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The Advocate Student Publications Fordham Law School FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History The Advocate Student Publications 4-6-1972 The Advocate The Advocate, Fordham Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/student_the_advocate Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation The Advocate, Fordham Law School, "The Advocate" (1972). The Advocate. Book 36. http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/student_the_advocate/36 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Advocate by an authorized administrator of FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact [email protected]. vocate The Siudent Newspaper 0/ Fordham University School 0/ Law Vol. IV - No.6 NEW YORK, N. Y. April 6, 1972 P"rof. McAniff Wins 1972"Keefe Award On March 7th, the Student Bar termined the selection of Prof for the Emigrant Industrial Sav­ Association Board of Governors McAniff as recipient of this year's ings Bank and finally in 1953 he selected Professor John E. Mc­ award were his consummate teach­ began teaching full time at the Aniff as winner of the 1972 Keefe ing ability, his more-than-a-quar­ Law School. He held this pOSItion A ward For Outstanding Contri­ ter-of-a-century dedication to the until 1958, when he divided his bution to the Law School. Pro­ Law School, and his enthusiastic _ time, while teaching at Fordham, f essor McAniff is the fifth re­ concern for law and law students. with the firm of McCann, Liss, cipient of this coveted award, No list of factors would be com­ and Early. In 1968, when this firm which is presented annually }n plete, however, without mention of was dissolved, he became a mem­ a formal ceremony at graduation. his undaunted lightness of spirit ber of Monaghan and Walsh, where The Keefe Award, named after and ever-ready wit. These latter he is - as can be expected - the Prof. Keefe, who taught at the qualities, particularly, single him expert on Wills, Trusts, Real Law School for many years, was out as a teacher of eminent dis­ Estate, and - a course he has first offered in 1967 and consti­ tinction and a man of genuine yet to teach at the Law School - tutes the highest recognition that warmth. Securities. can be given by the students. It Professor McAniff's association A BUSIy Professor represents the most significant with Fordham is a long one. After honor that can be bestowed upon graduating from Regis High During this time, Professor Mc­ a man whose contribution to the School, he attended Fordham Col­ Aniff found the opportunity to Law School has merited the deep­ lege, where he remembers two of get married and raise three chil­ est respect and most profound the finest teachers he ever had: dren. He also became the grand­ sense of gratitude. Fr. Joseph "Whitesocks" Murphy father of eight. His son, Richard, Keefe Award recipient Profesesor .John E. McAniff attended N Y.U. Law School on Among the factors which de- / and Fr. Robert I. Gannon, who later became the well-known pres­ a scholarship and practices law ident of the University. Two years in Los Angeles. His first daugh­ Solleder Disp,utes Placement Report after receiving his diploma, he ter, Mary, works in N.Y.C. in gov­ was asked on short notice to in­ ernment and business research and B, ALLEN P. KAREN struct a Latin class in Horace and his other daughter, Ann, lives out­ side of Philadelphia, taking care A New York Tiines article dated ment had been placed. She claimed that was given to him in confi­ managed to get through a hun­ of her husband and children. March 14, 1972 revealed the per­ that she had eighty-seven place­ dence. She closed by saying, "I dred lines a day, not having re­ . As the adage says: it is the busy centages of third year law stu­ ment cards of seniors in he files. consider your actions a serious viewed the material for a num­ dents who allegedly found jobs as (there are 237 students in the breach of courtesy and confid­ ber of years. He recalls this as a man who has time. Professor Mc­ of February 29, 1972, as reported grad uating class) . Dean Solleder ence." memorable experience. Aniff attends every school dance; in a study released by Columbia contended that the number of Dean Solleder admitted to us he attends every annual and Law School. The study was com­ cards on file reflected a smaller that she acted imprudently in dis­ Early Assignment monthly luncheon of the Alumni Association and he attends every piled by Columbia Law School's percentage of students with jobs closing the card count to Maltby. Professor McAniff's cram course Placement Director, Howard F. then is actually the case, as some She questioned the worth of dis­ commencement. He likes to see in Latin was to prepare him ad­ the product of his work. Maltby and released by Columbia students who have secured em­ cussions with placement directors mirably well for his first assign­ Much can be said of this pro­ Dean Michael Sovern, and it pur­ ployment have not filled out place­ of other law schools, stating that, ment in the Law School. In 1945, fessor. Certainly, he is an out­ ported to give the individual ~ta­ ment cards. "I personally don't believe in get­ he was asked to teach a summer spoken advocate -of integrity. He tistics for all law schools located ting together with the competi­ session course in Trusts, which states: "The more the accidentals in New York City. Report Background tion." consisted of a full year's work to The report stated that employ­ be taught in two months. This change, the more the essentials · The Advocate investigated the ment prospects were still "very was another stimulating experi­ remain the same. These essentials circumstances surrounding the dis­ good" for graduates of prominent ence. The following year, he took include the character, honesty, and law school such as Columbia, but puted report and has compiied the McCallion integrity of the lawyer." He says following chronology of events; the place of Professor Carroll and were less than promising for stu­ continued to teach Trusts, grad­ further that "there is some talk Howard Maltby, Columbia's Plaee­ dents in "local" schools such as New Alumni ually including in his schedule of inflexibility as regards these ment Director, phoned Dean Solle­ Fordham. The report classified Real Property, Conflicts, and essentials. He adds emphatically: der on March 2, prior to a Bar Columbia, Harvard and Yale as Damages. During this time, he "There should be more of it." He Association meeting of law school President national law schools while describ­ maintained his position as counsel claims that what Judge Cardozo ing Fordham, Brooklyn · and St. placement directors at which var­ Harry J. McCallion, Vice-Presi­ (in Meinhard 249 N.Y. 458) says John's as "local." NYU Law School ious placement techniques were dent and General Counsel of the about fiduciaries should also be was characterized as being both discussed. According to Dean Sol­ New York Life Insurance Com­ applied to lawyers. national and local. leder, Maltby stated to her that he pany, was elected President of the Absolute Integrity wanted an approximation of Ford­ Fordham Law School Alumni As­ , Percentages Claimed ham's placement statistics merely sociation at the annual luncheon ON THE INSIDE "Regarding the essentials, there Fordham, whose placement of­ to aid the upcoming Bar Associa­ held at the Waldorf-Astoria. Mr. should be 'uncompromising rigid­ fice strongly disputed the survey's tion dicussion, and at no time did McCallion is a former Chairman ity.' And this 'should not be un­ findings as did the placement of­ he indicate that the statistics of the Executive Committe of the dermined by the disintegrating fices of NYU and Brooklyn Law would be publicly disclosed. Association of the Bar of the City Editorials 2 erosion of particular exceptions.' '' School, was shown to have the Dean Solleder gave Maltby a of New York and is now Vice­ When asked what makes a lowest percentage of graduates quick count of the cards on file President of that Association. He Letters .. .. 2 teacher great, he remarks simply: placed in jobs. The study dis­ and from th;;lt figure Maltby osten­ is also a former President of the "the ability to convey clear ideas." closed the percentages of seniors sibly computed the percentage that Association of Life Insurance Karen on Nixon 3 Showing his respect and gratitude who had procured positions as was revealed in the report. When Counsel, and a former National for his students, he quotes the line follows: Columbia - 66%; Har­ The Advocate checked the Place­ Chairman of the Fordham Uni­ Dean McLaughlin 3 from the "King and I": "By your vard - 64 %; Yale - 53 % ; New ment Office files on March 15, we versity Alumni Federation. Com­ pupils you are taught. They are York University - 28.4 % ; Brook­ found that there were 35 cards in menting upon his election, Mr. Mc­ Assemblyman Hynes 3 my inspiration." lyn - 25%; St. John's - 17.2% ; the file. Dividing that number by Callion stated, "I swept the prim­ As students we can only be Fordham - 14%. 237, the number of senior stu­ aries, so the election was a mere Robbins on Opera 4 humbled by such a compliment. dents, we arrive at the 14% figure formality." Mr.
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