{"id":65656,"date":"2013-05-26T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=65656"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:02:36","slug":"alumni-parents-celebrate-childrens-unique-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/26\/alumni-parents-celebrate-childrens-unique-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni parents celebrate children’s unique achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following in their parents\u2019 footsteps may have led them to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, but children of alumni blaze their own trails on campus \u2014 and their families couldn\u2019t be more proud.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, Sarah Wason ’13 of Barrington, N.H, the daughter of Donald ’79 and Nancy Wellman Wason ’81, admits she \u201cgrew up wearing ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ clothes\u201d and at one point worried that \u201cby going to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, it wouldn\u2019t be special for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

She quickly found her own voice, however \u2014 and became a voice of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ \u2014 as a DJ and general manager of the campus radio station, WRBC-FM.<\/p>\n

Of the 436 graduates this year, 22 have at least one parent who went to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Seventy-four graduates have ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ siblings or other relatives.<\/p>\n

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The Wasons returned to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ to celebrate younger daughter Sarah’s graduation. From left are Donald Wason ’79 with daughters Sarah ’13 and Rebecca Wason St. Cyr ’09 (holding her son, a future ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Class of 2034), and wife Nancy ’81. Photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen\/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College.<\/p><\/div>\n

This year\u2019s legacy families come from as far away as Malaysia and as close as Freeport.<\/p>\n

Some alumni parents have underscored their connection to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ as volunteers.<\/p>\n

Robert Cramer \u201979, and William Carey ’82, co-chairs of the Mount David Society and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Fund, respectively, each have sons in the Class of 2013, as do trustees Stephen Fuller \u201982 and John Gillespie \u201980. (Cramer and Carey will also have senior children graduating next year.)<\/p>\n

Rob Cramer insists that his son Bo is his own Bobcat, through and through. \u201cLike me,\u201d he says, Bo \u201cwas an English major, but there the comparisons stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Legacy families pose for a group photo on Saturday, May 25, 2013. Of the 436 graduates in the Class of 2013, 74 have a parent or other relative who graduated from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen\/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College.<\/p><\/div>\n

Donald says, \u201cSarah always prided herself on being different from the rest of her family,\u201d but he suspects that may have been \u201cmore wishful thinking than reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watching their second daughter graduate from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ has shaped Donald and Nancy\u2019s own relationship with the college \u2014 beyond just discovering WRBC-FM.<\/p>\n

\u201cNumerous times while walking across campus, we have felt like we were students again,\u201d says Donald. \u201cWe always thought ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ parents were \u2018old\u2019, but we don\u2019t feel old at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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