Superior Court’s Longest-Serving Judge Calls It Quits

After 22 years in private practice and 18 as a Superior Court judge, Robert P. Schifferman decided “to stop and smell the roses,” he said. His retirement was effective Dec. 4.

Schifferman, who attended Glendale schools, served as Superior Court judge in Glendale from 1977 to 1989, longer than any other judge has served in that court.

He has watched Glendale change from a bedroom community to a big city, but says that “through all the changes, the things I valued stayed the same.”

Arthur Fisher, Schifferman’s court clerk for the last seven years, said Schifferman ran a formal courtroom and yet was very approachable and “the first to laugh at a good joke.” Behind the scenes, the judge was always available for questions from the staff.

“He would always do his homework,” Fisher said, adding, “He read everything,” often surprising attorneys with his knowledge.

* Jerold and Dorothy Beeve, a husband-and-wife doctor and nurse team from Glendale, recently returned from the Fiji Islands, where they were part of a medical team that provided free eye care and cataract surgery to needy islanders.

* Michael H. Jackson, president of Glendale Adventist Hospital, has been promoted to senior vice president of Adventist Health System/West.

* Waymouth Lacey, a Glendale postal employee, was recently honored as a World War II veteran, in observance of the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Postmaster William G. Jackson presented Lacey, a 24-year postal employee, with the philatelic book “1941: A World at War.”

* Rosemary Glass and Dorothy Moss, both of Glendale, Mer Laufenbery of Los Angeles and Lucy Metcalf of La Crescenta are new docents at Descanso Gardens.

* Attorney Patricia Andreani of Glendale was recently honored by Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner for her work as a volunteer assistant administrator of Los Angeles County’s Domestic Violence Project and participation in the Community Outreach Video Program.

* Kathryn David of La Crescenta, a registered nurse with a master of science degree from Cal State Los Angeles, has been named the assistant administrator for Patient Care Services at Thompson Memorial Medical Center in Burbank.