Class Note 1976
Greetings! As you read this, our 35th reunion will be just under two months away. You’ve probably already received e-mails from Bob Wetzel and his reunion committee with preliminary information and probably printed material as well. It looks like Bob and his committee have done a lot of work to make the experience fun and informative, and the weekend timing should work better for most involved.
After reading something about a Maura Mulroy at Duke, I sent Rick Mulroy an e-mail asking if she was a relative. It turns out Maura is the middle of Rick’s three daughters. She is a senior at Duke majoring in engineering—mechanical and biomedical. Rick and wife Sheila’s oldest daughter, Katie, graduated from the University of Richmond and is teaching English in Japan. Their youngest daughter, Sarah, is a freshman at Villanova and is an arts and sciences major. Rick has been in programming since 1980 and is currently working for American Council for International Studies after having worked at Harvard for 21 years. He and Sheila have lived in Reading, Massachusetts, for about 25 years. Rick recently had lunch with Kipp Barker, whom he hadn’t seen since college.
One of the benefits of being class secretary is that the College will send me works published by classmates. Recently I received a copy of Carl Little’slatest book, The Art of Dahlov Ipcar, which is quite interesting. Ipcar is a 90-plus-year-old lifelong painter and author and recipient of numerous honorary degrees. She still paints daily at her home in Georgetown, Maine. Carl and his family live in Somesville, Maine, where he is the director of communications and marketing for the Maine Community Foundation. Carl has written several art books and is a regular contributor to Art in America, Art New England, Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors and Ornament magazines and has written catalog essays for exhibitions by several artists. He was formerly the director of the Blum Gallery at the College of the Atlantic. In 2000 he was awarded the Acadia Arts Achievement Award for his contributions to the arts on Mount Desert Island, Maine.
That’s it for now. Please send news. I will have plenty to write about after the reunion, but you won’t read about that until August. I hope to see many of you at the reunion. Please come and help make it a success. Bob, his committee and class co-presidents Judy Csatari and Andy Gettinger have put in a lot of effort to make this a success. The biggest success will be to see as many of you as possible at the reunion so you can reunite with old friends, make new friends and share experiences with classmates, as well as see all the physical changes at the College. If you haven’t been to a reunion before, all the more reason to go to Hanover and reconnect!
Enjoy your spring and we’ll see you in Hanover June 17-19.
—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, 919-493-7814, jayjosselyn@hotmail.com
