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LAW ALUMNI NEWS BULLETIN CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
ALUMNI ANNUAL FUND TOPS GOAL (see story inside)
ALUMNI PROFILEFREDERICK K. COX
By Suzanne Hartman
* "On a clear day I can see the Illuminating Company out at Avon, and it's quite a sight to watch the big boats negotiate that turn in the Cuyahoga down there. You know Jim's Steak House? That's it."
Frederick Cox (Adi '36, Law '38) was giving a visual tour from his window on the twenty-eighth floor of« the Cleveland Trust Tower. He is vice chairman of Cleveland Trust, president of the Gund Foundation and a trustee of CWRU
since 1971. He is also a trustee of the Natural History Museum and a member of the Order of the Coif and of the Benchers Society at the School of Law.
His wife, Betty, (Middlebury College '47), served three years as chairifian of the RESOURCES Committee of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and was working as alumni secretary of the schools of law and nursing at CWRU when Cox met and married her in 1964.
Elizabeth Aldrich Cox^l2, attends Hathaway Brown. "I feel hopeful about the future when I look at her," said Cox of his daughter. "She's an honor student. She has a good sense of humor. She's good company, although it's a little frightening to raise a daughter in the society we live in now.
"Especially for a father, who knows the mentality of men," he added with a smile. "But maybe her generation is changing a little. Not so much need to be macho anymore."
Cox was born in Cleveland. His mother originally came from the Dakota Territory and was a graduate of Flora Stone Mather. His father graduated from the CWRU Medical School. He has a brother who is an alumnus of Adelbert.
At the time Cox attended Adelbert, students could take first year law courses during their last year as an undergraduate. If they did well, they were allowed to finish law school. "I never expected to finish," said Cox, "1 was just bored with liberal arts and thought I'd take a year of law and go on into business. But I was fascinated with the law. We had a strong school then, too.
"Wayne Townshend was the best teacher I ever had anywhere. He taught one of the first banking courses in the country." Townshend taught at the law school from 1932 to 1945 and went on to become dean of the law school at Washington University in St. Louis.
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The alumni profile section of In Brief will appear regularly. If you know of an alumnus you would like to see highlighted, please contact the Dean's Office.
CWRU LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 1977-78 Officers
President, Myron W. Ulrich, '36 Vice President, Ralph A. Colbert, '30
Secretary-Treasurer, Richard C. Renkert, '50 Visiting Committee Representative, Frederick K. Cox, '38
Board of Overseers Representative, David K. Ford, '21 Annual Fund Chairman, Cray J. Coppins, Jr., '71
Board of GovernorsJames E. Alpeter, '31 Donald A. Modica, '70 Rita L. Newton, '46 Robert N. Rapp, '72 J. Thomas Dean, '59 Thomas A. Heffernan, '64 Gerald Johnson, '32
Bingham Zellmer, '36 George B. Ramsayer, '62 David L. Parham, '74 Mario Ciano, '68 LeoM. Spellacy, '58 Stephen Kaufman, '75 Harry Jaffe, '33
LAW SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY
Lindsey Cowen, Dean and Professor Hugh A. Ross, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Daniel T. Clancy, Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Co-Director, Center for Criminal Justice
Daniel J. Burns, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Patricia Ferry, Executive Assistant to the Dean
Anne M. McIntyre, Law Alumni Coordinator and Editor of "In Brief"
Irene Tenenbaum, Registrar Margaret Brooks, Director of Placement
FacultyRoger I. Abrams Bernard R. Adams Arthur D. Austin Ronald J. Coffey Kenneth S. Cohen Melvyn R. Durchslag Leon Cabinet Paul C. Giannelli Simon L. Goren Neil A. Hamilton Paul G. Haskell David A. Haynes Owen L. Heggs Joanne Jackson
Peter D. Junger Lewis R. Katz Robert P. Lawry Wilbur C. Leatherberry David A. Lipton James W. McElhaney Edward A. Mearns, Jr. Karen Nelson Moore Marcia Gaughan Murphy Spencer Neth Sidney I. Picker, Jr.Hugh A. Ross Oliver C. Schroeder, Jr. Morris G. Shanker
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Cox remembers Deans Walter T. Dunmore and Fletcher Reed Andrews. "Dunmore was sweet and tough. Andrews made learning the law fun. He's a rare and fine man." Andrews was dean of the law school until 1958 and now at 85, he lives in Cleveland Heights and is still a strong supporter of the school.
"I have a fondness for the class of '38," continued Cox, lighting a cigarette and pushing his chair away from his wide, uncluttered desk. "They were an uninhibited group." He wouldn't go on record as to which classmates were particularly uninhibited, but he did acknowledge remembering Ivan Miller and liking him still. Miller, a partner in Ziegler, Metzger, Miller and Hoppe, remembers Cox, too.
"From 1932 to 1978," says Miller, "during a period of almost 46 years in which I've known Cox as a classmate and during our careers, he has been unwaveringly a man of impeccable character, intellectually gifted, endowed with traits of
reliability, consistency, steadfastness and conscientiousness— all gracefully embroidered with a matchless and warm-hearted wit."
A few months after Cox graduated, he went to work for Cleveland Trust. During World War II, he spent four years in the Navy, mostly aboard ship in the Pacific; then he returned to Cleveland and to the bank.
He was pleased when the law school named Oliver Schroeder to the Weatherhead Chair in Criminal Justice earlier this year. "I've been close to him for years," said Cox.: "He was very important to the school in its darker days."
So was Cox. Representing Cleveland Trust, he was one of two trustees of the Carlton Hutchins trust donated to the law school on Hutchins' death in the early sixties. Elmore Andrews, Hutchins' lawyer, was the other trustee, and he and Cox requested a study of the school's problems before releasing the funds. The result was the Bok Report which pointed the way to a rejuvenation of the school. Six months after the Bok Report was released in 1965, Louis Toepfer was brought from Harvard to assume the deanship of the badly foundering school. »
"I'm a great supporter of Lou Toepfer," Cox said, "he's done a superb job of turning the University around."
The Gund Foundation has been of significant help to the University. One story President Toepfer is fond of telling describes an incident occurring shortly after he became dean.
"I was a young innocent who had just come to Cleveland," relates Toepfer. "It was December and I got lost trying to find Fred's house. When I got there I was confronted with two fierce looking dogs. In the living room, Fred asked me if I knew what this black leather box on the floor was.
'I thought you were supposed to know about old cars,' he said to me. I told him it did look to me like an old car hamper.
'What year and make?' he wanted to know. I didn't know. He said, 'Twenty-five Studebaker. Open it.' I eyed the dogs, but he said he would hold them, so I opened the box. There on a piece of paper toweling which I still have was written, '$1,500,000 for the law school from the Gund Foundation.'"
When Toepfer went back later asking what the foundation had done for the University lately, more money was forthcoming. In total, the Gund Foundation donated more than two million of the five million, three hundred thousand finally accumulated to construct Gund Hall, the new law school building.
"I still have that box, and the towel," Toepfer says. "Someday I'll give them to Archives. In his quiet, canny way, Fred Cox has done great good for this University."
It was Cox who chaired the Trustee RESOURCES Committee when the current $215 million RESOURCES campaign was formulated, and it was he who submitted the plan to the Board.
He thinks the law school is again as excellent as when he attended. "Lou and Lindsey (Liijdsey Cowen, present dean of the school) have done fine things for the school. I think it has a great future. I'd like to havesome of their professors myself. That man who teaches Securities—Ron Coffey, and the commercial code man who has been a visiting professor in several places—Morris Shanker."
Of Cox, Dean Cowen says, "The School of Law has no better friend. Among the great many alumni and friends who have been instrumental in our renaissance, Fred has always been one of the leaders."
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fifth anniversary this year. About 35 percent of the $4.18 million disbursed by the foundation in 1977 went to education. "One of our long term projects is to try to help out the difficult educational situation in the city of Cleveland. Very complex. It's difficult to know which buttons to push. And no one is really willing to march out front, not the governor, not the mayor. There's a tendency to blame Judge Battisti, but he didn't create the financial situation."
One of Cox's pet projects has been gun control. "Gund has aided the U.S. Conference of Mayors on the issue, and we have had some criticism on that, but it is absolutely worthy of support, though it's a long haul."
Outside working hours, two things make Cox's life especially enjoyable—his family and travel. "Our most recent trip was a cruise on the Mississippi Queen," he said. "The food was great and for six and a half days we traveled from New Orleans to Vicksburg and back again visiting all the interesting little towns along the way.
"There was a steam calliope onboard and when we'd go by, the natives would come out to watch and wave."
The Coxes travel abroad almost every year—although not this year because "the dollar is so sad," Cox explained. Their favorite places are Finland and Ireland. "Finland is green, tidy and well-disciplined. When they say the train will leave at 16:24, it leaves at 16:24."
Would he have done anything differently with his life? Has he missed anything? "Oh lots, probably. But I don't get into that box of saying maybe thirty years ago I should have done this or that, because we can't visualize where an action would have led. We can't rewrite the script."
Asked about the future of Cleveland, Cox replied, "That's another complex situation." There was more than a touch of irony in his voice as he looked out at the city from the top of the Cleveland Trust Tower, "Maybe Cleveland is like an alcoholic," he said. "He can't reform until he reaches his nadir."
He turned and said more cheerfully, "But I have hope. I have lots of hope for the future when I look at my daughter."
COMMENCEMENT 1978The 50th year class, 1928, celebrated their anniversary re
union on commencement day. May 19. They were joined by their wives, other members of the Barristers' Golden Circle group, including Dean Emeritus Fletcher Reed Andrews, '25, and members of the law school community.
Following the luncheon, Wendell A. "Whitey" Falsgraf, '28, spoke briefly to the approximately 200 members of the Class of 1978 assembled in Severance Hall. This year's commencement address was presented by The Honorable Mr. Justice D. G. Blair, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario.
A reception for the graduates, their families and friends was held at the law school immediately following the ceremony.
Dean Lindsey Cowen and Dean Emeritus Fletcher R. Andrews
Class of '26 (left to right): J. Craig McClelland, Clemens R. Frank, Elmer I. Schwartz
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AWARDS AND PRIZES
Awards were received by the following members of the class of 1978:"Cum Studiis turn Morihus Principes". The Society of Benchers Award to a senior for eminence in both academic work and in character.
Kevin David McDonald
Student of the Year Award. To the senior who best exemplified outstanding scholarship and excellence in extracurricular activities.
Phyllis Judieth Culp
Martin Luther King Award. To the student who follows by character and conduct the spirit of the Reverend Martin Luther King, }r.
Louise Elaine McKinney
The United States Law Week Award. To graduating Law student who has made the most satisfactory scholastic progress in his or her final year.
Francis John Witt 111
Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, 1977- 1978. Nominated by a committee of faculty and students.
William Owen Walton Bush Stanley Ira Hanover
Louise Elaine McKinney Dwight Stephen Williams
Ann Hamilton Womer
Heiss Labor Law Award. To the student who demonstrates scholastic excellence in the courses of the labor law curricu- \ lum promising professional accomplishment in the field. <
Eric Stephen Lamm i
International Academy of Trial Lawyer's Student Advocacy ! Program Award. To the student who has done the most outstanding job in Trial Advocacy.
Douglas Allen King
Arthur E. Petersilge Law Library Award. Memberships in the Cleveland Law Library given in memory by his wife, Gladys M. Petersilge. Awarded to two graduating seniors who will ; practice law in Cleveland and who would not otherwise have : access to this facility.
Leo Ward Kent R. Minshall
Guardian Title Real Property Prize. To the senior who demonstrates scholastic excellence in the field of Real Property.
Tom B. Ewing
THE CHANGING FACE OF LAW
PART ONE OF THREEBy Suzanne Hartman
The historically male countenance of the law is changing.Between 1918 and the 1960s, except for a brief period dur
ing World War II, the law school at Case Reserve never had more than three women per class and never in its history had women exceeded 10 percent of the student body. In its first 70 years, only two women lawyers were full-time staff members and both were librarians.
Now, at Case Reserve, and in law schools across the nation, the percentage of women is averaging thirty percent, although the profession of legal education is changing face at a much slower rate. Out of sixty professors, Michigan's prestigious law school has only two women. Harvard and Columbia each had two last year.
In 1971, Case Reserve hired its first full-time woman faculty member. When she resigned in 1973, the faculty was without a woman until the fall of ■1976 when Joanne Urban Jackson was hired. Last fall, two more women were added, Karen Nelson Moore and Marcia Gaughan Murphy.
According to Jean Calhoun, assistant vice president for academic affairs, about 10 percent of professors available for such jobs in law schools in the United States are women.
"Based on the available pool," says Lindsey Cowen, dean of the law school, "I'm told we are on target now with three out of thirty. But I feel we are understaffed both in respect to women and minority faculty and that will always be a consideration in future faculty searches. I'm not implying that these three women were selected merely because they are women, because they are all of great ability."
Murphy was the oldest of a family of daughters, born and raised in Cleveland. "I always thought I wanted to teach. I used to force my sisters to play school incessantly." She attended Notre Dame Law School. "There is a saying that those who love law school will be teachers and 1 absolutely loved it." After graduating summa cum laude, she worked for Jones, Day for two years. "Now I want to teach for the rest of my life. Isn't it the ultimate, to be paid for something you love to do?" She is married to a practicing lawyer.
MARCIA GAUGHAN MURPHY "The theory is out that as more women come into the profession, law will not be the jealous mistress it has always been. Well, I'm not convinced. I'm not convinced the legal profession will permit it. . . . Will it be the women who put family needs above career who go to the top? Will it be the women who want to go home at five thirty and not work on Saturdays? I doubt it."
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THE CHANGING FACE OF LAW MARCIA GAUGHAN MURPHYDo conservative attitudes toward women still exist in law firms 1
"I think discrimination does still exist in the field," says Murphy, "but it is difficult to perceive because it has become covert. Younger men aren't always as liberal as they are cracked up to be. The older men sometimes have the attitude,'I guess we have to hire them, but they'll get pregnant and ileave anyway.'" She found the 30 to 40 age group of male col- Ileagues to be more understanding, "because many of their | own wives have gone out to do their own thing." |
"There were six women and 125 men in my firm," she con- ; tinues. "The women were very conscious of doing more than a competent job. In another firm in which I clerked, it was a little different, though. There were 18 clerks and 9 were women. The sheer numbers made a difference."
Murphy also encountered evidence of a heightened sensitivity toward women. "At Jones, Day, I wanted some experience in trusts and estates. I was led to believe I hadn't been assigned to them partly because of the stereotype that women were often assigned to that type of work. They told me they were sensitive to the stereotype and 1 thought highly of them because of that sensitivity."
She feels that women must be on guard not to become paranoid about real or imagined put-downs. "If three of us happened to be in the elevator at the same time, the men would laugh and make a comment like, 'Oh you're plotting to take ' over the firm. Haha!' But we learned to retaliate in kind and keep it light. After all, they were men trying their best to cope I with the presence of women as colleagues. [
"Perhaps it's really a PR problem," she continues. "There ! is a line between assertiveness and aggressiveness. To be a successful lawyer you must be assertive, but as a woman you have to be assertive without becoming pushy. It's another line i we have to walk. And there are simply not enough women yet ! walking that line for any one to know how to cope with it— | including women themselves." |VJill women change the profession of legal education?
"I have never thought of the emphasis on logic in law | schools as a white/male value. Nor do I think it exists to the exclusion of a more humanistic approach. My male colleagues seem to think the way I do. You teach the students to reason in a clean, precise manner, but also tell them that the judicial decisions are often a packaging of the judge's gut feeling toward a case. But it is a clean, precise package."
Murphy feels it may have made a difference to her if she had had female professors in law school, but she's not sure it | would have made a positive difference.
"I might not have been as aware of the problems that still do exist for women in this profession. In law school I met some men, not many, whose only goal was to keep a woman from graduating at the top of the class."
What about children?Murphy says, "The difficult question to answer is 'when?'
When is the perfect time?""In a law firm," she adds, "you must let them know right
away that children will not interfere if you want to progress in the firm. If you establish that, you've satisfied them in one way, but at the same time, if you say the needs of the children won't interfere, then there must be something wrong with you as a woman."Will women actually change the way law is practiced?
"There is a difference," points out Murphy, "between women being hired—they are being hired—and being promoted. 1 have heard it said that women will bring a more human approach to the profession. Not in the sense that it will be ruled by the heart rather than the mind, but simply because women will have families. They will want to go home at 5:30 and not work on Saturdays." But she strongly doubts that it will be
that kind of woman who ascends to the top ranks of firms and law departments. "1 doubt that the legal profession will allow it. I've heard the hope from both men and women, but I'm pessimistic. Hopefully too pessimistic, but on this I'm really < skeptical." 'How have the male faculty members reacted to your jpresence? '
"They are great. And they seem to be over that awkward ^hump of not knowing how to treat us. They aren't afraid to be 'honest about their feelings." '
The consensus of the male faculty seems to be that the at- : mosphere at the law school is much the same. "We're profes- sionals, they're professionals," says one.
‘‘They're just one of the boys," says another with a smile <and then adds, "seriously, they are super. And the first of ithem to come on the faculty was mature, such a first rate lawyer, and just enough of a woman's libber to raise our consciousnesses the minute she walked in the door." i
Another felt that the sensitivity to all those outside the white /male world had increased since the women came. And finally came this expression. "I resent the suggestion that we have been pulled from the antediluvian pits into the modern world kicking and screaming. You shouldn't ask the question."
And that from the shrine of Reason.(To be continued next issue.)
ROBERT D. MOSS, '33 AWARDED OHIO STATE BAR MEDALThis May, J^^obert- D. Moss, '33, was awarded the Ohio
State Bar Medal, the highest honor given by the Ohio State Bar Association. The award is presented for "unusually meritorious service" to the profession, community and humanity. Mr. Moss, past president of the Ohio State and Akron Bar Associations, was cited for his leadership in the development of prepaid legal services programs and the founding of the Summit County Legal Aid Society. Mr. Moss is a member of the Society of Benchers, a former member of the CWRU Law Alumni Board of Governors, and a past recipient of the Fletcher Reed Andrews Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award. .-
Robert D. Moss, '33
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ROOMMATES WIN DUNMOREThe winner of the Dean Dunmore Tournament, April 14,
was Laura Metcoff '80. Her roommate, Jan Roller '80, was runner-up. The distinguished panel of judges for the event included: The Honorable Carl McGowan, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; Mr. John Shenefield, Assistant United States Attorney General, Antitrust Division; and the Honorable Charles R. Richey, '48, and Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. This year's problem was in the antitrust area and involved a retired executive of a company who was also a shareholder suing his former employer for mismanagement of the company and the resultant reduction in dividends.
Left to right; Mr. John Shenefield, Hon. Carl McGowan and Hon. Charles Richey
OUR APOLOGIESAs most of you are aware, this past year the CWRU Law
Alumni Directory was made available for purchase. Due to the extraordinary cost of such a project, the School commissioned an outside company to prepare this project, thereby sacrificing greater accuracy which could have been achieved by the University staff. Several alumni have been omitted entirely; many have had their names misspelled. Our apologies to the following individuals who have contacted the school:
Loren Kendis, '40 (misspelled name)Norman W. Lawson, Jr., '68 (omission)Mark J. Skakun, '74 (misspelled name)Let us know if there was a mistake in your listing, or if you
are experiencing difficulties in billing procedures with College and University Press, please notify Anne McIntyre, Law Alumni Coordinator, and every effort will be made to correct the situation.
LAW SCHOOL SPONSORS ALUMNI TRIPS TO CANTON,
COLUMBUS, WASHINGTON, D.C. AND NEW YORK CITY
This past year the School of Law sponsored several regional alumni trips to enable alumni to meet with Dean Cowen, become informed of the school's programs, participate in the planning and implementation of placement and admissions programs and to meet other alumni in the area.
Dean Cowen traveled to Canton in early March to award the Homer Black Scholarships to two Stark County students. In early April, representatives of the School visited Columbus, for a luncheon at the Columbus Club with the Honorable Ralph S. Locher, '39, Ohio Supreme Court Justice, as special guest.
In late May the Dean and other representatives of the School traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with alumni and in June they spent two evenings meeting with New York City area alumni.
Left to right: Hon. Ralph S. Locher, '39, Clarence E. Fox, '49, Donald J. Guittar, '60 and Thomas Costello, Director of Law Development
Frank E. Barnett, '36, Mrs. Frederick W. Anthony and Frederick W. Anthony, '73
Michael K. Magness, '73 and Manning E. Case, Jr., '41
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GUND HALL IS SCENE OF LAW ALUMNI DINNER DANCE
This year's alumni dinner and reunion celebration parties were held for the first time in the law school building on Saturday evening, May 13. The classes of '38, '48, and '53 sponsored pre-dinner cocktail parties. It was a fine affair, with record attendance, and plans are underway to schedule next year's celebration again in Gund Hall.
This year's special guest was Oliver C. Schroeder, Jr., newly appointed Weatherhead Professor of Law and Criminal Justice. Thomas A. Heffernan, '64, introduced and commended Professor Schroeder and presented him with a framed print of the architect's original rendition of the new law building. Bruce Griswold, '47, was awarded the Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award.
Thomas A. Heffernan, '64
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BRUCE GRISWOLD, '47, NAMED OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS
OF THE YEAR
CLASS OF 1933 SPONSORS EXCEPTIONAL REUNION
LUNCHEONBruce Griswold, '47, and a partner in the firm of Calfee,
Halter & Griswold, was the recipient of the Fletcher Reed Andrews Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award, sponsored by the Alpha Chapter of Tau Epsilon Rho Fraternity.
Mr. Griswold is a former President of the Greater Cleveland Bar Association and was also the Cleveland Bar delegate to the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association for four years. He has also served as a member and Chairman of the ABA's Special Committee on Retirement Benefits Legislation.
After graduation from CWRU School of Law in 1947, he was a law clerk for United States Supreme Court Justice Harold H. Burton.
Mr. Griswold and his wife, Sally, are the parents of four children, and Mrs. Griswold is the chairperson of the Visiting Committee for Western Reserve College this year.
Bruce Griswold is a member of the Society of Benchers of the law school, and the Law School Futures Committee.
Bruce Griswold, '47
ERRATUM
The Winter 1977-78 edition of In Brief reported John D. Buzzard, '66 in the In Memoriam section. Soon thereafter, a Mr. J. David Buzzard wrote the school to express his regret over the untimely death of John D. Buzzard and to establish a memorial fund in his honor. The University's records have been corrected to read that J. David Buzzard is alive and well and living in East Liverpool, Ohio. Was it Samuel Clemens who said "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
IN MEMORIAMHoward F. Janousek, '16 Harold M. Metcalf, '17 Earl S. Miller, '19 Andrew Kopp, '20 Read M. Kuhns, Jr., '21 Ralph W. Jones, '22 Charles E. Hoelzer, '25 Chalmer F. Lutz, '30 John S. Pyke, '30 George H. Thompson, '31
Russell V. Jones, '32 A. A. Steiger, '32 David M. Miller, '34 Raymond R. Dear, '36 Thomas C. Ward, '37 Leonard J. Klonowski, '48 John A. Resler, '48 Roman T. Keenan, '68 Michael A. Cannata, '72
The Class of '33 sponsored their 45th anniversary celebration on May 9, at the Commerce Club in downtown Cleveland. Of the 45 members of the class, twenty were present. The outstanding event was under the leadership of Arthur J. Fiske and Stanley Webster. All members of '33 are looking forward to their 50th anniversary in May, 1983.
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CLASS OF '78 NOTESJonathan A. Abbott Trudel, Bartlett & Barry; Greenfield, Mass. Dennis C. Aster Guren, Merritt, Sogg & Cohen; Cleveland, Ohio John P. Batt Calfee, Halter & Griswold; Cleveland, Ohio Michael Berg A.T. & T; New York City Karen J. Braham Haase, Dempsey & O'Loughlin;
Cleveland, OhioSusan W. Brecher Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom;
New York CityNicky Calio Santarelli & Gimer; Washington, D.C.Steven A. Caputo Bertsch, Edelman & Fludine; Cleveland, Ohio Douglas W. Charnas Internal Revenue Service, Office of Chief
Counsel; Washington, D.C.Diane Citron Haas Jack Wasserman; Washington, D.C.Ira S. Clair Komito, Plevin & Nuremberg; Cleveland, Ohio William S. Cline Day, Ketterer, Raley, Wright & Rybolt;
Canton, OhioJ. Kevin Cogan Troth, Van Tilberg & Henderson; Ashland, Ohio Jonathan E. Coughlan Public Defender's Office; Cleveland, Ohio Frank DiCiammarino Lorain County Legal Aid; Elyria, Ohio Mary Lynn Durham Calfee, Halter & Griswold; Cleveland, Ohio Janice Edgehouse Dennis Ibold, L.P.A.; Chardon, Ohio David L. Edmunds, Jr. Neighborhood Legal Service; Buffalo,
New YorkPaul D. Eklund Ohio Attorney General's Office, Antitrust Divi
sion; Columbus, OhioTom B. Ewing Solo Practitioner; Lewiston, Illinois Judith Fanelli Price, Waterhouse; Cleveland, Ohio James A. Fredericka Downey, Brown, Zuzolo & Duall;
Warren, OhioRaymond N. Fritz Ernst & Ernst; Cleveland, Ohio Michael A. Fuerst New Hampshire Legal Assistance;
Manchester, New HampshireDavid J. Gordon Hon. Leo Jackson, Judge, Court of Appeals for
the Eighth Appellate District; Cleveland, Ohio Robert Grabner Calfee, Halter & Griswold; Cleveland, Ohio Timothy J. Grendell U.S. Army JAGC, Pentagon;
Washington, D.C.James G. Hagy Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue; Cleveland, Ohio Stanley I. Hanover Squire, Sanders & Dempsey; Cleveland, Ohio Richard C. Hardy Ulmer, Berne, Laronge, Glickman & Curtis;
Cleveland, OhioWilliam H. Howard Hon. Timothy S. Hogan, Judge, United
States District Court; Cincinnati, Ohio Randall C. Hunt Clunk, Witte, Puckett & Lavery; Alliance, Ohio Oliver Hunter Georgia Legal Aid Services; Albany, Georgia David B. Jacobson Public Defender's Office; Cleveland, Ohio Shigeko Kawamura Anderson, Mori & Rabinowitz; Tokyo; Japan Douglas A. King Anderson, Holder, Herschez & Barkenquest;
Toledo, OhioJoseph A. Kochis Roth, Loeb & Shaw; Cleveland, Ohio Charles R. Kowal Ernst & Ernst; Cleveland, Ohio F. Gifford Landen Squire, Sanders & Dempsey; Cleveland, Ohio Karen Shoos Lipton Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue;
Washington, D.C.Paul J. Lupia VISTA, Public Defender; Utica, New York Jeanne M. Martin Hon. Leroy J. Contie, Jr., Judge, United States
District Court; Akron, OhioPaige A. Martin Sindell, Selker, Rubenstein & Einbund;
Cleveland, OhioVictoria Matts Peat, Marwick & Mitchell; Cleveland, Ohio Joyce A. May Turner & Swift; Warren, Ohio Barbara McCaskill Internal Revenue Service; Cleveland, Ohio Kevin D. McDonald Hon. Joseph Kinneary, United States District
Court; Columbus, OhioLouise McKinney Cleveland Legal Aid Society; Cleveland, Ohio Arnetta McRae DuPont Corporation; Wilmington, Delaware H. Jefferson Megargel National City Bank, Legal Department;
Cleveland, OhioPatricia Mell Ohio Attorney General's Office; Columbus, Ohio Kent R. Minshall Solo Practitioner; Cleveland, Ohio Jeffrey H. Mooney U.S. Army, JAGC Lisa J. Morris Jerry B. Murray, Co.; Sandusky, Ohio Kevin S. Nathan University of Oregon, LL.M. in Taxation;
Eugene, OregonMichael A. Ogline France, Morris & Brown; Alliance, Ohio Patricia A. Pap Heights Community Counsel;
Cleveland Heights, OhioDennis M. Pilawa Day, Ketterer, Raley, Wright & Rybolt;
Canton, Ohio
Daniel H. Plumly Critchfield, Critchfield & Johnson;Wooster, Ohio
Edward G. Ptaszek, Jr. Baker, Hostetler & Patterson;Cleveland, Ohio
Robert A. Rapp Smith & Schnacke; Dayton, Ohio Michael J. Reidy Parker, Fenton, Gallagher & Millikin;
Bryan, OhioDavid B. Roberts Hon. John Manos, U.S. District Court;
Cleveland, OhioWilliam P. Rogers, Jr. Hon. Paul Weick, Judge, U.S. Court of Ap
peals; Akron, OhioMichael J. Roth Proctor & Gamble, Miami Valley Laboratory;
Cincinnati, OhioSheldon M. Sager McCarthy, Liebit, Cristol, Klineman;
Cleveland, OhioEdmund Sargus Cinque, Banker, Lynche, Gromen & White;
Bellaire, OhioMichael D. Schenker Kelley, McCann & Livingstone;
Cleveland, OhioDiane Schwartz Squire, Sanders & Dempsey; Cleveland, Ohio
[ David B. Sholem Meyer, Capel, Hirschfield, Muncy, Jahn &1 Aldeen; Champaign, Illinois1 Cynthia E. Smith Hon. l^obert B. Krupansky, Judge, United j States District Court; Cleveland, OhioI Mark A. Smith Marshall, Melhorn, Cole, Hummer & Spetzer;! Cleveland, Ohioj Victor E. Smukler Lake Erie Asphalt Products;' Garfield Heights, Ohio
Kenneth A. Sprang Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Philadelphia, Pa. Jan Howard Stamm James Barber; Wauseon, Ohio Geoffrey E. Stein Ernst & Ernst; Cleveland, Ohio Richard J. Strassfield Cocozza & Cocozza; Yonkers, New York Jonathan S. Taylor Zellmer & Gruber; Cleveland, Ohio Thomas Victory, Jr. Cleveland Trust Company, Trust and New
i Business Development; Cleveland, OhioI NhatVu Hoang Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.;I Washington, D.C'.I Leo R. Ward Solo Practitioner; Cleveland, Ohio I James R. Wendelgass Montgomery, McCracken, Walker &
Rhoads; Philadelphia, Pa,i Marjorie L. Westphal Schneider, Smeltz, Huston & Bissell;I Cleveland, Ohioj Dwight S. Williams United States ArmyI Francis J. Witt, III CWRU, M.B.A. Program
Ann H. Womer Black, McCuskey, Souers & Arbaugh;Canton, Ohio
Ernest G. Wright United States Marine Corps, JAGC William Yelenak Weisman, Koplan & Jellinghaus, P.C.;
Waterbury, ConnesticutGail L. Young Charleston Legal Aid; Charleston, West Virginia Bradford D. Zelasko Kocian, Peterson, Berk & Goldstein;
Cleveland, OhioDonald B. Zimmerman Fitzpatrick & Zimmerman;
New Philadelphia, OhioWe are anxious to hear from everyone in the Class of 1978.
If you have obtained a position, please notify Mrs. Margaret Brooks in the Placement Office.
CLASS NOTES
Ralph T. Hisey, '15, has been retired since 1966. Since 1968 he and his wife, Anne, have been living in a retirement community in Southern California, called Leisure World. Mr. Hisey has been active in several groups in this community andhas helped organize a community association.
>J. Rogers Jewitt, '15, and a resident of Tucson reports that he is quite healthy and enjoys the dry air and extra sunshine of Tucson. Mr. Jewitt walks two miles a day, performs 15 pushups and swims on a regular basis.
George V. Woodling, '30 was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree from Ohio Northern University in May. Mr. Woodling is an inventor and a partner in the Cleveland patent law firm of Woodling, Krost, Granger & Rust.
James A. Logan, '30, was recently selected for inclusion in "Who's Who in American Law."
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Lester J. Farber, '31, has recently accepted a special assignment as Chief Attorney of the U.S. Navy Family Allowance Activity in Cleveland while retaining his law practice in the Leader Building.
Rufus S. Day, Jr., '35, received the distinguished alumnus award of the University School Alumni Association this spring.
William R. Quinn, '36, Stark County Common Pleas Court Judge will seek re-election to a third term this fall.
Franklin L. Salisbury, '37, is Executive Director and Founder of the National Foundation for Cancer Research.
Geraldine Stibbe Johnson, '41, reports that she and her husband retired from the U.S. Foreign Service and their lives are filled with travel, golf, music and hobbies. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson also conduct a lecture/discussion group in their retirement community in Oregon.
Robert J. Felixson, '43, is Chairman and President of Growth Realty Investors, in Beverly Hills, California.
David S. Dennison, '45, resigned as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corp. and is now associated with Baker, Hostetler, Frost & Towers in Washington, D.C.
Robert L. Kent, '47, announced his candidacy for Probate and Juvenile Court Judge in Portage County. He is presently a Portage County Municipal Court Judge.
Darrell R. Hottle, '47, will seek reelection to the Common Pleas Court of Hillsboro County this fall. He has been on the Bench in Hillsboro County since 1954.
Robert L. Brown, '48, was appointed to the Board of Directors of The Second National Bank in Bucyrus, Ohio.
Delmar T. O'Hara, '48, has retired and moved to Atwood Lake in Sherrodsville, Ohio, a 1500-acre resort area with golf courses and a sailing lake.
Robert B. Ford, '49, presently a Geauga County Common Pleas Court Judge will seek the Republican nomination for Judge of the 11th District Court of Appeals.
Reuben Z. Wise, '50, will seek re-election to the Common Pleas Court of Stark County this fall.
Wallace R. Steffen, '50, was appointed to the Westlake Board of Education.
John J. Monroe, '50, was appointed to the Lakeshore Trust Co. Board of Directors.
J. Foster Thompson, '50, has been elected President of the Federal Executives Association of Rochester, New York. Dr. Thompson heads the Office of Naval Research responsible for the Administration of various research projects at universities and colleges in upstate New York.
Roland Strasshofer, Jr., '50, was recently elected to the National Academy of Arbitrators and is also a Trustee of the Cleveland Wholistic Health Center. He is continuing to serve as a Trustee of Hillcrest Hospital, Christ Episcopal Church and the Shaker Heights Youth Center.
Oliver J. Schneider, '51, will seek the position of Judge of the Portage County Juvenile and Probate Courts this fall.
Joseph F. Spaniol, Jr., '51, was appointed by the Supreme Court of the United States to be the Deputy Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts on November 22, 1977.
Nell Whitfield, '54, was appointed to the post of Referee in Medina County Common Pleas Court.
Patrick Gareau, '57 and his wife, Betty, were selected as this year's "Mr. and Mrs. Westlake" by the Town Criers of West- lake. The title goes to those individuals who give generously of their time and talents to civic endeavors.
Virgil L. Musser, '59, will seek a new term as Stark County Commissioner this year.
Kenneth E. Rieber, '59, was promoted to Senior Vice President, Trust Division of Lorain National Bank.
J. Rogers Padgett, '63, was appointed Circuit Court Judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit of Florida with chambers in Tampa. Judge Padgett was elected Judge of County Court of Hillsborough County, Florida, in 1974.
David B. Saxe, '66, recently resigned after four years as Consumer Advocate and Director of Law Enforcement for New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs. He is now a partner in the law firm of Krakower & Weissman, 477 Madison Avenue, New York City. Mr. Saxe's first novel will be published this fall.
Hugh L. Black '67, was recently selected for inclusion in the first edition of "Who's Who in American Law."
Richard Bronner, '67, is the Campaign Manager for Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles. He is also a Los Angeles City Commissioner; Vice Chairrwan of the Los Angeles County Bar Arbitration Committee; partner. Trial Department of BuchaT ter, Nemer, Field & Chrystie; Lecturer, California Continuing Education of the Bar Seminars; and the author of two articles in legal publications.
George Simon, '67, joined the Corporate Credit staff of Standard Oil Company. He will be responsible for credit operations, legal service and,credit legislative assignments.
David J. Neustadt, '67, has been appointed Vice President of Mellon National Mortgage Co. of Ohio.
Ronald J. Suster, '67, was appointed to the Board of Bar Examiners in Ohip. -
David Strand, '68, has been appointed Health and Welfare Director for the City of Cleveland.
David L. Rosenzweig, '68, was promoted Executive Vice President of Union Commerce Corporation in Cleveland.
William D. Beyer, '69, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, will join Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Cleveland.
William J. Edwards, '69, was promoted first assistant to the United States Attorney in Cleveland. He will supervise both the criminal and "civil divisions of the federal prosecutor's office.
James M. Klein, '69, was promoted to Professor of Law at the University of Toledo College of Law. He has been a member of the law faculty since 1971.
Daniel D. Wilt, '70, was appointed to the Bratenahl Village Council in September 1977.
Lee J. Dunn, Jr., '70, was appointed General Counsel to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on July 1, 1977. He is also serving as Chairman of the Medicine and Law Committee of the American Bar Association's Section on Insurance, Negligence, and Compensation Law.
Kerry Dustin, '70, was admitted to partnership at Laven- thol & Horwath, Certified Public Accountants, on February 1,1978.
David S. Weil, Jr., '70, joined the Office of General Counsel, Northrop Corporation as General Counsel of Northrop's wholly-owned subsidiary Page Communications Engineers, Inc. in February 1978.
Patrick J. Donlin, '70, announced his candidacy for U.S. Representative for the 11th Congressional District of Ohio.
Donna Bowman, '70, was named General Counsel for the Ohio Department of Energy in January, 1978.
Duane L. Doyle, '70, opened a four county legal clinic to serve Summit, Geauga, Portage and Cuyahoga Counties in Twinsburg, Ohio, in May 1978.
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Joseph F. Bressi, '71, announced his candidacy for Judge of the Stark County Common Pleas Court.
Douglas S. Carr, '71, is the proud father of Ariel Elizabeth Carr, born June 27, 1977.
Jeffrey P. Albert, '71, is now Assistant Corporate Counsel for the B. F. Goodrich Co. in Akron. He is also engaged in a side business to prepare students for the Law School Admission Test.
Jerry W. Boykin, '71, is now associated with Turner & Swift of Warren, Ohio, practicing in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area as Boykin, Turner & Swift.
Raymond Tisone, '72, was elected Chairman of the Citizens Advisory Board of the Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency in Youngstown.
Randall A. Martin, '72, is now a partner in the St. Louis law firm of Stein & Siegel.
Richard L. Routman, '72, completed three and one half years as staff attorney with the Enforcement Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C,On March 1, 1978, he became associated with a 17 person law firm, Margolin & Kirwan located in Kansas City, Missouri. I Mr. Routman also completed his LL.M. in Taxation at Georgetown in May.
Ellen Glee Ott, '72, is now a staff attorney with the Department of Energy, Office of the General Counsel in Washington, D.C.
Diane Rubin Williams, '72, was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
Leonard L. Kopowski, '72, was recently elected District Judge of the 17th Judicial District of Kentucky. Judge Kopowski was also elected Chief District Judge by his fellow judges in the area.
James F. Wagenlander, '73, reports that he and his wife, Mary Lee, returned from a three-week trip to the People's Republic of China. During the trip they were allowed to visit an American friend in Peking and relatives in rural China. They were also permitted to travel to five cities. Jim and Mary Lee spent considerable time pursuing their professional interest in housing and medical facilities.
Tom A. Nunziato, '73, has completed his M.A. in Corporate Tax Law at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and joined the law firm of Selvin & Weiner in Los Angeles, Calif.
David G. Borland, '73, left the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office to go into general practice at 75 Public Square, Suite 1000, Cleveland, 44113.
Dennis Watkins, '73, is now associated with Hoppe, Frey, Hewitt and Milligan in Warren, Ohio. He resigned his position at the Trumbull County Prosecutor's Office as Chief Counsel of the Criminal Division, but will continue on a part- time basis handling cases before the 11th District Court of Appeals and other criminal appellate cases in the Ohio Supreme I Court.
Michael J. Loughman, '73, is now associated with Means, Bichimer, Burkholder & Baker, in Columbus, Ohio.
Wayne F. Erdelak, '73, has been appointed Corporate Attorney for ATO Inc., an international corporation with 30 major divisions.
Raymond Froelich, '73, completed his Army obligation in August, 1977. He joined the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office and has opened a private practice in Rocky River, Ohio.
Mark W. Altier, '73, announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for state representative to the 68th Ohio District. He was also named "Jaycee of the Quarter" by the Wooster chapter.
Jerry L. Boswell, '74, has opened a private practice in Columbus, Ohio.
David L. Parham, '74, recently completed the Court Practice Institute's week-long Trial Advocacy Seminar in Chicago,Illinois.
Larry Zink, '74, was appointed Stark County Coordinator for the gubernatorial campaign of Lt. Governor Richard ; Celeste. '
David L. Lavinder, '74, was appointed Assistant Attorney t General for the State of Colorado in January. ,
James L. Kimbler, '74, has opened his own law practice in ! Lodi, Ohio. ;
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Stephen V. Freeze, '74, is partner in the law firm of Young & Alexander in Dayton, Ohio.
Clifford R. Spott, '74, was promoted to Executive Vice President of Classic Industries, Inc. in Columbus.
Russell D. Leffler, '74, was appointed Assistant Public Defender for Huron County, Ohio.
Peter A. Gadiel, '75, will enter the MBA program at the Wharton School of Finance this September.
Gary J. Zimmer, '75, is now an associate with Kennedy,King & McClurg in Portland, Oregon.
Frederick J. Krebs, '75, married the former Cathryn Stanley of Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Krebs is employed by the United States Chamber of Commerce and was interviewed on CBS national television in April concerning lobbying regulations.
John C. Wojteczko, '75, is now a partner in the firm of Landon & Wojteczko in Chicago.
Daniel J. Kofick, '75, was appointed Law Director for the Village of Linndale and Assistant Law Director for the City of Strongsville, Ohio.
Michael J. Simons, '75, is employed as Special Assistant to the President and Counsel of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization.
Thomas D. Corrigan, '75, is the Democratic candidate for the Ohio Senate from the 25th district. He also opened his own law practice this Spring.
Mark J. Hassett, '75,Js now associated with the law office of Mark Sperry in Chardon, Ohio.
Gary Sklaver, '75, is now living in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife and 15 month old son, Benjamin. Mr.Sklaver practices law with Ullman, Perlmutter & Ullman in New Haven.
Gary Yost, '75, has opened his own law office in Ashtabula,Ohio.
Stephen B. Frew, '76, married the former Jackiann Horn- f beck on May 27. They will reside in Chicago.
Roger L. Shumaker, '76, was elected Trustee and General Counsel of the Cleveland Wholistic Health Center, Inc. He was also elected a member of The St. Luke's Hospital Association.
A. Paul Bogaty, '76, is now an associate with Lipsig, Sullivan, Mollen & Liapakis, in New York City, specializing in medical malpractice law. J
Pamela H. Prescott, '76, mcfved to Los Angeles and is practicing with the firm of Latham & Watkins.
Timothy Schulte, '76, moved from Denver, Colorado, to China Lake, California, where he is employed as a patent adviser for the Office of Naval Research at the Naval Weapons Center in China Lake.
Richard Foote, '76, is engaged in the solo practice of law with offices at 901 Bond Court Building in Cleveland but is also serving as counsel to Fink & Greene. Mr. Foote and his
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wife, Judy, will belatedly celebrate law school graduation with a trip to England and Ireland this summer.
Kent W. Penhallurick, '76, is presently employed as the law clerk for the Common Pleas Court of Geauga County in Chardon, Ohio.
Robert A. Ciotola, '76, is an associate with Green, Shia- voni, Murphy & Haines in Youngstown, Ohio.
Edward N. Winitz, LL.M., '76, was appointed Co-Chairman of the Professional Liability Committee of the American Bar Association.
Michael P. Kelbley, '76, is the Director of the Seneca County Public Defender Office in Tiffin, Ohio.
Dixon Miller, '76, will join the firm of Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur in Columbus in September, 1978.
Valerie J. Bryan, '76, was appointed a staff attorney in the State Consumer Counsel's Office in Hartford, Connecticut.
Gregory Sasse, '76, opened a law practice with Stewart W, Savage in Painesville, Ohio.
Stanley R. Rubin, '76, is now Chief of the Juvenile Division of the Stark County Prosecutor's Office in Canton, Ohio.
James K. Pedley, '76, recently opened the law firm of Ped- ley & Sapp in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Mr. Pedley also formed a non-legal partnership with Direct Mail Enterprises, Inc. to publish a monthly tax letter, entitled "Executive Tax Report." He and his wife are distance runners and travel to marathon runs on weekends when time permits.
Douglas J. Neuman, '77, has formed a law partnership, Westenfield and Neuman, in Niles, Ohio.
Homer R. Richards, '77, joined the firm of Smith, Renner, Hanhart, Miller & Kyler in New Philadelphia, Ohio.
Charles W. Whitney, '77, and his wife, Mary Beth, have a second son, Judson Michael, born April 23,1978.
Reed W. Neuman, '77, was appointed Assistant Attorney General, Environmental Division, for the State of Illinois.
Lawrence P. Levine, '77, and Sharon Wynn Greenspan were married in May and are living in Chicago.
Marcia Havens, '77, her husband and daughter moved from Cleveland to 5376 Osgood Avenue-S, Afton, Minnesota 55001.
Marian C. Broder, '77, is now legal counsel for Metropolitan Health Planning Corporation in Cleveland.
James W. Moennich, '77, joined the Lorain law firm of Cook & Batista.
Kirk J. Delli Bovi and Gary S. Ferber, '77, joined Murray k Murray in Sandusky, Ohio.
Randall L. Basinger, '77, is now Assistant County Prosecutor for Lake County, Ohio.
Gregory T. Holtz, '77, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for State Representative from District 11 in Columbus, Ohio.
Philip J. Croyle, '77, joined the firm of Guldin, Dickey & Bauders in Rittman, Ohio.
Egidijus (Gid) Marcinkevicius and Timothy Marcovy, '77, are assistants in the Geauga County Prosecutor's Office in Chardon, Ohio.
Carol Roth Brody, '77, is now associated with Fox & Grove in Chicago, Illinois.
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ALUMNI ANNUAL FUND PASSES GOAL
The 1978 Law Alumni Annual Fund set a new record with more than $177,000 in gifts and pledges received by June 30. The total is well above the $170,000 goal for the Fund this year. More details, including the Honor Roll of Giving, will be published later this summer.
Thanks to all who supported the Annual Fund this year.
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