Loyola Lawyer Law School Publications Winter 1-1-1981 Loyola Lawyer Loyola Law School - Los Angeles Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/loyola_lawyer Repository Citation Loyola Law School - Los Angeles, "Loyola Lawyer" (1981). Loyola Lawyer. 46. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/loyola_lawyer/46 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Publications at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Loyola Lawyer by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. • Loyola's Deans in Court • Cable Cars and Canals • 1979-80 Donor Honor Roll FROM THE DEAN Loyola Law School is pleased to join Before we started construction last in honoring the City of Los Angeles on June on our downtown campus, much its Bicentennial Anniversary. In doing consideration was given to moving the so, we are also honoring ourselves, for School to the Loyola Marymount Uni­ we are indeed a resource of the Los versity grounds in Westchester. The Angeles connnunity. And, we're final analysis and decision clearly proud to be a part of this fine city. affirmed our close association with the Our first Law School class, in 1920, courts, government offices, and major began with a scant eight students. law firms of the city. We decided to Since then, we've graduated more stay here. than 5,000 lawyers, more than half of Enthusiastically, we look forward to whom are actively practicing law. our continuing role as one of the major working for government agencies, or legal resources of Los Angeles during engaged in corporate work in this city. the next 200 years. On behalf of our We can also boast of more than 80 faculty, students, and staff, "Happy judges sitting on the Los Angeles Birthday, Los Angeles!" Bench, and several chief executive of- ficers of Los Angeles' most important companies. Our Law Library, one of the largest in the state, is available for and constantly used as a primary re­ Theo. A. Bruinsma, Dean source by members of the local Bar. Board of Visitors Board of Governors John E. Anderson '50 Rev. Donald P. Merrifield, S.J., ex officio Brian K. Brandmeyer '62, ex officio Chairman President, Loyola Marymount University Co-chairman, The Advocates Joseph A. Ball Jack M. Ostrow '48 Theo. A. Bruinsma, ex officio James L. Barrett '51 Han. Mariana R. Pfaelzer Dean, Loyola Law School Barton Beek '55 Han. Manuel L. Real '51 Kenneth]. Collins '81, ex officio Walter F. Beran Charles R. Redmond '75 Student President, Day Division Thea. A. Bruinsma, ex officio Richard J. Riordan Robert A. Cooney, ex officio Dean, Loyola Law School Raymond A. Rodeno Director of Development Han. Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr. Herman F. Selvin Lawrence W. Crispo '61 Rev. Charles S. Casassa, S.J., ex officio Margaret Ann Shaw President Chancellor. Loyola Marymount University Sheila Prell Sonenshine '70 David G. Finkle, '67 John D. Castellucci Martin Stone '51 Kevin P. Fiore '69 Daniel C. Cathcart John G. Thorpe '51 Marilyn]. Fried '78 Leonard Cohen '51 Maynard J. Toll, Life Visitor Hon. Charles E. Jones '65 Burton Cohn '77 John V. Tunney Patricia A. Lobello '67 William H. Doheny, Jr. '75 J. Robert Vaughan '39 Robert E. Marquis '79 M. Louise Eason Rita]. Miller '79 Milton Feinerman '56 Anthony Murray '64 Lawrence Crispo '61, ex officio Robert M. Myers '75 President, Alumni Association Laurence G. Preble '68 Board of Governors Hon. Manuel L. Real '51 Thomas E. Garcin '52 Cynthia Madura Ryan '70 Thomas V. Girardi '64 Roman M. Silberfeld '74, ex officio Stafford R. Grady Co-chairman, The Advocates John T. Gurash '39 Belinda D. Stith '81, ex officio William T. Huston Student President, Evening Division Carl N. Karcher Vincent W. Thorpe '59 James H. Kindel, Jr. '40 David Velasquez, ex officio Hugh L. Macneil '48 Claire Van Dam '73 I9Y,tla Loyola Lawyer Staff Adrienne Lise Morea pwye rWinter 1981 Editor Sheryl Ward Designer ill this Issue..... Robert A. Cooney Director of Development 5 When Getting There Was Half the Fun Mark 0. Weiner Assistant Director of Development/ Alumni Relations and Annual Giving R. Joyce Bruncati A quarter of a century of fun transportation Development Research Coordinator in the Los Angeles area reviewed. Veronica Johnson Administrative Secretary Lejon 0. Stewart 9 Loyola's Deans in Los Angeles History Student Research Assistant Loyola Law School firmly adheres to a policy against discrimination on the A peek into the courtroom lives of three basis of race, color, religion, sex, na­ of Loyola's earliest Deans. tional origin, marital status, physi­ cal handicap, medical condition, cir age (as prohibited by applicable law). A Student Bar President's Reflections 14 on a Student Bar President Loyola Lawyer is the magazine of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Day SEA President Ken Collins '81 turns published by the Development Office back the pages to 1969. for students, alumni, and friends of the Law School. Opinions expressed in this publica­ tion are those of the individual authors and not necessarily those of the Law Insert: 1979-80 DONOR School administration. Unsolicited HONOR ROLL manuscripts and photographs are wel­ come but will not be returned unless accompanied by a stamped, self­ Also in this issue: addressed envelope. Letters to the editor must be signed, but only the writ­ On Campus 17 AlumNews 23 erS initials will be published if so re­ 21 Legal Briefs 27 quested. Letters not intended for publi­ Faculty Forum cation should indicate same. Address all mail to: Editor, Loyola Lawyer, Loyola Law School, 1440 West Ninth On the Cover: "The Greatest Electric Rail­ Street, Los Angeles, Ca. 90015. way System on Earth," the Pacific Electric, set against the Los Angeles metropolis Circulation this issue: 8,500 which it couldn't accommodate. 1 1920 to 1929 Venice Boulevard campus tern 1929 t in th Porary o 1933 e By quart on rne B ers South Uildin. Broad g Way 1933 to 1964 Loyola UniversitY School of LaW south Grand Avenue Cmnpus, Los Angeles 2 ~yolo Law School est Ninth Street \. I I I I I I I lI ~ I I I \ I I futureWest Ninth phase Street . , to Olympic Boulevard 1 3 --------- 'fi !! Ill II "LOS AHGELES mCENTENNIAL '1781 1981 The Loyola Law School, successor of St. Vincent's College, with its prominent alumni has played a most important role in the history of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles 200 Committee salutes Loyola Law School for its continuing record of higher education, for its advancement of truth and justice and for its untiring encouragement of men and women to assume their obligation to God and society. The goals of the Bicentennial Committee are complemented and reinforced by the continuing influence of the faculty and alumni. I Albert C. Martin, Chairman Los Angeles 200 Committee r Highways and byways of downtown Los Angeles. Los Angeles Freeways during morning and evening rush hours are looked upon with frustration and disdain. Travelers are often heard saying the system is barely tolerable, let alone acceptable. And most would have a difficult time envision­ ing this road system, one that re­ When Getting There duces people to inchworms, as ever being enjoyable. Yet, there was a time in Southern California when transportation main­ tained all the axioms of convenience Was Half the Fun and then some. Picture this: A resi­ dent of Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, by Adrienne Lise Morea departs from his large Victorian home via foot. He walks one block; I spends a penny to ride the "Angel's Flight" cable elevator to the bottom of the hill, and then hops on the nearest Pacific Electric "Red Car" for t a 40-minute ride to the Venice Beach. As he disembarks in Venice, his first sight is the "gondoleeria," from which an authentic Italian gondola will depart, with him as a passenger, for a lovely afternoon's ride on the Venice canals. 5 Perhaps this scene is a bit difficult Tracks were planted so extensively it acknowledged that the deed to imagine these days, but there was and in so many directions, and with specified that the property was to be a time in Los Angeles when trans­ such foresight of sprawling urban used "for the purpose of an electric portation existed for both fun and growth, that they often preceded the railway." That underlying purpose purpose. Travelers enjoyed almost a town's inhabitants. Inland boom­ was to make sure that the inhabitants quarter of a century of "ridesharing," towns of the 1800's boomed all over of the properties which the grantors but the system took a back seat when again after the Pacific Electric wished to subdivide would enjoy the the automobile assumed its role as reached them. During peak rush best means of interurban transport one of an Angeleno's most prized hours, a Red Car traveling at a speed which was technologically feasible. possessions. Cable cars, electric rail­ between 40 and 60 miles per hour, In his opinion, California State ways, and gondolas did not go down was able to make a run from Supreme Court Judge Tobriner said, completely unnoticed though. In downtown Los Angeles to Santa "The world moves. The trend of ju­ each case, legal or political battles Monica in 30 minutes. dicial opinion is to a broader and would occur. Today, forced to con­ The system was truly a link for more comprehensive view of the tend with rising energy costs and both people and places. Unique rights of the public in and to the fuel scarcity, many Los Angeles punchrnarks of each conductor (a streets and highways of a city, and travelers probably wish the "ride­ heart, a fish, a star, a cross, etc.) while carefully conserving the rights sharing" system of yesterday numbered more than 1,100, adding a of individuals to their property, the had prevailed.