{"id":6105,"date":"2010-04-23T19:15:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=6105"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:44:34","slug":"class-of-1996","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2003\/winter03\/departments\/class-notes-4\/class-of-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Class Secretary:<\/strong> Mary Moss Brown, Apt. 206, 1274 5th Ave., New York, NY 100029, <a href=\"mailto:marcatmoss@aol.com\">marcatmoss@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Class President:<\/strong> Sarah Ayesha Farag-Davis, 25 Houghton St., Auburn, ME 04210, <a href=\"mailto:faragdavis@aol.com\">faragdavis@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Reunion in 2006.<\/strong> <em>Got news? Tap out a note to <a href=\"mailto:magazine@bates.edu\">magazine@bates.edu<\/a>! <\/em><strong>Kathleen Bowes<\/strong> is in her fourth year of medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine, entering the match for a pediatrics residency. &#8220;Approaching graduation in 1996, I realized that my dream was to become a physician. I enrolled at UMO in a two-year premed post-baccalaureate program, then applied and was accepted to medical school. I also worked summers as a sea-kayaking guide and spent a year working in a psychiatric hospital in Maine. I am still mountain biking as much as possible and painting a little.&#8221;&#8230; <strong>Jo Ann Darling<\/strong> reported in the College&#8217;s anthropology department newsletter: &#8220;As a nontraditional student, I received my degree in anthropology at the end of my life, rather than at the beginning. So I will not tell you that the anthropology degree opened new doors to a promising corporate position, a spot in academia, or even in a non-profit organization. But if not doors, windows &#8212; windows to an understanding of cultural institutions, such as capitalism, Freudian psychoanalysis, religion, and sexual taboos, with which I lived and worked for 40 years, and which helped to place women in subservient positions with limited potential. Since graduation, I have left my former employment and have taken some time &#212;to live the life of the mind,&#8217; a period of personal contemplation and reassessment. As a result of these studies, I have recently been facilitating classes and consulting on the application of one of these ancient systems, Feng Shui.&#8221;&#8230; <strong>Erika Lilja<\/strong>, V.M.D. in hand, is working at the Chicago Cat Clinic on the Northwest Side and living in a Swedish neighborhood of the city. &#8220;I finally have time to &#8216;have a life&#8217; and started a Swedish language class in my neighborhood with hopes of visiting distant relatives in Sweden someday.&#8221;&#8230; <strong>Rebecca Pierce-Rall<\/strong> was recognized by the Switzer Foundation with an environmental fellowship for her master&#8217;s degree studies in wildlife management at Humbolt State Univ. She is one of 19 students nationwide to receive this fellowship. She is studying Swainson&#8217;s thrush to try to understand why its numbers are declining&#8230;. <strong>Molly Walsh<\/strong> has moved to Zurich, Switzerland, where she teaches high school yearbook and coaches softball. Molly, <strong>Brook Mullens<\/strong> &#8217;95, and daughter Isabel enjoy spending time in the mountains together&#8230;. <strong>Ruby Shamir<\/strong> is one of three people editing Hillary Clinton&#8217;s memoirs. She works for Sen. Clinton and does research from the senator&#8217;s home&#8230;. <strong>Sebastian Sosman<\/strong> completed his master&#8217;s degree and Foreign Service preparation in September. He is stationed in Afghanistan for the next four months to a year, as part of a peace studies service initiative.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Secretary: Mary Moss Brown, Apt. 206, 1274 5th Ave., New York,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":3384,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-6105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11705,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6105\/revisions\/11705"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}