Class Note 1986
Issue
November-December 2021
David Schnabel,our class’ Bartlett Tower Society chair, and husband Rob bequeathed a gift in support of the Triangle House and the LGBTQIA+ community at Dartmouth. If you are interested in learning more about making a planned gift to the College, please contact David at davidjschnabel@gmail.com or click the Bartlett Tower Society link on our class website. Go back and read Kathy Gord Callahan’s article, “Dog House,” in July/August ’21 issue of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Since our last DAM Class Notes, Andrew Gutow was in Hanover for the birthday of his son, Josh, in June. He did his best to represent our class by himself in front of the Hanover Inn. Tom Berry, Kevin Sankey, Mike McTernan, and Peter Gibson played golf at the Bald Peak Colony Club in Melvin Village, New Hampshire. Jonathan Skurnik’s rom-com, My Imaginary Girlfriend, is a semifinalist in the ISA Genre Busting Comedy Screenplay Competition. Brian Moore, Richard Thorner, Bon Gray ’83, and Mary Frances Sobo had a mini-reunion in Worchester, Massachusetts. Karen Blodgett, and Kevin and Laura (Lindner) Sankey had a spontaneous baseball game reunion in San Francisco. Dina Bloom Browne, Jennifer Culliton Paul, Kathy Keith, Alicia Lindgren, Lynne TenHoopen Lear, and Terry Perkins Mitman met at the Hanover Inn. In August John Hueston and I were cycling along the Hudson River Park bike path and came upon one of the sculptures in an exhibition, Re:Growth, a Celebration of Art, Riverside Park and the New York Spirit, curated by Karin Bravin of BravinLee program and another Dartmouth alum, Dan Garodnick ’94. Karin organized 24 contemporary artists, creating the largest art show in the park’s history, according to the Riverside Park Conservancy, which produced it. Congratulations, Karin, and great work. While on the East Coast we had the pleasure of meeting up with Ned Groves and Deb Rhodes, as well as Jonno and Julie Williams. We got busy making plans for Homecoming and post-Covid world travel plans. We had many celebrate wedding anniversaries this year: John and Mae (Drake) Hueston, 35 years; Claire Rehnberg and Sean Nicholson, 32 years; Scott and Melissa Isherwood, 32 years; Lance Lazar and Marieke Peleman, 30; Susan Smith and Bart Sambrook, 30 (her daughter, Samantha, graduated from St. Lawrence in 2020). Beth Robinson was named to the federal appellate court in Vermont by President Biden. Liz Babb created a 10-memoir ’86 book club called Read It and Weap. We just finished our first memoir, by the former Brat Pack member Andy McCarthy, Brat: An ’80s Story. Please update your email with the College to join us for the remaining books, including Educated, There’s a Hole in my Bucket, Small Fry, Wild Game, Freckled, Memorial Drive, Greenlights, and Born a Crime. Jonathan Pelson’s book came out on September 28 this year and is titled Wireless Wars: China’s Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We’re Fighting Back. It is about China, 5G, and American innovation. Send me your updates and events you have celebrated this year. In beauty, it is finished.
—Mae (Drake) Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona del Mar, CA 92625; dart86news@gmail.com
—Mae (Drake) Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona del Mar, CA 92625; dart86news@gmail.com