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on a basketball scholarship, where he met and married Joan – a marriage that lasted sixty-eight years until his death. Af- ter earning his business degree at the University of Oregon, Richard entered the Marine Corps. After discharge, Rich- ard worked full time while earning his law degree at Gon- zaga. In 1970, Richard was appointed as Spokane County’s first Public Defender and grew the office from a staff of two to forty attorneys when he retired in 1994. Richard loved Christmas and would buy up every gadget that sang, lit up or danced. He would chase down Santa with his daughter, yelling she’s been a good girl Santa! Richard loved playing practical jokes, such as opening the gates to let the geese in at restaurants along the river. He was also known to borrow a center piece or two, light firecrackers and get everyone giggling during church. Richard was preceded in death by his daughter but survived by Joan, two granddaughters and
four great-grandchildren.
Frank Cicero Jr., ’81, age eighty-eight, died February 25, 2024. Frank’s two sets of grandparents emigrated from Italy; one couple were Protestant Waldensians from the Alps and the other were Catholic Sicilians. In his re- tirement years, Frank devoted himself to understanding those different backgrounds and he published Relative Strangers: Italian Protestants in the Catholic World. A high school debate state champion, Frank graduated from Wheaton College, picked up a Master’s from Prince- ton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. Frank was lead counsel for the Chicago Afro-American Patrolmen’s League and won judgments that resulted in the reform of police hir- ing and promotion practices locally and across the nation. Frank tried both the liability and damages phases of the massive Amoco Cadiz oil spill case. Frank spent his adult
James L. Cooper, ’91, died April 15, 2017 at the age of eighty-seven. Jim graduated from Rutgers University and Rutgers Law School, where he was editor of the Law Re- view. Establishing his law practice in 1957, Jim took leave in 1966 to volunteer on President John F. Kennedy’s Law- yers Committee For Civil Rights. One of Jim’s former part- ners recalled that Jim “stood up for the underprivileged and those people discriminated against.” Jim also supported cul- tural and civic development projects in his region over the years, most notably the redevelopment of Historic Gard- ner’s Basin, the Ocean Life Center Atlantic City Aquarium, and the Atlantic Cape Community College.
life in pursuit of the perfect view, and spent extensive time as a trustee of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and the Nature Conservancy of Colorado, where he stud- ied, skied and hiked Rocky Mountain trails. Jan Cicero, his wife of sixty-five years, survives Frank, as well as two children and three grandchildren.
John G. Corlew, ‘07, died in his sleep on December 6, 2023 at the age of eighty. John attended Ole Miss on a scholarship, graduating with a journalism degree, serving both as Editor of the Daily Mississippian and as Student Body President. At Vanderbilt University Law School he was Managing Editor of the Law Review. In 1974 Jackson County elected John to the Mississippi Senate, where he