1991

1991

Happy fall, class of 1991! We have confirmation that our summer newsletter reached the mailboxes in Washington, D.C., as two classmates actually followed the instructions on the enclosed Green Card to “take a minute for a message” and sent me their news via snail mail!

Laura Donohue sent back her card with some exciting news. She recently returned from the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, where she gave a talk on her most recent book, The Future of Foreign Intelligence: Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2016). Her timely and relevant book won the 2016 Palmer Civil Liberties Award. Laura is a professor at Georgetown Law teaching constitutional law and national security law. And, she notes, shejust joined Twitter. Follow her at @Laura_K_Donohue!

Another D.C.-area resident, Priscilla Huff, also sent a great update. “It’s been a long hot summer for the class of’91 journalists,” she said. First off, the D.C. Dartmouth club kicked off the summer with a dinner where Jake Tapper was presented with the Noah Webster Award. In addition, she wrote, “David Martosko [the Daily Mail’s U.S. political editor] has been seen globally asking President Trump questions at his rare press conferences. And, yes, I’ve really been standing on rickety platforms filming hearings and press conferences.” Priscilla, who studied journalism at Columbia after Dartmouth, is a journalist for Feature Story News and lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

And this fantastic update came from Steve Fried, co-head class agent: “After our stunning performance last year the class of 1991 raised $1.9 million from 419 classmates, a participation rate of 41 percent!” Steve noted that this is “an amazing result, especially given that so many of our classmates really dug deep last year.” According to the College, our performance this past year earned a slew of new accolades: We now hold the new, non-reunion dollar record for a class this many years out; we won the John H. Davis 1925 Award for the largest non-reunion dollar total; we won the Joshua A. Davis 1927 Award for the greatest improvement in non-reunion dollars (at 203 percent); and we won the Andrew J. Scarlett 1910 Award for the greatest increase in non-reunion dollars (231 percent).

Thank you to all of the class agents and to everyone who contributed!

Finally, here’s a friendly reminder that the Dartmouth football team is playing Brown in Boston at Fenway Park this fall. The game is on November 10 and kickoff is at 8 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at redsox.com/gridiron. If any ’91s plan to go, share your plans on our Facebook page.

That’s it for now. I expect my next column to have updates from Class Officers Weekend and Homecoming! Hope to see many familiar faces at both events. Enjoy the fall and keep sending your news!

Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net