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Spring 2005

Cover Story

Features 3

Father Robert J. Araujo – Priest, Teacher, Scholar and Friend

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Alumni Profiles

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Meet the Director of Admissions

Departments 2

Message from the Dean

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Student Profiles

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Class Action

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Honor Roll of Giving

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Law Briefs

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Clerkships

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Faculty and Staff Notes

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In Memoriam

Cover Photo: Jim Wickwire on Mt. Rainier 1971

Photo by Fred Dumham

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SPRING 2005 Dean George Critchlow Editor John Power Graphics Editor Gerald Almanza Director, Graphic Arts Copy Editor Susan Bowen Contributors Lee Benson Professor David DeWolf John Power Richard Roesler Brett Rubio ’06 Photographers Dean Davis

Message from the Dean

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t has been my pleasure and privilege to serve the Law School as Interim Dean this past year. In July, I will turn over the reins to our newly appointed permanent dean, Earl Martin. Currently an Associate Dean and Professor at Texas Wesleyan School of Law, Earl brings to the Law School a wealth of experience as a practicing lawyer, law teacher, published scholar, and law school administrator. He has studied the Law School’s history, curriculum, budget, and mission. He knows our strengths and weaknesses, and he is extremely excited to take on the challenge of moving the Law School forward.

The Law School community will be working closely with Dean Martin to insure that the transition is seamless and positive.

I discern a quiet optimism pervading the Law School culture at this time. Students, staff, and faculty are interacting productively, morale is high, and alumni are engaged and attentive. The Law School is poised to move from a regional to a national reputation. Dean Martin will have the support he needs to make it happen.

I am pleased to share the news that the Law School’s rising national stature and reputation are reflected by external rankings. The school moved from the 4th tier to the 3rd tier in rankings recently released by U.S. News & World Report. While many legal educators and administrators criticize such rankings as unreliable popularity contests, virtually every constituency - from prospective students to faculty and Board of Trustee members - pays attention. Many law schools hope to achieve the exalted ranks of the 1st tier schools (there is, mysteriously, no 2nd tier). Our Law School’s move to the 3rd tier reflects improvement along a range of objective measures, including job placement of our graduates, increased admissions selectivity, bar pass rates, faculty scholarship and recognition, student-faculty ratio, and student financial aid. It is also evidence that legal educators, lawyers, and judges throughout the country are increasingly aware that Gonzaga has a quality law school as well as a great basketball team and undergraduate program.

Over the course of this past year, it has become clear to me that the Law School’s forward momentum will be sustained to the extent it can raise and invest substantial funds in three key areas. First, significant student scholarship assistance is essential if we are to attract and enroll high achieving students who are in a position to pick among several good law schools. It is no longer sound admissions and budget policy for us to drain operating revenues by using tuition discounts to be competitive.

Second, the Law School should enhance its Jesuit market niche by establishing and supporting excellence in one or more curriculum areas (beyond the clinic) that grow naturally out of our history, mission, and geographical setting. Investing in a first rate Indian & Native Law Program (to meet the growing practice demands in this area) and a reinvigorated Tax Program are two possibilities. Third, the Law School should attract world-class professors by investing in endowed professorships honoring great past professors such as Gary Randall, Lewis Orland, and Smitty Myers.

As the Law School moves forward, it will face the challenge of how to maintain its increasingly higher admission standards without abandoning its traditional role of admitting and supporting students who might not fully match a more selective statistical profile. Many of our alumni are especially grateful to the Law School because it gave them a chance. Can we be a national law school without forgetting or abandoning the school’s commitment to evaluating the “whole” student?

Finally, we must continue to foster productive conversation among and between faculty, students, university, alumni, and other Catholic and Jesuit educational institutions on the question of exactly what it is that defines Jesuit education at Gonzaga University School of Law. There is unquestioned consensus that our mission is to teach students to be self-reflective and critical thinkers, to value and pursue public service, and to bring moral, intellectual, and spiritual sensibilities to the goal of advancing the common good. Should we also be forging a stronger, more distinctive Catholic identity? If so, can we do this without making the Law School less welcoming to students of other faith traditions or beliefs?

Again, it has been my privilege to lead the Law School this past year. I am especially pleased to have had wonderful opportunities to interact with alumni throughout the country. You live diverse, interesting, and successful lives - making a difference in your communities from Kennewick and Kalispell to Miami, Milwaukee, Anchorage, and Honolulu. You are a remarkable fount of sentiment and good will for the Law School. I have taught at the Law School for twenty-five years. Each of you makes me proud to have done so. I hope you will stay involved with the Law School as we move into a new era.

George Critchlow Dean

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Feature

Father Robert J. Araujo –

Priest, Teacher, Scholar and Friend

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t the start of the spring semester, the Law School welcomed back Fr. Robert Araujo from his work as a representative of the Holy See at the recent sessions of the United Nations General Assembly. Unfortunately, his return has proved short-lived as he recently received an appointment to the Giuseppe Vedovato Chair in the Ethics of International Relations at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. His academic responsibilities relate to a newly established graduate degree program in international relations, law, and diplomacy. This is a high honor and well deserved. The students and the members of the faculty and staff at the Law School are proud of his accomplishments and this appointment. At the same time, we know Father Araujo’s future role at Gonzaga will be limited while he attends to his primary duties in Rome. His absence will be felt in many ways.

An outstanding teacher and scholar, Father Araujo has received numerous honors, including Law School Professor of the Year awards, the Gonzaga University Scholar of the Year award, and the President’s Award for Faculty Excellence. A prolific writer, his articles have been published in more than 45 law reviews and scholarly journals. He has presented at numerous symposia, public lectures, and continuing legal education programs both in this region and nationally. While doing all of this, he has managed to devote substantial time and his considerable expertise to representing the Holy See in matters of international law and policy, primarily at the United Nations.

In this limited space, we can give only a summary acknowledgement of his many contributions and accomplishments. But even a comprehensive review of his work would fail to capture the essence of who he is and what he has meant to the Law School and its students. A better measure of this can be found in the following article by his friend and colleague, Professor David DeWolf. We know how much he will be missed. As we sense our loss, we express our pride in and our gratitude to this special priest, teacher, scholar, counselor, and friend.

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Fr. Robert Araujo – A Reflection

By Professor David DeWolf

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r. Araujo had a distinguished career in two different professions before he began teaching full time at Gonzaga. He became a lawyer after graduating from Georgetown Law School in 1973, and was sought after by multinational energy companies, as well as by the United States Department of the Interior. Enjoying the life of a successful attorney, he felt a calling to something even more challenging: the service of God and God’s people through the priesthood. He entered the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in 1986. The Jesuits require their candidates not only to undergo a lengthy formation process, but for those who enter academic life, they require as much formal education as is practical. In Fr. Araujo’s case, in addition to his law degree, and his theological training, the Jesuits wanted him to obtain advanced degrees in the law. He attended both Columbia University in New York and Oxford University in England. Completing all of these difficult programs with his usual high standard of excellence, he was ordained in 1993.

Fr. Araujo joined the Gonzaga Law faculty in 1994, making Gonzaga one of the few law schools in the country with a Jesuit on its law faculty. He immediately made an impact in the classroom and in the life of the law school.

His skill as a classroom teacher, and his obvious concern for the students as persons, made him a quick favorite.

Wearing his clerical collar whenever he was in the office, he was instantly recognizable as someone who embodied the Jesuit mission of the institution. For many students this was a new experience, and some approached the experience with understandable trepidation. What they discovered was a man with a thorough understanding of the law not only in its technicality, but also in its broad purposes. They also experienced someone who could demonstrate that the law is a human institution, and that ordinary virtues of decency, good humor, respect for differences in point of view, and courtesy could be combined with intellectual rigor and a strong loyalty to one’s client. If any students harbored doubts that one could be a good lawyer and a good person at the same time, Fr. Araujo thoroughly dispelled them.

Students also quickly discovered that Fr. Araujo was not only passionate about the Jesuit mission of the law school, but he was a priest who happened to be a Jesuit, rather than the other way around. On many an occasion students knocked on his door to obtain counsel not just about career choices but about how to discover meaning and purpose in their own lives. The

close friendships that formed as a result can be documented in the many weddings (more than 20) that Fr. Araujo has performed for former Gonzaga students.

Ever a faithful member of his own religious community, Fr. Araujo helps out as much as he can in the university’s religious life and in the parishes wherever he is stationed. He regularly hears confessions for Gonzaga students, and can be found celebrating mass in one of the parishes in the Spokane diocese most weekends. He also celebrates mass on Sunday nights in the law school and on special occasions, such as the recent death of Pope John Paul II.

As if his work as a teacher and priest were not enough, Fr. Araujo responded to yet another call: the need of the institutional church for a skillful diplomat in the complex world of international organizations. From the time he began teaching at Gonzaga, he was called on a regular basis by the Holy See’s Mission to the United Nations, asking for increasingly large portions of his time, not only to advise on specific points, and articulate the Church’s view in memos and statements, but ultimately to appear in person at meetings of various U.N. committees and commissions wrestling with questions affecting human rights and their protection. His contributions were so valuable that the Holy See eventually prevailed upon the Jesuits to have him in New York full time. Knowing that he would have to leave behind his love of the classroom and daily interaction with students, Fr. Araujo accepted the assignment and became a full-time diplomat with the Holy See Mission.

Fr. Araujo’s accomplishments would have been more than enough for two people, let alone one, but he has still found time, or more accurately, he has made time, for a regular stream of contributions to legal scholarship on a wide variety of subjects both in constitutional law and international law. His scholarship reflects a passion for the truth that runs like a golden thread from the classroom, to the floor of the United Nations, to the altar, to the printed page. It is an essential part of a lawyer’s identity that he or she exhibit integrity, which for most people is associated with the avoidance of doing wrong. In Fr. Araujo’s case, integrity is on a higher level—a wholeness, or oneness that is so different from the “compartmentalization” to which even well-meaning people often succumb. Gonzaga Law School has been privileged to have had such a person in our midst, and we look forward to maintaining our strong bond with Fr. Araujo in the future.

Fr. Robert Araujo has been a jewel in Gonzaga Law School’s crown since he arrived in 1994.

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Alumni Profile Law is a demanding profession requiring long hours and high stress. In this intense environment, a lawyer’s effectiveness can often depend on finding a balance—a life beyond the office and the courtroom. In the following pages we profile lawyers who have found that balance in very diverse ways.

JIM WICKWIRE ’67

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Jim Wickwire on Mt. Rainier, 1971 Photo by Fred Dunham

Jim Wickwire’s life was a painting, it would surely be captured in bold strokes for he is not a man who lives life in half measures. An accomplished lawyer, a worldclass mountain climber, a husband, the father of five children, and a three-time grandfather, Wickwire is quick to say he is not sure how well he has balanced all of his roles in life, but he does not regret having tried. Self-deprecation aside, the results suggest he has done a very commendable job in all areas.

It is not surprising that Jim Wickwire became a lawyer. His father, a 1938 Gonzaga law graduate, was a well respected lawyer and judge who provided Jim and his seven younger siblings with a wonderful personal and professional model for their lives. What is surprising is that this internationally known mountain climber was raised in Ephrata, Washington, a relatively flat, arid part of Washington state’s central region. With an imagi-

nation fueled by accounts of the great Himalayan expeditions of the 1950s, Wickwire hiked up the small hills near his home to view the distant Cascade peaks dotting the western horizon, and he dreamed.

As a youth, Wickwire demonstrated both the determination and the work ethic that would play such an essential part in his legal and climbing careers. A self-described awkward youth, he worked diligently to cultivate the strength and athletic abilities that would make him a two-time all-state football player. Football was his passion and he hoped to continue playing at the college level, but a significant injury effectively ended that dream and sent him in another direction—one that would lead him to Gonzaga University and an entirely new set of challenges and possibilities.

At Gonzaga, Wickwire pursued his climbing on the weekends by scaling the 100 foot cliff at Minnehaha along the Spokane River. In 1960, he wrote a letter to Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI), the Seattle recreational co-operative, seeking recommendations of experienced climbers who might be willing to mentor Jim and a high school classmate who had a similar interest.

REI suggested three central Washington climbers, including Dave Mahre, the father of future Olympic downhill Jim Wickwire skiing champions Phil and Steve Mahre.

Under their tutelage, Wickwire took a giant step forward as he learned not only the fundamentals of serious climbing, but an approach to the sport that put a premium on finding interesting and challenging new ways up a mountain. It was a perspective that would profoundly influence Wickwire’s entire approach to mountaineering.

1960 not only brought a positive impetus to his climbing career, it also marked a most important event in Jim Wickwire’s personal life. This was the year he met a young lady from Portland, Oregon named Mary Lou Custer. He first saw her from the Crosby Library steps, and describes it as love at first sight. Wickwire says he knew from the start that this was a serious relationship—a judgment that has been fully vindicated by nearly 43 years of marriage. As the oldest of 13 children, Mary Lou certainly understood the demands of family life. Although she fully supported Jim’s climbing ambitions, neither she nor Jim could have fully comprehended the time, dedication, and risk that this commitment would ultimately involve.

A newly graduated and recently married Jim Wickwire entered Gonzaga Law School in the fall of 1963.

Mountain climbing took a back seat during law school while Jim studied, held down two jobs, and tended to a growing family. He joined the Law Review in his junior year and become its second editor-in-chief as a senior.

Wickwire also became good friends with the first

editor of the law review, Charlie Flower: a relationship that would indirectly shape Wickwire’s professional career. After graduation, Flower became a staff assistant to Senator Henry M. Jackson in Washington, D.C. Flower encouraged Wickwire to succeed him there. Jim applied and after a brief interview with Jackson, he was offered a position.

Working in Washington, D.C., for one of the country’s most powerful senators, was a tremendous experience. It broadened Jim Wickwire’s horizons and gave him an education in the legislative process that would serve him well in future years.

As good as the experience was however, Wickwire felt an urgency to get his family settled and to get on with his career. After a year in Washington, D.C., he returned to Seattle and began practicing with Howe Davis Riese & Jones, a 30-lawyer firm which was the forerunner of today’s international firm of Davis Wright Tremaine. As did all new associates, he worked on a variety of matters, but he sensed his forté was solving problems and negotiating, not litigating. One day, a senior partner called him in and told him the firm was representing Alaskan Native clients who had a significant interest in the proposed Alaskan Native Claims Settlement legislation. Since Wickwire had experience on a senator’s staff, he was tapped to advance the client’s interests in the nation’s capitol.

For over two years, Wickwire was immersed in a historic legislative process, one that would result in the greatest peaceful redistribution of wealth in our nation’s history. The Native Claims Settlement was viewed as a critical preliminary step to the development of Alaska’s huge Prudhoe Bay oil reserves. This potential first step could have easily been eliminated had Congress chosen to extinguish Native claims under the Constitution’s Commerce Clause. To its credit, Congress, with the leadership of such key members as Congressman, and Gonzaga Law graduate, Lloyd Meeds, moved the legislation to a vote and its ultimate passage in 1972. The net result was the allocation of $963 million dollars and 44 million acres of land to Alaskan natives. It also authorized the establishment of for-profit corporations that would invest and allocate the money for the benefit of Native shareholders. In all, twelve such regional corporations were created, among the most successful was the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation or “ASRC.”

The downside of Wickwire’s work in Washington, D.C. was the time spent away from Mary Lou and his family. After passage of the legislation, he resumed his regular practice which now included the significant addition of legal work for the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation.

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ful practice, but as the firm grew he longed for a small firm setting where decisions were made at the water cooler and not in large conference rooms. As he puts it, he is as partial to the more informal environment of small law firms as he is to small expedition teams. So in 1975, he and two colleagues left to form their own firm. His major client, ASRC, followed him to the new venture.

As he was building his legal career, Wickwire was also moving successfully along a parallel track in mountaineering. If he had not become a lawyer but had dedicated himself exclusively to climbing, Jim Wickwire’s accomplishments would be considered a remarkable lifetime body of work. In 45 years, Wickwire’s climbing endeavors have taken him from the Cascades, the Canadian Rockies, and the Alaska Range in North America to the Swiss Alps, the Andes, Tierra del Fuego, Karakoram, and the Himalayas. He took part in five expeditions to Everest. Although he never reached the summit, he got as high as 27,000 feet. In 1978 he had what was perhaps his most memorable climb when he and his companion, Louis Reichardt, became the first Americans to reach the summit of K2 in Pakistan. Just 750 feet lower than Everest (29,035 ft.), K2 is a steeper and more treacherous climb. Among the world’s highest mountains, it is regarded in mountaineering circles as the most difficult and dangerous climb in the world. Indeed, it almost cost Wickwire his life when, separated from his summit partner, he was forced by the conditions to bivouac an entire night just 500 feet below the summit. Hypoxic and suffering from severe frostbite and lung problems, he barely survived the night and the climb.

In all, Jim Wickwire has been part of more than twenty major expeditions. Not included in this total are nearly thirty climbs of Mt. Rainier, including several winter ascents. True to his old mentors’ philosophy, he customarily sought the most interesting and challenging routes, often breaking new ground. He utilized more than 27 different routes on Mount Rainier alone.

He was the first mountain climber ever profiled on “60 Minutes.” He was also the subject of an Emmyaward-winning PBS documentary, “In the Shadow of the Mountain.”

The exhilaration and challenge of climbing has its own allure that only those who climb can fully understand. It also has its costs—especially in human life.

Wickwire suffered the loss of five climbing partners over the years, all of them good friends. In 1998, he recounted the sweeping range of a lifetime of climbing experiences in a highly personal and compelling mem-

oir, “Addicted to Danger.”

Mountain climbing has its inherent risks and all who climb willingly assume them as part of the process. Ironically, one of Jim Wickwire’s greatest losses occurred not on a mountain top, but in a quiet Seattle neighborhood. On Christmas Eve of 1985, a member of a right-wing extremist group entered the home of Wickwire’s law partner, Charles Goldmark, and brutally attacked Goldmark, his wife, and two sons. None of them survived. Charles Goldmark was not just a law partner, he was a good friend and a fellow climber.

It was a devastating loss, not only for Jim and his family, but for his law firm as well. In this case, there was no rational explanation to help explain what had happened. It was simply a totally inexplicable, horrendous act of hatred.

The law firm was not the same without Charles Goldmark who had served as its managing partner. In 1989, a year after the firm merged with a larger San Francisco-based office, Wickwire and two other lawyers left to form their own firm. This ensured that he would continue to practice in his preferred small firm environment, while still retaining long-term clients such as ASRC. When he turned 60 in 2000, Jim Wickwire decided to shift to a part-time solo practice so he could have more time for family and community service.

Semi-retirement, however, did not mean abstaining from his life-long passion for climbing.

At a time when most men his age are focused on polishing their golf games, Wickwire was training for major climbs that included two more attempts at Everest. It also permitted time to concentrate on his three young granddaughters.

Today, Jim Wickwire can look back with satisfaction on accomplished careers as both a lawyer and a mountaineer. He is the first to realize that it would not have been possible without the patient support of his wife Mary Lou. Both of them now know more fully the dimensions of their mutual vows to love, honor, and cherish; and Mary Lou also understands more completely her early promise to support Jim in his quest to climb mountains. For her, Jim Wickwire and mountaineering were indeed a package deal.

Given that he is less than two years removed from his last Everest expedition, you have to question whether Jim Wickwire has truly closed the door on another major climb. His previous musings about retiring from climbing have never really taken hold. Even though he claims it has abated, one still must wonder if Jim Wickwire’s “addiction to danger” will ever be fully sated. Perhaps there is another chapter yet to be written.

In 45 years, Wickwire’s climbing endeavors have taken him from the Cascades, the Canadian Rockies, and the Alaska Range in North America to the Swiss Alps, the Andes, Tierra del Fuego, Karakoram, and the Himalayas. He took part in five expeditions to Everest.

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Bob and Ginny along the old Pacific Coast Highway.

BOB KANE ’77

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you have ever been stuck in an early morning Seattle commute, you’ve probably said to yourself, “there has to be a better way.”

Seattle tax attorney Bob Kane believes he’s found that better way, although there are probably few who would trade their frustrating, albeit warm, commute for his fourteen mile, round trip bike ride from West Seattle to the downtown core.

Yet that is precisely what he does almost every working day in nearly all weather conditions. For Kane, it is not just a matter of avoiding the frustrations of life

in the slow lane of a freeway. It is a matter of finding balance in the routine of everyday life. Over the years, Bob Kane has become very adept at this art of balance.

Bob grew up in Tacoma, Washington where he attended Catholic grade schools and Bellarmine Prep, a Jesuit high school. The oldest of five children, he knew at an early age that he wanted to be a lawyer like his father, who practiced business law in Tacoma. It certainly seemed like a natural choice. Law was a frequent topic of family conversation and Bob knew his father truly enjoyed the practice. He also knew that the profession required dedication and hard work. But his father, who spent many Saturday mornings at the firm, often said that no one on their death bed wishes they had spent more time at the office; an insight Bob Kane would take to heart and act on throughout his life.

Kane’s college years were spent close to home.

He attended the University of Washington where he majored in English literature. He enjoyed everything about college, including the 100 or so days every year when he could be on the ski slopes. A skier since 8

the age of 13, Kane found a fraternity buddy who not only provided transportation to the mountain, but also helped him become a ski instructor. Kane liked skiing so much he accelerated his classes so he could graduate early and spend a full season skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho before he moved on to law school.

Bob Kane felt comfortable at Gonzaga Law School from the first day when he ran into Jerry Roach, an old Seattle acquaintance, in the registration line; and it was not long before he had made a number of other good friends with whom he would share the experiences of the next three years. One of those was Jack Rose, his law school skiing buddy, who would provide the transportation that guaranteed Kane an annual 40 to 60 days on ski slopes throughout his law school career.

It is remarkable that someone who was a serious and successful student, as well as the technical editor of the Law Review, could maintain such an ambitious recreational schedule. Kane says the time demands really forced him to focus, to discipline himself, and to be more efficient. Without skiing, he is convinced he would have devoted his free time to unproductive leisure, not to his studies.

While in law school, it was Bob Kane’s good fortune to take tax courses from Gary Randall. Kane recognized in Randall a tremendous teacher. Randall recognized in Kane a student who had some real potential in the tax area. As a result Professor Randall urged Bob Kane to apply for a summer internship position with the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. The application was long and involved, and Kane was not sure he even wanted to take the time to fill it out. But Gary Randall persisted. Ultimately, the application led not only to a summer internship with the D.O.J., but also to a full-time position with the Department after his graduation from law school in 1977.

Bob Kane’s first job at Justice was in the Tax Division, where he litigated civil refund cases, primarily in the northeastern states. He liked both the litigation work and the amount of responsibility he was given. He had only been there six months when he tried his first case before a jury. Kane was impressed with the level of support the Department afforded him through its excellent continuing education programs, and the ongoing access he had to experienced mentors. Not surprisingly, he appreciated the added benefit of trying cases in Vermont, New Hampshire, and upstate New York during the ski season.

After four years in Washington, D.C., Kane took a year off to earn his LL.M. in Taxation at New York University’s nationally recognized tax program. He liked New York City and wanted to explore it in greater depth. Unfortunately, the demands of the

N.Y.U. program limited his sightseeing time to a single day a week—far less than he had hoped for. The days were long and the competition was fierce. With his nearly total immersion in tax law, Kane managed only ten ski days that winter; but rain, snow or shine, he did find time every day for his run up and down Fifth Avenue.

In 1982, as he had always planned, Bob Kane returned to the Pacific Northwest. He accepted an associate position with LeSourd and Patten in Seattle, a tax and business oriented firm. Professionally it was a great match because Bob could continue to use his experience in tax controversies. Personally, it was a fit because of the firm’s philosophy that a balance should be maintained between making one’s billable hours and attending to one’s family and outside interests.

While the firm’s philosophy never changed, its practice evolved over the years. Today, it is a nine-attorney boutique firm with an even more specialized emphasis on tax law. Given this focus on tax law, it is appropriate that the last four digits of the firm’s local phone number are “1040,” while its fax number ends in “1099.”

A principal of the firm since 1986, Kane has developed his specialized practice in IRS tax controversies. Some of his clients come to him when they get an adverse determination in an IRS audit. Others seek his help when they have income or payroll taxes they cannot pay due to business reversals, divorces, or major medical bills. Every client he sees is in a stressful situation, so his first goal is to see that they leave his office knowing they have someone who will help them with their problem.

Kane’s clients run the gamut from the wealthy and prominent to individuals he takes on a pro bono basis; and he finds satisfaction in almost all of them.

He recalls a CEO of a bank whom the IRS was trying to jail for tax fraud. When the firm had finished its work, not only had the charges been dropped, but the bank wound up with a refund of over a million dollars.

In many cases, however, his satisfaction comes from helping those able to pay little or nothing, such as individuals who are relieved of a truly devastating financial obligation through an offer in compromise.

Kane has built both a successful practice and a solid reputation in his field. He is listed in the national publication, Best Lawyers In America; and in the noted peer rated reviews, Washington Law & Politics’ list of “Super Lawyers” and Seattle Magazine’s “Best Attorneys.” A frequent lecturer at tax CLEs, he has cut back in recent years from the 15 to 20 presentations he used to do on an annual basis. He also teaches IRS procedure for Golden Gate University’s graduate program.

In the mid-80s Bob met a young lady while attending the Bellevue wedding of Jerry Roach’s broth-

Every client he sees is in a stressful situation, so his first goal is to see that they leave his office knowing they have someone who will help them with their problem.

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er. In 1988, he married Seattle University graduate Ginny Peck. Today, Bob and Ginny have four children; Shannon, 15; Matt, 13; Colleen, 11; and Joey, 9. It is a matter of interest and some note that this mother of four also holds a doctorate in child psychology from the University of Notre Dame.

For Bob Kane, family time is really prime time for communicating, educating and simply enjoying each others’ company. In the Kane household there is no dearth of shared activities.

Playing tennis or bike riding with the children; attending their sporting events; sharing a ski vacation or time helping out at a nursing home or a homeless shelter—these are the ordinary opportunities of family living that add such an extraordinary measure of meaning and balance to his life.

When he was a bachelor living in downtown Seattle, Kane would often take 60 mile jaunts on his bicycle after work. He even went on a four-week bicycle tour in China. Today, as a family man living in West Seattle, he has learned to be flexible and take what life’s circumstances give him. Now the daily commute to and from work have replaced the more ambitious bike excursions. However, he still manages the occasional extended tour with his wife, Ginny. Two summers ago they undertook a nine-day, 900-mile bicycle trip from Astoria, Oregon to San Francisco using the old Coast Highway. Last summer they did the San Francisco to San Diego leg of the coast, going 700 miles in seven days. As a former college gymnast and a runner, Ginny had no problem handling the physical demands of the trip even though these were her first major bicycle rides.

For Bob Kane, genuine balance also involves the spiritual dimension. He tries to attend daily mass in downtown Seattle during the lunch hour. He is active in his local parish where he has served on the finance committee and the school commission, as well as in the R.C.I.A. program. He is also a member of a group of Catholics who meet regularly for prayer and discussion. Their goal is to try to live their faith commitments more fully in daily life, and to raise their families with real spiritual values in a culture that offers so many distractions. Kane has taken classes through Seattle University’s graduate program in theology and ministry. One recent class was a study of the Hebrew Scriptures. He hopes that by keeping God as the number one priority in his life he can, by example, encourage his children to do the same.

Kane recalls a book he read about setting priorities in life. One of the author’s tag lines was, “even if

you win the rat race you’re still a rat.” It was a thoughtprovoking concept that prompted Kane to reassess his priorities. He knows that the gratification people derive from work can be very seductive. It is tempting to feed on that satisfaction, thereby taking important time and energy away from other priorities in one’s life. This understanding has led to some significant lifestyle changes for Kane. Saturdays at the office are now

Bob and Ginny at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. the exception and not the rule they used to be.

Bob Kane says that the best chance he has of maintaining balance in his life is to keep his priorities in order. In his case, those priorities are faith, family, friends, and work. He knows that balance is a transient state and not a permanent one. It demands hard work and constant attention. But he also believes that for those committed to the human race and not the rat race, the goal of keeping priorities and maintaining balance is more than worth the effort.

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Although he is a true amateur at heart, Bob Dunn still brings the same passion and focus to his sporting interests as he does to his trial work.

BOB DUNN ’81

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you have found your life’s ideal vocation, consider yourself truly blessed. A fortunate few seem to know their calling early in life, while others never really discover that perfect complement between work and individual temperaments, talents, and goals. For most, it is a process of discovery that evolves slowly, hammered out over time on the anvil of experience.

Such was the case for Spokane attorney Bob Dunn whose road to his ideal career was far from direct or easy.

Bob Dunn grew up in the Yakima Valley of Washington state. As the oldest of eight children, he learned the meaning of hard work and responsibility through

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long hours caring for his siblings while his parents worked to make ends meet. As the oldest child, he also felt the weight of family expectations; and whether in the classroom or on the athletic field he did not disappoint. An excellent student, he finished near the top of his Grandview High School class while lettering in three sports and making the all-conference football team.

Dunn’s abilities and accomplishments earned him a commission to the United States Air Force Academy, where, as a walk-on, he made the freshman football team as a wide receiver. While he liked the regimen of academy life, he had little interest in the curriculum’s heavy emphasis on engineering, so he returned home after his first year.

After attending Yakima Valley Junior College, Dunn made two very important life decisions. His best and most important resulted in his marriage to Mary, his high school sweetheart. His second decision was to enlist for a six-year tour with the United States Air Force. He wanted to see the world, but in a classic case of reality trumping expectations, he wound up spending his entire service in Eastern Washington at Fairchild Air Force Base.

At Fairchild, Dunn was involved with the base’s well-known survival school where pilots learn such life and death fundamentals as how to live off the land, evade capture, and survive enemy interrogation and imprisonment. In his first two years, Dunn served as a survival instructor in the field. He then became part of the resistance training program which simulates captivity for pilots. Acting as a “hostile interrogator,” Dunn questioned more than 2,000 trainees in scenarios that make his current civil depositions look tame.

In his last two years, he served as platform instructor teaching various subjects to 175 to 200 students, in classes that rotated on a weekly basis.

The long and irregular hours at the survival school did not deter Dunn from completing his undergraduate education at Eastern Washington University. It was not uncommon for him to drive to Cheney at 5:30 a.m. after completing his night’s work as a “hostile interrogator,” and catch a few hours sleep in his pickup before beginning a class day that ended at 4 p.m. After a few more hours sleep, he would be back at Fairchild by 9:00 p.m. to start the process all over again. In spite of the challenge, Dunn graduated cum laude with a major in political science and a minor in economics.

About three months before his graduation in 1978, Dunn started thinking seriously about law school.

He was not yet convinced that he wanted to be a lawyer, but he knew a legal education would be a tremendous foundation for whatever he ultimately decided to do. In the space of one month, he took the LSAT, applied to law school, and signed up for 25 credits in his last quarter to insure his timely graduation.

Although Bob Dunn was still full-time military during his first year at Gonzaga, he managed to do well academically. In his second year, he began interning at Winston Cashatt, where he came under the direction of experienced and accomplished attorneys such as Leo Driscoll, whom Dunn credits with giving him his foundation in the law. “There were some tremendous attorneys at the firm such as Leo, Bob McNichols, Bob Whaley, Rich Guy, Pat Sullivan, Stan Moore, Jim Connolly, and Patricia Williams to name a few” said Dunn.

Serving as both models and mentors these were the people who had a profound influence on his professional growth. A grateful Dunn readily acknowledges his debt to them. “In practice” he said, “you ultimately

become who your mentors are or were.”

Dunn had been offered an associate position at Winston Cashatt prior to his cum laude graduation in 1981. He accepted the offer but only after receiving assurances that they would put him to work as a litigator. They kept their promise and two weeks after passing the bar he “flew solo” with his first trial. He remembers how he made an excellent presentation that established a rock solid liability case. Then he rested with a sense of satisfaction for a job well done.

That lasted only as long as it took opposing counsel to move for dismissal on the grounds that Dunn had failed to offer proof of damages. Fortunately, the judge let him put on his proof. Dunn won a favorable verdict but he also learned an important and unforgettable lesson on how to make his case in court.

Dunn entered his new profession with the same strong work ethic that had served him so well in the past. Twelve hour days were the norm for the first several years. He figured others might have more experience but he resolved he would not be outworked.

In 1986 he was named a principal of Winston Cashatt.

While he valued both his experience and his colleagues, Dunn left to start his own litigationoriented firm in 1993. He and his new partners assembled a small, highly specialized group of compatible lawyers who fit the firm’s culture and shared many personal traits and goals.

They were all bright, type “A” personalities and former athletes. Most important, they all wanted to be litigators. Litigation, Dunn notes, is something you must want to do, it is not something you should ever get into by default.

Today, the nine attorneys of Dunn & Black represent clients involved in construction, employment and labor disputes, government procurement, and civil litigation at the local, state and federal levels. The firm has a historically strong focus on construction law, representing many general contractors in Washington, Oregon, and Montana.

Although his firm does a significant amount of defense work, the vast majority of Dunn’s representation is on the plaintiff’s side. Plaintiff litigation is of the “one and done” variety so there is no client base to build on. Instead, you succeed by establishing your reputation as a first-class litigator. This is something Dunn has certainly succeeded in doing. An “AV” rated attorney who is listed in the Best Lawyers In America, Dunn has an extensive and enviable record in both jury

The long and irregular hours at the survival school did not deter Dunn from completing his undergraduate education at Eastern Washington University.

It was not uncommon for him to drive to Cheney at 5:30 a.m. after completing his night’s work as a “hostile interrogator,” and catch a few hours sleep in his pickup before beginning a class day that ended at 4 p.m.

After a few more hours sleep, he would be back at Fairchild by 9:00 p.m. to start the process all over again.

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and non-jury trials. He has litigated construction matters, environmental pollution and crop damage cases, condemnations, labor and employment controversies, and personal injury suits including wrongful death. He has also won favorable settlements in numerous arbitration and mediation proceedings.

Bob Dunn has had his share of multi-million dollar verdicts, but his most satisfying work came early in his career when he stepped in to represent a severely ill man suffering from a degenerative bone disease. The client spent two unsuccessful years petitioning the government for disability compensation before Dunn took up his cause and secured the award. The result not only turned the grateful man’s life around, it also made a deep impression on Dunn who came to realize the profound difference his work could make in people’s lives.

Bob Dunn

Dunn admits he is partial to the plaintiff’s cause especially when there is a disparity of size, reputation, or finances that puts the plaintiff in the underdog position. Dunn enjoys “playing from behind.” He sees the courtroom as the great equalizer that gives you a fighting chance to “take on the king” if you have a legitimate cause.

The teaching skills Dunn honed as an instructor in the survival school were not forgotten when he entered the legal profession. He has conducted seminars on employment law issues, taught business and construction law at area colleges, lectured on products liability at the Law School, and presented at continuing legal education programs. He also served several years as chair of the Associated General Contractors’ annual 13

Construction Law Symposium. Active in youth education, he taught an introductory law class at a local high school and served as regional coordinator for both the “Today’s Constitution and You” program and the mock trial program for Spokane area high schools.

The counterpoint to Dunn’s intense involvement in the profession can be found in his love of the outdoors. He began hunting waterfowl and upland birds in the Yakima Valley at the age of ten. Today his love of the sport has found expression not only in hunting but in such complementary activities as clay sports, dog training, and writing for outdoor publications.

Dunn’s debut as a published author happened quite by accident. Only a year out of law school, he defended a man charged with baiting waterfowl. Dunn submitted a meticulously researched and well written brief that won the praise of the trial judge. Encouraged, Dunn softened the brief’s technical language, changed the format, and submitted it to an outdoor magazine which accepted it for publication. This was the beginning of a freelance writing career that has seen his articles published in such magazines as American Hunter, Ducks Unlimited, Sports Afield, and Outdoor Life among others.

Dunn has devoted a great deal of time and energy to sporting clays. This is a shotgun sport conducted on an outdoor course consisting of stations at which the participants shoot clay targets. The course utilizes differences in terrain at each station to create a wide array of target presentations, providing a challenge beyond that of standard skeet or trap shooting. A skilled competitor in the sport, Dunn has won both the Idaho Class B state championship and the Washington Class C state championship. He is now a Class A competitor in both states.

Those who truly love their sport have a desire to communicate it to others. Bob Dunn is no exception.

He and his former partner, Stan Schultz, helped establish a foundation to support the teaching of shotgun sports to youngsters. Every other week from March to November, he works with boys and girls as young as nine to teach them the array of skills necessary to participate in and enjoy the sport. Dunn, who is one of only three certified Level Two shooting instructors in Eastern Washington, has taken his students to compete in the state championship in each of the last three years.

Though people have suggested he take his hunting and dog training skills to a professional level, Dunn resists. He is an amateur in the classic sense of the word. He is literally a lover of what he does. He knows these activities, if pursued for profit, would require the mindset he now reserves for his trial work.

He is not about to relinquish either of these activities or the perspective that makes them so enjoyable for him.

Bob Dunn is philosophical when asked about his professional future. Litigation is mentally and physically demanding work. He believes that sooner or later the litigator won’t be willing to take the risks and put

in the effort it takes to do the job at the highest level.

“Litigators,” he says, “have a shelf life.” He is not at that point yet, although he paces himself a little more these days. He is also more frequently sitting second chair for younger lawyers. He believes there needs to be more mentoring in the profession, and he is willing to do his part to give back what he received when he was a new attorney.

Dunn believes he will know when the time for retirement arrives and he is sure he will be ready. He will step away from his practice with the satisfaction that he has given the full measure of his time, talent, and energy to doing what he finally discovered he wanted to do most with his life. When he leaves the law, he will not wonder what to do next because he has managed to cultivate a wide range of interests and involve himself in activities he truly loves. Indeed, it is what he worked to create outside of the legal arena that will ensure Bob Dunn a full and satisfying life long after he has completed his final closing argument.

KARLIN ITCHOAK ’03

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or most professionals, issues of balance arise in the context of work and family, or the need to strike a productive relationship between work and one’s personal interests and recreational activities. Karlin Itchoak of the Gonzaga Law School class of 2003, understands how important the matter of balance is. But for him it is not just a question of work and leisure, it is a profoundly challenging and personal matter of culture and identity.

The son of a German-Irish mother from upstate New York and an Inupiat father from Barrow, Alaska, the country’s northernmost city, Karlin lives in two worlds. Those worlds come together every day for Karlin in the city of Nome, Alaska where he clerks for Alaska Superior Court Judge Ben Esch. Each of his worlds comes with its own set of customs, perspectives and expectations. In each, the pace of daily life is very different. In one, time is measured by the rhythm

Ice climbing provides an intense and challenging diversion from Karlin’s legal pursuits.

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Karlin Itchoak of nature—the caribou, bird and seal migrations; the whaling season, and the winter breakup. In the other time is marked by court calendars, statutory periods and the insistent regimen of modern life where there is never enough time to accommodate the work to be done. One world focuses on customs and traditions; the other, on comfort and convenience.

There is a natural tension between the two worlds but it is a tension Itchoak believes he must embrace if he is to make a difference to the Native people he seeks to serve.

If he is to succeed, he must be as conversant with the economic and legal systems of the majority society as he is with the customs and practices of the western Alaska villages.

Because of this tension Itchoak has become consciously aware of how important it is to strike a balance. This can be a difficult task when the balance is inherently offset by a dominant culture.

It is somewhat ironic that Karlin Itchoak was not totally immersed in his Inupiat heritage from an early age. Born in 1971, Karlin was raised in Nome along

with a brother and sister. His living conditions in this city of approximately 3,000 were relatively spartan with no sewer or running water. There were few snow machines, and Karlin often got around in the winter by dog sled. Although he was exposed to Eskimo dancing and traditional stories, he was never actively initiated into the culture. In part this was due to his father being ill with tuberculosis, which prevented them from participating in many of the traditional hunting, whaling, and fishing activities that are integral to Inupiat life. After his father’s death, Karlin’s friends, uncles and other relatives took a more active role in his life and his cultural education. As a young adult, he became part of seasonal whaling expeditions and caribou hunts in Shishmaref and Barrow.

As he was building his hunting, trapping, and fishing skills, he was also absorbing the culture and traditions of the Inupiat people.

In 1991 he left Nome to begin his college career at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Knowing he would eventually assume a leadership role with his people, he felt a great responsibility to do well in his

As he was building his hunting, trapping, and fishing skills, he was also absorbing the culture and traditions of the Inupiat people.

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education. He succeeded in doing just that as he earned a double major in political science and Alaska Native studies. Active in campus activities, Karlin served as president of the University student body. He was also an intern for two U.S. Senators and one State Senator.

During his senior year he was a National Fellow with the Center for the Study of the Presidency. Itchoak graduated with leadership honors and was chosen by his Native corporation as the “Shareholder of the Year for Education”. He was also awarded an Alaska State Commendation by then Governor Walter Hickel.

After his graduation from the university in 1995, Itchoak took a position as a rural economic development planner in Shishmaref, an island located north of Nome on the Chukchi Sea. Life on the island allowed him to become totally immersed in Inupiat culture. It also afforded him the opportunity to ponder his professional future. From his high school days he had understood that what went on in the state legislature and in the courts could have a profound effect on the rights, interests, and activities of Native people. He wanted to enter political life but he needed skills that would not only make him employable, but would also support any future he might choose to have in public service. Law offered those skills. If he needed any further confirmation of his direction, he received it after consulting with the elders who told him he could do the most good for his people by studying law.

Based on the recommendation of lawyers he knew, Karlin applied to Gonzaga. Several months later he was resting in his tent on the ice at whaling camp when a radio call came in bringing the news that he had been accepted.

Going from a village of 500 to an urban area of close to 500,000 was a significant transition for Karlin.

At first, he felt considerable frustration with the normal incidents of city living. Due to his time in Shishmaref, he hadn’t driven in a long time, so stoplights and four lane freeways posed a challenge. In Spokane, he encountered an accelerated pace of life where people are driven by the clock and the demands of work, not by the rhythm of the sun and the seasons. Although he found everyone at the Law School to be friendly, he understood that he was in a more competitive environment. At times he thought of quitting, but those moments passed quickly when he considered his responsibility to his community back home. He did not want to pass the message on to other young Natives that giving up was acceptable.

Of all his valued experiences at Gonzaga, none surpassed Karlin’s involvement with the clinical law program. In the clinic he found a supportive environment, superb mentoring, and stimulating real-world legal experiences. He has vivid memories of his first court appearance, a six hour trial where he successfully represented a woman in a divorce case. He found great satisfaction both in helping clients in need and in having the opportunity to do lawyers’ work.

For Karlin, a law school career that began with trepidation ended with a great sense of accomplishment. “I was afraid law school would make me less Native. I was hunting walrus, whales, caribou, and seals, and fishing and I didn’t want to lose that. Then I realized that law school doesn’t teach me what to think, just another way to think.” Karlin overcame both his initial fears and early academic struggles to make the Dean’s list in his final year.

Karlin did, however, experience some apprehension just before graduation. While his classmates were sending out scores of resumes to prospective employers, Karlin mailed out only one application. That was to the Alaska Supreme Court seeking a clerkship position. Although he had made just a single cast into the lake, Karlin got the big strike when he was hired by the Court as a law clerk to Chief Justice Alexander O. Bryner.

His clerkship year at the Supreme Court in Anchorage was more than just a job for Karlin. It was also a time of tremendous professional challenge and growth. He found the justices to be exceptionally bright, highly competent, and yet fun to work for. Chief Justice Bryner proved to be both the toughest and the best professor he had ever had. But if Karlin gained much from his clerkship year, he also gave much in return. Chief Justice Bryner noted that “Karlin brings his own background and traditions into a structured legal system. He’s got tremendous insight, yet from a slightly different perspective.” Bryner also cited Karlin’s commitment to both his Inupiat culture and the native people. “What’s remarkable has been Karlin’s ability to retain his culture throughout his experience at Gonzaga and his decision to return to Alaska where he hopes to help the people of his community. We have very few Alaskan Native students who go to law school, graduate and come back into the community. Karlin is one of the first.”

While it was demanding, Karlin’s clerkship year was not all work. Weekends were filled with outdoor activities such as ice climbing, hiking and kayaking. He found he did not have to travel very far outside the

While his classmates were sending out scores of resumes to prospective employers, Karlin mailed out only one application.

That was to the Alaska Supreme Court seeking a clerkship position. Although he had made just a single cast into the lake, Karlin got the big strike when he was hired by the Court as a law clerk to Chief Justice Alexander O. Bryner.

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city to find moose, eagles, bears, and the wilderness.

All of these helped him make a spiritual connection with the land and nature that nourished his soul and renewed his spirit.

At the end of his year with the Supreme Court, he returned to Nome to take his present position as clerk to Judge Esch in the Superior Court. For Karlin it was more than just a homecoming, it was a step closer to the community and people he seeks to serve. In addition to his responsibilities with the court, Karlin works with a local non-profit corporation to improve the well-being of the area’s native population through its wellness program. He is also actively advancing Na-

water—to begin his 10-mile commute to Nome and another day in the precise and structured world of law.

In addition to his clerkship duties, Karlin also dons the black robe of a Deputy Magistrate. In this capacity he sees the problems, conflicts, and crises of ordinary people on a daily basis. In a place the size of Nome, it is not uncommon for him to know, or know of, many of the individuals who come before the court. Given that familiarity, it is easy for him to internalize his experiences and conclude he should be doing more to help. “In the legal arena you are so intensely involved in other people’s problems that you often neglect to deal with your own needs” he says. “If you don’t balance things out you lose and then you can’t help anyone.” Itchoak recognizes that other people can be an important part of the process.

“Sometimes maintaining balance requires the help of friends and family and we shouldn’t be afraid to seek their support and assistance.”

Karlin has always found that sense of balance by turning to the outdoors and the traditional activities of hunting, fishing, kayaking, and hiking. Since returning to Nome he has also found balance in his emerging passion for dog sled racing. In the winter, his favorite after-work activity is a bracing five- to fifty-mile dog sled run on the treeless tundra that borders the Bering Sea. Often he gets home from these runs late at night, physically exhausted, but emotionally refreshed and ready for another workday.

Karlin Itchoak is still a young man with so much ahead of him. In time he will assume a larger leadership role, guided by his sense of where he can do the most good for his people, especially in matters of education and the family, two of his main concerns. Ultimately this may lead him into government, perhaps not as an elected official but as a member of the executive branch where he can help his people retain their distinct identity and heritage as they participate more fully and effectively in the larger society.

Karlin Itchoak is a very thoughtful and introspective young man who has gained many insights in his relatively short span of life. He recalls reviewing his law school class notes a few years ago and marveling at how often the word “tension” was used. There was tension between branches of government, and tension between parties, jurisThe demands of professional life have not drawn Karlin away from dictions, and competing legal issues and interests.

Reflecting on this, he came to see that tension was the traditions of his people. not so much a problem as a simple and often necessary part of life. He understood that problems tive interests with young people in his region through created by tension could be transcended yielding fruitworkshops and projects such as the National Color of ful results if the right balance point could be struck.

Justice program.

As one who lives in two cultures, Karlin increasingly understands how important it is to accept that tension

Back in Nome Karlin is once again in touch with and to embrace differences. As Karlin so eloquently the rhythms of native life and culture, but he continexpresses it, he is learning how to “walk in two worlds ues to live in two worlds. Every morning he leaves with one spirit.” his home—a cabin that has electricity but no running 17

STUDENT ProfileS Gonzaga Law Student Argues Before Washington Supreme Court Law student argues that state should pay for girl’s counseling

By Richard Roesler, Staff Writer for the Spokesman-Review

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t’s pretty unusual for any lawyer to argue a case before the state’s highest court.

But it’s really rare for a legal intern to do it.

Jim Merson, 25, earned that distinction this week when the third-year Gonzaga law student appealed a Spokane case before the Supreme Court in Olympia.

“A lot of attorneys go their entire careers and never argue a case before the Supreme Court,” said Alan McNeil, the supervising attorney in the case. “This is kind of like the World Series right off the bat.”

Merson, as a so-called “Rule 9 Intern,” has enough law

Jim Merson training to do limited legal work, although he hasn’t graduated or passed the bar exam.

Legal interns from both Gonzaga and the University of Washington law schools have argued cases before the nine justices in years past, Supreme Court Clerk C.J. Merritt said Friday.

“It’s rare, but not unprecedented,” he said.

The case involved a Spokane girl whose brother was murdered in 1996 when she was 10 years old.

Four years later, apparently overcome by “survivor’s guilt” and repressed memories of the murder, the girl

became suicidal and paranoid, according to Merson.

She was briefly checked into a psychiatric ward and subsequently sought counseling. She asked the state’s crime-victims compensation fund to pay for the care.

The state refused, citing the four years that had passed since the murder. The girl’s family appealed that decision through Gonzaga’s University Legal Assistance program.

On Thursday, Merson argued his case in Olympia’s Temple of Justice.

It’s an imposing setting. Massive sandstone columns lead to bronze doors and echoing marble hallways. The black-robed justices peer down on the attorneys from a raised platform. The audience sits in pew-like benches, beside a wall lined with old law books.

Merson spent weeks preparing, but the justices gave him a workout, cutting him off frequently with new questions.

“You’re in your third year of law school?” was the first one, from Chief Justice Gerry Alexander.

“Yes, your honor.”

As a timer ticked away the seconds, Merson outlined his case: that the state should pay the girl’s counseling bills, despite the length of time between the crime and her treatment.

The girl, he said, “is an innocent victim. She’s entitled to compensation.”

But the state will only compensate for problems that are “near-term and immediate” to the crime. The justices’ main question: How long after a crime should the state keep paying?

“Is there no end?” Justice Barbara Madsen asked.

“Couldn’t it be 20 years afterward?”

“Where do you draw the line?” said Justice Richard Sanders.

There shouldn’t be a limit, Merson said. Problems from repressed memories or post-traumatic stress disorder, he said, may not emerge until years later.

“How can they be expected to receive counseling when they don’t even know they need it?” he said. At age 10, the girl “didn’t have the psychological capacity to understand what had happened to her,” he said.

Arguments lasted 45 minutes. The court usually takes months to issue a decision in a case.

Merson plans to graduate next spring, and hopes to be a public defender in his native Colorado.

Editor’s Note: As this issue of the Gonzaga Lawyer was going to press, we were informed that the Washington State Supreme Court had rendered a unanimous verdict in favor of Jim Merson’s client. This decision reverses both the trial and appellate courts which had previously ruled in the state’s favor.

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Andrew Biviano ’06 is the recipient of this year’s Lawless Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is given annually to the student who achieves the highest academic average in the first-year class. Spokane Superior Court Judge Tari Eitzen presented the award to Biviano at a ceremony in her courtroom. The award is named for the late James J. Lawless ’50, a highly respected Superior Court Judge from the Tri-Cities. Biviano represents the second generation of his family to attend Gonzaga. His mother, Spokane attorney Mary Murphy, is a 1989 Gonzaga Law graduate.

Students spend their spring break assisting residents of a nursing home in Costa Rica

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ive students (Christy Johnson, Jennifer Rebholz, Leslie Hollander, Danielle DeCarlo and Christina Harney) spent their spring break in Cartago, Costa Rica performing public service through Cross Cultural Solutions, an international public service organization. Cartago is the oldest city in Costa Rica and is located in the mountains just outside of San Jose. The project sight was Hogar a Manos de Jesus (house of the hands of Jesus) which is only one of two nursing homes in the entire country that accepts residents who cannot walk through the entrance under their own power. It was founded by a Catholic priest who could not find a nursing home to care for an elderly man who was not able to walk.

There are currently 26 residents, all of whom have been abandoned by their families and who did not pay into the country’s pension program so they would be eligible to receive pension benefits. The nursing home 19

receives US$30 per month per resident from the government and relies on donations and volunteering to support the facility. The Gonzaga students spent their time interacting with the residents through arts and crafts, hand massages, playing games, making and breaking open a piñata, learning how to make empanadas, gardening, and helping to feed those residents who could not feed themselves.

In one week, the volunteers not only got to help out a very worthwhile program, but learned a lot about a culture quite different from their own. They spent quality time with a group of people who have no family and truly appreciated seeing that someone cares enough to be there and offer love and support.

This was very apparent on the last day of volunteering when the two groups shared their good byes, thank yous and tears.

Because the decision to organize this trip came late in the year, the group is about $2,500 short of its fundraising goal. The participants had to cover the remainder of their expenses out-of-pocket. Most used financial aid money that was earmarked for rent and food. They are continuing their fundraising into the spring to try to recover some of this expense.

CLASS ACTION

Class of 1954 Reunion

Pictured first row: Wesley Nuxoll, Robert McKanna, John O’Connor, Leonard Cockrill. Pictured second row: Maurice Clark, Elvin Vandeberg, Keith McGoffin, Harry Hartinger, John Kamb, John Bert Troup, John Goodrich attended a 1954 class reunion held at the Enzian in Leavenworth on September 10th & 11th, 2004.

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Neil Goff was recognized by the Denver Business Journal in its “Best of the Bar” series as the best tax attorney in Denver. He is currently a partner in the firm Lowe, Fell & Skogg. He and his wife live in Centennial, Colorado. They have 3 children, ages 17, 22 and 25.

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Steven J. Jager has opened his own firm, Jager Law Office, located in downtown Seattle. His practice areas include construction defect, personal injury, toxic tort, products liability, complex litigation and defense. Address: 600 Stewardt St., Ste 1100, Seattle, Wa. 98103.

Houston Putnam Lowry

Houston Putnam Lowry who practices in Connecticut, was recently sworn

in as a freeman of the City of London and installed as a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators.

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Susan Voss has been named commissioner of the Iowa Insurance Division, which regulates the insurance industry in the state. Susan was appointed to the post by Gov. Tom Vilsack. As insurance commissioner, Susan heads up a 95-person division with an annual budget of $9.5 million.

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Steve Lingenbrink has recently been elected to the Washington State Trial Lawyers (WSTLA) Board of Governors for 2004-2006. Lingenbrink, a Kirkland Washington attorney and a principal in the firm of Trudell, Bowen & Lingenbrink, is active outside of the profession. He is President of Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club, a service organization which assists needy families on a local, national and international level. As part of this work, Lingenbrink recently traveled to Guatemala where he assisted rural villagers in acquiring ownership of the land they farmed. This is done under an award 20

winning United Nation’s program designed to break intransigent cycles of poverty. Lingenbrink had previously undertaken service trips under the auspices of his church to assist orphanages in Romania and Russia. Lingenbrink is also President of both Bellevue Networkers and Kirkland Networkers, organizations designed to assist local businesses with leads and business development information.

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Paul Burglin is the co-author of a two-volume treatise entitled California Drunk Driving Law (James Publishing, 2004).

Paul practices criminal defense in San Francisco, Marin, and Napa counties. Burglin lives in San Rafael, California with his wife Mona and their five children.

Laura D. Cooper has received the President’s Award for Public Service from the Oregon State Bar Board of Governors.

Laura credits her experi- Paul Burglin ence in the Thomas More Scholarship program as having a major influence in shaping her personal commitment to public service.

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Kimberly K. Hornak

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Kimberly K. Hornak has been appointed to a two-year term as presiding judge of the 3rd District Juvenile Court in Salt Lake City Utah. As presiding judge, she will oversee the day-to-day operations of her court in addition to her regular judicial duties. Judge Hornak began her legal career as a staff attorney with Utah Legal Services in Ogden and at the Legal Aid Society. She was an assistant attorney general from 1986 to 1988, and worked as a deputy Salt Lake County attorney until former Utah Governor Mike Leavitt appointed her to the bench in 1994.

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Mary Ellen Gaffney-Brown has been appointed to a three-year term as a Lawyer Representative from the Eastern District of Washington to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. The appointment was made by The Honorable Fred Van Sickle, Chief United States District Judge. Ms. Gaffney-Brown, a partner in the Spokane law firm of Lineberger & Gaffney-Brown, PLLC, is President Elect of the Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Eastern District of Washington.

She is also a past chair of the Creditor/Debtor Section of the Washington State Bar Association and former Trustee of the Spokane County Bar Association. Her private practice areas include Mary Ellen Gaffney-Brown commercial litigation and bankruptcy. She is currently the attorney for the Chapter 7 Trustee, in the Metropolitan Investment Securities Estate.

Michele Shaw was recently appointed to assist a 13 year old boy charged with murder in Grant County Washington. The boy and his co-defendant are the youngest murder defendants ever to stand trial as adults in the modern history of the state. The appointment was made at the urging of a co-counsel who asked for an attorney experienced in complex criminal defense matters. Shaw certainly qualifies as experienced. She serves on an American Bar Association board for lawyers specializing in juvenile cases, and she has been certified by the Washington State Supreme Court to handle death penalty cases. Previously, she

had represented the Green River killer, Gary Ridgway; and had handled several high profile juvenile murder cases, including Barry Loukaitis, a 14-year-old convicted in 1997 of killing his teacher and two classmates at a Moses Lake high school. Shaw agreed to take on this case at a $75-per-hour rate – $25 less than the county had been paying the boy’s previous attorney.

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Douglas D. Phelps played a major role in the recent Supreme Court landmark decision of Washington v. Blakely which impacted both state and federal sentencing guidelines.

Phelps represented Mr. Blakely in Grant County and he did the original appeal. An attorney from the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys successfully took the appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Cynthia Newton was recently elected Circuit Court Judge for Florida’s 6th Circuit covering Pinellas and Pasco counties. An Assistant Public Defender in Florida, for the last ten years, Judge Newton waged a successful year-long campaign against four other challengers.

Her term began January 2005.

Rex Staples has been appointed General Counsel of North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. Staples, 46, brings considerable experience to his new position. He comes to his current position from the Washington State SecuriCynthia Newton ties Division, where he held a succession of legal and management positions. Association Executive Director John Hanley cited Staples’ key role in last year’s analyst global settlement and service as the attorneyin-charge for the U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray analyst investigation. NASAA is the oldest international organization devoted to investor protection. Its membership consists of the securities administrators in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico.

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Paul Schlossman

Paul Schlossman spoke at a ceremony awarding U.S. Representative Jim McDermott the Ralph J. Bunche award. This is a special award given by the World Peace through Law section of the Washington State Bar Association. The event was held April 30 in Seattle at the Washington Athletic Club. Last

year’s Bunche award recipient was Professor Robert Araujo, S.J., of Gonzaga Law School.

Laura Mancuso and her husband welcomed their first child, Anthony, on January 9, 2004. In December Laura was promoted to Captain in the Air Force Reserves. The summer of 2003, she attended the Judge Advocate Staff Officer course in Alabama – making a switch from her previous position as an Aircraft Maintenance Officer. Laura continues to practice law with Baumgartner, Nelson & Price in Vancouver, WA.

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Cindy Gideon has been appointed Assistant Attorney General with the Government Compliance and Enforcement Division in Olympia.

Michael E. Johnston has been appointed Assistant Attorney General for the Torts Division in Olympia.

Melissa M. (Poyant) Simpson, her husband, Michael, and daughter, Savannah, announce the birth of Delaney Kathryn, December 28, 2004. Melissa is a Lead Case Law Editor with LexisNexis.

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Steven Marlowe was sworn in as Assistant Attorney General for the State of Oregon. Hardy Myers, Attorney General, administered the oath. After 4 years as an attorney in private practice, most recently with the law firm of Miller Nash, LLP, Steve has decided to serve in the public sector. Steve welcomes fellow alumni to contact him at marlowes@myuw.

Steven Marlowe net.

Martin J. Pujolar, was made a partner at the law firm of Lincoln, Gustafson & Cercos in Las Vegas, NV. According to one of the partners at the firm, Marty has shown the hard work, dedication, professionalism and loyalty required to be a partner at the firm. Congratulations, Marty!

Martin J. Pujolar

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Scott Schillinger joined the Anchorage Alaska law firm of Davison & Davison Inc. as an associate attorney.

His practice will focus on business law and construction litigation. Schillinger has a bachelor’s in political science, a law degree from Gonzaga University and a master of laws in taxation. He previously worked as a special agent with the U.S. Department of Defense and as an insurance claims representative.

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Josh Bowland frees innocent man with DNA evidence in his first case

By Lee Benson, Deseret Morning News

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Josh Bowland isn’t the highest paid attorney in Salt Lake City and he sure doesn’t have the most experience. He only graduated from Gonzaga University law school a year ago, and he’s been practicing law all of five months.

But there wasn’t an attorney in town Bowland wanted to trade places with last week when he watched as his client, Bruce Goodman, won his freedom after 19 years behind bars.

It was a scene straight out of a John Grisham novel. There was Josh, offering his sweater to Goodman as he emerged from the Utah State Prison on a crisp

Josh Bowland and a grateful Bruce Goodman.

November day with nothing but the shirt on his back and a big ‘ol smile on his face. For the first time since he was 35 years old and sent to prison for a murder he steadfastly insisted he did not commit, the once-condemned man drew a breath of free air.

Besides Josh, other staffers from the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center (RMIC) were there to welcome Goodman, along with a girlfriend from Indiana Goodman found via prison correspondence. She drove all night so she could pick him up and take him back to Michigan City, where a job and an apartment without 23

bars on the windows await.

But first there were some loose ends to tie up, the most pressing of which was a celebratory dinner at the Red Iguana, a Mexican restaurant in Salt Lake, where Goodman toasted his lawyer for a job well done, and they both raised a toast to the science of DNA testing — for without it Goodman would yet be proclaiming his innocence from the inside of a prison cell.

Last summer, Josh landed his job at the RMIC, a Robin Hoodesque foundation launched in Salt Lake City nearly five years ago for the express purpose of reviewing questionable convictions pro bono. “We focus primarily on physical evidence that can be subjected to DNA testing,” says Josh. “It’s a tangible area courts might be willing to look at. Just saying, ‘I didn’t do it,’ doesn’t get you very far.”

Among the cases that landed on Josh’s desk — he’s the RMIC’s only staff attorney — was Goodman’s. In July, Josh filed the legal petitions that were successful in sending bodily fluids taken into evidence from the 1984 murder of 21-year-old Sherry Ann Fales Williams — the murder Goodman was convicted of committing — to Orchid Cellmark, a private DNA testing lab in Dallas, Texas.

In September, the lab returned its findings that not only were none of the fluids Goodman’s but that DNA obtained from both a rape kit and from elsewhere at the crime scene belonged to the same man — meaning an unidentified male had been both sexually intimate with the victim and was at the place where she was murdered. A faceless, nameless suspect who was “absolutely not” Goodman.

Josh won’t soon forget the visit he took to the jail to tell Goodman the news.

“I was going to lay it all out for him, very legallike,” he says, “but I was as excited as a kid, and as soon as he saw my face he said, ‘See, I told you so.’ ”

The same thing Goodman had been saying for 19 years.

It is Josh’s and the RMIC’s hope that this is just the start of victories for the falsely accused in the enlightened era of DNA identification. When an innocent man is exonerated, the payday is enormous for everyone concerned.

“It was worth it just to see the smile on his face,” says Josh, a lawyer who, no matter how many more cases he wins in his career, may never top the first one. © 2004 Deseret News Publishing Company. Reprinted with permission.

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Kelly Fivey and her husband welcomed the birth of their new baby on December 7th. Her name is Kesley Lorraine Fivey and she weighed seven pounds, 15 1⁄2 ounces and was 20 inches long. They reside in Montana.

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Investors $1 - $99 William and Donna Addison Bob Allen ’74 John (’89) and Peggy Altman Gary Amendola ’78 Barbra L. Anderson ’96 Matt (’83) and Erin Anderton Patrick (’76) and Colleen Andreotti Edward Anson ’77 Fabio Apolito ’96 Ronald (’79) and Marlene Arkills Stephen (’92) and Andrea (Wilson) Arnot ’92 Shawn J. Aronow ’87 Richard Atherton ’80 Marshall C. Aungier ’76 Walter Ayers ’81 Perri Ann Babalis ’90 David R. Bacon ’96 Hollis (’69) and Patricia (Anderson) Barnett ’69 Phillip and Aline (’88) Barrett Richard Bartheld ’80 Frank Bartoletta ’75 Rocky and Kathlene Basler J. Peter Baumgarten ’80 Gregory Beeler ’76 Shane Bengoechea ’82 Jack Bennett ’49 Eric and Helen (’84) Benson Alfred Bianchi ’52 George Bianchi ’81 Eric Biggar ’87 Gerry Bischoff ’77 Gina Bissell ’92 Jan Bissett ’92 J. B. Blair Jacke Blair ’77 Stephen Bobolia ’76 Drew (’75) and Mary Bodker Douglas Boe ’‘82 Allan Bonney David P. Boswell ’91 Michael Branstetter ’79 Roseann Brewer Graham Poole and Maureen (’88) Britton-Poole Kevin Brodar ’85 Philip Brooke, Jr. (RIP) ’47 Daniel Brunner ’75 Gary Bunke ’75 Ed and Lynn Burke Barbara A. Burns ’80 Mark Burns ’79 Eric Butterworth ’84 Pamela J. Byerly ’89 CAN The Hon. Norman D. Callan ’76 Keith Campbell ’49 Charles (’74) and Cynthia Carroll David Carter ’76 Joseph Carroll (’76) and M. Gayle Puu ’76 Dennis L. Cava ’72 Anthony Cefalogi ’78 Donald and Teresa (’87) Chenhall The Hon. Kevin R. Christensen ’95 Frank (’90) and Holly Christoff Louis Cianni ’79 Maurice (’58) and Maria Clark Harold (’79) and Heidi Clarke III Leslie A. (Mitcham) Cloaninger ’83 John Colver ’78 Russell (’82) and Nancy Congleton John (’66) and Roselie Cooney Lewis D. Cooney ’02 Thomas (’76) and Sheryl Cooney

Larry and Judith (’77) Corbin Lindsey Cotterell ’75 Matthew S. Cox ’02 Robert Crick ’96 Michael (’80) and Anne Crofts Timothy (’78) and Barbara Cronin Kent Cronquist ’82 Ralph D. Cuculo ’79 Paul Culotta ’76 David and Ellen Curry Kevin (’81) and Julianne Curtis Robert (’81) and Bianca Curzan Jason (’94) and Julia Cutts Seaton M. Daly ’05 Mark Danna ’84 Marc T. Danon ’80 Robert J. Davis Joseph Deckhut ’76 Brad and Pam (McNally) DeCounter Russell (’81) and Patricia DePew Frank DeSantis ’80 Tom L. Dempsey ’63 Victor Denaro ’85 Mark (’80) and Nicky Desmarais Mary E. Derting ’05 Greg Devlin ’76 William D. Devoe ’87 Carl (’53) and Oliven Diana James Diehl ’85 Nanette K. Dockum ’04 Phil (’47) and Mary Dolan James (’81) and Joni (Leone) Domanico Michael Donohue ’67 Lorraine M. Doran Christy L. Drake ’85 John R. Dudley ’82 Richard C. Dullanty ’82 Brian R. Dunlap Thomas (’77) and Christine Dunlop Wendy J. Earle ’05 The Hon. Lynda C. Eaton ’91 Stew Eggers Gerald T. Engel ’86 The Hon. Richard J. Ennis ’50 Peter Erbland ’79 Ralph Erickson James (’76) and Christie Farber Gary (’80) and Jeanette Farrell John B. Farver, Jr. ’87 Valerie E. Fenton ’05 Mark A. Ferestad ’92 Kevin and Anne (’81) Flaherty Pat Flaherty ’76 David Floerchinger ’85 Nick Fluge (’78) and Elizabeth Logsdon (’78) Theodore Fournier, Jr. ’56 Katherine Fragnoli ’79 Carol Franklin J. Preston Frederickson ’05 Michael Freed ’75 Thomas Fryer ’93 Henry Gabriel, Jr. ’80 Jennifer D. Gaffaney ’02 Gary Gainer ’67 John (’80) and Aida Galbraith Scott D. Gambill ’99 Doris Ganz Daniel Garner ’86 Kathleen Garvin (’79) and Thomas Satterwhite Harry (’85) and Laurie Gasnick Tom (’76) and Victoria Geiger Warren Gilbert, Jr. ’85 Elizabeth Ann Gill ’90 Keith (’90) and Donna Glanzer Michael (’94) and Maria Goldman

Randall and Cheryl Gore Janice A. Grant ’81 Diane Grecco ’98 Patricia M. Greeley ’85 Donald and Jean Grell Geoffrey Grote ’78 Steven (’75) and Judy Grovdahl Karl D. Guelich Richard Guskin ’81 Gerard (’76) and Rosa Haag Jean A. Hall ’81 Robert J. Hall ’56 Michael (’68) and Jean Halley Gail A. Hammer John (’85) and Jennifer Hanrahan James and Randi Hansen Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hanson Wayne (’77) and Mary Hardesty James A. Harmony, Jr. ’01 Charles (’84) and Marci (Felix) Harrington Todd J. Harrington ’01 Mary E. Hartman Douglas R. Hartwich ’56 Sue K. (Rogers) Harwood ’87 Scott Hatcher ’81 Angela M. Hayes ’98 Elizabeth Heath ’87 John and Mary Heath, Jr. Gary Hebl ’76 Mark Hendricksen ’85 Gretchen L. Herbison ’96 David (’75) and Teri Herman Lloyd (’66) and Linda Herman Peter (’84) and Kristi Herman Alfred Heydrich (’80) and Linda Duda-Heydrich F. Curtis Hilton ’58 Michael C. Hirst ’91 W. Scott (’98) and Anja Hislop Glen (’93) and Adrienne Honig Dr. Dicky D. Hooban ’74 Joel D. Huppin ’87 James Iles ’76 Institute for Patent Studies Lt. Gregory Ircink ’86 Dale Isley ’78 Jonathan Jackel ’81 Craig James ’76 Donald Jansen ’75 Robert A. Jalovi ’83 Tim Jensen ’79 Angela M. Johnson ’05 John and Rhoda Johnson Robert and Mildred (’89) (Childres) Johnson Michael E. Johnston ’98 Jones 7 Colver, LLC Michele E. Jones ’87 Jeff Schroeder and Sabrina (’95) Jones-Schroeder Michael Jonson ’74 Edward (’73) and Linda Joy Robert and Lisa Jozwiak James P. Kane ’90 Fred J. Karau ’86 Ed (’75) and Delores Kauzlarich Robert Kayser ’79 John Keith ’67 Stanley Kempner, Jr. ’80 Donald (’91) and Vickie Kennedy William Kenny ’73 William Kerns ’74 Michael and Barbara Ketterick Cheryl L. Kettrick ’02 Robert Kingsley ’78 James (’74) and Marylynn Kintner Paul L. Kirkpatrick ’86 Paul (’51) and Jane Klasen

Thomas Knutsen ’77 William (’90) and Theresa Kochevar Neil Korbas ’80 Walt Krueger ’75 Clayton N. Kubota ’81 Inez Kuder Gary N. Kunihiro ’81 Debby J. Kurbitz ’87 Norbert and Marilyn Kurnath Darrell Larson ’77 Gregory Larson ’78 Vincent (’70) and Kathleen Laubach The Hon. Vincent LeBlon ’80 Steven (’78) and Geraldine Leder Gordon and Geri Lederer Richard M. Leland ’90 David S. Lessoff ’97 John Liebert ’77 Craig Liebler ’76 Thomas Lies ’81 Samuel and Kathleen Lipuma Stephen (’75) and Mary (Hildahl) Llewellyn J. Gregory Lockwood ’90 Carolyn Gale Louthian ’82 Wayne (’94) and Catherine Lucia Howard Lundgren ’79 William (’79) and Carol Lyshak Harry and Colleen Magnuson Mary H. Mahaney ’00 Tom and Charlene Maher George Mastrodonato ’76 Charles E. Maduell ’85 Margaret (Maloughney) Ransom ’96 Richard and Theresa Marincic Steven W. Marlowe ’99 Daryl E. Martin ’98 William M. Mast ’03 Rex Matsumura ’84 Bevan Maxey ’83 William Maxey ’75 Jordan B. McCabe ’97 Charles (’75) and Jackie McClung Doss (’80) and Mary McComas Stephen (’81) and Mary (’80) (Kelly) McCue Jim (’53) and Gina McGoffin Maureen McGuire ’81 Timothy J. McGuire ’98 Mary T. McKee James (’75) and Kathleen (Koreis) McLean Stephen (’81) and Rinda McLean Tim (’80) and Ann McNeese Colleen M. McQuaid ’85 Sandy (’80) and Maureen (MacKinnon) McQuarrie Ed and Betty McWilliams Thomas A. Metzger ’79 Philip (’77) and Teresa Meyers David E. Michaud ’83 James H. Michel ’63 Kevin (’96) and Amy Mickey ’96 Peter and Dominique Mikulec Edith Miller Jordan L. N. Miller ’99 Jeffrey C. Mirsepasy ’87 Glen (’79) and Marcia Mixdorf Joyce Monroe Peter (’84) and Dolene Morales William (’70) and Janet Morgan Arleen Morton Moss Adams LLP Ronald W. Munson ’79 Thomas Murphy ’86 Rosalie N. (Barry) Musachio ’77 Guy Nelson ’77 Doug (’81) and Sarah (Fields) Nessan David M. Newman ’94

Sheila M. Newman ’05 James Niblack ’80 Larry Nickell ’79 Anne Noris ’80 Torger Oaas ’76 Keyonyu X. (Smith) O’Connell ’97 Robert O’Connell ’78 Robert Odom ’49 Dianne E. (Lynch) Olsen ’79 Karen Orehoski, ‘04 John Orr Michael (’80) and Wendy Osborn Deborah A. (Rodgers) Oswood ’82 Fred (’73) and Barb Palmer Pamela A. Palmer ’99 Joseph (’52) and Marilyn Panattoni David M. Parker ’96 Michael J. Pellicciotti ’04 Gary Penar ’‘77 Mike L. Perrizo ’78 Stephen and Sheryl (’89) Phillabaum Paula D. Pickett ’01 Curtis Pintler ’75 Gloria Finn Porter ’94 H. Ronald Pottorff Catherine E. Proszek ’94 Jay A. Rambo ’84 Jeff Donahue and Theresa Rambosek ’87 Kevin M. Reager ’95 Larry (’83) and Jean (Charters) Ream Anthony (’76) and Ann Rearden John (’78) and Diane Redenbaugh Robert L. Redmond ’04 Ryan (’95) and Lisa (’95) Rein Jeffrey Reynolds ’77 Tom (’77) and Bonnie Reynolds John and Kelly Rae Richards Thomas (’80) and Maureen Richardson Stanley Riddle, Jr. ’53 Michael D. Riese ’91 Gary (’76) and Joyce Riesen David (’81) and Andrea Riley Shelley N. Ripley ’99 Dan (’84) and Jacquie Roach Randy Roach ’78 Frank and Sandy Robinson, Jr. Irving (’91) and Susan Rosenberg Robert Rosier ’80 Kurt M. Rowland ’03 Roger Ruhl ’76 Anthony Rund ’86 Ernest (’86) and Janet Rushing Kenneth Russell, Jr. ’77 Michael Russell ’86 Laurence (’59) and Dolores Ryan Mitchel Sachs ’88 Safeco Insurance Companies Robert and Jean Sagerson Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sahlin Frank and Charlotte Salak Anthony (’80) and Kristin Sanchez Mark and Gerianne (’77) (Jordan) Sands Richard W. Sanger ’72 Norman Sauer ’75 Juliet J. Schey ’05 David Schneider ’77 Joseph (’75) and Shyla (Asher) Schneider Fred (’74) and Katherine Schuchart Robert Schultz ’85 Charles Schumacher ’80 Mike Merritt and Jeri (’98) Self-Merritt Julie A. Sevenich ’79 Christopher Shea ’75 John D. Sheaffer, Jr. ’79 Emmett J. Shearer ’55 28

Edmund (’78) and Donna Sheehy Ron (’76) and Vicki Shepherd Rich and Teresa (’84) Sherman Donna W. (Walker) Shipps ’82 Alexander (’78) and Maureen (Gordon) Shogan, Jr. Frank Siderius ’77 Michael and Melissa (’98) Simpson Berkeley (’75) and Carole Smith Scott R. Smith ’84 Shephard Smith ’76 Steve Smith ’86 Susan Sockwell Bendlin (’80) and Greg Bendlin Bill and Cathy Spencer Michael Spencer ’76 Mary Jo (DiRocco) Spiering Laura Spradley (’82) and Tom Sowa Martin Stacey ’86 Brent (’92) and Helaina Stanyer State Farm Companies Foundation Richard S. Staub ’77 Melanie T. (Lowe) Stella ’98 Buck Sterling Brant L. Stevens ’97 June L. Stewart Jack (’90) and Sara Stone Spencer Thomas Stowe ’99 Ray Sullivan ’51 Clinton (’90) and Vanessa Summerfield Michael Sweeney ’75 Susan E. Sweeney ’78

Leon Swerin ’77 Ann D. Thoeny ’87 The Hon. and Mrs. Philip J. Thompson ’62 Steven (’77) and Leann Thomsen David W. Thorn ’98 Aaron R. Tillman ’05 Mansur Tinsley ’82 John Tracy, Jr. ’51 David Trefry ’85 Keith Trefry ’80 Stephen (’75) and Carole Trefts Thomas N. Tremaine ’85 Rocco Treppiedi ’78 Kimberley A. Underwood ’82 Steven F. Unger ’76 Frederic Vimeux (’98) and Hope Youngs-Vimeux Adrian (’69) and Nancy Voermans Paul Vogel, Jr. ’79 Sheila H. Vonderharr ’05 E. J. and Pearl Votava Ross J. Wabeke ’79 Joseph Waesche ’84 Greg (’80) and Josie Wagner Jeffrey D. Walker ’93 Floyd Walpole ’84 The Warehouse Timothy and Shaun (’81) Watchie-Perry Robert (’85) and Stacy Webster Ted Wellman ’91 Pat and Carol West

Eric (’83) and Deborah Westberg Donald K. White ’05 Bruce Willoughby ’72 Rick Wilson ’80 Larry (’70) and Barbara Winner Eric S. Wong ’97 Christopher J. Wright ’93 Martin Wyckoff (’88) and Adrienne Smith ’88 Michael Wytychak III ’84 Nicholas Yedinak ’88 Bev J. (Doupe) Yokoyama ’97 Carolyn R. Zorich ’97 PLEASE NOTE: The honor roll of donors acknowledges alumni and friends who have made a gift to the Law School during the period of June 1, 2003 to December 31, 2004. Those who have contributed after December 31, 2004 will be acknowledged in next year’s honor roll.

Corrections? We have endeavored to make this honor roll listing accurate and complete, if we have made an error in listing your name or level; or if we have failed to include your name, please contact the Law School Development Office at (509) 323-3759 or e-mail us at wmyers@lawschool.gonzaga.edu.

LAW BRIEFS

GU, EWU Collaborate in New JD/MSW Dual Degree Program

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astern Washington University’s School of Social Work and Human Services will collaborate with the Gonzaga University School of Law to create a four-year dual degree program during which students will receive both a law degree from Gonzaga and a master’s degree in social work from EWU.

The initiative—called the Dual JD/MSW Degree Program—will begin as a pilot program this fall, admitting four students per year for three years. At the end of this time the program will be reevaluated to accommodate students’ interests, and refined to best meet students’ needs.

One of the major reasons for this public-private institutional collaboration is to meet the current need for social workers trained in the law and lawyers trained in social work. Social workers and lawyers often practice their respective professions in relation

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to the same areas of human need and activity. However, lawyers and social workers typically practice in light of their own specialized training, lacking a command of the relevant knowledge, skills, and perspectives of the other discipline so significant to their work. This program will meet all applicable accreditation guidelines set forth by the American Bar Association and the Council on Social Work Education.

Michael Frumkin, dean of the School of Social Work and Human Services at EWU, said an integrated educational experience combining the two disciplines will educate more savvy and effective professionals in the fields of law and social work.

“We will create practitioners with a strong commitment to social justice, who are more than simply lawyers or social workers,” Frumkin said.

CLERKSHIPS

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complete list of clerkships can be found on our Web site on the Career Services page at www.law.gonzaga.edu. If there are any errors or omissions, please bring it to the attention of the editor, John Power at jpower@lawschool.gonzaga.edu.

J. Arvid Anderson ’71 clerked for Chief Judge Harold Petrie, WA Court of Appeals Div. II 1971-1972.

Keith M. Black ’71 clerked for Judge Ralph Armstrong, WA Court of Appeals Div. II 1971-1972.

Kristen Cassidy ’83 clerked for Chief Justice Frank I. Haswell. Montana Supreme Court, 1983-1984.

Thomas L. Dempsey ’63 clerked for Chief Justice Richard Ott, Washington State Supreme Court, 1963-64.

Jim McNeill ’85 clerked for the Judge Vernon R. Pearson, Washington State Supreme Court, 1986, and Judge Robert W. Skidmore, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Washington, 1987-88.

Thomas McMillen ’63 clerked for Justice Frank Hale, Washington State Supreme Court 1963-1964.

Stephen Odom ’78 clerked for Judge T. Patrick Corbett, King County Superior Court, 1978-1979 and Judge Corbett at Division I of the Washington State Court of Appeals in 1981.

Peter Petrich ’77 clerked for Chief Judge Harold Petrie, WA Court of Appeals Div. II 1978-1980.

Thomas E. Richardson ’80 clerked for Justice Daniel Shea, Montana Supreme Court, 1980-1981.

Matt M. Sayre ’64 clerked for Justice Robert T. Hunter, Washington Supreme Court 1963-64.

John G. Schultz ’63 clerked for Justice Robert T. Hunter, Washington Supreme Court 1963-64.

For the graduating year of 2004, those that received clerkships are: Brian Bradford – Judge Leland Anderson – Colorado 1st Judicial District Greg Christiansen – Judge Mark Gibbons – Nevada Supreme Court Dave Higer – Federal Judge Tom Nelson – 9th Circuit Ct. of Appeals (Boise, ID) Brooke Kuhl – Justice John Warner – Montana Supreme Court Christina Nichols – Commissioner Frank Slak – WA Ct. of Appeals, Div. III Michael Pellicciotti – Justice Charles Johnson – WA Supreme Ct. Jessica Quickle – Judge G. Murray Snow – AZ Ct of Appeals Robert Redmond – Judge Frank Kurtz – WA Ct. of Appeals, Div. III Maureen Ryan – Chief Justice Gerald Schroeder – Idaho Supreme Court Sophia Santos – Judge Anita A. Sukola – Superior Ct. of Guam Geana Van Dessel – Fed. Judge Fred VanSickle – US District Court (Spokane) Laura Waldman – Judge Stephen Brown – WA Court of Appeals Div. III Ann Wick – Judge Charles Hosak, Kootenai Co. Dist. Court (Coeur d’Alene) Adolf Zeman – Judge Stephanie Joannides – Alaska Superior Ct. 3rd Dist.

From the graduating class of 2005: John Dobrovich – Justice John Warner – Montana Supreme Court Nate Haines – Chief Judge Robert Coates – Alaska Court of Appeals Jacquelyn High-Edward – Commissioner Joyce McCown, Washington Court of Appeals, Div. III Marie Kagie – Justice Barbara Madsen – WA Supreme Court Gordon Karg – Judge Darrel Perry – Idaho Ct. of Appeals Weston Meyring – Judge Sergio Gutierrez – Idaho Court of Appeals Thad O’Sullivan – Judge Gerald Heaney – Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (MN) Grace Spencer – Justice Bobbe Bridge – WA Supreme Ct. Lance Timbreza – Justice Richard Sanders – WA Supreme Ct.

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FACULTY AND STAFF NOTES Congratulations to Professor Stephen Sepinuck and Professor Linda Rusch whose new casebook “Problems and Materials on Secured Transactions” has been accepted for publication by the West Publishing Company. The book should be available sometime next year. For those not familiar with Professor Rusch, she currently teaches at Hamline University Law School and will be joining our faculty this fall.

Associate Professor Lynn Daggett has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor. This promotion reflects and acknowledges excellence as a teacher, scholar, advisor, and contributor to the greater Gonzaga community.

Professor Gerald Hess is co-editor of a new book “Teaching the Law School Curriculum” published by Carolina Academic Press Law Books. The book is a compilation of approaches, exercises and tips for teaching fifteen of the most common law school courses. It includes contributions from 170 law teachers. The book will serve as an important resource for law teachers throughout the country. Professor Hess is the founder of Gonzaga’s nationally acclaimed Institute for Law School Teaching.

Professor Ann Murphy, whose article “Spin Control and the High-Profile Client – Should the Attorney-Client Privilege Extend to Communications with Public Relations Consultants?” has been accepted for publication by the Syracuse Law Review.

Professor Ken Williams, whose article “Ensuring the Capital Defendant’s Right to Competent Counsel: It’s Time for Some Standards!” has been accepted for publication in the Wayne State Law Review.

Fr. Robert Araujo, S.J., whose essay “Implementation of the ICJ Advisory Opinion—Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Fences [Do Not] Make Good Neighbors” has been accepted for publication in the Boston University International Law Journal.

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Professor David DeWolf’s article “Teaching Harbeson” has been accepted for publication in the prestigious Journal of Legal Education.

Professor Vickie Williams’ article “Dead Man Telling Tales – A Policy Based Proposal for Survivability of Qui Tam Actions Under the Civil False Claims Act” has been accepted for publication in the St. John’s School of Law’s Journal of Legal Commentary.

Professor Mark DeForrest’s Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy article, “An Overview and Evaluation of State Blaine Amendments: Origins, Scope and First Amendment Concerns,” was recently cited by the Florida Court of Appeals in Bush v. Holmes – a case involving the legality of a school voucher plan under Florida’s state constitution. Professor DeForrest was also interview by the New York Times in connection with the paper’s report on the Florida case. Also, Professor DeForrest has a newly published article: “Locke v. Davey: The Connection Between the Federal Blaine Amendment and Article 1, Section 11 of the Washington State Constitution.” It is available at 40 U. Tulsa L. Rev. at 295.

Professor Rosanna Peterson will join the law faculty on a full-time basis next year. Professor Peterson has been an active and busy adjunct member of the faculty for several years. She is also an accomplished lawyer who has extensive experience litigating in the state and federal courts.

Professor Michael C. McClintock had a recent work published by the St. Thomas Law Review. The article, “Selling Agricultural Commodities to Cuba -- What Happens Next?” It can be found at 17 St. Thomas L. Rev. 225 (Winter 2004). The article explores the origins and parameters of the 2000 Trade Sanctions Reform Act, the only statutory exception to the embargo, allowing U.S. farmers to sell commodities to Cuba. The article explores the current political and economic developments in Cuba including the ramifications of the tourism trade and what is likely to happen in a post-Fidel Cuba. Finally, the article suggests components of a rapprochement with Cuba to end the current diplomatic impasse.

Meet the Director of Admissions at Gonzaga Law Interview by Brett Rubio

“Public Service for me is multi-faceted which incorporates the values and philosophies in my life.”

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ot every law school can claim to have a marathon runner as their Admissions Director, but Gonzaga Law can. As the new Director of Admissions for Gonzaga Law School, Susan Lee brings an energetic perspective to our community. Susan is an active person who enjoys running with her Dalmatian, Maddie. “Running helps me relax, I enjoy it!” Our new Director of Admissions has run the Los Angeles Marathon and is currently training for the Coeur d’ Alene Half-Marathon.

Susan spent much of her childhood on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, and then moved to Spokane where she graduated from high school. She attended Washington State University where she earned a B.A. in Ethnic Studies and her Ed.M. in Higher Education Administration. She recently worked as the As- Susan Lee sistant Director of High School Relations at Eastern Washington University, where she oversaw recruitment for undergraduate admissions. Prior to that, she worked in Student Affairs and Residential Life at Scripps College in California.

Susan and her husband, Michael, both enjoy Spokane primarily because it provides a good “quality of life” and she is never too far from family here. Susan enjoys spending much of her free time with her seven year-old sister.

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will help determine which aspiring leaders will join Gonzaga Law each fall, I asked her a few questions about her new role: Q: Susan, you became director of admissions after working the past five years at Scripps College and Eastern Washington University. What does that experience bring to your current role?

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enjoyed most in my previous positions, which include working with students, staff and faculty. Incorporating all those facets is a tremendous opportunity for me, plus I enjoy working with students who know what they want to do.

Q: Indeed, Gonzaga values a record of public service and an interest in using the law to serve the community.

What’s your definition of public service?

A: Public Service for me is multi-faceted which incorporates the values and philosophies in my life. It is a consistent value based ideology that should be done on an everyday basis. It allows you to be a good person and to help others. That said, public service comes in all shapes and sizes. No matter what profession or background an applicant is from, they have an ability to demonstrate that kind of commitment.

Q: Can you give an example of an applicant that you’ve evaluated recently that possessed those qualities?

A: There are lots of applicants who possess those qualities. Most applicants specify public service events that have influenced their lives and have fostered a desire to continue in that role through the field of law.

Q: As the new Director of Admissions what changes, if any, do you have proposed to the admission process?

A: It’s important to note that we have a committee structure and that many decisions about admissions have to be made together through the committee. However, I am currently in the process of evaluating many processes in the Admissions Office, including the recruitment plan, and necessary adjustments will be made.

Q: What are the common mistakes Gonzaga applicants make on the essay question?

A: Interestingly, many students don’t address why they want to go to law school. There should be a correlation between what you are doing now and why you want to go to law school. We want applicants to share with us things they value, and why they made the decision to apply to law school.

Q: What are those colleges that Gonzaga is targeting?

A: Generally, we are recruiting regionally, but the goal is to expand that reach. We are currently working on expanding our recruitment plan to a national level.

Q: When you’re looking at applications, which criteria stand out most: work experience, essays, LSAT scores, grades, or references?

A: When we look at applications we look at all the components. While it is important to look at LSAT scores and GPAs, it is also important to look at the applications in a holistic manner. Writing style and reference letters are really important because they speak to the applicant’s character. Admission decisions are rarely made on any one single component.

Q: Knowing what you know, if you were a prospective law school applicant, what would you do on your application to stand out?

A: Knowing that I had done my best in college and on the LSAT, I would place my emphasis on the essay and genuinely explain why I want to go to law school.

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Q: How important is it for applicants to attend the open houses that Gonzaga Law School holds? And could it help someone when the admissions committee is on the fence?

A: When an applicant is applying to schools, they obviously need to do their own homework about which school is going to fit them best. One of the best ways to do that is to either visit the campus or attend open house events. These events provide applicants a sense of our community and the school’s environment.

Open houses can also make an applicant feel more comfortable about attending law school and it could be a deciding factor in choosing Gonzaga.

Q: Does the school pay attention to who came to a particular event when we say yes or no to a file?

A: No, we don’t consider that in the admission decision. But are applicants who came to those events better prepared to put their best foot forward? Absolutely.

Q: If you had every applicant in one room, what advice would you share?

A: First, I would tell them that it is important to know why they want to go to law school. Don’t be afraid to show us what you care about. You are not just a resume—you will bring a unique perspective and set of talents to our community. Help us understand what you will bring. Second, I’ll tell them that the process of law school is stressful, but if they stick with it, things will become easier.

Q: Your position involves financial aid, as well.

What percentage of admitted Gonzaga Law applicants receive some sort of aid and who supplies it?

A: Choosing to attend law school is a major financial commitment. According to our Financial Services Senior Counselor, Joan Henning, 95% of the students attending Gonzaga School of Law receive some type of financial aid. The financial aid students receive consist of federal and private loans. Students may also be a recipient of a scholarship from Gonzaga or outside sources.

Q: How important is diversity among Gonzaga Law applicants and how is the admissions office promoting it?

A: Diversity is extremely important to Gonzaga University School of Law. We know how critical it is to diversify our student body and we recognize that we need to work towards this goal every year in the admissions process. This is one of the components that we will be reviewing in our recruitment plan and assess how we can best meet our goal of furthering diversity in the student body.

Q: Finally, Why Gonzaga?

A: Our admissions office works hard to increase the breadth and depth of the incoming class. Part of our mission is to develop outstanding leaders who will contribute to the well-being of society. Uniquely, Gonzaga’s alumni, faculty and staff have a strong connection with the students. Gonzaga University School of Law is a special place filled with an abundance of opportunities.

IN MEMORIAM Joseph N. Behrens ’40, passed away in Seattle on August 15 at the age of 94. He graduated from Gonzaga grade school, High School, University and Law School.

He enjoyed a good joke, classical music, a good party and traveling. Survivors include his daughter Judith Martin; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Kenneth A. Bell, ’50, age 90, passed away November 23. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lola in 1999, and his son, Arthur in 2003. He is survived by his daughter, Elizabeth Gnaedinger, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Kenneth maintained his own law office in Spokane for nearly 30 years.

Philip S. Brooke, Jr. ’47, age 86, passed away November 17. Philip received his Law Degree from Gonzaga University and started his law practice in Spokane in 1947.

Donald J. Crawford, ’52, age 81 passed away January 27, 2005.

Paul Doumit, ’84, age 46, passed away August 10.

He drowned saving the lives of his son and nephew off the coast of Washington. An attorney, he practiced in Cathlamet and Olympia for many years and had lived in both places. In the early 1980s he worked for several years in the attorney general’s office. Paul was a member of the American Bar Association, Gonzaga Alumni and the United Cook Inlet Drift Association. He is survived by his widow Mary Cyr. Fielding H. Ficklen ’47, age 98, passed away January 26. Mr. Ficklen enjoyed playing golf and was a member of the Manito Golf and Country Club; he also enjoyed watching sports, especially the Atlanta Braves. Survivors include numerous nieces, nephews, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

James D. Horton, ’68, age 63, passed away December 26. Mr. Horton graduated from Gonzaga University’s Law School in 1968. After graduation he worked for Clark County Prosecuting Attorneys Office. After leaving the Prosecuting office he opened his own practice in Vancouver Washington. Survivors include his wife Lorena and his daughter Stacey Purtzer.

Philip A. Lefler, Sr., ’68, age 70, passed away September 26. Mr. Lefler attended North Central High School

and graduated from Gonzaga Law School. He served in the Army Reserves and retired after achieving the rank of captain. Survivors include six sons, his mother, a brother, 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

James C. Lynch, ’54, age 78, passed away January 14. Mr. Lynch graduated from Gonzaga University Law School and settled in Wenatchee in 1954. He worked as a deputy prosecutor before going into private practice. Jim Lynch also had a successful political career, having served as Mayor of Wenatchee for 16 years. He is survived by his wife, Grace.

Donald W. Moore, ’53, age 87, passed away June 8.

Donald graduated in 1953 from Gonzaga University School of Law. He moved to Clarkston Washington and opened his own practice shortly after graduation. In 1955 he was elected prosecuting attorney and served for 12 years. He also served a term as president of the Washington State Prosecuting Attorneys Association. He was appointed to fill a vacancy as a district court judge; he served two terms before his retirement in 1988.

Ralph W. Nelson, ’43, age 90, passed away December 29. Mr. Nelson graduated from the University of Idaho and Gonzaga Law School. He enjoyed sports and traveled to dozens of high school and college football and basketball games and state tournaments.

Charles I. Palmerton, ’52, of Seattle passed away October 26th at the age of 77. Chuck served in the U.S. Navy’s submarine force during World War II. After the war he attended Washington State University and Eastern Washington University. He graduated from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1952. He was a former vice president for PEMCO Insurance and a former vice president and general manager for Unigard Insurance. He was widely recognized as one of the insurance industry’s experts in complex claims issues. He was a founder of the Washington Guaranty Association, which protects the public from insolvency losses. He also served on numerous local, regional and national committees and insurance organizations throughout his 50 year career. For many years he served as a member of the Law School Board of Advisors. Chuck loved the outdoors. He liked to travel, fish at remote lakes in Northern British Columbia, golf and torment U of W graduates with WSU Crimson and Grey decorations at various functions and events he organized. Chuck is survived by wife Helen K. Ward Palmerton.

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Howard E. Phillips, ’34, age 97, passed away November 30. Howard received his law degree from Gonzaga University in 1934 and opened his own firm in his hometown of Odessa Washington. He helped establish the Odessa Veteran’s Memorial Hospital, one of the first rural hospitals in the state.

Kermit M. Rudolf, ’51, age 85, passed away on August 4. Kerm grew up in Cheney graduating from Cheney High School in 1935 as class valedictorian. He earned his journalism degree from Northwestern University in 1939, and worked as a reporter for the Decatur (Illinois) Herald. He spent four years in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, and then worked his way through law school as a reporter for the Spokesman Review. He graduated from Gonzaga School of Law in 1951 and opened a practice here in Spokane, which lasted more than 40 years. In 1970 Kerm began his professional association with Gonzaga when, as a partner in the general practice law firm of Dellwo, Rudolf and Grant, he became the university’s corporation counsel on an as-needed basis. On January 1, 1988, Kerm left private practice to become Gonzaga’s first in-house corporation counsel, a position he served until his retirement in December 1993. Kerm and his wife Fran have been major benefactors of the university, the Law School, and the Jundt Art Museum. An avid amateur athlete, Kerm was very competitive, and enjoyed tennis, golf and racquetball, games he played well into his 80s. Gonzaga’s Rudolf Fitness Center, which opened in March 2003, is a tribute to Kerm from his family. Kerm and his wife Fran have six children.

Edward Shaw ’53, age 81, passed away February 7. He was a private attorney for 50 years, retiring in 2004. He was a member of the Washington State Bar Association, the Spokane County Bar Association and Ducks Unlimited. He enjoyed hunting and fishing. Survivors include two daughters, Laurie Elberson of Ketchikan, AK, and Ellen Kirschbaum of Spokane; a son, John Shaw of Enterprise, AK; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Richard A. Staeheli, ’68, age 61, passed away July 9. He was a lifelong resident of Spokane. He graduated from Sacred Heart Grade School, Gonzaga Prep, Gonzaga Univer-

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sity and Gonzaga Law School. He worked for the Forest Service for six years and as an IRS attorney for 13 years.

He was in private practice for 20 years and Of Counsel with Paine Hamblen for the last four years. Mr. Staeheli was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Rotary 21, Spokane Bar Association, a life member of the NRA, and served on the board of directors for the Salvation Army and Camp Fire, and was a founding contributor for United Airlines Fantasy Flight. Survivors include his wife of 35 years, Janice; three daughters, a brother, a sister and five grandchildren.

Douglas B. Steier, ’94, age 35, died suddenly June 2.

Doug graduated from Gonzaga Law School in 1994 and was the editor of the Law Review. He had his own law practice in Fort Myers, Florida for the past nine years.

Doug is survived by his wife Tracey (Knight) Steier and his son Graham.

James R. Triesch, ’41, age 87, passed away in Seattle on October 15. James served in the Army Air Force during World War II. Mr. Triesch received his law degree from Gonzaga while attending night school. Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Marian; one son, two daughters and six grandchildren.

Shirley Lee Wingate, ’85, passed away October 16.

Shirley graduated from Gonzaga Law School in 1985. She taught school for 20 years in Texas, and was the past city attorney for Texas City. At the time of her death she had her own private practice. Survivors include her sister, brother and numerous nieces and nephews.

Ron Zobel, ’78, age 60, passed away January 26. Mr. Zobel graduated from Gonzaga University Law School magna cum laude, and was editor-in-chief of the Law Review.

After graduation, Ron moved to Alaska and clerked for the Honorable James Von der Heydt, Chief Judge of the US District Court for Alaska for two years. He went into private practice in Alaska in 1981 and became an assistant attorney general for the state in 1988. He is survived by his wife Patricia (Penny) ’79 and son Wade.

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