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7 Cornell Law Forum (Student ed.) 1 (1954)

handle is hein.journals/corlawfose7 and id is 1 raw text is: Tm-it CcLtin L w rCJ VOLUME 7 THE CORNELL LAW FORUM, ITHACA, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 28, 1954 NUMBER 1 Our Own First Lady WillcoxTo Direct Dean Stevens Retires: S esPast And Future Research Study At Cornell 1919-19 54 - - -. .... .Professoi Bertram F. Willcox, '17, - .. . ... Undoubtelyyther wul s relativelymfew readwill direct a broad survey of the ad- By Franklin Lehmeier Undoubtedly, there would be relatively few readers of The Forum who ministration of the law in the United George Jarvis Thompson, Edwin H. Woodruff Professor of woma. h er the rofesor thalumn, std ent an isa S States. The funds will be made avail- Law, long an associate of Robert S. Stevens, writes: woman. However, the professors, alum, students and associates of the 'I able from an endowment of $35,000 In the retirement of Dean Robert S. Stevens, we of the Cornell Cornell Law School have long since become cognizant of Mrs. Stevens' smn' bequeathe to theUnvesiy ...il cere interest and assistance along side that of her husband, Dean Stevens; beqathe. M t h nety Law School family lose a loyal, inspiring teacher, friend and leader. and who would fail to herald the fact that behind Mr. Stevens was a truly la schol n1895-6nandtpracticed His thirty-five years on the faculty and his seventeen years as dean 'First Lady of the Cornell Law School-his wife. law in Peoria, Ill. for many years are unexcelled in length of service and in significance of contribu- Shortly after their marriage in prior to his death in 1950. Professor tion in the history of the school. 1940, the Dean and Mrs. Stevens ar- Willcox will hold the first Mcnob- > As longtime New York State mem- rived in Ithaca, and since that time ert's Professorship in the Adminisra- Uniform she has taken a vital interest not only I f Law. StatesLawsia d t of the Uni- ion ofLaw.State Laws, as draftsman of the Uni- in the student body and the school in Unlike most previous studies of the form Corporation Law, and as author general, but in each individual in par- law, the McRobert's endowment pro- ...ls of a leaC og text and atleles i the ticular. Mention need only be made vides that the Cornell project shall ifields of Corporations and Equity, he of her greeting each new student at attempt to analyze its acutal admin- not only brought national prestige to the Dean's Tea as an old acquantance, istration -from the viewpoint of the the Law School and to himself but set nd the sincerity and extent of her in- layman and the public. The will also an inspiring example to faculty and terest is immediately evident. How provides that the results of the study students. many law students were amazed when shall be used to inform law students, All within the Law School circle Mrs. Stevens called him by name up. legislative bodies, bar associations will miss the genuine interest, help- n their first meeting! and the public of the most successful fulness and hospitality of Dean and With the exception of about three areas and methods in public adminis- Mrs. Stevens. Our best wishes go years since 1940, Mrs. Stevens has tration of justice. with them. been a resident of Ithaca. In 1942, Recently returned from England * * * both the Dean and Mrs. Stevens left where he studied the effect of nation- Retirement is such a normal event for California where the Dean was to lalization on labor relations as a Ful- in our academic and business life that take his sabbatical leave, It was soon bright scholar. Professor Willcox has. we accept it as a telephone bill; not thereafter that both went to Washing. >been on the law school faculty since: with any outward happiness but with ton, D.C., where the Dean was called &irs. Stevens 1 19-16. He has taught courses in com- resignation to the inevitable. When into governmental service. imercial transactions and in labor law. D Robert Sproule Stevens, one day last Upon completion of that assign- LANKLER APPOINTED 'He received his A.B. from Cornell in spring, announced his retirement as ment, the Stevens returned to Ithaca 1917 and his LL.B from Harvard Dean of the Law School, thus ending and Myron Taylor Hall where they TO HIGH STATE POST Iwhere he was editor and chairman of Keeler Wins Prize the active side of a thirty-five year as- have been since. A Cornell alumnus, 26-year old I the Harvard Law Review in 1922. A Student sociation, there was,indeed, no out- Although during the next few Alexander M. Lanker of Brooklyn member of numerous fraternal and ward happiness. From the faculty of- months, Mrs. Stevens will be involved has been appointed confidential law professional clubs including Phi Beta The Boardman Prize for 1954-55 fices to the classrooms there was a in making plans for their trip to assistant to the governor's counsel, Kappa and Sphinx Head, Professor has been awarded to Charles Addison loud echo of stunned surprise and Europe cmmencing March I and in George M. Shapiro. Willcox has served as a hearing of- Keeler, Jr. The Prize, in memory of hopeful disbelief. The inability of visiting their son's family and chil- He was named to the $5700-a-yea- ficer for the New York State Labor Judge Douglas Boardman, fitst Dean Myron Taylor Hall to absorb with in- dren in Rochester, she intends to keep post by Governor Dewey Friday to Relations Board and was a public of the Law School, is awarded an- evitable resign the Dean's retirement in touch with her many friends in the suceed Milton S. Heath who has member on the appeals committee of nually to the student who has, in the lies in the simple realism that thirty- that she may continue to be invited joined the staff of the Tennessee Val- the National War Labor Board dur- judgment of the faculty, done the best five years of creative brilliance and to ley Authority. ing World War II. work to the end of his second year. warm devotion cannot be estranged attend the coffee hours and functions by a single proclamation when those of the school which she considers the very qualities are firmly fixed in the most stimulating institution I ever foundation and the life of the build- knew. That she has found it so and . .g. has enjoyed being associated with it is a fact in which the entire school Early Life takes pride. Dean Stevens arrived in. Ithaca in Although no longer officially con- 1919 as a lecturer on law, immediate- nected with Myron Taylor Hall, the Z ly after he had completed military gracious manner, the amicable con- service in the first World War, asid versation, and the personal interest in but for the three years between 19-42 the student body of The Lady behind' and 1945 when he served the govern- the Dean will long be remembered ment in a civilian capacity, he has re- and appreciated. To her the student mained in the Law School. In that body extends its heartiest wish for, time some eighty per cent of the Cor- many pleasant years ahead. nell Law School Alumni have bene- Cornell Graduate Elected Governor Running roughshod over tradition and overwhelmingly odds, Edmund S. Muskie defeated Governor Burton M. Cross of Maine by 25,000 votes dur- ing the Stepmber 13 elections in that state Muskie who came from Bates Col- lege in 1936, was graduated from Cornell Law School in 1939. Follow- ing his graduation, Mr. Muskie was associated with Muskie -and Glover, a law firm in Waterville, Maine. By no means a stranger to the polit- ical scene in the home, state, Muskie held the post of Democratic National Committeeman. During the war emer- gency period he also achieved public renown as head of the Office of Price Stabilization. In becoming the governor-elect of Maine, Muskie crashed through two longstanding barriers: he became the first Democratic governor since 1934 and the first Democrat since 1914 to defeat a Republican governor up for election to a second term. Seated: jonn rsenappi, nlarmIon Iuuge, ..y - Standing (I. to r.) :Art Bergner, Andy Gleenst4 Franklin, Gil Henoch, William Ferguson, Seymour Steven Kaye, Joe Dunne. Levien, C. Addison Reeler, Joe r sIn, Ken Bay. Dave Goodstein, Eilenberg, Bernard Bergaman, B Quarterly Competition Open As a result of their excellence in Marc Franklin, Martin Rubashkin, scholastic achievement, fourteen new Joy Levien, Lee Beck, David Good- competitors haev been added to the stein, Gill Henoch, Steven Oppenheim, staff of the Cornell Law Quarterly for I and John Shea round out the list of the coming year. this year's competitors. Included among this select group Although there is no precise math- of students who were honored by the ematical system for determining how faculty with invitations to compete many students will qualify for Quar- are five returning war veterans. This terly competition, the number arrived impressive array of ex-servicemen is at usually encompasses the top 10% composed of Steven Kaye, Thomas of the previous first year class. Cashel, Paul Szasz, Bernard Berko. During the one year or more com- witz, and Arthur Bergner. peting period, each student is re- !itted from one or more courses with Dean Stevens, including our own Pro- fessor Whiteside who was a first year student in the Law School in 1919. and Professors Farnham, MacDon- ald, Freeman, Morse, Pfann, Curtiss. Warren, Ward, Fricke, Henn and Pasley. From where did this brilliant and contributive career spring forth 9, Robert Stevens was born in 1888 in the tiny upstate village of Attica, New York. But, indeed, he was born in a Perillo, Fat Fox. house whose previous owner was none John Shea, Martin Bubashkin, Ma hr t ernard Lalone, Paut Szasa. Tonms el, other than Judge Thomas Cooley, author of celebrated books on consti- tutional law and torts. Young Rob- ert's father was a New York State To Fourteen Senator as well as a banker, and win- tertime led the Stevens family to quired to submit three notes (case an- Washington, D.C., where Robert at- alysis) or one note in addition to a tended grade school and had for con- comment. Furthermore, the compets stant companions, Theodore, Jr., and are called upon to perform some min- Kermit Roosevelt, the sons of the isterial functions such as working in President, with whom he spent many the Quarterly book store, hours at play upstairs in the White Upon the successful completion of House. Dean Stevens completed his the prerequisites, the respective com- secondary education at the Hackley petitors are eligible for election to the I School in Tarrytown, New York, Board of Editors. Despite the fact from where, in 1906, he started off that this is not an automatic election for seven important years at Harvard precedure, few compets, if any, fail University. As an undergraduate at (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3)

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