Class Note 1986

While on a flight from Boston to L.A., I sat next to a lovely woman returning home from visiting a college in New Hampshire with her husband and daughter. I asked, “By chance would that be Dartmouth? I am an ’86!” She smiled and said yes. Thus began a spirited, three-hour conversation that further convinced them that Dartmouth was the right choice. Speaking of getting accepted to college, Gary Greene, Andrea and Hugh O’Reilly, Michael Rockefeller, Debra McCollum, Geoff Parker and Mary Finegan have children heading to Dartmouth in the fall. Wini Kinney’s son will be heading to Stanford. On the flip side…“At this moment in mid-life when most of you are shipping your kids off to college, or even becoming grandparents, my wife and I have just had our first child,” said Neil Maher. “Riggs Anders Maher was born on January 10, coming in at 8 pounds, 21.5 inches. Mother (Stacy Ciaravella) and baby are great, and we’re loving it. When this little guy finally finishes college I will be 70 years old! Can you say ‘delayed retirement’?” Janie Gentry Bates wrote: “I have taken the leap and stepped out into the world of consulting. My expertise is strategic marketing consulting for medical device companies. It has been an intriguing, fun and welcome change from my corporate chief marketing officer position. I have a 17-year-old and a 15-year-old, and working from home means I now know a lot more about what rocks their worlds—and what doesn’t. I am in Memphis, Tennessee, and in my last position had the absolute pleasure of working with Erin Reynolds ’82. Two redheaded Dartmouth grads—in Memphis—in the same company. The world isn’t so large after all.” Chandler Lindsley lives in McKinney, Texas, with her husband, Larry, son Hays (13) and daughter Swiler (11). She is still practicing veterinary medicine, running her family ranch, raising purebred Murray Grey cattle and supplying the Dallas metroplex with naturally raised, grass-fed beef. “We are nursing an infant pecan orchard, selling honey from our bees and eggs from our chickens and giving away excess produce to anyone who will take them! Would love to be in touch with any classmates who are foodies or who might be into small-scale farming.” Andrew Getraer reports: “My wife, Jean Robertson ’89, and I are still in New Jersey, where I have been executive director of Rutgers University Hillel for 12 years. Sandy (19) is studying in Israel and will enter the Israeli Defense Forces this summer. Alec and Benjy are juniors in high school. This summer they are planning a three-week, 161-mile hike across the New Hampshire section of the Appalachian Trail. Daughter Lindsay is in seventh grade and performed in a production of High School Musical; Sarah is ripping it up in fourth grade and playing basketball and baseball.” J. Robert Renner lives in Manhattan Beach, California, with his wife, Tian, and their daughter Sophie (4). Robert is a lawyer and a partner with an L.A. law firm that focuses on commercial, insurance coverage and Internet protocol litigation. John Paterson supplements his “day job” in digital healthcare marketing by co-producing feature films through his family-owned development company, Arcady Bay Entertainment. This spring saw the release of Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, a documentary telling how one of the world’s most iconic rock bands found their spectacular new lead singer, Arnel Pineda—a formerly homeless and penniless Filipino cover-band singer they discovered on YouTube. Next year they will release their next family film, The Great Gilly Hopkins, starring Kathy Bates and Danny Glover.


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