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Edwin Martin Anderson, ’70, was a month shy of one hundred when he passed
away in Palo Alto, Califor- nia on October 15, 2023. Martin enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and saw ac- tive duty from 1943 to
1946 and again during the
Korean War in 1950-1951,
serving in historic cam-
paigns such as the Inchon
Landing and the Chosin Reservoir. He retired from the Marines as a full Colonel after thirty-three years in the Marine Corps Reserve. At Stanford, Martin served as Student Body President, captained the track team in 1946 and later served as the captain of the football team, earning an A.B. in 1948 and an LL.B. in 1949. During that time he met Mary Ilma “Illie” Costigan, to whom he was married for sixty-one years. Martin managed the 1.5-million-acre Galana cattle and game ranch in Eastern Kenya from 1967 to 1990, and wrote a book about the experience. He co-owned the Heavenly Valley Ski Area in Lake Tahoe for twenty-five years. Martin served as a board member for Stanford University and Hawaii Pacific University. He served as Chairman of the Hoover Institution Board of Overseers from 1993 to 1995 and continued as a Distinguished Overseer for the remainder of his life. Illie passed away in September 2009. Martin is survived by his daughter, two grand- children and three great-grandchildren.
Thomas Maxfield Bahner, ‘85, died October 13, 2023 at the age of eighty-nine. Max, who was once “pretty serious” about becoming a minister, decided law was his real calling. He went to Carson-Newman University and the University of Virginia School of Law and prac- ticed for decades in Chattanooga. Max was a president of the Chattanooga and Tennessee Bar associations and served nearly two decades in the American Bar Associ- ation House of Delegates, leading the Tennessee dele- gation for nine years. He also served on the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association for three years and on the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors. Max’s various memorials and obituaries do not disclose his survivors, though he must surely have had them, but the multitude of testimonials from his friends and colleagues attest to a life well-lived and a loss to us all at his passing.
Thomas Galbraith Bastedo, K.C., ’97, passed away peacefully in Toronto two weeks short of his eighty- fourth birthday, survived by his wife of fifty-eight years,
Alice, three children and four grandchildren. Starting his educational career in a railway car in Marathon, On- tario, Tom earned the Gold Medal in Political Science and Economics and a B.A. from Upper Canada College, followed by an M.A. from the University of Toronto, a Ph.D. from Duke University, and a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. As one of the leading fam- ily law lawyers of his generation, Tom was elected the first Fellow in Canada of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and was also the first Fellow of the American College from the Canadian Family Law Bar in Canada. Tom’s volunteer activities and interests ranged from serving as Chair of the Legal Aid Plan of Ontario during his twelve-year term as a Bencher for the Law Society of Ontario, to serving meals at the St. Mary Magdalene Community Dinner. He was an en- thusiastic supporter of the Canadian Opera Company and Tafelmusik, and spent many afternoons napping to Saturday Afternoon at the Opera or reading from his extensive collection of history books. In the earliest days of their marriage, Tom and Alice lived for a
year in India while Tom did his graduate work. Tom and Alice shared a love
of travel and exploration, and from then onwards, they were partners in traveling the world.
Robert S. Bennett, ’83, robust defender of a host of high-profile clients, including Bill Clinton, died of kid- ney failure on September 10, 2023 at the age of eighty- four. In addition to his representation of President Clin- ton, Bob often found himself shuttling from courtroom to courtroom in 1992 as he simultaneously defended two former secretaries of defense, one a Democrat, Clark M. Clifford, and the other a Republican, Caspar W. Wein- berger. Clifford had served as defense secretary under Lyndon B. Johnson, and faced fraud charges in connec- tion with a banking scandal. Weinberger, who served un- der Ronald Reagan, was charged with lying to investiga- tors about his knowledge of the Iran-Contra scandal, the administration’s sale of weapons to Tehran and supply of covert aid to Nicaraguan rebels.
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