Bar News

• Publication year: 2004
• Pages: 4

33 Colo.Law. 11 Colorado Lawyer 2004.

2004, August, Pg. 4. Bar News

Vol. 33, No. 8, Pg. 11

The Colorado Lawyer
August 2004
Vol. 33, No. 8 [Page 4]

Bar News
Bar News
by Leona Martinez

PUEBLO COUNTY BAR SALUTES LONG-STANDING ATTORNEYS

The Pueblo County Bar Association ("PCBA") held its Annual Dinner Meeting on June 18, 2004. Twenty-six attorneys were honored for their forty- or fifty-year legal careers. To provide a bit of perspective on life, the times, and the world, here is a snippet of history of the years 1954 and 1964, respectively, when the PCBA honorees first became licensed to practice law

1954 - A Look Back: Dwight D. Eisenhower was the thirty-fourth President of the United States. He served from 1953 to 1961. He was the first U.S. President to ride in a helicopter while President. In 1954, the first nuclear-powered submarine, the U.S. Nautilus, was completed The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously banned racial segregation in public schools in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and the airwaves were inundated with the public "Joe McCarthy Hearings." The vaccine against poliomyelitis, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, was first given to children in 1954, the same year the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was issued for the discovery that poliomyelitis viruses grow in tissues. The Oscar for Best Picture of the Year went to "On the Waterfront" and the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ernest Hemingway for his "mastery of the art of narrative," exemplified in The Old Man and the Sea

These PCBA-honored members were licensed to practice law in 1954: W.C. Kettelkamp; Matthew J. Kikel; William F. Mattoon; R.J. Patrick O'Callaghan; Richard D. Robb; Louis J. Stuart; Robert N. Trunk; Dale P. Tursi; and Joseph A. Vento.

1964 - A Look Back: The U.S. President in 1964 was Lyndon B Johnson. The thirty-sixth President served from November 1963 to January 1969. In 1964, Johnson won the presidency by 61 percent of the vote, the widest popular margin in American history. The Warren Report was issued by the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy in 1964, concluding that accused assailant Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution, authorizing military action in Southeast Asia, was passed in 1964. The Beatles appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964 and "Dr. Strangelove" won the Oscar for Best...