The class of ’86 Dartmouth 30th-year reunion is coming! The theme will be “Green takes 30 years off you.” Mark June 16-19, 2016, in your calendars! We might have a “first ever” this month; two people sent in the same news and included the other. One said, “I had a coincident encounter with another ’86 this summer so I just have to mention it.” The other said, “I have something cool to share.” These classmates, both computer science majors who did not know one another while at Dartmouth, are Susan McCormack and David Kotz. Their families went on a Dartmouth alumni travel safari to Tanzania in the summer. As David described it: “On our way to the first campsite, in Tarangire National Park, the guide mentioned that we were going to be sharing the first site with a group from Dortmund University.”

“That’s in Germany, right?” I said.

“No, USA: Dartmund University.”

Uh-oh. No way. “You mean Dartmouth?” I queried.

“Yes, that’s it! Dartmouth University!” he said.

They pulled into camp and met a Dartmouth alumni travel group with two professors and 12 other participants, including Susan and her family. Susan’s daughters were assigned pen pals from a local elementary school before the trip and were able to visit with them while we were there. David and Susan agreed that it was a magical tour. Susan might have said, “Dr. Kotz, I presume?” As this might have been more coincidental than early African explorer Stanley finding the thought-to-be-lost explorer Livingstone 144 years ago in modern day Tanzania! The past year was busy on the Dartmouth front for Mike Collins. He and several hundred Dartmouth alums have created a venture fund investing exclusively in Dartmouth-connected companies called the Green D Fund (www.thegreendfund.com). Said Mike, “It’s been a blast supporting alums building new companies with big ambitions—from curing cancer to rolling out a national chain of heroin addiction clinics to helping run fantasy football leagues.” Thanks to Lanie McNulty for tipping me off to some great news about Elisa Rush Port, chief of breast surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center and codirector of the Dubin Breast Center in Manhattan. Motivated by the challenges a woman can have when first diagnosed with breast cancer and trying to navigate an overwhelming amount of information, Elisa wrote a definitive guide to the screening, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of breast cancer specific to each patient. The book is titled The New Generation Breast Cancer Book and was released on September 22. You can find it on Amazon and www.randomhouse.com.au/books/elisa-dr-port/the-new-generation-breast-ca…. Greg Labate,his wife and their two teenage children spent two weeks this summer traveling to Istanbul, where they visited one of his son’s soccer teammates, a high school exchange student. They also stopped off for a few days to go scuba diving in Malta and to visit the magnificent Azure Window on the nearby island of Gozo. This summer Bonnie Austin escaped the Washington, D.C., heat and spent a couple of weeks in Vermont and New Hampshire. In addition to passing through the Dartmouth campus, she enjoyed visiting with Wini and Sam Kinney at their beautiful home in Lyme, New Hampshire. Congratulations to Andrew Getraer’s twin boys Alec and Benjy, who entered their freshman year at Princeton in September. In August Matthew Weatherly-White and his firm Caprock Group, were profiled in the Idaho Statesmen for the company’s success in impact investing, an approach that focuses on supporting social and environmental improvement. This includes such areas as early education, equality in women’s issues, the environment, access to resources and food systems and general economic opportunity. Matthew said, “I am incredibly grateful to be inspired and enthusiastic about the work I get to do every day.”

—Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; (860) 666-7715; msg@ivybound.net