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Loyola Lawyer Law School Publications Fall 9-1-1985 Loyola Lawyer Loyola Law School - Los Angeles Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/loyola_lawyer Repository Citation Loyola Law School - Los Angeles, "Loyola Lawyer" (1985). Loyola Lawyer. 34. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/loyola_lawyer/34 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Publications at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Loyola Lawyer by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FALL 1985 LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL/LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY VOLUME 4, NO.2 Alumni Honor Anderson John E Anderson, LLS '50, this year's he attended three of his four years of law recipient of the Alumni Association's school after his regular workday was fin Distinguished Service Award, is not only ished. "The evening school remains par an outstanding alumnus of Loyola Law ticularly precious to me because it fulfills School, he is also an excellent example of a mission in the city that few other schools the modern American dream of success are doing for potential lawyers who must come true. Reared in the midwest, he work- and it does it in fine fashion in a worked hard, overcame hardship, functional location.'' achieved in the best sense of the word, re Reminiscing, he smiles and points to mains modest and grateful, and is uner a simple black wooden spindle chair dis ringly loyal to the people and the institu played in his office on the 26th floor of the tions who helped him along the way. Bank of America Tower in the Arco Plaza Fortunately, Loyola Law School is one in downtown Los Angeles. The wooden of the institutions he is loyal to; this in chair stands out; the seal of Loyola Mary cludes its current and future students, its mount University is stamped in gold programs, faculty and alumni, as well as across its painted back. its former professors, administrators and "When I was the Chairman of the benefactors. Anderson was the second Board of Visitors," he says, "I had one of chairman of the Board of Visitors, and he these chairs sent to each member of the established the Anderson Chair of Taxa Board along with a condition precedent tion in 1981 now occupied by Professor that it was to be visibly displayed in that Donald W. Cowens of whom he speaks person's office." He found it worked effec glowingly. tively. "Toppling Ladder with Spilling Paint," a 12-foot sculpture by Claes Oldenburg, will be instaLled at Loyola Law School in the spring. A First For L.A. John E. Anderson, '50, is the 1985 recipient of the Alumni Association' s Dist- · inguished Service Award. Anderson takes an active role in ''And please don' t write a story about promoting the school whenever and wher me or Loyola Law School without men Oldenburg Sculpture ever he can. ''I am deeply grateful for the tioning Fritz Burns," he adds. "He made excellent education I received at Loyola," a significant contribution to the law school he admits. ''I started in the evening school as we know it today. We owe him and the in 1947 as I was working during the day. Burns Foundation so much. I still have the Donated To Loyola The school was small then; there were shovel that I shared with Fritz and former only 30 or 35 in my graduating class," he Dean Rex Dibble in 1962 when the ground Thanks to the generosity of The Times early 1960s as a celebrator of pop culture. says. "It different now. There's some was broken for the then new law school." Mirror Foundation, "Toppling Ladder He is now considered by many critics to 1300 students, fine buildings, but the basic And then he adds, "Incredible man." With Spilling Paint,'' a contemporary 12- be one of the preeminent contemporary values and education offered by Loyola re And incredible is a word that could foot sculpture fashioned by the ever-con sculptors in the world. His monumental mains superb now as it was then." also describe Anderson. Leaving the home troversial and well-known artists Claes clothespin in Philadelphia, baseball bat in Though a staunch supporter of all of his barber father in Minnesota at the Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, will Chicago, and toothpaste tube in Loyola's endeavors, he has a soft spot in -age of 17, Anderson came to California for be installed on the Loyola Law School Duesseldorf are among his many eye his heart for the evening division because (Continued on Page 9) campus in late spring. An official dedica catching projects. tion is tentatively planned for April25 with " 'Toppling Ladder With Spilling a public opening taking place shortly Paint' is not only a coup for Loyola," de thereafter. clares Loyola's art curator Ellie The sculpture, the only public outdoor Blankfort, "it's a major art event for Los Annual Alumni Dinner Oldenburg sculpture in the City of Los An Angeles and California." More than 380 alumni, guests and monies, introduced Councilman David geles, will be placed east of Merrifield A long-time friend and colleague of friends gathered at the Sheraton Grande Cunningham, 10 District, who sent greet Hall near the future location of three con award-winning architect Frank Gehry Hotel on Thursday evening, Nov. 7 for the ings to all Loyola Law School alumni from temporary murals. Oldenburg notes that who designed Loyola Law School, Olden annual Alumni Dinner according to the Los Angeles City Council. Schnaider in the context of the Law School, the burg likes collaborating with Gehry. In the Roman Silberfeld, '74, Dinner Committee presented Silberfeld with a special award sculpture suggests the Scales of Justice Sept. 1984 issue of Art Forum, written by Chairman. as outgoing Chairm~n of the Board of Gov frozen between balance and imbalance. Oldenburg's wife, van Bruggen, she says, John E. Anderson, LLS '50, a partner ernors. "I see it as a happy monument to the " 'Toppfing Ladder With Spilling Paint' in the firm of Kindel & Anderson, was In addition to Silberfeld, this year's jurisprudential school of Legal Realism,'' celebrates Gehry's architectural presented the 1985 Alumni Association Dinner Committee included Kevin Fiore, says Professor Robert Benson, Chair of practice of 'disorganized order.' "In a Distinguished Service Award by Board of '69, William Francis, '71, Angela Loyola Lavv School's Art Committee. "It reference to Gehry, the sculpture will be Governors Chairman Guillermo "Bill" Hawekotte, '79, and William Rylaarsdam, has that ironic insight that justice isn't made of steel and aluminum chainlink, Schnaider, '69. The Ciass of 1935, which '64. etheral, but is a vulnerable thing made by will be slightly off the axis of Merrifield celebrated its golden anniversary, was Previous recipients of the Dist people out of the mundane materials of Hall's four columns, and "in its implied given special recognition at the dinner inguished Service Award included The their lives. Realist scholars like fall, would break the rigidity of the row.' 1 said Silberfeld. Each surviving member of Hon. Otto M. Kaus, '59, (1981), Anthony Llewellyn, Frank and Rodell, would love Van Bruggen says Oldenburg tends to the class was presented a special hand Murray, '64 (1982), The Hon. Manuel L. it." conceptualize enlargment of stereo- crafted medallion. Real, '51 (1983), and last year's honoree Oldenburg came to prominence in the ( Continued on Page 8) Charles Redmond, '75, Master of Cere- was The Rev. Donald P. Merrifield, S.J. ... - . ' -· ~ ~ . PAGE2 LOYOLA LAWYER FALL 1985 Advocates Campaign Faculty Forum A Letter From The Dean Professor ROBERT BENSON recently Professor LOUIS M. NATALI, JR.'s arti attended a conference on "Linguistics in cle, A Defendant's Right to Coun the Judicial Process" at Georgetown Uni sel/Privileged Testimony. versity. BENSON and Associate Professor achieve success in the profession. Ob Professor LON SOBEL has been on the viously, the key ingredients in quality JOAN KESSLER co-authored the first go since the last Lawyer was published. education are outstanding teaching and empirical study of the effectiveness of dif In the Spring he spoke in Carmel on pay- ferent prose styles in appellate briefs. students who have the intellectual ability, tv signal piracy at a conference sponsored maturity, energy and moral vision to ab by the San Francisco Patent and sorb and apply. what they are being taught. Professor WILLIAM COSKRAN has Trademark Law Association. He also par Our Advocates program is devoted entire been elected Vice-Chair of the Real Prop ticipated in a UCLA Extension program in ly to the enhancement of these critical in erty Section for the Los Angeles County Los Angeles and in a Practicing Law In gredients. Bar and will continue to serve as a mem stitute Program in New York City on rep ber of the Executive Committee of the resenting professional athletes. In August The cost of quality legal education is Section. Recently, The State Bar Associa he traveled to Robert Redford's Sundance staggering. Loyola's tuition is currently tion appointed him to the Executive Com Institute in Utah to participate in a cur $265 a credit, and that still puts us at the mittee for the State Real Property Sec riculum planning conference. A Film lower end of the cost spectrum among tion. COSKRAN also wrote an article on Composers Institute will be inaugurated private ABA-accredited California law property law for the EncycLopedia of there in the Summer of 1986.