1987

It was a small rnini-reunion, yet there were those who loved it. That about sums up our '87 fall weekend in Hanover. The few who made: it had fun; the rest of you missed out. Here's a recap:

The predicted rain never materialized on Saturday afternoon, which was good news for our picnic on the Green. We were tough to miss with our '87 banner and millions of balloons. Class president Joe Voves catered the affair, then spent the rest of the afternoon trying to give away the large volumes of food he had brought. We made some very hungry students happy when we shared our six-foot sub with them. Joe was there with his wife, Lucie 'B6, and sons Joseph and Jordan. Baby number three, rumored to be a girl, was due in October.

Hanover residents Heather McCutchen and Tom Kannam supplied tables for the picnic, and were also deputized as face painters by daughters Julia and Catherine. Heather is still writing and in July was in Alabama to conduct a playwriting workshop in conjunction with a production of her work, Alabama Rain. This fall she also had a reading in New York. Tom works in Dartmouth's investment office, and spoke casually of watching the College's portfolio lose $ 100 million in die recent stock market adventure. Not a job I would want!

Mike and Chrissie Stearns Drescher joined us from Burlington, Vt. with daughter Sunny. Mike is an attorney working with utilities, and Chrissie is a parttime freelance fundraising consultant and grant-writer. She also was recently named the president of the Dartmouth Club of Burlington.

I talked briefly with Holly Taylor. She is putting a lot of miles on the car these days, splitting her time between Boston (where she is at Tufts) and Hanover (where her husband teaches in the earth science department.) I guess she gets the best of both worlds!

Roseanne Wood stopped by to say hello. She still lives in the Upper Valley, though when we saw her she had just gotten married five days earlier in Rockport, Mass.

Sunday morning we dragged ourselves to an early breakfast at EBAs (which you wouldn't recognize, by the way—it just about takes up the whole town now.) We were joined by Mark Chavey and his daughter, Helen. Tracey Salmon Smith also arrived with her entire family including her five-week-old daughter.

Despite all the kids' best efforts to distract us, we managed to have a class officers meeting during breakfast, and we set some goals for the upcoming year. First, we have made a commitment to improve our class communications, starting with increasing the frequency of our newsletters. We hope to get onto a regular schedule of four newsletters per year, so you will receive news of your friends and classmates in a more timely manner. We also are working on sponsoring mini-reunions in various cities...if you'd like to see one in your area, get in touch! We plan to beef up our class web page, and I'll have more to report on that in future columns. To make all this possible, it is more important than ever that you pay your class dues if you have not done so already. The newsletters are costly, but we hope you enjoy receiving them.

Finally, we have officially launched our class project, which is to fund the Class of 1987 Scholarship Fund. Our goal is to raise $lO,OOO before our 15th Reunion in 2001. You will be able to see our progress reported in newsletters over the next few years. Please give what you can.

Happy Holidays to all!

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