1941

The news item appearing below was published recently in New Hampshire and is certified to be a true copy:

JUDGE PAYS

"EXETER, N. H. (AP) - Exeter District Court Judge Edward Gage Friday refused to let his position come between him and the law.

After the court session he slipped away to the police station to pay a 50-cent parking ticket for his wife, Margaret.

Although red-faced policemen urged him not to pay a ticket issued by a rookie meter patrolman, the judge insisted and plunked the coins down on the counter."

Bud was unaware that a reporter was lurking near the till. Being a town judge, after the fashion in these parts, is a part-time matter—he is head of a law firm here, having left Bronxville, N. Y., with Peggy and their vigorous and attractive children to settle in Exeter in the 19605.

Another news item, received at deadline reports that Chuck Bolte is leaving his post as vice president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in New York, to become Executive Secretary of the Maine Natural Resources Council. The council is the umbrella organization for environmental improvement efforts in Maine with a membership including 96 groups concerned with the field and 2,600 individual members. Most of Chuck's career has been taken up with posts in public service and this position is in a region of prime importance (and an enviable location for a saltwater sailor).

A mailing for class dues was made in January and in connection with that here are condensed notes on class finance from Lou Young: Of the $10 (deductible) dues, $3 is devoted to purchase of rare books in memory of classmates who have passed away. The Baker Library Memorial Fund, which a number of classes support, buys the books and has each inscribed with the name of a classmate. Income also covers class Alumni Fund mailings, mail support of special class events, as those at the Princeton and Yale games last fall, any class project that may be developed, loans for launching a class Reunion effort (we borrowed and repaid $300 in '72) and the Alumni Magazine subscriptions. The '72 Reunion surplus is being savings banked to help pay for the 35th.

I don't know about the state of the Exeter Police Department till, if it's depending on the Gage's penurious offenses, but Lou's is in the black. Regarding a class project, that mentioned herein- and by Howie Wilson, is moving ahead. Class President Ed McMillan and BruceFriedlich, who originated the idea of classmates providing candid job counseling to students, met in Hanover with Al Cook of the college staff recently to refine details of the plan. In this, '41s from all manner of jobs and professions would go to Hanover in keeping with a schedule to impart live thoughts and critiques of their fields. Though classmates would pay for their travel and lodging, as the scheme has been envisaged, class dues funds could help immeasurably in paying for mailings and correspondence, minutes of gatherings, rental of a mike and similar nuts-and-bolts items. The Alumni Magazine reaches over 530 living members of '41 and, since most readers peek at notes on nearby classes as well as their own, is the preferred means for you to keep in touch with your contemporaries.

That's the substance of Lou's report, and there's every good reason to drop him the check. Add a note on your activities on the back of the bill form, a handy way to update. Here are several just received:

"Better send the check to you now, before I take off for Mexico for the whole of December. Will spend the first week in Mexico City with my wife at the Congreso Botanico, then push on alone to the hinterland. Jaguars, restless natives, poisonous snakes, malaria, turista, et al permitting, I should be back in Calif. New Year's Day, Happy New Year."—Bob Thome.

"We've been in Florida for 19 years now-I've got my own general construction firm and am enjoying the current building flurry. We painted the trucks Dartmouth Green. Best ever to you."-StuHicks. "In September, my daughter Donna had a son, her first, and my fourth grandchild ... Best."—Martin Nevius.

Changes of address: Carl C. krough, to 61 Hillcrest Park, Old Greenwich, Conn. 06870, and Andrew H. Hunter, to 79-15 Park Ave., Worcester, Mass. Bud Hart as Class Agent has a mailing out, too, for establishing his teams. Does anyone want a Reunion ladies' tote bag? I've one left at $6.75 postpaid.

January marks the end of a two-year hitch for Earl Cotton as president of the New England Council for Economic Development, the region's spokesman, unifying force, researcher, generator of ideas, lobbyist, and indispensable jack-of-all trades. Treasurer-Director of Edgcomb Steel Co., Nashua, N. H., Dutch has donated boatloads of time to this big voluntary organization, and now he may take a rest after months of discussions, debates, pilgrimages to Washington, plodding thousands of miles to meetings and surviving rubber chicken on the back-country banquet circuit.

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