With our 30th reunion just around the corner (June 18-21—go register now at d90reunion.org!), I asked ’90s to contemplate the following question: “What’s something on your bucket list that you’re at least 50 percent committed to achieving or experiencing or what’s a challenging goal you’re currently pursuing?” Here are your responses. Jennifer (Huska) Merriman: “At age 50 I decided to embark on a new career in wildlife medicine! I am back in school studying to be a veterinary technician and at the same time volunteering and doing internships caring for native wildlife in northern California.” Lauren Kehoe: “I’m committing to travel more, but less for ‘enrichment’ than just stuff that makes me happy. In October I went to Las Vegas to see Billy Idol’s show at the Palms, ride the roller coaster around the New York New York hotel, and eat soufflé in the bar at the Paris hotel while watching the fountain show at the Bellagio out its windows. My next planned bit of happiness travel is to see the Stanley Cup at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto!” Michael Keller: “Sky-diving. Have been on the tarmac when a flight got canceled for weather, so hoping to get back to it before I start daisy-pushing!” Robin Plager Lapre: “My major ambition is to reduce animal shelter overcrowding by improving access to low-cost spay and neuter surgery in Tennessee. Having spent two years volunteering in rural shelters, I reached the conclusion that the solution to the surplus animal population requires education, incentives, and affordable access to low-cost sterilization. Please consider adopting your next pet. And if you want to save 1,000 future dogs or cats, just spay or neuter the ones you have!” Paul Hill: “I am somewhat more than 50 percent committed to hiking 50 separate peaks with 50 different people in my 50s. I’ve done eight so far. Todd Thayer and I did Hunter Mountain to the fire tower last October. The best part (besides the obvious of getting outside) is catching up with friends and family from different parts of my life, often in a place I’ve never been!” David Greenberg: “For many years I’ve wanted to compete at the World Masters (over age 40) Track and Field Championship, but never have. Wearing a Team USA uniform and competing against the world’s best has a strong appeal to me. But for years the meet has been in faraway places, so I’ve had to skip it. This year the meet is in Toronto, and I’m more than likely going to compete. Just to make my ‘challenging goal’ even more challenging, I’m doubling down by learning a new event: the 3,000-meter steeplechase. The final is August 1.” Bernadine Wu:“I have a ton of bucket list items that involve family and travel and selling my company and living a meaningful, powerful, extraordinary life, but the one real goal I’m out for is this: simplifying!” Jonathan Sullivan: “I am 100 percent committed to drastically reducing my consumption of meat, poultry, and fish this year in an effort to live more sustainably. So far, I’m making good progress. I’m less committed, but still trying, to simultaneously reduce my sugar intake, just because. I’ve been less successful on that front.” Julie Urda: “I am pursuing a lifelong acting dream. I’m taking classes and doing improv. I’ve been in two local children’s plays and I just recorded a voiceover demo. Hoping to turn the latter into an avocation. Stay tuned.” Baeth Davis: “A goal we’re striving for here at our company is 200 new people in our business mentoring program in 2020 with a percentage of the proceeds going to the charities we support.”

—Rob Crawford, 22 Black Oak Road, Weston, MA 02493; crawdaddy37@gmail.com