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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
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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. come to pass without the help and sup law schools. The Board relied on a User/ Sadly, the Board directed virtually port of so many of our graduates. You Constituent Panel, a Review Panel of all of the cuts at the three northern will be advised well in advance of the national legal experts, and the CommH Ohio law schools with part-time divi times and places of all these events. We tee on State Investment in Graduate sions, and our law school, with the larg-
Fa/11996 3 est enrollment in the state, will suffer indignation to our representatives in legal education and to the legal profes disproportionately from the Board's state government. I hope you will join sion. I know our school's future is se proposed action. with them by contacting Govern'or cure because I know Cleveland-Marshall If the Ohio General Assembly ap George V. Voinovich, The Vern Riffe can count on its graduates who have proves the Board's plan, Cleveland Center, 77 S. High Street, 30th Floor, never failed us in times of crisis. I, there Marshall will lose state funding for at Columbus, Ohio 43215. You may also fore, look forward to the excitement of least one-sixth of our students. This contact your representatives in the the Centennial, and I look forward to a reduction, which would be phased-in Ohio General Assembly at these ad productive period and a productive re over a three-year period beginning in dresses: The Ohio Senate, State House, lationship with the law school's great the fall of 1998, will deny our College Columbus, Ohio 43266-0604; The est resource, our alumni and alumnae. state funds for about SO new law stu Ohio House of Representatives, State • dents per year (or for about 150 law stu House, Colum- dents when the plan is fully imple bus, Ohio 43266- mented). The plan is thus a serious as 0603. For personal investments and sault on the funding of this law school. In closing, I individual or corporate retirement plans If Cleveland-Marshall shrinks to the hasten to say that Call: size anticipated by the Board of Re as serious as this gents, we will lose between $1.5 and situation is, I am Bill March $2 million per year, depending on the confident in the Financial Consultant median GPA/LSAT scores of our incom future, in a sec ing class. ond century of Roney & Co. Cleveland: (216) 241-1920 Any signifi<;ant reduction in fund Cleveland 1800 East 9th Street Ohio: 1-800-874-7994 ing for Cleveland-Marshall will interfere Marshall's special Cleveland, Ohio 44114 U.S.A: 1-800-321-8190 with our historic mission of providing contributions to access to the legal profession to all mem bers of the greater Cleveland commu nity, including members of minority communities. Cleveland-Marshall edu + The cates more African-American law stu + + Eliza Jennings Group dents than any Ohio law school and has been a leader in providing opportunity The Eliza Jennings Group has provided quality retirement for persons from all backgrounds to en living and long-term care for over 108 years in the Cleveland ter the legal profession. area. We offer a wide range of living opportunities, care and To prepare law students for the services for older adults, including: modern practice of law, this law school needs more, not less, funding. A Cleve • The Eliza Jennings Home land-Marshall legal education is char acterized by small classes, including A residential nursing home trial advocacy and alternative dispute • Jennings Place resolution courses, four clinical pro A residential assisted living and Alzheimer's care facility grams, an extremely successful Moot • The Renaissance Court Program, two student-edited law journals, an effective legal writing pro An award-winning, CCAC-accredited Continuing Care gram, nationally recognized health care Retirement Community and international law programs, and a For more information about any of our facilities, please call faculty committed to excellent teach (216) 226-5000 and speak with a member of our Marketing ing, cutting-edge scholarship, and pub lic service. Any significant reduction in Department. funding will have an adverse impact on The Eliza Jennings Group the quality of our educational program. 14650 Detroit Avenue, Suite 710 The Board of Regents' proposal has Lakewood, Ohio 44107 enraged a number of our most influen (216) 226-5000•FAX: (216) 226-5899 tial supporters who have voiced their
4 Law Notes FAll 1996 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
September 21 Sentencing Act October 5 Tort Reform October 19 Business Entity November 2 Litigation Essentials November 9 Insurance Law November 23 Ethics & Substance Abuse December 7 Family Law December 14 Elder Law December 14 Ethics & Substance Abuse (1:00 P.M.)
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L------~Fall 1996 5 THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SALUTES THE HONORABLE PATRICIA ANN BLACKMON AND THE HONORABLE JAMES j. SWEENEY
very year the Cleveland-Marshall James J. Sweeney '73. Over 800 Gelman for the second year in a row. Law Alumni Association honors friends, family members and alumni He is the first professor to earn this dis Etwo graduates whose contribu attended the May 23 luncheon in the tinction in two successive years. The tions to the profession reflect m ost Grand Ball room of the Renaissance Association presented its Presidents' clearly the best attributes of a Cleve Hotel. Award to Interim Dean Steven H. land-Marshall education. This year the The Law Alumni Association also Steinglass in ac-knowledgement of Association celebrated the lives and uses this occasion to recognize the outstanding service to the alumni, fac achievements of Ohio Court of Com scholarly achievements of faculty mem ulty and students of the College of Law. mon Pleas Judge, the Honorable bers thro ugh presentation of the Patricia A. Blackmon ' 75, and Howard Oleck Award. This year the As Cuyahoga County Court of Common sociation gave its Howard Oleck Writ Pleas Presiding Judge, the Honorable ing Award to Professor of Law Sheldon
Dean Steven Steinglass and Deborah Lewis Hiller
fudge Patricia Ann Blackmon and fudge Ann Aldrich
Chuck Webster and fudge fames f. Sweeney
6 Law Notes Michael Kelley, Michael Climaco and Jo e Jerome
Judges Christine and Timothy McMonagle, Vince Lombardo and Donna Andrew
Judge Thomas Pokorny, Lynn Arko Kelley, Judge Harry Jaffe and Howard Mishkind
Fall 1996 7 Weiss at the close of her second year of THREE WEISS LAWYERS: law school was fifth among 176 stu dents in her class. Four summers ago ONE LAW SCHOOL she worked for the Ohio Attorney General's office in Cleveland; three years ago she spent her summer in hree generations of the Weiss semester, promising himself he would Washington, D.C., as a Chief of Staff family have attended Cleveland never set foot in a law school again. The Intern for the Democratic National T Marshall College of Law: Joseph second semester he was back to stay, Committee. Through most of the 1995 H. Weiss, Sr. '36, Joseph H. Weiss Jr. graduating in 1970. Now an attorney in school year, she clerked for Nancy '70 and Wendy Lee Weiss who is be private practice in Chesterland, mem Schuster '68, and this summer she was ginning her third year of law school. ber of the Geauga Board of Elections, a summer associate at Jones Day. At the request of Mary McKenna, Ex and former Chair of the Geauga County Three years ago Wendy was con ecutive Director of the Cleveland Democratic Party, he has never regret sidering yet another break with family Marshall Law Alumni Association, they ted his return to law school, and he tradition: Case Western Reserve have gathered together in the University's Law School had Lyndhurst home of the senior accepted her, and she was Weiss to compare their three weighing the offer when her generational experiences as grandfather intervened, ad law students at the same law vising her that if she wanted school. to practice law in northeast In the mid-thirties when Ohio, she would be better Joe Weiss, Sr., a graduate of prepared by Cleveland John Carroll, attended the old Marshall. Her father, of Cleveland Law School in the course, agreed, and none of Engineers Building, classes the three Weisses has been were less formal than today. disappointed. Sometimes his girlfriend, Jerry Nowadays, Wendy Fisher, accompanied him to ponders her future, a future class and took notes for him that all agree is enormously in shorthand. A dispute be promising. She says her sum tween sweethearts almost cost mer at Jones Day was "a won the young student his law de derful experience" and work gree when the young lady re ing in a big firm certainly has fused to translate her notes for a great appeal. Still, she re him. Fortunately, the two members accompanying her made up, she deciphered her father on his weekly trips to glyphs, he graduated, passed The Weiss Family: Joseph Sr., Joseph Jr., and Wendy the Sisters of Charity's Our the bar, and 58 years ago they Lady of Fatima Mission in married. Though he continued for mentions with reverence several of the Cleveland's inner city where he did le many years to teach mathematics in the teachers who made his Cleveland gal work for Sister Henrietta who headed Cleveland Public School System, Mr. Marshall experience rewarding: Ted the mission. Wendy had a glimpse then Weiss developed a substantial practice Dyke, Leroy Murad and Howard of how powerful an instrument for ef in Cleveland with a specialty in tax. Oleck, in particular. fecting social good the law can be, and Three decades later, the elder Weiss Wendy Weiss has broken the Weiss it may just turn out that when she gradu urged his son, also a graduate of John tradition, first by not being Joseph ates this May she will seek her own ver Carroll, to earn a law degree. Somewhat Weiss III and second by not going to sion of Sister Henrietta's mission or of reluctantly his son entered Cleveland John Carroll. She has, however, pre some organization that will be well Marshall, newly-affiliated with Cleve served the family name honorably: A served by her legal skills. land State University, but still off cam 1994 Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude After all, she is something of an pus at 1240 Ontario. Joseph Jr.'s first graduate of Miami University, a cham iconoclast already, this soon-to-be-first class failed to inspire him and he pion hurdler and winner of a host of female attorney of the Joseph Weiss dropped out in the middle of the first athletic and academic awards, Wendy family. LFM
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he Law Alumni Association hosted The Cleveland community bid a fond T its Annual Meeting in June with farewell and extended its best wishes installation of its new Officers and to Dean Smith with moving tributes by Board members, followed by a tribute the following distinguished speakers: to outgoing C-M Dean Steven R. Smith. President Deborah Lewis Hon. George W. White '55 Gerald R. Walton '80 Hiller '75 presided, and Judge Donald U.S. District Court, Northern District Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni C. Nugent '74 administered the oath of Ohio, Chief Judge Association, Past President of office to the new members of the Michael L. Climaco '72 Steven H. Steinglass Board. Leadership Cleveland, Class of 1990 Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Interim Dean Congratulations to the new CMLAA Scott C. Finerman '87 Officers and Trustees: The City Club of Cleveland, Officers Past President Deborah Lewis Hiller '75 Judy Peters President Hill House, Executive Director Tina E. Wecksler '85 President-Elect Frederick N. Widen '81 1st Vice President Laura A. Williams '82 2nd Vice President David Ross '76 Secretary FIRST & LAST Joseph B. jerome ' 75 Treasurer Scott C. Finerman '87 Immediate Past President ROSEN &COMPANY, INC.
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10 Law Notes STEVEN H. STEIN GlASS
I n 1994 Professor of Law Steven H. Steinglass (B.S. University of Pennsyl vania; J.D. Columbia Law School) was living the relatively placid life of a ca reer academic in a law school he was proud to be a part of. He had come to Cleveland-Marshall in 1980 during the Dean Bogomolny years from Milwau kee, Wisconsin, primarily to work in the clinical legal educat,ion program. When the clinic was restructured, he easily moved into the traditional classroom setting, teaching Civil Procedure, Fed eral Jurisdiction, Section 1983 Litiga tion, and State Constitutional Law. Moreover, he was deep into research, ably fulfilling his obligation to contrib ute to legal scholarship: He had pub lished numerous journal articles and book chapters and was the author of a two-volume treatise, Section 1983 Liti gation in State Courts, widely consid ered the definitive exegesis of this dif ficult area of the law, cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and many state appel late courts. He was attentive to the university's expectations of him, as well, and over the years had served on
Fall 1996 11 numerous College of Law committees. one's own. In 1994 when Associate Ironically- given his predilection Steinglass was also extensively in Dean Solomon Oliver, Jr. left the law for teaching and scholarship over ad volved in continuing legal and judicial school to accept a seat on the federal ministration- it was his aptitude and education programs; he had lectured in bench for the Northern District of ability in handling the overflow of ad over 30 states and was a faculty mem Ohio, Steinglass agreed to share the ministrative duties that inspired many ber of the National]udicial College and Associate Deanship with Professor of his peers on the faculty to press him the Practising Law Institute. And in Frederic White. True, it was an admin to apply for the Interim Dean position 1988 he had one of those matchless ex istrative appointment and, true, he had when Dean Smith announced he was periences that make an attorney's years thought his days as an administrator leaving. Moreover, his supporters re of study and research worthwhile: He were over, but the burdens of the of minded him, the school's Centennial drafted the petition for certiorari, wrote fice would be split between two Asso was just around the corner and a new the brief and successfully argued in the ciate Deans, and neither would have to library would open in the fall of 1997. United States Supreme Court for the give up teaching altogether. That was Best to have someone on board who petitioner in Felder v. Casey, a case in an agreeable enough incentive: teach- had threaded his way through the volving the duty of state courts to hear university bureaucracy, knew the com Section 1983 cases against government munity, and, as Steinglass himself rea officials. "I've argued two cases in the Being a dean at soned, "could provide some continu Supreme Court," Steinglass says. "The Cleveland-Marshall ity." Thus, this fall, for the first time in earlier one (Board of Regents v. Roth, 16 years, Professor Steinglass will not 1972) I didn't win, but both were high in 1996 is an find himself facing a classroom of as lights in my career, and I'm proud of altogether different piring attorneys. both." There was a time when a dean In Wisconsin, Steinglass had spent matter, a little like might spend the day ripping off one a decade as an attorney and adminis parachuting into a name tag and slapping on another as trator in a legal services office. When he or she hurried from reception to re he left the state, he was the director of war zone, and the ception, from meeting to meeting, Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc., a forty crossfire is coming when every lunch and dinner hour be attorney, multi-county public interest longed to some organization or an law firm that provided counsel to from a very other. Not a difficult way to earn a liv indigents on matters of civil law. He unexpected source ... ing; just wearisome. Being a dean at had also taught classes at the Univer Cleveland-Marshall in 1996 is an alto sity of Wisconsin's Law School where gether different matter, a little like para he says, "I got my first taste of law ing and a little administrating on the chuting into a war zone, and the school from the other side of the po side with plenty of time left over for crossfire is coming from a very unex dium." It was perhaps the view from writing, research and the ordinary plea pected source: the Ohio Board of Re the other side of the podium that drew sures of everyday life. It did not work gents, those very persons charged with him toward a new career as a full-time out quite that way, however. safeguarding the quality of Ohio's edu law professor. His plans for the future The half of the job that fell to cational institutions. did not include ever again being an ad Steinglass involved faculty recruitment The Regents have a proposal for ministrator. and development during a span of years Ohio's law schools that they claim will In fact, by 1994 what he most when there were an unusual number of improve its public law schools and the looked forward to was the day when vacancies and an unusual number of caliber of the lawyers they graduate. he would turn his manuscript of The new faculty to help settle into the school Their plan is a disastrous plan, one that Ohio State Constitution: A Reference year, and then there were the always will, in effect, hobble public legal edu Guide over to his editor at Greenwood pressing concerns of the other 40 fac cation in Ohio. Press. Then, inevitably, he would bend ulty members to deal with. The new Their strategy is simple: Make it dif his mind toward other research Associate Dean discovered that his cup ficult for prospective law students to get projects, and life would continue pleas was running over; there were too few into law school by limiting the num antly along the same path. hours in a day, too few days in a week ber of students the state will subsidize; These days, as Steinglass finds him to accomplish all that was set before him determine the subsidy by linking it to self leaving one administrative post for and all he set out to accomplish. Never unreasonable admission standards - another, he must reflect on the folly of theless, he managed to do what was ex an elevated Law School Admission Test trying to predict the future, especially pected of him and to do it well. score and a high undergraduate grade
12 Law Notes point average. The Regents claim they these reasons, Steinglass, alone among ousness. We will deal with this," he says are trying to save money, that there are Ohio's five state-assisted law school confidently. "This crisis has brought out enough la wyers in the state already, and deans, refused to sign a letter sent to the our strengths: a strong staff, a strong that far too many of them are medio Regents in june that offered a concilia and collegial faculty, a loyal and active cre. Worse, say the Regents, many do tory plan. Instead, he pins his hopes on Alumni Association and a university not even practice law; instead, they are the commitment of the law school administration and university trustees going into other fields like business, alumni and on the good sense of the who are sq uarely on our side." He public service and teaching. General Assembly whose members will speaks enthusiastically of the Septem In fact, it is a wickedly elitist tally find the proposal waiting for their ap ber Centennial inauguration to which the Regents have devised, one that ig proval when the legislature reconvenes. the College has invited U.S. Attorney nores background, work experience, an This summer, then, has not been a General Janet Reno, of the October applicant's age, and many other fa ctors leisurely one for Steve Steinglass. Ordi Cleveland-Marshall Judges' ga la cel that round out a human and predict, narily, he would be spending great por ebration, and of many events just be perhaps more accurately, future success. tions of the season at his cabin on an ing planned. "Nothing, certainly not The plan strikes hardest at Ohio's three island in northern Lake Michigan with the Board of Regents, is going to spoil public law schools with part-time pro his wife, Dianne, and their daughter, our Centennial or for that matter the grams and more generous admission Amanda. He might be visiting his two next hundred years of this wonderful policies. And Cleveland-Marshall with brothers, Kenneth, head of the thoracic law school. The law school will be the state's largest enrollment would re surgery department at Columbia Pres here-thriving and continuing to play ceive the severest blow of all: the loss of byterian, and Robert, formerly a pub its historic role long after this Board of funding fo r approximately 150 students lic health officer with the World Health Regents have come and gone." LFM over a three-year period beginning in Organization and now a consultant on 1998, a situation that could bring on a international hea lth iss ues in Virginia. drastic, disabling decrease in resources His mother might make the journey of $1.5 to $2 million per year. from Florida, and a mild Michigan sum But, as the Interim Dean is quick mer would pass idly into Ohio's vibrant to point out, the ultimate victims of the fa ll and the beginning of an oth er Regents' obtuseness are not the school, school year. its budget, or its faculty and staff but Instead, back in the war zone, the "the citizens of northeast Ohio, espe Interim Dean is consulting with our cially those men and women to whom representatives in the General Assem the law school has had an historic, cen bly, dictating letters, answering phone tury-old commitment: the non-tradi calls, giving interviews to the media Many attorneys are disenchanted with tional students whose credentials are and, in general, mobilizing the law traditional practice of law. not always fairly assessed by grades and school's many fri ends - most espe Cleveland Financial Group can help standardized test scores alone." Such a cially its alumni and alumnae. Even on capitalize on your estate, trust and plan also victimizes the profession, of a weekend up in Michigan, even on the planning experience. We offer ten criticized for narrowness and exclu road driving toward Mi chigan, the portfolio of financial products sivity, just at a time when it is climb phone rings incessantly, and on the al services that help individuals and ing out of the last century and open most undiscoverable island the fax inesses make important decisions regarding their financial futu re. ing its doors to greater numbers of machine chimes its messages across two women and minorities, those graduates Great Lakes and into the remote cabin If you wo uld like to discuss a career for who m the doors of Cleveland that is supposed to be h is quiet retreat. ity with us, please call Evy Marshall were always open. Back in Cleveland, momentarily at (21 6) 765-7403. love to "present our case". And that is exactly why neither unhooked from the phone, he can see Steinglass nor any of the Coll ege's from the windows of his office the blue constitutents are willing to accede to any and green Centennial banners flutter ~~IAJID 28601 Chagrin Blvd. Suite 300 part of the Regents' plan: because they ing outside on Euclid Avenue. To on Cleveland, OH-44122 do not wa nt the Regents to slam the lookers, Steinglass, the once reluctant Ph: (216) 765-7400 . Fax: (21 6) 765-0779 door in the faces of the next century of administrator, seems undaunted, and Cleveland Financial Group is a member of Lincoln Financial Group Inc. an alliliate of Lincoln National Cleveland-Marshall students. They do certainly he sounds optimistic: "Six L~e lnsuranca Co. not want the profession to become once months ago none of us anticipated this Equal Opportunfty Employer I MFH more compromised by exclusivity. For problem with the Regents and its seri-
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1940 Hon. William T. Gillie Stanley Mo~anstern Sally M. Edwards 1941 Paul]. Hribar Michael R. areau Mary Llamas Courtnd 1942 Hon. Autust Pr(latel 1968 Hon. John E. Corrigan 1979 LaVerne Nichols Boy ] . David orsfa l Herbert Palkovitz Louis C. Damiani Elsie Tarcai ]ames R. Kellam Sheryl KinlbBenford 1947 Bennet Kleinman Richard Moroscak Wilham]. ay 1950 Bernard Mosesson Robert l. Zashin Maria Quinn Charles Ipavec William E. Powers H. ]effrj(' Schwartz 1951 Dr. Bernice G. Miller 1969 Wendel Willmann 1980 Culver . ~man, III Hon. Euflene M. Fellmeth Marc]. Bloch Geoffre~ . Schumer Donald . McCann William L. Summers Gerald . Walton Francis E. Kane 1970 Blaise C. Giusto Howard Mishkind Hon. Lillian Burke Joseph H. Weiss, Jr. Richard C. Alkire 1952 Hon. Thomas Lambros Kenneth A. Bossin Susan L. Grage! Hon. Edwin T. Hofstetter Robert]. Sindyla Phillip E. Thomas Hon. Joseph A. Zingales William A. Wortzman Kemrer Arnold Joseph Cachat Richard W. Sander 1981 Davia Paul Burke Phil1p R. Brodsky Walter A. Rodgers Hermine G. Eisen 1953 John]. Sutula James H. Peak Louise P. Dempsey William T. Monroe Theodore R. Klammer Sandra]. Kerber Walter L. Greene Leslie]. Spisak Vincent T. Lombardo Olga Tsiliacos Lucian Re~o 1982 ]ames Lee Reed 1954 Daniel R. McCarthy Joseph A. alore K. Ronald Bailey Edward C. Hawkins 1971 Dharminder L. Kampani 1983 John L. Habat Howard E. Egert James E. Melle Paul Brickner John]. McCarthy ] ames]. Komorowski Peter Marmaros Russell T. Adrine Thomas P. Hayes Donna]. Taylor-Kolis 1955 Geor~ W. White Timothy M. Btttel Elizabeth Haque Hon. obert E. Feighan William Thomas Plesec Kevin ].M. Senich Charles]. Gallo Sr. Joyce E. Barrett Frank Aveni Donald P. Traci Bert Tomon Susan]. Becker Glenn]. Seeley 1972 Gary N. Holthus 1984 Carl F. Asseff Peter W : Moizuk James A. Lowe 1985 Laurie F. Starr Ralph A. Stark John V. Jackson, II Tina Ellen Wecksler Carol Emerlinft Michael L. Climaco 1986 ]ames E. Tavens Irene M. Kotu lC William P. FarraH Laura]. Gentilcore William D. Carle, III William P. Gibbons 1987 Gary Lichtenstein 1957 Leon M. Plevin Joseph Gibson John T. Hawkins Mahnerd Kimball 1973 Mar~ Acftnes Lentz Scott C. Finerman Ric ard T. Reminger W. re erick Fifner Barbara Silver Rosenthal Thomas]. Brady 1974 Hon. Lesley Brooks Wells Mary D. Maloney Joseph C. Domtano Michael C. Hennenberg Schuyler Cook 1958 Charles R. Emrick, Jr. Stephen 0. Walker 1988 Melody]. Stewart James Patrick Conway Thomas E. Downey Judith Arcoria DeLeonibus Aaron Jacobson Timothy G. Kasparek 1989 Raymond Gurnick Julian Kahan William R. Fifner Scott Sf{ro 1960 Hon. Hans R. Veit Barbara Stern Gold Sheila cCarthy Don C. Iler 1975 Dr. Gregory). Lake Barbara Tyler Donald L. Guarnieri B. Casey Ytm Karin Mika Donald M. Colasurd Dale H. Markowitz Diane Homolak Norman T. Musial Gerald L. Steinberg Sheila M. Brennan Eugene A. Kam~ Richard S. Koblentz Lori White Laisure 1961 Hon. Anthony . Calabrese, Jr. L. Richard Musat 1990 Sonia Winner Fred Lick John M. Richilano 1993 Gloria S. Gruhin Paul S. Sanislo William C. Hofstetter 1994 Jean M. Hillman Richard]. Bogomolny Deborah Lewis Hiller N/A Fred Ramos Robert Wantz John B. Gibbons John Makdisi Esther S. Weissman David]. Skrabec Marshall Nurenberg 1962 Clarence L. James, Jr. Michael E. Murman Maurice L. Heller Lucien B. Karlovec James F. Szaller Stephen). Werber Sheldon E. Rabb 1976 Charles G. Deeb Victoria Plata Stanley E. Stein David Ross Stephen R. Lazarus 1963 Joseph A. Coviello Keith E. Belkin Steven R. Smith Lester T. Tolt Michael]. Nath Louise F. Moone)' Thomas]. Scanlon Steven H. Slive Solomon Oliver, Jr. Thomas W. Gray Deborah R. Akers Frederic P. White, Jr. 1964 Harry L. Griffith Patrick Bianconi Paul Carrington Henry B. Fisher 1977 Charles T. Simon Steven H. Steinglass Howard M. Rossen Jack W. Bradley Louis B. Geneva Joseph T. Svete Lawrence]. Cook Lloyd B. SWlder 1965 Davtd S. Lake Robert M. Wilson ]ames G. ilson June W. Wiener Roger M. Sftnenberg Earl M. Curry, Jr. 1966 Edward T. Haggins Anne L. Ki bane David Barnhizer 1967 Charles B. Donahue, II Kathleen M. Carrick Karen Popovich Lawrence]. Rich Linda M. Rich David Goshien Norman D. Tripp Rita S. Fuchsman Joel Finer Theodore R. Kowalski 1978 David M. Paris Kenneth Montlack Ronald F. Wayne William M. Wohl Elisabeth T. Dreyfuss
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NEW LIFE MEMBER Note"', always lauding the program and The son of Italian immigrants, Vincent its goals. In addition to recruiting over T. Lombardo '81 was the first person in 20 attorneys to participate in the men his family to attend law school. A na tor program, Vince is a mentor to five tive of Philadelphia, he received his B.A. students, two graduates, and one ap from the University of Pennsylvania in plicant for admission. 1978 and then relocated to Cleveland Vince lives in Cleveland with his to attend C-M. After graduating and wife, Barbara J. Stanford '80, an passing the Ohio Bar, he went into pri artist. vate practice, before joining the Ohio Attorney General's Office in 1984. Vincent T. Lombardo As an Assistant Attorney General, Vince has represented the Ohio Civil WELCOME NEW LIFE MEMBERS State's decisions allowing or disallow Rights Commission, the State Employ Joseph C. Domiano '57 ing workers' compensation claims in ment Relations Board, and the Ohio De Lucian Rego '70 court. partment of Industrial Relations, and has Joseph A. Valore '70 prosecuted cases under the Ohio Nui Vince is a member of the Ameri Michael E. Murman '75 sance Abatement Law resulting in the can, Ohio, Cleveland, and Cuyahoga James F. Szaller '75 County Bar Associations. But he is closing of over a dozen drug houses. He H. Jeffrey Schwartz '79 proudest of being a CMLAA Trustee now represents the Ohio Bureau of Vincent T. Lombardo '81 Workers' Compensation and the Indus and participating in its Mentor Pro Jean M. Hillman '94 trial Commission of Ohio, defending the gram. He is a veritable "Johnny One
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The Illuminating Company FDIC A Ccnhm or ~g y Cmn p;my Insured A SUBSIDIARY OF CHARTER ONE FINANCIAL, INC. • THE SMART WAIT 16 Law Notes A Centennial Feature flhe tf!eCJe!and faw 5che?C?! 189(-192(: by Louise Mooney THE PAST IS PROLOGUE. Inscription over the door of the National Archives in Washington, D.C. ''What do you think that means?" General Eisenhower asked the cabby driving him through , the nation's capital . . "It means," said the cabby, "you ain't seen nothin' yet." This fall Cleveland-Marshall College begins a year-long celebra-. tion of 100 years ofpreparing men and women for careers in law. As leveland-Marshall College · · part of the College 1s Centennial months as our 25th President, Asa of Law is the direct descen- year, Law Notes plans a series of Bushnell was Governor of the stat.e, . dant of -two proprietary . articles on the history of Cleveland Marcus Hanna and Joseph B. Foraker night law schools, the Marshall. This issue of Law Notes were Senators and, Robert McKisson was C Mayor of Cleveland. Cleveland in the Baldwin UniversitY- Law School, focuses on the early days of the founded in 1897 (called the Cleveland Cleveland Law.School from its nineties was a wide open city, a boom Law School after 1899), and the John . founding in 1897 until1927. town whose population; plumped by Marshall Law School, founded in 1916. ~,;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~ the century's second massive wave of The two law schools immigration, _had merged in 1946 to be risen to almost come the Cleveland 400,000. Fortunes Marshall Law School; in were being made in 1969 the school became railway lines; iron ore the sixth college of · · boats navigated the Cleveland State Univer Great Lakes bringing sity and was renamed iron ore and coke from . the Cleveland-Marshall Michigan to the steel College_of Law of Cleve mills in the flats, and . land State University. pipelines linked Penn When our fir~ t par sylvania oilfields to the ent school, the Baldwin city's refineries . . University Law School, . In that fin-de opened its doors in Sep 'siecle capitalistic con tember of 1897, a genial fusion, opportunity Ohioan, Wil}iam was the mcst palpable McKinley, had just com commodity of all, and pleted his first six Early Cleveland Law School Class the world that was just being ignited by Mr. Edison's invention the motives of our founders, we know seemed charged as well with hope and for certain that they were men of honor confidence in the future. New banks and foresight, for in founding the new sprang up overnight, the fledgling mo law school they opened the doors not tor car industry was attracting capital just to men but to women and minori to the city, and downtown merchants, ties as .well, so that our law school is their shelves brimming with the latest acknowledged to be the first law school and the freshest, grew prosperous, in the state to admit women and one raised large families and sought oppor~ tunities for their children to thrive. Perhaps it was in the spirit of assuring opportunities to the coming genera tions that our school was founded, the first night law·school in Ohio. At-the' turn of At the turn of the century a law school was almost as novel a creation the century a· · ' ' . as the internal combustion engine. Many of the men practicing law in the law school was late 1890s had not completed high school, fewer had gone to college and almost as novel fewer still had earned th,e LL.B. degree. Willis Vickery Most had learned law through the old a creation as apprentice system,. "reaciing law" for : District of Ohio, founded the Cleveland one or two years in the offices of local Law School. The two night schools · attorneys. Law office training was in the internal merged in 1899 and were incorporated formal, often narrowly textual, and into the Cleveland Law College of chiefly mimetic. The creation of the combustion Baldwin University (called Baldwin Cleveland Law School may have been Wallace College since 1913). in response to a growing conviction . "CD among attorneys and educators that engzne. . Our Founders: Who Were They? ' legal studies should be standardized and removed from downtown offices Willis Vickery (1857-1932) was the col to the campus. There, aspiring lawyers orful, outspoken principal founder of might learn law in the context'of a com the Cleveland Law School, a man so en prehensive liberal arts background. The of the first to admit minorities. amored of Shakespeare that it was said many law schools that sprang up in . . One hundred years later our he had, in his ardor, memorized entire mid-century were reflective of . this founders' naines reside chiefly in the plays, including Hamlet and Julius Cae movement toward a broader, more h).l memories of their descendants and are sar. The son of English immigrants who manistic curriculum. only infrequently mentioned in con settled in Bellevue, Ohio, shortly before A part-time night law school suited temporary accounts of Cleveland's past, the birth of their son, Willis Vickery had a hope-filled time, for it offered distinct but at the turn of the century the law little formal education till he entered advantages to a generation just form- yers and judges who formed the cor high school at the age of 19. Graduat . ing itself - the children of porat~on of Baldwin University Law ing in 1880 as the class va!edictorian, hardworking immigrants, persons of School were. some of the leading names he apprenticed with a Fremont, Ohio, limited resources, indi:'iduals with of the local bench and bar: Ohio Ap law firm and taught school to finance .. families to support,"whoever hoped to pellate Judge Willis Vickery, Probate his legal studies. He entered Boston build a new life and could study law Court Judge Arthur E. Rowiey, Ohio . University in 1882, graduated in 1884, only if they could continue to work. Circuit Court Judge Charles S. Bentley, and was admitted to the Oh!o bar in These are the same advantages of a£- · Clifford E. Neff, and Frederic C. 1885. He practiced law with his brother fordable tuition and flexibility that per Howe. About the time that the new law Jesse in Bellevue before moving to tain today and continue to draw men school opened, a future federal court Cleveland in 1896. He was associated and women to our law schooL judge, the Honorable F.W. Wing of the with two Cleveland law firms before his" Though we merely speculate on U.S. District Court for the Northern 1908 election to the Cuyahoga County 18 Law Notes Common Pleas Court. In 1918 he won tary~ treasurer, dean and professor of next year was elected to a six-year term. a seat on the Ohio Court of Appeals law. He taught Contracts, Constitu He retired from the bench at the end where he remained until his death in tional Law and IJartnerships for 35 years of his second term in 1895. A-contem 1932.- to men and women who might do porary account praised his judicial de New;;paper accounts of the time worse than learn to read and write and cisions fot their "clarity and concise picture him as a man who ·shunned . reason the law from a jurist who knew ness which left no misunderstanding convention and courted controversy, his Shakespeare by heart. _ even on the controverted points." He begrudgingly admired by some of his The first dean of the Cleveland Law is listed in the 1905 Bulletin ofthe Cleve peers, enthus ~ astically praised by oth~ School was Charles S. Bentley (1846- land Law School ofBaldwin University as ers who took note of his "ci&gressive in 1929), a native of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. "Dean and Professor of the Law of dependence and truculent honesty," He earned· a B.A. and an M.A. frorn Pleaqing and Evidence." his "outspoken fearlessness," qnd called .Frederic C. Howe (1867-1940), him II a man oftre~ lawyer, author mendous propor" and social re · 'tions, tremendous former, was a na opinions, tremen~ tive of Meadville; dous learning; tre-_ Pennsylvania. mendous will and His ]mderg~adu tremendous pas ate degree was sions." An obituary from Allegheny stat~s, "No · one College; his Ph.D. ever suspected that was froi? Johns power or wealth or Hopkins, He poti tics had the studied law at · slightest influence New YorkUniver" on his judicial con sity before set" ducV' Given the tling in Cleve raucous politics of lancj. where he the times, these joined the law were indeed words firm of Harry and - of high praise . . James Garfield, In intqvie.Vs · sons of the Presi and feature stories dent; in 1896 he on the judge, was made part Vickery often as ner. Hbwe was a serted his true edu- diligent commu cation had begun B.A. Gage E. c. va'n. cieff nity activist in . only when an itin- the progressive erant teacher mold that be placed in his hands , came a hallmark E. M. Roberts ·a copy of.the complete work ~ of Edwanl Younger of radical politics in th.e late nineteenth Shakespeare. Eventu{llly Vickery earned Founders and Facuity: i912 century. He was associated with the a national reputation as a ·shakes- - Goodrich Social Settlement and other pearean s~holar, owner of "the largest Hillsdale College in Michigan. He be organizations active on behalf of the private collection" of Shakespeare in' gan his legal studies at the age of 25, . poor. Anxious to effect social change, the country. In 1927 h~ was elected to studying in Michigan and Cleveland he ran for and was elected to the Cleve· the .Presidency of the International law offices and was admitted to the land City Council the same year (1901) Shakespeare Association of New York Ohio bar in 1872. He joined with Willis. that saw the election oJ Tom Johnson, City; his address in November of that Vickery in a partnership that was briefer Cleveland's fabled radical reform. n~ar to the Association was printed in than the two men's association in Mayor. Howe served only one-term on full in the New York Times. , building a new law school. In 1887 the c;ouncil, l;wwever. Disillusiop.ed· Vickery, continued ;lt the law Bentley was elected to a one-year term with _the Municipal Association (now school until his death, serving as secre- on the Ohio Court of Appeals and the the Citizens League) which had urged Fal/1996 19 his first run for the Council on the Re native of Savannah, Georgia, graduated his death date. publican ticket, he ran as an indepen from Kenyon College and studied law All the founders taught in the new dent and lost. In 1905 he won a seat in in the Cleveland offices of Sherman, school. They were joined by other lu the Ohio senate where he promptly al Hoyt & Dustin. He_was admitted into minaries of the local bar: Students lied himself with the progressive re the bar in 1890. In 1913 he joined the heard lectures from Benjamin A. Gage, formers investigating corruption in the Cleveland firm of White, Johnson, Can ].F. Walsh, Alfred Clum, and C.S. state treasurer's. office. In .1909 ~ow~ non & Neff where he remained until Rowley, in addition to the teacher and was elected to Cleveland's Board of his death. Active in_local politics, he Cleveland Law School trustee whose Quadrennial Appraisers. · fame has proved most durable, the In 1910 Howe moved to New York Honorable Newton D. Baker (1871- where he was Director of The People's 1937), Mayor of Cleveland, founder of Institute (1911-14) and Commissioner Many were the the law firm of Baker & Hostetler, and of Immigration for the port (1914-19). -~ children of immi-· President Wilson's Secretary of War. During the twenties, he became increas - ' . ' Classes were held "in the commodious ipgly radical in his thinking and poli grC}nts, many were American Trust Building in the center tics, allying _himself with various labor · ' , of Cleveland, being easy of access from ,, themselves i.mmi groups and convincing the B~other all parts of the city and adjacent cities hood of Locomotive Engineers to open ! ,grants, many came · · and towns" (l905 Bulletin ofthe Cleve a ·bank in Cleveland. His support of · frdni . the laboring · land Law School of Baldwin University). Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Presidency In 1905 tuition for-the year was $50; earned him a post as consumers' coun -~(asses, many were today a parking lot occupies the site of sel in the Agricultural AdjusthJ.ent Ap~ the long-ago-demolished American . ; ministration .. _. older students, Trust Building. The fee for an hour's During his lifetime Howe prodaced almost alt worked parking in 1996 is $8. a small body of social ref9rm literature: The City: The Hope For Dem·ocracy throughout the day (1905), The Confessions of a Monopo .while studying)qw _ list (1906), The British City: The Begin From the law school's earliest years, nings of Democracy (190-7), and Con at_ night... graduates emerged who quickly made fessions of a Reformer (1925). Howe their names known. to their fellow citi had written a book on taxation in 1896 zens. Many were the c~ildren of immi and that was the subject he taught at organized the first Board of Deputy grants, many were themselves immi the_Cleveland Law School. State Supervisors of Electi9ns in 1898 grants, many came from the laboring · F. W. Wing (1.850-1918) was born .· and was a member of the Ohio Supreme classes, many were older students, alrriost in Trumbull County, Ohio. He attended Court Committee on Admission to the alf worked throughout the day while Harvard f9r three years and then stud Bar. At the Cleveland Law School he studying law at night, and many, many ied law with attorneys in Boston and taught Wills, Agency and Sales for proceeded from law school to leave their Newark and Ashtabula, Ohio. After _many years. His biographer wrote, "he imprint, in large and small ways, in passing the bar in 1874, he moved to was fair, candid and upright, not merely the local history books, contributing to Cleveland and began his ow~ practice. · in the practice of law, but in every de the growth and prosperity of the region He served as Assistant U.S: District At partment of life." as surely as the magnates of industry and torney for a year, leaving that post to Arthur Eli Rowley (1867-??) was business whose mansions lining Euclid .accept an appointment by Ohio.Qov- born· in North Fairfield, Ohio, was a Avenue made it the "most beautiful street . ernor Asa Bushnell to the Common graduate of the University of Michigan in the world." From the biographies Pleas Court. In 1901 President and attended the Chicago College of of early and influential graduates, we McKinley appointed him to the federal Law. His practice was centered in have chosen the following 17 men and bench for the Northern District of Norwalk, Ohio, where he was Mayor women, all but one born in the last quad Ohio. One of his biographers observed: from 1~89-1903 . From 1909 until1921 rant of the nineteenth century -indud ~ "With dignity and exceptional ability he was · a Probate Judge in Huron ing eight women, three African-Amen~ he remained on the bench until i-905 County. His name appears in the early cans, and six immigrants or children when he resigned and again took up bulletins of the college as a trustee and of immigrants -as representative of our private practice." Professor of Statutory Law but disap law school's contributtons to the city Clifford A. Neff (1867-1919), a pears after 1932. We have no record of an:d state. 20 Law Notes Joseph A. Artl (1893-1970), Cleve when Burton became a U.S. Senator but William H. Clifford (1862-1929), land Law School class·of 1913, a I)ative was defeated by Frank Lausche after Cleveland Law School Class of l902, Clevelander, was the son of Bohemian only 11 montbs in office. He used his was a prominent black Republican poli immigrants. According to The Dictio brief term to encourage enlistment in tician. Born in Cleveland, he began nary of Cleveland Biography, Artl was the armed forces and to promote black working in the county clerk's office in "one of Cuyahoga County's most re employment. Blythin is also remem 1899, eventually becoming the high spected public officials in a career span bered as the judge who presided over est paid African-American in local, ning four decades." Artl worked as an the controversial murder trial of Sam county or state government at that accountant while studying law at the Sheppard .. time. He was active in the Republican Cleveland Law School. He was elected party and served two terms in the Ohio . to the Cleveland CitY Council in 1932, House of Representatives (1894-95; appointed and elected to the Cleveland . . 1898-99). Clifford graduated from law Municipal Court (1936-46), elected to Blyth in is also _ school at the age of 40 (1902). He ac ~ Common Pleas Court (1947), an"d cepted a position in the War Depart served two terms on tbe Ohio Court of remembered -ds ment in Washington, D.C., where he Appeals (1961-1967). remained till his death. Edward Blythin (1884-1958), the judge who . In 1928 Genevieve Cline (1915- Cleveland Law School Class of 1916, 1959), Cleveland Law School Class of was Cleveland's city law director (1940), p-resided over the 1921, became the first woman ever to Mayor (1941) and Judge ·of the Court controversial · occupy a seat on the federal judiciary of Common Pleas (1949-58). Born in when President Calvin Coolidge ap Wales he came to Cleveland in 1906 murder triq_l o( pointed her to serve as an Associate and worked as a bobkke,eper while earn Justice of the United States Customs ing his law degree. He developed a prac ·Sam Sheppar~. Court. Born in Huron, Ohio, raised in tice devoted primarily to municipal law. Cleveland, and a graduate of Oberlin He succeeded Harold Burton as mayor College, Cline entered private practice · Cleveland Law School Classroom Fall1996 21 in Cleveland with her brother, John A. sitions in such pioneering industries as Cline, following her 1921 admission to the American Steeland Wire Company, the Ohio bar. In 1922 President War u:s. Steel, and the "Automatic" Sprin ren G. Harding appointed her U. S. kler Corporation of Anierica of which Appraiser of Merchandise to the port he was a founder. Equally as important of Cleveland; she was the first woman was his work for the boards on which to fill that office in Ohio. Active in he sat, including the Marjon Co., Cleve numerous women's organizations and land Stevedore Co., New Castle Refrac- · committed to women's causes during her entire lifetime, Cline was chair of the Women's Suffrage Party in East Cleveland, President of the Women's During his l~fetime Republican League, President of the Cleveland Federation of Women's Coakley,. the father Clubs, a member of the Women's City Club, and vice president for Ohio ofthe ofll, became as National Women Lawyers' Association. Her appointment to the Customs Court famous for his charity was vigorously resisted in the Senate as he was for his busi and by the Association of the Customs John Aloysius Coakley Bar. Her supporters, who included ness skill, and by the Ohio Senators Simeon D. Fess and area's · JTIOSt generous philanthropists; Frank B. Willis, persisted,-and in June end ofhis life he was giving especially to Cleveland's Catho of 1928 Cline took the oath of office lic charities·. Among many honors, he before a large gathering of well-wish acclaimed one of the was made Master Knight of the Sover ers, among them the fi~st woman ever eign Military Order of Malta and to serve on a state supreme Court, the area's most generous awarded a posthumous honorary doc Honorable Florence Allen, and the first philanthropists ... torate from Georgetown University. woman ever to serve on a Municipql ·. The iife of Herman Finkle (1891- Court, Mary Grossman '12. Justice 1952), Cleveland La_w School Class of Cline acknowledged the two women 1913, had the grand dimensions of clas judges and remarked, "This is not tories, the Swindell Dressler Corp., and sical drama: a ruthless career redeemed Genevieve Cline's honor. It is our the Midland Bank. During his lifetime by tragedy. The man called the "Little honor. It is given in ·recognition of Coakleyi the father of 11, became as Napoleon of Ward 12". served 18 con woman and woman's right to partici famous for his philanthropies as he was secutive terms on the Cleveland Coun pate in public office." She retired from for his business skill, and by the end of cil, each term so marked by rumors of office in 1953. his life he was acclaimed one of the financial scandal, land deals, and cor A man whose· ruption that he, was name is associated a frequent target of with Cleveland's eco the Citizens League nomic vitality during which repeatedly the first decades of the called for his re twentieth century was moval from office. Cleveland Law School Accounts of alumnus of the Class Finkle's life always of 1912JohnAioysius remark the change Coakley (1881-1950). in his character As a youngster he that occurred when worked as an office his only daughter, boy with the Pennsyl Betty, died in the vania Railroad. His mid~thirties. In his adult career involved grief, Finkle turned a number of high po- Law School Office the power of his of- 22 Law Notes length even the Citizens League ac Cleveland Law School Class of 1906. A knowledged his accomplishments. He native of Meadville, Pennsylvania, he ' remained on the Council until his came to Cleveland in 1893 and took a death, repeatedly refusing to run for job as a barber. In 1903, under the in Mayor. fluence of Booker T: Wasi:ington's self The first African-American elected help philosophy, he helped found the to Cleveland city government was Tho Cleveland Journal, a weekly publication mas Wallace Fleming (1874-1948), dedicated to promoting black busi nesses. Fleming was elected Council man-At-Large in 1909 and Ward 11 Councilman fn 1916; he remained in · By the turn ofi the,· office until 1929, using his influence to help blacks find city jobs, introduc · _century Flem.ing ing ordinances to build recreational ·was not only ·one facilities in the central area and to re sist the organization ·of a KKK Chapter . of the most · in Cleveland. Fleming and his wife, powerful men in Lethia Fleming, an early advocate of the \ .· .. rights of African-American wonien, in t~e city, .he was company with black e:ritr~preneur Star - light Boyd, forme4 a potent coalition, T~omas .Wallace Fleming also one of the promoting businesses in the black come fice to the publicgood-to better street . wealthiest. munity and establishing a firm politi lighting, health centers, and assuring cal presence. By the turn of the cen- . the ·rights of minority citizens . At tury Fleming was not only·one of the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity early 1900s Fall1996 23 rnost powerful men in the city, he was Europe, she took a·jcib as superinten also one of the wealthiest. -Then mis- dent of the Ohio Division of Charities. fortune struck .. In the words of The . In 1933 she served as the Director of Cleveland zoo; a compendium of 200 the Association for the Crippled and of the city's most prominent past and Disabled (later-the Cleveland Rehabili presentcitizeris: "The facfthat a Negro tative Center) until1953 when she be~ ·had gained such influence did not sit came Director of the· Cleveland's De- . well in all quarters. In 1929 steps were partment of Health and Welfare. Greve taken to rectify the situation. Fleming was indicted on bribery charges for sup- · posedly accepting a paltry $200 to se-. cure passage of a spedal ordinance. In spite of flimsy evidence, the "wheels of ·once Grossman justice moved with lightening speed. gained the vote, The trial ~egan in less than two weeks and ende,d 'four· days later with an all \she qicided. to ·. . Harry Franklin Payer white jury returning a guilty verdict af late-r, admitted into the American Bar ter bEief deliberations.'' Attempts tore vote' fo~ herself,. Association, she bec:ame one of the only verse the judg~ent were rebuffed and two women rp.embers. Fleming served two years in prison. ·· ·winning a s_eat Gertrude M. Handrick (1871- Though his w* -remai[\ed politically on the -Cleveland 1937) was the qnly"woman in her 1911 active, Thomas Fleming retired from Cleveland Law School graduation class · · of 37. Handrick began law school se ·politics follo~ing. . qis rel~ase ·from. _Municipal Cou~f prison. . cretiy and in defiance of the wishes of · Isadore Fred Freiberger (1897- in 1923 ... her father, Judge Martin A. Foran. She 1969) was a 1901 graduate ofAdelbert was tlle first woman to be admitted to. College and ·a 1904 graduate of the' the Cleveland Bar: Association and, as Cleveland Law School. In law scho9L · head of.the Business Woman's Suffrage _ Freiberger " ~_orked as -a clerk at the is also rem.embered for' starting the first ·League, she was active in the cause of Cleveland Trust.Bank; by 1941 he was. : county nurs.in'g home and for <;:re,ating · women's rights. chairman of the Bank's board and by the Ctirativ~ Playroom for disabled chil- Grace B. Doering McCord (1890- 1943 be as a director of Forest C~ty Pub-_ · dren and for a work treatment shop for - 1983), whose bachelor's degree was lishing Co. Freiberger's community ser- . _disabled adults. · · • . from Case Western Reserve University, 1 vice was_prodigious and· included, ac- ' Called "Hard-boiled Mary" by both graduated from· the Cleveland Law cording to the Dictionary of Cleveland · admirers and detractors, Mary B. School in 1925 with the highest grade Biography. membership fn over 50 Gro~sman (1879-1977), the daughter point average· ever earned at· the law charitable and ·com!llunity organiza- of Hungarian Jews, was the first woman school. Her·naine appears in the 1925 tions. ·Among the boards ori which he in ,the country to win a seat on a mti law school bulletin.as winner of the $50 served were C:leveland-Marshall Law nicipal court bench. Grossman had a Faculty Prize for the "student of the School, Mt. Sinai Hospital, the Play- lengthy 16~year career as a stenogra gradlJating class who has the best house Foundation and the Jewish Com- pher before enrolling in Cleveland Law record in scholarship for the entire munity Federation. For his, work on S!=nool from which she was graduated . course '~ '; the prize was not in cash, how" behalf of Western Reserve Unive·rsity, in. 1912:-An ardenf feminist and advo ev~r, but in books from the W.H. Ander he received an honorary doctbr o~ hu- · cate of the right to vote,_ she became son Co. Around 1927 the Cleveland manities degree in 194 7. · cl).ait of Cleveland's League of Woman's ·Law S_chool added. a Master of Law de- Bell Greve (1894-1957), a gr 24 · Law Notes Director to the,City Qf Cleveland from for "improving the aoministration of 1923 he was Judge of the City of Cleve 1935 till1942 and was a regional attor justice." A Republican, Polk ran u,nsuc~ land ~unicipal Court, and -from 1924 ney for the Office of Price Administra cessfully for Mayor of Cleveland- in until 1969 he was Judge of the Court tion during World War II. Sl?-e was a 1949. Losing that election did, not dis of Common Pleas, principally serving founding member of the Business and courage him from managing the cam the Domestic Relations Court where he Professional, Women's Club of Greater paigns of others, and he was credited developed a national-reputation for his Cleveland and hesident of the Na with successfully running Ralph Perk's contributions to the law of domestic tional Association ,of Women Lawyers. county auditor race. Polk founded the relations. In later years, she l~ctured on women's Cleveland Law School1914 alum rights and was asupporter of the Equal nus Martin L. Sweeney (1885-1960) Rights Amendll!ent. was a longtime. fixture of Ohio and Like so many of his fellow law stu-. ·Polk founded · national politics. Sweeney wmked as a dents, Harry Franklin ~ayer (1875- longshoreman and construction work~r 1952), Cleveland Law School Class. of . the Cleveland while studying law. In 1923 he won a 1899, was the son of immigrants. Un .. A~ademy of-, seat on the Cleveland Municipal Court, like them, however, Payer came to law and in 1930 he was elected to the U.S. school with a summa cum laude Trial Attorneys Congress on the Democratic ticket. bachelor's degree 'from Adelbert Col Sweeney angered the Cuyahoga lege. Famous for speaking his father's -and is remem- County Democratic Party loyalists; native Czech as well as Polish, Italian, -bered for his however, when during the. 1932 Na French, Latin, and Gree1<, the gifted tional Convention, he threw his sup yourig attorney caught the attention of wor.k as editor port to Franklin Roosevelt rather than ·Tom Johnson who hir'ed Pay,er to di to Al Smith, the p~rty's favorite. Los rect the tirst Johnson mayoral cam on ne~ghborhood ..: . ing a 1933 bid in the Democratic may paign (1901) and then ap.pointed him oral primary, he further distan~ed him assistant city solicitor under Newton D. ·and corporate : self from the party by voting for the Baker. Leaving city government he built ' newspapers and Republican candidate. His support of a reputation as one of the city's top Roosevelt did not lorig survive; despite criminal and personal injury· lawyers newsletters. his disputes with the party, Sweeney and was eventuaJ!y se~lor partner in was re-elected-to Congress in 1934 and the firm of Payer, Winch, Minshall and 1936, remaining there until his defeat · Clark. He was a ~ounder and President · in 1942. Defeated as well in the 1944· of the Cuyahoga County Bar Associa Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys Ohio gubernatorial primary, Sweeney· tion. In 1933-34 Payer worked in Presi and is remembered for his work as edi retired from politics into private·prac dent Franklin-D. Roosevelt's adminis tor on· neighborhood and corporate tice with his son Robert. tration as Assistant Secretary of State. newspapers and newsletters. John A. Toomey (1889-1950) . Among so many worldly rewards Payer · From a harsh childhood, Samuel earned und~rgraduate (1910) and mas never lost pride in his Czech heritage,· H. Silbert (1883-1976), Cleveland Law ters degrees (1912) from John Carroll serving as President of the Czech Club School Class of 1907, learned the value University, a l~w degree from Cleveland of America, entertaining the' President of hard work. ·Immigrating to the USA Law School (1913), and an M.D. from of Czechoslovakia in his Cleveland with his widowed mother from Kiev, Western Reserve University · Med~cal home, and traveling to Prague in 1920 Ukraine, in 188Q, he peddled newspa School ·(1919). Toomey had a long ca- · to deliver a July 4th address in Bohe pers and worked in an ink fa_ctory: Later reer in medicine and in medical teach mian and English to a massiv~ crowd he made something of a name for him ing, specializing in pediatric and cori, of over 60,000. ' self a:s an amateu'r boxer before mov tagious diseases. From 1920:until1950 · Another son of a Czech immigrant, ing west to work on the railroads. he taught at Western. Reserve Medical Franklin A. Polk (1911-1991), Cleve Silbert was a fledgling attorney wheri School and is acclaimed as one of the land Law School Class of 1939, was the in-1912 Newton D. Baker, by then the first physiCians to locate the etiology recipient of many awards during his Mayor of Cleveland, appointed Silbert of poliomyelitis in the gastrointestinal lifetime, including an award from the assistant police prosecutor. Silbert dis system rather than in the respiratory National Association of ~ riminal De tinguished himself in his office by es system. fense Lawyers and the American Judi tablis}1ing a novel conciliation program One of the first African-AmeriCan cature Society's Herbert Haley Citation for settling disputes. From 1915 till women admitted to the Ohio bar was a Fal/1996 2s (1884-1968), together with her sister feminist, attorney and politician. As a Clara E. Westropp, founded the young woman Ms. Wing entered Bryn country's first savings bank run for and Mawr College but was forced to with by women (1922). In 1935 the bank was draw when her father suffered finan reorganized under a federal charter and cial reversals. She worked as industrial renamed the Women's Federal Savings and financial secretary of the Cleveland and Loan Association. Lillian Westropp YWCA and later as the general secre was president from 1936-1957 and tary and member of the.Board of Trust chairman ofthe board from 1936 until ees of the New York YWCA. Returning her death. In addition to her business to Cleveland in 1922, she enrolled in interests, Westropp had a private law the Cleveland. Law School. and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1926. In 1923 and in 1925 she ran for and Was elected to terms on the Cleveland City Council, Beginning as a . only the second woman ever to serve on the Council, where she soon distin . $45-a-month guished herself as a champion of Hazel Mountain Waiker women's causes. When her terms were Cleveland Law School alumna of the elementary school up, she continued her advocacy of class of 1919, Hazel Mountain Walker teacheTJ Walker women and children as executive sec (1889-1980). According to the contribu retary of the Consumers' League of tors to the Dictionary of Cleveland Bi became the first Ohio, promoting minimum wage guar ography. Walker never intended to antees and protection of the workplace practice law; rather she intended to African America'} rights of women and children in indus prove that "black women coul~ become principal try. From 1937 until1953 she served as lawyers." Walker's law degree was pre the first regional attorney for the Cleve ceded by a teaching certificate from the of a land Social Security office and until Board of Education's Normal Tr<~;ining 1956 maintained a private practice. School and bachelor's and master's de Cleveland school grees from Case Western Reserve ·uni versity. Walker, who had twice married Two other names belong to this Cleve two postal workers with the identical practice until 1931 when she accepted land-Marshall era, Melville Vickery surname of Walker, had a keen interest an app~ntmeni: to fill a seat on the (1890-1937) and the Honorable Lee E. in theater, was active in Karamu House Cleveland Municipal Court, a position Skeel (1888-1968). Judge Willis and appeared in many local theater to which she was {egularly reelected Vickery's son, Melville Vickery, whose productions. until her retirement in 1957. She was LL.B. cum laude (1914) and M.A. (1928) Her real calling was in education, one of the first women accepted into were both. from the Cleveland Law however, especially in teaching the . the Cleveland Bar Association and the School, was elevated from professor to children of non-English-speaking par first to serve on its executive commit dean on the death of his father. Unfor ents and in tutoring black children tee. A member of the Cuyahoga County tunately, he survived Judge Vickery by newly emigrated from the south. Be Democratic Party, she helped organize only five years, dying in 1937 at the ginning as a $45-a-month elementary the Women's Lawyers Club of Cleve age of 4 7. Following his death the Hon school teacher, she became the first Af land, the League of Women Voters, the· orable Lee Skeel, a 1912 summa cum rican-American principal of a Cleveland Women's City Club, the Business and laude alumnus of the Cleveland Law: school, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1936 Professional Women's Club, and many School, later Common Pleas Court and George Washington Carver in other women's political, business, and Judge (1930-41) and Judge and Chief 1954. In addition she was active in the charitable organizations. Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals County Republic~n party and a mem No history of Cleveland that men (1941-67), succeeded Melville Vickery. ber of its executive committee; she was tions Cleveland Law School founder the Skeel began teaching at the law school one of the first black women admitted Honorable F.]. Wing fails to mention in 1926; from 1937 until1946 Ii.e served into the Women's City Club. his daughter, Cleveland Law School as Dean and President. He remained Cleveland Law School Class of 1926 alumna, Marie Remington Wing active in law school affairs throughout 1915 alumna Lillian M. Westropp (1885-1982), a prominent Cleveland the sixties and was a well-regarded 26 Law Notes scholar in both academic and legal should control the school" (qtd. Samad its LL.B., tuition had risen to $100, and circles,· the author of Skeel's Ohio Ap 185). Thus, by the opening of the 1927 the law school had a new address, 1336 pellate Law (19~8); Ohio Criminal Law school year; Baldwin-Wallace's name Engineers Building, located, according (1960), and Baldwin's Ohio Civil had disappeared from the bulletin. to the bulletin of 1926, "in the heart of Manual (1962). There were other changes i~ the new the city, mid-way between the Federal By 1926, according to a notice in bulletin as well: In 1905, the college ad Court House and the new County the Cleveland Press, the Cleveland Law mitted students with a "good common Court, and easily accessible by street car School had graduated over 1,600 stu school education." When the Ohio Su from any portion of Cuyahoga or ad dents including, tJ;le article continues, pre~e Court ruled that no-one could joining counties." "a majority of the judges oil the mu take the bar who had not finished high . The world of 1927 was a wearier nicipal and common pleas court school, the Cleveland Law School had world than that bustling one that saw benches." In that year,- the law school the close of the century. A dour·and pu severed its ties with Baldwin-Wallace in ~~~~~.. ~ - ~•. ~... ~ - ~~~- ~~-- ~- ~~~ _. ritanical President Calvin Coolidge had (Works consulted on this article include: Cleveland: The Best Kept Secret. George Condon (1980); The Cleveland 200. Thomas Kelly et aL (1996); Directory of American Judges, Charles Liebman (1995); A History of Cleveland and It's Environs (1918); Who's Who in Jurisprudence, John William Leonard, (1925); A History of the Courts and Lawyers of Ohio, Carrington T. Marshall (1934); History of the Bench and Bar of Northern Ohio, the Honorable William B. Neff(1921); Cleveland the Making of a City, William Rose, .(1950); A History of Legal Education in Ohio. Stanley A. Samad (1972); The EncyClopedia of Cleveland History (1987, 1996) and The Dictionary of Cleveland Biography (1996), David D. Van Tassel and .John ]. Grabowski, eds.; the Cleveland Press archives at Cleveland State University Library. Persons ·consulted include Bourne Dempsey, Esq.; Cleveland-Marshall Law Library Director Michael Slinger; Cleveland-Marshall Reference Services Librarian Marie Rehmar, and CSU Library Archi vist William Becker, and Fairview Park Regional Librarian Mary Ann-Shipman. Fall1996 27 - . _The Cleveland-Marshall College . -·· of Law Centennial InaugU:ration ' ·-. The Honorable Janet Reno United States Attorney General , ·' ·Invited.Speaker . Monday, September 30, 1996 Time to be announced . The Cleveland - St~te University . Music and -Communications Building 2001 Euclid Avenue Oust east of the Law Building) Cleveland, Ohio , . - The Honorable George W. White '55 Chief Judge· U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio Chair, Cleveland-Marshall Centennial Committee 28 Law Notes CMLAA MOURNS DEATH OF and ended in triumph as he looked back on a career marked by a succes THREE DISTINGUISHED JURISTS sion of victories. Stokes had served in the Ohio General Assembly for six years when he was elected Mayor of Cleve It is with deep regret that the Law writer, Judge Rocker was editor, pub land in 1968, the first African-Ameri Alumni Association acknowledges the lisher, reporter and chief of production can to become mayor of a major Ameri death of three of its most prominent for The Chronicle, and the author of a can city. Retiring from public office in jurists, Hon. Leo A. Jackson 'SO, Hon. textbook for police officers offering 1972, Stokes moved to New York City Manuel M. Rocker '33, and Hon. Carl advice on becoming effective court where he became that city's first black B. Stokes '56. room witnesses. Judge Rocker is sur T.V. anchorman. Returning to Cleve vived by his daughter, Hon. Linda land, he re-entered public life when he Judge Leo A. Jackson began his career Rocker Silverberg '83; sons, Andrew was elected to the bench of the Cleve in public service as a City Councilman and Jonathon; eight grandchildren; land Municipal Court. He was then ap in 1957, a position he held for 13 years. three great-grandchildren; a sister; and pointed Ambassador to the Seychelles A champion of civil rights, he received a brother. Contributions in his memory Islands by President Clinton. At each extensive media attention during his can be made to the Judge Manuel turning of his career -legislator, mayor, freshman term because of his condem Rocker Scholarship Fund at the Cleve jurist, ambassador - he remained true nation of what he believed to be inad land-Marshall College of Law. to a vision of an America that is a place equate police response and poor city • of opportunity for all peoples. He is services in his ward. Although offered One of the country's most beloved survived by his wife, two sons, two an appointment to the Cleveland Mu black leaders, the Honorable Carl B. daughters, a stepson, and his brother, nicipal Court midway through his sec Stokes '56, died in Cleveland on April U.S. Representative, the Honorable ond term by Governor Michael DiSalle, 3, 1996. Stokes's life b Louis Stokes '53. Judge Jackson declined, as he felt that his constituents would be best served if he remained on Council. He was elected to the Court of Appeals in 1970, where he served for 15 years. Judge Jackson was a Life Member and Hon For nearly a century, orary Trustee of the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association, and an active a preferred choice in participant in many of its functions. retirement living. Judge Jackson is survived by a daugh ter, Linda Sowell; a son, Leonard A.; Assisted care four grandchildren; and a brother. • • Judge Manuel M. Rocker's legal career Nursing was inspired by his father, a Cleveland • Law School alumnus, whom he joined SHARING IN Temporary care in legal practice in 1933. He served as a City Prosecutor under Chief Prosecu CLEVELAND's • tor Eliot Ness for seven years and was Care for involved in creating the Cleveland Po HERITAGE the memory lice Academy. Judge Rocker also started impaired a printing business with his brother, Elmer, which he operated while con The A.M. McGregor Home 14900 Private Drive tinuing to practice law until his ap (216)-851-8200 pointment to Judge of the Shaker Heights Municpal Court in 1968. He Amasa Stone House served on the bench until 1981 when iic!Mc(jregor 975 East Boulevard Ohio's mandatory age restrictions (216) 451-1884 A DISTINGUISHED RETIREMENT COMMUNITY forced him into retirement. An avid Fall1996 29 HOLD THIS DATE Thursday, October 1 7, 1996 5:00P.M. A Gala Reception Honoring Cleveland-Marshall Alumni and Alumnae judges Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Moot Court Room 1801 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio THE HONORABLE GEORGE W. WHITE '55 Chief judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio Chair, Cleveland-Marshall Centennial Committee Image is Everything! 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Former C-M Professor Norman Donna Andrew B. Miller, who taught at the Col Franklin Polk Award for Public Service lege of Law for 41 years, is cel David Arena ebrating his 85th birthday on Oc Stacey McKinley Michael Gareau tober 7, 1996. His daughter has J. Patrick Browne Thomas O'Donnell requested that letters and cards Award for Academic Excellence Robert Patton be sent to her dad so that she can Laura Roman make an album for him. Please Rachel Schmelzer Michael Ryan send your birthday greetings to Susan Yarb Leo Rossmann Professor Miller c/o Carol Myers, Award for 12201 Wood Duck Place, Temple Civic Achievement Terrace, Florida 33617. 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Call our ticket hotline at (216) 687-4848 to set-up your '96-97 Game Plan- The Best Sports Ticket in Town!!! GO VIKINGS !!! ROLLJE MASSIMINO • CSU Head Basketball Coach Fa ll 1996 31 NEW FACULTY legislative and regulatory questions in law school, Visiting Professor Stewart FULL TIME FACULTY health policy in New York State. He was an Assistant Law Director for the Assistant Professor Joan Flynn has testified before Congressional corh City of Cleveland and, later, for the City Professor Flynn graduated first in her mittees and NIH panels, and has often of East Cleveland. She joined the ad class with a B.A. been interviewed on national media ministrative staff of the College of Law in psychology such as "All Things Considered," the in 1990, serving as Assistant Dean fo r from Grinnel "Larry King Show," and the "Studs Student Affairs. ln the 1995-96 school College in 1982 Terkel Almanac." At the College of Law year, she will teach Criminal Procedure and with highest he will teach Biomedical Ethics. and Professional Responsibility. h onors from New York Uni Assistant Professor Kevin O'Neill ADJUNCT FACULTY versity School of Professor O'Neill completed his under Law in 1987. graduate work at San Francisco State Greg Gordillo Following a two University in 1977 with a major in Film Mr. Gordillo is a civil litigator in a ma year c lerkship and minor in Art History; his 1984].D. jor Cleveland law firm whose practice with a U.S. dis is from Case Western Reserve Univer is concentrated in the areas of commer trict judge, Professor Flynn worked for sity. He has extensive trial and appel cial and employment law; h e has the city of Chicago and the National late experience in private practice and drafted briefs for state and federal trial Labor Relations Board (NLRB) . Profes as the Ohio Legal Director of the ACLU. courts, Ohio courts of appeals, and the sor Flynn will teach Civil Procedure and He previously taught as an adjunct and United States Supreme Court. He is an Labor Law, Civil Procedure and Admin as a visiting professor here. Professor alumnus of Cleveland-Marshall and istrative Law. O'Neill will teach Contracts, Evidence will teach Advanced Brief Writing. and Externships. Eaker-Hostetler Professor of Law Andris (Andy) Nikiforous Samuel Gorovitz Assistant Professor Kunal M. Parker Professor Nikiforous's B.A. is from Case Professor Gorovitz completed his un Professor Parker holds an undergradu Western Reserve University. His ] .D. is dergraduate work at the Massachusetts ate degree in Economics from Harva rd from Cleveland-Marshall. Presently the Institute of Technology where he ma magna cum laude and received his ].D. Executive Director of Lutheran Housing jored in Humanities and Science. He from Harvard Law School cum laude in Corporation, Mr. Nikiforous has devel received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from 1994. His legal experience includes oped two major housing acquisitions, Stanford University; his dissertation working for The Lawyers Collective in has been involved with rehabilitations was entitled Deductive Models for Bombay, india, and for Cleary, Gottlieb and sale initiatives for low and moder Causal Explanation. Professor Gorovitz in New York City. He will teach Prop ate income buyers and five new hous is presently Professor of Philosophy and erty and Bankruptcy. ing construction projects in several Professor of Public Administration at Cleveland neighborhoods. He will teach Syracuse University, where he was Dean Assistant Professor David Snyder Legal Developments in Housing. of Arts and Sciences from 1986 to 1993. Professor David Snyder graduated cum His scholarly interests center on de laude with a B.A. degree in History at Gail White cision-making in health care and spe Yale University in 1988 and was ranked Professor White's B.A. is from Reed cifically on the values that should in first among the 306 graduates of Tulane College. Her J.D. is from the Univer form those decisions. He has worked Law School in 1991. After clerking for sity of Akron. She is an Attorney with on such matters for three decades. His a U.S. Court of Appeals Judge, Profes the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and books, highly influential in the devel sor Snyder joined a major D.C. law firm. Staff Counsel for the American Civil opment of the fi eld of bioethics, in He will teach Contracts and Commer Liberties Union of Cleveland. Ms . clude Doctors' Dilemmas: Moral Prob cial Law. White has experience in training attor lems and Medical Care and, most re neys in the areas of consumer law, liti cently, Drawing the Line: Life. Death, Visiting Professor Melody]. Stewart gation planning, fair housing, garnish and Ethical Choices in an American Melody Stewart's undergraduate de ment and replevin and federal litiga Hospital. Since 1988 he has been, by gree in music theory and composition tion. She will teach Pre-Trial Practice. appointment of former Governor is from the University of Cincinnati Cuomo, a member of the New York College-Conservatory of Music; her J.D. Sonali Bustamante Wilson State Task Force on Life and the Law, degree is from Cleveland-Marshall Col Professor Wilson's B.A. is from Boston which has done influential work on lege of Law. Following graduation from Continued on page 41 32 Law Notes TOPPING OFF THE NEW LAW LIBRARY Construction workers, well-wishers, Trustees Vice Chair john ]. Boyle, friends, faculty and staff of the Col Cleveland-Marshall Visiting Commit lege of Law cheered loudly as mem tee Chair George]. 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Renaissance Cleveland Hotel Public Square Saturday, October 19, 1996 Cocktail Reception and Dinner 6:30P.M. SHARE GOOD TIMES WITH OLD FRIENDS ... with a chance to make new ones!!! INVITATIONS HAVE BEEN MAILED. If you have not been contacted, please call the Law Alumni Office at (216)687-2368. Alumni Happenings 1960 1975 for the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section . Gibbons also spoke on CMLAA Honorary Trustee Dale Lynn A. Lazzaro has been elected Presi "Chapter 11 fro m Soup to Nuts: A Pre Powers was appointed to the Cuyahoga dent of the Cuya hoga County Bar As sentation of Basic Con cepts in Chap County Pu blic Library Board for a four sociation . The installation luncheon ter 11" at a Federal Bar Association year term. was held at the Sheraton City Centre seminar entitled "Bankruptcy for the with Sam Reese Sheppard, co-author of General Practitioner" held in May. Gib CMLAA Life Member Don C. fl er is the "Mockery of Justice: The True Story of bons heads Kahn Kleinman's Bank author or "Ohio Personal Injury Prac the Sheppard Murder Case", as guest ruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice tice: Successful Trial Strategies," pub speaker. Mr. Lazzaro is a principal with Group. lished by Banks Baldwin. the law firm of Meyers, Hentemann, Schneider & Rea Co., L.P.A. Stuart I. Garson, managing partner of 1967 Garson & Asociates Co., L.P.A., has been Gary H. Goldwasser of Reminger & 1976 elected President of Park Synagogue of Reminger Co., L. P.A. was a speaker at The Ohio CLE Institute fe atured War which he has been a life -long member. an Ohio CLE Institute seminar entitled ren M. Enders and Jim L. Malone of "Medical Malpractice Advan ced Issues." Reminger & Reminger Co., L.P.A. as Judge Judith Kilbane Koch is a candi speakers on "Medical Malpractice Ad date for re-election to the Cuyahoga 1972 vanced Issues." County Common Pleas Court in the Auxiliary Bishop A. James Quinn of the ovember general election. Judge Koch Archdiocese of Cleveland led the third assumed the bench in December of Community Prayer breakfast for the Ver 1992 and was unopposed in the May milion Chamber of Commerce in April. primary. The breakfast is designed to bring to gether citizens from all aspects of the Attorney Larry James has written a community for a time of prayer, reflec paper on jury selection that has been tion, and conversation. Quinn, who published by t he Am erican Ba r Asso earned h is law degree at Cleveland ciation and included in a national train Marshall, received a doctorate in Canon ing m anual for attorneys. ]arne , a part Law at the Pontifical Lateran University M. Colette Gibbons ner at Crabbe, Brown, ]ones, Potts & in Rome. Quinn has served on several Schmidt, originally wrote about voir dire business advisory boards including Soci Attorney M. Colette Gibbons, a prin as a practical guide in 1995. It was re cipal with the firm of Kahn, Kleinman, ety Bank, Our Lady of the Wayside, Oster printed in local bar publications and Yanowitz & Arnson Co., L.P.A., was a Electric, and Midwest Bank & Trust. distributed widely. ow it is published panelist fo r a real property program at in The Practice Checklist Manual on Trial the American Bar Association 's annual Preparation by The American Law Insti 1974 meeting in Orlando, Florida, entitled tute of the American Bar Association. "It's Not the Mon ey, It's the Money!" Timothy f. Kasparek Life Member Timothy J . Kasparek of Reminger & Reminger Co., L.P.A. will chair the Cleveland-Mars hall Law Alumni Association 's CLE seminar re garding insurance coverage on ovem ber 9, 1996. Fall 1996 37 Alumni Happenings Emmett Moran is a candidate for the CMLAA's First Vice President Frederick Cuyahoga County Common Pleas N. Widen, a principal with the firm of Court. Mr. Moran has tried more than Kahn, Kleinman, Yanowitz & Arnson 250 cases, practicing ten years as an As Co., L.P.A., gave a presentation entitled sistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor "Exploiting the Charitable Dollar: followed by nearly ten years as a civil Charitable Giving Techniques Using litigator. Retirement Benefits" at a charitable tax seminar held at the Jewish Community John Oack) W. Waldeck, Jr. has joined Federation. Widen also participated in the Cleveland-based law firm of Walter a panel of the Tax Section of the Ameri & Haverfield as partner. Mr. Waldeck can Bar Association in Washington, Clifford C. Masch brings 20 years of real estate-related D.C. in a program entitled "Basic Ad Clifford C. Masch of Reminger & experience to the firm. justment for InsolventS Corporations." Reminger Co., L.P.A. will speak at the Professional Conference on Industrial 1977 1982 Hygiene in Nashville, Tennessee, in October. Patricia Vail, now residing in Jackson Rubenstein, Novak, Einbund & Pavlik ville, Florida, retired from CSX Trans announce that Suzanne M. Nigro has portation in June for a one year assign become Of Counsel to the firm, limit 1984 ment in Kazakhstan with the ABA's ing her practice to Employee-side La Central and Eastern European Law Ini bor Employment Law. tiative (CEELI). Rheba Heggs published a comment in 1978 the ABA Public Contract Law Journal, CMLAA Honorary Trustee Tom Winter, 1996, entitled "What to Expect After Adarand". Colaluca, with the firm of Johnson Baiza & Angelo has a satellite office in Boca Raton, Florida, but spends most Nancy M. Russo has been named to the U.S. Deparment of Justice Insurance ~ of his time in Cleveland concentrating Fraud Task Force of the Northern Dis Charlotte Watts Nee/ on business and environmental law. & Madeline Colaluca is also in the restaurant busi trict of Ohio and the Ohio Legislative ness as a co-owner of two downtown Insurance Fraud Task Force. Ms. Russo Congratulations to David W. Neel and hot spots, Marlin and Pig Heaven, on has been invited to speak on issues of his wife, Charlotte Watts Nee!, on the Advanced Criminal Defense Tech birth of their first child, Madeline, in E. 6th St. niques at the 1996 National Health March. Madeline's grandmother is the Lawyers' Association Annual Confer Associate Editor of Law Notes, Louise 1980 ence on Fraud and Abuse in Washing Mooney. Dennis]. Polke has become Of Coun ton, D.C., in October. sel to the firm of Rubenstein, Novak, Patrick Haggerty has been elected Einbund & Pavlik in general practice, 1983 a partner in the Cleveland office of including civil and criminal litigation. The Honorable Paul Brickner, Admin Thompson Hine & Flory P.L.L. Haggerty istrative Law Judge, Social Security Ad is a member of the firm's litigation prac 1981 ministration, was a panelist in a Social tice area and focuses his practice on cli The George Gund Foundation recently Security Law Seminar sponsored by the ent representation throughout the coun named Robert B. Jaquay as Associate Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers in Co try in matters involving health care, Director. In addition to his administra lumbus. Brickner's comments were product liability, lender liability, com tive duties, he will oversee grant-mak published as a column in the June, mercial contracts and insurance law. ing in economic and community 1996, issue of the Journal of the Fed development and civic affairs. Before eral Bar Association, The Federal Lawyer 1985 joining the Foundation, he served as as "Focus On: A View from the Bench." Life Member Diane Homolak, her hus manager of the Cuyahoga County Plan band, Jim and son, Jimmy welcome the ning Commission's program planning birth of son, Michael Edward, born at division. 7 lbs. 5 oz. 38 Law Notes Alumni Happenings 1986 law matters and general corporate rep lege: Why the Absolute Privilege Should resentation. be Expanded" in the DePaul Law Review (Spring 1996). 1990 CMLAA Trustee james Tanner has been Lili Kaczmarek has been appointed appointed a magistrate of the Domes Executive Director of the Ohio State tic Relations Court. Dental Board. 1991 1992 Brian D. Sullivan has joined the law firm Daniel]. Levin of Morris Levin Co. is of Reminger & Reminger Co., L.P.A. Mike Meszaros representing plaintiffs Kris Ford and Archie Blaine in a case filed in the Mike Meszaros, recent recipient of the Carmen R. Adams has joined Calfee, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Meritorious Honor Award from Secre Halter & Griswold in the firm's Intel Court, which ordered a percentage of lectual Property Section. tary of State Warren Christopher for his the proceeds from the album "Faces of untiring efforts in providing assistance Death," by the rap group Bone Enter in the aftermath of the airplane crash Thomas W. Adams has joined the prises, to be placed in a trust account Houston firm of Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, in Cali, Colombia, has been continu for plaintiffs pending the outcome of ing his efforts. In April Meszaros was Hill & LaBoon, L.L.P. as an associate in the case. Among other things in the in Dakar, Senegal, providing assistance the Intellectual Property & Technology fraud and conversion suit against to U.S. citizens and their families who Section. Adams holds an M.S . degree Kermit Henderson and his record labels, were evacuated from Liberia. in Organic/ Analytical Chemistry. Ford is seeking executive production fees and Blaine is seeking compensation 1987 for producing, arranging and 1993 Lakewood Mayor Madeline Cain has songwriting services. Patrick S. Lavelle has become Of appointed Michael Skindell, an asso Counsel to the firm of Rubenstein, ciate in the law firm of Dennis Seaman Novak, Einbund & Pavlik. Lavelle will & Associates Co., L.P.A., to a seven year continue in a general practice of law, term on the Citizens Advisory Commit including civil and criminal litigation. tee of Lakewood. The Lakewood Demo cratic Club has elected Skindell as their First Vice President. The club is a so cial/political organization that works to advance democratic candidates both locally and nationally. Eileen Gallagher is a candidate for Steven M. Moss Judge of the Cuyahoga County Court Steven M. Moss has joined Kahn, of Common Pleas, General Divison in Kleinman, Yanowitz & Arnson Co., the seat now held by Judge Carl Char L.P.A. as an associate. Moss was editor Margaret P. VanBuskirk acter '61 who is retiring from the of the Cleveland-Marshall Law Review bench. and the recipient of awards for out Margaret P. VanBuskirk has joined the standing student in civil procedure and firm of Kahn, Kleinman, Yanowitz & DiLeone, Nischwitz, Pembridge & legal writing. Arnson Co., L.P.A. as an associate and Chriszt Co., L.P.A. announce the addi member of the firm's Corporate Prac tion of CMLAA Trustee Dick Ambrose John B. Lewis and Lois]. Cole of the tice Group. Her areas of practice will to the firm. Ambrose, former middle Cleveland office of Arter & Hadden, include securities law, mergers and ac linebacker for the Cleveland Browns have published "Defamation Actions quisitions, and general business law. and formerly with McDonald, Hopkins, Arising from Arbitration and Related Burke & Haber Co. L.P.A., has a back Dispute Resolution Procedures-Pre Paul B. Daiker and Larry W. Zukerman ground in all phases of business and emption, Collateral Estoppel and Privi- announce the partnership of Zukerman general civil litigation, employment & Daiker, L.L.C., with offices located at Fa/11996 39 Alumni Happenings 2000 East Ninth Street, Su ite 700 in CMLAA Trustee Karen E. Hamilton, an search conducted by New York State leveland. attorney practicing with the law firm Senator Robertj. Bogg ' office uggest of eltman, einberg & Rei Cb., that a change in the law i plausible. Congratulations to Ann Ale ander L.P. ., has been named to a three-year Gagnier i planning to mo e back to and hu band, Andrew, on the birth of term on the Exe uti e ouncil of the ew York to take the bar exam. ! their fir t child, Evan, in pril. Young Lawyers' ction of the leve though he cannot benefit from the bill's land Bar As ociation. Hamilton concen pa age him elf, Gagnier hopes to re ongratulations to Linda and Field trate her practice in bankruptcy law. turn and te tify before legi Jators. ing Ep tein on the birth of their ec ond child, Bram, in May who join big Peter Gagnier i trying to change the Mary Ro ley has joined the firm of sister, Dara, age 2. law in the state of ew York. agnier, Arter & Hadden as an a ociate in their attending Cleveland-Marshall through Cleveland office. Rossley wi ll practice 1994 a ew York state grant sending those with the firm's litigation department, with learning disabilitie to law school, including m edical profes ional and Barbara Greenberg was a speaker at a wa robbed in 1994 of personal prop medical products liability. seminar on Educational Rights of erty including hi lap-top computer hildren with Learning Di abilities, which was equipped with a special pro spon ored b the Learning Di abili gram allowing him to work through hi ties ociation of Greater le eland. di ability in clas e . Having learned that a portion of an lo e recouped Euge n e E. Clair join Bene ch, through litigation would go to a law Friedlander, Coplan & ronoff a an yer, he decided to handle the situation a sociate in the Intellectual Property him elf and avoid what he con idered Practi e Group, focusing on prepara an unfair situation for the victim. Re- tion of patent applications and patent prosecution. Kenneth Stump has joined the firm of rter Hadden a an a o iate work- A D v A T A G E ing in the firm's Worker ' ompen a tion Practice Group. We analyze the strength & weakne es of our case and ad ise you of the opportunitie . Saleem Moghal is Assistant Director of Law for the City of Cleveland in the civil division's labor and employment p section. E X E R E N c E Business valuations Analysis of financial 1995 Damage analysis statements and data David H. Seed is practicing with Earnings losses Partnership and shareholder Kadi h, Hinkel & Weibel in le eland Bankruptcy disputes where hi practice focu e on wills & Insurance claims Breach of contract trust , real e tate law, property, tate and local tax law and corporate law. Ra R d gers has been admitted to the Contact cott Finerman, CPA, JD or Andy Finger, CPA Florida Bar and has accepted a po ition as an istant Public Defender with the at 579-1040 to discuss your case at no cost or obligation. Public Defender's office for the 15th Judicial ircuit in West Palm Beach. Cohen & Companv ~•-' 1 ' I :.....:::~ I) • ., Mel is a Ka Wagner married Anthon DeFren h in Findlay in Ma . The couple Cle eland • Youngstown • Akron • Mentor • Lorain County will make their new home in Tul a, Oklahoma. 40 Law ate 19 2 .. . 1993.. . New Faculty from page 31 University; her A.L.M. is from Harvard University, and h er J.D. is from 1994.. . Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Wilson has represented con sumer complainants through settle 1995.. . ment conferences and proceedings be fore an Administrative Law Judge, and For An Unprecedented 4th drafted consent decrees and pleadings. She is a former Senior Litigation Asso Consecutive Year, Judson Has ciate at Arter and Hadden specializing Been Named One of the 20 Best in products liability, construction con tract and school and public law. Pro Continuing Care Retirement fessor Bustamente will teach Advanced Brief Writing.• Communities in America! Reader's Digest's New IN MEMORIAM Choices magazine has once again chosen Gilbert Weil '30 Judson Retirement Com George N. Schleimer '41 munity as one of the 20 Hon. Leo A. jackson 'SO Hubert W. Franks '53 Best Continuing Care Murray S. Fruchter '53 Retirement Communities John]. Wargo '53 in the entire country. It's Edward I. Stillman '53 the fourth year in a row- and we're the only one in Leo R. Hall '57 northern Ohio to earn this outstanding recognition. Paul R. Gaudin '59 Judson offers Cleveland's finest retirement lifestyle, Albert R. Kehoe, Jr. '60 and we're right here in University Circle. With Martin}. Sammon '61 America's best at your doorstep, why would you FrankL. Gallucci, Jr. '71 settle for anything less? Come see why year after Robert B. Henn '72 Arlene C. Federman '77 year Judson remains the best! Geoffrey M. Schumer '80 John T. Birmingham '85 Michael J. Ertle '88 Joseph S. Walsh Judson Park 2181 Ambleside Rd . Judson Manor 1890 E. 107th St. In Cleveland's University Circle (216) 721-1234 Fa/11996 41 Faculty & Staff Happenings by Rosa M. DelVecchio under the title "Reap What You Sow." biases may affect both taxpayers' im Professor Beggs developed a clinical pressions of the contours of the pro The following presentations were de simulation exercise on the mandato'ry posed tax base and their behavioral re livered at the law school's Faculty Semi disclosure and meeting of the parties sponses to the savings incentive. nar Series for April: "Summary jury Tri required by Rule 26 of the Federal Rules als" by Professor Ann Woodley of the of Civil Procedure. The exercise has Pat McCoy published two articles: University of Akron Law School (joint been incorporated into the first semes "Banking System Stability and Sound with CWRU and Akron law schools); ter Fair Employment Practices Clinic ness" in Proceedings of the Second World "Corporate Morality Revisited" by Gre course work. Congress of Lithuanian Lawyers in June gory Mark; "Centennial/Development (accepted for publication in Related Activities" by Louise P. Paul Carrington delivered the invoca Lithuanian) and "The Erosion of the Dempsey and Steven H. Steinglass; tion at the Third An nual Diversity Con Business judgment Rule in Banking" in "Post-Colonial Theory and the Law" by ference at CSU in May. Bank Bailout Litigation News in May. Tayyab Mahmud. Phyllis Crocker spoke on "Investiga Karin Mika prepared the Case Law Gordon Beggs assisted Community tion and Pleadings for Post Conviction Supplement to LEARNING FROM THE ReEntry, a Lutheran ex-offender min Relief Proceedings" at the Ohio Death PENSION EXPERTS: DIVIDING PEN istry, in analyzing proposed legislation Penalty Seminar, a CLE program co SIONS I DIVORCE by Gary A. to restrict ex-offender employment. He sponsored by Theodore F. Stebbins, Shulman, a graduate of Cleveland also consulted with the organization on Esq., and the Cuya hoga County Crimi Marshall, and David I. Kelley and pub legal issues relating to an application nal Defense Lawyers Association and lished by John Wiley and Sons. to operate a U.S. Bureau of Prisons com held in Cleveland in May. Beverly J. munity corrections center and a pro Pyle also delivered a presentation at Heidi Gorovitz Robertson served on posed contract to place ex-offender care this seminar entitled "Post Conviction the local panel for the ABA Satellite teams in Cleveland public schools. He Relief Overview: The Process and the Seminar on Hazardous Waste and worked with area churches to consider Present Crisis," and Professor Pyle also Superfund: RCRA and CERCLA at the the establishment of a Christian legal published "Changes to Post-Conviction Crossroads, and she spoke o n aid program in Cleveland and drafted Relief and Death Penalty Appellate Pro brownfields redevelopment and the a paper on the subject entitled "Defend cedures: The ew Provisions and the proposed Ohio law on environmental the Rights of the Poor," which is being Potential Problems" in the OACDL Vin audit protection. circulated within the church commu dicator in the Fall. nity in Cleveland and Washington, Alan Miles Ruben gave the Distin D.C. Professor Beggs's article "Novel Louise P. Dempsey was invited to at guished Alumni Lecture at the Central Expert Evidence in Federal Civil Rights tend the Fourteenth An nual Meeting High School of Philadelphia in May Litigation" was the lead article in the of the Visiting urse Association of entitled "China in the 21st Century: first law review volume ever to be pub America in Bal Harbour, Florida, in The Emergence of the Dragon ." Cen lished on the worldwide web. The pub March. One of the workshops Dean tral, founded in 1838, is the second old lication occurred in April in connection Dempsey attended was "VNA est secondary school in the country and with a conference on Law and the Hometalk: A Model for Managing the only one authorized to confer the Internet held as part of the centennial Chronic Disease via Telecommunica degree of Bachelor of Arts upon its celebration of Washington College of tions." This is a joint venture of a state graduates. Law at American University. Professor of-the-art telemedicine program using Beggs gave a talk at a conference of the CSU as the support system fo r the VNA Frederic White received a dist in Christian Legal Society, held in Febru of Cleveland. guished service award in April from ary in Arrowhead Springs, California, CSU's Black Faculty and Staff Organi entitled "Writing About Proverbial David Forte coordinated a Conference zation. Dean White was the featured Practice," regarding his essay "Prover on Natural Law and Contemporary speaker at the City Club's Under 40- bial Practice: Legal Ethics from Old Tes Public Policy in April in Cleveland. Component for the Young Lawyer tament Wisdom," which was published Round Table in May. The Akron Board in Wake Forest Law Review in 1995. He Deborah A. Geier published an article of Realtors featured Dean White as the also published a condensation of hjs in Tax Notes entitled "Cognitive Theory speaker at the Prepare for American "Proverbial Practice" essay as the Per and the Selling of the Flat Tax" in which Home Week Fair Housing Luncheon in spective in the ABA Journal in March Professor Geier explores how perceptual April. 42 Law Notes ALUMNI OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES Vincent T. Lombardo '81 Hon. Edwin T. Hofstetter '52 Officers Dale H. Markowitz '75 Sheryl King Benford '79 President Patricia]. O'Donnell '82 RichardS. Koblentz '75 Deborah L. Hiller '7 5 William T. Plesec '71 Ann T. Mannen '80 President-Elect Laurence]. Powers '87 Hon. John Manos 'SO Tina E. Wecksler '85 Maria E. Quinn '79 Gary J. Maxwell '88 1st Vice President Stephen Rowan '80 Daniel R. McCarthy '54 Peter Russell '93 ]. Timothy McCormack '72 Frederick N. Widen '81 Charles Ruiz-Bueno '90 Hon. Timothy J. McGinty '81 2nd Vice President Michelle J. Sheehan '93 Hon. Ann McManamon 'SO Laura A. Williams '82 Melody]. Stewart '88 Hon. George McMonagle '30 Secretary Richard P. Stovsky '83 Howard Mishkind '80 David Ross '76 Marc Strauss '86 William T. Monroe '53 Treasurer James R. Tanner '91 Karen B. Newborn '76 Joseph B. Jerome '75 James Tavens '86 Hon. Donald C. Nugent '74 Immediate Past President Joseph Tegreene '84 Michael O'Grady '79 Elaine Walton '93 Herbert Palkovitz '68 Scott C. Finerman '87 Hon. John T. Patton '58 Hon. Ralph]. Perk, Jr. '83 Honorarv Trustees Leon M. Plevin '57 Trustees Hon. Anthony 6. Calabrese, Jr. '61 Hon. Thomas]. Pokorny '80 Deborah Akers '76 Thomas L. Colaluca '78 Dale D. Powers '60 Richard J .Ambrose '8 7 Hon. John E. Corrigan '68 RichardT. Reminger '57 Janet Burney '79 Hon. Timothy G. Cotner '68 Timothy J. Russert '76 Gregory F. Clifford '81 Hon. John J. Donnelly '69 Hon. Anthony]. Russo '77 Michael L. Climaco '72 Hon. Ann K. Dyke '68 Scott Spero '89 Mary Llamas Courtney '78 Jose Feliciano '75 Carl L. Stern '66 William J. Day '79 Hon. Robert A. Ferreri '79 Hon. Louis Stokes '53 JayS. Ehle '75 Hon. Stanley M. Fisher 'SO Hon. Kathleen A. Sutula '76 Marcia L. Fudge '83 Hon. Timothy Flanagan '71 John]. Sutula '53 Maribeth Gavin '84 Hon. John W. Galla&her '70 Emily M. Sweeney '81 Jayne H. Geneva '87 Susan L. Grage! 80 Donald F. Traci '55 Karen E. Hamilton '95 Terrance P. Gravens '77 Hon. Hans R. Veit '60 Megan Hensley '94 Hon. Leodis Harris '65 Gerald R. Walton '80 Dennis R. Lansdowne '81 Irving L. Heller '57 Hon. George W. White '55 Hon. Patricia A. Hemann '80 Robert I. Zashin '68 The Committee to Honor Judge Carl J. Character invites you to attend an affair saluting Carl J. Character as he retires from the Court of Common Pleas Proceeds to "benefit The Alton Lamaur Character Scholarship Fund Through The Cleveland Foundation Sunday~ November 10 ~ 1996 at Landerhaven For ticket information, call D . Character at 751-8000 Fa/11996 43 HOLD THIS DATE Friday, November 1, 1 996 Charles W. 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