Class Notes

Stan Eisenhammer, LA70, a partner with Hodges Loizzi, O’Fallon, Ill., received the Excellence in Pro Bono and Public Interest Service award from the federal judges of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Eisenhammer was honored for his work on the 2016 pro bono case Manuel v. City of Joliet, which was successfully appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

David Leeper, EN69, a retired engineer, is a volunteer science teacher at AzScienceLab.com and a volunteer reader for visually impaired individuals on a National Public Radio affiliate. During his career, his positions ranged from lab technician to technical vice president at AT&T Bell Labs, and he also worked for Bellcore, Motorola and Intel. Leeper holds 16 U.S. patents in telecom technology and has written for technical journals. He and his wife of 48 years live in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Elinda Fishman Kiss, LA69, moved to Deerfield Beach, Fla. She still teaches finance courses at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, primarily online.

James Schwartzman, LA67, an attorney with Stevens and Lee and the chair of the firm’s Ethics and Professional Responsibility Group, was elected president judge of the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline, which hears complaints against judges in the state. He and his wife, Nancy, and their children and grandchildren live in the western suburbs of Philadelphia.

Steven Bloomfield, LA67, and his firm, Bloomfield/Schon, were recognized by the state of Ohio for the renovation and repurposing of the Peters Cartridge Factory into a mixed-use community. It was the firm’s fifth major historic renovation project.

William J. Betz, LA65, has retired.

Robert Zaller, GR63, GR68, penned The Atom to Be Split: New and Selected Essays on Robinson Jeffers (Tor House Press, 2019); The Dresden Zoo, a poem with commentary about the firebombing of Dresden (Moonstone Press, 2019); and a new version of Euripides’ classic text that sharpens its themes for a modern audience, The Bacchae (Somerset Hall Press).

Reinhard A. “Bud” Wobus, LA62, retired last summer after 55 years teaching geology at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. A group of former students honored him by organizing a daylong technical session at the Geological Society of America’s 2021 annual meeting in Portland, Ore., in October.

Michael J. Kearney, EN62, enjoyed lunch recently with three fraternity brothers from WashU’s Beta Theta Pi chapter. Joining Kearney in Schaumburg, Ill., were John Jackson, BU62, Bill Kelley, LA62, and Gary Bayer, LA63.

Frank S. Thomas III, EN52, celebrated his 92nd birthday last July. His career included 30 years at Universal Match and McDonnell Douglas, then 28 years at First Financial Planners. Along the way, he sang with the Washington University Civic Chorus for about a dozen years, performing in Washington, D.C., and in New York City at Carnegie Hall. He and his wife live with their adult son, who is their caregiver.