Hey, ’98s. I hope you’re all having as wonderful an autumn season as I have been! Kicking things off this issue, I had the pleasure of exchanging some correspondence recently with Tracy Van Dorpe. Tracy and her husband, Phil Drape, Tu’05, have been having a fun fall from the sound of it. In addition to hanging out for a couple of weeks on the Jersey shore in early September before the start of school for her children, Tracy and Phil also just recently returned from Hanover, having attended Phil’s 10-year Tuck reunion! And Tracy just celebrated a certain milestone birthday as well.

My pal Jay Park recently left the world of “big law” behind, and began working in-house as a director and counsel at Credit Suisse. Congratulations to Jay, who lives on Long Island with his wife and children. Speaking of career changes, Rachel (Bogardus) Drew also recently checked in to talk about her own career change. Rachel now has taken over responsibilities at her family horse farm outside Boston! Also, her 9-year-old daughter (with husband Jonathan Drew) has apparently become quite the junior equestrienne of late, according to Rachel, having competed in regional dressage shows and local U.S. Pony Club events. All in all it sounds as though Rachel is around the barn quite a bit lately! Rachel added that on the side she does policy analysis consulting, specifically in the areas of social and urban policy. During the summer Rachel was pleased to report that she got to hang out for a girls weekend in Atlanta with fellow ’98s Anna Berkowitz, Heather (Charles) Wells and Joan Ai. According to Rachel, the weekend was so much fun that another one is already in the works for summer 2016. Rachel was kind enough to fill me in on the other ladies’ exploits: Anna lives in Atlanta and works for the Centers for Disease Control, Heather is a foreign languages teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area and Joan does charitable giving management for financial firms in New York City.

Finally, Chad Woodman recently appeared in a full-page ad for Alta (Utah) Ski Area in the late summer edition of the Outdoor Sports Guide, a publication that features articles about adventure, fitness and travel in the Mountain West. None other than Chad’s dad, Ralph ’69, passed along the cool news (along with the ad itself featuring Chad). As Chad’s dad noted, Chad had been working on the mountain at Alta for some 13 years.

That’s all for now, folks. As always, please let me know what’s happening in your lives, personally, professionally or otherwise. As we all get closer to those big milestone birthdays—not to mention our 20th reunion—I hope there’s plenty more good news to share with our fellow ’98s.

Best wishes.

—Jeffrey Beyer, 25 Aspen Way, Morristown, NJ 07960; jeffrey.beyer@gmail.com