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around the United States and Canada in a van while on sabbatical. Chuck was an avid bird hunter and dog own- er, history buff, voracious reader, and always the life of the party. Chuck is survived by Peggy, three children and six grandchildren.
Victor Francis Hlavinka, ’85, was eighty-seven when he passed away peacefully on November 2, 2023. Victor spent his youth toiling in the cotton patches of Wharton County and was a proud Aggie, receiving a bachelor’s de- gree in economics from Texas A&M University in 1958. He completed law school at the University of Texas in 1960 and immediately joined his brother Charlie in Tex- arkana. By the time he was forty years old, he had more than 200 jury trials. He was a proud member of the TISD School Board for several years and was involved with sev- eral local civic organizations, most prominently the Tex- arkana Regional Arts and Texarkana Symphony Orches- tra. One of Victor’s passions was travel, especially to the Czech Republic. A most special trip there included over forty members of his extended family living in the U.S. to celebrate the 100th anniversary of their ancestors’ im- migration to America in 1905. They re-enacted the route taken from the homestead in Nechvalin to Bremerhaven, Germany, where they had boarded a ship for the trip to Texas. Victor completed three New York City Marathons, the last one at the age of seventy. After fifty-five years of practice, Victor reluctantly retired at age eighty because of severe hearing loss. Victor is survived by his wife, Suzy McCurdy Hlavinka, three children, nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Richard P. Holme, ’83, was eighty-one when he passed on January 14, 2023. Dick graduated from Williams College and attended the University of Colorado School of Law; while there he met Barbara Friel, who he mar- ried in 1965. Dick served three years as a Deputy Dis- trict Attorney in Denver. During his fifty-year career, Dick tried almost seventy jury trials and handled over thirty appeals. He liked to say that he had tried “one of everything and two of nothing.” Dick’s work on improving trial practice included being a member of: the select drafting committee for Colorado’s new Criminal Code (1970-71); the first Colorado Jury In- struction Committee (1972-73); the Colorado Su- preme Court Committee on Civil Rules (1994-2019);
and serving as the prime draftsman of rules relating to Simplified Procedure. Active in the College, Dick was Colorado State Chair (1994-
96), a member of the ACTL
Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice, and was the lead author of the College’s Work- ing Smarter, Not Harder: How Excellent Judges Manage Cases. Dick is survived by Barbara, two children and a grandchild.
Thomas Edward Jenks, ’80, passed away on June 28, 2023 at age ninety-four. Ted attended Miami University in Ohio, but he couldn’t imagine a career in his political science major, so he left Oxford after his third year to at- tend law school at The Ohio State University. Ted passed the Ohio bar exam before graduating in 1953 and joined the Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate. Ted returned to Dayton in 1955, and in 1961 married Marianna (Mick- ey) Jenks. They raised a large and loving family over their sixty years of marriage that included six children, ten grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Ted’s prac- tice focused on defending doctors and other lawyers in malpractice cases. Ted was a stellar trial attorney, trying multiple jury trials year after year. Ted boxed in college at Miami, fighting in the Golden Gloves. He enjoyed competitive handball at the downtown YMCA for many years, and started running in the 1970s. Ted ran thou- sands of miles, continuing into his 80s, when he slowed to a walking pace (but a brisk one).
Carroll Cullen Johnson, Jr., ’87, was ninety-seven at his death on August 18, 2023. Carroll was a decorated offi- cer in the U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division and served during the occupation of Japan. He graduated from the University of Virginia and in 1952 from the University of Virginia School of Law. He began a fifty-eight year law practice in 1952 in Memphis and upon his retirement in 2010, Carroll and his wife Margaret moved to Green Level Farm in Orange County, Virginia where they ren- ovated a family farmhouse originally built in 1763. Car- roll is survived by Margaret, seven children and step-chil- dren, thirteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. He was pre-deceased by a son.
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