Reunions are just around the corner…have you registered? If yes, have you called five friends to encourage them to register too? Let’s make this a record-setting 20th by getting as many ’95s back to campus as possible. If you need help tracking anyone down, drop me a line and I can help.


Before reunions Alyse Kornfeld Streicher will represent our class at the 210th session of the Alumni Council the weekend of May 14-16. This will be the first meeting of the council since the Moving Dartmouth Forward report was released, so I’m sure there will be a lot of valuable and informative discussion of the plan. Alyse also serves on the honorary degrees and professional development committees. If you have any questions or concerns you would like voiced, please contact Alyse at alyse.streicher@yahoo.com.


Thanks so much to our dedicated reunion committee and class agents who combined will make this a reunion to remember! A few volunteers have been in touch lately with news. Marcus Motroni, co-chair of our reunion giving effort, works at Mount Kellett Capital Management and lives in Short Hills, New Jersey. He writes: “I play chauffeur, driving my three girls to their dance, gymnastics and swimming practices. My oldest starts high school in the fall and is being groomed to attend Dartmouth. She is torn between attending our 20th reunion and having the chance to meet Brian White of Stomp the Yard fame (one of her favorite dance movies) and her middle school graduation parties.” Another reunion giving co-chair, Adriana McGrath Clancy writes: “I’m still living in New York City with my husband, Mike, two daughters (Ellie, 4 and Olivia, 4 months) and Gus the pug (6). I just passed 10 years at Corbin Capital, where I am responsible for selecting and monitoring hedge fund investments. I’m thrilled to be a part of our class’s fundraising effort and even more thrilled to be getting up to Hanover in June!”


Wendy Jastremski Smith from the reunion committee looks forward to seeing everyone and especially plans to spend time with Cynthia Kelmenson, her husband and kids there. “I did just start a new job, working as a consultant to help push through energy-efficient and renewable energy projects on low-income family housing in Hartford, Connecticut. I’m still volunteering a lot in the schools, including work to bring robotics programs to the elementary kiddos. Feeling blessed and happy.”


Wendy is organizing the memorial service for our classmates who are no longer with us. While in Hanover we’ll take time to remember and celebrate Cicely Bomar, Paul Hung, Curtis Jones, Marina Lakhman, Keith Li, Daniel Martone, Paul Miklis, Amy Naparstek, Nicole Redhorse, Andrew Swanson and Murray Youngbear. If you have any remembrances or photos you would like to share, please contact Wendy at wmj@alum.mit.edu. 


Living just south of Boston, I thought a lot about the “Hanover Winter Song” this February, staring out my window at nine-foot snowdrifts and three-foot icicles. It will (I hope) be bright and warm in Hanover when we gather in June, but I leave you with the following verse and, with it, an invitation to make the trip, to gather and reconnect, with our classmates and the campus that launched our adult lives 20 years ago.


Oh, here by the fire, we defy frost and storm


Ha, ha we are warm and we have our heart’s desire


For here, we’re good fellows, and the beechwood and the bellows 


And the cup is at the lip in the pledge of fellowship


Of fellowship.


—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hingham, MA 02043; kaja.k.fickes.95@dartmouth.edu