Lifers Dinner for the Class of 2024
A beloved annual event, our annual “D-E Lifers” Dinner, held up to tradition earlier this spring. “Lifers” are our senior students who have attended D-E in all three divisions. During this year’s dinner, each “Lifer” from the Class of 2024 -- more than 30 in all! -- honored one specific faculty or staff member who made a positive impact on them during their entire tenure at D-E. Students wrote short yet moving speeches thanking their honoree. Please see below for a list of all of our Class of 2024 “Lifers”.
Congratulations to all our Class of 2024 “Lifers” and their families, and a sincere thank you to our honorees for “making it better” for all of these students!

D-E ’96
Karen Orzolek's band, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, reissued its debut album, Fever to Tell, this past October and held several concerts in the United States for the first time in four years. Go Karen O!
D-E ’00
Samantha Mann Raphael sent in this update this past December: “I have been living in Massachusetts for the last 13 years. My husband and I have two girls, Fraya (5 years) and Sydney (16 months), who keep us on our toes! This year began my 11th year teaching social...
D-E ’04
Matthew “Matt” Krane got a promotion recently. After seven years with Accenture, Matt has spent the past two and a half years with GEP Worldwide, a leading international procurement and supply chain consulting and technology firm. In December 2017, he was promoted to...