Class Note 1976
Issue
Greetings! I hope you are all enjoying the summer and being able to spend time with your families. I was fortunate enough to make it to Hanover a couple of times in the past few weeks. During my first visit the Alumni Council was in town and I was able to spend some time talking to Bill Hutchinson, now in Duxbury, Massachusetts. While I was talking to Hutch, President Kim’s new chief of staff, David Spalding, walked by and we were able to talk quickly before he was off in another direction. After seeing the two of them I was able to spend some time with Pam Gile and her husband, Peter Gamble, in Lyme, New Hampshire. Pam has been able to slow down her schedule, which gives her more down time so that she can enjoy working in her garden and spending time with grandchildren.
Another trip to New England on a sadder note was for the funeral of Wendy Simila Snickenberger’s brother-in-law in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Not the kind of trip you want to take, but it was good to see Wendy, who’s still with Harvard Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
My second trip to Hanover was a last-minute trip to the alumni baseball game hosted by Coach Whalen, who has done a terrific job during his tenure as coach, including trips to the NCAA Regional Tournament each of the last two years. The new facility, Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park, is unbelievable. The game was actually set up as an opportunity to celebrate the 1970 team’s trip to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Lots of eras were represented, but the only players from our time in Hanover were Todd Morris, Jim Beattie and me. No sign of Dave Clark, Greg Cronin, Mark Mullan, Gordie Nye, Russ Bartlett, Tom Potter or Brian Graf. Also in attendance was Martha Beattie, before she headed off to the class teleconference. Todd was the iron man of the day, putting the younger players to shame, catching both ends of all innings as no one else would catch. They didn’t let Todd hit as there were too many people on the adjacent tennis courts and none of them had helmets. Todd had a chance to show his 16-year-old son Alec around the campus and Todd and I were actually in Baker for the first time.
On my way home from Hanover I ran into Paul McCarthy, whom you may remember from our Freshman Book, who was also a friend of both Gordie Miles and Chris Hodgson in Winnipeg, Canada. Paul was on his way to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, taking his daughter to orientation at Coastal Carolina University. Paul is living in Bedford, New Hampshire, and is the electronics business.
I’m sure you’ll be hearing more from Andy Gettinger and Judy Csatari about our upcoming reunion in 2011. Again, I can’t write it if you don’t send it.
—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com
Sept - Oct 2010
Greetings! I hope you are all enjoying the summer and being able to spend time with your families. I was fortunate enough to make it to Hanover a couple of times in the past few weeks. During my first visit the Alumni Council was in town and I was able to spend some time talking to Bill Hutchinson, now in Duxbury, Massachusetts. While I was talking to Hutch, President Kim’s new chief of staff, David Spalding, walked by and we were able to talk quickly before he was off in another direction. After seeing the two of them I was able to spend some time with Pam Gile and her husband, Peter Gamble, in Lyme, New Hampshire. Pam has been able to slow down her schedule, which gives her more down time so that she can enjoy working in her garden and spending time with grandchildren.
Another trip to New England on a sadder note was for the funeral of Wendy Simila Snickenberger’s brother-in-law in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Not the kind of trip you want to take, but it was good to see Wendy, who’s still with Harvard Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
My second trip to Hanover was a last-minute trip to the alumni baseball game hosted by Coach Whalen, who has done a terrific job during his tenure as coach, including trips to the NCAA Regional Tournament each of the last two years. The new facility, Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park, is unbelievable. The game was actually set up as an opportunity to celebrate the 1970 team’s trip to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Lots of eras were represented, but the only players from our time in Hanover were Todd Morris, Jim Beattie and me. No sign of Dave Clark, Greg Cronin, Mark Mullan, Gordie Nye, Russ Bartlett, Tom Potter or Brian Graf. Also in attendance was Martha Beattie, before she headed off to the class teleconference. Todd was the iron man of the day, putting the younger players to shame, catching both ends of all innings as no one else would catch. They didn’t let Todd hit as there were too many people on the adjacent tennis courts and none of them had helmets. Todd had a chance to show his 16-year-old son Alec around the campus and Todd and I were actually in Baker for the first time.
On my way home from Hanover I ran into Paul McCarthy, whom you may remember from our Freshman Book, who was also a friend of both Gordie Miles and Chris Hodgson in Winnipeg, Canada. Paul was on his way to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, taking his daughter to orientation at Coastal Carolina University. Paul is living in Bedford, New Hampshire, and is the electronics business.
I’m sure you’ll be hearing more from Andy Gettinger and Judy Csatari about our upcoming reunion in 2011. Again, I can’t write it if you don’t send it.
—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com