During the summer, Debbie Weitzman was in New England from Puerto Rico to drop her kids at camp in Connecticut and Massachusetts. While here she saw Nancy (Stein) Woolf to catch up on the kids and extended family. Mabelle and John Hueston gave Lisa Richardson a taste of a Hueston vacation in London, which involved adventure, running, quick meals and potty breaks. Mae and John continued their journey with a trip to Ireland with their four kids. “What beauty, and a great way for our family to spend our time together,” said Mae. “One stop was to our third child’s namesake, Kinsale. We then spent the next nine days on a coast-to-coast hiking trip.” Dan Kollmorgen let me know that the class of ’86 freshman crew has reconnected as a group and took a South Dakota pheasant hunt this fall. If you are interested in reading the book about the 11 members of the team, Working in Sync, you can find it at http://workinginsyncbook.com. Julie Mannes reflects, “Having kids at Dartmouth gives me a good excuse to get up to Hanover more often.” I met up with Sharon Belanger Showalter for lunch a few months ago. It is always great to see her and catch up.” Mary Morgan Finegan’s daughter Morgan started as a freshman at Dartmouth this fall. 9 Sanders is proud of her youngest daughter, Laura (14), who completed six weeks of U.S. Army Cadet Ranger School at Forest Hill Station, Kentucky, where she was the only female graduate and was voted “most hardcore.” Laura is in high school at the New Mexico Military Institute. Also in the proud parent category, Kirk LeCompte’s son Adam swept all three individual diving titles for 13-year-old boys at the 2013 Amateur Athletic Union Diving National Championships in San Antonio, Texas, in late July. He took first place in 1-meter, 3-meter and tower events. Alex Lloyd’s eldest child, Bronwyn, will be attending Dartmouth this fall as a member of the class of 2017. Bronwyn has spent most of her life outside the United States, first in the United Kingdom and for the last eight years in Hong Kong. She graduated from the Hong Kong International School this summer. Alex’s son Michael is starting as a high school freshman this year with high hopes of being able to follow his sister to Dartmouth in four years time. “We continue to live in Hong Kong while dreaming of retiring to Vermont.” After 16 years in the city Dennis McCooe moved his family to the Philly ’burbs last summer.” They retraced freshman trips in late July with a three-day hike through the Presidentials and swimming in the Gale River. It was nice to hear from Anne (Honan) Stabnick: “After being at home for 13 years with my children, doing my most significant work, I have returned to the paid workforce. A couple of years ago I started a soup business out of my home—making a few soups a day, with orders for soup, salad and bread ready for pick-up starting late afternoon. I realized that the planning and marketing piece was most fun and chopping onions all morning was not. I was lucky to land a short consulting project with Hasbro, where I’d worked more than 15 years ago. With an updated resume, I found a marketing consulting job with Panera Bread and love it! I know there are probably many classmates who’ve been at home, but with children now going off to college (my oldest, Emily, is off to Colgate) are thinking about rejoining the paid workforce. It’s daunting, but do-able.”


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