IN MEMORIAM, ALAS!       °

Found some stuff (below), but need more -- from you.

Roger Aaron. Roger's extensive obit in the NYT is found here. Remembrance by his son and by Dartmouth friends here.
Tom Allen. Tom's obit by his Yale college class is found here. Philatelist.
Len Becker. Bill Iverson found this obit which appeared in the Washington Post, 12-07-2016: "Leonard Becker, 73, a Washington lawyer who was general counsel to D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams from 2002 to 2006, died Nov. 22 at his home in Washington. The D.C. medical examiner’s office said the cause was atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Mr. Becker, a native of Gardiner, Maine, came to Washington in 1969 as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart. He practiced law at Arnold & Porter for 27 years and retired in 2001 as a partner. He then became senior litigation counsel in the Office of the Corporation Counsel. He was general counsel to Williams from 2002 to 2006. He taught ethics as an adjunct professor at American University’s law school and published articles in professional journals." We also found this: "The Abraham, Eva, and Leonard Becker Scholarship Fund (2016) Established by the estate of Leonard H. Becker ’68 LL.B. to provide financial assistance to Yale Law School students and graduates, with preference for individuals from the State of Maine."

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Dave Boorkman. SF Chronicle, March 9, 2014: "On February 25th, 2014 we lost an amazing man named David Boorkman. After a short illness, David died in his home with its view of the magnicent Bay and San Francisco. Libby Dietrich, his wife, soul mate and love of his life, was by his side. Born in Oregon in 1943, David graduated from Wilson High School after which he attended Carleton College before receiving his law degree from Yale University. He passed both the New York and California Bars. David knew he wanted to live in San Francisco where he joined the planning firm of MKGK and was a founding partner of the consulting firm URSA and organized its non-profit arm, The URSA Institute. He led dozens of social planning, evaluation, training, advocacy and public health projects. He worked with federal, state and municipal government agencies, foundations, and Indian reservations and Native American communities across the country including the North Slope of Alaska.
It was while working that he met Libby. Enamored from the start, they soon became inseparable and had many shared interests. Shortly into their marriage, David suffered a major stroke which left him partially paralyzed on his right side and unable to speak. However his great sense of humor, intelligence and compassion were still very much a part of David and apparent to all who knew him. His ability to communicate without words was truly inspiring. With Libby by his side, he was able to have countless adventures, setting out for trips in their little travel trailer and to their second home in Torrey, Utah as well as travels to the east coast, France, and Egypt. More Dave here
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Russ Carpenter. From Princeton alumni mag: "Born in Providence, R.I., he attended Moses Brown School, where he was a long-standing trustee and in 2014 made the school’s largest gift ever to its endowment. At Princeton he was in the Woodrow Wilson School, Glee Club, president of the French Club, Whig-Clio, and secretary of Cloister Inn. His roommates included Brogan and Cline. His 1963 salutatory address bemoaned the absence of women and raedas automatarias (cars); armed with translation we booed on cue. After graduation Russ earned degrees at Oxford [New College] and Yale Law School, wrote speeches for presidential candidate Ed Muskie, then joined a D.C. firm, where he had an international practice (“in fluent French and clumsy Russian”) and litigated antitrust, land-grant law, and toxic-health liabilities. He also did lots of pro bono work and pushed for human rights. His career, he wrote in our 50th-reunion book, kept him “intellectually alive, constantly getting on top of new areas, never bogging down in repetitive work, and never bored or ready to retire.” Broadly admired, he served as class agent and vice president in the 1980s. We share our sadness with his sister, Lee Carpenter-Long, and brother, Thomas." More about Russ can be found here
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Richard Dahlen. A book by Richard is found here. From a Mechanicsburg, PA obit: "He was an attorney in the law firm of James, Smith, Durkin and Connelly LLP, in Hershey. He was an Army Veteran of Vietnam. Richard graduated from Minot Senior High School, Minot, ND. He received a B.A., magna cum laude from Harvard College in Cambridge MA and a LLB from Yale Law School in New Haven, CT. He then was a Law Clerk for the Minnesota Supreme Court in St. Paul from 1968-1969. He was a winner of a case in the United States Supreme Court (McCarthy vs. The Bark Peking, 1984)."
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Bill Dixon. A staff writer at the Albuquerque Journal published a warm tribute to Bill, entitled "Bill Dixon Was Brilliant Lawyer With Sense of Humor." "Bill Dixon had an intellect vigorous enough to excel in several complex areas of the law and a sense of humor keen enough to relish his role as Captain Hook in a backyard production of Peter Pan. He was brilliant yet unpretentious, with a laugh that carried down the hall . . . Dixon, 59, died Thursday morning at his Albuquerque home after a yearlong battle with cancer. . . . He loved the law, adventures and human relationships, the most important of which was with his wife of more than 20 years, Valentina de Cruz Dixon. 'He walked into the room and it lit up,' said Andy Schultz, a partner at the Rodey law firm, which Dixon joined fresh out of Yale Law School in 1968. Friends and colleagues called him "a lawyer's lawyer" — scrupulous, honorable and scholarly, often taking cases without pay, especially for causes he believed in. Dixon often represented the Journal. He was regarded as a First Amendment expert and went to court on behalf of news organizations to fight closure orders, prohibitions on cameras in the courtroom and subpoenas issued to reporters to divulge sources. . . . Dixon grew up in New Jersey, where he graduated from prep school and Princeton University. . . . He came to New Mexico for a summer internship during law school. . . . Election law became part of Dixon's practice. He handled lawsuits that outlawed excessive filing fees in 1972 and put Independent presidential candidate John B. Anderson on the New Mexico ballot in 1980. A fascination with Latin American politics sent Dixon to Nicaragua in 1996 as one of 32 election monitors from the nonprofit Carter Center. He helped organize the Foundation for Open Government and the group's annual award is named in his honor."
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Andy Fluegelman. He has a page on Wikipedia: Andy. Remarkably, he also has a youTube video dedicated to him: Remembering Andrew Fluegelman -- a must-see for anyone even mildly interested in the history of computers. Andy invented the term "freeware" in connection with the wildly popular program he created, in BASIC, named PC Talk. In the video he describes PC Talk: "I owned my computer for about a month [he bought one of the first thousand IBM PCs shipped], and I was trying to send my files to someone using a completely different computer. There was not one piece of software in the entire world which would enable me to do that. And I stayed up a lot of nights and figured out a way to do it." The image which follows this is of a PC Talk computer screen:
MAKE SURE THAT YOUR MODEM IS ON
PC-Talk III
Communications program for The IBM Personal Computer
He made money by giving PC Talk away to anyone who sent him a floppy disk, and then requesting a donation. Thousands donated. Andy was also the first editor of PC World and of MacWorld His office was in Tiburon, just over the Golden Gate bridge. One theory is that, diagnosed with cancer at age 41, he committed suicide. His car was found near the bridge. More about Andy can be found here.
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Ron Hartwick. This obit in Episcopal News says" "Throughout his years of service to the Diocese, Hartwick's professional work included his years as principal of Trapani Hartwick Associates insurance and financial services, president of Cramblit and Carney, president of Fiduciary Trust International of California, executive vice president at U.S. Trust, and more recently as a wealth management advisor with Northwestern Mutual Financial Network. He is also fondly remembered as coach to his children's soccer, water polo and baseball teams."
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Reuben Hasson. Something about Reuben can be found here.
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Coleman Hicks. He has a page on Wikipedia: Coleman. The Washington Post obit quotes Bill: "William Iverson, a law school classmate and a former colleague at Covington and Burling, said: 'He was outgoing, irreverent, enthusiastic. He took himself much less seriously than most lawyers do.' " WPost.
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Peter Hoagland. Like Tom Grey, Cathy Stevenson, Hardy Wieting, and Jim Woolsey, Peter was in the class of 63 at Stanford. Unlike his classmates, however, who had pleasant and elevating post graduation experiences, 1963-65, Peter was a first lieutenant in the US Army those years, during the Vietnam War. After law school, he was a public defender, but eventually returned to Omaha and was elected to the House of Representatives, where he had a distinguished career -- if only as a Democrat from a state basically rooted in the alternative party. Eventually he was defeated by that party, but before that he is noted as a staunch defender of the environment. Unfortunately, Parkinson's (see our Fettle page) maligned him at 65.

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Mel Masuda. Selections from tribute by Office of Hawaiian Affairs 3/20/2025, a few days after Mel died: Mel "was more than just a legal scholar, journalist, educator. He was a warrior of justice, a defender of the people, and a steadfast advocate for native Hawaiian rights. Born in 1943 to first generation Japanese immigrants, Melvin's life was a testament to perseverance, excellence, and unwavering commitment to righteousness. From a young age, Melvin demonstrated insatiable curiosity and the deep seated belief in the power of words and action. He was a paperboy for Honolulu Star Bulletin Advertiser, an early indication of his lifelong relationship with journalism and truth telling.
"By high school, he was already making waves writing over a hundred articles for the Student Council of Oʻahu publication SCOOP, winning essay contests, and becoming a voice for his generation. His brilliance earned him a scholarship to Princeton, where he became the first Roosevelt High School graduate to attend this prestigious institution. At Princeton and later Yale Law School, Melvin sharpened his skills in advocacy, leadership, and law. As managing editor of The Daily Princetonian, he earned accolades for his writing and investigative journalism. His commitment to justice led him to Yale, where he earned a seat on the Yale Law Journal, the highest academic honor at that institution.
"He clerked for chief justice William Richardson, where he contributed to landmark cases that shaped the legal landscape of Hawaiʻi. He further distinguished himself by earning a master's degree from Harvard University, making him one of the few individuals to have graduated from Princeton, Yale, and Harvard. But Melvin's calling was not just in academia. It was in the heart of the community. In the 1970s, he became a White House fellow, breaking barriers as the first first of Japanese ancestry to serve in this capacity.
"As an educator, Melvin nurtured generations of legal minds, serving as a professor of business law and real estate at Hawaiʻi Pacific University for over two decades. He established legal programs, mentored students, and ensured that knowledge was a tool for empowerment...
"Even in his later years, Melvin continued to fight for the voiceless. In 2019, he defended six defendants in the Kahuku Wind Farm case, proving that his passion for justice never wavered. In 2023, January 17th, he joined the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, an institution dedicated to advancing Native Hawaiian rights...
"Melvin Masuda's legacy is one of service, courage, unwavering dedication to the oppressed. Hisstory echoes the very principles of Psalm 82:3-4 defending the weak, uplifting the needy, and delivering justice. Today, we honor him, not just as a scholar, a lawyer, a professor, but a champion of righteousness, a true protector of the land and the people of Hawaiʻi. Aloha ʻoe Melvin. Your work lives in the justice you fought for, the students you inspired, and the hearts of all who have the privilege of knowing you. Mahalo ke akua."
      The full transcript is here. Mel's family has put together memories they wish to share, and those are found here.

Cliff Pearlman. Obit in The Philadelphia Inquirer 8-6-2024 by Gary Miles: Clifford Pearlman, retired Philadelphia lawyer and innovative cofounder of the Conservation Co., has died at 79.
He was an expert in finance and planning, and his company tailored strategic philanthropy and social investments for corporations, foundations, government groups, and nonprofits in the arts, education, religion, and human services.
Clifford Pearlman, 79, of Philadelphia, cofounder of the innovative Conservation Co., longtime lawyer at what is now the Troutman Pepper law firm, social investment advocate, and volunteer, died Thursday, Aug. 1, of a hemorrhagic stroke at Vitas hospice at Jefferson Methodist Hospital.
Mr. Pearlman was a longtime lawyer and business consultant who turned his devotion to social investments and innovation into an impactful second career in philanthropic and business strategy. He focused on finance and real estate law for what was then the Pepper Hamilton & Scheetz law firm for nearly a decade in the 1970s, then left to cofound progressive Conservation Co. 1980.
At Conservation, known now as the TCC Group, he was the expert in finance and planning, and he and his colleagues tailored strategic philanthropy and social investments for corporations, foundations, government groups, and nonprofits in the arts, education, religion, and human services. They called themselves “social architects,” and their clients included American Express and Exxon as well as the Rockefeller and Pew Foundations.
In a 1991 interview with The Inquirer, Mr. Pearlman said Conservation’s success in connecting clients that wanted to contribute with others that needed funding for social justice projects was especially rewarding. “But it’s like any other business,” he said. “You’re only as good as your last deal.” Their company in particular, he said, with its many challenges, was like a canoe in the rapids. “Although it doesn’t have much mass or momentum, a canoe can turn quickly and take advantage of opportunities,” he said. “But in a canoe, you’re always listening for the sound of water coming over the rocks.”
The partners also established the Energy Department Store at Third and Arch Streets, but it closed after two years. It sold energy-saving devices, many of which became popular years later, and his wife, Lynn Marks, said: “He was ahead of his time.”
“We just sweated it out with low overhead until things finally took hold in the third or fourth year.”
Mr. Pearlman on the growth of the Conservation Co. in the early 1980s.
Mr. Pearlman also lectured to groups about business and social investments, and his many projects and writings on the subject include “Building Bridges: Strategic Planning and Alternative Financing for System Reform.” Conservation Co. cofounder Graham Finney said Mr. Pearlman was adept at clarifying complex concepts and could condense “thousands of legal words into a few dozen.” His family said he had “an unwavering commitment to improving the world around him.”
He served on the board of the Juvenile Law Center and supported Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts and other groups. He did pro bono consulting for nonprofits, day-care centers, and environmental groups, and his family said in a tribute: “His life was a rich tapestry of professional accomplishments, familial devotion, sporting enthusiasm, musical passion, and creative flair.”
Alan Clifford Pearlman was born Nov. 1, 1944, in Long Beach, N.Y. He grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and played stickball and tennis with his brother, Stephen. He was active and smart in high school, and earned a bachelor’s degree with honors from Queens College in 1965. He earned his law degree from Yale University in 1968.
He married Penny Weisinger, and they had son Justin. After a divorce, he met Marks, and they married at the Please Touch Museum in 1985, had son Zach, and lived in Center City.
Mr. Pearlman retired in 1999 and made it a point to spend his time with family and friends. He doted on his wife, sons, and grandson, Leo. He entertained friends often and became known for his hand-pulled espressos.
He was a foodie, and he knew the butchers, bakers, and seafood vendors at the Reading Terminal Market, Italian Market, and other local shops. He favored BYOB places in Rittenhouse Square, and took special pride in his own memorable corn bread and stews, Thanksgiving dinners, and New Year’s Eve lobster.
He played tennis and basketball with his sons, ran in several New York City marathons, and started rowing competitively in his 50s. He liked to hike and camp, rock climb and read, and play touch football.
He penned an entertaining email newsletter he called the Sports Report for family and friends, but he always addressed other topics that drew his interest, as well. He made recycled art, listened to Danny & the Juniors and the Temptations, and told everyone more than once about the time he was invited to sing on stage with Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes.
He liked to roam through Philadelphia and New York with his grandson, and he cheered louder than anyone for his wife’s dragon boat team. His sons called him Pops.
Mr. Pearlman was an avid rock climber and outdoorsman.
“Clifford was a man of intense intellect and insatiable curiosity,” his wife said. “He was one of a kind.” In addition to his wife, sons, grandson, brother, and former wife, Mr. Pearlman is survived by other relatives. A celebration of his life is to be held later.

Donations in his name may be made to Spotlight PA., Box 11728, Harrisburg, Pa. 17108; Lantern Theatre Co., Box 53428, Philadelphia, Pa. 19105; and the National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19106.

" Photos used in obit can be found here.

Dan Press. From his alma mater, Colombia: "Daniel S. Press, attorney and advocate, Rockville, Md., on October 5, 2022. Raised in Flushing, Queens, Press majored in sociology. After a year at the Law School, he took a leave of absence to join Volunteers in Service to America and spent a year on the Crow Reservation in Montana, tutoring children, setting up a library and creating an after-school program. After graduating from Yale Law in 1972, Press moved to Washington, D.C., and worked on behalf of Native American tribes for economic justice, first as a consultant, then as a solo practitioner, then with law firms including Van Ness Feldman, which he joined in 1960 and where he rose to partner. For more than 40 years, Press provided legal and Washington representation assistance to Native American tribes and organizations, as well as companies doing business with them. He also was an adjunct professor in Columbia’s Anthropology Department, teaching courses on Native American issues." A better and longer tribute by an organization he worked with, PACEs Connections, is found here.

Bart Tiernan's heart attack exiting a cab in England, July 2024, startled his family and friends, and now his classmates. Obit link below. Recycling material from the 50th reunion book: his page begins with his work for William Casey, when Casey was Director of the Eximbank (before moving on), and the page continues: "In due course I returned to New York, eventually to form a law firm. I developed an extensive clientele of hedge funds, served as a director of a number of corporations (including a national bank) and did a tour of duty on the Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Securities Regulation. (I also acted for the late Shah and his stunningly beautiful Empress, against whom the Islamic Republic had asserted certain claims.)
"Tired of working with my hands, and keen to make money while asleep, I abandoned the law to organize the Nation’s first fund-of-funds through which individuals could invest indirectly in LBO funds both here and abroad. It reached a considerable size, and it has generated considerable returns for its investors."
Additions could have included such things as his Anglophilia (and to city of Oxford, in particular), his frequent contributions to our Class Notes, his friendship with his neighbor James. D. Watson, his wit, and his sense of humor.
Here is the obit, which expands on the Anglophilia, though it leaves out that he knew Roger Bannister.

Charles Hepner. Chuck died in 2021, but we have only just discovered this. We cannot find an obit, but again we can recycle stuff from his page in the 50th reunion book, especially in that it says so well how he stood out from his classmates.
"As the oldest member of our law school class (I had just turned forty when we started our freshman year), I had already substantial work experience, primarily as a research engineer at Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut, plus five years of service in the Navy. I drew on this background in my legal work, where I specialized in patent prosecution in the US Patent and Trademark Office.
"Upon graduation in 1968, I returned to the intellectual property law firm of Kenyon & Kenyon in Manhattan, where I had interned the previous two summers. Kenyon was a wonderful place to work; the senior partners were excellent mentors, the legal and secretarial staff was first rate, and my fellow associates were friendly and cooperative. I stayed with them for twenty-seven years, working in their downtown New York and then their Washington, DC, offices until my retirement in 1995 at age 70."

Roger Anderson. By the family: "Roger passed away unexpectedly the morning of March 26, 2024. He lived a wonderful life full of family, adventure, and travel.
He began his journey in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, spending summers at the family camp in Southhold. A precocious child, he skipped a few grades and graduated from the prestigious Brooklyn Tech. He initially considered graphic design, until a cousin steered Roger to Princeton where he majored in history. His inability to master French spelling almost derailed his academic career, but summer classes put him back on track. He graduated with honors, writing a thesis on the early development of New York City.
After graduation, he won a Fulbright scholarship to study in Sweden where he learned Swedish and met his future bride, Kristina. After returning to NY, he considered his options and was once again steered back to rigorous academic pursuits. He moved to New Haven to study at Yale Law.
After graduation, he and Kristina got married. His work for Chase brought them to Milan, Italy where they learned Italian, developed a love of coffee, and fine Tuscan wines, and skiing in the Alps. He loved touring vineyards in his red Alfa Romeo convertible." Continued here.

Monty Sonnenborn. NYT 11/14/2023: "Monroe Roland (Monty), of New York City died on November 9, 2023 at age 81 after yet another valiant battle with cancer. An adored and adoring husband, father, and grandfather, and beloved brother, uncle, and son, he was a man of unfathomable courage, dignity, integrity, and honor, whose brilliant and meticulous mind was matched only by his generous heart. Born in the Bronx on June 10, 1942 to Ethel and Jerome Sonnenborn, Monty was a consummate New Yorker. Educated at the Walden School, Haverford College, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, he had a long and distinguished law career, including at Morgan Stanley, where he served as Managing Director and General Counsel for Litigation and Regulatory Affairs. A historian, anglophile, and collector of vintage photography and Heco tinplate models, he was a voracious reader and news junkie; an avid theater, ballet, and museum-goer; and a lover of great food and better champagne. He gave the best, most thoughtful advice and lived his life to the highest ethical standard, always endeavoring to "do the right thing." He is survived by his wife of 51 years Beverly, daughter Amy (Geoff), grandsons Theo and Jasper, and brother Donald (Vivian), and we will hold him in our hearts forever. A memorial service will be held at Plaza Jewish Community Chapel in Manhattan on Thursday, November 16 at 4pm." Legacy.com

Jeff Steinborn. Jeff died of the brain cancer he's had for the past two years in January, 2023, survived by his wife, Melinda, and his sister, Martha. Perhaps the best way to write something about Jeff is to provide a link to this article about him in 2006 and about the Hempfest. This describes a quite remarkable career of a quite remarkable classmate. No obit, but there's much in his page in the 50th Reunion book.

Dick Pilch. "Rutgers law professor directed task to reform U.S. prison system. Attorney, professor, and international investigator, Richard J. "Dick" Pilch, Jr., age 82 years of Stockton, NJ, passed away on Friday, May 24, 2023 at his home. Born on June 10, 1940, in Glen Ridge, NJ, to the late Richard J. Pilch, Sr. and Katharine Martindale Pilch.
Richard grew up in Basking Ridge, NJ, and graduated from Bernards High School. He earned a B.A. from Lafayette College in 1962 with Phi Beta Kappa honors, and a J.D. from
Yale Law School in 1968. Richard also studied at Yale Divinity School on a Rockefeller Brothers Fellowship 1963-64, and served on active duty as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army
infantry 1964-66. After graduation from law school, Richard compiled a distinguished record as a tenants' rights expert at the NJ Office of Legal Services, and subsequently as Director of an American Bar
Association program tasked with reforming the U.S. correctional system. In the latter capacity, he worked closely with former NJ Governor Richard J. Hughes and
U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger. Concurrently, Richard and his former wife opened Poor Richard's Book Shop in Flemington, NJ and operated it for 25 years.
Richard then became a Professor at Rutgers and for two decades made numerous international trips each year, primarily to Prague, Czech Republic, gathering intelligence on the activities of Russia and China
in Eastern Europe and beyond. This work took him to six continents and put him in close contact with important world figures including President Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic.
Richard served on the Hunterdon Central Board of Education and the boards of the Hunterdon Occupational Training Center (forerunner of CEA) and the Community Care Association
(forerunner of Briteside). He also coached youth baseball for several years. Richard was fond of organ music, and a longtime patron of the annual Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival in Connecticut. A disabled
veteran, he was a member of the American Legion, the American Guild of Organists, and the ACLU.
Richard is survived by his son General Lance Pilch, USAF, and wife Junko, and son Richard F. Pilch, MD, MPH, and wife Nazrin; his brother Robert M. Pilch; and five grandchildren.* He was predeceased by stepbrothers Roger Steelman (1981) and Bill Steelman (2020)."
The Star-Ledger May 27-28, 2023. *[See G2]

Mat Zwerling. SF Chronicle obit:
"Matthew Henry Zwerling passed away on March 24 after a long illness. He was born in Massachusetts on April 15, 1944. He grew up in the Bronx and Upper West Side of Manhattan. His grandparents were immigrants from Eastern Europe and his parents were involved in the progressive issues of their time. His father was an esteemed psychoanalyst and a pioneer of community psychiatry.
Mat lived a rich and varied life, characterized by his strong devotion to the struggle for civil rights and the right to full and fair representation of those unable to afford legal counsel.
Mat's commitment to civil rights began in the 1960's. After graduating from the University of Rochester in 1964, he joined other students and graduates in Mississippi Freedom Summer, a concerted effort to register black voters in a state where less than six percent of voting age African Americans were registered. It was courageous and dangerous work. Three of Mat's fellow civil rights workers were murdered that summer in Mississippi. Mat's experience had such an intense impact upon him that he committed himself to a career in law.
He attended Yale Law School and, after graduation, passed up more lucrative career opportunities to clerk for federal Judge J. Skelly Wright in Washington, D.C. Judge Wright was well known for his desegregation orders. Following his clerkship, Mat worked at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he represented indigent defendants in the D.C. trial courts.
After moving to San Francisco, Mat became the first director of the National Lawyers Guild Grand Jury Project. At the time, activists in the anti-war movement were being targeted by the government, often through grand jury investigations. Under Mat's leadership, the project created a manual for attorneys who represented witnesses called before grand juries. Project members also traveled around the country, training Guild members in grand jury practice.
Mat's most lasting contribution to the cause of equal representation of indigents under the law was his work at the First District Appellate Project, a private, non-profit corporation in San Francisco. FDAP administers the appointed counsel system for the California Court of Appeal in the First Appellate District and provides expert back-up assistance to appointed attorneys in a joint effort to elevate the quality of indigent appellate representation.
Mat was recruited by his long-time friend, Bob Calhoun, in 1985 to help create FDAP and became FDAP's first assistant director. He became the Executive Director in 1998. He served as Director for 14 years until his retirement. During his time at FDAP, Mat was an inspirational leader to his staff and panel attorney members, and he won the admiration of judges, attorneys and other legal professionals in the field.
Along with pursuing his commitment to social justice, Mat took every opportunity to spend time outdoors. Physical effort was a tonic to him. As a child, he loved team sports. As a young adult, he drove around Italy with a friend, took a cruise to Alaska with his parents, made maple syrup in New Hampshire and hung out at a fiddle festival in Weiser, Idaho. In later years, he preferred camping, hiking and climbing mountains on his own or with his family. He also persuaded many of his friends to join him in mountaineering, snowshoeing or camping by a remote mountain lake.
In the mid 1970's Mat temporarily left the law to work as a zookeeper at the San Francisco Children's Zoo. He loved encouraging visitors, especially children, to observe and interact with the animals.
Mat also loved music, particularly rock 'n roll. He taught himself to play electric guitar and bass and played benefits and small clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area. He loved nothing better than to get people out on the dance floor enjoying themselves.
In San Francisco, Mat met Holly Veldhuis, and they married in 1984. They lived in Bernal Heights and enjoyed playing music, planning vacations in Tahoe and engaging in long, productive conversations. Mat was a devoted father to their son, Michael, and adored Theo and Clifford – his two grandsons.
We are planning a Memorial for Mat, but have not yet chosen the date. If you would like to know more about our plans, email us at zwerling_memorial@fdap.org
Published by San Francisco Chronicle on Apr. 8, 2022."

Guy Bayes. From Guy's obit:

"Guy Anthony Bayes was a loving husband, father and grandfather. He left this world suddenly on October 27 2021 at the age of 77."

"Guy Anthony was born to Guy M and Frances Bayes on October 30, 1943 in Washington DC. After graduating from Duke University, Guy earned a law degree from Yale law school. He was also a veteran and a patriot, volunteering to serve in the United States Army during the Vietnam war. Following the war, he answered another call to service and became a Southern Baptist minister. He was very involved with NAMI Fort Wayne. He married the love of his life Kathy after college in 1966, whom he remained with and was devoted to his entire life. Together, they had two children: Guy Christopher and Marni whom he loved unconditionally." See our paragraphs on Guy on our Found page, especially the link to his remarkable article on mental health issues.

Rutgers Law School: Nadine Taub.
"Professor Emerita Nadine Taub, 77, Dies After Long Illness. June 22, 2020. Professor Emerita Nadine Taub served on the faculty in Newark for about 30 years commencing in the early 1970s and was a pioneer in the field of Women’s Rights through her groundbreaking clinical practice, teaching and scholarship. She founded the Rutgers Women’s Rights Clinic (WRC) in the early 1970s as part of women’s rights teaching and advocacy generated at Rutgers as initially conceptualized by then-Rutgers Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and as depicted in last year’s movie, “On the Basis of Sex.” The Rutgers Women’s Rights Clinic is believed to be the first such clinic in the country.
As the WRC’s director, Professor Taub, with her students, pioneered work in establishing sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination in employment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and in education under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972; helped advance in the New Jersey Supreme Court, with Lou Raveson, the state constitutional right of low-income women to medicaid-funded therapeutic abortions after the U.S Supreme Court had rejected such a right under the U.S. Constitution; secured access to women to previously all-male eat¬ing clubs and accommodations under state civil rights law such as Princeton University's Ivy Club; and developed novel ways for battered women to use traditional civil remedies to obtain protection from their attackers. She also spearheaded work with the U.S. Civil Rights Commission on domestic violence issues while an active member of the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence.
She is the co-author of several books and treatises on women’s rights and gender discrimination including Sex Discrimination and The Law: History, Practice and Theory (1995 Apsen Casebook Series); Reproductive Law for the 1990s (1988 Humana Press); The Law of Sex Discrimination (1988 Wadsworth Pub.); and Adult Domestic Violence: Constitutional, Legislative and Equitable Issues (1981 National Clearinghouse for Legal Services)." Nadine. NYT obit was delayed, but good.

The Rutgers link also provides very interesting memories of Nadine by colleague and classmate, Jon Hyman, from September 2017. A very good article about Nadine can be found here: feminist lawyers.

Class Notes, winter 2020-2021, tribute is here.

The tribute to Rob by Bill Davis which appeared in Class Notes is: here.

Yale Alumni Mag: "Robert E. Agus. '68LLB passed away on November 29, 2019." A notice in the Washington Post says: "Beloved husband of Rochelle Helzner, devoted father of Jonah and Jessica Agus, beloved brother of Zalman Agus, Edna Povich, and Deborah Agus-Kleinman, and cherished grandfather of Natalie Bregman."
A fascinating and extensive interview with Rob, both a video and a transcript (79 pages), can be found here. Rob, son of a Polish, Yiddish-speaking rabbi who went to yeshiva in Bialystock. Among other things, Rob notes that his father's family came to Brooklyn via Palestine (which they left because they didn't want to be farmers): "They came in ’27, the family came, which is when, of course, Babe Ruth hit sixty home runs." Rob himself, like the Babe, grew up in Baltimore, startled as a child when the downtown movie theater playing Gone with the Wind, to which he and his siblings had been taken by the family maid, wouldn't let her in because she was black. Then there's his first meal at Yale: RA: "the first day that we were there we were invited to a big dinner, a fancy schmancy dinner, but I couldn’t eat anything -- JG: Because it wasn’t kosher. RA: -- because it wasn’t kosher. And there was no alternative. This is what it was. So I could have water, and, it sounds so pathetic, but I was actually so interested in the fellow people — everybody was fancier than the next, and more interested in this or that. This guy sitting next to me on one side was just first year Yale law like I was, and his father was next to him. And I noticed he had an accent, so I asked where he was from, and he says, 'I’m from Poland.'"

Irwin Geller. We have only just discovered the September 2009 issue of The Record, published by Local 1-2, Utility Worker Union of America, AFL-CIO, which contains this tribute:

"October 26, 1944 to March 15, 2009, Professor Geller was the General Counsel of Local 1-2 from 1990 to 1998. Professor Geller was a graduate of Yeshiva University and Yale Law where he graduated in the top 10% of his class. He was a member of Mensa and was renowned for his kindness and civility. Professor Geller was also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University. Irwin Geller will always be remembered for the copious amount of legal work he did for working men and women, especially scores of Local 1-2 members that he represented in various legal forums free of charge. Professor Geller loved working men and women and the feeling was mutual. Irwin Geller will be sorely missed. May his gentle andgood soul find peace and solace for all eternity. Farewell dearfriend."

Princeton Alumni Mag: Peter Frelinghuysen II. "died March 11, 2018, at home in New York City. A third-generation Princetonian and the son and brother of congressmen, he was a man of charm and talent — attorney, chair of medical and musical institutions, and expert gardener. After growing up in Morristown, N.J., and attending St. Mark’s School, Peter came to Princeton and majored in English, played freshman hockey, ate at Colonial, wryly observed the wonderland of college life, and fittingly wrote his thesis on Lewis Carroll. Following Yale Law School, Army Reserve, and Sullivan & Cromwell, he was a longtime partner at Morris & McVeigh.
Peter poured his passion for music into the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as board chairman for more than a decade, and into Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where as a director he was integral to its renovation. As chairman, Peter helped expand the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. This past trustee of the New York Horticultural Society was often up to his elbows in the dirt of Beaverkill Valley, raising vegetables for family and friends.
Peter is survived by his wife of 54 years, Barrett; children Peter ’89, Bess, Cyrus ’96, and Anson; 10 grandchildren; and siblings Beatrice van Roijen, Rodney, Adaline, and Frederick ’75."

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From Winter 2019 Class Notes: His husband, Ésio Macedo Ribeiro (esiomribeiro@ gmail.com), prepared the following for the Yale Law Report:

George Finkelstein. died Sept 2, 2018 George was born Feb. 8, 1944, in Bayonne, NJ, to David and Lilian Finkelstein. He was a longtime resident of New York City. He was a lawyer and captain in the U.S. Army in South Korea, Vietnam, and the Pentagon from 1968 to 1973. Later, he was a lawyer in AT&T Corp., rising to the rank of general attorney. After retiring from AT&T in 1995, he practiced law in South America with various international clients. Since 1991, he has been married to the Brazilian writer, literary critic, and bibliophile Ésio Macedo Ribeiro. George was always interested in ballet, especially the New York City Ballet. George and Ésio have one of Brazil’s largest collections of books, as well as of Brazilian music. They also are art collectors. Until George’s health declined, Ésio and he traveled throughout the world. Recently, they divided their time among Chicago; São Paulo, Brazil; and a farm on the Brazilian high savannah near Brasilia. He died in São Paulo, with Ésio at his side, at 9:47 p.m. on Sept. 2, 2018. He was buried on Sept. 4, in the Israeli Cemetery of Butanta, in São Paulo. George is survived by his spouse, Ésio Macedo Ribeiro, his brother Robert Finkelstein, sister-in-law Terry Finkelstein, his niece Karen Finkelstein Novotny, her husband Daniel Novotny, his great-niece Sara Finkelstein Novotny, great-nephew Evan Finkelstein Novotny, and niece Julie Finkelstein Sunderan, and her husband Adi Sunderan.

A total aside: German: Finkel, indirect occupational name for a blacksmith, from a derivative of finken ‘to make sparks’. Eastern Ashkenazi: ornamental name from Yiddish finkl ‘sparkle’. Sparkle stone.

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