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Bar News - June 3, 2005 More Memories from Bar Members Admitted 50 Years Ago Each year, the New Hampshire Bar Association honors those members who have reached the milestone of 50 years since their first admission to practice, regardless of whether that first occurred in New Hampshire or elsewhere. This year, 16 members who have attained this milestone will be recognized at the 2005 Annual Meeting. Bar News has offered them the opportunity to reflect on their many years in the legal profession. The following are profiles of three Bar members who each spent nearly their entire careers in New Hampshire. (The profiles began in the May 20 issue of Bar News. We hope to present the remaining nine members in upcoming issues.) In questionnaires, the honorary members were invited to comment on what had led them to become lawyers, who their role models were, what significant positions they've held, what achievements have made them most proud. The following are highlights of their responses: 
Dort S. Bigg was most recently with the Manchester firm of Wiggin & Nourie, where he was senior partner for many years. He attended Dartmouth and went to Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in1955, the same year becoming a member of the NH Bar. Attorney Bigg first went to medical school-"hated it," he says-and turned to the law because he thought he "would enjoy it and be good at it." The following years proved him right. He began with Orr & Reno in Concord, worked also at both the New Hampshire Attorney General's office and at the U.S. Attorney's office. Among his role models were his father Dort S. Bigg, Sr., Paul Nourie and the Hon. Louis Wyman. During his career, Attorney Bigg served on the Board of Governors of the Bar Association, was chairman of the Ballot Law Commission and a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, as well as a member of the International Society of Trial Barristers. He has also been involved in his community, particularly with the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts of America and the Safari Club International. He has also taken part in community dramatic activities. Attorney Bigg lives with his wife Meredith in Turner, Maine. He has five sons and five grandchildren. He likes to hunt and fish and is looking forward to doing more of both now that he is fully retired. Edward J. Tenney II has been retired for 14 years; he says he is "grateful for life and the challenges and opportunities it has presented.... I am a veteran of WWII, having served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a bomber pilot. I was slightly wounded and was in a military hospital recovering from malaria when my bomb group dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...." Returning home from the war, Tenney relates, he went to New England College, under the school's accelerated degree program for returning veterans and was in the college's first graduating class in 1949, having obtained his BA in two years. He then attended Wake Forest University Law School, graduating in 1953 and was admitted to the Vermont Bar in 1955. His inspiration was his grandfather who served as probate judge in Sullivan County from 1890-1906. "I opened my own practice in Vermont first, then in New Hampshire (1967). I was elected Sullivan County Attorney in 1971 and served eight consecutive terms. My son Edward joined me in my practice in 1986." Among the things Tenney is most proud of is being admitted to practice in both the Vermont and New Hampshire District Courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit-and the United States Supreme Court. He also served as in the military reserve as a lawyer, having been offered a commission in the Judge Advocate General's Section of the Air Force Reserve until 1980. "I also served for 32 years in the Civil Air Patrol, where I was NH Wing commander for two years and a legal officer for many more. I attained the rank of colonel." Tenney admired the skills of Clarence Darrow and Melvin Belli; he also admired George Patton and "Pappy" Boyington, among other military figures. He loved flying and after his discharge purchased a surplus aircraft and went into the flying business on his own. But in May of 1946 he was checking out a fellow flying instructor; they had an engine failure and crashed. His friend never flew again, but Tenney continued to fly until 1993. Tenney has been very involved in his community over the years in many ways: as Claremont Police Commissioner, as a member of the Claremont School Board, a life member and Judge Advocate for the American Legion and as the treasurer and president of the Sullivan County Bar Association, to name a few. In 1953 Tenney married Joan Kreichbaum of Ashtabula, Ohio; she died unexpectedly in 1982. He later married Della Stilin of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He has three children, four stepchildren, seven grandchildren and four step-grandchildren. He and Della were living in Punta Gorda, when it was struck last summer by Hurricane Charley. The Tenneys lost their home and all its contents. At present they reside in Rossville, GA where Attorney Tenney is recuperating from back surgery. 
Kimon Zachos says he is glad to reach this milestone ("better than the alternative"!). Attorney Zachos was born and raised in New Hampshire, attended New York University School of Law (Juris Doctor) and Boston University School of Law (LL.M. Taxation). He was admitted to the NH Bar in 1955. He says he became a lawyer to "earn a living, to have an appropriate lifestyle, to support a family-and to serve the community." Zachos served with the U.S. Army during WWII in both the United States and Germany. He joined the firm of Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green in 1957, where he remained for 48 years, going from associate to senior partner-or, as he calls it, to the "very little respect phase." His role model was William S. Green. He says he is most proud of "developing and maintaining a top-notch and talented law firm with stability and flexibility." Attorney Zachos has been very active in community affairs; his involvements, to name a few of the many: a director of Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., former director of New England Telephone, Merchants Bank, First NH Bank, the Bank of Ireland and Citizens Bank; trustee, and past president of the Currier Museum of Art; trustee of Southern NH University; former director and chairman of the NH Charitable Fund; trustee of Endowment Funds and former director of Havenwood Retirement Community; trustee of Trust Funds of St. George Greek Orthodox Church, former trustee and president of the Manchester YMCA. Zachos is still working as an attorney, though not very hard, he says. But he is still "heavily involved in non-profit community activities and doing a lot of international and domestic traveling." He and his wife Anne live in Manchester. They have three daughters, Ellen, Elizabeth and Sarah-and five grandsons. |
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