Class Note 1998

Hey ’98s, well the updates have been very light this summer. Everyone must be enjoying that groovy summer weather and the late sunsets. In absence of having received any ’98 notes—snail mail or otherwise—I’ll give a handful of shout outs to the ’98s I’ve had the pleasure of running into over the last couple of months. I had the pleasure of spending a recent evening with Yuri Feldman attending a U2 concert at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Yuri and his family live in Greenwich, Connecticut, and it was great to catch up with him.

Also I had the opportunity to spend a nice evening with both Jay Park and Noah Schneiderman in New York City back in June, as we took some time to reminisce about our dear friend David Pichler, who tragically passed away back in 2011. Jay, Noah and I have gotten together pretty much on an annual basis since then, as we attend the yearly awards ceremony at Stuyvesant High School in New York City—David’s alma mater—where a scholarship award is presented in David’s memory to a graduating Stuyvesant senior who is matriculating at Dartmouth the following fall.

And my family and I had a wonderful time a few weeks ago spending the weekend with Benjamin Cooperberg and his family, along with Charles Davant and his family, outside Philadelphia, where Ben lives. Among our three families there were nine kids in total, and everyone got along swimmingly—not bad for a mini-Heorot reunion!

In closing, I hope you ’98s out there will be persuaded by my pitch: If you want to hear less about my friends, and more about your friends, then please shoot me a note and let me know what’s going on in your lives, personally, professionally or otherwise! We have so many awesome classmates in far-flung places all over the world—Kenji Hosokawa and Abiola Lapite, I am talking to you! Please take the time to let your classmates know what you are up to so that we’ll all have lots to talk about next June at our 20th reunion in Hanover!

My best.

—Jeffrey Beyer, 25 Aspen Way, Morristown, NJ 07960; jeffrey.beyer@gmail.com