Class Note 1986
Jan - Feb 2018
I always have news from our classmates, but there’s something special about the ones who have found and married the loves of their lives. I am beyond thrilled that I have several to share. After 25 years together, Susan Wayne married her partner. Mindy Meade DeStefano and her husband, Greg, generously hosted the celebration at their home in Evanston, Illinois. In attendance were Lucy Mathews Heegaard and Cece Conway Browne. Susan lives in San Francisco. Bonnie (Austin) Cluxton writes, “On September 2 I married the man of my dreams in my home town of Rutland, Vermont. It took 53 years, but it was well worth the wait. My new husband, David, recently retired from the Army JAG Corp. He is the kindest, most generous man I’ve ever known. My new stepdaughter, Katherine, is a junior at UConn. Following in her dad’s and late mom’s military service footsteps, she is on her way to becoming an Army nurse. I have truly won the lottery of life. I’ve given David and Katherine a tour of Dartmouth and we will likely visit frequently when David and I eventually settle in the Vermont area a few years down the road.” Jen Brown and John are newlyweds with just one year of marriage. She writes, “Last November we traveled to Belize where we hiked, biked and went scuba diving near a school of eagle rays. In May we traveled to Germany to sing with the ‘all-European’ (plus one New Yorker) House of Worship Choir. What a blast! We learned 13 a cappella choral pieces in four days in seven different languages! The French, Spanish and German were a breeze, all thanks to Dartmouth!” Jim Citron married Laura González in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where 10 Dartmouth alums, spanning six decades, were present, including Helen Kang Martínez ’06, Tim Rumberger, Alejandro Martínez ’07, Bob Delise ’92, Mary Bourque ’87, Jeffrey Wheeler ’66, my father John Citron ’57, Carl Pedersen ’73 and John Wolff ’46 (who was my Dartmouth alumni interviewer in 1981 and was featured in the March/April 2017 DAM article, “Wisdom of the Sages: Four nonagenarians and one octogenarian serve up more than 450 years of insight into this thing called life”). Although Laura is not a Dartmouth alum, we met through her participation in the summer program at Dartmouth that I direct for public school teachers from Mexico under the auspices of Worldfund and Dartmouth’s Rassias Center. Laura and I are currently in Mexico City.” David Kotz completed his ADK46, by climbing all 46 peaks in the Adirondacks with elevation over 4,000 feet; 45 years after starting the effort. Laura (Lindner) and Kevin Sankey have a daughter, Logan ’20, who is a ski jumper and is training and competing summer through winter. She is bunking up with Jory ’85 and Martha (Cornell) Macomber in Park City, Utah, this fall. Susan Goran Everhard is looking for Elle Jackson, Liz Babb Fanlo asked about Meg Hall, and Mike Rich would like to connect with Bill Park.
—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com