Gunnar Heckscher
Heckscher was born in Djursholm, son of economist Eli Heckscher. He graduated from Uppsala University in 1927 and obtained a PhD 1934. He lectured in political science at Uppsala between 1933 and 1941 and at what later became Stockholm University between 1941 and 1948. He was Dean of the Social Institute of Stockholm 1945-1954. He became a professor in 1948 and worked at both the Social Institute and at Stockholm University.
Kenneth Eichner
As a child, Eichner was a basketball enthusiast and attended Morgan Wooten's basketball academy at St. John's, where his coach was James Brown, now an announcer for CBS. Eichner attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, then studied English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed his undergraduate degree at North Carolina State University in art history and design and went on to study at Antioch School of Law where he was editor of the Law Review. During law school he free-lanced as a journalist and wrote for several local papers, including one publication in The Washington Post, as well as served as an editor for "Trial Handbook for Lawyers." Eichner interned with the D.C. Court of Appeals for Judge James A. Belson. During law school Eichner was awarded a Department of Justice scholarship and clerked in the homicide division of the U.S. Attorney's Office. Upon graduation Eichner clerked for William C. McCullough, chief district court judge of Prince George's County, Maryland.