March 22, 2000
by Dick Prentke
Larry Serra is of counsel to McKenna & Cuneo’s San Diego office. From January through April, he commutes weekly to Tucson, where he teaches intl. business transactions to foreign lawyer LLM students at the U. of Arizona law school. As you can see from the above photo, he shares equal status, at least in office sharing arrangements, with the Chief Justice of the US, William Rehnquist. Larry went salmon fishing in Alaska last July with Paul Christenson. Larry realized how much he liked driving ships in his US Navy days when he enjoyed the boat trip to Cooke Inlet more than the fishing. Upon return to San Diego, he enrolled in a Merchant Marine training school and successfully tested for a Coast Guard 200 gross ton master’s license in December. He’s booking heavier tonnage time as practice and teaching permit. Son Chris Serra ’97, a software engineer, decided to become a patent attorney and is finishing his first year at the U. of Chicago law school.
What has been going on with Christenson, you may be wondering. After his Navy tour with Assault Craft Unit One in Vietnam and Harvard business school, Paul went to work for Continental Illinois Bank, and eventually made it to Hong Kong. He left the bank but stayed in Hong Kong, where he ran his ship and aircraft brokering business, straight out trading company trading, and a chain of American restaurants in Asia called Dan Ryan’s Chicago Grills. He returned to the States shortly after Hong Kong reverted, but continues to run an industrial bagging business and basically lives on an airplane, shuttling to Asia and around the US from a co-op in Chicago and a condo in Scottsdale.
Thirty-five years ago, winter ended, the lake thawed, trees blossomed, and our first spring arrived.
© 2000 Dick Prentke and The Princeton Alumni Weekly. Used by permission.
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