L a w George S. Cummins ’51 , of
Blackstone, Va., died on Nov. 5, 2007. He served in the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater with the First Marine Division. He served as a law‑ yer in Blackstone for 50 years, as commonwealth’s attorney and as a special prosecutor in the 11th Judicial Circuit. Raymond D. Coates ’53 (‘50A) , of Berlin, Md., died
on Jan. 27. He served as the state’s and county attorney for Worcester County and worked with his three sons and two daughters-in-law at the firm of Coates, Coates & Coates P.A. He founded the Berlin Little League and helped return organized football to the county. In 1996 the town of Berlin honored him for his
work with local sports pro‑ grams. Coates belonged to Phi Kappa Sigma. Clifford F. Malley II ’54 , of
Parkersburg, W.Va., died on Oct. 3, 2004. John S. Moremen ’57 ,
of Louisville, Ky., died on March 1. He served in the Marine Corps and earned three battle stars. He worked as an attorney for the Brown-Forman Corp. until his retirement as senior vice president, secretary and general counsel in 1989. He was director and treasurer of both the Filson Historical Society and the Louisville Ballet. He belonged to Beta Theta Pi.
Virginia Bumgardner Garrison ’75, of Staunton, Va., died Dec. 22, 2007. She was a mem‑ ber of the first class of women to graduate from the School of Law and served on the Law Council and the Alumni Board. She practiced in her father’s firm and later formed Garrison Law Offices with her son, Alan ’88. She was a member of the City of Staunton School Board and an officer and board member of the S.P.C.A. She sat on the board of directors of SunTrust Bank.
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New Law Council Members Eric A. Anderson ’82 is a managing director of Credit Suisse First Boston and U.S. head of real estate investment banking, based in New York. He joined CSFB in 2000, when the firm merged with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where he was a managing director and co-head of DLJ’s U.S. real estate group. Anderson was with Paine Webber Inc. and Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. Betsy Callicott Goodell ’80 previ‑ ously worked for Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan and later Delta Airlines Inc. She and her husband, Bill ’80, established the Jack Callicott ’49A Honor Scholarship in honor of her father on the occasion of his 50th class reunion. They donated funds to name a classroom in Lewis Hall. She has served on the Parents Council, as chair of the Law Annual Fund and as a Class Agent. Nathan V. “Pete” Hendricks ’66A, ’69 is a sole practitioner in Atlanta, specializing in the areas of land use, zoning and govern‑ ment permitting. He serves as a consultant and advisor to private sector developers and governmental entities, having most recently assisted in the areas of zoning and planning in the formation of the newly created cities in the metro-Atlanta area. A. J. “John” Huss ’65 recently retired as chairman of the board of The First National Bank Hudson (Wis.). Previously, he served as assistant general counsel for Horner Waldorf Corp. in Saint Paul, Minn., before entering the banking industry in 1977. He serves on the board of trustees of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Ill.
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Lesley Schless ’80 is of counsel with Day Pitney L.L.P., practicing in the firm’s trusts and estates group in the Greenwich, Conn., office. She clerked for Judge James Holden, U.S. District Court in Vermont, and worked in private practice with Duane Morris in Philadelphia, Williams Worrell in Norfolk and McGuire Woods in Richmond. She was an adjunct at T.C. Williams School of Law and worked as in-house counsel to the personal trust department of (then) Sovran Bank in Richmond.
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