BowdoinWINTER 2014 VOL. 85 NO. 2 MAGAZINE

Saving Hannes Schneider A Bowdoin alumnus helps launch the American ski industry

The Natural: the Boston Red Sox’s Jared Porter ’03 Creative Energy: Five prominent writers on campus Barry Mills on investing in opportunity contents BowdoinMAGAZINE

Volume 85, Number 2 30 Winter 2014 Magazine Staff Executive Editor Everybody’s Story Alison M. Bennie

Managing Editor Thank you to everyone who wrote or phoned, whether with compliments or Scott C. Schaiberger ’95 criticisms, in answer to my request for feedback to our fall issue. I was struck by Editor the fervor with which some people responded—and what a good thing that is. Matthew J. O’Donnell It speaks to the connections you feel to your fellow alumni and to Bowdoin, an extraordinary fealty that makes this college and the greater Bowdoin community Design Charles Pollock special. “Bowdoin is an intensely human institution,” wrote longtime professor Jim Lucas Herbert Ross Brown H’63, “into whose fabric are woven the [lives] of all those Mike Lamare who have come under her benign influence.” PL Design – Portland, Maine

18 Contributors The articles, news items, and profiles in this issue highlight the breadth and James Caton scope of that influence and are illustrative of the many ways alumni pursue life Douglas Cook and all the variations of the common good, staying connected to the College John R. Cross ’76 and to each other in meaningful ways. We learn of a financier from the Class features Barbara Desmarais of 1902 whose background includes heading the Red Cross during WWI and Rebecca Goldfine serving a prominent role in the nascent ski industry of the ’30s and ’40s, who Scott W. Hood reveled in regaling fellow alumni of his Bowdoin days at the inn he owned in 18 The Natural Megan Morouse Abby McBride New Hampshire. There’s the former athlete from the Class of 2003 who chased BY BILLY BAKER PHOTOGRAPHS BY WEBB CHAPPELL Holly Sherburne his dreams from the ball field to the front office, who always has time to talk to With a “freakish” eye and a major league work ethic, Jared Porter ’03 current students and recent alumni about their path to success. A community Photographs by: scored himself a dream job: director of professional scouting for the 22 of faculty writers, who are teaching and practicing their craft on campus now, Brian Beard, Felice Boucher, Webb Chappell, Boston Red Sox. Anthony Doerr ’95, Dennis Griggs, Bob Handelman, join Bowdoin’s long literary conversation that includes the alumni writers who James Marshall, Mary and Scott Paquette, Michele contributed to this issue as well as those who published recent books noted in 22 Creative Energy Stapleton, Brian Wedge ’97, Darrin Vanselow, and Class News. Bowdoin College Archives. BY ABBY MCBRIDE PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES MARSHALL Cover image courtesy of the New England Ski Because these stories are also your stories, because new ones continue to be Right now Bowdoin is a writing powerhouse. No fewer than five Museum. written every day and we want you to share them, we’re reestablishing old ways illustrious writers are on campus teaching courses in fiction and to submit Class News. Look for the submission card folded into this issue and for creative nonfiction. BOWDOIN MAGAZINE (ISSN, 0895-2604) is pub- lished three times a year by Bowdoin College, Class News forms in future correspondence from the College. Mail us, e-mail us, 4104 College Station, Brunswick, Maine, 04011. tweet, or post news our way. We hope this magazine provides the opportunity 30 Saving Hannes Schneider Printed by J.S. McCarthy, Augusta, Maine. Sent for alumni of different generations to become acquainted with each other and BY NATHANIEL VINTON ’01 free of charge to all Bowdoin alumni, parents of to read about how their own stories fit into the greater context of the Bowdoin current and recent undergraduates, faculty and Using his influence to spring a famous Austrian ski instructor from story, which is ultimately the story that we all share. staff, and selected members of the Association of Nazi captivity, financier and ski resort founder Harvey Dow Gibson, Bowdoin Friends. Class of 1902, helped popularize skiing in America. Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of 2 Mailbox 57 Weddings the authors. 4 Almanac 62 Deaths Please send address changes, ideas, or letters to the editor to the address above or by e-mail to Matt O’Donnell 32 Profiles 63 Whispering Pines [email protected]. Send class news to [email protected] 39 Alumnotes 64 Answers [email protected] or to the address above. 207.725.3133 Advertising inquiries? E-mail magazineads@ 40 Class News bowdoin.edu.

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Locating the Pilar to the island. In 1939, when Hemingway that the Pilar would still be found where Missing Classes? An Element of Style CORRECTIONS: decided to move to the island he had it was moored in the small 17th-century Dear Editor, Dear Editor, Dear Editor, • On page four of our Fall 2013 issue, we been visiting since 1932, he initially Cuban fishing village of Cojimar, the referred to new Bowdoin Museum of Art I was drawn to a long note by David Pyle lived at the Old Havana hostelry, Hotel inspiration for the Nobel Prize-winning I see [in the fall magazine] that In Bowdoin Magazine, Fall 2013, in your co-directors Frank and Anne Goodyear as “the ’55 while reading the Fall 2013 issue of Ambos Mundos. Room 511 is preserved, Old Man and the Sea. But alas, while one classes prior to 1953 are missing from italicized response, page three, column Goodwins,” an especially embarrassing error, Bowdoin. In the piece, he recounts the looking much as it did when Hemingway can sit at Hemingway’s corner table at the AlumNotes. However, members of older one, you wrote “. . . five of who are still since our Summer 2013 issue included a long revival of his interest in the works of penned the drafts of For Whom the Bell still-elegant La Terraza Restaurant, the classes are listed in death notices. Is the alive . . .” Unless a basic rule of grammar feature article on the Goodyears. In that same Ernest Hemingway, which was sparked by Tolls. The view from the hotel’s famous spectacular view of the harbor no longer moral to this story that the only news of has gone down the drain, “who” should letter, we misspelled Prendergast. a recent book, Hemingway’s Boat (Knopf, rooftop bar/restaurant is far superior to includes the Pilar. However, the boat rests life worth reporting from older classes is have been “whom.” As per what I 2011), about Hemingway’s beloved cabin that of room 511, with a sweeping vista a few miles inland in San Francisco de their departure from the living? There learned in elementary school, you can • On page six in the “Raise Songs to Tilly” cruiser the Pilar. My renewed interest of red tile roofs, church spires, and the Paula, on the grounds of Finca La Vigia, must be at least one old crotchety alum drop the “of who” and see that the “five piece, there were another two errors: a typo in in all things Hemingway was prompted distant harbor. When Hemingway wasn’t the villa Hemingway had purchased in from a class before 1953 who continues are still alive.” Better luck next time. Tony Antolini’s last name and his class year, by re-reading A Movable Feast on a trip writing, he reportedly spent his time December 1940. There sits Pilar, high to be heard over the bedlam. Gary Boone ’51 1963. Also, “Tilly” Tillotson’s honorary to Paris a few years ago and discovering, drinking. When in Havana he frequented and dry and available for viewing, in a Aside from the slight to the ancient degree was bestowed in 1949. book in hand, that most of Papa’s old Left and infirm, you publish an attractive and El Floridita, a few blocks from the Hotel pavilion atop the now-filled-in swimming (Nearly) Cover to Cover • The profile of Carolyn Mann on page thirty- Bank haunts remain intact. While finding Ambos Mundos (note the bust of the pool. The home, guest house, tower, and interesting magazine. two incorrectly listed her class year, which is Dear Editor, Closerie des Lilas and Shakespeare and great man sidling up to the end of the grounds are meticulously maintained as a Ed Samiljan ’51 G’62. Company in Paris is an easygoing task bar) and La Bodequita del Medio, near museum, literally just as the Hemingways Well done! The magazine is terrific: Editor’s Note: We received a couple of notes • The profile of Karen Fasciano ’87 on page for the American enthusiast, locating the Cathedral Square in Old Havana, both left them for the last time in 1960. Wonderful stories, clean layout, easy to to this effect. The majority of Class News has thirty-three should have included mention of Pilar in Cuba takes a bit of effort, even of which still exist and welcome locals read, obits online but with a list of the Richard T. Andrias ’65 always been self-reported. If there’s no news breast surgeon Laura Dominici ’98, another of with today’s relaxed restrictions on travel and tourists alike. One would imagine departed. I read it from cover to cover listed for a class year, it’s because no member of Fasciano’s alumnae colleagues at Dana Farber. (well, I skipped all the weddings, babies, that class submitted an update to us. Send us and class news outside of my husband’s • Jacquelin Gorman ’76’s first name was news, and we’ll print it! era), which is more than I can say for the misspelled in Class News. alumna magazine of my own alma mater. We regret these errors. Coeducation Correction I look forward to the next issue. Dear Editor, Sincerely, Great article about classmate Ed [Lee]. Cynthia Howland He’s doing some good stuff out there. (wife of the late John L. Howland ’57, One small correction: while the Class of professor of biology at Bowdoin from 1974 was admitted all male, we certainly 1963-2002) did not graduate that way. And with coeducation getting going full blast in fall 1971, the College was definitely not Alumni Centenarians, single-sex in any way. Take Three Chape Whitman ’74 Editor’s Note: Upon further research, we facebook.com/Bowdoin learned that twenty-three alumni since the Class of 1900 have reached the age of 100, a @BowdoinCollege number that does not reflect nineteenth-century alumni, several of whom also reached 100. Of the twenty-three twentieth-century alumni BowdoinDailySun.com centenarians, four are still alive (two at 102, one at 101, and one at 100). The oldest Send Us Mail! Large photo: Pilar on display at Finca La Vigia. Photo by Natalie Maynor. Inset photo: Profile of Ernest (Barrett Nichols ’25) lived to be 108, one We’re interested in your feedback, Hemingway aboard Pilar. From the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library alumnus lived to 105, one to 104, three to thoughts, and ideas about Bowdoin Magazine. You can reach us by e-mail and Museum. 103, and five to 102. at [email protected].

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Almanac A DIGEST OF CAMPUS, ALUMNI, AND GENERAL COLLEGE MISCELLANY A Transcendental Arctic Expedition Author Anthony Doerr ’95 recounts his “dazzling experience” Faculty Take Turn as Students traveling to the Arctic—an adventure that proved eye-opening in

many palpable ways, and others less tangibly so. As part of the College’s new Digital and Computational “‘Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last’ goes an old Chinese Studies Initiative, nearly two dozen Bowdoin faculty proverb, and I’ve come to the Far North hoping, like the others, to White House Honors Bowdoin’s Oliveira members took part in a four-day course in January titled see narwhals and icebergs but also to airlift myself out of my habits “Digital Humanities @ Bowdoin.” President Obama named as- for a week and to try to remember that the world doesn’t have to Taught by Professor of Computer Science Eric Chown sistant professor of computer be one particular way. It can snow in June. Laundry detergent is a and Professor of Art History Pamela Fletcher, the seminar science Daniela Oliveira as one luxury. Children can play fifteen hundred miles from the nearest patch covered four major categories of digital humanities tech- of 102 researchers nationwide of lawn, in the middle of the night, without flashlights. And in some niques: image analysis, text analysis, spatial analysis, and to receive the Presidential places in the world, you can walk on the sea.” network analysis. The goal was for participants to come Early Career Award for Scien- Read Doerr’s complete article, “The Big Chill: The Ultimate away with an understanding of how computer science can tists and Engineers (PECASE). Arctic Expedition,” in the November 2013 Condé Nast Traveler, simplify complex concepts and tasks, methods and tools The PECASE is “the highest and at cntraveler.com. for harnessing computing power, and limitations. honor bestowed by the United “Computers are States Government on science Doerr’s latest novel, All the Light We Cannot See, (Scribner) will be good at things we’re and engineering profession- out later this year. not good at: read- als in the early stages of their ing 10,000 books at independent research careers.” the only PECASE recipient once, or counting Oliveira’s research focuses on from a primarily undergradu- the number of pixels computer security, and she is ate institution. in an image that are more red than green,” Chown said. “They’re fantastic at these things, and these things lead us to think a little bit differ- ently about what we’re studying.”

The course was met with such enthusiasm that many Bowdoin College faculty members had to be turned away. “What makes programming so exciting in the digital humanities is that B you can play; you can try things out. You can reverse the colors of a Van Gogh and find out that he was playing with negative space—something I discovered on my own One hundred fifty of the multi-purpose Victory cargo ships were just by playing around,” said Chown. named for U.S. colleges and universities, the first forty of those, Information about digital humanities projects in including Bowdoin Victory, after the nation’s forty oldest educational romance languages, the Museum of Art, history, and institutions. English is available at bowdoin.edu. Forty Liberty ships were also named with Bowdoin connec- tions: including S.S. Robert E. Peary, S.S. James Bowdoin, and the S.S. William DeWitt Hyde.

Follow @BowdoinCollege #OnThisDay for 365 Bowdoin facts, tweeted one calendar day at a time. Photographs courtesy of Anthony Doerr.

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Women’s Soccer Recognized for Academics and Sportsmanship Coaches Getting Giddy in The Bowdoin women’s soccer team, Count who finished the season with a 12-4-1 the Zone record and reached the Second Round Wins in the The last-second touchdown pass of the NCAA Tournament for the sec- from Mac Caputi ’15 to Daniel ond straight season, was honored with a Hundreds Religious and Spiritual Life Barone ’16 was good enough to pair of prestigious off-the-field honors be number three in the plays of by the National Soccer Coaches As- Robert Ives ’69 was appointed Bowdoin’s first-ever the day on ESPN SportsCenter’s sociation of America: the Academic director of religious and spiritual life in January 2013. At the close of 2013, Bowdoin To p Te n p l ay s f ro m S a t u r d ay, Team Award and a Silver Award for Athletics marked some impres- November 9. It was the top Team Ethics. Bowdoin: Do you think Bowdoin students sive coaching milestones. are increasingly interested in developing a football highlight of the day, Tim Gilbride celebrated his spiritual life? beating out clips from Missouri- 400th win over his twenty- Kentucky, Syracuse-Maryland, RI: Many of our students come from various nine years as coach of the Florida-Vanderbilt, Indiana- men’s basketball team with family religious traditions, but are now engaged in Illinois and Heisman Trophy- a 67-56 victory over the exploring a more personal spiritual direction. I would winner Johnny Manziel of University of Southern Maine suggest the majority of our students see themselves Texas A&M. In actuality, the pass on December 3. He has the as spiritual rather than religious, since spirituality was just the beginning of the best winning percentage of seems to connote a quest, searching, a reexamination chaos at the end of the game at any men’s basketball coach at of, while religion signifies something fixed, formed, Whittier Field, a 32-22 win over Bowdoin. dogmatic, and handed down. Nearly all the students Colby, as the teams combined Head coach of men’s ice with whom I speak reflect a deep sense of care, for three scores in the final three hockey Terry Meagher—the concern, and desire to be loving and of service to their seconds. The Polar Bears also winningest coach in Bowdoin neighbors however they can. cracked SportCenter’s Top Ten Athletics history—became the countdown in 2011 with a pair sixth coach in Division III his- Bowdoin: During the past year, what is the most significant change you of record-breaking interception tory to reach 500 career wins have witnessed in spiritual and religious life at Bowdoin? returns against Tufts. on November 26 against the RI: When I arrived, there were six religious and spiritual groups: the Muslim Student University of New England Association, Bowdoin Hillel, Bowdoin Christian Fellowship, Bowdoin Community with a 9-3 win. Over his Gospel Choir, Bowdoin Circle, and Catholic Student Union. Since then, we have added thirty-one seasons, Meagher’s two more: the Bowdoin Quakers and the Bowdoin Orthodox Fellowship. We have also teams have qualified for the started an Interfaith Council encouraging dialogue, understanding, and education among postseason thirty times and he the religious and spiritual groups on campus. Through interfaith suppers, lectures on the is the twenty-second collegiate faith traditions of all groups on campus, and interfaith services, our hope is that all religious coach, across all divisions, to groups will be respectful of other beliefs while being true to their own personal traditions. reach the 500-win mark. In NCAA hockey history, he is Bowdoin: What do you think is the best way to foster spiritual and just the twelfth coach to win religious practice on a small campus? all of his 500 games at a single institution. RI: Encourage students in their personal faith and help them realize it is not only 2013 National Champs: Field Hockey Does It Again acceptable to practice one’s faith, but also deeply beneficial. I have seen many students reluctant to attend worship or practice one’s faith, since religion can be perceived as non- The Bowdoin College field hockey team claimed its fourth NCAA Division III academic or anti-intellectual. But as students begin to share openly and honestly thoughts title in the last seven years. The Polar Bears, who last claimed the title when and ideas important to them, they realize there are others who feel the same way. Recently, this year’s seniors were first-years in 2010, finished the season 18-3. Bowdoin for example, two first-year students asked to start a Quaker meeting. To the surprise of all also claimed the national title in 2007 and ’08 and improves to 4-0 all-time in three of us, seventeen individuals showed up for the first meeting in December. NCAA Championship games.

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The True Events Behind the “Wreck of the Hesperus” by Louis Arthur Norton ’58 Throwback Thursday to 19__? This photo, which appeared on the And fast through the midnight dark and drear, been moved by the striking of that bell Bowdoin College Facebook page and Through the whistling sleet and snow, at reunion and strongly identify with other social media in January, garnered a Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept some of the scenes of my hometown, good deal of feedback. Our archives say Tow’rds the reef of Norman’s Woe. though historical events described in it was taken in 1978. Here’s the descrip- the well-loved poem reflect a good tion, “Group portrait of some fraternity There is a Bowdoin tradition of ringing a bell mounted on deal of poetic license. members in front of the Alpha Rho a stout antique wooden frame to begin alumni reunion con- On the morning of December 14, Upsilon snow sculpture of 1978. Pictured: vocations. For many years it was said that this ship’s bell 1839, a severe nor’easter lashed the Cliff McClellan, Polly Hollman Walker, has a connection with the schooner made famous by Henry Massachusetts coast, damaging commu- Tammy Ouellette, Chris Zarbetski, Wadsworth Longfellow’s (Class of 1825) poem the “Wreck nities from Boston through Cape Ann Elizabeth Gorfinkle, Althea Wagman, and of the Hesperus.” One popular theory is that the bell was the (Gloucester). Of the some sixty vessels Kurt Stager.” shore-based warning bell—“‘’T is a fog-bell on a rock-bound moored in Gloucester Harbor, seven- coast!”—located at Rafe’s Chasm, a 150-foot-long by six-foot- teen broke loose and were smashed to pieces on the rocks and Follow Bowdoin: wide deep cleft in Gloucester’s granite shore a few hundred twenty-one others were driven ashore. The storm claimed forty yards from the shoal known as Norman’s Woe. lives on Cape Ann. This same storm raised havoc with the ships facebook.com/Bowdoin As an alumnus and a native of Gloucester, I have always anchored or moored in Boston, among them the Herperus (note the spelling of the ship’s name). The three-masted schooner was driven first against the ship William Badger, before her jib boom @BowdoinCollege smashed into the third floor of a Long Wharf building.

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, @BowdoinCollege A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. A December 17, 1839, Boston Post description of the Gloucester disaster mentions “the body of a woman, found lashed to the windlass bits of a Castine schr.” That vessel was later more cor- Advice and Unveiling rectly identified as the schooner Favorite of Wiscasset. The body of the woman lashed to Favorite’s broken windlass Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell ’54 was fifty-five-year-old Sally Hilton (some say forty-five)—but not addressed a Joint Convention of the Maine Legislature at the a “maiden fair.” There is no mention of wreckage washing up on Maine State House in Augusta on January 28 in advance of a ceremony to unveil his official portrait. In his address to the Norman’s Woe, though it’s plausible since the prominent rock Bukaty F. AP/Robert is off the western shore at the mouth of Gloucester Harbor. It is lawmakers, Senator Mitchell spoke about the power of learn- unclear how Longfellow knew this because there is no evidence ing to listen, the necessity of civility in order to maintain the that he visited either Rafe’s Chasm or Norman’s Woe. ability to compromise that is crucial to effective The bell rung at alumni gatherings may have nothing to do governance, and the importance of developing with the event described in Longfellow’s narrative, but it remains a “patience muscle” in his own life and politi- a fitting way to remember one of our most famous graduates and cal career. His portrait, which was donated by Above: Senator Mitchell speaking to the 126th the College’s rich past. a group of Senator Mitchell’s family and friends Maine State Legislature on February 28, 2014. and which will hang in the Hall of Flags, was At left: Official portrait. Image courtesy of the Author and maritime historian Louis Arthur Norton ’58 is a professor emeritus at the Maine State Museum. University of Connecticut Health Center. painted by Irish artist James Hanley, who painted an earlier portrait of Mitchell for the collection of Image at left: Collections of Maine Historical Society. Above: The bell perhaps mentioned by Longfellow, given to the College in 1961. Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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“My story is everybody’s story . . . Marjorie Hassen in the sense that art, really what Director of the Bowdoin College Library art tries to do, is to transcend Join the Talk itself. In essence, whenever Bowdoin: What exactly is a library in the twenty-first Record Commission Mark your calendars to take State University. Author century? (NHPRC), this we’re writing a poem, or part in the first open, online Anne Fadiman will join the MH: The best way I can describe today’s library is to call it spring we will begin painting a painting, or creating book talk for the Bowdoin conversation by phone and multi-dimensional. Libraries of our time will continue to have a project to digi- community on April 1. Join field questions. both a physical as well as a virtual presence, housing extensive tize one of Special a dance, or a symphony . . . we other alumni, students, faculty, The talk, which is sponsored print collections (yes, the printed book is still very much in Collection’s most do it out of the most selfish staff, parents, and others in by the McKeen Center, will demand), and providing access to online resources anywhere significant holdings, a discussion of Anne Fadi- be streamed live on Bowdoin’s there is connectivity. On a campus like Bowdoin’s the physi- the papers of Oliver endeavor of trying to find out man’s The Spirit Catches You website starting at 8:00 p.m. cal library is also a hub for students who are studying, collabo- Otis Howard (Class something about ourselves or and You Fall Down, moderated (EST). Viewers and listeners rating, and learning and where they will find the myriad tools of 1850). Howard’s by Susan Bell, Bowdoin’s A. can e-mail questions to Fadi- they need—including those drive-by new technologies—to distinguished career the world or an opinion that we Myrick Freeman Professor of man and the moderators to support their academic work. It’s also the place where faculty, touched on many have, but yet it’s really about Social Sciences and chair of participate. See bowdoin.edu for librarians, and technologists work together to develop disci- of the significant the sociology and anthropol- details as the date approaches. pline-specific resources to support teaching and research. events of nineteenth how to transcend that very story, ogy department, and Steven The Spirit Catches You and century U.S. history to understand how your life is in Loebs ’60, research associate You Fall Down was the re- Bowdoin: What do you see as the strengths of including the Civil at the Joseph McKeen Center quired first-year book for the some ways a template, is in some Bowdoin’s library/collections? War, education reform, and race relations. His papers con- for the Common Good and Class of 2005, so alumni from sequently are of value to scholars worldwide and providing ways an archetype, for what it professor emeritus, College that class are especially invited MH: I could talk about the strength of the library’s collections digital versions of these materials will enhance their access means for all of us to be alive, of Public Health, The Ohio to join in the conversation. or its focus on providing innovative services to support teach- immeasurably. I’m also very pleased to be a part of the effort ing and research (both certainly deserving of praise) but what to support the College’s Digital and Computational Studies what it means to be human.” I’ve been impressed by the most is the expertise and dedica- Initiative (DSCI). Several library staff are working with col- From Amazon.com: “The tion of the library staff. The level of commitment to the stu- book explores the clash leagues in Information Technology and with the DCSI between a small county dents and faculty is extraordinary and results in collective striv- directors to develop support services for faculty and students hospital in California and ing for excellence and a willingness to take on new challenges. involved in DCSI-related projects. Richard Blanco Brings His Poetry a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Bowdoin: What projects are underway that you’re to Bowdoin Hmong child diagnosed with Bowdoin: What’s on the horizon? most excited about? Richard Blanco, the poet for President Obama’s second severe epilepsy. Lia’s parents MH: It’s good to remember that the horizon is something term inauguration, spent a day at Bowdoin on October and her doctors both wanted MH: We’re in the process of implementing a combined what was best for Lia, but you can never reach! So the planning never ends. A day 25, visiting with staff, students, and faculty, conducting a the lack of understanding online catalog with Bates and Colby, with whom Bowdoin doesn’t go by that a new app, online archive, or “cutting poetry workshop and giving a public reading to a packed between them led to tragedy. has been collaborating on shared catalog and collection edge” resource doesn’t cross my desk. Emerging technolo- Pickard Theater audience. Winner of the National development projects for a number of years. This new ver- gies are transforming the way faculty teach, students learn, Book Critics Circle Award sion of the catalog will make it possible to browse the shelves Watch Blanco’s full Bowdoin reading at bowdointalks.net. for Nonfiction, the Los and scholarship is both created and disseminated. Our Angeles Times Book Prize of all three libraries virtually and provide a convenient way increasingly online and mobile world challenges us to think for Current Interest, and the for faculty and students to request materials held by our part- creatively about the nature of our collections, physical spaces, Salon Book Award, Anne ners. We’re delving into unexplored territory technologically and services. I know that the library staff is excited to join Fadiman’s compassionate with this project, and it’s been both exciting and challenging. account of this cultural im- me in confronting these challenges and embracing the new passe is literary journalism With funding from the National Historical Publications and opportunities they present. at its finest.” Marjorie Hassen began as director of the Bowdoin College Library last July, succeeding Sherrie Bergman, who retired as Bowdoin’s librarian in 2012 after twenty years of service to the College.

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Bowdoin Adds Electric Car to Campus Fleet Museum of Art Receives Major Contribution Students and College employees per gallon when running on the now have the option of using a electric motor and thirty-seven The Bowdon College Museum of Art recently acquired 320 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle miles per gallon when running works of art from the celebrated collection of Dorothy and when they need to travel on on gas alone. Herbert Vogel. The gift—comprising works by nearly seventy Bowdoin business. In Decem- artists, including Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi, Edda Renouf, Julian ber, with a grant from Central Schnabel, James Siena, Pat Steir, and Richard Tuttle—dramatically Did you resolve to eat healthier and better in 2014? If you’re still on track, pat yourself on the back and add this recipe Maine Power (CMP), Bowdoin enhances the Museum’s contemporary art holdings and is among from our award-winning Bowdoin Dining Service to your added a 2013 Chevrolet Volt to the most significant contributions in BCMA’s 200-year history. repertoire. If you’ve fallen back into bad habits, consider this Lucio Pozzi, Portrait of Dorothy Lucio Pozzi, Portrait of Herbert its fleet. The new five-passenger a rescue dish, since it’s just as suitable for those of us more Vogel, 2001, black-and-white Vogel, 2001, black-and-white sedan should achieve the concerned with taste than virtue. photograph. © Pozzi 2001. photograph. © Pozzi 2001. equivalent of ninety-eight miles Warm Salmon Salad with Chickpeas and Tomatoes Serves six

6 tablespoons olive oil, divided 6 salmon fillets (about 2 pounds, total) 2 15-ounce cans of chickpeas, drained More Cowbell! 1 ½ cups chopped fresh tomatoes Paige Pfannenstiel ’17 finished second in a dual-panel slalom to ¼ cup Niçoise olives, pitted 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat leaf parsley kick off the Bowdoin Alpine Ski Team’s second winter as an of- 2 tablespoons orange juice ficial College club. The team of fifteen racers trains twice a week Pat Steir, Small White Michael Goldberg, Untitled Julian Schnabel, Untitled, 1 tablespoon lemon juice at Lost Valley in nearby Auburn. Duncan Masland ’11 and Alex Waterfall with Pink (43), 1992, oil and pastel. 1995, oil and polymer resin Splashes, 1995, oil on on canvas. 1 tablespoon capers Fogarty ’13 began the process to reintroduce alpine ski racing at canvas. Courtesy Cheim 1 tablespoon finely grated orange peel Bowdoin in 2009, when they incorporated a company and filed & Read, New York. Digital 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon peel for non-profit status as Polar Skiing. The pair of enterprising photography by Peter 2 tablespoons torn fresh basil skiers ran a successful program that raced for three seasons as an Siegel. Preparation: Preheat oven to 375 degrees for a conventional independent team before the new club charter took effect. oven, 350 degrees if using a convection oven. Pour two tablespoons of the olive oil into a large, ovenproof sauté pan and heat over high heat until hot but not smoking. Season salmon with salt and freshly ground black pepper and cook, skin-side down, for approximately three minutes, until skin is somewhat crispy and flesh starts to become opaque. Remove pan from heat and place in oven to finish cooking until moist but cooked through, approximately ten minutes. Remove salmon to a plate and tent with foil to keep warm. Add the remaining four tablespoons of the olive oil to the skillet and heat over medium-high heat. Add the drained chickpeas and all of the remaining ingredients except the Edda Renouf, Spring Lily for Edda Renouf, Lily of the Michael Lucero, Untitled basil. Stir until warm. Season with salt and pepper. At this Dorothy, 1999, oil pastel. Valley for Dorothy, 2000, oil (NYACK) (97), 2002, glazed point, you may divide the mixture among six plates or place © Edda Renouf 2014. pastel with incised lines. ceramic. it on a large platter. Flake the salmon into one- to one-and- © Edda Renouf 2014. a-half-inch pieces and scatter over the chickpea mixture, either on the individual plates or platter. Garnish with torn All photos by Dennis Griggs except as noted. basil and serve. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection.

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A Rivalry for the Ages No two men’s collegiate hock- ey teams have met as frequent- ly as the skaters from Bowdoin and Colby. On 202 occasions over ninety-one years, the Polar Bears and White Mules have battled on ice. Although locations have varied—from outdoors at Whittier Field and the Delta, to the cozy confines of Dayton and Watson Are- nas—the rivalry has remained The games this season were anything but cold. no exception. Playing in consec- Across both campuses, in utive nights in late November, town, and for alumni around the Polar Bears took a convinc- the world, school spirit comes ing 3-1 win in Waterville, with alive in ways extending well the Mules returning the favor in beyond the teams and hockey. a 4-2 triumph at Watson Arena Everyone comes out for the the next night. The Colby victo- games. The atmosphere is fun ry was just the second in the last and spirited, but the weekend ten meetings between the teams, is taken with great seriousness. and Bowdoin holds a 106-88-8 advantage in the all-time series; a series that will surely bring the crowds again next year, as it has for generations.

In the locker room photo, the players are high-fiving Lucien Hodell, a local boy who was “drafted” onto the team through Team IMPACT. He hasn’t missed a game in the last two years and made the road trip with the team to the NCAA tournament last season. Photos by Fred Field except for alumni club photos at bottom of this page, which are by Webb Chappell.

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Early winter brought an abundance of snow and very cold temperatures to Brunswick, and students re- turned to campus to much of the same at the start of the spring semester. The campus was quiet during the polar vortex, when lows were in the double-digits below zero, but we know that the weeks ahead will bring winter days as beautiful as this one last February.

Photograph by Michele Stapleton.

16 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2014 [email protected] 17 HERE ARE A LOT OF KIDS WHO WANT JARED PORTER’S JOB WHEN THEY GROW UP, INCLUDING MANY AT BOWDOIN. TAnd it’s easy to see why, because it sounds like a dream, espe- cially for a thirty-three-year-old: director of professional scouting for the Boston Red Sox. Jared Porter will be the first to tell them that what sounds like a dream job actually is. He watches baseball professionally. He knows he scored. But it is how he got there that gives those who know him a head-shaking pride. There are a lot of kids who play sports —Jared was the captain of the hockey and baseball teams at Bowdoin his senior year in 2003—and then want to work in the field of sports, especially something like a front-office job with the Boston Red Sox. But there was something about Jared that was weirdly born to scout baseball players. His friends use terms like “freakish” to describe his ability to recall seemingly every pitch he’s ever seen. “He has a mental database that anyone else would have to write down,” said Mike Connolly, the Bowdoin baseball coach who brought Jared in as a pitcher from Thayer Academy outside Boston during Connolly’s first recruiting class. “There’d be times when he’d be sitting in my office, and we’d bring up an at-bat from high school, and he knew every pitch, the sequence, who was on base. I would say, ‘Give me the top twenty-five players in TheNatural the Independent School League,’ and he could off the top of his head give me their ability and makeup, who could play and who Jared Porter ’03 has a major league ability for couldn’t, and he was spot-on with his evaluations.” evaluating talent, a practiced skill that’s earned But being interested in that sort of thing is not rare. Lots of him a trip from the back corner of Pickard Field people think they know how to watch sports really well. But when Jared talks to students at Bowdoin—he’ll have 100 to 150 to the front office at Yawkey Way. come out to listen to him talk about careers in sports—Connolly By Billy Baker • Photography by Webb Chappell said they’ll all have their ears pricked because not only does Jared represent a dream job, he got it by being a “part of a small popu- lation of people in any walk of life that will truly say ‘I am going to follow my passion regardless of the sacrifices because I know in my heart this is what I was born to do.’”

18 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2014 [email protected] 19 TheNatural

Jared Porter’s a big guy with a soft approachability, and as he that when you go out with sits down in his office inside Fenway Park, he’s super-ner- Jared, he’s going to have his vous about being profiled by the Bowdoin alumni magazine. eye on three or four games at He doesn’t want to get too personal, and he doesn’t want to a time. “You can’t fake being sound like he’s bragging. But he’s always willing to talk about in love with your job that the work, and how he got to it. much,” Morris said. And in His professional baseball story began the summer after Jared’s current position, which his junior year at Bowdoin, when he got an internship with is overseeing the fourteen the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League, scouts who focus on the major a team his father helped run. He was studying history and league level where players can thinking about law school, but it was on the Cape, work- come in and make an impact ing around the best college players in the country and the immediately, it’s all about professional scouting complex that hovers around them, that looking for the “undervalued” he first saw what sort of opportunities there were. “You see player, even if that’s a player the coach on the television, and you see the general manag- who is already making $15 er on the television, but you never see this huge supporting million a year. “Jared will look cast.” And he also saw what was required of that supporting at a pitcher on TV,” Morris cast, so “I just started going to as many games as I could, said, “but he’ll see him in an entirely different way. He’ll watching the scouts, trying to create a feel and a baseline of say, ‘If we can just get his hand a little higher above his ear players,” he said. and shorten his delivery, we can get more arm speed out of Porter’s office at Fenway is As he was graduating from Bowdoin, he sent resumes him.’” to all thirty professional teams, and, he says he would have Of all the players Jared has helped bring into the Red cramped and filled with the taken a job with any of them. He returned to the Cape Cod Sox, his most famous “undervalued” find is Daniel Nava. things he’s passionate about: League for another summer, but he had an informational Jared signed him from a team called the Chico Outlaws for interview with the Red Sox, heady stuff for a fan from $1. In his first at-bat in the major leagues, Nava hit the first (Above in cap): Jared celebrates the Red Sox’s 2013 World Series title with his fellow the Boston Red Sox and Duxbury on the South Shore of Boston. It was a boom time pitch he saw for a grand slam. baseball operations staff. (Above right): The original term sheet, signed by Jared, used to Bowdoin College. in the Red Sox organization, with a new ownership group “It’s easy to say that, ‘Hey, David Ortiz is a great baseball purchase the rights to outfielder Daniel Nava. and a young general manager, Theo Epstein, and opportuni- player, we should get him,’ but Jared has had success with ties were being created. So he was eventually able to land a the Navas of the world,” said Steve Greeley, a high school rooms to Garrison Street, where he lived with a rotating cast Maple Leafs and U.S. Olympic Hockey Team. And one of friend who worked as a scout for the Los Angeles Kings for of about a dozen other guys that he still keeps in close con- Jared’s best friends, Ryan McDonough, recently became the “It was consuming my life, years before becoming the assistant hockey coach at Boston tact with. He also trades texts back and forth with Bowdoin thirty-three-year-old general manager of the Phoenix Suns in University. “If you look at this Red Sox team that just won it President Barry Mills. “He’s a Yankees fan, so there’s a the NBA. but I wanted it to. I need that all, it wasn’t a bunch of household names. And Jared had a lot friendly banter.” “There’s no question in my mind that Jared will end up passion to have success.” to do with putting the team together. If you’re not the GM, And he’ll never forget how Bowdoin was there for him a GM,” McDonough said. “That team has won the World you’re out of the public eye, but trust me—he has a voice when his mother died suddenly one night while he was in Series three times in ten years, but they’ve also completely new year-long internship at the Red Sox’s winter home in in that front office, and he’s also a big part of the trades they college. “It will always be one of the most important places overhauled their team during that time and remained competi- Fort Myers. A year later, he worked his way back to Boston, don’t make, the things the media never hears about. It can be in my life,” Jared said. tive, and that’s not a coincidence. They’ve scouted and devel- where he then spent nearly another year as an intern. just as important to not pull the trigger.” What’s next for him, he says, is hopefully more of the oped well, and Jared has been a big part of that.” “He had an opportunity, but he also had resiliency,” said same. He’s not trying to do anything except be the best McDonough says that Jared has such a natural talent at Terry Meagher, who coached Jared as a defenseman on the Jared’s office at Fenway is cramped and filled with at his current job, but he has progressed so quickly and spotting talent that he’ll take a longer look at a college basket- Bowdoin hockey team and still keeps in close contact with the things he’s passionate about: the Boston Red Sox and has so much raw talent for the game that a lot of people ball player if Jared likes him. him. “It was about patience, paying your dues, hanging in Bowdoin College. He unabashedly loves the school, stays think it’s only a matter of time before he ends up on the So when the two friends, who grew up playing with and there. He was an intern for two years while his classmates involved as an alumnus, and his voice is filled with genuine short list for a general manager’s job. He’s a natural leader, against each other, got together at the end of the summer for a went on to jobs with salaries that had a lot of zeros after gratitude when he talks about being able to experience the friends say, which is how he ended up as a captain in friend’s wedding, they sat down together and drafted a fantasy them. That’s a lot of macaroni and cheese.” Bowdoin opportunity. On his bookshelves, he’s got a few two college sports. “At Bowdoin,” Coach Connolly said, football team. “We didn’t put as much preparation into that,” But Jared says that while he made sacrifices, he never suf- histories of the school sitting next to tomes stuffed with play- “that’s a small and elite list.” McDonough said, laughing. But, of course, they’re at the top fered a day, because he was so passionate about baseball that er minutiae by Bill James, a pioneer in the scientific analysis Landing a GM gig would be a huge accomplishment, of their league. he was naturally driven to study the game endlessly. “It was of baseball and now one of Jared’s Red Sox colleagues. but it’s a surprisingly common job title among his family Billy Baker is a feature writer for the The Boston Globe, where he often writes about consuming my life, but I wanted it to. I need that passion to When Jared thinks back to his time at Bowdoin, he says and friends. His wife Katie, a Bates grad, is the daughter of the Red Sox. He teaches in the graduate journalism program at Harvard University’s have success,” Jared said. it has the feeling of a comfortable blanket. He just always Brian Burke, who is the president of hockey operations for extension school and is currently working on a book about jugglers. Michael Morris, one of Jared’s Bowdoin classmates, says fit in there, felt at home, from the classrooms to the locker the Calgary Flames and the former GM for the Toronto

20 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2014 [email protected] 21 etween the five of them they have authored a wide array of published works—books on Bfeminism, articles on science, novels, memoirs, short stories, and more. “Having these distinguished writers with us is an inspiration and invaluable resource for our students,” said Dean for Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd. Pulitzer-winning journalist and Backlash author Susan Faludi came to Bowdoin as a Tallmann Scholar through the Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) program. Described by GWS director Kristen Ghodsee as “perhaps the most prominent Energy voice in feminism today,” Faludi has pre- viously taught at Harvard and is teaching two courses at Bowdoin this year. With Faludi’s arrival, the English department acquired another top-notch Right now Bowdoin is a writing powerhouse. No fewer than four illustrious writer in the bargain: her husband, Russ writers—Russ Rymer, Susan Faludi, Sarah Braunstein, and Jaed Coffin—are Rymer, a celebrated longform journalist, on campus as visiting faculty members, joining Professor of English Brock science writer, and editor who recently Clarke to teach courses in fiction and creative nonfiction. forayed into fiction with the novel Paris Twilight. Having taught at institutions such By Abby McBride • Photography by James Marshall as MIT, Smith, and Caltech, Rymer is offering a spring course at Bowdoin on writing about science.

22 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2014 [email protected] 23 From the novel The Sweet Relief of Missing Children, by Sarah Braunstein Each of these writers knows how to capture and compel, to engage readers’ emotions as well as their intellect—a potent skill when applied to just about any discipline. he girl had received all her immu- succotash, lima bean soup. Her parents nizations. She had been inoculated. rarely served dessert. Occasionally a gra- Jaed Coffin’s ties to Bowdoin go way back: he more or T She had been warned in school ham cracker, maybe a small bowl of vanilla less spent his childhood on the college grounds before strik- assemblies and by her mother and father ice cream. No sugar cereal, no candy ing out on adventures around the globe. When not penning and several aunts. One of these aunts had a bars. When she had a cough, her mother book-length memoirs about becoming a monk in Thailand serious-looking mole on her cheek, a sharp squeezed lemon and honey into a mug of or a boxing champion in Alaska, Coffin writes literary jour- chin, a stern, pale mouth, and she wore no hot water. The girl ate and drank whatever nalism for magazines. This year he took over for Writer-in- jewelry except for a black-stoned ring on was put before her. She dried the dishes Residence Anthony Walton, who is currently on leave, to her middle finger, all of which gave her with a gingham cloth. She obeyed. teach a fall course in creative nonfiction. the appearance of a witch or intractable Early on her mother taught her about Sarah Braunstein, an emerging novelist whose work schoolmarm. The girl took these warnings the wage gap, the suffrage moment, the explores themes of place and gender, won the 2012 seriously—the aunt’s most of all. She knew sheer poverty of certain minds, some of Maine Literary Award with her book The Sweet Relief to watch her back. She knew to avoid which—but not all—were male. It was of Missing Children. Like Coffin, she teaches for the slow cars driven by men in sunglasses. She never too early to illuminate the harsh Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern knew, at home alone, to say to the stranger truth of the matter for a girl. Boys could Maine. Braunstein’s next novel is set on the Maine on the phone, “My mother’s in the shower play, could treat the world like a junkyard coast—one of many reasons for her appointment as this now. Shall I have her call you back?” to be rummaged through, but girls needed Brock Clarke year’s Coastal Studies Scholar at Bowdoin, a position that She would never say she was home a different set of eyes. Girls needed to has her teaching a course each semester. and they want to make it perfect and grammatical and alone, nor take the shortcut through the be wary and strong and curious but not Bowdoin’s own novelist and short-story author Brock stylish. It encourages a new relationship with language.” alley. All these warnings, all this advice, the too curious. “Say ‘feminist,’” the mother Clarke rounds out the group of acclaimed writers on cam- Coffin said that creative writing also develops broader real message was: You are precious. You coached, and the girl, as a toddler, said it. pus, bringing “not just the steady presence of a first-rate skills. “Writers have to figure out on their own how to are precious but you are not free. You Still, she was given the traditional things, contemporary novelist but also the expert instruction of a invent something out of nothing,” he said. “To take an can’t be both. babydolls and pink. Her hands mastered veteran writing professor,” according to English depart- idea and give it a container, to find a subject who can tell Did anyone get to be both things at the rhythms of needlepoint. Her mother ment chair Aaron Kitch. that story, to hunt down material—that really requires a once? It was unlikely. knew how to accept a paradox: a girl could Each of these writers knows how to capture and com- lot of organization and discipline.” The girl knew her family’s code word. be anything, could shatter the glass ceiling, pel, to engage readers’ emotions as well as their intellect—a The visitors have been spreading the writing gospel If someone unfamiliar tried to pick her up but she was still a girl. Girls liked lace; they potent skill when applied to just about any discipline. Faludi beyond their own classrooms. Faludi has met with Bowdoin from school, he had to know the code word loved bows. Give a girl a pink something, uses her enormously influential journalism to advocate Orient staff and is academic advisor for an op-ed group too. He had to say it aloud. If he didn’t? give her a doll that tinkled in its pants, for equality between women and men, while Braunstein, newly formed by students on campus. Coffin gave a fall She was to go to the principal’s office. She she’d be happy. Coffin, and Clarke weave narratives that provoke contem- semester reading from his forthcoming book Roughhouse would have. She was staunch, confident. She was happy, this girl. plation of identity, culture, and the quest for truth. Rymer’s Friday to a jam-packed audience, which included Bowdoin’s She bore an obligation to the future to science journalism gives readers an entryway into important crop of visiting writers and students from their classes. The remain safe. The future was the tiny spray but intimidating topics that otherwise tend to be dismissed other writers are doing readings this spring. you feel on your face when you peel an as too complex for the layperson. “I think it’s interesting for the students to see all of us orange, a simple promise. Creative writing can be transformative not only for together like that, because it gives them a sense that there’s The code word was— readers but for the writer, too, as Bowdoin students are a community of people doing these things,” Clarke said. It was not something she told anyone. discovering. “Writing used to feel disconnected from my Students benefit from being exposed to the range of paths As a baby, she had been fed iron- life and who I was,” said Cordelia Orbach ’17, who took that different writers have taken, he said, and they come to fortified rice cereal and homemade purées; Faludi’s fall seminar on intergenerational feminism. “I didn’t realize that successful writers “actually have fears and strug- she had worn a pink satin headband. The really think that my opinions mattered.” But working with gles and all sorts of things that students themselves have.” headband, the booties, the yellow-haired Faludi changed that. “I realized that my personal experi- The students are soaking it up. “It’s been an eye-opening doll propped in the corner of her crib, the ence informs how I view the world, so I should put that experience for how writing can actually be fun, be power- expression of awed, nervous delight on her in there,” Orbach said, noting that her writing has become ful, and be exciting,” Orbach said. “Not just something I’m mother’s face, all this said: A girl! A girl! more meaningful as a result. doing for a class.” Later, vast quantities of vegetables: peas, As Braunstein observed, when students write from their Writer, artist, and biologist Abby McBride is assistant director for academic communica- own experiences or imagination, “the stakes get higher, tions in Bowdoin’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs. Excerpted from The Sweet Relief of Missing Children: A Novel by Sarah Braunstein. Copyright © 2011 by Sarah Braunstein. With permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

24 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2014 [email protected] 25 From the novel A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants, From the novel Paris Twilight, by Russ Rymer by Jaed Coffin

atients after an operation notice the when toward the end it started to beat in itting by the canal at night, I some- out of the eye sockets. Under the skull, two constrained, private look on their my palm, I can’t begin to tell you how times looked up the banks expecting pistols were crossed over a banner that read P surgeon’s face and assume he’s being that felt. It’s mortality’s orgasm! There’s no Sto see a faint silhouette of my mother. GUNS AND ROSES. stoic about all the gore he’s been made sensation even remotely close. I pictured her forty years younger, with her “Nice tattoos,” I said. to witness, and they feel chagrined about I bet you didn’t know this, Daniel, that sarong hitched up to her knees and her arms The monk raised his brow and said, “I putting him through such horror. What the the heart doesn’t beat on command. thin and strong, washing the night’s dishes in like guns and roses.” I asked him if he liked surgeon can’t confess is that he’s witnessed We drop a new one into someone’s a silver basin. I saw her hair hanging in a long one song in particular. The monk squinted; them at their most magnificent, seen a side empty chest and its nerves aren’t even braid past her waist, and, whenever she bent there’d been some misunderstanding. “Guns of them so brilliant and extraordinary, so hooked up to anything, and it will lie forward, the braid dipped into the current and roses,” he said. He inhaled and spoke exceptional to their dreary daily exterior there dormant for a while, and then it like the tip of a paintbrush. I began to think through the smoke. “I like guns, roses, and that to admit the preference in its full blunt will start to beat. As soon as the clamps of the brown oily water of the canal as a kind America.” force would trouble people, would seem are released and the first corpuscles spill of blood, and that each night I was bathing I sat in silence while he kept smoking and to revel in a ghoulish perversion of blood- from the sutured vein, it senses them, in the liquid of my ancestry. The canal made watched the blue light of the mosquito lamps love. For blood-love it is, an awe for the as though the heart can taste what the me yearn for a life that was more basic than hanging off the porches of the houses on the whole wet, mad, divine, ingenious jalopy, heart has swallowed, and of its own will, my American one, and it reminded me that far bank. I tried again. “You like American and even its genius afflictions, because the or the last life-will of the person whose existence didn’t have to be complicated or music?” tumor and the lesion also attest to miracle, heart it used to be, it picks up its duty busy; you just had to give up a few things that The monk nodded slowly, like oh yeah are full of the mystery of striving. right where its duty left off and goes to probably weren’t that important anyway. I do. “Notolius Beek,” he said. It took me a And the colors! To delve beneath work pulsing this stranger’s blood through It must have been obvious that I’d been moment to figure out what he was saying. I the skin is to part the lapping flannel of this stranger’s body. It’s voluntary, so to thinking so much, because one night a short couldn’t understand how a monk in a remote the grim Atlantic and dive into a South speak: autonomous. There’s no cable of monk with big lips and sloppy tattoos on his village would ever hear about Notorious Sea paradise, its coral reefs and tropical communication between the body and the sloped shoulders came over to ask me if I was B.I.G. The monk suddenly became sincere. grottoes inhabited by every outrageous organ beyond the message in this offering feeling alright. I’d seen the monk before. He “Do you know him?” he said. iridescence. Organs are as day-shy as deep- of blood. I can’t think of it without was always hanging around the temple smok- I knew this would be bad news. “No,” sea creatures; they oxidize to dun in the wonder, the sensation in my hands of the ing cigarettes and flicking the ashes into the I said. open air. The heart that appears a rump- first faint spasm of acknowledgment and lotus ponds. “You seem quiet,” he said. The The monk sulked. roast russet when hauled out of the chest acceptance, and then collaboration—this other monks were watching us as if they’d “But I have friends who live in New is a carny of neon inside of it. Its atria are willingness, this ultimate generosity. been placing bets. York City. They know him.” aubergine and violet, and the red-veined fat “I am kon gnip,” I said. A quiet person. The monk seemed more satisfied. “New swaddling its ventricles a synthetic, delicate, The monk nodded. “You are lonely?” York City,” he said, as if long ago they’d cautionary orange, the whole of it moody I shook my head. been lovers. He flicked his cigarette butt into and mercurial, spangled as a butterfly and “You miss your mother?” the canal and then reached inside his robe. glistening like a poisonous frog. For a Thai man, missing your mother was He held a circular tin that reminded me of Back when I did my anesthesiology a legitimate form of sadness. There were pop a can of dip. Inside the tin there was a dry residency, they encouraged us to slip songs about it. That baffled me. “No,” I said. tan powder and a silver u-shaped tube. The around the ether screen and get some feel The monk shrugged and turned to the monk packed the tube full of powder, held for the other guy’s job, and one day the other monks to tell them that I wasn’t lonely it at eye level, and then said, “watch.” He surgery was a transplant—it was a fairly and that I didn’t miss my mother. The monks put one end of the tube into his mouth and new procedure then—and the surgeons shook their heads. Bets were off. the other end into one of his nostrils. He asked if I’d like to help out. The monk took out a pack of cigarettes blew out his mouth and sniffed, hard. As he I scrubbed in with a fresh set of from beneath his robe, stuck one on his lip, took the tube out of his nose, he leaned his gloves and when the suturing was done and offered one to me. I refused. He smoked head back and said, “unnhh.” He wiped his I reached in through the chest spreader in silence for a moment and then leaned in nostrils and offered me the tube. I shook my and cupped the scared little organ in my close. “I like America,” he said. He exhaled head no. The other monks were pointing at hands, clenched up hard like a kitten, and From A Chant to Soothe Wild and nodded, like I ought to be impressed. the monk and asking me if I thought he was Elephants: A Memoir by Jaed Coffin. Reprinted courtesy of Da He showed me the tattoo on his shoulder: a crazy. The monk shrugged and smiled. “I Capo Press. poorly drawn skull with two roses coming like America,” he said. From Paris Twilight by Russ Rymer, from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

26 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2014 [email protected] 27 From Chapter 2, “The Return of Superman,” in The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in

an Insecure America, by Susan Faludi Handelman Bob Photo: From the novel The Happiest People in the World, by Brock Clarke

merica will need more “heroes,” Defense shape of his life,” Howard Fineman wrote, “a fighting atty was in his office, even though it was “I can’t tell you that.” Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the Armed machine who has dropped 15 pounds and cut his time in Friday night. Outside, it was dark, dark; inside “Why not?” A Forces one day after 9/11, and however reli- the mile to seven minutes.” M the overhead lights were flickering like there She didn’t say anything right away. The only thing able his intelligence on matters of actual defense, on this A Vanity Fair cover-story photo essay featured were small animals up there, chewing on something he could hear was breathing, and he wondered, why is point he proved prescient. The press, for its part, heeded Bush as steely-eyed cowboy-in-chief, sporting a Texas- important, or just running back and forth, enjoying their it that when someone breathes in your ear on the phone Rumsfeld’s pronouncement by nominating him to the sized Presidential belt buckle—and assigned all the Friday night, having a good time messing around with it’s either sexy or sinister, but when someone does it in role, in the process dressing him up in some curious cos- President’s men superhero monikers: Dick Cheney the long fluorescent tubes. person it’s mostly just annoying? “Because I don’t want tumes. National Review’s December 31, 2001 cover story was “The Rock”; John Ashcroft “The Heat” (“Tough “I’m not even supposed to be thinking about you,” he to,” she finally said. featured a drawing of Rumsfeld in Betty Grable pose, times demand a tough man”); and Tom Ridge “The said into his cell phone, “let alone talking to you.” “Fair enough,” Matty said, and immediately wished beside the headline, “The Stud: Don Rumsfeld, America’s Protector” (“At six feet three, with a prominent Buzz “So don’t talk,” she said. “Just listen.” he hadn’t. She had once accused him of saying that— New Pin-Up.” “Reports have it that people gather round Lightyear jaw, he certainly has the right appearance for a So Matty did that. She talked for a long time, long “Fair enough”—way too often, and in response to things enough for him to understand that after he’d ended their that weren’t fair enough at all, and then they’d gotten to watch Rumsfeld press conferences the way they do director of homeland security”). affair seven years earlier she was so angry at him and at into a fight about it, his gist being did she have to be Oprah,” the story claimed. “Women confide that they Not to be outdone on the action-hero front, Bush’s Broomeville and at the fucking world that she decided to such a bitch, and her gist being she wouldn’t have to be have . . . well, un-defense-policy-like thoughts about handlers enlisted screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd (“Hanoi go work for the CIA, long enough for him to understand such a bitch if he didn’t say “fair enough” all the time. the secretary of defense.” Fox called Rumsfeld a “babe Hilton” and “The Heroes of Desert Storm”) to make that—in her capacity as a CIA agent and his capacity as an “There are no jobs,” he said. magnet,” and People named him one of the “sexiest men a docudrama championing Bush’s post-9/11 valor. American citizen—she wanted him to do her a favor, long “Then fire someone. There has to be at least one alive.” Conservative doyenne Midge Decter penned a Chetwynd received full access to Bush, Rumsfeld, Karl enough for him to get up out of his chair, walk out of his person there who deserves to be fired.” book-length valentine, Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait, which Rove, and the rest of the White House champions. “DC office, out of the building, out into the parking lot. He “There’s no one,” he said. But too late: he was included beefcake shots of the young “Rumstud” as a 9/11: Time of Crisis” aired on Showtime in the fall of kept turning in circles while he listened to her talk. Way already thinking of someone. “I’m not giving your bicep-bulging wrestler and a socialite’s breathy confession 2003. The film featured a Kryptonite-proof Commander off to the west was the big dark nothing of the lake; to the buddy a job,” he said anyway. that she kept his photo tacked to her dressing-room wall. in Chief who, when he is not pumping iron at the but- east was the big dark nothing of the mountains; a half mile “Any old job will do,” she said. “And he’s not “He works standing up at a tall writing table,” Decter terfly press and running a “three hard miles,” is barking to the north was the town, the little square which was my buddy.” marveled, “as if energy, or perhaps determination, might out lines like, “Rummy, high alert status! Delta. Military. actually more like a trapezoid, the gazebo, the monument, “No,” Matty said. begin to leak away from too much sitting down.” His CIA. FBI. Everything! And if you haven’t gone to Def the diner, the bar, the other bar, his house which—before “Let me just make two points.” secret, she wrote, was “manliness.” Con 3, you oughta.” Rummy: “Done.” The Showtime they died—had been his parents’ house, the river that “He’s an internationally wanted criminal.” However odd the idolatry, Rumsfeld wasn’t alone in Bush was part Hulk-Hogan—“We’re gonna kick the eventually ran into the lake; right in front of him, to the “He’s not a criminal, Matthew,” she said, “unless receiving the best actor in an unconvincing role award. hell outta whoever did this! No slap-on-the-wrist game south, was the Broomeville (NY) Jr. Sr. High School. But being clueless is a crime.” The media seemed eager to turn our sober guardians this time!”—part Rambo—“This will decidedly not be from where was she calling? What direction was she? “But he is internationally wanted,” Matty said. of national security into action toys and superheroes. Vietnam!”—and part Dirty Harry—“If some tinhorn Anyway, when she was done talking, Matty said, “People are trying to assassinate him. And you want me The President’s vows to get the “evildoers” won him terrorist wants me, tell him to come over and get me! “You have got to be kidding me.” to give him a job in a school. A school full of children.” media praise because it sounded cartoonish. Wall Street I’ll be at home waiting for the bastard!” Like all good “You sound different,” she said. “Are you outside “But that’s one of my points,” she said. “People Journal columnist and former Republican speechwriter superheroes, he saves the girls, consoling an adoring and now or something?” are trying to assassinate him here. People get assassinated Peggy Noonan enthused that she half-expected Bush to weepy Condi, ordering “full security” on Laura and his “The CIA?” he said. here all the time. But no one ever gets assassinated in “tear open his shirt and reveal the big ‘S’ on his chest.” daughters, and guiding his nearsighted wife to safety in “I bet you’re standing in the parking lot.” America.” Time dubbed Bush, approvingly, our “Lone Ranger.” the White House basement (Laura’s lack of contact lenses “How does someone just end up in the CIA?” “What about Martin Luther King, Jr.?” he said. “The old Broomeville Jr. Sr. High parking lot.” “What about Abraham Lincoln?” Newsweek called him America’s “dragon slayer” and “a is presented as a Helen-Keller situation. Laura: “I can’t “The sky is full of stars here,” he said. “Well, there are obviously exceptions,” she admitted. boyish knight in a helmet of graying hair.” St. George see!” Bush, leading her down the steps: “You OK?”). “The sky is full of stars here, too,” she said. “What about the Kennedys?” hadn’t slain any cave-dwellers yet, but he was primed, Later, Bush visits a hospital and consoles a woman “Are you outside?” “Fair enough,” she said, and then they both laughed. Newsweek said, pointing, for lack of better evidence, to injured in the World Trade Center collapse. “Take care “No, but I’m just guessing.” “I have missed you,” Matty said. the President’s exercise regimen. Bush was “in the best of us,” she whispers. Bush: “You count on it!” “What exactly did this guy do, anyway?” “That’s my other point,” she said.

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28 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2014 [email protected] 29 In the 1920s, his son, for mountain assaults on Schneider was the Axis forces in northern Italy. By springing a famous skier the charismatic As instrumental as anyone in Schneider’s relocation to America from Nazi custody, a Bowdoin father of the was a powerful financier named Arlberg technique, Harvey Dow Gibson, Bowdoin alumnus helped launch the popularized in ski Class of 1902, in whose memory American ski industry. films that brought the Gibson Hall of Music was him fame across dedicated in 1954. The longtime president of the Manufacturers Europe. Top: Hannes Schneider Trust Company, Gibson had and his wife Ludwina helped lead the American Red Cross during World War arriving by train at Mt. Cranmore on February I, then returned to banking, nimbly leading his institution 11, 1939. Harvey Dow through the Depression. Gibson (far right), Class of 1902, smiles as the When the Nazis briefly jailed Schneider in 1938, Gibson Schneiders are welcomed was uniquely positioned to intervene. As chairman of under an arch of ski poles. Bottom: Hannes the American Committee for the Short Term Creditors Schneider and Harvey of Germany, he retained some small leverage over the Dow Gibson giving a radio address together. Reichsbank in Berlin. It also happened that, as a sideline to Opposite page: The his banking career, Gibson had started Cranmore, a ski area iconic image of legendary ou don’t have to spend much skier Hannes Schneider on the edge of North Conway, where he’d grown up. in an airborne jump time studying the history Gibson envisioned his hometown as New England’s turn. Photos courtesy of of American skiing to learn the New England Ski answer to Sun Valley, the glitzy new resort that his friend, Museum. that one of the most pivotal railway magnate Averill Harriman, had established in figuresY is an Austrian import, the influ- Idaho. The key was mechanized lifts, which Harriman and Gibson’s involvement in Theta Delta Chi and the Glee ential ski instructor Hannes Schneider. Gibson understood would transform skiing into an indus- Club, his mandolin proficiency, and his middling academic Dig just a little deeper into Schneider’s try with lifelong devotees. record—“several Bs, no failures.” No mention was made story and you’ll find Bowdoin’s link Now Gibson saw another opportunity to draw crowds there of Gibson’s reported gigs earning tuition off-campus to the 1939 episode around which to the foot of Mount Washington in winter. Pulling strings by playing fiddle in a burlesque house. Schneider’s extraordinary life hinged. in Europe, Gibson sprung Schneider from custody in After graduating from Bowdoin, Gibson was an office In the 1920s, Schneider was the Garmisch-Partenkirchen and arranged for his transport, with boy at American Express in Boston, rising through the ranks charismatic father of the Arlberg tech- wife and children, across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary. to become one of Wall Street’s most respected leaders. He nique, popularized in ski films that Gibson met the Schneiders in New York and personally was a trustee of the college for twenty-six years, chairman brought him fame across Europe. He escorted them up to North Conway by train. Their arrival, of the finance committee, and a passionate supporter of his Saving organized some of the first international noted by the national press, climaxed with the party’s dis- alma mater. downhill racing events, conjuring race embarking to a hero’s welcome, passing through an arch- His fellow Bowdoin alumni were among the trainloads formats later adopted by the Olympics way of ski poles held aloft by the town’s youngsters, and of skiers who went to experience his White Mountain get- and still in use today. Schneider led a arriving at Cranmore. There, a beaming Gibson declared away. At the inn he owned in North Conway, he played Hannes renowned ski school in his native Saint that Schneider would have the run of the place. host to the school’s Glee Club and regaled them with tales Anton until the Nazis swept in and “In college he was just an average boy,” President from his time in Brunswick. As for Schneider, his immor- made things unlivable for him due to Kenneth Sills would later say at a memorial service in tality was sealed as his disciples at the ski school fanned out his vocal opposition to the Anschluss. Bowdoin’s chapel after Gibson’s death in 1950. Sills noted across the country, teaching his methods in every corner of Schneider In February 1939, Schneider the burgeoning ski industry. By Nathaniel Vinton ’01 emigrated with his family to North When the Nazis briefly jailed Schneider in Conway, New Hampshire, and over- 1938, Gibson was uniquely positioned to Nathaniel Vinton ’01 is a reporter for the New York Daily News and a member night the ski school he took charge of the sports investigation team. He and his colleagues are the authors of American intervene. As chairman of the American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s of became the hottest destination for Committee for the Short Term Creditors of Pastime (Knopf, 2009). A former ski racing coach, he also writes about the FIS Americans interested in the newfan- Germany, he retained some small leverage Alpine Ski World Cup, and his book about the history and future of alpine ski rac- gled sport. Soon Schneider was train- ing will be published by W.W. Norton next year. Follow him @DownhillWriter. ing U.S. Army soldiers, among them over the Reichsbank in Berlin.

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Bowdoin “When I was a kid, I did not consider myself much of an athlete,” says Ellis Boal ’66. Today, Boal has run and skied in excess of 75,000 miles (he maintains precise daily logs). His self-image started to change one fateful day at Profiles Bowdoin. Calisthenics was once a requirement of all Bowdoin first years and sophomores. As a sophomore, Boal did not get his first choice of volleyball and decided to give track and field a go. After watching Boal run laps for the first time in his life, Coach Frank n just five years since leaving Sabasteanski ’41 asked him to IBowdoin, Nellie Connolly ’08 try out for varsity. has put her mark on the world. Ellis Boal ’66 Boal made the team, but Last year, she was named by The Accidental Athlete he consistently ran himself the magazine Diplomatic Courier to the point of collapse. “I as one of the top ninety-nine developed a huge fear of foreign policy leaders under practice and quit,” says Boal. thirty-three for her work on But Sabasteanski stayed on sustainable tourism and starting him and asked that he run the a women’s business network two-mile at a University of in China. In Beijing, she was Vermont meet. Boal won— chief marketing officer for and continued winning— WildChina, a leading Chinese though he never again trained travel firm. She also co-founded with the team. a Beijing chapter of 85 Broads, The semi-retired, northern the global network of female Michigan attorney now averages business leaders. 85 Broads forty miles weekly. Though he Beijing now has more than 900 has not run a marathon since members. Today she works in 1996 (his best time was 2:36 brand marketing for E&J Gallo in his forties), Boal continues Winery, the world’s largest to train daily and aims to break exporter of California wines. 100,000 miles by age eighty- She says Bowdoin prepared one. According to Boal, “the her for an international life. key to athletics and doing well “Whether I was studying abroad is being consistent, and doing it in France, sea kayaking on the whether you feel like it or not.” Nellie Connolly ’08 coast, or hearing a lecture from a famous South African activist, At Home in All Lands my time at Bowdoin made me very interested in learning about other cultures,” Connolly said. “It helped to open up the world for me.”

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Peter Anastas ’59 Common Good by the Sea s preparator for the A Bowdoin College Museum of Art since 1981, José Ribas ’76 always seems to have his hands full— whether it’s handling works of uthor Peter Anastas ’59 art and the quick changes that believes he would not be A must transform the galleries the person he is today were to display them, or the ever- it not for Bowdoin. “The changing canvas that is a pursuit of the common good career spanning more than has been a thread throughout three decades at the College. my life and career, and “I have been here for five Bowdoin is where it started.” College presidents, worked Writing for The Bowdoin for seven Museum directors— Orient and editing the Quill all brilliant in their ways—and set Anastas on the path to a many wonderful curators,” lifetime of reading, writing, says Ribas. “Best of all has and education. “In that been working with so many regard, I still live similarly to Bowdoin students over the when I was an undergrad,” years who have gone on says Anastas, who credits the to careers in the art world “generous enthusiasms” of themselves.” teachers for “turning him on” Ribas first came to the to literature. College as a student from the The columns Anastas wrote Bronx, and he needed a job. for The Gloucester Daily Times “Growing up in the city, between 1978 and 1990, I was accustomed to visiting collected in his book A Walker museums, spending lots of in the City: Elegy for Gloucester, time at the Guggenheim, the were largely influenced by Frick, and the Met,” says his deep connection to the Ribas. good of the community where “These were places I he grew up and continues would be excited to visit, to live. “Writing about the where I could always discover community you are part of is something new, and where where true education resides.” José Ribas ’76 I would always feel safe. Today, Anastas’s passion New York City was a much for Gloucester is also apparent An Institution for Art tougher place to grow up through his involvement in back then. My instincts in causes tied to the iconic took me right to the Walker fishing town, including The Art Building; it was the Gloucester Writers Center. one place on campus I felt Anastas returns to Bowdoin comfortable when everything often and is currently working else was a little alien to me. on a novel set—where else?— By the second semester, I was in Gloucester. working there.”

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essislava Dimitrova ’00 Dfirst visited the United States as a fifteen-year-old exchange student, two years Dessislava Dimitrova ’00 after watching communism collapse in her native Bulgaria. Bridging Solutions “Even as a youth, I could see and feel that neither side of the world was perfect, and each could benefit from collaboration with the other,” she said. “That’s how I saw my role in the future—as a bridge.” Dimitrova kept her goal in sight while studying government and economics at Bowdoin and winning a summer fellowship to work with the United Nations in India. After a decade of graduate studies and professional positions in business and health reform, she became Bulgaria’s Deputy Minister of Health. With Dimitrova at the helm of health financing, Bulgaria acquired 150 million euros from the European Union for reforms such as building a national non- Ben Wolin ‘97 communicable disease program and finding homes (Not) Your Everyday CEO for orphans abandoned to communist-era institutions. Now leading an initiative for the World Economic en Wolin ‘97, co-founder and CEO around the world. Forum in Switzerland, B of Everyday Health, the leading Wolin says he honed at Bowdoin two Dimitrova is working to health and wellness media company important skills he uses every day—how to improve health systems of (it has jumped ahead of WebMD think and how to communicate. emerging economies through as the nation’s largest online health “It’s impossible to build and lead a lessons learned from the business), thrives on the frenzied pace company if you can’t do those two things developed world. of innovation. successfully.” Of her success in becoming “Healthcare, technology and Wolin says it was part coincidence, the bridge she dreamed of, media are all going through immense part karmic connection that brought his Dimitrova explains: “When change,” says Wolin. “It’s exciting to dot-com career back into the world of one has a vision and works be at the center of that.” healthcare. He is the son of a doctor and toward it with determination, Wolin started the business out of his clinical psychologist, and the son-in-law of positive results are inevitable.” kitchen in Brooklyn in 2002. Today, another clinical psychologist. Wolin’s wife the $100 million company attracts forty is also a doctor, and he jokes that their million visitors to its websites every two daughters are simply not doctors yet. month and employs 600 employees

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Ruthie Davis ’84 Being A Believer AlumNotes

his fall, Goldman Sachs Tincluded Ruthie Davis ’84 on their list of the “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2013”. Davis was the only shoe designer selected for the honor, an honor she’s Davis says success in fashion humbled by. “I don’t feel is about looking at the big I’ve succeeded yet. I’m very picture, having the business optimistic, work really hard, acumen to know all sides and mostly I’m a believer. of the industry. “To be You have to believe with a really good designer every cell in your body what means constantly thinking you want to accomplish. entrepreneurially. The If you don’t totally love it, world is changing. We can’t believe it, and have passion, compartmentalize like we things won’t happen. I love used to, and we need to be what I do. That’s my ticket.” aware of how all the areas of a company interrelate.” Davis explains that her years at Bowdoin provided a solid foundation. “Going to Bowdoin was better than going to design school. If you start at a place where you can build your mind, you’re going to be a better designer.” Davis plans to launch her first e-commerce sales (ruthiedavis.com) this winter and in 2014 will open her first retail store in New York City. Currently, the collection is sold in top luxury retailers such as Neiman Marcus, Harvey Nichols, Bloomingdale’s, and also on Amazon, and her devoted fans include Lady Gaga and Beyoncé.

This portrait of Karl Wassmann ’73 “reveals that he is Bowdoin’s oldest living Civil War veteran,” quips classmate and fellow Alumni College participant Alan Christenfeld. “One of the excellent speakers there was photography professor Michael Kolster, who used us to demonstrate the wet plate ambrotype method employed by such Civil War photographers as Matthew Brady.”

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1947 percent going toward supporting 1952 1955 Baseball Award in his junior and and Ed Langbein enjoyed a visit and Maine weather. A Thursday evening Send us news! 4104 College Send us news! organizations in the arts.” From a Send us news! Bob Johnson reported in October: senior years. Hastings was also an dinner with Audrey Pooles at her reception hosted by the Weils in Station, Brunswick, ME 04011 [email protected] Jewishbusinessnews.com article, [email protected] “Great news from the Johnson front. active member of the Boy Scouts home in Concord, N.H. In August Harpswell was attended by over or [email protected] Friday, December 13, 2013. Daughter Ann ’84 just won an Emmy and achieved Eagle Scout status Maryellen and Steve Lawrence eighty people on a weather perfect If there’s no news listed for 1948 1953 for her charming film about ducks that and later served as Scoutmaster attended Bowdoin’s alumni program evening. On Friday morning, many of of Fryeburg Troop 54. Hastings on the Civil War. Steve also shared you attended the Old Guard Luncheon your class year, it’s not because Jewishbusinessnews.com reports 1949 Send us news! appeared last year on PBS’s Nature.” went on to play varsity baseball [at excerpts from Built from Stone: followed by a most interesting talk by we’re neglecting you! The that Bernard Osher “has presented Send us news! [email protected] majority of Class News has Bowdoin], graduating cum laude. He The Westerly Granite Story that classmate Bob Packard highlighting $1 million to The University of Nevada [email protected] 1956 always been self reported, so then embarked on a career in law prominently features the Bowdoin his climbing of the highest mountain Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Bob Mathews, Terry Stenberg, send us an update and rally your 1954 REUNION at Boston University Law School Bear, which was carved by Ferruccio peaks in the world. Our chapel service (OLLI) . . . OLLI’s 1,400 members, all 1950 Norm Nicholson, Bill Freeman, classmates! Alan J. Werksman writes: “Arlene where he again graduated cum laude (Frank) Camoli from white Westerly remembering deceased classmates of them fifty years or older, can enjoy Mert Henry, a former board Frank Beveridge, Rod Collette, and I report on our most recent in 1960 and was a senior editor of granite in 1938 at the Smith Granite was thoughtful but sad. The service a choice of 150 indoor and outdoor member of the Maine Community and Ron Golz, Payson Perkins voyage of discovery. While we are in the Boston University Law Review. Company. was well done by Ray Brearey, 1945 activities and classes, offering Foundation, was noted in a Portland ’57, spouses, and members of the no way Lewis or Clark, some of the Peter was admitted to the Maine and “Art Perry’s widow, Jill, wrote Gordon Weil, Dick Burns, Charlie Muriel Cohen, widow of the late Dr. everything from art and literature to Press Herald article about a reception College staff gathered in Falmouth, journey did cover some of what they New Hampshire Bar Associations that, in May, the Emery Art Center Sawyer, and Director of Religious Morrill Shapiro, reports that she science and travel . . . The Bernard that the foundation held for Nell Maine, on Wednesday, October did some 210 years ago. Notable of in 1960. Hastings also studied at at UMF dedicated a show to Art that and Spiritual Life Rev. Robert Ives has twenty-one great-grandchildren, Osher Foundation, founded by Newman, co-founder and president 30, to honor Peter Bramhall, who the trip, previously unreported, is that NYU Graduate School of Business featured works from the program at ’69. The service was followed by ten in Israel and eleven in N.Y. “Have Osher in 1977, is a major supporter of Newman’s Own Organics, in received a 2013 Polar Bear Award while in Boston I had the opportunity before returning to Fryeburg in 1961 Mt. Blue High School where Art had a reception and then dinner. Many a tough time with names, and the of higher education and the arts, November. From a Portland Press from the Alumni Council. See photo. to have lunch with classmates Gerry to join the family practice with his taught for many years. Bernice Born classmates went to hear comedian check book really suffers,” she writes. with Osher earning a reputation for Herald article, November 17, 2013. Max A. Karner III writes that Goldstein, Herb Phillips, and father and brother, now known as reported that, in August, she spent Bob Marley later in the evening. On being one of ‘The 50 Top American he “was inducted by Dean Dana Roger Gordon; it is a custom we try Hastings Law Office, P.A. From 1988- a week with her daughter in Texas Saturday many classmates marched 1946 Givers.’ . . . Since the founding of The Humphrey PhD, of the College of 1951 to repeat as often as possible. Later 1992, he became Representative where it was 104 degrees, and then to the convocation, then lunch Send us news! Bernard Osher Foundation, nearly 80 Engineering at the University of Send us news! this spring, during another trip north, Hastings, serving in the Maine State returned to Pittsburgh where it was (featuring Olie Sawyer and his [email protected] percent of the money it has donated Maine, on March 9, 2013, at Halifax [email protected] we celebrated the life and mourned Legislature, representing District 97. 52 degrees (Maine weather). She band), other college afternoon events, has gone to support educational Plantation Country Club in Daytona the passing of our classmate and dear He was a member of the Fryeburg- noted: ‘I’m sitting here in my fleece lobster bake, evening dance, and just programs, with a further seventeen Beach, Florida, into The Francis friend, Jerry Solomon.” Lovell Kiwanis Club for many years pants and jacket because I refuse to hanging out at class headquarters. Crow Society for Excellence in and served as president for one term. turn on the furnace in August.’ Sunday, Ruth and Bob Kingsbury Engineering after over fifty years of Hastings has served on many Town “Gathering to tailgate and support hosted over sixty people for brunch at engineering practice.” of Fryeburg committees and was the lads on the gridiron this fall were: their home in Phippsburg on another a member of the Fryeburg School Conny Barker, Wende Chapman, beautiful day. Many thanks to Rodie 1957 Board for 11 years. Practicing law for Shirley Colodny, Bill Cooke, Barbara Lloyd ’80, alumni relations director, Fryeburg (Maine) Academy over 50 years, Hastings was honored and David Ham, David Kessler and her great staff for all their hard announced that Peter Hastings in 2010 by the NH Bar Association (his first game in sixty years), Nancy work in planning and coordinating joined its Hall of Excellence in its for reaching a 50-year milestone. and Bill and Ed Langbein, Maryellen the weekend programs. We had class of 2013. Peter “was a standout Hastings and his wife, Stephanie, and Steve Lawrence, Kay and forty-three classmates plus guests student and athlete and received reside in Fryeburg and have seven Dick Lyman, Tom Needham, attend all or part of the weekend, eight varsity letters while playing children.” From a Fryeburg Academy Ted Parsons and Susan Morey, and were joined at Friday’s dinner by baseball, football, and basketball Scenes article, Fall 2013. Marcia Pendexter, Toni and honorary classmate Mike Linkovitch, at Fryeburg Academy. He was Class agent Ed Langbein Payson Perkins, Joanie and Bob and also Judy and Rod Collette the recipient of the Dick Turner reported in November: “Bill Shepherd, Ann and John Snow, ’56, Lynne and Jim Carnathan Gardner wrote that he and Kathleen and Janie and David Webster. ’59, and Jean and Bob Mulligan “I KNOW NOT AGE, are both well and active—golf (at Also—to provide decorum— ’59. The following classmates NOR WEARINESS, NOR DEFEAT!” his age, which gets easier), painting, Professor and Mrs. Ambrose, and spouses attended: Betsy and quilting, time shares, and cruising Professor and Mrs. Ward, Carol and Steve Anderson, Ernie Belforti, Contact Us: (California to Hawaii and back in Bill Markell ’54, Ruth and Bob Louise and Dave Belknap, Sarah toll free 1.866.988.0991 May, and Bermuda in October). Kids Kingsbury ’58, Tony Belmont ’60, and Jim Birkett, Sheila and Ray www.seniorsonthego.com and grands are well and he was David Humphrey ’61. Jen and Bill Brearey, Martha and Dick Burns, looking forward to seeing Walter Carolyn and J.C. Carter, Mary and Mason ’63, and Kate Chin ’08.” SWIFT Wellness Program Alumni, spouses, and members of the Gans this fall at their 60th high Ken Carpenter, Gayle and Mike Certified Professional Geriatric Care Management College staff gathered on October school reunion in NYC. Also on the Carpenter, Janice and Irwin Community Support Specialists/Social Companions 1958 30 to honor Peter Bramhall ’56 (here high seas were Robin and Bob Cohen, Madeline and Bob Cornelli, Personal Support Specialist/Personal Care Services with his wife Hope, Colby ’56), who Marty Roop reports: “We had a Goodfriend, sailing in the Caribbean Linda and John Crosby, Mary Lou Handyman Services received a 2013 Polar Bear Award most successful 55th Reunion in Owner, Kate Adams – Class of ‘89 from the Alumni Council. with their daughter Kath. Nancy May with four days of beautiful and Myron Curtis, Mary and Pete

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Dionne, Marilyn and Wayne he’s “been in touch with John 1962 College Chapel. Although the 1967 the U.S.A.’ And then my college the highest quality legal work course!” See photo. Gass, Candy and Ted Gibbons, Luke, who continues to reside “Former U.S. Sen. and Defense work sounds totally authentic to Robert Doran updates: “While on buddies and I ran to a local TV and and ethical standards—and is Jan and Dave Gosse, Tina and in Alexandria, Egypt. John took up Secretary William S. Cohen Western ears, it was considered too a tour in October, my wife, Sona, were glued to CBS and Walter listed in Super Lawyers.” From a 1969 REUNION Bob Hinckley, Yvonne and Steve residence there twenty years ago ’62 of Maine had stern words for modern at the time by the Russian and I had the pleasure of visiting Cronkite. A tragedy. After college, wickedlocal.com article, December “On Wednesday, November 13, Johnson, Ruth and Bob Kingsbury, to advise the Egyptian Navy as Washington . . . as he returned to Orthodox Church and was not Finca Piedra in San Jose, Uruguay. I joined the Marine Corps and 5, 2013. legendary Belmont Hill hockey Ed Koch, John Lasker, Caroline and a consultant for Booz, Allen, and a Capital he said is looked upon approved for church use. What was We met Eliot Taft ’15 working fought in Vietnam. I grew up.” From Roger Raffetto updates: coach Ken Martin was inducted Paul Leahy, Kathryn Thompson and Hamilton. John retired from the ‘with less admiration’ by Americans most memorable in all of the 20 as an intern on the ranch—quite a charlotteobserver.com article, “Daughter Jennifer (who declined into the Massachusetts Hockey Hall Dave Manyan, Jean and Al Marz, firm in 2012 after serving thirty tired of the entrenched partisanship. movements of the Liturgy, was the amazing to meet up with a Polar November 21, 2013. a Bowdoin admission in favor of a of Fame. The ceremony took place Mollie and Kim Mason, Judy and years in the US Navy and twenty ‘We have to rededicated ourselves contrast between the clear, highly Bear in Uruguay! Eliot is working on chemical engineering degree from at the Montvale Plaza in Stoneham. Dick Michelson, Money and Mike with Booz, Allen. John is president to the principle that we have to enunciated chants—the deacon’s by a sustainable agriculture project for 1968 Bucknell ’97), gave birth to our . . . [Ken] won 707 games with a Miller, Walter Moulton, Ellie and of The Rotary Club in Alexandria find a way to work together,’ bass Michael Krohn, and the priest’s his junior year.” See photo. “After 43 years, attorney John newest little polar bear, Rachel 70 percent winning percentage Lou Norton, Bob Packard, John and immediate past president of his Cohen said. [He] was honored [in by tenor Antolini—with the flowing The Charlotte Observer also H. LaChance is retiring from the Victoria Gale, in February, 2013. during a remarkable 39-year run as Papacosma, Deborah Siegal and children’s private school. He may November] with a Freedom Award polyphony of the chorus. The single quoted Robert in a November practice of law. LaChance began Son Bryan (Colby ’95) has two varsity hockey coach, making him Dick Payne, Elizabeth and Dave move back to the States in a few from the U.S. Capitol Historical voices intoning the text stood out article remembering Kennedy’s his career in 1971 after receiving children. All live local to our home the winningest high school coach Peirez, Mary Jane and Marty Roop, years.” Society, a congressionally- perfectly.” From a Portland Press assassination: “It was just like it his bachelor’s degree from of thirty-four years in Hingham, in Massachusetts history. ‘I did Jane and Bob Sargent, Jane and Bob also reports that “Steve chartered institution. The award Herald article, November 22, 2013. happened yesterday but I was an Bowdoin College in Maine and MA, making it nice (and busy!) for not get into coaching for personal Charlie Sawyer, Wilma and Olin Loebs and his wife Susan hosted a is given to individuals deemed 18-year-old college freshman at his Juris Doctor from University of Grandpa ‘Raffo’ and Mimi. This milestones, I coach because I love Sawyer, Donna and Harmon Smith, tailgate party at the Bowdoin-Colby to have ‘advanced greater public 1964 REUNION Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Virginia Law School. He has been August, a get-together of Sigs from the game, and I want to inspire that Dianne and Mark Smith, Gerna and game, which ended in dramatic understanding and appreciation for Send us news! Maine, when the word was associated with several firms in ’68 at our cottage at Big Sandy same feeling in the boys who play Jack St. John, Judy and Paul Todd, fashion with a Bowdoin Hail Mary freedom as represented by the U.S. [email protected] passed that president Kennedy the Framingham area, as well as Pond in Plymouth, MA, included for me,’ [Ken] says. ‘I am honored John Towne, Marjorie ’76 and for a touchdown to break a tie, Capitol and Congress’ . . . Cohen had been shot. I was crossing a sole practitioner, and with the the Cronins (Ted, aka Jonesie, by this recognition, but it is really Jim Turner, Bill Vieser, Roberta a Colby safety on a blocked PAT is the second Mainer—the 1965 the campus quad looking forward United States Attorney’s Office. and Hap), the Monroes (Mike and a testimony to the boys who have and Gordon Weil, and Caroline and attempt by Bowdoin, and a Bowdoin Jan), and the Benedettos (Rich other being former Sen. George Jim Rosenfeld reports: “On to Thanksgiving back home in He is an award-winning lawyer, played for me through the years.’” Dean Wood.” interception of a Colby lateral for and Beverly). Just had to talk about Mitchell ’54—to be honored by September 28, 2013, Dick Massachusetts. My first reaction having achieved an AV Preeminent Boston Bruins broadcaster Dale a touchdown all in the closing how old everyone looked at the 45th the U.S. Capitol Historical Society Dieffenbach climbed Mount was ‘It can’t be serious. How could Peer Review Rated by Martindale- Arnold ’79 emceed the event and minutes/seconds of the game. Along reunion—everyone except us of 1959 REUNION in the 20 years that the organization Katahdin with his two sons David a U.S. president be shot? This is Hubbell—a distinction signifying introduced Ken. From a belmonthill. with Bob and his wife, Libby, Carole For news of Bob Fritz, see Tom has bestowed the Freedom Award.” and Kenneth—a thirteen-hour round org article, November 13, 2013. and Paul Johnson, as well as Tony Charpentier ’10 and accompanying From a Portland Press Herald article, trip hike, finished in the dark after See photo. Belmont were in attendance.” photo. November 17, 2013. sunset, and another item checked BAILEY ISLAND WATERFRONT Spectacular sunrises across Casco Bay. Large waterview deck, off Dick’s bucket list! Sharon and I 1970 protected site for tidal dock. Basement area provides potential 1961 had an enjoyable dinner and evening Send us news! 1960 1963 for additional living space. 100 ft of shore frontage. Good Bob LeMieux reports that Send us news! Anthony Antolini ’63, “director of with them the next night in Boston [email protected] [email protected] rental history. Sliding doors from living room and bedroom the Rachmaninoff Choir, composed on their return trip home.” onto waterfront deck. $424,900 of the Down East Singers and the 1971 Bowdoin Chorus, has performed a 1966 HARPSWELL WATERFRONT ~ LOOKOUT POINT Beloved Hyde School teacher Paul labor of love in presenting a rare Polar Bear brothers Paul Karofsky A truly spectacular peninsula property jutting into the waters of Middle Hurd passed away in November concert version of Rachmaninoff’s and Peter Karofsky ’62 took a Bay. Tremendous long distance water views to the South, West, and after an apparent medical episode “Liturgy of St. John Chrysotom” photo flanking Peter’s Wisconsin North. Deepwater dock, ramp, and float. Two-story contemporary home while driving near the school’s Bath, (1910). It premiered [in November] Bowdoin license plate. See photo. takes advantage of multiple water-views and enjoys significant privacy. Maine, campus. “Perhaps no one is before a full house at the Bowdoin This 3100 square foot home enjoys open concept living/dining area with more synonymous with Hyde School “Polar Bear brothers Paul Karofsky ’66 cathedral ceiling and a massive brick fireplace. Two small islands included than Paul Hurd . . . Having worn just and Peter Karofsky ’62 flank Peter’s with the property. $1,995,000 Wisconsin Bowdoin license plate.” about every hat at Hyde, including head of school, teacher, coach, HARPSWELL WATERFRONT pioneer and mentor, Paul has left This property is for the discriminating buyer looking for a classic an indelible mark on Hyde School,” Maine fishing village location. It consists of an older 3+ BR main said Rich Truluck, Hyde’s associate house as well as a separate cottage that literally overhangs the head of school. From a Portland water. Your own dock and float complete the scene. $649,000 Press Herald article, November 14, 2013. For more, please visit Roger Raffetto ’68 and his family bowdoinobituaries.com. Bob Doran ’67 and his wife, Sona, welcomed their “newest little Polar Rob Williams Real Estate Chic Godfrey ’72 and Lee bumped into Eliot Taft ’15 in Uruguay in Bear,” granddaughter Rachel Victoria Mike Jackson ’71 (bottom row, second from left) was recently inducted into the Unique Coastal Properties • Seasonal Rentals Available • 207-833-5078 • baileyisland.com Moulton were in attendance on October. Gale, in February 2013. RMHS (Reading, Mass.) Hall of Fame in baseball, football, and basketball.

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Saturday, November 23, 2013, to Frank McEvoy announces: “It 1975 children of his staff, remain the watch Mike Jackson’s induction doesn’t happen often, but I did Send us news! closest of friends.” into the RMHS (Reading, Mass.) something noteworthy in August. I [email protected] The Big Disconnect: High School Hall of Fame in acted for the first time since 1977. I Protecting Childhood baseball, football, and basketball. played a journalist in the Civil Rights and Family See photo. Opera Company’s production of 1976 Relationships in the A poster of Douglas Kennedy ’76 Prelude to a Dream, Alan Marshall’s Digital Age (Harper, could be seen all over France in dramatization of a planning meeting 2013), the latest book 1972 early December as his latest novel, for the 1963 March on Washington. by clinical psychologist Catherine Send us news! Five Days (Cinq Jours), climbed to Mr. Marshall had to cast three DC Steiner-Adair ‘76, has received a [email protected] number one on France’s bestseller actors to fill the slots left vacant lot of media attention, including on list. See photo. when some of the Chicago actors The Diane Rehm Show, and the 1973 Trustee emerita Ellen couldn’t travel to DC I got to meet TODAY show. The Boston Globe Alan Christenfeld e-mailed: “A Shuman attended a ceremony in a number of civil rights heroes, wrote favorably about the book in a few weeks after attending our Washington, DC, on September which was really wonderful. In one late summer review, saying that 40th Reunion, classmate Karl 24, 2013, honoring former Maine interview I gave, I mentioned that Steiner-Adair “does an excellent job Wassmann and I returned to the Senator Olympia Snowe H’83, I had a sign in my bedroom that of detailing the eye-opening threats campus for the Bowdoin Alumni who received the Paul H. Douglas read, ‘Help Wanted: No Irish Need of technology on children from College, where we had a great Award for Ethics in Government Apply,’ which was one impetus infancy to young adults, and time studying ‘The Afterlife of from the Institute of Government I had to act in the show. (Mr. providing straightforward, practical the American Civil War.’ One and Public Affairs at the University Marshall liked that comment.)” advice on how to address them.” of the excellent speakers there of Illinois. (George J. Mitchell From a Boston Globe article, August was photography professor ’54 received the award in 2012.) 19, 2013. Michael Kolster, who used us 1974 REUNION Ellen’s connections to the award to demonstrate the wet plate New York Times Sunday Magazine run deep—her late father, Howard ambrotype method employed by included an in-depth interview with Sherman, worked on the staff 1977 such Civil War photographers San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, the of Illinois Sen. Paul Douglas, Torin Finser updates: “I have as Matthew Brady. The shot of cover subject of the fall edition of Bowdoin Class of 1913, and Ellen just completed my eighth me brings out the freckles that Bowdoin Magazine, on November established an endowed Bowdoin book, this one called A Second disappeared from view when I was 17, 2013. Mayor Lee was also seen scholarship in Sen. Douglas’s Classroom: The Parent-Teacher ten years old. The picture of Karl is prominently when he presented name. “Senator Douglas was an Relationship in a Waldorf even more magical—it reveals that the key to the city to “Batkid,” intellectual giant in the Senate,” School. It is due to be published he is Bowdoin’s oldest living Civil five-year-old cancer patient Miles said Shuman when she established this winter. Otherwise, I War veteran. See photos. Scott, whose Make-a-Wish dream the fund in 2007. “He spoke highly continue to work as chair of captivated San Francisco and the of Bowdoin.” Senator Douglas was the education department at country in November. a quiet champion of just causes, Antioch University New England including the Civil Rights Act of and serve as general secretary 1964, Medicare and Medicaid, of the Anthroposophical Society The Voting Rights Act of 1965, The in America. Only one of our six Truth-in-Lending Act of 1968, ethics children, Ionas (12) is still at in government, and creating the home. Karine, Ionas, and I now Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. spend most of our time in Keene, In all of these ways, Douglas NH, to be closer to his school and exemplified serving the Common our place of work. Am looking Good, a distinguishing feature of forward to bringing them to one Bowdoin’s unique culture. “Senator of our reunions one of these Trustee emerita Ellen Shuman ’76, Douglas was inspirational to the days.” former Sen. Olympia Snowe H’83, and “Old age? There’s no such Ellen Ellison, CIO of the University of people surrounding him, creating a family atmosphere for his staff, thing now, says Jill Shaw Ilinois Foundation, at a September 24, Ruddock . . . [The] American This poster could be seen all over 2013, Washington, D.C., event honoring who shared his values and worked former investment banker who France in early December as Five Sen. Snowe with the Paul H. Douglas tirelessly alongside him,” said During last summer’s Alumni College, “The Afterlife of the American Civil War,” Bowdoin associate professor of art Michael Kolster photographed Alan Christenfeld ’73 in Days (Cinq Jours), the latest novel Award for Ethics in Government from the Shuman. “From the 1950s to the wants to change the way we the Civil War era style of wet plate ambrotype, a method invented in 1850 that Kolster still works in today. “The shot of me brings out the freckles that disappeared from by Douglas Kennedy ’76, climbed to Institute of Government & Public Affairs present, his Senate staff, and the all age is moving on. Having set view when I was ten years old,” Alan wrote. number one on the bestseller list there. at the University of Illinois. up the Second Half Centre in

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North Kensington [see Bowdoin is based in the NHS St Charles moment, but I have started a new husband, a father, a native Mainer, American Medical Colleges for his the award praises Miller for his of ours from our ‘neighborhood’ in Falls had new guidance counselors Magazine, summer 2011], a Hospital, W10, into a model for life now. As of August 25, 2013, with and executive director of the Maine outstanding contributions to academic passion as a respected role model the Adirondacks of New York, on and that they are both relatively congenial venue for older people older people’s centres which she great joy I married fellow Bowdoin Organic Farmers and Gardeners medicine. The AAMC presented him and award-winning teacher in a paddle trip through the Grand recent Bowdoin grads. Evelyn to learn new skills and become intends to spread across Britain. alum John C. Bannon ’77. My best Association. Russell was a poet, and with its Arnold P. Gold Foundation addressing health care disparities Canyon. We were so fortunate to Jaramillo ’10 works at Wichita Falls more physically and socially ‘In two years, we’re talking about friend from Bowdoin was there, Ann these poems are a documentary work, Humanism in Medicine Award, which in underserved communities, both have this opportunity to go together High School. Carlos Rios ’12 works active, she’s now passing on 10 centres,’ she says. ‘Give me Vanderburgh, as well as my niece describing the soil, the air, the water, recognizes a faculty physician who at home and abroad. Miller is vice and hope that many of you that see at Rider High School. Go U Texas the management of the centre two years.’ And then? ‘It’s a Grace McKenzie-Smith ’17, who is the trees, the gardens, and the family provides compassionate mentorship chair of education in the Department this will also have the opportunity to Polar Bears!” See photos. to a charity, Open Age. Ruddock template for Britain,’ she says. just starting her Bowdoin career this life lived by Russell at his farm, Three and practices patient-centered care. of Pediatrics at the David Geffen experience the incredible beauty of Lisa Tessler presented a herself is setting her sights on ‘I really believe in it.’” From a fall!” See photo in Weddings section. Sisters Farm, in Mount Vernon, Miller earned his bachelor’s degree School of Medicine at UCLA. He also the Grand Canyon.” See photo. workshop on Israeli dance on reforming the way Britain gets London (UK) Evening Standard “Blackberry Books Maine. Russell passed away a year at Bowdoin . . . and completed his is a director of the school’s global Dale Arnold emailed on December 15 at Congregation Beth old. ‘I want us to grow and article, November 21, 2013. announces the ago December 9, but has left these medical degree and postgraduate health education program, which he November 14: “It was my pleasure to Israel Synagogue in Bangor, Maine. grow until we die,’ she says. publication of What poems of love and life, for his family, training at the University of Virginia co-founded in 2010.” From a UCLA serve as master of ceremonies last After Bowdoin, Tessler earned a ‘Not go into a long period of 1978 You Should Know: A his friends, his beloved land.” From a School of Medicine, where he news release, December 10, 2013. night for the Massachusetts Hockey master’s degree in education at disintegration.’ She is, in fact, Anna Fowler writes: “Almost seven Field Guide To Three Blackberry Books news release, was appointed chief pediatrics An August 24, 2013, Economist Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. Harvard. “When she was in Israel on turning her successful North years ago I was widowed suddenly, Sisters Farm, a December 9, 2013. resident. Chosen by AAMC’s student article about three new scientific Among the honorees was fellow a kibbutz, she became interested in Kensington enterprise, which has my son Benjamin being fifteen at the collection of poems by Russell Dr. Lee Todd Miller “was representatives’ organization, experiments to study dark energy Bowdoin alum Ken Martin ’69.” See Israeli dance and has studied with . Russell was a farmer, a more than 1,300 members and time. It’s been a long road from that Libby honored by the Association of features the work of Lyman Page, photo. masters from all over the world. She Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of “Veterinary drug maker Putney has been teaching Israeli dance for Physics and chair of the Department Inc.,” whose CEO is Jean Hoffman, 20 years to students of all ages and of Physics at Princeton University. “has been chosen to receive Portland, levels.” From a Bangor Daily News Maine’s, 2013 Business of the Year article, December 9, 2013. 1979 REUNION Award for its strong growth and Steve Amstutz emailed: “In Sept/ expanding role as a major employer 1980 Oct my wife, Nan Boardman Amstutz, in Portland. Founded in 2006, Putney “Veteran broker Clifford E. Katz and I joined Annie Gronningsater employs roughly 75 people and has joined Sotheby’s International McKinley ’77 and her husband, plans to grow its staff to 130 over Realty. Katz brings over 20 years Schelling McKinley, and many friends the next two years . . . Inc. magazine of experience representing clients recently named Putney Inc. one of the in a broad range of sophisticated (Left to right): Steve Amstutz ’79, Nan fastest-growing private companies transactional and advisory Boardman Amstutz, Schelling McKinley, in America, with a total revenue gain and Annie Gronningsater McKinley assignments . . . Prior to joining ’77 in the Grand Canyon above the of 183 percent from 2009 to 2012. Sotheby’s, he was the founder and Colorado River on a river trip last fall. From a Portland Press Herald article, president of Mobius Realty Holdings December 3, 2013. LLC, a townhouse brokerage Keith Outlaw updates: “I have boutique . . . With a career that been working in college admissions began in 1987 as a practicing real Last fall, four members of the Class estate attorney in Manhattan, Katz of 1981—(l to r) Dave Barnes, John for St. Joseph’s College, NY, for ten has experience in every aspect of Hickling, Dan Spears, and Pete years since leaving the priesthood. Larcom—summited Mount Kinabalu in Texas is one of my territories. I was the townhouse, condominium, and Borneo, Malaysia, the highest peak in pleasantly surprised to learn that two co-op marketplace . . . [He] holds Southeast Asia. of the high schools I visited in Wichita an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business, and a JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.” From a Real Estate Weekly article, December 12, 2013. Michael Kent reports: “I recently Keith Outlaw ’79, an admissions officer Lucy Morrell ’13, daughter of Jane ’81 Dale Arnold ’79 (left) was Master of published a second for St. Joseph’s College, met guidance and Bill Morrell, has been in Guatemala Ceremonies on November 13 for the novel, Pop the counselors Evelyn Jaramillo ’10 and since June 2013 working for Safe Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame Plug, which takes Carlos Rios ’12 at two high schools in Passage, a non-profit founded by the induction, which honored fellow Polar place in part at a Wichita Falls, Texas. late Hanley Denning ’92. Bear Ken Martin ’69.

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certain Burdon College, not totally re-ran Andy Serwer’s Bowdoin before its well-documented this prestigious honor.” From a and our anti-hunger organizing.” to vulnerable immigrants, as well collection of family and friends partner in our Florham Park, N.J., unlike the beloved alma mater Magazine fall cover story about meltdown in the summer of 2011. Ruthie Davis news release, October The Portland Press Herald reported as to file protective orders.” From that . . . number[ed] close to 50. office. The practice of law has been (though not one hundred percent the San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee ’74. He’s ushered in steadily rising 28, 2013. Also see Profiles section, that Preble Street will use the a Portland Press Herald article, Rooms at the Lord Jeffrey Inn were interesting, but what a grind. My same). I think it might be of interest Dan Spears updated that he revenue and subscriber growth— this issue. $400,000 federal grant to establish October 22, 2013. booked months ago. . . . ‘They all son Brandon is seventeen, driving, to most Bowdoinites and particularly and three other members of the fueled by wise bets on exclusive For news of Ann Johnson services for prostitution victims hope they will win, but there is and looking at colleges in New to those who attended circa 1980. Class of 1981—Dave Barnes, content—and high marks from Prum, see Bob Johnson ’55. in Maine. . . . The announcement 1985 a bigger picture,’ reasoned their Jersey and Rhode Island. I cannot Everett Billingslea ‘84, among John Hickling, and Pete investors.” From a marketwatch. Mark R. Swann, executive came on the same day that Rep. Suzanne Sorter O’Malley and her father. ‘All three are going to great believe we have been out of college others, gave it a rave review on Larcom—“recently summited com article, November 14, 2013. director of the social service Amy Volk . . . introduced legislation family were featured in a Boston schools, they love football, and they for close to thirty years. Miss those Amazon, as he did for The Big Mount Kinabalu in Borneo, The Bowdoin Orient included an organization Preble Street in that would allow Maine courts Globe article before last season’s love competing, but they are getting frat parties and hockey games— Jiggety, novel one.” Malaysia, the highest peak in interview with Hastings in its Portland, Maine, announced in to vacate prostitution convictions Bowdoin-Amherst football game, a great education. It’s pretty cool, what a blast! Best regards to all.” Southwest Asia.” See photo. October 4, 2013, edition, which is November that “Preble Street was to prevent women from being titled “Amherst-Bowdoin clash a the beauty of Division 3.’” From a 1981 available at bowdoinorient.com. just awarded an important grant penalized for falling victim to the family affair for the O’Malleys.” Boston Globe article, September 1987 For news of Jane Morrell, 1982 from Department of Justice to underground human trafficking Susan was a field hockey and 28, 2013. (Note: The Lord Jeffs Send us news! see Lucy Morrell ’13 and Send us news! 1984 REUNION work both on a systems-level as trade. . . . Preble Street will lacrosse captain at Bowdoin; her prevailed that day, 27-11.) [email protected] accompanying photo. [email protected] Ruthie Davis was selected well as providing direct services begin receiving the first $200,000 husband, Bill, was a football and Charles R. Patton, president as one of 100 most intriguing to victims of sex trafficking. Given installment of the two-year grant basketball captain at Amherst; and 1986 1988 the increase in this horrible crime for the Department of Justice this and CEO of Appalachian Power 1983 entrepreneurs of 2013 by Goldman their three sons all suited up to Liz Brimmer, Tim Smith, and Ted Send us news! in Charleston, West Virginia, was Sachs and was honored at its at both our Teen Center and our fall to be used in part to hire a play in the September 28 gridiron Johnson got together on a private Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, [email protected] elected as a director of the Federal Builders + Innovators Summit Florence House programs, we’re coordinator to pool the resources matchup at Amherst: Sean, as trip down the Grand Canyon last was a finalist for the Wall Street Reserve Bank of Richmond for a in Marana, Arizona, in October. very excited to have the resources of agencies in southern Maine senior running back for the Polar summer, organized by Liz and her Journal/marketwatch.com CEO of 1989 REUNION three-year term, effective January “Davis was among the small to effect change. At first this will and develop a statewide network Bears; Jake as senior receiver husband. See photo and check out the Year award. “Reed Hastings Send us news! 1, 2014. From a Richmond Fed handful of fashion influencers in be a southern Maine focus, but of housing and shelter options for the Lord Jeffs; and receiver Ted’s “Grand Canyon Memories” on has managed to lead Netflix back [email protected] News release, October 30, 2013. the industry to be recognized and we hope to expand it statewide as for victims of sex trafficking. The Brian, an Amherst freshmen. Their YouTube. to the market value it enjoyed In December, Fortune.cnn.com the only shoe designer to receive we have with our veterans work money will also be used to fund sister Caitlin, a four-year Amherst Andrew Turkish “joined health and mental health programs soccer player, was cheering Chicago-based firm Clausen Miller 1990 for victims and legal assistance from the sideline, along with “a P.C. on January 2, 2013, as a Tim Armstrong “wrote a novel about a rock band. That’s not so unusual, except his sci-fi story finds its characters on a distant moon and in a luxury spaceship. It’s science fiction, after all. The former Everett [Wash.] man’s book just won a prestigious prize, bestowed by a group that celebrates excellence in Scottish culture and tradition. Sorry, though. Chances are, you won’t be able to read Armstrong’s book. It’s

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called Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach and is revitalized CCD’s planned giving 1991 a broadwayworld.com article, 1999 REUNION Middle Bay Farm Bed & Breakfast written in Scottish Gaelic, a language program. Prior to that Eric served Send us news! November 21, 2013. “Dr. Joshua S. Pagar has joined On the Ocean distinct from Irish Gaelic. In English, as executive director of alumni [email protected] the staff of Pioneer Valley Urology. the book would be called On a relations and annual giving at 1993 The Connecticut native received 4 miles from Bowdoin College Glittering Black Sea. But Armstrong’s Bowdoin, where he established Send us news! his medical degree from St. Louis Open year round novel isn’t being published in new giving and participation 1992 “Yellow Peril Gallery presents [email protected] University School of Medicine, and English. ‘I wrote it very deliberately records in the Alumni Fund and Offers four sunny bedrooms, each with a water ‘theory of everything,’ a 55% completed his surgical and urological in Gaelic. Having it appear in Gaelic created and managed the Polar view, private bath, TV/VCR. Room rates are $150 facetious, 45% serious exploration 1994 REUNION residency at University of Missouri 287 Pennellville Road, Brunswick, ME 04011 makes it special and helps the Bear Athletic Fund.” From a Bates to $170 and include a full breakfast. Two suites of existence by Providence-based Amy Sachrison, Jessica Guertin Hospital and Clinics in Columbia. (207) 373-1375 • [email protected] language,’ said Armstrong. . . . At a College news release, November in sail loft cottage are more rustic and “roomy.” sculptor Jamey Morrill . . . The Johnson, Jessica Skwire He earned a master’s degree in Include living area, kitchenette, two small bed- www.middlebayfarm.com ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland, 25, 2013. title ‘theory of everything’ implies Routhier, Leslie Morse, Kim physiology and neurobiology, with rooms, private bath. Suite rates are $150 to $190. Owned by Phyllis Truesdell, wife of the late Clark Truesdell ’65 Armstrong was honored with the Amy Grace Loyd, an that Jamey Morrill will be Weafer, Kate Fraunfelder a focus on renal physiology, from society’s Scottish First Book of editor and writer who revealing the mystery of existence Kertscher, Joanne Holland, the University of Connecticut.” From the Year prize, which recognizes has worked at W.W. and the answer to everyone’s and Stephanie Rogers gathered a Republican (Springfield, Mass.) an author’s debut. . . . Norton & Co., The burning questions with his wood at Boston’s Cantina Italiana on article, October 23, 2013. Armstrong lives on the Isle of New Yorker, The New and thread sculptures. ‘Nope,’ November 1, 2013, to remember “Bryan L.P. Saalfeld was Skye, off Scotland’s west coast. York Review of Books, says Morrill. ‘Super sorry about their friend Linda Geffner, who promoted to Director at Murphy He works as a researcher in and is currently an executive editor that.’ He explains: ‘Instead, I am passed away on September 29, Pearson Bradley & Feeney in their The Cabin social linguistics at Sabhal Mor at Byliner, recently published a acknowledging that after years 2013. See photo and Linda’s San Francisco office. Bryan was Ostaig, a Gaelic college on the novel. The Affairs of Others (Picador, of wondering and searching obituary at bowdoinobits.com. also recently admitted as an English Isle of Skye. In 2009, he earned a 2013) was picked as an IndieNext Restaurant of the meaning behind all that Solicitor.” From a Murphy Pearson doctoral degree in Gaelic studies selection by an association of is, I am still wondering and Bradley & Feeney news release, from Sabhal Mor Ostaig and independent bookstores. 1995 552 Washington Street, Bath searching. I feel no closer to December 4, 2013. Scotland’s University of Send us news! answers.’ . . . The sculptures Aberdeen. ‘I’m studying the [email protected] The Cabin opened its doors in June featured in ‘theory of everything’ 2000 Gaelic language as a spoken of 1973. Serving our local and far will have a clarity aesthetically, Lydia Bell reports: “In my daughter language,” he said. The language 1996 but an ambiguity philosophically. Cora’s daycare classroom of ten at away friends for over 40 years. is spoken by about 50,000 people, Send us news! They will be evocative but not Indiana University Purdue University mostly in northwest Scotland. [email protected] With the only real hand tossed representational . . . Jamey Morrill Indianapolis-Center for Young CABIN PIZZA? ‘It’s still used as a community pizza in Maine. We are proud to is an adjunct professor of art at Children, three of the toddlers are the language in the Outer Hebrides,’ Rhode Island College . . . In recent 1997 children of Bowdoin alums—Cora The only real pizza in Maine. serve good food and warm spirits he said.” From an Everett, Classmates gathered at Boston’s Cantina Italiana on November 1, 2013, years Morrill’s sculpture has Send us news! (obviously), Maxine (daughter of — Portland Newspaper in a rustic, nautical atmosphere. Washington, Herald article, “ to remember Linda Geffner ’94, who [email protected] ” become increasingly sprawling Shana Stump ’01), and Wyatt (son November 27, 2013. Located in the south end of Bath passed away on September 29, 2013 and site-specific, with emphasis of Stefan Petranek ’99)!” One of the best in New England. Dodds Hayden sent this across from Bath Iron Works. The (clockwise from bottom left): Amy on mass-produced material 1998 Amanda Newton Gray updates: update: “After being the assistant “ — Boston Globe ” Sachrison, Jessica Guertin Johnson, and organic forms . . . Morrill Chris Evans and Jennifer Merzon “My husband, Adrian Gray (Bates front section of the restaurant was coach for multiple national Jessica Skwire Routhier, Leslie Morse. recently competed a residency at welcomed their son, Cameron ’01), and I welcomed a beautiful baby About as good as it gets in Maine. once a rope mill in the historic championships at Boston College, Right: Kim Weafer, Kate Fraunfelder Fountainhead in Miami and was Matthew Evans, on October 29, 2013. girl on August 6, 2013. We are over Mike Cavanaugh was named Kertscher, Joanne Holland, and “ — Downeast Magazine shipbuilding days. In its past, it nominated for the Rappaport Prize Cameron weighed in at eight pounds. the moon and in awe of her each day. ” Stephanie Rogers. the head coach of UConn men’s has been a barbershop, ice cream from the DeCordova Museum in See photo. hockey last spring. He is now in A local tradition. Some would argue 2010 and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Keri Riemer, an associate in parlor, and sandwich shop. Now his first year as head coach.” “the best pizza in the state of Maine. Foundation Grant in 2009.” From the investment management group Eric Foushee “will be joining our menu includes pasta dinners, of New York law firm Seward & — Offshore Magazine ” the Bates advancement team as subs, salads and, of course, pizza. Kissel LLP, was named a 2013 Super a leadership gifts officer. Eric Lawyers Rising Star for the New Stop by for a wonderful meal. comes to Bates from Cincinnati York-Metro edition, recognizing her WINTER HOURS OF OPERATION: Country Day School (CCD), where as one of ‘the top up-and-coming he has served as director of Sunday – Thursday: 10am – 9pm Open year round, 7 days a week attorneys in the state—those who development since 2010. At CCD, Amanda Newton Gray ’00 and husband Friday – Saturday: 10am – 10pm for lunch and dinner. Cash or are 40 years old or younger, or who Eric oversaw a staff of seven, Adrian Gray (Bates ’01) welcomed a have been practicing for fewer than beautiful baby girl on August 6, 2013. checks accepted. ATM on premises. planned and executed a major Edward Leadley ’97 and Kim Baker Leadley (Hamilton College ’95) Chris Evans ’98 and Jennifer Merzon 10 years.’” From superlawyers.com. “Very excited to introduce her to the Local delivery available. campaign, raised alumni and 443-6224 welcomed daughter, Emerson Cowles welcomed Cameron Matthew Evans on Bowdoin campus and watch her first parent participation rates, and Leadley, on August 13, 2013. October 29, 2013. field hockey game. Go U Bears!”

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Very excited to introduce her to the former President Jimmy Carter For news of Mitch O’Neill, 2003 17, 2013, sbnation.com article exploring the arts, cultural affairs Bowdoin campus and watch her first visited Pyongyang and, according see Tom Charpentier ’10 and Megan Lim married Trevor about ESPN’s acquisition of the and the public life of the city,’” field hockey game. Go U Bears!” See to North Korea, ‘apologized’ for accompanying photo. Blair (University of Pennsylvania 2014 arena football broadcasting reports her father Jerry. photo. the man’s crime.” From a New Alexander R. Tatum “and ’99) on August 10, 2013 in San rights. York Times article December 8, his wife Marcia, welcomed their Diego, California. “We were the 2005 2001 2013. third child, Garrett William Tatum first wedding at the new San 2004 REUNION “John O. Carpenter has joined December articles about MOOCs “The inauguration of Dr. on September 26, 2013. Big Diego Central Library six weeks Nicole Durand Derr reports: Workman Nydegger, Utah’s (massive open online courses) in Steven R. DiSalvo as the tenth sisters, Olivia (4) and Caroline (2), before it opened—nothing like “Travis Derr and I welcomed our largest intellectual property law Fast Company and Forbes featured president of Saint Anselm College are ecstatic about the arrival of testing out a new venue on an second daughter, Lilah Naomi, on firm, where he will focus on U.S. Dan Farnbach, who “took an was a college wide event that their baby brother. Life is a little employee. The day was one full May 14, 2013. She adores her big patents. Carpenter, who worked eight-week MOOC on social included everyone in the college chaotic, but everyone is happy and of immense joy—and no power!” sister, Addison (3).” See photo. for five years as an Application SUBSCRIBE network analysis, which he used community. One unique aspect to healthy!” See photo in Weddings section. Stephen Edward Lampert Scientist with EDAX, has technical to land his first freelance social the event was the official fanfare Heather Trilles writes: “Rich In December, fortune.cnn.com married Laura Stevenson experience in material analysis FOR FREE media job. That job gave him a titled ‘Vers L’Avenir’ (‘Toward the and I welcomed our daughter, re-ran the fall Bowdoin Magazine (Northeastern University ’06) on and engineering and Physics and line on his resume that then led Future’), composed by Assistant Audrey Corazon Trilles, on article by Beth Kowitt ’07 about August 10, 2013, at the New Optics. He graduated with honors to a full-time position with F+W Professor of Fine Arts Dr. Francis September 6, 2013. She is the entrepreneurial siblings Arlyn England Aquarium in Boston. See from the S.J. Quinney College to the Bowdoin Daily Sun, a daily Kayali ’01. In late July of this Media, which produces dozens of spitting image of her father and Davich and her brother Eric ’06. photo in Weddings section. of Law at the University of Utah online digest of Bowdoin news, magazines on everything from cars year, he was invited to compose a the only identifiable trait from “‘ESPN has a long history Blakeney Schick “is associate where he was the first blog editor to crafts.” From a Forbes article, brass fanfare for the inauguration her mother is her fuller lips (as of of working with the Arena producer of The Leonard Lopate of the Student Intellectual Property sports, photography, prominent December 11, 2013. and spent one month putting it yet!).” See photo. Football League, and this new Show on public radio station Law Association. He has a bachelor In an article about the return together with the help of friends agreement is a great opportunity WNYC, which this spring received of science degree in geology and guest columnists, and articles of of an American veteran seized by from the University of Southern 2002 to showcase the AFL as part of the prestigious Peabody Award. physics from Bowdoin College. interest from around the globe. North Korea, The New York Times Maine.” Read his first-hand Margaret Paz married Kenneth our year-round commitment to The show was cited as ‘New Carpenter is admitted to the Utah recalls “in 2010, Aijalon Mahli account at blogs.anselm.edu. Knorr Stanek on September 14, 2013, football,’ said Matthew Volk, York’s most revered radio forum for State Bar.” From a Workman Gomes, another American held From a St. Anselm College news at The Dumbo Loft in Brooklyn, New ESPN director, programming Nydegger news release, October for ‘hostile acts,’ was freed after release, October 24, 2013. York. See photo in Weddings section. and acquisitions” in a December 28, 2013. Eric Penley married Gina Veits (Univ. of Maine ’05) in Deer Isle, BRUNSWICK – A job opportunity that the seller couldn’t refuse has brought this home back on the Maine, on August 10, 2013. See market unexpectedly, providing an opportunity photo in Weddings section. for you! Located just three blocks from Bowdoin College, and thoughtfully transformed from its 2006 bungalow beginnings, this unique home has been Mike Chute married Caroline tastefully and creatively expanded into an absolutely Larkin (St. Michael’s College ’05) fabulous property. Special features include central Heather Trilles ’01 and husband April 27, 2013, at the Stamford air, wine cellar, custom red birch kitchen cabinets, Rich welcomed daughter, Audrey granite counter tops, a wood burning fireplace and Yacht Club in Stamford, Conn. See Corazon Trilles (here at four weeks) photo in Weddings section. an in-ground heated pool, all perfectly placed on a on September 6, 2013. double lot. $425,000. In December, fortune.cnn.com Katy Adikes Rockefeller ’04 and Patrick re-ran the fall Bowdoin Magazine Rockefeller ’04 welcomed their first article by Beth Kowitt ’07 about BRUNSWICK – “BETTER THAN WATERFRONT” baby, Molly Ewing Rockefeller, on May Lots at OTTER TRACE offer wonderful 16, 2013, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. entrepreneurial siblings Eric privacy and vistas and an opportunity to live Davich and his sister Arlyn ’03. harmoniously with nature only three miles Christi Gannon and Nick from downtown Brunswick, and five miles from Ordway were married on downtown Freeport. Come build your ideal home September 15, 2012 in Boston, in this very special location abutting 110 acres Massachusetts. See photo in of conservation land. Lots range from $119,900 to $165,000 for 2.37 to 4.69 Acres. Visit Weddings section. OtterTraceonBunganuc.com. (Left to right): Mitch O’Neill ’01 rode Jonathan Rosenthal married shotgun with Tom Charpentier ’10 on Omayra Cruz (Regis College ’09) on a visit last fall to The Experimental Travis Derr ’04 and Nicole Durand Derr September 6, 2013, at The Villa in MORTON REAL ESTATE (207) 729-1863 Aircraft Association, where Tom works ’04 welcomed their second daughter, East Bridgewater, MA. See photo bowdoindailysun.com 240 Maine Street • Brunswick, ME 04011 • www.MaineRE.com • Email: [email protected] in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Yes, Mitch got Lilah Naomi, on May 14, 2013. “She in Weddings section. to fly the plane! adores her big sister, Addison (3).”

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Rebecca Sargent married my professional career as a photo in Weddings section. of good for business owners, it’s a the Boston Marathon last spring in Center for the Common Good and Mark McLean (Holy Cross ’05) on senior chemist for the electronic In December, fortune.cnn. win for us,‘ said Sullivan, who seas 2:28.00.” From a wickedlocal.com served as a mentor for a school in October 5, 2013. in Plymouth, MA. materials division of the Dow com re-ran Beth Kowitt’s the Buoy Local card as an economic article, December 4, 2013. Bowdoinham. At Commencement, See photo in Weddings section. Chemical Company. At the end of Bowdoin Magazine feature about development tool as much as Tom Charpentier reported after Morrell practically walked down Eleanor Simon married Paul F. August of 2013, I transferred to entrepreneurial siblings Arlyn ’03 anything else.’” From a Bangor an alumni event last fall with Mitch the Museum steps and onto a Evans III ’07 on October 19, 2013, Dow’s electronic materials site in and Eric Davch ’06. Daily News article, November 20, O’Neill ’01 and Bob Fritz ’59 that plane. In Guatemala since June, at The Gate of Heaven Church Marlborough, MA, happily returning Megan MacLennan reports 2013. See: www.buoylocal.com. he hosted at The Experimental Morrell is working with Safe in South Boston, followed by a to my home state. On September that she married Jonathan Valerie Young, a captain of Aircraft Association, where he works Passage, a non-profit in Guatemala reception at the Boston Harbor 14, 2013, I married my soul mate, Crowley on June 15, 2013, at Bowdoin’s 2007 NCAA champion in Oshkosh, Wisconsin: “We had City that provides education and Hotel in Boston. See photo in Mario Flajslik, at St. George’s The Wauwinet on Nantucket, field hockey team, was quoted a good time touring the museum social services. Many students Weddings section. Orthodox Cathedral in Worcester, Massachusetts. With the photo, about coach Nicky Pearson in an collection, had a boxed lunch at our have volunteered at Safe Passage, MA. (reception at the Beechwood “I’ve listed all Bowdoin guests in article prior to the 2013 NCAA field Air Academy lodge, then headed over which was founded by the late 2007 Hotel). My Bowdoin cross-country attendance, including my husband’s hockey tournament, which would to our flying club hangar for a couple Hanley Denning ’92, through Haley Bridger married Thomas teammate Ellen Beth ’05 was mother, aunt, and grandfather who end up with Bowdoin’s fourth of quick rides. Everyone had a chance the McKeen Center’s Alternative Speller on August 25, 2013, at the one of my bridesmaids, and I have are all Bowdoin alumni. An exciting National Championship in the past to ride ‘shotgun’ (Mitch actually flew Spring Break program.” See Hellenic Center in Ipswich, Mass. enjoyed spending more time with event for sure, attended by three seven years. “Nicky knows how to the plane for about half his rides). As photo. From bowdoindailysun.com, See photo in Weddings section. her now that we are both living consecutive generations of Polar get an individual player to play to it turned out, we shared a common November 16, 2013. Kristen Brownell updates: in New England. Earlier in the Bears!” See photo in Weddings their strength and then play to the bond in that we were all members Linda E. Kinstler co-authored “I completed my PhD in organic summer, Mario and I traveled to section. strength of their teammates,” Valerie of the sailing team at one point or a New Republic article, “Is chemistry at Stanford University Bar Harbor, Maine, to witness Greg Righter “married Emily said. “Nicky understands Bowdoin. another, and all of us still actively Reading Necessarily a Hostile in September 2012 and moved Elizabeth Eypper ’10 and Wagner (Occidental College ’08) She finds the girls who can juggle sail.” See photos. Experience for Young Women?” to Newark, Delaware, to begin Nicholas Johnson ’10’s beautiful on May 4, 2013, at St. John the the academics and who can play the that appeared on December 10, wedding, which was Mario’s first Baptist Church in Peabody, MA. game.” From a Portland Press Herald 2011 2013, and is available at www. ever trip to Maine. In October, we A fun-filled reception was held at article, November 21, 2013. “The first babies from the Class newrepublic.com. drove to Conn College to cheer on the Smith Barn of Brooksby Farm of 2011 have arrived! Bowdoin the Polar Bear cross-country teams in Peabody, MA.” See photo in 2009 REUNION roommates Molly Duffy Dugdale Graduate Alumni at the NESCAC championships Weddings section. Ali Chase married Ken Akiha and Jamilah Gurwala Gregory Anne C. Gardner G’71 “was Keep your where I reconnected with Coach ’08 on September 7, 2013, at the brought their daughters Mia (born recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Peter Solvenski. I am training for 2008 Bowdoin College Chapel, followed June 2012) and Lydia (born Feb of the Year award from her peers finger on the pulse the Maine Coast Marathon in May Nicholas Larochelle married Zea by a reception at Pineland Farms. 2013) together for a polar bear play at Wenatchee Valley College. Anne 2014, my first race in Maine since Schultz (Northeastern ’08) June See photo in Weddings section. date. See photo. has taught Math for the past 24 of Bowdoin. college, in order to qualify for the 29, 2013, at his parents’ home “Margo Farrell Clark and years and has been a nominee Follow us on Facebook, Twiter, and Instagram, (Left to right): Last fall, Tom Charpentier Boston marathon in 2015. Mario in Bangor, Maine. See photo in Norman Greeley Nicolson 2012 several times during her tenure.” and I are enjoying living in New ’10 hosted Bob Fritz ’59 and Mitch Weddings section. (Williams ’07) were married on Andrew Cushing writes: “I and check out our full social media directory to England, and I hope to take Mario O’Neill ’01 at The Experimental Aircraft Hilary Strasburger married October 12, 2013, at St Joseph’s organize a race in my hometown, Association, where Tom works in to visit Bowdoin in the fall.” See find specific resources of interest to you. Joshua Collier on August 17, 2013, Church in Portland, Maine, with and this year I was lucky enough Oshkosh, Wisconsin. at her parents’ home in Brunswick. a reception on Peaks Island to have three polar bears join in www.bowdoin.edu/social See photo in Weddings section. following the ceremony.” See the fun: Chris Jayne ’13, Johnny Sean Sullivan was the subject photo in Weddings section. Coster, and Katie Woo. We met of a Bangor Daily News article up on October 12, 2013, in Grafton, titled “Local gift card seeks to 2010 New Hampshire, for the Race to ‘bouy’ Portland businesses.” Sean “Sub-freezing temperatures and rain Save the Mill, a l5K/8K fundraiser is the co-founder of a new gift card didn’t prevent 2,501 runners from run.” See photo. called Buoy Local. “It’s an open- finishing the 17th annual Gobble loop gift card. We are creating a Gobble Gobble 4-Miler Thanksgiving 2013 community circle of merchants,” Day in Davis Square. Boston’s Lucy Morrell, daughter of Jane said Sullivan, co-founder of the Colman Hatton collected the ’81 and Bill Morrell, has been doing The first babies from the Class of 2011 (Left to right) Chris Jayne ’13, Johnny startup that seeks to increase individual title, finishing in 19:35, service work in Guatemala since have arrived! Bowdoin roommates Coster ’12, Andrew Cushing ’12, and loyalty to Portland’s independent Molly Duffy Dugdale and Jamilah Katie Woo ’12 met up in Grafton, good for a 4:54-mile pace. Hatton, June 2013. “Serving the Common businesses with one universal Gurwala Gregory brought their New Hampshire, for the Race to Save 26, ran collegiately at Bowdoin Good has been a part of Lucy’s life card . . . ‘My partner and I are not daughters, Mia (born June 2012) and the Mill, a local 5K/8K fundraiser run College, where he set the school for years. While at Bowdoin, she bowdoin.edu/social getting rich off this idea; it’s a Lydia (born Feb 2013), together for a on October 12, 2013, that Andrew cross-country record . . . He ran worked with the Joseph McKeen polar bear play date. organized. social enterprise. If we can do a lot

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Lee Cotton ’71

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, THREE GENERATIONS, ONE FAMILY FUND

Since Bob Cotton’s graduation from Bowdoin in 1937, the Cotton family has

maintained a deep and abiding commitment 1 2 to supporting financial aid at the College. Bob, who passed away in 2003, spent his career as a food scientist and nutrition advocate; his son, Lee, an accomplished photographer while at Bowdoin and a successful entrepreneur, was elected to the College’s Board of Trustees in 2003 and in 2005 received the Polar Bear Award for exemplary service to the College, and Lee’s wife, Anne, was one of the first women to graduate from Bowdoin. Lee Cotton ’71, together with his father, Bob ’37, and wife, Anne ’72, established the Cotton Family Scholarship Fund to support 3 4 In 1986, these three distinguished Cottons Bowdoin’s future. created perhaps the most enduring part of 1 Megan Lim ’03 married Trevor 3 Rebecca Sargent ’06 married Hatton ’10. (Middle row, Blair (University of Pennsylvania Mark McLean (Holy Cross ’05) on l to r): Libby Wilcosky ’10, Courtney ’99) on August 10, 2013, at the October 5, 2013, in Plymouth, MA . Martin ’09, Alexa Lindauer ’09, “Bowdoin is a better place because we are able to admit students from San Diego Central Library in San Bowdoin alumni in attendance (l to Emma Reilly ’09, Erin Taylor ’09, all walks of life. Advancing this ability is one of the most important Diego, CA. Pictured (l to r): Richard r): Ellen Grenley ’06, Sophie Wiss Hannah Wadsworth ’09, Ali and Mersereau ’69, Allison Benton ’03, ’06, Molly Dorkey ’06, Nitasha Ken, Ashley Conti ’07, Emily things we can do to give back to our college.” Sarah Cheng Box ’03, J.P. Box ’03, Kawatra ’06, Elizabeth Droggitis Swaim ’09, Alex von Gerichten Trevor, Kara Podkaminer ’03, ’06, Becky and Mark, Kate Cary ’09, Lynne Tempest ’09. (Front row, their Bowdoin legacy by establishing the To Lee and Anne’s delight, their daughter Megan Lim Blair ’03, George Karris Sandak ’06, Kristina Sisk ’06, Holly kneeling, l to r): Aisha Woodward Cotton Family Scholarship Fund. While Ashley graduated from Bowdoin in 2001 ’98, and Dennis Lim ’07. Maloney ’07, Sarah Riley ’06, and ’08, Christina Argueta ’11, Holly Lee and Anne intend to continue to add and joined the family’s efforts to support 2 Haley Bridger ’07 married Ryan Hurd ’06. Jacobson ’11, Nate Krah ’08, Dana to their scholarship during their lifetime, financial aid, marking the fund’s third Thomas Speller on August 25, 4 Ali Chase ’09 married Ken Riker ’10, Molly Duffy Dugdale ’11, 2013, at the Hellenic Center in Akiha ’08 on September 7, 2013, and Courtney Eustace ’08. (“We are 5 they are also supporting it through generous generation of participation. singing ‘Raise Songs to Bowdoin’ provisions in their estate plans. Ipswich, MA. Graham Paterson ’06, at the Bowdoin College Chapel, Sonia Alam ’07, Christopher Field followed by a reception at Pineland in the picture.”) ’07, Alicia Wong ’07, Lauren Steffel Farms. (Back row, l to r): Eric Lee 5 Margaret Paz ’02 married ’07, Elizabeth Sweet ’07, and ’08, Grace Kerr ’11, Stan Berkow Kenneth Knorr Stanek on Christopher Bird ’07. (Back row, l ’11, Tyler Lonsdale ’08, Ike Irby ’09, September 14, 2013, at The Dumbo For help with your philanthropic planning or to learn more about how you might structure to r): Haley and Thomas, Rebecca George Chase ’78, Katharine Chase Loft in Brooklyn, NY (Pictured l to r): a planned gift for the College, please contact Steve Hyde, Nancy Milam, or Nina Cutter Perry ’07, Matthew Herzfeld ’07, MacLean ’79, Erin York ’09, Archie Lana Klemeyer ’02, Margaret, and in Bowdoin’s Gift Planning Office at (207) 725-3172 or at [email protected] and Jamie Burwood ’08. Abrams ’09, Leland Fidler ’10, Alison Zingaro ’02. Thompson Ogilvie ’10, John Hall ’08, Patrick Pierce ’08, and Colman

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6 Greg Righter ’07 married Emily 7 Christi Gannon ’06 and Nick 8 Jonathan Rosenthal ’06 10 Kristen Brownell ’07 married Parker Birchby ’07, Winslow Moore 13 Eleanor Simon ’06 married Wagner (Occidental College ’08) Ordway ’06 were married on married Omayra Cruz (Regis College Mario Flajslik (University of Zagreb Blankenship ’07, Lauren Garry ’04, Paul F. Evans III ’07 on October on May 4, 2013, at St. John the September 15, 2012, in Boston, ’09) on September 6, 2013, at The ’08, Stanford University PhD ’13) (front row, l to r) Curtis Isacke ’07, 19, 2013, at Gate of Heaven Church Baptist Church in Peabody, MA. MA. Bowdoin friends in attendance Villa in East Bridgewater, MA. (l to at St. George’s Orthodox Cathedral Christopher Metcalf ’05, Carolyn in South Boston, followed by a Friends in attendance were (l to were: (back row, l to r): Peter r): Nicole Hart ’06, Erik Morrison in Worcester, MA, followed by a Chu ’07, Rachel Kaplan Caldwell reception at the Boston Harbor r): Jason Riley ’06, Bailey James, Beebe ’06, Rich Florence ’06, Eric ’06, Omayra and Jonathan, and reception at the Beechwood Hotel. ’06, and Ben Caldwell ’03. Hotel. Friends in attendance Christian Sullivan ’07, Alice Davich ’06, Kevin Bradley ’07, Elspeth Bernard Dennison ’06. Bowdoin friends in attendance 12 Eric Penley ’05 married Gina included (l to r): Ryan Hurd ’06, Sullivan ’08, Joel Samen ’07, Greg Tim Lane ’09, Darian Reid-Sturgis 9 Mike Chute ’06 married (from l to r): Laura Onderko ’08, Veits (University of Maine ’05) in Jessica Brooks ’07, Erica Michel and Emily, Anna Shapell ’06, Ryan ’09, Vanessa Russell ’06, Kyle Caroline Larkin (St. Michael’s bridesmaid Ellen Beth ’05, Kristen Deer Isle, Maine, on August 10, ’07, Jill Schweitzer ’06, Sarah Fletcher ’07, Russell Stevens ’07, Jackson ’09, Natasha Camilo ’06, College ’05) April 27, 2013, at the and Mario, Elizabeth Zarrella ’08, 2013. (Back row, l to r): Nicole Schoen ’07, Megan McLean Ted Gilbert ’07, and Brendan Kyle Petrie ’06, Sean Walker ’05, Stamford Yacht Club in Stamford, Anthony Zarrella ’08, and Elizabeth Hart ’06, Erik Morrison ’06, Robin Bettencourt ’07, Alexandra Smith Murphy ’07. Ethan Galloway ’06, Eli Maitland CT. (l to r): Breandan Fisher ’06, Onderko ’08. Trangsrud ’06, Matt Thomson Keefe ’06, Kelly Bougere ’06, ‘06, Katie Swan ’06, Hilarie Wilson Taylor White ‘07, Dave Sandals 11 Megan MacLennan ’07 ’06, Nastasha Horvath ’07, Fred JulieAnn Calareso ’07, Jena Davis Galloway ’06, and Drew Friedmann ’05, Chris Donnelly ’05, Eliza Shaw married Jonathan Crowley ’07 on Fedynyshyn ’05, Ryan North ’05, Hales ’06, Nicholas Simon ’09, ’06. (Front row, l to r): Mike Hickey ’05, Kevin Richardson ’06, Bruce June 15, 2013, at The Wauwinet Ella Thodal ’05, Angela North Hannah Hughes ’09, Lawrence ’06, Kate Halloran Hickey ’07, Saltzman ’06, Adam Dann ’06, on Nantucket, MA. Bowdoin alumni (James Madison ’01), Jake Marren Simon (Bowdoin Professor), Eleanor Allyson Craib Florence ’06, Christi Ian Hanley ’07, Rich Leahy ’08, in attendance were (back row, l to (Emory ’04), Nick Walker ’04, Conor and Paul, Michael Buckley ’07, and Nick, Keerthi Sugumaran ’06, Jon Landry ’06, Tim McVaugh r): Eve Lake ’07, William Heselton Carpenter ’05, and Avery Ash ’05. John Lawrie ’07, Christopher Deeya Gaindh ’06, Caitlin Moore ’07, Kristin Veiga ’09, Michael ’59, Sally Heselton Loughlin ’82, (Front row, l to r): Erin Dukeshire McCann ’07, Nicholas Lawler ’07, ’06, Justine Pouravelis ’06, Mike Crowley ’06, Willy Waters ’06, Jane Heselton Crowley ‘80, Avery ’05, David Duhalde ’06, Gina and Seth Gabarro ’07, Thomas Lakin Wood ’06, Marie Masse Caldwell Steve Thompson ’08, Nate Riddell Ash ’05, Sara Tennyson ’07, Jocelin Eric, Jackie Walker ’06, Camden ’07, and Jonathan Koperniak ’07. ’06, and Adam Caldwell ’06. Not ’05, Andrew Russo ’06, and Will Hody ’07, Jonathan Crowley ’07, Ramsay ’05, Jonelle Walsh ’05, pictured: Antwan Phillips ’06 and Reycraft ’08. Megan MacLennan ’07, Nate Hyde and Emma Bonanomi ’05. Jeff Switchenko ’06. ’07, Lauren Huber Zullo ’07, Emily

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16 17 20 Information to include: Names (including maiden names) and class years of everyone pictured; date, place, and other relevant information about the ceremony. 14 Nicholas Larochelle ’08 15 Hilary Strasburger ’08 17 Stephen Edward Lampert 18 Andrew Ross ’03 married 20 William Cabana ’11 married married Zea Schultz (Northeastern married Joshua Collier on August ’04 married Laura Stevenson Annakate Tefft in Nashville, Brittany Plummer (University of Photo return policy: We will honor requests to return prints, though, ’08) on June 29, 2013, in Bangor, 17, 2013, at the home of the (Northeastern University ’06) TN, on September 22, 2012. In New Hampshire, B.S. ‘11, M.S. as a small operation, we appreciate “disposable” copies. Should you Maine. (Standing l to r): Anthony bride’s parents in Brunswick, on August 10, 2013, at the attendance (l to r): Chris Fuller ’03, ‘13) on August 10, 2013, in South require your photo returned, indicate so; you will receive it several Regis ’07, Matthieu Larochelle ’07, Maine. (l to r): Andrew Hilboldt ’13, New England Aquarium in Craig Giammona ’02, Rick Binelli Portland, Maine, with a reception weeks after the published issue in which it appears. Sarah Connolly ’08, Joshua Miller Michaela Calnan ’11, Ben Johnson Boston. Bowdoin friends joining ’03, Brendan Wakeham ’03, Bart in Falmouth. Pictured (from l to r): Validity: It may seem to go without saying, but we assume that all ’08, Laura Connolly ’11, Matthew ’12, Joshua and Hilary, Justin the celebration (l to r): Peter McMann ’03, Chandler Nutik ’03; Brian Huynh ’12, CJ Thomas ’11, weddings, civil unions, or commitment ceremonies you report to us McCall ’08, Nicholas and Zea, Strasburger ’07, Rebekah Mueller Nasveschuk ’04, Angela King Seth Harmon ’02, Tim Sacks ’03, Evan Graff ’11, Melissa Anson ’11, actually happened. Not all alumni magazines print news of all of Roshani Grant ’08, Eric Lee ’08, Strasburger ’07, Julia Ledewitz Nasveschuk ’04, Eileen Schneider Judd Pratt-Heaney ’03, Lyndsey Brittany and William, Randy Kring these, but we take seriously our role in building the whole Bowdoin Libby Wilcosky ’10, Ian Edwards ’08, Rachel Donahue ’08, and Matt Naples ’04, Shoshana Kuriloff Wakeham ’02, Mike Sabo ’03, and ’11, Jasmine Mikami ’12, Francis community. Please grant that policy the respect it deserves by using ’12, and Caitlin Edwards ’08. Eshelman ’09. Sicks ’04, Albert Mayer ’03, Julia Bromka ’03. Huynh ’10, and Justin Foster ’11. these pages appropriately. (Kneeling l to r): Sarah Fiske ’13, 16 Margo Farrell Clark ’09 Amanda Burrage ’04, Leah 19 Anna Fowler ’78 married Permissions: Submission of your wedding photo presumes that you Christian Larochelle ’12, Michael and Norman Greeley Nicolson Bressack ’04, Ryan Naples ’04, John C. Bannon ’77 on August 25, hold its copyright or have obtained the necessary permission for the Larochelle ’08, Ryan Larochelle ’13, (Williams ’07) were married on Stephen, Frederick Warburg 2013, at their home in Cumberland, photo to appear in Bowdoin magazine. Please contact the magazine if you have any questions. and Jacques Larochelle ’15. October 12, 2013, at St Joseph’s ’04, Laura, Samuel Esterman Maine. (l to r): John and Anna, Church in Portland, Maine, with ’04, Jarred McAteer ’04, Alexis Grace McKenzie-Smith ’17, and Deadline: The submission deadline for the Spring/Summer issue is a reception on Peaks Island Acevedo ’04, Jay Rilinger ’04, Ann Vanderburgh ’78. April 20, 2014. following the ceremony. Friends Alison Hinman Smith ’03, William at the celebration included (l to Sicks (Williams-Bowdoin Exchange r): Johanna Fowle ’10, Alexandra ’03), Nathan Smith ’04. (Not Bassett ’09, Samuel Tung ’09, pictured): Michael Lampert ’00 and Margo and Norman, Adam Lord Robert Desaulniers ’04. (Bowdoin staff), Megan Brunmier Lord ’08, and Danielle Carniaux ’10.

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The following is a list of deaths reported to us since the previous issue. Full obituaries appear online at bowdoinobits.com. The Whispering Pines As part of our redesign, we have moved the obituaries from the printed magazine to a new, dedicated online site. While this move marks a significant change, we believe it is one that will serve our entire readership. Updated regularly, the improved obituary format will better honor our Bowdoin community members and will allow 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. A Family Tree

f you were walking by the northwest corner of the tradition of Anna ceremonies at Bowdoin: torchlit parades of campus (by Searles Science Building and Memorial robed students marching through the streets of Brunswick, Hall/Wish Theater) on December 18 at about three- a bonfire to consume Anna’s earthly remains, and a printed thirty in the afternoon, you would have seen a solemn program (in Latin) that listed the students who took on Harold E. Wyer ’37 James H. Sibson ’50 Peter J. Hyszczak ’75 I procession of about a dozen people, led by a figure wearing speaking roles and other important duties. December 21, 2013 November 21, 2013 October 29, 2013 an academic robe. The group gathered around a tall Norway As part of the class, students worked with Dale and Guilbert S. Winchell ’40 Roger E. Conklin ’51 Bradford P. Stevens ’76 spruce. After interring ashes in a hole that had been chopped Assistant Professor of Art Alicia Eggert to create an art November 25, 2013 November 17, 2013 November 21, 2013 into the frozen ground under the spreading branches of installation piece, consisting of an office chair that could spin Stephen P. Carlson ’42 Richard J. McCarthy ’51 Dr. William F. Siebert Jr. ’77 the tree and delivering brief speeches, the students placed a so rapidly that it would become a blur. It became a capstone November 23, 2013 November 20, 2013 December 12, 2013 small granite marker. The familiar strains of “Raise Songs to project for the course, as students learned to compensate for Bowdoin” brought the ceremony to a close. the asymmetry of the chair and the centrifugal forces that Joseph S. Cronin ’43 Edgar M. Cousins ’52 John C. Schmeidel ’78 When the snows of winter have loosened their grip, and the threatened to tear the chair apart by reinforcing it. In the November 6, 2013 December 22, 2013 June 25, 2013 muds of springtime no longer threaten to turn a stroll off the end the students were successful, and the chair is now in the Robert M. Livingston ’44 William S. Coperthwaite Jr. ’53 Pamela Richards Cohan ’80 paved campus paths into an adventure, I plan on visiting the physics department machine shop in Searles. July 21, 2013 November 26, 2013 August 2013 site and the stone that marks the final resting place of “MoM, To mark the occasion, the students expressed an interest in beloved granddaughter of ANNA 2013. ”When I do so, I will an “Anna-like” ceremony for MoM, and Professor Syphers Frederick H. Clarkson Jr. ’45 Thomas F. Winston Jr. ’54 Ralph E. McDonald II ’85 be paying tribute to a colorful nineteenth-century college agreed to purchase a granite marker if the students wanted December 20, 2013 November 27, 2013 December 4, 2013 tradition and to the creativity of Professor Dale Syphers and the to follow through with it. After checking with the facilities The Reverend David B. Johnston ’45 C. Russell Herrmann ’55 Judith Bourassa Joy ’86 students of Physics 2220 (Engineering Physics). department to make sure that the location chosen for the March 17, 2013 November 28, 2013 November 12, 2013 At a number of American colleges and universities in the marker would not interfere with maintenance activities, the mid-to-late-1800s there were elaborate traditions of burning earth was prepared to receive the remains. As it turned out, Henry S. Maxfield ’45 Harris L. Curtis ’56 Faculty and Staff and/or burying mathematics textbooks at the end of a the ground was frozen solidly, but enough soil was excavated November 3, 2013 November 26, 2013 class. Thus, Yale buried “Euclid,” Amherst mourned “Mattie to receive the ashes of the title page and table of contents of Commander Frederick R. Sims ’45 Edwin C. Allen II ’64 Ray S. Bicknell Mattix,” and Bowdoin and other colleges rejoiced in the the textbook before the 16” x 8” stone was placed on top. October 1, 2013 February 21, 2010 November 11, 2013 passing of “Anna Lytics” after a year of analytical geometry. The printed program (in Latin), was adapted from an 1879 In 2010, I wrote a column for “The Bowdoin Daily Sun” version. Students talked about what MoM had meant to Lawrence F. Deane ’46 David A. Henshaw ’64 Dr. David B. Walker on the three “Anna” stones that still exist on campus: 1877’s them in their intellectual development. At the suggestion December 12, 2013 December 15, 2013 September 30, 2013 granite marker is flush with the ground just to the east of of Professor Madeleine Msall, who captured the event on Edward Eric Butler ’49 Leonard J. Hassler ’66 James E. Ward III Massachusetts Hall; Anna ’78 and Anna ’80 may be found in film for posterity, the singing of the alma mater brought the April 8, 2013 June 26, 2012 November 11, 2013 a bed of lilies to the right of the door at the south entrance festivities to a close. of Appleton Hall. Each time that I see the 2013 MoM stone, I will celebrate Paul S. Hennessey ’49 James E. Gillen ’67 In teaching Engineering Physics last fall, Professor the joy expressed by those who teach and those who learn at November 26, 2013 November 10, 2013 Syphers referred to the textbook (Mechanics of Materials) as Bowdoin. Anna would be proud of all that her granddaughter William V. Knapton ’49 Paul W. Hurd II ’71 “MoM” in the syllabus. Dale was familiar with both the has inspired. October 18, 2013 November 16, 2013 history of the traditions surrounding the Anna stones, and also was keenly aware of the deep roots of mechanical With best wishes, engineering in the nineteenth-century study of analytical geometry. When a student inquired jokingly about MoM’s true identity, Dale instantly described her as the John R. Cross ’76 granddaughter of Anna. He explained to the class the rich Secretary of Development and College Relations

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You recently attended a meeting at the White House focus- a good thing because it ensures that the student has a ing on greater access to higher education for low-income stake in his or her education. students. What was the takeaway from that meeting? I’m not sure any debt is a good thing. If you look at our statis- The takeaway is that there are still vast numbers of low-income tics, even though we’ve converted all of our loans into grants, a Answers students, in particular, who aren’t able to find their way to considerable number of our students are still borrowing. I actu- A Q&A with Barry Mills, President wonderful colleges for a whole variety of reasons. Clearly, one ally think that’s okay, because given the jobs that they’re going of the big roadblocks is the cost of college and the availability of to get and the kinds of things that they’re going to do in their financial aid. But there are other impediments that make it hard life, this quite moderate amount of debt—which is much, much Investing in Opportunity for people to apply to college, to fill out financial-aid forms, or less than the national average—isn’t going to be burdensome to to maneuver through the process. these students. But if you impose burdensome debt on students, For example, the fact that there are 400 students for one then they start to make career choices and job choices and life guidance counselor in many states is pretty daunting, especially choices that are driven by that debt. s the College prepares to announce officially a campaign to fund additional need-based financial aid for if you think about the resources that many upper-income fami- Now, there’s an argument out there that if you don’t have A students, Barry Mills talks about some of the obstacles facing low- and middle-income families thinking lies have to help their students through the college process. It’s debt—if you don’t have “skin in the game”—you’re not going about college, how the aid initiative will benefit Bowdoin, and why providing access and opportunity ought important for us as a nation to think about how we provide that to take college seriously. Well, that overlooks the fact that we to remain bedrock principles of the College. kind of assistance to students who are very high achieving but certainly do expect our students on financial aid to work in the who can’t find their way to our places simply because they just summer and to contribute to their education. So, these students Bowdoin currently provides need-based aid to about don’t have access to the roadmap. do have “skin in the game.” But it has always surprised me that 44 percent of the student body. How does our goal to Of course, a counterargument is that this is a bottom- people think that low- and middle-income students need to have increase that to 50 percent—about an additional 90-100 less hole, that the College should get hold of its costs Is Bowdoin doing enough in that regard? debt to take their college experience seriously but my kids, who students—make Bowdoin a better place? Who benefits? rather than increasing the financial aid budget. You never do enough. Given the pipeline of low- and moder- happen to be privileged, don’t have any debt and don’t have to We all benefit. We benefit because we are able to attract, admit, There is no doubt that getting control of our costs is a corollary ate-income students who want to come to our College—both have any “skin in the game.” Why is it that privileged kids can be and retain and graduate the very best students in our appli- to this. So, the college must—and we do, as far as I’m con- from Maine and from away—I think we’re doing a very good counted on to take their education seriously but poor kids need cant pool. We benefit because having these students here will cerned—on a daily basis really work hard to think about what’s job but you can always do more. debt to take college seriously? I just don’t get it, and I don’t think improve what goes on in the classrooms, on the campus as a important for Bowdoin, not relative to what other schools are it’s correct. If you look at the commitment that our low-income whole, on the playing fields, and throughout our community. doing, but what’s important for us. We have to make sure that You were quoted in the newspaper recently saying that students have to their education and to Bowdoin, you quickly And over the long haul, we benefit because these people will we’re making choices that make sense for Bowdoin. So there’s colleges need to de-mystify the financial aid process. come to the conclusion that these students take the opportunity go off and do great things. If our ambition is to be a place that no question that we have to stay focused and be disciplined in How do we do that? they’re getting from the College very, very seriously. educates the very best, having the resources to attract the very the way we spend our money. It’s important for us to simplify the forms, to make it clear to best without regard to their family condition is essential to the families that the “sticker price” of Bowdoin isn’t necessarily the You seem to be personally invested in the initiative to College. There are plenty of strong colleges and universities out net price for them, and to make it clear to those families that raise more money for financial aid. Why do you feel so there that are not “need-blind.” Would it really be such colleges like Bowdoin have the resources to allow those students strongly about it? How much money are we talking about? a terrible thing if Bowdoin became “need-aware” for a to enroll and succeed. And we all need to use technology in When you look at our country and the principle that, in It’s somewhere north of $100 million. certain percentage of the class? much more effective ways to get this message out there. America, everyone should have the opportunity to succeed, it’s This isn’t a religion. This is an issue of principle for the College important to our College and to me personally that there’s a And how are we doing on that effort? that really goes to the core of this common good commitment Bowdoin replaced the student-loan requirement with level playing field. We’re well on our way. We have just started recently to talk to we’ve made throughout our history. Our goal is to be able to grants back in 2008. Lots of other colleges—including All stories are personal. My parents were middle-class people. people about this new initiative, and I think it’s fair to say that admit the very best and brightest without regard to their family some with greater resources—still require loans. Others My father didn’t finish the tenth grade. My mother graduated we’ve raised somewhere in the range of $25 million to $30 mil- circumstance. We seek to do that in the context of the resourc- did away with loans and then went back to requiring from high school. They both worked very hard and were very lion already. I’m optimistic that we’ll get there. es we have. To the extent we have those resources and people them. Why is Bowdoin sticking with this practice? entrepreneurial and that allowed me to come to Bowdoin College. feel that that commitment to “need-blind” admission is consis- Well, let’s be clear. For most of the schools that had the no- Bowdoin helped us a little in the financial aid arena to make it pos- How is the student aid program different than when you tent with the common good, we ought to be able to continue loan program and went back, they continue to be no-loan for sible for me to come here, and I’ve been pretty lucky in life. became president in 2001? that commitment. low-income students. So, the students at these schools who are I understand what it means to be a first-generation college stu- We support many more students on an absolute basis than we It would be unfortunate, given our history, for the College now required to borrow are actually middle-income students. dent and what these places can do. I understand how the oppor- ever did. The percentage of our students that we support is much to find itself having to admit students on a “need-aware” basis. It’s my view that, if we can afford it, allowing those middle- tunity to go to a place like Bowdoin changes individual lives, higher, and many of the students we support are low-income stu- In that case, I would expect that we would still provide all of income students to avoid burdensome debt is a great benefit to changes families, and, over the long haul, changes communities. dents, with about fourteen percent of our students receiving Pell the financial aid needed to keep Bowdoin open to low- and them going forward. I think our principle of assisting middle- And that really ought to be the goal of Bowdoin. If the com- Grants. But we also support a substantial number of middle-class moderate-income students who deserve to be here. But I don’t income students the same way we assist low-income students is mon good is about anything, it should be about creating oppor- students and even some students whose parents start to border think we are at the point of even considering this alternative. something that ought to endure. tunity for students, regardless of their background. It’s about the up on the “one percent,” because, given our fee, it’s essential I’d rather stay committed to our principles. I think it’s possible American dream. We’ve been around for nearly 220 years. We that we’re able to admit low-income students, students from the and, frankly, likely that we will achieve this financial goal and You talk about burdensome debt, but many argue that represent the American dream and we ought to be pursuing that middle class, and now students from the upper middle class who be able to continue our strong tradition of admitting students to a reasonable amount of debt upon graduation is actually and enhancing that for our students. That’s why it’s important. need support to be able to come to the College. Bowdoin without regard to financial need.

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