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Editor Simple Things 8 Coast-to-Coast Collaboration 8 Matthew J. O’Donnell BY KATHRYN MILES Managing Editor “A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” A revolutionary approach to science instruction at Bowdoin—an immer- Scott C. Schaiberger ’95 —Muhammad Ali sive program called the Bowdoin Marine Science Semester—is providing Executive Editor students hands-on learning and concentrated study, widening the reach Alison M. Bennie Educated in the liberal arts, we know that learning doesn’t end. It is a continuous and lifelong of the College’s Coastal Studies Center and creating formative learning endeavor. I learned something simple recently that profoundly affected me. experiences for a new crop of scientists. Design Charles Pollock The lesson occurred when I took my daughter to a talk on campus by R.J. Palacio, a Bowdoin 14 Thoreau’s Maine Woods Mike Lamare parent and author of The New York Times number one best-selling young adult novel, Wonder. PL Design – Portland, Maine BY TESS CHAKKALAKAL • WOODCUTS BY BLUE BUTTERFIELD ’92 The book is about a boy named Auggie Pullman who has a severe facial difference that has kept In late summer 2015, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English Contributors him out of school until, as the story line picks up, he begins as a fifth-grader at Beecher Prep. Tess Chakkalakal accompanied a group of students on an Orientation trip 14 James Caton He is befriended by a classmate named Summer, the only person who would sit with him at into the wilderness of Baxter State Park to retrace Henry David Thoreau’s Douglas Cook the lunch table his first day (and every day after). Throughout Wonder, and in Palacio’s moving epic journey through the Maine woods. Leanne Dech campus talk, I learned that being kind is an option, and it differs from being nice. Nice is a social Rebecca Goldfine construct. Kindness is a human character trait. Scott W. Hood 16 By in a Blur Megan Morouse We’re living in an incredible time of tension, a time of anonymous web comments and PHOTOGRAPHS BY BOB HANDELMAN Tom Porter social media fervor, a time of ongoing war and regular mass shootings, when the simple act We speed through our days and marvel at how fast it all passes, but there Melissa Wells of being kind—the simple choice to be kind—to the other human beings we interact with is is a timelessness underneath it all. Like the Androscoggin River over more vital than ever. In the UK, Wonder was marketed with a different cover simultaneously Photographs by: the dam—not the same rushing water at any given second but always to adults. I think it should be required reading. 16 Brian Beard, Bob Handelman, John Lacko, the same river—the composition of Bowdoin is changing constantly but Michele Stapleton, and Bowdoin College Near the end of the book Auggie’s principal addresses a graduation audience, “If every single remains, always, Bowdoin. Archives. person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary—the world really would be a better place. . . Courage. Kindness. On the cover: Jasper Houston ’18 pedals by Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on 24 From Watergate to Spotlight the Walker Art Building. Investigative Journalism in Democracy occasion, to greatness. . . Greatness, wrote, Henry Ward Beecher, ‘lies not in being strong, but in BOWDOIN MAGAZINE (ISSN, 0895-2604) the right using of strength. . . He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the BY SCOTT ALLEN ’83 is published three times a year by Bowdoin attraction of his own.’” In the Cassidy Lecture he gave on campus in March, journalist and Boston College, 4104 College Station, Brunswick, Globe Spotlight team editor Scott Allen ’83 talked about the role of inves- Maine, 04011. Printed by J.S. McCarthy, As a father, husband, friend, citizen, I hope to share and embody these lessons. Along with tigative journalism in democracy, and he wrote an essay based on that talk Augusta, Maine. Sent free of charge to all academic study, these are the lessons that Bowdoin endeavors to instill in our community. They for Bowdoin Magazine. Bowdoin alumni, parents of current and recent are lessons of the common good. Talk with each other, I tell my daughter. Be kind. Be thankful. undergraduates, members of the senior Being human is not easy, but it is full of so many little, everyday gifts. Be a gift to someone. Smile. 28 The Unfinished Journey of Bill De La Rosa class, faculty and staff, and members of the Do something for someone else without the need for recognition or reward. Fall asleep at night Association of Bowdoin Friends. knowing you left the day better than you found it. If enough of us do, it will be. BY MEL ALLEN • PHOTOGRAPHS BY HEATHER PERRY A Truman Scholar and the Hispanic Scholar of the Year, Bowdoin senior Each morning I put a note, a collection of hashtags, in my daughter’s school lunch box. They’re Opinions expressed in this magazine are those thoughts for the day, reminders, encouragement, sometimes just silliness: #CrushMath, Bill De La Rosa’s academic career has been distinguished by national of the authors. awards and honors. What also distinguishes him is his resilience and #SunScreen, #ProudPapa, #MonkeyDude. Occasionally, she’ll slip one into my lunch, like the determination to succeed in the face of formidable family struggles, Please send address changes, ideas, or letters time I found this: #ChooseKind. including his father’s illness and his mother’s deportation to Mexico. to the editor to the address above or by e-mail Happy summer, 28 to [email protected]. Send class news to [email protected] or to the address above. Advertising inquiries? E-mail Departments [email protected]. 2 Mailbox 58 Weddings Matt O’Donnell 3 Almanac 64 Deaths [email protected] 36 Class News 65 Books 24 207.725.3133 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 1 Bowdoin Bowdoin Mailbox Bowdoin Stowe House Revisited ne of the events that occurred when I arrived at Almanac O Bowdoin in 1954 was a thorough indoctrination of Bowdoin events, etc. The tour of the campus included a A DIGEST OF CAMPUS, ALUMNI, AND GENERAL COLLEGE MISCELLANY stop-off at Hyde Hall (on the way to see my room in Maine Hall). We were told that because there was so much going on at the Stowe home, that actually Harriet Beecher Stowe came over to Bowdoin and rented a room in Hyde Hall, where she proceeded to actually write Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I am very interested in where the author of the story in WELCOME [Winter 2016] Bowdoin Magazine got her information. I cannot imagine Bob Cross ’45 misleading a student on a double, our room often became the gathering place for our TOUR significant item like this. fellow Stowe House pioneers, who included Tom Andrews ’75, Clayton Rose has John Carter ’58 Amy Carney Hawthorne Stokes ’76, Mark Lindquist ’74, been meeting Jim Mitchell ’74, Jan Pierson ’74, David Ruccio ’76, and alumni coast- Editor: We don’t think Bob Cross would have steered anyone Ted Titcomb ’76. Living in her space made me interested in to-coast—and astray about Stowe and where she lived and wrote parts of Uncle Harriet. I wondered if she had her writing desk between the beyond—since Tom’s Cabin. At the time, it very well may have been “correct” two front windows (like I did) or in the quieter space by the becoming Bowdoin’s based on what was then known. Current research by scholars, fireplace (where Jane’s desk was). At the library I read her fifteenth president including Bowdoin Associate Professor of Africana Studies and recollections of the house; as I recall, she found the noise last July. Recently, English Tess Chakalakal,​ bears out that Stowe had the idea for from the dining room and stairs to be distracting, as we did. the Smithsonian the book while attending service at First Parish Church, and that Harriet chose to write in her husband’s faculty office on Museum of she wrote much of the novel in the house on Federal Street now campus, as he had a second job that kept him away for long Natural History in referred to as the Stowe House, as well as in her husband Calvin’s periods of time. Evidently, she scandalized the community. Washington, DC, study in Appleton Hall. (Calvin Stowe spent the early 1850s at We had our own strategy to foster concentration—because provided one of Bowdoin as Collins Professor of Natural and Revealed Religion.) of an ancient drain, a leisurely shower would cause sufficient the more dramatic dripping on the bar below to disperse a noisy crowd. venues. President Although we rarely resorted to this tactic, it seemed like Rose spoke in something Harriet would do, so we followed her lead. To Unfettered in Stowe House the shadow of Jane and Harriet, many thanks for inspiring our adventure. the museum’s To all my Stowe House buddies, wherever you are, I’m eading about the renovation of the Stowe House centerpiece, the grateful to have shared this time when we were, as Joni African bush R triggered many happy Bowdoin memories. In the fall Mitchell wrote, “unfettered and alive.” of 1972, the College began offering housing in part of the elephant. Stowe House, which also included a bar, restaurant, and Lynn Gelzheiser ’75 hotel rooms. At her urging, my roommate, Jane Potter, and I moved there for the spring 1973 semester, and stayed another Read more letters about our last issue on our website, year. We lived in one of the front rooms, which was furnished bowdoin.edu/magazine. with a marble mantle, college-issued beds and desks, and an antique red velvet sofa that was the inspiration for many CORRECTION: Reunion2016 jokes about Harriet Beecher Stowe and her ghost. Since the We misidentified the class year for Aijalon Gomes ’01 in the The weather cooperated and Reunion Convocation was held Stowe House had no common space, and ours was the only Books section of our last issue. outside on the Quad. 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AN OLYMPIC HOCKEY YEAR FOR “The Economic Impact report tells the story $ of how the College contributes to the local BOWDOIN’ and state economy—be it through Bowdoin’s HONORANDS payroll, construction projects, the spending habits of students and employees, or through HIRE Bowdoin bestowed honorary ECONOMIC the number of volunteer service hours in the Commencement degrees upon artist Dorothea community,” said Catherine Longley ’76, the 2016 Rockburne; Olympic gold College’s senior vice president for finance and medalist Frank Shorter; IMPACT administration & treasurer. former Bowdoin College Board of Trustees Chair Peter Small ’64, P’97, P’99; and EMPLOYMENT Ford Foundation President Darren Walker. TH TH FULLTIME EMPLOYEES largest 935 private 25 7employer in largest private PAYROLL Cumberland employer in County Maine $48.4 MILLION paid as salaries to residents of Brunswick COMMUNITY and surrounding communities

MORE THAN student Jamie Dumont was named volunteer $3.1 MILLION head coach of the men’s 58,000 hours in state income tax collected ice hockey team in May, from College employees During Bowdoin College’s 211th states, the District of Columbia, and fifteen becoming the ninth coach in Commencement ceremony, held May 28, other countries and territories. the ninety-three-year history hours dedicated to individuals/ bachelor of arts degrees were awarded to Read more about the ceremony and organizations in Maine; VISITORS of the program and just the 45,531 the Class of 2016 students from thirty-nine addresses in full at bowdoindailysun.com. with an estimated third head coach since 1959. value of more than $682,000 Dumont has served as the assistant coach of the team 1,300 since 2011. “I am honored College events open to the public The Bowdoin honor $142,913 and humbled to follow Terry brought Shorter, in particular, Meagher and Sid Watson in employee contributions Bowdoin attracted full circle. Forty-four years AND as the head coach of the to the United Way and Maine Share more than ago this July, he and his US THEN NOW Bowdoin men’s ice hockey Track & Field teammates 50,000 Over the course of the academic year, LGBTIQA alumni receptions— program,” said Dumont. More than trained at Bowdoin just prior Estimated visitors to the Brunswick area the first of their kind for Bowdoin—were hosted in Boston, New York “Since the moment I first to departing for the 1972 City, and San Francisco. The gatherings offered the opportunity to stepped foot on campus in Summer Games in Munich, FINANCIAL AID reconnect alumni with the College and one another, while learning 2001, I have known Bowdoin Germany, where Shorter $ $ about Bowdoin’s Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity. to be a uniquely special place. would stun the world to 25 2.2 $5.43 MILLION Panels of alumni from different decades and current students The College’s commitment to become the first American candidly discussed their experiences on campus, what’s changed, excellence in the classroom, MILLION MILLION in institutional grant funds to win gold in the Olympic in goods/services spent by received by and what hasn’t. Matt Roberts ’93, a host and panelist, said “It was a community, and athletic marathon in sixty-five years. purchased from Bowdoin students students compelling, moving, illuminating evening. It’s heartening to hear fields, combined with its Maine vendors locally Learn more about 146 from Maine from other alumni that they are equally taken by the advances at unparalleled tradition in ice this year’s honorands at Year ending June 30, 2015 Bowdoin, advances which these events are so terrific in showcasing.” hockey, make this position bowdoindailysun.com. second to none.”

4 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 5 Bowdoin Bowdoin Almanac Almanac NATIONAL CHAMPS! The men’s tennis team won its first NCAA Division III title for the team, which rallied twice in the quarterfinals and NEW PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAIT UNVEILED Championship with an impressive 5-0 victory over rival semifinals before posting the final shutout. President Emeritus Barry Mills ’72 of observing Mills and his engaging Middlebury in the title match at Kalamazoo College on May 25. It is the first NCAA Division III championship for a men’s returned to campus in May for the interactions with students. “Each The win avenged two losses to the Panthers earlier this team at the College. Overall, it is the fifth NCAA team crown for season and gives the Polar Bears a school-record twentieth Bowdoin, with the men’s tennis team joining the field hockey unveiling of his presidential portrait. time he struck a certain posture and victory on the year. It also capped an astounding run to the squad, which won titles in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2013. “With warmth, humility, respect, a certain demeanor,” said Warren integrity, and most importantly, values Prosperi “and it became apparent to centered on the common good—we both Lucia and me that that had to be understand that we have an obligation what the picture was about.” to something bigger than ourselves. After the painting was unveiled to No one has lived the common good applause and enthusiasm, Mills more than Barry,” remarked President expressed his gratitude. Clayton Rose. “As we think about leadership,” As they unveiled their work, the Mills said, “you can’t do this alone. artists—Warren Prosperi, a painter in What they really should have painted the optical naturalist tradition, and was a big mural—with Karen and Will his wife, photographer and artistic and Henry and George, as they helped collaborator Lucia Prosperi—spoke lead this college together with me.”

Two Coaches Earn Honors A Life’s Work in Bloom Head Lacrosse to another level in In 1908, Brunswick-based botanist hoped the work would “assist the high-resolution digitization of the LEED Coach Jason 2016, reaching as and artist Kate Furbish presented earnest student instead of serving entire Furbish compilation. With the Archbell and Men’s high as No. 2 in the to Bowdoin her “Flora of Maine,” merely to entertain the visitor.” publication of these images, readers Building Head Tennis Coach national rankings, a monumental compilation of some In September Conor Smith were before settling into 1,326 drawings and watercolor 2016, the College and Plans for a new building dedicated to the honored with the No. 4 ranking paintings, all approximating life-size, Rowman & Littlefield study of the environment are underway. Coach of the Year entering the NCAA of the flowering plants and conifers Publishers will release Slated for the corner of Harpswell Road Awards. Tournament. He then known to grow in Maine. She The Plants and Flowers and College Street, the facility will serve as Archbell was guided the Polar of Maine: Kate Furbish’s a center for the teaching and scholarship named the the Bears to a perfect Watercolors. Produced of interdisciplinary issues related to the New England 5-0 mark in the in collaboration with environment. Funded through a lead gift Intercollegiate championship, the Coastal Maine from David and Barbara Roux, the building Lacrosse en route to the Botanical Gardens, this is slated to open in fall 2018. Association program’s first two-volume, full-color Division III Coach national title. He is set reproduces more of the Year. Under Archbell, the the ninth Bowdoin coach to earn a than 1,300 of Furbish’s “Our gift is not about the Polar Bears concluded an excellent National Coach of the Year Award, images. building itself, but rather season by advancing to the NESCAC joining Nicky Pearson (field hockey, Thanks to cutting-edge digital will be able to enjoy the exceptional imaging technology and the visionary beauty of Maine botanical bounty about the opportunities Semifinals, finishing with a 12-5 2007, ’08, ’10, ’13), Sidney Watson record and number sixteen ranking in (men’s ice hockey, 1971, ’78), Terry support of Phillip D. Crockett, as captured by the discerning eye of for the critical work that the final USILA Division III poll. Meagher (men’s ice hockey 1986, Class of 1920, who established Kate Furbish. Go to rowman.com/ an endowment to support the cataglogs/furbishpreview16 to see can be done there.” —David Roux Smith was recognized nationally ’89), John Cullen (women’s soccer, as the Wilson/Intercollegiate Tennis 1992), Michele Amidon (women’s ice preservation of special collections, sample pages and for purchasing Association Division III Coach of the hockey, 2003) and Stefanie Pemper the Library was able to complete the information. Year. He took the Bowdoin program (women’s basketball, 2004).

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A revolutionary approach to science instruction at t’s barely dawn, but Madeline Schuldt ’18 and her archipelago, the students have paired up and are conducting the classmates are already sloshing through cold tidal pools ten day’s first intertidal survey—a census of the creatures living at Bowdoin, an immersive program called the Bowdoin miles off the coast of Maine. The day before, they and their the cusp of land and sea. Marine Science Semester, is providing students hands-on gear arrived at Hurricane Island, a 125-acre patch of rock. Schuldt spots a tiny snail camouflaged in the algae and takes learning and concentrated study, widening the reach of the They tucked into cabins, ate dinner with some visiting high it to Sarah Kingston, the College’s Doherty Marine Biology schoolI students, and were fast asleep long before you’d expect Postdoctoral Scholar. College’s Coastal Studies Center, and creating formative any college student to turn in. This morning, phone alarms “Oh, cool. Rough periwinkle,” says Kingston, placing learning experiences for a new crop of scientists. began ringing around 4:30—just enough time to brew a pot of the snail in the palm of her hand. “Litturina saxatilis. coffee, don headlamps, and set out on the island’s rustic trail A native species.” The other students gather around as By Kathryn Miles system. Now, as the sun begins to peak out of the Fox Islands Kingston explains that the creature uses its shell as a lung

8 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 9 to breathe and that the snail is being compromised by the BMSS allows students to focus on one subject exclusively “Conservation begins to mean something manta rays or getting up success of its cousin, the common periwinkle—an aggressive before moving on to the next. And they do so not in the close and personal with a invader to Maine waters. She shows the students how to classroom, but at research stations as far afield as the Canadian very different when you see the effects it pod of whales. You learn distinguish the two based on the shape and thickness of Maritime Provinces and Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. has on a family or a community.” really fast what it is to be in their shells. “Think soft serve ice cream cone,” she says, The program is the brainchild of Associate Professor David the moment.” pointing to the rough periwinkle. Carlon. Carlon came to Bowdoin in 2013 as the first endowed fundamentals of oceanography as well as the basics of data Garvey says that The students make notations in their waterproof notebooks, director of the College’s Coastal Studies Center. He saw in collection and fieldwork. was reinforced for her then return to their rocky transect, their knee-high boots this new position the chance both to widen the reach of the Kingston teaches Marine Molecular Ecology and in unexpected ways, like gripping the slick rock. They crouch down over grids fashioned Center, located twelve miles from campus on Orr’s Island, Evolution in the program. She says the impact of these visiting a local fish stand to of string and PVC piping, counting species as they go. Later in and to provide more experiential and field opportunities for field experiences on the students’ learning and intellectual buy dinner. The merchant the day, they’ll discuss their findings with the program faculty students—an opportunity, he says, that became formative in his development is profound. “We forget how much multitasking there was selling shark over warm bowls of soup. When they return to campus, those own undergraduate experience. is engrained in this generation, how many different directions fins and livers, and that findings will serve as the basis for their independent research Carlon has completed extensive field research in places like they are pulled in, and how many distractions they face in prompted a conversation projects. They will also become an integral contribution to Florida and Australia, and he says he’s come to think of the a day. Really dialing into a subject in a hands-on way is a about conservation laws a long-term monitoring project attempting to gauge climate field as his “other office.” Inviting students to join him, he says, novel experience for them. Being immersed in a different and shark physiology. “It change in the Gulf of Maine ecosystem. is just a natural extension of his teaching philosophy. environment and having to interact with that environment was incredible how much he This kind of applied learning is possible because of a “This kind of inquiry-based model is a really powerful way affords them a knowledge they can’t get any other way. And knew about regulations and revolutionary new approach to science instruction at the of learning,” says Carlon. “It allows students to really drill it broadens the way they think not just about that ecosystem, the fish he was catching. College. Called the Bowdoin Marine Science Semester (BMSS), down on that topic while removing some of the noise of the but all ecosystems.” I think I learned as much this immersive program was first piloted last fall. It provides typical educational experience.” That knowledge, she says, also allows them to rapidly from that fisherman as I did from a formal class lecture.” students an opportunity both for hands-on learning and Students begin the program working both at the College’s master increasingly complex topics, including benthic ecology These kinds of experiences are invaluable, Garvey says, concentrated study. Unlike a traditional semester, where a Coastal Studies Center and the Bowdoin Scientific Station (the study of systems at the bottom of a body of water) and in understanding human impacts on the environment. That’s student takes four completely separate courses simultaneously, on Kent Island, in the Bay of Fundy. There, they learn the DNA sequencing. It also allows them to consider the nuances important, says Kingston, particularly where issues like that make different bioregions unique—and increasingly sustainability are concerned. “Conservation begins to mean fragile. One of the keystone moments of the term is a ten-day something very different when you see the effects it has on a field experience in Baja California Sur. family or a community.” “Our professors were constantly available to Mindful that most immersive semesters emanate out of Last year was a particularly poignant time for that us—and their enthusiasm was contagious. That large research universities, Carlon says he was particularly kind of study. Not only was it one of the strongest El interested in providing opportunities for Bowdoin students to Niño seasons on record, it was also one of the warmest—a really makes the program unique—and perfect.” begin networking and building connections in the scholarly dangerous trend scientists expect to continue. While the community. And so he partnered with the marine biology students were in Baja, record high water temperatures graduate program at the Autonomous University of Baja spurred significant coral bleaching events across the globe, California, one of Mexico’s forty-three public universities. including the Gulf of California. While in the Gulf of California, Bowdoin students share their It’s sobering to see that kind of damage, says Carlon, but field stage and also have the opportunity to collaborate on it’s also an important teachable moment. “We can talk about projects with these graduate students. the biological processes underway when stressed coral expels For Samantha Garvey ’16, an environmental studies and its symbiotic algae in these conditions. We can also talk about earth and oceanographic sciences major, this opportunity to what is making that happen and why it matters.” interact with members of the Baja graduate program was a Climate change inquiry has long been a part of Carlon’s pivotal part of her BMSS experience. “It really amazed me scholarly research, and it’s a subject he and his colleagues have to see how much I could learn from someone so close to my brought to the forefront of their work at the Coastal Studies age. I saw so much potential in my knowledge just sharing in Center. He wanted to make sure it was part of the students’ theirs. Real connections formed there.” experience as well. Consider, for instance, that survey This kind of synergy offers the first real opportunity the students completed on Hurricane Island. They found for many Bowdoin students to see what a life dedicated periwinkles and algae and more, but what really struck Carlin to research looks like. It’s also their first time in a desert was what they didn’t find: blue mussels. Just a few years ago, ecosystem. “They’re literally living on a desert island with that intertidal zone on the island would have been blanketed a new cohort of peers and a long way from cell phone in healthy mussel beds. On the day the students completed reception,” says Kingston. “They’re swimming at night with their survey, they didn’t find a single one.

10 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 11 While the students were in Baja, record high both the physical further distinguish time thinking about population health and what’s happening environment and the program, but to some of New England’s most prized organisms. water temperatures spurred significant coral the biological would also help She decided to dedicate her final project to a study of bleaching events across the globe, including communities that advance Bowdoin’s the declining health of oysters in New England. An invasive the Gulf of California. will control what the mission to engage protozoan parasite is threatening populations here, but systems look like.” the creativity of it’s not always clear which individual mollusks have been That absence is endemic of a larger crisis happening up That variability students as well affected. Schuldt wanted to change that. She traveled as far and down the coast, as warmer ocean temperatures bring new makes it particularly as their social and as Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and Downeast Maine to gather ecological conditions, along with previously unseen predators, challenging to leadership abilities. samples, then worked in the genetics lab with Kingston to see including both green and blue crabs. Carlon and his colleagues study—and also It’s a value if the parasitic infection could be determined genetically. established the monitoring station at Hurricane Island in 2014 a particularly rich that has defined “This is high test, intricate science,” says Kingston. to track these changes. The College maintains similar ones on teachable moment. Bowdoin’s approach “Students like Madeline are learning to use genetic Harpswell Sound and Kent Island, where the students begin It’s Carlson’s hope to education for sequencing techniques that didn’t even exist a decade ago. their immersive semester. Baja offers a fourth such site. The that Bowdoin’s over a century—a We can offer them the opportunity to study the entire goal at each is the detection of long-term ecological change work will become belief that our genome and to complete research that might otherwise take prompted by shifting environmental conditions, including part of a network planet is one in six months or more.” temperature rise and ocean acidification. of climate change constant flux, And it works. Schuldt’s lab work determined that and marine research, and that we have the parasite could be detected by way of genetic testing. including not only the a responsibility Maybe even more importantly, it reinforced for her a life’s Autonomous University of Baja California, but also regional not only to be nimble and conversant in those changing commitment to marine science and conservation. “BMSS institutions and universities as far away as Pennsylvania iterations, but also to impact them in a positive way. made things real for me. I know now I want to spend the rest and California. Already, the BMSS program is open to both “That’s what good scholarship is all about,” says of my life doing this kind of work.” students enrolled at Bowdoin and those attending institutions Kingston. “We want students to have the opportunity to that are part of the Twelve College Exchange. participate in that: to look at the world of research, find out Kathryn Miles is the author of Super Storm, All Standing, and Adventures Emily Bodell, a senior majoring in biology at Wheaton what questions are not yet being asked, and to see if they with Ari. She is writer-in-residence at Green Mountain College and a College, knew immediately BMSS was the kind of educational could answer them—not just for the scholarly community, faculty member for Chatham University’s low-residency MFA program. experience she wanted. She participated in last year’s pilot but also for the general public.” Her writing has appeared in dozens of national publications from Best American Essays to Popular Mechanics. semester and says that signing up was one of the easiest For her part, Schuldt says that early morning transect decisions she’s ever made. “I hopped on as soon as I heard work on Hurricane Island continued to resonate with her. Photos courtesy of the Department of Earth and Oceanographic Science about the program. It aligns with my interests perfectly, and In the days and weeks following that trip, she spent a lot of and Environmental Studies Program. I was so glad to find a way to do all of my marine biology Garvey says she’s been aware of these issues, but the BMSS studies in one place.” But, says Bodell, what captivated her experience brought them to new light. “Seeing what’s actually most was the opportunity to work closely with experts in the happening in an ecosystem definitely makes it more urgent— field. “To be really passionate about a subject and have the and dire.” chance for hands-on learning with professors who are also The work that she and her peers completed in the field that passionate makes for the ideal educational environment,” she says. “Our professors were constantly available to us— will serve as important data points in the College’s long-term It’s a value that has defined Bowdoin’s approach to studies. And, as the program continues, the successive years of and their enthusiasm was contagious. That really makes the data will not only provide evidence of change over time, they’ll program unique—and perfect.” education for over a century—a belief that our planet is also serve as a kind of legacy handed from one generation of Bodell says she’s interested in pursuing marine biology one in constant flux, and that we have a responsibility Bowdoin students to another, creating a continuity of shared beyond graduation, particularly as the science informs public not only to be nimble and conversant in those changing experience and commitment to the environment. policy. That’s a common theme among the students in the iterations, but also to impact them in a positive way. Deciphering the significance of that data is an important BMSS program: a desire to communicate science to lawmakers part of the field experience. “It’s incredibly complex,” says and the general public. By design, the program emphasizes this Carlson. “One of the major learning objectives in BMSS is interpretive aspect of scholarship. In addition to marine biology enabling students to interpret all of the dynamics that are coursework, students also take a creative writing course with occurring at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Ultimately, an emphasis on journalism and translating science for the lay water temperature controls as many rates and processes in the reader. The marine biology faculty felt strongly that this added sea as it does on land, but there will be regional variation in emphasis on the humanities and expression would not only

12 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 13 “It is a country full of evergreens, of mossy silver birches and watery maples, the ground dotted with insipid small, red berries, and strewn with damp and moss-grown rocks—a country diversified with innumerable lakes and the whistle of ducks rapid streams, peopled with trout and various species of leucisci, with salmon, shad, and pickerel, and other fishes; the along the solitary forest resounding at rare intervals with the note of the chickadee, the blue jay, and the woodpecker, the scream of the streams.” fish hawk and the eagle, the laugh of the loon, and the whistle of ducks along the solitary streams.” It was during our { } long and strenuous hike up Katahdin that the students began to appreciate Thoreau’s words. THOREAU’S They were trying to imagine what it must have been like, in 1846, for Thoreau alongside his Native MAINE American guides, to make his way up this mountain, without “civiliza- WOODS tion,” just wood, and By Tess Chakkalakal • Woodcuts by Blue Butterfield ’92 rock, and sky. No cafés, no iPhones, no Facebook. What was n August 26, 2015, I left Bowdoin “THOREAU’S MAINE WOODS” IS ONE OF it like to be alone in the company of others? How does one learn to be alone now, amidst all the noise of every- College at the crack of dawn for BOWDOIN’S NEWEST ORIENTATION TRIPS. TO day life? We didn’t talk much while we climbed. We were Chesuncook Lake and the backwoods PREPARE FOR THE TRIP STUDENTS READ SEC- of Maine. Accompanying me was looking, walking, and thinking. Thinking. Who knows of TIONS OF THOREAU’S THE MAINE WOODS. an energetic group of twelve newly what. We kept our thoughts to ourselves. minted first-year students and two skilled guides, a soph- were they? Why had they decided to sign up for this trip? But as we went higher and higher our fears and Oomore and senior. We had only met briefly before setting Why had they decided to come to Bowdoin? Who would hopes started to emerge. What would the next four years out, just long enough to commit one another’s names to they become when they returned to Bowdoin? be like? Who would we become? What would I become? memory. We had a common mission, however: to retrace We also read passages of Thoreau aloud, trying to fig- We didn’t find any answers. We didn’t even make it to Henry David Thoreau’s epic journey through the Maine ure out what he was saying, what he was doing, and what the summit. But there we were—together alone, trying to Woods. Like Thoreau, we “proposed to make excursions his motives were. Most were skeptical. But as our journey see the world as it once was and as it could be. to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New continued, the next morning, paddling further and further I have been teaching American literature at Bowdoin England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the from home, through some pretty rough waters, we seemed for eight years, and eight years before that at Williams, lakes of the Penobscot.” But unlike Thoreau, we had no somewhat tiresome. Given my own prejudices, I thought to get a better idea of Thoreau—and the importance of and never have I learned so much about American litera- pretensions to be alone. This was from the very beginning it was high time I stepped out of the four walls of my nature to learning and living. Following the Golden Road ture than on that Orientation trip in August 2015. a collective journey, not an individual one. classroom in Mass Hall and into Thoreau’s nineteenth- after our sixteen-mile paddle just above the Ripogenus Dam on the West Branch of the Penobscot, we started to “Thoreau’s Maine Woods” is one of Bowdoin’s new- century American one. *Author’s note: Ktaadn, and The Maine Woods first appeared in print in est Orientation trips. To prepare for the trip students read And that is exactly what I did—with the help of my see “the Woods” as Thoreau had. 1848, just two years after Thoreau made his excursions in the Maine woods. sections of Thoreau’s The Maine Woods.* I have taught “students,” none of whom had ever actually taken a “It is a country full of evergreens, of mossy silver The trip proved profitable for Thoreau. As a result, he not only had a new story to captivate nineteenth-century readers who could not make the journey this work in my Introduction to American Literature class with me. birches and watery maples, the ground dotted with insipid themselves, he also gained a crucial insight: “Having returned, I flatter myself course at Bowdoin. My students respond with varying After a long, bumpy drive we arrived at Chesuncook small, red berries, and strewn with damp and moss-grown that the world appears in some respects a little larger, and not as usual smaller degrees of enthusiasm, those who are already nature lov- Lake and wasted no time getting into our canoes, pad- rocks—a country diversified with innumerable lakes and and shallower for having extended my range.” ers identify with its descriptions of the forested mountain dling down to make camp on Gero Island. After a hearty rapid streams, peopled with trout and various species of Tess Chakkalakal, associate professor of Africana studies and English, has pub- lished widely on nineteenth-century African American and American literature. and lake country of north-central Maine. Others, like dinner, students sat around the campfire, watching the leucisci, with salmon, shad, and pickerel, and other fishes; me, who prefer shopping malls and movie theaters to the sunset streaming orange and red across the big northern the forest resounding at rare intervals with the note of the Blue Butterfield ’92 is a woodblock print artist who grew up in Bar Harbor, Maine, and currently resides in Portland. She is known for her woodblock mosquito-ridden woods, consider Thoreau’s epic lists of sky, talking a little about Thoreau, literature, but mostly chickadee, the blue jay, and the woodpecker, the scream calendar “A Year in Maine,” the next edition of which will feature the two trees, stars, river movements, muskrats, and fish to be about themselves. I wondered about these students: Who of the fish hawk and the eagle, the laugh of the loon, and woodblocks commissioned by Bowdoin Magazine for this feature.

14 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 15 Photography by Bob Handelman

Time passes quickly at Bowdoin. “The best four years of your life” go by in a blur for students, and retiring faculty and staff talk about entire careers passing in what seem like moments. We speed through our days and marvel at how fast it all passes, but there is a timelessness underneath it all. The people in these photos were Bowdoin students on two days in April 2016. Some of them have By in a already become alumni. But, whenever they leave, they leave their mark. Like the Androscoggin River over the dam—not the same rushing water at any given second but always the same river— Blur the composition of Bowdoin is changing constantly but remains, always, Bowdoin.

16 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 17 “Every day at Bowdoin is so full that it feels like you’re always moving.” —Julian Andrews ’17

18 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 19 “My time at Bowdoin is fleeting, but Bowdoin will always be a part of who I am.” —Jasper Houston ’18

20 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 21 sprinters: Jibrail Coy ’16 and Shekinah Pettway ’18 skateboarders: Christian Houston-Floyd ’16 and Megan Retana ’19 pitcher: Julia Geaumont ’16 archer 1: Espiridion Ruiz Orea ’18 dancers: Megan Maher ’16 and Julian Andrews ’17 class change: 12:22 p.m., April 14, 2016 “Time at Bowdoin is surreal, since each day is full of bicyclist: Jasper Houston ’18 archer 2: Ziang Zhou ’18 so many different things and each semester presents runner: Jordan Richmond ’16 new opportunities. And it’s all over in just four years.” water: Androscoggin River dam — Sophia Lopez ’18 potter: Sophia Lopez ’18 street: Maine Street at dusk from Fort Andross

22 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 23 BY SCOTT ALLEN ’83

T’S BEEN CALLED A LOVE LETTER TO OLD-FASHIONED NEWSPAPER JOURNALISM. SPOTLIGHT, THE MOVIE ABOUT THE BOSTON GLOBE’S I2002 EXPOSÉ OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, DEPICTS MY NEWSPAPER’S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS IN ALL THEIR SCRUFFY GLORY—WORKING THE PHONES AT PAPER-STREWN DESKS, PORING OVER DUSTY OLD REPORTS, KNOCKING ON COUNTLESS DOORS, AND LISTENING INTENSELY TO THE STORIES OF DAMAGED PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED From ABUSE AT THE HANDS OF PRIESTS. Watergate t o Spotlight INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

IN DEMOCRACY “How do you say no to God?” asked one victim, holding up a childhood picture of himself, trying to explain why he couldn’t stop his abuser all those years ago. The movie is all about reporting—there’s no love affair on the side to distract the journalists or the audience—and about the closest thing to an action scene comes when reporter Mike Rezendes, played by Mark Ruffalo, bangs in frustration on a locked courthouse door. Yet, the Spotlight Team’s relentless pursuit of the story, their willingness to challenge one of the world’s most powerful institutions, and their dawning realization that the church itself was shuffling abusive priests from parish to parish, covering up their crimes, has a dark potency, even for people like me who already knew the tale intimately. And few people in America felt a greater sense of personal validation that night in February when Spotlight won best picture at the Academy Awards. Not only have I worked for newspapers since graduating from Bowdoin in 1983—when I planned to “take a year off” before going to law school—but I am the current editor of the Spotlight Team. The reporter who ran up on the stage in Hollywood to help director Tom McCarthy and the movie stars collect their Oscar was a member of my team.

24 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 25 From Watergate to Spotlight INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN DEMOCRACY

Since the Academy Award, I’ve received cards and letters and, for the first time in my career, I started applying for jobs But I’m here to tell you that Spotlight is not only a of appreciation from around the world even though I had outside of journalism. We survived, but only after the staff love letter as well as the best movie about journalism since nothing to do with the church stories; I joined Spotlight agreed to deep pay cuts—and we considered ourselves lucky. All the President’s Men in 1976. It’s also a cry for help. almost six years after the events in the movie. I’ve gotten an The trouble is not that print journalists forgot how to do offer to do a reality TV show, requests for interviews from their jobs. It’s that almost no newspaper publisher has figured reporting, from The Washington Post’s coverage of the media all over the world, and more news tips than my team out how to make money in a digital world where consumers Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard can possibly handle. Reporters who were actually on the 2002 have nearly infinite choices. I use the analogy to television: Nixon to The Guardian’s exposés on government team, meanwhile, have become celebrities, speaking all over fifty years ago, television was generally awful, but people had surveillance of private citizens based on Edward Snowden’s the United States and Europe, and getting a shout-out from only three networks to choose from, so ridiculous shows like leaks in 2014. The six-reporter Spotlight Team is the largest President Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner The Beverly Hillbillies got audiences of fifty million people or investigative unit north of New York City, and our reporting earlier this year. For all of that affirmation, I am grateful. more. Today, we live in a golden age of TV, but even the best has uncovered significant corruption that might still be going But I’m here to tell you that Spotlight is not only a love shows, such as Breaking Bad, struggle to attract ten million on if not for us, including the FBI’s corrupt relationship with mobster Whitey Bulger, portrayed in the 2015 movie Black

letter as well as the best movie about journalism since All the viewers. That’s because people have so many choices—and Photo by Fred Field President’s Men in 1976. It’s also a cry for help. fewer reasons to be loyal to any particular media outlet. Mass. In recent years, the Globe’s investigative reporting has In the decade after the Globe exposed the clergy abuse But, before you write off newspapers as outdated led to prison for a House Speaker, racketeering convictions scandal, one quarter of newspaper journalists across the institutions that just couldn’t compete in the modern world, for senior state court officials, and a national crackdown on country lost their jobs as our industry went through its own please consider what we would be losing if they disappear. surgeons who perform two operations at once without their Great Depression, driven by the digital revolution. A reporter Even in their diminished state, newspapers still represent patients’ consent. in Arizona learned he had won a Pulitzer Prize three months nearly two-thirds of US journalistic output, providing the It is true that blogs and online-only media outlets are by a new generation of private owners who take a long view after his newspaper laid him off. Investigative reporting, the lion’s share of reporting on everything from school board emerging to rival so-called “legacy media” such as us—the of how to reinvent our business so that it’s sustainable for most time-consuming and expensive type of reporting, was votes to corporate salaries. Moreover, print journalists online investigative reporting organization Pro Publica has the long haul. But many other print journalists are not so hit especially hard—membership­­ in the main investigative generally have the space and time to do more in-depth won three Pulitzer Prizes since 2010—but very few of them fortunate, and they live under the constant threat of yet more journalism organization dropped by 30 percent in the first reporting than TV or radio, and daily newspapers from have the stature to stand up to powerful institutions. Speaking cutbacks and pink slips. They need to know that they are not decade of the 2000s. Portland, Maine, to Los Angeles still dominate the city news truth to power doesn’t mean much if the powerful can’t hear fighting the battle entirely on their own. Virtually no one has been spared. My first newspaper, the agenda, giving other media something to report about. As I what’s being said. And we at the Globe see regularly what Finally, Spotlight can galvanize us to action. Dynamic Maine Times, is gone now, and the Globe nearly suffered the drive to work in Boston each day, both the public radio and happens when there’s no one left to challenge the powerful. new owners such as John Henry of the Globe and Amazon same fate. I was sitting with my colleagues in the Spotlight the AM news station present one story after another that came In one city outside Boston where the local paper has almost Founder Jeff Bezos of The Washington Post already are office in 2009 when we got the news that our owner at the from that morning’s Globe. no reporters left, the paper named an official who had been bringing a spirit of experimentation to a business that too time, The New York Times, might close the Globe altogether Newspapers still do the vast majority of investigative stealing from the local housing authority for a decade as its often has been willing to do things the way they’ve always “citizen of the year.” After the Globe exposed the corruption, been done. The companies behind Spotlight, Participant Media Chelsea’s “citizen of the year” went to federal prison. and Open Road Films, have put their money where their But, just as All the President’s Men spawned a generation mouth is, putting up $100,000 for a fellowship for journalists of investigative reporters, so Spotlight gives us a spark, a to work with the Spotlight Team to create groundbreaking moment when we may be able to push back against the investigative journalism. The winner will be announced at this gloomy forecast for print journalism. year’s conference of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a First, it is a moment for the engaged public to appreciate group whose membership has rebounded since its 2009 nadir, that, despite all the technology that has transformed our as publishers recognize that investigative journalism is not only world, old-fashioned, note-taking reporters still matter a a public responsibility, but also good business. I have the chance to make the world a little better whole lot. Spotlight reminds us that journalism can be a noble In March, I spoke at Bowdoin about the state of place with the words I write, something I’ve believed calling despite all the chatter about bias and “the lame stream investigative journalism and my hopes for the future, tracing since I was a cub reporter at The Bowdoin Orient. media.” Certainly, I’ve always felt blessed that, on my best the field’s evolution from Woodward and Bernstein to Mike days, I have the chance to make the world a little better place Rezendes and Spotlight. I was gratified to see such a large with the words I write, something I’ve believed since I was a and enthusiastic crowd in Kresge Auditorium, including Photo by Fred Field cub reporter at The Bowdoin Orient. some of my colleagues from the late, lamented Maine Times. Second, Spotlight has given a morale boost to the reporters Afterwards, I had to smile when I overheard a young woman in the trenches of journalism, many of them demoralized by say about me, “He’s a hero.” Nope. I’m just doing my job. year after year of budget cuts, work speed-ups, and a general And I’d like to keep doing it for many years to come. sense of foreboding about the future. We at the Globe are Allen delivered the Cassidy Lecture “From Watergate to Spotlight: Investigative Journalism in Democracy” at Bowdoin in March, on which this essay is based. The preceding page features a still from the film, Spotlight. among the fortunate few whose newspaper has been purchased Scott Allen ’83 is the editor of The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team.

26 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 27 “Think for a moment about how you got here. . . Each of us has our unique stories. No two paths are the same. . .”

Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, speaking to the Bowdoin Class of 2016 at the Baccalaureate ceremony, May 27, 2016, the evening before he received an honorary doctorate from the College.

ears from now, when Bill De La Rosa ’16 thinks about the morning of May 28, 2016, he will remember this: the sun blistering down on 460 of his fellow THE graduates sitting in their black caps and gowns, the deep green of the lawn, and the tall trees, whose leaves stirred when a breeze blew. He is standing on theY stage in front of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, one of only two students chosen UNFINISHED to speak at commencement, an honored tradition at Bowdoin. The Quad is filled with some 2,000 people, but what he will remember is seeing the faces of his family, eight in all, who sit side by side just behind the graduates. They have come, for the first time, from Mexico and Arizona, to see this campus in Brunswick, Maine, one that Bill has described as being JOURNEY OF so lush and lovely that it might be an enchanted place from a storybook. They hold their phones high over their heads, pointed toward him standing on the stage. And he will remember two who are not here: his father, Arsenio, age eighty-three, too BILL DE LA ROSA weak to travel from Tucson, his body ravaged from a stroke and from years breathing poison while flying a crop duster. And 2,800 miles away, there is a woman with a warm, BY MEL ALLEN • PHOTOGRAPHS BY HEATHER PERRY pretty face and dark hair. She is forty-seven years old. She lives in a tiny apartment 400 feet

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from the American border in Nogales, Mexico. It is knew what was driving him. Both in Tucson and “It felt eerie. Here was something early in Nogales, 7:30 in the morning, three hours then in Maine, it seemed wherever there was a need behind Maine time. She is visiting the apartment of to help, he had volunteered. As a first-year student that wasn’t just happening far a friend, one who speaks English. On her friend’s at Bowdoin, even as he coped with navigating a away. But this had happened to computer, Bowdoin’s commencement streams live. new and strange physical and cultural landscape, someone on your campus.” There on the screen stands Bill. He is handsome, he made his way to Portland twice a week to help with soft brown eyes. Under his cap, his hair Spanish-speaking newcomers adjust to Maine, and to is short and neat. Bill’s introduction extolls his volunteer at a legal aid society. Later he worked with accomplishments, among them earning a Gates Maine’s Somali refugees, and then spent summers Millennium Scholarship, a Truman Scholarship, carrying water into the brutally forbidding desert acceptance to Oxford University, and a month that separated Mexico from Arizona, where so many earlier being named the national Hispanic Scholar migrants have died trying to cross. It was as though of the Year. The audience takes this in. They know he had looked at a broken world and determined he they are watching, in terms of academia, a shining could piece things back together one fragment at a star. Then Bill begins to speak, and soon audible time: Portland; Tucson; Nogales, Mexico. ripples of surprise drift out from the audience. Then, last September, Arizona Public Media and . . I was born in a small border town known as the Arizona Daily Sun told the story of Bill De La Nogales, Arizona, but raised in Nogales, Mexico. Rosa and his family, and what happened when his In 2000, when I was seven years old, my family mother was deported, leaving him and his family Bill knows she is watching. And he risked moving permanently to Tucson, Arizona, caught in the crossfire of history. They became the knows she will be saying softly to in search of a better future. We left everything we compelling faces of a nation divided on immigration herself: Mi hijo. Mi hijo. My son. My son. owned in the small motel room where I spent my law that, depending on your point of view, is either childhood. When we arrived in Tucson, we had no too lenient or too harsh. The Bowdoin Orient picked guidance counselor that one day he wanted to go money, no place to go, no place to call home. We up the story, and for a while Bill felt the eyes of to Harvard. There were problems with the dream. wandered a bit, sleeping wherever we felt safe— in his classmates pinned on him when he came to the His father was aged and sick. And his mother was our car, in alleyways, within trailer parks. . . When cafeteria or walked to class. “It felt eerie,” he said. in the country illegally, earning what she could I was eight, my mother would make homemade “Here was something that wasn’t just happening far cleaning rooms at Motel 6. Neither of them reached flour tortillas and tamales, and I would go around away. But this had happened to someone on your high school. The idea of his going to Harvard the neighborhood door-to-door to sell them. One campus.” A “strange feeling,” to be known as the seemed as far-fetched as flying to the moon. dollar for a dozen tortillas, eight dollars for a dozen face of misfortune and endurance, but it was his Every day that week, he had run home from tamales; my mother earned a living cleaning rooms story and now he embraced it. His story is who he school, waiting for his mother’s call. “My mom at our local Motel 6. Sometimes I would tag along has become. was the pillar,” Bill said. “Mom was it. She did and help her clean, so she could come home a little the cooking, shopping, cleaning, tucking Bobby in. bit earlier. . . In October 2009, my mother was e met first on a late February day in I just went to school.” She had taken Bobby with deported from the United States to Mexico, and she W Brunswick. We talked while lunchtime her across the border to Mexico, seeking papers was barred from returning to her home and family throngs passed through the crowded aisles of she needed to live legally and without fear: all four for ten years. . . The pretty dark-haired woman is Wild Oats Bakery & Café. “I remember it was a children were born in the United States; all four Gloria Arrellano De La Rosa. She leans in close day full of sun,” he said of the day when his life were American citizens. Her husband, Arsenio, to the computer screen. Her friend translates Bill’s changed. It was a Thursday, October 22, 2009. He nearly forty years older, was a naturalized American words into Spanish. Bill knows she is watching. was fifteen, a sophomore at Pueblo Magnet High citizen. Her lawyer had advised crossing the border, And he knows she will be saying softly to herself: School in South Tucson, the most distressed area admitting her past, and soon she would rejoin her Mi hijo. Mi hijo. My son. My son. in one of the poorest cities in the country. He lived family. And it was then, on this Thursday, a day he in public housing with his parents, two brothers— remembered for its sunshine, that Bill De La Rosa hen you meet Bill De La Rosa your first Jim, seventeen, and Bobby, just four—and sister walked into the house and heard the phone ring. W thought will be how young he looks, how Naomi, age nine. They lived tight, but his mother “I rush to answer it,” he said, “and it is my soft-spoken, and when you learn his story you will made the home sparkle, and nobody ever left her mom. And she was outside on a pay phone and wonder how a life so inspiring and life-affirming table hungry. He was a good student, report cards it’s pouring. And she’s just crying. And she keeps can be forged from his family’s heartbreak. For filled with A’s, a popular boy with an easy smile saying, ‘Me dieron diez años. No. No. No. Me years, his story stayed mostly private; few of his high who ran cross-country, who also enjoyed soccer dieron diez. Me dieron diez. [They gave me ten school classmates, few of his Bowdoin classmates, and basketball. He had confided to his high school years. They gave me ten.]’ She was trying to be

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“Immigration is not just about immigration. It’s a poverty issue. A language issue. I will see this in a different light.” high school and joined the United States Marine ethnically diverse, often poor students who only a Corps, promising to send whatever money home decade ago would not be likely to come to an elite that he could. I asked Bill, how did he do this, go to New England private college. “That trip opened school and not only excel but become valedictorian, my eyes,” he said. “I saw how big the world was. earn scholarships, and be recruited by the best How small my bubble was in Tucson. I heard “Growing up, my mother would colleges in the country? Bill grew silent for a few people speaking many languages. I was like, ‘Wow, always tell me, ‘Hay que sembrar moments, taking in the question. is this how Bowdoin is going to be?’ As we were “I knew I had to stay hopeful, so we all had driving into Brunswick and we’re driving through buenos frutos para cosechar buenas hope, so there’s hope also for my mom. If I don’t Pleasant Street, we made a right to the College. I cosas.’ We have to plant good have hope, then she doesn’t either. I said perhaps was like, ‘So this is what prestigious looks like.’ seeds, to harvest great things.” the way I can give her hope is by showing her how I kept thinking—this is New England. The lights. I am in school. So I made myself just buckle down The architecture of the church. It’s incredible. Every strong so I wouldn’t worry. But she was still crying. didn’t say goodbye to friends. It was just ‘Pack and go to school and get the job done. And when night we stayed up really late. Just talking in the And I just stood there. I looked at a picture on top your bags. We’re going.’” Then came the years of semester grades came out and rankings came out common room. It was a nice feeling. Everyone said of the TV. It was a family portrait. It was the last what Bill called “the darkness of poverty” when his I’d show her and say ‘Look, Mom.’ And I didn’t there were lots of smart and hard-working people picture we had together. I knew it would never be family “drifted place to place, slept on floors for want anyone to feel sorry for me, so I just started here. But it was not cutthroat. I could see that. I the same. And I cried. I cried a lot.” months.” By 2005, they had found public housing, wearing different masks. I knew I had to be a went to a seminar on the American Revolution. Gloria De La Rosa’s story contains strands and Gloria worked cleaning rooms and Bill sold different person in front of my friends, in front of I really liked it.” He was supposed to also visit within strands of complexity, but while we sat in her tortillas door to door. Life was hard but no teachers, in front of my dad and Naomi. In front Harvard, but Bowdoin got inside him and held on. the café, Bill did his best to guide me to its core. harder than that known by most of the people of my mom. In middle school every day before He applied for early admission. He was accepted. Years earlier his mother had crossed into Arizona they saw each day. When Gloria left to obtain class, we all had to recite what teachers called ‘The He was awarded a Gates Millennium Scholarship. legally with a visa. She gave birth there to two sons, her legal papers, it was a chance to move another Definite Dozen.’ There were twelve rules. And I Bowdoin said don’t worry about money. Soon he Jim and Bill. When her visa expired, the family notch closer to her American dream. “She’d tell me always remembered number twelve. It was the found that getting into Bowdoin was the easy part. moved back to Nogales, Mexico, where they lived she was worried,” Bill said. “I kept saying, ‘Don’t last rule, and every day we had to say it out loud. The hard part lay ahead. for seven years crammed into a single room in a worry, you don’t have to worry. . . You are married Only then we could take our seats. Number twelve In a quiet private room Bill had reserved for us motel owned by a relative. “My dad would walk with four children. We are all American citizens. was ‘Be relentless.’ And ‘Never give up.’ That was on the third floor of the library, he spoke carefully, Jim and me across the border to go to school in the Your husband is sick. There’s nothing to worry always in the back of my mind. ‘Be Relentless. like he was picking his words one by one from US,” Bill said. “I didn’t speak English. I remember about.’” Never give up.’” a beach. He knew, no matter how he parsed it, a teacher kept telling me to ‘turn off the lights, turn But, of course there was. What nobody had He drew deep breaths when he spoke, as if to coming to Bowdoin meant leaving his siblings and off the lights,’ and I didn’t understand. My mom thought about was a law created in 1996 called the make sure his emotions stayed steady. “But there his father and his mother behind. “I wasn’t sure I was working at a grocery store, earning practically unlawful presence bar. What the law stated was were nights and my siblings would be in bed, and nothing. One day she took my brother and me clear: if you had entered the United States illegally Jim is off to the Marines and I’m just with my dad to the movies. It was the Pokémon movie, and and had stayed for more than a year, and then and he’s getting sicker, and they’d be asleep and it’d it was the first movie we ever saw. Another time returned to Mexico, you were barred from even be two in the morning and I’d just be in my room she took us to get pizza. It was far away, and we applying for re-entry for ten years. And that is when studying, and it’s just really me. There would be walked. These things were special because they only everything changed for Bill De La Rosa. “When my nights,” and he choked up for a moment. “There happened once.” When Bill was seven, the family mother would speak to me she’d be at the wall,” would be nights,” and then he said no more. crossed again to the US, making their way to what he said. “That was the only place she got reception. “I was like, they hoped would be a new life in Tucson. This The wall was steel rods with space between where e walked up Maine Street toward the ‘So this is what time Gloria was smuggled across, and she became you could see through to the other side, and she W library, Bill’s second home. Even in late prestigious looks like.’ one more undocumented person blending into a would look across and just cry. She’d say, ‘Bill, I winter, with the trees bare, the campus gave the city, invisible as cactus. don’t belong here. I’m back where I started. I’m feeling of old and gracious comfort, bells rang, I kept thinking—this is As Bill told his story, his eyes seemed to squint going to cross the desert.’ I’d say ‘No, you must students with backpacks hurried on their way. I had New England. The lights. as if trying to remember. “My dad went first not. You’ll be OK. We’ll be OK.’” asked about transitions: how one comes from South The architecture of the with my mom, two weeks before us. He had my In a heartbeat Bill became mother, father, cook, Tucson to Maine Street. He told about coming church. It’s incredible.” godfather cross us. There was nothing clandestine. housekeeper, brother, nurse, tireless immigration during a recruiting visit in November 2011, when We were born here. 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one being a White House internship. He decided to work at the Center for Social Policy in Washington, DC. “They do a lot on immigration, inequality, and poverty,” Bill said. “Immigration is not just about immigration. It’s a poverty issue. A language issue. I will see this in a different light.” He would ask Oxford to defer his admission into their master’s in migration studies for a year. His father was too frail It was as though he had for him to be adding distance. looked at a broken world and Which brings us again to the young man determined he could piece finishing his speech at commencement on a If you look on his Facebook page, you sweltering day in late May. “Growing up, my things back together one mother would always tell me, ‘Hay que sembrar will see the expectations people hold for fragment at a time: Portland; buenos frutos para cosechar buenas cosas.’ We have him. They say, “See you when you are Tucson; Nogales, Mexico. to plant good seeds, to harvest great things. I would a senator,” “ . . . a governor,” “See you add that now that we are reaping the fruits of our was doing the right thing,” he said. “There were And yet there he was, two years later, on labor, it is our responsibility to help others plant when you are POTUS.” so many what ifs. So much uncertainty. I could Saturday, October 17, 2015, the only student to their seeds.” First his classmates stood for him, have simply gone to University of Arizona. Lived give a speech at the inauguration of Bowdoin’s new and then the audience that stretched to the outer at home, looked after things. But I said how can I president. Later he would tell Teresa Toro, his high shady trees stood and applauded his words and the best carry on and finish what my parents wanted school guidance counselor who helped steer him to young man. When the ceremony ended, his family for us? Family friends said they’d look after things. college, “I couldn’t really believe it. I marched with made their way to the field house where food and Our church said they’d bring food. I went to my everyone in full garb across the campus. Bagpipes refreshments waited. little sister’s school. My little brother’s school. I played. I kept thinking ‘here’s this little boy crossing In time Bill found his way to his family. “I had developed a network. Everyone knew they could the border to a school and he doesn’t speak to do a detour,” said his mentor, sociology professor contact me.” It seemed he had everything worked English, who lived in Motel San Luis, and here I am Marcos Lopez, “so many people wanted to hug him out. But the doubts crept in and never left. He speaking at something that only happened fifteen and take pictures.” Bill was hungry, and there were worried about having to drop out if his father times in the history of Bowdoin.’ How does that still so many more people to hug, smiling photos to needed to go to a nursing home, or if he died. happen? It must happen for a reason.” take. The heat steamed through everyone. When the Then Naomi and Bobby would be without a legal I had promised Bill we’d speak for only two crowds thinned, Bill and his little brother and little guardian in the home. In time, after his father’s hours on this day. He had schoolwork and we’d sister took off their shoes and ran laughing through stroke, his brother, Jim, was forced to leave his gone over by double. We made plans to see each sprinklers on the grass. The next day, Bill would own dream of reenlisting in the Marine Corps to other the next day. Before I left I asked if he board a plane in Portland and fly to Washington, come home. remembered the last time he simply let go and had DC. If you look on his Facebook page, you will see And deep inside Bill asked if he was ready fun and let himself be a twenty-two-year-old going the expectations people hold for him. They say, “See for a New England private college. “Yes, I was to school. Carefree. He smiled briefly, and shook you when you are a senator,” “ . . . a governor,” valedictorian,” he said, “but I was from South his head. No. He could not remember. “See you when you are POTUS.” Tucson. I knew that. I was very self-conscious when A commencement is filled with high hopes for I came to Bowdoin. It was intimidating.” He took hen he returned to Maine after spring the future for all students. And who is to say what a philosophy class his first semester. “The moment W break, Bill had a new acceptance letter from Bill may do in the years ahead? But, steeled by his I heard everyone speak,” he said, “I heard how Oxford University in his hand, a thesis to finish, determination and his ingrained Number Twelve: articulate, how expressive they were. I crumbled. I two upcoming trips to Los Angeles because he was “Be relentless. Never give up,” who would bet was scared. I didn’t speak at all the whole semester. a finalist (and about to be named the winner) for against Bill De La Rosa becoming a man whose Not once. The professor called on me the last day. Hispanic Scholar of the Year, a speech to deliver to vision and words might yet stir a nation into finding And he wished me luck. Sophomore year was an outdoor leadership school in Wyoming, a speech a way to make immigration reform unite rather “Number twelve was ‘Be my hardest. At the start of the semester, Jim was to write that he hoped to deliver at commencement, than divide? Who would bet against Bill De La Rosa relentless.’ And ‘Never give up.’ deployed. It became mentally exhausting. I’d be in and a decision on where he would go next. He had a being one who could change the world? That was always in the back of my the dining hall with all this food and thinking of scare when his father collapsed, but it turned out not Mel Allen is editor of Yankee Magazine in Dublin, New mind. ‘Be Relentless. Never give up.’” everyone at home. It was like I was living in two to be a second stroke but an infection, and gradually Hampshire. Heather Perry is a freelance photographer who places at once.” he recovered. He weighed several opportunities, lives in Bath, Maine.

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Terry Guen class agent for thirty-seven years the Bucksport Performing Arts past nineteen years. Students use Cultivating Economic Growth Send us news! 4104 College and has donated annually. His Center in Bucksport, Maine. “The their scholarships to help finance Station, Brunswick, ME 04011 passion for Bowdoin extended to concert benefits the Down East summer music camp, purchase or [email protected]. t’s no surprise that Terry Guen ’81’s thirty-year his son Lou ’74 (who met his wife Center Ring Circus Band Music or repair an instrument, or take If there’s no news listed for Debbie ’75 there) and grandson Scholarship program, which private music lessons.” From a career in landscape architecture would include a your class year, it’s not because I Sam ’07. Happy Birthday, Kirby.” provides scholarships for music Bucksport, Maine, Circus Band commitment to community and economic revitalization. we’re neglecting you! The press release, February 1, 2016. She was raised by activist parents who founded several majority of Class News has students in Hancock, Penobscot, nonprofits in Boston’s Chinatown community. Her always been self-reported, so 1951 REUNION and Washington Counties. Last father, Ed Guen ’49, earned the Common Good Award send us an update and rally On July 8, 2016, Don Blodgett summer forty-three students in 1957 in 1999. With a natural skill set in art and design, your classmates! will produce the Down East this three-county area received Ed Langbein: “Time continues to Guen chose to major in chemistry to better understand Center Ring Circus Band’s scholarships totaling $4,650, for a take its toll with the recent passing the role of creativity in science, and she went on to 20th Anniversary Concert at grand total of over $45,000 for the of several classmates and spouses: earn dual graduate degrees in landscape architecture 1938 and urban planning at Penn. Guen was the landscape Deborah Duffy Hight ’75: “Kirby architect for Chicago’s Millennium Park project, Hight recently celebrated his and she was the first Asian American appointed to 100th birthday at his home in Roy LaCasce ’43 had a formula the Advisory Council for Historic Preservation, an Skowhegan, Maine, surrounded by independent federal agency. friends and family. Though Kirby for paying it forward. describes himself as a mediocre Pro Tips for Your Garden: academic while at Bowdoin, Many of Professor Roy LaCasce’s earning a ‘d-ploma,’ he earned students will remember learning about Plant in layers. Interplant canopy with ornamental his tuition through selling cars to scientific formulas in his physics classes. trees, shrubs, and perennials. This allows water to his Deke classmates. Following However, his formula for supporting infiltrate and delivers greater ecosystem services, including Bowdoin, Kirby returned to the future generations of Bowdoin students habitat for birds and insects. To see how this works, visit family car business, and then will be one of his most lasting legacies. Roy worked with the Office of Gift a natural area (not necessarily a botanic garden). attended Annapolis, became a Planning to establish the LaCasce Family ‘ninety-day wonder,’ and spent Around perennials, use composted recycled yard Chair in Natural Sciences and a fund waste or commercially available soil conditioner, which much of WWII in the North Atlantic to support and enhance the education may include ground pine bark, rice hulls, leaf mulch, as commander of a destroyer. of Bowdoin’s physics majors through News organic compost. Add a three-inch layer to the top of After the war, Kirby returned to his estate plan. the bed and incorporate it when you dig in your plants. Skowhegan to continue in the family car business, which is now Respected and admired by colleagues Plants, like people, gain stability in diverse communities, 105 years old and involves the third and students as a teacher, mentor, and not monocultures. In Chicago, we plant in mixed friend, Roy was a Bowdoin legend in his and fourth generations. Always ecologic matrices, heavily weighted toward native own time. His legend endures through loyal to Bowdoin, Kirby served as species, grasses, and sedges. his generosity and our shared memories. Roy’s story is part of Bowdoin’s history You can plant food within your decorative gardens. and future students will forever benefit Whether it actually works depends on your time, from his gift planning. plant establishment, and competition. Stay away from The late Roy LaCasce, professor of physics emeritus heavy seeders. Be the first in your neighborhood to have a “Victorian lawn.” Accept the mixed turf look—including dandelions You, too, can leave a and violets—and avoid chemical treatment. Limit weekly lasting legacy at Bowdoin. mown turf to where it is needed for active play. For more information, contact Nancy Milam The Bowdoin Pines Society recognizes those who Plant “species tulips.” They come back every year, or Liz Armstrong in the Office of Gift Planning have included the College have more flowers, and multiply. (However, unlike at 207-725-3172 or [email protected]. in their estate plans.

Class daffodils, they are not deer-proof.)

Sam Hight ’07, Lou Hight ’74, and bowdoin.edu/giftplanning Debbie Hight ’75 celebrated the 100th Photo by David Johnson birthday of Kirby Hight ’38 in January.

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“Our sympathy to Dick Davis at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and in marked by a welcome flood of Club, and the family continues the possibilities. Gene continues on the loss of his wife, Marlene, 1959 married Mary Jane Bullard. cards and notes: Sherry and Jack to thrive with granddaughter to bike and volunteer. Shari, with after over fifty years of marriage. Seven years later he was elected Thomas ‘finally did it,’ moving Kara in her first year at Central a knee replacement behind her, “Jay C. Dings (September 22, to the Massachusetts Legislature to the Vi at La Jolla Village in Florida University. Also shifting has resumed a ‘normal life’ of 1935, to January 3, 2016) was a from the Concord/Carlisle district San Diego. It has proved to be a in the San Diego area, Shari and kid transport, water aerobics, Massachusetts native and graduate and served four years, during great decision and an expanded Gene Helsel are momentarily church volunteering, and planning/ of Thayer Academy. He majored in which he focused on conservation social life with opportunities residing in Palacio Del Mar while shopping/cooking meals. German, was a fraternity officer, and environmental issues. He for UCSD lectures and walking granddaughter Tina completes “Bill Gardener writes, ‘we are and was named to the dean’s list. was appointed as the first New access to downtown. Jack her last year of high school. After now beginning our thirtieth year Following graduation, he joined England regional administrator continues to volunteer at the San June they hope to have selected in Tucson and still love the area. Prudential, from which he retired of the Environmental Protection Diego Zoo while Sherry is active a new site. Washington, Palm We conclude that growing old as vice president of field systems. Agency (EPA), and during his six- in the Oakland Daytime Book Springs, and Maine are among is not for sissies. We stay busy An avid traveler, he had visited year tenure led efforts to restore with mostly southwest US travel, more than two dozen countries. Boston Harbor and New England’s golf, painting, quilting (Kathleen), Most recently, per a note [last] major rivers. After his service with HARPSWELL INN and volunteer work. December November, he had just completed a the EPA he founded and built an A Bed & Breakfast on the water at Lookout Point • Open year-round marked our fifty-eighth wedding second Grand Circle trip to England environmental consulting company, Find Your Home anniversary. No plans to come Rooms $145.00–190.00, Suites $139.00–239.00 which he led until his retirement in AT THE HIGHLANDS that began in London and went Elegantly casual with full breakfast included Down East, but one never knows. 2,100 miles to visit Oxford, Bath, 1997. John continued to be active Any classmates in the area, we Choose active retirement living that focuses on you – 10 minutes from Bowdoin College off Route 123 Caernarfon (Wales), Chester, York, in public affairs and his three great close to everything Mid Coast Maine has to offer, would love to see you.’ Wedding Packages and cottages also available Edinburgh, and the Isle of Skye. A passions: his family, fishing, and with an inspiring lifestyle, fine dining, “John Humphrey, as passed reunion regular, he had served on protecting the environment. He is home maintenance, and housekeeping. Off-season specials November 1 through mid-May on by brother David ’61, set sail our 50th Reunion committee and in survived by Jane, his wife of fifty- Our new “Middlebay” function room for groups up to 50 guests at Wrightsville Beach, North 2014 established the Jay C. Dings six years, three daughters, seven OUR RESIDENTS SAY IT BEST: Call for reservations: (800) 843-5509 • (207) 833-5509 • www.harpswellinn.com Carolina, on his twenty-two-foot Scholarship Fund. He is survived by grandchildren, and two great- sailboat, which has been a labor two daughters and two grandsons. grandchildren. His fraternity was “We came here of love for over a quarter-century. His fraternity was Chi Psi. Psi Upsilon. to ‘live,’ The feat continues the family “Marion Louise Mood Dyer “Fletcher W. Means (August not to retire sailing tradition initiated in 1634 (August 19, 1935, to November 16, 1935, to February 24, 2016) from life.” by John Humphrey of Dorset, 29, 2015) was the wife of the late was from Portland and attended England, who set sail for America. Don Dyer. Like Don, she was from Deering High School. He was Shirley and Dick Fickett continue Bar Harbor, Maine, and they were active in sports, participating “Everything we their roles as Kingstream (Virginia) married following his sophomore in football, baseball, and track, could ever need ‘cat Samaritans’ for local strays, year. After twenty years with the as well as being a member of is here at and are looking forward to their United States Army (Germany, the Glee Club (serving as vice granddaughters entering college Okinawa, and Japan) they retired president his senior year), and was The Highlands.” next fall. Marylou and Jim Millar to Maine, where she cared for elected vice president of our class celebrated (sedately, I am led to Don, who had been stricken with in his junior year. A government believe) Jim’s ‘forty-times-two’ multiple sclerosis. She is survived major, he participated in both the “This will milestone in August, just after a by their children, Donald and Hiland Lockward Fairbanks and be our home for trip to Richmond, Virginia, which Donna, three grandchildren, and a Class of 1868 speaking contests. was prompted by the reading of great-granddaughter. Commissioned through ROTC, at a long time.” Ben Williams’s House Divided. “John A. S. McGlennon graduation he served at Fort Ord, In October they enjoyed a Viking (August 10, 1935, to December California, to the grade of first cruise on the Seine from Paris 17, 2015) grew up in Newton, lieutenant and then began a career Call 207-725-2650 for a personal tour. to Normandy. Junie and Miles and Salem, Massachusetts. A as a stockbroker and financial Waltz are well and enjoyed a government major, he was a advisor in California, Arizona, and few short trips (Florida and New member of the freshman swimming Virginia. He is survived by his wife, York City). 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they are at at any particular time. Nathaniel just completed his first “A delight to see Bill Cooke wintering in Brunswick and adding auger ends of their reengineered and Susan Morey got theirs in Congratulations to their son, semester at the University of and Lois and Bob Estes in their voices in support of basketball dock. Eddiemae and Bob Wagg Sonoma, Arizona, before venturing Mark ’89, who was honored as Athens. Elaine Howland’s 2015 Portland at a Christmas concert by and hockey action. Ted Parsons spent the holidays in Texas and to the Netherlands in tulip season. the Southern Maine Chamber of highlights included the graduation Ray Cornils (Portland’s municipal and the Gentlemen Songsters had look forward to getting up to “Good to hear from Bernice Wise in the Ways Commerce Citizen of the Year in from high school of grandson Alex organist who played at our 50th a busy holiday season with ten Maine in the spring. Shirley and Born that all of the family are 2015. Mark is support services (he is now at Wentworth Institute) Reunion memorial service). The concerts (VA hospital, UMass, and Jack Woodward noted 2015 was doing well, with two grandchildren of Science commander of the Brunswick and the November marriage of her Esteses were on a three-week several churches). He and Susan the year of multiple celebrations of in college, two in high school, and Police Department. In 2015 Mimi granddaughter Jessica. Marcia eastern visit over the holidays that Morey, Barb and Dave Ham, and their fiftieth wedding anniversary one in third grade. Elaine Howland and Russ Longyear followed Pendexter’s card featured her completed their year’s travels— Daisy Crane were seen at Watson and Jack’s eightieth birthday. shared plans to return for reunion their usual schedule: January in painting of the Black Point Inn at May in Erie, Pennsylvania; June Arena this season. “Erik Lund wrote that he number sixty to take transportation Cancun, the Berkshires in June, Prout’s Neck. And Jill Perry has in Wright City for Lois’s sixtieth “Carol and Art Strout are has been debating politics and advantage of son John’s reunion and back to Texas in October, had a full year of volunteering: reunion; then west to Yellowstone recently back from a European trip enjoying tennis challenges with number thirty. Marcia Pendexter augmented by trips to Hawaii The Pierce House (an assisted and Grand Teton National Parks; to Berlin and Les Contamines in Tut Wheeler and Jay Howard has returned after a mild winter (Oahu and Maui) in March, and living home), church, and the food July in Maine, and a flight to the Alps. Marty and Dick Chase with an eye to match play at in Illinois and plans to make the London and Paris in late August. bank. She is enjoying her new London with a cruise to Norway, headed south in December and are reunion. It’s encouraging to know Scholarship Luncheon in May, “Flora Cowen reported that grandson, who is ‘crawling all the Faroe Islands, and Iceland; looking forward to a March cruise some of our members are still as do Janie Webster and Wendy New Jersey was expecting over the place.’ Janie Webster September in New York City, and through the Panama Canal. Stan agile and mobile. (In my group, Chapman. Ed and Nancy enjoyed seventy-degree temperatures wrote that she walked miles fall back home to sing with the Tri- Blackmer noted he continues conversation rotates between: lunch in Concord, Massachusetts, for Christmas and is optimistic in Atlanta over Thanksgiving Lake Singers and their church choir. to sail and regularly spend time ‘yours,’ ‘but, your form was great,’ with Daisy Crane. Dietmar Klein that Maine will be comparable in conjunction with a visit to “Ed and Nancy Langbein enjoyed at the gym. Len Bachelder and ‘the ball you missed is over celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday Photo courtesy of Dan Addison, the University of Virginia. in May when she is here for grandson Sam, who is attending dinner with Ingrid and Henry continues to be active with the there’). Kay and Dick Lyman and also gave an overview speech granddaughter Talia ’16’s Georgia Tech. Activities included Thomas and mutual neighbor Portland (Maine) railroad club and (and Calliope) have recently at the annual meeting of the “University of Virginia religious studies professor graduation. Ann Fraser wrote that the Coca-Cola Museum, Federal Professor Emeritus Elliott Schwartz is still organist and treasurer of his returned from a motor trip to the Bowdoin Club of Germany. He and Benjamin Ray ’62 (above, right) is one of five her new knee is working well and Reserve, and a football game, (neighbor, respectively, in Thornton church. Sherrie and Logan Hardie West Coast. Vickie and Harry Gisela are looking to move to the researchers leading the Gallows Hill Project, she recently enjoyed the holidays which featured a marching band Oaks and Freeport). A treat too, sent photos of their lake view and Carpenter enjoyed some time in Altkonig-Stift in Kronberg when an which announced a discovery in January that in Maine. Joyce Hovey’s grandson somewhat larger than Bowdoin’s. having Ann and John Snow yard flag display created from Florida. To stay in shape, Harry apartment becomes available.” led to significant national attention. Ray, author regularly walks an adjacent golf of Satan and Salem (University of Virginia course and recovers lost golf 1959 Culture Family Press, 2015), oversees UVA’s Salem Witch Trials balls—3,343 this year, which he Pete Pappas: “Participated in Documentary Archive and Transcription Project, attributes not to the affluence a recent Bowdoin Connections the most comprehensive digital archive of of the players, but rather to the event in New York City, and it primary source materials from the trials. He Friends pressure to move along and not was terrific. Nice to meet so delay action by searching. He many outstanding students and worked with Chris Gist (above, left), a Geographic also gives players the courtesy graduates. Retrospectively, we Information Systems specialist in Alderman of not picking up a ball until it should have gone coed in 1955.” Library’s Scholars’ Lab, to digitally map the area stops moving. Nancy and David John Swierzynski: “I have and help confirm earlier research pinpointing Kessler soaked up some rays in been working for over a year now the execution site.” From a University of Virginia the Bahamas, while Ted Parsons at the College of Southern Nevada news release, January 19, 2016. as a math tutor in the math lab at the Cheyenne campus. I work just nineteen hours a week with a wonderful bunch of people. It’s the Nature most fun job I have ever had.”

1962 Nils Blatz: “Former Class of ’62 ThorntonRetirement CommunityO aks roommates Steve Polederos, Susan and John Vette ’60 flew from Fred Rollinson, Phil Simpson 25 Thornton Way, Brunswick, Maine Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to Puerto Rico to Homemade visit Barbara and Jon Brightman ’60 in (who traveled from Arizona), and I 800-729-8033 Meals January. They found a lap full of dogs, met for what has become a regular Chiquita and Toro. mid-winter mini-reunion, enjoying a

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hockey game, a tour of the campus After that, in 1973, he bought the Maine Windjammer Association release, January 26, 2016. Paul birth of our granddaughter Fiona emphasis on promoting wellness for Integrative Medicine here a selection of my solo guitar with a nostalgic visit to the Chi Psi Lewis R. French—originally built in press release, January 2016. also reported in March that his in January to son John (Tufts through activity, the message on campus. My husband, John pieces: ‘Uptown Express,’ ‘Lodge,’ and ending with dinner 1871 in Christmas Cove, Maine. It new novel, Manhattan Lockdown, ’05) and daughter-in-law Rachel of the day was clearly summed Coons, and I were happy to host ‘Sailing To Byzantium,’ ‘Ophelia,’ downtown at Joshua’s. Special was the same year he cofounded 1970 will be published on July 19. (Smith ’03).” up by UCI professor Jim Hicks: Joan in Irvine for the weekend.” ‘No Particular Place To Go,’ focus this year was the legacy of North End Shipyard in Rockland, “Paul Batista’s novel, Death’s Paulbatistabooks.com. Susan Finigan Coons: “Joan movement might not solve every ‘Nocturnal,’ ‘Mediterranean,’ Larry Pinette, chef extraordinaire, providing the perfect place to Witness, was released in Benoit Samuelson ’79 gave the problem, but it can certainly 1974 ‘Mario’s Tune,’ ‘Lost Highway, first at Chi Psi from ’55 to ’64 and rebuild his first windjammer. Foss paperback in January. A prolific 1972 keynote address in September improve most of our lives quickly Peter Griggs: “I am very Last Waltz,’ and ‘Hello Port at the Senior Center from ’64 to later purchased the ninety-two-foot writer, Batista authored the leading Dana Verrill announced the 2015 at the Moving Through Life and simply.’ Prior to the weekend pleased to announce that Antonio.’ You can listen to tracks ’86 (he died in ’89). We visited American Eagle, which was also treatise on the primary federal wedding of his daughter, Lauren, at Conference at the University of conference, Joan also spoke a recording has just been at opalinestars.com.” Larry’s daughter, Sue, and gave her in need of major restoration. The anti-racketeering statute, Civil the Black Point Inn in Prout’s Neck, California, Irvine. In her opening to a small group of community released, and is available for For news of Lou Hight, see a check for the Laurent and Phyllis Eagle was the last fishing schooner RICO Practice Manual, which is Maine, on September 12, 2015. address, ‘There Is No Finish members and supporters affiliated downloading in mp3 format Kirby Hight ’38. Pinette Scholarship Fund.” built in Gloucester, Massachusetts. now in its third edition. He has also “Several Bowdoin alumni enjoyed Line,’ Joan set the tone for lively with the Susan Samueli Center on Etsy! Desdemona includes Both vessels belong to the Maine written articles for The New York the wedding of Lauren to Chris discussions on the beneficial 1969 Windjammer Association of Times, The Wall Street Journal, Keeven, including grandfather W. impacts of lifelong movement and John Foss has spent the past which Captain Foss is a founding and The National Law Journal. David Verrill ’50, Bill Froelich activity on health and wellness, four decades helping to preserve member. He has managed to save Death’s Witness, his debut legal ’77, Dan Callender, uncles David from early development into the icons of New England’s maritime traditional sailing vessels from the thriller, was awarded a Silver ’83 and Ted Verrill ’71, and cousin nineties! The audience—including heritage without the help of grants scrap heap and turned them into Medal by the Independent Book Emma ’10.” several who had attended the or government money. He has windjammers, and in so doing, has Publishers Association (IBPA). Paul 1984 LA Olympics and watched restored schooners, a tugboat, had a direct hand in preserving the Batista lives in New York City and 1973 Joan cross the finish line in the innumerable dories, even spent oldest fleet of traditional sailing Sag Harbor, New York.” From an Steve Burlock: “Helen and I LA Coliseum—was inspired some time working on Donald vessels in North America. From a Oceanview Publishing PRWeb are very pleased to report the by her dominating Gold Medal MacMillan [Class of 1898]’s performance in the 1984 Olympics historic schooner Bowdoin. He has inaugural women’s and her welcomed thousands of people distinction as the first woman to Maine’s coast, taught them to run sub-three-hour marathons about Maine’s history, folklore, in five different decades. But natural world, and traditional attendees were clearly delighted sailing. He has been a staunch when Joan spoke from her heart, coastal conservationist and has telling her story and sharing Secure Natural Living, a National Destination Joan Benoit Samuelson ’79 and helped to keep more than a few Susan Finigan Coons ’73 (UC Irvine how she incorporates exercise National Historic Landmarks Office of Academic Initiatives) at the and deliberate movement into Hundreds of residents from 29 different States have made Highland Green afloat. Most recently, the USS Moving Through Life Conference at every aspect of her life—from home and enjoy a convenient location, lower-maintenance living, custom- Constitution Museum—an the University of California, Irvine, last collecting seaweed and spreading built free-standing homes, dynamic resident organized activities of all kinds, interpretive center for the US Chip Fendler ’72, La’Shaye Ervin Cobley ’12, President Emeritus Barry Mills ’72, September, where Samuelson gave the it on her garden in Freeport, and a singular sense of wellness through interaction with others. Navy’s oldest active commissioned Andy Reicher ’72, and Josh Knerly ’72 in Park City, Utah. opening address. to her leadership in promoting What further sets Highland Green apart is an unprecedented integration vessel—bestowed its prestigious community health and wellness, of conservation and nature. Its vast 635-acre campus includes the 230-acre Don Turner Award on Captain to her own training runs. The Cathance River Nature Preserve and the Heath Sanctuary, prime conserved Foss. The award recognizes people event was sponsored by the UCI spaces and bird-watching areas. On top of it, a non-profit nature-based and organizations that preserve Exercise Medicine and Sport education organization and Ecology Center affords the chance to truly important vessels and have made Sciences Initiative, where I have embrace volunteerism and the Maine outdoors within the stability of New significant contributions to the worked on multidisciplinary, England’s premier planned community. knowledge and understanding interschool projects for the past of ship design and construction. several years, and highlighted Upon graduating from Bowdoin, prominent speakers and UC–Irvine Highland Green Captain Foss served as a deck researchers in the exercise and “Best Integration of Nature & Landscaping” officer in the Coast Guard for wellness field. Hundreds of NAHB 50+ 2014 International three years, visiting exotic places Orange County residents and Housing Council Builders’ Show A Masterpiece of Maine Living Dana Verrill ’72 celebrated the marriage of his daughter, Lauren, to Chris Keeven (left photo) last September in Maine with such as Cuba in August, St. John, UC–Irvine students, faculty, and for those 55 or better many Bowdoin friends and family. Pictured: W. David Verrill ’50 (bride’s grandfather), Bill Froelich ’77, Dan Callender ’72, David New Brunswick in February, and Verrill ’83 and Ted Verrill ’71 (bride’s uncles), Dana, and Emma Verrill ’10 (bride’s cousin). The ceremony and reception took staff participated in the four forum 7 Evergreen Circle, Topsham, Maine | 866-854-1200 / 207-725-4549 HighlandGreenLifestyle.com You the mid-North Atlantic in winter. place at the Black Point Inn at Prouts Neck, Maine. sessions. Reinforcing Joan’s Tube f

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aura Lorenz ’76 is a visiting scholar at the Schneider L Institute for Health Policy, Heller School for Social 1975 and New England In-House on his expedition to the uncharted beyond stretching the truth.” From Policy and Management, Brandeis University, and director Boston College General Counsel magazines. The list recognizes land as part of his quest to depict the publisher. of research and education for the nonprofit organization Joseph M. Herlihy has been outstanding professional all of the bird species in North Supportive Living Brain Injury Wellness Center in Woburn, named to the In-House Leaders accomplishments, as well as America. “This groundbreaking 1976 REUNION Massachusetts. list published by Lawyers Weekly innovative and practical business book portrays the panoramic Douglas Kennedy recently and legal skills, among in-house sweep of Audubon’s remarkable released his latest novel, The What would most of us be surprised to learn about lawyers who are “leaders in the life, from his illegitimate birth Blue Hour (Atria Books, 2016), traumatic brain injury? community, forward thinkers, and through his aimless early years a thriller set in Morocco on the Conventional “wisdom” was that the adult brain did not best exemplify the noble tradition as a frontier storekeeper to North African Atlantic coast, have plasticity, or the ability to generate new growth and of the legal profession.” From his decision to launch a daring where a couple’s month-long connective pathways, after injury. This assumption has a Boston College press release, enterprise from which he would holiday spins into a dark mystery severely limited access to cognitive rehabilitation. Recent March 2016. emerge as America’s greatest and a frantic search for truth. research shows that the adult brain has potential to improve For news of Debbie Duffy naturalist. At the heart of this “With his acclaimed ability to even years after injury. Policy, however, has not kept pace Hight, see Kirby Hight ’38. saga lies the Labrador expedition. write thought-provoking page- with this knowledge. Peter Logan has released With the reader alongside during turners, Douglas Kennedy takes How has increased public awareness of CTE and Audubon: America’s Greatest the most critical point in his readers into a world where only athletes impacted your work? Naturalist and His Voyage of career, Audubon is revealed as Patricia Highsmith has ever dared. Funding for bench research on the brain is growing, and the Peter Pizzi ’75 and Rinker Buck ‘75 at Discovery to Labrador (Ashbryn his closest friends knew him: The Blue Hour is a roller-coaster brain itself is a topic of daily conversation. However, the Rinker’s book reading of The Oregon Press, April 2016), a new dynamic, gregarious, and utterly journey into a heart of darkness person with the brain gets much less attention. Advanced Trail in December 2015 at Northshire biography of painter and naturalist indomitable, while simultaneously that asks the question: What medical care means people with serious brain injuries survive Books in Manchester, Vermont. John James Audubon that focuses insecure, egotistical, and not would you do if your life depended more often. Society has not stepped up to pay for the long- term consequences of saving those lives. It is challenging to attract funding to improve quality of life and services for these people. Part of my daily work is spent recruiting a next generation of researchers and clinicians. Love AND Murder You worked for nonprofits as a photojournalist, writer, and editor for twenty years. What prompted Mary M. Van Arsdel ’75 is currently your career change? starring in the role of Miss Shingle I believed I was part of the “solution” when I wrote positive in the National Broadway Tour of stories about international development. Then UNICEF I would “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and sent me to central India to write a series of articles on child like to see Murder,” the 2014 winner of four agricultural labor. I visited a commercial grape farm, where I more people Tony Awards, including Best watched in horror as a young girl stuck her hands in a bucket Musical. The tour plays of pesticide powder, a job for which she earned fifteen cents live with cities around the country a day. That moment was a major turning point. I realized dignity and through March 2017. I needed to ask more critical questions. Hopefully my later choice in the graduate studies and research work have helped me to do that. Maybe I have also staved off some cognitive decline by community. doing so much studying later in life, or so I tell myself! I believe we During your lifetime, what would you like to see all benefit happen where research, treatment, and advocacy from having for individuals with chronic brain injury are concerned? more diverse I would like to see more people live with dignity and choice and inclusive in the community. I believe we all benefit from having more communities. diverse and inclusive communities. Increasing access to housing, transportation, and recreation services is key, and solutions are still emerging. agentlemansguidebroadway.com Photo by Joan Marcus Photo by Webb Chappell

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on it?” From the publisher. The the 2016 Compassion in Action at Hogan Lovells at the end of which side of the road I am driving “On Parenting” section of The Middle Bay Farm Bed & Breakfast award at Food & Friends, a 2016 and am founder and board on, but it’s good to be ‘home.’ Washington Post included a On the Ocean Washington, DC, social services president of the Future of Privacy Eager to reconnect with friends touching article by Kennedy about agency. Until April 2016, I led the Forum and founding chair of the from Psi U and Bowdoin.” his son’s determined battle with 4 miles from Bowdoin College • Open year round privacy and cybersecurity practice Privacy Bar Division of IAPP.” Jonathan Kahn: “Last May, my autism and ultimate acceptance Offers four sunny bedrooms, each with a water at Hogan Lovells, an international daughter, Leah, entered the ranks into college (February 19, 2016); view, private bath, TV/VCR. Room rates are law firm. I will become Of Counsel 1977 of Bowdoin alumna as a proud and a recent New York Times piece $150 to $170 and include a full breakfast. Peter Pressman: “On returning member of the Class of 2015. She 287 Pennellville Road, Brunswick, ME 04011 in the “Sunday Routine” section Two suites in sail loft cottage are more rustic, from a joint Peruvian-UK-US moved to San Francisco in July (207) 373-1375 • [email protected] chronicled “How the Novelist but include living area, kitchenette, two small research site outside of Lima, I’m with a job (yeah!) and is loving bedrooms, and private bath. Suite rates are www.middlebayfarm.com Douglas Kennedy Spends His happy to report being appointed the Bay Area. In September, I sold $150 to $190. Owned by Phyllis Truesdell, wife of the late Clark Truesdell ’65 Sundays.” (March 25, 2016). New managing partner at Sherin and director of medical operations my wood pellet manufacturing “Larsson & Scheuritzel PC, Lodgen LLP in Boston Doug Henry ’80 for PolyScience Consulting in Los facility, Geneva Wood Fuels, to a one of Philadelphia’s leading joins three other Bowdoin alumni at Angeles. This spring a colleague private equity firm. I ran Geneva, commercial real estate law firms, the firm (which equals 10 percent of and I will be teaching the first located in Strong, Maine, for reported that shareholder David the staff): chair of the firm’s litigation course in global nutrition within seven years and it was a real J. Larsson taught a continuing department Sara Jane Shanahan ’91; the USC/Keck School of Medicine bonus to be a business owner in newly promoted litigation partner legal education course titled ’The Program in Global Medicine. And, Western Maine and be able to The Cabin Jessica Gray Kelly ’01; and real estate Unwritten Rules of Commercial associate Michel Bamani ’08. to complete the LA experience, pop in and visit Bowdoin so often. Real Estate Transactions’ Jonathan Kahn ’80 and his daughter, I am working on a project with Four years ago I was married to at Jenkins Law Library in Restaurant Leah ’15. screenwriter and producer Ron Susan Stone (Yale ’83, Harvard JD Philadelphia in March 2016. Bass. Best of all, son Jacob has ’87). This made official a merger Larsson has practiced commercial 552 Washington Street, Bath accepted early decision admission that began ten years ago when real estate law since 1984, to Stanford, so the shift back to the Susan and I blended our families. advising clients (particularly The Cabin opened its doors in June Golden State is nearly complete!” The full roster includes Myles, a owners, tenants, and other ‘end of 1973. Serving our local and junior at Michigan, and Becca, users’) on real estate acquisitions, faraway friends for over forty years. 1979 a junior in high school. In a few dispositions, development With the only real hand-tossed John Holt: “With my oldest weeks my semi-retirement will projects, leasing, financing, and CABIN PIZZA? daughter Gemma (Williams end and I will assume the CEO pizza in Maine. We are proud to John Holt ’79 and his oldest daughter asset management projects ’17), I summited Aconcagua on position at Agritech Worldwide, a The only real pizza in Maine. serve good food and warm spirits Gemma (Williams ’17) 22,841 feet all across the United States. A up on the summit of Aconcagua in On March 22, 2015, Matthew Fisher ’84 January 18, 2016. At 22,841 feet, publicly traded and Chicago-based former partner at an AmLaw 100 “ — Portland Newspaper” in a rustic, nautical atmosphere. Argentina. An avid climber, John and his wife, Shelley, were ordained Aconcagua is the highest mountain agricultural technology company. law firm, Dave is a member of the Located in the south end of Bath admits, “It was the hardest one yet.” Shin Buddhist Priests in Tokyo. in South America and the highest I am very excited to get back to One of the best in New England. Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar across from Bath Iron Works. The mountain in the world that isn’t in work and look forward to a new Association and the International “ — Boston Globe the Himalayas. It was the hardest business challenge.” ” front section of the restaurant was Council of Shopping Centers.” one yet, but we both feel a deep Alec Lee was honored by From a Larsson & Scheuritzel About as good as it gets in Maine. once a rope mill in the historic sense of satisfaction. The Andes the White House as one of press release, March 4, 2016. “ — Downeast Magazine ” shipbuilding days. In its past, it has were stunning, absolutely gorgeous ten Champions of Change, an Christopher Wolf: “Capping been a barbershop, ice cream parlor, mountains. And Argentina is a Obama administration initiative A local tradition. Some would argue a thirty-six-year-long legal career, and sandwich shop. Now our menu wonderful place to recover; lots of to honor Americans who make over the past year I have received “the best pizza in the state of Maine. steak and Malbec!” significant contributions to their includes pasta dinners, subs, salads the International Association — Offshore Magazine ” communities in education, civil of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and, of course, pizza. Stop by for a 1980 rights, healthcare, and the arts. Lee Vanguard Award, the Berkeley wonderful meal. Barbara Hendrie: “I have finally was chosen for his work in helping Center for Law and Technology HOURS OF OPERATION: moved back ‘cross the pond! underprivileged youth as cofounder first Annual Privacy Award, the Sunday – Thursday: 10am – 10pm Open year round, seven days a week Switching governments, I am now and executive director of Aim High, Washingtonian Magazine ‘Best a senior advisor in the US Agency a San Francisco-based educational Friday – Saturday: 10am – 11pm for lunch and dinner. Cash or Lawyers’ designation, and the for International Development nonprofit that provides under- Mark Bayer ’79 hosted fellow Polar Bears at an alumni gathering at The Electronic Privacy Information checks accepted. ATM on premises. (USAID). I just bought a flat resourced middle school youth in Local delivery available. Theodore in Dallas, Texas, in early February. Pictured: Andrew Howard ’09, Mark Center (EPIC) Lifetime Achievement 443-6224 Bayer ’79, Dave Jackson ’92, Alex Krippner ’06, Hannah Vossler ’11, Drew Russo ’06, in Washington, DC. Still a bit the Bay Area with free summer Award. I was also the winner of and Randy Ebner ’77. confused how to spell things and learning programs. More than

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450 individuals across the nation crawly, dirty, muddy, green, and of music at Boston College. while also exploring blackness were nominated but just nine were growing things that can be found Mangin is an ethnomusicologist in Senegalese hip-hop and the selected. According to its website, outside in the garden. From pill and musician researching the dynamics of improvisation in Hollywood, Right Around the Corner Aim High is the Bay Area’s largest bugs to worms to leafy green intersection of popular music, New York City’s underground provider of free summer learning; sprouts, young readers will love race, ethnicity, religion, and hip-hop and jazz scene. From an Paul M. Chutich ’87: “I still own and operate a bar/restaurant this year they expect to serve 2,000 discovering the muddy garden cosmopolitanism in West Africa announcement by the Columbia called the Delkwood Grill in Marietta, Georgia [in the metro Atlanta middle school students and hire habitat within the pages of this and the African Diaspora. He University department of music. area]. Last February, a movie company filmed in the restaurant 500 teachers across its seventeen book—and outside in their own received his doctorate from Garth Myers: “My new book, for two days. The movie [which came out in early 2016] is called campuses. From the Bowdoin Daily backyards.” From the publisher. Columbia University in 2013 and Urban Environments in Africa Dirty Grandpa, with Robert DeNiro, Zac Ephron, and Aubrey Plaza. Sun, February 24, 2016. Matthew Fisher: “My wife, received fellowships from the (Policy Press, 2016), has just been There [are] scenes in the movie both inside and outside (although Shelley, and I were honored Columbia University’s Center published. And I had a blast at the they changed the name of the place to the ‘Sweet Peaches Cafe.’) It 1982 with Tokudo Ordination as Shin for Comparative Literature and January 2016 Bowdoin Wrestling was very exciting to be around the production and meet such big Anne Korkeakivi: My new novel, Buddhist Priests in Tokyo, Japan, Society, St. Lawrence University’s Reunion organized by Tom stars and have them in [the restaurant]. And, who knows, maybe a at the Tokyo Honganji temple. department of music, Mellon Gampers ’79 and Emmitt Lyne Shining Sea, comes out from Little, career in Hollywood is right around the corner.” Brown on August 9, 2016. I hope We now reside in and gently Foundation, the Foreign Language ’81. Nice to see them, and Matt Photo by Lionsgate everyone will read and enjoy.” run the Reno Buddhist Center, Areas Studies Program, and a Burridge ’82 and Ernie Votolato a sangha of 120 Buddhists Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research ’81, as well as our coaches and 1984 in Reno, Nevada. Writing my Abroad Program. He is working other alums I hadn’t known.” at the art gallery ZeroStation 1987 Dark (Holiday House, 2013), was Auerbach Koopman Director of Cindy Jenson-Elliot’s new biweekly Dharma talks reminds on a book examining indigenous in Portland, Maine. “I think of Susan Hill Long: “My next named a Publishers Weekly Best Education. Rice will oversee children’s picture book, Dig In! me of endlessly writing papers at cosmopolitanism through the 1986 REUNION my contributions as sketches: novel for young readers [was Book of the Year and won the public and community programs, mapping the edges of how I think 2015 Oregon Book Award.” school and teacher programs, the (Beach lane Books, 2016), “is a Bowdoin—good times! If you’re intersection of the Senegalese Work by Bridget Spaeth released] by Knopf in May 2016. about things when provoked by an Anne Britting Oleson: “My docent and tour program, and sweet and playful celebration of in Reno on a Sunday, please urban dance music called mbalax was included in the exhibition It’s called The Magic Mirror: idea, a wrench in the conceptual novel, The Book of the Mandolin visitor services. In addition, she outdoor exploration that makes come by for tea.” and the practice of black, Wolof Topophilia! Portland and Concerning a Lonely Princess, works, a bone. Portland was the Player, was published by B Ink intends to place an emphasis on a perfect read aloud for story Timothy Mangin has been (the dominant ethnic group), the Ways of Knowing Place, a Foundling Girl, a Scheming place I was living when I changed Books on April 1, 2016. It is collaboration with the region’s time. Explore all of the creepy, appointed assistant professor gendered, and Muslim identities, which opened in early April King and a Pickpocket Squirrel. my mind,” Bridget writes. My recent novel, Whistle in the available on amazon.com or at a higher education community, bookstore near you.” forming stronger relationships 106 Ravine Drive, Cumberland, ME Tony Stais: “It must be the with colleges and universities and season, but a couple of weeks providing more structure to the after a great Napa birthday bash opportunities offered to students for Margaret King and Anne- and faculty. Another focus will be Marie Sanders, I saw a group in-gallery interpretation, as Rice of Bowdoin friends at my fiftieth and her team work with curators “Aerie,” Captain Parker Head Road, Phippsburg, Maine birthday in San Fransisco. My to build upon existing content and Overlooking Striped Bass Passage and the entrance to the Atlantic Ocean, this wife, Marcie Holland (Tulane create fresh vehicles—including thoughtfully designed, estate-quality home is situated on just under six private acres ’86), suggested a New Orleans- the digital—through which the of land, with 100 feet of owned water frontage. The interior boasts custom features themed party and we had a museum visitor can encounter including granite stone fireplace, cathedral ceilings, well-appointed gourmet kitchen, $1,260,000 Spectacular Water Views! blast with a group of family and and experience art. Before joining grand first-floor master bedroom with separate sitting area and spacious five-fixture Perfectly sited on a hillside, this elegant home offers expansive views bath, and spacious and sunlit rooms with elevated water views. Oversized deck, of Casco Bay from every room. With more than 4,000 square feet friends that included Bowdoin the Wadsworth Atheneum in private guest wing, and theater room make this property perfectly suited for visitors above ground, the thoughtful design groups the master bedroom alums Bill Craddock, Chris 2005, Rice was the Museum and entertaining. Located just minutes from Popham Beach....$899,000. suite, office, kitchen, living room, dining room, and library on the ground floor for complete second-floor privacy. The cottage-style Wilson ’86, Kathryn Sargent Educator for Teacher Programs second floor and a finished walk-out lower level could accommodate ’84, Buzz Burlock ’85, Leslie at the Brooklyn Museum of Art a live-in guest in semi-private quarters. Highly-efficient heating/ cooling/air exchange/solar systems deliver year-round comfort with Walker Burlock ’85, Anne- in New York City. She has held low energy and maintenance costs. MLS#1262200 Marie, Sean Carnathan ’86, lecturing and teaching positions

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48 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 49 Class of 1995 & 2015 Bowdoin Class News Sajjad Jaffer & Chunyi Zhao • Asking the Right Questions

BATTLING FOR PRESERVATION, ONE PODCAST AT A TIME Zoë Kontes ’96, an archaeologist and associate professor and chair in the classics department at Kenyon College, is a recent recipient of a Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship. With her fellowship, Big data and Kontes, who also deejays a local radio show, will bring her passions data science together to create twelve episodes of a podcast on the illicit trade constitute the in classical antiquities, the first of its kind. Each episode will use the next industrial story of a specific artifact to explore larger topics such as the looting revolution. of ancient sites; forgeries, and the science behind determining authenticity; and what happens to cultural property during war. The first episode will be available in October 2016 through Kontes’s page at whiting.org/humanities.

Museum of Art press release, living organizations and will help Virginia, Creating Results press Tennessee Department of Health March 25, 2016. Creating Results better meet the release, February 11, 2016. press release, January 12, 2016. “Creating Results, a full- needs of its expanding client service strategic marketing base. Most recently, she was 1993 1994 Photo by Brian Wedge ’97 consultancy with offices in the vice president of marketing and “The Tennessee Department of Tom Davidson: “The Davidsons Mid-Atlantic and New England, sales at Lifespace Communities, Health has appointed Adele are all thriving down here in string of Bowdoin connections—including Todd liberal arts background has given you the tools to be not only has welcomed marketing leader the seventh-largest not-for-profit Maurer Lewis as one of two DC; there are four little ones, Herrmann ’85, associate director of Bowdoin’s Career successful, but a leader among others more technically trained. A Kimberly Wilkinson Hulett senior living provider. In this role, accomplished medical doctors and Elissa still has to deal with Planning Center; Assistant Professor of Math Jack O’Brien; and Bowdoin played a huge role [for me, too]. I was a double major ’90 as executive vice president. she oversaw all aspects of the and forensic pathologists to direct managing me. Not an easy job. Kevin Petrie ’95—helped pair recent graduate Chunyi Zhao ’15 in computer science and government and a minor in econ, Hulett brings more than a decade organization’s strategic marketing, the state’s medical examiner My company, EverFi, launched with Sajjad Jaffer ’95, managing partner at Two Six Capital, and I think that has been the hallmark of what we do at Two of experience and proven success sales and communications office. Lewis will assume the role a product called HAVEN that is a San Francisco-based firm that applies data science to private Six—connecting the dots between unrelated fields to come in increasing sales for senior initiatives.” From a Woodbridge, of state chief medical examiner, the leading software used by equity investing. This spring, Jaffer and Zhao sat down for up with new insights. To me, that’s the definition of critical effective March 6, 2016. From over 800 campuses (Harvard, a conversation about why data science matters and why the thinking. I was fortunate to have very involved mentors after 2011 to 2015 Lewis had been the Princeton, Stanford, UVA, UCLA, liberal arts matters to data science. graduating—in particular, two Bowdoin trustees, J. Crandall ’76 deputy chief medical examiner for Michigan, and more) to teach Jaffer: What is it about your background and studies that and Dave Brown ’79, who were highly supportive when Two Nashville/Davidson County and students about sexual assault made you a good fit as a data scientist at Two Six? Six Capital was an investment thesis filled with pages of math since 2006 served as assistant prevention. It is now one of the and statistics. Zhao: I was a math major and my focus was on computational and associate medical examiner largest courses in the world.” statistics and data analysis. From day one, I was playing Zhao: Data science is actually very relevant to everyone in for Forensic Medical Management with real data and doing all kinds of cool visualizations, this era of technology because, as technology consumers, we Services, PLC in Nashville. Since 1995 which prepared me well for the real world. Also, my honors are constantly generating data, and then we benefit from the 2007 she has been a member of Jenn Belka O’Hara: “Matt thesis strengthened my ability to tackle complex projects insight that is being drawn from the data we generate. I think the Davidson County Child Death [O’Hara] and I spent some independently and methodically, which helps me a lot in my this is a very interesting ecosystem. Review Board, serving as co-chair summer days with Kersten day-to-day work here. from 2010 to present. She has Stannard Panzo and her Jaffer: I agree. Big data and data science constitute the next been published in a number of husband, Jeff, and enjoyed a visit Jaffer: I think the essence of your education comes down to industrial revolution. We have seen this in Silicon Valley and professional publications for from Laura Stanton Hopkins Jack [O’Brien]’s approach to teaching students how to ask the technology companies, and now we see the same effect in the forensic science community ’97 and Craig Hopkins on Fire right questions, and the habit of teaching yourself and finding investing and in how capital is put to work. They have the Last summer, Jenn Belka O’Hara ’95 and Matt O’Hara ’95 spent some days with Kersten Stannard Panzo ’95 and her husband, Jeff, and enjoyed a visit from and has lectured at numerous Island. Our collective six future coding resources on the fly. I think that’s what made you potential to disrupt how strategic decisions are made, how Laura Stanton Hopkins’97 and Craig Hopkins ’95 on Fire Island. All of the kids conferences and symposiums Polar Bears had a blast together!” such a great fit. Coding is the new creative writing, and your companies invest, and how they generate higher rates of returns. represented! Katie O’Hara (seven), Alex Hopkins (six), Caroline O’Hara (nine), Nora on forensic matters.” From a Read a longer version of this Q&A on our website, bowdoin.edu/magazine. Panzo (five), and Zoe Panzo (seven). Not pictured: Andrew Hopkins (three).

[email protected] 51 Class of 2002 Bowdoin Dave Bulow • Youth Soccer Coach Class News Former Professional Soccer Player, Richmond Kickers, United Soccer League

1996 REUNION first book in the series, Eddie Red Michael Hall ’99 married new life together!” Marcia Williams Wells recently Undercover: Mystery on Museum Jessica Westland at Point Ryan Johnson: “I got published “the third book in her Mile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lookout in Northport, Maine, on married! It was an incredible popular Eddie Red Undercover 2014), was nominated for a 2015 January 23, 2016. three-day celebration in Port mystery series for readers ages Edgar Award in the Best Juvenile Townsend, Washington, with eight to twelve. Each Eddie category by the Mystery Writers 2000 several Bowdoin friends at my mystery features the crime-solving of America. It was followed by Eric Henry: “Lindsay ‘Lulu’ side. Go U Bears!” exploits of sixth-grader Edmund Mystery in Mayan Mexico in 2015, Junkin (Kenyon College ’05) and Lonnrot, code name ‘Eddie Red,’ and now Doom at Grant’s Tomb I were married in New Haven, 2001 REUNION You can only worry about the whose photographic memory (April 2016).” From the publisher. Connecticut, on August 22, Marianne Lipa: “I married Satish things you can control—eat has helped him to become the 2015, followed by a wonderful Valluri on July 11, 2015, at the 1997 two-week honeymoon in South Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts right, get your sleep, train hard, NYPD’s secret weapon on a number of high-profile cases. The Ester Baker-Tarpaga: “We are Africa. We live in Manhattan. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It and take care of your body. currently living in Philadelphia, Lulu is a former ballet dancer was wonderful to celebrate with where I am a professor at University and now works for a performing Bowdoin Polar Bears. Our other of the Arts. I am also doing social arts agency, and I am a business exciting news is Satish and I are justice organizing locally. Our attorney and entrepreneur. We expecting a baby boy in late April- daughter is eight and we recently both feel very grateful to have early May! On the professional went to Ubud, Bali, to perform and such amazing family and friends. I front, after a decade of working at teach at Bali Spirit Festival. Earlier especially appreciate my Bowdoin the Wharton School of Business this year we were cultural envoys experience and the College’s at Penn in both undergraduate to InOut Festival in Bobo Dioulasso, community of great people, with advising and alumni relations, I Performance artist Ester Baker- Burkina Faso, where I performed particular fondness for the late Tarpaga ’97 solo performs “Whiteness now advise the College of Arts and Revisited” at The Clifford Symposium a site-specific installation and we Professor Richard Morgan ’59. Sciences undergraduates in Penn Photo by Adam Ewing at Middlebury College, Vermont. taught master classes.” Lulu and I are excited about our Career Services.” Miriam Platzer: “I am excited How difficult was the transition from college soccer to can only worry about the things you can control—eat right, get to announce the release of my playing in the professional leagues? your sleep, train hard, and take care of your body. first children’s book! Lovingly It was probably similar to the transition from high school to A liberal arts education is supposed to prepare you for illustrated by Padma Bhatt, Owen college. The speed of play and technical ability was amazing, pretty much anything in life. How did your time at A Good Vintage and the Old Tortoise is based on much higher than anything I’d ever seen. There was a training Bowdoin prepare you for a life as a pro soccer player? the true story of an unlikely bond session in 2004 when I was playing with the Colorado Rapids that Soccer is a player-centered sport, as opposed to a coach-centered In February, Wine & Spirits formed between a young hippo and sticks out in my mind. I was playing for my hometown club with sport. Every decision on the soccer field is made by the players, an ancient tortoise. Above all, it is a guys who had just played in the World Cup, played in the English magazine released the list of and the ability to think critically and quickly is sometimes the tale of family and friendship. It can be Premier League, and at some of the best colleges in the country. their “Year’s Best US Wines” difference between an average soccer player and a great one. ordered on both bellastoriapress.com In the span of about ninety seconds, I lost possession because of that included offerings from Bowdoin really taught me to think about a wide variety of topics and amazon.com!” a bad first touch three times in a row. Pablo Masteroni blew up two vineyards run by Bowdoin in many different ways. My pro career came via an unusual path, Xavier Santiago, founder and on me (with some colorful language) for losing the ball, so I did and without my ability to think critically and the ability to adapt alumni. Nicholas Miller ’02 manager of Saint Productions my best the rest of the session to make sure no one passed the ball quickly, it probably would have turned out a lot shorter in the end. and his wife, Shelly Chessie in New York and London, which to me so I couldn’t give it away again. Of course these moments produces film, television, and passed, and soon I was the one yelling at the young guys who What does the future hold? Miller ’03, along with Nicholas’s commercials, has produced Pardon were nervously losing the ball when they were under pressure. I was lucky to play at the level I did for as long as I did, but I brother, Marshall ’00, are part The Intrusion, a short film about retired from playing in 2013. I am now a coach and though I of Bien Nacido Vineyard, which Any tips for preventing or dealing with injury? an elderly housebound woman terribly miss playing (still struggle to watch my former teams was recognized for its 2012 Santa I do remember when playing in Ireland, on a fifty-fifty tackle, who finds she is not alone when and teammates play), I am really enjoying what I am doing. I I tried to poke the ball away and hop over the other guy. It Maria Valley Syrah and 2012 Santa an intruder inhabits her home. completed my USSFA license a year ago last November, and I worked, but my own teammates told me “Bules, you’re gonna Maria Valley Pinot Noir. And Nick The movie boasts an all-woman am eager to coach at the professional level someday in the near get killed! You have to go in a tackle as hard as you can; cast and director, has won awards future. I am currently the head coach for the boys U16 Richmond Peay ’88 of Peay Vineyards was whoever goes in harder won’t be the one getting injured!” I at three festivals, and has been United US Development Academy. Hopefully I can share some of honored for his 2012 Sonoma never tried to skip out of a tackle again in my career. But, apart accepted to several others. my experiences as a pro in the US and Europe with some of the Coast Les Titans Syrah. from these specific situations that I learned, injuries are just a Santiago is a graduate of the most talented young soccer players in the country. part of sport, and sometimes there’s nothing you can do. You American Academy of Dramatic

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Arts and Columbia University. He (Columbia University Press, 2016), Columbia University Press release, Preti Flaherty as an associate the largest firms in the US, has worked in the entertainment Alissa Cordner explores how April 6, 2016. in the firm’s Litigation Group. BAILEY ISLAND WATERFRONT representing clients in all phases This amazing, easterly facing, open-ocean parcel on the rocks offers incredible industry for the past fifteen years flame retardants, initially marketed He practices from their Boston privacy by virtue of the unique site configuration, and seclusion that can only be of complex civil litigation. He is and was on-air talent and producer as life-saving advancements, are 2005 office, covering a wide range appreciated by visiting this parcel. The existing three-bedroom, log-sided cottage a graduate of the University of for two seasons with the Animal now mired in controversy. As an Elizabeth Davidson and Mark of litigation matters, including includes a stone fireplace and water-view deck where you can hear the surf crashing Virginia School of Law, where in the front yard. Septic was installed in 2010. Fabulous oceanfront site, convenient Planet show, Groomer Has It! View environmental sociologist, she Krempley were married at Rose commercial and civil litigation. to all coastal amenities of Bailey Island. $790,000 he worked at the US Department the trailer for Pardon the Intrusion interviews hundreds of activists, Hill Manor in Leesburg, Virginia, Prior to joining Preti Flaherty, of Justice’s Antitrust Division at vimeo.com/140136509. scientists, regulators, and industry on September 19, 2015. Eric handled litigation matters and participated in antitrust HARPSWELL WATERFRONT professionals to isolate the social, Eric G. Penley has joined at the Boston office of one of This two-acre, waterfront, contemporary chalet features cathedral ceilings, investigations of mergers in the 2003 scientific, economic, and political a partially-finished walk-out basement, large water-view deck, two-car financial markets, banking, and Brian Curry and Vanessa Shopis forces influencing environmental detached garage, automatic generator, and much more. The living room software industries. From a Preti boasts lots of windows which look out to the water and all the wildlife that a (Bucknell University ’06) were health policy today.” From a tidal cove has to offer. Freshly painted inside and out, the property includes Flaherty press release, April 25, married in Hartford, Connecticut, on a common dock, ramp, and float for canoeing, kayaking, or small boating. 2016. September 20, 2014, with a number Located on a dead-end road, this is a very private site. $439,000 Adnan Prsic and Elizabeth of Bowdoin friends in attendance. Horn (Tulane University ’05) HARPSWELL WATERFRONT – LONG ISLAND Liesl Finn married Ryan Vasan celebrated their wedding on Enjoy your own private “getaway” cottage with private boat access and over five (Duke University ’04) on September acres of land and 400 feet of west-facing water frontage on the New Meadows October 11, 2014, in Saint Louis, 20, 2014, in York, Maine. River. The kitchen/dining/living space is laid out in an open plan beneath a Missouri. Jennifer Laraia and Christopher cathedral ceiling. A first-floor bedroom offers convenient accommodation, along Maietta were married in New with additional sleeping space in the large loft. Take advantage of the screened-in- 2006 REUNION porch with woodstove to take the “chill off” after enjoying a day of boating with Haven, Connecticut, on November Ferd Convery married Joanna Once (and future?) Polar Bears gathered for good company and good times the on-site ramp and float. $249,500 7, 2015. Lindsay Bramwell Bogenschuetz in Acton, Massachusetts, on October 24, 2015. Pictured (with parents in Wong (Smith College ’06, ’04 and husband, Trevor, welcomed parentheses): Callum Brawn (Ryan Brawn ’03 and Kristin Brawn), William Staley Rob Williams Real Estate Bowdoin Twelve College 2004 their third child, Trent David (Mike Balulescu ’03 and Sarah Staley), Spencer Smith (Nate Smith ’04 and Alli Unique Coastal Properties • Seasonal Rentals Available • 207-833-5078 • baileyisland.com Exchange ’06) on October 24, “In her new book, Toxic Safety Bogenschuetz, on December 28, Smith ’03), Nora Walker (Nick Walker ’04 and Jackie Walker ’06), Andrew Pelletier 2015, at Brookmill Farm in 2015, in Scottsdale, Arizona. (Brian Pelletier and Yelena Pelletier ’04), Rocky Walker, and Elizabeth Staley. Lambertville, New Jersey. The couple is currently living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. BRUNSWICK: This charming Cape Cod-style condo is located in the desirable Birch Meadow neighborhood. It Anna Shapell: “Ryan features a spacious living room, dining room with access [Fletcher] ’07 and I were to the back deck, kitchen with desk area, two first-floor married on October 11, 2015, bedrooms and full bathroom; along with a study, bedroom, at the Museum of Science in and full bath on the second floor. Enjoy the perennial gardens, secluded backyard, and large deck. Convenience and easy Boston, Massachusetts. We maintenance! $224,500. were surrounded by our sizable Bowdoin family, and everyone had a blast.” BRUNSWICK: Fox Hill Farm has been beautifully renovated and expanded to provide the best of an original Sheryl Stevens ’07 and 1799 antique cape with all of the benefits and comforts of Zachary Pleiss were married on a very high quality home. There are four bedrooms and August 22, 2015, in Minneapolis, four-and-a-half bathrooms. The elegant kitchen features a Minnesota, by the bride’s cathedral ceiling, skylights, granite finishes, and a charming fireplace, while the spacious family room is flooded with brother, Mike Stevens ’04. light and includes a fireplace and cathedral ceiling. The attached guest/in-law apartment has its own separate 2007 entrance and a new 28 x 40 barn was built in 2012. There is Zachary Hammond and Brooke much more to see, and it’s all situated on 2.6 acres of land in the prestigious Harbor Ridge neighborhood, not far from Anable (Bates College ’06) were town near Freeport Harbor. $769,000. married on September 19, 2015, in Littleton, New Hampshire. For news of Sam Hight, see Morton Real Estate (207) 729-1863 Kirby Hight ’38. 240 Maine Street • Brunswick, ME 04011 • www.MaineRE.com • Email: [email protected] Alex Lamb and Sam Kamin ’08 were “married at

54 BOWDOIN | SPRING/SUMMER 2016 [email protected] 55 Bowdoin Bowdoin Class News Class News the Bowdoin Chapel and the Nature Conservancy and designed with my then-future husband in since returned to life here in Henderson were married on 2011 REUNION Brunswick Hotel and Tavern last a pilot environmental education January 2015, where we both Sydney and would love to connect May 9, 2015, at Migis Lodge in Jack Morrison and Alison summer and had many Polar curriculum for The Los Angeles started new jobs in the city. We with any fellow Polar Bears in the South Casco, Maine. Palmer were married on January Bears in attendance! Megan Audubon Society.” From Cushman got married back in my hometown land down under!” Katie Cushing: “Mikyo 23, 2016, at Devil’s Thumb Ranch Marsh was our wedding & Wakeman’s global blog. of Santa Ynez, California, in Emily Swaim married Matt Butler and I are recent in Tabernash, Colorado, close to coordinator, Emily Tong ’11 was Julie Jacquet and Shane September, and it was wonderful Ranaghan (Hobart College ’07) on newcomers to San Francisco their new home in Boulder. our photographer, and Daryl Farrell were married at the to celebrate our wedding with September 19, 2015, in Orleans, from Boston (Mikyo working in McLean deejayed!” Bowdoin Chapel on October 24, a myriad of guests from around Massachusetts. family wealth management and I 2012 Michael Peiser married 2015. the world, including Bowdoin am in development at SFMOMA) William Pugh and Kathleen Shana Valo (McGill ’07), who’s Samantha Jessup Stalling: classmates Rachel Ackerman 2010 and enjoy seeing many Bowdoin Blue were married on August from Toronto, on October 11, “I moved to Sydney, Australia, and Nathan Morrow. We have Joanna Caldwell and Joe alumni in the area!” 15, 2015, in St. Catherine of 2015, at the Toronto Reference Sienna Church in Burlingame, Library in Toronto, Ontario. California, followed by a reception in Palo Alto with many 2008 Bowdoin friends in attendance. Abigail Isaacson and Zander Amanda Gartside married Abbott were married in the her high school sweetheart, John Bowdoin Chapel on June 28, 2015. Kim (Yale ’11), at Camp Timber Robert Rezvani married Tops in Greeley, Pennsylvania, Megan Lopretto (East Stroudsburg on September 19, 2015. University ’11) on August 8, 2015, Eat. in Livingston, New Jersey. 2013 Katie Yankura: “I married Monica Wlodarczyk and Elliot Michael G. Swacha on June 13, Beck ’09 met as members of 2015, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. the Bowdoin squash team and [We] are both working on PhDs in Drink. started dating in 2009. They English and expect to graduate in were married August 14, 2015, May 2017.” Chester Eng ’11 and Katie Blizzard ’11 after an Ultimate Frisbee game at at St. Clements Castle near their Anacostia Park in Washington, DC, on home in Connecticut, surrounded 2009 March 20, 2016. by friends and family. “Jackie Li recently wrote about Stay. the landmark climate agreement reached in December 2015, at the annual Conference of Parties (COP) in Paris, France. The conference, known as QUICK STICK COP21, brought 195 nations Jake McCampbell ’11: “I started a lacrosse together in a culmination of over twenty years of negotiations; company called StringKing. Jeffrey Cutter the resulting universal binding ’09, Owen ‘Kit’ Smith ’11, and Mark Flibotte decision requires some form of ’12 are partners/owners of the company. action by every country to address We launched our first shaft last fall and climate change. Li is an associate in Cushman & Wakefield’s just launched our first head and complete Sustainability Strategies team stick this past February. We want to make and a master’s candidate in lacrosse more enjoyable for the young BISTRO PRIVATE EVENTS BICYCLES OVERNIGHT PACKAGES HOT TUB urban planning at New York Ben Livingston ’13, David Bruce ’13, Andy Zheng ’14, and Devin Hardy ’13 at the players and also more accessible to people University’s Wagner School of opening of the exhibition (Un)conditional Color, curated by Bowdoin’s A. Leroy • • • • who don’t have a lot of cash.” Public Service. Prior to joining 10 Water Street Brunswick, Maine 207 373 1824 thedanielhotel.com thedanielhotel Greason Professor of Art Mark Wethli. The show ran at the Curator Gallery in the Cushman & Wakefield team, New York City this spring. Other alumni who attended the opening included Lisa she was a Policy Fellow to The Dahl ’93, Haley Gewandter ’14, Daniel Eloy ’15, and Phoebe Happ ’14.

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celebrated their wedding on Katherine Finnegan ’09, Jonah 6 Eric Henry ’00 and Lindsay Sean Starke ’03, Matt Norcia ’03, 9 Anna Shapell ’06 married Ryan October 11, 2014, in Saint Louis, Ross ’08, Ali Cram Ross ’09. Not “Lulu” Junkin (Kenyon College Ryan Seymour ’03, Jordan Allred Fletcher ’07 at the Museum of Missouri. Pictured: Charles Ashley pictured: Alison Sarokhan ’09. ’05) were married in New Haven, ’03, Porter Hill ’03, Adam Mantin Science in Boston, Massachusetts, ’05, Kabral Tesfamicael ’05, Chris Connecticut, on August 22, 2015. ’03, and Al Mayer ’03. on October 11, 2015. Pictured: Aderman ’05, Kevin Robinson ’05, 4 William Pugh ’12 and Pictured: Abel McClennen ’00, Anna and Ryan, Michael McClellan Adnan and Elizabeth, Kyle Staller Kathleen Blue ’12 were married Kerry McClennen, Jessica Fast, 8 Alexandra Lamb ’07 and ’08, Danielle Chagnon ’06, Beth ’04, Heather Wish Staller ’05, Lenz on August 15, 2015, in St. Tim Capozzi ’00, Dave Griffith Samuel Kamin ’08 were married Battin ’09, Kate Chin ’08, Anne Balan ’04, Tejus Ajmera ’04, and Catherine of Sienna Church in ’00, Lori Rutman, Hugh Keegan at the Bowdoin Chapel on Powell ’08, Rebekah Metzler ’04, Manny Lora ’04. Burlingame, California. Pictured: ’00, Lulu and Eric, Erin Krivicky August 8, 2015. Pictured: DeRay Luke Guarino ’07, Kelsey Wilcox Morgane Richert ’12, Benjamin ’99, John Nidiry ’00, Josh Lamb McKesson ’07, Michael LoBiondo Libby ’06, Claire Cutting ’08, Joe 3 Emily Swaim ’09 married Berg ’12, Vivek Stalam ’12, Doug ’00, Emily Lamb, Rich Bolduc ’01, ’06, Matt Murchison ’07, Lydia Pierce ’05, Jim Pierce ’76, Jason Matt Ranaghan (Hobart College Leonard ’12, Sienna Kurland ’12, Molly Perencevich ’01, Jeremy Pillsbury ’07, Jesse Drummond Riley ’06, Greg Righter ’07, Joel ’07) on September 19, 2015, Grace Cheung ’12, Sam Love ’12, Smith ’00, Claire Spollen, Ali ’08, Theo Salter ’07, Alex and Samen ’07, Russell Stevens in Orleans, Massachusetts. Alyssa Kaplan ’12, Will Aldrete ’12, Vandenburgh ’02, Nick Rutherfurd Sam, Sarah Schoen ’07, Vanessa ’07, and Chris Sullivan ’07. Not 5 Pictured: Kelly Thomas ’09, Yuna Oh ’10, Katie and William, ’00, Colin Vandenburgh, and Wishart ’07, Tasha Graff ’07, Elie pictured: Jill Carrick ’87, Joe Cruise Camille Balsan. ’07, and Ted Gilbert ’07. 1 Robert Rezvani ’08 married Devin Walsh ’10, Kelsey Borner Annie Streetman ’12, Chad Dufaud Mechoulam ’08, Ben LeHay ’08, Megan Lopretto (East Stroudsburg ’09, Laura Hopkins ’79, Jackie ’12, Morgan Andersen ’12, Amy Diego Millan ’08, James Harris University ’11) on August 8, 2015, Deysher Marchand ’09, Courtney Collier ’12, Anna Wright ’12, Kate 7 Brian Curry ’03 and Vanessa ’08, and Megan Marsh ’08. Not in Livingston, New Jersey. Pictured: Stock ’09, Emily and Matt, Mike Leifheit ’12, and Craig Comen ’12. Shopis (Bucknell University pictured: Daryl McLean ’07, Emily Yi Zheng ’08, Grace Park ’08, Asa Buckley ’07, Caitlin Mevorach ’06) were married in Hartford, Tong ’11, and Hae-Min Gil ’08. Palley ’08, Rob and Megan, Janet ’09, Emma Reilly ’09, Lola 5 Michael Hall ’99 married Connecticut, on September 20, Chan ’08, and Leslie King ’08. Chenyek ’09, Mike Ardolino ’08, Jessica Westland at Point Lookout 2014. Pictured: Dennis Kiley ’03, Claire Cooper ’09, Ali Chase ’09, in Northport, Maine, on January Ben McGuinness ’03, Micah Moreau Ken Akiha ’08, Jeremy Bernfeld ’03, Mike Morris ’03, Matt Giffune 2 Adnan Prsic ’05 and Elizabeth 23, 2016. ’09, Alex Von Gerichten ’09, ’03, Nhung Le Giffune ’04, Whitney Horn (Tulane University ’05) Morris ’03, Leah Bressack ’04,

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Nicole Woo ’12, Liza Boles ’12, 13 Julie Jacquet ’09 and 15 Abigail Isaacson ’08 and 16 Katie Cushing ’10 and 18 Jack Morrison ’11 and Alison Jordan Payne ’12, Colin Hay ’10, Shane Farrell ’09 were married Zander Abbott ’08 were married Mikyo Butler ’10 were married Palmer ’11 were married on Yojin Yoon ’12, Amanda and at the Bowdoin Chapel on October in the Bowdoin Chapel on June 28, September 12, 2015, at Wolfe’s January 23, 2016, at Devil’s Thumb John, Dan Polasky ’12, Melissa 24, 2015. Pictured: Liz Dann ’09, 2015. Pictured: Jesse Drummond Neck Farm in Freeport, Maine. Ranch in Tabernash, Colorado. Haskell ’13, Tana Scott Krohn ’10, Tim Watson ’08, Marion Bradford ’08, Mike Glantz ’08, Allen Springer Pictured: Sam Read ’09, Bryce Pictured: Ben Messerly ’11, Ellen Michael Krohn ’09, Nick Daniels ’09, Adam Skuse ’07, Ben Larkins (government professor), Nathan Lednar ’11, Andrew Gallagher Kimball ’11, Lisa Goto ’11, Sam ’12, Erin D’Agostino ’12, Miguel ’09, Caroline Sholl ’09, Rogan Isaacson ’10, Tom Wilcox ’09, ’09, Allie Gunther ’10, Camille Collins ’11, Zach Winters ’11, Reyes ’12, Rachel McDonald ’12, Donelly ’08, James Park ’09, Gus Jill Pearlman (environmental Shepherd ’10, Alyssa Rose ’11, Nathan Merritt ’11, Molly Homoki Keel Dietz ’12, Kelsey Flagg ’12, Spaulding ’09, Kate Gormley Saeli science lecturer), Paul Franco Elliott Munn ’11, Mikyo and Katie, ’11, Katherine Stewart ’12, Mike and Erin Hatton ’12. ’09, Mike McClellan ’08, Emileigh (government professor), Andrew Clara Hill ’10, Sarah Loeb ’11, Eldridge ’10, Robby Bitting ’11, Mercer ’09, and Mike Collins ’09. Gould ’00, Hillary Shende, Irene Wesley Hartwell ’11, Kathryn Rachel Gang ’11, Yoni Ackerman 12 Elizabeth Davidson ’05 Chance, Paul Schaffner, Vin Shende Jordan ’10, Kauri Ballard ’10, and ’11, Anna Ausubel ’10, Abby and Mark Krempley ’06 were 14 Katie Yankura ’08 and (music professor), Jim Gould Caroline Ciocca ’12. Goodridge ’11, and Isaac Ardis 14 married at Rose Hill Manor in Michael Swacha (University of ’60, Genevieve Leslie ’07, Lydia ’11. Not pictured: Ryan Jewett Leesburg, Virginia, on September Georgia ’05) were married on Pillsbury ’07, Richard Morley ’70, 17 Sheryl Stevens ’07 and ’11, Lindsey Thompson ’10, 10 Joanna Caldwell ’10 and Kaplan Caldwell ’06. Not pictured: 19, 2015. Pictured: Christina June 13, 2015, in Pittsburgh, Kate Herlihy ’08, Hayley Wilcox Zachary Pleiss were married on Reed Gilbride ’11, and Jonathan Joe Henderson ’10 were married Marie Masse Caldwell ’06. Woodward ’05, Meg Boyle ’05, Pennsylvania. Pictured: Kerry ’09, Jean Yarbrough (government August 22, 2015, in Minneapolis, Coravos ’11. on May 9, 2015, at Migis Lodge Marybeth Sexton ’05, Arwyn Brodziak ’08, Katie, Vanessa professor), John Cole ’70, Anne Minnesota, by the bride’s brother, in South Casco, Maine. Pictured: 11 Amanda Gartside ’12 married Carroll ’05, Mark and Elizabeth, Palomo ’08, and David Yankura ’04. Springer ’81 (senior associate Mike Stevens ’04. Pictured: Kate Billy Rohman ’11, Jimmy Rohman her high school sweetheart John Steven Postal ’05, Taylor dean of admissions), Burke Long Leonard ’07, Jayme Woogerd ’07, ’13, Emily McNeil ’14, Eugene Sun Kim (Yale ’11) at Camp Timber Miller Goodfellow ’05, Adam (religion professor emeritus), Dick Meaghan Tanguay White ’07, ’10, Tom Charpentier ’10, Florence Tops in Greeley, Pennsylvania, Goodfellow ’05, Sue Kim Ichel Mersereau ’69 (former secretary Susan Morris ’07, Meghan Gillis Sun ’11, Ben Caldwell ’03, Alyssa on September 19, 2015. Pictured: ’05, and Frank Ichel. of the College), Bill Barker (math ’07, and Jillian Campbell ’11. Kaplan ’12, Adam Caldwell ’06, Catherine Johnston ’12, Jamilah professor), Joe Calareso ’70, Ellie Adam Kaplan ’09, Helen Wen Gurwala Gregory ’11, Heather Mersereau ’18, George Isaacson ’10, Joe and Joanna, and Rachel Kinnear ’12, Chelsea Noble ’12, ’70, Abigail, and Zander.

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19 Michael Peiser ’07 married Katherine Stallkamp Santiago Josh Chung ’01, Kevin Wilcox ’06, 23 Zachary Hammond ’07 and Adrienne Luoma ’03, and Prarthna Shana Valo (McGill ’07) on '03, Marie Elaine Pahilan ’01, Mike Krohn ’09, and Tana Scott Brooke Anable (Bates College ’06) Kapur ’03. October 11, 2015, at the Toronto Xavier Santiago ’01, Julianne Krohn ’10. were married on September 19, Reference Library in Toronto, Reynolds ’00, Gwen Armbruster 2015, in Littleton, New Hampshire. 25 Jennifer Laraia ‘03 and Ontario. Pictured: Lowell Walker ’00, Cristina Kormann Driver ’00, 22 Monica Wlodarczyk ’13 Pictured: Jay Tansey ’07, Carolyn Christopher Maietta were married ’07, John Greene ’07, Tim Kantor and Anne-Marie Alexander ’00. and Elliot Beck ’09 were Chu ’07, Margaret Gormley in New Haven, Connecticut, on ’07, Nick Collins ’07, Justin Margaret Heymsfeld Johnson married August 14, 2015, at St. Donahue ’06, David Donahue ’07, November 7, 2015. Pictured: Strasburger ’07, Rebekah Mueller ’01, Gabe dos Santos ’00, and Clements Castle near their home in Samatha Cohen ’07, Joe Cruise ’07, Nima Soltanzad ’03, Kristi Royer ’07, James Harris ’08, Jeb Craig Hansen ’02 were unable to Connecticut. Pictured: Steve Lafond Dylan Brix ’07, Jocelin Hody ’07, Ouellette ’03, Jenn and Chris, Bobseine ’07, Toby Crawford ’07, attend, but were there in spirit. ’99, Karoline Dubin ’13, Ruth Bodell Doug Johnson ’07, Stew Stout ’07, Melissa Perrin Sonkoly ’05, and L.D. Lord ’08, Mike Oxton ’07, ’13, Sara Wlodarczyk ’15, Isabelle Sam Hight ’07, Kevin Mullins ’07, Melanie Keene ’03. Rob Burns ’07, Armand Gottlieb 21 Ferd Convery ’06 married Albi ’13, Emily Koenig ’13, Schuyler Robert DiMatteo ’07, Genevieve ’07, Cait Polistena ’07, David Joanna Wong (Smith College ’06, Ransohoff ’11, Michael Julian ’09, Leslie ’07, Greg Mcconnell ’07, 26 Ryan Johnson ’00 and York ’07, Jordan Krechmer ’07, Bowdoin Twelve College Exchange Samuel Bowers ’09, Taylor Page ’13, Tehilah Azoulay Reider ’08, and Catherine Livaudais were 27 Michael Igoe ’07, Carolyn Hricko ’06) on October 24, 2015, at Joanna Taatjes Bowers ’10, Marissa Robert Reider ’07. married on October 10, 2015, ’08, Chris Hagedorn ’07, James Brookmill Farm in Lambertville, Daisy Alioto ’13, Sean Healey ’11, in Port Townsend, Washington. 27 Samantha Jessup ’09 Gado ’07, Michael, and Shana. New Jersey. Pictured: Alec Alexandra Ysasi ’11, Katherine 24 Liesl Finn ’03 married Ryan Pictured: James Johnson ’97, and Robert Stalling (University Berryman ’07, George Aumoithe Stewart ’12, Nathan Merritt ’11, Vasan (Duke University ’04) on Daniel Goldstein ’00, Conor of Queensland, Australia ’05) 20 Marianne Lipa ’01 ’11, Bernardo Guzman ’08, Jon and Neil Chaudhary ’09. September 20, 2014, in York, Maine. O’Brien ’03, Ryan, Daniel Gulotta were married in Santa Ynez, married Satish Valluri on July Ludwig ’07, Luke Wilson ’06, Pictured: Anne Barmettler ’03, Clara ’03, Mike Pesa-Fallon ’02, and California, on September 26, 11, 2015, at the Pennsylvania Jenna O’Brien ’06, Ben Yormak Lee ’03, Julie Dawson Williams ’03, Matt Turnbull ’00. Not pictured: 2015. Pictured: Nathan Morrow Academy of Fine Arts in ’06, Jeff Friedlander ’08, Gordon Di O’Donnell ’03, Brian Williams the bride, “who would not leave ’09, Samantha and Robert, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Convery ’08, Ferd and Joanna, ’00, Kristen Kindsvogel ’03, Kala the dance floor.” Rachel Ackerman ’09. Pictured: Ara Greer ’01, Brent Tauwan Patterson ’06, and Allegra Hardacker Hamilton ’04, Dominique Beecher ’97, Liz Goley Pitts Rich ’06. Not pictured: Charlie Alepin Johnson ’03, Liesl and ’00, Marci Brandenburg ’01, Ashley ’05, Jack Wilkinson ’05, Ryan, Dottie Chalmers Cutter ’03,

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

Franklin F. Gould Jr. ’37 Louis A. Tonry ’49 Fletcher W. Means II ’57 Graduate March 3, 2016 April 2, 2016 February 24, 2016 Rising Above the Wave: Anthony G. Soychak G’63 Mexico in My Heart: The Imperiled Presidency: Independence How Was It Possible? New & Selected Poems Leadership Challenges in the Surviving Tsunami and Stroke A Holocaust Reader Thomas U. Lineham Jr. ’40 Ainslie H. Drummond Jr. ’50 Donald P. Michaud ’58 March 17, 2016 by G. Calvin Mackenzie ’63 by Willis Barnstone ’48 Twenty-First Century (CreateSpace Independent Publishing in Japan 2011 by Peter Hayes ’68 April 22, 2016 April 18, 2016 January 16, 2016 (Carcanet Press, 2015) by G. Calvin Mackenzie ’63 Platform, 2015) by Walt Christie ’64 (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) Wayne W. Kronquist G’64 (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016) (Maine Authors Publishing, 2015) Lendall B. Knight ’41 Donald C. Union ’50 James E. Durkin ’59 March 21, 2016 March 27, 2016 February 27, 2016 March 6, 2016

John E. Woodward ’41 Harry E. Adams ’51 David M. Hunter ’59 January 27, 2016 July 16, 2015 January 21, 2016 Faculty and Staff

Richard E. Bye ’42 Carl B. Brewer ’51 William A. Sloan ’61 Joann E. Canning February 26, 2016 January 22, 2016 April 7, 2016 January 14, 2016

Stevens L. Frost ’42 Edward J. McCluskey ’51 Robert J. Bertholf ’62 Priscilla McCarty March 15, 2016 February 13, 2016 February 19, 2016 February 21, 2016 Manhattan Lockdown Audubon: America’s Greatest The Blue Hour Mourning Lincoln Shining Sea Naturalist and His Voyage of William H. Barney Jr. ’43 Herbert A. Seaman ’51 Stephen B. Eller ’62 Dorothy Schott by Paul Batista ’70 by Douglas Kennedy ’76 by Martha Hodes ’80 by Anne Korkeakivi ’82 March 19, 2016 2015 February 26, 2016 January 9, 2016 (Oceanview Publishing, 2016) Discovery to Labrador (Atria Books, 2016) (Yale University Press, 2015) (Little, Brown and Company, 2016) by Peter B. Logan ’75 (Ashbryn Press, 2016) Robert T. Marchildon ’43 John H. Leonard ’52 Wendell T. Sides ’62 William D. Shipman March 31, 2016 January 27, 2016 March 21, 2016 April 10, 2016

Edward T. Richardson Jr. ’43 Linwood A. Morrell ’52 William W. Lannon ’63 Virginia S. Stuart April 18, 2016 February 2, 2016 March 28, 2016 January 5, 2016

Allan Woodcock Jr. ’44 Richard J. Smith ’52 Mark E. Christie ’66 Roxlyn C. Yanok April 4, 2016 February 27, 2016 February 3, 2016 February 14, 2016

Richard H. Bonney ’45 Richard S. MacDonald ’53 Cyrus W. Hoover ’66 January 12, 2016 January 21, 2016 January 20, 2016 Honorary As Close to Dig In! Urban Environments in Africa: The Book of the The Magic Mirror: Concerning Richard L. Achorn ’46 Johnes K. Moore ’53 Jeffrey K. Rutherford ’66 Mandolin Player a Lonely Princess, a Foundling Robert B. Elliott H’91 Us as Breathing by Cindy Jenson-Elliot ’84 A Critical Analysis of February 7, 2016 March 13, 2016 March 6, 2016 by Elizabeth Poliner ’82 (Beach Lane Books, 2016) Environmental Politics by Anne Britting Oleson ’87 Girl, a Scheming King and a February 2, 2016 Pickpocket Squirrel (Lee Boudreaux Books/Little Brown, 2016) by Garth Myers ’84 (B Ink Books, 2016) Malcolm Chamberlain ’46 Robert J. Grainger ’54 Edward H. Burtt ’70 (Policy Press, 2016) by Susan Hill Long ’87 (Knopf, 2016) January 20, 2016 February 19, 2016 April 27, 2016

Clayton F. Reed ’46 Ralph G. Kearney ’54 David C. Zimmerman ’73 March 1, 2016 April 10, 2016 February 8, 2016

Daniel D. Van Soelen ’46 Robert E. Lilley ’54 W. Michael Donovan ’75 March 12, 2016 February 19, 2016 February 3, 2016

Harry I. Emmons Jr. ’48 Frank J. Vecella ’54 Peter M. LePoer ’77 January 15, 2016 February 13, 2016 August 2, 2015

Edward L. Kallop Jr. ’48 Frederick H. Goddard ’55 Karen A. Polk ’77 Eddie Red Undercover: Everyday Renaissances Owen and Papers on Italian Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Doom at Grant’s Tomb The Quest for Cultural the Old Tortoise Urbanism in the First Chemical Controversies, and February 14, 2016 April 5, 2016 February 25, 2016 by Marcia Wells ’96 Legitimacy in Venice by Miriam Platzer ’01 Millennium B.C Environmental Health (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) by Sarah Gwyneth Ross ’97 (Bellastoria Press, 2016) Edited by Elizabeth C. Robinson ’03 by Alissa Cordner ’04 James T. Keefe Jr. ’49 Paul S. Doherty ’56 John A. Carnevale ’85 (Harvard University Press, 2016) (Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2014) (Columbia University Press, 2016) January 21, 2016 January 30, 2016 April 9, 2016

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