Class Officers

Class Officers are class leaders who cultivate alumni connections for Bates alumni and students, communicate class news to Bates for class notes, and serve as a lead volunteer for Reunion planning.

Most classes have two or more officers who compose an annual class newsletter and serve on a committee during Reunion.

Class Officer elections may occur every five years, usually the year following Reunion. The current class leadership and the college will determine whether and when an election is necessary.

There are more than 200 dedicated Class Officers. To learn more about volunteering as a class officer, please contact:

Alumni Engagement
alumni@bates.edu | 1-888-522-8371

+Class Notes

Bates College collaborates with class officers twice a year to collect news from alumni. Volunteers encourage classmates to share news items using this link. The news is then shared with the Bates Magazine for the class notes section.

Some class officers may want to use the news items to create a class newsletter. In this case, Bates asks class officers to contact the Office of Alumni Engagement. Bates will provide any collected news items and collaborate with you to develop and send the class newsletters. For all newsletters, please expect a 2-3 week turnaround time.

The two deadlines for class note submissions are August 1 and January 2.

FAQs

Why is it important?

By sharing alumni news and updates, you help sustain Bates relationships and connections.
The aggregation of news allows alumni to know what their classmates are up to, to feel pride in our community’s accomplishments, and to connect with each other.

What do I write about?

Did you get a new pet? Get married? Welcome new life into your family? Move to a new city? Start a new job? Pick up a new hobby? Travel somewhere cool? Is life the same as usual and you like that? Feel free to write about what’s happening in your life.

How do I gather news items?

Bates will send an email to all alumni prior to the January 2 and August 1 deadlines.

In addition, Casey Andersen can work with you to initiate a “Call for News” to your classmates or give you other tools to contact classmates.

+2023-24 Class Officers

2020s

2023
Chloe G. Arons, Co-President
Oliva M. Demerath, Co-President
Christopher J. Euston, Co-President
Jared K. O’Hare, Co-President

2022
Anna S. Landgren, Co-President
Rachel A. Retana, Co-President
Ognyan O. Simeonov, Co-President
Sean Vaz, Co-President

2021
Imani D. Boggan, Co-President
Julia M. Maluf, Co-President
Jade Zhang, Co-President

2020
Priscila P. Guillen, Co-President
Maya L. Seshan, Co-President

2010s

2019
Henry R. Meadows, Co-President
Cara A. Starnbach, Co-President

2018
Jacob A. Shapiro, Co-President
John R. Thayer, Co-President

2017
Matthew D. Baker, Co-President
Jessica N. Garson, Co-President

2016
Andre Brittis-Tannenbaum, Co-President
Sally B. Ryerson, Co-President

2015
James C. Brissenden, Co-President
Benjamin D. Smiley, Co-President

2014
Mildred O. Aroko, Co-President
Hally A. Bert, Co-President

2013
Megan A. Murphy, Co-President
Ryan C. Sonberg, Co-President

2012
Sangita Murali, Co-President
Michael H. Pasek, Co-President

2011
Theodore K. Sutherland, Co-President
Patrick O. Williams Jr., Co-President

2010
Brianna R. Bakow, Co-President
Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan, Co-President

2000s

2009
Timothy S. Gay, Co-President
Arsalan Suhail, Co-President

2008
Alison Schwartz Egelson, Co-President
Elizabeth J. Murphy, Co-President

2007
Keith D. Kearney Jr., Co-President
Rakhshan Zahid, Co-President

2006
Chelsea M. Cook, Co-President
Katharine M. Nolan, Co-President
John P. Ritzo, Co-President

2005
Kathryn Rice Duvall, Co-President
Melissa A. Geissler, Co-President

2004
Eduardo Crespo, Co-President
Tanya M. L. Schwartz, Co-President

2003
Kirstin Boehm-McCarthy, Co-President
Melissa Yanagi, Co-President

2002
Jason M. Surdukowski, Co-President
Drew G. Weymouth, Co-President
Stephanie Eby, Secretary

2001
Jodi Winterton Cobb, Co-President
Kate Hagstrom Lepore, Co-President
Noah Edward Petro, Secretary

2000
Jennifer Glassman Jacobs, Co-President
Megan H. Shelley, Co-President
Cynthia Macht Link, Secretary

1990s

1999
Jamie Ascenzo Trickett, President
Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard, Secretary

1998
Douglas R. Beers, Class Committee
Liam D. Clarke, Class Committee
Robert R. Curtis, Class Committee
Renee A. Leduc, Class Committee
Tyler W. Munoz, Class Committee

1997
Stuart B. Abelson, President
Todd M. Zinn, Secretary

1996
Sarah Ayesha Farag, Co-President
James D. Lowe, Co-President

1995
Deborah Nowak Verner, Co-President
Jason C. Verner, Co-President

1994
Courtney L. Fleisher, Co-President
Jonathan M. Lewis, Co-President

1993
Lauren K. Fine, Co-President
Colleen Donahue McCretton, Co-President
Rebecca Sanferrare Throop, Co-President

1992
Leyla Morrissey Bader, Executive Committee
Ami L. Berger, Executive Committee
Kristen Downs Bruno, Executive Committee
Roland S. Davis, Executive Committee
Peter J. Friedman, Executive Committee
Kristin Bierly Magendantz, Executive Committee
Jeffrey S. Mutterperl, Executive Committee

1991
John A. Ducker, President
Kathryn Tibbetts Gates, Secretary

1990
Joanne Elizabeth Walton, Secretary

1980s

1989
Sally J. Ehrenfried, Steering Committee Primary Contact
Deborah Schiavi Cote, Steering Committee
Sara Hagan Cummings, Secretary

1988
Ruth G. Cameron, Executive Committee
Astrid D. Delfino-Bernard, Executive Committee
Mary Capaldi Gonzales, Executive Committee
Steven Michael Lewis, Executive Committee
Lisa Ann Romeo, Executive Committee
Julie L. Sutherland-Platt, Executive Committee

1987
Erica D. Rowell, President
Val Kennedy, Secretary

1986
Catherine Lathrop Strahan, Co-President
William J. Walsh Jr., Co-President
Erica Seifert Plunkett, Secretary

1985
Lisa M. Virello, President
Elissa A. Bass, Secretary

1984
Heidi B. Lovett, Secretary

1983
Pamela Johnson Dearden, Co-President
William J. Zafirson, Co-President
Leigh A. Peltier, Secretary

1982
Neil D. Jamieson Jr., President

1981
Henry G. Howie, President
Cheryl L. Andrews, Secretary

1980
Mary Mihalakos Martuscello, President
Christine Tegeler Beneman, Secretary

1970s

1979
Patrick K. Murphy, President
Mary G. Raftery, Secretary

1978
Charles A. James Jr., President
George E. Beckwith, Secretary
Ronald W. Monroe, Secretary
David G. Scharn, Secretary

1977
Keith E. Taylor, President
Steven M. Hadge, Secretary

1976
Bruce A. Campbell, President
Marjorie McCormick Davis, Classmate Conversations Coordinator
W. Jeffrey Helm, Secretary

1975
Susan Bourgault Akie, Co-President
Janet B. Haines, Co-President
Deborah Bednar Jasak, Co-Secretary
Faith E. Minard, Co-Secretary

1974
Donald W. McDade, President
Katherine Psalidas Lamson, Secretary
Karen Lord Cunningham, Social Media
William (Bill) A. Cunningham, Social Media

1973
Deborah A. Gahm, Co-President
Kaylee Masury, Co-President
Ira J. Waldman, Co-President

1972
Erik C. Bertelsen Jr., President
Richard W. Thomas, Secretary

1971
Michael A. Wiers, President
Jan Face Glassman, Vice President
Suzanne Woods Kelley, Secretary

1970
Stephen J. Andrick, President/Treasurer
Barbara P. Hampel, Vice President
Stephanie Leonard Bennett, Co-Secretary
Elizabeth E. Brown, Co-Secretary

1960s

1969
George E. Peters Jr., President
Deborah Bliss Behler, Secretary

1968
Nancy J. Hohmann, President
Richard J. Melpignano, Secretary
Karen Konecki Goober, Email Coordinator

1967
Keith C. Harvie, Co-President
Pamela Johnson Reynolds, Co-President

1966
Alexander W. Wood, President

1965
Joyce E. Mantyla, President
Newton A. Clark Jr., Co-Vice President
Peter J. Heyel, Co-Vice President
Evelyn Hathaway Horton, Secretary

1964
Margaret S. Ziegler, President
Joan Spruill Andren, Vice President
Richard J. Andren, Vice President
Rhoda M. Silverberg, Secretary/Treasurer
Dorothy March Harris, Historian
Elizabeth Metz McNab, Past President and Class Correspondent
Eleanor P. Schiavi, Past Vice-President

1963
William S. Holt, President
Natalie Hosford, Secretary
Dorothy Selden Stone, Historian

1962
Rachel Harper Garcelon, President
David O. Boone, Vice President
Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom, Secretary (d)
Carolyn Webber Nelson, Secretary

1961
Mary Morton Cowan, Co-President
Richard S. Watkins, Co-President
Gretchen Shorter Davis, Secretary

1960
Dean S. Skelley, President
Louise Hjelm Davidson, Secretary

1950s

1959
Anita Kastner Hotchkiss, President
Gerald M. Davis, Vice President (d)
Jack DeGange, Co-Secretary
Mary Ann Houston Hermance, Co-Secretary

1958
Peter B. Post, Co-President
Karen Dill Taylor, Co-President
Marilyn Miller Gildea, Secretary

1957
Judith Kent Patkin, Co-President
Richard H. Pierce, Co-President (d)
Margaret L. Olney, Secretary

1956
Gail Molander Goddard, Co-President
Alice Brooke Gollnick, Co-President
Frederic R. Huber, Secretary (d)

1955
Beverly Hayne Willsey, President
Merton E. Ricker, Vice President

1953
Richard F. Coughlin, Co-President
Ginnie A. Toner, Co-President

1952
Webster B. Brockelman Jr., President
Marilyn Coffin Brown, Secretary

1951
Jean M. Dill, Co-President (d)
William R. Dill, Ph.D., Co-President
Wilfred H. Barbeau, Co-Vice President

1950
Weston L. Bonney, President (d)

1940s

1949
Nelson Otis Horne, President
Beverly Young Howard, Vice President
Carol Jenkinson Johnson, Secretary

1947
Vesta E. Smith, President
Jean Labagh Kiskaddon, Secretary/Treasurer

1945
Carleton K. Finch, Secretary (d)

1941
Margaret H. Rand, President

+2022-23 Class Officers

2020s

2023
Chloe Arons, Co-President
Liv Demerath, Co-President
Chris Euston, Co-President
Jared O’Hare, Co-President

2022
Anna Landgren, Co-President
Rachel Retana, Co-President
Ognyan Simeonov, Co-President
Sean Vaz, Co-President

2021
Imani Boggan, Co-President
Julia Maluf, Co-President
Jade Zhang, Co-President

2020
Priscila Guillen, Co-President
Maya Seshan, Co-President

2010s

2019
Harry Meadows, Co-President
Cara A. Starnbach, Co-President