Climbing Above the Culture Clash

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1951
Marion R. Fremont-Smith received the
Vanguard/Lifetime Achievement Award
for distinguished lifetime achievement in
the nonprofit sector from the Nonprofit
Organizations Committee of the American Bar
Association Section of Business Law.
1958
Bernard Fielding is in South Carolina, where
he lives with his wife and has practiced law for
51 years. He has served as general counsel for
the South Carolina Morticians Association,
the National Funeral Directors and Morticians
Association, and the National Hampton Alumni
Association.
1959
Mort Aronson, at Federal & Hasson and
adjunct professor at Emory University Law
School, received the American Association
of Franchising and Dealers Total Quality
Franchising Award for Lifetime Achievement.
1961
Judge Armand Arabian was appointed the
commissioner of the Industrial Development
Authority Board of Los Angeles.
1962
Edward McCarthy published The Malpractice Cure:
How to Avoid the Legal Mistakes that Doctors Make.
Robert L. Spangenberg joined George Mason
University as research professor, and founded
The Spangenberg Project at the school’s Center
for Justice, Law and Society. He also received
the Champion of Indigent Defense Award from
the National Association of Criminal Defense
Lawyers (NACDL).
1963
Theodore Carter was appointed to the
international projects advisory board for the
National Center for State Courts in Arlington, Va.
1965
Frank N. Fleischer was named in Super Lawyer’s
2009 “Florida Super Lawyer” list.
Martin Lobel was appointed by Maryland
Governor O’Malley to the Maryland Business
Tax Reform Commission. Lobel’s article “What
next, after outrage” was published by www.
NiemanWatchDog.org; “Territorial Taxation:
An Invitation to Tax Avoidance and Evasion”
appeared in Tax Notes.
D.M. Moschos was named chair of the
Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Neil Sugarman, principal of Sugarman
& Sugarman, received the American Bar
Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice
Section’s Pursuit of Justice Award.
1968
Helen Gillmor is chief judge of the District Court
of the District of Hawaii. She lives in Hawaii with
her husband, John Gillmor (’68). John Gillmor
is employed by the state Attorney General’s
Office, concentrating in land matters.
Jordan Krasnow, a director at Goulston
& Storrs, received the Robert S. Swain Jr.
Distinguished Service Award at the Real Estate
Finance Association’s annual gala in October.
Pamela Rehlen and her husband live in
Castleton, Vt., where they own and manage
several businesses, including the Castleton
Village Store, the Benson Village Store, the
Birdseye Diner, the Castleton Pizza Place and
Deli, and the Blue Cat Bistro. She’s just finished
a book, The Blue Cat and the River’s Song.
1969
Norm Gross’ second edition of America’s
Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office,
was published by Northwestern University
Press. He lives in Sedona, Ariz.
1970
Alan Parness, counsel to Cadwalader,
Wickersham & Taft LLP, was installed as the
chair of the Committee on State Regulation of
Securities of the American Bar Association’s
Section of Business Law. He has been with
Cadwalader since 1973.
Richard Soden received the American Bar
Association’s Spirit of Excellence Award.
1971
Jay D. Roth was awarded the French Legion of
Honor by President Nicolas Sarkozy for his work
creating and promoting the Franco American
Cultural Fund (FACF).
1972
Judith Koffler received her second Fulbright
Award, and is a faculty member at the
University of Botswana in Gaborone.
1973
Clark Evans Downs retired from Jones Day,
where he practiced energy law for more than
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