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Robert S. Goggin, ’95 died July 3, 2022 at the age of eighty-five. Bob was a USAF ROTC cadet at St. Jo seph’s College when he met Jane Gallagher. His deploy ment upon graduation would have adversely affected his relationship with Jane so he stayed on for law school to secure a deferral. Upon graduation they were mar ried and stationed in France for several years. Captain Goggin left the USAF and joined the US Attorney’s Office criminal division in Philadelphia, after which he joined a small five-person private law practice also located in Philadelphia. By the time he retired, the firm had grown into a multi-state, multi-disciplinary prac tice with over one hundred lawyers. Bob’s claim to fame was winning the first defense verdict in an asbestos case, instrumental in helping his firm corner the market in asbestos defense litigation. Bob loved being a trial law yer but mostly he enjoyed mentoring the other lawyers within his firm. Bob is survived by Jane, eight children and seventeen grandchildren.
spent every day working to enrich and uplift his com- munity. Eugene’s achievements in urban affairs, law, arts, and culture leave a legacy for every Michigander to carry forward.” Eugene was the son of Ukrainian immigrants, growing up in a close-knit Jewish community near Dex- ter and Davison and learning Yiddish as his first language. He met his future wife Elaine when they were students at Wayne State University. He asked her to a fraternity par- ty; a pin soon turned into a proposal, and they wed when he was twenty-two and she was twenty. Eugene only spent three years of his life outside of Detroit; three years as an attorney under Attorney General Robert Kennedy with the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust division in the early 1960s. In addition to Elaine, Eugene is survived by his two children and five grandchildren.
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Guy Gilbert, ’81, was ninety-three at his death on October 13, 2022. Guy dedicated the major part of his career to Insurance Law, repre-
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John Gardner Golding, ’89, ninety-four, died peace- fully on November 11, 2022. John graduated cum laude from Williams College in 1950 second in his class from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1953, where he was co-editor-in-chief of the North Carolina Law Review. During law school John met his future wife Virginia Batte Wilson, an undergraduate in- volved in the Carolina Playmakers; she played the part of a coed who had poisoned a sorority sister in a staged crime, and he was assigned to prosecute her in a mock trial sponsored by his law fraternity. Following gradua- tion, John served in the Army JAG Corps, stationed in Kaiserslautern, Germany. After his military service John and Virginia settled in Charlotte, where he specialized in medical malpractice defense work. Opposing counsel somewhat fondly nicknamed him “The Prince of Dark- ness” and “Mr. Assassinator.” John enjoyed community theater productions. He was a Rolls Royce aficionado, a frequent international traveler, a history buff, and a proud grandfather who loved to take his grandchildren to Carowinds and the Lazy 5 Ranch. John was preceded in death by an infant granddaughter, a daughter and his wife Virginia. He is survived by two daughters, ten grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
William A. Foster, ’85, passed in June 2022 at the age of ninety-five. Bill obtained his law degree in 1952 from the University of Florida and practiced in West Palm Beach his entire career. When he filled out his statement of qualifications in 1984, he estimated that he had tried to conclusion” more than four hundred jury cases.
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