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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 Law School. Washington, 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 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. A former editor at secretary and law clerk, William Heartily Appreciated Silhouette Books, a subsidiary of Jackson took part in the interrogation Simon & Schuster, she discovered of Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess and The Robert H. Jackson Center 2005 Annual Fund campaign is now author Nora Roberts. Mrs. Jackson is Albert Speer. He was co-editor of the under way. the granddaughter of Edith and eight volumes of trial evidence printed Annual Fund giving levels include President Theodore Roosevelt. by the American government. Contributors, who donate up to $99 Her husband, William Eldred In l947 he joined the Wall Street a year for operating needs of the Jackson, was a New York lawyer with law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Center; Patrons, who contribute at an international clientele including McCloy, specializing in civil litigation. the $100-249 level; Benefactors, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jacqueline He became a partner in l954 and was who donate between $250-499; and Kennedy Onassis, and the King of a consulting partner until his death. Robert H. Jackson Society members Morocco. Mr. Jackson, who died in In the l970s Mr. Jackson won two who contribute $500 or more. l999 at the age of 80, came to the law landmark Supreme Court cases for “Begun in spring/fall 2004,” says as a personal assistant to his father, the New York Stock Exchange that Executive Director Rolland Kidder, Robert H. Jackson, at the Nuremberg established guidelines for class “the Annual Fund and the Jackson Trials following World War II. The action cases in the securities industry. Society have brought vital income to younger Mr. Jackson, a native of He was a past vice chairman of the the operating needs of the Center.” “We have received major contri- butions to assist with capital and endowment purposes of the Jackson Center,” continues Mr. Kidder, “but the Annual Fund is the lifeblood of the organization, assisting us with everyday expenses such as heat, electricity and building maintenance.” The Jackson Center staff consists of three part-time employees, a website consultant and hundreds of volunteers without whom the Center could not exist. “The Jackson Center remains debt-free as funds are raised to underwrite our many programs and capital projects. Gifts to endowment and operating funds make us a viable and growing organization,” says Mr. Kidder. Jackson Board Member Elizabeth S. Lenna is pictured with Lt. Governor Mary O. Donohue, Jackson Center Board Secretary Board President Greg Peterson Randall J. Sweeney and Jackson Center Executive Director Rolland Kidder. expresses thanks to all donors to all needs of the Jackson Center. “All Elected Officials Visit Jackson Center gifts, regardless of size, are needed New York State Lieutenant Governor Mary O. Donohue, Assemblywoman and deeply appreciated,” notes Mr. Cathy Young and Congressman Brian Higgins recently paid separate visits to Peterson. the Jackson Center. In her visit, the Lieutenant Governor described the Gifts may be sent in care of the Jackson Center as “fantastic… I believe that the Center should put Robert H. Jackson Center, P.O. Box Jamestown on the map nationally.” 879, Jamestown, NY 14702-0879. Jackson Center Honors Eugene Gerhart with Jackson Portrait

ackson Center President Greg Peterson and Board Secretary JRandall Sweeney recently traveled to the home of Jackson biographer Eugene C. Gerhart in Binghamton, NY, to present the author with a limited edition, autographed print of the Robert H. Jackson portrait by Lurabel Colburn. Mr. Gerhart is author of America’s Advocate: Robert H. Jackson (1958) and Supreme Court Justice Jackson: Lawyer’s Judge (1961). In 2003, the Jackson Center reissued these books in a combined edition made possible by the Mary Jackson Loftus Craighill Fund, which was created by the children of Justice Jackson’s daughter. Mr. Gerhart himself has endowed a Jackson Center fund that provides support each year to student intern programs. Pictured left-right are Lorraine S. Wagner, long-time assistant to Mr. Gerhart; Mr. Gerhart; and Jackson Center President Greg Peterson. Jackson Center To Commemorate Brown v. Board of Education II Decision

The Robert H. Jackson Center will At 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May Dinner tickets are available at the commemorate the 50th anniversary 18, the Jackson Center will present a Jackson Center. Additional informa- of the Supreme Court’s 1955 Brown “Brown II Law Clerks’ Roundtable” tion will be mailed and also can be v. Board of Education II decision, at the Chautauqua Institution’s obtained by contacting the Jackson which occurred one year after the Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall. Professor Center at (716) 483-6646. Court, in Brown I, declared public John Q. Barrett of St. John’s Other Brown II events are school segregation to be unconstitu- University School of Law, the planned. The Honorable Joseph tional. Brown II required schools to Jackson Center’s Elizabeth S. Lenna Gerace will host the showing of the desegregate “with all deliberate Fellow, will moderate a discussion two-part film “Separate but Equal” speed.” among four attorneys who were at 7 p.m. on Sunday evenings April The public is invited to attend Supreme Court law clerks during 24 and May l, 2005. Admission is exciting Jackson Center programs to the Court’s 1954-55 Term, the year of free. The film traces the lives of the mark this anniversary. The two-day Brown II. These distinguished former DeLaines and others involved in the event begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May clerks are Gordon Davidson, Daniel cases leading to the Brown decisions. 17, with the appearance of Ophelia Meador, Earl Pollock and E. Barrett A special presentation is planned DeLaine Gona in the Jackson Center’s Prettyman, Jr. Sunday, May 15, documenting the Carl Cappa Auditorium. Mrs. Gona An evening dinner at the Jackson Center’s 2004 events com- is the daughter of The Reverend J.A. Chautauqua Institution’s Athenaeum memorating Brown v. Board I case. DeLaine, who commenced the Hotel on May 18 will feature principal The film presentation will be unveiled South Carolina action that was one speaker William Coleman. In the in a premier showing at 7 p.m. of the five leading to Brown v. 1950s, Mr. Coleman worked as a Sunday evening in the Carl Cappa Board of Education. Mrs. Gona will NAACP attorney with Thurgood Auditorium of the Jackson Center. describe her family’s experiences Marshall on the Brown cases. Mr. The public is invited to this free throughout the legal process and Coleman later served in President event entitled “Brown Revisited.” what it was like growing up as an Ford’s Cabinet as Secretary of African-American during segrega- Transportation, and President tion in South Carolina. The program Clinton awarded Mr. Coleman the is open to the public free-of-charge. Presidential Medal of Freedom. W.T. Coleman, Jr. to Speak May 18 Friend of the Jackson William T. Coleman, firm associate and was approached Center, Senator Patricia Jr. will be the by Thurgood Marshall, founder and major dinner head of the NAACP Legal Defense McGee Dies speaker at the and Educational Fund. Mr. Coleman All associated with the Robert H. Jackson Center’s agreed to volunteer his help. Jackson Center lost a great friend May 18 evening Since his initial work in civil with death of State Senator Brown v. Board of rights, Mr. Coleman went on to Patricia McGee on April 2nd. Education II event many accomplishments, serving on Senator McGee was an early and William T. Coleman, Jr. at the Athenaeum corporate boards; appointed as senior enthusiastic supporter of the Hotel. consultant and assistant counsel to Jackson Center and visited us on Not only did Mr. Coleman the Warren Commission; serving as many occasions. It was through become the first African-American adviser to presidents such as her efforts that in 2003 the Center received its first grant from the Law Clerk at the U.S. Supreme Eisenhower and Nixon; and continuing State of New York for handicapped Court, but also he was a main archi- his work on the boards of charitable accessible improvements. That tect of the legal strategy leading up organizations such as the National $100,000 grant made it possible to Brown and the desegregation of Civil Service League, the Brookings to construct an all-weather hand- public schools and other public Institute, the Council on Foreign icapped ramp system so that facilities across the nation. Relations, Harvard University and wheel chair bound visitors could A graduate of Harvard Law the Metropolitan Opera. access our building. This year, School and the first African- In 1975, President Ford appointed she was again responsible for American to serve on the Board of Mr. Coleman Secretary of another $100,000 grant being Editors of the Harvard Law Review, Transportation. President Clinton made by the Empire State Mr. Coleman first became law sec- awarded Mr. Coleman the Development Corporation toward retary to Judge Herbert F. Goodrich Presidential Medal of Freedom. Mr. the installation of an elevator of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Coleman was honored with the inside our building to improve Third Circuit. After several months Thurgood Marshall Lifetime handicapped access to our audi- torium and banquet room. in that position, Supreme Court Achievement Award in l997. Senator McGee was known Associate Judge Information about the dinner will throughout the region as a tapped Mr. Coleman as his law be mailed separately. Reservations strong advocate for the Southern clerk, making Mr. Coleman the first may be made by contacting the Tier counties that she represent- African-American to serve in that Jackson Center at (716)483-6646 or ed. Rolland Kidder, Jackson capacity for the nation’s highest through the mail to P.O. Box 879, Center Executive Director and court. Jamestown, NY 14702-0879 for $50 former Assemblyman from After Coleman’s clerkship ended a person. Chautauqua County, said: “Pat in 1949, he became a New York law McGee was the quintessential model of the effective represen- tative. She understood her con- U.S. Reports Donated to Jackson Center stituents and did her best to rep- resent them. She set an example Last fall, the Jackson Center happened to be Justice Jackson’s which, hopefully, will encourage received an important donation first two years on the Supreme others to enter politics. She bal- from the Washington, D.C. law firm Court (1941-43), to Chief Justice of anced the needs of her district of Shea & Gardner. Through the the United States Harlan Fiske with the wider interests of the good graces of attorney Bennett Stone, all before Mr. Boskey State of New York as whole. She Boskey, the firm donated volumes embarked on his distinguished will be greatly missed by her 293-518 of the United States career in public and private law constituents and by those who Reports, the official publication of practice. He also recently published knew and worked with her.” opinions and orders of the Supreme an essay, “Bob Jackson Senator McGee started her Court of the United States. Thanks Remembered,” in the Albany Law political career as a member of the to this donation, the Jackson Center Review’s Fall 2004 collection of Cattaraugus County Legislature library now includes a full set of the Jackson Tributes. and later was elected to the New York State Assembly. She was United States Reports containing Shea & Gardner (now merged elected to the State Senate fol- opinions by Justice Jackson. with Goodwin Procter, one of the lowing the death of Senator Jess Bennett Boskey, a graduate of nation’s leading law firms) itself had Present in 1998. She was serving and Harvard Law a direct, founding connection to as Chairwoman of the State School, served as a law clerk to Robert Jackson. In the late 1930s, Senate’s Agriculture Committee Circuit Judge , to Jackson persuaded Francis (Frank) and of the State Commission on Supreme Court Justice Stanley Shea, then dean of the University of Rural Resources at the time of Reed and then, for two years that —U.S Reports, continued on page 6. her death.

Jackson Center Events Fill June Calendar David D. Siegel, Distinguished civil practice, and about Justice Year by the American Bar Professor of Law at Albany Law Jackson. Professor Siegel will speak Association. School, will speak at a dinner on about Justice Jackson and various Emmy Award-winning film pro- Wednesday, June 8, and participate issues of the law. ducer Aaron Beckwith returns to the in continuing legal education for The Honorable Norbert Jackson Center at 9:30 a.m. on attorneys on Thursday, June 9, at Ehrenfreund, formerly a Judge of Wednesday, June 22, to present his the Jackson Center. A graduate of the California Superior Court, will film “Follow the North Star” before St. John’s University School of Law, address a June 13, 2005, 12:30 p.m. an audience of Jamestown area Professor Siegel is editor of the Jackson Center audience. After serv- elementary students. The former New York State Law Digest and ing as a combat officer in World War head of RKO Pictures, Mr. Beckwith’s author of Siegel, New York Practice II, Mr. Ehrenfreund was a newspaper ABC film about the Underground (3rd Edition); Siegel’s “Practice correspondent in Europe covering Railroad brought him honors, Review,” his monthly newsletter on portions of the Nuremberg War including an Emmy and the civil practice; and “Commentaries Crimes Trials. He has given numerous Television Humanitarian of the Year on McKinney’s New York CPLR,” on lectures around the nation about the Christopher Award from the 28 U.S.C.A. and on the Federal work of Justice Jackson and has Catholic Church. “Follow the North Rules of Civil Procedure. He also been filmed for television in a docu- Star,” about the Underground wrote the New York Court of mentary about his experiences at Railroad, tells the story of a white Appeals Handbook and Appellate the Nuremberg Trials. Judge boy’s journey south to free a slave Division Handbook and Conflicts in Ehrenfreund co-authored the book whose mother had fled north. a Nutshell (2nd Edition). Professor You’re the Jury, and in August 2001 Siegel also lectures frequently on he was named Trial Judge of the Capital Projects Continue at the Jackson Center U.S Reports A handicapped-accessible emergency couple, is a film room where visitors —continued from page 5. exit from the Carl Cappa Auditorium will be able to watch videos about Buffalo School of Law, to leave has been constructed, thanks to a Robert H. Jackson and the Jackson academia to join the Department of grant from the Lenna Foundation of Center. The viewing room should be Justice. Shea became one of Jamestown. The addition of the door ready for the summer tourist season. Jackson’s principal assistants at insures the safety of those who More than 8,000 visitors attended Justice and was a senior member of attend programs in the auditorium. Robert H. Jackson Center programs Under construction at this time or passed through the doors of the Jackson’s team in the summer/fall is an elevator providing further Jackson Center in 2004. 1945 work leading up to the accessibility to the auditorium and Thank you to all volunteer Nuremberg trial. Shea later went to the banquet room on our lowest docents who lead tours at the into law practice with Warner W. level. “The elevator project has Jackson Center between 10 a.m. and Gardner, another special legal talent, begun, and we expect that it will be 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday close Jackson colleague and friend. completed by early summer,” says throughout the year. Gardner was Deputy Solicitor Executive Director Rolland Kidder. General of the United States from Funds have been contributed by the Planned Giving Opportunities 1935 until 1941, serving under three City of Jamestown and the State of Gifts to the Jackson Center endow- Solicitors General including New York, and by Jamestown area ment help assure its future opera- Jackson. Gardner memorialized foundations including the Sheldon tions, capital needs and program- Jackson and their close working Foundation, Lenna Foundation, ming. Opportunities for giving are relationship in his 1955 Columbia Jessie Smith Darrah Fund, available through various methods, Law Review essay on Jackson, Holmberg Foundation and Hultquist including gifts of cash and stocks “Government Attorney” Foundation. The project includes the and creation of planned giving The Jackson Center thanks installation of a new electrical service vehicles. For more information, Bennett Boskey, Shea & Gardner and to upgrade the safety and capability contact Rolland Kidder, Executive Goodwin Procter for this important of the Jackson Center’s utility infra- Director, or Rebecca Robbins, donation and tribute to three of the structure. Director of Development, at the 20th century’s finest attorneys: Another project under way, Jackson Center at (716) 483-6646. made possible by a Lakewood, NY, Shea, Gardner and Jackson.

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