Class Notes 1992

We asked ’92s: What is your favorite Halloween memory from our undergrad days?

Jennifer Miller’s favorite costumes were Vengeance and Vixen, the Women of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW)! “Kathy O’Rourke and I looked mighty fine in our running tights, bathing suits, and huge champion belts made of tin foil as we went to a party at Alpha Delta.”

Geoff MacDonald wrote, “My favorite Dartmouth Halloween memory has to be driving a beat-up old hearse all over the Upper Valley as a promotion for 99 Rock, WFRD. The car hadn’t been inspected in years. The brakes clunked in a frightening way. It was covered in Halloween-themed banners and soaped windows for the station. But it was big, black, bad, and fast! People loved to see it. I danced on the roof while it was parked outside of Pat & Tony’s, and I might have driven it through the president’s driveway one afternoon.”

Kelly Shriver Kolln said, “My favorite costume memory is Julia Hynes Shoff as Green Eggs and Ham–she attached real eggs and ham to her clothing and the campus dogs wouldn’t leave her alone. We were attending Bones Gate Tea in a Dr. Seuss-themed group, including Katherine Aires Byrnes (Thing 1), Betsy Cowles Gavron (Yertle), Linsley Craig Carruth (One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish), Tricia Twomey (Oh, the Places You’ll Go!), Tracey Tysenn MacDonald (The Cat), Jennifer Williams (Thing 2), and me (Fox in Socks). Other times we went as conversation hearts, painters, M&Ms, and traffic signs.”

Kristen (Morrow) Johnson wrote, “Well, it was not exactly our undergrad days but Brad Johnson and I got married on Halloween in 1998 with lots of Dartmouth friends there to mark the event. Joy (Knauf) Chun, Samantha (Scollard) Truex, Maureen (McGrath) Hahn, Dave Aznavorian, Doug Miniati, and Amanda (Johnson) Miller ’95 were all attendants. Other ’92s celebrating with us were Tommy Butler, Jonathan Kim, Stephen Blumenreich, Josh Stein, Raj Shah, Jay Caggiano, Jim Fitzpatrick, Dave Knoll, Eric Vratimos, Mike Mahoney, Mary (Breen) Andrews, and Ellen (Davis) Parish. (Sorry, I am sure I forgot folks too.) It was a great Dartmouth picture including older alums Jon and Diana Ruhl ’91, Bill Scollard, Carol Mueller, and Al Henning. Pretty epic and an easy anniversary date to remember! Brad and I pulled out the dress and tuxedo last Halloween to celebrate 25 years!”

Melissa Rich Skehan said, “I love Halloween! How can we do Halloween justice without photos?” Please envision her Dartmouth-era costumes: “Freshman year, Where’s Waldo with Christine Vanden Beukel, Suzanne Pesce, and Dan Frank (Waldo). Sophomore year, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Junior year, me as the Little Mermaid and Jessie Levine as Sebastian.”

If you have photos of Melissa’s senior year costume, or any others, please post them in our Facebook group!

—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

More literary updates—but first, March Madness results! This marked our 10th year of classmates celebrating the annual college basketball tournament together.

“Dear Madness ’92s (you know who you are), I would like to thank you for the record participation in this year’s bracketology competition! This year’s women’s NCAA final eclipsed the men’s game in so many ways, but no matter what, I’m always gonna pick Texas. Thus, your 2024 winners are: Jonathan Harrington (women’s bracket) and Brian Gordon (men’s bracket). Hail to the champs! Honorable mentions go out to Matt Wilson, Cally Bybee, and the venerable Jesse Bradley for leading the pack going into the Final Four (along with Brian), and Sweet 16, respectively. All of these fine folks have won themselves some swag from the Dartmouth Co-op! As always: Please let me know if there were any kid participants, as they will get a prize of their own. All tomorrow’s hoops, M.C. ‘Bracketmeister’ Caldwell.”

Be sure to give a copy of Lisa Stringfellow’s second book for middle-grade readers, Kingdom of Dust, to your kids or students! It’s “a West African-inspired fantasy about a girl who is determined to return both magic and justice to her people—and whose destiny holds more surprises than she could ever imagine,” and will be released August 20 by HarperCollins/Quill Tree Books. Lisa is a middle-school teacher and lives in Boston with her children and bossy cat. You can read more about her books at lisastringfellow.com and pre-order at your favorite bookseller.

Here are more replies to our question “Read any good books lately?”

Mark A. B. Carlson wrote, “As an English major I still spend a good amount of my free time reading fiction. I read this book four or five years ago and it remains one of the favorite two or three I have read during the last decade: J R by William Gaddis.”

Kimberly Malone said, “I’ve just read The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride and really enjoyed it!”

Bewilderment and The Overstory, both by Richard Powers, and The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles are a few favorites of Tara Grabowsky.

Bryant Lee provided us with a list of faves: The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson.

Our hearts break whenever we learn about the loss of a classmate, and this has been an especially difficult year. Mike Bobo passed away in February, and the class of 1992 offers most sincere condolences to his wife, Casey (Hagerman) Bobo, and to all his family and friends. Please take a moment to visit 1992.dartmouth.org/memoriam and email us if you’d like to contribute a remembrance of Mike or anyone else who has left us too soon.

—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

This time around we’ve got a guest post from Stephanie Westnedge, an active member of our class executive board who serves as our liaison to the Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association (DAPAAA).

“Hello, fellow ’92s! Some exciting things have been in the works. DAPAAA will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in Hanover May 3-5. Our theme is: ‘Our History, Our Voices, Our Future.’

“All are welcome (you don’t have to be Asian to attend)! We’ve been hard at work planning and creating events leading up to this important milestone for the Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community at Dartmouth. Here are some highlights.

“On December 7 Chitra Narasimhan gave opening and closing remarks at our ‘Desi at Dartmouth: South Asian Perspectives on the Big Green Experience.’ (Watch the recording at youtu.be/oCD6L64pjK8.) It’s worth the time to hear her very insightful reflections.

“Gina Lam organized and hosted ‘DAPAAA at 25: Green Table Talk: AAPI in the Early Years,’ featuring speakers from the classes of ’68, ’77, and ’78. (Recording is here: youtu.be/5U-rDDzFX5k.) She is working on another panel discussion for May, all in addition to co-chairing the affiliated groups roundtable and representing the Dartmouth Association of Latino Alumni on the Alumni Council!

“For May we’re very proud to have George Takei and Helen Zia as featured speakers. George’s event will not be recorded or broadcast, so the only way to see him is to be there.

“Also, the new DAPAAA co-chair is yours truly. I would like to hear your thoughts on how to make DAPAAA more relevant for you and more of a community. I do realize that not everyone in the AANHPI community feels they belong to DAPAAA and yet you do!

“To stay up to date, update your email subscriptions in the alumni directory or follow us on social media. Our links are at dapaaa.dartmouth.org. More than 110 of our classmates are members of DAPAAA, but only 80 of those are receiving the DAPAAA emails.

“This is a volunteer effort—tell your friends, help spread the word. If you would like to get involved in any capacity, please contact us at dapaaa25th@gmail.com or me directly at swestnedge@gmail.com.

“I really hope to see you there in May!”

Thanks, Stephanie! Also related, in case you missed it: C.J. Hughes wrote “The College Has No Asian American Studies Program. Why?” for the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine last summer. It was the July/August cover story and you can read it (along with all of our Class Notes since 1992!) at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.

As your class secretaries, we are honored to memorialize classmates who have left us too soon. We offer our sincerest condolences to the friends and family of Raj Shah, who passed away in December. Please take a moment to visit 1992.dartmouth.org/memoriam and please email us if you’d like to contribute a remembrance of Raj or any other classmate.

—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

We loved all the musical memories linked to our time at Dartmouth! Here are the last few.

Brian Gordon wrote, “I do remember that hot new ‘Nirvana’ band being played outside at the basketball court in the Choates senior year. But one album that always makes me think of just being at Dartmouth is Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, especially for their contributions to a genre I referred to as ‘dishroom music’—whatever 99 Rock was overplaying to death on the speakers in the dishroom—while working with Roland and Bill from the Dartmouth Dining Association.”

Mike Mahoney had a couple thoughts: “One, I absolutely loved 99 WFRD during my freshman year in the dorm—had that on all the time. No particular songs stand out from those first two years but I always enjoyed the ‘college radio’ element they mixed in. Junior and senior year, living off campus, I can tell you that I probably watched far too much of Yo! MTV Raps but I still love all that stuff and, as a sign that I am now my parents, I thoroughly enjoyed the recent PBS—yes, PBS!—documentary Fight the Power: A History of Hip Hop. It’s highly recommended viewing. The other significant memory I have is that whenever the video for Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ came on in 51 Leb, all activity stopped and everyone came into the living room to watch. Hard to explain to kids today just how groundbreaking that song was to our generation.”

In our Facebook group, Jennifer Frederick Miller upvoted “Cold Hearted Snake” by Paula Abdul and “Friends in Low Places” by Garth Brooks.

Kerry Zimmerman replied, “I second ‘Friends in Low Places’ and add Nanci Griffith’s ‘Late Night Grande Hotel.’ ”

Ashley Roberts-Isé concurred: “Anything Jerry Jeff Walker, of course.”

Libby Graham remembered “Guns N Roses’ ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ and ‘Sweet Child o’ Mine.’ I will always think of freshman year!”

Tony Moody chimed in: “Though not my favorite, my strongest music association was Milli Vanilli in the Chi Gam basement. Favorite ‘music bringing happiness’ was hearing ‘Jessica’ (Allman Brothers) blasting from the row despite sitting in class during Sophomore Summer. All-time favorite music moment was when Jud Dean almost broke his ankles jumping off the balcony over the door into South Fayer to mark the sting at the end of ‘Rosalita,’ played by yours truly and the Head In the Stacks gang.”

Turns out both ’92 class secretaries had stints as disk jockeys!

John McWilliams wrote: “I remember DJing a few times at Greek house parties with my friend Ben Shim ’91 during my sophomore and junior years. Every time we played ‘Love Shack’ the dance floor would explode. Sometimes if things died down, we’d play it more than once.”

Kelly Shriver Kolln worked at WDCR senior year and remembers the esteemed Robin Robinson, retired mathematics professor and class of 1924, arriving for his classical music show, which he’d already been doing for decades.

—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

As the academic year winds down, my co-secretary Kelly Shriver Kolln and I thought it would be great fun to solicit favorite College-era song submissions from our class. This is the first installment of at least two replies. I believe we stirred up some interest with this topic!

Christina Flavell relates, “Took me two seconds to decide it was definitely Madonna’s ‘Like a Prayer.’ I have the happiest memories of dancing to it standing on the benches in the Sigma Delta basement with my besties.” Lynn Schiffman Delise says she listened to “Achtung Baby” by U2 nonstop senior year. Johnette Johnson says, “So many great songs from which to choose! I’d have to say ‘Vogue’ by Madonna. She is an absolute legendary icon. I love listening to that song to this day!” Sally Davis fondly remembers ‘The Church’s Under the Milky Way.’ Kevin Kruse preferred “Come Sail Away” by Styx. Rosalind Fahey Kruse recalls Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself” as her Dartmouth years’ favorite. Caroline Harris says, “Being from Athens, Georgia, I listened to REM a lot, so ‘Shiny, Happy People’ or ‘Losing my Religion.’ I also quite liked hip hop and ‘Jump Around’ by House of Pain stands out as a song.”

Kathleen O’Rourke writes, “Happy spring to my fellow ’92s! When I think of Dartmouth the song that immediately comes to mind is ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ by Fine Young Cannibals (FYC). After moving into 310 Butterfield our freshman year, Maury (Wray) Bridges and I were pretty stoked about our digs. That first week we kept the large, old windows open all day. The breeze was refreshing in the waning days of summer, and the sounds of campus life filled our room. Fraternity row was a stone’s throw from Butterfield—an unexpected perk, we thought. But from our perch in 310, the music pumping out of Beta was loud with the bass maxed out. FYC played on a loop. After a few days I barely noticed it. It became part of the audible landscape. Now, whenever I hear ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ I crank it up, smile, and do a little dance. FYC forever!”

Allison Koweek Schnipper echoes Kathleen’s sentiment on this FYC ditty, “I don’t know if it’s my favorite song, but I will always associate ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ with freshman year in Mid-Fayer, singing and dancing with Julie Low on study breaks!”

Nicole Clausing wrote: “Senior year my friends used to joke that it was like the Indigo Girls’ eponymous album was stuck in my car stereo. Actually, it wasn’t like it was stuck, it really was jammed in there and wouldn’t eject. It took me at least three maybe four months before I bothered to get hold of a pair of pliers to pry the cassette out. That’s how much I loved the Indigo Girls generally and that beautiful, jangly, harmonic, and oh-so-subtly-sapphic album in particular.”

More to come.

—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

Chitra Narasimhan is now Alumni Council president. Congratulations, Chitra! She “had the opportunity to attend the coeducation celebration weekend in November—which commemorated 50 years of coeducation at Dartmouth—and included the rededication of the newly renovated Dartmouth Hall. It was great to meet up with fellow ’92s Jane Pfaff Novak and Janice Williams and hear from Cameron Myler as she moderated a panel with fellow elite women athletes.

“The rainy weekend kicked off with the rededication at the Top of the Hop, where a green-lit Dartmouth Hall was officially presented to the board of trustees. President Hanlon opened the events by highlighting President Kemeny spearheading Dartmouth’s ‘wisest and most consequential board decision’ to admit women in 1972. It was a particularly special moment for the Alumni Council because the past president, the current president (me), and the president-elect are all women—something that President Hanlon pointed out in his opening remarks.

“I also had the chance to attend a networking event with current female students and a Women of Dartmouth reception that included many of the female trustees. A major highlight was a packed Q&A session with President-elect Sian Beilock and board of trustees chair Elizabeth Cahill Lempres ’83, Th’84. Beilock was dynamic, thoughtful, and inspiring and it is hard not to get excited for the next chapter of Dartmouth under her leadership.”

Jane Pfaff Novak is one of the newest members of the Dartmouth board of trustees. Congratulations, Jane! She was also able to attend the rededication and says, “It was such a joy to be part of the celebration of 50 years of coeducation at Dartmouth. I was moved by a real sense of warmth and community among the participants and inspired by the panelists and speakers. Throughout the weekend there were moments of reflection, pride, connection, and laughter. I salute all the people involved in the planning and their crafting of an inspirational celebration that also took an honest look at the difficult moments along the way. If you are back on campus, I highly recommend you take a moment to visit the beautiful, renovated Dartmouth Hall and explore the excellent exhibit (in the garden level) that chronicles the history of Dartmouth Hall and the experiences of women at Dartmouth during the last 50 years.”

Thanks to Christy Shero Neuhoff for serving as our liaison to the Native American Alumni Association of Dartmouth! Christy wrote: “I’ve been living in Idaho for 14 years. As a healthcare executive, the last two and a half years have been intense, though not as intense as I know it has been for our front-line caregivers. My husband and I are now empty-nesters, with a son in graduate school and a daughter in college. Our son joined me for the reunion this summer. It was wonderful to reconnect with so many friends, which inspired me to offer to serve our class! I look forward to connecting with more ’92s in person before our next reunion!”

—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; dartmouth92new@gmail.com

Greetings from your new co-secretary, John McWilliams. I look forward to helping secretary Kelly Shriver Kolln with the Class Notes and reconnecting with all of you ’92s. I live in Dallas and was sorry to miss our 30th reunion to attend my daughter’s graduation in Scotland. I heard it was quite the event. This summer Dartmouth also held a belated graduation for the class of 2020. Several of our classmates are parents of ’20s and we received some reflections from that Covid-impacted class.

Lauren Drazen’s son, Noah ’20, reports that his senior Covid year “certainly was not a typical senior spring, but I got to see my friends in outdoor gatherings.” Noah and his classmates had an “anticlimactic” virtual graduation in June 2020. He spent the following year in Hanover getting his master’s in public health at the Dartmouth Institute. Now he is consultant for Optum in Minneapolis. “Dartmouth kept its promise and provided a really fun weekend in early August this year. I sang with my band, Shark, Saturday night and connected with my classmates for a two-year graduation and reunion weekend,” he wrote.

Thomas J. Chon, M.D., F.A.C.E.,writes that his son, Christopher ’20, also participated in the Commencement ceremony a few weeks ago. His wife, Grace, and he, along with their younger son, Alexander, had a great time in Hanover. “It was especially even more memorable knowing that it has been 30 years since I graduated from Dartmouth.”

Christopher wrote, “I enjoyed my time at Dartmouth where I studied human-centered design and government and took full advantage of the trails, river, and bike routes by joining the triathlon team. Abruptly leaving Dartmouth due to Covid was difficult, especially with not being able to say goodbye to everyone and getting my initial job offer rescinded due to the global economic strain. I spent two years as a product designer at Apple and will soon be at Mirror, a fitness device startup acquired by Lululemon. I am living in San Francisco with two other ’20s and have been enjoying living on the opposite coast from where I grew up originally.”

Pilot Rob Koreman missed the graduation of daughter Samantha ’20 at the beginning of the month because he had to fly. His wife, Lynne Cohen Koreman ’90, attended and said it was a great event: “The graduates had a cross between a graduation and their first reunion, which I understand was well run and a lot fun for them. We watched Sam ‘graduate’ from our couch in Florida the first time. She finally got to wear her cap and gown and she was, in a word, happy. Sam just finished her second year of a Ph.D. program in political theory at UVA. While she loves it, Hanover is still her happy place. It definitely runs in the family!”

—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

As I write this, reunion planning is in full swing!

Andy Peay, who’s organizing food and beverages (and a wine tasting!), sent an update. “Things out west have been going very well for Peay Vineyards and my family. The pandemic threw curveballs at both but we all survived if not thrived. I see many ’92s with regularity at annual outings and almost weekly Zoom meetings: Ben Wang, Alan Shabel, Joe Bizzarro, George Benz, Pete Vosshall, Parker Davis, Kevin Brown, Paul Miller, Steve Lane, Kris Atzeff, Jeff Cole ’91, Otis Carroll ’90, Taylor Keen ’91, Tom Ryan ’91, Susy Struble Cole ’93, David Cole ’90, Sophie Cofman Shabel ’93, and on and on. Otis has become our resident DJ and lays down a Friday night soundtrack we listen to from our homes around the country.”

I askedPeter Vosshall about his recent running achievements, and he wrote: “Long-time listener, first-time caller (yes, after 30 years). I’m so excited about the recently unveiled Hopkins Center expansion design! It’s been fun to be part of the process as a member of the Hopkins Center board of advisors along with, among others, fellow ’92s Kim Crockett, Hilary Spaulding Richards, and Dan Rush. I had dinner with Chris Bingham while I was in Boston for the marathon and we commiserated over the whole college process our high school seniors have endured. I’ve been running Boston since 2009 and will keep doing so until they stop letting me in, so if you’re around on any given Patriots Day track me down! Andy Peay and I had a really fun weekend skiing Big Sky a few months ago. The snow was a bit sparse but the mountain is amazing and we drank a bunch of great wine, of course. In less recent news I think I may have started the great resignation by retiring from Amazon in February 2020. It became apparent just three weeks later that I didn’t need to retire to hang around at home in my sweatpants and see my kids more! It’s okay, I’m enjoying the freedom, keeping super busy, and devoting my ‘work’ energy to a couple nonprofits here on Bainbridge Island, Washington.”

Mike Mahoney definitely experienced some madness in March. He wrote: “Just had a pretty crazy week in my professional life. First, I was in Atlanta for the NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships, where I was handling media relations for our transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. It’s been quite the ride these last several months with Lia and what she represents as a transgender woman succeeding in her sport. Trust me when I say I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Given the media requests coming in since the championships ended, it doesn’t appear it will abate until she graduates. Contrast that with the next weekend, when I was the media coordinator for the NCAA east regional games in Philadelphia. It was an incredible weekend, especially since we had the ultimate Cinderella with Saint Peter’s in the building. I think every media member in New York City jumped on the bandwagon! Sitting on the scorer’s table for the UNC-Saint Peter’s regional final was absolutely electric. Definitely a highlight of my professional career.”

Congratulations to William Scott, the Toronto Public Library (TPL) Foundation’s new chief executive officer. He’s supporting the work of the largest public library system in North America, joining the TPL Foundation after serving as chief advancement officer at Evergreen, the largest environmental organization focused on urban issues in Canada. A former urban public school teacher and history professor, he has an abiding commitment to literacy and education.—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com 

We ask a simple question every year on the 92nd day—“What are you up to today?”—and are always amazed at the variety of answers! This April 2 don’t forget to send your brief (or wordy!) answer to dartmouth92news@gmail.com or post on our social media.

For more immediate ’92 camaraderie, jump into our March Madness bracket. We’ll email and post about it any day now, and we’re always looking for fresh bracketologists. It’s kid-friendly with prizes!

These virtual reunions are just a taste of what’s to come later in 2022: Registration opens in March for our 30th reunion, which is June 16-19 in Hanover. Please sign up early (1992.dartmouth.org) so your friends can see who’s coming!

Gina (Ying) Lam is leading reunion programming and shared: “Married my Dartmouth bae Chris Haines ’91 after graduating and together we raised four offspring between southern California, Ohio, Spain, and Miami.

“After a 20-plus-year career in marketing at Procter & Gamble, including navigating the last decade of expansion in luxury licenses for Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana (yes, my on-campus recruiting hookup from senior year), I am now launching and licensing artist-led brands, including Barcelona-based and banned painter Eleazar.

“Feeling fortunate in year two of the pandemic to have visited with fellow ’92 and China foreign study program best friends Gretchen Potter at DesertX in southern California and Kathie CalkinsKeyes in Phoenix on my inaugural trip and birthday treat to the Grand Canyon. We were lucky to catch Christmas Eve with Eric Klein and his family while in Miami en route from Boulder [Colorado] to Curaçao.

“As for the road to 30th reunion, we are excited to showcase class talent, so get in touch if you’d like to perform. We are also launching salient ‘Green Table Talks’ for candid cross-cultural conversation. If you have guidance to give on the human condition, let us know! Stay tuned for the monthly preview series on the virtual road to reunion!”

Did you catch Aisha Tyler’s zombie-killing appearance on AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead in November? Check our social media for a gory pic. Aisha (who describes her character Mickey as “truly one of the most kickass characters I have ever had the honor of portraying”) has also directed several episodes of the series.

I spied jeweler Nicole Landaw’s ad in a recent edition of the alumni magazine. The Robb Report wrote: “How about letting your kid take over the reins of designing mommy’s gift? At Nicole Landaw’s genius company, Kid Jeweler (nicolelandaw.com/kid-jeweler), you can order a take-home kit complete with an instruction guide for your kid to create anything his imagination comes up with for mom. Send the wax figure back to have it made into gold and strung on a necklace or simply made into a keepsake object for something the whole family will treasure forever.” Love this idea, but since my kids are getting older, I’ll keep my eye on Nicole’s own gorgeous creations.

Congrats to Jason Grinnell, who recently joined Glaser Weil LLP as a partner in the Los Angeles firm’s real estate group. Jason wrote: “Back in June Nancy Bacchieri Hollister and Rob Hollister ’89 swung through Pasadena [California] on a lacrosse tournament-slash-college campus tour junket. So glad they made the time to catch up! In October I visited Jon Rettmann up in the Pacific Northwest. Not wanting to arrive empty-handed, I had a pong table commissioned and delivered. I’m also helping Tony Moody and Dave Sharkey get the ball rolling on a Dartmouth Alumni in Real Estate affinity group. Anyone interested in learning more should contact us.”

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

Thanks to many of you for posting or emailing your news—keep it coming!

Alex Bernadotte was a featured speaker at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum in September. Alex is the award-winning founder and CEO of Beyond 12, a highly recognized organization that increases the number of low-income, first-generation, and historically underrepresented students who graduate from college. The virtual event was sponsored by the Magnuson Center of Entrepreneurship at Dartmouth (magnuson.dartmouth.edu), which serves as a hub, aggregating resources, advice, and networking opportunities for Dartmouth community members involved in innovation, entrepreneurship, or venture capital. It’s moving this year into a new building on the west end of campus.

The always inspirational Jesse Bradley appeared on Good Morning America’s “Faith Friday” segment in July (you can find the link in our Facebook group). He said, “It was a joy to share about Dartmouth, the close relationships formed and the character shaping that happened through the men’s soccer team.” A few of Jesse’s words of wisdom from the interview: “We really need each other. We need each other so much. Let’s step up together. If someone’s hurting, simply be there for them. Listen.” He added: “We started a new site during the pandemic to spread hope with all free resources: jessebradley.org.”

James Osborne lost his mother in 2008 to cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), a rare, degenerative, and fatal genetic disease that affects blood vessels in the brain. His efforts to help find a cure were recently featured in a University of Washington Medicine publication. With the support of close friends, including L. Nicholas Brosnahan, he launched the CADASIL Eradication Project to support cutting-edge genomic research to tackle rare diseases. James, the narrative technical director for 343 Industries (makers of Halo), said, “I realized that my real opportunity in the advocacy space was to go big on funding hard-science research aimed at understanding—at a genetic level—how this particular monogenetic disease operates.” To find out more, visit notch3.org. James and his wife, Kathy (Winant) Osborne, live in Kirkland, Washington.

Good news from Chitra Narasimhan: “I have been honored to serve as the ’92 Alumni Council representative. This year I have been the vice-chair of the lifelong learning committee and we created a go-to guide of educational resources available to alumni, sent out in September. I am happy to share that I was elected as the next president of the Alumni Council (currently serving as the president-elect) and will begin my term in June 2022. My recent Dartmouth adventure was celebrating turning 50 with Annie Kaskade, Whitney Allen, and Julie Kenerson with a bonus visit with Lou Bregou and Jill Blumberg!”

Tyrone Rachal, president of Urban Key Capital Partners, has been appointed global governing trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He is currently vice-chair for ULI Atlanta and is past chair of Public-Private Partnership Council nationally. ULI is a nonprofit education and research institute. Its mission is to shape the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide. “On a personal note,” Ty wrote, “I spent the 4th of July weekend in Atlanta with fraternity brothers Alex Rundlet and DeVere Beard and we memorialized the occasion with a round of ‘Ty shots!’ No one was harmed during this reunion.” (See their photo in our September newsletter, archived at 1992.dartmouth.org/news.)

Speaking of super-fun reunions with beloved friends—you know our 30th is coming up, June 16-19, to be exact, right? Check our website or Facebook group (or email me) for details!

­—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

Joaquin Ribadeneira, an Ecuadorian, and Nestor Paz-Galindo ’93, a native of Bolivia, and their fellow members of the Latin America and Caribbean regional campaign committee have established the Latin American Regional Alumni Endowed Scholarship Fund to help recruit talented international students. They’ve issued a challenge: They’ll match every dollar for the scholarship up to $500,000, with the goal of completing a $1 million endowment.

“Bringing more international students to Dartmouth adds layers of perspective, which benefits everyone. If you bring an international element to a class having a discussion about U.S. politics, you add a wealth of perspectives and more detached understanding of what’s happening,” Joaquin said. Both Nestor and Joaquin have brothers who went to Dartmouth and are involved in the project as well: Felipe Ribadeneira ’86 and Luis Paz-Galindo ’93. For more information email calltolead@dartmouth.edu.

As promised in the last Class Notes, here’s news of more columns, books, and articles written by our fellow ’92s. Heeten Kalan wrote an editorial for The Boston Globe March 3, titled “I am not ‘nonwhite.’ “We have a dynamic and fluid vocabulary to match an increasingly pluralistic culture. So why do we still label people by what they’re not?” Heeten is the director of the democracy and climate programs at the New World Foundation in New York City and board chair of the South Africa Development Fund (formerly FreeSA) in Boston.

Anita Tucker recently published a book on adventure therapy with a group of other practitioners and academics: Adventure Group Psychotherapy: An Experiential Approach to Treatment (Routledge Press). Anita is a professor in the University of New Hampshire’s department of social work.

Ric Crabbe published “Let’s Do the Time Warp Again: Human Action Assistance for Reinforcement Learning Agents” in the proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (with coauthors Carter Burn and Rebecca Hwa). Ric is a professor in the computer science department at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

Kevin Franck published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine: “Regulation of Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids—Deafening Silence from the FDA” (with coauthor Vinay Rathi).

Jon Kohl published a textbook on heritage interpretation (branch of communication with visitors at educational, natural, or recreational sites) this year. Legacy magazine featured his article, “Going Galactic: Expanding Heritage Interpretation to Include the Potential Influence of Extraterrestrial and Extradimensional Beings,” as its cover story. He also wrote “Talking climate with those living in different climate change world(views)” for Yale Climate Connections. See more of his publications at researchgate.net/profile/Jon-Kohl. Jon continues to enjoy living in Costa Rica with his family.

Anna Adachi-Mejia wrote “Baking a Process into Writing Your First Draft of a Scientific Piece” (Medium.com) and “A Dartmouth Professor on the Art of Running Meetings with You in the Driver’s Seat” (theladders.com) while she was an associate professor at Geisel School of Medicine. Anna is currently the executive director of the Veterans Education & Research Association of Northern New England Inc. (VERANNE), which advances healthcare for veterans. Through Adachi Labs, LLC, she provides professional coaching, editing, and meeting facilitation expertise (including focus groups and photovoice consultation).

Anna’s coaching business appears in the Dartmouth alumni small business directory (dartgo.org/smallbusiness). More on that in the next column!

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

Our 30th reunion is scheduled for June 16-19, 2022, in Hanover! Joni McCray Wiredu, our reunion planner, is building a team to organize the festivities. If you’re interested in helping, email 30threunion.dartmouth92@gmail.com or visit the 30th reunion page at 1992.dartmouth.org.

Monica Hooks will deliver the 2021 Portman Lecture in the Spirit of Entrepreneurship, sponsored by Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center. The virtual event, titled “Women, Entrepreneurship, and Atlanta in the New South,” takes place on February 17 (rockefeller.dartmouth.edu). Monica is executive director of the Atlanta Development Authority’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative, a business incubator for early-stage, female-led startup companies.

Lakshmi (Lewis) Emory, M.D., M.P.H., is running for mayor in Flossmoor, Illinois (emory4flossmoor.org). The election will be held this April. Lakshmi wrote, “If elected, I will be the first woman and the first African-American mayor of the Village of Flossmoor (a suburb of Chicago). I am celebrating 18 years of marriage to the Rev. Keitric Emory, who is nearing the completion of the ordination process, and we have a daughter who is a junior in high school. The three of us attended the 25th class of ’92 reunion. Looking forward to the 30th. I keep in touch with lots of ’92s mostly through Facebook. When I travel, I try to make meetups happen. Was fortunate to have breakfast with Kim Malone Bobb when I visited New York this time last year. I see Stephanie Williams with regularity in Chicago. She is the reason I came to Chicago for medical school. I am originally from California.” A family physician for almost 20 years, Lakshmi is chief medical officer of a statewide managed care organization. She also served on the lieutenant governor of Illinois’ health equity working group.

Teri Balser, Ph.D., has been appointed provost and vice president (academic) at the University of Calgary in Canada. Teri was formerly the interim president and provost and vice president academic at Dalhousie University. The University of Calgary’s president sung her praises: “Dr. Balser is widely known in higher education as a collaborative and consultative leader—an advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion and a change agent and leader in STEM.” Teri wrote, “I saw Ann Schrot Gregoire in Bozeman a bit ago while job hunting, and in 2019 I saw Lynne Schiffman Delise at Christmas (her son, Will, is about to start college) and Eagle Glassheim in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia. It was great to reconnect. My partner and I have traveled around the world together during the past five or six years and we are looking forward to settling in Calgary and being near the mountains. Hoping to find Dartmouth connections nearby!”

Kathie Calkins Keyes reported on her second year in Arizona: “We love living in Tucson and hiking around the mountains. Look us up if you come to town. I had an opportunity to learn and teach grant writing at an education nonprofit for the last year, so that was cool. I can’t wait for the next reunion! Love to you all!”

Axel Grabowsky ’60 made my day when he emailed: “Since your classmate Tara Grabowsky isn’t about to toot her own horn, I better do it. (I am her father and a member of the class of ’60.) Tara has earned a black belt in Aikido! Quite an accomplishment! She’s also a physician and the chief data officer for the life science group at McKinsey. She is married to Kev and has three delightful and accomplished (a grandfather’s terminology but nevertheless very true) kids, Christian, 15, Helen, 13, and Ryan, 10.”

Attention parents of ’92s who are reading this: please write in with your kids’ good news!

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

Thanks to John McWilliams for suggesting I ask classmates about “Dartmouth moments” they’ve experienced overseas. He and a few others wrote in about trips that occurred soon before the pandemic curtailed international travel.

John wrote: “I was in Bangkok having breakfast alone wearing a Dartmouth shirt last year and happened to be seated next to two Dartmouth professors who noticed and had me join them.”

The day after attending the Dartmouth-Princeton game at Yankee Stadium last year, Brian Gordon wrote, “I left for a week in Mexico City as part of the Call to Serve Initiative. The Rassias Foundation was looking for alumni volunteers to help with English instruction in Mexico City high schools in lower-income areas in the city. I had an absolute blast! There were a total of 11 alumni plus two spouses, and I was the baby of a group that reached back to the class of 1959 (and included members from the classes of ’62, ’72, and ’82). We worked with a group of four teachers, at two colegios, who had been to Dartmouth to learn the Rassias Method as part of the Inter-American Partnership for Education. We were native English speakers for their students and participated with them in numerous skits, interviews, and a week of fun! Apparently I can (sorta) moonwalk! It was one of those ‘time of your life’ experiences I’ll never forget!”

Catherine O’Neill Goodbred wrote: “In 2019 I took a wonderful trip to Spain with my Dartmouth roomie, Anne-Corinne Beaver. We visited her niece, my son, and my parents on a fabulous trip to Madrid, Zaragoza, and Barcelona. While we were in Barcelona she ran the half marathon with my son, Colin ’21 who was there on a Dartmouth language study abroad [LSA]. The office of residential life certainly knew what it was doing matching us as first-year roomies!”

Delightful memories from our undergrad days also emerged. Elaine Anderson wrote: “I will never forget the day when half a dozen or so of my classmates from LSA Siena were in Rome touring the Colosseum. As we clambered over the stones (when you used to be able to do that!) someone called out—I think to Ashley O’Neill Kleiderer—a hearty hello. Lo and behold, another group of Dartmouth ’92s were doing the sightseeing. And they had just bumped into another group of ’92s and made plans for dinner. So that night at least 18 of us brought a little bit of Hanover to Roma over a wonderful Italian meal!”

Pete DeBalli wrote, “Best overseas Dartmouth moment: Leningrad foreign study program, spring 1990. Andy Neckers, Carl Schaefer, and I bluffed our way into the swanky Pribaltiskaya Hotel so we could buy lunch in the buffet restaurant. Carl is wearing a Dartmouth sweatshirt. A friendly Canadian businessman invites us to join him, buys us a round of beers, then offers a toast. ‘I see you boys are from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Here’s to us Canucks!’ And we spent the rest of lunch making small talk and pretending to be Canadian!”

If you attended our 2017 reunion, you’ll surely remember the care and dignity Pete brought to our memorial service for classmates we’ve lost. I’m very sorry to report that two more ’92s passed away earlier this year: Bill Sandholm of Madison, Wisconsin, on July 6; and Mark Berman of San Francisco on August 11. The class extends our deepest sympathies to their families and friends. You are welcome to share remembrances—just email us and we’ll include them in our website’s “In Memoriam” section.

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

When my late-April deadline approached, I figured most of us were not in our location of choice. We were stuck indoors or working on the frontlines of the pandemic. Although I was grateful to have my daughter home safe, I was sadly canceling a trip to watch her perform with the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra. I think we were all pining for our favorite places.

So I emailed all ’92s asking: “Where (in Hanover) do you wish you were right now?”

The question went out at teatime for most of us, and many of you named Sanborn (my choice, too!) your ideal location at that moment.

Tony Moody: “Today it would be Sanborn reading a great novel; tonight, Zete basement.”

Mark Carlson: “I was thinking about the Bema just yesterday because there is a place near my home in Atlanta that reminds me of it. The Bema is where I would like to be—preferably with my freshman-year roommate Paul Larson and a couple of guitars.”

Ali Ward: “Having tea at Sanborn or taking a run in Pine Park!”

Rebecca Sullivan Völker: “I’d rather be anywhere in Hanover than in lockdown in Germany! But especially in a common room in the dorm with friends. The dorm doesn’t matter, does it?”

Wendy (Crumbine) Ferdinand: “I would like to be in one of the rocking chairs in front of the Hanover Inn, looking at the Green and catching up with old friends (and not sitting six feet apart!).”

Jen (Silverman) Borton: “Pine Park, hands down! I love the peace and beauty of those woods.”

Kristin Smith: “Since it’s 4 p.m., the place in Hanover I’d like to be is having tea at Sanborn!”

Erik Bliss: “Sitting on the couch in my senior-year Gile basement dorm room with an EBA’s chicken sandwich watching the news.”

Kim (Isaacs) Leversedge: “Running on the Goat Trail off the golf course or drinking on the lawn of Alpha Delta.”

Tom Brodie: “I certainly wouldn’t mind being in the lobby of the Hanover Inn with the other boys from 51 Leb and our wives checking into our rooms for a long weekend stay. We can dream, right?”

Sarah Pettus: “Velvet Rocks.”

Hope (Worrell) Martin: “Where would I be at Dartmouth—not in the stacks!Otherwise, so many places at Dartmouth would be awesome to be: on the Green eating poppy seed bread from Collis; at the Berry Center gym, which would be open; on the back deck of Sigma Delta hanging out with sisters in the sun (which would be shining); running on the golf course and its trails along the river; or mountain biking at Oak Hill or on the old AT in Norwich [Vermont].”

Jeff Gaillard: “Running in Pine Park along the River, or even better sculling on the river!”

Ashley Roberts Ise: “I would love to be in the Tower Room—I had some great naps while studying in the chairs by the windows!”

Tracy MacDonald: “Totally in the Bema on a blanket with a book!”

Gary Davis: “At Kiewit picking up a paper? No way! I’d pick Sanborn tea or Collis having chimeric bread pudding—tough choice.”

Jeremy Lagomarsino: “I wish I was having a Big Green breakfast at Lou’s.”

Melissa Stamp: “On Sachem Field playing ultimate.”

Laurie Duncan: “That’s an easy one! I’d like to be in a racing shell on the Connecticut River with my ’92 crew teammates, preferably right after dawn when the mist is clearing.”

Noah Sprakfin: “I would like to be taking a nap in Sanborn House, preferably on the second floor, with the expectation of waking up in time for afternoon tea.”

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

Because it’s a leap year, our annual virtual, classwide reunion falls on April Fool’s Day! Share what you’re doing that Wednesday (pranks encouraged) in our Facebook group or email dartmouth92news@gmail.com.

Here are more memories of The Dartmouth from my fellow editors.

Roz Fahey Kruse wrote: “I actually dug out our directorate bound volume and had some laughs with my teenage sons. They noted that one fraternity or another was always in trouble for something. Like others, I remember the camaraderie of working together to get the paper to print every night. I worked early on with Brian Hayes ’90 on a story about the hospital, which was especially poignant given his valiant cancer fight. Covering the presidential candidates when they came to town was definitely a thrill. Working with the very talented Kelly Kolln and Jane Hodges on The Fortnightly was always a pleasure and always a scramble right before deadline. One restaurant review taste-testing Long Island iced teas all over Hanover was also pretty unforgettable.

“I am a corporate lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions and private equity work. Kevin Kruse and I have three sons and live in New York City.” (Congrats to their oldest, who will join the class of 2024!)

Gretchen Schweitzer wrote: “Your email was a nice reminder of an incredibly wonderful and, dare I say, unbelievably fortunate time being on The D. As the arts and leisure editor, I had the chance to speak to so many fantastic artists, my mind boggles.

“My favorite D story is the interview I did with jazz great Don Cherry. For Don, since I was not a huge expert on jazz, I asked the lead trumpet player from the Barbary Coast to join me for the interview, and, in fact, she asked the questions. At some point he started talking about her playing in the previous night’s performance and how good she was, and I swear she about passed out. It was a great moment.

“I have been living in Munich, Germany, since 2001. I have continued to work in the biotechnology industry, primarily consulting companies on corporate communications, strategy, and fundraising. I have my own agency now, Trophic Communications, and we are a team of nine advising companies across the European Union. My husband, Holger, and I have one son, now 14. Of classmates, I most recently saw Bob Delise here in Munich as he was coming through for a client meeting (he has his own consultancy in the pharma industry) and Oktoberfest. He, unfortunately, did not bring his wife and my dear friend, Lynne [Schiffman], with him, but I understand there is a plan afoot to bring her, Gretchen Almy McNeely, and Kate Hill-Harfe to Europe for us all to create havoc together on this continent and I am beyond excited. I have the huge pleasure to run into Sam Scollard Truex and Paul Biondi at industry events, they are leaders in biotech and pharma, respectively. I stay in touch with Jin Chyung Keudel; she runs her own consulting business from where she lives in Korbach, Germany, but I don’t see her enough. Christine Vanden Beukel made my year when she came to visit in November from London. I had a great conversation a while back with my hero and intrepid historian Lillian Guerra. I don’t converse enough with Lisabeth Sewell McCann, but I am at fault there for sure.”

Speaking of Lillian, she spoke at a College symposium titled “From Dartmouth Alum to Faculty of Color: How the Liberal Arts Help Diversify the Profession” as part of the 250th celebration. Here’s to a fantastic 251st!

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

Hearing from classmates who have lived outside the United States made me wonder: Does anyone beyond the Dartmouth community use “girdled” to describe the earth? Obsessive research reveals: not recently. In intra-D communication it’s used almost daily; elsewhere, almost never.

The alma mater verse (from the poem by Richard Hovey, class of 1885) dates to 1894. The earliest reference was probably when Shakespeare’s Puck bragged about his speed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: “I’ll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes.”

Maybe Kyle Huebner read Nellie Bly’s 1908 book, A Proposal to Girdle the Earth—he and his family have already visited a dozen countries during their trip around the world. To catch up with them visit globalteenadventures.com. I hope they got to see the art deco mural titled I’ll Put a Girdle Round About the Earth in Australia (okay, I’ll stop now).

Julia Hynes Shoff recently finished a two-year assignment in Switzerland at Merck’s international headquarters running a large global portfolio of older businesses. She and her family returned to their home in Philadelphia. She wrote, “Now that I think about it, the pervasive focus on the wider world at Dartmouth (languages, study abroad, the role of Dartmouth in educating future leaders to make an impact at a global scale) probably shaped a lot of my choices then and now. Then and now, love to travel, love being part of a massive global company with a global health mission, love my incredibly diverse set of coworkers in every time zone. I have a strong home base and affinity to where I grew up, but I hope it is accurate to call me a citizen of the world, too. I didn’t connect with any Dartmouth people there, although I did interview Swiss applicants for two seasons (mostly boarding school kids by FaceTime!).”

John Lynch wrote: “Language study at Dartmouth had me do a few more off terms than the average bear, so the travel bug started then. Work then led me to Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and Asia, off and on my whole career (never Latin America—odd). Settled in London in 2005—much easier jumping-off point—for work, but as the family grew we started to call London home. Many alums around London keep the connections—good friends spanning the ’89s to the ’92s. While my wife, Betsy, and I see ourselves as American, the kids have Irish, U.S., and (are soon likely to have) U.K. passports. So they are just confused on which county/nationality, but they are Londoners at heart. We do keep a few traditions and new events going to keep the connections: Father’s Day finale was watching The Princess Bride with my three kids. And then a week later I took Matt LeBlanc to see Metallica here in London.”

Jon Kohl wrote: “I’ve been mostly out of the country since graduating from Dartmouth. In 1993 I joined the U.S. Peace Corps in Costa Rica until 1995. I returned to the United States for my graduate degree at Yale Forestry. During that time I met my future wife, a Costa Rican. I moved back in 2006 and we have been here largely since. My 1991 biology foreign study program in Costa Rica really set me up for my Peace Corps service, which obviously led to my eventual marriage and having two kids born here, and now I am a dual citizen here and in the United States. There’s a ’91 here with whom I’m friends and a ’76 farther away. I now live outside of San Jose and welcome any ’92s coming my way, a long way from [my hometown] Foxboro, Massachusetts.”

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

Big Green football will play Princeton in Yankee Stadium November 9 in honor of Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary and the 150th year of college football. Many thanks to Tom Brodie for organizing the ’92 mini-reunion within this event. It’s not too late to reserve your seats in our block of tickets, but email dartmouth92news@gmail.com right away if you’re interested.

Kudos to Julie Cillo, who was recognized by Super Lawyers for the 12th year in a row. She was named one of the top 100 attorneys in Virginia, one of the top 50 women attorneys in Virginia, and one of the top 50 attorneys in Richmond. Julie practices family law with Owen & Owens in Midlothian, Virginia.

Personal and professional congrats go out to Mike Mahoney, director of athletic communications at the University of Pennsylvania. The College Sports Information Directors of America recognized him with its 25-year award and a glowing tribute on its website. In addition to mentioning his many colleagues and protégés through the years, the article focuses on the friendships that have accompanied his professional accomplishments, citing a tremendous Mahoney moment from his surprise 50th birthday party in February: He proposed to his girlfriend, Jenn Novik, who had, of course, planned the big event. He later wrote 50 Facebook posts about his favorite songs of all time, complete with annotations, videos, and relevant memories associating the music with everyone he ever knew. Mike is one of the first ’92s to turn 50 and has celebrated in such an epic manner that he’s pretty much schooled the rest of us. I challenge you all to celebrate your 50th birthdays with such panache. The bar is set high, people.

Thanks to an initiative by our treasurer, Kyle Huebner, our class recently began recognizing classmates who have paid dues for the past 10 years. As part of this “Decade of Dues” program, you have the opportunity to pay any missed dues to be placed on the honor roll—visit 1992.dartmouth.org/dues for details! You can also pay your dues on the site (or check to see whether you have already). If you pay your class of 1992 dues and also donate to the Dartmouth College Fund by June 30, you’ll receive a small token of thanks.

Kyle and his family just embarked upon a year-long trip around the world. He wrote: “As I write this, I reflect on how much has changed in the recent years. At our 20th reunion in 2012, I joked that nothing had changed—I still had three great kids, was still married to my amazing wife, Leanne, still working at Stamps, and still living in Manhattan Beach, California. In 2015 my sister, who was a single mother raising four kids in Alabama, passed away unexpectedly. We became a blended family with the older two ones now in college at University of Alabama at Birmingham. I just finished up working 20 years at Stamps.com. Shout-out to classmate Jeff Green, who cofounded Stamps in 1997. Contemplating what’s next, we decided to take the family and travel abroad for a year. Inspired by President Hanlon’s speech about experiential learning, we are looking forward to doing service, research, and learning about the world from a firsthand perspective. And shout-out and thank you to our classmate Rick Toothill, who will be covering for me as ’92 treasurer for the next year. I am looking forward to connecting with fellow classmates and alumni around the globe!”

Next time I’ll share news from additional classmates about their extended international experiences. If you’ve lived outside of the United States since graduation, I’d love to hear from you!

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

March Madness is happening soon. Watch your email for details!

Also, Tuesday, April 2 is the 92nd day of the year, and that’s when we will hold our annual virtual online reunion. Post what you’re doing that day in our Facebook group or email dartmouth92news@gmail.com and we’ll include your update in an upcoming class newsletter. Photos are welcome!

Inspired by the previous issue’s list of influential alumni, I asked classmates: Which ’92 has influenced you the most?

Kate Aiken wrote: “Nancy De Sa inspires me to this day. Her hardships were legit, but nothing got her down for long. She persevered with the most badass attitude. She always had the right thing to say to crack me up, and was the first person I knew with more than a thousand random Twitter followers, when the rest of us were still figuring it out. She knew how to connect with people.”

Anita Reithoffer Tucker wrote: “My fellow women of ’92 who swam with me on the swimming and diving team. I learned from them how we as women can support and celebrate each others’ successes instead of working against each other. To this day, their way of supporting each other role modeled for me how important it is to support and mentor other women in my life, especially in my role as an academic. Because ‘all boats rise on a high tide.’ ”

Kyle Huebner wrote: “I’m going to say Jeff Green was the ’92 who had the most influence on my life, but not in the usual way. Jeff started Stamps.com in 1997 back in the Internet heyday and I joined up with him (after an ill-fated consulting stint) in January 1999, when the company had about 20 people. Jeff ended up leaving Stamps a year later to start another company and it turns out that I’m now celebrating my 20-year anniversary at Stamps. If Jeff hadn’t founded Stamps, who knows what I would have ended up doing the past 20 years?”

Sharon Cramer Lincoln wrote: “I can’t say that any one ’92 has been very influential. However, recently, I’ve reconnected with Laura Erdman-Luntz and our conversations are fun, inspired, and deeply meaningful. So that has been a very positive influence!”

Samantha Scollard Truex wrote: “Kristen Morrow Johnson has influenced me the most. She has inspired me with her bold leadership and sense of adventure, from the time she was in Casque & Gauntlet at Dartmouth, to her multiple times working abroad, to her leadership positions now at Ford Motor Co. and previously with the corporate collaboration counsel at Thayer. You go, girl!”

Matt “Luau” Wilson wrote: “Jonathan Harrington has probably had the most influence on me during the last 25-plus years. He’s been a best friend, moral compass, and steadying counterweight. But there have been so many others who have had a tremendous, positive impact on my life.”

Jessie Levine (extremely inspirational in her own right!) wrote: “The ’92 who influenced me the most, through his heart-on-his-sleeve compassion for people known and unknown to him, was Ben Crawford.”

Dan Fisher-Owens wrote: “Susan Fisher-Owens. During more than 25 years together, she has tempered my realism with her idealism, inspiring me with her toughness, tenderness, tenacity, and temperament in her approach to vocation, avocation, and physical challenges. She’s shown me how to be a better parent, colleague, friend, and adventurer than I thought I could ever be!”

(On behalf of those of us who also treasure our ’92 partners yet didn’t craft a lovely tribute to our loved ones—yeah, what he said!)

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

As I write this, summer is winding down and I haven’t received updates from many ’92s, but fortunately, hardworking members of the Fourth Estate have been digging up the relevant news of the day—which, naturally, involves our amazing classmates.

Many news outlets, including National Public Radio and WGBH, have interviewed Cathleen Caron about Justice in Motion, which she founded in 2005 to help migrant workers navigate the legal justice system. “Justice in Motion’s international connections made it one of the nonprofits best positioned to help families with deported parents. It had already trained a ‘defender network’ of 44 human rights organizations…in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua,” wrote the National Catholic Reporter.

Vanity Fair included Alexandra Bernadotte Nilsson, founder of Beyond 12, which supports first-generation college students, in a photo spread featuring 26 entrepreneurial women of color and captioned: “Each one of the women in this group tableau has raised $1 million or more in outside capital, breaking barriers and shattering glass ceilings along the way.”

BostonVoyager interviewed Courtney Dickinson, founder and director of Acera: The Massachusetts School of Science, Creativity, and Leadership, in Winchester. The lab school serves approximately 140 high-ability students and features project-based learning, with a goal of developing teaching techniques and curriculum that can be shared. I truly appreciated Courtney’s honest description of the challenges she faced as she attempted to bring her ideas to the public school system and then decided to open a private school. “Going to Dartmouth enabled me to see that I could have my own opinion and voice and to believe that I was worthy enough to make an impact,” she said. Acera is currently pilot-testing the use of CRISPR technology and gene-editing in high schools.

The Geisel School of Medicine’s news feed featured an article about Anna Adachi-Mejia’s research using a process called photovoice, which involves placing cameras in the hands of study participants. “The major goal of this study is to promote understanding about aging in communities of color and those of language minorities,” Anna said. “What’s nice about using pictures to convey their perspective is that language or literacy barriers disappear through the magic of photography.” Anna is director of the health promotion research center at Dartmouth and an associate professor of community and family medicine at Geisel.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Erika Graham-Wilkins created her Peachtree City-based business based on a passion for cooking developed while watching her godfather, Doc Shepherd, and her grandmother, Artie R. Jones, preparing meals in their work as domestics. She credits them for the opportunity to attend Dartmouth College, become an engineer and then an attorney, and then finally with inspiring her to create Doc and Artie’s Teas, Spices & Foods. Her husband, Thaddeus Wilkins, is co-owner. She has created dozens of spice blends, teas, salts, soup mixes, sauces, and glazes.” The Constitution praised their Tangy Ginger Peach Glaze, “a scrumptious combination of honey, soy sauce, ginger, rice vinegar, peaches, and mustard, and you could absolutely just eat it with a spoon.” It’s available at docandarties.com.

If you catch any more classmates in the news, let me know, and I’ll include them next time. Soon I’ll be visiting Hanover to meet with the other ’92 classmate volunteers who comprise our executive committee during the annual Class Officers Weekend. More important, I’ll be able to spy on my daughter, Anna, who will just be settling in as a freshly minted, pea-green member of the class of 2022.

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

Watch your mailboxes for electronic and paper newsletters featuring our 92nd day of the year updates (for next year I’m wishing everyone plenty of exotic vacations and way less booting and snow, unless your trip requires snow), March Madness results, and more.

I’ve been delighted to hear about many great nonprofits to which you are donating your time.

Frazier Miller wrote: “I advise a wonderful organization called Adventure Scientists. They leverage an amazing network of adventure racers and outdoor enthusiasts to collect scientific data that helps push causes of environmental conservation. Eric Chin ’91 and his wife, Christy, introduced me to Adventure Scientists. I was immediately drawn to their mission of environmental conservation. While my days of Alaska adventure racing are behind me, I do get out and about here in the Bay Area frequently. I live in Portola Valley, California, with my wife, Tia, and three boys. I’m currently chief marketing officer at a software company called Wrike, based in San Jose. I see Jamie Rosen and Ben Hudnut regularly. I’m looking forward to a visit to Hanover this June with my family. We’re going to hike Tuckerman’s, which lives large in my memories of college.”

Kenta Takamori wrote: “Since last year I have been the executive director of the Silicon Valley Japan Platform (SVJP), which is a nonprofit initiative with a mission to deepen U.S.-Japan relations through technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.”

Samantha Schnee wrote: “Back in 2003 two friends from the N.Y.C. publishing world and I founded a magazine for writers working in any language but English called Words Without Borders (WWB). Using a seed grant from the National Endowment for the Arts we launched with stories and poetry from Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. Fifteen years later we’ve amassed a huge trove of writing from 2,000 authors working in more than 130 languages; we’re especially proud to have published the first English translations of novels from Madagascar and Rwanda ever to appear in English. In addition to the NEA, WWB is supported by the New York State Council for the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, along with many private foundations, so everything we’ve ever published remains available online for free. Last year we launched a sister website, WWB-Campus.org, to help educators (at high schools and colleges) integrate international literature into their classroom curricula; it’s been used by a wide range of teachers—from a class for Mexican deportees (that used the material to help students reintegrate into life in Mexico) to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. I’ve chaired the board of WWB for the past five years. While I was living in the United Kingdom, where I was born, for most of the past decade, I joined the board of trustees of English PEN (a writers’ organization that supports freedom of expression and helps writers who’ve been imprisoned in their homelands). When we returned to the United States last year, I agreed to chair the jury of the PEN America Heim Translation Grants, which give translators money to work on bringing new texts into English.”

It breaks my heart to report I can no longer share news of Winnie Huang’s amazing volunteer efforts. She passed away on April 24. Her leadership of Dartmouth Uniformed Service Alumni and the Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles, plus countless other generous works, will not be forgotten. If you would like to share a remembrance of Winnie, please email me and I will pass it along to her family and include it in our class website’s “In Memoriam” section (1992.dartmouth.org/memoriam).

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

Along with the class leadership changeover last June, we approved a new structure, adding more vice presidents. As vice president for communications, I’m fortunate to have Liza Herbst Knapp on board to produce our class newsletters. You should receive them via email, and you can also view them archived on our website. Alex Shepard Spiegel has also stepped up to serve as our class steward and has reinstated the birthday emails.

As I write this, it’s late December and our new vice president of community, Elissa Aten, is hosting a virtual class reunion in our Facebook group: she’s called for people to post their holiday photos, and I’m enjoying seeing everyone’s festive greetings! Even if you’re not a huge Facebook fan, please consider getting an account just to see what’s going on with many (more than half!) of your classmates who participate in the group. We’re gearing up for my second-favorite Dartmouth season, spring (as opposed to when I was a student and spring was by far the worst; of course, nothing beats fall). March Madness always begins during my kids’ spring break week, and this year is no different. Matt Caldwell will run the class of ’92 bracket again. We’ll send info about joining soon, giving you plenty of time to sign up so you don’t get caught submitting your picks the day the tournament begins (when all the servers crash). Then our annual virtual online reunion takes place on the 92nd day of the year, which falls this year on Monday, April 2. Post what you’re doing that day in our Facebook group or email dartmouth92news@gmail.com, and we’ll include your update in an upcoming class newsletter. Our Engage ’92 month of service event also happens each April, leading in to Dartmouth’s annual day of service in early May.

I received some classmate news that had me dreaming of warmer climes. Jennifer Chun was recently appointed director of tourism research at the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Jennifer grew up on the island of Oahu and began preparing for this job in (winter wonderlandish) Hanover, majoring in Asian studies. She then earned a master’s at the (even less tropical) school of hotel administration at Cornell. Jennifer, if you ever need any tourist subjects for your research, may I volunteer? And finally, some news of the weird. I was watching a public-television documentary about dogs with my family, and one of the sponsors was “The Plutonium Foundation: Archimedes Plutonium.” After my husband, Thies Kolln, and I uttered many exclamations, we confirmed that Archimedes Plutonium is, indeed, the same person we knew on campus as Ludwig Plutonium (or Ludwig van Ludvig). As you may remember, he worked as a dishwasher at the Hanover Inn and rode around on a bicycle, wearing an orange hunting cap and carrying a metal briefcase. Christopher Walker once dressed up like Ludwig for Bones Gate Tea. Around the time we graduated he began posting in Usenet groups on his way to Internet fame (or infamy). I remember him always being a welcome sight in the offices of The Dartmouth; we relied on advertising, and he took out many full-page ads expounding upon his theory that the universe is based on the structure of the plutonium atom.

Please send along your own weird and wonderful news for future inclusion in this column and our newsletters. As I did a few years back, I will be featuring classmates with leadership positions in nonprofits, so if this describes you, please let me know about your organization and why you have decided to devote your time to it.

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

With Veterans Day approaching I asked classmates who have served our country: How did your time at Dartmouth affect your experience in the military?

Jennifer Frederick Bantner wrote: “While at Dartmouth our professor of military science, Major Fil, used to stand in front of us, holding out his left hand and twisting his wedding ring, saying that there was only one thing more important than the Army: family. As a new second lieutenant I remember wishing that Fil shared more practical advice, but over 25 years of service I developed a new respect for the lessons Fil taught us. I have four daughters, three still in high school (one is a potential ’22), and the Army has been good to us. My battalion command ends in September. The next assignment will be with the yellow ribbon and suicide prevention programs within the Midwest region. During the week I am an academic advisor with a local community college.”

Alex Kugajevsky wrote: “I stayed an extra year to complete the ROTC program and ended up walking graduation with the ’93s. So ROTC allowed me to get to know two Dartmouth classes really well—the ’92s and the ’93s—for which I am very grateful. During my military service I encountered people from very different backgrounds, experiences and cultures. I found that Dartmouth had really prepared me well to interact with and experience this diversity, and allowed me to bring a much deeper appreciation and perspective to each interaction—all of which led to a much richer and fulfilling military adventure!”

David Orringer wrote: “I served as the medical director and group surgeon for the Air Force Combat Search and Rescue Group (Special Operations command). I was active duty from 2001 to 2007 and deployed to both Afghanistan and Iraq. Like most of our classmates my time at Dartmouth afforded me the opportunity to grow and mature into a leader prepared for world service. The availability of a broadly diverse student body, coupled with the scholarship and teachings of our world-renowned faculty provided an excellent springboard for international duty. Needless to say, my Dartmouth pedigree was not unnoticed during my Air Force career; I have no doubts that the respect the Dartmouth degree garners led to my rapid promotion and appointment to leadership roles. Currently, I am in Arizona working as a physician. My oldest son is a junior in high school and we will visit Hanover next spring! I am still an avid cyclist, scuba diver, swimmer and hiker. Naturally, I continue musical pursuits and have a studio at home.”

I’ll pass along more responses next time.

Meanwhile, here’s a request from the current president of Dartmouth College Uniformed Service Alumni, our very own Winnie Huang: “Please invite our entire class to our sixth annual Dartmouth veterans banquet and fifth annual James Wright Award presentation on Saturday, November 11, at the Langham, Boston at 6 p.m.—our first banquet ever outside of Hanover and the day after the Dartmouth vs. Brown football game at Fenway Park. We will be honoring all of our veterans with a focus on our Vietnam veterans. President Emeritus James Wright is our keynote speaker. For more info and to RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/VetBanq.”

Speaking of the big game, if you’re in the Boston area please go and take some photos for me, because I’m very sad I can’t attend. If there are tickets left, they’d be available at redsox.com/gridiron.

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

As I write this it’s just 10 days since I said goodbye to many of you in Hanover in June. I’ve barely unpacked, dried my eyes or started to read the yearbook.

I overheard all of the following at our amazing 25th reunion.

“Have a whoopie pie!”

“I know we knew each other, but how...?”

“You can’t call the new dorms the new dorms again.”

“The strangest place I ever ran into an alum? San Francisco, 1993. I got on the elevator and said, ‘Hey, you’re [name redacted].’ I only knew him from The Freshman Book.”

“We hit, then they sunk twice and we lost.”

“This [dorm] room [full of eight ’92s] needs softer mood lighting.”

“Why oh why did I not stop and buy that bottle of gin?”

“[Name redacted] can’t come up until Friday night because of eighth-grade graduation.”

“Campus police left our dorm entry code as 1967#.”

“Pour some jet fuel on it.”

“I think it’s okay, but an ember just landed in your hair.”

“She just took an Uber from Manchester.”

A ’19 at 2 a.m.: “I have to be up by 11 to give a campus tour.” A ’92: “Oh yeah, my daughter and I are on that tour.”

“Look, the money light is on!”

“Have a burrito—my kids got it from the ’87 tent.”

“Wait. The Lodge is still a dorm?”

At fraternity after class tent with delicious beverages closed for the night: “Do you want crap beer or crap beer?”

“They could shoot a scene for The Walking Dead in Gilman.”

“That was the one party I wasn’t here for.”

“Isn’t Rauner a library?” “No, he’s the governor.”

“I couldn’t believe they played ‘Frankenstein’ by the Edgar Winter Group. So awesome.”

“Do you know where my kids are?”

“Wheeler bathroom photo op!”

The Baker bells playing “Stand By Me” right before Saturday dinner.

“Steve Greeman has been going through a rough patch, but things are looking up.”

New new dorm doors at 7 a.m.: slam slam slam slam (person visiting the bathroom) slam slam slam slam (visiting the shower) slam slam slam slam (retrieving something in the shower), slam.

“Oh my God, I feel like I got hit by a truck. Well, maybe a light SUV.”

“Okay, I can’t read any further,” [name redacted], after reading aloud two sentences of her letter from the time capsule.

“So I’m sitting at [location redacted] and I realize that I’m looking at a U.S. Olympian, an Emmy-winning TV writer, a Sundance filmmaker...and my drunk ass.”

Kid in class tent: “That’s the valedictorian? He’s so tall!”

“I can’t [verb redacted] like I used to.”

“Did you know their undergraduate advisor in the River Cluster was Shonda?”

“You’re showing up to the class photo in red, white and blue yoga shorts? At least they have a belt!”

“Why yes, he’s 21!” [name of mom and friends redacted], with teenager, entering fraternity basement.

And from the ending of the 10-page single-spaced letter (actually my 1991-92 diary) I put in the time capsule: “I have to finish this up so I can get it in the time capsule! Twenty-five years from now I’ll probably laugh or be shocked—as long as no one else reads this! I wanted to edit it, but I didn’t have time, and why not leave it all? More honesty. Right now I’m feeling really nervous about finishing up this year and very excited to move on. Yet it’s terrifying not knowing where I’ll be in a few months, and how can I afford to start my own life?! I do hope this letter-to-myself brings much pleasure in 25 years, and I also hope those years don’t slip by as quickly as it seems like they will.” They did!

If you’re wondering whether you put anything in the 1992 time capsule or how to order reunion photos, check our class website: 1992.dartmouth.org.

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

Two class of 1992 events have become my favorite harbingers of spring: our annual March Madness bracket and the 92nd day of the year. March Madness begins soon, so visit our class website (1992.dartmouth.org) to find out how you can join. The 92nd day of the year falls on Sunday, April 2, this year, and we’ll be celebrating our annual virtual reunion. Mark your calendar and share what you’re up to that day via email and social media and we’ll compile your updates and photos in a future newsletter.

Last November I was lucky enough to soak up the sun in person with several amazing friends in Florida: Betsy Cowles Gavron, Tricia Twomey Scott, Linsley Craig Carruth, Tracy Tysenn MacDonald and Jennifer Williams (plus one night we all went out with Guillermo Heredia).

Katherine Aires Byrnes, who normally would have joined us, wrote: “I was bummed to miss the mini-reunion in Miami with ’92 besties, but that weekend I was leading a service project at a local food bank with Women of Dartmouth Chicago. I serve on a bunch of boards and do a lot of fundraising for education, the homeless, melanoma research, etc. Particularly energized this year by registering folks to vote through League of Women Voters. I’m also very involved in all three kids’ schools and sports. Oldest Potter (sophomore) just got his license and plays football and baseball, Natalie (freshman) plays tennis and Trevor (sixth) plays basketball, tennis and baseball. All are excited to come to Dartmouth this June for our 25th! I’m excited to be editing the 25th reunion yearbook with Jen Williams—but unlike senior year we won’t be staying all summer to finish the book—you’ll have it in your hands when you arrive on campus in June!”

Reunion registration will begin March 1, and you can see who else is coming at 1992.dartmouth.org!

Melaura Wittemyer, one of our reunion events organizers, wrote: “Greetings from soggy Portland, Oregon. Jim Gochee and I enjoyed the 20th Dartmouth reunion so much I signed up (with Michael Zigman) to help plan our 25th. I look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones. We are coordinating some panel discussions with our classmates—one of the topics is ‘mid-life career changes.’ I know many of our classmates have fascinating careers and have navigated challenging career pivots. If you’d like to participate in the panel discussion and share your experience, let me or Michael know. Jim continues as chief product officer at New Relic (a company founded by fellow Dartmouth alum Lew Cirne ’93) and I continue to enjoy practicing as a general internist. We’ve entered the teen parenting realm—Madeline is 15 and Kevin is 12—I just learned their generation is termed ‘Gen Z!’ ”

I was delighted to hear some good news from James Brodbelt Harris about his wedding last year. Through a mutual friend, James met his wife, Eleanor, more than five years ago, and they married in June 2016 at the Columbus Art Museum. They made a Central Ohio weekend of it for family and friends, including some walking, pop-up Shakespeare performances in German Village on Friday and a happy reception at the conservatory on Saturday. Eleanor and James were so pleased that Charlie Vestner, Paul Larson and Paul’s wife, Atsuko, could join the fun.

Our reunion theme is “Standing Together,” and even if we can’t meet up with classmates in person, we can look forward to seeing each other in the bracket, on social media (#dartmouth92) and maybe even at a mini-reunion before June.

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

My favorite apocryphal Homecoming story goes like this: Someone in our class lit a cigarette with the flames of our bonfire and burned off his eyebrows as he did so. If you’re heading to Hanover for Dartmouth Night this year, I double-dog dare you to break through the barrier and several circles of guards to recreate that moment, as the ’17s chant, “Touch the fire!” at the ’20s. Or at the very least make sure you send in a photo of yourself behaving reasonably with the other ’92s who have gathered there to celebrate.

Jon Kohl has some good news to share: “In 2006 both my firstborn and a book idea were born. My son is now 10 years old but the book is finally about to come out: The Future Has Other Plans: Planning Holistically to Conserve Natural and Cultural Heritage. Although the book uses the field of heritage planning as its story, in reality it asks the much broader question about why strategic plans and projects so often end up on the shelf unimplemented. To answer that it goes deep into the collective mind and crosses many different fields of study to figure that out. It will also serve as the theoretical cornerstone of our organization, the PUP Global Heritage Consortium. I invite anyone interested in planning of any kind to check it out at Amazon.com.”

In the last column I didn’t have enough space to include all the notes from classmates who have relocated recently, so here are a few more.

Molly Phinney Baskette wrote: “I moved from Boston to Berkeley, California, in May to trade blizzards for earthquakes. Oh, and also to take the helm as senior minister of First Congregational Church Berkeley. Stop by the beautiful campus and say hi if you’re ever in the neighborhood, right near the Cal Berkeley campus!”

Meredith Benedict moved to Washington, D.C., last fall and has been helping to launch the Women of Dartmouth D.C. community (women.dartmouth.org) with Meg Sommerfeld ’90 and others. She wrote, “My transition back to D.C. was made easy by the warm welcome of many ’92s at a mini-reunion soon after I arrived, and especially by Tricia Gagnon, Anne Hammer and their families. There’s a great Dartmouth community here in D.C.!”

Sam Scollard Truex wrote: “I have not moved residences recently, but am moving jobs. After almost 20 years in large biopharma companies, I went to a VC-backed biotech startup called Padlock Therapeutics in 2014, then sold Padlock earlier this year to Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS). Interesting class note is that our classmate Paul Biondi leads BMS’ corporate development group. His team drove the acquisition from their side. BMS’ head of chemistry, whose team is taking over the Padlock drug research programs, is Dartmouth ’92 (who is such a chemistry guru that he graduated in 1991) Percy Carter. Very small world. I worked for BMS for a couple of months and am now taking a summer breather before heading to another biotech startup sometime in the fall. I have also become involved with Thayer School over the years and am enjoying getting up to Dartmouth routinely.”

Our reunion committee has been busy planning every aspect of our 25th, which takes place June 15-18, 2017. Check our website (1992.dartmouth.org) for more details. You’ll also find information there for submitting your contribution to our 25th reunion yearbook.

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

Our 25th reunion is just a year away (June 15-18, 2017) and great plans are underway. Mark your calendar to return to the Big Green and celebrate. Be sure to join our Facebook group (facebook.com/groups/24226954926) to stay updated. If you’d like to help out in any way, let me know and I’ll put you in touch with Julie Cillo, our reunion planner.

We’ll also send out reunion information via email (and occasionally snail mail); although almost half the class is in the Facebook group, we realize it’s not for everyone. In fact, one huge challenge facing the reunion committee is making sure you are all receiving class news. You might be one of the hundreds of classmates missing a current email address, without even knowing it.

In January I began what I call “the birthday challenge.” I send a daily email to the classmates who are celebrating that day. (The ’82s and ’88s have done this and talked it up at Class Officers Weekend; I decided I also love the idea of getting in touch with everyone before reunion and got on board.) So if your birthday comes and goes and you don’t receive good tidings from the class, it’s because we can’t email you, not because we don’t love you. You can help us fix the problem by emailing news@dartmouth92.org—we’ll add you back to the list and tell you how to manage all your Dartmouth email preferences.

Great news from Valerie Worthington: “I wrote a book about a road trip I took 10 years ago to train Brazilian jiu-jitsu, the martial art I have practiced since 1998. It was recently published and it is called Training Wheels: How a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Road Trip Jumpstarted My Search for a Fulfilling Life. I’m excited it’s finished and terrified it’s available for people to read. I’m told that’s normal.”

Todd Millay, managing director of Boston-based Choate Investment Advisors, received some recent accolades. He was named to the 2016 list of America’s best financial advisors by Barron’s. The annual state-by-state listing focuses on assets under management, revenue, regulatory record, quality of practice and philanthropic work. Todd is also a regular contributor to Forbes, where he writes a column about managing wealth like a family office. Outside of the office he is chairman of the board of InnerCity Weightlifting, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing urban violence by working with young people at the highest risk. He was also the founding executive director of the Wharton Global Family Alliance, the research center on family wealth and business at the Wharton School. Todd adds: “Ed Smith and I are taking scuba lessons together, along with our sons.” Todd is married to Amy (Nauss) Millay and they have three children, a girl and two boys.

Jennifer Jarrett also has good career news—she joined Medivation in San Francisco as its new chief financial officer in April. Jennifer was previously at Citigroup, where she was managing director responsible for building and managing the West Coast life sciences and biotechnology investment banking group. Before Citigroup she was a managing director in Credit Suisse’s healthcare group, focused on the biotechnology sector. In Jennifer’s spare time, she says, she chases after her 19-month-old daughter, Presley.

Only a few days remain until the end of the College’s fiscal year. If you pay your class of 1992 dues and also donate to the Dartmouth College Fund by June 30, you’ll receive a small token of thanks from the class. You can pay your dues (or check to see whether you have already) by visiting our website: dartmouth92.org/dues.

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 804-9822; news@dartmouth92.org

Mark your calendars: the 92nd day of 2016 falls on April 1, and we’ll be having our annual virtual reunion that day. Just send a quick note about what you’re doing that day to news@dartmouth92.org (or post in our Facebook group). You don’t have to feel pressured to pull an epic prank to impress the rest of us; however, I will be disappointed if several of you don’t report your maple-sugaring efforts, as you did last year. As always, we will compile all responses into a newsletter.

I need to post an addendum to the last column—I learned that three classmates won Emmys last fall, not just Matthew Mosk and David Benioff. Tim Greenberg, who is an executive producer of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, won for Outstanding Variety Talk Series. I asked him whether he’s still with the show, now that the host has changed, or is he working on something else? Tim replied: “Yes, I’m an executive producer at The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Yes, I’ve got some other projects going on. And yes I live in N.Y.C. with wife, two girls, 4 and 2, and a dog, all of whom I love very much. Things are good.”

This issue of the magazine is full of reasons to love the College on the Hill, and many thanks to those of you who wrote in with your own favorite people, places and traditions.

Nancy DeSa: “Winter carnival sculpture, snow shoveling, hosing and packing ice, axe hitting ice to carve something, and freezing my ass off.”

Catherine O’Neill Goodbred: “I loved walking down to the river to canoe. It was a beautiful break from campus without leaving campus!”

Cameron Myler: “Our tradition of winter sports: a Dartmouth student or alum in every Winter Olympics since 1924. Happy that I got us through four!”

Rachel Johnson: “The weekday Sanborn Library tea party and the priceless looks from the uninitiated when the grandfather clock struck 4 p.m.”

Kristel Dorion: “The Green when it’s shrouded with fog, on a crisp evening with campus lights twinkling.”

Christina Flavell: “Professor Rassias was my favorite professor; he taught language not as verbs and vocabulary, but as an element of love, passion and humanity.”

Lynne Schiffman: “Gazing at the Big Dipper on the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge porch, Gleek, language study abroad and foreign study programs, all things Rassias, lunches on the Hanover Inn terrace.”

I asked Lynne to elaborate, since she currently chairs the advisory board of the Rassias Center at Dartmouth. She wrote, “How does one begin to express what Professor John Rassias meant to Dartmouth and to those of us who knew him? How could any of us who were touched by his genius ever forget him? Exuberant, all-enveloping, enthusiastic, passionate, caring, inspiring, phenomenal. These are only some of the adjectives that come to mind. So many of us are better people for his influence in our lives; so many of us were inspired by his energy and zeal for life and his desire to make the world a better place. To honor his legacy let each of us strive to put a little extra effort into connecting with the world around us, learning a new language or trying to understand a different culture, doing our best and, to paraphrase one of his favorite songs, take it to the limit one more time!”

If you’d also like to share your fond memories of him, you can post them in the “Remember John Rassias” section of the center’s website (rassias.dartmouth.edu).

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org

Erika Hall was featured in a book titled How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers, by Khoi Vinh. In her interview she talks about her experience of using BlitzMail and networked computers as a student, which sparked her interest in doing “Internet-y things.” Erika is the cofounder of Mule Design, a firm that creates strategies, brands, applications and publications across platforms, including radio. She’s also the author of Just Enough Research and truly dislikes corporate jargon (see the very funny unsuck-it.com). Her company recently launched the National Audubon Society’s new website.

Christopher Wall spent some time on campus this past summer when VoxFest, a collaboration between theater alumni and current students, featured one of his plays. The Calamity was partially written at Dartmouth during a writer’s retreat two years ago and was presented as a staged reading last July. The pieces performed during the annual VoxFest are in various stages of development and are presented in formats ranging from bench readings to stagings with music. In Christopher’s play (directed by Patrice Miller, with songs by Howard Fishman), a deadly plague sweeps across the country, spawning an epidemic of paranoia and fear in a small town. The Dartmouth wrote: “The show portrays a modern take on the Middle Age practice of towns closing their gates during the plague. Wall said that he hoped to explore the human decision-making process. ‘I was very curious in kind of an existential way when we say we might help each other out,’ Wall said. ‘But what about when something like that really happens?’ ”

As I write this summer is winding down (and I’m really looking forward to my annual trek to Hanover for Class Officers Weekend in September), but baseball season is still in full swing. Two classmates reported the status of their personal ballpark-visiting odysseys.

Brian Gordon: “I was in San Francisco last week for the Western Pension & Benefits Council conference, in part so I could add new ballparks to my all-time list (20 down, 13 to go, the total of 33 accounting for new ballparks for the Yankees, Mets and Expos/Nationals). Got to see a game with David Budd in Oakland, California—he had relocated in San Francisco after a couple of years in Paris and was awaiting the arrival of his wife and son the next day. A week later I got to see the Giants in San Francisco with Brunel Bredy and two of his three kids, with whom my wife and I went to the San Francisco Zoo the next day. He’s practicing medicine in Sacramento, returning to California after several months in Texas.”

Mike Mahoney: “Jenn Novik and I are headed to Citi Field this weekend to see the Red Sox play the Mets. I have a bucket list to see the Sox in every Major League Baseball park, this will be No. 19 on that list (and I’m actually at 21 if you include the old Yankee Stadium and the old Busch Stadium in St. Louis). Not looking forward to Saturday, when the giveaway is a Jesse Orosco bobblehead celebrating the Mets’ 1986 World Series win, but Jenn (a Mets fan) sure is!” Mike still lives in Philadelphia, working as the director of athletic communications at the University of Pennsylvania, but in August he started the Ohio University professional master’s in sports administration program.

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org

This entire column arose from an email from Cindy Davis Glueck ’93: “Stephen Andrzejewski recently returned to Hanover for a very special mission—to save the life of a fellow Dartmouth alum (me). I was in end-stage renal disease and enduring 11 hours of daily peritoneal dialysis sessions. He generously donated his left kidney to me, thus restoring me to excellent health. Within two weeks of the surgery Steve was back to running. Thank you, Steve! Live donors rock!” 


I had a great conversation with Steve and learned how this all came about. 


Steve and Cindy were both runners at Dartmouth (Steve met his wife, Katie Stiff ’93, through the same network of friends). The two re-connected a few years ago at an alumni event in Hanover for members of the track and cross-country teams. Then in September 2014 Cindy started using Facebook to find a kidney donor. Steve said he read about her situation with sympathy, but didn’t think he could help—until she posted her blood type, O positive, the same as his. He started researching the process of kidney donation (searching online and calling friends who had been through it) “and I realized it’s really not a big deal,” he said. “So I thought, ‘There are really no excuses any more.’ ” He joined the transplant group at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.


He didn’t tell Cindy his plan until he had talked it through with his wife and fully committed. In early December 2014 Steve and Cindy determined a date on which they’d both have their blood tested, because the antigens and antibodies had to match. “It turns out the blood type didn’t matter as much—she’s a universal recipient,” he said. Still at home in North Carolina Steve then underwent several tests over the course of several weeks. Their compatibility and his good health garnered them the green light and they scheduled the surgery for February 25, 2015. 


The weekend before that Steve and Katie flew up to Hanover and visited Cindy at home (her husband is a chemistry professor at the College). “If ever I had any doubts, they disappeared as soon as I saw her four kids,” he said. He and Katie also had dinner with Lou Bregou and Jill Blumberg at Jesse’s (Lou and Cindy both coach cross country and their kids participate).


The procedure went well and Steve stayed at Dartmouth-Hitchcock for three nights (some donors stay just one, but his painkillers disagreed with him). He and Katie spent a few more days at the Six South Street hotel, enjoying Hanover, where it was 23 below zero at one point, and flew home six days after the operation. A week after that he started running again.


“I want people to know how easy it is,” he said. He experienced some low energy (and inconvenience to his family), but “that’s a small price to pay.” There are more than 100,000 people on the kidney donation waiting list, he added.


“You wouldn’t believe the outpouring of well-wishes I’ve gotten,” he said. Before he left Hanover a stranger recognized him from Facebook photos of him and Cindy in their hospital gowns.


Steve and Katie live outside Raleigh, North Carolina, and have four children (11, 9, 7 and 7) who are into soccer, tae kwon do and swimming. He works at home as a software engineer. “I’m now running 15 to 20 miles a week,” he said.


—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org


Our annual virtual reunion on the 92nd day of the year happens Thursday, April 2. Send a quick description of how you spent your day (no overthinking!) to news@dartmouth92.org or post it in our Facebook group. We will include all responses in a newsletter and email it to the entire class.


Many thanks to Winnie W. Huang for telling us about her participation in this important annual event: “I headed to Hanover on November 9, 2014, for the Honor the Heroes Veterans Day gala hosted by the Dartmouth Uniformed Services Alumni (DUSA) and Marine Corps birthday ball. My friends Bernardine Wu ’90 and Maureen Marley McCarthy accompanied me. The highlight of the evening was the presentation of the James Wright Award for Distinguished Service, which DUSA administers to honor the legacy of retired Marine and former College President James Wright and his work in inspiring veterans to return to college, including many at Dartmouth. I served as the chair of the award’s nominating committee and am grateful for my fellow committee members Jack O’Toole, Tu’14 (Marine Corps), and Desmond Webster, Adv’13 (Navy), who were an honor to work with as we carefully reviewed each deserving nominee.


“As a former Dartmouth Army ROTC cadet, it was a true privilege to read the citation and present the prize alongside President Wright and DUSA founder and executive director Nathan Bruschi ’10 (Navy). This year’s recipient—Hanover resident Clinton Gardner ’44, WW II Army veteran and two-time recipient of the Purple Heart—truly embodies the award’s ideals of service, college and country. While a Dartmouth student Clint chose to enlist in the Army and was wounded at the Normandy landing and the Battle of the Bulge. He later became the commander of the liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp, where he oversaw the care of the survivors and the burying of many of the estimated 55,000 tragically killed there. DUSA, since its founding in 2013, has been conducting amazing work, including securing funding for the Dartmouth veterans fly-in program, which pays for prospective veteran students to visit our campus. DUSA welcomes all veterans and supporters of veterans; please email dartmouthusa@gmail.com or join via its website at dusa.dartmouth.org to become involved.”


Jane Hodges filled me in on her progress in launching Mineral School, a future artists’ residency in Mineral, Washington, a small lake town near Mount Rainier National Park. She bought the school building in 2013 with plans to develop it into an artists’ residency where writers, visual artists and performing artists will come and stay for multi-week stints to advance their creative work. Mineral School did a test-run residency during summer 2014, hosting Bennyroyce Royon, a Juilliard-trained choreographer and dancer with ties to the Northwest, along with four other dancers who choreographed and put on a public performance in the school’s gym. Mineral School has also held public events and collaborations with other area organizations, including a talk by a historical novelist and an evening of Texas-style blues. The big plans, however, are to launch residencies for writers this coming summer. Because Jane is involved in both the property ownership and the nonprofit formation, she says, there was a long period of talking to lawyers and insurers during 2014, but now the Mineral School group is looking forward to getting to the good stuff—bringing writers to the 1947 building, feeding them good food and encouraging their creative work. Jane said she’s enjoyed talking nonprofits with Robb Andrade ’91, who recently returned to Seattle after several years abroad, and that she and the team (alum alert) are working on growing the board (see mineral-school.org).


—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org


With the holidays approaching, we’re putting together a ’92 gift guide: a list of products and services produced by classmates. If you sell or process anything as a career, we want to buy your things that are sold or processed (with apologies to Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything). Email a note to news@dartmouth92.org explaining your gift-worthy item, along with a photo (as soon as your read this, please!), and we’ll include it in the next class newsletter.


As you read this I’m just days away from heading up to the Hanover Plain for Class Officers Weekend (COW). I missed it last year, so I’m looking forward to meeting up with my fellow class officers to reminisce and plan future events (like the big one that’s coming up in just a few years: our 25th reunion). Here are updates from our class of 1992 webmaster, mini-reunion co-chair and treasurer.


Tom Paganucci: “Around the turn of the century I checked back into the Hotel Hanover. I didn’t intend to stay long, but found work as an information technology consultant and often wonder if I’ll ever leave. Outside of work I do my best to enjoy the outdoor activities the region has to offer, including mountain biking and snowboarding in addition to the occasional half marathon. My hope is that this winter brings enough snow to keep local ski areas flush so few have to fly west for a proper fix. Apart from Homecoming and COW, I don’t see as many ’92s as I see folks from ’90, ’91, ’06 and ’10 (ran across one today in Pine Park).”


Kenta Takamori: “I moved to San Francisco from Tokyo at the end of 2011 with my wife and teenage daughter. I work in private client services at J.P. Morgan. Skiing continues to be my central life obsession outside of family and work. I recently signed on as class mini-reunion co-chair with Brant Rose. Any member of the class can take the initiative, grab several other ’92s and give a rouse. Email news@dartmouth92.org if you want to host a mini-reunion in your city—there are subsidies available for mini-reunions from the class budget. Stay tuned for details about a ’92 mini-reunion during Homecoming weekend this year!”


Kyle Huebner: “It’s been a while since I’ve written in, but then again a lot of the most important things in my life have not changed. I’m still married to my beautiful wife, Leanne (we celebrated our 15th anniversary this year), I still have three great kids (now ages 7, 9 and 12), we’re still living in Manhattan Beach, California (17 years in SoCal now), and I’m still working at Stamps.com as co-president and CFO (celebrated my 15th anniversary this year). I’m keeping busy with all the kids’ activities (sports, coaching, scouts, etc.), traveling (France, Hawaii, Yosemite and Cabo) and ran a half marathon this past spring. Oh yeah, and doing alumni interviewing for Dartmouth and being class treasurer (if you’re class of ’92 and reading this, please pay your dues). One of the more exciting things that happened to me this summer is that I swam a 2-mile open water ocean race in which there was the threat of lightning and 6- to 8-foot baby great white sharks (yes, I did see one during the race), both of which led to my best finish ever in the race. Hope everyone is well and look me up if you’re passing through Los Angeles.”


—
Kelly Shriver Kolln
, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org


We enjoyed a great turnout for our annual virtual reunion on the 92nd day of the year. More than 130 classmates sent in notes about what they were doing on April 2. People wrote about teaching and surgery; elephants, skinks, and falcons; children, vacations, and woodworking; all the joys of springtime; and much more. The newsletter compiling everyone’s responses is archived on our website (dartmouth92.org/news), along with past newsletters.


Three of our classmates have published books recently.


Jenna Russell, a reporter at The Boston Globe, coauthored Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City’s Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice, the Globe’s definitive narrative account of the bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon and the intense manhunt that followed. She was at the forefront of the Globe’s reporting of the bombing; the newspaper won a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the event and its aftermath. Jenna previously coauthored the Globe’s biography of Ted Kennedy and lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with her family.


Juliet Serenyi Erazo just published a book about history and cultural change in Rukullakta, a large indigenous territory in Ecuador, called Governing Indigenous Territories: Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Duke University Press). She is an associate professor of anthropology in the department of global and sociocultural studies at Florida International University, a public research university in Miami. Juliet lives in Miami with her husband, Eduardo, and children, Alex (9) and Michelle (5).


Scott Straus coedited a collection of case studies titled The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and its Discontents, a critique of current human rights literature. Scott is a professor of political science and international studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is also the author of The Order of Genocide and a coeditor of Remaking Rwanda. Scott lives in Madison with his wife, Sara Guyer, and children Sadie (7) and Solomon (3).


I was also happy to hear from Kristel Dorion: “I have been working on a carbon offset project in Mexico and Guatemala for the last four years. The project allows Helps International, a nonprofit located in Central America and Mexico, to monetize the environmental benefits of installing clean and efficient wood stoves in very poor rural households where people still cook with open fires. The money then goes back into the community for either education or health. My husband, Hunter Bost, and two boys will be moving to Guatemala this summer, as he will be in charge of expanding Helps International to other countries. Helps International (helpsintl.org) also runs medical missions, plus educational and economic development programs.”


—
Kelly Shriver Kolln
, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org


So how’s this for a fun start to our Class Notes? A couple months ago I spoke with a classmate and asked him to send me an e-mail detailing his latest shenanigans. I then copied the e-mail, put it into my document and saved it for deadline day.


Then at deadline day I checked it again—and the person’s name was missing! I only had their closing tag: “Best, C”


So C, feel free to send me a choice e-mail saying, “Seriously, what is your issue?” In the meantime, to help uncover the mysterious C, this person:


• Has been writing films for the last few years and a few of them are going to be made into features next summer. One is Nik Bones, in which Colin Farrell plays an Irish assassin who gets out of rehab, is sponsored by Will Ferrell and finds himself unable to complete any of his assignments. The other is Harvard to Homeless—yup, the opposite of that crazy Lifetime feature on Liz Murray called Homeless to Harvard. In this one a homeless guy in N.Y.C. is a genius living off of the generosity of others, but at one time he was an associate professor in the mathematics department at Harvard.


• Splits his time between N.Y.C. and London and says he is “trying to find time to feed my goldfish.”


• Had an update on Ted LaGuerre: “He has a couple beautiful kids and his son Jake is turning into quite the athlete so I hear.”


C, show yourself! Answer in the next issue (I hope).


As you might imagine I was more than a little excited when I received an e-mail from an M. Sharapova—at last, I thought, the lovely tennis star Maria had come to her senses for me! My dreams of glory were dashed, however, when I realized it was actually classmate Margot (Jereb) Sharapova.


“After being a corporate nomad, moving every 18 months, it has been nice to be in New Jersey,” she wrote. “My husband and I have been in Princeton Junction for the last three years. I’m still working for GE, now in their healthcare division as the CIO of medical diagnostics. I still love triathlons, but generally keep to the sprint distance so that I’m not too tired to be a mom after a long day at work. The great part about New Jersey is that I can hop on my bike and ride straight from the house into the countryside.


“I’m enjoying the twilight before the teenage years with my kids. My son is 11 and I’m so proud of his accomplishments considering his Down syndrome. He just finished the rec league soccer season, where he made passes and dribbled the ball. My daughter just turned 9 and she’s an outdoor nature lover—right now her favorite activity is convincing her dad to troll on eBay for fossils and minerals.”


As Margot savors her preteen children, Kate Aiken begins that childhood chapter of her life. What better gift on Father’s Day than to make your husband a father, and so it was that Kate and her husband, John Glenn ’85, welcomed Max into the world on June 21. Congratulations, Kate and John!


—Mike Mahoney, Penn Athletic Communications, 235 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-9232; mahoneyw@upenn.edu


Let’s start this set of notes with a word from a long-lost friend, Todd Gorman. He thought it had been awhile since he had written and it was time to remedy that.


“I’ve been living in Canada for 10 years, five years here in Québec City, so my French LSA seems to have paid off!” he said. “I met my Québecoise wife, Nathalie, during my medicine residency in Boston and—voila!—we now work together in the same hospital. I do internal medicine/ICU and Nat does infectious disease. Our first child, Emma, is 8 and perfect. Our second child, Noah, is 6 and approaches perfection asymptotically. The last child, Jacob—note I did not say the third child—is what I’m sure Marlon Brando was referring to as ‘The Horror’ in Apocalypse Now. The two-year warranty is up, though, so we’re keeping him. We’ve all been doing more and more sports as a family as the kids get older, which keeps everyone happy (tennis, soccer, kayaking, biking especially).


“We’ve kept in touch with Greg York and Kelly McMann, and their beautiful children Marie (5) and Henry (3). Greg finished his Ph.D. in molecular biology, but got bored so went back for his J.D. from Michigan. He now practices in Cleveland with emphasis on intellectual property law. Kelly continues to teach in the government department at Case Western, having received her Ph.D. with an emphasis on the process of democratization in the former Soviet Union. She just completed another extended research trip to Kazakhstan!


“Scott Miller returned to the Boston area from his engineering job in Hong Kong, accompanied by his wife, Lisa, who works as an infectious disease physician (with an emphasis on HIV) at the Brigham and with the Centers for Disease Control. Scott left iRobot and now does consulting to corporations interested in production in China. Their boy Caleb nearly matches the terror of our own last child, and Scott and Lisa are expecting their second child in August.”


These notes were submitted toward the end of summer, the season that is always great for gathering with friends. Ilana Shulman wrote in to share the “mini girls’ reunion” she had with Holly Johnson-Colt, Michelle (Beaulieu) Cooke and Kathy (Weigle) Florence at Kathy’s lake house in July. “Having not seen each other since my wedding five years ago, it was amazing to me how quickly we found ourselves sharing old Dartmouth memories and having a terrific time,” she said. “Specifically we found it unbelievable that we had lived in adjoining apartments in the damp basement of a house on School Street senior year and actually thought we had it good living on our own with no AC, dishwasher or clean carpets! Spending a few days in a beautiful house on Lake Michigan together was quite a treat.”


Winner of the well-travelled award goes to Caroline Harris: “I have had my own mini-reunion summer with visits to Nina Weber Neulight and her family (husband Joe Neulight ’91 and their two beautiful daughters) on Bainbridge Island, Washington, for Fourth of July activities; Simon Pearce in Pennsylvania with Jennifer Ackley Bobalik; Provence with Bettina Goldstein Decker (and her husband, Brian, and their two gorgeous little girls); and London with Sarah Carlson and her husband, Eric Zandvliet (both ’93s).”


Now that, my friends, is the Summer of Caroline!


—Mike Mahoney, Penn Athletic Communications, 235 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-9232; mahoneyw@upenn.edu


We’re still sorting through some Facebook call-ins from a few months back, so bear with me if some of this info seems a little dated and old.


With the Olympics still fresh in my mind (literally, the closing ceremonies are on as I pull this together) I would be remiss not to include the note I got from my all-time favorite Canadian, the lovely and talented Christina Flavell: “I am still in Toronto and still in the advertising business; however, I work in employee training and development now, so I can work part time (I missed my 5-year-old son Matthew too much when I worked full time). It has turned out to be a huge blessing in disguise, as I just love facilitating training sessions—takes me back to my days of leading French 1 drills! Had an amazing time at Yoo Jin Kim’s wedding in Mexico in November 2008, and was thrilled that Y.J. and Nan had a healthy baby girl in September!”


“Hi to the class of ’92!” said Mark Berman. “My wife, Yumi, and I and our two kids Sarah (7) and Bradley “Bobo” (5) moved to San Francisco in the beginning of 2005—I escaped with my life and sanity from Lehman Brothers in Tokyo for a new life in the best city in the world. I am running a boutique investment bank called Redwood Strategy with a partner that focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance advisory. My wife writes for a popular Japanese magazine and runs the kids’ logistical operations (school, soccer, playdates, etc.). I spent more than 12 years in Japan, hanging out with classmates David Elisofon and Kenta Takamori at times, and at one point we all worked at the same company. Kenta went on to become a hotshot at Goldman Sachs as head of international equity sales and Dave ran a very successful hedge fund and is now looking to take the plunge again after a short-lived retirement and move to the Bay Area. I still ski regularly, having grown up in Colorado—and, sorry to say to Tahoe lovers, it doesn’t compare! At least it’s accessible and the kids love it.”


I got this note from Jenn Newsom: “Jack and I have a 5-year-old son Eddie and still live in Newton, Massachusetts. Jack runs an analytics team at Silverlink in Burlington, Massachusetts, focused on improving robocalls launched by health plans (he got his Ph.D. a couple years ago from BU). I still work for Chubb (17 years?!), but am now responsible for commercial insurance in the west (everything west of Pennsylvania). The good news is that we got to stay in Boston; the bad news is that I spend a lot of time in the air.”


Tracy Zafian also wrote in from Massachusetts: “My family has been living in Amherst for almost 10 years now. Last year, when I was expecting my second child, I switched jobs from regional planning to transportation research. I now work at UMass in the engineering school’s human performance laboratory. I am enjoying my new short commute (under two miles!) and the return to academic research. The lab has two driving simulators and we do research related to hazard anticipation and distracted driving, including such things as text messaging and cell phone use while driving (scary!). My husband, David, is still an engineering professor at UMass. The kids Zach and Jonathan keep us busy and add lots of smiles to our lives. We are enjoying all the great outdoors activities that western Mass offers!”


—Mike Mahoney, Penn Athletic Communications, 235 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-9232; mahoneyw@upenn.edu


This month I defer to our class president, Brant Rose, as he asked for the opportunity to get everyone in the class up to speed on some of the goings-on with our executive committee. Who am I to say no? He’s our class president! The following text is from Brant.


“This was an incredible year of growth and performance against the goals we set for ourselves. I’d like to thank all the class officers and executive committee who made it happen. Our VP Elissa Aten took on the role of communications shepherd this year, leading our communication team toward doing more online than ever before. She set up a centralized, coordinated system for gathering news across the class, supporting our newsletters, website and alumni columns. She also tirelessly orchestrated a campaign by the executive committee to find every missing e-mail (250ish) from classmates who have not updated themselves with the College to receive class e-mails.


“Newsletter editor Heej Ko doubled her mailings to six this year with more to share than ever and a robust new e-mail tool from the College.


“Treasurer Jason Grinnell and webmaster Tom Paganucci toiled to bring online dues paying to life on our website and now in emails. They’ve also created a tracking system for managing dues payments. Tom deserves a second shout-out for all the hours and coordination he put in this year, engineering the class’ move online this year in most functions. He also managed the difficult transition to the College’s new Harris e-mail tool.


“Our mini-reunion chair, Gary Rovner, now has the support of an entire cadre of city captains in our most populous metro areas. We held a record eight mini-reunions this year in Hanover, D.C., San Francisco, L.A., Atlanta and Virginia.


“Our class project co-chairs Bob and Lynne Delise researched and advocated for our second class project: the Haven Family Shelter. We’ll have more on this valuable resource to the Upper Valley and our support of a student’s work there. I hope you’ll visit the Haven Family Shelter during reunions.


“Dartmouth College Fund chairs Anne Hammer, Libby Peruchini and Brett Scoll Perryman have outdone themselves again—posting our second-best numbers behind our 15th reunion year in terms of participation and gifts raised for the College during this challenging economic climate.


“We have just appointed a day of service chair, Joni Wiredu, after a successful mini-reunion in Los Angeles centered around the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. We hope to spread the concept across the class.


“Our 20th reunion chair, Julie Cillo, is already working on long-range awareness for our next reunion, reaching out to a diverse cross-section of classmates. The executive committee has been so helpful in all these efforts—Kate Aiken, Jen Bobalik, Cally Shea Bybee, Mark A.B. Carlson, Bettina Decker, Todd Donovan, Patricia Gagnon, Caroline Harris, Dave Harrison, Allegra Kochman, Paul Larson, Nina Weber Neulight, Cindy Hansel, Chris Stahl, Joni Wiredu and Wendy Gruenberg Wray.”


I do have one bit of non-business news, about Jason Venokur. If I offended anyone else in the last issue—especially Jason—I am truly sorry. No harm was meant. Peter Aaron sent me the skinny on Jason: “Several years ago, having executive produced two network sitcoms, Jason took a sabbatical from entertainment and moved to Jerusalem to pursue rabbinical studies. He currently lives in Jerusalem, where he still writes both film and television, but also devotes a portion of his time to a charitable media education program he developed with a group of other film and television producers. He is married and has a son named Shalom, after his grandfather.”


—Mike Mahoney, Penn Athletic Communications, 235 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-9232; mahoneyw@upenn.edu


Watching the American athletes parade into the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, I thought, “This is okay, but it was much better with a ’92 carrying the American flag.” Remember when Cameron Myler’s teammates elected her to do so at the 1994 games in Lillehammer, Norway?


Annie Kakela, Nina Kemppel, Carl Swenson and Cameron all competed in the Olympics—and none of them stopped with just one visit to the games. The class of 1992 leads most Dartmouth classes in Olympic attendance. Our classmates competed 12 times (and coached), giving us the silver in this competition I just invented (edged out by the class of 2006 and its amazing roster of women’s hockey players).


Annie competed in rowing in Atlanta in 1996 (placing fourth in coxed eights). “I worked at U.S. Rowing for five years, assisting with the national team and overseeing under-23 athlete identification and development. I coached at the 2012 Olympic Games,” she wrote. “Last fall my husband and I left U.S. Rowing to move back to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, to raise our kids.


“Two stories from my athletic career illustrate the strong friendships and the support network that are developed at Dartmouth and last a lifetime. I made the U.S. rowing team for the 1993 world championships, held in a small town in the Czech Republic. We raced all week and finished the finals with a silver medal. It was totally unexpected from our young crew. As we were rowing back to the dock I heard someone yell, ‘Hey, Annie!’ It was one of my classmates, and rowing teammates, Todd Millay. He was doing a Rhodes Scholarship in England, but I had no idea he was traveling around Europe. He had heard the world championships were going on and decided to stop by to see if I had made the team. A second memory is of the 1996 Olympics. A bunch of my Dartmouth teammates all road-tripped down to watch the racing in Atlanta.”


Nina lives in her native Alaska, where she runs the Alaska Humanities Forum. During her career as a cross-country skier she won 18 U.S. championships. She also competed in four Olympics: 1992 in Albertville, France; 1994 in Lillehammer (placing 10th in the 4-by-5K relay); 1998 in Nagano, Japan; and 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She joined the U.S. Olympic Committee board of directors and began serving as an athletes’ advisory council director in 2010.


Carl is back in New Hampshire (his home state), working as a criminal-defense attorney for the New Hampshire public defender program. He competed in the Olympics in cross-country skiing three times: 1994, 2002 (placing fifth in the 4-by-10K relay) and 2006 in Torino, Italy.


Cameron competed four times: 1988 in Calgary, Canada; 1992 (placing fifth); 1994; and 1998. While a member of the U.S. national luge team from 1985 to 1998 Cameron was U.S. national champion seven times and won 11 World Cup medals (more than any other American woman in the sport’s history).


After retiring from competition she “litigated intellectual property cases and represented Olympic athletes and sports organizations in regulatory, eligibility, ethics and anti-doping matters,” she wrote. “I was just hired as a full-time clinical assistant professor of sports management in New York University’s Robert Preston Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management, where I teach sports law and international sports governance (and love it).


“In my free time I serve as an athlete ambassador for Kids Play International’s programs in Africa, a member of the nonprofit Art of the Olympians and an ambassador for Athlete Ally, a nonprofit advocacy group focused on fighting homophobia in sports.”


—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org


Thanks to all of you who sent along your favorite memories of your first weeks at Dartmouth for our newsletter. 


Also, I continue to appreciate those of you who continue to write in about your (or your friends’) leadership positions in charitable organizations.


Dan Allen made my day when he wrote: “I’m finally sending in some news after 21 years of silence. I was inspired by recent information from classmates involved in nonprofits. Some may find it hard to believe that the guy standing quietly in the corner of a fraternity basement, mumbling about baseball between sips (okay, gulps) of beer is now a pastor, but that’s where God has brought me since graduation. After 10 years in the business world I stopped resisting ‘the call’ to ministry, and I’ve been pastoring Peoples Evangelical Church of Ashburnham, Massachusetts, since 2004. We’re in a small town in a depressed area of central Massachusetts, with many challenges but many blessings as well, as we’ve seen people’s lives changed by our loving God. I’m also grateful to serve as president of the Haitian Mountain Ministry, an organization dedicated to meeting the spiritual and physical needs of people in rural Haiti. From this ministry also came additions to our family, as Christy and I adopted two boys from Haiti in 2009, adding to our two biological kids. That’s my news; at this pace you’ll hear from me again in 2034.”


These next three classmates share a common thread: They’re connected to organizations dedicated to helping high-school students (especially those underrepresented in postsecondary education) attend college and stay to graduate.


Christine Griffith-Legette sent information about Alexandra Bernadotte and her organization Beyond 12: “Alexandra founded Beyond 12 in 2009 to increase the number of traditionally underserved students who earn a college degree. By integrating personalized coaching with intelligent technology, Beyond 12 bridges the gap between K-12 and higher education to ensure that all students succeed in college (beyond12.org). Beyond 12 recently welcomed Shonda Rhimes ’91 to its board of directors. Rhimes is best known as the creator and executive producer of the popular ABC television series Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal. Rhimes joins a diverse board of directors at Beyond 12 that includes experts from the education, nonprofit, technology and business communities.” (Read more about Bernadotte on page 32 of the last DAM.)


I asked Christine what she’s up to these days, and she replied: “As a children’s librarian in Greensboro, North Carolina, I get to do fun, educational programs at my library. I also promote literacy at schools in the community. My husband, Eric, and I have three daughters, who keep us on our toes.”


Pam (Lang) Moeller e-mailed: “I’ve worked for KIPP (the Knowledge is Power Program) for the last 13 years. We’re a national network of free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools dedicated to preparing students in underserved communities for success in college and in life (kipp.org).”


Christine Greenhow replied with a green postcard from the newsletter: “Enjoying new job as a professor of education at Michigan State University. My colleague Cary Roseth ’94 is also a Dartmouth alum. My husband, Jim McCorkell, son Jack and I continue to rack up the Delta SkyMiles, splitting time between Michigan and the Twin Cities in Minnesota, where my husband’s nonprofit, College Possible (collegepossible.org), is based. We enjoyed the summer months back east in Boston and Maine, where Jim and Jack went lobstering and perfected their homemade lobster roll.”


Keep the news coming and stay connected! If you’re on Facebook, join the “Dartmouth College Class of ’92” group. Whether you’re on Facebook or not, you’ll also receive class news via e-mail and snail mail.


—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org


Don’t be fooled by the information at the bottom—it’s Mike Mahoney. For the last 15 years I have been lucky enough to chronicle your news here in the alumni magazine. It’s time for new blood!


I am handing the torch over to Kelly Shriver Kolln, so you will be happy to know that while a new person is writing it, the message will be coming from the same UGA DNA (Hinman second floor, R.I.P.). I know from talking to her at the reunion that Kelly is excited for the chance to do these notes, and I leave it in good hands. It doesn’t hurt that she is married to Thies Kolln, also a ’92, so they can double up on coverage. Kelly’s information is below. 


To those of you who attended our 20th reunion—and it was a record-setting number of more than 300, so there were a lot of you—I hope you had as good a time as I did. What a fantastic weekend in Hanover! I can hardly wait for our 25th!


A few orders of business. First off, we have unveiled D92, the first Dartmouth class application for iPhones and Androids. The mobile app offers a number of safe and secure ways to help members remain connected and engaged. Features of the first release of the D92 app allow classmates to view and RSVP for class events/mini-reunions, view photos of past events, browse Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, check athletics schedules and scores, conveniently network and exchange contact info phone-to-phone, easily look up contact info on alumni and College contacts, contribute to the Dartmouth College Fund and pay class dues and more. Apple users can download the free D92 application by visiting the Apple app store, and it is also available to Android users.


Our second class project is under way with chairs Scott Gardner, Dave Harrison and Kevin Kruse. We’ll be working with Dartmouth athletics to fund its sponsors program. In turn, that department will assign us a recruit as correspondent to the class that we’ll follow for three to four years. This student-athlete will be someone for whom the athletics program has altered the course of their lives for the better, providing an education at Dartmouth they might not otherwise have considered or thought possible.


Our caring committee is under way with chairs Jill Goldberg-Arnold and Molly Phinney-Baskette. The vision is to be a facilitator/connector for classmates who are in challenging situations who ask for the class or specific segments of the class (club, team, sorority, etc.) to send letters and e-mails of moral support. Classmates must reach out to the chairs and privacy will be maintained; disclosures will only be to the extent our classmate authorizes. You can visit our new site’s executive committee page to reach out to Jill or Molly at www.dartmouth92.org/about-us. 


Finally, as I hand off the reins for our class notes, I will be going from thinking about our class every two months to thinking about it every day. Yes, the class of 1992 is making the move to Twitter! You can check us out at @dartmouth1992.


Once again, I want to thank everyone for your help putting these notes together over the last several years. It has been a privilege to be the “face” or “voice” of the class.


—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; dartmouth92news@gmail.com


So how ’bout that reunion a few months back? I had so much fun seeing so many of you, dearest classmates! And when I regained consciousness at the end of the weekend I was told I’d agreed to write this column for five years! But seriously, I’m thrilled to serve as your class secretary. It’s inevitable that I’d take on this role one day: I have such fond memories of working in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine office as a student.


As I try to fill Mike Mahoney’s huge shoes (reigning Secretary of the Year, people!), other class officers also step up this year. We welcome Jennifer Newsom as president and Michelle Davis as vice president, replacing Brant Rose and Elissa McMillen Aten; Kyle Huebner succeeds Jason Grinnell as treasurer; and web manager Tom Paganucci continues to contribute his superb tech skills.


Thanks to the tireless enthusiasm of Brant, Elissa and our other officers we currently enjoy the benefits of being members of an extremely well-connected and active class (technology plays a huge part; have you downloaded the D92 app for your Apple or Android device yet?).


This past year our class gave more than $864,000 to the Alumni Fund, thanks to the efforts of our class agents Anne Blakely Hammer, Libby Peruchini Graham and Brett Scoll Perryman and many more volunteers.


In addition, 15 women from our class—Laurie Schuur Duncan, Patricia Gagnon, Jennifer Davis, Diane Grauer, Annie Kakela, Kimberly Davis, Christy Shero Neuhoff, Kelly Kruse, Christy Goodale, Meredith Benedict, Shelley Bennett, Susan Kirincich, Abigail Bushley, Celia Corkery Civello, Kristin Knies—and Susan MacLennan ’90 donated a new shell to the crew program. They christened it Spirit of ’92 during reunion weekend.


Special thanks to all classmates who participated in our fundraiser at the Saturday night dinner, which raised $2,400 for our class project fund (emcee Gretchen Almy McNeely impressed me with herimpromptu live auctioneering). We sent out our annual $2,000 contribution to the Haven Homework Club immediately, and many classmates returned home from reunion with cool prizes, several donated by fellow ’92s.


Jennifer Davis was also the lucky winner of our drawing for those who donated to the Alumni Fund and paid class dues before June 30. She won an iPad 3 filled with creative content from members of our class. Thanks to Peter Vosshall for donating the prize.


Which reminds me: One of my favorite reunion moments was when Whitney Allen, Jade Butman and I Skyped with Julia Hynes Shoff while reunited campus band Noise Complaint put on a great show in front of the gym. Peter Vosshall, Jeff Owens, Chris Bingham (Whitney’s husband) and Bill Thomas played while Esther Wirth Kopf ’90 and Mary Es Beaver ’90 sang.


Next time around I’ll report on classmates (such as Julia) who couldn’t make it to the reunion for very good reasons. If you’re one of them, send me your news! I’ll coordinate my efforts with Cally Shea Bybee, our newsletter editor. Meanwhile, watch the ’92 Facebook group or the D92 app for upcoming mini-reunion dates (and photos from recent get-togethers).


—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org


Thanks to all of you who participated in our annual class-wide virtual mini-reunion on April 2, the 92nd day of the year. We’ve compiled your responses in a newsletter, which you’ll receive in the mail any day now if you haven’t already. Our annual month of service in April was also a success.


Lil Guerra sent a personal update to go with the news of her book publication in the last column. She regrets missing our 20th reunion last year because of several research trips to Cuba. “In bigger news,” she wrote, “I also have a 3-year-old son named Elías who really likes Gainesville, Florida, far more than he ever liked New Haven, Connecticut (where I spent six years at Yale). The nature is what does it, undoubtedly. Canoeing and cooking are his and my two favorite hobbies. The truth is that, unlike our mascotless alma mater, the University of Florida never really had a hard time selecting one: There are gators everywhere! In the lakes and small bodies of water on campus as well as nearly every state park within a 20-minute driving range. So far none in my pool, though, thank goodness! Frankly, I prefer swimming with manatees (about an hour from Gainesville), also another option for any ’92er who happens our way.”


My column deadline this time fell two weeks after Valentine’s Day, when married Dartmouth couples receive a valentine card from the College (with a donation plea, but still, it’s a very cute idea). From The Dartmouth’s website: “Since 1976 10 percent of living Dartmouth alumni have married other College alumni, according to an article by Meg Sommerfeld ’90 in a 2000 issue of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.”


T. Woody Richman and Cathleen Caron, who met and married several years after graduation in New York City, make up one such couple. They have been living in Managua, Nicaragua, for the past several months and each has been working on a noteworthy project.


Woody traveled in late February from Central America to Hollywood, where he attended the Academy Awards ceremony. The documentary he co-wrote and edited, How to Survive a Plague, was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Award. Although the film didn’t win the Oscar, it will be adapted into a miniseries for ABC. Woody and his team used archival and current footage to create a compelling and inspirational story of AIDS activists who organized to demand effective treatments for the disease. You can watch it right now on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes and several other video-on-demand services.


He also edited Trouble the Water, a documentary about Hurricane Katrina, which was nominated for an Oscar in 2009, and he’s worked with Spike Lee and Michael Moore, among many others.


While Woody was in California, Cathleen was training attorneys back in Central America. The organization she founded, the Global Workers Justice Alliance, assists workers who were denied the wages legally owed them because they left the United States for their home countries.


“We are really enjoying life in Nicaragua,” wrote Cathleen. “Our son Marley was fluent in Spanish after just four months—amazing. Between the beaches, volcanoes and lakes Nicaragua is a very special place.


“As for work, we are expanding the Global Defender Network to Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. The last week of February I will be training 25-plus human right lawyers on U.S. labor rights so that they can help their migrants who have been exploited while working in the United States.”


Keep me posted on the myriad ways you’re making the world a better place, dearest classmates!


—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@ dartmouth92.org


Like all of you I am always happy when a good friend gets a good job, one that he or she desires. With that in mind I want to send a congratulatory note to Jessie Levine, who was recently hired as the assistant town manager in…Hanover! That’s right, it looks like Jessie’s hosting everyone for our 20th reunion in a couple of years. Get a big house, Jessie! Jessie has been the town manager in New London, New Hampshire, the last decade. She will be starting her duties in Hanover right around the time you read this—her scheduled start date is April 25.


Yoshiko M. Herrera has been published! I recently received her book titled Mirrors of the Economy: National Accounts and International Norms in Russia and Beyond. Since I fully admit I nearly flunked the only economics class I took at Dartmouth—yup, “Econ 101”—I’m unlikely to get very far in this before being thoroughly confused. But great to see Yoshiko getting her props!


Class president Brant Rose sent along a personal communiqué among his many business e-mails (the reason he’s the best class president among alumni groups!): “My wife Toochis and I had a very green Christmas in Santa Barbara, California, this year. First we overheard ‘Dartmouth’ at the San Ysidro Ranch and met Beth Owen ’01. The next day we spotted a Dartmouth car sticker and introduced ourselves to Mary Tsaboi ’82 and her husband, Ken. In turn they had randomly met Vanessa Hurley ’09 (and M.P.H. at Dartmouth Medical School) and her father, Patrick, ending with us all raising a drink to the College on the Hill that evening. Round the girdled earth they roam, her spell on them remains.”


Finally, I wanted to alert everyone to a new e-mail address that you can use that will allow us to best gather news and information about our classmates! The e-mail is dartmouth92news@gmail.com; this will allow us to get stuff in the Alumni Magazine, on our website, on Facebook, etc. Please use this e-mail often! It’s not just me—everyone love news!


—Mike Mahoney, Penn Athletic Communications, 235 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-9232; dartmouth92news@gmail.com


Happy holidays to everyone! See, I can say that because I am writing these notes between Christmas and New Year’s. And isn’t it nice to get holiday greetings as you are reaching the end of winter, and just absolutely sick of the snow and ice?


Not much news to report, although one bit of good news came from Paru Mital, who announced the birth of his first child. Kaveesh Rajesh Mital was born October 9 to Paru and his wife, Smeeta. We also had a birth for Chris Ehrlich and his wife, Sara, who welcomed Harrison James to the world on August 18. Congratulations to both Paru and Chris!


Thanks to Facebook (and Julia Hynes Shoff) I heard about my former undergraduate advisor member Kelly Shriver Kolln’s short play, The Ethical Dilemma of a Sandwich Down the Pants, getting a run at the Theater Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Underground. What the heck, right? So the plot basically is this: A man tries to steal a sandwich by stuffing it down his pants but is caught by the clerk, who retrieves the sandwich and puts it back, to the disgust of the rest of the customers in the store. If you know Kelly at all, you will not be surprised to hear that it is a comedy.


So since that’s all I got right now, I thought I’d take a spin through Facebook and give you the updates that are currently, at this moment, on some of our classmates’ pages.


Kate Aiken: “Doesn’t matter how much they had you up in the middle of the night, you gotta love them when they sleep until 8 a.m.”


Melissa Rich: “How do you catch a moonbeam in your hands? Happy holidays everyone!”


Jill Fisher: “Sometimes I hate it when I’m right.”


Cameron Myler: “Getting ready to go for a bobsled ride on the track in Lake Placid! But no, I am not driving.”


Elissa Aten: “Christmas smiles and laughter all around this morning! Wishing friends and family near and far a beautiful day. Hope to chat with many of you later, as we’re heading off to the slopes soon.”


Gretchen McNeely: “Julia tricked me into letting her sleep in mom and dad’s bed…then snoozed till 8:53. Whaaaa?”


How much fun was that? But seriously, news is more fun. So please try to send some along. Please note the e-mail address below, it’s real simple to send news!


Don’t forget, everyone—our 20th reunion! June 15-17 in Hanover! Sign up now!


—Mike Mahoney, Penn Athletic Communications, 235 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-9232; dartmouth92news@gmail.com


I asked for updates on your leadership roles in charitable organizations, and was fortunate to hear from many classmates who are donating time and skills.


Carolyn Biondi: “I’m serving as executive director at a nonprofit called the Crisis Ministry (thecrisisministry.org), which provides food and emergency financial assistance for families at risk for eviction. We distributed more than 150 tons of food and gave away more than $400,000 to people in need in Trenton, New Jersey, and surrounding communities last year. We also have a job training program and helped 15 people to secure employment.”


Dan Frank: “I serve on the board of directors of the National Safety Council (NSC), the leading safety organization in the United States. The NSC is working to address issues such as traffic safety, workplace hazards, prescription drug overdoses, community safety initiatives and other efforts to reduce accidental deaths and injuries. In April we had a particular focus on reducing distracted driving. Many of us have teenagers now. Please remind them to put away their phones when they drive.”


Jeff Guylay: “I serve on the board of a nonprofit my wife founded in 2008 called Nurture (nurtureyourfamily.org). Nurture’s mission is to empower family members of all ages with the tools and resources needed to prepare healthy and delicious meals, even when faced with limited time and budget. We focus on low-income families who are more susceptible to nutrition related diseases such as childhood obesity. We collaborate with partner social services agencies and schools. In our adult education classes we teach participants how to cook delicious, low-cost, nutritious meals for the family, and we give each participant a slow cooker or rice cooker to empower them to change their eating habits. We are fortunate to have developed a longstanding relationship with Hamilton Beach Brands to source cooking equipment for our participants, made possible through Dartmouth classmate and friend Clara Rankin Williams ’93.”


Liza Millet: “I have been engaged in starting a pretty large community service effort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with a few others, including Chris Hessler ’85. It is called Silicon Couloir (siliconcouloir.com) and our mission is to foster entrepreneurship in the Tetons. We host monthly networking meetings that are very well attended, started an angel/mentor group (the only one in Wyoming), host an annual Pitch Day for local companies to meet and attract investors and mentors and generally help people feel like they have the support to go off and create their business dreams. It’s been great fun.”


Lisa Bryan Stringfellow: “I founded a community service group named Stitch for a Cause (stitchforacause.org). I teach kids to knit, crochet and sew and we make and donate items to those in need. During the past 11 years we have donated baby hats to local neonatal intensive care units and to international organizations such as Save the Children, donated infant blankets and clothing to local agencies, and donated pet beds to our local humane society. We also participated in fundraisers and wish-list drives for the March of Dimes, a local women’s shelter, the Kentucky Humane Society and the Infant Resource Center, an agency that supports families in need with baby and toddler items. I am happy to pass on a fun hobby like knitting to the kids I teach, but am even more happy that I can instill in them a sense of service and desire to give back to the community.”


Many more ’92s wrote in about their commitments to service, so I’ll include them next time!


—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (319) 533-4326; news@dartmouth92.org


So Brant Rose is a brilliant man. Trust me. A great idea was put forth—might have been his, might have been others—to have a global mini-reunion on April 2, which of course is the 92nd day of the year! He ran with it. I will also run with it, and pass along some of the whereabouts of our classmates on that fine day.


(What did I do? Let’s see…hike at Brandywine Creek State Park near Wilmington, Delaware, with my girlfriend; dinner in downtown Wilmington; then an Ingrid Michaelson concert to open the new World Café Live at the Queen theater. Good times!)


Alexandra Shepard: Hi from Half Moon Bay, California! My boyfriend and I came down here for a brief (and sadly unsuccessful) crab fishing expedition with friends; we are off to BBQ and then back up to San Francisco, where we live, for a midnight showing of Black Swan. I’d like to say that this is a typical Saturday but that’s not entirely true. We’re just enjoying the great weather!


Catherine O’Neill Goodbred: Took my 12-year-old daughter to ballet practice, then went to the Nashville Predators hockey game with a friend. Unfortunately they lost in OT to the Red Wings, but it was a fun game. I made dinner for my family (daughter, hubby and twin 9-year-old boys) and then took my daughter to her middle school ice skating party.


Kristin Smith: Looking forward to a night of Russian revelry in Brighton Beach with Melissa Apfelbaum and other fun folks!


Molly Phinney Baskette: Hubby and I took our 5-year-old daughter Carmen on a birthday getaway to nearby Lexington, Massachusetts, a green hotel with indoor pool and Wii (whee!). Nine-year-old son Rafe joined us this morning to remind his sister that she’s not an only child after all. All this was postponed from her real b-day last weekend, when we had a huge blowout to celebrate my successfully finishing eight months of chemotherapy for Ewing’s sarcoma! Aisha Tyler and Jeff Tietjens ’91 were on hand to run the kitchen. Now to prep for Sunday morning worship tomorrow, as I slowly transition back to work as senior minister of First Congregational Church of Somerville, Massachusetts.


Anita Reithoffer Tucker: Greetings from York, Maine! Getting ready for one last day of spring skiing with my 3- and 7-year-old boys. Enjoying an April Fool’s snow storm to extend the ski season.


Melissa Rich: Last day of a much needed ski vacation to Squaw Valley in North Lake Tahoe, California, with my husband, Rob. Warm weather and soft snow have made for some definite spring conditions, but new fat skis make that a-okay! Back to work on Monday after a great end to March.


Bradley Weaver: Getting settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota, living near Lake Calhoun. Joined a local rugby team. We moved here a couple of months ago from New England. Making new friends and feeling Midwest vibes.


Ben Crawford: Little League parade at 8. Coaching my son’s first Little League game today. Baseball is life.


And my favorite…


Ted Laguerre: Went skiing at Killington. Best day of the year—snow, sun and only one neon pink jumpsuit spotted (unfortunately not face planted in the snow).


—Mike Mahoney, Penn Athletic Communications, 235 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-9232; dartmouth92news@gmail.com