Frank Julian '82J.D., general counsel for Federated
Department Stores in Cincinnati, testified before the Senate Finance
Committee on the subject of Internet taxation. Earlier he testified
on the same subject before the Senate Commerce Committee and before
the House Judiciary Committee, plus he was a guest on C-SPAN's
Washington Journal and the Oliver North Show.
. . . The Arizona Republic profiled attorney Tim
Hogan '76J.D., executive director of Arizona's Center
for Law in the Public Interest, which has won lawsuits against
the state over unequal school construction financing, poor air
quality and inadequate mental health care. . . . The Rochester
Business Journal profiled psychiatrist John McIntyre
'63, chairman of Unity Health System's department of
psychiatry and behavioral health. He also teaches at the University
of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, maintains a part-time
private psychiatric practice and is a past president of the American
Psychiatric Association. . . . Attorney Joseph McGlynn
'55, who helped organize Saint Louis's first Saint Patrick's
Day Parade 33 years ago, is among the leaders of a project to
build an 18-foot-high, 60-foot-long granite wall on the side of
an old Irish Catholic church in the city that will commemorate
Irish immigrants' contributions to building Saint Louis. For $350
people can get their family name inscribed on the wall. . . .
The Palm Beach Post reported that Michael O'Hara
Sr. is the psychiatrist for a Florida woman who says
she gave in to unwanted advances from her parish priest and later
suffered a suicidal depression that led her to undergo electroshock
therapy. Several woman have come forward to report that the priest
made unwanted advances toward them during his 1978-1988 tenure
at Saint Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church in Palm Beach Gardens,
Florida. The paper said the priest has been working in Ireland
since 1997. . . . Alumnus and trustee Thomas Fischer '69
retired as managing partner of Arthur Andersen's Milwaukee
office for health reasons. He was already on medical leave and
scheduled to retire before the scandalous collapse of Houston-based
Enron Corporation, which dealt a huge blow to Arthur Andersen
as the company's auditor. . . . James McCoy '68 was
named chief medical officer for Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
and Advocate Medical Group in Park Ridge, Illinois, and chief
academic officer for Advocate Health Care. . . Carol (Lally)
Shields '79 captained the women's varsity basketball
team her senior year and became the first female athlete at Notre
Dame to win the Byron Kaneley Award for excellence in academics
by a varsity athlete. Today she and her husband, fellow ophthalmologist
Jerry Shields, are recognized as national experts on cancers of
the eye. They direct the oncology department at the Wills Eye
Hospital in Philadelphia, according to an article in the magazine
of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, from which
Carol Shields earned her M.D. in 1983. . . . The
Cincinnati Business Courier's profile of pediatrician
Thomas Holubeck '85 described how the doctor
was grazed by a bullet during the race riots that erupted in 2001
after a shooting by police in the city's Over-the-Rhine district.
It also said he continued to see patients at the free-clinic where
he works even as he was receiving chemotherapy for colon cancer.
He was diagnosed with the disease in September 2000. . . . The
St. Petersburg (Florida) Times told the story of
how Indiana Superior Court Judge Robert W. Lensing '59
got his Notre Dame class ring back earlier this year,
42 years it disappeared. It appears likely the ring was stolen
from his mother's house soon after his graduation. Unbeknownst
to Lensing, it turned up a few years later in a camper a man purchased.
The man meant to try to return the ring to its owner but forgot.
It was only rediscovered by his second wife recently in a jewelry
box. She insisted they try to locate its owner. They succeeded
with the help of Notre Dame officials, who traced the ring to
Lensing by the inscription, "R.W.L. 59." . . . The Connecticut
Law Tribune profiled attorney Richard T. Meehan Jr.
'70, who was defending Bridgeport Mayor Joseph P. Ganim
against federal corruption charges. The piece recalled how during
Meehan's undergrad days his folk-rock group won a competition
on a TV show hosted by Arthur Godfrey. Two of the judges, both
now deceased, were Irene Ryan (Granny on the The Beverley
Hillbillies) and Jim Backus (Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's
Island and the voice of Mister Magoo). . . . A.A.
"Al" Sommer '25, a Washington lawyer who served on the
SEC in the mid-1970s and was instrumental in the commission's
landmark decision to eliminate fixed-commission rates for stockbrokers,
died last January at age 77. After leaving the SEC, he was chairman
of a national accounting industry oversight board and vice chairman
of the National Association of Securities Dealers.
