Class Notes

1952

JUNE 1996 Henry W. Williams Jr.
Class Notes
1952
JUNE 1996 Henry W. Williams Jr.

Wey Lundquist was left out of the piece on Harvard Law graduates of 1955 by the editorial process, but is not to be Overlooked. For most of his professional life he tried jury cases all over the country. In 1991 he helped start the international practice section for his firm Heller & Ehrman of San Francisco. In 1993 he and his wife, Kay, moved with their nine-year-old son to Hanover, where Wey is a visiting scholar at the Dickey Center for International Understanding working on Russian business, political, and legal issues. He continues to practice with his firm, but principally out of an office in Norwich, Vt. He likes living in Hanover and feels younger today than he did five years ago when he was a fulltime litigator. The number of lawyers nationally is a concern to him. In 1955 there was one lawyer for 650 people; now it is one for 250.

During Thanksgiving Frank Osgood and wife Priscilla and Angus Russell and wife Liz flew to Cuzco, Peru, and traveled from there by bus to a staging point at 13,000 feet where they were met by nine other hikers and 30 support people to go by foot to Machu Picchu. They were five days on the trail with porters who did not speak English or Spanish, sleeping in two-person tents with rain every single night. After a day and a half in this most sacred of all Inca sites, they took the train out. The trip was refreshing to the mind, cleansing to the spirit, but tough on the body. Frank's case of Lyme disease, which was contracted in the hills of Pennsylvania and Montana, was pretty well cured by the Inca experience.

It had to happen. A cafe in Harvard Square offers coffee, croissants, and cyberspace. It is the brain child of MarshallSmith who has a successful retail kingdom which includes Paperback Booksmith, Videosmith, and Learningsmith. This venture is called Cybersmith which in addition to a bountiful menu of low-cost foods, serves up all the latest in interactive reality machines and more on 53 Apple Macintosh computers. The project, which is operated by Marshall's son Jed, is a joint venture with Barnes & Noble, whose executive vice president is the CEO of this newest of restaurants. Next venture: Outer Spacesmith.

Roger Malkin, chairman of Delta and Pine Land Co. of Vicksburg, Miss., has established a three-quarter-of-a-million-dollar scholarship at Dartmouth for children of D&PL employees worldwide and students from the 11 cotton-producing states. The fund will provide four sustaining scholarships, one per academic year. Roger established the fund out of gratitude to the employees by giving the kids an "opportunity for an outstanding education." Dartmouth for Dixey.

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Marshall Smith offerscoffee, croissants,and cyberspace in Harvard Square. HENRY WILLIAMS JR. '52