MBA / FEATURE
Council of Past Presidents
responses to the questions posed by itself, he offers yet again to serve as a the interrogators. All of us left that “witness to history” to give audiences By Marc Robert Steinberg, Esq., program MBA Council of Past Presidents with a sense of what it was Chair of today the benefit of his personal like to have actually sat in the same recollections and experiences of that room with Herman Goering. pivotal event place in n Tuesday, April 26, 2013, tradition that has gone on for many involved, workwhich for thetook common good, yearsAlthough particNuremberg 1946.to having Lisan event took place at the to ensure Dr. the Sakheim’s continuity of and one day,inwe1945 lookand forward ipation in the Nuremberg Trials was tening tous him speak and watching his Montgomery Bar Association leadership, events and collegiality that you join at the table. 68 years from hisasperspective that lacked wide notoriety, presentation was a once in a lifetime mark ourago, Association the premier but remained an important meeting barseems association in the it as if they justCommonwealth. occurred. Dr. opportunity. Rarely do we get to learn that occurs usually once a year without President Troyforesight asked forduring and was Sakheim had the about history firsthand from one of its fanfare or trumpets blaring. Together given the to advice collective the trials keepand a diary whichwisdom he participants. under our one roof, a crowd of three of those past presidents assembled. admitted enabled him to relate hisHe George Sakheim’s 1 ½ hour ladies and eighteen gentlemen of took some time to explain all ofmany, the experiences to his audiences, presentation on October 22nd was varying ages, but with one shared technological advances the Bar was many years later. riveting. He gave personal and direct experience, met to consider the state of uponhis and the with manythe affinity embarking Following work insights to events that we have all just the Montgomery Bar Association. relationshipsTrials, established to provide our Nuremberg Dr. Sakheim read in history books. He had photoAt the invitation of President Paul membership with an array of benefits returned to Columbia University and graphs, documents and other exhibits Troy, and with the current Bar leaders to make ourearned membership worth ultimately his PhDdollars in Clinical from his time spent in the military and attendance, the Council of across Past spending. And as He importantly, Psychology in just 1954. is retired the at the trials and his power point presenainpersonal account of sitting Presidents of the Montgomery Bar dinner provided another opportunity now and lives with his wife in Lower the table from Goering. He included tation was especially effective. For all Association convened to where for what the Bar does best. It brought Gwynedd Township. However, detailed observations of share Goering’s of the MBA members who attended the the association has been,as and listen together a group of friends to whenever the opportunity presents physical characteristics well as his CLE, it was time very well spent. to our President explain where we share a night of camaraderie at the are headed into the future. This is a Montgomery Bar Association. Get
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