1952

We continue with a report of the goings and comings of Dartmouth '52 in die Harvard Law School class of 1955. BobMedvecke and Ellen drove across the state of Florida from Fort Meyers to attend the mini-reunion at Harbor Ridge in Stuart. Bob got fed up with bigcity, big-law firm litigation practice in New York, Chicago, and D.C. and headed for Florida in 1989. He moved to Fort Meyers too young to retire and challenged the Florida bar exam. He breezed through it and set up his own office in southwest Florida to handle whatever came across the doorsill. Florida practice is radically different, he says, and the "good-ol-boy" network flourishes. Ellen and Bob are interesting people. Bob is a man of resolute views tinged with humorous irony.

Joe Novak has had a creative life in New Mexico as a fulltime artist for 14 years and has starred in these pages in the past. Ev Parker is a star of a different sort. He is our co-class agent and has served the class in numerous roles. He left law for banking and is in international affairs with The Bank of Boston. He and Sally live in Massachusetts and enjoy a flat in London.

Herb Roth went through Dartmouth with a budget so thin that he had to decide whether to have cream with his coffee. Things have changed. He was a founding partner of Shaw and Markstein of Manhattan and is now semi-retired following Joe Novak's advice to "be good to yourself." He spends three months in the year in Arizona and travels throughout the land in the summertime. Herb has many fond memories and feelings for Dartmouth, but his emotions for Harvard are mixed. His classmates include many wonderful friends, but the law school seems on a degrading and trivializing course, which casts adrift those who have fond memories of Erwin Griswold and Austin Scott.

Preston Saunders is in the estate planning and probate field with Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, one of the nation's giants headquartered in Boston. He is married to Rebecca with whom he has two children and they reside in Westwood. WaltonSchalick lives in Fairfield and works in Stamford, Conn., for General Electric, of which he is associate general counsel.

Jim Winttenberg practices with Doherty, Rumble & Buder in Minneapolis, Minn., as a business and corporate lawyer and he has recently become of counsel to the firm (read: "semi-retired"). He is married to Alice and together they have two girls and a boy and one grandchild (so far).

Jim Wright lives in Boxburough with his wife, Janet. They have three children. After a tour with naval intelligence during the Korean War, Jim headed back to Concord, Mass., and practiced with Hutchins & Wheeler in Boston and then entered banking with Shawmut Bank. He was active in Concord town government. Harvard Law School put an interesting spin on these men's lives. They are everywhere and have done nearly everything.

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