1974

As my fellow lawyers will understand, I am presently celebrating a final victory over a civil rights case filed in 1986. Suing the government is not a popular task and even when "they" are bad they are able to whine and dance and find just cause. It is only appropriate to win a civil rights case on Martin Luther King's birthday and income tax day. So the win goes right back to Uncle Sam. C'est la vie!

Steve Sandberg is currently a senior vice president and general counsel for Cushman & Wakefield, the real estate firm. Steve and his wife Deb live in Park Ridge, N.J. Deb is presently doing volunteer work and taking care of daughter Erika 8 and son Garrett 6. Steve also does quite a lot of lobbying work in Washington, D.C.

Christopher Baldwin was promoted in April to director of research of the Energy, Technology and Communications Group of Moody's Investor Service. Chris oversees a group of 50 professionals involved in the analysis of bond ratings of approximately 1,000 companies in the high technology, telecommunications, oil and gas, and electric utility industries. He is still active in squash and wind surfing when he gets the chance.

Ralph Benejam, who lives in Galesburg, Ill., is in his fourth year of private urology practice. Ralph and his wife have two children, Christopher 3 and Alexandra three months.

Congratulations to Bruce Tow and Lois Tow, '76, who offer news of the birth of their first child, Emily Winona, in October of 1989.

Rick Ranger, my comrade and sometimes ghostwriter, reports that although he didn't get the international position at ARCO, he has accepted an invitation to join a five-member team that will travel to Uganda for three weeks in April and May, and participate with Ugandan clergy and lay leaders in the teaching and presentation of conferences on Christian renewal in two or three dioceses in the Anglican Church of Uganda. He will travel to Kampala and other points of interest.

Lonna Saunders writes that she has been named vice chair of the Law and Media Executive Committee of the American Bar Association. This will provide an additional professional challenge and policymaking in the area of law, journalism, and broadcasting. Lonna is an attorney in Chicago where her practice concentrates in arts and entertainment law.

Peter Ashman is the district court judge for the Alaska District Court in Palmer, Alaska, in the Matanuska Valley northeast of Anchorage. Peter's wife, Kay Rawlings, works at Preston, Thorgrimson, Ellis & Holman in Anchorage where she is the documents librarian for the state's litigation against Exxon for the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. They have two daughters, Jenny 5 and Elizabeth 2.

Bill Cater is heading up product management of a new group at AT&T which promotes a new product called ISDN, International Services Digital Network. In his spare time, Bill is taking some history courses at a local college. Bill and his wife, Eillen, have a daughter Kerry who is a freshman at Goucher College in Baltimore this year.

Peter Hackett '75 is here in Atlanta this month directing a play at the Academy Theatre called Pantonine. It runs from January 13 through February 10. The play takes an off-beat, white owner of a guest house in Tobago, West Indies, pairs him with a tellit-like-it-is black servant, and stirs them up with a reversed-role Robinson Crusoe skit. I'll be sure to see it as I was one of Peter's first star singers in a play he produced at Dartmouth for 12:30 Rep.

Jack Martin is presently sailing for Miami in an effort to instigate the General Noriega Defense Fund Project, wherein he will raise enough money so that the general can get a proper trial. Jack, still on his sabbatical, has been reading a novel about Thomas Jefferson who, of course, promoted representing the unpopular causes. Please send contributions to Post Office Box 1000, Drawer 7Z527Y, Wegotcha, Miami.

Well, I'm off to put that check in the mail to Uncle Sam.

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