Class Note 1986
The last minute notice brought out many replies. Thank you! Space limitations mean the bulk of these will go into the March notes at www.dartmouth86.org. None came from the South Beach Wine Fest in Miami, which ended today, but maybe we’ll get some reports once y’all become unsauced.
Meanwhile I started the weekend at the antithesis of a wine fest: at a grungy DMV. The 16-year-olds who passed their driver tests seemed to enjoy their DMV experience; and the staff is friendlier than 30 years ago. They allow you to re-do bad photos now. Mine took three tries; 46-year-olds need it. Hey, in 13-and-change years we will be 60. Are we middle-aged? Ha! Life expectancy tables say the middle third of life for the average American male started at 25! In less than five years, statistically, we enter the final third (except the Hagermans, who stopped aging at 23). I’m eyeing future wine fests.
So here are two snippets from December and from three who “rushed” to make “noyes”:
Nanny Pope Noyes is excited that her and her husband’s Navy ship is in the Martin Scorcese-directed movie Shutter Island. “My husband drove the 133-foot ship in the movie and is in the credits under marine crew. I just finished a show with Meg Garretson Carter in Virginia. Meg sells fabulous jewelry creations (Meg Carter Designs) and I sell Leontine Linens, made by sweet ladies in Kentucky. My three kids are all away, two in college, Syracuse and St. Lawrence (no love from the Big Green, sadly), and one is a junior at Holderness.”
Keith Noyes is once again a new dad: “Daughter two, Luka Noyes, was born last November, looking amazingly like her older sister Kaya did. We just went on a family ski holiday to Japan and Kaya skied between my legs on some plastic skis the day before her second birthday and 3-month-old Luka took a couple of runs in a front-facing Baby Bjorn. Both look forward to tearing up the Dartmouth Skiway one day.”
Elisa Rush Port rushed to tell me that after 11 years as a cancer surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital she is about to become chief of breast surgery at Mount Sinai Medical in Manhattan. Husband Jeff is a thoracic surgeon who in his “spare time” founded a medical technology company called RF Surgical. “We have two children, Zachary, 11, and Lauren, 9. They are great. Hysterically funny and way too much New York City kids for this San Diego girl.”
John Patterson wrote in late December: “In addition to my day job in interactive advertising at Meredith Corp. I recently published a children’s book, Roberto’s Trip to the Top, and am making movies with my film development company, Arcady Bay Entertainment. Our first film was Bridge to Terabithia in 2007; our current dramatic short, Open Air, is making the festival rounds.”
James McKown wrote: “Five years ago I resigned my law firm partnership to found Recovery Data Connect (RDC). I helped grow RDC to become the nation’s leading subrogation claim identification service and in December Vivious Holdings purchased RDC.” James will continue as the executive vice president for the larger company. He lives in the Kansas City, Kansas, area with wife Meg and sons Cole and Cade.
And Drew Dorweiler is in his 21st year in Montreal. He holds one of my favorite jobs: expert witness. He is also a fraud investigator, commercial arbitrator, hosts a weekly U.K. indie music radio show and is business manager for two prominent U.K. bands: Kav and Exit State. Drew is treasurer of the Libertarian Party of Canada and plays hockey three times weekly.
—Mark Greenstein, 117F Brittany Farms, New Britain, CT 06053; (860) 224-6688; mgreenstein@collegenannies.com
