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Jack Cassidy, professor emeritus at both Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Millersville University in Pennsylvania, died on Saturday, May 22, after a long-fought battle with cancer. He was 80.
Cassidy was a past president of the International Reading Association (IRA, now the International Literacy Association, ILA) from 1982 to 1983.
As messages poured in following the news of his death, many focused on his stature in intellect, heart, and even physical presence. (In fact, he was so well known for his height that he included it on his curriculum vitae: 6’4.)
What was made clear in all of the tributes was his immense dedication to the profession, to ILA, and to the next
MacDonald sworn in as chief justice of NH Supreme Court
Gordon J. MacDonald was sworn in as the new chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court on March 4, 2021. (Photo by John Gauvin)
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CONCORD Former Attorney General Gordon MacDonald was sworn in as chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday in a ceremony where he paid tribute to a former judge and mentor who gifted him his own judicial robes.
“The law is a profession that renews and regenerates through role models and mentorship,” MacDonald said in a ceremony at the courthouse. “There is no better role model and mentor as a lawyer and as a judge than Norman Stahl, and there could be no better friend. He never lost faith in me.”
Looking back at Biden s New Hampshire connection 30 years later Courtesy
Steven McAuliffe (right) shakes hands with then-Sen. Joe Biden in the State House in Concord, on Feb. 26, 1987. Jim Cole / AP file
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In late Jan. of 1992 then-Sen. Joseph Biden spoke at the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Mid-Winter Meeting about the unenumerated freedoms contained in the Bill of Rights.
That was the same year Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States, the Cold War was declared over, and Microsoft released Windows 3.1.
United States District Court Judge Steve McAuliffe was the New Bar Association President in 1992 and had met Biden several years earlier while working on his presidential campaign with former N.H. Supreme Court Justice John Broderick.