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wild and unsubstantiated claims of the world growing smaller and an open invite for anyone to camp on his spacious lawn this summer. “Had a chance to spend a weekend in Augusta, Georgia, last year with Craighill Redwine ’89 and Jon Dyke ’89 thanks entirely to Jon, who took both Craighill and I to the Masters and arranged the entire weekend! Spectacular weekend and somewhere along the way Craighill transformed into Ma Long and dominated the nightly Ping-Pong tournament. I plan to tour boarding schools this fall with my son, Harry, and can’t wait to tour SG. I have the good fortune of talking to many friends from SG and find the world becoming smaller and smaller. I hope we get a great showing for our 30th class reunion next year. I plan to be in Newport for as much of July and August as possible.” ■ And finally, I (Michelle) couldn’t resist and had to sneak in this picture of Jay with his far better half, Margaret Sweet, hanging with the cool crowd at the Grammys this year. Mark, we may not have any Academy Award winners (yet), but we are certainly good-looking. ■ And finally, a plea to our class … please be more generous with your news! Next time, Jay and I may have to resort to “alternative facts” if we don’t get any raw material to work with. Your devoted scribes, Michelle and Jay
1989
Sylvia Dent Harris, P.O. Box 3650, Wilmington, DE 19807, P: 302-656-7463, F: 302-4297463, sisharris@me.com / Stafford Vaughey Meyer, 54 Tanglewylde Avenue, Bronxville, NY 10708, 914-803-2796, stafford@staffordmeyer.com / J. Craighill Redwine, Jr., 20 Brewster Court, Charleston, SC 29403, craighillr@ me.com ■ Greetings, fellow ’89ers! With the changing of the Class Notes guard from Kimbell to Sissy and me (Craighill Redwine) there will be very little change except for the occasional “y’all” here and there. Keep your updates coming and please remember that pleading the Fifth can be dangerous … ■ It was wonderful to see our own BJ Miller featured in the New York Times Magazine in the Jan. 3 edition. Google BJ and the story pops right up. A must-read article about a classmate who is making headlines for all the right
Top to bottom: David Dickenson’s ’89 kids, David, 18, and Nina, 17, with David’s best friend from college and godfather to his son, Pat Cave at a Cavaliers game last July. / Jane Goldstone Sarouhan ’89 with her husband, Jason, and daughter, Kaya, on a four-day trip paddling the Whanganui River in New Zealand.
reasons. ■ Celebratory news comes from fellow correspondent Sissy Dent Harris who is getting married to Bob Aerenson this July in Wilmington, Delaware. Sissy’s three children — Katie, 17, Peter, 16, and Margot, 11 — will join Bob’s children — Whitney, 26, and Jackie, 20 — at the soon-to-be-much-larger holiday dinners going forward. She spent time with Lilly Phipps Cardwell, Allison Holcomb Harris and Stafford Vaughey Meyer this summer. Stafford visits Sissy often for Pappy Van Winkle tastings at Sissy’s house, which is conveniently near St. Andrew’s where Stafford’s daughter is in school. Congrats, Sissy! ■ Great news from Bavaria with Larus Shields “weighing in” with: “On Feb. 8, 2017, Henrik ‘Henry’ Larus Shields was born here in Munich. His big sister Elsa (who turns 2 in June) seems OK with the new addition … so far. If anyone comes through Bavaria, please let us know. While the surfing on the Eisbach leaves something to be desired, the beer and schnitzel ain’t bad. Hope everyone’s very well!” ■ Enjoyed seeing many Dragons at the Charleston alumni gathering at the Mira WineTasting Room on Feb. 2 hosted (and owned by) Bear Dyke ’87. We honored Eric and Krista Peterson for their
extraordinary dedication to SG with lively conversation and seriously good grapes. Eric and Krista will be sorely missed and were toasted well with Charleston aplomb. Had fun with Liberty Nissen Yancey, Zoe Leath Stephens ’91, Chris “Casual” Lee ’87 and many others. Charleston is losing Bear to Napa Valley thanks to Robert Parker giving Mira 90-plus points on several of his and brother Jonathan Dyke ’89’s vino. The Dyke boys have made “the show”! On a related note, Jonathan, Bear and I were all recently on the Hilltop with younger Dykes and a Redwine (nephew Owen) for their interviews for third form next year. Dinner with the youngsters at Clarke Cooke House felt very much like Parents Weekend — until the check arrived. ■ Charles Ruma gloats: “You people should see what I’ve done with my calves. If you get super serious about only lifting Fiats and old Miatas in a quick powerlifting motion (up and down 8-10 inches in increments of 90), you can extend the girth on your calves by 44 percent” when you power up your work out with Gerry Cooney Muscle Milk. Power UP!” ■ Had Curtis Ravenel ’87 over to the house in Charleston for an after-dinner drink last week. The majority of the world’s political problems were solved from polar opposite sides of the aisle while Mr. Garcia strummed in the background. Think Spring Dance Weekend without Maxx Creek. ■ Anne Merriman Wells reports: “I had the best time with Jane Goldstone Sarouhan at my house in Westport last month. We hadn’t seen each other in 20 years! I also get to see Eric Wiberg every once in a while as his son is at school with my three girls. In other news, my husband and I are leading a Hike For Heaven Climb of Mount Kilimanjaro on June 16 to raise funds for the Heaven School, which we are building in Tanzania through our Unite the World With Africa Foundation (uniteafricafoundation.org). We would love to have some SG friends join in. Right now we have a team of climbers ages 25-55.” ■ Dave Dickenson sends: “Greetings from Cleveland, home of the World Champion Cavaliers. David (senior, age 18) and Nina (junior, age 17) are off to college this year and next. David is likely to attend Parsons in New York this fall, while Nina is shooting for UVA next fall.