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Boston College Law School Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School Sui Juris Law School Archive 5-1-1961 Sui Juris, volume 05, number 06 Boston College Law School. Student Bar Association Follow this and additional works at: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/suijuris Part of the Legal Education Commons, and the Legal History, Theory and Process Commons Recommended Citation Boston College Law School. Student Bar Association, "Sui Juris, volume 05, number 06" (1961). Sui Juris. Book 17. http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/suijuris/17 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Archive at Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sui Juris by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 5, No.6 HOST'ON ' COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL May 1961 LAW R~VI~W APPOINTS ~DITORS, ROB~RT MARTIN TO H~AD BOARD The Boston College Commercial and and has represented the Class of 1962 Industrial Law Review has announced in the S.B .A. Upon completion of his its edi torial appointments for 1961-62. first year at Law School he waS awarded The incumbent Board of Editors has a scholarship for his academic rank, chosen Mr. Robert]. Martin as Editor­ During the summer Mr. Martin will be in-Chief. Mr. Martin was graduated in associated with the law firm of Palmer, 1958 from Holy Cross College with a Dodge, Gardner & Bradford. Bachelor of Arts Degree in the Pre­ The remaining Editorial Posts will be Medical co urse. While in college he filled by: Paul Garrity - Legislation was a member of the staffs of the news­ Editor, a graduate of Boston College paper and radio station and also was a and a resident of Jamaica Plain; Rich­ m e mb~r of the Senior Class Co un cil. ard T. Colman - Article and Book Re­ After a year of graduate study in His­ view Editor, a graduate of Notre Dame tory at Boston College, Mr. Martin en­ and a resident of Dorchester; Carroll t~red the Law School in 1959. While Dubuc - Research Editor, a graduate at Boston College Law School he has of Cornell and a resident of Burlington, participated in the Moot Court program (Continued on Page Five) PA Ul~ DELANEY SB64 Pres. SUZANNE LATAIF Treas. New Editors of SUI JURIS are (left to right): Walter L. Murphy, News Editor; l. Richard LeClair. Feature Editor; John Walkey, Business Monager; Wi/I ;am E. Thp- election committee of the Stu­ Trea.surer but un like t.he g,bove-J'"' ~p ­ dent 'Llar Association, -as appoin Led by tioned results, Sue LaTaif, an Alumna White, Editor-in-Chief. Ronald R. Popeo, S.B.A. President, of the College of St. Elizabeth of N. J. under chairmanship of Joseph A. War­ won by a wide margin. SUI JURIS SELECTS ner recently announced the results of Richard W. Hynes gained a victory the May 10th election of officers of that in the race for Secretary in an uncon­ NEW EDITORIAL BOARD organization of the Boston College Law tested election and triumphed conclu­ School for the coming school year. sively. Mr. Hynes, son of the fo rmer The Board of Governors of the Student Bar Association has approved the ap­ In a hotly-contested presidential cam­ Mayor of Boston, attended the Univer­ pointment of William E. White, Jr. as the new Editor-in-Chief of SUI J URIS . Mr. paign, Paul Delaney, II-Day, came out sity of Notre Dame and is a graduate White, from Fall River, Mass., is a graduate of Providence College '59. At Provi­ on top. Mr. Delaney graduated from of Harvard College where he received dence he was a member of the Editorial Board of the college newspaper and severa! Maryknoll College in 1956 where he an A.B. degree in 1959. He served in other campus organizations. An active leader in the field of intercollegiate debating, earned his A.B. degree. After gradua­ the office of secretary of the St. Thomas Mr. White received the Lacordaire tion he was employed for two years with More Society during the present school Award in 1958 'for outstanding achieve­ the W. T. Grant Co. with whom he year. ment in this area, and was a member of CONCANNON HEADS served as assistant manager in various In the other uncontested race, John the Providence team that captured a ' FORUM OFFICERS stores throughout his home state of L. Sliney, III-Evening, was elected Vice national tournament championship and Connecticut. President of the organization. Mr. At the last meeting of the Board of several New England awards in the fo l­ In the only other contested race, an­ Sliney is a graduate of Yale University Governors, Brian E. Concannon was ap­ other resident of Conn. became the new and is a resident of Watertown. lowing year. At B.C. Law School he has pointed President of the Law School participated in the Moot Court Pro­ Forum. SBA President Ronald Popeo gram for two years and is a member of made the appointment after Mr. Con­ the Forum. cannon's name had been unanimously Mr. White has appointed Walter L. suggested by the members of the Fo­ Murphy, Richard LeClair and John rum. Mr. Concannon received an A.B. , Walkey to his Editorial Board which cum laude, from Boston College in 1956 where he was Junior Class Presi­ will not be brought to full strength un­ dent and Commencement Orator. The til further positions are fi lled next fall. new Forum President immediately ap­ Walter L. Murphy, of Milton, is pointed Ronald Fishbein and M. Don­ News Editor. A graduate of Holy Cross ald Cardwell as Vice-presidents. College; he was a Dean's List student Mr. Fishbein, who will be in charge of and a member of the varsity track team the Morning Program, received an A.B. at Holy Cross. from Brandeis University in 1954, an Richard LeClair, of Newton, is Fea­ M.S. from the University of Vermont in 1956 and served as a research asso­ ture Editor. He received his B.S. at ciate in Pharmacology at Tufts Medi­ Holy Cross where he was a Dean's List cal School. student. Mr. Cardwell, who will be directly John Walkey, of Hanson, Mass., is a responsible for the Evening Program, graduate ,of the University of Massa­ received a B.A. from Trinity College in chusetts. He is a member of the first 1957 after preparatory wo rk at Phillips year class and is a presidential scholar Andover Academy, and was an area ad­ here at the Law School. juster for the Travelers Insurance Com­ pany. All of the appointees have been work­ The Forum is now reorganized to ing on SUI J URIS during the course of provide clear lines of responsibility in this year and have already been per­ an effort to achieve increasingly better Newly elected officers of the Student Bar Association are (left to right): forming their new duties for the past programs for the benefit of the Law Suzanne LaTaif, Treasurer; Paul Delaney, President; Richard Hynes, Secretary. ) few months. School and the community, John Sliney, Vice-President Elect, was not present. Page 2 Sui Juris EDITORIALS SBA PRESIDENT MAKE,S OF CABBAGES AND KINGS FINAL REPORT Attendance at the monthly meetings of the S.B.A. Board of Governors should be a required course of study for all first year students. Perhaps if By Ronald Popeo they have the opportunity to see some of their esteemed officers in operation With the school year rapidly coming to a close the time has arrived to evaluate during one of these meetings they will gain a valuable insight into the func­ the performance of the Student Bar Association so one may determine whether or tioning of this school. After such an experience, few will wonder at the high not, this year, the Association has fulfilled its purpose and justified its existence. regard this organization commands among the administration officials. We are The purpose of the Student Bar Association is to advance the ideals and objectives treated elsewhere in these pages to a report by the President of this organiza­ of Boston College; to further the high academic standards of the Law School; to tion in which he outlines the so-called accomplishments and ambitions of this coordinate the activities of the student body ; to facilitate unity among faculty, group. What should have been included in this report is a transcript of each students, and alumni; and to cooperate with national, state and local bar associa­ of these meetings. It would probably have provided hours of entertainment tions and with other law schools within the American Law Student Association. for those weary of study in the library. In the area of student activities the Student Bar Association has performed ad­ The aims and motives of the officers of the association a:'e, generally speak­ mirably. The Sui Juris, which last September was of questionable value and sig­ ing, not to be impugned. And surely, the goals of the k ;sociation are most nificance to the student body has become a desirable and worthwhile publication. worthy ones. But when these twenty-three men sit dowr, to deliberate upon Student contribution has improved in quality and increased in quantity. The con­ the momentous problems which face the students there follows a spectacle clusion is inevitable: Jeremiah Mahoney has been a fine editor. which would rival even the most hilariously-contrived passages from Lewis The law forum got off to a slow start.

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