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Photograph coverage of a momentous day by Michele Stapleton, Hannah Dawes, and James Marshall With a Little Help From His Friends 20 By Edgar Allen Beem Photographs by Michele Stapleton

Brett Wickard ’90 founded Bull Moose Music with a nest egg of $7,000, a loan of $30,000, and some help from Bowdoin friends who believed in his idea — and he did it while still studying chemistry and economics as an undergrad. Ed Beem explores how Bull Moose grew from humble roots in downtown into a successful music business without sacrificing its values and personality. Bowdoin and the Volunteer Lawyers Project 26 By Tracy Teare Photographs by Dean Abramson

More than 300 Bowdoin volunteers have participated in the Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project over 20 years of partnership between the organization and the College. Alumni have been involved every step of the way, from the founding days to hours put in manning the calls last week. But it’s not just the VLP and its clients who benefit — alumni and students both say the VLP gave them invaluable experience and perspective in return for their time. Montgomery to Richmond: Walton Takes BBC Down a Southern Road 30 by Selby Frame

Bowdoin writer-in-residence Anthony Walton has written about and discussed American history and culture in many venues over the last fifteen years, among them, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and CNN. Bowdoin writer Selby Frame recently spoke with Walton about an upcoming project, Walton's radio documentary, Southern Road, a searching ramble through the American Southeast for British Broadcast Corporation Radio (BBC).

Departments Mailbox 2 Weddings 32 Bookshelf 4 Class News 36 College & Maine 5 Obituaries 77 BOWDOINeditor’s note staff

I had an English teacher in high school who was also an author and a sheep Volume 77, Number 1 Fall, 2005 farmer. He always wore a sport coat, and he could stop almost any bad behavior with a pointed look over his glasses at the offender, neither of which was typical MAGAZINE STAFF

at a public high school in the 1970s. No matter what class you took from him, Editor he made you start the period with a five-minute exercise called “Today I Alison M. Bennie

Observed. . .” The idea was that you would describe something that you had seen Associate Editor that day — an object, an incident, maybe a person — and ruminate briefly about Matthew J. O’Donnell

it. A lot of people hated doing it. Sometimes you would horrify yourself with your Design inability to come up with a single thing you could describe having seen that was Pennisi & Lamare Falmouth, Maine worth mentioning — and, to a roomful of adolescents, this was simply further crushing proof that there was nothing interesting in the world, no matter what the Obituary Editor John R. Cross ’76 adults said. I hated that feeling and became determined to look intently. Contributors Pavlina Borisova ’07 It is the nature of good teaching that I only came to realize later that that was James Caton the whole point of the exercise. The lesson has stayed with me, and the power Susan Danforth Selby Frame of looking has only come to mean more. I am reminded of the exercise, and its Scott W. Hood worth, nearly every time I see something wild, beautiful, notable, or odd. Alexander Reed ’07 Alix Roy ’07

A character in a James Salter novel said, “Life is weather. Life is meals,” and I Photographs by Dean Abramson, Brian Beard, Dennis Griggs, James Marshall, think there is a lot of truth to that, at least in my life. We often say here, at the Joanna Morrisey, Michele Stapleton, College “Bowdoin is people.” That is undeniably true, but I would add to it, and Archives.

“Bowdoin is views.” It is the quad, looking up through a canopy of trees. It is BOWDOIN (ISSN, 0895-2604) is pub- the soft light from a classroom at the end of the hall in Hubbard. For rowers and lished four times a year by Bowdoin College, 4104 College Station, other early risers, it is the fog rising from the water into cool fall air. There are Brunswick, Maine 04011. Printed by images that Bowdoin people carry with them when they leave, images that are Dartmouth Printing, Hanover, New Hampshire. Third-class postage paid at somehow a combination of vision and experience, like two-second dreams. Hanover, New Hampshire. Sent free of charge to all Bowdoin alumni/ae, par- ents of current and recent undergradu- In addition to the important business of conveying news and information about ates, faculty and staff, seniors, and the College, continuing the community of classes through their notes about selected members of the Association of Bowdoin Friends. their lives and work, and sharing interesting and inspiring stories, the magazine tries to trigger these images for people. One of the ways that we do that is Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors. through photographs, and our cadre of excellent photographers produce thou- sands of such photos each year — you’ll see one of them in a new feature that Send class news to classnews@bow- doin.edu or mail to the address above. we’ve added, called “view.” Advertising inquiries? Please e-mail [email protected] or fax 207- 725-3003. Please send address changes I hope that it reminds you not only of what you have seen, but to look. to the mailing address above. Send ideas or letters to the editor to that address or by e-mail to bowdoinedi- AMB [email protected].

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Why, Thank You University graduate schools (later at Incredulous Harvard), and established my private You and your crew have done a superb By now your mailbox must be full of practice in 1978 in and job with “our magazine.” Every issue letters from incredulous readers currently Newton, Ma, where I seems to outdo the previous one. wondering how you could have continue to actively produce work. As Thank you for keeping us in touch omitted the name of Phillip C. Bolger John Adams wrote in 1780 when on with our dear alma mater and making from your list of alumni involved in his mission to the French Court, “I us even more proud of her every year. boatbuilding. He has designed over study politics and war that my sons 700 boats, and achieved superstar Brad Beckwith ’58 may have liberty to study status among amateur boat builders. mathematics and philosophy.” My In addition, Stephen M. Weld ’69 is a Laying the Foundation sons ought to study mathematics and designer at C. Raymond Hunt Associates. Dear Editor; philosophy, geography, natural history, I think you should also include the I was pleased to read Bowdoin naval architecture, navigation, name of John Foss ’69, Captain of the Magazine’s Spring 2005 feature article, commerce and agriculture in order to American Eagle schooner operating out “Why The Arts Matter,” by Lisa Wesel, give their children a right to study of Camden. Aside from the rebuilding as I am a product of Bowdoin’s arts , poetry, music, architecture, and maintenance of his own vessel, program, which mattered very much statuary, tapestry and porcelain. John has been involved with the even before the 1970s. My father and America gave me the construction of other schooners. opportunity and right to study art at When I was in high school I knew I Peter Vanderwaart ’68 wanted to be an architect and was Bowdoin, which molded and prepared advised by one of the then me in becoming an architect; in Moore Mention of Bolger architectural firms of Portland, serving the common good… To the Editor: Wardsworth & Boston, that in order Constantine L. Tsomides ’58 I have read the articles on Maine boat to truly understand the world of builders with interest but some dismay. culture and civilization and the place Good Icebreaker There is no mention of Phil Bolger ’49, and meaning of architecture in our I’m COO of AeroHydro, Inc. in who is clearly one of the most creative world I should first steep myself in a Southwest Harbor. We develop and marine architects alive. He lives and good solid four year liberal arts market software for marine design. operates out of Gloucester, MA, but college before continuing on at the Our software has been used to design with an international reputation that graduate level in the professional everything from kayaks and surfboards shouldn’t have denied him mention in schools of architecture. Professor Paul through the original Hinckley Picnic your articles. Hazelton made sure that Bowdoin was Boat (under the expert guidance of Ask any small boat builder about that school. I attended Bowdoin Newcastle-based designer Bruce King) to Phil Bolger and you will learn his specifically for that purpose, and a USCG (oops! that’s DHS) icebreaker. influence on small boat and sail design, Professors Philip Beam and Carl and new ways to use materials. His Schmalz of the art department Michael Shook ’73 genius can be found in his many assiduously drilled me in the history books, published by International and studio practice of Art. Missing Link Marine Publishing Co., all of which Those four years of art in the We really enjoyed your wonderful have had wide distribution. basement of the Walker Art Building, cover story on Bowdoin’s boat builders. Johnes K. Moore ’53 supplemented by an interim year of You did miss my husband, Livingston world travel in the Merchant Marines, “Link” Wright ’52, on your boat Illustrating a Point imbued me with a passionate love of building alumni list. Link is the retired To the Editor, art and architecture, and an president of Harbor Sail Livery in The list of Bowdoin Alumni involved understanding of it as a major form of Nantucket. For 30 years he restored in boat building is incomplete without cultural expression, that continues to and chartered a fleet of wooden boats the outstanding illustrator of boats and inspire and sustain me to this day… including Beetle Cats, Town Classes, boat building techniques Sam F. Upon graduating from Bowdoin, I Snipes, & Wood Pussies. pursued my architectural training at Manning ’55. Patsy Wright the Princeton and Columbia John M. Campbell ‘52

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Captain Foss I played football for Bowdoin of the players at that time. Mr. Strong College from 1998 –2001, under is, however, correct in one sense — Enjoyed the article, “Avocation In Coach Howard Vandersea my first two teams like Williams, Amherst, Wood,” featuring, among others, my years and my last two years under Wesleyan, and Trinity have beaten classmate, Bobby Ives ’69. In fairness Coach David Caputi. My freshman Bowdoin quite frequently in the past. to another distinguished classmate, I year, we had a winning season, posting This is largely because these other believe that honorable mention should a 5 - 3 record. In the next three years NESCAC schools are allowed to recruit be given to John Foss, captain of the we won two games total. As difficult as a certain number student athletes with schooner American Eagle, built in 1930 it was to be on a losing team at a lesser GPA averages and lower SAT (as a fishing vessel) and home-ported school that traditionally associated scores than would normally be in Rockland. In the 1980s, John winning with its hockey and lacrosse accepted. Ironically, as I write this restored American Eagle, now registered programs, it proved even more letter, Williams and Wesleyan are both as a national historic landmark. Since complicated with the fact (that some 0-2 thus far this season. Amherst is 1- then, John has been sailing her on felt football should be removed) as a 1. Proving that desire, hard work and chartered cruises in Maine waters and varsity sport. Despite all the politics good coaching is ultimately more beyond. John generously has hosted around my teammates and I, we important than talent. More seafaring events for the Class of 1969 managed to form some of the greatest importantly it is why we go through reunions in recent years. friendships of our lives. The shared the “trouble,” of playing these games. Bruce G. MacDermid ’69 experience was very much a part of A team’s record is never mailed in. our education at Bowdoin. The fact Nevertheless, coach Caputi and his In Addition that some have called for the end of staff have done a great job in rebuilding Y. Fitzhugh Hardcastle ’65—I talked the program would be like Barry Mills a program from the ground up… eliminating the line “the best four with him last year at Reunion Michael Mulholland ’02 Weekend. He has retired…and is years of your life,” from the offer of building sailing dinghies. He had one the College. Editor: At press time, the football team on a trailer here on the Quad. Winning is the greatest feeling an improved to 4-0 for the first time since Charles Cary ’65 is principle athlete can experience, all of the training 1938, defeating on engineer at BIW, which should qualify and preparation is fulfilled with a Homecoming Weekend 21-7. as boatbuilding. Fred Rea ’69 (cousin positive end result. The opposite result of Charles Cary) is foreman at Mt. is one that is less desired, yet some of Desert Yacht Yard. Joseph Titltow ’67 the hardest lessons in life are learned Correction did his Ph.D. thesis (if I remember from losing. Competitive sports will In the article, “Avocation in Wood,” correctly) on the hydrodynamic flow teach some of these lessons, something (Bowdoin, Vol. 73, No. 3, Spring on the hulls of America’s Cup racers. a twenty-five-page paper cannot. 2005), we incorrectly identified Bobby No doubt Bowdoin football has Ives '69 as a Quaker minister. He is a Excerpted from a longer note from suffered one of the toughest periods in UCC minister. We regret the error. Roy LaCasce ’44, Professor of its long history. However, I am writing Physics Emeritus you after the second win of the 2005 season, a gritty, hard fought win over The New Football Program Amherst College. This is one of the To the Editor: four teams in the NESCAC that I am writing this letter in response to annually beats Bowdoin, according to Everett Strong, Class of ’58, and his Everett Strong in his letter published Send Us Mail! numerous insults of the Bowdoin in the Winter 2003 edition. Prior to team over the past few this particular letter, Mr. Strong wrote We are very interested in your feedback, thoughts, and ideas about Bowdoin years. The most recent has been the into the Bowdoin Magazine on several magazine. You can reach us by e-mail at letter published in the Winter 2003 occasions attacking Coach Caputi and [email protected]. edition. Before I discuss the letter(s) in the Bowdoin College football program. Submission deadline for Class News, question, I would like to give you some I read his letters while I was a player Weddings and Mailbox for the Winter ’06 background on my personal experience in the program. Suffice to say his issue is Tuesday, December 6, 2005. as a former Bowdoin athlete. words were not well received with any

BOWDOIN FALL 2005 3 bookshelf Black Out Temple to the Wind, the Story of America’s Greatest The debut novel by Richard Steele (Bowdoin Dean of Naval Architect and His Masterpiece, Reliance Admissions & Financial Aid) tells the story of Paul American yacht designer Nathanael Greene Herreshoff was Stearns, one of the CIA’s top undercover agents who has known as “the wizard of Bristol,” and his extraordinary just smuggled an East German scientist through the Berlin Reliance was commissioned by the likes of Morgan, Hill, Wall when he falls into a three-day coma, leaving him Rockefeller, and Vanderbilt to win the 1903 America’s Cup with Remington’s Syndrome and effectively ending his with such dominance as to demoralize the British. Chris career. While Stearns attempts to put his life back Pastore ’97 captures the history and allure of this famous together, the CIA again calls on him for help in a case that yacht from her design to the finale of that legendary race, only he can solve. iUniverse, Inc., 2005. 129 pages. where she faced off against Sir Thomas Lipton, who put his personal fortune behind challenger, Shamrock III. “It is Broken Trip simply one of the most exciting sea tales ever told,” wrote Set in present-day Gloucester, Mass., this novel by Peter a reviewer. The Lyons Press, 2005. 290 pages. Anastas ’59 chronicles interlocking stories of men and women trapped in a cycle of poverty and economic Thomas Curtis Van Cleve: Observations and Experiences depression. The narrator is a social worker who deals with of a Military Intelligence Officer in Two World Wars residents whose life “trips” have been broken by the Thomas Curtis Van Cleve was a respected scholar and devastating decline of the fishing industry. Glad Day Books, medieval historian, a “living legend’ as a Bowdoin professor, 2004. 250 pages. and was also a military intelligence officer in both World Wars. Author John D. Davis ’52, who studied under Van Cleve while a Bowdoin student, edited and provided historical notes for this collection of Van Cleve’s accounts of Icebox Desserts his military service, giving “us an additional and important Not a fan of summer cooking? Lauren Chattman ’85 has chapter to Bowdoin’s impressive history,” remarked Senator put together this collection of cool recipes that can be George J. Mitchell ’54. Potts Point Books, 2005. 373 pages. made ahead of time using wholesome ingredients and creative flavor combinations. Clear, easy-to-follow instructions are accompanied by colorful full-page photos Teleological Realism that will make your mouth water. Harvard Common Press, Associate Professor of Philosophy Scott Sehon argues that 2005. 168 pages. using common-sense psychology (CSP) to explain human behavior allows us to understand the purpose of behavior The Madonna of Las Vegas rather than the motivation behind it. He outlines the In this novel by Gregory Blake Smith ’75, the main difference between explanations based on CSP and character, Cosmo Dust, is hired to recreate the ceiling of physical science, challenging the main assumptions of the the Sistine Chapel in a Las Vegas casino, a task that makes causal view of CSP, and presenting his own “teleological a mockery of Michelangelo’s genius and Cosmo’s own realist” alternative. The MIT Press, 2005. 264 pages. skill. Soon after he decides to quit, Cosmo is accused of murder and drawn into a complex world built on false Time for the Fair appearances. Three Rivers Press, 2005. 288 pages. This children’s book by Mary ’91 tells the story of Grace, a young girl who loves the fair, and anxiously awaits its return every year. Beautiful watercolor illustrations Mathematical Connections: follow the changing of the seasons as Grace marks time A Companion for Teachers and Others until next year’s fair. Down East Books, 2005. 32 pages. Al Cuoco ’74 explores the connections between Trees on a Slope mathematical topics such as algebra, arithmetic, geometry, In this translation, Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton ’70 and calculus. More than 400 exercises illustrate the main introduce the English-speaking world to the work of ideas, and suggest other paths for further discovery. This Hwang Sun-won, one of modern Korea’s masters of textbook is designed primarily to educate high school narrative prose. Sun-won’s novel depicts the physical and teachers, but it is also a tool for self-study. The psychological horrors of the Korean War, following the Mathematical Association of America, 2005. 320 pages. lives of three South Korean soldiers during the latter stages of the war. University of Hawaii Press, 2005. 197 pages. Perfection, the State, and Victorian Liberalism Daniel Malachuk ’89 “argues for the contemporary relevance Workshop Statistics of Victorian liberal theory, which emphasized the state’s role in Christopher Lacke ’88 introduces the latest addition to enabling citizens to lead good as well as free lives. Exposing the Workshop Statistic series: the JMP Companion Manual, century-long interpretive habits that still blind us to the merits which familiarizes readers with JMP software, designed for of both ‘moral perfectionism’ and statism, the book portrays statistical analysis. The JMP program links statistics and Victorian liberals like John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold as graphics, allowing users to view graphical images of comprising a forgotten episode in the history of liberalism of complex concepts. Key College Publishing, 2005. 100 pages. vital importance today.” Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 210 pages.

Stooples: Office Tools for Hopeless Fools WWII Jeep Guidebook This catalogue of “necessary” office supplies by Adam Bowdoin chemistry lab instructor Ren Bernier is a WWII Najberg ’90 will have you wishing elbow extenders, back Jeep restorer and hobbyist who been writing about WWII patters, and annual report crossword puzzles really Jeeps for over ten years. His restored vehicles have been existed. Anyone who has ever worked in an office setting displayed and purchased by museums nation-wide. will appreciate this satirical look at the world of cubicles Drawing on thirty years of experience, Ren addresses and time sheets. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005. 128 pages. questions about evaluating, buying, restoring, driving, and above all, enjoying a vintage WWII Jeep. www.wwiijeepbook.com. Just Write Books, 2005. 113 pages.

Order these titles through the Bowdoin College Bookstore 24 hours a day at www.bowdoin.edu/bookstore, or phone 1-800-524-2225, Mon-Fri, 8:30am - 5:00pm. Bowdoin author? The College Bookstore is happy to stock your books. Contact Bart King, [email protected] or 207-725-3781. 4 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 college&maine view

A single great mare’s tail, a mile wide over me Philip Booth, Maine poet, from Fragments

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Sarah Bond Phinney '99 Named Director of Alumni Relations

arah Bond Phinney has been named director of alumni relations sion of the College through alumni outreach programs. Phinney also Sat Bowdoin. A member of the Class of 1999, Phinney assumed provides oversight for Bowdoin’s 40-member Alumni Council, work- her new role in early September. She succeeds Kevin Wesley ’89, ing in collaboration with the council president and members to create who has become assistant vice president and deputy director of and maintain programs designed to foster lifelong relationships alumni relations at Carnegie Mellon University. between Bowdoin alumni and the College. “Sarah brings a wonderful blend of talent, experience, and Prior to her new position, Phinney served as director of events and enthusiasm to this vital position,” said Vice President for summer programs at Bowdoin. She previously served as assistant Development and Alumni Relations Randolph H. Shaw ’82. director of alumni relations at the University of New in “Bowdoin is blessed with an engaged and loyal alumni body spread Portland (2001-02), and as assistant director of residential life at across America and around the world. With Sarah’s help and lead- Bowdoin (1999-01). While a student at Bowdoin, Phinney was an ership, we will do even more to reach out to these women and intern in the office of events and summer programs, and also served men in ways that will strengthen and further develop their connec- as an intern in Bowdoin’s Young Alumni Leadership Program, which tions to the College.” works to strengthen Bowdoin’s ties with its youngest alumni. As director of alumni relations, Phinney is responsible for the A Dean’s List student, Phinney graduated in 1999 with a double planning, implementation, and oversight of programs designed to major in mathematics and economics, and with a minor concentra- serve the alumni body. She works with others at the College to max- tion in music. She is an accomplished pianist who serves as music imize engagement opportunities for alumni and to advance the mis- director at various theaters in Maine’s midcoast region.

Bowdoin Trustees Elect New Chair and Members

eter M. Small ’64 of Concord, Mass., was positions at CIGNA Healthplans, Digital Pelected chair of the Board of Trustees dur- Insurance, and SkyTel. A religion major, ing the Board’s May meetings. Small succeeds Emerson won the Achorn Prize and Bradbury Donald M. Zuckert ’56 of New Castle, N.H., Prize, and was president of the debate council who served as chair from 2002 to 2005. and assistant editor of The Bugle, Bowdoin’s Zuckert, who was elected overseer in 1987 yearbook. He earned his master’s degree in and trustee in 1995, was elected trustee emeri- computer systems at American University, tus. Small, who was also re-elected to another and is a member of Pi Alpha Alpha National five-year term on the Board, began his three- Honor Society. His service to Bowdoin has year term as chair in July. included the Campaign Planning Committee, Peter M. Small is president of Spaulding Alumni Council, BCAN advisor, Reunion and Slye Properties Co., a privately owned Committee, and serving as the chair of the real estate firm headquartered in Concord, Leadership Gift Committee. Other board affil- Mass. He joined the firm in 1971. The son, iations have included Health Plus Inc., grandson, great-grandson, and parent of NYLCare Health Plans, Symphony Bowdoin graduates, Small earned his A.B. in Orchestra, House of Ruth, and Hospice of St. history. George’s County. He has been a member of First elected overseer in 1988, then a Trustees Chair Peter M. Small ’64 the Maryland Economic Development trustee in 1996, Small has served on a num- Commission and chapter chairman of ber of College trustee committees, including Also at the May meeting, three new Information Industry Association. Academic Affairs, Development and College Trustees — Jeff D. Emerson ’70 of Chevy John F. McQuillan Jr. is chairman, presi- Relations, Executive, Trustee Affairs, Chase, Md., John F. McQuillan Jr. ’87 of dent and CEO of Triumvirate Environmental Investment, and Facilities. He chaired the Boston, and Paula M. Wardynski ’79 of New in Somerville, Mass., a firm that serves the trustee Subcommittee on Properties. He also York City — were elected to their first terms environmental and hazardous waste needs of served on Bowdoin’s Committee on the on the Board. clients throughout the northeast in the areas Future, the Commission on Residential Life, Jeff D. Emerson is chief information offi- of education, healthcare, life science, and the Ad Hoc Committee on Construction cer of Magellan Health Services in Columbia, high tech. A double major in biochemistry Projects, the Nominating Committee, and he Md., the nation’s leading behavioral health and government, he is currently a master’s chaired the Physical Plant Committee. He is and employee assistance company. His three- degree candidate at Harvard University. While currently a member of the Campaign Steering decade career in information technology and at Bowdoin, McQuillan was a member of Chi Committee. health care management has also included Psi fraternity, served as Interfraternity Council

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Four Professors Named to Tenure Positions

ssistant professors Joe course work is often highly Baumgarte earned both his Diplom and ABandy, Thomas interdisciplinary, with Doctorate in Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians- Baumgarte, Jennifer Clarke courses cross-listed in Universität München. He joined the Kosak, and Richmond R. Environmental Studies, Bowdoin faculty in 2001. Thompson have been pro- Latin American Studies and Jennifer Clarke Kosak, Classics, special- moted to the rank of associ- Gender and Women’s izes in Greek language and literature, with ate professor with tenure, Studies. Bandy has pub- particular interest in Greek tragedy, Greek effective July 1, 2005. The lished several articles, pre- and Roman medi- Board of Trustees voted on sented 23 professional cine, and Greek their promotions during the papers, and is co-editor of intellectual history May meetings. the book Coalitions Across and gender studies. Joe Bandy, Sociology and Borders: Transnational She has published Anthropology, works on Protest and the Neo-Liberal numerous articles social movement organiza- Joe Bandy Order (2004) with Jackie and reviews and is tions and their responses to Smith. He earned his B.A. in the author of the global economic change, with a concentra- psychology and anthropology/sociology book, Heroic tion on environmental justice and labor from Rhodes College and a M.A. and Ph.D. Measures: movements in the U.S. and Mexico. His in sociology from the University of Hippocratic California, Santa Barbara. He Medicine in the joined the Bowdoin faculty in Making of 1998. Euripedian Tragedy Thomas W. Baumgarte, Physics (2004). Kosak Jennifer Clarke Kosak and , is a numerical rel- received a fellow- ativist whose research involves ship in 2003 from the Loeb Classical Library president, and was a writing assistant. He cur- Foundation. She earned her A.B. in Classics rently serves on the President’s Visiting from Harvard-Radcliffe and her Ph.D. in Committee, and has hosted or sponsored Classical Philology from the University of alumni fund and 1794 Society events. He is a , Ann Arbor. Kosak joined the trustee of High School, served Bowdoin faculty in 1999. as director of the Environmental Business Richmond R. Thompson, Psychology and Council, and volunteers at the Just a Start Neuroscience, studies how the brain process- House. In 2004 he was awarded the Paul es social stimuli and uses that information to Revere Liberty Bowl from the Boston Jaycees, organize behavioral which named him one of Boston’s ten out- output, particularly standing young leaders. emotional interac- Paula M. Wardynski is vice president and tions related to sex treasurer at News America Incorporated, the and aggression. Current lab international media and entertainment com- Thomas Baumgarte pany whose diverse holdings include Fox research focuses on Broadcasting, DirecTV, Harper Collins the mechanisms Publishing, and The New York Post. supercomputer simulations of through which the Wardynski majored in Romance languages neutron stars and black holes. He neuropeptides and graduated cum laude. She earned the has published almost 50 papers in vasotocin (goldfish Bowdoin Film Society Award and was a refereed journals, and presented at version) and vaso- member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. As a stu- many conferences, seminars and pressin (human colloquia around the world. In version) influence dent, she served on the Student Life Richmond R. Thompson Committee and Board of Selectmen, as a 1998, Baumgarte published a new social behavior. proctor and senior interviewer, and was co- formulation of Einstein’s equa- Thompson has received grants from the organizer of Project BABE, through which tions, which continues to be used National Science Foundation and National Bowdoin students worked with emotionally by many astrophysicists world- Institutes of Health and publishes widely in disabled children. She has served as Alumni wide. He has received several peer-reviewed journals. Thompson earned Fund Director, as well as on the Alumni grants from the National Science his B.S. in biology/psychology from Furman Council, BASIC, The New Century Foundation and in 2004 was University and his Ph.D. in biopsychology Campaign, The Campaign for Bowdoin, and awarded a prestigious from Cornell University. He joined the the Leadership Gift Committee. Guggenheim Fellowship. Bowdoin faculty in 1999.

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2005 Spring Sports Wrap Up

Baseball (20-14) Bowdoin reached the 20-win plateau for the second straight season, setting a school record for victories in consecutive seasons (44). Centerfielder Jared Lemieux ’06 earned first-team All-NESCAC honors for the second straight year, while P/OF Ricky Leclerc ’06 grabbed first-team honors as well.

Softball (19-10) Bowdoin just missed out on a trip to the NESCAC Tournament, finishing in a tie for third in the NESCAC East Division. Shortstop Danielle Chagnon ’06 was first-team All- NESCAC, while Emily Nelson ’08 tallied sec- ond-team honors. Nelson, an overpowering pitcher, became Bowdoin’s career leader in strikeouts (279 in 231 innings) with a single- season record 141 whiffs.

Men’s Lacrosse (10-4) Placed second overall in the NESCAC regular season and captured the CBB Championship. Andrew O'Brien ’05 and Connor Fitzgerald ’06 grabbed first-team All-Conference honors.

Women’s Lacrosse (15-4) The Polar Bears posted one of the best sea- sons in school history, earning a school- record 15 victories and collecting a host of postseason honors. Bowdoin earned the school’s first-ever NCAA Tournament victory in lacrosse as head coach Liz Grote was named the IWLCA New England Coach of the Year. Goaltender Kendall Cox ’05 was honored with first-team All-American honors, while Brigid Burke ’05 and Colleen McDonald ’05 also grabbed second and third-team IWLCA All-American honors, respectively.

Women’s Tennis (7-7) The women’s tennis team posted a strong sea- son, winning the CBB Championship and earning an NCAA Tournament bid. Julia Shaver ’05 earned All-NESCAC honors for the second time in her career.

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Men’s Tennis (11-5) Bowdoin enjoyed another stellar season this year, again making the NCAAs and placing second at the NESCAC Championships. McAfee Burke ’05 solidified his place as one of the top tennis players in Division III, receiving NESCAC Player of the Year hon- ors. Mac won the NESCAC #1 Singles Flight and the #1 Doubles Flight paired with first- year standout Garrett Gates. Burke also received the Clarence Chaffee Award, given annually to the player who best combined and displayed a high standard of tennis cou- pled with the highest levels of sportsman- ship in the NESCAC, and was tabbed as the ITA Northeast Senior Player of the Year.

Outdoor Track and Field (Men 5th, Women 7th at NESCACs) The Polar Bear track team enjoyed a solid campaign, as both teams finished strong at the NESCAC Championship meet. The men captured two NESCAC Individual , as Joe Adu ’07 (110 hurdles) and Jon Todd ’05 (pole vault) won titles.

Rowing The Women’s four dominated the competi- tion at Philadelphia’s Dad Vail Regatta to win the gold for the second time in three years. The win capped a run that began with a sil- ver medal at the Head of The Charles in the fall, and included the New England Championship gold for the fifth consecutive year. The Men’s four took the silver at New Englands. The Dad Vail gold for the women made it the fifth year in a row for Bowdoin medalists in Philadelphia, where Bowdoin has accumulated 11 medals since 2000, six of them gold. This year, all six of Bowdoin’s entries made the Dad Vail semi-finals, with the mens pair also advancing to the finals to help Bowdoin finish fourth overall in the largest intercollegiate regatta in the country.

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Sports Done Right

By Alix Roy ’07

pen any local paper to the sports sec- dent input demonstrates its commitment to Otion and you are bombarded with promoting increased communication headlines celebrating various high school between athletes, parents, and coaches. teams and their all-scholastic selections, “Hearing the students’ take on problems only league titles, and MVP awards. A few pages strengthened our commitment to promote in, you find the junior-high results, a con- this recalibration and positive change in venient way to check out the “prospects” interscholastic sports,” said Cobb. for next year’s squad. Coverage of profes- Among those on the panel responsible for sional sports is confined to the back of the interviewing over 300 student-athletes was section, allowing proud parents and coaches Olympic Gold Medalist Joan Benoit to see the achievements of their kids adorn- Samuelson ’79, who is currently the Nordic ing the coveted page one. With the increas- ski team coach at Freeport Middle School. ing publicity attached to high school sports Samuelson stressed her belief in the impor- comes increased pressure for student ath- tance of “keep[ing] young people engaged in letes to perform at a higher level than ever, as many sports as possible,” a view shared by and lately it seems that every championship Albanese and Cobb. One of the main objec- story is accompanied by a column reporting tives of Sports Done Right, is to make sports incidents of out-of-control parents and more fun for everyone and encourage partici- overly intense coaches. pation by students who may have felt intimi- Some say that high school sports, dated by high-pressure coaches and teams. intended to be healthy, educational, and Albanese is first to sing the praises of the most important, fun, have begun to detract beneficial nature of sports programs that are significantly from the academic and social appropriately conducted. “In Maine we have learning environment of public schools. clearly seen that sports are important to This is exactly what prompted J. Duke developing the minds and bodies of our Albanese ’71, former Maine education com- young people, but we also know we’ve missioner, to become involved in the cre- strayed off course in connecting sports to the ation of Sports Done Right, a report broader mission of our schools in supporting designed to improve sports programs in Brunswick High School is one of the Maine high learning and citizenship,” he says. With Maine high school and middle school sys- schools participating in Sports Done Right. Top: teenage obesity at an all-time high and 70% Morse High School’s Dylan Moreau and tems by describing what healthy inter- Brunswick High’s Henry Aschauer battled for the of students abandoning organized sports by scholastic sports programs should look like. ball in boys soccer. Bottom: Brunswick’s Meghan age 13, sports programs that are accessible to Albanese, currently a policy advisor for the Burgess (left) and Mt. Ararat’s Michelle Glenn students of all skill-levels are desperately Great Maine Schools Project at the Senator fight for the ball in field hockey, with Brunswick goalie Sarah Wyman keeping an eye on the play. needed to teach the life-long benefits of George J. Mitchell (’54) Scholarship Photos courtesy of the Brunswick Times Record. sports and exercise. Research Institute, co-directed the Sports Albanese is quick to point out the large Done Right project with Robert A. Cobb, dean of the UMaine role played by Bowdoin affiliates in the production of the report. College of Education and Human Development, which headed “I can’t exaggerate the amount contributed by (Bowdoin Athletic the initiative. The 45-page report focuses on areas such as Director) Jeff Ward, Dick Card ’70, and (assistant football coach) sportsmanship, policy and organization, leadership, parents and John Wolgram.” Thanks in part to their support, Sports Done community, and health and fitness. Right has met with resounding success, with a recent feature Utilizing the opinions and suggestions submitted by hun- story in Parade magazine, and over 30 states requesting to use dreds of student athletes at a sports summit held last March, the document. Ideally, Albanese would like to see all schools vol- Sports Done Right attempts to help schools build healthy inter- untarily running their athletic programs according to Sports scholastic sports programs that contribute to the overall mis- Done Right. “We believe it’s something schools and communities sion of both school and community, while supporting quality will want to do because it’s the right thing for young people,” he coaching education. The report’s unprecedented reliance on stu- and Cobb wrote in an article for American School Board Journal.

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Turning the Corner uring reunion activities this past June, the cornerstone of the News From Campus Comes DBowdoin Chapel was re-laid, thus officially completing the restoration of the towers. It included a new time capsule placed inside the hollow where remnants of the original time capsule were to TV and the Web found when construction began in 2003. The contents of the new time capsule were based on recommendations by a small group of faculty and staff and primarily by six members of the Class of team of Bowdoin students is bringing news from campus 2005. Zachary Alt, Sarah Begin, Michael Doore, Brian Dunn, Carlie Ato television on “BCNews,” a new weekly program broad- Knight, and Sarah Mountcastle worked together for several months cast on the Bowdoin Cable Network (BCN) and made available to find appropriate materials to place in the 5 1/2-inch round by off campus via the College’s Web site. The program – begun a 22-inches long stainless steel canister. year ago by current juniors Priya Sridhar of Andover, Mass., and Alessandra Sozio of Dedham, Mass. – is produced with the Here’s what a future generation may find: help of more than two-dozen Bowdoin students serving as edi- • Two original silver plates, which were the remainder of tors, correspondents, technicians, and producers. the 1845 capsule “At BCNews we strive to offer comprehensive coverage of • Metal and wooden implements found along with the Bowdoin news, sports, and events, while at the same time original capsule offering campus perspectives about world news that affects • Workman’s hammer found in the Chapel’s rafters during the college students,” said Sridhar, who co-anchors the broad- 1998 interior renovations cast with sophomore Dana Borowitz of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. • One new silver plate listing the 2004-2005 academic “Through interviews with prominent college authorities and department chairs faculty, as well as the regular students who make up our • Key to the main Chapel doors audience, we aim to provide an unbiased look at the issues • Ceremonial key from the 2001 inauguration of President that shape Bowdoin life.” Barry Mills • A Bowdoin ID card • Red Sox 2004 World Series commemorative coin • The business cards of Director of Capital Projects Don Borkowski and the late Director of Facilities David D’Angelo • Apple iPod containing a recording of the Chapel rededication ceremony and photos and music selected by students • iPod charger, headphones, and connecting cord • A written statement from members of the Class of 2005 etched on stone • Description of capsule contents etched on stone

Priya Sridhar ’07 and Dana Borowitz ’08 Sridhar and Sozio bring practical experience to the effort, having both spent the summer months working in the field of broadcast journalism – Sozio at the New England Sports Network (NESN) in Boston, and Sridhar at ABC News in New York. Previous broadcasts of BCNews have included a tour of Bowdoin’s new environmentally friendly residence halls, an exclusive “hard hat tour” of other campus renovation and con- struction projects, footage from several athletic competitions, and interviews ranging from former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich to Bowdoin College President Barry Mills. The twenty minute program is broadcast at the top of the hour, twenty-four hours a day on the Bowdoin Cable Network, Bowdoin’s student-run closed-circuit television network. Parents, alumni and others can watch the most recent episode online on the BCN web site studorgs.bow- doin.edu/bcn.

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Bowdoin’s 2005 Reunion

eunion 2005 brought R sunny skies and nearly 2,000 people to campus in June. Participants enjoyed the traditional convocation parade and lobster bake, toured new facilities on campus, and delighted in seeing old friends.

Join the Renovated Museum!

he Bowdoin College Museum of Art is This exceptional group of alumni, students, Tlaunching a new membership program visitors, collectors, and artists will be well- to coincide with the renovation and expan- informed and involved with the Museum. sion program underway at the Walker Art Basic benefits include a subscription to the Building. The Museum’s 14,000 objects are Museum newsletter, a discount on purchases a nearly encyclopedic survey of western from the Museum Shop, invitations to spe- and non-western art from pre-history to cial events and exhibitions, and periodic the present. The collections instruct and membership surprises. Even during the con- delight students, faculty, alumni, and visi- struction period, special members’ events are tors from the campus, Maine, and beyond. in the works and a registry of the names of Membership levels range from “stu- Join the Museum while the renovation and expansion is underway for special charter member benefits. upper-level charter members will be publicly dent” to “director’s circle,” each level with displayed during the inaugural year. its own special benefits. Members will provide core funding for To request an informational membership brochure, call (207) exhibitions, publications, lectures, and other educational programs. 725-3276 or send an e-mail to [email protected].

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All Paths Lead (Back) to Bowdoin…

kay, well not all paths, but about 6.5% of them. That’s the Mary Demers ’87, Assistant Director of Human Resources Operecentage of Bowdoin employees who are alumni of the Mike Woodruff ’87, Director of the Outing Club College, 54 of 832 employees. In late August, amid the of a Jen Edwards ’89, Curator of Visual Resources, Department of Art new academic year, we managed to grab a few for this photo on the Pam Fletcher ’89, Assistant Professor, Art steps of Moulton Union. Here’s a full list by class year of your fel- Eric Foushee ’90, Director of Annual Giving low alumni serving the Common Good back here in Brunswick Nancy Eckel Foushee ’91, Crafts Center Coordinator (bold indicates those who are pictured): Jen Snow ’91, Educational Research Consultant, IT Emily Bray Levine ’92, Associate Director, Annual Giving Richard Morgan ’59, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Constitutional Harriet Richards ’92, Academic Program Coordinator, Africana Studies and International Law and Government Del Wilson ’92, Director of Facilities Administration Chris Potholm ’62, DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government Steve Meardon ’93, Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics Anthony Antolini ’63, Director of Bowdoin Chorus Gerry DiGiusto ’96, Visiting Instructor, Govt. Ray Fisher ’65, Manager of Environmental Health and Safety Fumio Sugihara ’96, Assistant Dean of Admissions & Director of Dick Mersereau ’69, Secretary of the College Multicultural Recruitment George Isaacson ’70, Adjunct Lecturer, Education Marney Pratt ’97, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Biology Barry Mills ’72, President of the College Kim Pacelli ’98, Director of Residential Life John Cross ’76, Secretary of Development and College Relations Sarah Bond Phinney ’99, Director of Alumni Relations S. Catherine Palevsky Longley ’76, Sr. Vice President for Finance and Erin Krivicky ’99, Assistant Dean of Admissions Administration & Treasurer Courtney Brecht ’00, Visual Arts Technician Jose Ribas ’76, Technician/Preparator, Museum of Art Stacey Jones ’00, Director of First Year & Multicultural Student Programs Anne Jones ’77, Application Reader, Admissions Erin Jaworski ’01, Lab Technician Michael Cain ’78, Research Associate, Mathematics Caitlin MacDonald ’01, Coordinator of Community Service Programs Suzanne Lovett ’80, Associate Professor, Psychology Eric Morin ’02, Assistant Coach, Football Herman Holbrook ’81, Admissions Information Systems Coordinator Mark Gilbride ’02, Assistant Coach, Basketball Anne Springer ’81, Associate Dean of Admissions Katie Sheridan ’02, Co-head Coach, Women’s Soccer Lynne Pennell Atkinson ’81, Govt. Dept Coordinator Colin Joyner ’03, Assistant Coach, Men’s & Women’s Tennis Lisa Bouchard ’82, Adminstrative Assistant, Capital Giving Kate Westley ’03, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Intern, Museum of Art Sara Eddy ’82, Alumni Programs Coordinator Jerry Edwards ’04, Security Officer/Production Administrator, WBOR Julie McGee ’82, Visiting Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Julie Barnes ’04, Assistant Director of Residential Life Randy Shaw ’82, Vice President for Development & Alumni Relations Kate Leach ’04, Assistant Director of Summer Programs Bridget Spaeth ’86, Access Services Assistant, H-L Ginette Saimprevil ’04, Assistant Director of Residential Life Margaret Allen ’86, Assistant Director of Institutional Research Johanna Morrison ’04, Admin Intern, Student Aid Melissa Walters ’86, Mid-Level Provider, Health Services Sarah Mountcastle ’05, Service Learning Coordinator, Community Service

BOWDOIN FALL 2005 13 college&maine achievements

Ambassador Thomas Pickering ‘53 Awarded Bowdoin Prize

homas R. Pickering, Class of 1953, was awarded the 14th A native of Orange, N.J., Tom Pickering graduated cum laude in TBowdoin Prize, the highest honor that the College bestows 1953. In 1954, he earned a master’s degree from the Fletcher upon one of its members, at a special ceremony held on campus School of Law and Diplomacy at . He was awarded May 12, 2005. a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Melbourne in The Bowdoin Prize was established in 1928 as a memorial to Australia, and earned a second master’s degree in 1956. In 1984, he William John Curtis, LL.D., Class of 1875, by his wife and chil- was awarded an honorary doctor-of-laws degree from Bowdoin, and dren. It is awarded every five has received similar honors from 12 other universities. years “to the graduate or for- Ambassador Pickering entered on active duty in the U.S. Navy mer member of the College, or from 1956 to 1959, and later served in the Naval Reserve to the member of its Faculty at the grade of Lieutenant Commander. Between 1959 and 1961, he time of the award, who shall served in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the State have made during the period Department, in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the most distinctive contribu- from 1962 to 1964 in Geneva as political adviser to the U.S. tion in any field of human Delegation to the 18-Nation Disarmament Conference. endeavor.” It is awarded to He served as U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs those who, in the judgment of beginning in May 1997. Prior to that, he served briefly as the presi- the award committee, are “rec- dent of the Eurasia Foundation, a Washington-based organization ognized as having won nation- that makes small grants and loans in the states of the former Soviet al and not merely local distinc- Union. tion, or who, in the judgment He holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest of the committee, is fairly enti- in the U.S. Foreign Service. In a diplomatic career spanning five tled to be so recognized.” decades, he has served as U.S. ambassador to the Russian Ambassador Pickering was Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and the Hashemite chosen to receive the prize for Kingdom of Jordan. He also served on assignments in Zanzibar and President Barry Mills with Thomas Pickering and the Bowdoin Prize his distinguished career as a Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. statesman and diplomat. His In 1983 and in 1986, Ambassador Pickering won the nomination for the prize was confirmed by the Committee of Award, Distinguished Presidential Award and, in 1996, the Department of the members of which are the President of Harvard University, the State’s highest award – the Distinguished Service Award. He is a President of Yale University, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the Judicial Court of Maine. Council on Foreign Relations.

Katherine Dauge-Roth Receives 2005 Karofsky Award

ssistant Professor of Romance Languages cal scenes performed by stu- nuns, which she plans to pub- AKatherine Dauge-Roth has been named dents and sophisticated dis- lish in her upcoming book, the recipient of the 2005 Sydney B. Karofsky cussions of issues in contem- Signing the Body in Early Prize for Junior Faculty. The Karofsky Award porary , informed by Modern France. is given annually to “an outstanding Web resources. Dauge-Roth Dauge-Roth earned her Bowdoin teacher who best demonstrates the also has taken her students to A.B. from Colby College and ability to impart knowledge, inspire enthusi- Salem, Mass., on Halloween her M.A. and Ph.D. from the asm, and stimulate intellectual curiosity.” as fieldwork for her popular University of Michigan, Ann Dauge-Roth is widely known as an inno- course on the history of the Arbor. She joined the Bowdoin vative and stimulating teacher who ignites in occult. faculty in 1999. students of all levels a passion for French Her research areas The Karofsky Prize is given language and culture. Her teaching interests include highly original by members of the Karofsky span disciplines, from Medieval and early examinations of demonic family, including Peter S. modern French literature, to explorations of possession, religious and Karofsky, M.D. ’62, Paul I. gender, medicine, and history. mystical writing, and the history of tattoo- Karofsky ’66, and David M. Karofsky ’93, to Dauge-Roth’s teaching methods are equal- ing. Current work examines 17th-century honor distinction in teaching by untenured ly diverse. Her courses have included theatri- body-marking practices among French members of the faculty.

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Achievements

aintings by Assistant Professor of Art Education with a 2005 CASE/Wealth ID PJames Mullen were featured in a one- Award in the Overall Fund-Raising person exhibition, “Water’s Edge: Landscape Performance category in July. . . .Bowdoin Along the Coast of Maine,” at the was named Volunteer/Community Partner Sherry French Gallery in New York City of the Year by Volunteers of America this fall. . . .Christian Potholm, Bowdoin’s Northern New England in May. . . . DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Government, was the keynote speaker at a Studies Kristen Ghodsee has been named a luncheon following Maine’s celebration of 2005-2006 Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS) in Washington, D.C. The highly selective

Christian Potholm

Steven R. Cerf the Red Mass in September. The Roman Catholic ceremony, which dates back to the 13th century, honors the values of justice Opera in September. . . . For the second and fairness, and marks the start of a new year in a row, Bowdoin has risen in the col- judicial year. . . .A recent major grant from lege rankings published annually by U.S. the National Science Foundation will sup- News & World Report. Bowdoin is ranked port continuing research at the Bowdoin 6th (with Pomona College) among “Best Scientific Station on aging in birds, with a Liberal Arts Colleges” in the latest rankings. focus on Leach’s Bowdoin is also included among the “top storm-petrels, which ten” liberal arts colleges for “lowest accept- are among the most ance rate” and greatest “economic diversity.” long-lived bird species . . . Paul Friedland, associate professor of known. . . .Bowdoin history, was one of only 60 scholars nation- College has the best wide selected this year to receive an ACLS campus food in the Fellowship. In addition, Friedland received a country, according to fellowship from the National Endowment for the latest rankings in the Humanities (NEH). Both awards will The Best 361 Colleges, the new edition of allow Friedland to continue working on a the Princeton Review’s “best colleges” book about public executions in France in guide. In the book, the College is described the 18th century. . . .The Bowdoin College Kristen Ghodsee as well run, with great lab and computer Web site www.bowdoin.edu was recently facilities, library, food, and dorms. . . Steven named among the “best of the web” at the residential fellowship will bring together 23 R. Cerf, George Lincoln Skolfield Jr. MESDA 2005 Technology Awards, a ceremo- scholars and practitioners from the United Professor of German, delivered a pre-opera ny honoring Maine’s top technology compa- States, Russia, Canada, France, and Ireland lecture for the performance of Richard nies. . . . Bowdoin was also honored by the for a year of intensive research in their Strauss’s Capriccio at the New York City Council for Advancement and Support of respective disciplines.

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What’s In a Name?

hen Ralph Crowley’s great grandfather founded what is Personal Best W now Polar Beverages in 1882, little did he know that the polar bear would later become the mascot of another important Crowley family tradition. “We were the Polar bears before hen you’re one of Bowdoin was,” laughs Ralph ’73, in whose Bowdoin paw prints Wthe top female followed daughter Kathryn ’02 and son Andrew ’09. When people distance runners in the find out that Ralph, who now runs Polar, is a Bowdoin alum they country like Emily usually think that the company took its name from his alma LeVan ’95, you might mater’s mascot (the polar bear became Bowdoin’s symbol in the not expect to be passed 1920s), which is fine with him. by another female com- In fact, the connection has worked out in a fun way the past petitor in a road race in couple of years. In the middle of a heat wave two summers ago, Maine. (You know what’s the Bowdoin admissions office contacted Ralph to see if they coming next, could purchase bottled Polar water to hand out to prospective right?)…Joan Benoit students and their families as folks toured the warm campus. Samuelson ’79, squeaked Ralph told them he’d put them on a “water scholarship” and by LeVan to take the began supplying bottles of water with the Polar name and polar women’s title of the bear logo. And, he even benefited directly when he and Andrew 2005 L.L. Bean 10K in toured campus themselves last summer. “Drinking Polar Water Freeport this past July, while we toured Bowdoin made Dewey feel at home right away,” crossing the line a mere Ralph jokes. two seconds in front of The admissions office has received many remarks from thirsty her fellow Mainer and tour participants, who get a kick out of the Polar water, even if alumna. they might not know the coincidental connection. Emily LeVan ’95 represented the United States in the at the IAAF World Track and It’s hardly discourag- But, where did the Polar of Polar Beverage come from? “It’s just Field Championships in Helsinki this past ing to be narrowly beat- one of those names that went well with water,” says Ralph. “Arctic August, where she posted a personal best. en by an Olympic gold Polar was the original name of the water part of the business, and medalist, and anyway, they acquired a beverage company in the early 1900s.” LeVan’s had a good year. She returned to competitive running So, if you happen to find yourself cruising on I-290 through in October 2004, just eight months after giving birth to her Worcester, Mass., and notice the giant inflatable polar bear near daughter Maddie (with husband Brad Johnson ’96), and exit 11, you’ll know that you’re not far from the headquarters of became the first woman to run a sub-2:40 in the 2004 Maine Polar Beverages, and not that far from Bowdoin, either. Marathon, finishing fourth overall. She finished 17th in the women’s division at the 2004 New York City Marathon, was the top American female at the 2005 , and won the TD/BankNorth Beach to Beacon Maine women’s title in early August. Phew! After the Beach to Beacon, LeVan ran to pack her bags for Helsinki, Finland, having been selected just days earlier as a late addition to the U.S. Track and Field team for the IAAF World Track and Field Championships. There, on August 14, she kicked out a personal best, 2:38:32, and placed 35th over- all as the third U.S. runner across the line. What’s next for this new mom, U.S. Track Team member, teacher, and nursing student? (Some water, a nap?) “I’m taking it easy for the rest of the fall, “ she says. “A little rest and relaxation is in order. I was planning on running the Twin Cities marathon in October, but after my trip to Helsinki, I decided to take a bit of a break.” LeVan is looking toward the Boston Marathon next April, and will “probably run some shorter races this winter to pre- pare” for that. Expect to hear more from this late bloomer. It seems she’s just hitting her stride.

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Mo’ Form, Mo’ Function

here it is, number 60 in the exhibition head shaving is cool. It’s been the most T catalogue, just before Teddy Treu meaningful part of this for me.” Grønbech’s Tea Filter, and near Leo HeadBlade has also donated more than Gerstenzang’s Q-tip: Todd Greene’s 1,000 HeadBlades to soldiers in Iraq, with HeadBlade Razor. Last year, MoMA, QNS, another 1,000 donated from HeadBlade cus- the Museum of Modern Art, Queens, pre- tomers, in support of Operation AC, which sented an exhibited entitled “Humble sends supplies to troops overseas. Masterpieces”—more than 100 simple HeadBlade’s Pic and User of the Month sec- objects that people use every day, that tions are filled with letters from soldiers in “while modest in size and price” are “indis- Iraq and pictures of U.S. Army tanks pensable masterpieces of design, deserving patrolling those streets emblazoned with of our admiration.” stickers of the HeadBlade logo. Greene ’89 designed Headblade in the “It’s just cool to think that people wake up late ’90s after finding conventional razors in the morning and use my product,” Greene awkward and inadequate to shave his head, says. “There’s a lot of gratification in thinking which he did every two or three days. and seeing something through. I followed “It was like trying to use a unicycle or a HeadBlade, a razor designed by Todd Greene ’89, was through and made my vision a reality.” rake,” Greene says, “It wasn’t convenient.” recently added to the permanent collection in The And, in March, Greene received a letter So, the accomplished artist designed an Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA, joining from the cura- the likes of the whisk, Rubik’s Cube Puzzle, Post-it Note, ergonomic handle that fit snugly in the hand, and the electric hairdryer. tor of The close to the pate, and that accepted conven- Department of tional razor blades. Function, meet Form. Architecture “Then,” he says, “It was just a matter of has coined the phrase, “head care,” akin to and Design at getting the HeadBlade name and product skin care, offering special shaving cream, MoMA, alert- out there.” moisturizing lotions (in “glossy” and ing him that Which he has done, marketing every bit “matte”), and recently introduced an electric MoMA had as effectively as designing. Since launching trimmer to the product line. added the HeadBlade company, selling the razor Greene sees HeadBlade as “a lifestyle HeadBlade to just through his website and filling orders in brand…People wear HeadBlade caps and t- its permanent his apartment/corporate headquarters in shirts—people don’t walk around wearing collection. 1999, Greene and his design have brought shirts that read Gillette. We’ve evolved into a “We’re a head shaving from the fringe into the main- company that makes home head care cool.” small compa- stream (and even changed the direction in One need only browse the “Pic of the ny, and this which heads are shaved; you push Month” and “User of the Month” galleries means a lot HeadBlade across your scalp rather than pull on (www.headblade.com) to understand for us. When it, to keep better contact with the skin and what he means. Not just artists, actors, and I first came to avoid lateral movement that cause nicks athletes, the HeadBlade faithful are busi- out with “I’d love to get Donald Trump to shave and cuts). HeadBlade is now available in nessman and regular Joes and, noticeably, HeadBlade, his head to raise money for charity,” more than 10,000 stores and the company soldiers and cancer patients. people said, says Todd Greene ’89, whose company ‘who shaves makes the HeadBlade razor, when asked has celebrity endorsers like comedian Howie Mostly under his hat—which is saying a who he’d most like to see use his product. Mandel, and a fleet of HeadBlade-painted lot for the ardent promoter—Greene does a their head?’ If anyone could get the Donald to lose vehicles that make the event rounds with lot of work for children with cancer, whose The cool the , it’d be Todd Greene. some of the 7,000 members of the treatments may cause them to lose their thing is that HeadBlade Street Team—fervent HeadBlade hair. “There’s a stigma associated with hair now it’s on record. It’s part of history. People users who sign up to help spread the word, a loss,” he explains. “In the past, cancer talk about the Michael Jordan effect in popu- bald body of volunteer employees. patients often shaved their heads, but it was larizing head shaving but, in 20 or 30 years, Time Magazine named HeadBlade one of something they were self-conscious about. HeadBlade will be seen as the razor that the Top 10 Designs in 2000, and the company But, kids look at HeadBlade, and it says changed head shaving.”

BOWDOIN FALL 2005 17 BOWDOIN’S 200 TH COMMENCEMENT

18 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 uring Bowdoin’s 200th com- mencement, President Mills Dencouraged the graduates to think about what happens next in their lives. “Choosing a career is necessary and important, but you must also choose the manner in which you will pursue your goals,” he said. “What you will come to know — if you don’t already — is that the past four years have pre- pared you to serve effectively in leader- ship roles in your professions and com- munities across America and across the world. They have prepared you to make a living, but they have also pre- pared you to make a difference.” Senior Class President Peter D. Hastings tied the present to the past by comparing his class with the Class of 1806, Bowdoin’s first graduating class. “If we expect to honor our parents, our college and our own hard work,” Hastings said, “we must continue to seek ideals that we can be passionate about. We must pursue our passions with all the energy we can muster. We must combine our intellect with our ideals, and our pride in the past with our faith in the future. The Class of 1806 would have expected no less.”

BOWDOIN FALL 2005 19 How Brett Wickard ’90 parlayed Bull Moose Music into a multi-million dollar record store chain.

By Edgar Allen Beem Photography by Michele Stapleton

20 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 hen Brett Wickard ’90 arrived at Bowdoin in a city. When it was suggested to him that he “try from Downers Grove, Illinois, in the fall of Bowdoin,” Brett came to Brunswick for a visit and fell in love 1986, he was a self-described “science and with the College at first sight. math nerd” possessed with major computer “I had macaroni and cheese — my favorite — at the w skills and a “deranged fantasy” that he was Moulton Union,” says Brett of his favorable first impression of going to major in chemistry in order to Bowdoin. “People were way more real. Bowdoin improve the catalytic con- had a great way of making you verter in automobiles and feel you had a community thereby help save the planet there.” from certain destruction. When he applied early Nineteen years later, decision, Brett was aware that Brett Wickard has failed Bowdoin was seeking diversity to achieve his scientific in its student body so, as a goal, yet he is not a com- middle class white male from plete failure. As founder the Midwest, “I wrote that I and president of Bull Moose was so generic and boring that Music, Wickard now over- I would make everyone else sees a thriving record store feel more diverse.” chain with 10 stores in Maine Another appeal Bowdoin and New Hampshire, 104 held for Brett was the fact it employees, and annual sales was a Division III school in “in the low eight figures.” athletics, so there was a good “I’ve already gotten more chance he could continue his out of business than I ever cross country and long dis- dreamed,” says Wickard, 37, tance track career in college, as he sits behind his desk in something he could not have Bull Moose Music’s third done if he stayed home and floor corporate offices on attended the University of Monument Square in Illinois. Portland. Were this not the “I worked my butt off at age of geek chic, Wickard running, but I was mediocre,” would seem an unlikely Brett confides. “And I worked CEO, a friendly, low-key, self- my butt off at music, but I was deprecating young man mediocre.” dressed for success in blue Dave Wilby ’91, Brett’s for- jeans and a rumpled short- mer roommate and close sleeve sports shirt. And make friend, attests to the accuracy no mistake about it, Bull of Brett’s musical self-assess- Moose Music is a true home- ment. grown Bowdoin business success story. “Brett is an unusually modest person,” Wilby says, “but when it comes to his musical abilities his modesty is well war- ranted.” From Polar Bear to Bull Moose Since trumpet was not a great rock or party instrument, Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Brett was a distance Brett took up guitar and keyboard with varying degrees of runner, a trumpet player, a self-taught computer programmer, success. He recalls, for instance, “torturing” his fellow stu- and an outstanding student, though he dismisses his academ- dents by performing duets on the Quad with Sean Hale ’91, ic achievements with characteristic modesty. being the fourth member of a U2 cover band that called itself “Most standardized tests were built for people like me,” he the Joshua Trio, and rocking away happily with Randolph says. “I got better scores than I deserved on the SATs.” Mantooth and Fleshblanket, a 1980s cover band whose reper- While at Downers Grove North High School, Brett came toire Brett describes as “the cheesier the better, but it was, oh, east to attend a summer session at Harvard. He had been so much fun.” thinking about Harvard or MIT, but that summer in “All the bands I played in were based at Delta Sig, so the Cambridge convinced him that he didn’t want to go to college second semester of my senior year I joined Delta Sigma just to

BOWDOIN FALL 2005 21 pay my dues.” Over the years, Brett has been content Between his sophomore and junior to allow an apocryphal story about how year, Brett traded the piano keyboard for the store got its name to be repeated in the computer keyboard when he took a the press — that he had named it after summer internship with a software com- Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party, a ref- pany, an experience that ultimately erence to being an independent alterna- inspired him to go into business for him- tive. In fact, he says, that’s just pure bull. self. When he was paid $7,000 for writ- “Any Bowdoin student would know ing a very profitable optical character that Bull Moose was a track-slash-drink- recognition program for fax machines, ing club. Our first t-shirt was a moose Brett felt he had been exploited. wearing track .” Determined not to get ripped off again, In its first summer season, Bull Moose he began brainstorming about what sort Music limped along on sales of about of business he might start to earn some $100 a day, bleeding red ink and forcing money the following summer. Brett to run up his credit card debt. Dave When DeOrsey’s Record Store in Wilby, who was rooming with Brett that Brunswick closed, leaving Bowdoin stu- summer, says he is amazed Brett knew dents without a music source, Brett whether he was making or losing money began telling classmates that he was at all, given “the fact that he’s a slob.” going to open a record store. And that’s “It’s amazing he could keep any exactly what he did, albeit in a some- records straight,” says Wilby. “He had what naïve and unsystematic way. this beat-up Honda and there were always important business documents underfoot. There were three of us living A Moose is Born together and you’d wake up in the morn- With his $7,000 nest egg and a $30,000 ing and walk to the bathroom stepping loan, Brett launched Bull Moose Music in over last night’s receipts.” the summer of 1989. His business plan To help keep the marginal start-up amounted to looking up record distribu- business afloat, Brett hired Chris Brown tors in the Yellow Pages and ordering ’91 as his first employee. Brown, who is one album by every artist and band that now Vice President for Operations of had released at least two albums, figuring Bull Moose Music, played bass in such if you got to make a second album you long-forgotten bands as Chicken Bucket must be good. and Sam the Waggon and, with his “I had one copy of everyone with more shoulder-length hair, mustache and goat- than one album out,” Brett says, “but I ee, looks very much like the poster had the wrong album by everybody.” image of rock legend Frank Zappa that Not having figured out yet that loca- adorns his office next door to Brett’s. tion is everything to a retail business, While Ellen Teegarden, Bull Moose’s Brett opened Bull Moose Music on hard- first customer and second employee, to-find Middle Street in Brunswick right minded the counter with Chris Brown, next door to the Army recruiting station. Brett and classmate Cheney Brand wrote “The Army recruiter was great. He gave code furiously in the back of the store, me the Army’s ‘Be All You Can Be’ bags creating a billing program for psycholo- because I hadn’t thought of bags, and he gists in order to help pay the bills. told me if it didn’t work out he would “Chris managed the store full-time. put me in the Army.” Cheney and I programmed full-time,” Befitting a rock ’n’ roll record store, Brett recalls. “Cheney paid me the same Brett Wickard’s Bull Moose Music was amount I was paying Chris. We were launched “with a little help from my running on fumes.” friends.” When he realized a few days In search of more visibility and foot before the grand opening that he didn’t traffic, Brett moved Bull Moose from know how he was going to display all Middle Street to the Tontine Mall on the CDs he had purchased, Brett went to Maine Street. When a UPS driver sug- a party at Bowdoin’s Brunswick gested that he would do better with a Apartments and recruited some buddies storefront on Maine Street, Brett moved — Chris Brown ’91, Dave Nutes ’91 and Bull Moose to its present location at the Dave Wilby ’91 — to help him build corner of Maine and School, right at the wooden bins. Hilary Bush ’91 designed foot of Park Row where every Bowdoin the Bull Moose Music logo. student walking downtown passes by.

22 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 Below right: Brett Wickard at work in his office; below: Wickard with Chris Brown

BOWDOIN FALL 2005 23 To this day, the Brunswick store (and several of the other nothing to do with commercial debt, but Geci convinced him Bull Moose Music stores) has the grungy look and feel of a that “if you borrowed money, you could grow your business a college town underground record shop. There’s a lot of indie lot faster.” rock, punk and alternative rock in the bins, and Brett confess- “The first time I called him, he wouldn’t do anything with es that his own tastes still run to “whiny college alternative me,” Ben Geci recalls. “He didn’t believe me. He thought I rock,” bands like the Smiths, Green Day, the Killers and was trying to screw him. But he slowly came around to the Coldplay. But Brett says the key to Bull Moose’s success has idea that as long as he was making more money off the been non-judgmental musical inclusiveness. money he borrowed than the bank was, he was in good Brett was big into a band called Camper van Beethoven shape.” when he opened his first store and might have Bull Moose Music stores thus appeared in been expected to cast a jaundiced ear Sanford in 1997, Waterville in 1998, on a pop band such as Bon Jovi, but he Bangor in 1999, Salem, New Hampshire, experienced a bit of an epiphany when in 2001, and near the Maine Mall in a young girl came into his store all Scarborough in 2003. The Scarborough excited about a new Bon Jovi album. store was a major departure for Bull “I realized there was no difference Moose, being both a 10,000 square foot between the love Bon Jovi fans have for warehouse store that supplies the other their band and my love for Camper Van nine stores and a clean, well-lighted Beethoven. It’s the core of what we do. space quite unlike the funky poster-plas- Our job is to find music you like.” tered look of early Bull Moose outlets. “Brett has new offices now,” says Ben Geci, “but 10 years ago I wouldn’t let Bull Moose Gets my boss, who now runs with Brett, visit Serious his office, it was such a mess.” When Bull Moose started breaking even In fact, a visitor to most Bull Moose that first year, Brett Wickard started get- Music stores still would be surprised to ting serious. He was still studying learn that the Bull Moose operation is chemistry and economics, but he was actually a model of hi-tech efficiency. now on a fast-track from academe to “Efficiency is the equivalent of a commerce. weapon in business,” explains Brett. “My little business side kicked in,” he “Because we literally lived off nothing, says. “I realized this industry is based we learned how to run a business on on scale. We needed to buy direct and nothing. Our overhead is 10 percent of in order to buy direct we needed to buy sales. Our competitors’ overhead is as more.” much as 34 percent of sales.” And in order to buy more, Bull Moose One of the ways Bull Moose optimizes Music would need more stores. So, “it efficiency is by using the Willow Retail was all guns to get to the right size.” Suite software that Brett wrote to keep Brett opened his second store in track of his inventory and sales. North Windham in 1991, skipping over “Our inventory replenishment sys- Portland for the time being “because I was afraid of the city.” tem,” he says, “was inspired by the math surrounding high Trying to run two stores and do everything himself, Brett energy physics like electron clouds.” ended up injuring a disc in his neck while frantically loading Wickard’s Willow Retail Suite program factors the probabili- heavy boxes of CDs. Temporarily sidelined by the injury, he ty that a title will sell into an equation that calculates the like- made another important discovery. lihood that Bull Moose “will have what the customer is look- “The stores ran just fine without me there every day,” Brett ing for at the best margin for the store.” Brett says that the says. “I have a great staff. I think the stores actually ran better fact that he could take the time to write the Willow software when I wasn’t there.” is “a tribute to what Chris does.” No longer feeling the need to micro-manage his business, Chris Brown, who returned to Bull Moose in 1995 after tak- Brett was free to concentrate on growing it. He opened a store ing a few years off to pursue his music career, says, “I’m really in Portland’s Old Port in 1993, one in Lewiston in 1994, and just the other guy here, the sidekick.” But Brett knows better. another in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1996. “Chris is able to shoulder so much of the operation of the When flyers started appearing around Portsmouth that read, business that it gives me time to do other things. I’m still the “Boycott chains! Buy local!,” Brett thought Bull Moose was president, but he does a huge amount of the stuff around being welcomed to town as an independent local record store. here.” Then he realized that Bull Moose, with five stores, was the Bull Moose is now licensing the Willow software to three chain being targeted by a local record shop. other music store chains and has a half dozen waiting to come Brett experienced another “corporate moment” when he got on-line, giving the program “collaborative filtering” of sales a call from commercial banker Ben Geci ’92 of People’s data from many more stores. Heritage Bank (now TD Banknorth). At first, Brett wanted Bull Moose customers know that Bull Moose stores are far

24 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 more likely to have rare, hard-to-find titles than most big box $190,000 this year, Bull Moose Music pledged $25 to everyone stores. That’s both because Bull Moose buys and sells used who participated in the September 18 Walk to Cure Diabetes. CDs and because Brett Wickard has figured out something he Brett’s easy-going demeanor changes, and he becomes visibly believes his larger competitors have missed — while he may emotional when he talks about how he has been buoyed by the only sell one copy of a hard-to-find CD, the customer who support he has received from business colleagues. When Stuart buys rare titles is likely someone who spends a lot of money was first diagnosed with diabetes, the president of one of the on music. country’s largest music store and distribution companies, him- “The title isn’t profitable,” Brett says, “but the customer is.” self a Type I diabetic, called Brett and gave him a pep talk. Brett “In the early years of Bull Moose, when Bull Moose was vul- then wrote a personal fundraising letter to people within the nerable,” says Chris Brown, “what got us through is the fact industry and was floored by the response. His eyes mist up that Brett is not greedy. He used all the money he made to when he reports, “Our biggest competitor — Newbury Comics open new stores.” — gave.” In a sense, Brett Wickard has taken the sense of communi- ty he found at Bowdoin and imparted it to his business, Time to Smell the Roses making Bull Moose Music an integral part of each communi- It would be easy to imagine Brett Wickard as one of those ty it serves. driven, get-a-life cyber-clones Silicon Valley is famous for, “I cannot imagine a better place to open retail space than working 24-7 and existing on pizza, Diet Coke and tunes, Maine,” he says. “People like to shop locally, and they get to but the truth is that he is a family man more determined know your story quickly. I could never have pulled off Bull than ever to spend as much time as he can with his wife and Moose in Illinois.” children. And while Bull Moose Music could grow much faster and Brett met artist Louisa Boehmer ’85 eleven years ago on a much bigger, Brett Wickard is content for the moment to blind date (lunch in Tommy’s Park while an a cappella group enjoy what he has created. Oh, he’d open a couple more was performing) and the couple were married eight years ago. stores in a heartbeat if the right deal came along, but he’s They live in Cumberland with their two children — Lydia, 7, committed to “smart growth.” and Stuart, 5. “I’m not going to grow just for growth’s sake,” he insists, “Without Louisa in my life,” Brett says, “I would not take but then he adds a thought that lets you know Brett Wickard time to smell the roses.” is still the same practical idealist who arrived at Bowdoin back Brett was devastated a few years ago when son Stuart was in 1986. “A business should always be aggressive,” he says. diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, but, rallying to the cause, he “I believe our economy is like a steamroller, and you’re always became the corporate fundraiser for the Maine chapter of the running in front of that steamroller. We still plan to take over Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. With a goal of raising the known universe. We really do.”

BOWDOIN FALL 2005 25 Bowdoin and the Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project  ONE OF DOZENS OF PROGRAMS THROUGH WHICH BOWDOIN'S CENTER FOR THE COMMON GOOD HELPS TO COORDINATE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, THE MAINE VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT, IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW SERVICE OFFERS BENEFITS TO THE PROVIDERS AS MUCH AS TO THE RECIPIENTS.

BY TRACY TEARE PHOTOGRAPHS BY DEAN ABRAMSON

26 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 very year, about 20 Bowdoin students get an associate justice of the Maine Supreme Court. Dana was chair up-close-and-personal look at Maine’s judi- of the Maine State Bar Association legal aid committee when cial system. Instead of a professor’s lecture, that group saw the need that led to the creation of VLP. He Ethey hear the tales of impoverished Mainers helped obtain funding by securing a grant from the American who are down on their luck. Instead of lec- Bar Association and convincing the state to set up an oppor- ture notes, they record the relevant details of troubled lives. tunity for Maine lawyers to voluntarily contribute to VLP And instead of abstract positions, they stand when they paid annual dues. up for the rights of real people facing evic- But VLP didn’t just fill a gap for legal tion, divorce, and personal bankruptcy. But services, it also broke new ground in how they’re not part of a special pre-law seminar. those services are delivered. “One innova- They’re volunteers for the Maine Volunteer tion was to get Portland lawyers to volun- Lawyers Project (VLP). teer and help place cases with other lawyers The VLP, which provides free legal assis- around the state,” says Justice Dana. These tance with civil matters to low-income Maine “Lawyers of the Day” became an effective residents, has had Bowdoin on its team from way to tap Portland’s large supply of lawyers its start in 1983. Since then, VLP has taken who could do the legwork of connecting more than 175,000 calls on its volunteer- clients in need with lawyers around the state staffed toll-free hotline and referred more who had district court expertise. Putting than 27,000 pro bono cases. Shirley, a disabled non-lawyer volunteers on the hotlines to fil- woman caught in a tangle of regulations that ter calls was another first, and an important threatened her social security benefits; one. “You don’t have to be a lawyer to deter- Michael, a father who struggled to maintain mine if a caller has a legal problem, or if custody of his son; and Karen, a nurse wrong- they qualify for legal assistance,” says Dana. fully accused of abuse on the job, are just a These approaches have helped VLP serve far few of the many pulled out of crisis by VLP. “You don’t have to more clients than would be possible with The demand is enormous, evidenced by the be a lawyer to the limited staff and resources available to 600 to 1,000 calls to VLP each week. “We determine if a the program. (Every year, the efforts of vol- could triple our volunteers and still not meet caller has a legal unteers are worth more than four times the need,” says Lin Martin-Hunt, VLP’s volun- problem, or if they VLP’s annual budget). teer coordinator since the project’s founding. qualify for legal VLP’s Lawyers of the Day include Bowdoin As one of two statewide providers of civil assistance.” alumna Margaret Minister O’Keefe ’89. An legal services to low-income citizens, VLP attorney at Pierce Atwood LLP in Portland, handles mostly family and consumer law cases. “Sixty percent O’Keefe worked the hotlines as a Bowdoin student, and now of the cases involve divorce, parental rights, child support and spends two days a year recruiting attorneys all over Maine to custody, and so on. Another 25 percent are consumer law, take VLP cases. “As a student, my time at VLP really opened mainly personal bankruptcy,” says Mary Richardson, director my eyes to the power of the judicial system, particularly on of the Project. “Our work involves a huge educational piece,” issues of social justice and poverty,” says O’Keefe. “As a she continues. “The majority of our callers receive appropriate lawyer, it inspired me to fulfill my obligation to help the legal information and client education materials via the hot- under-represented, and I always strive to have a pro bono mat- line. We are only able to match a small percentage of these ter open.” In addition to donating time and expertise to the callers with volunteer attorneys who provide limited or full Maine Bar Foundation, O’Keefe’s pro bono work currently pro bono representation, so the assistance callers get from includes serving as a guardian ad litem and providing repre- Hotline volunteers is vital.” sentation in a four-year-old class action . Bowdoin’s Contributions An Education by Phone Bowdoin’s involvement began when Martin-Hunt pinpointed Like the volunteer lawyers, hotline volunteers are essential to colleges as a good source for volunteers. “It seemed a natu- VLP’s operation. And of those who work the phones, Bowdoin ral place to go,” she recalls. “A number of the attorneys students play a vital role. “They bring energy, idealism, and involved at the time were Bowdoin alumni. We contacted incredibly quick minds,” says Richardson. “They bring a lot of other colleges too, but right from the start it was Bowdoin positive energy, and they have compassion. That’s as impor- en masse.” tant as legal knowledge, because our callers have already hit One pivotal Bowdoin alumnus is Justice Howard Dana ’62, so many brick walls when they reach us.” In terms of sheer

BOWDOIN FALL 2005 27 “They bring energy, idealism, and incredibly quick minds. They bring a lot of posi- tive energy, and they have compassion.That’s as important as legal knowledge, because our callers have already hit so many brick walls when they reach us.”

Group photo, upper right, back row: Fred Fedynyshyn ’05, Emma Cooper- Mullin '07, and Conor Carpenter ’05; front row: Ben Yormak ’06, Kate Thomas ’08, and Kate Papanek ’07 numbers, the impact of the students’ nine shifts a week is also that some 300 students have dedicated their time over the clear. “When they’re on semester break, we can fall behind by years. What is perhaps unexpected is that students get back as 300 to 400 calls,” adds Martin-Hunt. “Needless to say, we are much or more than they give. “VLP serves a need in the com- always grateful when they return.” munity,” says David E. Warren ’76, Bowdoin trustee, managing Students don’t have to be law school-bound government partner at Verrill Dana, LLP, in Portland, and chair of the majors to help. “It’s more about your makeup,” says Ben statewide 2005 Campaign for Justice, which raises funds to Yormak ’06, VLP’s on-campus coordinator. “It takes disci- support VLP and other Maine legal services providers. “But it’s pline and a bit of a thick skin, because sometimes the also an extraordinary learning opportunity for students com- callers are rough around the edges and the stories you hear ing from an environment like Bowdoin to understand the are very sobering.” problems and desperation that the general populace faces To find the right students and then prepare them, Martin- every day.” Hunt first screens student volunteers through an interview “They develop more empathy and an understanding of process. Some are then selected to undergo three training ses- poverty, as well as the role the legal system can play in sions (plus supplementary breaking the cycle that keeps our refreshers later on) on legal and clients in poverty,” explains ethical issues, as well as the nuts Richardson. “It’s incredibly valu- and bolts of taking calls and han- able to understand the impact of dling tough situations and under- not having the means to hire a standably emotional callers. “The lawyer, whether you have no most helpful training was listen- roof over your head, or you can’t ing in on calls with experienced raise your children in a safe VLPers,” says Fred Fedynyshyn environment.” ’05, who spent three hours a Students, too, appreciate this week at VLP for four semesters stuff of real life, understanding and who is now a first year law that it’s impossible to replicate it student at Harvard Law School. in a classroom. “It’s a whole differ- “This is especially true of the ‘dif- ent learning experience,” says ficult’ calls, where to a large Lucas Burke ’01, a paralegal who extent you’re dealing with people, started law school this fall, and not legalities. It’s very much an who volunteered for five semesters art, not a science. The more calls at VLP. “You practice thinking and you take, the more likely you are anticipating issues. You get room to ask the right questions.” to make choices and an immediate Some calls take 15 minutes, sense of making a difference.” others run as long as 45. When This type of experience has you hang up and complete your obvious practical benefit when case notes, volunteers say there’s you’re exploring a career in law or another right on its heels. “The social services. And for many stu- Among Bowdoin’s 300 participants over the years are alumni from many phone never stopped ringing,” decades. Clockwise from upper left: David E. Warren ’76, Margaret dent volunteers, such as Darcie remembers O’Keefe. Aside from Minister O'Keefe ’89, Lucas Burke ’01, and Darcie McElwee ’95. McElwee ’95, the lessons learned the rapid pace, there’s the helpless at VLP still pay off. McElwee, a feeling you get when you’re not able to assist them. “Far and federal prosecutor in Portland, volunteered at VLP for two away, that’s the worst part,” says Fedynyshyn. “Maybe you years as a student. “When I was a state prosecutor, I was can’t find the lawyer they need by tomorrow’s deadline, or the exposed to so many struggling people,” she says. “I was prose- caller is just slightly above the income requirement levels. You cuting the same people who call VLP, and my time there gave feel like you and the system have let them down.” me sensitivity to their experience that helped me use discre- The flip side of course, is the reward that comes from tion appropriately. I also learned early on what it meant to be making a difference. “I take away from this a great apprecia- an advocate, arguing for someone who had no voice. And of tion for this segment of the community that you don’t hear course, I learned so much about the law. We couldn’t take about,” says Yormak. “If one out of ten callers says you’ve every case, but we learned about the options and resources helped, it’s all worth it.” There’s no doubt this new perspective out there, and I still use that knowledge today.” has a big impact on every student volunteer. “It takes me out Whether VLP student volunteers stick with careers in law of the Bowdoin bubble for a bit,” explains Conor Carpenter or choose unrelated paths, the benefits are plentiful. Students ’05. “An exam isn’t such a big deal when someone tells me become mindful citizens. VLP gets a steady source of engaged, her husband has her children and she’s so scared you should- talented volunteers. Desperate people get a helping hand. The n’t call back, and she’s out of heating oil.” community grows stronger. “The more you can address impediments to healthy living and barriers by clearing debt or The Greater Good resolving custody or whatever the issue might be, ” O’Keefe Given Bowdoin’s long-standing tradition of volunteerism says, “the more people can pay attention to working, raising and the value placed on giving back, it’s no surprise to find their children, and living healthfully. And that benefits us all.”

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Montgomery to Richmond: Walton Takes BBC Down a “Southern Road”

owdoin writer-in-residence Anthony Walton has written about and discussed American history and culture – most notably in his acclaimed book Mississippi: An American Journey – in many venues the last fifteen years, among them, BThe New York Times, The New Yorker, and CNN. Walton is poised for the international stage with an upcoming radio documentary, Southern Road, a searching ramble through the American Southeast that will air on British Broadcast Corporation Radio (BBC). Walton was approached by the BBC to create the 45-minute program as part of the BBC’s ongoing examination of the American South. As it turned out, Walton and Phillips headed out together in a Toyota Highlander and “humped it up the road” just a week before Hurricane Katrina brought the South into worldwide media focus. Bowdoin writer Selby Frame recently spoke with Walton about the project, which is Walton’s first foray into radio.

Bowdoin: What led you to this project? best that had been done and I was able to study those. Then, Walton: The editors at the BBC had become more and more as we worked, he would say, “That was excellent,” or “That interested in what they perceived as the growing influence was ridiculous, do it again.” of the South on American society. They wanted someone I tried to not have any preconceptions. I started with a who could kind of introduce their audience to the South. script I wrote that was very detailed and then I threw it out. The metaphor is taking a trip from the Civil Rights Once you know what you want, then you can go with the Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, to the Confederate flow. I think of things like that like jazz ... you start out with a Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, in pursuit of the South. piece of music and because you know it very well you can You can’t even say “The South,” because the difference move away from it and improvise. between Montgomery or Atlanta, or Charleston, or Chapel Hill – and those are just a few places – there are so many Bowdoin: It definitely can open up your storytelling. different possibilities. My goal was to try to give a few You can get layers; it’s almost painting. indications of that multiplicity. For me, I figured I’d learn Walton: It’s fascinating to me, because this piece is the sort something and I figured it would be fun. It would be a road of thing you could do in print – I often imagine how trip, my favorite thing. various sections would look in prose – but you have all these other tools to tell a story in radio. One of the things I Bowdoin: As someone who’s never worked in radio did, I went to Sullivan’s Island in Charleston Harbor. That’s before – and who also is a very soft spoken person – where a large percentage of African came did you have trepidation about doing the project? ashore. It was a quarantined island. It’s actually quite a Walton: I just viewed it as another way of telling a story. I’ve place. In typically American it’s now being done many interviews and profiles over the years and I think developed into condos and big vacation houses. You could that I am very good at getting people to talk. And I think it’s go there and write a piece about it and it could be quite because I listen to them. There’s a certain technique also to good, quite powerful, but to go there and talk about it and just not saying anything, and they will start talking. I like to also have the sound of water lapping and the seagulls and hear what people have to say. It’s always fascinating. every so often a coast guard helicopter flying by ... that’s a I had a producer from BBC with me, Tony Phillips, and he different way of telling that story. “coached me up,” as they say in football. He was very good to And you can also hear the effect it’s having on me. There’s a me. He sent me some [radio] pieces that he thought were the way that if I wrote it, I would have time to think about it, I would mediate my voice. On the radio, you get me saying

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“I’m in the car now, driving,” and you hear the rrrrrmmmm Walton: There’s more to it. In the end, African American sound. You get all these different textures and moods. history is American history. It’s going to be informed by that in a certain way because I am African American and it will Bowdoin: So where exactly did you go? direct certain of my investigations. But I was determined, for Walton: The big frame is Montgomery, Atlanta, example, to see Jefferson Davis’ grave. It would have been Charleston, Chapel Hill and Richmond. There are also a easy in Atlanta to go to Morehouse or the King Center, but I lot of byways, including Alpharetta, Ga., a “placeless” went to Alpharetta. It’s all mixed up. You can’t tell any story suburb of Atlanta. We think of Atlanta as “Gone With the without telling all of it. Why can’t we tell all of it? It’s a Wind,” and that’s certainly a part of it. But it has 20 question we should always ask. identities now. I was interested in Alpharetta because it’s like Orange Co. – just this edge city, no place. It was Bowdoin: Who were some of the people you talked with interesting to see that in context to the South because the along the way? South is so much about place. Walton: We had an amazing conversation with a gentleman I also went on a night walk through the tourist-rich part selling T-shirts on the side of the road in Tuskegee. We went of Charleston that I find almost like a Disney set of the old there to visit the Tuskegee Institute. It’s a very important South. It’s worth seeing, but it will shake you up if you pay place in both the actual and imagined history of African attention. In Raleigh-Durham, I spent time at Duke. I had a Americans. It was founded by Booker T. Washington as a long conversation with John Hope Franklin, who is kind of place for people to train after slavery – and all through the elder statesman of American history, and certainly the Jim Crow era – and even now, it is a great purveyor African American history. I stopped in Columbia, S.C., and of opportunity. Also, it’s a great thought, and always has was able to interview the chief justice of the South Carolina been, that there was this school where African Americans Supreme Court, Jean Hoefer Toal. She was a civil rights could go. People would walk for hundreds of miles to try activist and attorney, what would be described as a liberal by and get there. all descriptions. Yet she is chief justice in what I often think The man selling the T-shirts was so interesting. At first he of as the most conservative place there is. wonders who these guys are. Then he wonders if he can sell us some shirts, which he did. Then we just kept hanging Bowdoin: Was there one place in the South that really around and suddenly he started talking and he was full of captured that multiplicity you were trying to show? insights and thoughts and lore about Tuskegee and about Walton: Right where I started, in Montgomery. I went to the contemporary United States. He was amazing. You can the Dexter Avenue/King Memorial Baptist Church, which just overlook a person like that. You don’t know anything was Martin Luther King Jr.’s church. I was even able to about their sophistication, or who they are, if you just stand in Dr. King’s pulpit, which was amazing. The church accept the mask that they present. is a really profound, a massively important place in our history; it’s also still a Baptist church where the Bowdoin: You’re from a southern family and spent a lot congregation meets every Sunday. of time there as a kid, but I’m wondering if you came to And across the street, literally, is the Alabama State a different idea of the South by the time you finished Capitol building, a beautiful, austere, massive white this project. granite building. In front of it, however, is a statue of Walton: It continues to change and evolve. One of the Jefferson Davis. That’s also where George Wallace made things I saw this time and didn’t have a chance to go into, many of his pronouncements. was just the massive Hispanic presence that’s growing, A couple of blocks away is the Civil Rights Memorial. growing, growing. Now, they’re working construction Very beautiful, designed by Maya Lin who designed the and as maids in hotels, but that’s going to change. I think Vietnam Memorial. Then I went out to a shopping center there are some Hispanics who will figure how to get out of on the edge of town. It was the latest in shopping center that servant class – it’s already happened in Florida and design, which is to say it tries to resemble an old – and grab their piece of the American dream, and downtown. Just in that little spot, it’s both a Saturday others will remain trapped on the other side, which is what morning in a southern town and this center of incredible always happens. importance in American history. One of the things the people at the BBC were right about: Bowdoin: You can’t avoid the theme of race certainly if To begin to have a nuanced understanding of the U.S, you you’re looking at the South, but I’m wondering if your have to have an understanding of the South. It’s one region piece is a conscious exploration of African Americans in among regions, but it controls so much of the both political the South? and psychic life of the country. It cannot be overlooked.

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Eric Paul Ebeling ’98 and Julia Rae Ebeling (UMass-Boston ’97) were married on June 26, 2004 in Rio Vista, Mahwah, . Bowdoinites in attendance included (l to r): John Ridlon ’63, Raymond Ebeling (father of the groom), Charles Gray ’00, Sara Withers ’99, Joshua Wernig ’99, Eric (holding daughter Alexandra Ebeling) and Julia, David Lawrence ’00, Paul Malmfeldt ’98, Scott Fujimoto ’00, Kara Powell Lyvén ’99.

Sarah Lipinoga ’03 and Emily Rizza ’02 were married on July 24, 2005, in Assonet, Massachussets. Bowdoinites joining the celebration were (l to r): Amy Funkenstein ’03, Courtney Tolmie ’03, Karen Finnegan ’03, Carolyn Westra ’03, Julie Thompson ’02, Sarah, Jessie Lortie ’00, Emily, Lindsay Pettingill Laurie Huntress ’94 married Joshua Hounsell on ’02, Megan Wardrop ’01, Katherine Roboff ’03, Rebekah Metzler ’04, Ellie Doig ’03, and Kristie Miller ’02. March 22, 2005 in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands.

Katie Lynk Wartman ’99 and Dave Wartman ’98 were married on October 23, 2004 in York Harbor, Rosanne DeMaio Salisbury ’01 and John Salisbury Maine. Bowdoin friends pictured at the reception are back row (l to r): Nicole Bonasera ’99, Lib Mone (Holy Cross ’01) were married on June 26, 2004, in ’98, Sarah Canders Thrall ’99, Cynthia Needham ’99, Jen Halloran ’99, Allison Glasmann ’99, Beth Sperry Chappaqua, NY. Other Bowdoin attendees (not ’93, Aysha Sheikh (Bowdoin Exchange ’95-’96), Bill Mone ’67, Dave Feinberg ’98. Front row (l to r): Tyler pictured) included Lindsay Sortor ’02. Post ’99, Jed Wartman ’01, Katie and Dave, Josh Muhlfelder ’98, Mike Wartman ’67, and Sandy Allen ’63.

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Mary Calanthe Wilson-Pant ’79 married Sunil Ryan Woods ’99 and Julie Hightower (University of Virginia ’99) were married in Moretown, VT on Dev Pant (Kathmandu University ’00) in a civil May 21, 2005. Bowdoin friends and others in attendance were (l to r): Keith Collins ’99, Meredith service in Great Falls, Montana, her home town, Azevedo, Kim Tice ’99, Ryan and Julie, Peter Ingram ’98, and Joan Denckla ’98. on March 4, 2004.

Megan O’Leary Weaver ’97 and Todd Weaver ’94 were married on August 7, 2004 at Castle Hill Inn and Resort in Newport, RI. Bowdoin friends joining the celebration included back row (l to r): Steven Brinkley ’94, Christopher Margraf ’94, Rob Mulholland ’95, Adam Rand ’94, Kevin Letellier ’94, Elizabeth Jetton ’97, Margot Burke Holman ’97, Christopher Holman ’98, Erin Sierak Hegarty ’97, Frank Castellucci ’94, Peter Nye ’94, Jennifer Ahrens Butler ’94, Christopher Butler ’94, Andrew Boyle ’94, Jeffrey Baker ’75. Front row: Mark Fecteau ’95, Brandon Lynch ’94, Michael Loukas ’95, Todd and Megan, Mary Christina Zierak Simpson ’97, John Meklis ’95, Ryan McLaughlin ’94, and William Osburn ’94.

Elizabeth Brookes Gordon ’99 and Robert Gordon (Washington U. of St. Louis ’99) were married at Brown University in Providence, RI on August Jamie Wallace ’88 and Frank Fessenden (BA, Williams College; MA, UC- 14, 2004. Bowdoin alumni joining in the celebration included back row (l Santa Barbara) were married August 14, 2004 in Litchfield, CT. Bowdoin to r): Jennifer Knaut Hoenig ’99, Scott Hoenig ’98, Sean Raymond ’99. graduates and other friends in attendance included front row (l to r): Andy Middle row: Janet Beagley Biswas ’99, Abir Biswas ’01, Marisa Zahler Lane ’86, Susan Wallace Lane, Jamie and Frank, Lisa Gardner ’88, Rick Raymond ’99, Minny Bopaiah ’99. Front row: Julie Smith Chiappinelli ’99 Hunsaker ’82. Back row: Tara Stepanian, Jim Barton ’88, Prosper Barter holding Manny Chiappinelli (Class of 2022?), Liz and Rob. Kasrel ’88, Nicky Comeau ’89, and Sarah Bullock ’88.

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Katy Ranere ’01 and Kit Hughes ’01 were married on July 9, 2005. Pictured in the wedding party are (l to r): Sarah Hughes, Maureen Singer ’01, Kimberly Mimnaugh ’01, Mary Glynn Toomey, Carly Martin Brisebois ’04 and Nell Richmond ’03 were Heman, Suzanne Ranere, Katy and Kit, Matt O’Hare, Craig McKeown, Norb Unger III, Steve Ranere, married on May 19, 2005 in Somers, Connecticut. Alex Tatum ’01 and Jay Civetti.

Michel Phaneuf Gautrea ’96 married Dan Gautreau on July 2, 2005 in a Finn O’Brien ’00 married Toral Patel (Rutgers University) on June 11 of ceremony at St. Michael Church in North Andover, MA, with a reception at this year in a Hindu ceremony. Bowdoin friends in attendance were back the Bedford Village Inn in Bedford, NH. Seating in center, Michel and Dan. row (l to r): Anand Mahadevan ’00, David Young ’00, Anthony Roy ’00, In a semi-circle (l to r): Kris Bennhoff Gallo ’97, Michaela Fettig McCabe Colin Segovis ’99. Front row: Toral and Finn, and Jessica Lo ’03. “The ’96, Nan Gorton Demaso (Brown ’96, but attended Bowdoin from ’92-’94), banner might not look quite right,” Finn writes, “because it was made of Will Havemeyer ’96, Maureen McCallion Cohen ’96, Sandra DiPasquale construction paper. My parents bought a banner, but forgot it on the day of Walker ’96, and Jenn Clifford ’96. the wedding. So, a substitute was hastily made.”

Toby Guzowski McGrath ’99 and Molly Kalkstein were married on July 31, 2004 in a seaside ceremony at Reid State Park in Georgetown, Maine. Bowdoin friends celebrating with the bride and groom included front row (l to r): Ryan Hurley ’99, Courtney Mongell ’01, Scott Roman ’00, Sean McHugh ’99, Toby and Molly, Ben Fitts ’00, Lauren Fitzgerald ’00, Kevin Saxton ’99, Julie Saxton ’99, Michael “Eesh” Nakashian ’98, Steve Lento ’99. Back row: Mike Felton ’00, Myles Tarbell ’00, Tyler Post ’99, Ryan Ravenscroft ’99, Chip Flanagan ’00, Brian Fitzgerald ’99, Katie Stein, and John Shukie ’99.

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Timothy Smith ’94 and Jacqueline Swan (Tufts ’91) were married in Beverly, MA on May 8, 2004. Bowdoin friends pictured at the wedding are top row (l to r): Christopher Long ’93, Elizabeth Coffin Long ’94, Amy Gubbins ’01, Michael Starr ’94. Middle row: Laura Groves ’96, Kristen Deftos Haddad ’93, Emily Shanahan ’94, Tracy Boulter Reimer ’94, Jeff Napolitano ’94. Front row: Tim and Jacqueline, Robert Lewis ’98 and Nikki Peters ’98 were Karin Stawarky ’94, Jeff Smith ’94, and Marc van Zadelhoff. married on May 29, 2005, in Gloucester, MA.

Evan Shapiro ’96 and Sabina Shapiro (Stanford ’99) were married on July David Yankura ’04 married Heather Hall Yankura (University of Pittsburgh 4, 2004 at the Golf Club at Newcastle, Seattle, Washington. Pictured at the ’05) on June 18, 2005, in Pittsburgh, PA. Bowdoin friends helping to celebration are top row (l to r): Randy Steinberg ’95, Jae Chang ’96, Jennifer celebrate included (l to r): Todd Johnston ’02, Hojoon Sohn ’04, Matt Collins ’96, Denny Jeon ’95, and Andi Jeon. Middle row (l to r): Tom Talbot Boersma ’04, Elisabeth Gruenberg ’04, Matt Peters ’04, Chelsea Spector ’04, ’96, Kevin Thomson ’93, Tom Bennitt ’96, Peter Moore ’96. Front Row: Reid Turner ’04, Jason Dundulis ’04, Katie Yankura ’08, Josh Kingsbury ’03, Sabina and Evan, Anand Surapaneni ’98, and Kelly Walsh. and Jona Kim ’04. Recently Tied the Knot? SHOW OFF YOUR BETTER HALF – SEND US YOUR WEDDING PHOTO. (but please follow these guidelines)

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December 6 (mailed in February); Spring, March 10 (mailed in May). 36 ODI FALL 2005 BOWDOIN bowdoin class news hope tomakeit back toour70 and wasburiedsouthofNewOrleans. Still Dan Friend’75 Nancy ’74 Donald Prince’61 enjoyed our67 Elizabeth ( sunshine. Nowagreat grandfatherofthree. I amnow93.” appointment willterminateintwoyears. Maine Supreme JudicialCourt—which “Am nowan‘ActiveRetired Justice’ofour James P. Archibald 34 He shared his74 present atReunionConvocationthisyear. Donald Prince 31 without officers! Herejoined the26 reception thatheendedbackinWashington Volunteers, andreceived suchawarm Gilman Ellis,washere withthe2 on branchesofBullRun.Mygreat-uncle, dogs andlawnwork.Soonwillbecanoeing Meanwhile, Ikeepbusywithseeing-eye andgetgoingsoon. going intoInternet records instoragebuthopetogetcomputer Visit daily. Stillhavegeneologybooksand about 10milesfrom thenursinghome. daughter Beth-Jayne,or‘B-J’,inthecountry Alzheimer’s, andIamlivingwithour home inManassas,VA, withlate-stage 65 yearsthere—and Murielisinanursing I have‘soldout’ofSouthPortlandafter then forour75 of thePrincefamilytree, nearHubbard Hall. Prince ’74,andDonald’61,infront Dan Friend’75,Cheryl Prince’78,Nancy pictured withhisfamily, including(ltor): present atReunionConvocationthisyear, Donald Prince’31,theoldestalumnus Bill Clay Gilman C.Ellis Red Massey’ and is “stillenjoyingFlorida th th Cheryl ’78 Cheryl was theoldestalumnus . in 2010.Greetings!” th anniversary April18.” anniversary See accompanyingphoto. reunion withhisson, , aswelldaughters reports: “Murieland wrote inthespring: s sister)andI , andson-in-law, th— nd if not, Maine th Maine Evan, andAvery.” His grandchildren are Jason,Adrienne, great-granddaughters are JuliaandAva. granddaughter, Hisother Mia,wasborn. loved BowdoinCollegeandhisfraternity.” by lossofmemberstheClass’35.Put to benearourson.Iamalwayssaddened moved toNorthFalmouth,onCapeCod, “After 50yearsoflivinginAtlanta,Ihave 37 carrier thelargest.” commands were includedwithanaircraft Navy asaNavalaviator. Three ship have spenttherest ofmyactivelifeinthe appointment totheNavalAcademyand treasury, Iwasfortunatetoreceive an “After leavingBowdoinduetoanempty Rear Admiral Planned GivingAgent: 35 look attheworld through rose-colored now needhelpat home24/7.At87,Istill physically overthepastfouryears, and I haveslowly, butsurely, declined Sidney M.Alpert Class Agent: 40 passed 91 He hasfourgrandchildren and,onhisjust- child, Katherine,andson-in-lawGregory. Long Island,NewYork, withhisyoungest and Katherine.Heresides inRockyPoint, has fourchildren, Patricia,Susan,Michael, English/reading highschoolteacher. He John C.Scope Rocky PointLane,CapeElizabeth,ME04107 Class Secretary: 39 holes, butnolonger18.” not aswellformerly. Stillwalknine Florida allyearnow. Stillplayinggolf,but Frederic S.Newman Class Agent: 540 HarlandSt.,Milton,MA02186 Class Secretary: 38 Planned GivingAgent: Tillie Head,widowof st birthday, histhird great- Philip B.Gates S. KirbyHight Paul E.Hartmann “is nowaretired John H.Rich,Jr., Andrew H.Cox, sends “justafewnotes. updates: “Livein Richard V. Kemper Daniel W. Pettengill Skip Head updates: , writes: class news glasses, play cards, read voraciously, do 1940 led the parade around the quadrangle Robert G. Page writes: “Skip and I are The New York Times Sunday crossword each with a banner (maintained by Eleanor doing well and enjoying our life together. week (occasionally getting stumped) and Baldwin over the years) carried by Bob Penny and Tony (offspring) live nearby and am looking forward to our 61st wedding Armstrong and Phil Gates.” enjoy their frequent company. Both kids are anniversary on June 10. Sixty-one years— doing very well in business—Tony has his not bad for a two-week courtship. My best own as a rep for several companies in this to all of you.” 41 part of the western world, and Penny is VP Class Agent Phil Gates reports: “Almost Class Secretary: Henry A. Shorey, P. O. Box 317, of Security Title Co.” a dozen of us showed up for our 65th Bridgton, ME 04009 (May 1-Nov. 20); reunion June 3–5, 2005. Of these, nearly 211 Islip Way, Sun City Center, FL 33573 half were wives or widows of class (Dec. 1-Apr. 30) 42 members. Their loyalty and contributions Class Agents: Maurice T. Littlefield and Class Agent: William J. Georgitis to our affairs have been an admirable and Thomas J. Sheehy, Jr., M.D. most welcome addition. Among those 43 present who registered were: Vonnie and Robert D. Barton reports: “Am still living in the heart of Washington, D.C,. though visit Class Secretary: John W. Hoopes, Richard Abbott, Sue and Robert P. O. Box 3992, Wilmington, DE 19807 Armstrong, Eleanor Baldwin (Mrs. Harry our sons living in Florida and Connecticut. Our third, and youngest, also lives in D.C., Class Agent: Edward F. Woods, D.M.D. Baldwin), Francis Bliss, Fred Dambrie Planned Giving Agent: Andre E. Benoit and family, Phil Gates, Bethea and Thomas so see him often. My wife, Nancy, resides in Lineham, Jay Pratt and family, Jaime an Alzheimer retreat close by and I visit her daily except for the summers when I still go For news of Phil Clough, see Brian Damien Talbot (Mrs. Lid Talbot), Dorothy and ’75 and accompanying photo. Wellington Yaple. Of the class groups, to Boothbay Harbor.” 44 Class Agent and Class Secretary: Walter S. Donahue, Jr. Try our Handwriting Quiz Planned Giving Agent: Balfour H. Golden > Robert H. Glinick wrote in late May: “Elected to relinquish our riverfront home for the past 24 years and to move into an Thank goodness for e-mail! We thought it would be fun for you apartment in a life care community. Last year’s hurricanes took their toll, but we to try to decipher words from some of the handwritten class survived the double punch. Look forward to the 62nd.” notes your classmates submit to the Philip L. Slayton updated in late spring: “Was on campus for reunion in 2004 for a magazine. It’s become somewhat of a few hours only. Won’t make it in 2005.” Frederick A. Van Valkenburg reports: game for us (they don’t teach “We are doing so-so, but hanging in there. Life has become very expensive and times penmanship at Bowdoin!), and we hope are not easy for us now.” you get a kick out of it, too. 45 Class Agent: Robert I. de Sherbinin E-mail us (or print us a note!), with Planned Giving Agent: Timothy M. Warren

your best guesses, and we’ll draw five winners from the C. Lennart Sandquist wrote in late May: “Have been in touch with classmate Norm responses, each of whom will receive a copy of the book “A Small Richards and urged him to come to this June reunion. He was 1945’s actor supreme College in Maine,” Charles C. Calhoun’s 1993 history of the College. in his two years at Bowdoin.” Ken Senter “spent February 2004 in Niger and the Sahara living with the Tuaregs. That camel saddle needs redesign! In 2003, You’ll find quiz #1 on page 38, #2 on page 42, #3 on page 44, in Southeast China, Laos, and Viet Nam—on the Mekong River—camping on the #4 on page 48, #5 on page 55 and #6 on page 73. Good luck! riverbanks and exploring the hill country. Working as a volunteer physician in a free clinic. Flying and running keep me busy.”

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work for the Westchester Mediation Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory 46 mostly as a Lemon Law arbitrator. Living Medicine and the Mallory Institute of Class Agent: Campbell Cary close to New York City, my wife and I are Pathology of the Leonard S. Gottlieb Prize Planned Giving Agent: Philip F.M. Gilley, Jr. able to take advantage of the opportunities in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. The afforded by its wonderful museums and prize is awarded annually to a member of J. Morgan Heussler is “looking forward to theaters, and we also often attend adult the graduating class who has excelled in our 60th reunion next year. Hope it will be a education classes at New York University. My pathology and who has embodied many of Class of ’46 reunion and not Old Guard. Bowdoin roommate, Shep Lee ’47, and I see Dr. Gottlieb’s singular qualities. Faculty also We are not old enough for the OG (in each other many times during the years. We paid tribute to him at the dedication of the spirit, anyway).” have been enjoying these visits ever since we Gottlieb Conference Room. From the Boston Proc Jones writes: “By the time this may be left the College fifty-nine years ago. Bowdoin University School of Medicine graduation in print, Reunion 2005 will be history. Seavey connections are lasting ones. Looking exercises program, May 22, 2005. Bowdoin ’42 and I will be driven down forward to the 60th.” Arthur Sherbo updates: “Retired from together, where we expect to see Bill Hill, Michigan State University in 1983. Dwight Pierce, and Cam Carey. Also, Lloyd Contributed 45 biographies to the Oxford Knight ’45, Bob Bell ’42, and rest of the 47 Dictionary of National Biography, published expected Old Guard horde, including many Class Secretary: Kenneth M. Schubert, in September 2004.” more, we hope, of the OG unmentioned. 11 Whisperwood Point, Galena, IL 61036 Ulf Store writes: “Although long since We know now it will be a great time.” Class Agent: Charles A. Cohen and retired from business, I’m still fairly active. Herbert A. Mehlhorn wrote in early Widgery Thomas, Jr. In 2003, Unni and I visited our oldest summer: “Have just (May 2005) finished Planned Giving Agent: Robert L. Morrell daughter and her husband in Beijing, third trip to , uncovering relatives where we spent a very enjoyable week. not even suspected before 1997. There are William S. Augerson is “still working but Later in the same year, I went to in second to fourth cousin level. Latest find is a consulting work is tapering off, making connection with delivery of a new building mark identifying the Mehlhorn estate (Gut) of more time to visit our two-year-old-plus I am involved in. Last summer, Unni and I 1700 in Wildbach, Saxony, whence came my granddaughter in Georgia. Still busy on went to Svalbard to be present at our great-great-great grandfather. Earlier (2001), county board of health and on Rotary youngest daughter’s wedding, which took there was found the coat of Arms (Wappen) project sending wheelchairs to Ethiopia place in Longyearbyen. From there we went awarded in 1535 to Peter Pfefferkorn of rehabilitation hospitals. NASA must be on a seven-day cruise along the coast of Kohrenerland, on my father’s maternal side, cleaning out old closets and files. Two years Spitsbergen with a small ice-strengthened by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. A copy ago, I received the William Randolph Swedish tourist vessel, which was our base adorns a building on Kloster Strasse, Lovelace II Award from the Society of of daily expeditions in Zodiac rubber boats Zwichau, Saxony. All quite astonishing.” NASA Flight Surgeons. Next week, I am for close-ups with seals, walruses, and polar Bob Michaud wrote in the spring: “Ellen getting the Hubertus Strughold Award for bears. We normally spend about six months and I had a pleasant dinner with Herb contributions to space medicine from the every year in our house in Provence, where Mehlhorn recently. He lives fairly close. We Space Medicine Branch of the Aerospace life is very pleasant and suitable for people were both in the Navy group that was sent Medical Association. Tux still fits.” of our age (I’ll be 80 in July).” to Bates in the Navy V12 Program. It seems Hunter S. Frost reports: “My new book, like a century ago.” Looking Over my Shoulder, has netted me Jordan H. Wine reports: “Next year will some much appreciated praise. Brother 48 be a very special one for me. My grandson, Jim Morrison liked it and called me un Class Secretary and Class Agent: David Duhalde, will be graduating with the grand maitre!” C. Cabot Easton, 2 Tobey Lane, Class of 2006, and I will be attending his Leonard S. Gottlieb, MD, MPH, was Andover, MA 01810 graduation and my 60th reunion. That’s a honored by Boston University School of Class Agent: John L. Tyrer great combination! I continue to do volunteer Medicine with the establishment by the Planned Giving Agent: Donald F. Russell

Harold N. Burnham reports: “Still seeing a few patients yearly, mainly pro bono treatment consultations. Very busy with family resort business in Raymond, ME, and Handwriting Quiz #1 with Quaker meeting and peace building activities. Usually weekly attendance at post-grad continuing medical education at Maine Medical Center, family practice department.” Wayne Lockwood briefs: “Enjoying good health, as is Pat. Children: Diane, ordained UCC minister; Peter, engineer Turn to page 37 for details. Find Quiz #2 on page 42, #3 on page 44, at BIW; Joyce, ordained UCC minister; #4 on page 48, #5 on page 55 and #6 on page 73. Bruce, founder/owner/CFO, Portland Research Group.”

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Emlen L. Martin, Jr. updates: “Still Bowdoin Women.” The Class extends its Correction enjoying our summers on Long Lake, sympathy to Donald and his family. In our Winter 2005 issue, we erroneously especially when our son and daughter visit listed the news of Helen Longley, widow from their homes in California and Maryland. of James Longley with the Class of This spring, I had a very entertaining trip 50 Class Agent: Sanford R. Sistare 1934. We apologize for the error. through Central America, visiting principal Mayan sites in El Salvador, Honduras, Class Secretary and Planned Giving Agent: Guatemala, Belize, and the Yucatan Peninsula.” Merton G. Henry, Jensen, Baird, Ed Langbein ’57 reports a “gathering of Donald Spring wrote with sad news: Gardner & Henry, 10 Free St., P.O. Box 4510, the Bonita Springs (FL) Bowdoin folks on “Carolyn (Ray) Spring, beloved wife, and Portland, ME 04112 March 15, 2005,” with “thanks to Gene mother of Renee Spring Phelan ’80, Martens ’48 and Bill Wadman ’49 for passed away July 15, 2004. She was a Major Gordon Beem, U.S. Air Force setting things up at ‘Backwater Jacks’.” proud member of the former Society of (retired) writes: “I enjoyed a trip to See accompanying photo. Portland from my retirement home in

A gathering of the Bonita Springs (FL) Bowdoin folks on March 15, 2005: Front row: Gene Martens ’48. Second row (l to r): Norma Wadman, Sally Martens, and Barbara Charles. Third row (l to r): Dick Anderson ’48, Joan Anderson, Bill Wadman ’49, Shirley Welch (wearing hat), Mary DeCosta, and Shirlie Saulter. Back row: Nancy Langbein, Jeanne Tyrer, Bob DeCosta ’51, Jack Tyrer ’48, Bill Charles ’48, Roger Welsch ’45, Len Saulter ’51, and Ed Langbein ’57. 49 Class Agent: William G. Wadman Planned Giving Agent: Edward J. Guen

Robert C. Alexander writes: “Spend too much time chasing the ‘physical demons’ of old age to have anything exciting to report. I do, however sometimes wonder how I ever contended with the winters in Maine. As a long-time Floridian, I find anything below 80 degrees is cold.” Paul S. Hennessey briefs: “Tax aide for elderly, February and March. I do not plan to attend wife’s Buckingham reunion, but will go to the Strawberry Festival at BB&N this June.” Daniel B. Kunhardt writes sadly: “My wife, Margaret, of 52 years, died suddenly on October 11, 2004, in Portland, Oregon. We were on the last day of a National Geographic Expedition on the Columbia River.” The Class extends its sympathy to Daniel and his family.

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Asheville, NC in July 2004. I visited my Bowdoin visitors—call my office, 802-496- and Bob Corliss, and Bill Arnold put our brother, Allen ’49, and his family; and my 2046. One reason I like Bowdoin is that Dr. class on the map. Your overpaid scribe two daughters who arrived from their Sills gave me a leave of absence in 1948 to joined with the Class of 1955 who had hired respective homes, Andrea from St. Croix, help my brother run a ski lodge at Mad the Royal River Philharmonic Jazz Band U.S. Virgin Islands and Mimi from River. It was a lame excuse but he could see (Olin Sawyer ’58 on keyboard) in a zesty Danbury, CT. On July 17, Mimi drove me when I sat down in his house—just walked jam session at the former Zete House (now to Pittsfield, NH, where I was a keynote in unexpectedly—that I was in a crisis Ladd House). It was great teaming up with speaker at the dedication of the General mode and told Dean Wendell to let me take fellow cornetist Wally Harper ’55 to show Harrison R. Thyng Memorial. General sophomore year off. Bowdoin was sensitive there’s life yet in two 70-plus brassmen. Thyng, a fighter ace in WWII and jet ace in to each student’s needs (problems), not just “It is sad to record the demise of four Korea, was the founder of the Maine, New an academic mill. My successful career had fine classmates. Bruce Lunder died May Hampshire, Vermont Air National Guard a lot to do with this attitude.” 28, 2005: Elinor Lunder, 180 Beacon St., (1947-1950), who I first met while I was a Apt. 6-A, Boston, MA 02116-1408. Henry student-athlete at Bowdoin through General Daly passed away April 4, 2005: Catherine Phil Tukey ’39. It is a long story how I 51 Daly, 127 Elm St., Milton, MA 02186-3110. came to be in Korea in 1951 and was Class Secretary and Class Agent: Richard Loomer died April 24, 2005: serving in the commander’s office of the 4th Leroy P. Heely, 13 Zeitler Farm Road, Olive C. Loomer, 7878 East Cactus Wren Fighter-Interceptor Wing. But, I was there, Brunswick, ME 04011, [email protected] Rd., Scottsdale, AZ. Walter Prior died and came to know the then Colonel Thyng, Class Agent: David F. Conrod March 13, 2005: Shirley L. Prior, 5245 SE CO of the 4th, as an air warrior of high Sea Island Way, Stuart, FL 34997. The Class physical courage; but equally important as Mrs. Marie Collins, widow of Bill Collins, extends its condolences to their families. a leader with the moral courage to do the writes: “Since I lost Bill nearly eight years “It was a pleasure dining with fellow jazz right thing no matter the personal or ago, life has been rewarding but not nearly hound Don Gould and Jo last May at the professional cost. General Thyng has been as much fun. I’ve been volunteering as a Sherborn (Mass.) Inn, followed by an my ‘personal hero’ for more than half a horticulturalist at a fascinating museum evening of superb traditional jazz. Don’s a century. It was the details of this story that I called Historic Spanish Point. There are native Mainah now living in Stoneham, related to the throng of nearly one many other great things to do but, Mass. How many years since last we saw thousand individuals assembled that sunny unfortunately, we have hurricanes.” one another? Let’s just say quite a few. afternoon in Pittsfield, NH as we honored Joseph W. Gauld wrote an article for Some will remember Don’s piano prowess the memory of General Harrison R. Thyng.” Blethen Maine Newspapers in June, in the Zete living room. And a note from Chris Crowell reports: “Doris and I are entitled, “Character precedes academic former roomie and fellow widower Dudley enjoying good health and we are healthily proficiency,” drawing on his 53 years as a Dowell from Iowa: ‘…I was lucky having immersed in the lives of our three children, teacher to discuss how “the purpose of Karen for 28 years. Plus I am very rich with their children, and their children’s children. education should be to prepare us for life,” great kids and grand kids and many good And, now, our eldest daughter’s eldest son, and that “we will truly achieve ‘no child left friends.’ Another ex-roommate Don Moore Michael Flynn, and his wife Dayna, are behind’ by fully developing every child’s is set to flee New Hampshire for the west happily raising our great grandchildren, character.” From a mainetoday.com article, coast and a motor home jaunt through the Emma, John, and Chloe! Triplets, born June 10, 2005. eastern section of northern California. Dave January 26, 2004. I’m 80, working and Class Agent Roy Heely reported in late Marsh is settled in the picturesque playing tennis.” August: “‘Maine: The Way Life Should Be’ Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts after Charles Freeman wrote in May: “Sorry I proclaims the billboard prior to you many years in Washington, D.C. He’s will not be at reunion. We are having a mashing a dollar-seventy five into the pleased with rural living after lawyering in major fundraising event at the Arts Center Maine Turnpike tollster’s hot hand. Indeed our frantic capital. of Coastal Carolina.” summers in Maine are just that, and the “In spring, a young (and not so young) Francis Perry updates: “Play music perfect antidote for the preceding months. man’s fancy turns to amour. Everett occasionally. Swing has not been too And a harbinger of those months was the Schmidt was married last May in Brevard, th popular lately—hope it returns!” 200 Bowdoin Commencement in late May North Carolina to Karen Lauritzen. Frederick Weidner III wrote in June: under sunny skies on the portico of the Documentary proof came with photos of “Will spend summer teaching and as a Walker Art Museum. Among the throng Ev’s lovely daughter, handsome little board member of the American Institute of was Fred Thomas, whose grandson grandson, as well as the (blushing?) Musical Studies. There will be 145 singers, Andrew Parsons of Derry, NH, was a cap newlyweds with the maestro groom doing an orchestra of 67, and faculty of over 40, and gowner. (Let’s see, my cherubic honors on a hot harmonica. He writes, ‘even and we present over thirty-five opera, granddaughters are 5 and 7. Will I see though we feel like an old married couple lieder, and concerts during the six-week them matriculate, much less graduate from in many ways, it’s strange introducing Karen summer course.” college? Do the math.) Bill Nightingale as my wife. It’s also amusing when I Arthur Williams writes: “Bill and Debbie were on hand as their niece introduce her …to someone who knew Nightingale ’51 tried to stop by my home became a newly minted alum. Al Baker Ruth and who forgot or didn’t realize she in Fayston, VT to reminisce but we missed was also part of the ’51 contingent. had passed away.’ Ev is a volunteer associate each other due to a snow storm. Still “As summer follows winter, so reunion in the Brevard Music Center, which imports restoring our state capital. Private tour for succeeds graduation. Regulars such as Burt topflight musicians for area concerts; he also and Millie Gottlieb, Ray Rutan, Virginia

40 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 class news sings in the church choir and in a local Ken and I were roommates at Bowdoin. short visit there, where I participated in the choral society. Our congrats and bon chance While I was at Oak Ridge, Ken showed Jan opening dedication ceremony of a new to Ev and Karen. around the campus of U. of Tennessee, outpatient building, which I helped design “Nostalgia (trivia?) galore: After a where he was a professor of biochemistry while there as the medical director. A touchdown, we sang a rouser which ended until very recently. The City of Knoxville is wonderfully nostalgic event.” with ‘Phi Chi’s in her Ancient Glory.’ But very interesting and very pretty—especially what (who) was Phi Chi? There were at this time of year. Not too hot.” societies of sophomores during the latter Barclay M. Shepard reports: “Finally 52 nineteenth century whose purpose was to settling into my home in Boothbay Harbor Class Secretary and Planned Giving Agent: ‘restrain the freshman’ (read: make their after being away for six years as medical Adrian L. Asherman, 15 Eben Hill Road, lives miserable). Phi Chi was the most director of the American Hospital in Yarmouth, ME 04096 prominent such group and was dissolved in Gaziantep, Turkey. This is the hospital Class Agent: Reginald P. McManus 1874 after an errant freshman was almost where my grandparents served as medical killed during one of its rites. Our fraternity missionaries starting in 1882. My father was Claude B. Bonang writes: “Ann and I are hazing of 1947 indeed seemed rather tame born there and with my mother returned to now experiencing the wonderful joys of in comparison with the antics of the bad the same hospital, where he was the medical being grandparents. Son Tim and his wife old Phi Chi days. (The melody was adapted director 1919-1925. So, I was the third Courtney provided us with a granddaughter from Marching Through Georgia, a union generation Shepard to serve in that capacity, on July 8, 2003, and Ainsley is due to have Army tune from the Civil War.) 1995-2001. I just returned home after a a sister this fall. This past winter, Ann “You did it again another banner year of alumni fund involvement. But enough from me—more scoop from my guide and (tor)mentor Dave Conrod: Dear stalwart members of ’51—Bob Kemp, Chet Homer, Roy Heely, Bill Nightingale, and I thank you for a fabulous job. Some 108 of us (78.3 percent) gave over $42 thousand, including six gifts from terrifically loyal widows. Overall 8,121 alums (192 widows) gave a record $7.4 million with a 57.9 percent rate. This keeps Bowdoin among the very best in national ratings. We now approach the time for planning, organizing and recruiting for our 55th reunion. Let’s form a team to that effect. Call me: 401-624-7229. Or write: 37 Sloop Lane, Tiverton, RI 02878. Email: [email protected]. Or, get in touch with Roy. Hope you had a wonderful summer and thank you from the bottom of our hearts in making the 2004-2005 year a great success! “Herewith, my customary and repetitive plea for news from more of our 138 classmates living up a storm. You are out there (I just know it) so no need for shyness. Brags about self, spouse, significant others, grands/great grands…always welcome. Domestic animals—do you have a tiger or lion cub, alligator, boa constrictor? Did your dog, cat, parrot, etc. win a prize at obedience school? (Did you?) Nothing but nothing can possibly be too mundane. “You report, I’ll write.” John B. MacChesney wrote in late spring: “Jan and I spent two wonderful days with Ken and Bobby Monty at the beginning of April. I had some business meetings at Oak Ridge National Laboratories, so we were able to be with Ken and Bobby in the evenings. We just picked up where we left off 54 years ago.

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completed her geneology project; I’ve yet to and will probably last until the end of 2007. John L. Davis updates: “We sold out and complete mine. Ann continues to maintain In case he doesn’t mention it, John Davis moved to West Virginia. We are great- her many flower beds, and they are edited and added notes and supplements to a grandparents (am I too young for this?). We flourishing. On November 7, 2004, I was a new book, Thomas Curtis Van Cleve: have one son ten minutes away, and member of a masters relay team (320-359 Observations and Experiences of a Military another in Texas. Four grandchildren.” age group) that swam a 200 meter relay in Intelligence Officer in Two World Wars. It had a Joseph H. de Rivera is “just back from Portsmouth, NH, in a time of 3:54:67. good review in the June 24 edition of The working at the University for Peace in According to the Masters Top 10 Times Record.” See Bookshelf section this issue. Costa Rica.” Tabulation for 2004 compiled by FINA Bob Morrison writes: “Life in Brunswick We inadvertently grouped news about Ed (Federation Internationale de Natation) we is increasingly enjoyable. I continue to be a Lyons with the Class of 1957 in our last issue. placed fifth in the world. Playing gigs (I play volunteer tutor at Longfellow Elementary We apologize for the error. Ed’s news follows: the guitar, saw, bones, spoons, and School, serve on the town Conservation “Music continues to be a large part of my harmonica) at assisted living facilities, Commission, carry out mock interviews life; playing clarinet in the New Horizons playing table tennis at People Plus in with seniors at the Bowdoin Career Center, Band of the Pikes Peak Region, and singing Brunswick, and doing house maintenance and stay active in the local branch of Peace in the church choir.” work keeps me fairly busy.” Works. In addition, I audit a course at the Thomas R. Pickering was the subject of Dick Coombs wrote in May: “Janet College each semester. I’m continually a Beirut, Lebanon article highlighting his 41 and I are celebrating our 50th wedding impressed at the high quality of our years in the United States foreign service anniversary this June 24. We are attending students and professors, especially in the and his new role (since 2001) as a private Janet’s 50th reunion at Bates in June. Our women’s studies department and gay and corporate official, senior vice president for grandson Drew received his Eagle Scout lesbian studies. Of course, my wife and the Boeing Company.” From a Beirut, badge in November.” I attend almost every home game of the Lebanon Daily Star article, June 4, 2005. And, Nguyen-Ngoc Linh writes: “I am retired, women’s athletic teams in field hockey, shortly before that article appeared, trying to write my memoirs. Spending time soccer, basketball, and lacrosse. Playing Ambassador Pickering was on campus to e-mailing and/or visiting my five children with outstanding teamwork, they are so receive the Bowdoin Prize, the College’s highest living all over (Virginia, California, Texas, good and fun to watch. Go U Bears!” honor. See College & Maine this issue. Germany) and my eight grandchildren, Peter K. Race reported in late April: studying all over (Arizona, California, “A busy spring, as we are in the process of Illinois, North Carolina, Colorado). Would moving from our Boxford home of 44 years 54 love to welcome classmates whenever you to a retirement community in Groveland, Class Secretary: Horace A. Hildreth, Jr., visit Virginia.” MA. Anyone want to buy a nice house, Diversified Communications, Inc., George Maling writes: “This past May surrounded by woods and babbling brook? P.O. Box 7437 DTS, Portland, ME 04112 marked three years of living in Harpswell for Off to Scandanavia in early June for a three- Class Agent: Herbert P. Phillips Norah and me. Also, four commencements week adventure.” Planned Giving Agent: John W. Church, Jr. and four reunions. We are on campus frequently for various events, and are William A. Fickett updates: “Travel in ’04 enjoying the area. We are both members of 53 included a two-week tour of the Canadian the Brunswick Rotary Club, and Norah Class Agent and Planned Giving Agent: Maritime provinces. In November, we serves as director. I recently took another J. Warren Harthorne, M.D. returned to Cape Town to join a four-week volunteer job—as chair of a steering cruise up the east coast of Africa and across committee of the National Academy of Jim Connellan “had a very nice day in the Indian Ocean to Sydney, Australia. Engineering. The goal of the effort is to make Amelia Island, Florida, with Don Landry Along the way, we were able to visit several recommendations on how technology can and his wife, Marcia, and my wife, Joan, in Indian Ocean islands and southern reduce environmental noise levels in the February. A nice evening in New York City Australian cities.” United States. The work started last February, with Frank Valente. Very sad to learn of Al Shogo Moriyama reports: “I am past 76 Fuller’s death in December.” years old, but in good shape and enjoying golf in sunny weather. I always remember good old days at Bowdoin and Kappa Sigma house. I would like to go back there again in the near future. I was there for the Handwriting Quiz #2 45th Reunion in 1999.” 55 Class Agent: Harvey B. Stephens Planned Giving Agent: Camille F. Sarrouf

Samuel Levey received an Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of Iowa Turn to page 37 for details. Find Quiz #1 on page 38, #3 on page 44, College of Public Health. A professor in the #4 on page 48, #5 on page 55 and #6 on page 73. Department of Health Management and

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Policy, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, he earned an M.A. in hospital and SUBMISSION DEADLINE health administration in 1959, and a Ph.D. for Class News and Weddings for the Winter ’06 in that field in 1961. “College of Public issue is Tuesday, December 6, 2005. Health Outstanding Alumni Awards honor…distinguished alumni who have Family run and AAA rated. Convenient midcoast location, been in the field for more than ten years,” Two miles from Bowdoin College. 18 traditional rooms recognizing them for outstanding and 20 deluxe kitchen units,with free high speed accomplishments and commitment to the internet. Outdoor pool. Pets welcome. Open year round. college mission. From a University of Iowa 1-800-429-6661 • www.vikingmotorinn.com College of Public Health release, June 2005. email:[email protected] Andrew Williamson was presented with the 2005 Distinguished Educator Award “Mint condition, reasonably priced & spotless.” – Downeast Magazine,2000 during Bowdoin’s reunion weekend in June. www.Bowdoin.edu/BowdoinMagazine He “has been a leader in mathematics education both as a teacher and researcher, earning national and statewide recognition BRUNSWICK – “BOTANY PLACE” for his commitment to his students. His is a planned residential community of many accolades include being named in architecturally unique homes. The 1984 winner of a Presidential Award for expansive gardens, ponds and walking Excellence in Mathematics and Science trails, plus proximity to Bowdoin teaching, sponsored by the National College and downtown make this a Science Foundation.” From a Damariscotta, very special place in which to live. ME Lincoln County Times article, June 16, Choices include single family homes, 2005. Andy also wrote in that he “and wife duplex units and quadruplex units Louise celebrated their 50th anniversary in with prices of currently available units ranging from $269,900 to $638,900. June, with their five children, their spouses Please call or visit for more detailed information. and ten grandchildren. They plan to continue their celebration with a trip to MORTON REAL ESTATE (207) 729-1863 Churchill, MB, in November.” 240 Maine Street • Brunswick, ME 04011 • www.mainere.com • Email: [email protected] 56 Reunion Planning Chair: Peter T. C. Bramhall Class Secretary: Paul G. Kirby, 42 Eel River Road, South Chatham, MA 02659 Class Agent: Norman P. Cohen Planned Giving Agent: Norman C. Nicholson, Jr.

Horst Albach “was elected Chancellor of the German Order of Merit for the Sciences and for the Arts on May 30. The Order ‘Pour le Mérite’ has 40 German and 40 foreign members. Bob Solow, Nobel Laureate in Economics, is one of the foreign members.” David Bird writes: “Sally and I look forward to the Class of ’56 50th Reunion. We are still residing in Illinois, but considering locating to western South HARPSWELL INN Carolina. We will soon be grandparents. A Bed & Breakfast on the water at Lookout Point We also have a place for relocation in Open Year-round Wisconsin’s ‘North Woods.’” LeRoy Dyer reports: “Quite a year— 9 rooms $89–$165 and 3 suites $175–$230 induction into the Maine Baseball Hall of Elegantly casual with full breakfast included Fame on July 31 and a brand new little 10 minutes from Bowdoin College off Route 123 grandson arriving on that very same date.” Wedding Packages and cottages also available Jerry Kirby is “looking forward to our 50th Reunion in June ’06 with great Call for reservations: (800) 843-5509 • (207) 833-5509 expectation! Let’s hope for a super turnout, www.harpswellinn.com especially for those who may not have had an opportunity in recent years to see the

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physical changes to campus. The great core my shoulder skiing at Alta when someone Ed Fisk writes: “It was nice chatting values that we all absorbed remain the ran over me. Has messed up tennis for the with Ed Langbein. As I indicated, my wife same. See you at the 50th!” summer but, fortunately, not golf.” and I are moving to East Longmeadow, MA, Steve McCabe writes: “Keep hoping Aaron J. Shatkin is “continuing my research close to most of our family, after 30 years for a Bowdoin student-athlete in our efforts as professor and director of the Center on old Cape Cod. Given our age, we grandchildren ranks. Granddaughters Kara for Advanced Biotechnology and medicine—a decided to make the tough choice.” and Katie are at Colby. Kara is captain of next joint research and teaching institute focused on Jack Grinold, of the New England year’s women’s soccer team. Katie started all cancer neurodegenerative diseases of children Chapter of The Victorian Society in games as a freshman in soccer and basketball, and HIV-AIDS, gaining basic new information America, presented then acting director of and was second leading scorer in basketball. in the life sciences to understand and prevent facilities Don Borkowski with a Daughters of Steve, Jr. ’78 and Susan and treat more effectively life-threatening preservation award from the society for the Doherty McCabe ’81. In this case, I have no diseases. We train undergraduate, graduate, chapel towers renovation project in Boston problem cheering for Colby. Other grandkids: medical, and post-graduate students at Rutgers on June 27, 2005. See accompanying photo. Sarah (daughter of Kim Lusnia McCabe ’79) University and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson is a starter for Duke’s women’s soccer team, Medical School. We are also home to the second-leading team scorer, and was chosen Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium, a ACC academic/athletic team; Emily (daughter National Institute of Health program to of Kim), now a diehard Florida State football translate the human genome into functional fan; Tommy (Kim), an Olympic development proteins—and for developing novel targets for soccer player will be attending summer soccer inventing more specific drugs.” camps at Harvard, Brown, and BC, lives in Henry M. Swan writes: “I am still Florida but wants to come north for college; practicing law after 45 years, but taking some Michael (son of Steve, Jr. and Susan) is 6' 5" good time off for sailing and other interests. and 280 pounds as a sophomore at Taft Hope to get to Maine this summer and down School, first in class, star in football, to the Bahamas on the boat in the fall. I am basketball, and track. Harvard and BC have active on town boards and in my church. Judy invited him to summer football camp. If he and I have been married for 51 years and have were to choose Bates, I might have a problem three children and four grandchildren (21-4 cheering him there (not really). I’m sure it’s years). They are a great joy to us.” not hard to guess where Lois and I spend a In Boston on June 27, 2005, Jack Grinold lot of our time. It’s great fun. We have four 57 ’57, of the New England Chapter of the additional student-athletes approaching high Victorian Society of America, presented then th Class Secretary: John C. Finn, school. Looking forward to the 50 . Will acting director of facilities Don Borkowski bring lots of stats, pictures, and videos of our 24 Palmer Road, Beverly, MA 01915 Class Agent: Edward E. Langbein, Jr. with a preservation award for the chapel family student-athletes (just kidding).” towers renovation project. Peter J. Rigby writes: “Shirley and I look Planned Giving Agent: Paul J. McGoldrick forward to next summer and the Eugene Helsel writes: “Shari and I have opportunity to see everyone at reunion. John W. Collins reported in June: “The moved into our new home in Del Mar It’s hard to believe that we have two heat is beginning to take hold—so far, Highlands. Having a great time watching grandchildren off to college this fall and still below 100 for highs, but July and August our 15-month-old grandson, Jack, while have number 10 grandchild expected in are still looming. Jury duty at a Federal mom and dad work during the week. Am December. Great! Shirley is doing very well court in Sherman, TX made for an intense trying to keep in shape for the 2007 bike with her art and yoga. I’m finally off the couple of days. Now back to normal, ride but find it not as easy as it used to be, DuPont Country Club board, enjoying a merely trying to keep up with some of the along with a few other things!” second retirement. Unfortunately, dislocated more prosaic news stories.” Ed Langbein reported in the spring: “A pleasure to meet, over coffee, this year’s recipients of our Class scholarships: The Charles A. Chapman Scholarship Fund was awarded to Matthew G. Robertson ’05, a Handwriting Quiz 3 native of Albuquerque, NM. He was a # double major (mathematics and music), Bowdoin scholar, involved with the Animation Society, a club that teaches and performs Japanese drumming, and worked in the music library. “The Class of 1957 Scholarship Fund recipient is Tristan J. Noyes ’05, of Caribou, ME. A history major, he was also a Turn to page 37 for details. Find Quiz #1 on page 38, #2 on page 42, Bowdoin scholar and spent last year in #4 on page 48, #5 on page 55 and #6 on page 73. Galway, Ireland. Tristan was a founder of the

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Customize “Speaking of Chamberlain, Bill Gardner your craftsman-quality floor plan and choose amenities recalls his father speaking of (as an and details from the many options available to truly undergraduate) meeting with Chamberlain make this your home. Offered models include single on occasional campus visits to his home, family detached, two and four family attached homes. and stressing what a great man he was. Low monthly fees. Prices start at $269,900. However, during our undergraduate days, JLC was virtually unheard of and Bill indicates that he did not appreciate his father’s comments until the mid-seventies 37 Mill Street, Brunswick, Maine 04011 823 Washington Street, Bath, Maine 04530 when he read The Killer Angels. He and (800) 725-6968 / (207) 721-9999 (800) 247-6758 / (207) 443-3333 Kathleen are looking forward to a trip to www.chrrealty.com Email: [email protected] England this spring and an August family gathering at Disney World. On the activity side, he notes tennis is giving way to golf. enjoyed a visit to, and lunch with, Louise lunch with one eye on a sunning alligator “While the Gardners answered the phone and JP Dow earlier this year. Jay continues and then went up to Jacksonville for a full with the announcement that it was 90 to improve and they were scheduled to visit day with Linda and Ollie. Ollie’s second set degrees in Tucson, I was more attuned to their son in Atlanta in March and then of knees are doing well, though he still is Mike Coster’s announcement that New continue to soak up some sun in Florida. bothered by problems connected to the Brunswick had just received 26cm of snow Cynthia and John Howland also took leave earlier replacements. No lessening of his (April 18). Mike planned to leave it in place, of the Maine winter with trips to Arizona enthusiasm for the Red Sawx. Had gotten as earlier in the winter he’d had a bad fall and Texas, the latter an elder hostel bird down to Fort Myers for a game and awed and concussion while snowblowing. The watching stint in Big Bend National Park. us with his collection of memorabilia. next day, I called Pete Hastings and learned “Daisy Crane wrote that winter has “Dick Fickett wrote that he is adjusting he was up in New Brunswick, undeterred provided ample opportunities for to sports pages in D.C., which refer to the by a few flakes of snow, salmon fishing. snowshoeing and that all is going well. Nationals and Wizards with the Redskins He’d caught (and released) two the first day Seen in Brunswick for hockey and bringing up the rear pages. He also pointed and (like Charlie on the MTA) might never basketball games have been: Jim Millar, out that Virginia received almost as much return to Fryeburg. Marsha and Hal Pendexter, Buffie and snow as Maine this year. “Sherrie and Gene Helsel are on the verge Bruce McDonald, Joannie and Bob “Dwight Eaton is officially retired, of purchasing and moving into a home in Shepherd, Bill Cooke (who is host parent however continues to serve on the bank the San Diego area, which will permit them to the bulk of the men’s hockey team), and board and just received his 40-year pin. His to keep an eye on their fourteen-month-old Barbara and Dave Ham. Once the season plans to build a garage have been tabled until grandson. Proximity to the ocean enables ended (there are certain priorities), Nancy fall—or at least until the boat is in the water. them to do a lot of walking, and Gene is and Ed Langbein slipped away for two “Kay and Dick Lyman are also in a keeping his ‘bike legs’ limber with short weeks in Florida, which included two construction mode as they expand their rides of eleven miles or so. Bowdoin gatherings and a chance to see home in , ME—both as a “Anita and John Albert have taken up Laurie and Kent Hobby in the Naples area. contribution to the state economy and with snowboarding with daughter Julia in the Then, across to the east coast and visits a future eye to moving up full time. Dick ‘Montclair Alps.’ John continues as an with the Wilsons and Hones. Mary Lou continues to bike regularly and looks active landscaper and emphasized they’ll be and Clem announced their plans to shift forward to a trek around Newport, RI with among those back in 2007. from Maine to Coquina Crossing (adjacent Dave Webster this month. Their household “John Howland and Ed Langbein to San Augustine) and provided a tour of has recently been enlivened with the their activity-filled community. Enjoyed addition of a golden retriever pup, Calliope.

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“Apparently, this is the year for Wilson, who dug into their archives and “Susie and Dean Ridlon are back from construction projects, as Bill McWilliams is provided LPs from ancient times.” winter trips to Florida and Arizona. Their helping his son with an enlargement and More news from Class Agent Ed Langbein, as daughter, now a junior at Skidmore, was addition of a pool, while Ann continues her reported in mid-August: “Sadly, our numbers there this summer and will be there for travels with Delta Airlines. And, Katherine continue to diminish, and I regret to her spring semester. Skip continues to and Walter Gans are restoring a home in announce the loss of classmates Brad Drew teach seventh grade, although he has western CT—though no plans to resettle from and Ed Born. Brad passed away this retired his boat. Cynthia and John NYC, which has the attraction of a twelve- February. Originally from Worcester, he Howland enjoyed a bird watching trip in minute walk to his arbitration activities. resided in Laurel, MD, working in Bethesda Big Bend National Park (Texas), and his “Sara and Paul O’Neill are well and as a cartographer with the U.S. Govt. summer plans include a presentation on enjoyed a cruise around the Mediterranean Defense Mapping Service. He is survived by global warming to some skeptical this past summer [2004]. Paul has ‘barely his wife Carol and two children. Ed came to neighbors in Isleboro. Marsha and Nate slowed down,’ which translates into Bowdoin from St. Clair Shores, MI, and for Winer will be taking a boat trip this working from home and more pro bono his sophomore year transferred to Oberlin, summer on the Volga River, from Moscow cases. Their two sons are also attorneys in then returned to Brunswick for his last two to St. Petersburg. Nate continues to run NYC, and Hillary is completing her years. I recall, chatting with him once about regularly, placing second in a mini- residency in psychiatrics. the switcheroo, that he came back because marathon. He stays busy as the jack-of-all- “In Yarmouth Port, both Bill Howard Oberlin was not ready for candor and trades with a pharmaceutical company. Joe and Jim Hughes are staying busy with golf. openness—he was ‘signing out’ (which was Murphy reports that he is staying fit with Dick Drenzek is still active with the public the practice in our days) and the log had a regular hikes and, having learned that he school transportation force in Chapel Hill space for ‘purpose.’ He wrote ‘drinking’ and is from a line of Hudson River pilots, and indicates no hint of slowing down. was advised that he should change that to developed an interest in genealogy. This Debbie and Barry Gilchrist note that an ‘library’ or ‘art museum.’ For a number of spring he traveled from California to interesting aspect of the Boston Marathon years Ed was the college editor and he was Albany, NY, to research his (Hitchcock) was watching the thousand Wellesley girls also the editor of the 1975 General family records. Patti and Fletcher Means cheer (only) when a female runner came by. Catalogue of Bowdoin. He is survived by his are now in Arizona doing financial Barry remains active in the lumber and wife Bernice, two daughters, a son, and four counseling and real estate. Their children building materials field and, with a place in grandchildren. Our sympathy to all are scattered with daughters on Cape Cod Boothbay Harbor, hopefully will check out members of both families. and North Carolina (faculty of Duke the campus this summer. Marion and Don “Yolanda and Frank Kinnelly enjoyed University) and a son in D.C. They’d Dyer will be off to North Carolina this , Crakow, and …a highlight moved from California in ’89. Fletch and month to attend a grandson’s high school being a Mozart concert. Upon return, his son were at Candlestick Park when the graduation, and they then look forward to pleasantly surprised by a visit from Nancy earthquake struck, prompting them to celebrating their fiftieth wedding and David Kessler, who flew up to New move where the ground stays put. Joyce anniversary. Family highlights include their York. David is phasing out of his group Hovey enjoyed a family reunion in son’s appointment as chair of the modern medical practice and considering an Naples, FL this winter and in August will language department at the University of opportunity in the Maryland area which head to Vancouver and a train exploration Mississippi and the selection of his brother has the attraction of no ‘on call’ of the Canadian Rockies. Jill and Art LeRoy ’56 to the Maine Baseball Hall of requirements. Nancy, keeping her voice in Perry were, this past winter, in Myrtle Fame (induction will be this summer). shape for the 2007 Reunion Chorus, is now Beach to provide pointers to the golf pro. “Yolanda and Frank Kinnelly are just the Vice President of the Potomac Chorale It’s good to periodically see them in back from two weeks in Prague while Society. Sherrie and Logan Hardie spent Brunswick enjoying the Summer Music Sandra and Erik Lund toured Sicily. Later part of the winter in the Sarasota area and Theatre. John Collier marked Memorial this month Mary and Steve Lawrence are part skiing with the family in . Day weekend with the marriage of his scheduled to see Rome, Florence, and the Then they were off to North Carolina for a daughter in Andover, MA. Attending was Isle of Capri. On the domestic travel side, granddaughter’s HS graduation. When Charlie Packard, who observed that John Ruth and John Humphrey, Eddiemae and home, they continue to be very involved looks great. Eddiemae and Bob Wagg are Bob Wagg and Nancy and David Kessler with the Inland Seas Educational spending a bit more time in Maine as he plan to spend some summer time in Maine Association (a society which serves 60,000 has started a few projects at the family (triggering a general lobster alert). Eileen students in the Great Lakes area). Sherrie is homestead in Lisbon. Patricia and Bob and Paul Kingsbury enjoyed Florida and on the Board and Logan does ‘grunt’ Miller have returned to retirement in Australia (last year it was New Zealand) chores, i.e. wiring the headquarters Rockport after Bob served as the associate and will be returning to the Bay of Fundy building and installing phone and minister of the United Methodist church for a reunion in June. Janie and David computer lines. They are looking forward, here in Brunswick. ‘Retirement’ includes Webster are back in NH (from Florida) and in May-June ’06, to a cruise of the Alaskan walking 3-4 miles a day, and this spring he into planning for bike trips and our fiftieth. Inland waterways on a converted sub planted four acres of pumpkins. Chris Busy on another aspect of our reunion is tender with a group of friends. After twenty Jacobson has been biking regularly with Tom Needham, who is tuning up ‘The years residing in Falmouth, MA, Ed Fisk 50-plus-mile trips (which take Landlords’ for some songs to include in our will be downsizing to the Springfield area approximately four hours). He rides in the CD. Thanks also to Al Roulston and Clem where his two sons live. ‘C’ category (15-18 miles per hour) as a

46 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 class news member of both the West Palm Beach Bicycle Club and the Treasure Coast Cycling Association. Although he is, at this point, reluctant to challenge Lance Armstrong, he does hope to join David Webster et al in the Charlie Chapman Boston-to-Brunswick ride in 2007. Dietmar Klein and Horst Albach ’56 continue to be active with the Bowdoin Club of Germany…to my knowledge, our only international Bowdoin club. (Bowdoin clubs are active in London and Tokyo as well. – Editor.) Constance and Don Guida are also planning a cruise to Russia this summer. Don, who ‘retired’ three years ago, is BRUNSWICK busier than ever: as a tutor in Classic Hip Roof Colonial with Ell located just steps from the Bowdoin College campus. reading/writing/math for youngsters with Built in the mid 1920s with beautiful wood floors, molding and trim details in keeping English as second language; docent at the with that period – this impressive three bedroom home boasts of a large sunny living room zoo specializing in snakes-turtles-and with built in bookcases, formal dining room with french doors, large eat-in kitchen, and a first floor office space with private entrance. Above the oversized garage is a wonderful two tarantulas (no polar bears yet); and bedroom, one bath apartment – totally separate – and ideal for income, guests, or quiet, reading for the blind on a local radio private studio space needs. All together this well maintained home allows for 2545 sq ft of station. Full time Florida residents Jane gross living area with two full baths (1 with claw foot tub) and two 3/4 baths. Attractive, and Dave Roundy happily announced comfortable and ideally located! $369,000 that last year’s storms missed their area. Apparently, that has spurred growth, as in Call Rick Baribeau for complete details their ten years of residency the community RE/MAX RIVERSIDE • Bowdoin Mill, One Main Street, Suite 101 population has grown from ten to forty- Topsham, Maine 04086 five thousand. Their children are Office: 207-725-8505 ext-128 • Fax: 207-725-8509 Mobile: 207-751-6103 distributed in KY, AL, and Springfield, www.homesincoastalmaine.com MA. Tina Howe and Norm Levy are recently back from Independence, Missouri, where Tina received the award of Medicine where he holds the M.M. retrace his path. He continues to practice for Distinguished Achievement in the Wintrobe Chair of Hematology, chairs the law in Camden tho’ winters in Boston. American Theatre (past recipients include Hematology Department, and is the Mary Lou and Jim Millar are looking to Arthur Miller and Steven Sondheim). Director of the Clinical Research Center. downsize, shifting from Wallingford to the Note: Tina received an honorary Doctorate His current focus is on molecular genetics. greater Hartford area. He indicates of Literature from Bowdoin in 1988; Norm Somehow, he also finds time to garden amazement at the amount one can found a full week of being feted to be and join Mary on the ski slopes. Donna accumulate in twenty-plus years at the ‘totally delightful.’ He also enjoyed the Baribeau marked Dick’s seventieth same address. They have trips pending to spring theatre circuit in NYC as Tina is a birthday with a surprise bash and will be London and Hawaii with, hopefully, a member of the Dramatist Guild and votes spending part of the summer in chance to make contact with Kitty and in the Tony Awards. Her next play, Harpswell. Daisy Crane welcomed her John Simonds. Belatedly realizing that ‘Rembrant’s Gift,’ will be performed this sixth grandchild, Anna, in June. Merle and Maine extends beyond the Androscoggin summer in Madison, WI. Around all of Steve Land enjoyed celebrating River, Nancy and Ed Langbein ventured this Norm continues to enjoy teaching granddaughter Megan’s first birthday and into the wilderness heading northeast to creative writing at the School of Arts at are ‘about settled’ in their new home. Lubec and Campobello Island. Enjoyed a NYU. The past (very full) year also Steve is still working, as is Tex visit on the way up with Charlie Packard included the marriages of both their son Whitehurst. He and Anna are recently in Camden. Charlie has recently been and daughter. Dick Chase is on the board back from Oregon, where they explored a joined by his daughter Amy, her husband of the local yacht club and currently new sector of the U.S. of A. and also met Dan, and grandson Jeb. Remaining active, involved in a program to teach sailing to their daughter who lives in Montana. he will be teaching Latin at two schools 8-16 year old youths using ‘Optimistic Yoshiko and Jim Kim have been able to this fall. The Langbein’s arrival in Lubec Dingies’ and ‘420s.’ He and Marty also travel quite a bit as he teaches and coincided with two days of fog, which did continue to serve at the North Shore performs plastic surgery around the world not hamper our sightseeing and Music Theater. Great to see Jim Kushner (Maknes--Prague-Thailand-). enjoyment, facilitated by the Gustafson in Maine as he returned east from Salt Jim indicates his golf game is going well, ‘Handy Dandy Guide.’ Lake City to participate in a medical however his tennis activity is restricted by “Ravin and Bob were good enough to symposium held on the Bates campus. Jim Achilles tendon problems. Art Strout off drive over from their home in Eastport so has been designated a Distinguished again this summer to the Alps. He initially we could breakfast together. Bob is still an Professor at the University of Utah School crossed them when he reached sixty and active freelance writer for the Working now, a decade more proficient, he will Waterfront newspaper, National Fisherman,

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and WorkBoat Magazine while Ravin teaches Guarnaccia on Nantucket. Younger performs Broadway musicals in the Pickard school. His writing and reporting have daughter, Lanie, living in Durham, NC, a Theater on the Bowdoin campus.” taken him up a pilot’s ladder on the side of clinical psychologist in sleep therapy, on Nate Winer “flunked retirement again! a 600-foot freighter in the Bay of Fundy, on the staffs at Duke University and the This time, back to work as interim CEO of a circa 1953 tugboat to meet a freighter Durham VA Hospital. Son Scott an Spectrum Laboratory Products in Gardena, coming for a load of kraft pulp, and aboard executive in the broadband division of CA. Pleased to be contributing to the social a state-of-the-art Z-drive tug escorting a American Online, headquartered in welfare of my contemporaries. Planning a tanker out to sea. He mentioned, with a Washington, D.C. My favorite pastimes river boat trip this summer from St. nod to Mike Coster, that he and Ravin are: music (singing, barbershop quartets, Petersburg to Moscow. Also finished in have become rabid curling fans and church choir, etc); sports (swimming, second place in the Palos Verdes Marathon, enjoyed the extended television coverage walking, working out); reading (political in ‘our’ age group.” this season because of the NHL lockout. and spiritual books); community Robert Wishart writes: “Continuing “Jim Boudreau reports he is fully retired involvement through Rotary, etc.” from my last ‘news’—the senior men’s and enjoying good health. Meanwhile, Jack Jim Millar is “delighted to report the tennis team that I captain on Dataw Grinnell remains busy at Northeastern, sale of our home of 35 years in the Island, SC was victorious in Kansas City, although—after 34 years—he’s less involved middle of this obscene housing market winning the National Championship in with the Head of the Charles races. As vice boom, two days after listing. We will be our division. Great, once-in-a-lifetime president of the Victorian Preservation downsizing to a new condominium within experience. Wife, Dale, is now sporting Society, he’ll be presenting a preservation walking distance of downtown West two artificial hips. Beginning to regain her award to Bowdoin on June 29 to recognize Hartford and the hockey rink that Trinity form (!) on the tennis courts. Our the restoration of the chapel. Dale Wishart is currently using. We will also be 30 nationwide network of children and has had her (other) hip replaced and is now minutes closer to Maine. Mary Lou plans grandchildren are all well and trying to anticipating a new knee. Note: come to work another year and a half, so I am live up to our expectations.” reunion, she and Ollie Hone can compare still traveling with her to conferences and Jack Woodward updates: Shirley and I notes. Bob, however, appears indestructible conventions, with a trip to Hawaii are both fine. 2005 will be a year of with original parts as he continues to ‘do a planned for this fall, where I hope to celebrations: our 40th anniversary; my big little work’ and in May will compete in the hook up again with John Simonds. We 70; the arrival February 1 of our second 3.0 tennis nationals at Kansas City.” took our two grandchildren and their grandchild (another candidate for Bowdoin); Paul J. McGoldrick reports: “Have agreed aunt to London for a long weekend in the engagement of our youngest daughter, to serve as Planned Giving chair for the 50th March. Granddaughter Alexandra will be Sarah; and Shirley’s last year before she goes Reunion. Have completed N.E. 4,000-er (72 a freshman at Hamilton this fall. Went to on Medicare! Had a great month’s trip this or 74) past age 65, and have now turned my Columbus with Dave Shea ’62 for spring through Utah and Nevada on the way attention to golf. Established the Paul J. hockey’s Frozen Four, and also met Ward to LA, where Sarah resides. Very involved in McGoldrick Scholarship Fund for benefit of O’Neill ’60 and Don Doele ’59 at hockey land conservation efforts.” NH students.” games. And, it’s unnecessary to mention Fletcher Means briefs: “Living in bumping into ubiquitous Ed Langbein beautiful Arizona. Investment advisor, countless times!” 58 45 years—still active and having fun at it. Hal Pendexter updates: “Upon Class Secretary: John D. Wheaton, Wife, Patti, also investment advisor, retirement after 42 years with the U.S.G. 10 Sutton Place, Lewiston, ME 04240 specializing in Phoenix area real estate— Corporation, Marchia and I are dividing Class Agent: Richard E. Burns also planning to launch an Internet our time between Naperville, IL, and Planned Giving Agent: Raymond A. Brearey business. Older daughter Kim, a Scarborough, ME. While in Maine, we are successful publisher and editor completing a condo development project in Raymond A. Brearey writes: “Sheila and I (Rennaissance and mystery magazines), Westbrook, and I’m serving on the board of became grandparents for the first time on living with artist husband Lou the Maine State Music Theater, which June 29, 2004. Our grandson, Beau Peter

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Guenther, lives in Putney, VT, with my daughter Susan and son-in-law Peter. I was PROFILE pleased to see classmate Bob Kingsbury at a Planned Giving estate planning Brad Sheridan ’61 (1940-2005) presentation in June.” Math Teacher and Basketball Coach David Gosse reports: “Finally moved my By Alix Roy ’07 boat to Maine waters, which is where we sail all the time.” It just so happens that two of Dick Payne is “still working a couple days New England’s most respected a week, but my time is mostly consumed in teacher/coaches were Bowdoin heading up an attempt to control wetlands graduates, and best friends. invasive weeds in Falmouth. Interesting and Brad Sheridan ’61 was a few challenging, but a long way from physics.” years ahead of Roger Tuveson Al Payson updates: “Susan and I ’64, but the similarities welcomed our fifth grandchild, Connel between the two produced a Payson Marquis, son of Terry Payson ’92.” lasting bond. Sheridan, who taught alongside his friend at 59 Marblehead High School, Class Secretary: Brendan J. Teeling, M.D., coached basketball for 21 35 Lakemans Lane, Ipswich, MA 01938 years, at one point with Class Agents: Peter D. Fuller, Tuveson as his assistant Theodore C. Sandquist, and David A. Olsen coach. Sheridan earned Planned Giving Agent: Alvan W. Ramler countless honors for his coaching ability, was named North Shore Basketball Coach of Jack Anderson wrote in late May: “Working the Year in 1975 and 1976, and was inducted into the North with Gene Waters preparing for Westbrook Shore Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1998. High class of 1955’s fiftieth reunion.” Unlike Tuveson, who saw both of his daughters attend “Don and Carol Doele are thoroughly Bowdoin, only one of Sheridan’s four children chose to come enjoying Brunswick and Portland. We’ve to Brunswick. His youngest, Katie Sheridan ’02, became the been here almost two years now. Lots of family’s Bowdoin connection, starring in softball, soccer, and Sheridan with Bowdoin friends. Spent some good times tennis for the Polar Bears. Her biggest fans were, of course, daughter Katie ’02 at with the Class of ’60 Reunion group, Jay her father and Tuveson. “They were the ultimate sports the 2001 homecoming Green, Ward O’Neill, Mike Frieze, et al.” fans,” says Katie, “ superfans, would be the best way to football game. Robert Fritz is “now working part time describe them.” After graduation Katie accepted a position as at the Medical College of Wisconsin. I assistant head coach of women’s soccer at the College, carrying on the coaching spend much of the rest of the time tradition. “He loved coaching,” says Katie of her father, “he loved being hands on, delivering sailboats to various parts in the and helping kids; it was a big part of his life.” U.S., Europe, and the Caribbean.” After his retirement from teaching and coaching, Sheridan continued to give back Ted Sandquist writes: “Deb and I loved to education, establishing a scholarship for students graduating from Marblehead th seeing everyone at our 45 reunion last High School. The scholarship was endowed at $20,000 and has since grown to year, and look forward to our next—the big include two $50,000 packages. A tribute was held this past January honoring th 50 ! I have retired from my full-time work Sheridan’s lifetime of achievements. “Before the event I remember him saying there’d with Denver area community colleges, but probably be about 50 people there,” said Katie. In fact, 400 friends, family members have started a consulting business that and colleagues braved blizzard conditions to show their appreciation for Sheridan’s takes me around the country working with lifetime of hard work. other community colleges. Family keeps Like Tuveson, Sheridan was close to his fraternity brothers, attending reunions and growing and we now have two wonderful Cape Cod cookouts in the years following graduation. During Sheridan’s chemotherapy granddaughters—one in Wyoming and one sessions toward the end of his life, Katie was touched by the support shown to her in Iowa.” father by former Delta Sigmas living in the Boston area. “Seeing how lasting those Deane B. Turner reports: “Highlights relationships were made me realize how special Bowdoin was,” she said. since last year’s reunion include the birth of Of all his Bowdoin friends however, Katie remembers Tuveson being the biggest our ninth grandchild; visits with our presence in Sheridan’s life. “They understood each other, respected each other, and children in WY, CO, VA, CT, and NY; and had so much fun together.” When Sheridan passed away in February of this year, consulting projects in Rochester and Chicago. Gudrun and I continue loving our Katie estimates between 800 and 1000 people attended the wake. “As kids we always life on the Cape, despite the epic hurricane felt like we had him to ourselves; we didn’t realize that he had such an influence over blizzard of ’05!” so many people.” His many impressive athletic and academic feats will not soon be George Watkins reports: “First grandchild, forgotten, but Brad Sheridan’s tremendous ability to connect to others as a teacher, Maggie, is graduating high school and will coach, father, and friend is what he will always be remembered for. attend Boston College in September.”

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Daughter Mary ’95 is in practice also for MA. I went overboard with a big and bright 60 four years. She graduated from USC Dental new office two-and-a-half years ago, and Class Agents: Jonathan S. Green, in 2001. Carol and I are enjoying the twin have just brought in a terrific new partner. Robert A. LeMieux, and Glenn K. Richards granddaughters and the new baby, Sadie— Our daughter Julie is the MA coordinator Planned Giving Agent: Donald M. Bloch now 10 months old. Looking forward to of youth affairs, but she is battling kidney next year’s class reunion. My, how time flies.” disease secondary to lupus. Fortunately, Jay Beades updates: “Was unable to make “While on an RV trip from Florida to New she’s responding well to aggressive the 45th, but my heart was there. Heard Mexico in March, Bill Christmas and his infusions, so we are feeling very fortunate from Dick Morse, et al. that it was an wife Polly Raye stopped to visit Cary and and optimistic. If anyone wants to visit, we outstanding turnout and experience. I’m Kay Cooper at their farm in Galveston, TX. would love to see you. Although Sudbury is fortunate that I’m still in continuous contact Cary continues to enjoy being Dean of our base condo, we spend a week a month with many Polar Bears in the Boston area, Graduate Studies at the University of Texas in either North Falmouth or Palm Beach so have had many ‘reunions’ recently! Medical Branch when he is not raising beef Gardens, Florida, depending on the season. Congrats to Glenn Richards, Ward O’Neil, cattle and feeding chickens and peacocks at Our best to all!” Jay Green, and Bob Lemieux.” home. Bill is enjoying his first year of Theodore Gardner was inducted into Soon Cho writes: I was very pleased and retirement but has kept one foot in academia the Maine Sports Hall of Fame in June. He very proud to see Mr. Christopher Hill ’74, as Clinical Professor of Family Medicine “was a multisport athlete for Sanford High U.S. Ambassador to Korea. We had a (emeritus) at Duke University Medical and Bowdoin and a coach at Thornton pleasant talk at Mr. Hill’s office in Seoul. Center. He recently received the Lifetime Academy and Biddeford. He played And, I was very glad to hear from Paul Achievement Award from the American baseball, basketball, football, and track for Johnson and from Ed Dunn, my roommate College Health Association for his Sanford. He scored 1,300 points over four at Bowdoin. I am in the private sector now, contributions to the field of college health.” seasons in basketball, and in football he but am pretty busy giving lectures, and talks, See accompanying photo. earned all-state honors in 1955 and 1956. doing sundry works. Currently, I am writing He played football, baseball, and golf for a book on northeast Asian economics.” Bowdoin from 1957-1961. He coached Basil A. Clark reported in the spring: football and baseball at Thornton from “Son Timothy is now serving in the Peace 1963-1967 and Biddeford from 1969-1971. Corps in Malawi, Africa. My wife Margaret He was the Biddeford-Saco Country Club Ann and I plan to visit him in June.” golf champion in 1965.” From a Robert LeMieux writes: “Have been retired mainetoday.com article, June 12, 2005. four-and-a-half years from the investment Dick Hatheway is “still gainfully business. Having fun working on the Class employed at SUNY-Geneseo and the Village fundraising efforts along with Jay Green, of Geneseo. Continue to pay Social Security Glenn Richards, and Bruce Bockmann. taxes so that those that have gone over the Playing a fair amount of golf and spend the “While on an RV trip from Florida to New retirement fence will have something to month of March at Indian River Plantation in Mexico in March, Bill Christmas ’61 and his draw on. Life is good!” wife Polly Raye stopped to visit Kay and Cary Stuart, FL. Anyone in the area, please contact Gerard O. Haviland was named Citizen Cooper ’61 at their farm in Galveston, TX.” me at [email protected].” of the Year by the Farmington (CT) David Corsini updates: “Enjoying new Chamber of Commerce last spring. career as ‘folk’ artist, making and showing “Continually active in government and 61 assemblages. Thank god for the pension!” community affairs,” he has been a member Reunion Planning Chair: Peter E. Gribbin Mickey Coughlin is “finally becoming a of the Farmington Board of Education and Class Secretary: Lawrence C. Bickford, grandfather! Ben and Annie are still in San the town council, as well as serving on 2083 Sheriff’s Posse Trail, Prescott, AZ 86303 Francisco with new daughter, Louisa Frey several other boards of directors. “In 1993, Class Agents: Gerard O. Haviland, Coughlin, where Ben is a principal in he became the first recipient of Farmington’s Edward M. Kaplan, and Joel B. Sherman Spectrum Equity, a VC firm. Liz ’93 Banner Citizen Award, established by the recently moved to Santa Monica, where she Farmington Town Council to recognize David W. Belka is “still in Sarasota, FL, is a marketing director at Yahoo!’s new individuals who have made significant pursuing a stagnant handicap and some of launch, Y!music. Sally and I are planning contributions to the betterment of the life’s yipes. Expecting first grandchild in (if we can find a buyer for this spectacular Farmington community.” From a Bristol, CT August 2005. Daughter, Jennifer ’95 (Tuck mansion!) to build on the coast of Canada, Valley News article, April 28, 2005. ’03) to be married in September to Matt live in New Orleans in the winter, and Richard W. Keiler writes: “Tommilee O’Hara ’95 (Tuck ’03). Will spend most of sandwich Canada and Portland the rest of and I continue to enjoy life in the the summer in Harpswell and expect to the year. Time marches on.” Southwest, dividing our time between pro soak up more of the Prinn humor.” Mal Cushing writes: “I was amazed bono work and play.” Werner Brandes reports: “All’s well. when Joel Sherman reminded me that our Dick Thalheimer is “enjoying retirement Happily retired from Phillips Exeter Class celebrates our 45th reunion next June. while looking for interesting projects. I have Academy; consulted for one month at the We hope to return to Bowdoin to celebrate. started a company to consult with people American Academy in Tbilisi, Republic of My wife Susan works full time with me in looking for new boats. Danielle is busy with Georgia; four grandchildren.” my periodontal practice in Framingham, work and gardening. Grandchildren are Tom Chess is “still practicing dentistry.

52 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 class news wonderful. Had a nice visit from Pete Hanson on the occasion of the Hanson’s PROFILE annual stop at Mystic Seaport.” Frank Thomas writes: “As for Liselotte Roger Tuveson ’64 and I, we have been citizens of Holland now Retired history teacher and baseball coach for 14 years, plus another 10 years in the by Alix Roy ’07 70s. Fortunately, we have two of our three children living in the Hague and another Real athletes never let personal success loving daughter and family binding us to compromise their love of the game. Of course, New York. In recent years, I have been a with today’s high-paid sports stars relying on freelance lecturer/trainer for Dutch success to buy them their next contract, this international firms as well as two local may seem a tad idealistic; but while Whitey Ford colleges. Course subjects include finance, was making $35,000 a season there was commercial law, negotiations, presentations, another athlete who showed big-league talent real estate development and finance, and in 1960 but chose a seemingly less glorified business or legal English writing. We enjoy path of anonymity. In the case of Roger Tuveson the fair, pragmatic, deeply reflective, ’64, the opportunity to pitch in the big leagues humanistic, and culturally resonating lifestyle was first dangled by the Phillies when Tuveson in Holland. So, there’s much to exchange was still in high school, but the standout right- with fellow classmates at our forthcoming hander chose to attend Bowdoin instead. th 45 reunion. We will certainly be there!” After his graduation four years later, the Tuveson with grandson, Ryan Ganong, Chicago White Sox showed interest, but at his induction to the Massachussetts Tuveson, plagued by arm problems, again Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame. 62 declined, choosing instead to “get a job and get Class Secretary: Ronald F. Famiglietti, on with things,” accepting a position teaching 9870 S. Rosemont Ave, #208, American history at Marblehead Middle School. Four years Lone Tree, CO 80124 later, Tuveson would become head baseball coach at the Class Agent: Peter B. Webster school, marking the beginning of a 23-year coaching career, which would eventually land him a spot in the Daniel W. Alvino reported in the spring: Massachusetts Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame. “Thoroughly enjoying retirement. Florence While choosing college over a potential big-league career and I just returned from a six-week would be a tough choice for most, Tuveson speaks casually vacation; two weeks in each of the of his decision and seems to find greater pleasure in following: Oceanside, CA; Hawaii; and recalling stories from his Bowdoin years. A member of the Japan. Dave and Joanne Barron visited with Alpha Kappa Sigma fraternity, Tuveson, like many alumni, us while we were in California. Florence lamented the abolishment of Greek life, which provided and I were the guests of the Barrons at their much of the social scene during his four years. However, if Sedona, AZ, home in October 2004. Some anything, his connection to the college has grown stronger roommates just cannot separate! We would since graduation, with both of Tuveson’s daughters and Photo: Kirk Williamson welcome visits from our Bowdoin friends at their spouses attending his alma mater. His youngest, Katy A game-winning hug in our Westerly, RI, home.” ’91, was involved in field hockey and basketball, and her ’85 says it all. Ken Bacon is “still teaching at Antioch sister Kristine ’86, was a dancer and choreographer. New England Graduate School in the Tuveson jokes that the responsibility now rests on the shoulders of his four grandchildren counseling psychology program and to continue the Bowdoin legacy. practicing in Fitchburg, MA.” Sending children off to respected institutions such as Bowdoin used to be a favorite David Barron writes: “Joanne and I are part of Tuveson’s job as a teacher and coach at Marblehead high school, where he wrote enjoying our retirement in Sedona, AZ. We many college recommendations and took pride in the success of students and athletes left MA in 2002 and just love the Southwest. alike. “I liked working with bright young people…and those who played sports were I’m still doing some dentistry but on a always closer to my heart.” In many ways, Tuveson’s job was a continuation of the volunteer basis at the Hopi reservation. academic/athletic life he had so enjoyed at Bowdoin. On the field, he utilized many That has been a most rewarding experience. techniques picked up from his Bowdoin baseball coach Danny MacFayden, known for his We spend some time in Boston in the creative language when calling pitches (“Throw ‘em a mackeral with tartar sauce!” was summer and get our Red Sox and ocean fix.” his way of calling for a slow curveball). For Tuveson, being able to show others how to “Class of 1962 friends, fraternity enjoy the game of baseball was every bit as satisfying as playing it himself. “I loved being brothers, and fellow semi-retirees, Fred able to teach the game,” he said, “it’s a celebration of the sport itself.” During his career Rollinson and Nils Blatz bumped into he celebrated a state championship in 1985, and a total of 216 wins. His dedication to each other on Sanibel Island; they were coaching has earned Tuveson numerous honors and awards, most recently his induction competitors in the Southwest Florida into the Massachusetts Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame last February. “It was a nice Cribbage Championship. Fred and Nils are honor,” Tuveson said simply. His refreshing modesty has allowed Tuveson to find joy in pictured with their wives, Nancy and teaching others the very things that made his four years at Bowdoin so memorable. Leslie, sporting the latest in fashion from

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the Bowdoin Bookstore. The foursome Fred Rollinson writes: “Nancy and I George Blasenak “retired from Chrysler enjoyed a week together in the sun. The enjoyed an overlapping vacation with Nils Corp (DaimlerChrysler) after 35 years in Rollinsons live year-round on Cape Cod, and Leslie Blatz again this year—lots of fun the automobile marketing wars. Now the Blatzes on eastern Long Island. (Note: and habit forming. Paul Constantino and working on my golf game and fishing Fred edged out Nils in the cribbage his wife, Jean, stopped by this spring and technique. I am in the Cape Cod and competition.)” See accompanying photo. we had a nice visit. Always nice to have Sarasota, Florida phone books and would friends stop for a visit.” be happy to hear from alumni in the area.” John Wyman writes: “Nancy and I continue to enjoy the climate and hospitality of North Carolina—we are also 64 enjoying the growing roles of grandparents.” Class Secretary: David W. Fitts, Jr., 63 Laurel Lane, P.O. Box 341, Newcastle, NH 03854 63 Class Agents: Howard V. Hennigar, Jr. and Class Secretary: Charles J. Micoleau, Peter M. Small 38 Coyle St., Portland, ME 04101 Planned Giving Agent: Robert S. Frank, Jr. Class Agent: Joseph H. McKane, II Planned Giving Agent: John S. Goldthwait Karl-Dieter Bünting reports “some news And two pairs for four: Fred Rollinson ’62 about the last year, which brought some and Nils Blatz ’62 bumped into each other Anthony Antolini, “music director of happy events: University of Kaliningrad on Sanibel Island, Florida, competing in the Down East Singers and Bowdoin Chorus, (famous Königsberg, where Kant taught) Southwest Florida Cribbage Championship. made an award-winning documentary for awarded me with an honorary doctor’s They’re pictured with their wives, Nancy public television that details his discovery degree; I was retired into status of emeritus and Leslie. See their note for who edged and recreation of a lost choral work, on August 1, 2004; during a lecture visit whom in the tourney. Rachmaninoff’s ‘Liturgy of St. John at Beijing International Studies University Will Eastman reports: “Martina and I are Chrysostom,’ and its performance in the in China, I, to my great surprise and joy, still enjoying life on our farm. Our children by American choristers in was awarded an honorary professor’s are all well, and I still work as an 1988.” From a Camden, Maine Village Soup degree. This is what happens to old men. occupational physician just enough to keep article, August 20, 2005. Retirement is great, am still very busy with us in Kool-Aid and bologna.” Fred Hill reports: “Marty and I are getting closer to Maine at last. We bought land in Arrowsic last fall and plan to build this fall or next spring. Look forward to returning to writing on international affairs, doing some teaching and playing squash with Charlie Butt, Bernie Lacroix, and Hody White ’58.” Lennie Lee “left Embry-Riddle Areonautical University in January. Working with the students was great, but the politics get tiring. Plan to work as adjunct faculty in the fall part time. Had planned to return for Homecoming in the fall but, Social Security doesn’t produce the six-figures I expected! Oh well, at least there is still some money in the pot!” Granville D. Magee was honored on April 15 with induction into the Wall Foundation for Educational Excellence Hall custom homes and renovations of Fame “for more than 30 years as the in mid-coast maine attorney to the Shore Conference of High Schools, his 10 years of service as the Wall Board of Education attorney and his many years of charitable support to Wall High School sports.” From a Manasquan, NJ Coast adrian bossi ’85 chip thorner ’87 Star article, April 7, 2005. 207-841-1355 207-841-2885 Roger Riefler “just returned from an Alaskan cruise. I could get used to that type of ‘retirement activity.’ Now, if I could only figure out how to afford retirement!”

54 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 class news my international cooperation with Warsaw and other Polish universities and, of course, 65 Kaliningrad and Beijing. U.S. travel by now Class Agent: Robert E. Peterson is California and Red Rock country as Planned Giving Agent: Donald A. Goldsmith younger son, Heines, and wife Renee live in LA. Heines works with Siebel Systems. Inge Eric Boesch updates: “Having lived and and I enjoy good health, bike and swim.” taught in Edinburgh, Scotland, for 27 years, Phil Hansen reports: “I continue to I am now teaching at the Emerson Waldorf spend much of my time doing volunteer School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I am work. I coach the Bowdoin debating team just completing my seventh year here.” and I do what I can to encourage the new Paul Chummers wrote in May: “I am sorry Queer-Trans Resource Center on campus. to miss the 40th class reunion. I was fortunate Bowdoin is a much better college now than to attend last year’s 2004 reunion with two AD John P. Garrett ’73 attended the annual it was when I was there, and I enjoy my brothers in the Class of 1964. All best wishes.” lobster bake at Bill Springer’s ’65 ranch and frequent visits to the campus. I am also Richard Dixon “will retire from medical stables in N. Barrington, Il on June 18. Bill, engaged in reorganizing and sustaining ‘Out practice after 37 years of caregiving for who has hosted this event for area Bowdoin as I Want to Be,’ a program of support and cancer patients. Will continue as associate alumni, parents, and current and incoming advocacy for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and director of the Penn State Cancer Institute. students for 31 years, is pictured with CZ transsexual young people in mid-coast Nancy is active teaching skiing. Oldest son Drake, mother of Armin Drake ’08. Maine. Our sponsoring agency, Coastal Chris is a major in the Marines; Geoff teaches AIDS Network, was just de-funded, leaving high school and is an assistant principal in us to survive on our own. I enjoy ; Keith is an editor for The New York 66 Reunion Planning Chairs: frustrating the Bush Administration’s Times; and Tim is a film editor in New York.” Charles H. Roscoe and Benjamin A. Soule apparently fervent wish that GLBT people Jack Gazlay writes: “It was good to see Reunion Giving Chair: James W. MacAllen will all just disappear!” everyone at Reunion, especially Sandy Doig, Class Secretary: Daniel W. Tolpin, M.D., Bruce M. Lutsk reports: “In May, several who was attending his first (with daughter 50 Byron Road, Weston, MA 02193 Chi Psis helped Jane and me christen our Ellie ’03) and Neil Martin, who remembered Class Agents: John A. Bleyle and new house in Newcastle, Maine. In my parents’ car from the 60s. Also, thanks to Jeffrey G. White attendance were Maureen and Jim Reis, Dan Turner for arranging the golf outing. I Evie and Victor Papcosma, Linda and Bill will have to retire to bring my game up to the Conn Hickey reports: “I have a daughter Horton, Sherm Rounsville and Pat Dilger, level of Steve Munger and Bill Springer.” teaching high school history in the inner Charlie Metz and Leanna Costanza, and Albert Purola writes: “Forty years out of city in San Francisco, a son in law school in Ellen and Red MacMichael ’65. Retirement Bowdoin my daughter Cassie graduated Boston, and a son in fifth grade. Because of finally caught up to us, and we moved back from Heidelberg (Ohio). And I heard from him, I am now on the school board in my to Maine in July (2004). It was terrific to be Dan Goldsmith, Tom Roche, and Adam suburban Marin County California school able to share our little piece of Maine with Ross—the summer of 2005! Still lawyering district. Democracy in action and up close such good friends.” but, like most in these shoes, would do is something to experience. I recently met Basil Newton writes: “Son James is anything else in a heartbeat. Hearing all the up with Al Czyzewski who is living in working towards a master of science in news of classmates brings back wonderful Naples, Florida. Our 30th is coming up and accounting degree at UMO. Son William is memories and nostalgia.” with a son in Boston, hopefully I will make starting his third year in the business Bill Springer has hosted an annual the trip.” school at Orono. I grew up next to Don lobster bake for area Bowdoin alumni, Thomas Pierpan updates: “After 12 years Lancaster ’27—hope his property and my parents, and current and incoming students of working in Florida for a subsidiary of the dad’s property work well in Bowdoin’s long- at his ranch in N. Barrington, II for 31 Aegon Group of Insurance companies, term plans.” years. This past year's event was held on June 18. See accompanying photo. Jennifer and I retired to a farm in Whitefield, ME. Consider it the ultimate retirement reverse migration. We’ve also purchased a 26-foot RV, and will spend as much time on the road as warm weather in New England Handwriting Quiz 5 and Canada allows. Hope to see many # friends at the 40th Reunion next year.” Phil Reynolds writes: “My wife Suzanne completed her Ed.D. in mathematics education from Rutgers University in May 2005. She is an assistant professor at Kean University in Union, NJ. Phil is an account executive and insurance director at the Turn to page 37 for details. Find Quiz #1 on page 38, #2 on page 42, investment brockerage firm of Kenneth, #3 on page 44, #4 on page 48 and #6 on page 73. Jerome & Co., Inc., in Florham Park, NJ.” “Syracuse University has named Douglas

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Biklen as dean of the School of Education. good skiing, tennis, fishing, snowshoeing, Biklen is currently a professor in the hiking, and golf in God’s Country. When SUBMISSION DEADLINE school’s cultural foundations and teaching the cold starts to chill my bones, I can visit for Class News and Weddings for the Winter ’06 and leadership programs, and is the my son in Fort Lauderdale. Much prefer issue is Tuesday, December 6, 2005. coordinator of the inclusive education retirement in Maine than in Florida.” program.” From a Syracuse University Edward Moore “celebrated the big 60 in release, July 25, 2005. London this past summer (2004), and received my first senior citizen’s discount at Westminster Abbey. Still teaching English at 67 Punahou, and continuing to love doing so.” Class Secretary: Daniel E. Boxer, Stephen Rand received an award “from 10 Mares Hollow Lane, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107 and Immunology for my teaching efforts at Class Agent: Richard P. Caliri SUNY-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, Planned Giving Agent: David F. Huntington www.Bowdoin.edu/BowdoinMagazine

Bruce Found wrote in May: “This academic year represents my ‘silver anniversary’ at Hebron. I continue to teach biology and environmental studies, as well as coach cross-country skiing. Betsy and I became very proud grandparents this past year with the arrival of Maren! Partial retirement is on the horizon.” William Hoar updates: “Daughter Emily is just finishing her junior year at Wake Forest—which means just one more year of tuition, an ongoing procedure since our older girl, Meredith ’03, was in the second grade in 1989.” Bert Kendall reports: “After 34 years of city management in New Jersey, I am retiring July 1 and moving to Cumberland, Maine. We found a good school system for my second batch of kids (3 and 5) and Marilyn and I want to winter on the coast and summer at Kezar Lake. Hope to see more of Oxnard, Found, Hawkins, Vumbacco, and other Bowdoin friends. Anyone have part-time work for an old manager, coach, or event organizer?” David Macomber updates: “Finally, I am writing that I plan to move to Maine in July 2006. I am having a house built in Carrabassett Valley. The practical side of me has determined that in order to facilitate the logistics and the financing of the construction, I should spend one last year in the Springfield (MA) area, teaching Spanish at the MacDuffie School. I hope to continue officiating soccer and hockey for one more season (33 and 32 years, respectively), deo volente. I am a little apprehensive about moving to an area where moose outnumber people and not knowing anyone, while leaving many friends and acquaintances behind, but I feel ready to begin the next phase. I will make new friends and hope to reestablish contact with old (?) Bowdoin friends from the good old days. I will be looking forward to some

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NY. I have taught medical students, interns, continue to practice law as defense counsel residents, and allergy fellows-in-training the in criminal cases in federal district court 69 art and science of clinical allergy for the past here. Life could not be better.” Class Secretary: James M. Barney, 25 years. I do think of the ‘Common Good’ Bill Miles writes: “I now have three 18 Brown St., Ipswich, MA 01938 even though I am in private practice.” generations living here in the ‘Upper Valley’ Class Agents: Edward J. McFarland and as we call this great spot where we reside— Kenneth R. Walton ranging from my dad, age 88, to my Planned Giving Agent: Paul R. Gauron 68 granddaughter, age two—with my 37- and Class Secretary: Roger W. Raffetto, 7-year-old sons and my 84-year-old mother Donald Abbott writes: “Chris Simon ’84 18 Thompson Ave., Hingham, MA 02043 in between. And we three just visited the and his wife hosted a terrific reunion for Class Agents: Robert F. Lakin and newest grandkids, a boy and girl twin set, our daughters adopted from Gayou, China, Donald C. Ferro in CA—twins of my daughter, Sarah ’92! in 2000; seventeen families attended. My Planned Giving Agent: Gordon A. Flint Lots of work and lots of fun.” daughter Olivia (6) gets to see her ‘sisters’ John Mogabgab updates: “I have about once a year at such reunions and Jim Bishop writes: “Cheryl and I are completed twenty years as founding editor Mike (13) renews acquaintances. Mike thoroughly enjoying our five-year-old twin of Weavings, a spiritual life journal went to China with me to adopt Olivia. granddaughters Megan and Mackenzie in published by Upper Room Ministries in Rachel (8), adopted in Wuhan, China, in California. Still working at Northrup on Nashville, TN. I’m hoping to learn how 1997, also enjoys seeing new friends she a satellite program for what used to be to do my job well before I retire. My wife has met over the years at these gatherings. called TRW, but thinking of taking the and I have been deeply engaged in elder I am still at Texas Instruments in Attleboro, plunge into retirement. Hope all is well care for the last five years, with all it is— MA. Went to Reunion on Saturday with my with my fellow alums.” joy and heartbreak. Fly fishing the mom and Dad, Richard ’40, and sister Robert C. Corey writes: “After 58 Tennessee trailwaters is a real pleasure Anne ’79. A great day!” years of mediocre vision, a cataract now that I rarely hook my head on the Claude Caswell writes: “My wife, Jennifer surgery that coincided with the Red Sox forward cast.” White, was recently appointed poet laureate World Series victory left me with better Alan Neuren traveled to India in of Rochester, NH. I am still chair of the than 20/20 vision (uncorrected) in my February, “where we were hosted by Rahul liberal arts department at the Maine College left eye. I’d always hoped that excellent Bajaj ’99 and his family. Definitely the way to of Art. It was great to see many classmates at vision might help my golf game, but see India. Daughter Rebecca will be entering last year’s Reunion—particularly John Pierce two subsequent retina detachments have the College of Charleston in the fall.” (“We live!”), Ben Pratt, Dave Forsberg, delayed that final determination. Ron Nicholis reports: “I am now Bo McFarland, and so many others. Missed I maintain close contact with Newt Spurr practicing as a pediatric hospitalist half Dwight Havey and Rod Tulonen—and, of ’61 (fellow Zeta Psi brother, and one of time, and the other half of my time is spent course, Toby Parker, and Frank the last Bowdoin hockey goalies to play in medical informatics. I am having a great Sabastseanski. Love to all.” without a mask—incidentally, an time, using handheld programs in practice Paul McArthur reports: “Son Zachary excellent, single-digit handicap golfer). as well as guiding the medical staff into the graduated cum laude from Williams, My wife, Abbie, and I still live in electronic world of medicine. My wife and secretary of his class and captain of the golf northeastern MA. She’s been my two children, Susan and Michael, are well team. Daughter Lauren showed five outfits designated driver since mid-April, as are the grandchildren they have given in the Parsons School of Design spring although I’m back to driving to work us—six total. Visit us if you are in Kansas runway show in Paris, France.” since early June. Job as CFO at Lydon City area.” Fred Rea is “completing 19 years at Mt. Millwright Services in Raynham, MA Bob Parker briefed in May: “Enjoying Desert Yacht Yard, only seven-and-a-half continues to be challenging and retirement very much. Still coaching more years until retirement! Son Stephen is enjoyable. The latter, a good thing, since basketball and umpiring baseball games. completing a master’s program at U-Chicago, retirement is, most likely, decades away.” Ellen continues to work as the principal of other son James just finished first year at Fal De Saint Phalle writes: “Continue Westford Academy, and Justin is finishing Wesleyan University. Wife Roz is working full life’s journey in a happy mood. Have found his junior year at Hamilton College.” time at Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth.” love again and am engaged to Grace Tom Sides says: “Life is treating us well. “Bernstein Shur has expanded its Real Krachuk of Jacsonville, FL, while Son Trevor has given us two terrific Estate Law Practice Group with the continuing my work as a scorecard grandsons. Daughter Brooke due to be addition of attorney Richard W. Smith, manager at a Dutch leasing company’s U.S. married in October. Daughter Laura former vice president, state manager, and operation in King of Prussia, PA. Have just entering her junior year at Hamilton. Still counsel for Ticor Title Insurance Company purchased a flat in Philadelphia, and the CFO and coaching hockey at Kent. in Portland. In recent years, Smith has been door will always be open to all Bowdoin Getting the travel bug—a week in Sedona, appointed by the Superior Court to serve as people everywhere.” Arizona, and ten days in the Dominican a referee in real estate cases and has also Robbie Hayes is “working for BLS in Republic in recent months have us craving been approved as an expert witness in real MI. Hi to all. Wish I could make it back more. Was in Bath and Brunswick in estate and title insurance matters.” From a more often.” November (2004) visiting a Kent trustee. Burnstein Shur news release, July 5, 2005. Bruce Locke writes: “On July 2, 2004, Saw woman’s hockey versus Middlebury— Marc Williams is “teaching algebra and I married Jennifer Moss in Sacramento, CA. I’m impressed!” geometry at Danville High School, Danville, Ken Anderson acted as my best man. I KY. Coaching boys’ and girls’ swim teams.”

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graduated from Northeastern. Daughter 70 71 Kristen will be a junior there this fall. Oldest, Class Secretary: John H. McGrath, Reunion Planning Chair: J. Michael Talbot Karen, a Wesleyan grad, is working in 28 Davis Hill Road, Weston, CT 06883 Class Secretary: Owen W. Larrabee, 213 publishing and studying Chinese medicine. Class Agent: Wayne C. Sanford Drexel Road, Ardmore, PA 19003 Chris is teaching second grade in nearby Planned Giving Agent: Stephen B. Lang Class Agent: Craig W. Williams Somerset, MA, and I am looking toward Planned Giving Agent: Leonard W. Cotton retiring as middle school principal in June, Rick Buckley reports: “Oldest son, Matt, and continuing to work somewhere after that. received his MBA from Babson in May. Son Richard A. Caras writes: “After a difficult Thankfully, we are all healthy and doing well.” Mike was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in few years, during which I beat a rare Renowned photographer Abelardo the Marines, completing his OCS camp disease (Transverse Myelitis), a common Morell was the subject of a Brookline in March. Sara is a sophomore at Williams one (cancer), and a social one (divorce), Magazine article last spring, in which and hopes to be a vet someday. Pat and I are I am now doing what I went to Bowdoin Bowdoin and, particularly, professor John well and almost empty-nesters.” for in 1967. After 25 years on Wall Street, McKee are credited, “for launching him Lewis N. Caraganis updates: “Sending I am now the novice author. But, my first on a career that has earned him respect our third and youngest son off to UNC novel will be published in 2006—keep and admiration throughout the world.” Wilmington in the fall. Still practicing tuned to these columns!” From a Brookline Magazine article, May general contracting in and around Stephen J. Carey writes: “My dad, Joe 2005. For more on Abelardo Morell, Chatham Co., NC, and tending 30 acres Carey ’44, passed away mid-winter. He made visit www.abelardomorell.net. of pasture and woodland as my principal his 60th Reunion in June 2004, and his final passion. Just celebrated our 25th wedding days were happiest reminiscing about Bowdoin anniversary with my lovely and talented days—his own, mine, my brother Fred’s ’76, 72 wife, Kim. Will greatly miss having and his granddaughter Meghan’s ’02. Dad Class Secretary: William T. Hale, children around the house; just bought a loved the College and his associations with it. 5 Larrabee Farm Road, Brunswick, ME 04011 set of golf clubs!” The value he placed on those associations and Class Agents: Thomas R. Friedlander and Erl Hardy reports: “Brother Steve came friendships has not been lost on me, as I also Clifford S. Webster up to Northwood to do research on the got to share in those fondly remembered Planned Giving Agent: Jonathan S. Piper 1932 Olympics. He stayed at the house of moments. Bravo, Bowdoin College!” The Class headmaster Ed Good ’71. Steve Reed ’69 extends its sympathy to the Carey family. Roger Conover received an Honorary and I were invited to the mansion for a Tony Ferreira reports: “Son Steve just Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters this delightful dinner. Brother Steve and I did ‘twin up’ a few students.” Arthur McDaniel writes: “Lost first wife, Larcenia, in 2001 after 39 great years of marriage. Have since remarried a wonderful lady named Ann. Presently teaching college physics and technical calculus at a local college.” John H. McGrath reported in the spring: “Have to miss our 35th reunion due to a trade show commitment. Hoping to sell our publishing business this year, eventually move to the Northhampton, MA, area, where our daughter is, and enjoy life.” Patrick Rice updates: “Remarried now 18 months to Dr. Christine Paige (Tufts ’75) and finally entering the privileged world of teen parenting—stepdaughter Elsbeth is a junior, great student-athlete and has Bowdoin as first choice (sorry, Tufts). Have enjoyed returning for campus tours and meeting coaches.” Stephen Taylor reported last spring: “Sharon and I are enjoying Southern California. We are eagerly awaiting our first grandchild in June. Still practicing but finding time for travel, tennis, and piloting our Cessna 182. Life is good.”

58 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 class news past spring at Maine College of Art, “for his soldiers in harm’s way. Dave shared his leadership in shaping contemporary vision of family medicine. Dave notes: “I 74 discourse in art and architecture of the past learned about Ralph’s work with the Class Secretary: Robert D. Bardwell III, quarter-century and for his editorial Dodgers from your story in Bowdoin 259 High St., P.O. Box 626, conviction, as well as generosity of vision, in magazine (Spring 2002, vol 73, Number 3). Pittsfield, MA 01202 bringing new voices, emerging artists and I sent Ralph a letter asking him to help me Class Agents: Stephen N. Gifford and alternative spaces to the art public.” From a support our military physicians, I hadn’t Bruce P. Shaw Maine College of Art release, May 24, 2005. seen or talked with Ralph since our Planned Giving Agent: Joseph J. Leghorn Vin DiCara writes: “Cheryl and I are graduation, 32 years ago—this is a delighted that our daughter Katy will be testament to Bowdoin and its graduates’ Jeffrey M. Conrad writes: “I continue marrying at the Bowdoin chapel on commitment to serving the Common working on offering my services to those September 17, the same location as our Good.” See accompanying photo. wanting to hear, read, and inwardly digest marriage in 1977. Bill Fitzsimmons will be the Good News. I am so thankful to have presiding over the wedding ceremony just known Professor Daniel Levine, Professor as I presided over his marriage to Liz Hazelton, and some of the student body who Armstrong twenty years ago.” were generous with their time and goodness. Dale B. Flora writes: “Lenna and I Bowdoin College was the right place for me. continue to enjoy our move to Raleigh- I was indeed most blessed to be nurtured by Durham, NC, and look forward to full such an institution. Thank you.” retirement in a few years.” Tom Harrison writes: “Boy, it’s hard to believe that my youngest (daughter Becky) 75 Class Secretary: Barbara Tarmy Fradin, just graduated from college! Has it been 101 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023 that long? I’m hoping to make our 35th in Class Agent: Leo J. Dunn III two years.” Planned Giving Agent: Paul W. Dennett George P. Marvin writes: “We are still living and cruising aboard our 45-foot Ralph Gambardella ’73 joined David Peter S. Adams was “delighted to return to sailboat, Trumpeteer, starting our 10th year of McCarthy ’73 to teach family physicians Yarmouth, Maine, after six wonderful years retirement and this lifestyle. We spend our from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, Coast living in Tokyo with my wife, Lisa, and our winters in the Bahamas, summers in Maine Guard, and Marines. They hadn’t been in three children, while serving as president of and Canada. Cruised to Newfoundland last touch since graduation, but David contacted Unum Japan. Tim graduated from Colorado summer. Bought a home in Hobe Sound, Ralph after seeing an article about him in College this spring, Holly enters her FL, which will be our base for the future.” Bowdoin magazine a couple of years ago. sophomore year at Brown this fall, and Carrie is all set for the fifth grade. John Medeiros reports: “I have ‘retired’ Celebrating 26 years of marriage and 30 73 from the U.S. Foreign Service and am now years as a Bowdoin graduate this year. It’s Class Secretary: C. Scott Smith, Jr., living in Hong Kong. My new role as vice all moving too fast!” 13714 Boquita Drive, Del Mar, CA 92014 president of the Cable and Satellite Brian M. Barron updates: “I’ve been Class Agents: Jeffory D. Begin and Broadcasting Association of Asia keeps me working as a senior vice president with Thomas J. Costin traveling around this region, keeping up Morgan Stanley in Boston and now Wellesley, Planned Giving Agent: Charles W. Redman, III with a burgeoning industry. So far, it’s fun!” MA, for 17 years. Catherine, my eldest, is Michael Owens “was elected to the at Boston College. Brian Jr. will enter Nancy Moulton Elliott reported in May: board of directors of iVow, Inc., and Middlebury as a recruited football player “Our son Stephen will graduate with high appointed as Chief Medical Officer of the while John is a junior at Wellesley High.” honors on May 18 from the U.S. Coast company as well as President of VOW “U.S. career diplomat Larry Butler on Guard Academy. His grandfather, Bowdoin Solutions, Inc., a former subsidiary of the Monday (3/28/05) took over the position of professor Dr. James M. Moulton, would be company. In February 2005, following the the principal deputy to Bosnia’s top proud to see how his grandson finds marine merger of VOW with and into the company international administrator…From April biology as interesting as he did! My dad had and the change of the company’s name to 2002, Butler was the U.S. ambassador in a 1960-61 Fulbright fellowship—University iVOW, Dr. Owens was named President of another former Yugoslav republic, of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.” the company.” Macedonia, while his previous U.S. John P. Garrett attended the annual Bob Porteous updates: “Have moved to embassy posts have included Bulgaria and lobster bake at Bill Springer’s ’65 ranch South Freeport, which we like very much. Serbia-Montenegro.” From an Associated and stables in N. Barrington, Il on June 18. My wife Phoebe sold four of five paintings Press release, March 28, 2005. See photo accompanying the Class of ’65 news. at the Show House at St. Mary’s in Brian Damien writes: “Phil Clough ’43 Ralph Gambardella joined David Falmouth. Leila is editing Saucepan and the and I are collaborating on a digital history McCarthy to teach 480 family physicians Single Girl at Warner Books in New York. project at Curtis Memorial Library, the public from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, Coast Alec is leaving Senator Collins’s office in library in Brunswick, where I’m the Associate Guard, and Marines. As team physician for D.C. for Cornell business school. Jack will Director. Our first project published by the the LA Dodgers, Ralph compared his care be a sophomore at Dennison.” of high profile athletes to the care of library is an electronic edition of Wheeler and

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Wheeler’s History of Brunswick, Topsham, in May, and daughter Annie just finished Cheryl Prescott Coolidge received the and Harpswell, the classic 959-page work first her freshman year at Bowdoin.” Jack Jensen Award for Excellence in published in 1878. The electronic edition was Rob Smith wrote in late spring: “Even in Teaching from Colby-Sawyer College, the made possible by more than a thousand dry, sunny Arizona my work with the Sierra college’s highest teaching award at Colby- hours of volunteer work invested in the Club leads me back to trying to protect the Sawyer’s commencement exercises in May. project by Phil, who labored over two years to Arctic Wildlife Refuge and prevent global Cheryl is an associate professor in the digitize a copy of the original 1878 edition, warming to save the polar bears. I’d Department of Natural Sciences. From a complete with tables and engraved welcome any Bowdoinites who want to help. Colby-Sawyer commencement publication, illustrations. We’ve tried to create an I’m at [email protected] in Phoenix.” May 2005. electronic version that is easy to read and easy Peter F. Drake, managing general to search, and which maintains some flavor of partner of Mayflower Partners, a healthcare the appearance of the original printed edition. 76 sector-focused investment fund, has been The project is available on the web at Reunion Planning Chair: Nancy E. Collins named to the board of directors of Penwest http://www.curtislibrary.com/history. We have Reunion Giving Chairs: Pharmaceuticals Co. From a CBS several more projects in the works, but view Ellen Shuman, and William Janes Marketwatch article, April 19, 2005. the Wheeler project as the cornerstone of an Class Secretary: Glenn A. Brodie, Malcolm Gauld writes about the ’76 lax ongoing effort to create an electronic ‘history P.O. Box 1618, Duxbury, MA 02331 alumni: “The Polar Bear Grand Masters had room’ at the library.” See accompanying photo. Class Agents: Anne M. Ireland and a great weekend at the Ocean State Classic Stephen P. Maidman in Rhode Island. We took third place, Planned Giving Agent: Ellen D. Shuman finishing with three wins (all one-goal victories!) and two losses. (Although we Peter J. Blodgett writes: “Life in Southern feel we let one of the losses get away from California remains busy as I approach my us, we had a very good showing.) The twentieth anniversary as curator of Western smiling faces in the accompanying photo American history at the Huntington Library. tell the most important part of the story: Hard to imagine that so many years have We had a blast! We were also definitely the gone by so quickly. I always appreciate best dressed. (Check out those unis, seeing the L.L. Bean catalogue as a complete with the beloved rambling polar reminder of life back in my native New bear!) To put in yet another plug for the England; during the past year, however, I’ve ’76ers, with the addition of David Herter, been more active in bringing the we have now had every one of the nine Brian Damien ’75 and Phil Clough ’43 have whispering pines to the land of the palm lacrosse-playing members of the class of collaborated on a digital history project at trees by joining the BASIC program here in 1976 enter at least one of these events. On Curtis Memorial Library, the public library Southern California, so effectively run by to Lake Placid!” Malcolm wrote again later in in Brunswick, where Brian is the Associate Jayne Grady Reitan ’77. I’m enjoying the the summer: “Suffice it to say that we Polar Director—an electronic edition of Wheeler opportunity to spread the word about and Wheeler’s History of Brunswick, Bears left our mark at Lake Placid…We Bowdoin to residents of the Pacific Coast. have now entered eight tournaments and Topsham, and Harpswell, the classic Go U Bears!” 959-page work first published in 1878. won two championships since we first John E. Bowman updated in May: played at Vail in 2002. Our combined W. Michael Donovan, “Associate “Recently returned to campus and gave a win/loss record stands at 22 wins against Professor of Business and Chair of Business, seminar on international career 11 losses. Since 2002, a grand total of 29 Management, and Economics at Cedar Crest opportunities, organized through the alums have participated in at least one College in Allentown, PA, has been awarded Career Planning Office. I hadn’t been on event. This time around we entered two a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture on the campus in 10 years, and it was amazing to teams: one in the Grand Masters (45+) development of capitalistic fitness and see all the infrastructural improvements. division and one in the newly formed entrepreneurialism in Chisinau, Moldova, Many students seemed interested in ‘going Super Grand Masters (50+) division. We during the 2005-2006 academic year. international’ and the event was well began on Wednesday in Super Grand Professor Donovan...is pursuing a Ph.D. in attended. Spent many hours chatting with Masters and went on to win four straight public policy at University of Southern former professors John Turner (Romance games, taking home the championship Maine’s Muskie School for Public Service.” Languages) and John Howland (Biology). trophy in a field of eight teams…The From a Fulbright press release, April 4, 2005. I’ll be on assignment in Vietnam for most of Grand Masters I division featured 16 teams. Patricia Pope updates: “Am enjoying my June, helping fruit farmers improve their We drew a very tough seed in the opening second career, in architectural design, based exports to the EU and US.” round with Team Toyota, a squad featuring in London and New York. Best wishes to Jerry Bryant reports: “My oldest daughter, a number of Division 1 stalwarts from the fellow classmate, Susan Nalepa, who Emily, graduated from college in May and has 70s. We earned considerable respect from remarried in February in California!” joined the Teach for America corps, placed in fans and players after playing Team Toyota Douglas B. Riley writes: “Eileen and I New Orleans for a two-year stint teaching evenly through the first half before have enjoyed our frequent trips from high school English. My youngest, Chelsea, ultimately bowing to them by a score of 8- Maryland to Maine over the past four years. just finished her frosh year in college and 4. This put us in the consolation bracket, Our daughter Claire graduated from Colby thinks she wants to major in art history. Long meaning that we could then finish no live the liberal arts!”

60 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 class news higher than 9th. So we put our all into it presenting the award, the Director of and won the next three straight to finish as FinCEN commented that, ‘Rob has 77 consolation champions for the second consistently demonstrated his willingness to Class Secretary: David M. Garratt, straight year. A 7-1 showing made for a fun give his time and share his perspective with 7800 Chagrin Road, Chagrin Falls, OH 44023 time in Lake Placid. However, as is always FinCEN as we address the many complex Class Agents: Gail M. Malitas and the case, the best part of the experience was issues affecting the banking industry. He James S. Small the chance to renew old friendships and serves as a co-chair of the ad hoc Planned Giving Agent: Keith D. Halloran build new ones. Between the two Polar subcommittee of the Advisory Group Bear teams, twelve alums took the field at formed to address the important issue of Tommy C. Aceto updates: “Anthony ’05 Lake Placid this August. Next stop: The the unauthorized disclosure of suspicious graduated in May—Bowdoin’s 200th Florida Lacrosse Classic on the weekend of activity reports. Additionally, he actively Commencement. Begins work with Merrill January 20-22, 2006 in Fort Lauderdale.” participates in many other subcommittees Lynch in NYC in July. Jon finished second See accompanying photo. of the Advisory Group, ensuring that the year at Virginia Tech. All is well.” unique perspective of community banks are Robert Demont wrote in the spring: well represented. Beyond his participation, “Looking forward to spending time on the and far more challenging to quantify, is Maine coast this summer and seeing Rob’s support of the mission of FinCEN classmates in the mid coast. Kayte (15) is at and the Department of the Treasury. Our North Yarmouth Academy. Priscilla is leaving goal is to protect the financial system the Yarmouth school system this year to start through the implementation of the Bank her own interior design business. Demont & Secrecy Act. Success depends on a real Associates is serving over 30 international partnership with the financial industry that clients who are raising capital dollars for involves the frank exchange of information their not-for-profit enterprises.” and ideas. While faithfully representing Paul Grand Pré reports: “A bunch of us the interests of the community banks that TDs from ’77 (Randy Ebner, Brian Lax Alumns: Standing L to R: Alex Turner ’71, he represents, Rob has facilitated and Cressey, Mark Butterfield, Peter Dave Barker ’76, Charlie Barker (brother of advanced this partnership in immeasurable Garrison, Bob Thompson, Bill Rueger, Dave), Dave Hansel ’76, Bill Clark ’76, Tom ways. This past year has brought Will Lund, Jim Getchell, Ken LeClair) Fiorini (Herkimer ’82), Malcolm Gauld ’76, considerable challenges to all of us got together in Key West at the beginning David Herter ’76, Eric Kemp (Middlebury involved in the implementation of the of May to celebrate our 50th birthdays.” ’80), Don MacMillan ’83. Kneeling L to R: See accompanying photo. David Barnes ’81, Drew Casertano (Amherst Bank Secrecy Act. It has tested our ’78), Tom Tsagarakis ’76, Matt Caras ’78, partnership with the financial industry. Mark Perry ’79, Mike Nash ’82. Because of the efforts of individuals like Rob Rowe, we have been able to work Guy D. Holliday is “retiring this more closely than ever with the industry to summer and turning over command of find real solutions.’” the Center for Naval Intelligence. Cathy Jane R. Seagrave “has been promoted to and I enjoyed our 32nd anniversary in June. vice president of new media markets for We will return to Seattle for a fresh start. The Associated Press, responsible for the Daughter Jamie is also in Naval intelligence, news agency’s digital services and online serving with Navy Special Forces. Son Jack customer relationships. Seagrave has served is a mechanical engineer.” since 2003 as director of AP Digital, which Golden: 1977 TDs, Randy Ebner, Brian Edward Pullen writes: “Things continue provides news and information to Web Cressey, Mark Butterfield, Peter Garrison, very well in Puyallup, WA. Jean graduates sites, corporate desktops, wireless devices, Bob Thompson, Bill Rueger, Will Lund, Jim from Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma and other new media applications.” From Getchell, Ken LeClair, and Paul Grand Pré and will attend the University of Portland an Associated Press article, May 6, 2005. got together in Key West at the beginning of (Oregon) next fall. Brett plays golf (not “Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law May to celebrate their 50th birthdays. football) and baseball. Kay and I are happy. firm with over 625 lawyers in the U.S. and All is well.” Europe, announced that Christopher Wolf, Keith Halloran updates: “in 2004, Robert Rowe was “awarded the 2005 a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. purchased a lakeside farm in the ‘Director’s Medal for Exceptional Service’ by office, has been named a recipient of the Monadnock region of southern New the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes prestigious Burton Award for Legal Hampshire, where I raise alpacas and Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Achievement. He was given the award in English bulldogs. Heaven on earth—close division of the Treasury Department that recognition of his article, ‘Regulating Hate to Boston and New York.” leads efforts against money laundering and Speech Qua Speech Is Not the Solution to Jeffrey M. Keiser writes: “Life here is terrorist financing. The award, part of the Epidemic of Hate on the Internet,’ which good—we were very lucky (last year) FinCEN’s annual awards program, is given appeared in two parts in the August and during hurricane season, and feel fortunate to the external person who provides the September 2004 editions of Metropolitan to have missed the damage done elsewhere most significant support to FinCEN and its Corporate Counsel.” From a Proskauer Rose in Florida. Business is good, though busy, mission during the previous year. In LLP press release, May 2, 2005. and we’ve done some traveling

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(Williamsburg, VA and Argentina at the Montana, my home town, on March 4, commerce. Busy on time off with hiking in holidays—talk about contrasts!). Rob 2004. (Incidently, Great Falls was planned Maine and Death Valley, CA.” Reisley ’79 visited in February for my 50th by Paris Gibson, a Bowdoin graduate.) Sunil Richard W. D. Giles writes: “Had a great birthday—old friends are the best!” is from Kathmandu, Nepal. We are making time at our reunion! Thanks, Lou! Good to Stephen Locke wrote in the spring: our home in Cascade, Montana, outside see Jim Crossman and his wife, John “Our daughter Melissa was invited to visit Great Falls. I am working in genetic research Shaw and his, Brian Cook, Bob McBride, Bowdoin in April, fell in love with the at McLaughlin Reseach Institute in Great Wojo, Perry and Jerry Green, and Manton College, and is looking forward to joining Falls. We’re planning a religious ceremony Copeland. Also Tommy Coan and Mark the Class of 2009. With our son Timmy for friends and family when his family is Hoffman. Be proud we made it through! just completing seventh grade, retirement able to come from Nepal, probably in Best wishes to all!” from IBM in five years may be further summer 2006.” See photo in Weddings section. Andy Goldberg reports: “I am the down the horizon.” director of programs and development [for] InnerCity Entrepreneurs. InnerCity 80 Entrepreneurs is an initiative of the 78 Class Agents: James P. Macmillan, and Entrepreneureal Management Institute in the Class Secretary: Jonathan E. Walter, Amy H. Woodhouse School of Management at Boston University. 3900 Holland St., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Planned Giving Agent: Deborah Jensen Barker www.innercityentrepreneurs.org.” Class Agent: Bradford A. Hunter Peter Honchaurk “recently traveled to Planned Giving Agent: Geoffrey A. Gordon Leslie White Bradshaw reports: Nathan Rwanda, where he met with survivors of and Andrew both had successful ‘freshman’ the genocide and learned about the Gacaca Mike Abrams “recently ran the Gila River years, Nathan at Davidson College, and reconciliation process. Also, he communed in New Mexico with Paul Plumer ’77 and Andrew at Ashville School, where I with the mountain gorillas and explored Dan Starer ’77.” continue to teach. This year, I coached the with various eco-tour operators the Reed Bunzel updates: “After two years JV girls’ basketball team, too; I enjoyed it (it possibility of integrating dance therapy into in the islands (St. John, to be exact), Diana made me feel younger to be out on the the gorilla trekking experience.” and I have returned to the mainland. We court again), although it made life even Michael Kent is “still painting after all loved the tropical living but, hurricane more hectic. David ’72 returned to teaching these years. A reluctant seller, my works have season, the remoteness, and not being able after a wonderful sabbatical year. Of course, been exhibited in a number of locations in to vote in the last election, hastened our to make life more interesting, he needed Washington, DC and Alexandria, Virginia. return. Now living in Hope, RI, about 10 emergency retinal surgery in August (2004), Also sing and play guitar with a couple of miles west of Providence. Looking forward just after we dropped Nathan off at school. local friends. In 2004, I hit Europe, Africa, to getting up to Bowdoin more often.” David bounced back quickly, but is still and Australia for job and leisure—anyone Peter Forbes writes: “I continue to enjoy recovering. Sorry that I missed our reunion. care to see my photos?” life in northern Maine with my wife Susan I’ve enjoyed hearing from different Even while captaining his 35-foot sailboat, and our three children. It’s a great place for basketball friends, thanks to Coach Pemper’s Windsong II, to a respectable finish in the cross-country skiing, biathlon, and cycling. e-mail trial! I also get to see Jack Tyrer ’48, 2003 Marion Bermuda race, Lou Roberts In my other life, I am an environmental former headmaster of Asheville School, was thinking about doing it faster. This year engineer, investigating and cleaning up when he returns to campus. Go U Beahs!” (the race is held every other year), he raced hazardous waste sites.” Laurie Pelletier Dow, “living in Brighton as tactician/navigator aboard the 54-foot on the outskirts of Boston, by the grace of trimaran, Rogue Wave. See accompanying God, has remained in remission 12 years photo. From a Press Release, June 13, 2005. 79 after treatments for a huge, highly malignant Class Secretary: C. Alan Schroeder, Jr., Rogue Wave finished the race, though did not brain tumor. The radiation treatments place. See www.marionbermuda.com. 454 Garrison Forest Road, seriously damaged the memory center of my Owings Mills, MD 21117 brain, removing me from the working Class Agents: Mark W. Bayer, David G. Brown, world, including my career as a rehab Gregory E. Kerr, M.D., Stephen J. Rose and teacher of newly blind adults at the Carroll Paula M. Wardynski Center for the Blind. My blind husband, Planned Giving Agent: Mary Lee Moseley Rabin, is the director of that program now. I have appeared on TV teaching Alan Alda Joan Benoit Samuelson “held off a tough Braille for his show Scientific American challenge from Wiscasset’s Emily LeVan Frontiers on a segment including an ’95,” to win the women’s division of the L.L. important Harvard study that proved the Bean 10K in July, “nipping LeVan, the top plasticity of the adult brain. I set up the American female finisher in the 2005 Boston Braille portion of the study (20 hours/week Marathon, by a mere two seconds.” From a and taught the first seven subjects).” Brunswick, ME Times Record article, July 5, Peter C. Everett is “senior partner in 2005. Also, see College & Maine, this issue. Kirn, Everett & Cameron, Optometrists Lou Roberts ’80 raced as tactician/navigator Mary Calanthe Wilson-Pant “married with junior partner Linda Gawtry aboard the 54-foot trimaran, Rogue Wave, Sunil Dev Pant (Kathmandu University ’00) Cameron ’93. Just finishing a busy year as in the 2005 Marion Bermuda race in June, in a civil service, here in Great Falls, president of the local chamber of finishing in 4 days, 8 hours.

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Barbara B. Walker is an associate Anne Robinson Wadsworth reports: love to hear from other Bowdoinites: professor in Russian History at the “The second is off to college already, and [email protected].” University of Nevada, Reno, where she lives even better, to become a Polar Bear. She’ll Jeffery P. Hopkins, “U.S. Bankruptcy with her husband, Douglas Jones, an be joining fellow Buffalonians Mike Judge, S.D. Ohio, was recently named associate professor of anthropology at the McQueeny’s daughter and Jane McKay’s president-elect of the National Conference University of Utah, and daughter, Delia nephew. Our youngest is starting high of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ). The NCBJ Walker-Jones (10). She recently published a school—so, life is changing for us! I membership is comprised of nearly all the book on Russian literacy circles as a social have jumped into the world of politics federal bankruptcy judges in the United formation, and is currently writing a book and helping to launch a new campaign States. The NCBJ conference attracts on relations between Russian dissidents and research firm.” insolvency professionals from an U.S. journalists in the Cold War era. international audience. Nearly 2000 Andy Ziskind reports: “Beginning in May attorneys, academics, judges, investment 2005, I’ll be assuming the role of president 82 bankers, turnaround managers, and other of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Class Secretary: CDR David F. Bean, restructuring professionals attend the BJH is the primary teaching hospital for 2610 Dow Drive, NCBJ’s annual conference. Outside the Washington University School of Medicine.” Bellevue, NE 68123-1736 American Bar Association’s annual Class Agents: Mark H. Luz and conference, the NCBJ meeting is the John A. Miklus premier gathering of lawyers in the country. 81 Judge Hopkins’ term as president will Reunion Planning Chairs: David H. Barnes, Chris Bensinger reports: “A year of great begin in October 2006.” Daniel B. Spears change. Getting divorced; promoted to Chris Kraus was featured in a spring Reunion Giving Chairs: Laura Fairman senior v.p., Sotheby’s International Realty; Cincinnati Post article about the declining Waldron, and Daniel Mummery reviving my singing and playing loads of number of teen births in that city. Chris, a Class Secretary: Susan A. Hays, Apt. B-5, tennis. Ellie is 14, Jack is 12. Both are public defender in Ohio’s Hamilton County 104 Oakwood Ave., West Hartford, CT 06119 wonderful beings and true joy.” (including Cincinnati), is the adolescent Class Agent: Gordon S. Stearns Beth Brodie reports: “I am still teaching advocacy manager for Postponing Sexual in Vermont, but have also begun working Involvement (PSI), a program that focuses Daniel S. Hayes and Anna M. Hayes ’83 with UVM and the SVCIC on creating a on abstinence education. PSI was founded updated in the spring: “All is well. Oldest comprehensive induction and mentoring in 1988 and, since 1993, the teen birth rate daughter Megan ’03 just completed spring program for schools in Vermont. This is in the city has dropped 51 percent. From a semester as interim assistant outing club the third year we have offered the New Cincinnati Post article, May 3, 2005. director at Bowdoin. Katie ’05 transferred to Teacher Seminar and we are now creating a Peter N. Maduro is “living and working Notre Dame. Great to see classmates’ children mentor training course for master teachers. as a clinical psychologist in Los Angeles. at Bowdoin: Belden, Messerly, Mills. See you I am finding teacher training to be Still playing soccer Sunday mornings.” all at the ’Loaf. Pat McManus and family extremely rewarding.” Leigh Philbrick is loving life in North joined us this past winter to experience a Sarah Bronson writes: “2005 has been a Yarmouth, Maine. Children Ian (11), Maya nor’easter and 27 inches of snow. Molly is busy year at work and home. Justin will be (9), and Jay (3) are doing well. Sadhana has well and going into her sophomore year in a freshman in high school in the fall and moved her endodontic practice to high school at Mt. Ararat.” Marissa will be in sixth grade. At Riding to Yarmouth; great commute.” The Dark Crusade, the fourth volume of the Top, we’ve finished phase one of our the Dark Wing series by Walter H. Hunt capital campaign and are thrilled to have a is now out in hardcover. Walter also roof over our riders’ heads. We will now 83 reports a Dark Wing universe short story operate twelve months of the year at our Class Secretary and Class Agent: called Extended Warranty is available farm in Windham and at Pineland. I see Charles G. Pohl, 26 Bemis St., online, and that he is “closing in on 400 Jette Duba ’02 fairly regularly at Pineland. Weston, MA 02193 manuscript pages” of Sword and Sun, the Skiing and horseback riding occupy much Class Agent: Jeffrey M. Colodny prequel to the Dark Wing series. From the of our free time.” Walter Hunt Newsletter, volume 2, Issue 7, Shannon Carson Dexter reports: “I left Greg Baldwin “chairman and CEO of Baxa July 2005. my private practice in Tucson to become Corporation of Englewood, CO, has joined Cape Elizabeth, Maine native, Kevin clinical director and equine program the board of directors for Healthprolink of Rand, head trainer for the host Detroit director for a new therapeutic boarding Bellevue, WA…Baldwin formerly served as Tigers, tended to the needs of the school ranch called In Balance Ranch President of and CEO of Baxa from 1997 to American League All-Stars at this year’s Academy (see inbalranch.com). We work 2003, and had been Senior Vice President Mid-Summer Classic, the 76th Major with teens with substance abuse and other for Worldwide Sales and Marketing at League Baseball All-Star game. Rand, who emotional difficulties. It’s been amazing to Baxa since joining the company in 1993.” earned a World Series ring with the bring together everything I love and believe From a Frendale, WA Emediawire article, Marlins in 1997, was brought in to Detroit in to develop a truly exceptional staff and March 30, 2005. as head trainer in 2003, after a year as program. We have a 200-acre ranch near Everett Billingslea is “still living in assistant trainer with the Expos in 2002. Tombstone, AZ, near the San Pedro Riparian Seattle with my wife, Mimi, and our From a Portland, Maine, Mainetoday.com area—owned by the Nature Conservancy as daughters, Grace (9) and Chloe (7), and article, July 12, 2005. a main corridor for migratory birds. Would working as VP (general counsel) for Lynden,

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Inc, a transportation company. I spent love to hear from fellow classmates if your several days in Siberia (Magadon and travels take you to Paris.” 85 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) this spring, and played Robert Baumann “of Texas Instruments Class Secretary: Kemedy K. McQuillen, a round of golf with David Verrill in Seattle. (TI) received an IEEE Fellow Award at this 150 Spring St., Portland, ME 04101 Otherwise, nothing unusual to report.” year’s IEEE International Reliability Physics Class Agent: Susan Leonard Toll Cheryl Foster writes: “I gasp when I Symposium. A distinguished member of read about our classmates with kids in technical staff, he joined TI in 1989. Wendy Bell Bentivegna wrote in late college! Guess I started late but I’m still Baumann was one of the primary authors spring: “Living in Southport, CT, with my changing diapers for Caroline (1) and going of the International JEDEC JESD-89 husband, Mike, and our two children, to kindergarten graduations (Isabel, 5). specification that has become the de facto Kevin (12) and Brittney (10). Life is busy Still a philosopher, still spending part standard for radiation effects testing of juggling travel basketball and soccer of the year in the UK, still grateful for commercial electronics. He has been elected schedules with various other sports and Bowdoin education.” fellow for contributions to the understanding school responsibilities. Mike is in marketing For news of Anna McManus Hayes, see of the reliability impact of terrestrial for Pfizer, Inc., in their pharmaceutical Daniel S. Hayes ’81. radiation mechanisms in commercial division, and I’ve just accepted the PTA Jonathan Jodka “has been named to the electronics.” From a CBS Marketwatch article, president-elect position for the upcoming Board of Trustees of Lawrence Academy in April 20, 2005. school year. Can’t wait to get back to Groton, MA…After many years as a Adam Bock’s play, Swimming in the campus for our 20th reunion weekend! Still managing director at Morgan Stanley & Shallows, was produced last spring by the in touch with Chris Hoffman Taylor and Co., he currently serves as president of California Repertory Company, Cal State Dana Bullwinkel-Campbell. Recently Copper Arch Capital, LLC, a New York- Long Beach’s graduate acting program. First reconnected with Danielle Cossett and based U.S. equity hedge fund.” From a New produced in 1999, Swimming, is “about a Cheryl Rosenthal.” Canaan, CT New Canaan Advertiser article, group of friends navigating the shoals of Adrian Bossi reports: “Lisa ’87 and I are May 5, 2005. love and life,” and the main character falls living in Brunswick with two daughters, David Stocks wrote in late June: “Still in love with a mako shark. From a Lila (6) and Clara (2). Building houses with working in the world of hedge funds and Woodland Hills, CA u-entertainment.com Chip Thorne ’87, Sean Pignatello ’88, enjoying it immensely. Based in and article, April 22, 2005. Mike Long ’04, and Carl Klimt ’06 as commuting to Gibraltar since November, William Bradfield wrote in June: “How Boomerang Builders. Currently reviewing I´ll be starting a new job in September with beautiful to be back in Maine for our 20th plans for your dream retreat!” a family office to lead their hedge fund reunion last spring. Let’s do it again in four Kent Campbell accepted the gavel as the investments based in London. Looking years! Dawn and I welcomed Lucy Marie, president of the Bowdoin Club of Boston forward to visiting Maine with the family our third daughter, on November 1, 2004. last spring. This year’s presentation was for two weeks in August. The lobsters are She joins our four other children and most especially noteworthy as one of the already nervous!” certainly completes our family. Life in previous club president’s name inscribed on Victoria McClure Stoneman writes: Michigan goes well and we look forward to the base is Kent’s wife, Dana Bullwinkel- “Nick, in his tenth year as Head of School, a family trip to Maine and NH in August.” Campbell. See accompanying photo. has been Head of School at Shattuck-St. Simone Paradis Hanson updates: “We’re Mary’s School (a 6-12th grade boarding raising three boys, Adrian (9), Duncan (6), school) for two years now. We love being in and Jack (2) in Roswell, GA. Had a great (my home state) and living in time at Reunion; has it been a year already? our lovely town of Faribault. Our daughters Hoping John (Dartmouth ’85) and I can Jesse (15) and Becky (12) attend SSM, bring the boys to Maine soon. We miss it.” while our youngest Andy (5) has a few Kerry Lyne reports: “My wife, Gina, and years to go before he can attend. We would I welcomed our first child to the world on love for anyone in the area to stop by and May 27. Stella Rose Lyne was born in Santa say hello.” Monica, CA. Mother and child are doing wonderfully. I am teaching and coaching at Thousand Oaks HS, and my wife is a VP of Retiring Bowdoin Club of Boston president, 84 comedy development at NBC. Life is good Class Secretary: Steven M. Linkovich, John Dennis ’77, hands the gavel to new in L.A. but it is tough not to be able to get president Kent Campbell ’85, with Jay 100 Green St., Melrose, MA 02176 up to Bowdoin. Congrats to Jean Roy, Class Agent: Karen Natalie Walker Beades ’60, in the 12 annual transfer of the Boulder, Link, and Amy Harper on their Senator Beades/Club President’s Gavel. recent honors at the school.” Trisha Bauman reports: “Am performing in William H. White was hired by Bank of Alison Welch Davee updated in June: “I the company of French choreographer America Corp. “as managing director and am just finishing up my 12th year teaching Mathilde Monnier (Centre Chorégraphique global head of capital markets, a new French at Lincoln Academy. John is busy as National de Montpellier). Our current position…White joined from Credt Suisse president/CEO of Maine Coast Construction, piece, ‘Frère & Soeur,’ premiers at the 1 Group Inc.’s Credit Suisse Boston unit, Corp. in Camden. Jake (9 /2) is completing Avignon Festival’s ‘Cour d’honneur,’ then where he was head of global market third grade and his first year in Little League. tours Europe through 2006. Had a solutions.” From a Reuters Online article, Will (almost 6) is ‘graduating’ from th marvelous time at our 20 reunion—would May 17, 2005.

64 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 class news kindergarten this spring and is playing his Brunswick for our 20th (sadly, I haven’t been Mary Thombs, “Director of the Junior second.” See accompanying photo. back to campus since ’85!), but Choir at Asbury United Methodist Church unfortunately the reunion coincided with in Crestwood/Yonkers (NY), was honored my school’s graduation weekend. I just on Sunday, May 22, for ten years of service finished my seventh year at my alma mater, as musical leader of Asbury’s youth.” From Western Reserve Academy, in Hudson, a New Rochelle, NY Town Report article, June Ohio, as a member of the history 10, 2005. department. I teach U.S. history and AP Eugene Finkelberg West writes: “Regards economics, coach soccer and riflery, run from New York City. We celebrated my both the school’s Internet ‘radio’ station and promotion to Associate Professor of investment club, and serve as housemaster Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine of an upperclassmen’s dorm. This spring, last month. Regards to Russell Bowers, I was awarded the John W. Hallowell Chair Sandi Bouchard Hinn, Chris Augerson, in Philosophy and Ethics. My wife, Matt Howe ’82, and Richard Nootbaar ’84.” Donalee, teaches drama and directs the school’s winter and spring plays. Our three sons, Simon (8), Elliot (6), and Henry (4) 86 are getting bigger and smarter each day, Reunion Planning Chair: and it is clearly just a matter of time until Jennifer Graham Billings they’ll have us at their mercy. If any of my Class Secretary: Mary Haffey Kral, former Bowdoin associates ever find 5132 Woodland Ave., Western Springs, IL 60558 themselves in northeastern Ohio, I’d love to Class Agents: Susan L. Pardus-Galland and see them. Give me a call; I’m in the book.” Carter A. Welch Will, Jake, and Pumpkin Davee, sons and Susan Lloyd McBurney reports: “I’ve horse of Alison Welch Davee ’85. (finally!) finished my doctorate (linguistics, Todd H. Dresser and Sarah Gosse University of Washington) and am taking a Dresser ’86 write: “It was nice to return for break from academia to raise my two young reunion and see Stu and Steve Palmer. children, Owen (4) and Nora (2). Still The campus looks great.” living in Portland, Oregon, and loving it.” James Kohn announces: “Oh, unto us, a Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner son is born! Noah Kohn, October 28, 2004.” LLP announced that Robert S. Mower, “who Sarah McCarthy writes: “As my first practices corporate law with particular submission to these pages in twenty-three emphasis on structured finance,” has been years, it’s hard to fill in the gap. The brief promoted to partner. “He is experienced news is that I live in Washington, D.C. with in a wide range of corporate transactions, my husband, Matthew Walker, and our two including complex real estate structured 1 finance, prive placements, mergers and lovely, fun daughters, Clare (4 /2) and Helen Andy Meyer ’85 (left) and Leo Tinkham ’83 1 acquisitions and secured lending.” From a (2 /2). While neither Matt nor I anticipated on the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s remaining in D.C. as long as we have (being highest point (19,000 ft), “celebrating our Brown Raysman news release, May 16, 2005. both New Englanders), we find it’s a pretty alma mater.” nice place to raise kids and both have busy, 87 fulfilling work here. I miss Maine and Class Secretary: Martha Gourdeau Fenton, make it back there only infrequently. I’d Phillips Academy, 180 Main St., love to hear from any Bowdoin friends who Andover, MA 01810 are near D.C. or passing through (email: Class Agents: Harold E. Brakewood, Elizabeth [email protected]).” Butterworth Michalski, and Celine A. Mainville Andy Meyer updates: “In January, Leo Tinkham ’83 and I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, Paul M. Chutich is “still in Atlanta in the Africa’s highest point (19,000 ft). We had bar and restaurant business and doing well. perfect weather and marvelous guides who I’m always up for entertaining fellow led us up in five days (and down in one- Bowdoin alumni passing through or visiting. and-a-half days!). The final ascent started at Joe Ardagna ’84 and I see each other often midnight, in sub-freezing weather, under a and are still playing hockey together.” cloudless, moonlit sky, while beneath us Tim Smith ’86 and Glenn Waters ’89 Joan Stoetzer Deck updates: “Stacy and raged a violent thunderstorm that drenched were the top finishers in the annual Mesa I are enjoying life with our daughters, Anna the steamy jungle. What a trip!” See Race over alumni weekend at Cate School Katherine (‘Katie’), five in June 2005, and accompanying photo. in Carpinteria, CA. Tim teaches math, Audrey, who was one in February. We are Richard “Diccon” P. B. Ong writes: and Kristin Zwart ’85 is the alumni director, still in the Vail area—look us up if you are “I’m very sorry I couldn’t make it back to at Cate. out this way!”

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Marie Holzwarth Reidman, “her “CapitalSource has promoted senior I work with, among many talented people, husband, Tim, and her daughter, Hannah, executive Michael Szwajkowski from alumns Bruce Chalmers ’59, Jim have moved from Freeport to Portland, managing director to president. He is in Chalmers ’02, and Dottie Chalmers ’03. Maine. They’re happy to be back in the city. charge of the structured finance business, Warm wishes to all!” Marie is leaving her fourteen-year career in which has recently been expanded to target Cindy Hall reports: “I am in my 13th teaching to begin a new career in real estate a broader range of debt and principal year as a music teacher and loving it. I at Steve Davis Real Estate in Portland. I look investing activities. It now includes the real often run into Patty Bly Meyer ’90 at forward to hearing from anyone buying or estate group responsible for all commercial festivals and conferences.” selling in the greater Portland area. It was real estate lending activities; the rediscount Sally B. -Thomas writes: “On great seeing lots of Bowdoin friends at group, which comprises the company’s behalf of my family, I would like to thank Frederica Jackson’s 40 th birthday.” lender finance business; and the recently the extended Bowdoin network for all the Robert Rubano “took my son, Joseph, launched alternative investments group, support we have received following the on his first campus tour at the ripe young which engages in a wide variety of principal sudden death (December 7, 2004) of my age of nine months and he loves it! See investing activities.” From a Wayne, PA brother Carson Spencer ’92. The kindness Jerry Organ regularly, as well as Tony Monitor Daily article, April 8, 2005. and love we have received has been Rubico—always a good yuck. Skating with Jamie Wallace “and Frank Fessenden tremendous. In honor of Carson’s legacy of Leo Kraunelis ’85 and other assorted (BA, Williams College; MA UC-Santa helping others, we are establishing a Bowdoin alums on the North Shore.” Barbara) were married August 14, 2004 in foundation in his name (The Carson J. Elizabeth Connellan Smith updates: “I Litchfield, CT.” See photo in Weddings section. Spencer Foundation) with a two-fold was promoted to of-counsel status at Verrill Lori Willinghurst reports: “We’re still mission to help raise awareness of mental Dana, LLP. My two boys, ages 20 months and enjoying the beautiful Southwest, having health issues and to provide ‘rising star four years, continue to amaze and thrill me.” fun with our two girls, ages seven years and scholarships to promising new “ACE Tempest Re Group, the global eight months. I’m still with the Indian entreprenuers.’ Contact me if you would reinsurance operations of the ACE Group Health Services. Have been back in like more information. On another note, my of Companies, announced…that James Albuquerque for two years, after five in the husband Randy and I welcomed our third Wixtead has been appointed chief executive Navajo area.” son, Jackson, into the world in September officer of ACE Tempest Re USA, ACE’s 2004 to join brothers Nicholas and Tanner. Stamford Connecticut-based reinsurance I continue to work at Regis University and subsidiary.” From a Yahoo! Finance article, 89 for a small private practice of police July 6, 2005. Class Secretary: Suzanne D. Kovacs-Jolley, psychologists.” See accompanying photos. Mike Woodruff “and his wife Lucretia 108 Carolina Club Dr., Spartanburg, SC 29306 welcomed daughter Maeve Magalloway Class Agents: Kathleen McKelvey Burke, Woodruff on August 3. Maeve joins big Todd J. Remis, Scott B. Townsend, and 1 Kevin P. Wesley brothers Finnegan McCoul (6 /2) and 1 Seamus Michael (2 /2).” Ruth Nobuye Matteson Banchik updates: “Our new baby boy, Benjamin Robert 88 Hardy Banchik, is keeping me very busy Class Secretary: B. Steven Polikoff, these days! He was born December 22, 610 Cheese Spring Road, 2004, and is showered with love by big New Canaan, CT 06840 sister, Barbara.” Sally Spencer-Thomas ’89 and her brother, Class Agents: Sarah A. Bullock, John Bellow updates: “This past year we Carsen Spencer ’92, pictured together on Kevin B. Daner, and Heidi Cameron moved from Palouse, WA to Tallahassee, FL drop night 1989, in front of Deke House. to take positions at FSU. Currently, I am Sally thanks the Bowdoin community for Julianne Williams Dalzell “recently was working on ENSO impacts on agricultural their support after Carsen’s sudden death hired as eighth-grade science teacher in production in the SE U.S. We have a small last December. Medfield, MA. It will be a change, returning farm where I raise poultry, fruit trees, and to work after nine years at home with our organic vegetables in my free time. Hope to four children! T.J. (9), Rylianne (7), and make our next reunion.” 1 twins Bryce and Brody (2 /2) keep us busy!” Chris Cassell reports: “John Whittemore Heidi Snyder Flagg is “married to Chris Cassell was born on February 9, 2005. Ten Flagg (Debbie Flagg Smith’s ’89 brother); pounds. Born at home!” two children, Emmeline (2000) and Elliot Steven Cote wrote in early summer: “It (2002); full-time ob/gyn in my own was great to see some old friends at the 15th practice, Spring OB/Gyn, in dowtnown last summer. Life in the Mt. Washington New York City—very busy!” Valley is superb. Lisa and I are busy Kate Kramer updated in late April: keeping up with Kimberly (13) and “Our first daughter, Genevieve Thesen, was Elizabeth (3). The Bowdoin influence is Sally Spencer-Thomas ’89 and husband born January 22, 2005. Going back to strong at work. I am proud to be affiliated Randy welcomed their third son, Jackson, in work (dermatologist) next week and am with the Chalmers Insurance Group, with September 2004. He joins brothers Nicholas not looking forward to the transition!” eight locations throughout Maine and NH. and Tanner.

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Jennifer Louney Wisniewski writes: seen each other for the last 15 years. “Hello, Everyone! Great kudos recently 91 Currently, Rytis is a Deputy Minister of awarded. James Patterson’s latest novel Class Secretary: Melissa Conlon McElaney, Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, apparently is my material. I met him in 6 Buttonwood Road, Amesbury, MA 01913 and works at the European Commission in FL years ago. More importantly, I have Class Agents: Judith Snow May and Brussels representing his country, which is been asked to champion women’s and Scott S. Stephens one of the newest members of the EU. I, on child abuse and neglect. Sorry to say, the other hand, am living in Vilnius, I lived it, and still am cleaning up the Julie-Marie Robichaud Bickford writes: Lithuania, right now with my two daughters, 1 mess. Do join the fight. Link to “We are now a family of four—Marissa Louise (4 /2) and Charlotte (2), and [email protected] or go directly to Lynne was born six years and 11 days after husband, Matthew, who is a U.S. Foreign www.anneheche.com. Bullies must be her big brother Jacob, who has already Service Officer.” See accompanying photo. stopped before they wreak real terror. introduced her to Bowdoin friends Becky I’m teaching pre-school and gymnastics. Benner and Laurie Sablak ’90. Wishing everyone all the best.” Gwen Kay updates: “It’s been a year! Got 92 married to Jeff Sneider (RPI ’71) in August Class Secretary: Christopher P. McElaney, 2004; March 2004, my book Dying to be 6 Buttonwood Road, Amesbury, MA 01913 Beautiful was published; getting tenure at Class Agents: Samantha Fischer Pleasant and 90 SUNY-Oswego.” Benjamin M. Grinnell Class Agents: Elizabeth Brewer, For news of Mike Kryger, see Yi-Fang Hsu- Hillary M. Bush, Eric F. Foushee, and Chen Kryger ’95, and accompanying photo. Deborah A. Levine updates: “I thoroughly Mary Hogan Preusse Jonathan Perkins is finishing up his enjoy my job as an assistant professor of two-year tour of duty for the U.S. State medicine in the Division of General Internal Theresa Anne Hadlock and Bruce Department of Foreign Service in October. Medicine at the University of Alabama at Campbell write: “We are living in an old Last May, he received a “Meritorious Honor Birmingham. I am completing a master’s in farmhouse in Concord, MA, and Award” from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, public health degree this summer in the frequently see Geoff ’90 and Ramsay presented “for sustained excellence in Harvard School of Public Health’s program Trussell ’89. Bruce continues at the Lahey analyzing China’s trade and economic in clinical effectiveness. I have transitioned Clinic and I am at Mass Eye and Ear relations with third world countries.” From to a clinician-investigator position with a Infirmary. Our four children, Rob (8), an Embassy News article. research focus on stroke prevention. My Kent (7), McKenzie (3), and Forrest Rebecca Palmer Pyne and Chris Pyne husband, Dwayne, and I are still happily (7 months), keep us busy but thrilled. ’92 write: “We are happy to announce the married and still love Birmingham.” Bruce has become quite a bee keeper in birth of our son Jack (May 31, 2004). He Anthony Mistretta reports: “I’m his (little) spare time.” joins Charlie (5), Annie (4), and Kate (3).” running in the Marine Corps Marathon in Adam Najberg’s book, Stooples: Office Washington, D.C. on October 30th. This Tools for Hopeless Fools, a satirical look at will be my first marathon. I’m running on the office world, will be coming out from behalf of the Leukemia and Lymphoma St. Martin’s Press on Sept. 17. “We went Society, raising money for research and into this to have fun,” says Adam, “Our patient services. If curious about the website, www.stooples.com, was simply a outcome, e-mail me at fun satire that attracted an agent and [email protected] in November.” publisher. We’re still having a blast.” See For news of Chris Pyne, see Rebecca Bookshelf section this issue. Palmer Pyne ’91. Michelle Passman Parven updated in Holly Pompeo Rayder “and her the spring: “After staying home for the husband, Shawn, joyfully announce the past seven years raising our two young birth of their daughter, Abigail, on March children, Will (7) and Jane (5), I have 21, 2005. Abby is also the granddaughter started the process of getting my master’s Yunhui Mao Singer ’91 and Rytis Martikonis of Roger Pompeo ’62. She joins her big in early childhood education. It has been (exchange student ’89-’90) at Martikonis’s house brother, Lucas Roger, age 19 months.” very interesting being back in a outside Brussels, on March 20, 2005. Brendan Rielly writes: “My law practice classroom, writing papers, and taking Yunhui Mao Singer writes: “An at Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry is going exams after a 15-year hiatus, but my accidental meeting on an airplane resulted in well. I’ve been a partner in the litigation hope is to teach part time concurrently a Bowdoin reunion in Brussels, Belgium. department for two years. I’m finishing my while I pursue my degree. My husband, After bumping into him on a Vilnius to second term on the Westbrook City Andy, and I are still living outside of Brussels flight, my family and I visited Rytis Council and am preparing to run for a Boston in Natick, MA and are looking Martikonis and his family at his house third. My wife Erica and I and our three forward to visiting Brunswick this June outside Brussels on March 20, 2005. Rytis children (Morgan, Shannon, and Maura) for reunion!” was a foreign exchange student at Bowdoin enjoyed seeing the ‘Bowdoin gang’ last Holly McGlennon Treat says: “It was so studying political science from 1989 to Christmas: Ron Banks ’91, Jenn Black, great to see everyone at reunion. What a great 1990. We both lived in Copeland House Heidi Thompson, and Ruth Ann Could turnout! I hope we all come back for 20!” then and were good friends, but we have not Cowger. I’ve finished my first novel, a tongue-in-cheek guide to parenting titled,

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How to Raise the Perfect Child, or at Least Lie in Portland, Oregon and enjoying life with some of which were spent at the Beta house About It, and am shopping it to several our baby. See accompanying photo. and all over the campus. We live in agents. This summer, my two oldest Norwell, MA after living in Boston since children, Morgan and Shannon, will attend graduation. I have spent the past seven art camp at Bowdoin. Shannon attended it years building a data processing company last summer and loved it.” with my brother Bryn ’95. We service the Joel A. Tarbox writes: “My wife, Kathy, utility industry. Most of my efforts at work and I welcomed the birth of our second these days are spent trying to figure out son, Jackson Cole Tarbox, on Friday, June how to structure deregulating electric and 24. Our older son, Harrison James Tarbox natural gas markets across the country.” (3), has been enjoying his role as a big Amy Sanford wrote in June: “Greetings brother. We live in the Santa Cruz, CA, fellow Polar Bears! Still lovin’ life in Boston area. I am an artist and my wife is a and keep running into Bowdoin alums teacher. People wishing to view my artwork everywhere. Sat behind Cameron Wobus can visit my website, www.joeltarbox.com.” ’95 returning from Sweden last summer via See accompanying photo. Molly Dougherty ’93 and her daughter, Erin, Iceland. Ran into Andrea Hawthorne at who was born on June 27, 2004. Northeastern last week—congrats on your Adele Maurer Lewis writes: “Rodney wedding, A! Saw Marshall Coutu, who and I have had a busy summer of 2005. We bought one of my crocheted hats at a crafts returned from China June 19 with our twin show this past winter. Keep up with Megan daughters Caroline Cabell and Quinlan Kersting, Robin Rosen ’95, Tammy Evelyn Lewis, born March 18, 2004. After Ruter, Laura Mills, Duncan ’92 and being home with the girls for a few weeks, Emily Hollis ’92, Anna Glass ’92 and I left again and returned to Nashville on Michael Van Huystee ’92, Jean McCarthy, July 22 from Guatemala with our son as well as Kate Raley ’92. These days, I’ve Preston Montgomery, born July 2, 2004. been showing my paintings in Boston and Raising triplet toddlers is quite the sell my crocheted hats at Toppers on experience! I will return to work as a Newbury Street. Recently returned from a forensic pathologist in October, and Rodney conference on international education in remains happy with his work as an internist Seattle, WA (where I ran into Bowdoin Harrison James Tarbox (3), son of Joel here in Nashville.” See accompanying photo. study abroad advisor Stephen Hall), am Tarbox ’92, has been enjoying his role as a advising international students at the New big brother to Jackson, born June 24. England Institute of Art in Brookline Village, MA. Also consult on curriculum development for UK-based corporate 93 training company, Hensley Fraser. Looking Class Secretary: Mark C. Schulze, 1823 15th forward to sailing season in Marblehead, St., Apt. 4, San Francisco, CA 94103 where I crew on a Farr 37 Class Agents: Michele Lee Cobb, Mark C. (www.chariad.com). Hope everyone is well Schulze, and Andrew C. Wheeler and thriving—enjoying Bowdoin Club events here in Boston and would love to see Jason Carbine reports: “For the academic more Class of 1993 folks involved. Hope to year 05-06, I’ll be leaving College of the make a trip to Maine sometime soon!” Holy Cross and moving on to a visiting assistant professor position at Amherst 94 College. I’ll be teaching several courses on Caroline Cabell Lewis, Quinlan Evelyn Buddhism, including a team-taught Class Secretary: Katherine L. Young, Lewis, and Preston Montgomery Lewis, Apt 3528, 42 8th St., Charlestown, MA 02129 comparative course on Buddhism and triplet toddlers of Adele Maurer Lewis ’93. Christianity, and a seminar on the Class Agents: Shane R. Cook, transmission of Buddhism around the Marshall Neilson wrote in early June: Michael T. Sullivan, and Edana P. Tisherman Pacific rim. And, of course, enjoying bike “I’m still living outside of Boston and rides in the Berkshires.” teaching in Brookline at the Park School. Leslie Blickenstaff writes: “I continue to Jennifer Cain Cross reports: “On My wife, Elizabeth, is expecting a baby this practice employment law in Boston, but I December 16, 2004, my husband and I summer—due date, July 7.” spend all of my free time working for The welcomed the birth of our twin girls, Rylie Nate Owen wrote in late spring: “Anya Patagonian Foundation, a nonprofit Ann and Katelyn Cain.” and I had our first child in September and organization that I founded in 2003 to Molly Dougherty writes: “The biggest couldn’t be having more fun with her. promote sustainable development in news of this past year was the birth of my Isabelle is healthy, very happy, and keeping Patagonia. I just returned from implementing daughter, Erin, on June 27, 2004. My her parents busy. On a sadder note, we just and participating in our first large project—a husband, Cliff, and I are still both working put our dog Nike to sleep after 15 years, volunteer trail maintenance program in Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park. The

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Foundation partnered with the U.S. Forest Service and the Chilean Park Service to create PROFILE this program, which allowed 30 volunteers to travel to Chile and work on improving the Leslie Blickenstaff ’94 trails in the park, which are overused and Attorney, Co-Founder of The Patagonian Foundation poorly designed. We hope to continue By Alix Roy ’07 with future projects in November 2005 and March 2006. Please contact me In 2002, after practicing as an ([email protected]) if you employment lawyer for nearly five years, are interested in learning more or simply Leslie Blickenstaff ’94 took a time-out to need some advice on a trip to Patagonia—it reevaluate her life. While asking herself is the most beautiful place on earth!” the typical introspective question, “Am I See profile this issue. truly happy?”, she came to the realization Jeffrey Coad and Rebecca Salamone that something was lacking. “I wanted to Coad report: “We’ve just recently moved to feel passionate about something, and I the Milwaukee, WI area, as Jeff took a job wanted to do something that made a with Master Lock. Back to the far north—it positive difference in other people’s feels a lot like Maine up here, only it’s all lives.” At the risk of losing the steady Hiking on Glacier Grey during a about cheese, not lobster! Let us know if salary and security she had earned you’re going to be out this way. Nate (4) through her five years of work at the rare day off. and Liam (1) love to have visitors.” Boston-based firm of Goodwin Procter LLP, Blickenstaff took a six-month leave of Hafeez Esmail reports: “I haven’t done absence in a small town in Chilean Patagonia called Coyhaique. What began as a an update in several years, so here goes. I temporary escape from her professional life quickly morphed into a service project completed Seton Hall Law in mid-2000 and that would provide the direction and sense of purpose Blickenstaff craved. moved out west (to California) in part In the weeks before her graduation from Bowdoin in 1994, Blickenstaff, like many fascinated by those remarkable, high-flying of her classmates, had difficulty translating her interests into tangible career options. Internet entities. Needless to say, the tech Although Spanish had been a long-time passion, she put it aside and applied to law bubble began to rapidly deflate as soon as I school, much to the disappointment of her Spanish professor and mentor John arrived, although I’m convinced the two Turner. Eight years later however, Bllickenstaff found herself once again immersed in events were not directly correlated. After a the Spanish language and overtaken with what she describes as the “vast, wild, lonely, stint with the Department of Justice (in the powerful, fragile, and unbelievably beautiful” Patagonian region of southern Chile. antitrust field), I opted for a change in Living in an environment so drastically different from her previous urban surroundings career focus away from the legal field. was the perfect remedy for Blickenstaff. “Patagonia is a place where I can escape the Having spent the past year analyzing and pressures of the modern world to a place where the power of nature alone dwarfs just restructuring private high net worth about any other concern I may have in my life.” portfolios, I recently joined Morgan Stanley Her passion for the Patagonian region led to Blickenstaff’s involvement with groups in San Francisco (on the private client side working to preserve its natural beauty, which is threatened by increases in logging, oil of their business), which is proving to be a exploration, and over fishing. In 2002, Blickenstaff co-founded The Patagonian great fit. I saw John Skidgel a while ago, Foundation (TPF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable when Dimitri and Anthony Seretakis development throughout Patagonia. Recently, TPF sponsored its first project in Chile’s visited the Bay Area. Any other Bowdoin Torres del Paine National Park, a world-famous tourist destination that has seen alumni based out here?” attendance rise from 17,000 to 100,000 visitors over the past decade. To help the Laurie Huntress married Joshua Hounsell Chilean park service address the increased demands on the park’s infrastructure, TPF on March 22, 2005 in St. John, U.S. Virgin partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to create a volunteer trail maintenance project. Islands. See photo in Weddings section. Over thirty volunteers from the United States and Chile participated in the effort, which Torey Lomenda reported in late spring: focused on rebuilding and re-routing heavily used park trails, and training Chilean park “This is my first submission, so where do I rangers in trail building and maintenance. start? Besides growing up and becoming an Blickenstaff has since returned to her job as attorney; however, with the help of her adult, a great deal has happened in my life. law firm she is now able to balance her “real job” and her commitment to TPF. Today I moved back to Canada after graduating she is grateful for her skills as an attorney, which enable her to provide TPF with and worked for IBM Canada for 10 years. I valuable advice and guidance. In return, TPF allows Blickenstaff to exercise her met my wife, Heidi, and we are blessed Spanish skills and make a difference in the lives of Patagonians. with three great kids. They make Heidi and Looking back on her decisions, Blickenstaff is confident that her choices will me laugh every day. Recently moved back continue to yield positive results. “I firmly believe that change is necessary to learn to the good ol’ USA to work for a smaller and grow. Hopefully, by making changes in my own life I can make a difference in consulting firm, and we are residing in Patagonia as well.” The most rewarding aspect of Blickenstaff’s work with TPF has Lakeville, MN, (great town). If any from the been the opportunity to help others, an opportunity she extends to the Bowdoin Bowdoin clan find themselves in the Twin community. More information on upcoming projects in November 2005 and March Cities, area look us up.” 2006 can be found by visiting www.thepatagonianfoundation.org. Jaclyn Mintz updates: “In February

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2005, I quit my job as an M&A lawyer in Joan Benoit Samuelson ’79 “held off a New York to follow my dream of owning tough challenge from Wiscasset’s Emily 96 my own business. I’m now the proud LeVan,” to win the women’s division of the Reunion Planning Chair: Janet Mulcahy Kane owner of Purls of Yarn, a yarn shop in L.L. Bean 10K in July, “nipping LeVan, the Reunion Giving Chairs: Patrick S. Kane and Pleasantville, NY. I’m also engaged to Adam top American female finisher in the 2005 William M. Havemeyer Cohen (Tufts ’97). We plan to be married in Boston Marathon, by a mere two seconds.” Class Secretary: Cara H. Drinan, April 2006.” From a Brunswick, ME Times Record article, 1300 Oak Creek Drive #411, “The Portland Museum of Art is pleased July 5, 2005. In additional news, Emily “has Palo Alto, CA 94304 to annonce that Jessica Skwire Routhier been named as the most recent addition to Class Agent: Patrick S. Kane ’94 has been promoted to Associate the U.S. marathon team for the IAAF World Curator. She was hired by the museum in Championships in Athletics, August 6-14, “Reid William Chapman, son of Kirsten 1997 and previously held the titles of in Helsinki, Finland. From a U.S. Track and Olson Chapman and Jonathan Chapman, Curatorial Assistant and Assistant Curator.” Field release, July 28, 2005. Also, see College was born on February 24, 2005. Reid, From a Portland (Maine) Museum of Art & Maine, this issue. Kirsten and Jon live in Annapolis, release, July 22, 2005. Tiffany MacInnes is “a small animal Maryland. Kirsten and Jon are enjoying the S. Jnatel Simmons reports: “I’ve left veterinarian working in Washingon state idea of being in one place for more than private practice for public service. Great currently. Just finished a small animal two years, after stints in San Francisco, change! I’m now senior counsel at the medicine and surgery internship at the Boston and Dallas. Jon is a region director Office of Counsel to the Inspector General University of Florida College of Veterinary for SCORE! Educational Centers, while also for the U.S. Department of Health and Medicine.” getting his MBA at Maryland. Kirsten is Human Services.” “Photographs by Marina Moskey working part time in recruiting, and Timothy Smith “and Jacqueline Swan Outwater, a teacher at Renbrook School (CT), enjoying spending more time with Reid on (Tufts ’91) were married in Beverly, MA on were recently published in Skipping Stones, an her days off. Reid will finally see Maine and May 8, 2004.” See photo in Weddings section. international multicultural magazine for Bowdoin in October—he’s been anxiously For news of Todd Weaver, see Megan children, www.skippingstones.org…Outwater awaiting his first trip there since birth!” O’Leary Weaver ’97 and photo in Weddings teaches fourth grade at Renbrook, an See accompanying photo. section. independent day school for students in the preschool, elementary, and middle school years, as well as a ninth-grade program.” 95 Marion Roach “and Benjamin Anthony 1 Class Secretary: Deborah A. Lifson, 22 /2 Zaniello were married…at the summer Bolton St., Waltham, MA 02453 home of the bride’s parents…on Sinclair Class Agents: Warren S. Empey and Sean M. Island in Washington.” She “works in Marsh Lexington, KY, as a designer for Nanette Lepore, a woman’s and sportswear Mike ’91 and Yi-Fang Hsu-Chen Kryger company in New York…She received an write: “We had a baby! Tai-Yang (‘Tai’) associate’s degree in fashion design from the Michael Kryger was born in Henderson, NV Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising on May 19, 2005.” See accompanying photo. in San Fransisco.” Ben “is a medical student at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington. He graduated from Reid William Chapman, son of Kirsten Stanford and received a postbaccalaureate Olson Chapman ’96 and Jonathan Chapman premedical degree from Columbia.” From a ’96, was born on February 24, 2005. New York Times article July 17, 2005. Maggy Mitchell Sullivan wrote in May: Ellen Cowen writes: “I am living in “Marguerite Kate Sullivan (‘Molly’) was Boston and completing my residency in born on December 8, 2004, weighing six internal medicine at Boston Medical Center. pounds, five ounces, and measuring 21 I had the pleasure of seeing Mark Ikauniks inches long. Her big sister Maeve adores when he was in town, as well as Jamie her, and Dan and I have finally adjusted to Oldershaw and his wife Michelle when I life with two kids (if that’s ever possible). was in Santa Fe, NM. Looking forward to We moved to Bethesda, MD, before the reuniting with other Bowdoin friends who baby arrived and I transferred to the are in the Boston area.” Washington, D.C. office of Latham and Laura Groves reports: “As a graduate Watkins, where I’m now a fifth year student at the University of Maryland, litigation associate. Dan is working hard College Park, I advanced to doctoral Mike ’91 and Yi-Fang Hsu-Chen Kryger ’95 getting his Ph.D. in political theory. Life is a candidacy in the Department of Art History write: “We had a baby! Tai-Yang (‘Tai’) little crazy, as you might imagine, but it and Archaeology this spring. During the Michael Kryger was born in Henderson, NV couldn’t be any better. Drop me a note if 2005-2006 academic year, I will hold a on May 19, 2005.” you’re ever in our area.” University of Maryland museum fellowship

70 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 class news in the curatorial department of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in PROFILE Washington, D.C. I’m engaged to Jeff Napolitano ’94. We will be married in Jane Buchanan ’96 York, Maine in October.” Research consultant for Human Rights Watch Michel Phaneuf Gautreau married Dan By Alix Roy ’07 Gautreau on July 2, 2005 in a ceremony at St. Michael Church in North Andover, MA, All it took was a semester abroad to with a reception at the Bedford Village Inn in convince Jane Buchanan ’96 that Bedford, NH. See photo in Weddings section. Russia was a place worth learning Evan Shapiro “and Sabina Shapiro about, worth exploring, and maybe (Stanford ’99) were married on July 4, 2004 even worthy of a career. After at the Golf Club at Newcastle, Seattle, graduating summa cum laude as a Washington.” See photo in Weddings section. Russian Language/Environmental Studies coordinate major, 97 Buchanan wasted no time, Class Secretary: Shannon M. Reilly, relocating to Siberia, where she 45 Sandy Brook Dr., Durham, NH 03824 lived for a year and a half before Class Agents: Ellen L. Chan, Calif X. Tran, enrolling in John Hopkins Joshua P. Dorfman, and Michael L. Volpe University School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Enterprise Bank & Trust Company 2000. During her two years spent Jane Buchanan (left) and colleague accepted the announced that it has promoted Ryan at SAIS, Buchanan discovered her Human Rights Prize of the French Republic on behalf Dunn “from commercial lending officer to interest in human rights through of the Chechnya Justice Initiative in December 2004. vice president of commercial lending. He several internships focused on the oversees a growing loan portfolio and the former Soviet Union and the Balkans. After graduating, Buchanan was awarded a one- bank’s SBA program.” From a Lowell, MA year research fellowship at Human Rights Watch (HRW) in New York, where she Sun article, April 7, 2005. conducted two research trips to , meeting with victims of various human rights Lindsey Christie Furtney writes: “On abuses, as well as conducting interviews with various non-governmental organizations January 31, we welcomed Finnian Day into and local government officials. Upon returning to New York, Buchanan wrote two our lives. The little guy is keeping us busy, reports regarding political censorship in the media in Ukraine and the discrimination of busy, busy. We continue to love Maine and women in employment. Both reports have since been used to encourage the UN, EU, enjoy seeing our Bowdoin friends here and and other influential parties to take action. at other social reunions.” Although she eventually returned to HRW to assume her current research Sarah Hill reports: “In June 2005, Sarah consultant position, Buchanan took time off in 2003 to focus her efforts on the completed her first year as a Shriver country responsible for her initial interest in international study. For 20 months, she Peaceworker Fellow at University of worked as the executive director of the Chechnya Justice Initiative, a small human Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), rights organization in Moscow that provides legal assistance to victims of violent where she is pursuing a master’s in crimes committed by Russian federal forces operating in Chechnya. In their efforts to intercultural communications. She will expose corruption in the Russian military, both clients and employees of the Justice graduate in 2006. She also coached the Initiative were frequently harassed and even threatened by Russian security services. girl’s varsity lacrosse team at Western High Working in a field that presents this type of risk on a regular basis, Buchanan has School for the fourth out of five years. developed the healthy perspective necessary towards maintaining both her enthusiasm Sarah was awarded the Mayoral Fellowship and her sanity. “I have to control the workaholic in me…it’s really important to have a for the summer 2005 and is working for life beyond human rights and especially after long, intense research trips to take care Mayor Martin O’Malley with the Office of of oneself.” But, even so, Buchanan admits that there are times when the magnitude Promotion and the Arts in Baltimore, MD, of certain issues becomes overwhelming. “The greatest challenge for me is living with voted one of the top 10 up-and-coming the knowledge that there are still such entrenched problems and there is a limit as to cities in the world (according to how much impact one person or even one organization can have.” Frommer’s). Visitors are always welcome!” Despite these challenges, Buchanan described her reward as “knowing that I am Sacco writes: “Dan and I putting my energy into something meaningful, that should contribute to improving the are enjoying life in . Dan is doing lives of some individuals.” She remains hopeful that human rights interest will litigation at a local firm called Flynn Gaskins continue to grow, pointing to the evolution of the words themselves. “Human rights & Bennett, and I am currently working at General Mills managing Total cereal.” are now a fundamental concept; a household term that even twenty years ago didn’t Mary Christina Zienak Simpson “and have the same resonance that it does now.” Greg Simpson joyfully welcome Ava and Jack Simpson, born on May 5, 2005.” (2004) and bought a house in Melrose, MA, than eight years; I can’t believe it!). We still Megan O’Leary Weaver writes: “Todd just outside of Boston. I am working in see a good number of Bowdoin classmates on Weaver ’94 and I got married in August clinical research at Biogen Idec (for more a regular basis.” See photo in Weddings section.

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PROFILE 98 Class Officers: Peter Sims, president; Esther Baker ’97 Joanna Hass, vice-president; Kim Pacelli and Maireade McSweeney, class reporters Professional Choreographer and Dancer, Senegal, Africa Class Agents: Kim Pacelli and Justin Pearlman By Alix Roy ’07 “In May 2005, Christine Chiao graduated Through the remodeling of Pickard from medical school with a dual MBA Theatre, the ambitious renovation of the degree, she is currently a resident physician Walker Art Building, and the fundraising at Northshore University Hospital of for a new recital hall in the site of the Manhasset, an affiliate of New York Curtis Pool, Bowdoin has demonstrated University Medical Center.” its support of the arts as an important Eric Paul Ebeling and Julia Rae Ebeling facet of a liberal arts education. But in were married on June 26, 2004 in Rio addition to providing funding for the Vista, Mahwah, New Jersey. See photo in many music and theatre groups on Weddings section. campus, Bowdoin encourages what Dr. Bjorn Lee and Jayme Okma Lee Esther Baker ’97 calls, “the crossover” ’00, and partners Doctor Jodie James and between the arts and traditional her husband Geoff, opened PenBay academic subjects. Baker, who studied Veterinary Associates in Rockport, Maine in dance in conjunction with both French July. To read more, visit Rockport’s Village and anthropology, found Bowdoin Soup: www.villagesoup.com. professors supportive of her dual Robert Lewis and Nikki Peters wrote in interests, allowing her to utilize dance in late spring that they “will both be other classes as an alternate tool for graduating this May. Rob From UPenn exploration and expression. Medical School and Nikki from UPenn A semester abroad in Senegal nursing school. Both will be living in ultimately motivated Baker to turn her Philadelphia as Rob begins his surgical love of dance and culture into a career. Photo: Antoine Tempé residency at Hospital of the University of Walking through a small west-African Pennsylvania.” Robert and Nikki were village, she fell in love with the African approach to movement and dance. “Dancing is married on May 29, 2005, in Gloucester, a part of everyday life there…you’re surrounded by it.” With members of every MA. See photo in Weddings section. generation participating in dance, and children being encouraged at a young age to Maireade McSweeney writes: “I am happy “just move around,” it’s no surprise that Africa has become a center for the emerging to share that I graduated from Boston hip-hop movement. “People look to Africa for what’s happening,” says Baker, which University’s medical school and school of makes living in Senegal “a great situation for any dancer.” public health in May 2005! I will be starting a After moving to Africa, Baker became involved with many choreography projects residency in pediatrics at the Boston and was invited to perform her solo “Le President” at the Dialogue De Corps Combined Residency Program (at Children’s International Dance Festival in Burkina Faso. Several of her works have been filmed, Hospital and Boston Medical Center). A including the recent “Ndox Mi/Water,” which screened at the Saratoga Springs fellow Polar Bear, Dr. Leonard Gottlieb ’47, Women’s Festival and at DanceCameraWest in Los Angeles. In “Ndox Mi,” Baker professor and chairman emeritus of BU worked with the children of Grand Dakar, Senegal, using their colorful water-carrying School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology, buckets as props. was honored at our student awards ceremony Although she appreciates the intimacy of live performance, Baker recognizes the for his professional excellence as a teacher, advantage of film in reaching wider audiences. Many of her dances are reflective of researcher, pathologist, and mentor. Thank what she has seen while a resident of Africa, and while they are personal, Baker would you again, Dr. Gottleib! Dr. Anathea Powell like to think that those who witness her dances are able to take something away from ’95 was also in attendance at graduation.” them. In the piece, “Kuilenga/The Door,” Baker explores the issue of immigration with Brenda McCormally Nardone reports: dancers tracing paths and discovering doors not always open to the “third world “Joe and I have been enjoying new body.” Through her travels, Baker has become more aware of the ease with which parenthood immensely. On February 26, Americans travel compared to the difficulty many Africans face in acquiring visas and 2005, our daughter Natalie Linda was born passports. This is discouraging to Baker, who has seen many of her colleagues at our home in Arlington, VA. While not a prevented from attending film festivals and performances in the United States due to mainstream choice, I encourage anyone immigration laws. having a normal, healthy pregnancy to In the future, Baker would like to focus her efforts on facilitating an exchange consider an out-of-hospital birth—it was between students from Africa and the United States who are interested in dance. She truly an amazing and empowering experience for us. While I enjoyed working is already involved with teaching at UCLA and beginning to build the foundation for a as the deputy director at a non-profit stronger international dance program. organization in D.C. for the last several

72 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 class news years, I love my new career as Natalie’s William G. Crissman writes: “Life is residence hall at Simmons College where I mother. We’ll be taking her on her first trip good. I’ve just become engaged to a will be serving as a resident director to a to Maine this fall!” See accompanying photo. wonderful woman, Michele Hallor. We met group of first-year students. I will begin a when I was in the hospital being treated for doctoral program in higher education malaria contracted in Congo. She was my administration at Boston College this fall. We nurse. We fell in love immediately! At first I had quite a community of Bowdoin folk up thought it was the morphine, but after I in the Hanover, NH area and are looking recovered, I knew it was real. We’re getting forward to connecting with more polar bears married in Maine in 2006.” now that we are in the big city. See photo in Elizabeth Brookes Gordon and “Robert Weddings section. Gordon (Washington U. of St. Louis ’99) Toby Guzowski McGrath and Molly were married at Brown University in Kalkstein were married on July 31, 2004 Providence, RI on August 14, 2004.” See in a seaside ceremony at Reid State Park photo in Weddings section. in Georgetown, Maine. See photo in Frank Hwang wrote in June: “About a Weddings section. Brenda McCormally Nardone ’98 and month ago, I was greeted with a surprise Stefan Petranek “continues his MFA husband Joe welcomed daughter Natalie from Megan ’00. She was on a cardiology program in imaging arts at Rochester Institute Linda on February 26, 2005. rotation at Tufts vet school, and she returned of Technology in Rochester, NY, where he is “Stites & Harbison announced that Jennifer to our apartment with an 8-week-old puppy working on the theme of personal interaction B. Swyers has joined the firm’s Louisville that was in danger of being euthanized. Being with the natural world. For recent images, see office. She is a member of two service groups the sucker that I am, of course, we adopted his new website, www.stefanpetranek.com.” at Stites & Harbison: Environmental, Natural him! So we now have a new addition to our Ryan Woods ’99 and Julie Hightower Resources and Energy Law and Business family, Lambert, a dark brown pit bull mix (University of Virginia ’99) were married in that is keeping things very exciting in our Moretown, VT on May 21, 2005. See photo Litigation. Prior to joining the firm, she served household.” See accompanying photo. in Weddings section. as law clerk to the Honorable Boyce F. Martin Jr., judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.” From a Stites & Harbison press 00 release, May 3, 2005. Class Agents: Jeffrey L. Busconi, For news of Dave Wartman, See Katie Lynk Thomas A. Cassarella, S. Prema Katari, Wartman ’99 and photo in Weddings section. Emily M. Reycroft, Jessica L. Rush, Michelle A. Ryan, Gretchen S. Selcke, and Brian Williams 99 Class Officers: Sarah Roop, president; Class Agents: Michael L. Bouyea, Meaghan Curran, vice-president Laura G. Enos, Jennifer E. Halloran Class Reporters: Naeem Ahmed and Karen Viado Class Officers: Sarah Bond, president; Lambert, the 8-week-old puppy Frank ’99 Lauren Key, vice-president; Melissa Braveman and Megan ’00 Hwang saved from being Courtney Brecht, Kyle Durrie ’01, and Maria Pistone, class reporters euthanized last spring, has grown, and in this Cassie Jones ’01, and Nicole Stiffle ’04 August photo shows “his true Hwang colors.” represented Bowdoin well at the Portland “In May, Audrey Bekeny and Devani Museum of Art Biennial last spring. The Adams traveled down from Osaka, Japan Katie Lynk Wartman “and Dave Wartman ’98 were married on October 23, honor to be selected for the juried (where Devani lives) to visit Chanda Ikeda 2004 in York Harbor, Maine. In June, Dave exhibition can often prove a stepping stone ’00 on the island of Shikoku, where she is graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in a young artist’s career. From a Portland, an English teacher. Had fun on the beach and began his internship at Beth Israel ME, Mainetoday.com article, April 3, 2005. and cruised around the beautiful island.” Deaconness Medical Center in Boston. He Haj Carr spoke at the NAACP’s annual See accompanying photo. will be starting his residency in dermatology celebration of Excellence in Education, in at Rhode Island Hospital next year. We have Portland, Maine last spring. “In its third moved to Boston into, believe it or not, a year, the event is a chance to showcase the Handwriting Quiz #6

(Left to right): Devani Adams ’99, Audrey Bekeny ’99, and Chanda Ikeda ’01 together in Tokushima, Japan on May 29, 2005. Sarah Bond Phinney “has been named Turn to page 37 for details. Find Quiz #1 on page 38, #2 on page 42, Director of Alumni Relations at Bowdoin.” #3 on page 44, #4 on page 48 and #5 on page 55. See College & Maine section, this issue.

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talents and accomplishments of college and burns off the methane. In turn, this School in ). Sarah will be graduates from various ethnic backgrounds process allows AgCert to generate emission teaching health and physical education, and around the state…The evening was also a reduction credits and sell them on the Peter will be teaching English as well as job fair, a nod to the state’s hopes of world market which has been established as being the 10th-grade dean. They are very attracting and keeping young people in a result of the Kyoto Protocol. I recently excited about this new adventure and Maine…Carr said opportunity—and moved to Sao Paulo and love life in Brazil. encourage any Bowdoin folk to look them up money—are here for young people who are Looking forward to hosting a number of if they are traveling through Switzerland!” willing to stick around.” From a Portland, Polar Bears in the near future!” Monica Dewey is “still in Vail—love ME mainetoday.com article, April 30, 2005. For news of Jayme Okma Lee, see Bjorn living in the mountains and the ability to Matthew Clement reports: “This fall Lee ’98. take hikes after work. I might move to 2005, I will be planting myself in the Leah Muhm wrote in early June: “Just Boulder at the end of the summer to go graduate program in sustainable agriculture finished my first year of med school at back to school. We’ll see. Right now, life is at Iowa State University.” Jefferson Medical School in Philly. Annie good and I am happy!” USMC rifle platoon commander Neil Hackman is also here in the class above me!” The first single, “The Life,” from Heather Clinton emailed on June 29: “My battalion Finn O’Brien married “Toral Patel on Park’s debut album, Dream in Pictures, has has started its down cycle of a seven-month June 11 of this year in a Hindu ceremony.” been playing in Old Navy, Gap Body, and deployment here in Ar Ramadi, Iraq—an See photo in Weddings section. Anne Taylor stores. Check out more at area proven to be the most troublesome for Christine Paglia presented the 11th www.hearthepark.com. Coalition Forces to deal with, because of annual Judith M. Lenett Memorial Lecture Katy Ranere and Kit Hughes were the continued presence of insurgents. The at the Clark Art Institute in Pittsfield, MA married on July 9, 2005. See photo in Marines who I lead are some of the finest last spring. Her talk was titled, “Women’s Weddings section. young men it has been my pleasure to Movements: Modern Dance and a Suffragist Rosanne DeMaio Salisbury and John know. They are strong and well disciplined, Sculptor.” As a Lenett Fellow, “Christine’s Salisbury (Holy Cross ’01) were married and have certainly earned the title of project has involved a group of sculptural on June 26, 2004, in Chappaqua, NY. combat veterans. Semper Fi.” figures sharing themes of modern dance See photo in Weddings section. For news of Megan Hwang, see Frank and the performing arts by sculptor Alice Hwang ’99, and accompanying photo. Morgan Wright (1881 to 1975).” From a Matt Turnbull, Tim Foley Colby, and Pittsfield, MA Berkshire Eagle article April 02 Ryan Johnson “spent three amazing weeks 26, 2005. Class Leadership Committee Chair: in Anchorage, Alaska, as members of Team Julianne Reynolds and Liz Goley “are Melissa A. Tansey, [email protected] Dynacraft ‘pit crew.’ We helped promote enjoying the expatriate life in Basel, Class Agents: : Christine M. Coonan, the American Powerboat Association Switzerland. When not yodeling on the Thomas A. Costin, Laura M. Hilburn, (APBA) race series in July and August and Swiss alps, Julianne can be found teaching Sarah L. Hoenig, Sara R. Kaufman, got a great chance to fine tune our English to blind and visually impaired Margaret E. G. Magee, Simon A. McKay, powerboat mechanic skills. It was an adults and Liz can be found lounging in Claire E. Newton, Eric C. Wiener, and awesome time!” See accompanying photo. her corporate housing kitchen-bathroom. John A. Woodcock Funny that two former Bowdoin Chorus sopranos should find themselves together Aurelia L. Hall, a UConn School of Law again, only this time they’ve traded summer associate is working at Halloran Rachmaninoff for Indian mantras. Liz and and Sage LLP in Washington, D.C., “mostly Julianne are also training for the annual with the firm’s insurance litigation & Rheinschwimmen to be held in August.” appellate practice group.” From a Halloran & Sage release, July 12. 2005. Craig Hansen received a good deal of 01 publicity in the Denver area early in the Reunion Planning Chairs: summer, interviewed on several news Stephanie R. Mann, Jed W. Wartman channels and in The Denver Post, about the Matt Turnbull ’00, Tim Foley Colby ’00, and Reunion Giving Chairs: Thomas Connelly U.S. Forest Service’s program of releasing Ryan Johnson ’00 “spent three amazing and Michael Farrell flea beetles in the Pike National Forest, in weeks in Anchorage, Alaska, (during the Class Leadership Committee Chair: an effort to rid the area of a tough weed summer 2003) as members of Team Stephanie R. Mann, [email protected] infestation. Craig is a biologist with the Dynacraft ‘pit crew,’” in the American Class Agents: Ashley C. Cotton, U.S. Forest Service. From a Denver, CO Powerboat Association (APBA) race series. Elizabeth E. Feeherry, and Elissa L. Ferguson Denverpost.com article, June 17, 2005. Ferris Lawrence wrote in the spring: Scott Jamieson reports: “Beth Sherman “After finishing up the 2004 season as a Ellen Bates reported in late spring: “I have and I are engaged! I surprised her and kiteboarding instructor in the Outer Banks, just graduated from Northeastern University popped the question on February 5th, I was hired to work for a company that School of Law in Boston, along with Jamie 2005 and she said yes. The wedding will be generates and sells carbon credits on the Bennett, and will be in Boston this summer in July 2006. Can’t wait!” world market. The company identifies farms studying for the NY and MA bar exams.” Vir Kashyap has “been living in Madrid in Latin America and constructs, operates Peter and Sarah Curran “will be moving for the past year-and-a-half. I hang out with and maintains a biodigester that captures to Lugano, Switzerland at the end of the Alex Sucheck ’01 and Andres Barba (former summer to work at TASIS (the American 74 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 class news

Spanish Dept. TA). Had a visit from James Bass, who was studying in Ireland for a PROFILE semester of law school and came down for some sun and to see Real Madrid in action.” David Kirkland ’03 Robert Mandle writes: “In May of this Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan year, I completed my Master of Urban and By Alix Roy ’07 Regional Planning at Virginia Tech’s Alexandria Center in Northern Virginia. “A British adventurer traveling through Specializing in Physical Planning and what is now Turkmenistan during the Community Design, I was awarded the 2005 19th Century once described the Kara American Institute of Certified Planners Kum desert as the epitome of death…I ‘Outstanding Student Award’ for the 2004- thought it was an interesting comment 2005 academic year. In September I will be because it left so much up to the starting a new job as a planner with Lemole imagination; just what exactly does Pointon Associates, a planning and design death resemble? Yet now, in the middle firm located in Virginia Beach, Virginia and of my second Turkmen winter and with will be charged primarily with assisting in the last Turkmen summer fresh in my the design and planning of military base facilities throughout the mid-Atlantic.” memory, I can understand what that Emily Rizza and Sarah Lipinoga ’03 English explorer was talking about…” “got married on July 24, 2005, in Assonet, David Kirkland ’03 has become Massachussets in an outside garden/ accustomed to the ups and downs of reception hall. It was so much fun! And of life in Turkmenistan, one of the fifteen former Soviet Republics and also one of the course we had to include a Bowdoin poorest, since his assignment began in the fall of 2003. Besides being tossed picture—banner and all! Sarah and I are from one host-family to another, Kirkland has experienced the reality of Peace currently living in Buenos Aires for the Corps work—it is what you make of it. Ambitious volunteers such as Kirkland year.” See photo in Weddings section. often find the unnecessary amount of downtime frustrating. Even as a registered member of the Peace Corps, Kirkland says, “I find myself often spending whole days procuring stamps, signatures, and approvals just to go help another 03 volunteer with a youth camp.” Class Leadership Committee: Megan E. Lim, After a few months spent in the western city of Balkanabat, known to locals as convener, [email protected] “Nebit Dag” or “oil mountain,” Kirkland realized that in order to accomplish much, he would have to design his own projects and handle the logistics himself, while Libby Barney reports: “I am currently speaking a language he hardly knew in a society overrun with corruption. In the living in Somerville with some Bowdoin past two years he has risen to the challenge, undertaking a major project that will friends, and was recently accepted to Tufts bring a community information and resource center to Turkmenistan this fall. The Veterinary School, where I will be starting center, already physically complete, contains a library of English. Turkmen, and in the fall.” Russian language books on various topics, and will provide daily youth clubs and Patrick B. Burns wrote in June: “I computer training sessions. Kirkland hopes that the center will serve as a meeting missed Bowdoin undergrad so much, I place for members of the community to come together, since up until now the city decided to do it all over again. I just started has been divided, with very little interaction between foreign oil workers, a post-bac premed program at Tufts a few volunteers, and locals. weeks ago, and am trying to relearn how to In order to fulfill his official role as community health educator and youth take intro classes. Anybody that wants to developer, Kirkland conducts health seminars on AIDS/HIV, tuberculosis, hygiene, help me out with orgo, give me a call.” and water sanitation. Additionally, in collaboration with a local counterpart, Kirkland Dottie Chalmers reports: “After wrote an English, Russian, and Turkmen language health education manual, which spending the 2004 year in New Zealand, describes methods of teaching health to younger audiences. Working in youth I have returned to my hometown of camps proved to be Kirkland’s most rewarding experience, and the gratitude shown Bridgton, Maine. I joined my family by the kids after ten days of English lessons, mock game shows, and nightly discos, insurance business and just passed my “really made me feel like I had changed some lives, a feeling that is nice given the property and casualty producer insurance static nature of life in Turkmenistan.” In addition to the youth camps, Kirkland spent exam, so I am now a licensed agent. I work time in the run-down fitness center working with disabled and handicapped kids. alongside my cousin, Jim Chalmers ’02.” “They were by far the most impressive people I’ve met [here], and their persistence Julie Dawson writes: “Life on the Hill in was amazing to watch week after week.” D.C. is still drawing me in. Now I handle public health issues and have really come This fall, Kirkland will return to the United States and begin job-hunting in the D.C. to appreciate the legislative process. This is area, looking for a potential career in international development or foreign policy. a dynamic city, and I continue to enjoy the Though in many ways his experience has been a trying one, (only 50% of all constant stimulation. I also consider myself volunteers remain in Turkmenistan upon arriving), Kirkland learned to take the country fortunate to have made wonderful friends in stride, help some people along the way, and is getting himself home safely, too. here and have maintained important

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friendships from Bowdoin. Thank you to all of you for your support.” Caitlin Fowkes is “living in Arlington, Want to be a doctor? VA, and working as a marketing research Make it a reality. analyst. Ran the Sugarloaf Marathon with Diann Wood last May. Looking forward to seeing roommates Maggie Fritz-Morkin Post-Baccalaureate and Angela Commito this July at Hannah Curtis’s wedding. Congratulations to Premedical Program Hannah and Jared!” Daniel Gulotta “has been appointed as an insurance Account Executive at Wheeler The Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program at Goucher College is a one- and Taylor. Gulotta’s main focus will be to year curriculum of courses required for increase the client base at the agency and medical school admission. he will be primarily located in the Sheffield (MA) office.” From a Great Barrington, MA · Acceptance rate into medical schools Berskhire Record article, March 25, 2005. of 100% Erica Lee Johnson briefs: “Living in · Classes separate from undergraduates France, teaching conversational English to · Comprehensive advising and support French students at University in Clermont- · Linkage agreements with seven medical Ferrand. Traveling throughout Europe. schools · Bowdoin graduates have completed our Learning to speak Arabic. Expanding my program and are now physicians. Web design company. Working towards my master’s degree in English.” For more information, go to Nell Richmond ’03 and Martin goucher.edu/postbac Brisebois ’04 were married on May 19, or call 1-800-414-3437 2005 in Somers, Connecticut. See photo in Weddings section. For news of Sarah Lipinoga, see Emily GOUCHER COLLEGE Education without boundaries Rizza ’02 and photo in Weddings section. Andrew Ross “completed a year as an direct the fellowship program.” the sold out U2 concert in Boston in the fall. Americorps/Vista worker at the Boston Rescue Stephen E. Lampert is “living in Boston An avid ’CLZ listener of Irish decent, Mullin Mission (for homeless addicts). Helped train and looking forward to starting law school zeroed in on the contest because she hopes and ran the Boston Marathon with two of the somewhere in the fall of 2006!” to study conflict resolution by applying for a residents of the BRM. Will be attending Duke Johanna Morrison “became engaged to fellowship in Northern Ireland.” From a University in the fall in public policy. Am in Norman Stickney, UMaine ’04, on May 21, Hurley Travel news release, July 28, 2005. Greece and (language immersion 2005. A wedding date has not yet been set.” program) for the summer.” David Yankura married Heather Hall Yankura (University of Pittsburgh ’05) on 04 June 18, 2005, in Pittsburgh, PA. See photo Class Leadership Committee: in Weddings section. Alison L. McConnell, Convene, [email protected] 05 Claire Discenza reports: “Members of the Travis Brennan is home in Portland, Bowdoin College class of 2005 held a 0th Maine, from his year teaching in the reunion on July 30 in Brookline, MA. Marshall Islands. “I am working at the Fire Attendees traveled from as far as Department in Westbrook and part-time at Washington and Virginia for good company, the Casco Bay Lines while I look for more Members of the Bowdoin College Class of home-made Bowdoin logs, a cake with the th th permanent work for the year. I plan on 2005 held a 0 reunion on July 30 in Bowdoin seal, and a showing of the ’05 applying to law school this fall.” Brookline, MA. Attendees traveled from as far senior show.” See accompanying photo. For news of Martin Brisebois, see Nell as Washington and Virginia for good Katherine Mullin “of Cumberland Richmond ’03 and photo in Weddings section. company, home-made Bowdoin logs, a cake (Maine) won a 9-day trip for two with airfare Dustin C. Brown is “currently employed with the Bowdoin seal, and a showing of the to Dublin, Ireland courtesy of Hurley Travel at the United States Postal Service and ’05 senior slide show. Back row (l to r): Experts, TNT Vacations and radio station Alissa Waite, Ellen Beth, Meghan MacKenzie, seeking a career in education.” WCLZ 98.9. WCLZ teamed up with Hurley Christina Woodward, Mike Doore, Natalie Ashley Inderfurth writes: “I am living Travel Experts and TNT Vacations, devoting Stahl, Molly Wright, Elizabeth Davidson, in the D.C. area, working at Third Way, which is the month of June to U2. The station Deb Schaeffer, Takara Larsen, Fariba Shaffie. a progressive non-profit advocacy organization. featured the famous Irish band along with Front row (l to r): Claire Discenza, Margaret At Third Way, I serve as the office manager and this fabulous trip to Ireland plus tickets to Boyle, Arwyn Carroll.

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John Harold Jenkins ’32 died on June MA, and the Noble and Greenough Edward David Woodberry Spingarn 8, 2005, in Rockland. Born on School in Dedham, MA. He attended ’33 died on May 7, 2005, in January 19, 1910, in Salem, MA, he Bowdoin from 1929 to 1931, Washington, DC. Born on October prepared for college at Skowhegan becoming a member of Zeta Psi 22, 1944, in New York City, he High School and became a member Fraternity. He also studied chemistry prepared for college at the Kent of Kappa Sigma Fraternity at at the Massachusetts Institute of School in Connecticut and became a Bowdoin. Following his graduation Technology and business at the member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at in 1932, he was a teacher and coach Bryant and Stratton School in Boston. Bowdoin. Following his graduation at Skowhegan Junior High School After working for three years at the summa cum laude and as a member of until 1940, when he became a Davidson Rubber Company in Phi Beta Kappa in 1933, he did member of the faculty at Needham Charlestown, MA, he started the graduate work at Harvard University (MA) Junior High School, where he Beebe Rubber Company in Nashua, and the London School of Economics taught English and Social Studies for NH, with his father and brother. In in England, receiving a master of arts seven years. He was the principal of 1947, he became the sole owner of the degree in modern history from the Dwight School in Needham from company, which was sold in 1939. He Harvard in 1934 and a doctor of 1947 to 1953, when he became was a trustee and president of Nashua philosophy degree in economics from principal of the Broadmeadow Memorial Hospital, a director of the Harvard in 1940. While teaching Elementary School in Needham. Nashua Trust Company, and a trustee economics at Trinity College in He retired in 1975. For the next five of New England College in Henniker, Connecticut he was commissioned a years, he was a supervisor of student NH, for 10 years. He was also a second lieutenant on the U.S. Army teachers for Northeastern University. member of the Nashua Country Club, Field Artillery Reserve. He served in He was also director of the Needham the Algonquin Club in Boston, and the U.S. Army Signal Corps during Y.M.C.A. Camp for three years and the Bald Peak Colony Club in World War II from 1942 to 1944 and head counselor of the Cub unit at Moultonboro, NH, as well as a in the Office of Strategic Services Medomak Boys Camp in the Maine member of the 210 Associates and the from 1944-45, attaining the rank of town of Washington. In 1940, he First Congregational Church in captain. He remained in the Army received a master of arts degree in Nashua and Vanderbilt Presbyterian reserve and served on active duty in English from Columbia University Church in Naples, where he moved in the Korean conflict in 1951-52, Teachers College in New York City, 1972. He was married in 1936 to Janet eventually attaining the rank of and in 1955 he received a certificate McKinney, who died in 2002, and is lieutenant colonel and retiring in in administration from Boston survived by a daughter, Margaret 1962. He was an assistant professor of University. He was a member of the Nuckols of New Canaan, CT; a son, economics at Trinity in 1946-47 and Charles River Association for E. Colman Beebe, Jr. of Gilford, NH, then became an economist with the Retarded Citizens in Needham and in and Naples; four grandchildren; and International Monetary Fund in Maine was a board member with the seven great-grandchildren. Washington, DC. He became an Coastal Workshop for Handicapped assistant division chief at IMF in 1959 Citizens in Camden and the Golden David Morris ’33 died on April 27, and was promoted to assistant to the K. Kiwanis Club in Rockland. In the 2005, in Maynard, MA. Born on director of the Asian Department in field of music, he was a member of November 16, 1910, in Gary, IN, he 1970. He retired in 1973 and for the Highland Glee Club of Newton, prepared for college at Newton (MA) years did voluntary social work for MA, the Down East Singers, the High School and became a member senior citizens. He also consulted for Needham Baptist Church Choir, and of Delta Upsilon Fraternity at the Accuracy in Media Organization the Rockland Congregational Church Bowdoin. Following his graduation and was a member of St. Paul’s Choir, as well as the Thomaston in 1935 as a member of the Class of Episcopal Church in Washington and Community Band and the 1933, he became a loss control of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church on Lincolnville band. He was married in engineer with the Massachusetts Mount Desert Island. He was married 1939 to Justina Harding, who died in Bonding and Insurance Company in in 1941 to Elizabeth Morison, who 2004, and is survived by two sons, Boston. From 1947 to 1954, he was died in 1997, and is survived by a James D. Jenkins of Owls Head and supervisor of loss control with the daughter, Phillida M. Alcantar of Peter J. Jenkins of Prospect; a American Casualty Company in Washington, DC, and a grandson. daughter, Martha E. Jenkins of Boston, and from 1954 until his Thomaston; a sister, Esther J. Norton retirement in 1975 he was a John Morris ’34 died on February 5, of Concord, NH; five grandchildren, supervisor of loss control specialist 2005, in Concord, CA. Born on including Benjamin W. Jenkins ’97 of with the Reliance Insurance August 8, 1912, in Portland, OR, he Portland; and four great-granddaughters. Company, also in Boston. He was prepared for college at Newton (MA) married in 1937 to Gladys M. Shaw, High School and became a member of Edmund Colman Beebe ’33 died on who died in 1995. Surviving are a Delta Upsilon Fraternity at Bowdoin. July 25, 2005, in Naples, FL. Born on son, David Morris of Saugus, MA; a Following his graduation in 1934, he April 2, 1910, in Arlington, MA, he daughter, Susan Isgur of Maynard, held a number of short-term and prepared for college at the New MA; five grandchildren; and one temporary jobs during the next five Preparatory School in Cambridge, great-grandchild. years. In 1940, he became a safety

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engineer with the Employers Liability he was graduated in 1942. He also Opticianry Hall of Fame, was an Assurance Corporation in Boston and studied for a year at Union Honorary Fellow of the American from 1941 to 1946 served in the U.S. Theological Seminary in New York Academy of Optometry, and was the Navy during World War II, attaining and was curate at Grace Church in first recipient of the Sunglass the rank of lieutenant commander. He Lawrence, MA, for three years. He Association of America’s Annual remained in the Navy Reserves until served in the U.S. Navy Chaplain Achievement Award. During his retiring in 1961 after 20 years of Corps in 1945-46, attaining the rank career, he was a member of the service. From 1946 to 1955 he was a of lieutenant junior grade. After Optical Society of America, the safety engineer supervisor with serving as rector of Christ Church in International Academy of Opticianry, Standard Accident Insurance Xenia, OH, he became rector of the American Board of Opticianry, Company in Boston and Chicago, IL, Trinity Church in Hannibal, MO, the American Association for the and then spent two years as a safety where he remained until 1970, when Advancement of Science, and the supervisor and instructor at the he became vicar of the Mineral Area New York Academy of Sciences. He University of Minnesota School of Congregation in DeSoto, MO, (which was also a Fellow of the American Public Health. He was a safety later became Trinity Church), a Academy of Optometry and a coordinator at the University of position that he held until his frequent lecturer at its functions. He Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from retirement. Surviving are his wife, was chairman of the Woodstock 1957 to 1970, when he became vice Sarah Catharine Painter Crawford, Board of Education in Connecticut president with the Fred S. James & whom he married in 1945; two sons, from 1957 to 1963. Surviving are his Company of Berkeley, CA, and was a Robert B. Crawford of Evansville, IN, wife, Lucy McNutt Davis, whom he loss control consultant to the and Brian M. Crawford of St. Louis, married in 1940; two sons, John M. University of California. He was a MO; a daughter, Margaret E. Crawford Davis of Charlotte, NC, and Robert frequent speaker at national and of Tucson, AZ; two grandchildren; and B. Davis of Bellingham, WA; and regional professional meetings on life a great-grandchild. three grandchildren. safety from fire, fire protection topics, and various aspects of safety in John King Davis ’37 died on May 3, John Edward Hall ’37 died on June colleges and universities. He was the 2005, in East Woodcock, CT. Born 20, 2005, in Ruston, LA. Born on author of many articles in journals on on November 30, 1913, in Webster, December 10, 1914, in Melrose, MA, these topics and was a student of the MA, he prepared for college at he prepared for college at Somerville malpractice problem of teaching Bartlett High School there and (MA) High School and the hospitals. He was also the editor of A became a member of Alpha Tau Huntington School in Boston and Medical Legal Guide for the Health Omega Fraternity at Bowdoin, which became a member of Delta Upsilon Science (1974), Managing the Library he attended in 1932-33. Following Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he Fire Risk (1975), and The Library his graduation from Clark University attended from 1933 to 1935. He then Disaster Preparedness Handbook in Worcester, MA, in 1937, he was joined the Advance Bag & Paper (1986). For a number of years he an instructor at Miss Vining’s Company in the Maine town of played in the Ice Hockey Senior Country Day School in Winter Howland, with which he moved to Olympics in Santa Rosa, CA, and Haven, FL, for a year and then at Hodge, LA, in 1938. During World played in the alumni hockey games at Shorecrest Outdoor School in St. War II, he served in the U.S. Army Bowdoin. Surviving are his wife, Jean Petersburg, FL. After serving as a from 1943 to 1945, attaining the rank Cotant Morris, whom he married in ticket agent with the Florida Motor of staff sergeant and being awarded 1946; three sons, John L. Morris of Lines in Ocala, FL, he joined the the Bronze Star Medal as a result of Springfield, VA, Robin Morris of American Optical Corporation in service in China. After the war, he Pacifica, CA, and Charles A. Morris of Southbridge, MA, where he designed, joined the Continental Can Company Walnut Creek, CA; a daughter, June tested, and developed ophthalmic in Hodge, LA, retiring as production M. McClannahan of San Antonio, TX; lenses. In 1948, he became head of supervisor in 1977. In retirement he and five grandchildren. the optical computing and service worked for many years with the section of the company’s research Edmonds Funeral Home in Arthur Chandler Crawford ’37 died department. He retired in 1975 as Jonesboro, LA. He was a member of on July 18, 2005, in Chesterfield, MO. chief of ophthalmic sciences and the Jonesboro Methodist Church and Born on April 23, 1915, in Belmont, then served as associate professor of returned to Maine each summer for MA, he prepared for college at physiological optics at the many years. He was married in 1939 Watertown (MA) Senior High School Pennsylvania College of Optometry to Harriet Woodsum, who died in and became a member of Alpha Tau until 1979, when he joined Gentex 1998, and is survived by a brother-in- Omega Fraternity at Bowdoin. Optics Corporation as a consultant law, Bernard Baird of Turner; a sister- Following his graduation in 1938 as a in optics. He was the holder of nine in-law, Ruth Woodsum of Veazie; two member of the Class of 1937, he was a patents on optical instruments and nieces, Diane Woodsum Peva of Surry salesman with Jacob Weitz Smoked lenses and was the author of more and Gretchen Decau of Morristown, Meats in Boston for a year and then than 30 papers and book chapters on NJ; and a special friend, Ann Shows entered the Episcopal Theological optics, lenses, and vision. He was of Jonesboro, LA. School in Cambridge, MA, from which named to the National Academy of

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Edward William Najam ’38 died in Najam, whom he married in 1946; a Wormwood, who died in 2000, and is May 9, 2005, in Bloomington, IN. son, Edward W. Najam, Jr. of survived by a daughter, Susan P. Born on October 28, 1916, in Danbury, Bloomington; and two sisters, Jimetta Marshall of Falmouth Foreside; three CT, he prepared for college at Danbury C. Nahil and Mary L. Jenkins; and a sisters, Jane P. Kittredge of Falmouth High School and became a member of brother William J. Najam, Jr. of Foreside, Alice M. Pierce of Portland, Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity at Brookfield, CT. and Lucia P. Smith of Portland; and Bowdoin. Following his graduation in four granddaughters. 1938 cum laude and as a member of Leonard Augustus Pierce ’38 died on Phi Beta Kappa, he was a risk analyst May 11, 2005, at Falmouth-by-the- Kenneth Nettleton Birkett ’39 died on with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Sea. Born on October 13, 1916, in June 20, 2005, in Lancaster, PA. Born Company’s crime division in Boston Houlton, he prepared for college at on December 4, 1916, in Wollaston, for four years and then taught French Deering High School in Portland and MA, he prepared for college at and German at Tabor Academy in became a member of Delta Kappa Needham (MA) High School and Marion, MA, until 1947. In 1950, he Epsilon Fraternity at Bowdoin. became a member of Chi Psi Fraternity received a master of arts degree in Following his graduation in 1938, he at Bowdoin. Following his graduation Romance languages from Duke owned and operated a potato farm in in 1939, he worked for several years in University and, in 1953, he received Houlton, where he also raised horses, a number of positions. During World his doctor of philosophy degree in dairy cows, and beef cattle. He War II he served in the U.S. Army Air Romance languages from the worked with the Seaboard Paper Forces from 1942 to 1946, attaining University of North Carolina. While in Company in Bucksport before serving the rank of captain. After the war he graduate school he was an instructor in the U.S. Army from 1941 to 1945 was a statistician with George B. in French at Duke and an assistant during World War II, attaining the Hanlow Company in Boston for two professor of French and Spanish at rank of major and being awarded the years and then spent seven years as an North Carolina. From 1954 until his Bronze Star. After the war, he accountant with the Boston and Maine retirement in 1987, he taught at returned to the St. Regis Company, Railroad. From 1955 to 1967, he was Indiana University, where he was also formerly the Seaboard Paper secretary to the president of the an assistant dean from 1958 to 1965. Company, where he worked as Norfolk County Trust Company in He served briefly as acting dean of the foreman of the sulphite plant screen Brookline, MA, and from 1960 on was College of Arts and Sciences and for room and as assistant sulphite also a teacher with Bryant and Stratton seven years was executive secretary of superintendent of the bleach plant. Junior College in Boston. From 1969 the University Committee on Later, he became a manufacturing until 1978, he was a teacher in the International Affairs, helping establish representative with the St. Regis sales Dedham (MA) public school system. the National Graduate University in department in New York, assistant to In addition, he was a teacher at the Islamabad, Pakistan. For 25 years he the paper mill superintendent, mill Boston Center for adult education and was the chair of Indiana’s Committee manager of the kraft pulp mill at with the Veterans Administration in on Retiring Faculty. He was a visiting Howland, a paper mill manager in Boston for some years. He retired in professor at Duke in 1965 and again in Kalamazoo, MI, and assistant to the 1978. He was married in 1943 to 1988 and for two terms was president vice president of manufacturing. He Margaret Reed, who died in 1994, and of the Indiana State Chapter of the joined the Penobscot Chemical Fibre is survived by a daughter, Barbara B. American Association of Teachers of Company as assistant to the president Rowe of Fairfield, CT; three sons, French. In 1972, the French in 1956 and became vice president of Kenneth H. Birkett, Jr. of Lititz, PA, government honored him as Chevalier operations in 1957. In 1960, he was Robert E. Birkett of Concord, MA, and dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in elected president of the Brown Arthur H. Birkett of Somerville, MA; a recognition of his contributions to the Company in Berlin, NH. In 1966, he brother, Marshall Birkett of New advancement of French culture in the was re-elected vice president and London, NH; a sister, Jeanette Bonnett United States. Following his official became general manager of the of Fairfield, CT, and six grandchildren. retirement in 1987, he continued for company’s woodland division, some years to teach during the first responsible for management of the Theodore Stern ’39 died on June 20, semester of the academic year at firm’s 4,200,000 acres of timberland. 2005, in Los Angeles, CA. Born on Indiana. He was a member of the In 1968, he became consultant to the July 27, 1917, in Ossining, NY, he Modern Languages Association and James W. Sewall Company, and he prepared for college at New Rochelle the executive committee of the was elected executive vice president (NY) High School and graduated from American Council on the Teaching of of that company in 1972. He was a Bowdoin cum laude in 1939. In 1941, Foreign Languages, served as secretary member of the Penobscot Associates he received a master of arts degree in of the Bloomington Hospital Advisory Investment Group of Bangor, a anthropology from the University of Board, and was for many years a director of Key Bank of Bangor and Pennsylvania and then served in the member of the Bloomington Rotary the Dingley Press of Lisbon, and a U.S. Army for four years during Club. He also served as secretary- member of the Maine Harness World War II, attaining the rank of treasurer and president of the Indiana Horseman’s Association and the New first lieutenant. After the war, he was University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. England Horse Show Associates. He a graduate student and instructor at Surviving are his wife, Agnes Parker was married in 1943 to Helen the University of Pennsylvania for

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three years and in 1948 received his write on a part-time basis for the 1947 to 1954, when he joined the doctor of philosophy degree in papers until the early 1990s and for H.M. Pitman Company, where he was anthropology. He taught anthropology many years wrote summaries of a salesman until 1960, a sales at the University of Oregon from Bowdoin’s football games for what was manager for the next seven years, and 1948 until 1987, when he retired, then the Bowdoin Alumnus. In 1959, a branch manager from 1967 until focusing on linguistics and social he became school sports editor for the 1971. From 1971 until his retirement anthropology and spending sabbatical Portland papers and was named Maine in 1979, he was a realtor with Nauset years in Burma in 1954-55 and in Sports Writer of the Year by his Real Estate Company in Orleans, MA. Thailand in 1964-65. In 1992, he was colleagues in 1961. He retired in He was director of the H.M. Pitman the recipient of the Distinguished 1984, but for five years continued to Company from 1967 to 1971 and also Bowdoin Educator Award, the citation write a weekly column for the Express. served as a director of the Boston for which said, “Your book on In 1982, he received the Joe Crozier Litho Club and as an elder of St. Klamath Indians remains a landmark Award from the Portland Chapter of Linus Church in Natick, MA. He was in anthropological research. the Maine Football Officials married in 1944 to Mary Flaherty, Colleagues and students recognize Association for outstanding who predeceased him, and is survived your dedication to teaching, your contributions to the game. In that by a nephew, Hoyt M. Woods of Port wide range of intellectual endeavor, same year, he was the recipient of the St. Lucie, FL; and a niece, Katherine and your contributions to our Maine High School Athletic Directors C. Aniello of Palm City, FL. understanding of anthropology.” In Association Media Award, and in 1985 2004, having spent summers with the he became a member of the Honor Philip Cleland Young ’40 died on Klamath tribe and the Umatilla tribe, Roll of the Maine School Coaches November 14, 2004, in New Orleans, he was honored by the Confederated Association. In 1987, he received the LA. Born on September 3, 1918, in Tribes of the Umatilla Indians for his Distinguished Service Award from the New Haven, VT, he prepared for work in preserving their heritage. He National High School Coaches college at St. Johnsbury Academy in was a volunteer with the Boy Scouts, Association, and he was the recipient Vermont and worked for a year before served as a member of the board of of the Amateur Football Award of the entering Bowdoin. Following his directors of the Eugene Symphony in State of Maine Chapter of the National graduation in 1940, he was a teacher Oregon, and was a member of the Football Foundation and Hall of at the Gilman Country School in Obsidians Club and of the choir at Fame, Inc. in 1989. In his retirement, Baltimore, MD, for a year before the First Congregational Church in he continued to write for the Maine serving in the U.S. Army from 1941 Eugene, OR. He was married in 1942 Golf Magazine, a monthly publication. to 1946 during World War II, to Mary Capuzzi, who died in 2004, He was communicant of St. Patrick’s attaining the rank of major. He and is survived by a son, Theodore A. Church in Portland, serving as a lector remained in the Reserve until 1960, Stern of Los Angeles; a daughter, there for many years and also as a when he retired as a lieutenant Holly Stern of Portland, OR; three member of the first St. Patrick’s Parish colonel in the Army Air Force. In brothers, Roger Sheridan of Santa Council. Surviving are his wife, Anne 1950, he graduated from the Rosa, CA, Peter Stern of Huntington, Blake Doyle, whom he married in University of Rochester Medical NY, and John Stern of New York City; 1955; two daughters, Nancy E. Doyle School and was an intern for two and one grandchild. of Cape Elizabeth and Dr. Joanne years at Strong Memorial Hospital in Doyle-Switz of Charlottesville, VA; Rochester, followed by two years as a Richard Edward Doyle ’40 died on two sons, Peter A. Doyle of Westbrook resident at the Cincinnati General June 3, 2005, in Portland. Born on and Timothy E. Doyle of San Hospital in Ohio. After serving for October 4, 1918, in Portland, he Francisco, CA; and two grandchildren. three more years there as a fellow in prepared for college at Deering High gastroenterology, he became a staff School there and became a member of Joseph Hoyt Griffith ’40 died on May physician at the Ochsner Clinic in Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity at 24, 2005, in Stuart, FL. Born on April New Orleans, where for many years Bowdoin. Following his graduation in 18, 1918, in Wilkinsburgh, PA, he he remained until his retirement in 1940, he became a copy boy with the prepared for college at Classical High 1989. He was also a professor of Guy Gannett Publishing Company in School in Springfield, MA, and clinical medicine at Tulane University Portland, publishers of the Portland became a member of Psi Upsilon and a Fellow of the American College Press Herald and the Portland Evening Fraternity at Bowdoin. Following his of Physicians. Express, as well as the Maine Sunday graduation in 1940, he served in the Telegram. During World War II, he U.S. Marine Corps until 1946, Stetson Harlowe Hussey, Jr. ’41 died served from 1942 to 1945 in the U.S. attaining the rank of major during on March 31, 2005, in Bangor. Born Army, attaining the rank of technician World War II. He remained in the on June 20, 1918, in Blaine, he fifth grade and being awarded the Marines Reserves after the war and prepared for college at Aroostook Bronze Star while with the 95th served again during the Korean Central Institute in Mars Hill and Division. He returned to the Portland Conflict from 1950 to 1952, attaining became a member of Delta Kappa papers after the war as a sportswriter the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was Epsilon Fraternity at Bowdoin. and was employed there until his a technical representative with E.I. du Following his graduation in 1941, he retirement in 1984. 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1945 during World War II, attaining East Chop (MA) Tennis Club, the Columbia, MD; a brother, William the rank of first lieutenant. In 1948, East Chop Beach Club, the R. Merrill of Vermont; a sister, he graduated from Boston University Edgartown Golf Club, the River Hills Dorothy Merrill of Massachusetts; School of Law and went into practice Country Club, and the Veterans of and three grandchildren. in Mars Hill with his father, Stetson H. Foreign Wars Post 9261 in Martha’s Hussey ’11. He was a member of the Vineyard, MA. He also served as a George William Thurston ’42 died in Maine Bar Association, had served as trustee of Union Chapel in Oaks Machias on June 26, 2005. Born in president of the Aroostook Bar Bluffs, MA. In retirement, he was a May 2, 1920, in Steuben, he prepared Association, and for many years was a tutor in adult literacy programs in for college at New Haven (CT) High director of the Northern National Lake Wylie, SC, and was an School and became a member of Bank. He was one of the founders of emergency medical technician with Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity at the Aroostook Health Center in Mars the River Hills emergency squad. Bowdoin. Following his graduation in Hill and had served as president of the Surviving are his wife, Nancy 1942, he served in the U.S. Army Air Mars Hill Rotary Club, where he was a Hegeman Stephens, whom he married Forces from 1942 to 1946 during Paul Harris Fellow. He was a member in 1945; three sons, Page P.C. World War II, attaining the rank of of the American Legion Post in Mars Stephens, John R. D. Stephens, and staff sergeant. After teaching for a Hill, a 50-year member of the Masons, David P.B. Stephens; five year at Calais High School, he did and a member of the Mars Hill United grandchildren; and several other graduate work at the University of Methodist Church. He was also a relatives, including his nephew, Maine and the University of member of the Mars Hill Country Harvey B. Stevens ’55, and a grand- Pennsylvania. He was for some years Club and the Aroostook Valley nephew, Scott S. Stephens ’91. principal of Sumner Memorial High Country Club. In 1988, he was School in Sullivan, and in 1965 he honored by the Maine State Bar Richard Preston Merrill ’42 died on joined the faculty at Washington State Association in recognition of his 50 March 19, 2005, in Norcross, GA. College in Machias, which later years as a lawyer. He was also honored Born on December 14, 1919, in became the University of Maine at as the “Outstanding Citizen of the Boston, he prepared for college at Machias, where he taught social Year” by Mars Hill and was honored Norwood (MA) High School and the studies and Maine and local history for his service to the support of Girl Huntington School in Boston and until his retirement in 1985. For 20 Scouting and the “Health 2000 Youth became a member of Beta Theta Pi years, he was also the head counselor Education Program.” Surviving are his Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he at Camp Tall Timbers in Casco. wife, Clara Towle Hussey, whom he attended from 1938 to 1940. After Surviving are his wife, Ruth Smart married in 1949; a son, Bruce L. attending Bryant and Stratton Thurston, whom he married in 1951; Hussey of Missoula, MT; and a sister, Commercial School in Boston for a son, Thomas W. Thurston of Mary H. MacBride of Presque Isle. two years, he served in the U.S. Spokane, WA; five daughters, Army Infantry during World War II Margaret H. Thurston of Edgewater, Page Prentiss Stephens ’41 died on from 1942 to 1946, attaining the MD, Elizabeth C. Thurston of Cape February 8, 2005, in Rock Hill, SC. rank of major. With the 2nd Ranger Elizabeth, Catherine M. Korredes of Born on April 23, 1919, in Danville, Battalion he took part in the first Brewer, Ellen M. Bourett of Newark, IL, he prepared for college at assault wave of the invasion of DE, and Sarah J. Thurston of Springfield (IL) High School and Normandy in 1944 and was awarded Maynard, MA; six grandchildren; a became a member of Kappa Sigma the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and great-granddaughter; and two Fraternity at Bowdoin. Following his the Purple Heart with two Oak Leaf brothers, David H. Thurston of Clio, graduation in 1941, he served in the Clusters, as well as the European MI, and Richard Thurston of Steuben. U.S. Navy during World War II from Theater of Operations Ribbon with 1941 to 1945, attaining the rank of Invasion Arrowhead, five Battle Stars Robert Irving Marr ’43 died on lieutenant, and receiving the and the Combat Infantryman’s March 20, 2004, in Annapolis, MD. Distinguished Flying Cross and the Badge. After the war, he was a sales Born on September 28, 1920, in Air Medal as the pilot of a torpedo representative with Bird & Son, Inc., Malden, MA, he prepared for college plane in the Atlantic and Pacific before joining the Coca-Cola Bottling at Melrose (MA) High School and theaters of operation. After the war, Company, where he held a number Bridgton Academy in Maine and he remained in the Navy Reserve and of positions, as assistant to the became a member of Sigma Nu became commander. He also joined president and general manager in Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he Proctor and Gamble Manufacturing Providence, RI, as a district attended in 1939-40. He joined the Company, where he held a number of representative in Minneapolis, MN, U.S. Navy in 1941 and was an positions in Kansas City, KS, Staten and as the southern zone military enlisted man until 1943, when he was Island, NY, Iowa City, IA, and New manger in Atlanta, GA. He retired in commissioned as ensign. After the Jersey before retiring in 1979. In 1982. He was married in 1942 to end of World War II in 1945, he was retirement, he was president and Shirley W. Engel, who died in 2002, for a brief time a civilian before chairman of the board of Page and is survived by a daughter, joining the regular Navy, with which Stephens Corporation. He was a Constance M. Weeks of Montana; a he remained until his retirement in commercial pilot and a member of the son, Dr. Richard P. Merrill, Jr. of 1968 as a captain. He had worldwide

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experience in destroyers and for large was promoted to professor of English publishers. Surviving are his wife, ship duty was gunnery and weapons in 1968 and, before he retired Atha Tehon Thiras, whom he married officer aboard the USS Intrepid. He officially in 1993, served as chair of in 1960; three sisters, Meredith held four combatant commands and the English department, as associate Thiras, Antoinette Thiras, and Lynn was commander of a guided missile dean of faculties in the School of T. Sullivan. destroyer division. He also served as Humanities and Sciences, and as dean project manager for the Inshore of faculties. In 1967, he was a visiting John Howland Walker ’46 died on Warfare Project under the Naval associate professor of English at June 28, 2005, in McLean, VA. Born Material Command in Washington, as Stanford University in California. on July 8, 1925, in Scranton, PA, he executive officer of the Norfolk Naval After his retirement, he continued prepared for college at Concord (MA) School Command, involving 2,000 teaching during the spring semester, High School and became a member of students, and as an instructor in the including this past spring when he Theta Delta Chi Fraternity at Navy’s Combat Information Center in taught a survey course on architecture Bowdoin, which he entered in Boston, where he coached the First and cities, beginning with Spanish February of 1943. During World War Naval District football team. After his influences on Mexican architecture. II, he served in the U.S. Navy from retirement from the Navy in 1968, he He was the author of Romanticism and July 1943 to March of 1946, attaining became general manager of the American Architecture, The Making of the rank of radioman 3rd class. He offshore and ocean towing division of Go Down Moses, and Colonial graduated from Bowdoin in Tidewater Marine Company in Morgan Architecture of Mexico. He was a September of 1948 as a member of City, LA, and was senior management former councilor of the Texas the Class of 1946 and did graduate engineer for a consulting firm in Institute of Letters and a member of work in French at the University of Washington, DC, before becoming the Texas Council for the Humanities Grenoble in France. From 1951 to manager of facilities and operations at and had served as a director for the 1955, he was an administrative Anne Arundel Community College in Dallas Historic Preservation Society assistant and a productivity assistant Arnold, MD. He was a member of the (now known as Preservation Dallas), with the Marshall Plan in Paris and a Masons, the Retired Officers and also served on the Dallas Council special assistant to the mission Association, and the Naval Academy of Planning and Preservation. He was director in Lisbon, . In 1956, Sailing Association. He was married in voted the outstanding teacher of the he joined Air France in New York 1942 to Priscilla Piltz, who died in year by Southern Methodist students City as a sales representative. He 1992, and is survived by his second and received the Willis Tate Award for became district sales manager in wife, Marilyn G. Marr, whom he teaching and the M Award for service Philadelphia, PA, and in 1967 moved married in 1994; two sons, Edward L. to the University. He is survived by to the Washington, D.C., area to Marr II of Spring Hill, FL, and Robert his wife, Ann McKenny Early of become regional vice president for the I. Marr, Jr. of Wildwood, MO; a Dallas, whom he married in 1949; eastern United States. He was daughter, Suzanne D. Skinner of two sons, Mark Early of Dallas and responsible for the successful Arnold, MD; and six grandchildren. Edward Early of Dallas; a daughter, introduction of Air France’s Concorde Joanne Early, also of Dallas; a sister, air service into Washington in 1976. James Early ’45 died on June 20, 205, Rose Ann Potter of Washington, DC; Before his retirement in 1996, the in Dallas, TX. Born on April 19, 1923, a brother, David L. Early ’50 of New French government recognized his in Worcester, MA, he prepared for York City; and two grandchildren. accomplishments with Air France by college at Worcester Classical High awarding him the Legion of Honor. School and became a member of Stephen Thiras ’46 died on May 9, For two years after his retirement, he Theta Delta Chi Fraternity at 2005, in East Syracuse, NY. Born on remained a consultant to Air France. Bowdoin. During World War II, he April 5, 1922, in Andover, MA, he He was also well known for playing served as a medical technician in the prepared for college at Phillips three golf courses in three different U.S. Army Air Forces from 1943 to Academy in Andover and became a countries on one day, July 25, 1967 – 1946. He returned to the college in member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity at at the St. Andrews Old Course in February of 1946 and graduated cum Bowdoin, which he attended for a Scotland, in London at the laude in February of 1947 as a year before serving in the U.S. Navy Sunningham Golf Club, and at the St. member of the Class of 1945. In during World War II from 1943 to Cloud Golf Club in Paris, starting the 1949, he received a master of arts in 1946. He returned to Bowdoin after day at 3:55 a.m. and finishing at 8:15 history degree from Harvard the war on the G.I. Bill, and p.m. Surviving are his wife, Colette University, and he received a doctor ,following his graduation in Hall Walker, whom he married in of philosophy degree in the history of September of 1947, he was a sales 1954; a son, William H. Walker American civilization, also from representative in the book publishing of McLean; a sister; a brother; and Harvard in 1953. After four years as field, representing publishers to two grandchildren. an instructor in English at Yale bookstores, wholesalers, and libraries University, he taught at Vassar College in the South and in the New York George Gordon Kent ’47 died on in New York for another seven years City area. Later on, he formed an May 29, 2005, in Marbella, Spain. before joining the faculty at Southern independent sales business, Born on February 11, 1925, in Methodist University in Dallas. He representing a number of smaller Brooklyn, NY, he prepared for college

82 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 obituaries at Abraham Clark High School in Association of Congregational son, Richard; a sister, Mary A. Roselle, NJ, and Litchfield (CT) High Churches in Oak Creek, WI, from Carrier; a brother, Fred Archibald; School and became a member of 1967 to 1976 and served as its and two granddaughters. Kappa Sigma Fraternity at Bowdoin, executive secretary from 1969 until which he attended in 1943-44. 1976. In 1976, he became minister of Keith Dowden ’49 died on June 12, During World War II, he served with the Congregational Church of Sun 2005, in Lafayette, IN. Born on May the British Eighth Army Medical City, which he founded and with 26, 1920, in Bristol, England, he Corps for a year and then returned to which he remained until 1986, when prepared for college at Stuyvesant the college in the fall of 1945. he retired. He earned his master of High School in New York City, from Following his graduation in 1947, he divinity degree from Bangor which he graduated in 1936. He joined the ore and metal department Theological Seminary in 1953, and worked at the National City Bank in of W. R. Grace and Company in New received an honorary doctor of New York and studied at New York York City and, from 1951 to 1967, divinity degree from Piedmont University before serving in the U.S. was assistant manager of the mining College in Demorest, GA in 1970. He Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1945 and minerals department of Grace y was one of the founders of the during World War II, attaining rank Cia in Lima, Peru. In 1967, he National Association of of sergeant. After the war, he entered became director of the minerals Congregational Christian Churches in Bowdoin and became a member of department of Cerro de Pasco 1955 and one of the founders of the Sigma Nu Fraternity. Following his Corporation in Lima, where he International Congregational graduation in 1949 summa cum laude became assistant commercial manager Fellowship, serving as co-chair of its and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, in 1971. In 1974, he joined first meeting, held in Chislehurst, he received a master of science Centromin-Peru in Lima, and he England, in 1977. He was married in degree in 1950 from the Columbia became assistant vice president of 1943 to Donna Eloise Estabrook, who University School of Library Service marketing with the Bunker Hill died in 1995; and was married again and worked there for a year as a Mining Corporation in Coeur to Lenore Gaile Dahlstrom, who reference assistant. In 1951, he d’Alene, ID in 1975. He also spent survives him, as do a son, John K. joined the Purdue University several more years in Peru before Alexander; three daughters, Karen J. Libraries in West Lafayette, IN, where moving to the in 1987, Hoffman, Samantha A. Monet, and he served successively as a reference where he continued to live while Elizabeth A. Alexander; a brother, assistant, head of reference services, being associated with Centromincorp. Fred Alexander; a sister, Mary Lakari; assistant director of reader services, He was a member of the Masons, the and two grandsons. assistant director of resources and Caledonian Society, and the British reference, and assistant director of Legion Club. He married Bodil Richard Archibald ’49 died on April special collections. He retired in Emanuel-Hansen in 1954. He is 4, 2005, in Ojai, CA. Born on 1986. He was a member of the survived by two sons, Gordon T. Kent September 28, 1922, in Dorchester, American Library Association, the of Keene, NH, and Lars Bo Kent of MA, he prepared for college at Special Libraries Association, and the Garibaldi, OR; a daughter, Cheryl Lexington (MA) High School and Society of American Archivists. Kent of Westmond, NJ; a brother, Hebron Academy and served in the Surviving are his wife, Ruth Kenny Robert C. Kent of Litchfield, CT; and U.S. Navy during World War II from Dowden, whom he married in 1946; six grandchildren. 1943 to 1945 in the Pacific Theater. a son, Christopher Dowden of Vero After attending the University of Beach, FL; two daughters, Dr. John Harvey Alexander ’48 died on Illinois, he transferred to Bowdoin in Carolina W. Bourdon of Argos, IN, March 7, 2005, in Sun City, AZ. Born January of 1947 as a member of the and Margaret Wayne of Evansville, in Boston on October 19, 1919, he sophomore class. Following his IN; and three grandchildren. prepared for college at Boston English graduation in 1949, he joined S.S. High School, graduated from Bangor Kresge Company (later Kmart) as Malcolm Elmer Morrell, Jr. ’49 died Theological Seminary in 1946 and part of the company’s inaugural class on June 17, 2005, in Bangor. Born on then attended Bowdoin for two years, in its management training program. August 25, 1927, in Portland, he graduating as a member of the Class As a Kmart executive, he lived with prepared for college at Brunswick of 1948. He was the minister of the his family throughout the West, High School and Fryeburg Academy Winthrop Congregational Church Midwest and the East, as well as in and attended Bowdoin from June of from 1943 to 1949, when he became and Japan. He retired 1945 to November of that year, minister of the Galewood Community as a senior vice president in 1985 and becoming a member of Sigma Nu Church in Chicago, IL. From 1956 lived in Ojai. He was a member of Fraternity. After serving in the U.S. until 1962, he was an associate the Ojai Rotary Club and the Ojai Navy for nearly a year as a seaman 2nd minister of the First Congregational Valley Racquet Club and was class, he returned to the College in Church in Wauwatosa, WI, and, from president of the Ojai Tennis September of 1946. Following his 1962 to 1967, he was a minister of Tournament in 1991-92. He was graduation in June of 1949, he the First Congregational Church in married in 1947 to Priscilla Ruth entered Boston University School of Marshalltown, IA. He was the Applegate, who survives him, as do Law, from which he was graduated in associate executive of the National two daughters, Sarah and Priscilla; a 1952. After two years of service in the

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U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict, Following his graduation in 1950 years director of the National he joined Eaton, Peabody, Bradford, as a member of the Class of 1951, Council on Alcoholism in Maine, and Veague in Bangor, with which he he taught mathematics and was the working in Augusta. Surviving are his remained for nearly 50 years, serving football coach at Rockland High wife, Olive Taccetta Loomer, whom as president from 1981 to 1991 and as School in Maine for two years. In he married in 1950; a son, E. Richard chairman of the firm from 1991 to 1952, he joined Liberty Mutual Loomer III; a daughter, Sarajane 2001. He was the head of the firm’s Insurance Company, where he Larouche; and two grandchildren. labor and employment department became chief underwriter of casualty until 1999. He was a member of the insurance. He retired in 1988. He Bruce Alan Lunder ’51 died on May Maine State Bar Association, a served in 1974-75 as president of 28, 2005, in Boston. Born on May 9, member and past president of the Mutual Underwriters Association of 1929, in Lynn, MA, he prepared for Penobscot County Bar Association, New England, was member of the college at Newton (MA) High School and a member of the American Bar Northeastern School of Insurance and Hebron Academy in Maine and Association. For more than 28 years, advisory board in 1974-75, and was a became a member of Zeta Psi he was clerk of the Bangor Publishing parish council officer at St. Mary of Fraternity at Bowdoin. Following his Company. He also served as its general the Hills Church in Milton, where he graduation in 1951, he became the counsel, was a director of Eastern sang in the choir for more than 40 purchasing agent of Bruce Maine Healthcare from 1986 to 2004, years. In 2001, the church gave him Company in Biddeford, of which he and served as a trustee and moderator an award for his years of service. He became general manager and of All Souls Congregational Church in also received a proclamation from the treasurer in 1952. In 1963, he was Bangor. He also served as president of town of Milton for his community elected to a three-year term as a the United Way of the Penobscot service, and for many years he director of the Two-Ten Associates, Valley and the Bangor Children’s coached a Milton Youth Hockey the national philanthropic foundation Home. He was a past president of the League team. Surviving are his wife, of the shoe, leather, and allied trades. Rotary Club of Bangor and a Paul Catherine Coleman Daley, whom he For many years he was the treasurer Harris Fellow, and had served as a married in 1954; a daughter, Dr. Jean of Der-Tex Corporation in Lawrence, trustee and vice president of Maine M. Daley ’80 and her husband, John MA, manufacturers and distributors Central Institute. Also a past president Ottaviani ’79, of Cumberland, RI; a of intersoling materials. Surviving are of the Bangor YMCA and the recipient brother, James Daley of Watertown, his wife, Elinor Lunder; a daughter, of its 2004 Hall of Fame Award, he MA; three sisters, Rita Donovan of Deborah Lunder of Boston; a son, was active with the Boy Scouts of Watertown, Teresa Lambert of Michael Lunder of New York City; a America and a member of the Buck’s Chestnut Hill, MA, and Joan Daley of brother, Peter Lunder of Scarborough; Harbor Yacht Club, the Blue Water California; and three grandchildren. and two grandsons. Sailing Club, the MDI Yacht Club, and the Sugarloaf Ski Club. In Bowdoin Earle Richard Loomer, Jr. ’51 died Walter Prior III ’56 died on March 13, affairs, he was president of the Alumni on April 24, 2005, in Scottsdale, AZ. 2005, in Miami, FL. Born on May 3, Association in 1972-73 and a member Born on July 29, 1927, in Boston, he 1929, in South Orange, NJ, he of Bowdoin’s Board of Overseers from prepared for college at Great Neck prepared for college at Columbia High 1974 to 1986. He was also a 33rd (NY) High School and served in the School in Maplewood, NJ, and became degree Scottish Rite Mason. Surviving U. S. Navy in 1945-46, attaining the a member of Alpha Delta Phi are his wife, Miriam Olson Morrell, rank of seaman first class. After Fraternity at Bowdoin. Following his whom he married in 1952; a son, spending a year at the Kiskiminetas graduation in 1951, he did graduate Stephen G. Morrell ’75 of Brunswick; Springs School in Saltsburg, PA, he work at the University of New two daughters, Catherine M. Ambo of entered Bowdoin in 1947 and became Hampshire and received a master of Greenfield, MA, and Susan G. Morrell a member of Zeta Psi Fraternity. arts degree in economics. In 1952, he of Amherst, NH; a brother, John B. Following his graduation in 1952 as became associated with the J. Walter Morrell ’52 of Owings Mills, MD; and a member of the class of 1951, he Thompson Company, serving as six grandchildren. was assistant to the manager of the marketing research manager of the Bates Manufacturing Company in Detroit, MI, office, as manager of the Henry Francis Daley, Jr. ’51 died on Saco for a year and then spent 12 Pittsburgh, PA, office, and as an April 4, 2005, in Canton, MA. Born years with the Deering Milliken account supervisor in New York City. on November 9, 1928, in Allston, Company in New York City, where he He became president of The Wilson MA, he prepared for college at became merchandise manager of the Harrell Agency of Westport, CT, in Cambridge High and Latin School cotton division. From 1965 to 1973, 1966. From 1969 until 1971, he was a and served in the U.S. Army from he was associated with the J.P. marketing consultant in Portland, 1944 to 1946, attaining the rank of Stevens Company in New York City consulting on all aspects of marketing. staff sergeant during World War II. and then was manager of commercial He was also a product sales manager After attending Maine Central development with Monsanto Textile with the Forster Manufacturing Institute at Pittsfield for a year, he Company in New York for six years Company in Wilton before joining entered Bowdoin and became a before returning to Maine. He lived Ingalls Associates, Inc. in Boston, member of Chi Psi Fraternity. in Hallowell and was for about 20 where he became senior vice

84 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 obituaries president/management supervisor in attaining the rank of first lieutenant. was a director and chair of the New 1981. In 1986, he joined the In 1958, he opened his office in Jersey chapter of the American Androscoggin Savings Bank, and he Caribou, where he continued his Society for Metals, as well as a became vice president of marketing in practice until early this year. He was a member of the New Jersey chapter’s 1988. After his retirement, he moved member of the American Optometric Advisory Committee. He was also a to Florida in 1993. He was a member Association, the New England deacon and trustee of the of St. Christopher Catholic Church in Council of Optometrists, the Congregational Church in Exeter and Hobe Sound and of the Miles Grant Aroostook Optometric Association, chair of the YMCA Camp Lincoln Country Club in Stuart. Surviving are and the Maine Optometric Committee, as well as a member of his wife, Shirley Lemieux Prior, whom Association, which he served as the New Hampshire YMCA’s executive he married in 1950; three sons, Walter president in 1970. He also served in and business committees. He is Prior of Lawrence, MA, John E. Prior the board of the Maine State Board of survived by his wife, Nancy Fraser of Portland, and Matthew G. Prior of Optometry and was a member of St. Dabney, whom he married in 1959; a North Hampton, NH; two daughters, Luke’s Episcopal Church in Caribou, son, John B. Dabney, Jr. ’83 of West Nancy Lee Prior of Windham and where he was a senior warden and Hartford, CT; two daughters, Laura Susan P. Smith of Portland, OR; a member of the vestry for many years. Dabney Fanney of Virginia Beach, VA, sister, Lucille P. Clark of Yarmouth; He was the co-coordinator of the and Elizabeth Dabney Tombros of and seven grandchildren. Aroostook Episcopal Cluster and Santa Monica, CA; a sister, Sally D. served on the Caribou School Board Parker of Concord, MA; and four Lawrence Myles Boyle ’53 died on for a number of years. He was a past grandchildren. April 5, 2005, in Ft. Myers Beach, FL. president of Sportsmen’s, Inc., a Born on November 13, 1931, in director of the Natural Resources Harry Edward Born ’57 died on July Boston, he prepared for college at Council of Maine for many years, a 16, 2005, in Pittsburgh, PA. Born on Christopher Columbus High School registered Maine Guide for more than October 5, 1935, in Cleveland, OH, there and became a member of Chi 32 years, and had served as chair of he prepared for college at Lake Shore Psi Fraternity at Bowdoin. Following the advisory council to the Maine’s School in St. Clair Shores, MI, and at his graduation in 1953, he served in Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield the U.S. Army for two years, attaining Wildlife. Surviving are his wife, Hills, MI, and became a member of the rank of first lieutenant. After Donna Jacobson Small, whom he Sigma Nu Fraternity at Bowdoin. working for two years with Goodyear married in 1953; a son, Dr. Craig Following his graduation in 1957, Tire and Rubber Company in Boston Small of Caribou; a brother, William he taught history and algebra at the as a budget manager and then in U. Small ’48 of Cape Elizabeth; and Cranbrook School for a year and then sales, he joined the faculty at two granddaughters. was the news editor of the Wayne, Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts MI, Eagle in 1958-59 while attending where he taught Latin and coached John Baldwin Dabney ’56 died on the University of Michigan, from swimming, cross country, and track. April 7, 2005, in Virginia Beach, VA. which he received a master of arts In 1960, he received a Fulbright grant Born on September 26, 1934, in degree in history in 1959. After to attend a summer seminar for Framingham, MA, he prepared for serving in the U.S. Army for six teachers of classics at the American college at The Gunnery School in months, he was editor of the Maple Academy in Rome, Italy, where he Washington, CT, and became a Heights, OH, Press for a year before studied the Latin language and member of Delta Kappa Epsilon becoming assistant director of public classical civilizations. In 1963, he Fraternity at Bowdoin. Following his relations at Union College in New received a master of arts degree from graduation in 1956, he received a York. He was promoted to associate Trinity College in Connecticut. In master of metallurgy degree in 1958 director in 1963 and in 1965 returned 1970, he was named assistant director and a doctor of science degree in to Bowdoin as editor of the alumni of admissions at Deerfield. Surviving metallurgy in 1961, both from the magazine, a position that he held is his wife, Hannah Bent Boyle, whom Massachusetts Institute of Technology. until 1970. In 1967, he also became he married in 1964. From 1961 to 1971, he was a research Bowdoin’s college editor. In 1983, he metallurgist with Abex Corporation became assistant director for Ogden Ernest Small ’53 died on in Mahwah, NJ, and he was vice publications of the Virginia Water March 26, 205, in Caribou. Born president of the Kearsarge Resources Research Center at Virginia there on August 10, 1931, he Metallurgical Corporation in Dover, Polytechnic Institute, where he prepared for college at the local high NH, from 1971 to 1978. Beginning in remained until 1990, when he became school and became a member of 1978, he was a self-employed director of communications and Sigma Nu Fraternity at Bowdoin, contractor, real estate developer, and a marketing with the Air and Waste which he attended from 1949 to consultant in the field of metallurgy. Management Association in 1951, when he entered the For some years he was also vice Pittsburgh, PA, a position that he Pennsylvania State College of president and then president of JBC held until his retirement. While at Optometry in Philadelphia. Following Enterprises, Inc., in Exeter, NH. He Bowdoin, he volunteered with his graduation there in 1955, he held two patents of a method for environmental and educational served for two years in the U.S. Army, making cast steel railroad wheels and groups and served as president of the

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board of Catholic Charities of the as a manager of the accounting Thomas Joseph McGovern, Jr. ’59 Diocese of Maine. He founded a department in Akron, he became died on March 23, 2005, in Needham, dental clinic for low-income residents treasurer of the Ecuadorian Rubber MA. Born on May 6, 1936, in West of coastal Maine and begun a rural- Company in Quito, Ecuador, in 1973. Newton, MA, he prepared for college urban exchange program for Maine In 1981, he became General Tire’s at Waltham (MA) High School and Indian children. Surviving are his treasurer in Mexico City in Mexico. became a member of Kappa Sigma wife, Bernice Strawinski Born, whom For many years he worked as a tax Fraternity at Bowdoin. Following his he married in 1960; two daughters, preparer and instructor with H & R graduation in 1959, he served in the M. Martha Gutierrez and Kathryn A. Block. For 47 years, he was a member U.S. Army until February of 1962, Colborn; a son, David E. Born; two of the Barbershop Harmony Society attaining the rank of specialist 4th brothers, Wilson E. Born’ 60 of and sang in choruses and quartets as class. He taught history, psychology, Fraser, MI, and Rich Born; two sisters, a member of the Akron Derbytown and social studies at Watertown (MA) Susan B. Maas and Sara B. Alexanian; Chorus in Ohio and the Spirit of High School for more than 40 years and four grandchildren. Phoenix Chorus in Arizona. He also and coached basketball, track, and acted in theater, most recently with golf at Watertown High School and Bradford Wadsworth Drew ’57 died the Sun City Players and the Brookline High School. In 1967, he on February 12, 2005, in Laurel, MD. Pinewood Players of Munds Park in received a master of education degree Born on September 30, 1935, in Arizona. He is survived by his wife, from Boston State College, Boston, he prepared for college at Marie Heinrich Crossley, whom he specializing in psychology. In the Classical High School in Worcester, married in 1964; a son, Robert H. 1970s, he was a volunteer worker in MA, and at Worcester Academy and Crossley, III of Akron; his mother, one of Bowdoin’s capital campaigns. became a member of Alpha Rho Jane E. Crossley of Old Greenwich, He was a member of St. Joseph Parish Upsilon Fraternity at Bowdoin. CT; and a sister, Anne Samsami of in Needham, where he also taught for Following his graduation in 1958 as a Glen Ellyn, IL. many years. Surviving are his wife, member of the class of 1957, he served Elaine Sheehan McGovern, whom he for two years in the U.S. Army, Richard Tilghman Paca Kennedy ’58 married in 1964; six sons, Michael T. attaining the rank of specialist 4th died on his 69th birthday on April 16, McGovern of Medfield, MA, Major class. In 1960, he joined the U.S. 2005, at his home in New York City. Daniel P. McGovern ’88 of Government Army Map Service in Born on April 16, 1936, in Upland, Jacksonville, NC, Edward J. Washington, DC, where he was a PA, he prepared for college at McGovern of Washington, DC, geodesist and a physical scientist for Episcopal Academy in Overbrook, Robert F. McGovern of Annapolis, many years before becoming a PA, and became a member of Alpha MD, James M. McGovern of cartographer. Surviving are his wife, Delta Phi Fraternity at Bowdoin. Holliston, MA, and William A. Carol Cannizzaro Drew, whom he Following his graduation in 1959 as McGovern of Washington, DC; three married in 1965; a son, William B. a member of the Class of 1957, he sisters, Sheila Neilson and Eleanor Drew of Laurel, MD.; and a daughter, was associated with Channel 13/ Cochrane, both of Waltham, and Christine C. Drew of Falls Church, VA. WNET New York, with which he Barbara Childers of Truro, MA; and became a writer and a producer. He seven grandchildren. Robert Harry Crossley, Jr. ’58 died helped develop Time-Life Films, on July 13, 2005, in Sun City, AZ. introducing BBC films to television Carrington Farrar Noel, Jr. ’60 died Born on September 4, 1936, in Akron, audiences in this country. He also on July 21, 2005, in Princeton, MA. OH, he prepared for college at was involved in buying the rights to Born on December 9, 1937, in Greenwich (CT) High School and older movies for Corinthian Worcester, MA, he prepared for later became a member of Delta Broadcasting, a network of CBS college at Leominster (MA) High Sigma Fraternity at Bowdoin. stations. Most recently, he was the School and Wachusett Regional High Following his graduation in 1959 as a creator of Cabaret Thirteen, which School in Holden, MA, and became a member of the Class of 1958, he was featured the performance of songs by member of Delta Kappa Epsilon graduated from the American singers who then talked about their Fraternity at Bowdoin. Following his Institute of Foreign Trade in Phoenix, careers and outlooks on life. He was graduation in 1960, he taught AZ, in 1960. After two years as an a member of St. Bartholomew’s mathematics at the Fay School in international trainee with the Chase Episcopal Church in New York. Southboro, MA, and later at the Manhattan Bank in New York City, he Surviving are two brothers, Anthony Shepherd Knapp School in Boylston, was for a year a treasury trainee with Kennedy III ’53 of Rock Valley, PA, MA. He also worked for several years the General Tire International and Jackson W.T. Kennedy of Toms at Micro Networks in Worcester, MA. Company in Akron, OH. From 1964 River, NJ; six nephews and nieces, Surviving are his wife, Dianna Temple to 1967, he was an assistant treasurer including Caroline Kennedy Stone Engelhardt Noel, whom he married in with the General Tire of Morocco in ’82 and Alisa Kennedy Gagel ’84; 1982; two sons, Carrington R. Noel Casablanca, and he was a financial an uncle, The Reverend Canon III and Robert E. Noel, both of Barre, analyst with the General Tire Albert W. Tarbell ’32 of Albuquerque, MA; three stepsons, Joel P. International Company in Akron NM; and eight grandnephews Engelhardt, Jr. of Hubbardston, MA, from 1967 to 1969. After three years and grandnieces. John M. Engelhardt of Power, MT,

86 BOWDOIN FALL 2005 obituaries and Karl E. Engelhardt of Oxford, race horses in the early 1980s. He Ronald Earl Joiner, Jr. ’70 died on MA; a brother, William Noel of Japan; moved to the Maine town of Windsor March 26, 2005, in Pasadena, CA. and nine grandchildren. in the 1990s and was working as a Born on June 2, 1948, in Philadelphia, bookkeeper. Surviving are a daughter, PA, he prepared for college at Marshall Donald Ellsworth Reid, Jr. ’61 died Robin M. Dewkett of Hinsdale, NH; a High School in Portland, OR, and on November 8, 2004, in Redmond, son, Scott M. Chaffee of Bangor; and became a member of Alpha Tau WA. Born on March 7, 1940, in four grandchildren. He also leaves his Omega Fraternity at Bowdoin, which Boston, he prepared for college at former wife, the former Dorothy E. he attended for three years before Needham (MA) High School and Drosehn Estes of Corinth. entering California Institute of became a member of Zeta Psi Technology under a 3-2 plan. In 1971, Fraternity at Bowdoin. He joined the Charles Clark Truesdell ’65 died on he received a bachelor of arts degree Liberty Mutual Insurance Company April 21, 2005, in Brunswick. Born cum laude from Bowdoin as a member in Boston as a claims adjuster and in on July 13, 1943, in Norristown, PA, of the Class of 1970 and a bachelor of 1967 received a bachelor of laws he prepared for college at Cohasset science degree in engineering from degree from Suffolk University in (MA) High School and became a CalTech. In 1977, he received a doctor Boston. In 1981, he moved to member of Zeta Psi Fraternity at of philosophy degree in electrical Anchorage, AK, where he was Bowdoin. Following his graduation engineering from the University of associated with the State of Alaska cum laude in 1965 he received a Southern California. His entire Small Business Administration before master of science degree in professional career was spent with becoming general counsel for Calista accounting from Northeastern Xerox Corp. in El Segundo, CA, most Corporation there. He was promoted University while working as a junior recently as an engineering manager in to vice president and general counsel accountant with Arthur Young & color imaging. He was a member of in 1986. Surviving are two daughters, Company in Boston. He was a the Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, Kimberly A. Reid of Keene, NH, and systems engineer with Electronic where he was the leader of the Berean Allison L. Etzweiler of Concord, NH; Data Systems in Dallas, TX, before Adult Fellowship. He was also for ten a son, David D. Reid of Andover, serving for two years in the U.S. years the teacher of the Sonrise young MA.; and four grandchildren. Army Signal Corps from 1969 to adult class. Surviving are his wife, 1971, attaining the rank of first Sandi Spavin Joiner, whom he married Robert Throckmorton Chaffee ’62 lieutenant. He was an actuarial in 1976; two daughters, Wendi and died on May 2, 2005, in Hartford, CT. student with the Connecticut General Kelly; a son, Ben; his mother, Eileen Born on November 28, 1940, in Insurance Company in Hartford, CT, Joiner of Portland, OR; and a sister, Detroit, MI, he prepared for college at from 1971 to 1973, when he joined Mary Jo Rueck, also of Portland. the Berkshire Preparatory School in the New England Mutual Life Sheffield, MA, and became a member Insurance Company in Boston as Peter Alan Korstad ’71 died on June of Zeta Psi Fraternity at Bowdoin. systems manager in computer 16, 2005, in Washington, DC. Born Following his graduation in 1963 as a systems development. In 1975, he on August 19, 1948, in Minneapolis member of the Class of 1962, he was promoted to assistant vice MN, he prepared for college at worked for the Good Humor president. He retired in 2000 and Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Company in New Haven, CT, and as a moved to Brunswick, where he and Maryland and at St. Albans School in claims adjuster in Hartford before his wife operated a bed-and-breakfast Washington and became a member of joining the staff of the Berkshire Eagle inn in the Pennellville section of Zeta Psi Fraternity at Bowdoin. in Pittsfield, MA, as a reporter. In town. In Wellesley, he was a member Following his graduation in 1971, he 1967, he became assistant director of of the American Field Service started a company called Tropica the public relations office at Hamilton program and the Wellesley Interior Landscaping, with services College in Clinton, NY. He was Congregational Church choir, as well involving the sale of plants and assistant director of public relations as housing vice chairman for the A containers, the rental of plants and with the Maine Department of Better Chance Program. He was a containers, and professional Economic Development from 1969 to member of the Brunswick Rotary maintenance of tropical plants. In 1972, when he became a reporter Club, sang in the Bowdoin Chorus, 1987, he sold Tropica, Inc., and with the Times Record in Brunswick. and audited classes at the College. In became president of Timber Design In that same year, he became the spring of 2005, the College Inc., in Washington, and became an corporate vice president and vice awarded him the Foot Soldier of investor in residential real estate. president of operations and systems Bowdoin Award for his volunteer There are no immediate survivors. with a new business, Montsweag efforts on behalf of the Class of 1965. Property Services, Inc., in Woolwich, He was married in 1968 to Phyllis Victoria Cherry Cousins ’79 died on whose president was B. William Manring, who survives him, as do a June 28, 2005, in Columbia, SC. Dorsey ’59. For several years, he was daughter, Rebecca T. Besthoff ’92 of Born on February 25, 1957, in a lobbyist for the Maine Forest Boston; a sister, Hope Thomson of Bangor, she prepared for college at Products Council in Augusta and Bethany, CT; a brother, David Bangor High School and during her then started Throckmorton Farm in Truesdell of Miami, FL; and a junior year at Bowdoin studied at Gardiner, raising and racing harness granddaughter. Warnborough College in Oxford,

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England. Following her graduation Award. For eight years, he was a before joining the staff at Bowdoin in in 1979, she lived in St. Louis, MO, coach in the Northborough Youth 1954. During the next 31 years, he and sold advertising for a magazine Soccer Association. Surviving are his worked successively as a grounds there, Missouri Life. In 1981, she wife, Dr. Mary-Ellen Taplin, whom man, a custodian, and electrical/ became a sales representative with he married in 1987; two daughters, plumber’s helper, a plumber/ the St. Louis Business Journal, and Emily Carol and Hallie Carol, both electrician, a plumber foreman, and a she became director of sales with living at home; his mother, Roberta plumbing supervisor. Upon his Design Network, Inc., also in St. Palmer Carol of Boynton Beach, FL; retirement, he was elected an Louis, in 1989. She later moved to and two brothers, Mark Carol of San honorary member of the Bowdoin Columbia, where she became the Francisco, CA, and David Carol of Alumni Association. He was a first Director of Consumer Affairs for Charlotte, NC. member of the American Legion the South Carolina Department of Post in Waterville and for many Mental Health. She was active in Bret Coley Harte ’02 died on March years was a member of the Odd several national mental health 21, 2005, in Moraga, CA, as a result Fellows, the Bath Country Club, and organizations and contributed to a of an automobile accident. Born on the United Methodist Church in number of federal policy-making February 2, 1980, he prepared for Topsham. He was married in 1941 to initiatives and research projects college at Miramonte High School in Marion Cheney, who died in 1958, relating to mental health. She was Orinda, CA. At Bowdoin, he was and was married again in 1965 to the founder and co-chair of the honored as a Sarah and James Harriet Berquist Edgecomb, who South Carolina Mental Health Bowdoin Scholar and majored in died in 1993. Surviving are two Department’s Trauma Initiative Task both comparative religion and daughters, Carol Fowler of Force and co-director of the philosophy. He directed the Masque Spartansburg, SC, and Penny Brown Palmetto Pride Consumer Recovery & production of Hair in his of Durham; a stepson, Stanley Leadership Retreat. She was also the senior year, along with the short Edgecomb of Topsham; two founder of the department’s plays “The Acytpor’s Nightmare” and stepdaughters, Joyce DeVito of Consumer-to-Consumer Evaluation “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All Georgetown, MA, and Joan Haley of Team, through which mental health for You.” He was the recipient of the Massachusetts; a sister, Inez Rogers service recipients could evaluate 1999 George H. Quinby ’23 Award of Waterville; eight grandchildren; health services. Surviving are her and was the president of Masque & 15 great-grandchildren; and four mother, Harriette Cousins of Gown in 2002. Following his great-great-grandchildren. Bangor, and a brother, Douglas graduation in 2002, he returned to Cousins of Brewer. California, where he held a number Stella Marguerite Purinton Bernier of jobs, including theatrical director. Thibeault, who worked in the Ross Stephen Carol ’82 died on He acted in plays at the Moraga business office at Bowdoin for 37 March 16, 2005, in Northborough, Playhouse and with Orinda’s years, died on June 10, 2005, in MA. Born on June 24, 1960, in Starlight Village Players and worked Portland. She was an honorary Middletown, NY, he prepared for backstage for the Berkeley Repertory member of the Bowdoin Alumni college at Leominister (MA) High Theatre and Cal Shakespeare. He Association, having been elected School. Following his graduation directed The Man Who Came to following her retirement. Born in cum laude from Bowdoin in 1982, he Dinner, Inherit the Wind, and Six Ives Brunswick on January 23, 1933, she entered the University of of November. At the time of his death was graduated from Brunswick High Massachusetts Medical School in he was directing a production of School in 1951. She was married in Worcester, where he earned his M.D. Mrs. Frederick for the San Leandro 1952 to Evariste O. Bernier, who died degree. He did his surgery residence Players, and he had recently cast in 1997. She was a member of St. at the University of Massachusetts Rumors for the Calvary Presbyterian Charles Borromeo Church in Medical Center, followed by a Church in San Francisco. Surviving Brunswick, which she has served as residency in emergency medicine are his parents, Dennis and Juanita lector, and was a past president of there. He was an emergency room Harte of Moraga, and his Brunswick Emblem Club, of which physician at the Milford (MA) grandparents, Mrs. Willy Coley and she was a charter member. In Regional Medical Center, the medical Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Harte. October of 1998, she was married director of the Milford and again, to Louis E. Thibeault, who Northborough Para-Medics, and the John W. Blackie, who worked for the survives her, as do a daughter, secretary-treasurer of Orion college in the Facilities Management Barbara A. Desmarais of Brunswick; a Emergency Medical Services. After Department from 1954 until his son, Evariste O. Bernier, Jr.; a sister, completing his residencies, he was retirement in 1985, died on April 9, Anne P. Orr of Brunswick; a brother, an Emergency Life-Flite physician at 2005, in Brunswick. Born in Jerome C. Purinton, also of the University of Massachusetts Topsham on June 23, 1918, he Brunswick; three grandchildren; and Medical Center for four years. In graduated from Clinton High School five step-grandchildren. 1998, he was selected to receive the and served in the U.S. Navy in World Massachusetts State Legislature’s War II. After the war, he worked at Massachusetts Physician of the Year the Hyde Windlass Company in Bath

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A Credit to the College Jack Lyons ’47

believe he will do very creditable work,” reads a recommendation from Ithe principal at Portland High School, where John Lyons, then 16, was in the beginning of his junior year. Bowdoin was sufficiently impressed with John (or Jack, as he is known by many on campus) that they brought him to the College halfway through his senior year in high school. His Bowdoin education was interrupted by service in the Navy during World War II, and upon receiving his Bowdoin degree, he went on to Johns Hopkins University to study medicine. He then established what became the largest anesthesiology practice in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Jack and his wife Sylvia are now retired and split their time between Annapolis and the Atlantic coast of Florida. Jack still This charitable gift was accomplished as loves medicine and hospitals, so he works part of a broader estate plan and achieved a regularly as a volunteer, “doing whatever number of objectives important to Jack: needs doing.” A few years ago, Jack and Sylvia signed • It ensures that this IRA account is not terms to establish an endowed scholarship part of his estate – regardless of how fund at Bowdoin in their names. Initially, Congress elects to deal with the current Jack had thought he would capitalize the estate tax lesislation fund through a provision in his will. • With a relatively low pay-out rate, trust Through conversations with Bowdoin’s income should provide a hedge against Office of Planned Giving, Jack decided to inflation fund the scholarship through a charitable trust funded with IRA assets. The College • Ultimately, there will be a substantial drafted a charitable trust that will pay five scholarship fund at Bowdoin in Jack and percent to Sylvia for life, should Jack Sylvia’s names predecease her. After Sylvia’s death, the Jack’s willingness to think creatively College receives the remainder value of the about his estate planning needs and trust. As part of this process, Jack has philanthropic goals will benefit generations named the charitable trust as beneficiary of Bowdoin students. We think that his on the appropriate IRA beneficiary generosity is indeed “very creditable work.” designation form.

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