Greetings! The first day of summer has come and by the time you read this it will be more than half over. So far my first spring in the Midwest has been pleasant and I haven’t missed the North Carolina humidity, although March Madness was different for me in this basketball hotbed than it has been in ACC territory during the past 14 years.


I explained in the last column that Nessa Flax had made some inquiries on my behalf, but the results came in after the deadline. She gently nudged Nils Rosenquest into relating some of his post-Dartmouth path. Nils currently is an attorney and has a “business, housing and real estate trial practice peppered with an occasional case that hits my social justice nerve” in San Francisco. His route post-Dartmouth has been interesting, but most active in the past 10 years. He explains that, “El Cerrito [California] High School was the first West Coast school to apply to the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program, and the initiating school board member thought a Dartmouth graduate on the team (or several) would help the school’s chances.” As Nils says, once El Cerrito was accepted, he ceased to be a “lost alum.” That experience helped him become involved as an alumni interviewer, which he’s done for the past three years. He’s observed that the application/acceptance process has become that much more stressful, as the competition for a spot in the freshman class becomes more intense. He has interviewed 18 candidates and he finally was fortunate enough to have one accepted. He shares my observation that had we applied now, chances are I would be writing this column for another alumni magazine or he may have taken a different road. The applicant pool becomes larger every year, making the odds of acceptance that much more difficult to overcome, but he’s happy with the results: “Still I have met several younger alumni in the past few years at one gathering or another, and it would be fun to start college all over again. Even if I have to tell them that I first programmed a computer with paper tape and the Internet was not invented until after I started law practice.” 


I appreciate Nils’ efforts (thanks, Nessa), and urge others to pass along the same type of info. I know a lot of us stay connected via social media, but there are plenty more out there who would be interested in our version of “Where are they now?” which used to be a Sports Illustrated feature. 


I know I’m looking forward to Dartmouth football’s venture into the Midwest to play Butler on September 21. If you’re within a few hundred miles, please try to make it. We’re looking forward to closing on our Noblesville, Indiana, house on June 28 and spending the summer on Morse Reservoir. Please contact us if you’re in the area. For something new, please send news!


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