The WSBA honors two classes of 50-year members at T-Mobile Park
BY WSBA STAFF
On Aug. 25, about 60 WSBA members came to be honored for the achievement of practicing law for 50 years. Representing a combined 3,000 years of service to the public and the legal profession, the 50-year members celebrated their achievement at T-Mobile Park in Seattle.
The celebration was held for members who joined the Bar in 1971 as well as 1970, as the latter group was unable to attend a celebration in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions. All attendees were asked to wear masks and provide proof of vaccination prior to entry, in line with recent orders by the Washington Supreme Court.
Speakers such as Washington Supreme Court Chief Justice Steven C. González, Seattle Mariners Executive Vice President and General Counsel Fred Rivera, and then-WSBA President Kyle Sciuchetti praised the members for their commitment and spoke of their many accomplishments over the past five decades. Members of the Board of Governors were also in attendance, including then-President-Elect Judge Brian Tollefson (Ret.), District 8 Governor Brent Williams-Ruth, District 10 Governor Tom McBride, and At-Large Governor-Elect Jordan Couch; as well as WSBA staff and members of the executive leadership team.
(Find the full list of 1970 50-year members below.)
“While I may not have been practicing law for 50 years, the one thing we all know is that change is a constant, in our society and in our profession,” Sciuchetti said. “But, one thing that I believe hasn’t changed is our commitment to maintaining a noble profession—one founded on serving the public—a profession we can remain proud of for many anniversaries to come.”
The graduating class of each year provides a snapshot of history and, over time, a window into the progress made in both the legal profession and society. This year marked the first time in several years that women lawyers were in attendance at the 50-year luncheon.
Special recognition was given to Justice Faith Ireland (Ret.), a 15-year superior court judge who later served as a Washington Supreme Court justice from 1999-2005; and Carole Coe-Hauskins, an administrator and chief labor negotiator for a public electrical utility who also provided legal services to federal prison inmates before going into private practice.
“The Bar has a rich history and you are all a part of that history. Looking back, one has to appreciate the founders of our great state Bar, and their vision for our profession in this state,” Sciuchetti said.
WHAT HAPPENED IN 1971?
IN THE NEWS
- The Nasdaq stock exchange is founded in New York City.
- The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules that busing of students can be ordered to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
- The Pentagon Papers are published.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- NASA’s Mariner 9 probe becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet (Mars).
- The controversial Stanford Prison Experiment is conducted by Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo.
- The first floppy disks, 8 inches in diameter, become commercially available.
ARTS & CULTURE
- The television show All in the Family airs on CBS.
- Marvin Gaye’s 11th album What’s Going On is released.
- Legendary jazz musician Louis Armstrong dies at age 69.
- Walt Disney World opens in Florida.
STATE HISTORY
- The Evergreen State College opens in Olympia.
- D.B. Cooper parachutes out of a skyjacked airplane over southwest Washington with $200,000 in ransom money.
- Starbucks opens its first store.
AT THE WSBA
- The WSBA launches its statewide Lawyer Referral Service—the third of its kind in the nation—in an effort to “make legal services readily available to all.”
- The WSBA Board of Governors approves a new Code of Professional Responsibility, which replaces the 50-year-old Canons of Ethics.
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FULL CLASS LIST OF 50-YEAR MEMBERS
Some honorees could not attend this year’s celebration and are therefore not pictured above. The full list of 50-year members in each class is shown below.
1970 Class
David Allen
Steven Whitney Anderson
Thomas Lennard Anderson
J. Richard Aramburu
Edward McDuff Archibald
Richard Michael Barney Jr.
Donald Macneil Barton
Stephen R. Black
Robert Stewart Bock
Thomas L. Boeder
Werner Boettcher
Richard Thurman Brothers
Charles Sheffield Burdell Jr.
Terrence A. Carroll
Bruce Clement
Gerald L. Coe
Stephen Andrew Cohen
John Gordon Cooper
Robert E. Corlett
Curtis John Coyne
Gary Michael Cuillier
Gregory Raymond Dallaire
Robert R. Davis Jr.
David James DeLaittre
Michael Doezie
Edward Leonard Douglas Jr.
Philip Wickstrand Dufford
John Stephan Ebel
Stephen Charles Ellis
Stephen Kerr Eugster
Stephen Michael Gaddis
David L. Garrison
William K. Goodwin
David Douglass Gould
Jeffrey Frank Hale
William Leary Halpin
Jerold W. Heller
Stuart Alan Heller
Dennis Paul Helmick
John Kent Hoerster
Everett Allen Holum
Hon. Faith Ireland
Bartholomew George Irwin
Dillon Edward Jackson
Gary E. Jacobson
John Tony John
Hon. James Martin Johnson
Matthew Ryan Kenney
Glenn R. Kessel
Jan Charles Kielpinski
Ronald Clarke Kinsey Jr.
John C. Kouklis
Peter Stephen Lewicki
Oscar Yale Lewis Jr.
Roger B. Ley
Donald L. Logerwell
David James Manger
George William Martin Jr.
Robert Samuel McConnell
Thomas Owen McElmeel
William Sargent McGonagle
Kent Millikan
George Richard Morry
David William Murdach
James Austin Nelson
Nicholas Newman
G. Kenneth O’Mhuan
David Harding Oswald
Joel Hathaway Paget
James Robert Pair
Darrel Lee Peeples
Edward W. Pettigrew
Harry Bill Platis
Steven H. Pond
David W. Robinson
Carl Francis Roehl Jr.
Charles F. Secrest
Charles Laurence Senn
Thomas Ernest Sheldon
David M. ‘Mac’ Shelton
David L. Shorett
Marilyn Dean Sloan
Gerald A. Smith
John Joseph Soltys
John Murray Steel
Craig Steven Sternberg
Jerry D. Talbott
Hon. Michael Edward Taylor
James Robert Uhlir
Carleton Barnes Waldrop
Robert John Walerius
James Patrick Walsh
M. Fred Weedon Jr.
Robert Dean Welden
Gordon W. Wilcox
Wayne L. Williams
T. Reinhard G. ‘Ron’ Wolff
Kirk Eugene Youngman
Jay Henry Zulauf
1971 Class
Alan Alhadeff
John Aslin
Samuel Ervin Baker Jr.
Hugh Frederick Bangasser
William Vance Baumgartner
Joel Benoliel
Keith Mason Black
Frederick Ross Boundy
Patrick Leonard Brock
Thomas Nelson Bucknell Jr.
Jack Ross Burns
Ronald Ray Carpenter
Jess Gregory Casey
Charles Ron Chatburn
Daniel N. Clark
Carole V. Coe-Hauskins
Dennis W. Cooper
Michael Stewart Courtnage
Larry Jerome Couture
Gary Arnold Dahlke
Joseph P. Dawson
Ronald P. Douglas
C. Scott East
Paul D. Edmondson
Douglas B. M. Ehlke
Charles R. Ekberg
Richard David Emery
James Carl Falconer
Harry Burt Fay III
Paul S. Fenton
Ronald Alan Franz
Alan Joel Gardner
Robin R. Gaukroger
Guy Myers Glenn
Ernest D. Greco
Thomas Huber Grimm
Lawrence Burlison Hannah
Arthur Washington Harrigan Jr.
Clayton Francis Harrington Jr.
William Edward Holt
Mark Mason Hough
Michael Louis Jacobs
Michael E. Jones
Anthony J. Karrat
Frederick Allan Kaseburg
Kenyon P. Kellogg Jr.
Hon. David Mark Kenworthy
Alan R. Krebs
Brian Jay Kremen
Terry L. Kukuk
Ronald Eugene Lee
Larry Carl Leonardson
William Ralph Levinson
Chi-Dooh Li
Henry E. Lippek
Lawrence Lee Longfelder
Robert Hopkins Madden
Gail G. Maurer
William Ray McCann
David Stuart McEachran
Richard Leslie McKinney
Robert Arthur McSorley
Morgan J. Mercer
Leonard Allen Miller
Eugene Melvin Moen
D. Bruce Morgan
William Earle Morgan
Charles Paul Nomellini
Blair Frederick Paul
Stevan David Phillips
Dale W. Read Jr.
William D. Rives
Ralph John Rodamaker
David Wharry Schiffrin
Michael Elliot Schwab
Hon. Edward Francis Shea
Karin Peterson Sheldon
Paul Michael Silver
Edward Robert Skone
Thomas M. Smith
Joe L. Snyder
Alan Charles Stay
Robert Inlow Stier
James Jay Stonier
Douglas Frank Strandberg
Rex B. Stratton
David B. Strong
F. Lawrence Taylor Jr.
William W. Treverton
William R. Trippett
James Lawrence Varnell
Karl Leslie Wadsack
Rodney Jay Waldbaum
John Ingram Weston Jr.
Hon. Robert Hamilton Whaley
Harlan Gordon Wilder
Thomas Harding Wolfendale
Joe R. Woolett