First, I’d like to thank Liz Babb for using her valuable skills, a lot of time, and hard work to improve our class communication tools. Because of her efforts, we now have an up-to-date class website (1986.dartmouth.org), a larger Facebook public group (www.facebook.com/groups/dart1986), an awesome digital May newsletter (also on the class website), and the amazing class Zoom calls. It is always so wonderful to see all your faces, as we catch up or talk about issues that concern us all in this stage of our lives and prepare to meet back on campus in 2021. John Hueston and I are thrilled to co-chair our 35th ’86 class reunion—“It’s So Easy Being Green”—from June 17-20, 2021. Thanks to Todd Gomez, Jayne Daigle Jones, Liz Babb, Jonathan Skurnik, Laura Gillespie, Dawn Carey, Harry Carrel, Kelly Keller, Lynn Tracy Nerland, Jonno Williams, Ned Groves, Alex Rossides, Mike Moody, Liz McClintock, and Burgie Howard for agreeing to join the reunion committee. (Reunion updates post to website.) Please catch Bill Rodgers’ commentary, “Black Americans Have No Choice but to Protest,” published by Barron’s on June 4. Bill is professor of public policy and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. He was chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2000 to 2001. He serves on New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s Restart and Recovery Commission. Josh Greenberg currently serves as the vice president of government relations at Boston Children’s Hospital. Josh shares, “I have been lucky to host several groups of Dartmouth Partnership in Community Service health-focused summer placements in Boston for informal dinners with discussions with health policy figures about what they are experiencing on the ground. The students are active thinkers from multiple undergraduate majors. To a person they care deeply about eliminating health disparities and recognize the impact that poverty, underemployment, and structural racism can have on their clients’ health. We’ve drawn on the wider Boston Dartmouth community, including fellow ’86 Mary Beckman for their insights.” Gary Greene shared, “Last week Carolyn, Emily ’17, and I were in Hanover for graduation so that we could celebrate with Alison ’20.” He also was there with Peter Ramsden and his daughter, Haley ’20. We send our best wishes to Greg Lesko and his bride, Kelly, as they celebrate their 27th wedding anniversary this year. Congratulations are due to Jonathan Skurnik, director of Becoming Johanna, a documentary about navigating transgender identity, which aired multiple times on PBS through July 7. Synopsis: When Johanna, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, begins her transition and gets kicked out of her home and school, she finds a foster family who loves her and a supportive school principal who helps her graduate and thrive. Jonathan participated in a live question-and-answer session through Eventbrite to discuss his movie with viewers. The documentary was included in PBS’ SoCal events celebrating Pride Month (June), noting that the film “painted an insightful picture of the LGBTQ movement.” It is finished in beauty.

—Mae Drake Hueston, P.O. Box 264, Balboa Island, CA 92662; (949) 500-2191; dart86news@gmail.com