Liza Millet was recently featured in a Forbes article about the Start Up Institute in Jackson, Wyoming. She is cofounder and program director of the institute’s 10-week intensive course that helps entrepreneurs create and execute business goals. It’s a partnership between Central Wyoming College and Silicon Couloir, the nonprofit Liza cofounded, which offers resources for entrepreneurs in the area. The article discussed “the phenomenon of entrepreneurial hubs springing up in unlikely locations.” If any other classmates work in one of these hubs, I’d love to hear more about it (see email address below)!


Lakshmi Emory sent the news that Stephanie Williams has written a book (for children and adults) about her journey living with ataxia. Wanda Wants a Walker is available on Amazon.com.


Julie Amstein Cillo, who did such a great job planning our 20th reunion, has stepped up to chair our 25th! Yes, the big one. It’ll be here sooner than you’d think. Twenty-fifth reunions don’t share the event with adjacent classes, so we’ll have that much more space to ourselves. (And I should tell you now, in case you haven’t read the Moving Dartmouth Forward fine print, just so you have a few years to get used to the idea: ’tails are now banned at campus events, even for alumni.) We will be putting out the call for help soon. (Help with the reunion, that is, although cocktail assistance may also be required.)


Speaking of classmate camaraderie, thanks again to all of you who sent in updates for our virtual reunion on the 92nd day of the year, making the event a success, as always. You can read about whatever classmates were doing that day in the latest newsletter, archived on our website (dartmouth92.org/news).


As you read this we’re well into our annual month of service, Engage ’92. And exactly one month after our virtual reunion the first Dartmouth Alumni Day of Service takes place, on May 2. If you’re working on a volunteer project for Engage ’92 or the Alumni Day of Service, let us know by emailing a photo, and we’ll include it in a newsletter and send you a gift from the class. 


Throughout the year our class participates in Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS), which is funded through our dues payments. It’s an alumni-sponsored program that supports students in off-campus, term-long community service internships through the Tucker Foundation. The program pairs up an alumnus mentor with each student, and our classmates have participated five times since our class began supporting DPCS in the summer of 2013: Michelle Davis and Brett Scoll Perryman in Boston, Cally Shea Bybee in Atlanta, Krista Klein in San Francisco and Tina Mabley in Austin, Texas.


“By linking a student to the funds we donate, DCPS makes our support personal,” said Michelle, our liaison to the program. She is looking for more classmates to participate by mentoring undergrads during their internships. The most DCPS opportunities are in San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C., but the locations of each term’s internships vary, so students working in smaller cities might also need mentors. If you’re interested, contact me and I’ll pass your info along to her.


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