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Volume 85, Number 3 12 Spring 2014 Magazine Staff

Editor Matthew J. O’Donnell Batter Up!

Managing Editor My eleven-year-old daughter is playing softball. Late in a recent game, a new pitcher Scott C. Schaiberger ’95 took the mound and started windmilling Scud missiles from forty feet—bright Executive Editor yellow blurs into the backstop, the umpire’s collarbone, behind the batter, and every Alison M. Bennie few deliveries, suddenly straight into the catcher’s mitt. The on-deck batter froze Design in the circle and broke down in tears. The game was delayed while coaches and Charles Pollock teammates intervened. Then, I heard a familiar voice say, “Do you want me to go? Mike Lamare PL Design – Portland, Maine I’ll go.” My usually reserved daughter hurried to plate, tapped it hard with her bat, and dug in. I’ve never been more proud of her. Contributors James Caton At Commencement a few days later, the Rev. Bobby Ives ’69 delivered the Douglas Cook invocation for the Class of 2014, urging those members to “be not afraid” as they John R. Cross ’76 made their ways into the wider world. “Be not afraid to fail, and to make mistakes,” Rebecca Goldfine Melody Hahm ’13 he compelled them, “but to see all failing as an opportunity to learn and to change, features Scott W. Hood to improve and to grow.” The day before, Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster greeted 6 Megan Morouse the Baccalaureate audience with a litany of Bowdoin graduates who have had Abby McBride the courage and resolve to achieve firsts—in science and medicine, technology 6 Bring on the Science Walt Wuthman ’14 and business, in scholarship, exploration, athletics, and in the armed forces. (Visit By Abby McBride Photographs by Michele Stapleton Photographs by: bowdoin.edu/news to read all of the Baccalaureate and Commencement addresses.) Grab your lab coat and goggles. At Bowdoin, scientific research has a Fred Field, Maykel Loomans, James Marshall, We each have to step to the plate against fire-ballers of our own—whether in Babe central place in the liberal arts. Karsten Moran ’05, Polina Osherov, Scott Smith, Cara Slifka, Michele Stapleton, and Ruth softball, facing a blank page like poet Prosper Barter Kasrel ’88, swinging away Bowdoin College Archives. at the glass ceiling like Jean Hoffman ’79, or toeing-in to reform an entire culture 8I nventing a Life Cover illustration by Marshall Hopkins. like Geoffrey Canada ’74. Their stories, along with those of many other alumni By Katie Benner ’99 Photographs by fred field you’ll read about in this issue of the magazine, reflect how fortunate we are to be a BOWDOIN MAGAZINE (ISSN, 0895-2604) Entrepreneur Jean Hoffman ’79 has created a career, and several suc- is published three times a year by Bowdoin part of a community like Bowdoin’s, one that nurtures such an open-minded and cessful companies, out of grit and the willingness to be first. College, 4104 College Station, Brunswick, tenacious spirit. How enriching it is to be associated with a group of people who 8 Maine, 04011. Printed by J.S. McCarthy, provide such inspiring words to live by and actions to emulate. Augusta, Maine. Sent free of charge to all 12 What’s the Secret? Belief. Bowdoin alumni, parents of current and recent My daughter battled through that at bat. She skipped over two balls in the dirt, took By Cynthia McFadden ’78 illustrations by Marshall Hopkins undergraduates, faculty and staff, and members a strike down the middle, swung and missed, leaned away from one inside, got a As he prepares to step down from the helm of Harlem Children’s of the Association of Bowdoin Friends. piece of another, and watched ball four sail high and wide. She earned that jog to Zone, Geoff Canada ’74 talks with Cynthia McFadden ’78 about the Opinions expressed in this magazine are those first, and by the earhole to earhole smile within her helmet, she knew it. of the authors. challenges, the promise, and the future of changing the culture for Happy summer, children in Harlem and in the country. Departments Please send address changes, ideas, or letters to the editor to the address above or by email to [email protected]. Send class 2 Mailbox 53 Weddings news to [email protected] or to the address above. Advertising inquiries? Email 3 Almanac 59 Deaths [email protected]. Matt O’Donnell 18 Profiles 60 Whispering Pines [email protected] 25 Alumnotes 61 Answers 207.725.3133 26 Class News

BOWDOIN | SPRING 2014 [email protected] 1 Bowdoin Bowdoin Mailbox Bowdoin Carrying the Keys ernest and Uncle gus Poem The College’s time-tested offer to I’m writing about the Hemingway letter its graduates is as strong and vital as by Richard Andrias ’65 in the Winter Two poems by Prosper Barter Almanac ever. Recently, through an interlibrary 2014 issue. Ernest married Pauline Kasrel ’88 hung in Boston’s City A DigEsT oF CAMpUs, AlUMni, AnD gEnErAl CollEgE MisCEllAnY loan, I was the College library’s first Pfeiffer and thus aligned himself with Hall last winter, selected by Boston borrower of Year Zero: A History of my family (“joined” is too strong a word Poet Laureate Sam Cornish for the 1945, Ian Buruma’s remarkable study for such a cad) and received incredible Boston Mayor’s Poetry Contest. of the barbarity of war and the great backing in lots of ways from Uncle Paul At Cornish’s request, Prosper read Reads & Reasons evil that lasted from 1914 to 1945 (and (Pauline’s father) and his brother Uncle the following poem at an event he persists). The Offer of the College, Gus, to whom at least one of Ernest’s organized last spring. now gone electronic, provides insight major works is dedicated. Uncle Gus Who’s reading What and knowledge to all, villager and city bought boats, houses, cars, and sponsored Listening to Copland’s “Fanfare slicker, alike. safaris and fishing trips that Ernest never for the Common Man” and Why could have undertaken were it not for Stanley Harrison ’55 In my brother’s apartment this generosity. I believe that at least there is a poster of Louis Armstrong John Swords ’15: The Day of the Locust, by Nathaniel one of Hemingway’s major works was holding his trumpet and laughing West, because it was included on Professor of English Brock Semper Fi and Old Phi Chi written in the barn behind Uncle Paul’s sitting on the palatial steps of a hotel Clarke’s “A Too-Brief, Incomplete, Unalphabetized List of house in Piggott, AR, where there was I enjoyed the articles and letters in the he wasn’t allowed to enter. Must-Read that You Might Not Have Been Taught or Oth- a loft that had been made over into a Summer and Fall 2013 issues of Bowdoin My brother has finished lugging rocks for the day erwise Made to Read Novels and Short writing space for him. (He carelessly and sits with his eyes closed, carried away. Magazine about Bowdoin graduates Story Collections Written in the 20th and set it afire, but most of it was saved.) And yes, it’s about time Motor Pool serving in the US Marine Corps. In the 21st Centuries.” The barn and house are now part of for him to have some fanfare small world category, I recently had the Hemingway/Pfeiffer Museum. The for getting up at dawn’s first grayness the pleasure of bumping into two other Hallie Schaeffer ’16: MaddAddam tril- whole property is under the aegis of for sitting on someone else’s steps, laughing Bo-Bo a-goggo Bowdoin Marines, Paul Constantino ’62 not halfway, but wide open ogy, by Margaret Atwood, because it has Arkansas State University (ASU). It is and Bill Nash ’63, at the 2nd Vietnam with all his beautiful teeth. While restoring a rare 1959 Goggomobil, “everything I fi nd interesting…references the pressed tin roof on the second floor Marine JAG Officer’s Reunion in San antique car collector Michael Braun found to Genesis, genetic engineering, smart kids that prompted me to write. According Diego. I think the “war stories” from a Bowdoin College parking sticker on the bumper. “I thought it taking over the world, and feminism.” to family lore substantiated by research our shared Bowdoin experience may would be fun to try and fi nd out who owned it at that time and done by Ruth Hawkins, a historian at have been as entertaining as those from maybe get some original pictures,” he said. Anyone remember Sarah Johnson ’13, Bowdoin Outing Club assistant ASU, the images pressed into the tin are our shared Marine Corps experience. this little car with parking sticker number 744? director: The Goldfi nch by Donna Tartt, because, according to what inspired Ernest to write The Old Thanks for your efforts in producing her mother, it is supposed to be “the best novel of our time.” Man in the Sea. If you see the ceiling, a great college magazine. Keep up the It did win the Pulitzer for fi ction this year. as I have, you will see that this theory good work. In Bowdoin History bears looking into. Unbelievable Happiness Paul Franco, professor of government: multiple titles by Mike Anello ’65 and Final Sorrow: The Hemingway Pfeiffer Goethe, including Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Faust, and Marriage, by Hawkins, tells the whole, Bowdoin College @BowdoinCollege June 8 The Sorrows of Young Werther, because he is writing a book on somewhat sordid tale of lust, betrayal College Spirit Louis Armstrong (“Satchmo” or “Pops”). Gelatin silver #OnThisDay, 1816: Snowstorm! Rousseau and Nietzsche, and “Goethe forms an interesting (Hadley, Ernest’s first wife, was Pauline’s print. Included in the exhibition On 52nd Street: B link between them.” It seems almost countercultural to read best friend), suicide (not just Ernest), and The Jazz Photography of William P. Gottlieb on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from July that “Robert Ives ’69 was appointed financial support flowing from Uncle Edie Leghorn ’14: Snapper, by Brian 10 through September 14, 2014. Worldwide weather patterns were disrupted in 1816 Bowdoin’s first-ever director of religious Gus to Ernest. Kimberling, because she “heard the by the previous spring’s eruption of Mount Tambora in and spiritual life in January 2013.” general message of the book is that in Rob Pfeiffer ’67 Indonesia. Volcanic dust blocked sunlight and led to “the Congratulations to a liberal arts college life you don’t always get what you want, year without a summer.” Severe cold and major snow- that can affirm faith and spirituality are but what you get you end up wanting… storms in normally warm New England months resulted essential to our shared humanity and which for a graduating senior seems in crop failure, famine, and a mass exodus of residents to the free and adventuresome pursuit facebook.com/bowdoin @bowdoincollege bowdoindailysun.com pertinent.” of wisdom in all fields. Well done, the Midwest from Maine. Abroad, the darkness helped Bowdoin! Send Us Mail! inspire Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel, Frankenstein. We’re interested in your feedback, thoughts, and ideas about Bowdoin Magazine. You can reach us Follow @BowdoinCollege #OnThisDay for 365 Bowdoin facts, tweeted one calendar day Rev. Timothy C. Eberhardt ’68 by e-mail at [email protected]. at a time.

2 BOWDOIN | SPRING 2014 [email protected] 3 Bowdoin Bowdoin Almanac Almanac

Let’s Dance

Seriously Suited What a Ball! Bowdoin Dining The importance of Being Unifi ed Students made a splash at the Ebony Ball in Moulton If you’ve been to a Bowdoin lobster bake, you’ll recognize “The Importance of Being Earnest was done on a very tight schedule— Union in February. The ball, this as the traditional dessert ending the Maine feast. It also in just a little over half the time we had for our fall show,” says an annual party organized by makes a good, if slightly indulgent, breakfast treat. Either way, production manager Jamie Weisbach ’16. “Everyone’s incredible work the African American Society we think it tastes like summer! ethic enabled us to pull it off. What I love about making theater is for all students, is a campus how work put in by dozens of people all has to come together into a tradition more than two BLUeBeRRY CaKe unifi ed whole, and I think the collaboration demonstrated by the cast decades old. and crew was a perfect example of that.” Serves 9 Masque and Gown presented what Wilde subtitled “A Trivial butter for pan Comedy for Serious People”—better known as The Importance of 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour Being Earnest—earlier this year in Pickard Theater. 1 ½ cups fresh Maine blueberries, picked over ½ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/3 cup whole milk confectioner’s sugar Preparation: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour an eight-inch, square cake pan. In a medium bowl, toss the blueberries with one tablespoon of the flour. Add the rest of the flour to a second medium bowl, along with the salt and baking powder, and whisk to blend. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter and the sugar until light yellow and fluffy. Add the eggs to the butter mixture one at a time, beating well after each. Add the vanilla and beat well. With the mixer at lowest speed, blend in the flour mixture alternatively with the milk, beginning and ending with the I Wanna Get Better Real World flour. Remove the bowl from the mixer and gently fold the blueberries into the batter, using a rubber spatula. Transfer inspired Listening Practical advice the batter to the prepared cake pan and smooth the top. Bake • Daithí, “Have to Go” until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out Assistant Director of Annual • Tom Petty, “Saving Grace” Earlier this year, President Mills offered the Class of 2014 practi- clean, 40-50 minutes. Transfer to a rack to cool. Sprinkle the Giving Carolyn Williams • Cash Cash/Valley’s remix of Clean Bandit’s cal advice for entering “the real world” in the form of four top with confectioner’s sugar shaken from a mesh strainer. ’10 has acquired a reputa- Cut into squares. “Rather Be” featuring Jess Glynne ninety-minute sessions on everything from communicating in tion as one of Portland’s the workplace to personal fi nance and leases. “Get Ready for top spin instructors. She’ll • Michael Jackson, “A Place With No Name” Life After Bowdoin: A tell you that it’s all about • MisterWives, “Refl ections” Crash Course on Prac- the music. Here are some • Bleachers, “I Wanna Get Better” tical Skills” included of her current favorites that • OneRepublic, “Love Runs Out” sessions taught by are guaranteed to get you • The Doobie Brothers, “Long Train Runnin’” Mills and other alumni moving. and staff. Visit • Seven Lions, “Don’t Leave” bowdoin.edu/getready • Heather Small, “Proud” to watch videos of • Timefl ies, “Start It Up Again” each session—invalu- able advice for all. • Bruce Springsteen, “Born to Run”

4 BOWDOIN | SPRING 2014 [email protected] 5 “independent research builds problem-solving skills, it builds confidence, it builds critical thinking, and it sets things up for success in any career.”

research on gene regulation in the fruit fly. Alongside Bateman’s summer, and earn a Udall Scholarship for her work in award, Bowdoin earned a $104,000 Beckman Scholars Program climate studies—and she’s still only a junior. “A major part of the award to fund the research of four student-mentor pairs over the reason that I became so interested in science was being involved next three years in fields connected with chemistry, biochemis- in research from the very beginning,” Lindeman says. try, biology, and medicine. Research exposure is just as valuable for students who already The truth is that Bowdoin students have an embarrassment of have strong leanings toward science. Van Tra ’13 entered opportunities to get their feet wet as scientists, often literally, here Bowdoin intending to become a doctor, but, like Lindeman, got on the Maine coast. They can apply for summer fellowships to hooked on research during orientation week. Tra spent the next do research on campus, in the Marine Lab at the Coastal Studies four years (plus a post-baccalaureate position) as an employee in Center, on Kent Island at the Bowdoin Scientific Station, or at sites halfway around the globe. They can participate in research as part of their science courses. They can sign up for campus jobs as lab assistants, design independent study courses, and—the ulti- mate college research experience—take on an intensive yearlong honors project. Some students even get a taste of research before beginning their first classes through a weeklong math and science immer- sion—the Bowdoin Science Experience—that takes place during grab your lab coat and orientation. The program has a sneaky way of taking unsuspect- goggles. at Bowdoin, ing humanities majors and transforming them irreversibly into scientific research has scientists. “When I arrived at a central place in the Bowdoin, I knew I wanted liberal arts. to do something related Bring on THE Opposite page: Ian Kline ’15 at work in Danielle Dube’s lab; this page, left: Jack to climate change, but I Bateman with Tamira Vojnar ’14: above: (l to r) Sunnie Kuna ’14, Emily Clark ’15, thought I would be a gov- Danielle Dube, Ian Kline ’15, Hallie Carol ’14, Van Tra ’13, and Jen Helble ’14. ernment major and pursue international environmen- the lab of chemistry and biochemistry assistant professor Danielle tal policy,” says Margaret Dube, studying and developing therapeutics against disease- Lindeman ’15. Inspired causing bacteria. Now devoted to a career in research rather than by the Bowdoin Science medicine, Tra “is currently deciding between a number of the Experience, Lindeman best graduate programs in the country,” Dube says. spent the next two semes- This kind of training not only informs career decisions but ters working for earth and also helps students build an arsenal of technical and professional By Abby McBride • Photography by Michele Stapleton oceanographic science skills. They leave Bowdoin already familiar with the challenges (EOS) associate professor of planning and executing complex experiments. Many have authored scientific papers in conjunction with their advisors and t a research hub on the coast of Maine, scientists are seasoned researchers well before graduation, working alongside Collin Roesler, followed colleagues from other institutions. They have gained experience busy investigating the biology and ecology of bats faculty members who are leaders in their fields. by a summer fellowship of in presenting their work through the College’s annual President’s and rats, lobsters and crickets, bacteria and yeast, Bowdoin’s dedication to research is unusual in liberal arts col- independent research, a collaboration with mathematics professor Science Symposium and conferences across the country. They’re eelgrass and elderberry. Shedding light on the inner leges, says acclaimed science journalist and visiting faculty mem- Mary Lou Zeeman, and ultimately a decision to double major in a EOS and math with a minor in physics. primed for careers in science—and beyond. workings of marine and terrestrial landscapes. Exploring the ber Russ Rymer. He calls Bowdoin a “gold mine” for students “Independent research builds problem-solving skills, it builds functionality of computer systems and the mystery of particles in his science writing class, who have the chance to observe the Lindeman has gone on to conduct statistical modeling research confidence, it builds critical thinking, and it sets things up for that cannot be seen. Answering questions with serious implica- ins and outs of serious research firsthand without setting foot off in North Carolina, present at a scientific conference in Hawaii, success in any career,” Dube says. “In my opinion, it’s the most tions for human health, cyber security, the environment, and our campus. “There are really interesting things going on here.” line up a position on a research voyage around Greenland this important thing that students can possibly do during their under- understanding of the universe. Others think so, too. Science faculty and programs at graduate training, regardless of where they’re heading.” You might not immediately picture a small college campus as Bowdoin recently garnered two highly competitive national the site of this vibrant research culture, or liberal arts students as awards, totaling nearly $1 million between them. Assistant biol- “There are really interesting Writer, biologist, and artist Abby McBride is assistant director for academic the scientists. But it’s all happening at Bowdoin, where under- ogy professor Jack Bateman was awarded a $797,395 CAREER things going on here.” communications in Bowdoin’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs. graduates in the full range of scientific disciplines are becoming grant from the National Science Foundation supporting his lab’s

6 BOWDOIN | SPRING 2014 [email protected] 7 Inventing a Life

entrepreneur Jean hoffman ’79 has created a career, and several successful companies, out of grit and the willingness to be first.

by Katie Benner ’99 • Photography by Fred Field

cat named Dude and his chronic thyroid condition gave rise to Jean Hoffman’s pet medicine company called Putney. The beloved cat had been prescribed an expensive drug that he’d need to take for the rest of his life, and there was no available generic equivalent. It Awas then that Hoffman had her “aha moment”: pet owners needed “The great companies today change the access to generic medicine, a cost-saving option that accounts for about 75 percent of all drugs prescribed to humans but for way customers experience something.” practically none given to pets. Putney, which is based in Portland, Maine, was born a few years later in 2006.

8 BOWDOIN | SPRING 2014 [email protected] 9 Dude has since passed away, replaced by cats Malcolm and her dad taught her that she could have whatever career she Raccoon. Their pictures hang in the company’s office, and wanted, and he urged her to forge her own path. “ I always thought of her as someone who had this great fearless quality, Raccoon stares out from the cover slide of PowerPoint When she started at Bowdoin in 1975, the school was who just walked into ‘guy land’ with no problem. presentations. The animals at Putney always come first. Their in the midst of a major cultural shift. The Bowdoin Orient faces and stories spur Hoffman and her employees on. in 1971 described it as “a men’s college with women.” Putney has already faced formidable challenges. The Coeducation was a mere four years old, there were few She eventually took a job at the Zuillig Group and still learning how to build and lead teams. “It’s not just about pharma industry is a hard-to-navigate morass of regulation, female professors, and fraternities dominated student life. became CEO of its pharma subsidiary ZetaPharm. She hiring individuals. It’s about understanding how people manufacturing, and distribution. Less than 10 percent of pet Bowdoin classmates say that Hoffman was known as an was twenty-nine years old. ZetaPharm was in trouble, and function together as a unit to make a stronger unit,” she says. meds have a low-cost alternative; and big pharmaceutical iconoclast. “She had this great fearless quality, and walked Hoffman implemented a strategy to turn it around by That means sharing information to help everyone succeed companies want to protect the status quo. In a 2007 lawsuit into ‘guy land’ with no problem,” says Charlotte Agell ’81. expanding business in China and focusing on the generic and not keeping people in silos. against Pfizer, Putney accused the pharma giant of stymieing Bowdoin’s alien environment probably encouraged her to drug industry. “This was a really tough challenge, but I began Putney’s initial challenge was to solve a problem no one distribution of Putney’s take a nonconformist stance, too. “The school felt like a to understand that with hard work and important mentors I had solved before: How does a company get the FDA to drugs. Pfizer countersued, summer camp for guys who were going to be bankers,” says could create a path toward being more successful.” approve the use of generic drugs on cats and dogs? Meeting alleging that Putney had Tony Blofson ’79. “Jean and I were Jews who grew up in After ZetaPharm, government standards and bringing products to market is a engaged in deceptive New York and DC. We were sort of outsiders.” Hoffman moved tall order, but Hoffman says her company has worked hard advertising. The case By senior year she’d moved off campus to a house out in back to Maine from to show that it can meet that challenge. Now it’s time to was settled, and Putney’s product remained on the market. Harpswell with her friends Blofson and John Holt ’79. “She New York City. (“I start looking for new hurdles to overcome. She says Putney “All large companies protect their intellectual property, but was very focused, but I’ll always remember her as someone got this idea that I is starting to focus on a commercial strategy, which means [Pfizer] was particularly aggressive,” says Barry Edwards, the who loved fun,” Blofson says. The three roommates appear in wanted a life,” she finding ways to transform how pet owners and vets get their former chief executive officer of Impax Laboratories and a the Class of 1979 Bugle, along with their friend John Frumer says.) She raised medicines. member of Putney’s board. (Pfizer spun out its animal health and a dog named Maevis, posing in their underwear on a venture funding While Putney isn’t yet a household name, the company business into a company called Zoetis.) wintry day. from IBM to found is doing well. It currently has five drugs on the market and But Hoffman isn’t easily rattled by the rough-and-tumble Newport Strategies, about twenty in various stages of development or FDA pharma business. “The great companies today change the An interest in China opens doors a database that review. Given the fact that the regulatory review process way customers experience something,” says Hoffman, noting generic pharma can take three to six years, this is a very healthy pipeline. that Apple and Google overcame big challenges to redefine While at Bowdoin, Professor Jack Langlois, then-chairman companies The company moved into new, larger offices near Portland’s how we think of phones and web browsers. She hopes that of the history department, helped spark Hoffman’s interest in could use to Monument Square a few months ago. Hoffman hired thirty Putney will change pet ownership by lessening the financial China. He took students on day trips and encouraged them source business people last year and may bring on another fifteen or so this burden of treatment, a cost that can deter people from taking to debate Chinese history and philosophy. “To spend that opportunities and year. sick animals to the vet. much time having fun and very challenging conversations find suppliers of Accolades have rolled in, too. Last year the company was Hoffman’s entrepreneurial roots can be traced back to stretched my mind in a whole new way,” Hoffman says. At a pharmaceutical included in Inc. magazine’s list of fastest-growing companies her childhood in Washington, DC. Her father, Burt, was time when few Americans were in China, she studied at the ingredients. She and it has been named one of the best places to work in editor-in-chief of the prestigious National Journal. Later on Chinese University of Hong Kong her junior year. sold Newport to Thomson Reuters in 2004, started a Maine. Fortune magazine included Putney on its list of the he founded a political consulting firm. He spent time with “I’m a huge believer in a liberal arts education, because consulting company, and confronted the issue of Dude the best small companies to work for in the country. politicians, including Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon, I think that if you challenge people intellectually it almost cat’s health, which led to Putney’s launch. Putney’s success can be attributed in part to Hoffman’s and he groomed his daughter to aim for nothing short of doesn’t matter what they study,” Hoffman says. “If students care “Jean is really one of the first entrepreneurs in our class,” grit. And to her willingness to go into a new business before becoming President of the United States. Hoffman says enough to work hard, it’s a degree that teaches them to have says Dave Brown ’79, a managing partner at the venture anyone else. “Jean brought the focus to companion animals open minds and know how to learn, think, and communicate.” capital firm Oak Hill Venture Partners. “She carved out her before anyone else,” says Michael Swit ’79, a lawyer with The U.S. was just establishing diplomatic ties with the own path with few real role models to draw from.” Duane Morris who specializes in pharmaceutical and medical Chinese mainland when Hoffman was an undergrad, device law. In a world dominated by big pharma, it seems like and American companies were just learning about the Making a start-up in Maine a risky proposition to be the trailblazer. But, for Hoffman, it’s country. After graduation she worked for a trade association the smart play and the one that she knows best. that did business in China. She gave tours to visiting Putney is one of a handful of high-growth companies in Chinese delegations from pharmaceutical factories. Those Maine, a group that includes diagnostics company Idexx Katie Benner ’99 reports on technology and business for the San Francisco- businessmen, who happened to be influential Communist Laboratories and payment processing company WEX. based tech publication The Information. She was for many years a staff writer at Fortune magazine and has been a reporter at TheStreet and an party members, gave her tours of large drug ingredient Building a company in Maine can pose interesting challenges, associate producer and staff reporter at CNNMoney.com. facilities in China. “I wasn’t a chemist or a chemical engineer, particularly on the recruitment side. But Hoffman managed so they didn’t see me as a threat,” Hoffman says. “I established to build a team of sixty-plus people, recruiting much of the relationships with big important factories and helped them management team from out-of-state. In most cases those understand Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quality employees relocated to Maine with their families. standards. That was my entry into the pharma business.” Despite having led three companies, Hoffman says she’s

10 BOWDOIN | SPRING 2014 [email protected] 11 What’s the secret? Belief As he prepares to step down from the helm of Harlem Children’s Zone, geoff Canada ‘74 talks with Cynthia McFadden ‘78 about the challenges, the promise, and the future of changing the culture for children in Harlem and in the country.

aking his way across the packed dining room of Manhattan’s power lunch spot, Michael’s, geoffrey Canada, is easily spotted by a slew of financial and media types—many of M whom quickly make their way over to our table to pay their respects. Canada is used to the attention. The undisputed national role model for education reform for more than thirty years, he recently announced that he is poised to step down as head of the organization he made famous, Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ). The New York Times Magazine wrote of HCZ, “it combines educational, social, and medical services. it starts at birth and follows children to college. it meshes those services into an interlocking web, and then it drops that web over an entire neighborhood.” it has worked. HCZ currently serves 12,300 children; ninety-five percent of their high school seniors go to college. “Founders stay too long,” the sixty-two-year-old Canada tells me. “i want to leave when the organization is thriving, not wait until my successor has to catch a falling knife.” geoff Canada graduated from Bowdoin in 1974, the year i arrived. over the years i had shaken his hand, read his books, and admired him from afar, including being deeply moved by his own shattering journey described in the 2010 documentary, Waiting for Superman. so, the chance to sit down and really talk with this remarkable man was too enticing to pass up. He is commanding but warm, forceful, and very, very funny. He is precisely what you want a pioneer to be. sometimes it’s not good to meet your heroes. This time, it was very good.

by Cynthia McFadden ’78 • illustrations by Marshall Hopkins

12 BOWDOIN | SPRING 2014 [email protected] 13 We started by talking about how Geoff ended up at Bowdoin care what we read, as long as we read. She has read at least a “One of the things i learned was to fight in the realm of ideas.” instead of Stony Brook, and it’s a great story—but you’ll have to book a week ever since I’ve known her. So she would give read it at bowdoin.edu/magazine. We pick up the interview here me (books) after she read them, “You’ll find this interest- just after that: ing.” And I was eleven and twelve years old, reading adult novels. And I loved them because they transported me from I’d be in high school out there. And that’s what saved my been marijuana. It was crack cocaine. It was heroin. If you GC: So I go—and I have no idea what Bowdoin is. I don’t the South Bronx to all these crazy places and wonderful life. All the guys I went to middle school with got involved are in Appalachia, it’s methamphetamine. All the guys, that’s know it’s a great school. As soon as I found out—when I experiences. in drugs and crime, and their lives were destroyed. I was what they do. They go into drugs. They know there’s a went in 1970, it was the most selective school in America—I But that just prepared me, it didn’t save me. out in this little hick town. There was nothing to do after good chance they’re gonna get arrested. It comes with the said, “I can’t make it here. This is way beyond what I can What saved me was an accident of fate. Every time I think school except your homework, and that was really what territory. do.” So the black students called us all together as freshmen, about it, it makes me so angry, that for lots of kids that’s the saved my life. Now, this is the part that people find controversial. and I met the most brilliant black young people I had ever deal. Just an accident of fate. My grandparents moved to this I think the music industry has been powerful. I think the met—I had never seen anything like it. These guys were so little town in Long Island called Wyandanch. At that time CM: But there was something in you that knew, portrayal of criminal behavior—carrying weapons, shooting articulate. They were so educated. And they were telling us, (mid-’60s), Long Island was a really segregated place, and if Geoff. There was something in you that knew to stay people, selling drugs—as a lifestyle choice by smart and intel- “This place is no joke. You’re gonna get an education.” And where you were, to go to Morris High School . . . ligent and talented black people is an absolute disgrace. And I thought, “They could do this to you? They could actu- GC: I think the thing that I knew, Cynthia, that other kids I have blamed the industry for this. In the early years, they ally change you from who I was into one of these guys? I’m didn’t know: I knew there was another world, because I had used to make the argument “We’re just talking about the gonna stay.” Two weeks later, they call my mother from lived in it . . . reality that we see.” That is not the case. Most of these guys Stony Brook and they say, “Where’s Geoff?” And she called are well educated; they’re fairly sophisticated. And the fact me and said, “Look, there was a mix-up. It was the summer CM: Since you’d read books. that they keep sending this message into the inner cities— help.” And I told her, “I’m not going. If Bowdoin can do for “That’s who you are”—working-class and middle-class black GC: . . . in the books. I knew there was a world where peo- me what they did for these other kids I saw,” I said, “I think kids feel pressured to be involved in this behavior to demon- ple weren’t burned and beaten and raped and brutalized, and this is the place.” strate that they can hang out. I just knew there was no way for us to get there from places like the South Bronx, unless you got an education. It was the CM: So what was the lesson of Bowdoin for you? CM: That they’re cool. only way. And even then, we didn’t know whether or not GC: It was two things. It was an actively diverse group of we could get there, but we knew there was no option if you GC: When I was growing up, the worst thing you could be men and, later, women, because they let women in the fol- couldn’t go to college. called was an Uncle Tom. To me, this is the equivalent of lowing year. the pressure these young kids feel. If you’re not involved in CM: And it remains the truth. that life, somehow you’re not authentically black. And unlike CM: Right. I was in the fourth class. the old days, that culture is available twenty-four hours a day, you were black, there were only three or four towns you GC: It’s still the same. It’s still the same. And today, it’s even 365 days a year. It’s just horrible, and it’s all the time. And GC: Actively diverse. The debates were constant. They were could live in, and Wyandanch was one of them. worse for this reason. the music is brilliantly crafted. So it’s too much. You’re four- intense. People were passionate, and they were mostly civil, It’s now in one of the poorest school districts in the state, teen years old. You’re in Detroit. You’ve been listening to although sometimes they crossed over. But mostly civil. So with one of the worst academic outcomes. But for me, CM: Why? this crap for ten years, eight years, six years, and you’re listen- one of the things I learned was to fight in the realm of ideas. it was an oasis. This was private homes, new sidewalks. I GC: My mother would say to us, if we didn’t graduate high ing to some teacher telling you something else. To me . . . The other thing was—which I just know changed me—I had thought I was living in the country. There were four or five school, we’d end up in the garment district folding racks of a personal relationship with professors that went beyond the good public high schools in New York City: Bronx High clothes, right? Which is just a dead-end job. But it was a job. CM: Teacher’s gonna lose. classroom. These were lunches. These were rides out in the School of Science, Brooklyn Tech . . . the same ones there We assumed you could get a job; you just wouldn’t get a GC: Teacher’s gonna lose. Part of the reason we wanted to Maine woods to discuss philosophy of life. It was very much are today. Otherwise, I had to go to my local school, which good job. Now if you don’t have an education, there’s noth- do the Zone is because we think we have to change the a part of my education, being with these brilliant men and was Morris High School, which was just a dropout factory. I ing for kids. culture. women. And I have felt—kids who go to these big colleges, knew if I ended up going to Morris High School . . . who actually don’t get the real professors to teach to them—I Our lunch arrives. . .and I ask Geoff about the high rate of think they’ve missed a great part of education, because that to CM: So talk to me about the success of the Zone, CM: That was that. incarceration for young black men. me was part of the Bowdoin education. because it’s amazing what you’ve accomplished. GC: . . . my life was over. But they had special test prep GC: Today we have 954 kids in college. Ten years ago, for middle school kids to try and pass the specialized test (to GC: If you’re fourteen and you have gotten every signal CM: Geoff, how—why—were you able to survive when I had about fifty kids in college, if you asked a kid get into one of the good schools). But my hormones kicked from the education department that you are a failure, then your childhood and make your way to Bowdoin? growing up in Harlem, “Do you know anybody going to in. When I was fifteen, I didn’t take any of it seriously, and you can reasonably say, “There’s no way I’m going to col- college?” they would probably say, “I think there’s a girl on GC: My mother had four kids—husband left us when we I could not get in any of those special schools. I took the lege, and there’s no way I’m gonna get a job,” you begin to 120th Street, but she is so smart.” And you say, “Well, you were all infants. She worked and did the best she could do, exam; I did not get in. My life was over. think, “Well, how can I earn some money?” It’s an accident could.” “No, no,” they’d say, “You have to be brilliant to go spent some time on welfare. But she was a really avid read- I went to my grandparents and asked if I could stay with which drug is in your community. So if you’re poor and to college. No one goes.” er. And she was way beyond her time, because she didn’t them, and they said that if I lived there the next three years, you’re young and you’re male, in the inner cities, it’s mostly When you have 900-plus kids in college, my kids will

14 BOWDOIN | SPRING 2014 [email protected] 15 come home (in the summer), and that nine-year-old would America. That’s what it is. People fight and they scratch their gonna be for one poor person to raise a child successfully—I think every black kid they see in Harlem is in college. Every way into it. Well, what does it take to do that? You find think we’ve done a very, very poor job in talking to young one. This idea of how do you change the norm—it is now solid families and decent communities, decent schools—and people about it. I’m not talking about religion. I’m talk- abnormal to be nineteen and not in college versus the oppo- a belief that you can make it. We think those common ing about data. What does the data say and how do we talk site. So that’s one thing. denominators are the floor, not the ceiling. Our kids will to kids about that and about smart decisions and not-smart Here’s another thing. I don’t know one of my kids never be privileged, they’ll never have trust funds, but they decisions? I think a lot has to do with whether or not kids that have come through my program that is in jail. have a shot at the American dream because they’ve got this believe they have a future. This belief that you should post- So people have said, “Well, are all the kids gonna get sort of support. pone or avoid certain kinds of events—having children, risky jobs?” No. Because the economy sucks. There’s just no way behaviors, other things—because you have a future. Kids around that. But I don’t have any of my kids going to col- CM: Talk to me about President Obama. Is he head- who don’t believe they have a future, it doesn’t make any lege and coming back and thinking, “I’ve been looking for a ed in the right direction? sense to them. job. I can’t find one. I think I’m gonna go on the corner of GC: We have been disappointed. Every year, he puts money I don’t want the teacher who can’t teach algebra to 175th Street, sell some weed.” Hasn’t happened. They don’t into Promise Neighborhoods, and Congress takes out as try and teach my kid about why they shouldn’t become do it. They go out. They look. They get depressed. They much as possible. They’ve done it every year. We were the great. We really need to think about whose job that is, how get anxious. They don’t turn to crime, and they don’t turn model. There are twelve places that are replicating our work do we get those messages to young people, because we’ve to that destructive behavior which has driven communities with federal dollars. got a huge problem. You know this heroin epidemic going like Harlem forever, and I think that’s really important. on in the white community right now? The third thing that I think is really significant in our CM: But they’re just not going to give the president they can create jobs. I don’t see any indication that that will work is that we’ve sealed our pipeline. I know how many a pass on anything. sustain us. CM: Oh, yeah. It’s terrible. high school seniors I have. I know how many kids in the The other piece of this is technology. Technology is GC: No one seems to be really talking about it for real. It’s seventh grade I have. I know how many two-year-olds I GC: They’re not. It’s just partisan. I thought it was brilliant moving at a pace that I think Americans have their heads in the way they set up the balance of powers—that’s great. But a horror show. These are American young people. Who is have. And we know those kids are gonna stay with us. And the sand. Everybody keeps asking me, “Geoff, why are you talking to them about this stuff? If Google can trace a flu it’s not just the number of kids going to college. If you when you get people who really will not put the country’s focusing on college and not on industrial jobs?” I said, “Can interests first, that’s a problem. outbreak by seeing who Googles “tamiflu,” before the CDC look at our college persistence rates, kids who actually are you guarantee me those jobs are gonna be here four years can find it —which they will tell you in a minute they’re able going to graduate in six years, it’s higher than in white from now? No, you can’t.” There’s some smart kid sitting CM: We are at gridlock. to do because of the sort of massive database they have— America. It’s totally crossed all of those boundaries. right now at Stanford, trying to think about how to do that how is it that we can have outbreaks happening in com- GC: We are at gridlock. And I think the president’s grown job using technology, and when it happens, it’s over. There’s munities, and social scientists, and politicians, and religious CM: What’s the secret sauce? into power, and I think that’s a mistake. I think he said, a whole group of jobs that are gonna disappear, and there’s leaders don’t understand we need to get these messages to GC: I think it’s the fact that when you make a commit- “I’m gonna do things through executive order, because I’m nothing you can do about it. You can’t put that genie back our young people? I think that this is part of what’s left for ment to young people that is an open-ended—it’s not like not fooling around with you guys anymore.” And doing in the bottle. And that is happening in everything. us to do in this country, and really smart and talented folk— I’m going to be with you through middle school and then, that is one thing. Saying it publicly I think is something Bowdoin kids who believe in the common good—that’s God bless you. It’s that we are going to be there for you else. I don’t think you give in to that thing that says, “I’m CM: And it’s all the jobs that you can get if you something they need to aspire to, in my opinion. and help you with whatever comes up. If it’s health, we’re not gonna play with you guys anymore. I’m taking my ball, don’t go to college. going to help you with health. If it’s a job, we’re going I’m going home.” I understand that. But I think part of GC: All of it. I know there’s a group of academics who are CM: I can’t believe you’re going to to help you with employment. If it’s mental health, we’re the job of leadership is to call out folks for a higher calling, upset because I say all kids need to go to college. And this is completely withdraw from public going to get you counseling. If it’s family stuff, we’re going even if they’re not going to come, even if they’re not going what I tell them: “I know you don’t think all my kids can go life. to help your family. to join you; to say to Americans, “Look, this is about the to college, but I bet you think your kids will go to college. I nation. Let’s put the country first.” GC: No, no, no. I am going to go into The secret sauce is something that we call middle-class bet there’s not even a doubt in your mind.” And not one of the Harlem Children’s Zone one day a So I think there are a couple of things about the presi- them has ever said, “Yeah, I have doubts.” Not one. People dent. First of all, I think he absolutely saved America through week, I’m going to stay on the boards, “if you look at our college with money are not thinking about what technical skill to and I’m going to continue a very active the financial crisis, and I don’t think people give him any get their kids. persistence rates, kids who credit for saving the whole financial industry. advocate life, although I don’t know But I do not see the jobs necessary in this country. The what that means right now . But I’m not actually are going to gradu- The check arrives and I ask Geoff about being the first recipient of going to go and get a rocking chair and country is doing just fine without all of those people work- Bowdoin’s Common Good Award. That’s another story you can ing, and I think that’s a problem. Companies are making pick up smoking a pipe or something or ate in six years, it’s higher read at bowdoin.edu/magazine, and it’s a great one. Here we pick try and chill out for a while. money. Everybody’s feeling good. Except we have this huge up the conversation again as we talk about the role of culture. than in white america. it’s group of folks who don’t have a job, and we expect they’re not going to get a job, and I think that’s bad for the presi- Cynthia McFadden ’78 holds a law degree from totally crossed all of those GC: I think that we’ve got to really deal with this issue Columbia and is senior legal and investigative cor- dent, and I don’t think it’s because the Democrats or the about culture. I think we’ve pooh-poohed it. The idea of respondent at NBC News. Prior to joining NBC, she boundaries.” Republicans didn’t get their way. They keep saying how spent twenty years at ABC News, the past nine as a family, the economics of family, meaning how difficult is it co-anchor of Nightline.

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Bowdoin Liz Shepherd ’09 picture perfect

iz Shepherd ’09 confesses she’s always been a profi les l planner—and that includes mapping career paths. But she never would have imagined finding herself working for one of the world’s most popular social networking sites. “My friends always poked fun at me for being behind when it came to technology. In fact, I didn’t take a single photo while studying abroad in Paris,” harlie Roscoe ’66 has a she admits. Clong record of fitting in As a communications associate at Instragram, Liz is community service around at the crossroads of technology and photography. “I his day job. Throughout his uncover how people are using the platform in cool twenty-seven-year career at ways and share their stories with the press. I love the the Portland accounting firm storytelling nature of my job.” BerryDunn, Roscoe volunteered And the visual nature of Liz’s art history major with multiple nonprofits, has been an asset in the role. But the path leading from Maine Adaptive Sports to Instagram was an unexpected one. “While and Recreation (which he a sophomore, I worked on Tom Allen ’67’s helped found) to the Bigelow congressional reelection campaign. The experience Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. drew me to politics, and after graduation I got a job “I don’t know how I found in D.C. working for my hometown representative, any time to work,” Roscoe Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.” admits. But when pressed on Liz continued on a political path, eventually serving the work that has been most as assistant press secretary for the Democratic National significant to him, Roscoe Committee reporting to Congresswoman Debbie doesn’t hesitate: founding the Wasserman Schultz. After Bowdoin friends introduced nonprofit Schools for Refugees her to Instagram, Liz encouraged Wasserman to in Uganda. launch an Instagram account. When Roscoe signed up “Wasserman’s account was featured by Instagram to mentor a Sudanese refugee while I was managing it. I was in Charlotte for the at Portland High School nine Democratic National Convention and received years ago, he didn’t anticipate an email saying her account was to appear on what this relationship would their ‘suggested user list.’ That was my first direct come to mean to him. Not engagement with Instagram.” only did Bosco Oringa become Liz decided to return to her hometown, San like a third son to him, but Francisco, where one connection after another led to Roscoe also helped Oringa the position with Instagram. “You have to follow the Charlie Roscoe ’66 reunite with his lost mother in career path as it unfolds,” she says. Uganda. Inspired to help even Personally, Liz uses Instagram to keep in touch Accounting for the Common good more, Roscoe resurrected a with Bowdoin friends. In fact, she’s helping set up and primary school in the refugee manage accounts for Bowdoin’s Reunion Weekend. settlement where Oringa grew “I can’t wait to return to Maine. I’m making a point up. Today, the school educates of snapping a selfie with President Mills.” 700 students and has nineteen full-time teachers.

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ydia Bell ’00 has long been Lydia Bell ’00 linterested in the intersection of academics and sports—the All in the Balance balancing act of student-athletes in Division I football was the focus aul Batista ’70 is of her doctoral dissertation. Now p insightful, opinionated, associate director of research at and possessed of a lovely the NCAA, Bell analyzes survey baritone voice. This data, oversees a grant program, combination has attracted and more broadly examines the attention of television how the culture of sport shapes networks, which have made education and how education him a frequent guest on impacts sport. their news shows. Over “We want to know how three decades, Batista, a trial student-athletes engage with lawyer in New York City, has their campus community. How appeared on CNN, MSNBC, do they negotiate the balance CBS, and HLN to provide between athletics and academics? analysis of many sensational What systems are there to get court cases, including those them engaged in their education? of O.J. Simpson, George What obstacles, if any, are in Zimmerman, and Whitey their way to fully embrace the Bulger. “I love it,” he said, student experience?” of his TV spots. “They are The NCAA gathers and shares not taped shows; they’re live. data with colleges and universities These are high-wire acts and and others, including the media. require quick thinking.” “If a story comes out in the When he’s not defending media, their data may only be his own clients, Batista writes anecdotal, or maybe they’re only poetry (he’s been published in referencing the experience of the Atlanta Review) and novels, ten to twenty student-athletes. and he trains for marathons We can tell what happens to all (he’s completed twenty-five). 5,000 in a specific sport. It’s an His third novel, the legal amazing data source.” thriller Borzoi Killings, is out The NCAA is clearly a perfect in June. fit for Bell, who as a Bowdoin Batista, the son of student helped found what is Portuguese immigrants, grew now the McKeen Center for the up in Massachusetts. Under Common Good. the tutelage of Bowdoin poets “So much of what I learned Louis Coxe and the visiting putting together the Common Howard Nemerov, Batista’s Good Grant, I used when I put Paul Batista ’70 “creative roots were planted,” together the NCAA Innovations giving him the base to pursue Grant. I enjoy environments Courtroom poet a diverse and stimulating where there are a billion things career. If he were to retire going on. It keeps things now to play golf, Batista said, exciting.” he’d “shrivel.”

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Jon Brod ’93 on Brod ’93 is a Jquintessential New Tech gourmand Yorker. Born and raised in Brooklyn and now nestled in the Upper West Side, Brod is one of New York’s tech elites, having co-founded the hot new tech app Confide, an off-the-record messenger that allows professionals to send and receive secure text messages. Brod transitioned from the big city to Bowdoin with the goal of surrounding himself with students who are simply “a cut above” in every aspect. When asked what he would have told his twenty-year-old Bowdoin self, he responded, “Stop playing Tetris and learn how to code. It’s a must for Internet entrepreneurs.” Previously a top executive at AOL, Brod had his fair share of corporate experiences, but his insatiable penchant for innovation would lead him Max Karner ’56 to branch out on his own. His greatest challenge with surveying a Career venturing into the start-up space has been being brutally honest with himself. “I’ve learned to trust my instincts and figure out when I should listen to others.” Brod has always been up for Photo: Scott Smith new challenges. In his Bowdoin days, he was a Meddiebempster, ax Karner ’56 spent less than a year at Bowdoin, but engineering projects, including sewer and water treatment, had a three-minute stint with he always considered himself a Polar Bear. He grew residential subdivision design, land development, and utility M the rugby team, and was an up in Brunswick and in high school worked on a surveying systems design—accounting along the way for underground integral part of the toga party’s crew one summer for Wright & Pierce, an engineering firm streams, rail road bridges, gas mains, city streets, and water return to Chi Psi. And now he’s in Topsham, expanding the runways at the Naval air station. drainage. ready to be whisked off to his “There were a lot of long, dusty survey shots establishing In “retirement,” Karner managed the development of a next adventure. runway grades,” he recalls. 1,500-acre town center in Palm Coast, Florida, with several miles Brod says his love for After high school, he matriculated at Bowdoin but left of roadway and miles of domestic water, wastewater, electric, building, creating, and eating before the year was complete, first hitchhiking to Florida and phone and cable lines, and decorative street lighting, as well as may lead him to France. “I’d then joining the military as a paratrooper. After his service an irrigation system, a thirty-foot fountain, fourteen ponds, and love to go to Cordon Bleu he enrolled in the engineering program at the University of a central park with a sound system. “I turned seventy-five at the because it sounds incredibly Maine but left there also, this time to take a surveying job at end of this project and considered it my last,” he says, turning fun, exotic, sexy, and the Connecticut Yankee nuclear energy plant. to “more heavenly work, in which my wife and I devote about fattening.” Over the years Karner worked on a wide variety of three-quarters of our time to our church food pantry.”

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Bowdoin Alum Notes

Eileen Sheedy-Currie ’74 Surviving in a Big Way

Photo: Fred Field ileen Sheedy-Currie ’74 has a personality the size of Texas “I’m a cancer survivor,” she declares, and then without Eand will tell you in a big way about the love she has for missing a beat, quips, ”I mean really, you think I picked this her adopted home state, about making it in a man’s world, and hairstyle? Seriously? I’ve got the DNA nobody wants.” about being a survivor. Currie says among the joys that come with being in her After a brief stint in teaching, she took on the corporate sixties are being comfortable in her own skin and not giving a world and a career in headhunting. hoot what anyone thinks. “I did it for the sheer challenge,” Currie says. “No women It is with this kind of candor that Currie offers a criticism of were doing it.” her alma mater. Where the class of 1975 has been celebrated as That business would take her from New York to Boston, the beginning of true coeducation at Bowdoin, Currie points where she opened her own firm, to Houston, where she to what she calls “the ghost women”—the female students relocated in 1982 after marrying John Currie ’73. already on campus in 1971—who she says aren’t given proper One of the few female students on campus during her time acknowledgment. at Bowdoin, Currie says it helped to have spent so much time Still Currie speaks fondly of the impressions Bowdoin made around men in college. on her, including both the drive to do superb research and the “Entering the workforce in the late 1970s was like going to confidence to say, “I don’t know, but I will find out.” Currie a Beta party.” has employed both to survive life’s challenges, big and small. Currie uses that same humor to handle many of the challenges “You get out of bed every single morning. You face it. You in her life, including chronic illness, which began in her thirties. go on. You push. Period.” Bowdoin played a sweet role at the wedding of Margaret Gormley ’06 and David Donahue ’07 last October.

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lifetime strengthening the minds developed towns along this today because in 1936 Lake sprung up since then. Thanks for with her sister and brother-in-law “Shirley and Dick Fickett are Send us news! 4104 College and bodies of countless students route, which is now essentially Bowdoin, including 15,551 acres of wonderful remembrances on that that featured a tour over fifty-one well and Dick notes that he is Station, Brunswick, ME 04011 in Maine and beyond. That life- Route 2 in northeast Montana. surrounding wetlands, was named weekend! Celebrating my 85th miles of dirt road to Yellowpine, approaching ‘the outskirts of 78’ or [email protected] long dedication was recognized They advertised lots for sale, and a National Wildlife Refuge. It is a birthday later this year, and still in population thirty-four! and feeling it every morning when If there’s no news listed for Sunday, Oct. 13, when Zdanowicz many were sold to farmers and major stopover on the migratory pretty good health. Just not doing “Jay Dings reports another he does his two miles—but feels your class year, it’s not because was named to the Maine Sports businesses. The company built route of hundreds of birds and so much traveling these days. wonderful year, is still in good fortunate that he is able to feel it. we’re neglecting you! The Legends Hall of Honor. The Maine a 23-bay roundhouse for their water fowl, is home to many Hopefully, will be able to attend health, and hopes everyone else “Kathleen and Bill Gardner majority of Class News has Sports Legends started 20 years engines, and secured a water varieties of reptiles, and a major my 65th in 2017!” is too. [Last] April was highlighted remain active with oil painting, always been self reported, so ago to honor individuals for their supply, and by 1917 this whistle- refuge for pronghorn antelope. Peter K. Race: “We were by a trip to Italy. September was quilting, and volunteering. send us an update and rally contribution to youth athletics and stop had become a town. Naming James Bowdoin would certainly honored by sons, family, and marked by his nineteenth, and “Sally and David Seavey your classmates! academics and to raise money the town ‘Bowdoin,’ as with the be surprised, and hopefully friends with a 60th wedding probably best, trip, which began in enjoyed two major trips [last] for scholarships for high school choice of names for other towns, pleased, to know that his surname anniversary party in September, Burch Hindle ’53 with future Athens. It was wonderful learning year—four of the Hawaiian athletes.” From a Scarborough seems to have been a random is attached to such a beautiful including wedding party members Bowdoin applicants, his four Hindle about Greece’s history and Islands in April and May, then a 1942 Leader article, October 14, 2014. act. The town of Glasgow, a few and important wildlife refuge.” and long-time friends Ray Biggar grandchildren, Tripp (12), Will (10), Gar mythology. road caravan of the Grand Circle of miles west of Bowdoin, was The article that sparked Jack’s and Ben Coe, missing only John (6), and Piper (4). “Mimi and Russ Longyear upper Arizona and Utah. Richard E. Bye “celebrated his so-named because the settlers interest in the Bowdoin-Montana Morrell. Enjoying retirement began 2013 with two weeks in “Lois and Bob Estes stay active 1951 memorial service last May for 94th birthday in CA with a martini thought that the name would connection can be found at www. living community and still surviving Cancun, then some time in France, with a grandson now at nearby Jack Daggett “recently came Charlie Leighton ’57. It was held and a Maine lobster for lunch. appeal to potential settlers from fws.gov/refuge/bowdoin. various medical issues including and summer in the Berkshires. Washington University. [Last] April across the name of Bowdoin, at the New York Yacht Club in How is everybody else?” Scotland. By 1919, Bowdoin had Ruth’s triple bypass in December.” Unfortunately, an October bike was marked by a trip to the Smoky Montana, in a nature conservancy Newport, RI. Over 500 attended, 400 residents and a post office. trip was spoiled by a fall, in which Mountains and the fall by one magazine. I had never read 1952 including many from Bowdoin. 1943-1949 But, in 1920 Great Northern Mimi fractured her pelvis. No to New England for a wedding, that there was such a town in Robert Hitchcock: “I have many 1953 Off to Key West for the month Send us news! re-routed the tracks to shorten the surgery, but painful recovery that visits with family and friends, and Montana, or elsewhere. About fond memories from my wife Send us news! of March to break up this long [email protected] route, and Bowdoin’s days were progressed through wheelchair, foliage viewing. 1915, the Great Northern Railway and I attending my 60th reunion [email protected] cold winter on Cape Cod. Caught finished as people moved away. walker, cane, and (prior to “June and Miles Waltz Company was establishing a in 2012. Wonderful to see the up with Tut Wheeler ’57 last In 1935, the last hotel and general Christmas) walking unaided. continue to epitomize the Energizer 1950 rEUnion route from St. Paul to Seattle. older buildings that were there in September when he was in a store were destroyed by fire. The 1954 “Vicky and Harry Carpenter Bunny for which they were jointly “Scarborough (Maine) resident The company thought that it the early ’50s and interesting to senior tennis tournament here in town of Bowdoin is important Don Rayment is “looking forward announced they were off to Florida honored as ‘Volunteers of the Paul Zdanowicz has spent a would help business if they see the new buildings that have Chatham. He looks great!” to our 60th (hard to believe!) and a for sun and exercise walking those Mount Washington Valley.’ In renewal of friendships. The years golf courses. His golf ball collection between projects, they managed go by but the friendships don’t 1957 now totals 2,330. some travel that included a cruise age (happily!), and returning to the Class Agent Ed Langbein: “[Last] “Nancy and Len Bachelder to the Maritimes and a drive campus is always a big plus.” October, Northeastern University recounted an exceptionally busy through the Finger Lake region of Culture is a dedicated the Jack and Cathy and stressful year that sadly NY, with mandatory tastings at the 1955 rEUnion Grinold Training Center at its included the loss of their youngest numerous wineries. Key Ingredient Send us news! annual Head of the Charles rowing daughter, Christine. They managed “Flora Cowen shared the news [email protected] reception. a trip to Alaska, something that that granddaughter Sophie will “Jill Perry writes that she has had been on their ‘bucket list.’ It be a member of the Class of ’18, kept busy with volunteering, an was a major trek that began in mid- joining sister Talia Cowen ’16 1956 occasional game of golf with August in Calgary and progressed in Brunswick. Tom Needham Jerry Kirby “attended the friends, and a September trip north into the Yukon to Anchorage. and family are well and active, as are Janet, Daniel, and Del Potter. Sue and Jim Smith doing well CHASE TAVERN FARM ~ BOWDOIN in Tampa, enjoying good health “We set out to find a new home with its own character. We’ve found it in Maine.” A CLASSIC MAINE FARM and three grandchildren within a couple of miles. Mary Jane Former Bon Appetit editor, Pat Brown, may occasionally miss New York but she has discovered that living 135 ACRES ~ $575,000 Smith is delighted to announce at Thornton Oaks affords plenty of cultural opportunities. “If you’re looking for interesting things to do, the September arrival of her first you don’t have to look very far,” Pat says. “Auditing classes at Bowdoin College; the Bowdoin International grandson, Calvin, to go with two Music Festival; Portland Symphony; Portland Stage; the Portland Museum of Art; the Bowdoin Museum— granddaughters. Eddiemae and and world class restaurants too.” Retirement Community KATHY GALLANT ~ 207.841.7569 Bob Wagg continue to shuttle www.ThorntonOaks.com betwixt Virginia and Texas, where What awaits you at Thornton Oaks? To learn more about the community contact Henry Recknagel at RE/MAX Riverside~1 Bowdoin Mill Isl. ~Topsham ME 800-729-8033 or at [email protected]. 800-729-8033 her mother is preparing to mark WWW.CHASETAVERNFARM.NET birthday number 104.

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“Mary Lou and Jim Millar’s played Santa Claus at a party Bernice Born depicted a polar bear in the Lion’s Club and a (more “Nancy and Ed Langbein 1794 gathering in Boston.” Martin Gray: “Daughter, 1961 annual report identified [last] for international students, staff, labeled ‘Bernice in her fleece, recent) graduate chairing the enjoyed a paddleboat trip up the Allegra Kathryn Gray (University Send us news! year’s highlight as their daughter and friends at the East-West with a note indicating that global Anne Arundel County Council. Sue Mississippi last April. Starting 1958 of Delaware ’14), was selected as [email protected] Audrey’s December wedding. They Center. Marsha and Nate Winer warming had not yet reached and Stan Blackmer enjoyed an in New Orleans, they progressed the Colonial Athletic Association’s Robert Packard: “2013 was the continue to be well and active are delighted to announce that Pittsburgh. alumni gathering in Houston—but north with stops at Baton Rouge, Scholar Athlete of the Year for first year since 1998 that I had volunteers at St. Francis Hospital. in November Caleb became an “Jim Kushner continues to Stan was disconcerted to find several plantations, the Vicksburg 2013 for women’s soccer.” 1962 not climbed a peak in a foreign In November they completed an official member of the family. work in the lab one or two days himself the oldest alum present. battlefield, and debarked in Nils Blatz: “Classmates Steve country. 2014 will not be a repeat. eight-day cruise up the Rhine “2013 was a ‘strange year’ a week, leaving time to practice “Dietmar Klein regularly Memphis. A highlight of the trip Polederos, Paul Constantino, February of this year found me on 1960 rEUnion River from Amsterdam to Basel. for Sherrie and Logan Hardie, the piano and take care of a huge makes short excursions on was discovering two Bowdoin Fred Rollinson, and I enjoyed a the summits of Blue Mountain, Charles Mylander was profiled Joyce Hovey wrote that she is with Log all fixed up (quad garden. In November he and Mary his bicycle (noting the other alums in the contingent: Matilda mini-reunion over the weekend highpoint of Jamaica (7,402 feet, in an article entitled, “The Bonus tutoring two thirteen-year-olds in bypass, carotid artery, and Maze had a pleasant trip to Paris. In cyclists with slim figures tend to McQuaid ’79 and Tricia Rice of January 25, rooting for the ice twelve-mile round-trip hike with Years: Math professor retires math, doing a little of everything procedure) from a situation contrast, Laurie and Kent Hobby overtake him without much ado). ’81. Appropriately rested, Nancy hockey team (we lost a close, 3,400 feet of gain), and Pico to new challenge in medical else, and helping two nuns with triggered by ‘classic snow have been soaking up the rays in In November he attended the and Ed proceeded to move (within well-fought game to Williams Turquino, highpoint of Cuba (6,476 research.” The article reads, their English. Hopefully, she and shoveling.’ Athletic focus has Florida. Reed Chapman wrote annual meeting of the Bowdoin Brunswick) to an apartment in by one goal), inspecting the feet, seventeen-mile round-trip “Though Charles retired from grandson Nathaniel will be coming shifted from skiing and tennis that son Clark is doing well at Club of Germany. Held in Mainz, Thornton Oaks, which entailed the magnificent rink at Chi Psi’s hike with 6,000 feet of gain). the Naval Academy, he was up to Maine this spring to check to golf, augmented by staying Dickinson College and will be busy a sightseeing tour ended at the shedding of considerable ‘stuff.’ ‘Boody Bowl,’ pausing for a These summits represent my 40th not about to retire from life. . . out Bowdoin. busy with the Communal Cultural playing tennis in the spring. Julie synagogue, which has been rebuilt “June and Miles Waltz report somber moment at the site of and 41st country highpoints. I A physician-friend asked if he “John Simonds finished his Center, gardening, reading, and Ray Smith report a strong in an exceptional modern style. that they are in a similar mode the storied, recently razed Kappa was motivated to share this news might be interested in working eighteenth Honolulu Marathon volunteering, and celebrating their Bowdoin presence in Severna Park Exactly 75 years ago, in the early and apparently facing identical Sig house, enjoying breakfast at after reading ‘Locating the Pilar,’ with Dr. Martin Rosman at the and (padded with a pillow) 40th anniversary. A card from with ’54, ’55, and ’57 represented morning of November 10, 1938, as challenges. They continue to be the equally celebrated Brunswick a letter to the editor in Bowdoin Breast Cancer Center at the a pupil in the nearby elementary active volunteers (twenty-one non- Diner—where we bumped into Magazine, winter 2014, by Anne Arundel Medical Center school, he had been witness to the profit organizations for Miles). Harry Matheson ’14, forward, Richard T. Andrias ’65. Having a on research projects requiring still-burning main synagogue of “David Webster announced who gave us a brief, upbeat drink at the Hotel Ambos Mundos statistical expertise. Much of Mainz amid the smoldering ashes that a new cancer drug is ‘kicking analysis of the hockey game— and a lunch at La Bodequita del his advisory work involves the and of the looting of Jewish shops in’ and should be good for ten and were joined for dinner at Medio were part of my Jamaica/ statistical analysis of quality- and homes by Nazi troopers. to fourteen months. After nearly Joshua’s by Steve Beale ’64. Cuba trip. Also in the same issue of-care studies in addition to “Arthur Strout writes that eight months off a bike, he did Finally, in a very close cribbage of Bowdoin Magazine, I was advising physicians and other he and Carol are planning to a few weeks of spin training at final, Nils edged out Fred, drawn toward the alumni profile researchers engaged in breast return to the Alps where they’ve Vero Beach and was able to do recapturing the legendary Philip of Peter Anastas ’59. A year cancer research projects.” From hiked for more than fifteen years. a thirty-minute, five-mile ride Spencer Trophy.” behind me, I remember him well a Maryland CapitalGazzette.com Specifically, the French National outdoors. All this is a prerequisite improvising at the piano at the article, March 23, 2014. To read Park of the Vanoise. to a 60th Reunion Ride, when Theta Delta Chi House. All in all, the full article, visit that website 1963-1965 the average age will be 82, and an excellent issue of Bowdoin.” and search “Mylander.” Send us news: which might start in Freeport. Bill Page: “I spent most of my [email protected] Comments from Ted Parsons, life teaching English in overseas ’65, you have a reunion Reed Chapman, and Kay and 1959 American and international coming up! www.18cragmoorlane.com Dick Lyman (and Colliope) reflect Ray Babineau: “My health is schools: Taipei American School, their intent to participate. Enjoyed declining but I take great pleasure Singapore American School, the Enjoy this ocean side home on Bailey Island possessing superior craftsmanship with breathtaking seeing Ann and John Snow, Ted from the fact that granddaughter 1966 American School of Isfahan (Iran). Parsons, Susan Morey, and a host Madeline Rutan ’16 has made it John Raleigh writes that he and views of Casco Bay. Completely renovated in 2006 & 2007 this Shingle Style home is located on Also was a Chinese Mandarin of familiar faces at the February three generations at Bowdoin.” “Bob Pirie, and Bill Torpey, 2.06 acres with 199' of ocean frontage. With nearly 2800SF of living space this property offers translator in the army, a Peace three Sigma Nu brothers and spacious indoor and outdoor areas. Includes three bedrooms and 3.5 baths. Facing due east, Corps volunteer in Nepal, and a roommates, “got together last enjoy ever changing views of crashing surf on the rocky coastline. Wrap around porch, ocean writer and editor in Saudi Arabia. summer for lunch and some Taught English for fifteen years side patio, and mature landscaping complete this wonderful home. Asking price $1,394,000. catching up after many years. The at Thammasat University in mini-reunion took place at Bill’s Bangkok, then retired. If you’re beautiful home on Cape Cod. Bob For more information: going to retire, Thailand is a came up from his home in Merritt good place to do it. My words of www.18cragmoorlane.com (L to r): Jason Papacosma ’92 (with his Island, FL, and I from Hampton, 765 Route One Pete Molloy, RE/MAX Heritage daughter, Charlotte), John Papacosma wisdom regarding old age: Just NH. Bill and Bob are retired—I’m about the time you think you’ve Yarmouth, ME 04096 [email protected] ’58, and Victor Papacosma ’64 not so lucky.” See accompanying celebrated Bowdoin’s Homecoming got everything all figured out, photo. 207-846-4300 207-632-1084 football victory over Colby at Cram Three Class of 1966 Sigma Nu brothers and roommates got together last summer your body starts falling apart.” Alumni House on November 9, 2013. for lunch and some catching up. (L to r): John Raleigh, Bob Pirie, and Bill Torpey.

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1967 had well over 100 Top 20 hits accompanying photo. Catamount, A North Country of that rival college. Thirty-five to campus in January found me on topics related to Biddeford, them at St. Francis High School Kevin M. Kelaher: “We are in the years before and during Dick Anderson: “In order to Thriller, is amazingly still selling relatives of Susan, from three stopping by the vacant lot where Maine, history. In 2007, I was in Louisville. Last September, I spending more time these days our time at Bowdoin in the ’60s. take advantage of my current well and my next novel, Murder generations, celebrated a great the dear and departed Kappa Sig awarded the Biddeford Historical retired from my second career, at our condo in Florida. I am still Every performer was excellent, state of good health and to have at Stillwater Lodge, is due for family gathering. Bowdoin had house one stood. I paused for a Society’s Distinguished Historian as food writer for the Louisville practicing dentistry, but at a slower congenial, and approachable. more time to enjoy life, including publication very soon. I will the largest representation, which moment to pay homage to the Award for articles on local history. Courier-Journal, which I did for pace, and with a lot more time off. I’m already booked for next my grandchildren, I retired from be on the road again visiting included Betsy’s brother Dave good times and swear I saw the My wife Sue and I celebrated nine years. I am staying involved No real plans to retire completely, November, when the cruise will Mass Capital Resource Co. last bookstores, libraries, and other Comeau ’67, nephew Peter ghost of Mo Viens rise! It will be our 44th wedding anniversary on with local food issues as editor of although Father Time has begun to have Brenda Lee, Dion, Jay and year. I had a terrific thirty-two- venues. I always look forward Comeau ’97, and niece Michelle forty-five years of marital bliss January 30.” Food & Dining, Louisville Edition, a send me messages. Golf remains the Americans, Martha and the year career there and still loved to my annual fly-fishing trip Comeau Hoffmeister ’95.” this summer.” BJ Markel: “I keep in touch quarterly magazine about the local our favorite recreation. We Vandellas, and Ricky Nelson’s my job, but I decided that it was with Bruce Jordan. This past Bill Gibson: “Not much new Michael Guignard: “Since with Mers and Ben (née Bradley) restaurant culture, a part-time gig belong to Salem Country Club in twin sons.” time to move on. I am very glad year we spent a few days in the to report since our 40th—just retiring, my wife and I have Bernstein. My son Noah is on a that allows me to work pretty much Peabody, MA, and Isla Del Sol in Cambridge University Press that I did, and contrary to the Rangeley region in Maine. I have older, slower, less tolerant, traveled extensively. In the past baseball scholarship at St. Gregory’s as much as I want to. In December, St. Petersburg, FL. If you are in the recently published The Anatomy beliefs of most of my friends also been in communication with and far less liberal. I divide year, I have gotten together with University in Shawnee, Oklahoma. we sold our little camelback area and would like to play, call my of Revolution Revisited: A and former colleagues, there has Bill Williams. Bill lost his son my time between golfing at Chet Freeman ’68, Clark Irwin Still work at Walt Disney Parks and shotgun house and moved into a cell: (781) 883-7879.” Comparative Analysis of England, not been a day that I have been William to addiction in 2012. I Andover CC in MA, and golfing ’70, Greg Darling ’70, and Tom Resorts Online; also own the Save condo, a fine old 1920s-era high- Derry Rundlett: “After France, and Russia by Bailey bored! I certainly don’t miss the strongly urge everyone to support in Maine at Cape Neddick CC Johnson. Also bumped into the Cat! screenwriting business. rise in a neighborhood a couple of performing as Neil Diamond and Stone, professor of history and daily commute into Boston. Donna the Where There’s a Will Fund. for eight months of the year. Gig Ortman at a Bowdoin-St. Tons of recollections— nearly miles from downtown. My wife, Elvis Presley on the steps of the international relations at the had knee replacement surgery Bill is courageously sharing his The remaining four are spent Lawrence lacrosse game. Our first putting a Class of ’69 beanie on the Ann Stewart Anderson, continues Walker Art Building with the Don University of Houston. Stone’s last summer so travel plans were experiences in the hope that he in self-imposed ‘woodworking grandchild was born three years chapel spire remains a biggie. We her career as an artist, having Campbell Band during our 45th “530-page study aims to update postponed, but we are looking may help others from going down hibernation.’ Working with the ago, and our son and daughter-in- got so close!” turned one of the bedrooms in the reunion, I decided to take the Crane Brinton’s 1938 classic forward to upcoming trips to the path of drug addiction.” alumni office and being on the law are expecting in August. Since Ronald Mikuluk: “I left my condo into a small, well-organized so-called “Malt Shop Memories” of comparative revolutionary England and Italy. For the past Bill Georgitis: “A forty- Alumni Council for the last few the birth of our first grandchild, first career, as English teacher studio. We will have been married cruise out of Florida. On that analysis, The Anatomy of three years we have enjoyed the year career in medicine and years has afforded me a first- we have been doing more in independent schools, in for thirty-three years this June. We cruise I saw and met the very Revolution. It utilizes the latest beauty of St. Barth’s. Donna and endocrinology wound down two hand glimpse at the remarkable babysitting and less traveling. I 2002, after thirty-two years in have traveled considerably over the rock and roll performers I had research and theoretical writing I get together with Linda and years ago. Life remains as busy goings-on ’neath the Pines. A visit continue to do research and write the classroom, twenty-five of years, mostly in Europe. We may played on my WBOR radio show in history, political science, and Walter Abernathy regularly and and rewarding as ever with more in 1967-68, including The Four political sociology to compare joined them at Homecoming last time for regular exercise, reading, Tops, Petula Clark, Neil Sedaka, and contrast, in their successive fall. We enjoyed a Bowdoin win volunteerism, travel, and family. Gary Lewis, The Crystals, Little phases, the English Revolution of and the terrific tailgate party that My wife, Betsy, and I visited Anthony and The Imperials, The 1640-60, the French Revolution their daughter Lauren Fitzgerald Guatemala with the Bowdoin Happenings, The Tokens, Lesley of 1789-99, and the Russian ’00 and her husband Brian ’99 had alumni and undergrad spring Gore, and Bobby Rydell. Comedian Revolution of 1917-29.” set up in the end zone.” break teams to volunteer at Safe and actor Robert Klein was also Seavey Bowdoin “attended Passage, the non-profit established on board. Combined, these artists 1968 Williams hockey and Colby by Hanley Denning ’92. Our visit basketball games in Brunswick on was enriching, rewarding, and Send us news! Jan. 25 with classmates Peter unforgettable. Hanley had amazing [email protected] Driscoll, Gig Ortman, and Bill vision and spirit. In May 2013, my Kelley. I’m still working and have dad, William James Georgitis 1969 been in Boston banking for forty- ’42, passed away at the age of Walter Abernathy: “Linda and five years.” 93. Per his wishes, a low-key I are both retired and enjoying Rick Davidson writes that in interment ceremony was held, led our ‘freedom’ immensely. After this reunion year, he and his wife by his five sons, with only family forty years with Verizon, I do not Jane “will also be celebrating members and a two-member miss the commute to Boston. We 45 years of marriage. We have military honor guard in attendance. now get to spend three weeks a seasonal travel trailer at Orr’s Dad, my brothers Jim ’68, John in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on Island campground so we have ’71, and I were all members of ‘spring break’ without worrying been spending quite a bit of Zeta Psi. Dad served as agent for (L to r): Brian Fitzgerald ’99, Lauren about what is happening at work. time in the Brunswick area. I am his Class of ’42 for many years Abernathy Fitzgerald ’00, Linda Linda and I will be celebrating our presently working as a computer and dearly loved his alma matter. Abernathy, Walter Abernathy ’69, 45th wedding anniversary with a and canine pal, Bowdoin Whittier technology integration specialist A western Caribbean cruise took Fitzgerald (aka, Bodie), took in the cruise in French Polynesia on the for the Governor Wentworth place over New Year’s in honor Bowdoin-Middlebury football game at Paul Gauguin—2014 is shaping Regional School District in of Betsy’s sister, Susan Comeau, Whittier Field on September 21, 2013. up to be a good year.” See Wolfeboro, NH. My first novel, a Colby grad and former trustee

30 BOWDOIN | SPRING 2014 [email protected] 31 AlumNotes AlumNotes Class News Class News be ready to start staying closer to to experience the culture, the Lakes High School) in 2008. I am golf with Andy Neher every year 1970 RU E Nion profit boards (the public Enanta as communications director for (unfortunately), Ray Linnell and home, but we are renewing our food, and the new geography of pastor of Holy Comforter Lutheran now and it has really been fun “Paul Batista’s newest novel, Pharmaceuticals and the private Charlie Baker’s campaign for Fred Cappellini. Regrettably, passports just in case.” each new place. I’m happy to Church in Washington, DC, twenty- to catch up with him. Have also The Borzoi Killings, was published Mevion Medical Systems), and governor of MA. Lovely wife Sue one of our last meetings was Jim Pierce: “Kate and I report that everywhere I have seven miles from where I live, in run across Bo quite a bit since in May by Astor + Blue Editions. two non-profits (Boston Latin (Westbrook ’70) is still picking up the untimely passing of our class are retired and live in Portland, been has been remarkably safe Reston, VA. During the time I was daughter Meredith ’17 [started] Paul’s novels Death’s Witness and School Association and Northwood after me and inching ever closer to president, Johnny McClellan, Maine. I keep in regular contact and friendly. I stayed in a small teaching, I was assistant pastor at Bowdoin! Have talked to Brio Extraordinary Rendition recently School). Will soon step down from beating me on the links. We spend last year. However, I did manage with Bowdoin as part of the finca in Nicaragua with my own there (on a volunteer basis), and and run across Peter Driscoll at were released as audiobooks Northwood after serving sixteen a fair amount of time in Bermuda, to get Stem, Gordon, and Halo to southern Maine student interview cabin and three hot meals for $20 shortly after I retired from the hockey games making a fool of by audible.com, narrated by years there with fraternity brother where I chair the homeowners Opening Day last year at Fenway.” committee, and we both attend a day. We rented horses there for school system, the man who had himself with his Polar Bear hats, Clinton Wade, an award-winning Ed Good, headmaster, who will board at our private residence Ed Good: “Judi and I are art shows. Having spent most of an entire morning for $7 each. In been pastor for fifty years retired. masks, and with his pants with reader whose credits include retire in June 2015. Have two club and enjoy getting away from finishing up year seventeen in this our lives as New York apartment Thailand $30 a night would get I succeeded him. It is a very whales or something on them. books by John Grisham and grandchildren by oldest child New England weather. Besides tour of duty, twenty-one in total, at dwellers, we are now facing you excellent accommodations. small church with about twenty Saw Seavey Bowdoin at a James Patterson. Paul is now a Sarah ’00. Son Daniel ’02 to be Bonus, I stay in touch with Steve Northwood School in Lake Placid, the joys and trials of home- The most dangerous place I members, but very nice, good recent Bowdoin hockey game (he regular commentator on the CBS married this month; and son Tim is Carey, Gordon Sewall, Mark NY. I started here after Brown owning. Ours is a 108-year-old have ever been is here in San people. I volunteer once a week was with the Whale Pants guy.) network. He recently started his still single in Boston and working Haley and, to a lesser extent graduate school in 1972, due double house that never lacks for Francisco—I was carjacked at at the Franklin County Historical Lots of fun for me to reconnect fortieth year as a trial lawyer improvement. Current avocations gunpoint by three girls, and I Society in Chambersburg, PA, with Bowdoin through Meredith. in New York. In November, he [include] gardening, painting, and got into a fistfight in front of my about an hour-and-three quarter’s What a great school it is! finished his fifteenth New York trap shooting.” office here in the Mission! (I had drive from my home. Other than Meredith is getting better grades City Marathon.” Also, see Alumni John Pierce: “In the last to wait until I was 50 years old to that I am completing the work of than I did our freshman year— Profile section, this issue. three years I’ve been able to get my first black eye).” editing the papers of my mother’s they graded harder back then! All The Cabin travel outside the US three to Harvey Prager “I recently family (seven volumes) and I my kids are doing great. Lisa is 45, four times a year. With two co-authored New York Attorney have all but finished a religious Kelly 43, JT 40, and Meredith 19! 1971 partners, my medical practice Discipline Practice and Procedure, horror novel and am hunting for a I have eight grandkids with more Christopher “Almo” Almy: “I am Restaurant sad about losing Johnny Mac. He is sort of on autopilot. All my published in October 2013 by publisher for it.” to come, I assume. I will have a 552 Washington Street, Bath destinations, except for Scotland, New York Law Journal Books.” John Samp has “been retired beautiful Irish obituary (perhaps was a great guy and a good friend. have been third world countries. Bernie Ruffin “retired from from teaching since 2009.” even the much sought-after Way too young to leave us. I hope My principal interest is bird the Fairfax County Public Schools Tim “Sully” Sullivan: “I see ‘continued on next page’).” to get back to the school soon and The Cabin opened its doors in June watching but invariably one gets (where I taught history at South Rabbit all the time. I’m playing visit with the fine bunch of people of 1973. Serving our local and far we had in the Class of ’71.” away friends for over 40 years. Boudewijn Baud reports: My wife Albertine and I recently CABIN PIZZA? With the only real hand tossed became grandparents of our first pizza in Maine. We are proud to grandchild, Catootje, daughter The only real pizza in Maine. serve good food and warm spirits of our eldest son Jochem and — Portland Newspaper in a rustic, nautical atmosphere. his partner Neeltje. I am retired, “ ” Located in the south end of Bath but still active in consultancy One of the best in New England. and investment. I have planned across from Bath Iron Works. The — Boston Globe a kayak week in France in June “ ” front section of the restaurant was with Magnus Lund, Finnish About as good as it gets in Maine. once a rope mill in the historic foreign student of Class 1971, who now lives in Provence, “ — Downeast Magazine ” shipbuilding days. In its past, it [along with] my youngest son has been a barbershop, ice cream A local tradition. Some would argue Jasper and his girlfriend Sarah. parlor, and sandwich shop. Now Bill Branting “recently the best pizza in the state of Maine. “ our menu includes pasta dinners, retired from my dental practice — Offshore Magazine ” of thirty-seven years. I am subs, salads and, of course, pizza. currently trying to revive a Stop by for a wonderful meal. former commercial blueberry Hours of Operation: farm in East Kingston, NH.” Sunday – Thursday: 10am – 10pm Open year round, 7 days a week Steve Buckley “retired from Friday – Saturday: 10am – 11pm Ernst & Young LLP in June 2009 for lunch and dinner. Cash or after a thirty-seven-year career. checks accepted. ATM on premises. Currently serving on two for- 443-6224 Local delivery available.

32 BOWDOIN | SPRING 2014 [email protected] 33 AlumNotes AlumNotes Class news Class news largely to Sid Watson who was of my grown kids live in the daughters, Kiera, will be getting Ted Verrill: “Three generations 1972 1977 School, Vet School, Law School, interests continue to shape the here running a hockey school with Portland area, and my oldest married in April, then my son of Verrill family alums—me, Send us news! “United Way of Greater Schools of Education, Journalism, game of baseball. While [on Charlie Holt. I work with Steve lives in Cambridge with my two Sam ’14 will be graduating Dana ’72, Dave ’83, and Emma [email protected] Milwaukee recently named David Communication, Fine Arts, campus], he also offered an Reed ’69 and did work with Erl grandchildren and my English son- from Bowdoin. Sam has been ’10—gathered to celebrate the Lubar chairman of the board. Agriculture, and so forth, as well afternoon negotiation workshop Hardy ’70 for nine years before as the College of Liberal Arts and for fifteen students.” For more, see in-law. Well, not everything can be competing for Bowdoin in cross- 65th wedding anniversary of elder 1973 Lubar is president and chief he retired to Arizona. We have perfect.” country and track all four years. David ’50 and Anna. Son, Gordon executive officer of Lubar & Co., a Sciences, which is my college. community.bowdoin.edu/news and Saul Greenfield: “My wife, Dr. four grandkids, two in Kennebunk, Patrick McDonald is “still He was able to earn All-American (unfortunately, Cornell ’10), is at family-owned private investment The award recognizes sustained see accompanying photo. Linda Brodsky, passed away earlier Maine, and two in Lake Placid— living in Australia but am semi- status in 2012 and currently holds Macy’s Internet; and daughter, firm in the Milwaukee community commitment to doctoral education Jonathan Ramin: “I am proud this year from head trauma. She was all unspoiled by grandparents, of retired now, after near thirty-nine the school record in the 5,000- Sarah (unfortunately, Emerson for more than 50 years. Lubar and mentoring and repeated to report that my niece Lily Ramin a professor of otorhinolangology course.” years in my Steiner work at meter run. We have high hopes ’14), is part-time at SlumBrew joined Lubar & Co. in 1983.” success in finishing and graduating is a member of the Bowdoin and a nationally prominent pediatric Mark Haley “retired on Warrah. I’m presently doing some that he will be competing at the (for all those microbrew fans). From a United Way of Greater doctoral students.” Class of 2017.” otolaryngologist. She was also December 31, 2012, from BAE tutoring of high school students national championships again this Wife, Florence, riding herd on Milwaukee news release, March Jocelyn Shaw “moved from a major force in advancing the Systems. While I still consult for and helping my wife, Liz, with her winter and spring. On the home me and animals, as I pursue my 17, 2014. 1980 rEUnion North Muskegon, MI, to Fruitport, them and others, I don’t miss the business. We finally moved out front, I have been putting in many second career in renewable energy cause of gender equity in medicine. MI, last spring. Despite the tough “Although few students will frequent trips to the mother ship to the beautiful Blue Mountains, hours organizing volunteers and development with a biomass project Although a Bryn Mawr graduate, housing market, my house sold ever get the chance to hash out in London. Have moved back to at an elevation of 3,000 feet, working on developing a local in Vermont and tidal range energy she thoroughly enjoyed our Bowdoin 1978 right away. My son Zachary (26) $200-million-multiyear contracts Maine (Cape Elizabeth) and still about seventy-five miles west forest park in our community. projects in Cobscook Bay, Maine, reunions and made many friends on Send us news! got married in October. He will for the best baseball players have the house at Sugarloaf. of Sydney. Leura has a very So far, we have developed four and Scots Bay, Nova Scotia.” those occasions.” [email protected] be graduating from Grand Valley in the world, they could still I eschewed the opportunity to temperate climate and we’re glad new hiking trails and made Craig Williams: “I continue to State University in 2014 with a learn a few negotiating tips freeze to death at Sugarloaf in to be away from most of the hot significant repairs to two trails love the event planning and catering degree in sociology. My daughter 1974 - 1976 1979 from the guy who does it for a January and escaped to Vero weather. There’s even a little bit open to snowmobiles and ATVs. business. Now in our nineteenth Megan (28) is happily employed Send us news: Leslie Anderson “recently living. David Prouty, general Beach. Went to a couple of Sox of snow around here in the winter. This spring I will be installing year, Churchill Events continues to at Beaufort Books as managing [email protected] won the University of Florida’s counsel for the Major League games [last] summer with Stem, Son Kaylet is working for the signs and informational kiosks grow and provide lots of anecdotal editor. In addition to knitting, I’ve ’75, you have a reunion Graduate School Doctoral Baseball Players Association, Buck, and Gordo. Great fun. Two University of the Sunshine Coast to help direct visitors. Anyone fodder for that book I plan to write. taken up spinning and weaving.” coming up! Mentoring Award. This award was on campus [in April] to give in Queensland and is halfway interested in visiting the park can And the event planning is expanding is competitive across the entire a talk on power, money and how through a PhD. He’s a terrestrial find directions at: www.china. beyond northeastern New England University, including the Medical collective bargaining and players’ ecologist and presently working on govoffice.com. Click on Thurston (even have a Texas wedding this a koala survey north of Brisbane. Park.” year!). Our older daughter, Molly, His wife, Cara, runs a Steiner day Gordon Sewall “will be joined me last spring—it’s great care centre. Grandson Malu is retiring from Milton Academy to have another family member DRUM & DRUM fifteen and still at high school. He on July 1. This experience has involved, and enables Linda and me REAL ESTATE

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1981 - 1982 leading wine broker/importers. ten and is busy singing and playing any of the Star Wars films.” Jonathan Fanburg is “working enough to travel to Cuba in Britt Wolfe: “On July 1, 2013, I Navigating Life and Learning Send us news! He is former Chairman of the the piano. Charlie is still a lawyer Jill Clay Carrick is “enjoying as a pediatrician and adolescent December for a week with a made a major change by becoming after High School, was released [email protected] PA Liquor Control Board serving at Verrill Dana. I am working part- time in both PA and Maine. I medicine doctor for Maine Medical healthcare delegation as part of the principal of Sacopee Valley nationwide today by Zest Books. under governors Tom Ridge, Mark time teaching swimming and as teach middle school science and Center and MaineHealth for the the People to People Ambassador High School in Hiram, Maine, after Here’s what Wendy Thompson, Schweiker, and Ed Rendell. He a social worker at Maine Medical computers at Wyoming Seminary last two years and loving what program. Great people, food, six years as principal of Biddeford former admissions officer at 1983 was named Wine Enthusiast Center.” Prep School in northeast PA. I do. In November, I was the music, cigars, rum, and coffee. High School.” Bowdoin had to say about it: ‘I am Jane Kimball Warren “had Man of the Year and received the Alex Beale Powers: “We are I’m science chair of primary recipient of the Maine Public Beautiful country. We visited Judith Ellen Yarranton so enjoying reading Undecided and such a great time at our 30th American Wine Society’s Award living in London for the 2013-14 and middle divisions and am Health Association’s Ruth Shaper Havana, Cienfuegos, and Santa Rossebo has been “living in Oslo know it will be a terrific help to reunion [last] summer—it just of Merit. He is former Chairman school year. Howie ’84 is teaching energized by helping propel our Award for work in public health. Clara. My roommate, Roy Hibyan, for twenty-one years now. Working me and my clients as I help them doesn’t seem possible that so of the PA Disciplinary Board for full-time at the American School in STEM initiatives. Also having fun It turns out the only other doctor was a great guy and just so at ABB Corporate Research. Every navigate the college admissions many years have flown by—and Lawyers and Former Chairman of London and I am subbing there in with a grade 3-8 environmental to receive this in the last twenty happened to be a 1967 Bowdoin Thanksgiving we get together with process. Your new book is both everyone looked great! I’ve been the PA Board of Law Examiners.” the middle and upper schools. We club. Family time, church, tennis, years was another Bowdoin alum, grad.” See accompanying photo. other Americans and friends living entertaining and informative happily spending a lot more time From a Newman Wine news have our two dogs with us and are kayaking, snowboarding, and skiing Dora Mills ’82. Catherine Roberts is “chair in Oslo at Joe LaCasce ’86 and and I know many students will on campus of late watching my release, December 22, 2013. traveling on breaks and weekends. are favorite ways to spend my John Frazer: “In September of Mathematics and Computer his wife Cecilie’s.” benefit from your guidance. Your son Chris ’17 swim for the Polar Our boys come over to visit.” time.” 2013, after twenty years at the Science at College of the Holy career exemplifies the Bowdoin Bears—so exciting! And we 1985 - 1986 Paula Birnbaum has “been Jennifer and Andy Carlin National Rifle Association, I started Cross.” 1988 experience with your commitment share our weekends watching teaching at the University of San are “living in Columbus, Ohio. my own law practice in Fairfax, to helping the lives of others and Send us news: Anne Marie Sanders has Prosper Barter Kasrel: “Two our daughter Kate who swims for Francisco for ten years now, and Andy does compensation work VA, focusing on federal and state your willingness to take risks.’ [email protected] “been serving as the interim of my poems (“The Heart” and Swarthmore. They evidently have just became academic director for American Electric Power and I firearms law.” Thanks Wendy, and Bowdoin!” ’85, you have a reunion executive director of a research “Warrior”) were chosen by Boston their father’s genes!” of our new museum studies teach pre-calculus at Andy’s alma Pandora Johnson: “I have coming up! exchange program with eight Poet Laureate Sam Cornish for the master’s program. We’re preparing mater, Columbus Academy. Our seen a lot of Jen Warr and Tara Norwegian universities—very Boston Mayor’s Poetry contest. 1990 rEUnion students for careers in all types of daughter, Emily, is a freshman at O’Donnell in Boston this year. 1984 rewarding! Anyone have They are currently on exhibition at Michael McCormack: “I left 1987 museums—art, science, history, George Washington University I am still living in Ridgefield, “Jonathan H. Newman has connections with Norway that I Boston City Hall.” Bowdoin after freshman year to Brenda Philbrick Bacall: children’s, etc. Hugh Davies and our son, Sam, is a junior at CT, and working as a life coach. been appointed by Governor Tom should know about?” “Bernstein Shur announces return to Canada and spend most “Charlie ’86 and I moved our hosted a fabulous mini-reunion at Middlesex School.” My daughter was sailing in the Corbett and confirmed by the Elizabeth Olsen Stevens: Frederick Lipp as practice group of the next three years in surgery family in 2007 to a 230-year-old his Schramsberg Vineyards [last] Kim Conly is “still living in the International Orange Bowl Regatta Senate to the three Member PA “I’m living in Honduras at an leader of the firm’s business or post-surgical physical therapy house in North Yarmouth, Maine. summer, and it was great to hang UK and survived the wettest winter in Miami over Christmas break and Horse Racing Commission for orphanage for three months while law practice group. Fred has as part of the leading edge of the Needless to say, the renovations out with Anne Marie McKenna, in 20 years! My new puppy, a it was fun to see she was racing a three year term. Jonathan is on sabbatical from my teaching job been a shareholder in the firm Crohn’s Disease wave. Managed and repairs of the house keep us Muffy King, Eleanor Scott, Staffordshire bull terrier named Ed, against some Bowdoin students. Chairman and CEO of Newman in Exeter, NH. I’m so glad to miss and member of the business to scrape through a degree at the busy. Our son Parker is a senior Ellen Delea, Erin Crowley, Tony almost floated away. I have gone This [past] year I hiked the CT Wine, one of the country’s the cold weather.” law practice group since 2000. University of Waterloo, thanks in high school this year so we Stais, John Graves, and more!” back to school to study executive portion of the Appalachian Trail, Laurie Zug Quimby: “My He was selected based on his largely to steroids, medical have been doing the college Paul Boutin: “I have been coaching, which I am really climbed to the top of a 60-foot husband, Peter Quimby ’89, excellence in corporate practice exemptions, and kind-hearted search. He enjoys skateboarding, named medical director for Health enjoying.” mast, and went hang gliding for became the headmaster at and understanding of clients’ professors. Moved to Edinburgh playing guitar, his friends, and is Care and Rehabilitation Services Tamsen Harding Endicott: the first time.” Governor’s Academy. I am objectives.” From a Bernstein Shur the day after my last exam, where currently working two part-time of Southeastern Vermont. This is “Dominic and I are looking forward Cynthia Latham has “been volunteering as a physician in news release, January 8, 2014. I met my stupendously fantastic jobs in addition to school. Katie is the designated agency providing to the graduation of our oldest working as a guardian ad litem for Boston at a homeless shelter for wife, Elspeth. Entered the asset a sophomore and keeps very busy mental health care services to the daughter, Rebecca, from Vassar the past year. I represent children women. Our daughter will be management industry after flirting with school and swimming. Tori is residents of Windham and Windsor College in May, and of our second in the court system that have been 1989 attending Salve Regina in fall 2014 with journalism and completing counties, covering all of southeast child, Julia, from Rockport High abused, abandoned, or neglected.” Genevieve Anderson Morgan: and our son is a sophomore in high an MBA at Edinburgh University Vermont.” School in June. Our son, Nick, is a was “fortunate “My latest book, Undecided: Michael Lent school.” and have lived very happily in the Ed Bryan is “shocked that Alex high school sophomore busy with center of Shanghai for most of Beale Powers has not watched drama and music.” Jill Carrick ’87 and her husband the past seven years, part-owning Charlie. a research/consultancy firm. No LAND - Mere Point, Brunswick, Maine kids but a long string of cats who

have been taught to play kitchen- Very private, heavily wooded, 1.4 acre lot. Trees, 75-100 years old. Situated at counter hockey with mushroom end of right of way, 175' ocean frontage, westerly across Maquoit Bay. caps. I keep waiting for an application from a Bowdoin grad Close to marina and public boat launch. to arrive here so I can demonstrate some unreasonable favoritism, but Mike Lent ’87 and Roy Hibyan ’67 Alex Beale Powers ’87, Howie Powers Anne Ethel Burnham ’90 and Carol James L. Fife ’51 have so far had to make do with a enjoyed a couple of cigars in Café ‘84, and their family atop the Sydney Mallory ’90 spent time with friends in 207-725-8282 • [email protected] string of Middlebury alums.” Oriente in Old Havana, Cuba. Charlie ’86 and Brenda ’87 Bacall. Harbour Bridge on December 26, 2013. Oakland, CA.

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James M. Record was practice in Yarmouth and Portland co-founded by Tom Davidson, to see family every summer, and Thompason Hine LLP in whom we welcomed in February Farmington, Maine, after finishing Forest ’77. Such a pleasure to find appointed vice president of for more than ten years. In 2007 Jon Chapman ’96, and Ramon no trip home is complete with a Cleveland, Ohio, elected Corby 2013.” residency in Colorado, and I am connections to Maine around the academic affairs at St. Joseph’s she expanded her practice to Martinez ’96, “has announced visit to campus.” J. Baumann as partner. From a Neil Patrick Clinton: “After practicing family medicine in world!” Healthcare System (SJHS) in, include medical acupuncture the opening of a new corporate Thompson Hine LLP news release, serving eight years in the Marine Farmington. We enjoy being close Cindy Kim Manion: “My Paterson, NJ. From a SJHS news and integrative health. She has headquarters in Washington, 1997 January 7, 2014. Corps, I found my way to law to Sugarloaf and the mountains. husband and I had a baby, Aiden. release, January 13, 2014. an enduring interest in whole- D.C. The new office is based in Anne Bradley “recently moved school. I am currently enrolled in We have an almost eight-month- He’s now almost five months old Lei Shishak: “My cookbook person healthcare and wellness Georgetown’s historic Papermill to Portland, OR, for a new position my final semester and plan to sit old son, Enzo, who has already and pure joy!” Beach House Baking was education. She maintains a building. As part of its national as privacy counsel at Nike. My the Massachusetts and Maine done a great deal of biking, Ferris Lawrence: “Cassia and 1991 published by Skyhorse in May website dedicated to integrative expansion, the company is also husband and toddler and I are still BARs. running, and skiing with us.” I purchased a home on Miami After, a the new novel by 2014. It features beach-inspired and preventive healthcare, and opening new office spaces in adjusting to the dramatic change Meaghan Curran Guiney: Robert W. Ervin “started Beach in October in preparation for Kristen Waterfield recipes for baked sweets along she hosts The Dr. Lisa Radio Hour Chicago and in Boston’s Innovation from Los Angeles, but what we’ve “Brian is still working at Ervin Architecture in 2012 and it our newest addition to our family, Duisberg, was with stunning color photographs.” & Podcast. The show airs on District.” From a PR Newswire lost in sunshine we’ve gained in Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler is thriving. It is a LEED BD+C full- Dominic Cordeiro Lawrence. published by Engine In December, Fortune.cnn.com Sundays at 7 a.m. on WPEI 95.5 article, January 16, 2014. amazing local food, wine, and as counsel in the bankruptcy/ service architecture design firm. Cassia continues working at XAPT Books in February. re-ran the fall Bowdoin Magazine FM 95.9 FM, at noon on WLOB music.” restructuring practice, and I’m Past work includes the Bangor as an IT Consultant, while Ferris Christopher Linkas: cover story by Andy Serwer ’81 1310 AM and can be streamed Robin Bellanca Seifried: in my second year as clinical Blaze Restaurant, DownEast is the Regional Vice President of “[Last] summer I 1995 rEUnion about San Francisco Mayor Ed from wlobradio.com, listened to “Jason and I welcomed our assistant professor with the school Orthopedics medical facility, and OEM Solutions-Latin America for moved with my family from New Anand Marri: “I have been Lee ’74, with photography by at doctorlisa.org, and downloaded son, Logan James Seifried, on psychology program at Fairleigh Bangor Family Dentistry. Current Anixter International.” York to London. The kids are appointed vice president and Brian Wedge. from iTunes. Belisle also writes September 28, 2013.” Dickinson University in Teaneck, work includes two houses in Sara Lenherr is “now in attending the American School head of economic education about various healthcare topics Julie Bourquin Deland: NJ. Our boys, Conor and Brendan, Maine, another medical facility, the midst of fellowship at in London and I am continuing for the Federal Reserve Bank of through her work as wellness 1998 “We are living happily in Boston, are growing at an alarming rate!” and a four-store strip mall.” the University of Michigan to work at Fortress Investment New York. I’ve taken a research editor for Maine Magazine.” Send us news! where I’ve been since graduation. Gretchen Selcke Zimmerman Lindsay Harris is in neurourology and pelvic Group. Still returning to Maine for leave from my role as associate [email protected] Last fall, I assumed the position “welcomed our daughter, Belén “completing my book on the reconstructive surgery and health summers, though!” professor at Teachers College, of acting director of admissions Amanda Zimmerman, on October history of photography in Italy services research. (I’m a urologist). 1993 Columbia University, to serve as at the Harvard Graduate School 1. Auntie Amanda Boothby as a postdoctoral fellow at the I am also working on a master’s Khurram Dastgir-Khan: “After the highest ranking officer for 1999 1992 of Education, which has been (Belén’s namesake), visted us in American Academy in Rome. I degree from the School of Public re-election to the National education in the Federal Reserve Jeremy Litchfield, founder of the Maine Magazine reported in an exciting though challenging Nashville in October.” had the pleasure of meeting two Health. My husband and I are Assembly of Pakistan in May System nationwide.” Brunswick-based recycled apparel December that family physician opportunity. I’m also the proud Kendra Emery: “My husband alumni at the Academy in the enjoying the small town feel of 2013, I assumed office in In The Blessings, a new novel by company, Atayne, addressed Lisa Belisle “has joined Topsham mother to Reeves Julia Deland, Nick and I have moved to fall, Joe Farrell ’77 and Ann de Ann Arbor for right now, with lots January 2014 as a member of the Elise Juska, textile industry peers and students Family Medicine and Brunswick of mountain biking in the summer federal cabinet, i.e., Minister for “several generations at Maine College of Art in Family Medicine. Before beginning BRunSWiCK – This truly beautiful custom-built and cross-country skiing in the Commerce in the Government of of the Blessings, a February, where “scores of leaders her work in Topsham, Belisle home is close to Bowdoin College and situated on a winter.” Pakistan.” Philadelphia-based, in Maine textiles and apparel maintained her own private .46-acre fully fenced lot with lovely landscaping and : “We’re Irish-American gathered to brainstorm ways to Megan Lewis Hwang stone patio. On the first floor you will find an open living on the coast of NH now family, come make the textile industry strong, kitchen with raised breakfast bar, dining area with 1994 and loving it. I am still practicing beautifully to life in a deceptively as well as collaborate with young, access to the back deck, a front-to-back living room “EverFi, Inc., the critical skills (part time) as a small animal simple tale that examines the local talent.” From a Bangor Daily with gas fireplace, formal dining room, and office education technology leader,” veterinarian at a busy practice in foibles, disappointments and News article, February 7, 2014. space, all with hardwood floors. The second floor Hampstead. is a global passions that tie family members offers two bedroom suites, two additional bedrooms, Frank ‘99 full bath, laundry room, and bonus room. Additional brand manager for Timberland. together,” reviewed Publisher’s 2000 rEUnion surprises await. $369,000. Our daughter, Callen, is four-and- Weekly. . . . “The reader leaves Leigh Hoenig Alberti is “living on a-half, and our son, Ryder, is two. feeling lucky to have spent some Cape Cod with my husband, Lewis, Summer weekends are spent at David Potischman ’92 and crew on time in their presence.” vacation. and son, Kai. I’ve been teaching BRunSWiCK – Imagine living one mile from the beach, winter weekends on yoga for the past six years and Bowdoin College and having walking trails at your back the mountain.” 1996 recently opened up a yoga studio door! This well maintained contemporary home has Mai Le Libman: “Over the last Beth Knauff Miller is “the in Dennisport, MA, Power Yoga of everything you need; formal living and dining rooms, eat-in kitchen, family room with fireplace, huge master couple of years, I’ve embraced Cape Cod.” assistant head of upper school suite with private office, second floor laundry, and the unexpected adventures of at St. Anne’s-Belfield in Gwen Armbruster “joined The a finished basement. Special features include a new my start-up, Savione, which is a Charlottesville, VA. I still teach OutCast Agency in San Francisco as Pensotti boiler, security system, new roof shingles, hot crowd-sourced guide to a virtual Spanish, which I love, and spend an associate business partner in the tub, and professional landscaping. $398,000. mall of indie stores and open Aaron Wirsing ‘96 in Bristol Bay, the rest of my time coaching People Ops (HR) department. The markets in the Boston area. It Alaska, “where I spent three weeks teachers. Both of our daughters, OutCast Agency is a PR firm that has been an exhilarating ride John Simko ’92, daughter Ashley, and [last] July exploring patterns of Hannah (10) and Chloe (7), attend specializes in tech/start-ups with with many ups and downs, trying son Sam, sitting on a railroad track in sockeye salmon consumption by MORTON REAL ESTATE (207) 729-1863 [the school]. We get back to Maine offices in San Francisco and NYC.” to build a product that is useful, Greenville Junction last fall. brown bears.” 240 Maine Street • Brunswick, Me 04011 • www.MaineRe.com • email: [email protected]

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relevant, and impactful. I wouldn’t country, including world premieres Terijo Sylvester: “[Last] Over the past year I’ve started Independent School Association of my high school roommate, and I our dog, She-ra, and I moved to Adrienne Oakley: “My have made it this far if it weren’t for San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe August I decided to venture out working on a new diagnostics Northern New England (ISANNE) a was the one to introduce him to Astoria, Oregon. After a six-month husband, Chris, and I welcomed for my husband, Arkady Libman, Opera, Minnesota Opera, and NYC and start my own residential assay for Alzheimer’s disease few months ago.” Megan.” break that we took to explore life our son, Miles, into the family on and all of my amazing Bowdoin Prototype Festival. I also completed design company, Noteworthy and after a few trials on clinical Megan Delage Sullivan: “My Bryan Falchuk: “While I’ve in Pacific Northwest, I took a job May 30, 2013. He is a very happy friends who have been supportive my first film, Monsura is Waiting.” Designs. I have been drafting samples this year will be seeking husband Ryan and I are thrilled nearly hit the fifteen-year mark as the executive director at the baby and is well loved by his of my endeavor.” Dave Nakashian “reunited and designing homes since funding for our new company.” to welcome our son Finnegan working in insurance, I’ve been Lower Columbia Hispanic Council. (canine) brother and sister.” Elizabeth MacNeil with Andrew Caplan and Jed Bowdoin and thought it would Karen Viado Synesael: Ryan Sullivan into the world on working on a side project that’s Astoria has to be one of the Mitchell O’Neill is “taking Woodcock: “We welcomed our Repko in Las Vegas for the USA be nice to add some flexibility “We recently welcomed a new December 7, 2013.” starting to gather steam—a health coolest small towns in America some time off from medical daughter, Willa Snow Woodcock, Rugby Sevens tournament. We to my schedule by working for addition to our family, Catherine Angela Dubois Brewer: “My and fitness business, newbodi.es. I and our lives here are filled with school and having a blast (pun on April 28, 2013. We visited were joined by a number of rugby myself. It has allowed me to Kit Synesael. She was born on husband, John Brewer (Univ. of was certified as a personal trainer exciting new adventures and great intended because we do use with Brian Williams and Julie alumni, including Jason Rooke ’99 become involved in other interests September 27, 2013. She and her Florida ‘97), and I welcomed a last summer, and recently launched new friends. During my time off a lot of explosives to mitigate Dawson Williams ’03 in Bangor and Mike ‘Eesh’ Nakashian ’98.” including photography, and I big sister, Libby, are enjoying life beautiful baby girl, Lillian May a podcast (newbodi.es/podcast) work I started a small candle avalanche terrain) working as a over the holidays and met their Caitlin Riley is “enjoying have also had time to become a in Brooklyn Heights!” Brewer, into our lives on August and YouTube channel (newbodi.es/ company, GayGardens. We sell ski patroller in Breckenridge for sweet baby boy, Liam!” living in Austin, TX, and producing basketball official. Basketball has Kate Wade is “back to school 6, 2013. At two months old, she youtube). I’ve also been active with our all-natural soy candles on Etsy, the winter. Also, last summer, Marshall Miller reports: “My documentaries for Darkrye.com. I been a big part of my life since I for a master of education degree experienced the Bowdoin spirit at my own fitness, having completed in local stores in Astoria, and in I enjoyed attending the annual wife, Amy, and I just had our first recently produced a video about was very young and officiating has in school leadership at The Homecoming 2013 with her proud several road races, climbing the Philadelphia.” Bowdoin lobster bake hosted by child, Elenora. We are very happy fellow Bowdoin grad Paul Miller allowed me to reconnect to the University of Pennsylvania. Penn grandpa, Rey Dubois ’79.” three tallest peaks in the Northeast Margaret Johnson: “Chris and Bill Springer ’65 at his home parents.” ’92: www.darkrye.com/content/ sport I love.” classmate Melissa Miness ’04 Kiyah Duffey: “In April 2013, in three days for charity, and doing I welcomed our first child, Eleanor outside of Chicago. I relished the Jonathan Moore is “living with dj-spooky.” Liisa Van Vliet is “still based and I were excited to discover our Tim Baird ’99 and I welcomed a century ride this past September Natalie, on March 21, 2013. opportunity to break lobster with my wife, Ellie, in Charlottesville, Wil Smith: “My daughter, in Cambridge (UK) doing research shared Polar Bear heritage!” Alice Margaret, our third child. for the Wounded Warrior Project. About six months ago, BlackRock Chicago Bear great Gary Fencik VA, and working for Grimm and Olivia Smith, will be graduating at the university in the field of Her older sister and brother were On the family front, my son is now relocated me to the Princeton and his family. His daughter is a Parker Architects. We are expecting from Berkshire School in Sheffield, microfluidics, but am also teaching 2001 excited to have a new little sister five and is very interested in joining office, so we moved from New freshman soccer player at Bowdoin our first child in early March MA, where I currently serve entrepreneurship at the Cambridge at home. Just over a year ago, me in one of my races this year.” this year. We had an excellent Kara Angeloni Williams: “Elsa York back to my hometown of and hoping to build a house for as dean of community and Judge Business School and we moved from Chapel Hill, NC, Elizabeth Feeherry: “Our discussion about the increased Anne Williams was born on Princeton, NJ. Ellie is enjoying ourselves this year.” multicultural affairs. By the time continuing to manage Drop-Tech, to western VA, where Tim took daughter Caroline turned two in awareness of concussions and August 14, 2013. Her big sister, living close to her grandparents Kevin Newbury has “been this is published, we hope to have our first lab spin-out, which will a position as assistant professor December and continues to keep their effect on athletes.” Audrey, was so happy to meet her and I’m enjoying my ten-minute busy directing opera around the picked a college.” remain as an IP licensing company. at Virginia Tech. I am working us on our toes! She got on skates M. Elaine Pahilan: “My new playmate!” commute!” as faculty in the Department recently for the first time and loves husband David Reiersen (Boston Zach Borus and Kate John Lockwood “welcomed of Human Nutrition, Foods, the ice. I am home full time but University School of Medicine ’10) Mendenhall “are having a blast my daughter London Lockwood BI LA LEY IS AND WATERFRONT and Exercise, as well as some occasionally do some pro bono and I are expecting our first future with our fifteen-month-old son, to the world on March 22, 2013. Spectacularly sited Cape on westerly shore of Bailey Island freelance nutrition research legal work and have been teaching I also left my day job at Failla Polar Bear this spring.” offering sunset views of Casco Bay, offshore islands, and Mt. Elias. We’re still in Rochester, NY, consulting and writing for a at the Boston University School Wines in 2013 and launched sales Andy Siegel lives in the Washington as well as views into Mackerel cove. Features a living where Zach practices full-spectrum number of websites focused on of Law. My husband, David Fish on my Enfield Wine Co. project for Philadelphia suburb of Blue Bell room with brick fireplace, first floor master bedroom, water view family medicine, and Kate runs food and parenting.” ’98, is keeping very busy in his “with my wife, Lauren (Miami deck, attached two-car garage and much more. $729,000 an organic farming organization which I’ve been making wine since Kyle Durrie “moved from psychiatry practice.” ‘98), daughter, Shayna (3 1/2), (NOFA-NY). Big changes are afoot, 2010.” Portland, Oregon, to Silver City, Gemma Geldmacher: “It’s and son, Toby (1 1/2), and work however, as we are moving in Laura MacBride Surdel: NM, in late 2012 and set up my been a busy couple of years for me as associate general counsel for a HARPSWELL WATERFRONT early April to Kate’s hometown “Rob ’00 and I welcomed our third letterpress print shop, Power and and my husband, Rusty (WPI ‘01). hospital management company.” Perched incredibly close to the shoreline with amazing southerly views and Iowa’s family fun destination, girl, Reese Surdel, in October. She Light Press, in a vacant building We bought a house in Hingham, Marissa Steinfeld is “still over the protected anchorage to open ocean. This 1 BR with loft has Okoboji!” joins big sisters Brooke (4) and downtown. Life is good here— MA, in October 2012, and are working with my family. Been separate private finished living space over two-car garage built in 2012. Mark Chevalier: “My wife Emmy (2).” Deeded dock, waterview deck, fireplace, furnished. $509,000 sunny skies, cheap rents, natural expecting a little girl, our first, in promoted to general manager. Stephanie and I had our first child, Leah McConaughey is “still hot springs, and lots of open May. I’m still working in the city in Moving out of my one location and William, on May 31, 2012. After living in New York City with my space.” commercial real estate finance.” now helping with all seven!” spending several years teaching six-year-old son, Caleb. Recently ORR’S ISLAND WATERFRONT C.W. Estoff: “My wife, Meg, Jesse Gray Kelly: “Lila Megan Wardrop Morgove: English abroad, we are now in changed jobs from the New York Soaring, waterfront, contemporary with wonderful westerly and and I moved to Hingham, MA, and Gray Kelly was born on May 13, “My husband, Grant, and I finally our fifth year at Foxcroft Academy City Department of Education to sunset views. Cathedral ceilings, open concept kitchen/dining/ I’m working at the Bowdoin-alum- 2013, joining big brother, Dylan. I made the leap and moved to (Dover-Foxcroft, Maine), where Apple. I work with principals and living, first floor bedroom, gas fireplace, spacious lower level with founded ed tech company EverFi. continue my commercial litigation superintendents around New York the great state of Oregon! I its own deck and bath, tile and wood floors, two-car attached Steph teaches psychology and I We welcomed Charles Sargent practice at Sherin and Lodgen LLP and New Jersey to craft their accepted a program manager job garage, your own dock, ramp, and float, and a widow’s walk with am the director of communications Estoff to the world on December in Boston.” vision and plan how to incorporate at the Oregon Health & Science a roof deck for the adventurous. $615,000 and varsity baseball coach. I 13th, 2013. We recently spent Jorge Gutierrez: “Last University in Portland, and have was honored to receive the 2013 technology into their districts. It is a ski weekend in Vermont with year I left Los Angeles and the been here since April 2013. Boston Leadership in Communications the most challenging work I have Rob Williams Real Estate Megan Leary Bethke and her entertainment industry behind. My will have a place in my heart and Marketing Award from the ever done, and I love every minute Unique Coastal Properties • Seasonal Rentals Available • 207-833-5078 • baileyisland.com husband Brian Bethke. Brian was partner, Ryan Saunders (SMU ‘03), of it!” always, but I absolutely love it

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And the icing any classmates who are visiting campus at Walnut Hill School for enjoy our twins, Elizabeth and during an assembly to make students in addition to my teaching goal of providing better financial reminding my colleagues that on the cake—reconnecting with Brunswick will get in touch.” the Arts in Natick, MA, where I am William. I am in the middle of my the announcement in front of responsibilities.” education to low-to middle-income the Class of 2005 is the best! I two fellow ’01 Polar Bears who Annie Gustafson: “A desert the director of college counseling; ninth year teaching eighth-grade the entire school. It has been Colin Joyner “finished his consumers. In other news, Paul have help spreading the good have also recently moved to OR: rat no more, I just relocated from Greg commutes into Boston for his social studies in the Acton- an overwhelming honor. As the MBA in 2013, moved to Brooklyn, Hastings ‘04 and I are excited to word about our class since Sarah Amanda McGovern and Jorge Phoenix to the Seattle area. My job at Guggenheim Partners.” Boxborough regional school district DCTOY, I serve as a representative NY, at the end of the summer, celebrate our son, Liam’s, second Begin Cameron works in alumni Gutierrez!” coffee consumption has doubled. Seth Kolodziejski “married outside of Boston.” and advocate for DC’s teachers and started with Accenture as birthday this year.” relations (don’t forget our 10th It’s helping me power through the Sarah Elizabeth Hoopes (Reed Libby Barney Holman is and students. Later in the year, I a management consultant in Courtney Woo: “I moved to Reunion is just over a year away!), 2002 adjustment to my new job in the College 2000) on July 5, 2013, in “currently working at Bulger will visit the White House and I September. He is enjoying all France in 2013 to start a position Jarrett Young is a student dean corporate relations department at Seabeck, WA. I accepted a position also get a chance to attend Space aspects of his new life in New (although we’ll soon be losing him Alex Chu is “working in Dallas, Veterinary Hospital in Andover in corporate communications at Allstate Insurance’s regional office. as building science specialist Camp. In other news, I am engaged York and suggests that you all to Blake School), and Marissa TX, at Samsung’s R&D Lab on user as a veterinarian, taking care of Airbus Helicopters, a division If you’re in the PNW permanently with Washington State University to a super fantastic lady named should come check it out.” O’Neil is the head women’s experience design and finishing a small animals. We are living in of Airbus Group. I married my or just passing through, look me up. energy program in fall 2013.” Asha Allam. The wedding will be Quinn Kitchen Miller: “Last hockey coach. I’ve been running master’s at SMU. I am a hermit.” Winchester, MA, with our one- husband, Richard, in Compiegne on In fact, let’s grab coffee!” Bill Soares: “Finished residency in Houston and will be a colorful spring we surprised ourselves with more and getting into spinning Rachel Cram Halliday: “2013 year-old son, Curtis.” May 25. We’ll celebrate a religious Leslie Hackmeier: “[Last] in emergency medicine in Oakland. mish-mash of traditions from our a last minute trip to Ireland with as well; my favorite instructor in was busy and great! Benjamin Ashley Berendt: “My husband, ceremony with family and friends July my husband and I quit our Moved back to the Northeast, living ancestral homelands, India and friends—nothing like spontaneity Portland happens to be a Bowdoin arrived on April 26. He had skull Jamie Racanelli (Haverford ‘03), in the U.S. in 2014. I’m interested jobs and started a massive road in Northampton, MA, completing Minnesota. Think Bollywood goes and being part of someone’s grad (and colleague) as well, surgery in the summer and is and I welcomed a baby boy, Max, in connecting with any Polar Bears trip around the U.S. going to a lot a two-year fellowship in research ice-fishing.” bucket list to start the year off Carolyn Williams ’10. [Last] healing and doing well. Annie on November 20, 2013. We are in France.” of baseball games and national and medical education at Baystate Alli Hinman Smith: “Nate strong! Last fall we attended spring I ran the Brooklyn Half is three-and-a-half, keeping living in Cambridge, MA, and work Matthew Volk is “still living parks, and meeting up with many Medical Center. Liam, our second Smith ’04 and I are expecting our Michael’s induction into his high Marathon with my sisters. Erin us moving all day, and loving in Boston.” and working in the Hartford area. fellow ‘02 grads along the way. child, was born in November—it first child in July!” school athletic hall of fame before Carney got up early to cheer us preschool. We bought a house Steve Carpenter: “Kristina I just passed ten years at ESPN, We also got to spend some time has been crazy ever since.” Meredith Hoar Garcia-Tunon: catching a flight out to Boston, on in Prospect Park and I ran into and moved in July and are getting Gordon and I got married on which went amazingly fast. I am with our families in the U.K. Sadly, Sara McManus “got married to “My husband, J.P., and I welcomed where we were thrilled to join Katie Duglin at the finish line.” to know our new community in September 7, 2013, in Wiscasset, a director in programming and it is back to reality soon and time Andrew Ashcroft at Paradise Beach our first child, Sean Patrick Garcia- Beth Muir for her nuptials and a acquisitions. I now oversee all Bobby Desilets was “hired as Danville, CA. I am still teaching Maine, with about 100 family and to find a job. We chronicled our in Cook County, Minnesota. We Tunon on May 16, 2013. beautiful fall trip to New England. of the content (TV—both event, the head women’s soccer coach at environmental science part-time friends in attendance.” trip at travelpod.com/members/ live in Hovland, Minnesota, with Erica Johnson writes: “In I continue in my job as a quality studio and packaged shows— Wentworth Institute of Technology at a wonderful middle school in Dottie Chalmers Cutter: “On chrisleslie.” his daughter, Esme (6), and our dog September 2012 I was hired at director. This April Michael and I digital, print, radio, etc.) that ESPN in 2012, and was also hired as Oakland. Finding time for lots of September 27, 2013, Adam and I Aurelia L. Hall is “enjoying my Kirby (also age 6). I’m working for Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, will be welcoming our first child, and ABC develop for league sports girl’s director of coaching for the outdoor adventures and getting welcomed twins, William Michael second year as staff counsel for the local electric cooperative on a France, as an English teacher. a baby boy. Additionally, we are programming, which is essentially Boston Bolts in 2013.” back to visit friends and family in Cutter and Mackenzie Chalmers Geico, and gearing up for another fiber-to-the-home project for the In June 2013, I was elected in the process of building a new NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and an array Tommy Davis “graduated from New England a few times a year. Cutter. They join big sister, Sofia half marathon in Vancouver this county. Living on the shore of Lake house.” of other sports. It is a fun gig, as I Stanford Business School in 2013, Jonathan Ellinger is “working (3). I have also recently been summer. Also, excited to be a Superior reminds me of Maine— Noah Long: “Last summer get to try and come up with crazy where I spent my summer working at Quantum Spatial in Portland, promoted to vice president of member of West Hartford Yoga’s lots of ice and pine trees!” my wife, son, and I moved back new shows and integrations on for the San Francisco 49ers on OR, a remote sensing company operations at Chalmers Insurance teacher certification class of 2014.” Jeanne Nicholson Stafford: to Santa Fe, NM, my hometown. a daily basis. Living the Bowdoin their bid to host Super Bowl L. specializing in spatial analytics.” Group. Liesl Finn made a special Ron Hanlon: “My wife, Nina, “My husband Lee and I left Rainier was born in October 2012 Cable Network dream, for sure.” Currently working at General Shannon Gilmore Alsobrook trip to Gray, Maine, to pay me a and I welcomed two new additions Cambridge and moved to Salem, and is a healthy and really fun Atlantic (growth equity firm) based is “happy to announce the birth of visit and to meet the twins. I work to our family, Simone and Dylan, on MA, and are neighbors to Lyndsey little guy. We are enjoying the in Palo Alto, CA.” our daughter, Annelise Margaret, with my cousin, Jim Chalmers 2004 September 19, 2013!” Sennott Wakeham and Brendan mountains, green chile, and being Hannah and Scott Drew on August 6. She’s a delightful ‘02, on a daily basis—gotta love Send us news! Jessica Hewitt “finished a Wakeham ’03! We also had a Andrew ’05 and Shawna Fischer “and around family.” “will be moving to San Antonio addition to our family and is family-owned businesses!” [email protected] master’s in educational leadership son, Harry, December 2!” the wee baby Marita Fischer.” Nachel Mathoda “married with the U.S. Air Force this completely adored by her big Bart O’Connor: “Megan, last year and am looking forward to Scott and Beth Sherman Morgan Ashcom (George Mason) summer. Hannah will be attending brother and sister. After working Brooklyn, and I put down roots directing Foothill Horizons Outdoor Jamieson report that they took on September 29, 2012, in CT.” dental specialty residency in at Bowdoin for five years, I left in Hanover, NH. I completed 2005 rEUnion School this summer. My kids seem a recent trip up to Brunswick “to Debbie Wissel: “After four- prosthodontics while Scott my position in November to focus my first year with VisionScope Sam Cohan: “Fishing Without to keep growing, my husband only check out the campus, connect with plus great years helping start the continues his work as a geologist.” my energy on parenting (and a lot Technologies at the end of January Nets, a film which I co-wrote, just grows kinder, and the gophers only old friends, and support the Polar company LearnVest, a personal Andrew Fischer was more volunteering). Life is just as 2014. Luckily, Ryan Hurd ‘06 won the Directing Award at the get hungrier in the garden.” Bears in action. We made sure to finance start-up, I’m excited “admitted to the MA and RI bars. busy as ever, but I’m enjoying the joined our team in December 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Set Sarah Hoenig Lovely: “My stop at Big Top and Beale Street to join the team at PayPerks. Moved to Columbus, OH, and flexibility and the time I’m spending of 2013. Our wolfpack became in Somalia and filmed entirely husband, Greg ’01, and I welcomed while we were there. We are still Laura Jefferis Schoene ’05, Peter You may have read about the began working with United Lex with my children. Nathan ’97 is four on February 19, 2013, when Schoene ’05, and their daughters with non-actors, it tells the story our son, Scott David, into the world living in Beverly, MA, with our two education-based PayPerks in the while I study for the OH bar exam. still coaching the Bowdoin ski team Madden Jackson O’Connor Sienna and Kinley, take in the scene of Somali piracy through the on January 3, in the middle of a boys, Trevor (3) and Denny (1).” [Fall 2013] Bowdoin Magazine—it My wife and I are expecting a and [had] an amazing season. Goals snuggled his way into our lives.” at Blodgett Canyon Overlook in perspective of a young Somali snowstorm! We named him after Bill Day “was recently Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest. was founded by our very own named Abdi.” baby girl in early April of 2014.”

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Alison Flint is “still working at our own little polar bear. yoga teaching certification, and George Schultz “got married goal of eventually working on a loan officer at a community I graduated from Brandeis Concord, NH. Living in Contoocook, Earthjustice in Denver, and my son Anticipated arrival is June 2014. will soon be teaching hot power [last] summer (at Bowdoin) to an interdisciplinary team to development finance organization, University’s The Heller School with NH, with Alex Bender, who is Finley was born May 3, 2013.” We are excited beyond words!” yoga and power vinyasa yoga at Jessica Gharghour ’07. We both treat patients in pain. I also got and got married.” a dual master’s in public policy finishing up at Dartmouth. Still Nicole Goyette: “I’ve now Sheena James was married CorePower Yoga. This upcoming graduated from business school engaged this year to Ryan Toohil, Chris Bucci lives “in and nonprofit management.” playing in the VT and NH lakes, been living within Santa Barbara on January 12, 2014. September, I will be getting last May and now are in NYC. I whom I met at my previous job Scottsdale, AZ, with my wonderful Tom Elson reports: “After rivers, and mountains!” County in CA for five years. I direct Iris Levin is “currently a married! I play volleyball with Ely work at an investment firm and working in web hosting (he’s an fiancé, Lydia Coutts, and we’ll be finishing up business school out Carl Klimt is “living in the athletics program and teach visiting assistant professor of Delman ’06 and Bree Dallinga Jessy does marketing.” engineer).” getting married this September in in CA and working on the Obama Baltimore, MD, teaching 3-D at an independent middle school. biology at Grinnell College in Iowa. ’06 every Thursday night.” Julia Shaver “rolled off the Jackson Wilkinson is “living Newport, RI.” re-elect in Chicago, in October I woodworking design at the Jemicy Jane Cullina ’04 is the newest In May, I’ll be headed to University Dan O’Maley: “After spending post-MBA rotation program at in San Francisco, was married a Patrick Costello “continues moved to DC to start a new job School. This summer I became member of our staff. That’s of Colorado-Boulder to start a 2013 in Brazil as a Fulbright Medtronic to take a full-time year-and-a-half ago, had a baby to work on business development at the White House working on engaged to Sarah Williams of right, two Polar Bears within this National Science Foundation Scholar conducting ethnographic position in their Atrial Fibrillation on February 3, and have a well- and M&A for a start-up healthcare energy and climate policy.” Portland, OR, and am soon to very small community! I’m still postdoctoral fellowship, where I’ll fieldwork on Internet freedom division—loving being back home funded web startup for parents company in the Bay Area, Prospira Evan Fensterstock: “My wife, be stepfather to eight-year-old immersed in the wine scene here. be working on social interactions activism, I am now back at in Minneapolis! So excited to called Kinsights. Moving to Boston PainCare. I’ll be getting married Tara, and I are extremely excited Fia Ferber. This fall we bought a Keep your eyes open for 3 Jokers and parasite transmission in barn Vanderbilt University in Nashville, have Whitney and Jarrett Young in August for my wife’s medical this summer in Santa Barbara to be having a baby girl due April house together in Portland, and Chardonnay (release date: August swallows.” TN, where I am focusing on joining the Minneapolis crew fellowship at Boston Children’s. (hopefully with some Polar Bears 4, 2014! I am a fifth-year associate after the wedding this summer I’ll 2014) and cabernet sauvignon Caroline Quinn Levy: “My writing up my dissertation.” soon.” Seen a decent number of folks in attendance).” at the litigation law firm Kasowitz, be moving out there.” (anticipated release: April husband, Scott, dog Wallee, and In December, Fortune.cnn.com Rebecca Tannebring is here in SF lately, and I hang with Bruce Courtney is “finishing Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP Jae Lee: “We had our first 2015), as I have close personal I just moved to London for work. I re-ran the fall Bowdoin Magazine “still living in Santa Barbara, Alec Berryman ’07 often and just up an MBA at the University in New York City. We live in baby boy, Nathaniel Sungho Lee connections to the new label. I’ll am still working for PepsiCo and article by Beth Kowitt ’07 about CA. Switched from wind project hired Jackson Moniaga ’13 to of Wisconsin, and moving to Hoboken, NJ.” Herrick, born on April 29, 2013.” be riding in my first seventy-mile we are welcoming the change entrepreneurial siblings Arlyn development to a solar pv work for Kinsights.” Minneapolis in May!” Margaret Fuller: “This is Mindy Chism Levering cycling event in April as part of after Dallas, TX.” Davich ’03 and her brother Eric financing start-up.” Conor P. Williams: “I Bree Dallinga “recently had my fourth year teaching English “recently got married to a Notre the San Luis Obispo Wildflower Chris McCabe is “working as Davich ’06, with photography In late December, Roxbury, finished a PhD in government my two-year anniversary at the and French in the liberal arts Dame alum, Matt, in Seattle, Century.” an attorney in the Portland area, by Karsten Moran. See more MA, science teacher Erin at Georgetown University and Edward M. Kennedy Community department at Academy of Art and got to celebrate with some Desneige Hallbert “just got [and has a] new doggie named of Karsten’s work in this issue of Dukeshire “received the 2012 started working as a senior Health Center, working as a family University in San Francisco.” wonderful Bowdoin alums!” a master’s degree in landscape Pepe (as in the French grampa).” Bowdoin. Presidential Award for Excellence researcher in the education policy practice physician assistant and Christi Gannon “was named Alex Linhart “is working in architecture and am now doing Ben Needham “changed Walker Pruett: “Madeline ’04 in Mathematics and Science program at the New America a National Health Service Corps a 2013 Massachusetts Rising Star credit sales and trading at Cantor research as a Fulbright Scholar in jobs from consulting on equity was recently promoted to director Teaching,” reported Robin Foundation. Gwennan ’06 and I Member.” in the field of immigration law Fitzgerald.” Maharashtra, India.” compensation with ISP Advisors of annual giving at Lewis and Clark Trunsgrud ’06. are only barely keeping ourselves Rose Kent Dedam lives “in by Super Lawyers Magazine. I Brendan Mackoff is “a first- Jonathan Harris “moved back to in-house at Comverse Inc., College here in Portland. We are Ian Trask: “In 2007 I left my sane and oxygenated with two Vermont, where I’ve been teaching practice business and employment- year MBA student at MIT Sloan to Brunswick and am teaching at a telecom company outside of expecting a baby polar bear [this] genetics lab tech job in Utah and kids under three years old (Owain high school science for the past based immigration law at Ross and I’m exploring my options in Messalonskee High School.” Boston, running their equity-based May. I am still hard at work in moved to New York City to pursue and Carys).” eight years. I got married in 2012 Silverman LLP in Boston.” the tech industry. Aside from that, Melissa Hudson Howard compensation program. In October, the beer industry as production an art career. Best decision ever. and our son, Amos, was born Jill Grunnah is “getting I’ve had some spectacular travel announces: “My husband, John I raced in the Head of the Charles manager for Hopworks Urban It’s going way better than I ever 2006 January 15, 2013.” married in June to a great guy experiences. Last summer, I did a Howard ’09, and I are expecting in the Men’s Club 4+ event under Brewery.” Kelly Frey, an attorney at named Henry. We live in Dedham, two-month road trip from Boston would have expected. www. James Baumberger: “My wife, Polar Rowing Club, Bowdoin’s Laura Jefferis Schoene is Mintz Levin, has been named a MA, and both teach at the Noble to San Francisco to San Diego and iantrask.com. Have connected with Julia, and I welcomed our second alumni [crew], and steered Dan “living in Missoula for Peter’s 2013 Massachusetts Rising Star. and Greenough School.” back again. Visiting eight national Daniella Engen and recently child, John, born on January Polasky ’12, Will Loverme ’02, third year of medical school Margaret Gormley Donahue Abigail Daley Gurall: “Ford parks was the highlight. I then rekindled a relationship that we 27. Our two-year-old daughter, Mikyo Butler ’10, and Elliott through the University of “married Captain David J. ’04 and I moved from Boston, MA, went to Tanzania for three weeks, originally started over ten years Ella, is enjoying her new role as Munn ’11 down the course. In Washington. Kinley, our youngest, Donahue ’07 on October 5, 2013, to Stony Creek, CT. I am attending where I hiked to the summit of ago as sophomores at Bowdoin. big sister! We’ve settled in the January, I completed my 200-hour is now one. Sienna is three.” in Chestnut Hill, MA. Dave is medical school at Quinnipiac Mount Kilimanjaro, did a safari She moved to NYC last summer, Washington, DC area where I work a war fighting instructor at the University Frank H. Netter School in the Serengeti, and chilled in and now we’re living together in in health policy.” Infantry Officers Course at USMC of Medicine.” Zanzibar.” Brooklyn.” Daniel Bensen: “Our little girl Base Quantico, and I work in Savannah Briscoe John: “In Trevor Macomber: “After Katie Walker “graduated is fourteen months old and talking northwest DC in the development the past year, I got married, moved nearly two years of tranquility with a master’s in acupuncture about everything. I’ve gotten office at National Presbyterian to NYC, and landed a position as and harmony in our marriage, and Chinese herbal medicine a literary agent for my science School.” the director of development for my wife and I made the insane from the New England School fiction novel, and I’m waiting to Tim Dooley is “still located in StreetWise Partners.” decision to acquire a black lab/ of Acupuncture, and recently hear back from publishers. I’m Albany, NY, and is about half way Mayu Kennedy “started a new Australian shepherd mutt puppy in started treating patients at a married to Pavlina Borisova ’07, Several Bowdoin ’06 Polar Bears through a residency in orthopedics. job as research manager at All May 2013. Naturally, we named clinic, KenkoDo, in Somerville, of course.” trekked to Oregon for the wedding of Class of ’06 roommates caught up for MA. This spring, I am also Looking forward to getting married Global, part of Kantar/WPP, based him Fenway, and I haven’t had John-Mark Ikeda ’06 and Meg Grey ’07 Kelly Bougere: “Lots of Michael Wood ’06 and Katie Swan ’06 a ski weekend at Killington (l to r): finishing a second master’s, in August!” in the NY office.” a moment’s peace since. But were all smiles last November in Philly (l to r): Ben Martens, John-Mark Ikeda, Bree Dallinga, Erica Ostermann, Jaime life changes: I finished my studying pain from Tufts University David Duhalde “got engaged Meaghan Kennedy “started puppies are boring on their own, at the wedding of Katie Eshelman Shahid Khoja, Dan Schuberth, Gardiner Quinn, and Kelly Orr. (Not pictured: MBA, moved to DC, became a residency in family medicine in Springer ’06 and Lew Springer. Holland, and Andrew Combs. Nicole Hart.) School of Medicine, with the to Elizabeth Charpentier, and so we decided to get pregnant,

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and are due to have a daughter. Of Katie Mitterling is “finishing amazing daughters. Rosario is years have seen me in Dallas; Ben Yormak: “Life continues Portland, OR, driving across the Dylan Brix: “It’s been an met and fell in love with while in course, babies and puppies take an MS in biology at Syracuse almost three and Valentina is the USVI; Rockland, Maine, and to be great here in Naples, FL! country from Maine.” exciting year in building a network graduate school. Mario and I are up space, so we also decided to University. My graduate work seven months old. We purchased now, CA. I’m finishing an MBA in I married the love of my life, Britta Bene: “I took all of 2013 of people who are focused on happily living in central MA.” move. In January. The day after has focused on how cognitive our first house last summer and international sustainable business Jessica, on August 31, 2013, off from work to adventure around blending financial, social, and Dana R. Cohen: “I work at a snowstorm. People who are strategies change in a rat model of we’re slowly turning it into our at the Monterey Institute of with many fellow Polar Bears in the world. From skiing out west environmental value. I have Hatfield Family Medicine in eight months pregnant are good at Parkinson’s disease. I will also be home. I worked in the non-profit International Studies, a graduate attendance!” and in the Alps to spending time been working in investment Tempe, AZ, and married Ahron carrying furniture, right?” getting married to Rob McCoy this sector for almost six years and I’m school of Middlebury. In January, on a lonely island in the Bay of management in the NYC area.” Cohen ’06 in Sedona, AZ, on April Megan Wyman Magee: “My summer in Boothbay, ME.” currently a stay-at-home mom. My my team took third place in an 2007 Bengal, kite surfing on Maui, living Jessica Brooks is “living 6, 2013.” husband, Wheeler Magee, and Andrew Morrison “finished husband, José, is an oil roughneck in Rome, and hanging out in New in DC, working for the Defense Ashley Conti “recently moved MBA competition at the World Kelsey Abbruzzese, I got married in June 2012, and the 2013 Boston Marathon.” working on an oil rig.” York and around Europe, I have Department. Heading to Cambodia to Boston after graduating from Economic Forum in Davos, communications director at have been living and working in Kelly Orr is “still happily : “Natalie and I had an amazing time. Very lucky. in April with Jen Renteria to the Tuck School of Business Dan Schuberth Switzerland.” MassDevelopment, reported that Sheridan, WY, for a couple of teaching history at North are getting married in June! We’ll Now I have moved back home visit Sam Weiss, who is there for at Dartmouth in June and Martin Wai “resigned in Night Shift Brewing has expanded years. I attended graduate school Yarmouth Academy, and seeing a have a big Bowdoin wedding down to Germany and am working at Peace Corps!” got engaged to Christopher Oct 2013 from my position as in Everett, MA, with the benefit at Colorado State University lot of Bowdoin friends living in the in Charlottesville, VA, at Keswick BlackRock in Frankfurt. I have also Kristen Brownell Flajslik Smith (Cornell ’06, Tuck ’13) associate director/senior financial of a $700,000 MassDevelopment (earned an MEd in May 2012) and Portland area!” Vineyard.” started to build furniture.” “completed a PhD in organic on December 1, 2013! We are engineer at Moody’s Analytics loan. Launched in March 2012 by have been working as a school Antwan Phillips was “named Emma Sears is “working at Pavlina Borisova-Bensen: chemistry at Stanford University planning a November 2014 in San Francisco and moved to Robert Burns, Michael Oxton, counselor in Sheridan. We will by Arkansas Business as one of Scribe Winery in Sonoma, CA.” “Dan Bensen ’06 and I had a in September 2012. In October wedding in NH.” Charlotte, NC, to be a member and Michael O’Mara, Night Shift be moving back to CO this June, the state’s ‘twenty most influential is “living baby. Maggie is now fourteen of 2012, I began my first ‘real Becca Selden of the core founding team of Brewing sells to customers at its where my husband has a cattle professionals,’ in the annual list of in Barcelona while I finish a months old. I am back to work job’ as a senior R&D chemist at Covenant Credit Partners, LLC, an taproom and to liquor stores, bars company.” ‘20 in their 20s.’” PhD in marine biology at UC and trying to juggle my consulting the semiconductor technologies alternative credit investment firm. and restaurants in greater Boston. Eli Maitland: “After living in Hope Reese: “After completing Santa Barbara. I have shared a business, Maggie, and an division of the Dow chemical I also got married in San Francisco From a MassDevelopment news France since graduation, I finally a master’s in journalism at Harvard wonderful Thai brunch in Berkeley education IT start up I’m working company in Newark, DE. In late in November 2013.” release, March 4, 2014. moved back to the USA in October Extension School, I moved to with Lauren Withey, a French on. Dan’s teaching business August of 2013, I moved back to Jackie O’Hare Walker and Niki Alvarez Rodrigues: 2013, and am currently living in Louisville, KY, where I’ve been breakfast in Santa Barbara with communication and ESL, and we’re MA, about thirty minutes from Nick Walker ’04 “welcomed “After finishing law school, I New York City while working for a freelance writer, primarily , and adventures enjoying Bulgaria very much.” my hometown, to work at the Besty Bradford our son Rocky on Christmas Day moved back home to Miami, and the asset management division of doing author interviews and in Minneapolis with Charlotte Tyler Boyer “completed an electronic materials division 2012. We enjoyed Rocky’s first married Thomas Rodrigues BNP Paribas.” book reviews for The Atlantic, Carlsen.” MBA at UC-Berkeley’s Haas of Dow. More importantly, on six months in Waltham, MA, ’06. I’m currently a fourth-year Ben Martens: “In fall 2013 I The Boston Globe, The Chicago is “working as a School of Business, and have since September 14, 2013, I married my Bianca Sigh but when we were offered the associate at a boutique family proposed to Kalyn Bickerman Tribune, and other publications. paralegal at Nystrom Beckman & returned to Deloitte Consulting. soul mate, Mario Flajslik, whom I opportunity to relocate for Nick’s law firm in downtown Miami, ’07 under the stars at Popham I also host a podcast for Paris in Boston, living in Beacon Grad school offered a bit more free job, we decided to take it and while Tom is working as an urban Beach, and we are planning a IdeaFestival.” Hill, and soon to be married to time and fun than work has so far moved to Houston, TX, [last] July.” planner at the City of Miami. We Maine wedding for 2015. I am Thomas Rodrigues “started John G. Ward (UMass Boston) in (as expected), but I’m very much Michael Wood has “been are keeping busy with work and still living in the Brunswick area working for the City of Miami August 2014.” enjoying the lifestyle and twelve- back in my home state of Maine travel, and just recently came back and working for a small non-profit as a transportation analyst after Katie Eshelman Springer “got month golf season here in San for the past two years and was from a fantastic trip to Australia.” Meghan Detering ’07 and Maya Jaafar with Lucy Van Hook on fishery completing a master’s in urban married on November 9, 2013, Francisco.” recently promoted to associate Mina Bartovics is “moving Lena ’07 got in some cross-country and coastal community issues in and regional planning in May to James Lewis Springer at the Haley Bridger “got married!” director of first-year programs at with my husband, Rowan, to skiing together in Jackson, NH, last Maine.” 2011. A few months later, in Horticulture Center in Philadelphia, Bowdoin! I work in Moulton Union Christmas. Alexa Ogata McIntire: “We are November, I tied the knot with PA. I am currently working as and get to look out on the Quad expecting our second boy in May!” Niki Alvarez Rodrigues ’07. an emergency veterinarian in every day from my office. I love Pavlina Borisova-Bensen ’07 and daughter Maggie mug it up. Joshua McKeever is We’ve been living in Miami since, Charlotte, NC.” living in Portland and can often be “completing a PhD in clinical while enjoying traveling—most Katie Swan is “living found cavorting with fellow alums. neuropsychology from Drexel recently to Chicago, San Francisco, in Portland and am midway I’m keeping up with my theatrical University this year, which and Australia. We caught up with through my third year as a endeavors (although not as much will happen when I finish my Jared Swanson ’07 and Kathryn nurse practitioner in pediatrics as I want) and have created pre-doctoral internship at the Papanek ’07 during a visit to San at Martins Point Healthcare in two original shows, directed an University of Washington Medical Francisco [last] summer. This past Brunswick.” undergraduate production, and Center in Seattle, WA, and defend fall, we saw Claudia Marroquin Sarah Thomas “recently performed with local professional my dissertation in May.” during her Miami stopover for moved to Long Island and I am theater companies in the area. Thomas A. McKinley Bowdoin admissions, and caught working as a public criminal Now, all I need is a husband and a “graduated from NYU Stern up with Jackie Linnane ’07 in defense attorney with Nassau dog!” Niki Alvarez Rodrigues ’07 and Thomas Rodrigues ’06 fed a kangaroo at Business School Class of 2013. her current hometown of Sydney, County Legal Aid. I am engaged Christine Yip is “graduating this Charlie Johnson ’07 proposes to his girlfriend, Claire. “This is an actual picture Trowunna Wildlife Park in Tasmania Working as an associate for the Australia.” and will be married in the fall.” coming May from a master of public of the proposal taken by Claire’s father. The whole thing was staged as a family during a trip Down Under last Eric Robinson ’07 and Jess Liu ’08 at Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group.” Nancy Sanchez: “I have two Mary Vargo: “The past few policy program at Duke University.” photo in a really beautiful park in Claire’s hometown.” December. Land’s End “right after my proposal!”

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David Donahue “is currently job as a physician assistant for a Meg Gray is “working at professor in the Department of the eleven-hour drive to pay in Richmond, doing strategic get to take his class while I was Houston, teaching fifth-grade a captain in the United States dermatology practice in Annapolis, Kiva.org, an online microfinance Physical Education at Virginia homage to the state that knows program management—and more at Bowdoin, but I’m getting the science and social studies.” Marine Corps and serving as an MD.” platform, based in San Francisco. Military Institute.” the ‘Way Life Should Be.’” advocacy!” master class now working for George Schlesinger: “Last instructor at the Infantry Officer Marc Donnelly “moved to I’m loving the city and the Maya Jaafar Lena “completed James Knuckles is “living in Daryl McLean “attended the Senator Angus S. King Jr. as a March, I left Digitas to join Course in Quantico, VA.” the DC area in fall 2011 and have company.” a master’s of arts in teaching London, is a PhD student at Cass wedding of my best friend OC legislative assistant handling Almighty, a small digital agency Jade Dunn Costello “married started working with a few new John Greene is “finishing (MAT) in art education from Tufts Business School; and recently Isaac ’06. I was his best man.” budget, finance, trade, and based in Allston. As a copywriter, Joseph Costello (Lafayette ’07 musical groups. I am directing the my last semester of a master’s and the School for the Museum co-authored a book published by Caitlin McHugh is “living housing policy. It is a true privilege I work on the New Balance and and Fordham Law ’10) in Ludlow, Renaissance Singers of Annapolis, of architecture program at the of Fine Arts, Boston, and moved the World Bank.” in Mountain View, CA, and still to assist him in serving the people L.L. Bean accounts. Outside of VT. Was promoted to director of which even has a Bowdoin parent University of Minnesota. Lots of back to Portland, Maine. I’m Jacqueline Linnane: “A working for Google, Inc., but have of Maine.” work, I’ve been doing some fun counseling at Springfield High singing in the group.” great opportunities out there from now teaching art at Scarborough little over a year ago, I moved to started to take night classes Anthony Regis is “living stuff related to hip-hop: I joined School and named 2013 New Louise Duffus Artman and Shanghai to Minneapolis, but I’m Middle School, and ‘Drawing 1’ Sydney, Australia, with my partner, in order to apply to veterinary in Portland and working as an a BMA-nominated blog called School Counselor of the Year husband Christopher Artman “are still not sure where I will end up.” as an adjunct professor of art at Josh. I am currently managing school—and wishing I had emergency medicine doc at Maine Jump the Turnstyle and started a for Vermont (by Vermont School now in the process of renovating Ashley Harvard is “still living the University of New England in the office of a state member of taken more science courses at Medical Center.” radio show. Check out The Show Counselors Association).” an old farmhouse that we will call in Washington, DC, currently Biddeford. In the winter, I continue Parliament in Sydney. Josh and I Bowdoin!” Dawn Riebeling “got on Tuesday nights from 7:00-8:00, Susan Coyne: “After working home. I continue in my fifth year finishing up a master’s degree to teach telemark skiing with the are traveling all over Australia in Aaron McCullough: “July engaged! Mike Stevenson and I streaming via DigBoston.com and in Boston for the past two years as the throws coach at Bloomsburg in nutrition and on track to be BOC.” our free time, and our next trip is marks my seventh year at Morgan will be getting married in April the TuneIn app.” at The Forsyth Institute, I moved University in Bloomsburg, PA.” a licensed nutritionist later this Charlie Johnson “got engaged Tasmania!” Stanley in New York City, where 2014 near my hometown. I also Zvi Shapiro is “married to to London in August 2013 to start Katie Forney Petronio is year!” on December 23 to a wonderful Jonna McKone is “finishing I have just purchased my first started a new job at AECOM after Alexandra Litvar, completed an MS a two-year master’s program in “still serving as a captain in the Lydia Hawkins is “living woman named Claire Whitmore. up an MFA in documentary apartment.” nearly five years at Chemonics, in experimental psychology, and illustration at Camberwell College Marine Corps, working at Officer in Calgary, AB, working as the Holly Kingsbury and I are in the and experimental film at Duke Nicole Melas: “In fall 2013, still in the international have begun a doctoral program in of Arts, the University of Arts Candidate School. In 2012 I had director of enrollment for a private Master’s of Public Health program University. I’d love to connect I moved to Portland! It’s great development field.” clinical psychology at Penn State.” London.” my first son, Cannon, and then day school. My fiancée, Debbie, in Colorado this year, and texting with filmmakers (experimental, to be back in Maine and I’m Eric Robinson: “This past Jill Steigerwald: “I direct a Eric J. Davis “moved to boom—baby number two is on the and I are getting married this with Dan Robinson remains my nonfiction, and otherwise) and enjoying getting settled and Christmas Eve, I proposed to Jess summer camp in the San Juan Burlington, VT, in February 2013 to way for July.” summer in southern Ontario.” favorite source of entertainment.” radio producers in the DC or seeing lots of Bowdoin friends and Liu ’08, at Land’s End on Bailey islands of Washington state called accept a position with USCIS.” Karen Fossum LaRocque is Alexandra Hughes is “living Tim Kantor “joined the Afiara Durham, NC, area.” acquaintances. Prior to moving, Island and got a ‘yes!’ We’re Camp Nor’wester. It’s a traditional Christine D’Elia “got engaged “living in Palo Alto, CA, studying and teaching in Aspen, CO.” Quartet in Toronto! We are lucky Ruth Morrison: “I’ve moved I was traveling for about a year planning to get married in Los outdoor residential camp for kids to Sam Bitetti and started a new neuroscience at Stanford.” Daniel Jaffe is an “assistant to travel around the world playing away from the world of national- and a half. Also, this is my first Angeles in March 2015.” ages 9-16 and it’s awesome! music.” scale advocacy work I’ve time living on the East Coast since Michael Reutershan: “Van Never imagined I could be so Chris Knight: “Last June, I left been doing the past six years we graduated and it’s making (re) Du ’08 and I were married on happy and proud of the work I Year Up after six years. I moved since college and have set up connecting with Bowdoinites much August 3, 2013, at the Bowdoin do. I also coach girls’ lacrosse at away from Boston and headed shop with a larger non-profit easier.” Chapel. The reception was held Lakeside Middle School in Seattle west (as young men are instructed Catoria Parker Martin “got at Frontier Café. A month later, in the spring—run into Lyndsey to do) with my partner. We’ve married September 2012 and I’m Van and I purchased a condo in Colburn ’08 quite a bit during the been settling in well and I’ve been expecting my first child in July.” Brighton, MA. This will be my season!” meeting lots of new Bowdoin Kevin Mullins is “back in seventh year working as a chemist Hope Stockton is “still living folks. I [recently] accepted an offer school and enjoy being a student at Merck.” in Boston and working in the to serve as associate director of again. I finally ventured out of Astrid Rodriguez “recently museum world, running into Polar Summer Search San Francisco. New England and am living in Palo celebrated my first wedding Bears left and right!” I’m so glad that my job search is Alto with Emily Straus ’09.” anniversary. I have been working Talking about recent changes over and, even more, I’m thrilled Lauren Pfingstag: “I didn’t at Harmony Charter Schools in to the SAT, Justin Strasburger, to deepen my roots in my new home!” Jamie Knight: “After Middle Bay Farm Bed & Breakfast Harpswell Inn Bowdoin, I taught middle school in “I KNOW NOT AGE, On the Ocean A Bed & Breakfast on the water at Lookout Point • Open Year-round Philadelphia for a couple of years, NOR WEARINESS, NOR DEFEAT!” 4 miles from Bowdoin College and went on to law school with a Rooms $140.00–180.00, Suites $235.00–259.00 Open year round ChildLaw fellowship. I graduated Contc Us: Elegantly casual with full breakfast included in the spring of 2012 and moved toll free 1.866.988.0991 10 minutes from Bowdoin College off Route 123 www.seniorsonthego.com Offers four sunny bedrooms, each with a water to Washington, DC, where I’m an view, private bath, TV/VCR. Room rates are $150 287 Pennellville Road, Brunswick, ME 04011 Wedding Packages and cottages also available attorney with a small firm. I live in SWIFT Wellness Program to $170 and include a full breakfast. 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who works for Bottom Line, a Winning Solutions Advisory, has hockey alums (from 2006 to 2013) aired Jan. 26 episode of The non-profit that helps low-income been rapidly growing, refocusing for a pond hockey tournament in Barefoot Contessa depicted Garten students get into and succeed on proprietary development. We Rangeley, Maine, in early February. throwing a housewarming party for in college, said several of the have recently been involved with This was our fifth winter with a Heuck, featuring appearances by changes could help disadvantaged MassChallenge and Verizon’s Bowdoin team! In prior years we a number of Bowdoin classmates students compete with better- Powerful Answers Business Plan have defeated Colby, Amherst, and friends (including Simon prepared peers.” From a Boston Competition, which was very Yale, and Northeastern alumnae Bordwin, Julia Graham, Peyton Globe article, March 6, 2014. exciting.” squads for the championship. We Kelley, Louisa Oakes, Matthew Michael Taylor: “After five Lauren Huber Zullo: “I have fell short this year, and Amherst Marr, Alexandra Fradin, Molly years working with and for the been living in New York City with took home the trophy. We have Clements, Emma Stanislawski, poor and the youth in Peru and my husband, Rick, since 2012. I’m used the tournament as an and Marissa Rosenthal ’14), the Chile, I recently moved to Rome, working for the Natural Resources unofficial young alumnae weekend episode follows Heuck as she shops where I’m currently studying Defense Council (NRDC) on green for women’s hockey these past few around town in preparation for the philosophy as preparation for the building and energy efficiency years. We rent a house for all the party while Garten puts together priesthood.” issues.” Bowdoin women and have now a feast.” From the Bowdoin Daily Gillian Thompson: “Our introduced eight years of alums to Sun, April 4, 2014. daughter, Carlin, was born on April 2008 each other. It is amazing how many 2. We live on the island of North memories we can all share about The Bangor Daily News reported Haven in midcoast Maine where Dayton and Watson Arenas and of in January that the Maine my husband, Nick, is a caretaker, course Coach Meagher! We also all Brewers Guild hired Sean and I’m loving being a stay-at- share a fondness for current head Sullivan as its first full-time home mom and managing our coach Marissa O’Neil ’05 as some executive director. small farm.” of us played with her and others A new restaurant scheduled Alex E. Weaver “got married had her as a coach.” to open in Vail Mansion in in December, and am working as Morristown, NJ, “will partner managing editor at Boston news with Bennett Haynes, owner 2010 rEUnion and lifestyle website, BostInno.” of Ralston Farm, to bring local Jane Koopman and colleagues Sam Weiss has “been working A polar bear, a bobcat, and a mule produce and ingredients to diners’ from the Brunswick-based non- with Peace Corps as an English walked into a bar. . . Alumni Relations plates.” From a nj.com article, profit Teens To Trails traveled to teacher trainer in Prey Veng, held a Maine Happy Hour Mixer in February 11, 2014. Washington, DC, in March when late February in Sacramento with Cambodia, since July 2012, and the White House honored founder alumni from Bates and Colby that drew will be finishing my service this Carol Leone as a “Champion of Polar Bears (l to r) Scott Preble ’79, August.” 2009 Change.” From a Bangor Daily Andrew Bell ’11, Abhishek Sharma ’08, Derrick Wong: “My Emileigh Mercer: “We managed News article, March 20, 2014. Jonathan Lee ’09, Arthur Binder ’85, management advisory firm, to gather twelve Bowdoin women’s Michael Tiska ’93, Brian Laurits ’04, and Beth Colombo ’07. 2011 - 2012 Send us news! [email protected]

2013 “These days Lidey Heuck is helping test recipes, sending out social media missives and traveling to cooking events around the country with Ina Garten, better known as the Barefoot Contessa. Garten, who hosts a long-running In early February, Bowdoin women’s ice hockey alumnae gathered for The New cooking show on the Food England Pond Hockey Festival in Rangeley, Maine. (Top row, l to r): Alexandra Network, hired Heuck last year Fahey ’12, Alexandra Ysasi ’11, Emileigh Mercer ’09, Shana Natelson ’10, Jay as her assistant and social media Greene ’13, and Jayme Woogerd ’07. (Bottom row, l to r): Shelagh Merril ’12, Kate Lidey Heuck ’13 with The Barefoot Pokrass ’10, Kelsey Wilcox ’06, Kim Tess-Wanat ’13, and Beth Battin ’09. manager working out of her East Contessa, Ina Garten, and her husband, Hampton, NY, office. A nationally Jeffrey, in June 2013.

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David ’64 and Tina Treadwell

DIVERSIFIED SUPPORT, ENDURING CONNECTIONS

The Treadwell name might be familiar if you regularly read Bowdoin Magazine

or the Bowdoin Orient. During his career, 1 2 David specialized in writing admissions and fundraising materials for schools and colleges across the country. In recent years, he has focused on alumni magazine articles and a newspaper column for The Forecaster, a midcoast Maine paper.

Since moving back to Brunswick in 2002, David has become involved in all things Bowdoin. He was the assistant secretary on the board of trustees for ten years; conducts 3 4 mock interviews for career planning; and David ’64 and Tina Treadwell established the serves as an adjunct reader for admissions. David R. Treadwell Jr. and Elisabeth S. Treadwell Scholarship Fund to support Bowdoin’s future. 1 Margaret Gormley ’06 ’06, Elly Pepper ’05, Tehilah to r): Jessica Bergen ’02, Marisa He and his wife Tina have also been host married Captain David Joseph Azoulay Reider ’08, Samantha McNamara Lopez ’02, Jennifer Donahue ’07 on October 5, 2013, Cohen ’07, Matthew Chadwick ’07, McDonnell Harmon ’02, Lisa This year, David celebrates his Bowdoin 50th Reunion, and reflects, in Chestnut Hill, MA. (Back row, l Vanessa Kitchen ’06, and Valerie DiPilato ’01, Bree Candland ’01, to r): Meredith Railsback ’06, Emily Young ’08. Jennifer Magee Ribeiro ’90, “Life has been good to me, in large part because of Bowdoin, so it’s Straus ’09, Andrew Russo ’06, 2 Rebecca Ginsberg ’07 married Granville D. “Skip” Magee ’62, natural to want to give back.” Kevin Mullins ’07, Andrew Loucks Robby Rutkoff (University of Margaret and Ian, Peter Webster ’04, Breandan Fisher ’06, Pamela Michigan ’08), on August 17, 2013, ’62, Thomas Sides ’68, Robert parents to several students as part of the love of Bowdoin. In 2010, they established Karches Keneally ’05, Jim Long in Stockbridge, MA. (Front row, l Millar ’62, and David Fish ’98. ’85, Patrick Keneally ’05, Michael Bowdoin Host Family program. the David R. Treadwell Jr. and Elisabeth to r): Burgess LePage ’07, Ashley 4 Robin Smith ’05 married Rachel Crowley ’06, C. Ford Gurall ’04, Conti ’07, Stephanie Witkin ’07, Spekman (Rutgers ’05) on August S. Treadwell Scholarship Fund, with a Zach Hammond ’07, Dylan Brix Over the years, David and Tina—who preference to students majoring in English. Rebecca and Robby, Holly Maloney 10, 2013, in Wiscasset, ME. (From ’07, Alex Weaver ’07, Rob Reider ’07, Allie Chin ’07, Elly Pepper l to r): Michael Wood ’06, Eric grew up in Brunswick and wanted to go They have also contributed to Bowdoin’s ’07, Ellen Powers ’06, Maddie ’05, Samantha Cohen ’07, and Worthing ’05, Tom Hazel ’05, to Bowdoin but couldn’t as it wasn’t coed Alumni Fund every year, established a McQueeney ’09, Mike McQueeney Meaghan Maguire ’08. (Back row, Jordan Harrison ‘04, Emma Leonard at the time—have adopted a diversified charitable gift annuity, and included a gift for ’80, Robert DiMatteo ’07, Jay l to r): Sara Tennyson ’07, Stewart ‘05, Laura Welsh ’05, Rebecca Tansey ’07, and Anne Simson ’06. approach to demonstrating their support and Bowdoin in their estate. Stout ’07, Dyan Brix ’07, Genevieve Bartlett ’05, Kreshnik Ceku ’05, (Front row, l to r): Charles Bruce Leslie ’07, Sarah Gifford ’07, and Crystal Stone ’05, Molly Juhlin ’05, Saltzman ’06, Erin Turban Miller Jay Tansey ’07. Kerry Elson ’05, Katie Walker ’05, ’06, Betsy Rose ’06, Abigail Daley Dan Hall ’05, Jocelyn Foulke ’05, For help with your philanthropic planning or to learn more about how you might structure 3 Margaret Magee ’02 married Gurall ’06, Maggie O’Mara Loucks Gia Upchurch ’05, and Jenny Bordo a planned gift for the College, please contact Steve Hyde, Nancy Milam, or Nina Cutter Ian Paul on November 16, 2013, ’06, President Barry Mills ’72, Kate ’05. (In lobster headbands holding in Bowdoin’s Gift Planning Office at (207) 725-3172 or at [email protected]. in Spring Lake, NJ. (Front row, l Gormley ’09, Margaret and David, banner): Robin and Rachel. Stephen Gormley ’72, Caroline to r): Kim Pacelli ’98 and Elizabeth www.bowdoin.edu/giftplanning Gormley ’11, Kerri Brennan Petri Feeherry Fish ’01. (Back row, l

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5 Kelly Bougere ’06 married 7 Kathleen Eshelman ’06 8 Margaret DeVoe ’04 married 9 Alexander Linhart ’06 married 10 Kate Cary ’06 married Steve 12 Charlie Ticotsky ’07 married Mitch Hochberg (George married James Lewis Springer Matt Murphy (Bates College) on Marina Lafferriere (Georgetown Sandak (Colby ’07) on October 19, Amberly Killmer (Valparaiso Washington University ’03) on on November 8, 2013, at the November 9, 2013, at the Prospect ’06) on June 24, 2012, in 2013. in Marlboro, VT. (Front row, University ’08) on January 4, 2014, September 8, 2012, in Chester, Philadelphia Horticulture Center Park Boathouse in Brooklyn, NY. Manhattan, NY. (Front row, l to r): l to r): Sarah Riley ’06, Rebecca in Boston, MA. (Front row, l to r): VT. (Front row, l to r): Jena Davis in Philadelphia, PA. (From l to r): (Clockwise from left): Matt, Mara Robey Clark ’06, Alex and Marina, Sargent McLean ’06, Kate and Mike Sighinolfi ’07, Erin Dukeshire Hales ’06, Alex Smith Keefe ’06, James, Mindy Chism Levering ’06, Gandal ’04, Juleah Swanson ’04, and Maxine Janes ’10. (Back row, Steve, Kendall Brown ’06, Nora ’05, Nastasha Horvath ’07, Toby Kelly, and Mitch. (Back row, l to r): Avery Galleher ’06, Kathleen, Dr. Jennifer Montalvo ’04, Abbie l to r): Monica Ruzicka Stahly ’06, Dowley Liebowitz ’04, Nitasha Crawford ’07, James Knuckles ’07, Megan McClean Bettancourt ’07, Jon Sternburg ’70, Roger Burleigh Perleman ’04, Margaret, and Gary Zach Linhart ’07, Brooke James Kawatra ’06. (Back row, l to r): Charlie and Amberly, Carrie Miller Erica Michel ’07, Sarah Schoen ’07, ’06, Michael Wood ’06, Katie Moy ’04. ’06, Chris Necchi ’10, Brian May Rachel Dicker ’09, Sophie Wiss ’08, Lana Tilley, Laura Belden ’08, Julie Calareso ’07, Paul Evans ’07, Swan ’06, Lucy Van Hook ’06, Tom ’06, Gardiner Holland ’06, Harry ’06, Elizabeth Droggitis ’06, Hillary and Suzanne Plant ’07. (Back row, Ellie Simon Evans ’06, Ryan Hurd Elson ’06, and Ben Smith ’06. (Not Jones ’06, Dan Schuberth ’06, Chris Fitzpatrick Peterson ’04, Ben l to r): Mathilde Sullivan ’07, Gail ’06, and Jessica Brooks ’07. pictured): Matthew Eshelman ’09 Metcalf ’05, and Jan Linhart ’75. Peterson ’04, Kevin Mitchell ’75, Winning ’07, Hope Stockton ’07, 6 Doug Silton ’00 married and Rachel Donahue ’08. Michael Cary ’71, Molly Dorkey ’06, Jordan Krechmer ’07, Alix Roy ’07, Nicki Smith on June 29, 2013, in Kristina Sisk ’06, Ellen Grenley ’06, Dan Hackett ’07, Sam Donovan ’07, Burbank, CA. Jared Smith ’00 and Courtney Reichert ’06, and Adam Alden Karr ’07, Chris Knight ’07, Eric Forbell ’00 were groomsmen. Feit ’06. Keirnan Willett ’07, Glen Ryan ’07, 11 Nadya Pincus ’03 married Kelsey Abbruzzese Ryan ’07, and Gavin Ferris on September 21, Sam Chapple-Sokol ’07. 2013, at Sinking Springs Herb Farm in Elkton, MD. (From l to r): Elizabeth Tardiff ’03, Audrey Amidon ’03, Gavin and Nadya, and Heidi Holmstrom ’03.

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17 Ruth Morrison ’07 married 19 Jordan Fay ’03 married James Hickman Jr. on September Virginia Shanks (Vanderbilt 21, 2013, in their adopted University ’04) on June 15, 2013, hometown of Richmond, VA. The at Belle Haven Club in Greenwich, Recently Tied the Knot? festivities included a sing-along of CT. (Front row): Virginia and Show off your better half—send us your wedding photo. 15 16 “Bowdoin Beata,” led by the rowdy Jordan. (Second row, l to r): Jana crew of revelers pictured (l to r): Richardson ’03, Dave Turco ’03, E-mail digital images to: [email protected]. To ensure print quality, 13 Bobbi Dennison ’08 married 14 Charles Moyer ’05 married 15 Elizabeth Cuesta ’00 married Kelly Orr ’06, Mathilde Sullivan Alex Duncan ’03, and Regina von image should be supplied at a minimum resolution of 1500 pixels x 1050 Jake Mavarro (Middlebury ’07) Laura Cotton (UVM ’07) on August Hunter Clough (Penn State ’02) on ’07, Katie Grimm ’07, Ruth, Holly Schack ’03. (Back row, l to r): Chris pixels, in a .JPG or .TIF format. Pixel sizes smaller than this may result in poor on September 14, 2013, at the 10, 2013, in Laura’s hometown October 13, 2013, in Reading, PA. Kingsbury ’07, Nastasha Horvath Moxhay ’03, Ben McGuinness printing quality, or the photo may not be used. Elijah Kellogg Church in Harpswell, of Lake Placid, NY. (From l to r): (From l to r): Margo Woolverton ’07, and John Winterkorn ’07. ’03, Porter Hill ’03, Matt Hession Mail print to: Class News Editor, 4104 College Station, Brunswick, ME Maine, followed by a reception on Mike Allen ’76 (Laura’s godfather), Reynolds ’02 (holding baby Stella), “Bowdoin from birth, y’all!” ’03, Adam Mantin ’03, and Micah 04011; indicate on envelope: “Wedding photo.” Bailey Island. (From l to r): Roshani Patrick Keneally ’05, Nick Reid ’05, Ryan Reynolds ’00, Elizabeth and 18 Polar Bears at the wedding Moreau ’03. Information to include: Names (including maiden names) and class years Grant ’08, Kate Lebeaux ’08, Emily Jay Tansey ’07, Sean Walker ’05, Hunter, Anne Bradley ’00, and of Rob Reider ’07 and Tehilah 20 Tasha Bahal ’04 and Kevin of everyone pictured; date, place, and other relevant information about the ceremony. Krull ‘08, Bobbi and Jake, Grace Ellis Pepper ’05, Suzanne Offen Joshua Weiner ’00. Azoulay ’08 (l to r): David Jones Doyle ’04 were married on Moore ’08, Lyndsey Colburn Gillis ’05, Pam Keneally ’05, Joe Sargent 16 Nora Pierson ’00 and Tracy ’07, Suzanne Reider Castaldo ’01, September 28, 2013, in York, Photo return policy: We will honor requests to return prints, though, as ’08, Brad Gillis ’08, Andrea Aduna ’05, Caroline Quinn ’05, Lindsay Rieder eloped to Lake Tahoe, CA, Jay Tansey ’07, Elly Pepper ’05, Maine. (From l to r, all Class of a small operation, we appreciate “disposable” copies. Should you require your photo returned, indicate so; you will receive it several weeks after the ’08, and their “beloved mascot. Go McCombs Pomponi ’05, Charlie and Noah Berman ’06, Rob, Shep Fein 2004): Lauren Garry, Kristina on February 14, 2014. published issue in which it appears. U Bears!” Laura, Chris Mosher ’05, Jenny Fry ’49 (holding banner), Tehilah, Dylan Fugate, Khoa Khuong, Ryan Gillia, ’01 (sister of groom), Anne Taylor Brix ’07, Becky Wei ’07, Bobby Courtney Ruggles, Erin Hanley, Permissions: Submission of your wedding photo presumes that you hold its ’06, Alex Meszaros ’05, Kevin DiMatteo ’07, Jack Piper ’05, and Nick Walker, Jackie Walker, Matt copyright or have obtained the necessary permission for the photo to appear in Bowdoin Magazine. Please contact the magazine if you have any questions. Erspamer ’05, Julie Gallant ’05, and Zach Hammond ’07. Boersma, Kate Bathras, Scott Mark Yakavonis ’05. Herrick, and Elizabeth Boersma. Deadline: The submission deadline for the Fall issue is September 20, 2014.

56 BOWDOIN | SPRING 2014 [email protected] 57 AlumNotes AlumNotes eddings Deaths

The following is a list of deaths reported to us since the previous issue. Full obituaries appear online at bowdoinobits.com. As part of our redesign, we moved the obituaries from the printed magazine to a new dedicated online site. Updated regularly, the improved obituary format better honors our Bowdoin community members and allows additional features that we can’t offer in print, specifically the ability for classmates, families, and friends to post photos and remembrances. We will continue to print a list of recent deaths compiled between issues, and full obituaries will appear online at bowdoinobits.com.

Charles G. Hatch ’35 Everett W. Gray ’48 David E. Farnham ’52 Bruce G. MacDermid ’69 January 29, 2014 March 12, 2014 January 14, 2014 March 28, 2014 21 22 John E. Hooke ’37 Bernard A. Le Beau ’48 Frederick J. Maroth ’52 Louis C. Schroer ’69 April 7, 2014 March 18, 2014 November 22, 2013 October 9, 2011

Carl F. Barron ’38 Herbert S. Sawyer ’48 Livingston Wright Jr. ’52 Michael R. McAvoy ’70 February 16, 2014 January 2, 2014 February, 2014 March 28, 2014

John H. Rich Jr. ’39 Herbert T. Silsby II ’48 Peter G. Dunn ’54 William J. Zigmund ’73 April 9, 2014 December 29, 2013 November 24, 2013 March 8, 2014

Matthew W. Bullock Jr ’40 Norman R. Snider ’48 William E. Nieman Jr. ’55 George W. Ellard Jr. ’74 July 7, 2013 September 27, 2003 December 25, 2013 December 25, 2011

Fred M. Fernald ’40 Edgar A. Beem Jr. ’49 David R. Wood ’55 Lawrence R. Sawyer ’75 November 2, 2012 February 6, 2014 March 9, 2014 January 9, 2014

William I. Barton ’41 Jerome H. St. Clair ’49 Peter T.C. Bramhall ’56 Leo J. Maheu ’77 January 15, 2014 April 11, 2014 March 13, 2014 February 17, 2014 23 24 Robert G. Page ’41 Bruce W. Barrett ’50 Orville Z. Tyler III ’56 Robert M. Chen ’78 January 4, 2014 February 5, 2014 21 Conor O’Brien ’03 (University 22 Michael Reutershan ’07 23 Mindy Chism ’06 married January 6, 2014 March 18, 2014 of Oregon PhD ’11) married and Van Du ’08 were married in Matt Levering on October 12, 2013, Morris E. Curiel ’42 Richard W. Blanchard ’50 Brian H. Flynn ’57 Katelyn Dufour (University of the Bowdoin Chapel on August 3, in Kenmore, WA. Pictured (l to r, April 1, 2007 January 21, 2014 December 19, 2013 Honorary Oregon ’13) on October 20, 2013. Pictured on the steps of the all Class of 2006): Katie Eshelman Ben L. Loeb ’42 Allison C. Edwards ’50 George A. Smart Jr. ’57 Maxine Kumin H’01 2013, at Wetherledge Estate in Bowdoin College Museum of Art Springer, Ethan Galloway, Hilarie December 20, 2003 April 17, 2014 October 2013 February 6, 2014 Jamestown, RI. (From l to r): Lynne (clockwise, l to r): Tom Riddle ’87, Galloway, Mindy and Matt, Davies ’04, Ryan Johnson ’00, Anthony Regis ’07, Joe Adu ’07, Eric Davich, Kevin Wilcox, Jill Frederick T. Smith ’44 J. Russell Washburne ’50 Clayton D. Bennett ’59 Conor and Katelyn, Daniel Lami Jenny Adu ’07, Tim Cashman’07, Schweitzer, and Drew Friedmann. December 16, 2013 February 9, 2012 February, 2014 Faculty and Staff Goldstein ’01, and Todd Forsgren ’03. Anthony Carrasquillo ’07, Chris 24 Ben Yormak ’06 married Sheldon E. Carbee ’45 Arthur F. Williams ’50 Robert S. Vernick ’60 Josiah H. Drummond Jr. Cashman ’07, Eamonn Hart ’09, Jessica Breyman on August 31, January 6, 2014 December 28, 2013 March 12, 2014 March 20, 2014 Anna Karass ’08, Hande Ozergin 2013, at LaPlaya Beach & Golf Bradford W. Drake III ’45 Charles R. Forker ’51 Robert H. Page ’63 Nada C. Flint ’08, Colin Beckman ’07, Nate Resort, in Naples, FL. (From l to r): January 5, 2014 February 15, 2014 January 4, 2014 March 20, 2014 Underwood ’07, Jackie Brosnan- Ferd Convery ’06, Stephen Curwen Cashman ’08, Alyssa Chen ’08, Frank A. Oxnard ’45 Donald C. Seamans ’51 Peter C. Dalton ’67 Donald W. Hastings ’62 ’06, Jessica and Ben ’06, and January 15, 2013 January 22, 2014 November 20, 2013 December 12, 2013 Megan Waterman ’08, Orie Shin Jason Lewis ’06. ’08, Robert Guerette ’07, Joy Lee Thomas J. Seaton Jr. ’45 Joseph D. Vacchiano ’51 Abimbola O. Ogunsola ’67 ’07, Michael and Van, and Elizabeth January 2, 2014 January 16, 2014 June 29, 2013 Sheldon ’07. Judson R. Merrill ’46 William S. Burnham ’52 Lewis C. Johnson ’69 February 1, 2014 March 27, 2014 March 7, 2014

Full obituaries appear online at bowdoinobits.com.

58 BOWDOIN | SPRING 2014 [email protected] 59 Bowdoin Bowdoin The Whispering Pines

A Thimbleful of History isitors to the Museum of Art between November and Answers when the show closed on June 1 were able to explore by Barry Mills, President The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections. The V stories behind the objects touched on exploration, discovery, conflict, and the changing “lives of objects” over time. A copy of the rules of the College (with doodles by Nathaniel 14th President / 14 Years Hawthorne) shared a display case with Winslow Homer’s watercolor paint box. James Bowdoin III’s dueling pistols shared gallery space with a taxidermy mount of a kiwi and the movie arry Mills was inaugurated as Bowdoin’s fourteenth president in October 2001. In April, he camera used by Donald MacMillan in the Arctic. B announced that his fourteenth year in the job would be his last. Seated in his trademark Among these fabulous objects, I found myself drawn to one Bowdoin rocking chair, he talks about his decision to walk away from a job he loves, his plans of the smallest objects in the show. In a corner next to Gilbert for the future, and the work that means the most to him in the coming year. Stuart’s portrait of Phoebe Lord Upham, the wife of Professor In 2011 you said you’d be here at least five more years. How has this job changed you? Thomas Upham, was a case which contained a thimble and a Phebe’s pallbearers included former Maine Governor Robert So you’re a year early. The job forces you to think about issues very broadly, and to copy of an eight-page religious tract written by Mrs. Upham, Dunlap, Professor Alpheus Spring Packard, Dr. Isaac Lincoln I felt I had to give the community some stability, because spend a lot of time listening and hearing other points of views, Narrative of Phebe Ann Jacobs. The thimble once belonged to (Overseer of the College for sixty-three years), and Bowdoin the normal tenure of a college president is around ten years, making decisions based, ultimately, on what you think is right. Phebe Jacobs and was found among the papers of Bowdoin’s Treasurer John McKeen. President Allen and his daughters led and everyone was wondering, okay, he’s going to leave now And I think I’ve become a more interesting person because I’ve third president, William Allen. a long procession of mourners that included prominent citizens because it’s ten years. His boys are away. Karen is in DC. had to learn about so many new and different things. I got an Phebe was born into slavery on Beverwyck Plantation and students. She was buried next to her childhood companion, Time to head out. It’s four years later, the College is incredibly undergraduate education here from 1968 to 1972, and coming in New Jersey in 1785. She was purchased (or given) as a Maria Allen, in Pine Grove Cemetery. stable, and we’re in a really wonderful place. These transitions back as president, I got a chance to get educated all over again are complicated, and if another economic crisis or something in a different way. companion for Maria Wheelock, the daughter of Dartmouth Shortly after Phebe’s death, Phoebe Upham wrote the tract else terrible happened in the world, it would be very hard to College’s second president, John Wheelock. It is not clear when on “Happy Phebe,” extolling her Christian devotion. Mrs. leave. So, I think the timing is right. You’ve made it clear that now is not the time to look Phebe’s status changed from slave to servant, but when Maria Upham also befriended a faculty wife who had just arrived in back and reminisce—that there’s still a lot to do. What’s married the Reverend William Allen, Phebe accompanied the Brunswick. It was in the Uphams’ church pew that Harriett How did your family take the news? on your mind for the next fourteen months? Allens to Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She joined the church in Beecher Stowe experienced the vision of Uncle Tom’s death It took me a while to convince Karen, because we love the The most important thing is to make sure the College maintains 1817, an action that suggests that she was a free person. William that inspired her novel. In The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe job and we love being in Brunswick. She was also a little its sense of balance, stability, and excellence and that it not get Allen was president of short-lived Dartmouth University for wrote that stories of Phebe’s saintly disposition had influenced concerned about leaving 79 Federal Street because our boys uncertain about itself in this moment of transition. In addition, grew up there and it’s the place they think of as home. But we have to continue to raise some money. It’s important two years before becoming president of Bowdoin in 1820. her portrayal of Uncle Tom’s character. they thought it was okay. We still have our house in Cundy’s to continue the imperative to provide financial assistance to In Brunswick, Phebe and Maria Allen joined the First Parish As I looked at the thimble, I wondered about the world Harbor so we’ll be in Maine during the summer. Not exactly students who ought to be at Bowdoin, whether their families are Church on the same day in 1823, although Phebe was required to that Phebe negotiated every day. What we know about her sure where we’ll be the rest of the time, although it’s likely poor or middle- or even upper-middle-income. I’m also very sit in the north balcony with servants, across from the Bowdoin is largely through the words of others—from Upham, Adams, we’ll be in the Boston area. interested in finally establishing a significant presence around the students in the south balcony. Phebe became close friends with and Stowe—writers who emphasized aspects of her character study of the oceans and climate. And a number of years ago I Sarah Adams, the wife of the minister, and was widely known that conformed to their own views and expectations. Phebe You’ve been a biologist, a corporate lawyer, and a gave a talk about computational thinking and big data as a new in the community for her piety. The death of Maria Allen in lived “through the back yard” from two ardent abolitionists, college president. Now you have another opportunity component of the liberal arts. Our faculty has really taken this to reinvent yourself. So, what’s next? on. It’s very exciting, and I think it sets Bowdoin apart if we do 1828 dealt a blow to Phebe and the Allen family. Professor Tess professors William Smyth and Alpheus Packard. Free black I really don’t know yet. I’m not going to go back and it correctly. We’re also going to plan, and I hope start to build, Chakkalakal’s research on the Allen papers revealed that Phebe did families in nearby East Brunswick often assisted escaped slaves. practice law because I’ve been away from that too long a new Arctic museum. It’s a busy fourteen months. not care for Allen’s second wife, whom he married in 1831. When Many Brunswick sea captains and textile mill owners opposed now. I really enjoy trying to figure out, big-picture, where Allen left Bowdoin in 1839 and moved to Massachusetts, Phebe abolition. I wonder if Phebe’s public face of scrupulous piety a place ought to go. I enjoy the day-to-day problem solving Last question: How are you going to pose for your announced that she would stay in a small cabin near the campus. in a potentially dangerous time masked the private thoughts of issues. If I could find an opportunity to lead a place presidential portrait? She earned a living by washing, ironing, and mending for Bowdoin and actions of an independent, free black woman. Seldom has a where I can deal with big issues and at the same time be For years I’ve walked to the second floor of Hubbard Hall and, faculty and students. single thimble held so much written and unwritten history. involved in the day-to-day that would be great. Somebody although some of the presidents on those walls are still alive, asked me, well, why not run another college like Bowdoin? I think of it as the dead presidents hall. I actually get nervous Phebe died peacefully on February 27, 1850, the same How could I tell somebody they ought to go to that school up there. Partly, I have to admit, it’s also, here are all these night as Sarah Adams. Although he was grieving the loss of With best wishes. instead of Bowdoin? There’s no way I can do that. leaders of this great College, and I’m one of those? I never really his wife, Reverend Adams preached at Phebe’s funeral, thought of myself that way. So, the idea of being up on that saying “... that if his wife had been permitted to choose a Well, when you leave you’ll be two months shy of your wall is terrifying. I know at some point we’ll have to do it, but companion to accompany her through the ‘dark valley,’ and John R. Cross ’76 65th birthday. You could just retire. I don’t think I’m mature enough yet to actually think about this into the open portals of heaven, she would have chosen Phebe.” Secretary of Development and Alumni Relations Actually, I hadn’t done the math. It’s a little terrifying. There is in a responsible way. See? I’m already starting to rock! no way I can retire. It’s just not in my nature. Editor’s Note: Visit research.bowdoin.edu/a-world-of-objects/ to view the exhibition and learn more.

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