Eugene Clifton Gerhart ’34

Gene Gerhart, prominent Binghamton, N.Y., attorney, editor-in-chief of the New York State Bar Journal, author of many articles on legal subjects and two judicial biographies, and author of the books Liberty and Natural Law and Lawyer's Judge, died of pneumonia Oct. 27, 2007. He was 95.

In 1974, Gene won our class's Award for Outstanding Achievement for his work as "a lawyer's lawyer," writer, editor, and community leader. Among his many activities, he was board chairman of Columbian Mutual Life Insurance Co.; chairman of the board of SUNY, Cortland; a member of the New York City, New York state, and American bar associations; and 1961 president of the Broome County Bar Association. He was our interim class treasurer following the death of Fred Hamilton in 2003.

In 1976, with the help of his good wife, the former Mary Schreiber, Gene inaugurated and hosted the first of our most enjoyable "away football game" weekends, coincident with the Cornell game at Ithaca. These mini-reunions lasted for 17 more years at locations from Vermont (for a Dartmouth game) to Virginia (where Princeton played William and Mary).

Gene is survived by two daughters and their husbands, Catherine and Gregory Landon and Virginia and William Mason; and his grandchildren, Mary Mason, John and Alicia Landon, Charles Landon, James Landon, and David Mason.