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Fluegelman, cont. Here is an interview Andy gave for the cover article in MicroTimes, May 1985: micro1 micro2 micro3 micro4
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The above excerpts Andy's interview from that now 35-year-old issue, but the full issue is here MT. The full issue is interesting for the ads for 1985 computer equipment it contains.
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We have, however, found an easier way to read the interview: Click here
A commemoration of Andy appeared in the tech section of Time magazine (remember that one?): Time.
Here is an article from the archives of UPI about his disappearence UPI . The article mentions his wife Patricia.
The State of California still lists him as a missing person: Missing
A psychic has a page on Andy (this is California, after all): Psychic.
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Russ Carpenter, cont. The short Washington Post obit adds: "Active in pro bono work for international human rights including board member for Global Rights and counsel to International Law Institute. Special interest in Russian issues. International Human Rights Law Group Pro Bono Service Award 1989. Dedicated to Moses Brown School, where he was a long-serving board member and donor. Board member, American Friends of New College. A memorial service will be held later. Donations in memory to Doctors Without Borders USA, PO Box 5030, Hagerstown MD 21741." For a wonderful portrait of Moses Brown (1738-1836), who, unlike his brother John, became a fervent abolitionist, click here. For a portrait of John, who looks exactly like a well-known English comedian, click here.

Roger Anderson, cont. "They also brought their first son, Niklas, into the world. After five tremendous years in Milan, they moved to Tehran, Iran for further adventures and a second son - Christopher. Iran, pre-revolution was still a chaotic adventure and he and Kristina enjoyed learning some Farsi and buying a large number of carpets. After Iran, they headed north to wonderful Copenhagen. The family loved living in Denmark. Eventually, he convinced the Danish bank, Privatbanken, to bring the family to New York.
They settled in the village of Bronxville. Roger managed Privatbanken’s U.S. operations for nearly ten years before setting off on his own. During his time in New York he was active in the American Scandinavian Foundation, served on the board of the Martha Graham Dance Company, became an active tennis and squash player at the Bronxville Field Club, enjoyed scuba diving with Niklas and Christopher, and completed several New York City Marathons.
In 2000 he experienced some medical issues that lead him to take a step back. He continued to support a start-up company mitigating the environmental impacts of mining. He also served as Honorary Consul General to the Republic of Latvia. He remained a very active member of the Yale Club where he played bridge at every opportunity. He and Kristina eventually returned to Denmark where he continued advising start-up companies.
He lived a full and rich life, setting a high standard and sharing a lot of love. He loved being a father and grandfather. Some of his favorite adventures were traveling to Tuscany and Argentina, seeing hammerhead sharks and octopus during a night scuba dive, going to countless great concerts in NYC, and visiting family across the globe. For all that he accomplished professionally, he will be remembered most of all as a loving father and grandfather.
He is survived by his wife, Kristina, his sons, Niklas and Christopher, his step-daughter Mina, his sister Linda, and his two grand daughters Maya and Lyla. The family plans to organize a memorial in NY next month."
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Cathy with daughter Rebecca and Tom, back in Cathy's days as physician. .

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The tribute to Rob by Bill Davis: Robert E. Agus, of Chevy Chase, Maryland died on November 29, 2019; he was 74 and had lived in the Washington, DC area for more than 66 years. Rob was raised in Baltimore where his father, Rabbi Jacob Agus, a prominent religious and community leader served the Beth El Congregation. Rob is survived by his wife, Rochelle Helzner, a well known Cantor throughout the Jewish community; his two children, Jonah (Astrid) Agus and Jessica (Ben) Agus; and his siblings and grandchildren.
Among his many accomplishments while residing in the Washington DC area:
He founded Fabrangen, a progressive Jewish community inspired by the Civil Rights movement. In 1970. Fabrangan was a pioneer in the Havurah movement, emphasizing participation and study, and popularizing new prayer melodies. Robert and fellow members created a holistic community that included music, arts, prayer, study, drug and Vietnam draft counseling. It led to the Washington Jewish Folk Arts Festival and the Jewish Renewal movement.
Focusing on urban development, affordable housing and community empowerment projects, his last project followed the Fabrangen model of offering residents both the power and the support needed to have the opportunity for them and their children to escape poverty, enabling residents to secure control of their apartments and to create savings accounts, where each dollar contributed by the residents for the future higher education of their children would be matched by a charitable fund.
He was the founder and president of the National Housing Trust, president of Associates in Community Development, director of Neighborhood Revitalization for the National Center for Urban Affairs and director of housing policy for the Urban Institute. He also informed the design of the Low Income Tax Credit program and led the effort to allow the refinancing of Section 202 senior housing projects to renovate and develop housing for low-income seniors.
Robert was also the acting executive director for the United States Holocaust Museum from 1982 to 1983, and assisted in securing the current site for the museum.
While in law school, I had only a passing acquaintance with Rob and did not realize at the time, that neither Rob nor I were sure that we would become lawyer craftsmen devoting our careers to the traditional “practice” of the law. I commenced my Yale Law School education as a member of the Class of 1967, but eventually migrated into the Class of 1968, when I started taking courses towards my Masters of Urban Studies from the Yale School of Architecture as part of the four-year program.
Rob and I were both pleased with our legal education which involved exploring the values of those who had devised laws, judges who had administered and interjected their own values, as well as legal practitioners who sought to utilize those laws on behalf of clients, who may or may not have shared the values of the creators of those laws or the judges charged with their administration.
It was about fifteen years after graduating from law school that I had the good fortune of meeting up with Rob again. He was operating a small real estate consultation firm that he had started, Associates in Community Development, which specialized in assisting nonprofit and educational clients to maximize the value of their real estate holdings. I was experiencing a “mini-career life crisis” at the time, having worked in four very different career settings by then: head of a community development corporation in the black community of Boston; serving as an associate professor at MIT in law and urban studies, practicing law at a major law firm in Washington, DC, and operating as a political appointee directing the US Peace Corps program in 24 African countries. What to do next?
Rob and I conferred, and he convinced me that with our collective skills, we should join forces in real estate consultation and development activities. Rob had successfully participated in the refinancing and renovation of large housing projects in Washington, DC, in Baltimore, and in Prince George’s County, MD. Rob had also become a specialist in utilizing the “sale-leaseback” approach whereby, for example, non-profits and their sponsors or universities and their alumni could enter contracts for the purchase of a facility in need of renovation, for obtaining of private financing to renovate the facility, for the lease of the renovated facility back to the non-profit, for the taking of the tax advantages of accelerated depreciation, and after a period of time (particularly if they were loyal alums or donors), for the donation of the renovated facility back to the non-profit or university (you can bet that the creators of accelerated depreciation did not have this use in mind).
Among our successful projects:
Coordinated efforts for a public university located in Michigan to finance the $5 million conversion of an antiquated gymnasium facility into an arts and humanities center.
Prepared a financial feasibility study and development plan for a private university located in Connecticut to secure investor financing to build town house units for 1,000 students.
After two years of working closely with Rob, I was lured away and requested by a private university in Washington, DC to serve as Executive Director of its university foundation and was successful in financing and developing one of the largest apartment building complexes (800 apartments in two ten story twin towers) in the city for use by the university’s undergraduates and graduate students. This is an illustration of how Rob influenced my career. Thank you again Rob!
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Triffin, cont. The website also has a history of the library which contains much information about Nick, including his trip to China in 1997, "invited to China’s Beijing University to lecture on international commercial law, legal research, and the Internet at the University Library, which is the largest academic library in China." library history
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Nadine, cont. From Winter 2020-2021 Class notes:   Nadine Taub, a professor emerita at Rutgers Law School, died on June 16 at her home in Manhattan. She was 77. Her husband, Olof Widlund said that she struggled for years with Langerhans cell histiocytosis, a rare autoimmune disease.
In a July 24, 2020 article in The New York Times Penelope Green wrote, “Along with other feminist lawyers like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ms. Taub made legal history in cases that argued that the Constitution protected women’s rights.In the early 1970s, Nadine Taub was one of a cadre of young female lawyers breaking new ground by fighting gender discrimination. Along with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nancy Stearns and others, she made legal history in cases that successfully argued that equal rights for women were protected under the Constitution. She litigated cases for rape victims, for women seeking access to abortion and for employees battling workplace discrimination and sexual harassment.
“‘There weren’t many of us, and the field of women’s rights law was only just developing,’ said Ms. Stearns, who as a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights was instrumental in the struggle to legalize abortion. ‘We all knew each other. We were among the young feminist progressive lawyers of our day, and it was a wonderful thing to have sisters doing what we were doing and believing what we believed.’”
At the time of the creation of a scholar position named in her honor on September 5, 2017 Professor Emeritus Jon Hyman spoke about his fellow Yale Law graduate saying, “Nadine was one of the key reasons I came to Rutgers. I had known her in law school at Yale, but had lost touch for several years. When we made contact again, I was in Chicago co-directing Northwestern Law School’s new legal clinic, and knew hardly anything about Newark. But she made the prospect of working at Rutgers quite attractive. Modern clinical legal education was just getting underway, and Nadine, Frank Askin, Annamay Sheppard and Chuck Jones had created a powerful model of impact-directed clinics at Rutgers. Frank’s, Annamay’s and Chuck’s approaches were familiar to me. Litigation for women’s rights, however, in a clinic focused on just that topic, was something entirely new. Nadine had created a model that has taken root and grown. Now, at Rutgers and in clinics around the country, we have clinics separately focused on a wide variety of specific issues, where enforcing or changing the law can make a difference.
“Our Rutgers clinics were originally jammed together in a few adjoining rooms on the first floor of Conklin Hall, across University Avenue from what was then the law school (Ackerson Hall, which is now the College of Nursing.) Although I was with Frank in the Constitutional Litigation Clinic, we all couldn’t help but bump into each other on an almost daily basis. That helped us all. But working together can conflict with the need to maintain an independent focus. Concerned about this, when we moved to our current space, Nadine made sure that she kept an identifiable place for her women’s rights project within our new clinical space. She needed a separate physical identity to support the conceptual identity of her cutting-edge work. She got the space, but at the same time remained fully a part of our joint clinical enterprise. It was always an inspiration, and sometimes a kick in the pants, to walk by her office and see her and Joyce Brown, her assistant of many years, intensely attacking some problem or issue.
“I remember most Nadine’s vision, intensity, legal imagination, and persistence, all wrapped up in a friendly and engaging personality. Her fierce commitment to the flourishing of women’s rights, and to the enduring place of clinics in law school education, remained constant throughout her many years at Rutgers. And she got results. Her thrilling victories energized us all. Remember the days when some Princeton University eating clubs excluded women? Gone, despite powerful opposition, thanks to Nadine’s work over many years. Is a hostile work environment illegal sex discrimination? Judge Herbert Stern of the U.S. District Court didn’t think so. Nor, initially, did other courts. But Nadine got Judge Stern’s decision r eversed and made the hostile work environment principle part of sex discrimination law. She so impressed the judge that, after his decision was reversed, he added a large bonus to his award of attorneys fees to her clinic. This was the first major fee award received by our clinics, and became the basis of our first litigation expense fund. Within our own institution, Nadine showed us that her kind of commitment belongs in the law school as much as any other form of teaching or intellectually creative legal work; the university made her a Distinguished Professor, based in large part on her clinical accomplishments. I’ve always appreciated that strong reminder that we clinicians have a place at the table. I hope she remains an inspiration to any of our teacher/lawyers whose positions are named in her honor.”
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Carl McConnell, cont. A more detailed obit from the Palo Alto Weekly, one that tells of his family, can be found here: Carl.
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Dave Boorkman, cont. "He is remembered and admired by all who came in contact with him and will be forever missed by his family and the many friends who loved him. David is survived by his wife Libby Dietrich; by his brother Peter Boorkman and his wife Patti and their sons Philip and Patrick and granddaughter Milee; by his brother Tod Boorkman and his wife Sharon and their daughters Emily and Nic-e and son Logan; and by his sister-in-law Deborah Dueld and her son Miles."


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Reuben Hasson. As we remember, Reuben was a South African, educated, at least in part, in England (London, in fact). He was pursuing a Master's degree in law when we knew him. All this confirmed by a listing of emeritus faculty to be found on the Osgoode Hall Law School York University website: "Reuben A. Hasson, Professor Emeritus, Education:BA (Cape Town), LLB (London), LLM (Yale)" Further research reveals that Reuben was an expert legal scholar on the doctrine of Uberrimae fides in insurance law. He was honored at a colloquium in Singapore the year after his death: Reuben.