Class Note 1986
Issue
Sept - Oct 2016
Reunion weather was perfect, and coordinators Mike McTernan and Sarah Page reported our turnout was just six short of a record. They and their crew did a great organizing job, even to the alternate food selection for those of us creeped out by mollusks (or ex-communicated for chowing on crustaceans) during Saturday’s seafood dinner. If you couldn’t attend, plan on October 2019 for Homecoming, 33 years and four months after graduation. (I call it the “33 1/3”).
So I’ve wanted to engage the brains this way for at least five years. See if you can match 12 names with 12 vocations and avocations—all have been reported by Davida or me during the last five years. (See, this is a memory quiz for 50-somethings.)
The vocations include author (including of cookbooks), college dean, corporate financier, grandparent (two times as of 2013), history teacher, Internet service provider, investment advisor, medical doctor, neuropathologist and gym owner, organic farmer, playwright and sleuth.
The names of classmates include Brian Moore, Burgie Howard, Heid E. Erdrich, Jeff Jones, Kelly Keller, Krista Corr, L.J. Briggs, Lee Merkle Raymond, Melinda Lopez, Peter Gibson, Robert Douglass and Walter Jeffries.
Maybelle Drake takes the mighty ’86 pen for the next five (at least) years. She’s an ever-enthusiastic bright light who will never be short on content. Davida and I have enjoyed this pseudo-work for (collectively) 25 years with y’all. She and I received a long-service award in June, but we want to point out an equally lengthy and dedicated class dynamo: Walter Tsui has built, maintained and shepherded changes to dartmouth86.com for many years. It’s a continual beacon for us and we are grateful for his good work.
My favorite aspect of reunion that we can easily share with all is the enlarged Freshman Book photos that the organizers had adorning our class tent. Small version, circa 1982, is here: dartmouth86.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Dartmouth_86_Freshman_Book.pdf.
Pics are worth a thousand words, so if you haven’t done so recently, add to dartmouth86.com, the realm continually beautified by us. Reunion photos and short video clips from home are welcome, via d86web@gmail.com.
—Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; msg@ivybound.net; Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; davida@ dinerman.com
So I’ve wanted to engage the brains this way for at least five years. See if you can match 12 names with 12 vocations and avocations—all have been reported by Davida or me during the last five years. (See, this is a memory quiz for 50-somethings.)
The vocations include author (including of cookbooks), college dean, corporate financier, grandparent (two times as of 2013), history teacher, Internet service provider, investment advisor, medical doctor, neuropathologist and gym owner, organic farmer, playwright and sleuth.
The names of classmates include Brian Moore, Burgie Howard, Heid E. Erdrich, Jeff Jones, Kelly Keller, Krista Corr, L.J. Briggs, Lee Merkle Raymond, Melinda Lopez, Peter Gibson, Robert Douglass and Walter Jeffries.
Maybelle Drake takes the mighty ’86 pen for the next five (at least) years. She’s an ever-enthusiastic bright light who will never be short on content. Davida and I have enjoyed this pseudo-work for (collectively) 25 years with y’all. She and I received a long-service award in June, but we want to point out an equally lengthy and dedicated class dynamo: Walter Tsui has built, maintained and shepherded changes to dartmouth86.com for many years. It’s a continual beacon for us and we are grateful for his good work.
My favorite aspect of reunion that we can easily share with all is the enlarged Freshman Book photos that the organizers had adorning our class tent. Small version, circa 1982, is here: dartmouth86.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Dartmouth_86_Freshman_Book.pdf.
Pics are worth a thousand words, so if you haven’t done so recently, add to dartmouth86.com, the realm continually beautified by us. Reunion photos and short video clips from home are welcome, via d86web@gmail.com.
—Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; msg@ivybound.net; Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; davida@ dinerman.com