Class Notes 1986

What a busy year this has been! Many of our classmates have been embracing entry into a new decade with plenty of celebrations of 60, whether traveling to new locales or celebrating with family and friends.

I heard from David Beach, who said that turning 60 for him also included aging into the character actor he’s always been on the inside. His recent performances include Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie in Minneapolis. A bonus was that the production was directed by Addie Gorlin-Han ’11 and also starred Nate Fuller ’67. Quite the Dartmouth ensemble! During the summer David was in The Great American Mousical at the Legacy Theatre in Connecticut, directed by Julie Andrews, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood at the Goodspeed Opera House. Lots of friends came to Connecticut to see his performances, including Laura Gillespie and Dawn Carey, who made the trek down from the Upper Valley. David is still living in New York City with husband Russell Granet and their daughter, Sadie, who is 16 and a sophomore at LaGuardia High School.

In other news, Dartmouth hockey alumna Wendy 9 Sanders was inducted into the Alaska State Hockey Association Hall of Fame in September 2024. According to her daughter, her acceptance speech was funny to watch because she can barely see over the podium—a short but mighty woman! She addressed the kids in the huge audience, saying, “This printed program makes it look like these great men, great hockey players and national coaches, skated directly to the top, right to Nationals, made it right onto Olympic teams. Let me assure you that they stumbled and fell, as I did. What made them great, and what will make you great, is learning to pivot fearlessly. You will get hurt. You will be cut from the team you love. You will fail a test, suffer broken hearts, move from your home, stumble and fall. But hockey has taught you to bounce up, breathe deep, and pivot fearlessly. Do that. Do it again and again. Learn to stand and pivot fearlessly toward your goal.”

Speaking of hockey, Bill Daly is the deputy commissioner of the National Hockey League, holding this post since 2005. Daly’s appointment came after serving for more than eight years as the league’s chief legal officer, during which time he played a major role in helping shape the National Hockey League’s identity on the global sports landscape. In his current role Bill is the chief consultant to the commissioner on practically every topic impacting the league. He is involved in negotiating and administering many aspects of the league’s operations. He and his wife, Gloria, live in New Jersey and have children Taylor, Brendan, and Liam.

On a sad note, classmate Ihab Labib Saad died on August 8, 2024, due to complications from advanced Type 2 diabetes. 

Please continue to send me your news.

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

What’s new in the lives of your fellow classmates? Lucy Mathews Heegaard shared the amazing news that a documentary film she just finished making in January was named an official selection of the 43rd annual Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival! The film, Diplophonia: A Diary of Voice Loss, chronicles her year of vocal cord paralysis, seven months of which she could only speak in a hoarse whisper. Most surprising to her was to see that the festival chose an image of her from her film for the webpage for the grouping of short films in which hers was featured!

Congratulations to former U.S. attorney Brian Stretch, who was recently appointed to serve as a judge of the San Francisco County Superior Court. Krista Thomas Corr lives in Newton, Massachusetts. She is retired from the FBI and now works as a senior special agent for the Amtrak office of inspector general investigating waste fraud and abuse for Amtrak. Krista’s family includes husband Bart and daughters Julia and Megan.

Dr. Lauren Geddes Wirth is the interim president and chief executive officer of Dartmouth Health’s New London Hospital (NLH). She was serving as chief medical officer at NLH and will continue to do so during her interim role. “I am committed to fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity that empowers our staff to advance NLH’s mission of providing exceptional care and service to our community,” said Lauren. She joined NLH in September of 2023 from the Mass General Brigham health system. Following her graduation from Dartmouth College and the Brown-Dartmouth program in medicine, she completed her pediatric residency at Brown University Hasbro Children’s Hospital/Rhode Island Hospital and was selected to serve an additional year as chief resident in pediatrics. Upon completing her residency she established a pediatric practice in Sudbury, Massachusetts, that later became Mill Brook Pediatrics, a Mass General Brigham health system independent affiliate.

Terry Perkins Mitman is the author of the book, Living is for Living: A Caregiver’s Story. The book is about the journey with her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. It offers insight into the challenges of caring for a loved one with a disease such as Alzheimer’s and is a reminder about the importance of relationships and how much they matter.

If you have a puppy in your life, you should grab a copy of Kathy Gord Callahan’s newest book, Welcoming Your Puppy from Planet Dog: How to Go Beyond Training and Raise Your Best Friend. She is also the author of 101 Rescue Puppies. Her husband, Tom Callahan ’84, and daughters Grace ’19 and Claire ’22 were all together on an outing to Barnes & Noble catching sight of her book on the shelf. The excitement of seeing your own work in print never gets old!

Please continue to send me your news. 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

As much as I adore winter, curling up by the fire with the snow falling gently out my window, I must admit that I love when the grass turns green in spring and the jackets go back in the closet for another year.

Looking for some news of your fellow classmates, look no further than this column. Heid E. Erdrich has been named Minneapolis’s first poet laureate. As poet laureate, Heid will be speaking at council meetings as well as teaching three classes and spreading the love of poetry. Her most recent book of poems is Little Big Bully, and she finds inspiration for her poetry in music and songs. She is hoping to bring the community together through poetry and let people know that poetry can be found everywhere.

Lalla Carothers is living in Cumberland, Maine, with her husband of 27 years, Jonathan. They have two kids, daughter Olivia, 20, who is attending the Savannah College of Art and Design, and son Ben, 17, a junior in high school and a mountain bike fanatic. Lalla is wearing many hats these days. She spends her time tutoring children with dyslexia; coaching middle school field hockey, Nordic skiing, and lacrosse; and working part time at the library as a passport agent.

Kristan Van Hook enjoyed living in Maine so much during the pandemic that she and her family moved to Falmouth permanently afterwards. She works remotely for the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, traveling back and forth to Washington, D.C., as an advocate for improving teaching and helping improve the structure for leadership among teachers.

In other news, Glenn Dixon is in the Harvard Advanced Leadership Institute cohort of 2024. Mark Gies is living in Sudbury, Massachusetts, with his wife, Beth LaFortune Gies ’90. He is selling roofing products that aid in the installation of solar panels.

Another Dartmouth couple, ’86s Hugh O’Reilly and Andrea Lordan, are living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hugh is a fractional chief financial officer working in a wide variety of companies in the tech community. He has both a legal and finance background, which helps in his day-to-day work. Andrea is teaching sixth-grade math at the Carroll School in Massachusetts, which specializes in helping children with dyslexia and similar challenges. They enjoy frequent visits to the Hanover area.

On a sad note, classmate Sean O’Hearn died unexpectedly on December 24, 2023, Christmas Eve, from a ruptured aortic aneurysm.

Many ’86s have been attending President Beilock’s inaugural presidential tour ’round the girdled earth welcoming her to the Dartmouth community. I hope you’re able to attend one in a city near you to hear her speak and to catch up with classmates.

Wondering when you’re going to see your name crop up in these Class Notes? Send me your news and stay tuned! 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 was great to be on campus for Homecoming 2023, when many classmates gathered to celebrate the start of our special 60th birthday year despite the rainy weather. Many ’86s withstood the rain to walk in the parade with our “60 birthday cake,” and the class dinner on Saturday night was a fun addition to the usual slate of festivities. Thank you, Laura Lindner Sankey, for putting together such a wonderful event. I look forward to gathering once again next Homecoming to wrap up the year of 60 celebration!

In addition to those I saw at Homecoming, I heard from Cam Johnson that a small group of ’86 and ’87 Phi Delts, with and without spouses, got together in Idaho this past June for a six-day rafting trip on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. They included Cam, David Hess, Ted Sears, Dave Criswell, Jack Martin, Phil McCune ’87, and Craig Wilson ’87. Regrettably, they were not able to mix up a batch of Phi Reds on the river but plenty of good food, drink, and laughter was had by all. An amazing part of the world!

Love is in the air and the children of ’86s have been keeping their parents busy with weddings lately! Liz Shea Fries and husband Thom Fries celebrated the marriage of their son, Dan, to Prahelika Gadtaula with a traditional three-day Hindu bash outside Katmandu, Nepal. In attendance were classmates Lali Jayasankar Haines, Michael Moody,and Kathleen Harris Orlin as well as Jay Haines ’87, Taraneh Azar ’89, and Thom’s sister, Janet Chinitz ’81. A more local reception was held in Brooklyn, New York, with more Dartmouth attendees, including Dave Koeninger, Debbie Weitzman, Sarah Page, Paul Davis,and Jim O’Shaughnessy. Next, the son of Peter Gibson and Margie Wallace Gibson ’88, Christopher ’14, celebrated his wedding with plenty of Dartmouth folks in attendance, including his three Dartmouth siblings and alums Mike McTernan, Kevin Sankey, Laura Lindner Sankey, Patty Doykos and Chris Mulligan ’85. Liz Babb’s daughter, Abby Fanlo, got married and in attendance were Jessica Cohn Healy, Douglas Healy ’87, Wini Welch Kinney, and Sam Kinney. Gary Greene’s daughter, Emily ’17, also got married, and his other daughter, Alison ’20, was the maid of honor. Fellow ’86s in attendance were Hugh O’Reilly, Andrea Lordan, Steve Kylander, Ben Clements, Michael Rockefeller, and Anne Desmond. It’s always nice to see a sea of green at the nuptials!

In other news, Jonathan Skurnik recently mounted an exhibition of his abstract photography in Pasadena, California. William Rexer II is the director of photography for The Crowded Room, a 10-episode thriller on Apple TV+. Greg Labate was named one of Lawdragon’s 2024 leading corporate employment lawyers. These attorneys try to maintain equilibrium between corporate America and its workers.

Please continue to send me your news! For those who provided me with news and updates at Homecoming, thank you for your cooperation and keep reading future issues!

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

It always amazes me how time never seems to pass with college friends. Though months or years have passed, it often only seems like hours! I had a lovely time catching up with Heidi Baseler recently. She has been living the life of an ex-pat in York, England, for more than 15 years. She currently works as a professor of psychology at the University of York. Her two daughters are both in college now, one at the University of California, Berkeley, and one at the University of Newcastle in England. She asks if there are any classmates living in the area, as it would be nice to have some get-togethers. I’m sure some of us would even fly in for the occasion! She travels every year to see family in Maine, where I’ve been fortunate to visit with her many summers at the lake.

Several ’86s were spotted in Hanover in June celebrating their offsprings’ graduation on the Green: Laura Lindner Sankey and Kevin Sankey, Mark Gies, Scott Sandell, John Marchiony, Jennifer Culliton Paul and Jon Paul, James Kallman, Alice Rudd Elder, and Kathy Gord Callahan to name a few. It was a beautiful day in Hanover to celebrate such a special occasion!

We all remember the iconic show The Addams Family. Well, our very own Lali Haines will be performing the role of Morticia Addams with the Savoyard Light Opera Company in Carlisle, Massachusetts, in November. If you’re in the area, enjoy an evening out being entertained by our classmate!

Is your email up to date with the College? Don’t miss out on important missives from fellow classmates! Our class sends out an average of one email per month to keep you up to date, and we always use the most recent email address included in your alumni profile. Stay in touch with our class happenings by keeping your profile information current with the College. Start at www.home.dartmouth.edu/alumni, and under “Alumni Help Desk” you’ll find a link to “Update Your Information.”

I’d love to hear your thoughts about what makes Dartmouth special to you. When you think of the College do you have a special place, person, tradition, or course that comes to mind? What makes your heart swell when you think of Dartmouth? Inquiring minds would like to hear from you!

Save the date: I hope to see many of you at Homecoming weekend October 20-21! Join us for the traditional parade and bonfire on Friday night and the class of ’86 tailgate on Saturday!

Please continue to send me your news!

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

Allow me to introduce myself as your new class secretary. I am Suzy Nachman Mercado; I live in Fairfield, Connecticut, and have a place in Grantham, New Hampshire, at Eastman, only a stone’s throw away from Dartmouth. It’s wonderful to be able to retain a connection to Dartmouth and attend sporting and cultural events at the College. My two children, Jamie ’15 and Kevin ’19, attended Dartmouth and I was able to see the College anew through their experiences. My husband of 32 years, Dave, and I are enjoying life as empty-nesters and love spending our weekends in New Hampshire throughout the year. It’s been great to see so many classmates in the Hanover area! As for work, I help low-income women attain their high school diplomas. When I’m not working, you can find me playing platform tennis (paddle), pickleball, tennis, skiing, kayaking, or playing golf. As you can see, I like to stay active.

I want to thank Mae Drake Hueston for her smooth handoff of the job of class secretary. Mae is now working for Dartmouth as the assistant director of the Native and Indigenous program. The College is lucky to have her!

She found some news from Whit Trovillion, who writes that he retired in December 2020 after a 35-year career with the National Security Agency. He started a second career promoting the adoption of renewable energy in Maryland. He lives with Lisa, his wife of 30 years, a novelist, and various dogs, cats, and horses on a small farm in suburban Baltimore. Their daughter, Tory, is wrapping up a surgical residency in northern Philadelphia and is shopping for fellowships.

Davida Sherman Dinerman has also been very helpful to me during this transition. Davida was class secretary for 20 years, so it’s been wonderful to learn from her experience. She lives in Ashland, Massachusetts, with her husband of 27 years, Brad. In her spare time Davida continues to play tennis at an advanced level, regularly competing at USTA Nationals and other tournaments. Most recently she captained the New England Women’s 55 team at Intersectionals. Davida’s daughter recently became a registered nurse and her son will graduate from college in May.

Mike McTernan writes that last November former denizens of 13 Webster Avenue gathered for an Alpha Chi Alpha ’86 mini-reunion in Nashville, Tennessee. Rob Balas, Tom Berry, Tom Carhart, Bruce Coffey, Pat Darby, Peter Gibson, Tim Greene, Keith Hauser, Jeff Hoffman, Brad Holt, John Marchiony, Mike McTernan, Mike Poloukhine, Scott Rabschnuk, Pat Rowan, Kevin Sankey, D. Valentine, and Jeff Wesselkamper gathered for a long weekend to soak up the local Music City culture while enjoying some great meals, some bad golf, and quite a few laughs. Consensus is a fun time was had by all!

On a sad note, classmate Melissa Baten Caswell passed away in February of pancreatic cancer.

I look forward to hearing news from many of you!

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

I asked you to share some Dartmouth experiences with our class, and I have received some great comments. Tony Stearns shares when he realized he was not as smart as he thought he was: “Freshman fall I decided that I would try to get one of those dreaded science requirements out of the way early, so I signed up for ‘Earth Sciences 1,’ figuring that since it had the lowest course number and was about geology it had to be ‘Rocks for Jocks.’ Two weeks in—surrounded by upperclassmen and future petroleum engineers and still well before I knew what a nonrecording option was—I realized I was in over my head. It took a while for my GPA to rebound from that. (Thank you, Earth, moon, and everyone).”

Matthew Weatherley-White updates us on his new life in Mexico: “I finally punched the clock on finance and bought a totally sweet estate and hotel in the jungle near the surf town of Sayulita. Moved down full(ish) time last October to spend a lot more time with my family, on the waves, and writing a book. I’m under contract—and grievously past deadline—with Penguin Random House on a project that hopes to capture a rough outline for the future of capitalism; imagine the love child of Freakonomics and Tipping Point and you’ll have a sense of what I’m trying to pull together. And if you’re looking for an awesome mid-winter hang, come visit us at www.hotelcinetica.com!”

I asked you to share your experiences in government, and I am happy to say that I received some great responses. Anne (Weinhardt) Lawler shares: “After seven years as the board of medicine director, the Idaho governor merged all 48 licensing boards into one division. I was promoted to bureau chief over occupational licenses, a motley crew (or is it Crüe—heh heh) of 16 regulatory boards, including accountants, social workers, chiropractors, outfitters and guides (hunting and white-water adventures are huge in this gorgeous mountain state!), acupuncturists, athletic commission (they run the Mixed Martial Arts fights), driving training businesses, and morticians. It’s been quite the learning experience and wrangling about 90 board members can be exciting at times. I do enjoy state service—not only ensuring each board follows its mission to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public, but also to empower and support a hardworking, committed staff of humble public servants.

Laura Gillespie writes: “One of the many ways that Dawn Carey and I connect in our Upper Valley world is by volunteering regularly as dinner cooks at Hartford (Vermont) Dismas House. The mission of Dismas is to reconcile former prisoners with society and society with former prisoners. We prepare dinner and then share the meal with the house residents. We are proud volunteers and know that making these formerly incarcerated Vermonters a delicious meal and joining them for authentic conversation is one piece of their transition from prison.”

I have accepted a job at Dartmouth in the Native American program. You can reach me there.

—Mae Drake Hueston, Dartmouth College, HB 6037, Hanover, NH 03755; (949) 500-2191; mabelle.d.hueston@dartmouth.edu

David Kotz has made us proud again. He was named the Dartmouth provost effective immediately. He was the interim provost since July 2021. He was also interim provost in 2017-18. He is the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in Computer Science and will now be the chief academic and fiscal officer. Previously David served as associate dean of the faculty for the sciences; executive director of the Dartmouth Institute for Security, Technology, and Society; and core director of the Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health. He is the lead researcher on a five-year National Science Foundation research program to reduce the security risks related to consumer-based smart technologies and plans to continue this work with students and colleagues.

Beth Robinson now sits on the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and became the first openly LGBTQ woman to serve on any federal appellate court.

Frank Powers, Lawrence “L.J.” Briggs, and Ted Farrell joined a few other cross-country teammates (Mike Fadil ’85, Tim Clark and Mike Andrews ’88, and Dan Parrish ’89) to hike Moosilauke the weekend before Thanksgiving. Ted adds, “It was a beautiful day with nice snow cover on the trail.”

Jonno Williams and family were spotted in Deer Valley, Utah, sporting pretty awesome ski wear.

I asked what photo at Dartmouth would you take and why? Gina Cannon wrote: “If I could have only one photo of Dartmouth, it would be of the six’s crew rowing toward me from out of the mist rising off the Connecticut River (with the glass-smooth river) as they approach Ledyard Bridge in the fall.” Gentle reminder for more news and updates on our class website at 1986.dartmouth.org. Hope to hear from you next time; send your update to my email here.

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

I chatted with Dawn Carey right after Homecoming, and she was reveling in how every time we come together, she is more and more inspired. She writes: “One of the great parts about living so close to and working for Dartmouth is getting to see everyone as they make their way through town—glorious! To be part of the Homecoming festivities this October brought all that home tenfold. I do love events, such as the parade, where you feel the power of the Big Green, numbers swelling for the class of ’86, as more and more of our classmates and their families join in the throng to sport their D regalia and toss candy to the youth of the Upper Valley. Even more wonderful are the small conversations, the deep dive into the how, what, and where people are now. Hearing the excitement and potential surrounding Krista Thomas Corr’s new ‘retirement’ gig filled me with curiosity and wonder. Running into John Alden and hearing about him dropping the engineering life and starting a band filled me with glee, and listening to the new ways that Terry Galvin Anderson brings health and health equity to underserved populations made my heart sing with admiration. I loved hearing the energy behind Lelia Mellen’s adventures in environmental stewardship and her trail development hints, as well as the stalwart consistency of movement in Mike Moody’s practice of a daily run. My head is now spinning with visions of biking along the Erie Canal with Julidë Onder Woodward, skiing out of Truckee [California] with Greg Nerland, and riding out the wildfires with Liz Babb. These are just a few of the many splendid stories our classmates shared with me. As when we were all in Hanover 35-plus years ago (!), you all continue to broaden my world, my compassion, and thirst for doing more. I am so damn grateful, and I know others feel the same way.” Also in Hanover were Alice Rudd Elder, Brooks Elder, Hugh O’Reilly, Jennifer Harris Brown, Mimi Cotsen Saker, Harry Carrel, Jim Kallman, John Westkaemper, Seth Hendon, Laura Lindner Sankey, Kevin Sankey, Sam Kinney, Wini Welch Kinney, Alicia Macri Lindgren, Lynn Tracy Nerland, Mabelle Drake Hueston, Karen Voss Gruzen, Sarah Geithner, Debbie McCollum Colon, Peter Gibson, Laura Gillespie, Suzy Nachman Mercado, John Marchiony, Tom Berry, Stephen Kylander, Andrea Lordan, David Schnabel, Gary Greene, John Goldman, Martha Molumphy Hincks, Jen Culliton Paul, Jon Paul, Suzy Dunseath Bohn, Jayne Daigle Jones, Peter Zelten, Burgie Howard, Chris Keating, Ken Rutherford, and Greg Dow. Did you know the class has a book club? Every month we read a memoir and discuss it via Zoom for an hour. It’s a great way to reconnect with old pals while discussing an interesting book. To find out this month’s book, and the date of the discussion, watch for details in our regular monthly-ish class email and in our Facebook group. If you are not receiving the class email, update your email address with the College, using the alumni relations web page.

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

Our class of 1986 35th reunion on June 18 and 19 was a huge success. It is probably the only free reunion for our class. We were joined by President Hanlon ’77 at our reunion kickoff event on Friday night, where he praised us for our participation through fundraising and volunteering and thanked us for 35 years of loyalty; it was a true highlight of the evening. We then busted a move to DJ Live Drex with the ’85s and ’87s virtually. There was fierce competition during the 1980s trivia game. We continued our reunion on Saturday morning with our affinity group breakout sessions with LGBTQIA+, coeds, athletes, arts, and parents, to name a few. We hope you continue connections and discussions that began during that session. At 2 p.m. we celebrated 10 years of Compassio; we heard from many special guests who shared their personal journeys. Compassio continues to touch many lives and other classes are creating their own care groups. We followed this with a beautiful moving memorial service to honor the lives of 25 classmates no longer with us. Our thanks go to organizer Lynn Tracy Nerland; Liz Babb, who handled the technology; David Kotz for photos of Dartmouth; Greg Nerland for the slideshow; Maryly Culley Culpepper, Andrew Walkling, and Marion Halliday for the beautiful music; Terry Galvin Andersen for her words of comfort; Kelly Keller, Lisa Richardson, Christina Porche Kallon, Jayne Daigle Jones, John Bodie, Jack Fuchs, Werner Tillinger, and Jonno Williams for sharing so movingly about our recently deceased classmates; and Andre Cramblit, who is Karuk, for sharing his words and a song to send us forth. Thank you. After the memorial service we had our usual class meeting where we elected new officers for the next five years. Join in welcoming Gary Greene as our new class president, Laura Lindner Sankey as vice president of class events, and Liz Babb as VP of communications to keep us informed and more cohesive as a class. Todd Gomez will continue as treasurer and I, Mae Hueston, will continue as secretary. We also had a drawing for a Simon Pearce bowl, which went to Dick Krissinger; congratulations! Also revealed at the class meeting was the 5K video that Mike Moody made of all the classmates who participated virtually. After our class meeting we heard from Matthew Weatherley-White, Allison Barlow, and Bill Rodgers on “Creating The Future We Want.” We hope discussions will continue after our reunion. After the panel we joined the ’87s in a game of wits in the Big Green Trivia Machine. Finally, if you were not there, we all sang our alma mater in perfect three-part harmony. If you practice for the next five years, you can join in another rendition at our next in-person reunion. We have some recordings from the reunion that will be available. The links to most of these events will be posted on our class website and Facebook site. In beauty, it is finished.

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

Some happy news from Andrew Getraer and Jean Robertson Getraer ’89 to begin 2021: “Sarah, our youngest daughter, has been accepted into the Dartmouth class of 2025! In a difficult year for so many of us, it’s great to share some happy news from the Getraer family. On January 2 our son, Sandy, and daughter-in-law, Shifra, had a baby girl, Yuval. She joins older sister Yael (2) and brother Ro’i (4). They live in the town of Kedumim in Israel, where Sandy is finishing up a degree in civil engineering, following three years in the Israeli Defense Forces. You can bet that as soon as the world is better, Jean and I will be on a plane to see them. Meanwhile, thank goodness for WhatsApp!”

I asked Joe Berman to explain what he has been doing with the Boston Public Library (BPL). He explains, “I’ve been involved with the BPL since 2015. Most of my work has involved helping to support the preservation of the library’s collection of rare books and manuscripts. This year the mayor of Boston appointed me to the board of trustees, which oversees the whole library. The BPL is the oldest large public library in the United States and its collection is second only to the Library of Congress. It’s a four-year term. In addition to the BPL, I’m also chairing the New England board of the Anti-Defamation League, whose mission since 1913 is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and secure justice and fair treatment to all.”

In the world of ’86 Career Advice Network (CAN), when planning the February class of ’86 Zoom call, Liz Babb and Sue Smith Sambrook searched the network to find four classmates with experience in wellness. Kelly Keller, Jennifer King Lindley, Rachel Levy Lombara, and Bill Rodgers led a midwinter recharge Zoom for 40 classmates that was excellent. Starting with catching up in small groups, next we were led through awareness and breathing exercises, talked about gratitude and journaling, and finished with practical ways to manage stress and recharge. Also, sons and daughters of ’86s are starting to use this private career advice network to learn about industries, career paths, and professional degrees. Don’t forget to check out this valuable tool—visit ’86 CAN at www.1986.dartmouth.org.

In our household, John Hueston’s dream of starting the Social Justice Legal Foundation (www.socialjusticelaw.org) came to fruition this year. He was also recognized as a “Lawyer of the Decade” (2010-20), by The Daily Journal. He was one of 18 lawyers awarded this distinction. I love hearing from you, so please, send me a text, email, or card. Many blessings as we get through another year; I will be 57 by the time you read this column. Happy birthday to everyone who already got to that year and to all who are awaiting it.

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

Chandler Lindsley, I am so sorry to have missed your email. I try to stay on top of all updates, but inadvertently missed yours. I hope your Appalachian Trail hike happened before the Covid-19 lockdown. Chandler invited classmates to join his trek, and shared: “I’ve sold my veterinary practice. I have a son who just completed his first semester of veterinary school, and my daughter is a computer science major and a goalkeeper for the women’s soccer team at Acadia University in Nova Scotia.” Co-head agents Lanie McNulty, Peter Gibson, and Seth Hendon report that our 35th reunion fundraising will emphasize participation. In a time when so much seems upended and divided, our reunion is a chance to put things right-side up and to re-unite around our shared Dartmouth community. The higher our participation, the more engaged our class, the more diverse its group of supporters, the more good we will do, and the more fun our reunion will be. To help in this effort, Seth Hendon’s family is offering a special match-funding. As an incentive to classmates who have not recently given to the Dartmouth College Fund (DCF), Seth’s family is offering to support the Upper Valley Haven (https://uppervalleyhaven.org) a wonderful nonprofit that serves families in need and where our classmate, Laura Gillespie, is director of development. For any amount given to the DCF by a five-year-lapsed giver, Seth’s family will donate $100 to the Haven; they will donate $250 for every 10-year-lapsed giver; and $500 for every never-giver (up to a total of $20,000). This match-funding deepens our class’s connection to a fabulous charity, doing amazing work for Dartmouth’s neighbors. Talk about reuniting and putting things right-side up! If you’re moved to give now, visit dartgo.org/fund. Our congratulations to Pamela Taylor’s growing family, she shares: “My daughter, Tasneem Malik (née Khalid) ’12, had her first child, my first grandchild, on September 27, 2020. Maybe we’ll become a three-generation Dartmouth family!” We are proud to report that Chris Demos-Brown’s film adaptation of the play, American Son, premiered on Netflix in November 2019 as a television drama and was nominated for a 2020 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. Thank you to Peter Arnold, Liz Babb, Sarah Cotsen, Lanie McNulty, and Sue Sambrook for creating ’86 Career Advice Network (CAN). The ’86 CAN is on our class website, 1986.dartmouth.org. There I enjoyed Chip Fleischer’s interview in the new video series, How Did You Become A …, where our classmates will be interviewed about their chosen careers or paths. This network is for our class and immediate family only. If you have questions, suggestions, want more info on how to join or use ’86 CAN, email susansambrook@gmail.com. Kathy Gord Callahan announced the publication of her new book, 101 Rescue Puppies. Kathy is a certified professional dog trainer living in Alexandria, Virginia. She loves to coach people and their puppies into a great pack life. Her family has fostered more than 175 rescue puppies amid their own furry pack; website is www.puppypicks.com. In beauty.

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

First, I’d like to thank Liz Babb for using her valuable skills, a lot of time, and hard work to improve our class communication tools. Because of her efforts, we now have an up-to-date class website (1986.dartmouth.org), a larger Facebook public group (www.facebook.com/groups/dart1986), an awesome digital May newsletter (also on the class website), and the amazing class Zoom calls. It is always so wonderful to see all your faces, as we catch up or talk about issues that concern us all in this stage of our lives and prepare to meet back on campus in 2021. John Hueston and I are thrilled to co-chair our 35th ’86 class reunion—“It’s So Easy Being Green”—from June 17-20, 2021. Thanks to Todd Gomez, Jayne Daigle Jones, Liz Babb, Jonathan Skurnik, Laura Gillespie, Dawn Carey, Harry Carrel, Kelly Keller, Lynn Tracy Nerland, Jonno Williams, Ned Groves, Alex Rossides, Mike Moody, Liz McClintock, and Burgie Howard for agreeing to join the reunion committee. (Reunion updates post to website.) Please catch Bill Rodgers’ commentary, “Black Americans Have No Choice but to Protest,” published by Barron’s on June 4. Bill is professor of public policy and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. He was chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2000 to 2001. He serves on New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s Restart and Recovery Commission. Josh Greenberg currently serves as the vice president of government relations at Boston Children’s Hospital. Josh shares, “I have been lucky to host several groups of Dartmouth Partnership in Community Service health-focused summer placements in Boston for informal dinners with discussions with health policy figures about what they are experiencing on the ground. The students are active thinkers from multiple undergraduate majors. To a person they care deeply about eliminating health disparities and recognize the impact that poverty, underemployment, and structural racism can have on their clients’ health. We’ve drawn on the wider Boston Dartmouth community, including fellow ’86 Mary Beckman for their insights.” Gary Greene shared, “Last week Carolyn, Emily ’17, and I were in Hanover for graduation so that we could celebrate with Alison ’20.” He also was there with Peter Ramsden and his daughter, Haley ’20. We send our best wishes to Greg Lesko and his bride, Kelly, as they celebrate their 27th wedding anniversary this year. Congratulations are due to Jonathan Skurnik, director of Becoming Johanna, a documentary about navigating transgender identity, which aired multiple times on PBS through July 7. Synopsis: When Johanna, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, begins her transition and gets kicked out of her home and school, she finds a foster family who loves her and a supportive school principal who helps her graduate and thrive. Jonathan participated in a live question-and-answer session through Eventbrite to discuss his movie with viewers. The documentary was included in PBS’ SoCal events celebrating Pride Month (June), noting that the film “painted an insightful picture of the LGBTQ movement.” It is finished in beauty.

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

I was very happy to hear from Richard Morell, who writes: “I’ve been in a loving relationship with my partner, Simcha Pollard, for 18 months now. Simcha has taught economics at the university level off and on and has been an administrator with Trident University, among other things. He hails from San Francisco. We bought a house together in Laramie, Wyoming. (For those who don’t know, I ended up in Laramie seven years ago at the tail-end of a spiritual odyssey that included living in a couple of intentional communities in the South and attending the Rainbow Gathering in Montana that year. Someone I met in Montana said I should have an open mind, despite Laramie’s history as the site of a hate crime, and I’m glad I did. It’s my ‘Big Eden.’) Simcha and I also have two dogs, Junior and Bowser, and a cat named Baxter we inherited from the previous owner. We just love it here in Laramie. I’ve been doing local theater, still keep my hand in acting. I was most recently Torvald in a reading of Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House Part 2 and also played a polar bear in an environmentally conscious Christmas play performed in nearby Centennial, Wyoming. (Nothing compares though to playing Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest a few years back. I was born to play that role!) Also, I’m still writing screenplays and plays, working on a gay romantic comedy set here in Laramie and a couple of other projects, and I’m having fun as a volunteer alumni ambassador, interviewing kids applying to Dartmouth! I’ve talked with a couple of bright young people who are inspirations. Life is good!” Pamela Taylor shares exciting news: “I just found out I’m going to become a grandmother. My eldest (a ’12) is due in late September! So exciting! In other news, I’m now working in development with the Cincinnati Youth Choir and playing cello with the Cincinnati Civic Orchestra, one of the oldest community orchestras in the country.” Steven Stichter writes, “After dozen years of tracking hurricanes around the globe and providing real-time hurricane hazard and impact information through a startup that I cofounded in 2006, I hired a replacement for my role as CEO early in 2019 to get back to questions of how we can reduce risk and vulnerability to current and future natural hazards. And, as of January, I’m excited to be doing just that as director of the Resilient America program at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. I’ve been in D.C. for more than 20 years now, the last 15 with my husband, Mark Ewert. My sister-in-law lives in a group home in Hanover for adults with disabilities, so we get to New Hampshire a couple of times a year. In the past year we’ve seen Liz McClintock here in D.C. and Chris Hubble (plus Julie Park Hubble ’87) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.”

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

Brian Moore writes, “I had the distinct pleasure of meeting up with the inimitable Richard Thorner and the illustrious Mary Frances (Spatola) Sabo over lunch in Boston this past June. Neither have changed a bit!” Mary Frances is running for North Greenbush, New York, town supervisor. Richard, in addition to practicing law in Manchester, New Hampshire, avidly pursues his avocation as a dealer in historic documents and antique ephemera. Brian practices neuropathology and is pathology residency program director at the University of Colorado medical campus. Peter Arnold writes, “The ’86s killed it at the Ragnar ‘Reach the Beach’ relay in New Hampshire. Team Dartmouth (our motto: run clamantis in deserto) had 11 people, including classmates Peter Gibson, Mike Moody, Jim O’Shaughnessy, Scott Rabschnuk and me. The event was 202 miles long from Bretton Woods to Hampton Beach. Our team made it in just more than 27 hours, which included running through the night with headlamps.” I also confirmed from Peter Gibson that he ran half of his mileage in running sandals, and then in bare feet for the last 50 yards to the finish line. Spotted at Homecoming 2019 to celebrate our 55th birthday on campus were Mark Gies, Bill Hizar, Ken Rutherford, Peter Ramsden, Alice Rudd, Davida Sherman Dinerman, Jeff Hoffman, Jane MacDonald Hoffman, Harry Carrel, Jayne Daigle Jones, Mae Drake Hueston, John Hueston, Ned Groves, Jim Kallman, Phil Gray, Suzy Nachman Mercado, Dawn Carey, Julide Woodward, Laura Lindner Sankey, Andrea Lordan O’Reilly, Hugh O’Reilly, Wini Kinney, Julie Glichouse Mannes, Burgie Howard, John Goldman, Iggy, Robin Hitt Hall, Sara Geithner, John Alden,Peter Gibson, Claire Nicholson, Jeanne Morriello Clark, John Clark, Carrie Fraser, Sam Kinney, Chris Keating, Liz McClintock, Krista Thomas Corr, Gary Greene, John Marchiony, and Chan Morgan. My sincere apologies to all who made it back to campus and are not mentioned here. It is a joy to see old friends and get to know all of our classmates better. The campus is not the same when you are not there. You make the College come alive when you are with us; we missed you.

I have long been an admirer of Heid Erdrich and her work, so I was thrilled to receive an update from her. Heid writes, “Fifty-five has been one of my best years so far! For one thing, I’ve held with the tradition of seeing you most, if not all, years since 1982. Other two remarkable things: My poetry manuscript Little Big Bully was selected for the national poetry series and will be published by Penguin Editions in fall of 2020. I’m also the distinguished visiting professor in liberal arts at University of Minnesota-Morris for 2019. I’m full of gratitude and loving the full adult life!” It is finished in beauty.

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

Davida Sherman Dinerman writes, “I am still in the tech PR industry, but last April, after 21 years with the same firm in its various growth iterations, I moved back to small agency life. I am still playing tennis competitively and doing a lot of volunteer work in my town of Ashland, Massachusetts. My son, Ari, is 18 (he will have graduated by now). He’s a fantastic student and has developed into a great wrestler. My daughter, Abby, just turned 21. She 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 is an amateur birder and photographer.”

Here is an update from John Mungovan: “I keep in touch with Dan Driscoll, my roommate from Dartmouth and Brown medical school. My wife, Sue, and I still live in Barrington, Rhode Island. Emily is a junior at Boston College on the equestrian team. Andrew is a freshman at Union on the men’s swim team. Molly is a junior at Wheeler School in Providence, Rhode Island. Meagan is in eighth grade. I am still at Southcoast Hospitals Group in southeastern Massachusetts, currently chairman of radiology. We are very busy between work and attending all the kids’ sporting events. No retirement on the horizon for me.”

Andre Cramblit and his Delta Psi siblings celebrated their 55th birthday together. Their photo will be shared in our next newsletter with Eric “Quartz” Libre ’85, John “Digger” Graves, Lizanne “Zann” Nagel ’88, Mark “Flipper” Putter ’87, Matthew “Llama” Huggins, Andy “Reno”Flint ’84, Erik “Trak” Warga, and Eric “E-Man” Bakeman. Nicholas Flagler forwarded an article about Bill Ruhl receiving the 2018 Kenneth A. DeGhetto Philanthropic Ambassador Award for his contributions to the Metro YMCA leadership board. Congratulations, Bill, you make us all proud.

Please continue to keep James McKown in your thoughts, and prayers, as he, and his family, continue battling renal disease. James’ older brother is a match, and so we continue to hope the transplant and recovery are successful. Please contact Harry Carrel if you are interested in what Compassio is doing to help. Dr. David Kotz will be on sabbatical in Zurich from September through June. He will be based at the center for digital health interventions at ETH, the leading engineering university in Zurich. His wife will join and his son will attend the Zurich International School. He said, “We’re looking forward to exploring Switzerland and beyond!” I would like to acknowledge all our classmates who responded to my requests for mentors for the Dartmouth Partnership in Community Service around the country. There were many mentees over the past summer, and many of you stepped up to be considered. Thank you.

John Hueston and I had the pleasure of spending this year’s annual Dartmouth Pow Wow with my roommate, Carrie Shook Coolidge ’85, Harry Carrel, Joe Leake, Ray Burns, Ned Groves, Jim Kallman, Jayne Jones and husband Vernon, Julide Onder Woodward and husband Tim ’85, and Mary Pavel ’88.

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

Not only has Liz McClintock served as a Dartmouth Partnership in Community Service mentor twice, but she has also hosted a Burundian journalist who is in exile from his home and navigating the U.S. asylum process. I stole this summary from her application to be a mentor. Liz, you do so much for others. I want to acknowledge it. Janet Quigley Clay continues to serve as our class alumni councilor, so continue to send her a question, a kind word, a suggestion that she can deliver to faculty, trustees, and administrators in their meetings (jclay37@gmail.com). San Diego-based litigation attorney Jonathan Singer of Fish & Richardson was named the 2018 Life Sciences MVP of the year by Law360 for the third time. Sam Zales, chief operating officer at CarGurus, announced its U.K. expansion through the purchase of motoring website PistonHeads.com. Thank you to David Kotz, who shared the green-lighting of the Saraswati Temple in Hampi, India. He writes, “Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, art, wisdom, and learning, so it seemed appropriate.” I wanted to know which alum might live the farthest from Dartmouth, and David nominated Keith Noyes in Hong Kong. I estimate that he lives 7,847 miles from Hanover. Keith confirmed the estimate, and also sent a photo of his family skiing in Japan for the holidays. Gary Johnson took up my Haiku challenge: “Teach high school seniors, physics with much algebra, they all go to sleep.” I received a wonderful note from Chris (Demos) Brown, who listened with his daughters to my daughter, Shea, interview me about Navajo culture, called Kinaalda. Don’t miss his photos and the update on his successful Broadway play, American Son, in our class newsletter. Peter Arnold writes, “There was a huge ’86 turnout at the U.S. Supreme Court for the recent 200th anniversary re-argument of Dartmouth v. Woodward: Julie Mannes, Greg Mott, Heather Sawyer, Chris Lord, Beth Robinson, and yours truly.” John Hueston argued Nutraceutical v. Lambert in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in November 2018. He was hoping that Justice Ginsberg would ask him a question, which she did. He was so thrilled to say her name and answer her. Eight of the nine justices asked him questions, which was a high point. In attendance were Seth Hendon and his daughter, who is a sophomore at Dartmouth. John just learned that he won in a unanimous decision. Mark Weiss writes: “After 53 years of bachelorhood, I married Terry Acebo Davis, the artist; we came to 2011 reunion. So now I say the three great privileges of my life are Dartmouth, Palo Alto Unified School District public schools, my wife.” Join me in congratulating Jayne Daigle, who was honored by the College at the Ivy League Basketball Tournaments’ Ivy Madness.

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

Neil Maher writes: “Dear fellow ’86s, while many of your children have either heard from their colleges of choice or are waiting for April decisions, my oldest son is heading off to…kindergarten next year. And I have another boy who will be joining him two years from now in school! So next fall, when you’re dropping off your freshman, remember to send some energy my way—I’m going to need it.” Jeanne and John Clark’s daughter, Lisa, graduated summa cum laude from Franklin & Marshall, where she was also a member of its Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Their son, Joe, is getting his master’s at University of Illinois with plans to teach high school band. Jeanne’s life story is “warmth, cold, loss, bliss, struggle, family.” Jeff House shares that his twin daughters graduated from Dartmouth. Sydney graduated cum laude with a double major in economics and government and is starting a consulting firm job in Boston. Ashley graduated with an economics degree with post-baccalaureate plans for medical school. Jeff’s life story is “K.C., Dartmouth, travel, family, consulting, golf.” Gina Cannon’s life story is “New Hampshire, husband, daughter, Labrador, retired, joy.” Kendall Burney Wilson’s life story is “exciting, unexpected, challenging, blessed, beautiful, full.” Jeffrey Morrison’s life in seven words: “Just completed 30 years teaching at GFA.” I had to look up Greens Farms Academy, and found a school newsletter with photos of Jeff from 30 years ago and recently. André Cramblit writes, “New job: Native cultural resource specialist.” Liz McClintock’s life story is “Joy from family, friends, and negotiation adventures.” Patrick Donovan writes, “Well, I have some news. On May 8 I was sworn in as the 109th associate justice of the N.H. Supreme Court. After 28 years of practicing law as a state homicide prosecutor and private practitioner, I closed my practice for a spot on New Hampshire’s highest court. My four kids are proud and my wife seems to be taking it in stride, but she refuses to call me Justice Patrick.” John Menides writes, “Moved on and not looking back.” Marie Longo writes: “I am the chief advancement officer at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts, a private arts boarding high school where I also advise students.” Here’s her six-word life story, “former theater nerd fundraising for same.” Jim Citron wrote, “travels, Mexico, finds love at 52.” This next six-word life story made me laugh. Celeste Boatwright Grace: “Armpit deep in a horse’s rectum.” Peter Arnold poses a slightly different question: “Can you tell our class history in six words? Answer: There is no ‘0’ in ’86.” Laura Gillespie writes, “Without a map, made it home.” From Vermont, Alice Rudd Elder and Brooks Elder quote Paul Simon for their life story: “Still crazy after all these years.” Bonnie (Austin) Cluxton’s life story is “a life of family, friends, love.” Keith Noyes writes from China, “graduated, married, two kids, rock on.” In beauty, it is finished.

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

Anthony Pelligrini writes that his three daughters graduated from Bowdoin or Tufts or nearly graduated from Providence College. Anthony remembers that 36 or so years ago, he wanted to be a computer hardware engineer. “Physics was too hard, so I switched to computer science to be a software programmer. I started my career as a computer software programmer, but ended up as a lawyer. I am now a partner in my law firm and work as a patent, immigration, contracts lawyer, and litigator. I have been a lawyer, but I would like to be a beach bum.” Shelley Mosley Stanzel writes, “I love to read the Class Notes to hear what is going on in my classmates’ lives. My life is very different from most of those who submit news, however, as I am the parent of a disabled son who is now 23 years old. He has a high-functioning type of autism called Asperger syndrome (AS), which means that he is highly intelligent, but finds it challenging to connect with others and express his feelings. Many of those with AS become experts in a narrow set of interests. Basically, they are smart but a little weird. Additionally, he has Klinefelter syndrome, which is caused by an extra copy of the X chromosome. He also has a bit of mental illness and very poor judgment. While many of you are concerned about where your children will go to college, I’m worried about him continuing to bring homeless people into the home in the middle of the night, after he snuck out to visit Kevin and Robert, two homeless men who ‘teach him about life’ and live under a bridge. Being the parent of a special-needs son has completely changed the way that I think about success. I’m writing this because we are very proud that he has been hired at a local pancake house to bus tables and polish silverware. It is a low-pressure environment, and the other employees and customers are very nice to him. We’ve noticed a vast improvement in his sense of self-worth and happiness since he began the job in the fall. He now can ride the bus by himself from my family’s ranch—where he lives—to get him away from the homeless people. On Saturdays, I drive two hours to get him to and from his job. I meet friends at the restaurant every Saturday, order the same omelet and decaf coffee, and spend more on our meals than he makes working. It’s a wonderful situation, and we are blessed that he has finally found a place in the world that makes him feel complete. Plus, the hostess at the pancake house gives me priority seating whenever there is a long line!” In response to my query, “Can you write your life story in six words?” Peter Henderson wrote, “Dartmouth, family, career, transformation, psychology, service.” David Criswell’s life story is “Cornfield, Granite Mountains, skyscrapers, Beervana, bless.” In beauty, it is finished.

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

As promised from the last column, Bill Ruhl wrote about his recent career change: “Being fortunate enough to leave the corporate world and young enough to have a second career that aligns with my love of the outdoors and kids has been incredible. After more than 20 years at Verizon, I was offered an opportunity for early retirement and took it!” Bill leads the instructor-mentoring team at the National Winter Activity Center.” The center, located in Vernon, New Jersey, is the nation’s first not-for-profit facility dedicated to improving the lives of youth through winter activity. Through its Elev8 program it provides instruction, healthy meals, equipment and mentoring to school-age children. Participants live within the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania area and beyond through partnerships with organizations such as YMCA, Boys & Girls Clubs, schools and other agencies. Bill is an avid snow sports and outdoor enthusiast committed to providing children and young adults with the capabilities, experiences and opportunities needed to play and work outside in the winter time. The center’s website is Winter4Kids.org.

As our children get ready to leave for their respective colleges, I asked what you were thinking about, as a career, when you were their age. Anne Weinhardt Lawler wrote, “I thought I’d write. My current job takes me full circle from what I thought I wanted to do when I was in high school, but never did. I went to Hanover thinking I wanted to be a physician. Am I one now? Nope. I’m an attorney and a registered nurse, and I combine those two backgrounds in an odd way as director of the Idaho Board of Medicine. We license all the new physicians coming to Idaho and regulate all the current ones who are here, which includes education, legislation and some discipline (we hope the education leads to less of that). Any regrets I didn’t become a physician? No, this path fits my personality and skills much better.” John Westkaemper said that he came to Dartmouth wanting to be a doctor, which he did. “Straight through, only 14 years of education after high school. Now a hand surgeon. Thanks, Dartmouth!” We have some offspring college acceptance updates: Sam Hartwell’s son, Ben, got in early decision to Dartmouth! A copy of both of their acceptance letters will be posted in our ’86 newsletter. David Kotz’s daughter, Mara, is in the midst of her gap year and then starts at Dartmouth in September as a ’22. Wendy Peck Wilkinson’s daughter, Kelsey, is attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute this fall. John and Mabelle Hueston’s daughter, Kinsale, heads to Yale. And now, a great way to end our class column, Kirk LeCompte writes: “My family saw the award-winning play American Son by Chris Demos-Brown at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey early this year, and it was outstanding. One of the best plays we’ve seen in years. Kudos to Chris!” It is finished in beauty.

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

I always have news from our classmates, but there’s something special about the ones who have found and married the loves of their lives. I am beyond thrilled that I have several to share. After 25 years together, Susan Wayne married her partner. Mindy Meade DeStefano and her husband, Greg, generously hosted the celebration at their home in Evanston, Illinois. In attendance were Lucy Mathews Heegaard and Cece Conway Browne. Susan lives in San Francisco. Bonnie (Austin) Cluxton writes, “On September 2 I married the man of my dreams in my home town of Rutland, Vermont. It took 53 years, but it was well worth the wait. My new husband, David, recently retired from the Army JAG Corp. He is the kindest, most generous man I’ve ever known. My new stepdaughter, Katherine, is a junior at UConn. Following in her dad’s and late mom’s military service footsteps, she is on her way to becoming an Army nurse. I have truly won the lottery of life. I’ve given David and Katherine a tour of Dartmouth and we will likely visit frequently when David and I eventually settle in the Vermont area a few years down the road.” Jen Brown and John are newlyweds with just one year of marriage. She writes, “Last November we traveled to Belize where we hiked, biked and went scuba diving near a school of eagle rays. In May we traveled to Germany to sing with the ‘all-European’ (plus one New Yorker) House of Worship Choir. What a blast! We learned 13 a cappella choral pieces in four days in seven different languages! The French, Spanish and German were a breeze, all thanks to Dartmouth!” Jim Citron married Laura González in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where 10 Dartmouth alums, spanning six decades, were present, including Helen Kang Martínez ’06, Tim Rumberger, Alejandro Martínez ’07, Bob Delise ’92, Mary Bourque ’87, Jeffrey Wheeler ’66, my father John Citron ’57, Carl Pedersen ’73 and John Wolff ’46 (who was my Dartmouth alumni interviewer in 1981 and was featured in the March/April 2017 DAM article, “Wisdom of the Sages: Four nonagenarians and one octogenarian serve up more than 450 years of insight into this thing called life”). Although Laura is not a Dartmouth alum, we met through her participation in the summer program at Dartmouth that I direct for public school teachers from Mexico under the auspices of Worldfund and Dartmouth’s Rassias Center. Laura and I are currently in Mexico City.” David Kotz completed his ADK46, by climbing all 46 peaks in the Adirondacks with elevation over 4,000 feet; 45 years after starting the effort. Laura (Lindner) and Kevin Sankey have a daughter, Logan ’20, who is a ski jumper and is training and competing summer through winter. She is bunking up with Jory ’85 and Martha (Cornell) Macomber in Park City, Utah, this fall. Susan Goran Everhard is looking for Elle Jackson, Liz Babb Fanlo asked about Meg Hall, and Mike Rich would like to connect with Bill Park.

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

Mark Proctor, Jonathan Fisher, and Bruce Chaffee represented our class at Heartbreak Hill cheering on this year’s Boston Marathon runners. Thanks to the Proctor family for hosting. If anyone is running any marathons, please let us know. You may be the reason we gather to cheer.

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

After a wet winter and beginning of spring, I am watching the birds make their yearly nest on our outdoor speakers. No matter the changes since they were last here, their natural cycle gives peace as I am reminded that despite changes on other levels of life, some things remain the same. Kelly Keller writes, “Each winter during the two-week Martin Luther King Jr. celebration Dartmouth honors members of the Dartmouth and Upper Valley communities who work for social justice, peace, civil rights, public health or environmental sustainability. This year our very own Kevin Curnin, a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP in New York and founding director of Stroock’s public service project, received the Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement. The Granger Award is presented annually to a Dartmouth graduate or graduates whose lifelong commitment to public service has been exemplary. Granger Award recipients have exhibited leadership and innovation in meeting community needs and benefiting an underserved population.” Congratulations, Kevin! He adds, “No class has won more Martin Luther King Jr. awards than the illustrious class of ’86! Here is the list and the year they won: Beth Robinson, 2002; Allison Barlow, 2012; Chris Keating, 2016; Kevin Curnin, 2017. The ’90s are second place with three!” At the most recent Club and Group Officers Weekend, our wonderful classmate Ken Klemm was bestowed with the 2016 Small Club President of the Year Award. Ken’s skilled leadership and dedication to the Dartmouth Club of the Gulf Coast is evident in the very first sentence of the alumni relations report on the award: “Ken Klemm ’86 has skillfully led the Dartmouth Club of the Gulf Coast for over a decade, during which time the club has twice been recognized as Small Club of the Year.” Ken, we’re very proud of you! We’ve also heard that Neil Maher’s book, Apollo in the Age of Aquarius, is out. For Neil’s upcoming events and appearances, see his website: www.neilmaher.com. Congratulations, Neil! As it has happened to you, and as you know, it’s always a joy to run into a classmate. John and I were having a date night in Deer Valley, Utah, when a random person came up to John and asked why he was wearing a “Dartmouth Rugby” shirt. John explained that we were ’86s, his love for rugby and that he had traveled to watch New Zealand play Ireland. Well, the guy who asked was classmate and former rugby captain Raoul Socher, on his way to meet another rugby captain, Nick Leventis, and their former rugby players. No matter where we go, there we are.

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

Class of ’86 Native Americans at Dartmouth (NAD) Dawn Gourneau Allen, Ray Burns, Andre Cramblit, Heid Erdrich, Mabelle Drake Hueston, Vivian Johnson Korthuis, Joanna Lowry, Herman Nacho and Julia Russ with Angie Erdrich ’87 successfully sponsored a current NAD scholar with their 30th reunion fundraising efforts.

Empty-nesters Andre Cramblit and his wife, Wendy Brown, live in Arcata, California. Their 20-year-old son, Kyle, is a junior math major at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Andre writes: “After 20 years at Northern California Indian Development Council I have moved to United Indian Health Services as the health promotions and education manager. My five main activities are harm reduction, a needle exchange program, suicide prevention, a state tobacco grant and a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tobacco grant. I am also in charge of the teen advisory group and a community development group. I am learning a whole new world of medical acronyms, researching and writing grants for health-related programs (please send along any resources you may have) and trying to figure out Windows, having been in a Macintosh environment since our freshman year. I work in the same town I live in so I have been riding my bike to work as weather permits. I also write for Indian Country Today, an online news service. You can go to http://bit.ly/CramblitIndianCountryToday to find out what my wandering mind has inspired me to write (including a piece on our recent reunion). It was good seeing the people I know and very nice to meet new classmates at our 30th.” He can be reached at andre.cramblit@crihb.org or (707) 845-4973.

Vivian Johnson Korthuis is the first woman to run the 52-year-old Association of Village Council Presidents, made of 56 tribes in 48 Alaskan villages, as its chief executive officer.

Nancy Wallace in Tallahassee, Florida, welcomed her second grandchild, Jonathan Malik Burke.

Maya Wiley is the Henry Cohen Professor of Urban Policy and Management at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy and senior vice president for social justice at the New School. She was most recently counsel to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Ned Groves is executive vice president and hospital administrator at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He and his wife, Deborah Rhodes, are navigating their transition from the Midwest.

Werner Tillinger, M.Div., graduated from the Claremont School of Theology and will be ordained as a minister of First Christian Church Pomona (Disciples of Christ).

You meet classmates in the darnedest places when wearing your Dartmouth gear. My kids and I were rushing to cheer on John Hueston at the Boston Marathon when I heard people yelling, “Mabelle Drake, Mabelle Drake!” It was Neil Maher and Mark Proctor. Now when John is running, I find my way to the same spot to join our Dartmouth friends, and cheer on the runners. We will be there again with cowbells in hand at the base of Heartbreak Hill. Go, Big Green ’86s!

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

Reunion weather was perfect, and coordinators Mike McTernan and Sarah Page reported our turnout was just six short of a record. They and their crew did a great organizing job, even to the alternate food selection for those of us creeped out by mollusks (or ex-communicated for chowing on crustaceans) during Saturday’s seafood dinner. If you couldn’t attend, plan on October 2019 for Homecoming, 33 years and four months after graduation. (I call it the “33 1/3”).

So I’ve wanted to engage the brains this way for at least five years. See if you can match 12 names with 12 vocations and avocations—all have been reported by Davida or me during the last five years. (See, this is a memory quiz for 50-somethings.)

The vocations include author (including of cookbooks), college dean, corporate financier, grandparent (two times as of 2013), history teacher, Internet service provider, investment advisor, medical doctor, neuropathologist and gym owner, organic farmer, playwright and sleuth.

The names of classmates include Brian Moore, Burgie Howard, Heid E. Erdrich, Jeff Jones, Kelly Keller, Krista Corr, L.J. Briggs, Lee Merkle Raymond, Melinda Lopez, Peter Gibson, Robert Douglass and Walter Jeffries.

Maybelle Drake takes the mighty ’86 pen for the next five (at least) years. She’s an ever-enthusiastic bright light who will never be short on content. Davida and I have enjoyed this pseudo-work for (collectively) 25 years with y’all. She and I received a long-service award in June, but we want to point out an equally lengthy and dedicated class dynamo: Walter Tsui has built, maintained and shepherded changes to dartmouth86.com for many years. It’s a continual beacon for us and we are grateful for his good work.

My favorite aspect of reunion that we can easily share with all is the enlarged Freshman Book photos that the organizers had adorning our class tent. Small version, circa 1982, is here: dartmouth86.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Dartmouth_86_Freshman_Book.pdf.

Pics are worth a thousand words, so if you haven’t done so recently, add to dartmouth86.com, the realm continually beautified by us. Reunion photos and short video clips from home are welcome, via d86web@gmail.com.

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

Return to 35 years ago: 1981 was when most of us “discovered” Dartmouth. Whether in catalogs depicting smiling students on the lush lawn, notices of Dartmouth’s athletic prowess by its many NCAA teams (most for a college of its size), a winter visit whereby we discovered the College had its own ski area(!), a spring visit where we saw those engaging catalog pics were true or a summer visit where we witnessed students in bathing suits pretending to be studying on the Connecticut River docks, we were compelled to apply. Dartmouth undergrads in 1981 were 34 percent women and only 29 percent from outside the Northeast. Some of us ventured to see the campus without our parents escorting us; some of us found our way to weekend parties. Most took the staid parent and student and gregarious student guide tour. At least one of those tour guides (mine) is an esteemed surgeon now, and tour guides circa 2016 are especially accomplished, even though Dartmouth has less need to sell itself than any other Ivy League campus.

Mary Frances (Spatola) Sabo has brought all three of her children to Hanover. She lives near Albany, in North Greenbush, New York, and works as an attorney for the New York State Department of Financial Services, dealing with health insurance. “I make my world better by encouraging my kids to contribute to their communities. I’ve organized a bunch of girls from my daughter’s school to prepare lunch at a homeless shelter and I drive both daughters to volunteer with developmentally disabled children several times a month.” Her children are Adam (18), Maria (16) and Nadia (14). Her freshman year buddy Richard Thorner is in Manchester, New Hampshire, a law partner at Wadleigh, Starr & Peters. Richard and his wife, Anne, now have a lovely, bubbly (I met her) 8-year-old daughter. Richard is an antiques dealer on the side, specializing in old books.

My freshman roomie Sam Hartwell is “out of Africa” but still helping African development from San Francisco as CFO of KickStart International. Sam was recently selected by the San Francisco Business Times as a finalist for the Nonprofit CFO of the Year Award (who knew!). My most interesting ’86 acquaintance from freshman year, Matthew Weatherly-White, inventor, cerebral oarsman and Pyrenees adventurer, wrote last summer. “Our PR consultant (Kiki Keating, who ran PR for Tuck for 15 years and who still lives in Hanover) encouraged me to forward a profile done on me for Wealth Management magazine: wealthmanagement.com/people/ten-watch-2016-matthew-weatherley-white.”

Matthew discusses his vision for the future of the capital markets and “the most powerful investment trend you probably have never heard of”—impact investing—in his blog i3impact.com.

Finally, my freshman floor-mate (Hitchcock, top floor) Nancy Stein-Woolf is nearly an empty-nester, with her third child about to head to college. Nancy is completing her third and final year as our ’86 Alumni Council rep. She has been a force for Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS). She is the post-graduate committee chair and will continue in the role to get Dartmouth grads into meaningful community projects following graduation. Thanks to the good work and good descriptions of the work to come from her and Chip Fleischer, the class of 1986 executive council voted to sponsor a DPCS endowment that directs many projects for recent grads to take advantage of. Class president Kendall Wilson vetted DPCS and other competing projects admirably, and the council vote was unanimous.

—Mark Greenstein, 1106 Fienemann Road, Newington, CT 06111; msg@ivybound.net; Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; davida@dinerman.com

N.H. citizen will see Mark Stewart’s name on the February primary ballot, just below “Sanders, Bernie.” Stewart is not a liberal though, and he urges “those who care about seeping socialism” to see more at the Resistance, the organization he cofounded for other “anti-incumbent, pro-freedom candidates”: www.weresist.us. He’ll be on the presidential ballot in New Hampshire, South Carolina “and any other late-primary states that will have me.”

Professor Andrew Walkling teaches at Binghamton University (SUNY), with a joint appointment in the departments of art history, English and theater. “My specialization is 17th-century English court culture and I’m just completing a book on musical-theatrical entertainments performed between the late 1650s and 1688 titled Masque and Opera in Restoration England.” Andrew was surprised when this reporter said, “This is cool.” Also a teacher, Jeffrey Morrison may hold the longevity-with-one-employer record for ’86s. “I’m in my 28th year at Greens Farms Academy, where I teach history. Here my daughter, Bryn, is in ninth grade, my son, Soren, is in sixth grade, and my wife teaches Spanish and is dean of students. Spent the summer driving Bryn to various field hockey camps, also did a bit of fly-fishing.” Final teacher for this month, Mike McIvor writes from New York City: “This fall marks the third semester for me teaching a course at Tuck called “Investing and Deal Making in Healthcare: A Practitioner’s Perspective.” I haven’t quit my day job though, and continue to work at Bank of America. My 10-year-old daughter has settled on Dartmouth as her first choice for college. Gabriela asked me to print out the application so she can plan ahead. She definitely takes after her mother.”

John Hueston left his large Los Angeles law firm and launched a “white collar and securities litigation boutique.” If you envision a five-counselor shop, think again. In nine months the firm has swelled to 42 attorneys. Indeed, 24 attorneys joined John and his cofounder within the first month of their announcement. An article already named Hueston & Hennigan a top California litigation boutique. “Fellow classmate Lisa Richardson is our head of marketing and public relations. As you can see, she has been doing a great job!”

Out of San Diego: Janet Friday is perhaps trading up. After 15 years in “America’s Finest City” she moved to America’s wettest city—Seattle. “My husband, Charles, took a job with Amazon Machine Learning. He currently is on a leave from the University of California, San Diego, so not sure how this is going to pan out. The climate is really different, both weather and culture. I’m working at Seattle Children’s Hospital in the ER and urgent care. I’m no longer seeing the sickest of the sick these days. Less stress is good!” Then again—“We have a seventh-grader who has adapted to Seattle a little too well and dyed her hair pink.” Lots of rain is coming her way to wash it out.

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

So this is the midlife issue. Yes, we’re taking the optimistic side.

We are getting our AARP cards and offers to live in senior communities. We singles get the over-50 dating site offers. A few of us have already received reduced-rate dinners and lower-cost movie tickets. We now have some healthcare benefits thanks to Congress, but we are ready to not be properly reimbursed when trying to make a claim.

Collectively, we report no midlife crisis here. We Americans in good health should be extremely grateful to live in this time. Monarchs of four centuries ago never had the resources even the poorest among us now have. Even compared with our grandparents we Americans can travel anywhere quickly and cheaply, eat thousands of foods inexpensively and purchase clothes far less expensively than they did. We can converse with folks in far-away nations, hear their music, watch their TV shows, even influence their elections.

Our third classmate reporting to me as semi-retired is Jon Frank Anderson. Jon played a role in implementing the transportation programs of the Clean Air Act of 1990 for U.S. EPA. “I have worked with car, truck, bus and locomotive emissions control through engines and fuels. I helped reduce the contaminants in reformulated gasoline, diesel, compressed natural gas vehicles and liquid propane vehicles.” Jon now lives in the Hyde Park section of Boston with his two cats.

Some solid Class Notes: We are now in a reunion year. Our 30th, in mid-June, runs four days. The College seems to think we’re retirees or have the leisure to mimic retirees at summer’s onset. We will have mini-reunions leading up to June. Wherever you and a few ’86s want to gather, it’s a mini-reunion. If you want to publicize it beyond your cadre, let Krista Corr know; she directs our mini-reunions. Mark Greenstein is coordinating any who want to reunite in Vail, Colorado, in early March. We’ll latch on to CarniVail, but have a special yurt dinner and snow-cat skiing by the Continental Divide for just ’86s and guests.

Nancy Stein Woolf reports very good work and very good results by Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS). These are the sometimes-misunderstood projects that our class sponsors. Nancy says, “DPCS is alive and flourishing.” This summer our class sponsored two of eight ambitious undergrads to volunteer in Boston hospitals. The call to apply for a DPCS summer internship in healthcare drew dozens of applicants, from which we selected eight, giving them housing in Boston and a stipend. Physician Andy Stein (brother of Nancy) is the main mentor now.

DPCS also enlists post-grads for nonprofit or low-pay work in New York. They have a one-year commitment, but thus far all have stayed for two or more years. “It’s an amazing experience for them,” says Nancy. Anna Morenz ’13 came to New York as a foster care worker who had Nancy for her mentor; she heads to Harvard med school in September. These DPCS opportunities fit President Phil Hanlon’s mold of promoting “experiential learning.”

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

Our “far from home” solicitation brought just one reply. We know there are ’86s on at least six continents. You must be feeling shy or wanting us to make stuff up. Well the amalgamation below prevents resulting to fabrication. I hope you’ll inundate Davida for the next issue. Just after I announced this far from home issue, Andrew Walkling wrote: “As fate would have it, I just got back from a wonderful trip: Two and a half weeks in Sri Lanka! My partner, Lakshmi, is from there, and we stayed with family, ate lots of great (fresh!) food and traveled around the country, visiting 1,000-year-old Buddhist temples and other extraordinary sites. I got wild and danced with some of the country’s leading TV stars (friends of my partner, who’s an actress), though I’m not ready to share those potentially incriminating pics with Dartmouth classmates just yet. While I was there, Sri Lanka had its mini-revolution, with the autocratic, nepotist president ousted at the ballot box and the new, reformist president inaugurated the same day the election results came in. (And then, wouldn’t you know, the pope showed up!) All in all a fantastic visit and I’m looking forward to returning sometime next year.” Andrew is a professor at Binghamton University (SUNY). His specialization is 17th-century English court culture, and he has just completed a book on musical and theatrical entertainments performed between the late 1650s and 1688 titled Masque and Opera in Restoration England.


Okay now the “my new world” part: Mark Greenstein made it to Asia for the first time, with a ski trip to the Northern Alps of Japan for six days, followed by four days in Beijing, including two ski days. Yes, there are four ski areas on the outskirts of Beijing. Though they get almost no snowfall, the Chinese are adept at making snow. They would like to host the Winter Olympics in 2022 and since Western countries don’t really want to play Olympic hosts any more, China will probably land these games too. I take back an appreciation of Chinese capitalism—they originated it—of the warmth the suburban people have for Americans and of the niceness every one of them showed to a sometimes-lost stranger. From Japan, nothing was really surprising except the goodness of their toilets—warm seats and, well, you can look up the rest.


Our Helen Shelton was named one of the “25 Most Influential Black Women in Business” by The Network Journal magazine. She is senior partner and director of multicultural marketing at Finn Partners, a New York-based PR firm. “My career has been quite a ride working with some of the world’s most outstanding cultural institutions, artists, corporations and foundations. Much of this is due to the strong foundation I received at Dartmouth and the manner in which I was trained to look at things by my art history professors and the rigorous nature of the academic structure of the College. I particularly enjoy travels to Italy and the Leeward Islands. I’m an adjunct professor at NYU’s school of continuing professional studies, where I teach PR consulting and history, theory and practice. I volunteer with a service organization called the Links on issues around women and children affected by domestic violence. The Links also provides arts education for inner-city kids.” Helen’s profile in Hello Beautiful is: http://bit.ly/1Aa7Iwj.


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


Her spell on them remains. Hanover on October 17-19 provided a great gathering place. Foliage was at near-peak, temperature was perfect for October in New England and look at all who were part of our 50th birthday celebration: Adelaide Hulbert, Alicia Lindgren, Allison Strawn, Bruce Chafee, Burgie Howard, Caroline Carsten, Cathy Freud Windsor, Chris Keating, Chris Robinson, Christopher Giza, Claire Nicholson, Craig Saltzgaber, Dave Lindahl, Debbie McCollum, Dierdre MacDonald, Dina Bloom, Ellen Stein, Gary Greene, Greg Dow, Greg Hulbert, Greg Nerland, Harry Carrell, Jack Bocock, Janet Quigley Clay, Jen Brown, Joe Leake, John Hueston, John Marchiony, Jonathan Fisher, Jonno Williams, Julide Woodward, Julie Mannes, Karen Blodgett, Kathy Bannon Keith, Kendall Burney Wilson, Kim Clausen McDermott, Krista Corr, Lisa Richardson, Liz Babb Fanlo, Liz Fries, Liz McClintock, Lori Rheingold, Lynn Nerland, Lynne TenHoopen, Mabelle Hueston, Marie Longo, Mark Greenstein, Mary Francis Sabo, Mary Markland Gannon, Mike Maguire, Mike Moody, Ned Groves, Neil Maher, Peter Gibson, Peter Westley, Peter Zelten, Rob Hunger, Sam Kinney, Sara Goran Everhard, Sarah Cotsen, Sarah Geithner Adam, Sarah Moorefield Adams, Sarah Page, Scott Isherwood, Scott Rabschnuk, Sean Nicholson, Shantha Gona Farris, Susan Burnley, Susan Sambrook, Suzie Nachman Mercado, Terry Galvin Anderson, Tony Stearns, Walter Tsui, Werner Tillinger, Will Ogden and Wini Kinney. 


That’s 75 hearty classmates, and it may be the largest post-grad gathering of classmates outside of reunions. A high number flew in from California, a good number came from overseas and a few who could not attend sent in good wishes. Congrats to us. And thanks to organizer Krista Corr and evening hosts Sam and Wini Kinney. 


As 18-year-old ’shmen many of us viewed those 50-year-old Homecoming attendees and wondered, maybe hoped, that we would be doing that too. And here we are: generally trim, energetic, upbeat and evidencing very little gray.


May it all continue! The real challenge is to get 75 classmates attending our 100th birthday party. Mark the dates—October 17-19, 2064—on your 100-year planner. Heck, we’ll just buzz into Hanover in our George-Jetson-like aero-cars with our oxygen tanks and defibrillators. Some will possibly celebrate having a fifth-generation descendant at the alma mater. (A good start: Our class has at least 30 children on campus now.) At Homecoming 2064 we’ll arrive with the 300th “class” of Dartmouth students, who will celebrate the 400th anniversary of Kronenbourg beer and 500th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. 


Those class of 2068 ’shmen will be armed with mitochondrial DNA evidence whether Shakespeare was just a very good publisher of a once-obscure local woman’s awesome works. Some will investigate such mysteries at Cafe Baker, the five-story edifice once known as a library, but soon to be a digital portal to 2 quintillion pieces of online information. (Another good start: In 2014 the coffee shop within Baker Library is its most populated room, day and night.) They’ll show us geezers digital photos from fall 2014 and snicker at how we looked “like immature 50-year-olds.” Many freshmen socializing outside Baker during Homecoming will be getting passed up at the Yale vs. Dartmouth game. Any Yalies in attendance can celebrate the 180th anniversary of Yale beating Dartmouth 113-0. (We didn’t invite Yale back for another 87 years.) Count on this: Dear Old Dartmouth will still be there.


Pics are worth a thousand words, so if you haven’t done so recently, view our class of ’86 site, continually beautified by us and Walter Tsui. Homecoming photos and a few short video clips are now at www.dartmouth86.com/archives/2952.


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


Mini-kudos to six accomplished ’86s about whom professional news reached my inbox: Beth Robinson, Bill Daly, John Hueston, Jonathan Singer, Joshua Greenberg and Shep Kopp. Five of the six are lawyers—good publicists seem to attend the profession. Maybe someone can publicize them to apply their good skills at the federal level. Send them all to Congress! Someone should nominate these six. I might actually then vote for an incumbent for the first time since 1982.


One lawyer who did write is Tony Pellegrini from Bangor, Maine. “I celebrated 26 years of marriage to Joan. I am slowly being bankrupted by my daughters, the eldest of whom begins senior year at Bowdoin and the middle her sophomore year at Tufts. Joan and I visited Sicily, Rome and Greece last fall, then Belize this winter, then Alaska in March (yeah, we do spring break kinda backward). Two of my daughters are working with me this summer at Rudman Winchell, where I am a partner and practice intellectual property and immigration law. We recreate at our camp in Downeast Maine, which we completely rebuilt in 2012 after it was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. The lobster fishing is good, so if any ’86ers are vacationing near Beals, Maine, this summer, drop by and I’ll let you haul a trap or two.”


Lee Merkle-Raymond just completed a seven-day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. “Training rides started in January, so we were happy to avoid a severe winter. The event raises funds for research, education and support services for people with AIDS. July marks 25 years since my first day in banking, when I also met my partner Kathy. It has been a great journey for us: Boston to Silicon Valley, then an assignment in Australia and now back in Palo Alto, California, where our daughters are almost 17 and 14. Life has been good. I’m grateful to contribute through the Lifecycle ride while I’m still ‘young.’ ”


Lynn Tracy Nerland wrote for her and husband Greg Nerland: “We are celebrating our Harmonic Convergence year with our 25th anniversary, older son graduating from college, younger son graduating from high school, Greg’s 25th year practicing as an attorney (24 years for me) and that big birthday. We were thrilled to attend the birthday parties for San Francisco East Bay ’86s Tony Stearns and Kelly Keller and an early celebration with sometimes East Bay resident Marie Longo (she travels here often for her fascinating new job with the nonprofit Playworks). We are on our way back east for a Tracy family gathering in the Adirondacks.”


Lynn’s thoughts fit this mid-year of most of us turning 50. Let’s hope that’s our average mid-life. First 50 went fast, but my (minuscule) research allows the proclamation: 50 is the new 36! Hear me out: A century ago the average American 36-year-old was the parent of a teenager, had witnessed the death of one parent and had 37 years’ remaining life expectancy (40 if female). Sound familiar? The great news for us is even if we’re on the “back nine,” there’s so much more we can do in our next decades. And so much faster: Going to Europe a century ago took 10 days, going to China took three weeks. We can see and hear from more people across the globe in a week than our forbears could in a lifetime. The “poor” among us live better than monarchs of ancient times. Americans of our generation are by-and-large the luckiest generation in world history. Baby boomers who were not drafted might tie for luckiest.


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


Homecoming took place on a near-perfect weekend in early October. The New Hampshire and Vermont foliage was at peak. The weather behaved and more than 30 classmates, spouses and children joined. I was not among them: The downside of my 60-mpg car is few appropriate parts are available. I suffered a blowout in western Massachusetts and failed to reach Hanover because it took six hours to get a proper tire to the shop. (Yes, that was I on the side of I-91). I did manage to play golf nearby (notch course No. 299 onto the roster) so the Hanover Country Club trees are safe from my errant shots for another year.
Our solicitation for youtube.com videos brought two for now, but also promises of “yes, later” from multiple classmates. So we hope this starts a trend! A picture is worth a thousand words; a short video could be exponentially better. So our first entrants for 2013 are: Brian Moore and Melinda Lopez. Brian is director of neuropathology at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Illinois. His video about the Cross-Fit gym he owns is skillfully shot with his Dartmouth diploma in the background: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHBezthxuk. Melinda writes: “I was awarded a three-year Mellon Foundation Fellowship and am currently playwright-in-residence at the Huntington Theatre in Boston.” Melinda has a play opening in March at the Huntington Theatre called Becoming Cuba. Advance praise for it is at www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzrMEWAQ3QE&feature=player_embedded. The secretary’s prize for next year will be to the YouTube videographer who implants something Dartmouth-y into her or his video that is identified by the most ’86 viewers. Y’all have six issues to impress the voters.
Tom Pennekamp wrote: “I am living and working in Miami as a trial lawyer handling personal injury, wrongful death and complex commercial litigation matters. I am also a member of the Orange Bowl Committee.” When pressed for details, Tom replied: “I handled a case against an abortion clinic in Miami where a child was born alive in the clinic and they killed the baby. We 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. I am single and raising three kids ages 16, 16 (twins) and 12. Now as to Orange Bowl business and team selection, it is more complicated than you can imagine! I will be happy when we move forward with the new playoff system.”
Lee Merkle Raymond wrote: “We were unable to attend the 25th reunion because we were living in Sydney, Australia. June is the middle of the winter and of the school year. I was there to run the corporate debt team for Bank of America and to integrate the newly acquired Merrill Lynch investment banking group into the lending process at the bank. We came back to California in time for our girls to start high school and middle school with their classmates in Palo Alto. It was a whirlwind 18 months and we took full advantage of being in Australia. The people are notoriously friendly, even the investment bankers! The girls adjusted to wearing ties and uniforms, we bought groceries every day at the local shops and figured out driving on the left without any accidents.” Lee nicely chronicles their time Down Under in stories and photos at blahblahblog.typepad.com. It’s a modern-day Gulliver’s Travels.
—Mark Greenstein, 107 Fenn Road, Newington, CT 06111; msg@ivybound.net; Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; davida@ dinerman.com



So for this last column of the decade all respondents are teachers or healers. Mark Kumler and wife Brigid now have children ages 14, 12 and 9. He is a professor of geographic information sciences (GIS) at the University of Redlands in California. “I’ve enjoyed teaching GIS, the Global Position System and map projections to thousands of students during the past 17 years. Two sabbaticals so far, both spent in New Zealand studying terrain effects on oenology.” Remembered from his Zeta Psi basement days as semi-slothful and a tad overweight, Mark trained for and completed the San Diego marathon in 4:35:25! “I made the mistake of telling an in-law that I was tempted to try a marathon. His response of ‘What?! You? Ha!’ was just the incentive I needed.”


Mae Drake Hueston writes extensively (see www.dartmouth86.org) about returning to the classroom—as a teacher. “It’s been a better transition than I had imagined. I am not fully responsible for the course and am team-teaching, so it is wonderful.”


Brian Moore and his wife have a newborn daughter, Ava, to join brother Liam, 2. Brian works as a neuropathologist/teacher at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois. Brian regularly hears from Mark Weiss, who is running for Palo Alto, California, city council. Mark’s musings and platform may be found at www.dartmouth86.org. He works in the music business, producing concerts under the name Earthwise Productions and manages musicians.


Janie Gentry Bates is marketing VP for medical device manufacturer Smith & Nephew. Her division is moving from Memphis, Tennessee, to Raleigh, North Carolina, next summer. “I would love to connect with Raleigh area ’86s, particularly those with teenagers.” She, Eleanor (11) and Andrew (13) are excited about the upcoming move. More devices: “I have worked for Ciba Corp. since 2002 but we were recently acquired by BASF (trading Swiss culture for German!),” writes Scott Jaynes. He leads an R&D group developing new materials for use in medical devices. Scott and his wife are in Rockland County, New York, raising four boys ages 2, 8, 10 and 12. “ I spend most of my off-time on soccer, basketball or baseball fields.”


Linda Rhines writes, “I live near Boston and now practice homeopathy, following my son’s successful homeopathic healing after suffering vaccination issues. Homeopathic remedies work with the body’s own healing abilities and are used when the body becomes stuck and can’t heal on its own. The remedies stimulate the immune system, helping the body’s innate healing capabilities to cure the illness—be it a mental, emotional or physical imbalance.”


Ken Fisher lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with wife Amanda, children Marina (8) and Benjamin (6), dog Charlie and cats Calypso (18) and Neo. Amanda is an education professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Ken is a veterinarian who opened a small-animal practice (dogs and cats) with a Pittsburgh colleague. “Not the best time to have started a small business, but we’re making a strong go of it.”


After 20 years away (living on both coasts of the United States and abroad in Greece and the Turks and Caicos islands) Leslie Lobell returned to New Jersey in 2001. She is a certified hypnotherapist, Reiki master and author offering psychotherapy, clinical hypnosis and stress reduction; www.leslielobell.com. Leslie enjoys N.Y.C.’s Broadway shows, ballets and museums. She and Eric Timsak, Bergen, New Jersey, county planner, will wed in May.  


Stewart Pierson has been teaching physics since 1986, now at the Rivers School. “The four kids are keeping Shannon and me hopping. We look forward to my upcoming 2011-13 sabbatical, when we’ll teach abroad, which is what we were doing when we met. If anyone wants to rent a nice home in Framingham, Massachusetts, let us know!”


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


“First Column of the Decade” begins with a shout-out to all ’86s who are building our ’86 community. We spent four years at a very special place. Thank you all for enhancing the Dartmouth experience. The year 2009 closed with the third ’86 newsletter of the year (it took 12 previous years to do that), thanks to you who volunteered or were targets of extortion by John Marchiony. The year 2010 opens with mini-reunions in South Beach, Florida, and at least two other neat locales. One mini-reunion a month is Jeff and Andrea’s goal. See what’s cooking and add your locale via the www.dartmouth86.org site. If you prefer to be part of the big reunion, Geoff Parker is happy to have any passionate ’86 on his 25th reunion crew: geoffrey.m.parker@gmail.com. 


We begin with a block rush contribution from Boston-based Josh Greenberg: “Could it be that one of the top 10 employers of ’86 graduates is Children’s Hospital Boston? There are four members of the class at CHB. Mark Proctor (neurosurgery) and Jamie Gruver (pediatrics) are saving the lives of children. Mary Beckman keeps everyone out of trouble as the hospital’s compliance director. Josh dabbles in child advocacy as the government relations director. Also in the Boston area and also helping mend people is Peter Henderson, whose company PatientKeeper is building a single software environment (on PCs and smartphones) for physicians that provides patient information across care sites. I remember thinking when I was at Dartmouth that parenting was so distant; now my oldest child is less than a year from college.” 


Just a bit west Stewart Pierson teaches physics at the Rivers School. “The four kids are keeping Shannon and me hopping. We look forward to my upcoming 2011-13 sabbatical, when we’ll teach abroad, which is what we were doing when we met. If anyone wants to rent a nice home in Framingham, Massachusetts, let us know!”


After 20 years away (living on both coasts of the United States and abroad in Greece and the Turks and Caicos Islands) Leslie Lobell returned to New Jersey in 2001. She is a certified hypnotherapist, reiki master and author offering psychotherapy, clinical hypnosis and stress reduction (www.leslielobell.com). Leslie enjoys N.Y.C.’s Broadway shows, ballets and museums. She and Eric Timsak, Bergen, New Jersey’s county planner, will wed in May. 


Heather Spalding Sugg writes from Palermo, Maine: “Now that I have a spiffy new rumpus room in my house and have spent some time perusing old college photos, I’m inspired to touch base with the great class of ’86. My husband, Will, and I have two kids, Rusty (11) and Elizabeth (8). Since 1997 I’ve worked for the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. Prior to this I resided in the D.C. area and traveled the world with Greenpeace. I make the world better by managing a fantastic staff of dynamic, innovative, thoughtful, upbeat and inspiring young people who help folks meet their farmers; growing lots of flowers, garlic and beets and giving them away; and encouraging cleverness, humor and tolerance in my kids.”


Still in D.C. is Christina Porsche, who writes: “My toddler is 3.5 years old, 41 inches tall and weighs 52 pounds. I work at the office of inspector general for the Department of State and was engaged in an inventory review that took me to Saipan, Philippines and Sri Lanka this summer. The defining professional work for me was as public information officer for the U.S. embassy in Monrovia, Liberia, before and after the installation of peacekeepers to stabilize rule of law and support free and fair elections.”


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


We still have a generally healthy and happy class. Marie Longo and family were in Vancouver for the first week of the Olympics. “It was phenomenal, especially for our kids (7-year-old twins Joshua and Rebecca). I ran into fellow ’86ers Cate McGavin and Rob Nugent and met many other great alums at a Dartmouth reception. Also in attendance were alumni athletes from past Olympics (alpine skiers and women’s hockey players). My kids went running around asking for everyone’s autographs and collecting Olympic pins. It was fun to see the Big Green connection at play in another country. We can’t wait for London 2012!”


Newest (reported) father in the class is Chad Rosenberger. Wife Atissa gave birth to Silas Kazem Rosenberger on November 29. “I have also changed jobs,” Chad writes. “After years working at Boston University I am now a professor of international studies and sociology at Brandeis University. I’m loving being a father and teaching all my favorite classes in a new setting, although both have slowed down the writing!” Fellow Zeta Psi ’86 Niko Skipitaris is a (fairly) new dad. He writes, “My wife and I are enjoying our 19-month-old son Loukas. Having the little guy hold my hand and say ‘Dada’ makes the stress of the day at work melt away. I never thought that fatherhood would be this cool!”


Miami-based Chris Brown has authored a play called When the Sun Shone Brighter that gets its world premiere in May. The premiere is at the Florida Stage (the largest U.S. theater dedicated exclusively to new work) in Palm Beach. He writes from Miami that he recently had lunch with David Beach (another Zete ’86 with a tot) and his daughter Sadie in New York City. Patricia Doykos lives in Titusville, New Jersey, with son Culver and works at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation on philanthropic initiatives for mental health, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes in the United States, cancer in Central and Eastern Europe and HIV/AIDS in Africa. “It’s been a real pleasure to return to Hanover to give talks on global health and to work with the global health initiative faculty. With Mr. Kim as college president I think we’ll see an expanded role for Dartmouth in global health arena. I’d love to get connected with any classmates working on public health/global health issues.”


Burgie Howard is now dean of students at Northwestern University. “I am NU’s version of Vernon Wermer of Animal House,” he writes. I hope students won’t be hating me too much after I put them on ‘double secret probation.’ I hope someone will invite me to play beer pong. I can relieve my anxiety and then I’ll bust ’em!” 
Mark Irish was in Little Rock, Arkansas, playing the role of Jim Reston in Frost/Nixon at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre: “Spring in ‘tornado country.’ I saw Sean O’Hern in N.Y.C. at the Players Club last month for a mini-reunion. Sean and I were the two Dartmouth students who attended the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut, at the O’Neill Center in 1984. And Peter Gibson is a doubly good fundraiser—both for our 25th reunion and as co-chair of a capital campaign for a central New Jersey environmental organization. “I am starting my 15th year as founder/owner of a web development and online advertising firm called Princeton Online. My wife, Margie ’88, and I have three high schoolers and a fifth-grader who thinks he is in high school. Our oldest, Christopher, was accepted early decision to Dartmouth and is bouncing off walls (as are we).”


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


So this is a “Turning 50” issue, a.k.a. “middle age.” But by my account demographically, 50 is the new 35. A century ago the average American 35-year-old was 15 years into home ownership, was raising a teenager and had about 33 more years to live. Our class seems to be living happily and with high élan, whatever our new life expectancy. From east to west we include the following.


From New York, Robert Douglass “would like to let my classmates know that I became a father. Robert R. Douglass III was born to Whitney and me on December 17, 2013, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. After screaming off one pound he has since gained five more and is now punching at a solid 11 pounds. Everyone is happy and healthy and we wish the same for all of our ’86 friends.” Robert helps run Douglass Winthrop, a firm he co-founded in late 1999. He manages money for individuals, family trusts and endowments.


Bruce Coffey reports that 15 ’86 Alpha Chi Alpha (AXA) brothers gathered for a 25-year reunion in New Orleans over Super Bowl weekend. “We ate well—Mahoney’s, Basin, Cochon Butcher and Antoine’s—and stayed up as late as we could every night (morning). We listened to a great local brass-funk outfit Bonerama—highlighted by a 12-minute adaptation of ‘Whipping Post’ (with three trombones!)—that captivated the classic rock heads present. On Super Sunday we were hosted by two AXA ’88s, Dave Abramson and Jimmy Roussell. Kevin Sankey, who traveled to New Jersey on Sunday for the Broncos debacle—has not been heard from since the first quarter.” Present were Mike McTernan, Peter Gibson, Tom Berry, Brad Holt, Scott Rabschnuk, Kevin Sankey, Keith Hauser, Geoff Parker, Sean Murphy, Tom Carhart, Pat Rowan, D. Valentine, Rob Balas, Mike Poloukhine and Bruce. Photos are at www.dartmouth86.org.


In Cincinnati, Ohio, Pamela Taylor is now working for Price Hill Will as community outreach coordinator, doing marketing, fundraising, media relations and social media. “We focus on housing, economic redevelopment and community engagement through the arts and healthy living (community gardens, walking clubs). I got remarried last year to Doug Schmidt, a Cincinnati native, and we have six kids between us. I’m also serving as imam for the Muslims for Progressive Values Unity Mosque in Columbus, Ohio.”


From Seattle Kim Clausen McDermott writes: “I’ve enjoyed many fun ski days with family and friends. Missing from our home is my daughter Cassidy, a Dartmouth ’17! She takes full advantage of Dartmouth winter activities, having participated in the polar bear plunge (through an ice hole in Occom Pond—I don’t remember that happening back in 1986), the human dogsled races of Winter Carnival and skiing at the Skiway. I am a pediatrician at a local community health center and will soon be teaching an online course for the first time through Arizona State University on integrated behavioral health. 


Nitza Delgado Hollinger has been in Alaska the past few years. She’s raising two boys while fighting illness in “the fast frontier.” And since I just made it to Alaska, I’ll add: Mark Greenstein skied in 13 U.S. states this season, two Canadian provinces and five European countries—his first time in the Alps. He semi-cheated by adding Liechtenstein, a country smaller than his hometown. “I was driving through at 2 a.m., stopped in their capital ‘city’ and hiked up a hill then snowboarded down. There are no true ski areas in Liechtenstein. Indeed there’s not much in Liechtenstein, period. Two exits and you are back in Switzerland.” Yet, Liechtenstein has won nine Winter Olympic medals, more than Denmark, Spain, Romania and (pre-breakup) Yugoslavia combined.


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


During the summer, Debbie Weitzman was in New England from Puerto Rico to drop her kids at camp in Connecticut and Massachusetts. While here she saw Nancy (Stein) Woolf to catch up on the kids and extended family. Mabelle and John Hueston gave Lisa Richardson a taste of a Hueston vacation in London, which involved adventure, running, quick meals and potty breaks. Mae and John continued their journey with a trip to Ireland with their four kids. “What beauty, and a great way for our family to spend our time together,” said Mae. “One stop was to our third child’s namesake, Kinsale. We then spent the next nine days on a coast-to-coast hiking trip.” Dan Kollmorgen let me know that the class of ’86 freshman crew has reconnected as a group and took a South Dakota pheasant hunt this fall. If you are interested in reading the book about the 11 members of the team, Working in Sync, you can find it at http://workinginsyncbook.com. Julie Mannes reflects, “Having kids at Dartmouth gives me a good excuse to get up to Hanover more often.” I met up with Sharon Belanger Showalter for lunch a few months ago. It is always great to see her and catch up.” Mary Morgan Finegan’s daughter Morgan started as a freshman at Dartmouth this fall. 9 Sanders is proud of her youngest daughter, Laura (14), who completed six weeks of U.S. Army Cadet Ranger School at Forest Hill Station, Kentucky, where she was the only female graduate and was voted “most hardcore.” Laura is in high school at the New Mexico Military Institute. Also in the proud parent category, Kirk LeCompte’s son Adam swept all three individual diving titles for 13-year-old boys at the 2013 Amateur Athletic Union Diving National Championships in San Antonio, Texas, in late July. He took first place in 1-meter, 3-meter and tower events. Alex Lloyd’s eldest child, Bronwyn, will be attending Dartmouth this fall as a member of the class of 2017. Bronwyn has spent most of her life outside the United States, first in the United Kingdom and for the last eight years in Hong Kong. She graduated from the Hong Kong International School this summer. Alex’s son Michael is starting as a high school freshman this year with high hopes of being able to follow his sister to Dartmouth in four years time. “We continue to live in Hong Kong while dreaming of retiring to Vermont.” After 16 years in the city Dennis McCooe moved his family to the Philly ’burbs last summer.” They retraced freshman trips in late July with a three-day hike through the Presidentials and swimming in the Gale River. It was nice to hear from Anne (Honan) Stabnick: “After being at home for 13 years with my children, doing my most significant work, I have returned to the paid workforce. A couple of years ago I started a soup business out of my home—making a few soups a day, with orders for soup, salad and bread ready for pick-up starting late afternoon. I realized that the planning and marketing piece was most fun and chopping onions all morning was not. I was lucky to land a short consulting project with Hasbro, where I’d worked more than 15 years ago. With an updated resume, I found a marketing consulting job with Panera Bread and love it! I know there are probably many classmates who’ve been at home, but with children now going off to college (my oldest, Emily, is off to Colgate) are thinking about rejoining the paid workforce. It’s daunting, but do-able.”


—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


Now, we do have direct international input. Malcolm McIvor moved to Japan in 1991 to get experience working overseas. “Lived in Tokyo and taught English for nine months while studying Japanese. Landed an entry-level job in Pfizer’s marketing department and worked there for two and a half years. Also met my future wife, Rico. We married in March 1994 and left for Portland, Oregon, that fall. We take our daughters back every June to visit the relatives in Kyushu. My father-in-law still goes swimming for octopus on Kyushu’s beaches. He will dive down and pull one out of the rocks, then grill it on the beach. Even better than lobster!


“Lessons learned: 1) It was hard. Culture shock and Tokyo’s dense urban environment took a toll. 2) It was fun. Made friends with whom I am still in contact, both Japanese and American. 3) The chance to see the inner workings of a Japanese company, and how they affect the culture of entry- and lower-level Japanese employees is rewarding. My entry-level work gave me insight that was different from that of higher-level expatriates. 4) Life in the United States is awesome. We have so much space, freedom, variety and abundance. Life in Japan is crowded, expensive and homogeneous. I definitely prefer the States.”


Lee Merkle Raymond writes from Palo Alto, California, of her 18 months in Sydney, Australia: “The people are notoriously friendly! Our girls adjusted to wearing ties and uniforms and we figured out driving on the left without any accidents. I miss taking the ferry to work. We traveled as much as possible, diving in the Great Barrier Reef, glacier hiking in New Zealand and camel riding in the Australian desert. As my ninth-grader wrote: ‘Moving to Sydney was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Moving back was the second hardest.’ The kids have school; a non-working spouse has no community to automatically fit into. If you go with kids, I recommend Third Culture Kids, which highlights what to anticipate with an international relocation.” 


In San Francisco, Sam Hartwell is CFO of KickStart International, a nonprofit dedicated to helping Africans build their way out of poverty. Sam spent three years in Nairobi, Kenya, helping productive and entrepreneurial people in Kenya, Tanzania and Mali create and sell new technologies.


One of our longest-running ex-pats is Sam Lardner. He and Katherine have lived in Spain since 1997. “Our four kiddos are all navigating Catalonian culture and education pretty well. We recently saw Kris Hagerman and then had an excellent re-encounter with Doug and Jessica (Cohn) Healy. We expect a fun visit from Peter and Laura Ramsden in July and I see Todd Beane regularly in the coastal town of Sitges, Spain.” Sam just released his seventh album, a Spanish fusion project called Out Of The Blue. “It is great to see classmates when I am on tour. The Bay Area and Fairfield County tend to produce major Big Green turnouts.”


Wade Manaker remains in South America. He’s an M.D. serving in with the U.S. armed forces. That “completes” all continents except Antarctica. You with Antarctica news should upload videos (show penguins!) to the Dartmouth ’86 website.


Finally, I include transnational news: Gabrielle Whelan adopted Paul Denis, a now-6-year-old boy from Chita, Russia. I will always highlight classmates bringing people from worse places to share in what’s still the greatest country ever known, and I relish news of ’86s making the world better while abroad. 


—Mark Greenstein, 1106 Fienemann Road, Farmington, CT 06032; (860) 224-6688; msg@ivybound.net; Davida (Sherman) Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@ dinerman.com


I’m driving on Sunday, July 29, and tune into one of my favorite shows on NPR’s Weekend Edition, the Sunday puzzle with Will Shortz. And who is the guest player? Our classmate Jim Citron! When you’re in your car, the game seems easy. But when you’re on the air in front of thousands of people, the pressure mounts. Jim did a fantastic job unscrambling names of Olympic sports. If you missed it, here is the program: www.npr.org/2012/07/29/157540216/name-that-former-olympic-sport. I had also asked you to offer your favorite memory of fall at Dartmouth. Jim also offered a favorite and funny memory for fall term: “That scruffy reddish-brown dog that used to come like clockwork to our 8 a.m. calculus lecture freshman fall in Filene Auditorium (the old ‘Shower Tower’). I would pass him running the wrong way at 7:50 a.m. as we walked across the Green, but he always managed to get to class just in time to file into the auditorium with the pack. And about a minute before the class was scheduled to end he would get up, stretch and walk to the door, right up front and wait for class to end so he could go back out and play.” Or maybe he went to Professor Pease’s Shakespeare class? Chris Komarek said that his fondest memory of fall term is of apple smashers and donuts tailgate parties in front of Russell Sage. Dan Katzir looked back to freshman fall. “As we are packing up to go home for winter break Lisa Gathard and Jenn Hellman come into my room to box up all of my acrylic sweaters and moon from Miami (where I grew up) and give them to the Salvation Army. They then sat down with the L.L.Bean catalog and introduced me to wool sweaters and duck boots.” Mark Greenstein remembers canoeing with bright foliage lighting up both sides of the Connecticut River. Mary Frances Sabo said, “My best memory of fall was during sophomore year when I did the foreign study program in France. It was unusual for a returning sophomore to go off campus like that but it seemed the right thing to do. I made a lot of really great friends from the older classes (juniors and even seniors) and a term away from Dartmouth was what I needed to recharge.” I’ll end with an image I have of fall semester—the foliage from the tennis courts at Thompson Arena. At its height, those leaves burst out with stunning color. After almost 11 years practicing law, Bonnie Austin moved into healthcare policy and will soon mark 11 years at AcademyHealth in Washington, D.C. Her work includes managing a grant-making program for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Bonnie said, “It’s an exciting time to be working in the healthcare field.” I received a nice note from Natalie Wilensky: “Summer 2012 has been wonderful, with many fabulous days in the Hamptons with our 2-year-old son Jacob; a trip to Cannes, France, to celebrate my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary; and our now annual ‘Voyage to the Vineyard’ by boat from Long Island, New York. Yet a highlight of the summer was hosting the ladies of the Big Green Bus. We were ever so lucky to host the girls for two nights in our home in Washington, D.C. We were so sad when they left, taking with them an abundance of enthusiasm, excitement and love for the lives they are living. And it goes without saying that, for Jacob, it was love at first sight—smart kid!”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Time for an association game. Here goes: 25th…green…class of 1986…get together. If you answered all of these “reunion,” you are correct! Here’s a brief message from chairperson Geoff Parker: “Our 25th reunion is fast approaching! The dates are June 16-19. Mark your calendars to join your classmates in Hanover to renew old acquaintances and reconnect with the Big Green. Your 25th reunion committee has planned a great schedule of events for you and your family. Check out www.alumni. dartmouth.edu/reunions to register and www.dartmouth86.com for information on this must-attend event. Get your green on!”


Let’s begin with a hearty congratulations to Geoff Michel, who was elected in November to his third term in the Minnesota State Senate.


And we continue our rundown of classmates in the San Francisco Bay area who enjoyed a mini-reunion of joyful companionship and a wine tasting by Napa Valley’s renowned Chappellet Winery at Liz Babb Fanlo’shome in Pacific Heights last November. Here’s one to top: Kelly Keller wins the prize for being the first grandparent (by marriage) of the class. She writes, “Yes, I am a grandma! Not by blood, but by heart for sure. My husband, Anthony, has an older daughter who lives in Belgium with her husband. They had a little boy this past March. My name as grandma is Mémé. It is the most amazing feeling to see this little guy growing up. We Skype a lot! My son Levon (13 years old) is a very proud uncle along with his older brother Noah, Anthony’s elder son. I live in Berkeley, California, with Anthony and Levon along with two cats, a tortoise and a hamster.” Chris Lord is a hedge-fund manager in San Francisco with a young family of two boys. Amanda Reed is married with a new little one, but is also working full-time in venture capital on the Peninsula in the Bay area. Mark Sachleben works for a software company in San Francisco and is enjoying fatherhood. He recently took on Yosemite with Brian Stretch. They got lost and realized they might have discovered a new peak in Yosemite and lived to tell about it. And speaking of…Brian Stretch is a U.S. attorney in San Francisco taking high-profile, white-collar cases. See above. Gabrielle Whelan is a city attorney in the Bay Area and an avid tennis player. Adelaide and Greg Hulbert have a daughter applying to college—maybe Dartmouth. Stay tuned. Karen Blodgett lives and works in San Francisco for a money management firm. And in the small world category, she works with Sally Gorman Fitzhugh’s husband. Diarmiud O’Connell works in business development for Tesla motors. Rod Rogers lives in Sausalito, California, and is a physician in San Francisco. Mary Finegan is a physician managing a big family with her own and adopted children. Rob Balas lives and works in the Bay Area, has a young family and loves fatherhood. 


—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; mgreenstein@collegenannies.com 


I am writing this the day after Thanksgiving; it’s 60 degrees outside! But there will be snow on the ground soon enough, so I polled the troops to get some fond winter memories. Sit back and enjoy. Erik Roskes remembers spending one Thanksgiving during junior or senior year on campus. “I had too much work to do before finals to take time off for home. Wednesday evening it snowed perhaps eight inches, and because everyone was gone the snow remained pristine over the next several days. It was just beautiful!” Lynn Tracy Nerland remembers “the first snowfall freshman year, which was the first snowfall ever for Woodward dormmate Greta Cherenfant. Also taking my skates when I went to Aquinas House to study and skating on Occom Pond as a study break.” Sally Fitzhugh recalls cross-country skiing from the apartment around Occom Pond and back on a snowy winter evening. Nanny Pope Noyes writes, “Winter Carnival: making sculptures through the night and seeing the sun rise over the Green and the campus come to life, dancing to the ‘Salty Dog Rag’ while wearing crazy hats as your classmates head to class, the canoe races down the golf course, judging the snow sculptures in a horse-drawn carriage.” John Marchiony seconds Winter Carnival, saying, “Where else could you entice people to hang outside in the winter shoveling, lifting and watering the snow for five weeks, then pull all-nighters carving and then celebrate for three days wearing snow boots and scarves one minute, tuxedos shortly thereafter and ski boots the next day?” Matthew Weatherley-White describes “one savagely cold morning when my housemate and engineering major Tom Fiddaman took a bottle of warm soapy water and a coat hanger bent into a circle and went outside. He carefully blew these massive bubbles that froze in the air. When they hit the ground, they shattered, leaving the pavement littered with the shards of frozen bubbles glittering like Venetian glass in the morning sun. They sublimated quickly and the temperature warmed rapidly so the bubbles stopped freezing.” Winter was Amy Singleton Adams’ favorite season at Dartmouth. She remembers seeing the Northern Lights one night from the Green. “There were a small group of us and we were lying on the snow watching all the streaks of green light go by over the library tower.” Jeffrey Jones Morrison remembers photographing the Merlin ice sculpture at night and in heavy fog. David Kotz says, “One particularly fun memory occurred in the wee hours of April 1 as a small group of us dragged a kitchen table—and multi-course breakfast buffet—up the snowy slopes of the Dartmouth Skiway to Holt’s Ledge. At dawn, when a Cabin & Trail hike group arrived on the summit for an April Fool’s Day dawn hike, we were standing in formalwear with a breakfast buffet on the table.” Claudine Bianchi waxes poetic with this memory: “There was this one particularly heavy, wet snowstorm during senior year when the trees from Lord, my dorm, down to Tuck, were incredibly beautiful. Luring. Inviting. Although it was well past midnight I remember walking down to the river and finding that path, following it along the Connecticut all the way to Occom. And as I reached a clearing at the end of the path, I found myself looking over a glistening field of white. There was so much beauty and a sense of calm in the stillness. It was just such a perfect moment—one that I always recall when things get too hectic in the day-to-day.”


—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


While on a flight from Boston to L.A., I sat next to a lovely woman returning home from visiting a college in New Hampshire with her husband and daughter. I asked, “By chance would that be Dartmouth? I am an ’86!” She smiled and said yes. Thus began a spirited, three-hour conversation that further convinced them that Dartmouth was the right choice. Speaking of getting accepted to college, Gary Greene, Andrea and Hugh O’Reilly, Michael Rockefeller, Debra McCollum, Geoff Parker and Mary Finegan have children heading to Dartmouth in the fall. Wini Kinney’s son will be heading to Stanford. On the flip side…“At this moment in mid-life when most of you are shipping your kids off to college, or even becoming grandparents, my wife and I have just had our first child,” said Neil Maher. “Riggs Anders Maher was born on January 10, coming in at 8 pounds, 21.5 inches. Mother (Stacy Ciaravella) and baby are great, and we’re loving it. When this little guy finally finishes college I will be 70 years old! Can you say ‘delayed retirement’?” Janie Gentry Bates wrote: “I have taken the leap and stepped out into the world of consulting. My expertise is strategic marketing consulting for medical device companies. It has been an intriguing, fun and welcome change from my corporate chief marketing officer position. I have a 17-year-old and a 15-year-old, and working from home means I now know a lot more about what rocks their worlds—and what doesn’t. I am in Memphis, Tennessee, and in my last position had the absolute pleasure of working with Erin Reynolds ’82. Two redheaded Dartmouth grads—in Memphis—in the same company. The world isn’t so large after all.” Chandler Lindsley lives in McKinney, Texas, with her husband, Larry, son Hays (13) and daughter Swiler (11). She is still practicing veterinary medicine, running her family ranch, raising purebred Murray Grey cattle and supplying the Dallas metroplex with naturally raised, grass-fed beef. “We are nursing an infant pecan orchard, selling honey from our bees and eggs from our chickens and giving away excess produce to anyone who will take them! Would love to be in touch with any classmates who are foodies or who might be into small-scale farming.” Andrew Getraer reports: “My wife, Jean Robertson ’89, and I are still in New Jersey, where I have been executive director of Rutgers University Hillel for 12 years. Sandy (19) is studying in Israel and will enter the Israeli Defense Forces this summer. Alec and Benjy are juniors in high school. This summer they are planning a three-week, 161-mile hike across the New Hampshire section of the Appalachian Trail. Daughter Lindsay is in seventh grade and performed in a production of High School Musical; Sarah is ripping it up in fourth grade and playing basketball and baseball.” J. Robert Renner lives in Manhattan Beach, California, with his wife, Tian, and their daughter Sophie (4). Robert is a lawyer and a partner with an L.A. law firm that focuses on commercial, insurance coverage and Internet protocol litigation. John Paterson supplements his “day job” in digital healthcare marketing by co-producing feature films through his family-owned development company, Arcady Bay Entertainment. This spring saw the release of Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, a documentary telling how one of the world’s most iconic rock bands found their spectacular new lead singer, Arnel Pineda—a formerly homeless and penniless Filipino cover-band singer they discovered on YouTube. Next year they will release their next family film, The Great Gilly Hopkins, starring Kathy Bates and Danny Glover.


—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 


This is the last article before our 25th reunion. In fact, you might be there now, and if you are, I hope you are having fun. Many people offered tidbits from their reunion page as scoop for this column. Without giving away the farm, here are some highlights: Robert Munafo is an independent researcher living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been married to Rick for three years, is learning Japanese and gave a talk at Rutgers on “hitherto-unseen complexity in the pattern-forming behavior of the Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system.” Robert once worked as a chimney sweep. Of this experience he said, “…the views were great, the weather not-so.” Debbie Kohl Schwartz lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She and her husband, Sam, are raising two girls and a boy, ages 15, 12 and 8. She splits her time between staying home with her kids, doing part-time marketing consulting, volunteering for a national breast cancer nonprofit and captaining (and playing in) several tennis teams. She plans to attend all the grand slam tennis tournaments during the next 10 years.


Anne Hayes lives in Bedford, Massachusetts, with her husband, Michael, and their three children, Cassi (15), Meaghan (13) and Mikey (10). She serves as treasurer/secretary for Finalta Inc., a pro bono consulting for nonprofits through Harvard Business School Community Action Partners. Anne enjoys sculling (when her shoulder cooperates), rollerblading and gardening.


Stewart Pierson is finishing his 12th year teaching at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. This summer he, his wife and their four kids (ages 6 to 11) are moving to Phoenix, Arizona, to get a taste of the Southwest, where they’ll both teach at the Phoenix Country Day School.


Jim Citron wrote from Mexico that he is directing a program called the Inter-American Partnership for Education, a partnership between Worldfund (founded by Luanne Zurlo ’87) and the Rassias Center at Dartmouth, to prepare English teachers who work in Mexican public schools. Jim divides his time between Hanover and various parts of Mexico.


Malcolm McIver brought his wife, Rico, and their daughters Abby (12) and Bridget (10) to reunion. It will be the first leg in a round-the-world trip for them. After reunion they’ll head to London for nine days and then fly to Japan for the annual visit to Rico’s parents.


And if you don’t already know, congratulations and best wishes to Sam Kinney and Winnie Welch, who are engaged!


9 Sanders took an eclectic vacation with four teenagers in Phoenix, including a Lady Gaga concert, desert camping, shooting, boating, lizard catching and snake hunting.


After graduation Rod Yearwood moved back to New York, landed in an underwriting management training program for a large insurance company in N.Y.C. and met and married a lovely lady named Terri. They have two children, Ajia (16) and Roddy (14). In 1995 Rod moved his family to Lynchburg, Virginia, to work at GE Financial, now Genworth Financial, where they have lived ever since.


Dan Driscoll appeared in the April 22 issue of The Boston Globe titled, “A young burn victim’s journey.” A physician at Shriner’s Hospital for Children in Boston, Dan performed an extremely delicate five-hour surgery to help save the life of a 9-year-old boy sent from the Democratic Republic of Congo who was living with extreme deformities from electrical burns for nearly three years.


At the end of May Andrea Lordan completed a one-year M.Ed. early childhood program between Buckingham Browne & Nichols and Lesley College, where she was in classrooms during the day and then classes on weekends and nights.


—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 in the Southeast. Nancy Wallace is an appellate lawyer in Tallahassee, Florida. Her daughter Carla is eight months away from being a full-fledged pharmacist. Nancy spends much of her non-lawyering time “chasing around my 7-year-old son and 4-year-old grandson.”


Malcolm McIver helped the ’86 crew alumni raise $45,000 to buy new coaching launch boats for the freshman women’s and men’s squads. The class of 1986 boats are “wakeless,” meaning they don’t produce the waves that cause nearby crew boats to tip or take on water. This will allow crew coaches to yell at young ’shmen from up close.


Virginia Rhoads writes “My husband, John McConnell, and I returned from the Amazon jungle in Ecuador where we, along with a group of our clients, experienced living on nature’s timing, breathing oxygen-rich clean air and learning to listen to our hearts from an indigenous tribe—the Achuar—custodians of the rainforest.”


Mary Frances Sabo is an attorney with three children. She writes from Albany, New York, “I make my world better by being active in my youngest child’s elementary school. Last week I organized a fall festival with crafts, a bounce house, games and a bake sale. The focus was on creating a fun time for the community and not raising money so we kept the prices pretty low.”


Paul Shippee reports that Kai Wesley Shippee, born in May, is doing great. “He has a big toothless smile and likes to go jogging with me and his mother in our new baby jogger (yes, we ’86s should keep in shape!).” Paul is in Japan, working as country manager for Life Fitness Japan (equipment supplier to commercial fitness clubs, universities, medical clinics and hotels). “My wife, Mitsu, and I are avid triathletes; she’s gone to the world championships twice as a competitor. I get back a couple of times each year to New Hampshire and Maine, where we spend time at our lake house.” 


Krista Corr has been an FBI agent in Boston since 1989, helping keep New Englanders safe. She is just as passionate about keeping New Englanders in touch, via a six-member cooking club, and it’s worth sharing: “We meet monthly at one of our homes for dinner. The month’s host is responsible for cooking the main course and any sides. Another makes the appetizer and a third makes the dessert. The other three each bring a bottle of wine. The big rule is that you cannot cook something that you have ever made before, so we all act as guinea pigs for each other. Each provides the recipes to the other members. Thus far, I have filled two large notebooks with ‘keeper’ recipes!” As mini-reunion chair, Krista would especially like to hear of your setting up a cooking club (or dining-out club) with classmates. “I’ll be counting it as a mini-reunion!”


My mini-reunion was with L.J. Briggs, who practices internal medicine in Farmington, Connecticut. He and his wife host a fishing festival for kids each July. He is another triathlete, whose exploits in triathlon training and competing scare me. I am convinced that I if I try, I will drown on the first leg. (One of his fish-fest girls will scoop me up in her netting).


But I will improve my land speed. I purchased from Matthew Weatherley-White a consumer Restwise, the world’s first non-invasive fatigue monitoring system. Matthew designed it to help athletes optimize results from their exercise. He writes, “The Dartmouth Peak Performance Center became the first collegiate client of my ‘hobby’ business. Even more importantly, we finally had a baby. Took a while, but Larken is dedicated to melting her father’s cold heart.”


—Mark Greenstein, 12H Talcott Forest, Farmington CT 06032; msg@ivybound.net; Davida (Sherman) Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA 01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dinerman.com