b'C H A P T E R T W Opiloting jets like the Skyhawk A-4, out of South Weymouth Naval Air Station. At the base, he commanded a squadron, VMA 322, manned by a complement of 230 Marines; on retiring in 1985, he had made the rank of colonel. During his time on the FCW board, LeClaire thoughtfully advised his fellow directors to weigh the opinion of some townspeople that Friends of Chatham Waterways is too different for its own good. The board appreciated his candor, viewing his observations as constructive and hardly frivolous.Another board member in the Nineties also had fishing in his back South Chathamite Hillary LeClaire ground. As a young man from Newtonserved on FCWs board in the 1990s. (where FCW director Barbara StreibertA Marine pilot flying jet fighters, he had been his English teacher), Bob Dennretired as a colonel, then turned to a came down to Chatham in the earlylife as a shellfisherman.Here he is at Seventies, picked up work at the Fish Pier,the Oyster River fishermens shacks.and, as he says, never left. In his time atGordon Zellnerthe pier, he scalloped, quahoged, and cut tons of (cod) cheeks. Then he got a chance to help Billy Nichols put together a new store selling everything a fisherman might need. When Nichols died in 1978, his widow and Denn decided to keep the venture alive. Finally, at the end of 1992, Denn and his wife, Rosemarie, bought out Mrs. Nichols and have been running Cape Fishermens SupplyCape Fishever since. Its a flat-out operation, but Denn still felt obligated, when asked, to serve on the Chamber of Commerces board. Once that term ended, he agreed to join FCWs boardthe only person to be on both boards, he says. Like Hillary LeClaire, Bob DennFormer FCW director Bob Denn, with his wife Rosemarie.Together they own and operate Cape Fishermens SupplyCape Fish.Now and then they can be seen on their motorcycles, a Honda Valkyrie and a Kawasaki Vulcan, riding quietly, says Rosemarie.Gordon Zellner28'