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5 News Bull. 1 (1945)

handle is hein.barjournals/ialaw0005 and id is 1 raw text is: THE NEWS OF BULLETIN The Iowa State Bar Association Vol. V, No. 11 1101 Fleming Building, Des Moines, Iowa antarth 1 5 Board of Governors Reports on Meeting The third meeting of the Board of Governors of The Iowa State Bar Association was held. December 16 at the Hotel Fort Des Moines, with twenty-two members present. Wayne G. Cook, president, presided. It was tentatively decided that the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association will be held in Des Moines May 31, June 1 and 2, 1945. Further details will be released later. Reports of committees indicate that, despite wartime conditions which have taken many members into service, the Association is in sound condition and is functioning more vigor- ously than at any time in its history. The Tax School, for example, had a fine attend- ance estimated at 545, with a gross income of more than $2,300.00. The Committee on Unauthorized Practice reports that as a result of the recent favorable decision in Bump vs. Barnett the American Bar Association has rec- ognized that we now have one of the best deci- sions in the country on unauthorized practice. The Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Paroles was authorized by the Board to expand itself in order to carry out present plans of gathering information for the purpose of stim- ulating interest in developing a statewide pro- grain to meet the problems .of juvenile delin- quency. Revised Articles of Incorporation of the Iowa State Bar Foundation received the unan- imous approval of the Board, and have since been filed. A discussion of the Foundation appears in another column in this issue of The News Bulletin. Membership in The Iowa State Bar Asso- ciation is at a high point, with 1,336 paid members, 42 life members, 19 newly admitted members and 429 free service members Be- cause of increased activity of comm ittees, however, present expenses are running ahead of income. The meeting of the membership committee on December 15 was very beneficial, in that it gave members an opportunity to. exchange ideas and iron out difficulties. Leo J. Molloy, Independence, was re-elected to serve on the Board of Governors. from the Tenth Judicial District. Frank Senneff, Britt, was elected from the Twelfth District. Both will serve for the two-year term expiring in June, 1946. Frank J. Blaser Honorary Member Frank J. Blaser, Assistant Chief of Income Tax Division of the Office of Col- lector of Internal Revenue for Iowa, has been elected an Honorary Member of The Iowa State Bar Association, in recogni- tion of his invaluable services rendered in connection with the Tax Schools held by the Association for the past five years. His election as an honorary member took place at the meeting of the Board of Governors of the Association, December 16. Iowa Bar Foundation 1d Promote American Way The newly formed Iowa State Bar Founda- tion will be a medium through which the lawyers of the state, and private citizens and organizations as well, can make an aggressive and effective contribution to the preservation of- American institutions through long range plans, according to Burt J. Thompson, Forest City, president and one of the originators of the Foundation. The Foundation became a reality with filing of the Articles of Incorporation on December 29, 1944, and has already received substantial contributions. Officers of the Foundation are: President, Burt J. Thompson, Forest City; Vice President, J. W. Bollinger, Davenport; Secretary-Treasurer, Thomas B. Roberts, Des Moines. During the past ten years The Iowa State Bar Association has increased its membership from about 1,000 to nearly twice that number. It has, however, never had any more income than enough to pay current and ordinary ex- penses. The Association has, therefore, been extremely limited in attempting any broad activities for public good. We now find ourselves in a world situation where many of the old landmarks and institu- tions are being swept overboard, and a new concept of human relations has come to the surface. The Iowa State Bar Foundation was brought into being to permit the now strongly integrated group of lawyers in Iowa to par- ticipate widely and actively in the solution of some of the crucial problems that have arisen. Its membership is confined to the twenty-two members of the Board of Governors, and its business is conducted by a Board of five Direc- tors each of whom is to be elected for a period of five years. Thus there has been created a corporation that will live as long as there are lawyers, and that will always be in the hands of a small group of carefully selected men of integrity and ability. Some of the problems which these men will be able to work on under the Fund are: Juve- nile delinquency; relocation and re-education of lawyers returning from the armed services; systematic efforts to restrain further encroach- ment of the administrative agencies in fields properly belonging to the courts; contribution to the development of. an informed public opinion concerning the new world order and the part our country must take in it. While the Iowa State Bar Foundation will be administered by lawyers, and will seek contributions from their ranks, the program of the Foundation will include such projects as will benefit the entire people of Iowa. Thus, the Foundation offers to all men and institu- tions who have a desire to participate in the solution of these great problems an oppor- tunity to do so in a more effective manner than they could as individuals. It offers a safe place for those who would like to have their incomes set to work and be kept working long after they are gone, for the good of their fellow men. The lawyers of the state of Iowa are urged to read and study the following Articles of Incorporation of the Iowa State Bar Founda- tion, and to pledge contributions to the Foun- dation commensurate with their means, and with their desire to aid the work of the Foundation. ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF IOWA STATE BAR FOUNDATION The undersigned, whose names are hereto subscribed, being citizens of the State of Iowa and of full age, for the purposes hereinafter stated, do hereby associate ourselves into a body corporate under the provisidhs of Title 19, Chapter 394, Code of Iowa, 1939, and Amendments thereto, assuming all the powers and obligations granted bodies corporate under said title and chapter and do hereby adopt, execute and acknowledge the following Articles of Incorporation, to-wit: Article I The name of this corporation shall be IOWA STATE BAR FOUNDATION. The principal place of business of this Corporation shall be at Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, but its meetings, either annual or special, shall be held at such time and place in the State of Iowa and in such manner as its By-Laws provide. Article II The general purpose of this corporation and its plan of operation shall be as follows: The object for which this Corporation is formed is the receipt of gifts, and de- vises to be used for the advancement of jurisprudence and the promotion of the administration of justice and uniformity of judicial decisions, exclusively through education and scientific research; the ac- quisition for such use of such real and personal property as may be donated to the corporation from time to time and the holding, administering, and disposition thereof, and the doing of any and all things necessary or incident to the ac- complishment of the foregoing purposes, provided, however, that none of the funds, property or income of the corporation shall be used in attempting to influence legislation by the carrying on of propa- ganda or otherwise or for the benefit of any private membef of the corporation or individual. To accomplish the foregoing object or purpose, this corporation shall have the right to act as Trustee of any funds or property that it may receive under specific or limited grants or agree- ments or that it may receive by testa- mentary disposition and shall have the right to hold and manage the same under the terms and conditions imposed by any such bequest not inconsistent with the objects hereinabove expressed. (Continued on Page 2)

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