Thanks to all of you who participated in our annual class-wide virtual mini-reunion on April 2, the 92nd day of the year. We’ve compiled your responses in a newsletter, which you’ll receive in the mail any day now if you haven’t already. Our annual month of service in April was also a success.


Lil Guerra sent a personal update to go with the news of her book publication in the last column. She regrets missing our 20th reunion last year because of several research trips to Cuba. “In bigger news,” she wrote, “I also have a 3-year-old son named Elías who really likes Gainesville, Florida, far more than he ever liked New Haven, Connecticut (where I spent six years at Yale). The nature is what does it, undoubtedly. Canoeing and cooking are his and my two favorite hobbies. The truth is that, unlike our mascotless alma mater, the University of Florida never really had a hard time selecting one: There are gators everywhere! In the lakes and small bodies of water on campus as well as nearly every state park within a 20-minute driving range. So far none in my pool, though, thank goodness! Frankly, I prefer swimming with manatees (about an hour from Gainesville), also another option for any ’92er who happens our way.”


My column deadline this time fell two weeks after Valentine’s Day, when married Dartmouth couples receive a valentine card from the College (with a donation plea, but still, it’s a very cute idea). From The Dartmouth’s website: “Since 1976 10 percent of living Dartmouth alumni have married other College alumni, according to an article by Meg Sommerfeld ’90 in a 2000 issue of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.”


T. Woody Richman and Cathleen Caron, who met and married several years after graduation in New York City, make up one such couple. They have been living in Managua, Nicaragua, for the past several months and each has been working on a noteworthy project.


Woody traveled in late February from Central America to Hollywood, where he attended the Academy Awards ceremony. The documentary he co-wrote and edited, How to Survive a Plague, was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Award. Although the film didn’t win the Oscar, it will be adapted into a miniseries for ABC. Woody and his team used archival and current footage to create a compelling and inspirational story of AIDS activists who organized to demand effective treatments for the disease. You can watch it right now on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes and several other video-on-demand services.


He also edited Trouble the Water, a documentary about Hurricane Katrina, which was nominated for an Oscar in 2009, and he’s worked with Spike Lee and Michael Moore, among many others.


While Woody was in California, Cathleen was training attorneys back in Central America. The organization she founded, the Global Workers Justice Alliance, assists workers who were denied the wages legally owed them because they left the United States for their home countries.


“We are really enjoying life in Nicaragua,” wrote Cathleen. “Our son Marley was fluent in Spanish after just four months—amazing. Between the beaches, volcanoes and lakes Nicaragua is a very special place.


“As for work, we are expanding the Global Defender Network to Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. The last week of February I will be training 25-plus human right lawyers on U.S. labor rights so that they can help their migrants who have been exploited while working in the United States.”


Keep me posted on the myriad ways you’re making the world a better place, dearest classmates!


—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@ dartmouth92.org