Our 25th reunion certainly was worth the wait! Thank you so much to our class president and reunion chair, Alyse (Kornfeld) Streicher, and the entire reunion committee for putting together a great weekend. Highlights included remarks from both President Phil Hanlon and incoming President Sian Beilock; a panel on Dartmouth today featuring Alumni Council president Laurie Shapiro, Dartmouth trustee Erica Ruliffson Schultz, ’21 parent Evelyn (Waters) Brady, ’24 and ’25 parents Steve and Phyllis (Steinberg) Fagel and their son, Ben Fagel ’24; a panel of our Empathos Committee, led by chair Ray Wadlow; and a touching memorial service for our 20 classmates who are no longer with us. The tent was lively with conversation, laughter, and music reminiscent of fraternity parties past (“Jump Jump,” “Oh What a Night,” “Freedom”—you get the idea). On Saturday many of us spent the afternoon at the river canoeing, kayaking, swimming, and paddle boarding (a few inner tubes were even spotted, harkening back to our July 1993 Tubestock). The best part, of course, was just getting to reconnect with all of our amazing classmates. As Natalie Herring said, “What a great group to grow old with!”

So many great conversations! Sarah Kim is Massachusetts’ interim cannabis control commissioner (or, as Lou Spelios preferred to call her, the state’s drug czar)! Sarah previously served as deputy treasurer and general counsel for the Office of the Massachusetts State Treasurer and Receiver. Ben Hirokawa and Cory Fleming Hirokawa run Blue Goblin, an innovative company out of Atlanta offering environmentally sound recycling and disposal strategies for Styrofoam and other hard-to-recycle plastic foams. Natalie Herring has relocated to Vallejo, California, where she is the director of admissions and associate vice president for enrollment management for California State University Maritime Academy. She’s loving life by the water. Christina Miyake has left California and is now living in Houston with her husband, Robert, and their three kids. She is a pediatric electrophysiologist at Texas Children’s Hospital, where she also serves as director of the cardiovascular genetics arrhythmia program. Wendy (Jastremski) Smith is the Lego Robotics program director at Glastonbury Public Schools in Connecticut and is the president and cofounder of the Glastonbury Robotics and Engineering Club. Dan Glazer is loving the flexibility that has come with remote work. He established Wilson Sonsini’s London office a few years ago (and had fun hosting a 200-person Fourth of July party in the middle of London this year) but spends much of July and August and the holidays working from his home on the Jersey shore.

Andrew Slesinger checked in a couple of weeks before reunions. He owns and operates Rough Diamond World, a diamond company in New York City that sells rough and polished diamonds. “Recently I finished writing Ruff’s Diamond World, which is available on Amazon and other online outlets. It is a kids book for adults in which we animated our rough diamond collection as animals to tell the story of diamond diversity! We are currently working on books two and three, the first of which talks about synthetic vs. natural diamonds and where diamonds come from and the second of which will highlight famous diamonds throughout history. I have also been doing some work with Gemstones TV channel on YouTube. Our first collaboration aired this past April on YouTube under the name ‘Unboxing Rough Diamonds.’ We have filmed another episode on sapphires that I hope will air in September. I’m putting that drama major to good use finally!”

Check out reunion photos in our reunion book at http://bitly.ws/t2f3 and keep your news coming!

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