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...Slate had served as a member of the board of directors for the Cambridge Rotary Club, which elected him an Honorary Paul Harris Fellow...
...Slate was well-known in Cambridge for his Yankee thrift and unique, dry wit. He often ate lunch at Bartley's Burger Cottage on Mass. Ave., where he joked with friends about who could run the most thrifty business...
...made it a point to have lunch together as often as we could. We would try to have lunch almost every day," said Ben Olken, owner of the old Bicycle Exchange and Slate's longtime friend. "We often met for coffee in the morning at Bartley's and we'd toss coin to see who had to pay. It was a little game...
Through work at his parent's dairy and produce farm, Slate honed his entrepreneurial skills at an early age. He delivered butter and eggs by horse and buggy for his mother. And later at Clark, he financed his college education by working as a cook at a local greasy spoon...
...Depression crescendoed in the early and mid 1930's Slate, with only $300, opened "University Stationery" on North Harvard St. in Allston. In the 1940's he moved the business to a grey concrete-block building on Holyoke...