My favorite apocryphal Homecoming story goes like this: Someone in our class lit a cigarette with the flames of our bonfire and burned off his eyebrows as he did so. If you’re heading to Hanover for Dartmouth Night this year, I double-dog dare you to break through the barrier and several circles of guards to recreate that moment, as the ’17s chant, “Touch the fire!” at the ’20s. Or at the very least make sure you send in a photo of yourself behaving reasonably with the other ’92s who have gathered there to celebrate.

Jon Kohl has some good news to share: “In 2006 both my firstborn and a book idea were born. My son is now 10 years old but the book is finally about to come out: The Future Has Other Plans: Planning Holistically to Conserve Natural and Cultural Heritage. Although the book uses the field of heritage planning as its story, in reality it asks the much broader question about why strategic plans and projects so often end up on the shelf unimplemented. To answer that it goes deep into the collective mind and crosses many different fields of study to figure that out. It will also serve as the theoretical cornerstone of our organization, the PUP Global Heritage Consortium. I invite anyone interested in planning of any kind to check it out at Amazon.com.”

In the last column I didn’t have enough space to include all the notes from classmates who have relocated recently, so here are a few more.

Molly Phinney Baskette wrote: “I moved from Boston to Berkeley, California, in May to trade blizzards for earthquakes. Oh, and also to take the helm as senior minister of First Congregational Church Berkeley. Stop by the beautiful campus and say hi if you’re ever in the neighborhood, right near the Cal Berkeley campus!”

Meredith Benedict moved to Washington, D.C., last fall and has been helping to launch the Women of Dartmouth D.C. community (women.dartmouth.org) with Meg Sommerfeld ’90 and others. She wrote, “My transition back to D.C. was made easy by the warm welcome of many ’92s at a mini-reunion soon after I arrived, and especially by Tricia Gagnon, Anne Hammer and their families. There’s a great Dartmouth community here in D.C.!”

Sam Scollard Truex wrote: “I have not moved residences recently, but am moving jobs. After almost 20 years in large biopharma companies, I went to a VC-backed biotech startup called Padlock Therapeutics in 2014, then sold Padlock earlier this year to Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS). Interesting class note is that our classmate Paul Biondi leads BMS’ corporate development group. His team drove the acquisition from their side. BMS’ head of chemistry, whose team is taking over the Padlock drug research programs, is Dartmouth ’92 (who is such a chemistry guru that he graduated in 1991) Percy Carter. Very small world. I worked for BMS for a couple of months and am now taking a summer breather before heading to another biotech startup sometime in the fall. I have also become involved with Thayer School over the years and am enjoying getting up to Dartmouth routinely.”

Our reunion committee has been busy planning every aspect of our 25th, which takes place June 15-18, 2017. Check our website (1992.dartmouth.org) for more details. You’ll also find information there for submitting your contribution to our 25th reunion yearbook.

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com