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From the Editor

Volume 87, Number 2 Winter 2016

Magazine Staff Editor Binge Thinking Matthew J. O’Donnell

Managing Editor My mailbox filled up with responses to junior Aidan Penn’s article about the study of Scott C. Schaiberger ’95 philosophy from our fall issue, and several people on campus and in town stopped Executive Editor to tell me how much they enjoyed it. By all indications, it was our most popular story Alison M. Bennie in recent memory, and your letters about it are a good bridge to the features in this new issue, which in their various subjects further illustrate Penn’s point that deep Design thinking is an end in itself, a true preparation not only for work, but for life. Charles Pollock Mike Lamare The vitality of that thinking manifests itself boldly in our cover story by Katie PL Design – Portland, Maine Benner ’99 about Reed Hastings ’83 and his creation of that innovative and now- Contributors iconic entertainment company, Netflix. A liberal arts education “is about diving 10 James Caton deep enough into an area to understand the cutting edge, and finding always Michael Colbert ’16 that there is much yet to know,” President Rose asserted in his inaugural address features Douglas Cook 12 (excerpted on page 64). The power of the liberal arts has never been stronger or John Cross ’76 more necessary, as Ed Beem reports in depth on the inaugural symposium that 10 Renovated and Preserved Leanne Dech Rebecca Goldfine featured two distinguished panels of scholarly, business, and community leaders Brunswick’s Historic Harriet Beecher Stowe House Scott W. Hood in conversation about the critical thinking skills paramount to success, in any The house at 63 Federal Street where Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Megan Morouse measure, that they derived from their liberal arts educations. Tom’s Cabin, the anti-slavery novel that some say helped spark the American 20 Tom Porter Civil War, has fulfilled many roles in the Brunswick community since it was Melissa Wells It’s a running joke in my family that I can remember names and class years of built in 1806. The College recently completed a renovation of the house with Photographs by: alumni and what they’re up to, but not what I’m supposed to pick up at the grocery the help of architect Nancy Barba. Brian Beard, Dennis Griggs, Bob Handelman, store. I frequently come across news stories, a piece on the radio or TV, and Michele Stapleton, and Bowdoin College recognize a name, which I point out to friends and family— “Oh, she’s a Bowdoin 12 Stream of Happiness Archives. alum; Class of....” I can’t help myself. I’m proud of the accomplishments of the people who make Bowdoin so strong, and I’m inspired by their example to make By Katie Benner ’99 • Photographs by Rebecca Wilkowski and Netflix On the cover: Reed Hastings ’83, founder room in my life for creativity. Every time we queue our favorite show, try a new Its once-ubiquitous red envelopes are (mostly) a thing of the past, but Netflix and CEO, Netflix. recipe, or lose ourselves in a painting, it’s a reminder to us in the wider world of continues to change the way the world enjoys television and movies. Under BOWDOIN MAGAZINE (ISSN, 0895-2604) the great possibilities that result from our liberal arts education. the guidance of founder and CEO Reed Hastings ’83, Netflix is now poised to 28 is published three times a year by Bowdoin take over the world of streaming content. College, 4104 College Station, Brunswick, Henri Matisse said that “creativity takes courage,” and it takes a level of Maine, 04011. Printed by J.S. McCarthy, courageousness to open our minds to new thoughts and ideas, to study for the 20 The Power of the Liberal Arts Augusta, Maine. Sent free of charge to all sake of knowledge and insight, and to be open to possible unforeseen paths that By Edgar Allen Beem • Photographs by Fred Field Bowdoin alumni, parents of current and recent discovery might lead to. One must be brave and resilient, confident and curious, Both the popular and professional literature are full of the current undergraduates, members of the senior skeptical and of a flexible mind in order to found a company, to write a book, to conventional wisdom that liberal arts colleges are in dire straits because class, faculty and staff, and members of the Association of Bowdoin Friends. stand in front of a classroom, to volunteer in Malawi. I think about the importance a struggling twenty-first-century economy has driven students toward of these traits, and the various forms of success they lead to, not only relative to vocational and technical educations designed to land them jobs. But that’s Opinions expressed in this magazine are those my job at the magazine, but closer to home in my job as a father. I could wish not the story Bowdoin has to tell. Departments of the authors. nothing more than for someone to ask my daughter some day down the road, “Why did you study that?,” and have her answer, “Because…” 28 Cooking from the Collection Please send address changes, ideas, or letters By Christine Burns Rudalevige • Photographs by Russell French 2 Mailbox 55 Weddings to the editor to the address above or by e-mail The 700 books in the Esta Kramer Collection of American Cookery, donated 4 Almanac 61 Deaths to [email protected]. Send class to the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives last news to [email protected] or to the 34 Class News 62 Whispering Pines fall, offer up some strange concoctions, along with history, quirky words address above. Advertising inquiries? E-mail [email protected]. Matt O’Donnell and phrases, and even helpful tips still applicable today. Local food writer [email protected] Christine Burns Rudalevige writes about a dinner she prepared and hosted 207.725.3133 featuring recipes taken from some of the books.

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Many Answers to the ‘Dreaded Question’ a good hammer idan Penn ’17’s excellent article in the Fall 2015 issue just wanted to add my two cents regarding Aidan Penn’s Charlie Garland ’62 a really hit home. When I was an undergraduate philoso- i column regarding philosophy majors in the [fall 2015] mailed us the most inter- phy major at Bowdoin and a philosophy graduate student issue of Bowdoin Magazine. As a former owner of a software esting and clever response at Bryn Mawr, people would ask me that dreaded question company and now a partner/principal at Ernst & Young who to an issue we’ve ever all the time, “What are you going to do with philosophy?” employs many up-and-coming software architects, I prefer received. Charlie is the I would reply, “I’m only in it for the money.” That shut to hire philosophy majors. Why? Because business-centric retired CEO of Garland them up! Later, when I was teaching philosophy at Villanova software development technologies, particularly the advanced Manufacturing, which (where it was required), my students would ask, “What can ones like SAP, Pega, IBM, SFC, and others, have advanced to has been making fine we do with philosophy?” My replies then were more serious. the point where they value logical thinking far more than they mallets and hammers I asked for shows-of-hands for various professions. I told the require pure technical competency. We can teach anyone the in Saco, Maine, since future lawyers that philosophy is the best possible pre-law ins and outs of software development; that’s easy. What we 1866. The two-and-a- training, because it teaches how to recognize and critically can’t teach is that which philosophy majors learn during their half pound, solid-head dissect arguments. I told the future engineers that philosophy four years in college: how to think logically. This oft-maligned hammer he sent us after helps them to think systematically and coherently. I had easy major is a boon in my world, and I hope more people realize seeing the ceremonial and fairly obvious answers connecting philosophy to any pro- this. If anyone with a Bowdoin philosophy major wants to talk Thorndike Gavel on our fession we named. Philosophy is practical because it shows us about job opportunities, please send them my way. fall 2015 cover has a how to live, succeed, and keep our consciences clear. Bill Dow ’90 replaceable rawhide face Eric Luft ’74 and is “designed for gen- was heartened by reading “What are you going to do eral-purpose applications egarding Aidan Penn’s article, “A Philosophy Major? i with that?” (Bowdoin, fall 2015). If more students were requiring controlled, non- R What are you going to do with that?,” some things appar- required to study philosophy, we might have a larger seg- marring blows,” such as, ently never change. Back in the antediluvian period, we got the ment of the electorate who are not taken in by the lies and perhaps, assembling same question as history majors. In my case, I considered law disrespect for facts in the output of candidates for public a magazine. school, but ultimately earned an MBA and went into banking. office. Education prepares one not only for jobs, but for life; I think the question most often asked of me was, “Where did and the study of the humanities and the thinkers of the past you go to school?” Coming from the Midwest (Minnesota), the is an essential part of that preparation. Without it, the future response, “Bowdoin College,” was frequently met there with citizen must reinvent the wheel and start life centuries behind silence and a blank stare, followed by a comment like, “Well, where she or he could be. Thank you for those interviews. isn’t that nice.” (Translation: “What a shame he couldn’t get Janet Holmes Carper into a school here at home.”) These days, that may not be as Sister to three Bowdoin alumni and daughter of Bowdoin big an issue, thanks to advances in communications, and The faculty member Cecil T. Holmes Sopranos. In any event, my sincere thanks to Aidan and the contributing alumni for an interesting article. Lewis F. Knudsen Jr. ’63 facebook.com/bowdoin @bowdoincollege

enjoyed the recent Bowdoin Magazine, especially “A i Philosophy Major” and the “Hootenanny.” Now, as I sit bowdoindailysun.com bowdoincollege looking out at Atlanta’s Stone Mountain, and listening to Pete Seeger on my Bowdoin recording, I look forward to the send us mail! next edition. We’re interested in your feedback, thoughts, and ideas about Bowdoin Magazine. You can reach us by e-mail Charlie Freeman ’50 at [email protected].

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Bowdoin regularly hosts events featuring almanac internationally acclaimed guest speakers. Some examples slated for this winter include: a digesT of campus, alumni, and general college miscellany CampusHeadliners • February 22: Katrina Lake, founder and CeO of Stitch Fix, the styling service that hand- selects clothing and accessories delivered to customers’ homes • February 24: r.J. Palacio, the New York Times Nordie Alums Kicking It bestselling author of Wonder • March 8: Scott Allen ’83, editor of The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team, an investigative reporting team portrayed in the recent academy award- nominated fi lm, Spotlight • March 10: reed Hastings ’83, the CeO and founder of netfl ix if you can’t make it to campus, many events are streamed live at bowdoin.edu/live and/or archived at talks.bowdoin.edu. go to bowdoin.edu/calendar for a detailed overview of all events.

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Rise & Shine Smoothie Bowdoin College @BowdoinCollege February 19 #OnThisDay, 1894: The Walker Art Building opens to the public. with wins in the Between new year’s resolutions, the B desire for a break from the heavy eating quarterfi nals and of the holidays, and—for the lucky semifi nals. In the ones—anticipation of a spring vacation, fi nals, she posted a dominating two native-Mainers fi rst competed many of us are looking for ways to 12-second victory in the 1.5K against each other when they jump-start healthy eating. a new juice race to capture the title in a time skied for their high schools’ bar at Jack magee’s pub is doing just of 4:19:42. A native of Elmore, cross-country teams in Falmouth that for the Bowdoin campus, with daily Vermont, Miller twice qualifi ed for and Readfi eld before becoming off erings like this one: Former Bowdoin Nordic team the NCAA Championship while teammates at Bowdoin. Their trip yield: 16 ounces member Kaitlynn Miller ’14 won at Bowdoin. She currently races will take them to Czech Republic, 1 ounce fresh ginger the classic sprint race at the 2016 for the Craftsbury Green Racing Austria, France, Estonia, Finland, (approximately a two-inch piece) US Cross Country Championship Project club, based in Vermont. Sweden, Switzerland, and Norway, 3 large carrots in Houghton, Michigan, in Meanwhile, two of Miller’s where they’ll compete in several washed and tops removed early January. Miller, who had former teammates, Jackson Bloch cross-country ski marathons. They 1 green apple (such as Granny Smith), halved captured second-, fourth-, and ’15 and Tyler DeAngelis ’15, brought eleven pairs of skis and 1 medium orange tenth-place fi nishes in the other embarked on the last day of 2015 four pairs of boots. You can follow peeled, white pith removed three championship races, cruised on a three-month cross-country their adventures on their blog 1 medium lemon through the classic sprint heats skiing trek across Europe. The 477kilometers.blogspot.com. peeled, white pith removed

(Above left) Kaitlynn Miller ’14. (Above right) Tyler DeAngelis ’15 and Jackson Bloch ’15 at the fi nish line of the January 27 Dolomitenlauf 42K process all ingredients through a Follow @BowdoinCollege #OnThisDay for Bowdoin facts, one calendar day at a time. skate race in Austria. DeAngelis fi nished twenty-fourth and Jackson twenty-fi fth in a fi eld of several hundred skiers. vegetable juicer.

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Vintage Flight For First Time, Bowdoin RoboCup Captained by Two women where are they now? During last September’s Great State of Maine Airshow POLITICAL at Brunswick Executive Airport (the former Brunswick Professor of Computer Science Eric Chown caught up with some former Naval Air Station), licensed pilot Nicholas Mansfi eld ’17 INTEL Northern Bites captains. had the rare opportunity to fl y a vintage aircraft • greydon Foil ’05: “He wrote all of the software for the fi rst Bowdoin team (he as part of the show was the whole team!),” Chown said. Foil is festivities. With his now a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon. former instructor “computational studies is a way of solving problems Mark Rowe aboard, that mimics the human thought process by putting a • henry work ’06: “Henry’s lifelong dream was to be an Imagineer at Disney. He is Mansfi eld took off problem in a broader context,” says assistant professor now an Imagineer at Disney.” from Augusta piloting mohammad irfan. using techniques learned in digital a 1930s Ercoupe, an and computational studies, he and his students are • Joho strom ’09: Strom got a PhD at researching social and political networks. one project University of Michigan in robotics and is open cockpit, low-wing involves analyzing which senators in congress now on the autonomous car project at Ford. monoplane once billed are most infl uential. “it’s a hard question—how as “the world’s safest • tucker hermans ’09: Hermans earned much one senator infl uences another.” however, airplane” and used to his PhD in robotics at Georgia Tech by studying historical voting patterns, irfan says he and is now an assistant professor at the train American and and his students were able to determine a group of University of Utah. European fi ghter pilots ten senators who were most infl uential in the 112th • Jack morrison ’11: Founder of Replica during World War II, congress. “in other words, if these senators vote yes landing it in Brunswick Labs, which makes high-resolution 3D on a bill, it’s going to pass,” says irfan. Bowdoin’s RoboCup team, Northern Bites, is somewhat of an outlier in the world models using phones among other historic of soccer playing robots. The ten-year-old team regularly competes against • octavian neamtu ’12: Software engineer aircraft and the Navy’s larger university squads made up of both undergraduate and graduate students. at Ankissam, a Boston nonprofi t F/A-18 Hornets. “It Despite this, Northern Bites is a force in the international arena, including a was my fi rst time in an BOWDOIN BONSPIEL World Championship in the Sony Aibo platform and a second-place fi nish in the • lizzie mamantov ’13: PhD candidate open cockpit plane, and 2015 RoboCup US Open. And now, for the fi rst time, two women, Nicole Morin in cognitive robotics at University of Bowdoin’s curling team cohosted, along with the the noise/wind were ’16 and Megan Maher ’16, are captaining the team. (Elizabeth Mamantov ’13 was Michigan university of maine, the sixth annual maine college incredible,” Mansfi eld co-captain her senior year and the fi rst female captain.) • Josh imhoff ’15: At Google curling crash ’spiel at the Belfast curling club in says. “It was surreal At Octa, “one of the late January. The tourney featured a full twenty-four The 2015 RoboCup team: Phil Koch ’15, Nicole Morin ’16, Evan Hoyt ’15, Josh Imhoff ’15, Kote • dan zeller ’15: fl ying into the airshow Mushegian ’17, Dan Navarro ’16, Franco Sasieta ’16, Megan Maher ’16, President Clayton Rose, Dan Zeller ’15, hottest of the hot silicon valley startups” hours of competition among seven teams including and taxiing past the and Professor Eric Chown. Kneeling: Cory Alini ’18 and Bella Tumaneng ’17. harvard, yale, the university of pennsylvania, Boston Blue Angels preparing university, and miT. Bowdoin, which fi elded two for their show.” teams that were paired against each other in the “c” rUSSIAN TELE-PrESENCE Mansfi eld, an event, is readying for the united states association economics major, curling college championship on march 11–13 in A new fi ve-year Andrew W. Mellon high quality courses to our students while is taking this semester off from his Bowdoin studies chaska, minnesota. in 2011, the polar Bear curlers took Foundation grant will facilitate also expanding our offerings, especially for to intern in the revenue management department at home gold in division iV of the college nationals. collaboration between Bowdoin and Yale advanced language students, by presenting a Southwest Airlines in Dallas as part of the company’s University to support and foster instruction joint course each semester that is facilitated market pricing strategy (MPS) team. “MPS determines in Russian language, literature, and culture by a Yale post-doctoral fellow. The new pricing structures on all of SWA’s non-stop routes based in a way that benefi ts both institutions. “tele-presence” technology is so advanced on historical data, demand forecasts, and competitor “The Mellon-funded Bowdoin-Yale grant students feel as though they are sitting pricing actions,” he explains. “It’s crazy seeing how begins an exciting new phase in the study of together in the same classroom. This competitive the airline industry really is.” Russian language and culture at Bowdoin,” innovative pilot project takes advantage says Laura Henry, John F. and Dorothy H. of new technologies but still adheres to (Top to bottom) Mansfi eld just after his fi rst solo fl ight, in a Beechcraft Musketeer, at the Augusta State Airport in spring 2015. The vintage Ercoupe on Magee Associate Professor of Government the principle that students learn best when the runway at Brunswick Executive Airport after Mansfi eld’s fl ight. Mansfi eld’s and acting chair of the Department of gathered around a seminar table, deeply view of Coles Tower over his instruments during a campus fl y-over. Russian. “It allows us to continue to deliver engaged in critical discussion.”

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The Department of Theater and Dance’s annual December Dance Concert in Pickard Theater featured faculty-directed choreography for students; live, original matthew henson doll music by composer Shamou; and Matthew a. Henson was a critical member of Robert E. Peary’s numerous performances to music ranging from the expeditions to the Arctic. He was a talented dog sledge driver, spoke the Brazilian pop classic Tiko Tiko to Louis Inuit language fl uently, and was respected and liked by his colleagues—his Armstrong’s Alligator Crawl. Inuit name was “Miy Paluk,” meaning “the kind one.” His contributions Visiting Artist Laura Peterson was joined weren’t fully recognized at fi rst because he was African American. by members of her New York City-based That started to change in 1949, and today his accomplishments company, Laura Peterson Choreography, are widely heralded. A new soft sculpture doll in the likeness of to present a new work-in-progress called Henson, created exclusively for the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Untitled Diagrams, which is inspired joined a similar doll depicting Peary in December. It has already made by graphic equations from the fi elds of linguistics and philosophy. appearances on local television, and the Associated Press picked up on the doll, which resulted in national news coverage. “Sondheim on Sondheim,” an intimate Theater portrait of the famed songwriter in his Both dolls are available for purchase in the Arctic Museum’s shop or online AND own words and music, was performed by at bowdoin.edu/collections/arctic-museum. Send photos of the dolls joining students with guest director Ed Reichert you on your own global expeditions and the museum will post them online. Dance in Wish Theater in November. Taken from nineteen Sondheim shows produced over a sixty-two-year period, the piece featured the cast singing material with video commentary from the master himself. announcements from the Trustees During meetings held in Boston February 4–6, the miler Coby horowitz ’14 goes sub-4:00 Bowdoin College Board of Trustees elected a new chair, approved the election of a long-serving trustee Former Bowdoin before charging out front fi eld about ten meters back, Horowitz to emeritus status, and granted tenure to seven faculty national himself with 400 meters clocked 3:30:06 at the bell, amping members. up the crowd for the thrilling fi nal champion Coby to go. With the rest of the • Michele Cyr ’76, P’12, a trustee since 2000, was lap, and crossed the Horowitz ’14 elected to a three-year term as chair. eclipsed the line in 3:59:55 to huge four-minute mile cheers and a hearty • John J. Studzinski ’78, who joined the board in 1998 mark for his fi rst congratulations from the and concluded his service in 2015, was elected trustee time at the John announcer. Horowitz emeritus. Thomas Terrier fl irted with 4:00 • Assistant professors Margaret Boyle (Romance Classic hosted by throughout his collegiate languages and literatures), Judith Casselberry Boston University career, running the wReSTLeRS ReUniTe (Africana studies), David Hecht (history), Abigail in early February. Horowitz came fastest mile in NCAA On January 23, alumni members of Bowdoin Wrestling Killeen (theater and dance), Jeffrey Selinger up from the eighth position in the DIII history at 4:00:41 braved Winter Storm Jonas and came together on campus (government and legal studies), and Yao Tang fi eld at the 600 meter mark (01:29), at the Open New to celebrate and reminisce. Wrestlers and coaches spanning (economics) were promoted to the rank of associate slid into fi fth at the half-way point England Championships three decades of the program’s history reconnected over lunch professor with tenure. (01:59:07), and made his big move in 2014. Watch his and checked out Peter Buck Fitness Center and their former • Associate Professor Crystal Hall (digital and on the outside from there at 1,000 milestone sub-4:00 at wrestling training space—now the Smith Union Game Room. computational studies) was granted tenure. meters to tuck in behind the leader bowdoindailysun.com. The group later cheered on Bowdoin Men’s Hockey to a victory over Middlebury at Watson Arena.

8 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2016 [email protected] 9 Brunswick’s historic harriet Beecher stowe house RENOVATED an escaping slave stops at the PRESERVED harriet Beecher stowe house By Katherine Randall ’16 he College undertook a carefully researched and & “During my flight from Salem to Canada, I met T planned renovation of the with a very sincere friend and helper, who gave me a 210-year-old Stowe House, located refuge during the night, and set me on my way. Her at 63 Federal Street, during 2015. name was Mrs. Beecher Stowe. . . She listened with Bowdoin faculty, students, and staff great interest to my story . . .” collaborated with architect Nancy –JOHN ANDREW JACKSON, 1862 Barba and Warren Construction n a cold night in November 1850, fugitive slave Group on the project. While nothing John Andrew Jackson lay down to rest (in a of the original house remained room in what is now Stowe House). He felt beyond the shape and scale of the “Separating the house from the barn structure was significant o secure, not only because he had a safe place to sleep, but rooms in the front—a new owner in providing the house with its own prominence,” according to Don Borkowski, Bowdoin’s director of capital projects. also because he had spent the evening telling the story of had significantly renovated the house his life to an attentive audience: Harriet Beecher Stowe. after Harriett Beecher Stowe lived Born a slave in South Carolina, Jackson escaped to there—Bowdoin’s efforts focused on the safety of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1847. He lived restoring it to the way it would have there until 1850, when the Fugitive Slave Law put him appeared shortly after her time. in danger of recapture. He fled to Canada, staying one Built in 1806 and first known night with Stowe along the way. In 1856, Jackson sailed as Stonemore House and then to England, where he became a famous anti-slavery Titcomb House, the building is most lecturer and published his 1862 autobiography, The famous for being Harriet Beecher Experience of a Slave in South Carolina. He spent the Stowe’s residence when she wrote remainder of his life lecturing and raising money for free Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book that black communities after the Civil War. changed the way Americans thought That night in 1850 changed both Stowe’s and of slavery and that contributed to Jackson’s lives forever. Their illicit conversation, which the start of the Civil War. Earlier, violated the Fugitive Slave Law, allowed their literary it had briefly been home to Henry voices to develop. These voices, through Jackson’s Wadsworth Longfellow, Class of “The most difficult part of the renovation,” says activism and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, went on to 1825, who rented a room in 1822 as Borkowski, “was dealing change the world through the written and spoken word. a Bowdoin student. with the deterioration of the existing structure, Katherine Randall ’16, an art history major from The Stowe House is on the substandard construction Merrimac, Massachusetts, researched the Stowe House National Register of Historic Places practices during earlier renovations, and the struc- during a summer 2015 independent study project and has been designated a National tural damage caused by under the direction of Associate Professor of Africana Historic Landmark. Bowdoin two or three different fires Studies and English Tess Chakkalakal. Randall’s Mellon acquired the property in 2001. Plans that had taken place.” Humanities research project is titled “Evolution of a for the house include office space Landmark: The Harriet Beecher Stowe House and the for faculty, and certain areas may be History of Brunswick, Maine.” She created a digital open to the public in the future. timeline documenting the house’s history and cultural Photos courtesy of David Kurtis and significance. It is accompanied by related imagery and Don Borkowski. photos and can be viewed in the Civil War Era section at The color of the shutters, Sherwin-Williams #SW6459, is very close to what they were shortly after Stowe lived here. bowdoin.edu/humanities.

10 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2016 [email protected] 11 ITS ONCE-UBIQUITOUS RED ENVELOPES ARE (MOSTLY) A THING OF THE PAST, BUT NETFLIX CONTINUES TO CHANGE THE WAY WE WATCH TELEVISION AND MOVIES AND THE WAY HOLLYWOOD PRODUCES THEM. UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF FOUNDER AND CEO REED HASTINGS ’83, NETFLIX IS NOW POISED TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD OF STREAMING CONTENT— AND ACCORDING TO HASTINGS, GREAT STORYTELLING HAS ALWAYS BEEN NETFLIX’S GOAL. BY KATIE BENNER ’99

eed Hastings ’83 became a household name with his company Netflix. Originally a subscription service that offered unlimited DVD STREAMSTREAM OFOF HAPPINESSHAPPINESS rentals by mail, it morphed into a video streaming business about a decade after it launched in 1997. Now it’s in the midst of another transformation, this time into a global producer and distributor of film and television. Hastings likes to talk about the original content that Netflix has made, like a cartoon series called BoJack Horseman, one of his favorite shows, or a film about a child soldier in Africa called Beasts of No Nation. “Our north star is entertaining people,” he says. “Beasts of No Nation was our first movie, but it’s not because we were trying to produce content that’s good for you or good for society. You appreciate the story. You come back because you want another great story.” When Netflix was just a DVD-by- mail service, few imagined that it would help create some of television’s most talked-about shows, such as the dark political drama House of Cards and the pioneering Orange Is the New Black. No

Courtesy of Netflix of Courtesy one predicted that entertainment industry luminaries like director David Fincher or comedian Tina Fey would create straight- to-Netflix fare. But creative work is now considered the company’s animating force. shows as possible. Success won’t come easy. Massachusetts. His father was a lawyer, and Entertainment drives Netflix subscriptions. Heath Terry, a Goldman Sachs analyst, cites his mother worked for the Justice Resource A bigger subscriber base attracts the best three main challenges to global growth: the Institute and cofounded a nonprofit agency Hollywood talent. Their great work leads to high cost of content, increased competition that helped women enter traditional blue- more happy viewers. from players like Amazon, and the company’s collar trades. He took a year off after Hastings is trying to replicate this need to spend and borrow a lot of money to graduating from high school at Buckingham virtuous circle around the world, making create new shows. There is always the chance Browne & Nichols to sell vacuum cleaners original programs for audiences from (though it’s currently quite a slim one) that door to door. Colombia to France. By letting viewers watch cable and television networks could follow When he got to Bowdoin he majored in what they want, whenever they want, on any HBO’s lead and stream content too. And mathematics. His former math professor Bill device with an Internet connection, Hastings Netflix has yet to enter China, where nearly Barker remembers him as an exceptionally also hopes to upend and overtake the a quarter of the world’s potential Netflix analytical, personable student who was current entertainment regime—a coterie of subscribers live. also intense, independent, and outspoken. production and distribution companies that As Netflix grows, Hastings also finds Hastings excelled in classes where students controls how and when we watch movies himself balancing three very different worked out complicated theorems and and shows. The ultimate goal is for Netflix businesses: technology company, entertainment proofs themselves rather than sit in lectures. to become the world’s first global television studio, and marketing machine. This year Professor Barker says that, unlike many network by 2017. Hastings plans to spend $5 billion on content gifted mathematicians, Hastings could Even though Hastings runs a company and about $1 billion apiece on marketing and explain hard-to-grasp concepts to average with $5.5 billion in revenue and has media technology. “The example I use internally to students in ways they could understand. mogul ambitions, in person he is amiable and describe us today is an airplane,” Hastings In photos taken during his college years, IN A CONFERENCE serene. In a conference room at his company’s says. “I want it to have great wings, a great Hastings looks like an imp clad in hiking gear. ROOM AT HIS Los Gatos, California, headquarters, he leans engine, and great landing gear; and I don’t Even today, more than thirty years later, he Netflix of Courtesy COMPANY’S LOS back in his chair and lays out his strategy want those three fighting.” still looks trim and boyish, though his hair GATOS, CALIFORNIA, to disrupt an entrenched, rich, formidable Pieces of Hastings’s big plan are falling and signature goatee are gray. He reputedly HEADQUARTERS, industry in the same tone that a friendly local into place. This January he revealed at the entertained his friends by unselfconsciously [HASTINGS] LEANS might use while giving directions to a tourist. Consumer Electronics Show, an annual tech belting out songs off-key. He called most men Whereas many executives embrace jargon, and media mega conference, that Netflix is and women “Bud.” Other students took their BACK IN HIS CHAIR Hastings avoids it. He rarely uses big words. now available in 130 new countries, including cues from Hastings. “For the first eighteen AND LAYS OUT “He was always very confident, but not places as far-flung as Azerbaijan and Vietnam. years of my life, people called me ‘Kirk.’ Then HIS STRATEGY arrogant,” says Bill Barker, a math professor The announcement brought Netflix to 190 suddenly I was ‘KP,’” says Kirk Peterson, an During math classes Hastings was known TO DISRUPT AN who worked closely with Hastings at countries. The company has 75 million attorney in Colorado who was friends with to peruse Time magazine. “Reed showed ENTRENCHED, Bowdoin. “He believed that when problems subscribers worldwide. Hastings stood before Hastings at Bowdoin. “Even my parents now me an article about some computer whiz in RICH, FORMIDABLE would arise he would just figure them out.” a giant world map and told the crowd: “Right call me ‘KP.’ It was Reed who started that California,” says Peterson. “He announced now, you are witnessing the birth of a global INDUSTRY IN THE Netflix needs a lot of content to attract back in 1979.” that this was exactly what he was going subscribers and create a credible alternative to TV network.” Hastings joined the Bowdoin Outing Club to do: become a titan in the California SAME TONE THAT traditional television, and getting content can “Reed has this incredible dream to build and later became the organization’s president. computer industry.” A FRIENDLY LOCAL be hard and complicated. The streaming video Netflix into a gigantic, meaningful, world- While some of his favorite treks were in New Hastings wrote in his Stanford graduate Reed Hastings’s yearbook MIGHT USE WHILE rights are often owned by the very cable and changing service,” says Richard Barton, Hampshire’s White Mountains, he didn’t school application: “I did very well in math photo from the 1983 Bugle. GIVING DIRECTIONS broadcast companies that Netflix competes co-founder of the real estate website Zillow have to go far from campus for adventure. and computer science classes, won all of the TO A TOURIST. with, so it’s expensive to obtain the rights and a member of the Netflix board. “He puts One wintry afternoon senior year, Peterson available math prizes, and received the highest to the latest movies and television shows. huge goals out in front of his team, and he has says that the pair walked across the inlet from possible honors for my senior thesis . . . The Streaming rights also come with a tangle of a way of inspiring people to achieve things Brunswick’s Mere Point to Goose Island, challenge felt exciting, but the work seemed rules about when and where videos can be never thought possible.” trekking across a frozen stretch of ocean. irrelevant to the world around me, and it was shown. Customers in Germany and Australia “We were unsure how thick the ice was. So difficult to stay motivated. ‘Mind training!’ I have complained about the lack of choice • • • • • we took a couple of ice axes, strung a short kept telling myself. At the time I did not know created by the prohibitions. rope between us,” Peterson says. “The ice exactly what for.” Hastings says the solution is to control Wilmot Reed Hastings grew up with two occasionally cracked—ominously—but neither During college, Hastings wasn’t much the content by creating and owning as many sisters in the Boston suburb of Belmont, of us fell in.” of a cinephile. Peterson says that the future

14 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2016 entertainment mogul preferred the Three science graduate school program, he had As the money troubles eased, Netflix customers happy. Stooges to Woody Allen. And he disdained few computer science skills, and his only began a years-long battle with Blockbuster, The same year as the DVD fiasco, Netflix television. During an argument sophomore professional experience consisted of teaching then the video rental king. Blockbuster had took a big chance on House of Cards. The year over whether reading “trashy” novels like math in Swaziland through the Peace Corps. size, but Netflix was able to see and learn company’s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, [NETFLIX] CRUNCHED Valley of the Dolls had any merit, Peterson Hastings got into Stanford, the heart of from patterns in subscriber behavior. The engaged in a multi-year bidding war for the VIEWER DATA TO recalls Hastings saying: “Come on, KP, reading innovation in Silicon Valley, where for the company knew which titles subscribers looked show, and some observers were appalled when HELP THE COMPANY Jacqueline Susann is no better than watching first time he encountered people who had at before choosing their selections. It knew Hastings let him shell out $100 million for FIND THE LESS television.” The understood assumption, of successfully started companies. His main if viewers rated titles high or low. The data the first two seasons. When House of Cards course, was that watching television was the takeaway was, “If they can do it, I can do provided clues about which films resonated was released all at once in 2013, it became a EXPENSIVE CONTENT lowest form of intellectual endeavors. it.” He loved to code. In 1991 he started with different types of viewers. Netflix created huge television event, even though it didn’t THAT SUBSCRIBERS Pure Software, a company a personalized movie recommendation system air on traditional broadcast or cable channels. WOULD STILL ENJOY, that made products for Unix that predicted the movies viewers would enjoy. Consumers warmed to the idea of watching AN APPROACH THAT software developers and sold When Netflix streamed video direct to shows over the Internet. NETFLIX BOARD those tools to companies, rather subscribers in 2007—a project it had worked House of Cards also codified cultural MEMBER RICH BARTON than to consumers. on since 2000—it was able to offer mostly norms like binge-watching a whole series, Hastings has publicly told cheap online content like old movies and TV and consuming television shows whenever, CALLS “ MONEYBALL the story of Pure many times, shows. It used the personalization engine wherever, and on any device. It was a FOR VIDEO BUYING.” emphasizing the fact that he to show viewers older movies they might watershed moment for Netflix and for wasn’t a great leader while not have thought to seek out. It crunched video streaming, akin to how CNN’s he helmed the company. He viewer data to help the company find the groundbreaking, on-the-scene, around-the- understood the tech products, less expensive content that subscribers would clock coverage of the first Iraq war ushered in but not the sales and marketing still enjoy, an approach that Netflix board the cable television boom. Netflix’s audacious, operation or how to run a broad member Rich Barton calls “Moneyball for incredibly risky television bet “was the best business. Hastings drove his video buying.” decision we ever made,” Hastings says. employees hard enough to earn The connections that Netflix drew from The company has become known for the nickname “Animal,” and there customer actions, preferences, and viewing making edgier fare that would be considered was a lot of employee turnover. patterns would later help it decide what kinds too challenging to become an instant hit in His venture investors asked him of original content to pursue and how to theaters or on network television. But a movie to remain in the top spot, even market and release those shows. Eventually or show on Netflix can find an audience over though he tried twice to step Netflix overtook Blockbuster, and the chain time. Take for example the dark, violent film down as CEO to become head of went bankrupt in 2010. Beasts of No Nation, which was released on Courtesy of Netflix Hastings says that a 2002 trip to the product. He eventually took Pure public in Netflix and in select theaters last October. Sundance Film Festival was the “Damascus 1995. The company was acquired in 1997, • • • • • It’s the sort of movie that gets accolades only road experience” that made him a lover of all giving Hastings his first financial windfall. He to be whisked from theaters due to poor things film and television. “I watched twenty started Netflix later that year. Hastings made two important decisions in first-weekend box office returns. Beasts was films in five days,” he says. “I fell in love with Netflix faced a near-death experience 2011 that had big consequences for Netflix. streamed more than three million times within the producers, the movies, and the scene.” not long after it launched in 1999, when a He understood early on that videos streamed two weeks of its release on Netflix. Hastings, who has attended Sundance every big Silicon Valley lender, Comdisco, refused over the Internet would overtake DVDs as More recently, the Netflix documentary year since, owns a house in Park City, Utah, to honor a $2-million loan agreement. the medium of choice for viewers, so he series Making a Murderer gained a rabid the home of the festival. He now watches Netflix desperately needed the money to buy announced a plan to get rid of Netflix’s following as viewers debated whether the film adaptations before he reads the books on additional DVDs. “It was Christmastime,” DVD-by-mail business. He also intended to show’s subject, a Wisconsin man named which they’re based. says Hastings. “Money we’d been counting raise prices. Subscribers, however, hadn’t Steven Avery, was guilty of the murder for He may have embraced his inner film on wasn’t there. I had a feeling of dread. I yet embraced streaming services and many which he’s serving a life sentence. nerd, but Hastings is, at his core, more Silicon was letting everyone down.” In the end he individual families were still struggling in the Buzz and acclaim are powerful marketing Valley than Hollywood. The thumbnail sketch convinced a different investor to have faith in wake of the recession. Hastings was correct. tools because they make Netflix fare must-see of his resume is not so different from that his nascent company. “I learned that people But he was also way too early. Customers TV. Netflix original shows, including House of the many software engineers that flock to aren’t always reliable, and when they aren’t revolted. The stock tanked. The plan was of Cards, Orange Is the New Black, Virunga, the tech companies of northern California. you just have to hustle,” says Hastings. killed. And the company learned that it and The Square have taken home fourteen When he applied to Stanford’s computer (Comdisco filed for bankruptcy in 2001.) wasn’t enough to be right. It needed to keep Creative Arts and Primetime Emmy awards.

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Hastings and President performance, despite ‘A for effort,’ generates from all walks of life is not easy,” says Joe Rose sat on either side of a small, round a generous severance package, with respect.” Nunez, the executive director of the California table while San Francisco’s Mayor Ed Lee Netflix is a workplace of adults, not a family Teachers Association. “Reed had very specific ’74 gave a short speech and introduced where people get cut a lot of slack. When the ideas about how public education should be them. The mayor and the president wore slide deck hit the Internet in 2009, Facebook’s organized.” Hastings agrees that he didn’t suits and ties. The entrepreneur wore a dark chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, fit easily into the culture of politics that blazer, a light gray shirt unbuttoned at the called it “the most important document ever dominates education, where support and collar, and a pair of jeans. to come out of the Valley.” (Hastings is now coalition building are as important as having As the discussion got underway, President a Facebook board member.) the best, most logical solution. Nevertheless he Rose sipped on water and referred to papers At a conference in Germany, Hastings forged a working relationship with the teachers laid out before him. Hastings’s side of the likened working at Netflix to playing on union, despite the group’s long-standing table was empty, save for a glass of red wine. a professional sports team. Performance is antipathy toward charter schools. “We had As the conversation moved from education the only thing that matters. The culture of many good arguments,” says Nunez. “We’d had very direct conversations and didn’t pull reform to the tech bubble, Hastings relaxed The company’s breakout television show, freedom and responsibility, while sometimes any punches.” and brightened. “As long as you’re not a “AS LONG AS House of Cards, has won two Golden Globe difficult, has made Netflix a powerhouse. Both men say that Hastings was undone major investor, bubbles are great,” he quipped. YOU’RE NOT A awards and six Emmy awards. Most notably it gave Ted Sarandos the by his proposal that students in bilingual “You convert them to real companies and real More than ever, people think of Netflix freedom to go out on a limb and pay a huge MAJOR INVESTOR, kindergartens should receive much more things.” He leaned in while President Rose as an entertainment company, but its culture sum for House of Cards—a decision that BUBBLES ARE English language instruction, which Hastings spoke, and he waved an outstretched arm for is unlike anything you’ll find in Hollywood. utterly transformed the company. GREAT. BUBBLES believed would help students in the long run. emphasis when he responded. Much like Hastings, Netflix favors Parents felt attacked, and they were up in Near the end of the night, the conversation ARE FANTASTIC, confidence, competence, competitiveness, and • • • • • arms. “The opposition would bus in loads of turned to Netflix. President Rose reminded BECAUSE YOU linear problem solving. Forthright, constant, parents to meetings, and we’d have to listen Hastings that the CEO of Time Warner had CONVERT THEM TO constructive criticism is the norm between all Netflix isn’t Hastings’s only passion. He’s to all of their testimony,” says Nunez. “In once said that the idea of Netflix becoming REAL COMPANIES Netflix employees, regardless of job or title. been interested in education reform ever since education you can’t just decree something.” a serious competitor was like presuming that The feedback is coupled with a philosophy of he volunteered for the Peace Corps in 1983 AND REAL THINGS.” Looking back, Hastings says he could the Albanian army had a shot at taking over “freedom and responsibility” that eliminates and observed how challenging it was for have done a better job of finding common the world. Hastings said, “People constantly rules that govern most big organizations, like students to learn when they were poor and ground, especially because he left the evaluate things as they are, as opposed to vacation time, parental leave, and expense hungry. His interest in education continued board impressed by the sincerity and what they’re going to be.” account policies. Employees decide how when he returned to the United States. thoughtfulness of the educators. Even so, his Hastings said that Netflix tries to work much time to take off or how much money to A longtime advocate for charter schools, education proposals, like his desire to make from a different point of view. “When spend, with the good of the company always Hastings also announced in January that he’d elected school boards obsolete, still inspire we look at disruption, as we do, we say, in mind. They’re not chained to the company created a $100 million charitable fund to impassioned debate. ‘OK, one thing is: something could replace with stock options that are granted over time, invest in education initiatives. the Internet,’” Hastings said. “Something and Netflix pays some of the highest salaries Hastings jumped into the education • • • • • could replace movies and TV shows. . . . in the industry. People who don’t fit in can reform fray in a big way when he served on Maybe an Oculus Rift with a morphine leave, or are quickly let go, with a lot of the California State Board of Education from On a chilly evening in November, scores of drip. Something will come along and change money and no hard feelings. 2000 through 2004, including a stint as its Katie Benner ’99 is a Bowdoin alumni packed the North Light Court the game for Netflix again,” he said as the Lots of tech companies are known for president. His pragmatism sometimes hindered San Francisco-based at San Francisco City Hall to see Hastings chat laughter faded. “That’s the one thing we hard-driving, even brutal, work cultures, his ability to effectively oversee California’s technology reporter for with Bowdoin’s new president, Clayton Rose, think about most.” The New York Times. including Amazon and Apple, two of vast, diverse public school system, which

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The of the Liberal Arts Pow Two distinguished Bowdoin panels celebrated er the inauguration of Clayton Rose by examining Both the popular and the state and status of liberal arts education. B y E d g a r A l l e n B e e m professional literature are full P h o t o g r a p h y b y Fred Field of the current conventional n recent years, a spate of books has been published addressing a perceived crisis in the liberal arts, among them Liberal Arts at the Brink (2011); Staying Alive: A wisdom that liberal arts Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts (2013); Reinventing Ithe Liberal Arts (2014); and Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters (2015). colleges are in dire straits The most successful of these reports has been CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria’s In Defense of a Liberal Education (2015), a slim volume that made it to number six on because a struggling twenty- the The New York Times Best Seller list. “A classic liberal education has few defenders,” writes Zakaria, stating the case against the liberal arts. “Conservatives first-century economy has fume that it is too, well, liberal (though the term has no partisan meaning). Liberals worry it is too elitist. Students wonder what they would do with a degree in psychology. And parents fear that it will cost them their life savings.” driven students toward Both the popular and professional literature are full of the current conventional wisdom that liberal arts colleges are in dire straits because vocational and technical a struggling twenty-first-century economy has driven students toward vocational and technical educations designed to land them jobs. But that’s educations designed to land not the story Bowdoin has to tell. Since applications for the Class of 2017 hit an all-time high of 7,052, it would be hard to argue that Bowdoin was them jobs. But that’s not the experiencing any decline in interest in the liberal arts at all. “We are not in crisis at Bowdoin,” confirms Interim Dean of Academic Affairs Jennifer Scanlon. “People at Bowdoin are not defensive about the liberal arts. The faculty really believes in the story Bowdoin has to tell. power of the liberal arts. But at the national level—related to the

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economy—it is a constant theme, ‘Are the liberal essential to human life already exists as a living arts supportable?’” legacy of wisdom and thought and learning “There are external pressures, To mark his inauguration in October, and exemplary achievement” to “the newer President Clayton Rose—along with a ethos of research and scholarship.” questions, and challenges that will, committee of faculty, staff, trustees, and Gray’s most important point, however, was students—organized a symposium dedicated to that it is in the very nature of a liberal arts without doubt, affect what we do discussions of “The Power of the Liberal Arts.” education to question its own value. Two panels chosen by President Rose—one of “The case for liberal education then has and how we do it. institutions that distinguished educators, the other of Bowdoin constantly to be reviewed and reargued,” she alumni in business and public service— asserted. “Not only because the tensions and do not change get marginalized, addressed the issue of where a liberal arts disagreements over its purposes, continuous education fits in an age defined by job anxiety as they have been, will always elicit that wither, and even die.” and political polarization. need, but also because liberal learning has no With the Bowdoin seal shining above weight without the willingness to re-examine name a book that “helps you see yourself as “stay vigilant” when it comes to social progress. her, keynote speaker Hanna Holborn Gray, and re-adapt the best means of realizing its connected to a greater humanity,” Weinberg “I think a liberal arts education gives us the president emerita of the University of Chicago long-term goals.” named pragmatic philosopher John Dewey’s tools to do that,” said Charles, “but it really and Clayton Rose’s mentor, told an overflow “My own belief,” said Gray, setting the 1916 Education and Democracy, which will require a herculean effort to then go back crowd of faculty, alumni, students, and friends stage perfectly for the panel discussions that proposes that the social ends of education out into a society that really just kind of runs in Pickard Theater that the death of the liberal followed, “is that a liberal education is more should be to prepare a person to be a and reproduces itself if we’re not really careful arts has been greatly exaggerated. important than ever in a world marked by responsible citizen in a participatory democracy. and really proactive.” “I began teaching more than sixty years the rapid advances in science and technology, “I read it my junior year at Bowdoin,” An exchange between Charles and Zeeman ago, and I’m still at it. And, in consequence, by the tsunamis of social upheaval that said Weinberg. “And at the time I thought it produced one of the brightest moments of the I have passed through countless cycles are breaking against every shore, by the was a magical book because it allowed me to panel discussion, a moment of recognition of discussion and debate about liberal immediate global impact of events that may see across all the courses that I was taking at that embodied the value liberal arts education education,” said Gray. “I’ve learned that there take place far away but affect us, and the Bowdoin. Actually I now realize in retrospect it places on problem solving. has never been a time when the liberal arts unending endemic conflict within and between was more about finally getting and starting to Charles spoke of being cognizant of “the have not been thought to be in crisis and their areas and groups defining themselves by understand the liberal arts. But it kind of for the questions that don’t get asked and the voices future desperately uncertain.” religion, nationality, and ethnicity.” first time helped me reflect on my own sense of that don’t get heard,” noting how models of In an entertaining, authoritative, and power and privilege and on the kind of age-old the white male labor market “don’t really sometimes irreverent speech, Gray surveyed yes, it still matters: why and how quest to connect democracy and education.” tell us anything about black people’s labor the history of liberal arts education, describing we teaCh the liBeral arts Adams too spoke to this point, saying, market experience.” the evolution from a reverence for tradition “the most powerful argument that we need “And so the great thing about Africana in which it was “assumed that the knowledge The first panel discussion, “Yes, It Still Matters: to make about both liberal learning and the studies,” Charles observed, “is that it’s an Why and How We Teach the Liberal Arts,” humanities in particular is how critical they effort to reinsert into the traditional liberal was moderated by Dean Jennifer Scanlon and are, how fundamentally important they are, to arts curriculum all of the history and the featured Adam S. Weinberg ’87, president democratic citizenship and to the preservation perspectives that got rooted out, or that were of Denison University; Mary Lou Zeeman, of a democratic political culture in this country, never included in the first place, to have a R. Wells Johnson Professor of Mathematics; which I think is genuinely at risk. And it broader understanding of human civilization Camille Z. Charles, director of the Center becomes more and more at risk, I think, as we and really to sort of reintroduce the humanity of for Africana Studies at the University of move away from the commitment to educating a people who have known themselves that they Pennsylvania; and William D. “Bro” Adams, the whole person and toward a much more were fully human but have not always been sort former president of Colby College, now chair of technocratic vision of education.” of seen as such by the rest of the world.” the National Endowment for the Humanities. The difference between “educating the When Scanlon then asked Zeeman “how Twin themes that developed in that whole person” and career-oriented education, immersion in the sciences helps people become discussion concerned the roles a liberal arts panelists agreed, is a function of critical better humanists, social scientists, and artists,” education has to play both in sustaining thinking, working across disciplines, questioning Zeeman invoked what Charles had just said. democracy and promoting critical thinking. assumptions, and asking the unasked questions. “So we take a belief system,” Zeeman In answer to Scanlon’s first prompt, to Charles urged educators and audience alike to explained. “We track back until we find the

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95,849; psychology degrees up from 38,187 to chief of Yahoo Finance, and featured Kenneth I. “How do you incubate innovation, creativity? 108,986; and social science and history up from Chenault ’73, CEO and chairman of American The liberal arts are a way to do that.” 155, 324 to 178,543. Express; Ruthie Davis ’84, designer and In fact, just looking at the humanities, the president of shoe company Ruthie Davis; Shelley fundamental assumptions on which that belief Breneman found that the number of colleges National Center for Educational Statistics’ A. Hearne ’83, visiting professor at the Johns system lies. We tweak the assumptions a little awarding at least 40 percent of their degrees numbers show that bachelor’s degrees in the Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; bit. And we see how the entire structure of the in the liberal arts had fallen from 540 to 206 humanities accounted for 17.1 percent of all and George J. Mitchell ’54, H ’83, former US belief system changes as a result of that tweak between 1972 and 1988. A 2012 follow up to degrees awarded in 1970 and 17 percent in senator and special envoy to Northern Ireland down at the base. That’s what mathematicians Breneman’s study published by the Association 2010. No notable decline. and the Middle East. do. So how many people are thinking, ‘Wait, of American Colleges and Universities found So while the growth in college attendance Chenault, a history major at Bowdoin, no, that’s what we do’? And in particular, isn’t that only 130 of the 206 liberal arts colleges over the past forty years may have been driven credited his liberal arts education with instilling it what Camille just described about American Breneman identified remained in operation. by a desire for job training, a liberal arts in him “an incredible passion for learning.” He history, labor history?” In the spirit of challenging assumptions, education has not lost any of its intellectual said it would have been “heresy” when he was Zeeman describes herself as a bio- however, Ohio State University education attraction. And some, including distinguished at Bowdoin to suggest that he would become mathematician and is a co-founder of the professor Bruce A. Kimball published an article alumni on the second “Power of the Liberal CEO of a Fortune 100 company. Mathematics and Climate Research Network, in the Summer 2014 Harvard Educational Arts” panel, believe a liberal arts degree is just “That’s the last thing I want to do,” he which seeks to put mathematics at the service Review titled “Revising the Declension the ticket for a rewarding life and career. stated he would have said in 1973. “I don’t of social and environmental issues, not just by Narrative: Liberal Arts Colleges, Universities, want to work for a large company. I don’t analyzing numbers but by suggesting new ways and Honors Programs, 1870s-2010s.” Making a Living and Making a Life: want to work with a bunch of suits.” to look at problems. Kimball’s analysis found that, contrary to the The Liberal Arts in Commerce and Asked by Serwer whether one now needs “It’s what everybody doing critical conventional wisdom that the liberal arts are in Citizenship a degree in computer science to get a job at thinking is doing,” said Zeeman a few weeks a steep decline, the only real decline was during American Express, Chenault was quick to after the symposium. “I was really describing the 1970s, when double-digit inflation and high “Making a Living and Making a Life: The deny it. critical thinking.” unemployment drove students toward more Liberal Arts in Commerce and Citizenship” “No, I think what’s important—the And that, wrote Charles in a follow-up e-mail, career-oriented vocational education. was moderated by Andy Serwer ’81, editor-in- attributes that I look for—I want people “is the best part of a liberal arts education.” “Yet,” wrote Kimball, “between 1939 “We can learn to examine issues from a and 2009 the fraction of the United States variety of perspectives and to think of new ways population attending higher education grew “The case for liberal education to confront old challenges,” wrote Charles, almost six times, from 1.1 percent to 6.4 “and, as we increase access to liberal arts percent….But the limited historical data then has constantly to be reviewed education to those whose voices and perspectives suggest that the percentage of the total have historically been ignored or silenced, the population enrolling in liberal arts colleges has and reargued. Not only because opportunities for us all to benefit only increase.” been remarkably constant over time.” President Rose found that the exchange According to the National Center for the tensions and disagreements between Zeeman and Charles was a highlight Education Statistics, the total number of of the symposium for him. bachelor’s degrees awarded in the United over its purposes, continuous as “At dinner that evening, I was amazed how States rose from 839,730 in 1970-71 to many people said they wanted to study math 1,791,046 in 2011-12. they have been, will always elicit with [Zeeman] now,” says Rose. The most obvious areas of growth in majors as the BA pie doubled in size were that need, but also because liberal Are the Liberal Arts Supportable? business (up from 115,396 to 366,815), health professions (25,223 to 163,440) and computer learning has no weight without One of the prophets of the liberal arts science (2,388 to 47,384). But, despite a drop apocalypse has been David W. Breneman, in English literature majors from 63,914 to the willingness to re-examine former president of Kalamazoo College, who 53,767, the liberal arts by and large held did pioneering work on the decline of liberal their own, with general liberal arts degrees and re-adapt the best means of arts colleges. In his Liberal Arts Colleges: increasing from 7,481 to 46,925; biological and Thriving, Surviving, or Endangered (1994), biomedical sciences increasing from 35,705 to realizing its long-term goals.”

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who are really good critical thinkers,” said brander, you know all I do all day long is tell Chenault. “Conceptual. Creative. Have the my story. Convince people. I’m constantly “. . . we have a remarkable passion for learning. Have a passion for trying to tell them how fabulous the shoes making a difference.” are. The brand story.” opportunity . . . to determine Citing major companies such as Alibaba, Shelley Hearne, who majored in chemistry IBM, and Proctor & Gamble, where the CEOs and environmental studies at Bowdoin, said what we should be doing and are also liberal arts graduates, Chenault said, that learning to ask the unasked questions “I’ve really found that people from small has helped her work on solving public health how we should be doing it, liberal arts colleges punch generally way above policy issues, such as a law “to get antibiotics their weight. I haven’t done the analysis, but out of the industrial farming production I’m sure it would show that if you look at process so that we have a little less antibiotic- in order to remain a deeply a variety of leadership levels in a range of resistant bacteria out there.” professions, it makes a big difference.” “A lot of the work I do today is coming into relevant, preeminent liberal arts In fact, the cover story of the August 17, vacuums where I constantly hear ‘that can’t 2015, issue of Forbes labeled a liberal arts be done,’” said Hearne. “No one’s done this college and a leader in American education “The New Golden Ticket” in before. We don’t know what a pathway would Silicon Valley. The story focused on Slack be to get there.” higher education.” Technologies CEO Stewart Butterfield, a Being an innovative problem solver has led philosophy major at Canada’s University Hearne to a career in public health that won concentrated on a specific function, a specific In his speech at Convocation, the event that “I’ve really of Victoria and at Cambridge University, her Bowdoin’s 2013 Common Good Award. occupation, or a specific role.” officially opens the academic year, Rose spoke of found that and analyzed LinkedIn data from 62,000 “How do you incubate innovation, the need for Bowdoin to “ask essential questions people from Northwestern University graduates to reach creativity?” asks Hearne. “The liberal arts are The Transformative Power of the of ourselves, even if they are unsettling.” small liberal a somewhat surprising conclusion. The data a way to do that.” Liberal Arts “There are external pressures, questions, arts colleges showed that, of the 3,426 grads who were George Mitchell’s long, distinguished career and challenges that will, without doubt, affect punch located in the Silicon Valley area, only 30 in public service began in the US Army after A subtext of the symposium was the what we do and how we do it,” he said to percent went into engineering or information Bowdoin and saw him serve as a United States polarization that has beset America’s public life the assembled audience. “Institutions that generally technology. Most went into sales, marketing, Department of Justice lawyer, assistant county and the democratic process. Mitchell suggested do not change get marginalized, wither, and way above business development, consulting, education, attorney in Maine’s Cumberland County, US that partisan gridlock is largely the result of even die. We have an obligation to honor their weight. I product management, and real estate. attorney for Maine, US district court judge, US two things: redistricting, which means most the work of those who came before . . . But, haven’t done “Add up the jobs held by people who senator, Senate majority leader, special envoy congressional seats are not highly contested, more importantly, we have a remarkable the analysis, majored in psychology, history, gender studies, to Northern Ireland and the Middle East, and and too much money flowing into elections, opportunity . . . to determine what we should but I’m sure it and the like,” writes business journalist George head of the commission that investigated the which means politicians are not answerable be doing and how we should be doing it, in use of steroids in Major League Baseball. would show Anders, who earned a degree in economics at to people who elect them. As a result, it is order to remain a deeply relevant, preeminent Stanford, “and they quickly surpass the totals “Most what has happened in my life has increasingly unnecessary for American leaders liberal arts college and a leader in American that if you look for engineering and computer science.” been by accident,” Mitchell told the packed to consider a wide variety of views. higher education.” at a variety Just how does an undergraduate degree house at Pickard Theater, generating a laugh. Clayton Rose believes a good liberal arts Because the College “is in remarkably of leadership in English or art prepare one for the world “I didn’t plan or intend any of it.” education can help overcome such narrow- great shape in every way,” says Rose, he levels in a of business? Mitchell said his education at Bowdoin, mindedness. feels he has the luxury of taking his time range of Ruthie Davis majored in English and visual where he majored in history, prepared him to “What is necessary,” says Rose, “are to develop a vision for the future of liberal art at Bowdoin before going to work for take advantage of the opportunities that came the learned skills of being willing and arts education at Bowdoin, working with all professions, Edgar Allen Beem earned Reebok and Ugg and eventually launching his way. able to listen to and respond to views that members of the community. But Rose says it makes a big a BA in philosophy at the her own highly successful Ruthie Davis shoe “I think that, while training for a specific are different from—and often opposed he saw in “The Power of the Liberal Arts” University of Southern difference.” brand. A tennis and squash player at Bowdoin, vocation can be useful and helpful,” Mitchell to—your own and, from time to time, alumni panel discussion a vision of what Maine. His late father, she parlayed her love of sports into a sports said, “the most important thing is training to acknowledge the validity of some of a Bowdoin graduate wants to be. “Those Allen Beem ’49, earned shoe career. She discovered that “in a liberal people to be prepared for the unanticipated, those views. One of the challenges in this Bowdoin graduates have had a deep impact a BA in history at Bowdoin. His daughter, education you do learn to tell stories.” unplanned, unintended events that will shape country and on this campus is to overcome on the world,” says Rose, “because they were Tess Beem ’13, earned “You analyze stories, literature,” said our lives. I feel that Bowdoin prepared me for the desire to exist in an echo chamber, to flexible, open to new challenges, and had the a BA in biology and Davis. “And really as an entrepreneur and a many different things in life. Because I wasn’t only hear views that reinforce your own.” confidence to carve their own paths.” environmental science.

26 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2016 [email protected] 27 Brunswick food writer Christine Burns Rudalevige takes on the task of preparing a menu and hosting a dinner featuring recipes from Bowdoin’s new Esta Kramer Collection of American Cookery.

ot a single whale was trips happened long ago; the wholesale Cooking harmed, I assure you, market was moved to the Bronx in the in either the making 1960s, clarified Kramer, when queried from from the or the eating of a her left by Matthew Klingle, professor of Collection six-course meal held history and environmental studies. Klingle, late last November who is shaping a first-year seminar syllabus to celebrate the new around the collection, asked because he Esta Kramer Collection of American Cookery knows there is currently no sanctioned at Bowdoin’s Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. commercial whale fishery in the world. In I will tell you, though, the conversation 1985, the International Whaling Commission among the dozen historical cookbook-worms set a moratorium (with indigenous whaling present did touch on eating whale meat. exemptions granted in places like the Faroe But I must argue that this convivial debate Islands and Alaska) due to environmental and both underscores the historical perspective stock population concerns. these some 700 volumes, dating back to 1772, The sixty-fifth chapter of Moby Dick is afford the wider community and highlights the fittingly, for this conversation, titled “The collection’s cross-discipline relevance to how Whale as a Dish,” pointed out Professor we read, write, and talk about food today. of Africana Studies and English Tess The whale-eating thread that spun around Chakkalakal, as she told us of a recent class my table—lubricated by a colonial punch, discussion of Melville’s work, during which whose recipe specified one quart of Madeira, two of her students said they’d eaten whale one pint each of brandy and port, and two more recently in Nordic regions. Klingle said sherry glasses of spiced rum—started with rare Norway and Iceland defy the moratorium cookbook dealer Don Lindgren of Rabelais decision, claiming cultural heritage rights. Books in Biddeford. Sampling pickled Reference books in the collection like mushrooms and gougères (recipes that come the 1866 edition of Thomas F. De Voe’s from volumes that chronologically bookend The Market Assistant, which briefly the collection), he referred to a late nineteenth- describes every article of human food sold century handbill from a market in Hinsdale, in the public markets of New York, Boston, New Hampshire, advertising grasshoppers on Philadelphia, and Brooklyn, and The Grocer’s the half shell and canned Arctic whale meat. Encyclopedia, compiled by Artemas Ward It continued with the collection’s in 1911, contain information about whale benefactor, Esta Kramer, meekly confessing oil and whale bones and plenty of passages to cross-river ferry trips from Hoboken, recounting Arctic explorers’ sampling of whale New Jersey, to New York City’s Washington gums and whale skin soused in vinegar. But Market to buy whale steaks. Those shopping there are seemingly no recipes for cooked

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28 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2016 [email protected] 29 whale. This omission didn’t surprise Lindgren, who has The whale-eating thread that spun around a long-standing relationship with both the collection and its original owner, Clifford Apgar, a retired banker from my table—lubricated by a colonial punch, upstate New York. whose recipe specified one quart of Outside of showy recipes containing oysters and lobster, “fish recipes played a very small role in eighteenth- and Madeira, one pint each of brandy and port, nineteenth-century American cookbooks,” said Lindgren. Fish and two sherry glasses of spiced rum— was just a protein you were supposed to know how to cook using common sense. started with rare cookbook dealer Don Sam Hayward, renowned chef and founder of Portland, Lindgren of Rabelais Books in Biddeford. Maine’s, legendary Fore Street and his soon to be opened seafood restaurant, Scales, pointed to The Appledore Cook in water to both boost flavor and preserve texture; and Book: Containing Practical Receipts for Plain and Rich included oyster crackers softened in the reused stock, in Cooking, published in Boston in 1872, as an exception to a nod to modernized New England chowder fashion. My Lindgren’s generalization. “[Author] Maria Parloa is pretty cook’s ego demands that I report Hayward’s reaction. He hard and fast in her rules on how fish should or shouldn’t be liked it, a lot. cooked. For example, she contends salt pork is the only fat in I had turned to Hayward before the dinner for help which you should cook fish,” said Hayward. deciphering a recipe for “Beef Bouilli” made public in 1877 As luck would have it, Hayward’s comment served as an by the Ladies of State Street Parish in Portland. In what is unplanned segue to the “chouder” I had prepared based on thought to be the first cookbook published in Maine, and a recipe by Amelia Simmons, who wrote American Cookery fetchingly called Flesh, Fish, and Fowl: A Book of Recipes in 1815 for orphans like herself who often worked as for Cooking, this crowd-sourced manuscript basically domestic servants and may not have had exposure to practices instructed me to stuff a pot roast into an airtight can and commonly handed down through generations of cooks. The slip it into a boiling cauldron, where it could sit for hours. weathered, well-used book measures roughly the size and “That’s one of those cooking methods that seems so thickness of my hand, its pages fragile but completely intact. strange to modern cooks,” said Hayward. It involves no Simmons left many of her directions, in which a whole searing, a weird cooking contraption, an odd cut of beef bass is used to produce a dish more like a fish and salt pork (the round) for the treatment, both potatoes and rice, and a casserole than the creamy soup that chowder has become, rather crude “gravy.” He suggested I use a vessel something open to interpretation. My adaptation used flounder; akin to a bean pot and put it in an oven set at the same involved simmering it whole in stock instead of boiling it temperature at which water boils.

30 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2016 [email protected] 31 I don’t own a bean pot, so my first test run utilized a hot sauce—efficiently labeled #1, #2, #3, and #4—to be Our dinner-table discussion circled neatly back to whale crockpot and a very lean eye of round roast studded with served with baked apple dumplings, the crust of which meat. In the chapter Chakkalakal brought to the table earlier in pork back fat, per the recipe. The result was a grey, mealy, was made using a butter-to-flour ratio one would expect the meal, Ishmael feels compelled to explain Stubb’s decision to flavorless failure. When I explained my quandary to the necessary in a war zone. The progression of the sauce used eat the same creature that supplied the oil for his lamp: “This butcher just one day before the dinner, he loaded me up to cover the transgression of the pastry went from a low- seems so outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into with two heavily marbled, bottom-round roasts and a hearty ranking sugar water to a four-star custard made creamy the history and philosophy of it.” “Good luck!” I butterflied the beef and slath ered it liberally by whole milk, rich by egg yolks, and flavorful by vanilla Luckily for us, having the Esta Kramer Collection of with a paste of herbs and salt pork before rolling it, trussing extract. To quote Brillat-Savarin: “Tell me what you eat, American Cookery so close at hand provided an opportunity it, searing it, and simmering it in beef broth in the oven as and I’ll tell you who you are.” to do just that, no matter what the foodstuff at hand might be. Sam suggested. I also made Julia Child’s “Madeira and Mushroom Sauce,” as written in the collection’s 1964 edition of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, because it never hurts to have a backup Cooking as Culture plan sitting over low heat on the back burner. All told, sixteen recipes from thirteen cookbooks made the owdoin junior Ethan Crow first e-book, yes. But thumbing your way through menu for this feast. While each recipe visited the Esta Kramer Collection a collection of physical books gives you an was chosen because it flowed with the of American Cookery the week opportunity that you wouldn’t necessarily find others into a coherent meal, each book B the College announced it was in a computerized search, because you didn’t from which the dishes were excerpted All told, sixteen recipes from thirteen cookbooks adding the more than 700 volumes to the know you were looking for them,” said Crow. served as a touchstone in the collection made the menu for this feast. While each recipe library’s special collections. He’s been back at Physical side-by-side comparisons of any for a specific reason. was chosen because it flowed with the others least a half dozen times since. collection of historical books demonstrates the From the collection’s earliest A sociology and computer science major, progression of printing technology, of book regional cookbook—The Virginia into a coherent meal, each book from which the Crow had no specific plan to integrate the design trends pertaining to layout, bindings, Housewife by Mary Randolph, dishes were excerpted served as a touchstone in information contained in the books’ pages into and paper and cover choice, and of the published 1885—I pulled the formula the collection for a specific reason. his formal studies, but he was curious about boundaries of societal norms concerning content. for rice waffles. From a culinary how the books looked and smelled; what their But comparing cookbooks, says rare cookbook standpoint, rice waffles are an unusual, physical condition said about how often they dealer Don Lindgren, owner of Rabelais were used; and how their contents on similar Books in Biddeford, gives researchers a sense visually interesting, starchy component top and step-by-step directions. My plan was to spur debate subject matters over time would compare side- of place and regional culture across common on the plate. But historically and on whether chefs or home cooks have more influence over by-side in his hands. denominators: recipes for an everyday basic culturally speaking, a curious eater American culinary trends. And then there was the book on eggs. cracker, a celebratory roast beef, or the all- should not tuck into any rice side dish Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a French lawyer and “I wasn’t looking for it, but there it American apple pie. from that era without contemplating celebrated nineteenth-century foodie, wrote The Physiology was,” said Crow, noting with a laugh that Before he helped bring the collection to the rice trade’s role in the proliferation of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, an his attraction was to this particular cookbook Bowdoin, Lindgren gave a talk about it to of slavery in the South Atlantic region. 1854 translation of which sits among Bowdoin’s holdings. as it stood among both antiquarian treasures the Baxter Society, a bibliophilic club based in For the salad course, I juxtaposed In it, he offers up few recipes but many anecdotes and and culinary classics. Written in 1892 by Portland, in which he noted the fair amount classically French chicory salad from observations about any and all things that might enhance Alexander Filippini, long-time chef at New of plagiarism appearing in the pages of early what constitutes the first celebrity chef the pleasures of the table. There exists today a decadent, York’s Delmonico’s restaurant, this first American cookbooks. The plagiarized material cookbook, published in 1894 (Chef bloomy-rind, triple crème, cow’s milk cheese that bears his edition, oblong, duodecimo book, with its lies in the recipes, most of the time lifted from Charles Ranhofer, of Delmonico’s name. Serving it, as I did, provides an opportunity for guests black and gilt decorated gray cloth cover, is in previously printed books with no credit given. Restaurant in New York), with simple to chew on the polarized positions of culinary opulence and fine condition. The book does indeed contain “When you have enough of these books yeast rolls from Eliza Leslie’s 1828 widespread food insecurity in the United States today. 100 egg recipes, but what stuck in Crow’s in front of you, you can see how basic Seventy-Five Receipts, for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats The Manual for Army Cooks published in 1896 by the mind more than the three or four ways recipes changed over time to accommodate because it was the first time a cookbook author formatted Commissary General of Substance, under the authority of to slip foie gras into an egg dish were the access to new ingredients and new cooking her recipes as we do now, with a list of ingredients at the the secretary of war, contained four versions of a dessert interesting historical facts about ova interwoven technologies, as well as how they migrated throughout the recipes’ narrative. from place to place and across which time To quote Brillat-Savarin: “Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are.” “I could read the same words in an periods,” explained Lindgren.

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reporting is misleading or his wife Denise, traveled south John Alden and Dana Randall. Send us news! 4104 College wrong. Cook makes a convincing from our home in Palm Coast, John was born in Needham, Station, Brunswick, ME 04011 case that the Clinton and Bush Florida, five hours to Key Colony Massachusetts, and majored in or [email protected]. administrations and members Beach in Marathon Key in the economics. He was a member of Bill lynch • On Your Left If there’s no news listed for your class year, it’s not because of Congress, Democrats and Florida Keys. The weather was the rifle team, and upon graduation we’re neglecting you! The Republicans, pursued an extreme great; lots of sun and we were on commissioned in Armor, which led majority of Class News has affordable housing agenda that led the water much of the time. We to over twenty years of active duty always been self-reported, so to the failure of Fannie Mae and went to Sombrero Reef (seven with service in Korea, Germany, send us an update and rally Freddie Mac.” From the publisher. miles off the coast) to snorkel Vietnam, and at Loyola University. your classmates! and dive; fished along the upper He earned a number of decorations 1956 reunion end of Seven Mile Bridge and including a Bronze Star, Meritorious 1955 Max Karner: “The Christmas caught twenty fish (which were Service Medal, and four Army In his book, Money, Murder, season is upon us and Christmas barbecued); and went out for Commendation Medals. Retiring and Madness: A Banking Life spirit is high! I listen to fine dining with fish, lobster, and to Brunswick, he earned an MBA (AuthorHouse, 2015), Forrest Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, conch on the menu. I’m a beef from New Hampshire College and

news Russell Cook, who was a senior the final movement (Ode to eater, the prime rib was great! was then employed by the State vice president and retail division Joy), and Bach’s Tocata and The GPS worked great; that’s how of Maine in the Bureau of Human head at State Street Bank in Fugue in D Minor at full volume. you get around and back at night Resources. He was predeceased Boston, “avoids impenetrable Brings back memories when, in in the boat.” by his wife, Marilyn, whom he had financial jargon and takes the Brunswick High School, David married in 1957, and is survived reader on a refreshingly different Holmes used to play the organ 1957 by a son, daughter, and two look” at the reasons the crisis and he and I climbed to the top Ed Langbein: “Time continues to grandchildren. His fraternity was happened and who in the of the Bowdoin Chapel to play take its toll on our numbers and, Delta Sigma. government was responsible. “He the carillon. In August, my wife regretfully, I share news of the “Dana was also from explains why the conventional Julia and I, with son Max IV and passing of our two classmates, Massachusetts—Quincy—and

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Photo: Erich Schroeder “Biking and running involves people from eighteen to my age—it’s very stimulating. It gets you in touch with other people who are committed to intense physical activity.”

s an attorney, Bill Lynch ’65 worked for the ACLU of triathlon in Budapest in 2010. aWisconsin; specialized in employment, housing, and Lynch turned to triathlons about ten years ago. He had been insurance discrimination as an independent legal practitioner; on Bowdoin’s swim team and competed in a triathlon in his represented the NAACP in various legal actions; and, in more forties. Now, as a member of TriWisconsin, a local multisport Nature recent years, has “been involved with organizations that bring the club, he enjoys triathlons as a “social activity.” law to bear on people’s right to a clean and healthy environment.” “It’s kept me in contact with younger people,” he says. As a triathlete, Lynch has traversed the globe, most recently “Biking and running involves people from eighteen to my age— having come in eleventh of twenty-three finishers in his age it’s very stimulating. It gets you in touch with other people who ThorntonRetirement CommunityO aks classification at the 2015 World Age Group Sprint Triathlon in are committed to intense physical activity.” Edmonton, Canada. In 2014, he placed eighth in the National Triathlons require training in all three disciplines, but it’s Homemade 25 Thornton Way, Brunswick, Maine Age Group Sprint triathlon. And Lynch met his goal of placing important to recognize how it fits into one’s life and wellness on a 800-729-8033 among the top half in the World Age Group Olympic distance greater level. Lynch’s advice to the budding triathlete: “balance.” Meals

34 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2016 [email protected] 35 Bowdoin Bowdoin class news class news ) majored in music. He was a (from Port Clyde) to Brunswick for Challenge’s ‘Cycling for Cancer in honor of a six-year rider, Pete BOOKS member and president of the a few months. Elsewhere, Marlene Survivors’ bike ride, and have Pappas, who is consistently one of Glee Club, as well as being a and Dick Davis recently settled in raised considerable donations to the most motivated fundraisers. He Medddiebempster for four years, Allison Park, Pennsylvania.” support their wonderful programs. stops at nothing to get the word during which (in the words Recently, they honored my efforts out about his efforts. At seventy- of Terry Stenberg ’56) ‘he 1959 with an annual award in my name eight-years-old, he is also one of demonstrated his command of Bruce Chalmers was inducted (at Bowdoin I was known as the most senior of our riders, a the complicated second tenor into the Maine Ski Hall of Fame Peter Papazoglou, a member of great guy, and great ambassador. harmonic transitions essential at the thirteenth annual ceremony Sigma Nu). As the CT Challenge Our first-ever Peter Pappas Award to the success of many Meddie held in October 2015. “Chalmers describes, ‘Our award recognizes goes to Colin Schlank for creating arrangements.’ He served on was among the early skiers at original and highly motivated his own tennis tournament to Money, Murder, and The Truth About Ilse’s Fate Little Dreams in Glass The Oregon Trail: the student union committee, a Pleasant Mountain, developing fundraising efforts. It is named raise contributions.’ Wishing Madness: A Banking Life Hannah White By David Solmitz ’65 and Metal: Enameling in A New American By Forrest Russell Cook ’55 by Mason Pratt ’61 (Page Publishing, 2015) America 1920 to the Present Journey number of fraternity committees, the skills that led to his being not (Lulu Publishing Services, 2015) (AuthorHouse, 2015) By Harold B. Nelson ’69, Rinker Buck ’73 and was a major contributor to only captain but also coach of his with Bernard N. Jazzar (Simon & Schuster, 2015) the Echoes from the Pines CD, team at Bowdoin. Returning to (The University of North Carolina “People come here to ‘live,’ Press, 2015) which was produced for our 45th Bridgton after graduation, he got Reunion. In our 50th Reunion involved in skiing in two ways; not to retire from life.” all Bowdoin grads and their we just the vanguard of the Old (unfortunately) interrupted by Certainly it was the only time when yearbook he recounted two thirty- as part of the family insurance families the very best in health.” Guard now? At least I don’t have some rather depressing golf. football co-captains were graduates –ARLENE N. year careers: sales management business he worked with ski areas to listen to the Red Sox fans in the Needless to say, a good time of the same high school.” with Proctor & Gamble, and to develop ski safety programs, 1961 reunion crowd crowing about their recent was had by all, thanks to Mac’s Robert S. Hurd: “Lonna and I proprietor of House of Stamps. and at Pleasant Mountain he Mickey Coughlin: “As time successes any more. Hope all are gracious hospitality.” have sold our place in Florida and Maintaining his musical interests, focused on getting school students marches on, I guess I never well and happy.” Gerry Haviland: “Joe Carven moved to Utah. She has family he co-founded and participated involved in the sport. His two- realized how much my classmates Lyman Cousens: “Class ’60, Charlie Finlayson, and I all here and we intend to go back to in several vocal groups. Dana pronged approach called for at Bowdoin meant to me. I surely of 1961 Psi U Brothers [Dave] grew up together in Weymouth, Cape Cod for summers, particularly is survived by Carolee, his wife recruiting a team of instructors enjoyed the get-together last Belka, [David] Carlisle, Massachusetts. We were educated this year for Reunion. Our address of fifty-four years, and their and convincing local school March in Portland, even if [Gerry] Cousens, [Charlie] Prinn, and in the Weymouth public schools, is 2876 North Desert Lane, Lehi, daughter Stacey. His fraternity officials to let the kids out early Haviland pulled his ancient trick [Ted] Fuller (joined by Brother and played football together at 84043. I am now in a position to For Bowdoin alum Nick and his wife was Beta Theta Pi. to attend learning sessions at Arlene, there’s nothing like coming of knocking over a beer. Will try to [Rod] Collette ’56) were the Weymouth High School. Joe see my sons frequently: Jack on “Tailgate gatherings attracted the mountain. The program grew home to where their story began. get back for our 55th; is anything guests in October of Brother was a year ahead and went off Bainbridge Island, Washington; Harry Carpenter, Bill Cooke, to four hundred student skiers special being planned, or are [Mac] Brawn at the Caves to Bowdoin after his high school Sandy in Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Flora Cowen (with her sister Rona and continues today with two The Highlands, just a mile and a half from Bowdoin, is a Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, graduation. The following year, he Rob ’87, who is a master at my Buchbinder and granddaughters hundred to four hundred kids on place where alums reunite and find an experience Maryland. The brothers engaged convinced me and Charlie to follow old prep school, Tabor Academy, in Talia ’16 and Sophia ’18), hand every Monday afternoon at as rich as their college years. in a variety of intellectual him to Brunswick. Joe was captain Marion, Massachusetts. See you Barbara and Dave Ham, Shawnee Peak.” The Maine Ski discussions, foreign and domestic, of the Polar Bear football team in all at Reunion.” Gorgeous trees, plenty of privacy and light—that’s Nancy and Ed Langbein, Marcia Hall of Fame was inaugurated what first drew Nick and Arlene to their dream led by Brother Prinn. Said 1959. Charlie and I were Bowdoin Mason Pratt has published Pendexter, Joanie and Bob in 2003 as a semi-independent cottage at The Highlands. Choosing the details for discussions were occasionally football co-captains in 1960. This his fi rst novel, The Truth About Shepherd, Ann and John Snow, program. More than 100 men their custom home truly personalized their “own was perhaps the only time in the Hannah White (Lulu Publishing Mary and Clem Wilson, and a and women who have made house in the country.” Kent Spriggs ’61 and Kathleen history of Bowdoin athletics when Services), available now through good number of colleagues from outstanding contributions to the Laufenberg wed on March 21, 2015. sports captains from the same Amazon.com. The book, which adjacent classes. sport and business of skiing and 5 HOME LOTS LEFT high school succeeded each other. takes place in the Maine north “Threats of early snow snowboarding in Maine have Reserve your customized home today! woods, combines Pratt’s real-life influenced Vickie and Harry been inducted. From a Maine legal knowledge and experience Carpenter to depart earlier than Ski Hall of Fame announcement, Charlie Finlayson ’61, Joe Carven ’60, with his imaginative writing usual for Florida, while the lure October 2015. and Gerry Haviland ’61 were reunited style, crafting characters based of the white stuff brought Bob Peter ‘Papazoglou’ Pappas: in June 2015 as special guests of on his northeastern upbringing. and Joanie Shepherd back to “I want to share some wonderful 30 Governors Way • Topsham, ME 04086 their high school in Weymouth, Now living on St. Simons Island 207-725-2650 Herm Segal ’61, Sue Sherman, and Joel Massachusetts, for a rededication of Brunswick. Also joining the local news with my former colleagues Pet in the Golden Isles of Georgia, Friendly www.highlandsrc.com Sherman ’61 dined together in Boston the school’s extensive outdoor athletic Joel Sherman ’61 and Paul Gardner ’61 class contingent, John and Ann at Bowdoin. For years I have when Herm was in the city attending a facilities. Coincidentally, Gerry’s second joined forces to cheer on the Polar Bears Pratt says the story, “has a twist Snow have opted to move south been cycling in support of the CT IT’S ME. IT’S MAINE. IT’S THE HIGHLANDS. medical conference. son, Peter, is the principal there! during a fall football game. for southern readers, but is really

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I am very busy Kennebec Valley YMCA press November 1, 2015. the history of enameling in known as the 2,000-mile route narrative that is part memoir and lawyer representing landowners generation?), maybe the news organizing concerts of chamber release, October 2015. America, Little Dreams in Glass American settlers took in the early part history, Buck shares his journey against loggers and unions, plus should come from the other side music in my hometown of Venray 1969 and Metal chronicles the history 1800s to migrate west, but many in his book, The Oregon Trail: some real Maine labor history, and, of the Atlantic. What happened to (province of Limburg). This year we 1965 Harold B. Nelson, curator and dynamic development of people today have arguably all A New American Journey, and of course, there’s a trial.” From a Joke and me since that wonderful are planning five concerts in private David Solmitz has published of American Decorative Arts enameling in the United States but forgotten the Trail and its rich reminds us of what the Oregon Trail Brunswick, Georgia, Brunswick 50th Reunion? Luckily, not much homes and seven in a small hall his third book, Ilse’s Fate (Page at the Huntington Library in in the late twentieth century history. Accompanied by three meant for those early Americans. News article, December 28, 2015. on the health front. We are both located in a park. Very rewarding Publishing, July 2015), the San Francisco, co-authored and explores the lives and mules, his brother, and a Jack From the Bowdoin Daily Sun. Jim Sosville: “After fi fty doing a lot of hiking, biking, and work. And just in case any Bowdoin fictional account of a girl raised with Bernard N. Jazzar Little contributions of ninety of the Russell Terrier, Charles “Rinker” “At a meeting of the American years of working with computers tennis. I have more time for that student or alumnus(a) does a biking by her cruel father after her Dreams in Glass and Metal: field’s most significant artists.” Buck embarks on an adventure of Academy of Pediatrics Section (programmer, software analyst, than Joke, who is still working full trip in this part of the Netherlands, mother dies in childbirth and Enameling in America 1920 From the publisher. epic proportions and travels across on Urology, Saul P. Greenfield, hardware/software systems time as a neuro-physiotherapist I volunteer as skipper of a small who, through her ignorance director of pediatric urology at the engineer), I fi nally got tired in a nearby hospital. We have ferry (only hikers and bikers) on the and insecurity, is then drawn to Women & Children’s Hospital of of working with conventional had beautiful vacations: hiking in river Maas half a day every week Nazi ideology. The story takes Buffalo, was elected chair of the architectures. I previously made Andalusia (Spain) and on three between April 1 and October 31. I’d place in Germany between 1913 Section. In addition, a paper he the jump to ‘one leg on the islands of the Azores; a sailing trip be honored to have you on board. and 1945, and though the book co-authored entitled ‘Antimicrobial northwest side of the fence and from the Azores to Rotterdam on And I’ll give you a free ride!” is a work of fiction, Solmitz Prophylaxis for Children with the other leg on the southwest side my favorite three-mast schooner, incorporates the experiences of Vesicoureteral Reflux,’ recently of the fence.’ Now I’m making the Oosterschelde; a sailing trip around 1964 his parents, who were German received a 2015 Clinical Research jump to ‘one leg on the computer Mallorca on the same ship; and Al Ryan and his wife Dianne were Jews, and their friends and Forum Top Ten Clinical Research side of the fence and the other last summer we sailed on a smaller recently honored with the John family before and during the leg on the cognitive neuroscience ship along the northwest coast of Bridge Award, “presented to an Nazi Holocaust. A teacher, artist, side of the fence.’ Based on the Iceland. What a beautiful country! individual or organization that has activist, and writer, Solmitz also hypothesis that ‘brain waves’ are Too bad we could not make it to demonstrated a commitment to the draws on those deeply personal an essential feature of ‘situational the east coast of Greenland—too Kennebec Valley YMCA and the connections to explore the understanding,’ I am now building much ice. My three children, youth and families of the Kennebec conflicts between good and evil, a new type of computer with a new Maite (age forty-two), Sanne (age Valley community.” The ceremony, while working through his own type of operating system based thirty-nine), and Noor ’99 (age which was held in October, feelings of anxiety and prejudice Real 55+ Active Adult Living upon the principle of ‘electrical thirty-eight) and their families are has taken place since 2009 and toward a culture that promulgated arianne and Rob Barry from Cazenovia, New York recently committed to making Highland Green Steven Mickley ’67 with his grandson, lock and key.’ Would welcome doing fine, both personally and recognizes qualities of leadership, atrocities on his family and home. Pictured above with New Construction Design Coordinator Sandra Halverson, the Barrys look access to EEG data for debugging professionally. Their eight kids Mforward to the completion of their custom-built home. Like hundreds of others who have made Highland Timoteo Gomez (Class of 2036?). our product. The next ten years will are wonderful grandchildren. My Green a national destination, the Barrys discovered that it is completely unique. They found that it came exactly be very, very stressful as I attend classmate and AD brother George as advertised and better, and that it did not turn out to be a Continuing Care Retirement Community, but a real 55+ Active Lifestyle Community. They’ve already met in person so many Highland Green community members classes at University of Tennessee who they had seen featured in ads, Lifestyle newsletters, videos and blog posts. They found an independent place to become my own domain expert that is not cookie-cutter, with a genuine diversity of ages. in this revolutionary new fi eld.” Nowhere else could they find Highland Green’s singular combination of strategic location, lower-maintenance Kent Spriggs: “Kathleen living, custom-built homes, an unprecedented incorporation of conservation and nature, and dynamic resident Laufenberg and I wed on March organized activities and groups. The matchless sense of community they will enjoy is made possible by new 21, 2015. We will be at the friends who have moved here from 29 different States and counting. Ken Cole ’69 was honored at a Reunion. My last Guantanamo “We’ve had a wonderful time at Highland Green so far. It is a very retirement party held to recognize his contributions over many years habeas corpus client was sent special place and we can’t wait to be a part of it.” - Barrys with the law firm of Jensen Baird home to Afghanistan in January.” Gardner & Henry at the Cumberland Al Ryan ’64 (center) is flanked by Highland Green BLOG Club in Portland, Maine, last fall. The 1963 Polar Bear support during a Kennebec Please visit our Blog to learn more contingent of alumni celebrating with Hans Tromp: “‘Send us news,’ Valley YMCA ceremony honoring him Members of the Class of ’65 held an Alpha Delta Phi reunion in North Truro, about the difference between a him included Natalie Burns ’80, Michael with the annual John Bridge Award. Massachusetts, on outer Cape Cod, for friends who did not make the big 50th 55+ Active Lifestyle Community I read in the column reserved for and a Retirement Community. Quinlan ’82, (Ken), Mert Henry ’50, Pictured: Jac Arbour ’07, John LaCasse Reunion in Brunswick. The group stayed at Jim Hindson’s house on Cape Cod Bay. Anne Ireland ’76 (Ken’s wife), Sally my Class of ’63, both in the winter ’63, Reagan LaRochelle ’00, and Harry Pictured: Jim Hindson, Ed Bailey and wife Priscilla, Martha and Pete Dane, Sandra 7 Evergreen Circle, Topsham, Maine | 866-854-1200 / 207-725-4549 HighlandGreenLifestyle.com f Daggett ’87, Debbie Mann ’75, and [2015] edition and spring/summer Lanphear ’83. and Sande Smith, Bud Trask, and Steve Farrar. Brendan Rielly ’92.

38 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2016 [email protected] 39 Class of 1979 Bowdoin class news lyman Page • Cosmic Microwave Radiation

Achievement Award. This annual national competition recognizes “Physics is incredibly major advances resulting from nationally-funded research. Dr. exciting on all sorts Greenfield recently returned from of fronts. New forms Serbia, where he was visiting professor at the University of of matter are being Belgrade School of Medicine. designed, investigated, He was also an invited lecturer and panelist earlier this month and understood.” at the American Society of Nephrology meeting in San Diego. ou might imagine someone who has Ybeen teaching physics for twenty-five years at Princeton to have been dedicated HARPSWELL INN to science from the beginning. Not the A Bed & Breakfast on the water at Lookout Point • Open year-round case for Lyman Page ’79, who started out Rooms $145.00–190.00, Suites $139.00–239.00 at Bowdoin majoring in philosophy and Elegantly casual with full breakfast included English. 10 minutes from Bowdoin College off Route 123 Born in San Francisco and having spent Wedding Packages and cottages also available Doctors Bill Kaylor ’78, Eric Weinshel his childhood everywhere from the West Off-season specials November 1 through mid-May ’81, and Ryan O’Donnell ’99 have Coast to Virginia to Maine, Lyman landed been colleagues in Minneapolis for in Kennebunk during high school and then Our new “Middlebay” function room for groups up to 50 guests many years. headed to Bowdoin. While he enjoyed Call for reservations: (800) 843-5509 • (207) 833-5509 • www.harpswellinn.com exploring different fields early on in his education, his favorite memory in college was, he says, “discovering physics and finding my passion more than anything.” Now as the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Physics, Page researches cosmic microwave radiation. “Physics is incredibly exciting on all sorts of fronts,” he says. “For example, Polar Bear diplomacy: Congressman new forms of matter are being designed, Patrick L. Meehan ’78 and US investigated, and understood.” Ambassador to Greece David D. Pearce While research occupies a large part ’72 met in Athens in preparation for of his time, teaching has been a pleasure a conference with Greek President for Page. His favorite class is Advanced Prokopis Pavlopoulos. Introductory Mechanics, a first-year course on Newton’s Laws, thermodynamics, and relativity. Page’s research has brought him all over the world, from Chile to Antarctica. He connects with landscapes through sailing— and is looking forward to an upcoming sailing trip in St. Lucia. But Maine remains one of his favorite destinations. “Maine Dave Barnes ’81, Pete Larcom ’81, Dan Spears ’81, and John Hickling ’81 is one of the most beautiful places in the biking in Myanmar in November 2015. world,” he says. Every year the four Deke classmates go off the grid for some adventure Photo: David Kelly Crow travel together.

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[In December] he lectured in the several generations. He actively confirmed Ambassador Jackson’s United States Attorney for eastern 1981 reunion a great work opportunity, but more started law school last fall out New York. I began serving at department of urology at New managed the firm and contributed nomination on October 22, 2015. Pennsylvania. Pearce has served Jeffrey Gorodetsky: “More than importantly, the opportunity to live in California. Also, as an added Asbury in the spring of 1995 as York University at the annual in ways too numerous to mention He plans to arrive in Ghana and as Ambassador to Greece since twenty-eight years after moving closer to most of our kids. Amy benefit, it will now be a much director of children’s music and Surgical, Pharmacological, and throughout his long career there.” take up his duties in Accra in 2013 and is a thirty-year veteran to Florida, twenty-five in my solo will be ‘reluctantly’ leaving the easier trip for Reunion number soprano soloist and continued in Technological Advances in early January 2016.” From a US of the Foreign Service. He is one family medicine practice, we are sun for the snow. Our oldest child, thirty-five in June.” those roles until assuming the Urology Forum.” From a Women 1978 Department of State press release, of our nation’s most respected going to be moving back to the Eric, is an advertising copywriter, position of minister of music in & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo “Robert Porter Jackson was November 30, 2015. diplomats with frontline experience Northeast. I closed my practice just moving from New York to 1985 March of 2007. In addition to my press release, November 2015. sworn in [on November 30, 2015] Congressman Patrick L. in the Middle East. His service at the end of last September, Chicago. Rebecca, our next, is an Mary Thombs: “On October work at Asbury, I teach voice at as President Obama’s new U.S. Meehan and US Ambassador has included assignments in and have accepted a position actuary living in New York City. 18, 2015, I was honored for The Dwight School in New York 1974 Ambassador to the Republic to Greece David D. Pearce Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, with Reliant Medical Group in Our third, Andrew, is a chemical twenty years of service in the City, and violin and voice with the Paul Glassman: “In September of Ghana. The oath of office ’72 met in Athens in September Kuwait, Israel, and as senior Leominster, Massachusetts, engineer near Boston. The only music ministry of Asbury United Riverarts Program in Hastings-on- 2015 I was appointed director of was administered by Assistant in preparation for a conference adviser to Ambassador Ryan starting in December of 2015. It’s exception, our youngest, Lauren, Methodist Church, Tuckahoe, Hudson, New York.” University Libraries at Yeshiva Secretary of State for African with Greek President Prokopis Crocker in Iraq. Pearce began his University in New York, where I Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Pavlopoulos. Meehan represents career as a journalist and previously 1989 also teach architectural history Lieutenant General Joseph Henry Pennsylvania’s seventh worked for The Washington Post “Caring for aging “Swarthmore College Associate and design.” Smith, Ambassador of Ghana Congressional District and sits on and the Associated Press. Athens family members Professor of Music Barbara to the United States, attended the influential Ways and Means proved a fitting backdrop for the inspired us to refl ect Milewski, who earned her AB in 1975 the ceremony, as did Under Committee. A former Chairman meeting of the alums as they on our own legacy. political science and government Debbie Mann: “Jensen Baird Secretary of State for Management of the House Homeland Security both graduated as classics majors We decided to include at Bowdoin, will spend next year Gardner & Henry recently honored Patrick Kennedy, former Assistant subcommittees on intelligence and studying under legendary Bowdoin Bowdoin in our researching the first feature film our retiring partner Ken Cole ’69 Secretary of State for African cybersecurity, he is a respected Professors Nate Dane ’37, H’80 will because we are released in Poland after World at a lovely party at the Cumberland Affairs Johnnie Carson, and former leader in counter-terrorism and and John Ambrose.” From the passionate about the War II, thanks to a grant from Club in Portland, attended by U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Donald international cybersecurity issues office of Representative Patrick tremendous opportunity the National Endowment for the a number of alumni spanning Teitelbaum. The U.S. Senate in Congress. He is also a former Meehan, September 2015. inherent in a liberal Humanities (NEH). The culturally arts education and iconic work, Zakazane Piosenki grateful for the role [Forbidden Songs], prompted Bowdoin has played Milewski, one of the leading in our lives.” American experts of Polish music, to question why the Poles would – news from malawi Jamie Macmillan ’80 release a musical comedy to a traumatized nation. Her NEH Jamie and Tori Macmillan are active ob Pfeiff er ’67 landed in fellowship is aimed to fill that supporters of their alma maters. Tori is Malawi in November to R a University of Virginia alumna and the void in the legacy of the film; begin six months volunteering couple lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. while much has been made of with the nonprofi t Go! Malawi They were pleased to be included in how it was censored by Soviet on the reforestation eff ort in the a gathering of the members of the Bowdoin Pines Society during Jamie’s Ntchisi Forest Reserve—one of thirty- fth Reunion this past June. two remaining tropical rain forests in South Africa. The organization collaborates with rural Malawian You, too, can leave a communities to develop sustainable programs in education, health lasting legacy at Bowdoin. For more information, contact Nancy Milam The Bowdoin Pines Society care, commerce, and conservation. recognizes those who or Liz Armstrong in the Offi ce of Gift Planning have included the College Mary Thombs ’85 surrounded by her Pfeiff er is maintaining a compelling at 207-725-3172 or [email protected]. in their estate plans. blog about his experiences at knox. adult choir, her children’s choir, and reunion choir members at Asbury United villagesoup.com/p/news-from- Methodist Church, Tuckahoe, New York, malawi/1444824. on October 18, 2015, when she was bowdoin.edu/giftplanning honored for twenty years of service to the church’s music ministry.

[email protected] 43 Bowdoin Class of 1991 class news michael schwartz • Editor, Sony Digital Authoring Center authorities after its initial release and the ensuing controversy, there Middle Bay Farm Bed & Breakfast has been scant light shed on its On the Ocean music.” Milewski will spend eight 4 miles from Bowdoin College • Open year round months immersing herself in the project and complete her research Offers four sunny bedrooms, each with a water of Forbidden Songs with a fluent view, private bath, TV/VCR. Room rates are $150 to $170 and include a full breakfast. English translation of its lyrics and 287 Pennellville Road, Brunswick, ME 04011 Two suites in sail loft cottage are more rustic, script so that it can be released but include living area, kitchenette, two small (207) 373-1375 • [email protected] with English subtitles for the bedrooms, and private bath. Suite rates are www.middlebayfarm.com first time. From the Swarthmore $150 to $190. Owned by Phyllis Truesdell, wife of the late Clark Truesdell ’65 “I get paid to watch movies. College ‘News and Events’ website, December 14, 2015. If I traveled through time and told my ten-year-old self this 1993 would be my job, I would not Jennifer Hockenbery Dragsdeth: have believed me.” “My book, Thinking Woman: A Philosophical Approach to the The Cabin Quandary of Gender, was just published by Wipf and Stock Restaurant Publishers. It discusses the question, ‘What is a woman?’ 552 Washington Street, Bath Self Portrait: Michael Schwartz ’91 from the vantage points of women philosophers throughout Western The Cabin opened its doors in June what is it, exactly, that you do, “turning movies into the coolest thing about my job is: intellectual history.” of 1973. Serving our local and far videos?” and, what part of the process do you work on I get paid to watch movies. If I traveled through time and told my Mike Mascia: “On April 10, away friends for over 40 years. with the streaming and dvd extras? ten-year-old self this would be my job, I would not have believed me. I’m in the middle of the film-to-video process, but I touch the 2014, I married Hannah Fairbank From an insider’s perspective, top five movies of With the only real hand tossed film many steps along the way. Before a film is released, it is (University of Oregon ’98) in a CABIN PIZZA? all time: pizza in Maine. We are proud to previewed many times and then re-edited based on how the small sunset ceremony in Santa Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Raising The only real pizza in Maine. serve good food and warm spirits test audience responds to the cut. One of my responsibilities is Fe, New Mexico. John Sarrouf Arizona, Brazil, Lawrence of Arabia. To me, movies are about creating these preview-screeners. made the trek from Massachusetts “ — Portland Newspaper” in a rustic, nautical atmosphere. spectacle. I can enjoy more intimate films, but when I think For the extras, I’m mostly at the tail end of the process. to celebrate with us. Hannah and Located in the south end of Bath about the films that have really moved me, it’s the larger-than- One of the best in New England. Behind-the-scenes footage and other special features are I continue to live in Washington, across from Bath Iron Works. The life wonderment [that’s done it]. “ — Boston Globe produced by specialty houses. I’ll tweak that footage for DC, where I lead social science ” front section of the restaurant was inclusion on the BluRay or DVD. Deleted scenes will often Best celebrity story: About as good as it gets in Maine. once a rope mill in the historic come in a more raw form, and I stitch them together to make Twenty years ago I was working for Sony High Definition “ — Downeast Magazine ” shipbuilding days. In its past, it has something coherent and interesting. Center where I would promote the technology to directors, cinematographers, and other interested parties. One day I get a call: been a barbershop, ice cream parlor, what’s your favorite extra or deleted scene that you had A local tradition. Some would argue “Hello.” and sandwich shop. Now our menu a hand in—and one that wasn’t yours but that you loved “the best pizza in the state of Maine. “Hello, this is Marlon Brando. I hear you are demonstrating or aspire to emulate? includes pasta dinners, subs, salads some new camera technologies.” — Offshore Magazine ” I worked on a restoration of a “lost” Frank Capra movie, The and, of course, pizza. Stop by for a So, I arranged to meet Brando. I’m nervous as hell, and Matinee Idol. One of my duties was creating a text font for the word leaks out that he’s coming, so all the top studio brass Several Polar Bears gathered in wonderful meal. DVD insert cards. That was a fun challenge. I also cut a lot of comes to watch. Cape Porpoise, Maine, in July for a HOURS OF OPERATION: trailers for concerts that come out on home video. I very much Brando arrives, and he is the most down-to-earth, likable girl’s night out in celebration of Sally Sunday – Thursday: 10am – 9pm Open year round, 7 days a week admire the menu work for the Zoolander DVD. Very funny. Daggett ’87’s (“unmentionable-eth”) celebrity I’ve ever met. Warm, friendly, hugs and kisses, and Friday – Saturday: 10am – 10pm birthday. Pictured: Debbie Mann ’75, for lunch and dinner. Cash or Favorite all-time hidden feature? very grateful for my time. We spent a great afternoon together Paula Tremblay Burke ’87, Natalie checks accepted. ATM on premises. The Lord of the Rings DVDs have great MTV Movie Awards looking at test footage and trying out the camera. A few days Burns ’80, Sally, Joanna DeWolfe ’88, Local delivery available. “Easter Eggs.” I’m not telling what they are. Go find them. letter—a hand-written thank-you note. That’s class. Eileen Carter Williams ’90, and Kevyn 443-6224 Barbera Fusco ’87.

44 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2016 Class of 1997 Bowdoin class news Brie larmon • Making History

rie Larmon ’97 was in the same B position as many college seniors. “I research programs for Conservation 1995 felt like I didn’t know what I wanted to International, an international Kelsey Wolverton: “It was a do with my life,” she says. During the chip off the old Keyboard environmental NGO. I was also special surprise last March when summer before her senior year, she stayed recently elected to serve as I saw Charlie Gaffney and his in Brunswick, worked at Joshua’s Tavern, “I’m very excited to announce that my fi rst president-elect of the Society for family in Vermont. We were at and taught aerobics. While at Joshua’s, thriller, An Unbeaten Man, was published in Conservation Biology, the world’s Cairns Arena in South Burlington she started talking with the pilots from the November by Rowman & Littlefi eld’s Down largest professional society for where my son, AJ, and his hockey Naval Air Base who hung out there and, East Books division,” reports Brendan rielly biodiversity conservation scholars team, the Maine Gladiators (Maine after expressing interest in being a pilot, she “[It] put my life ’92. “It features the [fi ctional] character of and practitioners.” State Champions), were competing was put in touch with a recruiter. in perspective as Bowdoin College microbiology professor with other top youth teams from Flash forward a few years. Larmon’s an American. It’s Michael McKeon, who discovers a microbe New England. Charlie was at the flown Super Stallion CH-53E helicopters, humbling that we can that consumes oil and is forced to deploy tournament coaching his son, Cam, and been deployed on missions in Japan, just go into a booth Iraq, and Afghanistan. While flying, she the microbe to destroy the oil stocks of Saudi and their team, the Warwick Waves helps with logistics—moving troops and and vote.” Arabia and Russia. The action moves from (Rhode Island State Champions). It equipment around the battlefield. She was Bowdoin to Russia, the Middle East, and the was great to see Charlie and Alisa in the reserves from 2006 to 2014 after Far East. It is the fi rst and meet their kids, Charlie, Cam, the birth of her oldest daughter, but was in a series of novels and Hannah. And it was quite a treat to see AJ and Cam on the ice deployed again to Afghanistan in 2009 starring McKeon, AJ Wolverton (in black/red) and Cam and 2012. She’s currently the commanding and is available at Gaffney (number 9 in white/blue) together! We’re hoping both teams officer of Marine Heavy Helicopter bookstores and on skated against each other during the earn a return to the 2016 regional Squadron 772 at McGuire Air Force Base tournament. tournament where this year’s Amazon.com. My in New Jersey—only the second woman to Maine Gladiators PeeWee Tier 2 son morgan ’18 is command an aviation squadron —and is a team—coached by Jamie Belleau also a published test pilot for Sikorsky Helicopters. ’93—could meet up with Charlie’s author. His book, One of her most memorable moments Warwick Waves!” came in Iraq in 2005. She saw people voting Neighborhood and holding up their purple fingers. “This Heroes: Life Lessons 1996 reunion put my life in perspective as an American,” Learned from Maine’s Janet Mulcahy Kane: “From she says. “It’s humbling that we can just go Greatest Generation, Kelsey Albanese Wolverton ’95 and her November 5 through 8, we were into a booth and vote and not have to worry family bumped into Charlie Gaffney ’95 shares the stories of fortunate to celebrate our Annual about those things.” and his at a youth hockey tournament in twenty-six Maine Mini Bowdoin Reunion with Maine is a special place for Larmon. Vermont last spring. Pictured: Hannah WWII veterans and Gaffney, Ava Wolverton, AJ Wolverton, many fellow classmates and their “Anytime I come to Maine, Maine is it,” the life lessons Cam Gaffney, and Charlie Gaffney [Jr]. families in Camden, Maine. The she says. Her planes stopped for fuel in Morgan learned Bangor when she departed for and returned from them. It was from deployment in Iraq and deployment in Afghanistan. Every time a plane touched published during down or took off, regardless of the hour, his senior year in people from the community were present high school and to welcome vets home or hand them a cell is also available at phone to make a call. “It felt like home,” bookstores and on she says. “People were exactly as they were Amazon. Thanks to a in Brunswick.” grant from Bowdoin, Next up? “I’m a reservist so that’s Morgan is at work supposed to be part-time,” says Larmon. on his second book, “However, I was just mobilized again— which will share the full-time, temporarily, until January, stories of immigrant Janet Mulcahy Kane ’96, Patrick Kane ’96, Jen Fortin ’96, Wei Chung Lee ’97, 2017—and we are heading somewhere yet teenagers in Maine.” Cassie Kanz Faint ’97, Justin Czubaroff ’97, Jonathan Steele ’97, Carter Smith ’97, to be determined.” Brent Ruter ’97, and Michael Sherwood ’97 gathered with their broods in November

Photo: Dennis Degnan for a mini reunion in Camden, Maine.

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izingo, a new company founded by Kiyah Duff ey ’01, K designs and builds products aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles among families and encouraging independence among children. “our vision is for a world where families are empowered to make food-related decisions that promote the health of the environment, their community, their relationships, their families, and themselves,” says duff ey, who is an adjunct faculty member in the department of human nutrition, foods, and exercise at Virginia Tech. Christmas in Maine Thinking Woman: Violence and Humanity Art + Religion in the Hard Red Spring Kizingo’s fl agship product is a toddler spoon aimed at By Blue Butterfi eld ’92 A Philosophical Approach By Aijalon Gomes ’02 21st Century By Kelly Kerney ’06 making self-feeding successful: kizingokids.com. and Robert PT Coffi n, 1915 to the Quandary of (Aijalon M.G., 2015) By Aaron Rosen ’01 (Viking, March 2016) (Islandport Press, 2015) Gender (Thames & Hudson, 2015) Jennifer Dragseth ’93 (Wipf and Stock, 2015) weekend consisted of everything From a Park City Utah, Park Record their adopted land, and linked by brutal dictatorships and disastrous fellowship recipient, she lives in in San Francisco, where Leiana is a Hill neighborhood in urban San Dignowity Hill have believed in from hiking and roasting marshmal- article, December 29, 2015. the mysterious disappearance of American intervention.” Kerney’s Richmond, Virginia. From a Penguin children and youth program director Antonio, Texas. Estes and Long the neighborhood’s potential for a lows by the campfire to hysterical a little girl. The story brilliantly first novel, Born Again, was listed Random House press release, at Futures Without Violence, and bought a home in that historic long time, and many remember a rounds of Cards Against Humanity. 2001 reunion reveals how the harsh realities among the best debuts of the year December 2015. Julie is a clinical social worker at but run-down district as part of time when it was vibrant, diverse, Classmates in attendance included Aijalon Gomes has published of history play out in the lives by Kirkus Reviews, was a Book University of California, San Francisco a movement to rehabilitate the and highly sought-after. They Patrick Kane, Jen Fortin, Wei an autobiography, Violence and of individuals and paints a vivid Sense Pick, and was recognized 2003 Medical Center.” See profile, page old structures and revitalize the hope that the young blood will Chung Lee ’97, Cassie Kanz Humanity, that includes his picture of Guatemala—a place by the New York Public Library as Leiana Kinnicutt married Julie fifty of this issue. area. Estes is a designer and Long have a renaissance effect.” From Faint ’97, Justin Czubaroff ’97, experience of being arrested in of untamed beauty and resilient one of the best books of 2006. A Paster (Assumption College ’02) is a builder; they appreciated the San Antonio, Texas online Jonathan Steele ’97, Carter North Korea in January 2010, and people that bears the scars of Virginia Commission for the Arts on July 5, 2014, at Kualoa Ranch, 2004 the craftsmanship that has magazine, The Rivard Report, May Smith ’97, Brent Ruter ’97, and his eventual release seven months Kaneohe, Hawaii. The couple had a Mike Long and Cotton Estes ’06 supported the homes for more 2014 and September 2015. Michael Sherwood ’97. later, which was secured by former second reception in August at the have been featured in an ongoing than a century, and wanted to President Jimmy Carter. 173 Flying Point Rd, Freeport Tedesco Country Club in Marblehead, series of articles chronicling the honor that. Yet as much as they 2005 1997 Aaron Rosen: “My new book, Massachusetts. They currently live resurgence of the Dignowity and other newcomers invested in Erin Carney: “Pete Durning Bryan Knepper and his wife, Art & Religion in the 21st Century their homes, none of them want and I were filmed with our son [in Jennifer, have opened a new care (Thames & Hudson, 2015), just to see the neighborhood price September] for [the HGTV series] clinic, Stat+MD Urgent Care, aimed came out and [was] featured in out its current residents. Instead, House Hunters International. at improving customer service, Time Magazine in a list of the “they are taking an active role We moved from New York City health, and medical care in Kimball year’s best art books. It has also in mitigating the side effects of to Amsterdam for Pete’s job Junction and areas around Park been featured on BBC Radio 4 and rising home values and preserving at the International School of City, Utah. The center specializes in several UK newspapers. It’s the culture that attracted them Amsterdam. In our first interview, in ailments that are pressing but written for a general audience so I in the first place. Residents of we tell the story of meeting at don’t require trips to the emergency think many alumni might enjoy it.” 549,000 5 BD/3 BA 3,408 SF Bowdoin.” The episode, entitled room. Part of the treatment involves Spacious, classic farmhouse with all the key updates. Sunny “Bringing Up Baby in Amsterdam,” an eClinic, which allows patients 2002 porch, working fi replaces, 3.6 playful acres, useful barn for aired on January 20, 2016. to visit with doctors via video Kelly Kerney’s latest novel, Hard many purposes. Low heating costs. ROW to Maquoit Bay. Minutes to Bowdoin College. MLS#1243943 conference rather than coming into Red Spring, which will be out in The Polar Rowing Club won their event in the Alumni Four at the Snake Regatta on 2006 reunion the office to be seen in person. In March 2016, “is an ambitious and Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Massachusetts, on October 10. Pictured: Coach Gil Beth Franklin and Mike LePage David Duhalde: “In August I the future, the Kneppers also plan unforgettable novel that takes Birney, Coxswain Ben Needham ’05, Dave Thomas ’00, Nathan Post ’15, Elliott Munn was named the deputy director to provide primary care and serve readers through a hundred years of ’11, Mark Endrizzi ’15, and Coach Doug Welling. Polar Rowing also made a strong showing later in the fall in the Club Four event at the Head of the Charles Regatta in of the Democratic Socialists walk-in patients, with a goal of Guatemala’s turbulent and violent Boston, earning a guaranteed entry by finishing twenty-first in a field of fifty-five Rowing alumni Keely Boyer ’05 and of America and represent the ensuring that each individual gets history—as experienced by four crews. Other alumni racing at the Charles included Cal Brooks ’15 in a Riverside 8 Taylor Boyer ’05 introduced their new 207-846-4300 • 800-393-2372 organization in Washington, comprehensive attention and has American women caught in the that won the Club event; Jen Helble ’14, who coxed for a women’s master’s crew son to Dave Thomas ’00, Ben Needham DC. Over the past few months, all of their concerns addressed. cultural and political currents of [email protected] www.rheritage.com from Shammamish out of Washington State; and Erin Jaworski ’01 rowing in the ’05, and Coach Gil Birney at Lake Club Four for Hingham Harbor. Quinsigimond last fall. HuffPostLive and other media

[email protected] 49 Class of 2003 Bowdoin class news leiana kinnicutt • Futures Without Violence

outlets have interviewed me November 2014, reduced certain and provides legal services to planning. This past September, about Bernie Sanders and low-level crimes from felonies individuals wanting a second we welcomed our first child, democratic socialism.” to misdemeanors. The clinic chance. From an Advancing Luca, into our lives. Of course, we In July 2015, Paul Jung, staff involved several bar associations, Justice-LA’s blog post, July 29, are completely smitten. We are attorney for Advancing Justice- nonprofit organizations, and 2015. looking forward to bringing him to “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” LA, participated in the first-ever volunteers who assisted over Erica Ostermann: “Jason Reunion this spring.” ‘Prop 47’ and record expungement thirty-five individuals with the Hecht (Hamilton ’06) and I were -Oscar Wilde clinic in California. The required paperwork for felony thrilled to celebrate our marriage 2007 Proposition, wh ich was passed in reclassification and record this past June in Falmouth, Alex Weaver: “In addition to expungement petitions. “Because Maine, with many friends in serving as the managing editor of a person with a prior criminal attendance. Coleman Hall third digital media site BostInno, I’ve record often faces difficulties in and fourth floors were well recently launched a Kickstarter seeking employment and housing, represented!” campaign for Brunswick Park, even when the record is very Thomas Rodrigues: “It’s the clothing line I designed with old or completely unrelated, been an eventful four years since co-founder Jess Garbarino to felony reclassification and Niki [Nicole Alvarez ’07] and bring innovative, performance record expungement can help I moved back to Miami. We got fabrics into everyday life. The Thomas Rodrigues ’06 and Nicki Alvarez ’07 welcomed son Luca an individual seeking to re-enter married in 2011, traveled, and campaign was fully funded in its Alvarez Rodrigues (Bowdoin 2038?) in society.” The work helps low- launched careers—Niki in family first six hours of a soft launch, September. income populations access justice law, and me in transportation and became a Kickstarter Staff

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fter growing up in Hawaii and graduating from Bowdoin country to enhance policy and practice around the issues of a with a major in sociology and minor in English, Leiana domestic violence, child abuse, teen dating violence, community Kinnicutt ’03 has devoted herself to the common good in violence, and sexual assault. Last spring I worked with Major her work with San Francisco’s Futures Without Violence. In League Baseball to train players on the issues of domestic May 2011, the NoVo Foundation named her one of sixteen violence, child abuse, and sexual assault. “visionaries” who piloted the first phase of its ten-year Move to any advice for someone interested in working in End Violence initiative. social justice? Futures without violence. what do you do in your role as Find your purpose and follow your passion, but remember to program director in the children and youth department? balance taking care of yourself with taking care of others. You For more than thirty years, Futures Without Violence has been can’t change the world—can’t show up as your most powerful providing programs, policies, and campaigns that empower and impactful self—if you are burned out and running on empty. individuals and organizations working to end violence against teve holleran ’08, a 2013 graduate of usc’s fi lm school, worked do you have a favorite Bowdoin memory? women and children around the world. We train professionals sas cinematographer on his fi rst indie feature fi lm, The Land, Watching the seasons change and the first snow fall. Growing such as doctors, nurses, judges, and athletic coaches on improving which premiered at the 2016 sundance film festival. written and up in Hawaii and moving to Maine for college was a bit of a responses to violence and abuse. We also work with advocates, directed by holleran’s friend and usc classmate steven caple Jr., shock! Thankfully, I had great friends to help me through that policy makers, and others to build sustainable community The Land is a coming-of-age story about four underprivileged first winter. leadership and educate people everywhere about the importance FILMING teenage skateboarders from inner-city cleveland who resort to of respect and healthy relationships. Our vision is a future without what about a favorite place? selling drugs to support their skating. it stars erykah Badu, michael violence that provides education, safety, justice, and hope. Kailua Beach, in the town where I grew up—the white sand, FAKIE K. williams (The Wire), Kim coates (Sons of Anarchy), and moises I partner with policy makers, service providers, state and warm, crystal clear blue water, and the feeling of being home, arias (Kings of Summer), and is produced by hip-hop legend nas. county agencies, and social justice organizations across the in paradise.

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Pick on its first day. As a Maine liza Warren-Shriner ’13, an environmental native, I know fashion labels BRUNSWICK studies and Romance languages major with This custom-built indoor pool will definitely take the chill off on these cold e coming out of Vacationland and winter days–and it’s only one feature that makes this large four-bedroom, a chemistry minor, spent her first year after Bowdoin are pretty rare.” five-bathroom ranch perfect for entertaining! Others include Brazilian cherry “This is an exciting time Bowdoin working for the United Nations World hardwood floors, stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, two attached Food Programme (WFP) in Dakar, Senegal, garages, two master suites, fenced-in dog kennel, audio system wired throughout to be working here. It is 2009 the first floor, workshop, storage, and more. Built with high quality materials, through a Princeton in Africa Fellowship. During becoming increasingly Alyssa Chase: “The non- this home also includes a handicapped-accessible in-law space on the first floor this time, she became involved in the Purchase with kitchenette, master suite, living room, dining room and den. $624,999 governmental organization clear that smallholder for Progress (P4P) initiative that examines “how Mano a Mano Bolivia is about BAILEY ISLAND WATERFRONT farmers need support WFP’s demand for local food crops can be to embark on its fifty-fourth Situated on a private Bailey Island peninsula, this property offers 150 feet of to increase production leveraged to support smallholder farmers.” She protected deep-water frontage with dock potential on Mackerel Cove. The lot now works for P4P as a consultant in WFP’s office school construction project in and access markets—it is improved with an existing three-bathroom septic and well installed and a in Burkina Faso. the community of Tunas Pampa, walkout foundation from a prior home. From this building site you will have can’t just be one Aiquile, Cochabamba. They will gorgeous water views into the cove and out to open ocean, along with sunset what are the latest developments with P4P? water views over Casco Bay to Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. Located or the other.” replace a structurally unsound in an area of quality-built homes, this will be a secure investment. $649,000 This is an exciting time to be working here. It school in danger of collapsing is becoming increasingly clear that smallholder on its students and teachers due PHIPPSBURG WATERFRONT farmers need support to increase production and to frequent earthquakes in the This tranquil Maine summer cottage offers picturesque views of the New access to markets—it can’t just be one or the Meadows River. Nestled on the shores of Phippsburg, it’s the perfect spot for other. In many developing countries, WFP is one area. On this, as with all of their boating, kayaking, fishing, or simply relaxing on your waterfront deck. Close of just a few large buyers of local food crops that: projects, they are working closely to Popham Beach and local restaurants. Updates include a new state-of-the-art with the local community and septic system. $235,000 1) sign formal contracts, 2) maintain high quality municipal government to share standards, and 3) pay a premium for quality. The fact that the organization is now leveraging the costs of funding and ensuring Rob Williams Real Estate its position as a key buyer in developing markets the sustainability of the school Unique Coastal Properties • Seasonal Rentals Available • 207-833-5078 • baileyisland.com to support smallholder farmers is huge. These infrastructure after it is built. farmers are also increasingly recognized as having Mano a Mano Bolivia will provide a central—if not the central—role in ensuring food the architectural and engineering security in developing countries. The potential expertise and direct this project. impact is high. It also must contribute $25,473. NVESTMENT PPORTUNITIES The blueprints have already I O ! do you have a favorite Bowdoin memory? been finalized and the financial (Within Walking Distance to Bowdoin College) For my final project in my French senior seminar, I researched the French repas gastronomique, then BRUNSWICK: This clean and compact, single-level home designed and prepared a five-course meal around is very close to Bowdoin College and downtown. It features a spacious eat-in kitchen, two bedrooms, one full and updated the senses to correspond with the course’s focus bathroom, laminate and tile flooring, a laundry room, a on the body. My professor let me use her kitchen, detached garage, and large yard. Take a look at this affordable and despite a few mishaps (including breaking home before it gets scooped up! $93,000. her casserole dish in her oven), a great meal with friends, classmates, and professors was a great way to end my Bowdoin career. BRUNSWICK: This relatively new and well cared for duplex is where do you hope to head next? a perfect fit for a homeowner wanting to have expenses paid by The list is long! My actual next trip is home. I’m a tenant or enjoy it strictly as an investment. The ground floor is a two-bedroom unit, upstairs offers three bedrooms. Both units originally from Vermont, which is always a much- have laundry hookups. The large lot is close to town and offers welcome break from the desert, and Vermont, a big yard space for games and relaxation. $220,000. (along with Maine), is still among my favorite places in the world. In March, I’ll be moving to Burundi to work for One Acre Fund, a social enterprise that Lydia Pillsbury ’07 and Jesse Drummond supplies smallhold farmers in East Africa with asset- based financing and agriculture training services to ’08 welcomed daughter Willa Stone ORTON EAL STATE Pillsbury Drummond on September 28, M R E (207) 729-1863 reduce hunger and poverty. I’m excited to get back 2015. She is already comfortable as an 240 Maine Street • Brunswick, ME 04011 • www.MaineRE.com • Email: [email protected] to an area I fell in love with during my first visit!” honorary Polar Bear! Photo: Oliver Parini

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contributions from the community Teams Graduate Assistant at high school sweetheart, Erica got married this summer! Living and municipal governments have Stanford, spoke with The Times Boyce (12 College Exchange the dream. I get to see Molly already been submitted. Once Record about his career path, Fall ’08) in August on Cape Cod, Dugdale and her two beautiful we have the funds, construction words of wisdom from former Massachusetts, with many fellow children on a regular basis.” will begin and is scheduled to Secretary of State Condoleeza ’10s in attendance!” be completed in four months. Rice, and the greatest experience 2012 I have been volunteering in of his life—the Rose Bowl,” in a 2011 reunion Sam Frizell wrote the September Bolivia for the past seven front-page Q&A in early January. Grace Daley Kerr: “I’m working 2015 cover story, “The Gospel of months and am directing this From The Times Record, January at Landmark School in Beverly, Bernie,” for TIME magazine, where Crowdfunding Campaign. We are 8, 2016. Massachusetts, as an academic he’s worked as a politics writer using the Crowdfunding platform Chris Murphy: “I married my advisor. I live in Beverly, and I just since early 2014. GlobalGiving.org.” 1 2 3

2010 Kit Hamley, a graduate student at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, will travel to the Falkland Islands from January 14 through February 13, 2016, to research an extinct species of fox Eat. called the warrah. Using field and laboratory techniques, she hopes to learn how and when the animal arrived on the islands. During her time there, she will connect with Drink. 4 students in Maine and around Bruce Courtney ’06 and Linda Mexico, on April 10, 2014. the country as part of UMaine’s 1 Wu (Carnegie Mellon University Pictured: Mike and Hanna, John ‘Follow a Researcher’ program. ’06) were married at Le Méridien Sarrouf ’93. The initiative gives students a Chambers Hotel in Minneapolis, glimpse into a scientist’s world Stay. Minnesota, on August 15, 2015. 4 Julie Hewitt ’11 and Andrew Recently Wed? by facilitating communication Pictured: Linda and Bruce, Fariha Coleman ’11 were married in Show off your better half—send us your wedding photo. between the youth and the Mahmud Greenwood ’06, Michael Lyme, New Hampshire, on July 18, researcher through live expedition Shannon ’06, Trevor Macomber 2015. Pictured: Manton Copeland Fill out the form on our website: bowdoin.edu/magazine updates via Twitter and video ’06, Alexandra Krippner ’06, and ’80, Sam Epstein ’11, Robert Madeleine Pott ’06. Fisher ’11, Brian Wu ’11, Tim chat. It is offered by the UMaine Anderson ’11, Peter Braunohler Image size: To ensure print quality, image should be supplied at Extension with support from 2 Kathleen Kimiko Phillips ’11, Katie Stewart ’12, Mike a minimum resolution of 1500 pixels x 1050 pixels, in a .JPG or UMaine’s Climate Change Institute ’99 married Christian Lohrmann Mitchell ’11, Jon Weighter ’11, .TIF format. Pixel sizes smaller than this may result in poor printing and the Maine 4-H Foundation. (Albert Ludwigs University of Wesley Hartwell ’11, Ben Johnson quality, or the photo may not be used. From a Bangor, Maine, WABI TV5 Freiburg, Germany ’00) on October ’12, Ken Rowe ’69, Greg Talpey Permissions: Submission of your wedding photo presumes that 20, 2015, in New York City. ’14, Will Albuquerque ’11, Hannah interview, January 5, 2016. you hold its copyright or have obtained the necessary permission Bowdoin alumni in attendance for Peckler ’11, Meagan Tilton Hardy Carlisle Hess: “Graham for the photo to appear in Bowdoin Magazine. Please contact the their reception included Marian V. ’11, Alexa Staley ’11, Mamiko Quill ’08 and I were married on magazine if you have any questions. Curtis ’99, D. Ellen Shuman ’76, Taniguchi ’11, Lindsey Mingo ’11, Saturday, September 5, 2015 on Arlene MacLeod ’77, and Bruce Sarah Loeb ’11, Ilse Pukinskis ’11, Timeliness: Due to space constraints, weddings that occurred Maui, Hawaii, in the company of MacLeod ’79. Julie and Andrew, Holly Jacobson BISTRO PRIVATE EVENTS BICYCLES OVERNIGHT PACKAGES HOT TUB within a year from time of submission will be given priority. close friends and family. We met ’11, Kaitlin Raymond ’11, Tanu at Bowdoin in 2007 and now live 3 Mike Mascia ’93 and Hanna Kumar ’12, Bryce Lednar ’11, and Deadline: The submission deadline for the Spring/Summer issue is in Seattle with our dog, Boone.” 10 Water Street • Brunswick, Maine • 207 373 1824 • thedanielhotel.com • thedanielhotel Fairbank (University of Oregon Michaela Calnan ’11. May 1, 2016. Matt Moran, “who holds ’98) were married in a sunset the position of [football] Special ceremony in Santa Fe, New

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5 Leiana Kinnicutt ’03 married ’08) on August 29, 2015, at the 10 Emily Straus ’09 and Kevin surrounded by friends, family, Al Chlebeck ’12, Judy Warren, Harry Julie Paster (Assumption College ’02) Wychmere Beach Club on Cape Cod, Mullins ’07 were married on and Bowdoin classmates. The Warren (director of Moulton Union on July 5, 2014, at Kualoa Ranch, Massachusetts, with many fellow August 29, 2015, in Kennebunkport, couple took each other’s name. emeritus), Gillian McDonald ’04, Kaneohe, Hawaii. ’10s in attendance. Pictured: Molly Maine. Pictured: Charlie Legg Pictured: Isabella Jean ’01, Roodly Katie Petronio ’07, Sheryl Pleiss ’07, Masterson Rothschild ’10, Laurel ’07, Zach Hammond ’07, Matt Jean ’99, Tanvi Patel, Nathan and Jayme Woogerd ’07. 6 Grace Kerr ’11 married Ryan Clark ’10, Becca Schouvieller ’10, Neidlinger ’06, Stew Stout ’07, Chandrasekaran ’99, Eric and Zoe, Daley (Gordon College ’13) on June Rachael Norton ’10, Emily Norton ’10, Walker Ellis ’07, Mike Peraza Eun Hee Kim, Chewon Lee ’99, and 13 Timothy Poulin ’10 and 19, 2015, in Hanson, Massachusetts. John Burlinson ’10, Tim O’Brien ’10, ’07, Matt Chadwick ’07, Connor Adam Stevens ’99. Andrew Herrmann (Swarthmore Pictured: Rohit Sangal ’11, Lauren Drew Trafton ’10, Kata Solow ’10, Fitzgerald ’06, Ross Stern ’07, College ’08) were married at Le Xenakis ’11, Carole Lewis ’11, Molly Dana Riker ’10, Bobby Welch ’10, Dylan Brix ’07, Beatrice Shen ’09, 12 Meghan Gillis ’07 and Jill Parker Meridien Hotel in New York Duffy Dugdale ’11, Will Hatleberg ’11, Colman Hatton ’10, James Ha ’10, Kati Fairweather ’09, Sarah D’Elia Campbell ’11 were married at City on October 17, 2015. Pictured: Sara Powers ’11, Ryan and Grace, and Michael Rothschild ’10. ’09, Helaina Roman ’09, Emily the New England Outdoor Center Helen Wen ’10, Allison Thomas Dana Riker ’10, Colman Hatton ’10, Doyle ’09, Christina Denitzio ’09, in Millinocket, Maine, on July 11, ’10, James Nadeau ’10, Nicholas Ken Akiha ’08, Ali Chase ’09, and 9 Nicholas Lawler ’07 married Doria Cole ’09, Michael Giordano 2015. Polar Bears there to celebrate Lechich ’10, Maxime Billick ’10, Amy Ahearn ’08. Maeve Connell (University of New ’08, Lindsey Schickner ’09, Claire with them were: Jim Plumer (former Lily Rudd ’12, Andrew and Tim, Hampshire ’08) on April 25, 2015, in Moriarty ’09, Ashley Conti Smith hockey coach), Sam Siegel ’11, Dom Will Bleakley ’10, Molly Randall 7 Jessica Laplante ’12 and Donald New York City at Morningside Castle ’07, Alison Sarokhan ’09, Lindsay Lozzi ’12, Krista Bahm ’11, Jessica ’10, Lydia Deutsch ’10, Carolyn Evans (University of Arizona ’05) were on the Upper West Side. Pictured: McNamara ’09, Elizabeth Richeda Ziehler ’11, Emily Decelle ’11, Anna Williams ’10, KC Maloney Edwards married at French’s Point in Stockton Seth Gabarro ’07, Sip Koperniak ’07, ’09, Caitlin Mevorach ’09, and Byers ’11, Jill and Meghan, Lydia ’10, and Stacey Coates P’05. Springs, Maine, on August 21, 2015. Pat Driscoll ’08, Tom Lakin ’07, Chris Kevin and Emily. Hawkins ’07, Susan Morris ’07, Pictured: Nate Gordon ’12, Colin Fong McCann ’07, Paul Evans ’07, Ellie Marissa O’Neil ’05, Sarah Horn ’07, ’12, Donald and Jessica, Jasmine Evans ’06, Mark Bulger ’06, Maeve 11 Eric Williams ’99 and Zoe Meaghan White ’07, Liz Crommett Mikami ’12, and Tariq Haq ’12. and Nick, Trevor Powers ’06, Mike Hollister (University of New ’07, Kate Leonard ’07, Heather Buckley ’07, and John Lawrie ’07. Hampshire ’05) were married Farrell (former hockey coach), 8 Chris Murphy ’10 married outside of Seattle, Washington, Chelsea Young ’11, Alex Fahey ’12, Erica Boyce (12 College Exchange on Sunday, October 11, 2015, Kenzie Novak ’12, Kayte Holtz ’13, 9

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14 Nora Meyer ’08 and Ryan 17 Shelley Barron ’09 and Spencer 19 Dan McGrath ’06 and 21 James Knuckles ’07 and 22 Erica Ostermann ’06 married Devenyi ’08 were married on Ackerman (Brandeis ’09) were married Stephanie Engel (Columbia Silvia Camporesi (Kings College) Jason Hecht (Hamilton ’06) on September 5, 2015, at Wave Hill at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge, University) were married on June were married in Italy in August June 13, 2015, at the Gisland in the Bronx, New York. Pictured: Massachusetts, on August 30, 2015, 13, 2015, in Lyons, Colorado, and 2014. They celebrated their one- Farm Audubon Center in Falmouth, Brandon Waxman ’08, John Draghi surrounded by family and friends. celebrated with Bowdoin friends. year anniversary with US-based Maine. Pictured: Erica and Jason, ’08, Cait Rosa ’08, Charlie Meyer Pictured: Aliya Sabharwal ’09, Pictured: Pat Hughes ’05, Adam family and friends in a ‘Wedding Sarah Seames (McKeen Center ’11, Nora and Ryan, Dylan Devenyi Dzenana Lukovic ’09, Alanna Beroiza Caldwell ’06, Gia Upchurch ’05, 2.0’ at Sebasco Harbor Resort in director), Heather Day ’06, Sarah ’17, Ben Sandell ’08, and John ’09, Alyssa Phanitdasack ’10, Spencer Ged Wieschhoff ’06, Meghan Phippsburg, Maine, on August Thomas Biglin ’06, Tim McIntire Winterkorn ’08. and Shelley, Alan Barron ’69 (father of Detering ’07, Hallie Mueller ’06, 29 and 30, 2015. Pictured: Sam ’04, Alexa Ogata McIntire ’06, the bride), Julie Sylvester ’09, Jordan Emma Sears ’06, Frank Pizzo ’06, Chapple-Sokol ’07, Alden Karr ’07, Mara Partridge Presti ’05, Joel 15 Carlisle Hess ’10 and Graham Agusti Doucette ’09, Katie Aspen and Patrick Costello ’06. Toby Crawford ’07, James and Presti ’06, Elizabeth Leiwant ’08, Quill ’08 were married on September Gavenus ’09, and Zachary Albert ’16. Silvia, Charlie Ticotsky ’07, Mike Jamie Quinn ’06, Matt Thomson 5, 2015, on Maui, Hawaii. Pictured: 20 After meeting in the entrance Sighinolfi ’07, and Nick Collins ’07. ’06, Nicole Hart ’06, Erik Morrison Lydia Deutsch ’10, Alexandra Bassett 18 Mark Newman ’09 and of Quinby House at the beginning ’06, Bree Dallinga ’06, Kelly Orr ’09, Gregory Wyka ’08, Carlisle and Kerry Persen ’09 were married of the fall 2004 semester, and ’06, and (behind the camera) Emily Graham, Felix Jaeckel ’08, and Jordan September 12, 2015, in Wellesley, years of friendship and dating, Tong ’11. Browning ’08. Massachusetts, at the groom’s Eric Robinson ’07 and Jess grandmother’s house. Bowdoin Liu ’08 were married in Burbank, 16 Rachel Dicker ’09 and Matthew President Emeritus Barry Mills California, August 15, 2015. Fowler (University of Maine ’09) were officiated at the ceremony. Pictured: Pictured with the bride and groom: married in Presque Isle, Maine, on Barry Mills ’72, Karen Mills, Darian Toby Crawford ’07, David York August 29, 2015. Pictured: Ian Yaffe Reid-Sturgis ’09, Will Wilder ’09, ’07, James Harris ’08, Rebekah ’09, Jack Stolerman ’09, Drew Edwards Kyle Jackson ’09, Nick Cohen ’09, Mueller Strasburger ’07, and Justin ’09, Joy Geertz Segovia ’09, Rachel and Sarah Adams ’09, Tracy Rapp ’09, Bill Strasburger ’07, all of whom were Matt, Gretel Galo ’09, Geoff Brewer Madden ’09, Clara Hunnewell ’17, in the wedding party. ’09, and Jessica Kundrata ’09. and Kerry and Mark. 18

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The following is a list of deaths reported to us since the previous issue. Full obituaries appear online at obituaries.bowdoin.edu. Bowdoin obituaries appear on a dedicated online site, rather than printed in these pages. Updated regularly, the improved obituary format allows additional features that we can’t offer in print, specifically the ability for classmates, families, and friends to post photos and remembrances.

Maurice B. Littlefield ’41 Hugh W. Hastings II ’51 David H. Bird ’56 Graduate December 28, 2015 December 26, 2015 October 12, 2015 Judith Magyar Isaacson G’67 Thomas J. Sheehy Jr. ’41 Stuart D. Marsh ’51 Herbert W. Mahler ’56 November 10, 2015 December 28, 2015 November 14, 2015 December 10, 2015

23 24 John L. Baxter Jr. ’42 Robert P. Melhorn ’51 Jay C. Dings ’57 October 8, 2015 December 22, 2015 January 3, 2016 Faculty and Staff

Harold B. Dondis ’43 Donald J. Moore Jr. ’51 John A.S. McGlennon ’57 Thomas R. Arp December 10, 2015 November 3, 2015 December 17, 2015 July 30, 2015

Robert L. Edwards ’43 Charles N. Neunhoffer ’51 Ernest A. Belforti ’58 Norma Ballew October 6, 2015 June 5, 2015 November 6, 2015 September 20, 2015

C. Clark Young Jr. ’43 Morris I. Toll ’51 John W. Philbrick ’58 Geraldine H. Blanchette January 1, 2016 December 8, 2015 October 20, 2015 September 9, 2015

Samuel E. Kinsley ’46 Raymond G. Biggar ’52 Frank M. Folsom ’59 Christian S. Derbyshire October 10, 2015 September 30, 2015 September 30, 2015 December 20, 2015

Gardner N. Moulton Sr. ’47 Daniel W. Fickett ’52 Richard E. Leeman ’61 Frank L. Field 25 26 December 4, 2015 October 22, 2015 December 21, 2015 October 23, 2015

23 Audrey Chee ’09 and Kelsey ’05, Jesse Butterfield ’06, Avery 26 Skyler Walley ’12 married George D. Pappas ’48 Donald R. Murphy ’52 Theodore R. Richards ’61 William S. Flash Wilson Read ’09 were married Ash ’05, Ryan North ’05, Conor Hugh Redford on October 10, 2015, August 12, 2015 October 16, 2015 September 11, 2015 September 9, 2015 on August 22, 2015, at the Harry Williams ’05, Bree Dallinga ’06, at the Sebasco Harbor Resort Parker Boathouse in Boston, J. Pat Brown ’08, Erik Morrison in Phippsburg, Maine. Pictured: Robert E. Badger ’49 John G. Day ’53 Edward P. Rindler ’63 James P. Granger Massachusetts. Pictured: Tucker ’06, Nicole Hart ’06, Jordan “Bud” Thompson Ogilvie ’10, Colin Ogilvie October 9, 2015 December 14, 2015 November 3, 2015 October 9, 2015 Hermans ’09, Chris Jacob ’09, Beth Wine ’46, David and Elizabeth, ’12, Lucas O’Neil ’12, Kat Armstrong French Van Pelt ’09, Nate Morrow Erin Dukeshire ’05, Mayu Kennedy ’08, Mason Moss ’12, Alexandra Oliver F. Emerson II ’49 Robert A. Saunders ’53 Hiromi Haruki ’68 Ludovic Lavigne ’09, Cody Desjardins ’09, Elizabeth ’06, Gwenn Hollingworth ’06, Kari Rupp ’12, Anneka Nelson ’11, Lizzy November 14, 2015 January 8, 2015 October 28, 2015 May 12, 2015 Chertavian ’09, Kate Krosschell Twaite ’06, and Carys and Owain Warner ’12, Lily Rudd ’12, Jennifer ’09, Arnab Quadry ’09, Benjamin Williams. Crane ’05, Oscar Pena ’12, Annie Phillip W. Estes ’49 Delwood C. Damboise ’54 John L. Isaacs ’68 Leo Nadeau May 18, 2015 January 7, 2016 October 22, 2015 November 1, 2015 Shulman ’09, Jessica Haymon Sneed ’12, Anna Ackerman ’12, Gorlov ’09, Darius Alam ’09, Tori Lindsey Horowitz ’12, Laura Kerry 25 Taylor Lindsay Miller ’05 John H. Giffin Jr. ’49 James L. Doherty ’55 David W. Campbell ’71 C. Warren Ring Phung ’09, Rachel Ackerman ’09, and Adam Jermain Goodfellow ’12, Charlotte Ryan ’12, Hannah December 13, 2015 December 8, 2015 December 17, 2015 October 24, 2015 Kelsey and Audrey, Courtney Stock ’05 were married September 5, Levy ’12, Valerie Wirtschafter ’12, ’09, Olivia Madrid ’10, and Sarah 2015, at Whitby Castle in Rye, Carolyn Williams ’10, Kathryn Charles S. Auten ’50 Charles N. Janson-LaPalme ’55 Roderick Loney ’74 William M. Russell Landrum ’09. New York. Pictured: Tom Davis ’05, Deneroff ’12, Tanu Kumar ’12, Lizzy September 26, 2015 November 8, 2015 September 15, 2015 November 24, 2015 Laura Perovich ’05, Ben Kreider Tarr ’12, Laura Armstrong ’12, and 24 David Duhalde ’06 married ’05, Matt Yantakosol ’10, Steve Skyler and Hugh. David W. Garland ’50 Samuel Levey ’55 Robert P. Thayer ’74 Susanna D. Simpson Elizabeth Charpentier (Bridgewater Postal ’05, Sue Ichel ’05, Adam and November 26, 2015 December 28, 2015 November 5, 2015 December 19, 2015 State University ’09) at the Taylor, Frank Ichel (University of Josephine Butler Parks Center in Virginia ’08), Mark Krempley ’06, John L. Hayden ’50 David A. Pyle ’55 Mark R. Boucher ’85 Sherri L. Turner Washington, DC. Pictured: Alec Elizabeth Davidson Krempley ’05, December 8, 2015 December 21, 2015 November 10, 2015 December 6, 2015 Schley ’06, Andrew Combs ’06, Daniel Hayes ’05, Bitzi Gerasimova James T. Harrison ’06, William ’05, Thomas Bresnehan ’05, John Stanwood T. Harting ’51 Arthur A. Small ’55 Waldrop ’06, Matthew Thomson Flinn ’05, Edith Petrovics ’05, and November 14, 2015 October 3, 2015 ’06, Jonah Popp ’06, Ben Kreider Andrew Parsons ’05.

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his is a time of year when I fi nd myself writing notes to people who have made gifts to the College. I take for granted that my cursive scrawl is legible, although T over the years my renditions of individual letters have deviated from the ideal examples on the chart posted above the blackboard in my second-grade classroom at Longfellow School (since renovated as Bowdoin’s Robert H. and Blythe Bickel Edwards Center for Art and Dance). In talking with a retired history professor at the University of Southern Maine a couple of years ago, I was surprised to learn that some of her students were unable to work with nineteenth- century documents because they were unable to read cursive script. Cursive writing is no longer taught in a number of elementary schools. Keyboard skills are emphasized instead, which but I also was beginning to become aware of a change in the way makes a certain amount of sense these days, especially to someone that I was approaching the task of writing. Without easy ways like me who typed the words you are reading here with two index of correcting grammatical (or cosmetic) errors, I found myself fi ngers, à la hunt-and-peck. I suspect that laptop computers and wanting to compose a draft of the text in pencil fi rst, thinking tablets have overtaken notebooks and pens for capturing the very deliberately about exactly what I wanted to say, and writing salient points in classroom lectures at Bowdoin. With this shift slowly while trying to balance the new physical demands of in technology, I have to face the possibility that with each new forming letters and words with a tool that was sensitive to angle, cohort of Bowdoin alumni, my hand-written notes may be moving direction, and force. The need for economy in the eighteenth and from the realm of the quaint to the indecipherable. nineteenth century would have extended to paper as well, an “the view I am used to writing with a rolling ball pen, which lays down additional incentive for keeping errors to a minimum. from Bath road” a uniform line of ink, regardless of the direction of movement or It’s possible that Hawthorne and Longfellow wrote with by Zoë Lescaze ’12, the amount of pressure applied. I’m spoiled. Last year Edward quill pens when they were students at Bowdoin. Metal pen reprinted with Little Professor of English Emeritus Bill Watterson taught a class nibs were mass-produced in England in the 1820s and were permission from on sonnets in which students were asked to turn a feather into a generally available in America shortly thereafter. Metal nibs The Bowdoin Orient. quill dip pen, use it to copy their favorite sonnet, and then write lasted longer and didn’t require the regular maintenance of quill an essay about how the experience informed their understanding pens, which needed re-pointing with a quill knife every few of the creative and mechanical dimensions of writing in the past. pages. I have renewed appreciation for those who wrote letters Inspired by this example, I made my fi rst attempt to fashion and essays or signed their names with dip pens in confi dent, a quill pen from a raven’s feather that I found on the campus. cursive fl ourishes. Within this context, writing with a quill pen A bottle of drawing ink substituted for the time and effort that rewards forethought, clarity of expression, and a steady hand. would have been required to make ink from oak galls, iron There is none of the immediacy of a Tweet, but there is still a sulfate, and water. Lots of ink spatters and a few ink blobs later, satisfaction in getting back to the roots of writing, where words I completed the text of a letter that lacked the fl owing rhythm are weighed, and not counted. of cursive script and the subtle left-to-right, darker-to-lighter rhythm that signals the competent use of a dip pen. I quickly learned that I needed to vary the downward pressure according to the direction of the pen stroke to avoid having the tip fl ex and then release suddenly, spraying ink over the page. The signature at the end of this column represents my latest, best effort. A few heat-treated and carefully shaped goose quills later, I John R. Cross ’76 could see some improvement in my pen design and technique, Secretary of Development and College Relations

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Why We Are Here An excerpt from President Rose’s inaugural speech.

t its core, a liberal arts do not know but, as importantly, to This is a powerful transformative education is about test what we think we do know—to process, one that offers profound understanding. not make our ideas stronger, or challenge value, and this is why we are here. a understanding facts and us to adjust them. it is about being figures for their own sake but, through respectfully and persistently skeptical. the immersion into the questions and  a liberal arts education regularly we must be open to—in fact we issues of many disciplines, we better surprises us. we learn new things, must invite—views that are different understand who we are and how we some of which should “blow our from ours. we not only must listen to came to be who we are—physically, minds” a bit. we see we are capable of them, but we must engage them. it is historically, socially, spiritually, and so pushing ourselves and accomplishing We must be through the debate and discussion of forth. and we develop the capability a great deal. and we find passions we opposing ideas and engagement with open to—in to understand new questions and had never considered, which, in some uncomfortable issues, through pushing fact we must cases, will affect the course of our lives. This education offers us the chance to fail and ourselves out of our comfort zone, that invite—views to develop resilience. To push ourselves and This education offers us the chance to we really test how we think and what that are differ- stretch outside of what we know, to develop fail and to develop resilience. To push we think—either validating our views ent from ours. ourselves and stretch outside of what the capability to pick ourselves up and the or revealing the flaws that then send We not only we know, to develop the capability to us back for more work. moreover, as confidence that we can stretch further. pick ourselves up and the confidence i said to the first-year students and must listen to issues throughout our lives. it is about that we can stretch further. we also again at convocation, we must be them, but we diving deep enough into an area to learn that there are others around to unafraid of language or ideas that are must engage understand the cutting edge, and help, and that reaching out can be the disturbing and deeply unsettling. we them. finding always that there is much right thing to do. must be willing to wade deeply into all yet to know. it is about developing all of this changes us profoundly, and manner of texts, films, and art, among an appreciation for and facility with that’s the point. we emerge from four other means of intellectual discourse, tackle these tough problems, we must analytical tools—quantitative and years here better able to participate particularly the ones that challenge us be willing to engage with those we qualitative—to better consider data, in our chosen communities, with in some fundamental way. disagree with in the strongest terms questions, and ideas. and it is about a better understanding of how our it is only through this engagement possible, whose ideas may offend the ability to communicate clearly values should shape our obligations, with the most uncomfortable and us, and where we may have a deep and persuasively. in particular, to more capable of evaluating issues, difficult ideas that we can understand emotional reaction. we cannot develop a facility with the written more willing to engage, and better ourselves, our history, and understand respond by turning away; rather, we word, not simply because of its power equipped to lead. the issues and challenges embedded in need to confront and dig in, figure out to persuade, but because it is a specific what is flawed, incomplete, or wrong. we understand ourselves, others, the hardest, fiercest problems we face and important way of thinking—of we solve the hardest problems and and the world better. we will be today—natural, social, political, and understanding ideas clearly. defeat bad ideas, not by withdrawing, more curious and better able to economic. addressing and confronting but with well-honed logic, data, a liberal arts education also develops learn. we will be more critical these problems requires individuals analysis, and rhetoric. the capability and the disposition thinkers, seek precision and facts, who are unafraid, who have honed to question what we hear, read, and and be more comfortable with their intellectual skills and are prepared Read the rest of this speech and others see, to both understand what we ambiguity and nuance. to engage in the debate. if we are to at bowdoin.edu/president.

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