After graduation, Bob attended the University of Wisconsin/ Madison where he received an MA in political science in 1970. In 1971, we were married, and Bob worked as a security guard on campus while I finished my final year at Beloit. In 1972, we moved to Chicago, and Bob worked for the US Department of Labor as a compliance officer for a number of years. Wanting to try a new direction, he enrolled in DePaul University Law School, where he honed his writing skills as editor in chief of the law review. After receiving his JD, he worked for Jenner and Block in Chicago and then moved to the Navajo Indian reservation where I was doing research for my PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He worked for Navajo legal aid, often with the aid of a translator. Ultimately, he decided he wanted to teach law, so he went to Columbia University Law school and received an LLM (a Masters of law). He was immediately offered a teaching position at Willamette University School of Law in Salem, Oregon, so we moved west in 1981. He taught courses in property, corporations, and securities law for 23 years until his untimely death from a rare condition in 2004. Bob loved to travel, so while at Willamette, he taught in the College of Law’s summer program at the East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai, China. He was also a Fulbright Scholar in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Bob was the father of two children: Brian (1986) and Emily (1994, adopted from China in 1995).
I remember the first week of school in 1965. Darrell Pauls & I were in singles at the south end of North dorm's 3rd floor, and Darrell said he had just met someone in the middle of the floor. We walked down there and met Bob. He was already compaining about the triple, as I recall. He got along great with Joe Pas, but the third guy in the room was a drinker, carouser, and barfer.
After graduating, Bob worked as a Beloit College security guard for a while. He thought it was fairly ridiculous and a little embarrassing that his first assignment was to guard wet cement from student vandals!
Once Bob & Karen were in Chicago, Bob got a good job with the US Dept of Labor, but it wasn't stimulating enough for him. According to my memory (which Karen disputes!), Bob saw the film " The Paper Chase " (1973) about the rigors and travails of being a student at Harvard Law School and was immediately impressed. Someone else would have just stayed at that government job and counted the days to retirement.
Karen Majcher (Art)
After graduation, Bob attended the University of Wisconsin/ Madison where he received an MA in political science in 1970. In 1971, we were married, and Bob worked as a security guard on campus while I finished my final year at Beloit. In 1972, we moved to Chicago, and Bob worked for the US Department of Labor as a compliance officer for a number of years. Wanting to try a new direction, he enrolled in DePaul University Law School, where he honed his writing skills as editor in chief of the law review. After receiving his JD, he worked for Jenner and Block in Chicago and then moved to the Navajo Indian reservation where I was doing research for my PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He worked for Navajo legal aid, often with the aid of a translator. Ultimately, he decided he wanted to teach law, so he went to Columbia University Law school and received an LLM (a Masters of law). He was immediately offered a teaching position at Willamette University School of Law in Salem, Oregon, so we moved west in 1981. He taught courses in property, corporations, and securities law for 23 years until his untimely death from a rare condition in 2004. Bob loved to travel, so while at Willamette, he taught in the College of Law’s summer program at the East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai, China. He was also a Fulbright Scholar in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Bob was the father of two children: Brian (1986) and Emily (1994, adopted from China in 1995).
James Matten (Matten)
I remember the first week of school in 1965. Darrell Pauls & I were in singles at the south end of North dorm's 3rd floor, and Darrell said he had just met someone in the middle of the floor. We walked down there and met Bob. He was already compaining about the triple, as I recall. He got along great with Joe Pas, but the third guy in the room was a drinker, carouser, and barfer.
After graduating, Bob worked as a Beloit College security guard for a while. He thought it was fairly ridiculous and a little embarrassing that his first assignment was to guard wet cement from student vandals!
Once Bob & Karen were in Chicago, Bob got a good job with the US Dept of Labor, but it wasn't stimulating enough for him. According to my memory (which Karen disputes!), Bob saw the film " The Paper Chase " (1973) about the rigors and travails of being a student at Harvard Law School and was immediately impressed. Someone else would have just stayed at that government job and counted the days to retirement.
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