• A challenging, mountain golf course designed and built in 1900 by Ralph Barton, a professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College and renowned golf architect of the early 20th Century. The course was renovated in 1999, when extensive work to the greens, tee boxes and course hazards allowed it to recapture its original grandeur.
• Mountain View Country Club, featuring a heated, Olympic-size outdoor pool and hot tub, shuffleboard, horseshoes, croquet, badminton, tennis, and volleyball.
•  Indoor fitness center with indoor pool, Jacuzzi-style hot tub, and steam room. The 17,000-sq-ft facility offers exercise classes, yoga, aqua exercise or kick boxing, free weights and cardiovascular machines.
• The Northern Lights Children’s Program, operating daily, providing supervised fun and activity for children and allowing parents time for their own activities and a chance to relax.
• Horseback riding is a featured activity, with the Mountain View Stable, located on the property, offering trails throughout the woods and fields and stunning panoramic views as you ride.
• Other activities available include mountain biking, hiking, swimming and exploring the local shopping!  Mountain bikes are available to rent and a trail map is provided of places to explore.

More on the social and recreational activities at the 2006 NHBA Annual Meeting at www.nhbar.org or in the next issue of Bar News.

Annual Award Nominations

Each year, the following awards are presented at the Bar’s Annual Meeting. Nominations are sought for the following awards:

E. Donald Dufresne Award for Outstanding Professionalism

Honoring the memory of E. Donald Dufresne, this award is presented to an attorney that best fits the following:

“A professional lawyer is an expert in law

Pursuing a learned art in service to clients and in the spirit of public service;

And engaging in these pursuits as part of a common calling

To promote justice and public good.”

Justice William A. Grimes Award for Judicial Professionalism

Honoring the memory of Justice William A. Grimes, this award is presented to a judge that best fits the following:

“The judges therefore should always be men of learning and experience

in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness

and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests;

they should not be dependent upon any man or body of men.”

John Adams, 1776

Distinguished Service to the Legal Profession Award

This award is presented to the nominee who best exhibits service to the legal profession.

Nominations for any of these awards should be submitted by May 19th to:

Denice DeStefano

NHBA Annual Meeting Awards

112 Pleasant Street

Concord, NH 03301