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May - Jun 2014

The notes are short this month, as I recently suffered a flood in my home. I am hoping to be back at my computer in time for the next issue.


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Mar - Apr 2014

Aside from my continued joy at spending a 39th Christmas with my wife, Randi, the high point of the Yule season in 2013 was my receipt, in the mail, of a beautiful 63-page book with a glossy cover displaying a wonderful picture of our former pres

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Nov - Dec 2013

In a great note from Bill Pulley I learned that he had recently run into Robin Clayton, the late Gordon and JoAnn Hood’s daughter.

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Sept - Oct 2013

Charlie Abbe, my high school friend and freshman roommate, returned, as usual, to Concord, New Hampshire, from his Englewood, Florida, winter watering hole in April.

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Sept - Oct 2012

Jim Strickler was awarded the Humanitarian Medal of Mother Teresa by Atifete Jahjaga, president of Kosovo.

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Sept - Oct 2011

In the last column I briefly mentioned that I had received a call from Frank Dickinson. What I did not spell out was the broad spectrum of Frank’s current activities.

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Nov - Dec 2012

This will be the shortest column that I will have served up to you in the seven years since I began this tour. Part of the reason may be because I am getting a little bit old and a little bit tired.

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Nov - Dec 2011

I am dashing off this column on August 28 just as Hurricane Irene is about to crash into lower Manhattan. My first hurricane happened in 1938. We first learned of its existence when the wind nearly blew us away. The damage was severe.

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May - Jun 2012

I hope you have read Cul Modisette’s bio in our 50th yearbook as I suggested in the last column. As promised, here’s more about Cul.

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May - June 2011

On February 5 Frank Gilroy was presented with the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Writing by the Writer’s Guild of America East.