Epilogue

Alan Clifford Hultman of Downers Grove, a past president of the DuPage County Bar Association, died Jan. 12 at age 81 in his Sarasota, Fla., home of a heart attack. He was of counsel to Hultman & Johnson.

A 1950 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law who had served in the Army in Japan during World War II, Mr. Hultman was a member of the ISBA Client Security Fund Board for several years and was its president from 1988 to 1990.

Also a former member of the ISBA Assembly and a Charter Fellow of the Illinois Bar Foundation, he was honored in 2000 as a Senior Counsellor. He served on the Supreme Court Character and Fitness Committee.

In addition to serving as DuPage County Bar president in 1974-75, Mr. Hultman was president of the Downers Grove Chamber of Commerce, chair of the village planning commission and a member of the Citizens National Bank board.

Retired Cook County judge Irving Norman died Jan. 29 at age 91 in his Chicago home. He retired from the bench in 1991 but was recalled to serve several more years.

A 1936 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, Mr. Norman was in private practice until his appointment to the circuit court in 1971. He was later elected and presided over trials in the Law Division for 20 years.

Among the cases he heard resulted in a $52 million verdict against the McDonald's Corp. in 1984. The plaintiff was represented by Wyoming trial lawyer Gerry Spence, who called Norman “the quintessential judge.”

Spence subsequently accepted Norman's invitation to speak to the annual luncheon of the Illinois Judges Association in December 1990 (see photo).

After leaving the bench, Mr. Norman was of counsel to Leonard M. Ring & Associates, and later, with the law firm of William J. Harte Ltd.

Retired Chicago patent lawyer Jack Axelrood, a resident of Wilmette, died Jan. 24 at age 83 in his home of liver cancer. Born in Romania, he was an Army Air Corps meteorologist in the Pacific during World War II, retiring as a captain.

Mr. Axelrood graduated in 1961 from The John Marshall Law School and represented Morton International in chemical patent, trademark, licensing and corporate matters until his retirement in 1993.

His charitable work included teaching English to Russian immigrants at The Ark, a Jewish social service agency affiliated with the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation.

Retired Peoria attorney Robert S. Calkins died Jan. 4 at age 90 in Samaritan Place. Born in Montreal, Canada, he attended Bradley University and was a drummer in a local orchestra and a charter member of the Dewey Gulch Drammer Society.

After working as a government clerk while attending law school classes at Georgetown University, Mr. Calkins graduated in 1940 and returned to Peoria before serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

He was an assistant state's attorney from 1948 to 1952 and from 1966 until his election in 1968 to four years as state's attorney. He was a deputy of the Illinois Department of Insurance from 1961 to 1966.

Mr. Calkins was an honorary member of the Italian-American Society and the Peoria Federation of Musicians.

Retired Chicago attorney John J. Casey Jr., a resident of Wilmette, died Nov. 13 at age 71 in Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

A 1960 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Mr. Casey was a partner for several years in Hamblet, Casey, Oremus & Vaccin. He represented the Commonwealth of Anguilla before the United Nations Subcommittee on Colonization.

He was a past president of the Citizen's Committee of the Juvenile Court.

Retired Chicago attorney John Ralph Covington, a Lake Forest resident, died Jan. 13 at age 92. He was a 1938 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.

Mr. Covington was a partner and later of counsel to Tenney & Bentley. He was chief counsel and secretary of the Sargent-Welch Corp. and the Oliver Corp.

He served on the boards of The Presby-terian Home, the Willett Foundation and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Springfield trial attorney Charles Henry “Chick” Delano III died Jan. 6 at age 65 in Memorial Medical Center. He was a 1964 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law.

Mr. Delano practiced with Continental Bank of Chicago and two law firms before becoming an assistant Sangamon County state's attorney. He opened the Delano Law Offices in 1967 and was corporation counsel for the City of Springfield.

Survivors include a son, Charles H. Delano IV, of the Delano Law Offices.

Chicago attorney John Lauren Denniston died Jan. 23 at age 83 in his Winnetka Home. He was a principal in Morgan, Lanoff, Den-niston & Jackson.

A 1951 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Mr. Denniston served in the Army during World War II, receiving a Combat Infantryman's Badge, two Bronze Battle Stars and two overseas service bars.

A past president of the University of Michigan Club in Chicago, he served on the intercollegiate athletics board for 12 years and received a Distinguished Alumni Service Award.

Corporate attorney William B. Graham died Jan. 24 at age 94 of a heart attack in his Kenilworth home. He was retired board chair and chief executive of Baxter International.

A member of Phi Beta Kappa and a 1936 cum laude graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Mr. Graham was a patent lawyer before joining Baxter in 1945 as a vice president.

He was named CEO in 1953 and chair in 1971, and was senior chair from 1985 to 1996. He was president of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association and a board member of several corporations.

A Lyric Opera board member for more than 40 years, Mr. Graham was president from 1984 to 1992 and remained as chair emeritus.

Named Chicagoan of the Year in 1981 by the Chicago Boys Club and Business Statesman of the Year by the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago, Mr. Graham was inducted into the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame in 1986.

The University of Chicago renamed its Center for Continuing Studies as the William B. Graham School of General Studies in 1997. He held honorary degrees from the University of Illinois and three colleges.

Retired Sterling attorney Alexander Luther Haglund died Dec. 27 at age 91 at CGH Medical Center. He was a partner in Haglund & Gretler before leaving the practice in 1994.

A 1939 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, Mr. Haglund served in the Army in Europe during World War II. He was a past president of the Sterling-Rock Falls YMCA board and a former member of two school boards.

A volunteer with the Whiteside Senior Center and a patient advocate for CGH Medical, he gave presentations for the Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society.

Champaign attorney Lawrence Eugege Johnson died Dec. 21 at age 68 in Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. He was Champaign County state's attorney from 1968 to 1972.

A 1965 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law who served in the Army from 1955 to 1957, Mr. Johnson was a partner in Zimmerly & Johnson until his election, and again in 1972 until he formed his own firm in 1973.

Mr. Johnson chaired the Illinois Liquor Commission in 1972-73 and a hearing officer and member of the Illinois State Board of Elections between 1988 and 1995. He was a special assistant attorney general from 1982 to 1990.

A certified pilot, Mr. Johnson was general counsel for the U.S. Pilot Association from 1989 to 1994 and president of the Illinois Pilots Association from 1989 to 1991 and 2001 to 2002.

Highland Park attorney David M. Krichiver, formerly of Chicago, died in January at age 95. He was a 1933 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.

Lockport attorney James Casey Lynch died Dec. 24 at age 57 after several years of practice while confined to a wheelchair. A 1974 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he was the son of attorney John Duffy Lynch.

Mr. Lynch was a special assistant attorney general and an adjunct professor of business law at Lewis University. He was an advocate for people with disabilities.

Deerfield attorney Maurice James Miller died Jan. 29 at age 79. A 1955 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, he was former managing partner of Sidley & Austin.

An Army sergeant during World War II, he also was a certified public accountant.

James Benedict Moses Jr. of Flora died in January at age 47. Admitted to the Illinois bar in 1983, he had been a state guardian attorney with the Peoria office of the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission.

Mr. Moses was the author of five chapters in the 2004 edition of the IICLE manual, “Guardianship for Disabled Adults, Advanced Directives, and Mental Health Law.”

Ladislav F. “Laddie” Poduska of Arling-ton Heights, a 1937 graduate of the Loyola University School of Law who never registered to practice in Illinois, died Jan. 22 at age 98 in Holy Family Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, DesPlaines.

An employee of Chicago Title and Trust for 46 years before retiring in 1972, he was an Army sergeant during World War II. He volunteered at the Samuel Kirk Center in Palatine and helped install Braille signs so blind students could identify trees.

Chicago attorney Roger Charles Siske, a partner and chair of the employee benefits and executive compensation practice at Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, died Jan. 4 at age 61 of a heart attack while skiing in Aspen, Colo.

A 1969 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Mr. Siske had been a summer associate before joining the firm. He was a captain in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps in Vietnam from 1970 to 1971.

Chair of the ISBA Employee Benefits Section Council in 1985-86, Mr. Siske also chaired two committees each of the Chicago Bar Association and American Bar Association.

Chicago attorney Elizabeth West Speidel died Jan. 18 at age 57 of cancer in the Illinois Masonic Medical Center. A 1980 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, she had a master's degree in social work from Indiana University.

An associate with Daley & Mohan for the past year, she had practiced since 1980 with Ross & Hardies, where she was a partner. She served on the board of the Counseling Center of Lakeview and was president for two years.

Survivors include her husband, Richard E. Speidel, an emeritus law professor at Northwestern.

Retired Cairo attorney Waldemar C. Spomer died Jan. 22 at age 86. A 1951 honors graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, he had served in the Army during World War II in Europe as an interpreter of German.

Elected Alexander County state's attorney in 1972, he also was attorney for the City of Cairo and the Cairo Regional Airport Authority.

The husband of former judge and appellate justice Dorothy Wilbourn Spomer, he formed Spomer & Spomer with her after she retired from the bench. He retired in 1995.

Survivors include his wife and a son, Appellate Justice Stephen L. Spomer, former presiding Alexander County judge in the 1st Circuit.

Retired Urbana attorney Gene David Weisiger died Dec. 14 at age 91 at The Carle Arbours in Savoy. He was a 1938 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law.

Mr. Weisiger worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1942 to 1945 before beginning his practice in Urbana. He was Urbana city attorney for several years.

Olympia Fields attorney Charles P. Wot-trich, a resident of Crete, died Jan. 20 at age 55. A 1980 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, he previously practiced in Flossmoor.

Retired Crystal Lake attorney Edwin Francis Zukowski, a resident of Peoria and Tampa, Fla., died Jan. 1 at age 92 in OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria.

A 1936 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he was a founder of Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McCardle. He retired in 1980 and was honored in 1986 as an ISBA Senior Counsellor.