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et al.: Law Alumni Journal: Law Alumni Day: Flanagan to Rome FALL 1974 VOLUME X l/le UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA NUMBER I Law LAW ALUMNI DAY Flanagan To Rome ANNUAL GIVING 1973-74 Report A 'NEW' CRIME? Misprision Of Felony Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 1 Penn Law Journal, Vol. 10, Iss. 1 [2014], Art. 1 From the Dean's Desk: " ... The Law Will Out ... " It is late on July 24, 1974, and I am in an idyllic New and moral rebuilding that will make it unnecessary for England vacation spot. The day is special because never the legal system ever again to assume the extraordi before has the nation on one day been so bombarded nary burden that culminated in the events of today. by law, by lawyers, by talk of the Constitution and an In only 18 months the Law School Capital Develop overriding commitment to its principles and processes. ment Campaign has produced over $2 million. This figure The day is all the more poignant for me because in a must be measured against the fact that prior to this physical sense I am so removed from it all, here with the campaign the School's total endowment was only $1.7 mountains and tennis courts, the cold blue-green wa million. Many people are responsible for the cam ters and the beautiful sails. At 11 this morning the paigns's successful beginning, but none more than the supreme Court held unanimously in United States v. Chairman of the Development Steering Committee, Nixon that even Carroll R. Wetzel, L'30. I will say more of him on later the President is occasions, but since Carroll plans now to retire as Chair subject to the man I must acknowledge the School's and my own debt law. At 7 p.m. to him, a debt made large because of his energy, his the President dedication, his style, his integrity, and his love of the lifted his veiled law and the School. threat to defy Carroll's successor will be Robert M. Landis, L'47, the Court's de partner of Dechert, Price and Rhoads, former Editor-in cision, obviating Chief of the Law Review, former Chancellor of the the gravest of Philadelphia Bar Association. We are extremely for Constitutional tunate for the wisdom of Fred Ballard, L'40, Chairman crises. At 7:30 of the Law Board, in selecting Bob Landis, and for the p.m. the 38 lawyers who comprise the House Commit willingness of Bob to accept this most challenging, time tee on the Judiciary went to the public airways with consuming appointment. Support from alumni, their their final debate on the impeachment of the President. time and generosity, as evidenced by the record to date Hearing the commentary, I sense widespread relief, and by the commitments of people like Carroll Wet satisfaction and even euphoria. zel, Fred Ballard and Robert Landis, assure the ultimate, It is rewarding for all of us whose calling is the Law full success of the campaign. that the legal system has withstood attack, that it will Our students return to campus in little over a month assure stability, that the Law will out. I worry about the and I begin my fifth year as dean. The satisfactions, like euphoria, however. It would be dangerous to allow satis the problems, in serving as dean of our dynamic Law faction with the reaffirmation that there is law to per School have been many. The year 1974-75 promises new mit us to assume that all is right with our country. The intellectual excitement with the arrival of Professors effective operation of the legal system buys time, not John Honnold, Louis Pollak and Gerald Frug, and with equality of opportunity or long-lived contentment. It students eager and able to pursue the law in the grand does not resolve basic political and moral questions or traditions which all of you have helped to establish and provide a substitute for political leaders of high charac ter and commitment and for legislators with vision p<esem at 3400 f~J and concern. Euphoria must yield to the task of political C0/J NEWS NOTES Sadie T.M. Alexander, '27, and Morris Wolf, '03, received LL.D. degrees from the University at the May 20 commencement. Edward H. P. Fronefield, '24, will step down as Delaware County, Pennsylvania, solicitor at the end of the year after 27 years of service in that position. Fronefield will mark his 50th anniversary as a member of the Delaware County Bar on November 3, and will continue to practice privately. He is the senior member of the Delaware County firm of Fronefield, de Furia and Petrikin. 2 LAW ALUMNI JOURNAL https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol10/iss1/1 2 et al.: Law Alumni Journal: Law Alumni Day: Flanagan to Rome UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FALL 1974 VOLUME X ~~ NUMBER I Law/);, tlumni journal Editor: ('!]mEWS f!P PEACW!(E8 John Michael Willmann, '70 Contributing Editor: From the Dean's Desk Mary B. Willmann By Dean Bernard Wolfman ............ 2 Erie To L.A. Director of Alumni Affairs By G. William Shea, '36 ............... 4 & Development: VISTA To The U.S.S.R. Lloyd S. Herrick By Mark Coler, '69 ................... 5 Secretary: Off To Harrisburg Katherine Merlin By Jon Vipond, '70 ................... 6 Misprision Of Felony: A "New" Crime? By Elaine de Masse ................... 7 Law Alumni Day 1974 ................. ... .... 8 The Law Alumni Journal is Dean Announces Faculty Changes .......... 9 published three times a year by the Law Alumni Society of 10 Jones Award Created ...................... the University of Pennsylvania Landis Chairs Campaign ................... 10 for the information and en Annual Giving Report 1973-1974 .......... 11 joyment of its members. Letters .................................... 29 President's Message By Edwin P. Rome, '40 40 All communications should be addressed to the Editor, Law Alumni Journal, 3400 ( ~"' 8'/0TES Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, News Notes ............................... 35 Penna. 19104. Alumni Notes .............................. 36 Faculty & StaH Notes ...................... 38 Necrology ................................. 39 LAW ALUMNI SOCIETY President: First Vice-President: Second Vice-President: Edwin P. Rome, '40 Thomas N. O'Neill, Jr., '53 David H. Marion, '63 Secretary: Treasurer: Marshall A. Bernstein, '49 Leonard L. Ettinger, '38 Board of Managers: Edward I. Cutler, Hon. G. fred DiBona, G. Wil- David H. Marion, Representative of the Law liam Shea, Arthur E. Newbold, IV, Marshall A. Alumni Society on the Board of the General Bernstein, Hon. Theodore 0. Rogers, Hon. Doris Alumni Society May Harris, John G. Harkins, Jr., Carol 0. Sea- J. Michael Willmann, Law Alumni Representative brook, Patricia Ann Metzer, Robert M. Beckman, on the Editorial Board of the General Alumni George T. Brubaker, William J. Green, Andrew Society Hourigan, Jr., Sharon Kaplan Wallis. Marlene F. Lachman, Law Alumni Representative Ex-Officio on the Board of the Association of Alumnae of the University of Pennsylvania Dean Bernard Wolfman, University of Pennsyl Harold Cramer and Patricia Ann Metzer, co vania Law School Chairmen, Law Alumni Council Fall 1974 3 Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 3 Penn Law Journal, Vol. 10, Iss. 1 [2014], Art. 1 G. William Shea: Erie G. William Shea, '36: Completing A To Year As President Of The Los Angeles County Bar Association L.A. By G. William Shea, '36 When I returned to the Law School for the Law experience in lieu of the four months Pennsylvania Alumni meeting in May of 1973, my wife and I chatted preceptorship. So in 1937 I was admitted to the Penn with Professor Louis Schwartz on some of the events sylvania bar and later in that same year to the New which had transpired since my year of graduation, 1936. York bar. It was Lou who suggested that I provide the editors of In those days New York was a delightful place to the Journal with some biographical material. This is practice and live in. that product and I hope it retains some boundaries of While still with one of the large Wall Street firms modesty. and with the advent of Mr. Dewey as the newly elected Being one of the products of the great depression and District Attorney over the Tammany candidate, I was being a native Pennsylvanian, I always intended in permitted to share a very unusual experience. Mr. those days to go back to Erie, Pennsylvania, from whence Dewey recognized the inadequacy of the legal represen I came, to practice law. It was there that I watched tation of indigent criminals and the inadequate staff some of the great local talent which influenced me to of the Legal Aid Society of New York City. He persuaded study law. But the depression temporarily turned me in a number of the large New York firms to loan some of the direction of New York City where I became one their young lawyers to the Legal Aid Society for a period of the first of the many graduates of our Law School from four to six months. I participated in that program since then who were hired by the large Wall Street and it resulted in my early experience in criminal law. firms. The starting salary was the envy of my then class Next to the temptation which was placed before me by mates although it looks like a dole compared to current Dean (and later Judge) Goodrich to come back to the standards, namely, $2100 annually. That munificent Law School to start teaching as a Gowen Fellow, my sum was further pared downwards by the adoption of other indecision was whether to go into criminal law. the Social Security Act almost simultaneously with my With such indecisiveness, I did neither.