Hello, ’93s, hope you’re all doing well. It’s almost summer and that alone feels like a victory. After one of the snowiest winters in a while for much of the country and a selectively wet spring, the promise of warmer, longer days to come feels deserved. (Oh, and a pandemic in case you missed that part.)

We want to thank everyone who wrote in with song suggestions for our “Dartmouth Class of 1993” playlist on Spotify. We’ve got quite a list going, currently it’s up to 60 songs and almost four and a half hours, but we keep adding as we hear from folks. I (Dwight) thought I had a pretty good handle on the music from that time, but there have been some gems sent in that I haven’t thought of since leaving college. I think Phish’s “Chalkdust Torture” is the best example of that. I was kind of a Phish fan while in Hanover, definitely saw them a bunch (including once before a group of about 20 people at Webster Hall, anyone else there?), but kind of lost the plot not long after graduation. Was fun to listen to them again. The Spin Doctors? Yes, they were reluctantly added too, they weren’t always a guilty pleasure. So we hope you enjoy the mixtape. You can search for “mytnyc” and then for playlist “Dartmouth Class of 1993.”

Of all the songs sent in, only one person provided context, Doug Chia, which we loved and have to share here: “ ‘Nightswimming’ by REM. I remember driving to Strawberries Records & Tapes in West Lebanon [New Hampshire] to get it on the day the album, Automatic for the People, was released in the fall of our senior year. It remains in heavy rotation for me to this day. The more well-known song, ‘Everybody Hurts,’ is also on that album, but I think ‘Nightswimming’ is an absolutely perfect song. (And then) ‘Hey, Hey What Can I Do’ by Led Zeppelin. The story with this one is that Andrew Beebe and I would blast it in our room in Mid Fayerweather freshman year. He had it on a 45 record (the B-side of ‘The Immigrant Song’ single). We had a turntable in our room just for this one song! One day Andrew was dumb enough to leave the 45 in a hot car. The record warped and was unplayable. It was difficult to get another copy in the days before the internet. Fortunately, this song was included in the Led Zeppelin four-CD boxed set that came out during our sophomore fall.” Thanks again, Doug, those were fun to read.

Suzy (Jacoby) Cirulis chimed in from Winnetka, Illinois, where she is a marketing executive and lives with her husband, Steve, and children Adeline, Beatrice, and George. Aside from providing three songs for the playlist (Madonna, George Michael, and a Mick Jagger-Lenny Kravitz song if you’re curious), Suzy mentioned that she’s been living in Illinois for about 10 years now after spending almost two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. “We moved for a job, but I grew up here and after so many years away (basically since freshman year) it was really nice to come back. And I still have lots of family nearby and that’s been great too—lots of cousins, grandparents, aunts, and uncles for the kids.”

Well that’s all for another round of our Class Notes. As always, we look forward to hearing from more of you in the coming months and please keep the song suggestions coming. You can find us here: Dwight Fenton (dwight.e.fenton.93@dartmouth.edu) and Natalie Weidener Kupinsky (natalie.weidener.kupinsky.93@dartmouth.edu).

—Dwight Fenton, 200 E 72nd St., Apt. 20K, New York City, NY 10021; dwight.e.fenton.93@dartmouth.edu; Natalie Weidener Kupinsky, 9733 Beman Woods Way, Potomac, MD 20854; natalie.weidener.kupinsky.93@dartmouth.edu