Who is that Mystery Man?

Suzanne Sehl asked… Did they do this for Belknapians?

My mother, 95, just recently passed away. Going through her house found this poster.
The last ” Beer Blast” class of 1972
Yale Geftic

Here is a link for any Belknap Alum who may wish to see Dr. Frye’s on-line physics book from 1948. Best wishes to all at those who can make the reunion.

https://archive.org/stream/essentialsofappl029186mbp/essentialsofappl029186mbp_djvu.txt

Warmly,
Harry
Harry Bridges
harrybbridges@icloud.com

Thank you Dan Wallace for these neat old pics. I think they were taken summer 1970.

Frank Marks was playing with his iPhone, taking pix, impressing all with it’s ability to surf…. until Anita scolded him to “Put that away!”

Noelle, Daryl and Anita getting together in Florida

Ed Clancy in Florida, 2/2008

Daryl at Joe Cracker’s

Jim at Joe Cracker’s

Center Harbor in times of yore…

Mt Washington Cruise Ship

Photo by Peggy Fagerstrom / The Associated Press

Deborah (Molburg) Bicknell from Juneau poses with the “Widow’s Lamp” which is lit at the beginning of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and is blown out by the last musher, signifying that the race is over, on Monday, March 17, 2008, in Nome. The red lantern is a trophy presented to the last musher who finishes the race.

The 2008 Iditarod was Debbie’s last run behind a dog team in a race. She ran her first Iditarod in 2007, and 300 miles into the race, got lost in a blizzard and got soaked in the Kuskokwim River in the Hells Gate area of the trail no longer used by the race, but was used for a snowmobile race to Nome this year. She was lost for 36 hours, managed to build a fire for a night out on the trail and was discovered by a search plane the following noon. When she made it to the next checkpoint in Rohn with her team, she scratched from the race out of concern for her dogs and frostbite. (Most all of this information can be found on the Iditarod Trail Race and Anchorage Daily News (Iditarod coverage) pages.

This year, she finished in the Red Lantern award position, which is last but as noted by Wells Fargo representative, a great accomplishment. As usual Debbie had a great story at the finish line and was very upbeat. Will try to send you a photo of her under the finish arch.

She has developed a very successful boat canvas business, Canvases Unlimited, in Juneau and Sandy is the owner of Bicknell Enterprises, a very successful contractor operation in Juneau and some of the nearby island communities.

They do a lot of fishing and often host visitors on it for overnights and trips into the Glacier fields. Fortunately, Joe Macozek and Bobby made the trip to Alaska just before he was struck down and enjoyed some fishing for king salmon and a visit to their cabin (where she trained teams in the winter) in Tagish, Yukon Territory. On that same visit, Marie Macozek and her son, Marty, accompanied them.

Robert Lamprey Jr.

CENTER HARBOR ; Robert James Lamprey Jr., 90, died Tuesday, April, 22, 2008, at Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia.

Robert James Lamprey Jr. was born in Boston’s Dorchester section on Dec. 21, 1917, to Robert J. Lamprey and Mary Hunter Campbell.

Bob attended Moultonborough Grammar School and graduated from Meredith High School in 1935. He graduated from Springfield College, Springfield, Mass., in 1939. Following graduation he took a position at Penacook High School where he taught history and science and served as athletic director until he was recruited by the Navy for Naval Training.

Bob married Elizabeth “Betty” Hecklin in 1948. They had three children, Robert III, Mary and Thomas. In 1973 Bob married Margaret “Peg” Groff Hagan. Both are deceased.

A veteran of World War II, Bob served in the Navy pre-Pearl Harbor, September 1941, until December 1945, as a chief petty officer. Bob was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Training Center as an instructor for new recruits and did his sea duty in the Pacific Theater on the Island of Saipan.

Following the war Bob and his brother Stewart returned to Moultonborough and began the partnership of Lamprey & Lamprey Realtors Inc. In the 1970s Bob adopted the gray Stetson cowboy hat, which became the signature for his company and gave him an unmistakable identity throughout New Hampshire.

Bob has touched the Lakes Region in many ways. Not only was he a successful real estate broker for more than 60 years, he also served his community and his profession well. Bob understood the value of conservation but he also knew the need for progress. He understood that the area’s wonderful natural resources would attract people and sustain our economy. He worked tirelessly to find a balance between his belief in the preservation of our historic buildings and rich history and knowing that he depended on real estate, as he would say, “to earn a living.”

Bob loved tracing the history of the area and was very proud to be the ninth generation of Lampreys to live in Moultonborough. His interests included the collection of golf memorabilia associated with his famous grandparents Willie and Georgina Campbell, who were among the first golf professionals in the U.S. He was a Civil War buff and also enjoyed putting together his collection of Native American art.

Bob’s community service has become legendary and included his time as president and director for the Lakes Region Board of Realtors, president of Belknap Mill Society, member of the Meredith Rotary Club and recipient of the Paul Harris Award, charter member and president of Moultonborough Historical Society, Board of Directors for Boy Scouts of America earning the Silver Beaver Award, Moultonborough selectman for 15 years, member of the Moultonborough School Board, chairman for the United Way Campaign and American Red Cross fundraising. Bob was instrumental in the formation of the Wellness Center and Head Start Daycare Program for Meredith/Center Harbor. He served on numerous clean water and conservation boards throughout the Lakes Region. Bob was a Member of the Grange and Moultonborough Methodist Church.

Bob made many things he touched more successful, whether as a teacher, philanthropist or businessman. In 2007 his book “I Love to Tell the Story” was published. His energy and positive attitude have been an inspiration to all. For him there was never a problem that could not be solved and his motto became “Never, Never, Never Give Up.”

Robert is survived by his children, Robert III and wife Pim, Mary Lamprey Bare and husband Ben, and Thomas; his brother, Stewart Lamprey and wife Cynthia; three grandchildren, Russell and Patrick Bare and Britta Lamprey; and stepchildren, Richard Hagan, Christopher Hagan, and Robin Hagan Kealey.

He was predeceased by a brother, William; and a stepson, Scott Hagan

Calling hours are May 23 from 4-7 p.m. at Mayhew Funeral Home, Meredith. Memorial service will be May 24, at 11 a.m. in the Moultonborough Methodist Church.

Memorials may be made in lieu of flowers to the Moultonborough Historical Society (Robert J. Lamprey Jr. Memorial Fund), PO Box 134, Moultonborough NH 03254.

Mayhew Funeral Home, in Meredith and Plymouth, is in charge of the arrangements. For more information, go to www.mayhewfuneralhomes.com

Do you recongize anyone in the attached picture? We (Ed and Daryl) were on a cruise and one of the ports was Boston, so I got ahold of Joe Tutrone just for grins…he was actually available!!! He and his wife Karen picked us up off the ship and took us out to lunch. We were feeling the effects of the hurricane, so we couldn’t tour around like we would have liked, but it was great to see him…it’s been at least 30 years or more for me.

Stan Braisted BC ’73

Dennis, Joe and Joe… Aug 10, 2009

THE FOUNDING OF BELKNAP COLLEGE

    Dr Royal M. Frye and Dr, Virginia Brigham, who was related to Dr. Frye, where in residence at THE COLLEGE OF ADVANCED SCIENCE in Canaan New Hampshire when I first met them.  Although Dr. Frye was the head of the college the financial head of the institution was mismanaging things. Three parents that were note worthy got involved to help solve all these problems.  After discussions with Dr. Frye too help unravel and institute proper practices they flew in from various states afar and met with the key person who controlled that school.  The out come was very dismal. 

    Involved in that meeting were the parents of David, John, and me  [Tom].  We were just students seeking to obtaining various degrees under the very famous and highly dedicated and qualified staff.  Collectively, these instructors had obtained many outstanding degrees and personal achievements as established in books like WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA.  One example was Dr. Tracy who was F.D.R.'S ghostwriter.  The parents were David ????? [Please excuse that I lack access to this man's last name] [Vice President and CEO of GE], Mr. John Woodbridge [Vice President and CEO of Pan American World Airlines], and Mr. Warren Clark Devitt [CEO and President of Great Lakes Coal Company] who were our respective fathers.

    After that unsuccessful meeting the parents involved conferred with the three of us students and our desires.  Then they pledged support to create another institution with Dr. Frye as the unfettered head of the institution.  Several of the teachers were also interested in becoming part of that fledgling institution.  With in just a few weeks, after much diligent work on the part of our parents and the guidance of other friends we all became a part of the new institution, BELKNAP COLLEGE, that was soon up and running at a full head of steam.  One might think that GOD almighty was in charge because what seemed to be an impossible situation became a fully developed college with staff, financial backing, and additional instructors of note in a historical amount of time.  Help was also coming forth from a number of very well know famous people.  Then due to Dr. Frye's status we had almost immediate arrangements to issue valid college degrees.  This was because of Dr. Frye's prominence at Boston University and his influential acceptance by the University of New Hampshire.

    One of the key physical requirements to achieve qualifications to give degrees was to have a proper established library.  The activity to achieve that status was literally miraculously achieved by the existing student body, parents, friends, and staff.  All were caught up in a specific loyalty that was of extreme dedication.  This was so much so that each of the three initial noted students above awaited and became established with Belknap College degrees rather than the option of having them issued from the other two other institutions noted above.

    Loyalty was so fierce that a locale Judge, Dan Fleetham, in Canaan New Hampshire, that was loosely associated with the other college we departed from was encouraged to leave his present job and businesses to join the staff.  This included departing from a family home, which was also a bed and breakfast, and his profession as a judge.  He became the Dean Of Men.  Many others also sacrificed in many ways including physical renovation and much, much, more.

    Many of us, came to realize that at this juncture in life prominent the significance of both Dr. Brigham and Dr. Frye as much more than just mentors in education.  Dr. Frye was more like a grandfather to many of his initial students and many others that followed.  Dr Brigham was likewise a supportive member akin to a family matron.  My last meeting with Dr. Frye, while on vacation, was some years after graduating from Belknap.  I parked my car in front of his home in the Center Harbor downtown area.  Then as I approached the house he literally came running to me from out of the house with exuberant greetings.  He was thrilled to see me, as he was with many of his graduates.  He warmly expressed a welcoming far beyond what was the norm for people in their upper eighties.  This immediately also brought remembrance to mind that even at 82 years he use to run up and down stairs two steps at a time out distancing those many years younger than him as he also did during this reunion.  However, most importantly, he continually lived a life with a smile, regardless of the challenges that were presented to him.

    Probably the most important gift to all student's is that he truly cared to listen to others and present practical optimistic solutions in a peace and joy about all of life's challenges.  He saw not problems, but solutions of great optimistic possibilities, and even though he truly cared for people, and loved LIFE, his deep down prayerful concerns for others, in general, always prevailed.  Whether things were of nature, the physical universe, music, as well as all of GOD'S creation, Royal acknowledged they were wrought by THE MASTER CREATOR'S TOUCH.

In HIS Service,
En Agape,
Thomas C. Devitt,
CEO T. S. M. C.

I did what???

Joe Kaiser and Halleck Brenden perform with the Jug Band

Baker House

Ted Nichols, South Beach restaurant, Boca Grande

Ted Nichols and John Bradigan celebrate at Red Sox spring training

College Rd near Halsey’s Barn

College Rd view

The Big House, Halleck Brenden’s place on Lake Shore Drive

Bradigan, Mulligan, Nichols and Jeff Winner, camping at Beedee Falls

Sandwich Fair: Debby Marlin, Bill Sjostedt, Gayle DeSimone

1001

Back: Jim Mulligan, Noelle Martin, Diane Kamercia, Duke Kline, Bob Lorbeer
Front: Jim Cummings, Esther Lorbeer, Gayle DeSimone

Ray Tartakoff, Greg Hausch and Charleen O’Coin

Gayle DeSimone and Rondi Woods with Alice

Gayle DeSimone and Noelle Martin Beinish

Claudia,Peter,Annie Lep,Russell,Rondi

Ron DeCambio

Rondi Woods, Noelle Martin, Gayle DeSimone-Student Teaching

Debra Regan, Jim Mulligan, Noelle Martin, Bob and Esther Lorbeer
Little Squam

Deb Marlin, Noelle Martin, Gayle DeSimone, Franconia

Andy Gorfman Coe House

Debby Marlin & Gayle DeSimone Frank Davis

Debbie Regan, Rondi Woods, Noelle Martin and Elizabeth O’Shea at the first reunion

Pam Damon Debbie and Gayle

Martha’s Vineyard

Underground Railroad in Coe House basement

Coe House original painted wallpaper restored

Coe House wallpaper murals

Coe House upstairs hallway

Deb Marlin-Yellow Dog Galleries

Coe House murals

Coe House dorm room #1

Coe House Commons Room

Gayle DeSimone, Noelle Martin,Debra Regan, MV reunion ’86

Bob Pike, Debra Regan, Gayle DeSimone, ’75

1st reunion-Ron Magdich,Rondi Woods, Liz O’Shea, Noelle Martin

1005

Duke and Diane Kline, Ed Clancy, Daryl Messina, Gayle DeSimone, Diane and Bill Sjostedt

1007 Chapel on Bean Rd near Baker House

1009

Halleck Brenden

1010

Dean Donald Taylor

Prof. John Casey

Prof. J. Paul Schenk

1011 Nicole Mahr

Nicole Mahr and Ted Nichols (Posed for the catalog)

The Usual Suspects

Glenn Bayger Richmond Knap

1012

Con Fullam

1013

Mill Falls, the site of the old Asbestos Factory in Meredith where many Belknap students worked their way through college.

Does anyone remember who put Dean Gardner’s Saab on blocks while he was at Nina’s house in 1970?

Joe Ferraiolo, Joe Tutrone and Dennis Frasca

Woody Halsey, Chase Halsey and his wife Kate at the Marine Ball, Honolulu, HI 11-10-2005

1969 Soccer Team

Hill Players

The 1923 Boston Red Sox…or the 1965 Belknap College Baseball Team
Left to Right Front Row: Rip Henley, 3B; Drew Cochrane, RF; Nick Gabriel, P; Ken Mitchell, IF, George Monaghan, C; Russel Newberry, P; Nat Horn, OF; Jack Schafitt, CF; Second Row L-R: Bob Lamprey, coach; Tom Greges, OF; Larry Smith, 2B; Ralph Bowley, 2B; Bob Trefsger, SS; Richard Skabel, OF; Richard Massimilla, OF; Julian Lavers, C; Glen Bennett, LF; Jerry Bell, 1B; Albert Rice, Athletic Director. Bruce Burrows, P was absent.

New Hampshire… the only place with six seasons a year!

Sally Whalen, Chip Worthington, Mike Love, Bob Hormell

Bob Hormell and John Ekdahl

(Back) Mick Terrone, Bud McKiernan,
(Mid) Kathi Emery
(Front) Suzanne (Rattigan) Trefsger, Jeanne Ann Karfo, Kelsey (Kathi’s daughter). Paula (Richmond) Adriance

(Back)John Ekdahl, Vlad Wilhousky, Mick Terrone, Chip Worthington, Roger Rice, Bud McKiernan, Tom Whalen,
(Front) Jeanne Ann Karfo, Mike Love, Kelsey, Kathi, Florence Henderson

Dick and Linda Massimilla

Dr. Virginia Brigham-Frye

Linda Massimilla pouring something on Jay Lavers. Drew Cochrane thinks it’s pretty funny!

Sherry Moulburg and Maureen Taylor

Rod Pahl, Becky Learned

Jeanne Ann Karfo and Vlad Wilhousky

PLAY ‘NAME THOSE ALUMNI’…

Who are the Belknap people in the following photos? How many can you name? Post your answers on the Message Board… Use the label to identify the picture… for instance, Group1050 or BBall01…

OK… Begin…

Group1050

BBall01

BBall11

Mick Terrone Identifying BBall 11: The 1967-68 Huskies
Front row: Vlad Wilhousky, Marshall Freidus, George James, Dean Goodale, John Ekdahl and I don’t know the last fellow.
Back row: Mike Goll, Dick Massimilla, Mark Blye, Ronnie Haven, Don’t know #15, Mick Terrone, Mike Lafferty.
Missing are: Coach Les Childs and Bill Alexson (team’s leading scorer, rebounder and dancer).

Founders’ Hall 01: Tony Livingston

GRP01

Rich Hines, Gail Mullen, Faye Golder

GRP02

(Back, shades) Steve Rhodes, (Far right) Ken Samuels & son

GRP03:

Left: Jay Lavers ’68, Gene McCaffrey ’68, Rose Lavers and Judy McCaffrey

GRP04

GRP05

GRP06

Identifying GRP06 – Noelle Beinish – Don’t know, don’t know, Susan and Will Cabel

GRP07 – 2nd from right Virginia “Biddy” O’Brien Irwin

GRP08

GRP09

GRP10

GRP11

GRP12

GRP13

GRP14

GRP15

GRP16

”’Greens For Graduation” photos courtesy of Woody Halsey

Andy Massamilla and Michael Arnold Moneagle (Mogie)

Belknap College Fire Truck

The Gang

A Class Meeting

George Wright, Steve Tronic and wife Judy Merino

Greens For Graduation gathering

Greens For Graduation – Watching the fun…

More fun at Greens For Graduation

The Log – Greens For Graduation

Now that is a dedicated Belknap Co-ed, Linda Minor

Jim Sutherland talks with students…

Joe Tutrone at the Green Monster… OK, the Great Wall of China…

Judy Karr and Anita Marks, 8/2006

Dane and Kahle Houses. The Volvo I believe belonged to Lee Pappas.
And I think that’s me going to Minnie’s store. Gene McCaffrey

Mr. Edward Meskys, Prof. Physics

Jim Neufell

Spider – Paul’s Diner in Laconia…

GOOD GUYS ALWAYS WEAR WHITE HATS, by Bea Wheeler, 1/12/2007, used with permission, Laconia Citizen

Bob Lamprey likes to recount that if it weren’t for an errant golf shot he may never have been able to call New Hampshire home.

Lamprey’s maternal grandfather Willie Campbell was a legend in the world of golf. Born in 1862 in Musselburgh, Scotland, Campbell twice lost the Open Championship by a single stroke. In 1887 he sent his tee shot into a pot bunker at the Old Course at St. Andrews and turned an easy score of four into a nine when he refused the crowd’s advise to “play back.” Golf historian agreed that fatal mistake obscured his career match play record. Today, the bunker still pays homage to Campbell and is known as “Willie’s Grave.” Lamprey has photos of himself flailing at an attempt to clear the sheer-walled bunker and his blue eye twinkle as he concedes course officials were kind enough to provide a ladder for him to climb out.

Had Campbell won the event, Lamprey doubts his grandfather would have ever have ever crossed the Atlantic to seek his fortune. Seven years later, Campbell migrated to the U.S. and was named golf professional at the historic Country Club in Brookline, MA. He was commissioned to design a number of golf courses throughout the U.S., and hand crafted both wooden clubs and “gutty” balls. Developed around 1848, these balls were made of “gutta percha”, a hard rubbery substance molded from a milky juice obtained from a tree, indigenous to Malaya. But unfortunately Campbell’s health deteriorated and he died in 1900 of cancer at the age of 38. His widow, Georgina however continued his legacy of teaching and became the first female golf professional in the United States.

Today, Lamprey, 89, owns a wooden driver crafted by his grandfather. The club bears a simple diamond shaped emblem on the top of the head engraved, “Willie Campbell, Boston.”

Lamprey grew up in Moultonboro and lived with his parents in the Red Hill House a boarding house that now serves as a museum for the Moultonboro Historical Society. After attending the one-room schoolhouse in Moultonborough, Lamprey went on to Meredith High School before attending Springfield College. While there, Lamprey was a halfback on the school’s national championship soccer team. He also played baseball. After graduating in 1939 with a bachelor’s of science degree he starting teaching at Penacook High School and coaching basketball.

Pre Pearl Harbor, Gene Tunney the world champion boxer a Lieutenant Commander was recuiting an elite squad of men who would become instructors for naval training. Because of Bob’s education at Springfield he was “invited’ by Tunney to be recruited. During the enlistment process it was discovered that Bob was color blind

Despite a Navy physician’s pronouncement that Lamprey must be rejected because he wouldn’t be able read the colored flags that signaled between ships – Tunney said ” I want him in” and overroad the physician.

A total of just 40 such trainers were selected nationwide, and Lamprey was shipped to Norfolk, VA., to learn the tricks of his new trade before reporting for duty at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois.

Tunney bet on the right horse, and Lamprey went on to become a Chief Petty Officer training legions of sailors. Today the walls of his Center Harbor home are covered with photographs of a smiling Lamprey seated front and center among hundreds of newly trained recruits. Ironically, one photo of a graduating class was taken the same day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor launching America’s entry into World War II. Another photo taken at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center shows trainees battling giant oil-fueled fires. Honing sailors’ firefighting skills Lamprey said helped many young men survive the war. Despite his visual impairment, Lamprey went to sea. He served in the Pacific Theater including on the island of Sipan.

Following war Lamprey returned to the Lakes Region and decided his interrupted career, as a teacher didn’t pay.

Teaming up with his older brother Stewart who had just been discharged from the Army, the pair began dabbling in real estate in 1945, and then expanded to sell insurance. Some 60 + years later, Lamprey, is still marketing real estate and being recognized for his many contributions to the Lakes Region. Their first office was located out in front of the family home in Moultonborough. But the pair soon decided the quite town wouldn’t offer enough revenue to sustain two new families. They moved the business to Laconia, into a lakeside building now home to Paugus Bay Sporting Goods.

Known for wearing his trademark Stetson cowboy hat, Lamprey’s daughter, Mary Lamprey Bare recounted the tradition began when her parents traveled west in 1975 to attend her graduation from Oklahoma State University. The ceremonies were held in the school’s football stadium and the bulk of the crowd were wearing cowboy hats.

Lamprey told his late wife, Peg, they should purchase hats and bring some back for their employees and a tradition was born. While the initial hats were made of straw and purchased at a feed store, Peg Lamprey decided if Bob was to have his hat in his hands it should be a good one and ordered him a Stetson. The hat has since become part of the company’s advertising logo and Mary concedes her father has worn out a closet full of them and also presented them to various people as a sign of his admiration and respect.

Most recently, Lamprey gifted Florence Randall, the late sister of baseball legend Red Rolfe a native of Penacook who played shortstop and third base for the New York Yankees in the mid-30s. Randall was related to LPGA champion Jane Blaylock who Lamprey recently convinced to donate memorabilia to benefit the Winnipesaukee Wellness Center, which Lamprey helped found.

Over the years, Lamprey has been awarded the Silver Beaver, the highest honor presented by the Boy Scouts of America. He and a group of volunteers joined forces to raise a quarter of a million dollars in the mid- 70s to buy what was to become the Hidden Valley Scout Reservation, a permanent camping area for scouts in Gilmanton Iron Works. Bob and his brother Stewart have also raised money for other altruistic causes including the American Red Cross, the United Way and every conservation organization in the Lakes Region.

“They were a deadly team. I know,” Mary said of the duo’s fund-raising efforts. Stewart went on to become both the Speaker of the New Hampshire House and the President of the Senate. Bob Lamprey has also been honored as a “Loon Ranger” for his effort to help the threatened birds and served as president of the Belknap Mill Society. He has also been named a Paul Harris Fellow by the Meredith Rotary Club and presented with a Citizenship Award by the Meredith Area Chamber of Commerce. The National Association of Realtors has also named him a Realtor Emeritus for serving as a member since 1947. Although Lamprey’s mother died while he was in the Navy, she had urged him to improve local education for children. Lamprey served 15 years as a selectman in Moultonborough and in 1949 proposed scuttling the one-room schoolhouse in favor of the Moultonborough Central School. He was later instrumental in getting the Winnipesaukee River Basin Project to install its sewer line through Center Harbor, helping protect the lake.

Lamprey’s legacy, his daughter says, is his dedication to teaching area youth. He taught and coached generations of youngsters in sports ranging from baseball to swimming. Among his fondest memories are accompanying the Belknap College baseball team to Manchester.

“We won some and lost some. But we were a 500 team,” he said smiling.

His daughter, who now manages Lamprey & Lamprey Real Estate, said hardly a day goes by that she doesn’t cross paths with a fellow broker who tells her that while they may have never worked with her father they learned something from him.

While today, brokers usually limit their sales and listing activities to one area, the elder Lamprey started in sales at a time when the entire state was fair game. During car trips, Mary said her father never ceases to amaze her with his vast knowledge of New Hampshire even recalling the names of the smallest of streams.

Bob Lamprey loves maps and has dozens of them of depicting both the state and various portions of the region framed and hanging on the walls of his office.

He concedes he knows where he has been and unlike his fabled grandfather he has no aversion to going back.

Citizen Profile

20 Questions:

1. Full name; “people know you as …” Robert J. Lamprey Jr., “Bob”

2. Date & place of birth? December 21, 1917, Dorchester, MA.

3. Occupation? Real estate broker

4. How long have you lived in the area? 81 years

5. Who was your most influential role model? Grandmother Georgina Campbell the nation’s first female golf professional.

6. Favorite place to go, favorite trip, favorite hike? Boating on Lake Winnipesaukee

7. Favorite local business? Lamprey & Lamprey Real Estate

8. Favorite food? Ice cream, spaghetti and haddock.

9. Favorite book? Winnipesaukee, written by E. Palmer Clarke in 1935. Also enjoys books on military history especially those about the Civil War

10. Favorite movie? The Greatest Game Ever Played

11. What do you waste your money on? Art depicting American Indians and antique golf memorabilia

12. What was the dumbest thing you ever did? Declined my fathers’ cousin’s offer to swap his Tuftonboro farm with hundreds of acres of property for my modest home in Moultonborough. I was working in Laconia and decided it was too far to travel.

13. What is your fondest memory? Coaching the Belknap College baseball team.

14. What item that is no longer available would you like to see return? I don’t know

15. What do you think makes the Lakes Region a good place to live? The mountains and the lake of course are special.

16. If you could change one thing about the Lakes Region, what would it be? I’m pretty happy with the way things are.

17. If you could change one thing about the state, nation, or world, what would it be? I’m content.

18. If you were to try any profession for a day, what would it be? I never really thought about it.

19. If you won the lottery, what would you do? I don’t buy the tickets.

20. What would you like to be remembered for? Dedication to teaching youth in the classroom and on the playing field.

ED. Bob, you’ll be remembered for that and MUCH MORE by all Belknapians.

The following downloads are articles from The Weirs Times, by Mal Fuller and reprinted with the kind permission of David M. Lawton, Managing Editor.

“Reprinted by permission of The Weirs Publishing Company, Inc. Article was originally published in The Weirs Times newspaper in two parts (November 23 and December 7, 2006). Free access to past issues is available at www.TheWeirsTimes.com.”

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Nichol’s Store, Center Harbor (It’ll always be Minnie Nichol’s Store to us…)

The Jug Band

Donald Taylor, Halleck Brendan, Danny Wallace, Sally Rogia Brendan