Along with the class leadership changeover last June, we approved a new structure, adding more vice presidents. As vice president for communications, I’m fortunate to have Liza Herbst Knapp on board to produce our class newsletters. You should receive them via email, and you can also view them archived on our website. Alex Shepard Spiegel has also stepped up to serve as our class steward and has reinstated the birthday emails.

As I write this, it’s late December and our new vice president of community, Elissa Aten, is hosting a virtual class reunion in our Facebook group: she’s called for people to post their holiday photos, and I’m enjoying seeing everyone’s festive greetings! Even if you’re not a huge Facebook fan, please consider getting an account just to see what’s going on with many (more than half!) of your classmates who participate in the group. We’re gearing up for my second-favorite Dartmouth season, spring (as opposed to when I was a student and spring was by far the worst; of course, nothing beats fall). March Madness always begins during my kids’ spring break week, and this year is no different. Matt Caldwell will run the class of ’92 bracket again. We’ll send info about joining soon, giving you plenty of time to sign up so you don’t get caught submitting your picks the day the tournament begins (when all the servers crash). Then our annual virtual online reunion takes place on the 92nd day of the year, which falls this year on Monday, April 2. Post what you’re doing that day in our Facebook group or email dartmouth92news@gmail.com, and we’ll include your update in an upcoming class newsletter. Our Engage ’92 month of service event also happens each April, leading in to Dartmouth’s annual day of service in early May.

I received some classmate news that had me dreaming of warmer climes. Jennifer Chun was recently appointed director of tourism research at the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Jennifer grew up on the island of Oahu and began preparing for this job in (winter wonderlandish) Hanover, majoring in Asian studies. She then earned a master’s at the (even less tropical) school of hotel administration at Cornell. Jennifer, if you ever need any tourist subjects for your research, may I volunteer? And finally, some news of the weird. I was watching a public-television documentary about dogs with my family, and one of the sponsors was “The Plutonium Foundation: Archimedes Plutonium.” After my husband, Thies Kolln, and I uttered many exclamations, we confirmed that Archimedes Plutonium is, indeed, the same person we knew on campus as Ludwig Plutonium (or Ludwig van Ludvig). As you may remember, he worked as a dishwasher at the Hanover Inn and rode around on a bicycle, wearing an orange hunting cap and carrying a metal briefcase. Christopher Walker once dressed up like Ludwig for Bones Gate Tea. Around the time we graduated he began posting in Usenet groups on his way to Internet fame (or infamy). I remember him always being a welcome sight in the offices of The Dartmouth; we relied on advertising, and he took out many full-page ads expounding upon his theory that the universe is based on the structure of the plutonium atom.

Please send along your own weird and wonderful news for future inclusion in this column and our newsletters. As I did a few years back, I will be featuring classmates with leadership positions in nonprofits, so if this describes you, please let me know about your organization and why you have decided to devote your time to it.

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