Jared Golden ’11, Ben Cline ’94, and Bob Goodlatte ’74

Two alumni take their seats in Congress, and a third retires

Three �ֲ���ý alumni — Bob Goodlatte ’74, Ben Cline ’94, and Jared Golden ’11 — were part of the comings and goings in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 3 as newly elected congressional representatives took their seats and others left office.

Amy Friedenberger of The Roanoke Times wrote a long profile of Goodlatte, a Republican who represented Virginia’s 6th Congressional District for 26 years before retiring this year.

In July 1999, Ben Cline ’94 (left) confers with Rep. Bob Goodlatte ’74, R-Va., in Goodlatte’s office in the Rayburn House Office Building. Goodlatte’s legislative director at the time, Cline now has succeeded Goodlatte as Virginia’s 6th District representative. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/�ֲ���ý College)

“There’s plenty of good work that has been done, and I’ve been honored to be a part of it, and there’s plenty of good work that can still be done,” Goodlatte said as he prepared to leave his digs (with a view of the Capitol) in the Rayburn House Office Building.

Friedenberger also covered the swearing-in of Goodlatte’s successor, Republican Ben Cline ’94. Cline spoke of working with Democrats to reopen the government.

“I do believe we can chart a new course working together on issues where we have common ground,” he said.

Meanwhile, Steve Collins of the Lewiston Sun Journal covered Golden’s arrival at the U.S. capital, noting that the 2nd District Democrat’s first days on the job were marked by a vote for Speaker of the House (for Cheri Bustos, D-Illinois); “House”-warming gifts from two fellow Maine lawmakers, independent Sen. Angus King and Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree; and a near-car crash on the way from the airport.

Jared Golden ’11 greets his supporters at the Gendron Franco Center in Lewiston on Nov. 6. On his right is his wife Isobel Golden ’11. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)

“He said he’s going to play his part in a team effort to address issues ranging from health care to campaign finance reform,” Collins wrote.

• Read: “’,” The Roanoke Times, Dec. 22, 2019
• Read: “,” The Roanoke Times, Jan. 3, 2019
• Read:  “,” Sun Journal, Jan. 3, 2019

Lucy Brennan ’14

Town seeks to eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — York Weekly

The Bangor Daily News reported that the town of York, Maine, now knows it’s mostly on track to eliminate municipal greenhouse gas emissions, thanks to research conducted by AmeriCorps volunteer Lucy Brennan ’14.

Brennan, who is also the sustainability program coordinator for the city of South Portland, started out by organizing data from York’s municipal power bills. Overall, her research has shown that emissions from heating fuel, electricity, and streetlights have all gone down in recent years, but the town’s vehicle fleet remains a significant source of emissions.

The fire department has done a particularly good job — thanks in part to a solar array on its rooftop — with reducing emissions, Brennan told reporter Deborah McDermott. “There’s a really exciting story to tell here,” she said.

• Read the story: “,” York Weekly, Jan. 8, 2019

Richard A. Johnson ’78

Black Sox scandal: SF native Thom Ross paints fresh perspective of 1919 team — San Francisco Chronicle

For a review of a new art exhibit on the infamous “Black Sox” scandal of the 1919 World Series, San Francisco Chronicle reporter John Shea spoke with Richard Johnson ’78, curator of the Sports Museum in Boston and a friend of the artist, Thom Ross.

“He gets into a subject and researches it assiduously and has a real attraction to the quintessential American stories that almost morphed into fables,” Johnson told Shea. “The Black Sox seem to fit into that mold.”

• Read the story: “,” San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 1, 2019

Chuck Radis ’75

Peaks Island doctor brings practice to pages in new book — The Forecaster

David Harry of The Forecaster talked to Chuck Radis ’75, an osteopath who practiced on the islands of Casco Bay for more than 30 years and has now written a book about his experiences.

Radis worked out of the Peaks Island Health Center, often reaching patients by police boat. He hopes the book will “provide historical background for some people who looked at the islands as upscale and homogeneous,” Radis told Harry.

Radis, who now practices rheumatology in Portland and has founded a nonprofit that works in a refugee camp in Uganda, still lives on Peaks Island.

• Read the story: “,” The Forecaster, Dec. 31, 2018

Tom Lopez ’69

After 41 seasons — and 303 wins — Tom Lopez retires as Lincoln-Sudbury football coach — The Boston Globe

After 40 years, 303 career wins, and three Massachusetts high school football Super Bowl titles, Tom Lopez ’69 is retiring as head football coach at Lincoln-Sudbury High School.

Showing that he still has football moves, head coach Tom Lopez ’69 dodges players trying to dump water on him after his 300th career victory on Oct. 19, 2018. (MetroWest Daily News and Wicked Local Staff Photo/John Walker]

Lopez started as an assistant coach at the school in 1971 and became head coach in 1978.

“I told the kids, to coach 48 years at one place, I’ve had the best job in America,” Lopez told Boston Globe reporter Brendan Hall. “I’m leaving with a lot of smiles on my face. It’s a great place to coach, a great school, great kids.”

Lopez, who won his 300th game last October, was an outstanding end for �ֲ���ý football as a student.

• Read the story: “,” The Boston Globe, Dec. 19, 2019
• Related: “,” The Milford Daily News, Dec. 30, 2019

Kelli Armstrong ’86

Salve Regina names Boston College administrator as next president — The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe and other media outlets reported that Kelli Armstrong ’86 will become president of Salve Regina University in 2019.

Armstrong, currently vice president for planning and assessment at Boston College, will be the first lay president of Salve Regina, which is affiliated with the Religious Sisters of Mercy.

The university has “created a wonderful educational environment that is unique in its preparation of students for lifelong learning with a moral compass,” Armstrong said in a statement. “Salve Regina has a bright, exciting future, and I look forward to working with the entire University community to advance its mission.”

• Read the story: “,” The Boston Globe, Dec. 14, 2018
• Related: “,” SALVEToday, Dec. 12, 2018

Brooks Quimby, Class of 1918, and Edmund Muskie ’36

How a �ֲ���ý professor forged Edmund Muskie’s career — Sun Journal

After a �ֲ���ý panel on the legacy of Edmund Muskie ’36, Steve Collins of the Lewiston Sun Journal dived into the college’s Edmund S. Muskie Archives to explore the relationship between the statesman and his �ֲ���ý mentor: legendary rhetoric and speech professor Brooks Quimby, Class of 1918.

Rhetoric and speech professor Brooks Quimby, Class of 1918, reads The �ֲ���ý Student in February 1955. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)

Muskie said in a 1957 speech that Quimby, who debated at �ֲ���ý as a student and returned as a coach and professor for 40 years, helped him transform from a “shy boy” into a confident, articulate speaker able to take on the 20th century’s most pressing challenges.

“Above all, (Quimby) taught us to seek fulfillment for ourselves by developing our capacity to make a contribution to the world about us,” Muskie said. “He inspired us to do so, as he still does, by his own example.”

• Read the story: “,” Sun Journal, Jan. 12, 2019

�ֲ���ý College Museum of Art

Artists interpret human impact on the Earth at �ֲ���ý — Portland Press Herald

Arts reporter Bob Keyes covered the �ֲ���ý College Museum of Art exhibit Anthropocenic: Art About the Natural World in the Human Era.

“Watering Hole (Social Species in the Late Anthropocene),” a 2017 oil painting by Laurie Hogin, appears in the Museum of Art exhibition Anthropocenic.

“Some scientists believe we have moved past the Holocene epoch and into a new one known as the Anthropocene, an epoch defined by significant human impact on the Earth’s geology and ecosystems, including climate change,” Keyes wrote.

• Read the story: “,” MaineToday, Dec. 24, 2018

Jared Golden ’11 and Ben Cline ’94

After ranked-choice tabulation in Maine, a second �ֲ���ý alumnus heads to the 116th Congress — national media 

Jared Golden ’11 greets his supporters at the Franco Center in Lewiston late Tuesday night. On his right is his wife Isobel Golden ’11. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)

reported Thursday’s breaking news that Jared Golden ’11, D-Maine, had won his razor-close election in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in historic fashion.

He becomes the second alumnus to win a House seat in 2018, joining Republican Ben Cline ’94, elected last Tuesday to represent Virginia’s 6th Congressional District.

Golden’s election took more than a week to decide because neither he nor incumbent Bruce Poliquin got a majority, so the election was decided by Maine’s new ranked-choice voting format.

The , “made history by winning the nation’s first congressional election to use ranked-choice voting, enabling him to erase an initial deficit by securing the second- and third-choice votes of people who cast their ballots for two independents.”

Golden is the first candidate to unseat an incumbent in the 2nd Congressional District in over 100 years.

Golden, a native of nearby Leeds, served in the U.S. Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan prior to entering �ֲ���ý, where he majored in history and politics. Since 2014 he has served in the Maine House of Representatives, representing part of Lewiston.

The two Congressmen-elect become the eighth and ninth �ֲ���ý alumni to serve in the House since the college was founded in 1855, and the second time two �ֲ���ý alums have served in Congress together. The first was between 1933 and 1935, when Carroll Beedy and Donald Partridge, both Republicans, represented Maine’s 1st and 2nd districts, respectively.

Marshall Hatch Jr. ’10

Chicago reverend’s plan to build for the future — NBC Left Field

NBC News featured the Rev. Marshall Hatch Jr. ’10, a youth minister at New Mount Pilgrim Church in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood. Hatch founded the Maafa Redemption Project, a residential program for young African American men.

The story by NBC Left Field, the experimental video unit of NBC News, says that West Garfield Park has a far lower life expectancy, due to poverty and violence, than downtown Chicago.

“When you look at all the social determinants, it’s because it’s a food desert, it’s because it doesn’t have high- quality education, it’s ridden with gun violence and drug infestation,” says Hatch, who earned graduate degrees at the University of Chicago after majoring in politics at �ֲ���ý.

In response, Hatch created the Maafa Redemption Project (maafa is a Kiswahili word that means “great disaster” and refers to the transatlantic slave trade) to give young men stable housing, mentors, job training, and identity and purpose development, and, in turn, to strengthen their communities.

According to NBC, more than 90 percent of Maafa Fellows subsequently enroll in community college or work in construction.

“We wanted to see what impact we could have with the young men in our neighborhood if we created an oasis of opportunity.”

Ari Friedlaender ’96 and Doug Krause ’99

The Big Meltdown — National Geographic

In climate change has wreaked on the Antarctic Peninsula’s animal populations, National Geographic’s Craig Welch talked to Doug Krause ’99 and Ari Friedlaender ’96, experts on leopard seals and humpback whales, respectively.

Doug Krause ’99 operates a drone to track leopard seals off the Antarctic Peninsula. (Courtesy of Doug Krause)

As sea ice melts and leopard seals have fewer floes to rest on, they’ve moved closer and closer to land, where they attack and decimate fur seal populations, Krause said.

“What we’re seeing is extraordinary,” said Krause, a research scientist who has visited Antarctica 12 times since 2002. “No one saw this coming.”

Melting sea ice is actually better for humpback whales, said Friedlaender, who’s made dozens of trips to Antarctica since the late ’90s — they have more open ocean and more time in which to hunt for krill, fueling a population boom.

Christa Mulder ’88

‘World citizen’ winds up in Fairbanks — Daily News-Miner

David James of the Fairbanks, Alaska, Daily News-Miner as part of a series on immigrants in Alaska.  

Christa Mulder ’88 is a professor of plant ecology at the University of Alaska–Fairbanks. (Courstey of Christa Mulder)

A native of the Netherlands, Mulder grew up there and in Brazil and Colombia. She majored in biology at �ֲ���ý; earned a master’s in Ontario and a doctorate at the University of Alaska–Fairbanks, and has had academic jobs in Sweden, New Zealand, and, finally, back at the University of Alaska, where she’s a professor of plant ecology.

Mulder says her globetrotting has given her helpful life skills.

“I learned to make friends with people of all different ages, and I also became very flexible,” she told James.

“I don’t think you could have taken me at age 20 and plopped me down on Banks Island in the middle of nowhere with three other people after a several-hour [flight in a Twin Otter] if I hadn’t gone through the experience of being moved around and being plopped in a new place every so many years.”

Kate Gilmore ’97

New art exhibit features videos, interactive art — The Daily Evergreen

The Daily Evergreen, Washington State University’s student newspaper, , an art exhibition that shows women moving into labor-intensive, female-dominated spaces.

The exhibit, which was first shown at �ֲ���ý, consists of “nine videos that are performance-based and a new piece that welcomes the public to use a sledgehammer to make their mark on five steel fabricated cubes,” wrote reporter Madysen McLain.

“I want the audience to engage in the piece, physically and emo­tionally, and I want to remove myself from the work,” Gilmore told The Daily Evergreen.

Tom Lopez ’69

Coaches celebrate banner accomplishments — The Boston Globe

Newspapers throughout Massachusetts, including The Boston Globe and Boston Herald, reported a Tom Lopez ’69 milestone: On Oct. 19, as the longtime head football coach at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.

Lopez is just the fifth high school football coach in Massachusetts to win 300 games, according to .

Showing that he still has football moves, head coach Tom Lopez ’69 dodges players trying to dump him with water after his 300th career victory on Oct. 19, 2018. (MetroWest Daily News and Wicked Local Staff Photo/John Walker)

Following the win against Wayland High School, more than 200 friends and well-wishers unfurled a banner and donned commemorative hats, Globe reporter Jake Caccavaro wrote.

An outstanding end at �ֲ���ý, Lopez won his first game as a head coach 40 years ago, on Oct. 14, 1978, in his first season as varsity coach.

Tom Lopez ’69 poses with his family after winning his 300th game as Lincoln-Sudbury High School head football coach. From left, son-in-law Jim Nibberich, son Mike ’04, daughter Beth Nibberich, wife Nancy, Tom (holding granddaughter Rosie, age 2). In front is granddaughter Lucy, age 5. (Courtesy of Tom Lopez)

He has since led the school to seven Massachusetts Super Bowl appearances and 18 Dual County League titles. Lopez deemed the celebration “very neat,” but told the Globe that his main takeaway from the victory was his team’s higher seed in the upcoming playoffs.

“You’re always looking forward,” he said. “As a coach, you’re always thinking about the next opponent.”

Lopez, who was following the victory, recalled being “very fortunate” to play under coaches like Bob Hatch, Bob Flynn, and Chick Leahey ‘52 at �ֲ���ý.

The Class of 1969, he said, had more than a dozen players on the football team, and “were extremely close-knit, and I’m still close with many of them, and see them on a regular basis.”

Mary Morton Cowan ’61

Q&A with Mary Morton Cowan — Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb

On her blog, author and editor Deborah Kalb about Cowan’s new children’s book, Cyrus Field’s Big Dream: The Daring Effort to Lay the First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable.

The book, written for middle-grade readers, tells the story of Field, who spearheaded the effort to lay a cable from Newfoundland to Ireland — only to see it break down just a few weeks after going live.

Cowan said she used a variety of research methods to learn about Field’s life, from web searches to keeping track of his travel dates on calendars to talking to Field’s relatives to spending “many hours at the �ֲ���ý College library, not far from my home.”

“I’d like young readers to get a glimpse of a persistent man, and to realize that they too can dream, can aspire to achieve lofty goals, and with perseverance, can achieve them,” Cowan told Kalb.  

Lucy Brennan ’14

VISTA worker tracking town’s energy use — Seacoastonline

Seacoastonline was hired as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer to help the town of York, Maine, study energy data and develop clean-energy policies.

An environmental studies major at �ֲ���ý, Brennan will collect energy use data, create a model using that data, and recommend policies.

She is also the sustainability program coordinator for the city of South Portland, Maine (where she works with sustainability director Julie Rosenbach, who formerly did that job at �ֲ���ý).

Eric Chasalow ’77

The fungus on campus — BrandeisNOW

Eric Chasalow ’77, the Irving Fine Professor of Music at Brandeis University, took Brandeis’ media relations director Julie Jette and videographer Tarah Llewellyn on a tour of the school’s campus, with a particular eye on the abundance of mushrooms growing there.

A biology and music major at �ֲ���ý, Chasalow dedicated his professional life to the latter but has an abiding interest in mycology (the study of mushrooms) and foraging. 2018 was a bumper year for the fruit of the fungus; “Chasalow has seen varieties he never spotted before,” wrote Jette.

For Chasalow, “walking and seeking help him create a mental space that helps fuel the creativity needed to compose complex works of art,” Jette wrote.

“It’s finding a meditative space and clearing your head and just taking a walk,” he said. “So if you’re just taking a walk and you’re trying to be meditative, if you find things and it’s a treasure hunt, well, that’s a bonus.”

Evelynn Hammonds L.H.D ’11

National Academy of Medicine Elects 85 New Members — National Academy of Medicine

Evelynn Hammonds L.H.D. ’11, a Harvard professor and �ֲ���ý trustee, was elected , in which membership “recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.”

Hammonds was elected “for being one of the nation’s most influential historians investigating the relationship of race, science, and medicine, and [for] her work in clarifying the use of the concept of race as it relates to important health disparities.”

At Harvard, she is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, professor of African and African-American studies, and chair of the department of the history of science.

A newly endowed scholarship fund at �ֲ���ý honors retired �ֲ���ý coach Jim Murphy ’69, one of the winningest coaches and athletes in �ֲ���ý history, in terms of both victories and spirit.

A successful fundraising effort led by three �ֲ���ý alumni has created an endowed scholarship fund honoring James P. Murphy ’69, the celebrated coach of women’s basketball and soccer who retired in 2015, announced Sarah R. Pearson ’75, vice president for college advancement.

Trustees emeriti Steve Brown ’69 and Bruce Stangle ’70, P’96 and fellow alumnus Tom Lopez ’69 organized the outreach effort to former teammates, players, and classmates of Murphy’s that, to date, has raised more than $130,000.

“From start to finish, these �ֲ���ý leaders made it happen,” Pearson said. “They created the game plan and executed it to perfection.” The new scholarship will provide annual need-based financial aid to a �ֲ���ý student, with preference to a Maine student. The first Murphy Scholar will be named in 2016–17.

The fund honors one of the winningest coaches and athletes in �ֲ���ý history, in terms of both victories and spirit.

Jim Murphy congratulates his team after a win vs. Bowdoin in 2005. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/�ֲ���ý College)

In 21 seasons as basketball coach, Murphy’s teams won 343 games and lost 187, earning six NCAA tourney appearances. His soccer teams went 146–93–13 over 16 seasons, winning the 2005 NESCAC title and earning NCAA bids in 1996, 1997, and 2005.

Murphy’s contributions to �ֲ���ý athletics and athletes go beyond the numbers, says Stangle.

“Both the fund and the team effort behind its creation honor Jim’s selfless contributions to �ֲ���ý athletics, pursuit of team goals, and intensity of effort,” Stangle says. “It will be a perpetual memorial to Jim at a place he loves.”

Murphy, adds Stangle, “embodies the quintessential �ֲ���ý characteristics of personal integrity and strength. He was the best student-athlete of his generation at �ֲ���ý. He knew how to take apart another team and also how to get the best out of his teammates. He was an immensely gifted athlete who made everyone around him better. He has a positive approach to everything he does in life, and people absolutely adore him.”

“The admiration and respect his players have for him still speak volumes.”

Brown, a football teammate of Murphy’s in the 1960s, says playing with him was “like having another coach on the field,” adding that “Jim was not only an outstanding performer, but also a great leader: selfless, humble, and focused. Honors and tributes have never interested him.”

As a coach of young women at �ֲ���ý in soccer and basketball, “no one at �ֲ���ý comes close to his record of success,” Brown notes. “The admiration and respect his players have for him still speak volumes.”

Katie Franklin ’07 says that Murphy (left, seated) “pushed me to become physically stronger and mentally tougher” while also instilling the “importance of patience, integrity, and modesty.” (Phyllis Graber Jensen/�ֲ���ý College)

Lopez, who was also a football teammate of Murphy’s, says that donors responded to the chance to pay tribute to a beloved �ֲ���ý contemporary. “Scores of former classmates and teammates from the late ’60s and early ’70s have contributed because of their respect for Jim and their love of �ֲ���ý,” says Lopez.

Katie Franklin ’07, captain of the 2006–07 women’s basketball team, returned to campus in November and joined with former players, parents, and friends to pay tribute to Murphy.

Franklin, a two-time First Team All-NESCAC honoree and an Academic All-America in softball, says she’s proud to support the Murphy Scholarship Fund because he provided her with “invaluable lessons about giving and receiving critical feedback, what it means to be humble in both wins and losses, and most importantly what it means to give it your all for the greater good of the team.”

“He will always be a role model in my life.”

Franklin, an associate with Analysis Group, an economic consulting firm chaired and co-founded by Stangle, adds that “Coach Murphy instilled in me a work ethic and commitment to the team that I have carried from Alumni Gymnasium into my professional career.”

Her coach also “pushed me to become physically stronger and mentally tougher, while simultaneously teaching me the importance of patience, integrity, and modesty,” she adds. “He will always be a role model in my life.”

Franklin, an associate with Analysis Group, says Murphy instilled a “work ethic and commitment to the team that I have carried from Alumni Gymnasium into my professional career.” (Photograph courtesy of Analysis Group)

Murphy, who returned to his alma mater in 1994 to lead the women’s varsity soccer and basketball programs, attended �ֲ���ý at a time when he and his family “didn’t have two nickels,” he says.

�ֲ���ý financial aid made it possible, says Murphy, who is moved by the honor of having a scholarship established in his name.

“To know that a Maine student who might not otherwise be able to attend �ֲ���ý will now have the opportunity. It’s very meaningful,” he says.

Just as important, says Murphy, are the relationships behind the scholarship.

“It’s amazing. The friendships that started at �ֲ���ý and have been sustained by �ֲ���ý all these years — people who know they can always rely on me and would do the same for me — it’s pretty special.”

For More Information

Contact Eric Foushee, senior director of leadership giving and director of athletic fundraising, at 207-755- 5985 or efoushee@bates.edu. Donors making online gifts to the fund should express their designation by writing “James P. Murphy ’69 Scholarship Fund” in the “Additional Comments” field on the giving page.