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Ed Kweskin was born and raised in Stamford. He graduated from the University of  Pennsylvania in 1968 with a B.A. and then earned a Juris Doctor degree from George  Washington University Law School. After practicing law two years with Community Legal  Services, Inc., in Philadelphia, Ed and his wife Helen moved to Rowayton. He began practicing  law in Stamford with Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin & Kuriansky, and there he has remained as a  partner for over 50 years. Ed is a past president of the Stamford-Darien Bar Association. In 2016,  Connecticut Legal Services and the Connecticut Bar Association honored him with their Pro  Bono Awards.  

Ed served seventeen years as a Commissioner in Rowayton, including ten years as  Commission Chairman. Additionally, Ed is a past president of the Bell Island Improvement  Association, Temple Sinai in Stamford, and the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Club of  Fairfield County. He is currently a member of the Silvermine Golf Club and the Rowayton Yacht  Club.  

Ed and Helen have lived on Bell Island since 1977. They have two children who grew up  in Rowayton. Ed and Helen enjoy traveling, especially to see their three young grandchildren  who live in Geneva, Switzerland. Their three other grandchildren live in nearby Armonk, NY.

William Looney

William (Bill) was born in late December 1953 in the North Country of Vermont – it goes without saying he is very familiar with the last light of day.  An early memory was watching his father build by hand a lake cottage in the Sandwich area of New Hampshire – a place that remained in his family for more than 60 years and inspired some epic father/son bonding trips into fields, streams, bogs and mountains where the destination was not always clear. 

After this early education in the woods, Bill went to school at Connecticut College, where he spent semesters at the London School of Economics but mostly traveled to wild places in Cornwall and Wales. He moved back to New York as a graduate student at the Columbia University School of International Affairs, receiving an advanced degree in 1979.  His working years began shortly after that, as an analyst and writer for the Economist Intelligence Unit, where he was assigned to cover the Canadian market and spent many long winter weeks in Ottawa reporting on Quebec separatism and the country’s dalliance with economic nationalism. Later, he was among the first to uncover the rise of the global consumer movement after the Union Carbide chemical disaster in India, work that gave him the tag line “Bhopal Bill.”     

That led in turn to a long stint in the pharmaceutical industry where he handled public affairs and policy issues in the UK, Japan and other non-US markets for Warner-Lambert and later Pfizer, trying as well to keep the CEOs happy at the Davos World Economic Forum and other ego-embellishing events.   After that came roles as editor of two pharma trade publications, for which he received awards for excellence in editorial commentary.   Currently, Bill contributes part-time to content and event management for a French company, the Galien Foundation, co-founded by the late author and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel to promote medicines innovation as an instrument for global growth, development and peace.  He also works with DMA Secretary Mike Wheeler as an English tutor for new immigrants, in a program run by Family Centers of Greenwich/Stamford.   

Bill now lives in Darien with his wife Andrea, who he met early at his first job, being told by the boss to offer his seat (reluctantly) to her, as the fresh new face from the Economist’s Washington office.  Forty years later, Bill still has that bentwood office chair, now at home — and continues the (now not so easy) practice of offering his spare seat to a stranger – because you never know what good can happen when you do. 

I was born in Elmhurst, IL in 1956 and grew up in Los Angeles and Seward, NE. In 2022, after 41 years in Houston, my wife Kathy and I retired and moved to Darien to be near our daughter, Sarah, her husband, and our two granddaughters.

I have a B.S. in Life Sciences from the University of Nebraska and a Master’s of Urban Planning from Texas A&M University. I began my career with the City of Houston Planning and Development Department and later moved on to the Houston Galveston Area Council, where I was Director of Community and Environmental Planning for 35 years. I am a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and served as a Site Visitor for the Planning Accreditation Board which reviews and accredits collegiate urban planning degree programs. I am also currently serving on the Town of Darien’s Great Island Advisory Committee. I enjoy playing guitar and basketball.

Lou Rawden grew up in Cheshire, Conn.  He graduated with a B.S. degree from Bryant University in 1978 and an MS degree from the University of Hartford in 1980.  Lou started his career as a CPA with Deloitte and Touche in Stamford, Conn and over the years transitioned to banking .  In March of 2022 Lou retired from Apple Bank in New York City after a 30 year career  where he last served as Chief Financial Officer.  

Lou lives in Darien with his wife Kathy.   They moved to Darien in 1985.  Their two children Katie and Lou Jr. were educated in the public school system.   Lou was active with Darien Little League serving as a coach, commissioner and in the initial fund raising for the McGuane baseball fields and over the years has held several Board positions at the Middlesex Club.     Lou and Kathy are long time members of the Middlesex Club and enjoy racquet sports, biking, hiking and golf.

Rick Bullitt has a wife (Georgia), two children (Stockton and Ellie), and two grandchildren (Emmy and Beau — endless pictures available on request). He was born in Philadelphia in 1956 and attended Yale, then to the University of Virginia for a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and a law degree from Cal. He spent thirty years as a patent attorney in various law firms and corporations and retired from Bayer Healthcare. In the summer of 1976, he worked at Disney World driving a steam locomotive. Rick plays squash and tennis with an equal lack of skill.