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Volume 3 ·Issue 3 Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association News N 0 T E S Dear Fellow Alumni: As the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association embarks upon its next fiscar year, I want to say that I consider. it an honor and a privilege to serve you in my capacity as President. To those who have been active members and participants in programs and projects sponsored by the Association, I thank you and trust that your suppor.t will continue. To · those of you who have not been actively involved with the association, I ·can say "with con­ fidence that you are missing a rich and fulfilling experience. One need only leaf through the pages of this publication to see . the degree of quali­ ty and level of effectiveness which have become our trademark. As the practice of law continues to change and present challenges to mew and vet­ eran attorneys alike, the Law Alumni Association continues to posture itself to assist its members in meeting the ever present demands of the legal pt:afession. Furthermore; the· Association is committed to ensuring the sc}:10lastic excellence and stability of our beloved alma mater: . Only with your support can we successfully accomplish our goals. Join us in our effort to enrich the quality of legal education as well as the profession. Best wishes and kind regards to you and yours. Very truly yours, 7/IY7'"~ Gary J. Maxwell President Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association News- Fall /995 N 0 T E S CONTENTS 3 Dean's Column 4 About the cover artist: 3rd Year Students/5 Student Profiles Jeffrey Coryell received his J.D. from 8 New York University and his M.F.A . from 1995 Annual Recognition Luncheon Northwestern University. 10 Faculty Profile: Earl M. Curry, Jr. 11 CLE Calendar Volume 3, Number 3 12 Fall 1995 Life Members Editor: Mary McKenna 14 Associate Editor: Graduation 1995 Louise F. Mooney Publications Chair: 16 Megan Hensley A Russian Summer Graphic Design: Szilagyi & Szilagyi 18 Printer: Annual Meeting Legal News Publishing Company Photo Credits: 20 Steve Zorc & Louise Mooney Ohio State Bar Annual Meeting We hope you enjoy this new issue of Law No tes 21 and ask that you continue to contribute and respond to information in this and future issues Scholarship Awards of Law Notes. Special thanks to Leon M. Plevin 22 '57, Donald F. Traci '55, Susan L. Gragel '80, Daniel R. McCarthy '54 and Sheldon Sager New Faculty for their commitment in support of this publication. Special thanks to Rosa 24 DelVecchio and Jayne Geneva for their Bar Results assistance. The CMLAA Board of Trustees is dedicated to 26 serving the alumni, students, faculty and staff of the College of Law. Thanking The Generous For comments and suggestions, please feel 27 free to contact the Law Alumni Office at 216-687-2368. Alumni Happenings Law Notes, issued by the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association, 1801 Euclid Avenue, 32 Cleveland, Ohio 44115 Faculty & Staff Happenings Fa//1995 TWO CLEVELAND TRADITIONS PEOPlE ARE TAlKING ABOUT... NIGHTTOWN 12387 CEDAR ROAD rom the Pri nceton Review Student CLEVELAND HEIGHTS 795-0550 FAccess Guide to the Best Law Schools 1995 Edition " .. .when it came to their STEAKS AND LIVE JAZZ sense of preparation for a career in the SINCE 1965 immediate geographical area, Cleveland­ Marshall students sounded quite posi­ RAINTREE tive. One cited 'the power and prestige 25 PLEASANT DRIVE of the alumni in the Cleveland area' as CHAGRIN FALLS one of the law school's greatest 247-4800 strengths. Others agreed: 'There's a LUNCH, DINNER, BRUNCH strong alumni base for greater employ­ SINCE 1972 ment opportunities. Relations are very good between lawyers in the commu­ nity and the school itself."' ROSEN & COMPANY, INC. 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CLEVELAND, OHIO 441 14 ••c•••m om':\., (216) 621-1860 Fax (216) 621-4544 REALTOR ' NAT'IONAI..ASSOCLATlOf 2 Law Notes Dean's Column COLLEGE OF LAW PREPARES FOR CENTENNIAL by Steven R. Smith hough our law school seems in pleased to have your written recollec­ ter a time when our nation's history T many ways so new, in actuality it tions of law school days- whether of collided with your own, during or af­ is about to turn 100. In 1997 a century events, classmates, professors, or of ter the Depression, World War II or the will have passed since the doors of our your own student life and subsequent Korean and Vietnam Wars, for instance. predecessor law school opened. We are career. For our oral history project, we In every decade, we believe there are approaching our hundredth birthday are eager to have you record any remi­ examples of men and women who with a sense that we have made a sig­ niscences you might wish to share with overcame adversities to study and prac­ nificant journey and that the future tice law, and those recollections are is full of promise. part of a history we would be proud Though we have more than a to share. This is especially true of year to plan for our centennial com­ Cleveland-Marshall which has memoration, we need your help now been a school of opportunity, to begin initial preparations. Because closely tied to the Cleveland com­ each of you is a part of the past and munity. future of Cleveland-Marshall and be­ Please take a few moments to cause we believe that the record of help us bring the past vividly to life. each of our graduates is a valuable You may write me at the law school record of enterprise and achieve­ address: 1801 Euclid Avenue, ment, we are asking your help in Cleveland, Oh 44115. You will find planning our hundredth year. a grateful correspondent. First and foremost, we need There will be several important your ideas. As alumni what would committees to help organize part you like to see happen in our cen­ of the celebration, and our alumni tennial? How would you like us to will be critical to the success of memorialize the law school that was these planning committees. Partici­ the Cleveland Law School, the John pate in the celebration. Help us Marshall Law School and is now the present and future Cleveland-Marshall with efforts to fund special projects. Cleveland-Marshall College of Law? students and alumni. We would like to Cleveland-Marshall boasts a distin­ A few ideas have already been sug­ hear from our oldest living graduates guished history of service to the legal gested: a proud opening of the new law and from the earliest women and mi­ profession. As the law school plans for library, a fund-raising effort, banners nority graduates we can find. We would the next century, we look forward to along Euclid Avenue, a mayoral proc­ appreciate the records of any of you expanding this tradition of service. • lamation marking the anniversary, a who came to law school during or af- year-long display of memorabilia in our library and a written and oral history of the school. Please send us any other ideas you have to make the celebration Where "Lil" Things Mean a Lot special. RINALDI JEWELRY We especially need your help in assembling the display and compiling 2028 East 9th Street (between Euclid and Prospect) the histories. If you have any memen­ tos from your law school days and are Hours : 10-5:30 M-F willing to part with them temporarily 10-3 p.m. Sat. for the display or permanently for an A FULL-LINE JEWELER archive, please call us. Mementos may include class texts, exams, pictures or including jewelry repair, cleaning , any other items that bear the imprint recasting and watch repair of the history of the school. Phone:~3 Fax: 566~5 We need your memories also. For our written history, we would be Supplier to the CMLAA Fal/1995 3 RD YEAR S1_lUDENTS STUDENT PROFILES: tis themiddleofaglaringlybrightsummer, asummerthatwill I set records for heat in Cleveland, that will cause Lake Erie to shimmer in the sunlight and shamefaced meteorologists to deliver their weather predictions apologetically.