ALUMNI IN FOCUS
Bar Association
Honors Foursome
Four alumni were among those honored
in a memorial service by Northampton Bar Association last October. Clyde Teel ’29,
Nathan Reibman ’32, Herbert Fishbone
’41, and Gus Milides ’49 all passed away in 2005.
An English graduate, Teel began his practice in
1938 after completing graduate work at University
of Pennsylvania. Economics graduate and attorney
Karl Kline ’70 offered his eulogy. Teel died at age
97 on March 3.
Reibman, who also attended Penn, began his practice in 1935. An economics graduate, last year he had celebrated his 62nd wedding anniversary to wife Jeanette, a state representative and the first woman in Pennsylvania to serve a full term as state senator. Reibman died August 3 at age 94.
Milides, a biology graduate, dispensed free legal advice to those who could not afford it before the county offered a Legal Aid Society or public defender. Attorney Norman Seidel ’38, a government and law graduate who began practicing 10 years before Milides, commented on his career. Milides died on June 14 at age 76.
An economics graduate, Fishbone started his civil
and criminal law practice in 1950 after attending Cornell. He died at age 83 on March 29.
Also in attendance were Senior Judge James Hogan ’55, a liberal arts graduate, and Judge Robert Freedberg ’66, a government and law graduate who is president of Northampton Bar Association.
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