Hey, ’98s. We’re a little light on class updates this issue, so I am going to devote my column to recapping the awesome 98th day of service event that took place (during two days actually) back in April. A big thank-you to the executive committee that worked really hard to get the word out, with a special shout-out to class president Jo Golub for once again really going above and beyond in helping publicize the event and make it successful.

In addition to coordinating the event across the entire class, Jo also helped lead a 98th day event involving gardening at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, along with Kelly (Wardwell) Rierson, which event I am told was also attended by Jennifer Leahy, Peter Hasenkamp, Carrie Spring and Vikram Krishnan. I’m advised that another well-attended West Coast service event took place at Second Harvest at the Incredible Edible Farm in Irvine, California, where a number of ’98s harvested food, including Katey (Ritrovato) Dadakis, Melissa Lodoen, Kate (Knaus) Galston and Maurissa Horwitz. Karen Thickman took part in a park cleanup in Seattle, Khalid Roberts and Betsy Roberts did the same in Woodbridge, Connecticut, and Stuart Davidson did a beach cleanup in Destin, Florida.

A great number of our classmates from coast to coast donated books, toys, clothing and other items to libraries, Goodwill, thrift stores and all other sorts of very worthy causes—including Peter Lanfer, Kate Gold, Katie (Kirkmire) Vining, Abby Smith, Dave Hoverman, Adrian Durbin, Rachel (Bogardus) Drew and me. Brook Detterman provided pro bono legal services to local farmers and Liz Davison took part in invasive species abatement at the Dyke Marsh Wildlife Reserve in Alexandria, Virginia. And no fewer than another dozen ’98s also took part in the 98th day event, including Adam Himoff, Andrea Himoff, Kenji Hosokawa, Roger Griesmeyer, Taylor Craig Ware, Aaron Grotas, Rachel Federman, Elizabeth Linnell-Oken, Jaime Bedrin, Ellen Halstead and Rodrego Byerly. Please know that my inability to spell out what each and every one of these classmates did for the 98th day (due to a word limit for this column) is in no way intended to diminish the importance of their service or the appreciation of the entire class.

Before I sign off please allow me to make my bimonthly plug for class dues for those who haven’t done so this fiscal year. It’s not too late! Please check out the class of 1998 webpage and look for the PayPal link right on the page!

Finally, and as always, please email me, especially if you haven’t done so recently. I would love to hear from you and so would your classmates! Happy summer.

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