2000 ANNUAL MEETING RECAP
50 Year Members & Certificates of Merit & Deceased Resolution

David M. Baker, Huntington
Hunter M. Bennett, Jr., Weston
Edmund Berardinelli, Wheeling
Charles H. Brown, Kingwood
James F. Brown, III, Charleston
Paul J. Carr, Jr., Palatka, FL
Charles A. Clark, Huntington
Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr., Charleston
Andrew Detch, Lewisburg
Norman K. Fenstermaker, Kitty Hawk, NC
Robert T. Goldenberg, Parkersburg
John R. Haller, Weston
Henry R. Hundley, Costa Mesa, CA
John E. Jenkins, Jr., Huntington
Thaddeus D. Kauffelt, Charleston
Eugene P. Keenan, Thorsby, AL
Malcolm B. Louden, Parkersburg
Leslie D. Lucas, Jr., Hendersonville, NC
Henry L. Max, Huntington
Selden S. McNeer, Jr., Huntington
Donald Mills, Tuscaloosa, AL
Thomas E. Morgan, South Charleston
J. Patrick Nichols, Parsons
Stanley E. Preiser, Boca Raton, FL
E. Glenn Robinson, Charleston
Harry G. Shaffer, Jr., Daniels
Harold H. Smith, Concord, NC
Harry L. Snyder, Charleston
Edward P. Stansbury, Beckley
J. Zane Summerfield, Fayetteville
Richard L. Theibert, Madison
Wilbur D. Webb, Spencer
Bernard W. West, Jr., Miami, FL
George H. Whaley, Parkersburg
James E. Wilkerson, Columbia, MO
Harold W. Wilson, Parkersburg
CERTIFICATES OF MERIT
The following persons received Certificates of Merit at the State Bar's 2000 Annual Meeting for their outstanding service to the Bar:
John E. Busch, Elkins
Dan O. Callagha, Summersville
Robert W. Minto, Jr. - Missoula, Montana
David J. Romano, Clarksburg
The West Virginia State Bar
Resolution
Whereas, it is with unfeigned sorrow that we have been informed
of the death since the last Annual Meeting of The West Virginia State Bar of a number of
fellow members of the State Bar; and
Whereas, it has been the privilege and pleasure of many of us to work with departed
members of our profession who are the following:
Robert Bland, Charleston
Frank Cady Cleveland, Point Pleasant
Charles R. Davis, Morgantown
J. Fred Earley, Parkersburg
Kenneth H. Fisher, Huntington
Harold M. Garrett, Brunswick, GA
James A. Graham, Salem
The Honorable Kenneth K. Hall, Charleston
Richard E. Hamstead, Morgantown
William Thomas Harrison, Wayne
Odell H. Huffman, Princeton
Charles A. Kiser, Martinsburg
Jack M. McCarty, Charleston
Diana L. McDavid, Charleston
James H. Murphy, Sarasota, FL
Phillip O. North, Hilton Head Island, SC
Bernard Pettigrew, Jr., Charleston
James W. Pyles, New Martinsville
William J. Ridgway, Weirton
John E. Scheifly, Whittier, CA
Brooks Edwin Smith, Kingwood
Edgar L. Smith, Lewisburg
Mary Parr Sterba, Kane, PA
Stephen V. Wehner, Washington DC
S. Clark Woodroe, Clendenin
Frank R. Yoke, Parkersburg
Be it therefore Resolved, that we the membership of the State Bar recognize the loss
sustained to the legal profession of this State in the passing of these members; and be it
Further Resolved, that as a mark of respect to these late members of the State Bar that
the members present at this 2000 Annual Meeting stand for one minute in silent tribute to
the memory of our late colleagues.
