Class Note 1986

Heath Barker writes, “While I don’t feel like 55 was as big as 50, my two freshman roommates and I finally got together for a girls weekend in N.Y.C., which we had been talking about doing since our 50th. Janet Friday moved to New York City a little more than a year ago for her husband’s job at Goldman Sachs. Becky Coverdale drove in from Falmouth on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and we stayed in Soho near Janet’s apartment in Noho. We went to see Head Over Heels on Broadway (The Go-Go’s musical), which seemed an appropriate way to relive our youth. We had some really cool meals, enjoyed a day at the Metropolitan Museum. It was the first weekend in December, so we got to go to Rockefeller Center, see the tree and the skaters, and watch the light show on the front of Saks Fifth Avenue. It was amazing how easily we closed the gap of so many years during a weekend; when you live with people in college you really become like sisters. Becky has made a major career pivot to become a yoga instructor and life coach. She has her own business bringing yoga and wellness programs into the workplace. Check out alacarteyoga.com. Janet also did a career pivot in New York City, working in telemedicine. We all have a child who is starting junior year in high school this year. I am still in Atlanta, where I continue to work in the excess casualty insurance world as a regional vice president at Gemini, a division of the W.R. Berkley Corp. I want to thank Walter Tsui and the Compassio Committee for getting me the contact information for Elisa Rush at Mount Sinai, as well as the oncologist at Dana Farber. My sister-in-law was able to get in to see one of the top doctors at Dana Farber and the Cleveland Clinic quickly to get second and third opinions on her breast cancer treatment options. She is lucky that she is close enough to Dana Farber to get there for her treatment (albeit a three-and-a-half-hour drive), and the initial results seem to be that the chemo is shrinking her tumors. She has a long road ahead of her, but she is getting the absolute best care. It is so nice to have a network of rock stars like the class of ’86.” Chris Lord shares: “We’re living in San Francisco. Our eldest son is a freshman at Dartmouth and our younger son is a high school junior. I wound down the hedge fund business in 2019 and am a private investor now with a focus on social impact investing. Send companies that do good in the world our way! I have been on the Dartmouth investment committee for three years now and am in my second year as trustee. Happy to answer any and all questions from the great class of 1986.” It is finished in beauty.

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com