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It’s Been A Sweets Life For This Chef

What's Joe Vifue doing in Corbin City*’ Baking things at the Corbin House Restaurant, that's what! But Vigue, who turns M Friday, will be back at the Harbor Light Restaurant in Stone Harbor next spring, as he has been for 14 years.

• JACKIE MULFORD.the owner of the Corbin House, asked me if I’d come here to give her restaurant fresh baked desserts and to train a person to take over when I return to Stone Harbor I agreed, here I am, and

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here is Martha Myers, the apprentice baker." Vlgue, the pastry chef, has no favorite desserts. • You name it. I can make it." he says, 'He's added a new dimension to the Corbin House," Mrs. Mulford exclaimed. BORN IN Atlantic City. Vlgue grew up in Ventnor. He has been cooking and baking for 50 years He learned his skills in the best hotels around in the early 30s. including the Haddon Hall, now Resorts International. After serving at Haddon Hall and the Old Hackney s Restaurant. Vigue headed west, stopping to work in Zanesville and Columbus. Ohio. He also worked in hotels in Harrisburg and Altoona. Pa. before operating his own diner in Philadelphia, where he stayed for 14 years. THESE DAYS Vigue works only from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.. but over the half century of his career he has spent long hours working in some faraway places. From 1930 to 1932 he worked in Panama but when his pay was reduced from $30 a month to $17.85, Vigue decided to return to New Jersey. During World War II. the chef found himself serving in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps and as an instructor for the martial

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HOME ON THE RANGE pastry chef Joe Vigue looks over cheesecakes which are among assortment of tasty desserts he turns out for Stone Harbor and Corbin City dining spots. «

arts. ”1 have a citation from President Harry Truman." Vigue proudly declares. •*l ALSO WAS a cook for a time in the army, both in mess halls and on troop trains." Describing the troop trains he says. "One year I only spent five nights in a bed that wasn't moving. It was strange to say the least." A widower since 1967, Vigue lives in an apartment in Cape May Court House. His much traveled career also includes some

time spent as a teacher at the Cape May County VoTech School. "I went there to help out temporarily and stayed four years," Vigue commented. But he's proud of the 22 graduates who went on to college to take their place in the food service business. Possessing a keen sense of humor, Vigue not only enjoys his work as a cook and baker, but also the people with whom he works. Tve always found that if you are happy, it is contagious. Most people want to be happy.*’

League Gets New Officers

CAPE MAY - The new officers of the county Art League were introduced at the annual Christmas party Dec. 14 at the Carriage House galleries of the league at 1050 Washington St. Charles Bernard is the new president; Robert Cunningham, first vice president; Carolyn Gunthorp, second vice president; Bettyne Hull, recording secretary; Evelyn McCoy, corresponding secretary.

and Herman Hirsh, treasurer. Trustees are Earl Kidd. Octavia de Miranda, and Edith Reusch. MRS. HELEN CLARK DILDAY. artist In residence, presented the new officers. The galleries, closed for the season until March 1, will reopen as one of the stops on the Christmas Tour of the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts, from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday.

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