1970

The news this month comes from a variety of sources, dues notices, my traveling legal pad, and the College's news clip service. It exhausts my backlog of unreported news, so I must appeal to those who have resolved to write and not yet gotten around to it to act quickly. Among those at the Princeton game this fall was Jon Nistad. Torga reports that he is opening up his own life insurance business in Morristown, N.J. The Class may have a chance to congratulate him at the party he is planning after next year's Penn. game in Morristown. Wojo(John Wojtowicz), for his part, is married and living in New Jersey as well. The New York contingent at the game included Bob Bergesch,Dick Sammis, Tim Welch and Chip Cody. Chip reports that he is happily married to a Princeton "person," also class of 1970, and Tim indicated that he is one of the members of the law department of Equitable Life in New York City.

Others with law and equity on their minds in- clude Bill Neal who is at law school at Dickinson and Barry Hart who is moving to Washington, D.C., to open the D.C. office of Obermeyer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, a Philadelphia law firm. Dixon Turner provided some news about his roommate, Steve Buxbaum. Steve is married and has settled in Houston with his wife Kerry and sons Michael and Richard and is pursuing a career in law. Also busy with a legal career is Jim Neilen. Jim graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1974 and has been practicing in Milwaukee with the firm of Michael, Bert, & Friedrich. He reports that he enjoys getting together with other classmates in the area from time to time, namely: Rick Porter, DaveBavlnka and Steve Bruemmer.

Next, it is my pleasure to report that LeeBadger and Deborah Michels were married in December, according to my journalistic sources. Debbie is a Wellesley College grad, class of 1972, and received her J.D. from Case Western Reserve. She is a busy assistant public defender in Chicago. Lee, after leaving Dartmouth, took his J.D. at Harvard and then served two years in the Air Force as a captain in the general counsel's office. He is now practicing law with the fine Chicago firm of Jenner & Black.

From Cook County, Ill., the bastion of Democratic politics, we go to Maine where JohnMcKernan and his brother Robert '74 have been leading Republican efforts in the state. John, who went on to earn a J.D. at the Univ. of Maine School of Law after Dartmouth, has served two terms in the state legislature and has been the distinguished assistant minority leader in the Maine House. He directed President Ford's campaign in the state this November. Another classmate who has had a busy and productive existence since graduation is RickLease. Rick spent five years with the legal department at Conn. General Life and attended the University of Connecticut School of Law in the evenings. Notwithstanding his respon- sibilities both at the office and at home with wife Patsy, son Peter, and daughter Alison (born in March 1976) Rick managed to graduate second in his class and was a member of the law review. He and his family have now moved to Ohio where he is employed by the Cleveland firm of Baker, Hostetler & Patterson.

Among our other classmates who seem to be involved in interesting activities are Jim Lemke who has reportedly moved to New York to do research on his dissertation in anthropology for the University of Illinois and Paul Inashima who is also doing graduate work in anthropology and has served with the Iroquois Research Institute in connection with his studies at American University in Washington, D.C. Joe Adams for his part has been at the University of London on a special fellowship after taking his master's degree in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

Finally, I can report that Josh Fitzhugh and wife Didi are happily situated in New York City. Josh has followed his interests in journalism since graduation, gaining experience in a wide range of activities. He was instrumental in operating the Connecticut Valley Reporter in the North Country and then learned the way in which the Associated Press gathers and disseminates its news. He has since gone on to work for the New York Law Journal, New York City's fine daily legal newspaper. In this capacity Josh has provided readers with a number of fascinating feature articles about lawyers and their craft. In the meantime he has somehow managed to find time to graduate from Brooklyn Law. At present Josh has taken on the added assignment of looking into the possibility of expanding the paper's coverage of the profession outside the city, perhaps giving it national scope.

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