Greetings! Timing is everything. Brian Bachelder sent an email the day after my last deadline, so it had to sit about eight weeks to make it to the next issue. But here is news received on June 29. Pardon the delay. Bach sent so much news that I’m going to just let it flow in his own words. “Big news for me was the recent election to president-elect of the Ohio State Medical Association, where next year I will be heading the 9,000-physician state organization. I did a similar stint for the family physicians about 10 years ago. Next year will be busy with the president’s position and the marriage of my son in June. After working as a solo rural family physician for 25 years, I’ve been teaching family medicine in a residency for the past six years. Still active in a local softball league and a full court basketball league for ‘grayhairs.’ The skills haven’t diminished much, but when you start with a low bar I guess that isn’t saying a lot. Married 17 years now to a gal I met on a road trip to the Rafters with three other Alpha Chi Alpha brothers in our senior year. Funny how a two-hour road trip with a half keg to Saratoga Springs, New York, could have such far-reaching results. We went on a four-day yacht trip with Tom Sokoloski and his wife, Rit, last summer; were treated like royalty and lifetime memories were created. Like my kids, I keep up with other friends on Facebook. Just saw a notice that Brewer Doran has become dean of Bertolon School of Business. Congrats to her! Jeff Kirchoff has a taste for fast cars and fast (sled) dogs. Would love to hear from some people who have fallen off the face of the earth: Rob Swenson, Kim Nyberg, Peter Demarest and med school alumni Stu Watson and Mike Gabel.” Thanks for your help, Bach. Maybe after you finish your stint with the Ohio State Medical Association you’d want to fill my seat.

The College forwarded news about Dan Forsyth. Dan is an attorney and the managing member of Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, in Buffalo, New York. He was named Best Lawyers 2016 Buffalo litigation-labor and employment “Lawyer of the Year.” Dan has extensive experience in labor arbitration, collective bargaining, jurisdictional disputes, strikes, picketing and injunction proceedings. Congratulations to Dan!

Making it in just under the wire this morning, David Slade has taken umbrage with my comments about growing ranks of grandchildren and my relaying the news about Dave Clark’s and John Hafffenreffer’s growing families. Dave wanted them to know that he has an edge, as he just found out that he’ll have No. 4 arriving in 2016.

If I make my calculations correctly, in the January issue I should have news of the goings on at the September 17 golf tournament to benefit the Michael Brigham (’77) Fund for Kidney Cancer Research. The event is scheduled at Merrimack Golf Club in Methuen, Massachusetts. While there will be lots of classes represented, I know we’re planning on seeing Todd Morris, Mark Mullan, Paul McCarthy (check your Freshman Book) and me, who will be representing the class of ’76. I hope we’ll have news of other stragglers that made it to this event honoring a friend of many in the class of ’76 and fighting this disease that has affected so many of us either directly or indirectly.

Thanks for the news. Don’t be bashful about writing or emailing. Best to you and your families into the fall.

—Jay Josselyn, 2006 Golden Belt Parkway, Durham, NC 27703; (919) 452-3928; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com