Ohio Northern University - Northern Yearbook (Ada, OH)

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6' ...A 'A. J., Claude W. Pettit, Dean of the College of Law and for thirty years professor in the college. Vincent C. Immel, Assistant Professor of Law. Prominent have been the graduates of Ohio Northern's College of Law. Not only have its some 2500 barristers gone out into the successful practice of their profession, but many of them have entered politics and government and achieved distinction in their chosen fields. Most recent of these to achieve prominence in administrative fields has been Anthony Celebreeze, class of '36, who recently was elevated to mayor of Ohio's largest city, Cleveland. Perhaps the most out- standing graduate was Frank B. Willis, a governor of Ohio and later member of Congress. Five law grads have sat in the upper house at one time or another, both of the senators from Ohio and one from Indiana and one from Kentucky all being members of the United States Senate in 1921. One of the first law school graduates in 1887, Kirtland I. Perty, later became Senator from Utah. f NX Qi X S

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14 s so F. 'Qxi AN JN N '-x .X Vx COLLEGE OF LAW The College of Law has been a part of the university for nearly seventy years, dating its be- ginnings as a department established in Ohio Normal University in 1885. Many of the most prominent lawyers in the Buckeye state and throughout the nation are among its alumni, one governor of Ohio and several members of the United States Senate and House of Representa- tives having at times been counted among these. Its graduates have been successful beyond the average as candidates for admission to the bar. The college holds membership and is approved by the League of Ohio Law Schools and the American Bar Association. The college offers a three year course leading to a Bachelor of Laws degree, and though its students for the most part represent other colleges in preliminary arts education the pre-legal program of the college of liberal arts is closely correlated with that of the law school. Warren G. Harding Memorial, home of the college of law, was erected and dedicated 'in 1923

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