Class Note 1992
Issue
July-August 2023
As the academic year winds down, my co-secretary Kelly Shriver Kolln and I thought it would be great fun to solicit favorite College-era song submissions from our class. This is the first installment of at least two replies. I believe we stirred up some interest with this topic!
Christina Flavell relates, “Took me two seconds to decide it was definitely Madonna’s ‘Like a Prayer.’ I have the happiest memories of dancing to it standing on the benches in the Sigma Delta basement with my besties.” Lynn Schiffman Delise says she listened to “Achtung Baby” by U2 nonstop senior year. Johnette Johnson says, “So many great songs from which to choose! I’d have to say ‘Vogue’ by Madonna. She is an absolute legendary icon. I love listening to that song to this day!” Sally Davis fondly remembers ‘The Church’s Under the Milky Way.’ Kevin Kruse preferred “Come Sail Away” by Styx. Rosalind Fahey Kruse recalls Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself” as her Dartmouth years’ favorite. Caroline Harris says, “Being from Athens, Georgia, I listened to REM a lot, so ‘Shiny, Happy People’ or ‘Losing my Religion.’ I also quite liked hip hop and ‘Jump Around’ by House of Pain stands out as a song.”
Kathleen O’Rourke writes, “Happy spring to my fellow ’92s! When I think of Dartmouth the song that immediately comes to mind is ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ by Fine Young Cannibals (FYC). After moving into 310 Butterfield our freshman year, Maury (Wray) Bridges and I were pretty stoked about our digs. That first week we kept the large, old windows open all day. The breeze was refreshing in the waning days of summer, and the sounds of campus life filled our room. Fraternity row was a stone’s throw from Butterfield—an unexpected perk, we thought. But from our perch in 310, the music pumping out of Beta was loud with the bass maxed out. FYC played on a loop. After a few days I barely noticed it. It became part of the audible landscape. Now, whenever I hear ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ I crank it up, smile, and do a little dance. FYC forever!”
Allison Koweek Schnipper echoes Kathleen’s sentiment on this FYC ditty, “I don’t know if it’s my favorite song, but I will always associate ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ with freshman year in Mid-Fayer, singing and dancing with Julie Low on study breaks!”
Nicole Clausing wrote: “Senior year my friends used to joke that it was like the Indigo Girls’ eponymous album was stuck in my car stereo. Actually, it wasn’t like it was stuck, it really was jammed in there and wouldn’t eject. It took me at least three maybe four months before I bothered to get hold of a pair of pliers to pry the cassette out. That’s how much I loved the Indigo Girls generally and that beautiful, jangly, harmonic, and oh-so-subtly-sapphic album in particular.”
More to come.
—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
Christina Flavell relates, “Took me two seconds to decide it was definitely Madonna’s ‘Like a Prayer.’ I have the happiest memories of dancing to it standing on the benches in the Sigma Delta basement with my besties.” Lynn Schiffman Delise says she listened to “Achtung Baby” by U2 nonstop senior year. Johnette Johnson says, “So many great songs from which to choose! I’d have to say ‘Vogue’ by Madonna. She is an absolute legendary icon. I love listening to that song to this day!” Sally Davis fondly remembers ‘The Church’s Under the Milky Way.’ Kevin Kruse preferred “Come Sail Away” by Styx. Rosalind Fahey Kruse recalls Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself” as her Dartmouth years’ favorite. Caroline Harris says, “Being from Athens, Georgia, I listened to REM a lot, so ‘Shiny, Happy People’ or ‘Losing my Religion.’ I also quite liked hip hop and ‘Jump Around’ by House of Pain stands out as a song.”
Kathleen O’Rourke writes, “Happy spring to my fellow ’92s! When I think of Dartmouth the song that immediately comes to mind is ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ by Fine Young Cannibals (FYC). After moving into 310 Butterfield our freshman year, Maury (Wray) Bridges and I were pretty stoked about our digs. That first week we kept the large, old windows open all day. The breeze was refreshing in the waning days of summer, and the sounds of campus life filled our room. Fraternity row was a stone’s throw from Butterfield—an unexpected perk, we thought. But from our perch in 310, the music pumping out of Beta was loud with the bass maxed out. FYC played on a loop. After a few days I barely noticed it. It became part of the audible landscape. Now, whenever I hear ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ I crank it up, smile, and do a little dance. FYC forever!”
Allison Koweek Schnipper echoes Kathleen’s sentiment on this FYC ditty, “I don’t know if it’s my favorite song, but I will always associate ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ with freshman year in Mid-Fayer, singing and dancing with Julie Low on study breaks!”
Nicole Clausing wrote: “Senior year my friends used to joke that it was like the Indigo Girls’ eponymous album was stuck in my car stereo. Actually, it wasn’t like it was stuck, it really was jammed in there and wouldn’t eject. It took me at least three maybe four months before I bothered to get hold of a pair of pliers to pry the cassette out. That’s how much I loved the Indigo Girls generally and that beautiful, jangly, harmonic, and oh-so-subtly-sapphic album in particular.”
More to come.
—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