Class Note 1986
Issue
November-December 2020
Lanie (Bertsche) McNulty, Liz Babb, Sarah Cotsen, Sue (Smith) Sambrook, and Peter Arnold have launched a new career advice network called ’86 CAN. This password-protected database is unique to our class and can be used as you start a new business, change jobs, consult, or do project work. If you are looking to join a corporate board or volunteer, check out this network to see where ’86s are engaged. ’86 CAN may be used by our spouses or partners and kids. Join via the “Careers” link on our website (www.1986.dartmouth.org) or simply reach out and connect today—’86 CAN is for everyone! Gina Cannon writes from Concord, New Hampshire: “I’m slowly recovering from a bad accident back in January. I took a bad fall and shattered my shoulder into five pieces. As we were planning surgery, Covid hit and all surgeries were canceled. I hung in with the shoulder until the end of May, when they were able to schedule surgery. After three plates, 16 screws, innumerable pins, and reattaching tendons, I’m on the mend. Slowly.” She adds, “I was elected to our local school board last November. I sure wasn’t expecting Covid! It’s very challenging to try to get everyone what they need while keeping everyone safe. It’s certainly keeping me busy.” Andrea (Strimling) Yodsampa writes, “This has been an incredibly inspiring few years professionally. I founded and lead Deploy US, a fiercely nonpartisan nonprofit focused on amplifying and accelerating conservative climate leadership as an essential foundation for bipartisan policy. Our premise is that the world can’t mitigate global climate change fast enough without U.S. leadership as part of the equation and the United States can’t exercise durable climate leadership without support across the political spectrum. We work with a remarkable network of right-of-center military, business, faith, and policy leaders who are passionately committed to climate action, along with allies in the broader environmental movement and with funding from across the political spectrum. Our team and advisory board are bipartisan. Our goal is ambitious, bipartisan decarbonization policies at the federal level by 2025. Based on five-plus years in this space, I am confident not only that this goal is within reach—if we invest wisely now in the right strategies—but also that climate can be a bridge to help heal our country’s divides. I’d love to hear from alumni who are interested (www.deployus.org or ayodsampa@deployus.org).” Mark Weiss writes, “Today I put a ‘Melissa Baten Caswell for County School Board’ yard sign in front of my house. Last week I made a contribution to Maya Wiley for mayor of New York City and I spoke to Brian Moore, who moved back to New England after about 15 years.” Visit our ’86 website, www.1986.dartmouth.org. It is the one stop for updates; our 35th reunion on June 17-20, 2021; upcoming class Zoom mini-reunions; ’86 Compassio; and ’86 CAN. Also, join our 200-plus-member Facebook group, www.facebook.com/groups/dart1986. We all look forward to roaming the girdled earth again. It is finished in beauty.
—Mae Drake Hueston, P.O. Box 264, Balboa Island, CA 92662; (949) 500-2191; dart86news@gmail.com
—Mae Drake Hueston, P.O. Box 264, Balboa Island, CA 92662; (949) 500-2191; dart86news@gmail.com