Class of 1997

Class Secretary: Sharleen Joy Davis, 46 Hill Circle, Burlington, MA 01803; sharleen@alumni.bates.edu

Class President: Lawrence J. Ackerman, Apt. 5D, 410 Central Park West, New York, NY 10025, larryack@hotmail.com

Next Reunion in 2007. Got news? Tap out a note to magazine@bates.edu! Larry Ackerman has a new job with Eagle Investment Systems. He and Stacy live in Manhattan…. Last July Sarah Bonkovsky began residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston. She earned her M.D. from UMass…. Doubly talented Heather Russo is a violinist and marathoner. A resident of Block Island, she teaches music at the local school, plays in local concerts with Luiz Montaya-Velez and others, and works on an M.Ed. at Rhode Island College. Last summer she and friends opened the Block Island Fitness Club. She ran in the Ocean State Marathon last October and planned to run in the Boston Marathon in April…. Nicole Woodson is a graduate student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, studying administration, planning, and social policy and living in Somerville. “I look forward to teaching middle and high school after graduation.”