YMCA Night Law School - Triangle Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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.. ..w . i. in-1 A ,, A 'sci'-1. ,if f .X V,-I Arthur Daly, otherwise known as Pete, was put into office by his fellow Kentuckians and did remarkably well in organizing a green bunch of freshmen. A weekly paper known as 'The Trespassesi' was ably edited by Nfr. Davis, also from the Blue Grass state. YVhen the grades were finally announced, it was found that Bertelsman and Kruesling finished high for the initial year. So endeth the first year. After what seemed a very short vacation we started the sophomore year knowing all the law, even more than hlr. Jaffe from Columbia. The class was organized in the first month of school with Odis Bertelsman as its president. It was during this year that some of the Scotch brethren began to wonder what became of the five-dollar activity fee. Wvhen June came, but no annual, all admitted that the studies of the past year were rather tough except Solly Goodman who finished at the top. It was in the Junior year that the public force was brought to bearf, in spite of wills. The Junior class for the Hrst time undertook the editorship of the annual, Al !Fosco, the busi- ness manager, claimed that the student body swamped him with ads, but Katherine doesnit always agree. Some claim that it was a political annual and perhaps they were right. Sol Goodman helped keep junior tradition as president, finishing again as high man. At last in September, 1928, we found ourselves entering the law school as seniors, realizing how little we knew. After a hectic political campaign, E. P. Carrier was elected president, while a fellow countryman headed the Student Council. hTcElfresh edited The Trespassesf' which had proved an interesting as well as helpful class paper for three years. The Senior-Junior dinner was a real social function, CPD However, the annual law school banquet was considered by many the very best the school has ever had. VVe could not finish a review of the senior year unless we reviewed T he Big Review' pro- duced by the honorable Judge Gusweiler. The least one can say, in the vernacular, that it was a drag made much easier and more pleasant by the able Quiz King. Nfost of us will admit that Konjola cannot be compared with Gus' Quiz Compound when it comes to passing bar exams. Wiell, after all is said and done, one must admit that although the study of law at night is at times a tiresome ordeal to most of us, it has been an interesting and profitable four years. Of course some will say not only profitable to us but to the HY as well. even the cafeteria. hfany changes have taken place, most important, that is to Les Cors, was the fact that his wife was married. After the bar, one or two other members of the class may feel the same as Les. Last March, Brother Dressing passed out cigars and Brate wondered why. lNIany of the boys have become Kentucky barristers, with no hope of pardon. Boettger sold a piece of real estate and Nogen collected a bill, while Frowe stunted his growth by smoking. So the class of '29 leaves the school with hope and best. wishes for its future success, with appreciation and gratitude to the faculty and the Y BI C A. 37

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A .. ' i N ffga 1 ss'-X X: fir Class History GORDON H. SCHERER, '29 Experience has taught. students of history that an account written immediately following a certain period can hardly be called a history of that period. Time and observation alone can determine the actual truth of what has happened over that period. One can readily see that an attempt to write a history of the law class of 1929 a.t this time would be almost an impossibility. The most one can do is to record in calendar form the inter- esting happenings of these four years embellished perhaps with the writer's personal impressions. i To one not a member of the class of 1929, what is to follow will prove uninteresting. The Y 111 C A Law School is different, much different from other law schools associated with great universities and colleges of this country. Wle are unable to write or live over in the years to come the excitement, enthusiasm and glamour of the gridiron, neither can we boast of our base- ball nine, nor is there a memory of the last swish of the basketball game followed by a vibrating gym, the result of a one point victory. Then again, campus life and its incidents are something unknown to those who study law at night. However, it is certain that as these four years draw to a close, in spite of the fact that much which makes one's school life the happiest time of human experience is wanting, there is that something, that feeling of a work well done, a work, a study, a right to practice and to be a part in that great profession of the law, which is a far greater satisfaction than one would realize at first thought. It is that feeling, that satisfaction, which a lawyer with a lawyer's heart and mind alone can feel. So it was in September four years ago that the class of 1929 comprised of about sixty stu- dents frorn greater Cincinnati entered the Y lVI C A for the first time as neophites in the study of the law. Students from all walks of life g perhaps no other school could claim a student body such as this. 1Vhen one considers the ages in this group varied from eighteen to forty, that some had not only one but two or three children, that some were college graduates and others entering with only a high school diploma, when one considers that the vocations of this student body included school teachers, law clerks, salesmen, bond and real estate brokers, mechanics, accountants, and printers, surely one can say it is a distinctive group. It was this body that adjusted itself to the common task of coming to the Y M C A three nights a week and being exposed to criminal law and the police department as cross-examined by Charlie Elston, followed by Mr. Taft and his bundle of sticks. The second hour on VVed- nesday night we heard what Judge Story said about the last clear chaneew as taught by Pro- fessor Stephens, Ha good lawyer too. Friday night was just different, Judge Hoffman brought everything within the scope, while Judge Nlorrow, at that time known as Tom, made the 147th infantry look bad when the back row udemurredf' It was at the Freshman-Sophomore banquet tl1at we began to go places and learn things. First, that Sophomores at a night law school are no different from sophomores at any other school. They just are and thatfs all. Secondly, that our able Dean could tell the same story at least twice, and that he knew that the Y served Krogefs ten cent peas. 36

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fi cfvxffxrfxfwa '2ff'.-SZ'-'fx I! X51 Class Will By SoL GOODMAN, ,Q9 We, the class of twenty-nine, having enjoyed our law school term and about to quit the premises, mindful of all the good we have collected during our period at the school, and aware of the certainty of completion, we hereby depose of all our accumulations to the successors predestined to follow in our footsteps. ITEM ONE All our Estates being but for years we can devise none greater. To t.he freshman class, being the direct issue of a class now in being and therefore permitted to inherit in spite of the statute against perpetuities, we hereby give, devise, and bequeath: CU Mr. Elstonls lectures on Criminal Law, keep them dear and near to your heart for you may need them some day in order to keep undone what he has done and save the liberty of Remuses. CQD The property of Bert Long we leave to you in solido for we never enjoyed any part thereof. C35 Our favorite pet, the animal described in Davies v. Nlann, we rest assured that NIL Stevens will see you paid with this, our legacy. C45 Vile make you an Qffer of Nlr. Dempsey, your acceptance will become a binding con- tract, study the terms well. C5j VVe are hesitant in bequeathing to you Judge F. L. Hoffman, for perhaps we will have use for him in the atmosphere for which we now depart, but upon the basis of a revocable Agency we leave him to you. CGD If you are not made rich by all our bequests then also take Judge Blorrow, and his invaluable Common Law Pleading, this is a specific devise, for no value can possibly be set upon it. ITEBT TVVO To the Sophomore class for whom we entertain a tender feeling, for they are in such a piti- ful state during our last days, we devise and surmise the following: The disdain of weakness and undaunted confidence in their expansive and infinitesimal knowledge of law. hlay they enjoy the privilege of sophomoreship for a full year. ITEM THREE The law career's most precious possession, the juniorship at the school, we leave to you. Such a legacy would amply pay each legatee any and all claims upon our bounty. However we further bequeath them with: 38