I’m writing this from the train heading back to New York City from Albany with the trees at the height of their fall colors along the Hudson rushing past out my window, so it is hard to believe that when you read this the appropriate greeting will be “happy holidays!” But it is true; I hope you’re looking forward to ringing in 2011!


Mark and Brooke (Atkinson) Yohalem welcomed a beautiful little girl, Eleanor Ann Yohalem, into the world on April 27, 2010. The whole family is doing great and living in Pasadena, California.


I remember including something about this project when it was just a (very amusing) blog and NPR feature, but it turns out Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson have turned their cross-country road trip to fix typos in signs into a book, The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time. When this news was forwarded to me, I immediately checked it out on amazon.com and it has some pretty exceptional reviews. My favorite came from Steven Pinker, an author and Harvard College professor who says: “This pair of kooks, with their high standards and principled civil disobedience, give me hope for the future of humanity.” Not bad.


I’m looking forward to seeing lots of you June 17-19 for our 10th-year reunion, which is being held this ninth year after graduation. Dartmouth holds 10th-year reunions for clusters of three classes at once, so we’ll be back on campus a year early, at the same time as the ’01s and ’00s. It should be a really great weekend to see not only ’02 friends but also folks from other graduating classes you wouldn’t otherwise get to see. If you’d like to help out with the planning, please e-mail class.of.2002@alum.dartmouth.org. 


Sadly, that’s all I’ve got for this time around! If you want my last three columns as secretary to be chock full of fun updates, send me some juicy news! Right now!


—J.T. Leaird, 202 Baltic St., Apt. 4, Brooklyn, NY 11201; jt.leaird@gmail.com