Herb Trubo

Former reporter and editorial page editor Herb Trubo '70, now an attorney in Portland, perused some old clips to take us down memory lane for his era.He covered Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sproul Plaza speech and later wrote the paper's editorial after King was assassinated.

"There were also ROTC scandals, Jerry Rubin interviews, revelations of anti-personnel bombs in Vietnam, and fraternity hazing exposes," Herb says."I recall late nights at the printers to put the paper to bed, bad coffee and lots of donuts."

As a staff member during the late '60s, Herb was on hand to cover some of the benchmark anti-war showdowns."I remember Susan Werbe ('68) and I being chased by police outside the Oakland Induction Center.Sue lost a shoe and we took refuge in a bank."

Herb left Berkeley to spend his junior year in England at the University of Warwick.For the Class of '70, the year of Kent State, he reminds us, there were no finals and no graduation ceremony.

After law school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, he returned to the West Coast in 1973 as a VISTA legal aid lawyer in Portland.After a year, he started a private law practice.He helped form a Public Interest Law Firm (The Divorce Law Center) in the late '70s, and also became involved with the creation of the Family Mediation Center, which teamed lawyers and therapists.

He is now a partner in a five-person firm that emphasizes family law litigation, mediation and arbitration, and is a fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

In the '80s, Herb was an adjunct professor at the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clarke College.He also was on the Board of Directors of Phoenix Rising, a gay and lesbian counseling center.He had married during law school, then amicably divorced in 1976.

"I lost a partner to AIDS in the late '80s," Herb says."I partnered up again four years ago with a transplanted Pennsylvanian, Steve Buchert, a realtor with the Hasson Company in Portland."