FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 24, 2007
Contact: Stephanie Perry
Communications Specialist/Website Editor
206-733-5932; stephaniep@wsba.org
Washington State Bar Association Honors 50-Year Members
(SEATTLE) — Friends, families, and dignitaries turned out to pay tribute to 48 attorneys and judges who this year celebrate 50 years with the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA). In appreciation for their half-century of serving the public, WSBA President Stanley A. Bastian and the Board of Governors presented 50-year certificates and lapel pins to the members who joined the Bar in 1957. That was the year that Sputnik was launched, President Dwight D. Eisenhower began his second term, Elvis Presley's "All Shook Up" and "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" topped the music charts, and the first production Boeing 707 rolled out in Renton.
Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerry L. Alexander made brief remarks honoring the 50-year members. WSBA President Bastian presented a retrospective look at historical events of 1957, the year the award recipients were first licensed to practice law in Washington.
In addition to the Chief Justice and members of the class of 1957, dignitaries in attendance included Senior United States District Court Judge Justin L. Quackenbush and former WSBA presidents Dale L. Carlisle, Stephen DeForest, J. Richard Manning, and Robert Redman. After the presentation of certificates and lapel pins by members of the WSBA Board of Governors, the chair of the WSBA Senior Lawyers Section, Jerome Jager, gave a brief address. The luncheon concluded with closing remarks by President Bastian.
The complete list of 50-year members is given below.
Mr. Thomas Conley Adams Jr., Lacey
Mr. David Henry Allard, Evans, GA
The Honorable Eugene Carroll Anderson, Anacortes
Mr. William James Barker, Tacoma
Mr. William T. Beeks Jr., Seattle
Mr. Ernest A. Bentley Jr., Bellingham
Mr. Donald Hay Brazier Jr., Olympia
Mr. Ralph M. Bremer, Lake Forest Park
Mr. James David Burns, Seattle
Mr. Donald Aubrey Cable, Seattle
Mr. James Reber Callaghan, Medina
Mr. Frank Richard Chastek, Spokane
The Honorable Milton Richard Cox, Vancouver
Mr. James Richard Cunningham, Olympia
Mr. Julian Correll Dewell, Seattle
Mr. William Hudson Dunn Jr., Vancouver
Mr. Frank L. Farrar, Britton, SD
Mr. Thomas Stephen Foley, Washington, DC
Mr. James B. Gober, Chehalis
Mr. Thomas Jerome Greenan, Seattle
Mr. Bernard D. Greene, Seattle
Mr. Lewis Guterson, Bellevue
The Honorable Terence Hanley, Gig Harbor
Mr. Bruce A. Harlow, Poulsbo
The Honorable Richard M. Ishikawa, Seattle
Mr. Jerome L. Jager, Seattle
Mr. Donald Louis Johnson, Bellevue
Mr. Charles J. Keever, Honolulu, HI
Mr. James Edward Kennedy, Bellevue
Mr. Arthur Timothy Lane, Seattle
Mr. Raymond Jourdan Lee, Livingston, TX
Mr. George Sanfrid Lundin, Seattle
Mr. William Hillyer Mays, Gig Harbor
Mr. C. Robert Ogden, Spokane
The Honorable Frank W. Payne, Federal Way
Mr. John Richard Praeger, Seattle
The Honorable Justin L. Quackenbush, Spokane
Mr. Richard Que Quigley, Kennewick
Mr. Robert R. Redman, Yakima
Mr. Theodore Archie Roy, Yakima
Mr. Payton Smith, Seattle
Mr. John Raymond Sullivan, Rockport
Mr. Fredric Tausend, Seattle
Mr. Donald Herbert Thompson, Tacoma
Mr. Robert H. Thompson, Seattle
Mr. Harold F. Vhugen, Seattle
Mr. Robert K. Waitt, Sammamish
Mr. Robert M. Westberg, San Francisco, CA
About the Washington State Bar Association
The WSBA is part of the judicial branch, exercising a governmental function authorized by the Washington State Supreme Court to license the state's 30,850 lawyers. The WSBA both regulates lawyers under the authority of the Court and serves its members as a professional association — all without public funding. As a regulatory agency, the WSBA administers the bar admission process, including the bar exam; provides record-keeping and licensing functions; and administers the lawyer-discipline system. As a professional association, the WSBA provides continuing legal education for attorneys, in addition to numerous other educational and member-service activities.
The governance of the WSBA is vested in its 14-person Board of Governors. There are three governors from the seventh congressional district; one from each of the other eight districts; and three at-large
members, one of whom represents the Young Lawyers Division. The 2007-2008 president is Stanley A. Bastian, of Wenatchee. The 2007-2008 president-elect is Mark A. Johnson, of Seattle, and the immediate past-president is Ellen Conedera Dial, of Seattle. The Board meets regularly (every six weeks) at various locations around the state, and its meetings are open to the public. Much of the work of the Bar is carried out through 23 standing committees; 26 sections; and a Young Lawyers Division, with its many committees.
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