1986

Save the date for our 20th reunion: June 16-18! And what a fantastic one it will be. Thanks go to Mike Cahn for redesigning our class site: www.dartmouth. org/classes/86/index.htm and the reunion page. DanKatzir(dankatzir@yahoo.com) and Mike Moody (azarmoody@yahoo.com) are the reunion chairs. If you would like to help in anyway, feel free to contact them or Bill Rodgers (wrodgers@rci.rutgers.edu).There are so many exciting events planned for our Camp Dartmouth reunion: sports, seminars, children and family activities, margaritas, a lobster bake, a great band, a tour of the"new" campus and much more! And, for the first time in Dartmouth College history, our class is going to join the other reunion classes on campus (including the '85s and '87s) to run a megaplex activity on Saturday afternoon, including great athletic activities, good food and dozens of diverse outdoor events for kids and adults of all ages. All we need is you!

To that end, we encourage you to take the next three minutes to do the following if you haven't already:

1) Complete the green "Hold a Space for Me" card to let us know that you are planning to join us at reunion the weekend of June 16-18 (or to let us know that you are still thinking it over).

2) Let us know if you are interested in helping us with reunion planning in any capacity. We will gladly and gratefully add you to our reunion committee crew.

3) Send an e-mail to one of the chairs with ideas for activities, events or gatherings that you would like to see take place during the weekend.

David Lampert was recently on a business trip to Sydney and detoured to Melbourne to visit Gordon McNenney. "Gordon, with lovely Aussie wife, Jane, daughter Ella and son Ethan, has recently exchanged the lower east side of Manhattan for the lower east side of the earth. In Melbourne we spent a night on the town with thousands of red-and-white-clad fans celebrating the Sydney Swans victory in the AFL Grand Final (that's Australian Rules Football). Gordon has a job with the Web-marketing arm of Deloitte, an apartment near the water and knows all of the words to 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down.

John De Papp wrote that he and his wife and two sons (ages 6 and 9) moved back to Boston from Paris, France, where they had lived for the last four years. The move was prompted by changes at John's employer more than anything else. John has been working for Xilinx Inc. for nine years. While in France he held a sales engineer position and is now an applications engineer manager, handling all of North America.

Last March Chris Wolf and his wife, Sandy, welcomed a baby girl named Renata. He has rediscovered the joys of late-night feedings, ear infections, diapering, and "work/life balance." "In other words," Chris said, "life is good."

Ellen Glaser Rafshoon is a visiting professor of U.S. history at Georgia State University and writes on a freelance basis for the Atlanta newspaper and other publications. One of her columns, which defended the rights of Mexican immigrants, was not warmly received around there, and she received some scary letters and emails from around the country. But this is an issue she feels strongly about, and she plans to continue to pursue this topic in book form in the near future. Ellen and husband Scott '87 have two sons, Michael (11) and Joseph (6).

12 Kings Row, Ashland, MA01721; (508) 231-8813; davida@dmerman.com

REUNION June 16-18 2006