Class Note 1992
Issue
March-April 2022
We ask a simple question every year on the 92nd day—“What are you up to today?”—and are always amazed at the variety of answers! This April 2 don’t forget to send your brief (or wordy!) answer to dartmouth92news@gmail.com or post on our social media.
For more immediate ’92 camaraderie, jump into our March Madness bracket. We’ll email and post about it any day now, and we’re always looking for fresh bracketologists. It’s kid-friendly with prizes!
These virtual reunions are just a taste of what’s to come later in 2022: Registration opens in March for our 30th reunion, which is June 16-19 in Hanover. Please sign up early (1992.dartmouth.org) so your friends can see who’s coming!
Gina (Ying) Lam is leading reunion programming and shared: “Married my Dartmouth bae Chris Haines ’91 after graduating and together we raised four offspring between southern California, Ohio, Spain, and Miami.
“After a 20-plus-year career in marketing at Procter & Gamble, including navigating the last decade of expansion in luxury licenses for Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana (yes, my on-campus recruiting hookup from senior year), I am now launching and licensing artist-led brands, including Barcelona-based and banned painter Eleazar.
“Feeling fortunate in year two of the pandemic to have visited with fellow ’92 and China foreign study program best friends Gretchen Potter at DesertX in southern California and Kathie CalkinsKeyes in Phoenix on my inaugural trip and birthday treat to the Grand Canyon. We were lucky to catch Christmas Eve with Eric Klein and his family while in Miami en route from Boulder [Colorado] to Curaçao.
“As for the road to 30th reunion, we are excited to showcase class talent, so get in touch if you’d like to perform. We are also launching salient ‘Green Table Talks’ for candid cross-cultural conversation. If you have guidance to give on the human condition, let us know! Stay tuned for the monthly preview series on the virtual road to reunion!”
Did you catch Aisha Tyler’s zombie-killing appearance on AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead in November? Check our social media for a gory pic. Aisha (who describes her character Mickey as “truly one of the most kickass characters I have ever had the honor of portraying”) has also directed several episodes of the series.
I spied jeweler Nicole Landaw’s ad in a recent edition of the alumni magazine. The Robb Report wrote: “How about letting your kid take over the reins of designing mommy’s gift? At Nicole Landaw’s genius company, Kid Jeweler (nicolelandaw.com/kid-jeweler), you can order a take-home kit complete with an instruction guide for your kid to create anything his imagination comes up with for mom. Send the wax figure back to have it made into gold and strung on a necklace or simply made into a keepsake object for something the whole family will treasure forever.” Love this idea, but since my kids are getting older, I’ll keep my eye on Nicole’s own gorgeous creations.
Congrats to Jason Grinnell, who recently joined Glaser Weil LLP as a partner in the Los Angeles firm’s real estate group. Jason wrote: “Back in June Nancy Bacchieri Hollister and Rob Hollister ’89 swung through Pasadena [California] on a lacrosse tournament-slash-college campus tour junket. So glad they made the time to catch up! In October I visited Jon Rettmann up in the Pacific Northwest. Not wanting to arrive empty-handed, I had a pong table commissioned and delivered. I’m also helping Tony Moody and Dave Sharkey get the ball rolling on a Dartmouth Alumni in Real Estate affinity group. Anyone interested in learning more should contact us.”
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com
For more immediate ’92 camaraderie, jump into our March Madness bracket. We’ll email and post about it any day now, and we’re always looking for fresh bracketologists. It’s kid-friendly with prizes!
These virtual reunions are just a taste of what’s to come later in 2022: Registration opens in March for our 30th reunion, which is June 16-19 in Hanover. Please sign up early (1992.dartmouth.org) so your friends can see who’s coming!
Gina (Ying) Lam is leading reunion programming and shared: “Married my Dartmouth bae Chris Haines ’91 after graduating and together we raised four offspring between southern California, Ohio, Spain, and Miami.
“After a 20-plus-year career in marketing at Procter & Gamble, including navigating the last decade of expansion in luxury licenses for Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana (yes, my on-campus recruiting hookup from senior year), I am now launching and licensing artist-led brands, including Barcelona-based and banned painter Eleazar.
“Feeling fortunate in year two of the pandemic to have visited with fellow ’92 and China foreign study program best friends Gretchen Potter at DesertX in southern California and Kathie CalkinsKeyes in Phoenix on my inaugural trip and birthday treat to the Grand Canyon. We were lucky to catch Christmas Eve with Eric Klein and his family while in Miami en route from Boulder [Colorado] to Curaçao.
“As for the road to 30th reunion, we are excited to showcase class talent, so get in touch if you’d like to perform. We are also launching salient ‘Green Table Talks’ for candid cross-cultural conversation. If you have guidance to give on the human condition, let us know! Stay tuned for the monthly preview series on the virtual road to reunion!”
Did you catch Aisha Tyler’s zombie-killing appearance on AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead in November? Check our social media for a gory pic. Aisha (who describes her character Mickey as “truly one of the most kickass characters I have ever had the honor of portraying”) has also directed several episodes of the series.
I spied jeweler Nicole Landaw’s ad in a recent edition of the alumni magazine. The Robb Report wrote: “How about letting your kid take over the reins of designing mommy’s gift? At Nicole Landaw’s genius company, Kid Jeweler (nicolelandaw.com/kid-jeweler), you can order a take-home kit complete with an instruction guide for your kid to create anything his imagination comes up with for mom. Send the wax figure back to have it made into gold and strung on a necklace or simply made into a keepsake object for something the whole family will treasure forever.” Love this idea, but since my kids are getting older, I’ll keep my eye on Nicole’s own gorgeous creations.
Congrats to Jason Grinnell, who recently joined Glaser Weil LLP as a partner in the Los Angeles firm’s real estate group. Jason wrote: “Back in June Nancy Bacchieri Hollister and Rob Hollister ’89 swung through Pasadena [California] on a lacrosse tournament-slash-college campus tour junket. So glad they made the time to catch up! In October I visited Jon Rettmann up in the Pacific Northwest. Not wanting to arrive empty-handed, I had a pong table commissioned and delivered. I’m also helping Tony Moody and Dave Sharkey get the ball rolling on a Dartmouth Alumni in Real Estate affinity group. Anyone interested in learning more should contact us.”
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com