Guest Speakers
Bruce and Marcia Butler
GENEALOGY AND HISTORICAL WRITING
turning business writing skills to genealogy and historical subjects
Bruce and Marcia Butler
Bruce Butler was a partner in a law firm in Washington, D.C. and then a resident partner of the firm for several years in London, England. In 1984 he became international counsel for Allied Signal in Morristown, New Jersey and then in 1988 was transferred to California as General Counsel of Allied Signal Aerospace in Torrance. Subsequently he became international counsel and then General Counsel of Kaiser Aluminum in Houston, Texas.
Bruce received his BA from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, an LLB from the University of Pittsburgh Law School and a Masters of Law from Georgetown University Law Center. He was editor-in-chief of the law review at Pitt. He spent a year at a law institute in Frankfurt, West Germany and six months with a German law firm.
Bruce is the author of 10 law review articles and also co-author of a book for German businessmen on doing business in the United States. Upon retirement he turned his writing skills to genealogy and then to 17th-century history. Last summer he and his wife, Marcia, published a book on the history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th Century, using only documents which referred to Marcia’s direct ancestors. By 1652 more than 170 of these ancestors were living in New England.
Marcia graduated from Chatham College in Pittsburgh, where she was a history major. After marrying Bruce and accompanying him to Germany, Marcia became a researcher for seven years at National Geographic. The couple have three children living back East, a daughter and a son in New York City and one daughter in Washington, D.C. Marcia is currently chairman of Las Candalistas’ annual fundraising effort, which will culminate in the group’s annual “Walk on the Wild Side” event next April.
Join us on Monday, September 20, 2010 at the Palos Verdes Peninsula Library at 7pm, come early to network and meet new friends!
