I enjoyed a successful 41-year legal career prior to retiring in 2016. I appreciate my GULC degree and the many doors it opened for me over the years. It is amazing that our graduation happened 50 years ago!

After retiring, I traveled the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and have continued my interest and involvement with history and genealogy in a volunteer capacity. I am currently secretary for the Lewis and Clark Trail Alliance, the national non-profit partner of the National Park Service supporting their Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. I also am Treasurer for the Humanities Nebraska Foundation and support Humanities programming across the State of Nebraska. Both of these organizations have been challenged during the past year by federal funding cuts that have impacted their missions. In fact, I spent three days in April back in Washington DC lobbying on behalf of the National Humanities Councils. We FAILED! It was only weeks after our lobbying efforts that funding and staffing for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) was drastically cut.

Prior to retiring, I was Public Defender in Lincoln County, Nebraska for 5 years, before becoming a Law Professor and Administrator at the University of Oklahoma College of Law for 20 years. I concluded the final 16 years of my legal career in the General Counsel's Office at Iowa State University where my wife, Dianne, had accepted a position as the Director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics.

Dianne retired in 2018 and we now enjoy retirement living on Beaver Lake - about 20 miles South of Omaha, Nebraska, near the Missouri River. We have two children. Chris and his wife, Andrea, live in Lisbon, Portugal with our two granddaughters, Rosemary and Juniper, where he remotely manages his digital design and communication firm. Beth is a veterinarian and lives in Beaufort, South Carolina, with her husband, Matt.

I am looking forward to the Georgetown Law Class of 1975 50th Reunion Celebration!

KEITH BYSTROM

I am looking forward to our class of 1975 reunion. I have not been to a previous reunion and am interested in meeting classmates from long ago and seeing how the law buildings and law school have evolved. (I have not been to the law school since the late 1970s.)

I've lived and worked in Massachusetts since moving there from Maryland in 1983. I retired from full-time work in 2017 and from part-time teaching in 2021. My career was in public interest law and management in non-profits and government: legal services, public welfare, environmental regulation and enforcement, environmental justice; and in academia. I've also been active as a volunteer, most recently for planning and economic development and environmental protection. Look for me on LinkedIn for more -- and let's talk at the reunion.

I have always been proud to be a GULC graduate.

My time at GULC was different from everyone else’s. While in law school, I worked part-time on the Senate Watergate Committee staff. Then, with the help of several GULC classmates, I was elected national president of the ABA Law Student Division. With the permission of GULC Dean Adrian Fisher, I was allowed to live in Chicago and attend Loyola Law School for the 1974 fall semester. During that time, I created Juriscan, the ABA’s nationally-distributed employment service for law school grads.
After graduation, I was immediately hired as an attorney for the NC State Board of Education. I soon left that job to be the advance man for NC Governor Jim Hunt who was elected in 1976. Since then, I have practiced law continuously in Charlotte since 1977. Georgetown Law grads were rare in North Carolina in 1977. Happily for me, many more come to booming Charlotte now.

I have been a civil trial lawyer for most of my career. I finished my last trial in March 2025. I enjoy providing pro bono legal advice to anyone who calls, and many do call. I served on the Charlotte City Council. My wife, Lynn, and I have been married 41 years. Our two daughters have given us three grandchildren. We are healthy and blessed.

I look forward to the 50-year reunion of the GULC Class of 1975.

I graduated from Georgetown Law in 1975. The path that led me there was guided by many people most of whom I did not know or did not know very well.

I graduated from Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri in 1959. I initially attended Rockhurst College, then an all male Jesuit boarding school. I remember being one of the few black students there, and do not recall any black boarding students. The few black students there probably took public transportation as I did.

My high school guidance, Ms. Hortense Schaller was the force behind me getting a Missouri State Vocational Rehabilitation Grant to attend the then all male Rockhurst College, now University. I had long-standing hearing issues from elementary school through high school. I did not graduate from Rockhurst but always identified with the classes of 1962-1963.

I completed college at Georgetown College in 1972 after seven years of active military service. Father Royden Davis was the dean of the College when I was there. He encouraged and assisted me in first finding University part time employment and later a full time University position as an assistant to the Executive Vice President for development of the University's affirmative action plan. After a year of evening law school, I switched to full time day student with GI Bill assistance and graduated in three years in the class of 1975.

After law school, I worked as a trial attorney and special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice for about ten years. The next ten years I was in private practice doing civil litigation. The last ten years of law practice was as a staff attorney at the Department of Veterans Affairs. I have lived in the District of Columbia since coming to attend Georgetown University about 50 years ago.

I have two adult children, no grandchildren, one former wife. My wife and I live in the Southwest area of the District of Columbia.

After five years at the Securities & Exchange Commission I joined the law firm of Rogers & Wells and then Seward & Kissel, where I became a partner specializing in financial services law. The last 10 years of my career were spent as the regional Deputy General Counsel of UBS Investment Bank. Upon retiring from the practice of law, I volunteered as a docent for seven years at the Bronx Zoo until moving to amount Pleasant SC, where I established a professional portrait photography business. I also became a volunteer for the Avian Conservation Center, rescuing wild birds of prey and shore birds.

On a personal note, I have been happily married for 38 years to Gene D’Agostino and sadly just lost my 30 year-old pet conure in April.