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William Norman Withrow, Jr., ’05, of Atlanta and Chi- cago died on February 12, 2023; he was only sixty-eight. Bill spent his childhood in Clarkesville, Georgia, where he developed his lifelong love of baseball, listening to the Braves on the radio. At the University of Georgia, he was seventeen when he met Cynthia Rachels. They were mar- ried in 1974. Bill received his law degree from the Univer- sity of Georgia School of Law in 1978 and clerked for Hon. James C. Hill on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ac- tive in the College, Bill chaired the Outreach Committee for four years and served on several other General Com- mittees. He chaired his firm’s litigation department and was managing partner of its Chicago office. Bill is survived by Cindy, their three children and three grandchildren. Arnold Roger Witke, ‘81, was ninety-one when he passed peacefully on February 19, 2023, survived by his wife of sixty-eight years, Darlene, their four children, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Roger attended Simpson College in Indianola, where he met Darlene; they were married in 1954. Following gradu- ation Roger served in Counterintelligence for the U.S. Army in Korea from 1954-1956. Upon discharge, Roger attended law school at the University of Michigan. Roger and Darlene made Des Moines their home, where Roger practiced until his retirement in 2004. Roger taught his children the value of education, how to balance a career and home life, the importance of faith and service to oth- ers, the need to have fun and laugh, and the joy of eating ice cream and peanut butter sandwiches. Hon. Charles R. Wolle, ’79, former Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court and later Federal Judge, was eighty-seven at his passing on December 6, 2022. His wife of sixty-one years, Kerstin, was by his side. Judge Wolle earned his BA in 1959 from Harvard, where he was a 6’5” forward on the Harvard Crimson basketball team. He often returned to play in the annual alumni game in Cambridge, where he suited up for the last time in 2015 after turning age eighty, the same year he completed his last Des Moines half marathon. During law school at the University of Iowa College of Law he met Kerstin (Wennerstrom), an exchange student from Lidingo, Sweden. In 1981, he was appointed as a Circuit Court Judge and in 1983 he was appointed a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, serving until August 1987. In 1987 he was confirmed to serve on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. He served as Chief Judge for nine years, assumed senior status in October 2001 and retired in December 2021. Judge Wolle served in the U.S. Army Reserve from 1961-67. Charles and Kerstin loved to travel within and outside the U.S. They frequently visited Kerstin’s siblings and other relatives in Sweden. Up until November 2021 when they returned to Iowa, the couple spent the last twenty years of their life together in a home overlooked by Job’s Peak in the Sierra Nevadas, where they hiked together often. Judge Wolle is survived by Kerstin, their four sons and nine grandchildren. Greatest Generation member Eldon S. Wright III, ’72, passed away nearly five years ago on October 4, 2018 at the age of ninety-four, but we only now were notified of his death when a sharp-eyed Fellow who used to practice with Bud observed that Bud was still listed in the Blue Book. Fellow David Comstock, ’79, recalls Bud as a fine lawyer and great guy. Thanks, David, for letting us know. After graduating from high school in 1942, Bud served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945 as a radio operator/ aerial gunnery and spotter on submarine patrol over the United States Atlantic coastline. Not long after his dis- charge, Bud married Beverly Evans, who he had met in elementary school. Bud received a bachelor’s degree in economics from DePauw University in 1947 and a law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1950. Bud became a medical malpractice defense lawyer; a former partner recalled that “Bud believed that every lawyer needed to know how to try a case, even cor- porate attorneys. Trying cases was his forte. I would say he was the best personal injury defense lawyer in north- eastern Ohio.” After his retirement in 2004, Bud contin- ued to do pro bono work, volunteering for a program run by The Mahoning County Bar Association that helped people set up businesses. Bud enjoyed swimming, golf- ing, handball, boating, scuba diving, playing his trumpet and beating everyone at Cribbage and chess. Bud was survived by his four children and nine grandchildren. 105 JOURNAL