Class Note 1963
Mar - Apr 2014
On September 28, 2006, Bill Subin received a call that would dominate his life for the next three years and make him a folk hero among law enforcement departments. A former Atlantic City, New Jersey, prosecutor, Bill was offered a high-profile case so emotion-laded that it would draw the attention of ABC TV’s 20/20 prior to its even being tried. Now Bill has written a book that details his methods, anguish, and successful verdict for his client, New Jersey trooper Robert Higbee, on trial for vehicular homicide while chasing a speeder in Cape May County’s Upper Township. The book, whose title Closing the Gap refers to the protocol officers must use in activating lights and siren, can be purchased on Amazon or by contacting Bill at dwsubinlaw@comcast.com. It is a compelling narrative that delves into the character and motives of the various players in the case and how Bill used expert witnesses and testimony from his client to persuade the jury of Higbee’s innocence.
Gerry Mark has had an amazing professional life, and he is still at it but in a less stressful way. “I get agitated when I have to spend four hours on a golf course,” Gerry says. He runs a construction consulting business with architects, engineers and general contractors throughout the state of Florida. Earlier Gerry was vice president of the international division of A.M. Kinney architecture and engineering in New York City. He and his colleagues were locked in a hotel in Lagos, Nigeria, when the prime minister was assassinated and stranded during a hurricane in Central America. Gerry went local when his kids—he’s got six children and nine grandchildren—started calling him “uncle.” He and Barbara have been married 22 years.
Larry Chapman cannot get enough of golf, which he plays year round in the temperate climate of Loudon, Tennessee, “an unrealized jewel” where he and Bobbie Wolverton retired. Larry flew all over the world as an Air Force captain and radar navigator on B-52 aircraft for seven years. He subsequently lived all over the country as sales manager for Procter & Gamble, Clorox and Nestle. Prior to retirement Larry ran a small private company that managed product stock on shelves of large retailers like Walmart and Target for companies such as Procter & Gamble, SmithKline Beecham and Abbott Laboratories. The field is called drug store and mass merchandizing.
Hunter Hicks loves to recall his fun times at the College and, as he says, “trying to stay out of trouble and in school.” After serving in Navy intelligence for two years he made the base golf team and still enjoys the game nearly year round in retirement in Bluffton, South Carolina, a short drive from Hilton Head. A native of Evanston, Illinois, Hunter worked in institutional sales and trading for William Blair and Blyth & Co. in Chicago. He travels a lot with Psi U brothers in the United States and overseas. He and Althea have three children and two grandchildren all ensconced in Denver, Colorado.
—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 1010, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com