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Today's Featured Biography
Jonathan Genn
10/04/2010:
Dear fellow Barons: I confess my sin for not updating my profile before today. But at least I will have my bio updated by the time the clock strikes midnight 10/10/10 at our Main Event!
Let's see...I don't think I have done a damn thing noteworthy since our 30th Reunion, unless, of course, you count my 4-1/2 year prison sentence I've served in a federal penitentiary since our reunion. No wait, that wasn't me. That was Scooter Libby! (See, I told you dementia sucks!)
OK, maybe I didn't serve any prison time. But I still don't think I've done anything my B-CC classmates would care about since our 30th reunion. Besides, I can only take a couple of minutes to write this bio before the nursing home attendants shut off my computer and tell me it's bedtime. No wait, that's my wife changing my Depends undergarment. Oh hell, I don't know what's happening!
So the best thing for me to do is refer you to what I wrote 5 years ago. (See my 2005 bio entry provided below.) Pretty much everything is the same as I wrote 5 years ago, except:
1. My first wife, Pam, is still married to me after 27+ years (not the 21+ years from last reunion time);
2. My only son, Adam, is now 23+ years old and still (begrudgingly) might admit I am his natural father. Adam graduated from Emory University last spring, where (among other college activities) he was a pitcher on the varsity baseball team for 4 years. During his years on the baseball team, he pitched in the Division III College World Series in bustling Appleton, Wisconsin, where the Emory University Varsity Baseball Team played for the NCAA National Championship (only to lose by a run in extra innings to finish ranked second in the nation). It was a most memorable experience, even for someone like me with short-term memory loss!
3. Coincidentally, one of my son's college baseball teammates, Connor McGuiness, is the brother of Suzi Burka's daughter's fiancée. (Did you follow that?!) Suzi's daughter will be getting married at Columbia Country Club (the venue of our 35th reunion) 3 weeks after our reunion. This is the first time that my family will be "divided" at a wedding --- I'll sit on the bride's side (knowing Suzi the longest), while Pam and Adam (who are more familiar with the McGuiness family than the Burka family) will sit on the groom's side! At least I think that's what's going to happen, presuming, of course, that my nurses (no wait, prison guards?) will release me that day.
Perhaps when I see you at our reunion, you can tell me where I am and where I'll be going. For that reason alone, I'm really looking forward to seeing all of you this weekend!!
Jonathan
[Below is my 2005 Bio for our 30th Reunion]
All right, having seen all the detailed biographies of other classmates, I feel shamed into providing a bit more personal detail. First, despite what you may have read recently about my good friend and colleague, W. Mark Felt, I was in fact "Deep Throat" back when we were all attending B-CC. No, wait --- that's not right. Yeah, Felt was it, not me. Sorry, my bad.
(Damn, dementia sucks!)
Oh, now I remember. After graduating B-CC, I attended Georgetown University so I could get far, far away from home. After spending freshman year on the same dorm floor with fellow B-CC Baron --- the now distinguished Dr. James P. McCarrick, Jr. of Asheville, NC --- Jim and I lived together in the same Georgetown townhouse for the remaining 3 years of college. [Don't worry Jim, your secrets are still safe with me. The medical boards will never know. There is such a thing as "housemate-housemate privilege," right?] Anyway, for one semester while at GU, I was a White House Intern; but I was not accorded the same White House privileges later given to Monica Lewinsky, because Jimmy Carter was then President. (Phew, I just can't shake that image out of my head!)
OK, now for a quarter-century in a paragraph. After graduating GU in 1979, I attended law school at University of Maryland, graduating UM Law School in 1982; became an associate of Weinberg and Green in Baltimore, MD in 1982; became a Weinberg and Green partner in 1987; changed to the old-man status "of counsel" in 1991, when I also became in-house corporate counsel for Percontee, Inc. (a DC-area real estate company); resigned as "of counsel" from Weinberg and Green in 1995, when I became General Counsel for Percontee; became Executive Vice President of Percontee; and have hidden in a small office closet ever since then, so the President can't find me to fire me.
In 1983, I married my first wife, Pamela, a 1979 graduate of University of Maryland (journalism major). In 1987, Pam and I had our only son, Adam. (Actually, Pam did the work; I just watched). To everyone's surprise, after 21+ years, Pam is still married to me, and Adam, after 17+ years, still acknowledges (albeit, reluctantly) that I just might be his natural father.
Well, that's all I'll say for now, so I'll have something to talk about when we meet at the Reunion. Besides, you've taken too much time from your work to read all of this. And right now, your Boss is behind you reading over your shoulder, wondering why you're using valuable company time for personal purposes. So try to look like this is somehow work-related, and get back to work NOW!
See 'ya in August.
Jonathan M. Genn, Esquire
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Percontee, Inc.
11900 Tech Road
Silver Spring, MD 20904
[email protected]
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