Class Notes 1986

Have you wondered what your classmates are doing? Well, the wait is over! Neil Maher is living in Irvington, New York, with wife Stacy and sons Riggs, 11, and Leif, 8. Neil has been married for 15 years and working at Rutgers University for 20 years as a history professor. Neil is thrilled with his little boys but exhausted by all their activities! Terry Galvin Anderson lives in Pennington, New Jersey, and has lived in the state for 28 years. She is a national mission leader and clinical ethicist for Trinity Health, a large national health system, and is completing her doctorate in bioethics and health policy. Previously, she was in pharmaceuticals, then became a healthcare chaplain and has found a way to combine the two careers. She has son Jack, 36, and daughter, Marisa, 26, who married her high school sweetheart and is living in Seattle.

In other news, Vanessa Freytag intends to retire from her role as president and CEO of 4C for Children in early summer following 10 years leading the agency. Vanessa is a dynamic leader who has championed quality childcare, social services, and nonprofit capacity building at the regional and state levels, always working to put people first. She has chaired several boards, including Ohio Child Care Resource & Referral Association, the Hamilton County Human Services Chamber, and the Leadership Council for Nonprofits. Prior to joining 4C for Children, Vanessa served as executive director of the Women’s Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, owned two businesses, and was a bank executive. During her tenure Vanessa expanded access to high-quality childcare, transformed the organization, supported early childhood educators, and championed the well-being of young lives through foster, adoptive, and kinship care. Under her leadership the agency was recognized as a 2024 Best Places to Work by the Cincinnati Business Courier. The agency works to give young children a strong start in life by supporting everyone who cares for them with the belief that when a child gets a solid foundation in the crucial early years, they’ll be successful for life. Vanessa states that her time at 4C for Children “has been some of the most rewarding years of my career. It has been a privilege to lead the agency and to stand beside so many dedicated professionals each day who bring such passion and excellence to their work.”

Unfortunately, I am saddened to report that Bill Hinch passed away unexpectedly on March 9.

Remember to save the date for our 40th reunion, Thursday-Sunday, June 18-21, 2026! Please make sure to update your personal information in your alumni profile with the College, including email and snail mail addresses. It’s our best way to ensure you are receiving communications from our class. You can find details on accessing and editing your alumni profile at www.alumni.dartmouth.edu/connect/find-alumni.

Please continue to share with me what’s happening in your life.

—Suzy Nachman Mercado, 55 Aspen Wood Lane, Fairfield, CT 06825; suzynmercado@gmail.com

It’s always such a pleasure to catch up with so many classmates during Homecoming in Hanover. Liz Babb traveled to campus from California, where she is living in Portola Valley with her husband of four years, Angelo Aloisio. Liz is working at Castilleja high school, a grade six to 12 private girls school in Palo Alto that she also attended, as the director of alumni engagement. She is responsible for events, communication, and fundraising. Fellow classmates Gabrielle Whelan and Maryly Culpepper also attended the high school with Liz. Gabrielle lives in Menlo Park, California, and is a city attorney for Los Gatos dealing with lots of local politics. Liz celebrated the weddings of both of her children, daughter Abby, 30, and son Sutton, 28, with classmates Jessica Cohn Healy and Wini Welch Kinney in attendance. Liz is looking forward to being a grandma in the future. Jessica runs her own art advisory consultancy business in Brooklyn, New York. She puts together large entities with artists to decorate massive corporate headquarters, including scaffolding, which needs the creativity of these artists to make it more attractive. Liz also had a chance to catch up with Wini and Sam Kinney, who came to Palo Alto for a conference. Fun fact: Wini went on a fascinating African expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro.

Speaking of weddings, my son Kevin ’19 was married in September. Those of you who attended our 30th reunion in 2016 may remember him as one of our intrepid reunion workers. Dartmouth was well represented at the wedding, including by classmates Heidi Baseler, Jennifer Bassett, and Janice Kuhn, along with a few ’86 offspring.

In October 2024 the National Academy of Social Insurance honored Bill Rodgers at the Kennedy Center for his lifetime of research in economics and social policy. Bill gave a wonderful acceptance speech. Congrats, Bill! Tom Berry was recognized as a Forbes “top advisor” at a summit for financial advisors. Alicia Strohl Resnicoff hosted a national panel on disinformation via Zoom, which, according to attendee Mary Frances Sabo, was a very informative session. Karin Bravin presented an artist’s installation in Sharon, Connecticut: Camille Hoffman’s We Sing Inside Ourselves at Icehouse Project Space. Hoffman’s project explores the pressurized and cyclic relationships among the earth, ice, and the human hand.

Chris Boyer has been named founding dean of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences. UNC Charlotte has established itself as a premier public research university in the fast-growing Charlotte region, the largest metro area in the Carolinas. Chris’ rich professional experiences position him to make a substantial impact on the campus. His leadership is integral to its continued focus on student success and growing the research enterprise.

On a sad note, classmate Leslie Paulson Schmidt died on October 15, 2024, following a courageous battle with mental health.

Please continue to share with me what’s happening in your life.

—Suzy Nachman Mercado, 55 Aspen Wood Lane, Fairfield, CT 06825; suzynmercado@gmail.com

It’s so nice to have classmates reach out with news! I heard from Ned Groves, who retired from Memorial Sloan Kettering July 2023 as chief administrative officer running its clinical operations since 2015. Prior to that he was the administrative director for Mayo Clinic Cancer Services in Rochester, Minnesota. He and his wife, Deb Rhodes, built a house in Madison, Connecticut, about five years ago and love living in Madison near the water. After retiring from the Mayo Clinic as a physician in 2019, Deb joined Yale University as its chief quality officer and associate dean of the medical school. They have daughters Caroline, who graduated from Cornell in 2020 and lives in New York City and works for New York University, and Kate, who graduated from the University of Vermont in 2024 and lives in Arlington, Virginia, and is getting her master’s in biosecurity.

Now that he is retired, Ned can spend more time with classmates and friends and was able to catch up recently with John Hueston in New York City. Ned writes that John has not only created one of the top law firms in the country during the past 10 years, Hueston Hennigan, but also just received the “Outstanding Contribution to the Legal Profession” honor at the 2024 Chambers USA Awards. Chambers is the leading U.S. and global legal ranking agency; the award is typically given to one attorney nationally each year. In giving the award to John, Chambers described him as “one of the nation’s leading trial lawyers” who cofounded Hueston Hennigan and built the firm into “one of the nation’s leading choices for bet-the-company litigation.” In 2021, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and inspired by the legacy of Thurgood Marshall, John and his firm founded the Social Justice Legal Foundation, a public interest nonprofit dedicated to bringing impactful and innovative public interest trial litigation and training and developing the next generation of civil rights lawyers to be fearless in their pursuit of justice. Give an ’86 rouse for John!

Scott Sandell is living in Palm Beach, Florida, and is working in venture capital for New Enterprise Associates as a managing general partner.

I received a wonderful letter in the mail from Quentin Kopp ’49. He informed me that his son, Shepard S. Kopp II, Esq., is practicing criminal law defense from his law office in Santa Monica, California. Shep’s living in Los Angeles with wife Liza Ryan ’87, a renowned photographic artist, and enjoys playing golf weekly, cycling, and likes to surf a bit. An interesting tidbit that I learned is that Shep’s father officiated the wedding of Krista Thomas Corr many years ago.

Please continue to send me your news. I love it when my inbox provides me with great information to share with all of you! We are looking forward to hearing what’s new in your life!

—Suzy Nachman Mercado, 55 Aspen Wood Lane, Fairfield, CT 06825; suzynmercado@gmail.com

Mary Frances Spatola Sabo writes that last September she retired from serving as an attorney to New York State after almost 24 years. Most of her experience was in the field of health insurance, where she ran programs to cover the uninsured and helped implement the Affordable Care Act. In November she was elected to the town board of North Greenbush, a small town in upstate New York. She really loves politics and serving her community, so she is very happy. She has three children who are pretty much out of the nest so it’s just her and her husband and their pets. She is looking forward to seeing Brian Moore and Richard Thorner for dinner in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the next few months.

Jayne Daigle Jones and husband Vernon are living in Piermont, New Hampshire. Jayne is an elementary special education teacher in Corinth, Vermont. Jayne and Vernon have six children, ranging in age from 33 to 22. It was an exciting day when their youngest graduated from college! On the other side of the country are Doug Keare and his wife, Jill Morgan ’85, who are residing outside of Stanford, California. Doug is working for a medical device startup company that helps people with the early detection of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Almost 30 years after it opened, the Jonathan Belden Daniels ’86 Climbing Gym at the College continues to draw students, faculty, and staff who want to practice their skills at the 23-foot-tall bouldering facility in the basement of Maxwell Hall. It’s a place where students can learn safe climbing techniques and stretch themselves physically and in other ways. It’s very special to see our classmate honored in this manner.

Dr. David Linehan began a new era as he stepped into his role as CEO of the University of Rochester Medical Center and dean of the school of medicine and dentistry and senior vice president for health sciences following a nine-year tenure as chair of the department of surgery.

Christine Hellauer and Susanne Pepper recently reacted to the DAM cover story about Mario Cohn-Haft ’83 as the “Bird Listener” (March/April issue). Mario was one of their freshman trip leaders and they fondly remember his amazing gift of recognizing and voicing a wide range of bird calls. His influence helped make their freshman trip stand out as one of their most cherished memories from Dartmouth and they speak fondly of their experience with Susanne’s son, Zane, and Christine’s sons, Jeremy, Spencer, and Macklin. Christine is living in Rockville, Maryland, and Susanne lives in Sunnyvale, California.

Unfortunately, I have some sad news to report on several classmates. Andrew “Andy” Gora died of congestive heart failure in his hometown of Toms River, New Jersey, on March 15; and Kathryn A. Miller passed away on March 17 in San Francisco.

Please continue to send me your news. We look forward to hearing what’s new in your life!

—Suzy Nachman Mercado, 55 Aspen Wood Lane, Fairfield, CT 06825; suzynmercado@gmail.com

I hope you are now ensconced in enjoyable winter activities. I love to be out skiing and on the platform tennis courts all winter long. Prior to the change of seasons, I was able to gather some news from fellow classmates who braved the rainy weather at Homecoming this past fall.

Julide Onder Woodward and husband Tim Woodward ’85 are perennial visitors to Homecoming, and it’s always great to catch up with them. They have two more Dartmouth graduates in the family, daughter Aylin ’15 and son Aziz ’22. Julide is a Turkish-English translator and interpreter helping wherever needed, whether in the schools, court system, or anywhere else her services are requested. Julide and Tim are living in Rochester, New York.

Alice Rudd Elder and Brooks Elder have been living in Burlington, Vermont, for more than 30 years. When they were students at Dartmouth they enjoyed a big loop bike ride in Norwich, Vermont. In fact, they loved it so much they said they wanted to live in Vermont at some point in their lives, and that’s where they ended up. Brooks is a jack of all trades, which includes being a very handy master griller for Homecoming. We thank him for his wonderful grilling, which has been making our tailgates awesome! He volunteers with the Dartmouth Outing Club, leading student fly fishing and bird hunting trips for the College. Alice works for Morgan Stanley in private wealth management. They have two sons, Jackson ’23, who graduated from Dartmouth, and Ramsey, who is a junior at Northeastern.

Karen Blodgett is also working in wealth management and is in San Francisco. She lives in California most of the year, but during the pandemic spent quite a bit of time with family in the Hanover area. Post-pandemic she has been able to continue to work remotely during the summers, living in Enfield, New Hampshire, on Mascoma Lake. If you’re ever in the Hanover area you can also look up Jim Citron, who is teaching Spanish at Dartmouth and living in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Bruce Chafee resides in Boston and is enjoying much of his time out on the water. He is a competitive sailor, and one competition was a two-and-a-half-day race from Annapolis, Maryland, to Newport, Rhode Island. It was a wonderful experience, especially since he faced differing conditions traveling from the bay out into the ocean. He had been working in bio pharma doing some work in gene therapy but is happiest when out on his sailboat.

Another classmate enjoying his recreational time is Benton Routh, who lives in Atlanta and loves playing golf.

Please continue to send me your news! These Class Notes will be much more interesting to read the more information I receive from all of you. Share some details about you and your fellow classmates with the rest of us!

—Suzy Nachman Mercado, 55 Aspen Wood Lane, Fairfield, CT 06825; suzynmercado@gmail.com

Is there anything better than Hanover in the fall? Standing in the middle of the Green, feeling the crisp fall air brushing against your skin, and looking up at the red, orange, and yellow colors of the season is one of life’s most treasured experiences. Do you remember gazing up at the mountains through the early morning fog? I hope many of you had the opportunity to visit the College campus and partake in its awesomeness this year.

A recent visitor to the Hanover Plain this past summer was Janice Kuhn, who stopped by with her husband, Gary, and daughter Chelsea. I was able to catch up with Janice and her family for a lovely lunch at Lou’s and a stroll around campus. Janice is currently splitting her time between Dobbs Ferry, New York, and Stratton, Vermont, so that Chelsea can attend Stratton Mountain School for alpine ski racing. Her daughter is quite the competitive ski racer, and Janice spends much of the winter spectating at ski races throughout the Northeast. Janice loves being back in New England and so close to Dartmouth. She’s also loving her consulting work, which is focused on sustainability and corporate responsibility. She is always looking for new projects!

In other news from the summer, Wini Welch Kinney skipped right past the birdies and eagles and scored her first hole in one, 154 yards off the tee, at Augusta Country Club. That must have been quite a thrill!

I don’t know about you, but one of the silver linings of the past few years were the class Zoom calls where I was able to reconnect with Dartmouth classmates I hadn’t spoken to in years. I learned that Ron Jones is an entrepreneur living in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, with his wife, Joyce. Brad Mencher is living in Atlanta, currently self-employed helping small businesses as their part-time CFO. He and his wife of 33 years, Shelley, are now empty-nesters since their daughter, Ali, and son, Aaron, have flown the coop.

I hope many of you have plans for attending Homecoming weekend in Hanover, October 20-21. It’s always a highlight of the year to return to Hanover and see how many of us have not aged a day since graduation. This will be the beginning of celebrations for the year we’re turning 60. If you can make it to Hanover on Friday, we’ll see you at the traditional parade and bonfire on Friday night. Then join us on Saturday for our class of ’86 tailgate, followed by our class dinner at the DOC House on Saturday evening. Please join us in kicking off our year of 60 celebration!

Please continue to send me your news. These Class Notes will be much more interesting to read the more information I receive from all of you. Share some details with the rest of us about you and your fellow classmates!

—Suzy Nachman Mercado, 55 Aspen Wood Lane, Fairfield, CT 06825; suzynmercado@gmail.com

It’s hard to believe that summer is almost here as I’m writing this in April, while snow is still falling in parts of the country! Some of our classmates enjoy hiking no matter the weather. David Kotz writes that in February he climbed Mount Moosilauke on a beautiful winter’s day with classmates Lelia Mellen and Jen Botzojorns, along with Tim Burdick ’89, Ken Kaliski ’85, and Lars Botzojorns. I find that very impressive as it’s quite a feat to accomplish even during the heart of the summer. David loves to hike and connect with nature and has climbed Mount Moosilauke more than 100 times! David is currently the provost and the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in the department of computer science at the College. He previously served as associate dean of the faculty for the sciences, a core director at the center for technology and behavioral health, and executive director of the institute for security technology studies. His current research involves security and privacy in smart homes and wireless networks. We were fortunate to have David speak to our class via Zoom in April regarding the current state of the College and how the campus and student body have changed in the 40 years since we began our Dartmouth careers.

Jeff Capwell made a mid-life change in career from practicing law to teaching middle school students and is building up his spiritual companionship practice as well, recently launching a new website. Jeff is an experienced spiritual director, trained through Fairfield University’s spiritual direction formation program.

Sarah Geithner and Matthew Huggins were featured in “’Round the Girdled Earth: Dartmouth Alumni Career Panel,” an international career panel discussion on global career paths and the joys and challenges faced along the way. The panel was moderated by our very own Dawn Carey, associate director of global health and development at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, and hosted by Dartmouth alumni relations and the Dickey Center. Sarah is an independent consultant in post-crisis international community development and Matthew is with International Finance Corp. in international development law. They highlighted some of the ways their Dartmouth experience informed their success. The interview is available for all to see on YouTube.

Congratulations go to Harry Carrel, Lynn Tracy Nerland, and Kelly Keller on receiving recognition from the College for our class Compassio Committee. Thanks to you and your committee for all that you do! If a classmate, you, or your family could use some caring and compassionate support, please reach out to a member of the committee.

As a reminder, the Dartmouth ’86 Career Advice Network has morphed into Dartmouth Connect. The College has revamped its career networking database, and Dartmouth Connect is a great place to find career guidance, provide career advice to others, and connect with the broader community.

Please send me your news so that you can be featured in upcoming Class Notes!

—Suzy Nachman Mercado, 55 Aspen Wood Lane, Fairfield, CT 06825; suzynmercado@gmail.com

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

Mark Baldwin writes: “Bill Wright and I did several Pioneer Valley (think Upper Valley, but in Massachusetts) Dartmouth Club events recently. We saw Dartmouth hockey beat UMass this fall, cooked and cleaned at a food bank, and took advantage of a late-winter storm and snowshoed.” Kirk LeCompte shares, “Andrew Getraer is the first winner of the Rutgers Hillel’s Exemplar of Excellence Award, a unique recognition established in his honor for 20 years of extraordinary service to Rutgers Hillel. Under Andrew’s leadership and inspirational vision Rutgers Hillel became the flagship Hillel in the country, establishing new and educational programs including the Rutgers Hillel Center for Israel Engagement, the reform outreach initiative, and health and wellness partnerships with the university. He is largely responsible for bringing the $20-million Eva and Arie Halpern Hillel House to reality and seeding the Wilf Family Campus on which it sits.” Andrew was joined by Kirk LeCompte, Brian Dunham, Dennis Stout, Dan Studnicky ’85, Alex Rossides, Bill Rodgers, Chris Demos-Brown, J.J. Jamieson, and Jean Robertson Getraer ’89. Mike Rich’s update: “I will graduate with a B.S. in forestry from University of Kentucky in May and relocate to Corbin, Kentucky, to work for the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society as the Kentucky all-lands forester working with multiple agencies to restore ruffed grouse habitat.” Government major Mark Greenstein announces that he is running for office again; this time for state senate in Hartford, Connecticut. Visit his website at www.stewartforhartford.com. Join us in congratulating Davida Sherman Dinerman as our class rep to the Alumni Council starting this summer. Please connect with her prior to the meetings for the next three years. I asked Martha Molumphy Hincks to share her experience as class rep with us, and she wrote: “The Covid challenge was particularly difficult for all students and institutions of learning. Our classmates—especially those with children at Dartmouth—contacted me with thoughtful concerns and ideas about how Dartmouth could be negotiating the pandemic. I also received passionate missives about the loss of our beloved golf course (some of us still hope it could come back) and the athletic teams that were (temporarily) eliminated. Dartmouth folks care deeply about the place and want those who come after us to love it as much as we do!” We appreciate all the hard work as our rep. Dan Katzir says, “I’ve just finished up seven years as CEO of a charter school network in Los Angeles and moved to Palm Springs, California. I’m doing some nonprofit education consulting work while teaching an education leadership course at Stanford Business School this spring and serving on the board of the Milton Hershey School, which runs the largest private K-12 boarding school for low-income kids in the United States and is about to open a set of early childhood centers in Pennsylvania. I’m looking forward to a slower-paced life in the desert after more than 20 years in L.A.” Thank you for taking the time to send me your updates. In beauty.

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona del Mar, CA 92625; (949) 500-2191; mdhueston@me.com

Joshua Greenberg, who is VP of government relations at Boston Children’s Hospital, clearly remembers his spring break 1986. “I returned from field research in Sri Lanka for my senior thesis to find we’d been evicted because the landlord wanted to tear down our house to build condos. We fought it in court and won. We lived in a decrepit house for free for three months, and a career in and around civil legal services was born!”

Keith Noyes shares, “After nearly 30 years of living in Hong Kong, my family and I moved in June to Zug, Switzerland, where I have taken up the position of chief risk and compliance officer for the crypto prime brokerage, Covario AG. I met the CEO, Mark Banner ’00, at an Ivy League ball in Hong Kong in 2019. I walk to work every day and have the Swiss Alps as my backdrop for regular trail running and skiing. Life is good. My older daughter, Kaya, competes for the local kantonal swim team and my younger daughter, Luka, just made both the school and local ski racing teams (thank our yearly holidays in Whistler for this). Due to Covid there haven’t been any Dartmouth alumni gatherings, but I have been able to meet up with Kevin Lane ’83, who was a Chinese language drill instructor my freshman year.”

Andre Cramblit writes, “I celebrated my five-year work anniversary. I am the cultural specialist for United Indian Health Services, an inter-tribal health clinic. I want to give a shout-out to classmate Mark Weiss,who made a generous donation to our clinic. His gift is much appreciated. I serve on the board of trustees of the California Indian Legal Services along with classmate John Hueston.”

Dan Kollmorgen shares, “After nearly 25 years as surgical oncologist, educator, and cancer center administrator in Des Moines, Iowa, I’ve accepted a long-term locum tenens position as an acute care surgeon in Bozeman, Montana, starting in January. It’s been fun to dust off some old skills and learn some new tricks. It may evolve into a long-term position or may just be a gap year!” Marion Halliday dropped new music in January. She writes on Instagram: “The January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was an expression of the worst kind of love. This song, which drops on January 6, reflects on this dichotomy—when love becomes so distorted it actually becomes the opposite of love. Don’t we all hate that kind of love?” Visit her at www.marionhalliday.com.

We have now read four memoirs with Liz Babb. Check your emails for the Zoom link and for a great way to reconnect with classmates and meet new ones. I am so proud of Heid E. Erdrich,who is the author of seven collections of poetry and a nonfiction Indigenous foods memoir and editor of two anthologies. Her latest, Little Big Bully, is available signed only at www.birchbarkbooks.com. Little Big Bully is winner of the 2020 Balcones Prize.

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona del Mar, CA 92625; (949) 500-2191; mdhueston@me.com

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

Our 35th reunion is virtual this year. Let’s celebrate, “It’s So Easy Being Green,” together via Zoom on the weekend of Friday, June 18. If you sign up for at least two events, you will be eligible to win a large Simon Pearce Hanover bowl with our reunion logo on it. I cannot thank our reunion committee enough for persevering through our many Zoom calls, in addition to their own jobs and obligations, to create a fun virtual reunion. Thank you to all who have completed our 35th reunion book digital survey at 1986.dartmouth.org. I look forward to the comparison with the 25th reunion book, which is also on the class website. Thank you to Sue Smith Sambrook, Rachel Levy Lombora, Harry Carrel, Mike Teague, and Brad Mencher for a successful April 5 class get-together on Zoom. I am sad to report that we have lost another dear classmate, Alison Hines. Please find her obituary on our class website. On a happier note, it is with great pride that I can share that Maya Wiley is running for mayor of New York City; she was profiled in the March issue of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Please join many of our classmates who support her candidacy: https://mayawileyformayor.com. See the intriguing article about Alex Tait and his mapping of Mount Everest for National Geographic. In Manhattan, Karin Bravin curated Re:Growth: A Celebration of Art, Riverside Park, and the New York Spirit, which shows from June 5 through the summer. Visit https://riversideparknyc.org for all the details. David Kotz has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest and most prestigious association of computing professionals. Congratulations! Mark Baldwin writes: “Best book lately: Boys in the Boat. It confirmed that rowers are crazy, but in a good way! I miss going out to eat and attending live sports. I especially miss my daughter’s college field hockey and lacrosse games. I played baseball (badly!) at Dartmouth, but I had fun, learned a lot, and I’ve been fortunate enough to coach high school baseball for more than 25 years!” Mark Weiss has read Rachel Kushner’s Hard Times. He writes, “Kushner is the daughter of Peter Kushner ’60. Her godfather was Alden Van Buskirk ’60, Dartmouth’s answer to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. She also wrote the afterward to a new edition of a book by David Rattray ’85.” I love food and I have become a better cook through the years, so I am majorly drawn to John Gannon’s Facebook videos on cocktails, wines, recipes, and cooking accoutrements. I hope you join me in watching his many posts on all things regarding food: www.facebook.com/john.c.gannon. Thanks to Covid-19 and 2020, I have not read one book, but became an avid New York Times reader. I also became addicted to Korean movies and TV shows on Netflix, eaten way too much Korean takeaway food, and bought jewelry online worn by Korean drama actors. After all that, I still don’t speak Korean or like K-pop.

—Mae Drake Hueston, P.O. Box 264, Balboa Island, CA 92662; (949) 500-2191; dart86news@gmail.com

Extra, extra, read all about it! Find reunion updates on our class website this month for our 35th reunion—1986.dartmouth.org—and Class Notes from our classmates. In beauty.

—Mae Drake Hueston, P.O. Box 264, Balboa Island, CA 92662; (949) 500-2191; dart86news@gmail.com

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

Heath Barker writes, “While I don’t feel like 55 was as big as 50, my two freshman roommates and I finally got together for a girls weekend in N.Y.C., which we had been talking about doing since our 50th. Janet Friday moved to New York City a little more than a year ago for her husband’s job at Goldman Sachs. Becky Coverdale drove in from Falmouth on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and we stayed in Soho near Janet’s apartment in Noho. We went to see Head Over Heels on Broadway (The Go-Go’s musical), which seemed an appropriate way to relive our youth. We had some really cool meals, enjoyed a day at the Metropolitan Museum. It was the first weekend in December, so we got to go to Rockefeller Center, see the tree and the skaters, and watch the light show on the front of Saks Fifth Avenue. It was amazing how easily we closed the gap of so many years during a weekend; when you live with people in college you really become like sisters. Becky has made a major career pivot to become a yoga instructor and life coach. She has her own business bringing yoga and wellness programs into the workplace. Check out alacarteyoga.com. Janet also did a career pivot in New York City, working in telemedicine. We all have a child who is starting junior year in high school this year. I am still in Atlanta, where I continue to work in the excess casualty insurance world as a regional vice president at Gemini, a division of the W.R. Berkley Corp. I want to thank Walter Tsui and the Compassio Committee for getting me the contact information for Elisa Rush at Mount Sinai, as well as the oncologist at Dana Farber. My sister-in-law was able to get in to see one of the top doctors at Dana Farber and the Cleveland Clinic quickly to get second and third opinions on her breast cancer treatment options. She is lucky that she is close enough to Dana Farber to get there for her treatment (albeit a three-and-a-half-hour drive), and the initial results seem to be that the chemo is shrinking her tumors. She has a long road ahead of her, but she is getting the absolute best care. It is so nice to have a network of rock stars like the class of ’86.” Chris Lord shares: “We’re living in San Francisco. Our eldest son is a freshman at Dartmouth and our younger son is a high school junior. I wound down the hedge fund business in 2019 and am a private investor now with a focus on social impact investing. Send companies that do good in the world our way! I have been on the Dartmouth investment committee for three years now and am in my second year as trustee. Happy to answer any and all questions from the great class of 1986.” It is finished in beauty.

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com

Paul Hochman writes: “My wife, Carrie Sheinberg, and I live in Park City, Utah, with our two kids, Oscar (11) and Arlo (8). The ski hill is right across the street, so if you assume I’m in my office, you’re wrong. My business, Humongous Media, makes very short videos that explain complicated things. I’m proud to say my company has just celebrated its 10th anniversary. Oh, and I’m now a grandfather. My oldest daughter, Lily, had a baby girl in June. Let’s hear it for strange milestones.” Jonathon Skurnik writes: “I have been traveling the country screening my films and offering professional development workshops for educators who want to create more inclusive classrooms for trans youth. In addition to working on new documentaries, I’m most excited about my very Jewy rom-com and TV sitcom. Collaborators welcome.” Art “Dick” Krissinger writes: “My girlfriend of four years and I are heading to Belize tomorrow to spend a week in the jungle. Our home for the week will be a tree house. Can’t wait!” Sarah Wauters lives in Los Angeles in a high-rise overlooking the ocean and the marina. She is the proud mother of a surfing, singing freshman in high school, daughter Genevieve. She has been running a boutique interior design firm for the last two and a half years and for four years has been serving on the board of directors for Grid Alternatives, a national nonprofit organization that builds solar energy systems in disadvantaged communities, teaches solar building to volunteers from same communities, and places trainees in careers in construction and solar building industries. In workforce development, it serves veterans, the recently incarcerated, and those without access to traditional forms of education or entries into construction. Internationally, it has brought solar electricity to villages and homes without electricity. She writes: “I am recoupled with Matthew Heyman (Harvard Business School ’92, no Dartmouth affiliation) and traveling some for fun and work. Two weeks in New England was very exotic for my California-born and raised daughter and we stayed at the spanking new Moosilauke Lodge—gorgeous! Some may miss the tinderbox that was the old lodge, but this place is spectacular and the natural environment is just the same. Rugged. I am looking for more opportunities to work on climate crisis solutions and urban planning that will improve cities’ impact on climate.” André Cramblit writes: “I am the cultural resource specialist for a tribal Indian Health Service clinic. I oversee our basket collection, provide employee training on culturally appropriate health topics, run two summer camps, and host an arts-and-crafts fair for 1,900 attendees. I am married and have a son in college.” Andrew Dominus and his family are happily ensconced on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He is pleased to have used his J.D. to help a family of eight recently obtain asylum in the United States after they fled their home and terrible persecution in the Central African Republic.

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com

Deb Kruter Eckberg is a full professor of criminal justice at Metropolitan State University in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, and has been department chair for the last two years. She has been married for 31 years to Chuck Eckberg, who is a top-selling realtor in the Twin Cities. They have three adult kids. Josh (25) has a degree in sociology (like his mama) from the University of Minnesota and is a vocational rehabilitation specialist in Minneapolis, helping individuals with physical and mental disabilities re-enter the workforce. Noah (22) just graduated this past spring from Duke University with a degree in political science and is a business analyst at McKinsey & Co. in New York City. And Maggie (21) is a rising junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, double majoring in English and history. Deb says, “While we miss having the kids at home, connecting with them as adults is amazing and empty-nesting has been fun nearly all of the time. Good thing we still like each other!”

Todd Krein writes, “Having restored a 1964 Boles Arrow travel trailer, my wife, Laurel, and I are headed to Burning Man for the very first time. Not entirely sure what possessed us, but we’re joining the Lamp Lighters, who put up the street lamps every evening. Hope to catch up with Mark Stern ’85 if we can figure out where he is.” Bonnie Austin Cluxton shares, “On September 2 my husband, David, and I will celebrate our second anniversary. I am grateful every day that I waited for 53 years to marry the love of my life. And I could not be more proud of my stepdaughter, Katherine, who is starting her career as an Army nurse at Fort Hood, Texas.”

Alice Rudd writes, “I, of course, celebrated my 55th with my favorite ’86, Brooks Elder, and I am pretty sure he will return the favor for his 55th. As I mentioned we are super psyched that our son, Jackson, is joining the class of ’23 this fall. We see Gary Clark regularly and will be seeing more of Ken Fisher, whose daughter will be attending the University of Vermont Honors College. We are very much looking forward to Homecoming and will have my sister, Caroline Rudd ’81, in tow for the festivities.”

Walter Tsui writes, “We’ve kicked off our empty-nest life phase by starting to split our time between Boston and Boulder, Colorado. This has given us the chance to reconnect with Kit Ambrose and his lovely wife, Lori, who live just south of Denver. It turns out that Kit and I both love cycling, and so rode the Triple Bypass together in July (not the medical procedure, but a ride that goes over three mountain passes). We’ve also had the chance to reconnect with Kate Nicholson, who lives in Boulder and has kindly introduced us to some other locals, including Yong Cho, whom I didn’t know back in our Hanover days but turns out to be a neighbor. Small world!” In beauty.

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com

Plan on attending this year’s Homecoming October 11-12 to celebrate our collective 55th birthday! Celebrate as we walk in the parade Friday night and attend the tailgate, then the game together on Saturday. Davida Sherman Dinerman writes, “I am still in the tech public relations industry, but last April, after 21 years with the same firm, I moved back to small-agency life. I am still playing tennis competitively and doing a lot of volunteer work in Ashland, Massachusetts. Our son, Ari (18), is a fantastic student and has developed into a great wrestler. We are waiting to hear from colleges. My daughter, Abby (21), is a junior at the University of Rhode Island, majoring in health sciences, and wants to be a pediatric nurse. My husband, Brad, is in his 10th year as an information technology consultant and an amateur birder and photographer.” Andy Gutow shares, “In my unending quest to prevent the starvation of undergraduates, I took a few students and ’86 offspring to dinner at the Hanover Inn when at the College in February.” Joining Andy were Sarah Hutchinson ’22, Matt Gutow, Mary Hughes (Jerry Hughes ’88), Maria Goldman ’22 (John Goldman), Zach Wang ’20, Dan Lein ’19, and Emma Kallman ’22 (James Kallman). There was more snow on the ground than at home in Los Altos, California, and no alcohol was consumed on college property by underage individuals.” Jeanne Morriello Clark shares a vivid memory from our Sophomore Summer: “I was living on the bottom floor of Woodward my Sophomore Summer. It was hot and, of course, there was no air conditioning, so I slept with my windows open. I planned to sleep in on Saturday morning, but I awoke to something very unexpected. I heard music, loud and clear. It was not the type of music college students played. The lyrics I heard? ‘If you go out in the woods today, You’re sure of a big surprise, If you go out in the woods today, You’d better go in disguise…Today’s the day the teddy bears have their picnic.’ Outside my window was a parade of parents and kids (and teddy bears) on their way to the Bema for a teddy bear picnic!” Jim Lynch shares his Sophomore Summer memory: “Organic chemistry with Professor Shafer; it was planned to be four days a week at 8 a.m. (hard enough for Sophomore Summer), but on Day 1, Professor Shafer told us we would meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 7:45 a.m. He was a very good teacher. Many late nights of foosball at Alpha Theta.” Kathleen Bacon writes, “I am ‘hanging up my heels’ this June after 25 years at HarbourVest Partners based in London. The plan is to learn how to do nothing and travel a lot. Travels include bike riding in Isle of Wight, England; family time in Nantucket, Massachusetts; and sightseeing in Portugal and then Japan for four weeks following the English rugby team around for the pool matches of the Rugby World Cup. That all takes place between July and October. I am looking for more ideas for the last few months of 2019!”

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com

Alex Gutterman writes that his first feature film, In Winter, went to eight festivals and is in distribution. He is busy in early pre-production with a second feature, The Hunter. “Work is art film in the European tradition,” he writes. “My kids seem well.” Greg Hulbert recently saw from a distance Chip Mellen in his normal habitat, the middle of the fairway; yes, right in the middle on his way to the middle of the green. Betsy Crawford Ragan shares, “I’ve lived in Lexington, Massachusetts, now for five years and work for the Penzias Group marketing Harvard Medical School’s live continuing medical education courses to physicians and other clinicians. I sing with the Jameson Singers and I’m in a Women of Dartmouth book club with fellow readers who span the grad years 1975 to 2010! I spent a wonderful October afternoon with Maureen Ragan getting a VIP tour of the Ernest Hemingway collection at the JFK Library! Son Jimmy Ragan ’16 teaches fourth grade in Lochbuie, Colorado, and sings with the Colorado Symphony Chorus.” Mark Baldwin announces that he will be inducted into the Massachusetts Baseball Coaches Association (MCBA) Hall of Fame in January. “The MBCA is an organization of state high school coaches. This year is my 23rd year coaching baseball and teaching history and economics at Northampton High School in Massachusetts. This year is my 29th overall coaching high school sports. But I’d rather brag on my kids: My oldest daughter, Emilie, will be graduating from Western New England University this spring; my younger daughter, Abby, plays field hockey and lacrosse at Mount Holyoke College. She’s an all-conference player.” After five years at Penn State, Andy Schulz and his family have relocated to Tucson, Arizona, where Andy began in August as dean of the college of fine arts at the University of Arizona. Andy adds, “Please let us know if you find yourself in southern Arizona.” Dr. Brian Moore is a neuropathologist and pathology residency program director at the University of Colorado in Denver. Ted Farrell shares, “I have been working as an immigration attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, since getting a J.D. in October 2010. I developed a program to get volunteer attorneys to represent immigrants in bond proceedings in the immigration court. My daughter, Fiona, is graduating from Bennington in Vermont and my son, Silas, started at Loyola University in New Orleans. Rob Bilodeau has been living in China since 1994. I had dinner with him when he was visiting Lexington, Kentucky.” Mike Rich, who is an associate professor of Chinese and Japanese at Eastern Kentucky University, began the forestry program at University of Kentucky. He is currently enjoying being an undergraduate again and taking a chemistry class. Mary Frances Sabo had lunch with a co-worker at the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), Jeff Waddle. “We are both attorneys at our state’s financial regulator, me in health insurance and Jeff in banking. It was nice to catch up! Jeff has been at DFS for about four years and I have been there for—gulp—18.”

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com

Krista Corr writes, “After 28 years as a special agent with the FBI in Boston, I retired at the end of December. On January 2, I started a job as a senior criminal investigator with Amtrak’s office of inspector general (investigating waste, fraud, and abuse at Amtrak). I still get to perform investigative work, the hours and schedule are great, and I get to collect my pension and a salary, plus my family and I can ride the rails for free! Another big change, which is not so good, is that my husband, Bart, was diagnosed with epilepsy last fall. This was a career-ending diagnosis for a pilot. He has been flying airplanes since the age of 12, so this was a huge setback for him. He has handled it pretty well and is now starting to think about his next step. I know he will land on his feet. Our girls, Julia and Megan, are in eighth and sixth grade, respectively, and are happily doing all the same things that other middle-schoolers are doing.

“Last weekend I saw Beth Riley St. Raymond, who was in town with her 10-grade daughter, Charlotte, for a huge volleyball tournament at the Boston Convention Center. Beth still works in marketing for Gillette. She, husband Marcus, Charlotte, and high school senior Emma live in New Canaan, Connecticut.

“Last fall I spent a weekend with Beth Kostman, Jeni Moyer George, Sarah Sherwood, Stephanie Semprevivo Ferguson,and Riley at our weekend house in Newport, Rhode Island. There was a bit of hiking, a bit of drinking and eating, and a lot of laughing. Kostman is an architect on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, with two sons. Jeni is now an empty-nester in Portland, Oregon, also with two sons. Sarah is life-coaching in Manhattan with five kids! Stephanie is working for Microsoft in Bellevue, Washington, with a son and daughter.”

Liz McClintock wrote in about the class of ’86 mini-reunion during the Dartmouth vs. Brown game at Fenway Park on November 10, 2017. “I’m impressed that so many people came out, as that turned out to be the coldest night we’ve had all fall (19 to 20 degrees)! Paul and Hugh did a great job organizing the block of seats and the party at Lansdowne. It was a really fun evening. Here is the partial list of ’86 attendees: Paul and Liane Davis, Bev Bruni Zambarono, Cathy Freud Windsor, Ellen Stein, Carrie Fraser, Krista (Thomas) and Bart Corr, Joe Berman, Bruce Chafee, Steve Kylander, Lisa Wybranowski and husband, Marie Longo with Allison, Hugh O’Reilly and Andrea Lordan, Jen and John Paul, Tucker Stevens, Brian Conroy, Doug Mitman, Per Furmark, Diarmuid O’Connell, Craig and Kelly Saltzgaber, Patty Doykos, John and Deb Marchiony, Karen (Voss) and Alex Gruzen, Scott Rabschnuk, Jim O’Shaughnessy, Gary Greene, Mark Proctor and wife Charlotte, Kim Spaulding and husband Paul, Martha Molumphy Hincks, Andrew Getraer, Andy Doherty, and Tim Rumberger.Rumor has it that Burgie Howard and wife Jen were there along with Larry Peterson and his wife.”

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com

Following up on my last columns, I will continue to share what we had first thought we wanted as a career. As a freshman, Melinda Lopez headed to Dartmouth to study with John Rassias to become a translator and linguist, but learned that Russian was really hard. She says that her career path was a long curve, not straight, but not too crooked. She is now a playwright, professor, and actor. Pam Prosser Friedman followed a long and winding path. She writes, “I started a Ph.D. program in neuroscience at Harvard, but they didn’t let me teach, so I went to veterinary school, intending to be an equine vet. But I hurt my back, so I became a teacher and a mom. Now I have four wonderful kids (the oldest is a ’16) and have had my own successful tutoring business for 15 years. I wound my way down the circuitous path to the two jobs I was meant to have! All along the path, my husband, Tom ’85, and I have remained devoted to Dartmouth.” Paul Asel writes, “The path of least resistance—an optimal opportunity—is rarely a straight line. As in sailing, there are tacks and jibes along the way. I have had the privilege to live and work in six countries and travel to 100-plus more. Dartmouth changed me for the better. I never would have imagined this path in high school or in college, but am grateful for the Dartmouth experience in helping shape a path of lifelong learning and adventure.” Lee Merkle-Raymond shares, “I thought I wanted to be an engineer, but that was tougher than I expected, so I ended up financing tech companies. I’ve enjoyed being on the edge of engineering, talking with company founders and chief financial officers, evaluating technologies and finding ways to stay current with engineering while solving the financial puzzles.” She is the senior managing director and credit officer at Hercules Capital. Pam Taylor shared, “I wanted to be a writer, and I am! In my long and rather erratic career I have done everything from writing for local newspapers to freelancing for magazines and national papers to fiction and poetry, social media and fundraising for nonprofits and commentary. My current gig is with Patheos: www.patheos.com/blogs/for theloveofgod.” Jonathon Skurnik writes, “I wanted to be a filmmaker, and ended up as a filmmaker. Yay! I started out as an art guard in Venice, Italy; then an English as a second language teacher in Verona, Italy; then a temp in N.Y.C.; then an outdoor education teacher and curriculum writer in Brooklyn; then a computer consultant in N.Y.C.; then a literary magazine writer and editor in Brooklyn; then a documentary camera person; and, finally, a documentary filmmaker, educator and activist, which I’ve been doing for 22 years. I’m also a visual artist, showing my sculptures, paintings, and multimedia installations in galleries. Now I’m moving toward becoming a narrative film and TV writer and director and showing my work in galleries more consistently.” It is finished in beauty.

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com

Jayne Daigle Jones writes, “2017 has been a year of celebration for us! Back in the spring we celebrated the graduations of our daughter, Meaghan, and our son, Brendan, from Rochester Institute of Technology and Wheaton, respectively, and daughter Renee’s high school graduation. In July Meaghan married her college friend, Stephen Johnson, here in New Hampshire; in August we dropped off Renee to UNH; and on October 21 our son, Drew ’12, married Susan Hakes ’12 in California—so we had a wonderful family vacation out in sunny, southern California! While our family life is always full, it’s not always so full of joyous celebrations and travel. While attending Brendan’s graduation in Illinois, we were fortunate enough to stay with Dick ‘Art’ Krissinger, which is always special. Now we are back home and enjoying the fact that we have two new family members—and that we have entered the season of life of being in-laws—yikes! I now have the potential of being the dreaded mother-in-law. (Praying I avoid that!)” I asked, and received replies: Bill Wright’s oldest son, Cameron ’21, is a frosh this year. “The whole family is very excited and gives us a great excuse to visit Hanover frequently. We will be there for Homecoming!” Phillip Marchal writes, “My wife and I did indeed drop off our daughter, Isabella, a few weeks ago. Bella ’18 was herself amazed that she is already a senior. She is an art history major who is also completing the premed requirements. I cannot believe that her four years is shooting by just as fast as mine did. And while I may not have the chance to visit her in Hanover after this year, I will at least have a buddy who will be as eager as me to visit!” Kevin and Laura Lindner Sankey also have a son, Nolan ’21, who is loving his first term in Hanover. “His favorite place to study is the second floor of Berry. He had a great time on first-year trips; it happened to be the same trip that John Marchiony and I led when we were trip leaders.” Greg Lesko dropped off Emma ’21. Bill Ruhl writes: “My wife, Kimberly Klimek Ruhl ’87, and I were back to the Hanover Plain with our son, Ryan. We had a great time seeing all the new buildings on campus, taking the tour and he, particularly, enjoyed seeing my picture in the Zeta Psi house composite photos!” More about Bill’s new adventure in the next issue of DAM. Amy McCormick has launched a YouTube channel called Financial Freedom for Real People. It gives basic, common sense financial advice and information, extreme frugality tips, couponing tutorials and information, and cheap recipes. She writes, “I would be very appreciative of any support from the Dartmouth community—please subscribe and give thumbs-ups and leave comments and pass the channel onto anyone you know who is interested in saving money and getting out of debt. Many thanks!” In beauty, it is finished.

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com

The class of 1986 raised an extraordinary $1,466,022 this year for the FY2017 Dartmouth College Fund campaign, far exceeding our goal of $1,200,000. Three hundred seventy-five classmates made a gift (38-percent participation); 88 classmates gave a gift of $2,500 or more, joining the 1769 Society. Congratulations, class of 1986! We are so grateful for your continuing generosity to the Dartmouth College Fund. Marion Halliday and I missed the eclipse, but we discovered that we were mere hundreds of yards from each other, when we both posted photos of the opposite sides of Old Faithful in Yellowstone, Wyoming. Erik Roskes, M.D., who works in the Maryland Department of Health as a forensic psychiatrist, and I chatted in my backyard during his summer vacation to Orange County, Califorina, with his son and daughter. His job title alone was enough to impress my 15-year-old daughter, but after talking to Erik, she said that our Dartmouth friends are always so smart and very interesting. Thank you, Erik! The sisters of Delta Phi Epsilon-Epsilon Alpha chapter had their first reunion in Deer Valley, Utah, this fall. We began as friends and ended up sisters. Alex Gutterman, father of two and an avid sailor, is the executive producer, coproducer, storywriter, cowriter and codirector of In Winter, which world premiered in New York City at the Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema. Alex writes that the Dartmouth Club of N.Y.C., of which his late father was president, was quite supportive. Of significant note, classmate Siegfried Richter flew up from Tennessee. It was wonderful to see that many of Alex’s high school friends attended the premiere as well. This is the first time, although I am a member of Compassio, that I was the recipient of its love and care. I received a wonderful bouquet of flowers after my hip replacement surgery. A couple of weeks later, as I sat writing my mother’s obituary, I realized that this is the beginning of this phase in all our lives. Please remember, no matter our trials, the ’86 Compassio committee is always ready to step in. All requests are treated with great care and in complete confidence. Contact Harry Carrel, Lynn Nerland or Kelly Keller if you would like to be a resource or have a need. It is finished in beauty.

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com

The first Saturday in May is always Dartmouth’s Day of Service, so I wanted to highlight volunteers from our class. Dawn Ellen Carey shares: “Laura Gillespie and I cook a big dinner every other month at our local Dismas House, a residential program for former prisoners in Vermont. We dine with them as well, and really enjoy spending time with them, sharing a cozy meal. Now that we’ve been doing it for a while, I recognize some of the guys out in the community and love saying hi in another context.” Lynn Tracey Nerland in northern California writes: “On Wednesdays I spend my lunch with the kindergarteners at the nearby school doing basic lunchroom and playground monitoring. It is such a lovely break from my regular work. Today one of the kids gave me a big hug and told me that I smelled like the ‘Santa Cruz Boardwalk and that is a good smell.’ As I don’t wear perfume and wasn’t eating anything, I am not quite sure what it means other than to one 6-year-old boy I apparently smell like fried dough and rollercoasters!” Mary Frances Sabo is currently involved with her local library, raising funds to support various programs. However, her career has been dedicated largely to expanding access to health insurance, first at the New York State insurance department and then at its successor the department of financial services. She says, “I consider this to be public-community service. I have seen the positive effects of the ACA in New York and fear for its repeal.” From Nancy Woolf: “Most Saturday mornings for the past six years I have found myself driving with one of my teenaged children from our quiet New York City suburb to the barrio of East Harlem. Our trips are quiet as we would all rather still be home asleep. We are headed to the East Harlem School, a private middle school for underserved children in that neighborhood, where we will spend two hours tutoring and providing homework help for any students who show up for this voluntary ‘Saturday school.’ We are never sure if we will be helping with math, trying to explain how food chains work in the desert or simply listening to a student recite their poem for their annual poetry slam. What we do know is they are always thrilled to see us and their smiles when their work is completed is the best thank you. Our drives home are never quiet; instead, we are sharing their stories and knowing we gained as much from getting to know them as they got from our help.”

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com

Please join me in congratulating Mark Proctor, M.D., who has been named Boston Children’s Hospital’s new neurosurgeon-in-chief.

Mark earned his M.D. from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and went through the Harvard Business School leadership development program. In addition to founding several first-of-their-kind programs and services, Mark has taken on progressively demanding leadership roles, including director of neurosurgical spine and craniofacial program, director of the brain injury center, associate director of the residency program, vice chair of neurosurgery and president of the physicians’ organization.

He is also the president of the New England Neurosurgical Society and the incoming chair of the joint section of pediatrics of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the national organization for pediatric neurosurgery. He co-directs the annual Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School neurological sports injuries conference, now widely considered to be the premier national concussion and spine injury conference. Mark’s instrumental involvement in developing the nation’s first pediatric intra-operative MRI once again brought national attention to his work. The project was a clinical success and has been the subject of national meetings and highlighted in a live brain surgery webcast that he moderated and which went on to receive a national Webby Award.

Liz Shea Fries and John Marchiony write: “At a pseudo-official mini-reunion Bart and Krista Thomas Corr, Taraneh Azar ’89 and Mike Moody, Charlotte and Mark Proctor, Beth Kostman Cranston, Davida Sherman Dinerman, Thom Fries, Jim O’Shaughnessy, Janet Quigley Clay, Bruce Chaffee, Sarah Page and her parents, Dick (’54) and Jane, were blown away by Melinda Lopez performing her own show, Mala, which was simultaneously her autobiographical story and a conversation-starter for all of us who have, are or soon will be experiencing the inevitable part of life that is the death of parents and elders.” Boston Mayor Walsh declared October 29, 2016, Melinda Lopez Day.

Here is an update from Matthew Weatherley-White: “Wow. Crazy year. Have been bowling in the Truman Lanes at the White House, consulting with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation on its climate-change investment strategy, guest lecturing at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Oxford’s Saïd Business School, contracting at the White House on Pay For Success, snagging a first ski descent in central British Columbia, speaking in Parliament. Had enough media BS to last a lifetime. Was living in Vatican City for three days on assignment as advisor to the Vatican Bank and awarded a pile of patents for a financial technology company we’re spinning out. Only possible trajectory is down. Mic drop, anyone?”

After many years at companies as a software engineer and many more years doing his own work on the side, Robert Munafo hopes to enter into academic research. He has begun the M.S. program at Boston University’s electrical and computer engineering department as a full-time student and is enjoying the modern science, technology, engineering and math pedagogy (which he notes is far advanced from what we had in the 1980s!).

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com

The Compassio Committee network of the class of 1986 now numbers 108 people! Enthusiasm has run high since reunion and enrollment continues to grow. Please consider joining if you haven’t already done so: go to dartmouth86.com/compassio to sign up. Current Compassio efforts include sending cards and packages to Andy Gora, whose recovery from Guillain-Barre syndrome is painfully slow, and supporting classmates who are going through a difficult divorce, looking for a job after a period of employment, caring for a chronically ill spouse who is debilitated, helping a son fight cancer and sending condolence cards to classmates who have recently lost parents. Our Compassio efforts are contagious—recently Harry Carrel, Kelly Keller and Lynn Tracy Nerland spoke with two leaders of the class of 1951 who are about to launch “51 Cares” in the mold of our Compassio Committee, mind you, 65 years after they graduated from Dartmouth! Please reach out to Harry, Kelly or Lynn if you or a classmate you know is in need of our compassion.

More of our classmates find themselves back at Dartmouth with their children. Phil Marchal, Janeen Stone, Jack Bocock, Sara Goran Everhart, Erin and Teddy Conway, John Brady, Caroline Diamond Harrison, David Mott and Alicia Macri Lindgren were on campus for Sophomore Summer Parents Weekend. Sue Smith Sambrook, Ellen Stein, Wini and Sam Kinney joined the Dartmouth family ’tails celebration.

Jonno Williams has moved to New York to start his new job as director of admissions for New York University. He writes, “It is great being in the city that never sleeps, and I look forward to catching up with my N.Y.C. Dartmouth classmates, as well.”

Rob Gordon is raising two teens in the Miami area, where, in addition to managing a successful financial advisory business, he is also president of Bots For All, a nonprofit that provides curriculum, counsel and resources to local schools to build self-sustaining robotics and tinkering programs. Bots For All also provides employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for talented individuals in tech education and leadership. Those interested in becoming involved or supporting Rob’s efforts can find more information at Botsforall.org.

Steve Soble is the owner of Burnt City Brewing in Chicago. For the last 27 years he has opened 18 different restaurant businesses while preserving great Chicago buildings, including renovating an old Russian Turkish bathhouse into apartments and a restaurant. Back in the day the bathhouse was a place where politicians would feel comfortable meeting since no one could wear a wire. He also renovated the Harvard School into condos and built his own home there in what had been the high school gym. Since he could not bear living in the Harvard Condo Association, he created a separate Dartmouth Condo Association. Steve and his wife, Kendall, are now empty nesters. Their son, Matthew, works for a startup in N.Y.C. while their daughter, Isabel, is a rising senior studying art at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. He and his wife just celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary while in Hanover for the 30th reunion.

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com

As we read this, we might be at our 30th reunion. So if you see Andrew Schulz, the associate dean for research of the Penn State University College of the Arts, congratulate him on being elected to the board of directors of the College Art Association. Also on the academic side, Jeff Weiss was named as the next president of Lesley University in Boston and will begin his tenure on July 1. Jeff said, “This is “truly a 24/7 job, so, I am leaving (after close to 28 years with my truly wonderful partners and colleagues) Vantage, Tuck and West Point.” Jeff also recently published the HBR Guide to Negotiating and is working on a new book on leadership. Give a rouse for Liz McClintock, who wrote: “I defended my doctoral dissertation in December 2015 and am now officially a Ph.D. I received my doctorate in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and I will be hooded at graduation in May. The title of my dissertation is ‘Securing the Space for Political Transition: The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in Burundi.’ ” Liz is managing partner of CMPartners LLC, and executive director and chair of the board of directors of the Bridgeway Group. Davida Sherman Dinerman is proud to share that her daughter will be attending the University of Rhode Island this fall, majoring in nutrition on the nursing track. David Beach wrote, “I am appearing in Something Rotten on Broadway and will be for the foreseeable future. My husband of almost 28 years (gulp!), Russell Granet, and I have a 7-year-old daughter who also wants to get to the reunion to hang out with her godmother, Laura Gillespie. Since this is a big reunion year, we’ll see some transition in class officers. Here’s a quick message from our wonderful outgoing president, Kendall Burney Wilson: “Thank you to the 2011-16 executive committee of Harry Carrel, Krista Thomas Corr, Davida Dinerman, Chip Fleischer, Gary Greene, Mark Greenstein, Andrea Lordan, Liz McClintock, Jenny Plath, Walter Tsui, Nancy Stein Woolf and Stephen Von Oehsen for a successful tenure in which we focused on strengthening the bonds between members of our class as well as our bonds with the College. In order to do so, we took various actions, including creating the very active Compassio Committee that meets bimonthly; instigating a huge, annual Homecoming Weekend gathering that more than 100 people attended; launching random acts of kindness; actively supported Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS) each year of our tenure; adopting Dean Rebecca Biron as an honorary member of our class; and most recently, setting up the class of 1986 endowment for DPCS—a gift that ensures our lasting legacy at the College. Details of these endeavors can be found in the recent class newsletter that was mailed in April. Good luck to incoming president Mike McTernan, vice presidents Wini Welch Kinney and Nancy Stein Woolf, secretary Mabelle Drake Hueston and treasurer Todd Gomez. I know they will do a fantastic job leading our class during the next five years. Thank you also to our hardworking Dartmouth College Fund volunteers Peter Gibson, Jessica Healy and Lanie McNulty, who have taken an innovative, successful approach to raising money for the College. Finally, thank you to Mike McTernan, Sarah Page and the entire 30th reunion committee for an awesome reunion weekend in Hanover in June!”

—Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; (860) 666-7715; msg@ivybound.net

“Last spring,” Patricia Doykos wrote, “I had the privilege of becoming the chair of the board of Dartmouth’s new center for health equity, which our own Dr. Ellen Stein agitated for and was instrumental in shaping and getting off the ground when she was a student at the Medical School just a few years back. Special thanks to ’86s Lanie McNulty, Allison Barlow and Jessica Healy for letting us tap their great minds and networks as we build community around and resources for the Center. It’s housed at Geisel, but engages all Dartmouth schools. Check it out: geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/globalhealth/center-for-health-equity.” Kirsten Calvert Brady said, “I work as a healthcare consultant, focused on patient access, health and wellness in the life sciences industry. In mid-November I attended the Women of Dartmouth: Charting Your 4Cs workshop in Hanover and visited with Jennifer Harris Brown and family. It was an incredible and unique event, bringing together more than 60 women from graduating classes in the 1970s through the 1990s. When not attending regattas, dance recitals or hockey games, I’m painting and doing vinyasa yoga. In our spare time my husband and I renovate historic homes and will soon be launching our latest project, an historic brewery.” Sally (Gorman) Fitzhugh from Oakland, California, is “looking forward to spending some time in Hanover for the 30th reunion. My husband, Mike, and I just celebrated our 20th-year wedding anniversary in June. Saw Karen Blodgett at Ellen Wilson’s (’87) 50th birthday bash at the Lake Chalet in September. Took our two teenage boys, Will (age 16) and Nick (age 15), on a trek to Machu Pichu, Peru, combined with eco lodge adventure upriver in the Amazon this summer. Playing tons of tennis, some ultimate Frisbee and hoping there might be enough snow this winter for skiing in the Sierras.” Now a word from our reunion chairs Sarah Page and Mike McTernan: June 16-19 in Hanover promises to be warm, welcoming, familiar and refreshing as we return to Dartmouth for our 30th reunion. Our reunion theme is ‘Green takes 30 years off you’ and includes a terrific slate of events. Prior to the weekend those who wish can head to Mount Moosilauke to hike and stay at the Ravine Lodge and cabins. The Ravine Lodge is scheduled for a major renovation, so here’s our last chance to return to the lodge the way it looked back when. On campus we’ll be treated to awesome dinners at the Bema and in Rockefeller Commons. We’ll feel the deep bonds that continue to connect us as we gather at the class memorial service to celebrate the lives of classmates who left us far too early. We’ll lean in to hear the provocative perspectives of classmates who’ll give TED-style talks on various paths they’ve pursued during the past 30 years. Golf, tennis and a run will fuel our inner athlete of 30 years past. Of course, we’ll dance, clink glasses and socialize long into the evening at our class tent, where we’ll have some surprises. Throughout the weekend we’ll be rekindling friendships, catching up with those we see every five years and maybe those we’ve not seen since graduation. Our virtual 30th reunion headquarters is facebook.com/dart86—head there right now to find links to registration; news and photos of classmates will bring out your inner Green. Our reunion schedule is posted on www.alumni.dartmouth.edu/reunions/Classof1986 and will be continuously updated.”

Correction to the last notes: Brad Holt mobilized to Combined Joint Task Force in the Horn of Africa, in Djibouti (not Mogadishu), as deputy director and interim director of operations. He said, “We did conventional staff work coordinating with African partner forces, diplomatic teams and inter-agency partners.”

—Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 454-7553; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; (860) 666-7715; msg@ivybound.net

The class of ’86 Dartmouth 30th-year reunion is coming! The theme will be “Green takes 30 years off you.” Mark June 16-19, 2016, in your calendars! We might have a “first ever” this month; two people sent in the same news and included the other. One said, “I had a coincident encounter with another ’86 this summer so I just have to mention it.” The other said, “I have something cool to share.” These classmates, both computer science majors who did not know one another while at Dartmouth, are Susan McCormack and David Kotz. Their families went on a Dartmouth alumni travel safari to Tanzania in the summer. As David described it: “On our way to the first campsite, in Tarangire National Park, the guide mentioned that we were going to be sharing the first site with a group from Dortmund University.”

“That’s in Germany, right?” I said.

“No, USA: Dartmund University.”

Uh-oh. No way. “You mean Dartmouth?” I queried.

“Yes, that’s it! Dartmouth University!” he said.

They pulled into camp and met a Dartmouth alumni travel group with two professors and 12 other participants, including Susan and her family. Susan’s daughters were assigned pen pals from a local elementary school before the trip and were able to visit with them while we were there. David and Susan agreed that it was a magical tour. Susan might have said, “Dr. Kotz, I presume?” As this might have been more coincidental than early African explorer Stanley finding the thought-to-be-lost explorer Livingstone 144 years ago in modern day Tanzania! The past year was busy on the Dartmouth front for Mike Collins. He and several hundred Dartmouth alums have created a venture fund investing exclusively in Dartmouth-connected companies called the Green D Fund (www.thegreendfund.com). Said Mike, “It’s been a blast supporting alums building new companies with big ambitions—from curing cancer to rolling out a national chain of heroin addiction clinics to helping run fantasy football leagues.” Thanks to Lanie McNulty for tipping me off to some great news about Elisa Rush Port, chief of breast surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center and codirector of the Dubin Breast Center in Manhattan. Motivated by the challenges a woman can have when first diagnosed with breast cancer and trying to navigate an overwhelming amount of information, Elisa wrote a definitive guide to the screening, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of breast cancer specific to each patient. The book is titled The New Generation Breast Cancer Book and was released on September 22. You can find it on Amazon and www.randomhouse.com.au/books/elisa-dr-port/the-new-generation-breast-can.... Greg Labate,his wife and their two teenage children spent two weeks this summer traveling to Istanbul, where they visited one of his son’s soccer teammates, a high school exchange student. They also stopped off for a few days to go scuba diving in Malta and to visit the magnificent Azure Window on the nearby island of Gozo. This summer Bonnie Austin escaped the Washington, D.C., heat and spent a couple of weeks in Vermont and New Hampshire. In addition to passing through the Dartmouth campus, she enjoyed visiting with Wini and Sam Kinney at their beautiful home in Lyme, New Hampshire. Congratulations to Andrew Getraer’s twin boys Alec and Benjy, who entered their freshman year at Princeton in September. In August Matthew Weatherly-White and his firm Caprock Group, were profiled in the Idaho Statesmen for the company’s success in impact investing, an approach that focuses on supporting social and environmental improvement. This includes such areas as early education, equality in women’s issues, the environment, access to resources and food systems and general economic opportunity. Matthew said, “I am incredibly grateful to be inspired and enthusiastic about the work I get to do every day.”

—Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; (860) 666-7715; msg@ivybound.net

For Kathleen Bacon 2015 is the year of skiing. She and her family hit the Alps in St. Anton, Austria, during New Year’s. Then they took a brief jaunt to the Dartmouth Skiway in February to catch up with Jennifer Harris Brown and her family. Kathleen said, “I forgot that the chair lifts have hard seats and are unbelievably slow, but slipping down those sweet little slopes with Dartmouth friends was terrific.” March included Beaver Creek and in April she was in Albeck, Austria. Kathleen concluded, “Gotta pack it in while the legs are still willing.” David Kotz spent three days in Bangalore earlier this year. It was his annual trip to India for a conference and a visit to his one-time home on the campus at the Indian Institute of Science. Mary Frances Spatola Sabo got back to us about the “getaway” request. She and her family traveled to Aruba in February for their last big family getaway before the kids started to apply for college and drain finances. She said, “My son, Adam, 17, also had a getaway of his own when he went to New Mexico to interview for a Davis scholarship at United World College (UWC), one of 19 colleges in the UWC system. He ended up getting accepted and earning the scholarship. He will attend UWC in New Mexico for two years, earning an international business degree.” Lucy Mathews Heegaard wrote, “You asked about one of my favorite topics: travel. Dublin has been my destination three times in the past year. Our eldest child, a senior at NYU, spent half of last year studying there and in the course of visiting her I became totally enamored with the Emerald Isle.” Lucy maintains two blogs. One is called The Thirsty Kitten and is an outgrowth of her and her husband’s passion for wine. They consider themselves cheerleaders for small wineries of the world. The other blog, Studio-Lu, is intended as a little oasis from the daily grind. The wine-and-dine Dublin report is at http://thethirstykitten.com. The pause-and-reflect Dublin story is at http://studio-lu.net. I was happy to hear from Michelle (Montgomery) Ragsdale, D.V.M., who is a small-animal veterinarian running her own pain management and sports medicine practice. Apparently there are only a few in the country who do this. As she wrote, “A far cry from my English/history major days on the Green. I love what I do and wouldn’t trade it for the world, which is what it is all about. I continue the animal theme in my spare time, competing in various dog sports with my Labs and the new addition, a Border collie. That makes five dogs (and various foster dogs) and four birds in the house—a noisy, hairy, feathery, but fulfilling bunch! I have given up on keeping a neat house and have settled for clean. Jedi and I qualified for national championships in more than one venue this year, which was a lifetime goal for me.” “Hello from N.Y.C.!” said Will Rexer. He has a number of Dartmouth graduates in the film and television world. Last month Will worked on a TV pilot for ABC and Shonda Rhimes ’91 in Austin, Texas. The working title is The Catch. This August Public Morals, a new 11-part drama, comes out on TNT, produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Ed Burns and shot by our Will. The show takes place in the mid 1960s; think part Mad Men and part Sopranos.


—Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; (860) 666-7715; msg@ivybound.net


Karen Blodgett has been named as one of the Top 100 Women Financial Advisors by Financial Times newspaper. Karen is a director of wealth management at Aspiriant, one of the largest wealth management firms in the country, with $8 billion under management. Robert R. Douglass Jr. and his wife, Whitney, are busily handling a 1-year-old son named Robert R. Douglass III. Robert Jr. is the principal of Douglass Winthrop, an investment management firm that he cofounded in late 1999. Florence Lewis caught up with Allison Strawn and Annette Stephens at a birthday celebration in Houston in the fall. She said it was “fun reminiscing about our Dartmouth days and how we reconnected in Houston, where we all live.” Kathy (Gord) Callahan said she is “using her Dartmouth education to play with puppies.” During the past two years her family has fostered 45 pups. They take them in from a sad rural shelter, get them healthy, socialize them at this critical stage and nurture the heck out of them. Then the tough part: “We let them go. And yes, pretty much all of our friends here now have a dog. Crazily rewarding ‘work’ for me.” Andrea Strimling Yodsampa recently launched a social venture, Deploy Us, focused on practical, systems-oriented strategies to mitigate global climate change. It is working to bring together military, business and faith leaders, who are concerned about climate change, to increase their collective voice and impact on public opinion and U.S. national policy. “We are working with entrepreneurs, investors and lawyers on an impact investment structure that links equity investment in clean tech to strategic policy work on climate and energy policy, creating a market-based ‘on-ramp’ to civic engagement by a broader cross-section of citizens.” Betsy (Crawford) Ragan moved from Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Boston and is working for a marketing consulting firm that specializes in marketing continuing medical education. She and her family are involved in the Boston Dartmouth alumni club, organizing community service opportunities and volunteering for the local food bank and other local concerns. She is also a member of a book group arranged by women of Dartmouth. Her son, Jimmy, is a ’16 and majors in music and education. Her daughter, Sarah, loves Vassar (class of ’17) and is also considering an education major. Another son, Joseph, is in the class of ’18 at Boston University Academy. Give a rouse for Chris Demos-Brown. One of his plays, Fear Up Harsh, received a Steinberg Citation, one of the most prestigious awards for new American plays. I am writing this at the end of December, as we close a chapter on another year. We have celebrated, and we have mourned. Take time to think about the people who influence your life. To quote Thomas Jefferson, “But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.” May 2015 bring health, happiness, good friendships and good fortune to us all.


—Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721 (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; (860) 666-7715; msg@ivybound.net


If the snow has not fallen yet in Hanover, it will soon. But let’s turn back to summer to learn what some of our classmates did. Adam Rugg wrote from Coventry, United Kingdom, that he had just returned from a trip to Barcelona for FAB10 and would be heading to Vermont to visit family. It was a rare trip to the United States for his U.K.-born 10-year-old, Eddie. They also planned to tour Dartmouth. W. 9 Sanders was in the Kasilof River on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, where she spent 15 hours dip-netting sockeye salmon. As the high tide entered the mouth of the glacial river the salmon swam up and into her big, metal, hand-held nets. They hit like a ton of bricks, throwing her off balance in chest-deep, glacial waters. As 9 put it, “Roll the net over, struggle up the muddy bank and dive on the thrashing salmon before it escapes. Dinner for four!” Give a rouse to Ellen Glaser Rafshoon, who wrote from Atlanta. She is an associate professor of history at Georgia Gwinnett College, a four-year college that is part of the University of Georgia. She teaches and writes about postwar U.S. history. One son, Michael, is a junior at Elon University, majoring in psychology and planning to study in Israel this spring. Joseph, 15, is a sophomore at Woodward Academy and is on the tennis team. She and her husband, Scott ’87, returned to their honeymoon site of France with their sons this summer. “Thanks to Dartmouth,” Ellen said, “I was able to communicate pretty well in French.” Dan Katzir traveled to Istanbul and Mykonos in June. In September he hit the craps table in Vegas with Mike Collins, Kara and Jaime Gruver and Becky Collins ’87. “Knowing how these things go, Kara will likely walk away with big cash winnings while the rest of us lose our shirts and enjoy the ‘free’ cocktails.” Another huzzah to Erik Roskes, M.D., who was appointed clinical director of the office of forensic services for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. In this role he oversees forensic evaluation services provided to criminal courts in Maryland, including evaluations related to mental disorder, developmental disability and addiction. Erik continues to maintain a private forensic and clinical psychiatric practice. Whitney Thier moved to Nassau, Bahamas, to become the new general counsel of Baha Mar. Classmates welcome! Check out the new Dartmouth Alumni Magazine (www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com), with exclusive news, notes and a digital archive of every DAM issue. In closing, we are saddened to report that we lost two dear classmates in June. Nitza Delgado Hollinger fought a valiant battle against cancer but ultimately lost and found peace in her final days. Her inspirational book, Through the Trials Just Believe, is on several websites, including Amazon and http://bookstore.xlibris.com. The Compassio Committee and network offered tremendous support to Nitza during the past two years. Some of its members have spearheaded an effort to raise money for her boys’ college education. As of August more than $24,000 has been raised. The day after Nitza passed away, John Adam Malonis, M.D., tragically lost his life in a car accident while he and his wife were driving to pick up their daughter from camp. The Compassio Committee sent a condolence card to John’s family and offered additional support. We also made a donation on behalf of our class to support John’s son’s fundraising efforts with the Texas 4000 charity to bike from Austin, Texas, to Anchorage, Alaska, in John’s honor. The class of ’86 sends its most heartfelt condolences to both families. You can read more at www.dartmouth86.org.


—Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; (860) 666-7715; msg@ivybound.net


As part of Impact86, which strives to promote volunteerism and good deeds among our classmates, March 27 was the 86th day of 2014, representing our annual Random Acts of Kindness Day. Several people shared their acts on our class site, www.dartmouth86.com. Chris Porche wrote: “I drafted a grant to support Roots of Empathy at the elementary school nearby to Capitol Hill Foundation, a local community foundation. The school received designation as an Ashoka change-maker school in 2013; as a public school it must secure community support to proceed and invest in teacher training geared toward encouraging positive change, emotional quotient development in youth and diminish aggressiveness linked with bullying in the school community.” Fingers crossed! Lali (Jayasankar) Haines became a certified yoga instructor five years ago. She wrote, “I teach hot yoga and prenatal yoga. I perform in community theater on a regular basis in suburban Boston. Next I play Grace Clements in a production of Working in Acton, Massachusetts. I combine my love of gynecology and acting by helping with informational videos for www.youngwomenshealth.org.” Lali has been married to Jay Haines ’87 for nearly 25 years and lives in her hometown of Weston, Massachusetts. Her oldest son Chris will be graduating from Franklin & Marshall this May, daughter Emily is a freshman at Colgate University and son Will is a sophomore at Weston High School. During the winter her family journeyed to Lake Placid, New York, to watch Emily and her collegiate team at a figure skating competition (gold medal!). Lali practices pediatric and adolescent gynecology at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dorn Bishop was elected to the board of directors of the U.S. Backgammon Federation, where he brings legal and business judgment. His courtroom experience and service as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California will be helpful to the board in evaluating issues that come before it.


After 27 years and many life experiences later, Robin Goldstein is taking a breath, re-evaluating and altering her path. She wrote, “Several years ago after completing my Ph.D. in psychology and working in research I started working with parents, supporting their efforts to better understand their children’s emotional and cognitive development. I helped parents think about their children in new ways and to advocate for them in the school system. I realized working with children’s parents and caregivers was a very effective way to better children’s lives. From this work I saw parents’ need for a therapeutic component. As of January I began work as a psychotherapist with adults who desire to be more comfortable and satisfied within themselves in their interactions with their children and others. Being a full-time parent is my most significant work to date and continues to present me with unique opportunities to learn about myself. As I strive to live a conscious, compassionate and fully present life for myself and my children I am now in a position to help others who want the same for themselves. To be conscious of where one’s actions come from and to act on choices from a place of self-knowledge is the work I support in my practice. I would enjoy hearing from fellow graduates. I can be reached through my website, www.robincgoldstein.com.” Jeff Capwell ran the fall Savannah (Georgia) Rock and Roll marathon. “I have worked up to the point where I try to run at least two long races a year—a half marathon and a full marathon. It has allowed me to meet some great people through the years. I encourage any of our classmates who have never run a marathon to give it a try.”


—Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; (860) 666-7715; msg@ivybound.net


I’m in mourning for the first love of my life—Farrah Fawcett. Though I trashed most everything else from high school (or burned it—yes, I am one of those pyro boys), I kept my Loomis Chaffee School notebook because I had carefully adorned it with Farrah photos. The burnt-orange bathing-suited Farrah poster hung in the basement rec room beside two other 1970s toys: the pinball machine and the Atari. Anyone remember Pong? or the 27 versions of tank Combat? No mourning here for Michael Jackson, but my prediction is that 10 years from now he will rival Elvis in imitations and sightings.


I made freshman-year roommate Sam Hartwell my first LinkedIn contact. After 23 years I learn Sam is in Kenya! He is CFO and treasurer of KickStart International, a nonprofit enterprise headquartered in San Francisco. KickStart develops and markets new technologies, which are bought by entrepreneurs. The mission is to help make impoverished Africans more productive. Sam is based in Nairobi and has oversight for engineering projects throughout South Central Africa.


Ellen Rafshoon just completed her first year of teaching for newly formed Gwinnett College, near Atlanta. She is a professor of history and she is in charge of the history curriculum. 


And Greg Nerland writes of himself and Lynne Nerland: “I am an attorney, self-employed, in Walnut Creek, California. Lynn is city attorney for Antioch, California.” Now, the earth-shattering news (beware, street riots could ensue): “This has been an eventful year for the Nerland family. We have the same jobs as last year, live in the same house, enjoy the same activities (but have aged a year) and our boys Zachary and Matthew are now 17 and 13 instead of 16 and 12. We did, however, acquire a Jack Russell Terrier named Chloe.” I pried and tried to elicit more of the “you, your world, and how you make it better,” but only got more on the terrier: “She is very cute, but some days cute is all she has going for her. The dog means I wake up at 5:30 a.m. to watch her pee, poop, eat and, some days, go back to sleep, while on others want to go for a long walk up and down hills.” 


I don’t want to take away from news solicited by John Marchiony for the upcoming (mailed) newsletter. So you can expect to read about Macri, Hueston, Hastings and Gillespie without me as a conduit. See photos too! I can relay from Laura Gillespie that she is in Hanover year-round and spends a lot of time with classmate and “co-party planner extraordinaire” Dawn Carey. Laura plans to see David Beach and his 10-month-old daughter in Hanover over July 4th weekend. That’s two mentions of Beach in a row. If a third comes my way, then Beach gets to write the next column.


—Mark Greenstein, 20 North Quaker Lane, West Hartford, CT 06119; msg@ivybound.net


I’m pleased to be starting Year 4 as secretary. Thank you for making my work generally fun. Your votes also “steered” me (rightly or wrongly) to the Galapagos for my next vacation to swim with penguins and dolphins. I will head there when SAT season ebbs.


We begin with a “college dropout”—after 18 years of teaching and directing international programs at Hanover College in Indiana Ted Farrell enrolled in law school at the University of Louisville and is now a 3L. Ted intends to specialize in immigration law with a focus on employment-based immigration for universities and hospitals. Ted, Fiona (13) and Silas (10) returned to New Hampshire to hike Moosilauke this summer in pea-soup fog and stay at the Ravine Lodge. “I see Marion Halliday and John Fendig and play online scrabble with Lisa Richardson.”


Also in Hanover this summer: Mark Irish, who spent seven weeks doing two shows at the Lebanon Opera House. “I’m finally making it legal with my partner of nearly 18 years. The honeymoon will be during peak foliage in Maine. Will send pictures after I’m officially hitched.”


More Hanover—permanently until he gets another 12-month sabbatical: David Kotz is Dartmouth professor of computer science; his wife is a pediatrician at DHMC. They spent the last 11 months in India, “from the southernmost tip at Kanyakumari to the far north near Darjeeling.” What we miss most are the friendly people and the fabulous food!” On the way home they toured Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, all with their children (ages 8, 10, 12).


Kathleen Holland Bacon has been in London for 16 years. “Married to a Brit (Andrew), have three British children and work for a private equity fund of funds. Hobbies include cricket, rugby and darts. Just kidding. I’ve swapped my squash racquet for a tennis racquet and my sorority get-togethers for book club. I’ve stopped road tripping to places like Boston and Montreal and now go to Paris, Barcelona and Stockholm.”


Janice Kuhn is now the mother of baby Chelsea Isabella Charles. She and husband Gary Charles live in vibrant Yonkers, New York. When not caring for the baby Janice is in business development at Sidley Austin, a global law firm. “They have been very good to me and give me a lot of flexibility.” And Wade Manaker became a father this spring. He and his bride are in Argentina. Wade serves as an M.D. for the U.S. military. Robert Munafo is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, doing scientific research, and in October married his companion. He has a taste for extropianism—extropians believe in boundless expansion, and pursue “space development,” “cryonics,” “life extension,” “artificial intelligence” and “smart drugs.” He was tangentially involved in the “Green is the new Crimson” banners now seen around the Harvard campus. (Nice innuendo: insidious, Orwellian, looming Dartmouth takeover of Harvard—good work.)


Best entry came from Krista Thomas Corr. In brief she’s still working on public corruption cases for the FBI in Boston. In full visit www.dartmouth86.org (or hang on for the Marchiony winter newsletter) to read of mooching throughout the United States with the mantra “you don’t need to own the boat, you just need to know the person that owns the boat.” She and Bart welcome return ’86 “moochers” to their home in Newton, Massachusetts.


—Mark Greenstein, 20 North Quaker, West Hartford, CT 06119; (860) 224-6688; msg@ivybound.net


The last minute notice brought out many replies. Thank you! Space limitations mean the bulk of these will go into the March notes at www.dartmouth86.org. None came from the South Beach Wine Fest in Miami, which ended today, but maybe we’ll get some reports once y’all become unsauced. 


Meanwhile I started the weekend at the antithesis of a wine fest: at a grungy DMV. The 16-year-olds who passed their driver tests seemed to enjoy their DMV experience; and the staff is friendlier than 30 years ago. They allow you to re-do bad photos now. Mine took three tries; 46-year-olds need it. Hey, in 13-and-change years we will be 60. Are we middle-aged? Ha! Life expectancy tables say the middle third of life for the average American male started at 25! In less than five years, statistically, we enter the final third (except the Hagermans, who stopped aging at 23). I’m eyeing future wine fests.


So here are two snippets from December and from three who “rushed” to make “noyes”:


Nanny Pope Noyes is excited that her and her husband’s Navy ship is in the Martin Scorcese-directed movie Shutter Island. “My husband drove the 133-foot ship in the movie and is in the credits under marine crew. I just finished a show with Meg Garretson Carter in Virginia. Meg sells fabulous jewelry creations (Meg Carter Designs) and I sell Leontine Linens, made by sweet ladies in Kentucky. My three kids are all away, two in college, Syracuse and St. Lawrence (no love from the Big Green, sadly), and one is a junior at Holderness.”


Keith Noyes is once again a new dad: “Daughter two, Luka Noyes, was born last November, looking amazingly like her older sister Kaya did. We just went on a family ski holiday to Japan and Kaya skied between my legs on some plastic skis the day before her second birthday and 3-month-old Luka took a couple of runs in a front-facing Baby Bjorn. Both look forward to tearing up the Dartmouth Skiway one day.”


Elisa Rush Port rushed to tell me that after 11 years as a cancer surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital she is about to become chief of breast surgery at Mount Sinai Medical in Manhattan. Husband Jeff is a thoracic surgeon who in his “spare time” founded a medical technology company called RF Surgical. “We have two children, Zachary, 11, and Lauren, 9. They are great. Hysterically funny and way too much New York City kids for this San Diego girl.”


John Patterson wrote in late December: “In addition to my day job in interactive advertising at Meredith Corp. I recently published a children’s book, Roberto’s Trip to the Top, and am making movies with my film development company, Arcady Bay Entertainment. Our first film was Bridge to Terabithia in 2007; our current dramatic short, Open Air, is making the festival rounds.”


James McKown wrote: “Five years ago I resigned my law firm partnership to found Recovery Data Connect (RDC). I helped grow RDC to become the nation’s leading subrogation claim identification service and in December Vivious Holdings purchased RDC.” James will continue as the executive vice president for the larger company. He lives in the Kansas City, Kansas, area with wife Meg and sons Cole and Cade.


And Drew Dorweiler is in his 21st year in Montreal. He holds one of my favorite jobs: expert witness. He is also a fraud investigator, commercial arbitrator, hosts a weekly U.K. indie music radio show and is business manager for two prominent U.K. bands: Kav and Exit State. Drew is treasurer of the Libertarian Party of Canada and plays hockey three times weekly.


—Mark Greenstein, 117F Brittany Farms, New Britain, CT 06053; (860) 224-6688; mgreenstein@collegenannies.com


Our news is from two newlyweds, who also gave us their summer agendas. New Jersey-based Leslie Lobell writes: “I got married on May 30. For my husband, Eric, and me, this is the summer/fall of honeymoons. We took it easy the week after our wedding, going to the Wolverton Inn for a couple nights (who knew that Stockton, New Jersey, would have one of the 10 ‘most romantic B&Bs’ in the country?) and then the Jersey shore. We were in Cape Cod for 10 days in early July. We are taking two weeks off in September for a ‘real’ honeymoon: We are still debating between relaxing in the Greek Islands vs. touring London, Paris and Germany. Oh, yeah, and we are doing a little work in between those things. So far, married life is great!” 


Newlywed Kendall Burney Wilson wrote from Vail, Colorado, in June that her family was “hiking, rafting and playing a lot of card games. We are having a great time just hanging out together. In August we will venture to San Miguel, Mexico, for a week before returning to a busy fall involving college applications and ‘senior flurry.’ ” 


This is not Mexico’s senor flurry, but the well-known-to-those-with-teens stress period that drives college applicants to illness, fighting with parents and little sleep. Though not yet a parent, I have been surrogate parent for college admissions to more than 4,000 college-bound students. I have more than 500 such teens this year in my SAT/ACT prep programs and advise those with juniors and younger to start the college credentialing process early. And plan to finish early: Most of my students are now on cruise-control, and more than half will apply early decision. It seems like more than half of them will apply to Dartmouth. Our alma mater happens to be a hot school. Most of us would not be accepted with our 1981 credentials if we applied today.


More from ’86s chiming in this summer: Shep Kopp is happy and healthy in San Francisco. His dad, Quentin Kopp ’49, continues to write to me and likes being an honorary class of ’86. Dartmouth’s associate dean of the faculty for the sciences David Kotz spent a year doing research at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. “My wife and I were Fulbright Scholars, and our three kids went to the international school and made many new friends. We loved India.”


“I never thought that fatherhood would be this cool!” writes Niko Skipitaris. “My wife and I are enjoying our 2-year-old son Loukas. Having the little guy hold my hand and say ‘Dada’ makes the stress of the day at work melt away.”


And John Patterson wrote from New York City: “In addition to my day job in interactive advertising at Meredith Corp., I recently published a children’s book—Roberto’s Trip to the Top—and am making movies with my film development company, Arcady Bay Entertainment. Our first film was Bridge to Terabithia in 2007; we currently have the film adaptation of another of my mother’s books, The Great Gilly Hopkins.”


—Mark Greenstein, 20 North Quaker Lane, West Hartford CT 06119; (860) 224-2144; msg@ ivybound.net


Happy spring, as I write this on Christmas Eve Day. Todd Beane is directing John Cruyff Football in Barcelona, Spain, working with professional youth academies at AJAX, Melbourne, Pretoria. “I want to bring expertise to many youngsters so we will launch a totaal voetbal (TOVO) app in a few months to help develop young soccer players around the world,” said Todd. Scott Jaynes reported that he started a new job in January as a research and development manager at Croda Inc., a specialty chemical company in Edison, New Jersey. He is still living in New City, New York, with his wife and four boys, ages 17 to 6. Dan Kollmorgen wrote in: “My wife, Karen, and I recently celebrated our 22nd anniversary. We are enjoying a little more time together these days after sending our first, Kellen, to college in August. He is a freshman at Montana State University and is on the football team. I’ve tried to convince Karen that good parents would have a condo in nearby Big Sky resort—negotiations are ongoing! Our youngest, Anna, is a high school junior and busy with soccer, basketball and classes. I am now serving as the chairman of surgery at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, where I also teach surgical residents and act as medical director of the cancer center. The scope of cancers I treat ranges from breast and melanoma to liver and pancreas. Lots of sad, difficult and complex cases are balanced with the hope provided by new developments in cancer care and treatment.” John C. Hueston of Irell & Manella LLP was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in America. Last year he played a major role in winning the Tronox Trust v. Kerry/McKee case, which was called the largest environmental fraud case ever. Dan Katzir, a leading expert in public education reform, is a coeditor of The Redesign of Urban School Systems: Case Studies in District Governance (Center for Reform of School Systems and Harvard Education Press). The book offers original case studies that examine real public school boards struggling to enact major reforms in their districts. Dan said that he also serves on the Rockefeller Center board so he gets to Hanover twice a year. The news in the Jeff House house is that twin daughters are new members of the Dartmouth class of 2018. Jeff is also excited to be able to get back to Hanover on a more frequent basis. Jeff is working hard at his own consulting firm to be able to pay for college. Chris Demos Brown performed in his play, Fear Up Harsh, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami in November. It’s about a medal-of-honor winner who is confronted with some disturbing facts about the events that earned him the award and, more generally, about how awards corrupt those who give them and those who get them. The play was nominated for a Steinberg Award, a very prestigious playwriting award given by the American Theatre Critics Association, and was just chosen the top drama of the 2013 South Florida theater season by the Miami New Times. Heid Erdrich reported a visit from Maebelle Drake Hueston, who “whomped up” some Navajo tacos at Heid’s sister Angie’s (’87, DMS’94) house in Minneapolis. Heid’s newest book, titled Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes from the Upper Midwest, came out last year from Minnesota Historical Society Press. 


Also, seen on Facebook: Bill Rodgers said, “I am happy to share that my daughter will be a member of Columbia’s class of 2018.” I can also report that Bill serves on the U.S. board of directors for United Way Worldwide.


Erik Roskes is “very proud of my daughter’s early-decision acceptance to Johns Hopkins, class of 2018, where she joins her brother, class of 2014.”


—Davida (Sherman) Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; msg@ivybound.net


We start with some back-to-the-necessary, with one of our class’s few farmers. Walter Jeffries has expanded his family’s Topsham, Vermont, farm into a premiere producer of naturally pastured pigs. His Sugar Mountain Farm is in its 10th year as a naturally raised and no-weird-stuff farm. Walter, wife Holly and children Will, Ben and Hope are building an on-farm butcher shop with natural cooling systems. Backwoods Home magazine listed Walter as one of the “Ten Real Inspirations” for 2009 for his work to protect traditional rights to farm, fighting against the National Animal Identification System. He is one our class’ most prolific writers. His http://sugarmtnfarm.com blog covers goose eggs, boar and basting poultry, to name a few nature and nutrition topics. Walter writes a regular column, “A Day In The Life” for Livin’ The Vermont Way magazine, Mother Earth News, The Valley News, Burlington Free Press and other publications. Sugar Mountain appears in the new book Primal Cuts: Cooking with America’s Best Butchers.


More publishing: Heid E. Erdrich’s most recent book is Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems. Her cookbook, Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes from the Upper Midwest, is due out at the end of 2013 from the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Heid directs Wiigwaas Press, an Ojibwe language publisher, and the Birchbark House Fund for endangered languages. She reports: “Mabelle Drake Houston made frybread for me and my sisters and all our kids last year, and Ray Burns is president of Lac du Orielle Tribal and Community College on his home reservation in Wisconsin.”


Mary Finegan writes, “My oldest graduated from Boston University and will be starting a six-month postgraduate film and television program in Los Angeles. This leaves me free to ski, hike and travel on my three-day weekends and my vacation weeks! Happy to host guests who want to join me or to meet ’86ers in their neck of the woods.”


Marion Halliday is getting back into tennis “happily back down to a 4.0 rating; it’s fun to have more Ws than Ls again.” Her eldest son, Rob, is completing freshman year at Tufts, majoring in mathematics; younger son Sam will be heading to Wake Forest in the fall on a running scholarship.


Jeffrey “Jones” Morrison writes: “I completed my 25th year as a history teacher at Greens Farms Academy [GFA] in Westport, Connecticut. My son Soren (9) and daughter Byrn (12) attend the school. My wife, Kate, is dean of students at GFA. We live in Weston, Connecticut. I am pleased to note that GFA has sent, in recent years, a number of very talented students to Dartmouth.”


Peter Gibson writes that he, Greg Dow, Scott Rabschnuk, Liz Fries, Sarah Page, Teddy Conway, Caroline Diamond, Jessica Healy all attended an April dinner in honor of Sarah’s dad, Richard Page ’54. 


Mark Proctor finished Harvard’s eight-month program in leadership development in preparation for being president of the Physician’s Organization at Boston Children’s Hospital. Mark is vice chairman of neurosurgery there. Son Max went to the finals of the state tennis tournament and heads to Hamilton’s class of 2017. Son Kenny is an avid rower for Community Rowing on Boston’s Charles River; his boat took bronze at the North East Junior Championships. 


Mark is one of 11 profiled crew members in coach Whit Mitchell’s book, Working In Sync. All 11 were members of the freshman heavyweight crew boat, getting together soon after we all arrived in fall 1982 and going on to great success on the water. Others are Charlie Peterson, Dan Kollmorgen, Garth Mark, Hans Stander, Malcolm McIvor, Mike Rich, Sam Hartwell, Sam Kinney, Scott Sandell and Wolf-Dietrich Weber. 


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


We got our green on! From hikes, water sports and yoga to presentations by President Kim, professors and our own classmates, reunion was a resounding success. Good weather greeted 900 classmates and guests. To those of you who couldn’t make it—we missed you, and would love to see you in five years (or less—at mini-reunions). Extended news of classmates is now on www.dartmouth86.org. We’ll resume snippets here next issue. Until then: At this writing, there are 108 pictures on the Dartmouth 1986 Facebook page at www.facebook.com/Dart86#!/Dart86?sk=photos. Go there!


But if you are anti-technology, our 25th reunion in brief:


Near-record attendance for a 25th reunion (second time);


No arrests.


And compared with our other reunions we consumed less beer, produced more sweat (on dance floor; this was not an intimate scientific survey) and made far better karaoke harmony.


Geoff Parker and his reunion team did a fantastic job. Nine hundred of us thank you!


We raised more than $3,000,000 for the Alumni Fund, and the class of 1986 has a 53.2-percent participation rate. (This too might be record-breaking. Stay tuned.) Huge thanks to Sam Zales, his team of class agents and those who contributed. Another note of thanks to Jeff Weiss, outgoing president, and Bruce Chafee, outgoing vice president, for their outstanding leadership through the past five years. A hearty welcome to Kendall Burney Wilson, our new class president. She will be joined by Jenny Plath, vice president for class projects, and Krista Thomas Corr, vice president for mini-reunions. Davida and I will continue as co-secretaries. Andrea Lordan continues as treasurer.  


If you did not submit a page to the reunion book, there is still time! Go to www.dartmouth86.com/reunion-book/please-submit-materials-to-the-reunion-.... We attended a very special place; help Dartmouth and us live on energetically!


—Mark Greenstein, 117F Brittany Farms, New Britain, CT 06053; (860) 224-6688; msg@ivybound.net; Davida (Sherman) Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com


First, a message from our new class president, Kendall Burney Wilson: “More than 400 classmates gathered in Hanover in June for reminiscing, reflecting and even reliving our college days. A heartfelt thank you to Geoff Parker and the amazing reunion team for the countless hours they spent planning and executing a phenomenal weekend. Here’s a full listing of our class officers: president: Kendall Burney Wilson; VP, mini-reunions, Krista Thomas Corr; VP, special projects: Jenny Plath; secretaries Davida Dinerman and Mark Greenstein; treasurer, Andrea Lordan; webmaster, Walter Tsui; representative for Dartmouth Partners in Community Service, Chip Fleischer; representative to the Alumni Council, Gary Greene; compassio committee chair, Harry Carrel; members at large, Patrick Donovan, Mark Gies, Jim Kallman, Liz McClintock, Scott Rabschnuk, Bill Ruhl and Stephen Von Oehsen.


“There are many ways to stay in touch with classmates. Our class website is www.dartmouth86.com, and we have an active Facebook page, Dartmouth 1986. Thanks to Walter, you can offer your input on or even become involved in everything our class executive committee is organizing. You can send pictures to our website by sending them to d86web@gmail.com or posting them on Facebook.”


We are publishing a reunion book supplement for people who forgot to submit to the original book. Find a template and instructions on how to submit at www.dartmouth86.com. You may also submit any correction to the original book. 


Help! We need a class newsletter editor to take over for John Marchiony, who dedicated many years to creating a fabulous newsletter for us! The College has an entire staff of people ready to help the newsletter editor, including a newsletter intern. Interested? Contact d86web@gmail.com.


Inspired by the 25th reunion’s moving memorial service, Harry Carrel, Kelly Keller and Alex Rossides have formed a new committee called the Compassio Committee of the Class of ’86 (“compassio” is Latin for compassion). The committee will focus on caring for classmates who are seriously ill or have a spouse or child who is seriously ill. It will reach out to the affected classmate in a caring way, offering comfort and compassion. It will serve as a network for our classmates who need support the most. If you are interested in joining the committee, please contact Harry Carrel at hjcarrel@optonline.net. Harry, Kelly and Alex welcome more classmates to the committee. 


From the e-mail bag: Across the pond Todd Beane has been appointed to head of Johan Cruyff Football Ltd. and is in Johannesburg implementing a professional soccer academy for the Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club of South Africa. And Sam Lardner brought his oceans alive program from Barcelona, Spain, to Barrington, Rhode Island, in mid-September to support Save the Bay. David Schnabel sent in some happy news that on September 9 James Minter (David’s partner of 21 years) and he got married. “We’re thrilled by the passage of the marriage equality law in New York. We met on September 9, 1990; registered as N.Y.C. domestic partners on September 9, 1996; and had a commitment ceremony on September 9, 2000. The wedding took place in the Shakespeare Garden of New York City’s Central Park.” David is closing in on 16 years at the National Association of Episcopal Schools, where he handles communications and events.


By August 15 John Marchiony will have ridden in his sixth Pan-Mass Challenge. John said, “Walter Tsui also has ridden five or six times though I’ve never seen him during the ride!” On August 5, Kendall Burney Wilson wrote, “It is literally 110 degrees here, and all of us from Dallas are seriously considering relocation, at least for all future summers.” At the end of August she took her oldest daughter, Lauren, to Emerson College for her first year.


—Davida (Sherman) Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 117F Brittany Farms, New Britain, CT 06053; (860) 224-6688; msg@ivybound.net


For the first time in a while, we have no direct international input. For the July/August column, I’d like to publish exclusively international updates.


For now, we’ll begin in New York City: Holly Webber’s comedy, Pratfalls, which won the Playwrights First Award in 2008, will play at the Abingdon Theatre, opening April 27 (see groundupproductions.org). Holly writes: “It’s a play about falling down, set on a rooftop in Brooklyn, with a middle-aged comedian as its central character. My 3-year-old son Wogene Jesse Webber, adopted in Ethiopia in 2010, started preschool this year and is already a true New Yorker who loves eating bagels, hailing cabs and hanging out in Central Park. He also has the soul of a performer, and when he heard about my show he said, ‘Why not I be in your play?’ and started doing pratfalls. I told him maybe the next one.”


From New York’s capital, Albany, Mary Frances Sabo is now adding to her lawyering and mothering with a service project at a soup kitchen for the homeless for the local Dartmouth club. She adds: “I took two of my kids to a Dartmouth/RPI hockey game in Troy near my home. I wasn’t sure what to expect as I only went to one hockey game in Hanover. It was a lot of fun. We were outnumbered so sat with the family of one of the players, Nick Walsh ’12.”


Virginia Rhoads is an ex-investment banker and now a personal fulfillment guide for a firm she and her husband started—Jempe Center (www.jempecenter.com). She writes from Washington State, “We’ll be leading our inaugural two-week trip to Chilean Patagonia this coming November for a select group of our life/leadership development clients. I am feeling fortunate to partner with my husband in our business.”


Melinda Lopez is in northern Massachusetts but visited Cuba in November on a trip combining research for her play, Becoming Cuba, set during the Cuban War of Independence. “Closer to home, I’ve helped found Munroe Saturday Nights, a performance venue bringing high-quality performance, play readings and poetry slams to metro-west Boston. I went snowboarding at the Dartmouth Skiway—why did I never go during school? It’s great! Visited campus and there was no snow! Too weird to see brown grass on the Green in late February.


Christina Porshe and her son engaged in an auspicious mother-son bonding: “My son and I both enrolled in Brazilian jujitsu this fall. I took a break for Christmas and after many plaintive entreaties I re-enrolled this past month and my chin is looking a little rough. I still am not ready to complete a cartwheel, but I executed my first effective takedown last week (it was not against my son) before I was vanquished.” Her son is 5.


Maybe Christina’s son will some day impress Genevieve, the 6-year-old daughter of Sarah Wauters and husband Steve. Sarah writes from Santa Monica, California: “My career has been a constant adventure, working after law school as a corporate transaction attorney and then as an entertainment attorney at MGM, Polygram Filmed Entertainment and then on my own. I used the freedom of sole practice to work with filmmakers and produce films, but eventually I launched my dream career of being a photojournalist and photo-artist. I shot on assignment all over the country for publications such as The Washington Post, Wired Magazine, Teen People, Elle, etc. However, once my 40s loomed, I thought, maybe I better think about having a family and staying home long enough to do so! I signed on with a renewable energy company starting at the bottom (yikes!). I head up the new southern California office for my company, Sun Light & Power, which designs and builds solar power and solar hot water systems for commercial entities.”


—Mark Greenstein, 117F Brittany Farms, New Britain, CT 06053; (860) 224-6688; msg@ ivybound.net; Davida (Sherman) Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com


Liz McClintock was the first to reply to my call for scoop, so she gets to start off this column: “I was accepted as a fellow at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po University) for the academic year 2012-13, and I’m hoping that my time here in Paris will vastly accelerate my progress on my thesis. It is certainly improving my knowledge of café, fromage et vin!” Tom Pennekamp is living and working in Miami as a trial lawyer handling personal injury, wrongful death and complex commercial litigation matters. “I handled a case against an abortion clinic in Miami were a child was born alive in the clinic and they killed it. Had the clinic shut down, the owners prosecuted and the doctor’s license stripped in Florida. I worked on the Value Jet disaster, as well as the plane crash that killed the young pop singer Aaliyah in the Bahamas among others. I also handled one of the largest voluntary settlements in Florida history, which was $17.5 million for a victim of a scuba accident at a Ritz Carlton in Jamaica. And I am single and raising three kids ages 15, 15 (twins) and 11.” Heather Ryan lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with her husband, David Dube (University of Saskatchewan ’85). She wrote: “I am the vice president of Street Cat Rescue and help organize Pets in the Park, a joint fundraiser for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Street Cat and New Hope Dog Rescue. I have a business training off-the-track thoroughbred racehorses to play polo and I serve on the dean’s advisory committee at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan.” 9 Sanders said: “I am living a crazy fast life between southwest Colorado and Anchorage, Alaska. I spend two weeks in Ouray, Colorado, with my teenagers working at urgent-care clinics, hiking in the San Juan Mountains, and learning to grill as a single mom. Every two weeks I head to UC Boulder to visit my daughter. Then it’s up to Anchorage, where I work at urgent-care clinics, cut wood, shovel snow, shoot guns, play with my Alaskan family and recover sanity from herding teen kids.” Bruce Coffee teaches middle-school U.S. history in Richmond, Virginia. He writes: “My nonprofit reading program has been quite successful in the last two years. It’s called One School, One Book and is now in 400 schools across North America.” Lee Merkle Raymond wrote: “We were unable to attend the 25th reunion because we were living in Sydney, Australia, where I ran the corporate debt team for Bank of America and integrated the newly acquired Merrill Lynch investment banking group into the lending process at the bank. We came back to California for our girls to start high school and middle school with their classmates in Palo Alto. We traveled as much as possible—diving in the Great Barrier Reef, hiking a glacier in New Zealand and riding camels at dawn at Uluru (Ayers Rock).” From Andrea Strimling: “My husband, Tsering Ngodup, our 6-year-old son Yeshe Dorje and I live in Lexington, Massachusetts, abutting conservation forest on one side and the Minuteman Bikeway on another. I do applied research on international peace building, especially civil-military coordination in places such as Afghanistan. I’m interested in how organizations work together toward shared goals, even across profound organizational differences. Our two older children (my kids through marriage) live in Germany. One works for the German development aid agency and the other finished high school. Yeshe is into everything—sports, music, art. And we are going solar!


—Davida (Sherman) Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@ dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 117F Brittany Farms, New Britain, CT 06053; (860) 224-6688; msg@ivybound.net


We begin at Dartmouth’s antipodes: Sydney, Australia, latitude 33 degrees south, mean high temperature 72. Lee Merkle writes: “Still with Bank of America. I run the corporate debt team for Australia. Fourth of July weekend we spent on Phillip Island bundled in scarves and mittens watching hundreds of fairy penguins waddle up the beach to their burrows. Our girls Alex (13) and Nikki (10) loved it. We all plan to be at the 25th in June.” Moving northeast…


To Los Angeles, where Dan Katzir finished his sabbatical and is again working for Broad (part time) and doing education consulting. Dan traveled to Singapore, Vietnam, Paris, Berlin, Mykonos (Greece), Mexico and Vail, Colorado (with Kendall Burney Wilson and Liz McClintock). “I’m committed to re-learn how to snowboard this year (trips planned to Steamboat, Mammoth and Tahoe). Remember, I am a Miami boy who didn’t learn to ski until after Dartmouth.”


To San Francisco, where Gabrielle Whelan, Mark Sachleben, Geoff Parker, Chris Lord and Liz Babb Fanlo hosted the largest ’86 mini-reunion, with nearly 50 other classmates and significant others. Liz included brief news on all ’86 attendees. I reprint the first four, all Bay Area denizens: Sally Gorman Fitzhugh is happily married. She has two high-energy boys and is definitely coming to reunions. Javier Arizmendi is an architect, married a French gal, and their kids are multi-lingual. He took home a magnum of Chappellet wine that was raffled at the party. Chris Hollinger is a corporate lawyer. He took a three-week excursion to Africa where he grew a full-on beard and ’stache. Looking forward to a second career at some point in his life as a gourmet cheesemaker! Greg Coffeng works as a software engineer. Made the switch from hardware engineer recently and is very happy about it. After the party, decided he was going to attend reunion (yeah!).” More in the newsletter (our fourth in 12 months) and www.dartmouth86.com, the new site engineered by Walter Tsui.


To truly northern California (Hoopa), where Andre Cramblit is operations director for California’s largest Native-American social service provider. “We serve 109 recognized tribes and I represent them in community agencies, advisory boards and committees. I also maintain a 1,500-subscriber blog to provide topical information to the American Indian/Alaskan/Native Hawaiian communities.” Wendy, son Kyle and Andre plan to attend the Dartmouth Pow-Wow and 40th anniversary of the Native-American programs this spring.


To New Hampshire: Martha Cornell Macomber was honored for 16 years of service to the Circle Program, which helps economically and socially disadvantaged girls in Plymouth, Laconia and Concord, New Hampshire. She has been with the program since its inception in 1993. Martha teaches U.S. history (innovatively!) at the Holderness School, where husband George is assistant headmaster and dean of faculty. They have three children, ages 17, 14, and 10.


To New Hampshire: All! We hope you all can get back for June’s reunion. If Merkle and her brood can come from Australia, the rest of the ’86s can try. If Fanlo, Parker & Co. can get 50 others together in San Francisco, we should try for more than 500 classmates. Geoff and his reunion team are working to make our 25th great, so please plan now to be in Hanover June 16-19.


Extra pitch requested from Marion Halliday, Liz, Kendall and Walter:“Forget gift giving. Forget donkeys and mangers, oil lamps and latkes. Think only about how you might memorialize yourself, your family, your pet, your favorite shrubbery—really, anything you like—in a submission to the Dartmouth reunion book. Think how easily you can convert your holiday letter into a submission! Your book committee friends are dying to know what the last 25 years have meant to you and we can’t wait to see every member of our class’s updates memorialized! The reunion book will be available to every ’86 as a means of catching up on classmates and their adventures of the last quarter century. Simply go to www.dartmouth86.com to view templates for submissions. You can also e-mail 86reunionpages@gmail.com.


—Mark Greenstein, 117F Brittany Farms, New Britain, CT 06053; (860) 224-6688; msg@ivybound.net; Davida (Sherman) Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com


Happy summer! Let’s take a trip in the way-back machine to sophomore summer. Lynn Anders said, “My summer memory, while more wistful than favorite, is one of staying in and studying while my summer-term roommate, the incomparable party girl Sally Gorman, went out and ripped it up in the sunshine. I’ve since realized that I have more of a spring or fall temperament than a summer one.” And since Lynn is a first-time writer, here’s her latest update: “I live in Seattle, where I work as an ombudsman. My son (now 7) used to say, ‘My mommy helps people wrestle.’ ” Susan McCormack wrote, “I went to a party early in the summer and threw my jean jacket onto a pile of coats. When I left my jacket was gone. It had my name in it so I kind of hoped someone would return it to me, but the summer wore on with no jacket. During finals I came home from the library one night and there was my jacket, hanging on my dorm room knob. I never found out who had it all summer but I hope they enjoyed wearing it. I must say thanks for bringing it back!” Dorn Bishop worked as a bellman at the Hanover Inn, where he carried Dizzy Gillespie’s bags to his room and learned to drink black coffee straight with the help of a piping hot cruller from Lou’s bakery every morning at 7 a.m. Here is another wonderful example of the compassio committee in action: Mabelle Drake Hueston wrote, “Nitza Delgado Hollinger was one person we wanted to reconnect with at our 25th reunion, after not having seen her in 19 years. In 2011 she was diagnosed with lung cancer, bone cancer and a brain tumor and would not be able to attend. When I shared this news with other classmates, the compassio committee swung into action, sending her e-mails, a gift basket and hand-knitted cap and made numerous phone calls. This has meant a great deal to Nitza, who has since fully recovered and is back home in Nikiski, Alaska.” You can read Mabelle’s full account of this story at www.dartmouth86.org/compassio. While I was writing this article in April the College acceptances were flowing in. I am pleased and excited to report that several of our classmates will have children (and a nephew) matriculating with the class of 2016: Jessica (Cohn) Healy’s daughter Kate; Julie Mannes’ son Philip; Bill Marozas’ daughter Kate; Sarah Page’s nephew Rory; Doug Keare’s daughter Lindsay; Ken Rutherford’s daughter Emily; Jim McFarland’s son Matthew; Mike Maguire’s son Ryan; John Meier’s son Andrew. Since I have some space, I will also add a few of those whose children are currently attending: Karen Martinez’s son Daniel ’15; Eric Allyn’s daughter Meaghan ’15; John and Mabelle Drake Hueston’s son Ryan ’14; Mary (Markland) Gannon’s son Nick ’15; Greg and Adelaide Hulbert’sdaughter Sawyer ’15; Jülide Z. (Onder) Woodward’s daughter Aylin ’15; Ken Joel’s son Blaze ’15. Jayne Daigle Jones’ son Drew ’12 graduated in June, as did Dave Magner’s daughter Veronica ’12. Who are we missing? I was thrilled to hear from my friend and fellow ’shmen Topliff-ian, David Leitao, Ph.D., who is a professor of classics at San Francisco State University and chair of the department of classics and the department of comparative and world literature. Dave recently published his first book, titled The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature. Dave and his partner of 23-plus years, John Furman, M.D., were married in California three years ago.


—Davida (Sherman) Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com; Mark Greenstein, 117F Brittany Farms, New Britain, CT 06053; (860) 224-6688; msg@ivybound.net


Davida mentioned it in the last column, so here we pay semi-tribute to the lovely Connecticut River that runs astride our campus. Many of us as freshmen thought it was cool that we could “swim to another state.” And several of us still row, canoe, fish, sunbathe and admire reflected foliage from its shores. Four of our contributors this month live within 10 miles of the Connecticut. So, from north to south, we float, beginning in Piermont, New Hampshire,where Jayne Daigle Jones and her husband, Vernon, have raised six children. Jayneserves as a local relay center for Samaritan’s Purse’s Operation Christmas Child. “Samaritan’s Purse delivers shoeboxes full of gifts to children in destitute places to bring them hope and love. We, the whole Jones family, have packed shoeboxes since our oldest kids were young. Drew, our eldest, graduated from Dartmouth in June! He’s now in the San Francisco area looking for work in the sound industry. Meaghan is in her first year at Rochester Institute of Technology. Brendan is a senior and now applying for college! The youngest three are in 10th, eighth and sixth grades—so we’ll have a short break before needing to do more college paperwork!”


We arrive in Hanover, where on October 27 Chip Fleischer was continuing his run uphill from the Connecticut River. He ran by the old Sphinx and into an ’86 mini-reunion, replete with 62 classmates, spouses and kids. Krista Thomas Corr gathered us from the “’round girdled earth” to congregate before the Dartmouth-Harvard football game under the lights. Including ’85s and ’87s and their clans, the crowd exceeded 100.


Present were Alice Rudd Elder, Bill Bosch, Brooks Elder, Bruce Chaffee, Catherine Kelley, Chip (three-minute appearance), Chris Keating, Doug Keare, Erin Conway, Jennifer Harris Brown, John Meier, Julide Woodward, Julie Mannes, Ken Rutherford, Kirsten Calvert Brady, Krista, Mark Gies, Peter Gibson, Rich Levitan, Robin Hitt Hall, Sara Geithner Adam, Sara Page, Scott Sandell and Suzy Nachman Mercado.


Float on….


Mark Baldwin is in Northampton, Massachusetts (near Amherst), and writes: “Nothing terribly exciting from me. I teach history and economics at Northampton High School, coach varsity baseball and supervise Smith College student teachers. I’m also president of the Massachusetts Baseball Coaches Association, an organization of more than 300 high school, college and youth coaches. My real fun comes from watching (and sometimes coaching) my two teenage daughters who play basketball, softball, lacrosse, field hockey and soccer. It’s a challenge keeping up with them!” Bill Wright lives just south of him in Belchertown, Massachusetts. “Having worked in quality assurance and operations for various manufacturers, I have changed careers and moved into a sales role. I am now regional account manager for International Wire Group, covering the East Coast, working from home. Transition has been smooth and all I had hoped for. I live with wife Elise and two boys, ages 12 and 14, who are active with various sports, primarily swimming, basketball and soccer. I coach several of their teams after work.”


Float on….


L.J. Briggs is a physician living in West Hartford, Connecticut, practicing at UConn hospital, and raising two daughters with his wife, Maria. He has become a triathlete and runs the neighborhood kids’ fish fest every summer. More is in www.dartmouth86.com, featuring news of Dorn Bishop, Bruce Coffey, Mary Gannon, Greg Hulbert, Dan Katzir, Andrea Lordan, Tom Pennekamp, Paul Shippee, 9 Sanders (from Alaska), Andrea Strimling (from Tibet) and Matthew Weatherly-White (from…undisclosed). We ask you to guess; all ’86s who correctly guess where Matthew is now via e-mail to one of us win the secretary’s prize next month.


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