ARE YOU BEING LIED TO? Bowdoin Experts Have the Answer— to This and Nine Other Questions

WINTER 2018 VOL. 89 NO. 2

ARE YOU BEING LIED TO? Bowdoin experts have the answer— to this and nine other questions. Contents

WINTER 2018 VOL. 89 NO. 2

Forward “ When I was little, I thought 5 Bears with Brooms: In the spirit of the game, you had to Bowdoin curlers never lose. wear a suit 6 An Uphill Climb to South Korea: Kaitlynn Miller ’14 kicks her way onto the US Ski Team for the Pyeongchang and carry a Olympic games.

briefcase to 7 Dine: A favorite winter recipe from the Barefoot play squash.” 26 Ask Bowdoin Contessa’s Lidey Heuck ’13. Forget searching the web—when you really —BARRETT TAKESIAN ’12 want to know the answer to a question, you 8 Did You Know? Ten facts about the historic autumn need to ask an expert. windstorm, illustrated by Harry Malt.

18 Column: Family history comes alive for a campus visitor.

Connect

45 Elizabeth Lee ’10 talks human rights.

36 As Maine Goes 49 Geoffrey Brown ’74 on journalism’s role as In 1966, a seminal photography exhibition “the first rough draft of history.” opened Maine’s eyes, and the country’s, to the need for environmental change. 53 Malia Wedge ’98 creates the Athleta catalog.

In Every Issue

4 Respond 20 Rallying Portland 42 Q&A: Dana Spector ’08 44 Whispering Pines Barrett Takesian ’12 is changing students’ trajectories The literary rights agent talks about with an innovative urban squash program. turning books into TV shows and movies. 64 Discuss

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Photo postcard by Leon B. Strout from the Brunswick Area Photograph Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library

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FROM BOWDOIN AND BEYOND Thomas Ezquerro ’18, Isabella Vakkur ’20, and Cole Hamel ’18

MAGAZINE STAFF

Editor Midge and Ed Minot ’70 on Matthew J. O’Donnell Kent Island, Summer 2017. Executive Editor They met as students at the scientific station in 1969. Alison M. Bennie Director of Editorial Services Scott C. Schaiberger ’95 Design Director Thanking the Minots Melissa Wells Design Consultant I WAS THRILLED to see Fred Field’s photo of Lily Bailey ’18 and Emma Greenberg ’18 sleeping under 2COMMUNIQUÉ BEARS WITH the stars at Kent Island (Fall 2017). However, I was sorry to see that you did not credit the summer Contributors 2017 interim director of Kent Island, Ed Minot ’70, and assistant director, Midge Minot, both of James Caton BROOMS whom are Kent Island alumni. Ed and Midge gamely stepped in to serve as interim directors after Douglas Cook Don Dearborn stepped down from the directorship. The Minots traveled from New Zealand to John R. Cross ’76 In the sport of curling, the “spirit” Maine in April to begin preparations for the summer on Kent Island and recently returned home Leanne Dech of the game governs the actions of to New Zealand. Professor Patricia Jones will have her first summer as director at Kent Island this Rebecca Goldfine players, on and off the ice. summer, along with Ian Kyle ’06, who is the assistant director. Scott W. Hood It is partly that congeniality and Micki Manheimer convivial competitiveness that Liz Armstrong is associate director of gift planning. Megan Morouse has helped Bowdoin’s seven-year- Editor: For more on Bowdoin’s Scientific Station on Kent Island, go to bowdoin.edu/kent-island. Tom Porter old curling team go from obscure On the cover: Illustration by Hanna Barczyk to super-hip. When cocaptains CORRECTION: great interest. students attending have a parent or a Thomas Ezquerro ’18 and Cole Last summer on Kent The “Bowdoin Class [in the] fall is very grandparent who is a BOWDOIN MAGAZINE (ISSN, 0895-2604) is Hamel ’18 joined the team as first- Island, Lily Bailey of 2021 by the Num- impressive. There graduate. Additional published three times a year by Bowdoin College, year students, there were only five ’18 conducted field bers” (Spring/Sum- was a time, however, class members have 4104 College Station, Brunswick, Maine, 04011. other players. This year, there are research on forest mer 2017) particularly that sending sons and a sibling or other Printed by J.S. McCarthy, Augusta, Maine. Sent twenty-eight. A little more than regeneration and caught my attention. daughters to Bowdoin connection to the free of charge to all Bowdoin alumni, parents of half are women. Emma Greenberg ’18 As Bowdoin, like in the fall, at least in College. current and recent undergraduates, members of In curling, there is no advantage on storm-petrels. others, strives to build song, was a goal of the senior class, faculty and staff, and members to being large or small, a seasoned diversity, national and many alumni. Are leg- STAY IN TOUCH! of the Association of Bowdoin Friends. athlete or someone new to sports, A QUESTION international distri- acy admissions still a Reach out and update an accessibility that appeals to team OF LEGACY bution, financial aid, meaningful number? us on what you’ve Opinions expressed in this magazine are those member Isabella Vakkur ’20. “You I’m a strong support- and other attributes, Bob Spencer ’60 been up to since of the authors. can join with no exposure to curling, er of the College and these numbers can graduation. Send us and all of a sudden you’re playing a fan of the magazine, claim success. Doing Editor: Nine percent an email at alumni@ Please send address changes, ideas, or letters that sport people know from the which I read with so with fewer than 500 of the Class of 2021 bowdoin.edu. to the editor to the address above or by email Olympics,” Ezquerro added. to [email protected]. Send class Hamel says the Bowdoin Curling news to [email protected] or to the Team lives and plays by this up- address above. Advertising inquiries? Email beat motto: “We may not always facebook.com/bowdoin @BowdoinCollege @bowdoincollege [email protected]. win, but we never lose.”

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Kaitlynn Miller ’14 (right) and a Craftsbury teammate training last fall in the mountains of New Zealand.

Environment Dine PUTTING Nachos a Preheat oven to 400. Place the squash on a sheet SUSTAINABILITY New Way pan, add two tablespoons of the olive oil, the cinnamon, and a half-teaspoon of the salt, and toss lightly. TO WORK Recipe by Lidey Heuck ’13 Roast for thirty to thirty-five minutes, until tender.

Bowdoin’s “EcoReps”—all twenty- Serves eight to ten Meanwhile, heat one tablespoon of the butter and eight of them—have become real two tablespoons of the olive oil in a large sauté pan change agents in recent years. 1 small butternut squash, peeled, over medium heat. Add the onions and cover for With guidance from the Office seeded, and ¾-inch diced ten minutes to let them steam. Remove the lid and of Sustainability, these student continue to cook over medium-low heat, stirring 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, Alumni Life workers are successfully impacting occasionally, for about forty-five minutes, until the divided the quality of life on campus for onions are caramelized and golden brown. Add the cated, caring coach everyone. ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon vinegar and a half-teaspoon of the salt and cook (Nathan Alsobrook When the program first started for two more minutes, scraping the brown bits from An Uphill Climb 1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt, divided ’97) inspired me and in 2004, an EcoRep was assigned the pan. Remove from the heat and set aside. to South Korea motivated me to keep to each of the six first-year resi- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, at it.” dence halls. Now, EcoReps have softened, divided Place the cooked squash in the bowl of a food Kaitlynn Miller ’14 received a surprise phone call Read more about formal affiliations with every type processor. Add the chipotle pepper, maple syrup, 4 small yellow onions, Miller and her of student housing on campus, chicken broth, remaining butter, and another from the US Ski Team on January 24 and became sliced 1/8-inch thick the first Bowdoin Olympian in twenty-six years. skiing career on her across all class years. Their half-teaspoon of salt and process until smooth. If blog, where you’ll straightforward tips are about em- 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar the puree seems very thick, add an additional ¼ cup also find that she’s bracing simple changes—turn off chicken stock. 1 small (or half of one large) chipotle WHILE ROLLER-SKIING After graduating, gest-ever cross-country an accomplished the lights, take the stairs, recycle— pepper in adobo sauce on the back roads Miller returned to ski teams, Miller was painter and knitter: but add up significantly in a college Spread one layer of tortilla chips onto the sheet of Brunswick and her home state of Ver- an alternate for the kaitlynnmiller.blog- setting. And since the EcoReps 1 tablespoon maple syrup pan you used to roast the squash. Spoon half of the Harpswell during her mont and joined the 30k classic mass start, spot.com. make a conscious effort to not squash mixture on top, distributing it as evenly as 1/3 cup chicken broth time as a Bowdoin Craftsbury Green Rac- which was the final be police-like, students are more you can. Spoon half the caramelized onions on top undergraduate, Kait- ing Project. Despite cross-country event Kaitlynn Miller ’14 accepting and willing to adapt. 1 16-oz. bag corn tortilla chips of that, followed by half the cheese. lynn Miller ’14 didn’t a strong start to the and the de facto “mar- is the seventh Bowdoin Bowdoin’s EcoRep program 3 cups shredded fontina d’aosta exactly have the Olym- 2017–18 season, the athon” of the winter graduate to make an stands apart from that of other Repeat with remaining chips, squash, onions, and pic anthem playing in Olympic team still games. Olympic team, including colleges because our reps are 3 cups shredded Monterey jack cheese to make one more layer. Bake for ten min- her head. “It wasn’t seemed like a long “Skiing for Bow- 1984 marathon gold formally trained, meet weekly as a utes, until the cheese has melted and is beginning 1 Hass avocado, small-diced until my junior year shot for her until she doin was key in my medalist Joan Benoit group to devise new initiatives and to brown at the edges. Sprinkle with diced avocado that I considered rac- recorded a pair of continued love of the Samuelson ’79 (see tactics, and—notably—are paid. ¼ cup salted pepitas and pepitas and serve. ing professionally after top finishes at the US sport,” Miller says. page 31) and Elizabeth And for many past EcoReps, what DID YOU KNOW? Nachos were invented at college,” recalls Miller. National Champion- “Training and racing Frazier Youngman started as a campus job a few a restaurant in Mexico, Lidey Heuck ’13 works as an assistant to Ina Garten, “And only in my wild- ships in early January. with fun, hard-work- ’81, the only Bowdoin hours per week has evolved into but tortilla chips were helping manage Barefoot Contessa’s social media first sold and popularized est dreams did I think On what is consid- ing, and supportive two-time Olympian, who professional careers in renewable platforms as well as testing recipes. She and Garten were as a packaged snack by I could possibly end up ered to be one of the teammates under the cross-country skied for the energy and environmental policy, a Los Angeles tortilla featured in the Bowdoin magazine cover story for our at the Olympics.” United States’ stron- guidance of a dedi- US in 1988 and 1992. among other endeavors. manufacturer. Winter 2015 issue. Follow Lidey’s blog at lideystable.com.

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Sound Bite Academics “ We are living through a Campus Life ECOPOETICS IN PRACTICE revolution that I believe Bowdoin future historians will “Students in my Ecopoetics course, which IN SEASON judge to be a significant Dog Spotter examines the ways in which poetry has long engaged environmental issues, from land Freezing rain on Christmas Eve turning point in history.” “People love talking about management to the technical manipulation of coated the quiet Bowdoin their dogs,” says Audrey ‘raw’ nature, worked on creative projects that campus with ice. —SENATOR GEORGE J. MITCHELL ’54, H’83 Elsa, mutt: Reuman ’21, who created the DECEMBER 4, 2017, FROM HIS TALK, “PUBLIC SERVICE IN TIMES LIKE THESE,” “Favorite required them to engage with a public database popular Instagram account pastime? Fetch!” of environmental data (NASA, EPA, or other MODERATED BY PRESIDENT ROSE, PICKARD THEATER. WATCH IT ON TALKS.BOWDOIN.EDU. @bowdoindogspotter. “And publicly accessible database) by bringing I love hearing about them!” those documents into poetry,” says Assistant Professor of English Samia Rahimtoola. “The idea was to push students to invent new ways of Archives circulating environmental data and informing Arla, 14, golden environmental literacy through poetry. retriever: I want students to know that broad-based “Loves to environmental studies can include the study— people watch.” not to mention making—of environmental cultures through art and poetry.”

Delta Puffs of cotton, orbs laced with brittle stems; wisps in drifts alongside dirt roads.

Okra growing in a community garden.

Share a garden plot, or hell, share a universe: Reggie, black lab: “He loves to eat.” asparagus and carrot tops in careful lines with supernovas; potatoes, a subterranean asteroid belt, Dick Gregory on the steps of potato bugs (a nickel for an adult, a dime for an Memorial Hall. egg cluster) still ravaging celestial leaves. —KATHERINE MORSE-GAGNE ’19 A Force of Change from Chasm When glaciers melt, the water drains down through Fifty years ago, on February 14, 1968, comedian and civil rights activist the ice and then under its former self, toward the Dick Gregory spoke to an overflow crowd in Pickard Theater on racial sea. During the latter stage of the flow, meltwater inequality in America and the need for young people to be a force of carves space between the bedrock below and change against it. His words must have had an impact—in the issue of Roger, 7, mini the ice above. It leaves tunnels that you can walk The Orient printed two days after Gregory’s visit, the editors endorsed his schnauzer: “During through in its wake. Sometimes the channels presidential run. Peary, 1, English bulldog: campus break, I let connect suddenly, your dormant one and its active “He’s named after the him off leash to run Arctic Museum.” around.” neighbor merging. Explore Bowdoin’s history through the Library’s digital collections, including issues —ANNA BLAUSTEIN ’19 of The Orient dating back to its first publication in 1871: library.bowdoin.edu

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On View

By the Numbers On the Shelf

Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past Application ZOË LESCAZE ’12 (Taschen, 2017) Facts & Figures Art critic and journalist Zoë 1,097 50US states represented, plus Guam, the Mariana Lescaze’s new book captures the Applied via Islands, Puerto Rico, the imagination of readers across the All admitted students in the Class of Early Decision US Virgin Islands, and 2022 will receive word from the Washington, DC country, including critics at The College by April 1. Here’s how the New York Times and National Geo- graphic. While it focuses on ancient class is shaping up so far. species long gone, the artists’ attempts at visualizations of dinosaurs are more relevant than 2,089 ever as we grapple with the looming threats of climate change. 9,081 Applicants interviewed Mark Baum, Processional, 1957, oil Total applicants with the on canvas, 22 in. x 26 in., Bowdoin 4,383 (25% increase College College Museum of Art, gift of over prior year) Paul F. and William M. Baum. High schools represented New Ways to Look 1,538 at the World Searching for Boko Haram After Paradise, a novel Submitted their application on the Challenging conventions at the Bowdoin SCOTT MACEACHERN set in 1940s Maine January 1 deadline College Museum of Art Professor of Anthropology ROBLEY WILSON ’52 1,294 (Oxford University (Black Lawrence Students referenced Press, 2018) Press, 2017) a “friend” for how FAMILIAR SUBJECTS made to look including a work by immigrant art- they first learned about Bowdoin strange, that’s the theme of the ist Mark Baum (1903–1997). Born exhibition “Looking Anew: Art and in central Europe, he was close to Estrangement, 1900–2000,” which members of the New York School. runs until April 8 and considers Baum’s 1957 oil painting one particularly innovative aspect Processional typifies the spiritual of twentieth-century art: its ability nature of his work. The depiction to produce effects of estrangement. of stairs, suggesting a path of Many twentieth-century artists enlightenment, and the use of adopted this approach to encourage bright colors in gradual pro- 117 viewers to think critically about gression, are recurring motifs in Countries everything they see, including Baum’s work. Although not as A Catalog of Birds, The War on Kids: How represented artwork and society at large. Each commercially successful as some a novel by American Juvenile artist in this exhibition came to a of his contemporaries, Baum LAURA HARRINGTON ’76 Justice Lost Its Way different conclusion about how to remained active for most of his (Europa, 2017) CARA DRINAN ’96 accomplish that. life and worked well into his nine- (Oxford University The show features a number of ties, spending most of the year in Press, 2017) new acquisitions by the Museum, Ogunquit, Maine.

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Starting point guard Taylor Student Life Choate ’19 averaged nine points per game in the regular season and had MOHAMED SAIDOU CAMARA ’16 thirty-eight steals. Hometown: New York, New York Major: Anthropology Minor: African Studies Studied in Chile

I appreciate the incredible diversity that we have here in the States more. Here, people come from so many different backgrounds with distinct points of view. This was something I took for granted, and it took being away for me to see it. “ How has your perspective of the US changed after

Game On having spent time abroad?”

Taking It JULIA AMSTUTZ ’19 to the Hoop Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana Major: Government and Legal Studies Studied in Morocco DESPITE FRIGID OUTSIDE temperatures, the women’s basketball team heated up Morrell I’ve become simultaneously more critical and appreciative of the Gymnasium this winter, enjoying one of the United States and its politics, freedoms, and culture. Physically finest regular seasons in the history of the leaving helped me view the US through a more-removed perspec- storied program. tive and underscored both its exceptional and less-than- The Polar Bears finished the regular season wonderful aspects. with a near-perfect 23-1 record, tied for the second-best start to a season in school history, and reached as high as a number-three ranking in EZRA RICE ’19 the Division III polls. Entering postseason play, the Polar Bears averaged 82.7 points per game Hometown: Providence, Rhode Island (fifth in the country) and allowed a measly 46.4 Major: Government and Legal Studies points per game (third in the nation), result- Studied in Spain ing in a Division III-best +36.3 scoring margin for the year. The lone blemish on their record I better recognize the distinct path our country has taken and the came in a 49-45 setback at top-ranked Amherst opportunities and limitations thereby offered. While graduating on January 27. seniors in America can look forward to youth unemployment [rates] To follow the Polar Bears’ postseason run, under 9 percent (Spain’s rate is 38 percent), their parents can visit Bowdoin Athletics at goubears.com or alternatively envy yearly tuition bills of $3,000 in Spain. For all of download the Bowdoin Front Row app for the our disagreements, having traveled through Europe, I realize Ameri- latest scores, news, and updates. cans are more alike in our values and aspirations than we realize.

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On Stage Courses What Keeps FROM TRUMAN TO TRUMP: TEACHING US HISTORY Mankind Alive? SINCE 1945

Faculty & Staff Brian Purnell WHEN BOWDOIN’S THEATER department staged Geoffrey Canada Associate Professor of Africana Bertolt Brecht’s 1928 musical The Threepenny Studies and History Opera last fall, director Davis Robinson knew its major themes of social injustice and capital- After WWII, the US became a new nation. The ism remained relevant. But as more and more country, and indeed the world, that emerged after famous men began to be exposed for sexual 1945 created the economies, cultures, politics, and offenses, another of the play’s subjects, sexual technologies that shape our contemporary life. To misconduct, also became timely. know who we are now as a nation, we must study One of the production’s songs, “The Ballad this history. of Sexual Dependency,” is about how even pious men might fall victim to their sexual obsessions. The Bowdoin production drew “a HOW DIGITAL TECHNIQUES direct line between the hypocrisy Brecht was CAN ENHANCE OUR trying to point out and current events,” UNDERSTANDING OF TEXT Robinson said. Along with the student cast, Robinson Fernando Nascimento worked with Brenna Nicely ’10, education and Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital and Dusk, Southport, 2010, community manager at the American Reper- acrylic and oil on wood Computational Studies panel, 24” x 30 ¾” inches tory Theater in Boston, who consulted on the script and Threepenny Opera’s historical, cultural, How can we make sense of the burgeoning number and literary context. of textual sources in a timely manner? What new THIRTY YEARS OF ART questions can be answered by computer-based text Amber Barksdale ’18 in analysis? I help students blend digital explanation AND TECHNOLOGY the role of Polly Peachum with hermeneutical understanding to address questions from the whole spectrum of the liberal arts. Tad Macy worked as an artist until first Internet connections, first an interest in computer games and web servers, and campuswide how they were made led him to email system. After many years in SHOPPING, COOKIES, programming in the mid-eighties. In leadership roles, including time as AND MATH February, Macy returned to art full- interim director of the department, time when he retired from Bowdoin he returned to developing software Amanda Redlich after thirty years in the information for academic web-based projects Assistant Professor of Mathematics technology department. Macy’s and business processes and retired long career at Bowdoin began as as a senior software engineer and I teach courses in multivariate calculus, probability, a programmer in 1987 during “the designer. “I’m not fond of the term and combinatorics and graph theory. This involves early stages of a hyperactive tech ‘retirement.’ I like to think I’m concepts of allocation algorithms and randomized revolution. Technology has a very changing careers, since I’d put my decision, which may sound very highfalutin’, but you creative side to it that many people dream of being a full-time artist on use them all the time in your daily life without know- never see—I’ve loved that about hold. I’m realizing my dream.” ing it—for example, when you’re grocery shopping it,” he said. Macy was part of the See more of Macy’s work at and when you’re making cookies. team that shepherded Bowdoin’s tadmacy.com.

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The Start of Something Better

She longed for a connection with her grandfather, whose early life was mostly a mystery to her. A chance encounter on campus last fall changed that.

MY NAME IS ELAINE BENNETT. I am twenty-four years old and I live in New York City. I visited Bowdoin for the first time in October for my work as an admissions program manager at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University. I am Elaine Bennett found not sure if this type of story is of any interest to you and your her grandfather in Bowdoin’s archives, and readers, but I want to share it with you to express my grati- his community here on tude for the incredible alumni community that my grand- campus. father was a part of. I asked a stranger on campus [Hope Marden, campus services mail clerk] to take a photo of me in front of Hubbard Hall and, when I told her my story, she baseball team, so I figured there had to be a trace of him. suggested that I email you. Little did I know the archives had a whole file on my grand- My grandfather’s name is George S. Bennett, and he father that they let me look through. There were nearly 100 graduated from Bowdoin in 1934. He grew up in the suburbs original paper documents in this file. I was able to hold in of Boston, in a struggling Irish immigrant family. His father my hands the application my grandfather filled out by hand died when he was only eight years old, and his mother died in 1930. There were letters from my great-aunt Josephine when he was a senior in high school. He was the youngest to Bowdoin President Sills, explaining the family’s dire of seven children, and his oldest sister, Josephine, sacrificed situation and asking the school to provide financial aid to everything she had to make sure he went to college—the her brother. There were more handwritten letters between first person in his family to do so. He was lucky that he had my grandfather and the dean of the College [Paul Nixon] the right people advocating for him because, when Bowdo- discussing job searches, looking for guidance. in took a chance on that orphan boy, he made a better life It’s difficult to put into words the emotions that I felt for himself and his family, and it changed the course of my when I was holding on to the same pieces of paper my family’s history. After graduation, he married my grand- grandfather held nearly ninety years ago. I always longed for mother and they had four children, including my father. a connection with him, and I felt such love on the Bowdoin Three of their children became lawyers (including my uncle campus. Every single person I encountered was extremely George Bennett ’65) and my aunt Sally dedicated her life to helpful and caring. I understand why my grandfather kept education as a math teacher. I truly believe our family would in touch with contacts from the school for so many decades not be where it is today without the support Bowdoin gave to after he graduated, why he donated every year until he died, my grandfather all those years ago. why my grandmother continued to donate to Bowdoin until Unfortunately, I never met my grandfather. He died in she passed away, and why they would visit the campus togeth- 1991, and I was not born until 1992. I had heard his inspir- er as often as they could over the years. This type of commu- Clockwise from left: ing story from my father when I was growing up, and I have nity and connection my grandfather was a part of is not the A letter from Josephine always wished I could have met him. For some reason, upon norm. Bowdoin should be extremely proud of its communi- Bennett to President Sills. arriving on the Bowdoin campus, I decided to pay a visit ty, and I am eternally grateful for the experience I had while George Bennett ’34’s to the archives. I’m not really sure what I was looking for. I visiting campus for the first time. I will never forget it. school record and guess I was hoping to find even a simple news article from I hope that this note will remind your alumni they are photograph. my grandfather’s time at Bowdoin. I wanted to get a sense bonded to a very special place—even as an outsider, I can Bennett’s hand-written of his experience during those years. He was captain of the feel it, too. Bowdoin application. BOWDOIN MAGAZINE WINTER 2018 | [email protected] 19

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T H I N K I N G B OX

Barrett Takesian ’12 hopes his innovative urban squash program will someday become the most successful pipeline to higher education in the State of Maine.

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190321_pgs20-25.indd 20 3/15/18 7:20 AM 190321_pgs20-25.indd 21 3/15/18 7:20 AM TUCKED AWAY ON NOYES STREET in Portland, Public Schools system. Currently, there are about Takesian was an environmental studies and Takesian met Butt on the courts, where he player, first heard about the project, he had two If they don’t come to Bowdoin, then perhaps behind a massive glass window with menorah- fifty students in the building, ranging in age from economics coordinate major. While many impressed the legendary player with his enthusi- competing reactions. First, he thought the idea they’ll end up at one of the other fourteen uni- shaped red metal panes, a diverse group of stu- six to eighteen. They’re here to play squash, graduates of Maine colleges decide to leave the asm for the sport. Butt says, “Right away, I could of bringing urban squash to Maine was “a long versities that have banners hanging around the dents gathers on the wooden floor of a squash take yoga classes, work on their homework, and state to seek employment, Takesian had spent see Barrett becoming a coach. It was visible in shot.” But he also recognized that “if anyone PCS building. These colorful flags serve both as court to “shout out” positive things about their participate in various enrichment programs. years living in Southwest Harbor as a child, and how he played, and how he observed what was was going to pull this off, it would be Barrett.” a tribute to the donors who made it all possible fellow athletes. They make an uneven circle, “When I was little, I thought you had to wear he didn’t want to leave the Pine Tree State. “I going on around him.” The fast-paced game is Fortson had worked closely with Takesian (Takesian raised more than $1.5 million in 2016 sitting with legs crossed or bouncing on their a suit and carry a briefcase to play squash,” shook hands with one of my closest friends, and inherently intellectual, Butt says, and involves a when he was in college—Takesian was a team to purchase the historic temple, and another knees—these kids exude pure, infectious ener- Takesian tells me later as we sit in his office. It’s we made a deal to stay in Portland,” he says. high level of strategic planning. On the court, captain—and had seen Takesian grow as both $156,000 to provide financial and transportation gy. In one corner of the court (a wooden and a bare-bones space, outfitted with a standing After graduation, he took a job at insurance Takesian displayed an ability to think on his feet a player and a coach. He knew the young man assistance to Portland-area students), as well as glass box that measures 9.75 meters long and desk and not much else. It’s clear that his most company Unum and started volunteering, and a determination to learn—qualities that was resilient and resolute. Fortson adds that a reminder of the program’s ultimate objective. 6.4 meters wide, as per international specifica- important work doesn’t take place in this little first with Big Brothers, Big Sisters and later would serve him well when he went to launch squash is a sport with “a lot of wealthy benefac- “From the beginning, our goal was to be the tions), Barrett Takesian ’12 sits in sneakers, a room. Takesian, like the kids in this building, at the YMCA in Portland. Inspired by the joy Maine’s first urban squash program. “He talked tors, if you will, especially in the United States. most successful college pathway program in the sweatshirt, and black athletic pants. All eyes are benefited from an urban squash program, working with kids brought to his life, he began to me about his idea early on, and I knew that, It’s always been a private club and private state,” Takesian says, which is why he started upon him, even as the kids, who were bussed in albeit in a slightly different way. Before attend- to think seriously about starting a community as young as he is, it would be a huge challenge school sport.” He’s happy to see that change, Rally Portland, an innovative subset of PCS. “We by the Portland after-school program Learning- ing Bowdoin, Takesian went to high school at squash program in Portland. Takesian started to raise all that money,” says Butt. though change is moving slowly. “Now we’re want to be a model for other programs and show works, fidget lightly, waiting for their turn to call Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts. “In scheduling daily meetings—one at 8 a.m. and Squash courts are expensive, particularly if beginning to see more kids who have gone how working with students over a long-term out. One boy praises another’s respectfulness. Boston, there was this great program called another at 8 p.m.—to speak with the leaders you’re offering use of them for free. But Take- through urban programs at Bowdoin,” he says. time horizon can work,” he says. The hope is One girl, wearing a bright orange hijab decorat- SquashBusters that works with low-income stu- of similar urban squash programs and connect sian was determined, and he leveraged his posi- Students with access to the sport tend to skew that students will come for the squash matches ed with sequins, runs into the court a little late. dents in squash and education,” he explains. “I with potential donors. He calls this period tion within the New England squash community toward the extreme ends of the class divide; but stay for the guided study time. By melding Her face is one big, happy grin as she looks at grew up playing against those kids.” He wasn’t of intensive learning his “unofficial graduate to contact donors, plan squash tournaments, and they either come to squash through urban pro- athletics and academics, Takesian wants to create Takesian and settles in for their end-of-day ritual. a part of their program—Milton Academy is a degree.” “I was working on this project seven gain support for the cause. “My role was to offer grams offered for free or reduced rates, or they a holistic after-school program that molds young I’ve been watching the workings of this urban private school that has squash courts on campus days a week for three years,” he says. encouragement, because he had this wonderful come to squash through their private school students into conscientious participants in the ecosystem for an hour, and I can already tell that and a squash club—but he admired Squash- Early in the process, Takesian pulled in goal,” says Butt. “I could also help introduce him programs. There isn’t a lot of middle ground. classroom, sportsmanlike players on the court, there’s something exceptional happening inside Busters. He realized back then that urban exer- members of the Bowdoin squash community, around to people in the squash world—and I “The squash community, as a whole, benefits and respectful individuals overall. this old temple. This is Portland Community cise was inherently expensive and not available including former swimming and soccer coach did—but really, he did it all himself.” from it being more diverse,” Fortson says. Although Portland Community Squash is Squash (PCS), an after-school urban athletic pro- to everyone. After graduation, he decided to (and winner of twenty-two national squash When Tomas Fortson, head squash coach “Hopefully Barrett will lead the way, and we’ll still in its infancy, parents and school officials gram available to every student in the Portland address that problem. championships and a world title) Charlie Butt. at Bowdoin and a former professional squash be seeing some of his kids come to Bowdoin.” are already observing a shift in the mindsets

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190321_pgs20-25.indd 22 3/15/18 7:22 AM 190321_pgs20-25.indd 23 3/15/18 7:22 AM “ I THINK WHEN YOU DO ACADEMIC WORK IN THE SAME SPACE WHERE YOU’RE ALSO a harmonious enrichment program. “I visited a piece of what they’re doing.” Although PCS sat scattered around several small tables and here for academics, that’s why,” she says. She DOING YOGA AND GETTING IN A HARD few weeks ago, and I watched as they went from is open to everyone, only students who show responded to writing prompts that asked them likes playing the game, but she knows there is station to station—squash, yoga, and then to a exceptional promise and positivity are selected about respect, effort, and positivity—the three a life beyond the squash court, and she wants WORKOUT, IT ALL BEGINS TO BLUR lesson,” he recalls. “That day, they did a nutri- to take part in Rally Portland. Katrina Buchta, core values of PCS. They talked occasionally to make the most of it. “I want to succeed and tion lesson. They had someone there teaching director of education at PCS, says Rally Portland with one another and smiled at their papers, go to college, and to get into some really good INTO A SPACE OF PLAY.” the basics of how to make a smoothie, so kids is a program that requires intense commitment but for the most part they remained focused schools. That’s my future, and being here is could make themselves a healthy after-school but offers big payoffs. “We want to take kids on the task at hand. Mallori, an eleven-year-old going to help me with that.” She’s a self- snack.” He says the kids are kept continually from sixth grade until college—and continue from King Middle School, was eager to take a identified action-learner who loves science and moving and learning, and that they’re “learning working with them even after college,” she says. break from work and talk to a reporter about hates sitting down. It can be hard for her to of participating students. Michael Paterniti the same space where you’re also doing yoga more than they realize.” “The emphasis of Rally Portland is on working her experience. She told me that she likes focus on schoolwork, but she likes to keep busy says his fifteen-year-old daughter, May, comes and getting in a hard workout, it all begins to For Donaldson, a key element of PCS is with kids who don’t have access to a lot of other being a part of Portland Community Squash and values hard work, so she keeps coming home from PCS “in the best mood” and with blur into a space of play,” says Paterniti. “And how it provides leadership opportunities to after-school programs. Kids who will commit because there are “less fights here than there back to this former temple to play, learn, and all her homework done. “One of the great that’s really exciting.” students who may not normally have access to to playing squash four days a week…. Kids are at school.” She says, “I like the game a lot. grow. After finishing a squash match or taking a things about the program is that, when you “In a really short amount of time, Portland them. He cites the example of a Lyman Moore who are positive, respectful, and put in a lot It’s really fun and unique. It’s fun because we yoga class, she feels ready to sit down and tackle mix sports and study, they both become Community Squash has grown to become a sixth-grader who “sees PCS as a ticket to get of effort. Kids who can be leaders.” Right now, get to see how strong we are, and we can learn her homework. “When you’re playing, you feel normalized,” he says. “The integration of really coherent program that kids absolutely buy into college. This is a multilingual student, and Rally Portland serves nine students, but Buchta about other people’s interests.” For Mallori, excited and energetic,” she says. “But after- physical activity and homework time becomes into,” says Ben Donaldson, principal of Lyman I honestly doubt he was thinking about college says they hope to add a few more in the spring, a standout element of the program is how it wards, you’re refreshed. Your mind is free.” something that is stabilizing and enriching.” Moore Middle School. While there are many at the beginning of sixth grade.” But after he and more again come fall 2018. Students with fosters a sense of respect among her peers. He says his daughter’s grades have improved after-school programs available to his students, got involved with PCS, something changed. access to Rally Portland, Donaldson says, “carry Though admittedly, she didn’t put it that way. Katy Kelleher is a freelance writer and author of and that the “communal experience of sharing Donaldson says they don’t all maintain the kids’ “Now he’s talking about where he wants to go to themselves differently. It gives them so much “We just really respect each other’s opinions the book Handcrafted Maine. A former managing sport and study time has inspired her to push attention. “The program that they’re building school. He’s psyched about it,” Donaldson says. confidence.” and how we do things,” she says. “We respect editor of Maine magazine, she has reported for The herself a little harder.” Paterniti also reports over there is something more and more kids “Over the life of the organization, they’ve During my visit to PCS, I was able to spend their religions and the things they love. You can Wall Street Journal and WBUR-Boston. that when there’s a time crunch and May has want to be involved with and to access,” he begun to really engage the full range of kids some time in the classrooms, where students make friends here really easily.” to give up an activity, she always advocates for explains. “That’s the best metric we currently from Portland. We’re seeing tons of multi- were learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and Auxane, a thirteen-year-old student at Lyman Tristan Spinski’s photos can be found in Audu- squash to stay a part of her schedule—even have for whether it’s an effective program.” lingual kids from our school that have really chatting quietly about their days. The mood in Moore Middle School, was entirely focused on bon, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New York though squash and homework go hand-in- Like Paterniti, Donaldson admires how PCS latched onto Portland Community Squash,” the classroom was calm, but not without energy. her writing—until I interrupted to ask about Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other hand. “I think when you do academic work in melds physical activity and academic work into Donaldson says. “I think that’s an incredible As the sun set outside, a group of seven students her experience with the program. “I come publications. He lives in Portland, Maine.

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190321_pgs20-25.indd 24 3/15/18 7:23 AM 190321_pgs20-25.indd 25 3/15/18 7:24 AM You can find out just about anything with a few keystrokes or a voice command. Got a question? Ask Alexa. Or Siri. Or Cortana. Google’s “year in search” for 2017 showed that, more than anything, ASK people used the search engine to ask “how.” There’s a lot we want to know, learn, and understand. As easy as technology makes it, there’s something special about hearing from a person—someone

USALVIN HALL, COURTNEY REICHERT, we know who knows. As it turns BENJE DOUGLAS, MICHAEL OXTON, MIKE O’MARA, NATHANIEL T. WHEELWRIGHT, JOAN BENOIT SAMUELSON, out, the Bowdoin community is ROB BURNS, JOE TECCE, SARAH HORN, KATE ADAMS, AND REBECCA KNAPP ADAMS SHARE THEIR EXPERTISE filled with people like that.

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190321_pgs26-35.indd 26 3/15/18 9:31 AM 190321_pgs26-35.indd 27 3/15/18 9:32 AM Rob Burns ’07 and Michael Oxton ’07 (HOME)BREW WORLD-CLASS BEER

BREW WITH GOOD PEOPLE. You’ll have more fun, you’ll end up making better beer, and 1 you’re less likely to clean the mash tun alone. SELF-EDUCATE. It’s really difficult to get creative if you don’t understand the 2 basics. Learn everything you can. CREATE INTERESTING RECIPES. Do it better. Do it differently. We wanted to introduce 3 a softer, more citrusy, pale ale to the market, and we came up with Whirlpool. You don’t have to brew something totally weird to make it unique—though weird is fun, too. Courtney Reichert ’06

Alvin Hall ’74 INVEST IN GOOD EQUIPMENT. Your beer will be easier to make, the quality of HELP YOUR RELUCTANT 4 your product will be higher, and you’ll TELL A GOOD STORY end up saving money. MATH STUDENT CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN. Dirty space means FIRST, DOES THE STORY HAVE A HUMAN ARC? Typically, the answer to the central question is Fourth, and by far most difficult, is finding dirty beer. Don’t mess this one up. PROMOTE THE IMPORTANCE OF MATH. child to memorize the basic addition, Readers, listeners, and viewers are almost anticipated by a sequence of smaller questions. your distinct voice—the voice in which the 5 At some point during your schooling, you subtraction, multiplication, and division unconsciously open to stories that embody a A good story anticipates the moments when story must be told to be effective. For nearly may have muttered under your breath, facts is one of the easiest and best ways to journey into some aspect of humanity. The the smaller questions are likely to emerge in all storytelling, I find that my voice is clearest MAINTAIN SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES. This “Why do we need to learn this?” I get it! ensure your child learns quantitative story doesn’t have to be about actual people. the audience’s mind. That’s satisfying for the and most assured in the morning. Sometimes sounds boring, but it’s crucial. Track and But try to emphasize that even if your skills early in their education. Numeracy is It can be about polar bears in the Arctic, about audience, but it also keeps people engaged with I wake up with the right voice and words just 6 record everything. Make your steps easily student doesn’t plan to factor trinomials crucial for estimation and makes the more a changing landscape, about the change in and interested in what’s ahead. waiting to be written down or recorded. These repeatable and understandable. every day, math problem solving is a great abstract algebra so much easier later on. industry. What gets people interested is that the Third, the heart of the story—be it a are miraculous days. Some stories by their way to exercise our brains and improve story relates to how human beings are created, person, object, or idea—must be intriguing, nature require that I be totally suffused with MAKE IT PRETTY. People will drink more logic. We definitely use these every day. STAY POSITIVE. Whether your children grow, change, or leave this earth, along with the multifaceted, and on a path likely to involve it to do it justice. The voice is still mine, and of what’s inside your package if it looks are math marvels or numeracy novices, challenges, tension, or conflicts encountered evolution or change, whether unexpected or I can hear myself in the words, but the right 7 good on the outside. Giving your beer a DON’T LET THEM SENSE YOUR FEAR. If chances are they’re going to get frus- along the arc. The story doesn’t have to be a logical in hindsight. Getting this right involves words come to me through the subject itself. visual personality legitimately improves the over- you don’t love math like I do or have trated with their math homework some- full arc from birth to death—it can simply be a deep understanding of what’s germane to the To find the right voice, you need patience. all experience of drinking and appreciating it. ever said, “I’m not good at math,” help where along the way. The satisfaction of a section of it—but the audience must sense character’s personality, the physical location, To paraphrase an old spiritual from my child- yourself and your kids overcome this by finally “getting it,” however, promises to something human in it. the history of the object, or the created world. hood, “It may not come when you want it, START WITH PASSION—AND FEED IT. If your seeing math as a worthy challenge, not be rewarding. They’ll survive math class, Second, the central question must be one for Equally important is determining how these but it’s right on time.” enthusiasm starts to slip, rethink your a monster. In my experience, students and if they have the right mindset, they which the reader, listener, or viewer—whether innate characteristics will react to unexpected 8 approach, turn left, reverse, do whatever who struggle with math lack confi- just might enjoy it too. they know it or not—wants to find an answer. outside forces—whether real or created. The Alvin Hall ’74 is an internationally renowned it takes to get it back. dence most of all. This is true whether you are writing books structure and sequencing of the story should financial educator, television and radio broadcaster, Courtney Reichert ’06 is an NBCT- about historical events or figures, about climate gradually reveal these innards and keep the bestselling author, and regular contributor to Rob Burns ’07, Michael Oxton ’07, and Mike DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF certified math teacher at Mt. Ararat High change, about music, about how to invest. audience involved. magazines, newspapers, and websites. O’Mara founded Night Shift Brewing in 2012. DRILL AND GRILL. Encouraging your School in Topsham, Maine.

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190321_pgs26-35.indd 28 3/15/18 7:30 AM 190321_pgs26-35.indd 29 3/8/18 11:00 AM Sarah Horn ’07 TIPS FOR EVERY 5PET OWNER Just because they can eat it doesn’t mean standing still and staring with wide “whale eyes,” they should. Many common household and having raised hackles. Some owners tie a items can cause potentially life-threatening yellow ribbon on the leash if their dog does not illness if ingested by pets. Grapes, choco- do well when approached by other dogs. If you 1late, avocado, onions, garlic, and sugar- notice this, avoid interactions between your dog free gum (sweetened with xylitol) are all and theirs. toxic when ingested by certain pets. For a more comprehensive list of common household tox- Prevention is the best medicine. ins and what species they affect, or if you’re con- Annual physical exams are extreme- cerned about something your pet has eaten, visit ly important, even if your pet isn’t the ASPCA’s Animal Poison Control website. due for any lab work or vaccines. 4While your pet may seem happy and healthy to Dr. Google did not earn a medical you, a thorough examination allows a trained degree. While we’ve all sought advice professional to look for any abnormalities that Kate Adams ’89 from the Internet in the throes of pa- may not be apparent. If certain conditions are nic, it can often incite more fear than detected and managed early, such as heart 2reassurance. If you’re concerned about your pet, disease, it can prolong your pet’s life. ASSIST AGING PARENTS reach out to a veterinary professional. Contact your veterinarian’s office during normal busi- Consider protecting more than your FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS NOT EASY. Collaboration, stubbornness, compro- n Long-term care insurance. Some policies cover home care, some do ness hours and your local emergency veterinary pet’s core. Core vaccines like those mise, and love will all come into play. My strongest advice is to be not. Some only cover nursing facilities. Some will pay family caregivers. hospital on nights, weekends, and holidays. It for rabies, canine parvovirus, and proactive—there are many more choices that way. Getting help in the Some have different daily limits for home care versus facility care. will save you time and prevent you from the feline panleukopenia target illnesses home, modifying a home, finding alternative transportation—initial Most have a maximum daily amount and a maximum lifetime amount. stress of the unknown before you find yourself 5that have a high morbidity and mortality rate, safeguards are much easier than dealing with a fall down the stairs or a n If staying home is strongly desired, talk about a long-term plan. Living burrowed deep in an Internet rabbit hole. are widespread, and are easily prevented with car accident. Start conversations early, keep a sense of humor, and make on one level? Yard maintenance? Trips to medical appointments? Ease vaccination. Some non-core vaccines, however, it clear that independence is important, but so is safety. of active lifestyle? (All research points to exercise as the best medicine Stranger danger can be real. Always are just as important, depending on where you for physical and cognitive health.) ask before allowing your dog to live and your pet’s lifestyle. Vaccinations against THINGS TO DO AND TALK ABOUT: n Consider hiring an aging life care expert for an assessment. A profes- approach another dog. Even though Lyme disease, leptospirosis, and feline leuke- n Power of attorney, health care proxy, and advanced directives (available sional will look at the big picture: medical, social, financial, home safety, your canine may be dog-friendly, there mia should be strongly considered for pets at on most state websites). I also recommend the “Five Wishes” docu- wellness, family dynamics, and formal and informal care providers. 3are plenty of others that aren’t. Unfortunately, risk in areas where these diseases are endemic. ment—a legal document that combines a living will and a health care n If independent or assisted living is part of the discussion, research, we see this in practice all the time. Some dogs Vaccinating your dog for leptospirosis is also a proxy. I think it’s best to use an elder law attorney, even for a few meet- make visits, and get on waiting lists. Senior housing is in short supply. can be more reactive on a leash as well, so a way of protecting your family from this zoonotic ings, for documents and planning, because of their greater expertise in An aging life care expert can steer you in the right direction with that, leashed dog approached by another dog may disease, as an infected dog can transmit this legal services for aging issues. too—they often know the pros and cons of most facilities in their region. react defensively. Besides the obvious snarling, disease to people. n Financial planning. Eight out of ten people will need long-term care. n Use these online resources: naela.org, aginglifecare.org, and the Area growling, and lunging, more-subtle signs may The average cost of home care is $32 an hour. Average monthly costs Agency on Aging for your county. indicate that a dog should not be approached— Sarah Horn ’07 is a veterinarian at Androscoggin are high—assisted living: $5,400; memory care: $6,800; nursing holding its ears back and flat against its head, Animal Hospital in Topsham, Maine. home: $11,200. Kate Adams ’89 is owner of Aging Excellence.

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190321_pgs26-35.indd 30 3/8/18 11:00 AM 190321_pgs26-35.indd 31 3/8/18 11:00 AM Nathaniel T. Wheelwright OBSERVE AND ANALYZE NATURE CULTIVATE CURIOSITY. Becoming a good advice “to know it by experience, and be able to ANALYZE YOUR OBSERVATIONS. Joan Benoit naturalist is mostly a matter of being give a true account of it.” The longer you continue your Samuelson ’79 attentive. Why not try to learn something observations, the more valuable about the natural world every time you SCRUTINIZE, TOUCH, SMELL, LISTEN, your records will become. Consider 1take a walk outside? MEASURE. Actual experiences lead to 9summarizing your observations in a table BUILD more-enduring memories and a more or timeline, highlighting the earliest, latest, LEARN THE NAMES AND TAXONOMY OF profound comprehension of the natu- and average dates of different natural history PLANTS AND ANIMALS AROUND YOU. 6ral world. If you engage in a hands-on approach events, or use a graph to illustrate the long- MENTAL Start with plants and animals that you to learning about nature, you will learn more. term patterns you see in nature. Such an encounter nearly every day. Though Many experienced naturalists follow field ethics analysis of natural events that you have seen TOUGHNESS 2initially you may stick with common names, you that serve as good guidelines. They will not at one place over time can be a significant can learn a lot by glancing at scientific names. handle, dissect, uproot, hold in captivity, or contribution to science. FOR ME, MENTAL TOUGHNESS comes through the Recognizing general taxonomic categories— kill anything if it causes undue suffering; if it art of storytelling—thinking of a story that knowing families or orders, for example—can diminishes somebody else’s experience (e.g., PUT KNOWLEDGE INTO motivates me to get out there and shoot for a help you identify species and appreciate their plucking the sole example of a beautiful flower ACTION. We are in a time of goal, and then writing the story through action. evolutionary relationships with other organisms. alongside a popular trail) or is prohibited by unprecedented environmen- For instance, the fortieth anniversary of the law (e.g., collecting specimens in a state or tal challenges. Changing New York City Marathon coincided with the BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THE BASIC national park); or if it jeopardizes a species that 10climates, deforestation, and urban sprawl are twenty-fifth anniversary of my Olympic win, and ECOLOGY OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS. is rare, threatened, or endangered. driving species to shift their geographical that told a story. I wanted to run 2:50s in all the Learn as much as possible about what ranges and migratory routes. Even a casual major US marathons after turning fifty [which kind of habitat they prefer, when they CONDUCT SIMPLE EXPERIMENTS. observer can note how quickly invasive species she did, including the Olympic Marathon trials 3breed, what they eat, who or what eats them, Anyone can snap a twig and come like kudzu, bittersweet, or multiflora rose on the Boston course in 2008, when she ran a and how long they live. The more knowledge back a little later to see how quickly it are spreading. If you make observations in a 2:49:08]. I’d always wanted to run a marathon you acquire, the more you will see and learn. drips sap and what it tastes like. Simple consistent manner over the course of only a in my home state of Maine but never had, until 7manipulations of nature like this permit you to few years, you can document the decline of last spring, when I did with a longtime running GO ON WALKS WITH KNOWLEDGEABLE peer into the minds of animals as well as gain species, such as little brown bats or monarch friend who suffers from Parkinson’s. Writing NATURALISTS, AND TAKE NOTES. Take insights about their physiology and behavior. If butterflies. And you can make your own contri- these stories keeps me going. You have to real- advantage of naturalist “teachers” you want to understand the “how?” and “why?” butions toward solving our environmental ize that obstacles along the road to success are whenever you get the chance. Local of nature, try an experiment. problems by reporting those transformations apt to pose challenges and that “sticktoitiveness” 4Audubon societies, high school ecology pro- of our planet. is key. Compromising goals is not okay, but grams, and museums are a resource for meeting TEACH OTHERS. One of the best setting intermediate goals can help you string wonderful teachers. Consider taking or auditing ways to solidify what you know about Text excerpted and adapted from The Naturalist’s together the chapters of your story. a class at a college, university, or field station. nature is to share your knowledge Notebook © 2017 by Nathaniel Thoreau Wheel- with others. If you know something wright and Bernd Heinrich. All rights reserved. Joan Benoit Samuelson ’79 won gold in the first- ASK “HOW?” AND “WHY?” QUESTIONS. 8well enough to be able to explain it coherently, ever Olympic women’s marathon in 1984. The former Cultivate curiosity with a purpose. then you truly understand it. Anyone can be a Nathaniel T. Wheelwright is Bass Professor of world-record holder, two-time Boston Marathon cham- You can look up the answer to most teacher, and your children, siblings, parents, Natural Sciences at Bowdoin and coauthor of The pion, and running legend continues to set competitive questions you have about nature, friends, and neighbors will very likely be Naturalist’s Notebook with Bernd Heinrich, running records and advocate for women’s issues in 5but it’s more fulfilling if you follow Thoreau’s grateful pupils. research associate of biology at Bowdoin. sports, the environment, and an active lifestyle.

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190321_pgs26-35.indd 32 3/15/18 7:33 AM 190321_pgs26-35.indd 33 3/15/18 7:33 AM Benje Douglas Rebecca Knapp Adams ’88 RESPOND TO FIND YARD SALE HARASSMENT

TREASURES THERE IS ALWAYS A RISK that intervening to help may escalate the situation or not be what the TO START, LET’S DEFINE “TREASURE.” The odds of discovering an Old Master drawing or victim wants. Stepping in, though, is what signed first edition with a $5 price tag are not in your favor. If you’re looking for good makes us neighbors. The most important thing quality and value at a yard sale, however, here are some pointers. to keep in mind is getting professional help right away. Here are some steps you can take FURNITURE. Think “wood.” Craftsmanship of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early- to beyond that to be as helpful as possible. mid-twentieth centuries cannot be matched by what’s available on the mass market today. If you find a solid console table, high chest, or set of dining chairs with some Assess the physical danger. Things can go age behind them, consider what you might pay instead for contemporary versions that from verbal to physical violence quickly, lack the character and longevity. Dings and pings shouldn’t deter you. Missing hard- 1and weapons enhance the danger signifi- ware or drawer pulls can easily be replaced. cantly. If you do notice a weapon, immediately try to get away from the situation—do not try to FRAMES. As with furniture, older wooden frames (pre-1970s) tend to be well-crafted wrestle it away or take it from the offender. and durable and, if intricately carved, can become a statement piece. Look beyond layers of paint on the outside, and scary clown painting or cloying still life on the inside, Stay as calm as possible and try to get and you can find a winner—typically for less than $10. others around you to create an audience. 2 There is strength in numbers. CLOTHING. While the thought of buying a stranger’s clothing might put you off this cate- gory, patient sleuthing can unearth great buys for wearing or for resale. I remain in awe Call 9-1-1 or your local emergency of the well-preserved long, green boiled-wool Eileen Fisher coat I purchased for $5 sever- number. It’s helpful to have your local al years ago, variations of which appear on eBay for well over $100. I could have turned a 3 law enforcement non-emergency number tidy profit if I’d loved it less. Caveat: stains and smells are reasons to walk away from any saved in your phone in case you need to report a Joe Tecce ’55 item. Yard sales often feature baby and infant clothing that still have tags. Bigger-ticket crime or incident but the danger has passed. items, like snowsuits and winter boots, will feel like a treasure if you are outfitting kids who grow out of one size and into the next between snowstorms. Ask the victim if there is anything you can do. Sometimes just listening KNOW IF SOMEONE IS LYING GLASSWARE AND CERAMICS. Vintage ceramics, pottery, fine porcelain, colored glass- 4 is enough. However, if the victim is ware—it’s almost too vast a universe. But if you’re drawn to certain pieces or makers underage or an older adult, and the abuser is NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION makes up about his words will be accompanied by fast blinking. was a gaze averter when not lying but intimidat- and are willing to do your research, the hunt itself is pretty exciting. Collectible pot- a parent or caregiver, you may be compelled to 80 percent of what we “say.” The speaker is But there are two caveats. ed or irritated by reporters’ questions during a tery and art glass often bear a maker’s mark, typically on the bottom of a piece, and report based on your state reporting mandates. typically conscious of verbal expression and has If an individual feels pleasure in lying, as psy- press conference. the more you learn about the evolution of a maker’s mark, the more you will know it under his or her control, but body language chopaths often do, there will be no rapid blink- Both rapid blinking and gaze aversion are about the next object you find yourself inspecting at a sale. Try to remember as many things about is usually not in someone’s awareness or under ing during the lie, since there is positive rather red flags for lying, but both need corrobora- the incident as you can—take down their control. The most-read body language is in than negative hedonia. And rapid blinking can tion from other sources, such as a contradic- BRING YOUR TOOLS 5 license plate number, make, and model the face, and there is a reason it is the eyes that accompany pain and other displeasures. tion in the message or the speaker’s reputation SMARTPHONE: Check the price range for your finds on eBay. The yard sale tag should of any vehicle; physical descriptions (scars, tat- are referred to as “the windows to the soul.” What about gaze aversion—looking away while and character. In effect, there is no single be about 25 to 50 percent of that listed on the site. Anything less is probably a steal. toos, height, weight, hair color); and location, There are two types of eye movements talking? Grandma told us not to trust anyone smoking gun in lie detection—only warning MAGNIFYING GLASS: Your 20/20 vision might not be good enough to decipher the date, and time of the incident. Be careful about studied in lie detection: eye blinks and gaze who can’t look you in the eye, and there is signs to heed. maker’s mark or “karat” notation on a delicate piece of gold jewelry. video. While a video might be useful, don’t aversion. It is well-established that rapid even an index known as Looking Intermit- CHARISMA: Strike up a genuine conversation with the person running the sale. A minute broadcast that you are filming. Keep your phone blinking is related to negative hedonia—that tently Away Rate (LIAR). Yet the same caution Joe Tecce ’55 is an associate professor of psychology or two of chat could prompt the gatekeeper to tell you about a box of antique tools, low or hidden. is, unpleasant feelings. In science, it is known holds here as with blinks. The gaze averter at Boston College and lecturer in neuropsychology at vintage game boards, or the complete National Geographic library stowed in the attic. as the Blink-Hedonia Hypothesis. To the extent often lies, but may also feel uncomfortable for Boston University School of Medicine, and a noted Benje Douglas is Bowdoin’s director of gender that a liar has guilt feelings, which are negative, other reasons. For example, President Obama expert on body language. Rebecca Knapp Adams ’88 is features editor at Arts & Antiques magazine. violence prevention education.

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190321_pgs36-41.indd 36 3/8/18 11:01 AM 190321_pgs36-41.indd 37 3/8/18 11:01 AM BY EDGAR ALLEN BEEM POLLUTED PARADISE How bad was the problem? In the 1950s and 1960s, the dissolved oxygen content in the Androscoggin River, which ran a gauntlet IN THE SPRING OF 1966, the Bowdoin College of paper and textile mills from Berlin, New Museum of Art mounted an exhibition of pho- Hampshire, through Rumford, Jay, Livermore tographs of the Maine coast by faculty member Falls, Lewiston, and Brunswick, dropped to John McKee. McKee had come to the College in zero in the summer. This resulted in fish kills 1962 to teach French literature, but his skill as and a nauseating odor from dead fish, raw a photographer had attracted the attention of sewage, and toxic discharges. Paint peeled off museum director Marvin Sadik. The exhibition riverside houses. Local folks could tell what All photographs by the two men staged has long been regarded as color the factories in Lewiston were dyeing fab- John McKee a landmark in the environmental movement in ric and tanning hides because the river would Maine, a greening of consciousness that took run red, blue, and green with their wastewa- Opening spread: (L) “Brown’s Head” place in the 1960s and 1970s in which Bowdoin ter. Dams to power the mills interrupted the and Brunswick played a prominent role. natural flow of Maine’s rivers, preventing fish (R) “Biddeford Pool. Titled As Maine Goes, the exhibition com- from spawning in many waters once teeming Sewage from homes and cities alike flushed in the bined elegant color photographs of Maine’s with aquatic life. ocean, raw” read the natural beauty with stark black-and-white Thomas Settlemire, now professor of biology exhibition card on this photographs of an uglier reality, the fact that emeritus, assigned a dozen Bowdoin students in photo in 1966. mid-twentieth-century Maine had become a 1970 to sample the water of the foul Androscog- This page: polluted paradise. The forty-five photographs gin River from the New Hampshire border to (L) “Parking lot at on view at the museum from March 25 to June Merrymeeting Bay. The students measured the entrance to Fort Popham State Memorial” I12, 1966, depicted a blight of roadside signs, amount of dissolved oxygen and fecal coliform litter, junk cars, industrial waste flowing down in the river. The results were sent to Senator (R) “Wolf Neck” rivers, sewage pipes discharging into the ocean, Edmund Muskie (D-Maine) and helped inform real estate signs, and “no trespassing” and his federal Clean Water Act of 1972. “keep out” signs everywhere. “On slow turns in the river,” recalls Settlemire, untreated into the rivers and into the sea. Only summer colonist and an arch-conservative who Daviau’s warning about Maine’s water quality LURC, CRAC, AND CWIC “John’s approach to the subject of the “we had to have gas masks to take samples.” thirty of 400-some towns in Maine treated inveighed against litter, roadside clutter, and was largely ignored and is now all but for- One of the first organized attempts to address landscape was a little different for its time,” While Settlemire’s students analyzed water their sewage. Less than thirty miles of Maine’s billboards as early as the 1920s. gotten, but another book written by a Maine the threats to the Maine environment was a says Professor of Chemistry Emeritus Samuel pollution, Butcher’s students tackled the atmo- 3,000-mile-long coast were in the public In The Saturday Evening Post of December 7, author at just about the same time is widely symposium inspired by McKee’s As Maine Goes Butcher, who served on the advisory committee spheric chemistry of air pollution. domain. The roadsides were littered with trash, 1929, Roberts published a jeremiad against the credited with being the opening shot in the exhibition. The Maine Coast: Prospects and Perspec- for a symposium that followed the exhibition. “People were burning a lot of wood, and bottles, and billboards. despoilment of US Route 1 in Maine. environmental revolution in America. In Silent tives convened at Bowdoin College on October “We were accustomed to Ansel Adams’ visions people were worried about air quality,” says McKee simply shined a photographic light on “Today,” wrote Roberts, “it is a road of big Spring (1962), Rachel Carson, a biologist and 20–22, 1966, and consisted of five panel discus- of pristine nature. John’s work was quite a Butcher. “So we had Bowdoin students measur- all of these problems. Fortunately, As Maine Goes signs and little signs and medium-sized signs; of bestselling author who summered in Southport sions in Daggett Lounge, each with four or five counterpoint.” ing the emissions from residential woodstoves.” came at a time when Mainers were beginning to cardboard signs tacked to pine trees and wood- near Boothbay Harbor, warned of an even experts in various fields of land use planning McKee, at Sadik’s suggestion, had spent the Wood was a cheap, renewable resource in wake up to the environmental issues they faced. en fences and dilapidated barns; of homemade more insidious and invisible threat to the envi- and conservation. summer of 1965 photographing the length Maine at the time. Whole townships in the “The exhibition was not so much instrumental signs tilting drunkenly in ragged fields and ronment—pesticide poisoning. Horace A. “Hoddy” Hildreth Jr. ’54 attend- of the Maine coast. As Maine Goes received unorganized section of northern Maine were as it was part of a vast tidal wave of environmen- peering insolently from the yards and walls of Silent Spring made the case that toxic pesticides ed the symposium as a Republican candidate national attention in the New York Times, Chicago clear-cut for pulp and paper. Photographed tal awareness,” says McKee modestly. “It struck furtive-looking houses…It is a road rich in the such as DDT were not only killing the targeted for the Maine Senate from Falmouth. He was Tribune, Hartford Times, and Duluth News Tribune, from orbiting satellites, northern Maine a chord.” effluvia of clams in batter, frying doughnuts, pests, but were also killing birds and becoming shopping for ways to protect Maine’s natural as well as in many Maine newspapers. The New appeared as a checkerboard as townships were The greening of Maine’s public conscious- sizzling lard; in tawdriness, cheapness, and bad pervasive in all natural systems. In Silent Spring, environment. York Times story, “Coastline Decay Shown in clear-cut at different times—new cuts showing ness was a gradual process. The quantum leap taste, but little else.” Carson warned about fish kills in Maine in “John McKee’s exhibition and the confer- Photos,” predicted “the public reaction will be white with snow, new growth showed gray and, took place in the late 1960s, but there were In 1958, Waterville attorney Jerome Daviau the wake of spraying for spruce budworm and ence were seminal events,” says Hildreth. “The one of shock.” uncut quadrants black with trees. The Kenne- isolated voices decades earlier, largely unheard published Maine’s Life Blood, a small book that observed that herbicides were turning once exhibition was a very powerful and effective “Ed Muskie came to the exhibition,” recalls bec, Penobscot, Allagash, and St. John Rivers at the time, warning that all was not well in carefully laid out the case that the paper indus- verdant roadsides into desolate brown wastes. A demonstration of what was happening in the McKee, now emeritus professor of art. “When were choked with logs when loggers conducted Vacationland. try and power companies were dominating classic of environmental literature, Silent Spring state of Maine. It was the thing that really set he saw the aerial photograph of the Androscog- massive river drives, floating logs downstream One of the loudest voices crying in the both the political and natural life of Maine and sounded the alarm that would be answered by me off. The conference was part of the momen- gin [covered in chemical scum] he said, ‘This is from the woodlands to the mills. wilderness of commercialism was that of that, as a result, Maine’s rivers and streams were citizens, scientists, educators, environmental tum that McKee generated.” the effluent society, not the affluent society.’” Residential and industrial waste was flushed novelist Kenneth Roberts, a Kennebunkport fouled and dammed. activists, and state and federal legislators. Hildreth was destined to become Maine’s

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190321_pgs36-41.indd 38 3/15/18 7:35 AM 190321_pgs36-41.indd 39 3/15/18 7:35 AM All photographs by John McKee “From the very beginning,” says McKee, “ WE WERE ACCUSTOMED TO ANSEL ADAMS’ VISIONS OF PRISTINE NATURE. “environmental studies was a mix of depart- (T) “Dawn, ments. We were very clear that we were not Popham Beach” JOHN’S WORK WAS QUITE A COUNTERPOINT.” talking about environmental science, we were (B) “Phippsburg” talking about environmental studies. That meant not just sciences, but art, economics, government, philosophy, and religion.” first environmental lobbyist. The law of the pictures before the leaves came out in the spring.” behalf. Among the issues CRAC lobbied for Today, the popular environmental studies land that he was about to lay down would create McKee’s photographs of “For Sale” and successfully were passage of a Site Location of coordinate major, LEED-certified dorms, the Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission and subdivision signs, camps and cabins, outhouses, Development Act and an Oil Conveyance Act, Bowdoin Organic Garden, the award-winning the system of regulation for the vast tracts of and construction projects in the woods became the defeat of several major oil refinery propos- dining service, the Schiller Coastal Studies Cen- paper company woodlands in northern Maine. Appendix F of the Wildlands Report. als along the Maine coast, and the approval of ter, and the Roux Center for the Environment In 1966, some 10 million acres of Maine land, When the first seven members of the Maine both Maine’s returnable bottle bill in 1976 and now under construction, all testify to Bowdoin’s close to half the state’s land mass, was not under Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC) Maine’s billboard ban in 1977. embrace of environmental responsibility. any form of municipal control. were confirmed in December of 1969, McKee, If few remember the central role CRAC Just so, the Town of Brunswick manifests When the Maine Senate took up Hildreth’s then vice president of the Natural Resources played in defending the Maine environment, its commitment to natural resources and bill on June 13, 1967, he echoed what he had Council, was appointed to represent conserva- even fewer recall CWIC (pronounced “quick”), sustainability through the many town parks heard at The Maine Coast symposium in urging tion interests. the Clean Water Initiative Committee, which and the conservation lands managed by the its passage. The velocity of environmental activism was a brainchild of Myrick Freeman III, now Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust (BTLT), “You must realize,” he urged his state senate picked up in the late 1960s, with Maine Times, a professor of economics emeritus at Bowdoin. including Crystal Springs Farm and the colleagues, “that within four hours’ drive from progressive alternative weekly, being founded Freeman wrote his 1965 doctoral dissertation Tom Settlemire Community Garden. here live nearly forty million people, who each just across the Androscoggin in Topsham in on water resource economics on a fellowship As many as 5,000 people have visited the year have more and more spare time, who each October of 1968, and the first Maine Environ- from Resources for the Future, a group headed farmer’s market at Crystal Springs Farm in a year are earning more and more money, and mental Congress taking place in Augusta in by Joseph Fisher ’35. Freeman helped organize single day. That’s how Tom Settlemire, a long- who each year are looking for places to go. Now, March of 1969. the 1966 Maine coast symposium and, on the time BTLT board member, knows environmen- where are they going to go? If they are interested In the same issue of Maine Times that report- first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, spoke in Pitts- tal consciousness has entered the mainstream. in the outdoors, they are going to be interested ed on the environmental congress, there was a burgh on methods of estimating the economic “What kind of food we want leads to what in coming to Maine… Don’t you think it would full-page ad for a new environmental advocacy benefits of environmental improvement. kind of society we want,” observes Settlemire make some sense for the State of Maine for once organization calling itself the Coastal Resources “The Clean Water Initiative Committee,” from the cozy confines of his office in the to look ahead to what our problem is going to be Action Committee (CRAC). explains Freeman, “was an attempt to use the Harriet Beecher Stowe House on Federal and to try and do something about it?” “Time is running out for Maine—time that citizen initiative process to enact a charge on Street. “The saving grace for me is all the Hildreth’s bill failed in 1967, but, revived we need to prevent the irreversible; to do the water pollution discharges.” young people who have made the farmer’s by his law partner Rep. Harrison Richardson things we need to do to protect the coast, the CWIC’s pay-to-pollute plan went nowhere in market so popular, both as customers and (R-Cumberland), then House Majority Leader, rivers, the ponds, the countryside from stupidi- the state legislature. But by 1970, environmen- producers. When older people got on board, it passed in 1969. ty,” warned the CRAC ad. “Pollution is stupidity. talism had caught on at Bowdoin. it just took off.” In order to make the case for a Land Use So is the lack of planning or the thoughtless Indeed, the seed of environmental aware- Regulation Commission, Richardson appointed destruction of natural resources, or the failure ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ness that McKee planted in 1966 with his sem- a blue ribbon committee to compile a “Report to preserve or protect for the future.” An authority on methods of estimating the inal As Maine Goes exhibition has grown over on Wildlands Use.” “It just seemed to me,” says CRAC founder Hil- benefits of environmental improvements, the past half century into a green conscious- Hildreth, an ex-officio member, remembered dreth, “having been a lobbyist and having seen Freeman taught one of Bowdoin’s earliest ness that now permeates not only the Bowdoin the graphic power of McKee’s As Maine Goes and how powerful lobbyists were in Augusta, that the environmental courses in the spring of 1969, campus but also the Brunswick community and arranged for McKee to document the problems environmental groups needed a lobbyist.” a class called Resources, Conservation, and the State of Maine. in the North Woods. Hildreth himself became that lobbyist the Quality of the Environment. The following “Hoddy Hildreth got in touch with me,” when he left the legislature in 1968. He would year, the College appointed an Environmental Edgar Allen Beem is a freelance writer and author McKee remembers. “He said, ‘I’m trying to subsequently engage Portland attorney Harold Studies Committee, and Professor Charles who has been a contributor to Bowdoin magazine build a strategy for protecting the wildlands, Pachios and then Brunswick attorneys E. Huntington taught Bowdoin’s first official since 1987. He lives in Brunswick. so I’d like to get some documentation like the Christopher Livesay, who would become chair environmental studies course, The Androscog- Maine coast but in the wildlands.’ He got some of Maine’s Board on Environmental Protection, gin River: A Case Study. John McKee is an emeritus associate professor of money from the legislature for me to take pho- and Angus King, who would become Governor In 1972, environmental studies became an art at Bowdoin. He has published and exhibited his tographs, and he told me to be sure to get the of Maine and a US Senator, to lobby on CRAC’s official interdisciplinary major at Bowdoin. photographs widely.

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190321_pgs36-41.indd 40 3/8/18 11:01 AM 190321_pgs36-41.indd 41 3/15/18 7:36 AM Literary rights agent Dana Spector ’08 on the power of studying history and the work of finding stories well-suited for the screen.

Getting Lost in the Story

What’s your favorite book-to-screen of your love of popular culture. What does without ego, work to find resolutions with adaptation? popular culture tell you about the time since others, and de-escalate tense situations. Holly- Movies I cite quite a bit include Little Women you graduated? wood agents certainly have a reputation for bad (1994), which came out when I was obsessed When I graduated in 2008, right before the behavior, but I’ve gotten far enough by treating with that novel and really evoked all the right recession and Obama’s election, it was a others with respect and honesty. emotions for me. The Virgin Suicides (1999) is moment of rapid change not just for me but for I learned everything about film from pro- one of the most faithful adaptations I’ve seen, the world. Suddenly people had smartphones, fessor Tricia Welsch, and so much about myself both in content (lines pulled straight from the and everyone was on Facebook or Twitter. You and how to manage my time and relation- novel) and in tone and atmosphere. Finally, saw a shift toward more personal expression ships from BCN, but studying history actually Coraline (2009) was a great example of an and a more direct connection between artists translated closest to what I do now. I tend to underutilized art form, in this case stop-motion and their audiences. Looking back, I’d say the procrastinate, and coping with the big reading animation, perfectly capturing the surreality most obvious change in pop culture has been load as a history major taught me how to do of the story. a move toward inclusion of diverse voices, and my best work despite my personal quirks and female voices, in film and TV development. constraints. I can certainly speed-read now! I’ve You have said you read about 400 books a There’s a lot of variety in the stories I represent, always loved working with nonfiction authors, year—how does that work? Do you some- but I remember a time not long ago where one and a strong foundation of general knowledge times bail after the first couple of pages? female-driven project at a network was enough helps when I’m working on historical projects, I read hundreds of submissions a year, and to cancel out all other development with female which applies to fiction as well. I never thought those can include articles and book pro- protagonists. As this past year has shown, we that this would be my career, but I feel so lucky posals, which are much easier. And no, I’m have a long way to go, but it’s encouraging that to have found a job that builds on my experi- not reading every book all the way through. If stories that never would have seen the light of ence as a student and teaches me something I’m fifty pages in and not hooked, I can’t get day ten years ago are suddenly the most sought- new every day. excited enough about the project to convince after projects on my list. a buyer to develop it. The best thing about my Dana (Borowitz) Spector, who oversees media job is that you never know what you’re going As a film studies minor and with your involve- rights at Paradigm Talent Agency, majored in history to find when you open a new manuscript, since ment at Bowdoin Cable News (BCN), you and minored in film studies at Bowdoin. While she often I’m reading something years before it’s did a lot of film and TV at Bowdoin. How does was a student, she was a writing assistant in the published. The thrill of discovery, when I get that inform what you do at Paradigm today? Writing Project and co-leader of Bowdoin Cable News, lost in the story and read the whole book in My overall experience at Bowdoin informs where she was responsible for programming and one sitting, never gets old. everything I do in my career—I even have the developing new content. She claims that studying the “Barry Mills Manifesto” poster from Bowdoin Civil War in eighth grade and the interest in Joshua When you were a student, you talked about magazine in my office! The commitment to Lawrence Chamberlain that it generated is part of the deciding to major in history in part because the common good reminds me to do my job story that brought her to Bowdoin.

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spirits, in health and happiness abounding.” ALUMNI NEWS AND UPDATES In San Francisco he found work on The Overland Monthly, a newly established literary magazine edited by Bret Harte. Dorville dusted off his Commencement oration, and “The Supernatural in Hawthorne” appeared in the February 1869 issue. It is still cited by Hawthorne scholars for its insight. THE POWER For the rest of his career he was involved in the publishing business, as head of the literary department of A.L. Bancroft OF PEOPLE & Co., as one of the incorporators of Bancroft-Whitney Co. (publisher of law books), and for more than twenty years as I’m passionate about the North the Pacific Coast manager of D. Appleton & Co. of New York. Korean human rights issue. I was Shortly after he arrived in California, Dorville met John introduced to this topic while Muir at Yosemite. The two shared a passion for the natural I was at Bowdoin organizing environment, and they developed a lifelong friendship. events for the Korean American Dorville was a founding member of the Sierra Club in 1892 Student Association. One year, and served on its board of directors. He scaled Mt. Shasta we invited a South Korean pastor This Kind of Life (14,179 feet) twice and Mt. Hood (11,240 feet). He placed who dedicated his life to building the Sierra Club’s official registers (scrolls in metal cylinders) an underground railway to Elizabeth Lee ’10 is an iOS App Store editor Has a Strong at the summits of several peaks in the Lake Tahoe area. In smuggle North Korean refugees at Apple and lives in mountain climbing, fishing, and camping, Dorville found out of China and ultimately Silicon Valley. Hold on Me great joy. transport them to safety. He In a letter written to his classmate Edward Packard came to Bowdoin and spoke Dorville Libby followed the sun on a declining the invitation to attend his 50th Reunion in 1912, of the North Korean women westward journey and never looked back. Dorville ticks off the names of classmates that he had seen who would cross the Chinese over the years, with dates and locations (Boston, Chicago, border to escape starvation Pittsburgh, Washington, Akron, Saco, and San Francisco). but would get kidnapped and PERHAPS MY LONGING for the warmth of the sun in the “You can tell me how they look, and tell them how I look: trafficked into sexual slavery or depths of a cold Maine winter is the reason why the story full beard, entirely white, bald with a fringe of white hair, forced marriages. In the current of Dorville Libby of the Class of 1862 holds a strong appeal fresh complexion, 170 lbs. of me, active and sturdy… political climate, people are for me. Dorville was born in Portland in 1837; his family enjoying life with all the zest of College days.” Dorville asked often focusing on the Kim regime had moved to Saco by the time he enrolled at Bowdoin at for a copy of the Reunion photo: “Unhappily, I will not have and its nuclear threats. What the age of twenty-one. A good student, Dorville joined the my class album for comparison, for it was destroyed in the we can’t forget is that there are Athenaean Society and Psi Upsilon fraternity and was elected great fire of 1906 [following the San Francisco Earthquake]. children who are starving to a member of Phi Beta Kappa in his senior year. At Com- That calamity bore heavily on me. We lost in one day the death, families imprisoned for mencement, he delivered an oration on “The Supernatural cherished accumulation of a lifetime, and all my income life for committing petty crimes in Hawthorne.” from every source, but we were personally unharmed.” He like watching South Korean TV, While twenty-four of the forty-four graduates in 1862 closes with: “While you boys are celebrating and ‘remi- and people risking their lives to served in the Union army during the Civil War, others niscing,’ I shall go a-fishing, as I do every summer, and wade escape such an oppressive entered the clergy or—like Dorville—became teachers. Over the trout-streams and the lakes, tramp the mountains, sleep country. I’ve been donating to the next six years, he was the principal of the high school on the ground, and be happy in a natural and sensible way. libertyinnorthkorea.org since in Saco, a professor of mathematics at Western University of This kind of life has a strong hold on me. . . life slips along I was a student at Bowdoin, and Pennsylvania, and the principal of a school in St. Louis, Mis- pleasantly, and we with it, and I am content and happy.” this year, I’ve made it one of my souri. He married Josephine Sheplar in 1866 in Pittsburgh. A few weeks before his death in 1917 at the age of eighty, New Year’s resolutions to raise In the summer of 1868, Dorville experienced a life- Dorville was pulling together the rods, flies, and gear for funds for the underground rail- changing moment while on vacation in Kansas. Captivated another fishing trip. He was well aware that age and health ways for North Korean defectors. by the beauty of a sunset, he decided to follow the sun to might interfere with his plans, but he told a friend, “If I California. According to his obituary, “…he [and his wife] cannot use them, somebody can.” In Dorville Libby’s story, I immediately closed his connections, went to New York find both the warmth of spring and the glory of a settingsun. and sailed around Cape Horn for San Francisco, where he arrived December 3rd, 1868, light in purse, buoyant in John R. Cross ’76 is secretary of development and college relations.

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Claude concerts, I was kept busy providing “ I made three guest Remember 1952 Bonang: “For lessons to young and old who the past several years, [Ann and I] wanted to learn how to play the appearances playing my have attended Rose and Richard bones. However, despite showing The following is a list of deaths David C. Wiswall ’50 John S. Shepard III ’56 Joseph J. DiMarco ’95 Goldie Singer Coffin ’51’s annual anniversary them exactly how to hold them and rhythm bones with the reported to us since the previous December 19, 2017 August 18, 2016 June 5, 2017 November 25, 2017 lobster party in Falmouth, Maine, move the wrists, I was not successful issue. Full obituaries appear for which they hire the Don in getting anyone to click them Fiddle-icious Orchestra online at: David C. Dickson Jr. ’51 Timothy B. Stearns ’56 Aijalon M. Gomes ’01 Roy Trio to provide the musical properly. I guess learning how to obituaries.bowdoin.edu October 19, 2017 September 20, 2017 November 17, 2017 Bowdoin obituaries appear on entertainment. I bring my rhythm play them is harder than it looks.” of Maine in October and, a dedicated online site, rather bones to make a couple of guest during intermission at all Walter S. Donahue Jr. ’44 Richard B. Drisko ’51 Lloyd E. Willey ’56 Peter W. Smith ’07 than printed in these pages. appearances playing them with September 29, 2017 September 21, 2017 November 6, 2017 November 22, 2017 Updated regularly, the improved the Trio. Pam Rhodes, who was 1953 Reunion four concerts, I was kept obituary format allows my lab assistant at the University In September, Bob Forsberg ’53 Robert E. Crozier ’45 George A. Johnston ’52 David G. Roundy ’57 GRADUATE additional features that we can’t of Southern Maine during the arranged for a day of golf with his busy providing lessons to September 2, 2017 September 15, 2017 December 11, 2017 Kenneth G. Griswold G’64 offer in print, specifically the time that I served as a biology lab classmate Don Agostinelli ’53 October 21, 2017 ability for classmates, families, instructor after having retired from and friend Gerry Haviland ’61 young and old...” Eric E. Hirshler ’46 Earle B. Crocker Jr. ’53 John B. Anderson ’58 and friends to post photos and Brunswick High School in 1987, in Kennebunkport, Maine. Don — CLAUDE BONANG '52 ON PERFORMING HIS RHYTHM BONES AND THE August 30, 2017 December 18, 2017 October 20, 2017 Paul C. Fossett G’65 remembrances. recorded my performances with her and Gerry were captains of two CURIOSITY OF THOSE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE TECHNIQUE October 28, 2017 iPhone (youtu.be/kVy6gntflK8). By winning Bowdoin football teams Josiah Bridge ’49 Paul P. Brountas ’54, H’97 Michael D. Carpenter ’58 the way, Richard’s father, Robert with identical seasons in 1952 and December 30, 2017 December 26, 2017 November 22, 2017 Richard O. Norman G’66 Peter Tristram Coffin, Class of 1915, 1960, so they found a lot to talk November 29, 2017 H’30, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning about besides golf. Susan Morey, Marcia Pendexter, Energy and T-Mobile’… so, safe Bernard M. Devine ’49 Richard B. Marshall ’54 Rudrick E. Boucher ’59 poet and a professor at Bowdoin Joanie Shepherd, and Ann and and sound, but without power and December 11, 2017 October 28, 2017 April 25, 2017 Donald R. DeWitt G’70 for many years. Richard and I were On November John Snow. telephone; Laurie and Kent Hobby November 22, 2017 childhood friends. 1956 20, 2017, “A year ago, Jack Woodward (Pennsylvania) received word that Lloyd A. Goggin ’49 Richard T. McCabe ’54 Charles J. Finlayson ’61 “In January, Hometown Memories Marquis Who’s Who, the had some heart parts repaired their unit on Marco Island dodged October 15, 2017 May 28, 2017 September 6, 2017 FACULTY AND STAFF of North Carolina asked folks world’s premier publisher of and he reports that recovery has the bullet with light damage; and Robert R. Andreas Sr. in Western Maine to share their biographical profiles, presented gone exceedingly well. He and Robin and Bob Goodfriend (Palm Arnet R. Taylor ’49 Douglas S. Reid ’54 Bernard J. Beaudoin ’62 January 4, 2018 memories of ‘the good old days.’ Frederick Orville Smith II Shirley look forward to March/ Beach Gardens) had no damage September 24, 2017 October 2, 2017 September 14, 2017 Ann submitted her story ‘Growing with the Albert Nelson Marquis April, when they will enjoy the and didn’t lose water or electricity. Richard A. Edwards up in Maine in the ’30s,’ from her Lifetime Achievement Award. warmer climes of Florida. On “Dick and Kay Lyman enjoyed Harold G. Vincent Jr. ’49 Robert B. Sawyer ’54 Cornelius R. Love III ’62 October 9, 2017 self-published autobiography, Ann An accomplished listee, Smith the subject of Florida, the recent a Seine cruise from Paris to November 22, 2017 October 7, 2017 December 24, 2017 Twombly Bonang, and I submitted celebrates many years’ experience storms had a limited impact on Normandy in October. Travel was G. Edgar Folk Jr. seven anecdotal poems from my in his professional network and our classmates. Al Roulston and enhanced by the presence of the William W. Anderson ’50 James D. Cook ’55 David Doughty ’68 December 10, 2017 self-published Memories in Verse and has been noted for achievements, John Lingley (West Palm Beach) Portland String Quartet and an November 13, 2017 November 21, 2017 December 13, 2017 Prose. The memory book, entitled A leadership qualities, and the were in Vermont and returned unexpected meeting with several Edward S. Gilfillan III Living History of Western Maine—May credentials and successes he has after ‘My Friend Irma,’ ‘No Way Bowdoin alumni: Eric Baxter ’75, Edward J. Day ’50 Wilbur W. Philbrook Jr. ’55 Douglas J. Antoniazzi ’70 December 14, 2017 Basket Days and Bean Suppahs, was accrued in his field. From a Fred- José,’ and ‘I Just Met a Girl Named Norman Rapkin ’50, and David January 3, 2018 January 9, 2018 January 4, 2018 published at the end of October ericton, New Brunswick, Canada, NB Maria’ (musical references to Al’s Humphrey ’61. Marsha and Nate Lois A. Heath 2017. Herard article, November 20, 2017. earlier days as a lyricist in NYC Winer are taking a sixtieth wedding William T. Hawkens Jr. ’50 H. James Williams Jr. ’55 Blair C. Fensterstock ’72 December 2, 2017 “At the 2017 Homecoming for ‘Upstairs at the Downstairs’) anniversary cruise to the Caribbean December 25, 2017 October 31, 2017 October 24, 2017 weekend, I made a couple of Ed Langbein: had long petered out. Sue and that will be capped by several days Nancy L. Laffely guest appearances playing my 1957 “Returning to Stan Blackmer (Houston) were in Charleston, South Carolina. Delbert R. Nash ’50 Charles F. Eades ’56 Earl D. Swinson Jr. ’73 October 2, 2017 rhythm bones with the orchestra at renovated Whittier Field were on the high ground and did well; “Gisela and Dietmar Klein October 27, 2017 October 13, 2017 May 7, 2017 Harvestfest following the Bowdoin Wende Chapman, Barbara and Maggy and Carl Denholtz (Fort wrote that they are still exposed to Dorothy McFadden vs. Hamilton football game. I made David Ham, Lillian and Mark Myers) had palm tree damage but the reverberations of their move Benjamin M. Smethurst Jr. ’50 Robert W. Mathews ’56 Edwin M. Lee ’74 September 16, 2017 three guest appearances playing my Kapiloff, David Kessler, Ed, nothing to their home; Agnieszka from Frankfurt to the Alkonig- October 5, 2017 December 5, 2017 December 12, 2017 rhythm bones with the Fiddle-icious Nancy, Bill, and Lois Langbein, and David Hunter (Tampa) Stift (AKS) in Kronberg. Dietmar Frances A. Murray Orchestra of Maine in October Kay and Dick Lyman, Tom noted ‘Irma was a pussycat but continues to be an active economist James W. Stackpole ’50 Richard D. Sears ’56 Kurt Mack ’86 November 22, 2017 and, during intermission at all four Needham, Ted Parsons and did manage to overwhelm Duke and this fall presented a series of November 2, 2017 September 27, 2017 November 2017

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1. Burch Hindle lectures on money and monetary Douglas C. by Charlie Butt. Great memories. Geoffrey Brown '74 ’53 was joined Reunion by his son Paul policy to the AKS. 1961 Smyth published 1968 Congratulations to the current Hindle ’97 “Flora Cowen welcomed Princess Olga: Uncovering My Sam Rettman has translated Bowdoin soccer teams.” and grandson Burch Hindle— granddaughter Talia Cowen ’16 Headstrong Mother’s Venezuelan Johann Stuber’s book, The Struggle possible class back from a Fulbright year in Korea Connection (Imagination Fury Arts, for the Mississippi: A Diary of My Richard of 2037—for a and is looking forward to returning 2017). At ninety-seven years old, Experiences in the American Civil 1974 Bensen: “On football game on campus in (as part of a family contingent) to Olga Quintero is living in a care War (1861–1865), from the original September 9, I got to ride with Stan September. Sophie Cowen ’18’s graduation. facility and wrestling with dementia. German (CreateSpace, 2017). Brown and a dozen-plus of his team She also shared a New York Times Olga dreams of her childhood: At the beginning of the American members in this year’s Michael J. article on Norm Levy and his wife, her family’s luxurious life. She Civil War, Stuber enlisted in the Fox Foundation Parkinson’s ride. Tina Howe.” relives the danger of her family’s 58th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Stan had deep brain stimulation "David Kessler ’57 piloted his role in defending the Venezuelan Regiment. He was one of thousands surgery this spring but was back 1 plane from Maryland to Maine to dictator from the exile community of German-speaking Americans on his recumbent bike to do the join Kay and Dick Lyman ’57 at in 1920s Trinidad. When young who joined in the attempt to ten-mile route. He now knows how 2. This fall, Lou the Bowdoin football game against Olga begins to feel stifled by the reunite his adopted country, a (and when) to use the hand brake! Norton ’58 got the chance to check an Middlebury." regime’s demands, her resistance nation torn apart by rebellion. Organized by Stan’s wife, Lili, the item off of his bucket "Wherever you go, there’s sets off a chain of events that drives Stuber’s “Tagebuch” or “diary” members raised over $11,000 and list when he sailed someone you know! Eric Baxter her family to flee to a working-class reflects his early enthusiasm, the had a blast; crazy socks rule! Old the Bowdoin out of ’75, Norman Rapkin ’50, David existence in Jackson Heights, New apprehensions of a young soldier, friends should seriously consider Castine, Maine. He Catching Up was given the helm Humphry ’61, and Dick Lyman York. Princess Olga reveals the regal the exhilaration, shock, and horror doing next fall’s ride!” for about twenty ’57 met on the Seine while cruising wit and power that Olga possessed of mortal combat, and his revulsion minutes on a cruise on the Penboscot from Paris to Normandy in October." from her adolescence into her final in its aftermath. Creighton and Castine years, documenting her evolution 1975 Lindsay: “My WE THE PEOPLE harbors and said, from conservative class protector Paul Batista: new record, Strange New Town, “Please note the Reunion appropriate hat on 1958 to an eleven-year-old, one-girl, 1970 “My newest offers renditions of thirteen songs Over his thirty-five-year career atThe Chicago Tribune, the helmsman.” A new $11 million village activity anti-regime saboteur to American novel, The Warriors, will be from the early decades of the Geoffrey Brown '74 kept one thing in mind: He was there 2 center and dining bistro at Communist sympathizer and published in July 2018. Far more twentieth century—The Carter to serve the public. Carleton-Willard Village, a educational innovator. She founded important, in the same month I will Family’s ‘Hello Stranger,’ Uncle 3. In July 2017, Joe Walsh continuing care retirement a school, High Valley, in 1945 and marry Betsy McCaughey, the former Dave Macon’s ‘Down the Old Plank THE JOURNALIST'S JOBS ARE: (1) keeping the public informed; ’79, Jeff Johnson ’79, Mark Marr ’79, Jamie Jones ’79, community in Bedford, Mass- directed it from 1945 to 1986. Lieutenant Governor of the State Road,’ Mississippi John Hurt’s ‘Pay (2) explaining and lending historical and cultural perspec- Steve Santangello ’79, and achusetts, were dedicated in A graduate of Mt. Holyoke, she of New York, currently a syndicated Day.’ I’m very proud to be joined tive to issues; (3) providing the famed “first rough draft of Denis King ’79 traveled September. The buildings were married Julian Smyth ’31 and had columnist for the New York Post, and by my wife and daughters on the history.” Those principles are in service of holding govern- to Ireland and struck a Bowdoin pose on the designed by Tsomides Associates a son, the author. a regular guest on CNN, MSNBC, tracks. I’ve received some very nice ment, businesses, and other institutions and their leaders Dingle Peninsula. Architects Planners (TAAP), and Fox News. Betsy graduated feedback from Dave Larsson ’76, accountable to “We the People.” founded by architect Constantine Bill Heath: “I from Vassar in 1970, the same year I John Reilly ’76, and my longtime I'M HAPPY THAT RECENT EVENTS HAVE RE-EDUCATED THE PUBLIC TO 3 Tsomides. The activity center 1966 published Tree graduated from Bowdoin. She holds producer Bob Lawson. The CD JOURNALISM'S POWER TO LIGHT UP THE DARK RECESSES OF POLITICS was constructed using Firestone at My Window: A Book of Days a PhD from Columbia.” is available on all the usual sites— AND CONSUMERISM. Americans need truth when our govern- 4. Triumph! Stan Brown special aluminum, copper-finished, (Pepperidge Tree Press, 2017), a iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, CD Baby. ment lies to us. We need journalists to squeeze information ’74 leads his wife, Lili, both of his daughters (Julie undulating, flat-lock panels that memoir of teaching and reading Tom Huleatt: “I My website: creightonlindsay.com.” out of elected officials who try to hide from their constitu- and Xandy), and team are guaranteed to not tarnish to based on a journal I kept from 1971 still teach English ents. We need journalists to break down complex issues so members across the finish a green or dark brown, while the 1968 to 2005 that describes and coach varsity boys soccer at On November we can make informed decisions. We need journalists to line at the Michael J. Fox Foundation Parkinson’s bistro building exterior utilizes my experience as a professor of The Mount Academy in Esopus, 1976 7, 2017, Ralph help assess whether products are dangerous. ride in September. GFRC (glass fiber-reinforced English at Marietta College, in New York. This past fall, our team Steinhardt was installed as the WHEN I WAS A WORKING JOURNALIST, I BENT OVER BACKWARD TO BE concrete) elements. TAAP is a Ohio, and Lakehead University, in became Class D New York state Lobingier Professor of Comparative FAIR TO COMPETING SIDES. Asking adversarial questions, record- nationally recognized leader in the Thunder Bay, Ontario. The book co-champions. Part of the thrill Law and Jurisprudence at the ing the answers, and pointing out inaccuracies—these are planning and design of senior living includes references to my time included coaching with my son John, George Washington University Law not personal agendas of social activists. These are the duties facilities. From the website of Tsomides at Bowdoin and in particular my and having his son (my grandson) School in Washington, DC. The of a free press. Associates Architects Planners. recollections of Louis Coxe.” Thomas captain the team. I still owe endowed chair is used to support a lot to the Bowdoin teams I played a professorship in jurisprudence For more from Geoffrey Brown about his career and journalism 4 on from 1967 to 1970, coached and comparative law and related today, visit bowdoin.edu/magazine.

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graduate educational research for their personal commitment Drew King: “I’ve accepted a his 20th Maine Regiment made a “I realized it is time for my programs. Of his many professional to the arts and—importantly— position as executive director/CEO legendary stand on Little Round accomplishments, Steinhardt lists public enjoyment of it. This year’s of The Root Cellar, a Christian non- To p during the Battle of Gettysburg generation to provide for the Oxford Program in International United Kingdom winner is John profit with locations in Portland and in July 1863. But Maine’s role in future Bowdoin students. Human Rights Law, a joint program Studzinski, the American-born Lewiston (therootcellar.org). Very the battle includes much more I wanted to give back with his colleague and best friend, philanthropist who founded the excited to apply my skills and gifts than that. Soldiers from the Pine Andrew Schacknove ’75, as one Genesis Foundation, which offers to something for the greater good. Tree State contributed mightily by making a legacy gift.” that gives him lasting satisfaction. financial and practical support to New grand-daughter arrived July during the three days of fighting. —Barbara Gross ’77 The program, in its twenty-third young directors, playwrights, actors, 31. New hip arrived August 7. Son Maine soldiers had fought and year, has educated roughly 2,000 and musicians in the early stages number two got married September died for two bloody years even law students and lawyers in the of their careers. In receiving the 16. New knee arrived September 28. before they reached Gettysburg. field since 1995. From the George award, Studzinski joins a network New job started November 6. Besides They had fallen on battlefields in Washington University School of of winners over the last twenty-six that, nothing much going on.” Virginia and Maryland. They had Law Lobingier Professor installation years, including the likes of Prince Leslie Prioleau McGrath: “My died in front of Richmond, in the program, November 7, 2017. Charles,Quincy Jones, Renzo Piano, third poetry collection, Feminists Shenan-doah Valley, on the bloody and Yoko Ono. From a London, Are Passing from Our Lives, will be fields of Antietam, in the Slaughter “In November, United Kingdom, Telegraph UK published by The Word Works Pen at Fredericksburg, and in the 5 1977 Maine article, October 17, 2017. (Washington, DC) in April 2018. tangled Wilderness around Chan- 5. Wanda Bubriski ’80 and Libby Van Cleve ’80 represent what Libby calls Preservation announced the I teach creative writing at Central cellorsville. And the survivors kept “the distinguished Class of 1980” as they head to an “Elevator Music” winners of the 2017 Honor Awards, “Frank Doyle Connecticut State University.” fighting, even as they followed Lee’s rehearsal in preparation for a tribute concert for the late Professor Emeritus Elliott Schwartz. Libby also advised the students who took the photo that celebrating outstanding examples 1979 was working as Army into Pennsylvania. Maine Roads “if you study and work very hard, perhaps you, too, can aspire to this of historic preservation and a stockbroker in the World Trade “In February to Gettysburg tells their stories.” greatness.” revitalization statewide. Historic Center on September 11, 2001—one 1980 2017, Jeffrey During Homecoming Weekend, Preservation Program Manager of the victims of the New York City Adams was named the 2017 members of the Classes of 1980 Deb Andrews was honored with terror attacks. The following year, Honored Citizen of Concord, through 1984 paid tribute to and Barbara and her grandson Aaron. the Earl Shettleworth Preservation to try to cope with the grief, Doyle’s Massachusetts. As such, he had shared their memories of Mark Champion award in recognition of widow and Montreal native, Kimmy his name inscribed on a plaque Preece ’82 on the twentieth more than three decades of tireless Chedel, set up Team Frank with the hanging in the Town House anniversary of his death. Preece “Being among the first classes to admit women was effort on behalf of Portland’s historic help of family and close friends. The Hearing Room, and spent the still holds both indoor and outdoor not always easy for me. While I found my experiences to be challenging at times, my connection to neighborhoods and buildings.” From aim was to take part in road races year attending ceremonial events. school high jump records. Bowdoin as a place has continued to grow and a Yarmouth, Maine, Maine Preservation and triathlons in honor of Doyle, a Besides his current position on the evolve. During my 40th Reunion, I realized how press release, November 7, 2017. marathon runner, and to make an natural resources commission, Reunion 6 important my connections were to Bowdoin people. Torin Finser: “I just published annual visit to the 9/11 memorial. Adams has a long list of service 1983 I have always been a fierce proponent of the power my tenth book, Education for 'But,' writes Bill Brownstein in The positions in Concord, has coached Harry Lanphear: “Jac Arbour 6. David Barnes, Peter Larcom, Dan Spears, and John Hickling, all class of the liberal arts, and following my reunion, I was Non-Violence: The Waldorf Way Montreal Gazette, 'the team has soccer, hockey, and baseball at the ’07, Raegan LaRochelle ’00, of 1981, on their annual adventure trip—this year, an eight-day mountain moved to arrange a charitable gift annuity for the (SteinerBooks, 2017).” grown by leaps and bounds over community level, participated in the James Bass ’02, and I all serve on biking excursion to Namibia. College. I am excited to learn that I am the first the years. What began with a planning and construction of local the board of the Kennebec Valley alumna to single-handedly establish a life income gift handful of Chedel’s family and ball fields, and helped establish YMCA for Maine’s capital region. at Bowdoin. I hope my planned gift inspires others.” 1978 Reunion friends has since mushroomed scholarships for local youth to Needless to say, it is the best Y in You, too, can have a lasting legacy at Bowdoin. The Montblanc de la Culture Arts into a group of 250.' The group participate in summer camp Maine. Also on the board is a good To learn how you can make a difference in the lives Patronage Award pays tribute to includes Doyle’s children, Zoe, programs offered by the Concord friend of ours from Hamilton (Mike of future Bowdoin students, contact Nancy Milam art patrons, the often behind-the- eighteen, and Garrett, seventeen, Recreation Department.” From a Seitzinger). He frequently reminds or Liz Armstrong in the Office of Gift Planning at scenes figures on whose support and many of their friends, and apart Concord, Massachusetts, Concord us how the board is skewed too [email protected] or 207-725-3172. up-and-coming artists are often from taking on fitness challenges Journal article, February 16, 2017. heavily to Bowdoin. Our response is completely reliant. Established throughout the world, Team Frank that 4-1 seems appropriate!” in 1992, the Montblanc Cultural now also undertakes charity work, Tom Foundation honors a number of helping schoolchildren in Africa and 1982 Huntington: In November, winners in seventeen countries Central America.” From a Montreal, “Published Maine Roads to 1986 Ted Frank 7 bowdoin.edu/gift-planning annually, each selected by an Quebec, Montreal Gazette article, Gettysburg (Stackpole Books, 2018). —heart failure/transplant 7. Andy Meyer ’85 and Leo Tinkham ’83 helped Phil Brown ’85 build Phil’s international jury of art experts September 8, 2017. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and cardiologist, longtime distance maple sugar shack in Falmouth, Maine, in September.

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runner, veteran of over thirty Germany, Japan, Russia, and the “The outward determining authenticity; and Melanie Race Forstie: “This Malia Wedge '98 marathons and ultramarathons, United States, with a focus on what happens to cultural property summer, Clare Forstie ’02 and and philanthropist—ran 131 miles the use of animals for comfort, accumulation of layers during war. The podcasts are now I welcomed Kai Parker Forstie in (five marathons) over five days healing, and in developing a sense available at lootedpodcast.org. early August, then moved to New for his patients, whose endurance of well-being. The authors turn to of material mimic York three weeks later, where Clare inspires him every day. Ted has been qualitative research conducted started a tenure-track position in at the Sanger Heart & Vascular in veterinary clinics, hospices, the growth of fungi, 1998 Reunion the department of sociology and Institute in Charlotte, North reading programs, search and seashell, and a myriad Kalo, a leading freelance anthropology at Farmingdale State Carolina, since 1998 and serves rescue organizations, as well as management platform, has College. Kai is an exceptionally as the medical director of their an extensive review of existing of other organic forms. announced the appointment of happy baby (and future Polar heart transplant and pulmonary literature to inform their analysis Simon Gershey as chief technology Bear?) and we are all doing well!” hypertension programs. He helped of complex ways in which humans Most notably, they officer. The company provides Francesca Maddaluno: “After raise over $600,000 for Carolinas and animals interact.” a platform where teams can fourteen years, Erik Johnson (Rhode HealthCare system cardiac suggest the annual onboard freelancers, track their Island School of Design ’87) and I rehabilitation patients by launching assignments, and pay on time, all were married in a private ceremony their annual Cupid’s Cup 5K race 1988 Reunion growth rings of trees.” while integrating them into existing at Boston’s City Hall. We spent the in 2005. This newest challenge, Paramount Television and systems and tools. Gershey will lead morning following our wedding at The Heart Transplant Run, raised Anonymous Content have signed — BEN BUTLER '00, SPEAKING ABOUT HIS SCULPTURE "OLD GROWTH," WHICH WILL the overall technology strategy and city hall plaza’s winter wonderland, $40,300 in this inaugural year, a two-year first-look deal with BE FEATURED AT THE ENTRANCEWAY TO OLD FOREST STATE NATURAL build out the engineering team. and the afternoon at the movies with all donations and sponsorships Angus Wall and his Rock Paper AREA IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. From a PR Web online press release, (seeing the new Star Wars, of used to support transplant patients. Scissors Entertainment production October 11, 2017. course). A celebration will follow Catching Up From the Heart Transplant Run web company for both scripted and eventually—but don’t expect us to and Facebook pages, November 2, unscripted content. Under the pact, Brian the service streamlines the home Since 2016, rush that either.” 2017, and December 14, 2017. Rock Paper Scissors will continue 1994 Dunphey: repair process by working with 2000 visitors Nine Fryeburg Academy Raiders, to focus on visual storytelling and “I just accepted a position a curated community of local, to the Old Forest State Natural Samantha ALOHA, WORLD! including Nathan Goff and David will be developing multiple formats as program director and trusted contractors and serves as Area in Memphis, Tennessee, are 2002 Barnes, R. Hastings III ’72, were inducted from long form to limited, drama to psychotherapist with Blue Tiger a single point of contact for the welcomed into the woods through founder of the Los Angeles-based No longer sword fighting or falling off buildings for a living, into the school’s Hall of Excellence comedy, and documentaries. From Recovery in Palm Springs, homeowner, eliminating the need three new artistic entry gateways. mobile culinary classroom Kitchen former stuntwoman Malia Wedge ’98 uses her creative ener- in a ceremony held in September. a deadline.com online news article, California, treating addiction for calling around for quotes. Replacing the metal gates that Kid, was recently mentioned on gy to call the action herself as photo art director for women’s Goff was a four-year member of the September 8, 2017. interaction disorders (substance Currently serving the South Shore formerly kept cars out of the forest, goop.com for Raddish, her monthly active wear company Athleta. She scouts locations as part of football, basketball, and baseball dependence, sex addiction, and [Massachusetts], the team is these new installations bring both subscription boxes. The boxes are her job, but, growing up in Hawaii, Malia enrolled at Bow- teams—captain of all three his In a January eating disorders). While I tend to hoping to expand throughout artistic beauty and interpretive designed to nurture children in the doin sight unseen after learning about the College from her senior year. Hastings was also a 1991 ceremony, the hope acquaintances never require Greater Boston in early 2017. From a information to park visitors. kitchen and make cooking simple high school softball coach, Ed Moore ’67. standout scholar and athlete; he American Theatre Wing honored my services, I hope people know Hyannis, Massachusetts, South Shore Overton Park Conservancy’s and fun. Each comes with three was a four-year member of the five theater artists with the Henry there’s real change possible. It’s Living article, November 27, 2017. design advisory committee selected easy-to-master recipes, skill cards, I’VE ALWAYS BEEN ATHLETIC, AND HAD DONE SOME MARTIAL ARTS AS football and ski teams–including the Hewes Design Awards for working been great having random run-ins Zöe Kontes, an archaeologist three local artists, including Ben dinnertime conversation topics, and A KID. I performed in plays at Bowdoin and, after graduating, 1967 state championship team— on, off-, and off-off-Broadway. with Bowdoin classmates and and associate professor and chair in Butler ’00, whose “Old Growth” a craft project—all geared toward continued studying physical comedy and trained for stage and played on the baseball and Lighting designer Tyler Micoleau other alums. Give a holler if you’re the classics department at Kenyon sculpture will be featured as the getting little ones involved and combat—pratfalls, fights, broadsword. I got my first stunt job golf teams. From a North Conway, was recognized for The Band’s out this way.” College, received a Whiting Public gateway adjacent to East Parkway armed with the know-how to keep in Hawaii, moved to LA, where I worked as an actress and New Hampshire, Conway Daily Sun Visit, Atlantic Theater Company. Engagement Fellowship in 2016. Playground. Butler says that the them cooking. From a goop.com stuntwoman, and then spent a few years in Taiwan and Japan article, September 20, 2017. For the 2017 honors, one hundred Alex Arata Through that fellowship, Kontes, simple but dramatic archway, article, November 17, 2017. doing live shows. I’m lucky enough to have the opportunity theater artists were nominated 1996 is one of three who also deejays a local radio show, built from layers of steel, is “highly Tom Costin: “The education to do everything from developing creative strategy to plan- Clementine for outstanding artistry in sixty-six founders of Sidekick,a home has brought her passions together to evocative of familiar patterns of technology venture capital fund ning shoots to creating style guides. 1987 Fujimura has productions presented during the project management service create twelve episodes of a podcast natural growth. The outward accu- that I helped build was recently in WHEN I BEGAN MY CAREER, I WISH I HAD KNOWN THAT THERE’S NO published a new book with Simone 2016–17 New York theater season. that specializes in small-to-mid- on the illicit trade in classical mulation of layers of material mimic the news for raising $185 million RIGHT ANSWER and that my voice is just as valid as anyone Nommensen: Cultural Dimensions From a theatermania.com online size projects such as painting, antiquities, the first of its kind. Each the growth of fungi, seashell, and a for its second fund. The firm is else’s. And, to never believe too much of your own hype, of Well-Being: Therapy Animals as article, December 18, 2017. plumbing, and electrical repairs. episode uses the story of a specific myriad of other organic forms. Most called Owl Ventures and is based good or bad. Healers (Rowman, 2017). “The Realizing how difficult it can be artifact to explore larger topics notably, they suggest the annual in San Francisco. We formed it in I OFTEN LOOK AT WHAT I DO AS STORYTELLING. Bringing a team to- book presents a cultural history for busy people to connect with such as the looting of ancient sites; growth rings of trees.” From the 2014 and have since raised $285 gether to create a window into a world, or even just a moment, of human-animal relations in reliable and qualified contractors, forgeries, and the science behind Overton Park Conservancy web page. million across two funds and are that engages people and makes them feel something.

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the lead investors of many of the white-collar criminal defense and with Night Shift Distributing opportunity to add more scientists “Verrill Dana become a doctor of chiropractic. fastest-growing companies in the government inves-tigations.” From a to sell its beers in the Boston to the halls of Congress. From an 2012 recently The day before, she was acknow- education sector.” Ropes & Gray press release, October metropolitan area and throughout EoS Earth and Space Science News announced the hiring of ledged as the valedictorian of her Nicholas Miller: “My brother 24, 2017. central, western, and northern online press release, October 12, 2017. Alexander Porter in the firm’s graduating class.” Marshall Miller ’00 and I received Massachusetts. For the Chelsea- R. Brendan Mooney: “Margot Portland, Maine, office, where the top honor of being selected Millennium based Night Shift Distributing Gianis (Trinity College ’10) and I he had previously served as a Scott Mitchell: as number forty-seven on Wine 2005 Media has (co-founded by Rob Burns and were married on May 20, 2017, at summer associate. A former 2015 “I finished a Enthusiast’s list of ‘Top 100 Cellar signed an exclusive deal with the Mike Oxton), the agreement with the Central Presbyterian Church in legislative aide to US Senator BE in biomedical engineering at Selections of 2017’ for our 2015 H.A. and Margaret Rey Estate, Devil’s Purse marks the first addition Summit, New Jersey. Christopher Angus S. King Jr., Porter also Dartmouth. While there, I started 8 Solomon Hills Chardonnay (Santa authors of the beloved children’s of a Massachusetts brewery in its Hickey ’09 served as my best man. worked as a judicial intern for a company called Pop Flow to Maria Valley). More than 22,000 books Curious George, to bring portfolio. And besides the limited Margot and I live in New York City, United States District Court develop and market devices using 8. Bill Conroy ’84, Martha Stuart ’84, Catherine Stevens Powell ’84, Karen Kinsella ’84, Jayne Rowe Jones ’86, Bill McLaughlin ’82, Lynn Pellegrino wines were tasted in 2017 to come to the big screen the riveting true styles produced on Cape Cod, where we both work as lawyers.” Judge Jon D. Levy of the District of a special valve designed by a team McLaughlin ’84, Lisa Meloy ’85, Tom Jones ’84, and Sue Driscoll Cobb ’86 up with this final list. Shelly Chessie account of the authors’ incredible Night Shift will also have access Willy Oppenheim: “Kelly Rula Maine. He earned his law degree of classmates that I headed. I am took to the beach for a mini-reunion in September. Miller ’03 designed the label for journey fleeing Nazi-occupied to beers produced by Devil’s Purse ’07 and I got married after a ten- from the Boston College Law currently in my second year at the the wine.” Europe to save the manuscript at its partner brewery, Isle Brewers year saga, which began while I was School.” From a Verrill Dana press Larner College of Medicine at of their book. The script, which Guild, located in Pawtucket, Rhode living in a tent on Thompson Street release, October 24, 2017. University of Vermont. My nonprofit is currently under wraps, will Island. From a Full Pint Craft Beer and Kelly was living in the Hatch foundation, Stand With Me, has 2003 Reunion be written by Sam Cohan and online news article, September 25, 2017. Science Library! Our wedding now distributed over 500 pediatric J.P. Box: “I’ve written a book! For produced in partnership with General Catalyst, one of celebration involved several 2013 Reunion standing frames in undeveloped 9. On the sidelines of a those interested in law firms and Millennium Media and Ema Ryan Boston’s largest venture capital noteworthy mustaches, a pulsating In December, Zina Huxley-Reicher nations and is seeking to expand its field hockey tournament in millennials (who among us isn’t?!), Yamazakii, director of Monkey firms, has hired Holly Maloney dance floor, and the cleansing rain was featured in a story about a production capacities. I have run in Virginia, Joanna Rizoulis ’88 discovered her husband had you’ll love The Millennial Lawyer: Business: The Adventures of Curious McConnell as the first female of the Pacific Northwest.” group of Mount Sinai Icahn School several half and full marathons and been chatting with Bowdoin How Your Firm Can Motivate and George’s Creators, a documentary managing director in its seventeen- of Medicine students who reunited enjoy getting back to my lakeside alumnus Michael Batal ’82. Retain Young Associates, published exploring the extraordinary lives of year history. She will join the firm’s Katie Bergeron with a hiker they had aided during family home in Glenburn, Maine, as “Our girls were on the same club team for the showcase,” by the American Bar Association. the Reys. A portion of the project’s Boston office after seven years as a 2011 was one of a heart attack. The man had often as possible.” 9 Joanna said. “Small world.” The book is part autobiographical, proceeds will be donated to the principal at Waltham’s North Bridge five Old Town [Maine] athletic collapsed on a steep trail, and part research, and hopefully an Curious George Foundation, which Growth Equity, now Guidepost standouts inducted into the high the group of nine—who were not 10. Melanie Race Forstie ’00 and Clare Forstie inspiring look into what the legal was established in 1989 to support Growth Equity, where she focused school’s athletic hall of fame in only nearby but also members of ’02 welcomed Kai Parker profession could become. In many community outreach programs on late-stage growth companies December. Bergeron was a three- a WildMed group interested in Forstie to their family on ways, it was a therapeutic process that emphasize the importance in the software, open source, and time, all-conference selection in wilderness medicine—provided care August 6, 2017. for me to look back at my six years of family, from counseling to peer infrastructure industries. General basketball who was named Old and comfort until he was airlifted 11. Luke Potter ’10 and practicing law, considering the support groups. From a Los Angeles, Catalyst said that in her new role, Town’s 2008 female athlete of to the hospital by emergency Katie Swan Potter ’06 were good and not-so-good experiences Millennium Media press release, McConnell will continue to work the year. At Bowdoin, she was responders. Weeks later, he sought overjoyed at the birth of their daughter and future as a young associate against November 17, 2017. with late-stage companies. From named rookie of the year by the out each of the students to thank Polar Bear hopeful, Megan the backdrop of commonly held a Boston Globe article, September Maine Women’s College Basketball them. “In your studies, you are Swan Potter, on April 26, millennial values.” Daniel 22, 2017. Coaches Association as a first-year going to learn the mechanics 2017. Megan has already posed for pictures on the “Ropes & Gray recently 2007 Duarte: player. She helped lead Bowdoin of medicine, you are going to 10 steps of Hubbard Hall. announced that Alison George “In May of 2017 I received an Ike Irby has to the NCAA Division III Sweet 16 learn all the technical terms and and Patrick Welsh were among MFA in photography from the 2009 been named as a senior, and she concluded her procedures,” he said. “But what twelve attorneys named partner Massachusetts College of Art and the American Geophysical Union’s college career sixth on the Polar you guys did instinctively, you can’t of the firm, effective November Design, where I was a graduate (AGU) newest Congressional Bears’ all-time scoring list with 1,180 be taught that. You showed me 1, 2017. George, who is based teaching fellow. This year I joined Science Fellow as the program points, and second all-time with compassion, and I am amazingly in Boston, has a wide range of the faculty at the Belmont Hill enters its fortieth year. Irby will 160 three-pointers. Bergeron then grateful.” Huxley-Reicher is in her experience in transactional real School, where I teach photography, join the more than forty-five PhD played professionally in Europe and second year at the Icahn School. estate matters, and focuses on real serve as the technical director of scientists who, over the years, have now is head coach of the women’s From the Mount Sinai Inside online estate joint ventures, investments, theater, and coach Form III hockey. brought their scientific expertise basketball team at Southern Maine newsletter, December 11, 2017. and finance, including domestic Happy to join a faculty with so to Capitol Hill to be part of the Community College in South Michael Lozzi: “I attended Life and international repurchase facility many Bowdoin connections.” legislative process. He intends Portland. From a Bangor, Maine, University’s graduation ceremony structures. Welsh is also working Devil’s Purse Brewing Company to use the AGU Congressional Bangor Daily News article, October on December 15, 2017, in Marietta, 11 in the Boston location, focusing on announced that it has signed Science Fellowship as an 25, 2017. Georgia, to watch Toni DaCampo

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1. R. Brendan Mooney ’09 and 5. Willy Oppenheim ’09 and 8. Grace Moore ’08 and James Margot Gianis (Trinity ’10) were Kelly Rula ’07 were married on Lee were married on September married on May 20, 2017, at the September 30, 2017, in Index, 23, 2017, in San Francisco. Central Presbyterian Church in Washington. Pictured: Kenny Pictured: Morgan Finch Bartlett Summit, New Jersey. Christopher Fahey ’08, Alice Lee ’07, Annie ’08, Katherine Whitley Fuller ’08, Hickey ’09 served as best man. Cronin ’07, Jon Ludwig ’07, Ethan Grace and James, Ellie Moore ’13, Pictured: Dom Fitzpatrick ’09, Wolston ’09, David Zonana Claire Cutting ’08, Peter Fritsche Jeremy Kraushar ’09, Sarah ’09, Charles Stern ’09, Maina ’10, Kaitlin Hammersley ’08, Warner ’09, Charlotte Williams Handmaker ’11, Marie Sears ’09, Robinson Moore ’77, Mark Fuller ’10, Chris Hickey ’09, Amelia Nate Johnson ’09, Amberlee ’08, Lyndsey Colburn Gillis ’08, Glauber ’09, Hannah Howe ’09, Gustafson ’08, Max Goldstein Brad Gillis ’08, Bobbi Dennison Christian Adams ’09, John Moore ’07, Jimmy Lindsay ’09, Kelly and Navarro ’08, and George 1 2 3 ’09, and Brendan and Margot. Willy, Peter Hudson ’08, Isabelle Chase ’78. Richardson Horton ’08, Forrest 2. Cati Mitchell ’09 and Robbie Horton ’08, and Jim Bittl ’08. Not 9. Ashley Inderfurth ’04 and Crossley (Colby ’08) were pictured: Kate Hourihan ’07, Marc Jonathan Naylor (University of married on August 12, 2017, in Daudon ’77, Katherine Kirklin Maryland ’07) were married on Marblehead, Massachusetts. O’Brien ’07, and Brook Shaffer ’07. April 30, 2016, in Brookeville, Pictured: Lissa McGrath Millett Maryland. Pictured: Liz Swedock ’83, Peter Mills ’09, Alison 6. Adam Marquit ’11 and Margot ’04, Tim Lazarus ’03, Nick Hiebert Coleman ’09, Margot Miller ’10, Bo Ritz (University of Denver ’08) ’03, Johnny Elledge, Rachel Millett ’21, Robbie and Cati, Peter were married on August 26, Hedlund ’04, Blakeney Schick McGrath ’79, Kaitlin Raymond 2017, at Devil’s Thumb Ranch in ’04, Samantha Altschuler ’04, ’11, Mike Mitchell ’11, and Adam Tabernash, Colorado. Pictured: Dave Noland ’04, Cy Moulton ’04, Baber ’05. Hugh Fleming ’10, Daisy Mariscal Justin Clarke ’04, Amanda Boer ’11, Edward Gottfried ’11, Claire Lazarus ’03, Lindsay Morris ’04, 3. Eleanor West ’10 and Nick Collery ’11, Erin McAuliffe Walder Whitney Alexander ’04, Ashley Stone ’10 were married on July ’11, Pamela Whiteman Wexler ’79, and Jonathan, Katie Chandler ’04, 8, 2017, at Brooklyn Winery in Seth Walder ’11, David Gruber Hanny Studer Clarke ’04, Nachel 4 5 6 Brooklyn, New York. Pictured: Tim ’11, Mason Smith ’11, Adam and Mathoda ’03, and Ellie Doig ’03. Poulin ’10, Helen Wen ’10, Sean Margot, Simon Fischweicher ’11, Weathersby ’10, Allie Gunther Daniel Hicks ’11, Nick Pisegna ’11, ’10, Eleanor and Nick, Danny Emily Graham ’11, David Shaeffer Lorberbaum ’10, Skye Lawrence ’11, Kaye Verville ’11, Tim Prior ’11, ’10, Sarah Wood ’10, Seth Danny Chaffetz ’11, Greg Tabak ’11, Glickman ’10, and KC Edwards ’10. and Jessie Small Hicks ’11.

4. Ashby Crowder ’04 and Robin 7. Michelle Filteau ’06 and Cleland (Grinnell College ’06) were Devin Griffin (Grinnell College married on September 30, 2017, at ’00) were married on October 7, Rodes Farm in Nellysford, Virginia. 2017, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Pictured: Anton Gorbounov ’06, Pictured: Caitlin Moore ’06, Yana Domuschieva ’04, Audrey Victoria Tudor ’06, Nisha Ajmani Amidon ’03, Robin and Ashby, ’06, Vijay Kotecha ’07, Flavia Chen Christie Toth ’04, Benjamin ’07, Lisa Bonjour ’06, Whitney Hagenhofer-Daniell ’04, and Rauschenbach ’06, and Michelle 7 8 9 Andrew Pizzolato ’04. and Devin.

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10. David Funk ’10 and Roni Jo 13. Michael Ardolino ’08 Thompson Island, Boston, Mielke (Saint Martin’s University and Claire Cooper ’09 were Massachusetts. Pictured: Scott ’11) were married on October married on July 29, 2017, at the Donahue ’69, Rachel and Matt, 8, 2016, on her family’s wheat 1774 Inn in Phippsburg, Maine. Jon Sternburg ’70, Spencer Ho farm in Harrington, Washington. Pictured: Caroline Burns ’09, ’09, Derek Castro ’09, Katie Pictured: Andrew Bernard ’11, Katie Mevorach Cooper ’09, Doria Eshelman Springer ’06, Kelsey Rahul Mohan ’11, Peter Cipriano Cole ’09, Katerina Papacosma Borner ’09, Jeremy Bernfeld ’10, Robert Lynn ’09, Thai Ha- ’08, Patrick Costello ’09, Eric ’09, Julia Ledewitz Rogers ’08, Ngoc ’10, Sarah Kugel, Robert Ardolino ’10, Ashley Fischer ’09, Hilary Strasburger Collier ’08, Stanley ’10, David and Roni Jo, Linzee Troubh ’09, Michael and Liza Shoenfeld ’09, Peter Nagler Barrett Takesian ’12, Palmer Claire, Emily Ranaghan ’09, Sarah ’09, Ida Sahlu ’08, Eric Harrison Higgins ’10, Christiana Whitcomb Warner ’09, Helaina Roman ’09, ’09, Micah McKay ’09, Dominic ’14, Elliot Kilham ’10, Kathryn Katherine Finnegan ’09, Emme Fitzpatrick ’09, David Leinen ’09, 10 11 12 Jordan ’10, Andrew Hilboldt ’13, Duncan ’09, Lindsey Schickner Patrick Costello ’09, Alan Andrew Sprague ’12, and Will ’09, Hannah Hughes ’09, Arden Donahue ’74, Jeremy Ross ’09, Fantini ’13. Klemmer ’09, Corey Bergen Caras and Louisa Cannell ’13. Bowdoin ’08, and Scott Caras ’08. flag: Walter Donahue Jr. ’44. 11. Debbie Theodore ’08 and Daniel Seltzer (Harvard University 14. Susan Morris ’07 and 17. Samantha Polly ’11 and Arian ’05) were married on July 29, Nifoghale Ovuworie were married Nasab (University of Tennessee) 2017, at Wave Hill public garden in a Nigerian wedding ceremony were married on June 10, 2017. in Bronx, New York. Pictured: on June 24, 2017, in Denver, Pictured: Caroline Baljon Woock Keirnan Willett ’07, Carrie Miller Colorado. Pictured: Burgess ’11, Samantha, Emily Balaban- ’08, Anne Riley Moffat ’08, Dan LePage ’07, Kate Leonard ’07, Jill Garber ’11, Jeffrey Cook ’11, Daniel and Debbie, Forrest Horton ’08, Campbell ’11, Meghan Gillis ’07, Vicario ’11, Caitlin McCarty ’11, Laura Belden ’08, ZZ Cowen Sarah Horn ’07, Allyson Craib Casey Brust ’11, and Carl Woock ’10. ’08, Isabelle Richardson Horton Florence ’06, Rich Florence ’08, Amberlee Gustafson ’08, ’06, Jayme Woogerd ’07, Sheryl 18. Noah Buntman ’08 and Christopher Hickey ’09, Kendra Stevens Pleiss ’07, and Niffy and Britt Swenson (Colorado College Neff ’08, Peter Hudson ’08, and Susan. ’10) were married on September 13 14 15 Rogan McCally ’08. 9, 2017, in Pemberton, British 15. Jason Guzman ’11 and Annie Columbia, Canada. Pictured: 12. Kimberly Vincent ’10 and Hertz (University of Michigan ’11) Alex Chittim ’08, Jacob Sack ’08, Chris Fredregill (Texas A&M were married on October 28, Mark Fuller ’08, Alex White ’08, ’00) were married on August 2017, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Andrew Fried ’08, Colin Joyner 12, 2017, at the chapel at Rice Pictured: Rahul Madan Mohan ’03, Ben Freedman ’09, Virginia University in Houston, Texas. ’11, John Vegas ’93 (brother of the Drake ’08, Armin Drake ’08, Will Pictured: Jin-Kyung Kim ’10, groom), Andy Bernard ’11, Annie Hales ’08, Chris Burrage ’08, Zarine Alam ’10, Jane Lee ’10, Chris and Jason, Kent Winingham ’12, Lindsey Bruett ’09, Meaghan and Kimberly, Colin Matthews Stephen Sullivan ’11, Mason Smith Maguire ’08, Lindsay Buntman ’10, Willy Hameline ’10, Alyssa ’11, Scott Schulkin ’11, Erin Furey Kafitz ’06 with daughter Tovah Phanitdasack ’10, Daniel Jose ’10, ’07, Sam Smith ’10, Adit Basheer Kafitz, Kat Whitely ’08, and Britt Adam Kurstin ’10, Sofia Siegel ’11, Michael Power ’11, Eric D’Elia ’11, and Noah. ’10, Stephanie Williams ’10, and and Caroline Geoghegan ’12. Andrew Otton ’11. 16. Rachel Donahue ’08 and Matt Eshelman ’09 were married on June 24, 2017, on 16 17 18

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19. Whit Schrader ’05 and 23. Tom Flanagan ’10 and David Vasquez ’14, Adam Zhang Kathryn Benner were married Katrina Avtonomoff (University ’14, Natalie, Helen Newton ’14, on September 9, 2017, in San of California-Davis ’10) were Anita Shah ’14, Teresa Withee ’15, Francisco. Pictured: Caitlin Bevan married on July 1, 2017, at the Sam Miller ’15, Katherine Churchill ’08, Adnan Prsic ’05, Sarah Begin Outdoor Art Club in Mill Valley, ’16, Katie Byrnes (faculty), Kate Cameron ’05, Kathryn and Whit, California. Pictured: Tom Flanagan Kearnes ’14, Marcus Schneider ’13, Joe Andrasko ’04, and Luke Sr., Sam Hankinson ’10, Chris Katie Ross ’14, Katie Craighill ’17, Flanagan ’06. Necchi ’10, Oliver Kell ’10, Tom Kate Featherston ’15, Andi Noble and Katrina, Steve Robinson ’11, ’15, Abbie Geringer ’14, Brian 20. Thompson Ogilvie ’10 and Pete Brandstatter ’10, and Matt Jacobel ’14, Brennan Clark ’20, Casey Reck (Claremont McKenna Moran ’10, who also officiated the James Denison ’14, Jeff Yu ’14, Bill College ’11) were married on July ceremony. Griffiths ’14, Adam Eichenwald ’14, 22, 2017, in Solvang, California. Evan Eklund ’16, Lauren Skerritt Pictured: Tim Katlic ’08, Archie 24. Francesca Maddaluno ’00 ’14, Garrett Casey ’15, Jordan Abrams ’09, Pat Pierce ’08, and Erik Johnson (Rhode Island Goldberg ’14, and Will Tucker ’14. 19 20 21 3 Christina Berkow ’11, Kyle Mikami School of Design ’87) were ’10, Stan Berkow ’11, Nathan married on December 18, 2017, in Allukian ’10, Julie Coleman ’11, a private ceremony at Boston City Andrew Coleman ’11, Thompson Hall, Boston, Massachusetts. and Casey, Hannah Peckler ’11, Eli Bossin ’09, Ike Irby ’09, John Hall 25. Lindsey Warren-Shriner ’10 ’08, Colin Ogilvie ’12, and Valerie and Sam Smedinghoff (Williams Wirtschafter ’12. ’06) were married on August 19, 2017, at the home of the bride’s 21. Allison Robbins ’02 and John parents in Brattleboro, Vermont. David Check (Northwestern ’91) Pictured: Paige Warren-Shriner, were married on July 8, 2017, in Steve Shriner ’80, Lindsey and Red Lodge, Montana. Pictured: Sam, Janice Warren ’80, and Eliza Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai ’03, Warren-Shriner ’13. Kathryn Ostrofsky ’06, Lindsay Szramek ’02, Nathan Alsobrook 26. Leo Guen ’76 and Sherry Ma ’97, John and Allison, Jessica were married on October 20, 2017, 22 23 24 Brooks Hewitt ’02, Shannon in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Gilmore Alsobrook ’02, Charlotte, Pictured: Joe LaPann ’76, Amy Annelise, and Finley Alsobrook. Guen (wife of Edward Guen ’49), Tim Guen ’79 and wife Janet 22. Katie Cummings ’07 and Kyle Russell Guen (daughter of Don Siegfried (Monmouth University Russell ’48), Tori Guen ’13, Sherry ’08) were married on September and Leo, Brooks Geiken ’76, and 30, 2017, at the Nantucket Terry Guen-Murray ’81. Yacht Club in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Pictured: Stef 27. Sam Weyrauch ’14 and Pemper (former Bowdoin coach), Natalie Clark ’14 were married Justine Pouravelis ’06, Katie, on August 5, 2017, at Newagen Eileen Flaherty Moore ’07, Colleen Seaside Inn in Southport, Maine. Sweeney ’11, Beth Damon ’04, Pictured: Jared Littlejohn ’15, Alison Smith Montgomery ’05, Emily Weyrauch ’17, Sam, Hayley and Gavin McNiven ’05. (Not Nicholas ’17, Katie Mac ’14, Alice pictured: Alexa Kaubris ’09.) Wang ’15, Sam Copland ’14, Marc 25 26 27 Veilleux ’14, Mollie Friedlander ’14,

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DERAY MCKESSON ’07

Educator and Social Activist

Social media has changed the landscape FARIA NASRUDDIN ’20 of who can create and share content—the gatekeepers no longer exist. That openness has Social Media Manager, allowed for the voices of traditionally margin- The Bowdoin Orient alized people to spread. That said, there is now so much content that it is hard to know where Information is now an “active measure,” a Soviet to focus. We are just seeing the transformative term for political warfare. Unlike traditional power of social media. There is undoubtedly media, which all have internal standards and more to come. fact-checking, there is no worldwide standard for truth on social media. Social media brings voices to the political stage that otherwise would be excluded. Take the Arab Spring, where it facilitated networks that organized groups of “ Social media—what are the activists. Greater access to information sparks greater civic engagement. But, with no formal perils? What are the benefits? regulating body, we need to be the peer review. Does one outweigh the other?”

ALLEN HARPER

Visiting Assistant Professor, JANUARY 21, 2017 MELODY HAHM ’13 Computer Science Social media platforms like Face- Senior Writer and On-Air Reporter, The World Health Organization defines a book and Twitter played an integral Yahoo Finance “gaming addiction,” Facebook is condemned role in rallying, organizing, and for attempts to manipulate its users without providing information to hundreds Twitter is my destination for breaking news and informed consent, and groups are calling on of thousands of protesters who anything happening in the cultural zeitgeist. Apple to provide tools to monitor and limit participated in the 2017 Women's But I often feel exhausted and out of the loop if I young consumers. All this indicates just how March across the country. miss a conversation. We’re digesting sound–bite poorly prepared we were for the introduction after sound–bite, impeding our ability to form of social media platforms into our lives. On the Image: Placards line fences sur- full-fledged thoughts. The glorification of a “hot other hand, when we witness regime change take” has made it preferable to come out with a where protesters fight government troops with rounding Boston Common during half-baked opinion, even if it means having to only a cell phone and a Twitter account, we a Women's March. Signs from issue a retraction afterward. realize their power and importance. I would say the women's marches around the I am a pessimist in the short-term for the quick world are being saved as cultural implementation of controls, but optimistic that treasures by museums, libraries, countervailing forces will address the ills we see. and colleges.

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20 Rallying Portland

36 As Maine Goes

42 Q&A with Dana Spector ’08