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95 Annu. Rep. A.B.A. 565 (1970)
Memorial to Richard Bentley 1894-1970

handle is hein.journals/anraba95 and id is 577 raw text is: HOUSE OF DELEGATES PROCEEDINGS MEMORIAL TO RICHARD BENTLEY 1894- 1970 Richard Bentley, deceased June 8, 1970, while a member of this Board of Governors and fifth Editor-in-Chief of the American Bar A sso- ciation Journal, had an almost unprecedented relationship to the Ameri- can Bar Association. Admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1922, dedicated from the beginning to the potential of the organized bar, he became within four years Assistant Secretary of the American Bar Association, an office which he held from 1926 to 1935. He continued his unflagging devotion to the Association by serving on important committees. When World War II broke out, he for a second time entered his country's service (he rose from lieutenant to captain of infantry in World War I), this time as Navy captain in charge of the Navy's legal assistance program, in which he brought the services of hundreds of American Bar Association members to the aid of service men. He was elected to the Board of Editors of the American Bar Associ- ation Journal in 1947. He also became a member of the Council of the Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, chairman of that Section from 1949 to 1950 and that Section's Delegate in the House of Delegates from 1950 to 1952. He was an Assembly Delegate to the House of Delegates from 1954 to 1960. He became a member of the House again in 1961 when he became Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. In 1961, following the death of Tappan Gregory, a former President of this Association, Richard Bentley succeeded him as Editor-in-Chief of the American Bar Association Journal, and as a member of this Board of Governors. He filled the position of Editor-in-Chief with great dis- tinction down to his final days. Membership in the Association increased phenomenally during this period, an increase stimulated in part by the excellence of the Journal, which was widely used in membership cam- paigns. A man of exquisite literary tastes and of wide reading, he set high writing standards for the Journal. His famous 1959 Journal article Eli- zabethan Whodunit: Who Was William Shakespeare stimulated world- wide scholarly interest and rejoinder. The compilation of these Shakes- peare articles in book form is still a good seller not only to lawyers but to scholars in many lands. Collateral to all of these American Bar Association achievements, attained by very few indeed, he filled many other distinguished roles. He was a member of the Illinois Board of Law Examiners from 1935 to 1939, President of the Chicago Bar Association from 1954 to 1955, President of the Law Club and Legal Club of Chicago, and President of the Chicago Bar Association Foundation. He has been President of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Vice President of the New World Foundation, and trustee of Berea College (Kentucky). He was also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the American Law Institute. Richard Bentley's preparatory education included the Francis W.

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