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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
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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. I have enjoyed speaking with trained men and women for outstand- new law library as we have watched the many of you over the phone, and I am ing careers in law. gratified by your I do not expect this response to our spring semester to be any The Cleveland-Marshall Centennial requests for support. less exciting, and I once Thanks to you, our more invite each of you gives all of us who work and study here end-of-the-year receipts to be part of our a sense of continuif:Yt a feeling are already seventy per Centennial year. Chief cent higher than last among the early 1997 of being part of a whole. year's at this time. The Centennial events will be Drive continues until the appearance of two the end of the school exceptional legal scholars as our sixty new building rising brick by brick on year. I hope to speak with many more third and sixty-fourth Cleveland the former site of the law school park of you in the coming months. Marshall Fund Visiting Scholars: ing lot. That so utilitarian a setting has There are almost 7,000 living grad Columbia University School of Law's been so wonderfully transformed is uates of our law school. Though it is Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, John C. one of the great accomplishments not impossible to know each individually,
Winter 1997 3 my contacts in person and by phone ture I described of our current gradu distinction to their law school through have given me a good idea of what a ates is perhaps not unlike the group their practice and community service. group profile would look like: It would picture Judge Willis Vickery might They were - and you are - some of portray a group of attorneys, jurists, have drawn of the early graduates the state's and country's finest attor business persons, and public servants, of the night law school he founded neys. We are all privileged to be a part many of whom worked long hours at in 1897, a profile of hard-working, of this continuum. • other jobs while attending law school, aspi ring men and women who sought most of whom are making important careers in the law and brought contributions to their community and to the profession, all of whom bene fited from the special attributes of a Cleveland-Marshall legal education. Those attributes- a fl exible part-time program, affordable tuition, four clini cal programs, two student-edited law journals, nationally competitive moot court teams, externships, and excep tional research resources- abide today, in part because our graduates continue to support the school which helped launch their careers. The Cleveland-Marshall Centen nial gives all of us who work and study here a sense of continuity, a fee ling of being part of a whole. The group pic-
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that his son is pretty good, too). PROFESSOR His first serious research in the area can be traced to the case of Myra Bradwell. ARTHUR Bradwell, Landever explains, was an Illinois woman who was LAN DEVER denied a license to practice law in the 1800s because the state pro hibited women from entering the profession. The decision of the state court was challenged all the way to the Supreme Court where it was ultimately determined that states could make whatever rules for excluding professional women they saw fit. The Bradwell case was one of the first in a long line of early Supreme Court cases stand ing firm on the concept that the by Karin Mika, f.D. ' l high court would defer to state Assistant Director, Legal policy on gender matters. Writing Program Bradwell's situation intrigued Landever from both a constitu tional and a social perspective. After It might be inappropriate to say that Professor Arthur researching the social climate in Landever is fascinated with women, but lately that Illinois during Bradwell's time, Landever's interest blossomed to find appears to be the CaSe. Whether he is providing the faculty with his ing out what was happening to torical tidbits about Ohio's first women attorneys or proclaiming one of his cur women attorneys in Ohio in the rent interests as the "Defense of Marriage Act," Landever appears to have dis 1800s. Thus he happened upon the tinguished himself as a person attuned to feminist issues. stories of the Cronise sisters - the Professor Landever cannot pinpoint the exact time in his life when he first licensed female attorneys in became interested in these issues. In fact, Landever claims that the more appro Ohio. priate description for his interests is the "cultural influences on developing law" Landever's research logically as opposed to anything specifically related to gender. It just so happens, how evolved into a broader scope encom ever, that the interplay of the genders has shaped both social attitudes and what passing a look at social standards and are recognized legal rights. how they affected constitutional Arthur Landever came to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1972 by way interpretations. Interest in gender of the University of Minnesota at Morris. Morris, which Landever describes as issues evolved into a larger interest in being a branch of the University located "on the outskirts of nowhere," came the overall influences of culture and after his attendance at New York University. It was New York University where its continuing impact on our legal Landever earned his Bachelor's degree, his Juris Doctorate, and eventually a society. Ph.D. in Political Science. Landever intends to continue this A native of Newark, New Jersey, one of Landever's first goals was simply to realm of research. In fact, he and his "go to college"- his parents had never had the chance- then to study law. .. daughter, Michelle '92, have recently either that or pursue a life on the stage. completed an article dealing with the Landever's interest in teaching began when he had to teach in conjunction statute governing the rights of former with working towards his Ph.D. After teaching Political Science in New York for spouses of military personnel. a few years, Landever moved on to Morris, Minnesota, to what was then a more Fortunately for Cleveland- stable position. Five years later, Landever thought that he might pursue a job Marshall, Landever has no other teaching at a law school. "Teaching at the law school level," Landever says, "pro career aspirations than to continue vided a different challenge. Law students are different from undergraduate stu teaching, learning, and sharing his dents. They're more disciplined in study and have more focus." knowledge. No other aspirations, that In 1972 Cleveland-Marshall called upon Landever and offered him a teach is, unless his self-proclaimed "ham" ing position. When Landever arrived here, his interest was in studying a range persona gets the better of him and he of constitutional questions. On reflection, he credits his recent focus on femi leaves for the bright lights of nist concerns, in part, to being surrounded by wonderful women, first and fore Broadway. "It's still not out of the most his wife, Debbie, and then their three daughters. (Landever adds quickly question," Landever says smiling. •
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I TWO EVENTS MARK THE OPENING OF THE CLEVELAND-MARSHALL CENTENNIAL
The College of law began the celebration of its Centennial Year with two events certain to form the opening chapter of the history book that will be writ ten of the College's second century. On September 30, the United States Attorney General, the Honorable Janet Reno, delivered the Cleveland Marshall Centennial Inaugural Address before a crowd of students, faculty, staff, and guests gathered together in the University's Waetjen Auditorium. Then on October 17 the College held a reception honoring Cleveland Marshall alumni and alumnae presently serving the Ohio judiciary. The Honorable Patricia S. Kleri '76, Judge of the South Euclid Municipal Court, was the featured speaker on this occasion. The Honorable George W. White '55, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and Honorary Cleveland-Marshall Centennial Chair, presided over both events. The presence of a distinguished woman attorney to inaugurate the Centennial and a distinguished woman jurist to speak at the judges' recep tion was especially significant to Cleveland-Marshall's history as the first law school in Ohio to admit women. Likewise, the October 17 reception honor ing present Cleveland-Marshall graduate judges drew attention to the College's century-long involvement with the bench of Ohio. Our school's pre eminence in the education of women and judges is one of Cleveland Marshall's proudest legacies to the state. LFM
THE CENTENNIAL ttorney General janet Reno was ducing. Ultimately, Ms. Reno's remarks Ajoined on the stage of Waetjen envisioned a paradigm for a new kind of INAUGURATION: Auditorium by CSU President Claire lawyer, one skilled in conflict resolution, THE HONORABLE Van Ummersen, CSU Chairman of committed to community service and the Board Monte Ahuja, Cleveland protective of the basic guarantees of the JANET RENO Marshall Interim Dean Steven H. Constitution. In particular, she focused SEPTEMBER 30, 1996 Steinglass, Cleveland-Marshall Law on the role of lawyers not just as "adver Alumni Association President sarie and advocates but . . . as peace Deborah L. Hiller '75, the United makers and problem solvers," and she "It is imperative States Attorney for the orthern stressed the importance of teaching and District of Ohio Emily M. Sweeney '81, practicing alternative means of conflict that lawyers involve and judge George W. White 'SS. resolution, the "art of negotiations, the themselves in their Ms. Reno's address demonstrated a art of resolving conflict without trial. " As peacemakers," she continued, "it is 11 genuine concern for the future of the communities to assure profession and for the caliber of attorney imperative that lawyers involve them 11 access to justice for all and public servant the profession is pro- selves in their communities" to assure Americans. 11
11 We as lawyers must speak out for the diversity that has made this law school, this university, this nation great."
Ho n. George White, Monte Ahuja, Frederic White, Janet Reno, Steven Steinglass, Michael Slinger, Deborah Lewis Hiller "access to justice for all Americans." Moreover, "lawyers must speak out for the diversity that has made this law school and this university ... and this nation great. " "We have got to make very sure that the Constitution is not just a paper with written words on it. We have got to make sure that the Constitution is a living breathing docu Dianne Steinglass, Sally and ment with meaning." Fred Isenstadt Janet Reno is the first United States Attorney General to come to the law school. A woman of great stamina and presence, she will not soon be forgotten. During her visit, she met with alumni, students, faculty, staff and invited guests. With all of them she was unfailingly generous in her interactions, standing long hours and smiling agreeably as one picture-taker after another sought her attention. In her words and in her demeanor, the Attorney General was the exemplary model of the kind of lawyer she hopes will be the lawyer of the 21st century. LFM
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PRESIDENT VAN UMMERSEN'S REMARKS:
I I A s we begin this second chapter of Cleveland State University's 1"\.Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, I am honored to be a part of this day and grateful to have with us our distinguished Centennial Speaker, the Honorable Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States. Her presence here reminds us all of our country's indebtedness to right-thinking attorneys in assuring the promises of democracy to all our dtizens. Though Cleveland State University is relatively young, it is indeli bly linked to the history of this region by its bond with Cleveland Marshall. Thus we are justifiably proud of the contributions our hun dred-year-old law school has made to the growth and prosperity of northeast Ohio. As President of this wonderful urban university that, like Cleveland-Marshall, has opened doors for scores of promising women and men, I look forward to continuing our work together, to fulfilling our mutual goal of providing the best education possible to any and all students willing to undertake the disdpline and challenge of higher education. I am confident in the next hundred years of Cleveland State University's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, and I greet its second century with assurance that we will continue to build our history Jan et Reno and Steven Steinglass together as we together continue to build the future of northeast Ohio. To all of you who have made this day happen - faculty, admin istrators, students, alumni and alumnae - I say congratulations and thank you." other exemplary lawyer was diversifying the profession. Perhaps THE JUDGES' the main speaker at the Judges' more important in the present times, RECEPI'ION: A eception, the Honorable Judge KJeri's narrative speaks with Patricia S. Kleri '76. The reception forcefulness to the Ohio Board of CELEBRATION OF THE honoring the alumni and alumnae Regents' plan to dismantle public legal JUDICIARY judges commemorated the College's education in Ohio by curtailing enroll century-long association with the ment at public law schools. The law OCI'OBER 17, 1996 Ohio judiciary. As Interim Dean school is proud of its alumna, the Steinglass noted in his opening Honorable Patricia S. Kleri, and remarks, of the six original founders of pleased that she has allowed us to the Cleveland Law School, four were print in full her address. LFM fudge Kleri 's narrative judges, the principal founder of the John Marshall School of Law was a speaks with judge, many of the early teachers and deans of both schools were judges, and forcefulness to the the College has a long tradition of edu cating members of the Ohio judiciary. Ohio Board of Regents' With Interim Dean Steinglass on plan to dismantle the stage of the Moot Court Room were Judge White, CSU Board of public legal education Trustees Chair Ahuja, CMLAA President Hiller, and Judge Kleri. in Ohio by curtailing Judge Kleri's speech detailed her experiences as a non-traditional stu enrollment at public dent in the 70s. Her remarks celebrate a lasting feature of this law school - law schools. its history of opening doors to all deserving law students and its place in Hon. Patricia S. Kleri
First Row- Left to Right: Hon. Anthony 0. Calabrese, fr., Hon .fames f. Sweeney, Hon. fohn f. Donnelly, Hon.fudith Kilbane Koch, Hon. George W. White, Hon. Patrick F. Corrigan, Hon. Christopher Boyko, Hon. Patricia A. Hemann, Hon. Mary Dunning Second Row - Left to Right: Hon. George f. McMonagle, Hon. Timothy Cotner, Hon. Robert Feighan, Han. Ann Dyke, Han. Patricia A. Blackmon, Hon. fames S. Sweeney, Hon.fohn Mackin, Hon. Eugene Fellmeth, Hon. C. Ellen Connally, Hon. Mabel M. Jasper, Hon. Edwin Hofstetter Third Row -Left to Right: Han. fohn L. Angelotta, Hon . Anthony Russo, Han . Timothy E. McMonagle, Hon. Thomas f. Pokorny, Hon. Maureen Adler Cravens, Han. fames McMonagle, Han . Peggy Foley Jones, Hon. Ralph Perk, Jr. , Hon. Donald C. Nugent, Hon . Mary Eileen Kilbane, Hon. Diane f. Karpinski, Han. Raymond Pianka, Han. Patricia S. KJeri TESTIMONIAL through college. When I graduated in OF AN ALUMNA JUDGE 1962, I considered going to law school but was discouraged by the by fact that there were very few women The Honorable Patricia S. Kleri '76 in Jaw school locally, and those few were having great difficulty in secur was asked by Interim Dean Steven ing employment as lawyers. Instead, I I H. Steinglass to tell you about my did graduate work in political science, experience with the law school again working my way through admission test, known as the LSAT, as school. After obtaining a Master's a candidate for law school admission Degree, I ran out of funds and was at Cleveland-Marsh all, here at forced to find full-time employment. Cleveland State University, as a law After working several years as a com student, and as a practicing lawyer. I puter systems analyst for the City of Cleveland and saving money for fur was a little hesitant to do this because Terry Gilbert, Dianne Steinglass I know that my experience is not ther education, in 1972 I revisited my entirely different from the experience But for the existence of Cleve old dream of becoming a lawyer. of many of you in this room. But land-Marshall College of Law, but for Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, there are a couple of twists in my the flexible admission policy of which by then had become part of story that might provide us with Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, had devel inspiration and information to use in and but for the affordable tuition at oped an admission policy much our effort to convince the Ohio Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, I ahead of the times that resulted in the Legislature that the Board of Regents' would not have received a law educa admission of large numbers of plan to reduce funding to this school tion, would not have become a suc women. Encouraged by this, I signed and tie the funding to LSAT scores is cessful lawyer, and would not have extremely foolish, a terrible mistake, become a judge. and, if I may be blunt, sheer lunacy. My parents were Italian immi That plan, if it becomes a reality, will grants. My father was a blue collar have an enormous, negative impact worker and my mother was a home on this community. maker. We were not poor, but there This is my story. Perhaps it's sim was no money for college for my ilar to yours. brother or me. So we worked our way
Laurie and Han. Ann Dyke
Dennis Lansdowne, Mary McKenna, Neil Evans, Han. Tim McMonagle Steven Steinglass, Han. Patricia Kleri up to take the LSAT. Cuyahoga County. I am confident vidual stories. For 100 years Now, you might recall that part that Judge Krenzler would tell you Cleveland-Marshall has opened doors of the Regents plan is to tie funding that I was a successful law clerk. ' to a better way of life by looking at its for this law school to LSAT scores. Again, the admissions commit applicants as individuals, admitting Hold that thought for a moment. tee was right. The LSAT was wrong. students not simply because of their I humbly confess that my perfor After the clerkship, I spent a few test scores or because they are legacies mance on the LSAT was not one of years as an associate with a small firm or because they can afford the tuition my more notable achievements in and then struck out on my own and but, instead, because the applicant life. It could best be described as built a solo practice which was very will bring something worthwhile to underwhelming. While I did excel on successful, both financially and pro the environment of legal education part of the test, I performed miserably fessionally. My business came from and in time will contribute some on others. As a result, my overall satisfied clients. I enjoyed the respect thing worthwhile to the entire legal score was too low for me to be grant of colleagues. The community community. ed admission to this law school the reached out to me, and I was elected Look at the judges here this first time around. Trus-tee of the Cleveland Bar evening. Look at the diversity in This law school was my only Association and the Legal Aid Society. background, in race, in gender, in option. For me it was the only game Three successive presidents of the judicial philosophy. Look at the con in town. I could not relocate to Cleveland Bar Association appointed tributions these jurists have made to another city. I could not afford high me to serve on its nominating com this community through training law er tuition. And I had that under mittee for three one-year terms, one clerks and new lawyers, through edu whelming LSAT score. year as chair of the committee. I cating the public on legal issues, Fortunately, however, this law presently serve on Cleveland through volunteering their time to school had a policy of taking a second Marshall's Visiting Committee. countless organizations. This is a look at some applicants to determine These experiences suggest that I microcosm of Cleveland-Marshall. whether there were factors in the was successful as a lawyer. You can see Cleveland-Marshall grad applicant's education, employment The admissions committee was uates in law firms large and small, or personal history that might be pre right. The LSAT was wrong. corporations for-profit and not-for dictive of success in spite of an under After 16 years of a successful and profit, in financial institutions, in whelming score on the LSAT. I was busy law practice, in 1993 I decided government and in academia. You granted an interview, the admissions that I would like to work in a different can see them throughout Ohio and committee decided that I was a good way in the legal system- this time as virtually throughout the entire coun risk, and I was accepted into Cleve a public servant, working for my try. These are the faces that make land-Marshall College of Law in the entire community. When I ran for Cleveland-Marshall unique among fall of 1973 at the age of 35. election as Judge of South Euclid Ohio law schools. At the end of my first year, I Municipal Court, the Cleveland Bar Education is not reserved for the ranked third in the class. At the end Association, the Cuyahoga County elite-for the outstanding test-taker, of my third year, I ranked first in the Bar Association, and the Citizens for the wealthy, for the well-connect class and was honored to be designat League gave me their highest ed. Legal education, likewise, cannot ed the class valedictorian. I passed the endorsements. The voters elected me be restricted to any small group of bar examination that summer with a by a large margin and the feedback people. We must have a legal com respectable score on my first try. It from the community suggests that munity which reflects our increasing would seem that I did succeed in law the citizens of South Euclid believe I ly pluralistic society, and we must school. am doing a good job. have a law school that reflects our The admissions committee was Again, the admissions commit cultural diversity, a model law school right. The LSAT was wrong. tee was right and the LSAT was whose mission is excellence in legal After graduation I sought wrong. education, service to the community employment as a lawyer and, al I have told you my personal story and the betterment of the profession. though interviewed by all of the larg not because I am unique. In fact, Happy Birthday, Cleveland er law firms in Cleveland, none most of my judicial colleagues could Marshall College of Law. May you be offered me employment. Perhaps the tell you similar life stories - how appreciated and applauded for the hiring committees of these firms were they are first-generation profession extremely important role you have not as far ahead of the times as was als, or how they went to school played in our lives-and may your the admission committee at evenings while holding full-time jobs, doors remain open to thousands Cleveland-Marshall. But Judge Alvin or how they raised children while more like us who will forever be I. Krenzler was far ahead of the times, completing law school. thankful that you saw us as individu and he hired me as his law clerk on These are the faces of Cleveland als, not test scores. • the Ohio Court of Appeals for the Marshall College of Law. It is this Eighth Judicial District here in school which is unique, not our indi-
14 Law Notes THE CLEVELAND-MARSHALL LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ~\AUklSJrrs vo u...
AND YOU NEED IT by the Honorable Donald C. Nugent ? 4 U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
"The Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association has asked me athletic facilities at a discount, as well. But the greatest benefits of my CMLAA membership are to describe the benefits of belonging less tangible. Much is made of a lawyer's pro bono obligation to advance the public good. Part of that responsibility is to the Law Alumni Association. surely reaching out to the coming generations of attorneys I am happy to do so." through support of legal education. As a law student I worked very hard inside and outside of law school. The Alumni Association's Mentor Program and its Scholarship joined the Association soon after graduating from Program have given me an opportunity to make the law law school in 1974. Cleveland-Marshall College of school days of others less onerous. Moreover, the bonds of Law had been for me the ideal law school, for, in a friendship I forged as a student have been maintained and way, I was one of the non-traditional students for strengthened by my continuing involvement with the whom the opportunity to study law was especially school through the Law Alumni Association. My class - as Imeaningful. I was non-traditional in that I had been out yours will or has already - produced some of the state's of school two years, serving with the U.S. Marines during leading attorneys, jurists, business persons, and public ser the Vietnam War, so I was a somewhat older student com vants; often my relationships with these influential men ing to law school from a somewhat different background. and women have formed the basis of strong professional Moreover, I needed to work full time in order to afford a ties as well. legal education. Thus I was grateful to find in my home In examining a career, one discovers many factors that town a law school with a diverse student body and an might account for success. In my case, family made a dis evening program to accommodate my employment needs. tinct contribution to my desire to go to college and then Best of all, it was not an ordinary law school but an out to law school and to succeed in both places. Once there, standing one with a long tradition of educating outstand however, my education was only as good as my teachers, ing attorneys. In short, I joined the Law the school's resources, and my will. I was Alumni Association because I valued fortunate that Cleveland-Marshall the education I had received and The bonds inspired my will and gave me excellent because I wished to return in some friendship I legal training and an excellent start in my small measure the contributions of professional life. Though I cannot time, energy, and excellent teaching a student have attribute whatever successes I have had that the faculty and staff had invested solely to the law school, I can attribute a in me. large measure of them to having studied The rewards of belonging to the law at this particular law school with its Association have been far greater than I particular faculty and educational oppor could ever have anticipated. The tunities. I believe that my membership in Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association offers one of the city's best Association has allowed me to fulfill the rosters of CLE programs, open to mem obligation I feel toward my alma mater bers at a discount. Through my mem and to say thank you. If you are not a bership I receive Law Notes, and I am member, do not deny yourself this fulfill- given the opportunity to use the CSU ing experience.
15 Law Notes Winter 1997 15 HOLIDAY SPLENDOR!
he atrium of the Law School sparkled, as did those who attended the Law Alumni TAssociation's annual holiday reception honoring its Life Members and participants in the 1996-97 CMLAA Mentor Program. Over 250 alumni, friends, students, \ faculty and staff gathered together t~ cele brate the season and say thanks for each individual's commitment to the Col1ege of ~w. For a listing of Life Member ~ please see pages 18 & 19.
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1940 Hon. William T. Gillie Paul S. Sanislo Timothy M. Bittel 1941 Paul]. Hribar Richard]. Bogomolny William Thomas Plesec 1942 Hon. August Pryatel Robert Wantz Joyce E. Barrett ]. David Horsfall Esther S. Weissman Bert Tomon Elsie Tarcai Winifred A. Dunton M. Lee Graft 1947 Bennet Kleinman 1962 Clarence L. James, Jr. 1972 Gary N. Holthus 1950 Bernard Mosesson Lucien B. Karlovec ]ames A. Lowe Charles Ipavec Sheldon E. Rabb John V. Jackson, II 1951 Dr. Bernice G. Miller Stanley E. Stein Michael L. Climaco Hon. Eugene M. Fellmeth Arthur R. FitzGerald William P. Farrall Donald B. McCann 1963 Joseph A. Coviello William P. Gibbons Francis E. Kane Lester T. Tolt Joseph Gibson Hon. Lillian Burke Thomas ] . Scanlon 1973 Mary Agnes Lentz 1952 Hon. Thomas Lambros Thomas W. Gray W. Frederick Fifner Hon. Edwin T. Hofstetter 1964 Harry L. Griffith 1974 Hon. Lesley Brooks Wells Hon. Joseph A. Zingales Henry B. Fisher Michael C. Hennenberg Joseph Cachat Howard M. Rossen Stephen 0. Walker Philip R. Brodsky Joseph T. Svete Thomas E. Downey 1953 John]. Sutula Raymond ] . Schmidlin Timothy G. Kasparek William T. Monroe 1965 David S. Lake William R. Fifner Walter L. Greene June W. Wiener Barbara Stern Gold Olga Tsiliacos 1966 Edward T. Haggins Leonard D. Young 1954 Daniel R. McCarthy 1967 Charles B. Donahue, II 1975 Dr. Gregory]. Lake Edward C. Hawkins Lawrence]. Rich B. Casey Yim Howard E. Egert Norman D. Tripp Dale H. Markowitz John]. McCarthy Theodore R. Kowalski Gerald L. Steinberg Russell T. Adrine Kenneth Montlack Richard S. Koblentz William F. Sweeney William M. Wohl L. Richard Musat 1955 George W. White Stanley Morganstern John M. Richilano Hon. Robert E. Feighan Michael R. Gareau William C. Hofstetter Charles]. Gallo, Sr. 1968 Hon. John E. Corrigan Deborah Lewis Hiller Donald P. Traci Herbert Palkovitz John B. Gibbons Glenn]. Seeley ] ames R. Kellam David ] . Skrabec Peter W. Moizuk Richard Moroscak Michael E. Murman Ralph A. Stark Robert I. Zashin ]ames F. Szaller Carol Emerling William E. Powers Joseph Jerome Irene M. Kotulic 1969 Wendel Willmann 1976 Charles G. Deeb William D. Carle, III Marc ] . Bloch David Ross 1957 Leon M. Plevin William L. Summers Keith E. Belkin Maynerd Kimball 1970 Blaise C. Giusto Michael]. Nath Richard T. Reminger Joseph H. Weiss, Jr. Steven H. Slive Thomas ] . Brady Kenneth A. Bossin Deborah R. Akers Joseph C. Domiano Robert]. Sindyla Patrick Bi mconi 1958 Charles R. Emrick, Jr. William A. Wortzman 1977 Charles T. Simon ]ames Patrick Conway Richard W. Sander Jack W. Bradley Aaron Jacobson Walter A. Rodgers Lawrence]. Cook ] ulian Kahan ]ames H. Peak Robert M. Wilson 1960 Hon. Hans R. Veit Theodore R. Klammer Roger M. Synenberg Don C. Her Leslie ] . Spisak Anne L. Kilbane Donald L. Guarnieri Lucian Rego Kathleen M. Carrick Donald M. Colasurd Joseph A. Valore Linda M. Rich Norman T. Musial 1971 Dharminder L. Kampani Rita S. Fuchsman Eugene A. Kamps ]ames E. Melle 1978 David M. Paris 1961 Hon. Anthony 0 . Calabrese, Jr. ]ames]. Komorowski Ronald F. Wayne Fred Lick Thomas P. Hayes Elisabeth T. Dreyfuss
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NEW LIFE MEMBER in legal malpractice/professional ethics and municipal law litigation A graduate of the University of and is a frequent presenter at semi Dayton, Michael E. Murman nars and workshops. received his J.D. degree magna cum Michael and his wife, Drue, a laude from Cleveland-Marshall in CSU graduate who received her l 19 75. He is the principal in the firm MA from CWRU, live in Lakewood of Murman and Associates in with their daughters, Meryl and Lakewood where he engages in the Eryn. Michael and his daughters general practice of law. recently performed together in the Michael is the former Law Rocky River Community Theater's Director and City Prosecutor of the productions of "Annie" and "Oliver" . City of Lakewood. He is a member of the Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, WELCOME NEW LIFE MEMBERS Ohio State, and American Bar Michael E. Murman Associations and frequently serves as William F. Sweeney '54 relator's counsel in professional Committee. He is also President of Winifred A. Dunton '61 discipline cases. He is Chairman of the Ohio Municipal Attorneys Arthur R. FitzGerald '62 the Legal Ethics and Professional Association, a Past President of the Raymond J. Schmidlin '64 Conduct Committee of the Ohio Cuyahoga County Law Directors M. Lee Graft '71 State Bar Association, a member of Association, past Chairman of the Leonard D. Young '74 the OSBA Committee to Review Cleveland Bar Association's Criminal Kenneth R. Roll '80 Ohio's Disciplinary Process, and a Law Section, and has been a member Dennis R. Lansdowne '81 member of the Cuyahoga County of an Ohio Supreme Court task force. Frederick N. Widen '81 Bar Association's Certified Grievance He has been called upon as an expert Kevin P. Foley '92 Peter A. Russell'93
Sally M. Edwards Paul Brickner Sheila M. Brennan Mary Llamas Courtney Peter Marmaros Lori White Laisure 1979 LaVerne Nichols Boyd Donna J. Taylor-Kolis 1990 Sonia Winner Louis C. Damiani Elizabeth Haque 1992 Kevin P. Foley Sheryl King Benford Kevin J.M. Senich 1993 Gloria S. Gruhin William J. Day Frank Aveni Peter A. Russell Maria Quinn Susan J. Becker 1994 Jean M. Hillman H. Jeffrey Schwartz 1984 Carl F. Asseff N/A Fred Ramos 1980 Culver F. Eyman, III Joseph G. Stafford John Makdisi Geoffrey M. Schumer 1985 Laurie F. Starr Marshall Nurenberg Gerald R. Walton Tina Ellen Wecksler Maurice L. Heller Howard Mishkind 1986 James E. Tavens Stephen J. Werber Richard C. Alkire Laura J. Gentilcore Victoria Plata Susan L. Gragel 1987 Gary Lichtenstein Stephen R. Lazarus Phillip E. Thomas John T. Hawkins Steven R. Smith Kemper Arnold Scott C. Finerman Louise F. Mooney Kenneth R. Roll Barbara Silver Rosenthal Solomon Oliver, Jr. 1981 David Paul Burke Mary D. Maloney Frederic P. White, Jr. Hermine G. Eisen Schuyler Cook Paul Carrington Louise P. Dempsey 1988 Melody J. Stewart Steven H. Steinglass Sandra J. Kerber Judith Arcoria DeLeonibus Louis B. Geneva Vincent T. Lombardo 1989 Raymond Gurnick Lloyd B. Snyder Dennis R. Lansdowne Scott Spero James G. Wilson Frederick N. Widen Sheila McCarthy Earl M. Curry, Jr. 1982 James Lee Reed Barbara Tyler David Barnhizer K. Ronald Bailey Karin Mika Karen Popovich 1983 John L. Habat Diane Homolak David Goshien Joel Finer
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20 Law Notes .flhe ;fohn fl(arsha/1 5ch(9(9/ pf 11-tw 1916-1946
by Louise F. Mooney
11Life must be lived forwards
but can only be understood backwards. II · Kierkegaard
In the last issue of Law Notes, . in celebratiqn of the law .· ''-school's Centennial, we' beglm . , a series on the history of the THE FOUNDING OF THE JOHN Cleveland-Mwshall College of test the barriers of middle class MARSHALL SCHOOL OF LAW Law, beginning with the respectability. In the f.irst quarter of n Sunday, August 20, 1916, the founding of the Cleveland taw the new century these newest Americans - Protestants, Catholics Cleveland Plain Dealer printed a ·School in 1897 by the ·.. O modest advertisement, no big ' and Jews, predominantly from ger than a business card, announcing Honorable Willis Vicker}': European countries - had moved the opening of the John Marshall This issue· describes the found from central Cleveland out to its School of Law, a "three-year course of ing in -1916 of the fohn fringes, settling -around factories and study preparing students for admis Marshall School o(Law by other workplaces in such quaint pock sion to the bar and for business" with David c: Meek, A. A. Benesch, ets of the city as Doan's Corners, classes taught "by trained and experi · and Frank t Cullitan and . Newburgh, Tremont, Ohio City, Slavic enced lawyers." Among the trained ends in 1946 on the eve of the Village, Big Italy and Little Italy, and and experienced lawyers listed were .merger of the two law schools. in the cluster of eight Lakewood three of the city's most influential streets, each named for a bird, called. attorneys: A. A. Benesch, Frank T. then and now Bird Town. Cullitan, and David Channing Immigrant families brought· Meek. David Meek, a law professor at the Cleveland Law with them the culture of their homeland, organized fra School, would be the new school's dean. These three men ternal and benevolent societies, supported literary, theater are generally acknowledged to be the founders of the John and singing groups, published newspapers, and built syn Marshall School of Law. agogues and churches. Members of the orthodox Christian rites transplanted the names of their national saints in THE BEST OF TIMES AND THE WbRST OF TIMES . Cleveland soil, so that Cleveland's oldest churches are a n many ways the time was ripe for a new law school. hagiology of old world patriarches: St. Vitus, St. Wendelin, Cleveland, With a population of over.half a million, was St. Rocco, St. Malachi, St. ·stanislaus, St. Ladis)as, Sts. Cyril I the sixth largest city in the country and might easily and Methodius, St. Wenceslas, St. Colman, St. John support an additional law· school, especially another Cantius, and St. Patrick. The art of cover artist Douglas . affordable law school with a flexible program. The steel, Lucak pays loving homage to the remnants of those stable chemical, electric, garment, and automotive parts indus and intact neighborhoods and to the culture their resi tries were thriving, and though the great immigration dents sought to preserve. tides of the previous mid-century had subsided, natural Economic and cultural stability emboldens the ized citizens and their children were transforming them ambitious. From Cleveland's immigrant enclaves emerged selves into skilled laborers and craftsmen and beginning to an upwardly mobile group of first and second generation Americans demanding that the blessings' of the_new world DEAN DAVID C. MECK, expand to inciude higher education opportunities. SR., AND THE JOHN Moreover, African Americans from the SOMthern states MARSHALL SCHOOL Were migrating north in greaterand greater numbers, seek- OF LAW . ing jobs for themselves and free and integrated schools for avid Channing their children; the population of 10,000 black Meek, Sr., (1863- Clevelanders in 1915 had grown to over 34,000 by 1920. D 1939), was born in 'In 1~h6 blacks could look admiiinglyat the career Bucyrus, Ohio. He earned of WiJliam Clifford, Cleveland Law School Class of 1902, undergraduate degrees at twice elected to the Ohio House of Representatives and both Ohio Northern and · serving since l908 in the U.S . War Depaitm,ent, as _an Ohio Wesleyan and a . example pf what their new life might ·be; immigrant soris master's degree at Ohio and daughters cotllp find inspiration in the career of ·Northern as well. In 1892 Harry Payer, Cleveland Law School Class of-1899, whose 'he married . Gertr_ude Czech backgratmd did not impede his becoming one of Kirkpatrick, launching a the area's top criminal and personal injury lawyers. And Dean David C. Meek, Sr. 4 7-year alliance that fo r women, barred by gender from many professions, could ,its time was something of - point-with pride to rhe achievements of Mary Grossman, an anomaly and for our time something of an inspiration, Cleveland Law School .Class of 1912, who was ~ soon to for it seems to have been a marriage unperturbed by issues become one of the first two'wqmen allowed-membership of gender or age. In 1905 Gertrude Meek, mother of ~ ix , in the Ameriqm Bar Associ 22 Law Notes s_chool added morning classes to its roster; the following the·.Cleveland· Law School, the John ;Marshall S"hool of · year it instituted a post-graduate degree:) The builetin fur- Law was never far from Uie downtown court~ and law ther asserts that the founding attorneys have inaugurated . offices. One year. after its founding, the school established ~· the new law school becaus.e they are "desirous of raising a relationship with Ohio Northern Universi~y in A~a, the general standard of legal attainment · and [feel] the Ohio, much Y,ke tfie alliance binding the Clevel~nd Law need iri the ·community of a school-of law that should be Scliool to Baldwin-Wallace. Ties with·Ohio Northern were v . rigid but thorough," as if _standards at the other law severed ·in 1923 '.'after .six years bf the most cordial rela schools in town were not. tions," according to the 1924-25 bulletin, and the John In 1966 a doctoral c~ndidate at the lJniversity of Marshall Schooi of Law was chartered by the state of Ohio Akron, Stanley A. Samad, researching the history of Ohio and authorized tQ grant degrees. · . , law schools, interviewed the widow of David C. M~ck, Jr.; The faculty that Davi<;i Meek assembled was _ son of the f,irst John Marshall dean; who confirmed that impressive. Accompanying him in his exodus fmm the. the elder Meek and Judge-Vickery had indeed disagre~d on ClevelaiJ,d Law School was another law professor; Walter educational policy. No_one ever claimed ]tidge Vicl Winter 1997 . 23 Carroll) and the Cleveland Law School. He was in private Captain Louis J. Cardek for accepting bribes. But Cullitan practice for 25 years before being named Assistant was as famous for the men he trained as he was for the Prosecutor in 1931 at the age of 51. The following year he c men and women he jailed. Among , the former were ran for and was elected to the office of County Prosecutor, Cleveland mayor' and U.S. Senator Thomas A. Burke, fed~ where he remained for the next 23 years, bringing to jus eral judges Charles J. McNamee and Emerich B. Freed, tice some of the county's most notorious criminals. In numerous future appellate, common pleas and municipal those 23 years one· seldom opened a morning or evening court judges, and such outstanding trial lawyers · as newspaper without a headline proclaiming a Cullitan Norman Minor; John Marshall School of Law Class of shutdown or arrest or court victory. Once, in a fabled 1936 1928. At his death Cullitan was eulogized for his decency incident, Cullitan attempted to close an infamous and incorruptibility in office, praise for a public official as Newburgh Heights gambling casino, called, with surely rare then as now: · some irony, the Harvard Club. When he and his men were Alfred Abraham Benesch (1879-1973) was such · threatened with· gunfire; Cullitan ran to a phone booth · a person as Emerson might have chosen for one of his and telephoned the city's young new Safety Director, Elliot Representative Men. Attorney, philanthropist, crusader for Ness, for help. Barred from taking Cleveland policemen minority peoples, dedicated community servant, Alfred beyond the city Hmits, Ness called for volunteers and Benesch· was the best the profession can produce. Born in shortly after arrived in~ Newburgh with a volumeer squad Cleveland to Czech immigrant parents, Benesch, a Jew, of 29 officers, 10 motorcycle policemen, and four plain was raised in a Protestant · Czech neighborhood and clothesme,n, ·all hea,vily arrried. The County Prosecutor attended .Cleveland schools, His undergraduate and law and the Safety Director el).tered the club without incident degrees (1900; 1903) were from Harvard. He was a found and arrested the felons. It was one of the most successful ing member of the law firm that bears his name; Benesch, assaults o.n gambling syndicates in the county's history. Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, but it appears he was · as During-his career Cullitan prosecuted murderers, bootleg ·dedicated to the city as he was to his practice. He was gers,' ra{:keteers, gunmen of the Mu,rray Hill gang, embez elected to the Cleveland City Coul)cil in 1912; in 1915 zlers, imd a score of crooked· policemen, including Police Mayor Newton D. Baker appointed Benesch the city's - ,, '. A.A. Benesch, Lou Boudreau, Helen N. Benesch 24 Law Notes Safety Director. One of the new appointee's first acts was Texas, Carr spent a portion of his youth with his grandfa to close down the red light district, causing one city coun ther in Cleveland. His undergraduate degree was from Fisk cil member to protest that Benesch was "closing all the University in: Nashville, Tennessee. As a new attorney, Carr places of public indoor amusement." From 1925 to 1962 represented the Future Outlook League, an organization \ Benesch served the Cleveland Board of Education where formed to promote the hiring of African American he often found himself in the center of policy disputes. In employees and to encourage black ownership of business. ) 1925 he locked horns with his old boss, Newton D. Baker, The League was notable on many accounts, including its over ~ proposal to eliminate ROTC from the public advocacy of boycotts of businesses that refused to hire schools, a plan not likely to please President Wilson's for black workers. In later years Carr was a partner in the firm mer Secretary of War. But ~enesch prevailed and, as a Plain of Carr, Jqckson & Payne.- Elected to Cleveland City Dealer reporter wrote, "military training went out the high Council in 1945, he served on the Council for 30 years, school window." . fighting for and sponsoring fair housing and fair employ Benesch's conviCtions were dear to him, strenu !'Jlent ordinances and, in general, advQcating equal oppor- 0 ously promoted and strenuously , tunities for black people. In 1959 he 0 defended; he was always in the thick of lll!!lllll-.-lllllll-lllllll!lllll-lllllll-llllll!lllllll~ was elected Democratie-majority leader 0 things. Throughout his life, he wrote of the Council and. served in that so many letters to the local newspapers Benesch's capacity until his election defeat in that he became a kind of unofficial conviCtions were · 1975. He remained active in the com public conscience, a fixture on the edi munity' affairs u~til his death. torial page. As a new attorney, Benesch dea~r to :hJm, defended the rights to police protec James C. Connell (1895-1973), John tion of the Peddlers' Self-Defense .' strenuously . Marshall Class of 1918, the son of the Association, a predominantly Jewish promoted a~d City of Cleveland's chief fire warden, organization. In i 922 Benesch took on grew up in Cleveland's Superior Averiue the east ceast Protestant elite when, in ~ strenuo11;s(y :J, - East 55 Street area. At the suggestion an exchange of letters to Harvard -qe(ended~\ he of a family friend, A. A. Benesch, President A. Lawrence Lowell, subse 0 Connell entered law school, graduating quently published on the first page of i-was alway~ in 1918. From 192Z _to 1924, Connell the June 17 New .York Times , Benesch · ·in the thick . served as assistant police .prosecutor took the school and its faculty to task under Lee E. Skeel, Cleveland Law for a proposal to levy a quota on Jews qf things.:.. School \]ass of 1912. From 1924 until admitted to the school. Benesch and 1928 Connell was Assistant County his backers triumphed over Lowell Prosecutor under Edward C. Stanton. when former Harvard President Ohio Governor John W. Bricker Charles William Eliot and other members of the Harvard appointed Connell to ·the Court of ·common Pleas in Board of Overseers sided with Benesch. 0 1941; in· the following year he yvas elected to the court an_d In addition to his almost 40 years on the Board of reelected in 1948, resigning in 1954. when President Education; Benesch served on the boards of the Jewish Eisenhower appointed him to the United States District Family Service Association, the Jewish Community Court for the Northern District of Ohio . . Federation, the Mt. Sinai Hospital and Bellefaire. He Judge Connell, criticized by some for what were received many awards during his three quarters of a cen perceived as conservative policies and lauded by others for tury of public service. At John Marshall Sch-ool of Law, liberality and decency, retired to senior status ·in 1971. A Benesch taught Municipal Law to students who were for prominent Catholic layperson, he was many times hon tunate to learn law from a person so reverent of his pro- , ored by the church for his services to the diocese. fession and so willing to use its authority well. Joseph Herron Crowley (1893-1984), John Marshall EARLY GRADUATES OF THE JOHN MARSHALL School of Law Class of 1921 alumnus, was scholar, attor SCHOOL OF LAW ney and public servant. He earned his undergraduate any remarkable attorneys passed through the degree from Adelbert College in '1916 and both !ln LL.B. doors 'of the John Marshall School of Law during and an LL.M. (19.23) from John Marshall. Crowley moved M the three decades it was an independent law 'from the office of Assistant Police Prosecutor to the office school. The list that follows is a sampling of some of those of Assistant Law Director in 1930. As Cleveland's Chief early graduates; it is not comprehensive so much as it is Law Director from 1938 until his retirement in 1962, he representative of persons who honored the Constitution worked under six mayors - from Ray T. Miller to Ralph and enlarged the practice of law in Northeast Ohio. Locher. In addition to his work for the city government, An early presence in the fight for racial equality Crowley taught at his alma mater. In the 60s his three-vol was John Marshall School of Law Class 9f 1928 alumnus ume Crowley's OHIO MUNICIPAL LAW, PROCEDURE Charles Velmon Carr (1903-1987). Born in Clarksville, AI')JD FORMS was considered an authoritative text. Winter 1997 25 ' ' Ferdinand Jirsa (1893-1971), John Marshall School of Law until 1956 when he was elected to the Senate. His Senate Class of J921,·was 20 years old when he emigrated to the career ended in 1968 when he lost to John Gilligan in the US. from Aus_tria-Hungary in 1913. In the following years Democratit primary. Thereafter, he remained in private Jirsa, who had attended business school in Europe, dedi practice in Washington, returning to Cleveland later in cated himself to learning English in preparation for his life. Lausche was considered remarkable among politicians ·law studies. Following his graduation from law school, he and voters alike for his independence of thought. Though established a private practice and a real estate business. In nominally a Democrat; he was often branded a conserva 1946 he was appointed, first, Assistant Police Prosecutor tive and accused of Republkan·sympathies. By nature fru and, then, Assistant Law Director in the City of gal, he · supported low taxes and budget surpluses, often Cleveland's Law Department. Jirsa was activ~ in the local angering labor forces. Moreover, he did ·not hesitate to . and national Czech Sokol movement, and his lifelong back Republican candidates, including Richard Nixon dur involvement With the Czech community-was many times ing his campaign for a second term. Those who remember acknowledged: He served as President of the Northeast Lausche with fondness understand his lack of party loyal District of the American Sokol Organization and was a ty as the renegade spirit of a man who could not be· bo,lt member 9f the financial committee of the American Sokol ed by political expediency, who for most of his married life .. Organization. In 1937, the Czech government awarded lived in a two-story frame house next to a Chin'ese laun him the Order of the White Lion. He retired from the city dry on East 102 Street,- who would not allow himself as government in 1968. · Governor to be called "his Excellency," and who would not enter the Union Club because it did not admit minori ~- .Frank John Lausche ties. In 1946 . the John Marshall School of Law· awarded · (1895-1990), John him an honorary degree in recognition of his many con Marshall School of Law tributions to the .profession and to his alma mater. Class of 192t, was known fpr independence - and The name of Norman integrity throughout his Selby Minor (1901" life. Raised in Cleveland, 1968), John Marshall one of the ten children of School of Law Class of Slovene immigrants. living 1927, is legendary among in the St. · Clair- Avenue - Cleveland's criminal trial East 62 Street area, Lausche attorneys. Born in Oak began. his working . career Park, Illinois, J-1inor grew in his youth as ·a lamp _up in Cleveland. He lighter and became two attended the University term may.of· of Cleveland, of Michigan for two years fiv_e-term Governor of before returning to Ohio, and a two-term Cleveland to study :law at United States Senator - the John Marshall School the first mayor and of , Law. As a young Governor of Slovene lawyer, -associated wi~h descent and Ohio's first the firm of Payne, Green, Catholic Gqvernor. Minor & Perry from Lausche completed his NormanS. Minor 1928-30, he defend.ed high schooi education impoverished prisoners through a correspondence in order to acquire trial experience. Ih 1930 he was course, played baseball ·in appointed Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor. At that the minor leagues, and time segregation prevailed even in the justice system, and · joined the Army in 1918. Minor found himself invariably assigned to case~ involv U.S. Senator Frank[. Lausche Following his law school ing black defendants., a policy he worked hard to abolish. graduation and an out- . In the Iong run, no system handicapped him entirely and standing performance on the Ohio Bar (he placed secorid he became known as one of the best criminal trial lawyers in the state), ' fausche entered private: practice and began in the county. According to the DICTIONARY OF teaching Agency at his alma mater. He entered public life· CLEVELAND BIOGRAPHY, Minor "prosecuted more tha11 in 1932 when ·. he was appointed to the Cleveland 5,000 felony cases, including 13 successful prosecutions Municipal Court and subsequently elected in 1935. From for 1st-degee murder, his most famous case being that of 1936-41 he served ori the Court of Common Pleas. Elected Willie 'The Mad Butcher' Johnson, convicted of murdering twice to the mayoralty of Cleveland duiing the war years 12 women during the 1930s and 1940s." Eventually Minor (1941-1946), in 1946 he ran for and was elected Governor left the prosecutor's office to run successfully for of Ohio; in 1948 he was reelected and remained in office Municipal Court Judge in 1937. In 1948 he resumed pri- 26 Law Notes vate pra~tice, becoming a premi~r defense trial attorney. offices. As chair of the City Council's Welfare Committee, During his lifetime, he is credited with mentoring some of Payne was responsible fat reforms ·in the police force and Cleveland's notable African American attorneys, including in the corrections system. In 1940 Payne and W.O Walker Louis Stokes 1 53 and Carl Stokes 1 56. In 1980 in celebra formed the company that published the Cleveland Call & tion of Minor's (.COntribution to elevat:: . Post. From 1938 until 1945 Payne was a ing the status of African American member of the State Parole Board. lawyers, local attorneys. formed the ' Norman S. Minor Bar -Association, the · The fohn _Marshall Before beginning his legal studies, Edwin Cleveland affiliate of the National Bar · . School of Law earned_ C. Reminger (1895-1977), John Marshall Association. School of Law Class of l918,.had served . one d,istlnction in i93l with the Armed Forces during World War Lawre11ce 0. Payne (1892-195.6), John ·no other Ohio school I. His legal specialty was transportation Marshall School of Law Class of 1923,' . could claim:' that .,. law. He was a founding member and one was another African American attorney time president of the American Society of who left his mal'k on the city and on the . ~of being the fi~st laf~"-' Traffic and Transportation Motor Carrier' struggle . for equal rights. Born in ' school in .the .state Lawyers Association and president of the Columb).JS, Ohio, Payne came to· ta hire a woman · ' local Association of Interstate Commerce Cleveland after serving in France during Commission Practitioners (1964-65). World War ·I, enrolled .in the Cleveland .- faculty member. · Reminger was senior partner of the Preparatory School in 1922 and earned Reminger & Reminger firm and father of his · L.L.B. the following year. Shortly Richard T. Rem_inger 1 5?. after, he became the city's. first black A_ssistant Police Prosecutor, and in 1929 he was elected to·the Cleveland The life of Sigmund Alexander Titus (1884-1936), John City Council, where .with fellow black councilmen Leroy · Marshail Scbool of Law Class of 1918, began with promise Bundy and· George Clayporne he m-aneuvered African and concluded in sorrow. Born in Poland, he was educated Americans into the School !=Jf Nursing, into internships at in Berlin's public schools, the Friedrich Werder College, and the. City Hospital and iilto appointments in other city the Oriental Seminary:.He enjoyed a career i? publishing as Frank Lausche, President Harry Truman, A.nne·M. and Anthony f: Celebrezze Winter 1997 27 an editor of the Berliner Lokal Anzeiger and the Hamburger Law School merged, Woehe before emigrating to this country in 1910. In Dean Meek was appoint Cleveland he found work first on one of the local ethnic ed the Director of newspapers, the Nardowiec Polish Weekly, and then from Education, and Professor 1911 until t918 on The Mediator, an industrial newspaper. In Wilson Stapleton was his law career, Titus was senior partner of Titus, Lombardo & appointed the new Kovachy and was an influential member of Cleveland's school's Dean. Judge Polish community. In 1931 he was appointed consular agent Meek was running unop for Poland. His death in 1936 was by his own hand. posed for a third six-year term when he died Russian-born Albert A. Woldman (1897-1971), John unexpectedly of a heart Marshall School of Law Class of 1919, was a prominent attack at the age of 49. Cleveland juvenile court judge. His undergraduate degree (1917) was from Adelbert College. During his law school In 1946 the John days, he worked as a reporter for both the Cleveland Press Marshall School of Law and the Plain Dealer. Following his graduation, Woldman was still in its fourth entered private practice, returning to teach at his alma home in the old mater from 1919 until 1941. Before his appointment to Hippodrome Building at the bench of the County Juvenile Court in 1953, David C. Meek Jr. 720 Euclid. The school Woldman had served as an Assistant Law Director for the had managed to main City of Cleveland, Chairman of the Ohio Bureau of tain its day program through the 20s, and day classes were Unemployment Compensation's Board of Review, and offered sporadically in some but not all of the 30's decade. Director of Ohio's Department of Industrial Relations. In The day program ceased in 1940. Though the John 1954 he ran for and won a two-year term on the Juvenile Marshall School of Law enrolled women only sparingly in Court and was reelected to two successive six-year terms_ its first years, it earned one distinction in 1937 no other afterwards. In addition to his service on the court, Ohio school could claim: that of being the first law school Woldman was President of B'nai B'rith. A student of the in the state to hire a woman faculty member, Grace life and career of Abraham Lincoln, he was the author of Doering McCord, Cleveland Law School Class of 1925. It Lawyer Lincoln. had another di.stinction as well: Beginning in 1919 and continuing through the 20s, nine John Marshall students AN AFTERWORD scored the highest or the second highest scores on the hen John Marshall School of Law's Dean, Judge twice yearly Ohio Bar exam. David C. Meek, Sr., died in 1939, his son David By 1946 when the Cleveland Law School and the W C. Meek, Jr., a teacher at the law school, was John Marshall School of Law merged, both schools had appointed the new dean much as Melville Vickery, proved their merit by surviving two world wars and the Cleveland Law School Class of 1914, had succeeded his Great Depression. World War I removed 40,000 father, Dean Willis Vickery, as Dean of the Cleveland Law Clevelanders from schools, workplaces and families; School, for the schools were operated almost as family busi World War II called up 160,000 Clevelanders, while the nesses. (In addition to David Meek, Jr., tWo other Meek sons, Great Depression found 30,000 greater families seeking Dean B. Meek and Dr. Stanley Meek, had been involved direct relief in -the form of food, shelter, and clothing. with the law school as members of the faculty, administra Shantytowns dotted the city, and beggars and panhandlers tion, and board of trust. Melville Vickery had taught at his prowled the downtown streets. Law school enrollment father's school and another son Howard Vickery was for a wavered but never succumbed entirely to economic pres time a member of the school administration.) sures, and both schools emerged in the mid-forties, more survivors than victors. By the end of the Second World David C. Meek, Jr., (1905-1955) earned his undergraduate War, both Dean Vickery and Dean Meek were dead, and, degree at Harvard (1927) and his law-degree at Western perhaps, with them had died divisive animosities. It was Reserve University Law School (1930) where he was Order time to meet one another in a spirit of compromise and of the Coif. Meek entered private practice briefly before accord. The result of that renewal of relations was the joining the faculty of his father's school. Frorri 1935 to Cleveland-Marshall Law School, the direct precursor to the 19 :3 8 he was an Assistant Police Prosecutor and from 1938 Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. until 1941 an Assistant City Law Director. He served for a short time as an attorney for the Securities and Exchange NEXT in Law Notes: The Cleveland-Marshall Law School, Commission before becoming regional supervisor of the Judge Lee Skeel, Dean Wilson Stapleton, and the law school of Federal Security Agency in 1942. In 1943 Meek ran suc the 50s and 60s. cessfully for a six-year term on the Cleveland Municipal Court; six years later he was reelected to the court.1n 1946 Photos from the Cleveland Press Collection, courtesy of when the John Marshall School of Law and the Cleveland William Becker, CSU Archivist. 28 Law Notes WINDY CITY REUNION e Law Alumni Association and he College of Law traveled to TiChicago to renew acquain tances with alumni in the Windy City. The reception was held at the University Club of Chicago in September and was attended by alum ni and friends, as well as former pro fess ors Janice Toran, Steve Landsman, and Barry Kellman, and former C-M Dean Bob Bogomolny. Special thanks to those who attended, including David Arena '96, John Burke '92, Janice Breen '94, Alan Fisher '80, Gary Hengstler '83, Lynn Arko Kelley '80, George Kuhlman '78, Ray Murphy ' 72, Oscar Romero '93, and Carol Weiss '77. Ray Murphy, Gmy Hengstler L to R: Steve Landsman, Janice Tora n, Bob Bogomolny, Steven Steinglass, Bany Kellman Winter 1997 29 THE WASHINGTON BEAT nee again this fall we Communications Coordinator Louise returned to a favorite city F. Mooney. for meeting some of our Alumni and alumnae present favorite alumni and alum included Bill Bransford, Steve 0 Cerny, Tom Gorman, Edward nae: Washington, D.C. Each year this group grows in number as word is Houry, Michael Meszaros, Jeffrey passed from friend to friend and from Olson, Tom Peterson, Elizabeth office to office that the nation's capi Pugh, Edward Sternberger, Jeff tal city is full of Cleveland-Marshall Stickle, Judith St. Ledger-Roty, graduates. For the law school person Chris Vasil, Joseph Vukovich and nel who each year make this trip, it is many others. Special thanks to Mary always a satisfying experien ce to Sullivan, Fran Allegra and Ajay Shilpa Shah, Steven Steinglass catch up on the news of our D.C. Pathak who were also at the party friends, and, in the year of the and invited us to visit their offices. Centennial, to hear a little of the per And a very special thank you to Tom sonal history of these graduates, some Peterson for agreeing to let us profile of whom have been separated from him in the following story. • their alma mater for over three decades. Interim Dean Steven Steinglass and his wife, Dianne made their first Washington, D.C. trip on behalf of the College of Law. They were accompa nied by Executive Director of the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association Mary McKenna, Assistant Jo e Vukovich, Jeff Stickle Dean for External Affairs Louise Dempsey '81, Director of Career Planning Sonia Winner '90, and Tom Peterson, Dianne Steinglass, Elizabeth Pugh Steven Steinglass, Louise Dempsey, Fran Allegra Bill Bransford, Ed Haury, Mary McKenna, Ajay Pathak 30 Law NMes Alumni Profile interpretation of the Socratic method particularly impressed the future patent lawyer. After graduation, Peterson left for Washington for what he thought would be a brief apprenticeship in the U.S. Patent Office where he hoped to develop further his understanding of leveland-Marshall College of motives for settling on Cleveland intellectual property law. "I wanted to Law alumnus Tom Peterson Marshall were primarily economic, he study law because I had a life-long '81, patent attorney, has soon discovered that he had made no interest in law and in technology," he C found a calling in law compromises academically. "The fac recalls, and the place where those two entirely suited to his interests and ulty made a lasting impression on interests intersected most powerfully intellect, a place where he relishes as me," he says. "They were energetic, was in the study and practice of intel much the possibility of patenting a not full of themselves, very interested lectual property law, a specialty that he protective heel cover for shoes as he in students," and more important, believes is best learned not from a text does the possibility of patenting an "their courses were very difficult and book but in the field. "It's very much a invention so futuristic, so portentous very stimulating." hands-on discipline, a practice you best that he must keep it a secret. As demanding as he found his grasp by application," he explains. A shareholder in the prestigious Once apprenticed, he was hooked on national firm of Banner & Witcoff, the challenges of this area of the law, Peterson welcomes his three Law challenges that seemed in the early 80s Notes interviewers - Mary McKenna, and ever after to mount daily as the Sonia Winner, and Lbuise Mooney ~ world grew increasingly dependent on into his Washington, D.C. office electronic resources, and as .more and where his Cleveland-Marshall memo more companies- national and inter rabilia are on full display: copies of national - sought patents for ·inven recent Law Notes, his fifteen-year-old tions on the threshold of highly Cleveland-Marshall bulletin, and sophisticated technology. assorted photbgraphs taken during As an engineer Peterson is a nat the time of his life he recalls as the ural, undaunted by the future's elec "most fun, the most rewarding." At tronic frontiers, and his enthusiasm Dean Steinglass's request, Peterson for the career he chose a decade ago has just completed a letter to the remains undiminished: On the day Ohio Board of Regents taking the we visit him, he speaks eagerly of his Board to task for its plan to curtail plan to walk over to the Supreme enrollment at Ohio's. public law studies and his professors, he recites CQurt on the next Tuesday when the schools. Gestures such as this- a let with fondness the names of teachers Court would be hearing oral argu ter written on behalf of his alma he still reveres: Steven Lazarus who ments in Warner Jenkinson Co. v. mater by a busy man on a busy day taught him. evidence, Carroll Sierk Hilton Davis Chemical Co., a case, he are the reason we are always pleased who taught him federal tax law, and tells us, that will clarify the scope of when our paths cross his. Lizabeth A. Moody, now dean at the doctrine of equivalents. Tom Peterson was born in Stetson University College of ''Law, Tom Peterson is the kind of grad Luverne, Alabama, one of eight chil" from whom he learned contracts. He uate one gladly travels far to inter dren, all boys, "so I know every base participated in the clinisal program view, the kind of alumnus who never ball joke." Eventually, the family headed by then Professor Steven fails in his commitment to his school, moved to Warren, Ohio. Tom earned Steinglass and was a member of the the kind of accomplished lawyer a law his bachelor's degree in engineering Moot Court Team when it was direct faculty hopes always to produce. As from Youngstown State University. ed by Professor Ann Aldrich, now a we leave his office, he invites us to He had been working at Packard judge on the United States District return for a tour of the U.S. Patent Electric in Warren for three years Court for the Northern District of Office in Crystal City. We know he is when he do decided to study law. Ohio. But the highest accolades he inviting us to share something he He chose Cleveland-Marshall reserves for the faculty member who loves, and the invitation is irresistible. because, "I could not afford to go to a taught him torts, Professor Harvey After all, who in Cleveland can pass non-state school." Though his Leiser, "a rigorous, fair prof," whose up a good baseball joke? LFM Winter 1997 31 REUNION WEEKEND he Law Alumni Association continued its traditional T reunion weekend with separate events on October 18th and 19th. The class of 1986 held a cocktail reception on Friday at the Wyndham Hotel, which was followed by a din ner on Saturday at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel for the classes of 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, and 1981. Special thanks to all who attended the celebration! Mark your calendars now for our 1997 Reunion Weekend which will be held October 3rd and 4th. 32 Law Notes Winter 1997 33 "Don't Ride · Buses in Honduras" by Professor David Bamhizer .... time I was there. The streets are nar row, traffic heavy and loud, with poorly tuned engines emitting acrid exhaust fumes. Armed security guards are everywhere to protect private businesses against the frequent rob beries. Begging children approach tourists as soon as they leave customs. The children are all around the hotels and obvious places where Norte Americanos and Europeans are pre sent. They don't spend time with the Latin tourists because they know they are accustomed to such conditions as a part of their own lives. The gringos are the marks for beggars, street mer Professor Barnhizer (with sunglasses) and colleagues chants, and money changers. In the early evening of the arrival he first indication my trip to Honduras might be eventful came when our day, the forty participants gathered airplane divebombed the mountain-top runway in a landing that left the together and were piled on to a char T passengers looking at each other with relief. We stumbled from the tered bus for the trip to the Hotel American Airlines flight to the customs windows. That was just the beginning Qualiquema on the outskirts of the of a fascinating week. city of Choluteca. This was the rainy I traveled to the Choluteca Forum as the representative of the Natural season in Honduras. The weather was Resources Defense Council, for which I am a Senior Advisor in the beautiful each day until 2:00 or 3:00 International Program, and as General Counsel for a new group, the Shrimp in the afternoon, and then the skies Tribunal, which despite its amusing name is committed to advocating reforms rapidly filled with ominous clouds. of shrimping aquaculture and shrimp trawling in developing countries. Latin What started as a light sprinkle American environmental organizations were sponsoring a meeting on ecologi became a downpour that turned into cally positive approaches to coastal zone aquaculture. Greenpeace was the pri a heavy rain followed by a deluge. mary sponsor of the Forum. The Forum was to be held in the It was my first trip to Honduras, a beautiful but poor country which has sur town of Choluteca, about ninety vived a lengthy period of civil strife and is struggling to emerge as a fledgling miles from Tegucigalpa and close to democracy. The people are still trying to figure out how it works. Tegucigalpa, the Gulf of Fonseca. In the Gulf area, the capital, is high in the mountains, its climate more moderate than the rest Honduran environmentalists are of the country. Tegucigalpa is broken up by hills and cut through with a wide fighting the expansion of large indus and muddy river that overflowed its banks and washed out roads during the trial shrimp farms that have obtained 34 Law Notes governmental permission to fence off downward through the dark and had What can't be seen is the beauty the lands and water areas that genera just finished seeing the plane crash farms replaced. Much of the area was tions of poor Honduran families have and break apart with bodies sucked covered with mangrove forests which relied on for agriculture and fishing. out into thin air when our bus blew a are integral to the ecological health of As is the case in many developing tire. Luckily the driver kept control. the region. As can be seen in one pic countries, wealthy families and mili They stopped the movie while we ture, other areas are natural salt tary officials have been taking over limped the final fifteen or twenty marshes that support fish, shrimp, the common lands upon which arti miles to the hotel. herons, and other wildlife. The pic- sanal fishing cultures depend. ture shows an area that was The bus ride to Choluteca saved by CODDEFFGOLF, an was intriguing. The trip was a Honduran environmental race down a dark and curving Sometimes we fail to real group dedicated to the protec mountain road through a dri ize how good we have it. tion of the region's coastal ving rain that obscured vision. We possess ingrained atti resources. But resource preser How the driver could see vation is the exception. In too through his streaked wind tudes about freedom and much of the Gulf, the big farms shield is still not well under the limits of government have come in and restructured stood. Of the forty people, power as our natural the land and water flow, built only five or six spoke English, stone dividers for the lagoons in part because Greenpeace right, while people from in which they grow the shrimp, tends to work with grassroots other countries, particu cut the mangroves completely people rather than with those larly those from so the landscape is barren and who have been educated in treeless, and built fences and the U.S. or traveled extensive the Third World, are guard towers to keep the people ly outside Latin America. legitimately concerned of the area away from their tra There were two interpreters about how authority is ditional lands and waterways. assigned to help me, and I had There is an uneasy peace at great fun using my "pidgin" going to treat them. this point but the big compa Spanish to communicate, nies use their power to intimi although th ere were times date the people. Some of the some of the other participants looked The meeting itself was informative fisher people work in the shrimp fac at me as if I'd said something quite and productive. One of the highlights tories handling the harvest. If anyone odd. During the ride a video of the was a trip about twenty of us made to in their own families protests what movie "Alive" was started. The movie the Gulf to meet with the fisher peo the companies are doing, they can be is about a plane crash in the Andes in ple and see the destructive social and fired and blacklisted. Several years which people survive by eating the environmental changes the big farms ago, after a confrontation with a com fl esh of those who had died. We start brought. The pictures reflect some of pany as it moved on to land used by ed making jokes as the bus raced what was seen at the Gulf of Fonseca. the fisher people for generations, two children of one of the protesters were kid napped. The body-the torso actually- of only one child was found. The father still clings to the hope the other child is alive. At the grassroots level in the developin g world, environmental ism and social action are not clean and theoreti cal. There is a direct opposition to powerful Fisherman and families protesting against destruction of traditional way of life Winter 1997 35 interests at that level, and such powerful blowing while we stood around in carrying material to one of the farms. people accustomed to having their own 100 degree tropical sun. They didn't Fortunately the driver listened to my way are too often willing to use govern have a telephone, or at least wouldn't "Alto, por favor" ("stop, please") and mental power or private force to elimi admit to it, and neither did anyone didn't turn me into road-kill on a nate the most troublesome obstacles. else. We sat for an hour or so wonder- Honduran backroad. We negotiated a Many of the Latin American grassroots price of $60 for him to dump his load environmental leaders leave each other, and come back to pick us up and take not with the traditional "adios" but the twenty of us back to the hotel. with "take care" or "be careful." They Payment on delivery. We all climbed know they live on the edge because so up into the back of this huge dump much of what they do involves the truck and rode standing back to direct mobilization of political force and Choluteca. Later I learned this partic does not reflect the abstract debates that ular driver was also the personal characterize so much of environmen bodyguard of the owner of one of the talism. biggest shrimp companies. The trip to the Gulf of Fonseca pro When the meeting was finished, we gressed almost predictably. We were traveled back to the capital, and for traveling on an old low-slung yellow the first time our tires remained school bus about thirty miles from Shanty town, homes for the poor intact. The next day, two of my new the nearest paved road. The day was friends, Anders from Sweden and quite hot and sunny although it later ing what to do while the driver Claudio from Brazil, and I, went out rained more than any day since we shrugged his shoulders. The solution to the airport and boarded our plane arrived. On the way to the first stop is one which a woman from Human to Miami. Claudio actually had the the bus blew a tire so we were two for Rights Watch and I reached. She unexpected pleasure of being the first two. I wasn't surprised when this hap spoke Spanish, so I stepped out in person on the plane because U.S . pened because I had looked at the front of a large dump truck that was immigration had decided he was tires before we left the hotel. Unlike my colleagues, I knew there were large chunks of retread pieces that had already come off, leaving the bare tire exposed. Since we were trav + The eling rutted and stony dirt roads, the surprising part was that only one tire + + Eliza Jennings Group blew out. Nonetheless, we limped onward. The Eliza Jennings Group has provided quality retirement After about six hours of seeing the living and long-term care for over 108 years in the Cleveland conditions and talking with many of area. We offer a wide range of living opportunities, care and the people who were local fishers and services for older adults, including: their families about how the big farms had devastated their way of life and were destroying their indepen • The Eliza Jennings Home dence and dignity, we set out for the A residential nursing home return trip to the hotel. 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The soldiers found this Lakewood, Ohio 441 07 amusing, but of course they could sit (216) 226-5000•FAX: (216) 226-5899 in their shaded building with fans 36 Law Notes planning to sneak into the U.S. when and they are a tailwind even though from a short mountain runway. changing planes in Miami. After we're supposed to take off into the I have made probably three hun spending a week with him, I knew he wind. There are some mountains we dred flights, but this one rates at the was going back to his wife, children, need to miss not too far from the end top of my list as one of the most and job in Portaleza, Brazil. One of the runway so I need to let the intriguing. It brought back some fond thing I found out again is that the memories. I have a favorite uncle world does tend to treat people of who used to take me to watch drag non-U.S. backgrounds differently. racing. This pilot obviously has some Sometimes we fail to realize how of that sport in his background. We good we have it. We possess ingrained began the takeoff by sitting on the attitudes about freedom and the lim runway with the plane's brakes fully its of government power as our natur engaged and the engines being raced al right, while people from other at high speed. The plane surged countries, particularly those from the against the brakes as the engine rpm's Third World, are legitimately con were moving toward their peak. The cerned about how authority is going plane rocked and vibrated and the to treat them. Fisher family's home on salt marsh engines roared as the jet strained to We sat back in our seats and were be released. When the pilot finally forced to wait well over an hour for winds die down a little and then decided to let the brakes go we went the takeoff. Halfway through, the make a try." Two hundred people sud from 0 to 90 in about two seconds, pilot came on the cabin intercom and denly bonded in fear and I told leaving the runway as if shot from a told us, "I'm sorry for the delay but Anders not to forget "Alive". In gun. It .felt like just the right ending we can only take off in one direction another thirty minutes the pilot was for my visit to Honduras. • at this airport. The winds are too high ready for his unorthodox takeoff dperfect For over 50 years we've adhered to the exacting pursuit of perfection. One word at a time. M E H L E r([jrA G E S T R 0 M Court R epor ters . You can take our word . 1750 Midland Building Cleveland, Ohio 44115 216.621.4984 800.822.0650 fax 216.621.0050 1015 Key Building Akron, Ohio 44308 330.535.7300 800.562.7100 fax 330.535.0050 Winter 1997 37 Michael Gareau, Jr. BAR RESULTS Brett Geary George Gibe! hree cheers for the Cleveland-Marshall students who sat for the July 1996 Tammy Gibson TBar Examination! The results were made public in early November: C-M's Ryan Glaze first-time pass rate was an impressive 92%, compared with the entire state Gregory Goodrich pass rate of 87.4%. Ohio State, Capitol, and Cincinnati led the state with 93%, Tony Gorris followed by Cleveland-Marshall 92%, Dayton 91 %, Case Western Reserve David Greulich, Jr. 89%, Toledo 88%, Akron 80%, and Ohio Northern 78%. Congratulations to Kathy Grey the following successful applicants: David Griffin Kenneth Hadzinski Adam Abrahams Sandra DeBalzo Melody Harness Kelly Adelman John Deas Kathleen Harrison Janice Aitken Linda Debernardi Herbert Hotchkiss Thomas Alexander Kathleen Dehaan Kenneth Hubbard Katherine Allen Gina Desiderio Thomas Hunt Donna Andrew Amy Domski Joseph Jacobs, Jr. James Augusta Anne Eisenhower Barbara Jelenic Michael Bahleda Kimrey Elzeer Jennifer Jevack Brett Barragate David Eppstein Linda Johnson Matthew Barrett Michael Ernest Vasile Katsaros James Benedict, Jr. Mary Evard Daniel Katz Steven Birch Brian Fallon Mark Kerenyi Michael Brennan Anna Faraglia Thomas Kilbane Leslie Brown Christine Faranda Joseph King Kevin Burke Anthony Farren Matthew King Paul Capka Shelley Fecik Lisa Kirby Leonard Carr Christopher Feczko Laurie Klopper Judith Cary Maria Flask Mary Ann Kozik Jordan Clouse Ian Frank Frederick Kreiner David Cochran Linda Frazier Jennifer Krutko-Clancy Lorraine Coyne Susan French-Scaggs Philip Lamos Erika Crandall Annjanette Funk Michael Laribee Jillian Davis Anthony Gallucci Jennifer Lawther David Gareau Mark Lay 38 Law Notes Derek Rodstrom Daniel Romaine Laura Roman Michael Ryan Michael Sablack Ann Salek John Salem Rachel Schmelzer Todd Schrader Gregory Scott Mark Shearer Todd Siegel Joseph Simms Nancy Sin Murphy Claudia Skidmore David Skiljan Julie Lewis Vito Smyth Robert Long ]oy Sonnhalter ]ames Lukas Leo Spellacy, Jr. Deborah Mack Susan Stano Ronald Yingling Joseph Madachik Thomas Stefanik, Jr. Brian Zeck Nader Malek Deborah Sterba Rachelle Zidar Robert Malone Anthony Stevenson Wendy Zohar Basil Mangano Mark Stockman And congratulations again as we Joshua Marks Ann Stockmaster hear more good news from Dennis Masarik Bradford Sudyk across the nation: Todd Maugans Steve Tater Illinois Bar: Kevin McGrath Richard Taylor David Arena Louis McMahon Michael Thrasher Selena Castle John McNally Cynthia Trivette Maryland Bar: Lisa Michaels Russell Tye Mary Forness Gregory Millas Jeffrey Underwood Leonard Hackett ]ames Miller Daniel Urban Pennsylvania Bar: Russell Misseldine Michael Villani Gregory Baldwin Robert Moderalli Melissa Watson Bruce Decker Leslie Moore Chris Weatherford Michael Dinneen Colleen Moran Julianne Weintraub Diana Moulton Susan Moran Robin Wilson Jane Murphy Jane Winik Joshua Nathanson Douglas Nelson Aaron Newman Thomas O'Donnell Amy Olsen Robert Patton Nenad Pejic David Perduk Mary Prescott Robert Psaropoulos Michael Quinlan Ellen Quinn Manav Raj John Reagan Maureen Redlin Tracy Regas Tina Repp Darnella Robertson Kenneth Robling Winter 1997 39 Alumni Happenings 1952 Memorial United Methodist Church J. O'Neill Bankruptcy Institute, titled in Pepper Pike, spoke at an Ohio "The Intersection of Bankruptcy and The Honorable Thomas D. Lambros NorthernUniversity chapel service in' Non-Bankruptcy Law: Convergence was honored by having the Federal September. His sermon, "It Matters," or Collision," sponsored by the Building and U.S. Courthouse named was based on Acts 2: 19-26. Cleveland Bar Association and its after him in downtown Youngstown, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Ohio. He has also joined the national CMLAA Life Member Timothy Section. Gibbons, who heads Kahn roster of distinguished neutrals select Kasparek of Reminger & Reminger Kleinman's Bankruptcy and ed to hear and resolve civil matters for Co., L.P.A., spoke at the 99th Annual Creditor's Rights Practice Group, the American Arbitration Association. Convention of the Independent spoke at a session on Ethics. Insurance Agents of Ohio, Inc. in Congratulations to CMLAA Life October regarding "Law and Member Stanley Morganstern on Disorder: Ohio Employer Intentional becoming a grandfather - to not only Tort Liability." one, but four beautiful bundles of joy! His daughter, Lisa Bickel, an attorney in Phoenix, Arizona, gave 1975 birth to quadruplets, 2 boys and 2 CMLAA Honorary Trustee Jose C. girls in July. Stanley reports that all Feliciano, a partner in the Cleveland are doing fine. office of Baker & Hostetler, has been voted Chairman of the Alternative Thomas Kowalski has been elected Dispute Resolution Section of the Councilman-at-Large for Fairview American Bar Association. Dorothea M. Polster Park, Ohio. Lynn A. Lazzaro was elected Dorothea M. Polster, an associate with 1968 President of the Cuyahoga County the Cleveland law firm of Kahn, Bar Association Board of Trustees. Congratulations to CMLAA Past Kleinman, Yanowitz & Arnson Co., His one-year term began in July. President Herbert Palkovitz and his L.P.A., was one of three attorneys wife, Jolan '81, on the birth of their named to conduct a seminar offered as Judge Una Keenon received a $2,000 son, Robert Joseph, in November. part of the National Business Institute's check from Meridia Huron Hospital Herb practices in Cleveland, concen Law Review Series. The seminar was for Keenon's East Cleveland Aid and trating in Family Law, while Jolan is entitled "Fundamentals of Bankruptcy Family Violence Program. The pro the traffic magistrate for the City of Law and Procedure in Ohio." gram was launched eight years ago. Cleveland. CMLAA Past President Richard 1977 1972 Koblentz was elected President of Patricia Vail is serving a one-year Governor George Voinovich has the Board of Trustees of the term as Rule of Law Liaison in appointed Michael L. Climaco to Cleveland Baseball Federation. Almaty, Kazakstan, through the the Board of Trustees of Cleveland American Bar Association Central State University. 1976 and East European Law Initiative (CEELI). 1973 James W. Sanders was appointed 1979 Vice President of Garrison Litigation Management Group, Ltd. in Rochester, N.Y., and was recently admitted to the New York Bar. James Mitchell Brown of Brown and Margolius, LPA, has been appointed Vice Chair of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations' M. Colette Gibbons Economic Justice Committee. M. Colette Gibbons, a principal with the firm of Kahn, Kleinman, Peter N. Kirsanow 1974 Yanowitz & Arnson Co., L.P.A., was a Rev. Don Lefelar, pastor of Garfield featured speaker at the 1996 William Peter N. Kirsanow has joined the 40 Law Notes Alumni Happenings labor and employment group of Co., L.P.A., gave a seminar focusing 1998 biennium. Delta Sigma Theta is Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & on employment discrimination at Aronoff, as of counsel, where his prac the National Lawyers Association tice will remain focused on represent Convention in Chicago, Illinois. ing management in employment liti gation, public and private sector col lective bargaining, NLRB and EEOC proceedings and arbitrations. 1980 Mark R. Greenfield has become Counsel at Robert L. Stark Enterprises, Inc. Marcia Fudge the largest African American CMLAA Board Member Stephen women's public service sorority and Rowan was named Assistant Director Stephen D. Williger is composed of professional women of Development at the Cleveland who have graduated from college Foundation, the nation's oldest com Stephen D. Williger, a partner with and members who are currently munity trust, with assets of more the law firm of Benesch, Friedlander, attending colleges and universities. than $940 million. Coplan & Aronoff, is the author of an article reprinted in the 1997 edi 1984 1981 tion of a college textbook that teach CMLAA Trustee Maribeth Gavin es students how law and ethics apply addressed the topic of "Sexual to the business world. Williger's arti Harassment in the Workplace" in a cle, "Phar-Mor- A Lesson in Fraud," talk given at the Hudson Library. The first appeared in the Wall Street program examined what constitutes Journal in March of 1994. sexual harassment, how to prevent it and what to do about it. 1985 Frederick N. Widen CMLAA Officer Frederick N. Widen, a principal with the Cleveland law firm of Kahn, Kleinman, Yanowitz & Arnson Co., L.P.A ., spoke on "Section 1031 Exchanges" at the Real Estate fames f. Bartolozzi Law Institute presented by the Cleveland Bar Association and its Pamela A. Martin-Markley Real Estate Law Section in November. James]. Bartolozzi, a principal with Kahn, Kleinman, Yanowitz & Arnson 1982 Co., L.P.A ., was a featured speaker at Pamela A. Martin-Markley has the Cleveland Bar Association's joined the U.S . Trust Company of Linda Beebe has relocated her office Business Litigation Seminar titled Florida as Vice President and Legal to the heart of Lakewood near the "Successful Use of Experts in Counsel. Her practice will focus on new City Center, where she will con Business Litigation." Bartolozzi spoke the areas of estate and tax planning. tinue to focus on providing personal on "Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Its service to current clients and to Use and Misuse." Eunice A. Clavner was appointed expand her practice in the areas of Deputy Chair of the Publications elder law, probate practice, family 1983 Committee and Deputy Chair of the law, and estate planning. Business Advice and Financial CMLAA Trustee Marcia Fudge has Planning Committee, both of the been elected President of the Delta Patrick J. Perotti, a partner with the General Practice Section of the law firm of Dworken & Bernstein, Sigma Theta Sorority for the 1996- American Bar Association. Winter 1997 41 Alumni Happenings Russell David Kornblut was an individual who was charged with appointed House Counsel for The threatening to kill the Governor of Leader Mortgage Company. Pennsylvania, as well as threatening • to car-bomb the Erie, Pennsylvania Olivia Bethley Johnson was pro Courthouse. He successfully defended moted to Administrative Officer the individual charged with these and Assistant to the Chairman and crimes based on an insanity defense. CEO of the Nationwide Insurance Enterprise in Columbus. 1991 1987 Erica Eversman Michael Skindell, an associate with Erica Eversman has joined the firm the law firm of Dennis Seaman & of Reminger & Reminger Co., L.P.A. Associates Co., LPA, was elected Chairman for the Citizens Advisory Committee of Lakewood. 1988 Harry Bernstein serves as Vice President of Gil Schwartz Distribut Robert R. Myers, Jr. ing, the Painesville family business which supplied beer for approxi Robert R. Myers, Jr., former Library mately 60,000 people at the Lake Director for Weston Hurd Fallon County Oktoberfest. Paisley & Howley, has joined Arter & Hadden's Cleveland office as Law Rene D. Smith 1989 Librarian. Rene D. Smith has joined the 1993 Cleveland law firm of Kahn, Klein Christopher B. Janezic is a Lobbyist man, Yanowitz & Arnson Co., L.P.A., Associate with NETWORK, a as an associate in the firm's general National Catholic Social Justice litigation area. Lobby working to influence Public Policy in Washington, D.C. NET Following his clerkship in the WORK'S political lobbying goals are Harrisburg Chambers of Senior securing just access to economic Judge Emil Narick of the Common resources, reordering federal budget wealth Court of Pennsylvania, priorities, and transforming global Jonathan W. Kunkel is now Randi Marie Ostry relationships. employed with the Pennsylvania Randi Marie Ostry accepted a posi tion as an Assistant County Prosecu tor in the Appellate Division. She and her husband, Thomas LeHoty, are building a home in the Reserve at Macintosh in Broadview Heights. The Perfect Location ... CMLAA Life Member Diane Cleveland Heights! Close to Cleveland's cultural amenities, as well as to Homolak was recently promoted to downtown, our community also has the Contracts Negotiator with the perfect house for you, whatever your Hewlett-Packard Company. tastes. For a free tour, call the Heights Housing Service at 291-5959. Anthony A. Logue is a member of the law firm of Susmarski, Hain & Cig_VELAND Logue in Erie, Pennsylvania, where HEIGHIS~ his practice concentrates on criminal defense. He recently represented 42 Law Notes Alumni Happenings Department of Corrections as an Department of Porter, Wright, Morris attorney in its litigation department. & Arthur. 1994 David N. DeRoberts has joined the Cleveland office of the law firm of Kathleen Donovan Onders is Cor Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & porate Counsel for Freedom Mortgage Aronoff as an associate with the Corporation in Independence, Ohio. firm's Real Estate Practice Group. Jennifer Weber Blaga, Marketing Director of Arter & Hadden, and her 1996 husband, Nicholas, welcomed their daughter, Mackenzie Alexandra, in September. Lola Johnson recently joined the law firm of Calfee, Halter & Griswold. Congratulations to Jacqueline Svete on her engagement to Bruce Janke, attorneys are disenchanted with M.D. The couple plans to be married Louis L. McMahon Ian H. 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Joy Sonnhalter has joined the firm Equal Opportun~y Employer I MFH Montgomery County, where he is of Reminger & Reminger Co., L.P.A. assigned to the Support Enforcement/Paternity Division of the Prosecutor's Office. Don't Take Your Car To The Airport!!! Save yourself and your clients time, trouble, and luggage hassles. Avoid parking delays and unexpected costs. We offer worry free, fixed fee, 24 hour, door to door service. We'll take you there and bring you back! SHEA UMOUSIN£ COMPANY Phone: (216) 397-3131 Call for more information, Pager: (216) 790-1583 references andfees. Eric F. Spade Also available for business meetings, weddings, Eric F. Spade joined the Litigation and all your special events!!! Winter 1997 43 Faculty & Staff Happenings by Rosa M. DelVecchio, Ph.D. Gordon Beggs spoke on "Laboring Gendered Identity Conference at Under the Sun: An Old Testament Leeds Metropolitan University School Presentations at faculty seminars at Perspective on the Legal Profession" • of Cultural Studies in February. the law school in October included: at the Christian Legal Society meeting Professor Davis published an article, "Pro Bono Experiences and Oppor in September. In October he delivered "It's My Canvas," in Biolaw. tunities at Cleveland-Marshall" by a presentation using excerpts from Beverly Pyle and Jean Lifter, "Rape by the writings of Moses to consider Patricia]. Falk published an article, Fraud" by Patricia Falk, "Introduction some challenges in judging at the "Novel Theories of Criminal Defense to the New Law Library" by Michael Judicial Conference of the Cuyahoga Based Upon the Toxicity of the Social Slinger and Katherine Malmquist, "A County Court of Common Pleas, Environment: Urban Psychosis, Tele Retrospective on New Jersey's Fair General Division, held at Punderson vision Intoxication, and Black Rage," in Share Zoning Saga" by Alan State Park. Mr. Beggs contributed a the North Carolina Law Review, which Weinstein and Dennis Keating. chapter on "Novel Expert Evidence" was reprinted in adapted form in the to the 12TH ANNUAL SECTION 1983 Criminal Practice Law Reporter. Legal Writing Instructors Brian CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION hand Glassman, Sandra Kerber, and book published by Practising Law David Forte published "The Illiberal Beverly Pyle delivered presentations Institute. In November, he spoke on Court" in the National Review in July at the Innovative Teaching Methods issues of law and faith for the and "Eve Without Adam: What session of the Learning from the Christian Law Fellowship at New York Genesis has to Say to America about Disciplines: A Conference for People University School of Law and for the the Natural Law" in the Heritage Who Teach in or Administer Legal Christian Legal Society at the Foundation Lectures in August. Writing Programs, which was spon University of North Carolina School Professor Forte spoke on "The Future sored by the Legal Writing Institute of Law. He also presented a paper of Law" at the Philadelphia Society in and held at Seattle University in July. entitled "The Faith Contribution to Pennsylvania in April and also spoke American Legal Ethics" at a sympo at the Russell Kirk Memorial Lecture Several faculty and staff, including sium on Religion and the Law given at the Heritage Foundation in May. In Paul Carrington, Priscilla Jackson, by the Rothermel Foundation in New September in Washington, D.C., Tayyab Mahmud, and Beverly Pyle, Bern, North Carolina. Mr. Beggs is on Professor Forte spoke on "Justice worked the CSU booth at the African the steering committee of a coalition Thomas, Justice Cardozo and the American Family picnic at Luke Easter of churches and ministries which is Commerce Clause" at the Park in August. working to establish a Christian legal Georgetown University Law School aid program in Cleveland. Federalist Society and on "Islam and Linda Ammons presented a paper on Radicalism" at the Shaybani Society. "Women of Color and Domestic Jason C. Blackford published BUSI Professor Forte delivered the keynote Violence" at the Masquerade and NESS ORGANIZATIONS, a two-vol address, "Think Tanks, Universities, Gendered Identity Conference in ume work, with Banks Baldwin Law and Freedom," at the Buckeye Venice, Italy. In April, Professor Publishing Company. The book pre Foundation Annual Retreat in Ammons was a keynote speaker for sents a practical explanation of the Findlay, Ohio, in October. Professor the United Methodist's 56th Annual various forms in which businesses can Forte delivered two CLE presenta National Convention held in operate. tions: "The 1995-1996 Term of the Cleveland and delivered a presenta Supreme Court" at the National tion entitled "Family Values that Paul Carrington served on the com Lawyers Association in Chicago in Matter." In July, Professor Ammons mittee for the Janet Reno visit in September and "Religion and the participated in the International September and ushered for President Supreme Court" at the Geauga Conference on Law and Society in Clinton's Convocation held in County Bar Association in Chardon, Glasgow, Scotland, where she chaired October at CSU. Ohio, in October. the Gender and Labor Relations panel and presented a paper on "African Dena Davis delivered three presenta Deborah Geier served as Visiting American Women and Battered tions: "Female Genital Mutilation, Professor of Law at the University of Woman's Syndrome." Professor Am Education, and the Child's Right to Michigan Law School for the fall. In mons spent a week in August teach an Open Future" at the International October, Professor Geier participated ing administrative law at the National Conference on Law and Society in in the annual Cleveland Tax Institute, Judicial College in Reno, Nevada. July; "Moral Courage: Resistance to discussing "Redlark v. Commissioner McCarthyism" at the Association of and Highlights of Recent Tax Associate Dean Susan Becker pub Practical and Professional Ethics in Legislation." lished an article, "Being Out and March; and "Devices, Disguises, and Fitting In," in the Journal of Legal Desires: The Jewish Woman as Louis B. Geneva delivered presenta Education. Trickster" at the Masquerade and tions at three Cleveland Bar Associa- 44 Law Notes Faculty & Staff Happenings tion CLE seminars in the fall: For the Can Cure Medicine?," at Cleveland tion of the People's Law School and 1996 Cleveland Tax Institute, he pre Marshall. Professor Gorovitz arranged spoke on Ohio civil pretrial litigation. sented a paper on "Selective Estate a visit to the law school in November Planning Techniques Involving Real by lawyer/journalist Jeffrey Rosen, Dennis Keating co-authored REVI Estate"; for the 1996 Estate Planning who spoke on "Critical Race Theory TALIZING URBAN NEIGHBOR Institute, Professor Geneva presented and the 0. ]. Simpson Case." In HOODS published by University Press a paper on "Selected Practical November, Professor Gorovitz deliv of Kansas. A reception was held in Considerations Under the Final ered the Rhoden Memorial Lecture November to celebrate the publica Generation Skipping Regulations"; "Does Bioethics Have a Future?" at tion of the book. Dean Keating also and for the 1996 Real Estate Law Oberlin College; spoke on "Can published "Cleveland the Comeback Institute, he was part of a three-per Caring Survive in Health Care?" at City: The Politics and Redevelopment son panel on "Estate Planning and the Riverside Hospital in Toledo; and Amidst Decline" in M. Lauria, ed., Tax Strategies for Real Estate delivered a pre- Ownership and Disposition" in which senation on he lead the discussion and was pri "FDA and the marily responsible for "Tax Traps Regulation of For a free three-month Inherent in Funding Revocable Tobacco" at the subscription to our Ohio Trusts" and "Using the Installment American Sale as an Esate Planning Technique." Association of Tax-Free Bond List Professor Geneva was re-elected to a Bioethics in San second three-year term as a trustee of Francisco. Call: BILL .MARCH the Community Fund Management Financial Consultant Foundation, an Ohio non-profit orga Michael P. Roney & Co. Cleveland: (216) 241-1920 nization which helps families with Harvey chaired 1800 East 9th Street Ohio: 1-800-874-7994 disabled members to provide for the the Civil Cleveland, Ohio 44114 U.S.A. : 1-800-321-8190 supplemental needs of the disabled. Litigation sec- Member NYSE, SIPC Visiting Eaker-Hostetler Professor Samuel Gorovitz delivered a presen tation entitled "Some First Draft Thoughts on Legal Education" at the first Law Faculty Seminar for the fall; Professor Gorovitz and Dena Davis organized a monthly bioethics read For nearly a century, ing group for faculty from CSU and a preferred choice in elsewhere. Professor Gorovitz deliv retirement living. ered the Miller Lecture and visited classes in the departments of Philosophy and Biology as well as the Assisted care School of Management at Alfred University in September. In October, • Professor Gorovitz delivered two pre Nursing sentations at Case Western Reserve • University: "Some Emerging Ethical SHARING IN Issues in Health Care: Why You Can't Temporary care Avoid Them and How to Think about CLEVELAND's • Them" at a program on Conver Care for sations in Ethics and "Why Are HERITAGE the memory Doctors Now Prescribing So Many Doses of New Law?" at a joint semi impaired nar by Cleveland-Marshall, Akron and The A.M. McGregor Home CWRU law schools. He delivered the Marting Lecture in Humanities, "Why 14900 Private Drive You Can't Avoid Thinking About (216)-851-8200 Ethics and Shouldn't Want To, Who ever You Are," at Baldwin-Wallace Amasa Stone House iiCMcfiregor College and the Eaker-Hostetler Chair 975 East Boulevard Lecture, "Is Law the Prescription that (216) 451-1884 A DISTINGUISHED RETIREMENT COMMUNITY Winter 1997 45 RECONSTRUCTING REGIME THEO RY with Sage Publications. Arthur R. Landever co-authored "The Uniform Services Former Spouses' Protection Act: A Practition er's Guide" with Michelle Landever Bond '92. The article was published in the American Journal of Family Law. Katherine Malmquist accepted a two-year appointment as the Com mittee News Column Editor for the American Association of Law Libraries' Spectrum news magazine. Ms. Malmquist took a three-week leave during which she participated as a volunteer staff member at the Equestrian venue of the Summer Olympics. In October, Ms . Malmquist attended the Third Annual Northeast Regional Association of Law Libraries Conference in Toronto, Canada. The theme was Libraries Without Borders: Legal Information Partnerships in the 21st Century. Patricia A. McCoy was editor for the 1996 release of BANKS AND THRIFTS: GOVERNMENT ENFORCEMENT AND RECEIVERSHIP, published by Matthew Bender. Kevin O'Neill delivered a lecture on "First Amendment Protection for On the-Air Speech: An Analysis of the Pacifica Case and a Survey of Recent Trends in FCC Enforcement" to CSU student radio station personnel in June. In August, Professor O'Neill lec tured on "Trends Last Term in the Supreme Court's Treatment of Civil Liberties" at the Cleveland law offices of Squire, Sanders and Dempsey. Ellen Quinn reviewed "Mealey's Emerging Insurance Disputes News letter" in Legal Information Alert. Beverly Pyle co-authored the forms volume of BALDWIN'S OHIO PRACTICE CRIMINAL LAW set with John Pyle. Laura Ray received a "Partners in Progress" award from the Northeastern Ohio Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. This award was 46 Law Notes presented to Ms. Ray at the hole. In October, Professor Werber IN MEMORIAM Foundation's Annual Meeting in spoke on Constitutional Concerns at appreciation of her advocacy and the CMLAA-CLE Program: A Practical Anna Kumin '20 government affairs volunteer work Guide to House Bill 350: Tort Reform. Michael R. Steibel '29 with the Chapter on Government Adrian Medert '33 Affairs Committee of the Ohio Frederic White was inducted as Charles G. Beach '38 Council of Arthritis Foundation Honorary life member of the CSU Phi Hon. John L. Maxwell'43 Chapters. Alpha National Social Work Honor John R. Barber '54 Society in December. Dean White was Professor Jack F. Smith '57 Alan Miles Ruben published revi honored at a bar passage celebration Reidar Seaholm '58 sions of "State Limited Liability held by the Black Law Student Joseph J. Kosar '60 Association and LCOP students and Leo C. DiEgidio '65 Company Laws" and "State Limited Ralph G. Brooks, Jr. '66 Partnership Laws" in the Ohio alumni in Reporter. November. Michael J. Slinger published an arti If You Want Your Depositions cle entitled "Mike and Jim's Excellent New York Adventure" in the Law Accurate and Fast Library Journal. Call Susan Talton Bae Smith participated on the Merit Reporting Services Advisory Board of a new legal acquisi Registered Professional Reporters tions product called "Bookscope." Complete Software Capabilities David Snyder participated in drafting 327 The Arcade Phone: (216) 781-7120 sessions of the committee revising Uniform Commercial Code Article Cleveland, OH 44114 Fax: (216) 781-7335 2A-Leases. Steven H. Steinglass was a faculty member at a Federal Judicial Center Workshop for Federal Judges from the A D v A N T A G E Sixth and Eight Circuit in Michigan in August. Dean Steinglass delivered a We analyze the strengths & weaknesses of your case presentation on "Recent Sixth Circuit and advise you of the opportunities. Decisions" to about forty fe deral judges. p Alan Weinstein published "Revisiting E X E R E N c E the National Flood Insurance Program" in LAND USE LAW & ZON Business valuations Analysis of financial ING DIGEST, and he delivered a pre Damage analysis statements and data sentation on "Zoning for an Aging Earnings losses Partnership and shareholder Population" at the Ohio Planning Bankruptcy disputes Conference Zoning Workshop" in Insurance claims Breach of contract Independence, Ohio, in November. Professor Weinstein was re-elected to a second term on the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Planning Contact Scott Finerman, CPA, JD or Andy Finger, CPA Conference. at 579-1040 to discuss your case at no cost or obligation. Stephen J. Werber participated in the Housing Advocates, Inc., Golf Scramble tournament in September and won the closest to the pin prize for his nine iron shot to the par three Cleveland • Youngstown • Akron • Mentor • Lorain County seventh hole at Tanglewood, stopping the ball just five feet from the little Winter 1997 47 ALUMNI OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES William T. Plesec '71 Ann T. Mannen '80 Ofti. cers Laurence]. Powers '87 Hon. John Manos '50 . President Maria E. Quinn '79 Gary J. Maxwell '88 Deborah L. Hiller '7 5 Stephen Rowan '80 Daniel R. McCarthy '54 President-Elect Peter Russell '93 J. Timothy McCormack '72 Tina E. Wecksler '85 Charles Ruiz-Bueno '90 Hon. Timothy]. McGinty '81 1st Vice President Michelle J. Sheehan '93 Hon. Ann McManamon '50 Frederick N. Widen '81 Melody J. Stewart '88 Hon. George McMonagle '30 2nd Vice President Richard P. Stovsky '83 Howard Mishkind 'EO Laura A. Williams '82 Marc Strauss '86 William T. Monroe '53 Secretary ]ames R. Tanner '91 Karen B. Newborn '76 David Ross '76 James Tavens '86 Hon. Donald C. Nugent '74 Treasurer joseph Tegreene '84 Michael O'Grady '79 Joseph B. Jerome '75 Elame Walton '93 Herbert Palkovitz '68 Immediate Past President Hon. John T. Patton '58 Scott C. Finerman '87 Honorary Trustees Hon. Ralph J. Perk, Jr. '83 Hon. Anthony 0 . Calabrese, Jr. '61 Leon M. Plevin '57 Trustees Thomas L. Colaluca '78 Hon. Thomas J. Pokorny '80 Deborah Akers '76 Hon. John E. Corrigan '68 Dale D. Powers '60 Richard J. Ambrose '87 Hon. Timothy G. Cotner '68 Richard T. Reminger '57 janet Burney '79 Hon. John J. Donnell>;: '69 Timothy J. Russert '76 Gregory F. Clifford '81 Hon. Ann K. Dyke 68 Hon. Anthony J. Russo '77 Midiael L. Climaco '72 Jose Feliciano '75 Scott Spero '89 Mary Llamas Courtney '78 Hon. Robert A. Ferreri '79 Carl L. Stern '66 William J. Day '79 Hon. Stanley M. Fisher '50 Hon. Louis Stokes '53 JayS. Ehle '75 Hon. Timothy Flanagan '71 Hon. Kathleen A. Sutula '7 6 Marcia L. Fudge '83 Hon. John W. 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