Class Note 1986
Issue
Nov - Dec 2016
The Compassio Committee network of the class of 1986 now numbers 108 people! Enthusiasm has run high since reunion and enrollment continues to grow. Please consider joining if you haven’t already done so: go to dartmouth86.com/compassio to sign up. Current Compassio efforts include sending cards and packages to Andy Gora, whose recovery from Guillain-Barre syndrome is painfully slow, and supporting classmates who are going through a difficult divorce, looking for a job after a period of employment, caring for a chronically ill spouse who is debilitated, helping a son fight cancer and sending condolence cards to classmates who have recently lost parents. Our Compassio efforts are contagious—recently Harry Carrel, Kelly Keller and Lynn Tracy Nerland spoke with two leaders of the class of 1951 who are about to launch “51 Cares” in the mold of our Compassio Committee, mind you, 65 years after they graduated from Dartmouth! Please reach out to Harry, Kelly or Lynn if you or a classmate you know is in need of our compassion.
More of our classmates find themselves back at Dartmouth with their children. Phil Marchal, Janeen Stone, Jack Bocock, Sara Goran Everhart, Erin and Teddy Conway, John Brady, Caroline Diamond Harrison, David Mott and Alicia Macri Lindgren were on campus for Sophomore Summer Parents Weekend. Sue Smith Sambrook, Ellen Stein, Wini and Sam Kinney joined the Dartmouth family ’tails celebration.
Jonno Williams has moved to New York to start his new job as director of admissions for New York University. He writes, “It is great being in the city that never sleeps, and I look forward to catching up with my N.Y.C. Dartmouth classmates, as well.”
Rob Gordon is raising two teens in the Miami area, where, in addition to managing a successful financial advisory business, he is also president of Bots For All, a nonprofit that provides curriculum, counsel and resources to local schools to build self-sustaining robotics and tinkering programs. Bots For All also provides employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for talented individuals in tech education and leadership. Those interested in becoming involved or supporting Rob’s efforts can find more information at Botsforall.org.
Steve Soble is the owner of Burnt City Brewing in Chicago. For the last 27 years he has opened 18 different restaurant businesses while preserving great Chicago buildings, including renovating an old Russian Turkish bathhouse into apartments and a restaurant. Back in the day the bathhouse was a place where politicians would feel comfortable meeting since no one could wear a wire. He also renovated the Harvard School into condos and built his own home there in what had been the high school gym. Since he could not bear living in the Harvard Condo Association, he created a separate Dartmouth Condo Association. Steve and his wife, Kendall, are now empty nesters. Their son, Matthew, works for a startup in N.Y.C. while their daughter, Isabel, is a rising senior studying art at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. He and his wife just celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary while in Hanover for the 30th reunion.
—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com
More of our classmates find themselves back at Dartmouth with their children. Phil Marchal, Janeen Stone, Jack Bocock, Sara Goran Everhart, Erin and Teddy Conway, John Brady, Caroline Diamond Harrison, David Mott and Alicia Macri Lindgren were on campus for Sophomore Summer Parents Weekend. Sue Smith Sambrook, Ellen Stein, Wini and Sam Kinney joined the Dartmouth family ’tails celebration.
Jonno Williams has moved to New York to start his new job as director of admissions for New York University. He writes, “It is great being in the city that never sleeps, and I look forward to catching up with my N.Y.C. Dartmouth classmates, as well.”
Rob Gordon is raising two teens in the Miami area, where, in addition to managing a successful financial advisory business, he is also president of Bots For All, a nonprofit that provides curriculum, counsel and resources to local schools to build self-sustaining robotics and tinkering programs. Bots For All also provides employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for talented individuals in tech education and leadership. Those interested in becoming involved or supporting Rob’s efforts can find more information at Botsforall.org.
Steve Soble is the owner of Burnt City Brewing in Chicago. For the last 27 years he has opened 18 different restaurant businesses while preserving great Chicago buildings, including renovating an old Russian Turkish bathhouse into apartments and a restaurant. Back in the day the bathhouse was a place where politicians would feel comfortable meeting since no one could wear a wire. He also renovated the Harvard School into condos and built his own home there in what had been the high school gym. Since he could not bear living in the Harvard Condo Association, he created a separate Dartmouth Condo Association. Steve and his wife, Kendall, are now empty nesters. Their son, Matthew, works for a startup in N.Y.C. while their daughter, Isabel, is a rising senior studying art at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. He and his wife just celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary while in Hanover for the 30th reunion.
—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com