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NOVEMBER 1960 LAW SCHOOL, BROOKLYN, VOL. XXI , NO. I June Graduation IsB A Names New Boa rd; Brooklyn Awards 281 Degrees; B t Elected President Dr. Newsom Addresses Grads ~ t ~ we r e~d ~ st May for the officers of the Student Bar Association, the organizat:on of BLS Two hundred eighty-one Bachelor of Laws degrees we re conferred at student government. The officials are: President-Harvey Baxter, First Vice-President-lIichael Solomon, the commencement exercises of Brooklyn Law School, held last June 21 econd Vice-Pre id ent-Richard A. Benack, Treasurer- Steven Keats, Corresponding Secretary - Ethel B. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Pearlman, Recording Secretary-Stan Tathanson, Student Aid Chairman-Gene Kaslow and ALSA Represen- The honorary degree of Doctor of Law was conferred upon lIon. talive-Brad Spielman. Carroll V . Newsom, President of the New York University. Pre,ident Harvey Baxter, e\'ening clas. of 1961, is a ocial Studies teacher at Montauk Junior High School, Newsom also delivered the principal address, entitled "Educational Demands Brooklyn, ew York. He was graduated from Champlain College of the State University of New York, at work at New York University, Upon the Future Lawyer." Hon. Henry L. Ughetta, president of the Board of Trustee, of School of Education. He is a mem­ ______Brooklyn Law School, presided over ber of Iota Theta Law Fraternity, the commencement exercises and con­ and last year was Treasurer of the ferred the honorary degree u[lun Pres­ Student Bar Association. He will Plan Annual ident ewsom. Dr. Harry Halpern, co-ordinate all student activities and an alumnus of Brooklyn J .aw School. be the students' liaison with the SBA Dance gave the Invocation ami the B~ne­ faculty. The en tire student body of Brook- diction. M ichael Solomon, class of 1962, Iyn Law School was invited this Dean Jerome Prince pn.>,ented the was graduated from Adelphi College, month to the SBA Annual Buffet- candidates for degree" all

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Page 2 JUSTINIAN November 1960 The Justinian Prof. William S. Herrmann JUSTINIAN FACUL TY 'PROFI E Published quarterly during the school year under the auspices of the 1- Student Bar Association of the Brooklyn Law School 375 Pearl Street, Brooklyn 1, New York by Richard Benack J In Pro fessor \\"illia m S. Herrmann it is difficult tu determine where the , c!lUlar end, and the practical Vol. XXI, No. 1 November, 1960 .nan beg ins. Often they r un side by side. In many instances they overlap. \Vhere they do integrate, the com­ mon ground nearly al ways turns out to be a strong devotion to Brooklyn Law School. -HERB S W ARZMAN . Editor-in-Ch~ f _\ n alull1nu ' alumnus, the Professor lI"a born in the Bronx on . \ugust 25, 1925 and grc\\ up in ;,[anhattan HERBERT S. SCI-ILAGMAN . Advisory Editor where he a ttendcd a local private grammar school. BERNIE DWORKIN . . . Associ(lte EtiitoT H is family mOl'cd to S tamford, Connecticut just in time fo r the Pro fc" u r to enter Stam fonl High S chool. RICHARD BENACK . .. F(lcu[ty Editor On graduation he entcred the University of Connecti cut MIKE GALLO .. . . . Alum.ni Editor where he majored in History and GOI·ernmcnt. He COlllmittee, which functi ons something li ke county po- cntered Brooklyn La,,' S chool in S eptember 1948. litical leaders in l\'ew York. From this post, he was News Department " \ V hy Brooklyn La\\' School for a Connecticut appointed Chairman of the Stamford Zoning Board Editor EDWARD INSLEY . man?" THE JUSTINIAN asked. of Appeals . . . Assi8tant Editor JOHN LEVY . "A close fricnd of mine II'h o is a success fu l lawyer "Our committce issues variances and hear, appeals Contributors suggested it to me," Pro fe sor Herrmann said, " And on question o f locations for car repair shops, nell' and used car lots ami, in addition, hears applications for Dave Fine, Richard Rosenkrantz, Charles Moonblatt, Stan Nathanson, after he suggested it. 1 gave up a lmo t all thoughts of li censes involving a utomobile quest ion . 1'1115 merely Mike Solomon, Harvey Baxter, Ronald Sklar, Alan I saacs, Richard entering other law school and I haven't regretted the happens to he a ll ex ceptional p0II'er dell h

de s~ro ~ s of dbecom~n g .Pres;e.nt of the Student Bar As- "II I I II I' IT: I ,II I I III' ,ii' 1111111" I '''II' "'lIIll1il by Bernie Dworkin soclatlon an runnJl1g Its a airs. The man responsibl e for the national first prize the public in an unfal'orable light. The movies anci te- What this school needs are students w ho take an I\\'on by T HE J u TI NIAN in ALS competition last year le"i,ion foster the sam e image. Perry ;,[ason, fur ex­ active part in school programs; not lackadaisically, but \\'~s H erb chlagman, then Editor-in-chief and now E x ec amjJl e, appears as a trickster, not an advocate. with vigor and sincerity. Students must give their !> chool lltlV e- S ec re~ a r y of th ~ Alumni A ssoc iation. , La\\', ho\\'evcr, was not a lways the foremost goal for greater priority in the complex of their lives. If this _\ [ll eC lse deSCrIption o f H er b \\'ould have to 1I1C H erb. He claim that at birth the doctor must have given him a lollipop because his fi r t conscious desire vitality occurred, Brooklyn Law Schoo 1 mig 1lt win every \\'as to go into medic ine. " ' hi Ie attcndincy Stuyvesant national award. And, more important, such an attitude High School, Herb did volunteer work in the surgery would create genuine unity in the student body, a char- ward o f Beth Israe l JIo,pital. In appreciation of hi s acteristic out of which great institutions are built. H. S. \\ ork. he was given the United Ho pital's Award. In 1952, while attending Brooklyn College, he joined the student new, paper, Kings mcn. T\\'o year later hi s cducation was in terrupted and he entered the A rmy. Thank You Stationed in Cal i fomia, Herb worked in an Army In August the American Law Student hospital emergency room. awarded THE JUSTI IA its first prize for journali tic Upon returning to college, Herb decided to teach quality in coverage. There can be no doubt that und chang-cd hi · major to philo ophy. He \\'as dis­ couraged ; hortly therea fter when he found that there award refl ects the efforts of a group, rather than any were I'e ry iew positions open in compari on to the one person. number o f pedagog ical applicants. Howel'cr Herb Speaking as a representative of last year's editorial praises Brooklyn Co llege for being one of tile few undcrgraduate colleg es in thi area to require students board, we offer our congratulations to everyone on the to take. a philoollhy course. Philo ophy, he believes, taff. However, we would be remiss in our dut if we I, an Impurtant part of a tudent's education. "Too overlooked the efforts of the ever available Profes or many coll ege tudents graduate without the abili ty to reason," hc said. Milton Gershen on. Serving a faculty advisor to THE ,\ connict arose between the administration and the Jv TJ JA ,Profe sor Ger hen on was always able to come HERBERT SCHLAGMAN college nc w paper. President Harry Gidconse told staff up w ith the right word, and n ever failed to gently dampen lude the adjectil'es roblbt, be-,pectacled, opini onated, and that tltey could n o t adopt an cditorial position but that flash of in pi ration that eemed so right until it faced ma rried . H e expects to be graduated this June and enter lIoul d have to print t\\'o editorials in order to gil'e reality. the profession o f law. cxpre ion to both s ides o f an a r g-ument. H erb said "r \I ant to practice 1<111 and not _l'I tlc m<.:nts ," he that "this policy w ent 0 far as to fo rce the paper to THE ALPERT PRESS, printers of THE JUSTINIA T, went l'l1lp il a,ized. "The lI'cakne" in the pro il· " irJll ." he said, print a dua l sports column . This was censorship." above and beyond the call of duty in assisting u s. On ha been the lack of sufficient attention to maintenance He ultimately re ig ned a s a ~oci a te editor, ieeling that all question of make-up, their advice was invaluable. :> f i ts public prestige. he cou ldn' t work under uch a pulic),. "I'm till young Furthermore, their patience with last minute changes and "A proies,;ion IIhich has produced men like enough to be angr y; I hrJpe r will always get angry rages approached fatalism. -H. S. S. H ol mes. Brandci-, and Cardozo too frequentl y apl·ca rs to about something."

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Departmcnt oi Justice. She is a mem- RO - ALD STRII'\GER is a part­ ... Commencement hlT of the Committee 0 11 ;\rbitration, ner in Ka c & String.:r, 320 Broad­ (COJ~tinllcd from page 1) ecrology and Kational Chairman of the Com- way, Kew York City, and a member Dyruff, H. J. '06 millee on Customs and Patent Law of o f the COlllmercial Law League of S~colld Scho la rship Prize. Ira B. is ( \'c r grcatt:r for the profe"i'Jllal Towcrs, Thoma, J. '06 the Federal Bar A.sociation, She has ,\ll1crica. ~lar ,hall, Brooklyn, Dean 'ar wcll mall. "It see ms clear to me," he \\'ritten an article on Custom impli- Prize ill Plcading' and Practice. said, that the lawye r of Snow, Charles '25 profe~~ional White, Theodore L. '26 fication, whi ch appears in the Record 1[ARVI1' KA~;:L\ • i a Senior ~~~JI:~;: ~~o S~:~)~ ~~~dB~I~~kl~;~t h :~~J;; the future mu t be more than a mere Simons, Frieda Hemlock '26 of the As ociation of the Bar of the ccountant with "Klein, Hinds & Prize. E\'id ellce Prize, Rohert Ro- practitioner; he must be willing to Amann, Douglas Metcalfe '33 ity of New York. Finke" at 60 East 42nd Street, New sen. the Bronx. Hirsch man Prizc, take po,itions lip n fundamental is- Halpin, John J., Jr. '51 York C ity. Barbara 1zctt, New York. ~[i ss sll e and become a molder of pub lic 1941 Izctt al 0 l'eceived the Koransky opinion. His knowledgc of the law 1959 SAMUEL H. HELLE lBRAND Prize. Surrogate Rubenstein Prize, mu t be supplemented constantly by 1930 has heen appointed Director of Taxes HAROLD GECHTMAN is an Sidney Goodheartz, Brooklyn. Fried- systematic study of changing econom­ THO}VIA S J. MIRABILE is run- for the ~ew York Central Railroad attorney with Gechtman & Gechtman man Prize, Abraham H. Faber, ic and social conditions, in order ning for Municipal Court Ju tice in Co. located a t 72 Tuxedo Parkway, New- Brooklyn, The \\'e,t Publi hing that he may t.c able to synthesize Brooklyn. 1949 a rk, New Jersey. Company and Edward Thomp on Icgal needs with the inner dynami c> OLLIS OHEN is an attorney GEORGE STENGEL is Executive Company Prizcs, Philip ~f. Berman, of our ci ,·il izatio n. T hi s require> with the U. S. Veterans Administra- Vice President of the Telephonics Brooklyn; )'[ortimer H, Kass, ~[ount scholarship of a h igh order, and i, tion in Kew York City. Corporation, Huntington, Long Island. Vernon: Hyman Klionsky. only possible for one who is \\'illil1g Alumni" Luncheon York: and Frederick D. Kranz.~ew to dedicate himself to a lifetime of ABRAHA1I I. LINDEKBAUM 1950 The Brooklyn Law School A lumni Brooklyn. \\'ill iams Press P rize intellcctual endeavor." ha been appointed a member of the JOHN BABCHAK is a partner in A sociation wi11 hold its Annual Leonard M. Simon, Brooklyn. Lloyd Planning Commis ion. Paul tryker A\\'ard , Philip M . In closing, he stated that the adop­ EYMAN \ V ANK has been named the law firm of Lavery, L avterbach & Luncheon this year on Saturday, De- Berman. tudent Council Award tion of the propo ition that educatiol1 chairman of the N ew York City Board Babchak, Ossining, ew York, and cember 3, 1960, at twelve o'clock noon, Norman H. Schaumberger, th ~ of As es ors. President of the Peekskill Bar in the Grand Ballroom, Hotel Roose- Bronx. must be a continuing process ". . . 1933 Association. ve lt, New York. would most certainly give a lIe\\ A1IUEL Z\ VECKER is engaged 1955 Th A .., D" . h d In hi s principal address, President mcaning' to the breadth and dept in the practice of law and Judge of AI e ;SOCJ~tlons b lStlllgUls e Ne\\'som credited the influx of of life itself. Such an expansioll " I th e Town Court of Fairfield, Conn. AARO~ SHAPIRO is a partner umnus war \\ill e presented to American war veterans into colleges tile educational outlook cO\1 ld maht' in the accounting firm of 1Iurray H. D ean Jerome Prince, class of 1933. during the po ·t war year \\'i tlt ha v- it po,siblc for .. \ll1erican ci ti zens, in - IRV1:-':G BR.\FF has &ecn appoint- Hollander & Co., and is an instructor Other honored guests wil\ attend. ing' accelprateci the present philosophy cluding profc siona l nl("n, to af,cpt ed City Court Justice in the Bronx, of Taxation at Fairleigh Dickinson All alumni and their guests a re in- that education must he a lifelong thei r full measure of respon,ihility and is running for r e,election. Uniwrsity, I'\ew Jersey. vited to attend. Subscriptions, at process, He said that in thc mid- for the maintenance o f Our way of 1936 R OBERT L. RA\VLI IS is run- $6.50 per person, may be obtained toy twentieth century, "Americans are life in a dynamic and turbulent SA ~l UEL LEVITT is a member of ning for 1funicipal Court Judge in forwarding a check to the Alumni beginning to understand the element world. When this happens, the con- the law firm Schwartz, Levitt & • anhattan. A sociation offi ce at the Law chool, of urgency in the fact that day-by- c pt of democr;lcy, a s practiced in Sommer, located at 50 Court Street, 1957 375 Pearl Street, Brooklyn I, . Y. day duties o f citizens, profe sional Americ,a, even in a fidgety world, Brooklyn, N. Y. DONALD MANES is Assistant ______mil, and parents mu st be upplc- can be restored to its pra per pos iti on 1938 District Attorney, Queens County, and Remember the Lu ncheon mell ted with intellectual Jlursuit ," as the Jlolitical ideal that is respected MOLLIE STRUM i a trial attor- a member of the Quecns Cotlnty Bar December 3 Presidel1t N CWSOJ11 stated that the and ought by thinking men e\'crv - ney on the staff of the United States Association. burdel1 for stich il1tellectual pursuit where."

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· · T JUST I N I A N ALSA Holds Annual Convention; Irs t P r I Z e 0 Urge Connally · Amendment Repeal; . I ALSA C·· ABA President Addresses Group nAn n u a . om petI t Ion i" \~::hi~~~: ~~ldCit; ;~:~:~;::::;;ti~ !~~;:; ~:, ~:"!.~!";~~:~ American law schools met to exchange Ideas In regard to associatIOn '111 111111 111 1111111111111111 11 111 1111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111'111111111111111111 JUSTl:-lfAN had entered the ALSA nounced by Professor Milton G. problems and services to law students. Approximately one hundred Herb Swarz111an Selected competition. In its initia l entry for the Gershen on, its faculty advisor. schools \\'ere represented by two ,...-______Thi Year's Editor-in-Chief 1957-58 school year, the BLS news- Herb Swarzman, class of 1962, is hundred delegates. In addition, other as a stepping stone to professional 1llIlIllIlllllilllllllllllllll ll lllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll.lIl11l1l1l1!11l11l11l1l1l1l1111111111 paper drew high praise from the Editor-in-Chief. He L a graduate of nationa l legal organizations like the rc 'pon ibility in the modern legal TIlE JUSTINIAN, Brooklyn Law A ssociation, and won a national sec- Dartmouth College, arid i an Editor Judicature Society. Junior Bar Con- profession. Further talks were given ond prize in the "quality" and o f the Dartmouth Club ·ews. by Earl A. Hagen, Director of the School's student newspaper, has been "coverage" categories. Her~-, Schlagman, last year's Editor, ference and the ;>.Jational Legal Aid ABA Law Student A, sociation; awarded first prize in the Ameri can f T J '11 .. I T J . and Defender A ociation. held their Dean Frank R tone, President of Law . tudent Association' annual na­ The new editorial staff 0 bIlE us- ~~ . remal11 Wit .: liE USTIN IAN 111 an annual meeting at the ,amc time. the A ssociation of American Law donal competition for law school TlNIA:-I for this year has een an- a vlsory capaci y. A five day session was h Id at the newspapers. THE J STINIAN was cited Hotel \Villard in conjunction with Professors ; and Alvin L. Grant, s .. outstanding on the basis of the • merican Bar A sociation, the Director o f law placement of New urnalistic quality and coverage of York niversity. tudent and organized bar acti\' ities." attending from The following day began with a The prize, given for the 1959-60 breakfast for the delegates, at which Brooklyn Law School were Han'ey Senator Sam D. Ervine of North .chool year, was presented at the an­ Baxter, President of the Student ual A LSA meeting held last August Carolina spoke. Senator Mike 11on­ Bal Association and Stanley Na­ t Washington, D. C. The Associa­ roney of Oklahoma and Representa­ thanson, ALSA rcpresentati\'e. ion's President, Richard Concannon, ti\'e John Bradamas of Indiana After opening day registration, the spoke later in tit day. \)resented the award, which was ac­ epted by Harvey Baxter, President convcntion \\'as addressed by \\' hit- A fter presentation of genera l com­ f the Brooklyn Law School Student nl)' ~ orth Seymour, the inconiing 11littee reports, the cOl1\'ention assem­ ar Association. P resident of the American Bar As- bled for a debate and reception saciation, I\'ho spoke of the A.LSA One of the primary purposes of the ponsorcd by the Conference on P er- ALSA competition is to ele\'ate the ,onal Finance Law. An evening standards of journalism in the mem­ Tr ustee Candidate yacht tour of th Potomac River ber law school. The Association rec­ concluded that day's activities. ognizes the fact that writing experi­ For Highest Court The question of repeal of tbe Con­ ence i. a form of expression of great Henry L. Ughetta, Associate Justice nall y Amendment was debatecl in the value to iuture attorneys. o f the /\ ppellate Division of the S u- cOllventi.on. The amendment is a In l11 aking their decisions as to the prcme Court of the State o f New re,enatlon . by the U11Ited . tates, coverag;e of each newspaper, the ..______...., \" ork, Second Department, and Presi- P~rI1.11ltHl~ I.h own detcrml11allon as judges relied on the variety of arti­ dcnt of the Board of Trustees o f to JUrisd icti on o f the I\orld court cl es each publication prc cnts to its Ol'er cases to \\ hich the l:nited readers. THE Ju TlN !.\X, in addition States is a party. The delegates to reporting on Student Bar cvents, School Trustee Dies passed a resolution urging its repcal. also includes coverage of local, state Justice H enry G. \\'rnzel Jr., a nwmher of the board of trustees of S'J l1l e of the opposition believed the and federal Bar A ssociations, as well Brooklyn Law School and a justice o f the State Supreme Court frol11 i,sue I\'a too political. a s ALSA affairs. tyle and content 1932 to 1959, died this ummer after a lung illne,s. The fo ll owing day was devoted to of the individual stories is an addi­ At the opening- of the fall term of the .\ppellate Di\'ision, Sccond conferences, workshops, and semi­ tional factor in determining a news­ Departmcn t. on eptemhe r 7, Prcsiding J u ,tice Gerald l\ olan paid the nars. An all-day conference for stu­ paper" quality. following tribute to the , life and career oi tht! fo rl11 er A 'sociate dent Bar Presidents was attended by This year was the second time T fTE Ju,tice: Harvey Baxter, who presented the "\\'c convcne tuday with heavy hearts, saddened hy the passing on plans for '1 stud nt aid fund, a de­ Judge Barshay .\ugust 30 u f lIenry G, \Venzc!. Jr., a fonner associate ju, ti ce of tli is \'eloped by Brooklyn Law School. ronrt. Teaches Course "Judge \\·enzel had a long anc! honorable career as a me11lber of the New Law Review ludge 1 fyman Harshay, of the Bar, a juri"t and a tireless worker on behalf of his fellow men. Time C~ullty Court 0 f King~ County, is does not pcrmit me tu ellu:nerate all uf his oubt,l11ding achlC\'cl1lenb To Be Distributed teach ing a post-graduate course in or relate the many honors \\'hich were bestowed upon him. They wel'c E d Of T criminal procedure at Brooklyn Law many, impressive and well-desen'ed. By n erm School this semester. "He had a kcen and b"illiant lcl!:a l mind wi th the ability to eX[lr.:s, The D ecelllber issuc of Brooklyn himself clea rly, concisely and with a rcfre;.hil1 g touch of hUlll or. ;\ s a Law R \'iew will hc di,tributcd [l r ior memher of the board of tnhtces of the Brookl yn Lall' School, he wel- to the termination of the fall :e- (ollled the opportunity to help and counsel young men aml women , tu

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