WINTER 2017 VOL. 88 NO. 2 MAGAZINE

Octavio Orozco Ibarra ’20 and fellow BOC leaders go outside of the zone

CLEANING WITH A THE ARCTIC BOWDOIN’S LIBRARY CONSCIENCE: ENTREPRENEUR COUNCIL COMES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST SAUDIA DAVIS ’00 TO MAINE CENTURY contents winter

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16 A Green Touch to the White Glove Test Director of Editorial Services BY BETH KOWITT ’07 • PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARSTEN MORAN ’05 Scott C. Schaiberger ’95 No speck of dirt or fleck of dust is safe from Saudia Davis ’00, founder Executive Editor and CEO of GreenHouse Eco-Cleaning, an award-winning New York City Alison M. Bennie company lauded for its environmental and social conscience as well as its meticulous eye for detail. Design Charles Pollock Mike Lamare 20 New Maps for These Territories: The Arctic PL Design – Portland, Maine Council Comes to Maine Contributors James Caton BY LINCOLN PAINE • PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE PEARY-MACMILLAN ARCTIC MUSEUM 20 Douglas Cook As the Arctic thaws before our eyes, it is revealing the region’s mys- John R. Cross ’76 teries, untapped potential, and innumerable hazards in ways that are Leanne Dech redrawing the world map. Last fall, due largely to the enduring links to Rebecca Goldfine Arctic peoples forged by Bowdoin students, professors, and alumni, Scott W. Hood Maine became the venue for the 2016 Arctic Council Meetings. Megan Morouse Tom Porter Melissa Wells

26 Hawthorne-Longfellow in the Twenty-First Photographs by: Century: A Q&A with Bowdoin Librarian Brian Beard, Bob Handelman, Michele Stapleton, and the Bowdoin College Archives. Marjorie Hassen 26 On the cover: Octavio Orozco Ibarra ’20 On a recent visit to campus, Meghan Detering ’07, librarian at Colorado moved himself and some gear the fun way Rocky Mountain School, visited with Bowdoin Librarian Marjorie Hassen as he and fellow BOC leaders-in-training to talk about how Hawthorne-Longfellow Library varies today from the wrapped up their excursion to the BOC cabin version that many alumni might recall. in Monson, Maine. Photo by Fred Field. BOWDOIN MAGAZINE (ISSN, 0895-2604) Outside of the Zone is published three times a year by Bowdoin 32 College, 4104 College Station, Brunswick, BY DEEPAK SINGH • PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRED FIELD Maine, 04011. Printed by J.S. McCarthy, Now in its ninth year, the Outing Club’s Outside of the Zone (OZ) pro- Augusta, Maine. Sent free of charge to all gram has been wildly successful training new student leaders who have Bowdoin alumni, parents of current and recent limited or no previous outdoor recreation experience. Writer Deepak undergraduates, members of the senior Worrying the snow that goes Singh, himself new to Maine and a novice in the outdoors, accompanied class, faculty and staff, and members of the sun-struck from pine, bright Association of Bowdoin Friends. while squirrel claws oak’s gray the latest group of leaders-in-training on their winter expedition for an edge, I scratch my carrot-nose, immersive perspective on the OZ experience. Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors. cinch my coat against the warmth. What I need is what I fear: to learn Please send address changes, ideas, or letters not to melt, not to freeze too hard. to the editor to the address above or by e-mail —Thorpe Moeckel ’93 from his poem “Thaw.” Departments to [email protected]. Send class news to [email protected] or to the 2 Mailbox 58 Weddings address above. Advertising inquiries? e-mail [email protected]. 3 Almanac 64 Deaths 38 Class News 65 Whispering Pines 32

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Lifelong Learning around Lake Superior. My brother called me and told me to read their blog. On their blog under “Ration 1,” June Almanac ood for Louis Arthur Norton ’58, for taking the time 11, 2016, they describe being stranded for a day or so by G to share his remarkable story about the good ship high seas and landed on a beach with a cabin nearby. They A DIGEST OF CAMPUS, ALUMNI, AND GENERAL COLLEGE MISCELLANY Bowdoin. I just returned from Antarctica and am taking an were befriended by a “caretaker” named Obe Saari and he Osher Lifelong Learning class here in Ashland, Oregon, on told them to go ahead and spend the night on the porch of the Arctic. I will share his story with the instructor. Small the cabin out of the weather (the cabin was all locked up). world it is as Bernard Osher ’48 is from Biddeford, Maine, Little did they know that my brother Scott ’75 and I own and chose to share part of his wealth by creating the Osher that cabin and it has been in my family since the 1920s! Foundation in 2001 and supporting at least 120 sites for What a small world. Happy to help out! offering classes to seniors across the country. Go U Bears! John Curtiss ’74 “If your goal is purely Steve Haskell ’64 to become rich, there’s CORRECTION: a good chance you A Superior Connection On page 32 of our fall edition, an article references will become neither Bowdoin’s three national championships in field hockey. Of rich nor happy. . . hat a surprise when I read about the two friends course, Nicky Pearson and her teams are four-time national . In my industry, if W (Uma Blanchard ’17 and Sophie Goeks) paddling champions: 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2103. “Follow Your Passion” you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, you’re going to lose money.” Sound advice from Stanley Druckenmiller ’75, H’07. The renowned philanthropist spoke in Pickard Theater on February 8 during an event titled “An Investor’s Perspective on Trump, Trade, and Global Populism.”

Big Daddy Turns Ninety-Five

A legend on campus and in his profession Link was a member of the Bowdoin staff for forty turned ninety-five on February 2. For more than years, and still can be seen often in the athletic sixty years Mike Linkovich—known to nearly equipment room, at sporting events, and in the all as “Link” (though there was a time when dining halls. Friends on campus celebrated Link’s facebook.com/bowdoin @bowdoincollege bowdoincollege bowdoindailysun.com Bowdoin athletes would call him “Big Daddy”; birthday with a lunch in Daggett Lounge, Thorne that’s a true story)—has been a fixture on the Hall. Read more about Link and his remarkable Send Us Mail! Bowdoin campus. career in the Bowdoin Athletic Hall of Honor section We’re interested in your feedback, thoughts, and ideas about Bowdoin Magazine. You can reach us by e-mail at [email protected]. Joining the College in 1954 as athletic trainer, of the Athletics website: athletics.bowdoin.edu.

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Bibliophile Bliss he aptly named Bliss Room, on the second floor City socialite Jeanette Dwight Bliss, the room housed the books—came to Bowdoin in 1945 when it was adapted by among the other institutions where you can find reminders of of Hubbard Hall, is known to evoke a sense of family library in her Upper East Side mansion. Bliss purchased College architects McKim, Mead & White (Stanford White’s the elegant home. euphoria for those who enter. Tucked away behind architectural details and furnishings from dealers throughout old firm) to house Bowdoin’s rare book collection in what T The Bliss Room is now part of Bowdoin College Library’s unassuming embossed leather doors is a resplendent room Europe, as well as from the 1906 estate sale of famed Beaux was then the College’s library, Hubbard Hall. The Bliss book Department of Special Collections & Archives. The room featuring a painted and gilded Italian Renaissance ceiling, Arts architect Stanford White. The family also enlisted the collection was reunited with the room years later when Bliss is open Wednesdays from noon to 3 p.m., as well as during French-carved walnut paneling, a baroque Istrian stone most talented bookbinders of the era to provide custom also gifted the College an impressive collection of more than Commencement and Reunion when visitors from across mantelpiece, and some of the most beautiful and important bindings for their collection. Susan Dwight Bliss, Jeanette’s 1,200 books on literature, history, architecture, art history, campus and beyond are welcome to experience some Bliss. books that the College owns. civic-minded daughter, downsized the home by gifting and travel. Elements of the Manhattan Bliss residence can The Susan Dwight Bliss Room has a history almost as architectural gems and fine art to a number of educational also be found on campus in Gibson Hall. The Museum of For more information on the Bliss Room, go to elaborate as its fine furnishings. Assembled by New York and cultural institutions. The library room—but not the Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are library.bowdoin.edu/arch/collections/susan-dwight-bliss-room.

Susan Dwight Bliss’s mother originally Circa eighteenth- Special Collections & Archives is purchased the ceiling in century French partnering with Alumni Relations Rome from Alexandre woodwork. to host a new series of events this Imbert, a dealer, in spring titled “A Taste for Good Books.” 1906. A carved and The first event, “Bliss and Bourbon,” gilded ceiling with inset is being hosted in the Bliss Room on French walnut with gilded ornaments, Carved from a fine-grained and paintings, the five large April 13. For more information and to initially designed by Jean Lassurance compact limestone known as Istrian central panels lead Bliss’s books are accessible to researchers learn about additional events, go to and originally installed circa 1730 in the stone, the mantel depicts charismatic the viewer through an in the Special Collections & Archives alumni.bowdoin.edu/gateway/good-books. Hôtel de Sans, Faubourg Saint Germain. centaurs, griffons, a Bacchus-figure, allegorical story toward a Reading Room on the third floor of the cherubs, and is centered on a Roman worthwhile life. Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. Photos by James Marshall profile. Circa seventeenth century.

4 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 [email protected] 5 Bowdoin Bowdoin Almanac Almanac ) Philanthropist Shaw Ruddock ’77 Receives Honor from English Crown BOOKS In the 2016 British New Year Honours, Trustee Emerita Kensington, London, in 2012 to provide meaningful Top Jill Shaw Ruddock ’77 received from the Queen of activities for community members age fifty-plus. Things for10 Parents England the honor of Commander of the Order of the Standing with her at Buckingham Palace is husband British Empire (CBE) for her philanthropic work with Sir Paul Ruddock and their two daughters, Isabella (left) t o Do older people. Shaw Ruddock, author of The Second and Sophie (right). Inset: Princess Anne bestows the NOT Half of Your Life and founder of The Second Half CBE medal to Shaw Ruddock during the investiture Bowdoin Dean of Admissions Foundation, opened the Second Half Centre in North ceremony at Buckingham Palace. and Financial Aid Whitney Soule offers sound advice for the parents of children immersed in the The Life of Kings: The Baltimore Sun Ships, Swindlers, and Scalded Hogs: college search process. and the Golden Age of the The Rise and Fall of the Crooker American Newspaper Shipyard in Bath, Maine edited by Frederick B. Hill ’62 by Frederick B. Hill ’62 and Stephens Broening (Down East Books, 2016) 10 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) Direct, manage, or otherwise control the college search for your child. 9 Trade sound advice from the college counseling office for the illegitimate advice you prefer from your best friend, neighbor, or anyone else who does not have professional experience.

8 Understanding War: The Invisible Bestseller: Share an opinion of a school with your child before An Annotated Bibliography Searching for the Bible in America your child shares his/her opinion about it. by Christian P. Potholm ’62 by Kenneth A. Briggs ’63 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) (Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016) 7 Ask admission staff for advice about your child in front of others, especially in front of your child. 6 Assume that college is unaffordable. 5 ***BOWDOIN DINING RECIPE*** Edit, write, other otherwise contribute to your child’s application. Why? Explaining the Holocaust Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts: by Peter Hayes ’68 A Field Guide to Common Bryophytes of the Northeast Melt butter in a large stockpot over medium low 4 (WW Norton & Co., 2017) Carrot Ginger Soup Expect that your child will manage the college by Ralph Pope ’69 heat. Add diced onion and sauté, stirring constantly, (Cornell University Press, 2016) Serves six search process, lists, and/or deadlines any differently until soft but not browned, about three to four than he/she might normally. Though pursuing 2 tablespoons unsalted butter minutes. Add curry powder and cayenne pepper college, your child is still the same person. and sauté a minute or two longer. 1 ½ cups diced onion 3 1 tablespoon curry powder Add carrots, ginger, and vegetable stock. Increase Live out your own educational dreams or regrets heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper through your child’s college application experience. and simmer for twenty-five to thirty minutes, until 4 cups peeled, sliced fresh carrots carrots are soft. 2 2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger Assume that the college application outcome is a Using an immersion wand or, in batches, a blender, 4 cups vegetable stock reflection of your parenting or your child’s character. Therese’s Dream: Democratization by Institutions: pureé until smooth. If using a blender, return soup Maine to Darfur: A Doctor’s Story Argentina’s Transition Years in 3 cups half and half to pot. Stir in half and half and gently reheat. Do not by David Austin ’76 Comparative Perspective 1 (Matrika Press, 2016) by Leslie E. Anderson ’79 salt and white pepper to taste boil. Add salt and white pepper to taste and serve. Focus on losses. (Only focus on wins!) (University of Michigan Press, 2016)

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hooch earlier—my battered, fully-loaded M-16 hanging from my other one. False Glory Dear Nat and Kaye, With hands faster than a blackjack dealer, the kid snagged This excerpt from Wayne Burton ’66’s essay, “False Glory,” the strap and took off with the camera toward the school. I really appreciate your help on the clothes for the was displayed in the Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center It would net him a bundle in the back room of one of the orphanage. It’s really sad and heartwarming at the same in Bedford, Massachusetts, in November. It was part of an hundreds of small shops in My Tho. Since my bellowed warning time to see these kids who have known nothing but war exhibition of works in paint, prose, poetry, and photography failed to stop his sprint away, I hoped the lethal, loud click of since birth. The young Americans don’t know how well about Vietnam by veterans, and is affiliated with the United the bolt driving home a round in my large .45 I had drawn from off they are. You really have to see a place like Vietnam to States Government’s ongoing initiative commemorating the its holster would do the trick. Flashing through my head was the appreciate the luxury of living in the US. fiftieth anniversary of the Vietnam War. To learn more about thought that shooting him dead would not only get my camera the commemoration, go to vietnamwar50th.com. back, but also get me points for an enemy kill. Under Operation The American way of life is completely Speedy Express, all Vietnamese were considered killable enemies incomprehensible to the Vietnamese, which is one e had stopped on a hot Sunday afternoon in April until proven otherwise. reason I’m not sure they could ever live under a 1969 for three skinny urchins with their hands out Days before, during a command staff briefing, our government system such as ours. They are happy W and the pinched look of extreme hunger on their Burton in front of the Commanding General, Julian J. Ewell, blew up at the cowering people, but need guidance and direction—if nothing faces. They were standing in front of a pagoda-like school of essay displayed at the staff officers sitting behind him when the weekly killing scorecard else, I hope this war provides that. white stucco trimmed in bright red. The mine sweepers had been Bedford Veterans Affairs contained on an acetate slide was projected on the screen. We met The kids at the orphanage are really no different from out earlier to clear the roads of the Chinese-made explosives the Medical Center. in the air-conditioned, well-fortified underground bunker where American children. They sing, play games, get fresh, Viet Cong (VC) buried every night and we dug up every morning. Right: Burton’s Ewell spent most of his time during the week before flying to snapshot of a Bob Hope and ask for candy and all the other things associated An unofficial truce was generally held on Sundays between the Hawaii every other weekend to be with his wife. The 9th Infantry performance in Vietnam. with kids. Every Sunday a truckload of food and men Viet Cong and us. They needed to tend their crops and to other st body count of dead enemy had fallen behind that of the 101 go to the orphanage and distribute these items to the domestic activities. They also shopped with the money they and We also Airborne and Big Red One. He suggested we count the arms children. The orphanage is run by Vietnamese nuns and their spouses earned cleaning our hooches and other chores knew that many and legs separately next time the division obliterated a suspected also houses adults who are mentally retarded. I admire on our base during the week. We sadly had to clean our own Vietnamese kids enemy village and killed its inhabitants. The report of the child’s the sisters so much. I can’t imagine what hard work they following a late April attack in which knee mortars landed on participated in the death would add to the body count total for next week and must do to take care of all their charges. our ammo dump, no doubt measured by hooch girls walking off black market of stolen and reused American equipment. please “The Butcher of the Delta,” a nickname given him inside in the distance from an aiming point. The blast killed twenty-two They were as likely to pitch stolen watches as accept candy. the military for his fixation on this dubious metric. No doubt the Captain Wayne Burton Americans and wounded about a hundred more. The powerful I noticed all three were wearing flip-flops made with soles estimated 5,000–7,000 non-combatant men, women, and children concussion knocked me on my keister about a half-mile from the cut from tires stolen from American vehicles. That, plus a killed during Operation Speedy Express would have agreed with From a letter, dated massive crater caused by the detonation of the 500-pound bombs thriving jewelry market, had developed with earrings and that nickname had they not perished in what one investigator March 7, 1969, to neighbors at home we stored there. Following the blast, a voice screamed in my field other items sculpted from brass purloined from couplers in our termed “a My Lai a month.” who collected clothes phone, “Gas!” We frantically searched for our protective masks communications lines. Two of the boys were diminutive, but As I stood transfixed, aware my armpits were soaking as and other items at as I yelled back, “The VC don’t have gas.” The exasperated voice due to diet so were most Vietnamese, causing age estimations much from tension as the infernal heat, my louder, violent self their church for the rasped back, “It’s not theirs; it’s ours.” to be problematic. I noticed the third boy, a little taller at debated my wimpy soft side. I aimed, as trained, at the head for My Tho orphanage. We warily pulled the Jeep to a stop and three boys ran up to about four feet, six inches, angling toward the back of the a kill shot—the butt of the pistol firmly planted in my extended us. We were well aware that the VC occasionally strapped satchel vehicle eyeing my recently-acquired Yashika camera I had left hand, my right hand slowly squeezing the trigger while my charges to women and kids converting them to suicide bombers. carelessly slung over the barrel of the .50 cal. The prized device eye aligned the front and back sites with the unkempt, But the skinny brown chests showing through the buttonless had consumed $200, almost all my net pay after sending my dirt-clotted hair on the back of the thief’s head. That voice black shirts caused us to relax. Two of the ill-clad boys, wearing wife’s allotment home. Risking our lives to kill for our flag of reason, perhaps conscience, grew louder. Something US Army-issued floppy jungle hats, occupied the two men with paid less than that made by a good mechanic. Also, the film snapped in my head and a voice asked forcefully, “What me in my open Jeep—made deadlier by a 50-caliber machine gun in the camera contained undeveloped images I treasured from the hell are you doing? It’s only a camera.” Left: Burton with children mounted in the back. Clark, a newly arrived Pfc. from Iowa, who my previous trip to the orphanage, a facility subsisting on the at the My Tho orphanage. Wayne Burton ’66, father of Jeffrey Burton ’93, is a former captain, barely needed to shave, cast a scared look my way that melted food and clothing we provided. The C-rations we carried fed He was awarded a Civic US Army 9th Infantry Division, president emeritus of North when I smiled back. The other soldier, Fontanato, a Boston native their bodies, but nourished our souls even more. No doubt the Action Honor Medal from Shore Community College, and currently the state representative like me who always needed a shave, who had been in country for the South Vietnamese camera made a tempting target as the shiny black leather case of Strafford District 6 in New Hampshire. He was commissioned government for organizing almost ten months and recently promoted to Specialist 5, smirked and strap showed no wear and tear, and still had that fresh in the army through Bowdoin ROTC. He lives in Durham, New support of the orphanage. at Clark with the look of a parent bemusing a child. leather smell when I had slung it over my shoulder leaving my Hampshire, with his wife, Elizabeth.

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Environmental Studies lecturer Eileen Johnson teaches students how to use GIS mapping technology and current scientific data Environmental to better understand, and propose solutions to, some of our most pressing social and environmental problems. Historic Lincoln Inauguration Photograph Unveiled Studies Course Explores Last fall she offered a course, Building Resilient Communities, that focused on the ways that environmental studies intersects How to Make Communities with social science. In particular, her students looked at how local governance can help communities better cope with More Resilient changing environmental conditions. After collecting and interpreting social, geographic, and environmental data, students addressed a number of concerns—from hunger prevention to sea level rise and invasive species management. “Students chose community-based projects and worked with local organizations to explore an issue of local concern,” Johnson said. “Some students chose to examine particular challenges and opportunities faced by their own communities.” The students presented their maps to the public at the end of the semester. “As a class, we also explored the ways that interactive GIS can provide an opportunity to effectively engage community members in longer-term planning processes,” Johnson said. A map by Marina Henke ’19 shows the concentration of cultural amenities north and south of Delmar Boulevard, long known as a dividing line between St. Louis’s black and white communities.

THE BOWDOIN MARINE CORPS SOCIETY Gordon Linke ’50, Jack Abbott ’63, and Gil Barndollar ’04 founded the Bowdoin Marine Corps Society (BMCS) this year in order to connect Bowdoin men and women who have served or are serving in the United States Marine Corps. The BMCS supports a scholarship fund for Marine veterans and their children to “The First Inaugural of Abraham Lincoln,” March 4, 1861, salt print attributed to Alexander Gardner. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. attend Bowdoin, and the group The week before President Donald Trump’s “This photograph of the event captures a co-sponsors the Everett P. Pope Lecture Series. Ambassador inauguration, the Bowdoin College Museum critical moment in our national history,” said Laurence Pope ’67, son of of Art formally unveiled a recently-acquired Professor of History Patrick Rael. “At such points, the late Congressional Medal photograph of President Abraham Lincoln’s first we define not just the rules, but the principles of Honor winner Everett P. inauguration, almost 156 years after it was taken. they uphold. The slice of time captured here Pope ’41, spoke on campus It was among the earliest political ceremonies to marks the moment when the final contest over in February to inaugurate the be captured on film, a pioneering example of slavery became truly inevitable—the point at annual series. Learn more at: photojournalism, and this photo is one of only which a great hypocrisy at the founding of the bowdoinmarinecorpssociety.org. three copies in existence. nation could be righted.” Jack Abbott ’63 and Gil Barndollar ’04 aboard the USS Constitution.

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My Syrian Neighbors By Tasha Graff ’07 • Photos by Jen Dean

n late October, I was walking downtown in Portland, walk or hike, and then perhaps an accepted dinner invitation house. Nader, Jamileh, and I sat in their living room, carefully and showed me how to expertly drop the falafel Maine, and, while waiting for a traffic light to before the doors open. I was born fifteen miles from the smiling, talking a little, using Google Translate, and sipping mixture into the oil. I change, I waved at a young boy sitting on his father’s Maine border and I am still, as they say here, “from away.” tea. Their children played in another room and occasionally We stood together in the kitchen, over 5,000 miles from shoulders. It was just before six o’clock in the evening and In Portland, most of my friend circle is “from away,” as well, poked their heads around the corner to shyly smile. They Syria, our language one of friendship and family, despite the autumn air had the first pang of winter as the sky faded and so the rules are a little, shall we say, easier. But still. I welcomed me with kindness and with generosity. having spent only an hour in the other’s presence. She put to gloaming. As the cars went We told each other about our families. I explained homemade yogurt in a bowl, sliced and salted a tomato, and by on Washington Avenue, that my paternal grandmother also came to the United piled golden falafel balls on a white plate. “Here,” she said, I smiled at the boy’s mother States as a refugee, and that my mother was from another and Nader said, “You must eat, sister. Eat.” and noticed she was holding a “I Googled Syrian hospitality: take off your shoes, accept offers for tea or coffee, never finish white binder. She smiled back. everything on your plate if you are full because your hosts will continue to serve you food, never I asked if she was going to class compliment something that isn’t bolted down to the wall because they will give it to you.” at Portland Adult Education (PAE), which is just down country, as well. They explained that they each had siblings On my walk home (which Nader offered to accompany the street. Her husband said, living in Jordan, Lebanon, and, most dangerously, Syria. me on) I thought about my hometown. I thought about “Yes, her first English class. I Nader asked, “So you live with your father and brother?” the brothers and sisters I acquired, not through blood but am walking her.” We spoke I explained that my parents lived a three-hour drive away through proximity, through open-heartedness, through in broken English and lots of and that my brother lived with his own family. “Oh, sister,” friendship born from meals shared, rides given, help offered. hand gestures for the next five Nader responded, “You live alone? You must know you are These were the threads in my life’s fabric, the sometimes minutes as I walked with them welcome to our house always. You will be our sister.” invisible strands that continue to be ever-present. I thought to PAE, where I volunteer. I let the sentence echo in my head as my eyes filled with about my life in Portland, filled with wonderful friends, but I learned their names were tears. I smiled and said, in my clearest English, “Thank you. also unknown neighbors. I thought about the stereotype of Nader and Jamileh, that they I am happy the Syrian refugee. had been in the US for three where I live I don’t yet know the full story of Nader and Jamileh’s months, and that they were and that is very journey to America nor do I know the extent of the hardships from Syria. I asked if they had kind of you.” they have endured, the family and friends they have lost, and what they needed: clothes, an He insisted, the fear that lives inside them knowing their home country is apartment, warm jackets, food, etc. “Oh yes,” said Nader. was in awe of Nader’s message. It reminded me of my home, “Jamileh loves a war zone. I do know that they opened their doors to me, I wasn’t sure he understood all my questions, so when we a small town in northern New Hampshire, and the ease with to cook. She offered me tea, food, and friendship. They opened their hearts arrived at the school, I gave Nader my phone number and which neighbors became friends and friends became family. will make meals with a love that transcends language barriers. told him to text me if he needed any help with anything. I texted him back saying I was going out of town for the for you. You The next day, as I walked past Nader and Jamileh’s I explained that I was an English teacher and could help weekend but that I would love to stop by soon. “We are will be her apartment, I thought of my grandmother, a ninety-five-year- them with paperwork or finding supplies. He thanked me waiting for you,” he wrote. sister. We think old refugee from Nazi Germany. I thought of the final lines and shook my hand. We arranged to meet the following Tuesday. I Googled of our friends of the poem by Emma Lazarus, engraved on the Statue of That evening I received the following text message: “I Syrian hospitality and found several rules that served me as family.” Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled was happy to meet with you. We want you to come visit us.” well: take off your shoes, accept offers for tea or coffee, Jamileh smiled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of He sent me his address and said, “we are waiting for you.” never finish everything on your plate if you are full because and nodded. your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, the tempest- Now, I have lived in Maine for my entire adult life, with your hosts will continue to serve you food, never compliment “Sister,” she typed into her phone in Arabic. Before tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” the exception of two years in Barcelona, and no Mainer has something that isn’t bolted down to the wall because they I knew it, Jamileh was in the kitchen making me ever invited me to their home immediately after meeting me. will give it to you. Armed with this superficial knowledge falafel. I stood with her and told her the English words Poet and essayist Tasha Graff ’07 is an English teacher at South Usually it takes several encounters, a few beverages out, a and a bouquet of flowers, I walked over to my neighbors’ for “spoon,” “spatula,” and “stir.” She repeated each word Portland High School in South Portland, Maine.

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Siwady ’19 Competes for Honduran National Team BY THE NUMBERS Mills Named to Senior ARCTIC EXPLORER Post at UMass Boston Bowdoin men’s swimmer Gabriel Siwady competed at the 13th International ROBERT E. PEARY Swimming Federation (FINA) World CLASS OF 1877 Swimming Championships in Ontario, Reprinted with permission from Yankee magazine Canada, in December. The sophomore represented his home country of Honduras, where he has been a member of the national team since he was fifteen and holds several national records. st This was his first competition at the 133 international senior level. Reputed1 rank among Number of sled dogs he The international short-course (25 explorers who managed to brought for the cross-ice meters) championship is held every two reach the North Pole march of the final expedition, years and attracts nearly 1,000 of the 1908-1909 world’s best swimmers, including many Olympians, from more than 172 countries. THREE Age when his family Siwady finished 39th in the 1500-meter moved to Maine freestyle with a personal record, and the ZERO Number of toes Peary fifth-fastest time among college students had by the time he reached competing (16:32.62). He finished 51st in nd the Pole (frostbite claimed the 200-meter backstroke (2:19.31). eight; the others were amputated to make it easier Class2 rank at Bowdoin for him to walk) Barry Mills, who served common good. So, when as Bowdoin’s fourteenth UMass approached me about president from 2001 to getting involved with UMass 2015, has been named Boston, I agreed to take CELLO AGAIN deputy chancellor and chief this on to make an impact Ana Timoney-Gomez ’18 and Andrew Walter-McNeill ’19 $500 operating officer of the at a public urban research 5 University of Massachusetts university.” grew up playing music together in Bronxville, New Amount funded by Peary’s The range in miles from the (UMass) Boston, where he UMass Boston, with York. In a wonderful small-world turn, they now share mother toward passage and actual North Pole where Peary will oversee the academic approximately 14,000 a stand as cellists in the Bowdoin Chamber Orchestra. supplies for his first Arctic planted his flag and research program and undergraduates and 4,000 Ana tells the coincidental story: “Andrew and I started expedition, in 1886 playing the cello together when we were eleven years campus operations, and will graduate students, is known old in the Bronxville Middle School Orchestra and work with Chancellor J. Keith for conducting research in continued through high school. We never dreamed 130,000 Motley on developing and public health, education, Weight in pounds of a refining long-term strategy for and the environment. UMass we’d find ourselves once again playing under the meteorite he brought back from same conductor, but that dream suddenly became a the campus. Boston faculty researchers -59 the Arctic (a piece of which is “When I left Bowdoin, I played a significant role in possibility when Andrew came to Bowdoin a year after Lowest temperature (°F) now at New York’s Museum of I did. He quickly convinced me to join the Bowdoin spoke often about finding planning and executing the in which he traveled by Natural History) College Chamber Orchestra with him, and it was fate the next challenge and about cleanup of Boston Harbor sledge toward the pole (in the form of the esteemed George Lopez) that placed my interest in public higher and are now working to us behind the same stand.” education,” said Mills. “In eliminate racially-based health “It’s funny to think about those middle school days retirement, I have done disparities. UMass Boston now; Andrew used to sit in the back of the orchestra ONE some consulting for UMass has a major cancer-research and constantly goof around while I sat farther up and Number of legs Peary broke and the challenge of public partnership with the Dana on his first major expedition Number 1of his children focused on the difficult music. He has since matured higher education has become Farber/Harvard Cancer into an incredible musician and leader, and is currently to Greenland, with the goal delivered by wife Josephine in even more interesting and Center. The university attracts the principal cellist. I think George will agree with me of crossing the ice cap the Arctic (a girl, known as compelling to me—the students from throughout the Andrew Walter-McNeill ’19 and Ana Timony-Gomez ’18, Bowdoin Chamber Orchestra (which he did) “the Snow Baby”) mission is central to the nation and 150 countries. cellists, at the inauguration of Clayton Rose, October 17, 2015. when I say our roles have rather reversed.”

14 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 [email protected] 15 A ERE AT ETSY’S HEADQUARTERS IN mark,” she says. “Getting past that is when wheels start Touch BROOKLYN’S DUMBO NEIGHBOR- to fall off. It really starts to show the things that are not Green HHOOD, SAUDIA DAVIS ’00 RUNS working.” The fifty-person threshold, she explains, is HER FINGERS ALONG THE TOP OF PIC- when the balance between management and employees to the White TURE FRAMES, BEHIND THE FLAT SCREEN can falter. It becomes a struggle to get everyone aligned TVS MOUNTED TO CONFERENCE ROOM on the same page. Problems—like poor communication— Glove Test WALLS, UNDER LAMPSHADES, AND ACROSS that could be ignored with a staff of two dozen start to THE HANDLES OF TRASH CAN LIDS—ALL have a problematic ripple effect through the organization IN SEARCH OF PROBLEM SPOTS THAT HER after hitting fifty. No speck of dirt or STAFF MIGHT HAVE MISSED. To catapult the company into its next phase, Davis fleck of dust is safe Davis has ten employees who service the online arts is trying to refocus the business on its core. She recently from Saudia Davis and crafts marketplace’s headquarters every work day completed a software build that streamlines operations, is ’00, founder and for the company she runs, GreenHouse Eco-Cleaning. working on building a board of directors, and is thinking CEO of GreenHouse But it’s late December and the crew has just completed a about how to fund this next stage of growth. That comes Eco-Cleaning, an thorough “deep clean” after Etsy’s swanky office emptied down to so much more than its eco-friendly focus and its out for the holidays. The group’s work must now pass expertise in servicing start-ups that have unique needs. In award-winning New a spot check from Davis’s discerning eye. She frowns at the end, it comes down to her employee base. “The green York City company a few stray fingerprints on a piece is where we started with lauded for its row of lockers, and nods with healthy products,” Davis says, environmental and satisfaction after discovering “but I’d say where we make the social conscience as her employees dusted the easy- greatest impact is on the quality well as its meticulous to-miss crevices underneath the of life for the people who work eye to detail. cafeteria’s benches. for us.” Etsy is a major client for A reality of start-up life is GreenHouse, which Davis that many entrepreneurs end up started nearly a decade ago trying to solve problems that to meet the growing demand have plagued them firsthand. for cleaning services that This leads to a cruel irony: use environmentally friendly to solve these said problems, products that are better for the health of people and the founders often spend most of their time mulling over planet. Her current staff of forty still takes on the kind issues that land somewhere on their personal scale of of residential clients in Brooklyn and Manhattan that small irritant to major tormentor. she started with, but the team has come to specialize in For Davis, that was cleaning. “I hate cleaning,” meeting the unique needs of companies like Etsy. she says. “I know how to clean quite well. But ask my “When we moved to Dumbo”—Davis relocated the mother—it was like pulling teeth.” Davis’s mom also company here from Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood happens to be the one to thank for her daughter’s cleaning in 2009—“there were a lot of new businesses down here prowess. She would make Davis and her sister get up at that had a young demographic in terms of employees,” the crack of dawn every Saturday so all three could spend she says. “They just needed more robust service than the day making the house spotless and doing laundry. in corporate, which was wiping down cubicles.” That It wasn’t until Davis had been out of college for means tackling the kind of mess produced by an office six years that the thought of pursuing cleaning as a that has a meditation room, serves lunch twice a week, business crossed her mind. It started in 2006 when her and has beer on tap. grandmother passed away from cancer. Her grandmother Now Davis and her company are at a crossroads as had been a professional cleaner—a livelihood that allowed she pushes to take her business to the next level. “Any her to bring Davis, Davis’s sister, and Davis’s mother to CEO will tell you the fifty-employee mark is a very tricky the US from Jamaica in 1991. When Davis’s grandmother

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16 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 [email protected] 17 fell ill, the family “speculated that it was due to years of calls and booked appointments. Or if she was in Los using harsh cleaning chemicals,” Davis says, so they started Angeles, where she spent half her time, Davis was even using nontoxic cleaners—things like vinegar and lemon. known to take a call with a client on the red carpet. “You But Davis felt like there wasn’t a service out there that need a high level of naivety to start a business,” she says, espoused the green cleaning doctrine she wanted. “because you’d be a lunatic to do it.” Davis also knew that her family wasn’t the only one At night, after working her day job, Davis would go out looking to introduce more eco-friendly products into their and clean. “I wanted to understand what people wanted,” lives. At the time, Davis was working as a publicist for she says. Davis saved up the money from those early jobs, the movie industry, a job she’d had since graduating from and used it to start the business. Today the company is still Bowdoin in 2000 with a degree in English and Africana completely self-funded. studies. “I was working with a lot of celebrities that I knew Davis still dislikes cleaning for herself, but she has were moving to Brooklyn,” she says. “I was a glorified found that cleaning for others can actually be pretty rewarding. “There’s a Our mission is to use business as a force for goal,” she says. “There’s straight to the closest Western Union to send the money These services and partnerships are not completely good in the world and in our community. this overwhelming feeling of home to Ecuador, where her mother needed surgery. benevolent. They aid in fighting against what Davis says achievement when it’s been Since that day, Davis has tried to help her employees is the industry’s 300 percent turnover rate—meaning concierge, so I knew what it meant to take care of them.” transformed, and you see the look on their face when they by handing them more than just a paycheck. “One of the that if you start the year with twenty people, that group More than anything else, however, the death of walk in. That part of it is very fulfilling.” things we realized is that there’s a distrust for banks,” she will change three times before the year ends. “It makes Davis’s grandmother gave her a sense of urgency that she Even now that she spends most of her time on says. That led the company to set up direct deposit cards, it incredibly hard to run a business,” she explains. The hadn’t felt before. “When my grandmother passed, it was marketing, sales, logistics, and operations for her staff of which let employees take their money out of ATMs for free industry’s turnover is compounded by the fact that it is definitely the first realization that I was going to die at forty, Davis will still work shoulder to shoulder with her rather than pay a fee to cash a check. “Something as simple typically a distributed workforce—meaning employees some point,” she says. She always knew she wanted to start team on big projects. She says, “No one in the office is as that makes a huge difference,” Davis says. She also set don’t come into the office every day. a company, but “I knew the majority of successful owners above what we do.” up a partnership with Neighborhood Trust, which acts as Davis’s turnover rate is drastically lower, at about had crashed and burned a couple of businesses.” It made GreenHouse is categorically a cleaning business, a financial adviser to the kind of demographic that makes 15 percent—in part, she says, because she’s very policy her feel like she was running out of time to fail before but—above all else—it is a people business. “People up GreenHouse’s employee base. The firm can help Davis’s and procedure driven. For example, leaving a site early getting it right. are at every front,” Davis says. “You’re dealing with staffers work toward improving their credit or help them and reporting time incorrectly is an offense that will lead The notion of an eco-friendly business followed her people’s things and private spaces, which means it’s achieve a financial goal. to termination. “It might seem small, but for us it’s a around for months. Every morning it was the first thought highly emotional.” “We’re a B-Corp and therefore our mission is to use Every morning slippery slope,” Davis in her head and it was the last at night. She would regularly On the one end of the spectrum are her clients— business as a force for good in the world and in our says. “Honesty and bounce the idea off her Bowdoin network for feedback. “I people or companies that both desire and can afford the community,” says Davis. “This is why we pledged to it was the first integrity are important was just like, ‘I do not want to do this,’” she recalls, “but I kind of luxury that a green cleaning service represents. employ, educate, and empower people from underserved thought in her to us, especially when couldn’t shake it.” On the other is her workforce, which Davis says grapples communities. It’s why we have won the Best For NYC being trusted with other Eventually Davis surrendered to the idea and put with socioeconomic challenges you sometimes can’t even award in the community section and the same award for head and it was people’s things.” It up flyers in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood that wrap your mind around. The moment Davis came to B-Corp twice. We work with nonprofits who help newly the last at night. can feel harsh, Davis advertised a green cleaning service. During her lunch fully understand the types of hardships her employees arriving immigrants who are legal to work in the US find acknowledges, but breaks, she would cross the street from her Manhattan can deal with is when she hired her first staff member. jobs. In our industry, undocumented workers are paid very that’s a red flag for the company. office to a Borders bookstore, where she returned phone After getting her first check, the employee headed little and are often abused because of their circumstances. Davis has tried to cut off at the pass some of her We try to offer a good, healthy place to work for people employees’ challenges that lead them to disappear. who are able to work and who are trying to find stability She stresses during orientation that they should not and a way to take care of their families.” be embarrassed by their struggles. “I try to start the The company is working on a partnership for 2017 relationship by telling them I’ve seen everything,” she says. with Spring Bank, which will permit longtime employees “We can help you resolve or give you time to resolve the to take out a loan and have their paychecks go toward situation. We’re happy to work with you.” But to do that, paying it off—say if they want to move but don’t have the Davis needs to know what the issues are. She’s therefore cash to do it. Davis’s hope is that the collaboration will at developed a knack for getting employees to open up during least help mitigate the massive housing and homelessness the interview process. Davis says, “they call me Oprah.” issues some of her team members face. One employee, for example, struggled to get the papers that would allow him Beth Kowitt ’07 is a senior writer at Fortune Magazine and her to go in and out of a shelter late at night to take on a night husband, photographer Karsten Moran ’05, is a regular contributor to account. In that case, Davis was able to step in and help. The New York Times.

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ental maps of the world sometimes change involvement dating back more than a century, thanks oriented resources in Maine’s business, education, science in a historical instant, as they did five to the work of, most notably, Robert Peary and Donald and research, and artistic communities, and convinced them hundred years ago with the establishment MacMillan. And it is due largely to the enduring links to that Maine would be an excellent site for a meeting of the of permanent transatlantic and transpacific Arctic peoples forged by Bowdoin students, professors, and Arctic Council. sailing routes. Most of the time, however, alumni that Maine became the venue for the 2016 Arctic Maine’s multifaceted engagement with the Arctic had our worldview changes piecemeal and Council meetings. received a major boost in 2013, when the Icelandic shipping more modestly, through personal necessity “When the State Department sent an advance team to company Eimskip made Portland its principal US port of or experience—from the opening of a new road, perhaps, Maine to decide whether to hold Arctic Council meetings call. At a Maine International Trade Day meeting shortly or relocation for school or work. As the Arctic thaws before here,” says Dana Eidsness, director of the Maine North after that, Iceland’s President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson our eyes, it is revealing the once-frozen region’s myriad Atlantic Development Office (MENADO) and chair of challenged his audience to focus on North Atlantic and mysteries, untapped potential, and innumerable hazards in the Maine Arctic Council host committee, “we took them high north trade, including Atlantic Canada, Greenland, ways that are redrawing the world map more dramatically to the Bowdoin campus and introduced them to Susan Iceland, and Northern Europe. The creation of MENADO than at any time since Columbus and Magellan. Kaplan and Genny LeMoine at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic was a direct result of that. But in addition to dealing with It is only in the last decade or so that the public has Museum. The demonstration of Maine’s long history commercial issues, according to Eidsness, “part of the job become aware of the Arctic as a region with more to offer and ongoing relationships in the Arctic and the work of description was to insert Maine into conversations about than Inuit, ice, and explorers with a penchant for hardship the College’s Arctic Studies Center dazzled them.” It also the future of the Arctic, with the melting of the sea ice and and cold. Bowdoin, however, has a history of Arctic predisposed them to recognize the many other Arctic- the opening of new seaways.”

“Donald Baxter MacMillan, hunting party, camped. Fall 1908–1909. Hand-tinted glass lantern slide. Gift of Donald and Miriam MacMillan.” Senator Angus King H’07 addresses the crowd at a reception the Arctic Museum hosted in Portland in honor of the permanent participants of the Arctic Council. Photo by Dana Williams ’18.

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At the same time, sustainable development and environmental Maine’s Senator protection. The council comprises the eight nations Angus King was whose territory borders the Arctic Ocean—the becoming interested United States, Canada, Denmark (including in the Arctic Greenland), Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the possible and Russia—and the permanent participants, six opportunities—and umbrella groups representing indigenous northern Left: Senior Arctic Officials meeting of the Arctic Council in Portland, Maine, October 2016. Credit: Arctic Council Secretariat pitfalls—for Maine peoples. In addition, the council allows non-Arctic / Linnea Nordström. Illustration: 1984 approximates long-term as the Northwest states and intergovernmental and nongovernmental average. Image courtesy of NASA. Passage and other organizations to participate, primarily as members Arctic shipping lanes of the six working groups that generate most of the become viable. “The Arctic Council’s assessments and recommendations. opening up of the Soon after the establishment of MENADO, Arctic, which has Eidsness was invited to join the Protection of the never been open in Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) Working human history, is like Group, which she invited to meet in Maine. the sudden discovery “PAME agreed, and then we had numerous Arctic of the Mediterranean Council workshops and task force and working Sea,” he said at the group meetings added to the Portland agenda— Maine Arctic Forum, eight, all told. And eventually they said, ‘We want an event held at the to have the Senior Arctic Officials meeting in University of Southern Portland, as well.’” The choice of Maine rather Maine (USM) as than, say, Alaska or Washington, DC, made Senior Arctic Officials sense because “part of the mission of the US met in Portland. “It’s chairmanship was more thorough engagement with a large, incredibly the rest of the country, and using our two-year significant body chairmanship as a teaching moment.” of water that just Because most Arctic Council meetings are wasn’t there before.” closed to the public, the host committee—which The fact that large included Kaplan and LeMoine—designed a swaths of the Arctic program to introduce to Maine the four hundred together scholars and policymakers to discuss the transformation of the Arctic by Senator King and are now ice-free or so international members of the Arctic Council challenges of effective maritime governance in the the likes of Paul Mayewski of the University of

At the Bowdoin- for several months who met here in September and October, and Arctic. Farther afield, the Sustainable Development Maine’s Climate Change Institute, the focus turned hosted reception for of the year is changing the way people orient vice versa. To that end, Bowdoin and the Arctic Working Group gathered at the University of Maine to the broader implications of these changes. James permanent participants in Orono. Their closed session was followed by Kraska, professor of law at the Naval War College, of the Arctic Council. themselves to the world, whether their interests are Museum hosted a conference meeting on campus, Photos by Dana in transportation, the environment, industry, or and University of Alaska geographer Lawson a reception that Eidsness described as “sort of a pointed out that Russia has recently established six Williams ’18. Top: speed-dating event with Arctic officials. . . . We new bases, sixteen deep-water ports, and thirteen Kevin Yu ’18, John the rights of indigenous people, whose permafrost Brigham visited Kaplan’s Contemporary Arctic Sweeney ’20, Madison world is literally melting beneath their feet. Given Environmental and Social Issues class. Additional sent out some study guide ideas ahead of time to airfields on its northern coast, in anticipation of the Kuras ’18, Emma the momentous implications of these changes, to the Arctic Council-sponsored activities, the students, who came from Colby and Bowdoin fact that by 2030 the Northern Sea Route between Greenberg ’18, and Natalie Kiley-Bergen King observed, “the challenge that we have is to Museum hosted the Meaningful Engagement of and USM and all over the state. Then we took the White and Bering Seas may be open nine months ’17. Middle: Luke manage the process of this opening-up in a peaceful, Indigenous Peoples and Communities in Marine over the upstairs of a pub and had an emcee and a year. The United States, Canada, and Norway have Frankel ’18, Lara Bluhm ’17, and Kevin cooperative way.” Activities workshop—at which students were invited different tables set up with various people from similarly been enhancing their military presence, Yu ’19. Bottom: Susan This is, in fact, the mandate of the Arctic to act as rapporteurs—in collaboration with the the Sustainable Development Working Group who for the simple reason that the Arctic is a bonanza- Kaplan (back turned), willingly met and spoke with students and others.” in-waiting. As Lawson Brigham observed, “The unidentified Arctic Council, an intergovernmental forum founded US Coast Guard Academy, the World Wildlife Council participant, in 1996 to promote cooperation, coordination, Fund, the Arctic Domain Awareness Center, The most comprehensive and publicly accessible retreat of sea ice is a given, but it is natural resource Thomas Diaz ’18, and interaction among Arctic states, indigenous and the University of Alaska–Anchorage. The introduction to Arctic issues was at the Maine Arctic development that is driving the future of marine Madeline Schuldt ’18, and Kevin Yu ’18. communities, and others, especially regarding Governing Across the Waves workshop brought Forum. Following presentations on the environmental transport in the Arctic Ocean.”

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ethical responsibilities, not just material concerns.

She endorses the work of the Arctic Council At the end of the “Meaningful Engagement” workshop, participants because “I don’t want to see history repeat itself. and students posed for a photo on the deck of Cram Alumni House. We should be collaborating with northern people. Arctic Trail Map by Bill Fall. We will lose some control, but it can lead to great things.” The Arctic Council intensified and raised the profile of issues of abiding interest to the Bowdoin community and, like the Arctic Studies Center, one of its key functions is to help us draw new maps for these territories.

Lincoln Paine is a maritime historian, author, editor, and curator whose books include the award-winning The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (Knopf, 2013), Down East: A Maritime History of Maine (Tilbury House, 2000), and Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia (Houghton Mifflin, 1997).

These resources include perhaps 20 percent and much of the regulatory regime governing the of the world’s undiscovered oil and natural gas, Arctic consists of “soft law,” such as declarations Last spring, with funding from the Oak as well as enormous reserves of hard minerals, with moral rather than legal force. Foundation, the Peary-MacMillan Arctic including iron ore, zinc, nickel, palladium, and As a world, we are heading both literally and Museum hired Lily Woodward ‘16 to begin coal. (The world’s largest zinc and nickel mines are figuratively into uncharted waters. While some may compiling information for the Maine Arctic the Red Dog Mine in Alaska and Norilsk Nickel see in the Arctic a “new world” for the twenty-first Trail Map, identifying nearly thirty locations in Russia, respectively.) In addition, the Arctic is century, others are not so sanguine. “The Bering Sea across the state of Maine with significant being increasingly exploited for its fisheries, which is our garden,” Alaska’s State Representative Bob connections to the Arctic and Arctic already accounted for 10 percent of the global Herron told the forum. “What’s happening, and exploration. Aidan French ’18 and William catch a decade ago; it is the source of one-third everyone that lives on a coast will appreciate this, Wise ’18 continued the work collecting of the increasingly thirsty world’s fresh water; is that a lot of my constituents are scared. They’re and its ecotourism industry is growing. Yet, even scared because they see the sea rising, they see the additional photographs and historical notes with the seasonal retreat of sea ice, the conditions permafrost melting. It’s not academic to them.” It is during internships last summer, and the remain brutal and the risks enormous, for most instructive to note that Herron’s district lies below Museum distributed copies of the completed of the region lacks things most of us take for the Arctic. But this is the teachable moment: more brochure around the state and to attendees Among the interesting notes: A cluster of granted. Only 8 percent of the ocean is charted than 99 percent of the world’s population lives of the Arctic Council meetings in the fall. crowberry plants, survivors of the last ice age, to international navigation standards; outside of below the Arctic, yet what happens in the Arctic An interactive version of the map will be grows on Higgins Mountain on Georgetown Norway and northwest Russia there is little or affects us all. available soon on the Museum’s website. Island, just a few miles from campus. no infrastructure even for emergency response Kaplan, who teaches anthropology, points out capability; major seabed claims await adjudication; that the challenges before us entail moral and

24 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 [email protected] 25 Hawthorne- Meghan Detering: How are academic libraries changing in the twenty-first century—how does Longfellow in the Bowdoin Library and its resources today vary from even what I would have known not the Twenty-first quite ten years ago? Marjorie Hassen: There is this myth out there that everything is digitized. That’s certainly Century: not the case. We’re currently in a hybrid environment. We’re buying both electronic and A Q&A with Bowdoin print based on the format in which materials are published and how they’re being used. Librarian Marjorie Hassen About 86 percent of the journals we buy are electronic and 14 percent are in print. Books are the reverse. For individual titles—we’re In today’s speedy world of information spending 85 percent of our book budget on technology, how is Bowdoin’s Library and print, and the rest on electronic. its staff keeping pace? On a recent visit We know that the landscape will continue back to campus, Meghan Detering ’07, to change. But our circulation, the number librarian at Colorado Rocky Mountain of items leaving the building, has actually School and a candidate for a master’s remained steady for the past few years. While degree in library and information sciences there’s been a significant drop from where it at Drexel University, visited with Bowdoin was ten years ago, we appear to have reached Librarian Marjorie Hassen to talk about a plateau. how Hawthorne-Longfellow Library And we work closely with Bates and Colby varies today from the version that older on a collaborative collections project, keeping alumni would recall, or even for alumni duplication of print titles to a minimum and like Meghan who have been out of school joining forces on the purchase of electronic materials when possible. We consider the barely ten years. three libraries’ collections as one—we share an online catalog. A student or faculty member can request something from Colby or Bates and have it delivered to Bowdoin in just two days.

We work with faculty to ensure we have what they and their students need. If we have a title as an e-book, for example, and someone asks for the print version, we will get it.

Detering: By purchasing it?

Hassen: Yes, we’ll buy the print version. With e-books and journals as well as with research databases, which are used extensively by faculty and students, it’s a matter of either licensing or purchasing, depending on the particular situation. Publishers and vendors continue to experiment with different business models, though their goals are often at odds with those of libraries, which are focused on providing broad access.

26 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 [email protected] 27 I think the way in which we work with students has get to know librarians early on. They feel less intimidated hours—and they’re well trained. Some students feel changed since your time at Bowdoin. Walk-up reference to come to the library and ask for help. I would say our Particularly with students, the comfortable approaching a peer; others don’t. assistance to answer what might be a quick question librarians, the liaison librarians in particular, are working interactions are more in terms has declined and the librarians are spending their time at capacity. Librarians have conducted programs in the College providing in-depth research help. They’re also being of depth rather than breadth. Houses. We’ve collaborated with the Center for asked to consult more often on group projects. While so Detering: Do you think that faculty or Library staff Learning & Teaching, most recently with the Writing Beth Hoppe, created much information is available virtually, research can be have noticed any kind of notable improvement in the Project. Librarians participate in their end-of-semester a guide called complicated. We’re actually doing more course-related competence that students and researchers have as users “Write-Ins.” We aim to reach out as much as bring “Fake or Fact?” to instruction than we used to—close to 250 class sessions of information? people in. assist students in last year. Hassen: A faculty member recently mentioned that a evaluating sources. Detering: In terms of faculty outreach, it sounds like And use of Special Collections & Archives has also librarian had come to her class and had talked about there’s probably a reciprocal relationship. Do you feel We also work closely increased. More faculty are integrating primary source evaluating resources. She said that, as a result, the librarians are reaching out to faculty more, or is there with students on materials into their teaching. Is this trend a reaction to the students’ presentations were of a much higher quality more demand on the faculty side? citation management, Internet? I don’t know, but we now have a position that because they had thought more critically about their including regularly Hassen: I would say both are true. Our librarian liaisons is focused on outreach to faculty and students in terms of providing workshops are assigned to individual academic departments so they using Special Collections and that’s been a terrific success. on several popular get to know faculty quite well. While the initial contact We have faculty who reserve time in the department for software tools. may come from the library side, faculty regularly seek their class a semester ahead because they know scheduling out their liaisons. Particularly when it comes to course is going to get tight. It’s wonderful to see students excited Copyright and support, it’s a collaborative process. If a faculty member about working with primary sources—whether the topic is intellectual property has an idea for a class research project, we can help make the history of the College, Shakespeare, the Civil War, or is another area it a reality. artist books. where our work has changed. We have Detering: Can you tell me about some of the events the And then there’s technology. It’s embedded in everything always provided Library sponsors? we do and we are continually pushing the envelope. We support to students just installed a 3-D printer in the Hatch Science Library Hassen: For the past two years we’ve held a party in H-L and faculty, to help that will be available for student use. at the beginning of the fall semester to help students feel understand and more at home in the building. As part of the event we’ve This goes back to the question of what is a library in interpret copyright law, but now, with so much media brought in therapy dogs, which has been a huge draw. the twenty-first century? Does a 3-D printer belong in available digitally and so easily shared, boundaries are often blurred. Carmen Greenlee is our digital copyright An event that’s become extremely popular is our monthly expert and she is often asked for advice on how music page-turning of Audubon’s Birds of America double- There is this myth out there and films can be used. elephant folio. I don’t know if you’ve seen that on display in Special Collections. It’s called the “double-elephant that everything is digitized. Detering: I learned in one of my academic library folio” because of its size. It takes two people to turn the classes about different forms of reference service, page. We host the event the first Friday of every month

Photos by Michele Stapleton whether it’s peer reference service, roving reference, a library? I would say that if it serves to support the and typically have fifty or sixty people attend, including chat, etc. Is Bowdoin experimenting with any of academic mission of the College, then yes. Libraries have research rather than settling for the first few resources students. We also live broadcast it through Facebook. these things? Or, because of the College’s size and always been closely integrated with technology and we they might find on the Internet. It was gratifying to hear community-oriented nature, is this something you’re Kat Stefko, our director of Special Collections & Archives, have the broad staff expertise to support and develop it. that she saw a difference. trying to stay away from because you want the actual occasionally invites a guest speaker. We’ve been joined Detering: Over the last three years, the number of students I think that for all of us, the Internet has actually made building to be the hub? by Nat Wheelwright, chair of the biology department and that the library reaches had consistently increased, nearly life more complicated because of the sheer quantity of an ornithologist; and this spring Peter Logan ’75, who Hassen: We want to meet everyone’s needs, whether doubling between 2013–2014, and 2015–2016. To what information so readily available. The focus then needs to recently published a biography of Audubon, will be our they want to come to us physically or virtually. It’s do you attribute the increase? be on evaluation. And of course, we’re now surrounded special guest. not heavily used at Bowdoin, but we do provide a chat by the topic of fake news. Hassen: This is due at least in part to our integration into service. We do e-mail reference as well. We have exhibit openings, Ramp Gallery events—that’s more first-year seminars—an opportunity for librarians Detering: Of course, it’s suspect now. our student-run gallery—and a number of other programs to work with first-year students, to begin to build their We have student assistants on the reference desk in the throughout the year. We also make our spaces available to information literacy skills. It’s also helpful for students to Hassen: Exactly. This semester one of my colleagues, evenings and the weekends to supplement our librarians’ student groups. We don’t necessarily have to be the event

28 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 [email protected] 29 sponsor. We’ve hosted desks. This fall the Bowdoin Film we removed some Society and the Food stationary shelving for Thought student and replaced it with lecture series, which is a number of mobile OR organized by Bowdoin tables, chairs, and FAKE FACT? Student Government. whiteboards. They A guide to fake news and fact-checking use the furniture by Bowdoin librarians Detering: Given all creatively—one day I of that, I would say saw a student sitting libguides.bowdoin.edu/fakenews that twenty-first- on a table with century libraries are the whiteboard in - SOURCE perceived as offering a front of her, writing S lot of programming— formulas—and they Where did it come from? Who wrote it, bringing communities love the mobility. We published it, posted it? together. Do you see never find it in the that as being a purpose same place two days M - MOTIVATION or mission of an academic library, or do you think it’s in a row. What are they trying to sell you? Who secondary to accepted intentions for this space and building? Up in the stacks, has what to gain (or lose)? We moved the Library’s film collections from the former which are lined with Sills Language Media Center to the Commons and we Hassen: I think that assumptions about what an academic individual study - EVIDENCE immediately saw an increase in use, I expect because of E library should be have changed. We are a hub on carrels, is where it’s the more central location on campus. Films are being used Where’d they get their data? Says who? campus—the academic hub, the intellectual center, as well really quiet—where in courses across the disciplines and while we subscribe to as a gathering place. For me, the question is what do our students want to a number of streaming services, much of our collection is L - LOGIC students and faculty need and how can we support and be sequestered. The not available digitally. Can you follow their train of thought? enhance their experience at Bowdoin? Abrahamson Reading Room on the sixth Do they commit logical fallacies? Detering: I think many people still have this idea of The space also includes a cinema-quality screening room floor of Hubbard, libraries as being these totally quiet spaces. There are so and computer classroom, which are both used for teaching. which has recently L - LEFT OUT many types of libraries, but many are moving toward had a face-lift, And we just opened the Telepresence Classroom, What aren’t they telling you? This goes back to the question of including all new which was funded through a grant from the Mellon furniture, is probably Foundation to support a collaboration between the what is a library in the twenty-first the quietest, and most coveted space in the library. Russian departments of Bowdoin and Yale. The century? Does a 3-D printer belong Make the slightest noise and everyone turns around technology will make it possible for Bowdoin students and looks at you. In the basement of H-L, in the Media who are in upper-level Russian classes to participate The thing about quotes from the in a library? fully in classes held at Yale. The room will be available Commons, students are working in different ways, more internet is that it’s hard to verify collaboratively. generally for teleconferencing and collaborative becoming what might be called learning commons, or instruction. Technologically, it’s state-of-the-art, with their authenticity. research commons—really collaborative, vibrant spaces. Detering: Would you elaborate a bit more on the Media audio-sensitive cameras so if you speak the camera –ABRAHAM LINCOLN What would someone experience during reading period? Commons? zeroes in on you automatically. Collaboration on the lower levels and quiet, individual studying above? Hassen: It opened in the fall of 2015 to support media Detering: Oh, wow. That’s incredible. creation and the study of film. The space includes a media Hassen: For the most part, the students define the lab, reformatting equipment—from VHS to DVD, vinyl to Hassen: It’s really very cool. The possibilities are endless— In the News: Reliable Online ambiance of a particular space, though the kind of digital, and so on—and two recording studios. We have a this connection between technology and information Sources on Government furniture in the space also has an impact. The first floor green screen and a Whisper Room—it’s about the size of a provides unlimited opportunities. When you ask someone, Primary and secondary online sources of H-L is always busy, with students working alone as phone booth and is soundproof so is great for recordings. “What do you think of first, when you think about a pertaining to current events in government. well as in groups. Last year we noticed that many students Staff from the Library and the Academic Technology & library?” people will often say, “Books.” Books are were using the low bookshelves as standing desks so we’ve Consulting team work together to provide instruction and important, and they are an essential part of who we are, libguides.bowdoin.edu/inthenews purchased some high stools and some actual standing technology support on site. but we’re more than that.

30 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 [email protected] 31 Outside of the ZONE BY DEEPAK SINGH • PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRED FIELD

If you hear the word “OZ” on campus, the speaker isn’t likely referring to a mythical, magical place at the end of a yellow brick road, but a Bowdoin Outing Club program that can certainly be transformative for its participants. OZ is short for Outside of the Zone, a leadership training program for students with limited or no previous outdoor recreation experience. Writer Deepak Singh, himself new to Maine and a novice in the outdoors, accompanied the latest group of leaders-in-training on their winter expedition and provides a immersive perspective on the OZ experience.

t was negative ten Fahrenheit. There was an excruciating amount of pain in my big toe. My socks and jeans were both wet and it was now pitch dark. “Not my head, my toes.” spots in this year’s program. Ranging from first-years to There were two dozen backpacks on the floor, and “Yeah, put on a hat,” he said, without looking at me. I was recently invited, as a writer, to accompany the team seniors, participants came from places such as Des Moines, I couldn’t tell which one was mine. Everyone had I walked to Anna and told her my problem. She said, of sixteen Bowdoin students on a three-day trip to Monson, Iowa; Phoenix, Arizona; Miami, Florida; Houston, Texas; theirI headlamps on except me, and the bright lamps seemed to “Come here. Stretch your hands wide apart and jump up and Maine. The trip was a part of the Bowdoin Outing Club’s New York, New York; and Hong Kong. diminish whatever limited sight my eyes could muster. down like a penguin.” I jumped up and down and learned later (BOC) Out of the Zone (OZ) Leadership Training (LT) A few days before the trip, I met Mike Woodruff ’87, Mike was now chopping onions. I went to him and said, “I that putting on a hat was a brilliant idea. Heat escapes from program. For the past nine years, the OZ LT program has the director of the Bowdoin Outing Club. He welcomed me can’t feel my toes.” the head. I should have paid attention to Mike and Anna’s class been identifying, recruiting, and training student leaders who into his office and led me to a big room that resembled a “Put on a hat,” he said in a nonchalant tone, continuing to before embarking upon the trip. I was busy paying attention to might not otherwise take advantage of opportunities offered warehouse. He handed me a backpack that was large enough chop onions. how they were teaching, not to what they were teaching. by the BOC. Twenty-five applicants competed for the sixteen to hold a human being. I thought to myself, why do I need

32 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 [email protected] 33 SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO PUSH TO KNOW WHAT YOU CAN DO. adventure. I didn’t realize that this hike to the cabin was part shaking and I didn’t think I could go down and climb back YOURSELF of the adventure. up with my other backpack. I mentioned this to a student, After a twenty-minute climb that seemed to me to last two Enrique Mendia ’20. Looking at my hapless state, he said, hours, we saw a small cabin that stood on top of the hill. It “Don’t worry, I’ll go down and get it for you.” This friendly this supersize backpack for a three-day trip? As I carried lakes that were nothing but massive hunks of ice covered with was surrounded by waist-high snow and its door was blocked and very kind young man came from Miami, Florida. the backpack around the warehouse, Mike kept dropping a thick sheet of fresh snow that resembled a silvery bedspread. shut. I tried to say something, but couldn’t—my lips were In the next few minutes everyone had made it to the cabin. different kinds of snow gear into it—skiing boots, snow boots, All three vehicles arrived in Monson within minutes of temporarily paralyzed from the cold. A couple of students Anna and the students got busy working on dinner. Mike mittens, a fleece pullover, snow pants, gaiters, woolen pants, each other. We parked as close as possible to the cabin. There cleared up the path and opened the door. Everyone cheered started the fire and then joined the cooking. While I was trying and sleeping bag. I had never gone skiing before, and had was a big wall of snow that seemed to be the end of the in unison. But the temperature inside the cabin wasn’t any to get myself warm, I watched students work in teams to bring definitely never heard of the term “snowshoeing.” This would drivable path. Mike got off his truck and yelled, “Everybody different than the temperature outside. The wooden structure buckets of snow from outside to melt on the stove. Everyone be different, I thought. must not have been more than 300 square feet, with a loft and started settling in, carrying the thin mattresses up to the loft I grew up in the plains of northern India, where daytime a steeply peaked roof. and getting their sleeping bags out. Although there were temperatures in summer, which lasts for eight months out of We dropped our backpacks on the floor. My legs were sixteen of them, cramped in a tiny log cabin, they respected twelve in the year, vary from 100 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Some days are very hot, and others are unbearably hot. I’m pretty sure no one in my hometown has ever seen any of the stuff that Mike had dropped in my backpack. Was I prepared for this expedition? I began to have second thoughts, but I had already said yes to the assignment. There was no looking back. Mike told me to come to his office at 7 a.m. on the day of departure. Everyone would congregate then and, after a small orientation, we would begin on our journey. The day came. I arrived with two backpacks—one that Mike had given me, and the other one, much smaller, with my clothes, toiletries, books, notebooks, glasses, headlamp, towel, medicine, and some snacks. I met Anna Bastidas—the upbeat assistant director of the program. She was orienting the students, who sat in a circle and listened to her. Mike and Anna’s leading styles were interestingly juxtaposed. Anna was meticulous about everything, walking up to every student, taking stock of what they carried and what they didn’t, every detail of the trip. Mike laughed and joked with the students. His relaxed but confident gait gave me the impression that he put on your snow gear. The cabin is up there.” had done this more times than he could remember. I listened I looked up and around and didn’t see any cabin. All to what Anna said, with the gravity of the trip sinking in, but I could see was copious amounts of snow and trees. The I enjoyed it when Mike burst into laughter. Anna’s message students started putting on their snowshoes. I asked Mike, seemed to be, “Make 100 percent sure you are prepared for “Do I have to put these on now?” this trip.” Mike seemed to say, “It’s going to be so much fun.” “Yes, it would be a good idea,” he replied. There were three different vehicles for the journey—a I put them on and heaved the heavy backpack onto my twelve-passenger van and two pickup trucks. I chose to ride shoulders. As soon as I took the first step on the uphill climb, with Mike in one of the trucks. He wanted to take the lead, I staggered under the weight of the two backpacks and fell. A so we were the first ones to leave. After twenty minutes of part of me thought, this is not going to end well. I decided to driving, Mike’s relaxed demeanor put me at ease. He wore leave my big backpack at the bottom and climb up with the a flannel shirt and a friendly smile that seldom left his face. lighter one. As we began our ascent, more people began to Anna was driving the other truck, and one of the students was tumble, but we got up and kept moving. at the wheel of the van. I had made the mistake of not putting on the heavy-duty As we got closer to Monson, everything became whiter. snow boots that Mike had given me. I also didn’t have the I’M PRETTY SURE NO ONE IN MY There was snow everywhere, piled up high on the side of road, snow pants on. I was under the impression that we were HOMETOWN HAS EVER SEEN ANY OF THE STUFF THAT and on top of the houses and stores. We drove by ponds and supposed to change into snow clothes once we set out on an MIKE HAD DROPPED IN MY BACKPACK. 34 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 [email protected] 35 After one more cozy night in the cabin, the students and Students in the OZ LT group complete the eighty-hour staff packed up to return to the conveniences of life on the Wilderness First Responder course taught on campus by Bowdoin campus. Wilderness Medical Associates. Over spring break, they And when students returned to their regular campus lives, undertake a five-day winter trip, with a backpacking and I wondered what stuck with them from OZ. Senior Daniel overnight winter camping component. During the spring, they Castro Bonilla explained that some of the skills he’s found do a five-day canoe trip on a river in northern Maine. During most applicable are those that “have helped with group the semester, the BOC staff meets with the group to teach assignments—like learning to delegate tasks, communicating skills like map and compass navigation, stove repair and with my peers, and knowing to trust them.” Olivia Bean ’17 maintenance, fire building, canoeing, and rock climbing. They told me that OZ also helped her strengthen her people skills, also discuss leadership concepts and critical decision-making and that she learned a lot about problem-solving and decision- skills, as well as planning for the field trips. making, whether in a simple situation or a crisis. “I want students to experience the outdoors, get out of “OZ is now at the very center of our leadership training their comfort zone, and think outside the box,” says Brian efforts,” says Tim Foster, dean of students affairs. “Seeing Cook ’80, who with his wife, Ann, established an endowment students exposed to the outdoors for the first time is special, to support OZ financially. “If they’re spending a night in a but to then see these same students leading and introducing cabin in freezing temperatures, in the middle of the wilderness, their peers to the wilds of Maine is magic.” they have to think creatively to keep themselves warm. They “OZ was a turning point in my life,” says La’Shaye can’t just Google to see how to keep yourself warm. And (Ervin) Cobley ’12, a PhD candidate in the ecology, that’s a good thing. Sometimes you have to push yourself to evolution, and organismal biology program at the University know what you can do.” of Utah. “If I didn’t get into the outdoors through OZ, I’m inclined to agree with Mr. Cook. Utah would have been way harder for me. The amount of climbing, hiking, and skiing that I do now is all a result of Deepak Singh is an Indian-American writer, radio producer, and my time in OZ. It taught me how to safely lead a group of journalist, now based in Brunswick, Maine. He is a frequent contributor to PRI’s The World, and has written for The Boston Globe, The people on outdoor adventures. I learned problem-solving New York Times, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, and the BBC each other’s space, and everyone got a good night’s sleep. shape by the time we got to the top, but Mike and Anna did skills and how to assess risks. I learned how to mediate World Service. His latest book, a memoir, How May I Help You? An They all knew tomorrow was going to be a big excursion day. a wonderful job of encouraging everyone and helping when between different factions in groups and make firm decisions Immigrant’s Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage, was published in The next morning, we had grits and coffee and hot some of us got cold, tired, or left behind. Once we reached a about what may be best for everyone.” February 2017 by the University of California Press. chocolate—all prepared by the students. While having frozen pond, we got to shed our backpacks for a while. We breakfast, I sat next to Mamadou Diaw ’20, from New York had some snacks—Snickers, crackers, chips, cheese. There was City. He had a cheerful and positive attitude. I asked him a thermos full of hot chocolate and a single cup of hot drink why he was doing the trip. He said, “I believed that I was not passed through several hands. Everyone’s faces lit up with cut out for the outdoors. I decided to be in OZ LT because new vigor. Snowballs started flying in all directions. Soon, I wanted to achieve confidence in my abilities and skills as a there were people racing against each other on the frozen leader for others. I have not only achieved more friends that pond, making snow angels. I will cherish throughout my time at Bowdoin and with the While everyone was having some downtime, I got the Outing Club, but as the only African American male in the chance to speak to Meera Prasad ’20, from Des Moines, program I can instill more confidence in almost everything Iowa. I asked her about her motivations for getting involved that I do, even if it may not be up my alley.” I nodded and we with the Bowdoin Outing Club. She said, “As reflective of chatted some more before it was time to get ready for the day. much of Bowdoin, the BOC is a very white space. That can We changed into our snow gear—thermal underwear, make it intimidating to an outsider who has no outdoors snow pants, gaiters, snow boots, and snow shoes—and made experience. In this way, the welcomed inexperience of OZ our way down to the vehicles for the five-mile drive to the was attractive. The diversity of OZ is an accessible pocket base of Borestone Mountain. Once we got there, Anna and of the BOC in a different way than the other LT groups, at Mike gathered everyone into a circle to brief the team. They least for me.” said it was going to be an hour-and-a-half hike up, and it’d Coming down the mountain was fun for the students; they take about the same time coming back. Hiking up, with all laughed and giggled as they tumbled down. But it was harder the heavy snow gear and a backpack, was one of the toughest than climbing up for me. I was cautious with every step I EVERYONE’S FACES LIT UP WITH NEW VIGOR. SNOWBALLS STARTED FLYING IN ALL DIRECTIONS. things I have ever done in my life. Most of us were in bad took. We finally made it back to the parking lot. SOON, THERE WERE PEOPLE RACING AGAINST EACH OTHER ON THE FROZEN POND, MAKING SNOW ANGELS. OZ WAS A IN MY LIFE. TURNING POINT 36 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 [email protected] 37 Class of 2000

Timothy Dwyer • Diving Below the Surface

“I’m surprised that penguins and icebergs dominate our collective mental image of Antarctica when such incredible scenes exist just beneath the ice.”

teams working in the polar regions with the aim of improving the public’s understanding of these regions. My cold-water scuba diving background made me a particularly good fit for a research team from the University of Hawaii and the University of Montana, whose experiments with giant sea spiders had them diving beneath the sea ice at a latitude nearly 78 degrees south. The twenty-nine-degree water limited our dive times to under forty-five minutes, but these brief visits nonetheless highlighted the starkly contrasting environments on either side of the ice. McMurdo Sound under water has more wildlife, more color, and more warmth than the terrestrial world above. I’m actually surprised that penguins and icebergs dominate our collective mental image of Antarctica when such

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I teach science and math at Spring Street Island, where engineers were using remotely I’ve been fortunate International School, an independent operated vehicles (ROV)—car-sized underwater to have been educated by extremely talented school in the San Juan Islands of robots—to maintain and repair oceanographic teachers. Bowdoin faculty members James Washington State. I’m able to put a lot of effort sensors installed on the sea floor, two kilometers Higginbotham, Jill Pearlman, Ed Laine, and Nat into keeping my subject matter relevant to my below the ship. My role was to share and interpret Wheelwright were particularly innovative and engaging. students by integrating materials and skills across the experience of being in the ROV control room However, my students are the ones who have had the different disciplines, by bringing kids outdoors with an online audience while video from the greatest influence over my professional development. to explore local ecosystems during field labs and ROVs streamed live on the Internet. I’m constantly surprised by the diversity of outlooks and extended field trips, and by differentiating my ideas present within every classroom. They frequently own training through extended experiences with I took a sabbatical from teaching in the fall “invite” me to try out new techniques to improve my scientists, engineers, and communicators. of 2016 to spend two months in Antarctica, effectiveness by highlighting my own misconceptions working with a team of researchers examining about the different ways people learn. Witnessing a In 2015, I was awarded a Science the reasons some cold-water marine invertebrate student’s facial expression change as a concept hits Communication Fellowship with a deep-ocean animals get very large, a phenomenon known home or a skill is finally mastered is a big payoff for me. exploration nonprofit foundation that operates a as “polar gigantism.” I was participating in 212-foot vessel, the E/V Nautilus. I participated in PolarTREC, a National Science Foundation- A longer version of this profile is available on our

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serve as the Reunion committee: to Sicily, and Rome. Nancy and I participated in the New England to hear from Jack Woodward for a few months by the Gulf Send us news! 4104 College Daisy Crane, Walter Gans, took a more local cruise, up and competition held in Portland Live the life you dreamed about. that, after three to four years of and were jolted to have it snow Station, Brunswick, ME 04011 David Ham, Kay and Dick down the Hudson from/to New and finished fifth of twenty- monitoring, he learned that two in Alabama. Vicky and Harry or [email protected]. If there’s no news listed for Lyman, Ted Parsons, David York City with stops at Sleepy two groups. Sparse turnout at arteries were badly clogged. Carpenter are again spending your class year, it’s not because Kessler, John Simonds, Hollow, Hyde Park, Olana (home Whittier for the final cookout LOVE WHERE The outcome was a triple winter in Florida after a full we’re neglecting you! The Kent Hobby, and John Snow. of artist Frederick Church), West of the season. With son Bill on bypass and replacement of an summer in Maine, which was majority of Class News has First priority is to make contact Point, Albany, and Troy. The the grill, the faithful attendees YOU LIVE. aortic valve. Recovery has gone highlighted by the wedding of always been self-reported, so and get a head count of those experience was enhanced by were Harry Carpenter, Wende exceedingly well and he hopes their son Matt in a brief interval send us an update and rally FREE! planning to return. the pre- and post-trip hospitality Chapman, Bill Cooke, Barbara on� is to ride with the ‘Bears on Bikes’ between his passing of the your classmates! irst m “In October Harry Carpenter of Walter and Katherine Gans. and David Ham, Dick and Kay F this spring. medical school exams and drive wrote that he and Vicky will The following month they Lyman, Tom Needham with “The holidays brought a to Georgia for his first clinical 1957 REUNION soon be off to Florida (until celebrated Nancy’s sixtieth Tom Jr. ’87, and grandsons Tom welcome flood of greetings assignment. Barbara and David Ed Langbein: “Our numbers April), and asks that we count reunion at Colby Sawyer, which III and William, Ted Parsons and and news to share. Thanks to Ham are also taking some time continue to shrink and the the snowflakes for him. This coincided with the installation Susan Morey, and John Snow. everyone who took the time to in the sun which has given Class extends its sympathy past summer Dick and Kay of their new president. It was “In November, MaryLou communicate. Of note, many them a chance to visit Toni and to the families of Frederick Lyman sailed the Aegean with also an opportunity to visit with and Clem Wilson moved Rentals class members indicate they Payton Perkins. starting at G.P. Thorne and James D.S. stops in Turkey and Greece. their granddaughter who just from Holyoke to Greenfield, $3,200 mo. have been drawn temporarily to “Kay and Dick Lyman Kim. Additionally, we have Fortunately, they were not called transferred there as a junior. Massachusetts, which is closer all inclusive warmer climes. Pam and Peter (accompanied by Calliope, their *excludes phone lost Margaret Morrison (widow upon to climb the rigging or set “MaryJane Smith wrote to their daughter Eileen. Both and cable Davis left the ‘briskness’ (minus golden retriever) journeyed from of Tom) and Beverly Murdock sails. Marsha and Nate Winer that she is well and that are fine, but fighting the usual four degrees) of Ely, Minnesota, Connecticut and Washington, (widow of Jim). enjoyed a fall trip to Venice, granddaughter Hannah, a fall colds. Moving south, just for “Serious planning is underway which was capped by a cruise sophomore pre-med at Bates, is the winter, John and Ann Snow for our 60th Reunion. Thanks to down the Adriatic to Croatia, on the rowing team. Ted Parsons are with us in Brunswick (from those who have stepped up to Greece, around the boot of Italy and the ‘Gentlemen Songsters’ Port Clyde). A bit disconcerting

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DC, to Los Angeles and Arizona, and Gisela plan to ‘downsize’ group of Stanford students has never been adequately 150 meters that Italian and then Montana. Also on the in February from Frankfurt to (future volcanologists and explored, although I did some Middle Bay Farm Bed & Breakfast archaeologists have recently move, Sally and David Seavey nearby Bad Krunberg. geophysicists). I also talked work there in 2006 around the On the Ocean discovered and have invited me checked out the US and Europe “A card from Paul with various Italian colleagues submerged harbor mouth. I’d like 4 miles from Bowdoin College • Open year round to join in its survey. Since the this past year. In 2017 they Kingsbury featured a photo about future archaeological and very much to begin a systematic Bay of Naples was Rome’s most are planning to explore the of his hometown church in geophysical work in the Bay of survey of the underwater Offers four sunny bedrooms, each with a water important gateway for maritime view, private bath, TV/VCR. Room rates are East Coast up to the Maritime Holliston, Massachusetts, and Naples and the deeper waters remains and, if possible, begin $150 to $170 and include a full breakfast. activities going to and from the 287 Pennellville Road, Brunswick, ME 04011 Provinces in June and then, in demonstrated his newfound off shore. There is an ancient city to look for deep offshore Two suites in sail loft cottage are more rustic, eastern Mediterranean, I know September, the shorelines of talent of card production.” beneath the sea (Portus Julius) in shipwrecks using robotic but include living area, kitchenette, two small (207) 373-1375 • [email protected] there are many more ancient the Great Lakes. Lois and Bob the Gulf of Pozzuoli, the northern technology. There is one wreck bedrooms, and private bath. Suite rates are www.middlebayfarm.com wrecks awaiting discovery in the $150 to $190. Owned by Phyllis Truesdell, wife of the late Clark Truesdell ’65 Estes enjoyed a summer visit 1960 part of the Bay of Naples, that at a depth of approximately maritime corridors leading to and to the northwest (Alberta and Bruce Bockmann: “The lyric from this important port. British Columbia) and Olympia, that gets my attention the “We also were blessed to have Redwood, and Crater National most over the past ten years both of our European families visit Parks. This March they’re is from The Grateful Dead’s us this summer . . . All together, looking forward to a Caribbean ‘Truckin.’ The chorus ends with: A WIN-WIN GIFT we had at least one grandchild cruise. In October, MaryLou and ‘Sometimes the light’s all shining With a charitable gift annuity, The Cabin with us for six weeks, and we Jim Millar enjoyed a Danube on me/Other times I can barely you can support Bowdoin all survived quite nicely. Kathryn cruise with visits to Vienna see/Lately it occurs to me/What and receive income for life. Restaurant and I also had a quick trip to Port and Budapest. Less traveled, a long, strange trip it’s been.’ Clyde, Maine, to visit friends on Nancy and Ed Langbein did And it’s getting longer every day. Here’s what a $20,000 charitable 552 Washington Street, Bath Hupper Island before heading make it down to Connecticut for Glad to hear you are all well gift annuity can look like:* home. We had both families with a ‘grandchildren fix’ over the and content. All is good here in The Cabin opened its doors in June us again for the Christmas season holidays, and regularly enjoy Southampton.” RATE – CHARITABLE of 1973. Serving our local and and for some skiing in the Vail seeing Joanie Shepherd and Ross Hawkins: “Just got AGE PAYMENT DEDUCTION faraway friends for over forty years. Valley . . . A colleague of mine, Cynthia Howland at Bowdoin back from younger son Scott’s who had retired before I did, once  .% – $,
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, Located in the south end of Bath at an eighties-plus tennis for Pinehurst. He has two One of the best in New England. you ever had time to live while across from Bath Iron Works. The tournament in Vero Beach daughters, ages fourteen and “ — Boston Globe you were working. You know, I Assumptions: 1-life immediate CGA, $20,000 gift, ” (unclear if Tut was participating twenty, and she has a son, age * front section of the restaurant was think he was right.” 1.8 percent IRS discount rate. Calculations are for or just giving pointers to those eighteen, and a daughter, age illustration purposes only and should not be considered About as good as it gets in Maine. once a rope mill in the historic Bob LeMieux: “I turned on the court). Marsha and Nate thirteen. So, we now have two legal, accounting, or other professional advice. Actual “ — Downeast Magazine ” shipbuilding days. In its past, it has seventy-eight in early August Winer enjoyed Thanksgiving in new grandchildren. Had a great benefi ts may vary depending on the timing of your gift. been a barbershop, ice cream parlor, and closing in on eighty with $10,000 is the minimum gift for a CGA at Bowdoin. A local tradition. Some would argue the Napa Valley wine country time, in spite of a thunderstorm and sandwich shop. Now our menu the rest of you, I’m pleased to “the best pizza in the state of Maine. with their son Dan and his warning, which drenched the includes pasta dinners, subs, salads note that I cycled the twenty- boys. And, Flora Cowen wrote town but somehow missed the — Offshore Magazine five miles of carriage trails For a personalized illustration and to obtain ” and, of course, pizza. Stop by for a ‘another full year’ and that wedding site altogether.” at Acadia this week and kept more information, contact Nancy Milam or wonderful meal. granddaughter Sophie ’18 will Bob Hohlfelder: “Kathryn up with daughters and our Liz Armstrong in the Offi ce of Gift Planning check into ‘Hotel Grandma Flora’ and I have had a busy summer. HOURS OF OPERATION: recently-turned eight-year-old at [email protected] or 207-725-3172. en route to a spring semester in I had a trip to Naples, Italy, Sunday – Thursday: 10am – 9pm Open year round, seven days a week grandson. His job was even Provence, France. in the early summer where Friday – Saturday: 10am – 10pm for lunch and dinner. Cash or more difficult than mine as his “Dietmar Klein wrote to I offered some lectures on checks accepted. ATM on premises. bike weighs sixty percent of extend a holiday greeting to the archaeology and ancient 443-6224 Local delivery available. his weight with smaller tires. all, and announced that he history of this region to a Very proud of the young lad

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and pleased that we both could There is a long road ahead to get at Highland Green in Topsham we headed to Bob LeMieux’s Maine summers and winter takes ago, the Canadian government the Laurentide region north of again. Not a drop of rain for master the mile-long uphill them assimilated into our world, and their summer residence on in Cumberland Foreside for her to Florida—she is on the restored my citizenship so now Montreal, Ottawa, and the Lake three months and sunny skies climbs. Acadia, celebrating its but there is a team of people Mere Point. Campbell Road in breakfast—they make a mean move and doing well.” I am a dual citizen, or as I like Memphremagog area. According all day with no temps above one hundredth anniversary, was who are working hard to make West Bath was a destination (-ingful) popover. Both Bob and to say, ‘I am a citizen of North to the locals, this was an seventy-five degrees. In August, splendidly beautiful and well this happen. It has been quite to witness what is going on at Libby are doing well. Then it 1961 America.’ Pete was a good sport exceptional year for fall foliage, Sally and I celebrated our 1961 attended.” a moving experience to realize, ‘The Farm,’ where Phil Wilson’s was on to spending some good Bill Christmas: “Pete Hanson about indulging my desire to and we were there at its peak.” wedding (which took place, Bob Smith: “We have even at our ages, you can make son Chris ’86 has undertaken a time reminiscing with Phil’s and I just arrived back in the US see all things Canadian. We Mickey Coughlin: “Enjoyed fondly, in the Bowdoin Chapel) had a very busy spring and a meaningful contribution to major restoration and expansion widow Gail in Chelmsford, after a two-week road trip to made a big effort to visit as seeing everyone at the 55th back where it all started for the summer. Bob Jr.’s son Alden make things better.” of the big house. The Dekes of Massachusetts. Chris has also Canada. It was a nostalgic trip for many brew pubs as possible and Reunion. Can the 60th be that newlyweds—the Big Apple.” graduated from Trinity College, Bob Spencer: “Greetings the late ’50s will recall many a expanded the ‘cottage’ at the me, because I spent the first six enjoyed some excellent pints. Our far away? We had a wonderful Dick Cutter: “This year and Lauren’s daughter Jennifer from mild, sunny, dry Colorado— good time ‘farming.’ The next day farm, where Gail spends idyllic years of life in Canada. Ten years itinerary included Quebec City, summer here in paradise once Suzanne and I made two great graduated from Skidmore but with snow above 10,000 trips, taking us to Thailand for College on the same weekend in feet! The Spencers and the my son’s wedding in April, and May. Then, in June, we had two Carl Smiths enjoyed each more recently a two-week Tauck other grandchildren graduate other’s company and had lunch “There were roughly 200 in my class— tour to Italy. I had been in Italy from high school. So, a lot of a couple months back atop ‘the quite a bit when I was on active traveling back and forth to kids’ Art,‘ a swanky new hotel here in lifelong friendships were formed. duty in the Navy and again about homes and celebrations. We Denver—this town’s skyline is Giving back is a way to acknowledge eight years ago, but this took us spent a great week on the Cape spreading in all directions. We to Rome, Florence, and Venice. I with Bob’s family with their kids just got back from Maine, New how much Bowdoin meant to all of us.” have now been in Thailand four coming in for a couple of days Hampshire, and Massachusetts, times and have been north to between their summer jobs. where it was wet and somewhat —Bill Hughes ’64 south with my son, who lives in Betsy and I have been quite cold, but warm friends and family Bangkok. We are thinking now involved with bringing into the compensated. Steve Loebs is Bill says his Bowdoin education prepared him well that we should hit some of the US a young family from Syria, doing very well in his recovery for Harvard Law and his later career in real estate. National Parks here in the USA. He and his husband, Dave, are based in California. refugees from the brutality of from injuries incurred in a serious Finally, my latest Bowdoin event Despite this distance, Bill feels connected to the Assad regime. We initiated car accident earlier this year. He Bowdoin and is particularly proud of the College’s was a great lunch at the Portland the effort just a year ago through and Sue are enjoying retirement achievements concerning diversity and inclusiveness. Country Club where our Class of our church and eleven months ’61 had an elegant luncheon in later they were sitting across Bill and Dave established the William L. Hughes Jr. the great hall with a large group from us in the living room of the and David Condie-Hughes Scholarship Fund as headed by Charlie Prinn.” part of their estate plan. In leading by example, new apartment in West Hartford. Steve Silverman: “Sorry we their support of our students represents promise couldn’t make the 55th. Had just for the future of the College, and faith and belief in Personal Care / Companions / Handyman the Common Good. returned from a trip to Venice, Croatia, and Montenegro and Aging Life Care Experts 1hr. to 24hrs. were still in another time zone. Swif Wellness Progrm Had a great time. We think buildings in the US are old—we You, too, can leave a were in buildings in Croatia that lasting legacy at Bowdoin. were BC. I’m still practicing For more information, contact Nancy Milam The Bowdoin Pines Society law, mostly commercial and Owner Kate Adams or Liz Armstrong in the Office of Gift Planning recognizes those who residential real estate and Bowdoin basketball players Hugh O’Neil CLASS OF 1989 have included the College at 207-725-3172 or [email protected]. ’19, Maddie Hasson ’20, Sydney Hancock in their estate plans. products liability (working ’17, and Tim Ahn ’19 helped Charlie During a road trip to Canada, Bill on a failed airbag case; very Prinn ’61 celebrate his seventy-seventh Christmas ’61 and Pete Hanson ’61 866-988-0991 complicated for us non-physics birthday during a dinner graciously couldn’t find a Polar Bear in Ottawa so, bowdoin.edu/gift-planning majors). One of my many hobbies hosted by Prinn and his wife, Frances, as Bill says, they “found the next best seniorsonthego.com is photography. We have two during the College’s winter break. thing—a Kodiak bear.”

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kids: Lisa is in publishing in American Newspaper (Rowman for anyone with a stake in the DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Littlefield, 2015). “Understanding Peter Webster: “In January, Hancock ’17, and Tim Ahn I traveled to Stockholm to visit my New York City and about to & Littlefield) was co-edited with American newspaper—which Professor of Government, recently War provides a most workable Frances and Charlie Prinn ’19 provided a reaffirmation of roommate and classmate Hans get married, and Aaron is an IT Stephens Broening, also a former is all of us.’ My essay covered published Understanding War: An bibliography dealing with the ’61 hosted four members from the outstanding character of Hedde ’67, who spent our junior guy in Florida and coaching my editor and foreign correspondent. investigative stories I did in the Annotated Bibliography (Roman vast literature on war and Bowdoin basketball teams at the current Bowdoin student- year at Bowdoin as an exchange grandson Payton’s middle school Judy Woodruff, co-anchor of the 1970s that led to convictions & Littlefield, 2016), volume three warfare. As such, it provides their home in Yarmouth, Maine. athletes—they were intelligent, student. We roomed together basketball team. Not sure who PBS News Hour, said ‘If you have of high Maryland officials and of his war trilogy, which also insights into over 3000 works on We took a moment from the courteous, engaged, and with in the Psi U house along with my grandson gets his basketball any doubt about the necessity indirectly to the resignation of includes Winning at War: 7 Keys this overwhelmingly extensive discussion of basketball to healthy views of self. Well done, Pete Engster. Hans and his wife gifts from—certainly not me.” of the American newspaper, you Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. to Military Victory Throughout material. Understanding War is acknowledge and celebrate Bowdoin.” Marrisa were gracious hosts. We Dave Taylor: “Not much must sit down with The Life of Both books are available in History (Roman & Littlefield, thus the most comprehensive Charlie’s seventy-seventh toured Stockholm and environs, news except for reporting Kings.’ NPR’s David Greene called bookstores and online.” 2005) and War Wisdom: A Cross- annotated bibliography available birthday. Hugh O’Neil ’19, 1965 plus the Swedish archipelago, therapeutically effective results it ‘rich, entertaining reading Christian Potholm, Bowdoin’s Cultural Sampling. (Roman & today.” From the Publisher. Maddie Hasson ’20, Sydney Phil McDowell: “In September where he has a summer home. for taking 7,000 IU of vitamin While scanning our yearbook, D on a daily basis which has we discovered a picture of Hans helped decrease six years of in a passionate embrace on the chronic back pain for me… dance floor. Fortunately, Marrisa Missed the Reunion because was amused.” I returned from a three-week European cruise three days 1966 before and did not relish Whether you are looking to stay here or play here… Doug Hotchkiss: “The two heavy days of driving to Class of 1966 Reunion was Brunswick. Expecting to have let us help you Sea Everything… a great success with well aortic valve replacement surgery over a hundred classmates in the near future . . . Climbing to in attendance. [We] awarded the top, approximately 387 steps Skip Applin a Bowdoin Bear (the size of Winthrop Hall’s), of candy bar—the prize for Mont St. Michel was an event!” least distance traveled from Topsham, Maine. Dick Lee 1962 REUNION was honored with a tiny Polar Fred Hill “published two new Bear for trekking the furthest books in July. Ships, Swindlers, from Brisbane, Australia.” Heather Potholm Davis ‘95 and Scalded Hogs: The Rise and Long Time No Sea... Fall of the Crooker Shipyard in Ladies and Gentlemen... Off Their Rockers! We Can Fix That! 1968 Bath, Maine (Down East Books), Highland Green’s resident rock band formed in 2016. Off Their Rockers members relocated from Peter Hayes has released is a thoroughly-researched Maine, Connecticut, Maryland, Ohio, North Dakota and California. Through HG they discovered his latest book, Why? account of his family’s mid- each other and their passions for music. What’s your passion? You can discover it at HG. Explaining the Holocaust, nineteenth-century shipyard, Coming to visit for Parents Weekend, Marcia Giles an exploration of one of a book that Dugan Shipway, Read more about Off Their Rockers along with many other stories at: the most tragic events in former president of Bath Iron HighlandGreenLifestyle.com Graduation, or Homecoming? human history. The work is Works, calls “a compelling saga structured around a series of of the heritage of shipbuilding basic questions, and “tackles in Maine. The second is a book each with authoritative of essays on the better days of ease, making for a book The Baltimore Sun, for which I that’s both readable and was a foreign correspondent and revealing.” Hayes has been editorial writer for twenty years. The Northeast’s Premier 55+ Active Adult Lifestyle Community Discover beautiful waterfront homes at hotel prices… Call MaineStay to book your home today! teaching students about the The Life of Kings; The Baltimore You Holocaust throughout his Sun in the Golden Age of the 7 Evergreen Circle, Topsham, Maine | 866-854-1200 / 207-725-4549 | HighlandGreenLifestyle.com f Tube (207) 8335337 WWW.MAINESTAYVACATIONS.COM thirty-six years as a history

46 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 [email protected] 47 Class of 1976 Bowdoin Class News Jef Boeke • What Makes A Scientist Tick

professor at Northeastern the Holocaust Educational universities around the world. fourteen and a typical fourteen- ef Boeke ’76, H’98 is many things—husband University. He has collaborated Foundation’s biannual Lessons Though he recently retired from year-old! But I keep reminding J and father, singer and musician, Mainer and on numerous Holocaust-related and Legacies Conference, a that post, he continues to bring myself I am older and wiser.” New Yorker, beekeeper and beyond. During his publications and currently chairs premier forum for the field those lessons to a new, wider “We design day job, he serves as the director of the Institute for the academic committee of of Holocaust studies, as well audience in lectures and events 1979 Systems Genetics and a professor of biochemistry and the Jack, Joseph, and Morton as the Summer Institute on all over the world, as warning Leslie Anderson: “I am chromosomes molecular pharmacology at NYU School of Medicine. Mandel Center for Advanced the Holocaust and Jewish that what happened in the past happy to announce the on a computer, We design chromosomes on a computer, Holocaust Studies at the US Civilization, which has graduated has implications for the future. publication of my new book, program them to program them to perform specific tasks, and then build Holocaust Memorial Museum. more than five hundred fellows From an Evanston, Illinois, Democratization by Institutions: perform specific them from scratch. He was instrumental in creating who have gone on to teach at Northwestern Magazine feature Argentina’s Transition Years tasks, and then Using software, we can design an entire article, Winter 2016. in Comparative Perspective, chromosome in minutes. My colleagues and I out with the University of build them from have built DNA molecules of nearly one million DNA 1969 Michigan Press. I have [also] scratch.” “letters” in length. Ralph Pope’s book, Mosses, been awarded a Fellowship from We recently built a number of chromosomes in Liverworts, and Hornworts: the National Endowment for the brewer’s yeast. This microorganism is special A Field Guide to Common the Humanities. My project is because it is more closely related to humans than Bryophytes of the Northeast, entitled ‘Democratic Enclaves in are, say, bacteria, which makes it a great model for was released December, 2016, Times of Trouble: The Politics of understanding what’s going on “under the hood.” by Cornell University Press. Resistance in Nicaragua.’ I am The custom yeast chromosomes can “teach us “This photo-based field guide to currently a Research Foundation new biology” and be put to practical work—turning the more common or distinctive Professor at the University of the yeast into special factories to produce chemical bryophytes of northeastern Florida.” compounds such as pharmaceuticals and pesticides; or North America gives beginners complex chemicals useful as medicines, vaccines, and the tools they need to identify 1980 biomaterials; and building custom chromosomes to Seven members of the Class of 1981 crossed the pond to walk the ninety-six- most specimens without using “Sherin and Lodgen LLP recently engineer the genomes of plants and animals, or even mile West Highland Way in Scotland. Showing Bowdoin pride at the end of the a compound microscope. announced that Douglas human stem cells. hike in Fort Williams are Dave Barnes ’81, Dave Dankens ’81, John Hickling ’81, Pope’s inviting text and helpful M. Henry was selected for Dan Spears ’81, Pete Larcom ’81, Bill Parkin ’81, and Joe Cogguillo ’81. A Watson Fellowship after college enabled me to photographs cover not only inclusion in the listing of 2016 make a collection of over 3,000 types of Andean the ‘true’ mosses but also the Massachusetts Super Lawyers, tropical plants, now distributed in herbaria across the peat mosses, liverworts, and a rating service of outstanding world—including Bowdoin’s small collection! Interest hornworts.” From the publisher. lawyers from more than seventy in their pollination led to a passion for beekeeping. practice areas who have attained When I came to Bowdoin I was a budding singer 1978 a high degree of peer recognition and instrumentalist. For the last thirty-five-plus Barbara Stetson Vanamee: and professional achievement. years I’ve been playing and occasionally performing “Well, I never thought becoming The list was published as a with the Southern Blots, a bluegrass-Celtic fusion band. a grandmother would be so special supplement in Boston We just cut our second CD, titled Deep Sequences. wonderful! My daughter, Dr. magazine and in New England I’m a regular on campus thanks to the fact that my Sophie Todd, has a daughter Super Lawyers.” From a Trevi wife, Susanne Utzschneider (Boeke) ’77, and I own a Lucy (five) and son Benjamin Communications press release, house in Harpswell, and our daughter Annabel ’12 is a (one). Thank goodness they live November 4, 2016. recent graduate. in Camden, Maine, so near us. Dave Prouty, General My son Nick was married this Counsel for the Major I just finished Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. If you’re interested in what makes a scientist tick, read it! Every September, the Noble family moves their cattle herd from “summer pasture” summer and is attending law League Baseball Players in the mountains back to the home ranch in Cora, Wyoming, for the winter. Last school. Having a doctor and a Association (MLBPA), helped September, there were five alumni helping make the thirty-five-plus-mile trip on lawyer in the family sounds so broker a new collective horseback: Ann Chambers Noble ’82, Andrea Noble ’15, Eric Levenson ’15, Matt traditional but it is awesome. bargaining agreement between Collins ’15, and Oliver Klingenstein ’15. Ann reports that “it was a beautiful day, Finally, my youngest, Emma, is Major League Baseball (MLB) Photo: Courtesy of NYU Langone Medical Center and all the cows, horses, and Polar Bears made it home safely and happily!”

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and the player’s union in late HARPSWELL November that will keep MLB Situated on 2.1 open acres, this home offers views of the ocean and Harpswell Harbor, direct access to a deep-water dock, and two moorings. A large, sunny on the field for twenty-six great room – added in 2012 – sits over an attached three-car heated garage and consecutive years without a features a large open deck with stainless steel cabling that doesn’t obstruct the seascape vistas or view of the moorings. The new master bath boasts a spacious work stoppage since the 1994-95 tiled shower, granite bench seat, thick glass enclosure, and an eight-foot granite double vanity. $689,900 players’ strike that canceled the 1994 World Series. HARPSWELL WATERFRONT This boater’s dream property showcases a deep-water dock and protected, 1983 deep-water anchorage. The large lawn area leads directly to the waterfront for unobstructed water views, including spectacular sunrises over Quahog Bay, Deborah Foote: “I moved to which can also be seen from the deck of the efficient, three-bedroom, year- Florida in June, 2016, to be round home. Located in a quiet neighborhood, the property also includes a 24’ x 30’ barn with upstairs storage. $589,000 closer to my immediate family. Hated to leave Colorado but have had the chance to spend HARPSWELL WATERFRONT This year-round 1940s vintage cottage holds so much potential! Featuring two some time with many fellow bedrooms, one bath, deck, full basement, and a loft, this cozy spot offers 125’ of water frontage on Basin Cove with great westerly and sunset views. Sited in a classmates including Jane cottage community on a quiet, private road, it includes a new septic installed in Kimball Warren, Whitney 2016 and a four-year-old gas furnace. Enjoy kayaking, canoeing, bird watching, “I learned early on as a lawyer that and all that comes with seaside living. $259,000 Sanford, Sue Fischer, Sue being decent was a great strategy.” Rob Williams Real Estate Unique Coastal Properties • Seasonal Rentals Available • 207-833-5078 • baileyisland.com Photo by Brian Wedge ’97

The law matters. Legal disputes are all about what When I was a federal prosecutor, a colleague once said: happens to people in the real world. While I love the rigor “Every decision we make is consequential for the individuals we and academic aspects of the law, in the end, it’s about helping touch, and most people don’t have that privilege.” I think about people solve their real-world problems. that often, and even more so now as a judge. BRUNSWICK: Discover beauty and privacy on this property, just five miles from downtown A good judge is interested, listens, and ultimately I’m a “wall-of-quotes” person. My workspace is surrounded Brunswick on the shores of Woodward Cove. The resolves disputes. Traditionally this means hearing the parties, by quotes. Near my desk is the Barry Mills manifesto. It’s home features a stunning open-concept living room Todd Marshman ’86, Henry Moniz ’86, understanding the facts, and applying the appropriate legal wonderful. I don’t always live up to it, but its message of and dining room, plus contemporary kitchen, all with Tom Roos ’86, and John Stookey ’86 analysis to decide disputes. As a judge, I also have learned to be humility, effort, staying connected, humor, and working for the ever-changing views of the cove. Fabulous first- (photobombing over Tom’s shoulder) floor master bedroom suite with sitting room, plus enjoying a Patriots game at Gillette mindful of context and—where possible—to facilitate resolution common good captures what I truly want to be in the world. two additional bedrooms, family room, library/den, Stadium, courtesy of Tom’s season through a mediated model. This can lead to resolutions not It may sound odd, but I think of my life as having been and much more. The 20 ’x 24’ studio cottage will tickets. possible within the confines of the traditional judicial process. inspire you! Explore 10.6 acres of woods and marsh shaped by the things I wasn’t interested in. I try a lot of frontage in this nature lover’s paradise—still close to As a lawyer, I learned early on that being decent was not things. I read broadly across many topics. I’m interested in almost shopping, restaurants, and town! $699,000. only the right thing, but also was a great strategy. Treating everything—at least conceptually. By trying different things, I learned people with courtesy and respect—even if it is not always what wasn’t interesting (to me) and ultimately found what was. HARPSWELL: Enjoy ocean views from every reciprocated in the heat of the moment—works. Active listening window in this renovated home on a private road— I work a lot! But when I’m not working, I’m often in Napa, with sunrise views to the east toward Bailey Island, enabled me to better understand the other side’s interests—and reading voraciously, growing tomatoes, making a little wine, or sunset views to the west from Freeport to Cape to reach better outcomes for my clients. There’s a mediation curing olives, preserving lemons—I love do-it-yourself projects. Elizabeth. In addition to the work that has been exercise that I teach. It is set on a desert island with a fixed stock completed on the home, extensive landscaping of oranges. Everyone wants the oranges, and they must negotiate As a judge, people are rarely in a happy place when has been done around the property and a 135-foot to get them. If the participants move beyond “winning” the most coming to see me. I joke that I’m in the “misery business.” I’m granite seawall and staircase have been added for access to the waterfront. $799,000. Captain Greg Smith ’87, fleet judge oranges, and instead talk and listen to each other, the exercise a fan of the Peter Weir film The Year of Living Dangerously, and I advocate for the US Pacific Fleet reveals that one person wants the peels, and the other wants the love this quote from the Billy Kwan character: “[d]o whatever you stationed at the US Naval Base at Pearl can about the misery that’s in front of you. Add your light to the fruit to make juice. Their interests don’t actually conflict; they just orton eal state Harbor, captured this photo of the USS appeared to conflict. It shows that parties can miss “win-win” sum of light.” As a judge and as a person, that’s what I try to do: M R E (207) 729-1863 Halsey passing through the bridge to Ford solutions when they don’t listen. add my light to the sum of light. 240 Maine Street • Brunswick, ME 04011 • www.MaineRE.com • Email: [email protected] Island during events commemorating Pearl Harbor Day in December.

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Schneider, Judy Ocker, Kathy the business litigation practice novel of the same name by on the music, motion picture, longtime advocate for women also widely known for her role 1997 REUNION promoted James L. Brown to Coffin, and Al Khoury. There is group. Her practice focuses on Shusaku Endo. The film was shot television, sports, Internet, leaders, becomes the fourth on the Maine Bar Association’s Brendan Fowler: “I have been vice president/creative director. an upside to being back on the complex business litigation and entirely in Taipei, Taiwan, and digital media, publishing, and female attorney on the firm’s committee charged with revising named partner at the law firm James is a licensed architect East Coast!” insurance coverage disputes. stars Andrew Garfield, Adam theatre industries. From a eight-member board of directors. Maine’s limited liability statute, Perkins Coie, where I focus with over fourteen years of The LCA is an invitation-only trial Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Berlandi Nussbaum & Reitzas In addition to her professional and also serves on the board my practice primarily in the experience in architectural design, 1985 lawyer honorary society, limited Asano, and Ciarán Hinds. The press release, December 9, qualifications, Deckelmann is of Women Standing Together, area of telecommunications development, and construction “Hugh Gorman, a partner in to just 3,500 fellows nationwide, film premiered in Vatican City 2016. an accomplished legal writer, a non profit that promotes and technology. My extensive services. He excels in bringing a the Boston law firm Prince Lobel established to reflect the new on November 30, 2016. “This having won the Wernick Prize entrepreneurship and leadership regulatory-related experience sensible, client-focused approach Tye LLP, has been selected face of the American bar.” is a momentous occasion,” 1995 for Legal Writing and served as among women.” From a includes representing wireless, to design problems. His talents by Massachusetts Lawyers From a Serin and Lodgen press said Berlandi, who represented Maria Bulzacchelli: “This the former executive editor of Bernstein Shur press release, cable, telecommunications, and for graceful detailing and drive to Weekly as one of its 2016 release, December 7, 2016. G&G on the licensing of the past summer I moved back the Maine Law Review. She is November 21, 2016. information technology clients create projects of lasting worth Lawyers of The Year. 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52 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 IT’S ME. IT’S MAINE. [email protected] 53 Bowdoin Class of 2009 Class News Emily Mullins • Serious About Technology and Marketing—and Brunch is located in their Boston office. announce the birth of their son, fields, and many fellow Polar down the Colorado River in the His practice involves representing Jack Hawken Gurall, who came Bears. Our romance started in Grand Canyon in September, 2016. ver since graduating from Bowdoin with a double privately- and publicly-held into the world on August 30, 2016. Baxter House, took us to California Thanks to Mike Woodruff ’87 for Emajor in history and political science, Emily Mullins companies in all aspects of Abbie Mitchell: “On June 18, for six years, and recently home all of the paddling skills!” ’09 has been fascinated with the fast-paced digital world around her. After working for tech start-ups in Boston corporate and transactional law, 2016, Stephen MacKinnon and to the East Coast for Devin to and San Francisco, she was recruited by Sadie Wieschhoff including mergers and acquisitions, I were married in the Bowdoin complete his orthopedic residency 2011 ’04 to lead digital business development at shoe giant private equity and venture College Chapel. Bowdoin was the in Providence, Rhode Island.” Devlin Cole recently graduated Reebok, where she gets to be “an entrepreneur in a big transactions, debt financings, perfect setting and the campus Sam Tung: “This past from Case Western Medical company.” joint ventures, and general looked fabulous!” year I was accepted into School receiving the Neuroscience I wanted to be at the forefront of technology, corporate matters.” From a Boston, the Art Director’s Guild after Award from the Cleveland Clinic. marketing, and software. I’m able to place into Massachusetts, Robinson+Cole 2007 REUNION storyboarding on The Dark Devlin will be doing a three-year perspective all that I learned in technology and in the press release, November, 2016. Jacqueline Linnane: “Josh Tower in Cape Town, South pediatric residency in Honolulu, start-up world and put it to work on behalf of my role at (DeNutte, Temple University ’07) Africa. I recently got engaged to Hawaii. an established retailer. 2003 and I have been living in Sydney, Stephanie Steele (Georgetown Lauren Wilwerding and One part of my Bowdoin experience, like that Rick Binelli and his wife, Australia, for the past four years, ’06). I’m storyboarding films and Jamie Cohen welcomed their of so many of my classmates, was sports and Jennifer, welcomed their second and recently flew back to our commercials out of Los Angeles, outdoor activities. Working at a sports company like son, Nathan Richard Binelli, on home state of New Hampshire in though we’ll be moving near San Reebok was a natural fit. My specific work is to find the August 24, 2016. “He weighed August! We were married at the Diego as my fiancé is taking a job newest and best digital companies for Reebok to partner eight pounds, fourteen ounces and lovely Governor John Langdon at the San Diego Zoo. If you’re with, so that we move the company forward, keeping in mind the history of who we are and where we came from. joined his big brother John, who is House in Portsmouth. We are ever in southern California don’t be two years old.” looking forward to our trip to a stranger!” My fondest Bowdoin memories are sitting in Dominique Alepin Johnson: Bowdoin for the Class of 2007’s Thorne after brunch on Sundays. We would “I was recently appointed the ten-year Reunion!” 2010 just hang around for hours (delaying the inevitable homework) and laugh about the nights and days before. Assistant Regional Director for the Jane Koopman: “Several Life was (and is) great being with the people you love! Western Region of the Federal 2009 Bowdoin (and BOC!) alums— Trade Commission, stationed in Kelly Thomas ’09: “Devin Sarah Johnson ’13, Dave Outside of my work, I feel most fulfilled when I’m Los Angeles. The FTC’s office in Walsh ’10 and I were married at Wells ’11, Kit Hamley ’10, Navy cardiologist Geoff Cole ’08 and connected to my family and friends. I continue to be Army internal medicine doctor Akira inspired every day by the companies they’re building (or LA focuses on consumer protection Marianmade Farm in Wiscasset, Jane Koopman ’10, and Pete Shishodo ’04 pose after completing have built) and the successes they’ve already had at such and antitrust matters.” Maine, on June 18, 2016, Wadden ’09—cashed in on a their post-graduate medical training at young ages. When I scroll through Instagram, there are surrounded by loved ones, lupine lucky permit for a private trip Walter Reed in Maryland. new companies, achievements, and amazing experiences 2004 that pop up every day from Bowdoin grads. From Akira Shishido: “Geoff Cole ’08 Amanda Allen ’09’s races, to Bryan Holden ’09’s seafood and I just graduated from post- company [Luke’s Lobsters] and furniture, to Emma Reilly grad medical training at Walter ’09’s new raincoat company, to my sister Julia Straus’s Reed in Bethesda, Maryland. Geoff skin care company, the list goes on and on. I’m so proud to call them my classmates and family. is now a Navy cardiologist working at Walter Reed and I’m an Army When I’m not working, you’ll find me running internal medicine doc deploying along the Charles River in Boston. After playing with First Special Forces Group lacrosse in Maine, no weather can keep me off the running paths. I’ll bump into friends and colleagues along for Operation Inherent Resolve. the way. The best part? After that long run comes the We also both played lacrosse but delicious brunch. Charlie’s in the South End is my go-to. I never overlapped while we were guess it’s an attempt at replicating my Sunday brunches at at Bowdoin.” Thorne—though I know those are irreplaceable.

2006 Mara Caruso Henckler ’03 and Aaron Ford Gurall ’04 and Abigail Daley Gurall Ford Gurall ’04 and Abigail Rick Binelli ’03 and his wife, Jennifer, Henckler (Colby ’03) welcomed new ’06 are delighted to announce the birth welcomed their second son, Nathan addition Griffin Penn Henckler to the of their son, Jack Hawken Gurall, who Daley Gurall are delighted to Richard Binelli, on August 24, 2016. Polar Bear family on October 27, 2016. came into the world on August 30, 2016. Photo by Webb Chappell

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son, Leo Douglas Bryan Cohen, met during date week at Bowdoin a current MD/MBA student number of national leadership into their family in Brookline, in 2009 and had our first date at at the University of Rochester capacities, including serving on Massachusetts, on November 3, Scarlett B’s. Colin proposed on the School of Medicine and Dentistry the AAMC OSR administrative n assignment with Teach for America at a school in Dallas, Texas, shortly after graduating from Bowdoin deepened 2016. Eastern Promenade in 2015. Colin and Simon Business School, as board, sitting on the group A Nadja Shaw ’12’s belief that a good education could reduce social and I are both attorneys in Maine. the next national chair-elect of on student affairs steering inequalities. Two years later, she returned to New York to help 2012 We also co-coach the Bowdoin the Association of American committee, guiding national found Achievement First North Brooklyn Prep, an elementary Jordan Payne: “Colin Hay ’10 Mock Trial Team.” Medical Colleges’ Organization of efforts to improve academic charter school, where she was also a teacher and dean. She’s and I got married on November Student Representatives (AAMC medicine, and planning long-term working now with Teach for America, designing leadership 12, 2016, in Portland, Maine, 2013 OSR). In his new role, David will strategies for success within development curricula to train New York City teachers, and will graduate in May from Columbia University with a master’s degree surrounded by great friends, “The nation’s medical students help lead his peers and provide the organization. In addition, he in sociology and education. family, and a beautiful sunset. We have elected David Bernstein, the student voice to the AAMC, a will be a sounding board for all prominent national organization medical students with concerns I am very passionate about kids and want to make sure the right adults are in front of them with the right mindsets and dis- dedicated to serving and or queries regarding academic positions, especially if they’re going into low-income communities. supporting academic medicine medicine.” From a University of Often, new teachers go in with deficit-based understandings of the and the health of all Americans. Rochester School of Medicine community, thinking they’re saviors. However, I want teachers to be His position is a three-year term and Dentistry press release, connected to the communities where they are teaching—to be fully Albert Investment Group in which he will function in a November 30, 2016. engaged and understand the successes and strengths and systems of The Albert Investment Group oppression and empowerment. A multigenerational wealth management team A multigenerationalwith over 75 years wealth ofmanagement investment team experience. I decided to help found a school because I wanted to be part with over 75 years of investment experience. of the decision making and creation of a school culture. I wanted to create a place where kids felt loved and cared for, where they could meet challenges and persevere through those challenges, and feel pride about where they have come from.

My degree from Bowdoin is more than a piece of paper. My mother didn’t finish college—she had me when she was a soph- omore. I blamed myself for her not finishing, so from kindergarten forward I said, “I am graduating from college for my mom.” At my Bowdoin graduation, I hugged Barry Mills on stage. We looked over at my mom together. It was this great moment, when I finally achieved the goal I had been talking about for so many years.

At Bowdoin, I was a sociology major, and my first sociology Lauren Wilwerding ’11 and Jamie Cohen ’11 welcomed their son, Leo Douglas Bryan class was when I gained the language to understand myself. It was the first time I had the vocabulary to define the unfairness I saw RetirementPortfolio & Estate ManagementPlanning | Portfolio Management | Retirement | Sustainable & Estate & Alternative Planning Investing Cohen, into their family on November 3, 2016. “I recognized that when I traveled between boarding school and Harlem. I was inter- Sustainable & Alternative Investing education was, in my ested in understanding the problem of why some people get oppor- tunities and others don’t. As a Mellon Mays Fellow, I thought Zachary W. Albert, CRPC® mind, a way of breaking I would go into a PhD program to become a sociologist. But I Financial Advisor decided that I wanted firsthand experiences within communities, Bowdoin Class of 2016 systems of oppression.” Zachary W. Albert, CRPC® | Bowdoin Class of 2016 to understand the problem at more than just an intellectual level. 25 Burlington Mall Road The Albert Investment Group I recognized that education was, in my mind, a way of breaking Burlington,Financial MA Advisor 08103 (781) 270-2227 systems of oppression. www.albertinvestmentgroup.com 25 Burlington Mall Road I didn’t think I would become an educator, but then I taught Burlington, MA 08103 TheThe Alber Albertt InvestmentInvestment Grou Group p and saw the role and the power of teachers. I watched kids grow CRPC®, Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor, is a registered designation of the College for Financial(781) Planning. 270-2227 © 2016 RBC Wealth Management, a division of RBC Capital Markets, LLC, and thrive and saw them become self-advocates. Once you meet Member NYSE/FINRA/SIPC. All rights reserved. 16-BU-096 (12/16) www.albertinvestmentgroup.com the children and see how inspiring they are and how every single one is a little genius in their own way, it pulls your heartstrings

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1 Kelly Thomas ’09 and Devin Nylund ’06, Katherine Parét ’08, Munford ’07, Nicole Melas ’07, 5 Luke Mondello ’10 and Kate 6 Katie Stewart ’12 and Peter 7 James Neely ’10 and Alex- Walsh ’10 were married at Elizabeth Shaw ’08, Emily Hricko Brendan Mortimer ’06, Rogan Emerson ’10 were married on Braunohler ’11 were married andra Reed ’10 were married on Marianmade Farm in Wiscasset, ’06, Victoria Hricko ’12, Cait McCally ’08, Kiernan Willet ’07, October 8, 2016, in Buxton, Maine. in Oxford, Maryland, on May 28, July 3, 2016, at St. Mark’s Church Maine, on June 18, 2016. Pictured: Polistena ’07, Diem Ha ’08, Toby Laura Sartori ’06, and Vanessa Pictured: Tucker Colvin ’13, Mark 2016. Pictured: Rose O’Connell in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Pictured: Jack Dingess ’09, Carter Butland Crawford ’07, Michael Peiser ’07, Lind ’06. Bellis ’10, Meggie Macleod ’10, ’12, Paulina Borrego ’12, Celeste Alex Caughron ’09, Kyle Mikami ’10, Jenna Diggs ’10, Chris Ryan Matt Nickel ’07, Mark Viehman George Aumoithe ’11, Louis Weeks Swain ’12, Chelsea Albright ’12, ’10, Elaine Tsai ’10, Mark Bellis ’10, Reid Auger ’10, Adam Tracy ’07, Armand Gottlieb ’07, John 4 Caroline Bader ’09 married ’11, Brian Wu ’11, Gil Birney (crew Danielle Abrams ’12, Nicole ’10, Alexandra and James, Meg- ’10, Ben Larkins ’09, Emily Swaim Greene ’07, Eric Robinson ’07, Nicholas Swerdlow (Bates College coach), Edie Hazard Birney ’83, Coombes ’12, Anna Tachau gie Macleod ’10, Zoë Anaman ’10, Ranaghan ’09, Lola Chenyek ’09, Rob Burns ’07, Jeb Bobseine ’07, ’09) in an outdoor ceremony in Jamey Anderson ’10, Cal Pershan ’12, Emily Upton-Davis ’12, Jill Connie Chi ’10, and Ian Yaffe ’09. Kat Flaherty ’11, Alison Sarokhan Dave York ’07, and Adam Paltri- Beverly, Massachusetts, on May ’12, Simon Ou ’10, Chris Adams- Berkman ’12, Caroline Dewar ’09, Oliver Kell ’10, Kelly and Devin, neri ’07. 29, 2016. Pictured: Meredith Borner Wall ’10, Brooks Winner ’10, Sean ’12, Hope Gimbel ’12, Katie and Karen Reni ’09, Doria Cole ’09, ’09, Kelly Overbye ’09, Charles Morris ’10, Tim Fuderich ’10, Liz Peter, Elisa Cecere ’12, Taylor Kaitlin Fairweather ’09, Emily Doyle 3 Nina Shrayer ’06 and Marga- Stern ’09, Caroline and Nicholas, Kirby Fuderich ’10, Sarah Ebel ’10, Escajeda ’12, Libby Spalding ’09, Christina Denitzio Delaporte ret Griffith ’07 were married on Claire Lewkowicz ’09, Jessica Paris Jeff Emerson ’70, Stephanie Wil- ’12, Andrew Coleman ’11, Julie ’09, Keri Forbringer Hetherman ’10, October 1, 2016, at the Newagen Fallick ’09, and Courtney LaPierre liams ’10, Andrew Otton ’11, Becca Andrews Coleman ’11, Brian Wu Dan Hetherman ’09, Eric Chenelle Seaside Inn in Southport, Maine. Grater ’09. Schouvieller ’10, Kate and Luke, ’11, Will Albuquerque ’11, Bobby ’10, Jamie Paul Chenelle ’10, Joe Pictured: James Nylund ’06, Amy Molly Taft ’11, Christine Buckland Fisher ’11, Mike Mitchell ’11, Pace ’10, Jill Henrikson Pace ’12, Ear ’07, Emily Hricko ’06, Rachel ’12, Hadrian Kinnear ’12, Chelsea Sam Epstein ’11, Kaitlin Raymond and Larkin Brown ’10. Grobstein ’06, Kelly Orr ’06, Mar- Noble ’12, Al Hyde ’10, Caroline ’11, Jonny “Cakes” Weighter ’11, garet and Nina, Leslie Wittenbrak- Bader ’09, Maggie Kate Myall Tim Anderson ’11, Bryce Lednar 2 Carolyn Hricko ’08 and er ’06, Aubrey Brick ’05, Lindsay (Bowdoin staff), Zarine Alam ’10, ’11, and Tanu Kumar ’12. Michael Igoe ’07 were married Pettingill ’02, Emily Sheffield ’06, Keri Forbringer Hetherman ’10, Ellie at the Linekin Bay Resort in Booth- Z-Z Cowen ’08, Daphne Leveriza Stevenson ’10, Dan Hetherman ’09, bay Harbor, Maine, on September Fay ’07, Carrie Miller ’08, Naomi and PJ Paige-Jeffers ’10. Behind 13, 2014. Pictured: Steve Shennan Kordak ’07, Sara Utzschneider the camera: Hannah Welling (crew ’12, Carolyn and Michael, James ’07, Emily Skinner ’08, Margaret coach).

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8 Benjamin Rachlin ’08 married 10 Thomas DiDonato ’12 mar- Kathryn, Faith Perry ’86, George 12 Jacqueline Linnane ’07 and 14 Colin Hay ’10 and Jordan Hall ’08, Sam Seekins ’14, Olivia Jaclyn Nguyen at Kualoa Ranch, ried Vicky Wu (Harvard ’09) on Pess ’87, Ann Thorne Bagala ’86, Joshua DeNutte (Temple University Payne ’12 were married on MacKenzie ’13, Charlie Berdahl Hawaii, on October 8, 2016. October 8, 2016, at the Harvard Peter Stackpole ’67, Lynne Stack- ’07) were married at the Governor November 12, 2016, at the Ocean ’11 (who also officiated), Holly Michael Tillotson ’08 served as Club of New York City. Pictured: pole Tripp ’94, Sean Carnathan John Langdon House in Ports- Gateway in Portland, Maine. Jacobson ’11, Michelle Lawson ’12, best man, and Christopher Jacob Tim McGarry ’13, Paul Steinberg ’86, and Mark Swann ’84. mouth, New Hampshire, on August Pictured: DJ Hatch ’11, Emily Colman Hatton ’10, Andy del Calvo ’09 as a groomsman. Pictured: ’12, Erik Olson ’12, Steve Bayer 20, 2016. Pictured: Mike Terry ’07, Hricko ’06, Amanda Gartside Kim ’12, Amy Ahearn ’08, Molly Porcher Jason Lewis ’06, Jessica Horst- ’12, David Mandelbaum ’12, Sam Adam Chang Jiang ’08, Katherine ’12, Jordan and Colin, Ally Kuriloff ’13, Christina and Stan, and Coach kotte ’08, Jaclyn and Benjamin, Martin ’12, Richard Nerland ’12, Wen ’10, Brandon Bouchard ’07, ’12, Anna Tachau ’12, Lizzy Tarr Peter Slovenski. Not pictured: Ken Michael, and Christopher. Jillian Berkman ’12, Augusta Rice Josh and Jackie, Emily Burton ’12, Damon Hall ’09, Ken LeClair Akiha ’08. ’14, Sarah Vallimarescu ’12, Jeff Kasprak ’08, Nick Kasprak ’08, ’77, Libby Wilcosky Lee ’10, Eric 9 Anne Riley ’08 married Fanning ’11, Ursula Munger ’15, Hayley King Sangillo ’08, and Peter Lee ’08, Lily Rudd ’12, and Laura Benjamin Moffat (Miami Uni- Jack Burkhardt ’11, Dan Weiniger Rocco ’07. Not pictured: Kathleen Kerry ’12. versity ’07) on November 19, ’13, Jordan Lalor ’12, Ollie Koo Callaghy ’07 and Megan Brunmier 2016, at the Engineers Club in ’14, Graham Sisson ’12, Al Milley Marsh ’08. 15 Stan Berkow ’11 married Baltimore, Maryland. Pictured: ’13, and Ben Tsujiura ’12. Christina Argueta ’11 on Sep- Bobby Guerette ’07, Beth Kowitt 13 Kate Leonard ’07 married tember 24, 2016, at Fort Williams ’07, Carrie Miller ’08, Karsten 11 Chris Wilson ’86 and Kath- Brian Straub (Clarkson University Park in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Moran ’05, Rogan McCally ’08, ryn Sargent ’84 were married on ’08) at the Hamilton House in with a reception afterward at Z-Z Cowen ’08, Laura Belden ’08, November 28, 2015, in Portland, South Berwick, Maine, on Septem- Grace in Portland. Pictured: Colin Debbie Theodore ’08, Benjamin Maine, and friends and family cel- ber 10, 2016. Pictured: Burgess Ogilvie ’12, Greg Talpey ’14, Tim and Anne, Emily Skinner ’08, Clara ebrated in West Bath on August LePage ’07, Jayme Woogerd ’07, Anderson ’11, Tyler Lonsdale Cantor ’08, and Douglas Riley ’75. 13, 2016. Pictured: Tony Stais ’87, Sarah Horn ’07, Brian and Kate, ’08, Andrew Fried ’08, Courtney Chris Avery ’85, Web Shaffer ’87, Susan Morris ’07, Sheryl Stevens Eustace ’08, Archie Abrams ’09, Scott Kennedy ’87, Katie Philbrick Pleiss ’07, Meaghan Tanguay Patrick Pierce ’08, Thompson Ogil- Vorenberg ’85, Roger Selverstone White ’07, Meghan Gillis ’07, and vie ’10, Matthew Hillard ’12, Ali ’85, David Houston ’84, Chris and Jill Campbell ’11. Chase ’09, Dana Riker ’10, John

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16 Laura Newcomb ’11 and Keneally Cotter ’08, Hannah Weil Courtney Camps ’08, Virginia and 20 Joelinda Coichy ’11 married 22 Abbie Mitchell ’10 Andy Bell ’11 were married on McKinley ’08, Thomas McKinley Armin, Seth Gabbaro ’07, Jeff Miller Spencer Kyle Johnson (Houghton married Stephen MacKinnon in September 17, 2016, in Cran- ’06, Kate Thomas ’08, and Leslie ’74, Michael Giordano ’08, Alden College ’12) on August 13, 2016, the Bowdoin Chapel on June ford, New Jersey. Pictured: Cory Bridgers ’06. Drake ’15, Peter Drake ’76, Andrew at Trinity United Methodist Church 18, 2016. Pictured in front the Elowe ’11, Emily Tong ’11, Deja Sinnenburg ’08, Gordon Convery in Savannah, Georgia. Pictured: Bowdoin College Museum of Art: Williams ’11, Mika Matsuuchi 18 Courtney Colantuno ’12 ’08, Joshua Miller ’08, and Noah Julian Leung ’11, Christina Petrulli, Nate Isaacson ’10, Margot Miller ’11, Shirley Wu ’11, Anna Nicol married Andrew Criezis (Tufts Buntman ’08. Spencer and Joelinda, Nicole ’10, Clare Ronan ’10, Will Jacob ’11, Grace Hyndman ’11, Brian University ’10) on September Davis Haskins, Alex Haskins ’11, ’10, Stephen, Katy Dissinger ’11, Lohotsky ’11, Andy and Laura, 10, 2016, in Marblehead, Mas- Bracebridge Young ’77, and Landis Abbie, Steph Finn ’09, Sarah Sarah Dale ’11, Rohit Sangal ’11, sachusetts. Pictured: Kara Nilan Becker Young. Marston ’10, Elisa Gutierrez ’10, Elsie Thomson ’11, Ginger Leone Raymond ’11, Kevin Raymond and Emma Verrill ’10. ’11, Danielle Marias ’10, Allison ’11, Annie Huyler ’12, Caroline 21 Thomas Blaber ’10 and Kerry Chan ’11, Doug Belden ’81, and Dewar ’12, Amy Hackett ’12, D’Agostino ’10 were married 23 Lisa May Giles ’94 married Betsy Belden ’80. Kyle LeBlanc ’14, Courtney and at Okemo Mountain in Ludlow, Todd Alan Hibl (Maine Maritime Andrew, Nicole Coombes ’12, Vermont, on October 1, 2016. Academy ’94) on June 25, 2016, 17 Martha Royston ’08 mar- Rose O’Connell ’12, Paige DeMal- Pictured: Nandini Vijayakumar ’10, at the All Saints by the Sea ried Basel Saad on December 31, lie Rockett ’86, and Hilary Rockett Dylan Crawford ’10, Lawrence Chapel on Bailey Island, Maine. 2015, in New Haven, Connecticut. ’86. Wang ’10, Thomas and Kerry, Erin Pictured: Sheridan Kelley Adams Pictured: Laura Armstrong Swann D’Agostino ’12, Miguel Reyes- ’94, Calee Lucht ’94, Lisa, and ’08, Emilie McKenna Pandullo 19 Armin Drake ’08 and Zaragoza ’12, Nehal Patel ’10, Aixa Kidd ’94. (Music was ’08, Morgan Pile ’08, Ingrid Anid Virginia Dawson ’08 were Catherine Chew ’10, Helen Pu ’10, performed by Putnam Smith ’94.) ’08, Courtney Camps ’08, Kerry married on September 17, 2016, at Sally Hudson ’10, and the band Twombly Ballinger ’08, Martha the Onwensia Club in Lake Forest, members of RACER X (English and Basel, Hanne Wieschhoff Illinois. Pictured: Sarah Lewis professor Aaron Kitch, music ’08, Kate Herlihy ’08, Ellen Shu- ’08, Kerry Twombly ’08, Laura professor Vineet Shende, Dave man ’76, Laura Small ’08, Emily Small ’08, Michael Buckley ’07, Morrill, and Pat Cyr).

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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. Notwithstanding Adversity by John R. Cross ‘76

James T. Blodgett ’38 Robert U. Akeret ’50 Donald S. Dean ’56 Michael M. Mahar ’95 ntil recently I had never heard of Orran Rensselaer September 16, 2016 November 12, 2016 December 2, 2016 December 25, 2016 Hall of the Medical School Class of 1867. I Jacob J. Cinamon ’40 Philip F. Danforth Jr. ’50 John T. Libby ’56 came across his name in Obituary Record of the November 22, 2016 October 9, 2016 January 17, 2017 Graduates of Bowdoin College and the Medical Graduate U André E. Benoit ’43 John R. Hupper ’50 William L. Mather ’56 School of Maine (not a bestseller, but an important source of October 3, 2016 November 24, 2016 January 5, 2017 Richard R. Mast G’68 biographical information on alumni). I was drawn to Hall’s October 3, 2016 story of resilience and perseverance in the face of adversity. Robert N. Frazer ’44 William J. Kirwin Jr. ’50 John S. Shepard III ’56 September 16, 2016 August 4, 2016 August 18, 2016 Neil J. Johanson G’70 Orran was born in Naples, Maine, in 1838, the oldest of November 4, 2016 five children. He prepared for college at Bridgton Academy, Carl Lennart Sandquist ’45 Richard A. Bamforth ’51 Pierre J. Bonin ’60 graduating as class valedictorian. He taught at Bridgton January 4, 2017 January 6, 2017 August 2016 Sella L. McNally Biggs G’72 November 24, 2016 while keeping up with his first-year lessons at Bowdoin. He Beverley L. Campbell ’46 Leonard B. Gilley ’51 David H. deBaun ’60 was chosen as 1863’s class orator, but an attack of iritis (an “After two years of intense suffering, he was left totally blind, December 25, 2016 December 20, 2016 March 27, 2016 Theodore E. Kestler G’74 October 12, 2016 inflammation of the eye) left him blind in one eye and nearly with health hopelessly impaired.” Morton F. Page ’46 Leonard G. Saulter ’51 Richard H. Downes ’60 blind in the other. Hall was forced to leave college in his junior Orran Hall did what anyone might do in a similar November 17, 2016 October 6, 2016 December 23, 2016 year and abandon his plans to become a lawyer. He taught high situation: he bought a farm and began raising thoroughbred

Edward F. Snyder ’46 Herbert D. Andrews ’52 John W. Bradford ’61 Honorary school, relying on memory for the lessons. He also wrote poems poultry. As a friend wrote, “During his remaining years of August 12, 2016 August 16, 2016 November 10, 2016 on pastoral themes, several of which were published. darkness he found mental recreation in literary work, in Carl Lennart Sandquist H’84 Hall decided to pursue a career in medicine, and with lecturing and giving occasional public addresses as his strength Charles L. Abbott Jr. ’47 Frederick B. Brehob ’52 Jagdish S. Gundara ’62 January 4, 2017 September 23, 2016 December 30, 2016 December 2016 Horace Torrey [Med. 1832] as his preceptor, he enrolled at permitted…Notwithstanding Dr. Hall’s early partial blindness Carolyn W. Slayman H’85 the Medical School of Maine. “With the aid of others’ eyes” and subsequent total loss of sight, he has had few superiors in Leonard D. Bell ’47 John A. Kohlberg ’52 S. Robert Branson ’63 December 27, 2016 October 5, 2016 November 30, 2016 December 14, 2016 he was able to earn an MD degree. He established a medical scholarly acquirements and literary versatility . . . ” Edward Albee H’09 practice in Buckfield in 1867, married in 1868, and soon In 1902 George Little, Class of 1877, wrote to Buckfield’s Fred G. Eaton ’47 Joel H. Brown ’53 John W. Payson ’63 September 16, 2016 had a daughter and a son. According to a newspaper article, town clerk: “A new edition of the General Catalogue of Bowdoin September 10, 2016 December 12, 2016 October 16, 2016 “In spite of his partial blindness, his practice was large and College now being printed, and I am desirous to insert the date Wolfgang H. Rosenberg ’47 Geoffrey P. Houghton ’53 Francis G. Ronan ’63 successful for about fifteen years” in Buckfield, Maine; Weston, of death of Dr. Orran R. Hall who was reported, in November October 25, 2016 Faculty and Staff October 14, 2016 January 8, 2017 Massachusetts; and South Paris, Maine. 1894, as . . . rapidly failing in health.” The clerk replied “Dr. Ulf J. Stőre ’47 Charles O. Swanson II ’53 Paul T. Mulloy III ’66 Charles A. Grobe Jr. In 1880 Dr. Hall was seriously injured in a fall from a Orran R. Hall is still living . . . Though not in robust health . . . January 10, 2017 September 21, 2016 October 9, 2016 September 29, 2016 carriage and was later stricken with near-fatal pneumonia. His we expect him to remain on earth some years to come.”

Edward K. Damon ’48 Richard D. Asdourian ’54 Michael D. Harmon ’67 Elizabeth Brown sister-in-law wrote in her diary (in Colby’s Special Collections A year and a half later, on November 24, 1903, Orran August 21, 2016 October 24, 2016 December 28, 2016 November 20, 2016 Department): “March 13 – . . . they have given up all hope. The R. Hall did what every member of the Class of 1863 and Doctor has expressed the wish to see me, but I can’t get there the Medical School Class of 1867 eventually did: he died, Blake T. Hanna ’48 Richard B. Kraus ’54 Girma A. Tesfay ’73 Dana W. Mayo April 16, 2016 October 31, 2016 October 4, 2016 November 26, 2016 in time.” However, Hall’s condition improved, and in 1882 succumbing to pulmonary bronchitis at age sixty-five. For he went to work in the War Department’s pension office in all his health problems, Hall outlived thirty of his fifty-seven Elliott S. Schwartz J. Peter Prins ’48 Alvin G. Litchfield ’54 Jim H. Harding ’74 Washington. Two months later, when he realized that he could undergraduate classmates and thirty-six of the seventy-three November 2016 November 26, 2016 November 14, 2016 December 7, 2016 not do the work, he returned to Maine “completely broken in his medical school cohort. The untold story behind Hall’s Richard B. Holden Jr. ’49 Robert B. Johnson ’55 Stephen W. Werntz ’77 Rodman Redman down,” and closed his practice. untold story is how others enabled him to live within the November 14, 2016 November 15, 2016 September 14, 2016 December 10, 2016 In 1887 he underwent medical treatment in Boston, community—the “others’ eyes” that helped him study; his wife, Donald C. Spring ’49 Frank A. Paul Jr. ’55 Amy A. Suyama ’83 Johnny L. Tolbert followed by a voyage to the Azores to restore his health. children, and extended family; and his friends and neighbors. December 29, 2016 January 4, 2017 September 10, 2016 December 12, 2016 Hall then became a sales representative for a New York While adversity may be visited on a single individual, that

Earle F. Wilson Jr. ’49 Briah K. Connor Jr. ’56 Marshall R. Neilson ’93 Charles E. Huntington pharmaceutical firm, traveling extensively in New England burden is not borne alone. In a sense, whatever happens to any September 26, 2016 September 28, 2016 September 8, 2016 January 2, 2017 and the Midwest. The fates were especially unkind in 1894, member of the Bowdoin family happens to us all. however, as “bits of glass penetrated his good eye” (under unrecorded circumstances) and he experienced lead poisoning. John R. Cross ’76 is secretary of development and college relations.

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