Class Note 1992
March Madness is happening soon. Watch your email for details!
Also, Tuesday, April 2 is the 92nd day of the year, and that’s when we will hold our annual virtual online reunion. 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. Photos are welcome!
Inspired by the previous issue’s list of influential alumni, I asked classmates: Which ’92 has influenced you the most?
Kate Aiken wrote: “Nancy De Sa inspires me to this day. Her hardships were legit, but nothing got her down for long. She persevered with the most badass attitude. She always had the right thing to say to crack me up, and was the first person I knew with more than a thousand random Twitter followers, when the rest of us were still figuring it out. She knew how to connect with people.”
Anita Reithoffer Tucker wrote: “My fellow women of ’92 who swam with me on the swimming and diving team. I learned from them how we as women can support and celebrate each others’ successes instead of working against each other. To this day, their way of supporting each other role modeled for me how important it is to support and mentor other women in my life, especially in my role as an academic. Because ‘all boats rise on a high tide.’ ”
Kyle Huebner wrote: “I’m going to say Jeff Green was the ’92 who had the most influence on my life, but not in the usual way. Jeff started Stamps.com in 1997 back in the Internet heyday and I joined up with him (after an ill-fated consulting stint) in January 1999, when the company had about 20 people. Jeff ended up leaving Stamps a year later to start another company and it turns out that I’m now celebrating my 20-year anniversary at Stamps. If Jeff hadn’t founded Stamps, who knows what I would have ended up doing the past 20 years?”
Sharon Cramer Lincoln wrote: “I can’t say that any one ’92 has been very influential. However, recently, I’ve reconnected with Laura Erdman-Luntz and our conversations are fun, inspired, and deeply meaningful. So that has been a very positive influence!”
Samantha Scollard Truex wrote: “Kristen Morrow Johnson has influenced me the most. She has inspired me with her bold leadership and sense of adventure, from the time she was in Casque & Gauntlet at Dartmouth, to her multiple times working abroad, to her leadership positions now at Ford Motor Co. and previously with the corporate collaboration counsel at Thayer. You go, girl!”
Matt “Luau” Wilson wrote: “Jonathan Harrington has probably had the most influence on me during the last 25-plus years. He’s been a best friend, moral compass, and steadying counterweight. But there have been so many others who have had a tremendous, positive impact on my life.”
Jessie Levine (extremely inspirational in her own right!) wrote: “The ’92 who influenced me the most, through his heart-on-his-sleeve compassion for people known and unknown to him, was Ben Crawford.”
Dan Fisher-Owens wrote: “Susan Fisher-Owens. During more than 25 years together, she has tempered my realism with her idealism, inspiring me with her toughness, tenderness, tenacity, and temperament in her approach to vocation, avocation, and physical challenges. She’s shown me how to be a better parent, colleague, friend, and adventurer than I thought I could ever be!”
(On behalf of those of us who also treasure our ’92 partners yet didn’t craft a lovely tribute to our loved ones—yeah, what he said!)
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com
