For the first time in more than six years I’m low on classmate replies. Saving us from the dreaded “Mark makes stuff up” are the following.


David Beach.He recently directed Candide in Spaulding for the Glee Club. In attendance on opening night were Laura Gillespie, Ellen Stein, Dawn Carey, Heather McCutchen Kannam ’87 and Maria Laskaris ’84. “The last time I directed in Spaulding was for our freshmen cabaret. It’s the Hop’s 50th year and the Glee Club members are amazingly talented; all seem to have double majors in subjects I’ve never heard of.” David celebrated his 25th anniversary with Russell Granet. The Granet-Beaches live in N.Y.C. with their 4-year-old daughter Sadie Kate.


David Kotz.He is traveling again. “We spent a wonderful week exploring the cloud forest of Monteverde, high along the continental divide in the heart of Costa Rica. We stayed at the home of David ’84 and Kathy ’85 Hooke, who are in Costa Rica this year. Kathy teaches math at the Monteverde Friends School and David is building the school’s new timber-frame meetinghouse while remotely managing his Vermont business, Timberhomes LLC. Our three children (ages 11, 14, 16) all pitched in for a day to help clean up the site around a new kindergarten building. We were joined by Jim DiCarlo ’91 and his family, on sabbatical from Exeter. With six children in the house it was a lively and refreshing week.”


Dina Bloom Browne.She is now a partner in the Boston law firm of Bletzer & Bletzer concentrating on real estate transactions and managing its Walpole, New Hampshire, office. “Our older daughter Meaghan is a sophomore at Quinnipiac University and our younger, Nicole, will be attending Boston University in the fall. Hard to believe we will be emptynesters before we turn 50. I recently had a great slumber party with my dear friend Terry (Perkins) Mitman when she came to Boston. We cheered on her daughter Sienna who plays basketball for Bowdoin in a game against Babson. Also want to give a shout out to all my Tri-Delt sisters with whom I had so much fun at the last reunion and thank them for all of their love.”


Mark Greenstein. I’m buying a ski area. Actually, it’s a Colorado snowcat ski operation called Powder Durango and I’m lead partner. We have 35,000 acres (bigger than Vail) for guests to experience. Overnights are in stove-heated yurts. I invite all ’86s to celebrate their 50th birthdays with us. Group invitation for the class of 1986 is for three days at a reduced rate in late February. Third week will be especially for ’86s bringing their children. Fourth week will be without kids and meant to end right before CarniVail 2014. At Powder Durango there’s room for investors, and even for two to five more partners if you have hospitality or marketing experience. If you don’t, there’s still room for you to help me choose the interiors of our yurts. I’m not the interior design type (guiding guests safely through trees and around cliffs is my thing), so you can vote from among the designs at www.yurts.com. Or for the truly creative, design two or three for us. Powder Durango will pay you or comp you with a weekend in your self-designed luxury yurt—30 feet in diameter with four pairs of full bunk beds—the rest is of your choosing.


Finally, we answer the “where’s Matthew now?” question from December. Matthew Weatherly-White wrote: “We are living in a converted farm built in 1787 near a tiny town in heart of the French Pyrenees (mountains) for the next year.”


—Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; msg@ivybound.net; Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; davida@dinerman.com