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For Alumni and Friends of
Williams-Mystic
No. 58 Autumn 2019
Please donate to Williams-Mystic with the enclosed envelope
CONTENTS
3. From the Director
4. Campus Life
6. Williams-Mystic Endowment
8. Alumni Profile:
Linda Behnken (F’82)
11. Down, But Not Out
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12. Restoring the Mayflower II:
Campus Life Nathan Adams (F’03)
14. Student Research:
Henry Roman (F’17)
Morgan Michaels (F’18)
19. The Ditty Bag
21. 41st & 42nd Anniversary
Reunions Photos
24. Class Notes
BUT WHAT IS A GAM?
You might wear out your index-finger running up and down
the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word.
Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster’s
ark does not hold it. . . certainly, it needs a definition, and
should be incorporated into the Lexicon.With that view, let me
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learnedly define it.
Alumni Profile The Ditty Bag Noun — a social meeting for two (or more) whaleships . . when,
Linda Behnken
after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boats’ crew . . .
Field Seminar to Alaska – Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick”
THE GAM
NO. 58 AUTUMN 2019
Alumni Magazine of the
Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program
Executive Director
Tom Van Winkle
Editor
Todd McLeish
Contributors
Meredith Carroll, Audra Delaney (S'18), Hayden Gillooly (S'19)
Photos
Alumni Mystic Seaport
Laura Vigneau Laurie Warren (S'89)
Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program
75 Greenmanville Avenue, Mystic, CT 06355
(860) 572-5359
wmalumni@williams.edu
mystic.williams.edu
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Cover Photo
Linda Behnken (F’82) with halibut.
FROM THE DIRECTOR Williams-Mystic Receives
We have reason to
celebrate our past
CRONKITE AWARD
and our future. from Maritime Historical Society
Tom Van Winkle
Executive Director
From left: Tom Van Winkle, Executive Director; Jim Carlton, Director Emeritus; Steve White, President of Mystic Seaport Museum;
Ben Labaree Jr.; Rob Leary, C.E.O. The Olayan Group; Tom Crowley. Chairman, President and CEO of Crowley Maritime Corporation.
A
t a ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, “Ben is a true educational leader who has deeply influenced
D.C., on May 2, the National Maritime Historical Society my thinking about education. He took a big risk establishing
presented the Williams-Mystic program with the Walter this program. So the awards ceremony was an opportunity for
Cronkite Award for Excellence in Maritime Education. Williams College and Mystic Seaport Museum and the National
Presented during the society’s annual maritime history Maritime Historical Society to celebrate Ben as an individual
awards program, the honor recognizes Williams-Mystic for who started something exceptionally special and to celebrate
its “leadership as the only undergraduate studies program the transformational impact of Williams-Mystic on our 1,700
examining the history, literature, policy and science of the sea, alumni.”
resulting in several thousand informed alumni prepared for At the ceremony, Van Winkle and Carlton made brief com-
societal leadership with a balanced understanding of the critical ments and invited Rob Leary (F’81) to also address the audience
historical and current role the sea plays in our social, economic, on behalf of the program’s alumni.
political, environmental and cultural world.” “Rob has been one of our most important donors, and he
“It was very exciting to get the award, and even more so has also been deeply influenced by Ben,” Van Winkle said. “Rob
because it was presented by Tom Crowley, president of Crowley credits Ben for modeling the kind of leadership and courage that
Maritime Corp., the largest tugboat company in the world, Rob has strived for himself.”
who has a close relationship with our program,” said Tom Van Leary practiced law in New York City and Saudi Arabia and
Winkle, executive director of Williams-Mystic. “The association eventually became the CEO of ING Investment Management,
presents awards to maritime organizations that are the best TIAA Global Asset Management, and Nuveen. In 2017, he
at what they do, so our award was tailored specifically to our was named CEO of The Olayan Group and now leads its
program. It’s a one-of-a-kind award unlike anything else.” global operations from Greece. He also became one of the first
Van Winkle accepted the Williams-Mystic alumni to join the Mystic Seaport Museum
award alongside director Board of Trustees.
emeritus Jim Carlton and As part of the ceremony, Williams College and Mystic Sea-
Ben Labaree Jr., son of port Museum presented a Founding Director’s Award to Ben
the program’s founding Larabee Sr., which was accepted by his son.
director Ben Labaree Sr. “This night of awards really reinforces in my mind the extra-
“My immediate reac- ordinary power of this kind of program,” concluded Van Winkle.
tion upon hearing about “Ours is a small program with a truly big punch.”
the award was that I don’t
deserve to be the person
receiving the award on Please see event photos on page 20
Rob Leary (F'81) and Tom Van Winkle deliver Walter behalf of the program,”
Cronkite Award to Ben and Linda Labaree in July. Van Winkle said.
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Campus Life
OPENING EYES TO THE OCEANS
BY MEREDITH CARROLL
Alex Quizon Hayden Gillooly Emily Tran
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B
efore Williams-Mystic, Spring 2019 students Emily Tran, Alex Quizon, and
Hayden Gillooly saw the ocean as something separate from their daily lives.
Alex and Hayden, both sophomores at Williams College, grew up inland:
Alex in central New Jersey, Hayden in North Adams, Massachusetts. Emily,
an Oregon native and a sophomore in the process of transferring from Vassar
College to Vanderbilt University, had never considered studying the ocean before.
As Emily put it, “I’ve always thought oceans were very cool and really beautiful
and just, very mysterious.”
After nearly 17 weeks of immersing themselves in the ocean — literally as well as
figuratively, outside the classroom as often as within — all three students still regard
the ocean as a source of mystery. Only now, they’ve also come to understand the
ocean as profoundly connected to today’s most pressing environmental challenges.
Williams-Mystic, all three students say, has empowered them to pursue solutions to
those challenges in their remaining time at college — and beyond.
Q You’re all sophomores. Did you declare your
major this semester, and how did Williams-
Mystic influence that decision?
Hayden: I’m studying Spanish at Williams. On the
Hayden: I realized that there is as much value in non-academics
during a school semester as there can be in academics. I’ve
learned so much this semester in between classes, in those van
conversations and over coffee with friends. Those moments,
too, are times that change us and allow us to view the world
Louisiana Field Seminar, my friend Angus asked, ‘Is what I
differently. It’s important for your life and your soul to go watch
am studying good for others?’ That really stuck with me. I’m
a sunset and to take a walk and recognize the beauty of the place
learning about people’s stories and how their lives are affected
that’s around you.
so deeply by a changing world. At the end of the day, if I’m
helping people in some way, I would consider it a life well-lived.
Alex: I agree with you completely. Work and life — we shouldn’t
So I decided to add the geosciences major in addition to
make them separate, even though it seems like we have to
Spanish. I think those coupled together, particularly because a
allocate them that way. That frame of mind is also what I want
lot of Spanish-speaking countries are on coasts, will be really
to bring back. What’s so unique about this program specifically
interesting. I’m so excited to go back to Williams now and study
is that it tells you why the academics apply to real life, why the
those two subjects.
academics ought to be brought into life.
Emily: At Vassar, I was leaning toward a double major in envi-
Hayden: This semester, more than ever, schoolwork has become
ronmental studies and biology. I’m transferring schools to Van-
something I really want to do. It makes me think about life, and
derbilt, which doesn’t have an environmental studies program,
how I want to live a life. I want a life in which what I am doing is
only environmental science or environmental sociology majors.
something I’m excited to do.
Q
Being at Williams-Mystic, being able to interact with people
who have been directly impacted by climate change, helped me
What’s your relationship with the oceans and
realize that I care more about environmental sociology.
coasts like now that you’ve been through the
semester?
Alex: I think what’s important to underscore is that this pro-
gram really is for everyone. It’s for everyone because the ocean Alex: It’s so funny. Before coming to Mystic, the sea was
necessarily creates the connection between all these fields that this thing that we don’t know. By the end of this program, the
society tells us are different. If you don’t have a major in mind sea is something we still don’t fully know. It’s still the unknown.
coming into Williams-Mystic, you’re certainly going to have a In the end, you’re still learning.
more clear understanding of what your major is by the end of it.
Q
Hayden: Before this program, I viewed the ocean as just this
What will you bring back from Williams-Mystic place I loved to visit, and that made me feel so happy and so
to your home campuses? full. And now I view it as a subject. It’s more than just a place:
It’s the unknown, and it’s a subject I want to continue studying
Emily: Even though this is a maritime studies for an indefinite amount of time.
program, a lot of what I took from this program
is actually the structure – the small classes and interactions Emily: Before, I definitely did just see the ocean as a place and
with professors, making our own research projects. That’s not a mystery. Like Alex said, it’s still a mystery. But I’ve been able
something I did at Vassar, and I gained a lot from the nature of to study it in ways I would not have imagined before. It makes
this program. I learned how to see my professors as real people. me think about all the possibilities out there that I have not yet
I learned how to do research. seen.
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A New Williams-Mystic Endowment
WILLIAMS-MYSTIC
A TRADITION OF INNOVATION
H
ow do you create a transformational undergraduate
semester away program that not only withstands the
test of time but also remains on the cutting edge of
higher education?
First, you find a visionary professor of American History
who is willing to risk his comfort and career for something
untried. Then you have that professor ask his winter term
students to write their ideas for a semester program on a
Dunkin’ Donuts napkin. Then you choose America’s finest
maritime museum as your campus. And finally, you secure
the academic endorsement and accreditation of one of
America’s finest colleges. It is as simple as that! Forty-two
years later, the result is still pure genius.
Last May, the National Maritime Historical Society
(NMHS) honored Founding Director Ben Labaree’s genius
and Director Emeritus Jim Carlton’s dedication to academic
excellence by awarding Williams-Mystic the 2019 Walter
Cronkite Award for Excellence in Maritime Education. The
NMHS recognized Williams-Mystic “for its leadership as the
only undergraduate studies program examining the history,
literature, policy and science of the sea, resulting in several
thousand informed alumni prepared for societal leadership”
How do you keep producing outstanding learning exper- Ben Labaree, Williams-Mystic founding director.
iences in an ever-changing higher education landscape?
For Williams-Mystic, the answer is staying true to the history. Temperatures are rising at an unprecedented
original pillars of our program, while continually revising rate, impacting the world economy. Severe storms are
and improving our interdisciplinary curriculum. We increasing in frequency and intensity, leading to vast losses
continue to study the oceans and coasts through multiple of human life and profoundly altering coastal communities.
lenses. We continue fostering a close-knit community among The oceans are inextricable from these changes. They
students and faculty. We continue exposing our students first determine the world's climate and feed billions of people.
hand to real-life experiences. We continue challenging our As sea level rises, immense areas of inhabited coastline
students to accomplish more than they think possible. All the are being swamped. Furthermore, global climate change
while, we work hard to improve our curriculum to ensure presses profoundly on fundamental issues of sustainability,
that students understand the profound relevance today of environmental justice and social responsibility. In the last
the oceans and coasts to a changing world. several years, faculty have emphasized these topics in our
curriculum. We immerse ourselves in these complex issues
To achieve this, Williams-Mystic has added many at Williams-Mystic, knowing that a balanced understanding
topics to the curriculum. We recognize that Earth is exper- will empower the next generation of leaders to tackle these
iencing the greatest environmental changes in human challenges.
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A RENEWED COMMITMENT AN ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN
FOR A NEW ERA Toward this end, four years ago Williams College began
the process of assessing Williams-Mystic’s fundraising needs
In 2015, Williams College and the Mystic Seaport
in order to permanently close the gap between student
Museum renewed their Williams-Mystic partnership with
financial aid needs and program budget, in order to ensure
one significant and substantial change: Williams College
Williams-Mystic will remain accessible to all students from
assumed all financial and administrative responsibilities,
all institutions regardless of financial need. The decision was
with Mystic Seaport Museum continuing to serve as the
to establish a new, permanent endowment large enough to
program’s campus.
generate the income necessary.
This change expanded the services, support and resources
Williams College and Williams-Mystic are pleased to
available to Williams-Mystic students. It bolstered resources
announce that Williams College has received a lead gift to
and support for Williams-Mystic faculty and staff by making
this campaign. It comes from a Williams-Mystic alumnus.
all of them Williams College employees.
Joe Brown (S’88) and his wife Kristin Brown have con-
tributed one million dollars—a tremendous tribute to the
Being a more integrated part of Williams College has
Williams-Mystic program. This gift has already inspired
fostered deeper, interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration
others. A second donation of $500,000 has been received
between Williams-Mystic and other departments of the
from another S’88 alumnus. This $500,000 fund will be called
College.
the Two Years Before the Mast Fund. It will support one
student each semester every year in perpetuity.
These gift are a testament to our alumni’s love for the
program, their admiration for Ben Labaree and Jim Carlton,
THE CASE FOR SUPPORT — and their desire to challenge others to follow them.
A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
As this endowment campaign progresses, we look
As college costs rise, Williams College and Williams- forward to bringing you more good news like these gifts.
Mystic have worked hard to forge new relationships and Keep a lookout in your email and the eGAM and in your
strengthen old ones with a wide range of public and mail box for further updates on the campaign to establish
private colleges and universities. These agreements have a new endowment for Williams-Mystic.
increased interest from diverse student audiences, while
also facilitating the transfer of more students’ financial aid
to Williams-Mystic. This has resulted in a 50% reduction in
the financial aid gap for non-Williams College students.
However, the perennial shortfall in student financial
aid persists, primarily due to the substantial gap between
the tuition of public institutions and the cost of attending
Williams-Mystic.
The student financial aid shortfall combined with
increased faculty and staff salaries has meant Williams
College and Williams-Mystic have been facing an annual
budget deficit. Because Williams College is thoroughly
committed to the importance, the relevance and the stra-
tegic value of Williams-Mystic, Williams has been covering PLEASE DONATE TODAY
the annual deficit. However, the College and the program
recognize we need to find a sustainable and permanent
solution. supportwilliamsmystic.org
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Linda Behnken (F’82)
An advocate for sustainable fisheries
and fishing families
LINDA BEHNKEN BY TODD MCLEISH
W
hen a giant factory said. “I loved the idea of living and working
ship trawled through an and studying in the Seaport, and the way
area of Southeast Alaska all the classes would integrate and support
and caught so much each other. I have such happy memories of
yelloweye rockfish as going through the gates to the Seaport every
bycatch that the local morning and the excitement around the
fishery for the species had to be closed for the marine ecology projects we did.
rest of the year – and it threatened the local “The program really helped to focus my
halibut fishery – Linda Behnken (F’82) knew interest in the marine world,” she added.
she had to do something. As the executive “It honed my love of the ocean.”
director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Behnken spent the six months before
her semester at Williams-Mystic living and
Association, she felt a responsibility to stand
working in Sitka, Alaska, where she lives
up for the hundreds of families engaged in
today: a destination she had been drawn to
small-boat fishing in the region.
since her early teens.
Linda petitioned the North Pacific Fishery
“I always loved wild places and wanted to
Management Council for an emergency
see Alaska for a long time,” she said. “I heard
closure of the area to trawling and then
you could make money for college working
started working to secure a permanent ban on
on fishing boats, and that had a lot of appeal.
trawling. It took her eight years of educating
I decided I was going to live in Alaska before
and lobbying and advocating, but with the
I even got off the ferry in Sitka. I loved Alaska
full support of the association’s fishermen
and fishing and the fishing community and
and the coastal residents of Southeast Alaska,
knew it was where I wanted to be.”
she finally won the fight.
She returned to Sitka during the summers
“We lost the battle the first time around,”
until she graduated from Dartmouth, then
she said. “But we kept at it for another
moved there to fish full-time, focusing mostly
three years and we were finally successful
on longlining for halibut and black cod from
in getting the trawl ban approved, and then
Southeast Alaska to the Aleutian Islands and
it took another year before the Secretary of
the Bering Sea. She also trolled for salmon
Commerce approved the recommendation Behnken hauls in a halibut during some summers. She has been fishing
from the Council.
off the Alaska coast. for more than 30 years, working as a crew
“The continental shelf here is relatively
member for several years before purchasing
narrow, which makes the slope area a very
her first boat in 1991, a vessel she named
productive and accessible fishing ground for and what that means. When those patterns Morgan in part to honor Mystic Seaport’s
small boats. But it also makes it vulnerable change – like with climate change and ocean whaling ship Charles W. Morgan. After she got
to industrial-scale fisheries wiping out what acidification – they’re the first to notice and married and had children, she traded up for
the local fleet depends on,” Behnken added. the first to care because their life and liveli- a larger boat.
“So I’m very proud to have secured that trawl hood depend on it,” Behnken said. “I see “My kids started fishing with us when
ban.” them as powerful constituents to wake people they were five or six months old,” she said.
Behnken has led the fishermen’s assoc- up to what’s going on in our oceans and in “They weren’t much help at that point.”
iation for more than a quarter century and our world right now.” Her boys are teenagers now and still
has been recognized by the state legislature, A native of Norwalk, Conn., who earned fish with Behnken and her husband, Kent
a national fishing industry publication, and undergraduate degrees in English and envi- Barkhau, whenever they can. They typ-
the Obama Administration for her work to ronmental studies from Dartmouth College, ically fish for three to five days at a time
promote Alaska’s coastal fisheries. Behnken grew up in a sailing family that in the waters of Southeast Alaska, though
“I really care about the ocean, and I really spent most summers sailing the length of occasionally they go farther afield. It’s a
care about this way of life and about the Connecticut, almost always stopping in lifestyle she thoroughly enjoys.
people in the community and their connection Mystic. “I love working on the ocean; I love the
to the ocean,” she said. “Fishermen are some “We would get a berth and I’d run around beauty and wildness of this place; and I
of the best spokespeople for sustainable the Seaport with my siblings,” she recalled. love the working camaraderie of the fishing
ecosystems. They know more about the ocean “It was one of our favorite stops.” community,” she said. “The people are inde-
than just about anyone because they spend so That experience primed her to enroll at pendent and resourceful and there for each
much of their time on the water. Williams-Mystic. other on the water if someone needs help.
“The best fishermen are the people who “I loved the combination of hands-on
are best at observing patterns and connections learning and academic learning,” Behnken continued on page 10
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Linda is focused on helping
the next generation of fishing
families.
LINDA BEHNKEN, continued from page 9
“When fishing for halibut, we often an- depredation on fish caught on longline “We had two years with a warm blob of
chor overnight in the beautiful little coves hooks, and improve catch counting through water in the Gulf of Alaska that saw Pacific
along the coast and take time to kayak or electronic monitoring. cod stocks drop 80 percent, a massive die-
hike. We often see bears, and two years ago “We’ve been involved in quite a few off of seabirds and a significant shift in
we saw a beautiful black wolf and listened national coalitions of small-scale fishermen, forage fish. Climate change is driving big
to it howl before it ever saw us. Fishing is and we’re now working with an inter- changes here.”
hard work and at times you are cold and national coalition to raise awareness of how Despite the challenges, Behnken still
wet and exhausted, but the upside is you’re important small-scale fishermen are to food enjoys the fishing life.
running your own business and learning all security, ocean health and community well- “I’m not sure how much longer my
the time. No two days are alike. The ocean being,” she said. “It’s a growing mission.” hands and body will hold up, but I love
keeps you humble and as a species we could Behnken also served on the North Pacific fishing and plan to do it for a while longer,”
use more humility. Working together as a Fishery Management Council for nine years she said.
family has also been both challenging and and represented the United States on the She also enjoys looking back fondly to
really special.” International Pacific Halibut Commission her time in the Williams-Mystic program.
But Behnken grew concerned about for two years. She remains in touch with some of her
the way the fisheries were being managed. Now she is focused on helping the classmates, she enjoys visits by former
With the goal of becoming a more effective next generation of fishermen get started executive director Jim Carlton, who has
advocate for the ocean and small-scale in the industry by launching a program offered lectures and dock walks during
fisheries, she earned a graduate degree in for deckhands that includes training them his trips to Sitka, and she enjoyed meeting
environmental science at the Yale Univer- in the association’s fishery conservation students visiting Sitka during this fall’s
sity School of Forestry and Environmental projects so they will understand the West Coast field seminar.
Science. And soon after, she took the importance of what Behnken calls “I always say that my time at Mystic was
reins of the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s “stewarding the ocean.” The association is far and away the best academic experience
Association. also exploring opportunities to make the of my life,” she said. “I can’t say enough
An alliance of small-boat commercial fishing fleet more fuel efficient through the good about the program. I learned so much,
fishermen committed to sustainable fisheries use of hybrid and fuel cell-powered boats to and it was exciting, interesting, fun and
and thriving coastal communities, the lower the industry’s carbon footprint. intense learning. It was hands-on learning,
association supports science-based fisheries “One of my big goals moving forward is academic learning, learning how to learn.
management through collabora-tive research involving fishermen in addressing climate I learned about boat building, celestial
and advocacy. It works to safeguard ocean change and stopping ocean acidification,” navigation, plus the book learning, the kind
health and improve the economic viability she said. “I hear people talk about the future of learning that goes deep and stays with
of small boat fishing. In support of that impacts of climate change, but it’s not you. And it was great to be surrounded
mission, Behnken has involved the group’s just happening in the future, it’s here and by so many bright, motivated, fun-loving
members in research projects to map marine now in Alaska, and it’s had a huge impact people. All of that together made the exper-
habitat, reduce bycatch, avoid whale already.” ience valuable and memorable.”
10“WE KNOW WHAT WE EXPERIENCE”
People, place, and climate change in southern Louisiana
REFLECTIONS BY HAYDEN GILLOOLY (S’19)
Traveling to Louisiana showed the face behind climate change;
there is no better textbook than a storyteller sitting in front of you.
F
or years, I have learned about global warming, but for a hurricane, you’re
nothing felt so relevant and necessary as learning not. You’re never
about it in Louisiana and speaking with people prepared enough.”
directly impacted by climate change and sea level rise. The way Grand
No textbook can bring a story and concept to life like expe- Isle Mayor David
riences can. We only know what we experience. Camardelle talked
While learning about sea level rise in the classroom, reaffirmed that it truly
I always wondered (albeit naively) why, if someone had the is people who make a
means to, they would not just move. After this trip, I learned place and build a community.
that the answer is not so simple; it is full of intricacies, “Our homes are gone, but we
complexities, and does not really have one answer at all. have our lives.” He described saving a homeless man from
As we spent time with our hosts in Louisiana, I felt my drowning in a flooded street during Hurricane Katrina;
understanding shift. Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar, of the that man still calls him every few months to thank him.
Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, Our trip to Louisiana showed me how climate adapta-
talked to us about how sea level rise is inundating and tion, mitigation and resiliency look different everywhere.
flooding the burial grounds of her tribe’s ancestors. In southern Louisiana, community itself is a form of resi-
At an oyster hatchery, we learned that 47 percent of U.S. lience. Traveling there showed me the face behind climate
oysters are from Louisiana, and that oyster reefs protect change; there is no better textbook than a storyteller sitting
coasts from erosion and storm surge. As Brian Callam at the in front of you.
Louisiana WLF Oyster Research Lab said, “When you build I left the trip feeling changed by the experience, wanting
up land mass where it was open water, then people who to further study global warming and environmental scien-
were exploiting that water are displaced. Real people are ces. A week after returning from the trip, I decided to add a
affected, and their everyday lives, by these changes.” geosciences major with a concentration in maritime studies
In the town of Grand Isle, on Louisiana’s only inhabited to my Spanish major. My geosciences professor at Williams,
barrier island, we spoke with Mr. Chris Hernandez, the José Constantine, always described climate change by saying
town supervisor. Living in western Massachusetts, far away “That’s your brothers and sisters out there.” I nodded in
from the coast, it is hard for me to imagine preparing for agreement in class, but did not feel this line until this trip.
hurricanes and having my home flooded by rising waters. How can we stare climate change in the face for what it is?
Conversations with Mr. Chris in his ‘man cave’ were hum- This is more than merely a scientific or political issue: it is an
bling and gave me chills. “When you think you’re prepared inherently human issue.
11Nathan Adams (F’03)
Restoring the Mayflower II
NATHAN ADAMS BY TODD MCLEISH
W
hen the restoration of – what he called “familiar ground” – and
the Mayflower II at Mystic enthusiastic about exploring its connections
Seaport Museum is to other places and other topics.
completed later this year, “I had difficulty transitioning from high
Nathan Adams (F’03) school to college, so I liked the idea of being
will be proud to point out in a classroom where the classroom was
that he had his hand in replacing most of the always changing – we went to California
ship’s framework. It’s similar to the feeling and Nantucket and sailed in the Gulf of
he had at the completion of the restoration of Maine and explored those areas with my
the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan and the professors,” he recalled. “It wasn’t something
coal-fired steamboat Sabino. I thought much about when I was applying,
But the Mayflower II is different. but I came to enjoy it later.”
“Everyone knows about the Mayflower; Adams especially enjoyed sailing around
every school kid in the U.S. has learned about the Elizabeth Islands, through the Cape Cod
it, so we get all sorts of visitors coming to the Canal and offshore into the Gulf of Maine.
Seaport and being curious about the project,” “It was early in the semester, so the stu-
Adams said. “Everywhere I go, people are dents didn’t really know each other yet, and
asking about it. People are more curious we were forced to live together on a boat for
about this than any other ship I’ve worked 10 days,” he said. “That was such an impor-
on.” tant part of coming together as a group.”
Built in the 1950s for Plimoth Plantation When he graduated from UConn, he
and used mostly as a dockside attraction enrolled at the University of British Columbia
for 60 years, the ship was in need of a major Adams mills wood during the to earn a master’s and doctorate in maritime
overhaul soon after the shipyard at Mystic history, but after living in Vancouver for five
restorations of the Mayflower II.
Seaport Museum completed work on the years he decided that he didn’t enjoy the
Morgan. academic life.
“We had a shipyard that was teeming “We’d remove the old futtock and create “I loved teaching and researching, but I
with a lot of very talented people who had a pattern from it and then find a piece of found it very isolating,” he said. “Much of
just done work on a large wooden sailing wood that matched the shape of our pattern,” the time studying history is spent alone in
ship, but we didn’t have another project in he explained. “We’d use a ship saw to cut it archives or alone writing lectures or alone
line,” said Adams. “And because we were to match the planking it was getting fitted to. working on a dissertation, and it can be a
both not-for-profit institutions, it was a good We’d then do some final shaping with hand pretty sedentary life, which was difficult for
match.” planes to get the fit just right, and bolt it in. me.”
It turned out to be a much bigger job than There are no straight lines on a boat, so every So he took a leave of absence and moved
anticipated. It was originally believed that piece was different.” back to the East Coast. He arrived just as the
about 50 to 60 percent of the ship would need Restoring historic ships was not at all Seaport was beginning work on the Charles
replacing, but as Adams and his co-workers how Adams envisioned his career. He grew W. Morgan. Recalling his Williams-Mystic
got into the job, they found they needed to up near Mystic, visited the Seaport as a class in traditional-boat building and his time
replace closer to 80 percent. He estimates child, attended summer sailing camps there, working as a shop assistant in the small boat
that 80 percent of the framing was replaced, and even worked at the museum as a high building, he got himself hired to help on the
along with all of the planking and decking school student. His experiences at the Seaport project. He first did demolition on parts of
and most of the ship’s stem. The modern inspired an interest in maritime history, but the ship that needed replacing and eventually
plumbing and electrical systems were also he navigated an uncertain path during his worked his way into more skilled roles. He
replaced. Only the keel is all original. undergraduate years at Ohio State and the is looking forward to at least two more ship
Before the Mayflower II even arrived at University of Connecticut before enrolling in restoration projects after the Mayflower II.
the shipyard, Adams was already milling the Williams-Mystic program. “I certainly enjoy the work that I’m
the wood that would be used in the project – “At that point I was mostly interested in doing and would like to continue it in some
white oak from Connecticut for the framing a career in history, but going to Williams- capacity,” Adams said. “But I’ve changed my
and planking, longleaf pine from Georgia and Mystic encouraged me to think of history career trajectory a few times, so I wouldn’t be
Mississippi for the topside planking, Danish through the lenses of the other disciplines – surprised if something new comes my way.
oak from the Royal Danish Naval Forest for the sciences, policy and economics,” Adams There’s room for me to grow at the Seaport
the timbers, and live oak from Georgia and said. “I thought about American history and and more leadership roles I’d like to grow
Louisiana for the ship’s curved features. world history and maritime history, but it into, but it’s also possible that I’ll end up
Once the ship was hauled out of the was Williams-Mystic that opened up the following a completely different career path
water in 2016, Adams spent most of his time interdisciplinary avenue for me.” again.”
replacing its 450 futtocks – the lower, curved He was especially excited that the pro-
portion of the frame. gram was based at Mystic Seaport Museum
13(PHOTO) Henry Roman (F’17)
Student Research
INDEPENDENT
INVESTIGATIONS
BY TODD MCLEISH
W
hen Henry Roman (F’17) “For many students, it’s an introduction
heard that the U.S. Navy to what graduate school is like,” he added.
vessels USS John S. McCain “For others, they discover that they’re interes-
and USS Fitzgerald had ted in something they had no idea they’d be
been involved in collisions interested in.”
within two months of each The assignment in marine policy class is
other in 2017 and 17 sailors had died in the usually to select a project based on a current
incidents, it reinforced what he had heard was controversial policy issue that has not yet been
the Navy’s reputation for poor seamanship. As resolved. Most of the science research projects
a student at SUNY Maritime College, where he are investigations of local environmental
received in-depth training in ship navigation conditions, while the history class assignment
and related disciplines, the Navy’s reputation requires that students visit the Mystic Seaport
was a frequent topic of discussion, and the archives and conduct research based on some
collisions cemented this idea in the minds of of its original sources.
his professors and classmates. As part of his final report, Roman recom-
The Navy’s official reports about the mended that the Navy require specialized
collisions were issued during Roman’s semes- surface warfare training for naval officers that
ter at Williams-Mystic, so he decided that his focuses on either navigation or engineering
independent research project for marine policy rather than a general training course that tries
class would be an analysis of the collisions and to turn every officer into a jack-of-all-trades.
the Navy’s protocols for training its sailors “I found some previous reports that said
in proper seamanship. So he read the Navy’s that naval training was not up to scratch, and
reports, arranged interviews with the Govern- I also found some minor unreported collisions
ment Accountability Office and several Navy and incidents that highlighted the failings of
Henry Roman during officers, and discussed the issue with others he the training and that made the McCain and
the F’17 Offshore Field knew in the Navy, as well as with some of the Fitzgerald collisions seem inevitable,” he said.
ROTC staff at SUNY Maritime. Roman submitted his report to the Govern-
Seminar. “Whether or not it was a failure of naval ment Accountability Office and to several of
seamanship, I just wanted to get at the un- the naval officers he interviewed.
derlying cause of the collisions,” said Roman. “It was a 50/50 reaction,” he said. “It
“What I found was that Navy seamanship was was mildly approved by the officers, but the
lacking, their training was lacking, and perhaps GAO thought it was an intriguing possibility
the lack of specialization in their training that they hadn’t considered. We had a long
was hurting their naval officers. These two conversation about it, and they said it was an
collisions, which were deadly, was evidence excellent idea.”
of this.” Roman will soon be an ensign in the Navy
Independent research has been an integral and a surface warfare officer aboard the USS
part of the Williams-Mystic experience from Green Bay, which will make it difficult for him
its earliest days. Students in marine policy, to pursue his recommendations.
maritime history, oceanographic processes and “As of now, nothing has changed with
marine ecology classes are assigned an original the Navy’s training structure, and I’m not
research project to conduct each semester, and expecting it will any time soon,” he said.
the results are always enlightening. “I doubt they’ll take the word of a then-cadet
“We have 43 years of research conducted by and now-junior officer very seriously. But they
our students, and for some of them it’s the first have amped up the training time.”
time they’ve done their own research project,”
said Tom Van Winkle, executive director of
Williams-Mystic. “In contrast to most research
on college campuses, which is tied to their
professors’ research, the professors here let
their students decide on their topic and they
collaborate with their students about how to
go about it.
15Morgan Michaels (F’18)
Morgan Michaels and Isabella Latta hauling a line during the F’18 offshore voyage.
N
ot every Williams-Mystic research project reaches so Based on her research, Michaels found that many doctors of the
far into the innerworkings of a large institution like period prescribed fresh air and visits to coastal environments where
the U.S. Navy. But all have an impact in one way or the salt water would provide recuperative benefits for a wide variety
another. of ailments, especially ailments afflicting children.
“We often find that several students end up doing “Rich people would pay for vacations to recuperate at the
a research project that suddenly becomes their senior seashore, and doctors decided they could charge patients for the
thesis,” said Van Winkle, “and they come back in the summer for an same kind of service,” explained Michaels. “There were seaside
internship or they continue doing that research through their senior hospitals for children in dozens of cities, and social workers and
year. Their experience here aligns with their major and enhances and community organizers would refer kids to spend a couple days or
defines their senior thesis.” a week there.”
That’s what happened with Morgan Michaels (F’18) and her Michaels continued her research when she returned to Williams
maritime history research. An English major at Williams College with for her final undergraduate semester.
a concentration in public health, she chose as her maritime history “Most of my sources were visual, because there was so much
research project to investigate the nautical history of medicine after photography from that era, so going to the Library of Congress
finding photographic negatives in the Mystic Seaport Museum website and seeing hundreds of photos allowed me to piece together
archives of a pediatric hospital ship docked in New York harbor in the stories of the patients from photos, since most patients didn’t
the early 1900s. have their stories written down,” she said. “Telling the story from
“That set me off on a larger research project about the floating the pictures was challenging and exciting.”
hospitals that dotted the Atlantic coast and parts of Europe during Research projects like those conducted by Roman and Michaels
the Progressive Era,” she said. “Instead of treating children in often provide benefits beyond the classroom and research experience.
hospitals on land, doctors chose to treat them at sea, which is “The value of these kinds of research projects is sometimes having
logistically a much tougher place to practice medicine.” an impact that you didn’t think you would have, like in Henry’s
It’s a project she continued to pursue during her senior year at case, where the research had an impact on the actual thinking of the
Williams. stakeholders in the Navy,” concluded Van Winkle. “In other cases,
“I wanted to know if this idea of treating kids on a boat was a the value is in learning these different research skills that students
publicity stunt or a one-time novelty event or a legitimate ongoing haven’t necessarily learned yet at the undergraduate level and
medical practice,” she said. “It turns out it was a genuine attempt to getting a taste of grad school. Regardless of the result, we’ve found
do medicine – really innovative medicine for the time because they that these independent research projects always help our students
didn’t have access to all of the medical tools on the boats.” grow in so many ways.”
17THE BURGEE
CHALLENGE
When Jaime Hensel (S’03) was photographed in 2017 at the
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station with the Williams-Mystic
burgee in hand, she became the first person to meet a challenge
posed by Alexander “Sasha” Bulazel (S’85) during the 40th
reunion – to take a picture with the burgee at one of the
planet’s four extremes, the North Pole, South Pole, top of
Mt. Everest (or K2) and the deepest point in the ocean, the
Mariana Trench. Bulazel pledged a $25,000 donation to
Williams-Mystic for each location.
While efforts are still underway to get a photo at the other three
extremes, Bulazel has upped the ante. He announced at the 2018
reunion that he will make a $100,000 donation for a photo of
the burgee in space
So if you have any contacts with NASA,
Space X, or any other entity that travels
to space, we’d love to hear from you.
Contact us at
wmalumni@williams.eduTHE
Ditty
Bag
FIELD SEMINAR TO
ALASKA
P
icture this: It’s 5 a.m. on a late August morning. Nineteen The group rounded out the field seminar in Seattle, Washington.
students, who have only known one another for four days, There, they spotted Mt. Rainier from the top of the Space Needle,
wake up, grab their blue Williams-Mystic duffle bags, and walk visited the Port of Seattle, met with members of Crowley Maritime
to a bus waiting to take them to the airport. Along with eight faculty aboard a tugboat, and ended the trip celebrating with alumni and
and staff members, these students are leaving Mystic for the first-ever friends at the Center for Wooden Boats.
Williams-Mystic field seminar bound for Alaska.
“I have never in my life seen such natural beauty as I did in Glacier
The 2019 Alaska-Washington Field Seminar featured six days in Bay,” said University of Connecticut sophomore Johann Heupel. “I
Alaska and two days in Washington. After three flights on different have always seen the majesty of nature through documentaries and
sized planes, the group arrived in Gustavus, Alaska. They travelled photographs, but seeing Alaska for myself was the most exciting
to a glacier, saw mountain goats, whales, and sea lions, discussed experience of my college career.”
tourism and climate change, and then flew to Sitka, Alaska. The
group met with members of the Tlingit tribe, learned about the Descriptions of the Alaska-Washington Field Seminar include
complexities of salmon hatcheries, explored the commercial thought-provoking, breathtaking, and adventurous. The program
fishing industry with Linda Behnken (F’82), and grappled with the cannot wait for the next group of students to embark on this journey.
relationship between Sitka and cruise ships. See you in the fall 2020, Alaska!
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WALTER CRONKITE AWARD PHOTOS
Williams-Mystic alumni and friends gather to celebrate over 40 years of ship, shipmate, self at the 2019 National Maritime Awards Dinner
at the National Press Club on May 2, 2019.
Director Emeritus Jim Carlton reflects on Tom Van Winkle, Ben Labaree Jr., and Tom Rob Leary talks about the influence Dr. Ben
his time teaching and leading the program. Crowley accepting the award. Labaree Sr. and Williams-Mystic have had
on his life.
2041ST & 42ND ANNIVERSARY REUNIONS
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23CLASS NOTES
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S’78 F’81
Ann Prince has been freelance editing for Dan Silver has worked at Panasonic for 34
NPR/PBS and doing literacy tutoring, as years, now in solar and building products.
well as spending time at her camp in the He enjoys signing and hitting tennis balls.
Adirondacks. Mystic was the most glorious semester in six
years of college and grad school.
S’80 Witt Farquhar is living in Mystic and
working at the Sea Research Foundation
Douglas Brooks was named the 2019 Japan/
(parent organization of Mystic Aquarium).
China Fellow by the Asian Cultural Council
of New York, which funded a research trip
Jeanne Hammond Larsen is still
to both countries to study the various types
commercial salmon fishing on Kodiak
of boats used for fishing with cormorants,
Island since 1984. She’s also teaching
an ancient method developed in China
refugee and immigrant students English
that has a 1,300-year history in Japan. In
in the Anchorage School District. Jeanne
2020, the Japanese Ministry of Culture
is getting ready to finish the last half of a
will publish his book documenting the
Buddhist walking pilgrimage around the
design and construction of the Japanese
Island of Shikoku, Japan in spring 2020.
cormorant fishing boat. In 2017, Doug built
F’77 one of these boats under the direction of an
85-year-old master in Mino, Gifu, Japan.
Eric Laschever is faculty at the School F’82
of Marine and Environmental Affairs, Bob Reichart shifted focus this year
University of Washington. He recently from “work” to rowing; he’s coaching at
published an article on the state’s response Capital Rowing Club and on the board
to the Trump Administration’s five-year for the Anacostia Community Boathouse
Outer Contintental Shelf Lease Program in Association. Bob also raced in the 2019
Coastal Management Journal. Trans Atlantic Race from Newport, RI, to
Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, on board Carina.
Carol Newcomb enjoyed a sailing weekend “Carina is a pretty famous boat - this was
on the “Harvey Gamage” with F’77 class- something like her 7th race. The photo
mates. was approaching the finish at Cowes, Isle
of Wight, England, right before we set the
Several of the Lee Railers joined a mini-
spinnaker in our 73rd sail change in 17
reunion aboard the "Harvey Gamage" for days at sea. A highlight of the trip was the
two days in September out of Portland, ME. multiple sperm whale sightings - very cool!”
S’81
Gary and Ellen Anderson (Huebsch) are
building a house in Stonington on a quiet
road with stone walls, cows and alpacas —
and room for their SeaSprite in the off-
season!
Ken Mills was appointed Head of School
at Gifft Hill School in St. John, USVI. The
school is a unique, community-based,
pre-K–12 school serving the community of
St. John in the US Virgin Islands for over
Look for Lani Peterson, Alex Agnew, Carol New- 40 years. It has demonstrated commitment Robin Rustad joined a monthly chantey
comb, Doug Bowman, Deborah McKew, Susan to providing local children with access sing in Baltimore’s Fells Point where they do
Funk, Hal Sprague, Francesca Messina. Dave also to a rigorous education that emphasizes colonial and War of 1812 reenactment. She
pictured. Tom Van Winkle, Director of Williams- experiential learning by utilizing its island- isn’t sure her voice is good enough to lead,
Mystic joined in on the fun! based resources. but she loves to join in the choruses.
24S’83 S’85 F’88
Chris Mullen is commercial salmon fishing Alex Bulazel (S'85) was the first Williams- Mary Lynn Harper (Nichols) sees Wendy
in Bristol Bay, Alaska in summer, selling Mystic alum to have ever begun excavations Morton Hudson (S’88) whenever she’s in
his catch and advocating for protection on South Georgia as an assistant to the Cleveland. She’s not currently “working” but
of salmon habitat from the Pebble Mine Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU). The is enjoying lots of running, hiking, cycling,
project. expedition's aim was to reveal information volunteer work, and college visits with her
about the living conditions, equipment, kids.
and techniques of the sealers and their
F’83 early impact on South Georgia's ecology, Richard Mazzotta retired. He is a U.S.
providing a baseline for management of the Dept. Fish & Wildlife Service volunteer
Karen Lee made the move from a faculty
island's heritage conservation and giving eradicating invasive European green crabs.
position at a small, rural, undergraduate
insight into the hazardous lives of its very
campus three years ago, to an admin
first inhabitants. Beth Fuller Valentine’s daughter Claire
position in the undergraduate research
applied to W-M for the Fall 2020 and has
office at a large, urban, research university.
since been accepted!
She’s really enjoying the change of
scenery and connecting students with
John Gedrick moved back to his hometown,
undergraduate research opportunities.
Terre Haute, Indiana, serves as vicar to St.
James, a small parish in Vincennes, and is
S’84 becoming involved with Riverscape, a group
that promotes conservation and sustainable
Jonathan Labaree The Gulf of Maine development along the Wabash River.
Research Institute co-hosted a symposium
with the Gulf of Maine Council for the
Marine Environment, NOAA, DFO, and the S’89
Huntsman Marine Lab (St. Andrews, NB)
to bring together the most recent science Jennifer Wolff (Ted Baillie) is an associate
Anne Grimes Rand is looking forward to
to map out what the Gulf will look like in principal at Braun Intertec. She has one
welcoming the “Mayflower II” to Boston in
2050 and how communities will need to son at NDSU for engineering, while one is a
May 2020. Come visit!
adapt (and are already adapting). Brenda senior in high school.
Ekwurzel (S’84) was a featured speaker,
Laurie Warren (Wilson) went to Alaska with
sharing her work at Union of Concerned S’86 F’19!
Scientists. Jill (Gardner) Harlow (F’93) was
the major fundraising force behind the K.D. (Katie) Ellis is still in New Hampshire
conference, not only pulling together the and just delivered her older daughter off to
necessary funds, but also finding money for Oberlin College in Ohio. Told her she had F’90
a classmate at W-M from Oberlin and she
35 scholarships (including travel) and four Jonathan Lehr got married and had a
(maybe more) collaborative action grants should consider it! baby this year with wife Laura Brandt, a
help to start up projects that were borne David Freilach has been at the Addison Wisconsin graduate. Baby James Mercer
from the symposium itself. Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy Lehr was born February 22, 2018. All are
for several years now. A scale model of the happy and healthy.
‘Charles W. Morgan” is on permanent
display with about twenty other models. Joseph Bizzarro works as a fisheries
And, burying the lede, Bea and David research biologist at UC Santa Cruz/
became grandparents this summer. He said National Marine Fisheries Service.
little Louie is perfect.
Chris Sinton is serving as chair of the
Environmental Studies and Sciences
S’92
department at Ithaca College. Rachel Beane received the 2018 Neil
Mines Award. This national teaching
award from the National Association
S’87 of Geoscience Teachers is awarded
annually for “exceptional contributions
Eric Lilja moved to the desert and is now to the stimulation of interest in the Earth
living in Scottsdale, AZ. Sciences.”
Sarah Cahill, director of education at
S’88 Mystic Seaport Museum, has the pleasure
Brenda Ekwurzel (S’84), Jill (Gardner) Harlow Alex McClennen Dohan is working in the of working with and seeing Williams-Mystic
(F’93), and Jonathan Labaree (S’84) at the Gulf of Statewide Education Department at Mass students and staying connected with the
Maine 2050 Symposium. Audubon, working on a variety of projects. program. Partner Sally continues her
work on climate change with the Nature
Conservancy, and son Theo is in 8th grade!
25Sara Rusche is teaching biology to high Ann Gaffney works in educational admin-
school students in Oakland, CA and playing istration and participates in the various
F’97
“mad amounts” of viola. activities of her children! Elizabeth Wohl serves as general counsel
to the Brattleboro Retreat, Vermont’s largest
Leigh Needleman is working at Harvard inpatient psychiatric hospital. Between
F’92 in science operations. Her main role for work and shepherding an 11-year-old and
the past few years has been to design and a 9-year-old, she tries to carve out as much
Maria Bernier visited Alyssa May (F’92) and
launch a new Harvard science building in time as she can for singing and aerial arts.
her son Marshall in East Burke, VT, on her
Boston: challenging and so much fun! The You can find her on Instagram @soprano_
way to a work commitment in Burlington.
family is doing great. She, Andrew, and aerials.
Alyssa reeled off a long list of Williams-
their 9– and 6-year-olds live in Cambridge,
Mystic alums who live within 45 minutes of
MA. Julie Rusczek moved from Hotchkiss in
her, plus many more in VT and NH within a
northwest Connecticut to Groton School
two hour drive!
in Massachusetts a year ago where her
F’95 husband is a boarding school math teacher,
and where Amily Dunlap (F’95) works,
Laura Tabor Bastiani is a stay-at-home
too — quite a small W-M world sometimes!
mom with an 11-year-old and a 9-year-old.
Julie is a lawyer focusing on clinical
One of her hobbies is battling invasive
research and bioethics and works from
species in her yard and the wetlands behind
home. The kids are 10 and almost 8, so lots
her house. Laura loves trying to teach her
of soccer and other activities to keep them
children about the rocky intertidal zone and
out of trouble. They spend summers in
maritime history, but they have no interest.
Harpswell, Maine, where she is trying to
Luckily, she is usually able to find tourists
teach her family to sail small boats, though
who are interested in her ramblings since
she’s pretty rusty herself!
her own children are not.
Maria Bernier (F’92) with classmate Alyssa May
(F’92) at her house in Vermont. Alyssa is married to
F’98
Tabitha Bowling (F’94), who was on a business trip Cipperly Good is working at the Penobscot
at the time, or she would have been in the photo too. Marine Museum and teaching Maine
maritime history aboard Elderhostel
Sejal Shah is writing a book, “This Is One windjammer cruises.
Way to Dance,” a collection of essays
about race, place, identity, and landscape,
forthcoming from University of Georgia F’99
Press in June 2020. Meredith Mendelson is still working for
the State of Maine’s Department of Marine
Rhonda Zapatka launched a fundraising Resources and enjoying having regular
campaign for Trickle Up. She is attending interactions with other alumni in the
the Climate Strike and working with an Maine state government, including Derek
agent to finish her first book. Langhauser (F’82, Governor Mills’ counsel),
Ian (11) and Mia (9) Bastiani, children of Laura Tabor Jerry Reid (F’89, commissioner of the
Bastiani (F’95), on the beach in Hilton Head, SC. Department of Environmental Protection),
F’94 Andy Cutko (S’84, bureau director of
F’94 had a mini-reunion in October at the Parks and Lands in the Department of
home of Tabitha Bowling (F’94) and Alyssa S’96 Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry),
May (F’92). Rachel Rodgers Dolhanczyk has been and DMR colleague Kathleen Reardon
working for nine years as the museum (S’99), who is the lead lobster biologist.
curator of the Bayshore Center at Bivalve, Lots of other fun WM connections as well,
located along the Delaware Bay in New including attending a wedding that was
Jersey and home to NJ’s tall ship the “AJ photographed by Anna Sawin (S’92), and a
Meerwald.” She is mom to Daniel (8), Owen recent work trip to DC where she got to have
(5) and Clara (newborn). Married to Jeff for dinner with Carrie Selberg (F’95).
17 years!
Christopher Haseltine is cooking in Italy!
F’96
Jessica Stevens is wearing many hats on
S’00
Standing: Jenifer Walsh (F’94), Tony Baptista (F’94), Monhegan Island with her husband, son Erin Northey is chief executive of EducAid
Marshall May (future W-M), Tabitha Bowling (F’94), and 2 dogs. Gardening, maintaining an Sierra Leone, running schools and training
Leigh Needleman (F’94), Meaghan Atwell (F’94). amazing island one-room school, building teachers to strengthen education in Sierra
Front row: Knight Dykstra and Kimberly Knight a better fire deptartment, catching lobsters. Leone.
(F’94). Not pictured: Ann Gaffney (F’94) and Teresa Never a dull moment.
Evenson (F’94).
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