Congratulations, class of 1992: We won the Class of the Year Award at Class Officers Weekend! Several class officers accepted the award on your behalf in Hanover last September. Many thanks to all of you for sending in news, participating in minireunions, paying your dues (so we can fund our philanthropic class projects) and donating to the Dartmouth College Fund.


The College awarded us a gavel engraved with “Class of the Year,” and it turns out we have two: Anita Reithoffer Tucker (on the East Coast) has the gavel we won for the same honor in 2000, and now Kenta Takamori (on the West Coast) has the recent one. If we ever win a third one, I volunteer to host it in flyover country. I propose that we allow the gavels to travel to mini-reunions—much like the Stanley Cup—to be photographed with and wielded by any and all ’92s.


I’m seriously lacking classmate updates, so I’ll indulge in some news from my household, where our tennis hobby has taken over: Thies Kolln, my husband, played tennis in high school but not at Dartmouth. He picked it up again a few years ago, and his 8.0 and 9.0 mixed doubles teams competed in the 2013 U.S. Tennis Association National Championships in Arizona and Hawaii, representing our five-state Missouri Valley region. I had started playing in 2011 and my two beginner-level women’s teams (in the 18- and 40-and-over age groups) also made it to Nationals this past fall in Arizona and California. Keeping with tradition, our teams all lost to teams with year-round nice weather. It was an unexpected, amazing and statistically improbable experience. With that, I beg you to write in so next time I don’t have to describe my post-Nationals life of mundane errands and helping out with my daughter’s middle school spring musical (I already know it’s not Seussical). 


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