Honor Roll of Donors 2002-2003 Reba Engler Daner, AB ’30, JD ’36 1911 – 2003 Reunion Committees We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the 2002-03 class reunion committees 50TH REUNION 25TH REUNION 20TH REUNION 10TH REUNION CLASS OF CLASS OF CLASS OF CLASS OF 1953 1977 1982 1992 Robert Earle Dooley Michael Robert Blynn Susan H. Aprill Michelle Jodi Bamdas Jeannette F. Hausler Dean C. Colson Lawrence Irwin Bieler Robert Lewis Bamdas David McDonald The Honorable Gill Sherryl Freeman Stephen Harlan Bittel Joseph Hovag Bogosian Charles Cay Papy, Jr. Benedict P. Kuehne David Lee Deehl Gennivieve O. Henriques G. Miriam Maer Diane Deighton Ferraro Gary S. Lesser Charles Cay Papy, III Julie Feigeles John C. Malloy Ronald Bennett Ravikoff Laurel Myerson Isicoff Lynne A. McLean Shapiro John W. Thornton, Jr. Kathy Marie Klock Harley S. Tropin The Honorable Jacqueline Hogan Scola 1953 Reunion 1977 Reunion at Lowe Art Museum 1982 Reunion 1992 Class Reunion Dean of Students, Jeannette Hausler, JD John W. Thornton, Jr., and Melinda S. Marilyn Emas, Hon. Kevin Emas, and Gary Lesser, and John C. Malloy III ’53, with classmates who marched in the Thornton Julie Feigeles Spring 2003 Commencement ceremony on May 18. If you made a contribution to the law school during the 2002-03 fiscal year, which began on June 1, 2002, and ended on May 31, 2003, and your name is missing from this report or incorrectly stated, please contact us. Until a correction can be published, please accept our sincere apology for the omission. CREDITS The Donor Report is published by the Office of Law Development and Alumni Relations of the University of Miami School of Law. Address correspondence to Donor Report, University of Miami School of Law, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, Florida 33124-8087. Telephone: (305) 284-3470. Email: [email protected] Web site: www.law.miami.edu Copyright 2003 University of Miami School of Law. All rights reserved. Message from The Dean In this Honor Roll professor; and the Professor Daniel E. With sadness at the loss of a true of Donors, it is my Murray Scholarship named for Professor friend, we note the passing of Reba Engler privilege once Emeritus Murray, long-time faculty Daner, AB ’30, JD ’36. Reba was a again to offer advisor to The University of Miami Law pioneering feminist, the only woman to recognition and Review. We extend heartfelt gratitude to graduate in the Law School Class of grateful acknowledgement to our alumni the alumni and friends who are working 1936. She maintained her affectionate and friends who have helped support the together to enlist gifts and donations to and generous support of her alma mater Law School during the past fiscal year. support these important new scholarships. throughout her long life, taking an active The Law School’s greatest strength is our part in the Law School community and Our students are extremely grateful community of loyal friends who give so its activities until shortly before her to receive scholarship awards, which generously of their time and talent as well death. Reba was a charming lady whose often make a life-changing difference for as gifts of financial support. In these presence enlivened many Law School them. As you meet some of these pages you will meet some of your friends gatherings. In a final act of great students in these pages, keep in mind that generosity, Reba made a substantial and colleagues and learn more about their it is your generosity and commitment that planned gift to the Law School from her support of the School. We also extend a make this vital assistance possible. warm welcome to new members of the estate. We will miss Reba Engler Daner. Dean’s Circle, a group of alumni and In addition to scholarships, your gifts This issue of the Honor Roll of Donors is friends who make an annual gift of help support the innovative, award- dedicated to her memory. $1,000 or more to the Law Annual Fund, winning Law School programs H.O.P.E., We are proud of the recognition and to a scholarship fund, or to a the Children & Youth Law Clinic, and accomplishments of our UM Law alumni programmatic activity of the Law School. the Center for Ethics & Public Service, as well as the much lauded Litigation Skills and friends, our talented faculty, and our The Law School’s greatest need is for Program and the Professional students. Most of all, we are gratified by scholarships to help recruit and support Opportunities Program. In these pages, the fine men and women of our Law the most deserving students. In this time you will learn about the many honors and School community who use their time of soaring educational costs, many of our awards earned by these fine public service and talents to help others in the finest best and brightest students would not be programs. Please keep in mind that all tradition of our profession. able to attend the Law School without these programs depend upon gifts and I know you share our pride in our financial assistance. In fact, you may be donations to continue their important UM Law community. We thank you for surprised to learn that approximately 85% work. the generosity that makes this possible. of our students receive some type of We hope we can continue to count on financial aid, including scholarships and As you may know, this fall the your support. Every gift counts and every loans, to help cover the cost of their legal University of Miami will launch gift helps. education. “Momentum: The Campaign for the University of Miami.” The Law School I look forward to seeing you often in I am pleased to announce the will participate in this university-wide the coming year. creation of two new scholarships: the funding campaign. I will keep you Professor Robert H. Waters Memorial advised of this endeavor as details become Scholarship honoring our beloved late available. his fall, the University will launch “Momentum: The Campaign for the University of Miami.” Within “ Tthis university-wide campaign, the School of Law is “ challenged to raise a portion of the total goal. The upcoming fundraising campaign is of great importance to the law school’s future. As members of the Law School community, we want to ensure that the law school continues to grow and reach new levels of recognition. We can all help by our continued financial support. Hilarie Bass, JD ’81, UM Trustee and Chair, School of Law Fundraising Campaign 1 Dedication of Reba Engler Daner Law Moot Courtroom Linette, Reba, and Jack Daner L to R, Jack Daner, Reba Engler Daner, AB ’30, JD ‘36, Engler Anderson, Baron de Hirsch Meyer and guest, and Dean Rafael Benitez, LLM ‘66 Reba Engler Daner Reba Engler Daner, pioneering female attorney and generous closest friends among the law deans was former dean and UM benefactor of the Law School, passed away in March 2003. Law Professor Mary Doyle. It was Mary Doyle who sought For decades, Reba Engler Daner was a near-legendary figure Reba’s assistance with her campaign to fund construction of a at the University of Miami School of Law. She earned her JD in substantial addition to the Law School’s library. Reba had a the Law School’s Class of 1936, the only female member of her special interest in libraries, especially those open to the public class at a time when few women dared to consider a career in the as is the UM Law Library. Her generous pledge of $2 million law. She was born in Key West, the only child of immigrant was an important leadership gift. In recognition of Reba’s parents. Reba admitted that her father urged her to go to law generosity and support, the Law School named a wing of the school, but she was a willing pupil. “I just wanted to become a Law Library addition in her honor and commissioned a portrait lawyer,” she once said. “I was happy to do it.” of Reba to hang in the library. At her Law School graduation, Reba was seven months This portrait, shown on the cover of this magazine, still pregnant and married to the late Leonard Epstein, a tax attorney. hangs in the Law Library to commemorate her generosity and The mother of two daughters, she took over Epstein’s law practice vision for the Law School. In a final act of great generosity, upon his death and spent long years balancing the demands of Reba made a substantial planned gift in the form of a remainder career and family. In all, Reba practiced law for some fifty years life estate to the Law School. This issue of the Honor Roll of before her retirement. Donors is dedicated to the memory of Reba Engler Daner, who Following the death of her first husband, Leonard Epstein, embodied the highest ideals of philanthropy. Reba married Jack L. Daner in 1948, and the handsome couple regularly attended community and Law School functions together until very recently. Jack predeceased Reba by a few months earlier this year. Although she never seemed to dwell on it, Reba was a female pioneer in many respects. She served in countless community, educational, and professional organizations, as well as religious and philanthropic endeavors. She was a director of the UM Alumni Association, a member of the Society of University Founders, a member of Iron Arrow, was listed in Who’s Who of American Women, member of the Florida Bar, and a founding member of Rho Beta Omicron, a public speaking fraternity, among many other achievements.