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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First some accolades: Liz McClintock is only the third person to hold the office of chair of the board of visitors of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding in its 40-year history (which it is celebrating this fall). Liz has been on the board since 2018. I love seeing ’86s on campus.

Jayne Daigle Jones and Allison Barlow were on the list of Dartmouth’s “100 Greatest Athletes of All Time” in the September-October issue of DAM.

Mike Moody and Peter Gibson ran Reach the Beach. Mike said, “These 200 miles of running made extra special with some quality father-daughter time.”

I’m totally jealous that Hugh O’Reilly and Andrea Lordan attended a Sting concert this year.

My Native Americans at Dartmouth sister Heid Erdrich is a visiting professor at Dartmouth this fall. It’s a blessing to work together and watch her in her element as a professional. Now others get to be gifted with her love of nature, Native knowledge, wicked smartness, and love of our Native and indigenous students.

I was curious about another classmate, Vivian Johnson Korthius, after I met her roommate, Melinda Marshall Upton at the 2020 Commencement ceremony this summer, so I looked her up. “V.I.,” as she was called by us, is still trying to educate people, this time the federal government, on just how big Alaska is. I remember when she used to say, “Alaska is half the size of the continental United States.” She has been serving as the first woman to lead the Association of Village Council Presidents in Bethel, Alaska, which oversees 48 extreme rural communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the size of the State of New York. Their concerns are serious, with global warming causing erosion of villages and a lack of law enforcement and health equity. I am so proud of all her continued hard work as an elected official. Just google her name and you will find many articles about her work.

Today is month four and the start of week three in fall term for me at Dartmouth as a full-time employee. I feel like a freshman but without all the anxiety, stress, and fear of not knowing what I am facing. I really enjoyed meeting the ’26s as they onboarded and I am slowly meeting the upperclassmen. Working in the dean’s office, where the Native American program belongs, is truly a blessing for me. I get to watch students grow into their independence until they are pretty calm and sage seniors (or they look that way).

John Hueston is very busy with trials, watching the Hueston Hennigan Social Justice Foundation expand to include Howard University third-year fellows, and starting the Hueston Hennigan New York City office. Our girls are at Brown and Yale, so being on the East Coast works to our benefit. We will have seen some of you at Homecoming and we will probably next meet at Pow Wow or Commencement.

Happy holidays and Happy New Year! In beauty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mae (Drake) Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona del Mar, CA 92625; dart86news@gmail.com

Our 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lanie (Bertsche) McNulty, Liz Babb, Sarah Cotsen, Sue (Smith) Sambrook, and Peter Arnold have launched a new career advice network called ’86 CAN. This password-protected database is unique to our class and can be used as you start a new business, change jobs, consult, or do project work. If you are looking to join a corporate board or volunteer, check out this network to see where ’86s are engaged. ’86 CAN may be used by our spouses or partners and kids. Join via the “Careers” link on our website (www.1986.dartmouth.org) or simply reach out and connect today—’86 CAN is for everyone! Gina Cannon writes from Concord, New Hampshire: “I’m slowly recovering from a bad accident back in January. I took a bad fall and shattered my shoulder into five pieces. As we were planning surgery, Covid hit and all surgeries were canceled. I hung in with the shoulder until the end of May, when they were able to schedule surgery. After three plates, 16 screws, innumerable pins, and reattaching tendons, I’m on the mend. Slowly.” She adds, “I was elected to our local school board last November. I sure wasn’t expecting Covid! It’s very challenging to try to get everyone what they need while keeping everyone safe. It’s certainly keeping me busy.” Andrea (Strimling) Yodsampa writes, “This has been an incredibly inspiring few years professionally. I founded and lead Deploy US, a fiercely nonpartisan nonprofit focused on amplifying and accelerating conservative climate leadership as an essential foundation for bipartisan policy. Our premise is that the world can’t mitigate global climate change fast enough without U.S. leadership as part of the equation and the United States can’t exercise durable climate leadership without support across the political spectrum. We work with a remarkable network of right-of-center military, business, faith, and policy leaders who are passionately committed to climate action, along with allies in the broader environmental movement and with funding from across the political spectrum. Our team and advisory board are bipartisan. Our goal is ambitious, bipartisan decarbonization policies at the federal level by 2025. Based on five-plus years in this space, I am confident not only that this goal is within reach—if we invest wisely now in the right strategies—but also that climate can be a bridge to help heal our country’s divides. I’d love to hear from alumni who are interested (www.deployus.org or ayodsampa@deployus.org).” Mark Weiss writes, “Today I put a ‘Melissa Baten Caswell for County School Board’ yard sign in front of my house. Last week I made a contribution to Maya Wiley for mayor of New York City and I spoke to Brian Moore, who moved back to New England after about 15 years.” Visit our ’86 website, www.1986.dartmouth.org. It is the one stop for updates; our 35th reunion on June 17-20, 2021; upcoming class Zoom mini-reunions; ’86 Compassio; and ’86 CAN. Also, join our 200-plus-member Facebook group, www.facebook.com/groups/dart1986. We all look forward to roaming the girdled earth again. It is finished in beauty.

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, Diane Bielefeld. 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. Diane and Susan live 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

 

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

 

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

“That’s in Germany, right?” I said.

“No, USA: Dartmund University.”

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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


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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

“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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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


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


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


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

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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


No arrests.


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


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


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


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


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

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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

For the first time in 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

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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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

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


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

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

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

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


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


Float on….


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


Float on….


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


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


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

Mark June 16-19 for our 25th reunion! The theme is “EverGreen” to represent our class’ loyalty and spirit. A dedicated, talented and tireless 25th reunion committee is already planning a fantastic calendar of events capped off by dinner under the stars on Baker Lawn on Saturday night. On Saturday night we will be rocking in our class of 1986 tent with one of the country’s great party bands. We will also be soliciting your input for a reunion book to provide each of us with an update on our fellow classmates and a memento of our 25th reunion. The committee consists of treasurer, Andrea Lordon; assistant treasurer, Bill Ruhl; food and beverage chairs, Laura Gillespie and Dawn Carey; events chair, Gary Greene; reunion book team, Walter Tsui (chair), Marion Halliday, Kendall Burney Wilson and Liz Babb Fanlo; communications chair, Sarah Page; publicity team, John Marchiony and Scott Rabschnuk; registration chair, Lauren Wirth; entertainment team, Jack Bocock and Brad Holt; souvenir chair, Lucie Voves; attendance team, Ted Sears and David Hess; transportation chair, Bill Rodgers; and reunion giving chair, Sam Zales.


“It promises to be a must-attend event. We will be sharing many more details with you in the coming months. And check out our new and improved class website at www.dartmouth86.com.Get your green on!” writes Geoff Parker, 25th reunion chair (geoffrey.m.parker@gmail.com). 


Melissa Baten Caswell spent some time with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (a.k.a. Tina Rutnik ’88) in Palo Alto, California, in October at an event hosted by Scott Sandell and a few others. Kirsten was poised and well-spoken. She shared some of the challenges of running a Senate campaign and gave us all an update on things that are going on in the Senate with an emphasis on some items that are of particular interest to the Silicon Valley. Sally (Gorman) Fitzhugh is now the proud mom of a middle schooler! Where’d the time go? While Sally’s oldest son (of two) adjusts to his new school, Head-Royce in Oakland, California, Sally’s taking advantage of the time to hit tons of tennis balls. She looks forward to playing some tennis at reunion. Dr. Jeff Ferguson is practicing and teaching robotic assisted laparoscopic surgery for kidney and prostate cancer. “I practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and teach all over the United States,” he says. Jayne (Daigle) Jones’ excitement jumped out of my computer in this note: “I was shopping with Drew—our oldest, who is a ’12—at Kohl’s in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, one Saturday in September and was asking a salesperson for help to find tall clothes for him. The diligent man was trying to help me, but couldn’t find any…when I caught sight of Maybelle Drake Hueston! I did all I could to extricate myself from this man’s diligence and then I raced to the front of the store—and I got there in time. Mae was there with John and their three youngest. Tara, their oldest, is at Tufts veterinarian school, but Ryan, their second child, is a ’14. They were getting supplies to set up his room and we had a mini-reunion in West Lebanon. It was great to see them! As I understand it Ryan is taking Dartmouth by storm. And Drew is off this term, having experienced sophomore summer. He’s the student intern in the financial aid office and living here at home. So we get to have the whole family together once again, which is nice, since a year from now we will, Lord willing, have two away at college.” The ’86 members of Native Americans at Dartmouth are planning a reunion at this spring’s Pow-Wow, May 6-8. Contact Andre Cramblitt for information at andrekar@ncidc.org.


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

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