IIT Chicago Kent College of Law - Transcript Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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0112155 Hgrupheng 0Bffir:e nf the Srcrriatg uf ,Stain Washington, D. C. May Third 1945 Hon. Kelley A. Loy, Dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Grant Park at 10th Street, Chicago, Illinois. My dear Kelley: It has been a long time since We have been to- gether and talked over old times. I have been wanting to write you many times, but my work as Secretary of State in President Clair Willits Furlong's cabinet, has taken up practically all my time. Since Clair's elec- tion to the Presidency of the United States and my asso ciation in Washington, I have had an opportunity to renew some of our mutual acquaintances of Kent, as a great number of them live right here in Washington or their business takes them to Washington frequently. Just this noon I had lunch with Earl Victor Brown Didn't he have a smashing victory in his recent election to the Vice-Presidency of the United States? Of course Clair didn't forget his old classmates when he became President, for his cabinet is composed Wholly of Kent alumni. In addition to Earl and myself, the cabinet includes Frank O. Bidwell as Secretary of the Treasury, Lloyd Edward Beach as Postmaster-General, Robert T. Luce as Secretary of Agriculture, Julius H. Selinger as Secretary of War, Robert W. Qualey as Secre 45'

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S t 1 IDAlNf.f6DH9T - of the inter-class tug-o-war contest-carrying off the rope and the opponents as well.. Later in the season another dance was held. Then a few months rest before the home stretch. The senior year demanding much, the election of class officers was held early and the following administration was chosen: President ................................... James Smith Vice President .............................. I. B. Clorfene Secretary. .4 ..... . . .Marion L. Berg Treasurer .................................... I. B. Levie Sergeant-at-Arms ............................ Joseph Grish In spite of the heavy schedule of the year, our efficient officers arranged for us a wonderfully pleasing dance at the Allerton Club, which added to our already social Brilliance. All in all, we feel that the class of 1926 has enlivened school activities at Kent to such an extent that students come to school each night in anticipation of a happy association. This comprises the history of the activities of the class as a unit. The participation by its members in the other fields of the school's program is recorded elsewhere in this publication. And we hope the rest will be found from time to time in the recording of the current events of the world. FRANK O. BIDWELL, '26. Senior Class Prom . HE class of june, 1926, is particularly proud of the success which attended its Farewell prom. On the evening of Saturday, March 20th, the members of the Senior class, with their wives, husbands, sweethearts and friends met to 'trip the light fantastic' to the tune of Jack Lundin's Fraternity Favorites. The top fioor of the Allerton Club, on North Michigan Avenue, made a fitting as well as cozy and cheerful place for our party. What could be more romantic and inviting to hard-working students than a quiet, dimly-lighted room, with strains of lively music and a highly waxed floor? After whirling around in dizzy glee for the space of several dances. a cup of iced pineapple or cherry is very welcome- and this fact was not forgotten by a very capable committee. Those who were present will long remember the happy crowd of prospective graduates who so gaily danced away the hours of that memorable evening. Who could forget our president's entertaining friend making music on a saw and with several other novel musical instruments, which, to the inexperienced eye, would only be good for making noise 011 some exciting occasion. We are won- dering how our amusing guest was able to play such music and tell stories at the same time. ' One of the charming features of the affair was the arrangement of the programs, which had the appearance of tiny legal documents, purporting to be in the matter of the Seniors of Chicago-Kent College of Law against Friends, in the Allerton Court of Chicago. The Seniors have but one regret, and that is, that they have so short a time left in which to enjoy themselves as a group of law-school students, at school or at class affairs, and that their Senior prom is a matter of history. BIARION BERG BIDDERNIAN, Sec-rotary. 44 1926

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tary of the Navy, Loren Bush Rockey as Attorney-General, Arthur F. Evans as Secretary of the Interior, Joseph Frank Kula as Secretary of Commerce and Louis Bettel- heim as Secretary of Labor. It is interesting also to know that Francis J. Higgins, whom I pleasantly recall drew all the profes- sors' pictures during the various classes, is now draw- ing a different sort of pictures. He is the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department and has control over that branch of the Treasury Department. He told me the other day that his legal knowledge certainly serves him well in his present office. Robert Mendelson is Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and some of his assistants are Aaron H. Cohn, Jack Baskin, Ralph F. Himmelhoch, John E. O. Heinrich and William H. Hauk. Some of our legal luminaries are justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Among them are Joseph J. Brandes, F. Allan Minne, William H1 Short, Paul William Pretzel, Edward F. Rodgers and John P. McGoorty, Jr. The other two associate justices are Harvard alumni. Of course you know that one of our former nProfsH is Chief Justice. The recent decision which Chief Justice Edward M. Bullard handed down in the famous case of Albert B. Fritzshal vs. Walter N. Murray regarding certain stocks which Murray as Attorney- General of the State of Illinois had brought suit on to declare void, and which Fritzshal declared deprived him of his property without due process of law, is the topic of the day in Washington at this time. The skill with which the Chief Justice handled the question will be remembered during long years to come. To turn a bit from the more or less public side of life to the private, I note by the New York Times that S. Eugene Kliefield, who has gained fame in his legal work for the theatre interests, has, as attorney for Peggy Joyce, procured for her, her thirteenth divorce, this time from our own Class President, James Clark Smith, millionaire attorney of Tampa, Florida. I under- stand Jimmy plans to go to Africa with Norman Gerlach, Bernard Hoban and Axel A. Hofgren to hunt wild chickens. The three latter named legalitees are associated together 46