Hi there, ’98s.

Hope your 2016 is off to a great start!

I recently had the chance to correspond with Sam Caldwell, who passes along her well wishes from Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband, Brady, and daughters Sophie and Kate (as well as Chihuahua Fred!). Sam said that she gets the chance to see some fellow Dartmouth alums regularly, including Chris Leon. And although it’s around two years away, Sam is already hoping to make it to the 20th reunion. Me too, Sam!

In addition to re-connecting with Sam, I was fortunate to recently have had the opportunity to participate on a class of 1998 executive committee call, which had a great number of participants, including several current officers—such as Jo Golub, Stu Davidson and Rachel (Bogardus) Drew—as well as numerous other ’98s, including Peter Lanfer, Kenji Hosokawa, Unai Montes-Irueste, Ellen Halstead, Roger Griesmeyer, Marene Jennings, Brook Detterman and Karen Thickman.I’m definitely looking forward to catching up more extensively with many of these classmates and I hope to provide more detailed work and family-related updates for many of them in 2016! Also, a huge thank you to Khalid Osbourne Roberts, the outgoing ’98 representative to the Dartmouth Alumni Council, for his years of service on behalf of our class. Khalid will definitely be a tough act to follow at the Alumni Council.

Now, on to a few public service announcements. The 98th Day of Service is coming up soon—and this year it’s actually two days of service, April 9 and 10. As Jo, our class president, recently described it, participation in this worthy event can really be anything from cleaning out one’s own garage and donating stuff to Goodwill, donating books to a library, running a race in honor of something, volunteering at a soup kitchen or anything else that has a public service element to it. We’re hoping to make this a great event so we hope you’ll participate—wherever on the “girdled earth” you happen to be roaming at the moment. And if you do participate, remember to take pictures!

Also, please check out the class of 1998 Facebook page and the class website too, at 1998.dartmouth.org. As always, please reach out with any news you have in your lives—personally, professionally or otherwise. I would be sincerely happy to hear from lots of ’98s in 2016!

My best regards.

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