Class Note 1964
Issue
September-October 2021
In our last class column we asked classmates in the legal profession what excited them and what they were proudest of in their careers.
Tom Clark wrote back that in addition to serving as a trial lawyer, he had used his legal experience in politics and in a variety of community volunteer activities. His memoirs will include among other activities his time as a state legislator, council to the speaker, and chairman of a board focused on advocacy for the handicapped. Tom also found time to coach two championship boys soccer teams and serve as president of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford, Connecticut. He loved his work on the courtroom stage, believing it to be like “putting on a play.” Tom writes that, “Like any good play, the object is to find the truth, to ask the jury to accept our understanding of that truth.” He was “writer, director, actor, and critic of the play all at the same time.” Tom won a standing ovation and sizable award for his client when he creatively introduced a violinist to play in court a concerto that his injured client could no longer perform.
Randolph Stayin currently is vice chairman of the International Trade Commission (ITC). He writes that when arguing many cases before the ITC he was particularly happy to “save companies and their workers from the devastation of unfairly traded imports from China and other countries.”
Jim Latham was general counsel for the Sheraton Corp. during itsglobal expansion. He traveled throughout the world negotiating its contractual relationships. Among other adventures, he tells of opening the first foreign-run hotel in China, being held at gunpoint in Lagos, and having a witness to an arbitration proceeding kidnapped by terrorists in Beirut. To not let his guard down in retirement, he helps mediate issues between released prisoners and their families.
Next time…UFOs! I’m a curious skeptic. This is a call to all of our physics majors and career scientists to send in their views. Now that we have been told that the saucers, Tic Tacs, and flying triangles are real, I can divulge my otherworldly experience one night during junior year while hiking to Harris Cabin. Stay tuned!
—Jay Evans, 512 Winterberry Lane, Duxbury, MA 02332; gjevans222@gmail.com
Tom Clark wrote back that in addition to serving as a trial lawyer, he had used his legal experience in politics and in a variety of community volunteer activities. His memoirs will include among other activities his time as a state legislator, council to the speaker, and chairman of a board focused on advocacy for the handicapped. Tom also found time to coach two championship boys soccer teams and serve as president of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford, Connecticut. He loved his work on the courtroom stage, believing it to be like “putting on a play.” Tom writes that, “Like any good play, the object is to find the truth, to ask the jury to accept our understanding of that truth.” He was “writer, director, actor, and critic of the play all at the same time.” Tom won a standing ovation and sizable award for his client when he creatively introduced a violinist to play in court a concerto that his injured client could no longer perform.
Randolph Stayin currently is vice chairman of the International Trade Commission (ITC). He writes that when arguing many cases before the ITC he was particularly happy to “save companies and their workers from the devastation of unfairly traded imports from China and other countries.”
Jim Latham was general counsel for the Sheraton Corp. during itsglobal expansion. He traveled throughout the world negotiating its contractual relationships. Among other adventures, he tells of opening the first foreign-run hotel in China, being held at gunpoint in Lagos, and having a witness to an arbitration proceeding kidnapped by terrorists in Beirut. To not let his guard down in retirement, he helps mediate issues between released prisoners and their families.
Next time…UFOs! I’m a curious skeptic. This is a call to all of our physics majors and career scientists to send in their views. Now that we have been told that the saucers, Tic Tacs, and flying triangles are real, I can divulge my otherworldly experience one night during junior year while hiking to Harris Cabin. Stay tuned!
—Jay Evans, 512 Winterberry Lane, Duxbury, MA 02332; gjevans222@gmail.com