First, a message from our new class president, Kendall Burney Wilson: “More than 400 classmates gathered in Hanover in June for reminiscing, reflecting and even reliving our college days. A heartfelt thank you to Geoff Parker and the amazing reunion team for the countless hours they spent planning and executing a phenomenal weekend. Here’s a full listing of our class officers: president: Kendall Burney Wilson; VP, mini-reunions, Krista Thomas Corr; VP, special projects: Jenny Plath; secretaries Davida Dinerman and Mark Greenstein; treasurer, Andrea Lordan; webmaster, Walter Tsui; representative for Dartmouth Partners in Community Service, Chip Fleischer; representative to the Alumni Council, Gary Greene; compassio committee chair, Harry Carrel; members at large, Patrick Donovan, Mark Gies, Jim Kallman, Liz McClintock, Scott Rabschnuk, Bill Ruhl and Stephen Von Oehsen.


“There are many ways to stay in touch with classmates. Our class website is www.dartmouth86.com, and we have an active Facebook page, Dartmouth 1986. Thanks to Walter, you can offer your input on or even become involved in everything our class executive committee is organizing. You can send pictures to our website by sending them to d86web@gmail.com or posting them on Facebook.”


We are publishing a reunion book supplement for people who forgot to submit to the original book. Find a template and instructions on how to submit at www.dartmouth86.com. You may also submit any correction to the original book. 


Help! We need a class newsletter editor to take over for John Marchiony, who dedicated many years to creating a fabulous newsletter for us! The College has an entire staff of people ready to help the newsletter editor, including a newsletter intern. Interested? Contact d86web@gmail.com.


Inspired by the 25th reunion’s moving memorial service, Harry Carrel, Kelly Keller and Alex Rossides have formed a new committee called the Compassio Committee of the Class of ’86 (“compassio” is Latin for compassion). The committee will focus on caring for classmates who are seriously ill or have a spouse or child who is seriously ill. It will reach out to the affected classmate in a caring way, offering comfort and compassion. It will serve as a network for our classmates who need support the most. If you are interested in joining the committee, please contact Harry Carrel at hjcarrel@optonline.net. Harry, Kelly and Alex welcome more classmates to the committee. 


From the e-mail bag: Across the pond Todd Beane has been appointed to head of Johan Cruyff Football Ltd. and is in Johannesburg implementing a professional soccer academy for the Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club of South Africa. And Sam Lardner brought his oceans alive program from Barcelona, Spain, to Barrington, Rhode Island, in mid-September to support Save the Bay. David Schnabel sent in some happy news that on September 9 James Minter (David’s partner of 21 years) and he got married. “We’re thrilled by the passage of the marriage equality law in New York. We met on September 9, 1990; registered as N.Y.C. domestic partners on September 9, 1996; and had a commitment ceremony on September 9, 2000. The wedding took place in the Shakespeare Garden of New York City’s Central Park.” David is closing in on 16 years at the National Association of Episcopal Schools, where he handles communications and events.


By August 15 John Marchiony will have ridden in his sixth Pan-Mass Challenge. John said, “Walter Tsui also has ridden five or six times though I’ve never seen him during the ride!” On August 5, Kendall Burney Wilson wrote, “It is literally 110 degrees here, and all of us from Dallas are seriously considering relocation, at least for all future summers.” At the end of August she took her oldest daughter, Lauren, to Emerson College for her first year.


—Davida (Sherman) Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 117F Brittany Farms, New Britain, CT 06053; (860) 224-6688; msg@ivybound.net