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DigitalCommons@NYLS Commencement Programs NYLS Publications 6-11-1972 1972 Commencement Program New York Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/commencement_progs NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL 80th COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES June 11, 1972 BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHARLES W. FRoESSEL, Chairman SYLVESTER C. SMITH, JR., President JOHN V. THORNTON, Vice-President and Secretary DAVID FINKELSTEIN, Treasurer ALFRED J. BOHLINGER ALFRED GROSS DAVID R. BREIEN WALTER M. JEFFORDS, JR. HUNTER L. DELATOUR SAMUEL J. LEFRAK JERRY FINKELSTEIN SAMUEL MILLER NATHANIEL L. GOLDSTEIN EDWARD J. MORTOLA MAURICE R. GREENBERG E. DONALD SHAPIRO FACULTY AND OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION WALTER A. RAFALKO, Dean WILLIAM J. WEARY, Secretary ANDREW SIMAK, Librarian CARL AVNER E. BLYTHE STASON, JR. JOHN R. DUGAN JOSEPH T. ARENSON JOSEPH H. KOFFLER SIDNEY H. ASCH JOEL S. LEE FREDERIC S. BERMAN VINCENT LOLORDO JOSEPH DI FEDE CYRIL C. MEANS, JR. NATHANIEL FENSTERSTOCK JOEL PENSLEY CHARLES W. FROESSEL LOUIS SCHWARTZ MARVIN H. GLADSTONE FRANKLYN C. SETARO IV AN SOUBBOTITCH MILTON A. SILVERMAN JOHN VAN VOORHIS NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL 80th COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1972 2:00 P.M. PACE COLLEGE THEATRE I PACE COLLEGE PLAZA NEW YORK, N. Y. ORDER OF EXERCISES HONORABLE CHARLES w. FROESSEL, Presiding Chairman of the Board Former Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals PROCESSIONAL "Pomp and Circumstance" by ELGAR INVOCATION REVEREND ROBERT E. FRIEDMAN THE ,NATIONAL ANTHEM ... ..... ...... ... .. FRANCIS SCOTT KEY EVERETT M. CLARK, Soloist COLLINS SMITH, Accompanist GREETINGS DR. SYLVESTER C. SMITH, JR. President Former President, American Bar Association COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS HONORABLE WHITNEY NORTH SEYMOUR, JR. United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York VOCAL SELECTIONS EVERETT M. CLARK, Soloist C0LLINR SMITH, Accompanist CONFERRING OF DEGREES Presentation of Candidates by DEAN WALTER A. RAFALKO, Cont erring of Degrees by PRESIDENT SYLVESTER C. SMITH, JR. 2 AWARDING OF PRIZES DR. DAVID FINKELSTEIN, Treasurer, Board of Trustees CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES HONORABLE WHITNEY NORTH SEYMOUR, JR. United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York HONORABLE SAMUEL RABIN Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department TRUSTEE MAURICE R. GREENBERG President and Chief Executive Officer, American International (Ins.) Group, Inc. AMERICA EVERETT M. CLARK, Soloist COLLINS SMITH, Accompanist ASSEMBLAGE BENEDICTION REVEREND ROBERT E. FRIEDMAN RECESSIONAL The audience will remain seated during the Processional and the Recessional : 1972 Commencement Committee HONORABLE NATHANIEL L. GOLDSTEIN, Chairman DR. SYLVESTER C. SMITH, JR. DR. JOHN V. THORNTON 3 CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF JURIS DOCTOR FEBRUARY 1, 1972 JEFFREY DEAN MAMORSKY JUNE 11, 1972 PETER AHRENDT WILLIAM SMITH DAMES LEONARD JOSEPH ANGELO VINCENT J. D'ELIA RICHARD WILLIAM BABINECZ ANGELO DEL TORO MARGUERITE MELIN BAER CAROLYN ELIZABETH DEMAREST ALBERT KEALIINUI BATES NATHAN DEMBIN JAMES MILTON BAUMANN ROBERT F. DEVINE THOMAS WILLIAM BECKER DENNIS T. DUCORSKY KAREN JOYCE BERGER ALAN IRA DUNST PHILIP MARK BERNSTEIN BARRY LEV EISENBERG MARVIN JAY BLOOM ANDREW JOSEPH FAIR RICHARD S. BOTNICK GEORGE A. FARKAS JOHN J. BOTTA, JR. MARTIN JOSEPH FEELY WILLIAM ANDREW BRAUCHLI GARY RICHARD FEITLIN MARK HOWARD BRENNER THOMAS Ross FIGART ANTHONY PETER BUFANO, JR. RICHARD J. FINAMORE JOSEPH J. CHARLEMAN MARSHALL LEE GATES MICHAEL Coco RALPH N. GEORGE, JR. IRWIN RICHARD COHEN SHELDON J. GERVER RICHARD JAY COHN WILLIAM GITTER WILLIAM ROGER COLEMAN JOHN PETER GOODMAN SANDRA N. CONCHADO PAUL GOTTLIEB BRUCE JAY COOPER MARK ALAN GROSS BYRON CLAYTON COTTER, JR. ROBERT LOUIS GUIDO THOMAS FRANCIS COUGHLIN JON H. GUTMACHER 4 EDWARD HERBERT GUTTERMAN RONDA CLAIRE LUSTMAN GEORGE MARTIN HARMEL, JR. ROBERT Cox MCGANN DAVID JONATHAN HEIMOWITZ THOMAS CHRISTIAN MAMMEN JOHN Roy HILGEMAN PETER ANDREW MANGAN MICHAEL WILLIAM HOLLAND RICHARD ALLEN MARGULIES JAMES HAMILTON HUTCHISON SALVATORE JOHN MARINELLO MARK EDWIN JOSEPH GORDON J.L.Y. MAU ELIZABETH COLLINS KAMING STANLEY H. MELNICK MICHAEL H. KAREL JUDITH ANNE METZNER LLOYD FRANKLIN KEILSON ALICE C. MEYER AUDREY CLAIRE KING DONALD WILLIAM MILROY STUART FRANKLIN KLINE PHILIP K. MIRCHIN STUART KRATTER PAUL JOSEPH MULLIN ROBERT STANLEY KREVIT WILLIAM JOSEPH NITTI STEVEN Z. KRONOVET KENNETH GENE NOCHIMSON JOHN LEE KURLAND WILLIAM PAUL NOLAN DTE LALLY DONALD JOSEPH NOONAN MICHAEL M. LAUFER R. MARTIN OLIVERAS JOSEPH MICHAEL LAURIA SARA OLTARZ GAETANO GUY LA VIGNERA LYNDON JAY PARKER CHARLES DAVID LAVINE HOWARD L. PEARL DENNIS STEVEN LAZAR WILLIAM TODD PETRINA SEYMOUR H. LEINSEIDER CARMEN JOSEPH PINO STEPHEN M. LEITNER THADDEUS ANTHONY PODBIELSKI ALLAN R. LEVINE IRA RABINOWITZ L. ANDREW LEVINE MARVIN RAY RASKIN PETER LEvY MICHAEL FORD REHILL STEPHEN LICHON MARK JAY RICHMAN ANTOINETTE SANDRA LIPEL LOUIS JOHN RIZZO DAvm RUSSEL LIU RICHARD JAY ROTHMAN MARC ARNOLD LUSTGARTEN RONALD ALAN SABLOSKY 5 t. r/ JEROME IRWIN SAGER SALLY LYNN STEVENS ROBERT ,T. SALZMAN JAMES JOSEPH SULLIVAN BARRY PHILIP SARKISIAN ALLAN DAVID SUMMERS ARTHUR BRANDON SCHAEFER PETER EDWARD TANGREDI JOHN E. SCHAEFER, JR. PAUL JOSEPH TERRANOVA MARTIN SCHIOWITZ BARBARA WESLEY THOMPSON ERIC BRUCE SCHOENFELD LOUIS FRANCIS VACCARELLA PAUL ALAN SEADER ALLEN J. VIRAG DON ELLIOTT SECUNDA JOHN MARTIN VOETSCH HAROLD SELDEN RICHARD GEORGE WALL FREDERICK SELIGMAN JOHN PATRICK WALSH PETER D. SEREDUKE HOWARD E. WASSERMAN FREDERIC A. SHADRUFF A. MICHAEL WEBER ROBERT ALAN SHAW STEVEN JEFFREY WEIL PHYLLIS EISGRAU SIMON J. BRUCE WEINMAN STUART HASKELL SIMON JAMES I. WOLFE BARRY IRA SPIEGLER HARRIET MORITS WOODARD JOEL SPIVAK SIMEON WORONZOFF-DASCHKOFF SHARON DOYLE SPRING RALPH J. ZIMBARDO Degl'ees Awarded Magna Cum Laude ANDREW J. FAIR MICHAEL F, RE HILL Degrees A warded Cum Laude MARGUERITE M. BAER IRWIN R. COHEN ,o NATHAN DEMBIN BARRY L . EISENBERG THOMAS R. FIGART RALPH N. GEORGE I \ l JOHN P. GoODMAN UTE LALLY G UY G . LA VIGNERA ANDREW L. LEVINE MARC LUSTGARTEN JUDITH A. METZNER RENE OLIVERAS MARK RICHMAN RICHARD J. ROTHMAN SHARON D. SPRING SALLY L. STEVENS · ALLAN D. SUMMERS JOHN P. WALSH , JERRY B. WEINMAN PRIZES TO BE AWARD ED THE TRUSTEES' PRIZE For the Highest Average PRIZE OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS MICHAEL F. REHILL (Day Division) ANDREW J. FAIR (Evening Division) NATHANIEL L. GOLDSTEIN AWARDS For Proficiency in Constitutional Law MEDALS WILLIAM ANDREW BRAUCHLI (Day Division) ANDREW JOSEPH FAIR (Evening Division) MURRAY STOCKMAN MEMORIAL AWARDS One Hundred Dollars fo1· the highest ai,erage in the Law of Evidence NATHAN DEMBIN (Day Division) One Hwndrecl Dollars for the hiuhest average in the Law of Evidence Divided Between BARRY LEV EISENBERG (Evening Division) and ANDREW JOSEPH FAIR (Evening Division) ELSBERG PRIZE THE SUM OF FIFTY DOLLARS For Profi ciency· in the Law of Contracts in the Evening· D'ivision · · SIMEON WORONZOW-DASCHKOFF 7 DEAN RAFALKO AWARD PRIZE OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS For Student Leadership ROBERT C. MCGANN New York Law Forum Awards PRIZES OF FIFTY DOLLARS JAMES J. SULLIVAN JUDITH A. METZNER National Moot Court Team Awa1·ds PRIZE OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS MICHAEL FORD REHILL PRIZES OF FIFTY DOLLARS SHARON DOYLE SPRING THADDEUS A. PODBIELSKI CERTIFICATES OF MERIT To Members of Law Forum Editorial Board Presented by PROF. JOEL S. LEE, Advisor CERTIFICATES To Members of Moot Court Board Presented by PROF. ANDREW SIMAK, Advisor Student Bar Association Awards Presented by MARSHALL LIPPMAN 8 WHITNEY NORTH SEYMOUR, JR. United States Attorney for the Southern District of N ew York . New York Law School honors a young lawyer, the son of a dis tinguished lawyer, former President of the American Bar Association and the As·sociation of the Bar of the City of New York, and a very learned and gracious lady, Mr. and Mrs. Whitney North Seymour, Sr. v _Wh!tney North Seymour, Jr. was graduated from Princeton Uni- ersity m 1947 with the degree of A.B. Magna Cum Laude. He was : m~mber of Phi Beta Kappa and a Varsity Letter Man. In 1950, he heceived the degree of Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School, where e served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Law Journal. I 1 In World War II he served two years in New Guinea, the Admiralty ,.8 a:1ds·, and the Philippines and rose from Private to Captain in the ~rtiUery. ' St t His Public service is outstanding. He served as an Assistant United 19: es Att?r_ney for the Southern District of New York from 1953 to go}:, Partic_ipating in a number of trials· involving hijacking, fraud, F smuggling, and stolen car cases, and was Chief Appellate Attorney. 0 m~1 n:1 l959 to 1961, he was Chief Counsel, Special Unit, State Com a ~sion of Investigation, where he initiated investigations into waste iie corr_u¥tio:1 in city government, which result~d in disclosure of gularibes m a number of departments of the City C'f New York. in M:!rom 196~ to 1968 he served as Senator from the 26t~ Distr_ict reco ~h_attan m the New York State Legislature, where he gamed wide II g~ubon for his work as Chairman of the Senate Committee on or·ous1ng . , an d sponsored 125 new laws over a three-year peno· d . H e ti:gt~ted_ new legislative proposals to combat urban problems·, par :Plau a: Y i:11 the fields of education, housing, urban design, pollution, in ~~ing, Judicial reform, and consumer protection. The Citizens Union, as 66, gave him its highest rating, saying, "His legislative program ind a Whole was one of the most significant and constructive, and his of ::endent voting record, in the Citizens Union's judgment, was one e best in either party." Dist ~e gave up his Senate seat in 1968 to run for Congress in the 17th Bu~i~t of Manhattan, where he was defeated in the year when the P rey-Muskie ticket carried New York City. Chai:s other public service includes· such outstanding activities as Lawy a~ of the Civil Rights Committee of the New York County Legaie1· Asso?iation from 1962 to 1965, and volunteer attorney for the of th Lid Society; Trustee of the New York Public Library; Chairman e egal Advisory Committee of the President's Council on Environ- 9 mental Quality; President of the Park Association of New York City, Inc., and presently a member of the board; a Director of the New York Botanical Garden, and a charter Director of Citizens for Clean Air, Inc.