Delco re:View Fall 2018 - 23

www.DelcoBar.org

Kicking off the night with reflections
and reminiscences of the year 1993!
Theresa Flanagan Murtagh, Esquire ...
"The older the fiddle, the sweeter the
tune!"
DCBA REFLECTIONS - 1993
1993 Board of Judges, 32nd Judicial District: William R.
Toal, Jr., President Judge; Honorables Charles C. Keeler; Frank
T. Hazel; Clement J. McGovern, Jr.; Joseph T. Labrum, Jr.; R.
Barclay Surrick; Anthony R. Semeraro; Kenneth A. Clouse;
Robert C. Wright; Harry J. Bradley; A. Leo Sereni; Joseph F.
Battle; George Koudelis; Maureen F. Fitzpatrick; Joseph P.
Cronin, Jr.; Patricia H. Jenkins. Senior Judges: Howard F. Reed,
Jr.; Robert A. Wright
DCBA Officers 1993: John M. Gallagher, Jr., President;
William G. Halligan, President Elect; Frank J. Wesner, Jr., Vice
President; Michael F. Wenke, Recording Secretary; Eugene
J. Malady, Corresponding Secretary; Richard A. Mitchell,
Treasurer. Past Presidents: Karen J. Pholeric (1992) and James
F. Proud (1991). YLS President: J. Adam Matlawski. Elizabeth
C. Price, the DCBA's first, and in her 19th year as Executive
Director.
Signature DCBA Events 1993: Law Day 1993, featured "The
Theater Wing of the Bar Association" (with a little help from
friends), who presented Gilbert & Sullivan's "Trial by Jury," a
satirical operetta, as part of the Courthouse Law Day Program, in
the morning, and again at 8:00 p.m. in Court Room 1.

The Annual Bench Bar Conference was held at the Poconos
Tamiment Resort & Conference Center located in Tamiment, PA.
Program topics included Jury Selection, Stress Management,
Gender Bias Seminars.

NATIONAL REFLECTIONS - 1993
President of the United States: George H. W. Bush President
of the United States 1989 to 1993; Bill Clinton 1993 to 2001.
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 2.96%; Year End Close Dow Jones
Industrial Average 3654; Interest Rates Year End Federal
Reserve 6.00%; Average Cost of new house $113,200; Average
Income per year $31,230; Average Monthly Rent $532; Cost of
a gallon of Gas $1.16; Movie Ticket $4.14; Average cost of new
car $12,750; Loaf of Bread $1.57; Tuition to Harvard University
$23,514; record snowfall from Cuba to Québec; Ty Warner USA
launches the first Beanie Babies
IN SPORTS: Super Bowl XXVII - Dallas Cowboys vs.
Buffalo Bills Score 52-17; World Series - Toronto Blue Jays
vs. Philadelphia Phillies Series 4-2. MOST POPULAR
MOVIE: Jurassic Park. MOST POPULAR BOOKS: #1 in
Fiction - The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller.
#1 in Nonfiction - See I Told You ... Rush Limbaugh. MOST
POPULAR TV SHOW: 60 Minutes (CBS). ACADEMY
AWARDS: Best Picture - Schindler's List; Best Director Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List; Best Actor - Tom Hanks,
"Philadelphia"; Best Actress - Holly Hunter, The Piano.
GRAMMY AWARDS: Record of the Year - "I Will Always
Love You," Whitney Houston (Best Female Vocalist); Song of
the Year - "A Whole New World" (Theme from "Aladdin")
continued on page 24

Fall 2018

| 23
http://www.DelcoBar.org
Delco re:View Fall 2018

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Delco re:View Fall 2018
