Class Note 1986
Issue
January-February 2023
First some accolades: Liz McClintock is only the third person to hold the office of chair of the board of visitors of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding in its 40-year history (which it is celebrating this fall). Liz has been on the board since 2018. I love seeing ’86s on campus.
Jayne Daigle Jones and Allison Barlow were on the list of Dartmouth’s “100 Greatest Athletes of All Time” in the September-October issue of DAM.
Mike Moody and Peter Gibson ran Reach the Beach. Mike said, “These 200 miles of running made extra special with some quality father-daughter time.”
I’m totally jealous that Hugh O’Reilly and Andrea Lordan attended a Sting concert this year.
My Native Americans at Dartmouth sister Heid Erdrich is a visiting professor at Dartmouth this fall. It’s a blessing to work together and watch her in her element as a professional. Now others get to be gifted with her love of nature, Native knowledge, wicked smartness, and love of our Native and indigenous students.
I was curious about another classmate, Vivian Johnson Korthius, after I met her roommate, Melinda Marshall Upton at the 2020 Commencement ceremony this summer, so I looked her up. “V.I.,” as she was called by us, is still trying to educate people, this time the federal government, on just how big Alaska is. I remember when she used to say, “Alaska is half the size of the continental United States.” She has been serving as the first woman to lead the Association of Village Council Presidents in Bethel, Alaska, which oversees 48 extreme rural communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the size of the State of New York. Their concerns are serious, with global warming causing erosion of villages and a lack of law enforcement and health equity. I am so proud of all her continued hard work as an elected official. Just google her name and you will find many articles about her work.
Today is month four and the start of week three in fall term for me at Dartmouth as a full-time employee. I feel like a freshman but without all the anxiety, stress, and fear of not knowing what I am facing. I really enjoyed meeting the ’26s as they onboarded and I am slowly meeting the upperclassmen. Working in the dean’s office, where the Native American program belongs, is truly a blessing for me. I get to watch students grow into their independence until they are pretty calm and sage seniors (or they look that way).
John Hueston is very busy with trials, watching the Hueston Hennigan Social Justice Foundation expand to include Howard University third-year fellows, and starting the Hueston Hennigan New York City office. Our girls are at Brown and Yale, so being on the East Coast works to our benefit. We will have seen some of you at Homecoming and we will probably next meet at Pow Wow or Commencement.
Happy holidays and Happy New Year! In beauty.
—Mae Drake Hueston, Dartmouth College, HB 6037, Hanover, NH 03755; (949) 500-2191; mabelle.d.hueston@dartmouth.edu
Jayne Daigle Jones and Allison Barlow were on the list of Dartmouth’s “100 Greatest Athletes of All Time” in the September-October issue of DAM.
Mike Moody and Peter Gibson ran Reach the Beach. Mike said, “These 200 miles of running made extra special with some quality father-daughter time.”
I’m totally jealous that Hugh O’Reilly and Andrea Lordan attended a Sting concert this year.
My Native Americans at Dartmouth sister Heid Erdrich is a visiting professor at Dartmouth this fall. It’s a blessing to work together and watch her in her element as a professional. Now others get to be gifted with her love of nature, Native knowledge, wicked smartness, and love of our Native and indigenous students.
I was curious about another classmate, Vivian Johnson Korthius, after I met her roommate, Melinda Marshall Upton at the 2020 Commencement ceremony this summer, so I looked her up. “V.I.,” as she was called by us, is still trying to educate people, this time the federal government, on just how big Alaska is. I remember when she used to say, “Alaska is half the size of the continental United States.” She has been serving as the first woman to lead the Association of Village Council Presidents in Bethel, Alaska, which oversees 48 extreme rural communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the size of the State of New York. Their concerns are serious, with global warming causing erosion of villages and a lack of law enforcement and health equity. I am so proud of all her continued hard work as an elected official. Just google her name and you will find many articles about her work.
Today is month four and the start of week three in fall term for me at Dartmouth as a full-time employee. I feel like a freshman but without all the anxiety, stress, and fear of not knowing what I am facing. I really enjoyed meeting the ’26s as they onboarded and I am slowly meeting the upperclassmen. Working in the dean’s office, where the Native American program belongs, is truly a blessing for me. I get to watch students grow into their independence until they are pretty calm and sage seniors (or they look that way).
John Hueston is very busy with trials, watching the Hueston Hennigan Social Justice Foundation expand to include Howard University third-year fellows, and starting the Hueston Hennigan New York City office. Our girls are at Brown and Yale, so being on the East Coast works to our benefit. We will have seen some of you at Homecoming and we will probably next meet at Pow Wow or Commencement.
Happy holidays and Happy New Year! In beauty.
—Mae Drake Hueston, Dartmouth College, HB 6037, Hanover, NH 03755; (949) 500-2191; mabelle.d.hueston@dartmouth.edu