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 16 BowdoinMAGAZINE Bowdoin Seen Volume 88, Number 2 Winter 2017 features Magazine Staff Editor Matthew J. O’Donnell 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) is published three times a year by Bowdoin Outside of the Zone 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 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 [email protected] 1 Bowdoin Bowdoin Mailbox Bowdoin 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. 2 BOWDOIN | WINTER 2017 [email protected] 3 Bowdoin Bowdoin Almanac Almanac 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.