Class Note 1992
Issue
May-June 2023
Based on your input on the class projects survey last fall, we have made a three-year commitment to support three campus organizations: the student wellness center (SWC), Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS), and the first-generation office (FGO). Thanks to your dues payments, we donated $10,500 to these class projects for the fiscal year 2022-23.
Classmates voted to prioritize the following categories: student mental health, social impact, career and professional development, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. And these class projects ranked highest in these categories.
The SWC supports mental health for current students. The SWC offers programs to promote health, well-being, mindfulness, and education related to alcohol and sexual violence. Our class has donated to the SWC for the past two years.
Our class project will continue to support the SWC’s expansion of its four-week Koru mindfulness program offered to Dartmouth students. Koru mindfulness is an evidence-based curriculum designed to teach college students and other young adults mindfulness, meditation, and stress management. Specifically, our donation helps cover the costs of the teacher training program and the student mindfulness app fees ($3.99 per student).
DPCS provides a student stipend of up to $5,000 for domestic, community service leave-term internships with nonprofit agencies. DPCS interns are matched with Dartmouth alumni who serve as mentors throughout their internship experience. Last year DPCS funded 39 interns (54 percent students of color, 70 percent on financial aid) at 32 organizations representing an estimated 15,000 hours of social impact work. DPCS is a program of the Dartmouth Center for Social Impact, which was known as Tucker back in our day.
DPCS has been a class project since 2013, and our donation goes directly to help cover the stipend students receive for their internship. During this time 22 classmates have served as DPCS mentors. If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please visit 1992.dartmouth.org/projects for more information and to complete a sign-up form.
The FGO serves approximately 750 first-generation Dartmouth students. The FGO serves undergraduates throughout their time at Dartmouth by providing advising, peer-to-peer mentoring, community-building programs, field trips, group meals, and events between terms when many cannot return home.
We will work with our classmate Janice Veronica Williams, who recently joined the FGO as associate director, to support her current project, Prepare to Launch. The Prepare to Launch project offers first-generation students career and professional development programming and services to help them with their postgraduation plans.
Many thanks to Kyle Huebner, our current class of 1992 vice president of service to Dartmouth, for organizing the survey and analyzing the results to ensure our classmates had a say in where to allocate the funds. Also, we appreciate the efforts of Sally Davis, who has stepped up to join our executive committee as class projects liaison. Kyle and Sally will continue to keep you updated on our class projects, and if we end up with a dues surplus after June 30, they’ll evaluate additional areas of need.
—John L. McWilliams IV, 7429 Marquette St., Dallas, TX 75225; Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com
Classmates voted to prioritize the following categories: student mental health, social impact, career and professional development, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. And these class projects ranked highest in these categories.
The SWC supports mental health for current students. The SWC offers programs to promote health, well-being, mindfulness, and education related to alcohol and sexual violence. Our class has donated to the SWC for the past two years.
Our class project will continue to support the SWC’s expansion of its four-week Koru mindfulness program offered to Dartmouth students. Koru mindfulness is an evidence-based curriculum designed to teach college students and other young adults mindfulness, meditation, and stress management. Specifically, our donation helps cover the costs of the teacher training program and the student mindfulness app fees ($3.99 per student).
DPCS provides a student stipend of up to $5,000 for domestic, community service leave-term internships with nonprofit agencies. DPCS interns are matched with Dartmouth alumni who serve as mentors throughout their internship experience. Last year DPCS funded 39 interns (54 percent students of color, 70 percent on financial aid) at 32 organizations representing an estimated 15,000 hours of social impact work. DPCS is a program of the Dartmouth Center for Social Impact, which was known as Tucker back in our day.
DPCS has been a class project since 2013, and our donation goes directly to help cover the stipend students receive for their internship. During this time 22 classmates have served as DPCS mentors. If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please visit 1992.dartmouth.org/projects for more information and to complete a sign-up form.
The FGO serves approximately 750 first-generation Dartmouth students. The FGO serves undergraduates throughout their time at Dartmouth by providing advising, peer-to-peer mentoring, community-building programs, field trips, group meals, and events between terms when many cannot return home.
We will work with our classmate Janice Veronica Williams, who recently joined the FGO as associate director, to support her current project, Prepare to Launch. The Prepare to Launch project offers first-generation students career and professional development programming and services to help them with their postgraduation plans.
Many thanks to Kyle Huebner, our current class of 1992 vice president of service to Dartmouth, for organizing the survey and analyzing the results to ensure our classmates had a say in where to allocate the funds. Also, we appreciate the efforts of Sally Davis, who has stepped up to join our executive committee as class projects liaison. Kyle and Sally will continue to keep you updated on our class projects, and if we end up with a dues surplus after June 30, they’ll evaluate additional areas of need.
—John L. McWilliams IV, 7429 Marquette St., Dallas, TX 75225; Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com