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Newer page! What classmates do for  Exercise/Health. New page!   Memory issues.
Espresso & Wasabi & Memory!
* Website-on-phone news: improved (significantly) *

* Mathea in Gallery Luang Prabang.
* New Grandkids.
* New Alas.
* Treatise on falling.
* Privacy law's future.
* Recently seen on the streets of New Haven. "New Haven is noted for its clam pizza."
* Starting new year off right! See Gallery (includes Hawaii and snow).

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2024

* 68er aunt & Red Nose (tis Xmas!)
* Alzheimer Revolutions!
    (+Blueberries)
* New Alas (4, Alas!).
* Terrific news.
* New Pix. New Found. Hutchings
* New Bird. New Memory.
* New Alas. Roger
* New Cap.    New Peril.
* Bart's VP story. Spiro.

* 1984 Orwell 75 years.
* Twain McGuinn.

* Still working @103!
* Still running @108!
* We are digital champs >70.
* Detector dog. (Yes, off the beaten track).

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2023

Speaking of health: Bivalent better.
Speaking of health: new booster.
* New photos sent in by classmates.
    See Gallery   Please send more.
    Especially if you look like this:
      - born 1941, married a YLS.
* Russian explosion! (Thanks Joan)
                 * Falafel recipe. (Class Notes)
* Alas, a new Alas. Monty
Classmate video: Peter on "Creating a Human Rights Culture: A Look into Indigenous Peoples' Rights.
* Coda: to item below about Mike Reiss. Fascinating video interview where he goes through all steps of his career, recounting, in discussing his work at DWT in particular, a number of important, precedent-setting, involved, amusing cases.
Jeff Wood writes: "Gro and I are in Oslo for a month [Feb], attending operas, concerts and balletsl The weather isn't great, but the musical calendar is full. Unfortunately, I never learned Norwegian well enough to go to plays."
* Still looking: for pictures of you with your grandkids. In fact, still looking also for any recent picture with you. Please send to 1968yls@gmail.com.
45 spending millions to become 18. --(Off the beaten track, admittedly).
* New: The Age of the Grandparent has arrived. --(Off the beaten track, admittedly).
* Running 100 miles at age 80+.
* Passes bar at 17.
* Cheers! We're a growth industry:

"State of the U.S. wine industry 2023" which has made recommendations for more than 20 years, found that the only area of growth for American wine was among consumers over 60, said its author, Rob McMillan, executive vice president of Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, Calif., and a longtime analyst of the American wine industry. The biggest growth area, he said, was among 70 to 80-year-olds. NYT.

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2022

* New: Fettle! Medical/Mental.
Spies in the right column! ♀
* New page: Jack Tate, inspired by Rich Epstein in this summer's Class Notes.
* New list of all books by us: Books
(If we missed yours, tell 1968yls@gmail.com)
Four (highly) contrasting items:
a) Mike Reiss:"Over the course of several weeks in February and March, I was mediating a class action against Google in which a class of over 15,000 women had asserted claims of equal pay violation." Court doc: Mike "supervised an all-day mediation session between the parties on March 28, 2022." NYT: Google Agrees to Pay $118 Million to Settle Pay Discrimination Case.
b) Can you stand on one leg for 10 seconds?
c) Remember LSD?
d) Remember 50's communist plot?

Our profession: CA court rules bees included under "fish." See bees.
* New: see gallery.    & see Advice from runners who've made it to 9th decade.
* Headlines: Is Omicron cresting? See our Winter 2022 Class Notes.
* Demographic social-media facts -- Facts we've waited for, all these years!
    -- Twitter: 24% of U.S. adults are on Twitter. Less than 20% of people ages 50 and up use it.
    -- Facebook: 70% of U.S. adults are on Facebook. 65% of people ages 50 and up use Facebook.
    -- Instagram: 37% of U.S. adults are on it. 75% of Instagram users are 18-24.
* Previously: It's never over till it's over. Just as many of us are crowing about our booster, Omicron raises its ugly head.
How about some diversions? -- G4, our brand new gallery of vintage photos sent in (eg, YLS68 floating under water) or found on the net (eg, C-Span). & you'll also see that 68 now includes a saint. G3 for new by our photographic artists. *New Fettle items, including The Woman Who Smashed Codes and a review of the autobiography of Carl Djerassi, a man who had an enormous influence on your life, whether you know it or not. & see N for what Dan Press is up to. And Woolsey news. *There's still the A2 stuff about Chirelstein (no problem), Winter (estate plan), and Dworkin (sheep).

* Now colorized: the photos of our parents on the page which companions our Roots page. Photos. We need more of you to send in Roots. Really! -- Honor your parents!

*Worth repeating: To Bickel's machine gun we've added Clyde's conscientious objection to WW2 -- click on A2.

*Not to forget: new reviews on our F2 -- two WW2 movies, one from 1943. We need reviews! And, interested in sci & tech? Click.

* We're now devoting middle column of our G2 page to pictures of you with grandchildren. You have to be in the pic. We already have a good start. Send yours to 1968yls@gmail.com, where they are eagerly anticipated.

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2021

* 12/1/2021 "Under U.S. law, a corporation can be a person. So can a ship. 'So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air,' Justice William O. Douglas wrote in a dissenting Supreme Court opinion in 1972. Pro-life activists have argued that embryos and fetuses are persons. In 2019, the Yurok tribe in Northern California decreed that the Klamath River is a person. Some forms of artificial intelligence might one day become persons.
"But can an elephant be a person? No case like this has ever reached so high a court, anywhere in the English-speaking world. The elephant suit might be an edge case, but it is by no means a frivolous case. In an age of mass extinction and climate catastrophe, the questions it raises, about the relationship between humans, animals, and the natural world, concern the future of life on Earth, questions that much existing law is catastrophically ill-equipped to address."        Peter d'Errico found this terrifc new elephant article by the great historian, Jill Lepore, "The Elephant Who Could Be a Person," in the current The Atlantic. He gives us the link at RSN, and it can also be found at Atlantic.

Question for classmates: No doubt none of our profs ever raised a question about an elephant, but did any ever raise a question about the personhood or legal standing of any of the items mentioned in the Douglas 72 opinion, or any similar?    1968yls@gmail.com

* 11/1/2021 Startling fact: "In Japan, 90% of people over 90 years of age are women." 90%. MedicalXpress.
* 10/31/2021 Startling people: one from YLS. Both from Chicago, in which a number of us also originated (and/or practiced).
YLS (not '68, but '77): Deborah. Second startling person: a legend, made it to 102, Timuel.
* 10/14/2021 Startling event: Meteor.
* 8/1/2021 The big news is the new Class Notes (you can read them on your mobile phone). That -- and 35 million cases of covid and over 600,000 deaths so far. We assume '68 is doing well in this, but we'd like more specifics. 1968yls@gmail.com. Please send.
* 7/15/2021 Did anyone run a mile on this, our Class68 Annual Mile Run Day? One of us did, with a time of 10 minutes, 7 seconds. If anyone else did, please report in. Indeed, if you just walked a mile, or rode a bike, let us know your time. Tell you what, run one soon (or walk, etc.) and let us know your time -- doesn't have to be exactly on the 15th. Summer 2021 will do.

* 5/25/2021 Sally's find: Cigars on Fire!
* 5/05/2021 Criminal offense 1918:

* 3/22/2021 Fully vaccinated? Here's what we can/can't do FV.
* 1/20/2021 Le roi est mort, vive le roi! FDR had his 100 days, and admittedly he had the Depression. But he didn't have a pandemic. What will it be like in 100 days?
* 1/20/2021 Privacy, law of. Found on web recently: "emails are considered 'abandoned' after 180 days. The government can look at these emails without a warrant thanks to the Electronic Communications Protection Act, a law passed in 1986 when electronic communications were very different. As Wired pointed out in 2013, 'It’s beyond ridiculous that email (but not mail) has been left out of privacy laws.' . . . The most notable attempt [to fix this] was in 2016, when the Email Privacy Act passed unanimously in the U.S. House of Representatives and went on to die in the Senate. As of January 2021, the law stands." Unanimously?!

Dick's son, Daniel, distancing.

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2020

* 12/24/2020 Who would have thought our class is connected to Rudolph? Not Giuliani, but he of shiny red nose (round, as opposed to that of the former NYC mayor), in action tonight. Chris May tells us how: Dad.
* 11/17/2020 Apparently there was an election two weeks ago. And a new covid wave. What will 2021 bring?
* 10/10/2020 Mike Reiss on YouTube. "In September, I did a presentation on African American voting rights, working in Holmes County, MS, and the return trip to the South that Shelly and I made in Feb/March of this year … returning to the Pacific Northwest just as Covid began to become generally recognized up here and elsewhere." Part of "a series of weekly conversations on “truth” .. “justice” .. and “healing," "Our rector, Dianne Andrews recorded the presentation and saved it … to YouTube (apparently that’s how you save things these days)." The talk is in three parts: 1) history; 2) his experience in Holmes county summer 1966, and 3) the return trip. Visually, we get to see a bit of Mike, but mainly it is slides he carefully prepared. A link will be provided when Mike is finished "tweaking" it for those learned in the law.
Recall also that Junius Williams was, 03/1965, in Montgomery, working with Stokely Carmichael, during the famous march Mike mentions in his history. Junius's mug shot from that experience appears here on our About page. Mike's talk lasts about an hour, but Junius has almost three hours: "My life in the Movement in the South and the North has been chronicled in the Civil Rights History Project, a collaborative initiative of the Library of Congress and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. Mine is one of eleven interviews shown nationally on C-SPAN." Here is the link to that: Junius.

* 09/25/2020 From The Regulatory Review's Week-in-Review: "A federal judge ordered the U.S. Postal Service to prioritize all election-related mail. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy previously claimed that he will delay administrative changes until after the election, but several candidates for office and New York voters brought a lawsuit alleging bad faith cost-cutting in an attempt to erode the right to vote. United States District Judge Victor Marrero wrote that “the right to vote is too vital a value in our democracy to be left in a state of suspense in the minds of voters weeks before a presidential election, raising doubts as to whether their votes will ultimately be counted.” Reg

* 09/04/2020 We finally have a real Roots page -- Unique to 68. Fascinating.   But please add yours. [09/17/2020 Amazing new addition.]

* 09/01/2020 Mel Masuda's disquisition on the history and legal status of Native Hawaiians has just been added to our Native page -- Unique to 68.

* 09/01/2020 Mike Parish has published a unique book, The Tower of Babble. Amazon's blurb:

A gifted raconteur, Michael Parish offers a collection of anecdotes filled with his offbeat sense of humor. In these stories, you will learn how to become invisible through the use of paper clips, how to understand the difference between French pastry and Napoleon's calcified penis (not as much as we might want), and how to handle a radioactive rabbit in a hatbox in the closet. Parish provides illuminating character sketches, poking fun at himself as well as others, as he describes the long lunches and late night workings of New York law firms. Along the way, his eye for detail captures everything from the couture at a high school reunion to the ragtag clothing of a billionaire at a bar. May this book offer perspective on, and help you laugh at, the parts of life that drive you crazy.
The first chapter is "Ninety-nine percent of lawyers give the rest of us a bad name." He deals with fire, twice, pals with Alice Cooper on a plane, discusses string theory, and much more.   43 chapters. #41 is X-rated.

* 08/01/2020

1891 -- Coming into the polling station to vote, 29 years before ratification of the 19th amendment. A new documentary about this by Tim Frakes is entitled "All Citizens", a phrase taken from the sentence in the town's founding document (1862) which says that all citizens of the state 21 or older and resident for 90 days prior to an election shall be entitled to vote.

One of us grew up in this town, but (like all others in town) has only just learned, through Frakes' film, of this amazing event in the history of the rights of women.

Two women graduates, not of YLS, but of U Michigan Law School, Mary Fredricka Perry and Ellen Annette Martin, formed a law firm on LaSalle St., specializing in the rights of women.

Mary died in 1883, but Ellen soldiered on, partly to honor her friend's memory. She prepared a lengthy legal brief with which she threatened the polling station judges sufficiently in 1891 that they let her, and then subsequently 14 other women, vote. Would love to read that brief.

YLS, btw, experienced something similar to this a few years earlier: "The first woman to graduate from the Law School -- and from the university -- was Alice Rufie Jordan Blake 1886LLB, who gained admission with the lawyerly argument that the school's catalogue did not expressly exclude women." She entered and graduated, but the Corporation responded by making the exclusion explicit. Reversed in 1919.

1918 @ Stanford.     See Mental Fettle for review of the book.
* 06/20/2020 It hasn't always been lockdown. Some of us were lucky enough to get in some travel before the virus hit. Especially fortunate in this regard is Bill Horwich who reports a 5-month trip he and his wife took last fall to New England and then on to France, Italy, Spain and Morocco. "Our timing was perfect, leaving Spain and Morocco days before the coronavirus pandemic erupted." In Malaga, Spain he was photographed with a local artist born there.

* 06/01/2020 Ta-dah! We finally have our page about involvement of our class with the legal and related affairs of Native Americans. The main focus is on those who went to work for the Navajo upon graduation, though since our class involved itself with other tribes as well we call it our Native page. A very interesting page -- click on the link "Native" above (top row).
Since classmates lag in supplying memories of profs, we've found other memories to use, sometimes by the prof herself -- as in the singular case of Ellen Peters -- and sometimes by a student in another class (Kessler). Guido now there, and Marv Chirelstein. Also found Max Gitter's tribute to Joe Goldstein. Amazing stuff about Boris Bittker. Amazing stuff about Charlie Black -- and Louis Armstrong. Rodell piece augmented. And something about Ralph Brown, JW Moore, and Ralph Winter. Click on A2, above. We've also found new images. Still looking for people to honor their mothers by submitting Roots -- just start by sending her maiden name to the class gmail address; we will respond. Finally found something, even a picture, about Rich Meyer for the Alas page.
Junius in action, June16:

July 4 -- we asked Junius how it went: "Great! Over 15,000 viewers between Facebook and Zoom."

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ps. Anyone who sends pic of him/herself in mask would find a grateful reception at the class gmail address.

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* 05/01/2020 Back up! Mother's Day is May 10. We still need people to use the Roots page format to tell us their mother's maiden name, and her history (fathers come June 21). Really, parents, grandparents, and more, have interesting histories which we'd all like to share. A way to honor them. Some of us have already contributed, but, in the interest of modesty, we're waiting for at least a dozen before going online.   *Alas -- we have additions to our Alas page, including a classmate who died in 2009, a fact we just discovered. New additions, but also new facts and memories. Sally found very good article about Bill Dixon.   *Slowly adding to our page about our profs. But there is much yet to be done. Surely someone can send in a memory or two of Fritz Kessler, about whom, astonishingly, we currently have zero. Ditto Ellen Peters and Boris Bittker.   *We need more memories of classmates also. And pictures. Thanks to photographic artist Bill Iverson the aspect ratio of all the existing photos on the site have been improved. But we need more pictures.   *We have succeeded, though, in adding pictures of classmates who created a page for the 50th reunion book, but omitted a current picture. See our G2 page.   *Beginning to plan a supplemental page dealing with the involvement of a significant number of our class in the legal affairs of Native Americans.
* 04/21/2020 The big find, thanks to DG, is a collection of our old Class Notes, organized chronologically and by person, for the years 2001-2009. You can access this here in our archive, as a .doc file or as a webpage file. DG is looking for 2010-2019. As for new people-finds: Gerry Neal, Ed Mattison, and the real David Gerber (all three with current pictures). Plus a semi-Find: Roger E. Anderson.
* 04/12/2020 Still more Finds. And a very interesting new book review on our F2 page -- a book on a subject that is directly related to something that is right at the center of all our lockdowned minds these days. Please send in reviews: book, movie, opera, TV, art exhibition, museum. city country . . . .
* 04/08/2020 After the big announcement: Peter d'Errico reported in that the picture we had was in fact a picture of "one of my mentors, the late John Slow Turtle Peters, Mashpee Wampanoag Medicine Man and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs." Peter sent us the right photo; it's now up. Alan Ziegler vows to track down March Coleman. Dave Drabkin reported in from Thailand. Recent additions to the Found page -- a good one on Dan Press (who joins our class's Native American flank). Some info on, not a lot, but we do have pics: Jim Gardner, Jim Bowman, Rick Minardi, Rob Robinson. Also found, but with even less info and sans pic: Jim Roberts, Allen Tupper Brown, And a new addition to our Alas page, alas.
* 03/30/2020 For Rich Epstein's contentious coronavirus interview with the New Yorker, click here.
* 03/09/2020 Jon Hyman writes: "one of the things that's been taking up my mental energy in the last few months is the production of a new volume of Transactions, the research journal of the Linnaean Society of New York, where I'm serving as editor. We've been working on reviving it for several years (the last volume was in 2007), and have finally put together a series of papers about recent research from the decades-long Great Gull Island Project. (Great Gull Island, off the North Fork of Long Island, is the largest nesting site for Roseate Terns.) "
* 03/04/2020 Jeff Steinborn writes: "Yes, it [the reunion book] is an interesting read. Despite the shortage of women, our classmates have made their mark in some interesting places. And the few women we did have have had stellar careers."
* 02/24/2020 Found a picture of Sally Barlow on the internet recently. It's from 2015, and worth having:

* 01/01/2020 Joan Andersson late last fall pulled up stakes from Topanga Canyon (near where the Kobe Bryant crash occurred) and moved to Berkeley. Her husband, Bill Zimmerman, in whose absolutely terrific personal memoir of the Anti-Vietnam-War movement Troublemaker, Joan appears, writes: "Joanie and I have recently upended our lives by selling both of our houses and moving to Berkeley, where we are renting a place for a couple of years in preparation for a buying a property to share with our daughter and her family, who also recently moved to Berkeley. It’s all so new we’re still unpacking and getting settled . . . . Nonetheless, we’re dong fine and looking forward to a big change in our lives."
* 01/01/2020 Mel Masuda reports that his son, Maka, is now with the Business Payments Division at a certain company founded by Jeff Bezos, and that Maka and spouse Allison, an engineer with "X-Box" Marketing at Microsoft, have twin sons. His daughter, Kaiewa, and husband Matt, also have two sons. Kaiewa, who has a master's degree in Counseling Psychology "is now 'the' ('thee' -- one-and-only) Career & College Counselor at Waialua High & Intermediate School at the western edge of Oahu's famed North Shore (a mecca for surfing)."
* 01/01/2020 At least three of our classmates have taken up such a deep interest in photography that they have created websites to display (and vend) the photographs they take: Tom Grey and Norm Leventhal and Bill Iverson. See our gallery pages here for more.
* 01/01/2020 A close reading of the 50th Reunion book reveals engagement with the thespian arts. Jack Carley took up acting at 77. He coyly fails to mention that his second wife is herself the daughter of a rather famous actress. Dave Hopmann is into it in a big way. Earl Weiner acted in college and is Board Chair of The Acting Company, "a professional repertory company that helps to develop young classically trained actors." It could be argued that all lawyers are by nature actors, of course.
* 01/01/2020 The following is not news so much as observation. A close reading (we did go to law school, after all) of our 50th reunion book reveals the surprising fact that a number of us have taught in high school and even primary school after graduation.
* The list begins with the Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal, Bill Iverson: "Over the last ten years, I have also done some substitute teaching, mostly in charter high schools around the city and mostly in mathematics."
* Doug Blazey: "Upon graduation, my first job was at Trenton (NJ) High School where I taught math and history in a Ford Foundation-funded program for 10th-grade males entitled Upward Bound created shortly after the Trenton riots of the late ’60s. This experience was both positive and eye opening!"
* Len Rubinowitz: "In the first year after graduation, I had a very short stint in the General Counsel’s office of HUD in Washington, taught fifth grade in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and began a two-year period as a Special Assistant to the HUD Regional Administrator in Chicago."
* Henry Woodward: "After graduation I opted for a 2-year stint as Peace Corps Volunteer in Kosrae and Pohnpei, two high islands in the Eastern Carolines, where I learned vastly more than I taught."
* Don't know if he's done any high school teaching, but Mike Reiss says that though his lawyer wife, Shelly: "has been active with organizations supporting foster children . . . I have been more heavily involved with bar associations, high school groups, and on the Board of the American Employment Law Council." Several of us mention teaching college undergrads. That includes these two:
* Richard Pilch: "As the bookstore was winding down, I was invited to teach Political Science at Rutgers University. Initially I taught courses on the American legal system, but soon added International Law."
* Junius Williams: "I ran for Mayor of Newark (1982), and recently retired as the Founding Director of the Abbott Leadership Institute at Rutgers University Newark, where I taught leadership and community organization (2002–2018)."
* 01/01/2020 Sometimes news can be discovering something about a past event, rather than a fresh occurrence. Here's something that falls into that category. One of our classmates went to high school with two guys who ultimately had careers as IBM sales reps. He just discovered something about a third IBM'er they might have known who is from the same area in the suburbs of Chicago, actually about the son of that person: 9/11 hero Beamer
* 01/01/2020 Accomplished genealogists will be the first to send in their Roots for our page. We also need yours.
* 01/01/2020 We periodically search the net for classmates whose email we lack and whom we'd like to re-engage. The complete list can be found in the Missing Persons Bureau of our Alas page.

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New news: Viewing on phone improved (significantly).               1) Now has hyperlinks jumping back to top of column. No need now to scroll up and up and up through our very long columns to get back to top. Click the hyperlink below for practice.
         2) More hyperlink jumps: these jump side to side. Now, instead of having to scroll down to the bottom of, say, the left column to go on to the middle column, we can jump over to that column. Notice the tiny circle to the right of the heading for the left column. Click on that circle (we've co-opted the symbol for degrees, as in 70° for this). That will take you to the top of the column which is to the right of the left column -- the middle column. Similarly, when you are at the top of the right column, click on the tiny circle which is to the left of the heading, and that jumps to the top of the middle column. Of course, the middle column heading has two tiny circles, one that takes you left and one that takes you right.
         PRACTICE SESSION. The heading "Summer 2023" is down someplace in the center column of this very page. So, on your phone, click the "Back to Top" hyperlink below, then click the tiny blue circle. Find that heading.
         PS. You can also just rotate your phone to landscape (sideways) orientation. Shows all three columns, but very, very narrow versions. Sometimes it only shows two, with the third all the way down at the bottom, tucked under the first two (but at full width). Also, in landscape you can't tap on another column and expect that to show when you rotate back to portrait orientation. Clicking a tiny circle, tho, works.

Old news: website now has "responsive template" -- adapts to size screen you're viewing; try on your phone.
Old news: Tips: a) Search for word on page -- tap the 3 dots upper right, "Find in page" is offered there. b) Can't open .pdf files directly (possible on computer, but not phone), but press on the link to the file and a download option will appear.

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°           CLASS NOTES*             °

Tom's backyard. Napoleon's nephew. More here.
Class Notes by one and only DG.

Winter 2025

Mike Parish’s new address is 341 Tideway Dr, Baleena Apartments Apt 111, Alameda CA 94501.
His daughter Maya now runs an agricultural co-op involving local truck farmers which she removed from an umbrella coop whose sponsors were largely absentees with no CPA, controller or lawyer. “Since she took it over, she's achieved, thru her own efforts and her grant-writing skills, to increase their monthly growth from $1K to $35K and also sits on the Hawaii governor's board dealing with youth entrepreneurship. basically, local Chinese wholesalers would play the indigenous (Fijian, Samoan, Filipino, Japanese) farmers off against each other, and made them fear not selling anything at all. Now they negotiate thru my daughter and stand together, selling only thru the co-op and making a lot bigger piece of the pie (no, not Taro pie!).”
Mathea Falco writes: “The rapid approach of my 60th college reunion (Radcliffe '65) inspired me to respond to D.G.'s request for news with a few paragraphs about my current life. In three years, we will be preparing for our 60th YLS reunion!! Amazing how quickly the decades fly past. I stay in very close touch with Joan Andersson, who befriended me on our first day at the Law School: I could not find the ladies' room and was wandering hopelessly until she kindly took me down the stairs to show me. She remains my dearest friend. Fortunately, she and her family live in Berkeley, so we are able to visit often.
“My beloved husband, Peter Tarnoff, died a year ago at our home in San Francisco after several decades with Parkinson’s. Ten years ago, our son Ben Tarnoff married Moira Weigel—both are Harvard class of ’07. Ben works in tech and Moira teaches Comp Lit to Harvard students, who look even younger than we did then. And they have three little girls (ages 5, 3 and 1) who think that Harvard Yard is a playground. I visit them often.
“My work continues, although no longer primarily focused on drug abuse prevention, treatment and international drug policy. Since the military coup that imprisoned Aung San Suu Kyi and the democratically elected NLD government in 2021, Burma (also known as Myanmar) has become my central concern. A country of 50 million people, comprising more than 130 different ethnic groups, Burma was loosely united under the British Raj. After World War II, Burma had a brief, tumultuous experience with parliamentary government, but by 1962, the military, led by General Ne Win, had taken over, ruling for the next 50 years.
“When I first visited Burma in 1977, the country was closed to the outside world. However, I was welcomed as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters, because Burma was then the primary source for the world’s heroin. The generals wanted U.S. assistance to curtail opium production for the illicit market. During the four years of the Carter Administration, I visited the country often, and although opium production did not diminish, I fell in love with Burma and its people. In 1995, I met Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her close circle of advisers who had led the massive protests in 1988 against military rule. They were under various degrees of house arrest, but during the next eight years, I was allowed to visit them several times a year while closely watched by the military. That stopped entirely in 2003, when the military imprisoned Aung San Suu Kyi, killed many of her supporters, and shut down all outside contact.
“In 2011, crushed by years of economic and environmental disasters, the military junta slightly loosened its grip in order to encourage outside investment and bring in desperately needed hard currency. Aung San Suu Kyi was released, parliamentary elections were held in 2015, and civil society flourished. The internet connected people in ways that no one could have imagined, everyone had cell phones, universities opened, and the future looked bright. In November 2020, Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy won national elections in a landslide, much to the shock of the military. Three months later, in March 2021, the military staged a coup, imprisoned Suu Kyi and many of her NLD colleagues, as well as several foreigners who had been working with the NLD government on various issues, like central bank reform, health care, and education. One of my closest friends, Sean Turnell, a leading Australian economist, who had been advising the NLD, was arrested on trumped-up charges and imprisoned under horrifying circumstances for almost two years.
“The military dictatorship continues, although increasingly enfeebled by catastrophic economic policies and unexpectedly fierce armed resistance from local people’s defense forces who have taken control of more than half the countryside. Suu Kyi is confined alone in a dreadful prison in Naypyidaw, the capital constructed by the military, as are many of her colleagues. Thousands have died fighting, or in prison. The suffering is immense, but the people continue to resist. Some parts of the country, like Kachin in the north, Rakhine in the west, and Karen along the Thai border, have managed to achieve almost total control of their territory. The decade of openness changed Burma profoundly, especially the young people, who are determined to throw off military control. Many civil society organizations (that no longer can operate inside the country) are helping provide essential services, often from the Thai-Burma border. I remain deeply involved in these efforts. If you would like to learn more, let me know.
Y--Junius Williams was awarded an honorary degree by Amherst College at its 2024 Commencement.

NOTE: The three obits which precede, in YLR, the above are for classmates whose obits have already appeared on our Alas page, Bart, Cliff, and Roger. Nonetheless, click here to see them as they appear in the printed YLR Class Notes.

Summer 2024

Zyg Plater, responding to my request for memories about our professors, wrote the following: “In retrospect I was a clueless Candide in law school, barely understanding what was going on, except that I was staying out of Vietnam. Quintin Johnstone, just appointed dean of the Haile Sellassie Imperial Law School in Addis Ababa, gave me a kick into tough reality when he pushed me into three years of teaching in Ethiopia, which was teetering on the cusp of civil war and famine. A very small amount of what I'd studied in New Haven became useful as I tried to learn, and teach, some problem-solving skills in a totally different culture. Unlike the European-trained teachers, who needed codified laws in order to think, I realized that US lawyers could operate by mobilizing relevant analogies, taking stories from the past, near or far, or current fact patterns reflecting what works and what doesn't, and analyzing them with my students to cook up problem-solving principles that might persuade judges and bureaucrats. And what I learned about cultural relativity* and dominating tribalism turned out to be intensely relevant when I came back to the USA and discovered that environmental protection law had been hatched in my absence.”
Bart Tiernan puts on his humorous and needling hat to write the following:
“Although I remain proud to have made history as the first Anglo-American to organize and manage a private equity fund-of-funds, I will be forever lost to shame for failing to diversify my investors, who have consisted solely of white men and women since the fund’s inception, except for a Japanese foundation and an investment vehicle for the partners of a prominent global law firm. (With respect to diversity metaphysics, it is believed that the Japanese are to be regarded as ‘white aligned.)
“I had hoped to compensate for such delinquency by cashing out my investors (save for my family) and immersing myself in “anti-racism” at our home in the Bahamas, the population of which is more than 90% diverse, and where all of our doctors, lawyers, bankers and tradesmen are diverse. However, Bahamians have shown little interest in my anti-racism rehabilitation, as they are facing a diversity issue of their own, viz., mass Haitian immigration, which is having a serious adverse impact on their safety, their schools, their hospitals, and the culture in general of the third richest country in the Western Hemisphere (in terms of GDP per capita).
“I therefore thought I might turn for guidance and support to my immediate next door neighbor in the Bahamas, a renowned progressive and public servant who is reliably reported to have spent $171.5 millions of his own money to buy the governorship of Illinois, in furtherance of his service to the public of that state, but he and his wife (with whom I had bonded over the design of a new boundary wall) appear to be mired in Springfield.
"Mention of Illinois and Springfield doubtless brings to mind our classmate George Bunn, who has appeared in my submissions to these Notes with perhaps excessive frequency but whose relevance to this submission is the coincidence of his nephew’s marriage to the daughter of another contiguous neighbor in the Bahamas! As my wife Nini likes to say, our world is not a small world — it’s a village.
“George has sold up in Gotham and emigrated to Southampton, Long Island, a white settlement on the ancestral tribal lands of the Shinnecocks (a sovereign nation). He was aided in this transition by my personal assistant, whose mastery of information technology has enabled him to remain connected to the outside world. George is his ebullient old self, socially and physically active, whereas I get around less easily.
“George regrets missing our 55th reunion, but I do not. I’m simply not a reunion person. However, as our reunions coincide with those of the Clintons, I am concerned to know whether anyone may have run across Mrs. Clinton roaming the ramparts of the Law School like the ghost of Hamlet’s father crying “Remember me! Remember me!”
“Further affiant sayeth not.”
Mathea Falco’s husband, much admired diplomat Peter Tarnoff, died on Nov. 1 at their home in San Francisco. Mathea told The New York Times that the cause of death was complications of Parkinson’s disease.
Melvin Masuda’s daughter, Kaiewa Muranaka, nee Masuda, her Ed.D. Kaiewa ("kai -- evah"), the Native Hawaiian word for, "taking life philosophically." Kaiewa is the Counselor to Grades 9 and 10 students at the Native Hawaiian high school in Honolulu, the Kamehameha High School, on Kapalama Heights.
Mel writes, ”She is the very first academic doctorate in our Ohana (Family).”
Norman Leventhal writes about his September 2023 trips to Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, & India, and Japan. “Upon completion of these trips, I will have visited every continent, all of the World’s oceans and more than 65 countries (including all 50 of the United States, most of the Canadian provinces, as well as multiple trips to the capital cities of the Western world). As an aside, my book Rene, el Tigre & Me, sort of an autobiographical recitation of my legal career since Yale and my role in helping to bring Spanish language television to the US, was planned to be one of the thousands to be featured at the Miami International Book Fair held this past November.
“Unfortunately, I am suffering from some type of undiagnosed neurological disorder which makes it hard to walk, very difficult to hike and impossible to play tennis or golf — all of which I have enjoyed immensely over the last 40 years. To make life more complicated, my wife of 56 years (Ilene) has unfortunately been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment which has - not unexpectedly - morphed into early stages of Dementia. Hence our upcoming trips will be cruises - if, indeed, we can manage that. Nevertheless, we have already planned our next cruise to the Dalmatian Coast scheduled for late August of this year (2024).
“After the trips mentioned above, there are only three places remaining on my bucket list: (1) a cruise from Greenland, through the famed Northwest Passage, to Anchorage, Alaska;(2) a trip on the Siberian Express from Moscow to Vladisvostok - which will have to wait until Russia ends its current war of aggression and pulls out of Ukraine permanently, and (3) a visit to Cuba (which will have to wait for a political reopening of the country).
“I hope I am still alive, and able, to do all three.”

Steve Weiner gives us “A quick recap of A Life in Retirement, since I haven’t written for the Report for a long time.
“In March Don and I celebrated the 36th anniversary of our meeting and our 16th wedding anniversary (we got married on the 20th anniversary of the day we met-- to avoid having to remember too many anniversaries!). Our kids are all married, pursuing exciting careers, and all have kids of their own – eight grandchildren, with only one, the youngest at 4, being a granddaughter. Who would have guessed that I would become the paterfamilias – and Don the step-paterfamilias – of such a large brood. It enriches our lives immeasurably.
“Seven years ago we bought a house in Palm Springs, wintered there and the rest of the year in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. Never wanting not to have something to look forward to, by the time you read this we will have sold Pam Springs and consolidated our life in the Berkshires, where we expect to turn our condo in for a house we plan to build there. But since we have not all of a sudden found we like snow and cold, in winters we plan to travel, something we had pretty much stopped doing when we bought in PS – unless you consider twice a year cross-country traveling to be real travel! We miss the real traveling.
“Retirement has been busy. I’m still active with the patient support foundation I helped found 21 years ago, The HealthWell Foundation. It’s now the 23rd largest charity in the country, and, since its inception, has provided over $3 billion in financial assistance to over 800,000 people who have insurance but can’t afford their out-of-pocket medication costs. I was board chair for 19 years and now I’m the chief compliance officer – compliance is so critical to the Foundation’s ability to promote its mission that we have a Board-level officer oversee compliance.
“I also continue to try to do what I can to promote culture, probably even more important given the state of our country today than ever. For 12 years I’ve been on the Board of Jacob’s Pillow Dance, based in the Berkshires, an internationally renowned center for dance. I chair the Board IDEA committee (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility for the few of you, if any, who don’t know those initials – and I hope at least some of you are in Florida when you are reading this) and the Governance and Audit Committee. The Pillow, as it is affectionately termed, presents both on stages and virtually the unbelievable diversity of dance, ranging across all ethnicities, races and nationalities to underscore dance’s universality. It has over 90 years of archival material now being digitized to facilitate accessibility, I can go on but better to check out the website!
“My abiding passion for opera is served both by attending (of course) and also chairing the board of American Lyric Theater, which has an intense and well-respected training program for composers and librettists to support collaborative creation of new works of opera. (I will note that all of our current cohort of composers and librettists are BIPOC.) My taste in opera ranges from the oldest works in the canon to the very newest. I say this only because, sadly, many do not appreciate how diverse opera is!
“My one other contribution to culture is – dare I acknowledge it -- I’ve been taking violin lessons. I have zero talent but that actually doesn’t matter. I have a teacher, of Belorussian/Jewish background, who, in the true East European tradition, can be simultaneously unbelievably supportive and tolerant and, shall I say it, strikingly clear about my deficiencies.
“Further, I suppose to prove that I make an awful retiree, I have been inveigled into working with some friends and former clients in starting a new company to do advisory and development work in the global health space – something that had been an important part of my now former law practice. So, it’s good to keep a hand in that arena in case I was getting bored.
“Finally, yes, I do Spelling Bee, Wordle and the NYT crossword every day – but I do NOT, repeat NOT, play pickleball.”
Jack Carley writes: Not much to report. My wife Pia fell and broke her left arm trying to break the fall. So I am Nurse Jackie as she is in a cast for several weeks. Otherwise, our Boca Grande home has been repaired so we were able to enjoy it this year. Although I had adequate insurance, the company offered a pittance compared with the costs incurred. So I am suing them along with millions of others damaged by Ian. And I am auditioning for a few plays in our community theatre group, one of which is "The Glass Menagerie". I like the role of the Gentleman Caller.
Mike Parish reports that his daughter-in-law Wahleah Johns, is now the director of Native American Affairs at the Dept of Energy. In December, the White House Bulletin had a cover story, complete with photo, of her standing on the steps of the White House (Side Entrance) with the Secretary of the Interior, with whom she travels frequently, to announce and celebrate that December was Native American Heritage month, which was a special project of hers aside from getting running water and electricity for the 75% of those people who have neither one!”
Mike has shared with us his fiction and his provocative newspaper columns. Now he shows his talent for poetry.

      TO MY SISTER, DEAD TEN YEARS                                      THIS WEEK
I have news, the skinny on Mr. Fat--
The stone that held Dad’s heart no longer sweats ice.
Our stepmom, blonde cracker crone from the pine wood,
Pickled and planted him when it convulsed for good—
A better spasm than the ones that rolled our dice.
Foster homes, his childhood’s erasing
Left him with a hide like a sausage casing,
Never full enough to satisfy that taste—
“No reason, Sweetie, to let that biscuit go to waste,
So pass the butter, Duncie-- make it quick.” Never you mind.
We would thank him when we escaped into the grind.
He died of eating—his half-clogged pump
Tripped up on a box of Kentucky Fried.
She led him to bed and smiled as he died,
Pseudo-embalmed in something like sweat, a lump
Staring cow-eyed at the ceiling,
Self-removed from any healing.
I’m spreading your ashes now on the water—
The still of the tide pool mirrors the skies.
I give you this scene—see us from above,
Him humping around in his good guy clown disguise,
Feeling you on his shoulders, grabbing back at your laughter,
The giggle-cry piggyback voice of his daughter,
My angel, sweet suicide love—
And your knuckles grind forever in his eyes.

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Hardy Wieting is keeping our class web page up-to-date. He deserves our thanks and our support!

Late addition:
Governor Roy Cooper appointed my son, Grier Martin, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, effective April 1.

Winter 2023-2024

Bill Slattery took on the task of reporting about our recent reunion. Here is his report: Margaret and I went up to New Haven on Saturday morning. We attended the Saturday luncheon, the afternoon “Changemakers” presentation…Hillary Clinton and Gina Raimondo, moderated by Dean Gerken…all very, very impressive…Saturday dinner and Sunday brunch. It was great to see Chuck Stark, Steve Weiner, Arthur Malman, Doug Blazey, Joe Bell, John Deans and Del Miller and their significant others (I would name them, but didn’t get everyone’s name), except for Doug, who came with his son, Christopher.          Doug is still working on environmental issues; his wife is teaching law in Miami this term. Arthur remains very active in civic affairs in East Hampton. His wife, Laurie, retired last year after teaching (for 40 years!) tax law at the New York University School of Law. The Starks were going on a trip in New England following the reunion. I didn’t get…or, better, retain…much other news from classmates. Sorry. Note to Lisa or the editor. I have forwarded this photo to you. Hope you can use it. Bill shared a photo celebrating his 80th birthday in Menorca in August, with Margaret, children and grandchildren…it doesn’t get much better than that.
Peter Carstensen wrote to me, “As for a news item, I recently told an undergraduate interested in antitrust law and looking toward representing corporations about a lunch we had many decades ago when I was working for the DOJ on the Wachovia case. You told me about a franchise agreement that you had reviewed which you described as antitrust exam question because of the number of restraints it contained. You then reported that you had talked with the client to ask for the justification for each restraint. As a result, most were removed, and you had really good reasons justifying the remainder. It was a classic example of good counseling. Indeed, over the years, I have often told my antitrust students about that lunch to stress the importance of focusing on the justification for restraints because when justified, they are usually legal.          I don't know that you would even recall that lunch so many years ago, but it was one of those incidents that stuck with me and became a very helpful anecdote to tell my students about good lawyering.          Note from D.G.: I don’t remember this conversation, but it is a better memory than my actual antitrust grade from Professor Bork.
Peter d'Errico’s book “Federal Anti-Indian Law: The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples” (Praeger - ABC-CLIO) has been published. “If you read it, says Peter, “I’d love to get your thoughts.” The cover is stirring. Take a look at the following link: Entrapment.
Melvin Masuda wrote to be sure we corrected the spelling of his daughter’s name. It is Kaiewa. Then he added that he is author of the album liner notes for “George Helm: A True Hawaiian." Mel explains, “George was a Native Hawaiian activist who led the movement here in Hawaii to end the military bombing of the Island of Kaho'olawe, off the south coast of Maui, in 1975, 1976, and 1977. I was his pro bono volunteer counsel. George disappeared, forevermore, in the ocean off Kaho'olawe in March, 1977, and, through copious tears, I wrote the album liner notes for his posthumous album -- the album, now in CD format, including my album liner notes (in very small type, given the small size of a CD), are available, through the Internet, at Cord International [3rd row down, beard]. To the great relief of tourists and residents, the bombing of Kaho'olawe Island was stopped by Presidential Executive Order in 1990.”
Hearing from Chris May is a rare treat. So I am sharing his entire message. He writes, “I never have any news for you, and I don’t really this time either, but not wanting you to feel badly about the Class of 1968 spread in the net report, here’s something that may amuse our distinguished classmates.          “As you may recall, in 2014, President Obama instituted a program to retroactively correct federal sentencing guideline disparities that had resulted in longer prison terms for users of crack as opposed to powder cocaine, a differential that disproportionately harmed racial minorities. Though the guidelines had recently been adjusted to cure this differential, they operated only prospectively and offered no remedy for those who had already been sentenced. Obama’s program allowed those sentenced under the old guidelines to petition for clemency through the Office of the U.S. Pardon Attorney, asking that their time served be reduced to what would have been imposed under the new guidelines.          “To help inmates take advantage of this program, the private bar launched Clemency Project 2014 to provide assistance to affected inmates. Under that pro bono project, a law school student and I filed, in April 2016, a clemency petition on behalf of a young incarcerated African American who had been convicted 10 years earlier of possessing crack cocaine and who, under the new sentencing guidelines, would have been a free man. President Obama granted our petition (one of fewer than 10%) and my client became a free man in December 2016.          “The victory proved short-lived. Two years later he was convicted under federal and state law in connection with a new drug-related offense.          “On August 7, 2023, after serving 15 more years in federal and state prison, again became a free man. Realizing that he wasn’t ready for the President’s grant of clemency, he’s confident that, this time around, he can make a new life for himself.          “I fervently share that hope. Only time will tell.”
Mike Parish writes a column for the Alameda Sun, his local paper, “addressing matters of interest and mostly trying to get people to be less involved with themselves and more with their neighbors, and to deal with people as people and not robots, and to beat up on big corporations for their env. practices and their call centers who mostly switch you around, keep you on hold for endless hours. I have given my date of birth, last 4 #s on my SSN, address etc. at least a thousand times and I also recommend that everyone write to companies who have their credit cards or of whom they are customers and demand that they hire more staff so that you are not forced to deal with robots whose most frequent answer is "I didn't understand your question or that is not an appropriate question. Please push 1 and wait your turn." Mike’s columns were available on the web, but unfortunately the Sun just went out of business. [He's sent us a copy of one, however, a very moving one, and here's a link to it right here on our site: love.]
Patricia Skigen, explaining why she missed our reunion and echoing what many of us are experiencing wrote, “Unfortunately, we've reached the age when too many of our longtime friends and acquaintances have begun to suffer the disadvantages of aging. My husband, Gary and I are relatively healthy but two good friends are battling difficult cancers; a third (and frequent travelling companion) recently moved into a memory care unit, and a fourth, one-half of a couple with whom we often travel, having just recovered from a massive heart attack, is facing valve replacement surgery because of a non-responsive bacterial infection on one of his valves. Couple this with the crippling of Congress when we most need it to govern effectively, recent events abroad, the schisms within our own country and the dearth of younger moderate candidates courageous enough to run against Biden and Trump in the forthcoming primaries, and one wonders what there is to rejoice about. Ah yes...there are always the grandchildren, a few wonderful theatrical productions (including the laugh- out- loud "Nacirema Society"), and some fascinating art exhibits, but what kind of country will we be leaving our progeny? “Kudos to the Yale Alumni College and the Chicago Yale Alumni group for sponsoring an in-person course entitled "Coming to Terms with the Past: Memory and Memorial in Germany and the U.S." A six-week weekly class held at Chicago's DePaul University, it asks whether lessons learned from Germany’s post-WWII denazification efforts posit a path forward for the eradication of systemic racism in the U.S. Two days before the first class, a reading list arrived in our email boxes, and Gary and I panicked - 10 hours of reading for just the first lecture! Did the instructor believe that everyone attending would be under the age of 65? What about we 80-year-olds with compromised eyesight, loss of focus and diminished memories? Some of the reading is turgid, but most of it has been informative and thought-provoking. The primary problem with the reading is how time-consuming it is, especially for someone with previously scheduled Pilates and Tai Chi classes and opera and theater subscriptions, not to mention such "traditional" responsibilities as dog-walking, laundry and dinner preparation.                   “From late July through the third week of August, we and our dog were on a month's long road trip, initially, to the far Western part of Montana, where we spent five days with Gary’s younger (56-year-old) son and his bride at an Airbnb they had rented. A standalone A-frame unit overlooking a field surrounded by mountains and trees, the Airbnb was in the middle of a family-owned ranch containing separate corrals housing long-haired cattle of the kind seen in Northern Scotland, horses, a pony with its foal, baby goats and three alpacas, all of which fascinated the dog, who attempted to kiss them through the fencings’ slats. Unfortunately, she discovered a free-ranging rooster whom she proceeded to pursue and pounce on with dogged determination; it took two of us to pull her off of him. When we saw the number of feathers laying on the ground afterwards, we feared that we would be buying the ranch owner a new bird, but luckily, the rooster survived, a pound or two lighter than when the “Great Chase” started. From Montana, we continued on to Santa Fe for our usual two-week visit. The Denver friends with whom we were sharing a Santa Fe rental brought their dog with them (as last summer), so ours had a wonderful time--no roosters around, but a surprising number of rabbits to be hunted during their daily walks. The four adults spent their time gallery-hopping, shopping, socializing with New Mexico friends and attending three of the Santa Fe Opera’s five productions. “Our next planned trip is to Ireland, but not until May 2024.          “And there you have it - all the news that's fit to print.”
Eunice Thomas wrote to explain that she would not be able to attend the reunion and “We really have no news - continue our quiet retired life in Falls Church, Virginia.”

Summer 2023

Jack Carley sent this update on what Hurricane Ian did to his winter home. Earlier he said Ian “had caused minimal damage to my home in Boca Grande, Florida, based in initial reports. Wrong! The entire place was destroyed by water damage, requiring removing all flooring and causing the walls to be taken down to the studs as well as other damage. I am rebuilding and hope my insurance will cover most if not all of it. If the job is done by this fall, I’ll consider myself very lucky.”
      Finally, we have word from Bill Horwich , and it was worth waiting for: “OK, David, I can only endure so many of your quarterly entreaties without feeling compassion and summoning the energy to respond. I can report that after traveling to France every year since 1970 without fail, we missed two years in a row during the height (or depth) of Covid. With my wife threatening to invoke breach of premarital agreement arguments, we spent 4.5 months this past August through December mostly in France, moving to the south of Spain to avoid the coldest part of December. Much of time in France was spent in Paris and this time we had a lovely apartment in the Marais, just a few minutes by foot from la Place des Vosges, the 16th century square, still largely intact after a mid-20th century restoration, bordered on all four sides by arcades and apartments constructed by Henri IV and his regime.
“This location, among many other virtues, placed me within just a short jaunt from la rue des Rosiers, in the middle of the Marais, the fulcrum of a Falafel Frenzy. It seems that if lovers of the falafel (among the myriad of whom I count myself) have not yet united, many of them have nonetheless flocked to Paris, pretty much indisputably the Western World’s falafel capital. Every day except the sabbath, there is an air of falafel convention along the Rue des Rosiers. Many of the members of our class have doubtless consumed a Marais falafel, as I have been doing since 1969. But this is a growth industry, with a geometric growth curve.
“In the Old Days, there was Marianne, which offered indoor seating, and the King of the Falafel, which primarily served falafels to carry away and eat on the fly. At some point l’As du Falafel (the Ace of the Falafel) muscled in, and today, by common street consensus, it is the ne plus ultra, often copied but never equaled. There is something about its grilled eggplant, sautéed tomatoes and tahini dressing, along with quantity, that make it stand out. “Stand” may be the operative word in this context, because obtaining one of l’As’s falafels at almost any daytime hour, rain or shine, means standing in line outside one of the two serving windows for up to 20 minutes.
“Once served, the hungry falafel fanatic is faced with a question of strategy: Where to take his or her bulging stuffed pita to eat its appetizing contents before it either grows cold, gets spilled on one’s clothing or soaks through the bottom pita lining and then through the underlying napkin and onto pigeon turf where many hungry avian scavengers are anxiously waiting for a break. (The pigeons of la Rue des Rosiers are very well fed.) I personally have a favorite bench about one full block away but I am not telling anyone where it is. One day, after a long wait in the rain starting at 2:30pm after a noon time concert, I hunkered down across the street from the queue, under a dripping store awning and alongside several other delighted, seemingly famished and saturated falafel quaffers, and munched my sandwich with a great sense of fulfillment. Especially of my stomach, as after an As falafel there is no reason nor ability to ingest more food for dinner that same night.
“Back in Berkeley since the New Year, we are just beginning to plan this year’s trip. If you know anyone who might want to rent our house for 4.5 months this fall, please have them contact me.”
      Mike Parish reports that he “was happy to help Bill Horwich celebrate his 80th Happy birthday out here in Left Coast Commie land. Bill organized a book club here which has been a salvation to a newcomer-- and we meet every month. Max Gitter also chimed in with his happy birthday message as well- They were roommates our first year. Hardy Wieting keeps me entertained with his forwards of poetry articles and materials and his regular printouts about covid cases and deaths in the LA region. I sent him bird and granddaughter pix and my hopefully somewhat original work.
Hope all is well with you and let's hear it for Steph (Curry) the reason he could set a record for 3 pointers at the All Star game was that no one plays defense at that game. the final score was 170-168, showing mutual respect and recognition that LeBron is the older captain, and if the NBA teams when the play is for real and not just Hollywood horse manure, would just stop doubling up on him and hounding his every step, maybe he could get back to hitting the shots for a greater cause than NBA promo stuff.”
      Mike Reiss wrote that when his “daughter Morgan was in Seoul in November for a conference. I put her in touch with Sukjo Kim (whom I still refer to as Mr. Kim). They spent a day together.
Mike’s big news is his retirement. That is hard for me to believe, and I bet it does not last. He writes:
“I have been spending the morning digging through emails and files, cleaning up messages to which I’ve neglected to respond. The next, and hugely more daunting task, will be to go through my office doing the same with papers files.
“I will be retiring from Davis Wright on March 31 [2023]. It’s been quite a run – more than 35 years at the firm, following almost 20 before I came to DWT. I plan to continue to do some mediating on a very select basis, primarily class actions and complex individual matters, mostly for people for whom I have worked in the past”
Davis Wright has begun to do lengthy interviews with its senior lawyers. His interview is available on line at Mike.
For those of us who have admired Mike for his legal skills and treasured his friendship, the interview will be a reminder of his vision and kindness and similar traits that helped make him a great lawyer and a valued friend.

David Stewart (stewartd@georgetown.edu) class of 1969, Professor from Practice, Georgetown Law, contributes to our growing collection of memories about Dean Jack Tate. Writing to Chuck Stark, he says, “Happened to be perusing the latest YLR this evening and read with delight your 'remembrance' (in Dave’s column) of your interview with Jack Tate. He’s long been my hero. In fact, I had a very similar experience in the spring 1966 - when he came to campus for interviews. Big difference was, unlike yours, my LSAT was close to being officially in the toilet. Utterly dismayed - but motivated by the lunchtime chatter down at the club about what a ferocious interview 'the guy from Yale' was, I sought him out for guidance . . . in fact, walked in while he was eating his tuna sandwich - without an appointment. Said I had a big problem, would appreciate his guidance. We had a nice chat, he threw all his questions at me (I’d just heard ‘em all at the lunch table and anyway, I wasn’t going to his law school, so I had nothing to lose) at the end of which he said '50-50' - I said what’s that mean? He said, ‘your chances of getting into YLS.’ My response? ‘For $15, you’re on!’ Ah, the brashness of youth. Got in, the rest is history. He was my hero.”

* Don’t forget our big reunion beginning Friday, October 20. See you then.

Note on the above photo. Mike: "1973. The site is the Gallo wine property just outside Modesto, CA (those are some of the Gallo vineyards in front; what look like oil storage tanks in the background are their tanks for storing wine). The guy next to me is Manny Medeiros, who went on to become California’s Solicitor General under then-Attorney General Kamala Harris. We were working with Cesar Chavez’s United Farmworkers union representing striking union members who were being evicted from their homes."

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