{"id":48428,"date":"2011-09-02T18:31:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T22:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48428"},"modified":"2015-06-26T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:59:21","slug":"boston-globe-david-aschauer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/09\/02\/boston-globe-david-aschauer\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe explores the life of David Aschauer; services set for Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a touching and insightful story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/other_sports\/running\/articles\/2011\/09\/02\/when_the_fit_dont_survive\/\"><em>The Boston Glob<\/em>e<\/a> explores the unexpected death of Bates economics professor David Aschauer, who was &#8220;fit, trim, full of   energy and a subtle advocate of health through fitness,&#8221; writes reporter Kevin Paul Dupont, yet who collapsed and died during the swimming portion of a triathlon in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Funeral and celebration of David Aschauer&#8217;s life: 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allsaintsmaine.com\/churches\/st-john-baptist\/\">St. John the Baptist Church<\/a>, 39 Pleasant St., Brunswick. At his family&#8217;s request, Bates College will join the family in hosting a reception at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave., following the funeral, beginning at 12:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2011\/08\/25\/aschauer-death-announcement\/\">Bates announcement of the passing of David Aschauer<\/a><em>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>While reporter Kevin Paul Dupont cites studies to explain that sudden death, usually by heart failure, of fit athletes is rare but not unheard of, the story mostly focuses on Aschauer&#8217;s intense desire for self-improvement during his lifetime, with his daughter, Erika Rodrigue, and his Bates colleague Dennis Browne speaking to Aschauer&#8217;s great intellectual and physical vigor. (A specific cause of death has not been determined for Aschauer.) <a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/aschauer6163.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/aschauer6163-400x266.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"David Aschauer\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He  just loved the challenges. He always wanted to get better,&#8221; said Dennis Browne, Bates associate professor of Russian.<\/p>\n<p>Browne  twice partnered with Aschauer on Bates Fall Semester Abroad trips to St. Petersburg,  Russia. \u201cIn a situation liked that, I\u2019m designated the lead professor,\u2019\u2019 said Browne. \u201cBut David was so proficient in Russian, it didn\u2019t feel  that way at all. It was just so impressive, how he mastered it. He said to me a couple of times, \u2018You know, Dennis, I probably worked as hard  or harder to learn Russian as I did to get my Ph.D. in economics.\u2019 I bet  he did. And he was brilliant in economics.\u2019\u2019<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/other_sports\/running\/articles\/2011\/09\/02\/when_the_fit_dont_survive\/\"> View story in <em>The Boston Globe<\/em>, Sept. 1, 2011. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a touching and insightful story, The Boston Globe explores the unexpected&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":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":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3117],"class_list":["post-48428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86251,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48428\/revisions\/86251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}