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Why did you go to Dartmouth? It’s been almost 25 years, but for many of us the reasons we spent our college years in Hanover still resonate today.

Pamela chandran: “the sunset was reflecting off the windows of Dartmouth Hall and over the crests of the White Mountains and it was the most beautiful thing i’d ever seen.”

Ute Otley: “I wanted to play basketball for a great coach (Jacquie Hullah) and I wanted to be challenged academically. Both worked out.”

Sarah (Jacobson) Lennon: “I wanted to study international relations and languages and run track. Fortunately, my policy and language career has lasted far longer than my running!”

Ali Long: “I chose Dartmouth for its renowned education, its access to nature and the type of student I hoped these two values would inevitably attract.” Ali also reported that she took her sons Quincy (9) and Zack (6) to the Galapagos Islands this August on a Dartmouth alumni travel Na- tional Geographic/Linblad Expeditions eight-day trip aboard the Endeavor. “The access to endemic wildlife was incredible,” she wrote. “My 81-year- old father came along, so three generations in our family together had an experience of a lifetime.”

Roth Herrlinger: “I visited Dartmouth one fall weekend, went to a football game in the pouring rain and could hardly believe how much fun ev- eryone was having.”

Scott Jeffress: “Big Green cross country and track, Army ROTC, alumni encouragement, fresh- man trips, Baker Tower, the Green and, of course, those ‘soft September sunsets’—what a place!”

In some additional news, Alan Ellis recent- ly left his post at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC-Chapel Hill for a tenure-track assistant professor position at the North Carolina State University department of social work. He’ll be teaching research courses and focusing his own research on child mental health and well-being. His son, Cody, is studying healthcare at a nearby community college and his wife, Genevieve, is working on a gluten-free cookbook.

David Clark is the new head of school at the Boca Raton, Florida, campus of the Pine Crest School, with 850 students from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. He’s been involved in education for 23 years, 14 of them at Pine Crest. David and his wife, Nicole (Smith) Clark ’89, have three daughters: Amber (20) will be a junior at Bates College in Maine; Autumn (16) is a junior at Pine Crest; Ashleigh is beginning eighth grade. Anyone visiting south Florida is invited to stop through.

Finally, our 25th reunion co-chair Meg Som- merfeld sends this important missive: “Though it may seem hard to believe, our 25th reunion is coming up soon! Please save June 18-21, 2015, to reconnect with classmates and enjoy a spe- cial weekend in Hanover. Our theme is ‘Oh the Places We’ve Been,’ a nod to Dr. Seuss’s Oh the Places You’ll Go, published in 1990. We hope the theme also brings to mind the different journeys we have been on since graduation: Some we an- ticipated and others we never expected. We have persevered through tough times and celebrated joyous ones. As we return to Hanover we want to celebrate this rich tapestry of life experiences and the many twists and turns our lives have taken. We already have an energetic group of volunteers, but there is still space on the planning team—the more the merrier! If you want to get involved, have ideas you want to share or just want to ask a ques- tion, please drop me a line at meg.sommerfeld@ comcast.net.”

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