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Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU Law Notes School Publications Fall 1996 1996 Vol.4 No.3 Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/lawpublications_lawnotes How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! Recommended Citation Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, "1996 Vol.4 No.3" (1996). Law Notes. 43. https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/lawpublications_lawnotes/43 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the School Publications at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Law Notes by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume 4 · Issue 3 Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association News N 0 T E S Etch A Sketch® Tribute to Cleveland-Marshall Centennial by George Vlosich ITT President's Letter Dear Fellow Alumni, Since my last letter to you, the Association has been actively monitoring the situation involving the Ohio Board, of Regents' law school funding proposal. Many of you have responded to the news of the planned funding cuts for Cleveland-Marshall by writing and calling your legislators and the Governor. These efforts are deeply appreciated. I feel c·onfident that we will ultimately prevail i!J. our fight, but each and every letter we send to the legislature expressing our support for our law school is vital. So, until the funding cuts have been restored, please keep those letters coming. · · With the beginning of the new school year, the Association's activities likewise kick , into high gear. Our reunion program has been growfng every year, and we are anticipating . that this Reunion"Weekend will be bigger than ever. The Class of 1986 is gathering at the Wyndham Hotel ·on Playhouse Square, on Friday evening, October 18 ~ while the Classes of . 1946, 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966, 197J, 1976, and 1981 will hold a joint reunion at the Renaissance Cleveland (formerly Stouffer's on Public Square) on Saturday evening, October 19. For those of you who have not had the chance to make a past reunion, I can guarantee you that you will have a great time, whether it's a single class reunion or joint reunion. I know many people use the Annual Recognition Luncheon as a way to get together with fopner classmates, but reunions are a different experience entirely. There is always someone froin your.class who has come a great distance to see old classmates, and the reunions are one of the few time~ that you again get to see your classmates' spouses. It's also a wonderful opportunity to reflect OI). wha~ Cleveland-Marshall niade possible for us. If, by some chance, you are a member of one of the classes holding a reunion this O.ctober, and you haven't yet received your invitati~:m, please telephone Mary McKenna at the Alu~ni office (687-2368) as soon as possible. _ _ You undoubtedly qave read_elsewhere in this magazine about the Centennial celebra tion beginning this month. In addition to the 1ectu.res and other substantive events1 the Association will be working with the Law School on a gala, to come at the end of the Centennial Year, to celebrate our school's rich tradition. More details about those events 'will Iollow in future Law Notes. Sincerely, DEBORAH LEWIS HILLER Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association News-Fall1996 About the cover artist: Law Notes enters the realm of Pop Art with Lakewood High school artist, honor student, varsity baseball and basketball N 0 T E S player George Vlosich III's tribute to the Cleveland-Marshall Centennial. George's Etch A Sketch® wizardry has been featured on programs on CNN, CBN's Family Channel, NBC, NBC Inside Stuff, Beckett and in Sports Illustrated for Kids. CONTENTS A number of his portraits of sports 3 personalities are part of the permanent Dean's Column collection of the Akron Children 's 5 Hospital, and this summer his pen and CLE Calendar ink drawing of Cleveland's Justice Center was one of 250 district winners through 6 out the country in a Congressional art Annual Recognition Luncheon contest. Vince Norwillo of the law firm 8 of Duvin, Cahn and Hutton has assisted Weiss Family the young artist in promoting his work. 11 Interim Dean Steven Steinglass 14 Volume 4, Number 3 Fall1996 Life Members Editor: 17 Mary McKenna A Centennial Feature: The Cleveland Law School1897-1927 Associate Editor: Louise F. Mooney 32 Graphic Design: New Faculty Szilagyi & Szilagyi Printer: 37 Legal News Publishing Company Alumni Happenings Photo Credits: Steve Zorc, Dianne Steinglass, 42 Don Philabaum & Joel Finer & William Rieter Faculty Staff Happenings We hope you enjoy this new issue of Law Notes and ask that you continue to contribute and respond to information in this and future issues of Law Notes. Special thanks to Leon M. Plevin '57, Donald F. Traci '55, Susan L. Grage! '80, Daniel R. McCarthy '54 and Sheldon Sager for their commitment in support of this publication. Special thanks to Rosa DelVecchio and Jayne Geneva for their assistance. The CMLAA Board of Trustees is dedicated to serving the alumni, students, faculty and staff 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 Fa/11996 For more information contact Marge Carlson, Director of Development (216)861-3810 The Cleveland Foundation • 1422 Euclid Avenue, Suite 1400 • Cleveland, OH 44115-2001 • (216)861-1729 Fax Dean's Column by Interim Dean Steven H. Steinglass his is my first Law Notes column count on your presence, as always. and Professional Education. None of as Interim Dean of Cleveland At this juncture of the old and new, these groups suggested any reduction TMarshall College of Law. I am at a time when I should have nothing in funding for legal education in Ohio. honored to serve the law school where but good news to report, it is unfortu Despite the findings of its own experts, I have taught since 1980, and I hope nate that I must couple our grand plans on July 11 , 1996, the Board of Regents to do as well by this school as my pre for the coming year with bad news. unanimously approved a plan that decessor, Steven R. Smith, who since On the eve of our Centennial, we seeks to reduce state funding for legal the end of June has been Presi education by almost $2 million dent and Dean of California West annually. ern School of Law. To achieve its goal, the Board When the doors of our law of Regents voted to lower the ex school opened in the middle of isting legislative cap on the num August, they opened on the 99th ber of law students for whom the anniversary of the 1897 founding law schools may receive state of one of our predecessor schools, funding. The Board also tied state the Cleveland Law School. Thus, funding to academic criteria for as Interim Dean, I will be bridg admission, i.e., undergraduate ing not only the time between grade point average (GPA) and two deans but also the time be Law School Admission Test tween the end of the College's (LSAT) scores. first century and the beginning of The reduction in state funds its second century of educating will deny Cleveland-Marshall the men and women in law. ability to maintain a strong part The year leading up to our time division and a strong full one-hundredth birthday and our time division, both of which are actual centenary in 1997 are full essential parts of our history and of promise and expectation. Our mission. Centennial begins this September with find our school's second century threat Although we use LSAT scores as the arrival of our invited Centennial ened by a propo a! of the Ohio Board part of the admissions process, tying Inauguration Speaker, the Honorable of Regents that would compromise our state funding to median LSAT scores Janet Reno, Attorney General of the historic mission of opening wide the undercuts our ability to consider fully United States; it will continue into doors of law school to worthy students the credentials of our applicants. This October when we honor our alumni from diverse backgrounds. As the state's proposal adopts an elitist approach for and alumnae judges. Before the year is oldest night law school, the first to ad determining who may attend law over, we will have presented Centen mit women and one of the first to ad school and is scorned by persons as nial seminars, programs, receptions, mit minorities, we find it ironic that knowledgeable as Philip D. Shelton, Ex hard-hat tours of the library construc the agency that should be our greatest ecutive Director of the Law School Ad tion site, and many other events to ally- the Board of Regents-is, instead, missions Council, the agency that ad mark our school's contribution to the ready to strike at those students whom ministers the test. The plan creates city, state, and profession. Then, in the we have served the best, those men and strong fiscal incentives to admit only fa ll of 199 7, the faculty and staff of women who are underrepresented in those who score well on one morning's Cleveland-Marshall will have the privi other law schools and in the profession. standardized test and threatens Cleve lege of inviting all of you to join in a In late 1995 as part of its review of land-Marshall's ability to provide broad genuinely historic moment for our law graduate and professional education, opportunity to the future lawyers, school, the opening of our new law li the Ohio Board of Regents undertook judges, business persons, and public ser brary, an event that would not have an examination of Ohio's five public va nts of this region.