Nashua Area Men and Women in World War II

About the Book

This project began twenty-five years ago when I worked as a stringer for the Nashua Telegraph. The paper hired a number of correspondents at the time to cover local news and events in the small towns around Nashua. I reported on the selectmen’s meetings and the planning board meetings in Mason and Greenville and the Mascenic School Board. The editors encouraged us to write special features about people, places, and events.

About the Author

Ronald N. Dube was born and raised in Nashua, NH. He graduated from Nashua High School in 1960, the same year he earned the Eagle Scout Award. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in biology and a minor in history/geography. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in the West African country of Niger working in a reforestation project. He served in the NH National Guard for a short time in 1968. He started teaching in Salem, NH. He took a leave of absence to complete most of the work for a Master’s degree in biology from Rivier College in Nashua. He taught at Milford High School for a year before returning to his Alma Mater in Nashua. He taught biology there from 1970 through 1979. He accepted a position at Varnum Brook Middle School in Pepperell, Mass. teaching Grade 8 Physical Science. He retired in 2004. He returned to Nashua High School, now called NHS, South for three years finally retiring in 2007, after 40 years as a science teacher. He also worked part time as a correspondent for area newspapers, including the Telegraph, the Milford Cabinet, the Monadnock Ledger, and the Fitchburg Sentinel. He wrote news and feature stories from 1980 through 1990. He, his wife, three sons, a bunch of cats, and a St. Bernard live on an old 35 acre farmstead in Mason, NH, where he enjoys cutting and chopping wood by hand.