PENNSYLVANIA NUMBER Ill from the Dean's Desk: Alumni Support Lauded
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SPRING 1870 VOLUME V UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA NUMBER Ill From the Dean's Desk: Alumni Support Lauded The alumni have recently had word from this quarter granted. Let me say with great emphasis that I do through the medium of the Dean's Annual Report for not. I am justly known as an outspoken individual 1968-69. It will not be long until my service as Dean who has raised his voice frequently on controversial will have come to a close. I hope that I can make the issues of public concern. In doing so, I have tried to Annual Report, which will follow-that for 1969-70- act responsibly, but I cheerfully leave it to others to a sort of "summation," which will be more than ret judge whether I have. The point, however, is that the rospective. Meanwhile, I seize, with much pleasure, alumni, as a group, are people of size and generosity this opportunity ( 1 ) to speak in a personal vein to the of spirit, which is something I admire and cherish be ,alumni and (2) to bespeak for the able colleague, who yond measure. is to succeed me as There will be a changing of the guard on July 1, 1970. Dean, the magnifi Professor Bernard Wolfman, of the Law Faculty, will cent alumni com assume the responsibilities of the deanship. I know of mitment to the wel no better way to indicate the intellectual stature of the fare of the School man than to point out that within but a few short years which has sustained after moving from active and highly successful law and inspirited us practice into law teaching, he achieved recognition as throughout all my one of the outstanding teachers of Federal Taxation in years at the institu the country. He is a very clear-headed man of lucid tion. expression and great vigor. He has very strong ties The hundreds of to the Law School and the University without being alumni who con either parochial or chauvinistic. He will become Dean tributed so generously to the capital campaign for at a time of tension and change. The difficulties are physical plant development are aware, I am sure, of great, but so are the potentials. I wish for the School my profound gratitude for their contribution to the the most significant ongoing development under his cause. What they did made the difference in getting leadership. It is my wish for the new Dean and the the job done. Similarly, the generosity and teamwork School that they will enjoy the same superb alumni in Annual Giving has strengthened and extended the understanding and support which have been such a educational and research operations of the School. source of strength and inspiration to all of us at the There is an intangible element in the relations of School during my deanship. her graduates to the School by which I lay the greatest store. I refer to the understanding, the tolerance, with which they have fortified academic freedom. It is easy for faculty people favored with this to take it for The Alumni Docket APRIL 18 MAY 8 Classes end for the semester, second and third years Class of 1930 and 1932 Reunions Examination period ends, second and third years APRIL 20 MAY 11 New York Chapter University of Pennsylvania Law Examination period begins, first year Alumni Association dinner at the New York Yacht MAY 16 Club- guest of honor will be Dean Jefferson B. Class of 1955 Reunion Fordham; also in attendance wiii be dean-elect MAY 18 Bernard Wolfman and Richard B. Smith, '53, Com COMMENCEMENT misioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission MAY 21 APRIL 27 Washington Law Alumni Luncheon-to be held during Examination period begins, second and third years American Law Institute meeting MAY 22 MAY 1 Examination period ends, first year Classes end, first year MAY 27 THRU MAY 29 MAY 7 3rd. Circuit Conference in Atlantic City sponsored by LAW ALUMNI DAY! the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit LAW ALUMNI DAY IS MAY 71 2 LAW ALUMNI JOURNAL l§le UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SPRING 1970 VOLUME V Law umni]oumal NUMBER Ill TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor: Mary M. Willmann Secretary : Katherine Merlin Photogmpher: From The Dean's Desk . 2 Townsend H. Wentz by Dean Jefferson B . Fordham Alumni Advisory Committee: Alumni Docket . 2 Robert V. Massey, '31 Introducing Dean Wolfman . 4 J. Barton Harrison, '56 Two Sides Of The Coin .. .. ... .. .. ....... ... .. .. ....... 14 Editorial Coordinator: John Michael Willmann, '70 Summer Reading Dropped . 15 THE LAW ALUMNI JOURNAL IS PUBLISHED FOUR TIMES A YEAR BY THE LAW ALUMNI SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY South Of The Border . 7 OF PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE by James C. Luitweiler, '14 INFORMATION AND ENJOY MENT OF ITS MEMBERS. " .. You Mean You're Not A Lawyer?!" . 9 by Mary M. Willmann A Toast To The Law . 12 by J. F. Heinz, 'SO PLEASE ADDRESS ALL COM MUNICATIONS AND MANU SCRIPTS TO: The Editor 8{0TE8 LAW ALUMNI JOURNAL University of Pennsylvania Law School Alumni Notes . 18 3400 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 Necrology ... ... .. ... ..... ... ......... .. ... .. 22 Faculty & Staff Notes ..... ...... ..... ... .. .. .. .... .. 22 In Memoriam . 24 Additional Pictut·e Credits: Frank Ross IN THIS ISSUE: Meet Dean \.Volfman " . N ot A L awyerr"'" Page 4 Page 9 Mary M. Willmann Mary M. Willmann South Of The Border Toast To The Law Page 7 Page 12 James C. Luitweiler, '14 ]. F. Heinz, '50 Spring 1970 3 Greater Student Participation Envisioned By New Dean Changing Student Goals Spur Speculation On New Direction In Law School Curriculum by Mary M. Willmann For the past seven years, there's take one or more courses tradition been a tax teacher at the Law ally deferred to later years. The School who's been known variously third-year program is the one that as Bernie Wolfman or just plain might best provide clinical work Bernie; Professor Wolfman or Mr. and more opportunity for individ Wolfman. ual research. I would like to see," Now, suddenly, he's also Dean he adds, "our students reaching a Wolfman. level of legal sophistication earlier Bernard Wolfman, professor of than they do." Law, assumes the mantle of the Wolfman's credentials do not deanship from Jefferson B. Ford rest solely on his experience as a ham on July 1. While there is gen teacher. He is completing a year eral agreement that the Law as Chairman of the University School's progress under Dean Senate and of the Steering Com Fordham has been monumental, mittee of the University Council. there is also general agreement that He is also Chairman of the Trus there will be tremendous changes ~..;:;;:k,~, ......, ' " tees' Task Force on University in the years to come. Governance. Much of that change will come Thus, he also brings experience through Dean-designate Wolfman. to the task of dealing with increas "The Law School is in fine con ing demands for wider student roles dition," he says, "with a superb in university governance. "There faculty and student body and dean. But there are im is no question that students must play an important role in provements which are in progress or which have been pro most aspects of their education," he says. "We have a good posed which I would like to see become a reality." working relationship here at the Law School-there is no Perhaps the most far-reaching proposals now under in other law school I know of with so little friction." tensive scrutiny involve significant revisions of the curricu "Part of this, I think, is due to the fact of our com lum. According to Wolfman, there is a felt need by many monly understood goals and goodwill. The faculty are in people for more clinical programs, those which involve the favor of including students in decision processes which di student directly in the kinds of work he will be doing after rectly affect them. As a result, students are on faculty graduation. "It will be interesting to see," he says, committees and sit in on faculty meetings. We are now "whether a high intellectual and generalizing level can be working on a plan for a student role in some aspects of maintained in clinical work, and whether a research prod faculty appointments." uct is a likely offshoot." "Right now," he continues, "the Law School is in a "We also have to rework the regular course programs. dynamic state. The role of the student, and his relationship First-year students perhaps should have the opportunity to to the faculty and administration are being redefined." 4 LAW ALUMNI JOURNAL come Tax to Mathematica, Inc. from 1967 to the present; The loss to our law school a member of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue's Ad from the departure of Jeff from visory Group during 1966-67; general counsel to the the Deanship is substantially off American Association of University Professors from 1966- set by my knowledge of the qual 68 and Chairman of Senator Eugene McCarthy's Task ity of our new Dean Bernard Force on Tax Policy and Tax Reform in 1968. Wolfman. Bernie, one of our Wolfman is a member of the American Law Institute; own faculty members, is known the tax sections of the American and Pennsylvania Bar to me as a fellow practitioner, as a former mem Associations; the council of tax section of the Philadelphia ber of the Board of Managers of our Society, and Bar Association; and the editorial board of the law division as a great and distinguished law Professor. I am of Little, Brown & Company. convinced that he has attributes best exemplified Recently, he was elected a Trustee of the Foundation by Jeff Fordham and those who preceded him as Center, an organization headquartered in New York that Dean, and I am sure all will agree that it is a collates data about, and publishes a directory on all the certainty that Bernie will be another great ad major American charitable foundations.