University of Michigan Law School - Quad Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Three students confer informally in the shadow of the Lawyers Club residence halls. Established in 1924 and completed in 1932 under the terms of the will of William W. Cook, 1882L, the Lawyers Club was designed to provide a com- plete living unit for earnest law students apart from the artificiality and frivolity of the undergraduate schools. A close examination of the Lawyers Club' facilities reveals that the Club member has at his disposal the means for a welLbalanced scholastic living program all located in ten acre tract. The Inez Bozorth thirty

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BARRISIERS FIRST ROW tleft t0 righO: WOOd, Dd Christ, C.; Mac- Donnellan, R.; Coerper, M.; Alkema, E.; St. Antoine, h Donald, D.; Hildebrand, J.; Buchanan, J. tPresQ; T.; Swift, T. t Hunt,A- tTreaS-t: PastuchayE; Kravets, L; Belin, D. THIRD ROW: Campbell, P.; Nicholson, 1.; Dixon, 5.; t SECOND ROW: McConnell, K-i Payne. R-i Van't HOf, Patrick, L; Dowd, D.; Brown, W.; Young, M.; Thiele, VV.; Harness, H.; Parker, M.; Cook, G.; Fiske, R.; '7 H.; Cory, C.; Miller,.D.; Drucker, H. BARRISTERS SOCIETY The Barristers Society was founded in 1904 at which time it was one of several literary societies in the Law School of the University of Michigan. It is the sole survivor of these societies, and through the years it has evolved into an honorary society, composed of seniors and second semester juniors. The Society sponsors the two annual Law School dances, the Wigge and Robe and the Crease Ball, the proceeds of which go to scholar- ships and to the Case Clubs. twenty-nine

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LEFT TO RIGHT: XVOOd, D.; Reams, F.; Ruben. H.; Donncllan, R.; Harness, H. tPresidenO; Dornhoffer, R.; Van't Hof, W.; Brown, I. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL I Lawyers Club and John P. Cook dormitories presently house 350 men, while meals are provided for the same number in the spacious dining hall on the west 3 side of the quadrangle. Lounge facilities include con'ifortable reading Chairs, a large old fashioned fire place, latest magazines and newspapers, and large. piano. A recreation room in the basement is equipped with ping-pong tables and a ? television viewing area. On the upper floors above the lounge guest rooms for ; members and alumni are available. i In external structure the Lawyers Club is of late Jacobean Gothic archi tecture and combines with other buildings of the Law Quadrangle to achieve the maximum of convenience, beauty, and adaptation to its purpose. The dining hall and lounge have high vaulted ceilings with designs in relief. The observant visitor to the dining hall will notice caned buttresses 0f the heads of famous jurists and legal thinkers adorning the ceiling where it joins the side walls.