Happy spring, as I write this on Christmas Eve Day. Todd Beane is directing John Cruyff Football in Barcelona, Spain, working with professional youth academies at AJAX, Melbourne, Pretoria. “I want to bring expertise to many youngsters so we will launch a totaal voetbal (TOVO) app in a few months to help develop young soccer players around the world,” said Todd. Scott Jaynes reported that he started a new job in January as a research and development manager at Croda Inc., a specialty chemical company in Edison, New Jersey. He is still living in New City, New York, with his wife and four boys, ages 17 to 6. Dan Kollmorgen wrote in: “My wife, Karen, and I recently celebrated our 22nd anniversary. We are enjoying a little more time together these days after sending our first, Kellen, to college in August. He is a freshman at Montana State University and is on the football team. I’ve tried to convince Karen that good parents would have a condo in nearby Big Sky resort—negotiations are ongoing! Our youngest, Anna, is a high school junior and busy with soccer, basketball and classes. I am now serving as the chairman of surgery at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, where I also teach surgical residents and act as medical director of the cancer center. The scope of cancers I treat ranges from breast and melanoma to liver and pancreas. Lots of sad, difficult and complex cases are balanced with the hope provided by new developments in cancer care and treatment.” John C. Hueston of Irell & Manella LLP was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in America. Last year he played a major role in winning the Tronox Trust v. Kerry/McKee case, which was called the largest environmental fraud case ever. Dan Katzir, a leading expert in public education reform, is a coeditor of The Redesign of Urban School Systems: Case Studies in District Governance (Center for Reform of School Systems and Harvard Education Press). The book offers original case studies that examine real public school boards struggling to enact major reforms in their districts. Dan said that he also serves on the Rockefeller Center board so he gets to Hanover twice a year. The news in the Jeff House house is that twin daughters are new members of the Dartmouth class of 2018. Jeff is also excited to be able to get back to Hanover on a more frequent basis. Jeff is working hard at his own consulting firm to be able to pay for college. Chris Demos Brown performed in his play, Fear Up Harsh, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami in November. It’s about a medal-of-honor winner who is confronted with some disturbing facts about the events that earned him the award and, more generally, about how awards corrupt those who give them and those who get them. The play was nominated for a Steinberg Award, a very prestigious playwriting award given by the American Theatre Critics Association, and was just chosen the top drama of the 2013 South Florida theater season by the Miami New Times. Heid Erdrich reported a visit from Maebelle Drake Hueston, who “whomped up” some Navajo tacos at Heid’s sister Angie’s (’87, DMS’94) house in Minneapolis. Heid’s newest book, titled Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes from the Upper Midwest, came out last year from Minnesota Historical Society Press. 


Also, seen on Facebook: Bill Rodgers said, “I am happy to share that my daughter will be a member of Columbia’s class of 2018.” I can also report that Bill serves on the U.S. board of directors for United Way Worldwide.


Erik Roskes is “very proud of my daughter’s early-decision acceptance to Johns Hopkins, class of 2018, where she joins her brother, class of 2014.”


—Davida (Sherman) Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; msg@ivybound.net