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NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL
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Enrollment
Two hundred students enrolled in the
Law School in September — 99 of them in
the first-year class. Seventy-four have Notre
Dame degrees, 55 are married and 23 are
veterans. The student body ranges in age
from 20 to 50, comes from 27 states, plus
Canada and Mexico, and includes graduates
of 77 different colleges and universities.
Notre Dame Law Association
•» Nineteen officers and directors of the
Association attended a directors' meeting
October 23 and 24. Sessions were held both
days. Father Philip Moore, C.S.C, offered
Mass for the Association Saturday morning;
this was followed by a breakfast. The Association,
under the direction of President
James M. Wetzel of Chicago, is undertaking
a $125,000 scholarship drive and the
publication of a new directory of members.
Judges Kiley and Swygert
The Notre Dame Law .Association sponsored
a dinner in Chicago on September 28
to honor Judges Roger Kiley and Luther
M. Swygert, both alumni of the Law School
and members of the United States Court of
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Judge
Kiley is also a member of the Law Advisory
Council, and Judge Swygert is
Adjunct Professor of Law in the practice
court program. Chief Judge John S. Hastings
of the Court of .Appeals was guest
speaker for the occasion, which was attended
by 85 alumni and friends of the
Law School; Professor Thomas Broden pref^ented
plaques to the guests of honor.
Moot Court
James J. Leonard, Jr., a third-year student
from Prairie Village, Kansas, was
named winner of the final round of the
Moot Court competition, held October 10
in the Memorial Library auditorium. Second
place went to John H. Martin of
Sacramento, California. Mr. Leonard is a
graduate of Brown University; Mr. Martin
graduated from the University of Notre
Dame. Other competitors were Henry J.
Boitel, Brooklyn, New York, and Kevin
Carey, Yakima, Washington. The arguments
were heard by Mr. Justice Arthur J. Goldberg
of the Supreme Court of the United
States; Judge Carl McGowan of the Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit; and Judge William J. Campbell of
the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Illinois. The case, now
on the Supreme Court's docket, involved
an employer's right to terminate his business
during a labor dispute.
Practice Court
The fall term of the Practice Court began
in September and will be concluded
in March. Each member of the third-year
class \vill participate in a full-dress jury
trial before Judge Luther M. Swygert and
a jury drawn from the Law School's firstyear
class and the student body of St.
Mary's College. Professor Edward Barrett
directs the program and acts as pro-tem
judge on motions and voir dire sessions.
Elective Seminar
The separate course in federal estate and
gift taxation has now been absorbed into
the third-year estate planning course. This
adjustment left two semester hours in the
final semester for an elective seminar. Several
members of the faculty plan to offer
courses in various areas of specialization
which will afford all members of the thirdyear
class an opportunity for close, detailed
research under careful direction. The program
will replace the third-year research
paper requirement.
Gray's Inn
Gray's Inn began its season in October
with a visit from Thomas Ford of the New
York Bar, who discussed with students the
problems and opportunities of law practice
in New York City. Mr. Ford is a partner
in Shearman & Sterling, a firm which has
recently employed two graduates as associates
— Paul B. Coffey, '58, 61L, and
Thomas Joyce, '60, '63L.
The editorial board of the Looijicr
launched plans for the formation of a
Notre Dame Lawyer Alumni Auociation
with a formation meeting at the Law
School on October 23 and 24-. Recent
graduates who were Lawyer staff memben
were invited to the meeting, which included
group attendance at the Notre
Dame-Stanford game. The Association will
aim at increased assistance from the law
review's alumni in obtaining and preparing
lead articles and advising student editors
on content and circulation of the review.
Low Advisory Coundi
Members of the Law Advisory Council
met at the Law School in October. They
held a session with the editorial board of
the Notre Dame Lawyer and heard student
editors explain their procedures and
problems. The members also had breakfast
with the third-year class.
Council members at the meeting included
Norman J. Barry, Chicago; Judge
Hugh C. Boyle, Pittsburgh; John E. Cassidy,
Peoria; Judge Charles S. Desmond,
Buffalo; John W. Doi^n, Chicago; Oscar
John Dorwin, New York City; Paul F.
Hellmuth, Boston; John T. Higgins, Detroit;
Henry M. Hogan, Birmingham,
Mich.; H. Clay Johnston, New York City;
Judge Roger J. Kiley, Chicago; J. W. Mullin,
Jr., Los Angeles; Judge Walter V.
Schaefer, Chicago; Edmtmd A. Stephan,
Chicago; and A. Harold Weber, South
Bend.
Congratulations
George A. Pelletier, Jr., '61, '62L, has
been appointed an instructor in the International
and Comparative law Division of
the Army Judge Advocate General's School,
Charlottesville, Va, He is the author of a
lead article which appeared last year in
the Lawyer on insurance retaliatory laws.
NAMES OF SERVICE DEAD
SINCE W.W.n REQUESTED
FOR NEW WAR MEMORIAL
A permanent war memorial hoooiing
all alumni who have died 'Yor God,
Coimtry and Notre Dame" is being
planned to replace the temporaiy
wooden plaques listing those killed in
World War II which hing stood in the
foyer of Sacred Heart Chwch.
The new memorial will hopefully contain
the names ot all Notre Dame men
who have died in the Korean action
and "Cold War" as weU as the Second
World War.
While the Alumni Office records are
considered ia be compete tat the World
War n Honor RoD, we would like to
corroborate our listings since that time.
Classmates, relatives and friends of
alumni who have died on active duty
in the U.S. Armed Forces once V-J
Day are asked to send name, class and
date of death to the Ahunni Oflke,
Bos SS5, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556.
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