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wheel was as good as new the horological specialist discovered that instead of escapement wheel where being the problems some know about long deceased amateur clock ticker or had filed on the verge in some misguided attempt to improve it. The upstate New York are logical spe- cialist has developed a technique to rephrase the two working services of es- capement splurged, using steel from a high-quality razor blade! (I seem to fin- ish first and the two work- ing services are polished to a mirror finish. There is no visual evidence that any metal was ever grant- ed to the original verge.)

of Belknap, we all feel that we got a wonderful education at Belknap, and that the people of Center Harbor really took us in as guests and some of the

towns people made us feel as if we were part of their family. I thought that you would/might be interested

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This photo is representative of one of four proposed plaques each of which says nearly the same thing. If you can access the Internet you can see the other three if you wish.

clicked on MEMORIES and re-read what you wrote. I am a 1968 graduate of

Here’s a picture of our friend Art Makechnie, who dropped in to see us and watch a new PBS documentary on Woody Guthrie’s life. The DVD was a Christmas gift to me from Malzy. Art’s a good person.

Remarkable work.” Isn’t that awful? Imag-

ine if I were to actually submit the second para- graph’s gibberish to my Weirs Times editor! As you can see, MacSpeech makes so many errors that it renders my text unintelligible. Recently, on WBZ radio, Dragon Naturally Speak- ing has had an ad that suggests that a child’s poor grades in school could be improved by giv- ing the boy or girl one of these speech recognition

programs to produce their school work with! I can’t imagine my having used a speech recognition pro- gram for my schoolwork. My teachers were never impressed with my work to begin with. Earlier this week I re-

ceived an email from a Belknap College Alumni, as follows: “Dear Mal. Back in late

2006, you wrote an article about Belknap College and I went to the Col- lege website today, www. belknapcollege.com and

Belknap, and several of us have started a fundraiser to place a Bench and Me- morial Marker in Center Harbor to honor the Fac- ulty, Graduates, Friends and Citizens of Center Harbor. So far we have collected just a bit over $4400, and if you would like, click on PROJECTS in the left margin and you can see our goal and wish list. As graduates and Alum

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