University of Notre Dame Law School - Reporter Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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70 MICHAEL BRENNAN FARRELL graduated from the Uni- versity of Michigan. He has earned the respect of his class- mates for the integrity of his views and his ability to clearly present them. Brennan wins the HOYNES REPORTER award for Best Contributor to Classroom Discussion. STEPHEN F. BOTSFORD was the Class wit, the classroom jokester who seemed to come up with barbs for every case. No one who was there will forget Steve in Dave Linkis Feder- al Income Tax course tFalI of 1973. Holder of a B.B.A. in management from Notre Dame, Steve is joining a very large firm in its Chicago office. Steve wins the HOYNES REPORT- EE award for Most Humorous Classmate. JOHN THOMAS LYNCH and his wife, Sandy, both gradu- ated from Wheeling College in West Virginia. John was an academic leader in that Jesuit college and the top accounting student in his class. He started law study at Notre Dame in 1968, but the Army took him before he could finish the year. J ohn has served as both a Cass County legal aid worker and Manager of University Village. He has served with dis- tinction as our resident Watergate Expert. J ohn and Sandy had their second child, Mark Anthony, in February, 1975. PETER LOUIS IANNINI, a New Yorker, won his undergrad- uate degree from Notre Dame. More: I will not take the oath. I will not tell you why I will not. Norfolk: Then your reasons must be treasonable! More: Not ilmust bah; may be. Norfolk: Itis a fair assumption. More: The law requires more than an assumption; the law requires a fact. eRobert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons, Act II.

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PHILLIP JOHN LAURO has earned both his J .D. and MBA. while at Notre Dame. His note on the taxation of mutual fund shares was published in the February, 1974 number of the Lawyer. Phil was head of his class at the Jesuits Univer- sity of San F rancisco and served as an officer in the Army. Phil and Carmen were blessed with a baby girl in January, 1975. THOMAS LEO BOYER worked in the Legal Aid Cass Coun- ty program and with the South Bend Public Defender. Tom graduated from Notre Dame cum laude in economics and while in law school served as a representative of the school to undergraduates interested in law. MICHAEL CHARLES MURPHY is from Illinois and won his undergraduate degree from Notre Dame. J. JEROME FRESE, B.A., Loyola College in Baltimore, M. Litt., Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, Ph.D., University of Chicago, was an assistant to the Provost of the University of Chicago before coming to law school. Jerry will graduate in August, 1975. ' lrgs$ Alice: While you talk, hels gone. More: And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law! Roper: So now you,d give the Devil benefit of law! More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? Roper: ltd cut down every law in England to do that! More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all be- ing flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-manls law, not Godls-and if you cut them down-and youlre just the man to do it-dlyou really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then. Yes, lid give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safetyls sake. -Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons, Act I. 69

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ROLAND C. AMUNDSON worked for the state government of Minnesota after he graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College tB.A., cum laude, 1970 and attended night law school. When he was first in his law class, he transferred to Notre Dame. A highly congenial person, Rollie is a very in- tense worker. THOMAS L. McGILL, Jr., B.A. tBiologyL Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, school teacher in Philadelphia, studied Ur- ban Affairs at Yale University with a fellowship, Aide to Mayor Kenneth Gibson of Newark, N.J., M.A. tUrban StudiesL Occidental College, legal intern, National Center for Law and the Handicapped. Notre Dame student representa- tive to the American Bar Association, Director, Post-Convic- tion Remedies division of Legal Aid, member, Board of Di- rectors, Al Williams Scholarship F und, outstanding intramu- ral basketball player tBALSAL clerk for state trial court judge in Philadelphia. J . SIDNEY JACOBSEN, is a Californian who graduated from UCLA. He graduated with both a JD. and Master of Busi- ness Administration from Notre Dame. Sid was an intern with South Bend Legal Aid services and participated in the Patent Moot Court. PATRICIA C. LEONARD was always a true asset of her class. She has represented the Law School on the University,s student life council and campus life committee. During our second year, she was a resident advisor 6.33 and a partici- pant in the EPA,s Environmental Law program. In 1974-75, she was both Executive Director of the entire Moot Court and a contributing editor on the J ournal of legislation. Pat has her BA. magna cum laude from Ohio Dominican College. Pat wins a HOYNES REPORTER award for being the class- mate who enjoyed herself the most as a law student.