Yale University Law School - Yale Law Reporter Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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MYRES SMITH McDOUGAL, William K. Townsend Professor of Law, B,A. 1926, M.A. 1927, LL.B. 1935, University of Mississippi, B.C.I.. 1940, Oxford, J.S.D. 1941, Yale Uni- versity. Mr. McDougal started his teaching career at the University of Illinois. He has taught at Chi- cago, Northwestern, Columbia and Vanderbilt, and came to Yale in 1934. He has published, with Mr. Haber, Property, Wealth, Land: A110- cation, Planning and Development . He is a member of the Board of Editors of the American journal of International Law and the Journal of Comparative Law. - nr 1 -ir - - - GEORGE HATHAWAY DESSION, Lines Professor of Law, B.A. 1926, M.A, 1927, Cornell University, LL.B. 1930, Yale Uni- versity. Mr. Dession has been at Yale since 1930. He has published a Casebook, Criminal Law, Administration and Public Order. He served as Special Assistant to the Attorney General, Department of justice. Mr. Dession was a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Advisory Committee of Rules of Criminal Procedure. EUGENE VICTOR ROSTOW, Professor of Law, B.A. 1933, Yale University, 1933-34, King's College, Cambridge, LL.B. 1937, Yale University. Mr. Rostow practiced with the firm of Cravath, de Gersdoff, Swaine and Wood, 1937-38. He was ap- pointed to the Law School faculty in 1938, where he has remained since, except for a leave to serve as visit- ing Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago in 1941, for a period of war service as As- sistant General Counsel of the Office of Lend-Lease Administration in 1942, and as Executive Assistant to an Assistant Secretary of State in 1942-44. 13

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GRANT GILMORF, Associate Professor of Law, B.A. 1931, Pl'1,D. 1936, LL.B. 1942, Yale University. Mr. Gilmore's law school education was not his first with Yale University for he taught French at the Under- graduate School in 1936. Following his graduation from law, he became associated with Milbank, Tweed, and Hope in New York. He served as Lieutenant with the Oiiice of Judge Advocate General, United States Navy, during the war. JOHN R. THOMPSON, Assistant Professor of Law, B.A., Mellon Fellowship, Cambridge University, LL.B. 1947, Yale University. Mr. Thompson cletked for Chief jusice Vin- son in 1947-48. He was with the firm of Coving- ton, Burling, Rublee, Acheson and Shorb in Washington in 1948. Then in 1949 he joined the Yale faculty. WESLEY ALBA STURGES, Dean of the L School and Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law, Ph 1915, University of Vermont, LL.B. 1919, Columl Universityg J.D. fcum laudej 1923, Yale Law Scho D.C.1. CHon.J, University of Vermont, LL.D., Tula University, 1948. Dean Sturges has taught at the law schools of 1 Universities of South Dakota, Minnesota, Columb North Carolina, Washington, Drake, Northwestern a Kansas. He served as Chairman of the Faculty in 191 In 1946 became Dean of the Law School. He has serv as Executive Director, Distilled Spirits Institute, Ir and is now Chairman, Board of Directors, Americ Arbitration Association. . . . . . r, if

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J' K WILL THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS The Law journal and B.U.l. may have a place in our lives here, but day in, day out, there is no more pervasive influence that that of The Front 'ES' Office. These are the people who keep our records, get us jobs, type our papers, and generally decorate the hallways. Above, Elsa E. Wolf, Registrar. Left, Mollie McCall, Director of Steno- graphic Services. N ,J Above, three little maids from the registrars oHice strike a pose, while taskmaster McCall finds work for mimeographers. At the right, General Coordinator Betty Martin, Placement Director Clare J. Sturges and Doris Boeris, Secretary to the Dean. Q X- WF 9