The 92nd day of the year is coming up, so mark your calendar for our annual classwide virtual mini-reunion on April 2. Share a quick update (just what you’re doing that day) in our Facebook group or e-mail news@dartmouth92.org. We’ll compile the responses in an upcoming newsletter.


Our mini-reunion chair Brant Rose reports: “We had a great Homecoming mini-reunion October 27 with the second tailgate combo ’89-’90-’92 by Sphinx, pregame. Look for the same gathering next year!” On campus were Bob and Lynne Delise, Dave Harrison, Chip and Hope Martin, Ben Schuler and Joni Wiredu.


Another October mini-reunion, in New York’s West Village, included Peter Aaron, Leah O’Donnell and Allegra Kochman. “Allegra met us in her break from presenting at the American Institute of Architects New York chapter’s Archtober [conference],” wrote Brant, who attended with his wife, Toochis Morin Rose. “Her work has also been featured again in the West 4th Street subway exhibition!” Archtober is a month-long festival of architectural activities, programs and exhibitions in New York City. Allegra’s project featured a media room with color-changing LEDs (see more at allegrakochmanarchitecture.com).


April Ossmann was awarded the only 2013 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant for a poetry manuscript in progress. “Cynthia Huntington won it last year. She was one of my creative writing professors, and we’re neighbors and friends. I’ve lived in the Upper Valley off and on for the last 27 years, including my years as an undergraduate at Dartmouth,” April wrote (read more about her work at aprilossmann.com).


Lil Guerra has published a new book, Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971 (University of North Carolina Press). Lil is associate professor of Cuban and Caribbean history at the University of Florida and also author of The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba and Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico.


Jessie Levine is settling nicely into her role as town manager of Bedford, New Hampshire. (You may have seen her in Hanover up until last fall, while she worked as the assistant town manager and human resource director.) An article in the Valley News said Bedford officials were impressed with her understanding of New Hampshire government. To keep residents updated, Jessie appears on Bedford’s cable channel, where she can be seen starring in such shows as Town Manager Update and Town Council Budget Workshop. Gotta love that extremely local news!


As you may remember, Jessie served as our very first class secretary, which must have been a daunting task. We moved around constantly, long distance was expensive and social media didn’t exist. BlitzMail was cruelly taken away from most of us when we left Hanover, and the world took years to catch up. It’s amazing how much information Jessie packed into those first columns using snail mail as her main info-gathering tool. (I know because I obtained copies of all our Class Notes since 1992, and they are fascinating. I may insert old bits of news here to test whether you’re paying attention.)


This coming year I plan to feature updates from undergraduate advisors groups, DOC trips, freshman seminars or other associations that may have lost touch. Let me know if you’d like to suggest one of your erstwhile groups.


I always welcome your regular news as well, no matter how mundane or impressive. Please allow me to put the brag in your humble and the humble in your brag.


—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org