Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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LOUIS ADELBERT TOEPFER 4 Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions I Before his graduation from the Law School, Mr. Toepfer joined the l Navy and served for four years as a Lieutenant in the Pacihc Fleet. Return- . ing to Harvard after his discharge he obtained his degree in 1947 as of 1943. During that year he was Secretary of the Placement Ofhce and in October, 1947, became Assistant Dean of the Faculty and Director of Admissions. Since 1952 he has been Director ofthe Financial Aids Office, administering scholarships and loans to students. Born: 19195 Sheboygan, Wisconsin. A.B., 1940, Beloit College, LL.B., 1946, 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, 5th 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. injune, 1948. He was admitted to practice in 1948 in Massachu- setts and in that same year was appointed Executive Director of the Har- vard Law School Fund for the Massachusetts area. lnjanuary of 1950 he was appointed Assistant Dean of the Harvard Law School and Director of the Harvard Law School Fund. Born: 1918, Peabody, Massachusetts. B.S., 1940, Bowdoin Collegeg LL.B., 1948, Harvard. 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 four children. Born: 1920, Boston, Massachusetts. A.B., 1947, LL.B., 1950, Harvard. 1171

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LIVINGSTON HALL Vice Dean and Professor of Law Upon his graduation from the Law School, Professor Hall entered private practice in New York City and in 1931 was chosen to serve as Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He returned to the Law School in 1932 and was appointed Vice-Dean in 1939. During the war years he served as Regional Attorney for the O.P.A. in the Boston Area, and later with the Army Air Force in the Southwest Pacihc. For the past three years he has been chairman of the District Court Survey Committee on Reorganization of the District Courts of Massachusetts. His published writings include numerous contributions to legal peri- odicals, and Cam on Criminal Law and EVlfIH'L't'lIl6'l1l co-edited with Professor Glueck. This year he is teaching Agency and Criminal Law. Born: 1903, Chicago, Illinois. Ph.B. 1923, University of Chicagog LL.B. 1927, Harvard. DAVID FARQUHAR CAVERS Associate Dean and Fessenden Professor of Law Professor Cavers joined the Law School Faculty in 1946 and was ap- pointed Associate Dean in 1951. Previously he had taught here as an instructor for the year 1929-30, having practiced in New York before that. He then became Assistant Professor at the West Virginia University Col- lege of Law. From 1931 to 1945 he was Professor of Law at Duke Univer- sity and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and at Yale University. Professor Cavers established and edited Law and Contemporary Problefm. During the war he served as Assistant General Counsel for Price and later as Associate General Counsel for Price in the O.P.A. Professor Cavers is teaching seminars in Public Utilities and Legal Education and is supervising the first year group work program. Born: 1902g Buffalo, New York. B.S. in Economics, 1923, University of Pennsylvania, LL.B. 1926, Har- vard. HARRISON STEEL D IMMITT Secretary of the Law School After graduation from the Law School, Mr. Dimmitt was for five years engaged in the practice oflaw 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 Lieutenant- Colonel in February 1946. He was attached to the staff of General Dever's Sixth Army as a G.5 officer and later served with the United States Group Control Council in Berlin. Born: 1898g Denver, Colorado. A.B., 1920, Princeton, LL.B., 1925, Harvard. 1101

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FRANCIS ALFRED ALLEN Professor of Law In 1946, Professor Allen received his law degree from Northwestern after serving with the Army Air Forces. While at law school, he was Editor-in- Chief of the Illinois Law Review. Before his appointment to Harvard, Professor Allen was on the faculty of Northwestern Law School. During the 1946 and 1947 October Terms of the United States Supreme Court he was legal secretary to the late Chiefjustice, Fred M. Vinson. He has been a consultant to branches of the Illinois state government and has worked with the legal staff of the Chicago Housing Authority and has been a member ofthe Board of Governors of the Chicago Housing and Planning Council. He served in 1951 as Branch Chief in the Chief Counsel's office of the Wage Stabilization Board. Professor Allen is Associate Editor of the journal of Criminology and Politiml Srierzce. He is teaching Criminal Law and a seminar in Real Estate Transactions. Born: 1919, Kansas City, Kansas. A.B., 1941, Cornell College flowajg LL.B., 1946, Northwestern Univer- sity. ROBERT AMORY, JR. Professor of Law Professor Amory spent two and one-half years with the firm that is now Cahill, Gordon, Zachry and Reindel in New York City, specializing in corporate and anti-trust matters. His active military service began injanuary, 1941, as a private and took him through New Guinea, New Britain and most of the Philippines as a battalion and finally a regimental commander of amphibious engineers. In 1946 he joined the faculty ofthe Harvard Law School. Professor Amory has since served on the Cambridge School Board. He taught Accounting and Corporations I until called into the Army in March 1952 to serve as an Assistant Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Born: 1915, Boston, Massachusetts. A.B., 1956, LL.B., 1938, Harvard. RALPH JACKSON BAKER Weld Professor of Law Professor Baker began teaching Law as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1911. From 1914 to 1932 he practiced law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, leaving there to join the Harvard Law School faculty. He was an adviser to the American Law Institute's Restatements of Trusts and of Restitution, and has been an adviser in the drafting of the part on Investment and Instruments of the Commercial Code prepared by the Institute and the Commissioner ofUniform State Laws. He has edited, with the late Professor Dodd, Carer and Materialr on Co rporariom. This year he is teaching Corporations II and Trusts. Born: 1888, Octoraro, Pennsylvania. A.B. 1907, Swarthmore College, LL.B., 1911, University of Pennsyl- vania. 41131