FALL 2015 VOL. 87 NO. 1 MAGAZINE BowdoinM a g a Z i n e

From the Editor

Volume 87, Number 1 Fall 2015

Magazine Staff

Editor Back to the Future Matthew J. O’Donnell

Managing Editor the hands fell off my watch in the night. Scott C. Schaiberger ’95 i spoke to the spirit who took them, told her: time is the funniest thing Executive Editor Alison M. Bennie they invented. —Brenda hillman, “time Problem” Design Charles Pollock On October 26, 1938, The Orient reported that the College library had received a copy Mike Lamare of The Book of Record of the Time Capsule of Cupaloy, which is to be saved in order to PL Design – Portland, Maine ensure that a time capsule buried at the 1939 World’s Fair will be found and opened in Contributors 6939 AD. The entire concept of time is nothing short of mind-blowing. It is a trick. Time

Louisa Cannell ’13 Scott W. Hood seems to pass more slowly or quickly based on our age and the import of the events that James Caton Marshall Hopkins occurred to us at specific points along our way. To think that a spirit might occasionally

Andy Masland and Dave Mosley in the Heath Sanctuary at the center of Highland Green Douglas Cook Brian Hubble make off with our comprehension of it is not far-fetched. The tempo of our lives picks up

Michael Colbert ’16 David McKay Wilson speed to the point of disappearing. Talia Cowen ’16 Aidan Penn ’17 Leanne Dech Megan Morouse This fall in particular has been a season of many mind trips. October 21, 2015, marked “Back Rebecca Goldfine Melissa Wells “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ to the Future Day,” the date to which Marty McFly travels forward in the popular 1980s Photographs by movie franchise. It was also my daughter’s thirteenth birthday. And during a memorable Brian Beard, Fred Field, Will Figg, Bud Glick, Homecoming Weekend in the middle of October, Bowdoin inaugurated Clayton Rose as Moving back to Midcoast Maine was a perfect choice for Dave and me. We enjoy all Bowdoin Dennis Griggs, Bob Handelman, Joe Larese, the College’s fifteenth president. Two of the preceding fourteen presidents, Barry Mills ’72 James Marshall, Michele Stapleton, and and Robert Edwards, attended the ceremony and other special weekend events, along with College has to offer year round. Like the College, the Highland Green community is warm Bowdoin College Archives. hundreds of faculty, staff, students, alumni, families, and dignitaries—past, present, and On the Cover future converged and nary a DeLorean in sight. Palpable electricity crackled through the and welcoming. Conservation and sustainability are important to us. Both are reflected in the The College Charter, Seal, and Keys were pre- pines. Events were packed to capacity, and I couldn’t walk anywhere without encountering sented to Clayton S. Rose as Bowdoin’s fifteenth gigawatts of inspiration (watch highlights from many of the remarks and speeches, as community’s setting and renewable energy options such as the solar panels on our new custom president, on Saturday, October 17, 2015, fol- well as full events such as “The Power of the Liberal Arts” Inaugural Symposium and the lowing a precedent that began with President installation ceremony, online at bowdoin.edu/inauguration). Some alumni seemed as home. It’s great to connect with classmates and new friends who still share a love of Bowdoin McKeen in 1802. Photo by Dennis Griggs. though they were still students, while others from earlier class years, for whom campus and Maine. We look forward to welcoming many more of them. BOWDOIN MAGAZINE (ISSN, 0895-2604) looks almost completely different, were overheard to say that the only thing that had really “ is published three times a year by Bowdoin changed might be the speed bumps on College Street. College, 4104 College Station, Brunswick, - Andy Masland, Bowdoin Class of 1975 Maine, 04011. Printed by J.S. McCarthy, For those many of you who weren’t able to make it back to Brunswick for the big Augusta, Maine. Sent free of charge to all weekend, I hope this issue captures the power of that slice of time. And, as with each of Bowdoin alumni, parents of current and recent our magazines, I hope the articles within these pages help you reflect on this place and undergraduates, faculty and staff, and members feel even more connected to this community we all share. Time is, indeed, a funny thing. of the Association of Bowdoin Friends. A block of four years can seem to go by so quickly, but at Bowdoin, it also lasts forever. Highland Green is a 55 Plus Active Lifestyle Opinions expressed in this magazine are those community just three miles from Bowdoin College. It of the authors. Until next time, features an unprecedented integration of conservation, Please send address changes, ideas, or letters lower-maintenance living in a custom home, plus to the editor to the address above or by email to [email protected]. Send class neighborly ambience through new friends from 29 news to [email protected] or to the Matt O’Donnell address above. Advertising inquiries? Email different States and counting. [email protected] [email protected]. for those 55 or better 207.725.3133

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Proud Heritage Extraordinary Years I received the print version last week and read it over the Your “Super Barry” issue was clearly a labor of love and weekend. I found the tributes to and comments about Barry admiration, and I offer very sincere compliments to all Mills and his presidency to be inspiring and it made me even involved in what must have been an extremely complicated prouder of my Bowdoin heritage. I plan to follow up with a project of content and design. Thank you! The Mills years 20 gift to the school as a result of reading the article but I also have been extraordinary in every way. Of course I include wanted you and your staff to know how much we appreciate Karen in that assessment. They leave a proud legacy, indeed. the fine job you all do in keeping the alumni and the rest of And, you are doing a fine job, too. 12 the world aware of what is going on at Bowdoin. Dulcianne Vye P’82 Robert F. Seibel ’68 Not Super The Best of Bowdoin A lot of time has passed since 1951, and I can assure you Thank you for a wonderful issue and, in particular, the that in all that time I have never had any negative thoughts “Barry Mills Manifesto,” which I have pulled out and posted or spoke ill of Bowdoin. But, when I received my latest copy directly above my workspace at home. I hope it will inspire of Bowdoin Magazine, I was shocked by the cover and the my entire family to honor the best of what Bowdoin instills story about the Bowdoin Trustees’ approval and background in its community. blow-ups of the emblem at the dinner honoring Barry Mills. Rebecca Knapp Adams ’88 I hope I’m not the only one expressing his feelings this way, but my immediate reaction to this emblem was and still is features A Prominent Spot that perhaps it would be more appropriate for the corner of Although I never met President Mills, I read the tribute issue a cheap comic magazine. Please refrain from displaying it that arrived yesterday cover to cover (it made for great bed- further, and store it in the Bowdoin history storage room in 12 A Truly Special Place: An Interview with 22 time reading). The manifesto jumped out at me so I took it the basement of the Bowdoin library. the College’s New President, Clayton S. Rose as a sign. I brought it to my office at 7:30 this morning and Joseph H. Flather Jr. ’51 By Doug cook • Photographs by Fred Field taped it in a prominent spot where I can see it easily, as can Clayton Rose talks with the magazine about the power of the liberal arts, anyone who happens by. Thank you for giving me a glimpse issues that matter most to him, and his path to the presidency of Bowdoin. of someone I wish I had known! 20 Drawing on Inspiration Nancy Bergin DuMont ’77 By Talia Cowen ’16 • Illustration by Marshall Hopkins Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and dignitaries assembled for an array 28 of events over Inauguration and Homecoming Weekend 2015, making it The Duel That Extended A Family Tree one of the most remarkable few days on campus in years. I wanted to send you a note regarding the Winter 2015 mag- azine as my family read it with special interest. It featured 22 Everyone’s Welcome at a Hootenanny an article about Jonathan Cilley, Bowdoin Class of 1825 David McKay Wilson • Photographs by Joe Larese and US Representative from the state of Maine, who died In the tradition of their friend and mentor Pete Seeger, musicians Mike Merenda ’98 and his wife, Ruthy, are making names for themselves in the in the last legal duel in the United States. Jonathan Cilley pantheon of American folk music, and are inviting us all to join in. Departments was my great-great-great uncle on my grandmother’s side of our family (Cilley). That grandmother’s husband, my grand- 28 A Philosophy Major? father, Raymond Petterson, was also a Bowdoin graduate, What are you going to do with that? 3 Mailbox 58 Weddings Class of 1953. He joined me for my graduation sixty years By Aidan Penn ’17 • Illustrations by Brian Hubble 5 Almanac 63 Deaths later in 2013! My family did not realize that Jonathan Cilley Deep-thinking Bowdoin junior Aidan Penn sets his critical mind to 35 Class News 64 Inauguration Highlights also attended Bowdoin, so we are especially grateful for the answering an age-old question and helps to explain why we study the liberal arts. research. Thanks for putting the piece together and we look forward to adding a member to our list of family alumni.

Kaity Sansone ’13 Kaity Sansone ’13 and her grandfather Raymond Petterson ’53.

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marina_affo Oct 17, 12:51pm via Twitter for iPhone BUSINESS Seal? Check. Charter? Check. Keys? Check. It’s offi cial. Farm-to-table had a distinctly Bowdoin Welcome to Bowdoin, President Rose! #Bowdoin #inauguration meaning during Inauguration Weekend, as Trevor Kenkel ’18 provided dining services with greens from his The 214th Opening aquaponics farm in Lisbon, Maine. of the College Aquaponic farming cycles nutrients between plants and fi sh that grow and live in tanks of water; signifi cantly extending growing seasons. Since Springworks Farm’s fi rst harvest this July, Kenkel and his team have reached out to a number of local restaurants and markets that now carry their lettuce, arugula, and mizuna. BowdoinCollege retweeted As someone who bowdoinorient Oct 17, 11:36am via Twitter for iPhone “Value comes from an education that makes it possible for us to has always been a learn what we really want to do.” –President Rose hands-on learner, Kenkel is also working with President Rose opened the College with a speech that touched CORRECTION: area schools to on the role Bowdoin can play in addressing issues of race, The third entry in the timeline on page 22 of the Spring/ give students the importance of raising uncomfortable questions, and the a chance to Summer 2015 issue should have read: “Field hockey wins its facebook.com/bowdoin @bowdoincollege obligation—while doing those things—to remain true to third national championship in four years.” Bowdoin’s core. The same ceremony also featured a talk by learn about science and On page 26 of the same issue, in the entry by Joseph Adu ’07, Professor of Religion Robert Morrison, and Tim Foster, dean of students, refl ected on the life of Wil Smith ’00. A non- farming through his employer is Care.com. bowdoindailysun.com bowdoincollege traditional student, Smith arrived at Bowdoin as a single father micro-aquaponic raising his young daughter, Olivia, on campus. Smith passed farming systems. CLARIFICATION: away in February 2015 after a battle with colon cancer. The third entry in the timeline on page 25 of the Spring/Summer Send Us Mail! “Wil Smith’s story is about taking risks, overcoming We’re interested in your feedback, thoughts, and ideas issue should have read: “Chamberlain’s original medal of honor, adversity, prioritizing that which matters most, living a earned at the Battle of Gettysburg, added to the Pejepscot about Bowdoin Magazine. You can reach us by e-mail at [email protected]. principled life, and giving back—always giving back—in ways Historical Society collection in the Chamberlain museum.” that put others before oneself,” said Foster.

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SOCIAL MEDIA HIGHLIGHT

HISTORICAL A Diff erent View FROM THE DESK OF PERSPECTIVE Dick Morgan ’59 “It’s not just a desk,” says Mike Tom Read ’15 had extra Woodruff ’87, director of the Bowdoin motivation to work Outing Club. “It’s the history of it, Reunion Weekend last and the ties that it creates between his- spring. His favorite tory and current and future students.” high school teacher, Woodruff is talking excitedly about Andrew Clark ’90, the the nineteenth-century roll-top where one who inspired him the late Richard Morgan ’59, William to major in history, Nelson Cromwell Professor of Consti- minor in teaching, and tutional Law and avid fl y-fi sherman, to go into teaching tied his fl ies for forty years. himself, would be on “It relaxed him,” says Morgan’s campus to celebrate his wife, Jean Yarbrough, Gary M. Pendy 25th Reunion. Tom and Sr. Professor of Social Sciences. “There Andrew will have more was a fellowship to it—Jim Lentz, “At home, when chances to catch up on John Lloyd, Sam Butcher, John Cullen. he really just wanted campus in the future They called to clean his mind, he’d now that they also themselves In the mid-nineteenth century Dr. Dudley Sargent, sit and tie a fl y.” share reunion years. of the Class of 1875 and after whom Sargent Gym is ‘the Knitting named, feared that a new generation of workers who Circle.’” sat all day were in danger of “dyspepsia, functional Future most diffi cult fl ies to tie, the English- disturbance of the heart, sluggishness of the liver, and generations of style adult mayfl y patterns. Dick was disease of the lungs.” His ahead-of-his-time advice Bowdoin stu- an Anglophile, so his passion for these for this new “brain worker?” Stand up! dents will use fl ies makes sense. Around his tying the desk in the desk at home were many old cigar very same spirit boxes fi lled with them. He tied them in its new home over and over, trying to make each in the Schwartz one better, each one beautiful. Hav- Outdoor Lead- ing traveled this road for years, I can ‘STAND UP!’ ‘STAND

ership Center, tell you that it is an obsessive quest. fi ttingly just a short cast from the she asked family friend and legendary Time ceases to pass: one gets lost in James S. Lentz Hearth. fl y-fi sherman Macauley Lord ’77 to the meticulous selection of just the “At home, when he really just want- help her sort through the contents to right chicken feather and the loving, ed to clean his mind, he’d sit and tie determine what would be useful for surgical positioning and wrapping of a fl y,” Yarbrough says. “He enjoyed the BOC. Along with the desk and the feather around the hook. I couldn’t the peacefulness of the fl y-tying and its chair, Yarbrough gave the BOC help but smile when I saw how many the anticipation of catching a trout. fl y-tying supplies, vises, books, and he had tied and how good he became. He really loved fi shing—with me, with Morgan’s wading stick. To get to know Dick even just a little, friends—it was a great restorative for “Most people who start tying fl ies fi rst through fl y-casting and then him.” initially want to make something, through his striper fl ies, was a real After Morgan passed away unex- anything, that a fi sh would bite,” Lord blessing for me.” pectedly last November, Yarbrough says. “Soon after, though, we gravi- Editor: As the magazine was going to press, woke one night to the perfect idea of tate to a type of fl y or a style of tying the College announced a new student prize, what she should do with his prized that strums some inner chord in us,” in Professor Morgan’s name, to be given for desk. After speaking with Woodruff, he explains. “Dick was drawn to the outstanding work in constitutional law. Sargent SaYS, Sargent

Illustration: Louisa Cannell ’13

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“In 1969, I took my fi rst photography course with Professor John McKee in a classroom * * * RECIPE * * * in the basement of the Walker Art [Building]. song Equally tasty as either a side or a main, this dish makes bird great use of fall produce and is easily adaptable for vegans Discovering this medium with McKee’s (just replace the butter and parmesan with your favorite vegan insightful teaching made me aspire to be substitutes). And, serving twelve, it’s perfect for the large an artist on the spot. More than forty-fi ve years later, under the roof of the gatherings common over the holidays. same [building], I made a camera obscura photograph showing the College For the last question on the fi nal exam in his non-majors “Bird Roasted Roots with Polenta quad projected on an inside wall of the rotunda. For me, this picture is an Song” class last spring, Anne T. Serves 12 as a side dish and Robert M. Bass Professor of invitation to the entire campus, to the promise and to the pleasures of art, 1 ½ tablespoons olive oil, divided Natural Sciences Nat Wheelwright and to this museum that welcomed me with open arms so many years ago.” 1 cup diced beets asked students to either critique -ABELARDO MORELL ’71, H’97 1 cup diced carrots the biology in Robert Frost’s “The 1 cup diced parsnips Proceeds from the sale of this limited edition print support a fund for photography at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Oven Bird,” or write a short poem 1 cup diced sweet potatoes Go to store.bowdoin.edu and click on the print image to learn more or to purchase. of their own, “biologically accurate 1 cup diced turnip yet eloquent.” Here’s his favorite, 1 cup diced onion 1 tablespoon chopped garlic by Emily Weyrauch ’17: ½ teaspoon kosher salt, divided ½ teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper, divided 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley 1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary

Peel and dice vegetables. Place all but the beets in a large bowl and toss with most of the olive oil, garlic, salt, and pepper. Place the beets in a small bowl and toss with remaining oil, salt, and pepper. Put the beets in a small roasting pan and the remaining vegetables in a larger one (separating them keeps the beets from tinting the rest of the vegetables with their color; if you don’t mind this, you can toss and roast them all together). Do not overload the roasting pans. Roast at 400 degrees for 20-30 minutes until caramelized.

Serve on top of creamy polenta (recipe below). Garnish with chopped fresh parsley or rosemary. Haiku Ode to Creamy Polenta the Eastern Phoebe Serves 12 Call to me again 8 cups water Adorable suboscine 1 1/2 teaspoons salt Let me hear your name 4 ounces unsalted butter 3 cups yellow cornmeal, medium or coarse ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese “The biology within it is spot on,” Wheelwright says. “I particularly like Place water in a large saucepan and bring to a boil. Add salt and how the juxtaposition of ‘adorable’ butter. Slowly add cornmeal while stirring until thoroughly mixed. with ‘suboscine’ turns taxonomic Bring to a boil and then immediately lower heat. Continue to cook, jargon into music.” stirring frequently, until polenta becomes thick and pulls away from the side of the saucepan. Add cheese and stir until melted.

8 BOWDOIN | FALL 2015 [email protected] 9 Bowdoin Bowdoin Almanac Almanac common knowledge A portion of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library’s lower level was transformed over the summer into the Media Coaches Meagher and Scala to Step Down Commons, a new space dedicated to studying fi lm and producing video, animation, photography, and audio projects. The Bowdoin College Athletic De- NCAA Tournament win in 2011. The history with two 300-win coaches in partment has announced that Terry 1986 and 1989 American Hockey its program. Meagher will step down as head Coaches Association National Coach coach of the men’s ice hockey pro- of the Year, Meagher has coached Rick Scala, the long-time head coach 5 18 35 109.5 8,700 gram following the 2015-16 season. twenty-one All-Americans in his time of the Bowdoin men’s rugby team, 2 stations for seats in the computers with hours open 4,000 physical fi lm production streaming fi lms The head coach of the team since at Bowdoin, dozens of players to has announced that he will retire fol- individual screening/ media-production per week studios holdings fi lm viewing seminar room software 1983, Meagher will begin his thirty- All-NESCAC and All-ECAC honors, lowing the conclusion of the 2015-16 third season season. this winter. Scala has During his led the Polar tenure in Bears to un- Brunswick, he precedented has accumu- success since lated a record taking the #OnThisDay of 529-245- helm in 1986, in Bowdoin History 54 (.671), winning over ranking sixth 75 percent of in Division his contests, III history in qualifying for total victories. the playoffs Bowdoin College @BowdoinCollege November 13 Meagher on a dozen #OnThisDay, 1987: “Language after all, is for expressing ideas, has quali- occasions, B and ideas matter so much that they deserve the best language.” fi ed the Polar and winning –Pres. Greason to The Orient. Bears for the the 1992 NESCAC New England Follow @BowdoinCollege #OnThisDay for Bowdoin facts, one calendar day at a time. Champion- Champion- ship in every ship. The year of its Bowdoin rug- existence, gers have not winning back- lost a regular UPWARD BOUND TURNS FIFTY to-back titles season match in 2013 and since 2011. A daylong celebration in September marking fi fty years of “I have been exceptionally privileged to coach at Bowdoin for the last three 2014. Prior to decades, where the success of the program was never measured by wins and losses “I have been Upward Bound at the College wrapped up with a keynote the institu- but by the development of students through lessons learned on the ice.” privileged to address from Senator George Mitchell ’54, H’83. Mitchell tion of the – HEAD HOCKEY COACH, TERRY MEAGHER – work with shared his personal story of growing up in Maine, the son conference, such excep- of immigrant parents who had little education or fi nancial Meagher steered the Polar Bears to and fi fty-three players to Academic tional young men for the past thirty resources of any kind. In 1966, more than a decade after eight appearances in the champion- All-NESCAC recognition. years,” says Scala. “As is the case Mitchell’s graduation, Bowdoin ship game of the ECAC Tournament, The combination of Meagher and with most rugby programs, the rela- created the fi rst Upward Bound winning two titles (1986, 1993). his predecessor, close friend, and tionships don’t end after four years program in the state. Since Bowdoin has made six NCAA Tour- mentor Sidney Watson, gives the but continue well beyond gradua- then more than 2,000 students nament appearances under Meagher, Polar Bears just two coaches in the tion. I will be forever grateful for the from some of Maine’s most netting consecutive NCAA bids last fi fty-six years, accounting for 855 support that the alums have given to impoverished communities have in 2010-11 and again in 2013-14 wins dating back to 1959. Bowdoin is Bowdoin rugby, and am honored to been served by the program. while collecting the program’s fi rst the only school in NCAA ice hockey call them lifelong friends.”

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NEW PRESIDENT

As his inauguration was approaching, Clayton Rose talked with the magazine about the power of the liberal arts, issues that matter most to him, and his path to the presidency of Bowdoin.

INTERVIEW BY DOUG COOK

PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRED FIELD

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Bowdoin: What are your first impressions of there are many things about the power of a Bowdoin: What do you consider the big- Bowdoin: You worked in the world of what makes Bowdoin what it is? liberal arts education that are incredibly com- gest challenge to liberal arts, and how does finance for more than twenty years and then pelling. The first is that it is a profound and Bowdoin figure into that equation? left to do graduate studies, earning a master’s President Rose: I think there are two things powerful way for each of us as human beings and PhD in sociology. What inspired you to that make it special. The first is that we’re an to understand who we are and to understand Rose: The notion that somehow there may leave one world for the other? institution that seeks to live its values. Most the world that we occupy: the social world, the be a tension between having a liberal arts institutions have a set of values that they put physical world, the spiritual world—all of the education and vocational success. In fact, it’s Rose: Well, they were separate decisions really. on the wall, and they’re well meaning, but senses in which we engage. And to be able to quite wrong and quite the opposite. There is I had a great first career in finance. I wasn’t very few of them in my experience make a real grow and learn as we go through life. no tension between professional success and one of those people grinding my teeth during effort to live them. We do that here. It was one The second is that it’s an education that a liberal arts education. Not simply a liberal that first twenty years, waiting to get out so I of the things that was deeply attractive to me allows us to better engage as citizens. In our arts education per se, although that is out could go on and do the next thing. I worked about coming to Bowdoin. It’s very hard to It starts with the common good and what President McKeen said about the notion that be successful an education is something that’s to be used when you’re beyond ourselves. It’s also about a set of val- not engaged in ues that go on here every day—of warmth work that has and respect and humility and excellence and a meaning for you. real caring and concern for one another. And something special about it that comes from being located on the coast of Maine, with wonderful people, a special sensibility, and great natural beauty. world today, we’ve got a seeming inability to there, but the notion that somehow, if you’re at a place where the values were about integ- The first is that set of values. The second is have robust discourse about important issues an art history major or a classics major or a rity and honesty and respect and intellectual that this is a community that is unlike almost that is also respectful. This is an education sociology major, that you are going to be ill- engagement. I was able to do some interesting any other that I’ve experienced in that every that allows students to be critical thinkers, to prepared for a career in you-name-whatever- work and work with some really great people. member of it—alumni, faculty, staff, students— be analytical, to learn communication skills, the-career is. Nothing could be further from We sold the firm. And while I was asked to is very willing to give much more than they get and—crucially—to learn the value of listening the truth. Professional success is not a func- stay and given a great position, for a variety back. That creates a unique atmosphere and a to and understanding the ideas of others. Given tion of your major. A great liberal arts educa- of reasons I decided that it didn’t suit who I really remarkable environment. all the challenges we face in the world, we need tion, a Bowdoin education, is going to pre- was to stay at the new firm. So I left. And I left graduates who are able to engage in this way pare you to have a robust career in whatever without knowing what I was going to do next Bowdoin: As a product of a liberal arts more than ever. field you want to choose. but with the idea that I would go off and think education yourself, and as the father of two Another thing a liberal arts education does As a parent, I get it. I wanted my kids about a new chapter. sons who were educated in this way, share is that it gives our students a chance to under- to have a great education. I want them to I looked at a lot of different things. I took your perspective on the value of this model stand what their passions and their interests be successful professionally. And I want to about a year to think about it and started of learning. are so that they go and do what will be most make sure that the investment being made teaching in the interim. I had always had the deeply personally satisfying, which will then in their education is a worthwhile invest- idea that what would be most personally ful- Rose: The inaugural symposium was conceived allow them to be the most successful. It’s very ment. So I completely understand, at a very filling—and perhaps the hardest thing that I of very much with the intention of trying to hard to be successful when you’re not engaged personal level, the questions that parents and could imagine doing—would be going back to tease out and articulate what it is that makes in work that has meaning for you. students and families ask about a liberal arts school and getting a PhD. To move from being liberal arts so important and special. For me, education. a mile wide and an inch deep as an executive But it’s easy for me to hold my hand to to seeing whether I had the intellectual chops my heart and say, “This is not an issue. This to go a mile deep on something. To really This is an education that allows students to be critical thinkers, to be is a very powerful experience that students understand a specific set of issues in a specific analytical, to learn communication skills, and—crucially—to learn the will have, and it will be great preparation.” discipline in its totality, or as close to that as But we have to deal with the drumbeat. you can get. value of listening to and understanding the ideas of others.

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I’ve always loved the academy, from the What do you hope to accomplish? What Perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that the time I was an undergraduate. The idea of change would you like to see? only way that we’re going to make our school better, and immersing myself in academic work and becoming part of the academy was something Rose: Let me answer that by stepping back a maybe by extension some aspects of our society better, is that really spoke to me. After some explora- little bit. My PhD studies were around issues by jumping in and engaging with this problem. tion, I took some classes to see how it would of race. I wrote my dissertation on an issue feel to be back in the classroom, and I talked of race in America. Fundamentally, I wanted the corporate world; I ran the global diversity If we are really getting after the important to a lot of academics. Once I decided to apply, to understand the question of why race still effort at my firm. I then went off for my PhD questions, that’s going to make us uncomfort- I filled out applications, took the GREs, got matters in opportunities and outcomes, why studies, and then I was engaged with these able. Because we ground ourselves in a set of recommendations, and wrote essays. And I we can’t get over ourselves in twenty-first- issues when I was at Harvard. Perhaps the assumptions and beliefs about the way we go was fortunate to be accepted to several great century America. most important lesson I learned is that the about our lives. What we are asking students programs and decided to go to Penn. After all my studies and research, in many only way that we’re going to make our school to do here is to put everything on the table for ways, I’m no closer now to the answer to the better, and maybe by extension some aspects questioning. To learn, to understand why we Bowdoin: Your graduate work was on issues question that I asked myself than I was when I of our society better, is by jumping in and have those assumptions, so that we can either of race and now, as president, you’ve encoun- walked in the door at Penn. Such is the nature engaging with this problem. Discussing the real reinforce them or change them and build on tered related issues following events that of these complex and hard problems. issues, talking about the hard and uncomfort- them, and either way set ourselves up for being unfolded nationally and here in Brunswick. I worked on these issues when I was in able questions and encouraging other people open to new ideas once we leave Bowdoin and to do the same—and to be willing to make for continuing to learn. mistakes, all with the intent of trying to move this forward. Bowdoin: You stressed in your welcoming I will try to be out in front here at remarks to the class of 2019 the importance Bowdoin, with our students, our faculty, staff, of failure. Was there a failure that ended up and our community, so that we can talk about being a pivotal or at least profoundly teachable these issues in an open and honest and a moment for you? thoughtful way. I do not have the answers to the problems. But I will put myself out there Rose: Let me give you an example. I’ve to try to encourage and incent discussion and had my fair share of failures. As I arrived at dialogue in a way that I think all of us feel Harvard, I was taking my dissertation and, as A great liberal uncomfortable about, but we have to get over many often do, taking aspects of it and turn- that and push through to the next level. ing it into an article for an academic journal, arts education, The idea of immersing myself in co-authoring with the chair of my dissertation a Bowdoin academic work and becoming part Bowdoin: You challenged students to be com- committee. We submitted it to a journal. The education, is of the academy was something fortable with being uncomfortable. What do process takes quite a long time. Many months going to prepare that really spoke to me. you mean by that? went by. I got a letter, and it was an outright you to have a rejection. “Thanks, but no thanks.” Rose: This is a really central point about I’d done quite well in my program, and I robust career in what our mission is at Bowdoin. Our students thought we’d written a pretty good article. I whatever fi eld should arrive on the first day expecting to was bemused and not very happy about the you want to experience being uncomfortable every day they rejection. That moment, one of my colleagues, choose. are here. That’s the notion that we are chal- a member of the Harvard faculty for many lenging our assumptions about the way the years, happened to wander by my office. He world works, beliefs that we have—some of asked me what was going on, and I shared the them deeply held—about the social world, the letter with him. He said, “Come with me.” physical world, the spiritual world, the politi- And he took me down to his office, and he cal world, all the ways that we consider the life pulled out a file, and it had all the rejection that we lead. letters he had ever gotten. And there were a lot

16 BOWDOIN | FALL 2015 [email protected] 17 a truly special place THE COLLEGE’S NEW PRESIDENT

There aren’t enough hours in the day to do everything I need to do, which is fi ne. But when you love your job, it’s not a stressful work; it’s an energizing, fun kind of work.

of them. His point was exactly the point that I watching our students do something interest- was making. This is what happens. We all fail. ing—sports, music, theater—is for me one And you pick yourself up, you focus on what of the great energizers of being in this job. I was wrong, and you figure out how to fix it. have an amazing marriage, so Julianne and I And so my dissertation advisor and I went like spending time together. It doesn’t matter back to work and ultimately got it published. much what we do, it just matters that we are And the version that was published (in a dif- together doing it. ferent journal) was better than what we start- ed with. It was a good reminder that even at Bowdoin: You grew up in the San Francisco my age and stage of life, having been pretty Bay Area. What would the ideal care package I’m deeply mindful of the responsibilities of successful at things, you’re still going to stum- from home contain? the job and that they’re my responsibilities. ble—and you pick yourself up, and you figure out how to deal with it, and you move on. Rose: Food is always a big thing for each of us because it brings us back to home. What Bowdoin: What do you do to relax? is the food that we remember from home? So when I go back to visit my mom, when Rose: One thing that I do every day is exercise Julianne and I go out there, the first meal we rigorously. I’m pretty disciplined about not let- have is cracked Dungeness crab, sourdough ting anything get in the middle of that, because French bread, and some Chardonnay from it’s important to stay healthy and it allows me Napa. That’s home. to focus and have some time to myself. Then there’s spending time with Julianne, and occa- Bowdoin: What’s your favorite indulgence? campus every morning and evening is fantastic. about and the opportunities that we have sionally we get to see our kids, who are off It’s such a special place, and I experience the ahead, and to keep our community safe. I’m in their lives. Time with Julianne, walking my Rose: Ice cream. physical embodiment of Bowdoin present every deeply mindful of the responsibilities of the dogs, and I’m about to get back on my bike. day. The second is that I get to spend time with job and that they’re my responsibilities. That But it’s also true that there is much work Bowdoin: What would we be surprised to the students here, and they’re amazing. Whether being said, Bowdoin is an institution that has to do, and I came here to do this work. I love learn about you? it’s stopping on the quad to talk to them when I existed and been strong for 221 years. It tran- this job. There aren’t enough hours in the day am walking to work or getting a coffee at Smith scends any single individual. to do everything I need to do, which is fine. Rose: The thing that comes to mind actually is Union or a lunch that I may have or whatever And each of us needs to be well grounded At the end of But when you love your job, it’s not a stressful that I’m a sucker for a good love story. That’s the form is. I’m a teacher. I love that. in the notion that we are playing roles here in work; it’s an energizing, fun kind of work. For probably driven by my observation of my par- something that is much bigger than ourselves. the day, the only the foreseeable future I will be working hard ents’ marriage and by my own marriage. I’m way that we are Bowdoin: During your introduction to the We have the ability to have influence, and and not kicking back too much. That’s fine. I happy to sit with my wife and watch a roman- Bowdoin community and throughout the that’s great, but none of us is doing it alone. successful is if absolutely signed up for it, and I couldn’t be tic movie and kind of lose myself in it. planning and execution of your inaugura- That’s really important to keep in mind. A t we remember happier doing it. tion, you have said, “It isn’t about me, it’s the end of the day, the only way that we are that we’re here Bowdoin: What has been the best perk thus about Bowdoin.” successful is if we remember that we’re here for Bowdoin Bowdoin: If you had a Saturday completely far of being president of Bowdoin? for Bowdoin College. College. free of obligations, how would you spend it? Rose: Well, it isn’t about me. I’m deeply Rose: Two come immediately to mind. The mindful that I have incredible personal Doug Cook, director of news and media relations first is walking ten minutes to my office—I Rose: I might fly fish. I haven’t been able to responsibility to help guide the institution, in Bowdoin’s Office of Communications and do that this year, and I don’t have much hope cross the campus, corner to corner, to get from to work with all of the members of our com- Public Affairs, spoke with President Rose of getting my line wet this year. Going and my house to my office. To be able to cross this munity to realize the aspirations that I talked in his office in Hawthorne-Longfellow Hall.

18 BOWDOIN | FALL 2015 [email protected] 19 the inauguration of President clayton rose made for an on action-packed celebration during the extended homecoming drawing inspiration weekend this year. talia cowen ’16 captured the energy and excitement through snippets of conversation and illustrator Marshall hopkins drew inspiration from the sights and sounds he experienced during his visit to campus with his father, carl hopkins ’66.

20 BOWDOIN | FALL 2015 [email protected] 21 EVERYONE IS

Welcomeat a HOOTENANNY

Mike Merenda ‘98 and his wife, Ruthy Ungar, have been making music around the world for years with the likes of Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Kate Pierson, and Ani DiFranco and making a name for themselves in the “rocking roots” of a great American tradition.

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22 BOWDOIN | FALL 2015 [email protected] 23 half-moon rises over towering pines place on hand-hewn wooden stages named at the third annual Summer Hoot, after Seeger and his wife, Toshi. He showcases as Mike Merenda ’98 stands by a the work of his musical colleagues, builds the hilltop bonfire in the Catskills with music community, and helps develop the next his Gibson J-45 guitar slung over his generation of folk and indie-roots enthusiasts. “There’s nothing like a bunch of people Ashoulder and his son, Willie, at his side. The Hoot was also a venue for Merenda It’s late Saturday night at the folk festival and his thriving band, the Mike + Ruthy Band, coming together to share music. And that Merenda and his wife, Ruthy Ungar, have which occasionally includes his in-laws— held each August since 2013 at the idyllic renowned Americana fiddler Jay Ungar and around a bonf ire is all the better.” Ashokan Center, on land surrounded by one his wife, Molly Mason. Over the weekend, of New York’s biggest reservoirs. In the style Merenda, wearing an assortment of fedoras with of his legendary mentor, Pete Seeger, Merenda the brim turned up, played guitar and banjo leads the classic country tune “Satisfied Mind,” with the band. He played drums at different feeding the crowd each line first, so everyone points as well and, at the festival’s tearful F R O M “Simple & Sober” can join in. conclusion, stepped down into the field to pluck “Everyone is welcome at a hootenanny,” the upright bass, as Ungar played the haunting I’m keeping says Merenda. “There’s nothing like a bunch waltz, “Ashokan Farewell.” my own nose of people coming together to share music. And “I’ve stayed in the game and figured out to the grind- around a bonfire is all the better.” how to make it my life,” says Merenda, thirty- stone, I like The Saturday night gathering came midway nine, who lives in West Hurley, New York, with the way that in a three-day festival that included thirty hours Ruthy and their children, Willie, seven, and it feels. of outdoor music, a square dance, workshops Opal, three. “You don’t have to be on the cover for fledgling musicians, arts programs for kids, of Rolling Stone to be a success.” micro-brewed ale on tap, and intimate mini- The Hoot is one piece of a music career that concerts that lasted until three in the morning. found traction on several fronts in 2015. His For Merenda, the Hoot carries forward Seeger’s band backs the solo act of B-52s lead singer grassroots legacy, with performances taking Kate Pierson, and is opening for folk rocker Ani DiFranco on her Northeast tour this fall. He plays folk duos with Ruthy, and rocks out with the Mike + Ruthy Band, whose latest album, Bright As You Can, finds air time on New York FM radio. At the Hoot, the seven-piece band kicked off its set with the rollicking title track, an upbeat song that urges listeners to be bright, strong, and sweet, while moving through life with a suitcase that’s oh-so-light. They glided on the groove of their paean to The Band’s late Richard Manuel and rocked their road-trip anthem, “What Are We Waiting For.” There were also heartfelt ballads and the introspective tune, “Simple & Sober,” a theme song for those in Ruthy Ungar and Mike Merenda

The third annual Summer Hoot was held in August at the Ashokan Center “Mike and Ruthy have proved that they can do in New York’s Catskill forests. The Hoot comprises three days of world-class music on two volunteer-built, outdoor stages—plus camping, hiking, local food, roots. I call their music ‘rocking roots.’” and juried craft vendors.

24 BOWDOIN | FALL 2015 [email protected] 25 recovery from the demons of addiction. new trio, Rheingold, was born. The group these fingers can strum no longer, hand the ol’ “Mike and Ruthy have proved that they played New York’s gritty folk scene for banjo to the young one stronger.’” F R O M can do roots, and now they really rock,” says several months. By March 1999, Ungar and The Seeger-Guthrie connection brought Merenda on what “Rock On Pierson. “I call their music ‘rocking roots.’” Merenda were an item. “It was really fun to Merenda to the stage countless times with Little Jane” Pete Seeger meant Merenda, the son of a University of New reconnect with music, singing harmony,” says Seeger at the annual Clearwater Revival I know it Hampshire business professor, grew up playing Ungar. “We were just completely in a creative along the Hudson River. He toured with Arlo to him and how the seems today drums. By high school, he’d learned guitar space together.” Guthrie during his fortieth anniversary tour for legendary folksinger no one can and started writing. At Bowdoin, he majored They soon followed the path of many Alice’s Restaurant, performed with Guthrie’s influenced his career. see you, but in theater but also found his voice performing musicians facing the reality of New York City daughter Sarah Lee, and played several times there’s gonna in London pubs during his junior year abroad rents. They left. They moved to Northampton, at Arlo’s annual Carnegie Hall concert. Pete taught me to be courageous—in my come a day studying Shakespeare. He even recorded an Massachusetts, where Merenda sold guitars Woody Guthrie’s daughter Nora was writing and in my life. from early on i don’t they’re gonna album, Nozomi, while at Bowdoin in the indie and banjos at the Fretted Instrument producing a CD to commemorate Guthrie’s think i would have had the guts to get up on want to be rock band Spouse, with José Ayerve ’96 and Workshop. prolific years living in New York. She asked stage and sing about a lot of the stuff i was thinking about if Pete and Woody hadn’t you. Dan Pollard ’98. Against the advice of his One day, in walked Seeger’s grandson, Tao. Mike + Ruthy to finish and record Guthrie’s showed me the way. father, who yearned for his son to “get a good They started jamming and Tao later invited love song to Gotham, “My New York City.” job,” Merenda set sail for New York City and Merenda and Ungar, whom he’d known from “I t was so perfect to us,” says Merenda. he taught me that a “topical” song doesn’t have to be deadly serious, that it can be its hard-driving music scene. the close-knit Hudson Valley folk scene, to a “Ruthy and I met in New York, so it’s part of entertaining—and probably should be—if Merenda performed A 1998 Bard College alumni holiday party party that weekend. Over rum, they clicked, our story too.” you want to get your point across to the with Pete Seeger during the August in Manhattan changed his life. He’d come to and the string band The Mammals was born. Merenda’s college years helped develop widest possible audience; 2013 Summer Hoot, From left to right: New York to, as he put it, “follow my bliss”— The band recorded six albums and played in his musical chops, so he returns regularly the art of updating old melodies with new Seeger’s last festival Konrad Meissner, Mike the same life strategy that he says molded his dance halls and concert venues around the to Bowdoin, often playing for students at performance. Merenda, Kate Pierson, words; Bowdoin experience. In lower Manhattan, he world until splitting up in 2008. impromptu gigs at the Schwartz Outdoor Photo by Scott Harris. Ruthy Ungar, Jacob the importance of practicing your craft— Silver, and Ken Maiuri. roomed with a couple of Bardies who invited Playing with Tao brought Merenda to the Leadership Center. One day he hopes to play constantly; Photo by Liesl Dano. him to the December gathering. There, he met musical community led by Seeger, and fueled in Pickard Theater, where Seeger performed Ruthy Ungar, who had by his connections to Woody Guthrie’s music, in 1960. that learning is a lifelong pursuit; also studied theater. She he became part of that family. Merenda says One Bowdoin student who attended an that there is tremendous value in preach- liked to sing too. Later Seeger taught him to be courageous, both Outing Club show recently wrote to Merenda ing to the choir (as the choir needs wind in that night, the whole gang in his writing and his life. He taught him that the performance had inspired his journey its sail, too!); returned to Merenda’s the importance of constant practice, how to to become a singer-songwriter. Merenda told that every little bit helps. apartment, where he update old melodies with new lyrics, and why the student of his experience in the mid-1990s, Pete referred to activists as “the tea Spoon picked up his guitar and preaching to the choir can be an effective tool when he yearned to live the creative life and Brigade,” meaning that with enough teeny started singing “How I in the movement for social change. sat spellbound in Pickard, listening to folk tea spoons heaped on the see-saw, eventu- Felt,” one of the songs he’d At age ninety-four, Seeger sang at the rocker Ani DiFranco playing solo. ally the whole thing will topple over the other way. written at Bowdoin. Ungar Hoot with Merenda at his final festival You never know what will happen when F R O M joined in on harmony. performance in August 2013. Halfway into a you follow your bliss. “Ani was a game- and, besides riddling his set with audience “Word On The Street” “When we were done, fifty-minute set, Merenda recalls that Seeger changer for me, and she became my beacon,” sing-a-longs (something that he will probably be best remembered for and something that she said, ‘Let’s sing it approached him in the wings and shrugged his says Merenda. “It blows my mind that I’ll be Word on the i learned from him directly—how to feed the again!’” he recalls. shoulders, confiding that he couldn’t think of opening for her this fall.” audience the next lyric), he always included street, you’re Ungar returned the anything else to sing. “I put my hand on Pete’s at least one “children’s song” in his set, often my family. next night to sing again. shoulder and said, ‘How about “Quite Early David McKay Wilson, whose work has appeared in the opening his show with “Skip to My Lou” or I’m not just Joining them was Carter Morning” and “This Land is Your Land”?’ magazines of 120 colleges and universities, met Mike “She’ll Be coming ‘round the Mountain.” talking about Merenda on New Year’s Eve, 2015, dancing to his band Little ’98, who arrived says Merenda. “He perked up, spun around, at the Ashokan Center. Pete’s music was for everyone, all ages, all Ruth, I mean beliefs. he led by example and followed his with his mandolin. The and led us through those beautiful songs, the Joe Larese has been a professional photographer for everybody. harmonies flowed and a former of which includes the lyric ‘and when over thirty years and makes his home in New York’s heart to the bitter end. he’d say things like Hudson River Valley. “if you can’t beat ‘em—out live em!” and “take it easy—but take it!”

i carry all these ideas with me as i shape my shows and shape my life.

26 BOWDOIN | FALL 2015 [email protected] 27 BY AIDAN PENN ’17 � ILLUSTRATIONS BY BRIAN HUBBLE

While studying last spring, junior philosophy major Aidan Penn began wondering, “What had philosophically minded students before me found meaningful and important during their four years at Bowdoin?” Reading philosophy and political theory honors projects in the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & a Philosophy Archives deepened his curiosity. “I was struck by my predecessors’ thoughtfulness and insight, and I wanted to know: what are they doing now? How have their philosophical studies served them post-Bowdoin?” His attempt to answer these questions led to this article. Major? What are you going to do with that?

this question, when it inevitably exits the mouth of an inquisitive elder, should be treated like the gravest of party fouls—like spilling red wine on the host’s white carpet.

f course, the question is leveled at students beyond the discipline of philosophy; majors across political theory, English, and history must endure this same skepticism. OIt’s the same cynical brand that causes some to roll their eyes at the term “liberal arts”—a skepticism generally rooted in a presupposition that material value is the only sort that matters. Those of us studying such disciplines often wish the rejoinder might be more curious than incredulous. More along the lines of, “Interesting. Why did you choose [insert name of major]?” This formulation conveys genuine scrutinizing and will likely result in a thoughtful answer, since most of us with a predilection for the theoretical have considered the reasons for our decisions. Because of the judgment frequently looking down the noses of questioners, I can’t help but harbor insecurities about my choice of majors (philosophy and political theory) and, because I enjoy talking to those who have lived lives much like the one I expect to live, I set out to ask Bowdoin alumni who were philosophy and political theory majors a slightly modified version of the question: “A philosophy major? What have you done with that?”

Cheryl Foster ’83

heryl Foster ’83 came to Bowdoin in the fall of 1979 expecting to pair philosophy c with government and pursue law. After a summer internship at a law firm, however, Foster jumped the law school ship and ended up in a job expected of philosophers: philosophy professor. Foster, ultimately a double major in philosophy and English, worked for Bowdoin’s admissions office for a year before completing graduate studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Edinburgh. Her work history between and alongside her academic pursuits is about as diverse as the photos in a college brochure. She has been a consultant for the Chicago Philosophy Foster describes how philosophical discourse. public school system, emphasizes the philosophy classes can feel like “I never felt like I could an assistant for Chicago “coming out parties,” where get to the point when I Tonight’s John Calloway, a “analytic process those who have silently wondered believed I was truly, truly writer for literary magazines, of hearing patterns about the questions sewn into adding something…but I and an assistant to a beneath chaos.” human existence can declare did really enjoy the process Japanese sculptor. Yet Foster themselves philosophically of critiquing other people’s never expected to be a explains, because philosophy curious and begin lifelong arguments because that’s professor until her doctoral emphasizes the “analytic conversations with the great where I learned about supervisor suggested she try process of hearing patterns thinkers as well as their peers. the world and learned teaching a class in moral beneath chaos.” This attraction of philosophy about my approach philosophy. Teaching proved This makes sense: classes is paramount; philosophy to understanding it,” a calling and, since finishing philosophy and political classes offer a constructive venue Braveman says. at Edinburgh, Foster has theory professors drill clarity to satisfy a base, natural urge: the Braveman’s voice become a remarkable and because the discipline’s urge to contemplate—especially is animated and clean. decorated philosophy content is so abstract and to contemplate the questions that She pauses to piece professor at the University of elusive. Just as Foster fights others might label irresolvable or her thoughts together, Rhode Island. vagueness with clarity in the simply matters of opinion. but can just as easily This last sentence comes classroom, so too she helps In class, the professor assumes digress with remarkable with a disclaimer. “I’ve articulate her collaborators’ the roll of facilitator and guide. coherence. She deals well never been a philosophy thoughts and values. “I’m a conduit between these in both the profound and careerist,” says Foster. And Foster can articulate. young people,” explains Foster, the quotidian, finding “It’s never been about my She speaks in complete sentences “who are hungry for new ways each in the other. And career as a philosopher. It’s and paragraphs. It’s astounding. of understanding the world and she describes herself as been about doing philosophy, and doing it in dialogue Yet she’s also a far cry from any caricature of a bloviating, themselves, and this tradition that has constantly been particularly motivated to help others. All things considered, with young people, and using philosophy to help solve stuffy academic; Foster exudes genuine warmth as much as engaged with those things. . . I’m the middlewoman.” it seems that Braveman would have made quite the real problems.” she does scholarship. Talking to her makes you feel better professor—were it not for her hesitations about academia. What sorts of real problems? Foster has employed about yourself. She reminds me of my best friend’s parents— Melissa Braveman ’99 Braveman left Bowdoin and began a career as a philosophy to help those across the arts and sciences. the parents I go to when I want relationship advice from an management consultant. Though she soon forgot much She’s written grants for outdoor classrooms and theater adult who didn’t change my diapers. hen Melissa Braveman ’99 took her first of the detailed philosophy she had once mastered, the companies; she’s helped coastal scientists communicate the I have no doubt that her eloquence and character, not W philosophy class, it was love at first lecture. implications of their research to policy makers; she helped to mention her devotion to pedagogy, make for one heck But by the time she got around to taking philosophy, “Philosophy taught me how to the North American Nature Photography Association of a professor. And teaching is Foster’s primary avenue for she had nearly completed the psychology and pre-med hear the difference between what write their ethical field practices and digital captioning philosophical outreach—far more important to her than the requirements. Leaving these other interests, Braveman someone is saying and what actually policies. A philosopher is suited for these jobs, she work she does outside of the classroom. went on to complete an honors project in formal logic. “I teach at a mid-sized public institution,” she Logic is an esoteric, high-powered corner of philosophy is accurate about the conclusions that Foster exudes genuine warmth explains, “and that’s a conscious choice I’ve made. Every that evaluates arguments by translating them into a system somebody is drawing—what logically as much as she does scholarship. few years I have a chance to go somewhere else, and thus of symbols and rules. The waters quickly get deep and follows and what does not.” Talking to her makes you feel better far, I have recommitted to where I am. And part of the mathematical. Braveman’s thesis includes a fifteen-step reason I do that is that almost no one comes in wanting deduction to demonstrate the impossibility of artificial philosophical method stuck with her and helped her intuit about yourself. She reminds me of to do philosophy.” intelligence—and that’s in a footnote. So trust me when I the crucial skills of consulting. my best friend’s parents—the parents It’s these students—the students who often take say that Braveman was a remarkable young philosopher. Braveman describes leaving Bowdoin with an I go to when I want relationship philosophy to fulfill a distribution requirement—that Despite her talent, though, Braveman had hesitations “algorithmic” method of processing information. In the Foster so enjoys teaching. After all, she points out, eighteen about academia. Even when philosophy professor Scott abstract, this makes sense; hers is a method informed advice from an adult who didn’t to twenty-two is a remarkable age to study anything, Sehon urged her to publish a paper she’d written, she by logic, which helps to distill the crucial claims and change my diapers. especially the most fundamental of questions. doubted that she could truly contribute to the greater inferences—undoubtedly useful in consulting. “There’s a lack of awareness about Patrick Pierce ’08 Yet, be it in investment Philosophy is what [studying philosophy] can add to banking or in investing, Pierce useful, then, not hen Patrick Pierce ’08 talks about economics, his has put his training in political the strength of one’s thought process W voice brightens and reveals a geniality beneath theory to good use. Much like only because and the depth of one’s personality.” his seriousness. Braveman’s application of the cognitive Before I spoke to Pierce, I knew two things about philosophy to medicine, studying skills it demands “Philosophy,” says Braveman, “taught me how to hear him: (1) he is an investor at a small, successful firm in political theory has helped the difference between what someone is saying and what San Francisco; and (2) during his senior year at Bowdoin, Patrick separate the substantive make for good actually is accurate about the conclusions that somebody is he wrote an honors thesis in political theory entitled from the fluff. professors, drawing—what logically follows and what does not.” “The Selfish Life of Selflessness: Lessons from Rousseau’s “A company will tell you doctors, and Popular in the business world is the mindset “garbage Criticism of Liberalism.” that its business is great for all in, garbage out,” Braveman explains. Consultants must If this pair of facts promises anything about Pierce’s these reasons; another investor investors, but also cull meaningful conclusions from mounds of rank data. character, it’s self-awareness. An irksome generalization is you talk to will recommend because it helps Not only did Braveman’s background prepare her for the notion that the largest beneficiaries of the system have that you invest for all these us live more this interpretive analysis, but it also prepared her to been so focused on accumulating wealth that they haven’t reasons; and then my job is to intentional and communicate her findings. paused to evaluate its rules. Pierce, however, entered go through and to . . . discover While consulting, a pro bono side project took finance after much time spent considering the foundation of what is and what isn’t within self-aware lives. Braveman to a warehouse in Seattle on a fateful day in self-interest on which capitalism rests. that—to strip the marketing February 2001. A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck— A political theory and economics double major, Pierce from that and get to the bottom as in ours, asks us to while she was on the warehouse’s top floor. The building went to work at Lehman Brothers after graduation, hoping of the economic reality.” scrutinize our decisions sustained significant damage, and amid the chaos, that some time in investment banking would teach him the Pierce’s application of and beliefs—to look at Braveman had a revelation: “It became clear to me that the finance that he didn’t study at Bowdoin. philosophy to finance might others and ourselves when most rewarding element of my job was…that I had come to The world of finance when Pierce entered it (circa make for a good response to the we are most naked. With really help someone in a way that was meaningful.” 2008) was a time of fear and volatility and anger. Lehman parents who criticize their child’s this examination we gain This event led Braveman out of consulting and back to Brothers failed soon after he began there, although his job choice of major, but the study of philosophy also serves far awareness. Philosophy is useful, then, not only because her original aspiration: medicine. In the following years, survived the transition to Barclay’s ownership. Pierce would more important ends. the cognitive skills it demands make for good professors, she would finish her pre-med requirements, attend medical later head west to work in Lehman Brothers’ Silicon Valley “There’s a whole slew of professionals out there who doctors, and investors, but also because it helps us live school, and become the pediatric physician that she is today. office before transitioning to the small, successful investing are sleepwalking in their careers and not enjoying what more intentional and self-aware lives. Braveman’s story—she is a first-generation college firm, FPR, where he works today. they’re doing and just putting in a day’s work. . . I would Pierce would add that studying philosophy enriches student who grew up in a working class family from South “What motivated me to follow down the [economics] feel empty and less content if I didn’t have [philosophy] to our lives as citizens: “For both the enjoyment of life—a Portland—should disabuse us of the common expectation path,” explained Pierce, “was that it was something I draw on,” Pierce explains. life of thought—and practical observations of being a that those of her background ought to opt for the more didn’t really see others really enjoying in the way that I For those with a predilection for the theoretical, good citizen, I think [studying philosophy] is really useful reputably lucrative majors. Studying philosophy, as did. . . Most people saw it as a way to get a job that paid studying philosophy can be the difference between vivid beyond the practical career-driven element.” Braveman attests, offers an enormously valuable method of well, and I wasn’t blind to that, but I really enjoy thinking awareness and perpetual somnambulism. This life-enriching ability is not unique to philosophy, thought and inquiry—a method that proves both durable through the issues.” Consider Socrates’s remark about the unexamined of course. Any liberal arts education worthy of its title and marketable. This is not to say, however, that his career path has life not being worth living. Philosophy, in Socrates’s time will demand rigorous inquiry. It is an end in itself; it need “There’s a lack of awareness,” she says, “about what been clear of obstacles. While at Lehman Brothers, Pierce not be justified in terms of an expected career or material [studying philosophy] can add to the strength of one’s was eager to abandon investment banking and take up Pierce’s application of philosophy value. And this freedom from justification might be the thought process and the depth of one’s personality.” investing, a transition that turned out to be far more best sense in which a liberal arts education is truly liberal. Indeed, the value of studying philosophy, at least for significant than it seems. to finance might make for a good So, if you ask a friend’s son or daughter why he or she undergraduates, has little to do with its market value, “I didn’t feel invested in what I was doing,” says response to the parents who criticize chose philosophy, you must also follow my advice and be however significant or unexpected it may be. The value Pierce (pun unacknowledged if intended). “I wasn’t trying their child’s choice of major, but the prepared for the response, “Because…” of studying philosophy has to do with self-knowledge and to understand the truth; I was trying to put something awareness and the ability to sacrifice for others. To better on paper that was palatable and that would facilitate a study of philosophy also serves far Aidan Penn ’17 grew up in Manhattan and studies philosophy and government at Bowdoin. He is currently abroad at Oxford understand this sort of value, consider Patrick Pierce. transaction that I didn’t care about.” more important ends. University’s Worcester College. He spends his free time playing Ultimate Frisbee and wondering whether ice hockey is a water sport. Bowdoin

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Searles, built during the presidency of William DeWitt Bree Candland ’01 Hyde, provided a luminous hoMegroWn teacher backdrop for the faculty line-up at the Inaugural Procession. Here, Dale Syphers and Jean Yarbrough chat before marching to Farley for the inauguration of Clayton Rose, for both of them their third Bowdoin inauguration. Photo: Michele Stapleton

PHOTO BY MICHELE STAPLETON. Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. —Japanese proverb

ince graduating from Bowdoin with a government and legal studies Candland, whose roots are in Washington County and Bangor, Maine, Smajor in 2001, Bree Candland has been teaching social studies three is also an ardent student of religion. After encouraging Mt. Ararat miles away from campus at Topsham’s public high school, Mt. Ararat. to change the required social studies courses for ninth graders to “I haven’t made it that far at all,” she jokes. “Introduction to World Governments” and “Introduction to World Partly because this area has been home for so long, it’s not unusual for Religions,” she developed new curricula for both courses while earning a Candland to jump up at least once during a meeting at a Brunswick coffee master of theology degree in 2011 from Bangor Theological Seminary. shop and hug someone who happens to walk by. But her longevity here Today, Candland stays connected to many Bowdoin staff members, is not the only reason she knows a lot of people. She’s also funny, warm, but especially the education department and its faculty. When she can, and filled with enthusiasm for so many things in her life: her students she mentors education majors and invites student teachers into her (“They ask great questions and push me to think in new ways,” she says.); classroom. “Bowdoin is a place you don’t leave,” Candland smiles. her hometown of Gardiner (“It’s small, artsy, and up-and-coming.”); and While at Bowdoin, Penny Martin’s introductory education class her live-music blog, What Bree Sees. She catches up to fifty music shows a changed Candland’s plan to become a psychologist and launched her year across New England and regularly receives press passes from artists into the “best job in the world,” as she puts it. “It’s magical,” she says and venues to attend and review concerts on whatbreesees.com. about teaching. “I couldn’t think about doing anything better.”

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grands! We moved to the South questioned, the justices withdrew. the drive, approach, and putts for serving on the board of proctors Helen, three grandchildren, and one he was a leader in economic blankets made available for some Send us news! 4104 College Shore two years ago and have given As Bob and I were packing up our a par, whereas the losers made a and chairing his fraternity initiation great grandchild. His fraternity was development and instrumental of the 3,000 who gathered on the Station, Brunswick, ME 04011 up house chores pretty much. Our papers the SJC’s clerk approached double bogey. Larry and Bill were committee. Between his sophomore Alpha Delta Phi. in the creation of the Littleton lawn before the Bowdoin Museum or [email protected]. new friends, most my age, are a very us somewhat tentatively. ‘The nicknamed the ‘steady eddies!’” and junior years, he married Marion “Paul, born in March 1935, came Industrial Park, which now employs of Art. Excellent alumni turnout If there’s no news listed for your class year, it’s not because challenging, interesting group. Our justices want me to ask you L. Moon before completing his from Westwood, Massachusetts, 1,200 area residents and generates for the procession…though a bit we’re neglecting you! The past visits to campus have always when you passed the Bar,’ he 1955 studies as a government major and to Bowdoin by way of Boston an annual payroll of $60 million. disconcerting to be so near the majority of Class News has been fun; however, visiting Endicott said. ‘1957,’ I replied. ‘’53,’ said “Donald Brewer met Marie earning an ROTC commission in the College High School. He played A great supporter of education, front as well as trying to keep up always been self-reported, so College with Doris is an easier drive Bob. Apparently the judges had Grover at a dance between Quartermaster Corps. Assignments football for four seasons (I he was generous with scholarship with the pace of the graduating send us an update and rally as we are antiques. Always happy to been surprised (or alarmed?) Bowdoin College and Westbrook over the next twenty years included enjoyed rooming with him during funding and for nine years (three as seniors. your classmates! hear from my classmates.” by the appearance of a pair of Junior College in 1954. On August duty in Germany, Okinawa, Vietnam preseason our sophomore year) president) he served as a trustee “Back for Reunion number fifty- octogenarians in that venue. (Or 27, 1955, they were married at St. (twice), Fort Bragg, and the ROTC and majored in American history. of Littleton Regional Healthcare. eight were: Harry Carpenter, 1949 1951 REUNION did they wonder if we were really Paul’s Church in Brunswick. On program at the University of He was also involved with the In 1973, he was honored as Marty and Dick Chase, Bill Bob Grover: “Antiques Roadshow Robert Corliss: “I largely retired lawyers?)” August 27, 2015, they celebrated Rhode Island (during which time debating council, interfraternity citizen of the year by the Littleton Cooke, Jay Dings, Kathryn and showed cards that were found some years ago but have kept my sixty wonderful years together,” he earned an MPA). His military athletics, the interfaith forum, and Chamber of Commerce. As an Walter Gans, Barbara and David in cigarette packages and other membership in the Massachusetts 1952-1953 reported their daughter Barbara decorations include the Legion of Newman club. Paul was on our Ivy undergraduate, he had received Ham, Laurie and Kent Hobby, product containers. One was a Bar active. It’s occasionally Send us news: Brewer ’89. Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, Day committee and, for our 50th financial assistance (Travelli Cynthia Howland, David Kessler drawing of a Bowdoin College useful in helping friends and [email protected] and three Army Commendation Reunion, chaired the planned giving Scholarship) and established the (who flew up to take advantage athlete. I took a photo of the family members with their legal 1956 REUNION Medals. Retiring to Bar Harbor, committee. Following graduation Paul J. McGoldrick Scholarship at of Brunswick’s executive airport. TV screen showing the card. I entanglements. One such matter 1954 Send us news: his activities were restricted by he went on to earn an MBA at Bowdoin. He is survived by his two I believe our class is down to one have never seen anything like it involved real estate in Maine. Larry Dwight “and his guest, Bill [email protected] multiple sclerosis, which did not Harvard (1959) before settling in stepdaughters, Arden and Heather; active aviator), Yolanda Kinnelly, and wanted to share it with my Bob Waldron ’50, an old friend Wildes, won the Cape Arundel lessen his commitment to Bowdoin Littleton, New Hampshire, where a daughter, Linda; and three Ed and Nancy Langbein, Sandy and old classmates. Maybe it was a and long-time member of the Member Guest Tournament July 1957 and involvement with the Bar he worked for State Mutual grandsons. His fraternity, of which Erik Lund, Kay and Dick Lyman, drawing of you. I hope it wasn’t Maine Bar, agreed to sponsor my 9-10, 2015, in Kennebunkport, Ed Langbein: “Our sympathy to Harbor Congregational Church and Insurance selling life insurance he was president, was Psi Upsilon. Jim Millar, Tom Needham, Ted inside a cigarette package.” admission pro hac vice (‘for that Maine. Larry and his partner won the families of Don Dyer and Paul American Legion. He is survived and doing estate planning and “Commencement went well with Parsons, and Joanie and Bob one matter only’) to the Maine five nine-hole match play rounds McGoldrick, who recently passed by his wife, son Donald, daughter pensions. Within his community clear skies for 479 new alumni and Shepherd. Highlights included clear 1950 Bar. The case eventually wound in their flight. A two-hole alternate away, and to Paul O’Neill on the “Earlier this July my dad, Bill up before a panel of six justices shot playoff ensued, in which loss of his wife Sara. Don was born Anderson ’50, celebrated his ninetieth of the Maine Supreme Judicial they had to beat three other flight in Hull’s Cove, Maine, in July 1935, birthday with family in Bangor,” writes Court (SJC). Last April Bob and I winners. Another final hole playoff and after Bar Harbor High School Mark Anderson ’74. appeared before the panel in the continued against the winner of followed his older brother Lee ’56 Culture is a Christopher Crowell: “Still SJC’s ornate Portland courtroom. the low handicap flight groups to Brunswick. As an undergraduate, hanging in there on the tennis After the opposing counsel and we that was again alternate shot. he played freshman football and Key Ingredient courts, especially important as made our arguments and had been Larry and Bill were perfect with three years of baseball, as well as I turned ninety-one this month. Doris, my bride of sixty-five years, and I happily report seven smart grandchildren and eight great-

“We set out to find a new home with its own character. We’ve found it in Maine.” Former Bon Appetit editor, Pat Brown, may occasionally miss New York but she has discovered that living at Thornton Oaks affords plenty of cultural opportunities. “If you’re looking for interesting things to do, you don’t have to look very far,” Pat says. “Auditing classes at Bowdoin College; the Bowdoin International Music Festival; Portland Symphony; Portland Stage; the Portland Museum of Art; the Bowdoin Museum— “Antiques Roadshow showed cards and world class restaurants too.” Retirement Community that were found in cigarette packages www.ThorntonOaks.com and other product containers. One Marie and Donald Brewer ’55 on their Bill Anderson ’50 celebrated his ninetieth birthday on July 18 in Bangor, Maine, What awaits you at Thornton Oaks? To learn more about the community contact Henry Recknagel at was a drawing of a Bowdoin College wedding day in 1955, in front of Marie’s with grandson Steve Trichka ’84, son-in-law Don Cousins ’60, and son Mark 800-729-8033 or at [email protected]. 800-729-8033 athlete,” writes Bob Grover ’49. parents’ home in Topsham, Maine. Anderson ’74.

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No calorie qualms, especially “Reed Chapman’s youngest son, appearing in this issue.] in case of who knows what…’ the University of North Carolina in for the awesome spread for all Clark (now a junior at Dickinson “A pleasure to receive a copy Late e-mail from Shari and Gene Greensboro this fall. Jill stays active returnees at Thorne Hall on Thursday College), was named to the All- of John Simonds’s newest book Helsel, who are well and settling with volunteering (food bank, The and the Sunday brunch. While at Conference tennis team and is of poems, Footnotes to the Sun, into a new home, still in San Diego Pierce House assisted living, and Reunion, Jay Dings shared details looking forward to a semester in which is a selection of observations, and next to a great bike path. Their church), but found time to participate of his most recent cruise with Grand Brisbane, Australia. Meanwhile, insights, and impressions. In and finish third in a golf scramble Natural Sustenance Tall Tales from the All of the Night What You Know in Circle, which began on the Seine at Andy (his oldest son) successfully particular, we enjoyed ‘Indian at Sugarloaf. And Mike Coster Poems by Nick Fleck ’58 Tall Pines A novel by Michael Kent ’82 Your Hands Brittany and continued to Saint-Malo defended his PhD in education at the Summer,’ which recounts a day advised that he is well and healthy (Human Error Publishing, 2014) By Christian P. Potholm ’62, (Xlibris, 2015) Poems by Elizabeth Polimer ’82 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander (David Robert Books, 2015) and Mont Saint-Michel. Highlights University of Maryland. and in fair shape.” Professor of Government were the Cathedral at Chartres, “In our travels around New (Down East Books, 2015) Bayeux Tapestry, and a full day at England, Nancy and I enjoyed 1958 the Normandy beaches including seeing Daisy Crane and Janie Nick Fleck: “You can find an article 1960 1962 also played lacrosse. His coach, Arromanches, Omaha, the cemetery, Webster; both are fine, as is Marcia about my poetry book, Natural Send us news: David Fernald was one of four the late Nels Corey ’39, ranked and Pont du Hoc. A few weeks prior, Pendexter, who is back for a summer Sustenance: Selected Poems (Human [email protected] graduates of the Maine Central him among the best linemen in at the scholarship luncheon, it was in Maine. John Collier reports Four Kappa Sigs from the Class of 1962 Error Publishing, 2014), by Rachel Institute to be inducted into the Bowdoin history. Fernald was good to see Anne and John Snow that he remains active with golf and during a reunion at Rosa’s Restaurant in Rafkin either on the Recorder, 1961 REUNION school’s Athletic Hall of Fame inducted into the Maine Sports Hall Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on August and Wende Chapman, as well as that he and his family are all doing Greenfield, Massachusetts, web of Fame in 2007. He also received Tom Giacobbe ’63 and Bill Higgins 10, 2015: Sabra and Dick Ladd, Margie Robert Hurd: “Having sold our place during homecoming weekend ‘locals’ Harry Carpenter and Bill well. And Flora Cowen writes that ’63 at the top of Tunk Mountain, near and Peter Webster, Pat and Anne site (recorder.com) or on the web in Florida, Lonna and I are in the in October. Fernald was a class an MBA from Stanford and enjoyed Cooke. Anita and John Albert’s the schedule is solidly blocked in Ellsworth, Maine. O’Brien, and Howard and Joanne Hall. site of the Hampshire Gazette.” The process of moving to Utah. Lonna valedictorian and three-sport athlete an extended and successful career Recorder article reads, “With over 50 being a native Californian and I at MCI, playing football, baseball in the software field. From an article years of poetry studies under his belt, being a Bostonian, we have decided and basketball. He was class vice on centralmaine.com, September Northfield resident Nick Fleck never to split our time between Utah and president as a senior and a Manson 10, 2015. thought his writing — stemming Cape Cod. Lonna has family in Utah, Essay Finalist. He was a member Stevens Hilyard: “Our August from a lifelong passion — would and I have a son on Bainbridge of the 1956 undefeated Maine prep trip to Grand Manan Island on a land in the hands of a publisher. Island, Washington. I now expect to school champion MCI team that Road Scholar program included an Within the 90-page book, filled with be able to do some sailing with him did not allow a point. He captained outing to Kent Island, Bowdoin’s sonnets, villanelles, and lyric poems, on and around Puget Sound’s islands the MCI postgrad team in 1957. research station. An orientation Fleck shares his life experiences from on my old boat.” At Bowdoin he was a three-time group (Class of ’19) was on the 1957 to 2014, including his two-year All-Maine selection in football and dock when our boat pulled in. Photo stint as a soldier during the Cold War to the students’ lives he witnessed Polar bear mascot, 1984 control room, 1970 WBOR Soccer practice, 1962 Birthday celebration, 1985 as a teacher.”

1959 Ray Babineau: “Charmaine and Is Bowdoin part of your family album? I are pleased to report that we The Bowdoin Pines Society If so, please consider including the College in your future plans. A charitable bequest to the recognizes alumni, parents, and will have two granddaughters at College through your will or trust, or naming Bowdoin as a benefi ciary of your retirement account, allows friends who have expressed Bowdoin in September! Madeline you to make a long-term commitment without affecting your current standard of living. You may choose their loyalty and gratitude to Bowdoin by including the Cormier Rutan ’16 will be joined to designate a particular program as the benefi ciary of your gift, or leave your gift to be used at the College in their estate plans. discretion of the College. Gifts made through a will, living trust, or benefi ciary designation can be simple by Caroline Marie Rutan ’19. Both to arrange. If you decide to include Bowdoin in your future plans, please notify us so we can help. are daughters of Camille Marie Babineau Rutan ’84. Besides being Larry Dwight ’54 and his guest, Bill Please contact Nancy Milam or Jennifer Crane in Bowdoin’s Gift Planning Offi ce at 207-725-3172 Wildes, won the Cape Arundel Member or at [email protected]. Go to our website at bowdoin.edu/gift-planning. topnotch students they are both Stevens Hilyard ’62 and a Class of 2019 orientation group at Kent Island, saying Guest Tournament, July 9–10, 2015, in advanced dancers.” “Polar Bear” for the camera. Kennebunkport, Maine.

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dump. I travel to Guatemala twice a year for board meetings and have BRUNSWICK: New construction is booming at Botany Place! This residential community of started Spanish language lessons to Marty and Bob Frank ’64 celebrated their architecturally unique condominium homes is try to communicate better with the fiftieth wedding anniversary in late August. “Of course,” located off Maine Street and just a mile from children and staff.” downtown, Bowdoin College, and the Train writes classmate David Cohen, “this is a remarkable Andrew Seager: “I decided to Station. Special features include open floor plans, achievement in and of itself, but all the more remarkable retire at seventy, and was blessed first floor master suites, high-end materials, and multiple options for your personal customizations. is that Bob is wearing his original wedding attire. How to be working for the Education Prices starting at $438,900. many of us could manage that?” Development Center’s research, evaluation, and policy unit, whose director allowed me to choose my BRUNSWICK: This beautifully designed op! It was interesting to see the Tom and Bill were roommates contemporary home features single-floor living with nine-foot ceilings, hardwood floors, custom kitchen research station facilities. We met at Bowdoin for their sophomore with red birch cabinets and granite counters, master the scientists who are conducting through senior years, and they still There’s nothing like suite plus two additional bedrooms, full bath, amazing a long-term study of storm-petrels remain close friends even though sunroom, and bonus game room on the second floor. which nest on the island.” they live 250 miles apart. Tom and Step outside onto the perfect patio with salt water pool coming home. and hot tub surrounded by meticulous landscaping and “As a Maine Guide for twenty his wife, Bonnie, were guests of Bill private pond. Walk to the farmer’s market at Crystal years and a hunter and fisherman and his wife, Erika, at the Higgins’s Spring Farm! $525,000. since childhood, Christian summer camp on Branch Lake in Potholm ’62, Bowdoin’s DeAlva Ellsworth. During that visit Tom and Roger Tuveson ’64 and John Paterson ’66 fishing on Casco Bay. “Life is good.” Stanwood Alexander Professor of Bill spent one of the days hiking.” Morton Real Estate (207) 729-1863 Government, knows the woods 240 Maine Street • Brunswick, ME 04011 • www.MaineRE.com • Email: [email protected] and waters of Maine from the 1964 coast to the North Woods. He Send us news: brings it all to life with humorous [email protected] tales, astonishing and intriguing “People who grew up here characters, and real-life dialogue 1965 always have a yearning “People come here to ‘live,’ in his new book, Tall Tales from Send us news: to come back.” not to retire from life.” the Tall Pines. (Down East Books, [email protected] –ARLENE N. – N I C K N . 2015). These are authentic, how- they-talk, what-they-do, Maine 1966 REUNION hunting and fishing stories with John Paterson: “Dean (Westbrook The Highlands, just a mile and a half from Bowdoin, is a place where alums reunite and find an experience Andrew Seager ’66 marks his Maine guides, wardens, and College ’68) and I live about six as rich as their college years. retirement—as promised—with his sportsmen, all presented in full miles from the College on beautiful Gorgeous trees, plenty of privacy and light – that’s wife, Cindy Cahill, atop Camel’s Hump blossom. Steeped in the old- Maquoit Bay. I have been retired what first drew Nick and Arlene to their dream on Vermont’s Long Trail. time lore of the Maine outdoors, from the practice of law for three cottage at The Highlands. Bowdoin alum Nick these yarns do more than capture years now and have taken up a loves being down the road from his alma mater, hunting and fishing tradition in variety of hobbies including fly- and Arlene loves shaping the future of our community as part of our Residents’ Board. Maine, they also bring to life the fishing, motorcycle riding, golf, rural subculture with all its time- and gardening. During the school Start your adventure at highlandsrc.com honored values and real people.” year I do a lot of mentoring with From the publisher. at-risk boys in the local schools. I am also on the board of directors 1963 of the ACLU of Maine and Safe 30 Governors Way • Topsham, ME 04086 “On July 3, 2015, a picture-perfect Passage, the school in Guatemala Robert Buckland ’72 competed in the 207-725-2650 Polar Bear Triathlon last spring. He’s day, Tom Giacobbe and Bill that was founded by the late Hanley Pet Friendly www.highlandsrc.com pictured at Pickard Field with his son, Higgins hiked to the top of Tunk Denning ’92 for kids whose families Greg, his daughter, Katy ’08, and Mountain near Ellsworth, Maine. make a living off the Guatemala City IT’S ME. IT’S MAINE. IT’S THE HIGHLANDS. Katy’s boyfriend, Nick.

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Job#: HIGH150802 De: mdk Colors Notes: Size: 3.5x6.3125 Ae: ben C M Y K Publication: Bowdoin Magazine Date: 08.31.2015 Client: The Highlands Rnd~Ver: r02•vA NA NA NA NA 1017 TURNPIKE STREET, CANTON, MA 02021 • (P) 781.828.9290 • (F) 781.828.9419 • WWW.TRIADADVERTISING.COM Bowdoin Bowdoin Class News Class News ) Larry Kaplan ’72 own timing; first pull back from Port of Pittsburgh. Cindy and I both BOOKS administrative commitments six look forward to my 50th Reunion.” Medicine and MeLodY months early, and then completely retire at the end of 2014. While 1967 arry Kaplan ’72 has balanced working as a What makes New England such an hiking in the White Mountains a Send us news: L pediatrician and performing as a folk musician inspiration for your music? for most of his life. His current consulting gig There are so many poignant moments in these couple of years back I casually [email protected] leaves more time for the music—and the two rich traditions that escape being noticed, yet when remarked to my wife, Cindy, that albums he has coming out on Folk Legacy Records. you explore them, there are unsung heroes, quiet I would hike Vermont’s Long 1968 strivers, great victories, and terrible tragedies. Trail, which stretches from the Mort Soule: “Three score years and When did your life as a musician begin? Massachusetts border to Canada ten are in the past. You have heard In middle school my interest in folk music took What do you hope listeners take away from along the Green Mountain that ‘seventy is the new fifty,’ so rise, Not For Sale: Remaking Home The Painter’s Panorama: root, and I began playing guitar and banjo. In high the Larry Kaplan musical experience? backbone, to mark retirement. sons of Bowdoin, and stay active, The Public school and at Bowdoin, I began performing. I ran An appreciation that the ballad can derive from Finding Center in the Economics: Universal Friend: Narrative, Art, and Faith One thing leads to another and read, exercise, write, sing, develop Land of Crazy Horse Resourcefulness Jemima Wilkinson and in the Moving Panorama the Bear Bottom Coffee House in the basement of local history and events, current or old, and still be By Kevin Hancock ’88, and Innovation in Religious Enthusiasm in of Pilgrim’s Progress Appleton Hall until our jug band, Ben Steele and contemporary. so we set out on the pilgrimage hobbies, and laugh. You have with forewords by US Senator Changing Times Revolutionary America By Jessica Skwire Routher ’94 his Bear Hands, was banned because we brought this August. The first 100 miles enjoyed all of Angus King and Oglala Sioux Essays co-edited By Paul Moyer ’92 (University Press of New England, 2015) tribe member Nick Tilsen by Gwen Kay ’91 (Cornell University Press, 2015) the lead singer dramatically in through the laundry “Music has never been from the south is shared with the above (Seventh Power Press, 2015) (University of Georgia Press, 2015) room on a motorcycle. (It was the ’60s.) the Appalachian Trail, and was because ‘an just a hobby, I take it relatively easy, but it then became old bellows with the Class of 1973 instead of his own consulting company, JKB How did “Song for the Bowdoin” come as seriously as I have increasingly demanding, with full of angry 1969 about? ’75 and neglected to include Bill’s Worldwide. From a JKB Worldwide ladders and Vermont’s innumerable wind’ (Yeats) Send us news: I had helped restore and then sailed as crew on the caring for children with class year or bold his name within press release, June 9, 2015. green, greasy rocks to clamber is not for the [email protected] schooner Bowdoin. When, while in grad school, the update. Bill passed away in complex special needs. over. We completed the first 223 Class of I learned she had broken off her mooring, ran 1970 May. Friends and classmates 1975 aground, and lost her mainmast, I felt a sense of Both undertakings have miles and will return next summer 1968. I have can read his obituary and post Send us news: helplessness. I wrote the song, thinking over and for the last fifty. I was surprised found the Steve Schwartz’s company, been 100 percent.” remembrances at obituaries. [email protected] over, “she’s bound to go sailing again.” I guess the that this old body thrived under a most enjoyment in memorizing, Chockstone Pictures, is one of the bowdoin.edu. song’s message touches loaded pack and the demands of studying, and performing the epic producers of the Broadway musical a universal chord of 1976 REUNION the trail. Son Alan trades bonds poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest revival of Spring Awakening, recovery and renewal. 1974 Send us news: in NYC. Daughter Catherine is in Lawrence Thayer. He was my which opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City On June 3, 2015, the Swiss [email protected] How do your medical her last year as a urology resident opposite: intellectual, class orator, a on September 27. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and musical lives at the Cleveland Clinic, and step- Harvard magna cum laude, class announced, and the US Department 1977 intersect? daughter Amy is a planner for the poet, editor of the Lampoon, and a of State confirmed, that Mario Andrew Magee “visited Svalbard, Rather than intersect, non-athlete. He wrote all fifty-two 1971 REUNION Brossi is Switzerland’s new ‘Land of the Polar Bear’ last June.” I think they co-exist; lines in flawless iambic heptameter in Send us news: Honorary Consul in Delaware. neither competes with less than a day. I have managed to [email protected] the other. Music has Brossi serves as a point of contact 1978 recite from memory his magnum opus never been just a hobby, and connection between Delaware Jeff Solomon: “Since I am faculty at Boston’s Fenway Park, Portland’s 1972 I take it as seriously as Robert Buckland: “In early May and Switzerland for any and at the University of Vermont, I I do caring for children Hadlock Field, the Baseball Hall of I had the great joy of competing in all matters of mutual interest, was able to hand my son Ian his with complex special Fame in Cooperstown, and about reporting directly to the embassy diploma as he graduated with a BA needs. Both undertakings three hundred times in various the Polar Bear Triathlon at Bowdoin and the Swiss Ambassador. in history on May 17, 2015.” have been 100 percent. venues; e.g. birthday parties, sales along with two of my children, son Consul Brossi is the original head meetings, and social clubs (I need an Greg and daughter Katy ’08.” of the Swiss Foreign Investment 1979 agent). Why is the poem still so Agency in North America as Send us news: popular after its first publication in 1973 well as the senior advisor for [email protected] the San Francisco Examiner in 1888? We apologize for the error in the congressional affairs at the Swiss The message is timeless: What does Spring/Summer issue regarding Embassy. A businessman, lobbyist, 1980 Casey do during his next at bat? the Class News of Margaret Andrew Magee ’77 in Svalbard, a trade association executive, While Americans were celebrating What will you do after your next Carey Pfau ’75 and her late Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic husband William E. Pfau III ’73. and former in-house counsel to the Memorial Day holiday, a small Ocean. The sign warns that polar bears strike out? Look at my website: We mistakenly listed Margaret multinational companies, he heads group gathered at Deadman’s Illustration: Louisa Cannell ’13 may be encountered nearby. How true! mudvillemort.com.”

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Island in Halifax for reflection, just behind where the ceremony commentary and a panoply of 1982 uncommon clarity and musicality as commemoration, and celebration. occurred. In attendance were (despite the night) colorful characters Elizabeth Poliner has released they explore the complexity of the Military personnel from the several distinguished military giving the protagonist a reason or a new book titled, What You human heart.” Poliner is also the United States and Canada marked guests, including US Vice-Admiral two to push ahead even though (or Know in Your Hands (WordTech author of Mutual Life & Casualty, Memorial Day with a ceremony The Cabin Michael Connor ’80, commander perhaps because) the deck is stacked Communications, 2015), a collection a novel in stories; Sudden Fog, a commemorating the War of 1812, of the US submarine forces. His with jokers.” of poems of painting, literature, chapbook of poems; and As Close and this year, the anniversary Restaurant speech focused on the positive and music, of family, memory, and to Us as Breathing, a forthcoming of the Treaty of Ghent, signed relationship between the US and 1981 REUNION loss. “Whether set in Washington, novel. She teaches creative writing in 1814, that ended it. During 552 Washington Street, Bath Canada since the War of 1812, Send us news: DC, the small Connecticut town in the MFA program at Hollins the War of 1812, nearly 200 and the importance of that bond. [email protected] of her childhood, or the coast of University. From the publisher. American prisoners of war died on The Cabin opened its doors in June Excerpted from the Halifax, Nova Maine, her poems speak with Melville Island and were buried of 1973. Serving our local and far Scotia, Canada, Chronicle Herald, in the hills of Deadman’s Island away friends for over 40 years. May 25, 2015. With the only real hand tossed Michael Kent: “My third novel, CABIN PIZZA? All of the Night, is now available. pizza in Maine. We are proud to This is a synopsis: He has landed The only real pizza in Maine. serve good food and warm spirits a journalistic job at the Universal “ — Portland Newspaper” in a rustic, nautical atmosphere. Press Agency in Washington DC, but Located in the south end of Bath the graveyard shift and a strange One of the best in New England. across from Bath Iron Works. The roommate fail to boost Albert “ — Boston Globe Nostran’s morale. A big news event ” front section of the restaurant was would improve matters, but then About as good as it gets in Maine. once a rope mill in the historic it is his worst nightmare: John shipbuilding days. In its past, it has “ — Downeast Magazine ” Lennon is shot. Not sufficiently been a barbershop, ice cream parlor, A local tradition. Some would argue trained, more a litterateur than and sandwich shop. Now our menu a reporter, his dispatches fail to “ the best pizza in the state of Maine. includes pasta dinners, subs, salads elicit unadulterated praise. A ray of — Offshore Magazine ” and, of course, pizza. Stop by for a hope, however, materializes in the Dave Daniels ’79, Katie Randall ’16, wonderful meal. presence of an iconoclastic copy Charlie Randall ’79, Carolyn Hollowell girl. Charming, but a series of less HOURS OF OPERATION: ’79, Ludger Duplessis ’79, Susan than inspiring/resume-unfit jobs Newhouse ’78, and Guilds Hollowell ’80 Sunday – Thursday: 10am – 9pm Open year round, 7 days a week ensue until another newspaper man enjoyed a recent mini-reunion. Friday – Saturday: 10am – 10pm for lunch and dinner. Cash or turns the main character on to the checks accepted. ATM on premises. notion of freelancing. A more down- 443-6224 Local delivery available. to-earth lass provides him with a multi-layered opportunity. In All of the Night, we are plunged inside the Richard Parnell ’83 v world of the press agency, journalism and beyond (and below). A recent “We built this puppet, Pedal Bear, and a smaller ‘cub,’ Pedal Bear The college graduate, nibbled at by a Jr., originally for the Art Shanty Project held out on White Bear couple of above-average demons, Lake, Minnesota,” writes Richard Parnell ’83. “Our art shanty Bowdoin Orient wrestles to emerge in the world of also had an educational photo exhibit in partnership with Polar Find out what’s really happening on the A yearly print subscription is $59 or subscribe to our full-blown, chafing adults. Like The Bears International. Pedal Bear is propelled by up to ten people Bowdoin campus by subscribing to the email newsletter to get just the top headlines in your Big Jiggety and Pop the Plug (check and has a bench in the back for kids to sit and help pull ropes to inbox every Friday morning: student-run newspaper, The Bowdoin Xlibris and Amazon), All of the Night move the mouth and fl ap the tail. It has since been involved in Orient. The Orient covers news, features, bowdoinorient.com/subscribe is laced with a compelling blend many community, environmental, arts, and biking events.” student opinion, arts & entertainment, of humor and pathos, underscored Classmates Judge Jeffery Hopkins ’82 sports and weekly events. Visit us on Facebook and Twitter @bowdoinorient. by Nostran’s piquant, sometimes For more information, visit facebook.com/PedalBearArtShanty. and Tyree Jones Jr. ’82 during a recent visit in DC. profound, seldom pedestrian,

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1983 Shelley Langdale ’85 Wang for his H&M collection. Maine expansion. Twitchell was Send us news: Excerpted from a Factory PR promoted not just for her twenty- the art of discovering art [email protected] press release, May 11, 2015. five years of experience in the Standing financial service industry, but helley Langdale ’85 has a story that is frequently had to start somewhere outside the US, I would go 1984 Stold at liberal arts colleges: she came to Bowdoin to Paris because you have the amazing encyclopedic 1985 also because the bank felt it was Shoe designer Ruthie Davis and expecting to major in history and government on a collections at the Louvre, the manuscripts and prints Out Send us news: important to have a Mainer at menswear innovator John Bartlett path to law school, took a class on a whim, and fell at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the [email protected] the helm. Twitchell worked at TD were short-listed by WGSN, the in love. The rest, as they say, is history—or, in this modern works at the Pompidou. Though I could Bank’s Portland office for nearly world’s leading trend and style case, art history. make an excellent argument for London as well . . .” 1986 REUNION nine years, most recently as a “An exhibition showcasing the Old Master forecaster, in their Best Design Send us news: senior vice president. She is also Drawings organized by David Becker ’70 really “When Cliff Olds brought a Dürer print [email protected] a board member of the Maine Collaboration category for their sparked my interest in works on paper, and when that he owned to class and let us pass ® Ruthie Davis ♥ John Bartlett Cliff Olds brought a Dürer print that he owned to it around—the thrill of being able to Building Materials Exchange and collaboration. The line was inspired class and let us pass it around—the thrill of being hold that in my hands really made 1987 the Genesis Community Loan A portion of the proceeds from the cruelty-free, by Bartlett’s famed “Tiny Tim” able to hold that in my hands really made me aware me aware of how powerfully physical Send us news: Fund, which is based in Brunswick print (in honor of his late beloved of how powerfully physical objects can convey objects can convey important ideas vegan shoes in the “Ruthie Davis ♥ John Bartlett” [email protected] and helps low- to moderate- three-legged pit-bull), and Davis’s important ideas about cultural history.” about cultural history.” collaboration goes toward Bartlett’s Tiny Tim income families. From a Portland, renowned footwear designs. The After that, Rescue Fund. “At Bowdoin I really learned how 1988 Maine, MaineBiz online article, Langdale’s career duo collaborated on three styles, to follow my passions, how to think differently, Kevin Hancock: “My book, July 6, 2015. path may have been a how to be innovative,” said Davis ’84 in October including sneakers constructed straight one, but her Not For Sale: Finding Center entirely from sustainable and vegan passion for art has when she took part in the Inaugural Symposium, in the Land of Crazy Horse 1990 materials. “I took John’s print and taken her everywhere. “The Power of the Liberal Arts.” Follow Davis on (Seventh Power Press, 2015), On May 11, 2015, halley k made my own version out of Italy After working at the Instagram: @ruthie_davis. chronicles my adventures on the harrisburg was one of three and designed new colors,” Ruthie Bowdoin College Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, women honored by The Jewish says. “He’s a friend of mine and we Museum of Art as a one of the most isolated yet Women’s Foundation of New York student and then doing both love dogs. I wanted to give him enchanting places in America. at their annual benefit luncheon. a summer internship The story is part personal, Harrisburg is director of the a pair of my men’s sneakers and he at the Met after said he couldn’t wear them because graduation, she worked part Lakota, and part global. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, where they were leather. Soon after I at the Smithsonian My journey to Pine Ridge and she has organized significant had the idea of the collaboration in Washington, DC, the life-changing learning that exhibitions of twentieth-century and making cruelty-free, vegan for two years; earned followed have been organic and American art and where, along shoes with him.” For every pair of a master’s in art at spontaneous. In that spirit, I am with Rosenfeld, she has become Williams College; spent sneakers sold, ten percent of the hoping that spreading the word a leading dealer in the field eight years in Boston, about the book will follow a of historical African American proceeds were donated to Bartlett’s first at Harvard’s Fogg Tiny Tim Rescue Fund, a charitable Art Museum and then similar course. In today’s world, art. She is also board chair for nonprofit organization dedicated at the Museum of Fine a single individual can create a Children’s Museum of Manhattan to raising and distributing funds Arts before working at lot of awareness! As my friend and an adjunct advisor at PS36/ for animal rescue groups who pull the Cleveland Museum from Pine Ridge, Verola Spider, The Margaret Douglas School, a innocent animals directly from high- of Art and then at the says, ‘If we don’t share our New York City public elementary kill shelters. The money donated Philadelphia Museum stories they die with us.’” For school in Harlem. From a Michael of Art, where she is to the Tiny Tim Rescue Fund goes more, visit kevinhancock.com. Rosenfeld Gallery news release, now associate curator to providing animals with the of prints and drawings. May 8, 2015. proper medical attention, training, Langdale travels all 1989 affection, human interaction, and over in search of new Kimberly Twitchell, a board 1991 REUNION foster parents they desperately acquisitions, and she member of the Maine Real Gwen Kay, a professor of history need, in hopes of their finding a could write a guide to Estate and Development and director of the honors program “forever home.” The Davis-Bartlett travel for art tourists. Association, has been named at the State University of New “It would be hard to collaboration was one of four regional president for New York at Oswego, co-edited a new choose one country,” York-based NBT Bank and will book of essays on the history and finalists in the category, which she says, “I guess if I was eventually won by Alexander Photo: Will Figg lead the institution’s southern current state of the family and

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When moving the Northwest. My latest startup, studies, and family and consumer Revolutionary America. “Amid midst of an illness, she announced panoramas were a mid-nineteenth- Anthology.co, is a next generation sciences, Remaking Home political innovation and social her own death and reincarnation century precursor to the motion career management platform and Economics covers the field’s history transformation, Revolutionary as the Public Universal Friend, a picture, massive canvases were is keeping me busy. My youngest of opening career opportunities America was also fertile ground heaven-sent prophet who was scrolled across a stage and (Brandon, five) has informed me he for women and responding to for religious upheaval, as self- neither female nor male. In The accompanied by a lecturer and intends to attend Camp Bobo, so domestic and social issues. Calls proclaimed visionaries and prophets Public Universal Friend, Paul B. music. This panorama illustrates that’s all taken care of.” to ‘bring back home economics’ established new religious sects Moyer tells the story of Wilkinson John Bunyan’s iconic book The miss the point that it never went Maine’s Leading Luxury Property Company throughout the emerging nation. and her remarkable church, the Pilgrim’s Progress—first published 1997 away. These new essays, relevant Among the most influential and Society of Universal Friends.” From in 1678 and in print continuously Send us news: for a variety of fields—history, the publisher. since. Believed to have been lost [email protected] women’s studies, STEM, and Featured Listings for a full century, the panorama family and consumer sciences 1993 was rediscovered in 1996 and 1998 itself—take both current and Send us news: fully restored in 2012. One of only “Bernstein Shur, one of northern historical perspectives on defining [email protected] a handful that survive today, the New England’s largest law firms, issues including home economics Moving Panorama of Pilgrim’s is pleased to announce the philosophy, social responsibility, 1994 Progress was one of the most return of Jessica A. Lewis to and public outreach; food and Jessica Skwire Routhier popular and important moving their business restructuring and clothing; gender and race in career is coauthor of The Painter’s panoramas of its day, with designs insolvency practice group. Lewis Yarmouth - Oceanfront Boothbay - Waterfront georgetown - Waterfront settings; and challenges to the Offered at $3,250,000 Offered at $2,695,000 Offered at $1,900,000 Panorama: Narrative, Art, and by rising luminaries of the Hudson is an experienced bankruptcy field’s identity and continuity.” alexa Oestreicher 207.329.9307 Kim Latour 207.687.9663 dennis duggan 207.522.3747 River School of American landscape attorney with significant first chair From the publisher. painting: Frederic Edwin Church, experience. Her practice will focus Matthew Rogers, “senior vice Brandon Leung, son of Tom Leung ’96, Jasper Cropsey, Daniel Huntington, on business restructuring and president and managing director posing “for the Fall 2028 face book.” and others.” From a University insolvency proceedings, including at Raymond James Financial, Press of New England press chapter eleven reorganizations, achieved President’s Club release, June 2015. asset sales and acquisitions, and recognition for 2015. Matt and his bankruptcy-related litigation. team specialize in family wealth Bristol - Waterfront West Bath - Waterfront Jefferson - antique 1995 Lewis was formerly an associate management and planning. He Offered at $1,250,000 Offered at $746,000 Offered at $359,000 Send us news: at Bernstein Shur from 2006 to still lives in Falmouth, Maine, with thomas Field 207.215.6455 John Collins 207.607.2442 Muffy Myles 207.380.7876 Kristen Card ’96 and Donna Esposito [email protected] 2013, and she will return as an his wife Stacey, son Nate, and ’96 represent after Donna’s wedding of-counsel attorney in the firm’s daughter Liza.” to Jay Kimble on Friday, May 15, 1996 REUNION Portland, Maine office.”From a 2015, at the Samoset Resort in Rockland, Maine. Linda Berman and Jim Lemire: Bernstein Shur press release, August 7, 2015. Middle Bay Farm Bed & Breakfast On the Ocean 1999 4 miles from Bowdoin College • Open year round In July, Katie Benner joined The New York Times to cover the Apple Offers four sunny bedrooms, each with a water view, private bath, TV/VCR. Room rates are Tony Teixeira ’97, Angela Brooks ’00, beat from her base in San Francisco. $150 to $170 and include a full breakfast. Jenn Flynn ’96, and Abby Votto Belge Katie moved from Bloomberg View, 287 Pennellville Road, Brunswick, ME 04011 Two suites in sail loft cottage are more rustic, ’97 at the EMC Club at Fenway Park in where she wrote a daily newsletter (207) 373-1375 • [email protected] but include living area, kitchenette, two small Boston celebrating Jenn’s fifteen years on tech happenings, as well as Julie Asselta Savage ’92, Andrew www.middlebayfarm.com of service as counsel for the Red Sox Jack Lemire, son of Jim Lemire ’96 and Jen Shannon ’97 and Tiffany Leidy bedrooms, and private bath. Suite rates are regular columns about technology. Savage ’91, and their family, including $150 to $190. Owned by Phyllis Truesdell, wife of the late Clark Truesdell ’65 and her acceptance of a new job in Linda Berman ’96, with his fifth-grade Davis ’97 in the Florida Keys for spring daughter Margaret ’19. New York for Major League Baseball. teacher, Margot Miller ’10. break 2015. Previously, when at the tech blog

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The Information, she was among Drummond Woodsum from United From a Drummond Woodsum press Brunswick, Maine, on June 29, the first in the tech press to identify Teh States Senator Angus King’s office release, June 1, 2015. 2013. They welcomed their first a key hedge fund manager pouring where he was deputy chief of staff. son, Andrew, on May 11, 2014.” money into Silicon Valley start-ups. Mean Fudge In addition, Toby served as chief 2000 JP Box: “Sarah and I just She also wrote on up-and-coming of staff to the Maine Speaker of Send us news: launched a merino wool baby companies that are now part of the As Grist magazine reported, the House of Representatives, as [email protected] apparel brand called Chasing elite group of Valley start-ups. Prior “TJ Fudge ’02 has learned well as chief of staff of the Maine Windmills. Our own kids and future to those positions, she wrote about to take the jokes about his House Majority Leader. In 2009, 2001 REUNION Polar Bears (Patrick and Anna) name in stride—but that Wall Street for nearly a decade at doesn’t mean he doesn’t Toby was appointed by President Send us news: inspired us to create the line. We Fortune magazine, TheStreet, and take his namesake seriously. Barack Obama as the assistant [email protected] strive to capture the adventurous CNNMoney. From a New York Times “‘I told Jessie when we administrator for field operations at spirit of childhood through the were engaged that I didn’t press release, June 5, 2015. care if she changed her the Small Business Administration, 2002 natural goodness of merino wool. “Drummond Woodsum, a full- name or not, but she’d where his oversight of SBA TJ Fudge, a post-doctoral We’re excited for the adventures service law firm with offices in only get the Fudge recipe activities across the United States researcher in the Department ahead! You can check out our if she did.’ Portland, Maine, and Portsmouth Harpswell Inn gave him a national perspective on of Earth and Space Sciences at collection at A Bed & Breakfast on the water at Lookout Point • Open year-round “So here is most of the and Manchester, New Hampshire, recipe. ‘But,’ TJ says, ‘I will the issues facing small business. the University of Washington in chasingwindmillskids.com.” is pleased to announce that Rooms $145.00–190.00, Suites $139.00–239.00 snarkily withhold a few Toby has run successful local, Seattle, was the subject of a Grist Todd Forsgren: “I’m pleased nationally recognized strategist Elegantly casual with full breakfast included details.’” county, and state referendums, article late last spring, “Meet the to announce the release of Toby McGrath is joining the firm 10 minutes from Bowdoin College off Route 123 (Most of) Grandma legislative and presidential races Scientists Making New Climate Ornithological Photographs, a as a non-lawyer consultant to Wedding Packages and cottages also available Fudge’s Fudge Recipe in Maine and Massachusetts.” Discoveries (and Fudge) at the monograph of my bird photographs lead its government relations and Off-season specials November 1 through mid-May 2 sticks butter South Pole.” Jessie Fudge ’03 published by Daylight Books. The Our new “Middlebay” function room for groups up to 50 guests 1 cup evaporated milk campaigns practice. McGrath joins 3 cups sugar was also mentioned in the article: 146-page book includes fifty-seven Call for reservations: (800) 843-5509 • (207) 833-5509 • www.harpswellinn.com 1 jar marshmallow cream when the reporter asked TJ if she photographs, an introduction by 1 package chocolate chips could call him Dr. Fudge, “he said my father, Brian W. Forsgren, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract no—that’s his wife.” TJ, part of the essays by John A. Tyson, James Heat and stir the butter, South Pole Ice Core drilling project, Lowen, and Susan Wegner, with BAILEY ISLAND WATERFRONT evaporated milk and sugar talked about making his family’s illustrations by Julian Montague. Amazing easterly-facing, open-ocean parcel on the rocks. 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Let cool (or eat Ornithological Photographs. opportunities to exhibit this work, convenient to all the coastal amenities of Bailey Island. $839,000 Avery Crawford Gray, to the world on while still hot if you are at 2003 as well as signing events. So if the South Pole). July 13, 2015. Big sister Addison is HARPSWELL WATERFRONT Mike Esposito ’04 and Kim you’d like to host an event, please two years old. This efficient three-bedroom, year-round home is a boater’s dream Cooper “were married in don’t hesitate to contact me. While property! Take in spectacular, unobstructed views and sunrises the publication of this book and the over Quahog Bay from the water-view deck or stroll the large lawn area to the waterfront with deep water dock and protected deep accompanying exhibitions are my water anchorage. Located in a quiet neighborhood, the site also most exciting professional news this includes a 24 x 30 barn with upstairs storage. $595,000 autumn, I have even more exciting personal news: I’m now a father! My HARPSWELL WATERFRONT daughter, Sora Wren, was born at Situated directly on easterly-exposed deep water frontage on the end of August. It is a wild ride.” Quahog Bay, this two-bedroom, year-round, two-level home features sliding glass doors on two waterfront decks where you can Tiana Gierke “and Nathan In mid-August, Indianapolis-area watch the sunrise over the ocean. Great site for a protected deep Remy Edwin Johnson and Brice Robert O’Konek (Carleton College ’04) were Bowdoin alumni and current student water dock! Oil hot water heat, new septic in 2014. $324,900 Johnson were born on June 7, 2015, married on August 22, 2009, in Evan Baughman ’17 gathered at Lydia at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Bettendorf, Iowa. 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Boyd Kelly (Rhodes College ’02) Holly Maloney ’07 writers of the 1950s and 1960s. Barker ’76, love spending time I competed in the Istanbul 2009 were married on June 19, 2010, After six years of teaching, this with the little Polar Bear. On a Regional Championship in the Alexa Schwartz McCarthy: PrinciPaL, groWth eQUitY fUnd, north Bridge in Kittery Point, Maine. They opportunity is a real thrill, and we recent spring weekend, Elizabeth, 100cm class and got first place “After working in the New York welcomed their first son, George, can’t wait to learn more about the Fox, and I headed up to Brunswick with my horse, King IX. As a City art world for five years, I What does a day in your life look like? “Overall, the liberal arts experience on November 3, 2013. incredible culture of Morocco and to visit campus and catch up with Bowdoin College alumnus, I am am excited to introduce my new I help our team find new investment opportunities and the relationships I built with spend time abroad as a family.” lacrosse alumni and old friends Pat proud to be the 2015 champion by going out and meeting entrepreneurs to learn extraordinary people while at project: Art Capsule (artcapsule. 2004 and Tom McCabe. It never ceases of the Istanbul region in 100cm about their businesses; by leading our diligence and Bowdoin have allowed me to take org). Art Capsule was created with Elliot Jacobs: “This year, I was to amaze me what a great place class.” investment process once we find a company in which a really well-rounded, creative, and 2005 the discerning collector in mind. fortunate to be awarded a Fulbright we would like to invest; and, once we invest in a Send us news: Bowdoin is. The campus looked analytical approach to evaluating Whether for a public institution, Distinguished Award in Teaching. company, I am active with the boards of directors to [email protected] beautiful, and the people were as 2008 corporate collection, or private help the companies execute their growth strategies. companies and investment Along with my wife, Kate, and our spirited and welcoming as ever. Is Laura L. Onderko received a client, we devise a strategy for Because no two technology companies are the same scenarios.” infant daughter, Cecily, I will spend 2006 REUNION it too early to start working on an medical doctorate degree from and no two entrepreneurs are the same, every day is cataloging and digitizing collections this winter in Tangier, Morocco, different, which I love. Do you have something R. Ford Barker: “My wife, application?” Temple University School of according to respective needs.” teaching in local schools, taking special on your desk at Elizabeth, and I welcomed our first Medicine in May. She has started classes at Abdelmalek Essaadi You were recently named to the Forbes work that makes you smile? son, A. Fox Barker, on September 2007 her residency training in internal 2010 I am actually staring at a wooden Polar Bear that University, and researching “30 Under 30” list for venture capital. 10, 2014. We couldn’t be happier, Eddie Kim: “I am competing medicine-pediatrics at Maine “O’Neill and Associates, New was given to me. Nearly everyone who walks into Moroccan and American expatriate Congratulations! and his grandparents, David professionally in Turkey in horse Medical Center in Portland, Maine. England’s largest public affairs Thank you! I didn’t know I would be included in the my office picks it up. It always gives me a good Barker ’76 and Lynne Duffy show jumping. [Last spring] firm, has recently hired Christina list until it was published, so it was both a surprise reason to talk about the Polar Bears. (For Office and a huge honor. It’s really cool to be recognized Space fans, I also have a red Swingline stapler, which for what you love doing. It was also just in time—I gives a good chuckle to the right audience.) turned thirty in April!

How did Bowdoin prepare you for the work you do now? Overall, the liberal arts experience and the Niko Kubota ’10 relationships I built with extraordinary people while at Bowdoin have allowed me to take a n the front yard of the really well-rounded, creative, and analytical Minneapolis Convention Cecily Jane Jacobs, born on the 4th approach to evaluating companies and Center, Niko Kubota ’10 of July, will be heading to Morocco in I investment scenarios. I was also lucky to built a tiny rendition of the city November with dad Elliot Jacobs ’04 be introduced to a “forever network” of he calls home. Both realistic and mom Kate Ristow. Polar Bears that could benefit from or be and fantastical, the city that helpful to the companies with which I am partnering. Kubota designed consists of tiny houses and human-sized Is there something you can’t go skyscrapers, some of which the without for long? team he led created, and some My running shoes. I travel a lot for that community partners built work and it’s amazing what lacing up my sneakers and going for a run can in “build workshops.” Kubota, do for my state of mind (and overall a designer at Lawal Scott health), no matter where in the world Erickson Architects, is the leader I may be. It’s also a great way to get of SocialSculpture, a group of out and explore the new places to collaborative artists that helped which I am fortunate to travel. create mini-polis and who won the Creative City Challenge that made the project possible.

R. Ford Barker ’06 and wife Elizabeth (Hamilton ’05) welcomed A. Fox Barker minipolis.org September 10, 2014. He is already a big fan of Polar Bears.

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Fish, esquire, as a director in its 2011 REUNION a special place in our hearts.” 2013-2014 was an incredible experience!” highlights of the trip was visiting community relations practice. In Send us news: Chelsea Noble: “Heather Send us news: writes Libby. “And it was a unique the MS Achievement Center in St. this role, Ms. Fish helps clients [email protected] Kinnear and I were married in [email protected] way to see the country—stopping Paul, where we had lunch with define key issues surrounding a May, surrounded by loved ones and in small towns that generally the patients who benefited from proposed real estate development, 2012 Polar Bears. After our wedding, we 2015 do not get tourist traffic, and our donations. It was inspiring to crafts collateral materials for Colin Hay ’10 and Jordan Payne moved from Tacoma, Washington, Libby Szuflita, Kaylee watching the landscape change hear their stories and the stories various projects, and identifies key are happy to announce their to Ann Arbor, Michigan. We have Schwitzer ’16, and Lucas very gradually. The riders each of people we met along the road. opinion leaders, stakeholders and engagement! “Colin and I met while both enrolled at the University of Johnston ’05 completed a two- raise a minimum of a dollar per People were very excited to see constituents for outreach. Ms. Fish at Bowdoin during BMASV and Michigan, where Heather is pursuing month cross-country cycling trip mile for the 4,295-mile trip, and support for the cause. And, our joins the firm from Hinckley Allen, V-Day’s Date Week,” writes Jordan. an MD/PhD and I am pursuing an with the organization Bike the we gave donations to different MS route took us through Bowdoin SuBSCRIBe where she served as an associate in “Our first date was at Scarlett MA in higher Education.” US for MS, raising money and clinics along the route. One of the during Reunion Weekend!” its construction and public contracts Begonias! Bowdoin will always have awareness for MS research. “It practice group. Most notably in her FoR FRee past role, Ms. Fish collaborated as a member of the litigation team to the Bowdoin Daily Sun, a daily to resolve a variety of high-profile online digest of Bowdoin news, construction matters, including the final settlement reached in the sports, photography, prominent Central Artery/Third Tunnel C11 guest columnists, and articles of Project (’Big Dig’) joint venture suit.” From an O’Neill and Associates Eat. interest from around the globe. press release, May 27, 2015. Drink. Emma Powers ’09, Jillian Neary ’08, Jay Tansey ’07, Addit Basheer ’11, Alex Chittim ’08, Heather Boyd ’05, Alison Coleman ’09, and Ben Freedmen ’09 met up at a Harvard- Stay. Yale football football game on November 22, 2014, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Colin Hay ’10 and Jordan Payne ’12 recently got engaged on the Eastern Promenade in Portland, Maine. They met at Bowdoin in 2010.

Thomas Keefe ’14, Sam Roberts ’14, BISTRO PRIVATE EVENTS BICYCLES OVERNIGHT PACKAGES HOT TUB Ruxton Dellecese ’14, Nathan Joseph ’13, and David Phipps ’14 caught up at • • • • the Bowdoin Club of Boston Summer 10 Water Street Brunswick, Maine 207 373 1824 thedanielhotel.com thedanielhotel Libby Szuflita ’15, Kaylee Schwitzer ’16, and Lucas Johnston ’05 stopped by campus bowdoindailysun.com Island Picnic on Georges Island, Boston during Reunion Weekend while on a two-month cross-country cycling trip to raise Harbor, Saturday, July 18. money and awareness for MS research.

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A 3 4 LATE PEAK 1 Alicia Smith ’04 married 3 Jimmy Lindsay ’09 and Rozie 4 Kirsten Chmielewski ’10 in the foliage combined Preston Hoffman (University of Janik (University of California, married Peter Davey (University of with mild temperatures Pennsylvania ’01) on June 7, 2014, Berkeley ’08), were married in Southern California ’10) on April at her family home in Sterling, Portland, Oregon, on October 18, 18, 2015, in their hometown of St. made this year’s fall a Massachusetts. Bowdoin alumni 2014. Jimmy: “Few button shirts Petersburg, Florida, after several in attendance included Jennifer survived the evening.” Pictured: years living in Shanghai, China. gorgeous one in Maine. Kim Field ’98, Annie Kaempfer ’04, Ben Freedman ’09, Arden Klemmer Pictured: Tasha Sandoval ’13, But the seasons must Alicia, Lauren McNally ’03, and ’09, Gillian Page ’10, Kevin Carina Sandoval ’10, Kirsten and Colin Heinle ’03. Hoagland-Hanson ’09, Ali Draudt Peter, Tana Krohn ’10, and Michael turn, and, like this ’08, Hannah Hughes ’09, Nick Krohn ’09. 2 Bartholomew McMann ’03 Simon ’09, Jimmy, Ethan Wolston squirrel, we are now married Kathryn Marek (Hamilton ’09, Rozie, David Zonana ’09, Peter College ’09) at The Gunnery in preparing for cold and Nagler ’09, Ida Sahlu ’08, Helen Washington, Connecticut, on Wey ’09, Nick Norton ’09, Kelly snow ahead. August 9, 2014. Pictured: Pete Rula ’07, Willy Oppenheim ’09, and Cohenno ’03, Craig Giammona ’02, Collin York ’09. Kevin Folan ’03, Conor Dowley ’02, Lyndsey Sennet Wakeham ’02, Andrew Ross ’03, Chandler Nutik ’03, Kathryn and Bart, Seth Harmon ’02, Chris Fuller ’03, Mara Sprafkin ’02, Kristi Perine Ryan ’02, Grant White ’04, Tim Sacks ’03, Brendan Wakeham ’03, and Michael Sabolinski ’03.

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5 Jill Henrikson ’12 and Joe 7 Molly Masterton ’10 and 8 Emily Lauder Wilson ’04 10 David Turco ’03 and Jana 11 Melissa Perrin ’05 married Pace ’10 were married on April 25, Michael Rothschild ’10 were married Richard James Moro Richardson ’03 were married at Chris Sonkoly (University of New 2015, at Hardy Farm in Fryeburg, married on May 24, 2015, at the (East Carolina University ’94) at Linekin Bay Resort in Boothbay York at Buffalo ’03) on January 24, Maine. Jill: “Polar Bears in their true Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Fairmont Copley Plaza on March 1, Harbor, Maine, on September 2015, at Christ Church, New York form!” Pictured: Kelly Thomas ’09, Maine. Pictured: Jaclyn Zaborsky Recently Wed? 2014. Pictured: Emily Glinick ’06, 27, 2014. Pictured: Matt Hession City. A reception followed at the Amy Hackett ’12, Molly Pallman ’12, ’10, Hannah Larson ’10, Jamey Show off your better half—send us your wedding photo. Daniel Wilson ’06, Richard and ’03, Micah Moreau ’03, Jordan Harold Pratt House. Pictured: Nisha Ellery Gould ’12, Adrienne Shibles Anderson ’10, Elise Krob ’10, David Emily, Fariha Mahmud Greenwood Fay ’03, Mike Esposito ’04, Kim Ajmani ’06, Jenn Laraia ’03, Chris (head women’s basketball coach), Murray ’71, Molly and Michael, ’06, Sarah Solomon ’05, and Tara Cooper Esposito ’03, Dave and and Melissa, Mindy Chism Levering Alexa Barry ’12, Nicole Coombes Ta-Hsuan Ong ’10, Joseph Babler Fill out the form on our website: bowdoin.edu/magazine Kohn ’05. Jana, Courtney Woo Carlhian ’03, ’06, and Paul Liistro ’75. ’12, Jamie Paul Chenelle ’10, Jill ’10, Matthew Kwan ’10, Chris Alex Duncan ’03, Porter Hill ’03, 9 Rachel Levene ’06 married and Joe, Eric Chenelle ’10, Carter Murphy ’10, Tanya Todorova ’09, Image size: To ensure print quality, image should be supplied at Chris Moxhay ’03, Sarah Cheng Gregory Kubie (Connecticut College) Butland ’10, Kyle LeBlanc ’14, Devin Leah Stecher ’10, Seoung Yeon Kim a minimum resolution of 1500 pixels x 1050 pixels, in a .JPG or Box ’03, Bart O’Connor ’03, Jackie on May 16, 2015, in New York Walsh ’10, Reid Auger ’10, and ’10, Kristin Liu ’10, Claire Williams .TIF format. Pixel sizes smaller than this may result in poor printing Templeton LoVerme ’03, Regina City. Pictured: Aubrey Sharman Kevin Sullivan ’10. ’10, and Kathryn Solow ’10. quality, or the photo may not be used. von Schack ’03, Elisabeth Pearson ’06, Marianna Houston Werth Kelly ’03, and Ben McGuiness ’03. 6 Rachel Ackerman ’09 married Permissions: Submission of your wedding photo presumes that ’06, Rachel, and Wayne and Judy Nate Morrow ’09 in Cambridge, you hold its copyright or have obtained the necessary permission Richardson, parents of the late Massachusetts, on May 17, 2015. for the photo to appear in Bowdoin Magazine. Please contact the Darien Richardson ’06. Pictured: Kelsey Borner ’09, Darius magazine if you have any questions. Alam ’09, Audrey Chee ’09, Tori Phung ’09, Amanda Allen Nurse ’09, Timeliness: Due to space constraints, weddings that occurred Elizabeth Barton ’09, Rachel and within a year from time of submission will be given priority. Nate, Samantha Jessup ’09, Cody Desjardins ’09, Chris Jacob ’09, Deadline: The submission deadline for the Winter issue is Kelsey Read ’09, Jeremy Bernfeld December 20, 2015. ’09, Johannes Strom ’09, and Darren Fishell ’09.

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12 Val Young ’08 and Nick McFarlane ’09, Brian Lockhart ’08, 15 Kalyn Bickerman ’07 and 16 Cait Polistena ’07 and 18 Becca Podell ’10 and Steve Dietz ’12, Courtney Payne ’15, Payton (Boston College ’07) Kristen Lee Hargus ’08, Jessica Ben Martens ’06 were married at Armand Gottlieb ’07 were married Thomas ’10 were married by Chelsea and Heather, Dan Polasky were married on October 11, Britt ’10, James Pan ’17, Annie Marianmade Farm in Wiscasset, at Knowles Farm, in Northfield, professor Arielle Saiber on August ’12, Chantal Croteau ’12, Caroline 2014, at The Fells Historic Estate Wilcosky ’17, Libby and Eric, Maine, on June 27, 2015. Pictured: New Hampshire, on July 4, 2015. 15, 2015, at Laudholm Farm, Wells, Ciocca ’12, Scott Longwell ’12, in Newbury, New Hampshire. Molly Seaward ’09, Eli Bossin Kalyn and Ben, Naomi Kordak Pictured: Michael Peiser ’07, Maine. Pictured: Natalie Haimo ’10, Elena Keamy ’12, Caitlin Callahan Pictured: Ted Upton ’07, Scott ’09, Chris Rossi ’10, Colin Hay ’07, Sarah Scott ’07, Andrew Combs Robert Burns ’07, Alastair Chau Jamie Devereux ’10, Jaclyn Davis ’11, Christine Buckland ’12, Luke Caras ’08, Laura Armstrong ’08, ’10, Tim Chu ’08, Sandy Morrell ’06, Nastasha Horvath ’07, Emily ’07, David York ’07, Andrew Combs ’10, Morgan Estey ’10, Adam Tracy Mondello ’10, Kate Emerson ’10, Emily Keneally ’08, Emily Brown Rooney (exchange student ’72-’73), Hricko ’06, Sarah Oberg ’06, Sara ’06, Tobias Crawford ’07, Sarah ’10, former Bowdoin lacrosse coach Molly Taft ’11, Edie Hazard Birney ’08, Emilie McKenna ’08, Mike Shavonne Lord ’10, Sarah Lord Utzschneider ’07, Daphne Leveriza Scott ’07, James Harris ’08, Katie Tom McCabe, Sally Ward ’10, Van ’83, Gil Birney (head rowing coach), McClellan ’08, Jay Tansey ’07, ’10, CJ Bell ’10, Jordan Payne ’12, Fay ’07, Harry Jones ’06, Rachael Grimm ’07, Linda Tan ’07, Michael Krueger ’10, Alex Williams ’10, and Sam Read ’09. Michael Giordano ’08, Brad Gillis Robert Morrell ’47, Jane McKay Phelan ’07, Jenny Wong Adu ’07, Oxton ’07, Armand and Cait, John Chris Ryan ’10, Cameron Swirka ’08, Corey Bergen Caras ’08, Ann Morrell ’81, Kristina Dahmann ’10, Joe Adu ’07, Chris Eaton ’06, Anya Greene ’07, Justin Strasburger ’07, ’10, Henry Andrews ’10, Dave Zeigler Unger ’08, Nick and Val, and Lucy Morrell ’13. Trundy ’06, Gardiner Holland ’06, Rebekah Mueller Strasburger ’07, Westhaver ’12, Lindsay Luke ’10, Hillary Hoffman ’08, Lyndsey Lucy Van Hook ’06, Shahid Khoja Michael Igoe ’07, Mark Viehman and Brooke Lamothe ’10. 14 Matt McCall ’08 married Colburn Gillis ’08, Elly Pepper ’05, ’06, Nicole Melas ’07, Meg Gray ’07, Carolyn Hricko ’08, Julia Loonin Elizabeth Hirst (George Washington 19 Chelsea Noble ’12 and and Meaghan Maguire ’08. ’07, John-Mark Ikeda ’06, Allie ’07, Sarah Stern ’08, David Jones University ’09) on May 3, 2014, in Heather Kinnear ’12 were Yanikoski Nerenberg ’06, Emily ’07, Flavia Chen ’07, Jenny Wong 13 Libby Wilcosky ’10 married North Andover, Massachusetts. married on May 31, 2015, at Hackert ’06, Rebecca Crimmin ’06, Adu ’07, Joe Adu ’07, and (future Eric Lee ’08 on October 11, 2014, Pictured: Edward Carr ’08, Kate Chin the Coleman Burke Gallery in and Dan Schuberth ’06. Polar Bear) Jackson Adu (’37?). in Wiscasset, Maine. Pictured ’08, Tim Chu ’08, Alex Wilkinson Brunswick. Pictured: Tate Cochran helping the couple celebrate were: ’08, Elizabeth and Matt, Eric Lee ’08, 17 Donna Esposito ’96 married ’13, Emily Weinberger ’15, Charlie Kate Lebeaux ’08, Alison Pilon ’09, Libby Wilcosky Lee ’10, Kristen Lee Jay Kimble on Friday, May 15, Curtis ’14, Danica Loucks ’13, Sam Helen Wen ’10, Kate Krosschell Hargus ’08, Mike Larochelle ’08, and 2015, at the Samoset Resort in Burns ’13, Katie Ross ’14, Bonnie ’09, Elissa Gervais ’09, Elise Krob Nick Larochelle ’08. Rockland, Maine. Cao ’13, Nicole Woo ’12, Amanda ’10, Archie Abrams ’09, Mike Gartside ’12, Yojin Yoon ’12, Emily Young ’08, Brendan Egan ’08, Shoemaker ’12, Chris Sanville Matt McCall ’08, Wallace Scot ’12, Morgan Chessman ’12, Keel

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

Deane S. Thomas Jr. ’35 Herbert A. Seaman ’51 Richard C. Wilsey ’58 Tammy J. Ruter ’93 May 26, 2015 October 2014 May 3, 2015 June 19, 2015

Philip L. Bagley ’41 Clifford A. Clark ’52 Theodore R. Richards ’61 Steven A. Kolberg ’09 August 29, 2015 May 12, 2015 September 11, 2015 June 28, 2015 20 21 Herbert F. Griffith ’44 Stuart B. Cummings ’52 Philip B. Austin ’62 March 26, 2015 July 16, 2015 June 18, 2015 Graduate

Donald J. Ryan ’44 Gordon Hale ’52 Leonard C. Lee ’62 Austen B. Meek Jr. G’65 August 20, 2015 July 27, 2015 June 5, 2015 August 28, 2015

Taylor W. Cole ’45 Alfred O. Mann Jr. ’52 Gordon A. Flint ’68 Thomas A. DeGray G’67 June 13, 2015 September 4, 2015 April 26, 2015 May 24, 2015

Ronald W. Sawyer ’45 David H. Caldwell ’54 Rodney A. Tulonen ’69 Donald W. Robinson G’71 March 30, 2014 May 30, 2015 May 30, 2015 August 7, 2015

Thomas W. Howarth ’46 Richard O. Card ’54 George W. Price ’70 July 8, 2015 May 7, 2015 August 15, 2015 Faculty and Staff 22 23 Richard E. Waite ’46 Robert E. Cetlin ’54 Kerry G. Reynolds ’71 William S. Flash 20 Charles Johnson ’07 and 22 Ingrid Alquist ’10 and Peter Youniss (non-Bowdoin), Sophie May 30, 2015 May 6, 2015 April 21, 2015 September 9, 2015 Claire Whitmore (Auburn University Kjeldgaard (Yale ’08) were married Janes ’16, Andy Youniss (non- ’10) were married in Hampton on July 18, 2015, in Annapolis, Bowdoin), and Madeleine Youniss David Cole ’47 Kenneth A. McLoon ’54 Frederick L. Cusick ’72 Christine J. E. E. Edgecomb Cove, Alabama, on October 18, Maryland. Pictured: Mikyo Butler (non-Bowdoin). Third row: Maxine March 1, 2015 July 17, 2015 August 1, 2015 August 2, 2015 2014. Pictured: Anthony Regis ’07, ’10, Katie Cushing ’10, Woody Janes ’10, Pack and Paige, Bill Wendy Mayer ’07, Nina Metcalf Mawhinney ’12, Matt Yantakosol Janes ’76. Bottom row: Matt Philip S. Smith Jr. ’47 Leon A. Gorman ’56, H’83 John Shugert ’72 Robert M. Labbe ’07, and Daniel Robinson ’07. ’10, Bobby Welch ’10, Chris Necchi Donoghue ’09, Dewey Crowley January 31, 2015 September 3, 2015 August 3, 2015 August 3, 2015 ’10, Abby Goodridge ’11, Maxine ’09, Cullen Winkler ’09, and Mike 21 Carl Woock ’10 married Janes ’10, Mike Eldridge ’10, Staes ’16. Edwin H. Sample ’49 Robert L. Sutherland ’56 William E. Pfau III ’73 Elroy O. LaCasce Jr. ’44 Caroline Baljon ’11 at the Jessica Britt ’10, Kauri Ballard ’10, August 20, 2015 June 26, 2015 May 11, 2015 September 8, 2015 Bowdoin Chapel on August 15, and Julia Rogers ’08. 2015. Pictured: Colin Hay ’10, Tom Constantine Karvonides ’50 John H. Alden ’57 Roderick Loney III ’74 Mark Pelletier Wakefield ’10, John Shennan 23 Pack Janes ’09 married ’10, Jordan Termine ’10, Will Paige Maslen (Boston College ’08) June 4, 2015 August 10, 2015 September 15, 2015 June 18, 2015 Grunewald ’10, Bobby Welch ’10, on July 11, 2015, in Washington, Will Jacob ’10, Megan McCullough DC. Numerous Bowdoin friends Robert E. McAvoy ’50 Donald E. Dyer Jr. ’57 Steven A. James ’78 Lillian Grover Robinson ’10, Alexa Staley ’11, Meagan were in attendance, including, August 1, 2015 June 26, 2015 April 28, 2015 July 3, 2015 Tilton Hardy ’11, Laura Connolly top row: Rob Halliday ’09, Chris ’11, Jeff Cook ’11, Samantha Polly Necchi ’10, Bryan Holden ’09, Rupert O. Clark ’51 Paul J. McGoldrick ’57 Robert J. Naylor ’80 Timothy I. Smart ’11, Emily Balaban-Garber ’11, Crosby Cook ’09, Jed Lyons ’74, February 4, 2015 June 23, 2015 June 18, 2015 August 10, 2015 Emma Rosen ’11, Molly Nestor ’11, Ted Lyons ’06, Will Wilder ’09, and Jordan Payne ’12. Ben Smith ’09, John Moore ’09, Edwin R. French ’51 Dana W. Randall ’57 Sonya D. Dockett ’85 Barry Mills ’72, H’15 and Karen August 18, 2015 August 8, 2015 August 5, 2015 Mills H’15. Second row: Kenny Slutsky ’76, Jeremy Kraushar Charles N. Neunhoffer ’51 Eugene C. Penney ’58 Mark S. Hoffman ’85 ’09, Ben York ’09, Harry Ashforth June 5, 2015 May 12, 2015 June 27, 2015 ’09, Boomer Repko ’10, Michael Full obituaries appear online at obituaries.bowdoin.edu.

62 BOWDOIN | FALL 2015 [email protected] 63 A Weekend to Remember: The Inaugurationq of Clayton Rose This page, clockwise, starting below: Faculty line up in front of Searles for the procession; President Rose and President Emeritus Robert Edwards; Julianne and Carma Rose; Senator George Mitchell ’54, offers greetings from the state; Guster performs in Morrell Gym; President Emeritus Barry Mills ’72 congratulates President Rose; Inaugural Symposium, panel 2, “Making a Living and Making a Life: The Liberal Arts in Commerce and Citizenship.”

Right page, clockwise, starting upper right: President Rose at his installation ceremony; faculty process to Farley Field House; Holly Rudel ’17 performs with the Bowdoin Orchestra; Clayton and Julianne’s sons and daughter-in-law at the ceremony; President Rose with the Harvard University delegate, Sandra Sucher; President Rose with Hanna Holborn Gray, who offered greetings from the academy, and chair of the board Deborah Barker ’80; Ursus Verses performs during the Student A Cappella Showcase; Bagpiper George Pulkkinen leads the Inaugural Procession.

For highlights, including full video of the ceremony, symposium, and a cappella concert, go to bowdoin.edu/inauguration.

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