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About Andis Kaulins

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1935, Riga, Latvia Grandparents Vilis and Berta Putelis,
together with daughter Lucija (my aunt) and Valda Antonija. My mother at age 11.
Grandparents Putelis, Aunt Lucy, Mother in 1935

Valda Putelis 1935


1945, Christmas, Wetzlar, Germany
, Valda Antonija Putelis, later Valda Kaulins.
My mother at age 21.

Valda Antonija Putelis at age 21

Valda Putelis 1945


1946, Germany
Valda Putelis and Arvids Kaulins.
My parents as a couple prior to my birth.

Valda Putelis and Arvids Kaulins 1946

Arvids Kaulins Valda Putelis


1949, Germany
Andis Kaulins
I was a strong kid and looked after my sister.
I could read at the time I was 3 years old.
Andis Kaulins, Sarmite Kaulins 1949

Andis Kaulins Kid


1950, Germany
Andis Kaulins – city life
The bigger they are the harder they fall.
You see here why boxing trunks are normally knee-length.

Andis Kaulins 1950

Andis Kaulins Boxer


1950, Germany
Andis Kaulins – country life
This harvest scene preceded a move to the USA in 1950,
where I grew up from age 4 (1950) to age 27/28 (1974), when I returned to Germany.

Valda Kaulins, Andis, Arveds, Sarmite 1950
Valda Kaulins Mother


1951, Funk, Nebraska, USA
Andis Kaulins
The transition to cowboy life was just a Colt away.
We lived on a farm with cows and 3000 turkeys.
I started to learn English, reading dictionaries and encyclopedias when I could get them.
Andis Kaulins 1951

Andis Kaulins Cowboy


1952/1953, Princeton, Nebraska – The Kaulins family had a gas station between Lincoln and Beatrice.
Dad and Mom put up many people during strong blizzards. We had our own Coke machine
and I went to a one-room one-teacher school for children in kindergarden to grade 12.

Andis Kaulins 1952

Kaulins Family Princeton


1953/1954, Lincoln, Nebraska – We moved to the city.
I skipped the first grade
because I had read all the books through the sixth grade by that time. The family had an addition, sister Inta Kaulins.

1954 Mom, Inta, Dad, Andis, Sarmite, Arveds

Kaulins Immediate Family


1955, Lincoln, NebraskaThis is a photograph of the entire larger family living in Lincoln.
1955 Andis, Dad, Mom, Inta, Aunt Lucy (Lucija), Grandfather Vilis (Opaps), Sarmite, Grandmother Berta (Omama), Arveds

Kaulins Greater Family


1956/63, Lincoln, Nebraska
Valda and Arvids Kaulins. My parents as a couple ready to go out.
This is the period of my junior high and senior high school days.

Valda and Arvids Kaulins 1956/63

Andis Kaulins Parents


1964, Lincoln, Nebrasa
Andis Kaulins – This is my high school graduation photograph.
I graduated cum laude. I was 17 and grew half a foot my senior year,
which changed my appearance, especially with longer hair and contact lenses.

Andis Kaulins Lincoln High School 1961-1964

Andis Kaulins Lincoln


1965-1968, Lincoln, University of NebrasaAndis Kaulins. I was a member of FarmHouse Fraternity.
We had the highest relative grade point average among all fraternities in the USA.
After graduation, I went to Law School at Stanford University.

Andis Kaulins University of Nebraska 1964-1968

Andis Kaulins Nebraska


1968-1971, Palo Alto, California, Stanford University Law SchoolAndis Kaulins.
In spite of induction into military service after the first semester of law school
I graduated with my entering class by taking a heavier course load and summer classes.

Andis Kaulins University of Stanford Law School 1968-1971

Andis Kaulins Stanford


1969, San Diego, California, United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot
. – Andis Kaulins.
I was drafted out of law school into the Marines, where I was Platoon Honorman (Platoon 1039),
Company Honor Man and received the Dress Blues Award.

Andis Kaulins Marines 1969

Andis Kaulins Marines


1968-1971, Stanford, California – Professor John Kaplan (deceased 1989, obituary November 27 in the New York Times).
John Kaplan was my mentor at Stanford Law School. John was a top graduate of Harvard University in physics and law
and renown by his peers for his brilliance. We were good friends, I edited several of his books,
and I learned a lot from John, most importantly his primary rule of evidence,

“Go to the original sources.”
John Kaplan Mentor 1968-1971

John Kaplan Stanford

1971-1974, New York City, New YorkAndis Kaulins.
After graduation from Stanford, I was an associate in corporate law with the large New York City law firm
of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In addition, I worked on projects affiliated with
the University of Nebraska Law School, the Nebraska Supreme Court and Arizona State University Law School.

Andis Kaulins New York City 1971-1974

Andis Kaulins New York


1974-1979, Kiel, Germany - Andis Kaulins – Research Fellow, University of Kiel, Institute für Ostrecht,
and 1979-1982 in Darmstadt, Germany,
German-English English-German Pharmaceutical Industry Translator and Interpreter

Andis Kaulins Kiel and Darmstadt 1974-1982

Andis Kaulins Kiel


1982, Göttingen, GermanyAndis Kaulins – Marriage to Isa Nordmann. Kiel, Germany,
Birth of daughter Cynthia, 1984. Here in Rhodes, 1987.

Andis Kaulins 1987

Andis Kaulins Family


1982-1994, Kiel, Flensburg, Bonn Bad-Godesberg, Göttingen, GermanyAndis Kaulins.
Pharmaceutical Sales Manager and Consultant.

Andis Kaulins Consultant and Manager Pharmaceutical Industry 1982-1994

Andis Kaulins Pharma


1994-1997, Göttingen, GermanyAndis Kaulins – Computer Consultant.
Photograph with Paul, Weiss et al. (law firm) mentor Peter Haje in 1995, now Counsellor of AOL Time-Warner.

Andis Kaulins Computer Consultant 1994-1997

Andis Kaulins Helmsley Palace


1996, on the French Riviera, at a Software ConferenceAndis Kaulins.
Andis Kaulins French Riviera 1996

Andis Kaulins French Riviera


1994-1997, Göttingen, Germany
Andis Kaulins – Soccer team co-coach of an undefeated team
named “Team of the Week” by the German soccer magazine Kicker, Jan. 11, 1996.

Soccer Coach 1994-1997

Andis Kaulins Soccer


1998-2002, Traben-Trarbach, Germany – Andis Kaulins – Lecturer, FFA, International Law Faculty, University of Trier Law School;
Author, Langenscheidt Routledge German-English English-German Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance.
Lecturer, University of Trier Law School 1998-2003
and Author at Langenscheidt 2001-2002

Andis Kaulins Trier Law School


2000-2003, Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Decipherment of the Megaliths
. Here with Martha Walker at Culzean Castle.
Decipherment of the Megaliths 2000-2003

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