Class Note 1992
Issue
November-December 2022
Greetings from your new co-secretary, John McWilliams. I look forward to helping secretary Kelly Shriver Kolln with the Class Notes and reconnecting with all of you ’92s. I live in Dallas and was sorry to miss our 30th reunion to attend my daughter’s graduation in Scotland. I heard it was quite the event. This summer Dartmouth also held a belated graduation for the class of 2020. Several of our classmates are parents of ’20s and we received some reflections from that Covid-impacted class.
Lauren Drazen’s son, Noah ’20, reports that his senior Covid year “certainly was not a typical senior spring, but I got to see my friends in outdoor gatherings.” Noah and his classmates had an “anticlimactic” virtual graduation in June 2020. He spent the following year in Hanover getting his master’s in public health at the Dartmouth Institute. Now he is consultant for Optum in Minneapolis. “Dartmouth kept its promise and provided a really fun weekend in early August this year. I sang with my band, Shark, Saturday night and connected with my classmates for a two-year graduation and reunion weekend,” he wrote.
Thomas J. Chon, M.D., F.A.C.E.,writes that his son, Christopher ’20, also participated in the Commencement ceremony a few weeks ago. His wife, Grace, and he, along with their younger son, Alexander, had a great time in Hanover. “It was especially even more memorable knowing that it has been 30 years since I graduated from Dartmouth.”
Christopher wrote, “I enjoyed my time at Dartmouth where I studied human-centered design and government and took full advantage of the trails, river, and bike routes by joining the triathlon team. Abruptly leaving Dartmouth due to Covid was difficult, especially with not being able to say goodbye to everyone and getting my initial job offer rescinded due to the global economic strain. I spent two years as a product designer at Apple and will soon be at Mirror, a fitness device startup acquired by Lululemon. I am living in San Francisco with two other ’20s and have been enjoying living on the opposite coast from where I grew up originally.”
Pilot Rob Koreman missed the graduation of daughter Samantha ’20 at the beginning of the month because he had to fly. His wife, Lynne Cohen Koreman ’90, attended and said it was a great event: “The graduates had a cross between a graduation and their first reunion, which I understand was well run and a lot fun for them. We watched Sam ‘graduate’ from our couch in Florida the first time. She finally got to wear her cap and gown and she was, in a word, happy. Sam just finished her second year of a Ph.D. program in political theory at UVA. While she loves it, Hanover is still her happy place. It definitely runs in the family!”
—John L. McWilliams IV, 7429 Marquette St., Dallas, TX 75225; Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com
Lauren Drazen’s son, Noah ’20, reports that his senior Covid year “certainly was not a typical senior spring, but I got to see my friends in outdoor gatherings.” Noah and his classmates had an “anticlimactic” virtual graduation in June 2020. He spent the following year in Hanover getting his master’s in public health at the Dartmouth Institute. Now he is consultant for Optum in Minneapolis. “Dartmouth kept its promise and provided a really fun weekend in early August this year. I sang with my band, Shark, Saturday night and connected with my classmates for a two-year graduation and reunion weekend,” he wrote.
Thomas J. Chon, M.D., F.A.C.E.,writes that his son, Christopher ’20, also participated in the Commencement ceremony a few weeks ago. His wife, Grace, and he, along with their younger son, Alexander, had a great time in Hanover. “It was especially even more memorable knowing that it has been 30 years since I graduated from Dartmouth.”
Christopher wrote, “I enjoyed my time at Dartmouth where I studied human-centered design and government and took full advantage of the trails, river, and bike routes by joining the triathlon team. Abruptly leaving Dartmouth due to Covid was difficult, especially with not being able to say goodbye to everyone and getting my initial job offer rescinded due to the global economic strain. I spent two years as a product designer at Apple and will soon be at Mirror, a fitness device startup acquired by Lululemon. I am living in San Francisco with two other ’20s and have been enjoying living on the opposite coast from where I grew up originally.”
Pilot Rob Koreman missed the graduation of daughter Samantha ’20 at the beginning of the month because he had to fly. His wife, Lynne Cohen Koreman ’90, attended and said it was a great event: “The graduates had a cross between a graduation and their first reunion, which I understand was well run and a lot fun for them. We watched Sam ‘graduate’ from our couch in Florida the first time. She finally got to wear her cap and gown and she was, in a word, happy. Sam just finished her second year of a Ph.D. program in political theory at UVA. While she loves it, Hanover is still her happy place. It definitely runs in the family!”
—John L. McWilliams IV, 7429 Marquette St., Dallas, TX 75225; Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com