Happy New Year! Although we’re now well into 2011, these notes were written at the close of 2010 so I asked some classmates to share their resolutions for the new year. 


Renee Foisy Kleiner responded with a practical resolution: to take more vitamin D and avoid the flu.


Chris Kelly offered three important resolutions that I’m sure most of us share: “to try, try, try to exercise before work; to volunteer my time to others who need me; to keep in touch with my friends more.”


Diane Gsell sent a fantastic list of resolutions that included: “Walk more, drive less. Convince sales clerks everywhere that ‘miss’ is infinitely better than ‘ma’am.’ Use my turntable at least once a week. Appreciate, on a regular basis, the magic that is Stevie Wonder. Thank, on a regular basis, the magical genius of the freshman housing committee for pairing me with Breena Welch. Despite being on opposite sides of the country for more than two decades, we still finish each other’s sentences, like reunited twins.”


As for me, I resolve to submit Class Notes brimming with entertaining updates from an expanding list of classmates. (Hint: Please drop me a line!) I did get some great news in the holiday mail, in addition to many photos of adorable ’88 offspring: the oldest daughter of Dave McConnell and Janine Lambert was accepted at Dartmouth! And Dave told me that Margie Wallace Gibson and Pete Gibson ’86 have a son who is in the class of ’14 and a daughter admitted as a ’15 as well. Congratulations, Katie, Katie and Christopher—we all recognize that Dartmouth no longer admits slackers like it did in the 1980s. You three must really have the stuff.


And if you’re still reading this, you must love ’88 news—so you’re well qualified to become our next newsletter editor! We are looking for two to three people to share this job, producing a few newsletters to help us stay in touch with each other (and our undergraduate psyches). 


Visit the greatly expanded, much-improved class website soon: www.dartmouth88.org. Post some photos and submit your ideas on how to keep improving this site; it is becoming a great forum to celebrate and advance the good works of ’88s. 


Cheers.


—Jane (Grussing) Lonnquist, 4510 Drexel Ave., Edina, MN 55424; jjlonnquist@earthlink.net