No classmate updates this time (as always, please write with what you’ve been up to!), but we are now about a year out from our next class reunion. Hard to believe that we graduated almost 15 years ago—or that we’ve known each other for almost half our lives now and how much has changed since our years at the College on the Hill.

Our “15-year” reunion in 2025, clustered with the classes of 2009 and 2010, will be Friday, July 25, through Sunday, July 27. During the same weekend the class of 2020 will celebrate its five-year reunion and Dartmouth LGBTQIA+ Alum Association (DGALA) will host its 40th reunion. Our class has not had a reunion since our five-year in 2016, as our 10-year reunion in 2020 was canceled because of the pandemic.

I hope the weather cooperates during our reunion weekend! I remember sloshing through enormous, deep puddles in rainboots during our Sophomore Summer and the rainy, cloudy senior week that we had in June 2011. Although, as a New Hampshire native, I’m not sure which is worse: giant puddles or our hot, humid summer weather. Our summers are quite the difference from those beautiful, crisp fall days of our freshman DOC trips, brisk nights of Homecoming Weekend, and the chill of the Christmas tree-lighting ceremony on the Green and reception at the Hop—fond memories that often arise at this time of year.

Have a wonderful and warm holiday season and a happy new year. Hope to see you all in 2025 at our 15-year reunion!

—Hillary S. Cheng, 26611 La Roda, Mission Viejo, CA 92691; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@dartmouth.edu