1960s Class Notes
1960
Philip Vincent Moyles recently returned to his alma mater, Mount St. Mary’s University, in Emmitsburg, Md., to be inducted into the Dean’s Circle of Excellence. While at Mount St. Mary’s he participated in football, baseball, and Glee Club, worked on the newspaper, and was yearbook manager.
After graduation from the Law School, Moyles practiced in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits and in the State Courts of New York. His dedication to Mount St. Mary’s inspired him to create the Margaret E. and William P. Moyles Award for Excellence in Pre-Law Studies, given each year to the graduate who achieves academic excellence in the pre-law program. He resides in New York.
Rust E. Reid is listed in Best Lawyers 2015 in trusts and estates. He is of counsel with Thompson & Knight in Dallas, Tex., where he focuses his practice on estate planning, probate, and fiduciary administration.
Richard A. Silver recently chaired a mediation seminar for the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association where the Chief Justice of Connecticut was a principal speaker and 30 Connecticut Superior Court judges were in attendance. He plans to chair a seminar on medical malpractice at the Frank H. Netter, M.D. Medical School at Quinnipiac as well. Silver recently hosted Dean Paul Mahoney for a UVA Law alumni event at his home.
Silver is senior partner with Silver Golub & Teitell in Stamford, Conn., where he focuses his practice on litigation, medical malpractice, and personal injury cases.
1961
Judge Ronnie A. Yoder established the Yoder Scholarship in 2007 to advance the study of love as the center of Christian life and theology and explore love as a theme that unifies all religions. Students are invited to submit poems, music, essays, or other creative works that explore the recognition of a God of love. Once restricted to students at Virginia Theological Seminary, the scholarship is now open worldwide to the Anglican community.
1963
William Weidlich writes that his health prevented his attending his 50th reunion in 2013, but he hopes to someday return for a reunion for many reasons, among them seeing the new campus buildings.
1964
Walter M. Dickey reports that he has three grandchildren who are champion soccer players.
Ward Elliott retired in May after 45 years of teaching political science at Claremont McKenna College. He is working on a book on Shakespeare authorship and a new paper on 16 of Shakespeare’s early contemporaries and 25 early anonymous plays. Elliot notes, “Of dozens of possible pairings, only one could be a match: Marlowe and part of Henry VI, Part I. Shocker: Shakespeare’s vocabulary was no larger or richer than yours. His genius was not how many words he knew, but how he put them together.”
Edward J. Handler III is the executive chairman for The Bronx Project, Inc. Its pharmaceutical molecule C3 continues its promise as a platform for major inflammatory diseases, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s, and others. A study in non-human primates with chemically induced Parkinson’s was recently completed, with efficacy and safety resulting.
1965
Everette G. “Buddy” Allen Jr. and his wife, Ann Allen, will be honored as Philanthropists of the Year by the Central Virginia Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals on November 11, National Philanthropy Day. The Allens were nominated for their lifetime achievement in philanthropy by Randolph-Macon College, to which they have donated more than $3.7 million over the past 52 years.
Arland T. Stein recently became co-chair of the intellectual property practice at Hahn Loeser in Columbus, Ohio, where he is a partner focusing his practice on intellectual property and litigation. He prosecutes patents and trademarks and negotiates patent and trademark licenses before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and before foreign PTOs. He has tried a number of high-profile patent infringement cases and has been retained as appellate counsel in a number of appeals before the Federal Circuit.
1966
Boyd C. Campbell Jr. has been named by Best Lawyers 2015 Charlotte Lawyer of the Year in corporate compliance law and is listed in Best Lawyers 2015 in corporate compliance law, corporate law, and mergers & acquisitions law. He is counsel with McGuireWoods in Charlotte, N.C.
Guy Farmer II has been selected for inclusion in both Florida Super Lawyers 2014 and Chambers USA 2014 in employment and labor. He was also recognized in Best Lawyers 2015 in employment law-management, labor law-management, and litigation-labor and employment. He is of counsel with GrayRobinson in Jacksonville, Fla., where he is a member of the labor and employment group.
1967
Lucius H. Bracey Jr. is listed in Virginia Super Lawyers 2014 in estate planning and probate, tax, and estate and trust litigation. He has also been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers 2015 in trusts and estates. He is counsel with McGuireWoods in Charlottesville.
Gene Dahmen has been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers 2015 in family law. She is senior counsel with Verrill Dana in Boston, Mass.
William H. King Jr. is listed in Chambers USA 2014 for litigation: products liability-Virginia and in Virginia Super Lawyers 2014 in personal injury defense: products; business litigation; and civil litigation defense. He has also been listed in Best Lawyers 2015 in bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation, litigation-regulatory enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy), personal injury litigation-defendants, and product liability litigation-defendants. He is counsel with McGuireWoods in Richmond.
1968
William G. Broaddus is listed in Chambers USA 2014 in litigation: general commercial-Virginia. He was named in Virginia Super Lawyers 2014 in business litigation, appellate, and environmental litigation. He was named Best Lawyers 2015 Richmond Lawyer of the Year in litigation-municipal and selected for inclusion in appellate practice, bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation eminent domain and condemnation law, construction litigation, land use and zoning litigation, municipal litigation, and regulatory enforcement litigation. He is counsel with McGuireWoods in Richmond.
Allen C. Goolsby is co-author of Goolsby and Haas on Virginia Corporations, 5th Edition, published by LexisNexis (see In Print). This edition provides a comprehensive review of laws that govern stock corporations in Virginia and gives a fascinating picture of the complex balance of power between boards and shareholders. Goolsby is an expert in his subject. He oversaw the General Assembly’s overhaul of the Virginia Stock Corporation Act in the 1980s and has led the way on revisions since then.
His first book on this subject was published in 2002; this 5th and most recent edition was co-authored with Steven M. Haas ’04, a leading attorney in matters of corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. Goolsby has been a mentor to Haas. Though their time at the Law School was decades apart, both worked on the Virginia Law Review. Both were also influenced in important ways by the late Professor Michael P. Dooley. “The fingerprints of our dear friend and mentor, Mike Dooley, run throughout,” note the authors regarding the professor’s influence on the book.
Goolsby is special counsel at Hunton & Williams in Richmond, where he regularly represents clients in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and securities and finance matters. He is listed in Best Lawyers 2014 in corporate governance law and corporate law, Chambers USA 2014 in corporate governance and corporate M&A, and in Super Lawyers 2014 Top Attorneys in Virginia and West Virginia.
Harold “Hal” W. Mullis has been elected Chairman of the University of South Florida Board of Trustees. He is a founding member and president of Trenam Kemker in Tampa. He is a member of the corporate transactions practice group, and his practice areas include general corporate representation, mergers and acquisitions, tax controversies, and tax exempt and charitable organizations.
Rosewell Page III is listed in Chambers USA 2014 in litigation: general commercial-Virginia and in Virginia Super Lawyers 2014 in general litigation and health care. He has been selected for inclusion as well in Best Lawyers 2015 in commercial litigation, bet-the-company litigation, litigation-environmental, product liability, and personal injury litigation. He is counsel with McGuireWoods in Richmond.
1969
Jerry Buckley recently joined the board of directors of the Global Good Fund, a non-profit organization that supports the development of young leaders and entrepreneurs who are working on global social issues.
He is a founding partner of BuckleySandler in Washington, D.C., where he focuses his practice on assisting clients with business formation and acquisition, risk management, and matters involving federal and state regulations. He is one of the nation’s leading attorneys advising financial services companies.
Buckley will provide business expertise and strategic advice to the Global Good Fund as it transitions from a donor-driven model to one that draws revenue from services focused on leadership development of entrepreneurs. He will also help the fund establish connections with the Washington, D.C., business community. Buckley has been an informal mentor to Carrie Rich, the CEO and co-founder of the Global Good Fund, for more than a decade.
He is an adjunct associate professor of law at the Washington College of Law at American University. Buckley is listed in Super Lawyers 2014 in banking, consumer law, and administrative law and in Chambers USA 2014 as a senior statesman in consumer finance-compliance. He has been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers 2015 in banking and finance law, financial services regulation law, and litigation-banking and finance.
In the past five years, Michael Fox and his partner, Kerry Radcliffe, have traveled to the Galapagos Islands, China, Turkey, England, Thailand, Australia (twice), Peru, Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan. They’ve also gone on two civil rights tours, in 2012 and 2014—the first with Julian Bond, sponsored by UVA, and the second sponsored by the University of Washington—through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
Frederick A. Hodnett Jr. writes that he and his wife, Lyn, thoroughly enjoyed participating in his 45th Law School Reunion in May. “The Law School tour was particularly enlightening,” he writes, “since I had never had the opportunity to view the expanded facilities. Quite impressive!” They are proud grandparents to two beautiful granddaughters, Brenna Cameron, age 28 months, and Emery Katherine, 4 months. “What a special assignment to be a grandparent!”
Thomas G. Slater Jr. was appointed by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. He will serve a four-year term. Slater is special counsel with Hunton & Williams in Richmond, where he focuses his practice on complex litigation matters with emphasis on antitrust and intellectual property. He was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers 2015 in antitrust and corporate litigation.
