Brooklyn Law School - Chancellor Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Class of February, 949 sprciiu TERM-PART II Defefzdmzf Will Rire. QHe risesj OES the defendant wish to make any statement before he hears the deter- mination of the Court? Your Honor, if it please the Court, I admit that there is much truth to the allegation that I have rarely returned home to my wife before midnight, and when I did arrive I locked myself in the basement until the most unseernly hour. I further admit that on Saturdays upon leaving the office at noon, I hasten to haunts unknown to my wife, and returned home only when dinner was cold and I was too tired to engage in those Saturday night activities customary among married couples. It is doubtless true that my violent uproars directed at fellow pedestrians on our Sunday afternoon walks, threatening as they did, dire legal recriminations, couched, however, in such abstruse phraseology that I was frequently taken for one suffering from dementia praecox and that this conduct in fact caused my wife great mental anguish. It cannot be denied that the few occasions on which the opportunity pre- sented itself to converse with my wife were so bereft of the normal pleasan- tries of marital chit-chat, and in fact so beyond the pale of her interest and her comprehension, that at first blush her charge of incompatibility would seem well taken. The point as to non-support too, does not seem unreasonable since, despite numerous favorable opportunities in the business world, I have persisted in maintaining a penurious clerkship and have depended on a trifling monthly pittance from a debt-ridden but benevolent Uncle. All things taken together the plaintiff appears to have made out a seem- ingly reasonable case for she has forcefully indicated that there is more than a mere suspicion of truth to the allegations that: lj my conduct has not made for compatibility in marriage. 25 that my tenuous conversational myopia is capable of engendering mental cruelty. BQ that my pitiful pursuit of pecuniary gain, ill compares with the uni- versally present opulence, and may well be termed non-support. All of this I admit, but one fact I plead in extenuation. I am a student of the junior class of Brooklyn Law School, deserving, if you will, of pity, but not chastisement nor ostracism from the fugitive joys of marital bliss. I ask only the patience and forbearance normally evidenced toward the child, the neophyte, the student. Culpablethough I am, your Honor, I pray this Court for a stay of the noble, the mighty, the merciful hand of justice, for a period of one year. H Q GACZ4'LCQ!!O4' PugeForlylwo

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Day Class of june, l9-49 UST one year ago, in june, 1947, our group of approximately 150 students entered the law school. Today, after struggling through a trying, sweltering summer, a terrifically cold and snowy winter and a mild spring, we ind our- selves at the halfway mark, with three terms passed and three before us. Our group is a varied one composed mainly of veterans, with every rank from private in the Army to Lieut. Commander in the Navy represented. Forty- one per cent are married, with more falling prey each passing week. Many of the married men, aside from coping with a strenuous curriculum of study are working afternoons in support of family. The students have received their pre-legal training in almost every major college in the United States and many have received degrees from these col- leges. Mr. Dimin is our most learned member having been exposed to NYU, Yale, Alabama, Mississippi and Brooklyn College before coming to Brooklyn Law School. Before entering the law school, these students pursued such professions as electrical engineering, music, accounting, chemistry, teaching and riding master at a dude ranch. Yet all of these people with such diversity of background are pursuing a common purpose-the practice of law. Having embarked on their law school careers, the members of the class have begun to gain recognition for their activity and esprit. Bill Fox, Jewell Burge and Bill Wingate werrelected class officers in the fall and represented us on the Student Council. Peter Visco was elected President of the Newman Club and with his associates organized a weekly public speaking practice session in the Newman Club Rooms. Irv Schiffman and a dozen other men from the class have been instrumental in forming a crack basketball team which has been taking on all challengers, playing on Friday afternoons at the Brooklyn Poly- tech High School gym. He is developing the nucleus for a school basketball team to participate with other law schools in a Law School League. jerry Kaplan and another large group have organized the Debate Council which has been attracting increasing numbers of students with every meeting. The Council was formed by the class originally to engage in intramural debates but has taken over the field of moot courts and other related forensic activities. Another club created by our class members is the Criminal Law Group wherein our future District Attorneys are trading knowledge and developing their background in criminal law. r And the future? Everyone is putting on the studying pressure so he won't be the next casualty Our successful incumbents will be found in the next year book. PageF011ylkree GACLFLCC2 Ol