50th Reunion

ANDREW C. BAILEY
15 Jackson Pond Road
Dedham, MA 02026
(617) 421-0323

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My Navy "career'' was a mixed bag. The V -7 Program, plus accelerated summer sessions, resulted in my completion of the Amherst courses in the winter of '43, then off to Midshipmen's School at Notre Dame. My 120 day wonder course was interrupted by a stay at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital (sinus is a disability?), but I was finally commissioned and based in San Francisco on the PC-788, protecting the West Coast from Japanese submarines.

It was a great assignment because it gave me time to marry Joanie Price in February 1944. So by the time of our 50th Reunion, Joanie and I will have been married for 49 years. How lucky can a guy be! Oh, yes, I forgot the bad news: I was seasick during my whole tour of duty.

In June 1946, we moved to Ithaca, N.Y., to attend Cornell Law School. I became a member of the Cornell Law Quarterly and graduated courtesy of summer sessions in September '48. Finding a job that year with a law firm in Boston was difficult because Harvard Law School had a lock on the market. But I was able to join a 10-man law firm known as Powers & Hall and remained there for my entire career from 1948 on. I ended up becoming its president and eventually chairman of the Board of Directors.

By 1948, we had a daughter and later had three other children. Currently we have three grandchildren. The "kids" are all located in the Boston area, so we are blessed with seeing them develop and mature (can't believe that two of our children are over 40!).

My law practice has been both busy and intense. Initially, my objective was to become a tax lawyer, but 1 shifted into being a general corporate attorney, handling the entire gamut from mergers to acting as general counsel for some medium -sized businesses. Meanwhile, Powers & Hall has remained reasonably small (35 lawyers), which I have found advantageous in staff- client relations.

At this writing, I am scheduled to retire as of June 1. 1993, and plan to continue acting as a trustee of several private trusts and charitable foundations. I also plan to try to update a book on Massachusetts taxation which I co-authored.

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In 1977, Joanie and I bought a small house in Bermuda known as Sitting Pretty (on the third green of Mid-Ocean Club golf course). It was ideal because we could spend long weekends without too much interference with the law practice. It was also ideal because the game of golf is my other great love. I was counsel for many years to the Massachusetts Golf Association as well as serving as president. Currently, I am counsel for the New England Golf Association and a member of the Sectional Affairs Committee of the USGA.