About EU Pundit


EUPundit is written by Andis Kaulins, a joint EU and USA citizen, born in Germany in 1946, J.D. Stanford University Law School (1971); alumnus of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, an international law firm headquartered in New York City; former FFA Law Lecturer in Anglo-American Law, University of Trier, Germany; co-author of the world's leading Langenscheidt Routledge German-English, English-German Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance (chief editor Ludwig Merz), and author of books on the history of civilization, ancient scripts and languages, and megalithic cultures.

EUPundit blog postings focus on law, legal issues and jurisprudence, including intellectual property (copyrights, patents, trademarks), Constitutional Law, information technology (IT), telecommunications, new media, the Internet, social media networking, politics and current events, personal computers and their spin-offs (smartphones, pads, tablets), sports, travel, the history of civilization, the history of law, cyberspace, and lifestyle.

Andis Kaulins, who writes EUPundit, won the men's golf club championship
at the Mosel Golf Club in Cochem, Germany, 2008, at age 61 3/4. 

Andis Kaulins at the Mosel Golf Club Cochem
This photograph at Cochem Golf by Christian Hoffmann
shows from the left after the final round
the champions holding their trophies:
the women's champion, the men's senior champion,
the junior champion, the women's senior champion,
and I am at the far right as the men's champion.

Today, at 6 feet tall and weighing in at about 220, I am known here and there for my long drives, occasionally outdriving top young players, even though I turned 66 in December, 2012. I have always been interested in sports and was pretty good at all of them, but I had skipped the 1st grade in school, so I was always a year younger and smaller than most of my classmates. I grew a lot in my senior year in high school, too late for any varsity sports except golf, and that has remained my sport ever since. The 1964 Lincoln High School golf team of which I was a member was the Class A State Golf Champion and the entire team was inducted into the LHS Athletic Hall of Fame in October 2012.



I was unable to attend the ceremonies but the rest of the team was there.
My brother Arv Kaulins represented the Kaulins family in his own right as a member of the Lincoln High School 1967 Class A State Golf Championship team that was inducted into the LHS Athletic Hall of Fame at the same time:


The photograph from the JournalStar in Lincoln, Nebraska shows two Nebraska State Golf Championship Teams, the Class of 1964 in the back row (Dick Beechner, coach, and players Jerry Rockwell, Dennis Bradshaw, Galen Ullstrom, Allen Bettin, Charles Borner, Sam Beechner and George Snider), and the Class of 1967 in the front row: Bonnie Kuklin (daughter of coach Harry Kuklin), Mike McGuire, Bob Dann, Arveds Kaulins, Tim Knopp and Lance Gloe.




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Golf - Hole in One
June 18, 1963

Golf - Nebraska State High School Golf Champions 1964


A Hole in One is a Special Feeling.
Plus, it was my grandfather's birthday.

Nebraska Class A State High School
Golf Champions 1964



 
This is the ball I used for my 1st Ace.
I was 16 then and played this ball for maybe 10 rounds - you could still cut the ball then. The witnesses in my foursome were Lowell Berg (now retired former head of probably the leading architectural firm in Lincoln, Nebraska, and past President of the Rotary Club), Roger Yant and Mike Ley (who in 1972 was Nebraska Match Play Champion). You could send the ball in to Titleist (Acushnet) and have them stamp your name and date on it, which I did.
Andis Kaulins, Hole in One
June 18, 1963

Nebraska State Golf Champions

Players above: (bottom left to right)
- Andis Kaulins, George Snider,
Charles Borner (medalist, and in 1970 Nebraska
Match Play Champion, now a golf pro),
Dennis Bradshaw (later a PGA management graduate),
Galen Ullstrom (later a lawyer and insurance executive),
and Sam Beechner. The golf coach, Dick Beechner,
is not pictured but see
 Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame
 where Dick is the Executive Director.



Senior Club Champion Stromberg - 2004

Senior Club Champion
Stromberg - 2003







Andis Kaulins
 

Andis Kaulins
at Stromberg Golf Club
in Germany
Senior Club Champion
2004


Golf Trophy 2004
Andis Kaulins on the right


Martha, My
Golf Partner
2011

Karlsberg Golf Tournament 2007
Men's Young Seniors Golf Team
Stromberg Golf, German Golf League









Andis Kaulins on the far right - see also here


Andis Kaulins short biography:
Lincoln High School, Lincoln, Nebraska ('64);
B.A. University of Nebraska ('68);
an international law firm headquartered in New York City, New York, USA;
former FFA Law Lecturer in Anglo-American Law, University of Trier, Germany;
co-author of the world's leading Langenscheidt Routledge German-English, English-German Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance (chief editor Ludwig Merz).