of seven projects, out of a field of 135 entries, elected to be a delegate to the state convention in

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Augusta, held May 31-June 1…. Studzinski Recital interviewed for the article,“Struggling Economy Puts Hall and Kanbar Auditorium are being honored Colleges in a Tight Spot.”… Rick Thompson, associ- with their fifth design award.The American Institute ate professor of psychology and neuroscience, of Architects (AIA) New England Chapter has awarded was featured in the November 17, 2008, edition the project its 2008 Honor Award for Design…. Adams- of USA Today. In the article,“Proof’s in the Brain Catlin Professor of Economics David Vail was a guest Scan: Romance Doesn’t Have to Fade,”Thompson on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network responds to a study presented at a meeting of the (MPBN) public affairs program MaineWatch with Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C…. Maine Jennifer Rooks on Friday, September 12, 2008.The sub- Governor John Baldacci has named economics ject of the segment was “Business Innovation Clusters: professor David Vail to represent the academic Ecotourism.”… Bowdoin baseball player Tim Welch and scientific communities on Maine’s panel of a ’12, of Portsmouth, N.H., was featured in the Blue Ribbon Commission on Land Conservation September 15, 2008, edition of Sports Illustrated. “to consider the most urgent conservation issues facing Welch was profiled as part of the magazine’s weekly our region and develop recommendations on preserving “Faces in the Crowd” segment…. Bowdoin field and protecting our natural heritage and places.”.…. hockey player Lindsay McNamara ’09 of Milton, Studzinski Recital Hall and Kanbar Auditorium Mass., was featured in an article on Sports were center stage in a two-page spread in the Illustrated’s Web site, SI.com. Jacob Osterhout’s “SI: December 14, 2008, issue of Boston Globe On Campus” article reads:“So this week, we’re paying Magazine…. The plight of the Polar Bear and its attention to field hockey — more specifically, to Lindsay connection to the College were the focus of an McNamara, the all-time leading goal scorer in Bowdoin article in the December 29, 2008, issue of ESPN College field hockey history…. Christian Potholm, the Magazine. Informed by interviews with Susan DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Kaplan, director of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Government, was tapped by two high-profile Museum and Arctic Studies Center, and Phil Camill, media outlets to provide commentary on Maine program director and Rusack Associate Professor of politics. Potholm is is quoted in the September 19, Environmental Studies and Biology, the feature,“Save 2008, edition of USA Today.The article,“In Maine, the Mascot, Save the Planet,” notes how global warming Collins an Elusive Target for Democrats,” examines the continues to melt the Arctic ice, which Polar Bears use race between incumbent Republican Senator Susan as platforms for hunting dives…. With the support of Collins and challenger Democrat Congressman Tom a $5,000 donation from the Bowdoin College Allen ’67. Potholm was also the invited guest of Class of 2008 and a grant from the William The Leonard Lopate Show on New York City’s public Bingham Foundation, Bowdoin has installed its radio station, WNYC, the flagship station of National first solar domestic hot water heating system in Public Radio, and was featured in a NECN news the Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center (OLC). segment on November 5, 2008,...Two recent College The system comprises a 30-tube roof mounted solar renovation projects earned awards from the New panel, an 80-gallon hot water tank, a display panel and England chapter of the American Institute of related circulating pump and piping… DeWitt John, Architects (AIA New England) and are featured in Bowdoin’s Thomas F. Shannon Director of the October 2008 issue of Maine Home+Design maga- Environmental Studies, testified in support of zine. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art was reauthorization of the U.S. National Marine given AIA New England’s Honor Award, as were Sanctuaries Program before the House Studzinski Recital Hall and Kanbar Auditorium… Committee on Natural Resources in Washington, President Barry Mills was quoted in the D.C., on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. John, a fellow of November 11, 2008, edition of the Washington Post, the National Academy of Public Administration, wrote on how the College is handling the country’s financial two reports on the marine sanctuary program and has crisis. Mills was one of a handful of college presidents visited 12 of the nation’s 14 designated marine sanctu- aries.

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f walls—or kitchen coun- Iters—could talk, they would probably have their fair share of interesting sto- ries. Contractors remodeling the kitchen at 42B Harpswell Road discovered one such story attached to the underside of the coun- tertop sometime last sum- mer, a letter dated November 16, 1981. They were not as sur- prised, however, as the author of the letter, Robert Lyons, when he received an email from his daughter Claire Lyons ’77 that the let- ter had been found. “We seem to be tumbling tumble weeds,” Robert wrote to Bowdoin magazine, think- ing back on his family’s post- 1981 migration pattern.The Lyons family has had numerous houses idents of his homes, and the undoubted- residents in many of his previous resi- over the years, moving between Maine, ly “interesting and worthwhile things” dences. His 42B Harpswell Road letter, California, and New Mexico. Often they had to leave their successors, however, is the first that he is aware has wondering himself about the earlier res- Robert has left hidden notes to future been discovered.

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THETA CORPORATION SUPPORTS ADMISSIONS, FINANCIAL AID harles G. Bridge ’61, president of the Theta Chapter Burton-Little House, housing the Admissions Office) into a CHouse Corporation—the fraternity alumni corporation conference room for Admissions and a repository for fraterni- of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Kappa Delta Theta—announced ty memorabilia.The room also honors George Erswell of the that the Board of Directors dis- Class of 1947, longtime advi- solved the Corporation follow- sor and mentor to generations ing the 2008 annual meeting of Deke/Theta undergradu- held during Reunion Weekend. ates.The remaining assets of The Board voted to contribute approximately $90,000 were $25,000 of its remaining funds transferred to the College as toward the renovation of the part of the Theta Scholarship Chapter Room at the former Fund, which supports student fraternity house (now the financial aid.

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|campus| |history lesson| DID YOU KNOW ?

he famous editori- Tal,“Yes,Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” has Bowdoin roots. Edward Page Mitchell, of Bath, Maine, Bowdoin Class of 1871, was the New York Sun editor-in-chief who, in 1897, urged his colleague Frank P. Church to respond to a little girl’s letter. The Monster owdoin took delivery of a strange new vehicle in the fall B1956, a slow-moving behemoth with crushed walnut shells impregnated into its tires, so unusual it was affectionate- ly dubbed the “Monster.” Descendents of this machine are common sites now, as Zambonis smooth ice surfaces around the world. Bowdoin’s Zamboni Ice Re-Surfacer 400 Model F,was one of the first of over 400 Willys Jeep-chassis- based machines that the Zamboni company made between 1956 and 1964 (the walnut shells gave it better traction on the ice). Feedback from the College on the operation of the new machine led to several modifications that became standard on future Zamboni models. Monster, the performance specifications of which briefly delayed construction of Dayton Arena, plied the ice of Dayton until the early 1980s. In January, the College’s current Zamboni, the machine that replaced Monster, creeped across campus to its new home in Watson Arena. But, Monster hasn’t been left out in the cold.

(Right):An October 1956 telegram from Bowdoin Athletic Director Malcolm Morrell to Frank Zamboni. (Top):“Monster” is now on permanent display in the new Sidney J.Watson Arena, on a pedestal above the 1956 Dayton Arena cornerstone.

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A Common Good Idea everend Joseph McKeen defined the mission of a liberal “Remember that you are not Reducation in his often quoted inaugural address as the first elevated to your present president of the College in 1802:“It ought always to be places for personal emolu- remembered, that literary institutions are founded and ment, but for the good of endowed for the common good, your fellow mortals, whose and not for the private advantage happiness in life depends of those who resort to them for much on your conduct.” education.” However, Edward Watterson writes that the Little Professor of the English “good” of McKeen’s Election Language and Literature William Day sermon becomes the Watterson has recently found “common good” of his 1802 deeper histories in Bowdoin’s inaugural address, and “per- founding principle.Two years prior sonal emolument” (a phrase to his inaugural address, on May that appears in Washington’s

Reverend Joseph McKeen 28, 1800, McKeen delivered his first inaugural address as Election Day sermon to the President of the United Massachusetts Legislature in Boston in which he paid tribute States in 1792) becomes to George Washington, who died on December 14, 1799. In “private advantage.”“We must therefore conclude,”Watterson it, McKeen urges his audience that Washington be heard, writes,“that George Washington is the posthumous ‘ghost “though dead, yet speaking to you” in the following words: writer’ of Bowdoin’s most famous founding principle.”

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GRIND IT OUT n anticipation of new exercisers flocking to Bowdoin’s new fitness, health and wellness center when it opens in the fall I– if we build it, they will come – we asked a few current faculty and staff diehards to help us create a playlist designed to get everybody over the last hill.Try to match each person below with one of his or her grind-it-out favorites (answers below), and visit Apple’s iTunes Music store (search iMix, then Bowdoin Magazine) to download the playlist.

1. Allen Wells, Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History A. “Life During Wartime,” The Talking Heads 2. Eric Morin,Asst. Dean of Student Affairs B. “I Predict a Riot,” Kaiser Chiefs 3. Genevieve LeMoine, Curator,Arctic Museum C. “Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business),” Aretha Franklin 4. Emanuel Lora,Asst. Director, Residential Life D. “War Pigs,” Gov’t Mule 5. Terry Meagher, Head Coach, Men’s Ice Hockey E. “Hold On,” Chris Smither 6. Scott Hood,VP,Communications & Public Affairs F. “L.A.Woman,” The Doors 7. Matt O’Donnell,Assoc. Editor, Bowdoin Magazine G. “Dancin’ With Myself,” Billy Idol 8. Scott Sehon, Professor, Philosophy H. “All These Things That I’ve Done,” The Killers 9. Sara Smith,Administrative Asst, Communications I. “Sabotage,” Beastie Boys 10. Alison Bennie, Editor, Bowdoin Magazine J. “Oye Mi Canto” (Radio Edition), Big Mato, Daddy Yankee, Gem Star, N.O.R.E., & Nina Skyy

Bonus questions: 1.Which of these people also listed American Lives documentaries by Ken Burns? 2.Which person gave a whole separate list for lifting weights?

(Answers:1.C; 2.D; 3.B; 4.H; 5.F; 6.A; 7.I; 8.E; 9.G; 10.J Bonus 1:#6; Bonus 2:#2)

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|sports| KAREN MILLS NAMED SBA ADMINISTRATOR

resident-elect Barack Obama named PKaren Mills, wife of Bowdoin President Barry Mills,Administrator of the Small Business Administration. Obama made the announcement Friday, December 19, 2008, at a news confer- ence in Chicago, saying with Mills at the helm,“America’s small businesses will have a partner in Washington.” In Chicago for the televised announce- ment, Mills delivered remarks focusing on the importance of building and growing small business in America. “Small business will be at the table as we work our way through these difficult economic times — and as we grow the economy in the future,” she said. Mills, a principal in the private equity and ven- ture capital industry since 1983, was a co-founder and managing director of Solera Capital, and chief operating offi- cer of E.S. Jacobs and Company, a pri- vate equity firm where she had operat- ing control of businesses with sales of nearly $600 million, 4,100 employees 2008 Athletic Hall of and 32 plants. Honor Inductees

owdoin honored five distin- Chris Jerome ’83, and field hock- Bguished individuals with ey All-American, track athlete, induction into the Bowdoin and marathoner Emily LeVan ’95. College Athletic Hall of Honor The College founded the Hall at a ceremony during of Honor in 2002 to perpetuate Homecoming Weekend in the memory of those who have October.The Hall of Honor brought distinction, honor, and Class of 2008 includes legendary excellence to Bowdoin through track & field coach Jack Magee, their accomplishments in athlet- National Champion hammer- ics. For more information about thrower Bill McWilliams ’57, the newest members and past soccer great Robinson Moore inductees, visit the Athletics Web ’77, basketball All-American site: athletics.bowdoin.edu.

Clockwise from top: Robinson Moore ’77, Jack Magee, Chris Jerome ’83, Emily LeVan ’95,Bill McWilliams ’57

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NEW, UNIFIED POLAR BEAR LOGO

“May his spirit be the Guardian Spirit not only of Bowdoin Athletics but of every Bowdoin [person].” —Donald B. MacMillan, Class of 1897

he Polar Bear sistent and timeless graphic design firm Tbecame Bowdoin’s identity. Participation from Morrow Creative official mascot in 1912, every part of the Bowdoin Group to achieve a due to the College’s community, including classic, stylized famed alumni,Arctic groups of faculty, black line drawing explorers Robert E. coaches, students, alumni, and an accompanying typeface that Peary, Class of 1877, and and staff, led to a con- reflects those characteristics. In order to Donald B. MacMillan. It sensus that the logo of accommodate the many uses of the logo has presented many Bowdoin College by different College groups, the new faces in its nearly cen- should embody design includes a “family” of logos that tury-long tenure as pride, dignity, intelli- vary for different applications while College mascot— at gence, confidence, exhibiting a consistent appearance that times simultaneously. quiet power, gen- expresses Bowdoin’s distinguished tradi- The College recently uineness, and pres- tion of excellence. completed an in- ence. Bowdoin col- depth effort to unify laborated with Read more about the new logo in The the logo into a con- renowned national Bowdoin Orient: orient.bowdoin.edu.

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70 YEARS OF THE MEDDIES ARE YOU A FAN? he Meddiebempsters, Bowdoin's Toldest a cappella group, celebrated he College has all sorts of ways for alumni, its 70th anniversary with a concert in Tparents, and friends to stay in touch with Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Bowdoin. It’s easy to become an official fan of the Hall at Homecoming. College on Facebook: just log into Facebook and search for “Bowdoin College.” Click on the “Pages” Alumni of the Meddies rehearsed over the weekend and performed in an tab at the top of the search results and become a fan. evening concert that presented a chrono- You can also check out the latest Bowdoin videos logical progression of male a cappella on our YouTube site, follow the College on Twitter, musical styles. Songs included “Lazy check out the growing collection of Bowdoin Afternoon,”“Ding Dong Daddy,”“A photographs on Flickr, and join with other members Lovely Way to Spend an Evening,” and of the Bowdoin community on LinkedIn. Stay “Oh You Beautiful Doll,” among others. informed and in touch with one stop — visit: www.bowdoin.edu/web

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Remembered in Kodachrome

.S. Marine Corps World War discussing the possibility of compil- The images, reviewed so many UTwo veteran John Rich ’39 ing a book with 100 or so selected years later, impacted Rich as strong- spent over 30 years as a war corre- images from this historic archive. He ly as when he took the photos. spondent, with experience on the hopes that such a book will help Through them, he began to relive front lines of every major 20th cen- illuminate and remember what is the war.“It was a full three years,” tury conflict from Korea to the often referred to as the “Forgotten he said of his time in Korea. He Congo.Yet,the former NBC War,” something that the recent pub- found himself waking up with reporter’s discovery as a photojour- licity about the photos has begun to memories of the people and places nalist didn’t occur until more than do already. he had seen there. 60 years after he took what is now “Since this article came out in the “I was not a photographer at all. considered the most extensive col- Smithsonian magazine, I’ve gotten It was just a fluke that I got this lection of color photographs of the more calls than ever from people I camera and used it in Korea.” Korean War. haven’t talked to in quite a while,” “Others would do occasional Rich said. For a slideshow of previously unpub- color shots,” he says,“but there is When he left Korea in 1953, Rich lished photographs from John Rich’s nothing like this collection.” stowed his photos in an old tin-lined Korean War collection, visit the Striking for their bold colors, as Japanese tea chest, using them occa- Bowdoin magazine Web site: well as for the viewers surprise of sionally for a lecture or discussion bowdoin.edu/magazine seeing images in color from a time about his time that is known almost exclusively in as a correspon- black and white, Rich’s photos have dent.After years been gaining national attention. In of international July, a segment on The NBC Nightly travel, the chest News with Brian Williams publicly ended up the showcased for the first time some of attic of his the more than 1,000 shots that Rich Cape Elizabeth, snapped, simply as personal sou- Maine, home. It venirs, during his three years in wasn’t until a Korea beginning in 1950. In neighbor saw November, a Smithsonian magazine the photos that feature article expanded on Rich’s Rich realized story and printed a number of the their signifi- Wreckage of an American transport plane in South Korea. Photo by John Rich ’39 from his photos for the first time. Rich, 91, is cance. personal collection.

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100 YEARS AFTER PEARY’S QUEST TO THE NORTH POLE,THE RACE IS STILL ON. BY EDGAR ALLEN BEEM

20 BOWDOIN WINTER 2009 “THERE IS NO HIGHER, PURER FIELD OF INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY THAN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE NORTH POLE.”

o declared Commander Robert E. Peary in the fabled Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and October 1904 issue of National Geographic. Five Pacific Oceans opening up to shipping, commercial, years later, Peary, Bowdoin Class of 1877, would military, diplomatic, and scientific interest in the North stake his claim to being the first man to reach Pole has never been greater. the Pole, an epic endeavor that was the early “When Peary discovered that there was no land at the 20thS century equivalent of a moon landing. North Pole, the world turned its back on the place,” From 1900 to 1913, more column inches in The New observes Susan Kaplan, director of Bowdoin’s Peary- York Times were devoted to the MacMillan Arctic Museum.“There North Pole than to any other was no economic advantage to story, in large part due to the Great going there, so countries were no Polar Controversy that played out longer interested. One hundred in the press over competing claims years later, the supreme irony is that to its attainment. now we’ve got global warming and In 1908-09, Robert Peary, with the world is again realizing the fellow Bowdoin graduate (and later Arctic Ocean is of tremendous explorer in his own right) Donald strategic and economic signifi- B. MacMillan ’98 heading one of cance.” the supply support parties, raced to Bowdoin College, as the alma the North Pole amidst speculation mater of Peary (1856-1920) and that there would be undiscovered MacMillan (1874-1970), is very lands and a fortune in natural much involved not only in preserv- resources to be found at the top of ing the history of Arctic explo- the Earth. ration but also in contemporary On September 6, 1909, Peary scientific, cultural, and political cabled the Associated Press from studies of the region. Labrador that he and a small party of explorers had indeed reached A CENTENNIAL the North Pole by dog sledge on CELEBRATION April 6 of that year.The week The Peary-MacMillan Arctic before, however, Dr. Frederick A. Museum is celebrating the centen- Cook, a former Peary associate, nial of Robert Peary’s historic had asserted that he had made it to North Pole expedition with a the North Pole a year earlier on major exhibition, a symposium, a April 21, 1908.A century’s worth of books (and now lecture series, and the publication of a new edition of websites) have kept the controversy alive, though the gen- Donald MacMillan’s long out-of-print How Peary Reached eral consensus has been that Robert Peary’s claim was the the Pole:The Personal Story of His Assistant, which was first more credible. published in 1934 on the occasion of the 25th anniver- As Peary and Cook slipped into history, the North sary of the expedition. Pole disappeared from the public’s radar screen for much Northward Over the Great Ice: Robert E. Peary and the of the 20th century. In 2008-09, however, the North Pole Quest for the North Pole (through September 5, 2010) fills is again very much in the news, as the Arctic Ocean is the the three Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum galleries in focus of debates over climate change and competing Hubbard Hall with a wondrous array of some 300 arti- international claims to its control.With the Arctic sea ice facts and images related to Peary’s polar explorations. and Greenland ice cap melting at a record pace and the Among the objects that bring a human immediacy to

[email protected] 21 those heroic events are garments as varied as polar Champaign, entitled “An Ice Free Arctic?” Using satellite bearskin pants and caribou fur parkas worn on the expe- images taken daily between January 1 and September 23, dition and Peary’s admiral’s dress uniform, the tattered 2007, the animation allows entranced visitors to watch the remains of the flag Peary carried to the Pole, an oak dog polar ice cap melt right before their eyes. It is this specter sledge lashed together with rawhide, and a scale model of of open water that adds environmental urgency to the his- the S.S. Roosevelt, the sturdy Maine-built ship that carried tory commemorated in Northward Over the Great Ice. the Peary party into the Arctic ice. (See Sidebar: From Bucksport to the Pole) A MELTING ARCTIC The centennial exhibition also features pop cultural While there are still some who would maintain that curiosities, such as a china mug made in Peary’s likeness global warming is a natural process, the scientific consen- and one of the Peary campaign buttons worn by his sup- sus is that the rapidity of climate change in recent years is porters during the initial Peary-Cook dispute. a function of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide For the record, the Peary- released into the atmosphere by MacMillan Arctic Museum staff human enterprise. takes the position that Robert “There is no doubt at this Peary probably got within five point that the climate is changing miles of the North Pole in 1909. and that we are at least partly and “All anyone can say with cer- possibly primarily responsible for tainty is that Peary was in the the change,” says Associate vicinity of the North Pole,” says Professor of Physics Mark O. museum director Susan Kaplan, Battle. explaining that, on the occasion of Mark Battle studies the carbon the 80th anniversary of the expe- cycle. Specifically, he studies the fractionation (a separation process) FOR THE RECORD,THE of gases in polar ice, both in PEARY-MACMILLAN Greenland and in the Antarctic. ARCTIC MUSEUM STAFF “The work I’ve done enables TAKES THE POSITION us to better characterize the com- position of the atmosphere in the THAT ROBERT PEARY distant past,” he explains.“If we PROBABLY GOT WITHIN have a sense of that, then we can FIVE MILES OF THE say with certainty that this is the NORTH POLE IN 1909. highest CO2 we’ve had.” Since the 2005 International dition in 1989, the Navigation Carbon Dioxide Conference in Foundation analyzed all the avail- Boulder, Colorado, says Battle, the able evidence in an attempt to tenor of the scientific investigation settle the dispute. Using Peary’s navigational reckonings, has shifted from how much CO2 the atmosphere can ocean depth soundings, and shadow studies of the sun’s handle to how to prevent it from getting into the atmos- angle in Peary’s photographs at the North Pole, the foun- phere in the first place. dation’s report to the National Geographic Society con- The Arctic is generally regarded as the “canary in the cluded that Peary was in “the near vicinity of the North coal mine” of climate change. Pole on April 6, 1909.” “The North Polar region is expected to show climate The question of whether Robert Peary was actually the changes sooner and more dramatically than the average of first man to set foot at the North Pole is further compli- the planet,” says Battle. cated by the assertion of Matthew Henson, Peary’s That’s because the Arctic is warmer than the Antarctic African-American assistant, that he was walking ahead of to begin with and because of the presence of land around Peary on the fateful day when the Pole was reached. the Arctic. In a process known as polar amplification, the “I was the first man to ever set feet on the North Arctic absorbs more heat as the snow and ice, which Pole,” the then-85 year old Henson states in a 1951 tel- reflect sunlight, retreat.Warming begets more warming in evision interview that is part of Northward Over the the Arctic. Great Ice. While Mark Battle studies the dynamics of gases Perhaps the most compelling display in the exhibition, trapped in the polar snowpacks (or firn), he notes that, however, is a time-lapse animation by William Chapman, “The amount of CO2 trapped in the polar ice sheet is Polar Research Group, University of Illinois at Urbana utterly negligible.”

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Clockwise from top left: Robert E. Peary, Battle Harbour, Labrador, Spetember 1909. In June while snow cover was melting, the men helped the dogs drag sledges over the bare ground. Matthew A. Henson, Peary’s assistant, accompa- nied him to the Pole. Dogs that worked hard eagerly awaited feeding times. Donald MacMillan with three Inuit women who worked as seamstresses on the North Pole Expedition. During the late spring and into summer, teams used tents for shelter when traveling. An advertise- ment for Peary’s account of the North Pole Expedition serialized in Hampton’s Magazine in 1910.

[email protected] 23 Not so the Arctic per- he says.“We’re in an ice mafrost. THE ARCTIC IS GENERALLY REGARDED age now. But how will Phil Camill, Rusack AS THE “CANARY IN THE COAL MINE” life as we know it Associate Professor of OF CLIMATE CHANGE. change? If we do noth- Environmental Studies and ing, we’ll be pushed into Biology, came to Bowdoin a climate system not seen in 2008 to serve as program in millions of years. director of the Department Thirty-five million years of Environmental Studies. ago, there was no ice in He studies permafrost. Greenland.” While at Carleton As a citizen, Camill College in Minnesota, sees climate change as a Camill studied the degree moral issue, a matter of of permafrost thaw in bore- social injustice. al and sub-Arctic wetlands “We in the industrial- in Manitoba. In 2007, he ized nations are causing received a three-year, the problems, but the $400,000 National Science poor in the southern Foundation grant to study hemisphere are bearing the effects of climate the brunt of them,” he change on lake ecosystems says, citing the people of in northern Manitoba. flood prone Bangladesh As the Arctic warms, not as “climate refugees” only does ice melt and sea from storm surges wors- level rise, but the per- ened by sea level rise. mafrost thaws, releasing stored CO2 from decayed GEOPOLITICS OF plant life into the atmos- THE NORTH POLE phere.There is an estimated The International Panel 750 gigatons of carbon on Climate Change has already in the atmosphere, and it has been estimated that projected there may be as many as 200 million environ- as much as 900 gigatons of CO2 is sequestered in Arctic mental refugees by the year 2050.There is also specula- soils, also known as yedoma. tion that the Northwest Passage could open up to year- “There is half to as much as the same amount of car- round shipping by that same year. bon in those soils as there is in the atmosphere,” says “Something like 40 commercial ships have sailed Camill. between the Atlantic and the Pacific through the Arctic Humans release about 10 gigatons of carbon into the Ocean, something that was almost impossible before atmosphere each year from burning fossil fuels and defor- global warming,” says Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum estation. In an April 2007 article in Nature about his per- director Susan Kaplan.“Now people are preparing for mafrost studies, Phil Camill warned,“If just one percent commercial shipping and debating where Arctic deepwa- of [the possible 900 Gt in the yedoma] is decomposed in ter seaports should be located.” a warmer world it would be as if we doubled our current Ironically, while it is the modern world’s dependence rate of emissions.That’s what is alarming.” on fossil fuels that contributes to global warming and the Camill calls CO2 and methane releases from thawing opening of the Arctic, when world leaders look to the permafrost “a ticking time bomb.” North Pole their first thought seems to be to drill for The International Panel on Climate Change has pro- more oil and gas.The Arctic is thought to contain as jected that the Earth will warm by 3.5 degrees centigrade much as 25 percent of the world’s oil and gas reserves. over the next century and that, due to polar amplifica- But it will be decades, at least, before Arctic oil starts tion, the Arctic may experience at least a 5 degree C˚ flowing. warming. “Arctic offshore production is difficult because of the “That’s like Maine’s climate changing to South drifting ice,” observes Olya Gayazova, a visiting professor Carolina’s in less than a century,” says Camill. of international politics from DePauw University in As a scientist, Camill understands that the Earth can Indiana who will teach a course in Arctic Politics at sustain such a global warming. Bowdoin in the spring of 2009. “The Earth has been much warmer than it is today,” Olya Gayazova is a Russian citizen She recalls being

24 BOWDOIN WINTER 2009 FROM BUCKSPORT TO THE POLE The S.S. Roosevelt

obert Peary’s successful expedition to served as a transport the North Pole was preceded by seven ship. On January 21, other journeys. He blamed the failure 1937, the Roosevelt was of his 1902 expedition in part on his beached and abandoned in the harbor of Balboa, Panama. underpowered steam yacht Windward. Having ferried Robert Peary into history through the Thus,R in 1904, Peary received permission from the Navy frozen waters of the Arctic, her bones now rest in the to commission construction of a new vessel, S.S. warm waters off the Panama Canal. Roosevelt, which he named after his chief supporter, President Theodore Roosevelt. GEORGE WARDWELL, PEARY’S MAINE MAN The S.S. Roosevelt was a three-masted The captain of the S.S. Roosevelt was a Newfoundlander steamship/schooner modeled after the Fram, the sturdy by the name of Robert A. Bartlett, but the Maine man Norwegian ship used by Fridthof Nansen and Otto who kept her running on both the 1905-06 and the Sverdrup in the Arctic 1908-09 expeditions was chief engineer George A. and by explorer Roald Wardwell.A Bucksport native, George Wardwell had been Amundsen on his 1910- working for the McKay and Dix Shipyard when the 1912 expedition to the Roosevelt was built and Peary prevailed upon him to join South Pole. his crew when the ship set sail for the North Pole. To build his sturdy A hard-working, phlegmatic Yankee with a thick mus- wooden ship, Peary tache to rival Commander Peary’s,Wardwell proved a turned to the McKay & handy man to have on board during the vicissitudes of an Dix Shipyard on Verona Arctic voyage. He put out fires in the engine room, re- Island in the Penobscot built the Roosevelt’s boiler when it blew up, and even River at Bucksport.The ground lenses by hand for a shipmate’s camera.Wardwell keel was laid on himself was something of a photographer.Approximately October 15, 1904, and 250 of the photographs he took the Roosevelt was on Peary’s expeditions survive. launched on March 23, Following the high adventure 1905. Just 184 feet long of the polar voyages, George and 35 1/2 feet wide, Wardwell returned to Maine Robert E. Peary pictured here with the captain the vessel featured a where he worked as an engineer of the S.S. Roosevelt, Robert A. Bartlett sharp, raking bow for on a steamship that sailed icebreaking and an egg-shaped, rounded hull that enabled between Bangor and Boston. He the Roosevelt, which drew only 16 feet of water, to pop passed away on July 2, 1927. up whenever it got squeezed by the ice. During the Northward Over the The wooden sides of the Roosevelt were 30 inches thick Great Ice centennial, George in places and were re-enforced with steel beams. On deck Wardwell has been speaking George Wardwell there were power windlasses, winches, and capstans that from beyond the grave as his enabled the vessel to haul itself free if it went aground. extensive expedition journal entries are being posted With a 1000 horsepower coal-fired steam engine, the along with those of Robert Peary and Donald MacMillan Roosevelt could batter its way through ice floes and was on a daily blog on the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum ultimately frozen into the ice at Cape Sheridan on website, www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum. Ellesmere Island where it waited as Peary set out over the On April 27, 1909, the day Commander Peary arrived ice on dog sledges for the North Pole. back at the Roosevelt from his successful trek to the Pole, The Fram was ultimately restored and is now housed in George Wardwell wrote,“The Secret of the North is its own museum on Norway, but the powerful S.S. found and there will be no more chasing the No. pole.” Roosevelt came to a less unceremonious end, although one Not entirely true, of course, but then George Wardwell befitting a workhorse of a vessel.The Peary Arctic Club could not have foreseen the century-long controversy over sold the Roosevelt in 1910. She then saw service as a sal- who reached the North Pole first, let alone the competing vage ship, fishing boat, and tugboat, and during WWI, international claims to its ownership and exploitation.

[email protected] 25 taught that neither Peary nor one of the provisions is for Cook was the first to the safety zones Conceivably, North Pole.That distinction such zones can have military belonged to four Russian implications.” pilots who landed there in For while the North Pole 1937. may have slipped from the Gayazova likens the politics public consciousness after of the Arctic to “many chess- World War I, it has very boards, one atop the other.” much been on the radar “On every chessboard, dif- screens of U.S. and Russian ferent rules apply,” she says. missile defense systems. “Those who own the Arctic at “The Arctic is a major the seabed may not have geopolitical factor in nuclear claims over waters above.” deterrence,” says Gayazova, noting that Russia main- The 1982 United Nations tained polar stations Convention on the Law of throughout the Cold War the Sea stipulates that coun- and that U.S. missile defense tries have exclusive economic bases rimmed the Arctic. zones up to 200 nautical “The difference now is that miles from their shores, after there are the strategies of which the high seas become noise as well as the strategy international waters. “ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO of secrecy.” Canada maintains that the THERE WAS A NORTH POLE LAND Gayazova suspects that Northwest Passage runs RUSH.WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW IS A many international expres- through its internal waters, but sions of renewed interest in the United States, which has RE-ENACTMENT OF THAT. IT’S PEARY Arctic science, the environ- not ratified the Law of the Sea REVISITED 21ST CENTURY STYLE.” ment, natural resources, and Convention, regards the shipping mask concerns Northwest Passage as interna- about national security. tional waters. At the inaugural Arctic Ocean Conference, held in The Law of the Sea does, however, include a provision Ilulissat, Greenland, in May of 2008, political representa- that could extend dominion even farther out to sea if a tives from the five Arctic nations issued a joint statement country can prove that submarine ridges comprise the re-affirming that “the law of the sea [notably uncapital- submerged prolongation of its land mass.As an underwa- ized] provides for important rights and obligations con- ter mountain range known as the Lomonosov Ridge cerning the outer limits of the continental shelf, the pro- runs 1,240 miles beneath the Arctic Ocean, Russia made tection of the marine environment, including ice-covered a claim in 2001 that its continental shelf extends far into areas, freedom of navigation, marine scientific research, the ocean, possibly to the North Pole. Canada and and other uses of the sea.We remain committed to this Denmark are considering similar claims. legal framework and to the orderly settlement of any pos- In August of 2007, a pair of Russian mini-subs planted sible overlapping claims.” a titanium Russian flag on the floor of the Arctic Ocean “One hundred years ago there was a North Pole land 2.5 miles beneath the North Pole.The Russians were rush.What’s happening now,” says Environmental Studies criticized at the time for trying to stake a claim like a director Phil Camill,“is a re-enactment of that. It’s Peary 15th century explorer, but they maintained that they revisited 21st century style.” were simply celebrating an achievement, like American astronauts planting a flag on the moon. THE REAL FIRST PEOPLE AT THE POLE On the chessboard of Arctic seabed, the International In a certain sense, Robert Peary opened a Pandora’s box Seabed Authority, established under the Law of the Sea when he extended the reach of Western civilization to Convention, will decide competing claims to the floor of the North Pole.And just as there were Native Americans the Arctic Ocean and, by extension, to any natural already in the New World to greet Christopher resources found there.The International Maritime Columbus, there were also indigenous people – the Inuit Organization regulates shipping. – living in the Arctic before Peary reached the Pole. “The water around the North Pole is already the Indeed, Peary relied heavily on the aid, assistance, and common heritage of mankind,” says Olya Gayazova,“but native technologies of the Inuit people, four of whom

26 BOWDOIN WINTER 2009 stood with him and Henson at the North Pole in 1909. KAPLAN’S ARCHEOLOGICAL RESEARCH HAS Both Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum director Susan BEEN USED TO BOLSTER INUIT LAND CLAIMS Kaplan and curator Genevieve LeMoine focus their aca- IN LABRADOR. demic studies on the anthropology and archeology of Inuit culture. Kaplan studies the Inuit of Labrador, while voters supporting a non-binding referendum on self-rule. LeMoine studies the Inuit of Greenland. The Greenland-Denmark Accord on Home Rule now Susan Kaplan is interested in how Western contact and gives Greenland, home to 7,000 Danes and 50,000 Inuit, climate change have impacted Inuit culture. standing as a player in the future of the Arctic. “The record in Labrador,” she says,“shows that not Genevieve LeMoine studies the transition of Inuit everything was rosy for the Inuit, but they displayed technologies from the prehistoric to historic period in tremendous cultural resilience and adaptability in the face Inglefield Land, Greenland. Currently, she is engaged in of the Little Ice Age and contact with Europeans. Now the Inglefield Land Archeological Project in collaboration they are facing more intense and more rapid cultural with anthropologists from University of California- change and climate change.” Davis, the Greenland National Museum, and the Thule Kaplan, who teaches a course entitled “Cultures Museum. She and her colleagues are investigating how Weathering Climate Change,” notes, for example, that Inuit of Northwest Greenland incorporated industrial Western environmental concerns to protect various technologies introduced into their lives by explorers. marine mammals have come into conflict with the tradi- “The community there takes a particular interest in tional Inuit practice of hunting seals, bowhead whales, its history, which is oddly tied to Bowdoin College,” and polar bears. But, she insists,“It’s not a choice between says Genevieve LeMoine of the Inuit settlements on the endangered species northwest coast of and endangered cul- Greenland.“In tures.The solution to PEARY RELIED HEAVILY ON THE AID, ASSISTANCE, Greenland, they are preservation of AND NATIVE TECHNOLOGIES OF THE INUIT familiar with species and respect Bowdoin College for cultures has to be PEOPLE, FOUR OF WHOM STOOD WITH HIM because there is a crafted through col- AND HENSON AT THE NORTH POLE IN 1909. Bowdoin Fjord and a laboration with these Bowdoin Glacier, Inuit communities.” landmarks Peary Kaplan’s archeo- named after the col- logical research has lege.” been used to bolster Inuit land claims in One hundred years Labrador.And as after his crowning Canada, Russia, achievement, Robert Denmark, Norway, Peary’s name is still and the United States respected among the set their sites on Inuit, but it is Donald claiming a share of MacMillan, who the Arctic prize, the Inuit have also begun to assert their went on to facilitate scientific research in the Arctic and own sovereign rights. to bring educational materials and medical supplies to In November, 2008, the Inuit Circumpolar Council, the Inuit of Labrador and Greenland, who is fondly meeting in Kuujjuaq, the largest Inuit village in Nunavik, remembered for his kindnesses among the real first peo- Quebec, issued a statement entitled “Towards an Inuit ple of the polar region. Declaration on Arctic Sovereignty” asserting “that any The college that educated Peary and MacMillan and claim of sovereignty that nation states may make is the museum that bears their names now play major roles derived through the use and occupancy by Inuit of lands not only in preserving the historic record of their and seas in the Arctic” and calling upon Arctic govern- achievements but also of advancing the scientific, politi- ments “to include Inuit as equal partners in any future cal, and cultural understanding of the Arctic. talks regarding Arctic sovereignty.” “Clearly, the Arctic is becoming more important,” And the Arctic chess match just keeps getting more says visiting professor Olya Gayazova.“Soon we will complicated all the time. need a lot of specialists who know the Arctic from dif- Greenland, which has been semi-autonomous from ferent angles. Bowdoin is nicely positioned as an insti- Denmark since 1979, took a giant step closer to inde- tution that can produce people who are well-versed in pendence on November 25, 2008, with 75 percent of Arctic studies.”

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“I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW, THE DECISIONS THEY MAKE, FROM THE PRODUCTS THAT THEY BUY, FOR, OR DON’T VOTE FOR, ALL THIS HAS PROFOUND CONSEQUENCES, NOT ONLY IN THEIR OWN NOT CONVINCED THAT PEOPLE AT BOWDOIN FEEL THAT WAY.THAT’S WHY I’M AGREEING TO SIT

So, which story to start with?

e could begin with this to the Olympic biathalon in 1994. one: young, handsome Or do I start where so many stories must about man with goals and drive soldiers and Iraq— the morning of September 11, makes good. His name is 2001? On that day, Dr. Jonathan Martin, having grad- Jon Martin, a high school uated from the University of Vermont Medical Nordic ski racer from School, and having trained in civilian and Army med- Rumford, Maine, one of the state’s best. He comes to ical facilities around the country, is a junior resident BowdoinW in 1988, even though his father, brother and neurosurgeon at Children’s National Medical Center, sister all attended Colby. Freshman year, he joins a a civilian hospital in the nation’s capital. He’s studying Mountain Infantry National Guard unit from his a case when the anesthesiologist bursts in.“`Some hometown. He makes friends with members of the idiot flew into the World Trade Center,’ he said.“And Army biathalon team and he’s hooked. then a few minutes later a second plane did, and it’s a “I had no world view then,” he says now.“I clear day outside,” Jon remembers.“We were watching thought the Army was a great way to get to my on television when the tower collapsed.And then the goal of ski racing.” One weekend a month he trains Pentagon is on fire.” with his unit.“We were infantry on skis in winter,” When the United States invades Iraq in March he says.The Army offers financial help through col- 2003, Jon Martin is chief resident at Walter Reed lege and when Jon, a biochemistry major, decides Army Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.The stakes, to be a doctor, through medical school too. everyone believes, couldn’t be higher. Jon is living in Eventually, the Army gets itself a skilled neurosur- the suburbs with his wife Amy, a radiologist stationed geon. A good deal for all. And Jon gets to see how at Andrews Air Force Base.“We had a lot of faith in far his ski racing can take him— almost, not quite, Colin Powell, and we felt obviously the government

28 BOWDOIN WINTER 2009 THE CAR THEY DRIVE… THE PEOPLE THEY VOTE LIVES, BUT ON PEOPLE ACROSS THE GLOBE.I’M HERE TODAY.” – D R.JONATHAN MARTIN ’92

BY MEL ALLEN

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF JONATHAN MARTIN

[email protected] 29 must have had information we did not know,” he says. He sees the first wounded soldiers a few weeks later.“Helping them made you feel you were doing something good,” he says.“We were all feeling good. It’s May. It’s `Mission Accomplished.’ They were clearly the bad guys, and we went in there, and we were going to be greeted as liberators on the streets.” In 2004, Jon is assigned to Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii.“The Army said,‘OK, you’re trained, now go out and do something.’ It’s the first time I’m completely running the show, and that’s a little intimidating.” In Hawaii, the war grows closer, more personal. Marines from a nearby base leave for war, and when one does not return, notes come home from their daughter’s elementary school: a child has lost a father. Jon knows a Navy Seal who dies in Afghanistan.“Now the war is part of the fabric of my life,” he says. In time, Jon Martin comes to believe that “bad information led to poor decisions,” but still,“I felt personally invested. Did you ever see Blackhawk Down? There’s this great quote from HE SPEAKS SOFTLY ABOUT HARD one of the soldiers. He’s loading up his ammo. Someone says, THINGS, TELLING A STORY THAT ‘Where are you going?’‘I’m going back out there,’ he says. ‘We still have men out there. It don’t matter about anything BEGINS ON THE APRIL DAY IN 2007 else. It’s the guy to your left and the guy to your right.And WHEN HE BOARDS A PLANE IN that’s it.’And that’s true.That’s true,” Jon says. But let’s begin right here, 8 a.m. on a spring day, 2008, in a HAWAII, ON HIS WAY TO WAR. shining hotel room 35 floors above Chicago, with Lake Michigan sparkling to the north. Major Jonathan Martin, still based in Hawaii when we spoke, has flown through the night, arriving at the hotel at 1 a.m. He has already been to the gym to work out. He’s attending a meeting of the American Association of Neurosurgeons. Some 3,000 are here, but few have seen wounds like Jon Martin saw in the spring and sum- mer of 2007.Then he was one of two neurosurgeons at the U.S.Air Force Theater Hospital at Forward Operating Base Anaconda in Balad, Iraq, some 40 miles north of Baghdad.A base he says that is as secure as one can be in Iraq; but despite that, a base where he was wounded from a richocheting bullet fired from snipers outside the walls. He is youthful, handsome, and trim at 37 with his Hawaii tan, dressed in short sleeves, casual slacks, sneakers. He is father to two little girls, Elsa and Kate, whose photos fill his laptop computer screen when he turns it on. Inside his computer are photos of what can happen, he says,“when flying shrapnel hits flesh.” Hard photos to look at. Harder to ignore.“I understand how powerful these pictures are,’ he tells me. In Iraq, he was part of the 53rd Head and Neck Trauma team. He operated on Americans and Iraqis, friendlies and insurgents.And too many children. He wants people to know a deeper reality than what they see on the news.“I felt strongly coming back and talking to my non- military friends.The war is totally abstract to them. Not real. But it’s real. Go to Walter Reed hospital today.The wards have so many guys, one prosthetic limb, two prosthetic limbs. Horribly disfigured. So many there with traumatic brain injuries. Kids.A whole generation.Again.And it’s terribly sad. “I’ve got to be careful what I say here,’ he says.“It doesn’t matter. I’m getting out soon. But know that nothing I say reflects the official policy of the U.S. military.These are my

30 BOWDOIN WINTER 2009 own thoughts.” So we start here, with what Dr. Jon Martin saw and felt, and how he has changed, he says, forever. He speaks softly about hard things, telling a story that begins on the April day in 2007 when he boards a plane in Hawaii, on his way to war.

“If every American could see an image of a `Fallen Angel’ drill at our hospital after the death of a U.S. soldier with the room at attention while he passed through. I’m not sure what would happen” –Dr. Jonathan Martin

He knows there is no certainty he will return. Not in a land with hidden roadside bombs. Not at Base Anaconda, nick- named “Mortaritaville,” because as the main logistical supply base for the war it is too tempting to ignore. Nearly every day enemy shells fly over. He feels the same anxiety any soldier feels when leaving for combat.“What does everyone fear the most?” Jon says.“It’s the unknown. So you take out more life insurance.”When he leaves Hawaii, he writes letters to his daughters, aged five and two. He sends them to a friend, to be read if he dies.

Elsa, ….Despite what I viewed as a doomed military mission in Iraq, my role as a provider caring for soldiers and wounded Iraqis was one that I welcomed, and felt destined to play.At the core of my character, I felt I needed to go…. I wish that I could see you, hold you, as you read this. Someday, you will have children, and will understand the joy that snuggling your child can bring to you, the rapture of seeing your child succeed where they had previously failed.You provided me with some of the happiest memories I had in life, and my love for you extended beyond words. I hope that you see in yourself all that I saw “MY LONGEST STINT WAS 24 HOURS in you; nothing you could do in life could make me more proud. STRAIGHT.YOU JUST DO IT.YOU JUST

To Kate he added, KEEP MOVING.MAYBE YOU’RE ….As my youngest child, you hold an incredibly special place in my FATIGUED.MAYBE YOU’RE MOVING heart, Kate. My last night with you in Hawaii…you had a bit of a SLOWER,MAYBE YOUR JUDGMENT cold and snuggled deeply into my shoulder— a sensation more won- derful than anything in the world; you will know what I mean some ISN’T AS GOOD AS IT WAS, BUT IT’S day.As I close, I ask you to do something special with the profound BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE’S.” qualities that you possess—that you will live a life that will provide you with true happiness as only you can define it. Know that more than anything, I wish I could have been there to enjoy it with you, if only for a moment…”

He lives squeezed inside a trailer compound on a 20-square- mile base, along with 25,000 men and women, a vast, sprawl- ing town, with its own surreal middle-America strip mall ambience. Soldiers return from dangerous missions and dust choked convoys and head to Burger King, Subway, Pizza Hut, and Popeye’s.They play miniature golf, swim in the two pools built by Saddam when the base was the Iraq Air Force Academy, work out in the gym. But there is this too: heat unlike anything most soldiers have ever known, the acrid smell of diesel and jet fuel, the constant din of fighter jets and transports, the pall of smoke from the burn pit.“The insur- gents who are still alive after all these years of war are so

[email protected] 31 smart,” Jon says.They can use anything to make bombs. you’re sitting there, and just leave him alone.And you don’t Anything.You can’t leave them anything to use.” think about the morality of it.You can’t. If you dwell on it all And there is also this: the whirring thunder of the helicop- the time, it’s bad. So you compartmentalize things, you have ters flying right over the hospital, then setting down, then the to, or you can’t go on…. rush of stretchers.This is a battle zone hospital, one built hard and fast, a series of linked tents and trailers. He feels he has He’s serving in an Iraq where the health system has been been dropped square into M.A.S.H. many wars later. Despite reduced to shambles, where nearly every doctor with the makeshift air conditioning, the temperature inside reaches 100 means to get out, got out.Where Baghdad’s teeming central degrees; at times, doctors and nurses pass out.Yet inside these hospital, Medical City, has become a hospital without hope. steaming tents and trailers is one of the world’s busiest, and “The Iraqi health care is horrible. Horrible,” Jon says.“The most effective, trauma centers.“To an outsider it might have people you read about who are injured when a suicide bomb looked chaotic, but everyone had a place,” Jon says.“My goes off at a mosque or a market, they don’t have a chance.” longest stint was 24 hours straight.You just do it.You just In a war waged in a country with a non-functioning keep moving. Maybe you’re fatigued. Maybe you’re moving health system, triage principles—to treat the person who is slower, maybe your judgment isn’t as good as it was, but it’s sickest with the most salvageable injuries— are tested.“When better than anyone else’s.” I look at triage,” Jon says,“my decision to treat somebody is He expects his skills to be tested every day.What he does different for an Iraqi than it is for an American. It has to be,

“THE INSURGENTS WHO ARE STILL ALIVE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS OF WAR ARE SO SMART.THEY CAN USE ANYTHING TO MAKE BOMBS.ANYTHING.YOU CAN’T LEAVE THEM ANYTHING TO USE.” not expect is the war he finds. Or the war that finds him. In because if you’re an Iraqi, and you get shot in the head, here’s this war only one in three of the people he treats will be an what we have to think: If you’re not able to get off a ventila- American soldier. If wounded Iraqis knew the right people, or tor quickly, we know they don’t have ventilators at Medical else had been injured as a result of an engagement where U.S. City. So, say I’m operating on an Iraqi, and he’s on a ventilator troops were involved, they could be sent to Anaconda.When and he’s not doing well.We can only keep them 14 days. So, he tells about his days at Anaconda so many of his sentences after two weeks, that patient gets put on a helicopter and gets begin this way: I will never forget. sent to our people in Baghdad. In Baghdad, they give him a “…There was a young American soldier who came in ventilator (for the trip to Medical City) and they put the with his eyes welded open, looking around with 100% body patient in an ambulance—no medical attendant, mind you— surface burns. It wasn’t a neurological problem, but I was and the driver drives to Medical City.Well, the reality is down there seeing someone else.The kid is awake, and he’s maybe the driver takes the ventilator and sells it on the black going to die, and there’s nothing you can do. Zero.And his market, takes the patient and dumps him in the Tigris.” arm is like this, fused. He can’t move it because the skin is “Strong stuff,” I say. contracted down.The I.C.U doctor just sat there and held his “It’s real stuff. It’s real stuff.We had patients who came in hand the whole time…” with their kid in their arms, and we start treating them and “…There was a 14-year-old girl who had a penetrating we say ‘OK, we have to send you to Medical City’ and they head injury from shrapnel. She had charged the gate at one of say,‘No, you can’t do that.You don’t understand. I’m a Sunni, our bases.A 14-year-old girl running up to this huge concrete and if I go up there my neighbors will say I’ve gone to the barrier where there was a mounted 50-caliber machine gun, Shia for help, and they will kill my family here, and when I and she ran right at the gate firing an AK-47. I remember go to Medical City, they’ll kill my child.’Those are things I thinking ‘what could she have possibly been thinking?’ I asked never even thought about before I went over there. Hundreds her,‘you ran at the gate firing.Why?’And she looked at me, of thousands of Iraqis have died over there—that’s the esti- and she looked at the interpreter, and she said,‘my mother is mate I’ve heard.There can’t be a household in that country dead, my father is dead, my brothers are dead.And it’s your that hasn’t been impacted profoundly by this war. I can’t fault.’That shut me up.What do you say? What can you say? believe there’s a single one.And I sit there and say to myself, “…A man and his son had been sitting in an open air mar- ‘and I didn’t vote in the last election? Wow. I’m an idiot.’ ket. Just sitting there setting up for the day.They didn’t hear Inside the coolness of a Chicago hotel room, he pulls the shots. It was a random shot, and it hit his son.The boy is down the shades. Scenes from the war he knew, inside the brought to us.The father says,‘Help my son.’There was noth- tent hospital, and later inside a newly built concrete hospital, ing I could do. Nothing. I had to talk to him through an fill the computer screen.“This is what a busy day looks like,” interpreter.The locals understand God’s will, but this is his he says.“We could have six operations going at once.” only son. I can’t imagine…. He shows me a photo; I do not at first understand what it “A two-year-old kid gets hit by a Humveee, okay.They is—an arrangement of objects on a table: bolts, nails, rings, bring him into the emergency room, dead, eviscerated.And bullets, shards of metal.Then he tells me.“This is all stuff we

32 BOWDOIN WINTER 2009 pulled out of peoples’ heads,” he says quietly.There is a photo of a two-year-old girl, who will live, her father beside her, whose relief is all but unbearable to see.“He was incredibly grateful,” he says.“A lot of Iraqis are unhappy with us being there, but these kiss our hands and feet.” There is a photo of an X-ray. It shows a gunshot wound to the head of an American soldier.“I never should have operat- ed on him” Jon says.“I have regrets. I thought he could be salvageable.Today, he’s blind, doesn’t understand speech, does- n’t speak. His family is facing a lifetime of caring for him.As a neurosurgeon, the quality of life that is left is so important. Sometimes, if you think someone has an injury that is not recoverable, you don’t treat, and people get upset. But when you know what the consequences are for someone it makes you think. If that were my son, I couldn’t say don’t treat.This was really a hard one” And here is a photo of one of the hardest ones, the back of a seven-year-old boy.“You can numb yourself but you can’t numb against kids caught in the line of policy,” Jon says.“He had been shot through the chest; the bullet went through his back. He came to me with three stitches from the Iraq health care system. Spinal fluid was pouring out. His spine was unstable.We operated on him several times.We knew he wouldn’t walk again. He had a breathing tube.We knew he’d die within a week of leaving us, so we kept him from leaving. He stayed with us 28 days.The nurses really cared for him. He became their pet. But then finally we had to send him to Medical City.We had nurses break down.We tried to get him off a ventilator and respirator but we couldn’t. He had no chance once he left us.” Jon stops talking for a moment.“The alternative is not to treat them,” he says.“He dies then of course, but nobody grows attached.” The time goes slowly watching these images.There are so many more. Finally he reaches the end. He clicks out of the program where the images live, and there, again, is his daugh- “I WANT A PLACE WHERE I CAN BE ter Kate, all smiles, filling his screen.“There are so many peo- ple who’ve done what I’ve done.” He says.“I don’t want peo- INVOLVED.I BELIEVE ONE PERSON ple thinking I’m special or a hero. I’m not.The experience CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.” was very important to me. But I want people at Bowdoin to know there are folks who went to Bowdoin who were impacted by this war.And for a bunch of smart people who tend to get involved in politics as Bowdoin grads do, just to think really carefully about policies that impact a whole bunch of people in ways that aren’t shown on CNN.” In the fall—now last fall, by the time we go to print—he will leave the Army and move to Connecticut to become a pediatric neurosurgeon at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford.“I love the military,” Jon says.“I’ve been in the military my whole adult life. It’s not what’s going in Iraq that’s causing me to get out. It’s we’re beating the drums. Is Iran next?” He will move his family to a small town, he says, because “I want a place where I can be involved. I believe one person can make a difference.”And on the day he starts his new life, he knows that another doctor thousands of miles away will be trying harder than seems humanly possible to stop the bleeding, in a man, or a woman, or a child, some- where where the bleeding never stops.

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L INDSEY S COTT B ERGSTROM ’03 TARGETS UNSPOKEN STORIES ON THE HOMEFRONT

hile soldiers overseas do their best to cope day by day, so too, do the loved ones those soldiers leave behind. Lindsey Scott W Bergstrom ’03 knows this well. She is married to U.S. Marine Corps Captain Bo Bergstrom. Armed with a fine arts master’s degree in pho- tography from the University of Wales, Lindsey set out to document stories of those left at home, waiting. “My husband served for a year in Iraq,” says Lindsey, “and, prompted by his deployment, I wanted to capture the daily lives of other military spouses and families whose husbands and fathers were deployed. I tried to capture the triumphs and struggles that young mothers, families, and children endure dur- ing a deployment.” View more of Lindsey’s photos online at www.bowdoin.edu/magazine.

34 BOWDOIN WINTER 2009 [email protected] 35 THE BOWDOIN Book QuotationsOF

By Fred R. Shapiro, Editor, The Yale Book of Quotations

36 BOWDOIN WINTER 2009 robably no other liberal arts college has produced as Lives of great men all remind us many truly renowned graduates as has Bowdoin.The We can make our lives sublime, Encyclopedia of American History, which prints 450 And, departing, leave behind us biographies of the most eminent Americans, includes Footprints on the sands of time. Pamong this group five Bowdoin alumni: Nathaniel Hawthorne, “A Psalm of Life” (1838) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert E. Peary, Franklin Pierce, and Thomas Brackett Reed. There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, One way to measure the impact of these and other alumni is He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, through their words, the famous quotations they have written And the flowers that grow between. or uttered.We speak a different language because these individ- “The Reaper and the Flowers” (1839) uals’ eloquence has influenced and resonated through our histo- ry and culture. I am in a unique position to assess such influ- Under a spreading chestnut tree ence, since I have recently compiled a quotation dictionary, The The village smithy stands. Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press), in which I “The Village Blacksmith” (1839) attempted to collect all famous quotations and to use state-of- the-art research to trace their origins more accurately than do The shades of night were falling fast, other reference works. As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, ’mid snow and ice, A particularly towering A banner with the strange device, quotational figure is Excelsior! Henry Wadsworth “Excelsior” (1841) Longfellow, Class of 1825, the only Into each life some rain must fall, American poet Some days must be dark and dreary.

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Westminster Abbey. 1 , No other American W And the night shall be filled with music, O L L writer has left so E And the cares, that infest the day, F G marked an imprint on N Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, O L our discourse. Common H And as silently steal away. RT O W expressions that we use DS “The Day Is Done” (1844) HENRY WA without necessarily realizing they were inspired by Longfellow I shot an arrow into the air, include “footprints on the sands of time,” “Grim Reaper,” It fell to earth, I know not where. “into each life some rain must fall,” “the patter of little feet,” “The Arrow and the Song” (1845) and “ships that pass in the night.”.The following are lines from his poems that originated those phrases or others: This is the forest primeval. Evangeline (1847)

By the shores of Gitche Gumee, I hear in the chamber above me By shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis. The patter of little feet. The Song of Hiawatha (1855) “The Children’s Hour” (1859) A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land. “Santa Filomena” (1858)

[email protected] 37 I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet. On the breast of “The Children’s Hour” (1859) her gown, in fine red

Listen, my children, and you shall hear cloth, surrounded Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, with an elaborate On the eighteenth of April in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive embroidery and Who remembers that famous day and year. fantastic flourishes of “The Landlord’s Tale: Paul Revere’s Ride” (1863) gold thread, appeared One if by land and two if by sea; the letter A. And I on the opposite shore shall be, The Scarlet Letter (1850) Ready to ride and sound the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm. “The Landlord’s Tale: Paul Revere’s Ride” (1863) Nathaniel Hawthorne, remarkably also an 1825 graduate, is today an even more cele- Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing; brated writer than Longfellow, but was not Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; Longfellow’s peer as a quotesmith. So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Nonetheless his legacy includes the follow- Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence. ing enduring sayings: “The Theologian’s Tale: Elizabeth” (1874) The Scarlet Letter. There is one other famous quote that I believe was introduced Title of book (1850) by Longfellow, although the matter is open to dispute. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes includes this rhyme: On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroi- There was a little girl, and she had a little curl dery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, Right in the middle of her forehead; appeared the letter A. When she was good, she was very, very good, The Scarlet Letter (1850) But when she was bad, she was horrid.

The ODNR states that “most stories point to it coming from Longfellow, but there are unexplained anomalies and it has been noted that the inele- gance of the words, particularly ‘horrid,’ contrast strongly with Longfellow’s manner of composi-

5 tion,” and goes on to note that “the earliest record- 2 8 1 , ing is on an anonymous broadside, headed ‘Wrong E N R Side Up.A Poem.’ This is known to have been O H T W printed before 1870.” However, I have found a num- A H EL ber of references starting in the 1880s to Longfellow’s NI ATHA having composed a version of this and sung it to his young N daughter in the 1850s. Longfellow is said to have acknowledged his authorship, and his son strongly affirmed it in 1907. It is very lonesome at the summit! Like a man’s life, when he has climbed to emi- A Lady with a Lamp shall stand nence. In the great history of the land. The Marble Faun (1860) “Santa Filomena” (1858)

38 BOWDOIN WINTER 2009 Less familiar, but very impressive as a prefiguring of modern attitudes, is this passage: Although he is regularly asked to It is my belief – yes, and my prophecy, should I die before it happens – that, when my sex shall achieve its rights, there will do so, God does not be ten eloquent women where there is now one eloquent man. take sides in Thus far, no woman in the world has ever once spoken out her whole heart and her whole mind. The mistrust and disapproval American politics, of the vast bulk of society throt- and in America tles us, as with two gigantic hands at our throats! We disagreement with mumble a few weak the policies of the words, and leave a thousand better ones government is not unsaid. evidence of lack of The Blithedale Romance (1852) patriotism. Statement at Senate hearings on Iran-

4 2 Contra scandal, July 13, 1987 8 1 , E C R IE P N LI Bowdoin’s political alum- NK FR A And who is answerable? One might almost ni are headed by Franklin shrink from the sound of his own voice, Pierce 1824. Pierce was not one which had launched into the palpitating air of the more quotable Presidents, but these lines poignantly words of order — do we call it? — fraught express his feelings about the Civil War he had tried to forestall: with such ruin. Was it God’s command we heard, or His forgiveness we must forever My purpose, dearest, is immovably taken. I will never justify, implore? sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heart- The Passing of The Armies (published posthu- less, aimless unnecessary war. Madness and imbecility are in the mously in 1915) ascendant. I shall not succumb to them, come what may. Letter to Jane Means Appleton Pierce, Mar. 3, 1863 Thomas Brackett Reed 1860, twice Speaker of the House of Representatives, was a The horror of the Civil War is also vivid in comments by notably witty politician.Among Reed’s Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain 1852, a President of Bowdoin wisecracks were: and Governor of Maine who, as a general in the war, won the Medal of Honor for his A statesman is a politician who is dead. actions at Gettysburg, commanded Quoted in Los Angeles Times, Oct. 10, the troops receiving the surrender 1896 of Robert E. Lee’s army, and died in 1914 as a result of lingering They [two fellow Congressmen] wounds from a battle half a cen- never open their mouths without tury earlier: subtracting from the sum of

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1 But we had with us, to keep , N Quoted in Samuel W.McCall, The I A and to care for, more than five L R Life of Thomas Brackett Reed (1914) E B hundred bruised bodies of men, M A H — men made in the image of C E A contemporary alumnus, George J. C N God, marred by the hand of man, RE Mitchell ’54, served as Senate Majority LA W and must we say in the name of God? JOSHUA Leader, brokered the peace deal for And where is the reckoning for such things? Northern Ireland, and today still makes

[email protected] 39 er we will reach a sound understanding of The Eskimo, Ootah, had his own the realities of sex. explanation. Said he:“The devil Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948)

is asleep or having trouble with The only unnatural sex act is that which his wife, or we should never you cannot perform. Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of have come back so easily.” Quotes (1979) Robert E. Peary 1877, The North Pole (1910) Concluding this romp through Bowdoin quote-history, I present a miscellany from alums ranging from two Supreme Court justices to the putative discoverer of the headlines as author of the Mitchell Report on steroids use in North Pole to the author of M*A*S*H to a baseball. Mitchell’s sound-bite two decades ago is remembered Secretary of Defense to the founder of as the definitive rebuke to self- Netflix to the winner of the first women’s righteousness in public life: marathon Olympic gold medal:

Although he is regularly It is the irresistible course of events that all asked to do so, God men, who have been deprived of their liber- does not take sides in ty, shall recover this previous portion of their American politics, and indefeasible inheritance. in America disagree- John Brown Russwurm,“The Condition ment with the poli- and Prospects of Hayti” (Bowdoin com- mencement oration) (1826) 4 cies of the govern- 5 9 1 , ment is not evidence L L E Repudiate the repudiators. H of lack of patriotism. C IT M Statement at Senate hear- William Pitt Fessenden, Presidential cam- J. E RG paign slogan (1868) GEO ings on Iran-Contra scandal, July 13, 1987 Every sovereign State is bound to respect the Far removed from the realms of literature and politics, but so independence of every other sovereign State, important in the social sphere that he profoundly influenced and the courts of one country will not sit in many aspects of our society, was sexologist Alfred C. Kinsey ’16: judgment on the acts of the government of another done within its own territory. Caricatures of the English-American [sexual] position are per- Melville W.Fuller 1853, Underhill v. formed around the communal campfires, to the great amuse- Hernandez (1897) ment of the [South Pacific] natives, who refer to the position as the “missionary position.” The rights of the freedman, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) which are not yet secured to him, are Males do not represent two discrete populations, the direct reverse of heterosexual and homosexual.The world is not to the wrongs com- be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are mitted against black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of him. I never taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete could conceive how a man categories. Only the human mind invents cate- 6 2 8 1 could become a gories and tries to force facts into separated , M R better laborer by pigeon-holes.The living world is a continuum in U W S S being made to each and every one of its aspects.The sooner we U R N carry an over heavy learn this concerning human sexual behavior the soon- W BRO JOHN

40 BOWDOIN WINTER 2009 and wearisome burden which in no way facilitates his work. I never could detect the shadow of a reason why the color of the The only unnatural skin should impair the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of sex act is that which happiness. Oliver Otis Howard,Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, you cannot perform. Major-general, United States Army (1908) Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979) The Eskimo, Ootah, had his own explanation. Said he:“The devil is asleep or having trouble with his wife, or we should never have come back so easily.” Robert E. Peary 1877, The North Pole (1910)

The Constitution was built for rough as well as smooth roads. their bodies In time of war the nation simply changes gears and takes the and their harder going under the same power. minds. Harold H. Burton 1909, Duncan v. Kahanamoku (dissenting Sometimes opinion) (1946) they lurk

under the 6 1 9 1 We’re the pros from Dover [developed by the character Hawkeye as , stairs.They Y E S a way of claiming to be a pro from an ambiguous golf club in order to scuttle around I N . K C wangle invitations to play free rounds]. in the dark; you D FRE H. Richard Hornberger ’45, M*A*S*H (1968) hear them in the AL walls gnawing, squeaking, occasionally biting a little finger. The Constitution was built Geoffrey Canada ’74, Fist Stick Knife Gun: for rough as well as smooth A Personal History of Violence in America roads. In time of war the (1995) nation simply changes gears While we are not and cannot become the world’s policeman, neither can we become a and takes the harder going prisoner of world events, isolated and tucked under the same power. safely away in a continental cocoon. William S. Cohen ’62, Statement at Senate Harold H. Burton 1909, Duncan v. Kahanamoku hearing on his confirmation as Secretary of (dissenting opinion) (1946) Defense, Jan. 22, 1997

I was on the way to the gym and I realized, If we are to save our children then we “Wow, video stores could operate like a gym must become people they will look with a flat membership fee.”And it was like, up to. Children need heroes now “Hm, I wonder why no one’s done that more than ever because the before?” poor children of this nation Reed Hastings ’83, Quoted in televi- live with monsters every day. sion interview on 60 Minutes, Dec. 3, Monsters deprive them of 2006 heat in the winter, they don't fix their sinks and toi- 9 Now I’m down to 70 or 80.That’s all 7 9 1 lets, they let garbage pile up , I can do [explaining why, at 50 years of N O in their hallways, they kick S age, she no longer runs 120 miles a week]. L E U them out of their homes, they M Joan Benoit Samuelson ’79, Quoted in SA beat them, shoot them, stab them IT O New York Times, Apr. 13, 2008 B EN -- sometimes to death -- they rape JOAN

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Above, left to right: Michael Landgarten ’80, Daniel Steele ’84, Susan Allen Favreau ’91, Peter Hastings ’05, Charles Emerson ’63, Sally Johnson ’81, Stewart “Chip” Newell ’68

42 BOWDOIN WINTER 2009 BY EDGAR ALLEN BEEM PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHELE STAPLETON

BOWDOIN GRADS IN he eternal sun, symbol of Bowdoin College, goes down over Casco Bay with a spectacular display of pinks, reds THE TOURISM INDUSTRY and golden yellows.The evening view from the balcony of the Mt.Washington Room at the Log tCabin Island Inn on Bailey Island in Harpswell is a breathtaking 180-degree panoramic sweep that takes in SELL THE REAL MAINE everything from the glow of Brunswick to the distant halo over Portland and the twinkling of lights on islands and boats in the bay. As darkness falls across the coastal landscape, steam rises from the 101-degree waters of the Jacuzzi on the deck into the crisp 60-degree night air. Faint, happy voices drift reas- suringly across Merriconeag Sound from South Harpswell.A sip of cool, fruity pinot grigio.The heady aroma of seaweed and salt air.Yes,this is Maine,The Way Life Should Be. Maine is Vacationland.Tourism is the state’s second largest industry, after consumer services and ahead of manu- facturing. Some 10 million overnight visitors and another 30 million daytrippers pump $10 billion a year into Maine’s $48 billion economy and support close to 140,000 tourism- related jobs. Given the prominence of Bowdoin in the public life of Maine, it’s not surprising that Bowdoin graduates are play- ers in the state’s tourism industry. Indeed, with a little resourcefulness, it might actually be possible to take a Bowdoin Maine vacation, patronizing inns, restaurants, and pubs owned and operated by alumni of the College. In vis- iting late this summer with a sampling of Bowdoin innkeepers and restaurateurs, what came across most vividly was the degree to which they are purveyors of authenticity, offering experiences of the real Maine that range from a pint of fried clams to a pint of local ale, from canoeing in search of moose to sailing along the coast.

[email protected] 43 SOCIOLOGY AND SEAFOOD from cable TV and wireless Internet access to Rinnai usan Allen Favreau ’91 sells the sunset. Unlike most of heaters, flashlights, umbrellas, ironing boards, Q-tips and Sthe featured Bowdoin grads, Favreau, co-owner of the cotton balls.The Log Cabin seems a perfect place to hun- Log Cabin, did not turn to tourism after other pursuits. ker down for the winter, but in late October the Favreaus She grew up in the restaurant business, starting as girl of close up shop and start thinking about heading for their 13 waiting tables and washing dishes in her aunt’s restau- winter home in Key West. rant on Bailey Island. “It’s pretty desolate down here in the winter,” Susan “I’ve been in this business forever,” says Favreau.“And Favreau explains,“and it’s pretty windy.” I knew from birth I was going to live here.” Susan Allen Favreau owns the Log Cabin with her alfway Rock Light, the remote lighthouse that husband Neal, an electrical contractor in Brunswick who Hmarks the middle of Casco Bay, is clearly visible does a lot of work for the College. She grew up in from the tip of Bailey Island, but the first lighthouse visi- Lexington, Massachusetts, but she summered from child- tors to hood on Bailey Island and settled here as a young woman. Maine see In 1979, Susan and Neal Favreau purchased an expan- when they sive log summer home on the island and turned it into enter from the popular Log Cabin Restaurant. In 1996, the Favreaus the south converted the restaurant into the Log Cabin, An Island belongs to Inn, opening with six rooms and adding two more and a Michael seaside pool a few years later. Landgarten These days, the Log Cabin dining room is only open ’80. to guests of the inn who dine on local foods such as a Landgarten’s savory crab dip followed lighthouse, by shrimp and scallop or rather a pesto, and Bailey Island reasonable peach pie.The dining facsimile of one, stands in front of Robert’s Maine Grill room is a rustic affair on Route One in Kittery. Robert’s and its predecessor hung with the previous business, Bob’s Clam Hut, stand on either side of Spruce owner’s trophies such as A PROGRESSIVE BUSINESSMAN,AS AN EMPLOYER the moose head and MICHAEL LANDGARTEN SEEKS TO “CREATE 500-pound tuna MEANING, COMMITMENT,AND A SENSE OF mounted on the wall. OWNERSHIP.” Somehow, in the midst of running and Creek and offer hungry travelers a true taste of Maine. growing the business, Michael Landgarten, an art history major and rock Susan Favreau managed musician who came to Bowdoin from Worcester, to take enough time Massachusetts, seems an unlikely candidate to run a road- away from the Log side clam shack, but then Bob’s Clam Hut is a local land- Cabin to attend mark and real Maine classic. After graduation, Landgarten Bowdoin as a non-tra- studied computers and worked writing code for several ditional student, earn- years while playing in rock bands. He got into the restau- ing a sociology degree in 1991 at the age of 40. Now rant business almost by default. that her son and daughter-in-law do much of the day- “I had some notion,” Landgarten explains,“that I to-day operations, Favreau is starting to think about a wanted to own a business so I could support my music graduate school. habit.” He started looking at bed & breakfasts in Cape Cod “I’VE BEEN IN THIS BUSINESS FOREVER AND I and Maine, but a realtor in southern Maine kept urging KNEW FROM BIRTH I WAS GOING TO LIVE HERE.” that he “Check out Bob’s Clam Hut.” Bob Kraft had What is most distinctive about the Log Cabin – other started the little clam shack in 1956 and by 1986 was than the architecture and the view – is the fact that the looking to sell. Favreaus seem to have thought of everything.The cozy When Landgarten told his old Bowdoin buddy Dave suites come equipped with all the modern conveniences, Kunicky ’80 he was thinking of buying Bob’s, Kunicky

44 BOWDOIN WINTER 2009 surprised him by saying,“That makes total sense.” “I GOT INVOLVED WITH BRIAN BORU WHEN IT “It does?” STARTED. MY MAIN INTEREST WAS IN PURCHAS- Landgarten was a vegetarian at the time and couldn’t ING THE REAL ESTATE.” quite see himself as a fry cook, but Kunicky reminded him that, when they shared an apartment in college, Irishmen – Fergus and Justin O’Reilly and Laurence Landgarten had kept a map posted on the refrigerator Kelly – and modeled after a pub in their native town of that pinpointed every seafood joint within 30 miles of Naas, Brian Boru is co-owned by Daniel Steele ’84. Bowdoin. In college, he had lived on fish sandwiches, and “I got involved with Brian Boru when it started,” says chocolate shakes. Steele.“My main interest was in purchasing the real “Bob’s was a homerun,” says Landgarten.“It was a estate.” well-oiled machine when I bought it. Bob Kraft devel- Brian Boru, with a giant pint of Guinness painted on oped it. I just refined it a little bit.” its ruddy façade, is “a warm community bar with an Indeed, Bob’s is a first class operation, cooking up eclectic group of people,” says Steele.“It’s fun and social, a 2,500 gallons of clams a year, serving only “specials,” good part of the fabric of Portland.” clams sorted to be the same size so they fry up evenly. A history major at Bowdoin with a concentration in And Landgarten is a stickler for clean cooking oil. Latin American studies, Daniel Steele always intended to “The biofuels folks are lining up at our door,” he says. go into commercial real estate. As such he is more or less “We’re insane about how much we change the oil.” a silent partner in one Portland’s most popular bars. In 2006, Landgarten opened Robert’s Maine Grill, And though he lives just across Center St. from Brian which he describes as “Bob’s gets dressed up a little bit, Boru, in fact, Daniel Steele says he does not spend a lot puts on shoes and goes out to dinner.” Both restaurants of time in the pub, adding,“That’s probably a good operate on what he calls “an unusual business model.” thing.” A progressive businessman, as an employer Michael Landgarten seeks to “create meaning, commitment, and a LUCK OF THE IRISH sense of ownership.”To that end, his restaurants operate f this be so, then with five bottom lines, open financials, and profit sharing. IPeter Hastings ’05 Making money is not more important to him than being seems to value a good a good steward of the environment and giving back to time had by all. Leary’s the community.Active in Share Our Strength, the culi- Landing Irish Pub, nary industry’s anti-hunger campaign, Landgarten helped which Hastings opened make the Portsmouth area’s annual Taste of the Nation in 2007 with his part- fundraiser, in which 80 local restaurants raised $100,000 ner Christina Hines, has to fight hunger in 2008, a rousing success. quickly become one of And Michael Landgarten credits his Bowdoin mentor, downtown Bar Harbor’s emeritus associate pro- favorite watering holes, fessor of art history a little side street hole- Larry Lutchmansingh, in-the-wall featuring a with instilling a sense of great selection of local social justice in him. brews and pub grub. “Your values,” says At just 500 square Landgarten,“inform feet and 15 barstools, Leary’s Landing may be small, but how you do business.” the beauty of it, says Peter Hastings, is “it always looks

hould a winter visi- “IT ALWAYS LOOKS FULL.WITH JUST 12 PEOPLE Stor to Maine crave a IN IT, IT LOOKS LIKE A HAPPENING BAR.” pint in a great Irish full.With just 12 people in it, it looks like a happening pub, however, there is bar.” always the Brian Boru Peter Hastings, who grew up in Hampden, Maine, Public House on the majored in American government and minored in educa- edge of the Old Port in tion at Bowdoin. He fully intends to go to law school Portland. Established in one of these days, but right now he’s having too much 1993 by three young fun to go back to school, not to mention that Leary’s

[email protected] 45 Landing turned a profit its first year and revenues were “I’VE ALWAYS ENJOYED WORKING WITH MY up 64% in 2008 over 2007. HANDS, FIXING THINGS UP.I DO MOST OF THE Growing up just an hour from the booming resort WORK AROUND HERE MYSELF.” town of Bar Harbor, Hastings came of age in the hospi- tality industry. He started out in high school as a bellman of Down East magazine.The Emersons’ home, in fact, was at a Bar Harbor inn and, by the time he graduated from originally the Roxmont guest cottage. Bowdoin, he was working summers as the director “Charles was frustrated with office jobs,” explains Ann employee housing and marina operations for Ocean Emerson, as her husband finishes some chores around the Properties Ltd, a company that owns six hotels and five modest 14-room motel.“He likes to be continually restaurants on Mount Desert Island. working outside. He really likes the upkeep part of it.” After graduation, Hastings hired on as the director of “I’ve always enjoyed working with my hands, fixing revenue management for the Hilton Hotel Corporation things up,” agrees Charlie Emerson when he comes in in Salt Lake City, Utah. Christina Hines, a Clark dusted with flecks of white paint.“I do most of the work University grad, worked as regional sales manager. After around here myself.” two years in Utah, Hastings and Hines decided,“We So while Ann attends to the office and bookkeeping, wanted to work for ourselves.We thought it would be Charlie sees to the maintenance and upkeep. As a great fun to have a small Irish pub in either Annapolis, deal of their business is overnight travelers on their way Maryland, or Bar Harbor.” up or down the coast, the Emersons never know who is Hastings chose Bar Harbor because he already had going to be stopping in at the White Gates Inn, but they contacts there and knew the climate and the seasons well. say they have been delighted with the quality of their Once the summerfolk and the tourists go home, the guests. cruise ships stop docking, and the fall leaf-peepers disap- “We’ve made a lot of friends,” says Ann,“especially pear, Leary’s Landing closes up shop the first of among the kids who come to the Workshop.” December. To bolster their off-season business, the Emersons “It’s just too cold,” Peter Hastings explains,“and have a contract to house students attending the nearby staffing becomes a problem.” Maine Media Workshop, formerly the Maine Photographic Workshop. THEY TOOK TO THE WOODS unning a business together as a couple can be chal- he Maine hospital- Rlenging, so a division of labor is highly recommend- T ity community ed, not only by Charles and Ann Emerson, but also by also, however, boasts a William Foley ’81 and Sally Johnson ’81, proprietors of few Bowdoin grads the Moosehead Hills Cabins in Greenville. who fled Corporate William Foley was a biology major at Bowdoin and America for the sim- Sally Johnson majored in math. Bill spent many years in pler, saner lives of sales and marketing with Coca-Cola and Sally had a 20- innkeepers. year career in sales and marketing with IBM. Charles Emerson “We started Moosehead Hills Cabin 10 years ago,” says ’63, for instance, was an Sally Johnson.“We both decided the corporate rat race art major at Bowdoin, “IT’S BEEN A REALLY FASCINATING AND thinking he might go into his family’s fine REWARDING EXPERIENCE TO BUILD OUR OWN printing business, BUSINESS.” Anthoensen Press. But world wasn’t any fun.We wanted to try doing something that was not to be. in a wilderness area, something with year-round outdoor Emerson spent more recreation.” than three decades in the banking and commercial real Thus, Foley and Johnson purchased land near Lily Bay estate businesses, both in Boston and Portland, before in Greenville where, over the past decade, Bill has built opting out. their home and five log-sided cabins which they rent out In 1999, he and his wife Ann purchased the White to hikers, snowmobilers, snowshoers, canoeists, kayakers, Gates Inn on Route One in Rockport, right next door and folks attracted to the Moosehead Lake region for the to Roxmont, the grand old estate that houses the offices unparalleled moose-watching.

46 BOWDOIN WINTER 2009 “A dif- “The Branch family called us to help find out what ferent type the next life for Linekin Bay Resort should be,” says Chip of tourist is Newell, who with his wife Susan Morris does business as coming to the NewHeight Group, a marketing and development Greenville consulting firm with offices in Miami Beach and, more than you to the point, Boothbay Harbor. would have Chip Newell, an economics major at Bowdoin, found 20 or decided to return to Maine in 2003 after attending his 30 years 35th Bowdoin reunion.With 30 years experience in real ago,” says “THE BRANCH FAMILY CALLED US TO HELP FIND Sally Johnson, OUT WHAT THE NEXT LIFE FOR LINEKIN BAY noting that RESORT SHOULD BE.” very few of their guests are hunters or fishermen. estate development, Newell helped the Branch family for- Low-impact, muscle-powered sports and “green mulate and get permitted a plan that calls for replacing tourism” have become increasingly popular throughout many of the aging Maine in recent years. Moosehead Hills Cabins and Log Linekin Bay Resort Cabin Island Inn, in fact, are two of 77 state-certified cottages with expansive “green lodgings” in the Maine Department of new seaside homes Environmental Protection’s Environmental Leaders pro- while renovating and gram. So, in addition to operating and marketing their expanding the resort’s five cabins and offering a concierge service for guests main lodge. looking for wilderness guides, Johnson and Foley must “The plan is to also pay careful attention to such things as waste manage- develop and sell the ment and water conservation, the toxicity of housekeep- homes to support a new ing products, energy efficiency, and the environmental lodging facility,” says impact of landscaping. Newell, who hopes Despite the challenges of taking to the woods after construction and sales life in the corporate fast lane, Sally Johnson is sincere of the new Linekin Bay when she says,“It’s been a really fascinating and reward- Resort homes can ing experience to build our own business.” begin in 2009, the economy permitting. SAILING INTO THE FUTURE Since returning to inally, one of the places where the old Maine and the Maine, Newell says he Fnew meet along the coast is at Linekin Bay Resort on has become aware of Wall Point in Boothbay Harbor.The resort, with its clus- just how pervasive Bowdoin graduates are in all walks of ter of modest, fog gray cottages and lodges and fleet of Maine life.The head of the Boothbay Harbor planning Rhodes 19 sailboats, has been in the Branch family since board he presented the development play to, Newell 1909, evolving over the 20th century from a family com- notes, was William Hamblen ’72. And the real estate pound first into a girls’ camp and then into a family-ori- attorney for the project is Carl R.“Chip” Griffin, III ’77. ented sailing resort. “I started my career in Denver where people When owner Bob Branch died in 1996, his widow couldn’t even pronounce Bowdoin,” says Chip Newell. Ida soldiered on alone until 2001 when a manager was “Then I worked in Washington, D.C., where people hired to look after the rapidly deteriorating cottage could pronounce it but there were very few Bowdoin colony.Wanting to preserve the old seaside resort, where grads. It feels good to be surrounded by the Bowdoin some guests have been summering since 1946, Bob and community.” Ida Branch’s son Peter and daughter Kristina went look- And that’s a familiar sentiment from one end of ing for a new future for Linekin Bay Resort. Vacationland Maine to the other. Peter Branch, headmaster of the Georgetown Day “A lot of Bowdoin parents and a lot of alumni stay School in Washington, D.C., was in no position to oper- here,” says Susan Favreau back at the Log Cabin Island ate the resort himself, so he turned to Stewart “Chip” Inn.“If they stay here when their kids are freshmen, they Newell ’68 for a new plan. stay for all four years.”

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Pretty as a picture: Peter Gates rows his daughter Callie ’05 across the pond at The Country Club in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, on June 14, just before she and Jason Slocum ’05 were married.

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of fencing at Bowdoin has come and 28 gone several times. Carl Barron Joan Weil, widow of Thomas Weil, re-established a team in 1936, and wrote on September 25:“I have been currently supports the latest revival, busy getting settled into my now started by Sam Tung ’09 three years permanent address, after twelve different ago. During a recent campus visit, Carl ones around the world. My husband was took in a fencing practice and treated always delighted when a Bowdoin man the team to dinner at Cook’s Lobster visited our post, including Kabul, House afterward. See accompanying photo. Afghanistan, and London, and we always NEWSPRINT A September enjoyed having them to dinner.” Carl Barron ’38, flanked by his grandchildren Morning Sentinel (Waterville, Maine) and the current members of Bowdoin’s Fencing newspaper article titled “Dealers reach Club, during a visit to campus last fall. 33 new Hights,” featured Kirby Hight, his Ed Langbein ’57 wrote on September son Lou ’74, and his grandson Sam 21:“Charles Kirkpatrick continues to 40 ’07, as the 97-year-old Hight family hike and swim (seven days a week) as he Kid Wongsrichanalai ’03 shares this car-sales business took ownership of the and his wife split their time between information with the classes of 1940-45: Ford dealership in Skowhegan. Four New London, N.H., and Vero Beach, “My honors project from 2003 [was] generations of Hights have assembled a Fla. He regrets not getting back for his published in [a] recent issue of Maine car sales business that is the oldest 75th reunion this past June.We lunched History. It concerns the WWII letters family-owned dealership in the state. together last week at a ‘Heritage and combat motivations for Bowdoin Family patriarch Walter Hight established Society’ (i.e., planned givers) gathering men from that era.” the business in 1911, and Kirby joined it at Colby-Sawyer College, which both of in 1938. Lou came aboard in 1974, and our wives attended.” 43 Sam, recently an investment banker in Class Secretary Jack Hoopes wrote in 38 Boston, will take over management of late August:“After my exhorting our Over the centuries, the organized sport the new Ford venture. group to attend our 65th Reunion, it

Different Strokes Ev Hanke, Cornelia Johnson and Norman Seagrave have two things in common: they’re all champion swimmers and all homeowners at Thornton Oaks. Cornelia is a Senior Olympics medalist and logs 20 laps twice a week, while Norm and Ev are practicing for their next 200 meter relay. Their four-man team holds the FINA (Federation Internationale de Natation) world record—rock stars of the 90+ group. Norm has been swimming competitively since his days as a Bowdoin College undergraduate; Ev started competing in his eighties. All three practice in the nearby Bowdoin pool. www.thorntonoaks.com Learn how you can get in the swim of life at Thornton Oaks by contacting Henry Recknagel at 800-729-8033 25 Thornton Way, #100 or at [email protected] also invite you to visit our website where you can meet more of our residents. Brunswick, Maine 04011

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turned out that we had made Casey Sills, Dean Nixon, Herbie Brown, died on September 22, in Portland. arrangements back in January for a trip Adam Walsh,Abrahamson, Doc Root, Norm’s service record was unique: to inland Alaska that week.Alaska was Sam Kamerling,Van Kleve, Pat Quinby Marine fighter pilot with over 100 great big mountains, big valleys in are only a few names from that all-star missions, Navy flight instructor,Vermont between. Mount McKinley was visible faculty.’ But time and the College march Air National Guard,Air Force Reserve, for two days! Big bus tourism is thriving. on—and well.’ and Coast Guard Auxiliary. He retired as Anyway special thanks to the loyal few We have to announce the passing of Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at who could attend: Bob Edwards, Len George H. Heywood on April 18, St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston. W. Johnson, Ed Simonds, and Ed Woods. 2008, in Concord, Mass.After his Bradford Briggs died in Vero Beach, In a letter saying that he and Rose wartime service in the 10th Mountain Fla., November 1, 2008, two days after couldn’t make this reunion (they, in fact, Division, he joined Heywood-Wakefield, the death of his wife Elizabeth (‘Buffy’) made it, as the list indicates; Ed has gone serving as President from 1966 to its on October 30.After serving as a Naval to every five-year reunion since 1948), Ed close in 1981.” aviator during the war, Brad and Bill Simonds wrote:‘Looking back, Jack, do Jack Hoopes wrote again in Ziff founded Ziff Davis, which grew to you ever feel that we just happened to be December:“We have to add three more be one of the major publishers of at Bowdoin during its very peak years? deaths this fall. Dr. Norman Gauvreau specialized activity magazines (Car and Driver, Skiing, Flying, Popular |profile| Photography). He was President of the United States Ski Educational Foundation, the governing body for the U.S. Ski Team. DeWitt T. Minich died Dr. Leonardo,“Buckie,”Buck ’38 on December 13 in Beverly, Mass. Dee served in the South Pacific as captain of Retired Dentist, Golf Rules Official PT Boat No. 183 and section leader and later in the ferry command in the ike his Florentine namesake, Dr. boundaries and Caribbean. His business career was in Leonardo Buck ’38 is a true water hazards. the wool and shoe business, including LRenaissance man. Lettering in five He’s been co-ownership of American Stay Mfg. sports at Bath’s Morse High School, he known to sit in Co. Moving to Boxford, Mass., in 1956, refined his talents for baseball, hockey and his driveway, he was a founder and coach of the golf at Bowdoin, while studying chemistry. Fats Waller athletic association, member of the He went on to earn a degree in dental playing on a finance committee, and town medicine from Harvard. He plays the portable CD moderator.After summering for many piano, writes the occasional piece for the player, as he years in West Poland Spring, he moved local paper, and is a leading figure in fashions them to Four Mile Village.” Maine, regional and national golf circles. from pine and “The rules of golf have always rebar. 45 intrigued me,” says Buck, who started In 2006, he Cliff Travis emailed on September 29: working as a rules official for the Maine conceived a set of seven hand signals for “After 52 years of marriage, my wife State Golf Association (MSGA) in 1936. golfers and rules officials to use at MSGA Joan died of cancer, and I have “A good rules official is inconspicuously events.The signals filled a void in which continued to live in our house amidst present.We’re there to help the players no previous standard existed and have accumulating dust and miscellaneous and make sure that no one takes since been adopted internationally. clutter, which I do my best to ignore. advantage.” Buckie, who turns 93 in March, credits My daughter Vicki lives nearby and When Buck, Buckie as he’s known to the YMCA for instilling him with the friends, retired from dentistry in 1980, he confidence that has served him so well. daughter Sandy and my two began officiating at golf tournaments full He lives his life with the same integrity grandchildren live in Annapolis, Md., so time. He has traveled the country that he brings to the rules of golf. we get together quite often. Most of my shadowing players like Tiger Woods, So, which of his many accomplishments time is spent on my model railroad, giving seminars and scrutinizing the game is this Renaissance man most proud? which with the help of Vicki,I have from the sidelines. He is the top rules “Winning the Maine Amateur Golf displayed at local shows and at large official in Maine and players from Championship in 1950,” he says.“I was shows in Philadelphia and Springfield, California to Florida ring his phone eight down at the eleventh hole. My Mass.When assembled at home it takes regularly, seeking his opinion on rulings. chances were slim and none. And I won.” up most of the living and dining rooms. This past summer, Buckie officiated at His face breaks into one of his famous Would love to get back for a reunion seven championships. He even makes his smiles.“Keep trying and never give up. but the seven-hour drive is a bit long.” own stakes for marking course That’s my motto in life.” The Class extends its sympathy to Cliff and his family. See accompanying photo.

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Cliff Travis ’45, who spends much of his time showcasing his model railroad, is pictured with daughters Sandy Travis-Bildahl and Vicki Travis, and his grandson Travis Bildahl. 47 HARPSWELL INN Bill Augerson wrote in late A Bed & Breakfast on the water at Lookout Point September:“Still vertical and mobile. Open Year-round Working a little. Had nice recent visit Rooms $110.00–159.00, Suites $235.00–249.00 from David Kessler ’57, a colleague Elegantly casual with full breakfast included from Walter Reed days.” 10 minutes from Bowdoin College off Route 123 48 Wedding Packages and cottages also available Cab Easton wrote on October 7: Our New "Middlebay" function Room for groups up to 50 Guests “Took a trip on the Danube, Main, and Call for reservations: (800) 843-5509 • (207) 833-5509 Rhine rivers from September 3-23.The www.harpswellinn.com ship’s accommodations were fine: reasonably-sized stateroom and bath on top deck and large bedroom window, excellent food, great tours and on-ship entertainment (one evening a glass 7EHAVEYOUR blower demonstrated his unique skills in the lounge).We met and ate with a LIFESTYLEAT"IRCH"AY number of very pleasant and fun people from various states in the U. S., along with Canada, New Zealand,Australia, etc. Highlights of the tours included our three-night stay at the Marriott in Budapest (rebuilt within the ruins of a church) and the great cathedral nearby (sheathed in plastic for repair and cleaning), the medieval fortifications in charming Bratislava, an organ concert in Passau at St. at St. Stephen’s Cathedral on the largest pipe organ in Europe, !CADIA.ATIONAL0ARKATYOURBACKDOOR4WOBEDROOMS TWOBATHS GARAGE(ARDWOODFLOORS9EAR ROUNDSUNROOMS lunch at the Old Sausage Kitchen &IREPLACES3PECTACULARVIEWOF&RENCHMAN"AY-AINTENANCE FREE (Germany’s oldest restaurant) in &RIENDLY ACTIVERETIREMENTCOMMUNITY!PARTMENTSAVAILABLE Regensburg, a tour of the Bishops’ #ALLFORATOURSEVENDAYSAWEEK Residenz (one of Germany’s largest and most ornate baroque palaces), the Gutenbert Museum at Mainz, a visit to @I:?8P Cologne’s DOM, Germany’s largest " cathedral, and ending in Amsterdam. Of /@CC8><"!2(!2"/2 course there were marvelous views of WWWBIRCHBAYINFOCOM EXT the ‘castles on the Rhine’ from the ship as we moved along the river, and the +RISTIN7RIGHT /TTMAN #LASSOF %XECUTIVE$IRECTOR

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movement through all the locks by both missing.We are very happy and there are many college-type events day and night – I think there were 67!” comfortable here, and have met lots of (lectures, concerts, athletics) we can Bob Weatherill wrote on July 14: wonderful people and are delighted that attend. I am not aware of any Bowdoin “We enjoyed the reunion and our brief the chores of maintaining a house are graduates in residence here, but a number stay in the dorms. (Today’s undergraduates now behind us.Although we lived in it have grandchildren who are now are certainly well housed and fed!) And, a full fifty years I really don’t miss the undergraduates in Brunswick. Our new there was an opportunity to meet with house at all, but I do miss our neighbors address is:Apt. 361, Kendal at Hanover, people whom I had not seen since and being near the ocean. Both Betsy 80 Lyme Rd., Hanover, N.H. 03755.” graduation. Hardly seems possible we and Chip have visited us, and we are have been here at Kendal over a month pleased they are so much closer. Of 49 REUNION now.We actually moved in June 11. course, Dartmouth has a very strong Robert Alexander wrote in late Since then there has been a whirlwind presence here with many retired September:“Age seems to be taking its of unpacking and trying to find things, graduates and faculty in residence.The toll. Now living in an assisted living many of which are still among the college is barely two miles away, and facility. Makes things easier but it’s not like home.Am quite familiar with the local diagnostic clinic and hospitals. Whoever said ‘golden years’ certainly didn’t know much about anything. Cheers to all.” 51 +,6725,&5(7,5(0(17Ÿ Class Secretary Roy Heely reported on September 30:“ ‘Tis fall when leaves :+(5(7+(1(:0((767+(2/' turn and a contingent of freshmen become collegians.The Class of 2012 numbers 489 and represents a highly %(1-$0,13257(5+286( select group chosen from over six Enjoy living in a 200-year-old home newly renovated with a host of modern thousand applicants. Men (257) amenities and conveniences. outnumber women (232) for the first time in several years, while the College • Topsham Historic District location • Spacious newly renovated apartments overall ratio stands around 50-50.A • Cooperative ownership • One mile to Bowdoin College comparison: in September 1947 and • Continue to build equity • Nature trails, fitness club and more February 1948, 245 men signed the matriculation book’ (still a tradition) • Maintenance-free living • Access to golf and conservation land including 44 from classes other than Plus, The Highlands will purchase your house if it does not sell in one year.* 1951. Some campus tidbits of interest: Call 1-888-760-1042 to schedule your visit. starting next fall, freshmen will no longer be permitted autos on campus. I believe we were similarly restricted, even though some classmates were known to pilot jalopies of varied vintages and 26 Elm Street, Topsham, Maine www.highlandsrc.com quality.The former Curtis Pool, unused *Time limited offer. Certain conditions apply. Please ask for details.

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for many years, is now the Studzinski Recital Hall for concerts by students COASTAL HARPSWELL - TOTMANÕS POINT - “THE and others.The acoustics are superb, and BEACON” A magnificent 4500 square foot shingle style home the place is worth a visit on a trip here. sits proudly on a 3 acre peninsula with sweeping views down Gun Point Cove to open ocean and Casco Bay. The And after demolition last spring, the extensively landscaped property is surrounded by 1340 feet columned Beta House has become, like of deepwater encompassing three sides with a ramp and 20' the Delta Upsilon House, a spacious by 20' float on the protected eastern shore. Architecturally designed for character and built green lawn.There has been no mention for endurance and functionality, the home consists of three bedroom suites, marble of any plans to fill these voids. bathrooms, soaring granite fireplaces, office area, and large entertainment center. Built in “I had a pleasant chat with Gene 1999 and upgraded in 2004, it offers mahogany decks, with new deck railing system, Henderson’s wife Martha, who talked automatic generator, Security System with closed circuit cameras, all new high end appliances, and much more. This is a Dream Home for the Discerning Buyer. $2,450,000 about the stroke Gene suffered two years ago that left him paralyzed on one side. COASTAL HARPSWELL - This waterfront 3 bedroom, 1- His mind is clear, so Gene is frustrated 1/2 bath log home has had many improvements including a by these physical limitations. Martha gas Jotul fireplace, hardwood floors, shingled roof and more. devotes considerable time traveling to Enjoy the nice, quiet and private setting with great views of and from the not-so-nearby assisted the ocean and many islands. Features a 2-car attached garage, great landscaping and a dock, ramp & float. $553,000 living facility. Gene would be delighted and appreciative to receive cards or BAILEY ISLAND- Unique, quiet, private, easterly facing letters from classmates via Martha: 5935 oceanfront property with 200'+ of open ocean frontage on 18th St. N.,Arlington,VA 22205. Martha’s 3.4 acres. Restored and updated this year-round cottage has a telephone: 703-536-9258. full basement, 3 BR, 1-1/2 bath, stone fireplace and a wrap “Jim Goddard is a cherished around covered porch. Restrictive covenants including no respondent to my email requests for division of property. $685,000 news with a delightful reply that was a scribe’s dream. Jim divides his time Rob Williams Real Estate between Chatham, Mass., (seven Serving the Harpswell Real Estate Market for Over 26 Years • With Over 125 years of combined Sales Experience months) and Vero Beach, Fla., (five 207-833-5078 • baileyisland.com months) and like so many mighty Fifty- Ones is upbeat on life and takes growing old(er) in good humored stride; Jim wrote:‘Life is very good despite the infirmities of age – I’m 82 – have two new eyes, two knee replacements, play tennis (I can see the ball now but I can’t cover the court very well). I did not get to know many classmates (mostly fraternity brothers) as I was a married veteran with a three- year-old son and lived in Bowdoin Courts Apartments.Worked summers on the fish pier with Guy Johnson ’50. Also painted damn near every apartment in the Bowdoin Courts and was a surveyor on the initial location of the perimeter fence for the installation of a radar station on the backside of the Naval Air Station. Spent 40 years in the investment business in Boston, retired and moved to Vero Beach in 1991. Lost Nancy, my wife of 55 years in 2001, found Judy in 2002 [and] married in 2004. She is my age and we expect to keep on ‘a truckin’ as long as the Lord allows.We feel good and ain’t ready for the nursing home. Judy had three children, as did I. I have four

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grandchildren, she has seven, plus 10 BRUNSWICK Be prepared for love at first sight of this three-season cottage right great-grands, and I have none.We try to on the edge of the western shore of Mere Point. Two walls of windows in the “great be involved in our families from the room” afford long and wide views of oldest (65) to the youngest (due in two Maquoit Bay in three directions. When you weeks).We find grandparents can make tear your eyes away, you will also appreciate a significant influence for the good on the central chimney with two fireplaces, the the young ones and the old ones too, 1 though they probably wouldn’t admit it. adjacent kitchen, the three bedrooms, 1 /2 baths and the fact that .92 AC with 200' of I’ve always thought the best place to water frontage and access to a shared dock retire was to a small college – you did that and to one of the very best.’ come with it. It is priced at $595,000. “Our 1951 Scholarship continues to function smoothly. I reported earlier that HARPSWELL Two adjacent, deepwater Ed Samiljan’s great nephew Jordan lots on the eastern shore of the High Samiljan ’09 was last year’s recipient. head peninsula have recently been made Jordan is a senior, studies economics and available. They are shown in the aerial has played on the men’s rugby team, is photo between the property with the involved in the Business Club, the private dock and the end of the point. Bowdoin Hillel, Bowdoin Men Against Each is 1.84 AC with an elevated home Sexual Violence, and the Outing Club. site. The southernmost lot has 309' of Jordan spent last spring semester frontage and is priced at $795,000; the studying in Sicily, Italy, on a CET, other includes 212' of frontage for Mediterranean Studies Program. He $725,000. Both include private yacht club privileges. now works in the telecommunications department and was a research associate at Harvard Business School last summer MORTON REAL ESTATE (207) 729-1863 and is considering careers in business 240 Maine Street • Brunswick, ME 04011 • www.MortonRE.com • Email: [email protected] and finance. His Bowdoin family, in Sunset Ridge Nestled into the private coastal neighborhood of Sunset Ridge, this property is located on Harpswell Neck, a peninsula anchored in the heart of Casco Bay. The long and winding approach passes over a stream lined with mature trees leading up to a circular driveway. Privately sited on 1.87± acres of manicured grounds, this recently custom-built Cape offers coastal living with nearby deepwater frontage and deep water mooring. The natural shingled home is comprised of a main residence with first level master suite with private deck and outdoor shower, gourmet kitchen, spacious living area with stone fireplace opening onto an expansive deck and screened-in porch with stone fireplace. Two guest bedrooms and an additional master suite with private bath and closet fill out the upstairs. A second stairway leads to a separate guest suite with bedroom, office, living area, private bath and full kitchen accented by granite countertops and bamboo floors. An attached two bay garage is finished with fir trim, central vac and radiant heat. For more information please contact 207-522-1696. 50 Sunset Ridge Drive • Harpswell • Maine • 04079

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addition to Ed, includes cousin Nancy Samiljan ’79. |profile| “Some retired classmates continue part time in their professions while others take on new ventures. Pat and Reverend Dick Bamforth enjoy Charlie Leighton ’57 family visits to their Augusta dwelling, Executive Director, U.S. Sailing and Dick serves as an Episcopal supply pastor, is writing a book on substitute preaching, and plans to offer a senior harlie Leigton ’57 has fond companies like college course.Their daughter Jeanne is memories of his first venture as Boston Whaler. an assistant to Cristle Collins Judd, Can entrepreneur. After arriving at After serving as Bowdoin to find that no sailing team the director of Bowdoin’s Dean for Academic Affairs. existed, Charlie and three of his friends Met Life for 12 Over lunch in Kennebunkport last asked for permission from the College to years, Charlie summer, Don Moore described his start one on their own.With the green combined his current new sideline as a licensed light, the group raised the money to business captain in moving yachts from Fla. to purchase five boats and a piece of experience with the north via the inland waterway. waterfront property, racing every his passion for “Gentlemen, you have earned a well weekend and becoming one of the top sailing, pulling deserved big round of applause for the teams in the area.Years later, after U.S. Sailing out of debt in just four years distinguished performance of our Class graduating from Harvard Business School, as the organization’s executive director. in the 2007-2008 Alumni Fund.After a Charlie founded CML Group, which grew Charlie remains an active sailor and still wonderful participation rate the year from a three-person enterprise to a races his 42-foot Hinckley. before of 86 percent, you outdid company of 4,000 and oversaw yourselves in a big way with a showing of eighty-nine percent, which places us as the sixth-best class in that category. I, 13 Zeitler Farm Rd., Brunswick, ME REUNION along with Dave Conrod, Chet 04011, 207-725-1359, [email protected]. 54 LAUDABLE Horace Hildreth was Homer, and Bill Nightingale, extend All communications will be given a Distinguished Contribution our hearty congratulations to all for a acknowledged PDQ. Or sooner.” Award in June by Maine Audubon for splendid job. Help wanted: we have LAUDABLE Igor Blake conserved his support of wildlife protection. several classmates for whom there is no his 310 acres in Newport, N.H., valid address or telephone number. If through a land preservation agreement you know the whereabouts of any of with the Upper Valley Land Trust. His 56 Elizabeth Moody, widow of William the following gents would you let me forest has been a designated Tree Farm H. Moody emailed on October 28:“I or the Office of Alumni Relations since 1970. Recently, Sullivan County, saw Nancy Pennell recently and learned know (4100 College Station, N.H., Forester Chuck Hersey that Carroll died peacefully in July.As Brunswick, ME 04011; nominated Blake for next year’s Tree many know, he suffered a very [email protected]): Leonard Farmer of the Year Award. debilitating stroke several years ago and Ashe, John Fong, George Fox, Phil Eugene Henderson reported on June was no longer able to live at home. His Glidden, Stanwood Harting, 30:“On June 21, 2008, our older son last few months were in what used to be Charles Kendal, Howard Lane, Bill Ross McDougal Henderson was married the Mere Point Nursing Home, which Lishman, Kenneth Much, Tauno in Fort Myers, Fla., to Miss Alison Noel is now on Baribeau Drive in the old Nevalainen, John Newton, Ken Turner, daughter of Mr.And Mrs. Claude Regional Hospital complex, so he was Simpson, Albert Thebault, Charles Turner of Fort Myers.Wife Martha was close by. Nancy and their son still live in Watson. Your scribe became an able to attend. It was a magnificent Pennellville.” octogenarian last August, thus joining ceremony with many relatives from several of you already at that plateau. Pennsylvania,Texas,and Mass.” 57 Our younger classmates will hit that Charles Lermond wrote on mark before not too long, so happy Class Agent Ed Langbein reported on October 3:“Nancy died in May from an September 21:“Summer brought a birthday in advance. Conclusion:We are E. coli infection. Martha is now in a officially past the age of consent. number of classmates back to nursing facility suffering from dementia. Brunswick: Clem and Mary Lou (Remember when we considered sixty I continue to weave and sing in church as one foot in the grave?) Perhaps you Wilson were here to look into choir. Getting new hearing aids, which resettling in Maine before returning to have memories/reflections as we enter should help.” The Class extends its our ninth decade, yes? Let’s hear: Fla. for Mary Lou to have a new left sympathy to Charles and his family. knee installed; Bob and Lois Estes on

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the eastern leg of their honeymoon; Hal Middle Bay Farm B&B and Marcia Pendexter; Jack and On the ocean Shirley Woodward; and Art and Jill (4 miles from Bowdoin College) Perry to enjoy the summer music Open year round theatre.Also on campus was our Class of 1957 scholarship recipient, Caitlin Offers four sunny bedrooms, each with a water view, private bath, TV/VCR. Stauder ’10.A James Bowdoin Scholar, Room rates are $135 to $150 and include a full breakfast. Caitlin had a summer research project Two suites in sail loft cottage are more rustic and “roomy.” Include living area, kitchenette, two small bedrooms, private bath. Suite rates are $150 to $170. and was off to Europe for a semester in Switzerland. Frank Kinnelly writes Middle Bay Farm Bed & Breakfast that he is mastering the art of operating 287 Pennellville Road • Brunswick, ME 04011 • (207) 373-1375 Email: [email protected] • Web: www.middlebayfarm.com a kayak and insuring that Bowdoin is Owned by Phyllis Truesdell, wife of the late Clark Truesdell ’65 included in the college considerations of his grandchildren. Dick and Kay Lyman have ‘re-retired’ (which means they are up to their eyeballs in projects of one type or another, professional, pro bono—the usual).They enjoyed a bike trip in Holland at the end of May with The Cabin David Webster, returning in time for Kay to have her hip replaced (welcome to the ‘spare parts’ club, which includes Restaurant over half of the Class) and recovery going well.Taking a pause from biking, 552 Washington Street, Bath Dave is active with the New London summer theatre, which shifted from private enterprise to a board operation. And, as I write this, he and Jan are preparing to shift from N. H. to Fla. CABIN PIZZA? The Cabin opened its doors in June Dick and Shirley Fickett are occupied of 1973. Serving our local and far tracking politics and the Redskins The only real pizza away friends for over 35 years. which, in the D.C. area, fill the papers in Maine. and airwaves. Ed and Nancy Langbein “ With the only real hand tossed —” Portland Newspaper enjoyed a fabulous trip to the Canadian pizza in Maine. We are proud to Rockies in August. Routed through Va., One of the best in New serve good food and warm spirits in (which permitted supper with David and “England. a rustic, nautical atmosphere. Nancy Kessler) they flew to Calgary and reunited with former host student Ryan — Boston Globe Located in the south end of Bath ” Giles ’99, his wife Jenn, and his mother across from Bath Iron Works. The About as good as it gets in (who provided a tour of the city).Then, front section of the restaurant was on to Lake Louise, Jasper National Park, Maine. “ once a rope mill in the historic and Banff, with a variety of side trips — Downeast Magazine ” shipbuilding days. In its past, it has including a glacier walk (during a snowstorm), Maligne Canyon, and A local tradition. Some would been a barbershop, ice cream parlor, consistently spectacular views. Highly argue the best pizza in the and sandwich shop. Now our menu recommended if you’ve not been there. “state of Maine. includes pasta dinners, subs, salads Mike and Jean Coster marked their third — Offshore” Magazine and, of course, pizza. Stop by for a anniversary in July and are looking wonderful meal. forward to returning to Brunswick in January for the dedication of the Watson HOURS OF OPERATION: Arena. Later this month, Nate and Marsha Sunday – Thursday: 10am – 10pm Open year round, 7 days a week Winer will be off to Egypt and in early Friday – Saturday: 10am – 11pm for lunch and dinner. Cash or 2009 will check out Spain. John Finn checks accepted. ATM on premises. mentioned that his son (a foreign service officer) has been posted to Argentina, Local delivery available. 443-6224 which may well prompt a visit by him and Sharon. Dietmar Klein continues to

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serve as President of the Bowdoin Club of hearing from them.Tel:(868) 632-8603. high school coach to running our new Germany and is looking forward to their Looking forward to the 50th.” middle school program.” fall meeting, which hosted Ambassador Frank Mahncke emailed on Thomas Pickering ’53.” August 6:“For the past four years (and I expect for several more), I have been 58 spending my professional dotage at the Ed Groves wrote on July 25:“Class of Institute for Defense Analyses here in ’58 Sigma Nu Fraternity was well Washington. My liberal education is represented at their 50th Reunion in May.” exercised by dabbling in issues from See accompanying photo. homeland security scenarios to technology export control policy. Grandkids in N.C., and Calif., keep Frances and me traveling there as often Several Bowdoin friends enjoyed a golf outing as we can.” at Augusta Country Club in Manchester, Maine, on September 26 (front row, l to r): Bill 61 Bisset ’63, Jack Milo ’63, and Steve Crabtree Dick Hatheway wrote on June 30:“As ’63. (Back row, l to r):Al Ryan ’64, Charlie those who have preceded me can attest, Micoleau ’63, John LaCasse ’63, and Jack Abbott ’63. retirement is not all that bad! After 39 years of SUNY-Geneseo, I hung up my Class of ’58 Sigma Nu Fraternity at their 50th PowerPoint last September, and have 64 REUNION Reunion in May 2008 (l to r): Pete Gionne, really enjoyed the year. I’m still involved John Lovetere wrote on September 29: John Wheaton,Dave Sherman,Al Marz, Dave in local government, thus have avoided “I have enjoyed over ten years of Gosse, Ed Groves, and Brad Beckwith. becoming too much of a pest at home.” retirement with my wife and two grandchildren.We spend our time 59 REUNION 62 between Maine, Conn., and Fla. I Ed Hamblet wrote on September 27: Ward Hanscom wrote in late recently returned from two hunting “Was delighted to begin my 50th Reunion September:“Now retired from legal trips, one in New Mexico and another celebration with a luncheon, concert, and practice.Trying to take it easy. Still in Canada, with my son. Nancy th dinner hosted by our reunion committee happily married to Nancy Weston (Dearborn) and I celebrated our 40 in Brunswick on September 20, 2008, and Hanscom; now 60 years. Enjoying our wedding anniversary in 2007. She is a to see folks I had not seen for a half children, grandchildren and great- graduate of Morse High School (’62) in century! I spent June in Paris, France, with grandchildren. Living still in the same Bath, where she was a student of my friends Andre and Suzanne Mathe to house; now about 51 years. See playwright Tina Howe, wife of Norman celebrate his 80th birthday and the Maurice Littlefield occasionally.” Levy ’57. Nancy’s rural Bath history engagement of their daughter Sophie, Fred Hill wrote in early July:“Marty book is set for publication by Islandport who is my goddaughter. July and August and I are really enjoying living in Maine Press of Yarmouth in the summer of were spent touring Russia, the Baltic despite arriving just in time for two fairly 2009.We are looking forward to another republics, and Finland. My adventures serious Maine winters. Been busy great reunion in June.” included a 1,200-mile boat trip beginning enlarging our house in Arrowsic, trying Basil Newton reported on July 1: in Moscow and ending in St. Petersburg. to help raise funds to build a replica of “With a great deal of help from a Don Although I spend half of the year living in the ship Virginia built at Popham in Lancaster Graduate Scholarship, son Fla., and France, and visiting my family in 1607, and writing a column on foreign William has his master’s in accounting Maine, I still maintain my permanent affairs for the Bangor Daily News. Hope from the University of Maine at Orono; residence on Lake Champlain, just one to get more squash courts at the College, old time neighbors,Alpha Kappa Sigma, hour south of Montreal.” especially since we lost the hardball and Don Lancaster came through for doubles courts with reconstruction at the Newton family.” 60 Morrell Gym this summer.” Rob Osterhout wrote on Dixon Griffin emailed on October 14: September 29:“I retired in place here in “Have been living in Trinidad since 63 Virginia in January and have been 2000. So good to find out about the Jack Abbott and other Bowdoinites ‘smelling the roses’ since then. I joined e-magazine.We return to Webb Lake in enjoyed “a golf outing at Augusta the board of a community non-profit Maine for a month each year. Get to see Country Club, Manchester, Maine, on fighting homelessness, traveled to China Tom and Mary Barten ’62 and play a September 26.” See accompanying photo. with a Smithsonian tour in March, and little golf with them. Don’t know of any Dick Engels wrote on late went to Scotland with friends in June Bowdoin alums in this part of the world September:“Still involved with Aroostook for golf. Mary Ellen and I made our but, if there are any, I would enjoy football.This year I have switched from annual pilgrimage to Maine in July

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where we visited Roger Tuveson ’64 Rundlett was a great Elvis www.rick-davidson.com or and his wife Kathy.We’re enjoying impersonator, and Geff Yancey and his www.beechriverbooks.com. I am having our five grandchildren nearby. soon-to-be new bride Cindy Straitiff— presently at work on a murder mystery Looking forward to seeing everyone at best wishes, Cindy (Abbie says hi). that features some of the same characters our 45th.” Bailey, Corey, Bob Butkus ’66, and but is not a sequel.” See Bookshelf section. Newt Spurr ’61 teamed for a 1-under 65 par 71 at the Kullen Tournament on 70 Bill Black wrote on September 25: June 16, 2008, at the Ledges.” Leonard Johnson wrote on July 3: “Rapidly approaching our third year in Howard Zetlan wrote in late June: “I am continuing with my work at Maine after 32 in New Orleans. “Sorry I missed the 40th. Still practicing Travelers. My lucky wife Christine Hurricane Katrina drove us from the dentistry. Family doing great.” Molitor Johnson has just retired after Gulf to the Northeast, and me from 32 teaching 36 years in the Newburyport, years in medical school academics 69 REUNION Mass., school system.” (LSUHSC & TUHSC) to a very Louis Briasco emailed on August 4: NEWSPRINT Steve and Paula different life in corporate ‘medicine’ at “My historic San Francisco trolley Mae Schwartz,“are jumping into the Unum. Glad to be here!” photos appeared as the centerfold in the film business with both feet.The summer issue of Inside Track, Market Gloucester couple, who’re already 68 Street Railway’s official quarterly bringing Cormac McCarthy’s critically Robert Corey wrote on June 30:“The publication.Who would have thought?” acclaimed book The Road to the big 40th reunion was outstanding, once we Rick Davidson emailed on August screen, have two new movie projects. old timers found our headquarters. 2:“My novel Catamount:A North The Schwartzes bought the rights to Noel Bailey was a great reunion chair Country Thriller has just been published. Pete Takeda’s non-fiction book An Eye (should be appointed for life), Derry A full description can be found at at the Top of the Word, about a ’60s-era CIA mission that sent elite American and Indian climbers to the top of the |profile| Himalayas to monitor nuclear-missile testing in China.The Schwartzes have also optioned a script by Paul Schrader, Jan Pierson ’74 the celebrated screenwriter whose credits include Raging Bull and Affliction. President, Field Guides, Inc. Called The Dying of the Light, the story centers on a CIA agent who’s suffering s a senior at Bowdoin, Jan Pierson the effects of Alzheimer’s as he takes on ’74 made a life-changing decision a final mission.” From the Boston Globe. Awhile flipping through the catalogue of courses. A biology major on 71 a pre-med track, Jan “wanted to take Carter Good wrote in early July:“My something that didn’t require a test tube wife and I have two sophomore sons; one and a microscope.” He chose ornithology, is at our city’s high school and the other a class that introduced him to his future is at Yale.Actually, they each just finished career, and to his future wife, Liz.“I got a their sophomore years. In the fall, they lot of good things out of that class,” he will be juniors. How fast it all goes.” jokes. After graduation, Jan took a job in construction and traveled during the 72 winter to warmer climes known for their LAUDABLE Stephen Moriarty was exotic birdlife. In 1985, after various trips presented with the Cumberland-North to Peru, Suriname, Panama, and Ecuador Yarmouth Lions Club Citizen of the and a three-year stint guiding, Jan and Year Award for 2007-2008.“In June, I four partners founded a birding tour competed for the first time in the company of their own, called Field annual Mt.Washington Road Race, Guides (fieldguides.com).The business finishing in a time of 1:34:04.” has grown substantially in its 23 years, LAUDABLE Michael A. Ryan,an with a large guide staff offering 125 tours continues to lead the occasional trip to attorney with the law firm of Lowndes, every year to 100 destinations the tropics to escape his desk duties as Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, has worldwide. Field Guides prides itself on president of the company.“It’s more like a been selected for inclusion in The Best offering small, personalized tours, and Jan vacation, really,” he says. Lawyers in America 2009.

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74 REUNION NEWSPRINT Peter Brown, photographer, cinematographer, director and producer, and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society volunteer, appears in Animal Planet’s seven-part series “Whale Wars,” this fall. He was the First Officer aboard Sea Shepherd’s ship, Steve Irwin, as it battled Japanese whaling fleets last winter in the Antarctic. Christopher Gahran is “still developing software at Bloomberg, L.P.in NYC.” The Bowdoin family came out in force July 30 at The New Seabury CC on Cape Cod for a fun day in memory of Billy Burchard ’79 (back row, l to r): Dick Bachelder ’78, Jamie Jones ’79, Molly Burchard, Sue Burchard, Joe Burchard, Billy “Birdie” Burchard ’79 (cutout), Joe Walsh 75 ’79, Bob Burchard, John Reidy ’82, Denis King ’79, Steve Leahy ’81, Dave Regan ’78,Tom Todd Siler “marks a true milestone” McNamara ’78, Bob Devaney ’79, Brad Hunter ’79, David Lawrence ’79, Paul Devin ’80, with the release of the Think Like a Adam Briggs ’83, and Scott Fitzgerald ’82. (Front row, l to r): Shawn Kelly ’79,Tim Chapin Genius 2.0 software.“Our team of ’81, Scott Corwin ’80, Mark Perry ’79, Billy McNamara ’79, Steve Santangelo ’79, Jeff tireless innovators have been working Johnson ’79, Peter Nawrocki ’83, and Mark Hoffman ’80. on it for the past 15 years! These ageless, versatile, creativity and communications 77 80 tools enable you to build 3D virtual LAUDABLE Scott Emerson wrote Kim Macdonald Donahue emailed worlds to create anything you want. on October 2:“Mueller electric Co’s on October 3:“I am currently deployed Please check it out at Amazon.com.” China subsidiary, Mueller electric in Iraq.Any Bowdoin alums out here in (Shanghai) Ltd., the China subsidiary of the sand? Anyone wanting to rekindle 76 Mueller electric Co., Cleveland, Ohio, old ties, please write.You will make my Shaun Gilmore emailed on October has been selected as a winner of the week! [email protected].” 8:“After six years of enjoying a relaxing China 2008 100 Best Human Resources retirement in Denver, Colo., I have Managed Companies Award.” 81 decided to join the American Red Dan Spears wrote on October 15: Cross in Washington, D.C., as president 78 “Each year a group of Dekes from the of its Biomedical Services group.The John McNabb emailed on September classes of 1981-83 get together for a work that the American Red Cross does 28:“I recently presented a paper at the mini-reunion.This year (2008) Ned in support of people in need is 127th Annual Meeting of the New Horton ’82 hosted the group of Polar phenomenal, and I am looking forward England Waterworks Association Bears for a fall weekend in Nashville, to trying to help it continue its heritage (NEWWA) in Burlington,Vt., on the where they caught the Vanderbilt- of service.The move to D.C. will also funding crisis for the Massachusetts Auburn football game. Next year Dave put Lynn and me closer to our daughter drinking water infrastructure. I have Bean ’82 has agreed to host the group Meaghan, a sophomore at Bucknell.” been an elected water commissioner in at his home in Coronado, Calif. See you NEWSPRINT In October, a Cohasset, Mass., since 1997 and have next year, Beano!” See accompanying photo. supplement of the The Sunday New York been employed at Clean Water Action in Times featured a full-page profile about Boston since 1999, working on solid and interview with best-selling author waste and drinking water issues.” Douglas Kennedy. 79 REUNION Joe Walsh reported that “the Bowdoin family came out in force” July 30 at The New Seabury CC on Cape Cod for a fun day in memory of Billy Burchard. See accompanying photo. Elise Walton wrote on July 3:“Eldest daughter Corey Klemmer graduated Amherst ’08; working for Obama for Ned Horton ’82 hosted a group of Polar Bears America in Colorado.Arden Klemmer in Nashville for the annual 1981-83 Deke Scott Perper ’78 and Interim Dean of is Bowdoin ’09;Austin Klemmer is mini-reunion fall weekend (l to r): John Hickling Admissions Scott Meiklejohn wonder Skidmore ’11;Avery Klemmer, ’81, Joe Cogguillo ’81, Charlie Pohl ’83, Dan “Where’s the ‘S’?” in front of a road sign Spears ’81, Mark Luz ’82, and Ned. near Carnoustie, Scotland. Edgemont High School ’12!”

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82 Rocco Ciocca wrote in early July: “Happy to say that in 2012 we will be celebrating both our 30th class reunions and my daughter Caroline’s Bowdoin graduation.We were excited to learn about her acceptance to Bowdoin this spring.” Deirdre Oakley emailed on September 24:“Last summer I went on While on a tour of the Baltic cities with her a tour of the Baltic cities with my father father last summer, Deirdre Oakley ’82 met Joe Emerson ’83 and his family posed for a Lech Walesa in Gdansk and had her photo photo at his daughter Maggie’s high school and was lucky enough to meet Lech taken with the Nobel Peace Prize winner and graduation (l to r): Conor (14), wife Kathleen, Walesa in Gdansk and get my former president of Poland. Maggie (18), Joe, and Kristen (16). photograph taken with him.Although I really don’t think Mr.Walesa knows much about Bowdoin, many of the at Bowdoin, although I can’t remember 83 people I went on this tour with did. In the grandson’s name; and my favorite is Joseph Emerson emailed on July 24: fact, it seemed like ‘six degrees of the Williams alum who now lives right “Unfortunately omitted from the separation.’ One couple went to the next to the Bowdoin campus and loves Reunion yearbook was my wonderful church where Bill Owens ’75 is the being right by the College. Small world family! Wife of 19 years, Kathleen music director and raved about him; with lots of Bowdoin connections!” See (Providence College ’83), daughter, another couple had a grandson currently accompanying photo. Maggie (18) entering Villanova University; daughter Kristen (16) and son Conor (14).” See accompanying photo. |profile| 84 REUNION Warren Turner, a chemistry professor at Westfield State College, was a team Susan Thornton ’85 leader for the 2008 U.S. Physics Team Deputy Director, Office of Chinese that competed in the International Physics Olympiad in Vietnam in July. and Mongolian Affairs More than 380 high school students from 82 countries competed in the or many Americans, event.The U.S. team tied with India and the 2008 Summer South Korea for second place. Owen FOlympics was Priest ’87, a chemistry professor at entertainment at its best, Northwestern University, is a mentor but for Susan Thornton for the U.S. National Chemistry ’85, whose office serves Olympiad team. as a hub for all official U.S. interactions with 85 China, a bit more work Arthur Burns emailed on October 2: was involved. Susan and “After over 20 years with Dead River her team of 20 worked Company, I struck out on my own with the Chinese given her Russian/economics double (with 2 other partners) and formed a government on anti-terrorism strategies major, and later worked on North and new propane delivery and service and human rights issues for months South Korea. In addition to switching company 18 months ago. Our new before the games began.“It was a very offices, she has also swapped homes, living company,Viking Propane, is doing well busy time for me,” she says. abroad for twelve of the last 18 years. and continues to grow every week. During “normal” times, Susan talks to The changes in environment suit her Collin is very active in Cub Scouts and the Chinese Embassy on the phone or in just fine, she says, and allow her the baseball while Abby recently celebrated person “almost every day,” to discuss opportunity to understand the context receiving the Spirit Award for second policy surrounding U.S. China relations. of her work.“It’s important to push grade at her school. Mom has taken Now a 17-year veteran of the foreign forward and improve America’s relations service, Susan started out in the office of with the rest of the world,” she says. advantage of mother’s hours and former Soviet countries, a good match ventured outside the home once again into the retail jewelry business.We

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continue to add to our home (can’t believe we have been here for over 15 Don’t Want To Leave Maine After Reunion? years) as this year’s project was a new farmer’s porch out front that all of the Spend time with friends and family in a classic Maine summer cottage on family (especially my Dad) collaborated Mount Desert Island overlooking Somes Sound and Acadia National Park. on to make Mom’s dream come true.” Hike, bike, canoe, kayak or just sit on the stone terrace by the garden, listening to NEWSPRINT Spencer Reece has ospreys and enjoying the view. Dock access adjacent to property. Great room a poem,“Eclogue,” in the October 13, with large stone fireplace and grand piano, sitting room, fully-equipped kitchen, 5 2008, issue of The New Yorker. bedrooms (sleeps 9 comfortably), 2.5 baths, outdoor shower, W&D. Linens included. No smokers or pets. 86 Contact Faith Barnes at [email protected]. No brokers or agents please. LAUDABLE Carl Pebworth received the Randall T. Shepard Award for his commitment and contributions to promoting access to justice, increasing the delivery of legal services for the poor in Indiana, and helping satisfy previously unmet needs and increased service to underserved communities through the development of innovative programs and initiatives throughout the State of Indiana.The honor was presented by the Indiana Bar Foundation and Indiana Pro Bono Commission during their 2008 awards dinner on October 3. 87 NEWSPRINT Brad Lawson, Dave Sherman, and Chuck Piacentini competed in the 2008 U.S. Bank Pole Pedal Paddle in Oregon last May.The race is from Mount Bachelor to Bend, and includes alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, cycling, running, paddling, and sprinting. For news of John McQuillan, see Elizabeth Dinsmore McQuillan 2000. For news of Owen Priest, see Wa r r e n Turner ’84. LAUDABLE Robert Savage, associate professor of biology and chair of biochemistry and molecular biology at Williams College, has been awarded a three-year $214,990 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his work on “Segmental Pattern Formation in Annelids.”This grant will enable him to build on work funded by three prior grants from the NIH and the National Science Foundation, most recently a 2004-07 NIH grant of $342,489 for the same subject. Robert’s research centers on annelids, the phylum comprising about 15,000 segmented worms including earthworms, ring worms, marine worms, and leeches. He aims to

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|profile| 91 Marshall Carter emailed on July 25:“I started this summer of ’08 as Milton Academy’s K-8 principal. I quickly Mark Waltz ’89 learned that there are many Bowdoin alums on the faculty at Milton!” Detective, Brunswick Police Department NEWSPRINT Tyler Micoleau’s work was mentioned in an October early two decades after New York Times review. Here is an graduating from Bowdoin, Mark excerpt from Ben Brantley’s review of NWaltz ’89 still shows up at the the play Blasted by Sarah Kane:“As the occasional off-campus party, but only if encounter goes through its faltering they’re rowdy enough.When he does, it’s paces, matching the pained rhythms of to tell students to quiet down, and Mark Cate’s stuttering speech, we are made abstains from mentioning his alma mater, subliminally aware of a bigger world even though his relationship with the outside, of a hum of crowds and traffic College is still going strong. and a glow of tainted light. (Matt During his junior year at Bowdoin, Tierney’s sound design and Tyler Mark “got bitten by the law Micoleau’s lighting are as subtly effective enforcement bug” during a course in He was promoted to Lieutenant of as any in town.)” criminal law with Professor Richard Support Services in 2006 and helps out Morgan.The class inspired him to write with multiple community service programs, 92 to his hometown police department in many of which Bowdoin has supported Allison Bach emailed on October 2: Conway, New Hampshire, where he through donations of volunteers, funding “We welcomed our daughter Sara Beth worked for the summer. and space.“I’m very grateful for the Murphy to life in New Orleans on June Several advanced degrees later, College’s dedication to serving the 30, 2008.” See accompanying photo. Mark returned to Brunswick and joined Common Good,” he says.“Brunswick is Paul Miller the Police Department in 1997 as a certainly a better place for it.” NEWSPRINT , aka DJ patrol officer. Spooky, was the subject of several recent articles, and a segment on the radio program “Living On Earth,” about his investigate the cellular and molecular Presidents’ Initiative for Citizen 70-minute audio-visual program,“Terra mechanics of segmental pattern Diplomacy to dramatically improve Nova:The Antarctic Suite.”The formation in annelids.These segmental international relations throughout the multimedia piece includes geographic patterns are, in fact, determined by world.The Initiative, sponsored by the and scientific visual material, along with regulatory genes — the same set of U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy audio samples from his recent visit to genes that code for segmentation during emerged from recent discussions by the Antarctica mixed with electronic beats, development in other animals, whether leaders of more than 90 organizations in his response to the rapidly changing humans or flies. international affairs who attended a planet. In one article, Miller agreed that NEWSPRINT World Learning leadership forum on citizen diplomacy the climate in Antarctica was sometimes Executive Vice President Adam in Wisconsin in October. a challenge.“’I’m half-Jamaican,’ he said Weinberg is among 40 U.S. leaders with a laugh—then noted that he had who have formulated a National 89 attended Bowdoin College in Maine, ‘so, cold is not foreign to me.’” Correction In our last issue we mistakenly listed Kevin Wesley as a member of the Class of 1990. We apologize for the error. 90 Charles Hassrick wrote on July 1:“I just completed my MFA at the School Shade Rothkopf (2), son of Elizabeth Zervos of the Art Institute of Chicago and am Rothkopf ’90 and Gray Rothkopf ’91, designing and developing exhibits for discovering the pleasures of autumn leaves, the Museum of Science and Industry Allison Bach ’92 and husband Ed Murphy sports the Bowdoin fleece his big sisters, Raven while practicing my environmental art!” welcomed daughter Sara Beth Murphy on (7) and Star (5), wore. June 30, 2008.

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|profile| Julia Candice Clark ’93 Collections manager,Abbe Museum, volunteer fire fighter Chelsea Ferrette ’94 and friends got together in New York City to celebrate her birthday on July 27, 2008. (L to r): Natasha Padilla-Goddard ulia Clark ’93 had her career goals ’94 (Mass.); Kemba Dunham (Natasha’s lined up at an early age. She spent her classmate); Romelia Leach ’94 (N.Y.); Nhu Jchildhood decked out in a fireman’s Duong ’95 (N.Y.); Sarah Brant ’94 (Calif.) helmet and decided that in fourth and Chelsea (Washington, D.C.). grade she would be an archaeologist. Today, these plans are reality. Julia manages the Abbe Museum’s Native American collection on Mount Desert Island and serves as captain of the volunteer fire department in her interest in doing things that are active hometown of Orland, Maine. and extremely rewarding,” she says. After graduating from Bowdoin with a Through her job at Abbe Museum, Julia degree in anthropology, Julia went on to handles collections from Maine’s Native get her master’s in archaeology from the American population, including University of Arkansas. When she contemporary crafts and ancient Bowdoin friends from the Class of 1994 returned to Maine, her mother artifacts. In addition, she runs the gathered at the home of Jennifer Bogue Kenerson in Dublin, N. H., for a visit last suggested she join the fire department, museum’s archaeological field school and summer (l to r): Jennifer, Mindy Zych Martin, advice she is grateful for.“It suited my manages exhibits. Colleen Fox, and Alison Burke Albers. Ellen Mitchell reported in early (6). I recently joined software start-up July:“My husband Charlie Byrne and I InstallFree as the Vice President of welcomed a happy and healthy son Marketing. InstallFree is in the exciting Chandler James ‘CJ’ Byrne, on and rapidly growing virtualization September 5, 2007. CJ’s middle name is market. Recently we won the Best of in honor of his grandfather James P. VMworld award for Desktop Mitchell ’61 and his great-grandfather Virtualization products.” James E. Mitchell ’22. CJ will be in Brunswick with his grandfather this 94 REUNION Children of 1994 classmates Jennifer Bogue summer for a campus tour in Chelsea Ferrette wrote on July 31: Kenerson, Mindy Zych Martin, Colleen Fox, preparation for joining the Class of “On Sunday, July 27, 2008, five friends and Alison Burke Albers fill a couch (l to r): 2030! We live in Manhattan, where I from around the country, four from Alexander Kenerson,Alex Albers, Peter have been working in finance since Bowdoin, came together in New York Kenerson, Jack Albers, Patrick Albers, Nicholas graduation.We keep in touch with (but City to celebrate my birthday.” See Kenerson, Ella Martin, and Allison Martin. don’t see enough) fellow 22 McKeeners accompanying photo. Lynn Manson Gawtry ’91, Thea Jennifer Bogue Kenerson, Alison Stocker Haley and Sarah Wasinger Burke Albers, and Mindy Zych True. Go Polar Bears!” Martin gathered this summer at the Kenersons’ home in Dublin, N.H. See 93 accompanying photos. Zoe Amos and Peter Adler “were Chris Lally “and Susan Givens married in July 2007, at Alta Lodge in (Middlebury ’99) were married on Utah. Zoe graduated from university of June 14, 2008, at Beano’s Cabin in Utah Medical School in May 2008.” Beaver Creek, Colo.” See photo in David Karofsky emailed on Weddings section. Emilia Grace Runge was born March 24, September 24:“Living in Framingham, Jennifer Hand Runge and husband 2008, to Jennifer Hand Runge ’94 and her Mass., for the past 10 years with wife Nathaniel “are pleased to announce the husband Nathaniel. Jenny and children Adam (10) and Lily birth of our daughter Emilia Grace,

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born March 24, 2008. She is already had a great year getting to know their sitting and crawling at six months of age daughter Beatrix (‘Bee Austin’). Much 97 NEWSPRINT David Morales, and is the number one reason for our like her parents, she’s very social and Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor move back to Maine from New Jersey quite loud.” Deval Patrick, was featured in an where we’ve been living and working Kelly Bristol emailed on August 1: October Boston Business Journal as one of for the past six years.We’re now living “On February 14, 2008, our third child, 20 successful young Latino professionals in Yarmouth, Maine, and fully expect to Fletcher Owen, was born. He joined in Boston. attend Bowdoin Homecoming this fall big sister Remi (4) and big brother and my 15th reunion next spring. No Aidan (3).We are busy with three long drive!” See accompanying photo. children, but having a lot of fun!” See 98 For news of Becky Austin see news of Bill accompanying photo. Austin ’96. Joanna Carlson wrote on July 28: 95 Laura Dominici “and Timothy Allison Mataya and husband Zachary “We’ve moved to Chicago and now Bresnahan (Holy Cross ’98) were Hooper “are pleased to announce our have two boys; Joshua (2) and Peter married in York, Maine on April 26, latest creation, Steiner Scott Hooper. Reid, born on November 10, 2007.The 2008.” See photo in Weddings section. Scott drew his first breath at 1:38 p.m. boys and I are having a great time LAUDABLE Farrah Douglas and on June 14, with a weight of six exploring the city; there is so much to Christina Hobson ’99 were selected pounds, six ounces, a length of 20.75 do!” See accompanying photo. to the U.S. National Women’s Rugby inches and an APGAR of 9. Scott has James Garner was married to “Lana Team last summer.They both played for the fingers of a concert pianist and the Seibel (Fort Hays State ’00) on July 22, their respective Territorial Unions in the build of a jockey; we think he has a 2007, in Lawrence, Kansas.” See photo in National All Star Championship in brilliant future ahead of him. He may be Weddings section. Pittsburgh in June. Farrah plays for the Bowdoin’s first double major in music Rachel Rudman, her husband Jesse Midwest Rugby Union and Christina and steeplechase!” See accompanying photo. Reiner (Princeton ’92), and their son plays for the NRU (Northeast). Both Sam, welcomed Joseph Abraham Reiner were selected to the U.S.Team at the All into the world on February 16, 2008. 96 Star weekend. Farrah was already a Bill Austin and wife Becky ’98 “have See accompanying photo. member and was selected again, and it

Bill ’96 and Becky Austin ’98 have had a great year getting to know their daughter Beatrix “Bee”Austin.“Much like her parents, she’s very social and quite loud.” Peter Reid, son of Joanna Reininger Carlson Steiner Scott Hooper was born to Allison ’96, was born on November 10, 2007. Mataya ’95 and Zachary Hooper ’95 on June 14, 2008.

(L to r): Chris Pachios ’98, Saylor Pachios, Fletcher Owen was born February 14, 2008, Rachel Rudman ’96, her husband Jesse Reiner, Harry Pachios,Taylor Bose ’99, Phidias Bose, to Kelly Remington Bristol ’96 and Ian and their son Sam, welcomed Joseph Abraham Shawn Bose ’97,Tag Bose, Katie Stein Fahey Bristol ’94. Reiner into the world on February 16, 2008. ’97,TJ Fahey, and Ella Fahey.

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Brian Wedge ’97 Photographer

rian Wedge ’97 was at high altitude building an eclectic portfolio.“I would when the first big break of his travel, travel, travel just trying to make Bphotography career presented itself. ends meet,” he says. His work soon spread An experienced outdoorsman, the former across the newsstand, appearing in Outing Club member was working in Outdoor and Wildlife magazines, as well as Tibet as a mountaineering instructor Glamour and the Associated Press. when he was asked to fill in for a fellow After majoring in biology at Bowdoin, guide on a trip. He spent the next three Brian attended several graduate-level months traipsing across Southeast Asia courses at Brown University, but attained with acclaimed National Geographic most of his signature style by simply taking photographer Galen Rowell, learning the pictures—lots of pictures. Many of his tricks of the trade from one of the best in collections, including a recent exhibition my career where I can pay the bills the business in one of the world’s most focusing on endangered sea turtles in through photography,” he says.“I go spectacular settings. Costa Rica, have oceanic themes—Brian is wherever I need to go where the Several of the photographs he’d taken also a licensed Coast Guard Captain and shooting is interesting.” abroad were published in national studied wooden boatbuilding—and he has Brian prides himself on bringing to life magazines back home, which catapulted made it his mission to raise awareness on the more subtle details of what others him to the status of professional.“It kind environmental issues as well as the consider ordinary.“It’s finding that of blossomed,” he says of his early career. personal stories of cancer survivors and interesting thread in the things we pass by “If you get published…suddenly you’re their families. and don’t notice,” he says of what drives acceptable.” These days, Brian, whose home base is his work. He applies this principle to every Brian continued to travel through Asia, in Harpswell with his wife Christine Adolfi shot, whether it’s taken at a wedding in Central America and Canada on Wedge ’98, is free to explore angles and Phippsburg, or while stumbling through the assignments, scraping out a living and stories of his choosing.“I’m at a point in Costa Rican jungle. www.brianwedge.com.

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was Christina’s first selection. Read farmhouse in Gardiner, started a master’s about the team’s tour of England in 00 of arts program at Bangor Theological Jen Kirby “was married to Adam August, including a blog entry from Seminary in Portland, traveled, and kept Tanney (Dartmouth ’01) on June 14, Christina, at www.usarugby.org. in close touch with many great 2008, in Duxbury, Mass.” See photo in Laurel Sucsy and Ben Butler ’00 Bowdoin friends.” See accompanying photo. Weddings section. “were married on September 22, 2007, Elizabeth Dinsmore McQuillan at their home in Quogue, N.Y.” See and John McQuillan, Jr. ’87 “are photo in Weddings section. elated to announce the birth of their daughter,Tess Oakley, on July 3 in REUNION 99 Boston.Tess headed up to Bowdoin Ryan Giles married Jenn Kicis in immediately for her photo with the Banff,Alberta, Canada, on February 3, polar bear, visiting grandparents Chuck 2008. See photo in Weddings section. ’69 and Megan Dinsmore, and making Charlotte Perry Mace married friends with little Alice Marine, From Left to Right: Dr. Reginald McManus Aaron Mace (University Maine ’03) “on daughter of Jayme Okma Lee ’00 and ’52, Bree Candland ’01, Mrs. Kathleen October 4, 2007, in Portland, Maine.” Bjorn Lee ’98 in Maine.” McManus, and their granddaughter, Molly Their son, Ronan Perry Mace, was born Hayes (Mt.Ararat High School Class of on April 5, 2008. See accompanying photo 2008). Bree teaches Social Studies at Mt. and photo in Weddings section. Ararat and was the recipient of Dr. McManus’s scholarship while at Bowdoin.

Elizabeth Dinsmore McQuillan ’00 and husband John McQuillan, Jr. ’87 are elated to announce the birth of their daughter,Tess Ronan Perry Mace was born on April 5, 2008, Oakley, on July 3 in Boston. to Charlotte Perry Mace ’99 and Aaron Mace. Jeff Molles and Elitsa Daneva Lindsay Chaves ’01 and Homa Mojtabai ’01 (Trinity College ’04) “were married on traveled in July to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, with NEWSPRINT In October, a Maine July 26, 2008, at the Warwick Country Habitat for Humanity’s Global Village program. Sunday Telegram article titled “Going Club in Warwick, R.I.” See photo in green, and making green” featured Lindsay Chaves and Homa Weddings section. Jeremy Litchfield and his new Mojtabai “traveled to Bishkek, Matt Schullery “married Amy company Atayne as he “unveil[ed] sports Kyrgyzstan, with Habitat for Humanity’s Walterick (American University ’02) on apparel made from recycled material to Global Village program during the May 31, 2008, in Media, Penn.” See Maine runners.” Learn more at month of July.We had no idea that we photo in Weddings section. Atayne.com. both signed up to volunteer with Jen Ryan and Chris Schultz (Holy habitat on the same trip, at the same Cross) “were married on July 26, 2008, at 01 time, to the same country on the Bree Candland writes:“I had the Saint Cecilia’s Church in Boston, Mass.” opposite side of the world! We spent opportunity to see Dr. and Mrs. See photo in Weddings section. fourteen days building a house for a Reginald McManus ’52, whose generous The Pennington School has local family.” See accompanying photo. scholarship I received while at Bowdoin, announced the appointment of Mark Jason Fortin and Michelle Frey at the graduation of their granddaughter, Saunders as director of admission. (Biola University ’99,Arizona State Molly Hayes, on June 10, 2008 at Mt. Formerly the director of admissions and University ’04) “were married on Ararat High School in Topsham,Maine. financial aid at The Langley School in January 20, 2008 at FireRock Country I have been teaching in the social studies McLean,Va., Saunders earlier held the Club in Fountain Hills,Ariz. Just after department at Mt.Ararat since I position of associate director of the honeymoon, they adopted an graduated in 2001. I was the class advisor admissions and financial aid at Pomfret English Bulldog, named Bowdoin.” See for the amazing Class of 2008, working School in Pomfret, Conn.At Pennington, photo in Weddings section. closely with Molly, who was an officer Saunders will oversee the recruitment Kate Lubin “and Glendon Sutton in all of her four years at Mt.Ararat. Her and enrollment of prospective students, as were married at the White Elephant in graduation was a very proud day for me. well as financial aid decisions. Nantucket, Mass., on June 7, 2008.” See Since 2001, I earned my National Board photo in Weddings section. Teaching Certification, bought an old

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photo in Weddings section. 02 Gina Laugelli and Michael Emily Shubert and Dan Burke Mulholland “were married on “were married at the Asticou Inn in November 10, 2007, at Saint Michael’s Northeast Harbor, Maine, on August 16, Roman Catholic Church in West End, 2008.” See photo in Weddings section. N.J.A reception followed at the English Michael Carosi and “Amy Manor in Ocean Township, N.J.” See D’Antonio (Muhlenberg College ’02) photo in Weddings section. were married on July 5, 2008, in Claire Newton “and Ted Maloney Newport, R.I.” See photo in Weddings ’00 were married in New Marlborough, section. Mass., on September 29, 2007.” See Brooke Jacobsen Fleit emailed on photo in Weddings section. August 19:“Adam Fleit, MD, and Brooke Jacobsen were married on June 1, 2008, in Ipswich, Mass., at the Crane 03 Mike Balulescu and Sarah Staley Neve Elizabeth McMakin was born on Estate.Adam and Brooke now live in July 7, 2008, to Ian and Cynthia Maxwell (Brown ’03) “were married on July 19, West Hartford, Conn., where Adam is McMakin ’01. 2008, at the Colgate Rochester Crozer completing a residency in orthopedic Divinity School in Rochester, N.Y.” See Cynthia Maxwell McMakin surgery at the University of photo in Weddings section. emailed on September 22:“My husband Connecticut and Brooke is a pediatric Ryan Cauley and Naomi Shatz Ian and I welcomed our first child, Neve nurse practitioner at a local pediatric (Barnard College ’04) were married on Elizabeth McMakin, into the world on practice.” See photo in Weddings section. August 24, 2008, in Elk, Calif. See photo July 7, 2008.” See accompanying photo. NEWSPRINT In August, Candace in Weddings section. Melissa Mansir and David Steinberg Kelley, a four-time All-NESCAC Ba Chisholm and husband Ryan (Tufts ’00) were married on August 3, selection in track while at Bowdoin, was ’04 “welcomed our new daughter,Anna 2008, in the Central Park Boathouse, named an assistant coach for the men’s Jeanne Chisholm, into the world on New York, N.Y. See photo in Weddings and women’s track teams at Colby. February 21, 2008. Ryan is working for section. Candace holds Bowdoin records in both the family construction business,ACL the indoor (36-foot-91/2) and outdoor Construction, and I spend my days (38-10) triple jumps. Recently, she trying to keep up with our very received a master’s degree from Stanford energetic daughter.We bought our first in 2007. house this summer and are enjoying life Kate LaBella “and Tom McGovern as new parents and first-time home (Boston College ’99) were married on owners in Bedford, Nova Scotia.” See June 28, 2008, in Cape Neddick, accompanying photo. Maine.” See photo in Weddings section. Margaret Magee emailed on October 4:“I decided to stay in NYC after earning my master’s in education leadership through the Klingenstein Anne Stevenson ’01 and Cabul Mehta ’03 Center at Columbia Teachers College met up in Accra, Ghana, to watch the Africa Cup of Nations Football tournament in this past May, and am now employed as January 2008. the high school biology teacher at LREI, the Little Red School House and Anne Stevenson “recently returned Elisabeth Irwin High School. Got to see from Ghana, where she was working on Hannah Ilten at Common Good Day HIV/AIDS with the United Nations and am looking forward to seeing more Ba Lanoue Chisholm ’03 and Ryan Refugee Agency for nine months. She is polar bears at future Bowdoin Club Chisholm ’04 welcomed their new daughter, now back in Boston and just started events.” Anna Jeanne Chisholm, into the world on working at Partners Harvard Medical Kate Donovan and Macky February 21, 2008. International, an organization that McCleary (Yale ’00) “were married on Arij Faksh emailed on October 9: focuses on improving health care February 16, 2008, at the Red Lion Inn, “As of July 2008, I started my intern systems, infrastructure, and education Cohasset, Mass.” See photo in Weddings year at Maine Medical Center training around the world.”While in Ghana, section. in obstetrics and gynecology!” Anne “and Cabul Mehta ’03 met up Nick Mian and Cory Schreier Megan Lim, San Diego Club in Accra to watch the Africa Cup of (Brown University ’01) “were married President, wrote last summer:“San Nations Football (soccer) tournament in at the Diamond J Guest Ranch in Diego had a very successful ‘Dinner January 2008.” See accompanying photo. Meredith, Colo., on August 9, 2008.” See

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DeChiaro (UPENN ’05) were married on June 14, 2008, in Morristown, N.J. See photo in Weddings section. Callie Gates and Jason Slocum “were married on June 14, 2008, at the Country Club in Chestnut Hill, Mass.” See photo in Weddings section. Gia Upchurch wrote on October 27:“I am living in Colorado right now Bowdoin Club of San Diego members gathered and loving it! I even tried my hand at in mid-July. (Pictured l to r): Ben Westley ’98, backcountry skiing for the first time last A group of ’06 friends gathered for a mini- Michael Owens ’73, Megan Lim ’03, Lydia year!” See accompanying photo. reunion on Nantucket last July (l to r): Lundgren ’02, Danny Ginn ’03, Jane Kristina Sisk, Kendall Brown, Ellen Grenley, Zimmerman ’02, and George Karris ’98. Not Doug Brown ’76 (Kendall’s dad), Becky pictured: Nicole Borunda ’08, Phebe Burnham Sargent, Sophie Wiss, Nitasha Kawatra, and W’43, Edward Clark ’76, Peter Garrison Kate Cary. ’77, Roberta Garrison, B.Anne Hoehn ’76, Cristina Rios P’95, Cristina Rodriguez-Rios ’95, Barbara Rodriguez,Amit Shah ’99, and 07 Deborah Waugh ’76. Katherine Skaggs wrote on June 30: “As a student who was able to attend with Six Strangers’ Club event.” See Bowdoin because of need-blind accompanying photo. admissions, I was thrilled to hear of the Meghan MacNeil and Aaron Bitters plan to eliminate student loans. Need- (Ohio University ’00) “were married on blind admissions are a heroic effort in a February 17, 2008, at the Powell Crosley Dan McGrath ’06, Gia Upchurch ’05, and too-often profit driven higher education Estate in Sarasota, Fla.” See photo in Ged Wieschhoff ’06 pose at 14,271 feet atop culture, and the elimination of student Weddings section. Quandary Peak in Colorado. loans in addition is a courageous and powerful statement true to the spirit of 04 REUNION 06 the Common Good. I can proudly attest For news of Ryan Chisholm see news of Ellen Grenley emailed on September 3: that my alma mater talks the talk and Ba Chisholm ’03. See accompanying photo. “A group of Bowdoin ’06 friends walks the walk.Thank you.” Emily Smithgall and Todd gathered for a mini-reunion on Williams “were married on August 9, Nantucket this July. Friends traveled from 08 2008, at the Olympic Sculpture Park in New York,Boston, and London for a NEWSPRINT In August, Amanda Seattle,Wash.” See photo in Weddings section. weekend of fun! Kendall Brown and Leahy joined the women’s basketball Kristina Sisk hosted the event, and program at St. Lawrence University as 05 Kendall’s father, Doug Brown ’76, an assistant coach. St. Lawrence is Xavier High School in Middletown, joined us for a picture with the Bowdoin coming off of an impressive 2007-2008 Conn., has announced that Geoffrey flag.Also on Nantucket that weekend season that included a Liberty League Close “will teach in the math department were Emily Brown ’08 and Carey Championship and a second round trip and be assistant indoor track coach.” Brown ’11.” See accompanying photo. to the NCAA Tournament. Alex Meszaros and Christine

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1 Michael Carosi ’02 and Rick Shim ’95, Michael 4 Kate LaBella ’02 and Tom Amy D’Antonio (Muhlenberg Sullivan ’94, Gillian McGovern (Boston College College ’02) were married on MacKenzie ’94, and ’99) were married on June 28, July 5, 2008, in Newport, R.I. Christopher Heuer ’94. (Back 2008, in Cape Neddick, Bowdoinites in attendance row, l to r): Michael Zentz Maine. Bowdoin friends in were (front row, kneeling l to ’94, Chip Leighton ’93, attendance were (back row, r): David Rush ’02,Andy Michael Johnson ’95, Daniel l to r): Conor Dowley ’02, McNerney ’02, Chris Carosi Pearson ’94, and Matthew Kate Calise Strotmeyer ’02, ’98, Marshall McLean ’02. Roberts ’93. Seth Harmon ’02, Brendan (Middle row, l to r): Michael Wakeham ’03, Kathryn Farrell ’01,Tara Talbot 3 Jennifer Kirby ’00 and Crowley McNeal ’02, and Shuman ’02, Brian Shuman Adam Tanney (Dartmouth Matthew McNeal ’02. (Middle ’02, Michael and Amy. (Back ’01) were married on June 14, row, l to r): Susan Price row, l to r): Chris Pelletier ’04, 2008. Bowdoin friends in Stephenson ’02, Erin Finn- Jared Porter ’03, Sean Lanigan attendance were (l to r): Julie Welch ’02,Tom and Kate, ’01, John Glynn ’01, Josh Bourquin ’00,Alex Sewall ’00, Lyndsey Sennot Wakeham ’02, Allen ’02, Bill Busch ’02 and Andrea Hotchkin ’00, Joshua Elizabeth Sherman Jamieson Conor Dowley ’02. Wernig ’99, Hilde Petersen ’02,Whitney Church ’02, Steffey ’00,Adam and Jen,Art Samantha Saffir ’02,Anne 2 Christopher Lally ’94 Kirby ’98, Jared Liu ’99, Warren ’02,Alli Scaduto ’02, and Susan Givens Kristin Awsumb Liu ’00, Kristi Perine ’02, Scott (Middlebury ’99) were Carolyn Sages O’Boyle ’00, Jamieson ’02 and Brian Wedge married on June 14, 2008, in and Katie Lampadarios ’00. ’97. (Front row, l to r): Beaver Creek, Colo. Bowdoin Christine Wedge ’98,Amelia guests in attendance were Stewart ’02, Leah Chernikoff (front row, l to r): Lee Cotton ’04, and Jeanne Nicholson ’02. ’71,Anne Cotton ’72, Katie Gilbert Allen ’94, Brian Allen ’94, Christopher and Susan,

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5 Laura Dominici ’98 and Hegarty ’99, Sara Kaufman 8 Gina Laugelli ’02 and Timothy Bresnahan (Holy ’02, Elizabeth Chew ’02,Ted Michael Mulholland ’02 Cross ’98) were married in and Claire, Melissa Tansey ’02 were married on November York, Maine, on April 26, and Doug Stowe ’99. (Front 10, 2007, at Saint Michael’s 2008. Bowdoinites in row, l to r): Eddie Lucaire ’99, Roman Catholic Church in attendance were (back row, l Chris Henry ’99, Elizabeth West End, N. J. Bowdoin to r): Stephen Hosmer ’98, Cuesta ’00, Joshua Weiner ’00, friends in attendance included Melanie Gilligan ’98, Joanna Brian Flaherty ’02, and (back row, l to r):Annie Tyler ’98,Laura and Timothy, Darren Gacicia ’98. McLaughlin ’02, Jenny Emily Grant ’98, and Scott O’Connor ’02, Stacy Vynne Cunnane ’98. (Front row, l to 7 Jeff Molles ’00 and Elitsa ’02,Andrius Knasas ’02, Brett r): Sarah Lachance ’98 and Daneva (Trinity College ’04) Bowen ’02, Richard Suzor Cara Hosmer ’98. were married on July 26, ’02, Christopher Sakelakos 2008, at the Warwick Country ’02, Seth Paradis ’02, Ryan 6 Claire Newton ’02 and Club in Warwick, R.I. Crow ’02,Travis Cummings Ted Maloney ’00 were Bowdoin friends in attendance ’02, Lindsay Crow ’02. (Front married in New were (front row, l to r): James row, l to r): Michelle Jackson Marlborough, Mass., on ‘Beagle’ Sawyer ’00, Brian ’02, Jenny Morse ’02, Shellie September 29, 2007. Bowdoin Bowe ’00, Scott Schilling ’00, Gauthier ’02,Anthony Small friends in attendance were Jeff and Elitsa, Lyubitsa ’02, Jessica Mayol ’02, Laura (back row, l to r): Charles Gerasimova ’05. (Back row, l Quinlan ’02, Lindsay Davis Walsh ’00, Barry Mills ’72, to r): Ben Gales ’00,Andy ’02, Katie Sheridan ’02. Karen Mills, Joseph Tansey Howells ’00,Tim Saunders ’74, John Hoffman ’98, James ’00,Andrew Caplan ’00, Matt Kayler ’99, Seamus Britt ’99, Bitonti ’99,Adam Skuse ’07, Micah San Antonio ’00, Chris Lee ’00, Sophie Jonathan Behar ’01, Gretchen Mendoza ’02, Monica Wesley ’91, Kevin Wesley ’89. Almendarez ’02,Alyson Shea (Middle row, l to r): Kyle Gilberg ’00, and Jeff Gilberg ’00.

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9 Kate Lubin ’01 and 10 Alex Meszaros ’05 and 12 Ryan Cauley ’03 and Glendon Sutton were married Christine DeChiaro were Naomi Shatz (Barnard at the White Elephant in married on June 14, 2008, in College ’04) were married on Nantucket, Mass., on June 7, Morristown, N. J. Bowdoin August 24, 2008, in Elk, Calif. 2008. Bowdoin friends in friends in attendance were Pictured (l to r): Joseph attendance were (back row, l (l to r): Mark Yakavonis ’05, Blunda ’03, Noami and Ryan, to r): Joe Doyle ’01, James Jay Tansey ’07,Alexis Acevedo and Melanie Keene ’03. Strohacker ’03, Chris Day ’99, ’04, Nicholas Reid ’05, Ellis Nicole Carpentier Day ’01, Pepper ’05, Lindsay McCombs 13 Brooke Jacobsen ’02 Nicole Lubin ’05, Erin Lyman ’05, Joseph Sargent ’05, and Adam Fleit ’02 were ’01,Alaina Giampapa ’01, Christopher Mosher ’05,Alex married on June 1, 2008, in Nate Vinton ’01,and Liz and Christine, Charles Moyer Ipswich, Mass., at the Crane Steffey ’01. (Front row, l to r): ’05, Nathan Smith ’04,Alison Estate. 13 Emily Lubin Woods ’95, Smith ’03, John Ryan Jessica Gray ’01, Merrill Chisholm ’04, Pamela Karches Muckerman ’03, Kate and ’05, Patrick Keneally ’05, and Glendon, Kimberly Bohlin Warren Dubitsky ’04. ’01, Lauren Myers ’01 and Meghan Foley Doyle ’01. 11 James Garner ’96 and Lana Seibel (Fort Hays State ’00) were married on July 22, 2007, in Lawrence, Kan. Bowdoin friends in attendance were (l to r): Lincoln Sise ’97, Ty Smith ’96, Stefan Gutow ’96, James and Lana, Dan Spillane ’96, John Dickinson ’96, and Matt Cates ’96.

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14 Emily Shubert ’02 and Cynthia Needham ’99, Jen 17 Meghan MacNeil ’03 Dan Burke ’02 were Halloran ’99, and Dan Hart and Aaron Bitters (Ohio married on August 16, 2008, ’95. (Bottom, l to r):Tina University ’00) were married at the Asticou Inn in Ormrod Fox ’99, Chris and on February 17, 2008, at the Northeast Harbor, Maine. Jen, and Ria Marolda Hart Powell Crosley Estate in Bowdoin friends in ’98. Sarasota, Fla. Bowdoin friends attendance were (l to r): David in attendance were (back row, Carlisle ’61, Paul Newman 16 Kate Donovan ’02 and l to r): Julie Thompson ’02, ’67, Jay Shubert ’66, Michael Macky McCleary (Yale ’00) Anne Cavanaugh Welsh ’03, Carlson ’02,Travis Buchanan were married on February Pat Welsh ’03, and Micah ’02, PJ Prest ’02, Dan and 16, 2008, at the Red Lion Roberge ’03. (Middle row, l Emily, Karin France ’02, Sara Inn, Cohasset, Mass. to r): Sara Bodnar ’03, McManus ’02, Kathryn Bowdoinites in attendance Carolyn Westra ’03, Kate Penney ’02, Nissa Flanagan were (front row, l to r): Westley Roberge ’03, and 18 ’03, Paul Lazarus ’65, Jim Megan Faughnan ’02, Kate Brinkerhoff ’03. (Front Flanagan ’02, and Craig Heather Nicholson ’02, Lydia row, l to r): Meredith Hoar Hansen ’02. (Kneeling): Lundgren ’02, Shaina ’03, Meghan and Aaron. Benjamin Burke ’99 (holding Zamaitis ’02, Ali Lavoie ’02, daughter Emma). Sarah Hardy ’02, Macky and 18 Melissa Mansir ’01 and Kate, Margo Woolverton David Steinberg (Tufts ’00) 15 Jen Ryan ’99 and Chris Reynolds ’02, Ryan Reynolds were married on August 3, Schultz (Holy Cross) were ’00, Papri Bhattacharya ’01, 2008, at the Central Park married on July 26, 2008, at Alissa Rooney ’02, and Eric Boathouse, New York, N.Y. Saint Cecilia’s Church in Batcho ’05. (Back row, l to r): Boston, Mass. Bowdoin friends Brian Newkirk ’01, Hannah celebrating with Jen and Chris Ilten ’02, and Sarah Tappan included (top, l to r): Michelle Luckin ’02. Ryan Freniere ’00, Jim Hampe ’98, Stacey Baron ’99,

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19 Callie Gates ’05 and 20 Laurel Sucsy ’98 and 21 Nick Mian ’02 and Cory Jason Slocum ’05 were Ben Butler ’00 were married Schreier (Brown University married on June 14, 2008, at on September 22, 2007, at ’01) were married on August the Country Club in their home in Quogue, N.Y. 9, 2008, at the Diamond J Chestnut Hill, Mass. Bowdoin Bowdoin friends in Guest Ranch in Meredith, friends celebrating the attendance were (back row, l Colo. Bowdoinites in occasion were (back row, l to to r): Peter Ingram ’98, Joan attendance were (l to r):Alex r): Sarah Walcott ’05, Gia Denkla Ingram ’98, Genie Koppel ’02, David Bielak ’03, Upchurch ’05,Tyler Boyer Arnot Titus ’97, John Bisbee, Andrew Paget ’02, Nick and ’07, Dan Wolf ’05,Taylor Andrew McNerney ’02, Cory, Steve Kemper ’03, Salinardi ’05, Keely Boyer ’05, Susanna Drake McNerney Trevor Peterson ’02, and Sarah Tom Elson ’06,John Haines ’02, Chad MacDermid ’00, Rodgers ’02. ’05, Pat Hughes ’05, and Lindsay Harris ’00, Ellen Walker Pruett ’05. (Middle O’Shaughnessy ’98,Tim 22 Matt Schullery ’00 and row, l to r): Sarah Begin ’05, Burke ’70, and Mark Wethli. Amy Walterick (American Jenny Bordo ’05, Sarah (Front row, l to r): Peter University ’02) were married Mountcastle ’05, Sue Kim ’05, Duyan ’00, Bryson Brodie on May 31, 2008, in Media Callie and Jason, Rachel Tavel ’00, Kacy White Hintze ’98, Pa. Bowdoin friends in ’05, Eddie Briganti ’05, Steve Ben and Laurel,Trevor attendance were (l to r): Gogolak ’05 and Cole MacDermid ’98,Tilden Meredith Hanby (Saint Bellamy ’69. (Front row, l to Daniels ’00, and Cassie Jones Anselm ’99), Bob Hanby ’00, r): Reverend Gil Birney, Edith ’01. (Not pictured): Jess Leslie Webb ’00, Jared Hazard Birney ’83,Allison Keating Lewis ’98. Wilkinson ’00, Matt, Raegan Barz ’05, Madeline Lee ’04, LaRochelle ’00, and Amy. Amelia Rutter ’05, Molly Juhlin ’05, and Christine Bevacqua ’04. (Not pictured): Philip Gates ’40.

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23 Emily Smithgall ’04 ’04, Dana Ragouzeos (Smith 24 Charlotte Perry ’99 and and Todd Williams ’04 were ’04),Wyatt Henderson Aaron Mace (University married on August 9, 2008, at (University of Wisconsin ’03), Maine ’03) were married on the Olympic Sculpture Park Emma Raynes ’04, and David October 4, 2007, in Portland, in Seattle,Wash. Friends Saladik (Boston University Maine. Charlotte and Aaron joining them for the wedding ’04). (Fifth row, l to r): Karin are pictured on their one-year weekend were (front row, l to Power (Mount Holyoke ’06), anniversary. r):Andrew Daigle ’04, Emily Jay Olin (University of and Todd,and Larry Heald Southern California ’03), Kate 25 Bob Estes ’57 and Lois ‘62. (Second row, l to r): Elston (University of San Winchell were married in Tristan Mullis ’04, Sadie Francisco ’09), Meg Elston June in Chesterfield, Mo. Wieschhoff ’04, Matt Peters (University of Washington ’04, Chelsea Spector ’04, and ’05), Sarah Bryce (University 26 Jason Fortin ’01 and Ian Smithgall (Skidmore ’08). of Washington ’06), Rachel Michelle Frey (Biola 26 (Third row, l to r): Chris Stampfer (Brandeis ’06),Aviva University ’89,Arizona State Perkins (University of Stampfer (Barnard ’12), University ’04) were married Washington ’06),Vincent Caitlin Findlay (American on January 20, 2008, at Amoroso (Lehigh ’09), Matt University ’06), Michael FireRock Country Club in Amoroso (Hamilton ’05), Saladik (Dartmouth ’06), and Fountain Hills,Ariz. Bowdoin Jenny Saladik (Oberlin ’08), Beth Williams (Wesleyan ’06). alumni in attendance included Maren Smithgall (Lehigh ’06), Jason’s brother, Eric Fortin ’00. and Greg Brown (Lehigh ’05). (Fourth row, l to r):Travis Brennan ’04, Sarah Bullett (University of Maine ’04), Jessie Solomon-Greenbaum

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E-mail digital images to: [email protected] ensure print quality, image should be supplied at a minimum resolution of 1500 pixels x 1050 pixels, in a .JPG or .TIF format. Pixel sizes 29 smaller than this may result in poor printing quality, or the photo may not be used. 27 Mike Balulescu ’03 and 28 Ryan Giles ’99 and Jenn Snail mail print to: Class News Editor, Sarah Staley (Brown ’03) were Kicis were married on 4104 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011; married on July 19, 2008, at February 3, 2008, in Banff, indicate on envelope:“Wedding photo.” the Colgate Rochester Crozer Alberta, Canada. Class of 1999 Deadlines for each issue: Volume 1, Divinity School in Rochester, alumni in attendance were December 29;Volume 2, March 31; N.Y.Bowdoin friends in (l to r): Leif Olsen,Will Volume 3, June 30. attendance were (front row, Herrmann, Michael Naess, Information to include: Name and class l to r): Ryan Naples ’04, Ryan and Jenn, Michael year of bride and groom; names (including Claudia Marroquin ’06, Bouyea, and Paul Auffermann. maiden names) and class years of others in Kirtsen Leitner ’05,Alli photo; date, place, and other relevant Hinman Smith ’03, Mike and 29 Alisia Wygant ’02 information about the ceremony. Sarah, Jackie O’Hare ’06, married Matthew Revitt Photo return policy: We will honor requests Amanda Boer Lazarus ’03, (University of Birmingham, to return prints, though, as a small operation, Tim Lazarus ’03,Alice Byrd U.K., ’03) on August 15, we appreciate “disposable” copies. Should you ’03, and Alex Moore ’03. 2008, at Colby College in require your photo returned, indicate so; you (Second row, l to r):Truc Waterville, Maine. Pictured will receive it several weeks after the published Huynh ’05, Kris Bosse ’02, (l to r): Matthew and Alisia, issue in which it appears. Nate Smith ’04, Nick Walker Rebecca Fenning ’03,Allison Validity: It may seem to go without saying, ’04, and Aryeh Jasper ’02. Robbins ’02, Lydia Hale but we assume that all weddings, civil unions, (Third row, l to r): Katie Irving Rosado ’02, Lindsay Szramek or commitment ceremonies you report to us ’04, Fred Warburg ’04, Bjorn ’02, Christine Caron ’02, and actually happened. Not all alumni magazines Carey ’03, Pat Dwiggins ’03, Ben Chan ’05. print news of all of these, but we take seriously Jeremy Braff ’03, and Alexis our role in building the whole Bowdoin Acevedo ’04. (Back row, l to community. Please grant that policy the respect r):Anne Cavanaugh Welsh ’03, it deserves by using these pages appropriately. Pat Welsh ’03, Ed MacKenzie ’03, Matt Roberts ’03, Ryan Brawn ’03, and Warren Dubitsky ’04.

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Dr. Samuel M. Birch ’35 died of five children, he was born on May The following is a list of deaths reported to us since the previous issue. Full obituaries August 27, 2008, in Strasburg,Va. 17, 1017, in Campo, Calabria. He and may appear in this or a later issue. Born February 18, 1912, in Utica, his family immigrated to Bedford

Gilman C. Ellis ’35 September 22, 2008 N.Y., he attended Harvard Dental Hills, N.Y., when he was 13. After Raymond P.Pach ’36 October 2, 2008 School after graduating from graduating from Bowdoin, Phi Beta William A. O. Gross ’37 September 24, 2008 Bowdoin. He served in the Navy Kappa, in 1940, he earned a master’s Franklin B. Comery ’41 December 6, 2008 during World War II, receiving the degree in English from Columbia Jack I. London ’41 December 6, 2008 American Area Campaign, Asiatic University. He worked a wide variety W. Bradford Briggs ’43 November 1, 2008 Pacific Campaign with Stars, of jobs before he began his own Norman O. Gauvreau ’43 Sept. 22, 2008 Alec D. Penny ’44 October 11, 2007 Philippine Liberation with Star and insurance agency in 1952. He moved Donald G. Scott, Jr. ’44 July 8, 2008 World War II Victory ribbons. A to Lookout Point in Ridgefield in John T. Caulfield ’45 October 20, 2008 dental surgeon, he was a member of 1961, and he ran his insurance Merton E. Ober, Jr. ’45 October 6, 2008 Blue Ridge Hunt Club and Piedmont agency in Port Chester, N.Y.,for 50 Richard C. Perkins ’45 October 30, 2008 Driving Club. His wife, Ruth Evelyn years. A poet, he published more than René L. Boudreau ’46 September 19, 2008 Smith Birch, predeceased him. He is 10 books of poetry and was a Laureston C. Dobbrow ’46 Dec. 3, 2008 William T. Hume ’46 October 21, 2008 survived by two sons, Christopher consistent contributor to The Clement A. Hiebert ’47 July 3, 2008 Birch of Berryville and Tim Birch of Ridgefield Press and other newspapers Joseph F. Holman ’47 October 12, 2008 Henry,Tenn.;a brother, Dr. John and magazines. In addition to Wayne M. Lockwood ’48 November 30, 2008 Birch of Windham, Maine; two English, he spoke Italian, Spanish, and Arthur H. Showalter, Jr. ’48 Nov. 24, 2008 grandchildren; and three great- Portuguese, and could read Latin and Robert C.Alexander ’49 September 4, 2008 grandchildren. Greek. He was predeceased by his Henry C. Reardon ’49 October 29, 2008 Arthur R. Bonzagni ’50 October 8, 2008 wife Rita (Stazi), whom he married Paul C. Brown ’50 September 13, 2008 C. Frederic Garcelon ’35 died May in 1954, and he is survived by his Robert J. Beal ’51 May 31, 2008 8, 2008, in Acton, Mass. Born in children, George, Joe, Bill, and Susy; a Lawrence D. Clark, Jr. ’51 October 25, 2008 Portland, Maine, he prepared for brother, Arthur, of Ridgefield; and Eaton S. Lothrop, Jr. ’51 September 21, 2008 college at Uxbridge High School.An eight grandchildren. Carl L.Wilcken ’51 September 22, 2008 employee of the former Whiting Paul B. Kenyon ’53 September 24, 2008 Donald E. Landry ’53 September 2008 Machine Works in Whitinsville, he Quentin M. Maver ’42 died May Russell J. Folta ’54 September 8, 2008 retired in 1976 after more than 39 27, 2008, in Plymouth, Mass. Born in Louis Schwartz ’54 September 26, 2008 years in the fields of banking and Roxbury, he prepared for college at Perrti O. Lipas ’55 September 22, 2008 accounting. His first wife, E. Muriel Belmont High School and at Hebron R.Wendell Goodwin ’56 October 22, 2008 (Barker) Garcelon, predeceased him. Academy. He served in the U.S. Arnold L. Freedland ’57 May 31, 2008 He is survived by his second wife, Marine Corps from 1941 until 1946, James M. Murdock ’57 November 5, 2008 F.Warren Gibson ’58 December 7, 2008 Brenda Belle (Shaw) Garcelon; and by attaining the rank of major. He was a Peter D. Lawrence ’58 November 28, 2008 six sons, David C. Garcelon of purchasing agent for many different I. Carl Mayhew ’58 September 25, 2008 Concord, Stephen A. Garcelon of companies over his career, serving as Floyd B. Barbour ’60 September 11, 2008 Grafton, John F.Garcelon of Director of Purchasing for the Kendall Emile R. J. M. Jurgens ’60 November 29, 2008 Leominster,Thomas A. Garcelon of Company in Walpole, Mass., prior to Lambertus H.A.J.M. Quant ’61 May 15, 2008 Maine, James H. Garcelon of his retirement. He is survived by his Robert L. Freeman, Jr. ’62 November 17, 2008 Brockton, and Mark D. Garcelon of Robert C. Fay ’63 October 20, 2008 wife of 65 years, Eleanor; his son James E. Byrne ’65 September 19, 2008 Florida; two daughters, Ruth E. Fuller Quentin M. Maver of Harrisburg, Edward M. Fitzgerald ’66 November 20, 2008 of Glastonbury, Conn., and Edith H. N.C.; his daughters, Marcia M. John R. Rapp G’64 September 25, 2008 Garcelon of Worcester; 15 Kelliher of Waxhaw, N.C., Linda Donald R. Brown, staff August 14, 2008 grandchildren; and 20 great- Goodnow of Hampton, N.H., and Louise C. Caron, staff August 5, 2008 grandchildren. Betsy M. Maloney of Concord, Mass.; Michael R. Demers, staff June 25, 2008 six grandchildren; and eight great- Jeannine T. Michaud, staff October 6, 2008 Marian M.White, staff September 23, 2008 Joseph Tuccio ’40 died July 31, grandchildren. 2008, in Ridgefield, Conn.The oldest

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Peter M. Rinaldo ’43 died May 2, Raymond M. “Jack” Clarke ’47 Hill School.After graduating from 2008, in Ithaca, NY.Born on June 21, died August 27, 2008, in Scarborough, Bowdoin, he attended Wentworth 1922, in Evanston, Ill., he prepared for Maine. Born in Stonington, he Institute, Boston Architectural Center, college at The Principia School and attended Stonington and Ellsworth and served during World War II in the then entered a joint program at schools.At Bowdoin, he was a member Army Air Corps. He worked as an Bowdoin and the Massachusetts of three state series championship architectural representative for a Institute of Technology. He graduated baseball teams and was drafted by the number of companies throughout his summa cum laude from Bowdoin in Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. He enlisted career, and he owned an import 1943 and then earned a master’s in the U.S. Navy during World War II company with his wife for several degree in chemical engineering from and served in the South Pacific Theater years.A longstanding member of the MIT in 1946. He was elected to Phi from 1944 to 1946. He taught in South North Community Church, he Beta Kappa,Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Portland schools from 1951 to 1958, enjoyed playing golf and tennis, and Xi. Immediately following graduation, serving as principal of Lincoln School traveled much of the world with his he was commissioned as an ensign in from 1952 to 1954 and as South wife of 59 years,Virginia (Graham) the U.S. Naval Reserve and sailed as Portland Elementary principal and area Gill. In addition to his wife, he is an electronics officer of the USS supervisor from 1954 to 1958. He was survived by a daughter, Christine Gill Macon. He began work as a process employed by Scott, Forseman & Co. of Duxbury; a son,William T. Gill III, engineer for Dewey and Almy from 1958 to 1978, was self-employed of Sandwich, N.H.; a brother, James S. Chemical Company in Cambridge, from 1980 to 1982, and worked in sales Gill IV,of Lake Ariel, Penn.; five Mass., in 1946. Dewey and Almy was for Palmer Spring Co. from 1982 to grandchildren; and a great-grandson. acquired by W.R. Grace & Company 1987. He was a member of Educational in 1965, and Peter spent the Salesman’s Association of New Thomas O.Woolf ’48 died remaining years of his career as Vice England, served on the executive September 1, 2008, in Danbury, Conn. President of the Industrial Chemicals board, and was president of Maine A lifelong Connecticut resident, he Group and later the Industrial Education Salesman’s Association. He was born July 17, 1925, and was raised Products Group with W.R. Grace in coached youth baseball for many years, in Greenwich, where he attended the New York City. He retired in October was awarded the Kenneth M. Sills Brunswick School. He served in the of 1982. He was very active in the Award as Little League Coach of the U.S.Army at the close of World War II Unitarian fellowship of Briarcliff, Year, and was inducted into the Maine and was stationed in Germany. He Croton, and Ossining, was a founding Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989. He was graduated from Bowdoin in 1949 as a member and treasurer of the Ossining a member of the South Portland member of the Class of 1948. He Peace and Justice Center, served for Recreation Board of Directors, the married Mary Morrill in 1954, and ten years on the Board of Trustees of South Portland School Board,VFW the couple moved to Ridgefield in the Ossining Public Library, and was a Post No. 832, and the Portland Eagles 1956 and raised two sons there. He dedicated member of the Scarborough Club. His wife, Dorothy Graves Clarke, spent most of his life selling advertising Fire Company. Following his died in 2007. He is survived by his for government and trade publications, retirement, he began a new career as three children, Suzanne Clarke first working for his father at the an author and publisher, and his Greenleaf of Pinehurst, N.C.,Thomas family firm in New York, and then published works include The Great Clarke of South Portland, and Robert starting his own firm in the 1960s. In Reindeer Caper, Marrying the Natives, Clarke of Falmouth; six grandchildren; his later years, he sold industrial light and The Five Day Weekend. He is and three great-grandchildren. bulbs, and after retirement he survived by his wife of 61 years, continued to work as a truck escort, Dorothy Warren Rinaldo, and by two William T. Gill ’47 died September escorting high and wide load trucks sons, David Rinaldo and John 3, 2008, in Boston, Mass. Known as throughout the northeast.An Rinaldo; a daughter, Marjory “Bud,” he was born on May 30, 1925, enthusiastic sailor, he spent much of Rinaldo-Lee; and five grandchildren. in Waltham. He was raised and his youth sailing and teaching sailing educated in Waltham and Belmont, on Long Island Sound. He is survived Donald G. Scott, Jr. ’44 died July 8, and he prepared for college at by two sons, Lawrence Woolf of 2008, in Plano,Texas. Belmont High School and Belmont Stamford and Thomas Woolf of Marin

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County, Calif.; and a sister, Elizabeth Penn., and he inspired generations of his wife of 59 years, Dabney Morgan Avery of Oneonta, N.Y.His wife Mary young men there over his 45 years as Ireland. He is survived by his wife predeceased him. headmaster. He received the Nancy (Buffy) Ireland of Vero Beach; by Distinguished Bowdoin Educator three daughters, Penelope Ireland Frederick W. Lacey, Jr. ’49 died Award in 1985. He is survived by his Chambers of Baltimore, Md., Mary September 5, 2008, in White River wife, Barbara Hafer and by two sons, Elliott Ireland of Lincolnville, Maine, Junction,Vt. He attended Bowdoin John A. Pidgeon of Great Falls,Va., and and Sara Ireland of Worcester, Mass.; and earned his degree from Columbia Kelly C. Pidgeon of Indiana; two one son, Jeffrey Ireland of LaVerne, University. He served in the U.S.Army daughters, Regan Hauser of Indiana Calif.; seven grandchildren; and six during World War II, receiving the and Beth Hafer of Pittsburgh; and four great-grandchildren. Silver Star and Purple Heart. He grandchildren. His first wife, Judy, worked in the advertising industry at preceded him in death. Dr. Richard A. Winer ’49 died July Young & Rubicam,and the McCann, 17, 2008, in Salem, Mass. He prepared Erickson and Leo Burnett agencies.A William D. Ireland, Jr. ’49 died May for college at Salem High School, self-taught musician and composer, he 21, 2008, in Vero Beach, Fla.The son of where he played football. Following wrote the words and music for William D. Ireland ’16, he was born on his graduation from Bowdoin, he “Potter’s Notch,” a musical staged at March 20, 1924. He prepared for earned his degree from Tufts Dental the Lebanon Opera House in 1984, college at Deerfield Academy and School and was a practicing and he was the musical director for joined the United States Army Air endodontic in Salem from 1954 until “The Follies,” an annual musical Corps. He was admitted to the his retirement in 1992.Active in review staged by the residents of Quail Bowdoin class of 1946 but, because of Jewish and community affairs, he had Hollow. He was a member of the West his service during the war, he became a served as president of Temple Shalom Lebanon Congregational Church. He member of the class of 1949 and in Salem, and as president of the is survived by his wife of 54 years, ultimately graduated in 1948. He began North Shore Historical Society, and as Janice (Marjerison) Lacey; four sons, his career with the First National Bank a Diplomate of the National Frederick W.Lacey III of Lake City, of Boston, and then joined the Canal Endodontics Society. He was also a Fla., the Rev.Thomas Getchell-Lacey National Bank of Portland, of which he member of the American Dental of Milford, Kenneth Lacey of Lake later became president. He moved to Association. He was a well-known City, Fla., and Peter Lacey of Worcester, Mass., in 1964 to become genealogist and an avid tennis player. Sunderland, Mass.; a brother, Edward president of Guaranty Bank and Trust He is survived by his wife Dorothy Lacey, of Concord; 13 grandchildren; Company. In 1972, he started the bank (Lipnick) Winer; his son Steven M. and seven great-grandchildren. holding company called the Conifer Winer of Bolton; a daughter, Heidi J. Group and served as chairman and Aiman of Minneapolis; a sister, Betty John A. Pidgeon ’49 died May 12, president until the company was sold in McBride of Watertown, Mass.; and five 2008, in Indiana, Penn. Born in 1986. He served on numerous grandchildren.A brother, Robert M. Lawrence, Mass., he was raised by his corporate boards during his career, Winer ’46 predeceased him. single mother, who worked as a including Hannaford Brothers of cleaning woman. He won a scholarship Scarborough, Maine, and Colonial Charles W. Lovejoy, Jr. ’50 died July to Phillips Academy, served in the U.S. Management of Boston, both of which 13, 2008, in Duxbury, Mass. Born in Navy in the North Atlantic during he served for more than 30 years. He Rumford, Maine in 1927, he World War II, and then graduated from was active in many educational, civic, graduated from Winchester High Bowdoin in 1949, with a degree in and community organizations, School in 1945 and served in the German.After a short stint with U.S. including service as a trustee of Navy from 1945 to 1946.At Bowdoin, Steel, he became a teacher at Deerfield Worcester Memorial Hospital, Leicester he was captain of the football team, a Academy in Mass., teaching German College, and the New England College member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and Latin and coaching swimming and Fund. In Bowdoin affairs, he was an and a member of the Meddiebempsters. football before becoming assistant overseer of the College for 16 years and After graduation, he was commissioned headmaster. He left Deerfield in 1957 served as president of the Alumni and recalled to active duty and to lead the Kiski School in Salsburg, Council. He was preceded in death by attended the Naval Intelligence School

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in Washington, D.C. He was daughters, Lesley M. Bowman of New as a dentist in his own practice for 26 subsequently posted as Assistant U.S. Milford and Amy M. Calcavecchio of years until 1981, and he was the dental Naval Attaché to the U. S. Embassy in Brookfield; seven grandchildren; and director at the Laconia State School Japan with the rank of Lieutenant, three great-grandchildren. for 10 years. He was a member of St. Senior Grade. Following his Naval John’s United Methodist Church in service, he worked as a stockbroker on Alexander McWhorter Wolfe, Jr. Dover, a former member of the Lion’s Wall Street and later in Boston. In ’50 died September 3, 2008, in Miami, Club, a member of Moses Paul #96 F. 1976, he started his own antique Fla. Born in Baltimore, Md., he & A.M., and former Dover School restoration business, working with graduated from the Massachusetts Board member. He was predeceased by many local clients as well as with the Maritime Academy in 1946 and from his wife, Shirley (Scharf) Topham in Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He Bowdoin in 1950. He entered the U.S. 1984. He is survived by five sons, married Janet Spinney in 1968, and Navy, becoming a lieutenant on the David E. of Newbury, Paul F.of New they moved to Duxbury, where he was USS Wright. He joined the Bank of Durham, Stephen J. of Pittsfield, a member of the Duxbury Historical Boston in 1952, starting his career in Jonathan H. of Canterberry, and James Society and the Duxbury Nuclear Rio de Janeiro and rising to run the H. of Barstead; two daughters, Julie Advisory Committee. He was an avid bank’s international operations. He Turcotte of Lebanon, Maine, and Lisa reader, a builder of miniature ships, a joined Southeast Bank in 1976 and Bennett of Berwick, Maine; 16 bird watcher, and a Red Sox fan. He eventually became Vice Chairman. He grandchildren; and three great- was a vestryman of the Church of the is survived by his wife of 54 years, grandchildren. Epiphany in New York City and later Diana Alys (Paterson) Wolfe of Key served as a trustee and deacon of the Biscayne; a daughter, Diane Acosta of Richard C. Gibson ’54 died July 16, Pilgrim Church in Duxbury. He is Wellington, Fla.; a son, Bob Wolfe of 2008, in South Brooksville, Maine. survived by his wife Janet; two Fairfield, Conn.; a brother, Dayton Born on June 28, 1932, in Newton, daughters, Susan B. LeBlanc of Clarke Wolfe ’53 of Winston-Salem, Mass., he prepared for college at Doylestown, Penn., and Constance D. N.C.; and five grandchildren. Newton High School.After graduating Lovejoy of Duxbury; a son, James M. from Bowdoin, he joined the Army and Lovejoy of Bedford, N.H.; a sister, Charles A. Jortberg III ’51 died May became a helicopter pilot serving in Virginia Allyn of Marion, Mass.; and 12, 2008, at his home in Naples, Japan and Korea. He married Geraldine three grandchildren. Maine. Born on June 13, 1929, in Lappin of Portland, Maine, and they Portland, he lived most of his life in had three children.After earning an John H. Maxson ’50 died July 19, Lynnfield, Mass.After graduating from MBA at University of California, 2008, in Brookfield, Conn. He was Bowdoin, he served with the National Berkeley, he worked as an accountant in born in Greenwich on November 7, Security Agency, had a successful career San Francisco. He and his family moved 1924 and grew up in Old Greenwich. with IBM, and in 1974 started Jortberg back to Portland, where he became He served with the U.S.Army during Associates, a consulting firm controller at Jordan Meats.After he and World War II. He raised his family in specializing in high tech patent his wife divorced, he moved to New Wilton, working in New York City as litigation and computer systems York City and then to Cincinnati, an advertising executive. Upon integration. He is survived by his wife, Ohio, and finally to Saudi Arabia, where retirement, he moved to Candlewood Kathleen M. (O’Brian) Jortberg and by he spent 18 years working for Aramco Lake in Brookfield and worked as a a daughter, Ellen; two sons, David and Oil Co. In his retirement, he spent most real estate broker for a number of Paul; and three grandchildren. He was of the year in Thailand, traveling years. He was a member and past preceded in death by a daughter, Susan. extensively in Southeast Asia and director of the Candlewood Lake Club. visiting his homes in Ft. Myers, Fla., and His brother, Robert P.Maxson ’37, Dr. John H. Topham ’51 died June South Brooksville. His family was one predeceased him. In addition to his 6, 2008, in Dover, N.H. Born on of the founders of the Bucks Harbor wife of 56 years, Marilyn Smith January 11, 1927, in Dover, he served Yacht Club, and he was a Mayflower Maxson, he is survived by two sons, in the U.S. Navy during World War II descendant. He is survived by two sons, James H. Maxson of Everett,Wash., and and attended Tufts School of Dental John and Roger; a daughter, Chris; and Jeffrey S. Maxson of Brookfield; two Medicine after Bowdoin. He worked two grandchildren.

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F.Allan MacDonald ’54 died Comptroller of the Currency in Carroll E. Pennell II ’56 died July September 8, 2008, in Cohasset, Mass. Washington, D.C.An avid hiker, he 30, 2008, in Brunswick, Maine. He Born and raised in South Quincy, he had explored peaks from the Eiger and was born on August 12, 1934, the son was a Scituate resident for 30 years the Matterhorn in Switzerland to the of Alice Coffin Pennell and Andrew before moving to Cohasset.The son of Canadian Rockies. He raced sailboats, Simpson Pennell ’25. He attended Frank E. MacDonald ’23, he prepared traveled extensively, and was a Brunswick schools through high for college at North Quincy High voracious reader who loved history school.After graduating from School. He earned master’s degrees books. He is survived by his wife of 22 Bowdoin, he worked for several years from both Boston University and years, Patricia (Hackney) Brown, and and then earned his master’s degree in Wesleyan University and taught AP by a daughter, Laura J. Brown of business administration from New English at Cohasset High School for Alexandria,Va. York University.While working at 29 years. He was co-founder of the IBM, he was drafted into the Army Alternative School in the mid-1970s Dr. J.Ward Kennedy ’55 died June 8, and served at Aberdeen Proving and its director into the mid-1980s. 2008, in Seattle,Wash., after a battle Grounds in Maryland.After leaving He served in the U.S.Army as a First with lung cancer.After graduating from the military, he worked with a real Lieutenant in 1955 with the Ranger Bowdoin, he earned his medical degree estate assessment firm Cole Layer and Division in post-war Germany.A at University of Rochester School of Trumble, and then worked as a real member of First Parish Church in Medicine and Dentistry in 1959. He estate appraiser for various companies Cohasset, he also served as chairman of went to the University of Washington in New York and Boston over the Green Sanctuary Committee and as for an internship that year and spent next three decades. He also taught real the publicity chairman for the nearly his entire professional career estate courses at Northeastern Cohasset Recycling Committee, a there until he retired in 1997.A leader University and Babson College. In member of Sustainable Cohasset and in cardiology, he was director of the 1987, he moved his family to a Voluntary Simplicity, and was a Vedanta University of Washington’s Division of Brunswick home that the Pennell Centre devotee. He wrote a column Cardiology and served as president of family had built in 1837.After a time for the Cohasset Mariner for several the American College of Cardiology with Eastern Appraisal of Freeport, he years on the environment and from 1995 to 1996. He was among the founded General Real Estate Co., recycling issues. He is survived by a pioneers in the early days of heart which he managed until suffering a daughter,Alison L. MacDonald, of catheterizations and ascertaining how stroke in 2002. He is survived by his Nantucket; a son, Rod A. MacDonald heart functions are measured, wife Nancy (Sutliff), whom he of East Hampton, Conn.; two sisters, conducted studies of the effects of married in 1966; a son, Samuel Stuart Jean Peterson of Aptos, Calif., and cardiac and coronary artery surgery, and Pennell; and a sister,Arline Lay. He Nancy Cultrera of Eliot, Maine; a performed the first heart catheterization was predeceased by a son,Andrew brother, Fred MacDonald of North and helped to establish the first cardiac Sutliff Pennell. Quincy; and four grandchildren. He unit in Malaysia. He was part of a U.S. was predeceased by a son,Andrew S. Department of State tour to the Soviet Dr. John W. Riley III ’58 died May MacDonald. Union to help develop cardiac 13, 2008, after a short battle with treatment programs there in the mid- lymphoma. He was the son of John W. William J. Brown ’55 died July 21, 1970s, and he taught in the Czech Riley, Jr. ’30 and Matilda White Riley 2008 in Hudson, Ohio.An economist, Republic in 1996. He played in bands H’72.After graduating from Bowdoin, he had earned a master’s degree from ever since high school, including he attended Cornell University the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. playing trombone with the physician Medical College, completed his from New York University. He had jazz group,Ain’t No Heaven Seven. He residency in internal medicine and retired to the Laurel Lake community is survived by his wife, Kathryn Davis neurology at Rush Presbyterian St. after serving as the dean of several Kennedy; three children,Will, David, Luke’s Hospital in Chicago, and served business schools. He had also written and Celia; three stepchildren, Sarah with the U.S. Navy in Vietnam on the textbooks for McGraw-Hill, and had Holt, Mike Davis, and Ann Davis; a USS Repose. He practiced as a worked for the American Banker’s sister, Margaret Kennedy Gogerty; and physician in Seattle for over thirty Association and the Office of the eight grandchildren. years and was granted titles of

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Associate Clinical Professor at the Kathleen Folz; three sons, Sean, Daniel, University and helped to build the University of Washington, president of and Michael; two daughters, Nancy Native American Baha’i Institute. In the Washington State Society of Conlon and Megan Bocklet; and three 1991, they moved back to Maine, Internal Medicine, and Fellow of the grandchildren. where he taught at University of New American Society of Internal England and Maine College of Art, Medicine. His passion for sailing John A. Gage, Jr. ’69 died June 6, and was an adjunct professor of brought him many racing titles and 2008, in Sacramento, Calif. He was English at Southern Maine lifelong friendships. In 1999, while born in Boston, Mass., and lived in Community College.A British Morris training to summit Mt. Rainier, he Hingham, Mass., from 1947 to 1965. dancer and a Celtic harp player, he was suffered a rare type of stroke and spent He attended Bowdoin and graduated involved in many different the ensuing years “mastering the art of cum laude from M.I.T. with a B.S. in organizations and performance groups. genuinely enjoying the simple things.” civil engineering in 1969. He also He was awarded the Order of the He is survived by his sister, Lucy E. earned a master’s in civil engineering Troubador by the Society of Creative Sallick of Westport, Conn. from California State University, Anachronism and was involved with Sacramento, in 1992. He was a Celtic heritage groups and the South David C. Walker ’64 died April 8, Registered Civil Engineer and worked Portland Historical Society. He is 2008, in Waterville, Maine. Born in for the state of California Department survived by his wife Naomi; his Damariscotta on October 13, 1942, of Water Resources from 1985 to brothers; and a large extended family. he graduated from Bowdoin in 1964 2000. He was a senior transportation and received a B.Litt. degree from engineer with the California Bennett J. Thompson ’82 died July Oxford University, where he was a Department of Transportation, 8, 2008, in Burlington, Mass., after a Fulbright Scholar. An accomplished Caltrans, from 2000 to 2008. He prolonged struggle with complications and widely published poet, he taught served as the chair of the membership following a liver transplant. Born on for more than 20 years at the committee of the Sacramento section April 22, 1960, in New Haven, Conn., University of Southern Maine. of the American Society of Civil he grew up in Berwyn, Penn., and During his long career, he also taught Engineers, was a Mayflower Boxford, Mass., where he attended at Bowdoin, and at Colby College, descendant, and a member of the Faith Masconomet Regional High School. The College of the Holy Cross in Presbyterian Church in Sacramento. At Bowdoin, he was a member of Worcester, Mass., and at the He is survived by his wife of 29 years, Theta Delta Chi fraternity.After University of Canterbury, New Susan Behler Cage; a daughter,Abigail graduation, he worked for Proctor and Zealand. His collected works have Gage Farahmand of El Dorado Hills, Gamble in New Jersey, and then been published in Voiceprints, Moving Calif.; a sister, Beau Cage of New York returned to New England in 1984, Out, and the chapbook Composed for City; and a granddaughter. where he worked in the Dying. He is survived by his wife, telecommunications industry for more Frances (Silenzi) Walked of Freedom; Barry L. Wilson ’70 died August 22, than 20 years.At the time of his death, a daughter, Emma J.Walker of 2008, in South Portland, Maine.A he was sales engineer for Verizon Brattleboro,Vt.; a stepson, Ezra Rugg native of South Portland with a long Business in Portland, Maine. He served of Freedom; and a step-grandchild. family history there, he graduated from on the board of the Baxter School for South Portland High School.At the Deaf, as vice president of the Terrence J. P. Dwyer ’65 died May Bowdoin, he was a French major, a Pillsbury Shores Association of Pine 27, 2008, in Wayne, N.J.An attorney member of the Delta Sigma fraternity, Point, and a term as town chairman of with Dwyer, Kinburn, Hall and Golub and a member of a jug band called the Scarborough Republican Party. He in Totowa, he was a member of the Ben Steele with His Bare Hands. He belonged to the Riverside and Foundation Board at St. Joseph’s married Naomi Grotton in 1974, and Nonesuch Golf Club and was a Wayne Hospital, former chairman of they lived in the Rockland area. In member of the Maine State Golf the Wayne Chamber of Commerce, 1980, the couple went to live on the Association and the U.S. Golf and Cub Scout Master of Troop 104, Navajo Reservation in northeastern Association. He is survived by his Packanack Lake. He is survived by his Arizona, where he earned is master’s in partner of 20 years, Marcia Taylor; a partner, Kathe Crimmins; a sister, education from Northern Arizona sister, Lisa Thompson Waldrop of

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Ithaca, N.Y.; and a brother, Stuart Walter Rubin G’62 died June 30, Naval bases in Moffett Field, Calif., Thompson of Weymouth, Mass. 2008, in Bath, Maine. Born in Pensacola, Fla., the island of Malta, Brooklyn, N.Y., he graduated from and, in 1959, to Brunswick. She Geoffrey M. Lynn ’92 died June 3, Brooklyn College and served in the taught school for 18 years at 2008, in North Conway, N.H. Born in Army as an instructor during the Brunswick Junior High School, Dover on July 31, 1969, he prepared Korean War.When he returned home, where she was appointed chair of the for college at Kennett High School in he taught mathematics while attending mathematics department, and earned North Conway. He was a managing New York University and went on to a master’s degree from Bowdoin in director of Vista Associates and a teach at Erasmus Hall High School 1963. She is survived by two sons, member of the board of the North and Francis Lewis High School. In Christopher P.Writt of Brunswick Conway Library, serving most recently 1959, he enrolled in a summer and Frederick A.Writt of Falmouth; a as president. He is survived by his institute program at Bowdoin, earning daughter, Delia Austin of Brunswick; mother, Barbara Lynn; his father, a master’s in mathematics in 1962. He a brother, Robert E.Wagner of Michael Lynn; his stepfather, Dwight became chairman of mathematics at Harrison, Ohio; four grandchildren; Conan; a brother, Benjamin (Jamie) Bushwick High School in 1967 and, in and one great-grandchild. Her Lynn; his wife, Kerry MacDougall 1972, he became assistant principal of husband, Navy Lt. Cmdr.William W. Lynn; a daughter, Celia Katherine mathematics at the Harry S.Truman Writt, died in 1980. Lynn; a son, Nathaniel Orne Lynn; and High School in the Bronx, where his his grandmothers, Marjorie Mace and work won him city and statewide Joyce P. Brown G’67 died August Doris Lynn. commendations. He served on the 26, 2008, in Brunswick, Maine. Born mathematics committee for the New in Brunswick, she was a graduate of Joel Cartwright ’06 died June 27, York State Regents Examinations, Brunswick High School, and she 2008, at his family’s cottage in Tenant’s taught evening courses at Queens received her bachelor’s degree from Harbor, Maine. Suffering from College, was a Life Master in bridge, the University of Maine and a master’s depression, he committed suicide. and a passionate movie fan. He retired degree from Bowdoin. She taught as a Born in Damariscotta, he grew up in to Brunswick in 1994. He is survived math teacher at Brunswick High Waldoboro, where he read books, by his wife, Rita; a son, Seth Rubin; a School and was active in the played chess, sailed the coast, and hiked daughter, Rachel Ladutke; and two community and the outdoors. Mt. Katahdin and Gulf Hagas.At grandsons. President of the Maine Master’s Swim Bowdoin, he majored in anthropology Club, she held state records in her age and environmental studies, founded Elinor J. Writt G’63 died August group and placed fourth in a national the Bowdoin Organic Garden, 18, 2008, in Brunswick, Maine. Born Master’s event in Tucson,Ariz.With volunteered with disabled people, and in Moline, Ill., she attended public Charlie Butt, she started the Harpswell was a leader in the Outing Club. He schools in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Summer Swim Program, and she also was awarded Bowdoin’s Community graduated from the University of started the West Harpswell Children’s Service Award in 2006.An avid Cincinnati with high honors in Swim Program; she headed both musician, he played piano, mandolin, mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa. During groups for more than 20 years.An avid banjo, fiddle, guitar, and djembe, an World War II, she received an ensign’s dancer, biker, hiker, and skier, she African drum.Among his many talents commission as a Navy WAVE officer climbed Mt. Katahdin more than 30 was carpentry, and he designed and in 1944, followed by eight years of times and was a “Ski Mountain built a post-and-beam frame for a solar active duty at Great Lakes, Ill., and Ambassador” at Sunday River for four hot water system at his parents’ home Washington, D.C. In 1950, she was years. She was the wife of Keith as well as helped build greenhouses at the first woman officer in Naval Brown. She is survived by two sons, the Bowdoin Organic Garden and the history appointed to attend the U.S. Stephen Brown of Lisbon Falls and Warren Community School. He is Naval Postgraduate School. She Timothy Brown of Lantana,Tex.;a survived by his parents, Steve and graduated at the top of her class, with daughter, Caroline Ochtera of Bethel; Kathy Cartwright of Waldoboro; and a a master’s degree in aerology.After his a brother, Bernard Pagurko; a sister, sister, Chelsea, of Berkeley, Calif. discharge at the rank of lieutenant, Georgette Miller of Topsfield,Mass; she moved with her husband to the and five grandchildren.

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AWAKENING FROM A LONG SLEEP

There are times in our daily lives when seemingly unre- largely ignorant of the future impacts of personal com- lated ideas, experiences, and images come together in puters and electronic communication on society and on unexpected ways.A recent chain of associations was trig- higher education. E-mail, cell phones, text messaging, gered by an illustration of Rip Van Winkle, rising bearded and the Internet have shortened the intervals that sepa- and bewildered from the pile of leaves that had accumu- rate communications, and have made available a vast lated on and around him over the course of his 20-year array of sources of information (and disinformation).The slumber. N. C.Wyeth H’45 created the luminous painting College House System, the McKeen Center for the for a 1921 edition of Washington Irving’s short story Common Good, Smith Union,Thorne Hall, Osher and about a man who shared a drink with the enchanted West dormitories, and Watson Arena mark social and crew of Hendrick Hudson’s ship, The Half-Moon, and physical changes in the campus since 1990. Who can say slept through the events of the American Revolution. what may change before our hypothetical deep sleep Both Rip and the community that had thought him long ends in 2010? dead were forced to come to terms with a present that In our own lives we often hold some things constant required revisions to the accepted narrative of the past. so that we are able to focus on movement or change in At any number of points in the history of the College other aspects of our lives. The demands of a career, fami- a sudden jump forward of two decades might leave a ly relationships and responsibilities, financial pressures and Bowdoin time traveler disoriented, out of sync with uncertainties, or health issues may claim our immediate social networks, societal rules, physical landscapes, and attention, crowding out an awareness of the ways in technology, and unaware of the consequences of recent which the rest of the world is changing at the same time. historical events. Like Rip, we may be left with outdated knowledge, A prolonged nap from 1930 to 1950 would have information that is tethered to a particular point in time. removed from direct experience the effects of the Great A former athlete in a pick-up game may discover that Depression and a world war on the nation and the body weight, conditioning, flexibility, and stamina don’t College. If the alumnus awoke early enough in 1950 he match up to a self-image fueled by memories of the last could watch the Commencement exercises and marvel at game. Children – our own or someone else’s – mark the how the G.I. Bill had redefined the size and character of passage of time in their physical, emotional, and intellec- the student body in irreversible ways. Sills Hall and Smith tual growth, growth that proceeds at a pace that chal- Auditorium were under construction on the old Delta, lenges our ability to keep current.At holiday gatherings the site of baseball and hockey games in days gone by. It families may measure new realities against static percep- would have been a source of comfort for a pre-1930 tions, in the same way that pencil marks on a doorframe alumnus to find that Kenneth C. M. Sills ’01 still occu- record the growth of siblings and cousins each year pied the President’s Office in Massachusetts Hall. against the comparatively fixed heights of parents, grand- To fall asleep at Bowdoin in 1960 and wake up in parents, uncles, and aunts.Although we may be surprised 1980 would challenge a modern-day Rip Van Winkle to that the “constants” in our lives may have shifted while navigate a fully coeducational Bowdoin, a grading system we were not watching, we don’t have to wait 20 years to of HH, H, P,and F (high honors, honors, pass, and fail), a make the necessary adjustments. curriculum without distribution requirements, the absence of Saturday classes and mandatory Chapel servic- With best wishes, es, and a terrain that included Coles Tower, the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, Morrell Gymnasium, and the Visual Arts Center. Several trends in music, fashion, and phases of popular culture played out over this interval. John R. Cross ’76 Dozing off in 1990 would have left an alumnus Secretary of Development and College Relations

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GIFT PLANNING

Dick ’58 and Martha Burns

Dick went on from Bowdoin to earn a law degree from New York University and has spent close to 50 years practicing law in New York City, including a 23-year partnership with brother Bruce Burns ’62 and many years serving in local and state gov- ernment. Martha has worked with Dick as manager of his law practice since 1984, and they raised four chil- SHARING THEIR GOOD FORTUNE dren together.They now enjoy four grandchildren, including granddaughter Colleen Maher ’12. ooking back on Bowdoin at his 50th Reunion, Dick Burns ’58 reflected,“the good fortune I had to be Dick and Martha have contributed generously to the L able to go to Bowdoin has been a significant and College, helping with the renovations of Pickard Theater positive force in my life. I have been most fortunate in my and the Curtis Pool, funding scholarships, and supporting family, my children, my grandchildren, my work and my cir- the Polar Bear Fund, and the Alumni Fund. In 2008, they cumstances, all of which I know Bowdoin directly or indi- donated a lithograph by Käthe Kollwitz and a painting by rectly contributed to and enriched.” Bowdoin has, in turn, Aaron Henry Gorson — two wonderful pieces that are been more than fortunate in having Dick as a committed now part of the Museum of Art’s permanent collection. In and engaged alumnus. Along with his wife Martha, Dick is honor of Dick’s 50th Reunion, they created a legacy gift at now a part-time resident of Mere Point in Brunswick, which Bowdoin by establishing a charitable gift annuity to fund the makes it easier for the College and the Class of ’58 to Richard E. and Martha F. Burns Endowment Fund to pro- “keep him busy and out of mischief.” And, indeed, Bowdoin vide general support to the College. Dick notes with has kept Dick very busy; in recognition of his outstanding approval that the College “continues its vital and unique and dedicated service in a wide variety of roles, including connection to the State of Maine and continues to get bet- class agent, reunion planner, Alumni Council member, ter and more successful with the passage of time.” Dick Alumni Fund Director, and phone-a-thon volunteer, the says he is fortunate to count himself a Bowdoin graduate; Alumni Council awarded him the 2002 Polar Bear Award. the College is fortunate indeed to have Dick and Martha’s Dick also served as Gift Co-Chair for his 50th Reunion. support, both now and in the future.

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Last Lap

The Bowdoin Campaign, which seeks to raise $250 million, ends on June 30, 2009. With $243 million raised to date, the fin- ish line is in sight, but there are still impor- tant needs to meet, particularly in those goals supporting academic excel- lence.Visit bowdoin.edu/sup- port or contact Elizabeth Orlic at [email protected] to learn more.