Temple University School of Law - Restatement Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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$ortta Halo Club IN THE year 1917 the four young women students then attending Temple Law School decided they needed an organization which would draw them into closer social contact with entering students. Later they conceived as a further aim the promotion of interest in law among women generally. It was for these purposes that Mary Wilkins Hitchcock, Joan Kenworth, Sapphira Mc- C.laren and Mav Rutherford founded the Portia Law Club. To render assistance to new students they made membership in the Club open to all women students. By a series of short talks on the legal profession, delivered at various high schools in Philadelphia, the members aroused interest in the law as a profession for women. Several moot court trials were also held by the Club. The “Honor Roll,” containing the names of students and alumni of Temple Law School who participated in the World War, was presented to the school by the Portia Club and is convincing proof of the members’ interest in the school, aside from the services rendered to women students. On the picture opposite, seated, left to right, are: Elizabeth B. Cole, Ann Schmerling, treasurer; Mary Rose Magee, president; Adda M. Ferguson, vice-president; and Henrietta L. Wickey, secretary; standing, left to right: Elizabeth I. Rees, Anna Lynch, Mrs. Eugene Gilbert, Gladys E. Hobart, Celia Agree, Mary E. Grisel and Bertha Waisbaen. In addition to the foregoing and the founders of the club, other active members are: Dorothy Doranz, Lena Hurlong, Matilda Remmert and Virginia Seibert.

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 tgma JSu Jfraternitp SKiMA XI PHI was founded February 11, 1903 in Washington, I). C. Chapters of the fraternity are now found in the leading law schools throughout the country. The purposes of the fraternity can best be stated in the words of the “Declaration” made by each member: ‘Tnited by the strong tie of true brotherhood in the law, we mutually resolve to labor for the good of our order, our country, and mankind. We will strive to promote the well-being of students and practitioners of the law, and to cultivate the ethics of the profession. To secure harmony and maintain good-will, thereby perpetuating the Brotherhood; it shall be our earnest endeavor to suppress personal, sectional, religious and political prejudices, us well as all unhealthy rivalry and selfish ambition. To the end, therefore, that we achieve fraternal harmony and lasting benefit, we humbly implore the guidance and assistance of the Ruler of the l'n i verse.” Russel II. Con well Chapter was named after the beloved and distinguished founder of Temple University, who died December fi, 1925, after a lifetime of valuable service to his fellow-men. Among the members of the various chapters are included the following distinguished men: William Howard Taft, George Wharton Pepper. James M. Beck, Oliver Wkndkli. Holmes, (illARLES KvaN 111 (HIES. Francis Ciiaeman,