Dear, ’98s, do you remember how you communicated with friends on campus in the 1990s? It was before the days of social media as it exists today. We walked to each other’s dorms, met up on the Green during breaks, called each other on landlines, and found each other after classes or sports. We even used good old fashion word-of-mouth to tell a friend to tell the other friend to reach out. But perhaps the most common form of communication was “blitzing.”

Did you know that Dartmouth’s BlitzMail was at the cutting edge of technology! We ’98s, along with our fellow alums from classes as early as 1988, were early adopters of what I would argue was the first social media platform on a college campus.

So, in honor of BlitzMail, I put on my BlitzMail baseball cap from our 25th reunion and turned to social media to select a few updates on classmates for this post.

Ku’ulei Tengan is living with her beautiful family in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she is a teacher in the public school system. I recently read that Ku’ulei and her husband, Ty ’97, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary this fall. If you have recently celebrated a milestone in your life and want to share it with our classmates, please drop me a line at cdurocher07@gmail.com.

Anat Levtov shared a beautiful and moving tribute to our beloved classmate, Miles Bingham, who passed away this summer. Anat wrote a post to Miles stating: “Instead of an amazing birthday party on September 15, we celebrated a life that was well lived but not nearly long enough to get in all the trips, the laughs, the singing. I think you [Miles] would have enjoyed the weekend—lots of people looking their very best for you, turned out at a gorgeous art gallery in purple and camo, drinking Miles Mules to hold back from crying, though not always successfully.” Peter Yoo and many others attended Miles’ celebration of life. Miles’ legacy and the legacies of other beloved ’98s who have left this earth will live on through each and every one of us.

Kelly Wardwell Ryerson recently wrote on social media about a new documentary project—titled Common Ground—that she has been involved in. Kelly wrote on her social media account that “it is a hopeful and critical message of how repairing our soil will heal the planet and our bodies.” Go, Kelly! I’m sitting in my house on October 28 writing this post in 80-degree weather in New England. We all need to start paying closer attention to our changing world.

Please send me your comments, feedback, and updates to cdurocher07@gmail.com.

—Carline M. (Dorcena) Durocher, 137 Walnut St., Newton, Massachusetts 02460; cdurocher07@gmail.com