Ukrainian egg decorator brings ancient Easter tradition back to Bates College \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nAfter a two-year break due to COVID, Lesia Sochor, a painter and pysanka artist, returned to campus in April to teach two workshops on traditional Ukrainian pysanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"They](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/05\/180302_Ukranian_Egg_Decorating_0024.webp\")
This image, from Lesia Sochor’s visit to Bates in 2018, shows the process of pysanka design. Beeswax is dripped onto an eggshell in patterns, and then the egg is dyed. The wax is then scraped off, to reveal beautiful \u2014 and often complex \u2014 designs. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSochor told the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em> that in Ukraine, pysanky is believed to ensure good health, protection, fertility, and abundance. \u201cThe egg itself is really magical in its symbolism. They\u2019re not just appreciated for their beauty but for their belief system and what they mean to the culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cI think that making eggs this year is so poignant, and I think that so many people want to do all things Ukrainian to feel like they\u2019re helping in any way they can,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cUkrainian egg decorator brings ancient Easter tradition back to Bates College<\/a>,\u201d Sun Journal<\/em>, Apr. 8, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Kathleen Morrill \u201915 <\/h3>\n\n\n\nLooking for a well-behaved dog? Breed may not tell you much \u2013 The Washington Post<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\u201cAmericans have as many stereotypes about dogs as there are distinct breeds,\u201d writes Katie Shepherd in The Washington Post<\/em>. \u201cChihuahuas are nervous; border collies are hyperactive; golden retrievers are great with children; and, most infamous, some large breeds \u2014 like the American pit bull terrier and Rottweiler \u2014 are aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nBut a research paper co-authored by Kathleen Morrill \u201915 and published in Science<\/em> suggests those stereotypes may be wrong. \u201cBreed can be important,\u201d Morrill tells Science<\/em><\/a>. \u201cBut it\u2019s not the full picture of a dog\u2019s behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\nThe](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/05\/150114_Confocal_Microscope_0193.webp\")
Kathleen Morrill ’15, author of the recent paper “Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes,” is at center in this 2015 image, along with Minh-Tam Pham ’15 (left), meeting with their thesis adviser, Associate Professor of Biology Larissa Williams. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe first author of the paper, Morrill is a doctoral student in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass. She majored in biological chemistry at Bates, and did her thesis with Associate Professor of Biology Larissa Williams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The study, which looked at the genes of more than 2,000 dogs paired with 200,000 survey answers from dog owners, shows, according to Science<\/em>, that \u201calmost none of the behaviors we associate with dog breeds \u2014 from lovable Labradors to pugnacious pit bulls \u2014 are hard-wired. Aside from a few ancient traits, environment seems to play a much larger role than pedigree.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cLooking for a well-behaved dog? Breed may not tell you much<\/a>,\u201d The Washington Post<\/em>, Apr. 28, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Mike Boornazian \u201916<\/h3>\n\n\n\nPortland\u2019s Mike Boornazian living out dream as an actor \u2014 CT Insider<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nAfter leaving professional basketball for his lifelong dream of acting, Mike Boornazian got his big break \u2014 depicting former NBA players Rick Barry and Chris Ford, among other characters, on the first season of HBO\u2019s docudrama, Winning Time: the Rise of the Lakers Dynasty<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThere was no speaking involved,\u201d Boornazian told CT Insider<\/em>, \u201cbut it gave me a chance to get on the set, learn the ropes from some of the greats in the industry while playing basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/05\/150106_Mens_Basketball_Brandeis_0878-900x720.webp\")
Mike Boornazian ’16 seen in 2015 during a 60\u201355 victory over Brandeis University in Alumni Gymnasium. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBoornazian will return for the second season of the show, which is based on the book Showtime<\/em> by Jeff Pearlman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Read the story: \u201cPortland\u2019s Mike Boornazian living out dream as an actor<\/a>,\u201d CT Insider<\/em>, Apr. 8, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Jamie Merisotis ’86 <\/h3>\n\n\n\nEarning trust is at the heart of our ethics task force \u2014 The Council on Foundations<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nWriting about his work as newly elected chair of the ethics task force for the Council on Foundations, Jamie Merisotis ’86 points to the enduring impact of Benjamin Mays, Class of 1920. Known as the \u201cschoolmaster of movement\u201d for teaching and inspiring a generation of civil rights leaders, Mays was president of Morehouse College and oversaw the peaceful desegregation of Atlanta public schools in the 1970s as president of the school board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDr. Mays\u2019 always-ethical perspective has guided much of my work in higher education, public policy, and philanthropy,\u201d writes Merisotis, who is CEO and president of Lumina Foundation,which focuses on expanding access and success in postsecondary education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Council on Foundations is a nonprofit leadership association of grantmaking foundations and corporations. \u201cWe know the enduring power of ethical leadership in philanthropy. We\u2019re called upon to earn and grow the trust placed in our leadership \u2014 from all communities, our nonprofit partners, and the public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cEarning trust is at the heart of our ethics task force<\/a>,\u201d The Council on Foundations, Apr. 7, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Christopher Petrella \u201904<\/h3>\n\n\n\nColin Kaepernick says I Color Myself Different <\/em>in his first children’s book \u2014 NPR\u2019s Weekend Edition<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nCivil rights activist and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick recently published the children\u2019s book I Color Myself Different, <\/em>a collaboration between Scholastic and Kaepernick’s publishing company, to which Chris Petrella \u201904 contributes as a writer, researcher, and strategist. Petrella has helped devise the curriculum and taught at Kaepernicks\u2019 Know Your Rights camps and, notes The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, is \u201cpart of Kaepernick\u2019s inner circle.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/05\/d8bd049d-9248-4be5-84e6-45404ad4ad6e.fcda2433ee303b713e9524bfa42c2926.webp\")
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nPetrella is also a Bates lecturer in religious studies who taught the course \u201cReligion, Race, and Resistance: From Black Secularism to Black Power<\/a>\u201d during the winter semester.\u00a0
<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Read the story: \u201cColin Kaepernick says ‘I Color Myself Different’ in his first children’s book,\u201d NPR\u2019s Weekend Edition<\/em>, April 2, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Diverse BookFinder <\/h3>\n\n\n\nThe Parents Fighting For Diverse Books \u2014 Romper<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nProfessor of Psychology Krista Aronson spoke to Romper<\/em> about how the Diverse BookFinder, which she co-founded in 2017, seeks to discover and elevate books that tell \u201cstories that depict the full expression of humanity, including that within BIPOC communities and the BIPOC experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Read the story: \u201cThe Parents Fighting For Diverse Books<\/a>,\u201d Romper<\/em>, Apr. 13, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Ther\u00ed Pickens, English faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\nThe Future of Disability Studies: Afrofuturism, literary criticism, and the intersection of blackness and disability \u2014 FEM Newsmagazine<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nDuring a webinar hosted by UCLA\u2019s disability studies program, Professor of English Ther\u00ed Pickens discussed a subgenre of science fiction known as Afrofuturism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPickens\u2019 most recent book is 2019\u2019s Black Madness: Mad Blackness<\/em><\/a>. A Black disabled woman, Pickens says the book attempts to \u201cdisrupt the idea that Blackness and madness are somehow equal.\u201d The book was influenced by Afrofuturism, which, Pickens says, \u201callows for us to privilege Black folks at the center \u2014 a practice that is rare unless they are the center of controversy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Read the story: \u201cThe Future of Disability Studies: Afrofuturism, Literary Criticism, and the Intersection of Blackness and Disability<\/a>,\u201d FEM Newsmagazine<\/em>, Apr. 18, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Michael Graham ’94<\/h3>\n\n\n\nSabbathday Shakers seek to grow with new project and new plans \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nA $4.3 million restoration project at the last remaining Shaker Village, located in New Gloucester, intends to create a \u201cgleaming educational center intended to provide year-round services to visitors in a building with a working herb production facility,\u201d writes Steve Collins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project has secured a $750,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michael Graham \u201994, who is director of the Shaker museum, library, and herb business, will oversee the project. He tells Collins that the project seeks to bring the Shaker Village \u201cback to its roots\u201d by focusing on cultural preservation, social enterprise and experiential programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cSabbathday Shakers seek to grow with new project and new plans<\/a>,\u201d Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, Apr. 18, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Carolyn Ryan ’86<\/h3>\n\n\n\nNew York Times names Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan as managing editors \u2014 The New York Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nCarolyn Ryan \u201986 has been named a managing editor for The New York Times<\/em>, the paper announced in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/190314_Carolyn_Ryan_060000.jpg\")
Carolyn Ryan ’86 (right) is interviewed by Bates Magazine<\/em> editor Jay Burns and Bates Student<\/em> editor Sarah Rothmann ’19 during Ryan’s visit to Bates for a Purposeful Work discussion in March 2019. (Theophil Syslo\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe announced noted that Ryan, most recently a deputy managing editor, has “led recruiting for The Times<\/em>, overseeing the hiring of more than 400 journalists, and she helped lead its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Before that, she was the paper\u2019s political editor, Washington bureau chief and metropolitan editor.” The paper noted that “Ms. Ryan will be the first openly gay journalist to serve as managing editor of The Times<\/em>.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cNew York Times<\/em> names Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan as managing editors<\/a>,\u201d The New York Times<\/em>, April 20, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Rick Thompson \u201981 <\/h3>\n\n\n\nEx-Microsoft VP finds new purpose as long-haul shuttle driver for Ukrainians \u2014 The Seattle Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Seattle Times<\/em> documented efforts by Rick Thomson \u201981, a retired Microsoft vice president, as he left his houseboat in Seattle for a rented van in Berlin, to help transport refugees fleeing Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThompson told The Seattle Times<\/em> that he \u201cdidn\u2019t spend a whole lot of time thinking about it. It\u2019s the first time in my life that there are really clear good guys and really clear bad guys.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/05\/image1-900x675.webp\")
Rick Thompson ’81 with a family he helped relocate. (Courtesy of Rick Thompson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nWith the financial help of a GoFundMe that ended up raising over $85,000, Thompson shuttled individuals and families from the Ukraine\u2013Poland border to safer locations across Europe, sometimes up to 1,000 miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cEx-Microsoft VP finds new purpose as long-haul shuttle driver for Ukrainians<\/a>,\u201d The Seattle Times<\/em>, Apr. 5, 2022\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Mohdis Baker ’14 <\/h3>\n\n\n\nWomen\u2019s Ultimate team Portland Rising opens its home schedule Saturday \u2014 the Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nAs general manager for Portland Rising, Maine entry in the women\u2019s Premier Ultimate League, Mohdis Baker \u201914 tells the Portland Press Herald<\/em> that \u201cit\u2019s fun to be backstage,\u201d instead of on the field as a player. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Various](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/05\/16_portland_rising_portraits_modhis_baker_1_maine_branding_photographer_whitney_j_fox_9251-edited-1.webp\")
Mohdis Baker ’14 of Portland Rising Professional Ultimate Frisbee Team (Photograph by Whitney J. Fox Photography)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAmong Portland Rising\u2019s players is former Cold Front standout Josie Gillett \u201919, who was named the Division III Player of the Year in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At Bates, Baker played and coached ultimate team, Cold Front, and was a biological chemistry major. \u201cI get to see a different side of the team I didn\u2019t see previously,\u201d Baker said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cWomen\u2019s Ultimate team Portland Rising opens its home schedule Saturday<\/a>,\u201d the Portland Press Herald<\/em>, Apr. 22, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Eric Peters ’87 <\/h3>\n\n\n\nCharacters of the County: Eric Peters\u2019 life on the water \u2014 The Lincoln County News<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nLong involved in aquaculture along the Damariscotta River in midcoast Maine, Eric Peters \u201987 is now harbormaster for the town of Newcastle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNot that I wanted more work, but I figured it would be an easy fit,\u201d Peters tells Evan Houk of The Lincoln County News<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nA harbormaster is just that, someone who ensures that things runs smoothly in a harbor and that everyone, from tourists to oyster farmers, are following rules and regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/05\/Peters9102.webp\")
Owner of Norumbega Oyster Co., Eric Peters \u201987 works on the Damariscotta River in 2010. He’s also the new harbormaster for Newcastle. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nOwner of Norumbega Oyster Co. with his wife, Kellie, Peters has served on the town\u2019s harbor ordinance committee since it was started in 2006 due to the increase in aquaculture farms and recreational boaters on the Damariscotta River. \u201cThe river\u2019s gotten crowded since I first got on the river in 1999.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his oyster work, Peters tells about \u201cthe development of cage culture\u201d \u2014 oysters are grown on the surface of the water in cages with plastic floats, rather than on the river bottom, where they were harvested by diving or by being dragged to the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of work involved in it,\u201d Peters said of the cage culture. \u201cThere\u2019s pros and cons to both, and we\u2019re doing both here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After a two-year break due to COVID, Lesia Sochor, a painter and pysanka artist, returned to campus in April to teach two workshops on traditional Ukrainian pysanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sochor told the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em> that in Ukraine, pysanky is believed to ensure good health, protection, fertility, and abundance. \u201cThe egg itself is really magical in its symbolism. They\u2019re not just appreciated for their beauty but for their belief system and what they mean to the culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think that making eggs this year is so poignant, and I think that so many people want to do all things Ukrainian to feel like they\u2019re helping in any way they can,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAmericans have as many stereotypes about dogs as there are distinct breeds,\u201d writes Katie Shepherd in The Washington Post<\/em>. \u201cChihuahuas are nervous; border collies are hyperactive; golden retrievers are great with children; and, most infamous, some large breeds \u2014 like the American pit bull terrier and Rottweiler \u2014 are aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But a research paper co-authored by Kathleen Morrill \u201915 and published in Science<\/em> suggests those stereotypes may be wrong. \u201cBreed can be important,\u201d Morrill tells Science<\/em><\/a>. \u201cBut it\u2019s not the full picture of a dog\u2019s behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first author of the paper, Morrill is a doctoral student in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass. She majored in biological chemistry at Bates, and did her thesis with Associate Professor of Biology Larissa Williams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The study, which looked at the genes of more than 2,000 dogs paired with 200,000 survey answers from dog owners, shows, according to Science<\/em>, that \u201calmost none of the behaviors we associate with dog breeds \u2014 from lovable Labradors to pugnacious pit bulls \u2014 are hard-wired. Aside from a few ancient traits, environment seems to play a much larger role than pedigree.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n After leaving professional basketball for his lifelong dream of acting, Mike Boornazian got his big break \u2014 depicting former NBA players Rick Barry and Chris Ford, among other characters, on the first season of HBO\u2019s docudrama, Winning Time: the Rise of the Lakers Dynasty<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere was no speaking involved,\u201d Boornazian told CT Insider<\/em>, \u201cbut it gave me a chance to get on the set, learn the ropes from some of the greats in the industry while playing basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boornazian will return for the second season of the show, which is based on the book Showtime<\/em> by Jeff Pearlman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Writing about his work as newly elected chair of the ethics task force for the Council on Foundations, Jamie Merisotis ’86 points to the enduring impact of Benjamin Mays, Class of 1920. Known as the \u201cschoolmaster of movement\u201d for teaching and inspiring a generation of civil rights leaders, Mays was president of Morehouse College and oversaw the peaceful desegregation of Atlanta public schools in the 1970s as president of the school board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDr. Mays\u2019 always-ethical perspective has guided much of my work in higher education, public policy, and philanthropy,\u201d writes Merisotis, who is CEO and president of Lumina Foundation,which focuses on expanding access and success in postsecondary education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Council on Foundations is a nonprofit leadership association of grantmaking foundations and corporations. \u201cWe know the enduring power of ethical leadership in philanthropy. We\u2019re called upon to earn and grow the trust placed in our leadership \u2014 from all communities, our nonprofit partners, and the public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Civil rights activist and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick recently published the children\u2019s book I Color Myself Different, <\/em>a collaboration between Scholastic and Kaepernick’s publishing company, to which Chris Petrella \u201904 contributes as a writer, researcher, and strategist. Petrella has helped devise the curriculum and taught at Kaepernicks\u2019 Know Your Rights camps and, notes The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, is \u201cpart of Kaepernick\u2019s inner circle.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n Petrella is also a Bates lecturer in religious studies who taught the course \u201cReligion, Race, and Resistance: From Black Secularism to Black Power<\/a>\u201d during the winter semester.\u00a0 Professor of Psychology Krista Aronson spoke to Romper<\/em> about how the Diverse BookFinder, which she co-founded in 2017, seeks to discover and elevate books that tell \u201cstories that depict the full expression of humanity, including that within BIPOC communities and the BIPOC experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n During a webinar hosted by UCLA\u2019s disability studies program, Professor of English Ther\u00ed Pickens discussed a subgenre of science fiction known as Afrofuturism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pickens\u2019 most recent book is 2019\u2019s Black Madness: Mad Blackness<\/em><\/a>. A Black disabled woman, Pickens says the book attempts to \u201cdisrupt the idea that Blackness and madness are somehow equal.\u201d The book was influenced by Afrofuturism, which, Pickens says, \u201callows for us to privilege Black folks at the center \u2014 a practice that is rare unless they are the center of controversy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n A $4.3 million restoration project at the last remaining Shaker Village, located in New Gloucester, intends to create a \u201cgleaming educational center intended to provide year-round services to visitors in a building with a working herb production facility,\u201d writes Steve Collins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The project has secured a $750,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Graham \u201994, who is director of the Shaker museum, library, and herb business, will oversee the project. He tells Collins that the project seeks to bring the Shaker Village \u201cback to its roots\u201d by focusing on cultural preservation, social enterprise and experiential programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carolyn Ryan \u201986 has been named a managing editor for The New York Times<\/em>, the paper announced in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The announced noted that Ryan, most recently a deputy managing editor, has “led recruiting for The Times<\/em>, overseeing the hiring of more than 400 journalists, and she helped lead its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Before that, she was the paper\u2019s political editor, Washington bureau chief and metropolitan editor.” The paper noted that “Ms. Ryan will be the first openly gay journalist to serve as managing editor of The Times<\/em>.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Seattle Times<\/em> documented efforts by Rick Thomson \u201981, a retired Microsoft vice president, as he left his houseboat in Seattle for a rented van in Berlin, to help transport refugees fleeing Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thompson told The Seattle Times<\/em> that he \u201cdidn\u2019t spend a whole lot of time thinking about it. It\u2019s the first time in my life that there are really clear good guys and really clear bad guys.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the financial help of a GoFundMe that ended up raising over $85,000, Thompson shuttled individuals and families from the Ukraine\u2013Poland border to safer locations across Europe, sometimes up to 1,000 miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As general manager for Portland Rising, Maine entry in the women\u2019s Premier Ultimate League, Mohdis Baker \u201914 tells the Portland Press Herald<\/em> that \u201cit\u2019s fun to be backstage,\u201d instead of on the field as a player. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Among Portland Rising\u2019s players is former Cold Front standout Josie Gillett \u201919, who was named the Division III Player of the Year in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Bates, Baker played and coached ultimate team, Cold Front, and was a biological chemistry major. \u201cI get to see a different side of the team I didn\u2019t see previously,\u201d Baker said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Long involved in aquaculture along the Damariscotta River in midcoast Maine, Eric Peters \u201987 is now harbormaster for the town of Newcastle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNot that I wanted more work, but I figured it would be an easy fit,\u201d Peters tells Evan Houk of The Lincoln County News<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A harbormaster is just that, someone who ensures that things runs smoothly in a harbor and that everyone, from tourists to oyster farmers, are following rules and regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Owner of Norumbega Oyster Co. with his wife, Kellie, Peters has served on the town\u2019s harbor ordinance committee since it was started in 2006 due to the increase in aquaculture farms and recreational boaters on the Damariscotta River. \u201cThe river\u2019s gotten crowded since I first got on the river in 1999.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his oyster work, Peters tells about \u201cthe development of cage culture\u201d \u2014 oysters are grown on the surface of the water in cages with plastic floats, rather than on the river bottom, where they were harvested by diving or by being dragged to the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of work involved in it,\u201d Peters said of the cage culture. \u201cThere\u2019s pros and cons to both, and we\u2019re doing both here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Kathleen Morrill \u201915 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Looking for a well-behaved dog? Breed may not tell you much \u2013 The Washington Post<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Mike Boornazian \u201916<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Portland\u2019s Mike Boornazian living out dream as an actor \u2014 CT Insider<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Jamie Merisotis ’86 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Earning trust is at the heart of our ethics task force \u2014 The Council on Foundations<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Christopher Petrella \u201904<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Colin Kaepernick says I Color Myself Different <\/em>in his first children’s book \u2014 NPR\u2019s Weekend Edition<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Diverse BookFinder <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Parents Fighting For Diverse Books \u2014 Romper<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Ther\u00ed Pickens, English faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Future of Disability Studies: Afrofuturism, literary criticism, and the intersection of blackness and disability \u2014 FEM Newsmagazine<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Michael Graham ’94<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Sabbathday Shakers seek to grow with new project and new plans \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Carolyn Ryan ’86<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
New York Times names Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan as managing editors \u2014 The New York Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Rick Thompson \u201981 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Ex-Microsoft VP finds new purpose as long-haul shuttle driver for Ukrainians \u2014 The Seattle Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Mohdis Baker ’14 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Women\u2019s Ultimate team Portland Rising opens its home schedule Saturday \u2014 the Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Eric Peters ’87 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Characters of the County: Eric Peters\u2019 life on the water \u2014 The Lincoln County News<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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