Class Note 1986
We begin in the Southeast. Nancy Wallace is an appellate lawyer in Tallahassee, Florida. Her daughter Carla is eight months away from being a full-fledged pharmacist. Nancy spends much of her non-lawyering time “chasing around my 7-year-old son and 4-year-old grandson.”
Malcolm McIver helped the ’86 crew alumni raise $45,000 to buy new coaching launch boats for the freshman women’s and men’s squads. The class of 1986 boats are “wakeless,” meaning they don’t produce the waves that cause nearby crew boats to tip or take on water. This will allow crew coaches to yell at young ’shmen from up close.
Virginia Rhoads writes “My husband, John McConnell, and I returned from the Amazon jungle in Ecuador where we, along with a group of our clients, experienced living on nature’s timing, breathing oxygen-rich clean air and learning to listen to our hearts from an indigenous tribe—the Achuar—custodians of the rainforest.”
Mary Frances Sabo is an attorney with three children. She writes from Albany, New York, “I make my world better by being active in my youngest child’s elementary school. Last week I organized a fall festival with crafts, a bounce house, games and a bake sale. The focus was on creating a fun time for the community and not raising money so we kept the prices pretty low.”
Paul Shippee reports that Kai Wesley Shippee, born in May, is doing great. “He has a big toothless smile and likes to go jogging with me and his mother in our new baby jogger (yes, we ’86s should keep in shape!).” Paul is in Japan, working as country manager for Life Fitness Japan (equipment supplier to commercial fitness clubs, universities, medical clinics and hotels). “My wife, Mitsu, and I are avid triathletes; she’s gone to the world championships twice as a competitor. I get back a couple of times each year to New Hampshire and Maine, where we spend time at our lake house.”
Krista Corr has been an FBI agent in Boston since 1989, helping keep New Englanders safe. She is just as passionate about keeping New Englanders in touch, via a six-member cooking club, and it’s worth sharing: “We meet monthly at one of our homes for dinner. The month’s host is responsible for cooking the main course and any sides. Another makes the appetizer and a third makes the dessert. The other three each bring a bottle of wine. The big rule is that you cannot cook something that you have ever made before, so we all act as guinea pigs for each other. Each provides the recipes to the other members. Thus far, I have filled two large notebooks with ‘keeper’ recipes!” As mini-reunion chair, Krista would especially like to hear of your setting up a cooking club (or dining-out club) with classmates. “I’ll be counting it as a mini-reunion!”
My mini-reunion was with L.J. Briggs, who practices internal medicine in Farmington, Connecticut. He and his wife host a fishing festival for kids each July. He is another triathlete, whose exploits in triathlon training and competing scare me. I am convinced that I if I try, I will drown on the first leg. (One of his fish-fest girls will scoop me up in her netting).
But I will improve my land speed. I purchased from Matthew Weatherley-White a consumer Restwise, the world’s first non-invasive fatigue monitoring system. Matthew designed it to help athletes optimize results from their exercise. He writes, “The Dartmouth Peak Performance Center became the first collegiate client of my ‘hobby’ business. Even more importantly, we finally had a baby. Took a while, but Larken is dedicated to melting her father’s cold heart.”
—Mark Greenstein, 12H Talcott Forest, Farmington CT 06032; msg@ivybound.net; Davida (Sherman) Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com
