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        I thought it might be fun to do a survey of televisions shows that we were watching, so I began hounding you for your favs.  I had no idea that a substantial number were watching Game of Thrones.  Who knew?  Fortunately, there were two men who acknowledged that they watched sports and one woman who owned up to watching Flip or Flop.

 

          I see Eileen C. Finucane, Esq., fairly often at lunch on Thursdays.  We both belong to the same Rotary Club (along with Mike Connor, Esq., Tony Cosentino, Esq., Theresa Yaukey, honorary member President Judge Carol Van Horn, and retiree Dennis Deloreto, Esq., among others), so I caught up with her at the end of a meeting.  Eileen is currently a shareholder in Salzmann Hughes, P.C.   She is primarily focusing on estate planning and administration, and business and real estate transactions.  Currently Eileen is solicitor for Antrim Township Zoning Board, the Borough of Chambersburg Municipal Authority, and the Mercersburg General Purpose Authority.

 

          Eileen is part of a family of achievers: her brother Jim Finucane is with the World Bank, her brother Brendan Finucane is a professor of Economics at Shippensburg University, her brother Tom Finucane, Esq., has recently retired and her brother, Mike Finucane, Esq., is still dealing with family law with a practice at the old Chambersburg Trust Company building.  She did, along with her brothers, attend school here, but her parents had returned to the Philadelphia area before Eileen headed to college.

 

          Eileen graduated from Swathmore College with a degree in Philosophy in 1974.  She and her then companion packed their backpacks and hiked across the United States.  After her wanderings, she came back to Chambersburg to civilize a log cabin and learn to cook with wood.  She admits to gardening and then taking a job at UPS, delivering packages to the Lurgan area.  Her boundless energy unsated, Eileen then headed to Villanova, where she earned her juris doctorate in 1979.

 

          Along the way Eileen met and married her first husband, Leo.  He was a forestry student at UNC, Chapel Hill.  The couple headed to Savannah, Georgia, where Eileen worked for a law firm in banking law.  Dan Long, Esq., and Ted Wingerd, Esq., were the founding partners of the firm, Wingerd and Long, in Chambersburg which hired Eileen in 1982.  While both of the founders are now deceased, Eileen was able to benefit from their wisdom and professionalism.  Eileen also joined her brothers in the practice of law as they had already set up their practices at the firm.

 

          Eileen recalls the football games that pitted the Chambersburg attorneys against the Waynesboro attorneys.  She allowed that spouses were also able to join the touch football games, which allowed entry of some 'ringers'.  I believe that one of the former Waynesboro attorneys, to wit Bill Kaminski, Esq., was a coach at the Redskins summer camp.  Back in the day, the summer camp was in Carlisle.  In spite of what Bill might say, Eileen wishes everyone to know that she did not intentionally collide with Stephen E. Patterson, Esq., in an effort to win the game.  We also reminisced about some of the picnics and volleyball games when we dared to jump...and fall.

 

          Eileen and her husband, Dale Stouffer, owner of Brandale LLC construction, are the parents of four 'fabulous' children and ten 'fantastic' grandchildren.  As if being an attorney and parent was insufficient excitement, Eileen is currently a member of United Way Board of Directors for Franklin County.  She's past president of the Franklin County Bar Association and past President of the Rotary Club of Chambersburg.  She's also served on the Board of Directors for the Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce.

 

          I learned that Salzmann and Hughes had hired an attorney who came from New Jersey.  I put in a telephone call to Stephen T. Coccorese, Esq. [Coke Co Reese, I think.]  Steve did graduate from North Hunterdon Regional High School in Annadale, New Jersey in 2003.  If you drive I78, formerly known as US 22, Annadale is just a bit east of Clinton, near some lakes in the middle of the state.

         

          Steve quickly migrated to Pennsylvania, though.  He is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, main campus, with a degree in crime, law and justice awarded to him in 2007. 

 

          In high school, Steve began working for BJ's, the box store.  He continued his employment through college and after graduation, became a manager of BJ's.  He was unable to stay away, however, and entered Penn State Dickinson School of Law, State College.  He was awarded his juris doctorate in 2012. 

 

Steve Coccorese at the 2013 Admission Ceremony sponsored by Nancy Meyers

          Shortly after finishing his law degree, he returned to New Jersey to begin his practice.  He set up near Lamberville, N.J., not far from Doylestown, PA.  There, an older acquaintance of his family fed him some cases.  This will work, he thought, until he was asked to go to Municipal Court (similar to Magistrate Court) to handle a speeding ticket for the older attorney.  The judge took pity on Steve, because he'd obviously been sent to do the dirty work, and assess a hefty fine instead of points that would possibly lead to a license suspension. 

 

          Steve's enjoying his municipal work at Salzmann Hughes and mentioned that Bryan has been a mentor.  He's concentrating, for now, in labor and employment aspects of the municipal work.  He's sort of single...he has a long term companion.  I urged him to give me an exclusive, but he, in a professional manner, quickly changed the subject.

 

          Save a cup of coffee for me.  I may be over.