Full Disclosure: The following list may contain educational institutes attended by THR, or someone.

Grade School - K - 6 - Jefferson Elementary, St. Joe MI Teacher 5th/6th grade apparently hated lawyers. Therefore Bill Crow and I are incorrigible but read a lot.

Junior High - St. Joe Jr.. High (old building) “The Rebel Years”. Yech. Tom Mix was killed in 7th grade in a car accident. So was Rory Beckman. Starting in Junior High, not a year went by that I didn’t personally know several people each year who were killed in auto accidents. (BTW, Tom Mix isn’t the cowboy Tom Mix; he was a part of a Native American family in St. Joe. We called people like them Indians. Now we would have to say Native American, or at least ask “Dot or Feather?” to confirm the nationality of “an Indian”, all because Columbus couldn’t tell an Apache from a Shiite.

High School - St. Joe High. At St. Joe, they figured out what the bottom of the barrel was and then they rated me a bit below that. While I was an avid reader, I was not an avid participant in collective groupthinks and therefore was incorrigible. Got arrested while in High School for wearing American Flag. Desecration. But remember, this was the town that arrested a cab driver for not wearing his hat while driving in St. Joe.

College: Arizona State University 1972-74. Well, I got into college. I tested well as a kid. My sister Jen went here for 5 years or so before she got married and started having kids. I stay long enough to get some fantastic grade point average (this was before grade inflation and even G.W. Bush got like a D+ average) and transferred to A-Squared, as it is written.

College, University of Michigan 1974-76 - Major in Latin (classical Greek as foreign language); LSA With Distinction. M.A.R.C. House 77-78. In the Law Quad, Medieval and Renaissance Collegium, in which I had to take a couple classes from Wilke and in writings of ministers of the good word. Betsy Runyan was also from St. Joe and she also lived there. Joe Hudson roomed with some spectacular soccer player and son of a shiek or some such. Candy and her roommate who sat around talking about great meals they had had.  If you have never lived in the N Section of the Law Quad, you really should try it. There’s a fireplace in the room for wine and cheese parties, and the architecture is awesome. Bill Braun of the 6-year medical program. Bill, what ever happened to you? Met Randy Jergensen in AA and about 10 years later the office he was with merged with the office I was with and then it all blew up. That’s another tale somewhere else in this spider’s web of a site we have here...

Upon graduating from the University of Michigan I began my studies of law at Notre Dame Law School, in Notre Dame, Indiana. (NOTE: Notre Dame is NOT in South Bend - it has its own zip code and Notre Dame is in Notre Dame, Indiana.)

I started there in 1976. That was the year Jimmy Carter was defeated by an actor named Ronald Regan.

While at Notre Dame I got to see Jimmy Carter, Ronald Regan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Walter Mondale, and some Supreme Court Justices. I would encourage anyone who gets the opportunity to see such public figures speak to do so. These guys are all very dynamic - even if you don’t like their political stand you have to be impressed with their way with words and crowds.

I met my future wife, Maureen, who was a student at St. Mary’s College, in Notre Dame, Indiana. Her sister was in law school with me and we met as Maureen attended some law school functions with her older sister, Peggy. I thought it was a hockey party, but maybe I am mistaken.

I have a page of some of my legal briefs over the years, and that page is here.
Here is a photo of my graduating law class. Click on the pic to see if I have any info on the person portrayed therein.

Did you know that a person can be convicted because a lot of people think he killed his wife? It’s true. There has to be opportunity and motive proven, of course, but who doesn’t have a motive to kill his wife? Look at Robert Blake or Oh Jay. Or Lizzie Borden for that matter. No one saw her kill anyone, but she was convicted just because she had an axe and that ax had blood on it and it was near the dear and recently passed. What kind of gulag do we live in? I love Hungarian foods, though. Did you know Zsa Zsa Gabor was Hungarian? That is why she was a bit heavy, I think. How can one be in Hungry without being hungry? Huh? Of course you can’t. Why are you arguing with yourself?