From the President

• Citation: Vol. 28 No. 4 Pg. 3
• Publication year: 2005
• Pages: 3
• Year: 2005
• topic: Business of Law

Wyoming Bar Journal 2005.

Vol. 28, No. 4 #3 (August 2005). FROM THE PRESIDENT

WYOMING LAWYER
August 2005/Vol. XXVIII, No. 4

FROM THE PRESIDENT . . .

By Mark W Harris

As Time Goes By...

The Wyoming State Bar family suffered a great loss with the death of Gerald R. Mason. Gerry served as Bar President during the second year of my term as Bar Commissioner (1995 - 1996).

Like everyone else, I have a Gerald Mason story.

At the beginning of one particular Board meeting, Gerry announced he needed two volunteers for a team building exercise (my words, not his). He promptly recruited Judge Roberta Coates and Joel Vincent to "volunteer." I am, to this day, amazed at his ability to single-handedly institute the select service volunteer program in the Bar. In any event, Gerry announced that his volunteers were to engage in a boat race. He explained to all of us that the rules were very simple: The entrants were to blow two small, plastic toy boats across the length of a baking pan filled with about three to four inches of water. The first one to the other side wins. Simple.

With the drama of a ringleader at a circus, Gerry called his volunteers forward to a table on whence the "ocean" and its vessels were located. He then called the regatta watchers to gather round for a close view of the sloops...