Class Note 1992
We enjoyed a great turnout for our annual virtual reunion on the 92nd day of the year. More than 130 classmates sent in notes about what they were doing on April 2. People wrote about teaching and surgery; elephants, skinks, and falcons; children, vacations, and woodworking; all the joys of springtime; and much more. The newsletter compiling everyone’s responses is archived on our website (dartmouth92.org/news), along with past newsletters.
Three of our classmates have published books recently.
Jenna Russell, a reporter at The Boston Globe, coauthored Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City’s Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice, the Globe’s definitive narrative account of the bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon and the intense manhunt that followed. She was at the forefront of the Globe’s reporting of the bombing; the newspaper won a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the event and its aftermath. Jenna previously coauthored the Globe’s biography of Ted Kennedy and lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with her family.
Juliet Serenyi Erazo just published a book about history and cultural change in Rukullakta, a large indigenous territory in Ecuador, called Governing Indigenous Territories: Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Duke University Press). She is an associate professor of anthropology in the department of global and sociocultural studies at Florida International University, a public research university in Miami. Juliet lives in Miami with her husband, Eduardo, and children, Alex (9) and Michelle (5).
Scott Straus coedited a collection of case studies titled The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and its Discontents, a critique of current human rights literature. Scott is a professor of political science and international studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is also the author of The Order of Genocide and a coeditor of Remaking Rwanda. Scott lives in Madison with his wife, Sara Guyer, and children Sadie (7) and Solomon (3).
I was also happy to hear from Kristel Dorion: “I have been working on a carbon offset project in Mexico and Guatemala for the last four years. The project allows Helps International, a nonprofit located in Central America and Mexico, to monetize the environmental benefits of installing clean and efficient wood stoves in very poor rural households where people still cook with open fires. The money then goes back into the community for either education or health. My husband, Hunter Bost, and two boys will be moving to Guatemala this summer, as he will be in charge of expanding Helps International to other countries. Helps International (helpsintl.org) also runs medical missions, plus educational and economic development programs.”
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Kelly Shriver Kolln
, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org
