Do you remember walking across the Green on a beautiful late spring day and seeing alumni run into each other? They would stop right there, hug and back-slap, and make up for lost time. Their huge smiles, wise eyes, and expressive faces hinted at their rich, interesting, and much-lived experiences. Their smile lines, gray hair, and class-of-60-something nametags screamed that they had graduated a few decades earlier. They looked happy to be home, they looked full of stories, and they looked old. Well, friends, we are the new set of old folks about to descend upon campus with our own connections to make and stories to tell. I can’t wait to see all of you old hags in just a couple of weeks at our epic reunion.

Class president Deme Navab Taleghani sends this update: “Please join us for our 25th reunion up in Hanover from Thursday, June 13, to Sunday, June 16. If you haven’t registered yet, no problem. You can still register online at http://alumni.dartmouth.edu/reunions/class-1994 or in person at our class tent when you arrive.

“Reunion highlights will include a private group tour of the newly renovated Hood Museum just for ’94s, an architectural walking tour of campus, navigating college admissions workshop for families, and panels featuring ’94 artists, writers, and entrepreneurs. We will cap off an amazing weekend with a class dinner on Baker lawn for the 250th celebration of Dartmouth.”

Not only is there time to register for reunion, but there is also time to contribute to our class gift. Every single gift, no matter the size, is a vote of confidence for the education we received and the experience we value. Our gift will support financial aid for Dartmouth students and support Dartmouth’s continued commitment to enroll brilliant students, talented athletes, visionary entrepreneurs, gifted artists and humanists, bridge-builders and change-makers, regardless of their ability to pay tuition. Reunion head agent Beth Donohoe Cook shared that classmates have already contributed enough money to support more than 50 Dartmouth College Fund scholars at $50,000 each. How many more students can we support together with our gift before the end of reunion? If you’d like to make your commitment today, you can give at dartgo.org/D94.

In other news, I heard from Mike McClure. Mike and his wife, Valerie, are living the dream, as is their son, Ryan. Ryan will join the class of 2023 at Dartmouth! Mike writes, “It will be fun for me to relive my college years through Ryan’s eyes. Being the big skier that he is, it seemed that a nonnegotiable requirement in a college was that it owned its own ski mountain.”

Mike has lived in the Minneapolis area since graduating and has been at Verint Systems for close to 15 years, in sales of customer engagement solutions. His part-time “dad” jobs include shuttle driver to various sports practices and youth baseball coach for 13 straight years. Though he claims his win-loss record isn’t stellar, he earns points for showing up.

He shared bits about classmates as well. He met up with Deb Connell Nagorka last year when he was in Tampa, Florida, on business. They enjoyed reliving the glory days of working at Thayer Dining Hall. He caught up with his freshman-year, South-Mass neighbor Chris Greene in December. Chris even showed up for lunch wearing his ’94 jersey. Chris, please wear your jersey to reunion! I’m impressed that you have it and that it still fits!

As always, I welcome your news and updates.

—Laura Hardegree Davis, 520 Meadowlark Lane, Brentwood, TN 37027; lauradavis723@mac.com