Class Note 1987
Issue
November-December 2022
Hello, fellow ’87s!
In June Dartmouth celebrated the 50th anniversary of Title IX with a cruise of Boston Harbor for Dartmouth female athletes. Julie (Park) Hubble, Deb (Rowe) Marchiony, Susan Murray, Chris (Schutz) Brownell, and Laurie Lopes were all there. As Julie observed, “Those of you women who were varsity athletes back in the 1980s know that you really were a pioneer. Happy 50th birthday to Title IX and Dartmouth coeducation!”
I heard recently from Sean Abbott, who shared news of his next chapter: “I seek help from the collective wisdom of 1987. My mother died recently (and suddenly: Covid), my kids are grown, and my passion for Manhattan is not what it was. I can do the work of a book editor and ghost writer wherever, so I plan to take up, for a time, a life of wandering. I am not talking Nomadland—unless I am. I really don’t know the first thing. And I would appreciate learning of the relatively recent experiences of any ’87 who has lived deliberately in this way, for however long: no fixed address, following the rise and fall of the less-traveled road. I remain to this day an avid long-distance cyclist (as in bicycle—the human-powered kind), but I would never say no to an accommodating tramp steamer if such still exists. I will welcome encouragement and admonition at historicnews@protonmail.com.”
As of this writing, I am excitedly looking forward to attending our in-person “Off the Green” class reunion in Chicago on September 15-18. I’ll post a recap next time.
Send me news about what you or your classmates have been up to!
—Lisa Snyder, 430 Ward St., Newton, MA, 02459; dartmouth87classnews@gmail.com
In June Dartmouth celebrated the 50th anniversary of Title IX with a cruise of Boston Harbor for Dartmouth female athletes. Julie (Park) Hubble, Deb (Rowe) Marchiony, Susan Murray, Chris (Schutz) Brownell, and Laurie Lopes were all there. As Julie observed, “Those of you women who were varsity athletes back in the 1980s know that you really were a pioneer. Happy 50th birthday to Title IX and Dartmouth coeducation!”
I heard recently from Sean Abbott, who shared news of his next chapter: “I seek help from the collective wisdom of 1987. My mother died recently (and suddenly: Covid), my kids are grown, and my passion for Manhattan is not what it was. I can do the work of a book editor and ghost writer wherever, so I plan to take up, for a time, a life of wandering. I am not talking Nomadland—unless I am. I really don’t know the first thing. And I would appreciate learning of the relatively recent experiences of any ’87 who has lived deliberately in this way, for however long: no fixed address, following the rise and fall of the less-traveled road. I remain to this day an avid long-distance cyclist (as in bicycle—the human-powered kind), but I would never say no to an accommodating tramp steamer if such still exists. I will welcome encouragement and admonition at historicnews@protonmail.com.”
As of this writing, I am excitedly looking forward to attending our in-person “Off the Green” class reunion in Chicago on September 15-18. I’ll post a recap next time.
Send me news about what you or your classmates have been up to!
—Lisa Snyder, 430 Ward St., Newton, MA, 02459; dartmouth87classnews@gmail.com