Hi, classmates! In anticipation of our 30th reunion in June 2024 I’m inviting you to share what you’re most excited to do and see on campus. I’ll collect your thoughts and share a David Letterman-style “Top 30 Things to Do During Our 30th” list through the course of the year in this column. In addition, I’ll ask you to weigh in on various Dartmouth-themed “this or that” options.

For the first question, I ask which did you prefer from the Hop: Hop fries or the Hop’s half-raw chocolate chip cookie bar? I live in a house divided. My husband, Ken Davis, has been underbaking chocolate chip cookies to this day because of his love for the Hop bar and his fearlessness of food-borne illness. To me, the Hop fries were a culinary highlight of our dining options on campus. Let me know what you think.

In terms of updates, class president Justin Sadrian shared that a group of 17 Dartmouth ’94s and their significant others celebrated their 50th birthdays last summer with a Caribbean vacation. Justin wrote, “Jeff Goldfaden did a fantastic job organizing the trip to Jamaica. Logan Johnson even arranged for Don Husky, an up-and-coming reggae artist, to put on a private show. Other classmates who were there included Derek Braddock, Todd Carlson, Brian Eller, John Faubert, Matt Feeley, Ethan Frechette, Adam Grossman, Scott Mansfield, Jason Pollard, Dave Rissmiller, Ari Rosenberg, Andy Ruckh, Ryan Spayde,and Mike Thurlow.”

I learned that Andrew Smith has published another novel. His newest book, titled The Pilot: Planet Gallywood #2, is a sequel to The Final Season. In a Venn diagram, Andrew’s Planet Gallywood series sits somewhere between The Truman Show and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Stay tuned for a third book in the series in the coming months.

I look forward to hearing from you and including your update in the next column.

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