Greetings! I hope that you and your families are enjoying summer in your respective parts of the world. Here in Indiana we’re finally into the long days of summer. Having spent most of my life within a couple of hundred miles of the East Coast on the extreme eastern edge of the time zone, I’m constantly amazed at how much daylight we get here on the western side of the eastern time zone. Sunset at 9:30 around the summer solstice is pretty nice!


Much of the news has to do with Sarah Hoagland Hunter and her current and past works. The alumni magazine I just received had a blurb about her most recent work, Every Turtle Counts, which is her 10th children’s book. It revolves around a 7-year-old’s efforts to save a wounded young Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle and incorporates aspects of the very real international efforts to save the species. The book received a glowing review from the Huffington Post. Sarah also sent out a letter about the passing of the last of the original 29 Navajo code talkers who were the subject of Sarah’s book, The Unbreakable Code, which chronicled the involvement of the Navajo servicemen who played an integral part in our country’s success in the Pacific in WW II. Sarah said, “Eighteen years later The Unbreakable Code is still in print and going strong. I visit multiple classrooms each year, speaking of the heroic inventors of the code and teaching the children how to use the English version of it when they want to keep a secret. In 2006 the governor of Arizona made it the state’s literacy book of the year and, through sponsors, awarded a copy to all 88,000 Arizona fourth-graders. The gifted illustrator of the book, Julia Miner, and I had the press tour of a lifetime, accompanying the governor as she distributed books into the hands of waiting students.” Congratulations to Sarah and Julia. As a soon-to-be-first-time grandfather I’ll have to track down Sarah’s books as a start for a collection of stories for grandchildren. 


As class secretary I get frequent notices from the College of the passing of alumni. I have felt fortunate that most of the lists I receive have been free of classmates. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine no longer publishes the obituaries in each issue but makes them available online at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com. Unfortunately, within the past two weeks I have received news of the passing of two of our classmates, Tim Sullivan and Bruce Bokor. While the obituaries are typically written by the class secretary, I have asked that some of their closer friends come forward and provide a more personal remembrance that can be posted. In the future, should we lose a classmate with whom you shared a special bond and would like to provide an obituary, please let me know. 


Best wishes to you and your families. 


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