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Bar News - August 13, 2004 In Memoriam ~ Judge Harkaway, Pool Judge Aaron A. Harkaway, of Lincoln, Mass., formerly of Nashua, died on June 10, 2004. A member of the NH Bar since 1946, he graduated from the University of New Hampshire and Columbia Law School. He served in the U.S. Army as a lawyer during World War II and returned to his hometown of Nashua afterwards to practice law. Harkaway was the son of Eastern European immigrants. As both boy and man, he read voraciously, and was sometimes seen walking the streets of downtown Nashua "with his nose in a book," according to a June 11 article in The Nashua Telegraph. In the same article, Superior Court Judge George Pappagianis of Nashua, who practiced law in the same building as Judge Harkaway, described him as having a penetrating intellect and a warm heart. "He was a really nice person," said Pappagianis. After becoming a Nashua District Court Judge in the 1970s, Harkaway, who was especially interested in juvenile and children’s issues, co-authored a state child protection act. David LaFrance also remembered Harkaway in the Telegraph story. "At age 12, I was at my worst in life," said LaFrance, who had a number of brushes with the juvenile justice system and the judge. Once while LaFrance was in Harkaway’s office, Harkaway handed the boy paper and pencil and a photograph of his wife. "Sit here and draw," he said. When the judge returned from court more than three hours later, he was astonished at the portrait. The judge arranged for LaFrance to attend Boys Town, a school for at-risk youth in Nebraska. LaFrance was there four years and later attended the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale on a scholarship from Boys Town. Now an artist living in Franklin, LaFrance named one of his five sons after the judge. The judge’s wife, Ada Winarski Harkaway; son, Barry, and his wife; daughter, Jill, and her husband; brother, William Harkaway, and sister, Sylvia Gelt, survive him. Beekman H. Pool Beekman H. Pool, of Dublin, died on April 4. A member of the NH Bar since 1952, Beekman was an explorer, athlete and volunteer. According to an April 15 article in The Keene Sentinel, he twice won the US National Squash Racquets Championship, and, in 1932, the Triple Crown: the US Nationals, Canadian Nationals and Intercollegiates. In 1935, he was the first player to win the Gold Racquet Championship three times and he was elected to the Harvard University Hall of Fame for his "outstanding performance." Beekman, a graduate of St. Paul’s School, Harvard University and Columbia Law School (1935), admired explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, and later became close friends. The two explored hundreds of miles of untouched river and wilderness in northern Labrador. Pool later wrote a book on the life of Ellsworth titled Polar Extremes. He also worked as a lawyer at Breed, Abbot & Morgan in New York, from 1935 to 1942, and then joined the US Air Force as a 2nd Lieutenant. In 1943, he became an intelligence officer and pilot with the 8th Army bomber base in England and left the military with the rank of captain. After the war, he gave up his law practice to become the associate director of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Pool later joined the NH Bar, but continued to work for public health and welfare in New York and Albany. He retired in 1974, but did volunteer work in English and chess at Dublin Consolidated School for two decades. In 1985, Gov. John Sununu recognized him as an outstanding volunteer for his work helping elementary school students to improve their writing skills. Lael Wertenbaker, a close friend of the family quoted in The Keene Sentinel article, wrote of Pool: "His seriousness was leavened by a courtly wit and expertise at parlor games and play readings." His wife, Elizabeth Shallcross Pool; daughter, Felicity M. Pool; son, J. Lawrence Pool, and a grandson, survive Pool. In memory of our colleagues, Aaron A. Harkaway and Beekman H. Pool, the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Board of Governors has contributed to the New Hampshire Bar Foundation, 112 Pleasant Street, Concord, NH 03301.
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