Class Note 1992
Issue
September-October 2022
I’m writing this just a week after our wonderful reunion, which was a week after my daughter’s graduation on the Green. The ’22s were fortunate to celebrate in a way that resembled our Commencement 30 years ago, despite their fractured time at Dartmouth. The connections they’ll continue to make as alumni are more important than ever. I think this underscores the idea of the myriad experiences we’ve all had, leading back to our reunion theme of “My • Your • Our Dartmouth.” Hundreds of us traveled to Hanover to reconnect, laughing with old friends and talking to classmates we’d never met before with ease. We were just so grateful to be together.
The week was kind of an emotional blur for me, but here’s a sampling of my recollections (and a few things overheard by friends)—may it bring up all the best memories of your Dartmouth!
Wednesday we climbed Mount Moosilauke with Thies Kolln, then enjoyed dinner with the fantastic reunion committee at a big table at the Ravine Lodge (note for a future reunion: alumni from the ’70s were staying overnight). “Can I smell you?” came from a well-meaning ’92 to someone who had literally just stepped onto campus. Chris Walker is going to speak at a murder podcast convention. Flash was there—she gave me a kiss! Three ’92 women who fished a ball out of a basement trash can and kept playing pong did not get Covid. Remember to pre-order Molly Phinney’s new book, How to Begin When Your World is Ending: A Spiritual Field Guide to Joy Despite Everything (what a title!) “No, you have to lick it—come on!” overheard following a beer mishap and an elbow. Heart-to-heart conversations with ’92s I had only met before via Zoom. Overheard: “Why did we spend so much time at The D?” and the reply, “I don’t know! We fought like siblings!” The tofu (and all the food) was so good. There was the “Green Table Talk” question, “When did Dartmouth bring you to your knees?” Overheard: “I thought we left him behind in Montreal” and the reply, “No, it was Boston,” regarding a classmate abandoned during a 1990s road trip. The Dartmouth Co-op gave us an entire batch of misprinted ’92 shirts for free, and we handed them out before the class photo (I prefer my pre-ordered, properly centered shirt). To those of you who couldn’t join us, we truly missed you!
Moving forward I’ll still organize ’92 communications, but for the next five years John McWilliams and I will share this column as co-secretaries!
With that, here’s some good, old-fashioned classmate news: Matthew Mosk recently joined CBS News to oversee the investigative unit. He previously spent 12 years at ABC News and has been a senior investigative producer overseeing enterprise reporting about Washington, D.C., and politics. Matt created the podcast and Hulu docuseries Have You Seen This Man and was the senior investigative producer on the recent documentary Out of the Shadows: The Man Behind the Steele Dossier.” Congrats also to Matt’s son, who will join the class of 2026!
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com
The week was kind of an emotional blur for me, but here’s a sampling of my recollections (and a few things overheard by friends)—may it bring up all the best memories of your Dartmouth!
Wednesday we climbed Mount Moosilauke with Thies Kolln, then enjoyed dinner with the fantastic reunion committee at a big table at the Ravine Lodge (note for a future reunion: alumni from the ’70s were staying overnight). “Can I smell you?” came from a well-meaning ’92 to someone who had literally just stepped onto campus. Chris Walker is going to speak at a murder podcast convention. Flash was there—she gave me a kiss! Three ’92 women who fished a ball out of a basement trash can and kept playing pong did not get Covid. Remember to pre-order Molly Phinney’s new book, How to Begin When Your World is Ending: A Spiritual Field Guide to Joy Despite Everything (what a title!) “No, you have to lick it—come on!” overheard following a beer mishap and an elbow. Heart-to-heart conversations with ’92s I had only met before via Zoom. Overheard: “Why did we spend so much time at The D?” and the reply, “I don’t know! We fought like siblings!” The tofu (and all the food) was so good. There was the “Green Table Talk” question, “When did Dartmouth bring you to your knees?” Overheard: “I thought we left him behind in Montreal” and the reply, “No, it was Boston,” regarding a classmate abandoned during a 1990s road trip. The Dartmouth Co-op gave us an entire batch of misprinted ’92 shirts for free, and we handed them out before the class photo (I prefer my pre-ordered, properly centered shirt). To those of you who couldn’t join us, we truly missed you!
Moving forward I’ll still organize ’92 communications, but for the next five years John McWilliams and I will share this column as co-secretaries!
With that, here’s some good, old-fashioned classmate news: Matthew Mosk recently joined CBS News to oversee the investigative unit. He previously spent 12 years at ABC News and has been a senior investigative producer overseeing enterprise reporting about Washington, D.C., and politics. Matt created the podcast and Hulu docuseries Have You Seen This Man and was the senior investigative producer on the recent documentary Out of the Shadows: The Man Behind the Steele Dossier.” Congrats also to Matt’s son, who will join the class of 2026!
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com