To the editor:
Hello. I, Stan(ley J.) Solomon, am a candidate for the three-year Bemis Trustee opening. My wife is Susan Solomon. We have lived at The Commons for approaching six years. Before that, we lived in Lexington for 50 years. I spent my spare time with BSA Troop 119. Susan was a Town Meeting member and on the Conservation Commission and Tree Committee and was president of the Lexington League of Women Voters. Both of us were Garden Club members. I grew vegetables!
We were serious hikers and less serious cross-country skiers. I added downhill skiing and white-water paddling. We have hiked Lincoln trails for some 40 years; I inherited the leadership of Professor Dirk Struik’s Appalachian Mountain Club walk behind Walden in the (now) conservation land when he aged. I was born in eastern Ohio (Youngstown) and Susan grew up in South Brookline. I came to Boston for MIT while Susan went to Simmons. I am a physicist and worked in industry on semiconductor process development. My name is associated with ion implantation and also solar cell development. Susan worked in factory automation. Her name is not associated with the famous Lucy episode and she is not MIT’s Professor Susan Solomon.
I am again a candidate for Bemis Trustee. I was invited to run last year and discovered that I was running against a Lincoln fixture. Former Lincoln residents here at The Commons said I did quite well finishing second.
The Bemis Trustees operate the Bemis Free Lecture Series, a legacy created in 1892 by native Lincolnite George Bemis to bring enlightenment via lecturers to town residents. Its funds were supplemented by another Lincolnite, John Todd, in 1982. Past speakers included Robert Frost, Betty Friedan, Issac Asimov, Margaret Mead and a host of notable others.
The trustee’s function is to select one or more desirable, affordable and available individuals or groups to perform in Lincoln. (It has been explained that the job also includes physical management of that appearance.) What I believe I can add, if elected, is potential speaker names from the technical world.
The ability to harmoniously work within a group would seem to be a prime requisite for this position. I think I can answer the call there.
Inasmuch as the town manages the trust’s funds and speakers are paid from these funds, I can promise that if elected, my actions will not increase your taxes. As I am approaching 86, I can also promise that I will not be rattling around Lincoln politics 15 years from now. Please consider voting for me.
Sincerely,
Stan Solomon
1 Harvest Circle #231
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