1955

One of our number who lives within the shadow of Baker Tower is Jim Wechsler, executive director of the Upper Valley-Lake Sunapee Council. A personal profile on Jim in the Valley News revealed that he is one of the area's most active citizens. After graduation, Jim went to New York, where he took courses in health at New York University and continued with the sports writing that he had begun while an undergraduate. Shortly thereafter, he was offered a job as a sportswriter on the ValleyNews in Lebanon, N.H. He rose to the post of managing editor and remained there until 1965. At that time, he decided he had put in enough time in that post and moved down to the big city (Concord, N.H.) to become political editor of the Concord Monitor. From there, he jumped to Washington, D.C., where he learned the ins and outs of government bureaucracy by serving as an administrative assistant to then-newlyelected New Hampshire Representative, Republican James Cleveland. Jim remained there for a year and a half and after another brief spell at the Concord Monitor, he came back to the Upper Valley in 1971 and purchased the Granite State Gazette, which he later sold. Since 1974, the year the Upper Valley-Lake Sunapee Council was officially formed, Jim has served as its director. Jim has long been in- terested in sports and kids, and, because of his active involvement in sports programs, he has been honored by various brotherhood groups for his outstanding work in that area. Jim is also a single parent. Three of the youngsters who came to him for help along the way decided to stay forever, and Jim is now their father, although he has never married. When asked to comment about why he has such a busy life and how he ended up where he is today, Jim said that he had wanted to earn a million dollars by the time he was 30; but by the time he was 22, he realized that was not going to happen, so he decided to enjoy himself instead. He's been doing that ever since and in so doing has made an outstanding contribution to humanity.

Another of our classmates who has made the newspapers recently is Jim Donohue. Jim, a native of Clinton, Mass., went on to Boston University Law School after graduation, went into private law practice, and was also an assistant district attorney in Worcester County for 12 years. He has recently been appointed a Superior Court judge. Jim still lives in Clinton with his wife and four children.

This writer was attending his wife's 25th high school reunion in West Hartford, Conn., in September when he ran into Mike Ellovich, whose wife was a member of the same class. Mike revealed that he is a practicing psychologist and an enthusiastic low handicap golfer, and that he is willing to be talked into attending the 25th reunion in June. Judging from the way Mike looks, he probably could give most of us a couple of shots.

Last summer we ran into Jim Keene on Cape Cod, where he has recently bought some summer property. Jim is a vice president of marketing for Johnson's Wax Company in Wisconsin. Now that he has property here in the East again, the chances of his attending a reunion are improved.

Lastly, one of our stalwart reunion committee members, Bob Garver, has been named a director of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. Bob is chief executive officer of the Charlestown Savings Bank and also shares (with Pete Thompson) the far more important job of heading the attendance committee for our 25th.

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