1945

By the time you read this (assuming you do and don't stop here), the fall mini-reunion will be a thing of the past and highly successful, I predict. And Shirley and I will have left Welch Island and moved "south" to Seabrook, N.H., for the winter.

That may not be earth-shaking news; but one person apparently anxious to see winter come, according to a recent article in the Manchester, N.H., Union-Leader, is Charlie Holt, the phenomenally successful coach of the U.N.H. hockey team. The article refers to Charlie as "normally reserved" but goes on to say that he "cracks a smile when he thinks about the upcoming season." The first confrontation between Charlie's team and Dartmouth will come December 15. It will be played in Durham, where the Wildcats boasted a 14-1 record last year.

If you are living in this area and happened to see that article, you may also have noticed my new column, which is appearing approximately once a month on the "Behind the Headlines Commentary on Our Times" page. It runs with a small photo of me which I thought made me look quite dignified, but everyone tells me it is 'terrible" and makes me "look old." OLD!? That does it. I'm going to change the picture.

A full-time journalist, Edward H. Harte resides in Corpus Christi, Tex., where he has chaired the board of the National Audubon Society for five years. Ed has had his "aging spine" straightened out with a steel rod but keeps his mind from aging by serving on the board of Winrock International, a Winthrop Rockefeller foundation dedicated to assisting Third World nationals in management of their resources.

As most everyone knows, Pat and Ted Smith are the proud owners of a residential lot just over the Hanover line in West Lebanon. Now you may have heard of a 1976 plan to construct a rapid transit beneath the Hanover Plain. And here comes Ted, these six years later, exhorting George Barr, a neighbor down there over the line, to lobby for resurrection of the plan (to include, of course, a slight southerly extension). This plan is no joke, you know. With a coed campus, the old proposal of a subway from Hanover to Smith country is no longer essential.

It seems that Hanover almost pioneered small-town rapid transit, as the U.S. Department of Transportation found "Hanover's innovative proposal the most workable to appear in our offices" and offered 95 per cent financial backing. Apparently the subway bogged down in problems of funding the remaining five per cent. Careful research into the matter, however, uncovers a startling fact the proposed system was actually the result of a study by Brown University.

It is possible that Brown is trying to undermine Hanover?

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