I have more news about our 50th birthdays. Michael Keller turned 50 in April. “After panicking about it for a while I decided to celebrate it, often. First my wife planned a dinner at a great restaurant at a big farm table for just some close friends. I turned the tables and preemptively roasted (and thanked) them for being in my life. Next a huge steak dinner with my kids, who had never been to a killer steakhouse. Here in the Twin Cities, we have Manny’s, one of the best in the country—total meat fest! Then, my wife, Gina, surprised me with a long, romantic weekend trip to Montreal and Quebec to also celebrate our one-year anniversary. Awesome weekend—old city Quebec is magical. Next I am taking my kids, my wife and one of her kids to U2’s show in Chicago. I have seen U2 many times, each show more epic than the last, and I wanted my kids to see them before they got too old and uncool (they’re in their late 50s and are still pretty damn cool). Finally, a well-known radio DJ in the Twin Cities who has these edgy, weekly shows in various clubs has agreed to collaborate with me on a Talking Heads night. The band started 40 years ago, so we are celebrating their 40th and my 50th with whomever shows up from his followers and my friends. I will be wearing my version of David Byrne’s big suit and it should be a perfectly weird night. Other than these things I wanted this year to also be about some great physical feats, including my return to triathlons, but because I am 50 I am injured all the time and just pulled my left calf muscle for the fourth time in nine months, so instead I am just going to try to stay in shape and watch a lot of sports on TV, including the women’s World Cup, and watch my three kids’ traveling soccer games because everyone knows you can’t have too much youth soccer in your life.”

Stephen Conlin celebrated his 50th birthday this winter with a few of his Tuck ’93 buddies. “We started out on a Saturday morning with a five-hour Boston Brew Tours excursion. We experienced sample after sample at Sam Adams, Mead Hall, Idle Hands and Night Shift breweries. Then it was on to the Bruins game at the Garden (4-1 victory), followed by a spectacular dinner at La Famiglia Giorgio’s in Boston’s North End, accompanied by several bottles of red wine. Last stop was the Westin Hotel in Copley Place, where we shut down the bar with bourbon and cognac. Everyone was moving a little more slowly on Sunday morning! Good times had by all.”

For a more laid-back experience, the islands called. Rusty and Mich (Poulin) Gardner traveled from Denver and met Bostonians Tom and Laura (Wolman) Gamer in Key West, Florida, for a weekend in June to celebrate their 50th birthdays. The last but not least bit of 50th birthday news came from Bill Martin. “The year 2015 was indeed momentous. I turned 50. But more importantly, my daughter graduated from Dartmouth. Fortunately, as a member of the Tuck faculty, I was able to march in the Commencement ceremony with her. That was the top highlight of the year for me personally.”

Join us October 9-11 in Hanover to march in the Dartmouth Night Parade and have dinner on Saturday.

—Lisa Pabich Damon, 2124 Ashwood Ave., Nashville, TN 37212; lisa.damon.87@alum.dartmouth.org; Allison Bleyler McDonald, 43 Hop Brook Road, Amherst, MA 01002; allisonmcd@gmail.com