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SPRING • • • SPRING SEMESTER t ttU\l\n SEMESTER ISSUE at 1 ISSUE Brooklyn La w School
VOL. XIV, No.1 BrOOklyn,~ Y. April, 1945 By Subscription " law Paramoun After War, Dean Says
Opportunity Open I· Brooklyn Law School Gold Stars I ;~;';:;I;~~~~; To Begin Studies Profession as a Whole De:lll William Payson Rich ardson, in a statement to For Law Degrees the students of Brooklyn Law School on The Place of the 14th Summer Session Starts Lawyer in the Post-War World, Jmle 11' Classes Morning said that new and higher re and Evening sponsibilities than ever before rested upon the legal profession. ANNOUNCE CURRICULUM He pointed out that opportuni ties tor success In practice of Day Students May Complete Course the law will be greatly in in 2 Years; Evening Stu· creased because of the enlarged dents in 3 Years field of legal practice. The At the commencement of its Dean'sstatement in full follows: 14th Summer Session on June "The greatest war in the his 11, 1945, Brooklyn Law School tory of the world is nearing Its wtll again otter to qualified climax. Victory is near. The students the' opportunity to un forces that represent law are dertake a course of study lead rapidiy overcoming the forces ing to the degree of Bachelor Lt. Joel Padawer, '41 Sgt. Philip Pear~an, '32 Lt. H. J. Glickman, '35 . that represent lawlessness, ag of Laws. Students who are gression, Intolerance, brutality. graduates of a college or uni Now, on the eve of Victory, it versity registered with the New Lt. Glic kman, '3 5, is well to consider the responsi York State Department of Ed Lt. Padawer, '41, Dies bilities that will lie upon the ucation as weH as those who are Kill ed in Pa cific victors to bring about peace and the holders of law student In Italy; Air Medal un,ity the World 'round. It is a qualifying certificates issued by Lt. H. J. Glickman, '35, died responsibility that must be the State Education Depart of battle wounds in the South borne, in a major degree, by all ment upon the basis of the Given Posthumously Pacific Theatre. Lt. Glickman those who are trained and edu completion of two or more years entered the Army In August, cated In the law. In the world of academic college work, are Award of the Air Medal that is to come there will be posthumously to Lt. Joel Pa 1942, as a private. He was a eligible for matriculation. candidate for a commission at need of many lawyers; men who dawer, '41, has been announced Students entering the full Aid is Extended the ·O.C.S. at Camp Barkley, will carry forward the traditions time day course, 10 . June, 1945, by the War Department. Lt. of the law, and who can write may complete the requirements Padawer was one of 25 field ar (Colltitlued 011 Page 2) into codes of social conduct the for graduation within an elaps tillerymeu of the Army's ground To' Service Men rules that will make this a con ed period of two years and thus forces who received the award stantly better world. become elegible for the June, for meritorious achievement wlCb "The opportunity will be large 1947, State Bar Examination. the 6th Army in Italy and the in this country for application 7th Army in Sicily. He died of Under G. I. Day students will attend twelve Bill of the law because of the vast hours weekly in the 1945 Sum injuries received in the North ~terans of World War II are expansion of government con mer Session from June 11 to African theatre, the War De appearing in the Law School trol over numerous matters that Septem ber 14, during which peri partment reported. classrooms in Increasing num affect our dally lives. Of recent od they will be registered to Lt. Padawer's group partici bers at t he opening of each years it has been found essen take the following subjects: pated in tlights of liaison or tial to provide government pro "grasshopper" planes behind en semester. Some whose law stUd Torts, Bailments, Business Or ies were Interrupted by enllst tection, f ;ov~rnment regulation, ganizations I, and Criminal Law. emy lines, and directed artil government supervision over a lery fire on enemy strong points men t in t he Armed Forces or Classes co'mmence at 9: 30 by induction Into military serv myriad of affairs. This trend and troop concentrations. o'clock 10 the morning; students ice have resumed their law has been called a trend toward are required to attend until 11: 0 a course at the point where it government by hureaucracy, be on three days weekly and un was discontinued; others are cause of the increase of bureaus, til 12: 30 on the remaining two Sgt. Sch wartz, '38, newcomers to Brooklyn Law boards, agenCies, and tribunals. days. No lectures are scheduled School, who have entered either But whatever designation these for Saturdays. The 1945-1946 Killedon German Soil upon a graduate course of study institutions may have, it is es school year will commence on or as matriculants for the de sential that they be operated Wednesday, September 26, 1945. gree of Bachelor of Laws. All smoothly, effiCiently, and in ac Students commencing their Sgt. Robert Schwartz, '38, are receiving educational bene ,-,ordance with law. The proces law studies in the evening ses twice reported missing in action, fits under one of the following: ses involved in these bureaus sion in J une, 1945, will be was killed on October 16, 1944, (a) Publlc Law 16; (b) the so- and boards are determined by scheduled to attend four eve on German soil. He went over law. Of right they should be ad (Continued Oil Page 6) Pfc. Theodore T. Hoch, '43 nings weekly, Mondays through seas last June. His collegiate ministered by lawyers. Thursdays, from 6:30 to 8:30 degree of A.B. was conferred by (Conlillued on Page 3) o'clock, during the period from the University of Michigan. June 11 to August 31. Classes SCHOLARSHIPS Pfc. Hoch, '43, Dies wlll resume on September 26. AVAILABLE Pfc. rridges, ,34, Attendance ot eight hours Pearlman, Of Tropical Fever weekly will be maintained for Sgt. '32 , evening students until Septem Scholarship assistance Ptc. Theodore T. Hoch, '43, Dies in Plane Crash ber, 1947; thereafter, the stUd Dies of Battle Wounds is available to students died September 20, 1944, of ent will be scheduled to attend m atriculating for law tropical fever, while in service Pfc. Charles Edward Bridges, ten hours weekly excepting In Sgt. Philip P arlman, '32, died study in the 1945 Sum in New Guinea. Pfc. Hoch en '34, was killed in an airplane Summer Session. Under the ac in France, January 28, ot mer Sesswn wlw need tered the Armed Service after crash at Blightville Air Field, celerated program the part-time wounds received in action. Sgt. his graduation from Law School Ark., on December 20, 1943. Pearlman has been in the army financial assistance. For evening student who commences further information, 'ad in March 1943. Pfc. Bridges was a native of his studies in June, 1945, may since the Summer of 1943, He received his basic training Brooklyn. He attended Brook be eligible for graduation in when he gave up his law prac dress the Committee on at Camp Lee, Virginia. From cholarships in care of lyn Preparatory School and was June, 1948. tice in Manhattan to enlist. Two there he was sent to West Ches graduated from Holy Cross Col The curriculum of the day of Sgt. Pearlman's brothers are l he Law Scho.ol. ter, Pa., where he completed a lege, Worcester, Mass., in 1932, (C ontimU?d Oil Page 2) in the armed services. course in Army Administration. with the degree of B.A.
Published by BrooklynWorks, 1945 1 The Justinian, Vol. 1945 [1945], Iss. 1, Art. 1 Page 2 THE JUSTINIA , BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL April, 1945 Students Elect Student Council, 1944- '45, Brookly n Law School] ClassOfficers For 1944- '45 The annual class elections for the school year of 1944-1945 re sulted in the following selec tions: SENIOR CLASS EVENING SESSION President ... . Serafino Spennato Vice-Pres...... Nicholas Longhi Secretary .... Rosalind Eckstein Treasurer ...... Oscar Goldstein SENIOR CLASS DAY SESSION President ... Wm. H. Hurst, Jr. Vice-Pres ...... Leon Berkule .. Secretary ...... Florence Weitz Treasurer ...... Doris Balmuth JUNIOR CLASS EVENING SESSION Serafino Spennato William H. Hur t, Jr. Herb ert Altschuler Ludwig Smith President .... Herbert Altschuler Vice-Pres ...... Seymour Maisel Sec'y-Treas ...... Ilsa Coe JUNIOR CLASS Stud ent Council Day S~SlI.on President ...... Ludwig Smith • Vice-Pres ...... Adele Shapiro Secretary ...... Ruth Trenk Actively As sists Treasurer ...... Herman Lasser OPHOl\fORE CLASS . EVENING SESSION School Functions Presiden t .... . Irwin M. Taylor Vice-Pres .... Mortimer Felsinger Representative Organization Sec'y-Treas .... Miriam Goldberg of Student Body Meets; FIRST YEAR CLASS Ejects O fficers EVENING SESSION President...... Herbert Jaffe Vice-Pres ...... , .David Ampel PLAN SOCIAL EVENT S Secretary ..... , . Blanche Levine Treasurer ..... Freda Rudnitsky' Officers oC Day and Evening Classes Meet to Consider Programs of FIRST YEAR OLASS the Seuson's Activities DAY SESSION President ...... Max Toberoff The Student Council of Brook Herbert Jaffe M ax Toberolf Vice-Pres ...... Lucille Tyroller Irwin M. T aylor lyn Law School resumed activi Secretary ., .... Olga Chomchak \ ties in the Fall term of 1944, Treasurer ...... Aaron F rosch Students Dance Held after a temporary lapse due to Maj. Aronson, '37, conditions brought about by the war. The CounCil, composed of Opportunity Open To Promote Aid Fund the presidents of the various WinsPromot ion classes in the school met and formulated plans for the activi, Under direction of the Stu immediate emergencie of small lla.j. 1\10 e J. Aron on, 37, To Begin Studies dent Council a dance was held amounts, to make it possible former editor of the Journal of ties of the school year. One of in the Law School Library on for students temporarly in need Social Philosophy and Jurispru its first events was the dance for the benefit of the stUdent (Continued from Page 1) the evening of December 22, of assistance to meet their obli dence, and former faculty mem student and that of the evening 1944. Approximately 200 stu gations. The members of the ber at Harvard, who is serving aid fund, held December 22. student include in toto tfe same dents and members of the fac Student Aid Board are William as Judge Advocate for an im The meeting of the Council courses and the same number of ulty with their friends attended H. Hurst, Jr., Ludwig P. Smith, portant supply port, was race t was addressed by Prof. Jerome lecture h ours. Moreover, no the function. A substantial sum and Irwin M. Taylor. Prof. ly promoted from captain to his Prince, Faculty Adviser. "I courses are omitted or shorten was realized, and turned over Donald Sealy is Faculty Advisor. present rank. wish to express to you the ed under the accelerated pro to the treasury of the Student Major Aronson was commis than ks of Dean Richardson for gram. Aid Fund. sioned Captain in the Military the fine spirit of cooperation The Fund is maintained as a Pickman, '31, Wins Law School graduates are Intelligence Corps in December and of loyalty that you have regular part of the activities of eligible to take the State Bar showed," Prof. P rince said. "We the Student Council. Its pur 1942. His many assignments in Examination; those who pass Award for Army Manual realize that in these days the pose is to assist students in cluded Trial Judge Advocat« the Bar Examination in both burden upon everyone has been parts may make application im financing their legal education, Chief Warrant Officer lUilton Law Member of General Courts by granting loans for the pur E. P ickman, '31, has been Martial and Judge in the Ameri intensified. In addition to the mediately for admission to the added pressures of our own chase of books and of meeting awarded the Legion of M rit can Military Gov rnment Courts. Bar since no service of clerkship work, we are also interested in tuition charges and other es for "exceptional meritorious He has be n overseas since Feb is now required. giving every support possible to Effective for entrants in Sep sj'lnUal expenses. The original conduct in the performanc of' ruary, 1943, serving in North fund for Student Aid was con outstanding service." Stationed those of our companions who tember, 1945, the tuition for Africa and Italy, for which he are fighting the battle of tributed on behalf of the school at Hampton Roads Port of Em the entire law course will be has earned the African-Euro democracy abroad. You have increased from a total of $ 720 by Dean William Payson Rich barkation, Pickman is aide to pean Theatre of Operation Cam the chief of staff. The award been selected by your classes to $810. Students who com ardson. This amount has been paign Ribbon bearing two augmented from time to time was made by .order of the to carry forward the work of menced their law studies in Bronze Stars. Major Aronson the school. You have shown Brooklyn Law School prior to by donations and contributions, Secretary of War in r cogni and by proceeds from social tion of nine month of research graduated from the University yourselves to be earnest and as Septemher, 1945, wUl be gov siduous to carryon the tradi erned by existing rates through functions held for that purpose. and compilation, during non of California in 19:!3, and from out the law course, provided As part of the service to stu duty hours, in preparing a tech the UniverSity of Paris in 1927. tions for which the school stands in the way of high that it is pursued without in- dents a lending library consist nical manual. "Order Digest" The Port, in which the Major scholarship and interest in the terruption. ' ing of contributed books is which was published by the War is now serving, is one of many highest ideals of the legal pro maintained. Departmen t, and is used as a units of Peninsular Base Sec guide in carrying out army or fession." The Student Aid Service is tion, important service and sup maintained by the Student Aid ders. The class officers were chosen Lt. Glickman, '35, ply organization for Fifth Army Board of the Student Council. at elections held in November. and for the ground forces of Killed in Pacific The Board is composed of three The presidents of the classes, members selected from the day' D~rkee, '38, with JAG the U. S. Air Corps and Navy in seven in number, compose the (Continued from Page 1) and the evening sessions. It has Italy. Student Council. The members Tex. He was commissioned Sec sole responsibility for approv Lt.• Tohn W. Durkee, '38, is of the Council are William H . ond Lieutenant in May. 1943, ing or refusing applications for one of a group of mature law Hurst, Jr., senior day; Ludwig and was assigned to a general loans. No interest is charged yers who make up the Judg Skehan, '32, Captain P. Smith, junior day; Max To hospital as personal adjutant. on student aid loans. and no Advocate General's Claims De beroff, entering class, day; Sera His group left for the South collateral security is required. partment, at Holabird ignal " est a J. C. Skehan, '32, has fino J . Spennato, senior evening; Pacific in July, 1943. While in In spite of this, the Fund has Depot, Md. Lt. Durkee was en been promoted to Captain in the Irwin M. Taylor, junior eve active service he was made a suffered no loss since it was gaged in the practice of law in U. S. Marine Corps \Vomen's ning, Herbert Altschuler, sopho First Lieutenant. on December established six years ago. The Manhattan at the time of his in Reserve. Sbe has been stationed more evening and Herbert 22, 1943. financing is intended to cover duction in December, 1941. at Pendelton, Cal. Jaffe, entering class, evening.
https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/justinian/vol1945/iss1/1 2 ·' et al.: The Justinian April, 1945 THE JUSTINIAN, BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL WQt 3JuatinittU DEAN W ILLIAM PAYSON RICHARDSON Ilrnnkluu !jaw t;r4nnl
VOL. XIV ApRIL, 1945 No.1
Published during the school year by the students of the Brooklyn Law School at 876 Pearl Street, Brooklyn. N. Y.
STUDENT BOARD Editor JOSEPH MURfHY Associate Editors LEON BERKULE FRANK R. W ASSUNG Editorial Staff BERT GERBER JESSE F ALZONI DORIS BALMUTH MAX TOBOROFF ROSALIND ECKSTEIN LUCILLE TYROLLER VINCENT CARLIN SERAFINO SPINNATO HERMAN LASTER JOSEPH BAILEY SEYMOUR GLICK MANN BLANCHE LEvINE IRWIN TAYLOR FRED GELOSKY AARON FROSCH FLORENCE WEITZ ADELE SHAPIRO SEYMOUR MAISEL LUDWIG SMITH RUTHTRENK WILLIAM H. HURST, JR.
Alumni Board Jacob Aronson William B. Carswell Moses J. Aronson Robert Daru John J. Bennett. Jr. George V. McLaughlin Howard A. Shiebler
Office of THE JUSTINIAN: Richardson Hall. 376 Pearl Street, Brooklyn, N . V. Telephone: CUmberland 6-2200. Justice Shientag Reviews Ric ha r dson 0 n Ev ide nee Her·e is a recent intimate photograph or Dean Richardsoo, taken at his desk in the Brooklyn Law School Building. ited statutory right to impeach discussed in Smith v. Rentz better, but still imperfectiy. Is Sixth Edition of Dean's Noted volume of 582' clearly printed one's own witness, the admis (supra)" (sec. 235} . it not startling to reflect on the Book Ideal for Judges and pages. Each chapter is preceded sibility of evidence obtained by Surely by this time you must meaning of this 1" (1 Wigmore, by an Analytical Outline. The Lawyers, Jurist Says, in illega.lly tapping telephone wires have come to the conclusion Evidence, 2d ed., 1923, at p. table of contents consists of -matters which have engaged that I like Richardson on Evi 124.) Law Journal Article twenty pages. There is a table the attention to the Bar in re dence and recommend it highly. Just a word of caution to the of cases cited, covering 1lfty-two cent years. Its regular use by the profession owners of the book. Someone Justice Bernard L. Shientag pages, and what is most im would tend to eliminate the crit once told Housman how much wrote a review of Dean William On the subject of hospital rec portant, when you have to look ords it is too bad that Cerniglia icism voiced by Wigmore, the he enjoyed his Shropshire Lad. Payson Richardson's recently is up a question quickly, there is great master of the Law of Evi He was startied when Housman sued Sixth Edition of "Richard v. City of New York (182 Misc., an index, the best I have seen 441, October 7, 19H) was re dence, when he said: replied: "I am told that it ap son on Evidence." The review, in a book of that size. These "Most practitioners, to-day, peals especially to the criminal printed on the editorial page of ported too late to be included in facts about the structure of the the present edition. The Dean are unskilled in the rules of classes." Then Housman went , the New York Law Journal, volume may not be very Evidence. This is a hard say on to explain that three copies November 27, is herewith re undoubtedly has a reference to it eXCiting, but they show that for future use. In that case, ing; but those who ought to in succession had been stolen produced through the courtesy the learned author has had in know report it so unanimously. from the University Library. of that publication. which will provoke a good deal mind the needs of the busy prac of controversy, the court ad The trial judges know the rules BERNARD L. SHIENTAG. New Books and New Editions titioner. mitted in evidence, over objec In his preface Dean Richard tion, that portion of a hospital Review by Supreme Court son, with characteristic modes record containing as part of Justice Shientag ty, states the scope and purpose the case history, the statement The Place of the Lawye r RICHARDSON ON EVIDENCE, of the volume as follows: of the plainUJr that "she fell sixth edition, by William "This book is not intended to down as she was getting off a In the ·Post-War Wor ld Payson Richardson, Dean, street car. She doesn't recall be a treatise on the law of evi By DEAN WILUAM PAYSON RICHARDSON Brooklyn Law School; sixth dence. It does provide, how how she fell but thinks her edition, pages 582, together ever, a succinct statement of the heels slipped in the street." ~-- with table of contents, table (Continued from Page 1) fore, must be educated, as al- basic principles and their excep I found stated witJ:t a clarity "It is a fact that much of ways, in the fundamentals of of cases cited and index, tions, with illustrations from which defies misunderstanding, price $6. the work of these agenCies is law which are immutable, sin~ leading cases. A thorough the rules for the foundation to they are the bases upon which carried out by laymen - men A new edition of Richardson working knowledge of the law be laid tor self-contradictory our democratic rights are estab on Evidence is of more than of evidence cannot be obtained oral statements of a witness (as and women who are not educat lished. But lawYers must be ed passing interest to the legal pro fr m a reading of this work . distinguished from a party) for ed in legal principles and in ucated, as they are now being fession. Eight years have elaps alone. An intelligent under use as impeaching evidence. I rights established as part of taught in the law schools, in the ed since the last edition was standing of the subject matter swelled a little when in the our democratic heritage. Our aspects of new laws that bring published. The presen.t edition can be achieved only by a care table of cases cited I found my administrative bodies have been new responsibU1t1es upon indi takes full cognizance of the new ful study of the eases and au own interesting and provocative the subject of much criticism. viduals and business organisa developments in the law of evi thorities cited. The text merely case on this subject (Wolfe v. A great deal of this criticism tions. dence, through statute and case reflects the source of all au Madison Ave. Coach Co., 171 has been properly made. Yet "Finally, there should be an law, during the intervening thority - the leading cases by Misc. 707), although there was most of it could have been ever-widening education of years. which the rules of evidence considerable deflation when, in avoided had trained lawyers in American citizens in the law, so It is the ideal textbook of its were esta6lished. The purpose the text, I found the case in stead of well-intentioned laymen that they might the better serve kind for the judge and for the of this book is to state the law troduced by the cryptic shrug been put in positions of author their country, and so that they busy lawyer. In my judicial of evidence as it is and to set ging of the shoulder, "But see" Ity in these organizations which might know what positions. to work I have found Richardson forth the processes by which (sec. 579). so vitally atfect oUJ: fundamen take on the great questions that on Evidence to be an indispens the rules of evidence were form It was a pleasure to read tal rights. It would be just as affect our future welfare. Ig able aid. I always have it with ulated rather than to consider Dean Richardson's statement of sensible to put well-intentioned norance of the la,. 1S no excuse me on the Bench when I try the philosophy of the law of the rule that neither production laymen on the staffs of our hos- to him who commits a crime. cases. More that that, I have evidence which deals with what nor examination puts documents pitals. • Nor is ignorance of the basic - made it a practice to read the the law ought to be." in evidence: "Members of the legal profes principles of our· law an ex book through at regular inter The book does precisely that "Neither the production of sion must be on guard to see cuse on the part of American vals. and does it exceedingly well. For documents on notice to produce, that after the war the consti citizens who hope to see our There is no single volume on the most part it deals with the nor an examination of them tutional rights of the people, country achieve peace and pros the law of evidence that equals New York law of evidence, by the party calling for their voluntarily relinquished on ac perity and human welfare on a it for clarity and precision, for available to civil and criminal production puts them in evi count of the war effort, are re permanent basis. orderly arrangement, for com cases, although there is frequent dence. If one concludes, after stored to them. Meantime, "These are reasons why we prehensiveness of treatment, for reference to important decisions their inspection, that they con there is need for more and more who are associated with the pro the skill and judgment with of the federal courts and the tain nothing to his advantage intensive education in all as fession of the law, and especially which the cases in point are courts of other states. he need not use them, and this pects of modern law, so that with the study of the law, should cited and for ready reference. Going through the new vol failure to put them in evidence practicing lawYers may be the take. renewed inspiration in our My feeling about the book Is, I ume, I find, for example, the does not give his opponent the better able to represent the in work. Our comrades are sac believe, shared by the Bar gen latest cases on such subjects as right to use them unless they terests of their clients. Once the rificing their lives abroad to erally, particularly by those the extent to which the con are competent evidence against law was relatively simple. Now uphold the things that Ameri lawyers who do trial work. It tents of hospital records may the party calling for them there are many complexities In cans believe in. We at home is a bread and butter book for be received in evidence, the (Smith v. Rentz, 131 N. Y., 169; volving taxation, labor relations, have the high task of supple lawyers and as essential to the scope of section 37 4-a of the Karp v. Adelman, 156 N. Y. S., security Investments, and num menting the work of our soldiers lawyel as is a stethoscope to the Civil Practice Act, the effect of 395, contra in many jurisdic erous other matters which re and sailors, by making the law doctor. failure to call a witness under tions). The authorities on this quire specialized knowledge. an important factor in the daily It is a well-bound, compact the control of a party, the lim- point are fully collated and The lawyer of the future, there- life of our nation." Published by BrooklynWorks, 1945 3 The Justinian, Vol. 1945 [1945], Iss. 1, Art. 1
Page 4' THE JUSTINIAN, BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL Aprll,1945 Judge Abruzzo Maj. Robt. Rosenthal, '41, News of t he Alumni Safe Beh ind Ru ssian Lines William J. Gilliland, '12, pres J. Joyce Klinger, '28, has been Is Honor Guest ident of the Sackman Gilli made a captain in the State ' Maj. Robert Rosenthal, ~41, land Corporation has been Guard. He Is serving on the capped an exciting career as an elected and installed as presi staff of the Regimental Com a.viator when he parachuted dent of the New York State mander of Staten Island. He At L~w School from a fiak -riddled airplane and Association of Real Estate is also assigned to duty as came down behind the Russian Boards. Mr. Gilliland is a plans and training officer for resident of Forest Hills. Tells Students of Many Op· lines along the Oder River. the Third Battalion, which portunities at Federal The episode was the end of LOlti A. Friedman, '24, former meets in the Manor Road Bar a bombing mission over Berlin assistant corporation counsel Armory, West Brighton. on February 3. The anti-air of the City of Long Beach, PROCEDURE SIMPLIFIED craft fire was intense. The has associated himself in a J&Dles Amadei, '26, Is a mem plane was shot to shreds, and law partnership with Joseph ber of the State Industrial Maj. Rosenthal and his entire V. Carlino, assemblyman Board, by designation of Jurisdiction Covers Many New Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Types of Cases Arising Under crew took to their parachutes. from Long Beach. Their of· Administrative Boards Landing behind the 'Russian fices in Long Beach are in the Mr. Amadei had previously lines, they were accosted by a National City Bank Building, been an Assistant Attorney Judge Matthew T. Abruzzo, Russian soldier who thrust a and in New York at 401 General on the staff of At Broadway. '08, of the Federal District gun at them. Rosenthal used torney General Nathaniel just one word that proved the Court, was the guest of honor at Thomas G. Grace, '24, State Di Goldstein He was a member open sesame to the best wel rector of the Federal Housing of the Board of Aldermen in a Student Assembly of Brooklyn come the Russians could offer. Law School conducted by Dean Administration, member of 1929. That word was "Amerikanski! " the Brooklyn Law firm of Payson Richardson on the eve Then came much hugging and Peter J. Connolly, '27, has been ning of March 14. Grace and Grace was elected granted t he degree of Master kissing, and a plane ride to Maj. Robert Rosenthal by the Cathedral Club as its "It was an inspiring experi- Moscow, for a long series of of Laws by the Catholic Uni outstanding member for the versity of America. Attorney nce for me to attend Brooklyn parties. \ past year. Mr. Grace was the Connolly is connected with Law School," Judge Abruzzo Maj. Rosenthal has WOll high guest of honor at the Club's the Post Office Department told the students. "As I look distinction as commander of an Practice Court's annual , banquet in January. solicitor's office in the en into your faces it seems but yes Eighth Air Force bomber divi forcement of postal fraud, lot sion. He wears the Purple Robert L. Bobrick, LL.B. '25, terday that I wall down there LL.M. '40, has removed his teryand anti-obscene statutes. where you are now. Indeed at Heart, the Distinguished F ly ing Cross, the Silver Star and 1945 Term Marks law offices to 90 Broad Street, George Sharon, '29, long super thi~ ..o.oment I feel as if I were the Air Medal. He sustained Manhattan. Vising warrant officer, Bureau one of you, studying the law, a broken arm and a sprained of Law, New York City, has and' feeling the thrill that comes ankle as souvenirs of his bailing Its 24th Season resigned to resume the prac from its learning and its appli- out episode. Delta Theta Phi tice of law, at 50 Broad St. cation. Trials by Law School Stud· Augustine B. Casey, '29, has "In my days the Dean was an ents t o Be Conducted Under the direction of its been designated an assistant active teacher-the best teach Late in A p ril o,tncers, Delta Theta Phi has district attorney on the staff er I have ever known. Today I BrooklynLaw surmounted the difficulties cre of District Attorney Farrell note the same enthusiastic gleam ated ~y the war situation, and is M. K ane, of Richmond Coun in the eye as when he con LEGAL CLINICS HELD actively engaged in carrying out ty. fronted our classes in that high AmongFirst 5 its functions. Initiation was Maurice Nias, 'Sl, LL.M. '85, ly important subject of Evi Members of Bench and Bar Praise Work Done in Preparution held Saturday afternoon, March has been designated an as dence. The Dean is a leader in for Legal Careers 3, when the following candi sistant district attorney of the field of Evidence, and has In Registration dates were inducted into mem Kings County. Mr. Nias is a been for years. His book is a The first trials of the 1945 bership: Pasquale Cea. Stanley member of the Brooklyn Bar standard not only in classrooms Compiled by its committee Term of the Practice Court of Wilde. Vincent Solomita, J oseph Association, the Criminal Bar but upon the bench. It is used on Legal Education, statistics Brooklyn Law School are sched Petito, J esse Falzone. Oscar Gon Association and the Kings by Ull jurists not only as a work as to attendance at recognized uled to be held late in April. zales and Joseph Crea. The cer County Bar Association, and of reference, but as a perennial law schools the nation over, This year will mark the twenty emonies were conducted under is a member of the Unity text book, to keep us brushed have been made public by fourth annual session of the the direction of James F. Mills, Club. up on the aspects of the branch the American Bar Association. Practice Court, the oldest court Dean of the chapter, Alfred J. Meyer Goldberg, '31, former of law in which a judge must be Brooklyn Law School is one of of its kind in the state. or Goodwin, tribune, WilHam C. City CounCilman, has been thoroughly grounded if he is to five Law Schools in the United nearly a quarter of a century, Gaylor, clerk of the exchequer deSignated by Governor Thom function properly. It is not al States with an enrollment of the Practice Court has afforded and William M. Chiarello. as E. Dewey as a member of ways possible, you know, to more than 200, as of the Fall of to members of the senior class master of the rolls. Prof. the New York State Labor call a five-minute recess to find 1944. One school with fewer the opportunity to act as coun Donald Sealy was present. Relations Board. than five students was noted. sel in the trial of cases, both out how to rule on a point that Four schools have fewer than civil and criminal, before guest Irving Rivkin, '33, has been ap has been raised. I urge you not ten and more than four. judges consisting of me~b e r s pOinted law assistant to Sur to neglect your Evidence. Study of the Bench and Bar. The stu Phi Delta Phi rogate John C. Boylan. Mr. it, try to become as perfect as dent attorneys are required to Rivkin's law offices are at possible, for Evidence is the tool conduct the case throughout all At the first meeting of the 28 Hyatt St., St. George, that makes all the rest of the Bronze Star Medal Won the stages of the litigation, from Fall Semester, Evarts Inn, hi Staten Island. law applicable in the actual trial the interview with witnesses Delta Phi, elected officers tor H erbert Schrank, '85, has be· of cases. You will find, I think, ByT .-Sgt. Bazinsky, '35 and the preparation of pleadings the ensuing year. Felix Rege come a member of the firm that your real t roubles of appli to the entry of judgment. Un Tech. Sgt. Jerold Bazinsky, nie is Magister. Thomas J. of Barsbay, Frankel & Roth cation will start after you have der classmen serve as the wit Kelley, Exchequer, Thomas Heu stein, 521 Fifth Avenue, Man graduated. The troubles you '35, has been awarded a bronze nesses, and the juries are com star medal with the citation of er, Clerk, and Joseph Walsh, hattan. have now are mere incidents. posed of students from the Historian. At the November Those that affect your livelihood "meritorious service in direct neighboring colleges. Victor O. Smith, '37, is chair support of combat operations." meeting Harold Bobe and Lud man of the Canton (N.Y.) will seem much more impres The legal clinics, really lab wig P. Smith were initiated in sive. The best way to avoid a The order presenting the high Branch of the Red Cross. award was signed by Maj. Gen. oratory sessions in the trial ot to membership. In January great many of these later trou Janet W. Hill, '40, has been des W. W. Eagles, former command a case, have already started. Lawrence McKeown, after suc bles is by adequate, assiduous ignated as district attorney of ing These serve to prepare the stu cessfully passing the Bar Exam preparation now. general, of the veteran Chenango County. Upon grad 45th "Thunderbird" Division, dent for the trials by afford inations in October, completed uation from Brooklyn Law "Many of you who think little fighting on the Seventh Army ing him practice in selecting a his undergraduate work at the School, Miss Hill entered the about it at this moment will Fron t in France. jury, in examining and cross school and became an alumni find yourselves practicing at the examining witnesses, in putting member of Evarts Inn. practice of the law in Nor Federal Bar when once you documents in evidence, and in wich, N. Y., In an office with have been admitted. You will Blatt, '21, 1st Lieutenant making the necessary motions her husband, Lt. William come before it because many of on trial. P artiCipation in the Iota Theta, Alpha Gordon, of the USNR. the cases your clients .bring in Bertram Blatt, '27, has been clinics is required of all who de Arthur J. \VllSQn, '-40, bas been will have to do with the compli promoted to first lieutenant ac sire to try a practice court case. Iota Theta, with a member assigned by the Navy as a cations of the administrative cording to announcement from ship of thirty, and four candi Classification Specialist, work machinery. Price fixing, labor the office of Brigadier Gen. Orval dates pledged is the largest fra ing toward the rehabilitation relations, application of the In R. COOk, chief of Procurement Fairfield, '32, Graduates ternity in Brooklyn Law School of General Court Martial terstate Commerce Act, the Division, Air Technical Service this year. This is in marked prisoners of the Navy. Mr. Securities and Exchange Com Command. Lt. Blatt is assigned Among the graduates from contrast to conditions but a year Wilson is the author of an ar mission Laws and many other to the legal branch of the Pro the Information and Education ago. when the only active mem ticle on "Law and Precedent" like Federal regulatory provi curement Division's service sub Course at the School for Per ber was Harry A. Auerbach. A published in the current issue sions will be on your agendas. section. This division buys and sonnel Services, Lexington, Va., number of functions have !>een of the Montana Law Review. "There are some basic rules . supervises production and in is 2d Lieut. Joseph 'V. It'airfield, held this Winter. At a meeting Mr. Justice Frankfurter of the that every lawyer must observe spection of all aircraft and '32. As an information a nd ed on Oct. 13, Harry A. Auerbach United States Supreme Court if he wants to achieve success. equipment for the Army Air ucation officer, Lt. Fairfield. will told of the struggle for survival wrote to the author that he Be fair to Clients; be fair to the Forces. Lt. Blatt attended the aid in bringing the War Depart when practically all of the mem had read the article with Government; be fair to the Officers Candidate School at ment's Information program to bers had been inducted into the pleasure and profit. Wilson's courts and to the administrative Miami, and was commissioned a American troops all over the armed forces. Other speakers article supports the Frank bureaus before which you prac second lieutenant in March, world. He is assigned to Camp were Murray Garland, '~3 and furter theory of the value of tice." 1943. Claiborne, Ga. Barney Arluck, '~2. precedent to the law. https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/justinian/vol1945/iss1/1 4 et al.: The Justinian
April,1945 THE JUSTINIAN, BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL ) Pa Lt.N.H.Cohen,Veteran Letters from Undergraduates Aviator, is Admitted And AlunJni in the Services Lt. Norman H. Cohen, '41, of Letters from Brooklyn Law School alumni and undergraduates the army air forces, a veteran serving on war fronts the world aroUtzd are received almost daily of 65 missions over Germany, by Dean William Payson Richardson, members of the Facultyarzd and wearer of the Distinguished Flying Cross, was one of a the Administrative staff of the school. Herewith the JUstilzimz group of 21 lawyers sworn in presents some typical communications, regretful that it is impos. in the Appellate Division Court sible to publish them all because of space limitatio1lS brought on House on December 20, 1944. by the war emergency. . Lt. Cohen, home on furlough From Prof. Milton G. street lighting which too.k place after 15 months overseas, is a Gershenson, '88. between the F. F. I. (French bombardier and navigator. Lt. Prof· Milton G. Ge?'shenson, Forces of the Interior, the guer Cohen was made a lawyer at a ill", civilian army which has ceremony in which the address 'J8, Fi7'S t Lieutenant in the Army of Occupation, is located given such a splendid account of was delivered by Judge Albert in Marseilles. Recently he re itself throughout France) and Conway of the Court of Appeals. tU7'ned f?'om a military tour of the departing Germans. Judge Conway said: "A man's daily acts as a member of the the Riviera, where in February My work is most Interesting Bar are the impressions he he saw groves of small orange as the restoration of a normal makes upon the tablet present trees bearing ripe fruit, with the economy is the real big job ed to him the day he receives Lt. Nonnan H. Cohen Alp Mountains in the baclv ahead of us-at least, until the his license to practice. By what ground, capped with snow. Pro civilian agencies, such as he places on that tablet he be Lt. Cohen was honored during fessor Ge7'shenson w1'ites of his UNRRA take over after the comes known. By what he his return to Brooklyn at the expe'riences in the invasion of peace. The French have suf places upon that tablet is not annual Chanuka:h Celebration of Europe as a member of the Civil fered a lot; the stories one Sgt. Harold D. Hopke alone he but the profession he the National Council of Young Affairs Department of the hears of what the Germans did represents later judged. Make Israel, at the Hotel Pennsyl A1'my, as follows: are Incredibly cruel-and there a square platform, elevated tour certain that all of you will vania, Manhattan. Lt. Cohen's I landed in Europe in the Is no exaggeration. For exam feet, in the center of the court. ple, in a prominent city, on the write upon it a judgment which decorations include the Distin dead of night on the very beach The prisoner stands or sits in others will find good." guished Flying Cross, the Air which was the scene of the D day the Germans pulled out, front, facing the bench. Two "This is indeed a proud mo Medal and twelve Oak Leaf day operation, but several weeks they went down to the public bailiffs also occupy this pen. square and very casually spray ment," Lt. Cohen said, after the Clusters. He has been in serv later. I crossed the Mediter , here is a flight of stairs lead- oath had been administered. ice three years. ranean on an LST - one of ed the civilians pass1l1g by with g from the dock down inside those ingenious amphibious machine gun bullets as their t.o the lower fioor where a cor craft, of 4,000 ton displace parting gesture. And then left. ridor goes directly to the jail ment, which has a perfectly flat I talked with some survivors, blocks. This makes it possible Lt. Col. Barro n, '16, Back bottom to enable it to shove who escaped by throwing them for the attendants to bring the right up onto the beach. It's selves to the ground and playing prisoners right into the dock perfectly wonderful for landing, dead. without disturbing the court. It At Marine Combat Point but while at sea, if more than The new French officials are works almost like magic. One a dozen of the crew breathe in a high type, and are ploughing minute the doclt is empty. Then "I have often thought of you , rhythm, it starts rolling in sym diligently into the problems of a signal is given, and presto, Lt. Col. B. S. Barron, '16, there is the prisoner! of the Marm es, haa written to of your masterful preceptorshlp pathy. A 15 degree roll either readjustment. They have ac-' Dean Wllliam Payson Richard and again what I learned from way from vertical is considered complished a lot already, and if The wigs worn by counsel are son that he has rejoined his you I shall apply for the bene gentle to the Navy personnel. they continue on at the rate not at all bad looking. They do former battalion in the field. fit of my country. I am grate To me 15 degrees Is alarming. they have been going, France not, as one might imagine, l'e His battalion is part of the Fifth ful as always and send you and I spent my nights clutching the should be in pOSition very soon mind one of wads of absorbent Amphibious COl:Ps. His com Mrs. Richardson my very sin sides of my little trundle bed to to establish a minimum economy cotton, but are Quite handsome munication comes trom Pro cerest and kindest regards. keep from pitching out on the on a self-sustaining basis. One ly shaped, with the sides drap visional Base Headquarters. Lt. As ever, steel floor. The ship was loaded of the big problems is the wide ed by curls. Col. Barron writes as follows: B. S. BARRON." with bulldozers and miscellane spread destruction of bridges Procedure is virtually the "We have a brilliant and out ous engineer equipment; on the and railroads, hamstringing dis same as in our courts of like standing officer and gentleman worst night, one bulldozer got tribution. But all are working jurisdiction. There are a few in Majol' General Henry L. First Year Class Come loose . from the lashings, and diligently to get things going differences, however. For one Larsen who is our chief and the started dashing about, until again. I had no idea of the dam thing, here they have a printed members of his staff (of whom From Many Colleges' finally the crew succeeded in age aerial bombing can do until copy of the oath on the desk be I am fortunately one) are a lasso(ng it. I saw with my own eyes whole fore the witness, so there is no bridges which had been llfted perfectly grand bunch of officers. The following institutions We hopped gingerly ashore, mumbllng or fumbling when it bodily from their spans and It is easy to see even though are represented by students In laden down with Valpaks and is given. tossed into the bed of the riv we are now only in the forma the First year class: typewriters, skipping from sand Many of the defendants were er. And I mean bridges like tive stage of our group that they 1944-194~ bag to sandbag, which the not represented by counsel. Of the High Bridge over the Har are a congenial and harmonious Barnard College crew had thoughtfully placed course, most of the matters in lem, at home. And we, and the bunch and that they will do a Brooklyn College about 4 feet apart In the shal volved misdemeanors only, but line job when the great day RAF, did most of it. C'est la there were points at which coun College of the City of New York low water. I staggered forward guerre. comes. One of the great bonds College of William and Mary from the front of the boat, sel was needed. The bench con Sincerely, of this group is that they are Columbia University clutching personal Impedimenta, sists of three magistrates, who the ones who asked for combat Green Mountain Junior College and stepped right into the wide MILTON G. GERSHENSON take jurisdiction in those cases duty and are here because they Hofstra College crack between the front of the where a jury is not demanded. Conviction percentage was high, asked and fought to be here. Hunter College boat and the lowered ramp. I From Sgt. Harold D. Hopke Men like that will get along no Long Island University took skin from my leg, from * and the punishments handed . matter where they are or what Manchester College ankle to thigh. No one on shore Sgt. Harold D. Hopke, who down were not too light. A first demands are made upon them. Manhattan College knew where we were to go. A entered the armed f01'ces at the offender at shop-lifting was "The spot here is a very busy New York University sergeant finally suggested that end of his second year in Law fined $12. The article stolen was one with much noise and rush Packer Collegiate Institute we bed down for the night above School is in the medical service, worth about $2. and bustle. The everyday things Pratt Institute the shore. We stumbled ashore and is located at an A1,nty Hos From the court I found my of life that we are so very used Queens College and I picked a spot and made pital in England. Recently Sgt. way to the Birmingham Law to have become luxuries here, St. Francis College my somewhat inadequate bed Hopke undertook an investiga School, which is a branch of and quite difficult to obtain. St. John's University there. I woke up in the dawn's tion of an English Law School the University of Birmingham. When we finally get to our next Syracuse University early light to lind that we were and an English C(Jurt roo·m. The As it was late in the afternoon, base they won't even be lux The New York School of Social in a vineyard; that I was sleep ?'esult of his visits are told in the proctor made arrangements uries-they just won't be. Life Work ing about two feet from a sign this lette'1': to attend a class on the follow resolves itself to very simple University of Alabama painted in German, which had Tbe court I visited was the ing morning. I returned as ar terms in the field-a place to University of Chicago on it a crossed skull-and-bones magistrate's court in Birming ranged. There were nine stu sleep, an opportunity to keep University of Czernowitz and the legend: "Achtung, ham. The rooms where the ses dents in the class, three of them clean and some food to keep University of Edin burgh Minen." Despite my faulty sions were held are small and women. one alive. It proves too that the University of Pennsylvania knowledge of German, I rea packed with furniture. The The professor lectured on veneer of our civilization isn't University of South Dakota lized that a lump I was reclin jury box, benCh, and dock, are "The Introduction to Land very thick or very important. My Virginia Union University ing on was probably a land all elevated above the floor Law." The course had begun in own feeling is that we must de Webb Institute of Naval mine, and made a hasty de level. Counsel remain on the September, and by the end of velop in the years to come not Architecture parture. lower plane, with the result November the class had reached so much things that will bring Wittenberg College We made an uneventful ar that they are looked down upon Feudal Estates and Tenures. In us ease and comfort but rather Yale University rival at our Hea.dQuarters, sur by everyone else. Spectators the course of bis remarks the a greater ablllty to distinguish rounded by the cheering pop are confined to a small gallery professor Ipoke highly of New right from wrong and a greater ulace (average age: 7, cheer far above the back of the court, York's Real Property law. appreciation of the duties and Kotleroff, '38, 2nd Lt. ing and. crying for "Ie chewing and completely beyond earshot The second hour was devoted responsibilities which as citizens gum, s'11 vous plait") . I was of the proceedings. to a lecture by the Dean on we owe our country and our Invtn Kotlel'oft', '38, has been assigned a billet in a villa form Tables for counsel consist of "The History of the Legal Sys fellow men. With a greater re commissioned a second lieu ten erly occupied by German offi planks fastened to long bench tem." On the occasion of my spect for constituted authority :>.nt upon completion of the of cers, and spent my spare time es, not unlike those use in visit he covered the latter part and a
April,1945 THE JUSTINIAN, BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL Page 7 Graduates and ·Undergraduates in the Armed For ces The Justinian publishes herewith additions to the roster of A/~ Philip HolIer, '33 graduates and undergraduates of Brooklyn Law School in the U.S.N.T.S.C. armed 'services of the United States. Those whose names are Sampson, New York omitted have not notified the school of their induction. It is re Howard T. Hogan, '35 Mitchel Field, New York quested, so that the records may be kept complete and up-to J. Bentley Homer, '31 date, thot service men and the relatives of service men f orward Regional Super., U.S,O. mch information as may be permissible Itnder the war regula Hamilton, Bermuda tions. In the following list, the year of graduat'ion follows the Pvt. William Houslanger (3d) names of those who have graduated. Undergraduates are desig Robins Field, Georgia nated by the year of their attendance. Thus ( 1) means the st ~t Cox. Robert Jackson, '32 dent was a first year student; (2) a second year student, etc. U.S.N.A.T.B. Washington, D. C Max L. Alpern, '31 PFC. Hyman Danzis, '42 Lt. Jack Jacobson, '37 Sgt. David Altschul, '31 Santa Monica, California c/o Postmaster, New York Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia PFC. Harry Deitch, '36 Lt. Alfred James, '35 Douglas Aman, '33 Camp McCoy, Wisconsin Punta Gorda, Florida T/Sgt. Albert E . Arnold, Jr., '35 PFC. Peter C. Demetri, '41 Walter Kane, '31 Julius Aronow, '39 c/ o Postmaster Herman Kaner, ' 31 c/ o Postmaster, New York Miami, Florida Lt. Samuel Kaufman, '30 Sgt. George Auerbach, '32 PFC. Arnold Dresden, ' 36 Detroit, Michigan Huntsville, Alabama Parris Island, South Carolina John W. Kellogg, '38 Cpl. Arnold Avitable (4th) Capt. James B. Dryden, '09 Abel Kessler, '36 Auburn, Washington U. S. Navy Fred W. Kieffer, '35 Pvt. Richard M. Ballin (1) Lt. John W. Durkee: 38 Bernard Klein, '32 Ontario, California Holabird Signal Depot U. S. Navy A/ C Lester A. Baron (2d) Baltimore, Maryland Lt. Charles J. Klyde, '31 Ellington Field, Texas S.M. 3/c William Ehrlich, '30 Lt. Com. Erwin C. Baum, '37 Holabird Signal Depot, c/o Fleet Post Office Baltimor e, Maryland c/o Postmaster, San FrancisCO New York Pvt. David S. Kopelov, ' 37 T/ S. Jerold Bazinsky, '35 Ph.M. William Eisnitz, '36 3/c Camp Crowder, Missouri c/ o Postmaster, New York U. S. Naval Hospital Lt. Irwin KotlerolI, ' 38 C.W.O. Isidore Beerman, '29 Portsmouth, Virginia Y 2/ c Harry H . Kozak, '32 Fort Jackson, South Carolina Pvt. H. David Epstein, ' 36 U.S,M.S.T.S. Lt. Jules Belgrade, '34 Camp Luna, New Mexico "Boh" Herbert at the wheel of 'a jeep .. . U. S. Army Sheepshead Bay, New York Ensign Jerome J . Feiner, '43 Lt. Edward H. Kozlowsky (1st) Lt. Henry H. Bellinger, ' 37 Quonset, Rhode Island Lt. Com. Bernard M. Olsen, '31 Rob ert LHerbert, '30, U. S.N. R. Lt. (j.g.) John R. Krantz, '35 c/ o Fleet Post Office Lt. John J . FerrU, '38 U.S.N.R. Y l / c William Benenson, '33 U. S. Army San FranCisco, California Camp Parks, California Jacob Lang, 31 Captain of Mari ne s Sgt. Sidney Fox, '39 Lt. Gerald A. Oster (3d) Lt. Daniel A. Ben nett, '34 S/ Sgt. Horace R. Lapman, '36 Camp Shelby, Mississippi Baltimore, Maryland Arlington, Virginia Mitchel Field, New York Marine Captain Robert I. Capt. Leo Freedman, '24 PFC. Irving Passick, '42 Com. Francis Biondo, '38 Eli C. Lazar, '30 Herbert, '30, recently was pro U. S. Army Camp Gruber, Oklahoma Lt. Bertram Blatt Cornell University moted to that rank at Marine . Lt. Robert Freifeld, '35 George W. Percy, Jr., '41 Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio Ithaca, New York clo Postmaster, New York Major Henry George Plitt, '40 Corps Air Station, Mojave, Lt. Col. Milton R . Blum, '35 Lt. Shepard W. Leigh, ' 35 S.K. 3/ c Abraham Freundlich c/o Postmaster, New York Calif., where h e is security and Fort McClellan, Alabama New Orleans, Virginia Pvt. Abraham B. Podolsky, '38 intelligence officer. Arthur Blume, '42 '32, c/o Fleet Post Office R. T. 2/c Soloman Levine, '29 c/ o Postmaster Captain Herbert, former man U. £. Navy New York Pvt. Philip J. Frieder, '36 U. S. Navy Minneapolis, Minnesota aging attorney for Wingate & T/ 5 John M. Braisted, Jr., '31 San Francisco, California Mather Field, California Lt. William C. Porth, '37 Cullen, 20 Exchange Place, New Fort Meade, Maryland Frank Levitsky, '42 S 11c (SK) John J. Genevich, c/o Postmaster, New York York City, has had two promo Sgt. Bernard B. Brandt, '33 Mortimer Lipsky, '38 '39, Washington, D. C. Sol Pottish, '31 tions since entering Marine Avi U. S. Army Elmwood, Connecticut . S. Murray N. Gladstone, '36 U. S. Army ation a little more than a year Joseph Buff, '35 2d Lt. Philip Levy, '27 Lt. Harold Raab, '39 • Lt. Col. John R. Callery, ' 33 U.S.N.T.S. ago. Pvt. Samuel Litvin, '31 Camp Maxey Station Hospital William T. Campbell, '33 Sampson" New York Cpl. Ben GolIen, '37 cl o Pos tmaster, New York Texas He is a member of Phi Delta Nicholas Cardell, '40 PFC. Arthur D. Liva, '32 Cpl. Abraham Rashba, ' 31 Phi, legal fraternity, and Mon Washington, D. C. U. S. Army Camp Davis, North Carolina c/o Postmaster, tauk Lodge, F. & A. M. Sgt. Carmine Castucci, '42 Sgt. Herman Goldberg, '37 L:C,A.A.F. PFC. Joseph Lobell, '36 San FranCisco, California Fort Meade, Maryland Camp Crowder, Missouri Lt. (j.g.) Charles G. Ritter, '37 Major Warren D. Chandler, '3S Lake Charles, Louisiana Pvt. Harry I. Sorkin, '35 MAM 2/ c Irving T .' Goldberg, '27 Cpl. Walter Lubarsky, '30 U. S. Navy Camp Lee, Virginia Arlington, Virginia Camp Cooke, California cl o Fleet Post Office Irving I. Rosenmertz, '42 Joseph C. Spano, '33 Sp. 2/ c William M. Chanson, ' 41 A.E.R., M 3/c Samuel S. Sgt. Hyman Rozen, (3) Houston, Texas New York Q.M. 3/c Leonard R. Speiss, '36' S 11c Martin M. Goldenthal, '32 Lupowitz ( 2), V-7 Unit c/o Postmaster, New York Cpt. Ralph Chavkin, '38 University of P ennsylvania c/ o Fleet Post Office, Atlantic City, New Jersey Cpl. Theodore L. Schlesinger, '39 New York cl o Postmaster, New York Philadelphia, Pennsylvania c/o Postmaster, Cpl. Fred Goldstein (2) Lt. David Spiegel, '35 Philip Chustek, '31 Leo J. Margolin, '35 San Francisco, California Sgt. John J. Clair (2d) c/ o Postmaster, New York C.M.P., Detroit, Michigan Sgt. Joseph Goldstein, '41 Max Margules MaM 3/ c Charles Schmall, '31 Columbia, South Carolina U.S.O., J .W.B., Denver, Colo. N. S. Navy, New York Lt. Stanley Sragow, '35 Sp. (F) 3/c Solomon Clorfein, A.A.F., McCook, Nebraska U.S.N.R. Harry Golomb, '35 S.K. 3/ c Paul S. Mauer, '35 Capt. Benjamin Schwartz, '38 '36, U. S. Navy U.S.N.A.S. clo Postmaster, New York Lt. Abraham Stanger, '33 Capt. Daniel Cohen, '35 Pvt. Rubin Goodman, ' 37 Camp Ritchie, Maryland Scott Field, Illinois Alameda, California Herman Schwartz, '35 S.K. 2/ c H. James Compton Pvt. Samuel Starobin, '33 T / S. Morris Green, '37 PFC. John B. McDonald, '33 Camp Swift, Texas (2), U. S . N. R. Camp Davis, North Carolin Lt. (j.g .) Israel G. Seeger, '37 Camp Lee, Virginia San Francisco, California Nathaniel P. Green, '35 Joseph Thomas McDonough, '38 c/o Fleet Post Office Pvt. Edward Strausman (4th) Sgt. Benjamin Copeland, ' 32 PFC. Albert Greenblatt, ' 9 Fort Monmouth, New Jers y U. S. Army San Francisco, California Fort Meade, Maryland clo Postmaster Lt. Louis E. McDonough , ' 38 Lt. Marvin Segal, '35 Leo Taub, '30 San Francisco, California S 2/ c Philip D. Greenspan, ' 30 c/ o Fleet Post Office Los Angeles, California S.K. 3/c Joseph Shaffer, '31 Pvt. Fred Travers, '31 Pvt. Jesse Corsover (3d) Sgt. Sydney J. Meachem (2d) Newport, Rhode Island Fort Bliss, Texas c/ o Postmaster, New York New York Cpl. julius M. Greisman, '37 Ensign Nathan Meltzer, '42 Capt. Seymour Ruck Sgt. Stanley R. Wayne, '31 Sgt. Seymour M. Custen, '39 c/ o Fleet Post Office AAF, Chicago, Illinois Camp Blanding, Flot'da New York Pvt. Josepb L. Grossman, '42 Camp ordon Johnson New York Capt. Murray Sherman, '34 Lt. (j.g.) Morris Weiner, '34 Florida PFC. Sol Messias, '29 Pvt. Ralph Sherman, '42 PFC. Joseph A. Weinstein, '31 Pvt. Samuel Grossman, '27 c/ o Postmaster c/o Postmaster, Rhoades General Hospital Lt. Silverglitt, '42, Camp Parks, California New Orleans, LouiSiana San Francisco, California Utica, New York Capt. Edward M. Haas (3d) Lt. Edward A. Meyers, '31 PFC. Harold Siegel, '32 Lt. Morris Weinstein, '37 c/ o Postmaster, S.K. V-3 Herbert C. Miller, '41 Fort Thomas, Kentucky c/o Postmaster, New York Joins in Bombings San Francisco, California U.S.N.A.F., Columbus, Ohio Pvt. Norman Silver, '31 T/ 5 Harold Weiss, '42 Lt. Bernard Haber (2d) Sgt. Sidney K. Nadelson (3d) Camp Joseph T. Robinson Fort Sam Houston, Texas First Lt. Morton N. Silver c/o Postmaster, New York cl o Postmaster, New York Arjransas Lt. Harry Weissman, '41 glitt, '42, navigator of an Eigbth Cpl. Zoltan Nahy, '28 PFC. Harold Simon (1st) Pvt. Edward E . Haeussler, '43 Lt. Irving Wiener, '38 Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress, Camp Cooke, California c/o Postmaster Fort Lewis, Washington Brooklyn, New York entered the aerial otl'ensive Lt. William A. Neafsey, '35 San Francisco, California 2/ c Benjamin Hantman, '31 Myron B. Willner, '31 against Germany in a heavy Norfolk Naval School Capt. Israel Nemiroff, '29 Capt. Nathan Sirota, '37 S.P. (c) Arthur J. Wilson, '40 bombing attack upon the oil re Portsmouth, Virginia c/ o Postmaster U. S. Army Camp Peary, Virginia fineries of Mersebur, vital Ph.M. 3/ c Jack H . Hantman, ' 35 Seattle, Washington Cpl. Sidney Sltlar, '3 5 source of fuel for the Nazi me U. S. Naval Hospital Lt. Henry R. Nusbaum, ' 38 c/ o Postmaster, New York Pvt. Douglas L. Winokur (1st) chanized forces. Portsmoutb, Virginia Fort Benja min Harrison Lt. Maurice Slayton, '32 A.S.T.U., University of Maine Lt. Silverglitt is a member LL Herman B. Hirsch (3d) Indiana Cpl. F. Joseph Slowey, '27 Orono, Maine of the 385th Bombardmen t cl o Postmaster, New York Pvt. Stanley Nussbaum, 39 Camp Polk, Louisiana Milton G. Winston, '35 Group, commanded by Lt. Col. Pvt. Charles B. Hochberg, '36 Fort Belvoir, Virginia S 2/ c Manuel Smith, ' 39 Pvt. Nahman Zirinsky, '39 George ¥. Jumper. The lieu Camp Crowder, Missouri S.P . (A) 2/ c Philip Oklan Washington, D. 'C. Camp Claiborne, Louisiana tenallt's wife, the former Norma. ;S 11c (SK) Lester Hoenig, '35 U.S.N,R.S., New York Sgt. Louis Sohmer, '31 Y. Lawrence Zucker, ' 38 Hack, '42, lives at 763 inth. U.S.N.T.C. S/ Sgt. Santo M. Olive Station Hospital cl o Fleet PJst Office Avenue, Manhattan. Gulfport, ~1ississippi Colorado Springs, Colorado Kecoughtan, Virginia San Francisco, California Published by BrooklynWorks, 1945 7 The Justinian, Vol. 1945 [1945], Iss. 1, Art. 1 F pag, 8 THE JUSTINIAN, BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL April,1945 ------~------~------~~~~~ ing metropolis, of about 300,- 000. It is at the very tip of the American Legion Amazon delta. It is typically ' HaroldM.Kennedy European in architecture, in customs and in lack of adequate SpeakingContest drainage facilities. It sleeps 49 'Neeks of the year, coming to Named Judge of life for three weeks during Octo ber, during which there is a He ld in School special religious festival. Federal Court Regards to the School and its Finals of Kings County Event alumni, Conducted in Law School Member of Class of 1924, PETER C. DEMETRI Auditorium B.L.S., Designated to Bench From Lt. H. A. Rhoades ~ SCH OOLS ENTER PROMINENT AS LAWYER Lt. H. A. Rhoades,* '41, is with Medals Presented to Winners in the Army (at time of writing) Oratoricals Aimed at Inculcating in Luxembou?·g. He writes: U. S. Attorney Chosen by President Respect for American Life in this sector is quite a to Fill Late Judge Campbell's Institutions paradox. There is excitement Post in Ea8tern District galore, but there is a self-same The finals of the American ness to war that makes it be Harold M. Kennedy, of the Legion Oratorical Contest were come rather dull and monoton class of 1924, Brooklyn Law held in the auditorium of the ous. Of course, it is decidedly Brooklyn Law School, February uncomfortable and cruel. We School, has been elevated to the 19, 1945. The chairman of the but live for the day when san Federal Court for the Eastern occasion was Prof. Robert R. ity and reason will prevail and District of New York by nom Sugarman, of the Brooklyn law we'll be able to walk on home ination of President Franklin School Faculty. Prof. Sugarman soil again, happy in the knowl Delano Roosevelt. Mr. Kennedy is a member of Flatlands Post, edge that we have fought for and succeeded the late Marcus B. No. 391, American Legion. He won high ideals and a worthy Campbell as Federal Judge. had been judge advocate of the cause. Judge Kennedy had won post since 1940, and has been Prof. Robert R. Sugarman _presiding at American Legion Lt. H. A. RHOADES a member of the Legion's Coun Oratorical Con test. reputation as a forceful and ty Committee since 1943. brilliant lawyer. He achieved The purpose of the annual From Ensign* H. Mallach his first prominence as chief as oratoricals under Legion auspic Ensign H. Mallacl~, who lelt sistant in the Steinbrink inves es is to create an interest Letters From Alumni and Undergraduates Brooklyn Law School in his sec tigation of am bulance chasing among high school students in ond year for naval tmining, and in 1928. His work so impressed the principles of democracy as (Colltilllted from Page 5) and big pieces of tires. Adding who since has been c01nmissioned, the Appellate Division that it incorporated in the American me very homesick, and wishing to these items a few rough logs is now in Pacific waters. He appointed him in 1924 to in system of government. The that I was back again in Brook we built ourselves a house, ap writes: proximately 10 x 12 x 6. For vestigate the administration of speeches of aU of the numerous lyn Law School, so that I might My morale is hIgh. We had justice in Staten Island. contestants centered around the finish my studies. flooring we have a thick layer the great pleasure of a ten-day Judge Kennedy was graduated Constitution of the United My brief excursion from the of ferns and pine. Topping it rest in Sydney, Australia. It Is from Erasmus Hall High School States and Constitutional law military life was extrsmely in oft, we managed to acquire a a modern city, like good old and practices. Students of 21 teresting. I hope soon to get good sized stove. The very night Brooklyn. I had great pleasure and City College of New York. parochialandpublichigh schools opportunity to visit the Civil we moved into our shelter a In visiting the University of He enlisted in the Navy in 1917 participated in this year's event. courts. I have been hoping heavy snow storm came along, Sydney's Law School, but much and was later commissioned a Each of the participants was somewhere in my travels to and now we are having rain. to my regret the classes were Lieutenant. In 1921 he com awarded a medal. Among those meet an attOlney who could Our shack is a fine shelter from not in session. The library is menced his study of law at night designated by Chairman Sugar give me information on local both. well equipped, containing U. S. in Brooklyn Law School while man to serve on the committee customs. The nearest I have All sorts of things are hap Reports, and a great many of he taught English during the of judges were Prof. J erome yet come is to meet a clerk pening, but when the war will our textbooks. The students to day in a Brooklyn high school. Prince and Prof. Frederic A. end is a matter that to me whom I spoke seemed serious (over here, as you know, they In 1939, while he was chief Johnson of the Brooklyn Law seems unpredictable. We are all minded and studious. Alto call him clark). He was quite assistant to Attorney-General School faculty. well informed 011 the subject of anxious to get it over with, and· gether, I was very much im- where to go to file the proper are buckling down to make as pressed. . John Harlan Amen, he was papers, but beyond that his quick a job as we can, so that The weather in this South nominated by President Roose Siegel, '32, at Fort Thomas knowledge of the operation of we can get back home and re Paci1lc is torrid. The tempera velt as United States Attorney the law was somewhat hazy. sume life in God's own land ture in the sun is well over 100 for the Eastern District of New PIc. Harold Siegel, '32, form Regards to all of the students once more. degrees. From what I hear of York, embracing all of Long Sincerely, er labor representative for the and faculty, the winter in Brooklyn, I bet Island. War Production Board in New HAROLD D. HOPKE Pfc. ABNER J. MORSE you could use some of this heat One of Judge Kennedy's most York City is now assigned as vo to advantage. important prosecutions was cational guidance counsellor in From Ptc. Peter Demetri, '41 With sincere regards, made in 1940 when he prosecut the psychological branch of the * newly activated Army air Forc From prc. Abner* J. }Iorse Pic. Peter DfJ'rnetri, '41, serv Ens. H. MALLACH ed seventeen men charged with es Convalescent Hospital at Fort Pic. Abner J. Morse, indu,cted ing with the Army Air Forces, plotting to overthrow the Gov Thomas Kentucky. Pfc. Siegel into the Army during his first is stationed in a quiet but im ernment and set up a dictator is an al~mnus of Townsend Har ye(JJl' at Bt'ooklyn Law School portant sector off the Braailian Goffen, '31, in Air Forces ship. Another notable prosecu ris Hall High School, New has seen much active service on Coast. He gives wot'd about the tion involved black market oper York and of City College. the German Iront. His lILOst re wO'l'k 01 a G.I. College, which is Ben GOfi'eD, '37, stationed in ations of wholesale meat pack cent communication Inrrn "Some under his direction. ' Northern Ireland with III unit ers. where in Gennany" gives a Th e College is starting otr of the Eighth Air Forces, has Lt. L. McDonough, '38, glimpse of the S01-t 01 conditions with a great deal of interest. been promoted to corporal, and soldiers faced in the warfMe of We have students signed up for is assigned to the courts and Lt. Van Nostrand Wins Transferre d to L. A. the winter which has just passed. Business English and Commer claims office. In this office, finan My unit has been activG and cial law, and other classes are cial adjustments arising out Citation from the Second Lt. Louis Edward a great deal of my time Is tak being formed. of accidents between Air Force Navy McDonough, '38, has been trans en up with the routines o{ army Work in a quiet sector has its personnel and British and Irish ferred from Pennsylvania to the atrairs. Yet I keep track of advantages, though when a war civilians are settled. The stai'li The Bronze Star for distin Los Angeles Port of Embarka the dates, and translate them is on, one could wish to partic consists solely or men with legal guished service in action was tion, an installation of the Army into civllian terms. I take ipate in the direct action. Here, background. awarded to Lt. LeRoy Van Nos Transportation Corps. Lt. Mc pleasure in figuring out what is however, it has been possible tl'and, lieutenant senior grade, Donough, a graduate of Colum going on at the law school from for me to live a life approximat Coast Guard Reserve. The bia College, was an attorney month to month. J ust now, at ing the normal. Mrs. Demetri award was made by Adm. with the Allstate Insurance the beginning of the semester, is with me, and our daughter is Henry K. Hewlett, commander Company, in New York, before I can visualize t he entering now old enough to run about of naval forces in northwest his enlistment. classes being introd uced to those the house, and babble away with African waters. Vice Adm. R. A. exciting, fascinating beauties great energy. I am going to Waesche, commander of the of the law which so t hrilled me. enroll her as a law student as Coast Guard, further honored Sherman, ~34, Promoted And every time I get a letter soon as Dean Richardson will from you at the Law School my send me a matriculation blank. Lt. Van Nostrand with a per sonal letter of commendation. To Air Force Captain morale takes a leap . Just get At this pOint we are a scant ting word makes me feel very 50 miles from the equator. Con Lt. Van Nostrand, a graduate Murray Shennan '34, admin much closer to the school. sequently I am not bothered of Babylon High School and am istrative omcer for a B-26 Ma At the moment I am in the with such GI problems as long herst College entered service rauder Squadron of the First same locality as when I wrote handled underwear, heavy over while he was an uudergraduate Tactical Air Force has been pro some time ago. We have had coats and coal shortages. We student at Brooklyn Law School. moted to captain. Overseas since a real taste of cold weather and have ravishing sunrises and 'sun During the early days of the war June, 1943, the officer serves lots of snow. Quite frankly sets, and such torrential down he Rerved on the Coast Guard with a veteran squadron that Winter, a pup tent and I are pours of rain as you never im Cutter Campbell, whIch made fought its way through the not exactly compatible compan agined. Milk here is a rarity, an unusually impressive record Tunisian and SiCilian campaigns. fons. Three of us in my unit but we get 3.2 beer, which is of convoy duty in the North At It has also joined in attack on have combined to remedy con not too bad if you like beer. lantic. More recently he has targets in Italy and southern ditions. By dint of searching, Unfortunately, I do not. been an executive omcer in a France. we got together some lumber The city of Belem is a thriv- Pfc. Peter C. Demetri destroyer escort. https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/justinian/vol1945/iss1/1 8