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Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU Law Notes School Publications Winter 1997 1997 Vol.5 No.1 Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/lawpublications_lawnotes How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! Recommended Citation Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, "1997 Vol.5 No.1" (1997). Law Notes. 64. https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/lawpublications_lawnotes/64 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the School Publications at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Law Notes by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume 5 • Issue 1 Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association News N 0 T E S "Evening at Lourdes" by Douglas Lucak President's letter Dear Fellow A}umni: _WelCome to the Cleveland-Marshall College of La~ Centennial Year an~ to the first issue of Law Notes for 1997. I hope each_of you will enjoy reading the history of the Law School that we began serializing in our fall issue with an article on the founding in 1897 of the Cleveland Law Scho~l. This winter we continue ·with a feature on the John Marshall · School of Law and its first graduates. What we learn from reading this history is that Cleveland-Marshall College of Law is adescendant of two remarkable predecessor schools and that we burselves are descendants of remarkable men and wom~n. They have l~ft us a legacy - a reminder that we attended a school that has proquced so~e of 'the _state's outstanding practitioners, business persons, public servants and jurists. Hearing--and reading so muth about 'our Centennial will-perhaps awaken nostalgia for ' . our alma mater. Reunions tbis year are scheduled for October 3rd and 4th. I urge those of you who nav;e uptomi~g reunions to atte~d them. You won't be disappointed, for these events not only renew friendships, they also recapture an important part of our~ past as we visit the place where we learned ·the law and meet ag~in th~ fac~lty who taught us. In our October 1?96 reunions, we welcome? nine classes in two eve~ing receptions and dinners at the Wyndham· cleveland and-_ Renaissance Cleveland Hotels._ Many thanks to those who planned ,the weekend and worked to make it a success . If your reunion year is approa<}iing, you need only look at the pictures on page· 32 to know that these are events you won't want -to mf~s and, if you live out of the area, well worth a trip back to Cleveland. As patt of the Centennial plans, Interim Dean Steven Steinglas~, accompanied by ·cMLAA Executive Director 1vfary McKenna and sever~ll~~ school faculty and staff members, will be visiting alumni/ae groups throughout the state and country during this important year. Already they have traveled to alumqi strongholds in ""ashington and Chicago to meet · our graduates. in _two Well:attended,receptions. We would appreciate hearing from you if you: are living or working in a city with a large contingent of Cleveland-Marshall-graduates. Finally, we are all gratified to learn that Governor George. V. Voinovich has ·appointed our fellow graduate, CMLAA Truste-e Michael L. Climaco '72, to the Board of Trustees of Cleveland State University. Congratulations to -Michael. The CSU Boar(i of Trustees is in good hands. Sincerely, · Deborah Lewis Hiller '75 Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association News-Winter 1997 About the cover artist: Cleveland artist Douglas Lucak, a graduate of Hiram College, photographs in black and white and then paints his photographs in oil. For our cover Mr. Lucak has painted a street N 0 T E S scene from the Slavic Village neighborhood where his family flrst settled in this country and where he presently lives. Mr. Lucak's CONTENTS work is included in various private, corporate and museum collections. His art has been 3 the subject of one-person exhibitions at Dean's Column Cleveland's Bonfoey Company and William Busta Gallery. In April he will be a featured 5 artist at the Mendenhall Gallery in Los CLE Calendar: Spring '97 Angeles. 7 Douglas Lucak is the cousin of Cleveland-Marshall Adminisb·ative Assistant Faculty Profile: Professor Arthur Landever for External Affairs Sandra Natran. 8 Law Notes is grateful to Mr. Lucak, the Centennial Events Bonfoey Company, and William Busta Gallery for allowing us to use a painting that 16 captures with great luminosity the spirit of Holiday Splendor Cleveland's ethnic neighborhoods during the flrst part of the century when the fohn 18 Marshall School of Law was founded. Life Members 21 Centennial Feature: The John Marshall School of Law 1916-1946 Volume 5, Number 1 29 Winter 1997 Editor: Chicago Alumni Mary McKenna 30 Associate Editor: Louise F. Mooney Washington Alumni Graphic Design: 31 Szilagyi & Szilagyi Printer: Alumni Profile: Thomas L. Peterson Legal News Publishing Company Photo Credits: 32 David Barnhizer, Mary McKenna, Reunion Weekend Louise Mooney, and Bill Rieter We hope you enjoy this new issue of Law Notes 34 and ask that you continue to contribute and "Don't Ride Buses in Honduras" respond to information in this and future issues of Law Notes. Special thanks to Leon M. 38 Plevin '57, Donald F. Traci '55, Susan L. Bar Results Grage! '80, Daniel R. McCarthy '54 and Sheldon Sager for their commitment in sup 40 port of this publication. Special thanks to Rosa Dei"Vecchio and Jill Patterson Alumni Happenings for their assistance. 44 The CMLAA Board of Trustees is dedicated to serving the alumni, students, faculty and staff Faculty & Staff Happenings of the College of Law. For comments and suggestions, please feel free to contact the Law Alumni Office at 216-687-2368. Law Notes, issued by the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association, 1801 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115 Winter 1997 Estate Charitable GiVing largest permanent endowment dedicated to a community, with flexibility to address Cleveland's changing needs, THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION may be an excellent solution lor your clients' estate plarii1mg and charitable giving needs. We mcxybean excellerit ~olution for you,too. For more information contact Marge Carlson, Director of Development (216)861-3810 The Cleveland Foundation • 1422 Euclid Avenue, Suite 1400 • Cleveland, OH 44115-2001 • (21{3)861-1729 Fax Dean's Column by Interim Dean Steven H. Steinglass n mid-winter when Law Notes Coffee, Jr., discussing "Tales from the just of the past two years but of the appears, I will have been Interim Dark Side: Settlement Classes, entire Cleveland-Marshall history, for I Dean for over half a year. For the 'Portable' Settlements and the Abuse of this new library will be one of the College of Law and for me, this has the Class Action" on February 27; and finest in the country, both in its been an historic time, a time of tumult the University of California at Los resources and in its architectural and a time of accomplishment. Angeles School of Law's Professor integrity. We have many to thank for Summer's end, marked by the Ohio Gerald P. Lopez, discussing on April 3 the new library, not the least of whom Board of Regents' unwarranted attack "The American Dream: April1997." are our graduates who lobbied so effec on public legal education, was fol The 1997 Centennial excitement tively to help us realize this dream. You lowed by the great success of our stu only begins with the Cleveland- will continue to be a part of the dream dents taking the Ohio Bar. In when the library is completed and November we learned that ninety-two opens in the fall of 1997. percent of our first time test-takers had The contribution of our alumni passed the July 1996 bar exam. For us and alumnae not only to the library their outstanding performance on a project but to many other educational test that had recently been made more efforts is one of the features of my job difficult was gratifying. It appears our that I find singly rewarding. A law students rise to the occasion and thrive school with the kind of support that so on challenge! many of you have consistently shown Elsewhere in this issue of Law your alma mater is fortunate indeed. I Notes you may read about two events thank you, in particular, for your letters in the fall that drew attention to to state officials in support of Cleveland-Marshall's one-hundredth Cleveland-Marshall and the future of birthday. In September we launched public legal education in Ohio. our Centennial year with a presenta Though our problems with the Ohio tion by the Cleveland-Marshall Board of Regents are not yet solved, I Centennial Inaugural Speaker, can tell you that the members of the Attorney General of the United States, General Assembly and the Governor the Honorable Janet Reno. The follow have been impressed with the strength ing month we celebrated our century of your arguments and the depth of old involvement with the state and your commitment to the law school. federal judiciary of Ohio in a reception You will hear more about this issue in honoring the College's present alumni future letters. and alumnae judges. Both of these I also thank you for your generous events inspire our educational mission support during the Annual Fund Drive. and invigorate our entry into Cleve Marshall Fund Lectures. The past two I have found the world of fund-raising land-Marshall's second century of years have created in each of us a grow full of challenging but satisfying expe preparing well-educated and well ing eagerness for the opening of the riences.