John Esche:  

After three years at Annandale High, in a suburb if Washington, D.C., where he was active in AFS and theatre and Don Henretty instilled a lifelong love of history, John's Dad was transferred to Marietta, Georgia, where John graduated from Sprayberry High. While at Sprayberry, John joined a number of his classmates on a local bowling league (maintaining an average *way* over his head) and played "Jonathan" in Sprayberry's production of ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. He then went from Sprayberry to Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas for B.A. in History & Political Science in 1969 (active in student government, Campus Players - including starting their radio program "Box Seat on Broadway" built around his record collection, supplying plot synopses between cast album tracks. The show proved so popular with the town the college station continued it following John's graduation with the aid of part of his collection he left behind, John also served on the Debate Squad - Captain for 3 years, Pi Kappa Delta, Student Senate, Student Judiciary, served as president of their branch of College Young Republicans and worked with the campaign for Rockefeller for President in 1968. 32 years later John returned to Southwestern to oversee the production of a musical biography of Mary Martin he had written for a classmate as the Southwestern Homecoming Play. This was sufficiently well received that the college commissioned other alumni to pen Homecoming plays for the next decade). John followed Southwestern with Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. for his J.D. in 1972 (Vice President of the Student Bar Association and Drama Critic for the Georgetown Law Weekly). He passed the Bars in D.C. and Connecticut that year, settling in Bolton, Ct. where his paternal grandparents had lived. Working in the law department (Real Estate Investment Dept., specifically) at Aetna Life & Casualty for a decade while elected to various local offices including the Republican Town Committee, the Boards of Education and Planning & Zoning and serving as co-chair of the Town Charter Commission and serving on several state and congressional campaigns. John left Aetna to enter private practice in 1980. He met his spouse, Jim Dwyer, in 1981. Jim, a Boston University graduate and computer consultant, shortly after entered NYU Law School and passed the Bars in New York and Connecticut. While Jim served a few years with the S.E.C., the couple lived on Capitol Hill in D.C. and New York before settling in Jersey City, N.J. where Jim contin...Expand for more