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MAGAZINE BowdoiVOL.84 NO.2 SUMMER n 2013 ROGER BERLE ’64 CLIFF ISLAND’S HEART AND SOUL NEW DIRECTORS FOR THE MUSEUM OF ART FRANK AND ANNE GOODYEAR COMMENCEMENT AND REUNION 2013 SUMMER 2013 CONTENTS 16 Whatever the Weather PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHELE STAPLETON AND BOB HANDELMAN Two celebratory weekends, two very different weather conditions, one end result: smiles. 18 Goodyears for the Museum BY EDGAR ALLEN BEEM PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES MARSHALL Ed Beem talks to the new co-directors of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art about their new position and its innovative structure, their interests and ideas about art, and the professional and personal journeys that led them to Bowdoin. 24 A Man and His Island BY DAVID TREADWELL ’64 PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRIAN WEDGE ’97 David Treadwell explains why his classmate Roger Berle ’64 is known as the “mayor” of Maine’s Cliff Island. 30 Remembering Melendy BY BRIAN O’DONNELL ’76 Dermatologist Brian O’Donnell writes of the pleasure he gets treating two fellow Polar Bears and of the special day when he got them together and watched them reminisce. BowdoinMAGAZINE DEPARTMENTS Bookshelf 4 Class News 33 Mailbox 6 Weddings 58 Bowdoinsider 8 Obituaries 70 Alumnotes 32 Whispering Pines 96 [email protected] 1 |letter| Bowdoin FROM THE EDITOR MAGAZINE Taking a New Look Volume 84, Number 2 Every five or six years, we take a look at the magazine to assess the content and Summer 2013 design and determine what needs improving and to adapt to changes in our MAGAZINE STAFF readership or other factors. It has been seven years since we last made significant Editor changes, and we are overdue for an update. Alison M. Bennie Associate Editor Matthew J. O’Donnell Meanwhile, the landscape for magazines and for print in general has changed Design enormously in those seven years. While research shows that people of all ages Charles Pollock continue to read magazines and that a significant majority prefer to read them Jim Lucas PL Design - Portland, Maine in print over online, magazines are clearly no longer the best tool for conveying Contributors news, as the Internet and social media have charged in to take control of that kind Douglas Cook of content. James Caton John R. Cross ’76 Travis Dagenais ’08 Cecelia Greenleaf As part of our preparation for a redesign, we sent a survey to many of you in late Scott W. Hood Chelée Ross ’12 May, and many others of you will receive a similar request from us in the fall. Alix Roy ’07 Filling out forms online can be tedious in the extreme, we know, so thank you Photographs by Dennis Griggs, Bob to those who have already helped and thanks in advance to those who will soon. Handelman, James Marshall, Michele Stapleton, Brian Wedge ’97, and Your input is an invaluable part of the process. Bowdoin College Archives. Cover photo by Brian Wedge ’97. We are looking at everything we do—frequency, types of content, length of BOWDOIN (ISSN, 0895-2604) feature stories, timing, page counts, design—to determine how we can make is published three times a year by Bowdoin College, 4104 College Station, a better Bowdoin Magazine with a fixed budget. It is a puzzle, but it is also a Brunswick, Maine 04011. Printed by J.S. privilege. It is hard to think of a better subject about which to communicate than McCarthy, Augusta, Maine. Third-class postage paid at Augusta, Maine. Sent the myriad interesting and inspiring stories of Bowdoin College and its people. free of charge to all Bowdoin alumni/ae, parents of current and recent under- graduates, faculty and staff, seniors, and selected members of the Association of So, much about the magazine may change in the year ahead, but what we know Bowdoin Friends. won’t change is this: there will be stories that show the many ways that Bowdoin Opinions expressed in this magazine are has changed since your days as a student and the many ways it retains its essence, those of the authors. stories of Bowdoin alumni and faculty and students doing fascinating and gratifying Send class news to classnews@bow- work, stories that make you proud to be a Polar Bear. doin.edu or mail to the address above. Advertising inquiries? Please e-mail [email protected] or fax 207- 725-3003. Please send address changes If you have thoughts to share, and you don’t happen to be one of the people who to the mailing address above. Send ideas or letters to the editor to that receive a request to complete a survey in the fall, please feel free to write to us and address or by e-mail to bowdoinedi- let us know what you think. We’d love to hear from you. [email protected]. AMB 2 BOWDOIN SUMMER 2013 seenBOWDOIN A summer morning in the Bowdoin Pines. Photograph by Bob Handelman [email protected] 3 FSSOWLIPJ&3;(3-2 Abelardo Morell: The Fighting Jim Crow in Maurice Prendergast: By the Universe Next Door. the County of Kings by Sea. by Museum of Art Curator An examination of the Assistant Professor of Joachim Homann, et al, work of photographer Africana Studies Brian Bowdoin College Museum of Abelardo Morell ’71. Purnell. University Press of Art, 2013. Art Institute of Chicago, 2013. Kentucky, 2013 The Missing Concordat by Norman Hubley ’51. Against Autonomy: Five Days by Douglas PublishAmerica, 2012. Justifying Coercive Kennedy ’76. Simon and Paternalism by Assistant Schuster, 2013. Professor of Philosophy Sarah Conly. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Nature’s Keeper: John Ripley Forbes (H’87) That Broader Definition Loss at Sea (A Solo and the Children’s of Liberty: The Theory Circumnavigation) by Nature Movement by and Practice of the New Eric Loss ’08. Self- Gary Ferguson. Big Trees Deal by Brian Stipelman published, 2012. Forest Preserve, Inc., 2012. ’99. Lexington Books, 2012. Guide to Gettysburg The NYC EP, Mike Battlefield Monuments Burrow, the debut ’98 and Ruthy Merenda. by Tom Huntington ’82. album by Max García Humble Abode Music, Stackpole Books, 2013. Conover ’09. Clip 2012. Records, 2013. The Good Man: The Civil Campbell Biology in War’s “Christian General” Our School Garden! by Focus Michael Cain by and His Fight for Racial Rick Swann ’76. ’78 , et al. Pearson, 2013. Equality by Gordon L. Readers to Eaters, 2012. Weil ’58. Arthur McAllister Publishers, 2013. The Complete Illustrated Birthing The Hunted by Peter Companion by Amanda Clenott ’73. iUniverse, Practicing Military French ’92, et al. 2013. Anthropology, ed by Quayside Press, 2013. Clementine Fujimura ’87, et al. Kumarian Press, Disaster Psychiatry: 2012. Readiness, Evaluation, Managing Sport Organi- and Treatment edited by zations: Responsibility A Real Presence: Frederick J. Stoddard rd for Performance (3 Ed.) Religious and Social Jr. ’64, et al. American by Daniel Covell ’86 and Dynamics of the Psychiatric Press, 2011. Sharianne Walker. Rout- Eucharistic Conflicts in ledge, 2013. Extraordinary Rendition Early Modern Augsburg 1520-1530 by Joel Van by Paul Batista ’70. Astor Manners in Modern Amberg ’94. Brill, 2012. and Blue Editions, 2013. Life: The Poetry of Conduct, The Virtue of Reforming Civility by Mitchell Democracies: Six Facts Kalpakgian ’63. About Politics That Neumann Press, 2012 Demand a New Agenda by Douglas Chalmers ’53. Columbia University Press, 2013. &3;(3-27911)6 The Reporter Gene by Twitter: Social SRQ] Nessa Burns Reifsnyder Communication in the ’86. Self-published, 2012. Twitter Age by Assistant RMKLXWXERH Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Dhiraj Murthy. Polity, 2013. Sarah’s Song (Esi Was Understanding the My Mother) by Dwight Global Community L. Wilson ’73. Kindle edited by Zach Messitte Edition, Amazon Digital ’90 and Suzette Grillot. Services, 2012. University of Oklahoma 7EVEL'SRP] Press, 2013. %WWMWXERX4VSJIWWSVSJ4LMPSWSTL] Searching for George Viral Hate: Containing % Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Gordon Meade: The its Spread on the Massie Forgotten Victor of Internet by Christopher % Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Gettysburg by Tom Wolf ’76 and Abraham Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Huntington ’82. Stackpole Foxman. Palgrave Meaningful Work and Play by James Books, 2013. Macmillan, 2013. C. Scott % The History of England, Vol. VI, by The Virtues We Need Test Success! How to Be David Hume Calm, Confident and Again: 21 Life Lessons % Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Focused on Any Test by from the Great Books of Utopia in China by David A. Palmer Ben Bernstein ’69. Spark the West by Mitchell Avenue, 2012. Kalpalkgian ’63. The &SFF]-ZIW´ Crossroads Publishing, 2012. (MVIGXSVSJ6IPMKMSYWERH7TMVMXYEP0MJI Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex Wake Up America and % Thirst: Poems by Mary Oliver and the Untimely in Go To Work; A Leaders % First You Have to Row a Little Boat: Nineteenth-Century Guide to Following by Reflections on Life & Living by America by Professor of Bob Smallwood ’76. Self- Richard Bode English Peter Coviello. published, 2013. % Living the Good Life: How to Live NYU Press, 2013. Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World by Scott and Helen Nearing Truck Accident We Are in His Hands % Twelve Kinds of Ice by Ellen Bryan Litigation, 3rd Whether We Live or Die: Obed and Barbara McClintock edition, with a The Letters of Brevet chapter by Morgan Brigadier General Charles 8MQ6]ER´ G. Adams ’86. Henry Howard by David %WLQIEH;LMXI(MVIGXSVSJ%XLPIXMGW American Bar Association, 2012. K. Thomson ’08. University % The Education of a Coach by David of Tennessee Press, 2013. Halberstam % The Messiah Method: The Seven Disciplines of the Winningest College 79&1-77-32430-'= Soccer Program in America by Michael We’re happy to feature books by Bowdoin authors or about Bowdoin A. Zigarelli subjects that are published within the calendar year that they come to our % Mindset: The New Psychology of attention.