Class Note 1986
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.
