By the time y’all read this our 35th reunion will be in the books. Prior to reunion, however, I sent the following prompt to all ’90s: “We have all changed a lot since we graduated from Dartmouth 35 years ago, but how have you not changed since 1990?” Below is Part Two of your responses.

Carolyn Choi writes, “Hello Kitty is still the object of lots of love from me, even at 55 years old!” Nick Stanham writes, “This is a tough one because externally a whole bunch has changed—we all get older and for some of us, our clothes fit a little tighter, we have less hair, etc., but something that has never changed is how much I love hanging around with my Dartmouth friends. It’s always a positive experience and somehow I feel smarter and a better all-around person when I do. That, and since I have been back living in Miami since 1994, I am still ‘Nick from Miami.’ ” Laura Jackson writes, “One thing that hasn’t changed for me is that I still love hanging out with Sandy Yusen, my freshman-year roommate. We just got back from a yoga and surfing trip in Costa Rica. I’m lucky to have seen many of my other ’90 friends recently, including Dea Follmer and my husband, Tim Cleary.”

Kristin Jacobson writes, “I think two things that have not changed about me are perseverance and resilience. The perseverance was more obvious in college, the resilience maybe not so much because things probably appeared to come easily to me and many of my biggest challenges had yet to arrive. Then, on two days in the same week of February 2005, my oldest son was diagnosed with autism and my middle and youngest sons were diagnosed with cerebral palsy. It wasn’t something I thought I’d be able to survive, but my perseverance and resilience got me through. I learned the lesson that parents must make sure to take care of themselves so they can care for their kids (put your own oxygen mask on first), something I did not remember to do. But I am resilient and overcame that as well. And recently I’ve faced another set of very significant health challenges myself. In December I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, and my health hit rock bottom. It’s a long story, but—as was true of me in college—I persevered.”

Gary Katz writes, “For me I’d say, ‘loyalty to and focus on my friends and family,’ but how good can I be at judging myself?” Kate Burnaby Wright writes, “For me, the thing that immediately popped into mind was Noel Perrin’s distillation of me: ‘pragmatic idealist.’ Or more precisely, as he wrote: ‘Kate is an idealist, but a pragmatic one.’ I suspect my friends would agree. Shoutout to all the amazing professors (and coaches) who offered us so, so much!” Ted Carleton, my Hanover Middle School baseball teammate, writes exactly what we all expected him to write: “Handsome as ever—or should I say brilliant? So many choices….”

And in other class news, Walter Palmer is getting his revenge on coaches who made him sleep in six-foot beds on road trips. Recently his name popped up in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, which depicted him as an advisor to NCAA teams (including our beloved Big Green men’s basketball team) curious about unionizing. Keep making history, Walt!

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