Greetings! By the time you are reading this I hope you will have had your summer vacation and are enjoying the fall. Try to let your own fall memories of Hanover, like the brisk mornings, changing leaves, bonfires, football games, etc., stimulate you to send some news to your poor class secretary.


Don’t keel over! I’ve actually received some news! I heard from Steve Shmanske, who was intrigued by the featuring of “Freakonomics” on the cover of the June/July issue of the Alumni Magazine. He felt that despite the fact that the attention was deserved, there may have been some coattail riding, given the title of his book published a year earlier, Golfonomics. Steve has been a professor in the department of economics at Cal State University, East Bay in Hayward, California. As he says, according to the president of the university he was recently “promoted” to professor emeritus, thereby giving him time to work on his handicap. As Steve has proved it’s not that hard to throw me a bit of news now and then. If only we could get some of the other soccer connection (Bruce Bokor, Steve Papai, Steve Shoemaker, Scott Specht, Dave Lidstone, et al.) to send some news it would make my job easier.


David C. Clark has passed along news that he will have a game on the shelves toward the Christmas season. It’s called Letter Rip! It’s a word game similar to a game played on the baseball team bus using newspapers and periodicals, if my understanding is correct. Clarkie, you need to be sure your legal foundation is strong as Gordie Nye, Walt Arbuckle and Brian Graf may be looking to you for royalties. 


Kenneth L. Mickens, Esq., has been elected to the board of directors of the Sustainable Energy Fund, a private nonprofit corporation based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, that promotes energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy conservation. Kenneth is a 1979 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and maintains a private legal practice in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 


Keep your eyes and e-mail open for information regarding our upcoming 35th reunion next June. Co-presidents Judy Burrows Csatari and Andy Gettinger started working a while ago to get things in place. Reunion chairman Bob Wetzel is hard at work getting his staff in place to ensure that everything will be in order and enjoyable upon our arrival in Hanover next June. You’ll be receiving more information from Bob, Judy and Andy as we get closer. If you’re contacted by any of the three, please help where you can to make the reunion another success.


As a sad conclusion to this issue, I have to inform you of the death of Jay Hambrick who passed away on June 29. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. His obituary will be available online through the DAM site (www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com).


Best wishes to you and your families until the next issue.


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