Class Note 1986
Plan on attending this year’s Homecoming October 11-12 to celebrate our collective 55th birthday! Celebrate as we walk in the parade Friday night and attend the tailgate, then the game together on Saturday. Davida Sherman Dinerman writes, “I am still in the tech public relations industry, but last April, after 21 years with the same firm, I moved back to small-agency life. I am still playing tennis competitively and doing a lot of volunteer work in Ashland, Massachusetts. Our son, Ari (18), is a fantastic student and has developed into a great wrestler. We are waiting to hear from colleges. My daughter, Abby (21), is a junior at the University of Rhode Island, majoring in health sciences, and wants to be a pediatric nurse. My husband, Brad, is in his 10th year as an information technology consultant and an amateur birder and photographer.” Andy Gutow shares, “In my unending quest to prevent the starvation of undergraduates, I took a few students and ’86 offspring to dinner at the Hanover Inn when at the College in February.” Joining Andy were Sarah Hutchinson ’22, Matt Gutow, Mary Hughes (Jerry Hughes ’88), Maria Goldman ’22 (John Goldman), Zach Wang ’20, Dan Lein ’19, and Emma Kallman ’22 (James Kallman). There was more snow on the ground than at home in Los Altos, California, and no alcohol was consumed on college property by underage individuals.” Jeanne Morriello Clark shares a vivid memory from our Sophomore Summer: “I was living on the bottom floor of Woodward my Sophomore Summer. It was hot and, of course, there was no air conditioning, so I slept with my windows open. I planned to sleep in on Saturday morning, but I awoke to something very unexpected. I heard music, loud and clear. It was not the type of music college students played. The lyrics I heard? ‘If you go out in the woods today, You’re sure of a big surprise, If you go out in the woods today, You’d better go in disguise…Today’s the day the teddy bears have their picnic.’ Outside my window was a parade of parents and kids (and teddy bears) on their way to the Bema for a teddy bear picnic!” Jim Lynch shares his Sophomore Summer memory: “Organic chemistry with Professor Shafer; it was planned to be four days a week at 8 a.m. (hard enough for Sophomore Summer), but on Day 1, Professor Shafer told us we would meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 7:45 a.m. He was a very good teacher. Many late nights of foosball at Alpha Theta.” Kathleen Bacon writes, “I am ‘hanging up my heels’ this June after 25 years at HarbourVest Partners based in London. The plan is to learn how to do nothing and travel a lot. Travels include bike riding in Isle of Wight, England; family time in Nantucket, Massachusetts; and sightseeing in Portugal and then Japan for four weeks following the English rugby team around for the pool matches of the Rugby World Cup. That all takes place between July and October. I am looking for more ideas for the last few months of 2019!”
—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com
