James Brennan
'53
At Rochester:
- Three-year letterman in football
- Freshman fullback
- Sophomore Most Improved Player
- Outstanding Lineman Award as a junior and senior
- Selected to 1952 Small College All-American Honorable Mention Team
- Earned a BS in Chemical Engineering in 1953
Post-Graduate:
- JD Law, Georgetown Law Center, 1958
- Admitted to Washington, DC Bar
- Received Schulte Zur Hausen Fellowship for International Law study at University of Frankfurt, Germany
- Counsel to US Navy in NATO regarding intellectual property negotiations
- Joined International Office of US Patent Office
- Headed Office for Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
- Deputy General Counsel of NOAA
- Appointed by Secretary of Commerce to Director of National Marine Fisheries Service
- Negotiated for National Weather Service
- Wife Dorothy McCarthy Brennan '55, '56N
- Passed away in September, 2017
