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Knowing how to do things is becoming a lost art. The four children in my own Volume 76, Number 1 household — who range in age from 11 to 15 — worry about this from time to Fall, 2004 What Makes Laffey Run? 12 time, especially the boys. One of them said recently that he feels that his genera- MAGAZINE STAFF By Edgar Allen Beem Photographs by Mark Alcarez tion will be helpless when it is their turn to run things. He said it genuinely wor- ried him and that, although it helped a little to know that we could teach him Editor Alison M. Bennie Steve Laffey ’84 returned to his hometown of Cranston, Rhode Island, after much of what he wanted to know, he was also kind of concerned that knowing twenty years of success in other places. Concerned about the state of would set him apart and make him therefore responsible for everything. Associate Editor things when he returned, he decided to run for mayor. Having taken on Matthew J. O’Donnell just about every special interest in town and now running for a second It’s a funny concept — that it might be better to be ill-equipped in a situation Design two-year term, Laffey shows no signs of backing off. than to know enough to have to be the one to take charge. But it doesn’t really Pennisi & Lamare Falmouth, Maine surprise me, coming from a 14 year-old boy who can play the guitar, solve an algebraic equation, hit a baseball, and make an iMovie — but who has never Obituary Editor Welcome to the Monkey House 18 mowed the lawn. We seem to spend more time coaching our children to be the John R. Cross ’76 By Claire Allum Photographs by Claire Allum and James Marshall best soccer players they can be, or talking to them about which colleges we think Contributors they should attend, than we do teaching them to balance a checkbook, take out a James Caton Leslie Shaw, visiting assistant professor in the department of Sociology & loan, or cook a meal. And I think that the result is that they feel they are not self- Susan Danforth Anthropology, has been taking Bowdoin students to dig in the jungle of Scott W. Hood sufficient and that their futures as grown-ups can be rather daunting. Mario N. Lopez ’06 Belize since 1998. Claire Allum joins Shaw at the dig at Maax Na, also Alix Roy ’07 known as "The Monkey House," for a look at what her students learn. We have long known at Bowdoin that one of the biggest differences between entering first-years and graduating seniors is that they have discovered that they Photographs by Mark Alcarez, Brian are people who can take on challenges with confidence. They know they have Beard, Dennis Griggs, James Marshall, Seth Affoumado, and Bowdoin College Bob the Bowdoin Builder 26 the learning skills to tackle a new language, research ground-breaking science, Archives. By Selby Frame Photographs by James Marshall or write a novel — and that how they apply the skills they have developed here is up to them and may take virtually any form in any profession. BOWDOIN (ISSN, 0895-2604) is pub- Machinists like Bowdoin’s Bob Stevens aren’t common at undergraduate lished four times a year by Bowdoin institutions, and guys like Bob Stevens just aren’t common anywhere. Selby College, 4104 College Station, But it isn’t all just academics, as clearly as that is our mission. Students on our J- Frame introduces us to a Bowdoin scientist’s secret weapon, someone who Brunswick, Maine 04011. Printed by Board learn to weigh evidence, resolve disputes, and impose consequences that are Dartmouth Printing, Hanover, New can make just about anything. Hampshire. Third-class postage paid at fair and grounded in principle. Students who lead teams and organizations learn Hanover, New Hampshire. Sent free of to motivate others, inspire success, and garner consensus. The examples go on charge to all Bowdoin alumni/ae, par- and on — there are even opportunities here to learn to throw pots, develop photo- ents of current and recent undergradu- ates, faculty and staff, seniors, and graphic prints, knit a sweater, or make sushi. Students who have never taken a selected members of the Association of dance class know that they are welcome in that department, as they are in every Bowdoin Friends. realm of the College. Bowdoin’s inclusiveness is one of its greatest virtues in that Opinions expressed in this magazine way. Boundaries are intentionally blurred here, to great and lasting effect. are those of the authors.

So maybe I should just take my son to see Bob Stevens, who could show him how Send class news to classnews@bow- doin.edu or mail to the address above. Departments to make some tools (they say about Bob, “ask him the time, and he’ll make you a Advertising inquiries? Please e-mail watch”). Or Leslie Shaw, who could make sure he knows how to look for scorpi- [email protected] or fax 207- Mailbox 86 725-3003. Please send address changes ons in his shoes and tell him the best way to make it up a jungle hill in a Jeep. Bookshelf 10 to the mailing address above. Send College & Maine 2 Accomplishment is a cumulative process, and Bowdoin is a great place to begin. ideas or letters to the editor to that address or by e-mail to bowdoinedi- Weddings 30 [email protected]. Class News 35 AMB Obituaries 74 Cover: Spider monkey in the jungle in Belize. Photograph by Claire Allum. Interview 87

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Dump and Run Raises $22K Bowdoin Launches Improved Web Site Oldest Bat May Belong to Bowdoin for Local Charities owdoin’s 2004 “Dump and Run” sale in June set new records, as an estimated owdoin has launched a redesigned Web pleased with the result.” sport thought to have been inspired day in a game between the Brunswick B 100 truckloads of cast-off student posses- site (www.bowdoin.edu) aimed at The principal goals of the redesign by a British game called rounders, Sunrise Club and a team from B A sions were diverted from the local landfill, improving the timely flow of information effort were to improve the flow of informa- baseball developed over the past century- Bowdoin—the first known instance of a and $22,000 was raised for local charities in while better reflecting the academic mis- tion and compliance with Web standards and-a-half as the U.S. “National College-fielded baseball team. Tradition the process. sion, breadth and depth of programs and and “best practices,” while more accurately Pastime.” With many millions of in those days included the awarding of Dump and Run is a waste-prevention activities, and the energy and beauty of its reflecting the intellectual and residential Americans either playing on a team or the bat and ball used in the game to the program that keeps many of the good, 210-year old campus. The new site — life of the College. Accordingly, navigation following one with near-religious devo- winning team. After the Sunrise Club usable items left behind by college students which was designed, developed, and imple- and search functions on the site have been tion (as we well know beat Bowdoin by a now- out of landfills. The items are collected, mented completely “in-house” — was improved, the presentation of news and here in the Northeast!), unthinkable score of 46- sorted and tagged, then sold at a giant yard launched August 20. events has been enhanced, and information the history of baseball 42, they received the bat, sale. Proceeds are divided among communi- “Bowdoin’s new Web site is a strong tes- on academic department pages has been always hits close to home. and kept it for many years ty non-profits that provide volunteers to tament to the creativity, innovative thought, expanded. The redesigned site is compliant Never more so for before turning it over to help with the event. and technical abilities of our students, facul- with standards consistent with the Bowdoinites, as an the local historical society The sale featured thousands of perfectly ty, and staff — groups that were all involved Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It ancient baseball bat found in Brunswick, who then good student cast-offs as varied as computer in its development and implementation over provides additional opportunities for pho- in the closet of Bowdoin presented it to the printers, televisions, stereos, furniture, many months,” said President Barry Mills. tography and graphics, and will ultimately baseball coach Mike Bowdoin Athletic “We believe it will be a very useful tool for improve the site management system used assistance of many members of the Bowdoin Connolly’s office may Association around 1920 members of the College community, for by individual departments to make changes community,” said Mitch W. Davis, chief prove to be America’s old- to be preserved in the prospective students and employees, and for to their pages. information officer. “The nature of the Web est known bat, represent- College trophy room. the general public, and that it better reflects “This has truly been a collaborative and is that it is always a work in progress,” said ing the birth of baseball Bowdoin was only to the world the strengths and vitality of inclusive project that would not have been Davis. “Today, we launch the new site. as an American sport. recently alerted to its this historic institution. I couldn’t be more possible without the interest, support, and Tomorrow we start work on improving it.” Carved in 1860, shortly supposed ownership of before the emergence of this bat by Mike Robbins’ professional teams, this ’93 discovery of an article bat—perhaps the first in a 1920 publication of ever made—is now Baseball Magazine, thought to be in describing the Sunrise Amped! Lisa Michalski Bowdoin’s possession. Club’s donation of the hysics students participated in the “Elsa Martz Challenge” dur- ’87 named The College’s archives artifact to Bowdoin. Since Ping their annual department barbeque last spring. Divided into already boast several Robbins’ discovery, teams, each side raced to complete a series of tasks that incorporat- Alumni Fund 19th-century game win- College archivists have ed aspects of Elsa’s job. The students pictured above are building a Chair ning baseballs (the earli- been working to assess human bridge, mimicking Elsa’s environmental work in Harpswell, est, 1876) and score- Bowdoin baseball head coach Mike whether the ancient bat over which they passed students in a timed race against the other books dating back to the Connolly grips an antique bat he found found in Coach lizabeth (Lisa) team. The physics department held the challenge in celebration of early 1870s. However, an in his office closet. Connolly’s office is Butterworth Michalski Elsa’s retirement after 15 years at Bowdoin. E addition of this magnitude would, indeed the bat in question. While it has been named chair of according to Bowdoin archivist Caroline closely fits the 1920 description in size, the Alumni Fund. From Moseley, “be a noteworthy event and of shape, and color, it is affixed with a tag 1987-1995, Michalski was great interest to fans and scholars of that reads: “W.O. Hooker-Estate. a vice president of the baseball history, as well as to the many Pre(sented) by Mr. Clason,” with the Structured Finance Group Bowdoin alumni who are both passion- date (18)72, leading one to believe it at Chemical Bank. She Photo by Ken Rowe lamps, hairdryers, mini-refrigerators, sports ate about their alma mater and about was a gift of the Class of 1872. volunteers extensively for equipment, bicycles, books, dishes, small athletics.” The Baseball Hall of Fame in However, there is no record of that such a number of organizations appliances, and name-brand clothing. Little Cooperstown describes their oldest bat bat, either. Could the (18)72 bat in and currently serves as was left at the end of the sale. as an 1871 trophy bat presented to Levi coach Connolly’s office be the same bat Director and Secretary of Most of the leftovers still found their way Meyerle, pro baseball’s first batting described in the 1920 article? the Benjamin Franklin to new owners. The remaining books were champ. Bowdoin’s possession of a bat Moseley calls the article in Baseball House Foundation. She shipped to servicemen and women in Iraq. made more than a decade earlier would Magazine, “specific enough to be believ- founded the Bowdoin Club of London and served as its president Clothing was donated to the Seventh Day be significant. able,” and further research is pending to from 1996-2000, has been a BASIC representative and continues to Adventist Church. Toiletries, unopened food, The bat in question was lathe-turned determine whether Bowdoin can call serve as class agent, and two years ago served as Leadership Gifts and laundry detergent were rounded up and on October 20, 1860 by John Furbush of itself the proud owner of such an Chair for her 15th Reunion. given to local food banks and shelters.

Photo by Elsa Martz Brunswick, Maine and used later that important relic of baseball history.

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Too Many Winters for Hubbard’s Gargoyle Bowdoin Announces Bold New Curriculum for Liberal Education ver a hundred years of variable New England weather has company that has restored the Bowdoin Chapel Towers) revealed Otaken its toll on the Bowdoin College gargoyle that has stared that the original gargoyle had disintegrated and was unrepairable. ross-disciplinary scientific inquiry and A new distribution requirement, called nary proposal to the faculty in March. The out over the Brunswick campus from atop Hubbard Hall since Carved from relatively soft limestone, the gargoyle served as a Cmathematical reasoning. Critical explo- Exploring Social Differences, will draw committee’s recommendations for a themat- 1903. The cracked and crumbling figure was recently removed rainspout, with water entering the its back and running out of its rations of class, gender, ethnicity, culture. from courses spanning multiple disciplines, ic, interdisciplinary approach elicited pas- from the Hubbard parapet, mouth. With its narrow Hands-on knowledge of artistic process and including sociology, history, Asian studies, sionate, often eloquent, debate at faculty and the College is currently throat, the gargoyle frequently keen aesthetic judgment. Bowdoin College’s environmental science, women’s studies, meetings about the role of liberal education searching for a stonecutter to became clogged with ice. A new curriculum articulates a bold blueprint and economics. The requirement is in the 21st century. From these discussions replicate it. Installation of an century’s worth of freezing, for liberal education designed to inspire stu- designed to expose students to courses that and prior working groups, a new academic identical gargoyle is expected expanding and contracting, as dents to become world citizens with acute examine differences such as class, environ- mission emerged that builds on the to take place next spring. well as supporting the weight sensitivity to differences in the social and nat- mental conditions, ethnicity, gender, race, College’s 200-year tradition of “educating “We take great pride in of huge icicles that formed on ural worlds. religion and sexual orientation - and ana- leaders in all walks of life,” while preparing our buildings and grounds, its mouth each winter, led to The revised curriculum, which was lyze how they shape societies, global envi- them for a world of increasingly varied cul- even those parts of our build- cracking and severe weaken- approved by faculty this spring, is Bowdoin’s ronments and history. tures, interests, resources, and power struc- ings that are well above eye ing of the figure. first major curriculum reform in over two The data-driven nature of the 21st centu- tures. level,” said Catherine The College is working decades. It represents several years of inten- ry has been recognized by a new distribution The new mission describes a liberal edu- Longley ’76, Bowdoin’s senior with Consigli and consulting sive discussion and interchange among requirement in Mathematical, cation that “will challenge students to vice president for finance and engineers SGH (Simpson Bowdoin’s faculty members. Computational, or Statistical Reasoning, in appreciate and contend with diversity and administration and treasurer. Gumpertz and Heger, Inc.) of “This important and timely revision repre- which students in courses as wide-ranging as the conflicts inherent in differing experi- “This is an example of an Waltham, Massachusetts, to sents a clear and unambiguous recommit- economics, psychology, mathematics and ences, perspectives and values at the same unplanned restoration project make a complete assessment ment by our faculty and by the larger computer science will use mathematical and time that they find ways to contribute to that will have to be addressed of the project. Once a stone- Bowdoin community to liberal learning at a quantitative models to understand the world the common project of living together in by the College. The history and architectural significance of cutter is engaged, it will likely take two months for the gargoyle to time when others may have begun to ques- around them. the world.” Hubbard Hall requires us to make sure its lone gargoyle is be created. Because the condition of other cracked masonry on the The revised distribution requirements replaced.” exterior of Hubbard Hall is currently being assessed, the timing of “This important and timely revision represents a clear and unambiguous also include courses in the following areas: A recent careful inspection by personnel from Bowdoin’s the gargoyle’s installation may hinge on the timeline of other A First-Year Seminar that will give stu- Facilities Management Department and Consigli Construction (the restoration work needed for the building. recommitment by our faculty and by the larger Bowdoin community to dents small, intensive learning settings to liberal learning at a time when others may have begun to question the support development of intellectual capa- bilities such as clear writing, analytic think- value and application of the liberal arts in a modern world.” ing, argumentation, information seeking and assessment, and oral presentation. The Return of Subu? tion the value and application of the liberal “Our new curriculum emphasizes ways One course on Inquiry in the Natural arts in a modern world,” said President Barry of thinking, rather than the development of Sciences to help students expand their sci- Mills. “It is consistent with our history, but a prescribed knowledge-set,” said Dean for entific literacy, conduct active investigations our international Bowdoin alumni revisited also reflects today’s world and the demands Academic Affairs Craig McEwen, who led of scientific problems, and perform work in Fcampus this fall after studying here in the our students will face. It is both a mature the 11-member curriculum review commit- laboratories and in the field. 1960s as part of the Bowdoin Plan with the Class understanding and direct statement of tee. “These courses will ensure that stu- A course on International Perspectives of 1965. Bowdoin was among the first colleges to Bowdoin’s educational mission.” dents encounter subjects that excite their that will challenge students to understand sponsor a program that brought students from At the heart of the curricular changes is a imaginations, engage them in a free societies different from their own and gain overseas in an attempt to promote international thematic, interdisciplinary reshaping of exchange of ideas, and make connections critical understanding of the processes, his- understanding after World War II. The cover of Bowdoin’s distribution requirements, the core between subjects. Our fundamental goal is torical issues, and trends that shape an the May 1965 Bowdoin Alumnus featured (left to courses that define the College’s liberal arts to prepare students to continue to learn in a interdependent world. right): Nils-Arne Holmlid, Sweden; Daniel foundation. While not substantively altered changing world.” One course in the Arts to help students Portmann, Switzerland; Johan Sudmann, Norway; in subject area - students still will be required A new articulation of Bowdoin’s liberal expand their understanding of artistic Bo Hedlund, Sweden (now Minnesota); Marius to take courses in natural sciences, mathe- arts mission takes place at a time when many process and expression through creation, Jitta, Netherlands; and Hiromi Haruki, Japan, with matics, social sciences, humanities and fine other of the nation’s highest-ranked liberal performance and analysis of artistic work in their infamously unpredictable 1959 Chevy sta- arts, for instance - the content of these arts colleges are similarly engaged. Harvard the areas of dance, film, music, theater, and tionwagon, “Subu,” which took its moniker from required courses will reflect a sharpened recently made headlines when it voted to visual art. the only letters of “Suburban” left dangling on the examination of themes and issues vital to a abandon its seven-subject undergraduate core The new distribution requirements will fender. During their recent return to Bowdoin, liberal education for the 21st century. in favor of more interdisciplinary courses, be phased in over several years in order to Dan, Johan, Bo, and Marius received a private tour Courses also will be designed to help stu- although the particulars of the new course review existing courses, develop new cours- of campus and a dinner reception attended by dents hone their written and analytical skills, content areas are not yet defined. es, and hire new faculty. The first stage of local alumni from the Class of 1965. Their reunion deepen their aesthetic judgments, use varied Bowdoin’s curriculum-review committee implementation will affect students matric- with "Subu" is courtesy of Photoshop. forms of informational resources, and create spent over a year reviewing the College’s ulating in 2005, and are expected to be multi-faceted solutions to complex problems. academic goals before submitting a prelimi- fully implemented by 2006.

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2004 Spring Sports Wrap Up

BASEBALL (24-13) SOFTBALL (22-10) The Polar Bears posted the most impressive season in school his- Bowdoin had one of the most successful years in the program’s tory, setting the school record for wins in a single season (24). history, earning the NESCAC East Division crown with a squad Bowdoin reached the NESCAC Postseason with an 8-4 mark loaded with underclassmen. Leading the way was first-year phe- before falling in the Championship round to Williams, 9-3. The nom pitcher Emily Nelson, who took the league by storm, team was honored with numerous postseason honors, including rewriting the Bowdoin record books with school marks in wins Conference Coach of the Year for Head Coach Mike Connolly. (12), ERA (0.74) and strikeouts (138). Outfielder Gillian Stevens Three players earned First-Team All-NESCAC, led by captain ’04 also took home First-Team honors with a team-high .359 bat- Kevin Bougie ’04, who batted .350 and set the school mark for ting average, and the team came within one game of playing for career hits with 173. Jared Lemieux ’06 batted .349 with five the NESCAC crown. homers, and first-baseman Tom McMahon ’05 pounded nine round-trippers to join Bougie on the First-Team. MEN’S TENNIS (11-6) A young Polar Bear squad placed fourth at the NESCACs and MEN’S LACROSSE (9-5) reached the second round of NCAA Men’s Tennis Tournament The men’s lacrosse team defeated top-ranked Middlebury for the this year. Bowdoin defeated Tufts 5-2 in the first round before second time in three seasons, capturing a thrilling 11-10 over- falling to Williams in the second round. Macafee Burke ’05 time win on April 17. The Polar Bears ended the season with a proved to be the top singles player, posting an 11-8 overall 5-4 conference mark and fell in the first-round of the NESCAC record and earning a berth in the National Tournament. Playoffs to Amherst, 6-5. Connor Fitzgerald ’06 had an outstand- ing campaign, earning NESCAC honors by leading the team in WOMEN’S TENNIS (12-7) scoring with 25 goals and 32 assists. The Polar Bears took an impressive third place showing at the NESCACs this year and earned another bid to the NCAA WOMEN’S LACROSSE (11-7) Tournament, where they dropped in the first round to In the most competitive conference in the nation, the Polar Bears Middlebury. Paulette Hricko ’04 played the majority of the sea- established themselves as an up-and-coming squad, finishing son in the number one position, while Julia Shaver ’05 led the fourth overall with a 5-4 record in conference play. The team team with an 18-8 overall mark this year. hammered Colby 13-4 in the first-round of the NESCAC Tournament before dropping a tough 9-7 decision in the OUTDOOR TRACK (MEN 4TH AT NESCACs; WOMEN 7TH Semifinals to eventual national champion Middlebury. Three AT NESCACs) players were named First-Team All-NESCAC, led by goalkeeper The Bowdoin track teams had another strong season led by sen- Kendall Cox ’05, who also grabbed First-Team All-New England ior high-jumper James Wilkins ’04, who captured the NESCAC and Third-Team All-American. Defender Betsy Rose ’06, mid- Championship. The fielder Angela King ’04, and Colleen McDonald ’05 also received women’s 4x800 team First-Team All-NESCAC honors. also took the Conference crown, ROWING while Neoma Palmer At the New England Fours Championship, Bowdoin won both ’07 and Ellen Beth ’05 the Men’s and Women’s Divisions and took the Overall Points also took All-NESCAC Trophy for the fourth time in five years. At the New England honors. Earning Championship Regatta, the Woman’s Four won the Jepson Cup Individual All- for the fourth consecutive year and the Men’s Four won silver. NESCAC on the men’s The Novice Men’s Eight won the Petite Final for Bowdoin’s best side was Andrew ever finish at an eights event. At Philadelphia’s Dad Vail Regatta, Combs ’06, who also the largest intercollegiate regatta in the country, Bowdoin entered took All-American six events. Five Bowdoin crews advanced to the semis, and three honors at Nationals in of those went on to the finals. The Novice Men’s Four finished the 1,500-meters. 5th and the Men’s Pair and Women’s Four both won silver medals. Bowdoin has won medals at this national regatta every year since 2000.

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Achievements Two Looks By Elizabeth Poliner ’82 David Vail, Adams-Catlin Professor of 2004 McGraw Prize in Education…. lished annually by U.S. News & World Economics, took first place and set a nation- Bowdoin Professor of Government Janet M. Report, and was ranked #2 on the list of al swimming record by 49 seconds in the Martin was presented the 2004 Neustadt “Great Campus Food” in the latest men’s Masters 60-64 age group this sum- Award, among the most prestigious awards Princeton Review rankings, where it also For Paul Hazelton, in memoriam almost abstract, and I couldn’t but wonder how we ended up mer…. Mark Wethli, A. LeRoy Greason recognizing scholarly contributions to polit- appears on the lists for “Dorms Like here, finding the very thing you loved, loved almost as much Professor of Art, along with Kyle Durrie ical science in the nation, for her book, The Palaces” (#10), “Best Quality of Life” (#14), as that rough, benevolent face that is Maine’s landscape, . . .life and the memory of it so compressed that to me —now without you—is you. We just happened upon it: and Cassie Jones from the Class of 2001, Presidency and Women: Promise, Performance, and “School Runs Like Butter” (the admin- they’ve turned into each other. Which is which? Elizabeth Bishop, "Poem." received a Blair L. Sadler International Arts and Illusion…. Dan Schuberth ’06, Maine istration gets high marks at #19)…. Several Union, because of that missed turn; the café, because in Healthcare 2004 Honorable Mention College Republicans State Chairman served of Assistant Professor of Art James Mullen’s it was the only place open (being Sunday); the painting—useless and free— Award for their project, Four Quartets, for as chief page at the Republican National Maine landscapes were part of a group show because you went to the men’s room and dragged me there too. We were lunching at the café in Union, Maine, hot soup, Later, home, by the time your wife laughs at the possibility Brunswick’s Mid-Coast Hospital, and Wethli Convention in New York City.... Trustee entitled “Mainely Maine,” at the Sherry pumpkin, I think, perfect for a cold November afternoon. and Jones presented a two-person exhibition emeritus G. Calvin Mackenzie ’67, was French Gallery in Chelsea, New York… We’d arrived by chance, my having hesitated when you’d said of paintings at Icon Contemporary Art in awarded a Fulbright scholar grant to lecture Genevieve LeMoine, curator and registrar that there still could be a road you don’t know, turn and, once the turn was missed, you’d said, your laughter we’ve already told her about the painting over the toilet Brunswick in May…Trustee emeritus at the Beijing Foreigh Studies University in of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, was serious, your eyes bright with fun, backtracks were out of the question, Geoffrey Canada ’74, President and CEO China… Bowdoin was ranked #7 among awarded a grant from the National Science (which was best? the fact of the painting or where it was hung?), we had to go on. We were lost for a moment, turning then the slant of light as we headed south of Damariscotta, of Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc. in New York “National Liberal Arts Colleges” in the latest Foundation to survey archaeological sites in in unplanned ways onto unmarked back roads that even you, City, is one of four educators to receive the edition of “America’s Best Colleges,” pub- Greenland. the world as we saw it, graced with your poems. fortified by a lifetime of motor-meandering, didn’t know. Now we’re talking, you on the couch with blanket and pillow, me in the wingback chair. The day has been long, the wind The soup was hot, the November day, overcast, cold, gusty, as we’ve gotten in and out of the car harsh, and you’re still and we were on one of your signature, day-long drives— in eighteen years of friendship was there ever a visit without one?— dying. Still, still, we discuss my city life, the overpopulation tooling along, observing landscape, the coastline’s wondrous face, on Connecticut Avenue, a density of apartments backing watery, ragged, woodsy, talking all day, turning as many corners into Rock Creek Park, crowds at the zoo, the bully in conversation as we did quiet roads, and no matter, who makes a racket in the rooms beneath me, and later, still, with you there was always a way back, as if into a small I describe that feeling, blurry and huge and familiar, friendly town—Union, say, with its one café. for Mrs. Ramsay when I first read To The Lighthouse at eighteen. That’s all I got, I say, alarmed at the wasted early exposure. Cheap date, I thought you said, bill in hand, and I smiled. But that’s enough, you insist, that blurry, huge feeling— James Mullen’s Sunshine Road The cancer had taken hold and your voice was scratchy, hard to hear. You were dying. There were only months left. loss, love—that no one dares name now. As we talk, You were my friend, mentor, father. I’d be a cheap date you rise, shuffle to the next room, return with a book. or anything you wanted. The bill paid, a long slow trek Our talk (in eighteen years, did we ever stop?) Arielle Saiber Receives 2004 Karofsky Award for Junior Faculty to the men’s room, a long slow trek —nothing easy anymore— now about teaching, I say I’m glad to be starting again soon back to me waiting near the door, and you pulled my arm and am about to add, but it’s you who closes the thought, to begin yet another trek back to the men’s room. to find out what I know. And this is news: the adventure’s ssistant Professor of Romance Italian restaurant in Portland, where stu- been the same for you. Jinx! I’m tempted to cry like I used to ALanguages Arielle Saiber was awarded dents conversed in Italian all evening, and Look, you said, your eyes bright once again, your smile as a child when words came out in sync, but instead the 2004 Sydney B. Karofsky Award for to Boston’s North End, where students just a little weary, your arm as you closed the toilet lid Junior Faculty at the College’s Honors Day were introduced to the culture of an then pointed to the wall above it, shaky, weary as well. we segue into more talk, turn another corner, find another ceremony in May. The Karofsky Award is Italian-American neighborhood. But looking was what was called for, at this little painting, back road or another line of poetry: our looks, two looks. given annually to “an outstanding Bowdoin Saiber is also an exceptional scholar. She an ice fisherman, the sky, the frozen lake, as sense of wind Must this end? Oh, whatever the miracle of synchronous thought teacher who best demonstrates the ability earned a prestigious fellowship at Harvard blowing fiercely, all if gray in tone like the day itself, it’s hardly the one of happening upon you so long ago to impart knowledge, inspire enthusiasm, University’s Radcliffe Institute for 2003-04. that day and this day, all of it pushed forth with a palette knife, and by chance. By chance! And she knew all about that, and stimulate intellectual curiosity.” Her project, titled “Well-Versed the paint edgy and rough the way you liked it, the image Elizabeth Bishop, in her "Poem," which you think I might like to read, Saiber joined the Bowdoin faculty in Mathematics in Early Modern Italy,” inves- should read, do you know it? You quietly ask, shuffling 1999, and teaches courses in Italian litera- tigates the impact that mathematics and tiredly by, dropping the work as you do in my lap. ture, culture, and language. Known for mathematical sciences had on the literary teaching with enthusiasm, imagination imagination of Renaissance Italy. and high expectations, she exposes her The Karofsky Award is given by mem- Elizabeth Poliner '82 is a writer living in Washington, D.C. She has published many poems and stories, and her new novel, Mutual Life & Casualty (The Permanent Press), will be published in February, 2005. students to everything Italian through bers of the Karofsky family, including Peter "Two Looks" was previously published in Southern Review (Vol. 39, No. 2, Spring 2003). film, television, art, books, the Internet, S. Karofsky, M.D. ’62, Paul I. Karofsky ’66, and field trips. She has taken classes to an and David M. Karofsky ’93.

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About Grace: A Novel The Clerk’s Tale The Hazards of Sleeping Alone Sacajawea’s People: The Lemhi Shoshones This first novel by O’Henry Award-winning writer U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück chose this first volume In her second novel, Elise Juska ’95 tells the story of and the Salmon River Country Anthony Doerr ’95 is the story of David Winkler, who, of poetry by Spencer Reece ’85 from among 850 entries Charlotte, a 15-year divorcé who lives alone in cookie- John W. W. Mann ’92 writes a detailed account of the as a boy in Anchorage, finds that many of his dreams to receive the prestigious 2003 Bakeless Poetry Prize of cutter New Jersey condo, makes her neurotic way life of Sacajawea’s people in an attempt to restore them become reality. Later in life, when he dreams that his the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference. The New Yorker last through daily life in a revolving series of mundane tasks, to their rightful place in American history. Mann newborn daughter, Grace, dies in a flood, he flees to June devoted the entire back page to the title poem of the and lives almost exclusively for her only child, free- explores the life of the Lemhi Shoshone tribe before hermitage on a Caribbean island in the hope that distance collection; and Glück praised Reece’s work in the book’s spirited Emily—Charlotte’s polar opposite. Emily, a their first encounter with non-Natives and describes the from him will save her. After 25 years, he returns to his foreword as having “a sense of immanence that belongs recent college grad, unsettles Charlotte’s world with Lemhi’s struggle over the past century to retain their Alaskan past in search of Grace. Scribner, 2004. 416 pages. more commonly to religious passion; it is a great thing to shocking news, and Juska deftly unfolds their political, economic, and cultural identity. University of have it again in art.” Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 65 pages. relationship with feeling that is uncomfortably real. Nebraska Press, 2004. 248 pages. Downtown Press, 2004. 400 pages. The Accidental President Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and the In a novel reminiscent of recent events, Harris I. Neoliberal Order (People, Passions, and Power) Kids at Work: The Value of Employer-Sponsored Splendid Omens Baseman ’53 describes a president’s struggle to remain Sidney Tarrow of Cornell University writes, “Bandy and On-Site Child Care Center Robley Wilson ’52’s novel opens with a young man in office while simultaneously dealing with increased Smith’s book weaves together evidence from places as far With an increasing number of women forced to enter attending his best friend’s wedding and quickly becomes terrorist threats. The sequel to Baseman’s hit novel After apart as South Africa and the European Union, Poland the labor force, the guaranteed days of mothers staying a complex tale of love, death and the power of Kamisiyah, Accidental President “builds on world events and North Carolina, Bangladesh and Brazil to examine at home with their children have ended. Rachel friendship. A journey into the past reveals a secret and captures universal fears in such an absorbing way.” the wide varieties of efforts to forge transnational social Connelly, Professor of Economics and Deborah S. connection that leads to a decision of a lifetime. The Universe, Inc., 2004. 329 pages. movement coalitions. [It is] rich in empirical detail, Degraff, Associate Professor of Economics, team up with New York Times has called Wilson’s work, “A pleasure to [and] innovative in theory.” Edited by Assistant Professor Rachel A. Willis in their study of the benefits of read” and critics describe Omens as “A tender and of Anthropology and Sociology Joe Bandy and Jackie employer-sponsored on-site child care. W.E. Upjohn beautiful book, written with a quiet mastery.” St. Smith, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. 262 pages. Institute, 2004. 175 pages. Martin’s Press, 2004. 274 pages.

An Armenian Family Reunion Dessert University: More Than 300 Spectacular Recipes and Memoranda During the War The Trouble with You Is: and other stories “In these stories appear the ‘wild’ people who loved me Essential Lessons From White House Pastry Chef Roland Mesnier Michael Moon of Johns Hopkins writes: “As (Associate Winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award in Short the most, taught me the most, delighted me the most, If you’ve ever wanted to become a master dessert chef, there Professor of English) Peter Coviello points out in his Fiction, this collection of short stories by Susan Jackson enriched me the most and surprised me the most.” This is no better teacher than Roland Mesnier. Mesnier and excellent introduction to this volume, Whitman came late to Rodgers ’82 addresses the age-old dilemma: fight or collection of stories by Mitchell Kalpakgian ’63 was coauthor Lauren Chattman ’85 take you from classics like the scene of the Civil War, but, when he did so, he produced flight. Fifteen stories feature an eclectic group of women inspired by his father’s experiences during the Turkish All-American Apple Pie and Baked Alaska to poached one of the few truly indispensable books about it. [It] is ranging from an eleven-year-old girl to a sixty-seven- genocide of the Armenians in 1915. Funny and peaches with chestnut mousse. Along the way he points out written in prose that often compares well for beauty and year-old grandmother. The characters all struggle with entertaining these bits of family history were described by common mistakes and helpful techniques gained from intensity with the best poems in Leaves of Grass. It is easy to real-life issues and with Rogers’ help are given the critics as “the most unforgettable and illuminating stories many years of experience. Includes over fifty black-and- see why the book has served as a model for writers on the insight needed to make proactive choices we all can of a lifetime.” The Neumann Press, 2004. 159 pages. white drawings and sixteen color photographs of finished desolations of war from Stephen Crane to Hemingway to our learn from. Mid-List Press, 2004. 158 pages. desserts. Simon and Schuster, 2004. 560 pages. own day.” Oxford University Press, 2004. 240 pages. Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction We Jews and Blacks: Memoir with Poems Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Doctor to the Resistance: The Heroic True Story of an Professor of Government Paul Franco provides an Willis Barnstone ’48 H’81 writes from his perspective as a Battalion, WW II’s Forgotten Heroes American Surgeon and His Family in Occupied Paris authoritative introduction to the life and thought of one Jew whose life experiences have often been analogous to the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, six-time NBA most valuable player, Hal W. Vaughn outlines the courageous story of Sumner of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th African American experience. This book contains a chapter and Anthony Walton, Writer-in-Residence in English at Waldron Jackson, Class of 1809 and his family, who risked century, British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott. about his time at Bowdoin, as well as a chapter by poet Yusef Bowdoin, collaborate in this account of the first all-black their lives to rescue countless Allied soldiers during World It was hailed by the London Sunday Telegraph as Komunyakaa. Indiana University Press, 2004. 241 pages. This armored tank battalion to fight overseas in World War II. War II. Living in France prior to the war and working in “masterly ... a guide to Oakeshott’s thought which is past year, Barnstone has also published: Border of a Dream: It includes interviews with seventy surviving members, the American Hospital of Paris, Jackson treated many both sympathetic and scrupulously fair.” Yale University Selected Poems of Antonia Machado, (Copper Canyon); The who fought for 183 days with limited supply lines and famous members of the Lost Generation, including Ernest Press, 2004. 224 pages Gnostic Bible, edited with Marvin Meyer; Sweetbitter Love: casualty rates of almost 50%. This book is among the first Hemingway and Zelda Fitzgerald. When the Nazis invaded The Poems of Sappho; and The Sonnets to Orpheus (all to give recognition to the men who fought for their Paris, the Jackson family joined the French Resistance and from Shambhala); forthcoming is, Nuit de demain / Night of country despite the racial inequalities they had endured. aided in the conveyance of soldiers, maps, and messages Tomorrow (Sheep Meadow Press of New England). Broadway, 2004. 320 pages. across the border.” Brassey’s, Inc., 2004. 224 pages. Old School America: 511 Reflections on the Traditional We’re There! Boston Business Chinese: An Advanced Reader Expecting Miracles: Finding Meaning and and Patriotic Values that Best Define America This children’s guide to Boston by Elizabeth Skinner This textbook by Songren Cui is designed for students Spirituality in Pregnancy Through Judaism Labeled as a “refreshing mix of conservative and liberal Grumbach ’89 includes fun puzzles and scavenger studying Chinese as a foreign or second language who Chana Weisberg (Jenny Freedman) ’93 participates in values,” this book serves as a refresher on the “good ’ol hunts to keep kids occupied and engaged while have had at least three years of college experience. conversation with Jerusalem mothers exploring the days” and what being American used to mean. According exploring this vibrant city. Includes many colorful Focusing mainly on business language and vocabulary, personal and spiritual growth that can emerge from to Peter Slovenski, Richard Sherman ’02, Patrick photographs and activities involving Boston’s major this practical book includes detailed chapters on sentence various stages of pregnancy. A reviewer writes: “This is Vardaro ’03, and Ray Jacqmin, Old School America attractions to keep children happy while waiting in line structure and correct word usage perfect in addition to an important, erudite and valuable contribution…and existed in a time when a person’s character meant more – what more could a parent ask for? When you return useful cultural and business information. Chinese offers fresh insights and intimate glimpses into the than their market value, and work ethic meant doing home this book becomes a personalized souvenir of University Press, (bilingual edition) 2004. 350 pages. psychological and spiritual world of the Orthodox your best regardless of personal compensation. your trip. Kid Quest LLC, June 2004. 31 pages. woman.” Lambda Publishers, 2004. 352 pages. Towlehouse Publishing Company; 2004. 149 pages.

The Canning Season The Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters Ruby Bakes a Cake William Clark and the Shaping of the West Polly Horvath won a National Book Award for Young of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914 This learn-to-read children’s story by Susan Hill Long Landon Y. Jones’s P’01biography of William Clark has been People’s Literature for this book, which tells the story of This collection of Joshua Chamberlain’s postwar letters, ’87 tells the story of Ruby Raccoon as she attempts to called “A fascinating, richly textured tale of a brave and Ratchet Clark, a lonely teen sent by her self-absorbed edited by Jeremiah E. Goulka ’97, illuminates the complex bake a cake with the help of some furry friends. When complicated man.” The involvement of William Clark in mother to live with two distant relatives in rural Maine. life of one of the Civil War’s most admired figures. she tries to mix all the advice she has been give, the America’s 55-year war with the Indians is chronicled from its Ratchet encounters many strange but compelling Chamberlain’s letters reveal many of his political, racial, results aren’t exactly what she planned. HarperCollins, beginning during the American Revolution to its end with characters in a novel described as “poignant, philosophical, and educational views, as well as the personal struggles he 2004. 32 pages. the Black Hawk War in the 1830s. Known primarily for his and darkly humorous. At the end of her journey, Ratchet endured later on in life. The University of North Carolina famous expedition with Meriwether Lewis, this book finds herself attending none other than Bowdoin College. Press, 2004. 392 pages. explores the aftermath of that journey and Clark’s continued Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003. 208 pages. involvement with Indian removal and America’s shaping of the west. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2004. 408 pages.

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10 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 11 CRANSTON MAYOR STEVE IS SHAKING UP LAFFEY HIS OLD HOMETOWN ’84

teve Laffey ’84 has been called a lot of ago, Rhode Island’s third largest city (pop. 79,000) was near things since he became the Mayor of bankruptcy, close to defaulting on debt payments, dealing Cranston, Rhode Island, in November of with the lowest junk bond rating in the country, and facing 2002. His friends and supporters have state takeover. No problem! Steve Laffey, financial services described him as high-energy, down-to- professional, to the rescue! Of course, in the process of put- earth, laser-focused, a workaholic, a torna- ting Cranston’s fiscal house in order, “Hizzoner” managed to Sdo, a maverick, a Don Quixote and a folk hero. His oppo- alienate a lot of powerful people in town, among them the nents and detractors have called him a brash, reckless trou- city council, the school committee, the firefighters’ union, blemaker, a self-serving media whore, a bull in a china shop, and, most significantly and symbolically, Cranston’s crossing and crazy. And as he sets about cleaning up (literally and guards (about which more in a moment). Despite all the figuratively) his old hometown, it seems there may be a bit toes Mayor Laffey has stepped on, however, his campaign of truth to all of these contradictory characterizations. manager and former high school economics teacher Paul Mayor Laffey, casually dressed in jeans and a yellow Zisserson fully expects Laffey to be re-elected in November. sports shirt, hops out of the backseat of his big blue SUV “Steve is a reformer,” explains Zisserson. “He really is an and hustles across the street to join a public works crew agent of change, and change can be unnerving. But he’s a replacing a graffiti-covered stop sign in Cranston’s Eden down-to-earth guy with a real populist bent.” Park neighborhood. The sign replacement program is part of Laffey’s Fight Blight program, and every time a TV news tephen P. Laffey was born in nearby Warwick, Rhode crew or a newspaper photographer arrives, the young, ener- Island, in 1962, but his family moved to Cranston getic mayor enthusiastically jumps up on the public works S when he was four. His father, John “Doc” Laffey, was truck and tightens a bolt or two for the cameras. Yes, he a toolmaker and union steward at Armbrust Chain courts media attention - but he also gets things done. Company. His mother Mary worked as a night nurse. As A self-described “populist” in the mold of former New Laffey cruises by the house on Shaw Avenue in the York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Steve Laffey sees himself Edgewater neighborhood where he grew up, he describes a as a man-of-the-people, a can-do politician savvy enough to “Leave It to Beaver” childhood, playing baseball and basket- know that quality of life issues like vandalism, traffic safety ball from dawn ’til dusk down at Beachmont Field. But the “He really is an agent of change, and change can be unnerving. WHAT MAKES But he’s a down-to-earth guy with a real populist bent.” and clean public parks touch people where they live. reality of his home life was somewhat more harsh. “I’m Steve Laffey, your neighbor,” the mayor announces as Born between two older brothers and younger twin sis- he shakes hands with an old man puttering in his garage. ters, Steve Laffey was the family survivor. He often had to When the elderly gentleman complains about curbstones left rope his bedroom door closed to keep his disturbed oldest on a nearby lawn, Laffey directs his street crew to move brother from getting at him. That brother, a gay man and a LAFFEY them. When a group of mothers pushing strollers complain drug user, ultimately died of AIDS. His other brother had to about heavy traffic on their quiet residential side street, be committed to a mental institution, and one of his sisters Laffey hails his public works director and tells him to make also suffers from schizophrenia. Because his troubled sib- RUN? the street one-way. Got a problem? Steve Laffey has a solu- lings required so much of his parents’ attention, young Steve tion. was often on his own or at the homes of friends. Adversity, By Edgar Allen Beem Photographs by Mark Alcarez But Cranston’s biggest problems are not cosmetic but however, only drove him to excel. financial - the result, says the mayor, of “twenty years of At Cranston East High School, Laffey was an assertive and massive mismanagement.” When Laffey took over two years aggressive student, co-captain of the basketball team and pres-

BOWDOIN FALL 2004 13 ident of the student council. No Laffey decided he wanted to get one in his family had ever gone to an MBA at Harvard Business “Reagan had the air traffic controllers. I had the college, but when history teacher School, Bowdoin provided him Cranston crossing guards. The Cranston crossing Dave Andrew, a 1964 graduate of with the George and Mary Knox guards sum up what went wrong in Rhode Island.” Bowdoin College, suggested he Scholarship to do so. When he consider Bowdoin, Laffey applied decided his goal was “to be presi- for early decision, drove himself to dent of a firm by the time I was Brunswick for the interview, and 40,” Morgan Keegan, a small was accepted with a full scholar- financial services company based ship. in Memphis, Tennessee, provided “Steve had an insatiable desire him the opportunity. to learn,” says Dave Andrew. “I “I had nine great years at know that sounds like a cliché, Morgan Keegan,” says Laffey, who but it’s true. I thought because rose through the ranks so swiftly Bowdoin is a small school, he’d – director of research, head of have a chance to really add his equity trading, head of institu- dimension.” tional sales, chair of two venture According to Tom Marcelle ’84, capital funds – that he achieved Laffey’s Bowdoin roommate, best his goal two years ahead of sched- friend, and now a prominent attor- ule. In 2000, at the age of 38, ney in Albany, New York, “Laf” Laffey was named President and wasted no time in doing just that. Chief Operating Officer of “We lived in Appleton Hall,” Tom Morgan Keegan, by then a $500 Marcelle recalls. “Tom Rand and I million brokerage firm with 2,000 played football, so we arrived a employees. week earlier than Steve. When Steve In 2001, Laffey oversaw the arrived he was a like a tornado. sale of Morgan Keegan to Regions High energy does not describe him. Mayor Laffey talks with reporters after his signs have been vandalized. Financial and then headed to He was more like a supernova. He Vermont for a few months of knew more people in seven hours than we knew in seven soul-searching. That summer, he attended a retreat at Camp days. He really is very charismatic. He has a very special way of the Woods, a Christian conference center in the about him. When he meets people, he connects with them on Adirondacks, with a few of his Harvard Business School a very sincere, human level.” classmates. It was there that he felt the call of Cranston. At Bowdoin, Laffey excelled in the study of economics, a “When I was asked where I was from, I said I was from field he had been inspired to enter after his high school Cranston, Rhode Island,” Laffey recalls. “Why did I say I teacher Zisserson had him read Milton Friedman’s Free to was from Cranston? I’d been away for 20 years. But I felt I Choose. When not hitting the books at his favorite study was supposed to go back to Cranston, Rhode Island, even retreat, the third floor of Adams Hall where he knew he’d be though I didn’t know why.” left alone, Laffey says he was something of a merry Laffey, who grew up in the Catholic Church but now prankster (blasting a tape of F-15 jets taking off out his attends the evangelical Cranston Christian Fellowship, dis- dorm window to startle people on the Quad, having squirt cerned something of a divine calling in his return to gun fights with colored ink in the days before paint ball). He Cranston. But he was also reminded of something his high and Tom Marcelle also hosted “The Joe Show” on WBOR. school principal Joe Ventetuolo had said to him shortly And in a more serious vein, Laffey founded the conservative before he graduated from Cranston East in 1980. Bowdoin Patriot and got himself elected president of the stu- “The biggest problem Rhode Island has is that it loses its dent government. best and brightest,” the principal had told his star pupil. “No one ever showed up at student council meetings “You’re going to go off to college and you’ll never come back.” until Steve became president,” says Tom Marcelle. “Then But Steve Laffey did come back, and he brought wife they were packed. Steve just has a way of tweaking his Kelly, son Samuel, and daughter Sarah Grace with him. And opponents.” since returning to Cranston, the Laffey family has been Laffey also has a way of getting what he wants. When joined by Steve’s son Peter from a previous marriage and “No one ever showed up at student council meetings until Steve Clockwise from upper left: Laffey meets and greets at an elder picnic; standing became president. Then they were packed. Steve just in a Cranston crosswalk; talking with Cranston citizens; multi-tasking with executive assistant Jackie Loscoe; more door-to-door campaigning. has a way of tweaking his opponents.”

14 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 15 baby daughter Audrey “This state, regrettably, has “He’s made a lot of enemies among people in power, but he’s also Elizabeth. a long history of corruption,” Why Laffey had been called says Paul Zisserson, “and it is a made a lot of friends among the Joe Does of Rhode Island. I think the home to Cranston became clear very, very powerful union people in general really love him and understand him. He will do well.“ to him a month after he state.” returned. It was then that it Which is one of the reasons was revealed that Cranston’s why there were audible gasps more to maintain an apprenticeship program. Whether shouting through a bullhorn, button-holing cit- rainy day fund had been in the auditorium of Bain “Only big unions have apprenticeship programs,” he says. izens on the street, garnering newspaper headlines and TV depleted and that the city was Middle School a few months And Laffey has also taken on Local 1363 of the news coverage, writing guest editorials, or appearing on headed for bankruptcy. after Steve Laffey took office in International Association of Firefighters, commissioning an (and frequently hosting) local radio talk shows, Mayor Steve “This is not a dying city,” says 2003. Laffey was presenting his independent audit that concluded that Cranston pays 233 Laffey seems to have the public’s attention. Naturally, his Laffey’s campaign manager Paul analysis of Cranston’s problems percent more for its fire department than the average city critics accuse him of grandstanding, playing to the media in Zisserson, “so it really bothered to 1,000 local citizens and a lot with a population between 50,000 and 100,000. In what the order to further his own political ambitions. And there is a Steve that it was going to hell.” of those problems, according to Providence Journal called a “Festival of featherbedding,” the great deal of speculation these days that, whether he serves a After looking into the mayor, could be traced to audit suggested that Cranston, which second term as mayor or not, Laffey Cranston’s fiscal crisis, Laffey excesses in public employee has 202 firefighters, only needed 111. ELECT will be a candidate for governor or enlisted old friends and teach- union contracts. In Rhode The firefighters’ union, too, has tar- the U.S. Senate in 2006. ers (including his former prin- Island, you buck the unions at geted Laffey for defeat in 2004. STEVE “I think he’s got a grand vision, cipal) in a very spirited run for your peril. “When you’re dealing with the LAFFEY and he needs a different stage to play mayor. One of the key people “Reagan had the air traffic Cranston firefighter’s union,” says it out on,” says Laffey’s old Bowdoin he enlisted in the campaign controllers,” says Laffey. “I had Laffey, “you are not dealing with rea- MAYOR roommate Tom Marcelle. “As gover- was Norman Orodenker, a the Cranston crossing guards. sonable people. No one has ever told nor of Rhode Island, he could take well-known local attorney who The Cranston crossing guards them ‘No.’” the burden off the backs of taxpayers had been a surrogate father to sum up what went wrong in Laffey, of course, has. He pres- laid on by corrupt politicians for far him growing up. Because Rhode Island.” sured the Cranston city council to too long.” Orodenker is prominent in the What Mayor Laffey revealed reform a local ordinance that gave Laffey’s great friend and advisor Democratic Party, Laffey and to the astonished citizens was retired firemen an automatic 5% Norman Orodenker also sees a bright his supporters took to calling that crossings guards in increase on top of their annual cost- political future for Laffey. Norman Orodenker “Mr. X.” Cranston, who work one hour of-living raises when they turned 55, “He’s made a lot of enemies “He may be a Republican in Laffey and Sherri Mulhern, Executive Director of Rhode Island Resource a day 40 weeks a year, not only Recovery, on a fact-finding mission at the landfill near Cranston. thus saving the city $3 million a year. among people in power,” says his fiscal policies,” says earned $45 an hour, they also Laffey has also said “No” to the Orodenker, “but he’s also made a lot Norman Orodenker, who stepped down from the executive received free health insurance, pensions, sick leave, paid local school system, albeit with some- of friends among the Joe Does of committee of a Democratic gubernatorial candidate to advise holidays and summer unemployment. According to Laffey, what more reluctance. Framed news- Rhode Island. I think the people in Laffey, “but he certainly is a Democrat in terms of his social these excesses were the result of a patronage system set up paper clippings hanging in Laffey’s city general really love him and under- polices. He’s very big-hearted and sensitive to minorities, the by a former mayor to reward key supporters. hall office show Cranston East student stand him. He will do well.” young, the poor and the elderly.” “Thirty-nine people,” says Laffey, “were costing the city president Steve Laffey campaigning for But Steve Laffey himself is uncharac- To gain name recognition in a city he hadn’t lived in for $800,000.” increased aid to education during his teristically guarded when it comes to 20 years, Laffey stood on Cranston street corners waving a Laffey sought to privatize the crossing guard service and student days, but when the Cranston his political ambitions. sign that read, “I’m Laffey.” He knocked on thousands of thus incurred the wrath of the Laborers’ International Union school committee asked for a substan- “Right now,” he says, “we’re just doors from one end of the city to another and handed out that not only took the city to court but also targeted Laffey tial school budget increase Mayor running for mayor. I’m taking time out 75,000 pieces of “Laffey Taffy.” In defeating a well-known for defeat in 2004. The union fielded its own Republican Steve Laffey said, “No.” of my career. I owe Cranston a big Democrat, 14,688 to 13,359, Laffey spent $270,000 of his candidate (the husband of the crossing guard union’s shop “The schools ran revenue deficits and hid them in the debt, so when I came home it just seemed obvious that, with own money on the mayoral race. His campaign pledge – steward) and urged members to drop Democratic Party affil- audits just like the city did,” says Laffey. my financial background, I should run. But I don’t need the “Responsible to all, obligated to none” – clearly resonated iations in order to vote against Laffey in the September may- When the school department took the city to court seek- money and I don’t need the job.” with voters in a city that, in Laffey’s words, “was run on oral primary. ing additional funding, Mayor Laffey countered by going to And with that, Steve Laffey is off and running – to meet favors and who you made contributions to.” And Steve Laffey’s war against the public employee court for a writ of mandamus to instruct the school depart- with his campaign director, to host a talk show, to attend a Indeed, the political history of Rhode Island is filled with unions didn’t stop with the crossing guards. He also hired ment that it must balance its budget. The school department concert at an elder center, maybe catch the tail end of a soft- rogues and rascals, graft and bribes, patronage and kick- private investigators to videotape public works employees then sought to pressure the mayor and the council by pro- ball game an aide’s daughter is playing in, then home to backs. In recent years, mayors in all three of the state’s asleep on the job. He then pressured the city council to do posing to cut athletics and extracurricular activities. But family, only to get up at the crack of dawn and start running major cities – Providence, Pawtucket and Cranston – have away with a local “bidder’s ordinance” that required any when 150 high school students chanting “No sports! No all over again. been convicted of crimes while in office. company bidding on municipal contracts of $100,000 or school!” marched on Cranston City Hall to protest the pro- posed cuts, Mayor Laffey, waving his old green Cranston In September, Steve Laffey ran in a hotly contested primary Steve Laffey’s war against the public employee unions didn’t stop East varsity jacket, met them with a bullhorn, explained that against Republican Gary Reilly. He won the primary with 75% with the crossing guards. He also hired private investigators to the decision to eliminate sports was not his, and sent them of the vote, and will run for a second term as mayor of next door to picket the superintendent of schools instead. Cranston in the November election. videotape public works employees asleep on the job.

16 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 17 few hours after getting off a plane from the United States, I find myself in a truck hanging onto a ceiling strap and bracing my foot against the dash as it bounces its way angrily up an old logger’s track. APalm fronds, trailing vines, and fallen branches whip the windshield as we pass. Dr. Leslie Shaw and I are on our way to visit the two thousand-year old Maya site of Maax Na (pronounced “maash naa”) in the tropical jungle of northwest- ern Belize, just south of Mexico and east of Guatemala. Leslie has been working there since 1996 and started bringing her Bowdoin students in 1998.

“Hang on,” she warns as she drops the truck into low Unlike some Maya sites whose names have been found in four-wheel drive. Up ahead the track changes to a steep Maya writings, no text has been discovered at Maax Na, so uphill climb. its name is a modern Mayan phrase meaning “Monkey Slowing, it crawls and grinds its way up the grade. I can House”—the term “Maya” refers to the people and “Mayan” feel the heat of the transmission through my seat, and the to the language. The story goes that University of Texas careening sensation feels like the truck is walking up the hill archaeological surveyors, looking for sites in 1995, climbed rather than driving it. Finally we level out. a hill to find a corbelled vault at the top — a very distinctive “This is the top of the first escarpment,” she says, giving form of Maya roof — and made such a noise hooting and me a satisfied grin, as the engine stops its painful howling, hollering that they disturbed the local spider monkey “and things look pretty dry this year. We might be able to troupe. The monkeys attacked the archaeologists, screaming, get a lot of digging done before the rains arrive.” She throws shaking branches, and hurling twigs and dung at them, at the truck back into high four-wheel and we continue our which point the site was named Maax Na, “Monkey House,” bumpy ride through the jungle. in local Mayan. Every other year Leslie and her co-director, Dr. Eleanor Ancient Maya civilization developed and expanded in ELCOMEELCOME King of Howard University, have run an archaeological field Central America and Mexico until around A.D. 900. A vast WW school at Maax Na, and each time they battle the arrival of network of large, powerful, cities shared religious, social, annual rains. The end of our academic year coincides with and stylistic ideas, and, at the same time, engaged in ruth- TOTO THE THE the end of the Belizean dry season and if the rains begin less political and economic rivalries. Kings built beautiful, early torrential downpours make the road to Maax Na massive temples and palaces to celebrate their power and MMONKEYONKEY impassable, flood excavation pits with water, and make out- honor their gods. Maya scribes decorated pots, wall frescoes, door work miserable. “Its not the jaguars living in the jungle and stelae (free-standing stone monuments) with elegant that we worry about,” Leslie says to me, “It’s the rain.” hieroglyphic writing recording political intrigue and rivalry, Students from Bowdoin College, Howard University, and wars, marriages, royal birthdays, and lavish ritual celebra- HHOUSEOUSE other schools come to Maax Na to learn the fundamental tions, which often included human sacrifice. Maya priests techniques of archaeological excavation and survey, and at developed a deep understanding of mathematics, including the same time experience living and working in field condi- the concept of zero, and orchestrated Maya everyday and tions, which can range from digging a truck out of mud to ceremonial life using a complex calendar system guided by Dr. Leslie Shaw's archaeological field school is at Maax Na, a site thought to safely removing a scorpion from a tent. “This type of work is extensive astronomical knowledge. Economically supporting not for everyone,” Leslie continues, dodging tree falls and the massive building projects and the city society of elite have housed a large and wealthy population in the Preclassic period – and that potholes as she drives, the steering wheel spinning wildly families, specialist artisans, warriors, traders, laborers, and between her hands, “You can learn a lot in the classroom, slaves, were Maya farmers, living in isolated households in is now populated with researchers, a rumored jaguar, and very many monkeys. but for students of archaeology it is really important for the agricultural lands surrounding the cities. By Claire Allum them to experience work in the field, especially,” and here This shared way of life disappeared around A.D. 900, she turns to give me a stern look, “before deciding to make when large city centers were abandoned in some regions of it a career.” the Maya world, and in others they evolved into something

BOWDOIN FALL 2004 19 different. The Maya people still live where they have always role might have been as an important supplier of choco- lived, and in some areas, still speak one of the many Mayan late or cotton to the Maya world, but this is just an idea languages, but culture is always changing and the ancient until we find evidence to support it. We intend to concen- languages and knowledge are quickly disappearing. trate our future work on the market and residential areas Maax Na sits on the flat top of a long hill, which looks of the site, and will be looking for evidence of what Maax like a bird with outstretched wings on a topographic map. Na was producing, how they were trading it, and how It is one of the six largest sites in the Río Bravo they were economically and politically connected to other Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA), Belize’s Maya sites.” largest private nature reserve. Jaguars, tapirs, ocellated At the top of the hill Leslie parks the truck at the turkeys, curassows and other rare and endangered species side of the logging road, pulls her backpack from behind live here, and human impact is kept to a minimum. The the seat, sprays herself liberally with mosquito repellent, Programme for Belize (PfB), a non-profit organization, man- and heads off into the jungle; the only indication of a ages the 260,000-acre Río Bravo land trust, and the Belizean trail being a badly weathered tatter of pink and black

“… from the very biggest monumental city to a tiny farmer’s shack, all played a role in the social, political and economic life of Maya civilization.” government closely monitors all research. In recognition of flagging tape hanging limply from a tree branch. I keep the many important Maya sites in the region, archaeological her well in sight as we follow other scraps of tape while research has been an integral part of the land trust’s man- trudging deeply into the forest. The diversity of lush agement plan since its inception in the early 1990’s. tropical trees, bushes and plants becomes an unidentifi- Maax Na and other sites in RBCMA are being studied able tangle of sameness. It is very easy to get lost in this together as part of a larger geographical area known as the jungle, and the number one rule of walking to Maax Na Three Rivers Region, encompassing northwestern Belize is to stay on the marked paths. and northeastern Guatemala. “All Maya sites interacted Finding an ancient Maya site in the Belizean jungle is with each other politically and economically,” says Leslie, not easily done, despite the spectacular monumental “and a study of this scale allows us to see how all these architecture — high pyramids, temples and house sites, from the very biggest monumental city to a tiny mounds, and large, thickly plastered plazas. World famous farmer’s shack, all played a role in the social, political and Maya sites such as Tikal in Guatemala, Palenque in economic life of Maya civilization.” Mexico, and Copan in Honduras have been worked on for “We have just finished phase one, the exploratory — decades, and hundreds of thousands of dollars have been finding out what is here — research at Maax Na. From spent in clearing away vegetation, in removing top soil, on mapping the extent of the site and preliminary excava- site reconstruction, and on building tourist facilities. tions, we know that the Maya were at the site as early as Plants grow quickly and thickly in the forest and the mas- the Late Preclassic period (250 B.C.–A.D.300), but that sive stone and plaster structures quickly become over- they built the majority of their buildings during the grown. It is difficult to distinguish Maya architecture from Classic period (ca. A.D. 300-900).” Based on the dates, the natural hills, especially when everything is hidden under- size of the site, and the number and size of residential neath a thick tropical forest canopy. houses, Leslie and Eleanor think Maax Na grew quickly The task of exploring Maax Na and its hilltop contin- and housed a large and wealthy population during the ues today, with students learning basic archaeological sur- Early Classic period (A.D. 300-600). Given the dates, it vey techniques, exploring the jungle, recognizing and may have been founded by families from the region of identifying archaeological remains, taking measurements Tikal in central Guatemala, about 60 miles away. During and notes, drawing maps, and learning how to use a total the fourth century A.D., a great Tikal king had ravaged station-type transit—a professional surveyor’s tool, allow- Clockwise from upper left: Zachary several neighboring cities and remained dominant in the ing detailed, accurate maps to be made. We head towards Matthias ‘06 screening for artifacts; spider area until its vengeful defeat by the nearby city of Caracol a patch of neon orange, the leg of the transit tripod, pro- monkey in the canopy above Maax Na; in A.D. 553. “Royal families could have come as refugees truding out of the foliage, and suddenly Eleanor King, University of Calgary geophysicist with archaeology field school students; an from the wars,” Leslie says, “or been sent here to expand Leslie’s co-director, emerges excited from the under- ancient stone tool is found in the excava- the economic and territorial interests of one of these growth. “We’ve found another stela. It’s collapsed onto its tion pit; the top of a Maya pot can be seen cities. They would have planned and built Maax Na and side, and it was hard to see in the underbrush, but,” she in the floor of the excavation pit; Stephanie maintained contact with their parent city.” smiles broadly, “it still has plaster on it.” Grinning stu- Clayton ’06 excavating through a hard plaster floor; Drs. Eleanor King and Leslie “We start phase two of our research next year, which dents dig their way out of the bushes behind her. Finding Shaw, co-directors of the Maax Na project will explore these ideas in more detail. I think Maax Na’s something this important, over two thousand years old

20 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 21 MAYA BALLCOURTS Ballcourts are a common feature of large Maya sites. has made them forget the heat, humidity, and insects. The Bowdoin’s department of sociology and anthropology have lived here.” Throughout Central America many different ver- mood is ecstatic. Unfair though it may be, the significance offers a number of introductory courses in archaeology, Thumping her foot on the ground, she continues, sions of the game existed, and while many may of Maya sites is often judged by the number of stelae including Essentials of Archaeology, Introduction to World “This is a very constructed landscape. The plaza is over have been played as genuine competitions between found and, so far, Maax Na has five. Unfortunately, the Prehistory, and Leslie’s own course, Maya Archaeology and three feet thick and when we excavated a pit here we relatively evenly matched teams, those that took heavy rains and humidity have destroyed any sign of what Ethnohistory. “We designed the field program to build on found layer upon layer of plaster floor and limestone cob- place in the elaborately built Maya ballcourts were might have been carved or painted on this one’s surface. these introductory courses,” she says, “to allow students ble fill.” She points to the people pushing the yellow cart. highly stylized rituals celebrating the defeat of the The central area of Maax Na is filled with large open to apply techniques they have learned in the classroom, “That is Dr. Robert Stewart and his graduate student, Julie underworld lords by the first Maya, and involved plazas surrounded by elaborate buildings built on plat- and to have direct experience with some of the theoretical Atkins, they are geophysicists from the University of human sacrifice. forms overlooking the plazas. Classic Maya cities common- and interpretive problems of excavation.” Wandering over Calgary, and they are using ground-penetrating radar to The game involved two teams, a heavy rubber ly have a north plaza dedicated to ritual events surrounded to the screen she picks up a piece of shiny stone. “Is this look below the ground surface and map the depth to the ball, and a sturdy leather or wooden protective belt by religious buildings built on high platforms and pyra- an artifact or not? Students have to examine it carefully to bedrock underlying the plaza. So far everywhere they have worn around the waist. The object of the game was mids. A ballcourt is often located close to the center of the look for evidence that it was made by the Maya and is not looked is over three feet down. The amount of plaster and to move the ball around the ballcourt without let- city [see box at left]. Other plazas throughout the city were just a broken pebble.” She hands it to the student who limestone fill the Maya hauled in to make this plaza over ting it touch the ground and without using hands used as public market areas, venues for public ceremonies, puts it into a small plastic bag and labels the bag with a the years is enormous.” or feet. Pottery figurines, pottery decorations, and or were exclusive to elite households. Large, raised road- permanent black ink pen. Another massive construction at Maax Na is a south- carved representations show players bouncing the ways linked the major sections of the city. The north plaza is Maax Na’s largest, and today it is ern pyramid that sits on a ridge overlooking flat agricul- ball off their shoulders, hips and thighs. filled with trees and covered with bushy undergrowth. tural lands. Built on two natural terraces, which the Maya The games played in the ballcourt at Maax Na The central area of Maax Na is filled When we arrive, two people near its center are pushing a modified into two platforms steps, it rises to a height of would probably have been sacrificial and Dr. Leslie bright yellow cart along a long, cleared path between two 130 feet from the base of the first platform to the summit. Shaw describes a building at the south end of the with large open plazas surrounded by flagged trees. “This plaza, for your imagination, would In the past it would have had a steep staircase leading to a court as the “box seats for the game.” Here the have been treeless, flat, and covered with white plaster,” temple at the top, where sacrifices—sometimes human— Maax Na royalty would have sat watching while elaborate buildings built on platforms Leslie says, sweeping her arm to emphasize the plaza’s would have been made to Maya gods. possibly captured, starved, and tortured enemies extent. She singles out and points to large rectangular “The cost of trying to excavate a structure of this size were pitted against fit Maax Na players. She overlooking the plazas. mounds at its edges. “Based on earlier excavations, I think is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars,” says Leslie, explains, “The Maya depict ball-games in carvings that one is some sort of administrative building. That one “so Dr. Stewart has been experimenting with remote-sens- and on pottery. They show two players playing with As in today’s real estate market, location was every- over there is a throne room. It is lower and more accessi- ing seismic techniques to produce an internal image of the the ball and they name the players and where they thing in ancient Maya housing. The homes of noble and ble than the others and would be a place where the king structures. We hope that eventually he will be able to tell are from. Then they show another image of the ball important families were built close to the city center, would sit, gifts and tribute would be brought to him, and us if there is a cavity in there, which might be a tomb, or as a head with the name of one of the guys playing while the poor had their houses at the city’s edges. Maya he could watch sacrifices. And that one there is unusual earlier building.” beside it, so now, of course, he has been sacrificed. houses were built as compounds of narrow rooms on plat- because it’s residential. They must have been important to A site the size and complexity of Maax Na requires a These games were rigged. It was a form of public forms surrounding a private plaza. To the southeast of execution and a way of allowing an important Maax Na, Leslie and Eleanor have named a rich residential Photo by James Marshall enemy to die honorably.” suburb “Snob Nob”; the houses sit high on the edge of the escarpment, each with a stunning view of the lands below. It is here that we find field school students excavating, their rectangular pit overlapping the edge of the plaza and “It is a great opportunity for our students. They get extending into the side of a house platform. “What they are trying to do,” says Leslie, “is remove to meet specialists working in the field, play with the the jumble of collapsed stone and identify architectural fea- fancy gadgets, and understand the importance of a tures. We train them to dig down in discrete levels, called ‘lots,’ which correlate with specific phases of Maya con- multidisciplinary approach.” struction. Then everything found in a particular lot, such as architectural features, pieces of broken pottery, and burnt bone, can all be dated to approximately the same time. The stuff that we find helps us determine what build- ings contained and what they were used for.” As we watch, a student inside the pit lifts a bucket filled with soil to a student waiting at the side. The bucket is taken over to a structure that looks like a wooden table with a metal mesh top. The soil is poured on top of it and the student pushes the soil through with his hands. Leslie goes on, “Sometimes, it is hard to see the artifacts in the soil, the small bits of cultural material that we are looking for, so we use the screen to make sure that nothing is missed.” Drawing by Marieka Brouwer BOWDOIN FALL 2004 23 that, we head back through the forest to the truck. Back at camp, the atmosphere is relaxed efficiency. Sitting under the forest canopy, small wooden cabins and two-person tents line salmon-colored gravel paths con- necting a large two-story bunkhouse, a mess building, MIKE BRENNAN ’04 latrines, and showers. Tired and dusty students unload artifacts, collected during the day’s excavations, from Mike Brennan took his first archaeology course at their backpacks into a lab room at the base of the Bowdoin as a freshman, but his interest in scientific bunkhouse, then grab towels and clean clothes and head exploration began long before that. As a freshman in high school, he worked with Dr. Robert Ballard — of The sloping sides of the ballcourt are shrouded in jungle vegetation. for the showers. Dinner is at 6:00 P.M. and coincides with Belize’s sunset and a final chorus of howler monkeys locating the RMS Titanic fame — on one of his Jason projects, focused on bringing original scientific multidisciplinary approach to research and Leslie and graduate student from the University of Texas at Austin heard in the distance. research and researchers into high school classrooms. Eleanor invite specialists from different fields to come and and avid cave specialist, began exploratory work on them. The camp experience is arguably as important a learn- But it was a course with archaeologist Jim work at the site on specific problems. As well as geophysi- The entrances are narrow and cramped, but the lure of ing experience as the archaeological fieldwork. Everyone Higginbotham of Bowdoin’s classics department that cists, soil scientists, professional surveyors, and more finding Maya pottery and other offerings inside drew her spends some time cleaning, analyzing, and labeling arti- spurred him to attend the 2001 archaeology month recently speleologists, have worked at Maax Na. “It is a and Mike Brennan ’04 (see box) to explore them. “I had to facts in the lab, mending equipment, maintaining vehicles, lectures at Bowdoin College, where he met Dr. Leslie great opportunity for our students,” Leslie says, “They get slide myself along on my elbows and belly,” said Mike, and helping with camp chores. Conversations under the Shaw. The meeting strongly influenced Mike’s career to meet specialists working in the field, play with the “and I could feel I was being pressed from the top and trees, at meals, and in the bunkhouse, focus on the at Bowdoin. After taking his first course with Shaw fancy gadgets, and understand the importance of a multi- bottom by cave walls. It was one of the most exhilarating ancient Maya, the archaeological work, and, occasionally, in spring 2002, Mike joined her Maax Na field disciplinary approach to answering scientific questions.” things I’ve ever done.” Ann and Mike found broken Maya on the ubiquitous rice and beans for dinner. University school the following summer. To the west is another large plaza that appears to be sur- pots in the caves and there are plans to explore the caves and college professors, graduate students, field school stu- During his four years at Bowdoin, Mike majored rounded by lower public buildings. “We think this is the more completely in future years. dents, and local Maya live and work closely together, and in anthropology and geology with a minor in classi- public market-place,” Leslie tells me. “When the Maya Heading back to the truck, Leslie takes me to Maax collectively share the excitement of the discovery of cal archaeology. He has returned to Maax Na annual- lived here, this area would have been filled with noisy Na’s ballcourt, a powerful ritual building situated between another beautifully made pot, or a new stela. In the greater scheme of the Three Rivers Region, the ly, and completed his honors project on Programme for Belize Archaeological Project, and Maya “Petrographic Evidence for Preclassic Ceramic “The slopes of both the north and west plazas are very slightly tilted so that archaeology, it is important to understand why Maax Na Specialization at the Maya Site of Colha, Belize” was built, who lived there, what its inhabitants did, and under Shaw’s direction. After his spring graduation rainwater flows off them and into a reservoir that sits between them. This would how they interacted with the rest of the Maya world. this year, he returned to Maax Na as a field school Leslie and Eleanor’s work is beginning to answer some of instructor. have been where people came to get their water.” these questions, and the fieldwork their students do is Mike’s life has come full circle since his early high-school days, as he joins Dr. Robert Ballard once people and produce. “And here’s something remarkable. the northern and southern halves of the site. She has making an original contribution to ancient Maya scientific again, as his first graduate student at the Graduate The slopes of both the north and west plazas are very saved this for last and it is her favorite part of the site. It is exploration and research. School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode slightly tilted so that rainwater flows off them and into a a long, narrow corridor, about five meters across, bordered Later in the season, as we head out from camp, back to Island on full scholarship, doing a dual degree in reservoir that sits between them. This would have been by two steep, sloping walls. She runs her hand over a Belize City and my international flight to Miami, Leslie is Archaeological Oceanography. where people came to get their water.” smooth piece of stone protruding from the side, “The once again at the wheel. I keep my eyes fixed on the sides Water, its sources and control, was an integral part of slope of the ballcourt has been cut into each facing stone. of the logging road. The Maya kings may no longer exist, Maya life. Much of Belize, and the entire Yucatan Peninsula, This is a very labor-intensive technique and it is one of but here in the Río Bravo Conservation Area, the Maya is limestone bedrock, an environment characterized by sub- the only ballcourts in this region constructed this way.” To natural world does. I watch for toucans, tapirs, curassows, surface caves formed by underground rivers. During the dry push the point home, she notes that the two ballcourts at and deer, but more than anything else, I long to see a season there is very little surface water, and the Maya the nearby site of La Milpa, accepted to be the most jaguar — a creature that dominates Maya iconography and obtained water from subsurface wells or reservoirs filled important Maya site in the region, were just made of plas- religion. But as we leave the reserve I still haven’t seen during the rains. Ancient canals and reservoirs ran along- tered over rubble. “Maax Na’s ballcourt is almost identical one. Leslie says, “Don’t worry about it. I have been com- side the major buildings in the downtown area of Maax Na, to one at Tikal and similar to one at Copan.” ing here for eight years and haven’t seen one.” She contin- while further out, irrigation channels carried water to ter- But the ballcourt’s mystery goes beyond cut stone slop- ues, “You know, there is one at Maax Na. We’ve seen its raced fields—agricultural fields built as steps up the escarp- ing walls. During 2003 excavations, students uncovered an prints along the path. The park rangers tell me that ment sides. The logging road to Maax Na cuts across these older ballcourt underlying the present one, and below it, jaguars never attack people,” and here she turns to smile old channels, and even after two thousand years, during the the remains of houses. “It is an interesting and odd thing,” at me, “but I don’t think we want to test that theory.” rainy season, they still collect rainwater, turning the road to says Leslie. “You don’t usually find ballcourts built over a sodden, muddy, impassable mess. something else. You usually find a ballcourt that’s all ball- Acknowledgements: As sources of water and as mouths to the Maya under- court. We had to stop excavations before we could actually Belize Government, Department of Archaeology. Dr. Fred world, caves also play an important role in the Maya uni- get into the houses. We need to find out what kinds of Valdez, of the University of Texas at Austin and Director of verse, and many of Maax Na’s buildings have cave open- houses we are actually looking at.” She concludes, “The the Programme for Belize Archaeology Project. Dr. Eleanor ings under them or close by them. In 2004, Ann Scott, a ballcourt is very special. Maax Na is very special.” With King, Co-director of the Maax Na Regional Archaeology Project. 24 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 25 By Selby Frame Photographs by James Marshall

he sweeping staircase of the renovated Searles Science Building connects students to a labyrinth of top-flight laboratories and class- rooms. But there is another important stair- case at Searles – a cement one. It quietly leads the back-door traveler down to the basement Twhere Bob Stevens makes things. A 26-year veteran of the college, Bob’s official Bowdoin title is “mechanician,” a fantastically 19th century-sounding word for machinist. Ask him what that means, and Bob says simply: “I build things, that’s all.” Bob has machined parts and created equipment for a wide array of professors, staff, students, and even children (“I built a backdrop for a pup- pet show for a summer camp group once,” he says.) Technically, he’s part of the Physics Department staff – and, as such, he helps professors develop equipment for research and teaching – but you can find his handiwork in many Bowdoin biology and chemistry labs, in art studios and con- cert stages. He’s even been known to fix a golf club or two. “A lot of people at this college don’t even know I exist,” grins Bob. “But ones that do, I try to help them out. The people who are touring the campus, if they catch me at the right time, I try to drag them down to this shop and show them what we do.” In the tattered ledger where Bob has hand-logged jobs Machinists like Bob Stevens since 1978, records show he has completed some 1,070 jobs since 1993. “Some might take me three-quarters of an hour,” aren't common at under- he says with a rich Maine accent, “others take months.” One graduate institutions, and of his favorite projects has been outfitting the saltwater labo- ratory at the Coastal Studies Center. It took him an estimat- guys like Bob Stevens aren't ed 300 hours to design and build a series of plexiglass salt- BobBob common anywhere. Selby water tanks for biological research there, some of which are thethe unique and highly effective tanks for farm-raising sea Frame introduces us to a urchins. “I have so many things here I could tell you about that Bowdoin scientist's secret Bob has built,” says Bowdoin Research Associate Olaf Ellers. Bowdoin “The whole inside of the marine lab – all of those beautiful Bowdoin weapon, someone who can seawater tables, the urchin tanks. Anyone from any of the make almost anything. other Maine labs who comes in here admires our seawater BuilderBuilder tables and tanks.” 26 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 27 Bob the Take a walk around Bowdoin Builder the machine shop with Bob Stevens. Bob’s machine shop is a do-it-yourselfer’s dreamland. The The College has made a significant investment in recent "He’s very curious, and odor of machine oil wafts up from a spotless floor. years, says Bob, who received his first piece of computerized Equipment spanning centuries fills the 1,800 square-foot equipment in 1996, and now has a computerized milling part of what makes him workshop, which boasts, among other things, a massive machine and lathe that would be the envy of larger shops. milling machine, a computer-numeric controlled lathe, an air- People today often mistake the term “machinist” for “auto so good is that he’s as powered draw bar to power pneumatic equipment, and a large mechanic,” says Bob. He explains that the field is losing a kiosk of hand tools, each painstakingly outlined for handy young employment base as machine-tooling equipment interested in the design return. He refers to his machines as his “guys” and can tell becomes more computerized and more U.S. manufacturing you the month and year Bowdoin purchased each one. jobs head overseas. “Machinists are getting up there in age,” of something as in Machinists use such tools to produce precision parts – he says. “The average age is about 55, so I’m just a little guy. the production.” usually metal. Among their skills, they can cut threads, drill I’m only 52.” holes, and cut keyways for an assortment of screws and Bob has stayed current with the changing technology by parts. Bob can cut within a 10,000th of an inch – roughly, attending professional development programs, sometimes Bob has at his disposal. He has incredible one-tenth the thickness of a hair. It’s a precise skill on com- even before Bowdoin had the equipment to support his new pieces of new equipment and, he not puterized equipment, but a dazzling one on many of the knowledge. only has them, he knows how to take hand-operated “guys” that have long peopled his workshop. Machinists are common supports for large, graduate level full advantage of them. When he first got to Bowdoin in 1978, some of the tools research laboratories such as those at Princeton, Cornell and “Until you’ve done some dated back to the 19th century, he says. “Right there was an MIT, but Bob’s presence at Bowdoin is something of a rarity, machining you can’t appreciate how old metal shaper, same model as at the Smithsonian. Some notes Bowdoin Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy hard it is,” says Battle, who sometimes takes a spin on some of the old equipment didn’t even have graduation on the Mark Battle. “To have a dedicated machinist in a physics of Bob’s milling equipment. But tools are only part of it. Bob’s hand wheels,” says Bob. “You knew what the lead of the department in a purely undergraduate institution is extraordi- finest skill, Battle says, is his ability to “think about the over- screw was so you knew how far to turn it.” nary,” he says. “The other unusual thing is the infrastructure all picture and redesign the whole thing. “He’s very curious, and part of what makes him so good is that he’s as interested in the design of something as in the “It really doesn’t matter if it’s built in the 1800s or production. For him, it’s all one big puzzle to figure out. It’s today: a lathe is a lathe. As long as you can set the not just setting up the machine to get the best possible fin- tooling to the depth of the cut, then turn the work ish on a part, or using the least amount of materials, but and move the tool along, either by hand or by power, thinking about how to redesign the entire thing to accom- you can do the same work on an old machine.” plish the goal of the scientific equipment most efficiently. There’s a marvelous give-and-take in the design process. To “If somebody comes into the shop and tells me what him it’s all fair game for redesign and refinement.” they want to build, I start asking questions. I come up with what my machine shop can build, what I have for equipment, and then they leave me alone and I make a plan for it. I’ll try to use my imagination. I make up some things as I go along, design as I go.”

“Whether it’s a cabinet or a spaceship to Mars – it’s all nuts, bolts, gears, materials and geometery. Somebody has to define the geometry. That’s what I do.”

“Something happened to me in the 8th grade that made this college interesting to me and makes me do certain things. For a science project, I was trying to build a replica of a diaphragm that involved a glass jug with the bottom cut off it. My father pulls into the road that goes into the Bowdoin campus and goes into Cleaveland Hall – I don’t know how he knew to do this…He said, ‘Wait here,’ and went in to see Walt Longsdale, who was the chemistry stockroom guy. Surely enough, Walt cut the bottom off the bottle for me. Since I’ve been here, if someone comes along like He refers to his machines as his “guys” and can tell that, I take the time to help people out. It’s good PR for the college. It’s what I call ‘government jobs.’” you the month and year Bowdoin purchased each one.

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Dr. Laura Emily Trask ’94 and David Anthony Kara (Missy) Powell Lyvén ’99 and Ronny Lyvén (Gothenburg Mark Ragosa ’97 and Katherine Hood ’00 were married on June 14, 2003 in Winchester, MA. A Tyler (Conn. College ’85) were married at University, Sweden) were married at Saratoga National Golf Course in David Gluck ’92 and Susan Frost were married in York, ME on October slew of Bowdoin alumni had a ball at the wedding, including (l to r): Ben Small ’97, John Whipple Chebeague Island, ME on September 6, 2003. Saratoga Springs, NY on September 12, 2003. Bowdoin friends at the 12, 2003. Bowdoin friends pictured (l to r): Andres de Lasa ’92, Dave ’97, Shannon Rielley ’97, Andy Kenney ’98, Noah Riley ’00, Brooke Goodchild ’99, Chris Pachios Bowdoin graduates in attendance, though not celebration were (l to r): Charles Gray ’00, Tim Hayes ’00, Joshua Rodriguez ’94, Jeremy Segal ’92, Mike Abbott ’92, Matt Fortuin ’91, Caty ’98, Nat Wisor ’97, Lisle Leonard ’00, Paul Delaney ’00, Heather Hawes ’00, Adrienne Gratry ’00, pictured, were: Andrea McCarthy ’94, Dr. Wernig ’99, Eric Ebeling ’98, Sarah Holt ’99, Tim Dwyer ’00, Kelsey Fortuin ’91, Rob Kean ’92, Amy Shultz ’93, Dave Shultz ’92, and Frank Tim Hall ’00, Kathryn Forest ’99. Middle row (l to r): Alex Taylor ’00, Roger Mali ’97, Erin Naspo Michael Pinette ’79, Shaun Ralston ’94, Jessica Abbott ’00, and Jenny Mendelson ’01. Marston ’92. Seated: Susan and David. ’97, Dave Naspo ’97, Peter Stahi ’97. Front row (l to r): Phil Lintz ’99, Eric Darci ’97, Katherine and Guptill Ralston ’93, and George “Bud” Trask ’65 Mark, Tyler Sutherland ’97, Keith Baxter ’00. (Laura’s father).

Marney Pratt ’97 and Henry Renski were married in Bar Harbor on October 11, 2003. Bowdoinites celebrating the couple included back row (l to r): Beth Archie ’97, Cori Lower Adele Maurer Lewis ’93 and Rodney Lewis ’95, Henry and Marney, Jackie Mitchell ’96, Jude Tom Riddle ’87 and Meg Gose were married in (Emory and Henry College ’96) were married on Robert Mulholland ’95 and Heather Garrow (St. Kelley ’97, Casey Kelley ’02, Sheridan Kelley Bartlett, NH on August 31, 2003. Pictured are May 10, 2003 in Huntsville, AL. Bowdoinites cel- Lawrence University ’94) were married on Todd Remis ’89 married Milena Grzibovska of ’94. Front row (l to r): Holly Leddy ’97 (maid of Viktoria Paulick ’98 and Andreas Keding were (l to r): Monique da Silva ’90, Tom and Meg, ebrating the happy couple were first row (l to r): August 16, 2003 in Lake George, NY. Bowdoin Riga, Latvia (University of Iceland) at The honor), Kai Ellers, Amy Johnson (biology married in Hermannsburg, Germany on Michael O’D Moore ’87. Front row (l to r): Megan Mahar Breiding ’94, Rodney and Adele, friends at the ceremony included (l to r): Kevin Castle on the Hudson in Tarrytown, NY on professor), Havi Ellers, and Olaf Ellers (biology December 31, 2003. Peter Dorthe ’99 and Jennifer Monique’s and Michael’s daughters, Colleen and Elizabeth Garrett Myers ’94. Second row (l to Letellier ’95, Steve Brinkley ’94, Mark Fecteau December 28, 2003. Among the guests at the research associate). Adams Martin ’98 attended the ceremony. and Molly. r): Sarah Dalton ’94, Emily Flanagan Hiller ’94, ’95, Rob and Heather, Vaughn Kaizer ’95, Frank small family wedding was Shepard Remis ’64, Jenna Burton ’94, and Amy Fish ’94. Castelluci ’94. father of the groom.

Renata Merino Bregstone ’95 and Gregory Ian Kristopher J. Hopkins ’00 and Renata D. Bacellar (Boston College ’01) Elizabeth Garrett Mayer ’94 and Jeff Mayer (Wittenberg ’90) were married Bregstone (Emory ’95) were married on October were married on March 7, 2004 at the Copacabana Palace Hotel in Rio de on October 11, 2003 in Baltimore, MD. Pictured (l to r): Amy Fish ’94, Emily Elizabeth Sperry ’93 and Thad Shattock (Georgetown ’96) were married on September 6, 2003 in 11, 2002 at the Harvard Club in Boston, MA. Janeiro, Brazil. Pictured (l to r): Pat Fleury ’00, Emily Reycoft ’00, Alex Flanigan Hiller ’94, Adele Maurer Lewis ’93, Megan Mahar Breiding ’94, Harpswell, Maine. Bowdoin friends helping the couple celebrate included (l to r): Lucy Edmondson ’84, Pictured (l to r): Benjamin Foster ’97, Laura Gray ’00, Andrew Caplan ’00, Kris and Renata, Dave Nakashian ’00, Robert Fletcher Young Garrett III ’59, Elizabeth and Jeff, Sarah Dalton ’94, Peter Barrett ’93, Jenny Barrett ’93, Elisabeth, Eli Berry ’92, Thad, Michele Devin ’92, Jane Cady ’92, Chip Ann Merino ’00, Renata and Greg, Monica Scott Roman ’00, Jed Repko ’00. Jen D’Urso ’94, and Jenna Burton ’94. Wick ’93, Katie Lynk ’99, Dave Wartman ’98, John McGrath ’92, Kris Rehm ’94, and Dick Pulsifer ’62. Merino ’97, and David Keere ’65.

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Joon-Ho Lee ’96 and Jennifer Anne McCarthy James LeClair ’92 and Susan Graves were married on October 11, 2003 at the Spruce Point Inn at Christopher B. Margraf ’95 married Elizabeth C. Margraf (Williams ’00) (Duke ’89) were married on June 19, 2004 at St. Boothbay Harbor, ME. Bowdoin alumni joining in the celebration were front row (l to r): Missy on November 29, 2003 at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, MA. Friends Paul’s Church in Wellesley, MA. Conlon McElaney ’91, Chris McElaney ’92, Stephanie Andrew Crossland ’92, Erika Kelley Cusack joining them were back row (l to r): Charles Gaffney ’95, Nick Browning ’91, Joe Cusack ’92, Jim and Susan, Julie LeClair Sisk ’94, Michelle Pelletier Webster ’94, Rebecca ’95, Tim O’Sullivan ’95, Rob Moore ’77. Middle row (l to r): Phil Lintz Kimberly Schneider Lloyd ’00 and Craig Lloyd (University of Victory ’02) Palmar Pyne ’91, Chris Pyne ’92, Rob Corvi ’93. Back row (l to r): Paul Bicknell ’89, Joe Veilleux ’99, Joe Gaffney ’95, Sage Minella ’98, Elizabeth and Christopher, Vaughn were married on June 5, 2004 at the Radisson Hotel in Enfield, CT. ’88, Dan Rosenthal ’92, Karen Andrew Bicknell ’90, Tony Schena ’93, Sherry St. Peter Parks ’93, Kaizer ’95, Sean Sheehan ’91, Dawn Mastrangelo ’85, Megan O’Leary ’96, Friends pictured (l to r): Nhu-tien “Patti” Lu ’00, Michael Cadette ’00, Jen Alan Parks ’91, Paul Roberts ’93, Dan Sisk ’94. Present, but not pictured, Nels Corey ’37. Todd Weaver ’94. Front row (l to r): Tony Minella ’98, Timothy Kittredge Brunton ’00, Charlton Wilbur ’95, J. Scott Logan ’99, Carrie McGilvery ’95, Brandon Lynch ’95, Adam Rand ’95. ’00, Kimbely and Craig, Patricia Triplett ’00, and Thomas Clark ’99.

Bjorn Lee ’98 and Jayme Okma Lee ’00 were married April 16, 2004 on Man-O-War Cay, Abaco, Bahamas. Attending the wedding were (l Peter Johnston ’94 and Cecilia Park Johnston (Cal Tech ’96) were married in Baltimore, MD on May 8, Willyanne DeCormier Plosky ’98 married to r): MacGregor Gray (Bowdoin sailing coach 2004. Bowdoin family and friends in attendance included (l to r): Debbie Weinberg West ’94, Jon van Trey Hutchinson ’93 married Monica Foshee Daniel Plosky (Cornell ’98) on June 21, 2003 in ’97-’00), David Anderson ’00, Jayme and Bjorn, Dia ’95, Jamie Gillette ’94, Cecilia and Peter, Christian Sweeney ’94, Will Locke ’94, Clem Wilson ’57, (UTA ’06) on May 29,2004 at the Fuller Jason Easterly ’90 married Jennie Koch (USMA a small ceremony at the Stonecroft Inn in Lance Lee ’60, and Michael Lampert ’00. and Will Saunders ’91. Present, but not pictured, was Brian Chin ’93. Gardens in Fort Worth, TX. ’90) on April 3 this year, in Potomac, Maryland. Ledyard, CT.

Jennifer Rupnik ’97 and Joshua Gibson ’93 were married on August 23, Nina Lu ’99 and Rhett Hunter ’98 were married on July 10, 2004 at the 2003 in the Rupnik’s backyard in Connecticut. Bowdoin friends and family Glen Manor House in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. They were joined at who helped celebrate included front row (l to r): Rich Shim ’95, Michael their celebration by first row (left to right): David Fish ’98, Elizabeth Sullivan ’94, Sarah Titus ’97, Genie Arnot Titus ’97, Brad Pistorio ’97, Feeherry ’01, Christopher Buck ’98, Robert Brown ’99, and Aileen Brown Nathan Bouley ’96 and Greta Sobral Bouley (Tufts ’96) were married on October 12, 2002 at the Jennifer Jamieson. Middle row (l to r): Rob Bose ’94, Rodney Moore ’93, ’98. Second row (left to right): Michelle Impey ’99, Elizabeth Egan ’99, Christ Lutheran Church in Falmouth, MA, with a reception at the Coonamesset Inn. Bowdoin friends Mike Johnson ’95, Jennifer and Joshua, Katie Gibson ’98, Chris Lally ’94. Matthew Hyde ’99, Charity Hyde ’99, Rhett and Nina, Julie Bard ’00, celebrating with the couple included back row (l to r): Brendan Farrell ’96, Michael Jackson ’94, Stephen Harrington ’78 and Jeffrey Chelgren Back row (l to r): Matt Roberts ’93, Greg Buppert ’94, Dan Pearson ’94, Kristi Paquette ’96, and Emily Dryden ’99. Back row (left to right): Ned d’Entremont ’65. Front row (l to r): Jeremy Gibson ’95, Linda Berman ’95, James Lemire ’96, (SDU ’84) were married on May 21, 2004 at Justin Schuetz ’94. Not pictured: Gabriele Carotie ’97 and Jason Walz ’92, Patrick Dunn ’98, Zhan Yu ’98, Gregory Geddes ’99, Kristin Geddes ’99, Jeffrey d’Entremont ’96, Jessica Howland d’Entremont, Susan Pitts Mazur ’96, and Scott Mazur ’95. King’s Beach, in Lynn, Massachusetts. friend and the photographer for the wedding. Jennifer Foster ’99, Payton Deeks ’99, and Jared Paquette ’98.

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extreme hyperacusis, or lack of sound 32 tolerance. I would be interested in hearing Planned Giving Agent: Edwin F. Estle from any alumni with this affliction. E-mail: [email protected].” 34 H. Nelson Tibbetts writes: “Approaching old-age, I still live alone and am pretty 38 Daniel Hart ’95 and Ria Marolda Hart ’98 were much self-sufficient. Less physical activity is Class Secretary: Andrew H. Cox, married April 17, 2004 at Castle Hill in Ipswich, balanced by more mental activity, such as 540 Harland St., Milton, MA 02186 On December 30, 2003, Siri Kushner ’99 MA. Bowdoin friends joining them were first row remembering my first day of school and Class Agent: S. Kirby Hight married Hector Luis Guillen on Ometepe Island, (l to r): Asa Pike ’61, Heather Pike Hart ’91, solving the problems of the world.” Nicaragua. Pictured are (l to r): Hector, Siri, and Anand Marri ’95, Betsy Starr ’97, Matt Marolda ’96, Leon Buck, reports: “Age, double Alison White ’99. Dan and Ria, Susan White ’98, Michelle Rotter snowman—about the way I play golf now. ’97, Steve Kerrissey ’98, Tony Teixeira ’97, 35 Still working as a rules official for the Holly Shaw Michaud ’97, Rob Corvi ’93, Joe Planned Giving Agent: Richard V. Kemper Maine Golf Association.” Michaud ’94. Second row (l to r): Jed Stevenson ’95, Benjamin Cushing writes: “Virginia and Chris Fortier ’94, Cate Brawn Fortier ’95, Michael 1 Kenneth L. Dorman “is now 93 /2, with I are still keeping active here in Annapolis, Starr ’94, John Wihbey ’98, Tim Ryan ’98, Andrea very little sight,” writes his wife, Marian. Little Limbago ’98, Cortney Perkins Stevenson ’95, with an occasional elder hostel to keep our “I am 90, but we are enjoying a quiet life in Steve DelPrete ’95, Josh Latham ’96, Anthony horizon broad.” the slow lane in our own home. We were Sharon Yandian ’88 and Peter Vogel were Doerr ’95, Ryan Dunn ’97. Third row (l to r): Frederic S. Newman is “still active but both greatly saddened by Nate Dorman’s married on October 23, 2003 in Alexandria, VA. Kevin Munnelly ’94, Jeff Devlin ’97, Jen Halloran have cut golf back to three days a week. death [in April].” Pictured from top (l to r): Kevin Bell ’88, ’99, Lorne Norton ’98, Stacey Baron ’99, Dan Sisk Living in Florida all year round now.” Prosper Barter ’88, Nicky Comeau ’87, Jamie ’94, Julie LeClair Sisk ’94, Scott Silverman ’94, Mrs. Tillie Head, widow of E. Putnam Wallace ’88, Lisa Gardner ’88, Karen Northup Jon Silverman ’94, Anthony Schena ’93, Paul Head, wrote in late spring: “My home is up ’86, Sarah Bullock ’88, Bronwen Morrison ’86, Roberts ’93, Anthony Molinari ’96. Missing: for sale. I will be moving to Cape Cod. Our 39 Peter and Sharon. Hilary McQuilken Tribou ’98. son, Brian, lives there. Our other son, Class Secretary: John H. Rich, Jr., Allan, lives in Raleigh, NC. Put passed Rocky Point Lane, Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107 away in July 1996. He loved Bowdoin!” Planned Giving Agent: Austin Nichols Richard V. Kemper wrote in the spring that he “may spend this summer in Virginia rather than Maine.” 40 Joanna Reininger Carlson ’96 married Matthew Class Agent: Philip B. Gates Carlson (Dartmouth ’96) on May 31, 2003 in Baltimore, Maryland. Bowdoin friends at the 36 Sidney Alpert wrote in June: “Last year, a wedding included (not pictured) Jessica Van Thomas Gibb is, “at 88, deteriorating but bunch of medical problems cropped up one Nest Mason ’96, Tim and Debbie (Ikeda) still with it! Retired from Tufts 24 years ago; Blakely ’96, Maria Bulzacchelli ’95, Andrew after the other, and I eventually ended up in still drive, but not good at walking. Office Lyczak ’96, and Brian Rissing ’96. the hospital. Anyhow, I am fairly much is a mess but contains a lot of Christmas recovered. My wife and I will celebrate our cards from former students.” 60th wedding anniversary on June 10, Fred Mann updates: “Ninetieth probably the greatest accomplishment I have Charity Hyde ’99 and Matthew Hyde ’99 were married on August 16, 2003 in New Albany, OH. birthday—three-day family and friends party Bowdoin friends who celebrated with the couple included first row (l to r): Ethan Lively ’99, Eric achieved. She’s a doll. I had to work fast. Buxton ’99, Michael Dowley ’99, Chris Downe ’00, and Emily Reycroft ’00. Second row (l to r): at Lakeside Inn, Mt. Dora, Florida. Guests I met her on a Saturday morning in Sioux Kate Osborn Lively ’99, Anne Chalmers ’99, Liz Cartland ’99, Nina Lu ’99, Caitlin Wight ’99, Jenny came from Iceland and seven U.S. states. It City, Iowa. I slipped on an engagement ring Buechner ’99, Charity and Matthew, Lindsay Russell ’99, Dave Martinez ’99, Jamie Moseley ’99, was great. Few more aches and pains. Still the following Saturday, and the Saturday Seth Harmon ’02, Erin Lyman ’01. playing golf—have been blessed.” evening after that, I had her in the Rabbi’s house marrying me. Time flies.” Francis R. Bliss reports: “Winter, not 37 great—not enough snow. And, not enough bowdoin class news Planned Giving Agent: Daniel W. Pettengill Recently Tied the Knot? energy to go out and rake. Very depressed SHOW OFF YOUR BETTER HALF – SEND US YOUR WEDDING PHOTO. by our national administration. Joined the Richard V. McCann writes: “My son, (but please follow these guidelines) Democrats—me a 60-year Republican. David, is Korea Foundation Professor of Haven’t much hope for Mr. Kerry, even Snail Mail Print to: Matt O’Donnell, 4104 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011; indicate on Korean Literature at Harvard University. Lisa McLaughlin ’00 and Stew Mackie ’00 were envelope: “Wedding photo.” though we’re both Paulies.” This August, he will go to Seoul to receive married on July 10, 2004 in Boston, MA. Digital Images? Yes! E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]. Image should Mrs. Donald Bradeen, also mother of the illustrious Manhae Prize. Of the four Bowdoin friends joining the celebration were be 300dpi for print quality. Jpeg or .tiff format preferred. Dr. David A. Bradeen ’71, writes: “No honorees this year, the two non-Koreans are left side of stairs (clockwise): Bjorn Swenson Photo Return Policy: We will honor requests to return photos, though, as a small operation, we special news from me. I’m aging along with ’00, Catherine Luce ’00, Christina McCullough appreciate “disposable” copies. Should you require your photo returned, indicate Nelson Mandela, for peace; and David so; you will receive it several weeks after the published issue in which it appears. everyone else, and enduring some ups and ’99, Christine Paglia ’00, Kelsey Abbott ’00. McCann, for scholarly achievement.” Issue Deadlines: Fall, August 22 (mailed October 1); Winter, December 20 (mailed February 15); downs. I did make it to Brunswick in the Right side (clockwise): Kris Mohlman ’00, Harold E. Wyer writes: “Faith and I are Spring, March 10 (mailed May 1). fall, and had a look around but couldn’t get Annie Hackman ’00, Matt Needleman ’99, Dave enjoying a quiet life here in southwest Please Include: Name and class years of bride and groom; names and class years of others in into the Chapel because of construction Lawrence ’00, and Koko Huang ’00. Missing photo (you wouldn’t believe how many people spell their friends’ names Florida. Necessarily quiet because I have from photo: Ashley Frost ’01. incorrectly!); date, place, and any other relevant information about the ceremony. (Don and I were married there in 1941).”

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Loeb ’66 and Danny Loeb ’58; their My wife, Harriet, produces classical music Friday. When mentioning the 80s, I’m now 41 nephew, Eric Loeb ’90. Grandson, Nathan concerts. My older son, Drew, is president of talking age not golf score. We keep busy Class Secretary: Henry A. Shorey, P. O. Box 317, ’97, now enjoying residency in Hawaii, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation in but now we limit our travel.” Bridgton, ME 04009 (May 1-Nov. 20); compliments of Uncle Sam; he’s now married Menlo Park, California. My younger son, Thomas J. Donovan reported in early 211 Islip Way, Sun City Center, FL 33573 and his wife, Karen, is stationed there with Monte, has two master’s degrees in the field spring: “Number three daughter, Nancy (Dec. 1-Apr. 30); him. Brother-in-law Jordan ‘Bud’ Wine ’46 of counseling. The picture will give you an ’78, and husband, Elliot Ehrich, are coming Class Agents: Maurice T. Littlefield and just dropped by today (May 5). Son, Barry idea what I look like at the age of 82, still with us to our 60th reunion.” Thomas J. Sheehy, Jr., M.D. ’69 is chief of pediatrics (neonatology) at active despite lots of cardiovascular and Donald G. Scott reported in late May: Miami (FL) Children’s Hospital in addition to renal disease.” See accompanying photo. “I’m still recuperating from heart attacks, Jack London writes: “After being waited on his other duties. Let’s see you guys keep us Class Secretary, Jack Hoopes, received a respiratory illness, and a bout with for 63 years by Ruth, it is now my turn to informed even of other classes.” pneumonia. Walt Donahue prescribes a attend to her. She was cleared of cancer Roland W. Holmes is “still chasing after couple of lobster dinners as excellent after 23 chemo treatments, then getting over education—mine and humanity’s. Every therapy, and I really like that idea. a spell of vertigo; she will come home from inch suggests new directions, new However, for the present, I’ve got to stick rehab to find it is payback time by me.” dimension. Synthesis is elusive, yet it seems close to my cardiologist and pulmonologist, Bob Page writes: “Skip and I enjoying to dominate many new fields. Glad not to so Helen and I will have to miss our 60th good health, travel to Europe now and be chasing a career, but enjoying all the reunion, but I’ll plan to eat lobster at our then. Curtailed volunteer work in Russia, chases. Would love to talk to alums in 65th, the Good Lord willing! Our four sons Ukraine, and Czech Republic. Son, Tony, Plymouth, MA.” and nine grandchildren are scattered across has a thriving business covering most Herb Patterson is “pleased to learn that my the country, so we hope to do some western states; Penny is a specialist in a real grandson, Bruce, son of my daughter, Amy traveling and visiting when I get back ‘up estate title company. She has two grown Patterson Baird ’78, will be entering Bowdoin In June, George Altman ’43 wrote to Class to snuff.’ Warmest regards and best wishes offspring. Both Tony and Penny live within this fall. All goes well with Ellen and me. We Secretary Jack Hoopes “after 60 years of silence.” to our Class of 1944!” a half hour from our home in Carefree. I met at Bowdoin and will be celebrating our Bob Waterman reports: “In 2002, Judy consume much time playing golf, painting, 61st wedding anniversary this fall.” note in the spring from George H. and I moved back to Maine after a number cabinet making, and as a general handyman Frank A. Smith briefs: “Age 83. Retired Heywood, Jr., that his “wife of 40-plus of years in Arizona. Sorry to have missed around our house. Sorry to learn of the from NE Telephone/Bell Atlantic/Verizon years, Nancy Dutton Pinkham, died at our 60th.” deaths of many of our Class since our last 16 years.” Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital in get together in 2001.” Gardiner, MA, on January 22, 2004, after a lengthy illness with lung failure.” The Class 45 43 extends its sympathy to George and his family. Reunion Giving Chair: Robert I. de Sherbinin, 42 Class Secretary: John W. Hoopes, Robert T. Marchildon updates: “Our 516 Fearrington Post, Fearrington Village, Class Agent: William J. Georgitis P. O. Box 3992, Wilmington, DE 19807 youngest granddaughter, Heidi Souder, is Pittsboro, NC 27312 Class Agent: Edward F. Woods, D.M.D. now a sophomore at UMaine-Orono.” Planned Giving Agent: Timothy M. Warren Bill Austin writes: “The new hockey rink Planned Giving Agent: Andre Benoit sounds great. I remember flooding the field Taylor Cole writes: “Celebrated our 54th beside Adams Hall the day before George E. Altman wrote to Class Secretary 44 wedding anniversary on June 24.” Christmas vacation for a new ice surface. Jack Hoopes in June: “After 60 years of Class Agent: Walter S. Donahue, Jr. Richard H. Lewis is “now fully retired, Joan and I continue to grow orchids in the silence, I’m giving you an update of my life Planned Giving Agent: Balfour H. Golden continuing further studies in anthropology. I back yard. Best regards to the Old Guard!” in line with your request to ‘send news.’ miss my friend, Gregg Brewer ’44, who After 50 years on the staff of Beth Israel Walter S. Donahue, Jr. wrote in the passed away June 23, 2003. My 52 years of Correction Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), spring: “Lil and I just celebrated our 60th active priesthood in the Christian community practicing internal medicine, and 50 years wedding anniversary and shortly will attend has been inwardly very rewarding.” The photo of Bunt Wyman and Mrs. on the Harvard Medical School faculty the 60th class reunion. She finally gave up Rosemary Blake ’86 (who graduated teaching clinical medicine, I retired in 1999. tennis but still plays golf. I run the club summa cum laude as a member of Phi I enjoyed my chosen career immensely. golf team matches on Wednesday and 46 Bet Kappa) that appeared with the Upon my retirement, it was very gratifying Class Agent: Campbell Cary looking forward to my 60th reunion in two FIMA Top Swims next year when I’m in the Class of 1942 Class news in the Spring to have over 300 of my patients raise Planned Giving Agent: Philip F.M. Gilley, Jr. years (2006), at which time, I will have the 80-84 group—the 75-79s are getting to me.” 2004 issue of Bowdoin “mistakenly $150,000 to create an annual medical grants SUBMISSION DEADLINE wonderful experience of attending the Cuddy Cohen writes: “As the years go identifies the person on her left as her rounds lecture, featuring guest speakers from William Hill is “taking one day at a time for Class News and Weddings for the Winter ’05 graduation of my grandson, David by, the infirmities increase. Hope everyone husband,” corrected Richard Bye. all over the country, in my honor at the and enjoying life and particularly pleased issue is Monday,December 20,2004. Duhalde-Wine, Class of 2006.” of our class and spouses are in good health. “But it is me. Lissa Wyman [Bunt’s BIDMC. The past six years, I arranged a with Bowdoin’s progress and status with a Looking forward to our 60th in ’07.” wife] took the picture.” We apologize course in world affairs and politics, super president and staff!” Leonard S. Gottlieb, M.D. “became for the confusion. comprised of 16 yearly lectures, primarily by Donald N. Lukens wrote in the spring: 47 chairman emeritus of the Department of academics, for a very enthusiastic audience “Attending ’55 ABS reunion this spring. Class Secretary: Kenneth M. Schubert, Pathology at Boston University School of Joseph Chandler is “still doing arbitration of 200 senior citizens. This has been Charlie Maguire passed away this past fall. 11 Whisperwood Point, Galena, IL 61036 Medicine, April 2003, at the age of 76. work. Though still enjoying it, I’m beginning interesting and fun for me. I’ll always cherish Great guy! I keep in touch with Herb Class Agent: Charles A. Cohen Please note that I am not professor emeritus to dislike the travel (airport) problems, so my memories of being designated a James French and see some Bowdoin V-12 Planned Giving Agent: Robert L. Morrell as I am still an active member of the will cut back. Had my first book of poetry Bowdoin Scholar, of having been co-captain buddies—Dick Perkins ’45, Bob Crozier ’45—at the fall meeting we attend at Bates.” department and medical school faculty. Also published. Maybe you can prod some more (with Jim Dolan) of the state champion Robert S. Blake is “still in the top 10 Jordan “Bud” Wine writes: “I am spent a modest amount of time receiving alumni to write in. I’m missing seeing some varsity football team, and of playing on swimming in US Masters and even get in the of the names—even relatives. Cousins Andy Bowdoin’s very first varsity basketball team. 36 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 [email protected] BOWDOIN FALL 2004 37 class news class news

chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal our work! My wife and I are looking written and provides a way to better serve pediatrician now enjoys sunny Miami far cancer—an interesting experience, but I do forward to celebrating two 55th reunions, you by conveying an overview of student from the snows of yesteryear. not recommend it! Except for some side one at Bowdoin, the other at Goucher.” attitudes (agree/disagree), mores (approve For many Fifty-oners travel has become effects, I am feeling rather well and enjoying Milton A. MacDonald briefs: “Awarded or not), lifestyles such as co-ed dorms de rigueur. Erstwhile roommate Don Moore life, my family, and my work at the medical M.Ed., Rutgers University, 1966.” (dorm rooms?), and other less titillating and Ann conquered the ski slopes of center, as well as my academic interests in Carroll Newhouse writes: “After a brief contrasts between then and now. For Northern Italy and also took in the cultural Israel. So, shalom to all.” stint teaching kids how to skate, I am a example: ‘The Bowdoin Hello-Where Did It milieu of the Southern tier. Then it was on Dr. Clem Hiebert wrote in the spring: man of leisure again.” Go?’ by Kathleen Hayes. She had spoken to Tubac, Arizona for the dry and sunny “With heavy hearts, we moved from our Mrs. Julia Ramsey writes “in memory of with a gent approaching his 50th reunion before returning to real world New lovely lakeside home to a town house in my husband, Gene Ramsey. I still live on whose favorite memory was the Bowdoin Hampshire in June. Don reports a Yarmouth, and are just settling in here.” Brevard with my twin sister, Frances— Hello. ‘I was unaware [it] was an actual grandchild brood of two boys and two Ralph A. Hughes is “still helping Nancy cannot sell the house because so many of concept. I figured it was a tradition that girls. And on-the-go globetrotters Nell and keep sheep in a smaller flock of about two Gene’s daffodils and lillies of the valley are faded out with fraternities… Saying hello Charlie Neunhoffer were at it again with dozen. Still writing, still playing music. In still blooming! Frances and I will celebrate (or rather not saying hello) says a lot about three weeks in France and a two-week touch with Owen Beenhouwer ’51, too.” our 80th birthday this year!” you.’ In the fall of 1947 the BH was a long- sailing expo in the Caribbean. Plus a trip to Joseph W. Woods “has been granted an Bill Wadman reports: “Norma and I standing tradition as noted in the Freshman Yellowstone and The Tetons just for good Honorary Lifetime Membership in the continue to enjoy our grandchildren, Bible. She continues: ‘So why don’t more of measure. Home in Plano, Texas, Charlie’s Engineering and Utility Contractors hopping from residence to residence, in us take the time (…approximately three studying Greek and Nell’s quilting includes Association as of January 31, 2004, the fifth reasonably good health. Our advice: take seconds) to say H-E-L-L-O? … a simple lecturing as well as competition. (Does the such in the Association’s history,” reported your pills, and don’t drive at night!” hello should be [our] trademark. …do your remaining time go to riotous living?) Not to his brother, Ed Woods ’43. The citation for part in reviving the Bowdoin Hello be outdone, Janet and Jack Daggett Joe’s award read, in part: “Treat people with tradition…” The custom seemed unique to ventured to Switzerland finding it ‘very courtesy and grace. Be positive in any and 50 Bowdoin; when, why or how it ceased I clean, punctual, serving excellent food. And all situations. Do well by serving others. Class President and Class Agent: know not. Was it a quaint relic of a happily soothes the soul with beautiful scenery and These principles are how we have known Sanford R. Sistare bygone era? Or a cornball anachronism that baroque music.’ And he offered a tip: ‘Stay this man from day one.” Class Secretary: Merton G. Henry, outlived its usefulness? What do you think? away from trips comprised of old people.’ Jensen, Baird, Gardner & Henry, 10 Free St., (I will gladly email or regular mail a We hear you loud and clear, Jack! P.O. Box 4510, Portland, ME 04112 complete copy of this article to any Joe Flather reports much more than his 48 classmate who so desires it.) share of hospitals and physicians, having Class Secretary and Class Agent: C. Cabot Easton, Dick Kennedy reports: “We are enjoying Another reunion and yet one more as part undergone prostate treatments, two cataract 2 Tobey Lane, Andover, MA 01810 retirement. Grandchildren (5) live 10 of the Old Guard coalition. I am hard-bitten operations, and is now the proud owner of Planned Giving Agent: Donald F. Russell minutes from us and life is good!” enough not to feel intimidated by the O.G. two bionic knees. Joe’s career was with Jim Segal is “still working in insurance tag and so are other mates: Bill Arnold, Burt Smithkline and, unsullied by transfers, has Blake T. Hanna reports: “Most of the industry. Enjoying work, life and six and Millie Gottlieb, Don and Ann Hare, lived in his Malvern, PA abode for over academic achievements of late have been grandchildren.” Bob and Mary Louise Kemp, Stuart Marsh, thirty years. won by other members of my family. My Ted and Lucy Rand, Barclay Shepard. They I regret to report that Thompson Little wife, Helen (Syracuse ’47), has just been along with several others from classes near died March 2, in Columbus, Ohio. Tom awarded an honorary doctorate of divinity 51 Class Secretary and Class Agent: our vintage made it a worthwhile and most was Director of Libraries of Ohio by the United Theological College of McGill enjoyable weekend. Consider an O.G. University and was VP of the online University. Our grandson, Nicholas (McGill Leroy P. Heely, 13 Zeitler Farm Road, Brunswick, ME 04011, [email protected] reunion next year if you do not live overly far Computer Library Center of Columbus. ’04), will graduate in architecture in the top from the quad—you’ll like it. And don’t Our sympathy to his wife Joan, their ten members of his class. He won a trip to Class Agent: David F. Conrod Planned Giving Agent: Robert J. Kemp forget the big 55 is breathing down our children and grandchildren: 2934 Berry Italy and Croatia.” respective necks; the Class of ’49 had a good Lane Court, Columbus, OH 43231. Donald H. Lyons writes: “Joni and I Edward Cogan writes: “Well retired with contingent so why not we? And for a happy sendoff: our Class far spent November in Zimbabwe, Zambia, News from the other coast: Bud exceeded its participation goal in the 2003- Malawi, and Botswana—our fourth trip to six grandchildren; patents; publications; st Thompson, a Bronxville, NY original, has 2004 Annual Fund! Our rate has usually sub-Saharan Africa. I continue as sports operations; 51 anniversary; granddaughter’s th called San Diego his home since 1977. beaten the College average, but this time editor of the Martha’s Vineyard Times.” 13 birthday; but, every time someone visits, I can’t help noticing how old they Banking was his real world pursuit that we outdid ourselves—in a BIG way. You John M. McGorrill wrote in late spring: donors (for the entire College) gave $6.93 that is good about Bowdoin. Best wishes to are getting.” included behemoth Bank of America. Bud need not go merely on my word—let Dave “It is hard to believe but, our daughter and his family spent several years in Conrod tell the good tale: ‘This is an open million vs. a goal of $6.2 million. A superb all for a great summer and year. –Dave’ And th Burton M. Gottlieb wrote in the spring: Linda ’79 will be back for her 25 this year.” performance that will be a great help. on that note, we are entitled to raise a glass “Looking forward to reunion weekend. Minneapolis and know a thing or two about Super Thank You for your fabulous Competitive evaluations of colleges put (or more) to ourselves! And keep the news Also, kudos to Roy Heely for our class rugged winters. He was captain of our golf participation in the Alumni Fund! Some great weight on how many of the alumni about our good Class rolling in! Tidbits that news—thanks, Roy! team and now admits to an occasional 115 of you participated! Our total dollar 49 actually give back to their own college. Roy might seem like trivia to you are of interest Class Agent: William G. Wadman News of the Class of 1951 as reported in outing in the 70s so he should one day gift was a little on the meager side but I and I thank you for all your support! And after all these years! Communicate by any Planned Giving Agent: Edward J. Guen late August by Class Secretary and Agent Roy shoot his age—if he hasn’t already. Wellesley know some of us are planning larger gifts special mention and thanks to the other avenues you wish—feed my mailbox—it Heely: “One perk of this job is a native Jim Decker experienced several U.S. but of a different flavor such as Planned, members of the Gang of Six: Bill has an insatiable appetite. Smoke signals Paul S. Hennessey wrote in the spring: complimentary subscription to the Orient – locales through company transfers and is Deferred and the like. The major point is Nightingale, Bob Kemp, Dick Drisko, cheerfully accepted.” “My yearly AARP tax program for seniors at ‘The Oldest Continuously Published pleased to be settled in the Los Angeles that against a target of 65 percent Chet Homer. They have been an enormous Eugene O. Henderson writes: “My wife, the local COA as a tax aid volunteer has at College Weekly in the United States.’ (I’ll area. And from the Deep South: Stu Marsh, participation you achieved a most help in achieving that participation rate. Martha, and I are celebrating our first last ended. Hopefully, the IRS appreciates take their word for it.) It is generally well who spent decades in Connecticut as a significant 79.9 percent! Some 7,752 Our hats are off to them; they personify all grandchild, Jack O’Brien Henderson, born

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March 31, 2004 in Boston, MA. Jack ’53, Bob Ferrell ’62, and Pete Fenton sing Ralph J. Levi writes: Esther and I are 1995, was in March selected as Disney’s past fifty years in Massachusetts and nearly and English professor at St. Ambrose O’Brien is the son of Eugene O’Brien with a large chorus in Royal Albert Hall celebrating our 51st anniversary. Retired Chairman of the Board. From a Baltimore, forty years in Southborough, Joanne and I College. He holds a J.D. from University of Henderson, Jr. ’82, and his wife, Tricia.” (London) next October.” now from my ad agency, enjoying writing MD, Sun article, March 5, 2004. are downsizing and relocating to warmer Iowa and was a legislative lobbyist for Dick Loomer, Jr. briefs: “Grandson, Ian John L. Rowe writes: “Daughter, Lisa, poetry, taking some classes, and reading. environments in the historic city of insurance companies, medical professionals, R. Burns, corporal, USMC-MP, is a dog and I enjoyed a 10-day southern belle tour Sorry to have missed our 50th. Best regards Williamsburg, Virginia. We look forward to judges, and was a state legislator from 1971 handler serving in Iraq. We pray for his safe in 2003, visiting New Orleans and French to all classmates and faculty.” 55 exploring the Virginia countryside and the to 1986.” From an Associated Press Iowa State return to the USA. I am in a major battle Quarter; Biloxi, Mobile (USS Alabama); Paul Lewis writes: “after 51 years in the Reunion Planning Chairs: Charles S. Christie many historical sites that date back to the Report March 21, 2004. fighting pancreatic cancer—I’m going to Jackson, Vicksburg National Military Park, wonderful world of retailing—and Ames and Robert C. Delaney Founding Fathers of America. We will also Philip A. Trussell updated in lat June: win, with prayer and support from around Natchez, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, with a department stores going belly up—am still Class Agent: Harvey B. Stephens enjoy the proximity that our new location “Priscilla and I celebrated our 48th the country! Am in Arizona at this time.” visit to Nottoway Plantation, followed by a working, now for Marshalls.” Planned Giving Agent: Camille F. Sarrouf will have to our former college roommates, anniversary by selling our Needham, MA William Patterson is “happy to say swamp tour of the bayous. Then, back to Edward P. Lyons reports: “Cory and I who reside in the Washington, D.C. area, as home of 40 years and moving to the former health is great. Still running a company that New Orleans with a dinner and a stroll are still enjoying skiing the Colorado ski Lloyd O. Bishop, Class Secretary, sent us well as to our son and his family, who live Norfolk County House of Correction in machines the surfaces and sides of specialty through the French Quarter, enjoying some areas with the Over the Hill Gang. The news of classmate Jim Stagnone, who reports: in North Carolina.” Dedham, MA, which has been converted to steel slabs. We have six high milling true New Orleans jazz. Mother, Gerry, was motto of OTHG is, ‘when you are over the “We’re proud parents of four sons, the Theodore H. Howe writes: “Sorry to condos. We truly enjoy first-floor condo th machines and several grinders. Purchased unable to accompany us on this tour.” hill, you pick up speed.” oldest of whom will celebrate his 50 hear of Dave Wies’s passing as well as of T. living here and in Florida. I’ve been retired business two years ago with silent partner. Robley Wilson reports: “Novel, Splendid Louis E. Roberts is “enjoying retirement birthday while we hopefully are celebrating McKinna ’54.” since June 1999 from MIT as their associate th We do a lot of work in stainless and Omens, published in February ’04; next as Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts, which our 50 reunion next year. All four sons are Peter M. Pirnie is “still working at my treasurer and director of real estate, and was titanium. Wife hustles real estate; all four novel, The World Still Melting, out in department I chaired for 26 years. Am on recipients of multiple post-graduate degrees second career (first career, 28-plus years with surprised to be honored in November 2003 kids and grandkids (8) are great, too. Oldest September ’05. Both from St. Martin’s Nantucket (42 years), awaiting the arrival of including: Jay in WA in engineering/MBA; Chase Manhattan Bank) at US Agency for with the Boston Building Owners and grandchild going to Bates—ah, well!” Press.” See Bookshelf section this issue. nine grandchildren with assorted parents.” Greg, M.D. in Dallas in plastic surgery; Ted International Development (USAID). I am Managers Industry Leadership Award. Spent Henry Sleeper is “presently recovering in Oregon in engineering/masters; and working in an area which could be this winter in Sarasota playing lots of golf, from triple by-pass heart surgery (in June). Dave, M.D. in Texas and WA in radiology. categorized as ‘Global Finance,’ providing but shut down in March—having a new hip 52 53 Amazing work! Ready for another reunion!” That’s the good and fun news—hope to loan guarantees in developing countries installed at NE Baptist Hospital on June 18. Class Secretary and Planned Giving Agent: Class Agent and Planned Giving Agent: catch up on the grandkids and the rest of around the globe to mobilize private sector We continue to enjoy our daughter’s family Adrian L. Asherman, 15 Eben Hill Road, J. Warren Harthorne, M.D. the news in June 2005.” Lloyd also passed funding to underserved markets. It is in Medfield, MA (3 grandchildren) and our Yarmouth, ME 04096 on the news that Jim was honored at the challenging and rewarding. Still living in almost-18-year-old grandson at Tabor Class Agent: Reginald P. McManus Farnham W. Damon briefed in the spring: University of Mexico School of Medicine in Maryland with my wife of 39 years, Carolyn.” Academy (next year’s sailing team co- “Have returned to my condo in Belfast, January during the dedication of the James Art Small, is running for U.S. Senator. captain). I still maintain my professional Hebron E. Adams announces: “Nancy and Maine after spending the winter with my J. Stagnone Building, which Jim’s generosity The Iowa Democrat was the subject of an engineer’s license and keep busy doing I are delighted to report the arrival of our twin brother at his home in Vista, helped make possible. Associated Press Iowa State report bio last structural consulting engineering.” first grandchild, Nathan Elias Miller, on California.” John Gignac reports: “After spending the spring. Art is “an attorney, businessmen, Philip Weiner sadly wrote in the spring: February 17. Nathan is the son of Asher William H. Graff reports: “Daughter, Miller ’89 and Heather Adams Miller ’88. Kathryn Graff Low ’78 received Bowdoin’s I probably should have let them make this Distinguished Educator Award in June. She announcement but, no one they know is is a professor at Bates College. I’m fine. likely to read this in the old fudds section Working and, in free time, playing at golf. “ (L to r): David Morales ’97, Joel Sherman ’58 of the alumni news, so it will be news again Geoffrey P. Houghton wrote in early and Roger Gordon ’54 dined together at Joel’s when it comes from them.” spring: “Another St. Patrick’s Day and I’m house in June. For the photo, they’re holding Richard W. Ham writes: “Employment still alive. My grandchildren, Megan (8) an original felt banner from the late 1950s. during retirement seems to work in and Katie (3) are the brightest and most practice. I wonder if it works in theory?” beautiful children west of the Mississippi Robert N. Morrison reports: “Nesta and (Minneapolis). I’m five-and-a-half years clean 54 I bought a house on Bouchard Drive in of my bladder cancer. Still have a mysterious Class Secretary: Horace A. Hildreth, Jr., Brunswick. It is a quiet neighborhood and 15-year-old nodule on my prostate. Other Diversified Communications, Inc., still within walking distance of the College. than typical Florida allergies, all’s well. P.O. Box 7437 DTS, Portland, ME 04112 Nesta and I joined a big, loyal group of Could use a few thousand-dollar donations Class Agent: Herbert P. Phillips alumni in cheering on our amazing if anyone’s looking for a cause.” Planned Giving Agent: John W. Church, Jr. women’s basketball team. I was also lucky Jorgen K. Knudsen updates: “Youngest to catch some great away games at son, Mads, on presenting his PhD thesis on William A. Fickett updates: “Travels in Williams, Middlebury, and Tufts. And, I palaeomagnetic investigation of Cape Verde 2003 included two Caribbean cruises in also traveled to Norfolk, Virginia for the Island volcanic rocks, is now as of June 1 February and December. June saw us on a UltimateMaine Living, 200Years in theMaking Division III Championship. We are looking with the department of earth sciences at bus taking a 14-day tour of the western ntroducing the newest addition to The Highlands community campus: 10 new elegant apartment homes, adjoining the national parks. In November, we made our forward to another outstanding year in Oxford University on a two-year post doc Ihistoric Holden Frost House. Combining classic Federal architecture and finest modern amenities to simplify your life, annual trip to Hawaii.” 2004-2005. Go U Bears!” research project. His fiancée, Eva, The Holden Frost House will continue The Highlands’ tradition of service and attention to detail. Peter K. Race says: “Time marches on— graduated in mid June as an architect and Albert F. Lilley “of Chapel Hill received still traveling a lot, while we can. Ruth and will join Mads in Oxford, hoping to land a Bowdoin Alumni Council’s 2004 Alumni For adults 55 and better, The Holden Frost House is the most unique opportunity to come along in centuries. I celebrated our 50th anniversary on an job there. I have set them to read a Service Award, presented June 5 during Call today for your personal tour: elder hostel train excursion throughout delightful account of Oxford life by US Reunion Weekend.” From a Chapel Hill, NC Switzerland last September. Then, Belize for journalist, Muriel Beadle, based on a year’s Chapel Hill News article, August 1, 2004. (207) 721-3215 or 1-888-760-1042 the fifth time in February. Looking forward experience there with her professor George J. Mitchell, who has been a Walt 24 Elm Street, Topsham, ME 04086 to hearing former Meddies Bob Forsberg husband, entitled, The Ruins are Inhabited.” Disney Company board member since

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“I’m very sorry to relate that my college and Maine (Boothbay Playhouse and Washington State to build windmills with Canyon with two grandchildren. Cynthia Commencement. Ted and Judy had just Shepherd Silimine, on June 29. Joe roommate and very dear friend for the last Deertrees Theatre in Harrison). Farewell, generators. I’m still thinking some aspects and John Howland are recently back from moved to Tynsboro and also have found a Murphy is pursuing twin interests of fifty years, David L. Wies, died at his old pal and colleague.” of horizontal axis windmills to generate the Yucatán Peninsula where they saw, summer refuge on Tripp Lake (near Poland gemology and genealogy. Tina and Norm home in Cupertino, California on March 2, hydrogen bear attention.” among other things, thousands of Spring, Maine). In June, he plans to bike Levy are well and hoping to attend the 2004. Dave was an outstanding track star at Mike Coster wrote in the spring: “A flamingos. Locally, retirement permits him with a group in the Québec area and is October dedication of Kanbar Hall. Nancy Bowdoin. After graduation he went on to 57 long winter on the Miramichi. Looking to get out birdwatching a couple times a looking forward to the Chapman bike party and Gene Wheeler have downsized to get an advanced degree from Columbia Class Secretary: John C. Finn, forward to a long golf season. No longer week with the active area Audubon group. in 2007. In September, Shirley and Jack Concord, New Hampshire, and Buffy and University and was a highly respected vice 24 Palmer Road, Beverly, MA 01915 worry about handicap or score. I’m as good Last fall, he tore his rotator cuff; thanks to Woodward are planning a bike trip to Bruce MacDonald are in the process of president of personnel at ITT for several Class Agent: Edward E. Langbein, Jr. as I’ll get (and, that’s not that great)! surgery and therapy, he can again do Acadia, with, hopefully, a stop in moving from Connecticut to Brunswick. years. Dave had retired several years ago Planned Giving Agent: Paul J. McGoldrick Greetings from Canada.” everything but hoist grandchildren onto his Brunswick en route to check out the Sara and Paul O’Neill’s daughter, Hillary, is after suffering a near fatal heart attack in Walter G. Gans is “enjoying new career shoulder. Al Roulston journeyed to Paris changes on campus. Paul McGoldrick has in her final two years of residency and 1987. After fully recovering, he resumed an “XStream Beverage Group, Inc announced focus as an arbitrator in mediator of last fall with a side trip to Morocco for two taken up golf to augment his mountain focusing on psychiatrics. As of June, Sara active life of playing tennis frequently and it has established an advisory board with commercial, international, and sports weeks, highlighted by a snowstorm in the climbing. Joanie and Bob Shepherd were joined the many of us in the retired ranks. devoting a considerable amount of his time the appointment of four distinguished disputes. Have full complement of five Hight Atlas Mountains. He also realized a pleased to welcome new grandson, Joseph Bill Howard is also enjoying retirement to mentoring needy youth in California’s individuals from the beverage, investment grandchildren, now aged four to eight, childhood dream to trek through the desert CASA program. Dave was just awarded banking, and financial services industries. close by to indulge. Combining city with on a camel. Unfortunately, the camel (posthumously) an outstanding CASA Richard Q. Armstrong will serve as one of country living here and in the UK, and spooked and unceremoniously pitched advocate award. Dave is survived by his the new members of the Board, which will savoring both lifestyles.” them off for a hard landing on the peach wife, Joyce, and two sons, Edward and meet approximately four times a year and Class news as reported by Class Agent Ed colored Sahara sand, cracking two of his Jerry. Dave was a member of the Alpha Rho provide advice and counsel to the Langbein in spring 2004: “Congratulations ribs and splitting his left thumb to the Bill Cooke, Bowdoin College, company’s senior management. He’s had a Upsilon fraternity. Condolences may be to Hal Pendexter, who was just named a bone. Repaired and undaunted, he was off ConservationHomesites sent to the Wies family at 19887 Beckman long and established career as a manager director of the Alumni Fund. Shirley and again in May to Turkey to do some pedigree Class of ‘57 designed his and senior executive in a variety of Place, Cupertino, CA 95015.” The Class Dick Fickett enjoyed dinner with Kathleen consultations for some thoroughbred Now Available! custom-built home... extends its sympathy to the Wies family. consumer product businesses, with and Bill Gardner in Washington, when Bill breeders and also help out on a children’s Fred Wilson wrote sadly in early particular emphasis in the beverage was up on business (he’s still an active theater project. By June, Hugh will be summer: “Suz and I looked forward to industry that culminated with positions as consultant with Grumman). Good to hear resettled in Newport for another season of celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary this president of Canada Dry International, from Carsten Tvedemoller with a photo of tour guiding. MaryLou and Clem Wilson August, but she died of esophageal cancer Canada Dry Worldwide, and the combined his law firm’s new office site in marked the arrival of the New Year with last May.” The Class extends its sympathy to companies of Canada Dry and Dr. Pepper.” Copenhagen. Paul McGoldrick finished ‘appropriate decorum’ and, on short notice, Fred and his family. From a PR Newswire article, May 25, 2004. the New England 4,000-ers in September returned to Maine in conjunction with the Stan Blackmer has been “totally retired (all 67 of them) and, in April, received a death of his mother (noted in the last since last October. I am enjoying sailing on certificate and pack badge. All of this after Whispering Pines). Clem has taken up flying 56 my 1968 Cal 2-30, which I have owned in age 65 and with two new left hips since model airplanes as a hobby (more Class Secretary: Paul G. Kirby, various partnerships for 25-plus years, as well 1990. Ollie Hone reports he is walking economical than boating) and in his initial 42 Eel River Road, South Chatham, MA 02659 as a little golf and some volunteer work.” fairly normally (after more than a year) on efforts has managed to land one model on Class Agent: Norman P. Cohen Richard W. Chase reported in June: “Life his two new knees. Plus, with change of the back seat of a BMW and bury another Planned Giving Agent: Norman C. Nicholson, Jr. is still great here on the seacoast. Just put the medication, he’s rejoined the world and has in the sod, tail first. Bob Wagg writes that boat in the water yesterday. Marty and I have less of a need to move to cooler climes in he and EddieMae made the family circuit of Lee Dyer “retired briefly—now back at been active with the Ipswich Yacht Club Tennessee or Carolina. Shirley and Jack Texas and Florida. He also recommends to work managing our son’s business and (she’s social chairwoman). We usher weekly Woodward marked spring with trips to the Polar Bear fans, the article in the enjoying it more than I ever enjoyed being at the North Shore Music Theater in Beverly, Phoenix, the Grand Canyon, and Los February National Geographic. John a superintendent of schools.” MA. Good shows and free tickets to give Angeles. Jack noted that he had taught with Howland and Ed Langbein enjoyed visits Sanford A. Kowal is “still practicing law away. My oldest daughter just got legally Dick Smith at Brown & Nichols for three and lunch with Louise and JP Dow. See in Brighton, helping men see their kids, married after 20 years of common law years in the early sixties. Nancy and David accompanying photo. Back on campus for the What’s in your backyard? helping people who get fined. Still live in marriage in Ohio. Some things take time. Kessler are planning a rafting trip this annual Scholarship Luncheon were Ann Newton and swim in its lake. Both sons are We’ll be up to Orchard Park, ME in August summer on the Green River/Desolation and John Snow, Dave Webster, the Explore our private, wooded cul-de-sacs and homesites, set along in California, one an Assistant US Attorney for a family reunion, then on to Martha’s Wilsons, and Ed Langbein.” th our Scottish-style golf course and 230-acre conservation area. in LA. Please call me if you’re in the area.” Vineyard for Marty’s 40 year back on the Class news as reported by Class Agent Ed Stephen J. McCabe is “looking forward island. Last Saturday, we went to the first Langbein in late summer: “Saddened to learn Located just minutes from Bowdoin College. th to the 50 . Who’s the committee? Will be high school graduation of a grandchild. My of the death, in June, of Peter Gass. Our glad to help in any way. Daughter-in-law, granddaughter is going to Temple in the fall. sympathy to Joan and his family. Our Kim Lusnia McCabe ’79 is attending her After this, we hope to be there for each of the sympathy too, to Bill Howard, who lost his Homes starting from the mid $200’s th 25 this year. Hard to believe.” other 10 grandchildren’s graduations. The wife this past year. Ingrid and Henry Frederick C. Wilkins wrote in May: youngest is a one-year-old. We’re planning to (Prices increase after HIGHLANDGREEN Thomas recently back from a month in November 1, 2004) “Grieving at the news of the passing of visit Marty’s daughter in Seattle in the fall, Sweden and a shorter visit to RPI for their Adult Resort Community and Golf Club William Beeson, III, Beta Theta Pi. I hope mine in Cincinnati for Thanksgiving, home grandson’s graduation. Their 866-854-1200 TOPSHAM,MAINE 04086 some friends from a half century ago will from Christmans, then on to Hilton Head for granddaughter, Kristen ’02, has just www.highlandgreenmaine.com remember the musical review Bill and I the month of February.” completed her first year at Brooklyn Law John Howland ’57, JP Dow ’57, Louise Dow, wrote (he the text and lyrics, I the music), John W. Collins wrote in the spring: School. Ted Parsons joined John Howland and Ed Langbein ’57 enjoyed a visit together premiered in the Bowdoin auditorium and “Making final arrangements for attending a and Ed Langbein on the campus for then toured in Vermont, New Hampshire, workshop on an island off the coast of over lunch in Bridgton, Maine last spring. Winner of Maine’s 2004 Governor’s Award for Business Excellence

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(not to be confused with inactivity) and impressed with all the good work Ed Kimball Mason writes: “The Masons and included it in a new novel—because that’s attend the reunion this year for reasons a subject. I have since served on a number into a second career as starter at the golf Langbein continues to put in keeping us Gibbons spent a week in Kiawah Island this what writers do. Broken Trip, a local term relating to medical situations and other of FTA and NAFTA panels. Of course, I had course. Marty and Dick Chase continue together as a contributing class.” late spring—enjoyed tennis, golf, birds, and for failed fishing excursion, is a first employment situations. We hate to miss to fill in the blanks, but I was confident I the family right of passage—taking a Robert Wishart writes: “Life in the wonderful beach. Spent a day in Charleston published novel for the 66-year-old former our lobster dinners and lobster roll lunches understood the principles of legal action as grandchild to a Red Sox game when they South Carolina low country continues to with Joanna and Nelson Hicks. The Hicks North Shore Community College writing in this 5-year cycle. We now have six well as my associates. It made me mark their sixth birthday. He advised me amaze us. Spring arrives early, shrimp and live in a wonderful refurbished downtown instructor and former Gloucester Daily Times grandchildren (3 boys, 3 girls) but we have appreciate how much of the value we take that, on good authority, this tradition will oysters are abundant, tennis remains condo with a roof deck looking out over columnist.” From a Danvers, MA North just been told that the tie will be broken by from education, or from the people who exorcise the Curse of the Bambino. competitive, kayaking is breathtaking, and the harbor. Nelson is a great tour guide and Shore Sunday article, May 9, 2004. the arrival of another grandchild soon in provided it, may not be recognized until Augmenting sailing, he has been busy as a only the golf causes angst. Spent most of Charleston is a really special place.” Hutch Bearce “spent most of the last the future. Retirement continues to be a many years later.” volunteer with the North Shore Theater. A January and February on an adventure in Dick Payne writes: “Retirement brings year building a new house on a lake in pleasure. Our best to all of you.” newsy letter from Dick Fickett, whose Australia and New Zealand. Planning to new challenges. This year, I’m heading up a northern Michigan—very much like Maine. Gilbert R. Winham has once again focus is on: the Red Sox (‘September spend most of June in Northeast visiting survey of Falmouth for two invasive Continuing to do some consulting work “been selected to serve as a jurist for a 60 Swoon’ began in June), the election grandkids, etc. (we now have six between wetland weeds for a conservation with the Council of Independent Colleges NAFTA trade dispute between Canada and Reunion Planning Chair: Jonathan S. Green campaign (the political picture leaves a bit Dale and I). If low country living has any commission. We have lots of wetlands!” in Washington, DC. and enjoying regular the US. This always brings back memories Class Agents: Jonathan S. Green, to be desired), and the Redskins interest, come and visit us.” Stephen W. Rule briefs: “Coming up on visits with two gorgeous granddaughters, that have a Bowdoin dimension. As a Robert A. LeMieux, and Glenn K. Richards (optimistic, tho’ the jury is still out on team John J. Woodward wrote in June: “Shirley two years retired, and it has been fun, with ages 2 and 5.” polysci professor, I have done a lot of work Planned Giving Agent: Don Bloch chemistry)— well, maybe one for three. and I had a great trip during April: Phoenix, several wonderful trips enjoyed. By the end Bruce A. Chalmers wrote in the spring: in trade policy. Shortly after the Canada- Linda and Ollie Hone headed to Grand Canyon, historic Route 66, Hoover of 2004, I expect to have sold this old “Played a lot of golf this winter in Florida U.S. Free Trade Agreement over 10 years Joel Abromson’s widow, Linda, reports: Washington for the dedication of the WWII Dam, and two weeks in LA with our house, where I’ve been for 42 years! Then, (Osprey, just south of Sarasota) with many ago, the Canadian Government nominated “The grandchildren and I are doing well. Monument Memorial. Ollie had been a daughter, Sarah. Continued to help her with I’ll be on my way to central Florida, a place Bowdoin-connected people—Sid Watson, me to a roster of 25 individuals who could We now have five grandchildren. The charter member of the Commission and the rehab of her house—as well as devise I never expected to go to!” Scott Meiklejohn, Dave Belka ’61, Dick adjudicate disputes between the two University of Southern Maine is building a had been in on the early Memorial selection solutions to rid a rooftop of pigeons, which Jack St. John reports: “Gerna and I Leeman ’61, Steve Cote ’89, Anne countries. I was taken aback by this, wonderful complex that will house a 500- process. Travel from Florida via Amtrak was have taken up residence for many years! One enjoyed a 12-day trip to Ireland this April. Chalmers ’99, Jim Chalmers ’02, and a because the work was wholly legal, and seat auditorium, a 1,200-car parking rough on his replacement knees, which are of the highlights of the trip was reconnecting We took a tour for the very first time and number of times with Charlie Long. First except for me, the roster included only garage, 11,000-square-feet of classroom now over a year-old. Clearly this bit of with Gene and Shari Helsel for lunch in Del found it to be just perfect. We used CIE time I have been away from my office for lawyers. I wondered what credentials I space, and a computer center. It is to be the body parts wearing out faces more and Mar, north of San Diego. The reunion also Tours, which is the Irish national tour over two weeks in 44 years. If you ever go could bring to this job. There wasn’t much, Abromson Community Education Center more of us—know that both Pete Hastings included Gene’s four-month-old grandson, company, and they were great.” to the Sarasota University Club, check out except for Athern Daggett’s course on and will be dedicated in May 2005. A and Jill Perry have new hips and am EVH IV, and his mother.” Hal Tucker, a graduate of Bangor the Bowdoin plaque.” constitutional law, but it was the best remarkable gift from the college and the currently monitoring Nancy Langbein, who theological seminary, who has served Donald C. Doele reports: “We’ve been course I ever took, anywhere. In that community in Joel’s memory.” had one knee done last month. Recovery is congregations in Florida, Indiana, and living in Brunswick for almost one year, course, we learned respect for the law and Raymond Bucci, Jr. “is looking forward th on track to have her back at Whittier this 58 recently served the First Congregational and we are very glad we made the move. for legal method. I felt I was educated into to the 45 ! I am still working but plan to fall ‘guiding’ the officials. A prime Class Secretary: John D. Wheaton, Church in Wiscasset and Boothbay We attended many athletic events last motivation to regain full mobility is Ed’s 10 Sutton Place, Lewiston, ME 04240 Congregational Church and Waldoboro, winter. Especially enjoyed women’s Class Agent: Richard E. Burns culinary skills—she’s lost 10 pounds and was the speaker at a July 11 Westport basketball and hockey.” 575 acres of Casco Bay shoreline, golf greens, Planned Giving Agent: Raymond Brearey Dave Kessler suggests we publish the Community Association church service. Ronald H. Dyer wrote in the spring: GETAWAYTOITALL country gardens, and unspoiled woodlands ‘Maine Woods Diet.’ Dave and Nancy very From a Wiscasset, Maine Wiscasset “I’m still living, serving, and having a great Classic inn…cottages…our own lighthouse…harborview restaurant Geoff Armstrong “recently moved (again!) much enjoyed their five-day rafting trip Newspaper article, July 8, 2004. life at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in A multitude of activities for all ages…9 hole golf course…tennis…pool… to this northwest rainshadow town called down the Green River through Desolation Stellan P. Wollmar reports: “Both sons, Lenox, MA.” hiking…fishing…kayaking…health club…scenic cruises…more ‘S’quim,’ and spelled Sequim. Absolute Canyon with their granddaughters.” Erik and Christopher, married this summer. James E. Fenlason reports: ‘retired for It’s all here at Sebasco, a world apart right down the road Antarctic climate and natural beauty galore. Jim Millar “had the good fortune of Wife, Jane, retired as special educator. We 10 years from Springfield public school See you in the spring! watching the women’s basketball and hockey (Plus, ‘alive,’ pleasant people.) Olympic hope to spend some months next winter in system—director of special education. teams win NESCAC championships. Mountains view from backyard and Straight Southern France.” Summers spent in vacation home in Congrats on a wonderful year. Unfortunately, of Juan de Fuca a couple of miles north. Swanville, Maine.” while visiting brother, Bob ’62 at his Maybe I won’t move again! Traffic here is Roderick Forsman writes: “I have failed Englewood, Florida retreat, also saw our less furious, too. And a super NPR, FM jazz 59 at retirement. I’m back to doing school loss in NCAA Division III Basketball station in Tacoma, clear as a bell.” Class Secretary: Brendan J. Teeling, M.D., psychology twice a week and teaching an Championship game. Still enjoying beaucoup Jim Croft reports: “Living in Brunswick, 35 Lakemans Lane, Ipswich, MA 01938 algebra course.” travel on Mary Lou’s business trips. Met Maine continues to be ‘life as it should be.’ Class Agent: Peter D. Fuller Ron Kirwood is “doing fine. I remain Dave Shea ’62 for hockey’s Frozen Four in Still on my second career as tourism Planned Giving Agent: Alvan W. Ramler suspect of the alleged features of Boston. Leave this weekend for a 12-day trip director of the Bath/Brunswick Area retirement. Maybe it’s about money, but I to Berlin, Elbe River boat trip, and Prague. Chamber of Commerce.” “For 30 years, Peter Anastas listened to hope not and believe not!” Have plans for a trip to Anaheim in June, Henry W. Hotchkiss wrote in June: “It’s stories of poverty and abuse from his Dave Laurie is “now a proud granddad th two weeks in Ogunquit in July, and a week been exactly a year since our 45 reunion, Gloucester neighbors. He absorbed details with three grandchildren—Cooper, Will, in New Orleans in September. Life which I really enjoyed—a great group with and tried to help, because that’s what social and Miles—born within six months of each (retirement) is good!” super hospitality and organization. I am workers do. As director of advocacy and other last year.” Stanton I. Moody reports: “Have keeping very busy as a broker/owner of housing at Gloucester’s Action Inc., it was Glenn Matthews writes: “Our daughter- moved from Bedford, MA to Exeter NH, Mello & Hotchkiss Real Estate here in the open-minded social worker’s job to in-law, Tamara Nikuradse ’84, was just swelling the growing tide of Democrats in Fairhaven. Last November, I enjoyed a listen without judgment and put at ease named Trustee of Bowdoin College.” The quintessential Maine setting for your wedding, reunion, or gathering to 250 surprise visit from Len Johnson and his those who suffered. Now, Anastas has taken New Hampshire.” Al Schretter wrote in early summer: Info and reservations 207-389-1161 or 1-800-225-3819 ◆ WWW.SEBASCO.COM Henry C. Thomas writes: “I’m always lovely wife, Joyce. Will spend a few weeks all he has seen and learned about those “Ronnie and I regret that we are unable to cruising Alaska this summer.” who live with poverty in Gloucester and MAY TO OCTOBER ◆ SEBASCO ESTATES, ME 04565 less than 30 minutes from Bowdoin

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retire at the end of ’04. Lana and I now run teaching history, coaching football and spending more time with the grandchildren now—and I am still working to get my golf sons married, and they have rewarded have six grandchildren with the arrival of lacrosse, and running the toy (athletic) and fly fishing.” handicap lower. My daughter, Karen, was Susan and me with four grandchildren and 64 Gianna in May.” department. Barb and I plan to remain in Paul Constantino wrote in May: “I’m married during May in Wilmington, DE, a fifth (grandchild, that is) arriving in Class Secretary: David W. Fitts, Jr., 63 Laurel Soon Cho is “back in the private sector, Lakeville cheering on future Bearcat teams. headed back for my third annual Bowdoin and the family enjoyed a beautiful October. My older stepson is to be married Lane, P.O. Box 341, Newcastle, NH 03854 and am doing a lot of reading and If you’re in the northwest corner of Alumni College program in July. I ceremony on a beautiful day.” in the fall. The younger has just purchased a Class Agents: Howard V. Hennigar, Jr. and lecturing. Things have happened, Connecticut, stop in and we’ll swap stories recommend it highly to anyone who wants Cotty Saltonstall reports: “I am finishing 35-foot yawl and is preparing to set sail for Peter M. Small environment changed; I am older, but not about Nels Corey, Sid Watson, Link, Ernst to enjoy the “best of Bowdoin,” including my 39th year at Dexter School and am Newfoundland and then the Caribbean with Planned Giving Agent: Robert S. Frank, Jr. necessarily wiser. Hope my Bowdoin Helmreich and other Bowdoin greats.” stimulating subject matter, enthusiastic currently the administrator of the school. three cronies. No retirement in sight—I’m friends are all fine, and hope to see them in Jerry Isenberg writes: “I continue to live faculty, and great fellowship. The campus is Dexter and Southfield, a sister school for having too much fun.” Christos J. Gianopoulos reports: “I am 2010 at the 50th reunion with a poem in in Santa Barbara and teach in the film truly beautiful in July!” girls started by Dexter in 1992, are in the Richard L. Winslow wrote in the spring: running for a seat in the Maine Legislature. English and in Korean. I hear that Mr. school at USC. Unfortunately, after 35 Frederic B. Hill is “still looking for a process of adding grades 9-12, one grade a “Sorry I will miss the reunion. I’ll be I am a Democrat seeking to represent Christopher Hill ’74 will come to Seoul as years, my marriage failed and I became newspaper to buy, edit, in Maine. Despite year. Not surprisingly, life at school does not attending my daughter’s graduation from District 75, the towns of Greene and U.S. Ambassador and am looking forward single, now at 63 years of age. The good best of intentions, Marty and I just don’t get lack for excitement. On the personal side, I medical school to be followed by a week of Sabattus, Maine. I am concerned about the to meeting him.” news is that life does go on and I have to Maine enough. Still waiting for Ed have finally succeeded in getting all four golf in southern California.” economy of Maine.” Donald H. Cousins reported in the found a new relationship with a wonderful Callahan to visit so I can take him to spring: “A year of change. Wife, Rae, retired woman. I am truly lucky.” Camden yards—the Red Sox seem to be the in spring of 2003, and I am following her Herman B. Segal writes: “I continue to only team the Orioles can beat.” BRUNSWICK Design for Hubbard Hall Handrail at the end of the academic year 2003/04. practice clinical and consultative cardiology Lennie Lee writes: “Lorraine and I went Privately situated on 5.1 acres in a We’ll be moving to our new house in in suburban D.C. 24/7. Wife, Andrea, is a back to Virginia in the middle of June to protected setting, this warm and Southwest Harbor, Maine. In addition, we medical team leader at the FDA, and number visit two of our sons and their families (two welcoming 9 room home is enhanced are expecting our first grandchild, aptly due one son, David, at age 22, was elected city on east coast, two on west coast!). The hit by 600' of water frontage and wide on Labor Day.” councilman in Mickey Levitt’s home town of of the visit was our newest granddaughter southerly views of ocean and islands. D. Peterson Hunter writes: “We sold Providence, RI; daughter, Jenny, class of ’04 (up to nine grandchildren—six ladies and The living room features a 2 story Timberholm Inn in 2001. I now work for at the University of Michigan, will enter AU three guys!).” window wall and fireplace, the family two inns in Stowe and for my son-in-law, a College of Law in Washington, D.C.; number Chris Potholm briefs: “Latest book, This room a cathedral ceiling and fireplace. custom cabinet maker. We live in Elmore, two son, Jonathan (16), is succeeding as a Splendid Game, on Amazon.com. Son Eric Additional features include a formal dining room, 1st floor master bedroom suite, VT, just north of Stowe and are very happy wild and wonderful teenager.” and his wife Erica just gave us our first two additional bedrooms, study, recreation areas and a heated workshop. $985,000 that we live here. Life is good and our Joel Sherman wrote in June that Roger grandchild, Noah ‘No No’ Potholm!” children are all well.” Gordon ’54 and David Morales ’97 had Frederick B. Rollinson II writes: “Last MORTON REAL ESTATE (207) 729-1863 Paul O. Johnson writes: “Carole and I joined him recently for dinner at his home. fall, Nancy and I enjoyed visiting with Lesley 240 Maine Street • Brunswick, ME 04011 • www.mainere.com • Email: [email protected] will meet with professor Shuqin Cui in See accompanying photo. and Nils Blatz at their new home on Long Bejing in August en route to Yunnan Gerald Slavet writes: “From the Top, my Island. Also visiting from our class were Province and my search for Shangri-la. public radio program is now the most Sandy and Steve Polederos and Phil Carole and I plan to take a course on the art popular weekly classical program on public Simpson. This March, we overlapped three of Japan taught by professor Clifton Olds at radio and one of the five most popular days with the Blatzes in Florida, and had the senior college in the fall. Last spring, we weekly shows on public radio.” great walks as well as a great time. We are returned to Costa Rica to thaw out after a David P. Small is “loving retirement and enjoying our retirement on Cape Cod, where Pleased to serve Bowdoin College long winter. Grandsons now total five.” our seven grandchildren. I work three days it seems a lot of Bowdoin people end up.” and to design many fine homes Dale W. Matheson, “professor at UConn a week at our local golf course and manage John K. Wyman is “still having fun in med school, won the Loeser Teaching to keep my handicap in the 14 to 16 range.” North Carolina—the climate is beautiful! in the mid-coast area. Award, voted by students each year,” Jon Staples wrote in June: “Bettye and I Am traveling back to Bowdoin in June to DOUGLAS RICHMOND reported one of his students. will be in Maine (Winthrop) for nine weeks eat some real lobsters!” ARCHITECTS Fred Myer updates: “Last year, I finally this summer and hope to see some retired from corporate life; now I make Bowdoin alums.” (207) 729-0989 FAX (207) 729-2903 model ships and work on trumpet and piano Jim Watson writes: “Dr. Sandy Allen 63 www.mainearchitects.com skills. And the grandchildren are nearby! ’63 called this spring to ask a question Class Secretary: Charles J. Micoleau, Luckily, Barbara has relatives at great spots about a William Faulkner novel and we 38 Coyle St., Portland, ME 04101 in Maine; so we enjoy trips north.” talked for an hour. Great to reconnect after Class Agent: Joseph H. McKane, II SUBMISSION DEADLINE 40-plus years—and to know that Planned Giving Agent: John Goldthwait for Class News and Weddings for the Winter ’05 continuing education is ongoing and 61 extends to Bowdoin sources in Oklahoma!” Donald E. Brown says: “At long last, I am issue is Monday,December 20,2004. Class Secretary: Lawrence C. Bickford, a grandfather-to-be, circa November ’04!” 2083 Sheriff’s Posse Trail, Prescott, AZ 86303 John S. Goldthwait updated in late Class Agents: Gerard O. Haviland, 62 June: “Busy working with fellow Bowdoin Edward M. Kaplan, and Joel B. Sherman Class Secretary: Ronald F. Famiglietti, grads, Jack Abbott, Dick Morse ’60, and Planned Giving Agent: D. Michael Coughlin 9870 S. Rosemont Ave, #208, Lone Tree, CO 80124 Les Ferlazzo ’67 at Boston Financial Class Agent: Peter B. Webster Management. Number five grandchild just George R. DelPrete wrote in May: “After a Planned Giving Agent: David B. Klingaman arrived and number six expected in two forty-year career in education (the last weeks—so, very busy all around.” thirty-three at Hotchkiss), I’m retiring at Bernie Beaudoin “retired January 1 after 24 Raymond Ricciardi writes: “I continue the end of the school year. I’ve had a great years with Great Plains Energy. He is now to enjoy retirement—almost five years

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Stephen C. Haskell “regrets not making general. After several months of discussions University in China during 2004-2005 and fourth year). He looked well and hasn’t countries and four continents. This coming the 40th reunion. Trust that all had a grand with the Ralston family and Drury High academic year, according to United States aged a bit. Wish I could say the same.” year, I will be teaching international time of it. Stop by if you’re in southern School, the Dan E. Ralston Scholarship has Department of State and the J. William business and finance at Webster University Oregon!” been established. Starting [last] June, a Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He in Bangkok, Thailand.” Gene Keller “recently finished an MBA scholarship will be awarded each year to a will teach courses on American public 68 Bob Corey reports: “I am now working program at UC-Irvine—just for fun. I Drury High School senior who meets the policy in Beijing and travel widely in China Class Secretary: Roger W. Raffetto, as CFO at Lydon Millwright Services in finally have a child old enough for criteria decided upon by the Ralstons. A to lecture about contemporary American 18 Thompson Ave., Hingham, MA 02043 Raynham, MA, after a 287-day search. My college—Robert, studying and surfing in plaque bearing the names of the recipients politics and government.” From a Fulbright Class Agents: Robert F. Lakin and wife, Abbie, and I return to Brunswick Santa Barbara. The youngest, Harrison, a will hang in the school building. His news release June 14, 2004. Donald C. Ferro every October during an anniversary high school freshman, dreams of the NFL!” Bowdoin fraternity brothers have made Bruce MacLean “recently retired from Planned Giving Agent: Gordon A. Flint getaway to Kennebunkport. Golf when I Basie Newton writes: “Son, James, has initial contributions to seed the fund- Hartford Investment Management Co., a can, lay on the beach when I can’t. Life is Dick Berry “recently retired from Citibank graduated form UMaine, Orono (UMO) Philip “Cobb” McIntire ’65 waves from his raising, but we hope that others will join us subsidiary of The Hartford. Still as busy, wonderful.” and is starting his graduate work in the recently restored 1960 Lyman inboard, with his in remembering Dan. Checks should be probably because my day starts later and after 28 terrific years spanning eight Carroy Ugene Ferguson was included fall. Son, William, has completed his first wife, Rita, and their dogs. “We decided to name made out to the Daniel E. Ralston ends earlier. Now have more time to year at UMO.” it Pinos Loquentes,” he says, “both in honor of Scholarship Fund and mailed to Hoosac improve my golf game, read just for Jack Reed reports: “I remain the Bowdoin Pines and, as you can see in the Bank, Attn: Kelly Dube, 296 Main Street, pleasure, travel, enjoy our home on Cape Middle Bay Farm B&B president/CEO of Piedmont Medical Care picture, the whispering pines on Rainbow Lake, Williamstown, MA 01267. Thank you for Cod, spoil our grandchildren (presently a On the ocean Foundation and executive director of the New York (in the Adirondacks), where we have your consideration of this request, and your girl and boy by daughter Heather with her (4 miles from Bowdoin College) a summer camp. Rita loves the sound of the Piedmont Clinic. I love my work and have friendship for Dan, Liz, and their children.” Bates husband—daughter Catherine Open year round no thoughts of retiring any time soon.” wind in the pine trees.” recently married), and perform volunteer Sherm Rounsville was “sorry to miss the work. My wife has only given me two new grandchildren to be most enjoyable and very Offers four sunny bedrooms, each with a water view, private bath, TV/VCR. 40th—hopefully, next time. Certainly the 50th.” 67 rules: I cannot ask where she is going or entertaining. Looking forward to our 40th next Room rates are $135 to $150 and include a full breakfast. Mike Sherman writes: “Still working a Class Secretary: Daniel E. Boxer, 10 Mares when she’ll return. Does this work both year. I visited with many classmates and other little at CB Richard Ellis in Boston, but love Hollow Lane, Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107 ways? An open invitation: when in Two suites in sail loft cottage are more rustic and “roomy.” Include living area, alumni friends at Sid Watson’s memorial the time down South. Still live in Class Agent: Richard P. Caliri Chatham, give us a call. There is a good kitchenette, two small bedrooms, private bath. Suite rates are $150 to $170. service.The service was very moving for a Marblehead, but Bonnie and I are spending Planned Giving Agent: David F. Huntington chance Barbara and I just might be there.” very endearing man. Sid will be missed by all Middle Bay Farm Bed & Breakfast most of our winter at the Windstar Golf David Macomber reports: “Finally the of us who considered him a friend.” John M. Emery reports: “A rare group of 287 Pennellville Road • Brunswick, ME 04011 • (207) 373-1375 club on Naples Bay in Florida—really end is in sight. Retirement from public Email: [email protected] • Web: www.middlebayfarm.com • Owners: Phyllis & Clark Truesdell ’65 enjoying it! Daughter Carrie and ‘Stouffer’ alumni gathered at the Monhegan Island school is in March 2005. So far, I am still Egan now have two kids, Addie (21 cottage of Barry Timson ’66, without a officiating soccer and hockey and still 66 doctor, a lawyer, or a banker in sight: Dick months) and Stuie (7 months) in San Class Secretary: Daniel W. Tolpin, M.D., beating my body up with mediocre tennis Fay ’66, David Huntington, Barry Francisco—son Johnny is studying 50 Byron Road, Weston, MA 02193 and hard skiing. I’m getting the message Timson, Ed Greene ’65, Dick Pike, and arts/painting/drawing in Florence, Italy.” Class Agents: John A. Bleyle and that it’s about time to slow down. At the Bob Sanders—all members of Phi Delta Frederick F. Yanni, Jr. wrote in the Jeffrey G. White present moment, I am disposed to entertain Psi.” See accompanying photo. spring: “Recently enjoyed the Naples alumni Planned Giving Agent: Peter B. Johnson the idea of finishing my career at a prep lunch and hearing about the College. It was Bertrand N. Kendall is “looking forward school somewhere in New England, to retiring to Maine in 2005.” great seeing Bill Chapman ’63 there. We Arthur S. Kress is “still practicing teaching French and Spanish, and perhaps G. Calvin Mackenzie, “the Goldfarb hope to arrange a golf game soon.” internal medicine in Woburn, MA. Adele coaching, beginning in the fall of 2005.” Family Distinguished Professor of and I recently became grandparents—a Edward P. Moore, Jr. writes: “I will Government at Colby College, has been wonderful experience!” receive a presidential scholar programs awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to 65 Edward Leydon reports: “Am chairman recognition award in Washington, DC from Reunion Giving Chair: Donald A. Goldsmith lecture at the Beijing Foreign Studies of the international law department at the Department of Education, as one of my Class Agent: Robert E. Peterson Schering-Plough Corporation in Kenilworth, students will be honored as a presidential Planned Giving Agent: Kenneth M. Nelson NJ. Am conserving energy with a new scholar and nominated me as his most Honda Civic hybrid. And in training to run influential teacher. At the invitation of our Philip “Cobb” McIntire sent us a photo the Boston Marathon in 2005, where I’d be 420 seniors, I gave the baccalaureate of his “recently restored 1960 Lyman happy to run into any classmates or other address to the class and their families. inboard. We decided to name it Pinos Bowdoin runners.” Summer will find us soaking Shakespeare NEWCASTLE Loquentes, both in honor of the Bowdoin Benjamin A. Soule wrote in May: “At the in Stratford (U.K.), London, and Ashland.” Wonderful 5 bedroom reproduction farmhouse on 21 acres PInes and, as you can see in the picture, time of Dan Ralston’s death in December C. Cary Rea updates: “I plan to retire near Damariscotta Lake and Damariscotta Village. Built in the whispering pines on Rainbow Lake, 2002, several of his Psi Upsilon fraternity from the federal government next year and 1999 by the owner, this property is unique, serene and New York (in the Adirondacks), where we brothers and our spouses thought of join my wife in Haverhill, MA. She took the beautiful. It includes a swimmable pond, a 3 car garage with have a summer camp. My wife, Rita, loves establishing a scholarship in his name at position their last year as director of the loft, fields, woods, an abundance of wildlife, tool shop, and the sound of the wind in the pine trees.” “A rare group of alumni gathering at the Drury High School in North Adams. Both public library, so we have a commuting excellent care and craftsmanship throughout. Perfect for a See accompanying photo. Monhegan Island cottage of Barry Timson Dan and Liz graduated from Drury, as did marriage, which has worked out great for B&B, family retreat, or horse/llama farm just to name a few. ’66, without a doctor, a lawyer, or a banker For news of Berle M. Schiller see Dee Southwest Airlines. Looking forward to their three children. Establishing a in sight. From l to r: Dick Fay ’66, David At $695,000 this is a must see. Call for an appointment today. Spagnuolo ’96 and accompanying photo. being close to our families and respective scholarship seemed like a fitting way to Huntington ’67, Barry Timson ’66, Ed Daniel E. Turner is “still teaching physics alma maters, Wheaton and Bowdoin.” For details call Laura Billings commemorate Dan’s commitment and Greene ’65, Dick Pike ’67, Bob Sanders ’67, at Fryeburg Academny (35 years). Wife, Jonathan J. Shoukimas is “still on Cape RE/MAX MIDCOAST • Newcastle, Maine contributions to the youth of North Adams and John Emery ’67. All are members of Phi Geraldine, still headmaster’s secretary. We (207) 563- 5140 or (207) 592 0018 in particular, and to the community in Delta Psi.” Photo by Ilana Hardesty. Cod practicing emergency medicine. Saw now have four granddaughters and find Frank Tonge this spring (roommate third

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in an article entitled, ‘You Can Do It: C.A. two schools. (It may still be possible to and I have since done some background Boston College this month. Tuition is over! Bob Parker ’68. Wish it were the annual Johnson High inspired blacks during teach in the public schools in spite of ‘No work on a couple of TV shows. It’s a tough I’ve become an avid skier. Summer basketball reunion though, and Bobby was turbulent ’60s.’ The article caught up with Child Left Behind’ and other foolery.)” process but I am enjoying it and taking recreation is kayaking, rollerblading, and still nailing that jump shot and running the several of that high school’s class of 1964, Gary L. Towle is “medical director of acting classes at night to help along. Not to sailing. The older I get, the more physically rest of us ragged.” which celebrated its 40th reunion this past Yosemite Medical Clinic at Yosemite National worry, I won’t be quitting my day job at active I’ve become.” Bob Wright reports: “I retired in 2002, Easy stroll to summer. “‘Qualities like acceptance, Park. All three children are in college now Merrill Lynch any time soon.” Charlie Musco reported in May: and my wife Mary and I moved to Palm Bowdoin College inclusion, harmony and even love,’” says planning to go on and get master’s degrees. David P. Forsberg writes: “I am “Unfortunately, have to announce a big Coast, Florida, where we are currently Carroy, “’ranked first in the class.’” From a Plan to work less and travel more, starting completing my fifth year as president of the international dressage competition during my enjoying sailing and golf.” Columbia, SC State article, July 27, 2004. with New Zealand and Australia next year Worcester Business Development 35th reunion. Will really miss being there!” Robert Hayes is “working, year number for 25th wedding anniversary.” Corporation, a private non-profit doing Hal Nelson “just celebrated my 15th three, for the State of Michigan as an Robert G. True reports: “Age is catching brown field, technology park, and urban anniversary as director of the Long Beach 70 165 Park Row economist in the current employment up. Had to hang up the climbing gear and development. My wife, Anne (the stable Museum of Art, a wonderful museum half Reunion Giving Chair: Jeff D. Emerson Brunswick, Maine group—estimating employment. Given whitewater kayak paddle this year due to a member of the family), has 20-plus years at an hour from downtown Los Angeles. I want Class Secretary: John H. McGrath, 800-299-4914 new meaning to the concept of a ‘body blown lumbar disc. However, new UMass Memorial Hospital doing to extend an invitation to Bowdoin alumni 28 Davis Hill Road, Weston, CT 06883 www.brunswick bnb.com shop,’ having just gone through hip adventures come with time in the form of hemophelia-related research and to visit the museum on their next trip to Class Agent: Wayne C. Sanford replacement and double hernia repair granddaughter, Maya True Miller, Christmas administration. Our oldest son, Drew, southern California. We’re located on a bluff Planned Giving Agent: Stephen B. Lang over the last two years!” Day, 2003. Working now as state teaches computer science at Worcester overlooking the Pacific Ocean and our Dennis E McCowan “just finished 35th veterinarian for North Carolina and still have Academy, and our youngest son, Dana, is collection, which focuses on the decorative Walter N. Plaut, Jr. is “still surviving, no, LINEKIN year teaching high school math—halfway one race horse winning the occasional race.” director of marketing and sales for the arts and contemporary crafts—ceramics, thriving, in Lubec. Still pissed at the College.” BAY RESORT there!” Geff Yancey briefs: “Lots of Sarasota Red Sox.” glass, wood, etc—is superb. Call ahead and Thomas Ryan, Tewksbury, Bill Miles wrote in the spring: “Living in volunteering—president of the New York William Gibson says: “I continue to age I’ll walk you through our galleries.” Massachusetts’ Fire Chief since 1988 was Boothbay Harbor, Maine Hanover, NH, right by the Dartmouth Forest Owners Association; vice chair, board (gracefully, I’d like to say), with son Jeremy David M. Pagar updated in the spring: the subject of a Boston Globe article in July • Special American Plan packages titled, “Hail to Departing Fire Chief, Who campus. Recently expanded our high Paul Smith’s College; Commissioner, Greater ’95 responsible for fourth grandchild. Sorry “Our daughter Amanda ’98, was married in • Open June to October school languages program to the corporate Rochester Sports Authority; and chair of the to miss the 35th, but family needs prevailed. December 2003. Joshua ’99 is finishing his Raised the Bar for Safety.” “To honor Tom, the town is dedicating the community • Available for weddings world. All is great! Skiing, playing hockey, Endowment Investment Performance Fortunately, I get to see many classmates first year of med school at St. Louis and other functions etc., while trying (and slowly failing) to Committee, United Way of Greater and others at the Kullen Golf Tournament University. Dana (Cornell ’01) is a research room at the South Fire Station to him and keep up with my six-year-old. Baseball Rochester. Five beautiful grandchildren.” every year. Retired three years ago, but assistant at Columbia med school in NYC. the five previous Fire Chiefs. Portraits of all For more information, call: opening day for him today, and then comes boredom settled in and bought an Valerie and I celebrated our 34th wedding six will hang in the room. The Station was 1-866-847-2103 soccer—just like my Bowdoin days!” advertising company in ’01. Now working anniversary in December. Hi to Howie planned, constructed, and completed in E-mail: [email protected] Alan P. Neuren is “finishing my third 69 for a great boss (me!) who provides for London and Jim Scalise. Also, Eric 2001 under Ryan’s watch.” From a www.linekinbayresort.com year at Unum and still enjoying liberation Class Secretary: James M. Barney, ample free (read golf) time.” Eisenhauer—where are you, and how Boston.com article, July 8, 2004. from my pager. Maureen has completed ten 18 Brown St., Ipswich, MA 01938 Hank Hubbard is “happy to be alive and come you’re not running for president yet “On Sunday, May 30, Chris Saunders R years at BIW. We recently enjoyed a week Class Agents: Edward J. McFarland and reasonably healthy in Florida. Our (as a Democrat, of course)?” ’02, and his father Richard Saunders ’70 WSTE HOU RE SE in the Algarve. My oldest daughter, Kenneth R. Walton daughter, Carmen, is having twin boys (first John Skillings writes: “Sorry to miss the completed the Key Bank Vermont City B Jennifer, graduated from Georgetown Planned Giving Agent: Paul Gauron grandkids!) in Jamaica. Our son, Hylan IV class get-together this spring, but we will Marathon in Burlington, Vermont. We ran School of Foreign Service and is working at (Tee) just got engaged to his high school be on graduation quest. Heather (Franklin together for over 20 miles and finished the Penn Schoen & Berland in D.C. Rebecca Don Abbott reported in the spring: “Mike girlfriend (Mia Johnson)—no date set yet. I & Marshall ’01) gets her law degree from race about fifteen minutes apart. Great day. has one more year of high school. Sarah (12) will be at The Clinic hockey camp at am looking to either change careers, or Washington University and Adam graduates Great event. A number of ‘Go Bowdoin’ Bowdoin this summer. Both his hockey cheers heard along the way.” See has just been accepted to Wayneflete in semi-retire, or retire. I’ll take the next year from Dickinson as a physics major and BED & BREAKFAST Portland.” teams won championships this past winter. to figure it out.” studio art minor—who would ever guess?! accompanying photo. Brewster House is a beautiful Robert S. Parker is “enjoying retirement Rachael (9) is taking dance, piano, and Thomas A. Johnson “joined Mers (Dick That leaves Matthew at Fredonia and a 1888 Queen Anne home immensely. Ellen is principal at Westford playing baseball (!). Livy just turned five, Mersereau) in Norfolk to see the Lady Polar much-relieved checkbook! Spoolie and I restored to its original elegance. Academy in Westford. Justin is finishing his and will start kindergarten in September. Bears play in the national championship will be in Georgetown much of the summer, Antique furnishings and tasteful sophomore year at Hamilton College.” My manufacturing department at Texas game. The women on the team were great if anyone needs a cold beer. A good spring traditional decorating compliment Jot Ross briefs: “Jot, Liz, two hens Instruments was outsourced to Malaysia and role models for the daughters we brought, and summer to all.” nineteenth century fixtures. (Buffington and Pepper—a Spice Girl); three Thailand. I’m still at TI—26 years in July— and true champions in all the ways that Michael T. Webb informs us: “I continue chicks (Daisy, Mrs. Peepers, and Ginger—a but, 140 good workers are elsewhere now.” really count. My life consists primarily of to work full time in obstetrics and Located in Freeport village Spice Baby) all well and happy here in Jon L. Clayborne writes: “Sorry to have trying to keep up with Molly (7), Melissa gynecology and have the luxury of being and open year round, th Ashland. Alas, Brewster, the hardy 14-year-old missed our 35 class reunion. I was up in (6), and Meredith (4)—and trying to show covered by Federal Torts Claim Act for Brewster House Bed & Breakfast cat, is sadly no longer prowling and marking Victoria, BC, working a library show for them a bit of the country while going to liability. Norma and I live on a 375-acre is within walking distance of his territory. (Those who wish to express their Elsevier. Doug and I will be celebrating Cubs games from Denver to Miami (can’t farm in southern West Virginia.” restaurants, designer outlets, th and the famous L.L. Bean store. sympathy may email, [email protected].” our 10 anniversary in October. We’re get tickets in Chicago!). Still doing UN Robert B. Woodman wrote in June: looking forward to spending a week in Only 10 minutes from Bowdoin College. Paul Ross writes: “Our niece from work at the State Department, especially in “Bowdoin has lost one of its very finest with On Sunday, May 30, Chris Saunders ’02, Russia, who we have brought up from high Venice and Florence.” the law of war and human rights fields the passing of Bob Patterson ’68. I just had
Peter E. Driscoll reports: “I’ve taken up and his father Richard Saunders ’70 school through college, is now a doctor these days.” to express my deep sadness at the loss of this completed the Key Bank Vermont City a new hobby, and hopefully one that will be 180 Main Street, Freeport, Maine 04032 working in Brooklyn, NY. Not much else to Stephen R. Ketaineck wrote in the wonderful person. He was honored today by Marathon in Burlington, Vermont. “We ran profitable—acting! I had a small role in an (207) 865-4121 (800) 865-0822 report; life goes on at a steady, happy pace.” spring: “Thirty-one years practicing law and hundreds of friends who attended the funeral together for over 20 miles and finished the independently produced movie called The www.brewsterhouse.com Richard B. Spear is “nominally retired it doesn’t get easier. Son Scott (Colgate ’01) in Falmouth. Bowdoin was well represented race about fifteen minutes apart. Great day. Quality of Light, starring Blythe Danner and email: [email protected] but teaching Latin part time at three has been touring the world since and it was great to see Ray Bicknell last night Great event. A number of ‘Go Bowdoin’ Frederick Forrest. That role gained me INNKEEPERS NIKKI & LESTER EVANS ‘70 schools. Next year, I hope to cut back to graduating. Daughter Beth graduates from along with Bo McFarland, Andy Neher, and cheers heard along the way.” Screen Actors Guild (SAG) membership,

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Timothy M. Warren, Jr. “has been was at a gala for the Waldorf School. They Enjoyed my speaking at the College in early appointed chief executive officer of the honored Ken Chenault ’73, Neill Reilly May, although the topic, ‘The Story of Warren group, the leading information ’71, Bill Kelly ’73, Greg Coffey ’84, and Gasoline,’ was potentially incendiary. The resource for the real estate and financial Chris Murphy ’01.” College was beautiful as ever, with new professionals for Massachusetts, Phil Steer hosted a barbecue at his buildings blending in nicely with the old. Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Warren house in August 2003, which included Planning to visit with Hobart Hardej ’72 served in the role of president for 16 years. Bowdoin friends Dennis Casey, Roger this August as I tour New England small The group is best known as the publisher Bevan, Steve Buchbinder ’70, Dave college campuses with my daughter, who of two weekly newspapers, Banker & LaFauci, Steve Oakes, Lee Moulton, Mike will be a senior in high school next year. Tradesmen, which was established in 1872 Michelson, and Tom Marjerison ’70.” See Yes, Bowdoin is on her list.” for Massachusetts market, and the accompanying photo. Geoffrey Nelson was the subject of a Commercial Record, which was established Karen and Barry Mills visited the Bowdoin recent newspaper article entitled “Dramatic in 1882 for the Connecticut market.” From research station on Kent Island over the Flair.” “He is founder and artistic director of a Needham, MA Cambridge Chronicle summer. They’re pictured here examining a the leading professional theater in Central article, April 1, 2004. baby bird with Professor of Biology Emeritus Ohio, Contemporary American Theater and Director of the Bowdoin Scientific Station Company (CATCO), the first shows of at Kent Island Emeritus Chuck Huntington. which he covered the costs for with his 71 own credit card. After forging an Girma Asmerom, Ambassador of the state Class Secretary: Owen W. Larrabee, administrator partnership with the of Eritrea to the United States and Canada, 213 Drexel Road, Ardmore, PA 19003 Columbus Association for the performing emphasized his country’s support for the Class Agent: Craig W. Williams arts and retiring much of the deficit, United States and the ‘Coalition of the Planned Giving Agent: Leonard W. Cotton CATCO completed an acclaimed 20th Bowdoin friends back row (l to r) Dennis Willing’ in fighting the global war on season.” From a Columbus, OH Columbus Casey ’71, Roger Bevan ’71, Steve terrorism. To request a copy of Eritrea J. Duke Albanese updates: “After retiring as Dispatch article, July 11, 2004. Buchbinder ’70, Dave LaFauci ’71, Steve Ambassador Girma Asmerom’s complete Commissioner of Education for Maine, I James Watras and John Wigglesworth Oakes ’71, Lee Moulton ’71, and front row remarks at the National Press Club, ‘Eritrea have immersed myself in two projects: the ’75 are both on the faculty at the Waring (l to r) Mike Michelson ’71, Phil Steer ’71, and United States: Partners against Global first as a senior policy adviser for a Gates School in Beverly, MA, where the children and Tom Marjerison ’70 joined up at an Terrorism,’ please contact Rick Sincere at Foundation-funded initiative at the Senator of Ross Kimball ’74 and David White August 2003 barbecue, hosted by Phil. Scribe Strategies & Advisers at George J. Mitchell Institute, and the second, graduated on May 22, 2004. Jim heads the [email protected].” From a CBS a congressionally-sponsored effort at the humanities and writing departments. John University of Maine. The work at the Marketwatch article, May 25, 2004. 72 Duane Minton is: “currently teaching in Mitchell Institute focuses on high school Class Secretary: William T. Hale, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands and enjoying reform, striving to help prepare all students 5 Larrabee Farm Road, Brunswick, ME 04011 A STATELY BRICK VICTORIAN life in ‘America’s Paradise.’” for postsecondary study. It is Class Agents: Thomas R. Friedlander and located in the heart of Brunswick’s Nancy Moulton Elliott writes: “My complementary to the Senator’s Clifford S. Webster Historic District. This elegantly restored stepmother, A. Sheila Moulton, died in extraordinary efforts to provide scholarships Planned Giving Agents: Beverly Newcombe three bedroom home boasts a 30 foot Dundee, Scotland on March 13 after a long to a student in every Maine high school Woodcock and John A. Woodcock double parlor with fireplace, dining illness. She was the widow of biology every year. Also, I’ve engaged in work that room with butler’s pantry, master professor James M. Moulton, and moved focuses on interscholastic sports programs Steve Nelson reports: “Daughter, Abby, bedroom suite with whirlpool tub, ten back to her native Scotland after his death at the middle school and high school levels. graduated from Wheaton College in 2001 foot ceilings, hardwood floors, period in 1986. My husband was on a Fulbright (L to r): Jim Watras ’73, David White ’73, Nationally recognized, the project is and is now getting her master’s in light fixtures and two car garage. Relax exchange to Switzerland August to January. Alex White ’08, Ross Kimball ’74, and John defining core principles and core practices communication at UCal-Fullerton. Son, on the sun-drenched porch or create Unfortunately, the Swiss teacher could not Wigglesworth ’75 pose at the Waring School to guide healthy sports activities in the Peter, just finished his sophomore year at culinary delights in the designer kitchen adjust to the U.S. system and the exchange (Beverly, MA) commencement this past May. school setting. Several Bowdoin folks are Wheaton, which included a semester at with Corian counters. $625,000 was terminated. A very big disappointment Jim and John are faculty members at Waring, assisting, including Director of Athletics Jeff Williams-Mystic (Seaport). Great to Glenn, who enjoyed the challenge of where David’s son, Alex, and Ross’s daughter, Ward, coach John Wolfgram, and alums connection—`Wheaton used to be SIGNATURE PINES is an exciting new planned teaching in German. Our two youngest Katherine, graduated this past May. Joan Benoit Samuelson ’79 and Dick Card Bowdoin’s sister school.” community, adjacent to the Brunswick Golf Club with were glad to be home and are now playing ’70. Nancy and I still reside in Belgrade James H. Walzer writes: “On April 25, teaches science, math, and coaches the convenient I-295 access. Traditional New England catch up. I enjoyed it—my third time living Lakes and we’re anxiously awaiting the 2004, our oldest daughter, Sara, and her running team. See accompanying photo. architectural design built by one of Southern Maine’s in Switzerland.” arrival of our first grandchild.” husband, Eric Bornebusch, gave birth to Tucker Welch says: “We will have one Premier Developer, Kasprzak Condominiums, Inc. Joseph H. Garaventa sends “greetings Richard A. Caras updates: “I recently our first grandchild, Annabel Sophia.” more reason to visit Bowdoin regularly next offering high quality workmanship and materials. from our nation’s capital. Fellow finished what I promised myself while at year when our son, Thad ’08, joins his Choose a floor plan plus options and create a home Washingtonian, Peter Bieger, and I visited Bowdoin—my first novel! Now comes the sister, Courntney ’05 under the pines!” suited to your lifestyle. Prices start at $218,300 with the campus twice last year: for our 30th test that no class prepares you for, trying to 73 Stuart R. Work wrote last spring: “Our numerous customization options available. reunion in May, and for the Masque & get it published!” Class Secretary: C. Scott Smith, Jr., daughter, Emily Johnson ’96, is engaged Gown centennial in October.” Kevin M. Lancaster writes: “Having 13714 Boquita Drive, Del Mar, CA 92014 and will be married in September 2005. We Peter F. Healey wrote in June: “Just staggered into the NM court system in Class Agent: Jeffory D. Begin have our Bowdoin banner ready. Son Henry returned from the Newport-Bermuda Yacht 1980, I am on the verge of retiring from the Planned Giving Agent: Charles W. Redman, III ’06 is enjoying his sophomore year. We Race, where our boat finished 4th in class. 37 Mill Street, Brunswick, Maine 04011 823 Washington Street, Bath, Maine 04530 Supreme Court Law Library (next hope to visit him if/when he studies in New Had some wild days of sailing at over 15 (800) 725-6968 / (207) 721-9999 (800) 247-6758 / (207) 443-3333 February). Things could be worse!” “Speaking in May at the National Press Zealand next year.” www.chrrealty.com Email: [email protected] J. Bruce Murphy reports: “On May 14, I Club in Washington, DC, His Excellency knots, sandwiched by fog and calm.

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oversight on fiscal and business matters, been appointed managing director, business 74 board and shareholder relationships, and product development. His primary Class Secretary: Robert D. Bardwell III, 75 documentation and reporting, and focus will be on the expansion of new and Reunion Planning Chair: Joyce A. Ward Fox Islands for sale 259 High St., P.O. Box 626, development of the company’s corporate existing fund of fund products in the U.S., Class Secretary: Barbara Tarmy Fradin, Pittsfield, MA 01202 structure. In 1996, Smith was inducted into Asia, and Europe with the growing interest A total of 7.5 acres located 101 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023 Class Agents: Stuart M. Cohen and the YWCA’s Academy of Women Achievers. for Optima’s products from investors Class Agent: Leo J. Dunn III just off Popham Beach. Family run and AAA rated. Convenient midcoast location, Stephen N. Gifford She’s also recipient of the YMCA’s Black worldwide. He has more than 25 years of Planned Giving Agent: Paul W. Dennett Two miles from Bowdoin College. 18 traditional rooms Planned Giving Agent: Joseph J. Leghorn Achievers in Industry Award. She’s received prior financial services industry experience. Owned by Bowdoin alum and 20 deluxe kitchen units,with free high speed Edison’s distinguished Living Our Values He joins Optima from Credit Suisse Asset Peter L. Briggs is “taking my first internet. Outdoor pool. Pets welcome. Open year round. Duncan Carpenter writes: “I missed the Award given annually to con Edison men Management. He holds an M.B.A. from since 1954. $159,000. sabbatical leave after 29 years as a teacher, 1-800-429-6661 • www.vikingmotorinn.com reunion but I was thinking of you all. I and women who exemplify the company’s Columbia University Graduate School of coach, and dean of students at Westminster For information,contact email:[email protected] continue with a busy neurosurgical practice values and demonstrate concern for Business.” From a Yahoo! Finance article, School. In addition to taking courses in in northern New Jersey.” quality-of-life and community.” From a July 7, 2004. [email protected] “Mint condition, reasonably priced & spotless.” economics, photography, and painting, I John Curtiss is “still living in LA and Ahoski, NC Roanoke-Chowan News Herald Malcolm W. Gauld writes: “The Bowdoin – Downeast Magazine,2000 plan to travel and hope to reconnect with enjoying it. Our daughters, Jenny and article, April 27, 2004. alum lacrosse team marches onward on the Bowdoin friends.” Anne, are six years old now and loving (shaky) legs of the Class of 1976. I am Joseph V. McDevitt “was promoted to kindergarten. I’m still running the pet food excited to join classmates Dave Barker, Bill the level of managing director at PIMCO, one business for Mars, Inc. in the US, which 76 Clark, John Erickson, and Bill Janes. The of the world’s leading fixed-income fund- keeps me plenty busy and on the road Class Secretary: Glenn A. Brodie, older we get, the better we were!” management companies. Joseph joined the more than I would like. When we get a free P.O. Box 1618, Duxbury, MA 02331 “Silverlink Communications, the leading firm in early 1998 to open and head weekend, Julie and I like to hook up with Class Agents: Anne M. Ireland and provider of voice applications for the PIMCO’s London office, which has grown to Noel Webb ’74 and his wife Sharon, who Stephen P. Maidman healthcare industry, announced that has an operation today with over $21 billion live nearby.” Planned Giving Agent: Ellen Shuman named Peter J. Grua to its Board of under management and over 100 Tom Darrin “just finished 30 years of Directors. He’s a managing partner of HLM institutional clients spread across Europe, the teaching social studies and coaching Andrew D. Alisberg writes: “One of the Venture Partners, the lead investor in Middle East, and Africa.” From a Los Angeles, wrestling and football. Congratulations to year’s highlights was the big Atkins menu Silverlink’s Series B funding round reported CA Primezone article, March 31, 2004. Ned Herter ’77 on being awarded the Ron birthday party for Paul Wolff. Also, it May 19. Grua’s venture investment activity Bob Sigel writes: “I remain CEO of Fozzo Sportsmanship Award from Eastern was great to see Jay Crandall on the slopes focuses on health services, medical Millbrook Distribution Services. Son, Jeremy Massachusetts lacrosse officials.” in Utah.” technologies, healthcare information (27), will be married this August on Cape Michael R. Hermans writes: “Great to “There was a fine representation of Polar technologies, and managed-care. He has an Cod. Son, Josh (24), is a consultant with walk the Bowdoin campus at our 30th Bears young and old to celebrate the Big MBA from Columbia University.” From a Deloitte consulting and will be joining me in reunion. Missed other Delta Sigs. My 5-0 for Dave Barker: Debbie Duffy Hight CBS Marketwatch article June 2, 2004. business this fall. Son, Zack (21), will be a second son, Tucker, applying for the Class ’75, Lou Hight ’74, Ford Barker ’06, Arnold J. Martens reported in the senior at GW, and son, Evan (14), will be a HARPSWELL INN of 2009.” Braden Clement ’03, and Lynne Duffy spring: “Lauren and I make regular trips to freshman in high school. Susan and I will be A Bed & Breakfast on the water at Lookout Point A March 2004 White House News Barker ’76.” See accompanying photo. Bowdoin to watch our daughter Katherin married for 29 years in June! None of our personnel announcement reported, John Gallagher writes: “we are still here ’04 run track. I recently joined Citigroup Open Year-round children attended Bowdoin, although there “President George W. Bush announced his in Vermont, enjoying our very distinct four Private Bank as an operations executive is still hope for last one in the class of 2012.” 9 rooms $89–$165 and 3 suites $165–$215 intention to nominate one individual and seasons. We’ve had a chance to get back to responsible for U.S. and Latin America.” “Clark University in Worcester, MA has elegantly casual with full breakfast included appoint one individual to serve in his campus more often now that Evan is a Jeffrey S. McCallum writes: “My wife, appointed Robert A. Sigel of Westborough 10 minutes from Bowdoin College off Route 123 administration: the President intends to member of the Class of ’06.” Cindy, and I enjoy seeing Ruth and Jim to the advisory Council of its Graduate Wedding packages and cottages also available nominate Christopher R. Hill, of Rhode “The Optima group is pleased to Small ’77, who live nearby, and our boys School of Management. The 30 member Island, to be Ambassador Extraordinary announce the Thomas S. T. Gimbel has (Scott 16) and David (14) continue playing Susan and Bill Menz ’63 welcome you! advisory council functions as a strategic and Plenipotentiary of the United States ice hockey and lacrosse in Devon, PA.” planning group and is made up of the Call for reservations: (800) 843-5509 • (207) 833-5509 of America to the Republic of Korea. A Laura Wigglesworth Shervin writes: accomplished business professionals, most www.harpswellinn.com career member of the Senior Foreign “My daughter, Margaret, is getting married of whom are graduates of Clark University’s Service, Mr. Hill currently serves as the August 7. She recently graduated from business programs.” From a Framingham, US ambassador to the Republic of Poland. Boise State with a degree in accounting. My MA Metro Daily West article, July 5, 2004. He previously served as a senior director son, Robert, has finished his freshman year “The Network Journal (TNJ), a black WATER FRONT & WATER VIEW for southeastern Europe at the National at the University of Wyoming. My husband, professionals and small-business magazine Security Council. Earlier in his career, Dan, continues to work construction based in New York City, held the sixth Seasonal & Year Round Mr. Hill served as the US Ambassador to during the summer months and feeds cows annual achievement awards program to Rentals. Come relax on the former Yugoslav Republic of with a team and sleigh in winter. I am coincide with Women’s History Month and the coast of Maine. Macedonia. He earned his master’s degree happily playing in the dirt at the local recognize ‘25 Influential Black Women in $500-$2500 weekly. from the Naval War College.” From a nursery, selling and planting flowers.” Business,’ on March 19 at the New York Call 207-833-7795 ext 14 White House News personnel announcement There was a fine representation of Polar Ellen Shuman, “vice president and chief Hilton Hotel & Towers. Included among or see us on the web at March 24, 2004. Bears young and old to celebrate the Big 5-0 investment officer of Carnegie Corp. of New honorees was Saddie L. Smith, Secretary baileyisland.com. Jed Lyons wrote in June: “Sorry to miss for Dave Barker ’76. Left to right: Debbie York, has been elected to the board of and Associate General Counsel of 30th reunion. Younger son, Michael, Duffy Hight ’75, Lou Hight ’74, Ford Barker directors of General American Investors Consolidated Edison Company of New graduates from high school on June 5 in ’06, Braden Clement ’03, Lynne Duffy Company, Inc., it was announced by that York, Inc. In her assignment, Smith is Harpswell Property Management (207) 833-7795 ext 14 Washington DC.” Barker ’76, Dave, and Jack (the puppy), company’s president. Ellen is a director of responsible for corporate compliance and the new member of the Barker family. Bailey Island, Maine • www.baileyisland.com • e-mail: [email protected]

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Meristar Hospitality Corporation and The 2004 at Safe Passage in Guatemala City. Massachusetts.” See photo in Weddings Chris McManus is “ever busier with Investment Fund for Foundations. She’s a Two current students were interning for the section. four children—Paul, Caitlin, and Kelsey are trustee of Bowdoin and serves as an summer, while three alumni were Robert P. Jackson reports: “Spent two teenagers; Charlie is now in double digits— investment advisor to the Edna McConnell volunteering for various lengths of time. years as a Director of the Office for the learning Spanish, working at Arlington Free Clark Foundation. She holds a master’s in Hanley Denning ’92—winner of the Promotion of Human Rights and Clinic, chief of medicine at local hospital, public and private management from the Bowdoin Common Good Award—was Democracy at the State Department, volunteering with Arlington County Public Yale University School of Management and excited to have such great Bowdoin including editing Supporting Human Rights Heath medical advisors in bioterrorism, has earned the CFA designation.” From a representation to assist with her after and Democracy: the US Record. Now, Babs private practice also enjoying work with New York Business Wire article, July 14, 2004. school program for children who live and I are moving back to Africa. About Dad, Reginald ’52. Always happy to hear Robin Whitney Ashley Vose reports: around the city dump. The Griffins were so Labor Day, I’ll become the Deputy Chief of from alums.” “My son, Richard (21) is at University of excited about the program they were able Mission at U.S. Embassy in Dakar, Senegal.” Scott D. Mills writes: “Great 25th London, Royal Holloway; my daughter, to raise funds so that Safe Passage could reunion! Unfortunately, froze my hands on Margot (19), is at Georgetown University. purchase farmland and a 15-passenger Hyde Plaza Saturday night playing with Dr. Both graduated from Deerfield Academy, so van—all accomplished during July and 79 Whitebread and His Jam. A great Jim and I are well into the empty nest August.” See accompanying photo. Class Secretary: C. Alan Schroeder, Jr., (Bowdoin) time was had by all.” World Class Wines From Santa Barbara County

stage. After missing them initially, we find “Voting unanimously, the SAD 28 school 454 Garrison Forest Road, Katharine Mixter Mayne writes: “I am Owners, Geoff (’78) and Alison Rusack Owings Mills, MD 21117 there are many advantages to being just board hired Sandy Nevens of Union teaching biology at William Woods husband-and-wife again.” (Maine) to be the principal at Camden- Class Agents: Mark W. Bayer, David G. University. Our boys, Ben (13) and Sam Rockport Middle School. He immediately Brown, Gregory E. Kerr, M.D., (10) are soccer players and Scouts. I am a stepped up from his post as assistant Stephen J. Rose and Paula M. Wardynski cubmaster and den leader and my husband, 77 principal at the school to principal Planned Giving Agent: Mary Lee Moseley Jeff, is a Boy Scout leader as well.” Class Secretary: David M. Garratt, following the vote. Sandy has spent the last Keith Outlaw reports: “After leaving the 7800 Chagrin Road, Chagrin Falls, OH 44023 28 years in public education. Prior to Bob Bass is “enjoying life in Orono, priesthood, I took up teaching. I was given Class Agents: Gail M. Malitas and arriving in Camden, he’d been dean of Division I hockey, and watching the girls the class from hell—30 fifth-graders, 60 James S. Small students for four years at Auburn Middle grow! Karoline (5), Krista (2), wife percent of whom had been left back at least Planned Giving Agent: Keith Halloran School. Before that, he taught language arts Gretchen (don’t ask!). Looking forward to once. I decided life was too short, and I to eighth-graders in Union for 16 years. He returning to the skiing world after diapers.” quit. I’m finally very happily employed as Robert Colby, “Deputy Director, Division earned his master’s in middle level Scott Ferguson updates: “Dawn and I assistant admissions director of St. Joseph’s of Market Regulation, US Securities and education from University of Maine at adopted our youngest son, Seth, this year. College in Brooklyn, where I work with Exchange Commission since 1993, was a Orono.” From a Rockport, Maine When he was four days old, he became part of Nora Glancy Radest’s brother. Nora is panelist at Fordham Law School’s third VillageSoup.com article, July 15, 2004. our family. The private adoption was finalized doing well, as is Joe Taylor, who is still annual Albert A. DeStefano Lecture, Peter Pressman reports: “I’ve left academic in December 2003, and we will celebrate his heading up his real estate company in New ‘Celebrating 30 Years of Market Regulation.’ medicine to join a venerable Beverly Hills second birthday April 2004. For 40-plus Jersey. Vising NY? Look me up. You can Prior to 1993, Robert served as Chief practice in the Cedars-Sinai orbit. Southern parents, it’s great to have a couple of teen reach me at [email protected]” Counsel of the Division and Branch Chief California continues to be just wonderful as siblings around to help nurture (control) the Fran Philip reported in the spring: of the Division’s Office of Market Structure. Kris and Jake and I increasingly enjoy the little one! Eric (16) is a junior at Freyburg “Looking forward to the 25th! Roommates,

He has a J.D. from Harvard Law school.” Pacific Ocean, the mountains and the deserts Academy and—yikes—is applying to colleges. Kim Lusnia McCabe (and her family) and From a New York, NY CNNMoney article, virtually on our doorstep.” Ian (14) is a freshman enjoying his music, Kim Ohnemus Dennis will be staying with Available through: April 2, 2004. sports, and still getting the grades that keep us. Life at L.L. Bean continues to be good. I Douglas Green, “and his company, his parents happy. 25 years already? Hope to truly love my role as chief merchandising Nappi Distributors Masciarelli Wine Co. Green Design Furniture, were the subject of 78 re-connect with others from ’79 this year.” officer. Husband, George, is enjoying his 235 Presumpscot St. 65 Mathewson Dr an article titled ‘Drawing on the Creative Class Secretary: Jonathan E. Walter, Mark J. Godat reports: “Jan, I, and the retirement from the U.S. Marine Corps and Portland, ME 04103 Weymouth, MA 02189 Side of Maine,’ in conjunction with a Blaine 3900 Holland St., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 kids, Hayden (18), Haley (16), and Holden we both enjoy life on the shores of (207) 774-0324 (781) 335-6620 House conference on Maine’s creative Class Agent: Bradford A. Hunter (13), are still living a hectic life in Dallas. I Harraseeket Harbor in South Freeport.” economy. An industrial designer in New Planned Giving Agent: Geoffrey A. Gordon could not get Hayden out of state, so he John W. Sawyer writes: “Rhonda 1819 Ballard Canyon Rd, Solvang CA  www.rusackvineyards.com  805.688.1278 York City, he could have picked almost will be attending Plan II at the University of (UMaine 1983) and I are pleased to anywhere to start his own furniture Lisa Connelly’s “civic and business Texas (his mother’s alma mater!). Great to announce the birth of our second son, manufacturing business. Without a second development practice has expanded to take the family to 25th reunion.” Brady James Sawyer, born February 5, thought, he chose Maine. He felt Maine had include public and investor relations for a Richard A. Hurst updates: “Play golf 2004 at Maine Medical Center, Portland, a critical mass of talented craftspeople, as publicly traded company, Nuclear with George Johnston ’52 once a week. Maine. Camden, our older son, will be 2 well as a reputation for workmanship and Solutions, Inc., with solutions for My daughter is starting to look at years old in late July. Needless to say, our creative freedom. In 1994, he opened homeland security, nanotechnology, and colleges—Class of 2010?” days are now marked by lack of sleep due Green Design Furniture on Portland’s nuclear waste remediation. In December, Anne Schlegel Larsson emailed in the to the baby’s frequent feedings, constant Commercial Street. Today, he has 14 she became a first-time aunt of fraternal spring: “Sorry I can’t make it to reunion. diaper changing, perpetual questions from employees and an expanding business that twins. She resides in, and travels from, her My daughter graduates from Olney Friends the toddler, ball-chasing with our sells $4,000 dining room tables, mostly to home in Old Town Alexandria, a few miles School that weekend. Our son Hal overactive Brittany Spaniel, Hannah, and out-of-state customers.” From a Portland, from the White House, including a great graduated from Haverford College in May the unlimited joy of late parenthood. The Maine MaineToday.com article May 2, 2004. time at Bowdoin Reunion 2003!” 2003. Our daughter Elizabeth will begin at family tries to escape to our second home Denise Corten Griffin and Chip Stephen Harrington “and Jeffrey Haverford this coming fall. Dave ’76 and I on McWain Pond in Waterford, Maine to Griffen report “a small and unique Chelgren (SDU ’84) were married on May spend as much time in Maine as we can unwind as often as possible.” Bowdoin reunion held the week of June 12, 21, 2004 at King’s Beach, in Lynn, now that we are empty nesters.”

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Peter Steinbrueck reported in May: “I Press. Gary, editor-in-chief of the press, Class of 2008. Will enjoy watching her play forward to our 20th class reunion (ouch!). was recently re-elected to a second term on 81 whose specialty lies in native studies, has soccer and lacrosse as a Polar Bear!” 84 I’m also getting remarried on September the Seattle City Council and have served as Class Secretary: Susan A. Hays, Apt. B-5, been associated with the press since 1995. Deirdre Oakley writes: “I finished my Class Secretary: Steven M. Linkovich, 12, 2004, to a lovely woman named the Council’s president for the past two 104 Oakwood Ave., West Hartford, CT 06119 A native of Rowe Hill, Maine, he is a son of Ph.D. in sociology and now Bernie and I 100 Green St., Melrose, MA 02176 Joanne, who thankfully has a very high years. My liberal arts education at Bowdoin Class Agent: Mary Kate Devaney Barnes a lumberjack and is the first in his family to are moving to the Chicago area where I’ve Class Agent: Karen Natalie Walker patience level. Joanne is from Trinidad and has served me very well! My son Mason attend college. He earned his master’s and accepted an assistant professor position at Tobago and has a wonderful ten-year-old (11) and I are very excited about returning Dan Martinez writes: “Carolina and I will be doctoral degrees from University of Northern Illinois University. Looking Michael D. Bergman reports: “I’m sorry I son named Damian. I had a great time at to Brunswick this June for the big 25th year returning to Washington, DC in September Virginia. An archaeologist by profession, he forward to spending time with Brenda missed the reunion. I’m still an attorney at this year’s Frozen Four hockey tournament, class reunion.” after completing a three-year assignment at has excavated in Italy and along the US Good Helwig!” the Federal Trade Commission in spending some quality time with Bowdoin the US Embassy in Philippines.” East Coast, and was instrumental in helping Washington, D.C., working on consumer alums: Steve Marrow, Mark Woods, Peter Charles Vassallo updates: “My partner with Native American remains repatriations protection and competition issues. You can Nawrocki, John Hart ’84, Peter 80 and I recently celebrated 20 years of in Virginia.” From a University of Nebraska- 83 reach me at [email protected]. My kids, Fitzpatrick ’84 and Jim Fitzpatrick ’76, Reunion Planning Chair: Elizabeth J. Austin domestic partnership. We continue to be Lincoln news release, August 2, 2004. Class Secretary and Class Agent: Lindsay (7) and Aaron (4), are doing great!” and Chris Simon ’84, John McGeough Reunion Giving Chairs: John L. Hague, mentors to a foster son, now in college. I Ned Horton wrote in the spring: “Got Charles G. Pohl, 26 Bemis St., Weston, MA 02193 Bert Kline wrote in May: “I’m looking ’87, and Mike McCabe ’87. Bowdoin Mary Hoagland King, J. Craig Weakley, and continue to enjoy teaching music at an started late with the family, so having to Class Agents: Jeffrey M. Colodny and Amy H. Woodhouse esteemed performing arts high school in catch up. Daughter Eden is six months, Charles G. Pohl Planned Giving Agent: Deborah Jensen Barker Manhattan and am pursuing a dual master’s sister Jillian is two, and brother Eli is four- degree in general and special education.” and-a-half. Enjoying Nashville and have Craig Cheney, director and vice president Joe Angley is “living in Delray, Florida with Anne Robinson Wadsworth reports: plenty of room for Bowdoin visitors. Wife, of Project Performance Corp., was the boys Dave, Tom, and Richie.” “After almost 20 years of child rearing, I Juli, and I recently lost a football bet to subject of a Washington Post Voters Guide Peter C. Everet writes: “I am now senior have plunged back into the world of 8-5, Mark Luz (and Donata, his lovely bride) 2004 profile last spring, when he ran for partner of Kirn, Everet & Cameron doing public relations for Buffalo Niagara when the Patriots beat the Titans in the Falls Church (VA) School Board. A resident Optometrists. My junior partner is Dr. Enterprise—the region’s economic playoffs. Maybe next year!” of City of Falls Church, he is a former Linda Gawtry Cameron ’93.” development agency. Exciting to be part of Tasha vanderLinde Irving writes: “our chairman of the City of Falls Church Richard W. D. Giles is “working at the this fantastic city’s turn around!” four girls, Starling (9), Rein (7), K. Leigh Human Services Advisory Council; former public library in Portland [Maine]. Anyone (5) and Willow (2), keep us hopping. chairman of the Libby Giddings Daycare in town can look me up and hopefully we Touchstone, the school I founded in 2000, Center and a youth soccer and basketball could go to one of Portland’s two minor 82 is entering its fifth year of operation this fall coach. From a Washington, DC, Washington Class Secretary: CDR David F. Bean, league teams. We have the Washington with 60 students.” Post article, April 29, 2004. 2610 Dow Drive, Bellevue, NE 68123-1736 Capitals’ AHL affiliate and the Red Sox’ “Julie Isbil, who helps with Howard Courtemanche is “CEO of the Class Agents: Mark H. Luz and John A. Miklus Double A affiliate. Over the years, I’ve seen Damariscotta Mills Alewife stream project, health division at J. Walter Thompson, the a good number of top prospects bloom.” spoke at the Damariscotta Lake (ME) largest ad agency in the U.S. That, plus 3 Sarah Bronson is “still living in Windham Terry Roberts Hayes is “still in Watershed Association’s annual meeting in kids—Marguerite (6), Charlie (4), and Win and working at Riding To the Top Buckfield—raising our three kids and July. Julie provides assistance to projects (2)—makes life wonderful and exciting!” Therapeutic Riding Center. We own a farm enjoying Maine’s rural life. I’ll be seeking to like the Alewife Initiative through the Tim Foster is “living in Boxborough, MA, in Windham and operate a satellite transition from the local school board to Rivers and Trails program of the National working as a veterinarian and raising four program at Pineland Farms in New Maine Legislature in the fall. Looking Park Service. This is Julie’s 10th year with Polar Bear cubs. Karl Nocka, my brother-in- Gloucester. We serve over 110 riders each forward to networking with other Polar the National Park Service. Prior to that, she law, lives nearby in the town of Harvard.” week, so work is very busy. Hoping to Bears at the State House.” practiced landscape architecture in Laurie Gagnon Lachance updates: build an indoor arena for Windham this “The Boston Bar Association announced California, after earning her master’s in “Dave and I are doing well. Our boys, fall. Justin is 13 and Marissa is 10 so, life at that Douglas M. Henry has been elected as landscape architecture degree from Michael (12) and Andrew (9) keep us home is busy as well. Justin is immersed in its secretary. He is a partner and chair of University of California Berkeley. She lives absolutely hopping with sports, scouts, and ski racing, while Marissa is an avid rider.” the real estate and environmental practice with her husband and two sons in music. I’m so sorry to have missed the Graham A. Cody updates: “Renee group at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP, a Brunswick, where she enjoys gardening and women’s alumnae basketball game—maybe and I are busy with our two-year-old Boston law firm.” From a Boston Bar other outdoor activities.” From a Lincoln next year!” daughter, Rowan Althea Cody, born May 11, Association news release August 10, 2004. County, Maine Lincoln County News article, Harry A. Lanphear, III writes: “I’ve 2002. Come visit and experience the Bruce Kennedy is “currently the News July 8, 2004. enjoyed the position of CEO of Kennebec charm offensive!” Director of WABE 90.1 FM, Atlanta’s NPR Margaret P. Keith updates: “I enjoy Valley YMCA since April 2003. The Kevin Conroy reports: “After living in station. We have a tiny staff and minimal coordinating academic services for students challenge of raising $10 million for a new Manhattan for 13 years, and more than a funds, so work – as well as family life – is with disabilities at California State building is an exciting one and a worthy year of commuting to AOL’s headquarters in keeping me quite busy. In March ’04 University Monteray Bay, despite cause for all of you Bowdoin grads looking Dulles, VA each week, we’ve decided to I was invited by the State Department California’s budget woes. We savor visits for a place to donate some coin! Jennifer has move to nearby Washington, DC. We’ll be to address a media symposium in Beirut. with Melanie Fife and her family in San started a small scrapbooking business and living in the NW section of DC, near the I wrote some Internet articles about Francisco. We celebrate 14 years of vehicle spends the off hours transporting Harry (11) National Cathedral and Beauvoir schools, my experience, which were picked modifications for people with mobility and Tommy (8) to their many activities.” which our girls will be attending. We’re up nationally – you can read them at disabilities through my husband’s Access For news of Debra Rosenthal MacGregor, heading down in mid-August in time to get http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wabe/ne Options, Inc. Visitors welcome.” see Bruce MacGregor ’84. settled before school starts and are looking ws.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID= Kimberly Labbe Mills and Scott Mills Katherine Winey Yardley “just finished forward to this new adventure.” 621265, if you’re so inclined. I am a ’79 are “pleased to announce that our my third year at the dean of the College of Gary Dunham “has been named interim certified e-mail addict, so if you want to daughter, Heidi, will be a member of the Education, Health, and Rehabilitation at the chat or catch up, please do.” director of the University of Nebraska University of Maine at Farmington.”

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College—‘relationships that last a lifetime!’ Not a myth. I was saddened at the passing 86 87 of Bowdoin legend Sid Watson, as were all Class Secretary: Mary Haffey Kral, Class Secretary: Martha Gourdeau Fenton, who knew him. His memorial service was 5132 Woodland Ave., Western Springs, IL 60558 Phillips Academy, 180 Main St., simply wonderful—befitting of such a Class Agents: Susan L. Pardus-Galland and Andover, MA 01810 Bowdoin icon, giving those who knew, Carter A. Welch Class Agents: Harold E. Brakewood, loved, and respected him a time to reflect Elizabeth Butterworth Michalski, and and reconnect.” Morgan Adams reported in June: “I have Celine A. Mainville Steve Laffey was the subject of Bowdoin French professor Bill VanderWolk, been activated for a short time to support Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island Natalie Handel ’04, and Alison Welch Davee USMC mobilization efforts. These are some Paul M. Chutich reports: “Still own and Monthly article in February, titled “Steve ’85 pose together last November after a of the finest young men and women I operate a bar/restaurant in metro Atlanta Laffey Loves a Good Fight,” about his performance of Ionesco’s La Cantatrice have ever known. Please take a moment to and still play men’s league hockey here with “mission to fix his city.” From a Providence, Chauve at Bowdoin’s Wish Theater. Bill send a card thanking them for their service. fellow Bowdoin grad, Joe Ardagna ’84, Rhode Island, Rhode Island Monthly article. served as Alison’s advisor during his first They are a long way from home and who is also in the bar/restaurant business. February 2004. See feature article, this issue. year on the Bowdoin faculty; Alison taught appreciate the support.” Sorry to hear about Sid Watson.” BRUNSWICK BOATER’S DREAM COME TRUE! Bruce MacGregor writes: “Deb ’83 and I French at Lincoln Academy to recent For news of Rosemary Blake, see Richard Martha Gourdeau Fenton reported in Set privately on a wooded one acre site on are still living in Peabody. Deb works for graduate Natalie, who also studied French Bye ’42. May: “Life continues to get busier at Brunswick’s coveted Mere Point peninsula – just a the Essex District Attorney and I’m still at Bowdoin with Bill. “Eric D. Brown, a structured finance Andover. I’m in my fourth year as athletic stones throw from Paul’s Marina, and a leisurely stroll to a private DEEP WATER DOCK. This impressive New Home was just completed by one of Brunswick’s most professional with a proven track record of director and adding baby number three to with Filene’s after 20 years as a divisional now and then, and Matthew Higham ’86, reputable residential builders and affords approx 2500 sq ft of well planned living area vice president. Michael is 11 and a great but have lost touch with Deke Weaver— executing transactions in industries of the Fenton clan in April ’04. I loved with gorgeous wood flooring throughout, a large inviting kitchen with custom cabinetry student/athlete. His sister Molly is seven, Deke, where are you?!” multiple financial products, is leaving his following the Bowdoin women’s hockey and granite counter top, huge living room with native stone fireplace, and a fabulous and also a great student/athlete.” Spencer Reece was the subject of a post as vice president and national sales and basketball teams this winter—one of master bedroom suite. With an attached two car garage with full loft, a full basement, and a full walk up attic; you’ll enjoy abundant storage space, and easy opportunities for Deborah Merrill writes: “it was great to Houston Chronicle article in the spring that manager of GE Capital Public Finance my Andover grads was even on the hockey future expansion. Proudly offered at $525,000 see everyone at our 20th reunion. I continue told the story of the Brooks Brothers Inc., to take on senior executive roles at team this year, Kate Leonard ’07. Saw to teach at Clark University in Worcester, assistant manager’s long road to the literary Petrosearch Corporation. He will serve as Hillary and Paige Rocket ’86 at a sneak MA. My husband works in speech limelight. This year, Spencer’s first volume president of Beacon Petrosearch, LLC, a preview screening of Miracle, thanks to free recognition research at Scan Soft. I would of poetry, The Clerk’s Tale, received the newly formed exploration and production tickets from Hugh Gorman ’84. We missed For details contact Rick Baribeau th RE/MAX RIVERSIDE • One Main Street, Suite 101 love to hear from anyone in the area. prestigious Bakeless Poetry Prize from the subsidiary of Petrosearch. He has also celebrating John McGeough’s 40 birthday been appointed as a member of the in March, but we look forward to Topsham, Maine 04086 • (207) 725-8505 x128 [email protected].” famous Breadloaf Writer’s Conference at [email protected] Brian Rowe writes: “Sorry to miss our Middlebury College; The New Yorker last Petrosearch advisory committee. Further, vacationing with the whole McGeough clan 20th reunion. Have been busy this year June devoted the entire back page to the he will serve as a special adviser to the on the Cape in July.” Brad Lawson reports: “Jennifer and I are industry in the Northeast and the number following our move to St. Paul, MN. In title poem of the collection; and current Petrosearch Board in strategic planning, Kathy Holzer updates: “I won the pleased to announce the arrival of our twin one provider to health care and higher October 2003, I began my new position as U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück praised business development, and capital women’s division of the International sons, Wesley Matthew and Caleb education in Boston and New York.” From a marketing operations manager for 3M Spencer’s work in the book’s foreword as formation.” From a Washington, DC ICMA- Society for Arboriculture’s Tree Climbing Christopher, born January 28, 2004. They Somerville, MA Somerville Journal article, Pharmaceuticals. Caroline ’85 and I moved having “a sense of immanence that belongs RC VantageLink article, March 10, 2004. Championship in Pittsburgh this weekend, join big sisters Delaney Rose (8) and Remy July 10, 2004. right after Christmas and have spent the more commonly to religious passion; it is a Brooke Cockburn Cox reports: “Steve competing against 11 other women Claire (4). Everyone is healthy, happy, and Tom Riddle “and Meg Gose were married coldest winter we can remember since our great thing to have it again in art.” See and I have many house projects here in arborists from all over the world to become doing great, but a bit on the tired side. in Bartlett, NH on August 31, 2003. time at Bowdoin. We live very close to Bookshelf section this issue. Bowdoinham. Our twins, Katie and Cam, the ISA 2004 World Champion. Had lots of Looking forward to continuing the pole, Michael O’D Moore served as one of the White Bear Lake—it’s obviously fate—and For news of Caroline Lydon Rowe, see will be in kindergarten this September. fun, climbed well, met cool people and pedal, paddle tradition with Sherm, Chuck, ushers, and attended with his wife, Monique we are surrounded by our beloved mascot.” Brian Rowe ’84. I have enjoyed my time at home with brought home lots of bootie! Got in the and Trafty in Oregon next year.” de Silva ’90 and their children, Colleen and Mary Willcox Smith reports: “September them! One-and-a-half years ago, I paper too - check out John MacDonald and Catherine Molly.” See photo in Weddings section. 2003, fourth (and last!) daughter born. started my own business with Pampered http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_2 Roberts report: “We’re enjoying working as Robert Rubano reports: “Devon and I 85 Now the team consists of Marina (5), Chef. Check out my Web site: 07223.html for the article and photo.” Class Secretary: Kemedy K. McQuillen, 1 www.pamperedchef.biz/chefbrooke.” “Portland Press Herald writer Bob Keyes professors (John at WPI, Cath at Holy moved to Boxford last fall and shortly Catlina (4), Charlotte (2 /2) and Sophie. 150 Spring St., Portland, ME 04101 Cross) and parenting two boys. Catherine thereafter welcomed our son Joseph Robert Started Willem Smith, a high end wood reported that the new director of the Class Agent: Susan Leonard Toll was recently appointed editor of a journal: into the world—on Homecoming weekend! furniture company (we have some suppliers Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine Natural Resource Modeling.” Fatherhood has been such a blessing. I had in Maine!). Enjoyed a small reunion last SUBMISSION DEADLINE College of Art is a 1987 graduate of Bowdoin French professor Bill VanderWolk John McQuillan, “16-year business great time at John ‘Magoo’ McGeough’s summer when Sue Thornton was in town— for Class News and Weddings for the Winter ’05 Bowdoin College who likes to surf and that served as Alison Welch Davee’s advisor owner, president and chief executive officer 40th earlier this year, catching up with him, Cheryl Spector-Savramis ’86, Marybeth he also happens to know something about during his first year on the Bowdoin faculty. issue is Monday,December 20,2004. of Triumvirate Environmental, was honored Denise McGeough, ‘Charlie’ McCabe, Fennell Brust, and Jeanne Little.” modern art. Toby Kamps will assume his Alison taught French at Lincoln Academy with the Boston Jaycees TOYL award. Ten J.O. Tony ‘Boss’ Rubico, Scott Semple, D. Scott Smith writes: “We have moved duties as director of the Congress Street to recent Bowdoin grad, Natalie Handel outstanding young leaders are selected Rick Ganong ’86, and Chris Simon ’84. again, but still stay in touch with some Gallery in August. Toby currently works as ’04, who also studied French at Bowdoin annually to inspire leaders of tomorrow. Who’s next?” Bowdoin folks like Angela Chow. I am curator and department head at the with Bill VanderWolk. The three Bowdoin In spring 1988, John founded Triumvirate Joan Stoetzer Deck updates: “Stacy and practicing medicine.” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in Francophiles met up last November on Environmental on the principles of I were delighted to welcome Audreay Eugene Finkelberg West writes: “Still La Jolla, California, and worked previously campus for a production of Ionesco’s La excellence, market focus, and customer Stoetzer Deck on February 19, 2004. Big teaching at the NYU Medical School and at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Cantatrice Chauve. See accompanying photo wow. Since the company’s earliest days, sister, Anna Katherine, ‘Katie,’ (4 in June practicing psychiatry here in NYC. Would Art in Madison, Wisconsin, and the Walker Michelle Tutt Mason is “living in Triumvirate Environmental grew from a ’04), is thrilled to have a little sister! We are love to hear from Richard Nootbaar ’84 Art Center in Minneapolis.” From a Laredo, Colorado with my husband, Lion, and our boutique environmental services alternative still busy as ever here in the Vail Valley. and Ann Harrisburg ’84. Regards to all gay TX Art Daily article, June 6, 2004. children Lion IV (6), and Eliza (almost 5). to one of the largest providers of Please look us up if you are vacationing out and lesbian friends from Bowdoin.” Ann La Casce “and Edward Ackerman I see Robin Raushenbush Koval ‘86 every were married on July 11, 2004.” environmental services to the life-sciences this way!”

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training, completing two in 2003 and going to NYC. We also had a evening reunion in Operations, but is considering a return to 88 89 for more in 2004.” June with Sarah Merrill Mowat when she the world of arts education.” Class Secretary: B. Steven Polikoff, Class Secretary: Suzanne D. Kovacs-Jolley, Todd Remis “married Milena Grzibovska was back in town from Hong Kong.” Terrence Rouse writes: “Keep meaning 610 Cheese Spring Road, 108 Carolina Club Dr., Spartanburg, SC 29306 of Riga, Latvia (University of Iceland) at Marnita Thompson Eaddie reported in to send in picture from my wedding. But at New Canaan, CT 06840 Class Agents: Kathleen McKelvey Burke, The Castle on the Hudson in Tarrytown, the spring: “My family and I are doing our third anniversary, Fiona and I have two Todd J. Remis, Scott B. Townsend, and NY on December 28, 2003. Among the wonderfully. I am starting my seventh year lovely daughters, Aoife, age 2 and Oona, “Andrew D. Auerbach, MD, MPH, Kevin P. Wesley guests at the small family wedding was in the Air Force. I am a captain, currently age 1. We are very busy and very happy. assistant professor of medicine at Shepard Remis ’64, father of the groom.” stationed at Kirtland AFB (Alubuquerque), I’m working in NYC for Sanofi-Synthelabo University of California San Francisco and Pamela M. Bates writes: “My husband, See photo in Weddings section. New Mexico. Nathaniel and I will be on the Eloxatin team. Still wondering how codirector of the UCSF Perioperative William, and I welcomed Ian Nathaniel Liesl Rothbacher Hawley, DVM writes: celebrating this summer the birthdays of that gov/history major led me to marketing Cardiac Care Quality Improvement into the world on March 20, 2004. We’re “We welcomed our son, Finn Andrew, last our four children: Nathaniel, Terrence, chemotherapy for colorectal cancer, but I East Coast meets West Coast at Kim program, received the Young Investigator thrilled to have this little one in our lives!” July. For those of you counting, that is Martinique, and Richard.” am enjoying life in big pharma, Eckhart’s house in Oakland, CA Memorial Award from The Society of Hospital Martha Scher Clizbe is “still teaching at number four! We have a happy and crazy Jason Easterly reports: “I married nonetheless. Job and family are giving me Day weekend 2004 (l to r): Nick Schmid ’91 Medicine in recognition for work and Millbrook School in NY. I teach high school household. I am sole proprietor of a small Jennie Koch (USMA ’90) on April 3 this excuses to not join Brian Deveaux in and Bev Halliday Schmid ’91 of Cambridge, research that has contributed significantly math and psychology. This year, I was part- animal house call practice. Life is year, in Potomac, Maryland.” See photo in setting up an ‘Old School’ house on MA, Katherine Perrine Austen ’91 and son to hospital medicine into the betterment of time teacher and full-time mom to my rocketing along.” Weddings section. McKeen Street. Also working with Caleb, of San Francisco, and Kim Eckhart hospital care across America.” From a CBS second, Nathaniel, who is now one year. Erika B. Shaffer is “living in Seattle and Keith D. Gittens-Jones reports: “I have classmates Tom Bilodeau, Kevin Cloutier, ’91, with son Colin. Marketwatch article, April 26, 2004. Mark will go part time next year while I working in public relations at Real been promoted to an expatriate business and Pat Piscatelli, among other Bowdoin Gayle Burns writes: “On July 24th I got return to teaching full time.” Networks. Rory Eggler was born in July analyst position in Tokyo, Japan for the alum on project to take TGOSH public. helping my husband, Brian, with his new engaged to Eric Maddox (Clarkson David Clodfelter is “married and living 2003 and is a happy, healthy sister to big Hartford Life Insurance Company. This will The tech market has been soft but our VC tour company, Santiago Adventures, University class of ’93). Eric is a Software in Loveland, Ohio (near Cincinnati). I still sister, Jansin, now three.” be a three-year assignment and my whole are looking at a late 2006 IPO.” www.santiagoadventures.com. While home Engineer with CEI in Boston. We are get back to Bowdoin once year or so, and I “The outlook for children with brain or family will be relocating to Japan.” Staci Williams Seeley writes: “Chris ’94 recently, spent time with dear friends, planning a December, 2004 wedding in remain active with the Bowdoin chapter of spinal cord tumors, second to leukemia as Anita Kimball Randall wrote in the and I missed his 10th Reunion but spent a Sarah Russell and Joe Reynolds, and their Manchester, NH and we plan to reside in the Alpha Delta Phi.” the most common type of childhood spring: “Our family loves our new home fun Sunday afternoon in Portland last June beautiful little girl, Olivia, and Lynn Hooksett, NH after the wedding.” Marla Rosenfield Darling and Todd cancer, has brightened in the past two and life in Bristol, Rhode Island! It’s hard to surrounded by lawyers: Mitch Price ’89, Moloney. Had the extra treat of seeing Ames Tickner Connelly updates: “My Darling brief: “We are still living happily in decades. This is thanks to refined believe that we’ve been here nearly a year former Residential Life Coordinator Joan Lynn in her dynamic office as Managing husband, Jim (Williams ’87),and I have Boxford, MA with our sons, Jack (3) and neurosurgical techniques and improved (moved in May 2003). Dan and I are Fortin and her husband Chet at Joan’s Editor of Fast Company magazine. Looking three very active boys: Ryan (1), Nicholas Ian (born December 2003). chemotherapy and radiation, according to planning our tenth anniversary trip to home. Brought along Camille, 5, and new forward to seeing Laura Foulke in San (7), and Matthew (4). We live in Anne Gannon writes: “I live in Greenwich, Christopher Turner, MD, director of Scotland in July 2004—we can’t wait!” arrival Crawford, 9 months. Still working at Fran in October!” Wellesley, MA, just outside Boston. When CT with my husband Vince Glenn (Auburn Dana-Farber’s Stop & Shop Family Jennifer Magee Ribeiro writes: “I continue Groton where Chris is Dean of Faculty and For news of Anne Sabine Beseler Cook, traveling north of the city, we enjoy University, Pace University, MBA), and our Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Outcomes to live in beautiful Nobleboro, Maine with my I’m leaving college advising to teach history see Stephen Cook ’90. spending time with Bowdoin friends, beautiful dogs, Hudson (Weimaraner) and Clinic. He oversees the clinic that has 25- husband, Jay and two kids, Julia (9) and again. Looking forward to our 15th!” See “East Coast meets West Coast,” reported including Paige and Hilary Rocket ’86 Baylor (Vizsla). I still am a federal prosecutor, plus doctors, nurses, allied health David (5). I just completed a two-year accompanying photo. Bev Halliday, “at Kim Eckhart’s house in and Kris and Rick Ganong ’86. On a having spent 11 years with the U.S. Dept of professionals, and support staff.” From a program with the Maine School Leadership Oakland, CA Memorial Day weekend recent trip to New York, we had a great Justice and the past year with the U.S. Dept of Dana Farber Cancer Institute InSide the Network and plan to continue my studies 2004.” Nick Schmid and Bev, of visit with Jane Phillips Davey, Penny Homeland Security.” Institute article January 13, 2004. working toward a C.A.S in educational 91 Cambridge, MA, met up with Katherine Palevsky Borella and their families. Kathryn J. Groothuis Graber updates: For news of John Unipan, see Lynn leadership at UMO. I can’t believe I just Class Secretary: Melissa Conlon McElaney, Perrine Austen and her son Caleb, of San Great to reminisce with old friends about “I was married to Matthew Graber on April Warner Unipan ’91. finished my 12th year teaching at Great Salt 6 Buttonwood Road, Amesbury, MA 01913 Francisco, and Kim Eckhart, with her son the fun and special Bowdoin days that 8, 2003 and we’re expecting our first child Kristin C. Zwart is “moving to Santa Bay School at the elementary level.” Class Agents: Judith Snow May and Colin.” See accompanying photo. we shared.” in August! In the meantime, we’re still Barbara to take a new job as director of David Meyer writes: “Shannon ’92 and I Scott S. Stephens Bug won the 19th annual Lucille Lortel Audrey Augustin Huffman “and enjoying living in Boston, where I’m alumni relations at Cate School, my high have survived the first year of two kids. Award for outstanding off-Broadway play, husband Phil Huffman (Middlebury ’84) practicing law (commercial real estate) and school alma mater. Was finalist in the 2004 Cassidy is one and Toby is three. I’m still Julie Albright reports: “Brian and I are and also captured the award for lighting welcome the arrival of their son, Alden Matt is busy with grad school (LLM in tax US Women’s Squash Nationals in women’s teaching at Colorado Rocky Mountain thrilled to announce the birth of our first design, by Tyler Micoleau. From a New Barnes Huffman, on March 6, 2004.” from Boston University Law School).” 4.5 in Seattle. Looking for a title in 2005 School (American history), running the child, Eleanor Ruth Haas, born May 19, York Times article May 6, 2004 Jennifer Noering McIntire writes: Elizabeth Mann writes: “I have recently when Nationals are in Boston!” climbing program, helping in the outdoor 2004 in Redwood City, CA. She was a Jonathan Perkins “has recently been “I am enjoying life in Mattapoisett with returned to the East Coast from California program. Recovering from knee surgery but healthy 8 pounds, 6 ounces. Ellie, Brian, assigned to work at the US Embassy in three little ones, Mary Kate (6), Thomas to take a position as assistant scientist at all is well. Shannon is associate director of and I are all doing great.” Beijing, China, along with his wife, Caroline. (4), Brendan (9 months). I appreciate the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in 90 Aspen Valley Land Trust, trying to save a Rebecca Austin Cacioppi reported in Both work for the US State Department phone conversations and visits from Lisa Savannah, Georgia.” Reunion Planning Chair: bit of green space from development.” the spring: “My husband, Pete Cacioppi Foreign Service. Jonathan, who is fluent in Aufranc Sharples, Mary Cline, Heidi Ruth Matteson Banchik reports: “my five- Jennifer Yancey Murray Anne Butler Rice and Eric N. Rice (Dartmouth ’93) and I had a baby boy last Japanese, has been studying Chinese for two Snyder Flagg, Karen Barbetta Anillo, year-old daughter, Barbara, and I had a great Reunion Giving Chairs: Eric F. Foushee, report: “Our life together has landed in year, who turned one in March. The only years. After teaching English in Osaka, and Leslie Stone.” time at my 15th reunion! Then, we spent David W. Shorrock, and Michael T. Townsend Hampton, CT, where Eric is now on the Bowdoin alum to meet Jasper so far is Japan, for five years, he came back to the Stuart B. Strong, Jr. reports: “we are two magical days on Monhegan Island.” tenure track as the Medieval/Renaissance Anne Burnham ’90. Holly Jones is moving United States and received a master’s degree pleased to announce the birth of our Laura Rasor updates: “I am in my Stephen Cook wrote over the summer: specialist in the music department at the out west and will meet Jasper this spring.” in international studies at University of second child, Stuart B. Strong, III on second year as pastor at Piney Flats United “In September, it will be 10 years in University of Connecticut. In keeping with Sire Berté is “finally putting my Washington in Seattle in 1999. The couple March 19, 2004.” Methodist Church in east Tennessee. I was London for us. That’s three flats, one house, our passion for history, we’ve bought a Spanish/Latin American Studies degree to will be on assignment at the Beijing embassy Sharon Yandian “and Peter Vogel were just selected to participate in the one post-grad degree, three children (ages 225-year-old home of our own. Gregory (5) direct use and am living and working in for two years.” From a Bangor, Maine Weekly, married on October 23, 2003 in Alexandria, pastor/theologian program of the Center of 4, 1, and 1), and goodness knows how will be entering kindergarten in the fall, Santiago, Chile. I have a grant from the article, March 25, 2004. VA.” See photo in Weddings section. Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New many cups of tea. We were sad to say and his little brother, Nathaniel, just turned Ford Foundation and am studying all the Katherine M. Perrine writes: “My Jersey. I’ve also gotten into triathlon farewell to Ansley Morrison Dauenhauer two. Anne is still the CEO of Family business development services available to husband, Jon Austen, and I are doing well and family this spring when they returned micro and small enterprises in Chile. Also living in San Francisco. We are happy to

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announce the arrival of our son, Caleb for a baby girl. The researchers have found “LaSalle Bank announces that Scott M. Rayder, nine-month-old son of Holly Fuller Gardens in Fort Worth, TX. We were the meaning of ‘gentle.’ The fun is just Austen, born on January 16, 2004!” that for every 10,000 daughters born in Landau has been promoted to senior vice Pompeo Rayder and Cameron Fischer honored to have Lt. Commander, USN beginning! Jeff continues to work as a Danielle Palmer Savoie reports: “The America, there is an average of 2.3 new president and manager in the Wealth Pleasant, son of Samantha Fischer Gregory James Lennox in attendance. brand manager at The Scotts Company, Savoie family continues to happily bounce names. For sons, the figure is 1.6. Dr. Management Group. His primary Pleasant, met for the first time on June 19, Thanks for allowing him to attend, Susie while Becky stays at home with the boys. along in Lowell, MA. David is three, and Bentley is not sure why this is the case. One responsibility is managing the day-to-day 2004 in Northampton, MA. Future football ’92 and Peter.” See photo in Weddings section. They have been keeping us extremely busy Abigail is one, and they are just so good possibility is that in a society where family operations of a wealth management office. players, both. Lucas is also the grandson of Abby A. Levine wrote in the spring: “At and a little bit sleep deprived! If you’re ever and sweet! They keep us busy.” names are inherited patrilineally, parents feel In addition, he meets with clients, Roger Pompeo ’62.” See accompanying photo. long last, I completed my medical training in the area, give us a call; we love visitors!” Amitai Touval is “living in Princeton constrained by tradition when it comes to prospective clients, and internal referral (for now) in pediatrics at the University of See accompanying photo. New Jersey, where I started work at a firm choosing first names for their sons.” From sources. Scott started his career at LaSalle North Carolina at Chapel Hill and am that helps bridge cultural differences and an Economist article, May 22, 2004. Bank as an assistant vice president in practicing in Swansea, MA. I was married train business leaders. I’ll be glad to hear Katie Berlandi and husband, Brian ’93, private banking. He was promoted to vice on New Year’s Eve 2003 to David from fellow Bowdoin people at welcomed Eloise Berlandi on June 9, 2003, president in 2000, advanced to first vice Cunningham (Cornell ’95), accompanied [email protected].” who joined happy sister, Amelia (3). See president two years later, and now assumes down the aisle by Anna Glass van Lynn Warner Unipan and John Unipan accompanying photo. his role as senior vice president and Huystee ’92. David and I are rediscovering ’89 report: “We are still living outside manager in the Highland Park office. He New England at our new residence in Philadelphia and enjoy our visits to Maine holds a master’s degree in business Providence, RI after our stints in residency for skiing in the winter and summer fun administration from Loyola University in in North Carolina.” with our two kids, Gabby (5) and Josh Chicago.” From a LaSalle Bank news release, Adele Maurer Lewis, MD “and Rodney 1 (2 /2). They especially like romping around July 7, 2004. Lewis (Emory and Henry College ’96) were the Foushees’ house (Nancy Eckel and Kelly Lankford updates: “Finally married on May 10, 2003 in Huntsville, Eric ’90) in Brunswick. Be in touch if finished my Ph.D. at OU in spring 2003. AL.” See photo in Weddings section. you’re in the Philly area!” Currently working as a visiting assistant Jessica Radin Peters wrote in late May: Lucky number? Born on 04/04/04, William “Kristin Wright, Executive Director the professor at Grand Valley State University “John and I now live in Newton, MA. We Andrew Coad (Liam), son of Rebecca Washington County Children’s Program, in Allendale, Michigan. Enjoying western The barefoot boys with their shoes on: Lucas are expecting our first child in June. John is Salamone Coad ’94 and Jeffrey Coad ’94 traveled to Boston April 14 to accept the Michigan quite a bit, but still looking for Roger Rayder (left), nine-month-old son of working as a management consultant at (that’s ninety-four for those of you scoring at Achiever Award from the New England that elusive “permanent” position.” Holly Pompeo Rayder ’92 and Cameron McKinsey and Co and I am an attending home) might be Bowdoin Class of ’21, but probably ’22 (2+2=…) Educational Opportunity Association. The I pledge allegiance to my sister: Amelia (3) James LeClair “and Susan Graves were Fischer Pleasant (right), son of Samantha physician in the emergency department at Association sponsors the Upward Bound and Eloise Berlandi (1), daughters of Katie married on October 11, 2003 at the Spruce Fischer Pleasant ’92, met for the first time Brigham & Women’s Hospital.” Susan Beth Weirich Connolly reports: Berlandi ’92 and Brian Berlandi ’93. program, which inspired and enabled Point Inn at Boothbay Harbor, Maine.” See on June 19, 2004 in Northampton, MA. Kari Primo-Liddy updates: “I am “My husband, Tom, and I are thrilled with the Wright as a Cutler native and a high school Samantha Fischer Pleasant wrote in photo in Weddings section. moving to York, Maine this summer with arrival of our son, Luke Thomas, on March 2, student at Washington Academy in late early summer: “Tommy and I are loving Ever in the news, Paul Miller, a.k.a. DJ my husband and 18-month-old daughter. 2004. We are now living in the Kalamazoo, 1980s to go on to Hebron Academy and every minute with our little boy, Cameron Spooky That Subliminal Kid, was the 93 I’m excited to return to Maine and be closer MI area, where I work a few hours as an Bowdoin. After working in southern Maine Fischer Pleasant. We can’t wait to head up subject of recent New York Daily News and Class Secretary: Mark C. Schulze, to Bowdoin pals. Plan to start my own optometrist and full time as a mom.” for several years after college, she was lured to Maine for two weeks this summer.” New York Post Online Edition articles about 1823 15th St., Apt. 4, San Francisco, CA 94103 clinical psychology practice.” Laura Larsen Dudley reports: “Gus Allan back to Washington County by the call of Daniel Gallagher writes: “I was honored his global view as seen in several recent Class Agents: Michele Lee Cobb, Elizabeth Sperry wrote in the spring: Dudley was born June 10, 2003. He joins her roots and the promise of a job helping to witness Will Combs become Father Will, exhibits. One such project, Rebirth of a Mark C. Schulze, and Andrew C. Wheeler “Doing well. Thad Shattock (Georgetown big sisters Claire (4) and Kate (2). All are children with special needs and their as he was ordained a Catholic priest in the Nation is a deconstructionist and ’96) and I were married on September 6, doing well and growing bigger every day.” families through the Children’s Program.” order of the Brothers of the Beloved Disciple contemporary take on D. W. Griffith’s Ingrid Carlson Barrier is “working as a 2003 in Harpswell, Maine, and are now Alexa Fitzpatrick writes, “Thank you to From a Cutler, Maine Down East Coastal on May 29, 2004. He is a treasured and controversial 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. district attorney in Denver, and our expecting a baby in mid-June! I’m practicing everyone in the Class of 1994 who came Press article, May 4, 2004. active member of the community serving the Spooky’s film “employs three screens and a daughter, Siri, is a wild woman four-year- small animal medicine in Lebanon, NH, and out on the Friday night of our reunion to St. Mary Magdalen Church in San Antonio, pulsating live audio mix that may not get old. I see Claudia Anderson and Kim Thad is at the tail end of an MD/MPH see me perform. There were definitely some Texas. Will has been preparing for this the crowd up in dancing, but will certainly Fuller Jacoby regularly.” program at Dartmouth Medical School. We technical difficulties, but I really 92 transformation with God’s help since he make them think.” From a New York Daily For news of Brian Berlandi, see Katheryn live in Thetford, Vermont, and love it!” See appreciated the support of so many friendly Class Secretary: Christopher P. McElaney, converted to the Catholic faith in Ecuador News article July 19, 2004 and a New York Berlandi ’92 and accompanying photo. photo in Weddings section. classmates in the audience. Look me up if 6 Buttonwood Road, Amesbury, MA 01913 more than ten years ago. He’s been serving Post Online Edition July 24, 2004. Peter De Staebler is “still a classical you’re ever in New York.” Class Agents: Samantha Fischer Pleasant and in San Antonio since 1996 and welcomes Andy Noel reports: “All’s well with the archaeologist at NYU. Still spend three Jamie Hunt “is currently flying the Benjamin M. Grinnell anyone to come share in his faith and true Noel family. We’ve added another! AJ was months of the summer at Aphrodisias in 94 A10 in combat over Afghanistan with the devotion to God anytime. By the way, I have born on January 5, 2004. Lots of January Western Turkey each summer. Stop by for Class Secretary: Katherine L. Young, Apt 3528, 355th EFS. He and his wife, Ginger, are th Alexander Bentley “of University College, been living Amish Country Pennsylvania birthdays in the family—Andy is January 3, some shish kebab if you are in the area.” 42 8 St., Charlestown, MA 02129 expecting their first child in August.” London, and his colleagues are studying the (Ephrata) with my family for almost a 1969, Andrew is January 1, 2001, and AJ is John J. Eikenburg, Jr. writes: “I Class Agents: Shane R. Cook, See accompanying photo next page. mathematics of cultural transmission. For year now - come visit us for a different January 5, 2004!” continue to practice law in Houston; Michael T. Sullivan, and Edana P. Tisherman Ebitari E. Isoun is “consulting in D.C.” this sort of work, birth records—which religious experience.” David Potischman writes: “After five Melissa and I enjoy being parents to our Peter Johnston “and Cecilia Park contain every instance in a country of one Michael Gawtry ’95 and Lynne Manson years in Los Angeles, my wife, Julie, and I daughter, Eleanor, born October 9, 2003. Rebecca Salamone Coad and Jeffrey Johnston (Cal Tech ’96) were married in sort of cultural object, namely people’s first Gawtry “are pleased to announce the were excited to move back to the East We enjoyed a visit from Franklin Racine- Coad report “We have now been in Baltimore, MD on May 8, 2004.” See photo names—are a particularly good source of arrival of Jackson Donald Gawtry on April Coast so I could join Smith Barney in Jones ’93 and Chris Kraybill ’92 in Columbus, OH, for 10 years—how time in Weddings section. data. Dr. Bentley looked at the frequencies 25, 2004. At 9 pounds, 2 ounces and 21 Florham Park, NJ as a financial consultant.” February 2004 to meet our wee one.” flies! We are thrilled to announce the latest Sheridan Kelley was included in an of different first names in American babies. inches, he’s definitely a keeper!” Jennifer D. Pratt Miles updates: “Our For news of Joshua Gibson, see Jennifer addition to our family, William Andrew August Bangor Daily News article titled, One of his findings was that the ‘mutation David Gluck “and Susan Frost were sons, Keenan and Finn, turned three and Rupnik ’97 and photo in Weddings section. Coad (Liam). He was born on April 4, “Study Finds Creative Economy Growing in 1 rate’ in names is higher for girls than for married in York, ME on October 12, 2003.” one this spring. Life is great!” Trey Hutchinson “married Monica 2004 (04/04/04)! Nathan is 3 /2 now, and a Maine.” The article began, “Cherryfield boys. Parents, in other words, are more See photo in Weddings section. Holly Rayder writes: “Lucas Roger Foshee (UTA ’06) on May 29,2004 at the very proud big brother. He tries to help out native Sheridan Kelley left Maine with every liable to be inventive when choosing a name as much as he can but still hasn’t learned

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Philadelphia.” From a Thomas Jefferson work for NBC from mid-July through the although in a much different role!” at the Christ Lutheran Church in Falmouth, University news release June 2004. end of August in the International Chris Ledwick wrote in the spring: MA, with a reception at the Coonamesset Elizabeth Garrett Mayer writes: “In Broadcasting Center (IBC). I will be at the “Newly married, living in Portland, Inn.” See photo in Weddings section. October 2003, Jeff Mayer (Wittenberg ’90) reception desk, answering phones, greeting practicing law, restoring/destroying our Joanna Reininger Carlson “married and I were married in Baltimore, MD and guests, and acting as a gatekeeper for NBC’s older home. That’s about it.” Matt Carlson (Dartmouth ’96) in May 2003. had a fantastic honeymoon in Switzerland. offices. (We’ll see how much this Christopher B. Margraf “married Matt and I met at the Middlebury College Jeff and I recently moved to Ruxton, description has changed upon my return!) Elizabeth C. Margraf (Williams ’00) on German School, where I finished my M.A. Maryland and live there happily with our The 6 weeks will be long (7-days per week November 29, 2003 at the Hawthorne Hotel in German last year after four summers of two dogs, Luke and Wilma. Since finishing with 12-hour days) but very exciting. The in Salem, MA.” See photo in Weddings section. study (great way to earn a master’s!). my PhD in biostatistics at Johns Hopkins in IBC sits next to the main athletic complex Allison Mataya wrote to tell us about a Concluding six years of teaching German in 2000, I started working as an assistant and will house 10,000-plus employees from gathering that took place in late December Baltimore, I’ve joined Matt in State College, Three-year-old Emma Lemire, daughter of professor in the Hopkins Oncology Center.” all over the world. It is going to be a zoo. ’03 to celebrate the 30th birthday of PA, where he’s pursing a doctorate in Jim Lemire ’96 and Linda Berman ’95, See photo in Weddings section. And I can’t wait. Thank you all for your Zachary Hooper ’95. “We had the party at Spanish/Linguistics. I coordinate the snuggles with her new little brother, Jack For news of Chris Seeley, see Staci support and positive feedback!” our apartment in Brooklyn, NY, and had promotional efforts of Penn State’s Roland Lemire, born on April 11, 2004. Lt. Jamie Hunt ’94 is currently flying the A10 Williams Seeley ’90 and accompanying photo. Nathaniel S. Cormier reports: “My sister quite a Bowdoin turnout. Bowdoin alumni Education Abroad office and accompany a of their son, Jack Roland Lemire, born on in combat over Afghanistan with the 355th EFS. Claudine Solin reports: “I’m in the is marrying Marri. Now I’ve seen everything.” from ’93 to ’03 were present.” See choir on the side. This summer we midst of a clinical social work master’s at For news of Michael Gawtry, see Lynne accompanying photo returned to Middlebury where I directed April 11, 2004.” See accompanying photo. intention of coming back. She headed south Smith College, and looking forward to my Manson Gawtry ’92. the German School choir and was thrilled Jenny Mayer Rachwalski writes: “My to study painting at a Savannah College of upcoming field placement in child “The Maine Civil Liberties Union has to meet three members of the current husband and I welcomed our twins, Anna Art and Design in Georgia, and then hit the protective services at Oakland Children’s hired its first secretary, a move designed to Bowdoin generation of German students.” Grace and Nathan James, on January 30, road teaching reading test taking skills in Hospital. Taking advantage of the Northern make the legal watchdog group more See photo in Weddings section. 2004. We are all doing very well and the Boston area. After three years, she was California surf is also top priority!” aggressive, says Richter Luise Roback. Katie Doughty, “former Bowdoin soccer adjusting to life as a family of four.” ready to get out of the car. Around the same “Dr. Laura Emily Trask and David Instead of relying entirely on volunteer captain, has been hired to coach the “The Hon. Berle M. Schiller ’65 and time, opportunity called. Actually, it was an Anthony Tyler (Conn. College ’85) were lawyers who work and squeeze cases into Boothbay Region High School girls soccer Dee Spagnuolo gathered following the U.S. old friend from SCAD, who had recently married at Chebeague Island, ME on their schedules, the organization now will team. Katie is the marketing and HR District Court for the Eastern District of accepted teaching position at the University September 6, 2003.” See photo in Weddings be quicker to respond to free speech and manager at Washburn & Doughty Shipyard Pennsylvania’s annual judges v. law clerks of Maine’s new media department. He asked section. “The Penobscot Bay Medical Center other civil rights issues as they present in East Boothbay.” From a Boothbay, Maine softball game. The game was held on July her come up and teach. But that was just in Rockport (ME) is pleased to announce themselves, Roback says. Since taking the A host of Bowdoinites from ’93 to ’03 turned Boothbay Register article, August 19, 2004. 29, 2004, in Philadelphia. The law clerks th beginning. In the past year, Kelley and her that a new internist, Dr. Laura E. Trask, has job in late February, staff attorney Zachary out in late December ’03 to celebrate the 30 Cara H. Drinan updates: “I was married beat the judges soundly, despite Judge birthday of Zachary Hooper ’95 in Brooklyn, business partner, new media grad Nathan joined the active medical staff. She shares a Heiden has convinced a Federal judge to on October 25, 2003 to Benjamin J. Schiller’s crushing, standup double into NY. Pictured front row (l to r): Chris Lally Hankla, have started a film production practice at Glen Cove Internal Medicine, waive some fees imposed by the city against Herman (Brown ’92). Bowdoin guests center field.” See accompanying photo. ’94, Brian Bennett ’95, Gillian MacKenzie company at the Target Technology Center in also in Rockport, with Dr. Archie Green antiwar protesters. He negotiated with included Alice Belisle Eaton and her ’94, Kate LaBella ’02, Page Casey ’95, Arlyn Orono.” From a Bangor Daily News article, and Dr. Ted Steele. She has a special Portland officials on behalf of critics of the husband Greg; Terry Crikelair and his Davich ’03, Zach, Allison Mataya ’95. Back August 5, 2004. interest in women’s health, cardiology, and Roman Catholic Church who want to (now) wife Andrea, Emily Baker and her row (l to r): Tom Gibbon ’96, Tim Sacks ’03, Sara Kurz diabetology.” From a Rockland, Maine demonstrate outside Immaculate Erin Finn-Welch ’02, Matt Roberts ’93, husband Gerardo, and , with VillageSoup.com article, August 17, 2004. Conception Cathedral before installation of Mara Sprafkin ’02, Mike Johnson ’95, boyfriend Tim Hullar. Thanks to all for Bryn E. Upton reported in late May: “My Bishop Richard Malone. They were the Michael Sullivan ’94. making the trip to Washington, DC! Ben wife, Silvia, and I will not be able to make it actions that the MCLU probably would not and I are both lawyers working in DC and to reunion this year as we are just weeks have been able to tackle in the past, Roback Robert Mulholland “and Heather we enjoy living in northern Virginia.” away from the arrival of our first child. I says.” From a New York, NY CNNMoney Garrow (St. Lawrence University ’94) were Michael Flaherty and Ellen Lenihan was looking forward to the reunion but, I article May 13, 2004. married on August 16, 2003 in Lake (Brown ’96) were married on July 5, 2003 am looking forward to this even more.” For news of Dan Hart, see Ria Marolda George, NY.” See photo in Weddings section. in Milton, MA. Jon Chapman, Craig Hart ’98 and photo in Weddings section. Ashley M. Pensinger reports: “I have Bridwell, and Roman Martinez were Elise Juska writes: “My second novel, been living in New York City since the among Mike’s groomsmen. Many other 95 The Hazards of Sleeping Alone, is being summer of 2003. I am teaching violin and Bowdoin friends were in attendance. Mike Reunion Planning Chair: Alison P. Behr “The Hon. Berle M. Schiller ’65 and Dee published by Simon & Schuster in mid- working as a freelance violinist. My most and Ellen met in San Francisco where they Spagnuolo gathered following the U.S. Mitch Price ’89 and Chris Seeley ’94 didn’t Class Agents: Warren S. Empey and September. You can find info on the book fun NY gig so far is playing (occasionally) lived for five years before moving back east District Court for the Eastern District of see much of Reunion Weekend but they did Sean M. Marsh and book tour on my web site: in the pit for the Broadway musical, The shortly after the wedding. The two now live Pennsylvania’s annual judges v. law clerks manage to catch up with Joan Fortin (former www.elisejuska.com. When I’m not writing, Producers. I enjoy seeing Bowdoin friends in New York City. Mike is a reporter for Residential Life Coordinator 1991-1993) and softball game. The game was held on July 29, For news of Linda Berman, see Jim Lemire I’m teaching fiction workshops at the quite often.” Reuters, and Ellen is a content producer for her family at her home in Portland, Maine 2004, in Philadelphia. The law clerks beat ’96 and accompanying photo. University of the Arts in Philadelphia and For news of Todd Shaw, see Colleen Ryan New York’s PBS affiliate, Thirteen/WNET.” on June 6, 2004. Pictured left to right are the judges soundly, despite Judge Schiller’s Renata Merino Bregstone “and Gregory the New School in NY.” See Bookshelf Shaw ’97 and accompanying photo. Joon-Ho Lee “and Jennifer Anne Mitch, Joan’s son Michael, Chris, Camille crushing, standup double into center field.” Ian Bregstone (Emory ’95) were married on section, this issue. McCarthy (Duke ’89) were married on June Seeley, Joan and daughter Lainey, Crawford October 11, 2002 at the Harvard Club on Maria DiLorenzo Kempner reported in 19, 2004 at St. Paul’s Church in Wellesley, Ben Wells and Marcia Wells “are proud Seeley, and Staci Williams Seeley ’90. Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, MA.” the spring: “I’ll be returning to Brunswick 96 MA. I’ve moved into Jen’s apartment on the to announce the arrival of our son, Riley “Ann J. Maley, of Orange, CT, was one See photo in Weddings section. this summer as my husband, Joshua Kemper Class Secretary: Cara H. Drinan, 1300 Oak upper west side of Manhattan and have Jay Wells, born on December 27, 2003. of 228 graduates who received a doctor of Eleni Carras wrote in the spring: “As (Oberlin ’97), has accepted a position as Creek Drive #411, Palo Alto, CA 94304 been busy planting the rooftop garden.” See We are thrilled to be new parents and are medicine degree on June 4, 2004, and the many of you know, I have been looking for visiting assistant professor in the Department Class Agent: Patrick S. Kane photo in Weddings section. loving it out here in Boulder, Colorado! 180th commencement of Jefferson Medical a job at the Olympic Games in Athens. of Physics and Astronomy. I’m looking Jim Lemire and Linda Berman ’95 Riley and I went to Houston, TX,” writes College, Thomas Jefferson University, in Thankfully, my 6-month pursuit has not forward to being back at Bowdoin— Nathan Bouley “and Greta Sobral Bouley wrote in the spring to announce “the birth Marcia, “to visit Remi Bristol, daughter of been in vain. I have accepted an offer to (Tufts ’96) were married on October 12, 2002

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Kelly Remington Bristol and Ian Bristol major regular and online bookstores.” See Jennifer Rupnik ’97 and Joshua Gibson For news of Bjorn Lee, see Jayme Okma Frank Hwang emailed in the spring: ’94.” See accompanying photo. Bookshelf section of this issue. ’93 “were married on August 23, 2003 in Lee ’00 and photo in Weddings section. “Well, the first year MBA at Boston College SUBMISSION DEADLINE David Martines writes: “Am proud to say the Rupnik’s backyard in Connecticut. Ria Marolda Hart and Daniel Hart ’95 is completed and we’re spending the for Class News and Weddings for the Winter ’05 that I followed through on my most recent Jennifer received her master of international were married April 17, 2004 at Castle Hill in summer in Burlington, VT enjoying the issue is Monday,December 20,2004. New Year’s resolution. This past January, in affairs degree from Columbia University Ipswich, MA. See photo in Weddings section. outdoors. Megan ’00 has just finished her the span of two weeks, I handed in a letter of (SIPA) in May 2004. She currently works Viktoria Paulick “and Andreas Keding second year at Tufts Vet School. I’m resignation, moved out of my apartment in for Sesame Workshop, helping to develop were married in an official ceremony in currently working for Karhu/Line on an NYC, packed my car, and pointed my international adaptations of Sesame Street Hermannsburg, Germany on December 31, intensive summer project. And to add to compass north. After being in Manhattan that address local education needs in 2003, attended by Peter Dorthe ’99 and the excitment, Megan and I are getting since 1997, I was long overdue for a return countries such as Kosovo, Bangladesh, and Jennifer Adams Martin ’98, with a married on June 19 in West Tisbury, MA. to Maine. Good fortune helped me land a South Africa. Jennifer and Joshua live in wedding celebration in Windhoek, Namibia Look for the pics. We look forward to role with Bank of America right in Portland, Brooklyn, NY. Joshua recently finished an on February 28, 2004, which Susan seeing everyone this summer. Unfortunately and in the fall I will resume work on my internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Abigail Beller ’98 attended. My husband I’ll be missing reunion for work. Cheers.” MBA at USM. Spending time in town with as part of the World Trade Center Screening and I live in Namibia. I came to Namibia Charity Hyde and Matthew Hyde “were Wells, wells, wells…Riley Jay Wells (left) was Matt ’95 and Lindsey Christie Furtney, Program, a federally funded study right after graduation from Bowdoin and married on August 16, 2003 in New born on December 27, 2003, to parents Ben Chris Ledwick ’95, Kevan Rinehart ’95, evaluating the health effects of occupational never left. We currently live in the Namib Albany, OH.” See photo in Weddings section. Wells ’96 and Marcia Wells ’96. He’s reclining Kerry campaign. Three of her cofounders Aaron Pratt ’96, Scott Trafton ’96, Lukas exposures resulting from the collapse of the Desert, where I run the Namib Desert Justin Kennedy wrote in late May: “I am here with new friend Remi Bristol, daughter of are her brothers, and the others are Kelly Remington Bristol ’96 and Ian Bristol ’94. Filler, and Elizabeth MacNeil ’00. Life is twin towers. Occassionally, Joshua works as Environmental Education Trust (NaDEET). graduating from Columbia Business School friends.” From a Kansas City, MO Kansas splendid, although Maine can be a tough a freelance journalist. (Check out his Our aim is to empower Namibians, this May 2004. After a few months of City infoZine article, July 19, 2004. spot for a New Yorker during baseball season feature article on NBA star Carmelo primarily youth, to create a more travel, I will be starting a job here in New Stefan A. Petranek will be “attending (especially when your cat is named Mookie)!” Anthony in the Fall 2004 edition of Nike’s sustainable future in this arid country.” See York at HSBC Capital in private equity.” Rochester Institute of Technology in 97 Andy Mercurio updates: “I have just Team Jordan Magazine).” See photo in photo in Weddings section. Siri Kushner wrote in the Spring: “On Class Secretary: Shannon M. Reilly, Rochester, NY for a master of fine arts completed my seventh year at Greenhill Weddings section. Willyanne DeCormier Plosky writes: December 30, 2003, I married Hector Luis degree in photography.” 45 Sandy Brook Dr., Durham, NH 03824 School in Addison, TX, my third year as the Colleen Ryan Shaw writes: “Todd ’95 “Things have been quite busy in the last Guillen on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua. Class Agents: Ellen L. Chan and Michael L. Volpe Katharine DiResta Sullivan wrote in the eighth-grade composition teacher. I am also and I welcomed Michaela Noelle Shaw on few years, as you can see by my Alison White joined us for the celebration! spring: “I am looking forward to graduation beginning work on my graduate studies as I March 25, 2004. She weighed a healthy 7 delinquency in submitting my wedding I will be moving back to Nicaragua in July Simone Crosswhite-Abbou writes: “We this June from the New England College of pursue a master’s of liberal arts at SMU in pounds, 6 ounces and measured 21 inches. photo from last year! My wonderful groom 2004 after completing my Masters of Public Optometry. I will be at the VA Hospital in proudly announce the birth of our daughter Dallas. My wife, Tina, and I will celebrate As you can see, big brother Connor (3) is is Daniel Plosky (a cousin of Denise Health at the University of Washington. Emma, born March 2, 2004 in Paris, France.” Bedford, MA for a one year residency our third year of marriage in August.” delighted with his newest playmate. Life Moriguchi’s ’98, who introduced us), and Hector and I plan to move back to Seattle program. Still enjoying living in the South Stephanie L. Fine reports: “In March, I Lindsay F. Pearce says: “The Bowdoin with two kids is sometimes a challenge, but we recently celebrated our first anniversary after he completes his University degree in assumed my new position as assistant store End and happy to have Joan Denckla ’98 Sailing Team has established a new we are looking forward to a wonderfully back at the inn where we got married. Dan Law in December 2004.” See photo in now in the neighborhood.” manager of Shreve, Crump and Low’s clubhouse in Boston—I live with Jill busy summer here in Maine. Todd is in his first year of residency in ENT at Weddings section. flagship store in downtown Boston. I am Garland ’98, just back from her world cruise continues to enjoy his work as a math Yale University Hospital, and we recently Nina Lu ’99 and Rhett Hunter ’98 part of the new management team and, on a tall ship; George Karris ’98, who is teacher and department head at Camden bought a lovely house right on the shore “were married on July 10, 2004 at the Glen 00 while the days are long, they are both fun finishing up his first year at Harvard Business Hills Regional High School and I am that is open to all Bowdoin friends passing Manor House in Portsmouth, Rhode Reunion Planning Chair: and challenging.” School; and Dave Anderson ’00, who has a grateful to be at home with the kids. Life is through the area. After finishing my MPH Island.” See photo in Weddings section. Sarah Roop DeBenedictis fabulous new job. We frequently see Mike busy, but in the best possible way.” at Yale in 2003, I am now shuttling Kara (Missy) Powell Lyvén “and Ronny Reunion Giving Chairs: Jeffrey L. Busconi, Lampert, esquire ’00 and Buffy Small ’99. Cali Tran e-mailed in the spring: “Just between New Haven and Washington, DC Lyvén (Gothenburg University, Sweden) were Thomas A. Casarella, S. Prema Katari, Marney Pratt writes: “The last year has finished helping Mathias (Mort) Mortenson for my job in the Health, Nutrition, and married at Saratoga National Golf Course in Emily M. Reycroft, Jessica L. Rush, and been very busy. I moved back to Maine in drive cross country to relocate to San Population Sector of the Africa Region at Saratoga Springs, NY on September 12, Michelle A. Ryan August 2003 to start a job as the Coastal Francisco. It’s a bummer since I’m moving the World Bank. Please drop a line at 2003.” See photo in Weddings section. Studies Center Scholar-in-Residence at out of SF to Boston this August to start my [email protected] if you would like Jane MacLeod reports: “Big news is that Kate Connelly is “teaching English and Bowdoin. In September, I went back down MBA program at Harvard. See John Piazza to say hello.” See photo in Weddings section. I’m engaged to be married in September. coaching field hockey, ice hockey, and to North Carolina to defend my Ph.D. and the Abode guys (Hiram Hamilton, I’m still in New Jersey, and the fifth-graders lacrosse at The Rivers School in Weston.” dissertation in biology at Duke University. Marshall Iliff, and Mort) frequently.” are keeping me on my toes as I finish up Meredith Crosby reports: “Committee Connor Shaw, son of Colleen Ryan Shaw ’97 On a perfect sunny day at the peak of 99 my fifth year teaching at Rutgers Prep meetings for my research are coming along Class Agents: Michael L. Bouyea, and Todd Shaw ’95, gives his one-day-old foliage in October, I married Henry Renski School. I’m teaching 10-year-olds math and these days and I presented some of my Laura G. Enos, Jennifer E. Halloran sister, Michaela Noelle, her first big brother in Bar Harbor. While I did not marry a 98 science and coaching high school varsity recent work in April at the Radiation Class Officers: Peter Sims, president; Class Officers: Sarah Bond, president; hug. Michaela was born on March 25, 2004. Bowdoin alum, I married the cousin of soccer and lacrosse. I’m playing ice hockey Research Society’s meeting in St. Louis, three Bowdoin alums—Sheridan ’94, Jude Joanna Hass, vice-president; Kim Pacelli and Lauren Key, vice-president; Melissa Bravemen on a nationally bound women’s team. MO. I was happy to also be in contact with Jeremiah Goulka reports: “Practicing ’97, and Casey Kelly ’02. During ’03-’04, I Maireade McSweeney, class reporters and Maria Pistone, class reporters Hockey’s been great! And hey, that’s how I Mike Khair and hear that he would be constitutional and administrative law at the taught a class, mentored an honors student, Class Agents: Kim Pacelli and Justin Pearlman met my fiancée! Playing open hockey on starting his medical training at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, and did some research in my position as Will Crissman writes: “I am sorry I missed the rink where the Devils practice.” Cleveland Clinic Foundation/Case Western D.C. My book of Joshua L. Chamberlain’s scholar-in-residence. Next year (’04-’05), I For news of Rhett Hunter, see Nina Lu ’99 the reunion this spring. Instead of traveling Susie Oliver is chief operating manager Reserve University. Embarking on my fifth post-war letters comes out this September. will be teaching three classes as a sabbatical and photo in Weddings section. to Maine that weekend, I was explaining and one of the 15 co-founders of year here, I am hoping that I will be able to It’s called The Grand Old Man of Maine: replacement in the biology deparment. It Christine A. Jefferis wrote in the the finer points of irony in holding a bake “Republican-inclined” W Ketchup. “You complete a couple of more publications Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence has been fun to be back at Bowdoin. Who spring: “Completing first-year residency at sale for hunger to several community Don’t Support Democrats. Why Should regarding the proteins involved in cell cycle Chamberlain, 1865-1914 (University of knows where I will end up next?!” See photo University of Colorado in Denver. Bonnie service organizations at a religious Your Ketchup?” is the slogan for the brand progression and ionizing radiation and North Carolina Press, foreword by James in Weddings section. Pietsch ’99 and Mike Schuller live in my convention in Virginia. I hope everyone “started by friends who concluded during a begin to focus on winding down my M. McPherson). It’s available from the For news of Mark Ragosa see Katherine neighborhood and I enjoy seeing them who attended had a great time—five years barbecue that when they used Heinz research in preparation for thesis writing.” Bowdoin bookstore, Amazon, and all other Hood ’00 and photo in Weddings section. when time allows.” have flown by.” Tomato Ketchup, they were supporting the

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honeymooned in coastal northern Brazil. Newton is the latest addition to the NYC Affairs, financial services, and other issues Bethany L. Tinsley writes: “Two years Sara J. Edel emailed: “This September, Renata works a public relations executive crew, and I am looking forward to seeing for the Congressman.” From a Washington, into the ‘real world,’ and it still have only I will be relocating to Los Angelas, CA to for Weber Shandwick Worldwide. the rest of the girls at Lael Byrnes’ DC Roll Call article, May 24, 2004. made it as far south as Portland. I am pursue a Ph.D. in sociology at UCLA.” Kristopher is a consultant for HighQuest bachelorette and wedding!” “Matthew Gallon was recently awarded dating Sam Matcosian, a Colby alum, but Annie Gustafson emails: “In the Partners. The couple resides in Boston.” See Kimberly Schneider Lloyd “and Craig the National Science Foundation Graduate otherwise a very nice guy. The big news for beginning of the summer, I spent six weeks photo in Weddings section. Lloyd were married on June 5, 2004 at the Research Fellowship in Anthropology. The me is that I recently left my job at the in Ecuador doing intensive Spanish Ferris Lawrence emailed in the spring: Radisson Hotel in Enfield, CT.” See photo in Fellowship funds his Ph.D. degree in nonprofit holistic health care center, True language training. In mid-August I will be “Arrived in Istanbul in mid-February after Weddings section. anthropological archaeology program at North, to pursue teaching the Pilates starting a six-year Ph.D. program in backpacking overland from Cape Town, Myles Tarbell and Scott Roman University of Michigan. Prior to entering exercise method full-time. You can follow environmental history at Arizona State 1 South Africa. Had a blast traveling with competed in the /2 IronMan race at the graduate school, he worked as a research all of the excitement on the Web site Sam University in Tempe. I hope to join the A Common Good reunion: The week of June Tim Dwyer in the Middle East where we TimberMan Triathlon Festival on New assistant at the Smithsonian Institution’s built for me: www.bethanytinsley.com.” Bowdoin Club of AZ, sponsored by Kath 12, 2004, several Bowdoinites met up at Safe sailed up the Nile on a Felucca, camped Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee in August. Department of Anthropology were he Masterson ’03, Amber Reed ’03, and Passage, the social program run by Hanley out with the Bedouin of Wadi Rum, visited See accompanying photo. participated in field survey of Bronze Age Kevin Oh ’01. Visitors are welcome to our Denning ’92 in Guatemala City. (L to r): the crusader fortress of Krak des and Early Historic sites in Mongolia, as well 02 desert oasis.” Class Leadership Committee Chair: Allison Benton ’03 (2004 Safe Passage Chevaliers, tore up the ski slopes of Faraya as lab and fieldwork in the Eastern Arctic.” Sejica Kim emailed in the spring: “I will Melissa A. Tansey, [email protected] volunteer), Brady Kirchberg ’05 and Robin and explored the fairy-tale landscape of From a Gettysburg, PA Gettysburg Times be moving to Ann Arbor this August to Trangsrud ’06 (Safe Passage summer Central Anatolia’s Cappadocia. article, June 1, 2004. pursue my MHSA degree at the University Rachel P. Cram interns) Hanley, and Denise Corten Griffin . Kyle Durrie, Cassie Jones, and writes: “I am so excited of Michigan’s School of Public Health. ’77 and Chip Griffen ’77 (volunteers in June Retuned to the States in late February and professor Mark Wethli won a Blair L. Sadler that my cousin, Katherine Armstrong, will I’m looking forward to being back in ’04). During the summer, the Griffins raised am instructing kiteboarding in Cape International Arts in Healthcare 2004 be joining the freshman class this fall. I am the Midwest!” funds that enabled Safe Passage to purchase Hatteras, NC for Real Kiteboarding. honorable mention for their project “Four finishing a graduate program at the Teton Marisa McNamara Lopez writes: “I farmland and a 15-passenger van. Looking forward to attending the weddings Quartets,” sponsored by Mid Coast Science School in WY this summer. Then, excitedly announce my recent marriage to I’ll be teaching science at an all girls middle Shanna L. Gagnon writes: “After eight of Eric Ebeling ’98 and Stew Mackie and Hospital of Brunswick. The three Marcos Lopez Garcia. I met my new Lisa McLaughlin this summer.” completed the project, based on poetry by school in Oakland, CA in the fall. I’m husband while in Mexico, pursuing my years of being a college student, I am finally excited to be in the classroom.” out of school! On May 16, I graduated from Bjorn Lee ’98 and Jayme Okma Lee ’00 T.S. Eliot, for the opening of the new Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (2002-2003). Myles Tarbell ’00 and Scott Roman ’00 pose Jette Duba, Myles Tarbell ’00, the University of Connecticut Dental “were married April 16, 2004 on Man-O- hospital in 2001. From a Portland, Maine, Our wedding reception will be held on after their 1/2 IronMan race at the Katherine Buckspan ’02, Will Thomas School. I will be practicing general War Cay, Abaco, Bahamas.” See photo in Portland Press Herald article, June 13, 2004. October 2, 2004 in Onset, MA, followed in Weddings section. TimberMan Triathlon Festival on New Cassie and Mark Wethli were also featured ’03, and Katie Eshelman ’06 raced in the November by more wedding celebrations in dentistry with my father, Don Gagnon, in Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee in August. TimberMan Triathlon Festival at Ellacoya Farmingdale, Maine as soon as I get my For news of Megan Lewis, see Frank in several other newspaper stories Mexico with Marcos’ family and friends! I Hwang ’99. announcing their two-person exhibition of State Park in Gilford, NH in August. Myles can’t wait to party with Marcos and all my license. I hope to get back into ‘normal life’ and Will competed as individuals while again, now that I don’t have to study 24/7. “Lisa M. McLaughlin and Stew Mackie 01 recent work at Icon Contemporary Art in wonderful Bowdoin buddies! (Especially were married on July 10, 2004 in Boston, Portland last spring. Jette, Katherine, and Katie were teammates those he hasn’t met yet!) Yay! But, does this I barely got out in the first two years of Class Leadership Committee Chair: 1 MA.” See photo in Weddings section. Cynthia D. Maxwell reports: “I am for the /2 IronMan, after competing as make me ‘MLo?’” dental school because I was essentially in Stephanie R. Mann, [email protected] individuals in the Sprint Course the day medical school—as dental students, we Carrie A. McGilvery reports: “I will be Class Agents: Ashley C. Cotton, Peter G. Curran, currently in law school. Go U Bears!” Becky Melvoin reports: “I’m leaving leaving Houston, Texas, where I have been Homa Mojtabai writes: “Since before. Jette won her age group in the Seattle and heading to Providence, RI to take all the same medical courses as med Jack V. Curtin, Elizabeth E. Feeherry, Sprint and came in 11th overall for women. students in the first two years. Life got an elementary school teacher through Elissa L. Ferguson, and Kenneth S. Templeton September ’03, I’ve been living in D.C. and pursue graduate studies in American Teach For America, to attend the University working at the Grameen Foundation Katie was second in their age group. See civilization at Brown.” better in years three and four—I actually accompanying photo. got to play some tennis with coach Dan of Maine Law School.” Henry M. Chance IV “graduated from USA—an organization that fights poverty Brendan Z. Reddy briefs: “Law & Hammond, who is now the head tennis Elizabeth Meyers Christoforetti Penn State School of Mechanical by increasing the capacity of micro-finance Economics Consulting Group (LECG) in and squash professional at the Hartford reports: “I am currently living in London, Engineering in May ’03 and, after several institutions around the world. I’m having a Belgium. Joined firm in March 2004 as a Golf Club. I learned how to play squash, working for an interior architecture firm months of fruitless searching, landed a job great time, and run into fellow Polar Bears research associate.” too! (Great for getting out all the and generally enjoying the city. I plan to with Computer Sciences Corporation in all the time.” Rebecca Sears, who plays first violin frustrations of studying!) To the 11th Floor return to the States next year to finish my Washingto, D.C. Also down here is Pete Anne C. Powell “has just completed with the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra, Crew: I’m so sorry I didn’t make it for degree in Chicago (interior architecture) Hahn ’02, who I am rooming with, and her third year at UMass Medical School joined her mother, an organist, and her Reunion Weekend. I was hoping to make it and then move back to Boston.” who also works for CSC.” in Worcester.” father, a composer, pianist, and organist, to for next year (our fifth year reunion) but it Rebecca Nesvet updates: “My plays, The Monica S. Dewey wrote in the spring: Jenny Slepian updates: “I’m living in perform a concert at the First United sounds like Carolyn Sages is getting Diamond Net and The Shape Shifter, are in “Still working in Colorado. I love living out New Zealand, getting my master’s at the Methodist Church in Millersville, MA, in hitched. Hope everyone is doing well!” development in London. I have taken up a here—I belong in the mountains. Am eagerly University of Otago. It’s been really busy, late June. From a New York, NY CNNMoney Leigh M. Hoenig updated in the spring: position as Senior Lecturer in Creative looking forward to this summer—my oldest but there’s still been time for some Kiwi article, June 28, 2004. “I have just accepted a special education Writing at the University of sister is getting married, which will be a fun fun, skydiving and the like. I see heaps of Jen Staples reports: “I’ve been teaching teaching position in Waltham, MA. I Gloucestershire, in the Cotswolds region of family affair, if not a little hectic, too! No set BCAD sweatshirts around on all the study special ed. in Boston for the past year and I August, I finish my master’s of special England. I look forward to starting this plans for the future on my end. Hopefully, I abroad kids. Anyone is welcome to visit if Jette Duba ’02, Myles Tarbell ’00, Katherine love it! This fall I’ll be applying to grad education program at UMass-Boston!” exciting work in September 2004.” can continue to enjoy myself without the you’re in the Dunedin area. In fact, my flat Buckspan ’02, Will Thomas ’03, and Katie school in school psychology. Also I was Mark Ragosa ’97 and Katherine Hood ’00 Emily M. Reycroft is “still living in NYC stress of that decision getting in the way! would be a lot warmer with some extra Eshelman ’06 at the TimberMan Triathlon recently engaged and we are planning the “were married on June 14, 2003 in and loving it. Had a blast in Brazil in March Many hugs and hellos to the staff and people in it!” Festival at Ellacoya State Park in Gilford, wedding for summer 2005 in Vermont.” 1 Winchester, MA.” See photo in Weddings section. with Patrick Fleury, Jed Repko, Alex professors in the art history department.” Anne H. Stevenson reports: “I moved NH after the /2 IronMan competition. Myles Owen M. Swift emailed in the spring: Kristopher J. Hopkins and “Renata D. Gray, Andrew Caplan, Dave Nakashian, “Charles W. Estoff has been moved up back to Boston last summer and started and Will competed as individuals, while Jette, “Here I am with the Army in Mosul, Iraq— Bacellar (Boston College ’01) were married and Scott Roman at Kris Hopkins’ from legislative correspondents legislative working at the NPR station here, WBUR. I Katherine, and Katie were teammates for the a long way from home. There is a lot of 1 on March 7, 2004 at the Copacabana Palace wedding. The wedding, and the bride assistant for Rep. Jack Quinn’s (R-NY) have been working on the shows, Morning /2 IronMan, after competing as individuals work to do here, and I’m proud to say that Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They Renata Bacellar, were beautiful! Amanda office. He now handles defense, Veterans Edition and Here and Now.” in the Sprint Course the day before. I’m a small part of that. Frequently, it is

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frustrating to see progress in the village. Hope everyone is doing well and “Ryan Seymour is starting his second New York, NY News India Times, article the Dominion Club near Richmond, VA. I community thwarted by the efforts of 03 enjoying post-Bowdoin life.” year at Kent School in Connecticut, March 12, 2004. now split my time between Vermont in the extremists. But, the fight goes on.” Class Leadership Committee: Mara L. Caruso “is finishing up her teaching American history and government Brian Laurits “has been training for the summer and Virginia in the winter—the Ann VanVolkenburgh is “currently Joan A. Taylor, convener, [email protected] master’s of arts degree in elementary as well as coaching hockey and lacrosse Olympic skeleton team since this past spring. best of both worlds.” residing in Philly with my fiance, Joel education from Columbia University, teams. He hopes to catch a couple of He recently moved to upstate New York to The Lewiston, Maine Sun Journal Chang (James Madison Universtiy, ’02), I’m Dominique Alepin reported in the spring: Teachers College in New York City. She will football games this fall,” reported Ed be closer to the ice track so he can train on a reported last spring that the Holocaust working as a temp and looking forward to “I am about to embark on the last year at graduate in the Fall of 2004 and plans to Langbein ’57 in August. “Ryan had been a more regular basis. He wants to make the US Human Rights Center of Maine received a starting Drexel University’s accelerated Columbia Law School. I was elected the live and work in Boston, MA.” host student, and dropped by last month.” national team by 2005-2006, and ultimately generous gift from Judith Magyar Isaacson nursing program this fall. Joel is a med Editor in Chief of the Columbia Journal of Sarah H. Coleman is “currently living in See accompanying photo. the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.” G’67 in memory of her parents. “Her student at Temple, so we’ll be here for a Law and the Arts, which is the pre-eminent Washington DC, working for the education Ginette Saimprevil and “Mark Roberts father, Jenö Magyar, perished in Mühldorf few years before we flee to warmer climes. entertainment and art based law journal in department at Arena Stage.” have both returned to Bowdoin with two- Lager, a satellite camp of Buchenwald, We’re getting married in August, 2004 and the country. I will also be publishing my Bethany C. Dittmar wrote in the spring: year contracts as assistant directors of shortly before his 45th birthday. Her mother, I can’t wait to dance the night away with note on the CAN-Spam Act of 2003 in the “I am finishing up a great year as a teaching residential life. They hope to fill the void Rose Magyar, died in Auburn in 1999. The my Bowdoin roomies! Life is good.” same journal this fall. I am packing up for assistant in Hamburg, Gremany, and will left by the departures of Bob Graves, Jed gift will fund equipment for the resource Kathleen Waller updates: “My Lexington six weeks in Paris at Shearman & Sterling. I return to the US in July.” Wartman ’01, and Scott Jamieson ’02.” room of the Education Resource Center. classmates might be interested to know that am splitting my summer between their New Aaron L. Donohoe was, as of last spring, Michal Shapiro is “working in Brookline The facility will be built as an addition to I’ll be teaching English at our high school York office and the Paris office. I am excited “making pizzas at the prestigious Thor’s at a nonprofit organization called Facing the Bennett D. Katz Library on University next year. It was a fun and crazy year in to finally be practicing the law instead of Pizza of Sandpoint, Idaho.” As of late History and Ourselves. It’s a national of Maine at Augusta campus. Judith, of Paris, where Acadia Senese ’03 and I were sitting in a classroom learning about it!” August, he was on his way to Seattle to education organization that has training Auburn, author of Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of both studying. During a Christmas visit Allison Benton “is volunteering in start grad school in atmospheric sciences. institutes for middle school and high school a Survivor, is one of two Maine woman to from Pat Vardaro ’03, he proposed!” Guatemala for an organization called Safe Arij Faksh writes: “I spent last year Ryan Seymour ’03 and friend at the Museum teachers. My title is National and be honored this year with a place in the Ningning Yang writes: “The online Passage [founded and run by Hanley teaching chemistry at Hermon High School of Natural History in NYC this past July. International Program Assistant.” Maine Women’s Hall of Fame. She community at www.friendster.com is Denning ’92]. The organization is helping (Hermon, Maine). I am now attending the Elliott Wright “has been offered a graduated from Bates in 1965 with a catching on among college and university some of the poorest Guatemalan children University of New England College of Katherine A. Stallkamp is “preparing fellowship with the El Pomar Foundation bachelor’s in mathematics and earned a alumni networks. Our Bowdoin community break out of poverty through education. Osteopathic Medicine (Biddeford, Maine).” to finish my master’s program at NYU in for Community Service in Colorado master’s in mathematics from Bowdoin. She have 230-plus members as of August and Allison will complete a year in Guatemala David T. Harden reports: “After spending mathematics of finance and am looking forward Springs, Colorado. The fellowship is a two- holds honorary doctorates from Bates and it’s amazing to see how everyone’s doing. in October. In the meantime, she’s teaching, 10 months looking for work (and trying to interning at JP Morgan this summer.” year opportunity ($25,000/year stipend) to Colby College and University of New Polar Bears from all classes are encouraged translating for visitors, and traveling to pretend college is not over), I finally gain leadership skills and knowledge of the England. She served as being of women in to search for Bowdoin College and join us— through Guatemala. She’s also teaching landed a position here in Portland. I am an nonprofit world and its ability to help the dean of students at Bates from 1969 to don’t let Colby and Bates beat us in size! English, waiting tables, and babysitting to independent contractor currently attached 04 lives of Coloradonians.” 1977 and is a member of the Bowdoin Thanks to Peter Springer ’99 for the pay bills through the year.” to the Energy East, Inc., where I am Class Leadership Committee: College Board of Overseers from 1984 to initiatives. I recently spent some time on a Allison M. Binkowski wrote in early consulting on a long-term enterprise Kristen D. Dummer, convener, 1996.” From a Lewiston, Maine, Sun Journal business trip to my company’s Japan office. spring: “After spending the summer leading software implementation. Portland has [email protected] Graduates article, March 5, 2004. In the midst of Tokyo’s virtual-realistic chaos trips for Outward Bound, I moved to proven an ideal city to work in and I Stella B. Sargent G’64 writes: “My Ronald Persons G’72 updates: “I have Jerry L. Edwards “delivered his firstborn and Kyoto’s eternal tranquility, for the first California, where I am working as continue to enjoy all that Maine has to offer.” daughter, Katherine, was married May 30 been happily employed at AIG in son, Jaylen Edwards-Burwell February 16, time I was able to look at my roots in Asian professional ski patroller and preparing to Megan M. Hayes writes: “I’ve remained near Portland, Oregon. My son has been Wilmington, DE for 10 years as a senior 2004, Presidents’ Day, this year. Jaylen cultures through the western liberal arts start medical school at Dartmouth in the in Maine since graduating and have split promoted to director of golf instruction at D.P. analyst. I also live in Wilmington.” education I received at Bowdoin. Having fall of 2004.” my time between teaching environmental weighed in at 7 lbs., 7 oz. and was 21.5 in. been working and living in NYC since Sarah M. Bruss reported in the spring: education in Wiscasset, Maine at the long. His dad is seeking a career in graduation and looking back, I am learning “I am currently living in Portland, Maine Chewonki Fundation and teaching skiing music business.” Return to campus… to appreciate my days at Bowdoin with new and finishing a certificate in child and over the winter. This summer, I am heading For news of Natalie Handel, see Alison perspectives.” See accompanying photo. family policy and management at the off on two three-week sea kayaking trips, Welch Davee ’85 and accompanying photo. Muskie School of Public Service, USM. I where we paddle from Wiscasset to Bar Kala Hardacker is “living in San am still pretty sure that I want to be a Francisco on Russian Hill with Julia anytime Harbor.” teacher but, the education has been Whitney S. Hodgkins is “still living in Febiger ’03, and is working in the enlightening. This summer, I will be Brunswick and working at a residential marketing department at Medtronic Vascular in Santa Rosa, CA.” anywhere planning for my August wedding to Jeremy treatment facility for adolescents with Gabrielson and, hopefully, working at a behavioral problems. It’s a bit crazy at Hari K. Kondabolu wrote an article that flower shop in town. In the fall, we plan to times, but I’m having fun.” appeared in March 12, 2004 addition of the with Bowdoin magazine online! move to China for a while. I hope life is Jed Miller “started a job as a research News India Times, under the Washington treating everyone well.” assistant at ICF Consulting in Fairfax, VA.” Leadership Program Chat Room, titled Patrick Burns writes: “Since graduation Tommy Scifres reports: “I have been “Focus on Identity: Indian? South Asian? www.bowdoin.edu/bowdoinmagazine over a year ago, I have been busy traveling awarded a fellowship at Smith College in Desi? Brown?” “Hari, who is originally from vdoin around. I spent the summer after Queens New York, was a member of the their Exercise Science and Sports Studies • Read current feature articles • Change your address graduation guiding a community service M.A. program. I am very excited about this IACPA’s Washington Leadership Program trip in Costa Rica. Afterwards, I spent the opportunity and I begin this fall. I have class of 2003, and interned with Senator • Submit Class News and wedding announcements year teaching study skills courses in Puerto already purchased cross-country skis in Hillary Clinton during the summer of • Send a letter to the editor • Find advertising info Rico, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Australia. Now, preparation for the long New England 2003. He’s also a standup comedian • Order photo reprints • Download back issues Ningning Yang ’02 (right) and Geisha friend I’m off to Ecuador to lead another winters that I became so accustomed to at who has done shows at various colleges pose in Kyoto, Japan, during a business trip community service trip in a small Andean around the country. His Web site is: Camp Bobo.” Take a look and let us know what you think. Bow Ningying took to Japan in February 2004. http://www.harikondabolu.com.” From a

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Roy Alexander Robinson ’27 died on of its divisions – with J. & P. Coats in after graduating cum laude in 1931 Hallett Phillips Foster ’33 died on Phillips he was co-chair of the estate broker with John T. Burns May 28, 2004, in Westbrook. Born on Rhode Island, with Clark Thread joined the Norfolk City Trust Company February 5, 2004, in Gladwyne, PA. Republican Party Committee, was Company in Newton, and in 1966 he January 6, 1905, in Westbrook, he Company, Inc., and North Georgia in Brookline. From 1939 until 1942 he Born on April 17, 1910, in the Maine president of the Parent-Teacher became a real estate investment broker prepared for college at Westbrook High Processing Company in Atlanta, GA, was an accountant with R. Holdsworth town of Oakland, he prepared for Association, and served as a first with Dial Realty in Brookline, MA. School and attended Colby College for and in New York City as vice president & Company in Boston. During World college at Waterville High School and lieutenant in the Maine State Guard. He After four years as a self-employed a year before transferring to Bowdoin of manufacturing. While in Rhode War II, he served from 1942 to 1945 in became a member of Theta Delta Chi was the first Head Start dentist in the broker and owner in Newton, he joined in September of 1923. Following his Island, he was a director of the Rhode the U.S. Army Air Forces, attaining the Fraternity at Bowdoin. Following his United States. Surviving are his wife, the Data Realty Corporation in Boston graduation in 1927, he taught Island Community Chests, Inc., the rank of corporal. He did graduate work graduation in 1933, he was a driver for Myrtle Brown Thurlow, whom he as a real estate investment broker. He mathematics and sciences in Maine at Pawtucket & Blackstone Valley at Cornell University in New York, the Maine Central Transportation married in 1935; a son, Norman C. also owned apartment units for a time Newport High School for two years, at Community Chest, and the Pawtucket where he was a graduate preceptor, Company in Augusta for a year and Thurlow II of Hampden; three and helped develop and sell the first Biddeford High School for five years, and Central Falls YMCA. He was also a devoting half of his time to work in the then joined the Liberty Mutual daughters, Susan S. Gagne of condominiums in Newton. Surviving and at Dixfield High School for six member of the executive committee of guidance program for freshmen and Insurance Company in Philadelphia, Bethlehem, CT, Margaret Richman of are his wife, Louise DeGeorge Cohen, years. After a year as a principal in the Blackstone Valley Area Boy Scouts sophomores and the other half to PA. In 1938, he was transferred to Metamora, IL, and Melissa Yerxa of whom he married in 1938; a daughter, Huntington, MA, he joined the faculty and a member of the board of managers graduate study. Through the years, he Cleveland, OH, as sales manager, and Jonesboro; ten grandchildren; and four Janet; and a son, Paul. at Westbrook High School in 1943 and of the Pawtucket and Central Falls worked in the accounting and auditing in 1950 he joined W.F. Todd Associates, great-grandchildren. was a teacher and assistant principal. Visiting Nurse Association. He was a areas, ending with a position at Cheshire Inc., in Cleveland, with which he Nathan Wilbur Watson ’35 died on He became principal in 1954, a charter member of the Lafayette Medical Center in Keene, from which he became vice president and then George Melvin Cleaves, Jr. ’34 died on April 8, 2004, in Bath. Born on July 22, position that he held until his Masonic Lodge in North Cumberland, retired in 1991. His first marriage in president and chair of the board. In February 17, 2004, in Bar Harbor. Born 1913, he prepared for college at Morse retirement in 1967. He received a RI, and for many years was a member 1944 to Flora Mitchell ended in divorce. 1974, he also became president of there on July 3, 1911, he prepared for High School there and became a master of arts degree in the field of of the Denmark Congregational Church He married Dorothy Briggs in 1964, and Foster-Rankin Associates, Inc. in college at Bar Harbor High School and member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity at secondary administration from in Maine. He had served as president of is survived by several step-children and Cleveland. He retired in 1981. In became a member of Zeta Psi Fraternity Bowdoin. Following his graduation cum Teachers College at Columbia the Textile Club in Boston and the step-grandchildren. Bowdoin affairs he was 1933’s Class at Bowdoin, which he attended from laude and as a member of Phi Beta University in New York City in 1943. Rhode Island Textile Association and Agent in the Alumni Fund from 1960 1930 to 1932. He was a general clerk in Kappa in 1935, he attended summer He served as president of the was a director of the Georgia Textile Albert Edward Jenkins ’31 died on to 1964, was a Placement Bureau Aide, Bar Harbor from 1932 to 1938, when school at the Institut de Touraine in Westbrook Teachers Association and Manufacturers Association. He was February 6, 2004, in Whittier, CA. Born and was for some years president of the he became a cashier with Childs Tours, France, and then was an English the Maine Principals Association, was a married in 1933 to Helen Westaway, on July 7, 1908, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, Bowdoin Club of Cleveland. He was a Corporation in New York City. He was language assistant in the Lycée Pothiers member of the National Education who died in 1967, and is survived by a England, he prepared for college at director of the Cuyahoga County bank clerk in Philadelphia, PA, for for boys in Orleans, France. After Association, the National Association daughter, Beth B. Dailey of Lighthouse Winthrop (MA) High School and Insurance Board, the Cleveland Skating nearly two years before serving in the serving as assistant secretary of the for Secondary Principals, and the New Point, FL;, a son, John Bullard of became a member of Alpha Tau Omega Club, the Shaker Heights Dads Club, U.S. Army during World War II from Bath YMCA for a year, he was a England Association of Colleges and Abilene, TX; 10 grandchildren; and 11 Fraternity at Bowdoin. Following his the Hudson Skating Club, the United 1942 to 1945, attaining the rank of teaching fellow in French at Bowdoin Secondary Schools. In 1965 he donated great-grandchildren. graduation in 1931 cum laude and as a Way of Cleveland, and the First technician fifth grade. After the war, he in 1937-38 and then began teaching one of his kidneys to his son, Richard member of Phi Beta Kappa, he joined the Church of Christ Scientist. He was worked in Bar Harbor stores for some French at Morse High School, where he E. Robinson ’46, who lived until 1982. Harrison Farnsworth Gleason ’30 died John Hancock Life Insurance Company married in 1940 to Virginia Crowe, years and then became a mail carrier served for 37 years in various Roy Robinson was the co-founder and on January 28, 2004, in Ellicott City, in Boston, where he worked for 11 years. who died in 1984, and was married with the U.S. Postal Service. He was positions, including guidance director first treasurer of the Kidney MD. Born on March 25, 1907, in Kansas In 1941 he entered the Episcopal again in 1986 to Gwen Minton, who treasurer and collector of taxes for Bar after he received a master of education Foundation of Maine, serving from City, MO, he prepared for college at Theological School in Cambridge, MA, survives him, as do a son, John H. Harbor from 1946 to 1948, was for degree from the University of Maine in 1969 until 1974. He was a member and Shady Side Academy in Pennsylvania from which he was graduated in 1944. Foster of New York City; two many years a vestryman and lay reader Orono in 1952. He was later assistant former treasurer of the Westbrook and became a member of Beta Theta Pi After serving as an assistant priest at All grandchildren; three step- at St. Saviour’s Church in Bar Harbor, principal and, in 1967-68, was the Warren Congregational Church and a Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, grandchildren; and a great-grandson. served as a director of the Bar Harbor acting principal. He was also principal 32nd degree member of the Masons and attended from 1926 to 1928. For many CA, he became rector of St. Matthias Loan and Building Association, was a of the Bailey Evening School of the Kora Temple Shrine. While a years he was associated with H. F. Church in Whittier, where he served as Charles Edward Thurlow ’33 died on past commander of the local American Education in Bath from 1961-1968. He student at Bowdoin in September of Gleason Motors, Inc., in Pittsburgh, PA, rector for 27 years, retiring in 1973 and February 4, 2004, in the Maine town of Legion post, and was a treasurer of the retired in 1975, and in 1976 was the 1924, he was married to Anne L. Libby, which was previously known as becoming rector-emeritus. While at St. Phillips. Born on November 7, 1911, in Episcopal Churchmen of Maine. He recipient of the Distinguished Bowdoin who died in 1997. Surviving are a Whitehill-Gleason Motors, distributors Matthias, he was also rector at St. Burnham Junction, he prepared for was married in 1946 to Ruth Hartin, Educator Award. He was 1935’s Class daughter-in-law, Barbara Robinson of of Hupmobiles. He was also active in a Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Pico college at Fryeburg Academy and who died in 1986, and is survived by a Agent in the Alumni Fund for 28 years, Waltham, MA; and three grandchildren. nursery business, which became a Rivera from 1948 to 1952 and at St. became a member of Alpha Tau Omega son, David F. Cleaves of Bar Harbor; beginning in 1976, and in 2000 the hobby after he retired in 1970. Surviving Stephen’s Episcopal Church in La Habra Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he and a daughter, Sarah C. Cleaves of Bar College gave him the Polar Bear Award Emerson Morse Bullard ’30 died on are a daughter, Cathy Lundy of Ellicott in 1954-55. He also assisted the Diocese attended for two years before Harbor. for his many years of devoted service. June 21, 2004, in Boca Raton, FL. Born City; two sons, Harrison F. Gleason of in starting two other churches in transferring to Tufts Dental School, In 1981 he was the recipient of the on July 9, 1908, in Norwood, MA, he Madison, OH, and Clifton C. Gleason of California. In his retirement, he served from which he received his doctor of Sidney Cohen ’35 died on April 10, “Mainsail Award” for “service to school prepared for college at Wrentham (MA) Atlanta, GA; eight grandchildren; and as assistant chaplain at Whittier dental medicine degree in 1935. He 2004, in Newton, MA. Born on January and community,” given by Morse High High School and the Huntington 15 great-grandchildren. Presbyterian Hospital and assisted in practiced for a year in Rockland before 18, 1914, in Boston, he prepared for School and the Community Liaison School for Boys in Boston and became services at St. Matthias and All Saints in establishing a practice in Phillips, college at Boston English High School Council. He had served as president of a member of Theta Delta Chi Fraternity John Prescott Emmons ’31 died on Pasadena. In Bowdoin affairs he was not where he remained in active practice and attended Bowdoin from 1931 to the Bath Teachers Club, The Bath High at Bowdoin. Following his graduation January 14, 2003, in Keene, NH. Born only 1931’s Class Secretary for more than until 1989. He brought the first x-ray 1933. For some years, he was a bakery School Alumni Association, the in 1930, he studied for two years at on May 3, 1908, in Dorchester, MA, he 70 years but also its Class Bequest machine to Franklin County and was a salesman with the Hall Bakery Bowdoin Teachers Club, the Bath- Harvard Graduate School of Business prepared for college at Brookline (MA) Chairman for more than 30 years, member of the staff at Franklin Company in Somerville, MA, and from Brunswick Bowdoin Club, and the Administration, from which he received High School, attended Harvard College beginning in 1972. He is survived by his Memorial Hospital in Farmington. He 1943 to 1952 he owned and operated a Bath-Brunswick-Sagadahoc Retired an M.B.A. degree in 1932. From that in 1925-26, and entered Bowdoin in wife, Nancy Garrett Jenkins, whom he was a member of the Maine Dental five-cent to $1.00 store in Boston. After Teachers Association. From 1977 to time until his retirement in 1972, he September of 1928 as a member of the married in 1946, and by “the St. Association, the American Dental owning and operating a Tots and Teens 1990, he was a Sagadahoc County was associated with Coats & Clark, sophomore class. He became a member Matthias community,” as a newspaper Association, the Masons, and the First Store in East Boston from 1952 to Commissioner. A communicant of St. Inc., holding positions with a number of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and account put it. Congregational Church of Fryeburg. In 1957, he became a residential real Mary’s Church in Bath, he served for

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more than thirty years as a lector. He sergeant. From 1945 to 1947, he was Department, he was a member of the 1938, he joined the home office of the remained in the Air Force and by the Paris at the Radiodiffusion Corporation was also president of the Parish the director of the Army’s Fine Arts Chequesett Golf Club. He was married Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance time of his retirement in 1973 he had and then became chief of the North Council, a Eucharistic Minister, a Collecting Centers in Marburg and in 1942 to Bernice Zemke, who died in Company in Massachusetts. He also become a lieutenant general. From American Service of the French member of the Religious Education Wiesbaden in Germany and then did 2001, and is survived by three sons, worked in New York City and 1945 to 1949, he served in the Broadcasting System in Paris. He later Committee, and president of the more graduate work for a year at Yale, Edward J. Brown, Jr., ’69 of Northport, Philadelphia, PA, before serving in the Pentagon in the Air Intelligence joined Pan American World Airways, Corporal Works of Mercy. In 2002, he from which he received a master of arts NY, David A. Brown of Eastham, and U.S. Navy during World War II from Division and, from 1949 to 1952, was where he was a senior flight control was chosen as St. Mary’s Father of the degree in 1950. Successively through Peter J. Brown ’74 of Topanga, CA, and 1944 to 1946 and attaining the rank of chief of the U.S. Air Force Mission in agent in Paris and Nice for many years. Year. Surviving are his wife, Kathleen the years, he was an assistant with six grandchildren. lieutenant junior grade. After the war, Haiti, helping establish that country’s He continued to live in Cagnes sur Mer Leonard Watson, whom he married in American collections at the Newark he became a special agent for the state domestic air transport service. He was following his retirement. Surviving are 1939; a daughter, Kathleen W. Museum, supervisor of education with Thomas Joseph Craven, Jr. ’38 died on of Maine with Springfield Fire and the director of intelligence at the a sister, Florence Smith of Phoenix, AZ; Goodwin of Bath; and a grandson, the New York Historical Society, an March 28, 2004, in Biddeford. Born on Marine Insurance Company. In 1956, he Strategic Air Command headquarters and a sister-in-law, Marion Bledsoe of Jonathan Goodwin of New Hyde Park, instructor in art history at Hunter April 29, 1914, in Portland, he returned to the home office in for 10 years and in 1965 moved to U.S. Gloversville. Long Island, NY. College in New York City, assistant prepared for college at Cheverus High Springfield as superintendent of Air Force Headquarters, where he director and supervisor of education at School, Portland High School, and multiple lines, and a year later he was served as director of plans and then as Richard French Marsh ’39 died on Frank Wilson Kibbe ’37 died on April the Herron Art Museum in Hebron Academy and became a named director of education for that deputy chief of staff for plans and April 17, 2004, in Manchester, NH. 3, 2004, in Camden. Born on April 29, Indianapolis, IN, art instructor at Butler member of Theta Delta Chi Fraternity company. In 1958, he joined the Aetna operations. In 1968, he became vice Born on May 6, 1916, in St. Albans, VT, 1915, in Hartford, CT, he prepared for University in Indianapolis, director of at Bowdoin. Following his graduation Insurance Company as a special agent in commander-in-chief, U.S. Air Force, he prepared for college at Enosburg college at Loomis Academy and became the Swope Art Gallery in Terra Haute, in 1938, he served as a midshipman in Maine and was promoted to manager for Europe. From 1969 until his retirement Falls High School in Vermont and at a member of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity IN, art instructor at the T.W. Norton the U.S. Navy Reserve before World the state of Maine in 1963. In 1983, the in 1973, he was chief of staff, United Vermont Academy in Saxtons River and at Bowdoin. Following his graduation Gallery in Shreveport, LA, and director War II and in 1939 joined the National firm merged with the Insurance Nations Command and United States became a member of Theta Delta Chi in 1937, he entered Johns Hopkins of the Gibbes Art Gallery in Charleston, Biscuit Company as a salesman in New Company of North America, and in Forces in Korea. In 1973, he joined E- Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he Medical School, and received his M.D. SC. Beginning in 1971, he did freelance York. He was area manager in Presque 1984 he retired. He was a member of the Systems, Inc., as director for Eastern attended in 1935-36. For many years degree in 1941. He served in the U.S. and photo research work for numerous Isle from 1948 to 1952 and then was Bowdoin Alumni Council from 1948 to operations, with offices in Seoul, Korea, he was general manager of Blake’s Army during World War II from 1943 book publishing firms in New York area manager in Dover, NH, until 1955. 1952 and served as its president and as and later on was president of Trans- Creamery and Restaurants and had to 1946 in Burma, Fiji, and India, City. He was the publisher and author He was Nabisco’s divisional manager in president of the Alumni Association in Pacific Consultants, Inc. He received an lived in Manchester since 1960. He was attaining the rank of captain. Following of many art publications and was Cambridge, MA, from 1955 to 1968, 1951-52. In the Portland area, he was a honorary degree in 1970 from a member and past president of the his military service, he did his involved in the establishment of two art when he became assistant director of volunteer for a number of organizations, Kyonchee Luonghee University in board of directors of the William J. residency at Children’s Hospital in schools. He was also involved in the sales in New York. He was president including the Maine Medical Center, Seoul. He was a member of Bowdoin’s Moore Center and helped develop Boston. In 1947, he moved to organizations of twelve concert-in-film and a director of service Intra- the Baxter Elementary School in Board of Overseers from 1965 to 1978, community-based homes for Moore Lincolnville in Maine and practiced series and traveled to many countries, European in Brussels, Belgium, from Portland, and a local soup kitchen and was selected as Fryeburg Academy’s Center clients in the Manchester area. family medicine in Rockland and at the including four visits to archaeological 1969 to 1971, when he became homeless center connected with the most distinguished alumnus, and He also served as president of Red Knox County General Hospital for 30 sites. Surviving are several nieces managing director of Nabisco Frears State Street Congregational Church’s served as trustee of the Academy. Feather in the Manchester area, which years. In the late 1970s, he developed a and nephews. Biscuits in Leicester, England, and a work with the needy. He also Surviving are his wife, Sheau Mei preceded the United Way, and was for research interest in the development of director of Nabisco Limited in London. volunteered with the South Freeport Smith, whom he married in 1975; two many years a director of the Amoskeag embryo implants in farm animals with Edward James Brown ’38 died on April He retired in 1974 and returned to Church’s “Called to Care” program. daughters, Terry Ravetti of San Mateo, National Bank and a member of the a colleague in Belfast, and eventually 24, 2004 in Brewster, MA. Born on Maine, where he was a member of St. Surviving are his two daughters, Sara H. CA, and Bobbe Smith of Tustin, CA; Manchester Country Club and the moved to New Zealand to work with a February 18, 1916, in West Roxbury, Andre’s Church in Biddeford and a Jurgeleit of Portland, ME and Susan H. three brothers, George E. Smith, Jr. ’42 Brookside Congregational Church. company that exported sheep embryos MA, he prepared for college at member of the Biddeford-Saco Rotary Piehl ’82 of Aurora, CO; two sons, of York Beach, Conrad Smith of Surviving are his wife, Daurice to third world countries. He returned Winchester (MA) High School and Club and the Biddeford Zoning Board William D. Hyde, Jr. ’65 of Aurora and Woburn, MA, and Kenneth Smith of Hedenquist Marsh, whom he married to Maine in 1989 and lived at Owl’s became a member of Delta Upsilon of Appeals. He was also president of Stephen P. Hyde of Yarmouth, ME; a Carolina, Puerto Rico; three sisters, in 1938; a daughter, Sandra J. Therien Head. He married in 1940 to Lucy Fraternity of Bowdoin. Following his the Hoyt’s Neck Association and the sister, Prudence H. Gibbons of Rumson, Edna Murray of Derry, NH, Nancy of Hilton Head, SC; two sons, David H. Kimberly, who died in 2001. He is graduation in 1938, he was a trainee Fortune’s Rocks Beach Association. He NJ, and 11 grandchildren. DeRosa of Cape Neddick, and Martha Marsh and Peter K. Marsh, both of survived by three sons, Frank Kibbe, Jr. with Paine Webber and Company in was married in 1941 to Mary Upham, Smith of Kennebunk; and five Chichester, NH; six grandchildren; and of Harpswell, David Kibbe of Bangkok, Boston for three years and then served who died in 2001, and is survived by Robert Nelson Smith ’38 died on April grandchildren. three great-grandchildren. Thailand, and E. Peckham Kibbe of in the U.S. Army for five years during four daughters, Martha Fredo of North 8, 2004, in Glendale, AZ. Born on Pittsfield, NH; and four grandsons. World War II, attaining the rank of first Andover, MA, Anne Kipp of Ludlow, September 12, 1915, in Burlington, William Henry Bledsoe ’39 died on Joel Bernard Beckwith ’41 died on lieutenant in the infantry. After the war, VT, Mary Craven of Biddeford, and MA, he prepared for college at Woburn April 3, 2003, in Cagnes sur Mer, June 5, 2004, in Boston. Born on Francis Waterhouse Bilodeau ’38 died he was a manager trainee with the W.T. Therese Craven, also of Biddeford; two (MA) High School and Fryeburg France. Born on October 26, 1916, in August 4, 1918 in Roxbury, MA, he on June 16, 2004, in New York City. Grant Company in New Bedford, MA, sons, Paul F. Craven ’72 of Biddeford Academy and became a member of Beta Gloversville, NY, he prepared for prepared for college at Brookline (MA) Born on January 25, 1915, in Augusta, for two years and then became a sales and Thomas J. Craven, Jr. of Biddeford Theta Pi Fraternity at Bowdoin. college at Gloversville High School and High School and what is now Cheshire he prepared for college at Cony High manager with M&M Bakery Company Pool; a brother, John V. Craven ’43 of Following his graduation in 1938, he Phillips Exeter Academy in New Academy in Connecticut. Following his School there and at Westbrook High in Manchester, NH. Beginning in 1952, Middlebury, VT; six grandchildren; and was a salesman with the Firestone Tire Hampshire and became a member of graduation from Bowdoin in 1941 he School and became a member of Beta he was self-employed as owner and four great-grandchildren. and Rubber Company in Portland and Chi Psi Fraternity at Bowdoin. served in the U.S. Coast Guard during Theta Pi Fraternity at Bowdoin. president of Eastham Superette, Inc., in was a district manager for the General Following his graduation in 1939, he World War II from 1942 to 1946, Following his graduation in 1938, he Eastham, MA, which he operated until William DeWitt Hyde ’38 died on April Tire and Rubber Company. During did graduate work at Harvard attaining the rank of lieutenant. After worked in the Education Department at 1996. He was the corporator of the 24, 2004, in Portland. Born on August World War II he served in the Army University, from which he received a the war, he became assistant treasurer the Newark Museum in New Jersey and Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank and 20, 1916, in Boston, he prepared for Air Corps and was a B-26 pilot in the master of arts degree in European of the South End Hardware did graduate work at Columbia a member of the Eastham Finance college at Northampton (MA) High Southwest Pacific area. He flew 51 history in 1940. During World War II, Corporation in Boston, a position that University and Yale University before Committee and the Eastham Recreation School and Deerfield Academy in missions and received the he served from 1941 to 1945 as a he held for many years before serving in the U.S. Army combat Committee and was the postmaster Massachusetts and became a member of Distinguished Flying Cross, the sergeant in the U.S. Army and then as beginning his teaching career at Ayer engineers from 1941 to 1946 during when the post office was at his store. A Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity at Soldier’s Medal and the Air Medal. an agent in the Counter-Intelligence (MA) Junior High School. After World War II, attaining the rank of staff volunteer with the Eastham Fire Bowdoin. Following his graduation in After the war was over in 1945, he Corps. After the war, he worked in teaching English at Arlington (MA)

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High School from 1965 to 1975, he served as a medic in the U.S. Army He was executive director of the Glidden Company in Cleveland, OH, of first lieutenant. He received his recurring attacks and for years suffered retired. He was a member of the from 1942 to 1946 during World War Children’s Study Home in Springfield, from 1950 to 1952, when he became Bowdoin bachelor of science degree in from mental illness. Surviving are an Hanscom Field Officers Club, the II, attaining the rank of staff sergeant. MA, from 1960 to 1967, when he vice president of Marketing with H. June of 1944 after receiving credit for uncle, Lawrence Pierce of Seattle, WA; American Legion, and the Lexington After the war, he was the part owner became executive director of the Reeve Angel and Company in Clifton, the courses that he took in the Air an aunt, Elaine Pierce, also of Seattle, (MA) Swim and Racquet Club. In and manager of Tool Supply of New Hilltop Children’s Service in NJ. In 1964, he joined Bio-Rad Forces Meteorological Program at the and several cousins. Bowdoin affairs he was a capital England. He later joined Deluye Filter Springfield, which later became the Laboratories as manager of its New Massachusetts Institute of Technology. campaign volunteer and interviewed Company in Boston as a salesman. Hilltop Child and Adult Services, Inc. York City office. In 1966, he was After the war, he received a master of Harry Beresford Walsh ’45 died on prospective students for the From 1954 to 1956, he was the New He was a charter member of Common transferred to Richmond, CA, where he education degree from Tufts University April 30, 2004, in Portsmouth, VA. Admissions Office. He was married in England representative of Cyclone Cause and a member of Amnesty became advertising director of the in 1947 and a master of arts degree in Born on August 13, 1923, in New York 1947 to Lois Fredenburgh, who died in Filter of Denver, CO, and ,from 1956 International, the National Association company. He retired in 1991. He served mathematics from Boston University in City, he prepared for college at the 1986, and is survived by a son, Joel until his retirement, he was affiliated of Social Workers, and the Academy of as an elder at the First Presbyterian 1951. He was an instructor at the Scarborough School in New York and Beckwith ’71 of Jamaica, VT; and a with Genalco, Inc., in Needham, MA, Certified Social Workers. He was Church and the Knox Presbyterian Franklin Technical Institute in Boston attended Bowdoin in 1941-42, granddaughter, Carole Beckwith. with which he became vice president of married in 1969 to Jeannette Wheeler Church, both in Santa Rosa, and for from 1946 to 1949 and at the New becoming a member of Beta Theta Pi customer service. In Lynnfield, MA, he Lynch, who predeceased him. He is many years was a member of the Santa Preparatory School in Cambridge, MA, Fraternity. During World War II, he Bradford Jealous ’41 died on March 6, was one of the original members of the survived by two sons by an earlier Rosa Golf and Country Club. Surviving from 1949 to 1952. He joined the served as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air 2004, in Dallas, TX. Born on August 1, Little League Governing Board, a marriage, Paul Ferrini and Henry are his wife, Winifred MacFarlane faculty at Bates in 1952, where he Forces from December of 1942 to 1919, in Waterville, he prepared for member of a number of town Ferrini; and two stepdaughters, Nancy Harrocks, whom he married in 1964; taught mathematics for 38 years, October of 1945, attaining the rank of college at Thomaston High School and committees, the Ipswich River Lynch and Amy Lynch. two daughters, Deborah Cullen Metteer retiring in 1990. In his retirement he second lieutenant. He returned to became a member of Zeta Psi Fraternity Watershed Committee, and the of Eugene, OR, and Dale Hughes continued to teach on a part-time basis Bowdoin in the fall of 1945 and, at Bowdoin. Following his graduation Republican Town Committee. He was [The obituary for Lindo Ferrini ’42 was Fillmer of Phenix City, AL; a sister, at Bates, Northeastern University, and following his graduation in June of in 1941, he served as a pilot and flight also a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal reprinted to correct information in an Joan Grimm of Cincinnati, OH; five the University of Southern Maine. He 1947, became a copywriter with Kastar, instructor in the U.S. Navy during Church in Lynnfield, the Lynnfield account published earlier – Editor.] grandchildren; and six great- also taught at several summer institutes Farrell, Chesley, and Clifford, Inc., in World War II from 1941 to 1945, Lions Club, the British Charitable grandchildren. for high school and college New York City. Later he was a attaining the rank of lieutenant. After Society, and the local lodge of Masons, Harold Lawson McLellan ’42 died on mathematics teachers at Bowdoin in mortgage broker and partner with the war he joined R.C. Harvey as well as a member of the March 21, 2003, in Ocala, FL. Born on John Benjamin Nevin, Jr. ’44 died on the 1960s and the early 1970s. He was Berglund-Gorlsland, Inc., and was with Company in the wool business. In Massachusetts Water Works December 2, 1937, in Roxbury, MA, he December 31, 2003, in Marfil, for many years a faculty advisor to the Ogilvy & Mather as Creative Director 1953 he and Hartley Lord ’36 joined in Association. Surviving are his wife, prepared for college at Belmont (MA) Guanajuanto, Mexico. Born on May 31, Bates College Outing Club, and was a of the direct response division before forming Lord & Jealous Woolen Mills Barbara Smith Rodgers, whom he High School and Worcester Academy in 1922, in Providence, RI, he prepared member of the board of directors of the becoming vice president and creative in Norfolk, MA, where they set up a married in 1942; two daughters, Sally Massachusetts and became a member of for college at the Moses Brown School Maine chapter of the Appalachian Trail director of Panegenerix Marketing, plant and machinery to process wool R. Tracy of Bolton, CT, and Jane Theta Delta Chi Fraternity at Bowdoin. there and became a member of Kappa Club. As a trustee of the Lewiston Inc., in Englewood, NJ. By 1974, he wastes, which they sold to textile mills Rodgers of Chelmsford; a son, Stead W. Following his graduation in 1942, he Sigma Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he Public Library, he was co-founder of had established The Walsh Company in throughout the country. For some years Rodgers, III of Tucson, AZ; two served as a pilot with the U.S. Marine attended from 1940 to 1942. During the LPL Plus APL cultural program of Westport, CT, which he continued to before his retirement he was self- brothers, Stead W. Rodgers of Corps during World War II from 1943 World War II, he served in the U.S. the Lewiston and Auburn public operate. Surviving are his wife, Natalie employed as Bradford Jealous Company Hingham, MA, and James Leatherbee of to 1946. For some years, he was a Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1945, libraries. After he moved to Blue Hill in Wise Walsh, whom he married in 1948; in Boston and then in Wellesley, MA, Fairhope, AL; five grandchildren; and salesman with Pitney-Bowes Company attaining the rank of technical sergeant 2002, he tutored mathematics in local two sons, Harry C. Walsh of Weston, where he was one of the founders of two great-grandchildren. in Massachusetts and later worked in and receiving the Purple Heart and the schools, was a volunteer at the local CT, and Timothy F. Walsh of Wilton, the Wellesley Little League. He was Chicago, IL. By 1987, he had retired Air Medal with three Oak Leaf food cooperative, and was active in the CT; a daughter, Mary B. Walsh of married in 1942 to Jane Harvey, who Lindo Ferrini ’42 died on September 3, and was living on Chebeague Island in Clusters. After the war, he attended the First Congregational Church of Blue Peoria, IL; and four grandsons. died in February of 1983, and is 2003, in Gloucester, MA. Born on Maine. He is survived by his wife, Joy Rhode Island School of Design, from Hill. He was married in 1948 to Jean survived by his second wife, Dorothy February 7, 1921, in Lynn, MA, he McLellan; a son, Douglas McLellan of which he received a bachelor of fine Byers, who died in 1996 after serving Frank Dana Law ’46 died on January Cushing Jealous, whom he married in prepared for college at Classical High Freeport; and a daughter, Elizabeth M. arts degree in 1948. He taught at the for many years as a member of 23, 2004, in Lewistown, PA. Born on October of 1983; a son, Bradford School in Lynn and became a member Farrell. Rhode Island School of Design and at Bowdoin’s governing boards and who December 26, 1924, in Lynn, MA, he Jealous, Jr. of The Woodlands, TX; four of Zeta Psi Fraternity at Bowdoin. the University of Idaho in Moscow and had received an honorary doctor of prepared for college at Lynn Classical daughters, Jane of Natick, MA, Evelyn Following his graduation in 1942, he Thomas Lincoln Harrocks, Jr. ’44 died traveled and worked in a number of laws degree at the College in 1995. He High School and became a member of of Tunkhannock, PA, Amy J. of served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 on March 15, 2004, in Santa Rosa, CA.. foreign countries, including Italy and is survived by a son, Stephen, of Bar Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity at Duxbury, MA, and Ann Natick; three through 1945 during World War II, Born on January 24, 1922, in West Spain. For many years, he lived and Harbor; a twin sister, Eleanor Carberry Bowdoin, which he attended in 1942- stepsons; 11 grandchildren, including attaining the rank of lieutenant junior Orange, NJ, he prepared for college at painted in Mexico, beginning in 1967. of Wells; and three grandchildren. 43 before serving in the U.S. Navy’s V- Abigail Jealous Abouchar ’91 of grade. He did graduate work at Boston Columbia High School in Maplewood, He was married in 1943 to Lorna Lee 12 program at Bates College and then Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; nine step- University School of Social Work and NJ, and became a member of Delta Hidden, who predeceased him, and is Garth Albert Stonestreet ’45 died on as a hospital corpsman at Portsmouth, grandchildren; and six great- the New York School of Social Work at Upsilon Fraternity at Bowdoin, which survived by a daughter, Joyce N. April 6, 2004, in Milton, MA. Born on NH, for a year. In 1945, he entered the grandchildren. Columbia University, from which he he attended from 1940 to 1942. During Mackin of Prescott, AZ, and two March 10, 1922, in Hyde Park, MA, he Yale University School of Medicine, received a master’s degree in 1947. He World War II, he served for three years grandchildren. prepared for college at Milton High from which he received his M.D. John Blake Rodgers ’41 died on was a social worker with the in the U.S. Army Air Forces, attaining School and Milton Academy and degree in 1949. He interned in surgery, February 15, 2004, in Chelmsford, MA. Massachusetts Department of Public the rank of first lieutenant as a pilot of Richard Woodbury Sampson ’44 died became a member of Theta Delta Chi gynecology, and obstetrics at Grace- Born on March 14, 1918, in Melrose, Welfare in Boston and Brockton for six B-24 planes and receiving the Air on April 1, 2004, in the Maine town of Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he New Haven Community Hospital and MA, he prepared for college at Melrose years, was supervisor of the Sweetser Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters. Blue Hill. Born on April 24, 1922, in attended from September of 1941 to did residencies at the Delaware County High School and Loomis Institute in Children’s Home in Saco for a year, and After the war, he entered Western Newton, MA, he prepared for college at December of 1941. Following his Hospital in Drexel Hill, PA, and at the Connecticut and became a member of was executive director of the Daniel Reserve University, from which he Newton High School and became a graduation from the Massachusetts Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia. Sigma Nu Fraternity at Bowdoin. Webster Home for Children in graduated in 1947, when he joined the member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at Maritime Academy in July of 1943, he He was a general surgeon at the Following his graduation in 1941, he Franklin, NH, from 1954 to 1957, International Paper Company in Bowdoin. During World War II, he served in the Merchant Marine during Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia became a salesman with Lever Bros. when he became executive director of Corinth, NY, as a technical supervisor. served in the U.S. Army Air Forces World War II. While on the North and later a physician at the Port Company in Cambridge, MA, and then the Sarah A. Reed Home in Erie, PA. He was a department manager with the from 1943 to 1946, attaining the rank Atlantic run during the war, he had William Medical Arts Center in

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Carrollton, KY. In 1988, he moved to Frank Edward Ceccarelli ’49 died on did a year of graduate work at Collegiate Presbyterian Church while his degree in 1952 as a member of the where he was employed until 1958, Lewistown, where he practiced January 26, 2004, in Honolulu, HI. Columbia University’s Teachers he lived in Ames and became a member Class of 1949. He worked as office when he purchased the E. K. Day emergency medicine at the Lewistown Born on August 29, 1927, in New York College, receiving a master of arts of Trinity Lutheran Church in manager of Island Safaris, Inc., in St. Company in Rumford, of which he was Hospital for the rest of his life. He was City, he prepared for college at the degree in English education in 1950. Stillwater, MN, in 2001. Surviving are Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and then president. In 1968, he moved to a member of the American College of Scarborough School in New York and After a year as a member of the faculty his wife, Sylvia Love McCormack, was for many years an accountant with Orlando, FL, where he joined John’s, Surgeons, the Philadelphia Academy of became a member of Alpha Tau Omega at Waterville High School, he joined whom he married in 1952; three H. & R. Block in Lewiston. Surviving Inc. in Apopka, an indoor foliage Surgery, the Philadelphia Committee on at Bowdoin, which he attended from the faculty at Brunswick High School, daughters, Sara M. Hoffman of Red are two sisters, Suzanne Gerry of North plants business. He later became an Trauma, and the First Unitarian 1945 to 1947, when he entered the where he taught English from 1951 Wing, MN, Dr. Polly L. McCormack of Yarmouth and Sally Handy of Lyme, independent plant broker, a business Church in Lewistown. Surviving are his New York University College of until his retirement in 1981. During Hopkins, MN, and Marilyn M. Johnson CT, and eight nieces and nephews. that he operated until 1989. He was a wife, Margaret Bonar Law; a daughter, Medicine. In June of 1951, he received the next 15 years, he worked on a part- of Stillwater; a son, Donald L. member of the Orlando Country Club, Margaret L. Law of Raystown, PA; and his bachelor of arts degree from time basis as a sales representative at McCormack of Boulder, CO; a sister, Sid Connolly ’50 died on March 10, the Winter Park Racquet Club, and All a sister, Maryln Hinterleiter of Bowdoin, along with his M.D. degree. L.L. Bean’s retail store in Freeport. He Mildred M. Moody of Cutler in Maine; 2003, in Los Angeles, CA. Born as Saints Church in Winter Park. Wilmington, DE. After two years of the study of surgery was a member of the First Parish and 12 grandchildren. James Francis Connolly on October 2, Surviving are three sons, Charles C. at Yale University, he began 20 years of Church in Brunswick, a past president 1926, in Portland, he prepared for Penney III of Knox in Maine, Michael Robert Winthrop Miller ’48 died on service in the U.S. Army with 18 of the Brunswick Teachers Club, a John Patrick Monahan ’49 died on college at Cheverus High School in G. Penney of Orlando, FL, and February 24, 2004, in Brunswick. Born months in Korea, for which service he former member of the Brunswick Golf March 2, 2004, in Stuart, FL. Born on Portland and during World War II Christopher W. Penney of Durham, on November 13, 1926, in Newton, MA, was awarded a Bronze Star. He was Club, a track official for high school August 18, 1925, in Portland, he served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to NC; a sister, Kathryn P. McNally of he prepared for college at Newton High stationed at Tripler Army Hospital in meets for many years, a debating coach prepared for college at Cheverus High 1946, attaining the rank of seaman 3rd Chatham Township, NJ; and five School and became a member of Alpha Honolulu for two years, followed by six at Brunswick High School while School there and studied at Boston class. After the war, he attended grandchildren. Tau Omega Fraternity at Bowdoin. years of intensive work in urology at teaching English there, and a monitor College, Cornell University, Boston Portland Junior College for a year Following his graduation in September Brook Medical Center at Fort Sam at Bowdoin’s athletic facilities. University, and Tufts Medical School before transferring to Bowdoin as a Henry Russell Bradley Smith ’50 died of 1947 as a member of the Class of Houston in San Antonio, TX. In 1963, Surviving are his wife, Charlotte before entering Bowdoin in February of member of the Class of 1950 and on July 6, 2004, on Peaks Island in 1948, he was a sales engineer with he was assigned to Gorgas Hospital in Bourret Hart, whom he married in 1948 and graduating in September of joining Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Maine. Born on April 11, 1922, in Berger Manufacturing in Boston until the Canal Zone and during his tour 1959; a daughter, Carolyn Favreau of that year, as a member of the Class of Following his graduation in 1950, he Flushing, Long Island, NY, he prepared 1951, when he joined Charles T. Main, there was awarded the Orden Vasco Buxton; a son, Lawrence Hart of Dover, 1949. He graduated from the University spent ten years in advertising and for college at the New York Military Inc., in Boston, where he did Nuñez de Balboa by the Republic of NH; and three grandchildren. of Geneva School of Medicine in promotion with print media, including Academy in Cromwell-on-Hudson and architectural work until 1963. For two Panama. In 1966, he became chief of Switzerland in 1951. Through the years Look Magazine in New York and Quick at Rye (NY) High School and served in years, he continued in that field with urology at Madigan Army Hospital at William Carroll McCormack ’49 died he was a medical officer with the U.S. Magazine (now T.V. Guide) in Chicago, the U.S. Marines Corps during World Clinch, Crimp, Brown and Fisher in Fort Lewis in Tacoma, WA, and, in on June 1, 2004, in Mahtomedi, MN. Food and Drug Administration, IL. In 1960, he moved to California, War II from 1942 to 1946. He entered Boston and then with Smith, Sellew and 1968, he became chief of the Urology Born on May 7, 1925, in Louisville, KY, practiced with the Veterans where he was an account executive Bowdoin in February of 1947 and Doherty in Boston before joining Service at Tripler Army Hospital in he prepared for college at Norway High Administration in Los Angeles, CA, with the California Broadcasting became a member of Zeta Psi Drummey, Rosane, Anderson in Honolulu. Following his 20 years of School in Maine and during World War was associate director of the Medical Company is San Jose for six years and Fraternity. Following his graduation in Newton, where he was project manager service in the Army’s Medical Corps, he II served in the U.S. Army from 1943 Research Literature Department at then was sales manager with Davis 1950, he attended Yale University’s for many schools throughout New retired in 1973 as a colonel. He to 1946, attaining the rank of corporal. Lederle’s Research Laboratories in New Broadcasting Company in San Jose. In School of Fine Arts and the Museum England, including Mt. Ararat High continued to practice medicine on a After the war, he entered Bowdoin and York City, and was a research scientist 1968, he joined KGSC-TV in San Jose, School of Fine Arts in Boston and School in Topsham. He retired in 1991 part-time basis as late as the year 2000, became a member of Theta Delta Chi in atomic medicine at the Cambridge where he became vice president and served again in the Marine Corps from and moved to Arrowsic in Maine. He doing peer reviews and serving two Fraternity. In June of 1948 he was Research Center in Massachusetts. For general manager. In 1978, he was 1953 to 1955, attaining the rank of was a trustee of the Sherborn (MA) days a week as a consultant in urology graduated magna cum laude and as a many years, he was head of medical elected president of Continental-Urban staff sergeant. He was an associate Library, a member of the Pilgrim Church at Tripler Army Hospital. He was the member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1952, he writing and research for Cyanamid Television Corporation and remained editor of Ski Magazine in Hanover, NH, in Sherborn, and a member of the author of two books and many articles was graduated from the University of International in Pearl River, NY, a general manager of its San Jose for three years before becoming Boston Architectural Center Scholarship in professional journals. He is survived Rochester School of Medicine. After division of American Cyanamid television station, KGSC. He was later assistant to the director of the Committee. In Bowdoin affairs he was by his wife, Mary Collette Ceccarelli, completing his pediatric residency at Company. After he retired, he worked president of Sydney Broadcasting Ltd. Shelburne Museum in Vermont in 1948’s Class Agent in the Alumni Fund whom he married in 1957, and two the University of Rochester in 1956, he on an etymological dictionary and a in Palo Alto. Surviving are a daughter, 1958. He became curator of the arts from 1967 to 1971 and in his retirement daughters, Nancy Ceccarelli and Joan moved to Ames, IA, where he was a medical dictionary. Surviving is a sister, Hilary Connolly Dubin ’80 of Los and crafts collections at Heritage years was 1948’s Class Agent, along with Ceccarelli. pediatrician at McFarland Hospital Mary McGlauflin of Lynnfield, MA. Angeles, CA.; two sisters, Margaret Plantation of Sandwich, MA, in 1972 Cab Easton, securing leadership gifts until 1989, when he retired. He was a Shaver nd Kay Connolly; and two and was responsible for the from the class for the Fund. He also Robert Earl Hart ’49 died on April 20, Fellow of the American Board of James Gibson Woodbury ’49 died on grandchildren. development of educational programs, worked for the College helping to 2004, in Brunswick. Born on August Pediatrics and in the College of March 15, 2004, in Lewiston. Born on special exhibits, and the cataloguing overview some of the construction and 11, 1920, in Bangor, he was graduated Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State January 29, 1928, in Bronxville, NY, he Charles Clifton Penney, Jr. ’50 died on and display of collections in the renovation projects on the campus from Bangor High School in 1937 and University. In 1961, he invented the prepared for college at Great Neck February 29, 2004, in Winter Park, FL. Plantation’s new arts and crafts during the 1990s. For several years, he served in the Civilian Conservation Bourns infant controlled respirator that (NY) High School, the Stony Brook Born on December 26, 1924, in building. He moved to Peaks Island in was a volunteer worker in the boatshop Corps before World War II, in which enables premature babies with School in Long Island, NY, and the Lewiston, he prepared for college at 1982. He was the author of at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, he served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 underdeveloped lungs to survive. He New Hampton School in New Lewiston High School and Kimball Blacksmith’s and Farrier’s Tools at the and he was a member of the choir at the to 1945, attaining the rank of was a member of the Society of Sigma Hampshire and became a member of Union Academy in Meriden, NH, and Shelburne Museum and co-author of First Parish Church in Brunswick. quartermaster first class. After the war, Xi, was an oral examiner for the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity at Bowdoin, during World War II served in the U.S. 18th and 19th Century Art at the Surviving are his wife, Elaine Bennett he entered Bowdoin in February of American Board of Pediatrics, taught at which he attended in 1945-46 before Army from 1943 to 1946, attaining the Shelburne Museum. Surviving are his Miller, whom he married in 1959; a 1946 and became a member of Theta the University of Iowa School of serving in the U.S. Army for 18 rank of sergeant. He entered Bowdoin wife, Rita Mae Hines Smith, whom he daughter, Susan B. Miller of Victor, ID; a Delta Chi Fraternity. Following his Medicine, and invented a body months, attaining the rank of sergeant. in June of 1946 and became a member married in 1956; five sons, Grosvenor son, Todd G. Miller of Jamaica Plain, graduation cum laude and as a member temperature responsive warming He returned to Bowdoin for a year and of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Following his Smith, Kevin B. Smith ’80 of Dallas, MA; and two brothers, Edmund Miller of Phi Beta Kappa in February of 1949, blanket for transporting infants that then studied for a year and a half at graduation in 1949 as a member of the TX, Harvey Smith, Adam Smith, and of Durham, NH, and Richard Miller of he taught English in Lisbon Falls for was patented nationally and Bethany College in West Virginia. After Class of 1950, he joined the T. J. Jaime Smith; a brother, Perry E.H. Wellesley, MA. the rest of that school year and then internationally. He was a member of the further study at Bowdoin, he received Murphy Fur Company in Lewiston, Smith; and five grandchildren.

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William Thompson Webster ’50 died served in the Army for a year as Surviving are his wife, Rosemarie served in the U. S. Army, attaining the Hollywood, CA, for three years. He was David Sewall ’56 died on February 2, on February 17, 2004, in Portland. asecond lieutenant. In 1953 he joined Osborne Keene, whom he married in rank of sergeant as a surgical manager of compensation with Holmes 2004, in Portland. Born on January 19, Born on January 2, 1925, in Augusta, what was then the First National Bank 1970; two daughters, Rebecca Keene technician. He graduated from Bangor and Narver in Las Vegas, NV, from 1932, in New York City, he prepared for he prepared for college at Cony High of Boston and is now Bank of Boston, and Lauren Rotondo, both of Theological Seminary in 1953 and then 1963 to 1966, when he became college at Tabor Academy in Marion, School and served in the U. S. Navy where he became successively an Providence; and a brother, Weston served as pastor of the Wiscasset First manager of compensation with MA, and Westminster School in during World War II from 1943 to investment officer, assistant vice Keene, of Nobleboro in Maine. Congregational Church and the First International Telephone & Telegraph’s Simsbury, CT, and became a member of 1946, attaining the rank of president, vice president, vice president Congregational Church at North Instruments Division in Glendale, CA. Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity at Bowdoin, quartermaster 1st class. After the war he of Old Colony Trust, executive vice Ward Chalmers Stoneman ’54 died on Edgecomb. In 1953, he entered He held several other personnel which he attended in 1952-53. After entered Bowdoin and became a president of Old Colony Trust, senior July 2, 2003, in Richmond, CA. Born Bowdoin as a member of the junior positions with ITT divisions – Controls serving for two years in the U.S. Army, member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. vice president, and executive vice on July 20, 1931, in Albany, NY, he class and was graduated in 1957 as a and Instruments and Grinnell in San he joined his father and brother in Following his graduation cum laude in president. He retired in 1985. He was a prepared for college at Albany Academy member of the Class of 1955. He Fernando, CA, and Grinnell in operating Hermit Island Campgrounds 1949 as a member of the Class of 1950, director of the Guy Gannet Publishing and became a member of Delta Upsilon became pastor of the First Providence, RI – before moving back to on the Maine coast near Bath, he was a self-employed public Company in Portland from 1975 to Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he Congregational Church in Lee, MA, in California in 1979 to become vice beginning in 1952 with 12 sites and by accountant in Augusta until 1967, 1986 and served as a member of the attended in 1950-51. During the 1962, and, in 1968, he became pastor president of personnel with Qume 1964 with 260 sites, and with the when he joined the Depositors Trust faculty of the Brown University Korean conflict he served for two years of the First Congregational Church in Corporation, another subsidiary of ITT. population in summer months growing Company in Augusta, where he Graduate School of Savings Banking. A in the U. S. Army. In 1967, he passed Falmouth, MA, a position he held until He was also vice president of human to 1,000 people or more. During the eventually became executive vice member of Masons, he was a director his bar exams in California and, by his retirement in 1986, when he moved resources with Plus Development rest of the year, he worked at the Bath president. In 1983, he moved to of Home Health Care, Hospice, and 1971, he was a lawyer with the to Woolwich. In 1987, he became Corporation in Milpitas, CA. In his National Bank, which was founded by Portland to facilitate the mergers of Community Services in Keene and Stanford Research Institute in pastor of the Day’s Ferry retirement, he was active as a the Sewall family. Surviving are a Depositors, Canal Bank, and Key Bank. Peterborough, NH, and also director of Washington, DC, and was living in Congregational Church, which he spokesman for child advocates and was daughter, Christina Sewall; a sister, When he retired in 1987, he was the the Sharon Arts Center and the New Arlington, VA. By 1991, he was a continued to serve. In 1979, he the court-appointed advocate for two Alexandra Mackey; a brother, Nicholas chief administrative officer of Key Bank Ipswich Library. Surviving are his wife, division counsel with Dalmo Victor, received an honorary doctor of divinity teenagers. Surviving are his wife, Joyce Sewall of Bath; and a grandson. of Maine. For many years he was active Mary O’Halloran Hall; two sons, Inc., in Belmont, CA. Surviving is his degree from Piedmont College in Benveniste Wies, whom he married in with the American Red Cross, the Richard L. Hall of Weston, MA, and wife, Sandy Dibbell-Hope. Georgia, and, in 1980, he was the 1958, and two sons, Edward Wies and William Dale Ramsey, Jr. ’58 died on Kennebec Valley Medical Center, the Jeffrey N. Hall of Natick, MA; two recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Gerald Wies. June 3, 2003, in Ponte Vedra, FL. Born Kennebec Valley Mental Health Center, daughters, Leslie Hall of Orange, MA, Richard Lawrence Carleton ’55 died Award of Bangor Theological Seminary, on April 14, 1936, in Indianapolis, IN, the Ledgewood Condominiums Board, and Pamela Hall-Grady of Oxford, MA; on February 15, 2004, in Midlothian, which he served for some years as a Jack Seelye (Maynard Arthur Seelye) he prepared for college at Cape and the Atrium at Cedars. He served as and eight grandchildren. VA. Born on May 27, 1933, in trustee. He married his former wife, ’56 died of stomach cancer on March Elizabeth High School in Maine and president and a director of the Maine Winchester, MA, he prepared for now Eleanore M. Harbic of Vienna, 21, 2004, in Charlottesville, VA. Born became a member of Delta Kappa Bridge Association and became a Silver Edward James Keene ’52 died on May college at Reading (MA) High School Austria, in 1946, and they had four on September 9, 1934, in Cornish, he Epsilon Fraternity at Bowdoin. Life Master in 1997. As a member of 3, 2004, in Providence, RI. Born on and became a member of Delta Kappa children. In 1993, he married Blanche prepared for college at Fryeburg Following his graduation in 1958, he the United Church of Christ, he was June 8, 1930, in Chatham, MA, he Epsilon Fraternity at Bowdoin. G. Barnes, who survives him, as do Academy and was graduated from served in the U.S. Army for a year and active in the Hallowell and Augusta prepared for college at Chatham High Following his graduation in 1955, he three daughters, Barbara Johnson-Butts Bowdoin cum laude and as a member remained in the Army Reserve until churches and joined Woodfords School and became a member of Sigma served in the U. S. Army for six months of Milton, MA, Lorraine R. Johnson of of the Phi Beta Kappa. He did graduate 1967, attaining the rank of captain. In Congregational Church in Portland, Nu Fraternity at Bowdoin. Following as a second lieutenant and later Los Angeles, CA, and Elizabeth A.C. work in mathematics for two years at 1959, he joined the Shell Oil Company, serving through the years as a lay his graduation cum laude in 1952, he attained the rank of captain in the Johnson of Cranston, RI; a son, Stanley Stanford University in California, where he held a number of positions in minister and as a member of the entered the University of Rochester Reserves. He was a salesman with F. Johnson, Jr. of Charlestown, RI; three followed by another year at Columbia New York, Florida, Minnesota, Illinois, finance committee and the invested Medical School in New York, from Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., in brothers, Ernest B. Johnson ’54 of West University in New York City. He was a Michigan, New Jersey, Maryland, Texas, funds committee. In Bowdoin affairs he which he received his M.D. degree in Massachusetts and Chicago, IL, from Gardiner, Arthur H. Johnson of programmer/analyst with the Service and other states before retiring in 1997 was 1950’s Planned Giving Chair, was a 1956. He interned and did his 1957 to 1963, when he joined the Chelmsford, MA, and Robert W. Bureau Corporation in New York from and moving to Ponte Vedra Beach. He member of its reunion committees, and residency at Rhode Island Hospital, Hubbard Scientific Company in Illinois, Johnson of Westford, MA; a sister, 1958 to 1967, except for two years of was a member of Christ Episcopal had important positions in several where he completed a cardiology where he became vice president of Lorraine A. Small of Yarmouth, MA; service in the U.S. Army from 1959 to Church and the Ponte Vedra Inn and capital campaigns. Surviving are his fellowship in 1960. From 1960 to marketing. In 1973, he moved to and three grandchildren. 1961, attaining the rank of specialist Club for many years. He held two wife, Constance Perkins Webster, 1962, he served in the U.S. Navy, Midlothian, where he was a self- fourth class and receiving the Army’s patents on robotics and through the whom he married in 1946; three sons, attaining the rank of lieutenant and employed businessman before David Lawrence Wies ’55 died on Commendation Medal. In 1967, he years was a frequent speaker on radio William T. Webster, Jr. ’72 of being stationed at the Naval Hospital in becoming the owner and manager of March 2, 2004, in Cupertino, CA. Born joined the teaching and research staff and television on the subject of energy. Brunswick, John Webster of Portland, Annapolis, MD. For forty-four years he apartment buildings. He served as on February 4, 1934, in Yonkers, NY, of the IBM Systems Research Institute. Surviving are his wife, Mary Ihnet and Robert R. Webster ’78 of Ho Chi specialized in cardiology and internal president of the Salisbury Country he prepared for college at Yonkers High In 1970, he became an advisory Ramsey of San Francisco, CA; Kimberly Minh City, Vietnam; a sister, Weltha medicine – at Kent County Memorial Club and as vice president of the School and became a member of Alpha programmer with the IBM Corporation Ramsey of Boston, MA, and Jennifer Holland of Annapolis, MD; a brother, S. Hospital in Warwick, at Rhode Island Virginia Educational Vendors Rho Upsilon Fraternity at Bowdoin. in New York City, and, in 1974, he Harting of Chapel Hill, NC; a brother, Sewall Webster ’43 of Georgetown; and Hospital, and at Eleanor Slater Hospital Association. Surviving are his wife, Following his graduation in 1955, he began serving as an advisory James Ramsey of Indianapolis, IN; a five grandchildren. in Cranston. At Kent Hospital, he was Diane Emerson Carleton, whom he did graduate work at Columbia programmer with IBM in White Plains, sister, Jane Grant of Portland, OR; and chief of internal medicine from 1979 to married in 1958; three sons, Jeffrey University for a year, receiving a master NY. In 1981, he established a one-man three grandsons. Richard Alston Hall ’52 died on May 4, 1981 and chair of cardiology from 1982 Carleton, Douglas Carleton, and of arts degree in personnel psychology consulting firm, Home Run 2004, in New Ipswich, NH. Born on to 1984. He also had his own practice Gregory Carleton; a brother, Donald in 1956. In the fall of 1956, he Computers, in New York City, and, in Robert Randall McLeod ’59 died on April 19, 1929, in Houlton, he in Warwick until 1997 and after that Carleton; and a granddaughter. graduated from the U.S. Army’s 1994, he moved to Virginia, where he January 12, 2003, in Winthrop, MA. prepared for college at Houlton High date was a cardiology consultant for Transportation School at Fort Eustis, lived in North Garden. Surviving are Born on June 3, 1937, in Boston, MA, School and served in the U.S. Army thirty hours per week at Eleanor Slater Stanley Fritz Johnson ’55 died on VA, and he remained in the Army his life partner, Lee Zimmerman of he prepared for college at Winthrop from 1946 to 1948 before entering Hospital. He was a member of the Kent March 13, 2004, in Alna. Born on Reserve for some years, attaining the North Gardens, and three sisters, (MA) High School and the New Bowdoin in 1948. He became a County Medical Society, the Rhode October 18, 1924, in Woburn, MA, he rank of captain. From 1958 to 1961, he Deborah Berry of South Portland, Hampton School in New Hampshire member of Psi Upsilon Fraternity and, Island Medical Society, and the prepared for college at Lowell (MA) was the personnel manager with Vivian Dustin of Cornish, and Ruth and became a member of Delta Sigma following his graduation in 1952, American Medical Association. High School and during World War II Whitaker Corporation in North Smith of Phoenix, AZ. Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he

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attended in 1955-56 and again in 1957- Alto and in 1986 bought a franchise and real estate transactions and commercial Fred Raymond Dingley H’68, who from Smith College in 1927, and Sidney John Watson, Ashmead White 58. He was graduated from Boston operated a Hobee’s Restaurant in finance. From 1968 until 1974, he was received an honorary doctor of humane earned a bachelor of science degree Director of Athletics Emeritus at the University in 1964 and for many years Fremont. In 1993, he attended 1963’s a member of the U.S. Army Reserve as letters degree from the College in 1968, from the Yale University School of College, died on April 25, 2004, at his was associated with the General 30th Reunion at the College. Surviving a specialist fifth class. A member of died April 9, 2004, in the Maine town Nursing. In 1931, she married Dr. home in Naples, FL. Born on May 4, Electric Company in Lynn, MA, as a are his wife, Barbara Kinney Farr, and Holy Martyrs Church in Falmouth, he of Lincoln. Born on August 8, 1908, in Clement S. Wilson of the Class of 1927 1932, in Andover, MA, he prepared for business programming analyst, as three sons, Jeffrey Farr, Richard Farr, is survived by his wife, Ellen Smith South Portland, he prepared for college and moved with him to Brunswick, college at Punchard High School in manager of personnel accounting, and and Steven Farr. Patterson, whom he married in 1969; a at South Portland High School and where she remained for the rest of her Andover and at Worcester Academy as manager of information systems. He son, Brian Patterson of Charlestown, graduated cum laude from Bates College life. After her husband died in 1948, and attended Northeastern University, was a member of the Cottage Park Christopher Bowen Neary ’66 died on MA; a daughter, Dr. Kara P Waters of in 1930. He was successively a science she was a nurse at the Dudley Coe from which he was graduated in 1956, Yacht Club and St. John’s Episcopal March 8, 2004, in Jensen Beach, FL. South Portland; two sisters, Joanne teacher at Lisbon High School and Infirmary at the College for some years after an outstanding career there in Church in Winthrop. He is survived by Born on May 16, 1944, in Hamilton, Fagan of Folly Beach, SC, and Diane Sabattus High School, principal and a and also held other positions in football and ice hockey. After playing a brother, Steven E. McLeod of MA, he prepared for college at St. Patterson of Portland; and a teacher at Winn High School, Carmel nursing in Maine, including with the in the National Football League with Yorktown, VA. John’s Preparatory School in Danvers, granddaughter. High School, and Mattawamkeag High Maine State Public Health Nursing the Pittsburgh Steelers and the MA, and became a member of Psi School, and submaster and guidance Department and as assistant director of Washington Redskins from 1955 to John Joseph Tolan ’62 died on April Upsilon Fraternity at Bowdoin. Virginia Tuttle Merrill ’65, who director at Stearns High School in nursing at Central Maine Medical 1958, he joined the staff at the College 16, 2004, in Petaluma, CA. Born on Following his graduation in 1967 as a received a master of arts degree in Millinocket. In 1946, he joined the staff Center in Lewiston. She retired at the as an assistant coach in football and February 11, 1940, in Portland, he member of the Class of 1966, he taught mathematics from the College in 1965 at Lee Academy, where he remained age of 79. For more than 50 years she hockey. He became the head coach of prepared for college at Portland High at the Dexter School in Brookline, MA, under a National Science Foundation until his retirement in 1971, serving as rented rooms to Bowdoin students at hockey in 1959, a position he held School and became a member of Psi the Berkshire Country Day School in program, died on April 21, 2004, in headmaster and a teacher. In 1937, he her home on Federal Street. For many until 1983, when he became director of Upsilon Fraternity at Bowdoin, which Lenox, MA, and the Brunswick School Skowhegan. Born on June 20, 1918, in received a master of arts degree from years she audited classes at Bowdoin athletics. During his 24 years as coach, he attended from 1958 to 1960. He in Greenwich, CT, teaching English East Corinth, she prepared for college Bates and, in 1963, an honorary doctor and attended lectures, concerts, and he was named National Coach of the was graduated from the University of and Classics and coaching golf and at East Corinth Academy and was of pedagogy degree from Ricker plays at the College. The citation in year three times, and his teams won the Maine in 1985 and through the years squash. In 1971, he received a master graduated cum laude and as a member College. He was the author of two June of 1989, when she received an ECAC Division II championship four was employed by General Motors of arts in teaching degree from the of Phi Beta Kappa from the University books of poetry, 600 Acres and Eyes to honorary master of arts degree at the times. During his tenure as director of Company in Flint, MI, General Electric University of Massachusetts at Amherst of Maine in 1940. She taught in Maine the Sea, and was the major author and Farley Field House, said, in part, “… athletics from 1983 until 1998, the Company in Hooksett, NH, Textron and did further graduate work at at Weld High School and Solon High historian in charge of preparation for you are a friend to more than 200 athletics program grew to 29 varsity Defense Systems in Wilmington, MA, Indiana University. Beginning in 1973, School and substituted at School the book History of a Frontier School – students who have shared your Federal sports, five club teams, and more than and Opto Electronics in Petaluma. he traveled to and from the Middle East Union 57 from 1947 to 1960, when Lee Academy 1845. He was a trustee of Street home over the years…. You are 20 physical education courses. He was Surviving are two sons, John E. Tolan frequently, holding a number of she joined the faculty at Anson Husson College from 1965 to 1981. the quintessential student and a elected to the Northeastern Athletic of Scarborough and David P. Tolan of teaching and training positions there, Academy in North Anson. In 1964, The citation for the honorary doctor of generous friend and supporter of this Hall of Fame, the Maine Sports Hall of Seattle, WA; a daughter, Jennifer A. including at King Faisal University in she took part in a 10 week course humane letters degree that he received College.” She is survived by a son, Fame, and the United States Hockey Peabody of Londonderry, NH; a Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, with Bell conducted by the Oak Ridge Institute from Bowdoin in 1968 said, in part, “… Clement S. Wilson ’57 of Brunswick; Hall of Fame. He received the Hobey brother, Edward Tolan of Falmouth; Helicopter in Isfahan, Iran, with of Nuclear Studies in Tennessee, a son of Maine who has dedicated a full two daughters, Julia W. Stevens of Baker Legend of Hockey Award. For six five grandchildren; and his fiancée, Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and sponsored by the U.S. Atomic Energy lifetime of educating the sons and Harpswell and Mary W. Carpenter of years, he served as chairman of the Sharon Bojanski of Petaluma. at KOC Ozel Lisesi in Istanbul, Turkey. Commission. In 1965, she joined the daughters of Maine.” He served as Newton, MA; a sister, Julia H. Miller of NCAA Ice Hockey Rules and He was also director of the Bahrain faculty at Madison High School. After President of the Maine Association of Easton, MD; a brother, Franklin Tournament Committee, and also held Richard Sheldon Farr ’63 died on Bayan School in Adliya, Bahrain, and in she retired in 1978, she compiled Independent Schools and the Maine Hawkins, also of Easton; 11 the positions of treasurer, secretary, December 16, 2003, in Fremont, CA. recent years was involved in real estate genealogies for the Merrills, the Teachers Association, as chair of the grandchildren, including David H. president and vice president of the Born on June 12, 1941, in Wilmington, and investment advising in Jensen Mansells, the Quinns, and several Maine State Board of Education, as Wilson ’84 and Deborah W. Carpenter American Hockey Coaches Association. DE, he prepared for college at Waltham Beach. He is survived by two brothers, other families. She founded the Solon moderator of the town of Lee from ’83; and 18 great-grandchildren. He was the 1984 recipient of Bowdoin’s (MA) High School and became a Michael F. Neary of Palm City, FL, and Historical Society, was an original 1948 to 1981, and as executive Alumni Award for Faculty and Staff, member of Chi Psi Fraternity at Colonel John F. Neary of Harker member of the Maine Genealogical secretary of the Independent Schools Helen Grace Glidden Buzzell, a and in 1998 he was elected an Bowdoin. Following his graduation in Heights, TX. Society, and was a member of the Association of Northern New England. member of the Bowdoin staff, died on honorary member of Bowdoin’s Alumni 1963, he did graduate work at Stanford Solon Sesquicentennial Book He was designated Honorary State February 29, 2004, in Brunswick. Born Association. The fitness center at the University in California, from which he Robert Bruce Patterson, Jr., ’68 died Committee. She was also a Farmer in 1965 by the Future Farmers in Jefferson on January 25, 1910, she Sargent Gymnasium was named the received a master of arts degree in on May 29, 2004, in Falmouth. Born correspondent for newspapers in of America. In 1931, he was married to was a graduate of Rockland High Sidney J. Watson Fitness Center in his communications in 1964. From 1965 to on May 19, 1946, in Winchester, MA, Waterville and Bangor and was a Margaret Lancaster, who died in 1957, School and the Maine School of honor. He is survived by his wife, 1967, he was a promotion manager with he prepared for college at Medford feature writer for several other papers, and was married again in 1964 to Commerce in Augusta. Before joing the Henrietta Halloran Watson, whom he KHVH-AM and Television in Honolulu, (MA) High School and became a a past matron of the Order of the Madeline Lancaster, who survives him, staff at Bowdoin, she worked for married in 1954; two daughters, Nancy HI, and at the same time was a research member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity at Eastern Star in Solon, and a member as do two nephews , Stanley E. Flink of Milliken, Tomlinson Company in Jordan of Falmouth and Susan Poor of associate with Stanford while working Bowdoin. Following his graduation in of the Daughters of the American Barre, VT, and Fred C. Dingley of Bangor and Boston. At her retirement Orinda, CA; three sons, S. John on a doctorate there. In 1968, he was 1968, he was a manager with the New Revolution. She was also Solon’s town Lewiston; and a niece, Paulette Dingley from Bowdoin, she was elected an Watson, Jr. of Portland, Michael diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. England Telephone Company before historian and deputy town clerk for of Lewiston. honorary member of the Alumni Watson of Sherborn, MA, and Beginning in 1974, he was an enabler- entering Boston College Law School, old records, as well as the archivist of Association. She was a member and Christopher Watson ’88 of Princeton, counselor for 160 physically hand- from which he received a doctor of the Solon Historical Society. She was Elizabeth Hawkins Wilson H’89, who deaconess of the Berean Baptist NJ; a brother, Joseph Watson of Naples limited students at De Anza College in jurisprudence degree in 1972. He married to Wilfred J. Merrill, who received an honorary master of arts Church, where she was a teacher for and Andover, MA; and 11 Cupertino, CA, helping them adjust to joined the Portland law firm that is predeceased her, and is survived by degree from Bowdoin in 1989, died on many years. She was married to George grandchildren. all aspects of college life. He went on to now known as Verrill & Dana, where two daughters, Jane Berube of March 25, 2004, in Brunswick. Born in G. Buzzell, who died in 1966. be the producer of “Just Like Everybody he became a partner in 1977 and where Olympia, WA, and Margaret Merrill New York City on August 13, 1905, Surviving are a son, Stephen R. Buzzell Else,” a television series in the Bay Area he practiced corporate law. As chair of of Waterville; and a son, James Merrill she prepared for college at the of the Maine town of Charleston; a of California. For four years, he worked the firm’s real estate department, he of Monson. Kimberly School in Montclair, NJ, daughter, Barbara B. Sajko of Concord, for Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo focused his practice on commercial and received an associate bachelor’s degree NH; and four grandchildren.

84 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 85 mailbox interview By Maria Hummel No Soft Landings Remembering Sills Wood went on to join Jackie Cochran and thence to England where she flew To the Editor: To the Editor: “Spits” and many other aircraft. She was Issue starts “you’ve noticed.” Not the Early on a recent morning I viewed a awarded the vaunted King’s Medal by lard in the laurels, page 10: “Bowdoin program on PBS, Channel 2, Boston, A Poet’s Young Heart the British. may have fallen…” Let’s heave that which turned out to be a tribute to our Bless you, Casey and Edie Sills. You whale in the frypot and sweat ’er to revered President “Casey” Sills (Brother lovingly live in the Bowdoin DKE “Bowdoin fell…” Who pats Polar Bears’ Deke with others in my family) ’01. Willis Barnstone ’48 Marshes memory. backs with powderpuff locutions? A lady named Wood was being rejected for entrance into the excellent pre-WWII David M. Marsh ’51 On a sunny weekend in August, Willis J.E. Fisher ’62 program, “Civilian Pilot Training.” We published a story about Ann Barnstone ’48 H’81 has just returned from President Sills gave her the Wood-Kelly in the Spring 2000 issue Athens, where he spent his last night Swan Boat Confusion opportunity to fly and be accepted as of Bowdoin. Ed. attending a concert at the Roman Herodian Bowdoin Editor: part of that program being conducted theater at the foot of the Acropolis. The most recent edition of the Bowdoin at Bowdoin. “Subject was popular Mediterranean song. magazine had a blurb in the front Went on from 9 in the evening to 1:45 a.m. section about the Swan Boats in Boston and not a soul left the huge marble and the connection to Bowdoin alumni. amphitheater,” the 76-year-old writes via I graduated from Bowdoin in 1976 and e-mail, giving the impression that his own my son Andrew graduated in 2002. enthusiasm far outlasted that of most ordi- The article indicates I was the grandson nary men and women. of Robert Paget and took the business over when my father passed away in 1969. Boundless passion for his favorite subjects Robert is my great-grandfather. John is a hallmark of Barnstone’s literary Paget is my grandfather who passed career, which unofficially began with a away in 1969. My father is Paul Paget, 1948 letter to The Nation regarding he’s senior and I’m junior. Bowdoin’s fraternity system and has car- Paul Paget Sr. is alive and well ried him through numerous languages, lit- and still involved with running the erary forms, and nearly 60 books. In the business! My father Paul Sr. took over past year alone, he has published a new the business from his father John, but translation of the Gospels and Revelation,

he did not graduate from Bowdoin. My Community Newspaper Co. / Kevin Jacobus. a memoir entitled We Jews and Blacks, a dad graduated from Boston College. hefty collection of mystical texts called I worked at the Swan Boats durng the The Gnostic Bible, a translation of the summer while attending college. Return to campus… selected poems of Antonio Machado, and In fact, I learned about Bowdoin from more is on the way.

Steve Carey ‘71, who worked at the Swan Photograph by Seth Affoumado Boats and was finishing at Bowdoin when From his home in Oakland, Calif., he I was just beginning to look at colleges. anytime answers a few questions about his work:

Paul Paget ’76 Your first publication was a letter to The anywhere Nation about the ghettoization of Jews and blacks to their own fraternity. It with Bowdoin magazine online! became a major instigator of change on campus and Bowdoin emerged as one of the first colleges to integrate its frater- Send Us Mail! www.bowdoin.edu/bowdoinmagazine nities. How did it feel then and now to added to the intense misery and weird I thank Bowdoin for that. I’m full of vdoin be a part of the College’s history? wildness, and all of this darkness, nostalgia for all that darkness. Now it is tramping through the snow to have all a bright sunny school, with beautiful We are very interested in your feedback, • Read current feature articles • Change your address thoughts, and ideas about Bowdoin I think all my mistakes have saved me. my meals the first few years, since they women, prestige, modernity. When I magazine. You can reach us by e-mail at • Submit Class News and wedding announcements It was a mistake (then) to go to shut Moulton Union down for those went there after the earlier enlightened [email protected]. • Send a letter to the editor • Find advertising info Bowdoin. I had fine professors, a few living in dorms, and all of the beauty of schools I had attended, Stuyvesant in Submission deadline for Class News, • Order photo reprints • Download back issues good student friends, at the time the the chapel, the wood, my native Maine, NY, the George School, and Exeter, Weddings and Mailbox for the Winter ’05 most extreme anti-intellectual and big- and Bowdoin’s gloomy Hawthorne fire, Bowdoin was exile. And that’s why it issue is Monday, December 20, 2004. Take a look and let us know what you think. oted environment I’ve ever experienced plus great philosophy profs, made me, Bow (all changed), no women then, which to my surprise, a poet. Continued on next page.

86 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 BOWDOIN FALL 2004 87 planned giving interview Continued from previous page. Room with a View Seasonal Home on Nantucket Funds Charitable Trust for the Shannons A Poet’s Young Heart saved me. The whole world is exile, As you’ve roved through the literature which is why we’re alone and moving, of numerous countries, has one influ- and remember, the world is a handker- enced you the most? Willis chief, as the Spaniards say, El mundo es un pañuelo. So I love that pañuelo, Oh, I’m asked about what country and Barnstone ’48 which was Bowdoin. language I like best, and there is only ore than 25 years ago, Tom ’50 one, but it keeps changing its name. Its and Helen Shannon had the good Your own poetry has a worldly counte- name is English, French, Greek, Msense to buy a waterfront cottage nance, chronicling journeys and journeys Spanish, and Chinese, and the lands on Nantucket Island, surrounded by within journeys. From where did you get that go with those languages. property protected by Massachusetts your poetic ear? Audubon Society land and otherwise There’s a portion of an Antonio Machado environmentally restricted. It has served as I am always on Kafkian and Cavafian poem that you translated: “In my heart I a pleasant summer refuge from Tom’s busy journeys where the destination is, as in had/the thorn of passion./One day I Washington, D.C. law practice and has, Cavafy’s “Ithaca,” just a pretext for the pulled it out./Now I feel no heart.” over the years, appreciated in value beyond trip, and in Kafka, whose messenger their wildest expectations. Many writers’ greatest fear is that they will take five centuries and still not Recently retired, Tom came to Bowdoin’s will lose passion in their work, but bring news to the emperor in Beijing you’ve been channeling the muse for Office of Planned Giving to explore ways in from the Great Wall. Again we have the many years without break. What drives which he and Helen might use their cottage infinite or impossible make the fantastic your own passion? to satisfy several objectives: realistic now interesting and throbbing. My stock answer is “Insecurity.” And • Generate immediate cash to purchase One of my favorite poets, Wang Wei really, it’s true. I do believe in what I do, other real estate (translated by Barnstone in Laughing but like Oliver in Oliver Twist, I want • Create a lifetime income stream Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang more. I think it means I love the act of • Make sizeable charitable gifts to Bowdoin Wei), used a very limited classical creation. It takes me elsewhere, I’ve got- and the Law School of the University of Chinese vocabulary. But in each poem ten good at taking the trip, and if I do Virginia his subtle variations of syntax, his new write, I am not satisfied unless it is my • Avoid what would have been significant slant, gave ultimate freshness to his best, at least by my vision. So unless it capital gains tax on the sale of the a lifetime retirement for the Shannons. deep plainness. He “danced in chains” comes as a complete gift—that happens cottage Ultimately, the trusts’ remainder will fund as they said about this great period of too—I work till it clicks. That is joy. • Create a substantial charitable income endowed faculty positions and scholarships very formal and yet completely natural tax deduction at the Law School of the University of overheard conversation… As for longevity, excuse my clichés, but, Virginia and Bowdoin. Bowdoin is serving at 76, I’m in good health, dance, do 100 With the help of the Office of Planned as trustee of these charitable trusts. Where did I get my poetic ear? I hope pushups a day, am the right weight, and Giving staff and their own lawyer, Tom and “Helen and I are pleased to be able to do from popular song. I love Cole Porter. although I could die tomorrow, for now Helen created two charitable trusts and this,” says Tom. “It helped us achieve a After all, he is from Peru, Indiana, and I’m young. In my work, while I depend then transferred a 70% interest in the number of retirement and estate planning wrote about Boston baked beans mak- on memory and experience in the art, I property to the trusts. The Shannons and objectives and simply wouldn’t have ing love. What could be more familiar? also feel very much at the beginning. the trusts jointly sold the property, and the happened this way had it not been for the trusts then reinvested their share of the competence, diligence and perseverance of proceeds in a diversified portfolio to create the good people at Bowdoin.”

To read an extended version of Maria Hummel’s interview with Willis Barnstone, visit For more information on trusts and other planned giving options, please contact Steve Hyde or Kristen Farnham at (207) 725-3263. Bowdoin magazine online: www.bowdoin.edu/bowdoinmagazine.

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