Greetings, ’91s! I am thrilled to be taking over as our class secretary for the next four years, taking us to our 25th reunion in 2016. First of all, I would like to thank our previous secretary, Dianna (Goldberg) May, for all of her hard work compiling our Class Notes during the past five years. Dianna says, “Sincere thanks to our awesome class for letting me prod you relentlessly for news and updates these past years. It’s been awesome reconnecting with so many of you and a privilege spreading the word about your accomplishments, families and careers, the joys along with the challenges.” Second, I would like to give a big shout out to all of our outgoing officers, especially Alex Glovsky (president) and Geoff Bronner (vice president), who rallied the reunion committee during the last six months to put on a fantastic 21st reunion! Lastly, special kudos to everyone on the reunion committee for successfully putting it all together. It was all hands on deck for the final stages of planning, and they even managed to rope John Pepper into having his company Boloco cater the yummy Saturday burrito lunch.


We had a great turnout for our reunion—more than 220 ’91s came to Hanover for the big weekend! The high attendance can be attributed to a great schedule of events—on top of that, beautiful sunny New Hampshire weather for the entire weekend was icing on the cake (and brought out a number of last-minute reunion registrants). All classes were treated to a performance by STOMP! on the Green and the now world-famous Dartmouth Aires performed all over campus during the course of the weekend. Throw in appearances by outgoing Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth professor extraordinaire John Rassias and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and you have the recipe for an awesome gathering! The weekend was filled with plenty of good food, drink and lively conversation, and I think we were all sad to part ways at the end of the weekend. According to Deb (Karazin) Owens, “Best one yet! Everyone was so happy, easy to talk to—all good!”


One of the fun aspects of this year’s reunion was following all of the festivities in real-time on Facebook and Twitter. As people arrived on campus, they were posting pictures of the campus on Facebook, and there were regular updates from our class page as well as the Dartmouth page. On Twitter, I spied this tweet from Shonda Rhimes to Jake Tapper: “I so wish I was going to be in Hanover this weekend! But three shows, one new baby, one ’tween….Eat at EBAs for me!”


We’re already looking ahead to our 25th, and I hope we can bring back everyone who couldn’t make it this year. Another classmate who had a pretty good excuse for not being able to come this year is Kimberly DeVore. Kimberly has been stationed in Seoul, South Korea, for the past two years with the U.S. Army; she is a lieutenant colonel and has been the chief of obstetrics/gynecology at the Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital, 121st Combat Support Hospital. She is currently packing up to return to the States this July and is headed to Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with her husband, Aaron Eades, and their two boys.


Please e-mail me your updates or find me on Facebook so I can get your news into this column—I am depending on you!


—Sara Burbine Potter, 108 Hillcrest Road, Fairfield, CT 06824; sara_burbine@yahoo.com