Hey, ’93s. With so many of us vaccinated, the world has begun to reopen, very quickly actually, as I write this in early June. The return to “normalness” feels fantastic if not a little precarious given how we’d all been living for the past year plus, but our fingers are crossed that this daylight sticks. So interesting how our perspectives and appreciation have changed, the silver lining to all this perhaps.

We are constantly amazed and impressed by what our classmates have gone on to do since 1993 and feel lucky to be able to share their stories here, a vicarious sort of pride in knowing the difference our class is making in the world in big and small ways.

We were recently alerted to what John Sargent (now Doctor John Sargent) has been up to. In 2003, just a few years after graduating Harvard Medical School, John cofounded BroadReach with his “cosmic twin” Dr. Ernest Darkoh. In their words, BroadReach is “a social enterprise whose businesses harness health technology and innovation that empowers human action to help organizations deliver better health outcomes, improved efficiency of scarce healthcare resources, cost savings, enhanced organizational performance, and more sustainable health systems. We see a future for healthcare where the entire system is empowered by combining data with insights and proven workflows, equipping health professionals to make the right decisions at the right time and implement those decisions at scale. This is democratization of data; this is the future of work for the health industry and paves the way for true health equity.” Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, their work has brought meaningful change to the quality of life of countless Africans and earned them numerous accolades. Our heartfelt congratulations and admiration go out to John.

Congratulations are also in order for Peter Kuechle (or Pete as you probably knew him), whom we nominated as our new class representative to the Alumni Council in May. You may remember Pete as the guy who received his diploma while shrouded in a halo brace after a serious rugby accident left him with a spinal injury our senior spring. I (Dwight) was a fraternity brother of Pete’s and remember it all very well and was so glad to see him able to walk and get that diploma. Fast forward 28 years: “I’ve been living in Lexington, Massachusetts, for more than 20 years now and working at Frontier Capital for the past 19 years, so not much has changed on that front. My wife, Cindy, and I are amazed at how quickly our kids are growing up. Our son, Ben, just finished sophomore year of high school, loves baseball, and is literally growing up fast, as at 6-foot-4 he passed me in height more than a year ago. Our daughter, Eliza, just finished seventh grade and keeps busy playing a lot of basketball. One of the few bright spots of the pandemic has been more time with family, as I have been working at home. Have also thoroughly enjoyed Zoom sessions with friends from Phi Delt, Hitchcock, and the Dartmouth rugby club during all of this. I’m very much looking forward to representing our class on the Alumni Council, hearing from all of you more, and in-person meetings in Hanover starting next spring!”

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. You can find us below.

—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