1986

We seem to be a productive, happy, healthy bunch. We hope to be this animated 50 years from now and I think we can avoid reading about classmates' oxygen tanks, crutches aches and incessant twinges (see class of 1936 DAM July-August issue for what could be in store).

Annette Harpole, now in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has an eclectic mix of summer hobbies: Broadway shows, jazz concerts and horse racing. She writes with glee about witnessing renowned saxophonist Frank Morgan return to Milwaukee, where he grew up. Accompanying him were Maurice Brown, trumpet and flugelhorn; Ronnie Matthews, piano; Billy Hart, awesome drummer; bassist Ray Drummund; and teen ingenue Grace Kelly on saxophone. She then went to N.Y.C. for two Broadway shows and returned to Milwaukee to hear internationally known "barefoot diva" Cesaria Evora sing songs from her native Cape Verde. Annette still rides horses and "I also just went to see my first horse race at Arlington Park, Illinois."

This was to be the "Fayer weather issue." I can report that Mike Collins (Fayer weather inhabitant for four years), is in Bedford, New Hampshire, with wife Rebeca Lower Collins '87 and three children ages 13, 11 and 9. Mike founded Big Idea Group, an open-source innovation company in 2001 (tough year for start-ups) and is still its CEO. He has not replied from the Vegas trip he and Jim Gill took in late August, but look for juicy details in our Web version of this letter, '86 Unplugged.

Gina Chiaravelotti Gordon (North Fayerweather resident and inhabitant of the six-girl North Fayer "nest") is a middle school math teacher at Wyoming Seminary prep school in Kingston, Pennsylvania. She tutors for the ACT and SAT and is also the girls' field hockey, basketball and lacrosse coach. Some children like to get away from their parents; Gina's daughter Alie is on all three teams. Son Nicholas is now a junior at Wyoming as well.

Benton Routh is a fountain of updated Fayer weather knowledge and seems to have a bead on Fayer lore. He's been in touch with Christy Gherlein Slade, Dave Criswell, Doug Keare, Doug Millar, Florence Zoes Lewis, Rob Brown and Steve Stichter. Benton is in Atlanta working for Fleet Corand expects to be at Octobers Homecoming.

Our Edward Kim is now Headmaster Kim at the Breck School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He will teach chemistry and may also coach baseball as he did at the Delbarton School in Morristown, New Jersey. Delbarton honored Ed as the school's 2007 Distinguished Educator.

Paul Whiteley moved to the Bay Area in 2001 and has lived in Larkspur, California (Marin County), since 2006; he works for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management evaluating agency human resource programs. He enjoys the great outdoors through endurance sports such as cycling and triathlon.

Suzanne King is also a triathlete. In May she won her fifth Pole Pedal Paddle in the fastest time ever docked for a woman on the Bend, Oregon, course. Suzanne lives in Bend year-round, and this was her fourth consecutive victory. Bend sounds like a mecca for cross-country skiing, cycling and kayaking, which comprise the event.The competition attracts athletes from throughout the Northwest. The runner-up was a full three minutes behind and hopes Suzanne will find somewhere else to go next May.

Next up for contributions: the River Cluster shmen. (Special double issue: Does banishment lead to psychoses 25 years later?)

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