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Case Provides Insights Into Federal Court Practice The Convoluted Case of Howell vs. Deady By KRISTIN HAZARD

ost Oregon lawyers are familiar with re- ceased son Edward. From the property's income, Mnowned "Oregon Justinian" the Honorable she directed that $150 per month be paid to their Matthew P. Deady. Few, however, are familiar with mother, Edward's widow Mary E. Deady, and that his wife Lucy or know that a feud over the inter- $75 per month be paid to the widow of her son pretation of her will was the subject of a rare pro- Paul, Marye Thompson Deady. She further directed bate matter heard in the District of Oregon. The that each grandson, Matthew and Hanover, was to case, Howell v. Deady, is less noteworthy for its be paid $100 per month, and that the remainder involvement of the Deady family, than for the in- was to be paid to her son Henderson. She also pro- sights it provides into federal practice in our court vided for the creation of a sinking fund to payoff sixty years ago and for the three opinions Judge the mortgage on the property. Fee wrote in its course, which have become clas- Perhaps out of concern that her heirs might forego sics in Oregon probate law. the property's stable income, she also directed that The bulk of Lucy Deady's estate consisted of a the lot "shall neither be mortgaged, partitioned, lucrative piece of real property in Portland, Lot 1, sold, or otherwise encumbered by my devisees ex- Block 212. When she died in 1923, at the age of cept for improvement of the same, until the expira- 89, controversy sprang up almost immediately tion of twenty-five (25) years from the date of my about the ownership of the property-controversy decease, and the devises to my said son Henderson that was not resolved until nearly twenty years later. Brooke Deady, and to my grandsons, Matthew Ed- The seeds of dispute were planted in the words ward Deady and Hanover Deady, ... are upon the of Lucy's will. Decades after it was drafted, that express condition that said property shall not be will raised issues evocative of a pre-Bar exam night- Continued on page 4 mare-regarding restraints on alienation, what it means to "die without issue," and the rule against perpetuities. The origin of the controversial be- quests can best be understood in the context in which they were made. Judge Deady died in 1893, leaving Lot 1, Block 212 jointly to Lucy and his three sons, Henderson, Paul, and Edward. At Lucy's request, and without consideration, the three sons deeded their interests in the property to her so that she could develop it. She drafted her last will in 1920, after the deaths of two of her sons, Paul and Edward. At that time, lease income from the building she had placed on the property was lucrative and steady, but it was encumbered by a mortgage she had executed in 1917, in the amount of $40,000. Attempts to ad- dress those circumstances in the drafting of her last Lot 1, Block 212, whose ownership was in dispute in will generated fodder for dispute, which persisted Howell v. Deady, lay in the area surrounding Mt. Tabor. for many years after her death. After the turn of the century, this area was the site of In the will, she devised an undivided two-thirds extensive development. This photograph was taken near 5.E. of the property to her son Henderson and the re- 52nd and Morrison, several blocks south of where Lucy maining undivided one-third to her two grandsons, Deady had her property. Matthew and Hanover Deady, the sons of her de-

FALL 1998 PROMOTING A RACIAL POLITICS We who care about the court's rich history owe a great debt to OF MODERATION Judge Owen M. Panner. I have told some of you privately that when I was appointed president at about this time last year, I A Book Review by Peter A. Ozanne thought I might preside over our Society's winding down. For too many years we had too few people trying to do too much In Race, Crime and the Law, Harvard and, in consequence, the Society had fallen into disrepair. That Law Professor Randall Kennedy ex- changed in a hurry, however, thanks to Judge Panner's vision and plores this country's legal history of his energetic dedication to preserving the court's history-a dedi- racial injustice by focusing on the cation that proved infectious. "white-black confrontation" in crimi- When you look at the names of our executive committee mem- nallaw-what Kennedy views as "the bers, you will see that there are four times as many as there were before great [racial] object lesson for Ameri- and they are connected to lawyers of diverse backgrounds and experi- can law." It is certainly a lesson that ence. Lheg i.Lals~a ton of energy..sonn~c~d tQj;hose n

2 feels has become "thoroughly bipar- tisan") he offers a challenge: "ac- ... it is Kennedy's unflinching reporting of racial knowledge what cannot be sensibly denied: ... illicit racial discriminations fact and perception that will challenge, provoke, and continue to adversely affect the ad- ministration of criminal law." To perhaps incite those committed as well as those op- those "dedicated specifically to ad- vancing the interests of blacks" he is- posed to promoting racial justice and harmony. sues a warning: present claims of racial discrimination with care in or- der to avoid the kind of "racial para- noia" and "intellectual sloppiness" cial demographics oj the inmate population and the Law marks a major shift in that led to the Tawana Brawley trials may reflect that more blacks than whites are perceptions and in the ongoing dia- in City and recent asser- engaging in prohibited conduct which leads logue between the races about the tions that American drug policy them to be arrested. IJ that is so, the racial dis- administration of criminal justice in (whether effective or wise) is inten- parity stems not from biased decision-making America. Communities of color are _---ttionally "genocidal." on the part of the police but from some other increasingly inviting the police into r What Kennedy is admittedly pro- cause .... Real differences in behavior may their midst to undertake the kind of moting-what to some he concedes stem, to some extent, from deprivations imposed "community policy" strategies and "smells of Uncle Tomism"-is a ra- upon individuals who live in the depressed, iso- street encounters that gave rise to the cial politics of moderation. Yet beyond lated criminogenic settings in which large num- "constitutionalization" of American his calls for the ideological combat- bers of blacks reside as a consequence of historic criminal procedure over the past three ants to seek common ground in their racial oppression. It is important, however, to decades. Rather than demanding that search for community peace and ci- distinguish between racial discrimination en- the criminal law persist in its attempts vility, and beyond his moderate pre- gaged in by police and real differences in be- to eradicate what Professors Dan scriptions for increasing equity and havior caused by conditions partially shaped Kahan and Tracey Meares, in The credibility in the administration of by racial oppression. It is important to avoid Georgetown Law Journal's Twenty- criminal justice, it is Kennedy's un- wrongly stigmatizing police officers; their work Seventh Annual Review of Criminal flinching reporting of racial fact and is too essential to be hobbled by mistaken Procedure, have recently called perception that will challenge, pro- charges. "American apartheid," people of voke, and perhaps incite those com- color are increasingly calling for an mitted as well as those opposed to That relative to their percentage oj the popu- end to what Professor Kennedy con- promoting racial justice and harmony. lation, blacks commit more street crime than siders the most pernicious legacy of For example, in Kennedy's words: do whites is a fact and not a figment of a this country's racist history: Negrophobe's imagination. Although blacks underenforcement of the criminal law The Reagan administration attacked race- constitute only around j 2 percent oj the na- in African-American communities.

based aJJirmative action on color-blind grounds tional population, in j 992, 44.8 percent oj all Clearly, a new dialogue on crime, race, but supported race-based peremptory challenges persons arrested for violent crimes were black. and the law is underway. as a tool oj litigation .... This inconsistency Blacks made up 55. j percent oj those arrested Peter Ozanne recently withdrew as a suggests that some in the color-blindness camp for homicide, 42.8 percent of those arrested for partner in Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt tend to act opportunistically with respect to the rape, and 60.9 percent of those arrested for rob- and joined the U. S. Attorney's Office to matter of racial discrimination, complaining bery Even after one makes a reasonable dis- direct the Department of Justice's new seriously about it only when racial distinctions count to offset some degree oj racial Strategic Approaches to Community hurt, or are perceived to hurt, whites. discrimination in law enforcement, a strikingly Safety Initiative. The project is currently large disproportionality remains. addressing problems of youth gun ... [TJhe principal injury suffered by Afri- violence in Portland. can-Americans in relation to criminal matters Society Jaces both real racism and real criminal- is not overenforcement but underenforcement oj ity, a long-term need to address socioeconomic the laws. Whereas mistreatment of suspects, inequities and a short-term need to provide for pub- defendants, and criminals has often been used lic saJety now, a crisis in individual moralities as an instrument of racial oppression, more bur- and a crisis oj social justice. The following generous donations densome now in the day-to-day lives of AJri- were recently made in support of can-Americans are private, violent criminals These are tough messages in our our historical society's work: (typically black) who attack those most vul- current environment of political cor- $1,245 in Memory of The Hon. nerable without regard to racial identity. rectness and a collective shame over a William M. Dale sordid history of racial injustice; and ... [A] racial disparity is not necessarily in- the messenger no doubt could only be $1,000 Life Membership from dicative oj a racial discrimination .... A dis- an African -American scholar of Randall Kester proportionate number of blacks in jail might Randall Kennedy's stature. $400 from the Lane County Bar signal that police are racially discriminating Whether or not its observations and Association in making arrests. On the other hand, the ra- prescriptions are valid, Race, Crime

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if",,,j -,";;; several other disputes that foreshad- Henderson. After some negotiation, in owed the questions that case ulti- October 1934, Charlotte signed a ~~y Ho~e~l vs. Deady mately addressed. Within two months settlement agreement. Matthew

";"'': ",,~ /" i> ' continued of Lucy's death, friction arose between signed the agreement as well, but his 1: If Henderson and his nephew Hanover brother Hanover, who had initiated about the ownership of the property. the process, refused. Charlotte died disposed of or encumbered during the On October 25, 1923, Wilbur, an at- July 12, 1935. Like Henderson's will, period aforesaid." torney for Hanover and his brother hers made no specific mention of Lot Lucy's will also provided that "in Matthew, sent a letter to Joseph 1, Block 212. It designated her son the event my son Henderson Brooke Simon, a friend of Lucy's, who with from a previous marriage, Richard Deady die without issue, the undi- Henderson was co-executor of her Howell, as her residuary legatee. vided two-thirds of Lot numbered 1 will. That letter sought verification Probate closed on Lucy's will on in Block numbered 212, shall vest in that the grandsons would be entitled March 6, 1936. Shortly before then, my grandsons hereinbefore named, to the whole of the property on Joseph Simon, the remaining execu- and I give and devise the same to my Henderson's death. tor of Lucy's will, died. The First Na- said grandsons." She authorized her The following fall, approximately tional Bank of Portland was appointed son Henderson to elect "to bequeath one-year after Lucy's death, Marye executor, and after probate closed by last Will and Testament to his wife, Thompson Deady, the widow of acted as trustee for the property. Char- (if he then has a wife,) the income that Lucy's son Paul, filed suit claiming lotte Howell Deady's son and heir, would have been derived by him if liv- that Lucy had held one-third of the Richard Howell, sought an account- ing, from the two-thirds of Lot 1 Block property in trust for Paul, to which ing from Hanover, Matthew, and the 212, City of Portland. Such bequest his heirs were then entitled. Marye's First National Bank of Portland and to continue only during the life time claim was settled approximately one demanded payment of a share of in- of the widow of said Henderson year later, on October 28, 1925, come from the property. When his Brooke Deady." whereby her monthly income from the demand was refused, he filed suit on The last clause in which the prop- property was increased from $75 to July 11, 1936, naming Hanover, erty was addressed provided that the $150. Matthew, and the bank as defen- monthly payments to her grandsons Around the time that Marye's claim dants. So began the case, Howell v. and of residue to Henderson "shall was settled, Henderson and his wife Deady, brought in federal court be- continue for a period of ten years af- Amalie, who had long been separated, cause Richard Howell was a resident ter my death, and thereupon and were divorced. Henderson wanted to of Connecticut. thereafter, the net income derived marry Charlotte Howell but was con- Richard Howell was represented by from said Lot 1 in Block 212 of the cerned that if he did not wait for six Robert F. Maguire, a preeminent Port- City of Portland, shall follow the title months after his divorce decree, the land attorney who was later to be a and ownership of said real property, validity of his marriage to Charlotte judge at the Nuremburg war crimes and shall be distributed, two-thirds to could be called into question. trials. He asked the court to construe my son Henderson Brooke Deady, and Henderson, however, was not well and the clause of Lucy's will that provided the remaining one-third to my two believed that he did not have long to that Henderson's interest in two-thirds grandsons, subject to the payment of live. Henderson tried to get Hanover of the lot would vest in his nephews if the legacies bequeathed to Mary E. to agree that Henderson's share of the he died without issue. Maguire argued Deady and Marye Thompson Deady." property's income would be paid to that provision should be construed to Howell v. Deady was preceded by Charlotte Howell if he died before apply only if Henderson predeceased they could be married. In an effort to Lucy; otherwise, it would violate the get Hanover's consent, on October 29, rule against perpetuities. 1925, Henderson executed an affida- Hanover and Matthew were repre- vit that he had no children. Nonethe- sented by Edgar Freed and Nicholas Lucy Deady was less, Hanover refused to consent, and Jaureguy. They asserted numerous de- a shy teenager a violent quarrel erupted causing fenses including the theory that un- when The Hon. Henderson to leave Portland and der the will, Henderson received only Matthew Deady never return. He and Charlotte mar- a defeasible fee, which was defeated came courting, ried shortly thereafter. upon his death without issue. They but her Henderson died May 28,1933. His argued that Charlotte Howell Deady photographs will made no specific mention of Lot did not receive an estate of inheritance usually show her 1, Block 212, but named Charlotte from Henderson, but only an appoint- as an unsmiling Howell Deady as residuary legatee ment to income, and therefore Rich- but elegant and appointed her to his share of the ard Howell was not entitled to any matron. income in his mother's estate. share in Lot 1, Block 212. OHS NEG. JtORHI 98947 Hanover was immediately interested The case was tried before Judge in obtaining a definite expression of James Alger Fee. Judge Fee had be- the income to which Charlotte was gun his judicial career in 1927 as a entitled under the appointment from circuit court judge in Umatilla County.

4 In 1931 he was appointed to the fed- ference because Robert Maguire was eral bench, where he served for 23 in Kansas City for the first five months years until he was appointed to the of 1940 for the trial of United States Ninth Circuit in 1954. Judge Fee v. Union Pacific Railroad Company. maintained a stern atmosphere in his So Howell v. Deady was tried during courtroom, which many attributed to July of 1941 by Robert Maguire and his experience as an officer in the first Nicholas Jaureguy. world war. Judge Fee presided over Judge Fee ultimately wrote three Howell v. Deady during a period of opinions in the case: 48 F. Supp. 104 great change in the legal landscape of (November 6, 1939), in which he de- the District of Oregon. nied a motion to dismiss the com- In September of 1933, just three plaint; 48 F. Supp. 116 (May 19, years before Richard Howell filed his 1941), in which he ruled on various complaint, Judge Fee had moved his evidentiary questions; and 48 F. Supp. chambers from the Pioneer Court- 123 (November 17, 1941), in which house to the then-new federal court- he ruled on the merits of the case. Each house at 620 Southwest Main Street. opinion is "a good read," particularly There were two district court judges Henderson Deady, shown ca. 1879, was the opinion denying the motion to dis- in Oregon at the time, Judge Fee and Lucy Deady's only living son at the time miss, which contains the bulk of Judge Judge John H. McNary, as well as a of her death in 1923. She bequeathed him Fee's analysis of the will construction, bankruptcy referee, Estes Snedecor. In an undivided two-thirds of her property. and the opinion setting forth the evi- 1934, two years before Richard OHS NEG .• ORHI 98946 dentiary rulings, which is a model of Howell filed his complaint, Congress precision and clarity. had authorized the Supreme Court to Ultimately, Judge Fee determined promulgate federal rules of procedure. day. Whether the endeavor demon- the testatrix's intent, which he char- Those new Federal Rules of Civil strated the new procedure's faults is acterized as "the pole-star" by which Procedure went into effect on Septem- debatable; the trial, which originally to interpret the will, with resort to its ber 16, 1938-while Matthew and was estimated to take up to two years, four corners. He rejected evidence of Edgar Deady's motion to dismiss Ri- was accomplished in nine days. the construction others gave to the chard Howell's complaint was pend- Although the new federal rules of will, both for purposes of its interpre- ing. The parties filed a stipulated procedure were suspended with regard tation and the defense of estoppel. He motion to suspend application of the to the motion to dismiss in Howell v. found that Lucy intended to bequeath new rules of procedure with regard to Deady, they were otherwise applied. a fee simple to Henderson and that defendants' motion to dismiss, which The parties engaged in discovery, and the conditional bequest to her grand- Judge Fee granted on October 27, there was a pretrial order. Plaintiff sons, if Henderson were to "die with- 1938. served defendant with interrogatories, out issue," was a "substitutional gift" As it turns out, Judge Fee was not the answers to which, by today's stan- to take effect only if the event hap- an advocate of the new Federal Rules dards, are remarkable for their forth- pened before her own death. He con- of Civil Procedure. A subsequent case, rightness. For example, defendants strued her request that the property Montgomery Ward & Co. v. North- gave a four-page response to plaintiff's not be sold for 25 years after her death ern Pacific Terminal Co., 128 F. Supp. request that they describe any evi- as merely advisory and not a condi- 475 (D. Or. 1953) and 128 F. Supp. dence of which they were aware that tion of inheritance, and therefore not 520 (D. Or. 1954), illustrates Judge Henderson construed Lucy's will to an unlawful restraint on alienation. Fee's strategy, which was to enforce convey to him only a defeasible fee. The matter was appealed but settled the rules "up to the hilt" in order to The candid response is a model of while the appeal was pending, a let- demonstrate their flaws. The Mont- professionalism, separately setting down for the young lawyer who was gomery Ward case was filed in 1942 forth responsive evidence associated to argue on behalf of plaintiff, for it and came before Judge Fee for a pre- with various disputes and transac- would have been Randall Kester's first trial conference in 1944. Judge Fee tions, including Henderson's divorce argument to the Ninth Circuit. Thus ordered the attorneys to work sub- to Amalie, his negotiations with his ended the dispute over Lucy Deady's stantially full time on the pretrial or- nephews, and the settlement with bequests. der until they reached agreement. For Marye Thompson Deady. the next seven years, taking breaks for Some aspects of practice at that time Kristin Hazard is an associate at the state legislative sessions in which were similar to law practice today, and Keating Jones Bildstein Hughes & both attorneys had responsibilities, attorneys for both sides were very Yelnosky, P.c., and a member of the they worked on the pretrial order, busy. While the matter was pending, U.S. District Court Historical Society reaching stipulations of fact and in the parties requested more than eight board. regard to the admissibility of evidence. extensions of time. Each was stipu- In 1951, seven years after they began lated by the parties and was granted working on it, the pretrial order was by Judge Fee. One of those motions finalized and the trial began the next sought to postpone the pretrial con-

5 THE EXTERIOR IMAGERY OF THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE According to John Meadows, which forms the public entrance, fur- building is intentionally asymmetri- the lead architect for the ther reflects "the dignity of the cal because symmetry is usually not Hatfield U.S. Courthouse people." functional. The law is deliberate and and a principal at Portland's The exterior of the middle section logical, so the Courthouse reflects BOORA Architects, there is limestone, as is common of Ameri- these characteristics. Meadows were two seemingly conflict- can historical civic buildings. The adds, "overall, the architectural de- ing goals with respect to the limestone alternates with long, hori- tails areabout responding to what exterior imagery of the zontal glass windows. Atypical of tra- is outside and inside." William Courthouse. On the one hand, the ditional buildings, however, these Pedersen, chief architect at Kohn building should convey the message windows reveal the interior steel Pedersen Fox and lead designer of of the institution of the judiciary: dig- frame behind the limestone exterior. the Hatfield Courthouse, agrees. He nity, permanence, strength, weight, The top piece of the Hatfield Court- was quoted in the Post and timeliness. On the other hand, it house, wrapping around the top of an Magazine article as saying, "The re- should depict the spirit of the judges elevator tower, has been nicknamed ality is that classicism no longer ap- in Oregon-open and accessible to the by some "the eyelash." It is, accord- plies to our times, so we decided to people they serve-and be a place of ing to Meadows, "a modern interpre- let the pieces honestly explain their comfort to the public. tation of a cornice." Meadows function and let the assemblage ex- BOORA Architects, a firm involved explains that many modern buildings press a new form of courthouse." in national and local projects (includ- have been criticized because they con- The body of the Hatfield Court- ing eight Nike Towns), worked closely tain no architectural feature to help house has two sections: the tower with Kohn Pedersen Fox, a nationally the building meet the sky, resulting in containing the courtrooms and recognized New York-based architec- a sawed off appearance at the top. The chambers, and the "sidecar" con- tural firm that acted as a design con- top of the Hatfield Courthouse is cre- taining the administrative offices, sultant on the project. The two ated by recessed glass with a canopy. law library, and cafe. The tower is architectural firms formed a unique Meadows describes the top as "a lacy, the strongest part of the building. yet highly effective working relation- see-through cornice, less ornate than It is essentially a box of the stron- ship by integrating into one team for classical cornices, yet, significantly, gest steel (to provide earthquake all the various stages of the project. still there." security) clad in stone and glass. People from both firms traveled as The GSA wanted the Courthouse to Meadows says there is symbolic necessary to ensure that there was al- be practical and functional says Mead- logic in making the tower the stron- ways one team in each location work- ows, so "form follows function." The gest and weightiest section of the ing on the Courthouse project. Courthouse because "this is The Hatfield Courthouse is where justice occurs." Top- plainly a contemporary building, ping the sidecar on the sunny yet it also represents a modern side of the building is a public form of classicism. In a February roof terrace where people can 8, 1998 Washington Post Maga- enjoy an outdoor sculpture zine article, the GSA's chief archi- garden and spectacular views tect, Ed Feiner, described the of the city. Hatfield Courthouse as "contem- The Hatfield Courthouse, at porary architecture that is com- 343 feet high and 565,300 parable to the Parthenon. But it's square feet, is a huge building like abstract art. You have to look on a very small block. As com- for the classical elements." pared to other cities, Portland Following the pattern of a clas- city blocks are very small, only sical building, the Hatfield Court- 200 feet square, making it a house has three distinct sections: challenge to fit a large build- the base, middle, and top. The ing on the block. Meadows base, a band of stone approxi- explains that the sidecar, mately one story high, connects which is only nine stories high, the building to the ground. Mead- mitigates the dominance of the ows says the granite, which is tower, which is sixteen stories heavy, hand-chiseled, and rusti- high. Yet, even with mitigat- cated, suggests a traditional base. ing factors, the Courthouse The front section of the base, Continued on page 8

6 sity, who-as trustee for the bond- partner in a holders of the beautiful Ochoco Inn small Wash- in Prineville-rescued that popular ington County hotel from extinction. firm (Everett, When Althaus chose a career in law, Renwick & her decision was marked by the same Althaus-later idealism that characterized her later Renwick, public appearances in forums where Althaus & human rights were being debated. Bishop) with Helen Althaus: Playing "When I went to college I began ma- two other pio- joring in English literature and ended neerIng a Leading Role up in chemistry," she says. That was Helen Althaus, 1960 women law- in Oregon's Legal just before World War II, however, yers, Gladys and she quickly realized that "science Everett and Renwick. Community was getting us into more and more In keeping with her interest in the violence," whereas law held the prom- environment, Althaus worked as a The following article is based on an ear- ise of helping people settle disputes in la wyer in the Bonneville Power lier story ill the Oregoll \VOlllfll Lawyers' a non-violent way. Administration's environmental of- AdvanceSheet and on information con- So Althaus enrolled at the North- fice, where she did analysis and an- la ined ill the 1998 QHeCll's Bench ca len- western School of Law, which she at- notations of rules proposed for the dar featuring piol1eering women in the tended in the evening after working National Environmental Policy Act. Oregon legal community. the day shift at a defense plant, the Later, she became staff attorney in the Few who have seen Helen Althaus on Troutdale Aluminum Reduction regional solicitor's office of the u.S. the stage of the New Playwright's Plant. At war's end in 1945, she was Department of Interior, heading a Theatre in Ashland would guess that admitted to the bar. project on the "Public Trust Doctrine" this talented character actress once At the beginning of her legal career as it affects wildlife that resulted in fought to carve out a career in law and (from 1947 to 1949), Althaus clerked publication of a 420-page volume, went on to take several leading roles for legendary federal judge James "Public Trust Rights," in 1980. in Oregon's legal community. Alger Fee, making her the first woman For many of those years, she also Helen Althaus came to the law from to serve as a law clerk to a judge in served as a city councilwoman in a pioneering Oregon family. Her Oregon. Following that, she worked Troutdale and-in various arenas- grandfather, Emmet Bigelow Will- until 1953 as deputy city attorney for took some extremely courageous iams, was an early Portland attorney the City of Portland. For 17 years she stands on hotly debated topics. who often "commuted" 15 miles to was an associate for the Portland law Among other things, she chaired the his Portland practice from his farm in firm of Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager Oregon State Bar World Peace the Troutdale area. Her mother was & Carlsen (then King, Miller, Ander- Through Law Committee, which an early graduate of Stanford Univer- son, Nash & Yerke). She also was a Continued on page 8

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THE ARTFUL SIDE OF THE LAW continued OFFICERS Hon. Michael R. Hogan, Board Chairman; still dwarfs the surrounding buildings. The sidecar also "makes the Court- "Jeffrey M. Batchelor, President; "Hon. Ellen F. Rosenblum, Vice President/President Elect; house seem quieter" and ties it in with its five neighboring buildings in gov- "Richard B. Solomon, Treasurer; "Nancy J. ernment center. For example, Meadows notes that the sidecar is approximately Moriarty, Corporate/Executive Secretary; the same height as the Multnomah County Courthouse and the course of the "Albert ]. Bannon, Immediate Past President Justice Center. Also, in another gesture back to the Justice Center, the front BOARD MEMBERS lobby wall of the sidecar angles backward from the street so that it lines up Hon. Anna J. Brown; Hon. James M. Burns, with the front of the Justice Center. The result of these architectural details Honorary; Hon. Wallace P. Carson, Jr., Ex- is that the design of the Courthouse fits into the city, fulfilling an important Officio; "Hon, Owen M. Panner; "Charles principle in urban design. F. Adams; Dr. Donald G. Balmer; Clarence In short, the Hatfield Courthouse is both architectural sculpture and an M. Belvnavis; David A. Bledsoe; Ernest Bonyhadi, Honorary; "Steve Brischetto; expressive statement of the modern judiciary. "Antonia M. DeMeo; Dr. Gordon B. Dodds; *Jeffrey]. Druckman; Nicholas S. Fish; Antonia DeMeo, a member of our executive committee, graduated with a Martin E. Hansen; "Kristin A. Hazard; major in art history from Wellesley College and works as a business litigation Mitchell E. Hornecker; Mark A. Johnson, associate at Markowitz, Herbold, Glade & Mehlhaf, P. C. Ex-Officio; Randall B. Kester; Prof. R. James Mooney; Chet Orloff, Ex-Officio; 'Peter A. Ozanne; *Dennis P. Rawlinson; Tae J. Rhee; "Sarah J. Ryan; "Norman Sepenuk; Elizabeth Solomon, Honorary; HELEN ALTHAUS continued Caroline P. Stoel sponsored a resolution, adopted by women achieve their place in the le- LIFETIME MEMBERS the bar, that condemned interven- gal community in Oregon, she was a Jeffrey M. Batchelor, Hon. Robert C. Belloni, u.s. Owen D. Blank, Raymond Conboy (member- tion into Vietnam. This was one of the founding member of Queen's Bench ship given in memoriam), Paul T. Fortino, earliest oppositions voiced by a bar of Oregon (which she named) and a George H. Fraser, Edwin A. Harnden, Wayne association in the U.S. Althaus was founding member of Oregon Women Hilliard, Douglas G. Houser, Randall B. also the first woman member of the Lawyers' chapter, Kester, Chester E. McCarty, Jeffrey S. OSB Continuing Legal Education Rogue Women Lawyers. In the early Mutnick, Daniel O'Leary, Hon. Owen M. Panner, Frank Pozzi (deceased), Sarah]. Ryan, Committee. 1980s she served on the Multnomah Arlene Schnitzer, John 1. Schwabe, Norman She also was a member of the na- Bar Association's first Committee on Sepenuk, Richard B. Solomon, Gayle 1. tional Lawyers Committee Against the Status of Women. In recognition Troutwine, William F. White, and Donald R. United States Intervention in Central of her encouragement of women in the Wilson America and served as president of the profession, she was honored by Or- "Members of the Executive Committee Portland chapter of the United Na- egon Women Lawyers with its 1994 Newsletter Editor: Carolyn M. Buan tions Association. A leader in helping Betty Roberts Award. (503) 224-8024; Design, Jeanne E. Galick

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