[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 126 (Thursday, October 7, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1834-E1835]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         HONORING HARVEY L. GOLDEN'S 50 YEARS OF PRACTICING LAW

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                            HON. JOE WILSON

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, October 6, 2004

  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to praise the 
works of one of South Carolina's outstanding legal minds, Harvey L. 
Golden, who celebrates 50 years of practicing family law this month. I 
am proud to call Harvey a good friend, a fellow member of the Bar of 
South Carolina, and I ask all of my colleagues to join me in honoring 
his lifetime of hard work and service in the law profession.
  I ask that the following information on Harvey's life and 
achievements be added into the official record.

       Harvey Laurance Golden was born in Brooklyn, New York, 
     October 15, 1929, the only child of Gertrude Dribbon Golden 
     who had, come to this Country from Manchester, England, and 
     Irvin (Jack) Golden who was born in New York. When Harvey was 
     four years old, his mother, father and he moved from Brooklyn 
     to Hartford, Connecticut, where his father spent World War II 
     working at the Colt Firearms factory and, subsequently, 
     became a supervisor in Pratt and Whitney Aircraft factory. In 
     Hartford, his mother became a buyer for Brown and Thompson 
     Department Store. In Hartford, Harvey attended the Vine 
     Street School and subsequently Jones Jr. High School. 
     Whereupon the family moved to Columbia, South Carolina, after 
     a brief summer in Augusta, Georgia. In Columbia, he attended 
     Columbia High School and became Business Manager of the 
     school newspaper, ``High Life'' and became active in the high 
     school debate team. Harvey was also active in the drama club 
     and chorus.
       While in Columbia, Harvey and some of his best friends 
     joined the S.C. Air National Guard in 1948 and when the 
     Korean war began, he turned down a college deferment when his 
     S.C. Guard unit was federalized. The South Carolina Guard was 
     the first guard unit in the country to be nationalized and he 
     was the first guardsman in Korea and one month later was 
     promoted to Sergeant. He spent two years as a Weapons 
     Specialist in charge of the 157th Fighter Bomber Squadron 
     Armament, including napalm, bombs, rockets, machine guns and 
     small arms. This work was accomplished on F-51 aircraft that 
     had already been sent to the war zone and had SCANG scrubbed 
     from the side of the planes. These were the same aircraft on 
     which Sgt. Golden had been working back at Congaree Air Base 
     in Columbia. Upon returning to Columbia he was hospitalized 
     in the Columbia VA Hospital for three months and released.
       Whereupon, he approached Dean Sam Prince of the USC Law 
     School requesting special dispensation to be allowed to 
     attend law school without vacation and thus be able to 
     graduate in two years rather then three or two and a half. 
     The Dean grudgingly allowed him to become the first student 
     to petition the law school to enter and while in law school 
     he was awarded membership in Wig and Robe Honor Society, 
     having begun in September 1952 and finished in September, 
     1954 with only one grade below a B. He was also elected by 
     the faculty and editorial board as Editor-in-Chief of the 
     South Carolina Law Review. He had already been elected 
     president of his fraternity. After graduation, he had become 
     very active in the University Theatre and had played many 
     roles there as well as in Town Theatre and later he founded 
     the Workshop Theatre and Columbia City Ballet as he began the 
     practice of law. After law school, he practiced with Edens 
     and Woodward and then Isadore Lourie, the late legendary 
     State Senator, joined him as Golden and Lourie for the next 
     four years.
       On July 15, 1962, he married Heide Engelhart and they are 
     the proud parents of three children and two grand children.
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                            Harvey L. Golden

       Trial Attorney in South Carolina for 50 continuous years 
     with primary statewide practice in Family Law. Currently:
       Recipient, American Bar Association, Lifetime Achievement 
     Award--August, 2001;
       Recipient, South Carolina Bar Association first Family Law 
     Public Service Award--June, 1994;
       Member, ABA House of Delegates (1990-2000) and its 
     Nominating Committee (1996-1998);
       Officer, Council Member, ABA Family Law Section (1984-
     2000);
       Certified Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial 
     Lawyers and member of its National Board of Governors;
       Founding Fellow, (U.S. Chapter) International Academy of 
     Matrimonial Lawyers;
       Diplomate, American College of Family Trial Lawyers (1989-
     );
       Advocate, American Board of Trial Advocates;
       Listed in ``Best Lawyers in America'' all five editions 
     1983-99.
       Listed as one of the best forty-three Family Court Lawyers 
     in the United States by National Law Journal, November 16, 
     1987;
       Contributor to ``Fair Share'', ``Matrimonial Strategist'', 
     ``Trial'' and ``Family Advocate'' National legal 
     publications;
       Author, S.C. Pre-Nuptial Agreement Statute;
       Co-Author, S.C. Equitable Apportionment Act;
       Co-Author: ``Divorce'', 13 S.C. Jurisprudence 63, 1992, and 
     ``Adultery and Fornication'', 3 S.C. Jurisprudence 1, 1991;
       Chairman, AAML Inter-Disciplinary Mental Health Committee;
       Former Treasurer, International Academy of Matrimonial 
     Lawyers (1990-1991);
       Former National Chairman of American Bar Association Family 
     Law Section 1987-1988) and Secretary, Vice Chair and Chair 
     Elect (1984-1987);
       Former President, South Carolina Chapter, American Academy 
     of Matrimonial Lawyers (4 Years)

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       Past Member, Nominating Committee, American Bar Association 
     Conference of Section Chairmen;
       Past Member, American Bar Association Law School 
     Accreditation Team (1988). Formerly Contributing Editor on 
     Family Law for the South Carolina Educational Television 
     Network;
       Member, South Carolina Bar Judicial Modernization 
     Committee. Formerly one of five original appointees by the 
     S.C. Supreme Court on Family Law Specialization Advisory 
     Board;
       Former Chairman of the Family Law Section of the S.C. Bar.
       Former Chairman of the S.C. Trial Lawyers Family Law 
     Section. Program Participant, ``Negotiations'' American 
     Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 1983;
       Producer-Moderator of the First Family law CLE program in 
     South Carolina (1975) at the request of the SC Supreme Court;
       Former member, Long Range Planning Committee and Scope and 
     Correlation Committee, ABA Family Law Section;
       Former Public Information Representative, ABA Family Law 
     Section;
       Frequent Family Law Faculty at: ABA National Institutes, 
     Annual and mid-winter conventions and S.C. Mandatory Judicial 
     C.L.E. programs. Frequent Lecturer on Family Law at USC 
     College of Law, USC College of General Studies, Lutheran 
     Southern Theological Seminary, CLE program speaker in: 
     Atlanta, Connecticut, D.C., Colorado, Florida, Illinois, 
     Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West 
     Virginia, and Wisconsin Bar Association programs. Past 
     Chairman of the Paternity Committee of the ABA, Family Law 
     Section (1978-1981).
       Recipient of the 1978 ``Certificate of Outstanding 
     Contribution'' of ABA Family Law Section;
       Participant, with Lawrence Stotter, Esq., in the ``Great 
     Custody Debate of 1980'' presented by the American Academy of 
     Matrimonial Lawyers, Chicago, Illinois;
       Former Special Judge appointee in Richland County, S.C. 
     Juvenile-Domestic Relations Courts, County Civil Jury Courts, 
     County Criminal Jury Courts (1965-1975);
       Elected to the Debate Hall of Fame, University of South 
     Carolina (1977);
       Former Editor in Chief, S.C. Law Quarterly (1954);
       Elected to Order of Wig and Robe. Legal Scholarship Society 
     (1954);
       Former Drama Critic, the State Newspaper, Columbia, South 
     Carolina (1983-1987);
       Past President, Congregation Beth Shalom, Columbia, S.C. 
     (Two terms);
       Co-Founder and Director, Workshop Theatre of South Carolina 
     (1965-1981);
       Co-Founder of Columbia City Ballet Company, Columbia, South 
     Carolina (1962), Board of Directors (1962-1988).
       U.S. Air Force Korean Combat Zone (1950-1952).

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