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with the court of appeal. His SantaBarbara neighbor, Joe Nida, and hiswife, Jill, barged ( I assume he meansthe boat) through the Champaignarea of France. Daughter Jamie is asophomore at UCSB. Tom Flatteryhas been everywhere, from China toChile, and is very active as an arbitratorwith the courts and AAA. Hehas five grandchildren and six stepgrandchildren. Gerald Gerstenfeldstill practicing and living in the valley.Terry and Sharon Bridges are bicounty:Riverside during the weekand Newport Beach on the weekends.Must be the healthiest graduate,takes walking tours of Europeevery other year. One item of sadnews, one of the really good guys ofour class, Andy Di Marco, passed onthis year. Henry A. Geisendorfer III,retired from the public defendersoffice after 30 plus years. He and hiswife took their five boys withspouses and grandchildren toEngland and France this past year.Justice Richard Huffman wrote tosay that he had the wonderful experienceof sitting on the CaliforniaSupreme Court this past October. Heis very active in San Diego in civicactivities. Sam Krane and his wife,Susan, cruised the Italian and FrenchRivieras. Claimed he just went tomuseums and archaeological wondersand not to the topless beaches.Edward “Ted” Kuhrau is retired andliving in Seattle, where he is workingon his golf game. Says all are invitedas long as you: 1. have your ownplace to stay and 2. buy the firstround. John Mc Cormick has moveddown from Sun Valley and is livingin San Diego and chasing his 9-yearoldand 7-year-old around. WayneDryden is in Pasadena practicing lawand just spent two weeks in Scotlandand Spain. Judge Keith Sharrow andhis wife celebrated their 54thanniversary this year. I note that theclass of ‘65 did not follow the moderntrend of troubled marriages. Thefollowing people are going on anywherefrom 30 to 35 years of marriage.These are my calculations, soapologies extended if I shortchangedanyone. Mike and Kathy Gless, Benand Patty Salvaty, Judge Dickren andJeri Tevrizian, John and NancyMiller. I am sure there are others ofyou; these are ones I figured out onmy own. Judge Bill Huss has been tothe tatoo in Scotland. He is the presidentof IVAMS, an arbitration group.Myrna Weingarten is retired fromlaw but very active with volunteertutoring of children. She writes tosay how proud she is of her husbandand children. Stan McGinley hasbeen with Saudi Aramco since 1984.Stan and Peggy just celebrated their41st anniversary. Walkie (Walter) andToni Cole live on Balboa Island andWalkie is still practicing criminallaw in Orange County. Doug Welebirwas lead counsel in the StringfellowDump toxic case. He is very activein the civic area in Riverside.Classmate John Lauritzen, the firstone to leave the law, sold his businessin 1996 and is now retired andliving in Newport Beach. He seesTerry and Sharon Bridges sociallysince they are neighbors. Judge JohnTorribio had dinner with John andNancy Miller over the Christmasholidays. John tells me he specializesin employment contract law. DennisMetzler and his wife have moved toOceanside from Fresno. Dennis isvery active in real estate developmentand with his church, servingon several boards. C. RobertFerguson writes that he became veryactive with the Mount WilsonObservatory. In fact, when a decisionwas made to close it, Bob helpedform the Mount Wilson Institute andwas its chief operating officer for sixyears. They saved the observatory.Nice job! Judge Donald Fitzpatrickand his wife, Dr. Kathleen Egan, areretired and living in Hoosick Falls,New York and traversing the USAvisiting their four children, who livefrom Florida to California. Samuel“Skip” Keesal writes that he is stillin Long Beach with his own firm.Mike Gless is with Skip. May I wishall of you and yours a very HappyNew 2000 or Happy 2K as thecognoscenti would say. More nexttime. Plus, a lot of you didn’t write.Please do so.Judge John A. TorribioClass ReporterCLASS OF1966Lawrence (Larry) Campbell writesthat 1999 was another good year forhim except that he worked too hardand traveled too much (I didn’t knowthat was possible). Also, there weretoo few USC football victories —bring back the 1960’s andJohn McKay. Richard Craigo is stillhorsing around, practicing law specializingin tax work and “equinelaw.” Wonder if that means representinghorses or just going to thetrack to watch them run? PhillipFeldman says he plans to never retirefrom the practice of law. Betweentrips to New York, New Orleans andSan Francisco on business, he tries tospend as much time as possible withhis two grandchildren who are oneand six-years old. Wayne Hunkinswas recently honored as the TrialLawyer of the Year by theAssociation of House Counsel. OurCongratulations, Wayne. Now thatGlen Mowrer has retired, he says hefinally has time to travel and do someof the other things he has alwayswanted to do. He recently spent amonth in Italy and still keeps hishand in the legal arena by doingpro bono work. Another of our classmates,Dominick F. Pellegrino, hasmanaged to break away from his lawpractice and do some traveling, principallyto Egypt and India during thepast year. Apparently, Ed Raschdoesn’t have much to report since hisnote said, “If it’s old, to forget it; if it’snew, it’s forgettable; if it’s interesting,it’s probably embarrassing; and ifit’s dull, I’ll give you all the details.”Thanks Ed for the thoughts. Ralph J.Scalzo retired from the practice oflaw in April of this year and is movingto the desert so he and his wifecan play lots of golf and tennis. Healso plans to do a lot of traveling.Good luck Ralph — those of us stillworking are jealous! Responses to myrequests for information keep gettingfewer and fewer. I don’t know if thatmeans there are just fewer of us orwe’re all just stuck in a rut withnothing exciting going on in ourlives. In any event, watch for the nextrequest for information and let meknow what’s happening with you.Judge Chris R. ConwayClass ReporterCLASS OF1968It was with great trepidation that Isent out my request for informationto my classmates. As your new classreporter, my great fear was that noone would respond; to my amazementand delight the response hasbeen overwhelming. Well, here goesmy first report. FIRST, THE BENCH:Abby Soven reports that she hasretired effective 1997, after twentyyears as a judge and ten years as anattorney. She and her life partner,Faith Windsor, are enjoying vacationsto Kenya, Tanzania, England,Ireland, Israel, New York and theCalifornia coast. After thirty years incriminal law, Bernie J. Kamins isfinally looking forward to a civilassignment. In April of 1999, he visitedAmsterdam and sat through amurder trial hosted by Dutch judges.He is teaching at Pepperdine LawSchool, and he also reports that hisdaughter, Marni, is in grad school inpsychology and daughter Piper is atUC Berkeley. His wife is the directorof the Seven Arrows School. Anotheresteemed member of the bench,Barry Kohn, advises that he and hislife partner, Will Harrison, havemoved to Laguna Beach. Barry is acommissioner in the Los AngelesMunicipal Court, sitting Law andMotion. Barry just got back from atwo-week vacation in France; and heattended the International Lesbianand Gay Judge’s Association inSeattle, where Barry is one of thefounders and on the board. Harold S.Vites checks in to let us know thathe is still married to his wife,Carolyn, since 1965, and has a son,Marty, and a daughter, Erin. Haroldhas been sitting as a Los AngelesMunicipal Court Commissionersince June of 1992. THE BAR:Ronald Weiss reports that his daughteris married and he is patientlywaiting for grandchildren (Do any ofus ever wait patiently?). His youngerdaughter, Mindy, is a senior at CalState Northridge. Ronald and hiswife celebrated their 29th weddinganniversary last December. He isstill a sole practitioner, and says hewill slow down when his wife retiresin eight more years. Berneice Angleais doing lots of traveling, lots of tournamentbridge and in between, handleslarge estate planning and tax litigation.Gary Ottoson, my esteemedpredecessor and proud papa, reportsthat one of his kids is a glass blowerin Oregon and the other is livinghalf-time in England — the otherhalf of the time, he and his Englishwife live in the United States ortravel. Gary and his great lady, Ellen,were on the second Sea Goddess trip(saw them a lot at the bar); they tryto get a trip out of the country everyyear. Gary has been involved withthe Venice Boys and Girls Club forover ten years and of course is veryactive on behalf of our law school.David R. Allen checks in to let usknow that he is still happily marriedafter thirty-three years to his wife,Penny. His oldest son is a UCLA gradin applied math and he just got hisfirst grandson. He says it is wonderful.His younger son, Travis, is stillsingle and David is trying to dosomething about that. Dave is now acertified specialist in estate planningand trust and probate law, and willtake the Oregon bar exam inFebruary of this year; he and his wifeare building a second home on thesouthern Oregon coast. ATWO–FOR-ONE REPORT: Frank P.Barbaro and Jay Cordell Horton (themost unlikely couple) are stilltogether in Orange County, strikingfear in the heart of those defenselawyers. Their firm obtained a juryverdict of heroic proportions againstan HMO pharmacy. Frank hasopened a concert, sports and theaterticket company and in his spare timehas managed to have his son, Brett,go to Harvard doing biogeneticresearch on cancer causes. His son,Casey, is at Stanford going throughmedical school final prep. Oh yeah,and Frank is chairing the Bill Bradleyfor President Orange County committee.The reason that Frank can doall of these things is that Jay reportsthat he has no time for anything.Scott Bice will complete his term asdean in June. Scott is first going totake a sabbatical and then will be onthe law faculty. During the sabbatical,he will do “field research” onmaritime law (Do I see anothercruise in the future?). Scott also justfinished a two- year term as presidentof the American Law Dean’sAssociation. He sure does make usproud. CAN YOU ONE-UP THISONE?: Tom Loo read with greatinterest Jon Lappen’s report of histwo children and says that he hasdone better. He has three daughters,who are alumni of USC Law School:Cynthia Laurie Loo and Lori AnnaLoo, Class of ‘90, and Wendy A. Loo’94. Privately, Tom is hopeful that hecan retire and have his daughterssupport him. I don’t know how thatcan be true because he also has a 10-month-old son, Ryan, and Tomassures us that Ryan will be a graduateof the class of 2018. LloydRobinson’s personal managementcompany is working on movies ofthe week and other interestingthings. When he is not working, he is56 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200057