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JOE TECCE ’55 TALKS LOOKING BACK, BLINKS AND BEHAVIOR WBOR KEEPS COLLEGE GOING FORWARD RADIO ALIVE THE REMARKABLE WOMEN FACULTY-STUDENT COLLABORATION: OF BOWDOIN FIELD HOCKEY PROFESSOR DEAREST FALL 2009 CONTENTS

20 Field Hockey’s Big Picture BY EDGAR ALLEN BEEM MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHS BY BOB HANDELMAN Bowdoin In 2007, the Bowdoin field hockey team went a perfect 20-0 in winning the College’s first national champi- onship of any kind.A tough act to follow. In 2008, the team went 19-2 en route to a second national champi- onship.Yet there is a sense in which athletic success is about more than victory, bigger than any one season, and in which field hockey can be more than a game. 28 “The Ledge” After 50 Years BY ANTHONY DOERR ’95 & MARGOT LIVESEY PHOTOGRAPHS BY BOWDOIN COLLEGE ARCHIVES Fifty years ago, a short story by Bowdoin professor Lawrence Sargent Hall ’36 won a prestigious O. Henry Award. On the golden anniversary of the story’s publi- cation, author Anthony Doerr ’95 and novelist Margot Livesey comment on the staying power of “The Ledge.” 30 Not Your Average Joe BY DAVID TREADWELL ’64 PHOTOGRAPHS BY ERIC POGGENPOHL Why is the media constantly knocking on the door of Joe Tecce ’55,a 75-year-old assistant professor of psy- chology at Boston College? David Treadwell visits with Tecce, and in a blink of an eye, finds the answer. 34 On the Air BY LISA WESEL PHOTOGRAPHS BY DEAN ABRAMSON Early each semester the staff of WBOR conducts the college radio equivalent of an open casting call:They invite anyone who’s interested – students, faculty, staff and community members – to apply for a DJ time slot, creating new generations of DJs that are keeping col- DEPARTMENTS lege radio very much alive. Mailbox...... 4 Bookshelf ...... 6 Bowdoinsider . . . . . 10 42 Professor Dearest? Alumnotes ...... 44 BY WILLIAM WATTERSON & KRISTINA DAHMANN ’10 ILLUSTRATION BY JENNIFER DUBORD Class News ...... 45 English professor William Watterson and Kristina Weddings...... 81 Dahmann ’10 connect the dots between Parker Obituaries ...... 89 Cleaveland, noted mineralogist and eccentric early- nineteenth century Bowdoin professor, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s character Dr. Cacaphodel in Hawthorne’s Photo: Shavonne Lord ’10 being photographed for the cover by Bob Handelman. short story “The Great Carbuncle.” |letter| Bowdoin FROM THE EDITOR MAGAZINE

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realized recently why living a kind of public life online – through MAGAZINE STAFF Facebook, other networking sites, even cookie-enabled browsers – doesn’t Editor I totally freak me out: it’s because I grew up in a town of 500 people that Alison M. Bennie was not just a suburb of somewhere else, but was 500 people pretty much in Associate Editor the middle of nowhere.After having endured adolescence in a place where Matthew J. O’Donnell my every activity, relationship, and opinion was not only common knowledge but part of the actual news of the day, I don’t get too exercised Design Charles Pollock over the idea that a couple of hundred people can pretty much guess how I Jim Lucas voted in today’s election. Or know where I live, the names of my children, Pennisi & Lamare and what kind of music I like. Portland, Maine Contributors It doesn’t bother me that my co-workers know that I love my husband, that I Douglas Boxer-Cook stress about deadlines, or that I get a lump in my throat when I walk into the James Caton Susan Danforth empty bedrooms of my college-age kids.And I don’t mind, either, that the Darren Fishell ’09 people I grew up with in that small town will note the many ways that I am Selby Frame not the person I was at eighteen. Or that they can see the photos that prove Scott W. Hood Alix Roy ’07 it.Would I bring any of this up in a conversation over the water cooler or Seth Walder ’11 drag out a whole photo album at the high school reunion? Probably not. Dean Abramson, Bob Handelman, Eric Poggenpohl, Michele Stapleton, But here is why I am not afraid of any of it: because while knowing everything and Bowdoin College Archives about each other can create a few scary scenarios (identity theft comes to mind), knowing enough is a requirement. It is what connects us. Empathy is a BOWDOIN (ISSN, 0895-2604) is published three times a year by powerful human emotion, but it doesn’t work well in the abstract. Bowdoin College, 4104 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011. Printed by We need to think of real people who need our help before we are motivated J.S. McCarthy, Augusta, Maine.Third-class postage paid at Augusta, Maine. Sent to do so.We need to know people who are different from us before we see free of charge to all Bowdoin alumni, that they matter just as much and deserve what we deserve.The everyday parents of current and recent under- details we share – what we are making for dinner, what chores we have graduates, faculty and staff, seniors, and selected members of the Association of planned for Saturday morning, or how much we loved the sunset – are part Bowdoin Friends. of what makes us human beings just working it out, and that is OK. Connections that change opinions, even lives, have been forged on much less. Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors.

Bowdoin just completed a $250 million campaign that exceeded its goal and Send class news to [email protected] raised $293 million. I believe that its success is in large part due to the or mail to the address above. Advertising inquiries? Please e-mail genuine connectedness that Bowdoin graduates feel to this college and [email protected] or fax 207- consequently to each other and to its future students.When we ask these 725-3003. Please send address changes people about their favorite Bowdoin memories, they very often involve to the mailing address above. Send letters to the editor to that address or by things like meals, music, Saturday morning routines, and a sunset or two. e-mail to [email protected]. They always involve people. Front cover: Shavonne Lord ’10. Photograph by Bob Handelman. Back I have friends who say if they read one more status update about mundane cover: Numbers photos featuring stuff, they will scream. I say, it just makes us all neighbors.You don’t always Bowdoin students by Bob Handelman. have to chat over the fence, but when you need something, those are the people who are more likely than anybody to help. So, go ahead, connect.

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2 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 A Sustainable Hockey Rink The Sidney J.Watson Arena, dedicated January 18, 2009, has become the first newly constructed ice arena in the United States to earn coveted LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).The USGBC certified Watson Arena’s LEED status July 16, 2009.

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A Bigger Picture “forehead” to rhyme with “horrid,” the correct way. Mother had us learn Dear editor: the rhyme so we would know the Dr. Jonathan Martin ’92, in the winter correct pronunciation.” issue, wrote a heartfelt and courageous piece. I was particularly touched by Sincerely, his self-analysis around the outcome Joan Woodcock Nestler (widow of of one soldier whose quality of life John A.Woodcock ’44) was less than Dr. Martin had hoped. I want to share my experiences with Rhyming “forehead” and “horrid” is my father’s neurosurgeries.When I considered a slant rhyme, sometimes called was a junior in college, my father had off-rhyme, a common poetic device. a hemorrhagic stroke in his right Whether or not “forehead” should be midbrain. It took a highly energetic, pronounced to rhyme exactly with domineering man (ask the Dean of “horrid,” we feel it’s usually best to listen Women back then) in the prime of to mother! —ed. his life and left him paralyzed on his left side, dependent on his wife, and Never Stop Believing demolished his income, a major Dear editor: source of his self-esteem.Yet,he did I enjoyed reading the item about have the joy of his grandkids and was Virginia/Santa Claus—especially since able to participate in family events. there’s yet another Bowdoin Ten years later, a second stroke, this Dr. Jonathan Martin ’92 connection. I didn’t know about time in the posterior left brain, left suddenly. In many ways, he owed us Edward Mitchell [Class of 1871]. In him speechless, bedridden, and unable that time and, in my belief system, it any case,Virginia O’Hanlon, in the last to swallow. By then, I was a family was his chance for atonement. Here in few years before she passed away, was physician, aware of the alternatives, the west, we have moved away from our next-door neighbor during the and I turned on his doctor,“Why the concept that things happen for a late ’50s, in the West 9th Street didn’t you just let him die? Why did reason, but I have come to accept that apartment building, Greenwich Village. you do surgery?” His reply was similar this is sometimes the case. Dr. Martin She had never stopped believing! to Dr. Martin’s thoughts:“We thought might consider that perhaps it wasn’t we were soon enough that we could Sincerely, only his decision, and that he was part return him to the quality of life that Constantine Karvonides ’50 of a bigger picture at that moment. he had before, and he did have a Each of us can only do our best at quality of life.” He was right about a Give Us More Green the moment given us, and that is quality of life. good enough. Dear editor: Now, with the perspective of I wanted to second the idea recently twenty years, I can also see the benefit Sincerely, raised by Joni Bosh re:“Other Green of that year before Dad died. M. Calanthe Wilson-Pant, M.D. ’79 Grads.” Given Bowdoin’s Although it was a very hard year on commitment to the environment, I everyone, it was also a year of growth What Mother Says, Goes think it would be a perfect fit for the for my mother. Every day, she would Dear editor: magazine to highlight green efforts on go sit by his bed and talk with him I have been going over the last issue a regular basis. about the issues of her life, but she no of Bowdoin magazine, and re-reading This might also be one way to longer had him to make the decisions. the Longfellow quotations and the foster a “green alumni network” of She made them herself. During that dispute over the rhyme “There was a sorts (if one does not already exist?)— year, one evening I sat for six hours little girl, and she had a little curl / both to support those out in the field by his bedside, telling him it was okay Right in the middle of her forehead; as well as encourage those current to let go, we could make it without / When she was good, she was very, college students who are interested in him.That year in the nursing home very good, / But when she was bad, environmental work and wondering was his way of easing us into she was horrid.” My mother told me what’s next... (I recall having a similar independence.We would have had that Longfellow wrote these lines to wish when I was involved with the many more difficulties had Dad gone teach his children to pronounce student environment groups...)

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As for me, I am presently working government in 1872 but instead Bearish on the New Bear on the last bits of a master’s degree joined the U.S. Geological and Dear editor: here at Yale F&ES, a wonderful place Geographical Survey of the I read with dismay in the winter issue where many green Bowdoinites seem Territories, headed by Ferdinand V. that the College “recently finished an to pass through. I was able to attend Hayden. From then until his death in in-depth process to unify the look of the UN’s climate negotiations this 1914, he served the federal the famed Polar Bear.” I’m winter (the UNFCCC Cop-14), a government in numerous capacities, wondering what kind of institutional fascinating experience, and am developing what today we understand damage was attributed to the cheerful writing about climate change to be geographic information systems galloping bear on my car’s rear adaptation and natural resource (GIS), which support programs in window, what off-message insults to management issues. both public and private realms, but the corporate culture were delivered in the nineteenth century brought Sincerely, by the goofy, scarf-wrapped bear him the title of Father of American Heater Amira Colman-McGill ’03 leaning on a hockey stick.The new Map Making. logo bear looks like a CEO with Gannett created and directed the Another Bowdoin and Peary indigestion. C’mon, you old farts, nation’s topographic mapping program Connection you’re not running a multinational at the U.S. Geological Survey; created conglomerate. Let a thousand cartoon Dear editor: and directed geographic operations for bears romp! There is at least one other Bowdoin conducting the U.S. Census of 1880, College–Robert E. Peary connection 1890, and 1900, and overseas censuses Sincerely, worth noting during the centennial in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Bruce Griffin ’69 celebration of Peary’s attainment of Philippine Islands; delineated the first P. S . , the North Pole. In 1899, Bowdoin national forests; directed the U.S. I went straight to the campus College awarded an honorary Doctor Board on Geographic Names; created bookstore on reunion weekend, and of Laws (LL.D.) degree to the the technical standards for the bought a fistful of marked-down geographer Henry Gannett (1846- 1:1,000,000 scale International Map of galloping bear decals. 1914), whose distinguished career in the World; and directed research for the federal government brought him President Theodore Roosevelt’s path- into contact with Peary many times. breaking National Conservation Correction Most important no doubt was when Commission. In addition to his many Jay Burns ’85, editor of the Bates alumni he organized the U.S. committee to responsibilities as a federal official, he magazine, pointed out that Matt Tavares, arbitrate the competing claims of edited several journals, prepared over whose book we listed in the Bookshelf section Peary and Frederick A. Cook to two hundred publications addressing of our last issue, is actually a Bates alumnus! attaining the North Pole in 1909, and topics in human and physical The publisher misidentified Tavares as a when he testified to Congress on the geography and society/environment Bowdoin graduate, and we didn’t catch it. controversy as president of the relations, and was president of the National Geographic Society in 1910 Cosmos Club and National and 1911. Geographic Society. Gannett Peak, the A Maine native son, Gannett was highest point in Wyoming’s Wind born in nearby Bath, but did not River Range, was named to honor attend Bowdoin College as he sought him in 1906. Send Us Mail! the technical scientific training offered Although Gannett’s response to Thank you to those of you who by Harvard College’s newly receiving an honorary degree from took the time to complete our established Lawrence Scientific School Bowdoin does not survive, I suspect magazine reader survey! – his senior honors thesis was the that this quiet, extraordinarily gifted design for a parabolic arch cast iron person, who in ways large and small We are very interested in your bridge that employed the calculus, put as all on the map, was as pleased to feedback, thoughts, and ideas about with all computations done by hand! return to Maine to be honored as he Bowdoin magazine.You can reach us by After receiving bachelor and mining was to travel to the many other places e-mail at [email protected]. engineering degrees from the he was honored both here and abroad. Submission deadline for Class News, Lawrence School, he was asked to Sincerely, Weddings and Mailbox for the next join the first North Pole expedition issue is December 29, 2009. to be sponsored by the federal Donald C. Dahmann P’10

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American Icon: The Ballads and Buddhism in the Fall of Roger Broadsides: Krishna River Clemens and the Rise Aleksander Valley of Andhra of Steroids in Kulisiewicz’s edited by Sree America’s Pastime by Songs from Pradma Holt, New York Daily News Sachsenhausen. Administrative Director, investigative reporters Compiled by Barbara Milewski ’89 ISLE Program. State Nathaniel Vinton ’01,Teri and Bret Werb. U.S. Holocaust Memorial University of New York Press, 2009. Thompson, Michael O’Keeffe, and Museum, 2008. Christian Red. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Brunswick and Bad Girls Go Bowdoin College by Everywhere: The Life Elizabeth Huntoon VISIT of Helen Gurley Coursen. Arcadia BOWDOIN MAGAZINE Brown by Professor of Publishing, 2009. ONLINE FOR BOOK Gender and Women’s DESCRIPTIONS,AUDIO Studies Jennifer CLIPS,AND MORE… Scanlon. Oxford University Press, 2009. BOWDOIN.EDU/MAGAZINE

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Robert P.Smith ’62 (with Peter Zheutlin) Riches Among the Ruins: Adventures in the Dark Corners of the Global Economy

obert Smith ’62 is the founder and managing When you set out to write the book, did you have director of the Boston-based Turan Corporation, a target audience? which specializes in trading the debt of emerging R Smith: My target audience was the Liar’s Poker audience. I market countries.A noted authority on developing-world wanted to have a book for the general reader who is debt, and once described in Fortune magazine as a interested in international globalization, who wanted “financial Indiana Jones,” Smith is considered a pioneer in adventure within the context of business. the field of emerging markets investment. His adventure- filled memoir chronicles a career buying and selling high- Do you have a favorite part of the book? risk securities in some of the world’s most distressed Smith: “Turkey” has to be one of my favorite parts.And economies. For an extended version of this Q&A, visit our the last chapter,“American Twilight,” where, I must say, I Web site, bowdoin.edu/magazine. was perspicacious, in seeing what was Bowdoin: When did you get the idea you wanted happening to the United States. to write a book? As you look back, what do you Smith: I would say about 10 or 12 years ago. During all envision as your greatest my travels, I took copious notes—particularly about some accomplishment? of the unsavory characters that I met—so that made it S: Well, life is not only about taking; easier.The reason I didn’t write it before was that such a it’s about giving back. I feel like I frank introspective describing how international have done that through my charitable transactions work, would obviously be detrimental to my contributions.And, you can always business. Even though the book is retrospective, the actual judge people by the children they’ve raised. I think that concepts today are not only alive, but they are very much I’ve raised well-adjusted children who are not ostentatious, in use. who have a lot of imagination and a lot of drive.

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Captain’s Getting Away with on my Contentious: The Torture: Secret Dysfunctional Sons Government, War nightstand of the Brine by Louis Crimes, and the Rule Arthur Norton ’58. of Law by Christopher The University of South H. Pyle ’61. Potomac Carolina Press, 2009. Books, 2009. And, New England’s Stormalong. Tate Publishing, 2009. Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Creating Great Front Lines of the Town Centers and Sustainability Tess Chakkalakal, Assistant Professor of Urban Villages by Revolution by Auden Africana Studies and English Prema Katari Gupta Schendler ’92. • Like You’d Understand,Anyway: Stories ’00. Urban Land PublicAffairs, 2009. by Jim Shepard Institute, 2008. • The Rise of the American Novel Hall of Mirrors, an by Alexander Cowie album by Robert K. Designing the Beckwith Professor of • Culture on the Margins:The Black Spiritual Maine Landscape Music Emeritus and the Rise of American Cultural by Theresa Mattor Elliott Schwartz. Interpretation by Jon Cruz and Senior innova Recordings, 2009. • Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Publications Editor Henry Bibb An American Slave Written by Emerita Lucie The Happiness Himself by Henry Bibb Teegarden. DownEast Books, 2009. Tree: Celebrating • The Hindered Hand: Or, the Reign of the the Gifts of Trees Repressionist by Sutton E. Griggs The Down and Dirty We Treasure by Dish on Revenge: Andrea Alban Gosline Meggan Gould, Visiting Assistant Serving It Up Nice and illustrated by Lisa Professor of Art and Cold To That Burnett Bossi ’87. • A Field Guide to Getting Lost Lying, Cheating Feiwel & Friends, 2008. by Rebecca Solnit Bastard by Eva • Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis Nagorksi ’92. St. How Peary Reached • My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru Martin’s Griffin, 2009. the Pole by Donald B. MacMillan, Class • The Eye Club by Fraenkel Gallery From the Fishouse: of 1898, re-issued with • Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia An Anthology of an introduction by by Nancy Martha West Poems that Sing, Peary-MacMillan • In the Company of Crows and Ravens Rhyme, Resound, Arctic Museum & by John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell Syncopate, Alliterate, Arctic Studies Center Director Susan and Just Plain Sound A. Kaplan, curator Genevieve M. Barry Mills, President (On his Kindle) Great edited by Camille LeMoine, and associate curator • Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout T. Dungy, Bowdoin Magazine Assoc. Anne Witty. McGill-Queen’s University • Stretching My Mind:The Collective Essays Editor Matt O’Donnell, and Jeffrey Press, 2008. of Edward Albee by Edward Albee Thomson. Persea Books, 2009. Hometown Santa • The Forever War by Dexter Filkins Fortune’s Folly by Barbara: The Central • The Innovator’s Dilemma:The Revolutionary Deva Fagan ’95. Henry Coast Book 2009-2010 Book that Will Change the Way You Do Holt and Co., 2009. edited by Nancy Business by Clayton M. Christensen Roberts Ransohoff • Indignation by Philip Roth ’80. Prospect Park Books, • A Failure of Capitalism:The Crisis 2008. of ’08 and the Descent into Depression by The Honorable Richard A. Posner

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Imperial Subjects as Performing Kinship: Spreading Ashes by Global Citizens: Narrative, Gender Shaun Cooney ’91. Nationalism, and the Intimacies of Warhorse Books, 2008. Internationalism, and Power in the Andes Education in Japan by by Associate Professor of Mark Lincicome ’75. Anthropology Krista E. Lexington Books, 2009. Van Vleet. University of Tales of Bowdoin Texas Press, 2008. collected by John Clair Loyal but French: The Minot ’96 and Donald Negotiation of The Poems of Mao Francis Snow ’01, Identity by French- Zedong with published by Gordon L. Canadian translations, introduction, Weil ’58, and with a Descendants in the and notes by Willis preface by President United States by Mark Barnstone ’48. Barry Mills. Arthur McAllister Paul Richard ’82. University of California Publishers, 2009. Michigan State University Press, 2008. Press, 2008. Teaching What They Medical Genetics: Purr James , poems by Learn, Learning What Its Application to Servin ’86 . Epigraph They Live: How Speech, Hearing, and Publishing, 2009. Teachers’ Personal Craniofacial Disorders Histories Shape Their Nathaniel H. Robin by Professional ’85. Plural Publishing, Development by Brad 2009. Olsen ’89, and Making a Shaping the Shoreline: Monstrous Society: Difference: Constructing Fisheries and Tourism Reciprocity, Meaningful Careers in Education. on the Monterey Discipline, and the Both from Paradigm Publishers, 2009. Coast by Assistant Political Uncanny, Professor of History and The Torturer’s Wife by c. 1780-1848 by Environmental Studies Thomas Glave ’93. Professor of English Connie Y. Chang. City Lights Books, 2008. David Collings. University of Washington Press, 2008. Bucknell University Press, 2009. Song for an Unsung Music 4 Your Hero by Erik Lund Heart; Two Grands ’57. Erik Lund, 2009. To the Survivors by 4 Christmas; and 2 Henry S. Maxfield ’45. Grands 4 Glory Southwick House, 2008. three albums by concert pianist Linda Reese ’82 with Adam Chester. Dr. Linda Reese, 2008. A Song In Stone by On Modes of Walter H. Hunt ’81. Tropical Zion: Communication: Wizards of the Coast General Trujillo, FDR, Other Modes of Discoveries, 2008. and the Jews of Sosúa Conveyance by by Roger Howell, Jr. Roger G. Pinette ’51. Professor of History Xlibris, 2009. Allen Wells. Duke University Press, 2009.

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Margot Livesey The House on Fortune Street

cclaimed novelist Margot Livesey taught fiction versions, and then put the whole story together. writing at Bowdoin for the past four years as William Faulkner said of The Sound and the Fury, John F.and Dorothy H. Magee Writer-in- A also divided into four different sections from four Residence. Livesey is the author of six novels, most different perspectives, roughly, that he had tried to recently, The House on Fortune Street (Harper Collins, write the same story four times and had failed in 2008), which won the 2009 L.L.Winship/PEN New each. Did you feel the same challenge or that England Award and came out in paperback this spring. there was still more to tell? Fortune Street is structured upon a central tragedy told and re-told from the perspectives of its four main I think that’s a very complicated question because once characters, examining the varied lives embedded in each you start opening doors, of course, you realize that there personal relation of the story. For an extended version of are more versions of the story. But I always had in mind this Q&A, and to listen to Livesey read an excerpt from that, despite the fractured form, I the novel, visit our Web site, bowdoin.edu/magazine. wanted to write a novel that offered a complete arc and told a complete Bowdoin: How did the characters in The House on story, even if that story, like life, Fortune Street come to be? wasn’t entirely resolved. I am not Livesey: One of my ambitions in writing The House on sure we can know why someone like Fortune Street was to embody the very different ways my character Dara,Abigail’s best people see the world, and also the very different ways we friend, comes to the edge of despair come to see people as we get to know them better and and then falls over it? Why are some learn their inner lives. For instance, I expected readers to people more resilient than others? find my character,Abigail, not very likable in the first Are you working on something else now? three sections of the novel and then, when they got to her section, the fourth section, to think,“Oh, well, it’s I am working on a new novel. I’m at that stage where I actually more complicated than that.” I also think it’s feel it might be like a t-shirt that you put in the dryer: very interesting how stories often come together from you put it in life-sized and it comes out fit for a doll. But different sources; you can’t get the entire story from one I like having the open page before me. source.You have to go to several people, hear several

Under Nuclear Attack Weapons & Fighting Bangor: The Queen by AJ Cushner ’57. Techniques of the City Before the Great Parker Books, 2008. Samurai Warrior, Fire by Wayne E. 1200-1877 AD by Reilly ’67. The History Associate Professor of Press, 2009. History and Asian Studies Thomas D. Conlan. Amber Books, UK, 2008.

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The Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness opened this fall, ushering in a new era of wellness at Bowdoin. Made possible through the generosity of Dr. Peter Buck ’52, it is an addition to the Morrell Gym complex housing exercise rooms, the College’s health center, athletic department offices, and flexible space that can seat up to 40 people for academic classes and meetings. Bowdoin has registered the Buck Center as a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building project.

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CHRISTOPHER HILL ’74 NAMED AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ

n April 21, 2009, the United OStates Senate confirmed Christopher Hill ’74 to be the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq, put- ting Hill in charge of the largest U.S. embassy in the world. When first announcing the nomination last February, President Obama said Hill has shown the “pragmatism and skill” that is needed now in Iraq. Hill is a career foreign service officer who served as Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Bush administration, and he led the U.S. delegation to the 2007 six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue. Hill earlier served as a negotiator in the crises in Bosnia and Kosovo.

|campus| Red Hot Lobster Lunch Helps Local Lobstermen

ensitive to the hard times that have bought hundreds of lobsters from Sbefallen lobstermen — plummeting Waddell to serve a lunch for a small lobster prices amid ever-increasing additional fee to the Bowdoin commu- operating costs — Bowdoin Dining nity.Waddell has been the go-to guy Service hosted a special lobster lunch when the College has needed delivery and sale in August. Inspiration came of 2,300 lobsters at a time for events when Dining Service Purchasing such as commencement and reunion. In September, Hill was a guest Manager Jon Wiley spoke with Bob He takes in lobsters from many lobster- on the National Public Radio Waddell, owner of Quahog men in the Harpswell area. (NPR) program On Point with Lobstermen’s Coop, the College’s lob- “We’re not making money on this, Tom Ashbrook. John Wihbey ’98, a ster supplier.Waddell, who has been a but that’s not the point,”Wiley said to producer at On Point who also lobsterman for 60 years, told of his dire one of two television news crews that blogs for the show, coordinated personal situation and how the current came to Moulton Union to cover the the interview and posted an arti- economic pressures may drive him out event.“The point is to keep lobster on cle on its Web site, onpoint.org. of business. In response, Dining Service people’s minds and help the industry.”

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CAMPUS CLIMATE MATTERS CONTEST

s part of Bowdoin’s first Climate Awareness Day would insulate the buildings, improve the air quality, A last sprint, the College’s Climate Commitment and keep the temperatures low during the summer. Advisory Committee (CCAC) sponsored a contest to Bowdoin Outing Club director Michael Woodruff solicit ideas for reducing the Bowdoin’s greenhouse gas ’87 proposed expanding the Bowdoin Organic Garden emissions in the effort to move the campus towards into an organic farm, incorporating small-scale farming carbon neutrality. Five winning ideas were displayed at into the Bowdoin curriculum as well as supplying a locavore dinner and a Common Hour reception, additional food to the dining halls. where the two top proposals received extra recogni- tion.The CCAC will consider all contest submissions it received as it plans for Bowdoin’s transition to car- bon neutrality. Brett Gorman ’11 garnered praise for his “Up On the Roof” proposal, which called for utilizing the roofs of Bowdoin’s 118 buildings as a source of solar energy in addition to creating gardens on some roofs that

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ast spring, Rusack Associate footprints were reduced by LProfessor of Environmental 33% when local foods were Studies and Biology Phil Camill served.The standard meal decided that he and his the students generally used 75 grams of in his course “Feeding the World: carbon dioxide per person, The Nature and Challenges of Our as opposed to 50 grams per Food and Agricultural Systems” person when locally-grown would find out exactly how much food is used.The most envi- carbon dioxide the Thorne Dining ronmentally costly food was Hall saves the environment when it feta cheese, which must travel serves local foods. from Athens, Greece, to Illinois Camill and his class determined to Boston, and finally to Bowdoin, that on average, focusing solely on emitting 9,798 grams of carbon transportation emissions, carbon dioxide per meal along the way.

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|news| Remembering War Hero Everett Pope ’41

verett P.Pope, a member of the Class of 1941, and a dec- Eorated World War II hero, died July 16, 2009, during the early morning hours of his 90th birthday. “With Ev’s passing, Bowdoin has lost a devoted son, while America has lost another of the great heroes of the Second World War,” said President Barry Mills. Born in Milton, Mass., Pope excelled at Bowdoin, both academically and in athletics. Captain of the state champion Bowdoin tennis team, he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in French and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Shortly after graduation—and just months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor—Pope joined the U.S. Marine Corps and began to distinguish himself as a tenacious and courageous leader. He fought at Guadalcanal, New Britain, and on Peleliu in the Pacific, and was awarded the Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, and the Congressional Medal of Honor—the highest award for Everett Pope ’41 (first row left) at the 1945 White House ceremony, during which he received the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Harry Truman. valor in action against an enemy force that can be bestowed upon an individual serving in the United States armed servic- seer (1961-77), president of the board of overseers (1973-77), es. He was the fourth Bowdoin graduate to be so honored, fol- trustee (1977-88) and chair of the board of trustees (1984-87). lowing in the footsteps of Civil War veterans Joshua Lawrence Everett and his wife Eleanor had two sons, Laurence E. Chamberlain, Oliver Otis Howard, and Henry Clay Wood. Pope ’67 and Ralph H. Pope ’69.A memorial service for Everett Pope never forgot about his alma mater.A member Everett and Eleanor, who died January 22, 2009, just a month of the Alumni Council from 1955-59, he served for 27 years shy of the couple’s 67th wedding anniversary, was held in the on the governing boards of the College, including as an over- Bowdoin Chapel on July 31.

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basketball): Frank Pizzo ’06 (head coach, sailing); and Trevor Powers ’06 (assistant coach, football). Here’s the Hey,Coach! lineup of newbies. HEAD COACHES full lineup of young Alison Wade ’98 (men’s and women’s cross country, Siena alumni coaches have A College) recently joined the ranks of Mark Gilbride ’02 (men’s basketball, Clarkson) head and assistant coaches at Gillian McDonald ’04 (field hockey, Hamilton) several colleges and universi- Marissa O’Neil ’05 (women’s hockey,Williams) ties.They join several young alumni coaches ensconced at ASSISTANT COACHES dear alma mater: Jon Jacobs Courtney Trotta Ruggles ’04 (basketball, Navy) ’96 (assistant coach, soccer); Kristen Cameron ’08 (ice hockey, Conn. College) Colin Joyner ’03 (head Amanda Leahy ’08 (basketball, St. Lawrence) coach, men’s & women’s Julia King ’09 (field hockey/lacrosse,Trinity) tennis);Alison Smith ’05 Lindsay McNamara ’09 (field hockey,Amherst) (assistant coach, women’s Marissa O’Neil ’05 Maria Noucas ’09 (basketball, Navy)

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The College was one of only eight liberal arts colleges and universities in the nation to receive a prestigious 2009 Alfred P.Sloan Award for Faculty Career Flexibility, sponsored by the American Council on Education.The award recognizes bac- calaureate colleges for leadership in developing best practices to recruit and retain tenured and tenure-track faculty throughout their careers.

he largest fundraising campaign in the 215- about “the Monster,” Bowdoin’s historic Zamboni.The T year history of the College has raised a total segment, which was written by Daley and edited by of $293 million dollars for financial aid, the aca- Skipp, also appeared on ESPN’s website…. Nick Dunn demic program and student life. The total raised far ’09, Jeremy Fishman ’09 and Tucker Hermans ’09 exceeds the five-year goal of $250 million, and more — all computer science majors — created a com- than doubles the $136 million raised from alumni, par- puter program that recovers deleted child ents, friends, and foundations during Bowdoin’s last cap- pornography videos from computer hard drives. ital campaign in 1993-98. Of the total raised, approxi- Their collaboration came in response to a request for mately $100 million will be used to ensure access to help from Maine State Police Sgt. Glenn Lang, who Bowdoin for low- and moderate-income students supervises the computer crimes unit, as reported in the through financial aid…. The Northern Bites, March 19, 2008, edition of the Portland Press Herald. All Bowdoin’s RoboCub team, took second place in three received the Colonel’s Award at the Maine State the World Championships held in Graz, Austria. Police Annual Awards Ceremony, held May 20, 2009, in After an impressive 7-0 run, the Bowdoin team fell to Augusta….In the March 23, 2009 edition of The the German team,“B-Human.”…Zac Skipp ’11 and Boston Globe, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Kaitee Daley ’09 produced a short segment that Professor of Natural Sciences Nathaniel appeared on ESPNU, the sister station to ESPN Wheelwright presented an op-ed piece entitled, that focuses on college athletics. The video was “Putting Guantanamo to Good Use.” Wheelwright

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proposed that Guantanamo prison in Cuba, which Trujillo (see Bookshelf, this issue and online)….Alex President Barack Obama has set to close in 2010, be McLain ’11 was featured in an article entitled, “A converted into a biological research station “where U.S. Dream Coming in Waves,” in the May 6, 2009 and Cuban scientists work together to tackle critical edition of the Portland Press Herald. McLain came in environmental issues.”… Chief of the Small Business second place in the 2008 U.S. Surfski Championships Administration Karen Gordon Mills was inter- and now has her eyes set on the 2012 Summer viewed on the CNBC program Squawk Box on June Olympics in London….Oluwatobi “Tobi” 19, 2009..…In the April 15, 2009 issue of Food Service Olasunkanmi ’12 has been chosen by Oxfam Director magazine, Bowdoin’s Mary Lou Kennedy America to participate in the international relief was named as the Food Service Director of the and development organization’s CHANGE initia- Month. The article highlights the creation of two stu- tive. Students commit to work with Oxfam for an dent-initiated organic gardens, the purchase of local food entire academic year in order to develop their skills and and produce, and the fact that Kennedy has been able to expand their awareness regarding the subjects of climate successfully implement student ideas such as the late- change, hunger, poverty and emergency response. Fifty night dining option, Super Snack….Associate students from across the country were chosen….Robbie Professor of Sociology Dhiraj Murthy’s course “In Zhang-Smitheram ’11 leads off a the Facebook Age” was featured on the Monday, Fortune/CNNMoney.com article titled, “Eight April 27 edition of the WCSH newsmagazine 207. Summer Interns Who Beat the Recession.” Murthy’s first year seminar focused on the way that peo- Smitheram is working for Ridge Asia in Singapore, a ple use technology in the modern age…. Assistant marketing company for western companies looking to Professor of Government Laura Henry has been expand to Asia…. A national foundation that sup- named the recipient of the 2008 Sydney B. ports liberal arts education has awarded nearly Karofsky Prize for Junior Faculty. Henry is an $150,000 to Bowdoin and Bates colleges for a col- expert on environmental issues in Russia. Her teaching laborative effort to strengthen students’ quantita- encompasses subjects ranging from Introduction to tive reasoning skills. The New York-based Teagle Comparative Politics to Social Protest and Political Foundation has granted the colleges $148,780 for a Change. She is completing work on her first book, ten- three-year project addressing how students learn quanti- tatively titled, Environmental Activism in Post-Soviet Russia, tative reasoning… California native Tiernan Cutler which is forthcoming from the Cornell University ’11, having weathered a New England winter as a first- Press…. Max Goldstein ’09 was awarded the year, created a college survival guide for friends back Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which funds a one- home who would also be enrolling in colleges in the year project called “Swimming Around the World: East. It caught the attention of the marketing and public Creating Bridges between Communities.” relations director for Clorox (one of her tips included Goldstein, who was on the swimming team at Bowdoin, bringing their disinfectant wipes), who turned it into an plans to swim across bodies of water that divide different online marketing campaign that gave rise to five col- nations.The project will take him to Peru, Bolivia, lege survival guides tailored to different regions Spain, Morocco,Turkey, Jordan and Israel over the around the U.S….100% of the trash and food course of four swims.…An interview with Roger waste from the annual lobster bake that followed Howell Jr. Professor of History Allen Wells about Convocation this September was composted…. his book, Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR and the The College was one of only eight liberal arts Jews of Sosúa, aired on the Maine Public colleges and universities in the nation to receive a Broadcasting Network’s show Maine Things prestigious 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Faculty Considered Thursday, April 30, 2009. Tropical Zion Career Flexibility, sponsored by the American Council tells the story of 750 Jewish refugees from central on Education.The award recognizes baccalaureate col- Europe who were offered an unlikely sanctuary in the leges for leadership in developing best practices to Dominican Republic by the brutal dictator General recruit and retain tenured and tenure-track facul- ty throughout their careers.

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DE BREVITATE VITAE

“The secret of [my] profession is that learning is the best part,” Bowdoin, and possibly take other classes, ticking off a wish list said Associate Professor of English Aaron Kitch. Last spring, that includes biology, art history, and additional languages, Kitch decided he wanted to learn more than what he taught in including Arabic. his own classes, and he enrolled in an intermediate Latin course While technically auditing the class, professor Kitch com- with Assistant Professor of Classics. pleted all of the work and took all of the tests along with the Kitch says that studying Latin, something he did in high other students. school and graduate school, is directly useful to his own spe- “I wanted to.You have to get the feedback,” he explains. cialty, English Renaissance, but that he also has a special admi- Kitch had nothing but praise for his colleague, and now ration for the Classics and simply wanted to expand his knowl- teacher, Sobak. edge of the field. He plans to continue his Latin studies at “It was a blast,” Kitch says.“It really was a blast.”

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Steve Carlson ’42, sixth from left, in this team shot from the 1941 Bugle, will attempt to swim his age this fall.Also in the photo (l to r): Cooper, Fisher, Harr, Jenkisson, Fenger, Carlson, Keylor, Marston, Croughwell. One for the Ages uring the swim season of 1941, August 26, will attempt to “swim his was still 89, he fell one second short. Dthe combination of Steve age” at the Huntsman World Senior Carlson swam for Venice High Carlson ’42,Arthur Keylor ’42, Games in St. George, Utah, this fall. School and then for Bowdoin as a Edward Cooper ’41, and Coburn In order to accomplish the remark- sprinter, and said he swam the 100- Marston ’42 broke Bowdoin’s 200- able feat, he must swim a 100-yard yard freestyle at 57 seconds, which was yard relay record. Later that season, freestyle race in a number of seconds fast for the time period. In a newspa- the same four secured a come-from- less than or equal to his age. per interview, Steve says that once he behind victory for Bowdoin over If he does it,“his swim will become hit 80 years old, he started slowing MIT by winning the 400 relay. part of the lore of masters swimming,” down. Lately, however, his times have Almost 70 years later, Steve Carlson is DAM head coach Stu Kahn told the been improving.“I can’t figure out still swimming competitively and eye- Davis Enterprise.“Steve will become why [I’m swimming] faster,” he said. ing records with the Davis Aquatic one of the folk heroes for the masters.” “It’s pretty incredible,” said Kahn, Masters (DAM), in Davis, California. In May, Carlson swam the 100 “given that 99.9 percent of the peo- Carlson, who turned 90 on yards in 90 seconds, but because he ple can’t swim their age.”

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VETERANS HELPING VETERANS A RESOURCE FOR PTSD ike many veterans who return because we’ve already got a Lfrom war zones, Rob Pfeiffer ’67 built-in understanding of shouldered the heavy weight of his what veterans have experienced.” experiences in battle and says 13 years So far, 19 other professional coun- went by before he could speak of his selors in the Mid Coast area are time in combat.As he can tell you, donating their time to assist dozens of bottling up one’s feelings often only soldiers and former soldiers through worsens the post-traumatic stress suf- Veterans Helping Veterans.The pro- fered by many vets. He knows from gram has received support through a experience on two fronts. grant from Maine’s William Ladd Working as a mental health coun- Chapter of the national non-profit selor for more than thirty years, Veterans for Peace organization. Pfeiffer helps others deal with their (Pfeiffer was a founding member of emotional wounds. Last spring, he the chapter, the first in the country.) began a new program, holding weekly According to The Veterans counseling sessions for vets in his Administration, around 40 percent of office in Camden, Maine, called those returning from war zones in Veterans Helping Veterans. recent years have sought some kind of “I’m a disabled vet — I got shot. psychological help to deal with the But other than that, I came through after-effects of combat. Pfeiffer says with an appreciation for what war his program has the full support of does to us as veterans, and I think the National Guard, which views it as that’s the place where we can connect a pilot project to be expanded into that takes other people longer to do, other states if it proves successful.

For more information, please see the “getting involved” link at Veterans for Peace/Maine: vfpmaine.org.

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SALATINO NEW DIRECTOR OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

evin Salatino has been named director of 14,000 items in the museum’s collections and K the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. manages its staff, programs, and budget. Salatino had served as Head of the “An accomplished scholar and curator, Department of Prints and Drawings at the Kevin brings a breadth of experience, energy Los Angeles County Museum of Art and excitement at this pivotal moment in the (LACMA) since 2000, following nine years as museum’s history,” says Dean for Academic Curator of Graphic Arts at the Getty Affairs Cristle Collins Judd. Research Institute. Salatino, who succeeds Katy Kline as muse- At Bowdoin, he oversees the more than um director, began at Bowdoin in August.

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On Top of the World olar pioneer Admiral Robert E. Geographic, Abbott Kominers ’78 for appearance on TODAY.Wearing P Peary (Class of 1877) returned to Bowdoin, the Matthew Henson Earth matching Bowdoin shirts, Kijan the North Pole on April 6, 2009, or at Conservation Center, and renowned Bloomfield ’04, D. Kareem Canada ’05, least a plush version of him did. British explorer Tom Avery and his Samantha Cohen ’07, Ashley Conti ’07, Exactly 100 years ago to the day that team honored Peary and Henson. Kate Geraghty ’07, and Jonathan Peary, Matthew Henson, and Inughuit Guest speakers included Cmdr. Edward Ragins ’08 interacted with TODAY Ootah, Seeglo, Ooqueah and Egingwah Peary Stafford, USN (Ret.), Peary’s weatherman Al Roker. stood at the northernmost place on grandson, and Gilbert Grosvenor, “The doll was the huge hit. It was earth, Robert Peary’s great-grandson Chairman of National Geographic also cool since one of the NBC work- Robert Stafford Peary stood on the Society Board of Trustees. Diane Savoy, ers stopped us on our way out to tell same spot, carrying with him a Robert great grandniece of Matthew Henson, us that they want us to send them Peary doll from Bowdoin’s Arctic and Robert E. Peary III, grandson of more dolls because everyone on the Museum. Peary, participated in the ceremony by team wants one!” said Conti. Dignitaries from around the world, laying wreaths at both grave sites. The Admiral Peary doll is available including relatives of both the Peary Also that morning, Peary doll-carry- in the Arctic Museum’s gift shop and and Henson families, marked the ing alumni braved the elements to the Museum’s Web site. Proceeds from anniversary with a wreath-laying cere- bring attention of the centennial of the its sale support outreach initiatives. mony in Arlington National Cemetery. historic expedition to the NBC Representatives from Naval Facilities TODAY show’s six million viewers. Above: Robert Peary’s great-grandson Robert Stafford Peary (with doll) and Dirk Jensen of Polar Explorers at the North Engineering Command (NAVFAC), Several alumni, armed with Peary dolls Pole on April 6, 2009, the 100th anniversary of Peary and the Explorers Club, National and Bowdoin banners, made a brief Matthew Henson’s famous expedition.

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|off-campus| Life of the Party,Courtesy of Google

our freshmen in Maine Hall put- to a House Party” in Life magazine’s F ting on formal attire, celebrated January 8, 1940, issue.Through a writer and poet Robert P.Tristram partnership between the magazine Coffin ’15 at a house party, young and search engine giant Google, these women waiting to see who will be Bowdoin images and others are now chosen House Party Queen – these available online. See the “Life Goes to are some of the images captured on a House Party” images at google/ campus in 1939 by renowned pho- images.com; search “bowdoin 1939 tographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, whose source:life.” most famous photograph,“V-J Day in Access additional Bowdoin images Times Square,” depicts an American in Google’s Life photo archive, sailor kissing a young woman on including many never published in August 14, 1945, in Times Square. the magazine, at images.google.com/ The Bowdoin images were pub- hosted/life by typing “Bowdoin” in lished in the photo essay “Life Goes the search field.

A series of photos, including this one from the Life magazine shoot by Alfred Eisenstaedt also appeared in the 1941 Bowdoin Bugle.

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BOWDOIN’S FIRST NATIONAL CHAMPIONS By Edgar Allen Beem Photography by Bob Handelman

20 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 unday, November 23, 2008.Two minutes into the second 15-minute overtime period of the 2008 NCAA Division III National Field Hockey Championship, Bowdoin’s Shannon Malloy ’11 deftly intercepted a clearing pass from a Tufts University defender and sent the Sball ahead to Kara Kelley ’10. Kelley spotted first year for- ward Katie Herter ’12 on the left flank and drove a pretty diagonal pass to her. Herter took the ball, spun around to her shooting side, and flicked a high wrist shot that bounced off the Tufts’ goalie’s padded glove. Waiting to pounce, Bowdoin’s All-American center for- ward Lindsay McNamara ’09, as tired as she had ever been following 87 minutes of play, somehow managed to lunge ahead of her defender and, with a reverse stick move at a near impossible angle, tapped the rebound past the Tufts’ goalie. McNamara’s momentum carried her into Katie

(Left to right) Jessie Small ’11, Michaela Calnan ’11, Ella Curren ’12

[email protected] 21 Herter’s waiting arms as their teammates poured onto the has an intensity field in triumph. that makes players With that little flurry of action on the frigid turf at intense as well.” Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Bowdoin “I attribute a had won its second consecutive NCCA title, defeating huge amount of Tufts 3-2. McNamara’s OT goal, her Bowdoin record- our success to shattering 92nd in four years, also capped one of the most Nicky,” adds Julia successful athletic careers in Bowdoin College history, not King.“I feel just Lindsay Mac’s but that of her seven senior teammates lucky to have as well – fellow tri-captains Julia King and Kristen Veiga, played for her.” goalie Emileigh Mercer,Tamlyn Frederick, Kate Gormley, Since Bowdoin Madeleine McQueeney, and Leah Ferenc. went coeduca- The eight field hockey players from the Class of 2009 tional and the posted a 74-5 record (21-2 in post-season play) on their Polar Bear field way to winning four New England Small College hockey team first Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championships, four took the field in NCAA Final Four appearances, and two NCAA National 1972, there have Championships. McNamara earned NESCAC Player of been only three the Year honors in 2007 and was named NESCAC coaches; Sally Offensive Player of the Year in 2008.She and center mid LaPointe (1972 to Julia King were named first-team All-Americans and 1991), Maureen defender Leah Ferenc was designated a third-team All- American. SHE IS NOTORIOUSLY UNCOMFORT- Just the year before, the Bowdoin women had gone a ABLE WITH PRAISE, BUT SUFFICE IT TO perfect 20-0 in winning the College’s first national cham- pionship of any kind.A tough act to follow.Yet there is a SAY SHE IS REVERED BY HER PLAYERS sense in which athletic success is about more than victo- AND BY HER COLLEAGUES. ry, bigger than any one season, and in which field hockey can be more than a game. “Mo” Flaherty Minicus (1992 to 1995), and Nicky Pearson.The three women have led Bowdoin field hock- PLAYING FOR NICKY ey to a combined 362-152-17 record with only five los- The architect of Bowdoin’s field hockey powerhouse is ing seasons, none since 1990. Coach Nicola “Nicky” Pearson, a modest, soft-spoken Nicky Pearson hates to lose, but, while you may find Englishwoman who has quietly developed a program that her pacing the sidelines, she is not a Pat Summit or has gone 183-39 since she arrived on campus in 1996. Bobby Knight. She is restrained, calm, and confident. She Twice named NCAA Division III National Coach of the models the behavior she wants from her players. Year and six times the NESCAC Coach of the Year, “When the game starts, it really is up to the players,” Nicky Pearson is more at home sharing afternoon tea (as Pearson insists.“I believe my players walk onto the field she does daily) with her fellow coaches at Farley with a sense of confidence in themselves and confidence Fieldhouse than she is talking about her accomplishments. in their teammates.They’re having ownership is huge She is notoriously uncomfortable with praise, but suffice it with me. I want them to feel that this is their team, that to say she is revered by her players and by her colleagues. they are important and respected members of the team, “Nicky is a very humble person,” explains Trinity and to feel a lot of pride in the program.” College field hockey coach Anne Parmenter, Nicky’s Bowdoin practices focus heavily on skill drills, one-on- mentor at Connecticut College in the late 1980s.“She one defense, and team defense. Pearson tends to leave has a very quiet disposition, but she has an incredibly conditioning up to the players. But the consensus of strong technical understanding of the game. She really opinion about her strength as a coach, the secret to the dedicates herself to teaching the principles of the game. success of Bowdoin field hockey, is that she excels at She does an incredible job of teaching players to see the player development. bigger picture and what it takes to win.Those eight sen- Gillian McDonald ’04, now field hockey coach at iors are where I would love our program to go.” Hamilton College, was a record-setting goalie while at “Nicky is not a yelling coach, but she is very clear Bowdoin. about her expectations,” says Lindsay McNamara.“She “The biggest thing she does is that she’s really good at

22 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 “WHEN THE GAME STARTS, IT REALLY IS UP TO THE PLAYERS. I BELIEVE MY PLAYERS WALK ONTO THE FIELD WITH A SENSE OF CONFIDENCE IN THEMSELVES AND CONFIDENCE IN THEIR TEAMMATES.”

(Left to right) Katie Herter ’12, Lindsay McNamara ’09, Emileigh Mercer ’09

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(Left to right) Julia King ’09, Kristen Veiga ’09, Leah Ferenc ’09, Madeleine McQueeney ’09

developing players,” says McDonald, who calls Pearson own best competition.” her mentor.“She knows what kind of player she wants And one of their own has also been their best inspira- and then she mentors and develops them. Every single tion. player I played with for four years improved.” “I was nowhere near the field hockey player I am today PLAYING FOR TARYN when I got to Bowdoin,” attests Julia King.“My parents NESCAC teams only began competing in NCAA tour- were astonished at how much better I became.” naments a decade ago, but Bowdoin started knocking on Young women who have played for Pearson say she has the national championship door almost immediately. In an uncanny ability to read personalities and for giving 2000, the 15-2 Polar Bears won the NESCAC but lost to each individual what she needs, whether it’s praise and Springfield College in overtime in the regional semifinal. encouragement, simple instruction, or tough love. She In 2005, an 18-1 Bowdoin team lost to Messiah assesses the strengths and weaknesses in a player’s game, College of Pennsylvania in the NCAA semifinal. builds on the strengths, and improves the weaknesses. “But in many ways,” says Bowdoin sports information “Nicky will take someone who is a walk-on and make director Jim Caton,“the 2006 team was our most them into a starter,” says King.“Lindsay wasn’t even remarkable team.” recruited for field hockey and look what she’s done.” The 2006 team was remarkable because they again Lindsay McNamara, recruited to play ice hockey, is a made it to the NCAA semifinals while reeling from the three-sport athlete, playing field hockey, ice hockey, and sudden loss of their on-field leader, now their inspira- lacrosse. tional leader. “Some of our best competition is scrimmages at prac- When Bowdoin lost 2-1 to Messiah in the 2005 semifi- tice,” says McNamara.“We’re so good because we’re our nals, a fiery redhead from Bowdoin looked across the field

24 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 From Brooks to Bowdoin at the victors and told her teammates,“That could be us.” Taryn King, then a junior, was a commanding presence o one had to tell Katie Herter ’12 about the impact both on and off the field. She exuded a confidence, a pas- that Taryn King, the All-American from the Class of 2007 whose sudden death in 2006 devastated her sion, and a determination that was irresistible. If she said N teammates, had had on the success of Bowdoin field hockey. Bowdoin could be the best in the nation, no one was Taryn King was one of the reasons Katie Herter wanted to going to argue with her. King was the NESCAC Player play for Bowdoin. of the Year and a first-team All-American in 2005. 2006 “She was the same thing in high was going to be Bowdoin’s year.Then tragedy struck and school,” says Herter of the inspirational struck hard. King.“She just had this great work ethic.” In January of 2006, while studying abroad in Galway, While they never played together, Ireland,Taryn King contracted a deadly bacterial infection King and Herter have a lot in common. and died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.The Both graduated from Brooks School in entire Bowdoin community was stunned. Her field hock- North Andover, Massachusetts, and both ey teammates were devastated.And her coach, who to this come from prominent Bowdoin families. Katie Herter ’12 day cannot talk about Taryn King without tearing up, Taryn King was preceded at Bowdoin knew she had the coaching job of a lifetime ahead of her. by her great-grandfather, Leopold F. King ’22; her grandfather, “What impressed me about Nicky,” says Gillian Peter King ’50; her great-uncle Leopold Firman King ’51; her McDonald,“was how strong she was for those girls. I great-uncle, Dr. Denis Wholley King ’55; and her could tell how upset she was, but she kept herself togeth- second cousins, Amy King DeMilt ’85 and er for those girls.” Michael W. King ’88. Nicky Pearson knew there would be a temptation to Katie Herter’s grandmother, Caroline Lee dedicate the 2006 season to Taryn, to shoot for a national Herter, was a Trustee of the College, and her championship in her memory, but she also knew that was Bowdoin relations include her father, David just too much pressure to put on the backs of two dozen Herter ’76; her mother, Lauren Tenney Herter young women. ’82; and her brother James, a lacrosse player in the Class of 2011. “We talked a lot about her,” says Pearson of King,“but Taryn King ’07 But Taryn King and Katie Herter had some- it was more of an unspoken motivation than a public thing else in common, more important than a prep school and activity. I didn’t want the players to do that.” a Bowdoin legacy. A fighting spirit. Guts. Together with co-captains Burgess LePage ’07 and Casey Bobo, who coached both King and Herter at Brooks, Susan Morris ’07, Pearson made an effort to help Taryn’s remembers both as being “part of a tremendous group of teammates grieve together, to share stories, memories, and young women for whom being tough and strong was particu- coping strategies, and to bring the new first year players larly ‘cool.’” into the process.The women ended up sitting on the turf Coach Bobo recalls, for instance, how Taryn King once used an field late one evening and pouring out their emotions. ice pack to keep her forehead cool before a game so her coach “We decided we’d play with her, not for her,” says wouldn’t know she had a fever and keep her out of a big game. Burgess LePage of her best friend Taryn King. “Her teammates knew she was sick, and that somehow The field hockey team had the initials “TK” embroi- made them play even harder as a testament to her dedication,” dered on the left sleeves of their uniforms and resolved to says Bobo.“We won that day.Taryn would never miss a game, play with the never-say-die fire and determination of the and certainly her own physical discomfort would not keep her leader they had lost.That fire led them back to the 2006 from supporting her teammates in competition.” Final Four where, despite dominating Messiah in the One of Casey Bobo’s key recollections of Katie Herter is semifinal, they lost 1-0. how she struggled academically under the strain of “the most “We just couldn’t put the ball in the goal,” says LePage, difficult course schedule I had ever seen.” Her coach, who is who had the courage to do a CBS Sports interview about also a history teacher and was Herter’s advisor at Brooks, Taryn King just minutes after losing the Messiah game. encouraged Herter to drop AP courses in favor of honors In the wake of the 2006 Final Four loss, the Bowdoin courses. Herter refused and persevered to earn, in her coach’s team, along with friends and families, went out to dinner words,“ a tremendous GPA.” together at Belhurst Castle in Geneva, New York,not far “The harder the challenge, the more she fights,” says Casey from the Hobart and William Smith campus where the Bobo.“Taryn had exactly that same spirit and determination. I absolutely adored that about both of them.While both girls NCAA tournament was played.At that dinner, Mike were as talented as any female athlete we have had at Brooks LePage ’78, Burgess’s father, publicly predicted that the School, it wasn’t always their talent that made us better.Their Polar Bears would win the national championship the leadership by example made all of their teams better.” following year.

[email protected] 25 “The very first day of the ’07 season they had a mis- “SUBCONSCIOUSLY,ALL OF US THINK sion,” recalls Nicky Pearson.“It was like a high speed train. If you stood in the way, you had to be prepared to OF TARYN EVERY TIME WE STEP ONTO be bowled over. It wasn’t necessary to stoke the engine. THE FIELD.WE DIDN’T TAKE FOR My job was just to keep them on the tracks.” GRANTED BEING ON THAT FIELD.” The 2007 season was a 20-0 juggernaut.The Bowdoin women outscored their opponents 76-6, allowing only one they would not be disappointed. Bowdoin defeated goal in the regular season before knocking off Williams 2-1 Middlebury 4-3. and Middlebury 3-1 to win the NESCAC Championship. “The entire season I felt I was there with them,” says In the NCAA tournament they roared through Skidmore LePage.“When they did it, it was a mixture of relief and 2-1, Rowan 5-0, and Lebanon Valley 1-0 only to face pride – for them and for us. I was sobbing at the end of Middlebury again in the championship game. the game.We did it!” Taryn King’s teammates from the Class of 2007 – And that’s how field hockey can be more than a Burgess LePage, Susan Morris, Kate Leonard, Sarah game. Generations of Bowdoin field hockey players, Horn, and Gail Winning – all made the trip to not to mention countless fans, friends, and families, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, for the big game.This time shared in the excitement of Bowdoin’s first national championship. Though the outcome was the same, the 2008 season was distinctly different.The defending national champions found that they were almost expected to win, so when their 39-0 home win streak was broken by a 2-0 Homecoming loss to Trinity, it was something of a wake-up call. “We lost to Trinity and we lost to Tufts,” says Nicky Pearson.“It was incredibly disappoint- ing to lose those games, but looking back it was the best thing that could have happened.” Following the two regular season home losses, the Bowdoin women refocused, stepped up their intensity, and went into the post-sea- son with the pressure off.Tufts, the #1 seed, was the undefeated team, but Bowdoin would defeat the Jumbos twice, 1-0 to win the NESCAC title and the 3-2 OT victory for their second national title. “When you get to the Final Four,” says Nicky Pearson,“all four teams are talented. For me, one of the deciding factors is resilience, mental toughness. Our teams are mentally tough.” They also still have Taryn King on their minds and in their hearts. If you don’t believe it, check out their wrists. Some of those pink ribbons have been there year-round for three years now. “Our class is the last class that played with her,” says Lindsay McNamara, fingering her ribbon.“The way she played, she put the pro- gram on the map.Taryn King is what Bowdoin field hockey is all about.” (Left to right) Emily French ’12, Elizabeth Clegg ’12, McKenna Teague ’12, Ingrid Oelschlager ’11 “Subconsciously,” adds Julia King,“all of us think of Taryn every time we step onto the

26 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 field.We didn’t take for granted being on that field.” PREPARED TO WIN And even after four consecutive Final Four appearances, they don’t take for granted get- ting into the NCAA tournament.The confer- ence is just too tough. “The hardest part of winning an NCAA title is breaking out of NESCAC,” observes Gillian McDonald, whose Hamilton Continentals play in the Liberty League. After decades of Mid-Atlantic dominance by schools such as The College of New Jersey, SUNY Cortland, and Salisbury University of Maryland, NCAA Division III field hockey has come home to roost in New England in recent years. Though the high academic standards of the NESCAC colleges limit the pool of recruits, those student-athletes who do make the grade tend to come from families, communities, and schools that prepare them well for all-round success.They have often played in the most competitive developmental programs and ben- efited from sports camps of all kinds.They know how to compete. “I BELIEVE TO BE A In the case of the 2008 field hockey team, 14 of the players were multi-sport athletes. STRONG ATHLETIC Key players such as Lindsay McNamara and WOMAN ON THIS Katie Herter play three sports. Indeed, the fact CAMPUS IS SOMETHING that six field hockey players also play ice hockey may have contributed the slow start ADMIRED AND WELL women’s hockey got off to this year. One- RESPECTED.” third of the team was missing for several weeks while they competed in the NCAA field hockey tournament. (Left to right) Shannon Malloy ’11, Emily Neilson ’11, Phoebe McCarthy ’11 As with the success that the Bowdoin women’s basketball program has experienced in recent With the extraordinary Class of 2009 graduating eight years (making it to the Sweet Sixteen once, the Elite players, including seven starters, one might expect 2009 Eight five times, and the NCAA Division III to be a building year for the Bowdoin field hockey team, Championship game once since 2000-2001), the field but don’t try to tell them that. hockey team’s success has been embraced by the campus “We’re obviously going to miss the graduating class of and the community, as many as 700 fans showing up for eight players who have been so instrumental in our suc- games that often draw only parents at other schools. cess over the past four years,” says Coach Pearson.“We’re “I believe to be a strong athletic woman on this cam- going to miss their talent and their leadership, but I’m pus is something admired and well respected,” says Nicky incredibly excited about the group of returning players. Pearson. They’ve had some wonderful experiences.And, because Success tends to beget success, but can they do it again? of the success the program has had, we have a talented “I’m thinking three-peat.Yah!” enthuses outgoing tri- incoming group of six players.” captain Julia King. But then, come fall, King will be a “Even though we’re graduating eight, a lot of younger conflicted position as a graduate assistant coach at Trinity girls will be able to contribute,” insists Katie Herter. under Nicky Pearson’s mentor Anne Parmenter. “They’re ready to go. Nicky’s made sure of that.”

[email protected] 27 “The Ledge”AFTER 50 YEARS

ifty years ago, The Hudson Review published a ANTHONY DOERR ’95 short story by Bowdoin professor Lawrence Sargent Hall ’36 that went on to receive a pres- ndoubtedly the fisherman represents Jesus.That’s why he tigious O. Henry Award in 1959.“The Ledge,” Uhas no proper name, the story takes place on Christmas, having appeared in over 30 anthologies—John and his death leaves him “absolved of his mortality.” FUpdike included it in The Best American Short Stories of the Well, hmm, maybe on second thought the fisherman is a 20th Century—and still widely anthologized, retains its hubristic Greek hero. He has “too much strength,” he’s affect on readers today. “inclined to brag and be disdainful,” and he’s determined “to On the golden anniversary of the story’s publication, lick the element of time.” He flies a little close to the sun, if author Anthony Doerr ’95, himself a two-time O. Henry you know what I mean! Award Winner, and novelist Margot Livesey, Bowdoin’s Err, wait, actually “The Ledge” looks a lot like an ecologi- John F.and Dorothy H. Magee Writer-in-Residence for cal parable.The fisherman scoffs at hunting limits. His shot- the past four years, comment on the staying power of “The gun shells fly into the ocean “unheeded.” Clearly Hall con- Ledge,” which was inspired by an event in the waters off of demns the fisherman for his irresponsible treatment of nature. Harpswell Neck, on December 27, 1956, not far from No, no, no, if the fisherman is being condemned, it’s where Hall lived on Orr’s Island. because he’s a misogynist.Trepidation about bad weather and Larry Hall retired in 1986 as Henry Leland Chapman cold seas? That’s “no more than woman’s fear.” Nice try, fish- Professor of English after teaching at Bowdoin for more erman. How does your own medicine taste? than 40 years, and he died in 1993. Remarkably, he pub- Wait, wait—ever read any Montaigne? Here’s the musta- lished only two pieces of fiction, and both won major chioed Frenchman from an essay called On Solitude: “...When awards.Along with the O. Henry for “The Ledge,” Hall Albuquerque, the Viceroy of India for Emanuel, King of received the William Faulkner Award (now the Portugal, was in peril from a raging tempest, he took a boy on PEN/Faulkner Award) in 1961, recognizing his novel his shoulders for one reason only: so that by linking their fates Stowaway as the best American work of fiction that year. together the innocence of that boy might serve him as a war- To listen to Hall read “The Ledge,” visit our Web site, rant and intercession for God’s favor and so bring him to safety. bowdoin.edu/magazine. Ding! Ding! “The Ledge” is obviously a reiteration of an older story: an imperiled man in water puts a boy on his shoulders so that he can shelter under the mantle of inno- cence! Why, it’s just like Saint Christopher, a big ogre of a saint who, legend has it, put the Christ child on his shoulders

28 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 and ferried him across a raging river, nearly drowning in the MARGOT LIVESEY process.The name Christopher means ‘Christ-bearer,’ after all. Place yourself under the protection of a child, of a child sat down to re-read “The Ledge” on a wintery after- you’re supposed to protect.Traverse evil ballasted with a Inoon not unlike the one portrayed in the story, and sacred burden. from the opening sentence—“On Christmas morning Ah, I can hear my English 231 professor scribbling a nice, before sunup the fisherman embraced his warm wife and fat B+ at the end of my paper. left his close bed.”—I knew I was in the presence of a Here’s the problem. I don’t believe in any of it. Maybe writer who had a destination in mind.That oddly Hall did intend “The Ledge” to be subjected to big, symbolic ambiguous word “close” sounded the first quiet note of interpretations. But I don’t think such things—metaphor, menace, and summoned me to pay attention, as did the allusion, abstraction—explain why his story continues to be vivid particulars of the occasion: Christmas day, the new read fifty years after its publication. guns, the weather, the eggs sunny side up. As a writer and as a reader, I’m interested first and fore- In the pages that follow Hall proves himself entirely wor- most in the visceral, sensory impacts of narrative. I want to be thy of that attention.Although the tone of “The Ledge” is, airlifted into the moment-by-moment predicaments of other at times, old fashioned, the meticulous, vivid details are as people. I want to see little black letters on a white page con- fresh as the day he wrote them. By the time I reached the jure up “freezing suds at the water’s edge” and “a black glossy end of the first half of the story I was ready myself to go rib of earth” duck hunting in winter. I also knew that tragedy was com- THE BEST STORIES ARE LIKE DREAMS. standing up ing—any doubts I might have were dispelled by the sen- THEY CONVINCE YOU THEY ARE REAL, out of the sea. tence “Things were perfect.”—and felt considerable suspense THEY FOLD YOU INTO THEIR WORLDS, That’s the as to how Hall would play out his dark hand. AND THEN THEY HOLD YOU THERE. glory and the From my point of view, one of the most interesting miracle of fiction writing: it uses common, abused little struc- choices the author makes is not to allow the story to mean tures—words—and summons whole worlds with them. too much, or his readers to know too much. He resists any Whatever you think about Hall’s most famous story, you impulse to explain or psychoanalyse his characters. By the can’t argue that it’s not intense.The tide is always rising, the last page of the story we don’t know a great deal more cold is always looming.The dusky waste is ever-encroaching. about the fisherman than we do on the first page: he’s a Good stories are first and foremost about creating an engross- rough man who keeps his promises; he believes home is a ing, concrete, physical tension. Meaning? It takes every word place to return to after adventures; boys become men of a story to convey its meaning. Meaning, as Flannery through hunting.And yet in the final pages the father and O’Connor suggested, is inseparable from story itself. son do rise to meet each other with a tenderness that both The best stories are like dreams.They convince you they embodies and transcends the stereotypes of men and hunt- are real, they fold you into their worlds, and then they hold ing.As the sleet drove against my windows, I found myself you there. Only then, when you’re anchored in the moment- far from my sofa, battling by-moment detail of a character’s experience, when the water the rising waters with the is in your boots, when the boy is seated on your shoulders, fisherman and his son. can you let yourself rise up into the larger things, into the great mystery of what it means to turn a last page, read a last sentence, and reenter your own life.

NAUTICAL CHART: “Heavy black line shows course Harpswell lobsterman and two youths fol- lowed from Ash Point Cove to Mink Rocks, where they were swept to their deaths by the rising tide and heavy seas after a day of duck hunting.” From The Portland Press Herald, morning edition, Saturday, December 29, 1956. MANUSCRIPT PAGE:The first page of Hall’s working draft. “The Ledge” by Lawrence Sargent Hall, Sr., ©1959, 1987, Bowdoin College.Typescript page with edits from the Lawrence Sargent Hall Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library. PHOTO: Lawrence Sargent Hall ’36

[email protected] 29 30 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 Not Your [ Average Joe ]

WANT TO LEARN HOW TO PREDICT THE WINNER OF A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION JUST BY WATCHING THE EYES OF EACH CANDIDATE? ASK JOE TECCE ’55. CURIOUS ABOUT WHETHER ROGER CLEMENS TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT WHETHER HE USED STEROIDS? JOE HAS HIS NUMBER. SEEKING WAYS TO EASE THE STRESS IN YOUR LIFE? JOE’S YOUR MAN. BY DAVID TREADWELL ’64 PHOTOS BY ERIC POGGENPOHL

kay, just who is this guy Joe Tecce? lege student, the son of an Italian family.“We had no books in And why does the media keep the house, but we did have lots of love and lots of food,” he knocking on the door of this 75- remembered.While at Bowdoin, Joe held down several jobs, year-old assistant professor of psy- everything from washing dishes in the Kappa Sigma fraternity chology to find out why people lie to taking attendance in Chapel, to serving as a proctor; listen- — or get stressed out or exhibit ing to Robert Frost recite his poetry in Memorial Hall road rage or shoot up a high school? And why do Boston (“What a wonderfully deep and raspy voice!”); and hearing OCollege students still clamor to take a psychology course from famed football coach Adam Walsh give a talk to the Newman a guy old enough to be their grandfather? Club, a Catholic organization which Joe himself got reorgan- I spent three hours with Joe Tecce to take the measure ized at Bowdoin.“Bowdoin was so generous to me,” says of the man and his mind.“Would you please sign my guest Tecce,“and I will be forever grateful.” book,” he asked, shortly after I entered his small office on Questions about the road that led to a psychology major the 5th floor of the McGuinn Building at BC. Happily yielded another surprising response.“I had originally planned signed in to this dog-eared book, I asked him how he had to major in government, but I hadn’t signed up for any major ended up at Bowdoin, and Tecce’s answer – like all of his by the end of the first semester of my sophomore year. I was answers – took delightfully engaging turns, but always with walking by the Chapel and a friend told me that I had only an end point in sight. one hour left to choose a major or I’d be fined $5, an impos- “It was the summer of 1951, and I was reading water sible amount for me to come up with. I remembered that the meters and doing other odd jobs. I’d been a good student at psychology department was in the basement of the Chapel, so Wakefield (Mass.) High School, but I’d never gotten around I ran downstairs and told Parker Johnson, a psychology pro- to applying to college. I bumped into the high school coun- fessor, that I wanted to major in psychology. He wondered selor one day and, when I told him that I hadn’t yet applied why I wanted to major in psychology since I hadn’t taken any to college, he said,‘Come see me in the morning.’The next psychology courses. I told him that I just knew I’d love psy- day, I sat in his office while he called Bill Shaw (then Dean of chology, and he said I could major in it if I took two courses Admissions at Bowdoin), and I was awarded a $700 scholar- in psychology the next semester.” ship right over the phone - $600 for the room/board/tuition Tecce admits that his decision to major in psychology was- and $100 for spending money.” n’t quite as random as it sounds.“When I was growing up, Bowdoin made a huge impact on this first-generation col- every politician in Wakefield would come to our house and

[email protected] 31 ask my mother how they could from work stress to email get the Italian vote. I learned a addiction, from terrorism to lot about people and psycholo- reality television.“I’m really gy from hearing her discuss popular every four years during those politicians later at dinner. presidential elections,” he jokes, In fact, people came to my “ but in a normal year, I only mother all the time seeking get contacted by the media 30 advice. Looking back, I can or 40 times in a year.” now give her an official title: When Roger Clemens testi- ‘The Unofficial Director of fied about whether he used Social Work on the East Side of steroids,Tecce believes that the Wakefield.’ She taught me how ace pitcher exhibited many of to be good to people, because the indicators of less-than- she had such a good heart.” truthful behavior. Besides a high After Bowdoin,Tecce earned eye blink rate and avoiding the an M.A. and a Ph.D. from gaze of the questioner, Clemens Catholic University and then would, he says, engage in what went on to fill teaching and he terms the “three r’s of lying: research positions at Tufts, redundancy, reliability, and rele- Boston University, and Harvard vance.” His answers were not before joining the Boston consistent and, often, not rele- College faculty in 1971.A pro- vant to the questions.And he lific researcher with scores of often repeated the same phrase, scholarly publications and pro- the sign of a cover-up. fessional presentations to his Countless position papers, credit, he describes himself as a A PROLIFIC RESEARCHER WITH SCORES OF each written in clear concise “health psychologist.” Many of SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL prose on a particular topic, jam his papers and lectures have PRESENTATIONS TO HIS CREDIT, HE DESCRIBES the file drawers in Tecce’s dealt with brain activity and, HIMSELF AS A “HEALTH PSYCHOLOGIST.” office.Their titles reflect soci- over the last several years, stress ety’s issues:“Violence in and meditation. Sports,”“Traffic Stress and Road Rage,”“How Do You Tecce’s reputation within the media as the go-to guy for Change a Bad Mood,”“Happiness,”“Addictions,” and matters related to human behavior began in the blink of an “Video Addiction All Too Real.” eye or, more accurately, several blinks of the eye. He discov- This first-generation college kid who confesses that he ered that stress from an uncomfortable situation – such as used the word “ain’t” when he talked to President Sills in lying – usually leads to an increased frequency of eye blinks. 1951 has been cited in every major newspaper and magazine He terms this phenomenon the “Nixon effect,” explaining in the United States and several others around the world.This that,“When Nixon resigned in 1974, he seemed calm, cool, kid-at-heart who still feels humbled to have gone to the same and collected, but he was blinking very rapidly.” So Tecce college at the same time as such notables as Senator George counted the blinks and found that Nixon was “blinking faster Mitchell ’54 and retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering ’53 than schizophrenics.” has appeared on every major television network and most Want to know who’s going to win the next presidential major cable channels, including CNN and C-Span. He’s even election? Count their eye blinks during a debate.“In U.S. been interviewed by Katie Couric and Bill O’ Reilly. presidential elections over the past 25 years,” says Joe,“the At one point during our conversation,Tecce paused,stud- candidates who blinked fastest in the one-on-one presidential ied me for a second, smiled, and remarked,“You know, you debates lost the election, except for 2000 when George W. and I are really bonding well.We’re both sitting the same way; Bush, the fastest blinker, lost the popular vote but won the mimicking the posture of the person you’re talking with indi- electoral vote.” cates comfort.And we’re both blinking at about the same Tecce’s discovery about the blink phenomenon during rate.” I seconded his observation, while trying to maintain my presidential elections brought the national media to his door. pose and blink rate. Because he is so personable and his explanations are so clear, At another point, he jumped up from his chair and said, the media soon began calling upon Tecce for commentary on “Let me show you one of the things I’m proudest about in other issues, such as murder cases (O. J. Simpson, JonBenet my entire career.” He fiddled with his computer for a Ramsey, Louise Woodward Nanny case) and President while until the screen lit up with the photograph of a Clinton’s infidelity. He’s been asked to weigh in on everything young girl smiling dreamily at a computer screen, which

32 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 JOE TECCE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST RESEARCHERS TO HAVE CONCEIVED THE NOTION THAT A SYSTEM COULD BE DEVELOPED WHEREBY TRACKING EYE MOVEMENTS COULD BE USED TO REPLACE A MOUSE. contained an electronic image of her “finger painting.” And then Although the young girl was paralyzed, she had been able there’s his inno- to “paint” on the screen by controlling the computer vative “Do through electrodes placed around her eyes. Joe Tecce was Good Project” one of the first researchers to have conceived the notion which arose that a system could be developed whereby tracking eye from his own movements could be used to replace a mouse. life experience. While Tecce loves research and basks in the media lime- “I was enduring light, his primary passion remains teaching undergraduates a very blue who are, he notes,“more open and less jaded than graduate Monday, and I students.” He’s taught courses covering all areas of psychology came upon this over the years, but today he teaches just two perennial beautiful flower favorites every semester:“Psychobiology of Mental Disorders” arrangement on and “Stress and Behavior.” campus that What he really teaches, though, are lessons that extend well spelled out BC. beyond psychological theory, such as how to live a full, I complimented relaxed and meaningful life; how to lift yourself by lifting oth- the ers; and how to focus, really focus, on what’s important. He groundskeeper, teaches all of his students to meditate, for example, as he and he was knows the powerful impact that meditation has made upon totally touched, his own life since he began meditating in 1974.“I’ve taught telling me that no one had ever commented on it before. So I well over 5,000 students to meditate,” he notes,“and medita- created the ‘Do Good Project,’ which requires all of my stu- tion will be useful to them wherever they go and whatever dents to do something good for another person – preferably a they do in life.” stranger – every day for seven days.Then they have to record the activity in a journal, being sure to record how they felt about doing this good deed and the person’s response.At the end of the week, they have to write about the impact that the JOE’S PHILOSOPHY Do Good Project made upon their lives.Their comments are truly amazing.’ In addition to quoting great minds in his Stress and As we were winding up our conversation,Tecce asked if I Meditation Workshop, such as Emerson, Shakespeare wanted to get a close-up look at a human brain.“Sure,” I and Nietzsche, Joe’s syllabus weaves in some pearls responded, being careful not to elevate my eye blink rate. of his own. “Well, I have a brain in that bucket over there,” he said indi- cating a bucket in the corner. From the bucket, which was “A meditation a day keeps the shrink away.” filled with a preservative fluid, he extracted a real human brain. He then put on rubber gloves and proceeded to talk “Awareness begets freedom.” about the brain and all its magnificent properties. One might assume that a noted psychologist so wise in “The best cure for stress is to do something for the ways of human behavior and so widely cited in the someone else.” media might possess a know-it-all attitude. Not so.What sets Joe Tecce apart, besides his deep wisdom, is his warm “People are our greatest source of stress and peo- human spirit. He still savors life’s small offerings, delighting ple are our greatest resource in dealing with in new learning, exploring new ideas.” stress.” This first-generation college student, this son of an Italian immigrant, this tireless worker who once held down “When you patiently listen to someone you can’t eight jobs in a single semester at Bowdoin, has carved out help, you’ve already helped two people.” an uncommonly productive career. And he has many truths yet to discover. “When one gives, two receive.”

[email protected] 33 A NEW GENERATION OF DJ'S KEEPS

ontheair arly each semester the staff of pop radio drivel.This fall, listeners were WBOR conducts the college treated to hours of jazz, hip-hop, heavy radio equivalent of an open metal, Renaissance music, nothing-but- casting call:They invite any- Frank-Zappa, soccer roundups, politics and one who’s interested – stu- everything that can be considered “indie.” Edents, faculty, staff and community mem- “We are an independent college radio bers – to apply for a DJ time slot.WBOR station, and we want our programming to airs live most days from 7 a.m. to 1:30 reflect that,” music director Sarah Wood a.m.; that’s more than 120 hours to fill ’10 told the 80 applicants who packed each week, and they rarely fall short. In Daggett Lounge in September.“Be cre- fact, they often have to offer a shorter shift ative.We listen to all the music and play in order to squeeze in another aspiring DJ. what’s great.This is college, a time for The only artistic restriction they experimentation.” impose is that DJs break the mold of com- The whole idea of “college radio” feels mercial radio.The one format they might like a throwback to another generation. reject out of hand is one that emulates Napster burst on the scene when these

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34 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 COLLEGE RADIO VERY MUCH ALIVE.

Peter McLaughlin ’10

[email protected] 35 students were just becoming clothes off in the dark and put aware of music in middle them back when we’re done.’ school.Twenty-somethings That’s artistic.” download their music more “We have enough with this often they buy it on disk, and I WAS BIG INTO MUSIC IN sound already,” she said about many of the DJs confess that HIGH SCHOOL, I DID A BIT OF another CD. they’d pretty much stopped “I decided no to ‘A Tribute listening to the radio by the ACTING AND WAS ON THE the Cure,’” Chee said. time they got to high school, “We try to make a nice mix except when they could find a SPEECH AND DEBATE TEAM. of things people will like lis- good college station. Now RADIO IS A COMBINATION OF tening to,”Wood explained. that they have a chance, they “Two-to-one it’s music people can’t resist getting behind a MY TWO GREAT LOVES. don’t know.” microphone and sharing their “A lot of it is people’s first tastes – musical and otherwise album, so no one’s heard it,” – with a decidedly limited but PETER MCLAUGHLIN ’10 Chee said.“Stuff we don’t like loyal audience. goes in a box and the DJs are “Radio is ubiquitous, and it’s free to take it.” extremely cheap,” said station There are six other music manager Tucker Hermans ’09.“As great as the Internet is for directors who do the same thing each week for releases in finding the next niche genre, it’s not good at local content.” specific genres: jazz, blues, hip-hop, electronic, heavy metal. WBOR doesn’t shun the Internet; the broadcast streams McLaughlin loves jazz. In addition to reviewing all the live on WBOR.org, where families, friends, and Bowdoin new jazz music each week, he does a show called “Jazz is a students studying abroad tune in and sometimes call or Spirit” on Friday afternoons.A music major who plays per- email requests. cussion and composes music, McLaughlin was so interested Peter McLaughlin ’10, the jazz music director, grew up in in radio that he made a point of checking out the radio sta- the Boston area, surrounded by enough college stations to tions at each college he considered applying to. satisfy his taste once it veered from the mainstream in mid- “I was big into music in high school, I did a bit of acting dle school. and was on the speech and debate team,” he said.“Radio is a “I found those stations kind of cool,” he said.“You get to combination of my two great loves. I applied for a show as know the personality of the DJ, or their lack of personality, soon as I got here. I had a very specific idea for my show: I and I could listen to something I’d never listened to before. wanted it to have mostly modern jazz and also other types That’s what makes what we do so important and special.” of music that either influenced jazz or were influenced by jazz, music with a spirit of improvisation and creativity through performance. I’m not so pigeon-holed into ‘this is t’s a Sunday afternoon, and Wood and Sean Weathersby jazz and this is not jazz’ like the Marsalis brothers like to ’10 sit hunched over their laptops on a ragged couch at describe it.” Ithe station in the basement of the Dudley Coe Building. He arrives for his show with his backpack stuffed with The walls are lined with shelves of record albums – big and CDs. dusty and pressed of glorious black vinyl – made obsolete by “Some people plan their entire show,” he said.“I tend to CDs before the current batch of Bowdoin students was do it on the fly.” born.Yet the station is equipped with two turntables that Yet somehow, the music flows together. He starts with still get plenty of use. “Opening,” by Philip Glass, an airy number that’s “not Audrey Chee ’09 mans a CD player, methodically play- really jazz at all,” he concedes. He follows that with music ing snippets from the 40 new releases the station received from the title track from Miles Davis’s Nefertiti, which he that week, as Wood and Weathersby type one-line reviews describes as a repetitive, minimalist jazz piece. From there of the ones they will recommend to the DJs.Weathersby is he moves to a couple of “old school” tracks from Bill also compiling the top 30 most-played song and albums Evans – “Gloria’s Step” and “Alice in Wonderland” – from the previous week to submit to CMJ, the College before returning to Nefertiti and the song,“Fall.” Next Music Journal. come two tracks from local drummer Steve Grover, one “We’re here for two-and-a-half hours every Sunday, and of which is called “Portrait of Tony Williams.”Tony we’re basically multi-tasking the entire time,” Chee said. Williams, McLaughlin notes, was the drummer on “Fall.” Wood mocks a lyric as it flies past them:“ ‘We take our After 90 minutes, he brings the show full circle and ends

36 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 WE TRY TO MAKE A NICE MIX OF THINGS PEOPLE WILL LIKE LISTENING TO. TWO-TO-ONE IT’S MUSIC PEOPLE DON’T KNOW.

SARAH WOOD ’10

Clockwise from top left: Sarah Wood ’10; Images from the WBOR studio including part of the extensive collection of CDs; Carolyn Williams’10; Tucker Hermans ’09

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orty-nine years after WBOR recorded a Pete to Moses Asch, founder of Folkways Records, who pieced Seeger concert at Pickard Theater, the tracks from different performances into compilations of Smithsonian Institution is releasing the entire live music and released them on albums with scant infor- recording in a two-CD set with full credit mation in the liner notes. given to the station and the College.Tom “I remember the concert being on really short notice,” FHolland ’62 couldn’t be happier. Holland said.“We didn’t know about it until a week or Holland was station manager at WBOR in 1960 when two before. I never really understood that at the time.” Seeger performed at Bowdoin. Seeger refused to sing The original tapes spent the next four decades on a unless the concert was recorded, and the tapes immedi- shelf in the Folkways New York office.After Asch died in ately handed over to him without anyone copying or 1986, the Smithsonian bought the entire collection of even listening to them. more than 4,000 tapes – more than 300 of Seeger alone “He was a very demanding guy, really hard-nosed,” – and Place has been poring through them ever since. Holland said.“He was a very crusty character.” “I’ve listened to thousands of these things over the Holland clearly remembers the years, and the most stellar sound performance, which was the highlight quality of them all was from the of the Campus Chest weekend. It Bowdoin College tapes,” Place said. was a beautiful Sunday – sunny and “It is so striking. (Seeger) is bang- unusually warm for mid-March. ing on the guitar, and things are Pickard Theater was packed, and bouncing across my desk from the Seeger brought the house down. vibration.” “This was a pure solo act, just him The only information Place had and his instruments,” Holland said. was written on the tapes:“Recorded “He did a version of ‘D-Day by WBOR, March 13, 1960.”A Dodgers,’ a very satiric WWII song quick Internet search led him to that I’d never heard before, but it Mike Halmo, blues director at made a terrific impression. He rarely WBOR. Halmo researched the con- ever sang that song.” cert and the radio station in Students at WBOR broadcast the Archives and Special Collections, concert live and filled eight reel-to- and asked the Alumni Office to reel tapes with all 30 songs. Holland locate Holland for him. hand-delivered the tapes to Seeger Holland, who now lives in New that night, and never gave them a Jersey, got rid of all his vinyl records

second thought. Pete Seeger years ago and, though he still remem- Years later, Holland was living in bers most of the lyrics to “D-Day New York and browsing a record store when he came Dosgers,” hadn’t thought much about the Seeger concert upon a Seeger album that included “D-Day Dodgers.” until Halmo contacted him early this year. He was Holland was sure it was recorded that night at Bowdoin, shocked to hear that the tapes still existed, but was not though the liner notes didn’t say so. surprised that they were such good quality. “I really didn’t think about the tapes again until I “They refixtured the station in the late 1950s, when bought that record,” he said.“I was annoyed that we did- it switched to FM,” he said.“Everything was brand new n’t get credit for recording it.” in 1958 when I got there. It was all first-class Ampex According to Jeff Place, head archivist for the equipment.” Smithsonian’s Folklife Archives, that was typical Seeger, The tapes recorded at 15 inches per second, twice as working outside the system to create his own recorded fast as most reel-to-reel recordings, which resulted in legacy. For much of his career, Seeger, now 90, was a pari- much higher-quality sound, Place explained. ah for his outspoken anti-government beliefs, and occa- “It has been a dream of mine to put this record out sionally faced imprisonment for contempt of Congress. since the first time I heard it,” he said. Major record labels would have nothing to do with him, Place is hoping for a fall release, which he promises and live performances had to be arranged on the sly with will include mention of both Bowdoin and WBOR in little advance notice to avoid organized protests. So Seeger the liner notes. collected recordings of his concerts and handed them over “I can’t wait to hear it,” Holland said.

38 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 with “Closing,” another Philip which extends the broadcast to Glass piece. about 15 miles. As he begins each number, Roy Heely ’51 still remem- he types the song title and THE FIRST LIVE BROADCAST ber the first records he played artist into his laptop and sends on the air at WBOA: Eddie it to the station’s website, FROM MOULTON UNION TOOK Condon and a few cuts from which promises on the live Mugsy Spanier and his Ragtime stream to be showing what is PLACE ON APRIL 16, 1950, ON THE Band. It was three days before “most likely playing.” (Not all NEW WBOA (BOWDON IN THE graduation, and a friend asked DJs are as faithful with that on a lark if he’d like to spin a part of the job.) AIR): A DRAMATIC WORKSHOP little music at the College’s new radio station. PERFORMED “THE POT OF “It was a very fleeting owdoin has been “broad- BROTH,” A ONE-ACT PLAY BY moment in my collegiate casting” in one form or career,” he admitted.“Those Banother since at least the WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. records, all 78-rpms, are long 1920s, when communication gone.” was limited to Morse code but Nearly 20 years into retire- reached destinations around the ment, Heely is back in globe.A later iteration was called “Bowdoin on the Air,” Brunswick, and back at WBOR DJing one of the longest- which consisted of 15-minute taped performances sent to running shows at the station. In his college days, Heely liked WGAN in Portland and aired each Sunday at 1:45 p.m. strictly Dixieland, but as a member of the Maine Jazz In 1947, College President Kenneth Sills approved the Alliance, he plays more traditional mainstream jazz. formation of a committee to study the creation of a campus “When I graduated, I never dreamed I’d be coming back radio station, which he touted as a way to bring publicity to to Brunswick,” Heely said.“I took early retirement, and the college and train future broadcasters.The cost to convert decided, why live in New Jersey when we could be living in the offices of the Orient on the second floor of Moulton Maine? I had no idea there would be such a rapport Union to an AM radio station, estimated to be $5,000, was between the college and the community.” covered largely by a $4,000 gift from the Class of 1924.The committee decided not to install a wireless system, because that would require an FCC license and the installation of college radio station serves multiple purposes: It’s a costly special equipment. Instead, they installed a dedicated training ground for aspiring broadcasters, a commu- telephone line directly to WGAN. Anity service for listeners and a means of expression The college catalogue described the station as being for DJs, said Roosevelt “Rick”Wright, Jr., an associate pro- “equipped with every modern device, including a console fessor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public board, transmitter, two record turntables, and three tape Communications at Syracuse University, who is writing a recorders. (It) is finished in an attractive blend of sky blue, book about college and university radio station operation. neutral gray and salmon red.” “These stations can serve as the front porch for the col- The first live broadcast from Moulton Union took place lege,” he said. on April 16, 1950, on the new WBOA (Bowdon in the Free expression, however, has taken a hit in recent years Air): A dramatic workshop performed “The Pot of Broth,” as more stations adopt what Wright calls “the NPR model.” a one-act play by William Butler Yeats.That fall, the broad- College radio stations can form an affiliation with the cast was expanded to half an hour, with an experimental Corporation for Public Broadcasting in order to raise money four-hour evening show featuring news, sports, interviews, through sponsorships. In turn, CPB imposes restrictions on dramatic skits, classical “music to study by,” and jazz – how the station is operated by increasing the level of profes- “music not to study by.” It didn’t take long before the sionalism. In some cases, that reduces student influence and College began looking into obtaining an FCC license for a participation. full-time radio station. “The influence of the NPR model has taken a lot of the By the end of the 1950s, the station had gotten its FCC wind out of the sails of college radio stations,”Wright said. license and become 91.1-FM,WBOR (Bowdoin on the “They should be haven for innovation and experimentation, Radio).The 10-watt transmitter reached about a mile, just a place to make all the mistakes.” enough to cover the campus and surrounding neighbor- At WBOR, that spirit is still very much alive.WBOR is hoods. In 1982, the FCC granted an increase to 300 watts, funded through student activity fees, and students control

[email protected] 39 Clockwise from top left:Audrey Chee ’09; (l to r: Mike Halmo, blues director; Bill Morse, summer and break manager, Roy Heely ’51); Part of the extensive collection of record albums;Akiva Zamcheck ’11

I PUT TOO MUCH TIME INTO IT. IT GETS RIDICULOUS. IT’S AN OBSESSION. BUT RADIO IS A LIVE PERFORMANCE. I’M REQUIRED TO BE PREPARED. PEOPLE ARE PRESUMABLY LISTENING.”

AKIVA ZAMCHECK ’11

40 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 every aspect of the station, College radio DJs some- including contributing about times seem to compete for the two-thirds of its programming. smallest musical niche. The rest is provided by retirees, Margaret Allen graduated high school students and music I’M A CLASSIC WANNABE ROCK from Bowdoin in 1986 and buffs from the community, as now works as the College’s well as Bowdoin faculty and MUSICIAN. I DON’T REALLY PLAY assistant director of institu- staff.While Bowdoin students tional research. For eight and their varied tastes cycle AN INSTRUMENT; I DON’T SING. years, she has hosted an hour- through year after year, partici- THE NEXT BEST THING IS DJ-ING long program of Frank Zappa pation from community mem- music. Allen initially did the bers offers a level of continuity IF YOU REALLY LOVE MUSIC. show as a way to work on her that local listeners have come to public speaking skills, but now expect, and expertise that stu- it’s all about the music. She dents rely on. MIKE HALMO,“THE BLUES HIGHWAY” SHOW has no idea how many people The Maine Jazz Alliance, for tune in each week, but she example, began broadcasting concedes that she’s targeting a from WBOR in 1992. Mike narrow niche of listeners who Halmo, a 57-year-old guidance love and appreciate Zappa as counselor at Brunswick High School, launched his blues much as she does. show – “The Blues Highway” – in 2002, the first year the “Frank Zappa is a bit strange,” she said.“It’s a particular station stayed on the air during the summer. audience that’s going to listen to him. People do call me at “That seemed like a good time to break in,” Halmo the station, but most of the people who call me are very said.“I’m a classic wannabe rock musician. I don’t really weird. It’s the odd ducks who would listen.” play an instrument; I don’t sing.The next best thing is DJ- Akiva Zamcheck ’11 produces a show with the ing if you really love music.” unlikely title, “Renaissance Dance Party.” He doesn’t Halmo grew up listening to Led Zeppelin and the mean dance music for the Renaissance man; he means Rolling Stones. He got into the blues when it occurred 500-year-old Renaissance music, something which stirs to him that much of the classic rock he loved was borne in him the same passion as Frank Zappa does in Allen. of that genre. He spends hours planning the play list of each show, “When I started at WBOR, there was no new blues on tying the music to a particular theme or the anniversary the shelf,” he said.“I started writing letters to blues labels, of a composer’s birth or death. and every week I’d get these packages of CDs. It was like “I put too much time into it,” he confessed. “It gets Christmas. Blues was becoming a lost art, but there’s a ridiculous. It’s an obsession. But radio is a live perform- resurgence of people listening to the blues and writing ance. I’m required to be prepared. People are presumably the blues. I hope I’m educating some of these young col- listening.” lege kids.” Despite his preparation and almost professorial air, he “We’re so lucky to have Bowdoin as an institution that sometimes goofs. One Sunday this fall, he attempted to gives so much to the community and really lets the com- trace the entire history of sacred music from Gregorian munity in,” he said. chants through Duke Ellington. Shortly after introducing The feeling is mutual. Students are particularly grateful the first piece – “The Lamentations of Jeremiah the to Bill Morse, a 50-year-old Bath Iron Works employee Prophet” by Thomas Tallis – Zamcheck realized that a who single-handedly took over programming during true Gregorian chant would not contain those har- mid-year breaks and over the summer so that WBOR is monies. “Someone’s going to call me on that,” he sighed never off the air. as he cued his next selection, “a Gloria you can really dig “I’ve been listening to ’BOR since 1977, because we on.” Zamcheck’s father, a professional musician, has noti- have a real affinity for new music,” he said.“Ten years ago, fied him of similar mistakes in the past, but Zamcheck I saw an ad in the paper for DJs, and I was elated. I’ve been takes it in stride. doing it ever since. My show is always the fastest two hours “Radio gives me my own pulpit from which I can of the week for me, and I was always devastated when express my views of the world. I take it as a given that my school breaks came. I’d go into withdrawal, so I became views are worthwhile. I suppose it’s always possible that no the summer manager six years ago. It’s not a paid job; it’s a one is listening.Well, I know my parents listen. And my sis- labor of love.” ter. And one friend in Queens.”

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PARKER CLEAVELAND, DOCTOR CACAPHODEL, AND HAWTHORNE’S “THE GREAT CARBUNCLE”

arker Cleaveland, called the father of and was intrigued by its susceptibility to didactic treatment. American mineralogy, taught chemistry, The aptly named Seeker is possessed by a compulsive desire geology, mathematics, and natural philoso- to obtain the unobtainable and is a caricature of relentless phy at Bowdoin from 1805 until his death ambition.An avaricious New England merchant, Isaiah in 1858. His Elementary Treatise on Pigsnort, wants to sell the stone for an outlandish profit.An Mineralogy and Geology (1816), some six- unnamed poet hopes to find stylistic inspiration in its beau- hundred pages in length, proved a ground- ty, while Lord de Vere, an English cavalier of “earthly pride Pbreaking work that soon met with inter- and vainglory,” covets it as an emblem of his illustrious national acclaim. It was expanded and reprinted in 1822, genealogy.A character identified as the Cynic denies that the when Nathaniel Hawthorne was a sophomore at Bowdoin, carbuncle even exists and persistently attempts to disillusion and was no doubt much talked about on the local scene. all the others in their quest. Matthew and Hannah, types of According to Leonard Woods, Cleaveland’s first biographer, Adam and Eve respectively, ultimately reject the sought-after this weighty tome soon became “the standard American carbuncle on the grounds that for those of humble heart, the authority in this branch of science, and was used as a text- post-lapsarian world, with all its woes, is paradise enough. book in all the colleges.” During his final year at Bowdoin, Doctor Cacaphodel, a chemist who seeks it for the purpose Hawthorne studied under Cleaveland, whose notable eccen- of advancing scientific knowledge, is also made fun of, tricities included fear of dogs and the dark, gephyrophobia though he is also the only character who ultimately derives (fear of bridges) and an even more pathological fear of thun- a positive benefit from the rock. der and lightening. If a storm broke out during class, he Hawthorne’s fable excoriates vanity and excess, including would immediately send the students away, run to his home love of science for its own sake, as personified by the obses- on Federal Street, and hide under the bed until the weather sive-compulsive Doctor Cacaphodel.The name seems to cleared. Hawthorne, rumored to have been enamored of have been borrowed from “Cacafogo,” the apothecary in Cleaveland’s maid and perhaps warned off by the professor, Oliver Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World (1760-62), and is satirized him as Doctor Cacaphodel in “The Great a composite made up of the Latin “cacare” (to discharge Carbuncle” (1837).What Hawthorne remembered most excrement) and the Spanish “fuego” (fire). Hawthorne also about him twelve years after his graduation from Bowdoin, knew that the Latin “foedus” can signify a foul stench and however, was not Cleaveland’s idiosyncrasies but his exces- derives from a Sanskrit word meaning “smoke” or “fumes,” sive zeal for scientific experimentation. of the kind sometimes produced by chemical apparatus Set in the Crystal Hills in the middle of the seventeenth employing high temperatures. Like Cleaveland, Cacaphodel century, Hawthorne’s tale is a moral allegory which, in a is also a geologist, so Hawthorne may also have been think- series of thumbnail sketches, skewers various characters’ ing of the Latin “effodio,” meaning “I dig up _____.” motives for pursuing an elusive gem or carbuncle.The latter, Established initially as a figure of Faustian curiositas, according to legend, was supposedly protected by an evil Cacaphodel can also be seen in light of Hawthorne’s numer- spirit, and mysteriously appears and disappears at random in ous fictional scientists whose presumed faith in material the White Mountains of New Hampshire.This bit of folk- progress compromises their humanity. Such characters, in lore originated with the Indians, but Hawthorne read about turn, are also doubtless derived at least in part from the fool- it in James Sullivan’s History of the District of Maine (1795) ish professors deftly lampooned by Swift in the grand

By William Collins Watterson, Edward Little Professor of English Language and Literature, and Kristina Dahmann ’10 Illustration by Jennifer Dubord

42 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 Academy of Lagado in Gulliver’s Travels, one of Hawthorne’s not a narrow specialist but a true polymath, so favorite books as an undergraduate. Cacaphodel wears a Hawthorne’s own fragile ego played a role in his fashion- high-crowned hat “shaped like a crucible” and ing of Cacaphodel.When “The Great Carbuncle” appeared in his first collection had wilted and dried himself of short stories, Twice-Told into a mummy stooping over Ta l e s (1837), Hawthorne was charcoal furnaces, and inhal- thirty-three years old and far ing unwholesome fumes dur- short of the literary fame he ing his researches in chemistry craved. His only previous and alchemy. It was told of book, Fanshawe (1828), was him, whether truly or not, self-published anonymously at that at the commencement of the cost of one hundred dol- his studies, he had drained lars and was subsequently his body of all its richest thought by him to be a total blood, and wasted it, with failure. He never told his wife other inestimable ingredients, that he was its author, and in an unsuccessful experiment even asked his friend Horatio and had never been a well Bridge to destroy his copy. In man since. light of the monumental suc- cess of Cleaveland’s treatise, A caricature whose medical the phrase “one of the heavi- symptoms are emblematic of his est folios of the day” seems spiritual deficiencies, ambivalent, combining, as it Cacophodel is the only seeker does, both mockery along of the carbuncle to profit from with a note of grudging the quest, in what amounts to a admiration. It also smacks a brief moment of authorial little of the humanist’s envy largesse extended by Hawthorne of science which deals in the to his former instructor. certainty of empirical truth. Significantly, his interest in stratigraphy leads him to prize the Then as now, undergraduates often differ widely in matrix as highly as the precious gem embedded in it: their estimation of professors. Longfellow, characteristi- cally more generous of spirit than his sardonic classmate, He returned to his laboratory with a prodigious fragment of penned a much later recollection of Cleaveland in the granite, which he ground to powder, dissolved in acids, wake of his fiftieth reunion at Bowdoin in 1875. His melted in the crucible, and burned with the blow-pipe, and verses commend Cleaveland for his completeness as a published the results of his experiments in one of the heav- human being while at the same time acknowledging his iest folios of the day.And for all these purposes, the gem insularity: itself could not have answered better than the granite. Among the many lives that I have known, The Doctor’s seemingly misguided value judgment clinches None I remember more serene and sweet, the identification of Cleaveland with Cacaphodel. More rounded in itself and more complete, Cleaveland’s treatise correctly classifies granite as a crystalline Than his who lies beneath this funeral stone. structure comprised of feldspar, quartz, and mica, but These pines, that murmur in low monotone, Cleaveland was also embroiled in a creationist debate involv- These walks frequented by scholastic feet, ing the granite found on the ocean floor.The so-called Were all his world; but in this calm retreat Plutonists, James Hutton (1726-1797) and his followers, For him the teacher’s chair became a throne. believed, correctly as we now know, that granite was formed by magma from volcanic eruptions which eventually cooled Cleaveland, who died in 1858, would doubtless have felt into igneous rock.The Neptunists, on the other hand, flattered by these elegiac lines, which, however fulsome they among them Cleaveland, championed the idea that granite may sound to modern ears, serve as an historical antidote to was formed in the ocean all at once by the hand of God as Hawthorne’s acerbic portrait. Cleaveland himself almost cer- recounted in Genesis. Identifying Cacaphodel with conserva- tainly read “The Great Carbuncle” at some point, though tive religious doctrine would obviously have undermined one imagines only once and without much pleasure. Satire the materialist premise on which Hawthorne built his comic aside, he was probably wise enough to know that instruc- character, so on this point the logic of fiction rightly takes tors, for better or for worse, have little control over the gen- precedence over biographical accuracy. eral impression they make on the legions of students who Historical evidence makes it clear that Cleaveland was fall briefly under their sway.

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Windega Ann Solange Tarpaga (who turned one on April 10, 2009), daughter of Olivier and Esther Baker-Tarpaga ’97, on daddy’s shoulders at the Taj Mahal in India last spring.

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enjoyed attending our class reunions and “Moved to Scottsdale,Ariz., from 37 alumni gatherings. She was a graduate of Carefree,Ariz. Nice city with many Richard McCann wrote on June 1: Mount Holyoke. During WWII, she was enjoyable amenities. Remained a “Recently, my first great-grandchild stationed in Washington, D.C., as a member of the Boulders in Carefree, arrived and was named in memory of Lieutenant in the WAVES. Naval honors but the number of times I play golf have my late wife, Helen.” were rendered at her funeral. She is been drastically reduced. Skip and I are Dan Pettengill wrote on June 1: survived by her husband, three sons: well, although Skip has spent some time “Am slowing down some as I turned Baston, Daniel, and Capt. Lendall S. in the Mayo Hospital, where she has 93. I became a great grandfather in Knight, U.S.N. (Ret.) and seven been a volunteer these last 14 years. I December 2007, with the birth of grandchildren.” The Class extends its miss the volunteer work I did in Russia, Joshua David Petersen.” sympathy to Lendall and his family. Czech Rep., and the Ukraine during Omer McDuff wrote last winter: the last five years. I now enjoy a less 40 “Will be 91 on January 9, going to the active life; oil painting and carpentry Philip Gates wrote on November 18: gym three mornings per week and work to keep me busy. I did write an “I am feeling good and living well. Still in feeling great! Lost my dear wife last article for ‘Echo,’ a small periodical, touch with some of my old classmates November 4, but have three very about a climb up Mt. Katahdin in Hack Webster and others.” supporting and loving children, seven February when I was 15 years old! 41 grandchildren, and four great- Hopefully, I’ll be alive and able to join grandchildren. I’ve been very blessed. what’s left of my classmates for our next Charles Edwards wrote in mid- th November:“I cherish my memories of Would love to hear from ’41 classmates 5 Reunion. Hasta Luego.” Bowdoin.” still around! Email me at Eula Shorey, widow of Hank Shorey, Lendall Knight wrote in early [email protected] ’08 reported on their granddaughter: December:“I am saddened to report the commencement with my youngest “Patricia (Trish) Shorey of Bridgton, death of my wife, Mary T. Knight, on daughter last May and hope to attend graduated summa cum laude from August 19, 2008, in Portland, Maine, again this year.” The Class extends its Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y., on after two years of declining health. She sympathy to Omer and his family. May 24, 2008. She received a bachelor of Bob Page wrote on October 31: science in accounting with a double

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

[email protected] 45 Each year, the Alumni Council and the Alumni Fund ALUMNI Directors select recipients of several awards intended to honor outstanding achievement by Bowdoin alumni, faculty, staff, and volunteers.These awards recognize a variety AWARDS of outstanding contributions of service to Bowdoin.

ALUMNI COUNCIL AWARDS 2008-09 ALUMNI FUND AWARDS

YOUNG ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD SPECIAL RECOGNITION,CLASS OF 1959 Established in 1999 by the Alumni Council, this award honors outstanding service and commitment to In honor of their 50th Reunion, the Class of 1959 gave Bowdoin by graduates of the past 10 years. more than $2.24 million to the College through com- bined Alumni Fund, capital and planned gifts, reaching Arlyn Davich ’03 an 86% participation rate. Since graduating, their total gifts to Bowdoin have totaled more than $4,336,006. Twelve classmates made life income gifts in honor of FOOT SOLDIER OF BOWDOIN AWARD the 50th Reunion, and 31 are now members of the Established in 1999 through the generosity of David Z. Bowdoin Pines Society.An impressive 44% of the class Webster ’57, this award recognizes an alumnus or alum- returned to celebrate their recent 50th Reunion. na who exemplifies the role of a foot soldier of Bowdoin through his or her work for the development This remarkable 50th Reunion performance happened programs, BASIC, and/or other alumni programs during under the able leadership of Gift Co-Chairs David the prior year.A scholarship will be given in the name Olsen and Gene Waters, Class Agents Peter Fuller and of the recipient to a deserving Bowdoin student or stu- Ted Sandquist,Planning Co-Chairs Reid Appleby, Mike dents. Brown, and Bruce Chalmers, and Gift Planning Agent Al Ramler. The College extends its warmest thanks to Eugene Waters ’59 these leaders and their incredible class.

POLAR BEAR AWARDS SPECIAL RECOGNITION,CLASS OF 1984 Established in 1999 by the Alumni Council, these awards recognize up to six alumni annually for signifi- In honor of their 25th Reunion, the Class of 1984 gave cant personal contributions and outstanding dedication more than $617,495 to the College through multi-year to Bowdoin through a record of service rather than a Alumni Fund gifts.A record 33% of the class of the class single act or achievement.This year, the Alumni Council returned to celebrate their recent Reunion.This 25th has selected three recipients. Reunion performance happened under the able leader- ship of Gift Chairs Joe Curtin, Karen Walker, and Karen Bruce Chalmers ’59 Fuller and Planning Chairs Martha McLaughlin and Robert Lemeuix ’60 Beth Conrad MacGillvary. Bowdoin is extremely grate- Roger Berle ’64 ful for 1984’s generosity and loyalty.

BOWDOIN CLUB VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR LEON W. B ABCOCK PLATE Established in 2004, this award recognizes volunteers for Awarded annually to the class making the largest contri- Bowdoin’s regional clubs program who have demon- bution to the Alumni Fund, the Babcock Plate was pre- strated enthusiasm, initiative, and outstanding execution sented in 1980 by William L. Babcock, Jr. ’69 in honor and achievement in the previous year. of his grandfather, Leon W.Babcock ’17.

William Bao Bean ’95, Bowdoin Club of Asia Class of 1964 Reunion Gift Committee Chair: Howard Hennigar Class Agent: Michael Wood

46 BOWDOIN FALL 2009 THE ALUMNI FUND CUP ROBERT SEAVER EDWARDS TROPHY Awarded annually since 1932, the Alumni Fund Cup Awarded annually to that one of the ten youngest classes recognizes the reunion class making the largest contri- making the largest contribution to the Alumni Fund, bution to the Alumni Fund unless that reunion class the Edwards Trophy honors the late Robert Seaver wins the Babcock Plate; in that event, the cup is award- Edwards, Class of 1900. It was presented to the College ed to the non-reunion class making the largest contri- in 1965. bution. Class of 1999 Class of 1976 Reunion Gift Committee Chairs: Stacey Baron ’99 Class Agents:Anne Ireland Robert Craft III ’99 Stephen Maidman

HARRY K. WARREN TROPHY CLASS OF 1916 BOWL Awarded annually beginning in 1998, the Harry K. Awarded annually to the class with the greatest Warren Trophy recognizes the two reunion classes improvement over its Alumni Fund performance of the achieving the highest percentage of participation. preceding year, the original Class of 1916 Bowl was presented to the College by the Class of 1916 in 1959. 5th–25th Reunion: Class of 1999 Reunion Gift Committee Chairs: Stacey Baron ’99 The Class of 1964 Robert Craft III ’99 Reunion Gift Committee Chair: Howard Hennigar Class Agent: Michael Wood 30th–50th Reunion: Class of 1959 Reunion Gift Committee Chairs: David Olsen ’59 Eugene Waters ’59 ROBERT M. CROSS AWARD Established in 1990, the Robert M. Cross Award is Class Agents & Reunion Gift Committee Members: awarded annually to the Class Agent or Agents whose Peter Fuller ’59 outstanding performance, hard work, and loyalty to Ted Sandquist ’59 Bowdoin, as personified by Robert M. Cross ’45, H’89, during his many years of association with the Fund, are deserving of special recognition. FUND DIRECTORS’TROPHY Established in 1972 by the Directors of the Alumni Steve Rose ’79 Fund, the Fund Directors’Trophy is awarded annually to the class or classes that, in the opinion of the Directors, achieved an outstanding performance that deserves spe- CLASS OF 1929 TROPHY cial mention. Established in 1963 by the Class of 1929, the Class of 1929 Trophy recognizes that one of the ten youngest Class of 1979 classes attaining the highest percentage of participation. Class Agents: Mark Bayer Class of 2000 Daniel Lannon Class Agents: Steven Rose Jeffrey Busconi Elizabeth MacNeil Woodcock Katherine Ragosa THE CLASS OF 1976 TROPHY Gretchen Selcke Established in 2004, the Class of 1976 Trophy is awarded Jennifer Kirby Tanney annually to the class agent, associate agent, or team of Brian Williams volunteers whose energy, creativity and leadership in a non-reunion year are deserving of special recognition.

Class of 1947 volunteers: Bob Morrell Widge Thomas

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major in political science. She is a enjoying a great life here volunteering member of Sigma Beta Delta Honor and meeting many new friends.Am Society, Phi Sigma Alpha Honor Society, now president of a resident council that and Hartwick College Honor Society. serves as liaison with the administration. She received awards for her participation I now have eight great grandchildren in varsity soccer and varsity softball. In scattered from Boston to San Francisco.” her junior year, she was elected Hartwick Barry Zimman and his son College Sportswoman of the Year. She is Michael ’71 were the subjects of an a graduate of Lake Region High School. article about the 100-year anniversary of Patricia is now attending University of Zimman’s, the Lynn, Mass., furniture Maine School of Law in Portland.” and textile store that Barry’s father started in 1909. From a Daily Evening 42 Item article, March 6, 2009. For more, visit Richard Bye “recently had an art show www.zimmans.com. in the Matson Gallery in Borrego Springs, Calif.There were 34 paintings 45 REUNION in the show, which was titled ‘East Frank Calderwood wrote in mid- Meets West.’ Half of the paintings were December:“Health still good and able of New England and New York City, to meander to Ariz. and Colo. to visit This past spring, the Matson Gallery in and the other half, western landscapes. the grandkids and great grandkids.” Borrego Springs, Calif., featured a show called He has painted since he was a teenager. “East Meets West,” paintings by Dick Bye ’42. Henry Maxfield e-mailed on After retirement from the book Part of the “East” portion of the show, this is December 30:“Just released The publishing business in ’83, he built a Second Avenue at 53rd Street, New York, Survivors: 8th Air Force Bombing of studio adjacent to his house and has acrylic on canvas, 36"x24", 2002. Germany WWII, a non-fiction novel by painted seriously and professionally the author, navigator, and former since then. He has sold over a hundred John Dale wrote on December 16: POW.” Henry e-mailed again on June paintings to clients nationwide.” See “Am now living in an apartment 5:“Pre-publication of The Weltschmerz accompanying photo. connected with a senior community and Plan. How Adolph Von Weltschmerz tries to get the Russians to install an atomic bomb of his design – and manufacture – in a NYC subway. For 7EHAVEYOUR its history, my blurb, visit my website, southwickhouse.com.” See Bookshelf LIFESTYLEAT"IRCH"AY this issue and online. C. Lennart Sandquist wrote on June 15:“Missed our 60th in 2005, but hope to be there next year for the 65th. Betty is unable to make the trip, especially sorry, since we met there when she was in high school. Much time now spent down-sizing after 53 years in this home.” 46 William Blaine wrote on May 6: !CADIA.ATIONAL0ARKATYOURBACKDOOR4WOBEDROOMS “Working on my ninth novel— TWOBATHS GARAGE(ARDWOODFLOORS9EAR ROUNDSUNROOMS mysteries and love stories. In golf, I can’t &IREPLACES3PECTACULARVIEWOF&RENCHMAN"AY-AINTENANCE FREE &RIENDLY ACTIVERETIREMENTCOMMUNITY!PARTMENTSAVAILABLE break 100 anymore.” #ALLFORATOURSEVENDAYSAWEEK 47 Ralph Hughes wrote on November 5: @I:?8P “Looking forward to winter because " that’s our community orchestra’s season. Nancy plays violin, and I play cello.Also "!2(!2"/2 /@CC8>< looking forward to Board of Visitors visit.” WWWBIRCHBAYINFOCOM EXT Ken Schubert updated:“Fortunately, +RISTIN7RIGHT /TTMAN #LASSOF %XECUTIVE$IRECTOR I’m still able to travel, Egypt and Jordan

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last November, and the Virgin Islands November 20, 2001.After five years of The dedication ceremony was led by last month. Planning a barge trip in bachelorhood and bad meals, I married President Barry Mills after the women’s France in August with my four offspring Elsa Carpenter, a fabulous cook and team held Middlebury to a 1-1 tie. and spouses.” better tennis player, in August 2005. The men’s team then proceeded to Widge Thomas wrote in the spring: We’ve since sold both our houses thrash Williams 8-3. Chet Homer “In August last year I lost my wife to a (without realtors) and now reside in and Carolyn were on hand for the sudden stroke; what a change that has lovely Plymouth, Minn., a suburb of fine afternoon. 1 made in my life after over 59 /2 years of Minneapolis. I still remember the “I regret to report the death of seven marriage. I am at the correct place, Piper College songs, so stop by for a beer and classmates:The Reverend Canon Shores, a retirement community in a song.” Lawrence Clarke died October 25, Scarborough, [Maine]. It is just right for Norman Rapkin’s family, including 2008, in Portland, Maine.After me—nothing like being in the right Steven ’82 and Hilary ’88, surprised Bowdoin, Larry went to General place at the right time. JoAnn had lived him in April in Montreal with a 50th Theological Seminary. He is survived by there for six years before she passed away anniversary celebration for him and his several cousins. Carl Wilken (Carl Roy) this past summer.” The Class extends its wife Lenore. See accompanying photo. passed away September 22, 2008, in sympathy to Widge and his family. Pontypool, Ontario, Canada. He is survived by six children and twelve 48 grandchildren. His daughter Susan Harold Lusher wrote in mid- Gillies would be happy to hear from December:“Nothing new to report, classmates: 15 Maitland Pl.,Toronto, ON apart from the usual aches, pains, and M4Y 2x3 Canada. [email protected]. dilapidations of old age. But, I can still Eaton Lothrop died in September walk, drive, and live independently, and 2008 in Miller Place, N.Y.He is for that much I am truly grateful.” survived by a daughter: Susan Fales, 316 Stephen Monaghan wrote on Harrison Ave., Miller Place, NY 11764. December 7:“Was able to get back for Steven Rapkin ’82, Hilary Rapkin ’88, and Angus Johnston died February 6, 60th along with wife Bette and a dozen their father Norman Rapkin ’50 in Montreal 2009 in Westwood, Mass. He was or more classmates.All looked fine, and in April, where the family gathered for a surprise predeceased by his wife and is survived we had a most pleasant weekend. It was 50th anniversary celebration for Norman and his by daughter Eleanor J. Kontrimas, 66 delightful to have my grandson wife Lenore. Richards St., Dedham, MA 02026. Anthony Blout ’10 act as my taxi Robert Frost died February 5, 2009, in driver. Hope to make it again this year.” 51 Manchester, Conn. Bob leaves a Charles Forker wrote in mid-October: daughter Rosemary Kops, 169 Metcalf 49 “Lecturing again at Colgate University Rd.,Tolland,CT. Paul Pelletier died Edward Guen reported in mid- this October-November. Gave a paper in January 30, 2009, in Atlanta, Ga. He December:“Amy and I plan to be at the England, Stratford-Upon-Avon, on leaves a daughter Rebecca Gershen, th 60 Reunion on May 28, 2009.” Shakespeare in August, 2008.” 14612 SW 153rd Court, Miami, FL Jim Keefe wrote on December 1: Class secretary Roy Heely reported 33196. Manfred von Mautner- “Since Blanche’s death, I am living in a in late fall:“There were significant Markhoff died January 8, 2009, in condo we built attached to my son happenings when the College in the Vienna,Austria. He is survived by Raymond’s home in Hollis, N.H. It is Pines opened for business 214 years Margherita von Mautner-Markof, completely self-sufficient, but I am after its original charter: Our footballers Stubenring 18/3, 1010 Wien,Austria. fortunate to be invited to my son’s house turned in a 4-4 season and for the third Our Class extends its sympathy to the by his wife for dinner quite often. I also straight year captured the CBB families of Lawrence Clarke, Carl Wilken, received a nice note from my Bowdoin (Colby/Bates/Bowdoin) title, a feat not Eaton Lothrop,Angus Johnston, Bob Frost, roommate Barney Barton ’50.” equaled since 1975-1977.And the Paul Pelletier, and Manfred von Mautner- Bill Wadman wrote:“Looking queens of the hockey field sported a Markhoff. th forward to our 60 Reunion this spring. 20-2 season along with a second “There was a recent piece in the Hope to see many classmates there. Still consecutive NCAA Division III title Winthrop (Mass.) Sun Transcript that alive and well in Cape Elizabeth, busy with a 3-2 win over Tufts.A new must- featured an interesting story with photo with church and community activities. see is the Sidney J.Watson Hockey on lifelong Winthrop resident Norman th Norma and I will celebrate our 60 in Arena, opened January 18, named in Hubley, who like virtually all of us, June, too!” honor of a true icon in Bowdoin’s remembers when November 11 was coaching and leadership history.The designated Armistice Day to 50 REUNION 1,900-seat facility, adjacent to Farley commemorate the ending of World Bernard Barton wrote in early Field House, is first class and a worthy War I, called ‘the war to end wars.’ January:“My wife, Doris, died on successor to the 1956 Dayton Arena. Norm has attended the town’s

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ceremonies since his early years and domestic and across the pond.They took just slow-ow-ow-er.’ Barb writes of a harbors fond memories of one particular their four oldest grandsons to a ranch in potential extravaganza she hopes to pull local soldier, Happy Wentworth, who Wyoming for a week and were off next summer as ‘the Steinway people returned from the Great War with shell impressed with the way the young ones have asked me to put together around shock. Included in the article was a handled horses with care and safety 100 pianists to play together for their poem Norm wrote fifty years ago in while the grandparents’ riding showed piano sale at the close of the Music tribute to his hero Mr.Wentworth, ‘an even greater understanding of aging Center season.They usually have about entitled ‘Thoughts on Armistice Day,’ bodies.’There followed a trip to the 75 pianos but [will] try for 100 and a well-written and moving Grand Tetons and Yellowstone Park that make the Guinness Book of World remembrance of a man who returned included water rafting and a rodeo. (Did Records…it should be one fantastic home with permanent war scars who, this include riding a bucking bronco?) sound [as] I heard 80 or so played at “whatever he was on other days, he was The next jaunt was to Venice, Padua, Symphony Hall Boston in ’49 or ’50… a hero once a year.’ Norm became a Vicenzio, and the Veneto region of the not much room for an audience so First World War buff and traveled with Dolomite Mountains.The local villas you’ll either have to play or be a page his late wife to European battlefields. were designed by a self-taught architect, turner to attend.’ The article also noted that his youngest Andrea Palladio, whose work in Italy was “Our Class was distinguished recently daughter, Pamela Hubley Sullivan, influential in the design of Monticello, by Al Miller with the creation of the would be inducted November 22 into the White House, and the Capitol.After Alvin H. Miller ’51 Scholarship Fund in the Winthrop High School Hall of that came a cruise along the Adriatic and honor of all that Bowdoin means to Fame as a member of their 1983 team. Dalmatian coast.‘The tiled roof villages him, with preference given to students Norm, who played varsity basketball at and central plazas exude old world from rural areas of Maine.After forty Bowdoin, will be similarly honored by charm that begs you to stop for a glass of years of lawyering in Massachusetts and Winthrop High. local wines…the camaraderie was joyous New Hampshire,Al lives in Arizona, “It is always a pleasure receiving and the celebration of 75-85-year-old golfing and exploring the Native Christmas newsletters from the stamina unbelievable.’ American culture and history of Harrisons, in which Keith and “I enjoy swapping communiqués with America’s southwest. Marilyn provide vicarious travel Jack Cronin’s widow Barbara from the “Tom Casey notes that ‘we should experiences from their excursions both North Carolina hills.‘I get along fine, start thinking of our 60th in 2011; it’s not too soon. Many of us arrived in Brunswick by train. I remember it was a Sunday, and the conductor made us put away our playing cards when we crossed into New Hampshire—sinful! We might try to organize something to do with a train, if there is one.’ I doubt if train ,6725,& 5(7,5(0(17 service to this vicinity will return soon, +  Ÿ but let’s think of some ideas for this momentous occasion.Tom adds a quip :+(5(7+(1(:0((767+(2/' that will bring knowing smiles of self recognition to us all:‘Still get up every (1-$0,1 257(5 286( day, ears, eyes, taste, and teeth work, but % 3 +  not as well as they used to.’Amen, Enjoy living in a 200-year-old home newly renovated with a host of modern indeed, and right on. amenities and conveniences. “What are your first memories/ • Topsham Historic District location • Spacious newly renovated apartments impressions of arriving in a strange town many had never heard of? Your • Cooperative ownership • One mile to Bowdoin College oh-so-humble scribe craves news of our • Continue to build equity • Nature trails, fitness club and more unusual class both fit and unfit to print: • Maintenance-free living • Access to golf and conservation land 13 Zeitler Farm Road, 207-725-1359, Plus, The Highlands will purchase your house if it does not sell in one year.* [email protected].” Charles Lermond e-mailed on Call 1-888-760-1042 to schedule your visit. March 31:“My wife of 60 years, Martha, died on March 6 from a combination of Alzheimer’s, coronary and strokes.” The Class extends its 26 Elm Street, Topsham, Maine www.highlandsrc.com sympathy to Charles and his family.

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“The enclosed article by Jackson Diehl scientific name and common name. children and grandchildren live in the of The Washington Post describes a man Many of these items were sold last fall at St. Louis area. Recently visited Bob who is blessed if ‘Blessed be the four Christmas fairs, one of which was Wray, who showed me all around peacemakers.’ Namely, George Mitchell the Sunsplash fair at Bowdoin. Nashville,Tenn.” ’54, who has many more “After selling out of the two printings Peter Race wrote in mid-May: accomplishments.These include U.S. (525 copies) of the first edition of my “Another fun trip to Belize (number Senate Majority Leader, Peacemaker in book, Memories in Verse, which I self- 10), and made reservations for 2010. Ireland, and U. S.Army Service ’54-’56, published in 1996, I decided to write a Let’s hope it stays somewhat something not many in Congress or second edition rather than have a third undiscovered. Had a bad span of health glitzy network anchors can claim. Believe printing of the first edition. I made April-June, but hoping for a full I met him at the Bowdoin Club of some minor revisions in the first edition recovery. Just learned that Ed Elowe’s Washington (D.C.) during one or both and added additional sketches and son [Ken ’78] attends our church, but of my two terms as president. Here’s pictures.The second edition contains have yet to meet him.” wishing this outstanding individual twenty-eight new anecdotal stories in John Rowe wrote on November 7: continued success! Regards to all.” verse (with sketches and pictures) having “Lost my wife Gerry in 2007.We had George Murray wrote on March to do with Bowdoin, events and changes been married 58 years.” The Class 19:“The Sidney J.Watson rink now that the Town of Brunswick extends its sympathies to John and his after (Danny) Dayton Arena. Sounds like experienced over the years, things that family. the NHL compared to Delta outdoor pertain to my siblings and me, and six William Seffens wrote in mid- rink. I remember Jim Fife and other stories in prose involving some of my January:“Ruth and I have had another mere mortals like myself shoveling the life experiences. Because of the added good year. In fact, we have gotten into snow afternoons before a home game.” prose, I changed the title of the second better shape this year despite several Roger Pinette wrote on May 16:“It edition to Memories in Verse and Prose, illnesses we have had in previous years. took nearly five years to write a book, and self-published it in December 2006. We now walk a fairly fast two miles On Modes of Communication, and nearly There was an article about poetry in the about three times per week. Retired, of that long again to find a publisher. Stay June 18, 2007 issue of Time magazine. It course, so our main duty now is tuned. Happy landings!” See Bookshelf mentioned that to hit the bestseller list interfering with the raising of our five this issue and online. for verse, a book has to sell only around grandchildren and one great grandson.” 30 copies.Thus far, I’ve sold 450 copies, 52 so according to Time magazine, I guess I 53 Claude Bonang wrote last winter: have a bestseller. Stuart Cooper wrote in early “Ann and I are grateful for being “Son Tim is manager of investor December:“Jane and I just celebrated relatively healthy, which enables us to be relations for REIT in Newton, Mass. our fourth anniversary.Traveled to active in a number of ways.Ann His wife Courtney teaches fifth grade at Chile,Argentina, and Brazil last continues to maintain our extensive the Park School in Brookline, Mass. February and are planning a trip to flowerbeds and shrubs, which the public They have two daughters,Ainsley (5), Israel in March. Feeling reasonably well. enjoyed [last] summer as a result of us who is in kindergarten at the Park Still playing tennis and golf.Very best to being on the garden tour for the benefit School, and Payton (3), who attends day all.” of the local Hunger Prevention care.We enjoy our visits with them at Charles Davis recently reported: Program. their home in Natick, as well as their “Pretty good health considering the “We play bridge periodically.Ann periodic visits with us in Brunswick. mileage. Good year for travel; western belongs to two bridge groups, and I “Son Chris still lives in San Diego, national parks in May, N. Italy and belong to one. where he operates his hair and other Switzerland in October, and “I’m still involved with music— fashion accessories business Japan/Korea in October/November. guitar, musical saw, bones, spoons, (www.luminence.com).We enjoyed [last] Later trip with Barbara and Tom and harmonica. During the past year, Thanksgiving in Natick, for which Chris Sawyer.They are fine travel I performed at the Topsham Fair, flew in from San Diego to join us.” companions, based on several trips with farmer’s market, Bowdoin alumni house, John Campbell reported on January them.” assisted living facilities, respite, and 14:“How the College in the pines has Tony Kennedy wrote in mid-May: nursing homes. thrived! I continue in the firs and cedars “Economic times are tough when my “During the past couple of years, I’ve of Orcas Island,Wash., designing and pharmaceutical concern has regretfully devoted much of my time making developing little self help housing decided to cease matching educational marine motifs (marine mobiles and projects (with lots of help).” funds to retirees after this year! Wish I quahog people), for which I make the John Handy wrote on November 5: had a few thousand to toss in as a last boxes and paste on the box cover the “Still living in St. Louis and keeping gasp! Carol and I are waiting for the 56th picture of the motif with the various busy with my sales agency business. My after a wonderful fall Homecoming and marine specimens identified by their wife died a few years ago, but my a memorable Meddie Reunion!”

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Ed Lyons wrote in March:“Recent and one cat. I spend a lot of time on the and children, live in Annapolis.We hope surgery on my right foot went well, but John Deere maintaining the property, to be both at Bowdoin with our limited my skiing [last] season. Playing more time doing trustee work and classmates for another reunion as soon the clarinet in the New Horizons Band traveling to the Turks and Caicos Islands as possible.” is a great pleasure.” and Georgian Bay during the summer. Aaron Shatkin e-mailed on May 17: Aiken has a wonderful historical “Sadly, Joan A. Shatkin, my wife of 52 54 significance, having been founded by years, lost the battle with cancer on May Tim Greene wrote on late December: northerners as ‘the winter colony.’ 2. She fought with great courage, “Debbie and I spent a week in London Many southerners still fighting the strength and dignity and without this past October.The Saengerfest Men’s Civil War, which they call ‘the War of complaint. Joan was a wonderful, caring Chorus of Weston, Mass., participated, Northern Aggression.’All nine horse person who will be deeply missed by the along with 15 choirs (900 singers) from disciplines here in Aiken and a huge many people whose lives she touched. around the world in the London Welsh social life.” For more information, please see Festival of Male Choirs at Royal Albert Ros Bond wrote on April 20: www.fanwoodmemorial.com.” The Class Hall.Along with me were Pres Keith, “Completed five years on Alumni extends its sympathy to Aaron and his family. Bob Forsberg ’53, and Tim Council this year.After participating in Borchers ’80, representing former Alumni service trip to New Orleans last 57 Bowdoin Glee Club members. Bob fall, my wife, Jill, and I are now Decorated veteran Lt. Colonel John Ferrell ’62 and Peter Fenton ’64 scheduled for a service trip with a local Collier, U.S.Army Ret., was the Chief would have been with us but attended Seattle group to Guatemala and Mexico Marshal of the 2009 Battle of Bunker the Meddie reunion in Brunswick.” in May.” Hill Parade in Charlestown, Mass. From Alan Werksman wrote in early May: Paul DuBrule wrote on December a Charlestown Patriot-Bridge article, May “We hope to leave at the end of April 5:“Pat and I spend our winters in Avon 14, 2009. in the motor home and to arrive in Park, Fla., and summers in Bridgton. Steve Colodny wrote on October Maine timely for the Reunion week- Would be pleased to see old friends 23:“Enjoyed our first Reunion as ‘Old end.We are very much looking forward anytime.” Guard’ [last year while attending] 25th of to seeing and greeting all our friends.” Ron Golz recently wrote:“Turned son Jeff ’83. Next adventure was Baltic 75 this year. In another 25 years I might cruise in July and then our 50th 55 REUNION be able to shoot my age in golf. Life anniversary celebration in Vail, Colo., Robert Delaney e-mailed on January continues to be kind to me and my with children and grandchildren in early 21:“Charlie Christie and I spent a wife, Noel; winters in Carefree,Ariz., August. Back to Denver early very enjoyable weekend in Brunswick summers in Harpswell, Maine. Last September to perform ritual (12-plus inches of snow) attending the year, visited with Bama Prater and his circumcision on newest grandson, first games played at the new hockey lovely wife Joyce.They live in Fayette, Zachary, born August 27, 2008. Should arena dedicated to Sid Watson (Jan. 18). Ala., which is like living in a time warp. get a ‘mileage cup’ for circumcision It was a great occasion, and we saw lots Expected to see Ozzie and Harriet. Had having officiated for all three grandsons of old friends, and as usual the College a wonderful visit. I was seriously in Chicago, London, and now Denver.” was a wonderful host. I’m looking thinking of joining the astronaut Dietmar Klein reported on forward to seeing some of you at our program, but when I read they now November 23:“The Bowdoin Club of fourth ‘off-year’ reunion in May, along have a process where you can drink Germany celebrated its annual meeting with the guys from 1954.” your urine (in space), I passed on it. at the home of Bill Haas ’53 to enjoy LAUDABLE Camille Sarrouf Probably tastes like milk punch at the giant lobsters flown in from Maine. received a Lifetime Achievement Award PSI U house on Sundays! Play a lot of Unfortunately, the guests of honor, from the Massachusetts Academy of Trial golf with Link, Doug Morton ’55, and Ambassador and Mrs. Thomas Attorneys last fall.“His commitment to Rod Collette. I like to play with Pickerking ’53, had to call off their both his clients and to the preservation people who are either older than I am of the legal system in this country have or shorter.” made him a leader and a mentor to all Steve Morse reported on early who are fortunate to know him.” From a January:“I’m officially retired from the Belmont (Mass.) Citizen Herald article, law but not from our bed and breakfast October 2, 2008. in Brookline, Mass. Deanne is continuing in development at her alma 56 mater,Wheelock College. Our daughter Harold Beacham writes:“We are Kathy is director of environmental Football captain Tim Keeher ’09 and Ted living in Aiken, S.C., on a 30-acre farm studies at Middlebury College. (She has Parsons ’57 in Waterville, just after Bowdoin for most of the year with the farm grad school colleagues teaching at defeated Colby to repeat as CBB champions animals: horses, donkeys, chickens, dogs, Bowdoin.) Our son Peter, his spouse last season.

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trip to Germany. Hopefully, the visit can the first year antics of Giant Panda cub this issue and online. be made in the course of next year. For Zhen Zhen and the zoo’s program on Ed Langbein reported again in photos of the event, see this endangered species. Steve January: “The Class extends its www.bowdoin57.net.” Lawrence, John Howland, and Ed sympathy to Bruce McDonald and his Ed Langbein reported in early Langbein enjoyed a visit with J.P. and family on the death of his wife Buffy. December:“Saddened to learn of the Louise Dow.And, a number of the “Dave and Sally Seavey checked out, death, in early November, of Jim Class, including Jim and Mary [last] summer, the southwest as they Murdock.An economics major from Boudreau, gathered in Boston for the explored and photographed New Reading, Mass., he is survived by his BoSox ‘Hot Stove’ luncheon.And, good Mexico,Arizona, Nevada, and wife Beverly and six children. Our to receive a message from Caitlin California. Highlights included the 120- sympathy to his family. Stauder ’10 (current recipient of the degree heat in Death Valley (mitigated “Fall events were blessed with dry Class of 1957 Scholarship), who is by the produce of the Napa Valley) and weather and game attendees included: enjoying Switzerland (clean, beautiful, ascension in a hot air balloon.As I write Ted Parsons, David and Barbara too expensive) and her work with the this, they are planning a Caribbean Ham, Bruce McDonald, Bill and Ann United Nations and World Health cruise in mid-February and, later in the McWilliams (plus a number of family Organization. She’ll be returning (via year, a trip to eastern Canada. Dick and members here for his Sports Hall of Paris) for the spring semester. Al Kay Lyman wrote that 2008 marked Honor induction). Bill Cooke, Tom Cushner writes that after forty years he Dick’s last class at Brandeis and and Carol Needham, Daisy Crane, Hal has fulfilled the expectations of his (perhaps) Kay’s last two at Simmons. and Marcia Pendexter, Steve classmates by writing a novel, Under Between travels to Northern Holland Lawrence, John and Ann Snow, and Nuclear Attack, about an ingenious (by bike and canal barge) and Kobe, Art and Jill Perry.Also joining the psychopath who gets his hands on Japan, Kay had a new hip installed. Class tailgate were Roy Heeley ’51, Russian nukes and heads for America. Clem Wilson reported that Mary Lou Bill Markell ’54, Dave Humphrey Washington dusts off the unlikely hero, continues to recuperate with her new ’61, Kate Chin ’08, Steve and Lois gray-haired, Josh Parker from Boston knee and that they are looking forward McCabe ’56, Hugh and Carol Huleatt and sends him to intercept the threat. to returning for Reunion to observe ’55, Katie Coyne ’08, and To ny The book is officially (and only) their son David ’84 celebrate his 25th. Belmont ’60. Certainly a Whittier available on Amazon.com. See Bookshelf To refresh memories of our 25th,Wenie highlight was the 55-14 victory over Bates (most points scored in 57 years) and awing many of us who did not BRUNSWICK This special "Appletree" realize the scoreboard could register that Condominium features a kitchen with a high a number. On the travel circuit, breakfast corner, a large, open living/dining Bill and Ann McWilliams visited room area with fireplace, a custom sun room Croatia in November, and that same addition, 2 bedrooms and 2 baths on the month John and Cynthia Howland ground floor and a spacious guest suite on journeyed to South Africa, where the second floor...and it's just a short walk to warthog would replace turkey as the the College or town. $285,000. Thanksgiving entrée. Frank and Yolanda Kinnelly explored the rain forests of British Columbia and enjoyed BRUNSWICK Here, at Otter Trace, 3.6 Wickaninnish Beach on the Pacific sunny acres of perennial gardens, lawn Rim. Harry Carpenter spent October and mature trees provide a private, yet visiting his daughter in Idaho and not secluded, environment. The Colorado, making it back to Maine for magnificent contemporary home the opening of the hunting season. includes open kitchen, dining, living Jackson Thomas recently returned roof with hardwood floors, large stone from a few weeks in Katmai National fireplace, two-story wall of windows Park (Alaska, across from Kodiak island) with sunset views, and adjacent where he observed the brown bears recreation room. The master bedroom taking advantage of the salmon suite, study, laundry and half-bath are spawning. He continues to be active in also on the first floor; three bedrooms, two baths and spacious optional room are the San Diego Zoo, with special focus upstairs, and there is a full daylight walk-out basement. $697,500. on bears, pandas, and (recently acquired) sloths from India.Though not ‘on camera’ he was involved in the recent MORTON REAL ESTATE (207) 729-1863 PBS film feature ‘Panda Tales’ depicting 240 Maine Street • Brunswick, ME 04011 • www.MortonRE.com • Email: [email protected]

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and Reed Chapman presented a affairs symposium. Paul McGoldrick Jim and Mary Lou Millar’s year framed enlargement of our gathering in journeyed south for Christmas with his included time in Hawaii, Florida (with 1982 on the deck of the Alumni House. New England relatives (who have all his brother Bob ’62), Denver for the An initial impression is ‘more hair and moved to warmer climate) and Frozen Four NCAA hockey finals, Ohio fewer eyeglasses.’ Ed and Nancy celebrated the 97th birthday of Linda’s for their grandson’s high school Langbein enjoyed luncheon with them mother. In contrast, Bob and Lois Estes graduation, Memphis, and San Antonio. in Brunswick and plan to bring the made it back to Maine for a family In April or May, Mary Lou is to picture to tailgate gatherings and the Christmas gathering. Bill and Ann ‘officially’ retire, which will permit them Old Guard HQs during reunions. McWilliams back from a great trip to to mark both that milestone and their Congratulations to Miles and June Croatia and the Adriatic coastline. In 50th wedding anniversary with a trip to Waltz who were wed [last] August and September, Jack and Shirley Brussels and Paris. It was good to see celebrated with two honeymoon trips— Woodward journeyed to western them in Brunswick for the new arena to Stowe,Vt., overlooking Mount Canada, going from Calgary to Banff festivities…unfortunately, [the] heavy Mansfield and, in November, the through the ice field to Jasper and then snow marooned them in Freeport and Samoset Resort on Penobscot Bay. took the Rocky Mountaineer train to they missed the dedication ceremonies. From their letter is appears that the Vancouver, winding up in Seattle with Jack and Sherry Thomas continue major marital decision was,‘Where shall Shirley’s family. Harry and Vicky involvement at the San Diego Zoo and we live?’ followed by the challenge of Carpenter have yet to slow down, at home where they have been joined merging their food stocks (it is rumored spurred by family moves which had by a Newfoundland dog (from Newf that Miles finds it difficult to resist a them baby-sitting in Alaska, unpacking Rescue) and now ‘have two big black food sale). Earlier, in June, their family umpteen boxes in Boise, Idaho, and hairy creatures roaming the house.’They was enlarged by the birth (to Miles’ transporting furniture from there to made it back to New Hampshire and daughter Martha ’95) of a Maine with a pause to enjoy hiking in Maine [last] summer and then up to granddaughter to join four grandsons. Utah’s Arches National Park. Alaska in September to enjoy Katmai Congratulations, also, to John and Ann Unfortunately, no fresh venison this National Park, Mendenhall Glacier, and Snow who celebrated their 50th year, as last year’s harsh winter reduced Mt. Roberts. Jay Dings spent a chunk wedding anniversary. John is heading the the herd. (Note: I’ve asked him to come of 2008 on the road. In May, he was in Camden Conference, an annual foreign to Brunswick and stake out my garden). China: Beijing (Tiananmen Square,

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Forbidden City,Temple of Heaven, from tree lights hung in series (i.e., one down.As I write this, looking forward Peking Opera, and a walk on the Great bulb goes, the string is dark) and family to our (John Howland, Steve Wall); Shanghai (Museum, Bund, ride celebrations that featured board games Lawrence, Bruce McDonald, and I) on the Maglev train (280 mph), and a (remember them?).As he wrote,‘one spring excursion to Pittsfield for a visit 17-course meal with a local family); a doesn’t realize until you grow older that and lunch with Jay and Louise Dow. cruise on the Yangtze River (Three family reunions at Christmas were Positive signs for a reasonable turnout to Gorges Dam); Chongquing (Stillwell increasingly precious events.’Also mark our 52nd reunion—the locals, plus Museum and zoo with many pandas); sharing changes in lifestyles and Dave and Barbara Ham, Clem and Xian (Terra Cotta Carmy) and ended memories, Art and Jill Perry report Mary Lou Wilson (to keep an eye on up in Hong Kong.A wonderful trip that they have gone nano and digital. their son, David ’84, who is marking despite taking 29 hours and 11 flights to Jill’s walkman has shrunk from number 25), and Daisy Crane.And, return home to rest up for an October something the size of a pack of hopefully, many more. Ed and Nancy tour of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. cigarettes to that of a postage stamp. Her Langbein enjoyed meeting Nate and David and Janie Webster journeyed to camera no longer has film.There is a Marsha Winer in Kittery when they the Galapagos Islands, which included a dish on the rooftop and the plasma TV came east (from Calif.) in March. sighting of a Blue-footed Booby with has something called ‘HD.’With all of Thanks to an article in the [last] an hour-old baby. David continues to these modern conveniences, living in Bowdoin magazine, we had an excellent lead bike adventures; this past year Farmington still allows them to stay meal and visit at Robert’s Maine Grill. included Holland, Quebec, N.H., and close in touch with nature. Sometimes Pleased, too, to meet proprietor Vt. David and Barbara Ham continue they are too close. One lovely summer Michael Landgarten ’80, who also to divide their time between North evening when Flint (son-in-law) was owns Bob’s Clam Shack (a ‘must-stop’ Reading and Bridgton, Maine, while giving them lessons on navigating institution) just across Route 1.” asking themselves how much longer through the displays of the new satellite LAUDABLE The Massachusetts they should own and maintain two full TV,an absolutely prime black and white Supreme Judicial Court appointed Erik houses.Their 2008 travel was within skunk sauntered through the kitchen Lund to its Board of Bar Overseers. He continental boundaries from Chicago to and joined them in front of the screen. “is senior counsel and co-founding Cheyenne, which permitted them to get (Note: the drawbacks of watching Wild partner of the Boston law firm of ‘their ticket punched’ in six states (only Kingdom). Jill grabbed Pepper (a dog) Posternak, Blankstein & Lund LLP. one more to go) and enjoy Milwaukee, and headed in one direction, Flint had Before forming the firm in 1980, he the Badlands, Black Hills, Mt. Millie (the other dog) and went in was a partner at Burns & Levinson for Rushmore, and the Cheyenne Rodeo. another.Art was left with the critter, no ten years, and from 1961 to 1969, he Russ and Mimi Longyear both backup, and no sense of what to do. was an associate at Choate Hall & enjoyed their 55th high school reunions With few alternatives available, he threw Stewart. He is a member of the Boston, before settling in the Berkshires for the a blanket over the disoriented visitor, Massachusetts, and American Bar summer. Returning to Dallas in tucked it tightly under the hind quarters Associations, a director of WalkBoston, October, their activities include a and headed for the door where he tossed the pedestrian advocacy group, and a weekly French history and culture the entire bundle as far as he could into member of Mayor Menino’s Rose course. Dietmar and Gisela Klein spent the bushes.The skunk walked away, Kennedy Greenway Completion Task time in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, but the blanket could not be saved. If Force. During the past two years, he around Easter, and in the early autumn you would like to hear more about has served as a member and as Chair of enjoyed the seaside of eastern Crete. adventures with toads, chipmunks, field Board of Bar Overseers Hearing With the Bowdoin Club of Germany, mice, or birds, ask them during the year.” Committees.” From a Massachusetts Public they enjoyed a memorable annual Ed Langbein reported in April: “Ted Information Office, Supreme Judicial Court meeting (with lobsters flown from Parsons has been elected vice president news release, February 2, 2009.Also see Maine) hosted by Bill Haaws ’53, of the Saints’ Medical Center Medicine Bookshelf this issue and online. during which Dietmar passed the Staff, Lowell, Mass. Paul and Eileen Ed Parsons wrote in June: presidential gavel on to Jeannette Kingsbury provided a recap of last “Daughter Bliss has been accepted at Papendick-Glinski ’85. Steve and year’s trip to Prince Edward Island, and will attend Mt. Holyoke College in Shirley Colodny write that Steve is still sailing on Lake Cayuga, and a full year the fall.” working two days per week at the of birthday parties and grandchild Hal Pendexter wrote on June 16: Bayside Medical Center in Springfield events. Steve and MaryEllen Lawrence “Marcia and I are delighted to divide and occupies the balance of his time are back from Fla., having guided the our time between Illinois and Maine. with golf, gardening, and yard work, and Red Sox and Bowdoin softball teams Our three children and six serving as sous-chef (i.e., dish and pot through spring development. Dick grandchildren live in greater Chicago washing) for Shirley. Dick Fickett Fickett announced the recent purchase but eagerly anticipate their Maine visits. provided a ‘look back’ at past of a chain saw, which should dispel any What a special treat to have the Maine Christmases, which refreshed memories, suggestion that he is aging and slowing State Music Theater present Broadway

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musicals in Pickard Theater in the with the Semester at Sea ship. In (July ’08) as well as Yu Shan and Syue summer.What could be better than between, continue to fill in for math at Shan in Taiwan (Nov ’08). On the Bowdoin football games in the fall and the Governor’s and Pingree Academies. horizon are climbs of Ritacuba Blanca hockey games in the winter? Ed We will be on our sailboat in Maine in Columbia (Feb ’09) and Damavand Langbein (supported by special wife all summer.” in Iran (Aug ’09).” Nancy) does a terrific job as ’57 Class Dick Michelson recently wrote: Stephen Rule e-mailed on May 17: Agent!” “Judy and I traveled in Belize, “As I send my annual contribution, I Robert Wishart wrote in mid-June: Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua for always reflect on my past year, which has “Dale and I continue to thrive here in the month of November.We enjoyed been good, indeed.A couple of trips the land of (almost) unending summer. the natural beauty of the region.This and a couple of cruises are just what Tennis and golf seem to devour most of winter the Dolomites had more snow keeps me going! The latest cruise our time. Recently travelled to Easter than in the past decade, and skied there included my daughters and their Island. Otherwise, travels surround kids for a month in the Sella Mountain (Val husbands. I think I made four converts and grandkids. If anyone desires to Gardena,Alta Badia,Arraba, to cruising as a pleasurable vacation!” change their retirement location, come Marmalade), Cortina,Alta Pusteria, and see us on Dataw Island and we’ll show Madonna Di Campiglio. Great time!” 60 REUNION you a great place.” Bob Packard wrote in early Steve Burns wrote to the Physics December:“Still aggressively pursuing department in December:“A late July 58 my hiking/climbing/high-pointing goals CT scan found many small metastasized David Gosse wrote in April:“We’ve both domestically and abroad. 2008 has melanomas in me, and their treatment had a busy year.Traveled to the Amazon seen 160 summits and 30 other high has necessitated many trips to Boston. with the Semester at Sea ship for three points, 850 miles hiked and 300,000 feet Fortunately, they found them early, and I weeks at Christmas, skied in Colorado of elevation gain. Recent foreign am among the 10% who respond to the in March, and in May we’re going to summits include the high points of treatment with IL-2.Two days after we Costa Rica and the Panama Canal again Greece, Bulgaria, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica heard that the October CT showed that the IL-2 was working well in me, half our house burned.They were able to |profile| save the ell and the barn. So far, our medical and home-owner’s insurance has provided well for us and so have the people of Friendship and Cushing.” Dr.Thomas Crocker ’59 Carol Bonazzoli, widow of John Retired Professor of Environmental Economics Millar ’60 wrote on May 8:“Fred and I continue to enjoy having our large combined family nearby! Grandson John s a high school student in Maine, is a freshman at Bryant University in Thomas Crocker ’59 intended to pursue forestry at the state R.I., and granddaughter Lindsay A graduates from Westboro High School university. Instead, the headmaster at Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield in June. Had a great visit with Bob ’62 pushed him to apply to Bowdoin, where and Chris Millar at their lovely home he was accepted “much to my surprise,” in Englewood, Fla., along with Ed and he says.Thus began Tom’s academic Judy Fillback and saw Jim ’57 and career, which would take him to the Mary Lou Millar for dinner in April.” University of Missouri, where he earned a Carl Olsson wrote on November 1: Ph.D. in agricultural economics, and later on behalf of the Association of “I have finally retired from academic to teaching positions at the University of Environmental and Resource Economists. medicine, leaving Columbia (where I Wisconsin, UC Berkeley and UC Despite the many accolades for his still hold a named professorship, emeritus) Riverside, and the University of Wyoming. independent research, teaching has in April of this year. Decided I wanted “I have enjoyed school,”Tom jokes. brought Thomas the greatest satisfaction. to continue working and took the Former Bowdoin Professor of Economics “The most pleasing thing is seeing what position as Chief Medical Officer of the Albert Abrahamson helped mold Tom’s some of my doctoral students have largest urology group in the USA, interest in economics, encouraging him to accomplished over the years,” he says. Integrated Medical Professionals, PLLC. consider a natural resources approach to Tom currently splits his time between They allow me one clinical day per the topic.Tom has published numerous Maine and Wyoming, where he continues week, so I am keeping my surgical papers on the subject and received to publish his research on environmental schedule busy with especially large awards for his research in 2001 and 2008 economics. cancer cases which I have always enjoyed the most. Feels strange to finally

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Newt Spurr wrote on December 18: “During 2008, I played golf with two fellow golf team members from 1959-61 teams. Jack Huston, Bill Mason, and I played at Jack’s course in Ariz., in April and had a return round at Bill’s course at The Kittansett.We were rained out for a third round at my course, Bass Rocks, in Gloucester, Mass.” Jim Watson e-mailed on May 1:“I was invited to give the December ’08 Bowdoin friends and family gathered last spring for the retirement of John LaCasse ’63. (L to Harrison M. Davis III ’60 (left), new Commencement address in my fortieth president of the New England Society in the r): Jeremy LaCasse ’94, Bill LaCasse ’78, City of Brooklyn, presents a silver tray to year at the University of Tulsa. I spoke John, Steve Crabtree ’63, and Bob Sargent Franklin Ciaccio ’63 (right) in appreciation of about books and the book (Faulkner’s As ’58. (Not pictured): Charlie Micoleau ’63 and his service for seven years as Harrison’s I Lay Dying) that Dave Kranes ’59 gave Steven Barndollar ’63. predecessor.Also pictured is Judy Hazen (far me to read in the Bowdoin infirmary Professor at The University of Texas at right), widow of former New England Society fifty years ago. It brought me all the way Austin, has been awarded a 2009 Max board member and Bowdoin College board to Tulsa, where I’ll teach one more year Planck Research Award for International member Bill Hazen ’52, at the home of L. before I retire.As the poet Emily Blakeney Schick ’04 (front left), under the Cooperation for his study of history and Dickinson wrote,“There is no frigate memory.The Max Planck Society, in gaze of her great, great, great grandfather like a book / to take us lands away.” Charles N. Ordway (Maine Medical School at collaboration with the Alexander von Bowdoin, Class of 1837). Humboldt Foundation, awards the 62 $965,000 (750,000 euro) prize in David Luce “finally moved to become a private practice urologist after humanities to only two scholars every Harpswell full time on May 1, 2009. It 40 years in academic medicine, but the four years.The 2009 prize has a is great to be back in Maine and see so challenges are quite similar and the new thematic focus on cultural memory, many friends on a full-year basis, attend position is quite enjoyable!” which Galinsky will apply to ancient many a basketball game with Webster Roman civilization, particularly the age and Prinn ’61. Drop by anytime, we 61 of the emperor Augustus. Galinsky’s are in the phone book.” Dave Cole e-mailed on April 6:“On research also explores connections Fred Rollinson reported in late December 19, 2008, I was married to between antiquity and its perception in December:“Nancy and I visited the Virginia Kraft Payson of Lexington, Ky., modern culture.The award committee College [last] homecoming weekend. It and Indiantown, Fla. Fortunately for me, credited him with building bridges “to was two beautiful days, weather-wise, and she is the greatest woman that I have current themes such as disenchantment it was just great to be back on campus. ever known. She is currently best known with politics and multiculturalism. We attended a wonderful dedication as an owner and breeder of top-level Galinsky will use the award to support honoring 50 years of men’s varsity soccer. thoroughbred horses that race primarily an interdisciplinary group of doctoral Shortly before the event, the men’s soccer at Keeneland, Ky, and Sarasota Springs, candidates and researchers who will team appropriately won a come-from- N.Y.She was previously a feature writer investigate the role of memory in behind game. It was an exciting game and for Sports Illustrated magazine.” Roman civilization. It also will support a brand of soccer superior to the early-on Mickey Coughlin e-mailed on April Galinsky’s research leave at Ruhr games of the ’50s and ’60s.At the dinner, 26:“Sally finally retired, and we moved University in Bochum, Germany, where we were entertained by the reminiscing to the left coast last July to be closer to he will contribute to research projects and good humor of the honorary our family. Elizabeth ’93 is now a on religion and the study of memory speakers. Seeing coaches Bruce senior director at Yahoo! and lives in from a psychological and neuroscience Bockmann and Charlie Butt and Santa Monica, Calif. Ben and his wife perspective.” From a University of Texas at teammates Ted Sandquist, John Evans, and our two grandchildren live in Austin news release, February 16, 2009. Paul Constantino, and Peter Best was Hillsborough, Calif. So, this gorgeous Jeremy LaCasse ’94 e-mailed on extra special.We were so happy we didn’t island, Orcas, in the San Juans north of March 15:“My dad, John LaCasse, miss this event. Nice going, Bowdoin Seattle, is now our quiet home and close recently retired from 40 years at Medical Alumni Relations and outstanding enough to the bright lights of Seattle Care Development, 27 years as the planning, Elizabeth Mengesha ’06!” and Calif. Have said goodbye to Maine president of the organization. My dad winters again (for the second time in did great work, improving the health of our lives). Life in the Pacific Northwest 63 many Mainers and people around the LAUDABLE Karl Galinsky, the is so strikingly different that we wonder world.” Bob Sargent ’58, Steven Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor why we didn’t make this move before. Barndollar, Steve Crabtree, Charlie of Classics and Distinguished Teaching Carry on.” Micoleau, and Bill LaCasse ’78 all

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attended the celebration.“A wonderful Maine social group of Bowdoin grads, evening with many nice things said largely 1963-65.We enjoy cocktail about my dad, and a neat opportunity to parties before music theater get a great Bowdoin group together.” performances and share other special See accompanying photo previous page. events.A terrific group!” LAUDABLE Last fall, Samuel Fred Filoon wrote on December 16: Ladd,“Chairman, President & CEO, “After buying a home in Hailey, Idaho, Maine Bank & Trust received the in 2004, Randi and I became legal National Boy Scouts Award for residents there in 2007.We also sold our Distinguished Eagle Scout (DESA). He Last fall, Sam Ladd ’63 received the National home in Conn., and have rented an is only the second Mainer in the DESA Boy Scouts Award for Distinguished Eagle apartment in Boston. It is a long Award history to receive this honor.” In Scout (DESA). He is only the second Mainer commute, but we love both places and addition, Sam was recognized by Junior in the DESA Award history to receive this have children and grandchildren to visit Achievement of Maine as a 2009 honor. (Pictured l to r):Anthony Rogers, Boy in each.” Laureate at the 20th Anniversary of Scouts of America (BSA), Pine Tree Council Arthur Ostrander wrote in mid- Junior Achievement’s Business Hall of Scout Executive; Sam Ladd; U.S. Senator December:“I retired in May after 37 Susan Collins of Maine; and Peter Ventre, Fame Recognition Dinner in May. From years serving on the music faculty at BSA Pine Tree Council Board President. a Maine Bank & Trust News Release. See Ithaca College and spending the last 23 accompanying photo. have done some traveling since our 45th. years as Dean of the School of Music.” Frank Ronan e-mailed on April 26: Jore and I saw all of New Zealand in John Pope e-mailed on December “Sometimes being as old as a member December and January, and in February 13:“I am still employed by the of the Class of ’63 brings me I sailed around the islands of Cabo Verde Department of Homeland Security, unanticipated benefits. I reminisce more on the three-masted schooner while my wife Beverly is teaching at the and recently found myself marveling at Oosterschelde. For sightseeing my own Pembroke Elementary School. Son Ian, a statistical implausibility.After country and for conditional reasons, Jore a Border Patrol Agent, has recently been graduation some of us went off to serve and I cycled around the Zuiderzee 300 transferred to St.Albans,Vt. Ian and in “our war;” unfortunately one was Al miles in seven days (there is so much wife, Roseanne, are now the proud Loane. Not all of us wound up in beauty just around the corner!).We will parents of a one-year-old baby Sophia ’Nam. Cappy Ladd, John Lawson do a hiking trip in northwest Scotland Surae Pope. Daughter Allison is a and I spent our war in the Divided City in September.That’s it for this year, and medical doctor practicing in Concord, in Germany.To think that there were besides, my hometown Utrecht is the N.C. Our youngest, Eric, and wife well over 500,000 in uniform at that place to be during the summer.And, it Hannah, are living in Cambridge, Mass., time and three of us were assigned to gives me the opportunity to see more of while Ian is employed by Harmonix, the the Berlin Brigade, a force of less than my latest grandchildren Bente (Dec. creator of ‘Rock Band,’ a very popular 5,000, is mind boggling to me.Anne ’08), daughter of Noor ’99, and Sara game for the younger generation.” Mary and I would love to have (daughter of Maite,April ’09).” William Thwing wrote in late classmates drop in to our camp on the November:“Joy and I recently visited New Meadows anytime you are visiting 64 our son Mike ’97, his wife Ninna, and Brunswick for some enjoyable Walter Christie writes:“I’m enjoying our first grandchild Molli in Fairbanks, reminiscing.You might even meet some my post-practice life as a psychiatric Alaska. Mike is now Chief of Pediatrics of our seven grandkids there.” consultant and teacher. Ellie and I are at Fort Wainright.We skied every day in Johannes Tromp recently wrote:“I fortunate to be a party of a southern sub-zero weather and sat by the fire playing with Molli every night. Mike recently returned from a tour in Iraq, MONHEGAN ISLAND HOME FOR SALE where he supervised a medical clinic at Camp Victory in Baghdad.” Main house plus stand-alone studio/shop and garden Steve Weiss reports:“I spent a lot of shed off Lobster Cove Rd on 0.5 acre lot with ocean time in 2008 volunteering for Obama views. Independent year-round Island living design, in various locations and capacities. Among the many rewards and pleasures open layout and lofts, fireplaces, library, garden, many was getting to know Katherine Grand built-ins. 3+ BRs, 3 baths, solar and wind power plus ’09, my field organizer boss for wood stove. Southern end of Monhegan near Monhegan canvassing in Loudon County,Va.” Artists Residency. Call 207-221-4915. More at 65 REUNION http://www.monhegan.com/10lc/10lobstercove.index.html Paul Lazarus writes:“Bad year for boatbuilding. Likewise, publishing about

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boatbuilding. But I’ve been in the marine industry since 1975, and can’t Middle Bay Farm B&B stop now. Son Eli is in Maine again after On the ocean being away at schools for over a decade. (4 miles from Bowdoin College) Last March he got his Ph.D. in coastal Open year round geology, then added a post-doc, both from Duke.When he first left home, I Offers four sunny bedrooms, each with a water view, private bath, TV/VCR. restarted my swimming career (such as it Room rates are $135 to $150 and include a full breakfast. Two suites in sail loft cottage are more rustic and “roomy.” Include living area, was), which keeps me in shape; I only kitchenette, two small bedrooms, private bath. Suite rates are $150 to $170. wish I’d brought this training ethic to the old Curtis Pool, back when.Vickery Middle Bay Farm Bed & Breakfast 287 Pennellville Road • Brunswick, ME 04011 • (207) 373-1375 and I look forward to the 45th.” Email: [email protected] • Web: www.middlebayfarm.com Jim Lister wrote in mid-December: Owned by Phyllis Truesdell, wife of the late Clark Truesdell ’65 “Susan and I celebrated our 40th anniversary with a fun dinner for 90 guests, entertained by live music and open mic singing (that included several of our grandchildren).We extended the celebration by spending a week in Sedona,Ariz. I was supposed to take my The Cabin second retirement at year end but volunteered to stay with Korea Economic Institute for another year Restaurant after the succession plan fell through.” Patricia Mages, widow of Gilbert 552 Washington Street, Bath Mages e-mailed on January 4:“Gil passed away December 11, 2008, after a nine-year battle with colon cancer. He retired from UWSP in 1999 as a professor of mathematics. He received CABIN PIZZA? The Cabin opened its doors in June his master’s degree in 1965 from of 1973. Serving our local and far The only real pizza Bowdoin and his doctorate in away friends for over 35 years. mathematics education from the in Maine. “ With the only real hand tossed University of Northern Colorado in —” Portland Newspaper 1975. He is survived by his wife, Pat, pizza in Maine. We are proud to and three daughters, along with five One of the best in New serve good food and warm spirits in grandchildren.” The Class extends its “England. a rustic, nautical atmosphere. sympathy to Pat and her family. — Boston Globe Located in the south end of Bath Steve Putnam e-mailed on March ” across from Bath Iron Works. The 31:“I have moved from EVP at About as good as it gets in Raymond James Financial to part-time front section of the restaurant was Maine. to concentrate on increasing mediation “ once a rope mill in the historic — Downeast Magazine business and my advising of clients. I ” shipbuilding days. In its past, it has hope to spend more time at Old A local tradition. Some would been a barbershop, ice cream parlor, Orchard Beach, and maybe even take in some campus events for a change.” argue the best pizza in the and sandwich shop. Now our menu LAUDABLE Dick Whitmore “state of Maine. includes pasta dinners, subs, salads “became the 52nd coach in NCAA — Offshore” Magazine and, of course, pizza. Stop by for a men’s basketball history and just the wonderful meal. seventh in NCAA Division III to win HOURS OF OPERATION: 600 career games after he and his Mules took a 65-55 victory over Bowdoin Sunday – Thursday: 10am – 10pm Open year round, 7 days a week College in a New England Small Friday – Saturday: 10am – 11pm for lunch and dinner. Cash or College Athletic Conference opener checks accepted. ATM on premises. before 2,000 fans at Wadsworth Local delivery available. Gymnasium at Colby.Whitmore was 443-6224 mobbed by his team and given the game

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ball after the win over his alma mater. Doug Hotchkiss recently wrote: He is in his 38th year of coaching at “Am retiring as of May 31, but will Colby.Whitmore has a 600-318 career keep busy as a church sexton and record with the Mules.” From a Colby volunteer work.” College press release, January 17, 2009. Arthur Kress recently wrote:“Still practicing internal medicine, but plan 66 on cutting back. Enjoy keeping track of LAUDABLE Dr. Edwin Bell,“a our six grandchildren.” Winston-Salem State University Margot Timson Sullivan, sister of professor of education, is one of 17 Barry Timson, wrote in mid- faculty members in the UNC system to December:“My brother Barry S. In May, Class of 1966 friends teed it up be given an Excellence in Teaching Timson died April 15, 2007, (yes, he together on the Cascades Course at the Award.The award is presented by the would be smiling—income tax day!). Homestead in Virginia (kneeling, l to r): Fred UNC Board of Governors. Each winner He was the Mayor of Hallowell, Maine, Friedman and Dick Forté. (Standing, l to r): receives $7,500 in cash and a bronze and former just about everything else in Charlie Roscoe, Ben Soule, John Lord, Jeff medallion. Over the course of his career, Hallowell, including City Council, White, Jeff’s parole officer, Bill Allen, Frank Bell has won awards for his teaching and Planning Board, Old Hallowell Day Yule, and Al Ayer. research and has secured grants to train Committee, and even Santa Claus. He elementary and secondary teachers in was the founder of the Hallowell Food annual $2,500 scholarship to a Hallowell techniques to improve student learning. Bank. He was active on Monhegan High School graduating senior going to From a Winston-Salem Journal article, Island with ecology and geology. Barry college in Maine and majoring in either May 1, 2009. believed strongly in education and often science or government.We feel it is a Dick Forté and Bowdoin classmates visited the school classrooms or took great way to honor Barry and all he did Fred Friedman, Charlie Roscoe, students on hikes to learn about the for Hallowell and Maine.” The Class Ben Soule, John Lord, Jeff White, geology of their town.We established extends its sympathy to Margot and the “Jeff’s parole officer,” Bill Allen, Frank the Barry S.Timson Scholarship fund Timson family. Yule, and Al Ayer played golf together (c/o Dawn Gallagher, 27 Union Street, Jeff White wrote early in January: in May. See accompanying photo. Hallowell, Maine 04347) to give an “Continue to work three days per week in healthcare consulting based in Concord, N.H. Given the 2008 market GUN POINT – This 1,890 square foot year round downturn, no plans to fully retire for contemporary is situated on a private 3.98 acre lot foreseeable future, although we will with 200+ feet of deepwater frontage with a great vacation for February and March in Fla. protected dock location. Also featuring sunset Jane works as a per diem RN at a local views, a sandy beach, pegged cherry woodwork, a visiting nurse agency.” granite hearth and a heated bunkroom. Come enjoy the Maine Coast “the way life should be”. $759,000 67 Bruce Found recently wrote:“In HARPSWELL – Narrows Lane-A peaceful, private September I will be entering my 30th setting, this Post and Beam is situated on 2.4 acres. year of coaching and teaching at There is a deepwater dock, ramp and float that faces Hebron Academy. In my leisure hours I west, looking across Ewing Narrows. The open floor continue to enjoy activities on (or in) plan is spacious and great for entertaining. The Master the water, as well as playing with my bedroom suite has a sitting room and is on the 1st floor granddaughter! ‘Retirement’ is on the with guest room suite over the garage and water views horizon!” from every room, with a screened in porch! $897,000 Stephen Rand reported in mid- December:“I recently completed my HIGH HEAD RD – Architecturally designed and extensively tenure as President of the New York remodeled waterfront home with rare southerly exposure. Allergy of Asthma Society.The job was There is a magnificent MBR suite with a water-view deck, professionally landscaped gardens and incredible bay and very challenging but quite worthwhile.” open ocean views set in a quiet neighborhood. Kayaking, John Scholefield “still doing sunbathing is at a premium on your own private beach with poverty pediatrics. Finished an deep water access at the High Head Yacht Club. $1,275,000 administrative stint—not worth the power, nor the bonus. Maybe the future Rob Williams Real Estate will bring a Peace Corps-type endeavor Serving the Harpswell Real Estate Market for Over 26 Years • With Over 125 years of combined Sales Experience for Kristene (bilingual fifth grade 207-833-5078 • baileyisland.com teacher) and myself.”

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Harvey Wheeler recently wrote: completed a one-day driving tour of George Nicholis wrote on “Business as usual here in Cumberland, five national parks, two state parks, and December 1:“Barbara and I are still well Maine. My incredible wife Roxanne two national monuments located in in Kansas. Still working for a great continues to help care for my 88-year- Utah and highly recommend such an hospital Children’s Mercy doing medical old mother, who has been living with us adventure – what a beautiful state! informatics full time. Six grandchildren since 2000. I am still enjoying my Retirement is certainly agreeing with (11 to 17 years).” seasonal work, which alternates between us.We look forward to seeing a number Gary Towle wrote in early guiding fly fishermen and coaching of our New England classmates this December:“I am still enjoying working Bowdoin divers.” coming summer. Last summer Howie at Yosemite National Park. Our family is LAUDABLE Dave Wilkinson was Munday and I were able to re-connect healthy and happy. Life is good.” “nominated for an Emmy Award for with Rich Benedetto at our summer Bob True reports:“I’m enjoying director of incredibleMAINE. Only three place in Lanesville, Mass.Along with retirement, volunteering at the North directors were nominated in all of New Jack Despres, the four of us were Carolina Zoo, and watching my England, and the other two work for roommates in 10D of the senior center.” granddaughter and grandson grow!” WBZ-TV in Boston.The award Robbie Hayes “had a great time at Geff Yancey announces:“I married ceremony was held May 30th in Boston. the Reunion; renewed old friendships, Cindy Straitiff this past October.We are It is a major honor to be nominated made new. In Michigan, being able to moving to a new home on Lake (whether one wins or not).The say you are still employed is a major Ontario this summer!” nomination is the only nomination for plus—Yes!” Maine Public Broadcasting.” John Isaacs wrote on October 22: 69 “Mirabal and I had a great time at 40th. Barry Chandler reported on 68 Great to see Tom Roulston again and December 29:“Debbie and I just Bill Botwick e-mailed on May 4: Nat Harrison flying in from Paris. welcomed grandson number four to son 1 “After 37 /2 years, including almost 24 Give a call if you are near Barre,Vt.” Nathan ’97. Looking forward to seeing years outside the U.S., I retired from John Mogabgab “just began a new everyone at our 40th.” General Motors. Ruth and I decided it job as architect of an XML repository. If Bill Georgitis recently wrote:“We was time to move back to the U.S. For anyone out there knows what this enjoyed seeing old friends and regret the time being, we will still be living in means, please contact me immediately!” not reuniting with those classmates who Central Michigan in our home on Lake Huron. I am not staying totally retired and will teach at Michigan State Law School in East Lansing, starting in May. THE BEST MAINE HAS TO OFFER We are planning to ultimately move to ;OL.\LZ[/V\ZLZH[7PULSHUK-HYTZ Alexandria,Va., but have decided to defer that for a while.” Bob Corey wrote on June 18:“I had hoped to have some news about the ‘BBCS’ foursome at the Kullen golf tournament on June 22 (Noel Bailey ’68, Bob Butkus ’66, Bob Corey, Newt Spurr ’61), but my class agents have the patience of a liberal with unspent funds and I could wait no REUNIONS•7(9,5;:>,,2,5+•HOMECOMING•>,++05.:•COMMENCEMENT longer.The BBCS will again be chasing 9LSH_HUKYLJVUULJ[PU4HPUL^P[OMHTPS`HUKMYPLUKZH[7PULSHUK the elusive 59.” David Doughty e-mailed on May -HYTZ^OLYLZP_ILH\[PM\SS`HWWVPU[LKN\LZ[OV\ZLZHYLZL[HNHPUZ[ 23:“Our 40th class reunion was terrific, Z[\UUPUN]PZ[HZHUKWLHJLM\SZ\YYV\UKPUNZ,_WSVYLO\UKYLKZVMHJYLZ with a very good turnout that included VMÄLSKZHUK[YHPSZVUV\YMHYT>OPSLH[7PULSHUK-HYTZJYVZZJV\U[Y` a number of folks who were attending ZRPVUV\YRTVM[YHPSZ[HRLHMHYT[V\YVYJOLJRV\[;OL4HYRL[ their first one. I am already looking MLH[\YPUNV\YV^UWYVK\JLTLH[ZHUKJOLLZLZ;HRLHZ[YVSS[OYV\NO forward to the next one.We are still V\YVULHJYLÅV^LYNHYKLUVYL]LUWSHUHJV\U[Y`ZPKL^LKKPUN living in Fort Collins, Colo., from mid- (JJVTTVKH[PUNHZML^HZ[^VVYTVYL[OHU[^LU[`V\YN\LZ[OV\ZLZ October through mid-June with VMMLYHSS[OLHTLUP[PLZVMHOV[LS^P[O[OLJVTMVY[VMOVTL summers spent in Lanesville/Gloucester, 3LZZ[OHUTPU\[LZMYVT[OL)V^KVPU*HTW\Z Mass. Our second granddaughter, Cirie Alice Doughty, was born in August, -VYTVYLPUMVYTH[PVUHUKIVVRPUN! 2008, in Acton, Mass.We recently  ‹N\LZ[OV\ZLZ'7PULSHUK-HYTZVYN‹^^^7PULSHUK-HYTZVYN

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missed the reunion.” are trying to prevent more poisonings Governmental Affairs, I have been Jack Keene “retired in late 2007 from the toxic additive in Chinese food named director of communications for from Anne Arundel County, Maryland, products.” the Federal Commission on Wartime (after 25 years as Chief, Planning & LAUDABLE John D. Delahanty Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Construction for the Department of “was recently selected by his peers for based in Arlington,Va.” Recreation and Parks). Have spent the inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America John McGrath wrote in mid- last year as Trail Program Coordinator 2009. Mr. Delahanty is recognized for December:“Completed our retirement for the East Coast Greenway Alliance, his work in administrative law and move to Northampton, Mass., and life is promoting a Calais, Maine, to Key West, government relations law at Pierce slower and better. Carol and I celebrate Florida, multi-use trail.” Atwood LLP.” From a Pierce Atwood LLP our 40th anniversary in ’09, followed by Tom Sheehy wrote in early news release, December 23, 2008. the 40th Reunion in ’10. Enjoyed seeing November:“Betsy and I hope to return Mike Denoncourt reports: Tom Walker and George Turner and for my 40th! We are now in our 19th year “Following his passion, our son Mickey spouses this past summer while in at Canterbury School, New Milford, is building and selling road, cycle-cross, Portland.” Conn. It has been a great journey.We and mountain bikes under the brand Steve Plourde wrote on November 1 now have four grandsons (5, 3, 1 /2 and Spooky Bikes. Enthusiasts are 1:“Fully retired on California’s north 1 1 /2). Daughter Sara ’93 and Jim encouraged to visit his website.These coast since 2005, thanks to Agent Finnerty ’92 are parents of Jimmy, bikes are 100% USA made!” Orange from Vietnam (1971).Gives me Tommy, and Charlie; and son Tom ’96 Stephen Devine writes:“Cardiology time to spoil my seven grandchildren 1 is the father of Quinn (1 /2.)” practice goes well, very busy and still (who live in Kansas and Minneapolis) doing call. Retirement seems still in the and to work with my two teenage sons 70 REUNION future. Glad to have our daughter Kelly as they prepare for college. I make an Joel Bradley wrote on December 17: ’06 back from two years of Peace Corps annual Christmas pilgrimage to visit my “It has been another busy year at in Niger,West Africa.” family in New England and see the Cambridge Isotope Labs.Among other Clark Irwin e-mailed on January snow!” things, we have been supplying our 20:“After three years on the Jeffrey Waring and Dr. Candace L. isotope labeled melamine standards to professional staff of the U.S. Senate Croft “were married November 23, hundreds of labs all over the world who Committee on Homeland Security and 2008. It was a private ceremony with their children in attendance at the Lucerne Inn, Lucerne, Maine. Officiating WOOLWICH - Meticulously was the Reverend Robert Carlson. Mr. restored to its authentic character Waring and Dr. Croft continue to be at worthy of its original owner, home in Holden, Maine.” Robert Reed c. 1765.This 71 distinctive Colonial offers over For news of Michael Zimman, see Barry 2,800 square feet of living space Zimman ’42. including four bedrooms and two baths. A myriad of features include 72 Jim Burnett wrote in early November: seven fireplaces, beamed ceilings, “Enjoying forestry in Canaan, N.H., and gorgeous pine floors and paneling, a stone patio off the kitchen and a playing golf when I can. Daughter detached barn. In the 1930s, Bowdoin alumnus, professor, and Pulitzer Hedda married July 5, 2008; son Joe to Prize winning poet Robert P.T. Coffin resided here while writing his be married April 25, 2009. Looking forward to 1970 Polar Bear football book,“Kennebec, Cradle of Americans.” Coffin fondly wrote of the reunion.” house,“A fireplace in every room wide enough to take a family of Alan Campbell wrote on October 7: twelve into it’s warm arms, bedrooms above also with fireplaces and “I’m hoping to retire in the next two paneled in pine cut on the farm, all golden brown and velvety with the years now that both kids are out of sunshine and use of many years”. Offered at $695,000. college. Daughter Tamara married in May. Son Douglas works in the office of Senator Susan Collins in Washington, Andrea Galuza D.C. Beth and I celebrated our 35th Direct: (207) 319-7811 Office: (207) 725-8505 anniversary two days after Tamara Email: [email protected] got married.” Peter Cross wrote on January 15: “Our daughter Emily (Mt. Holyoke ’00)

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is in her eighth year of teaching husband Buzz Van Santvoord ’71 at elementary school. Our son Eben their farm in Orange,Virginia,“and (Connecticut College ’03) received his were lucky enough to gather a few Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Boston Polar Bear alumni to celebrate.” See College in November ’08.And, Candy, accompanying photo. who did an exchange year at Bowdoin in 1971-72 and celebrated her 35th 74 Wheaton reunion this past year, is being LAUDABLE The Big L Club, the honored as a Massachusetts Literacy Livingston High School sports booster Champion! I hope to absorb some of organization, inducted Thomas this high-achieving magic before I retire Hoerner into its Hall of Fame last fall. th from the Massachusetts Department of Marty Van Santvoord ’73 hosted a 60 A member of the class of 1970, Hoerner Mental Retardation, where I’ve been birthday celebration for husband Buzz ’71 at earned varsity letters in football, hockey, their home in Orange,Va. Polar bears employed as a psychologist for almost and track. Recognized in hockey as an celebrating with them were (l to r): Bill Bayer 31 years.” ’74, Eric Baxter ’75, Chape Whitman ’74, All State skater, he served as captain of Mark Detering wrote on October Glenn Bachman ’74, Cynthia George Gillium the Lancer hockey team in 1970. He 21:“Daughter Meghan ’07 is now ’73, Steve Carter ’71, Buzz, Norman continued to win athletic awards, working at Colorado Rocky Mountain Johnson ’74, Marty,Andy Wiswell ’71,and including the Charles Winders Award School; enjoyed my visits there to hike Tom Wheeler ’71. and the Yearbook’s Best Athlete. He and ski. Son Ryan is running PGA played hockey at Bowdoin, where he work out, but I’m hoping to make a tournaments in Fla. Ed Keazirian ’73 earned additional letters in football and trip back to Bowdoin and New England and Ed Stewart ’73 were recently here track.” From a West Essex Tribune (N.J.) for either a spring or fall trip in 2009!” for a get-together.” article, October 23, 2008. Saul Greenfield, MD, “was LAUDABLE Michael A. Ryan,an Allie Middleton “is a yoga educator designated as President-elect of the attorney in the Florida law firm of and therapist/coach with a strong Society for Pediatric Urology.” Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & background in mind-body approaches Peter Healey reported in early Reed, P.A.,“has been selected by The to health and healing, including November:“Retirement has facilitated Best Lawyers in America 2009 in the areas wilderness adventure training. I now travel. Hawaii, the big island, in of banking law, public finance law, and work in not-for-profit behavioral health February; Seattle in July where we real estate law.This publication chooses as a clinical rehabilitation division caught a Sox-Mariners game;Alaska in the attorneys and areas of practice based director and also see private clients. I August with son Sean ’11 for salmon on recommendations from clients and specialize in transpersonal change fishing; and Sonoma/Napa in October, other attorneys. Inclusion in Best Lawyers modalities, and am strongly influenced where my wife and I caught the fall is based entirely on peer review.” From a by nature, ecopsychology, the creative harvest.Aside from that we’re taking Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, arts and transformative action research, courses at UTexas and I’m still bass P.A news release, July 7, 2009. Theory U. Deployed to New York City fishing.” after the 9/11 disaster as a mental health Don Hoenig wrote on December first responder to work with the rescue 73 16:“At the 50th anniversary celebration LAUDABLE “At this year’s 2008 workers as well as families, I am well- of men’s soccer at Bowdoin, Belfast, Junior Achievement of New York Gala versed in trauma and recovery practices. Maine was well-represented as Alex on October 23rd at the World Financial I am an avid hiker, cyclist, and kayaker, Turner ’70 and I attended the event Center Winter Garden, Kenneth and live and work with my husband in and made a lame, futile, attempt to Chenault, CEO and Chairman of an old house with small garden in distinguish ourselves during the alumni American Express, was honored as the Center Square,Albany. game. Cheering us on were my wife Business Leader of the Year. JANY’s [email protected]” Lynn, daughter Sarah ’02, and friend mission to inspire and prepare young Chape Whitman e-mailed on May Greg Lovely ’01.” people to succeed in a global economy, 12: Bowdoin friends gathered for the 60th Edgar Rothschild reported in the and Mr. Chenault remains committed to birthday of their good friend Buzz Van spring:“Susan and I are leaving for encouraging our youth to achieve.As a Santvoord ’71.The party was “thrown Germany in May, 2009, to meet up with result of his leadership, the American by his most excellent wife Marty ’73 at John Weiss ’70 and his friends from the Express Company has become JANY’s their farm in Orange,Va., Saturday night. Mayo Clinic to bicycle through largest corporate Bowl-A-Thon A splendid time was had by all.” Germany.We thoroughly enjoyed fundraiser.” From a DJC Communications reunion last spring and look forward to release, December 2, 2008. REUNION returning to Maine for more lobster 75 JoAnn Chrisman wrote on October Douglas Buckley wrote in early soon.” 10:“I was sorry to have missed this December:“Visited Bowdoin last fall In May, Marty Van Santvoord year’s big Reunion.This year didn’t with Nick, my oldest, but he decided it hosted a 60th birthday celebration for

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was too cold and too far. So, now he’s a annually on the basis of ‘academic freshman at CalTech in Pasadena. I still achievement and character’ to have one more chance with Jacob, who’s outstanding master of liberal arts degree a sophomore this year and seems to be recipients.” From a Harvard University much more cold tolerant. I’m now V.P. Gazette article, June 10, 2009. of Biochemistry at Excelixi’s in South Betty Anne Hoehn wrote in the San Francisco, and Shelley continues to spring:“Two grandsons; Garrison (21 thrive at Santa Clara Valley Medical months), and Leeland (two months). Center, working with Bill Jensen ’75.” Having so much fun!”Also, Betty and John Danaher reported:“As the last Deborah Waugh spent time together of my three daughters graduates from “Bonjour de Paris!” Betty Ann Hoehn ’76 in Paris in April. See accompanying photo. and Deborah Waugh ’76 enjoy the famous college, I am turning my full-time French cuisine on a trip to Paris in April. attention (resources) to completing my 77 straw bale home in the Sangre do Cristo inside the first and last names, Fred Atwood e-mailed on March 3:“I mountains in Southern Colorado.” respectively, of a famous person. For still continue to lead my high school Celeste Johnson recently wrote: example, given ‘rend’ and ‘rase,’ the biology students on summer ecological “Turning 55 this year was a huge answer would be ‘Brendan Fraser,’ the study trips, but last year, instead of disappointment—can we really be so actor…Shapiro said he was ‘in the zone’ heading south to one of our usual old? I am very enthusiastic about the when he answered one challenge after destinations in the tropics, we went idea of 2010 and our reunion—hope the next with barely a pause. Clearly north to the Hudson Bay north of everyone’s lives make it possible for impressed by his stellar showing, host Churchill, Manitoba, where we saw many to attend and, as usual, I love Hansen joked,‘Do you want my job?’ polar bears almost every day, swam with hearing from Leo!” Shapiro won a dictionary, a number of belugas, made plaster casts of wolf Francis Mardulier recently wrote: crossword puzzle books by Shortz, the tracks, and photographed nesting Arctic “Living in Florida, and teaching honors deluxe edition of Scrabble, and a terns and beautiful tundra wildflowers. chemistry and IB environmental systems ‘Weekend Edition’ lapel pin marking his The mosquitoes were thicker than I at Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School. Get win.” From an Albany Democrat Herald have seen anywhere, the temperatures up to Cape Cod during July for some article May 28, 2009. reached the mid-80s, and though the fishing.Wife Dot is also showing Mary Van Arsdel wrote on sun set late and rose early, it never got Egyptian Mau cats across the U.S.” December 3:“Mary is creating the role totally dark.A great experience! This NEWSPRINT “For more than 20 of ‘the bird woman’ in the first national summer we are on our way back to years, Dan Shapiro has played along tour of the Broadway show ‘Mary Tanzania.” with National Public Radio’s weekend Poppins,’ beginning 2009 in Chicago.” Kimberly Higgins wrote on May 6: brain teaser for wordsmiths, the ‘Sunday “My husband Brad, our daughter Puzzle,’ hosted by Liane 76 Schurler (16), and I are still enjoying our Hansen…Sunday, he aced it. He had the Peter Bing wrote on May 18:“Despite life here in picturesque New Canaan, correct answers for all 10 pairs of puzzle being on leave from Emory, it’s been a Conn. I am excited to have joined the clues given by ‘puzzle master’Will busy year.A new edition of my first New Canaan Office of my brother-in- Shortz, the editor of The New York Times book appeared, I finished editing the law’s real estate firm, the Higgins Crossword Puzzle—although he had an section on Greek literature for the new Group. I am also very proud of my assist on the last one. Shapiro was Oxford encyclopedia of Ancient Greece husband, who left Wall Street in 2004 to selected to play on air from among the and Rome, and saw to press a volume of serve two tours in Iraq as a senior people who correctly answered the May my collected essays old and new, which advisor to the U.S.Ambassador and 17 challenge:“Think of a six-letter will appear soon with the University of most recently as assistant secretary and word in which the third letter is ‘S.’ Michigan press under the title The Scroll chief financial officer for the U.S. Remove the ‘S’ and you’ll be left with a and The Marble: Studies in Reading and Department of State in Washington, five-letter word that means the opposite Reception in Hellenistic Poetry. My wife D.C.With the end of the Bush of the six-letter one.What is it? Clue: Mary is busy combating tuberculosis at administration, he has now returned to The six-letter word has two syllables. the Centers for Disease Control. the private sector as a managing partner The five-letter one has one.The answer: Daughter Anna is about to finish eighth at SOS Ventures, an international Resign, reign. Shapiro said he spent five grade. She makes beautiful music both venture capital firm. Our daughter is a minutes pondering the challenge.‘The on the cello and the trombone, and was junior at New Canaan High School, next day it came to me in 12 seconds,’ selected for All State on both which she loves, and is on their varsity he said during the broadcast. On instruments.” girls tennis team.” Sunday’s program, Shapiro was given LAUDABLE The Harvard Extension Martha McCarty wrote in early this on-air challenge:‘Each clue is a pair School presented William Clark with spring:“Happy to report Megan ’09 of four-letter words. 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Sue Willey McKay writes:“I started my 27th year in the insurance industry as an agent, and for the past 14 as an association exec for an insurance trade association.This year the Bangor Band, in which I play trumpet, celebrates its 150 anniversary. I picked up the horn again a few years ago, having last played with the Bowdoin Band in 1976!” David Towle “received a Certificate Barbara Gross ’77, Nancy Donovan ’78, Hollis Rafkin-Sax ’78, Greg Johnson ’77, Jill of Advanced Graduate Study in Clinical K.C. Dietz ’78, and Hollis Rafkin-Sax ’78 Shaw Ruddock ’77, Julie Horowitz ’77, and at the 2007 Head of the Charles Regatta, in Ben Sax ’78 at a NYC gathering. Neuropsychology from The Fielding which K.C. competed (finishing 12th in the Institute in 2006. More importantly, he women’s master doubles). the College campus in April 2008 with hasn’t had to hear it from Yankee fans my son and daughter. It was an since 2004.” psychology and dance. Caitlin ’11 is absolutely beautiful day and I could not enjoying her time at Bowdoin, believe all of the new buildings and 79 undecided major with minor in dance. improvements. It truly is a very small Fran Jones Philip wrote in the spring: With both kids there, Mark and I have world as I ran into my freshman “I continue to love my role as chief had many more visits to Bowdoin.” roommate, Sally Clayton Caras. She merchandising officer at L. L. Bean. Glenn Perry e-mailed in mid- was there exchanging cars with her son Living on the Harraseeket harbor in October:“Ebo and MJ huddle cozily who was a senior. It was really special to South Freeport isn’t bad either. George around a wee bonfire of 401(k) see her. I have such fond memories of and I enjoy skiing, cycling, and paddling statement, dreaming of a day when my years at Bowdoin!” among other activities.” Gwen, UMaine Farmington junior, and Faye, Deering High School junior, are outside the groves of academia.Then |profile| the Perrys will jet around the globe scattering cumshaw to the astonished natives and reviving the ugly American stereotype. Glenn’s band, Misspent Marcia Barinaga ’77 Youth,plays regularly in greater Ranch owner, cheesemaker Portland to general consternation. If you want to start something, call the Perrys at 207-try-wine.” arcia Barinaga has worked as a molecular biologist, journalist, 78 Mand now, as a rancher and Blair Johnson recently reported:“After cheesemaker.“I’m trying to use my 26 years in the corporate world, I’ve biology degree in as many different ways finally combined my vocation and as I can before I die,” she jokes. Currently avocation. In April, I joined the retired from her job as a writer for Science magazine, Marcia is busier than National Wildlife Federation’s staff in ever managing an 800-acre ranch in Boulder, Colo., to handle Marin County, Calif., that she and her communications on public lands issues husband purchased in 2001. Athough the Marcia’s first batch of raw milk sheep and help prevent the oil and gas couple never planned on raising sheep, cheese—aged for 60 days—was ready industry from drilling the entire west.” they wanted to start a business that for the market in late July.When she’s not LAUDABLE Abbot Kominers would use the land to benefit the local busy making cheese and caring for her “was elected National President of the economy.“We became quite passionate flock, Marcia designs the labels for her Society of Federal Labor & Employee about being a sustainable part of the product. She is also crossing her East Relations Professionals (SFLERP), a community,” Marcia says.Their first barn Friesian dairy ewes with Katahdin rams, national non-profit membership was raised in 2007 and Marcia visited known for being hardier. Marcia organization created in 1973 to promote other sheep farms and attended welcomes the many challenges that come cooperative relations between labor and cheesemaking classes to learn about her with more than one hundred animals to management professionals in the federal soon-to-be trade.“It was brand new to look after.“I’m a big believer in lifelong sector.” From a SFLERP news release, me. My skills have all been acquired on learning,” she says.“Every minute I’m February 9, 2009. the job.” working with the animals I’m so happy.” Beth Logan reports:“I was back on

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NEWSPRINT “Leslie McGrath’s here (Groton’s Big Y) to Delaware (her the online art and literature journal poem about butter graces Cabot sister-in-law reports seeing them there). Drunken Boat (www.drunkenboat.com). packages. No, she did not rhyme ‘butter’ ‘They make two million packages. Her first full collection of poems, with ‘udder.’And, yes, she’s written Never again in my career will I have Hunger, Opulent Rage, won the Main poems about butter before. Several, two million people reading what I Street Rag contest and will be published actually. Food is a favorite subject for write,’ says McGrath, who has a great later this year. Stonington poet Leslie McGrath, so the sense of humor and punctuates this line, LAUDABLE “Former Seattle City fact that she has churned out an ode to like many others, with laughter.” From a Council member Peter Steinbrueck butter for the product from Cabot New London, Conn., The Day article, will spend a year in Cambridge, Mass., Creamery is, you might say, poetic February 2, 2009. McGrath, the winner as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s justice. Now, her poem called ‘Butter of the 2004 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Graduate School of Design beginning Taps’ graces the sides of Cabot pound Neruda Prize for Poetry, is a well- September 2009.The Fellowship year at packages along the East Coast, from published poet and managing director of Harvard will provide him the opportunity for concentrated research on U.S. urban policy and global environmental challenges at the national level.” From an AiA Seattle news release, April 17, 2009. Doug Stenberg’s ‘Our Farm’“is a supplementary feature in Bryn Mawr’s Alumnae Bulletin (November 2008) at http://www.brynmawr.edu/alumnae/ 0bulletin/nov08/farm.html.”

80 REUNION LAUDABLE “Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced Feb. 10 that the President has made the following nominations: Navy Rear Adm. (lower half) Michael J. Connor has been nominated for appointment to the rank of rear admiral. Connor is currently serving as commander, Submarine Group 7,Yokosuka, Japan.” From a US Navy Press release, February 10, 2009. Kim MacDonald writes:“I am preparing to deploy to Ramadi, Iraq, within a day of writing this note. My family resides in Baltimore, Md., where husband Don is busy in community development and writing. Son Julian (17) is completing high school and a pre-professional program in dance and daughter Kester (22) is a happily employed Goucher College graduate (2008) working as a researcher in the field of immunology. I would love to hear from friends while overseas. I’d welcome partnership in the work I will be doing in community development and infrastructure transitioning. My email: [email protected]. Blessings!” Richard Meyer wrote on December 19:“Published a book in August 2000, Why We Hate Us:American Discontent in

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the New Millennium (Random Sam, headed to Dixie and joined us for House/Crown).” See Bookshelf section, a grand time along the banks of the Winter 2008, and online at Chesapeake. Clay and I are having a bowdoin.edu/magazine. ball merging our homes and lives—I’ve Jocelyn Shaw e-mailed on January happily joined the ranks of step- 1:“Life continues on in Muskegon. motherhood (and rather painlessly, too), Megan graduated from Smith [last] May though I heartily acknowledge the and is currently working for RDR steep learning curve involved. Earlier in Publishing. She is looking for a job with the year, Clay and I made a trip out a larger publisher. Zachary has changed west and stayed with Bill Zell, his wife tracks and now wants to teach calculus Another generation of Bowdoin potentials (l to r): Margot, and their daughter Twyla (3) in Lucy Morrell (actually a member of Class of instead of being an engineer. He is 2013), Peter Morrell,Tim Hanley, and Dan Bozeman, Mont., where the Zells run hoping to transfer to the University of Hanley. Lucy and Peter are the children of Jane the amazingly successful Montana Michigan for the Fall 2009 semester. I’m McKay ’81 and Bill Morrell;Tim and Dan Whitewater rafting company. If just hanging in and being a supportive are the sons of Sean ’76 and Wendy Hanley. anyone’s curious, Bill hasn’t changed mom. Nothing particular new with me; one inch since our Bowdoin days—I were married in Charleston, S.C., and I’m still working at the library.” suspect a little less hair is involved, but then celebrated with friends and family the hat (same one from the ’80s at my family summer home in July. I courtesy of the Brunswick Goodwill) 81 was thrilled that Bowdoin classmates Jordan Van Voast is “acupuncture kept it all a mystery. I still spend my Linda Copelas Jones, Wendy clinic, CommuniChi, is now in its third time writing about gardens and the Arundel, and Elizabeth O’Brien year and utilizing an innovative landscape; much of my focus has been Ward, her husband Jaime ’83, along community based model providing on historic garden restoration. I sail with their three boys, Andrew, Ben, and affordable access to acupuncture, was whenever I can—Tahiti to Hawaii was featured on the evening news in Seattle: http://222.king5.com/video/index.html |profile| ?nvid=347089.” 82 John Miklus and Kathleen Fogarty (Fairfield Univ. ’85) “were married on Sandy Woodhouse Drayton ’83 October 11, 2008, at St. Patrick’s Vice President of Communications,The Church in Bay Shore, N.Y., followed by Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research a reception at Southward Ho Country Club in Bay Shore.” See photo in Weddings section. hen a former Bowdoin For news of Steven Rapkin, see Norman roommate hooked her up Rapkin ’50 and accompanying photo. Wwith a communications position at Time Inc., Sandy Drayton ’83 83 was just pleased to have a full-time job. Linda Nelson e-mailed on May 25: “I never thought it was a long-term thing,” “The summer of 2009 is a double she says,“but I ended up settling in and milestone for me: the 10th anniversary of being very happy there.” In her 21 years Opera House Arts in Stonington, Maine, with the company, Sandy oversaw public the wonderful community arts relations for several magazines including organization I helped to found; and the LIFE and Entertainment Weekly, which she spent 12 years developing into one of 10th anniversary of my marriage to my experience with communications as well industry’s most widely read publications. partner Judith.We still don’t have the legal as the world of celebrity.Working for a She credits part of EW’s success to the non-profit also allows Sandy to use her and economic rights that go along with emergence of the Internet, which skills for a cause that she believes in and this marriage, so we all need to keep on revolutionized the entertainment world.“It has a personal connection to. Her father- working for this basic social justice, was a very exciting time,” she says.“I was in-law lived with Parkinson’s for many especially in our great state of Maine.” fortunate to be [at EW] during its prime.” years.“It’s fantastic to be able to take In 2008, Sandy left publishing to head my experience and channel it into 84 the communications team at the Michael something so meaningful,” she says. Madeline Hutcheson wrote late last J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s “We’re a group that comes to work winter:“In June, Clay Mayhood Research, a position well suited to her every day determined to find a cure.” (Miami University/Ohio ’79) and I

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a recent trip (on a 65-foot former REUNION Whitbred winner), followed by the 85 Melissa Cotton wrote on October 7: Azores to Ireland (aboard a 48-foot “In March, I started a new career in the sloop). Both Clay and I are travel fiends foreign service as a diplomat with the and are scheming our next adventure— State Dept.Though specializing in maybe to Australia for a (belated) public diplomacy, my first position will honeymoon.” See accompanying photo. be as Vice Consul in Guatemala.I’ll be Liz Peters Kaiser wrote on June 4: Pictured with Madeline Hutcheson ’84 and in the U. S. Embassy in Guatemala for “My husband and I have three children, Clay Mayhood (Miami University/Ohio ’79) two years, starting in December. Hope at their post-nuptial bash in July 2008, at ages 14, 13, and 2. I’m working full- to see Bowdoin folks who find Madeline’s family summer home in Ware Neck, time as a radiologist at Emerson themselves traveling in those parts; Va., are (l to r): Clay, Madeline, Linda Lopelas Hospital in Concord, Mass.We would though, hopefully, not in a professional Jones ’84,Wendy Arundel ’84, Elizabeth welcome any visitors.” O’Brien and her husband Jaime Ware ’83. capacity!” Paul Dyer wrote in late October:“I recently accepted the position of Maine Street Design Co. proudly introduces the Director of Admissions for an American CAPT. LAWRENCE E. JOHNSON HOUSE boarding school in the French part of Switzerland. My wife, ten-year-old daughter, and I will be moving there next summer. Look us up if you are ever in the Alps. Here is the website for Leysin American School: www.las.ch.” LAUDABLE Donna Bibbo Mastrangelo’s husband Frank wrote last For weekly rentals and special events (cocktail parties, wedding receptions, family winter that Donna was “selected as the first woman to receive the Alumni reunions and academic retreats), visit us online at: www.maineislandgetaway.com Faculty Appreciation Award at Lawrence Just over Cribstone Bridge on beautiful Bailey Island - “A Perfect Bowdoin Getaway!” Academy, where she has worked since she graduated from Bowdoin.” Jodi Mendelson Feeney recently BRUNSWICK wrote:“I am still coaching at Milton Beautiful in town Victorian (circa 1885) Academy; soccer in the fall, fitness in offers style and amenities beyond the winter, and lacrosse in the spring. compare. Eleven spacious rooms Sue Sorter O’Malley and I are affording approx. 3288 sq ft with coaching the teams together.We original built-ins and trim details, recently had a new addition to our hardwood flooring, tin ceiling, French family; Elvis, our second Bernaise doors and stained glass. This mountain dog.” extremely well maintained home boasts of updated heating and electrical systems, recent roof covering 86 Wrenn Compere and fresh paint inside and out. The reports:“I have floor plan allows for a spacious eat-in been running and teaching Mad River kitchen, formal living and dining Valley music together for two and a half rooms, and versatile family room or years, and chipping away at a master’s study downstairs – with four large degree in music therapy. Enjoying the bedrooms on the second floor bittersweet moments of parenting teens. including a master suite with large Life is full!” walk in closet, private bath and enclosed porch. A superb two story carriage LAUDABLE Mona Golub is the house, gracious porches, beautiful landscaping and uncommon in-town privacy “second annual choice for The Griffin complete this fine home. $585,000. Call Rick to learn more. Report of Food Marketing Women Executive of the Year. Ms. Golub’s Call Rick Baribeau for complete details official title is vice president of public RE/MAX RIVERSIDE • One Bowdoin Mill Island, Suite 101 relations and consumer services for Topsham, Maine 04086 Price Chopper. She handles public and Office: 207-319-7828 • Mobile: 207-751-6103 media information and customer www.homesincoastalmaine.com [email protected] relations for the company while overseeing promotions and several

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reported to the Physics department that magnitude that clearly places them she “continues as PTA president for the above their peers. Recipients are Tewksbury (NJ) schools and was also assigned to or have served with busy helping with all the eight grade numerous joint activities in the activities for Harrison. She also got to Department of Defense, joint chiefs of accompany the eighth grade on their staff, joint, specified and allied trip to Washington, D.C., which for a commands, military agencies, and other government major was so much fun!” joint activities as designated by the Phil Morin and his wife and Lynda secretary of defense. Smith received welcomed their new daughter Juliette the medal for his service as a deputy Aine Cordelia Morin on July 22, 2008. staff judge advocate for U.S. Pacific Juliette was 8 lbs and 19 inches. Philip Command from April 2007 to also reported to the Physics department February 2009. He now serves with that he “took the California bar exam the Multi-National Force Iraq Staff in late February, passed in May, and was Judge Advocate’s office.The sworn in to the California bar in June.” commander has been in the military LAUDABLE Navy Cmdr. Gregory for 16 years.” From a Armed Forces News J. Smith “has been decorated with the Service release, April 30, 2009. Also see Defense Meritorious Service Medal. Kristen St. Peter-Hoffman ’96 and The medal is awarded to individuals accompanying photo. for non-combat meritorious Watch Gordon Weinberger in achievement or service that is his Infinite Persistence Life Show: incontestably exceptional and of a infinitepersistence.com. Tiffany Poor Lynch ’88 and her family on April 5, 2009, in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral, next to the Kremlin, in Moscow. (Back row, l to r):Tiffany and Greg Lynch. |profile| (Front row, l to r): Haley Lynch (10),Annie Lynch (8), Page Lynch (7), and Jack Lynch (6).The Lynches were in Russia to adopt Jack. events. She also helps direct the Golub Tamara Risser ’87 Foundation, which supports community Regional Continuous Improvement activities through charitable giving. She Manager, Poland Springs is part of a fourth generation of a 75- year-old American family-managed and associate-owned business.The Price hile some people claim to Chopper chain, owned by the Golub have known their career family, operates more than 100 Price Wpaths as mere toddlers, that Chopper grocery stores in New York, was not the case for Tamara Risser ’87.“I Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, didn’t play ‘water factory’ as a child,” she Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.” jokes. Now a 14-year veteran of the From a Griffin Report of Food Marketing Maine-based bottled water company, release,April 1, 2009. Tamara splits her time between the Poland Springs and Hollis plants, figuring 87 out ways to streamline production and E. B. Brakewood reported to the lessen costs while maintaining eco- professionals engaged in ensuring the physics department that he “has been friendly practices. One of her recent public has safe drinking water.“I find the working for the last two years on a new projects resulted in a 42% cut in oil use whole engineering/water chemistry secret assignment at Merk exploring the at the Hollis plant. aspects of water treatment fascinating,” she Tamara’s foray into the world of water emerging biologics market.They have admits.Working for a private company quality testing began with the Maine presents different challenges but Tamara recently gone public with Merk Drinking Water Program through an EPA- considers herself fortunate to work for an Bioventures and he has been busy funded grant on drinking water organization that takes environmental working on their first product.” disinfection by-products. She enjoyed her issues seriously and recycles 96% of its Cynthia Latham and Mark S.Allison interactions with various municipal water waste.“The whole ethos is that we have “were married on April 4, 2009, at the treatment organizations throughout the to take care of the land,” she says.“You Raleigh Hotel in South Beach, Miami state and gained an appreciation for all the have to take it seriously.” Beach, Fla.” See photo in Weddings section. Kelly McKinney-Brakewood

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Virginia AA Division.This feel-good addictions.” From a Vancouver,Wash., 88 ending, complete with record snowfall, Columbian article, December 8, 2008. LAUDABLE Jessica Kaplan,“a was the culmination of a stunning Maine Prep SAT teacher and a South turnaround for the Broad Run Spartan Portland High School English teacher, 91 football program.When Michael left his Shaun Cooney’s novel Spreading Ashes has been chosen to UNUM’s Maine head coaching position in Santa is available in paperback. It is the story Educator’s Hall of Fame.According to Monica, Calif., for Ashburn,Va., in 2005, of a man honoring his older brother’s South Portland High School, her he undoubtedly had his work cut out dying wish by spreading his ashes across recognition is based on the success that for him.The Spartans had just finished a Europe. Signed copies are available at she has had with her students in series of losing seasons, the last one www.shauncooney.com.” See Bookshelf Testwise, the school’s free curricular ending at 1-9. Over the course of three this issue and online. SAT prep class.This year, Kaplan’s years Michael’s vision of building more Alan Parks wrote on October 22:“I students experienced an average 178- than a winning team, but an enduring started my own insurance point inrease between PSATs and SATs. program, resulted in three winning consulting/brokerage firm, Integrated Jessica, a graduate of Stanford University seasons, two undefeated and a dedicated Benefit Solutions, and based it in Law School, has taught for Maine Prep, following of passionate players and Portland, Maine.Things are going very the Brunswick-based test preparation coaches. He is this year’s recipient of well, and I keep in touch with many company, for five years. Before joining seven Coach of the Year awards, Bowdoin friends. My kids, Mason and the faculty of South Portland High including the Washington Redskins Connor, are keeping me very busy as a School, Kaplan worked for the Justice Coach of the Year, which honors coach of their numerous sports teams, Department as a prosecutor for white achievements on and off the field. Most which is always the best part of any collar crimes and also as a tax attorney.” notably, Michael and his team have been week.” From a South Portland-Cape Elizabeth instrumental in starting a successful Petra Platt wrote on December 16: Sentry article, December 12, 2008. conflict mediation program at Broad “Life has been great lately. I married Tiffany Poor Lynch e-mailed on Run. Michael left a successful law career Michael Platt in December 2007 and May 14:“In March of ’09 we traveled as over a decade ago to pursue his dream completed an ironman triathlon in July a family to Birobidjan, Russia, to adopt of motivating young athletes and 2008. Plus, my brother Craig and his our new son, Jack Ivan Lynch (age 6). In students. He is equally committed in the wife just had a baby boy, whom they the summer of ’08, Jack (then Ivan or classroom, where he teaches AP named Christopher.” Vanya) came to spend four weeks with economics and world history. For in- NEWSPRINT Sherin and Lodgen us through a summer camp program depth coverage of the season, visit: LLP announced “that Sara Jane called Bridge of Hope.This program http://spartangameday.com.” Shanahan has joined the firm as a was set up thirteen years ago to get partner.An experienced litigator, Sara older children adopted from Russia. REUNION represents national retailers, After a successful summer with him, we 90 Bruce Campbell and Tessa Hadlock pharmaceutical and medical device began our paperwork for the adoption. wrote in mid-October:“Life continues manufacturers, insurers and insureds, and In February of ’09 we were informed of at a dizzying pace. Our four children shareholders of closely-held our court date.We spent two weeks keep us running from activity to corporations.” From a Sherin and Lodgen visiting his orphanage in Birobidjan activity. Lucky to have Paul Nelsen ’90 LLP news release March 5, 2009. (eight time zones east of Moscow); we coaching McKenzie’s hockey team. Yunhui Singer wrote on December spent one week in China; and then one Bruce is busy running the executive and 29:“We are in our third overseas week in Moscow before returning international health program at Lahey assignment and are living in Aban home in April. Every day is an Clinic, while Tessa runs the Facial Nerve Dhabi, UAE, right now.The girls are adventure now, as we teach him to Center at Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary.” growing up fast. Lulu is eight and speak English, ride a bike, use a LAUDABLE “Washington State Charlotte is five.” computer, learn to swim, and so on.This University Vancouver professor Susan NEWSPRINT “Maine Street has been a life-changing experience for Ingram received a $1.6 million, five- Solutions, a public affairs and consulting all of us. Our family now feels year grant from the National Institute service of Verrill Dana, LLP,is delighted complete!” See accompanying photo. on Drug Abuse at the National to welcome Dana Stanley as the new For news of Hilary Rapkin, see Norman Institutes of Health. Susan, who teaches Director of Market Research and New Rapkin ’50 and accompanying photo. Introduction to Addictionology and Media.Although Dana’s work will Introduction to Neuroscience, will study frequently bring him to Boston, 89 how dopamine neurons communicate Washington, D.C. and Augusta, he will LAUDABLE Lisa Bossi ’87, sister of with each other in the brain and how be based in Maine Street Solutions’ Michael Burnett e-mailed on January drugs such as amphetamines alter that Portland office.” From a Verrill Dana news 15:“On December 6, 2008, Michael process.The goal is finding better ways release, May 4, 2009. coached his high school football team to to treat addicts or even prevent NEWSPRINT Serena Zabin,an its first-ever state championship in the

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Pictured (l to r): Emily Scott ’04, Ivi Beal, holding son David, and Doug Beal ’92. While traveling through Amman, Jordan, on Rob ’92 and Katie Mandle ’94 saved their Annalisa Bidu Hillis-Ravin ’92 and husband business, Emily found David and Ivi on dog, Bowdie, an 11-month-old Chow and adopted Zander from Guatemala in February PolarNet, the Bowdoin alumni database, and Dobermann mix, from the Washington Animal 2008 (on his first birthday). they met up for breakfast. Rescue League. assistant professor of history at Carleton Dunne) [came] out June 9.” See interactions at a RHIC detector known College, was awarded tenure by Bookshelf this issue, and online. as PHENIX, which is used for research Carleton last spring. She “joined the John Randall e-mailed on by more than 500 physicists from Carleton history department in 2000, December 31:“In August 2008, I throughout the world. Chiu, whose where she spent her first two years as a married Rebecca Losinno in a beautiful research is funded by DOE’s Office of Mellon postdoctoral fellow.Appreciated wedding in New York City. Josh Nuclear Physics within the Office of for her intellectual and pedagogical Brockman, formerly of the Class of Science, led the development of a rigor and ingenuity, Zabin’s excellence 1992 (before transferring to Amherst), PHENIX upgrade, which has extended in teaching is matched by her attended the ceremony. Rebecca and I the detector’s range so that more scholarship. Her published work is live in Park Slope, Brooklyn.” particles from RHIC’s collisions of considered sophisticated, ambitious, and polarized protons—protons spinning in a distinct contribution to the field.” 93 the same direction—are captured.The From a Carleton College Web site article, LAUDABLE “Two physicists at the upgrade enables many unique March 17, 2009. U.S. Department of Energy’s measurements in PHENIX that might Brookhaven National Laboratory, lead to a richer understanding of the 92 Mickey Chiu and Hooman Davoudiasl, substructure of protons. Chiu was also Doug Beal wrote on February 9: were among 68 researchers honored at a honored for mentoring graduate “Emily Scott ’04 has been passing White House ceremony…as recipients students in building advanced through Amman, Jordan, for work and of the prestigious Presidential Early instrumentation.” From a EurekAlert used PolarNet to look us up. On Career Award for Scientists and release December 19, 2008. December 5, Emily delivered a Jolly Engineers.The Presidential Award is the LAUDABLE Last fall,“Business Jumper for the new Beal, son David, highest honor bestowed by the U.S. growth program Count Me In for born August 16.We met up for breakfast government on outstanding scientists Women’s Economic Independence at the Four Seasons Amman–nice! and engineers who are beginning their selected Karen Edwards-Hinds of Thanks PolarNet!” See accompanying photo. independent careers. Nine federal Waterbury, Conn., as one of the four Annalisa Hillis-Ravin e-mailed on departments and agencies support the recipients of the Micro to Millions June 19:“I spent the past year as a stay- honorees, and DOE’s Office of Science award during their competition in at-home mom with my son, Zander, and the National Nuclear Security Trumbull, Conn., which featured female who my husband and I adopted and Administration (NNSA) provided entrepreneurs from Connecticut who traveled to Guatemala to pick up in funding for the work of eight of the competed for business development February of 2008 (on his first birthday). award recipients. Each Presidential packages that include money, marketing, Next fall, I will go back to work at Award winner received a citation, a mentoring and assistance to help their Pembroke Community Middle School plaque, and a commitment for businesses grow into million-dollar as an eighth grade social studies continued funding of their work from enterprises. Karen, President/CEO of teacher.” See accompanying photo. their agency for up to five years. Chiu Workplace Success Group LLC, works Eva Nagorski “lives in New York performs experiments at Brookhaven with corporations and educational City with her husband and their Lab’s world-class accelerator, the institutions to train young professionals daughter, working as a freelance Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and youths to be exceptional employees writer/producer. Her book, The Down (RHIC), to study many different aspects and future business executives.The and Dirty Dish on Revenge: Serving it up of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), a company also works with business Nice and Cold to that Lying, Cheating theory that describes the interactions of leaders on innovative ways to motivate, Bastard (St. Martin’s Press/Thomas subnuclear particles. Chiu studies these develop and supervise young

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Coleman James Hobson was born on July 18, 2008. He is such a delight and keeping us very busy. He enjoys spending time with his friends Jake Silk (son of Karin Gralnek Silk) and Lauren and Brianna Ropacki (Susan Legendre Ropacki’s daughters).We are all very excited to have Alison Behr join us out in Southern Calif. this summer!” See accompanying photo. Anathea Powell e-mailed on March Lucie Garnett ’94 bumped into Bowdoin Airami Bogle Bentz ’95 and husband Michael 31:“I am finishing up my three-year professor Bill VanderWolk during a trip to Bentz welcomed Jessa Katherine Bentz on surgical oncology research fellowship at Milford Track in New Zealand. March 20, 2009. the NIH, and will returning to NYC professionals and youths. Some of their April, 2006. Son Harry was born for a July 1 start back in my general clients include Harvard Business School September 15, 2007.” surgery residency at NYU (three more Executive Education Program,The Lucie Garnett e-mailed on March years to go).Also, I am racing my Bank of New York Mellon,and Turner 4:“After ten years of teaching first grade second Ironman triathlon in Coeur Construction. In addition to her role as in Saint Louis, I decided I needed a d’Alene, Idaho, on June 21, 2009 (I company president, Hinds is the author break, so I quit my job and have spent finished my first there last year). I am of four business books targeted young this year traveling.While on the Milford racing this year in honor of the people professionals and youth workers.” From Track in New Zealand, I met Bowdoin and patients of Doctors Without an Orca Communications for Make Mine a professor Bill VanderWolk. Small world!” Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières Million $ Business news release, November See accompanying photo. (MSF). I have been writing about 12, 2008. MSF’s work (and a little bit about Carolyn Russell and Glen Brock 95 REUNION Ironman) at my fundraising site: (Washington & Lee ’87) “were married Airami Bogle Bentz and husband http://imcda09formsf.blogspot.com/. on September 22, 2007, in Houston, Michael “welcomed their second child, Anyone in NYC after July 1, please keep Texas.” See photo in Weddings section. Jessa Katherine Bentz, on March 20, in touch! [email protected].” LAUDABLE “St. Lawrence 2009.At birth, Jessa weighed 7 pounds, Stephen Smith and Jacquelyn University Associate Professor of Fine 11.5 ounces, and she was 20 inches Crawford (UC-Berkeley ’96) were Arts Melissa A. Schulenberg has been long. Her brother, Kole, is five years old married on January 12, 2008 in Santa named the Frank P.Piskor Faculty now and loves having a little sister.” See Barbara, California. See photo in Lecturer and will give a presentation on accompanying photo. Weddings section. campus next year titled “Manufactured Trelawney Goodell e-mailed on Landscape.”The Piskor Faculty April 1:“Life is wonderful in Seattle. It’s 96 Joe Fontaine “is a post-doc research Lectureship was established in 1979 to hard to believe I’ve been here over 10 fellowship at Murdoch University Perth, encourage original and continued years! I continue to balance contract Australia, at least through 2010. Look research among St. Lawrence faculty work at Microsoft with freelance me up!” members, to recognize and honor writing and editing for agencies, small Kristen St. Peter-Hoffman e-mailed distinguished scholarship and to afford companies, and individuals on April 27:“Greetings from Baghdad. the opportunity for faculty to share (www.nwxne.com). It’s spring, which The arrival of the Hon. Christopher their learning with the academic means lacrosse. I play for Barracuda Hill ’74, U. S.Ambassador to Iraq, community.” From a St. Lawrence Lacrosse, a fun group of women who prompted a Bowdoin alumni photo with University news release,April 20, 2009. travel and play throughout the Pacific CDR Greg Smith ’87, an attorney with Elisabeth Sperry wrote on October Northwest.As the weather improves and the Multi-National Forces Iraq Office of 7:“I am well—living in Providence, the snow level drops, I plan to do a lot Staff Judge Advocate at Victory Base, R.I., with husband Thad, two children, of hiking with my Maine-raised Baghdad, Iraq. He is an active duty Navy two dogs, and a cat. I am a veterinarian, boyfriend, Bill.” JAG, and is in Iraq for a one-year working part-time, doing a lot of Brooke Mohnkern and Amy Carlin deployment. I am an attorney with the surgery.Work and Vera (4) and George (Boston College ’92) were married at MNF-I Office of Staff Judge Advocate at (almost 2) keep me busy!” the Portland Yacht Club in Falmouth, Maine, on April 30th, 2005. See photo in the U. S. Embassy, Baghdad and a civilian 94 Weddings section. attorney with Navy Office of General Jaclyn Cohen wrote on December 19: Mary O’Loughlin-Hobson writes: Counsel in Iraq for an eight-month “Married Adam Cohen (Tufts ’97) in “We are so happy to announce that deployment.” See accompanying photo.

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Alexandra Hunt, at age three months. Julianna Trinity Walker, pictured with big sister Alexandra was born to Lauren Wise ’96 and Isabella, was born August 4, 2008, to Sandra Coleman James Hobson was born on July 18, Matthew Hunt on November 15, 2007. DiPasquale Walker ’96 and her husband Alec. 2008, to Mary O’Loughlin-Hobson ’95 and husband John. Janet Kane wrote in early April:“On November 5, 2008, we welcomed Maura Elizabeth Kane into the world. She’s a very happy, easy-going baby. Her big brother Conor just adores her, and she can’t get enough of watching him play.We’re all adjusting to the new happy chaos and couldn’t imagine life any differently.” See accompanying photo. Sandra DiPasquale Walker, On November 5, 2008, Janet ’96 and Patrick On April 27, 2009, (l to r) CDR Greg “husband Alec, and big sister Isabella are Kane ’96 welcomed Maura Elizabeth Kane Smith ’87,Ambassador Christopher Hill ’74, proud to announce the birth of their into the world. and Kristin St. Peter ’96 met up in Baghdad.

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Vivian Marie Best was born on November 25, Kate Kahey ’97 and her family recently had a BBQ with a bunch of fellow alums and their families 2008, to Celeste Rayner Best ’97 and (back row, l to r): Brian Fitzgerald ’99, Mike Fahey, Steve Kerrissey ’98, Mike Nakashian ’98, Lisa husband Jason. Nakashian, Jenny Post, Jed Sevenson ’95, Dave Morales ’97, Lucy Santos,Tony Teixeira ’97, and Mason Bragg ’98. (Front row, l to r): Lauren Abernathy Fitzgerald ’00; Mike Sinclair ’97, with son little angel, Julianna Trinity Walker, born Cameron; Kate, with daughter Ella and son TJ;Tyler Post ’99,with daughter Anna; Dave Morales August 4, 2008.” See accompanying photo. ’97, with son Anthony; Michelle Dunn, with daughter Payton; Jed Stevenson ’95, with sons Colin Lauren Wise “and Matthew Hunt and Timothy; and Ryan Dunn ’97, with daughters Madison and Emma. (Miami University ’90) joyfully welcomed their daughter,Vivian Marie December:“I am currently living and announce the birth of their daughter Best, on November 25, 2008. She is a working in Durham, N.C. I am a health Alexandra Rachel Hunt on November bundle of joy and we love every minute services research analyst at Research 15, 2007.” See accompanying photo. with her.” See accompanying photo. Triangle Institute (RTI).” NEWSPRINT Courtney Worcester NEWSPRINT Ryan Dunn was LAUDABLE Chad Rowley was “is a member of Pepper Hamilton’s recently promoted to Senior Vice inducted into the Dover (N.H.) Sports Commercial Litigation Practice Group President, Regional Commercial Hall of Fame last fall. From a fosters.com and concentrates her practice on Lending Manager at Enterprise Bank. article, November 30, 2008. corporate governance and shareholder He “began his career at Enterprise in Ben Small “and Katie Krein litigation, including associated federal 1997 as a Leadership Development (University of Richmond ’03) were securities law issues. She has defended Participant, and was the first graduate of married on September 27, 2008, at the companies, financial institutions and the program. He joined the Commercial Wequassett Inn in Chatham, Mass.” See individuals in securities and consumer Lending team and was promoted to photo in Weddings section. class actions, and has represented clients in Bank Officer in 2000, and was named litigation matters ranging from Vice President in 2004. Ryan is a 98 contractual disputes to the protection of trustee of the L.Wyman Trull Bowdoin Palmer Emmitt wrote early trade secrets and other business torts. Scholarship Fund,Treasurer of the December:“I was married on August Courtney is a 1999 graduate of Boston Trustees of Westford Academy, and Co- 16, 2008, at Lake Tahoe to Michelle University School of Law and joined President of the Lowell Art Association, Marie Cardona (University of Southern Pepper in 2008.” From a Pepper Hamilton Inc.” From an Enterprise Bank news release, California ’02).” news release, February 12, 2009. April 28, 2009. Emily Villagio Grant welcomed Kate Fahey e-mailed on June 15:“I new daughter Matilda Jean Grant on 97 recently had a BBQ with a bunch of May 18, 2008. She joins her big sister, Esther Baker-Tarpaga e-mailed in Bowdoin alums and their families.” See Cassidy. See accompanying photo. April:“I was recently hired as a tenure- accompanying photo. NEWSPRINT A mysterious light track faculty member in the dance Bryan Knepper e-mailed on show in the Prospect Heights apartment department at Ohio State University, February 11:“My wife Jennifer, of Trevor MacDermid is illuminated and we will be moving from Los daughter Sutton, and I were excited to in the column,“Brooklynhenge,” in the Angeles to Columbus in the fall.We welcome Margaux Loren into the world March 30, 2009, issue of The New performed at the International Festival on January 2.As well, I am pleased to be Yorker magazine. of Sacred Arts in Delhi, India, in able to support ‘the common good’ by Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, February and are currently on tour with joining the External Advisory board of “Daniel Plosky and big sister Ella, David Rousseve/REALITY dance the Charles Bronfman Institute for welcomed baby Evan Takemitsu Plosky theatre company.We will be performing Personalized Medicine at Mt. Sinai to the world September 29, 2008.” See at Jacobs Pillow, Mass., in July 2009, and Hospital in New York and the Board of accompanying photo. at Danspace in NYC in October ’09.” Governors at The Johns Hopkins LAUDABLE Tim Ryan was See Alumnotes cover. Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute.” inducted into the Wells (Maine) High Celeste Rayner Best “and husband Mark Patterson wrote in mid- School Athletic Hall of Fame last

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Willyanne DeCormier Plosky ’98, husband Daniel, and daughter Ella, welcomed Evan Tim Baird ’99 and Kiyah Duffey ’01 Takemitsu Plosky into the world on September Matilda Jean Grant, born May 18, 2008, and welcomed their first-born, Eleanor Linden, into 29, 2008. big sister Cassidy, are daughters of Emily the world on March 9, 2009. Villagio Grant ’98. November. Ryan was a quarterback and linebacker for the football team and a Burman most recently served as Chief second baseman in baseball.As a football Staff Counsel to the Obama for player, he helped lead the Warriors to the America campaign. Earlier in her career, state championship his senior year when she served as an Associate at Latham & Wells lost to Winslow. He was a tri-captain Watkins, LLP.” From a White House Press of that team. In baseball, Ryan led the release, January 28, 2009. team in home runs his senior season while Shanna Gagnon and Nathan Curtis posting a .440 batting average and earning (Carnegie Mellon ’05) “were married a spot in the state’s senior all-star game.” on August 22, 2008, at the Freeport He is now Associate Athletic Director at Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport, Maine.” Mira Lewis Goldman was born August 22, 2008, to Abbey Greene ’99 and husband Jeff Bowdoin. From a Seacoastonline.com article, See photo in Weddings section. Goldman (Stanford ’99). November 13, 2008. Tobey Horn “has graduated from Joanna Tyler “married David Hale medical school at Wake Forest and is 2009, at the Wright House in Mesa, on October 11, 2008, a gorgeous excited to return to New England for Ariz.” See photo in Weddings section. autumn day, in Alton, N.H.” See photo in his residency in Psychiatry at Katie Davis Westreich and husband Weddings section. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Daniel welcomed their son Elijah David If you’re in the area, look me up!” Westreich on February 27, 2009, in 99 Raegan LaRochelle e-mailed on Chapel Hill, N.C. Katie “will be Tim Baird and Kiyah Duffey ’01 January 7:“Mercer L.Wilkinson and graduating from UNC School of “welcomed their first-born, Eleanor Alden L.Wilkinson were born to Dr. Medicine in May of 2010, after taking a Linden, into the world on March 9, Jared Wilkinson and Raegan year off with Eli. Daniel (Yale ’98) is 2009.” See accompanying photo. LaRochelle on September 26, 2007. currently a post-doc in infectious Abigail Greene Goldman e-mailed Jared works as a podiatric surgeon in disease epidemiology at UNC.” See on January 29:“Jeff and I are thrilled to Augusta for Foot and Ankle Associates accompanying photo. announce the birth of our healthy and of Maine. Raegan, who received her beautiful daughter Mira Lewis Goldman MBA (Yale ’06), is currently self- 01 on August 22, 2008. She is constantly on employed consulting on business and Wayne Chung wrote to the Physics the move, with more energy than her economic development projects.” See department in December:“I finished my parents combined (which is saying a accompanying photo. Ph.D. in computer engineering at lot!), but her constant smiles and cuddles Ferris Lawrence e-mailed on May Dartmouth in August 2006. I am now more than make up for the sleep 6:“After four-and-a-half years in Sao working for the Institute for Defense deprivation. Mira is very excited to Paulo, Brazil, developing projects to Analysis/Center for Computer Sciences meet everyone at the Reunion in May!” fight climate change, I will be returning as a researcher. IDA is a Federally See accompanying photo. to the States to attend the Fuqua School Funded Research and Development of Business at Duke University.While I Center located just outside Washington, REUNION 00 am sad to be leaving Brazil, my D.C.” Courtney Brecht and Chad girlfriend and I will be backpacking Peter and Sarah Curran “had twins MacDermid “were married on August through Brazil for two months to Grace Addison and Toby Finn Curran 13, 2008, in New York City.” See photo (re)visit the best Brazil has to offer on November 15, 2008.These future in Weddings section. before we head to the States.” Polar Bears are excited to visit campus LAUDABLE “President Obama Leah Muhm and Kevin Lin (John and check out the Bowdoin scene!” See named Kendall C. Burman to be Hopkins ’98) “were married March 7, accompanying photo. Associate Counsel to the President. Ms.

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Mercer L.Wilkinson (left) and Alden L. Katie Davis Westreich ’00 and husband Wilkinson (right) were born to Jared William Timothy Nassiff (Class of ’30?) was Daniel welcomed Elijah David Westreich on Wilkinson ’00 and Raegan LaRochelle ’00 born to Lauren Fitch Nassiff ’01 and husband February 27, 2009, in Chapel Hill, N.C. on September 26, 2007. Andy on December 16, 2007. LAUDABLE Alex Ellis received a debuted in the school’s curriculum this trip to continue the post-Katrina prestigious Dean’s Award from the year.” From a Harvard University Gazette cleanup. For more, see the Bowdoin Harvard Business School. “Typically, article, June 10, 2009. News Archive,“Football Team Inspires Harvard Business School courses emerge NEWSPRINT Sports Illustrated Others to Flex Community Service from faculty research, but the second- featured a bit on Kit Hughes last Muscle”: bowdoin.edu/news/archives. year field study seminar Building Green spring. Kit, N.C. State’s director of Melissa Goodrich and Will Lyons Businesses is an exception.A team of football operations, organized a group of (Dartmouth ’00) were married on April four graduating students, [including NC State football players to travel to 19, 2008, in Pinehurst, N.C. See photo in Alex], created this new offering, which New Orleans on a spring break service Weddings section. Sarah Mountcastle ’05 sent in some news about her brother Andrew and |profile| the Ph.D. research he’s currently doing on moth flight.“He studies it through high-speed photography, and the pictures are pretty cool.” Check some Matthew Volk ’03 out on the University of Washington Manager, Programming & Acquisitions, ESPN news site, in an article titled “Straighten up and fly right: Moths benefit more from flexible wings than rigid”: “ was kind of busy at Bowdoin,” http://uwnews.org. Matthew Volk ’03 understates. An All- Lauren Nassiff e-mailed on January INew England sprinter in indoor and 5:“My husband Andy and I welcomed outdoor track, co-chair of Hillel, our son,William Timothy Nassif (Class admissions tour guide, RA, filmmaker and of 2030, perhaps?), into the world on co-general manager of the Bowdoin December 16, 2007.Will weighed 9 Cable Network (BCN), Matt’s ability to 1 pounds and was 21 /2 inches long. He is pull off a major in government and legal such a happy and fun-loving baby and studies was part of the juggling act. But never fails to keep us busy.We just can’t more than simply keeping him involved, get enough of him! I am currently extracurricular activities are what taking a year off from teaching seventh prepared and propelled Matt to his grade social studies at the Dover- current management position at the Sherborn Middle School in Dover, nation’s largest cable sports network. Matt is currently in charge of all Mass., to spend more time with Will ESPN/ABC NBA, poker, and volleyball playoffs concluded, Matt explained the and loving every minute of it.Although programming, but has worked with rewards of working in the high-profile I’m not teaching this year, I still coached nearly every sport during his six-year world of sports television. “I love feeling high school field hockey this past fall tenure at ESPN. In addition to planning that I’m a part of something people and will continue to run my local every minute of coverage for these really care about,” he says, adding, “I feel elementary field hockey program this sports that will air on ESPN and ABC as though I’m living the Bowdoin Cable spring.We are looking forward to Will’s channels, Matt is also responsible for Network dream.” first visit to Bowdoin and meeting some acquiring media rights. As the 2009 NBA of his fellow Polar Bear cubs!” See accompanying photo.

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Real Bowdoin alum Dottie Chalmers ’03 met Patrick Dempsey, who plays a Bowdoin alum on TV,in Auburn, Maine, last winter.The Twins Grace Addison and Toby Finn Curran Lovey Oliff ’01 and Matthew Oliff ’02 Grey’s Anatomy star and Maine native was were born to Peter and Sarah Curran ’01 on welcomed their son Elijah Oliff on November in town for a benefit for his foundation at November 15, 2008. 16, 2008. Central Maine Medical Center. Lovey Oliff and Matthew Oliff Manor in Columbia, Md.” See photo in Kid (kitchenkid.com), a cooking school ’02 welcomed their son Elijah Oliff on Weddings section. for kids and families.You can read about November 6, 2008. See accompanying photo. my adventures cooking with kids on my Kirsten Partenheimer and 02 blog, GrowingUpGourmet.com.” See Christopher Chesla (University Samantha Saffir and Seth Barnes photo in Weddings section. Minnesota Duluth ’07) “were married ’01 were married on August 16, 2008, Lauren Axelrod “married Matt on September 13, 2008, at the Gibbs in Park City, Utah.“We live near the Callahan (University of WI ’99) on Museum in Saint Paul, Minn.” See photo beach in Santa Monica, Calif., where August 23, 2008, in Madison,Wis.” See in Weddings section. Seth works in search marketing for photo in Weddings section. Erik Pletcher and Kate O’Phelan Edmunds.com, and Samantha is the Kinga Gawron “and Brian Akerley (University of Wisconsin ’01) were founder and culinary coach of Kitchen were married July 6, 2007, in Riviera married on August 9, 2008, in Dana Point, Calif. See photo in Weddings section. |profile| Jenny Slepian “married James Begg (University of Tasmania ’02) on June 6, 2008, overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Lahaina, Maui. Shaun Golding and Alison McConnell ’04 Kelly Lawrence were fantastic brides- mates and the only Polar Bears who Financial reporter, founder and could make it, keeping all of the Aussie editor of The Humble Gourmand and Kiwi guests very entertained.” See photo in Weddings section. Alex Tatum e-mailed on December y day, Alison McConnell ’04 covers 4:“I got married [last] June in Rye, the complex world of financial N.H., at the Wentworth by the Sea Bmarkets, reporting real-time news Country Club to Marcia Ingraham out of the U.S.Treasury, Congress, and (Colby ’02).We are currently living in the White House for a Washington, D.C., Beacon Hill in Boston. I am working wire service.The economic turmoil has for a private equity fund in Andover, made Alison’s job exciting, to say the least.“It’s a great time to be a financial Mass., called Constitution Capital reporter and a bad time to be an Partners.” See photo in Weddings section. investor,” she says. Megan Wardrop and Grant An economics major and Orient editor, Gourmand, an online food and wine Morgove (Berklee College of Music Alison interned after graduation at magazine that offers recipes and advice ’02) “were married on March 14, 2009, Stateline.org, a politics and policy news to aspiring foodies.The e-zine includes a on Azedinha Beach in Buzios, Brazil. service, but never planned to enter the blog and restaurant reviews, and also Bowdoin friend Apolka Totth ’01 world of financial reporting.“I had only a features the work of fellow alums Lauren traveled down to join the celebration.” vague sense of combining the two,” she McNally ’03, Jackson Wilkinson ’05, and See photo in Weddings section. says of writing and economics. Sam Chapple-Sokol ’07. For Alison, it’s a Yen-Ching Wu wrote on May 4:“I Alison’s after-hours work involves creative outlet conveniently centered on married my husband Justin Francis writing and something easier to stomach one of her favorite topics.“I’ve definitely Thomas (Class of 2002 Maryland these days than financial news. She is the always loved good food,” she admits. Institute College of Art) on September founding editor of The Humble Visit www.humblegourmand.com. 27, 2008, at the Historic Oakland

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Maya, Mexico.The ceremony was held here—Eli Barnes and I are getting Toussaint (St.Michael’s College ’99) on the Punta Brava Beach and the married July 18, 2009!” were married in Woodstock,Vt., on reception at the el Dorado Royale Spa Dottie Chalmers “got the December 31, 2008. See photo in Resort.” See photo in Weddings section. opportunity to meet Patrick Dempsey, Weddings section. Rob and Maria Mandle ’94 aka ‘Dr. McDreamy’ on Grey’s Anatomy, Josh Police and Betsy Hayes ’04 recently rescued an 11-month-old on Monday, December 29, 2008, at the “were married on September 20, 2008, Chow and Dobermann mix from the Hilton Garden Inn in Auburn, Maine. in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with a Washington Animal Rescue League. Dempsey, a Maine native, was in town reception following at the Eastland They named him Bowdie. See to help raise money at a fundraising Park Hotel in Portland.” See photo in accompanying photo. event for his foundation,The Patrick Weddings section. Jessica Mayol and Travis Dempsey Center for Cancer, Hope, and Eric Walker reported to the Physics Cummings “were married on April 23, Healing, at Central Maine Medical department in December:“Two years ago 2009, in Providenciales,Turks and Center.All proceeds from the event I moved to Maryland.With my company Caicos Islands. Our wedding first dance went to support the cancer center. here in Maryland (R2integrated) I was is also on YouTube!” See photo in Dottie took the opportunity to inform promoted to Director of Technology. I Weddings section. Dempsey that she is a Bowdoin alum, as manage a team of several programmers Sophia Mendoza and Christopher is Dr. Derek Sheppard, the character he and several designers.” Lee ’00 and were married in Boothbay portrays on Gray’s Anatomy. Dempsey Harbor, Maine, on September 20, 2008. informed her that he will continue to 04 See photo in Weddings section. proudly display the Bowdoin T-shirt on Kara Oppenheim and Simon the show; however, he informed her that Gerson ’02 “were married on August 03 Bates College has now started a petition 31, 2008, in Sebasco Estates, Maine.” See Amory Bradley wrote last October: to rival the Polar Bears.” See photo in Weddings section. “Sorry to miss everyone at the reunion! accompanying photo. Natalie Handel and Guillaume Looking forward to the 18th! Big news Megan Greenleaf and Sean Meyer (French Fellow at Bowdoin from 2003-2004) “were married on December 22, 2006, in Paris, France.” |profile| See photo in Weddings section. Paul Hastings and Debbie Wissel ’03 were married on August 23, 2008, at the Stonehouse Manor near Popham Michael Wood ’06 Beach in Phippsburg, Maine. See photo in Stage actor Weddings section. Alexandra Ogata and Timothy McIntire were married on September s a junior studying abroad in Paris, 27, 2008, in the Bowdoin chapel. See Michael Wood ’06 was a member photo in Weddings section. Aof the audience for two shows Last winter, Blakeney Schick hosted put on by the renowned Théâtre du a gathering where Harrison Davis III Soleil. Just a few years later he was on ’60, new president of the New England stage himself auditioning for a chance to Society in the City of Brooklyn, become a part of the company, an presented a silver tray to Franklin experience Michael compared to a reality Ciaccio ’63 in appreciation of Frank’s television show, in which contestants are service for seven years as Harrison’s eliminated after every round. Over the predecessor.The society’s scholarship course of two months, nine hundred Now back in Maine, Michael is working actors were whittled down to just in Bar Harbor and unwinding after such committee, chaired by Harrison for the eighteen. Although he wasn’t selected to an exhilarating experience. He intends to last thirty years, awards supplementary join the company, contributing to the pursue theater in the future and is scholarships to students from Brooklyn creation of the theater’s upcoming considering teaching and directing in who attend college in New England. production was ultimately the grand addition to acting. Having the Bowdoin See photo on page 57. prize.“It gave me a huge appreciation community to come home to was Chelsea Peters and Matthew and a sense of pride that doing theatre comforting after leaving behind his Boston Peters “were married on August 30, isn’t something you do in your spare life for the Paris-based workshop. 2008, in West Hartford, Conn.” See photo time,” Michael said.“It enhanced my own “Bowdoin was the place that gave me the in Weddings section. life and the lives of the people and the courage to go do something like that.” community around me.” 05 REUNION Caitlin Connolly writes:“I am currently

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Brad Gillis ’08 Co-owner, Homegrown Sustainable Sandwich Shop

rad Gillis ’08 is hoping to “turn back managerial experience, getting a restaurant although some favorites remain on the list the clock,” at least when it comes up and running was no small feat.The year-round. A demand for take-out orders Bto sandwiches. A self-confessed toughest row to hoe was figuring out and catering has prompted Brad to begin foodie, Brad and longtime friend Ben where to purchase each ingredient, which expanding the basement into a full Friedman have recently opened involved many trips to local farms and kitchen.The restaurant already employs 15 Homegrown, a sustainable sandwich shop bakeries and contacting distributors that part-time employees in addition to a full- in Seattle,Washington, that serves local specialized in local and organic products. time executive chef.“It’s definitely turned and organic meals with “ingredients you Each day, Homegrown receives six or into a bigger operation than we thought it can pronounce.” seven separate deliveries.“It’s a juggling would,” says Brad. Opening in late March, Homegrown act,” Brad confesses, but says ordering from But despite the long hours was a project years in the making. A individual suppliers is crucial to ensuring (Homegrown is open seven days a week) mutual love for good sandwiches and that each ingredient is of the highest seeing their plan come to fruition has sustainable agriculture inspired Brad, an quality and comes from responsible origins. been an exciting experience for the two environmental studies/geology major at The practice is quickly paying off, and in young entrepreneurs. “Sometimes we Bowdoin and Ben, a Boston University only a few months of operation, look at each other and say ‘is this really grad, to discuss the possibility of going Homegrown has received accolades from happening?’” says Brad. Homegrown’s into business together, and when senior several Seattle publications and culinary location on the famously bohemian year rolled around, they were ready to Web sites. A steady flow of regulars Fremont Avenue has also provided both put their plan into action. Appropriately, enjoys wild crab cakes, local bacon, and Brad and Ben, who are Seattle natives, the two held their first business meeting avocado on a locally baked brioche roll with an opportunity to reach out to a at Frontier Cafe in Brunswick, where they (Brad’s favorite) and blackened cod new part of their city.“Getting to know drew up a business plan and discussed the sandwiches with vegetable fries. the community has been really funding they would need for their venture. Homegrown keeps the menu constantly rewarding,” Brad says. “We love serving For two recent college grads with no changing to reflect seasonal ingredients, food to people.”

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Central Park.” See accompanying photo. LAUDABLE Luke Wilson,“a third- year JD student at The George Washington University Law School, was Please seleted by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to serve for one year as a law clerk under the ICJ’s help us University Traineeship Programme. Kuke has also been named the first Gruber Foundation International Law reach Fellow at GW Law.” From a George Washington University Law School news you! release,April 2, 2009. 07 Katie Swan ’06 and friends from the Class of LAUDABLE Alexandra Knapp ’06 gathered for an “Ivies in Central Park” “entered the KeyBank Vermont City (back row, l to r): Katie Swan, Ethan Galloway, Marathon free from high expectations. Michael Wood, and Eric Davich. (Front Row): The 24-year-old Shelburne native had a More and more of our invitations Mindy Chism, Drew Friedmann, Hilarie and updates are being sent via Wilson, Ruth Jacobson, Francesca McGowan. modest goal for Sunday’s race: to finish. So much for simply finishing. Knapp e-mail. Please consider sharing your was crowned the top Vermont woman email address with us and let us in my third year of medical school at Sunday, breaking the line in 3 hours, 2 know when it changes. Don’t miss UMass and living in Worcester.” minutes and 35 seconds…Knapp is a out on Bowdoin Club invitations, Leo Landrey wrote on October 2: relative newcomer to the marathon College news, Reunion and “Leo is currently a third-year graduate world. Her first marathon, a race in Homecoming information, and student at Brown, working towards a Sugarloaf, Maine, was last year.” From a class information and updates. Ph.D. in Classics. Perhaps unsurprisingly, BurlingtonFreePress.com article, May 25, Log into PolarNet or contact the he is enjoying academia tremendously.” 2009. Office of Alumni Relations at NEWSPRINT Marissa O’Neil Katie Forney wrote on May 7: [email protected] “was named head women’s ice hockey “I got married on July 5, 2008, to James coach at Williams College. O’Neil spent Petronio (Ohio State ’07) in Gettysburg, last season as an assistant for Division III Pa.We are both presently in Iraq, so national champion Amherst College.” that is why it took me almost a year From a New Hampshire Union Leader to submit my photo.” See photo in article, June 6, 2009. See Bowdoin Insider Weddings section. this issue. Rob Reider wrote on December 16: “My band,The Friday Night Boys, 06 signed with Fueled By Ramen Records Ahron Cohen “was named an editor in September ’08.We have been touring of the Arizona State Law Journal and the east coast and have plans to record will be a summer associate with Dorsey our full-length album in Los Angeles in and Whitney LLP in Minneapolis for January ’09.After that, we will be the summer of 2009.” touring nationally and internationally Rachel Kaplan and Benjamin full time! I’m very excited!” Caldwell ’03 “were married July 12, 2008, in Newport, R.I.” See photo in 08 Weddings section. Mattie Cowan e-mailed on January Kelly Frey wrote in early October: 24:“I have accepted a position at the “Currently finishing last year of law International Republican Institute school at Emory and accepted an offer which is the democracy-building arm to work with Mintz Levin in Boston of the party, on the EurAsian desk. next year. Now have a bulldog (Buddy). This will utilize my Bowdoin Submission Deadline Currently working hard as part of education in International affairs for Alumnotes in the next issue Emory’s National Moot Court team.” and Russian language.” is December 29, 2009. Katie Swan e-mailed that several ’06ers gathered in May for an “Ivies in www.bowdoin.edu/magazine

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5 Rachel Kaplan ’06 and 6 John Miklus ’82 and Farrell ’01, Sydney Asbury Benjamin Caldwell ’03 Kathleen Fogarty (Fairfield ’03, Reeves Livesay ’01, Mike were married July 12, 2008, in University ’85) were married Stevens ’04, Colin Robinson Newport, R.I. Bowdoin on October 11, 2008, at St. ’01, Kim Mimnaugh ’01, friends, and family, in Patrick’s Church in Bay Brian Losier ’01, Laura attendance were (front row, l Shore, N.Y., followed by a MacBride Surdel ’01, Seth to r): Brooke Haley ’03, Sara reception at Southward Ho Barnes ’01, Paul Delaney ’00, Wiltshire ’03, Fariha Mahmud Country Club in Bay Shore. Rob Surdel ’00, Joe Doyle ’06, Ben and Rachel,Alyssa Bowdoin family members and ’01, Jeff Busconi ’00,Tom Kaplan ’12, and Justin alumni in attendance were (l Casarella ’00, John Perry ’00, DeGeorge ’01. (Middle row, l to r): Howard Courtemanche Joshua Clifford ’00, Brian to r):Adam Caldwell ’06, ’83, John Corcoran ’82, Mark Shuman ’02, Patricia Marie Masse ’06, Leigh Luz ’82, Greg Schumaker ’82, Bohannon Clifford ’00, 8 Heglund ’03, Joanna Caldwell Matt Burridge ’82, Rick Melissa Goodrich Lyons ’01, ’10,Adam Kaplan ’09, D’Auteuil ’82, Kathleen, Lisa Scott Golding ’01, and Alex Jonathan Crowley ’07, Megan Rouillard Miller ’83, John, Ellis ’01. (Middle row, l to r): MacLennan ’07,Allison Stephen Miklus ’85 (best Katy Ranere Hughes ’01, Farmer Russo ’01, Jamie man), Linda Miklus O’Brien Meghan Foley Doyle ’01, Russo ’01, and Thomas Ryan ’83, James Miklus ’96, and Mike O’Leary ’01, Marcia and ’01. (Back row, l to r): Mike Quinlan ’82. Alex. (Front row, l to r): John Edmund DiVito ’02, Joe Glynn ’01, Kit Hughes ’01, Henderson ’10, Michael 7 Alex Tatum ’01 and and Dave Rush ’02. Schindelar ’03,William Marcia Ingraham (Colby ’02) Loverme ’02, and Jacqueline were married in June 2008, in 8 Courtney Brecht ’00 and Templeton Loverme ’03. Rye, N. H., at the Wentworth Chad MacDermid ’00 were by the Sea Country Club. married on August 13, 2008, Bowdoin friends attending in New York City. were (back row, l to r): Mike

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9 Lauren Axelrod ’02 Wequassett Inn in Chatham, alumni, and had an incredible married Matt (Cal) Callahan Mass. Bowdoin friends week hiking, golfing, and (University of Wisconsin ’99) included (back row, l to r): celebrating with our friends on August 23, 2008, in Ford Gurall ’04, Bruce and family in Park City, Utah. Madison,Wis. Friends McDonald ’57, Peter Small Pictured (back row, l to r): attending were (l to r): Finley ’64, Hayes MacArthur ’99, Reeves Livesay ’01, Brendan Alsobrook, Nathan Alsobrook Dave Cataruzolo ’98, Ben Wakeham ’03,Alex Ellis ’01, ’97, Melissa Tansey ’02,Andy Chaset ’97, Eric Darci ’97, Jim Colin Robinson ’01, Mike Shaw ’02, Jessie Poulin Buckley Cavanaugh ’98, Chris Pachios Farrell ’01, Joe Doyle ’01, ’02, Lauren and Matt, Elizabeth ’98,Tyler Sutherland ’97,Nat Meghan Foley Doyle ’01, and Chew ’02, Cassie Flynn ’02, Wysor ’97, Owen Hall, Scott Tim Lawson ’01. (Middle row, Sarah Mockler (Colby ’02), and Fox ’99, Mike Morris ’03, l to r):Allison Scaduto ’02, Shannon Gilmore ’02. Lindsay Fox ’03,Andy Kenney Scott Golding ’01,Anne ’98, Elizabeth Small ’99, and Warren ’02, Luanne Krystyniak 10 Joanna Tyler ’98 and Abby Daley ’06. (Seated, l to McConaughy ’76, Sarah David Hale were married on r): Katie Hood Ragosa ’00, Banister ’01, Lyndsey Sennott October 11, 2008 in Alton, Stu Strawbridge ’98, Mark Wakeham ’02, Michael N. H. Pictured in photo (l to r): Ragosa ’97, Doug Brawn ’97, O’Leary ’01, Mara Sprafkin Melanie McCoy Gilligan ’98, Dan Kittredge ’97, Catherine ’02, Beth Sherman Jamieson Joanna,Aileen O’Connell ’98, Forrest ’99, Shawn Bose ’97, ’02,Whitney Church ’02, Sam David Loehwing ’98, Mollie Taylor Bose ’99, Pat Marx ’99, Margolis ’01, Scott Jamieson Mulligan ’98,Amy Cameron John Whipple ’97, Ken ’02, Scott Van Arsdell ’77, and ’98. Sarah LaChance ’98, Anderson ’68, Megan Reitzas Mitzi Shea Van Arsdel ’75. Emily Villagio Grant ’98, and ’01 and Josh Reitzas ’98. (Front row, l to r): Kristi Perine Laura Dominici ’98. ’02, Kate Labella McGovern 12 Samantha Saffir ’02 and ’02, Erin Finn-Welch ’02, 11 Ben Small ’97 and Katie Seth Barnes ’01 were Amelia Stewart ’02,Alex Krein (University of overjoyed to share their Tatum ’01, Seth and Samantha, Richmond ’03) were married wedding on August 16, 2008, and John Glynn ’01. on September 27, 2008, at the with nearly 30 (!) Bowdoin

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13 Shanna Gagnon ’00 and 15 Melissa Goodrich ’01 16 Paul Hastings ’04 Nathan Curtis (Carnegie and Will Lyons (Dartmouth married Debbie Wissel ’03 Mellon ’05) were married on ’00) were married on April on August 23, 2008, at the August 22, 2008, at the 19, 2008, in Pinehurst, N.C. Stonehouse Manor near Freeport Hilton Garden Inn Bowdoinites and other friends Popham Beach in Phippsburg, in Freeport, Maine. sharing in this happy occasion Maine. Bowdoin alumni Bowdoinites in attendance were (front row, l to r): Jed attending were (left to right): were (l to r): Matthew Wartman ’01, Kevin Kendall Jessica Farmer ’02,Aryeh Needleman ’99, Kathy Miller ’01,Alex Tatum ’01, and Stew Jasper ’02, Charles “Mac” Barr Needleman ’00, Shanna and Steffey ’01. (Back row, l to r): ’02, Kevin Park ’03 (in the Nate, and Carolyn Sages Jackson Prentice ’01, Phil back), Sarah Koteen Barr ’00, O’Boyle ’00. Lintz ’99, Danny Wong ’01, Jeffrey Riese ’02, Jenna Katie Dorney Wong ’01,Will Goldman ’03 (kneeling), 14 Kirsten Partenheimer and Melissa, Caroline Lauren Collins ’02, Meg ’01 and Christopher Chesla Simmonds ’02, Sarah Hoenig O’Brien Harding ’02 (University Minnesota Duluth ’02, Greg Lovely ’01, Perrin (kneeling in front), Camilla ’07) were married on Lawrence Hicks ’01, Lauren Yamada ’03, Mason Miller September 13, 2008, at the Fitch Nassiff ’01, Hilde Steffey ’05, Nicole Fava ’03, Michael Gibbs Museum in Saint Paul, ’00, Molly Perencevich ’01, Northrop ’04, Debbie, Minn. Bowdoin and other and Jeremy Smith ’00. Andrew Daigle ’04, Paul, Jeff friends in attendance were Tillinghast ’04, Jon Staley ’02, (l to r):Alison Crossley (Smith Courtney Gribbon ’03 ’02), Kelly Roberts ’03, (kneeling), Daniel Tobin ’04, Kirsten, Marie Pahilan ’01, Lily Alt ’03 (kneeling),Ashley and Ryan O’Donnell ’99. Anderson ’03, Marty Brisebois ’04, Joanie Taylor ’03, Nell Richmond ’03, and Prescott Hart ’04.

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17 Yen-Ching Wu ’01 and Tim Piehler ’01, Di 20 Katie Forney ’07 and Justin Francis Thomas O’Donnell ’03, Sean and James Petronio (Ohio State (Maryland Institute College of Meg,Anne Barmettler ’03, ’07) were married on July 5, Art ’02) were married on Leah Christensen Ottow ’03, 2008, in Gettysburg, Penn. September 27, 2008, at the Julie Dawson Williams ’03, Friends attending the Historic Oakland Manor in and Brian Williams ’00. celebration were (l to r):Trish Columbia, Md. Friends Carney (Ohio State), Brandon attending were (l to r): 19 Erik Pletcher ’01 and Huffman (Ohio State ’05), Matthew Boersma ’04, Kate O’Phelan (University of Meaghan Tanguay ’07, Ethan Elisabeth Gruenberg Boersma Wisconsin ’01) were married Ross ’08, James and Katie, ’04,Yen-Ching and Justin, and on August 9, 2008, in Dana Elisabeth Lauritz ’07, Meghan Andrew K. Evans ’01. Point, Calif. Bowdoin friends Gillis ’07, Sheryl Stevens ’07, in attendance were (front row, Kelsey Wilcox ’06, Lauren 18 Megan Greenleaf ’03 l to r): Justin DeGeorge ’01, McGrath ’07, and Lydia and Sean Toussaint (St. Kate and Erik, Erin Hawkins ’07. Michael’s College ’99) were McDonough ’01, and Steve married on December 31, Patterson ’01. (Back row, l to 2008, in Woodstock,Vt. r): Brian Bowe ’00, Mike Bowdoin friends attending Lieser ’01, and Mike Eaton were (l to r):Wade Kavanaugh ’01. Not pictured, but ’01, Finley Alsobrook (’29?), attending: Eric Hinkel ’01. Nathan Alsobrook ’97, Shannon Gilmore ’02, Barb Thurston ’01, Sarah Rose ’01,

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21 Carolyn Russell ’93 and 23 Jessica Mayol ’02 and 24 Leah Muhm ’00 and Glen Brock (Washington & Travis Cummings ’02 were Kevin Lin (John Hopkins ’98) Lee ’87) were married on married on April 23, 2009, in were married March 7, 2009, September 22, 2007, in Providenciales,Turks and at the Wright House in Mesa, Houston,Texas.Pictured Caicos Islands. Bowdoin Ariz. Bowdoinites in (l to r): Shana Hunter ’93, friends in attendance were attendance were (l to r): Kate Roche Hope ’93,Alex (l to r): Mike Mulholland ’02, Dorsey Lockhart ’00, Grabcheski ’92, Carolyn and Gina Mulholland ’02, Jamie Gretchen Selcke ’00, Kevin Glen, Nancy Conners Hill Suzor ’02,Tony Small ’02, and Leah, and Ted Senior ’00. ’93, and Charlotte Thebaud Brett Bowen ’02,Andrius Hemr ’93. Knasas ’02,Travis and Jessie, 25 Cynthia Latham ’87 Rebecca Cote ’02, Katie and Mark S.Allison were 22 Natalie Handel ’04 and Chalmers ’03, Kristie married on April 4, 2009 at 25 Guillaume Meyer (French Ouellette ’03, Jim Chalmers the Raleigh Hotel in South Fellow at Bowdoin 2003- ’02, Mike Conlon ’02, and Beach, Miami Beach, Fla. 2004) were married on Chris Sakelakos ’02. Other Bowdoin grads in December 22, 2006, in Paris, attendance were (not France. Laura Tatum ’04, pictured):Alex ’87 and Howie Hannah Tucker ’04, Sophia Powers ’84. Handel ’08,Anton Handel ’07, Jerome Junisson (also a French fellow from 2003-2004). Front row:Ana Conboy ’04, Michael Wood ’06, Natalie and Guillaume (French fellow from 2003-2004), and Elaine Johanson ’04.

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26 Josh Police ’03 and 27 Brooke Mohnkern ’95 29 Alexandra Ogata ’06 Betsy Hayes ’04 were and Amy Carlin (Boston and Timothy McIntire ’04 married on September 20, College ’92) were married at were married on September 2008, in Cape Elizabeth, the Portland Yacht Club in 27, 2008, in the Bowdoin Maine, with a reception Falmouth, Maine, on April chapel. Bowdoin Guests following at the Eastland Park 30th, 2005.Alumni friends in helping them celebrate Hotel in Portland. Friends attendance were (l to r): Kent included (back row, l to r): pictured celebrating the Mohnkern ’68, Kent Lanigan Alexander Rosati ’03, Jon occasion were (back row, l to ’98,Amy and Brooke, Stephen Knapp ’02, professor Lousia r): Jenna Posey, Ellen Weaver Smith ’95, and Daniel Slowiaczek, professor Samuel Berg (Colby ’05), Rachel Sanborn ’95. (Missing from Putnam,Alexander Bender Police (Penn ’00), Steffany Photo): John Van Dis ’95, ’06,Alison Witkin ’06, Erica Hodge Chisholm Jamie Gillette ’94, and Carol Ostermann ’06, Jeremy Katzen (Middlebury ’04),Alex Watson Mallory ’90. ’04,Theo Salter ’07, Paul (Middlebury ’04), Josh and Buckland (non-Bowdoin), Betsy, Ramsey Ramadan 28 Megan Wardrop ’01 and Adam Ringel ’04, and Andrew (Trinity ’03), Rich Quincy Grant Morgove (Berklee Fischer ’05. (Front Row l to (BC ’03),Tom May (Brown College of Music ’02) were r): Sarah Clark ’06, Donna ’03), David Costello (’03), married on March 14, 2009, Trout (staff), Brendan Justin Gaither (Georgetown on Azedinha Beach in Buzios, Mortimer ’06,Vanessa Lind ’03). (Front row, l to r):Alicia Brazil. Pictured (l to r): ’06,Alexandra and Timothy Magaldi, Savannah Gillie, Nate Bowdoin friend Apolka Totth McIntire, Brendan Dickinson Labrie, and Joey Labrie. ’01, Megan and Grant. ’04, Natalie Craven ’06, Michael LoBiondo ’06, Elizabeth Leiwant ’08, Heather Day ’06, Henry Work ’06, Freeland Church ’05, Katherine Loomis ’06, Meaghan Kennedy ’06, and Luke Monahan ’06.

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Recently Tied the Knot? Show off your better half – send us your wedding photo. 30 E-mail digital images to: [email protected] ensure print quality, image should be supplied at a minimum resolution of 1500 pixels x 1050 pixels, in a .JPG or .TIF format. Pixel sizes smaller than this may result in poor printing quality, or the photo may not be used. Snail mail print to: Class News Editor, 4104 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011; indicate on envelope: “Wedding photo.” Deadlines for each issue: Volume 1, December 29; Volume 2, March 31; Volume 3, June 30. 31 Information to include: Name and class year of bride and groom; names (including maiden names) and class 30 W. Christopher Lee ’00 31 Stephen Smith ’95 and and Sophia G. Mendoza Jacquelyn Crawford (UC- years of others in photo; date, place, and other ’02 were married in Boothbay Berkeley ’96) were married relevant information about the ceremony. Harbor, Maine, on September on January 12, 2008, in Santa Photo return policy: We will honor requests to return 20, 2008. (First Row, l to r): Barbara, California. Friends Matthew Bitonti ’99, Monica joining them were (l to r): prints, though, as a small operation, we appreciate Almendarez ’02, Sophia and Kent Mohnkern ’68, Daniel “disposable” copies. Should you require your photo Christopher Lee, Paul Sanborn ’95, Jacquelyn and returned, indicate so; you will receive it several weeks Brountas ’54, Scott Schilling Stephen, and Archie Lin ’95. after the published issue in which it appears. ’00,Timothy Saunders ’00. (Middle row, l to r): India Hill Validity: It may seem to go without saying, but we ’02 and Alex Chu ’02. (Back assume that all weddings, civil unions, or commitment Row, l to r):Andrew Caplan ceremonies you report to us actually happened. Not ’00, Jeffrey Molles ’00, Jeffrey all alumni magazines print news of all of these, but we Gilberg ’00, and Andrew take seriously our role in building the whole Bowdoin Gould ’00. community. Please grant that policy the respect it deserves by using these pages appropriately.

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Gilman C. Ellis ’35 died Corps Extension School in Quantico, For a variety of reasons, we have a very long list of people for whom the College has had September 22, 2008, in Manassas,Va. Va. He served in World War II in the news of their deaths, but for whom a full Born in Northfield,Vt., he prepared Army in the Intelligence Division obituary has not appeared. Because we feel for college at South Portland and retired as a major in the Marine passing that news on to you as soon as (Maine) High School.At Bowdoin, Corps. He owned a foreign car possible is important, we are including all of those names in this issue, while we work to he was a member of the Chi Psi dealership in Italy, was a commercial create a better system for reporting on the Fraternity and the rifle, track, and builder in North Carolina, and sang deaths of your friends, classmates, and swimming teams.After graduating basso in various operas in Italy and in associates and for properly honoring their from Bowdoin, he earned master’s the United States. He was preceded lives and connections to Bowdoin. degrees from Boston University and in death by his first wife, Ruth Hewlett S. Stone ’30 August 3, 2009 the University of Maine, Orono. He Nantkes Pach, and a stepdaughter, Donald F. Prince ’31 October 3, 2009 taught at UMO,Westbrook Junior Linda Grainger. He is survived by his Harold H. Everett ’34 June 24, 2009 College, and South Portland High wife, Shirley Jordan Pach; two Bertram H. Silverman ’34 July 13, 2009 School, where he also coached track. daughters, Christina Bowen and G. Roger Edwards ’35 June 9, 2009 For many years, he ran an Tjodi Orlandino; two sons, Michael L. Brooks Emery ’35 January 14, 2009 accounting practice in Portland with and Mark; four grandchildren; a Richard V. Kemper ’35 May 10, 2009 his father. In 1967, he earned an stepdaughter, Sandra Jordan Murray; H. Bickford Lang ’36 January 6, 2009 M.Ed. in guidance and was two stepsons, Bobby Jordan and Donald R. Bryant ’37 October 23, 2009 employed with ManPower Training Randy Jordan; seven step- Horace C. Buxton, Jr. ’37 February 12, 2009 in Portland schools.An active grandchildren; seven step-great Brion R. Cram ’37 December 21, 2008 participant in community affairs and grandchildren; and a step-great great Charles F. C. Henderson ’37 August 9, 2009 William D. Levin ’37 July 21, 2009 an avid Red Sox fan, his many grandchild. Robert M. Porter ’37 January 14, 2009 interests included the Civil War, Henry M.Trask ’37 February 25, 2009 historic preservation, and gardening. William A. O. Gross ’37 died William B.Allen ’38 April 20, 2009 He was preceded in death by his September 24, 2008, in Greenwich, Thomas D. Read ’38 March 7, 2009 wife, Muriel, who died in December Conn.The son of Bowdoin professor H.Alan Steeves, Jr. ’38 September 14, 2009 2007. He is survived by a daughter, Alfred O. Gross H’52, he grew up in George L. Griffin ’39 September 16, 2009 Beth-Jayne Ellis; a son, Stanley M. Brunswick, where he accompanied Albert G. Smith, Jr. ’39 March 13, 2009 Ellis; four grandchildren; and a great his father on research trips to Morton P.Trachtenberg ’39 March 17, 2009 granddaughter. Panama, Labrador, and other Robert W.Armstrong, Jr. ’40 May 4, 2009 locations, cultivating a lifelong Harry W. Hultgren, Jr. ’40 July 7, 2009 Raymond P. Pach ’36 died interest in birds and wildlife.After John C. Locke ’40 August 8, 2007 October 2, 2008, at his home in graduating from Bowdoin, where he Eugene T. Redmond, Jr. ’40 May 19, 2004 Newport News,Va. Born in New was a member of Zeta Psi fraternity, Amos W. Shepard, Jr. ’40 August 31, 2009 York City, he prepared for college at he worked for U.S. Steel in Wallace A. Campbell ’41 March 4, 2008 Chateau Bures, a private school for Pittsburgh, Penn. During World War Everett P.Pope ’41 July 16, 2009 boys in Paris, France.After his II, he served as a sergeant on the War Norman W.Austin ’42 September 10, 2008 graduation from Bowdoin, he studied Production Board for the U.S.Army Robet L. Bell ’42 January 15, 2009 at the Conservatory for Music in and was honorably discharged in Stephen B. Blodgett ’42 January 14, 2009 Franklin W. Eaton ’42 September 27, 2009 Paris and in San Francisco, Calif., at 1943 from the Investigation st Richard B. Lord ’42 April 24, 2009 the Manhattan School of Music in Intelligence Section 1 Service Winfield A. Peterson, Jr. ’42 Sept 10, 2009 New York City, and the University of Command. In 1945, he joined the Thomas Anton ’43 January 5, 2009 North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as advertising firm Ted Bates & Co. in well as at the Military Intelligence New York, where he rose to the rank Continued next page. School in Maryland and the Marine of senior vice president and handled

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many accounts for Carter-Wallace 1952, he was a former instructor of Frederick H. Bubier ’43 January 30, 3009 and American Home Products, pharmacy at the University of Andrew B. Carrington ’43 November 8, 2008 including Colgate toothpaste, Florida and a former pharmacist and Martin H. Clenott ’43 January 17, 2009 Anacin, and others. Leaving Ted owner of the Newberry Pharmacy Wilfred T. Small ’43 May 25, 2009 Bates when the agency terminated in Newberry. He was predeceased Stephen F. Damon ’44 May 30, 2009 the American Home Products by his wife, Pat, who died in 2005, Frederick M. Gilbert ’44 November 28, 2006 account in favor of Bristol Myers, he and is survived by two daughters, Richard C. Johnstone ’44 January 24, 2009 joined Clyne Maxon Advertising Valerie Taylor of Ocala and Patricia Alfred P.Lee ’44 February 11, 2009 before starting his own firm, Drug Burton of Jacksonville; a son, Harry Robert V. Schnabel ’44 September 1, 2009 Philip L. Slayton ’44 March 17, 2009 Copy Associates, where he created R.Tinker of Trenton; three Leroy E. Sweeney, Jr. ’44 February 12, 2009 the product “Gas-X” for the Ex-Lax grandchildren; and two great Robert Threlfall ’44 March 21, 2009 Company. He was an avid investor, grandchildren. Frederick A.Van Valkenburg ’44 April 21, 2009 art collector, and history buff, as well Willard C.Warren II ’44 April 13, 2009 as an adopter of local dogs. In 1948, Franklin B. Comery ’41 died David S. Howell ’45 March 11, 2009 he married Abby Minot, the sister of December 6, 2008, in West Roswell E. Hubbard, Jr. ’45 February 16, 2009 the late Otis Minot, who was Springfield, Mass. Born in Frederick A. Spear ’45 December 31, 2008 married to Bill’s sister, Louise, and Cambridge, Mass., on May 23, 1919, Donald L.Webster ’45 August 12, 2008 also the Smith College roommate of he was the son of Sanford Comery of George C. Branche, Jr. ’46 April 23, 2009 Judy Fisk, the wife of Bill’s late the Class of 1913. He prepared for Robert W. Donovan ’46 April 2, 2009 brother,Tom.He is survived by his college at Belmont High School and Don H. Irvine ’46 April 29, 2009 wife of 60 years,Abby; his children, Thomaston High School in John F. MacMorran ’46 September 8, 2009 Cynthia Politano of Canton, Conn., Thomaston, Maine.At Bowdoin, he Thomas K. Meakin ’46 June 14, 2009 Bayard Giles of Greenwich, Bradley was a member of Zeta Psi fraternity. Ambrose A. Saindon ’46 March 18, 2009 Giles of Studio City, Calif., Harriet During World War II, he served in Willard C. Salter ’46 February 26, 2009 John L. C. Church ’47 April 2009 “Tinker” Sanford of Greenwich, and the U.S. Navy Air Corps, training James B. Hall ’47 October 2, 2009 Abby “Baba”Walked of Wilton, under Gerald Ford, as a Navy pilot Wallace Jaffe ’47 January 9, 2009 Conn.; a sister, Louise Minot of flying PBY’s in the South Pacific. He Albert C. McKenna ’47 July 15, 2009 Brunswick, Maine; a sister-in-law, retired in 1991 after 45 years at Daniel W. Morrison, Jr. ’48 July 4, 2009 Judith Gross of Lincoln, Mass.; eight Premoid Corp., as vice president of George E. Quaile ’48 May 10, 2009 grandchildren; and a great- sales. He was a member of Philip C. Bolger ’49 May 24, 2009 granddaughter. Mittineague Congregational Church, Raymond L. Lebel ’49 September 16, 2009 where he served as trustee and usher; John L. Mace ’49 June 21, 2009 Benjamin A. Karsokas, Sr. ’39 a member of the Masonic Fraternity; Lawrence A. Nadeau ’49 September 17, 2009 died January 30, 2007, in Los a member of all Scottish Rites and Irving R. Pliskin ’49 October 6, 2009 Angeles, Calif. He was a decorated the Melha Temple Shrine, being a Donald W. Reimer ’49 April 13, 2009 B24 bomber pilot flying with the 32nd degree Mason. He coached Little Harry E.Waning ’49 August 5, 2009 494th Bomber Squadron and was a League in West Springfield and was a Richard A.Wiley ’49 June 12, 2009 commander of the 60th Bomber former member of Wykoff Country Gordon E. Beem ’50 May 31, 2009 Squadron,“Kelley’s Kobras.”Among Club. He is survived by his wife of John G. Feehan ’50 March 14, 2009 his medals was the Distinguished 65 years,Virginia (Foster) Comery; a Donald W. Hanson ’50 August 23, 2009 Russell S. Hewett ’50 September 19, 2009 Flying Cross.At Bowdoin, he was a son, Frank B. Jr. of Rock River, John W. Lawless ’50 April 19, 2009 member of Sigma Nu fraternity. Ohio; three daughters, Sandy Healy R.Willis Leith, Jr. ’50 March 13, 2009 of Lompoc, Calif., Linda Swellie of Lewis P.Mason ’50 January 9, 2009 Randall B. Tinker ’39 died Stromsville, Ohio, and Nancy Kelly December 13, 2008, in Ocala, Fla.A of Agawam; nine grandchildren; and Continued next page. resident of Gainesville, Fla., since four great grandchildren.

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Jack I. London ’41 died December Maine. Born on January 16, 1921, in 1962. He had continued to fly after 6, 2008. He worked with his father Lewiston, he prepared for college at the war, serving as a flight instructor for 41 years and was the co-owner Lewiston High School and Hebron in Pensacola and flying P-47 fighter of Quincy Furniture Company as Academy. He enrolled at Bowdoin aircraft with the Vermont Air well as the founder and a member of in 1939, where he was a member of National Guard, and he regularly the board of directors of the Chi Psi fraternity, but interrupted his flew his Cessna to his winter home Wollaston Credit Union. He is studies to join the Navy as an in the Bahamas. He attained the survived by his wife of 67 years, aviator. He completed his flight distinction of serving as a Ruth (Robinson) London; three training at Pensacola Naval Air commissioned officer in all four sons, Stephen of West Roxbury, Station in Florida and transferred to branches of the Armed Services: Howard ’69 of East Bridgewater, and the U.S. Marines with the rank of Marine Corps fighter pilot,Army Kenneth of Weymouth; a daughter, lieutenant. During his military Air Corps Reserve fighter pilot,Air Jayne of Michigan; a sister, Frances service in World War II, he flew over Force Reserve fighter pilot, Navy Spivack of Connecticut; twelve 100 combat missions in the physician, and also as a member of grandchildren, including Andrea Solomon Islands and Philippine the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. He London ’89; and two great Islands, flying F4U Corsairs with the is survived by his wife of 64 years, grandchildren. VMF 222. In 1946, he graduated Dorothy Daniels Gauvreau; a sister, from Bowdoin and entered the Claudette Doran; three sons, W. Bradford Briggs ’43 died University of Vermont Medical Douglas, Norman, and Kenneth; a November 1, 2008, in Vero Beach, School, where he graduated in 1950. daughter, Gayle; and seven Fla. Born in Jamestown, R.I., he He conducted his internship at grandchildren. prepared for college at Deerfield Chelsea Naval Hospital outside Academy.At Bowdoin, he was a Boston, and then returned to N. Richmond Leach ’43 died member of Psi Upsilon. He was a Lewiston to establish a medical December 12, 2008, in Little Deer Naval aviator during World War II. practice with his father. He did Isle, Maine. Born July 15, 1920, in After the war, he began a career in specialty training in obstetrics and Needham, Mass., he prepared for magazine publishing, ultimately gynecology at Cambridge City college at Needham High School. becoming vice-chairman of Ziff Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., and a During World War II, he served in Davis Publishing Co., which cancer surgical fellowship at the Army Corps of Engineers until published special interest magazines Pondville Cancer Hospital in 1946.After the war, he continued his such as Car and Driver, Skiing, and Walpole, Mass., after which he education at the University of Popular Photography, among others. He returned to his medical practice in Grenoble in France and at Boston was president of the United States Lewiston. He served as Chief of University.After serving briefly as an Ski Educational Foundation, the Obstetrics and Gynecology at St. accountant for American Express in governing body of the U.S. Ski Team, Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston, was on Germany, he returned to the U.S. and and was a skilled golfer and athlete, the courtesy staff and Central Maine began a career as an educator, first as playing both football and baseball at Medical Center, and was designated an English teacher at Gardiner High Bowdoin. He was predeceased by his the Maine Section Chairman of the School. In 1960, he began teaching at wife,“Buffy” Briggs, just two days American College of Obstetrics and the high school in Lexington, Mass., earlier. He is survived by three sons, Gynecology. He retired from where he pioneered the formation of Scott, Peter ’75, and Barry ’78: eleven medical practice in 1990. He was an a special education department and grandchildren; and one great avid athlete and outdoorsman, an incorporated a remedial reading grandchild. enthusiastic boater, and an excellent program. He taught night courses at bridge player. He had a deep interest Boston University for several years Norman O. Gauvreau ’43 died in civic and community affairs, and and tutored students privately during September 22, 2008, in Portland, he ran for mayor of Lewiston in the summer months. In 1975, he

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retired to Deer Isle. He was a talented District. He is survived by his wife, Robert M. Merrill ’50 January 29, 2009 and prolific watercolorist whose Marilyn Penny; two daughters, H. Berkley Peabody, Jr. ’50 February 22, 2009 favorite subject was the Maine coast. Mardi Musick of Encinitas, Calif., Peter T. Poor ’50 October 11, 2007 He was predeceased by his wife, Jane and Moira Turner of Mountain Walter S. Sawyer, Jr. ’50 May 6, 2009 (Burton) Leach, who died in 1970, View, Calif.; three sons, James and Sanford R. Sistare ’50 December 22, 2008 and by a brother,William F.Leach Thomas of Kamuela, Hawaii, and Richard C. Stanley ’50 April 17, 2009 ’37, who died in 1989. He is survived John of London; and ten Peter Arnold ’51 September 23, 2009 by his brother, Harry T. Leach ’38 grandchildren. Robert H. Frost ’51 February 5, 2009 Robert A. Johnston, Jr. ’51 February 6, 2009 and by a son, Burt. Eaton S. Lothrop, Jr. ’51 September 21, 2008 John T. Caulfield ’45 died Paul M. Pelletier ’51 January 30, 2009 DeWitt T. Minich ’43 died October 20, 2008, in Ashland, Ore. W. Frederic Thomas, Jr. ’51 Sept 24, 2009 December 13, 2008, in Beverly, He was a member of Delta Sigma Manfred von Mautner-Markhof ’51 Jan 8, 2008 Mass. He prepared for college at fraternity. Peter A. Southwick ’52 July 19, 2009 Malden High School and was a Louis A.Wood ’52 September 10, 2009 member of Psi Upsilon and the Merton E. Ober, Jr. ’45 died on Raymond M. Biggs ’53 September 14, 2009 football and hockey teams at October 6, 2008, in Burlington, George R. Dunn ’53 March 8, 2009 Bowdoin. He served in the U.S. Mass. Born on May 11, 1921, in Joseph R. Robinson ’53 June 5, 2009 Navy as a lieutenant during World Salem, he grew up in Beverly and Robert E. Cleaves III ’54 February 26, 2009 War II, where he captained PT Boat moved to Winchester in 1993. He Harvey S. Levine ’54 June 19, 2009 No.183 and served as a section prepared for college at Browne and John C. Newman ’54 August 6, 2004 leader of Squadron 11 in the South Nichols School.At Bowdoin, he was Christian B. J. von Heune ’54 January 19, 2009 Pacific.After the war he worked in a member of Delta Sigma fraternity. David W. Morse ’55 March 27, 2009 the woolen and shoe business. He During World War II, he served as Frank J. Scalera, Jr. ’55 December 10, 2008 Robert E.Walsh ’55 April 25, 2009 co-owned American Stay Mfg. Co. an Army medic, receiving the Robert A. Keay ’56 May 1, 2007 and had been a manufacturer’s Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Herbert S. Shimmin ’56 July 7, 2008 representative until he retired. He When he returned from the war, he Thomas L. Spence ’56 March 25, 2009 and his wife moved to Boxford in and his wife moved to Miami, John H. Stearns, Jr. ’56 May 15, 2009 1956, and he was active in where he owned and operated a TV Charles H.Abbott ’57 June 12, 2009 community affairs as a coach and and appliance store. In 1956, they John P.Dow ’57 October 11, 2009 umpire, a member of First Church moved back to Winchester, and he John L. Howland ’57 October 18, 2009 Congregational, and where he went to work at Raytheon. During Herbert A. Ramsden, Jr. ’57 May 28, 2009 served as chairman of the Boxford that time, he returned to college and William O.Wagner ’57 September 22, 2009 Financial Committee for 15 years earned his degree in electrical Thomas J. Butler ’58 December 8, 2008 and as town moderator for 21 years. engineering from Boston University. Richard A. Hillman ’58 February 14, 2009 He is survived by his wife, Carolynn He was a member of the Winchester Andrew T. McMillan ’58 August 21, 2009 “Lynn” Minich; two sons, Peter of Congregational Church, active in Richard G. Balboni ’59 March 11, 2009 Lyndonville,Vt., and Andrew ’79 of the Winton Club stage crew, and a Kenneth A. Berlandi ’59 March 8, 2009 Boxford; a daughter, Prudence director and avid sailor at the David W. Laurie ’59 August 7, 2009 Pilkanis of Wenham; and a grandson. Winchester Boat Club. He was Christopher C.White ’59 January 14, 2009 Edmund Miles Keefe, Jr. ’60 July 22, 2009 predeceased by his wife, Charlotte Nicholas G. Spicer ’60 September 4, 2009 Alec D. Penny ’44 died October Burr Ober, who died in 1999, and W. David Usher ’61 April 26, 2009 11, 2007, in La Mesa, Calif.At by a daughter, Carol Anne, who died Joseph A.Augustini ’62 April 14, 2009 Bowdoin, he was a member of Delta in 1955. He is survived by three Taylor N. Gaither ’64 August 2009 Sigma fraternity. Born in daughters, Judith Ober and Merily Philadelphia, he was a teacher for Swanson of Winchester and Patricia Continued next page. the Grossmont Union High School Barr of Enfield, N.H.; a sister, Janet

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Ober Callowhill of Maine; his fought with the 273rd Infantry, William T. Hume ’46 died companion of the last nine years, Company G. He returned to the October 21, 2008, in Syracuse, N.Y. Ann Miller; and nine grandchildren. States in April of 1946 and re- Born August 27, 1924, in enrolled at Bowdoin, graduating in Millinocket, Maine, he prepared for Richard C. Perkins ’45 died 1948 as a member of the Class of college at The Choate School.After October 30, 2008, in Cape 1946. He worked as a sales his graduation from Bowdoin, where Elizabeth, Maine. Born in Lewiston representative for Stuart he was a member of Alpha Delta on Aug. 7, 1922, he prepared for Pharmaceuticals, for Barnes & Phi, he enrolled in Stanford college at South Portland High Nobles’s College Outline Series, and University, but his studies were School and Hebron Academy and later in medical publishing for interrupted when he was drafted was a member of Zeta Psi fraternity McGraw Hill and Lippincott. He into the U.S.Army Signal Corps. at Bowdoin. After retiring from enjoyed camping with his family, When he returned from his service, active duty in the Navy as a one year taking the family all the the veterinary program had ended at commander during World War II, way from Philadelphia to Stanford, so he transferred to he remained with the Navy as a Yellowstone and back. He ran the Cornell University School of civilian employee with the Naval Chicago Marathon twice while in Veterinary Medicine. Following his Defense Investigative Service at the his fifties, and he completed a 300- graduation, he operated his own Brunswick Naval Air Station. He mile bike ride across the state of small and large animal veterinary was involved in many organizations, Wisconsin. He had grown up practice, first in Dryden and then in including The Navy League,The spending summers in Maine at his Freeville. He was predeceased by his Pejepscot Historical Society, the family’s “gentleman’s farm” between wife, Dorothy Hume; a son, Scott Harpswell Garden Club, and the Newcastle and Boothbay Harbor, Hume; a brother, Robert Hume, Jr.; Topsham Public Library, for which and he and his wife retired to and a grandson. He is survived by he served as treasurer. He is Maine. He is survived by his wife three sons,Town Hume of Boston, survived by a son, Randall, of Barbara, whom he married in 1947; Mass., John W.Hume of Elkton, Medford, Ore.; two daughters, his sons James Karle and Robert Md., and William T. Hume, Jr. of Sandra and Pamela, both of Addison; five grandchildren; and Freeville; a daughter, Jane Hume Portland; and a sister, Margaret four great-granddaughters. Short of Baltimore, Md.; a stepson, Skillings of Holden, Mass. Eugene P.Moon of Lansing; and six Laureston C. Dobbrow ’46 died grandchildren. René L. Boudreau ’46 died December 3, 2008, in Westerly, R.I. September 19, 2008, in Yarmouth, A third generation Weekapaug Clement A. Hiebert ’47 died July Maine. Born in Pittsburgh, Penn., on resident, his career included working 3, 2008, in Portland, Maine. Born January 25, 1925, he prepared for at Xerox, Royal, and Sharp June 7, 1926, he grew up in college in New York City public Electronics. He was a member of Lewiston. He was a member of schools and at the New Hampton Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Theta Delta Chi and graduated from School in New Hampshire. He was Bowdoin.A veteran of World War II, Bowdoin magna cum laude and as a a history major at Bowdoin, and a he was an active participant in such member of Phi Beta Kappa, studied member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Weekapaug community at Harvard Medical School, and Fraternity. He interrupted his studies organizations as the Foundation for completed his internship and to enlist in the Army, where he was Conservation, the Yacht Club, the residency at Massachusetts General first enrolled in the Army Tennis Club, and the Croquet Club. Hospital. In 1958, he continued his Specialized Training Program in He is survived by five children, training by spending a year at the Charleston, South Carolina.When John,Alicen, Christine, Matthew, and Strangeways Laboratory in the Army closed the program, he Annie; seven grandchildren; and one Cambridge, England, as a Harvard was shipped overseas, where he great grandchild. research fellow, and another in

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Bristol, England, training in thoracic brother, Gordon Hiebert of Russell E. Miller ’64 April 10, 2009 surgery. In 1960, he returned to Alexandria,Va.; his children, from his Thomas F. Smith ’64 October 27, 2007 Maine and began a 40-year career as former marriage to Maryanne Alan C. Clark ’66 March 25, 2009 a cardiovascular and thoracic Tremaine Hiebert of Keene, N.H., Edward V. Bush ’67 August 8, 2009 surgeon at Maine Medical Center in Timothy Hiebert ’79 of Providence, A. Charles Lane ’70 September 20, 2009 Portland. He served as staff president R.I., Sarah Hiebert Flowers of Donald E.Woodward ’71 June 11, 2009 John L. Myers ’72 October 6, 2009 of the hospital in 1984, as chief of Oakland, Calif., Kristi Hiebert Patrick J. McManus ’76 July 10, 2009 surgery from 1986 to 1989, and was Morse of Yarmouth,Amy Hiebert Michael H. Oshry ’78 October 4, 2008 chairman emeritus, department of Murphy of Warren, R.I., and Dr. Benjamin H.Walker, Jr. ’80 April 25, 2009 surgery, until his death. He served John Hiebert of Wayland, Mass.; and Christopher D. Zarbetski ’80 May 13, 2009 two tours on the hospital ship S.S. seven grandchildren. Jeffrey L. Beatrice ’82October 23, 2009 HOPE, traveling to Guinea,West Jennifer Beck Fry ’84 October 20, 2009 Africa, and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Joseph F. Holman ’47 died Aditya Behl ’88 August 22, 2009 as part of a program to bring health October 12, 2008, in Farmington, Maria A. San Antonio ’89 October 23, 2009 education and improved medical Maine. Born August 15, 1925, he Leonidas C. Seferlis ’89 October 2009 care to communities around the was the son of Currier C. Holman Marc E. Guerette ’94 August 1, 2009 world.Among the many awards and of the Class of 1906. He prepared Crystal L. Dewberry ’95 September 16, 2009 recognitions of his work that he for college at Farmington High Martin Moskowitz G’63 January 25, 2008 received were the Surgeon Teacher School, where he was a member of James E. Long G’64 January 1, 2009 of the Year at the Maine Medical the state championship basketball Philip W. O’Neil G’67 December 6, 2008 Center, the Gold Heart Award from team of 1942, and at Hebron David W.Thombs G’68 October 17, 2009 the American Heart Association, and Academy. He was admitted to Hazel P.Hobin G’69 February 14, 2009 Thomas H. Reynolds H’69 Sept 22, 2009 the annual Clement A. Hiebert Bowdoin as a member of the class of Andrew Wyeth H’70 January 16, 2009 Student Teaching and Resident 1947, but volunteered for the U.S. Robert L.Woodbury H’88 Sept 12, 2009 Teaching Award at the University of Navy pilot training program in Richard A. S.Arnell – Faculty April 10, 2009 Vermont.A highly-regarded speaker October of 1993 and attended William D. Brewer – Faculty Feb 10, 2009 and writer, he published an Middlebury College and James S. Lentz – Staff July 22, 2009 autobiographical book of anecdotes, midshipman’s schools, obtaining his Georgettte D. Belanger – Staff Aug 21, 2009 scores of surgical publications and commission.The V-5 pilot program Heidi D. Brown – Staff July 6, 2009 several chapters in thoracic surgery was cancelled, and he was discharged Andrew J.Alexander, Jr. – Staff May 25, 2009 textbooks, and served as co-editor of in 1946 as a lieutenant.A member Joseph J. Derbyshire – Staff January 4, 2009 the two-volume Pearson Thoracic and of Delta Sigma fraternity, he Edwin Fenimore – Staff September 5, 2009 Esophageal Surgery. He served on the graduated from Bowdoin magna cum Cyrille Hamel – Staff May 7, 2009 boards of Opportunity Farm, the laude and then attended Boston Joseph Jefferson – Staff April 2, 2009 Portland Symphony Orchestra, and University School of Law, graduating Jean L. Lee – Staff January 18, 2009 Goodwill Industries. He represented in 1950. He was admitted to the Bar Jeanne C. Levesque – Staff October 4, 2009 the American Board of Surgery in of the Supreme Court of Maine in Catherine L. McIntyre – Staff Dec 27, 2008 the inaugural Board of Surgery 1951 and joined his father at the Emily M. McMahon – Staff February 23, 2009 Saeed A. Mughal – Staff May 16, 2008 examinations in Baghdad, Iraq, in family law firm in Franklin County. Maria J. Parker – Staff March 26, 2009 1986, and was permanent vice He served as president of the Maine Felix O. Pinette – Staff October 20, 2009 president of the Harvard Medical Medical-Legal Society, was a Roger E.Tanguay – Staff December 8, 2008 School Class of 1951. He is survived member of the Maine Trial Lawyers Nancy A.Wagner – Staff June 3, 2009 by his wife, May Cameron Hiebert Association and the Association of Aaron Weissman – Staff August 30, 2009 of Yarmouth; two sisters, Ruth Trial Lawyers of America, as well as Marion M.Winkelbauer – Staff Oct 6, 2009 Hiebert Davis of Brookville and the American Bar Association.A Dorothy Hiebert Odell of Belfast; a member of the Maine State Bar

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Association executive committee, he Church, where he also served as Sally; two daughters, Judy Slabyk served as its president, a position also president of the church, chairman of and Nancy Clark; a bother Charles; held by his father and grandfather, in the trustees, elder, deacon, and and a sister, Sarah Hubbard. 1971. He served local and state treasurer of the Eskimo’s Club. He government positions over the years, sang bass in the Bowdoin Glee Robert C. Alexander ’49 died including three terms as county Club, Bowdoin Chapel Choir, September 4, 2008, in Largo, Fla. He attorney and service as state senator Meddiebempsters, several church was a member of Alpha Kappa from Franklin County. He was choirs, and Choral Art Society; and Sigma fraternity at Bowdoin. active leader and member in his was a board member and treasurer of community, Old South Church, and the Friends of the Kotzchmar Raymond L. Chick ’49 died on the Republican Party. He enjoyed Organ. He is survived by his wife of his 81st birthday, November 22, skiing and was an original 58 years, Patricia A. (Melcher) 2008, in Tampa, Fla. He prepared for stockholder of Sugarloaf Mountain Lockwood; two daughters, the Rev. college at Portland High School and and an organizer and director of Diane E. L.Wendorf of Sanford and was a member of Chi Psi fraternity Saddleback Mountain ski area.An the Rev. Joyce A. Long of at Bowdoin. In 1948, he went to avid fly fisherman and a registered Raymond; two sons, Peter A. work in his father’s business, P.S. Maine master guide, he was clerk and Lockwood of Raymond and Bruce Chick and Sons, and retired as member of the Megantic Fish and M. Lockwood of Cape Elizabeth; president and treasurer of the Game Club for over 40 years. He is eight grandchildren; and two step- company in 1986. In retirement, he survived by his wife, Brenda Hart grandchildren. and his wife enjoyed traveling, Holman, whom he married in 1977. achieving a goal of visiting all 50 Arthur H. Showalter, Jr. ’48 died states.A deacon in Riverside Baptist Wayne M. Lockwood ’48 died November 24, 2008, in Lockport, Church in Fort Meyers, Fla., while November 30, 2008, in Cape N.Y.Born in South Windham, he and his wife lived there, he was Elizabeth, Maine. He graduated from Maine, he served in the U.S.Army active in Gideon’s International. He Deering High School in 1940, Air Forces for four years during was also a member of the Bald worked as a census enumerator, and World War II. He was stationed in Eagle’s Club and the Maine Pilots’ then entered Portland Junior Alaska and reached the rank of Association. He is survived by his College. He was called to active corporal.After the war, he graduated wife of 45 years, Marjorie Chick of duty in March 1943 and served from Bowdoin and then moved to Palm Harbor, Fla.; a son, Raymond three years in North Africa and Italy Lockport to take a job at the former Chick, Jr. of Aurora, Colo.; a with the Headquarter Squadron of Harrison Radiator Division. He daughter, Paula Wehmeyer of the 316th Air Service Group. Upon married Sally Gooding, the daughter Gorham; two step-daughters, Linda his discharge from the service, he of the owner of S.S. Gooding, a Kimball of Portland and Nancy enrolled at Bowdoin, where he was printing company that is one of Collard of Saco; nine grandchildren; a member of Alpha Kappa Sigma Lockport’s oldest businesses, in 1952. and nine great grandchildren. fraternity.After graduating, he After working at the company for worked for 37 years in the two years, he bought it, continuing Henry C. Reardon ’49 died underwriting department for the as president of the company until October 29, 2008, in Phoenix,Ariz. Travelers Insurance Company in 1990. He served on the city Police An aviator in the U.S. Navy, he both the U.S. and Canada, retiring in Board in the 1970s, was a member began his career with General 1985. He was involved in many of the Rotary Club, the Tuscarora Electric. He left there in 1970 and community organizations, including Club, and the Lockport Town and joined the Arizona Joint Legislative serving 37 years as a member of the Country Club.At Bowdoin, he was Budget Committee as an economist, Meetinghouse Choir at the South a member of Theta Delta Chi retiring in 1999.At Bowdoin, he Portland First Congregational fraternity. He is survived by his wife was a member of Alpha Delta Psi

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fraternity. He was predeceased by his elected to the Town Charter Junior College.After graduating wife, Joan Reardon, in 1984, as well Commission.When he left office, he from Bowdoin, where he was a as by a son, John, and a daughter, continued work in the insurance field member of Alpha Kappa Sigma Rosemary. He is survived by a and became a respected real estate fraternity, he earned a degree from daughter,Ann K. Mullis of appraiser and a leading expert on the the General Theological Seminary of Tallahassee, Fla.; a granddaughter; complexities of Cape Cod’s zoning the Episcopal Church in 1953. He and three great grandchildren. by-laws. He was a 32nd Degree began his career as vicar of St. Mason, a Shriner, a member of the Barnabas Church in Rumford and Arthur R. Bonzagni ’50 died American Legion, the DeWitt was ordained as a priest in 1954. He October 8, 2008, in Lynnfield, Mass. Clinton Lodge in Sandwich, and was elected rector at St. Barnabas in Born in Melrose, he prepared for Weary Travelers in Bourne, and a 1966 and remained in that position college at Melrose High School and former member of the Lion’s Club of until 1974, when he was elected was a member of Psi Upsilon Hyannis. He is survived by his wife, rector of St. Dunstan’s Church in fraternity. He served in the U.S. Trudy (DeWolf) Brown and his two Ellsworth, where he served until his Navy during World War II. He children, Dianne Brown Davis of retirement. He was a trustee of the retired as a district sales manager for Boylston and Dana A. Brown of Rumford Public Library, a board Nynex Yellow Pages, where he had Topsham,Maine. member and later president of the worked for 37 years. He served as a Rumford Community Center, a Eucharistic minister and lector at Robert J. Beal ’51 died May 31, director of the Tri-County Mental Our Lady of the Assumption 2008, in Phillips, Maine.After his Health Association, and a member Church in Lynnfield and was a graduation, cum laude,from and officer of a local professional former member of Laconia Country Bowdoin, he served in the Army’s men’s literary club. In Ellsworth, he Club, the Thompson Country Club, Counter-Intelligence Corps in was a member and president of the Tedesco Country Club, and the Germany during the Korean War. Hancock County Mental Health Ferncroft Country Club. He studied law at Boston College Association, was a charter member and then practiced as a partner and of the Susan W.Stinson Memorial Paul C. Brown ’50 died September owner of Noyes & Beal in Rangeley, Scholarships, and served as vice 13, 2008. Born December 2, 1925, in and a member of the Maine Bar, for chairman of the Diocese of Maine’s Wakefield, Mass., he attended public more than 50 years. He was active in Acadia Regional Council. He also schools there and joined the Army many area organizations, including established Merestead summer camp Air Forces, serving in World War II the Phillips Historical Society, the and, later, Camp Bishopswood. and the Korean War.While in the Phillips Library Association, the Mile Army, he attended East Tennessee Square Cemetery Association, and Carl L. Wilcken ’51 died State Teacher’s College and Bowdoin, the Sandy River Railroad. He is September 22, 2008, in Pontypool, where he was a member of Beta survived by his brother, Frank S. Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Theta Pi fraternity. He worked in Beal of Wilton; four nieces and Bowdoin cum laude, as a member of insurance, sales, and merchandising nephews, including Kevin J. Beal Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member businesses, including General Electric ’86; and three daughters of his of Sigma Nu fraternity. Riverworks Plant in Lynn, where he longtime companion, the late managed the Employees Store. He Barbara Romines. Henry Lamoreau ’52 died on served on the planning board in December 12, 2008. Born in Castle Stoneham, and also on the planning Lawrence D. Clark, Jr. ’51 died Hill, Maine, he prepared for college board in Barnstable. In 1973, he was October 25, 2008, in Portland, at Presque Isle High School. He elected selectman-assessor of the Maine. Born April 9, 1927, he married Adeline L. Park in 1941, town; in his second term in that post, prepared for college at South and together they raised 10 children. he served as chairman. He was also Portland High School and Portland He worked as a riveter at Bath Iron

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Works, at local textile mills, as a Delta Chi fraternity, he attended The Health Plan until his retirement in construction laborer, and as a right University of Pennsylvania School of 1997.A life-long sports enthusiast, of way agent for the Maine Dental Medicine. He served in the he coached youth basketball and Highway Department. He served in Army Medical Corps and was football in the 1960s and 1970s and the Army in France and Germany stationed in Germany before starting was a team parent and physician for during World War II.An amateur his dental practice in Gloucester. He Kingswood-Oxford boys and archeologist, naturalist, rock hound, loved to sail and was a lifelong Loomis-Chaffee girls lacrosse and and local historian, he contributed member of the Annisquam Yacht ice hockey team in the late 1970s. his knowledge and discoveries to the Club. He is survived by his wife of He was a former member of the Maine State Museum and the 48 years, Sandra (Shigo) Kenyon; a Emanuel Synagogue in West Bowdoinham Historical Society. He brother, Peter T. Kenyon of Belfast, Hartford and a member at his death was a lifetime member and past Maine; a son, Paul B. Kenyon III of of the Congregation Beth Israel board member of the Maine Gloucester; two daughters,Ann there. He is survived by his wife Archeological Society and a member Seiler Ullmann of Beverly and Sara Judith; two sons, Scott and Jeffrey; a of the Knights of Pythias and the Tomlinson Kenyon of Gloucester; daughter,Amy Bernheim ’86; and Maine Chapter of the American and five grandchildren. six grandchildren. Chestnut Foundation. Predeceased by his wife, he is survived by two Donald E. Landry ’53 died Pertti O. Lipas ’55 died September sisters, Elizabeth Lamoreau of September 20, 2008, in Fort Collins, 22, 2008, in Jyvaskyla, Finland. Richmond and Lois Tapley of Colo. He was a member of Delta Stratford, Conn.; a brother, Herman Kappa Epsilon fraternity at James M. Murdock ’57 died “Mike” Lamoreau of Hudson; seven Bowdoin. November 5, 2008, in Port Clyde, daughters, Elaine Diaz of Maine. Born July 17, 1935, in Bowdoinham, Judith Marden of Russell J. Folta ’54 died Chelsea, Mass., he prepared for Weld, Carol Clark of Alameda, September 8, 2008, in Green Valley, college at Reading High School.At Calif., Laurel Lamoreau of Ariz. He was a member of Alpha Bowdoin, he was a member of Zeta Richmond, Constance Jackson of Tau Omega fraternity at Bowdoin. Psi fraternity. Before retiring to Durham, Cynthia Lamoreau of Maine in 1989, he was president of Bowdoinham, and Sandra Tuck of Louis Schwartz ’54 died The Murdock Corporation, a Oakland; three sons, David September 26, 2008, in West family-founded business that he Lamoreau of Lewiston, Michael Hartford, Conn. Born in Peabody, owned and managed with his Lamoreau of Manchester, and Mass., he graduated valedictorian brother, George Jr. He is survived by Malcolm Lamoreau of Livingston from St. John’s Prep in Danvers. He his wife Beverly of Hampton, N.H., Manor, N.Y.;16 grandchildren; and graduated from Bowdoin summa cum whom he married in 1954; four 19 great grandchildren. laude, as a member of Phi Beta sons, James Michael Murdock, Jr. of Kappa and of Alpha Rho Upsilon West Palm Beach, Fla., Peter Paul B. Kenyon, Jr. ’53 died fraternity, and went on to earn his Murdock of Peaks Island, Robert September 24, 2008, in North medical degree from Tufts University Murdock of Aspen, Colo., and Conway, N.H. Born March 6, 1931, in 1957.After an internship at Stephen Patrick Murdock of in Newton, Mass., he was proud to Hartford Hospital, and a residency in Gloucester, Mass.; two daughters, have been a Mayflower Descendant obstetrics and gynecology at Lisa Arnold of Babylon, N.Y., and on both sides of his family. He Maimonides Hospital in New York, Leanne Sacco of Andover, Mass.; a prepared for college at Gloucester he began a forty-year career in brother, George “Bud” Murdock of High School in Gloucester, Mass. private practice in Hartford. He was Port Clyde; a sister, Patricia Ann After graduating from Bowdoin, on the staff of several hospitals and Murdock of Port Clyde; and twelve where he was a member of Theta served as a medical director at MD grandchildren.

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F.Warren Gibson ’58 died Carl Mayhew ’58 died September to Bowdoin. He was a member of December 7, 2008, in Worcester, 25, 2008, in Gardiner, Maine. Born Delta Sigma fraternity. He emigrated Mass. Born in Portland, Maine, he in Augusta in 1936, he prepared for to Canada in 1958 and began a prepared for college at West Paris college at Gardiner High School. career with Corporation House as a High School.After graduating from After graduating from Bowdoin, customs and tariff consultant. He is Bowdoin, where he was a member where he was a member of Alpha survived by his wife of 48 years, of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, he served Tau Omega fraternity, he attended Jacqueline (van Leynseele) Jurgens; in the U.S.Army from 1960 to Tufts Dental School, graduating in two children, Philip and Sabine; and 1962, then graduated from Williams 1960, and began his 45-year career three grandchildren. College school of banking.A banker as a dentist by working in his father’s for all of his career, he worked for dental office in Gardiner. He served Lambertus H. A. Quant ’61 died several firms in Maine and as a captain in the Army in Korea May 15, 2008, in Bilthoven,The Massachusetts before retiring from from 1962 to 1964. In the 1970s, he Netherlands. He was a member of Boston Five Cents Savings Bank. He was active in the Pittston Alpha Kappa Sigma fraternity. was predeceased by his wife, Patricia Republican Committee and the (McWhirter) Gibson, who died in town Planning Board. He was a Robert L. Freeman, Jr. ’62 died March 2008. He is survived by a lobbyist for the Maine Dental in Delray Beach, Fla., on November daughter, Kathryn Gibson-Torres of Association and dedicated much 17, 2008. Born in Worcester, Mass., Shrewsbury; a son, Paul A. Gibson of time to campaigning for fluoridation on June 18, 1940, he prepared for North Dartmouth; two brothers, of Maine’s drinking water.A college at Classical High School in Edwin and William, both of South dedicated Rotarian, he cooked Worcester.At Bowdoin, he was an Paris, Maine; a sister, Joan Wheeler breakfasts for the club for several English major and a member of of McKenny,Texas;and five years. In 2003 and 2004, he traveled Delta Sigma fraternity.After grandchildren. to Romania to donate his time and graduation, he served several years as dental expertise to children in an officer in the U.S.Air Force, with Peter D. Lawrence ’58 died orphanages.An avid outdoorsman, postings to Portland, Ore., and November 28, 2008, in Westminster, he spent time building a sailboat, Aomori, Japan. Following military Mass. Born in Syracuse, N.Y.,on growing trees, hunting, fishing, and service, he earned an MBA from November 12, 1935, he lived in working in his garden. He is Harvard Business School, and then Stow, Mass., for 35 years. He had survived by a brother, Phillip spent a number of years working in been living with his daughter in Mayhew of East Machias; a the banking, financial, and insurance Westminster for a year before his daughter,Abby Elizabeth Mayhew industries in Boston and New York, death. He served in the U.S.Army Waddleton; a grandson; and his as well as in overseas assignments in and had worked for Digital friend, Mona McKay Stromberg. the Bahamas and the Dominican Equipment Corporation as an Republic. Later, he returned to electrical engineer for many years. Floyd B. Barbour ’60 died Maine, living in Saco for many His wife, Caroline (Sibley) Lawrence September 11, 2008, in Boston, years. He served as the budget predeceased him. He is survived by Mass. He was a member of Alpha director of the Council of two sisters, Joan Cizek of Va. and Sue Rho Upsilon fraternity at Bowdoin. Governments in Portland and the Yankowski of Wis.; two sons, Charles chief financial officer of the K. Lawrence of Fremont, Calif., and Emile R. J. M. Jurgens ’60 died Administrative Office of the Courts David Lawrence of Memphis,Tenn.; November 29, 2008, in Ottawa, for the State of Maine.Among the two daughters, Barbara Lawrence of Ontario. Born in Nijmegen,The benefits of his relocation to Maine Northfield, N.H., and Jean L. Netherlands, he served two years in was the opportunity to visit Couture of Westminster, Mass.; and the Royal Dutch Air Force before a Bowdoin more often for seven grandchildren. Fulbright Scholarship brought him homecomings and reunions, as well

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as the chance to spend more time at James E. Byrne ’65 died Bowdoin. He was a director of math the family summer home on Basket September 19, 2008, in Bath, Pa. instruction for the Rochester school Island near Biddeford Pool. In Born on November 27, 1942, in system and a teacher of math at recent, years, he and his wife, Nancy, Bryn Mawr, Pa., he attended Monroe High School. He continued lived in Delray Beach, Fla., where he Northwestern University Dental to serve in the Air Force reserve, was a member of the First School and Medical School after retiring with the rank of Lt. Presbyterian Church of Delray and graduating from Bowdoin. He was a Colonel. He spent much time in served as a Deacon and a Stephens member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Maine and purchased a cottage in Minister. He also was active in the He was a founding partner of South Harpswell. He was English Speaking Union of Palm Carbon Oral Surgery Associates. predeceased by his first wife, Beach and the Society of Colonial After retiring from his medical Elizabeth Ann Vierhile Rapp, who Wars in the State of Florida. In practice, he devoted time to his died in 1990. He is survived by his addition to his wife of forty years, avocation, wood turning. He was wife, Emily Hickey Rapp, whom he he is survived by a son, Matthew, of known as a superb photographer, a married in 1993; two daughters, Fort Lauderdale; and two brothers, skilled gardener, and a maker of Carla Rapp of Victor, N.Y.,and Richard of Vienna,Va., and Bruce of Windsor chairs. He was the secretary Linda Jones of Beaufort, S.C.; two Akron, Ohio. of Moore Township Zoning Board sons, John Rapp of Ionia, N.Y., and of Appeals, past president and Philip Rapp of Hampden, Maine; Robert C. Fay ’63 died October newsletter editor of the Lehigh three stepchildren; six grandchildren; 20, 2008, in Fitchburg, Mass. Born Valley Wood Turners, and served on and two great grandchildren. in Worcester, Mass., he grew up in the board of directors of Gnaden Worcester and Sterling and Hutten Hospital. He is survived by Gilbert G. Mages G’65 died graduated from Wachusett High his beloved, Judith Rodwin; a sister, December 11, 2008, in Dewey,Wisc. School.After graduating from Pamela; a stepson, David Austin; a He earned a degree in mathematics Bowdoin, where he was a member nephew, J. Britton Good; and a and education at St. John’s of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, he granddaughter. University in Minnesota and then attended the University of Kansas, taught high school math at Eielson New York University, and the John R. Rapp G’64 died Air Force Base in Alaska for three University of Mainz in Germany. He September 25, 2008, in Roanoke,Va. years before earning his master’s attended the Monterey Army Born in Rochester, N.Y.,on January degree in mathematics at Bowdoin. Language School and served the 5, 1923, he prepared for college at He went on to teach at University U.S.Army in West Berlin as an West High there. In World War II, he of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and then expert in the German language. He served as a navigator for what was earned his doctorate in mathematics was a long-trail hiker, and he hiked then the Army Air Corps, 390th education at the University of the complete Appalachian Trail six Bomb Group, flying missions in Northern Colorado. He then different times. He served for a time Europe until his plane was shot returned to his teaching career at as a hut staff member in the White down near Dresden, Germany. He the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Mountains, and he hiked the crash-landed, was wounded, taken Point, retiring as professor emeritus complete Continental Divide and prisoner, and held in Germany until in 1999. He is survived by his wife, the complete Pacific Crest Trail. He Russian troops liberated his camp Pat of Stevens Point; three settled in Fitchburg in the early near the end of the war. He was daughters, Lisa Mages-Greene of 1990s, owning and managing two awarded the Purple Heart. Upon his Wausau, Sherry Houben of Stevens apartment houses there. He is return home, he completed Point, and Darcie Mueller of survived by two brothers, Richard undergraduate work at the Plymouth; five brothers; a sister; and Fay of Falmouth, Maine, and Chapin University of Rochester, later five grandchildren. Fay of Garden City, N.Y. earning a master’s degree at

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THE SPIRIT OF A NEW YEAR

The beginning of a new academic year – Bowdoin’s Brunswick Naval Air Station nearby, it seems unlikely that 208th – triggers in each of us a personal emotional a tower filled with undergraduates would be a high-prior- response, as images, sounds, and memories crowd into our ity target for a military attack. If the tower had been on consciousness. Saying good-bye to family members, meet- such a list, then who was the intrepid spy who retrieved ing classmates for the first time, and adjusting expectations the information from the Kremlin’s files? to the realities of college-level classrooms leave vivid Myth 4:A regular October tradition is the appearance impressions on memory. Recollections may be jogged by of stories in local newspapers (including The Orient) the feel and smell of walking through a pine grove after a about ghosts at Bowdoin, often drawing on information rain, or by the audible differences in pitch between shuf- from Internet sites on haunted New England. For those fling through piles of oak leaves and maple leaves. in search of a spellbinding narrative, the Bowdoin stories Autumn also is the season when many oral traditions are disappointing, mostly consisting of disembodied about the College’s history (both wildly fictional and fac- bumps, cold breezes, and voices in the night.While there tually accurate) are passed along to first-year students. is a “great hook” at the top of the stairwell in Adams Hall What follows are a few favorite myths that I have heard for block-and-tackle hauling of cadavers to the fourth repeated over the years. floor for dissection, it is a mechanical device, not a super- Myth 1: Ivies Weekend celebrates the College’s deci- natural object. However, there is no question about the sion to decline an invitation to join the Ivy League. In use of cadavers; an 1835 letter written to Professor Parker fact, the term “ivy league” was first used informally by Cleaveland from a Baltimore physician suggests obtaining sportswriters for The Christian Science Monitor on bodies from Maryland, where laws about grave-robbing February 7, 1935.The Ivy League was formed for athletic were lax. Despite an abundance of raw material for ghost competition in 1954. Ivies Weekend at Bowdoin began as stories – the proximity of Pine Grove Cemetery, a long a spring celebration in the nineteenth century, with ath- history of fraternities and secret societies, the Medical letic competitions, awards, speeches, poems, and the School of Maine, and a great literary tradition – there are planting of the class ivy. Marble markers still identify few, if any, such stories about the College. where ivy once flourished by the Chapel (1876, 1877, While there may be scant evidence for ghosts, there is and 1881) and Memorial Hall (1894). Ivies Weekend has a presence here – a spirit – of those who have gone become one of the major social weekends at the College, before. In his speech at the dedication of the 20th Maine and it taps into the excitement for the end of the aca- monument at Gettysburg in 1889, Major General-Maine demic year. Governor-Bowdoin President Joshua Chamberlain Myth 2:The walkway through the Visual Arts Center [1852] spoke words that continue to inspire:“In great was required by the deed of gift of the Class of 1895, deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. which stipulated that the walk from the granite Class of Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits 1875 Gateway to the Chapel could never be obstructed. linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls.” The walkway itself was rebuilt in 1945, and it replaced an The same may be said about the cumulative and collec- earlier path that connected the gate and the Chapel. tive contributions and sacrifices of the Bowdoin commu- There is no evidence that there was a restriction on nity to make the College what it is today – and what it blocking the walkway, nor is there any proof that the will be tomorrow. architect for the VAC, the late Edward Larrabee Barnes, was limited in his design for the building. With best wishes. Myth 3: The Senior Center (Coles Tower) was target- ed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.With the Bath Iron Works shipyard, a North American Aerospace John R. Cross ’76 Defense Command radar installation in Topsham,and the Secretary of Development and College Relations

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Camille Sarrouf ’55

ents, who never had an opportunity for even a rudimentary education, instilled in me the value of an education, and I feel an obligation to honor the heritage they passed to me.” Cam and Joyce have continued to build the Sarrouf Family Scholarship Fund or Cam Sarrouf ’55, giving back to Bowdoin is the through gifts of cash and appreciated stock.Working best way to say “thank you” to the professors and with the Gift Planning Office, they also created a charita- F mentors he can no longer thank in person. When ble remainder unitrust that pays them quarterly income the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers recently during their lifetimes and will provide a final legacy gift to presented Cam with its Lifetime Achievement Award, the College. So far, the Sarrouf Family Scholarship Fund the event left him thinking of all the people who have has helped six students attend Bowdoin. Joyce and Cam influenced his life and contributed to his success; men- “GIVING BACK IS THE BEST WAY FOR tors like Bowdoin Professor John Sweet, who taught public speaking Cam’s first year. Professor Sweet took ME TO SAY THANK YOU.” Cam under his wing after a difficult first semester, and have supported many other projects at Bowdoin as well, Cam went on to take the freshman prize for oratory including the renovations of Pickard Theater.Their spirit and later starred as Richard III in the first production in of giving back has become a family affair, with their chil- Pickard Theater.The oratory skills he developed under dren, Camille Jr., Leza ’86,Thomas, and John ’93, all Professor Sweet’s guidance became central to Cam’s deeply involved in philanthropy. career as one of Boston’s top ranking trial lawyers. In a distinguished career of public and professional In 1997, Cam and his wife Joyce founded the service, Cam has made Bowdoin Photo: Cam ’55 and Joyce Sarrouf gathered with their family for the Sarrouf Family Scholarship Fund in memory of Cam’s a priority for more than fifty wedding of their daughter Leza ’86 parents, providing the opportunity for students from years.“Without financial aid to Marc Guillemette, including (back row from l to r) Thomas and the Middle East to receive the benefits of a Bowdoin and College interest-free loans, Daniel, Sherri, and Camille, Jr.; (mid- dle row) Dawn, John ’93 (holding education. “I was the first of my family to go to school, I could not have had a Bowdoin Esme), Marc and Leza, Joyce and let alone college,” Cam explains. “My immigrant par- education. I have to give back.” Cam; (front row) Elijah, Sarah, Thomas, Jr., Elizabeth, and Stephen.

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