Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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HARRISON STEELE DIMMITT Secretary of the Law School After graduation from the Law School, Mr. Dimmitt was for five years engaged in the practice of law in New York City. In 1935 he was appointed assistant secretary of the Law School and the following year became secretary. He entered the Army in 1942 and was discharged as a Lieuten- ant-Colonel in February, 1946. He was attached to the staff of General Devers' Sixth Army as a G-5 officer and later served with the United States Group Control Council in Berlin. Born: 1898, Denver, Colorado. A.B., 1920, Princeton, LL.B., 1925, Harvard. WESLEY E. BEVINS, JR. Assistant Dean Mr. Bevins entered the junior Executive Training Program of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Washington, D. C., in June, 1940. He was inducted into the Army, March, 1941, and commanded a battery of mobile anti-aircraft artillery, sth Infantry, Third U.S. Army, European Theatre of Operations. He was released from active duty in january of 1946 and is a member of the U.S.A.R. Mr. Bevins entered Harvard Law School in February of 1946 and received his LL.B. degree in June, 1948. He was admitted to practice in 1948 in Massachusetts, and in that same year was appointed Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Fund for the Massachusetts area. In January of 1950 he was appointed Assistant Dean of Harvard Law School and Director of the Har- vard Law School Fund. Born: 1918, Peabody, Massachusetts. B.S., 1940, Bowdoin College, LLB., 1948, Harvard. Born: 1919, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. LOUIS ADELBERT TOEPFER Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions Before his graduation from the Law School, Mr. Toepfer joined the Navy and served for four years as a lieutenant in the Pacific Fleet. Returning to Harvard after his discharge he obtained his degree in 1947 as of 1943. During that year he was Secretary of the Placement Office and in October, 1947, became Assistant Dean of the Faculty and Director of Admissions. A.B., 1940, Beloit College, LL.B., 1947, Harvard. Page f1L'!'IZfH-8011611

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CHARLES REAGAN SIMPSON Teaching Fellow Mr. Simpson was in general practice of law in Champaign, Illinois, from 1946 to 1949. From 1947-49 he was a member of the Illinois Legislature for two terms. Born: 1921, Danville, Illinois. A.B., 1944, J.D., 1945, University of Illinois, LL.M., 1950, Harvard. Page twenty-six DAVID RICHARD HERWITZ Teaching Fellow Mr. Herwitz completed his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while serving in the Navy in the Officers' Training Program. Finishing at the Law School in 1949, he spent the next nine months as an attorney with the Tax Court of the United States. Thereafter he was associated with the Boston firm of Mintz, Leirn, and Cohn, until he returned to the Law School to serve as a Teaching Fellow. Born: 1925, Lynn, Massachusetts. B.S., 1946, M.I.T.g LL.B., 1949, Harvard. JOHN WINFIELD SCOTT, JR. Faculty Assistant in Charge of Ames Competition Mr. Scott served with the Army before coming to the Law School in 1944. He took leave of absence from the School in 1945 to work in Germany for the Finance Division of Military Government. Since his graduation he has been an associate of a firm in Birmingham, Alabama. He is now on leave from this firm while serving on the Faculty as supervisor of the Board of Student Advisers. Born: 1922, Fayetteville, Arkansas. B.S., 1943, Alabama Polytechnic Instituteg LL.B., 1947, Harvard.

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RUSSELL HASTINGS PECK Assistant Dean Mr. Peck left Harvard College to serve in the United States Army from 1942 to 1945. He graduated with honors from the college in 1947 and was appointed Assistant Dean at the Law School after receiving his LL.B. in 1950. He is married and has three children. Born: 1920 in Boston, Massachusetts. A.B., 1947, LL.B., 1950, Harvard. ARTHUR CLEMENT PULLING Director of the Law Library Born in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1887, Mr. Pulling re- ceived his library training under John H. Arnold of the Harvard Law School. In 1912 he became Law Librarian at the University of Minnesota. While on leave of absence from Minnesota in 1918- 19, he served as Captain, Judge Advocate in charge of the Library of the Judge Advocate General's Department in Washington, D.C., and compiled the military law of the States for the War Department. He was appointed Associate Librarian of the Har- vard Law School Library in 1942 and Director in 1943. Mr. Pulling was a lecturer on Legal Bibliography in the Law School at Minnesota from 1927 to 1942, and in 1926 compiled the Ordinances of the City of Minneapolis for the City Council. Born: 1887 in Watertown, Mass. Page fweirty-eight PHILIP AUSTIN PUTNAM Assistant Librarian Mr. Putnam received his library training under Robert B. An- derson and Eldon R. James. He was appointed Assistant in the Law Library in 1931. Then he was appointed Reference Librarian of the Law Library in 1943. In 1944 he was appointed Assistant Librarian of the Law Library. Born: 1903, Cambridge, Massachusetts. LL.B., 1927. Northeastern University.