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SPRING 2005 ROBERTROBERT H.H. News from JACKSONACKSON Geoffrey R. Stone to Deliver Chautauqua Jackson Society Meets Institution’s Inaugural Jackson Lecture at the Supreme Court Chautauqua Institution and the Jackson Center One of the most notable have announced that events in the short life of the Professor Geoffrey R. Robert H. Jackson Center took Stone will deliver on place on February 15th in July 11, 2005, Washington, D.C., when Chautauqua Jackson Society members and Institution’s inaugural many others attended a Prof. Geoffrey Stone Robert H. Jackson Supreme Court Historical Lecture on the Society program in the court- Supreme Court of the United States. room of the Supreme Court of Professor Stone also will be the the United States. honored guest at the Jackson Thanks to the generous Society meeting that evening at the sponsorship of Chief Justice Jackson Center. William H. Rehnquist, who “For some time,” Greg Peterson was one of Justice Jackson’s explained, “we have believed that a law clerks during 1951-52, the Jackson Center President Greg Peterson with Senator Christopher summer program sponsored by Dodd and John Q. Barrett at the U.S. Supreme Court in February. attendees heard a lecture by Chautauqua Institution could be an Senator Christopher Dodd (CT) important new initiative. Because on his father Thomas J. Dodd’s work as Justice Jackson’s principal deputy in the Jackson Center honors the legacy the 1945-46 prosecutions of major Nazi war criminals before the International of a renowned former Supreme Military Tribunal trial in Nuremberg, Germany. The attendees also were honored Court Justice, it seemed especially by the presence of Associate Justice David H. Souter. appropriate that this program focus E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., vice president of the Supreme Court Historical on the Supreme Court itself at the Society and Justice Jackson’s final law clerk during 1952-54, presided at the summertime conclusion of its annual event. Mr. Prettyman introduced Jackson Center President Greg Peterson. Term, in the immediate wake of its Professor John Q. Barrett, the Jackson Center’s Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow, then latest decisions and developments. introduced Senator Dodd’s lecture with remarks on Justice Jackson, Thomas The Court and its decisions affect all Dodd and the paths that led them to Nuremberg. A reception in the Supreme Americans profoundly, and there is Court’s East and West formal conference rooms followed the program. no better place or time for a leading Senator Dodd recounted in his lecture that his father, who himself served expert to analyze that impact than two terms in the House of Representatives and two terms in the United States at Chautauqua Institution during its Senate in his distinguished career following Nuremberg, told his children summer season.” regularly that his work with Justice Jackson had profoundly influenced his life. Mr. Peterson said it is “extreme- ly fortunate” that Professor Geoffrey Senator Dodd’s and Professor Barrett’s lectures are available on the Stone has accepted Chautauqua Jackson Center web site, www.roberthjackson.org, or by mail. Institution’s invitation to deliver the inaugural Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court. Professor Stone is The Robert H. Jackson Society was inaugurated last year to meet twice the Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished each year, in the summer in the Jamestown area near the anniversary of Service Professor of Law at the Jackson’s July 26, 1946, Nuremberg summation, and in the winter in University of Chicago Law School. Washington, New York City or another location near the anniversary of He previously served as Dean of the Jackson’s February 13, 1892, birth. The Jackson Society’s first Washington event, —Stone, continued on page 2. at the Supreme Court, was deemed a great success by all who attended. New York State Bar Association and Jackson Center Dedicated Volunteer, Sponsor Book Review Contest; Author Jerry Spinelli John Sember, Dies and Dr. Helen Fagin Featured on April 5th and 6th The Jackson Center Nationally prominent author and Newberry Award winner mourns the loss of Jerry Spinelli visited the Jackson Center and spoke to over one of its most 600 middle school students and recognized six statewide and dedicated volunteers, two local book review contest winners who had written John Sember. John reviews of his book “Milkweed”. He was joined by Dr. Helen was known to many Fagin, Holocaust survivor and former Professor of English and in the Jamestown Director of Judaic Studies at the University of Miami, in dis- cussing the ethical and moral implications of the Holocaust. area as an extraor- Jerry Spinelli Mr. Spinelli’s book is a historical novel dealing with the life dinary social studies John Sember of a twelve year old boy in the Warsaw ghetto during World teacher to middle War II. Dr. Fagin was a teenage Jewish girl who actually lived school students. He had been suffer- those tragic events and survived to tell about it. Both speak- ing for over two years with a rare ers focused on the educational and moral lessons which need blood disease similar to leukemia, to be learned by young people today in studying this very but those who were lucky enough to dark period in world history. know him never saw his illness. Rolland Kidder, Executive Director of the Jackson Center and John always saw the up side of life Debbie Shayo, Director of the New York State Bar Association’s Law, Youth and Citizenship Program worked as a and never flagged in his extensive team in planning the two day event. Anita Sanctuary, Jackson volunteer work, including his Center volunteer, was the Event Coordinator. The Jackson involvement at the Jackson Center. Newbery Award Winner, Jerry Center and the State Bar Association expect to continue their At the time of his death in Spinelli’s book, partnership in sponsoring youth education programs that deal February, John was in the midst of Milkweed. with law and justice issues. planning his third consecutive Law Day program for Jamestown-area students. We are fortunate that this Jackson Society Event Planned for July 11 work on behalf of school children will continue as a part of John’s Robert H. Jackson Society members will be entertained at a Monday, July legacy. Former teacher and 11, gathering featuring Professor Jamestown school board member Geoffrey R. Stone. The event will follow Bob Terreberry has taken over lead- Professor Stone’s Robert H. Jackson ership of the Jackson Center’s Law Lecture that afternoon in Chautauqua Day—which we have renamed Institution’s Hall of Philosophy. “John Sember Day”—event, sched- Jackson Society members are those uled for May 4, 2005. Annual Fund donors who contribute John Sember will be greatly $500 or more to assist with operating missed by all who knew him. His purposes at the Jackson Center. Charter members who contributed “can do” spirit lives on, and we to the Jackson Society in June 2004 hope that future Jackson Center are reminded that membership event-based education will be a fitting renewal time is here. Contributions tribute to this remarkable educator may be directed to the Robert H. and person. Jackson Center, P.O. Box 879, The Jackson Center and Jamestown, NY 14702-0879. Chautauqua Region Community Foundation have established an —Stone, continued from page 1. endowed fund in John’s name at University of Chicago Law School (1987-93), as Provost of the University of the Foundation, the income from Chicago (1993-2002), and as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. which will be used annually to support Brennan, Jr. (1972-73). our youth education programs. To Professor Stone is one of the nation’s premier constitutional law scholars support John’s legacy at the and a leading expert on the Supreme Court. His latest book, just published Jackson Center, please contact and already widely acclaimed, is Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (W.W. Norton, 2004). Director of Development Becky Professor Stone’s Jackson Lecture will occur at 3:30 p.m. on July 11, 2005, Irwin Robbins at (716)483-6646. at Chautauqua Institution’s Hall of Philosophy. Mrs. William E. Jackson Initiates Program/Lecture Endowment The widow of Justice Jackson’s son Jamestown, NY, was first in his class International Court of Arbitration in William has made a contribution to at St. Albans School in Washington the International Chamber of begin a program/lecture endowment and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Commerce in Paris. fund to benefit the Robert H. Jackson Yale University. He earned a law Mr. Jackson and his wife of 55 Center. The William E. and Nancy R. degree from Harvard in 1944 and was years have five daughters, including Jackson Fund for Lecture/Program, editor of the Harvard Law Review He the Honorable Melissa Jackson, who made possible through a gift from then was a lieutenant in the Navy sits on the Jackson Center Board of Mrs. Nancy Jackson, will be held by until l946. Directors. Mrs. Jackson and her the Chautauqua Region Community Mr. Jackson followed his father to daughters Melissa and Miranda, Foundation. Germany where Supreme Court were present at the Jackson Center Nancy Roosevelt Jackson of New Justice Jackson, on a leave of absence dedication in 2003. Other daughters York City married William Jackson in from the court, was America’s chief include: Melanie Jackson, Melinda 1944 in Cold Spring Harbor, New counsel for the prosecution at the Jackson and Marina Jackson. York. Mrs. Jackson, a graduate of Nuremberg Trial of major Nazi war Radcliffe College, is the mother of criminals. As a staff member, private Annual Fund Giving five children.