Reunion Volunteers and Class Officers

REUNION VOLUNTEERS

Reunion volunteers make Reunion Weekend happen. They take the lead in building attendance, generating enthusiasm, and fundraising during their milestone year.

Your leadership role is vital to your class and to the college’s future. By planning a celebration that is full of fun and friends — and by asking your classmates to support Bates as part of your Reunion celebration — you send the message that Bates is an important priority. We’re grateful for your time and energy during this special year.

We hope you find these resources provided helpful. Please contact your staff liaison – listed below – with any questions.

See who’s volunteering for your class!

+Reunion Volunteer Resources

General Reunion Resources:

Reunion Gift Committee Resources:

+Reunion Staff Liaisons

Casey Andersen ’12
Classes: 1975 (Gift Committee)
randerse@bates.edu | 207-755-5976

Abigail Rose Albright
Classes: 1950, 1955, 1980, 2000
arose@bates.edu | 207-753-6951

Lauren Bean
Classes: 1985, 2005, 2010
lbean@bates.edu | 207-755-5974

Jesse Blackburn
Classes: 2020
jblackbu@bates.edu | 207-755-5990

Sue Estabrook
Classes: 2015
sestabrook@bates.edu | 207-753-6967

Carly Hopkins
Classes: 1975 (Social and Yearbook Committees)
chopkins@bates.edu | 207-786-6239

Amy Jefferson
Classes: 1990, 1995
ajeffers@bates.edu | 207-755-5989

Lynn Keating
Classes: 1960, 1965, 1970
lkeating@bates.edu | 207-786-6993

CLASS OFFICERS

Class Officers are leaders who cultivate connections among alumni and students, including:

Communicate class news to Bates for class notes
Play a key role in organizing Reunions as lead volunteers
Classes usually have multiple officers collaborating on an annual class newsletter, Class Notes, and serving on Reunion committees

Class Officer elections occur every five years, usually after Reunion, and the decision to hold an election is made by the current class leadership and the college.

Bates has over 200 dedicated Class Officers. For those interested in volunteering as a class officer, contact alumni@bates.edu or 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 via form submission. 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.

+2022-23 Class Officers

2020s

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

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, Esq., Co-President

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

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

2003
Kirstin C. Boehm, Co-President
Melissa Yanagi, Co-President

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

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

2000
Jennifer Glassman Jacobs, Co-President
Megan Hanson Shelley, Co-President
Cynthia Frieda Link, Secretary

1990s

1999
Jamie L. Ascenzo Trickett, President
Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard, Secretary

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

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

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

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

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

1993
Michael F. Charland, Co-President
Jason R. Hanley, Co-President
Lisa A. Bousquet, Secretary

1992
Leyla Morrissey Bader, Executive Committee
Ami L. Berger, Executive Committee
Kristen D. Bruno, Executive Committee
Roland S. Davis, Executive Committee
Peter J. Friedman, Executive Committee
Kristin E. 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 S. 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 Allen Bass, Secretary

1984
Heidi Beth Lovett, Secretary

1983
Pamela J. 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 M. Martuscello, President
Christine Tegeler Beneman, Secretary

1970s

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

1978
Dean M. Berman, President
George E. Beckwith, Secretary

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

1976
Bruce A. Campbell, President
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 Cunningham, Social Media
William (Bill) Cunningham, Social Media

1973
Thomas P. Carey, President
Kaylee Masury, Secretary

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

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

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

1960s

1969
George E. Peters Jr., President
Deborah A. 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 Ph.D., President

1965
Joyce E. Mantyla, President
Newton A. Clark Jr., Vice President
Peter J. Heyel, Vice President
Evelyn H. 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 Joan McNab, Past President
Eleanor P. Schiavi, Past Vice-President

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

1962
Rachel H. Garcelon, President
David O. Boone, Vice President
Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom, Secretary

1961
Mary M. Cowan, Co-President
Richard S. Watkins USN (Ret.), Co-President
Gretchen Shorter Davis, Secretary

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

1950s

1959
Anita Kastner Hotchkiss, Esq., President
Gerald M. Davis, Vice President
Jack DeGange, Secretary
Mary Ann Houston Hermance, 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
Margaret L. Olney, Secretary

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

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

1954
Jonas Klein, Secretary/Treasurer

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
William R. Dill, Ph.D., Co-President
Wilfred H. Barbeau, Co-Vice President

1950
Weston L. Bonney, President

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

1946
Jane Parsons Norris, President/Treasurer

1945
Carleton K. Finch, Secretary

1941
Margaret H. Rand, Co-President

1940
Leonard George Clough, Secretary (d)

+2021-22 Class Officers