1931

In response to my inquiry, Ernie Moore admits that he marched with the Concord Minute Men in the Presidential Inaugural Parade. I thought I had caught his profile in a photo in the Boston Globe.Parker Soule says he was watching for the Minute Men to appear on TV when someone decided that it was a good time for a commercial. By the time the commercial had finished, the Minute Men had gone! Sic gloria transit!

Ernie is deeply involved with the Minute Men, is chairman of the 1973 Patriots' Day Ball, cochairman of the Traffic and Transportation Committee for the Town of Concord for 1975, when they expect between one million and two million people. He also is a member of the long range planning committee for the Minute Men.

Further, Ernie forwards a letter from Mrs. JackBean (Margaret) of Jaffrey, N.H., in which she acknowledges that the Concord Minute Men will be marching in Jaffrey's 200th anniversary parade on Saturday, August 18. Mark your calendar.

From Time Magazine, January 15 issue of this year, is the following interesting quote: "Press critic Ben Bagdikian recently focused attention on the Berkshire (Mass.) Eagle when he ranked the Eagle (along with the New York Times and Paris' Le Monde) as one of the world's three 'great newspapers.' " Eagle managing editor Rex Fall says: "We're proud of what we do, and we hope we're getting better, but I prefer to treat the Bagdikian reference as some sort of a mild joke." The article continues: "Joke or not, the commendation reminded other small-city papers of what they might become." This is an accolade indeed.

I discovered 22 addresses from Florida in the class file and have forwarded same to Jim Swift and Parker Soule for appropriate utilization. Therefore, the classmate who guesses nearest to 22 will get that notorious cigar which I offered last month.

Jack Cunningham, widowed in 1971, now lives with his two bird dogs in Columbus, Ohio, and is taking flight training at Ohio State, hoping to have his private pilot's certificate by Christmas.

Having taught in the Framingham (Mass.) school system for 39 years, Art O'Brien speaks with the voice of experience when he writes in the local paper about the reluctance of public school teachers to assume responsibility for discipline in the schools. He claims that current local and state philosophy "seems to be projecting the notion that teachers' work responsibility begins and ends in the classroom, that lovemaking in the cor- ridors, destruction of laboratories, up-ending cafeteria facilities, etc. really have little to do with their overall responsibility." Art says this all points to a national problem of serious dimension.

What say you?

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