Hello, ’76ers! Is anyone out there? Thanks to Nessa Flax, I have some news to pass along. I received an e-mail from Nessa last night celebrating, and rightfully so, the publishing of her book Voices in the Hills: Collected Ramblings from a Rural Life. The book is published by Bunker Hill Publishing and should be available now. The book recounts life in the North Country or the Northeast Kingdom and New Hampshire north of Dartmouth. Nessa lives in Ryegate Corner, Vermont, and has written about the people and the land where she has lived for the past several years. Quite a change from her work as a columnist for the Journal Opinion, a local newspaper. She has written, taught and coached in the area for many years and has truly made it her home. That’s quite a change from Virginia, Pennsylvania and California, where she grew up. This is just a guess, but it looks like the cover photograph may actually be looking east from Vermont toward Mount Moosilauke, but that’s just a guess. If it’s not, it’s still a picture that will remind all of us of fall in Hanover.


When she wrote, Nessa was looking forward to the book’s launch party, which was to be held in The Happy Hour restaurant (aptly named) in Wells River, Vermont. Congrats to Nessa. She also wrote that she tried to shame Grant Huber into passing along information, but so far I haven’t seen any results. I do have to thank Nessa as I really had nothing to pass along when it came time to write this.


I can normally count on information to come from other class officers, an occasional e-mail or random phone call, but I have nothing to report at this time. I went to the class of ’76 Facebook page and still came up empty. I can only assume that people are busy with children and grandchildren. Here in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, we’re preparing for the wedding of our youngest daughter, Pamela, in early August. We’re looking forward to being joined by Todd Morris, Mark Berthiaume ’77, Fred Kramer ’77 and Chris Morris ’78. In years past that has been a dangerous combination, but I’m counting on (or at least hoping for) age and better judgment to keep things in line. 


Seriously folks. Please send me some news. As I’ve said before, what you may think is mundane will probably be of interest to classmates who haven’t heard of or from you in years. Drop me an e-mail, call me or even use the mail (does anyone use the USPS any more?). Here’s wishing you and your families a safe and healthy summer. If you didn’t get the message above, please send news!


—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com