Return to 35 years ago: 1981 was when most of us “discovered” Dartmouth. Whether in catalogs depicting smiling students on the lush lawn, notices of Dartmouth’s athletic prowess by its many NCAA teams (most for a college of its size), a winter visit whereby we discovered the College had its own ski area(!), a spring visit where we saw those engaging catalog pics were true or a summer visit where we witnessed students in bathing suits pretending to be studying on the Connecticut River docks, we were compelled to apply. Dartmouth undergrads in 1981 were 34 percent women and only 29 percent from outside the Northeast. Some of us ventured to see the campus without our parents escorting us; some of us found our way to weekend parties. Most took the staid parent and student and gregarious student guide tour. At least one of those tour guides (mine) is an esteemed surgeon now, and tour guides circa 2016 are especially accomplished, even though Dartmouth has less need to sell itself than any other Ivy League campus.

Mary Frances (Spatola) Sabo has brought all three of her children to Hanover. She lives near Albany, in North Greenbush, New York, and works as an attorney for the New York State Department of Financial Services, dealing with health insurance. “I make my world better by encouraging my kids to contribute to their communities. I’ve organized a bunch of girls from my daughter’s school to prepare lunch at a homeless shelter and I drive both daughters to volunteer with developmentally disabled children several times a month.” Her children are Adam (18), Maria (16) and Nadia (14). Her freshman year buddy Richard Thorner is in Manchester, New Hampshire, a law partner at Wadleigh, Starr & Peters. Richard and his wife, Anne, now have a lovely, bubbly (I met her) 8-year-old daughter. Richard is an antiques dealer on the side, specializing in old books.

My freshman roomie Sam Hartwell is “out of Africa” but still helping African development from San Francisco as CFO of KickStart International. Sam was recently selected by the San Francisco Business Times as a finalist for the Nonprofit CFO of the Year Award (who knew!). My most interesting ’86 acquaintance from freshman year, Matthew Weatherly-White, inventor, cerebral oarsman and Pyrenees adventurer, wrote last summer. “Our PR consultant (Kiki Keating, who ran PR for Tuck for 15 years and who still lives in Hanover) encouraged me to forward a profile done on me for Wealth Management magazine: wealthmanagement.com/people/ten-watch-2016-matthew-weatherley-white.”

Matthew discusses his vision for the future of the capital markets and “the most powerful investment trend you probably have never heard of”—impact investing—in his blog i3impact.com.

Finally, my freshman floor-mate (Hitchcock, top floor) Nancy Stein-Woolf is nearly an empty-nester, with her third child about to head to college. Nancy is completing her third and final year as our ’86 Alumni Council rep. She has been a force for Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS). She is the post-graduate committee chair and will continue in the role to get Dartmouth grads into meaningful community projects following graduation. Thanks to the good work and good descriptions of the work to come from her and Chip Fleischer, the class of 1986 executive council voted to sponsor a DPCS endowment that directs many projects for recent grads to take advantage of. Class president Kendall Wilson vetted DPCS and other competing projects admirably, and the council vote was unanimous.

—Mark Greenstein, 1106 Fienemann Road, Newington, CT 06111; msg@ivybound.net; Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; davida@dinerman.com