Hello from Hoosierland. By the time you get this it will be cool most places, including Hanover, but right now here in Indiana we’re getting some heat after having a very mild summer. I’m sure that I’ll have some stories of the Dartmouth-Butler football game and people that managed to make the trek to the Circle City, but any stories I have will have to be read in December. So much for the electronic age.


I could tell you about folks from other classes, but as of right now, the well is empty. I’m again at the point where I may have to start making things up, so if you don’t start pulling your weight and sending me some information, you don’t know what may show up in the future columns.


I don’t know where everyone else stands, but despite the fact that our column sits closer to the middle of the Class Notes I don’t feel as old as we probably appear to the current crop of students. We have some classmates who have been retired for a few years (some several) and there are some of us who will be working for a while longer. For those of us who are still fortunate enough to have our parents around, there is a whole different set of circumstances to consider that are light years away from what we were thinking about in 1976. It’s hard to believe that it was 41 years ago this fall that we arrived in Hanover thinking that there wasn’t much we didn’t know everything about. Four years later we were ready to take on the world, only to find that we still had a lot to learn and have kept on learning the whole time. It actually doesn’t seem that long ago.


Let’s hope that President Hanlon ’77 is ready to take on the challenges of the changes facing the College as things move forward into the 21st century. I know that he’s already had a full late summer and I hope his fall will be less “interesting” than the summer has been. The student body may continue to be intelligent, but it doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily loaded with common sense. I’m just glad we didn’t do anything foolish (hah)!


Send me some news. As I’ve said before, what you may think is mundane will be interesting to someone else. Inquiring minds want to know! I should have news when I send in my notes in October for the December column having, I hope, seen many classmates in the crossroads of America. Or, as I said, fiction may be more entertaining than truth.


—Jay Josselyn, 304 Sussex Circle, Noblesville, IN 46062; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com