All The Way Up: The Declassified Story Of An American Life Lived To The Fullest

Take your front row seat as Steve Heard looks back at his “life lived all the way up,” and shares seven decades of adventures and real-life accounts involving some of history’s most influential decision-makers through one of the most rapidlychanging times in American history. Steve’s story begins before his own birth, chronicling his family’s roots, particularly his great-great-great grandfather, Colonel Stephen Heard. A soldier and a politician, Steve’s namesake fought with George Washington in the French and Indian Wars and the Revolutionary War before becoming the first governor of Georgia. Steve’s own account opens with his upbringing in Westwood, Massachusetts, his private education at Milton Academy in the 1950s, and his years of sports, friends, and academics at Harvard. Shortly after receiving his degree, Steve was quickly commissioned in the United States Air Force and served three years as an intelligence officer in Spain. While living on the civilian economy and making local connections, he participated in some of the Cold War’s most challenging episodes, a number of which are still largely classified today. At the close of his eventful three-year tour, Steve became only the third American to fight bulls in Spain as a licensed matador, earning him a framed picture in one of Barcelona’s oldest and best known restaurants, Los Caracoles, among some of Spain’s most well-known, historical matadors. After his return to the United States in the 1960s, Steve attended Stanford Law School while working as a Santa Clara Deputy Sheriff. Steve then began five successful, eventful decades of practicing international law in several law firms—two of which he started. He investigated and litigated international transborder transactions, including smuggling and financial matters, cases that took him to the farthest reach of Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. All The Way Up also reveals Steve’s philanthropic side, serving 20 years on the Board of the New York City Fresh Air Fund, the last 13 of which he was president. He also served several terms on Stanford Law School’s Board of Visitors. Steve now enjoys his retirement with his wife, Susan, in Seabrook, South Carolina. Borrowing a line from Teddy Roosevelt, Steve’s lifelong friend and Charleston neighbor, John Winthrop, likes to say, “Steve Heard is truly a classic ‘man in the arena.’”

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction and Family History Introduction The Heard Family History Early Years and Education My Early Years: 1936–1948 Uncle Ham and My Early Military Ambitions Dedham Country Day School: 1942 School Years at Milton Academy: 1948–1954 On To Harvard: 1954 The Thompson Falls Lumbermen: Summer 1955 The Owl Club at Harvard Christmas: 1955 Final Two Years at Harvard A Tennis Match to Remember Wendell Willkie: Senior Thesis Inspiration Motorcycle Accident and AFROTC Camp: Summer 1957 Stimpson Wedding Hijinks Final Days at Harvard and Graduation Trip Around Europe: Summer 1958 Running of the Bulls in Pamplona Barcelona France and Visiting the Aga Khan Formula One in Germany: Death at Nürburgring France: Gliding in the Sky Farewell to Pop Military Service in Spain Training at Tyndall Air Force Base Arrival at Torrejon: September 1958 A New Car and New Duties: January 1959 Skiing in La Molina: Winter 1959 First Trip to Rosas: Spring 1959 Befriending Pilots of the 431st: April 1959 Clandestine Duties: Spring 1959 Orders Without Borders Happiness and Solitude Barcelonan Culture and the Hotel Colon Pamplona with Ken Bell: July 1959 The Chalet Suisse and Life in Rosas Scuba Diving Labor Day in Cadaques: Meeting Pablo Peddinghaus “Midnight Requisition” from Zaragoza Christmas for the People of Rosas The 875th Radar Station Operations Project Grand Slam—The U-2 Operation The Pleasures of Cadaques: 1960 Back To Pamplona: July 1960 Oberammergau: October 1960 A Novillada in Figueras Return to Westwood and My Father’s Illness Law School and Legal Career Stanford Law School Early Legal Career at Casey, Lane & Mittendorf The Lindsay Years Start-Ups and False Starts Formation of McGarrahan & Heard R.J. Reynolds Tobacco International The Iranian Hostage Crisis and Its Aftermath The Iran-US Claims Tribunal John Coleman and the Ritz Carlton Renovation McGarrahan’s Departure and Merger with Arent Fox An Island Adventure—An Investigation That Wasn’t Day & Zimmerman After Arent Fox—Heard and O’toole Cubic Defense Systems: 1992 Enron: 2002 A Bullet Dodged Another Reynolds Arbitration as Well as Work for IBM The Canadian and European Union Lawsuits Travels to China Japan Tobacco Buys Reynolds International Japan Tobacco Acquisition and Koach Retirement Giving Back—Charity Punch Sulzberger and the Fresh Air Fund Westminster School Board of Trustees Stanford Law School Board of Visitors Merger, Retirement,and Remarriage Merger with Venable, Transition, and Retirement Epilogue and Acknowledgments Epilogue Acknowledgments Endnotes

About the Author :
C. STEPHEN HEARD, JR., After graduating from Harvard University, he spent an incredible three years as an Air Force intelligence officer in Spain, and as time went on he realized how exciting a life he was living! Three more years at Stanford Law School, and then he was working as a lawyer in New York City, traveling the world, living an exciting life he only dreamed about growing up.