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3 W. Va. St. B. News 1 (1971-1972)

handle is hein.barjournals/wvstbn0003 and id is 1 raw text is: WEST VIRGINIA STATE BAR NEWS Vol. III MAY, 1971 No. 1 Bowman Succeeds Parsons Annual Meeting Will Be Held in Pipestem Ais Bar Secretary- Treasurer Forest J. Bowman, a 33-year-old native of Grant County, West Virginia, has been ap- pointed Secretary-Treasurer of the West Virginia State Bar, succeeding Oshel C. Par- sons who is retiring after 22 years of service. Parsons will continue to serve as parlia- mentarian of the West Virginia House of Delegates, a position he has held for 38 years. Bowman received his bachelor's degree from West Virginia University in 1960 and DUSIC NAMED BOSS OF YEAR BY KANAWHA LEGAL SECRETARIES Charleston Lawyer, Ralph C. Dusic, Jr., a partner in the firm of Kay, Casto and Chaney, was named Boss of the Year by the Ka- nawha Legal Secretaries at their Bosses' Night dinner on Thursday, March 18, 1971. The choice was made on the strength of a letter written by his secretary, Mrs. Toni Maxwell. Dusic is presently serving as Chairman of the Young Lawyers Section of the West Vir- ginia State Bar and as a member of the Exec- utive Council of the Young Lawyers Section of the American Bar Association, representing the states of West Virginia, Michigan and Ohio. Attorney General Will Address Annual Meeting John N. Mitchell, Attorney General of the United States, is scheduled to address the final session of The West Virginia State Bar Annual Meeting at Pipestem. Attorney General Mitchell has stated that he will know definitely by May 15 if his schedule will permit him to be present at the Pipestem meeting. At the present time, how- ever, it does appear that he will be able to attend. Mr. Mitchell was born in Detroit, Michigan on September 5, 1913. He is a graduate of Fordham University and the Fordham Uni- versity Law School, where he obtained his LL.B. degree in 1937. Prior to his appointment as Attorney Gen- eral of the United States, he was a partner in the New York City law firm of Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander, and Mitch- ell. He is a member of the New York State and American Bar Associations. his law degree in 1963. At WVU he was president of the student body and associate editor of the West Virginia Law Review. After graduation, Bowman spent four years with the United States Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps and was honor- ably discharged as a Captain in 1967. In 1968 he was made an associate in the Char- leston law firm of Stone, Bowles, Kauffelt & McDavid. He left the firm to become a special assis- tant to Governor Moore and in June, 1969, was appointed Executive Secretary of the West Virginia Workmen's Compensation Fund. Bowman is married to the former Myla Woodford of Belington, West Virginia. They reside at 1125 Emerald Road, Charleston, and have two sons. Persons was named Secretary-Treasurer of the State Bar in 1949 during the second year of the Bar's existence. At the Annual Meet- ing in Clarksburg, 1970, he was made an honorary life member in recognition of his outstanding service to the State Bar. ABA President Wright To Speak at Pipestem Among the outstanding features of the An- nual Meeting program will be the address of Edward L. Wright, President of the American Bar Association. Mr. Wright will speak at the luncheon session on Friday, October 8. A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Mr. Wright has been an active member of the ABA since 1930. He has served as chairman of the Association's Special Committee on Evaluation of Ethical Standards since 1963. The committee's Code of Professional Re- sponsibility, replacing the 62-year-old Canons, was adopted at the 1969 An- nual Meeting. Mr. Wright is a Fellow and former president of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is also a Fellow of the American Mr. Wright Bar Foundation and of the American College of Probate Lawyers. He received an A.B. degree from Little Rock College, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1923. In 1928 he received his LL. B. from George- town University, Washington, D. C., which in 1968 conferred upon him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. ORDER OF THE COIF Dean Paul L. Selby, Jr., of the West Vir- ginia University College of Law has an- nounced the election of the following 1971 law graduates into the Order of the Coif: Hugh Clyde Avis, Beckley; Robert Noel Foreman, Wheeling; David Woodson Ham- brick, Alderson; Steven Chris Hanley, Charleston; William Franklin Hogsett, Ripley; and William Robert Wooten, Beckley. Pipestem Resort, West Virginia's magnifi- cent new State Park, located on West Vir- ginia Route 20, ten miles south of Hinton, will be the site of the 24th Annual Meeting of the West Virginia State Bar on October 7, 8, and 9. Meeting headquarters will be located in the Resort's Main Lodge, a 113-room facility situated on a breathtaking precipice over- looking the scenic Bluestone River Gorge. Pipestem Resort is one of the largest out- door recreation developments in the eastern United States. The Resort's main lodge con- tains convention and meeting facilities, an in- door pool, and complete service and recrea- tion facilities. Golf facilities include a modern golf club- house with lockers for men and women, pro shop, restaurant and recreation room; an 18 hole championship course, and a 9 hole par three golf course. The recreation center contains a 55 meter olympic swimming pool, cafeteria, game room, and pro shop and other facilities for the Re- sort's 9 hole golf course. Other attractions include a scenic aerial tramway, riding stables, skating rink, regula- tion field archery range with its own club- house, overlook tower on Pipestem Knob, miniature golf course, and fishing in Blue- stone River. Advance registration for the Annual Meet- ing will be available in the near future. Reservations for rooms should be made di- rectly with the resort. The address is: Pipe- stem Resort, Pipestem, West Virginia 25979. Governors to Be Elected In Five State Bar Districts Five State Bar Districts will elect new governors this year. The districts and the counties in each are the 6th (McDowell and Mingo); 7th (Boone, Lincoln and Logan); 8th (Kanawha); 9th (Raleigh and Wyoming); and 10th (Mercer, Monroe and Summers). The incumbents are John N. Harman, III, Welch, 6th; Edward I. Eiland, Logan, 7th; E. Glenn Robinson, Charleston, 8th; Joseph Luchini, Beckley, 9th; and Odell H. Huff- man, Princeton, 10th. All incumbents have served a full three- year term, and are ineligible for re-election. Under the By-Laws of the State Bar gover- nors may be nominated by written petition signed by not less than ten members of the bar in the district where such nominee has his office. If a district has fewer than ninety mem- bers, the petition need contain the signatures of only ten percent of the members of the Bar in that district. No member of the Bar may sign more than one nominating petition in any one year. Nominating petitions will be mailed all lawyers in the districts electing a governor prior to June 10.

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