Class Note 1986

This is the last article before our 25th reunion. In fact, you might be there now, and if you are, I hope you are having fun. Many people offered tidbits from their reunion page as scoop for this column. Without giving away the farm, here are some highlights: Robert Munafo is an independent researcher living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been married to Rick for three years, is learning Japanese and gave a talk at Rutgers on “hitherto-unseen complexity in the pattern-forming behavior of the Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system.” Robert once worked as a chimney sweep. Of this experience he said, “…the views were great, the weather not-so.” Debbie Kohl Schwartz lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She and her husband, Sam, are raising two girls and a boy, ages 15, 12 and 8. She splits her time between staying home with her kids, doing part-time marketing consulting, volunteering for a national breast cancer nonprofit and captaining (and playing in) several tennis teams. She plans to attend all the grand slam tennis tournaments during the next 10 years.


Anne Hayes lives in Bedford, Massachusetts, with her husband, Michael, and their three children, Cassi (15), Meaghan (13) and Mikey (10). She serves as treasurer/secretary for Finalta Inc., a pro bono consulting for nonprofits through Harvard Business School Community Action Partners. Anne enjoys sculling (when her shoulder cooperates), rollerblading and gardening.


Stewart Pierson is finishing his 12th year teaching at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. This summer he, his wife and their four kids (ages 6 to 11) are moving to Phoenix, Arizona, to get a taste of the Southwest, where they’ll both teach at the Phoenix Country Day School.


Jim Citron wrote from Mexico that he is directing a program called the Inter-American Partnership for Education, a partnership between Worldfund (founded by Luanne Zurlo ’87) and the Rassias Center at Dartmouth, to prepare English teachers who work in Mexican public schools. Jim divides his time between Hanover and various parts of Mexico.


Malcolm McIver brought his wife, Rico, and their daughters Abby (12) and Bridget (10) to reunion. It will be the first leg in a round-the-world trip for them. After reunion they’ll head to London for nine days and then fly to Japan for the annual visit to Rico’s parents.


And if you don’t already know, congratulations and best wishes to Sam Kinney and Winnie Welch, who are engaged!


9 Sanders took an eclectic vacation with four teenagers in Phoenix, including a Lady Gaga concert, desert camping, shooting, boating, lizard catching and snake hunting.


After graduation Rod Yearwood moved back to New York, landed in an underwriting management training program for a large insurance company in N.Y.C. and met and married a lovely lady named Terri. They have two children, Ajia (16) and Roddy (14). In 1995 Rod moved his family to Lynchburg, Virginia, to work at GE Financial, now Genworth Financial, where they have lived ever since.


Dan Driscoll appeared in the April 22 issue of The Boston Globe titled, “A young burn victim’s journey.” A physician at Shriner’s Hospital for Children in Boston, Dan performed an extremely delicate five-hour surgery to help save the life of a 9-year-old boy sent from the Democratic Republic of Congo who was living with extreme deformities from electrical burns for nearly three years.


At the end of May Andrea Lordan completed a one-year M.Ed. early childhood program between Buckingham Browne & Nichols and Lesley College, where she was in classrooms during the day and then classes on weekends and nights.


—Davida (Sherman) Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 117F Brittany Farms, New Britain, CT 06053; (860) 224-6688; msg@ivybound.net