1 THE ALUMNI

THE LAW SCHOOL Fall 1986

THE LAW ALUMNI

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Volume XXI Number 2

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faculty and other employees, applicants for faculty posirions and other employment, students and applicants to educational programs.

Contents

1 Symposium 8 Featured Events

Law Alumni Day 1986 - Featuring Leech and Bradley

9 Presentation of the Law Alumni Society's Distinguished Service Award to Professor Noyes E. Leech

by Dean Robert H. Mundheim 10 In Appreciation by Professor Noyes E.

Leech

10 The Class of 1986 Conunencement 11 Quinquennial Reunion \\eekend-May

16-17 11 The Faculty 12 Alumni Briefs 14 In Memoriam

Editor: Libby S. Harwitz Design:The Graphics Guild

Editorial Assistant: Guzman V. Alvarez, Jr.

Alumni Briefs Editor: Jill L. Hanna

Photography Credits: Ben Argov, Burton Blender, Libby S.

Harwitz, john Sanger

Robert H. Mundheim, Dean, The University of Penn- sylvania ^Law School

The Office of Development and Alumni Relations

Susan P. Davison, Assistant Director of Development Margaret S. DiPuppo, Director of Annual Giving

Libby S. Harwitz, Editor, The Law Alumni )ournal!Ccordinator, Public Relations and Special Events

Stephanie Kallen, Director of Alumni Relations Catherine Lavan, Office Manager

Caro!Ann Murray, Assistant Director of Development Donald G. Myers, Director of Development

THE BIDDLE GALA PROGRAM BOOK (In Centerfold)

A Message by Dean Robert H.

Mundheim

3 Early History of the Biddle Library by Mark Frazier Lloyd, University Archivist

8 Biddle's Second Century by Elizabeth Slusser Kelly, Director of Biddle Library 11 The Biddle Law Library: Growing and

Changing by Sheldon Hackney, President, The University of Pennsylvania

15 The Biddle Endowment Fund by Don Myers, Director of Development;

Friends of Biddle by Stephanie E.

Kallen, Director, Law Alumni Affairs 19 A Special Place by Thomas Ehrlich,

Provost, University of Pennsylvania 23 The Law School: A History by Libby S.

Harwitz, Editor, The Law Alumni journal

Designed and Edited by: Patricia A. Dalton, Assistant Dean Alice B. Lonsdorf, Karl Lotz, Lucy Sayre, judith Thomas Biddle Graphics: Vicki Fox

by Elizabeth s. Kelly, Director of Biddle Law Library

The telephone rings often in the Reference Department of Biddle Library. That is as it should be. Frequently the callers are you , our Alumni . Many of the calls are local, but some of you call from outside the Philadelphia area.

A large number of you call on us through your secretaries or through your law firm librarians. We are pleased that Biddle Library continues to be a resource that you fmd useful. There is every reason to maxirrtize Biddle's value for the legal community.

When I came to Biddle in 1984 , I learned that for decades a small, dedicated staff at Biddle had been responding to requests for in- formation from Alumni and were doing a ter- rific job within the very stringent constraints that Biddle's own budget required. Those budget constraints prevented the Library from photocopying articles or statutes which you needed. Usually, the best that we could do was to check on the availabilty of what you

The

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Glorious

!!!

Biddle Gala- A Smashing Success on Every Front

"The Law School never looked more

resplendent ... Biddle should celebrate a birth- day EVERY year!!! ... An extraordinary event- the best of the spring season!!! ... the am- biance and spirit of the evening will last and last ... !!!"

Such were the comments of the more than two hundred guests in attendance at the long-awaited Biddle Law Library's Centennial Anniversary celebration, held Saturday even- ing june 7, 1986. The Gala theme, evoking the era of Gilbert and Sullivan , framed the event's decor and entertainment with stylized cut-outs of

Trial By jury

characters gracing the walls of the School, and members of the Law School Light Opera Company performing medleys of G

&

S hits during the cocktail hour. " Members " of the British Guard greeted guests as they entered the School.

The evening began with a champagne toast at the Sylvan M. Cohen Gateway to Biddle Library, followed by cocktails and hors d'oeuvres at the elaborately decorated Goat.

Dinner was served in the tented Law School Courtyard to the music of the Mark Davis Orchestra . Three members of the Biddle famil y - Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Biddle and Mr.

Stephen Biddle - were present and, through the ge!lerosity of the Law School Class of 1930, members of the newly-graduated Class of 1986 were able to attend the Gala . Recent

wanted from the Library, and then request that you send a messenger to photocopy it.

Few of our long-distance callers could be helped.

We have changed that system and, in so doing, have changed the constraints. We now employ someone who can photocopy the journal articles, the foreign statutes, and the specialized items which may not be accessible in other libraries. This same person can dispatch the photocopy to you by the means you select: telefax (supply us with your telefax number) , any of several next day delivery services, or regular or express mail via the U.S. Postal Service.

We can now offer this expanded service to all Alumni because it has been placed on a cost-recovery basis. The costs of our new ser- vice, for the unusual items that you might seek, actually may be less than those of a courier. Normally, we will dispatch the photocopy (or tell you why we cannot) for delivery the working day

after

we receive the request.

There is a special phone number for the new photocopy service: (215) 898-9387. You will need to give us: 1) a citation for the item

Law School Alumna Peggy B. Wachs,' 86, was the recipient of the ''Door

Prize'~

a weekend at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia .

In addition to the Gala's being a spectacular social event, it was a stunning financial suc- cess - over $82,000 was raised for Biddle Law Library. Through the remarkable coor- dinating abilities of the Biddle Law Library Centennial Celebration Committee co-chaired by Alma and Sylvan M.('38) Cohen and Lynn and Glen A. ('66) 1bbias together with the Law School's Assistant Dean for Alumni Af- fairs, Alice B.Lonsdorf, the endeavor proved to be a glowing achievement. The women of the Committee - Fanchon Apfel, Susie Auten, Beth Bartle, Gladys Bernstein, Annette Barish , Alma Cohen, Mimi Dimeling, Char- lotte Feldman, Vicki Fox, Bonnie Harkins, Elizabeth Kelly, Bobby Leidner, Guna Mund- heim , Sandra Newman, Bobby Rosin , Lucy Sayre, Mary Ellen Schwab, Porn Segal, Cookie Otani-Smith, Roberta Thnenbaum, Eleanor Thrbox, judy Thomas, Lynn Thbias, Mildred Weisberg and Barbara White - ALL made tremendous contributions toward the Gala's success, each by sharing her particular pro- fessional and creative expertise in the effort.

The members of the Committee were lauded

by Dean Robert H. Mundheim at a celebratory

lunch given in their honor by Gala co-chairs,

Alma Cohen and Lynn 1bbias, at The Garden

in mid-july.

you wish photocopied, 2) your name and ad- dress for delivery of the photocopy, 3) the phone number of someone we can call if there is a problem and 4) any special delivery instructions.

V\e

will enclose an invoice with the photocopy which will be billed at

$.35

per exposure, a handling fee of

$5.00

for up to three citations, and delivery charges based on the mode of delivery you request.

I encourage those with telefacsimile equip- ment in your firms or those in corporate set- tings to experiment with our delivery by this mechanism. Most firms seem to house their telefacsimile equipment in a document preparation area, so both the firm librarian and the word-processing staff might need to get used to a different receipt point for photocopies requested from Biddle. 'Ielefac- simile delivery uses the telephone lines for transmittal of paper copies so, within the

215

area code, telefax delive1y only should cost for paper and machine use.

V\e

offer the new photocopy service as an expansion of Biddle's relevance to the legal community. I welcome your comments and suggestions.

Biddle Patrons, Subscribers, Contributors Nar listed in the Program Book

The following persons, firms, etc. were not included in the Biddle Gala Program due to printing deadlines:

PATRONS Mr.& Mrs. Lewis B. Beatty, Jr.

Morgan, Lewis and Bockius The Honorable Max Rosenn Robert C. Sheehan

SUBSCRIBERS Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Bartle, Ill Dr. & Mrs. Lamberto Bentivoglio Mr. Stephen Biddle

Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon M. Bonovitz

The Honorable & Mrs. Horace A. Davenport Mr. & Mrs. Lee

F.

Driscoll, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Seymour Kurland Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Kuby Mr. & Mrs. Edward H. Merves Mr. & Mrs. Gary Pfeifer Susan Schwartz

Mr. & Mrs. Alfred H. Wilcox CONTRIBUTORS Rae DiBlasi

Alan R. Markizon B. Jerome Shane Dennis R. Suplee

Transitions ... Elevations, New Faculty, Visitors, New Administrators

The University of Pennsylvania Law School Faculty continues its pattern of growth, change and movement.

In April,

1986,

Professor W.A.J.(Alan) Watson was designated University Professor.

He came to the Law School from Edinburgh in

1979

as Professor of Law and Classical Studies, and became Director of the School's Center for Advanced Studies in Legal History in

1980.

In

1984,

Professor watson was made Nicholas

F.

Gallichio Professor of Law.

The author of

18

books (the most recent a four-volume translation of

justinian's Digest,

University Press) and over

75

articles, he is noted for his work in history and philosophy as well as in law.

Professor C. Edwin Baker is the new Nicholas

F.

Gallicchio Professor of Law. Prior to his coming to the Law School in

1981,

he taught at the University of Oregon Law School. Mr. Baker's undergraduate studies were done at Stanford University, and he received a J.D. from Yale Law School in

1972.

He has written extensively on Law and Economics, Legal Philosophy, the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Professor Baker teaches primarily in the area of Constitutional Law.

Professor Stephen B. Burbank was pro- moted to full Professor of Law as of July

1, 1986.

He received both his A.B. and his J.D.

degrees from Harvard and, during the Oc- tober

1974

'Term, was Clerk to Chief Justice Warren Berger of the United States Supreme Court. From

1975-1979,

Professor Burbank was General Counsel to the University of Pennsylvania. He became a full-time Faculty member in

1979,

teaching in the areas of Civil Procedure, Evidence and Conflict of Laws.

The School's 1986 Faculty appointments include:

Associate Professor Charles W. Mooney, Jr., teaches Sales and Creditors' Rights. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Oklahoma in

1969

and his J.D. from Har- vard Law School in

1972.

Mr. Mooney prac- ticed in Oklahoma City from

1972

to

1981

and, then, went to New York City where he became a partner at Shearman & Sterling, concentrating on domestic and international fmancing transactions and banking law.

Professor Mark J. Roe was at Rutgers Law School in Newark, NJ for the last several years, where he taught Antitrust and Cor- porate Finance. He practiced law until

1980

and, since then, has written on the subject of Corporate Reorganization in Bankruptcy.

Assistant Professor Susan P. Sturm teaches Remedies and Income Security. An Alumna of Brown University and Yale Law School, where she was an Editor of the

Law journal,

Professor Sturm clerked for Judge

Charles E. Stewart of the United States

District Court for the Southern District of New York. She was a Karpatkin Fellow for the American Civil Liberties Union and, for a time, practiced law both in Boston and New York City.

The seven Visiting Professors for 1986-1987 include:

Visiting Professor James B. Atleson, who is Professor of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he has taught courses in Labor Law, Collective Bargaining and Arbitration, Internal Union Democracy, Law and Labor History and Negotiations. He teaches a section of the first-year Labor Law course and a seminar on Worker Participation and Ownership.

Visiting Associate Professor Stephen Calkins is Associate Professor at Wayne State University Law School where he has taught courses in Antitrust, Corporations and Thrts.

At Penn Law School, he teaches a course in Corporations and a seminar on Mergers and Acquisitions.

Visiting Professor Daniel Friedmann is Professor of Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law of 'Iel Aviv University, where he taught courses in Contracts, Insurance and Restitution. He has been a member of several Legislative Committees appointed by the Minister of Justice of Israel and, recently, was a member of a Commission of Enquily ap- pointed by the President of the Supreme Court of Israel to investigate price regulation of bank shares.

Visiting Professor of International

Law,

Maurice Mendelson has been a Fellow of St.John's College, Oxford University since

1975,

and has been a practicing member of the English Bar since

1972.

At this Law School, Professor Mendelson teaches courses in Public International Law and The Interna- tional Law of the Sea.

Visiting Professor 1bdd D. Rakoff teaches Contracts, Consumer Protection and Ad- ministrative Law at Harvard Law School. He clerked for Judge Henry J. Friendly and prac- ticed law in Boston prior to choosing a career in teaching .

Visiting Associate Professor Peter M.

Roth, LL.M. ,'77, is a Barrister practicing in England, primarily in the field of Commercial Law.

Visiting Associate Professor David Rudovsky has practiced Civil Rights, Civil Liberties and Criminal Law in the Philadelphia firm of Kairys & Rudovsky and, since

1967,

as counsel to the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. He previously taught Trial Advocacy at Penn Law School. Professor Rudovsky was the recipient of a

1986

MacAr- thur Foundation Fellowship (See The Faculty in this issue of

The journal).

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Three new Administrators have joined the Law School Community:

Susan P. Davison rejoined the newly- expanded Law School Development Staff in July as the second Assistant Director of Development. She spent the last two years in the Development Office as Administrative Assistant to Donald G. Myers, Director of Development.

Ms.

Davison received her B.A.

degree in English from Middlebury College and worked for a small law ftrm in southern Vermont before moving to New York City, where she spent several years in the recruiting office of Simpson, Thacher

&

Bartlett on Wall Street. In her present posi- tion, Ms. Davison manages the regional Annual Giving Campaign, organizes cor- respondence and special projects for the Director of Development and plans small group functions.

Min J. de Collingwood, the new Assistant Director of Placement and career Planning, came to the Law School from Pennsylvania State Government. Appointed in December, 1979, by Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thorn- burgh, Ms. de Collingwood directed the Governor's Hispanic Council , serving as the Governor's Chief Liaison and Representative for Hispanic policy issues. She also lobbied to generate new public and private funding for community-based service programs. Prior to that experience, Ms. de Collingwood was a policy analyst and community relations specialist with the Latino Project, a branch of the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia.

(PILCOP) . She earned a B.A. degree in Sociology from Chestnut Hill College and a Master of Social Services degree with a con- centration in Planning and Administration from the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. As Assis- tant Director, Ms. de Collingwood assists students with their career plans and helps coordinate recruiting programs both on- campus and throughout various cities of the United States.

Constance C. Kessler is the Law School's new non-academic advisor to the LL.M.- Graduate students. She arranges extracur- ricular activities as well as an introduction to the American Court System for the interna- tional group, which comes to the School from the United States as well as numerous foreign countries. Mrs. Kessler also assists with Law School special events and coordinates Perspectives '86

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87, a series of lectures presented to the Law School Community featuring Law School Overseers, Alumni and other noted scholars. Mrs. Kessler attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a B.A. from The George Washington University.

Prior to coming to the Law School, she was Director of Development at St. Peter's School and cultivated the catering business at Eden Restaurant in Philadelphia.

Professor Martin

J.

Aronstein Professor Noyes E. Leech Professor Ralph 5. Spritzer

ARONSTEIN LEECH SPRITZER

Transitions ... june, 1986

THREE FACULTY MEMBERS RETIRE

Law School Professors Mar- tin J. Aronstein,'65, Noyes E.Leech,'48, and Ralph S.Spritzer retired from teaching in june. Over the years, their extraordinary scholarly endeavors and noteworthy contributions to the legal profession and to society- at-large have brought honor and prestige to this Law School.

Professor Martin j. Aronstein, '65,

has ''worn the hats'' of many professions in addition to those of lawyer and teacher.

An MBA from Harvard Busi- ness School qualifies him in the field of Business Manage- ment while a B.E. from Yale University certifies his creden- tials as a Mechanical Engineer.

He has been Chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee of Stock Certificates, and he was the draftsman of the 1977 Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code. Pro- fessor Aronstein taught courses in Commercial Transac- tions, Accounting and Creditors' Rights while at the Law School. Now, upon retire- ment from teaching, he is of counsel to the Philadelphia firm of Morgan, Lewis

&

Bockius.

Professor Noyes E. Leech,'48,

the William A. Schnader Pro- fessor of Law Emeritus, receiv- ed his A.B. and J.D. degrees from the University of Penn- sylvania. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and Editor-in-Chief of

The University of Penn- sylvania Law Review,

Mr.

Leech returned to the School in 1949 - after practicing in a Philadelphia law ftrm for one year - and has remained for most of these thirty-seven years as a member of the Penn Law Faculty. Throughout his teaching career, Professor Leech was actively involved in affairs of the University Senate.

as its Chair and as the chair- man of a committee which drafted procedures for faculty consultation on University ap- pointments and tenure. At the Law School, he taught Bills and Notes, International Law and Corporations; he edited casebooks on The

International Legal System

and on

Corpora- tions

and, with Dean Mund - heim , founded and was General Editor of

The journal of Com- parative Business and capital Market Law.

Now that he i s retired, Mr. Leech continues to work on

The International Legal System

casebook and is endeavoring to perfect his techniques on the cello. (A reprint of the tribute paid by Dean Robert H. Mundheim to

Professor Ralph 5. Spritzer

received his B.S. and LL.B.

degrees from Columbia Univer- sity. After serving in World War II, he worked for the Federal Government as a trial attorney with the U.S. justice Department. Mr. Spritzer was General Counsel for the Federal Power Commission and was the First Assistant in the U.S.

justice Department's Office of the Solicitor General , where he argued more than sixty cases in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the U.S.

Government. While at Penn Law School, he taught Criminal Procedure, Antitrust, Regula- tion of Industry and a seminar on Litigation. Professor Spritzer has "retired" to teaching at the Arizona State University College of Law, and also plans to "practice law "

occasionally.

Professor Leech upon his

receiving the Law A lumni

Society's Distinguished Service

Award on Law Alumni Day,

together with

Mr.

Leech's ac-

ceptance speech, appears in

the Featured Events section of

this issue of

The journal).

The Law School Retirement Dinner In May, 1986, a Dinner honoring retiring Professors Aronstein, Leech and Spritzer was held at the Wharton-Sinkler Conference Center in suburban Philadelphia. Highlighting the evening were the moving tributes offered by the Faculty to their retiring colleagues, as well as the presentation to the Law School by Dean Robert H. Mundheim of photographic portraits which were taken of the three Pro- fessors. The photos, which are on display permanently at The Goat, replace the oil por- trait tradition which has been the Law School 's custom over the years.

New Law School Chairs

Two endowed Chairs were established at the Law School in the year 1986:

The William B. johnson Corporate Law Chair

was established through a $1.25 million gift from IC Industries of Chicago to honor William B. johnson, of the Class of 1943 and a Law School Overseer, for his 20 years as the Company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. In his announcement of the newly- established Chair, Dean Robert H. Mundheim stated, ·'The holder of the William B. johnson Chair will teach and, through scholarly research and writing, will contribute to the fundamental rethinking of corporate law now taking place in the courts, legislatures and regulatory agencies.' '

The Bernard G. Segal Professorship of Law,

to be held by the Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, was created to honor the esteemed Alumnus, Bernard G.

Segal of the Class of 1931. A substantial sum already has been endowed for the Segal Chair, and completion for total funding is projected for the end of the year 1986.

Gifts and Bequests

Ruth H. Levine has contributed a gift of

$10,000 to the Biddle Law Library Endow- ment Fund honoring the memory of her late husband, Leonard A. Levine. The income of the Endowment Fund is used to acquire books for the Library. An appropriate bookplate memorializing Mr. Levine will appear in the books purchased in his name.

NEWS OF THE LAW ALUMNI SOCIETY Law Alumni Society Committees

Reorganize For 1986-87

The Nominating Committee

is co mposed of james Eiseman, Jr. , · 66,

Chair;

of the Philadelphia firm of Drinker, Biddle

&

Reath;

Professor Regina Austin,' 73, of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Nancy). Breg- stein, '76, of the Washington, D.C. firm of Shea

&

Gardner; The Honorable Raymond).

Broderick,' 38, of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and David H. Marion,'63, of the Philadelphia firm

of Montgomery, McCracken, Walker

&

Rhoads.

The Distinguished Service Award Commit- tee,

chaired by Robert

L.

Kendall, jr.,'55, of the Philadelphia firm of Schnader, Harrison, Segal

&

Lewis, also includes: james H.

Agger,' 61, of Air Products

&

Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA; Marshall A. Bernstein, '49, of the Philadelphia flrm of Bernstein, Bernstein

&

Harrison, PC; E. Barclay Cale, Jr. , '62, of

Morgan, Lewis

&

Bockius, Philadelphia; Lee H. Hymerling,'69, of Archer

&

Greiner, Had- donfield, NJ; Harry K. Madway,' 36, of Mad- way Engineers

&

Constructors, Philadelphia;

The Honorable Carolyn E. lemin,' 58, of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas; and Clive S. Cummis,' 52, President of the Law Alumni Society, and Dean Robert H. Mund- heim, who are ex-officio members of the Committee.

The Liaison

to

the Law School's Long- Range Planning Committee

is Society Board member Allen). Model, '80, of the

Philadelphia firm of Dechert, Price

&

Rhoads.

The Placement Committee,

chaired by Paul P. Welsh, '66, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht

&

Tunnell, Wilmington, DE, continues with the committee members previously announced in the Winter 1986 issue of

The Law Alumni journal.

New Ex-Officio Board Members

The recently-appointed

ex-officio

represen- tatives to the Law Alumni Society Board of Managers include: Kathleen O'Brien,' 76, of the Philadelphia frrm of Montgomery, McCracken, Wcilker

&

Rhoads, who is the Representative to the University's Alumnae Association; Stewart Dalzell,'69, of Drinker, Biddle

&

Reath, Philadelphia, the Represen- tative to the Board of Directors of the Organized Classes; and Professor Regina Austin,' 73, of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, who is President of the Order of the Coif.

Parents and Partners Day - 1986 On Friday, November 7, first-year students and their parents, spouses and /or friends are invited to what has become an annual event at the Law School - Parents and Partners Day.

The families of newly-matriculated law students will be afforded the opportunity to witness firsthand the Law School experience by spending the morning attending the Con- tracts Class of Professor Clyde

W.

Summers and the Criminal Law Class of Professor Michael Madow. Afternoon presentations will include a message from Dean Robert H.

Mundheim, and three Panel discussions featuring Law School Professor Robert A.

Gorman, Alumni/a Clive S. Cummis,'52;

Gilbert

F.

Casellas,' 77,and The Honorable No rma

L.

Shapiro,' 51, and third-year students, Cheryl Croteau, Brian Doerner and

janice King Robinson. A box lunch for students and guests at the Goat will complete the day.

Alumni Gatherings

During the spring, summer and fall months, the Law Alumni Society, Regional Alumni groups and the Law School Development Of- fice sponsored events geared towards main- taining close affiliations between the Law School and its Alumni. Dean Robert H.

Mundheim was in attendance at many of the functions.

On May 14, at the Annual Meetings of the American Law Institute in Washington, D.C. , the Law Alumni Society sponsored its Annual Luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel , with Myer

(Mike)

Feldman,'38, of the Washington, D.C.

firm of Ginsburg, Feldman

&

Bress, as guest speaker. After introductory remarks from Dean Mundheim,

Mr.

Feldman spoke on the topic, ·'A View From the Summit: The Washington Law Practice - Then and Now."

Richard B. Smith,' 53, Partner in the New York City frrm of Davis, Polk

&

Wardwell, was presented the Law Alumni Society's Award of Merit by Dean Robert H.Mundheim at the Society-sponsored Cocktail Reception held at the 1986 Meetings of the American Bar Association on Sunday, August 10, 1986 at The Sheraton Centre Hotel in New York City.

The Alumni Annual Giving Kickoff Meeting and Dinner was held at the Faculty Club on September 17. On September 27, the Law Alumni Society sponsored its annual Cocktail Reception at the Philadelphia Bar Associa- tion's Annual Conference

&

Exposition at Bally's in Atlantic City, NJ, where it honored the newly-elected Chancellor of the

Philadelphia Bar Association, Seymour Kurland , of the Law School Class of 1957.

In October, The Honorable james Hunter, III ,'39, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, was honored at a Dinner at the Hyatt-Regency in New Brunswick, NJ. The Friends of Biddle Library Annual Giving Kick- Off Breakfast was held on October 1. Dean Robert H. Mundheirn was the guest at a Din- ner given in his honor by European Alumni held on October 18 in London, England.

Myer (Mike) Feldman,'JB, and Dean Mundheim at the Law Alumni Society Luncheon at the ALI Meetings in May

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Professor Louis B. Schwartz Delivers 1986 Roberts Lecture

Benjamin Franklin Professor of Law Emeritus and Professor of Law at Hastings college of the Law in San Francisco, CA, Louis B. Schwartz,' 35, presented the 28th Annual Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture en- titled "Justice, Expediency and Beauty" on October 9, 1986 at the University Museum.

Established to honor the late Owen J. Roberts, the 11th Dean of the University of Penn- sylvania Law School and an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Lecture is sup- ported by an endowment awarded by the Philadelphia firm of Montgomery, McCracken, walker

&

Rhoads, and is sponsored by the Order of the Coif, the University of Penn- sylvania Law Alumni Society and the Law School.

The 1986 Edwin R. Keedy Moot Court Competition - November 20

Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, of the United States Supreme Court, will preside over the illustrious Bench which includes The Honorable Arlin M. Adams,'47, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and The Honorable Anthony J. Scirica, of the

u. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to determine the winners of the 1986 Keedy Cup on November 20 at the Uni- versity Museum, 34th

&

Spruce Streets.

The Annual Benefactors Dinner

The Down 1bwn Club in Philadelphia was the site of the 1986 Benefactors Dinner on Tuesday, October 14.

The event began at 5:30p.m. with a private tour of the Constitutional Convention Bicentennial Exhibition which is on display at the Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street. After viewing the exhibit,

cocktails from 6:15p.m. and dinner at 7:15 were served at The Down 1bwn Club, which offered a picturesque view of Independence Hall.

The Long-Range Planning Committee Dean Robert H. Mundheim has instituted a new Law School Committee iggered "tr by the need to address the crowding of the Law School's present facilities as a result of twen- ty years of

ad hoc

responses to changes in legal education. There is the need to deal with the cramped state of present Law School facilities and the end of the useful life of the Law School dormitories. Decisions on building require answers to a series of questions about the future of legal education and the role of the Law School in society.' '

The Committee, composed of Law School Alumni, Overseers, Faculty and Administra- tion, include: The Honorable Arlin M.

Adams,'47,

Chair;

David Berger,'36; Richard

Assistant Dean Lonsdorf receiving ceremonial platter on Law Alumni Day

Assistant Dean Alice Lonsdorf Moves On After six years as Assistant Dean for Alum- ni Affairs, Alice B. Lonsdorf has left the Law School. For more than four years of her tenure, Mrs. Lonsdorf was responsible for Alumni functions and activities which includ- ed the coordination of quarterly Law Alumni Society Meetings, Law Alumni Society and regional Alumni receptions, Quinquennial Class Reunion parties, the annual Law Alum- ni Day celebration, and the annual Benefac- tors Dinners. Prior to her leaving the School in July, Mrs. Lonsdorf coordinated the highly successful Biddle Library 100th Anniversary Gala held on June 7, 1986.

Mrs. Lonsdorf also was the non-academic advisor to the LL.M . Graduate students who matriculate at the Law School each year. She developed the now-existing program, of which the LL.M ./Alumni Friendship Program is a vital part, which helps ease the cultural and social adjustments faced by the students coming to this country and to the Law School.

P. Brown, Jr.,'48; Gary Clinton, the Law School Registrar and representative of the Administration; The Honorable Edward S.G.

Dennis, Jr.,'73; Raymond K. Denworth, Jr. ,'61; Joseph P. Flanagan, Jr.,' 52; John G.

Harkins, Jr.,' 58; William

F.

Hyland,'49;

Harold E. Kahn, '37; Professor Noyes E.

Leech,'48, the Faculty representative to the Committee; Harry K. Madway,'36; Daniel J.

McCauley, Jr. ,'41; Jane Lang McGrew,'70; Allen J. Model,'80, the Law Alumni Society's Liaison to the Committee; Myles H. lanen- baum, '57; Glen A. 1bbias,'66; and Dean Mark G. Yudof,'68.

The Law School Faculty was consulted on the Long-Range Planning concerns at their annual retreat held this past summer.

The Law School Stands Up to Inspection The American Bar Association/Association of American Law Schools accreditation team, headed by Dean Norman Redlich of the New York University Law School, visited Penn Law School for three days in February, 1986 to make its annual seven-year reinspection tour.

New Appointments to the Board of Overseers

Four Law School Alumni joined the ranks of the Board of Overseers at the annual fall meeting on October 9, 1986. They include: 0.

Francis Biondi, '58, Senior Partner in the Wilmington, Delaware firm of Morris, Nichols, Arsht

&

Tunnell ; Raymond K. Denworth , Jr.,

· 61, Managing Partner in the Philadelphia firm of Drinker, Biddle

&

Reath; Theodore J.

Kozloff,'67, Partner in the New York City firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher

& Flam;

and Lipman Redman,' 41, Partner in the Washington, D.C. frrm of Melrod, Redman

&

Gartlan. At that time, Chesterfield H. Smith and Harold M. Williams stepped down from the Board.

The • 'New'' Journal of International Business Law

For eight years,

The journal of Comparative Business Law

has published under the editorial guidance of Dean Robert H. Mund- heim and Willam A. Schnader Professor of Law Emeritus, Noyes E. Leech. Under its new name and publishing arrangement,

The jour- nal

will continue to provide quality scholar- ship concerning legal developments in the international business community from pro- minent authors around the world. In addition to its traditional focus on capital markets,

The journal

publishes articles in such fields as

trade, international fmance, taxation and dispute resolution. Four issues will be published annually.

The Editorial Board for the 1986-87 academic year includes: Jennifer Rosato, Editor-in Chief; Valerie Ruttenberg and Robert Wallingford, Executive Editors; Evan Cohen, Andrew Kent and Elaynne B. Cothran, Article Editors; and Kirk Johnsen and Michele lesten, Comment Editors. The staff looks forward to bringing increased recognition to

The journal

and to the University of Pennsylvania Law School as a result of their efforts.

1b subscribe to the NEW

journal

for one

year, beginning with the inaugural December

1986 issue, please send $27.50 to: Executive

Editor for Management, The University of

Pennsylvania Journal of International Business

Law, 3400 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

19104-6204.

The Calendar 1986-1987

OCIDBER

Tuesday, October 14 The Benefactors Dinner The Down Thwn Club, 6th & Chestnut Streets

Saturday, October 18 Dinner in London, England, honoring Dean Mundheim sponsored by Alumni residing in Europe

Thursday-Friday, October 23-24 Board of Trustees Meeting

Friday, October 24

BFS Reception - University-wide Faculty Club

NOVEMBER Friday, November 7

Parents and Partners Day, The Law School

Friday-Saturday, November 7-8

··Inside Pennsylvania'·

Thursday, November 13 Alumni Reception honoring The Honorable Max Rosenn,'32, The Law School

NEWS FROM THE INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ECONOMICS Future Conferences, Projects, etc.

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company has awarded a grant to the Institute for Law and Economics to sponsor a Spring 1987 conference on the optimal roles for the private and public provision of retirement income.

University Professor of Finance, Susan M.

Wachter, is organizing that Conference.

The Institute is currently funding several Faculty research projects and is providing research fellows to work in association with Law professors. This year, students have received both Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation Fellowships and Institute

Fellowships in an expanding effort to promote interdisciplinary research at the University.

ANNUAL GIVING UPDATE The Challenge

Law Annual Giving 1986-87 is endeavoring to raise $1,500,000 from 50% of the Law School Alumni. In order to accomplish this ambitious goal, a group of Alumni have join- ed together to establish a challenge fund of

$150,000 to match first-time gifts to the Law School, gifts of donors who join the Benjamin Franklin Society for the first time and gifts of donors who increase their giving within the levels of the Benjamin Franklin Society.

Thursday, November 20 The Edwin R. Keedy Moot Court Competition, Associate justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Presiding, The University Museum

DECEMBER

Wednesday, December 10 Law Alumni Society Reception, Wilmington, Delaware

JANUARY 1987 Monday, january 5

Law Alumni Society Breakfast for Alumni-in-leaching at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Law Schools, Los Angeles, CA

Wednesday, January 7

Law Alumni Society Board Meeting, The Law School

Thursday, January 15 Founders' Dinner

Thursday-Friday,January 15-16 Board of Trustees Meeting

The purpose of the Challenge is to raise an additional $300,000 in NEW gifts to the Law School. Gifts to the Challenge Fund, as well as those to be matched by the Fund will be contributions above and beyond the gifts of the donors to last year's campaign.

A Successful 1985-86 Firm Solicitation Program

The Annual Giving Firm Solicitation Pro- gram, having completed its third year in operation, has done well thanks to the dedicated efforts of the ftrm solicitors. The total amount collected during the year 1985-86 from the Philadelphia program was

$208,578; the total of $81,951 was collected from ftrrns in New York and New Jersey.

Those which deserve special recognition for having achieved 100% participation in cash from all firm Alumni were Hangley, Connolly, Epstein , Chicco, Foxman

&

Ewing; Hoyle, Morris

&

Kerr; and Kleinbard, Bell

&

Brecker - all of Philadelphia. The New York City frrms with 100% participation were Davis, Polk

&

Wardwell and Proskauer, Rose, Goetz

&

Mendelsohn .

In

New Jersey, the frrm of Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland

&

Perretti also reach- ed 100% participation. These statistics in- dicate great enthusiasm and support for the Law School. The undertaking of this endeavor by

all

firm solicitors and participants is great- ly appreciated.

FEBRUARY

Tuesday, February 10 Law Alumni Society Dinner, Northern and Southern New jersey, New Brunswick

Wednesday, February 11

Law Alumni Society Luncheon Forum Lecture Series, Philadelphia

Friday, February 20

Basketball Dinner for Annual Giving Volunteers

February

Law Alumni Society-sponsored Alumnae Panel, The Law School

MARCH

Tuesday-Thursday, March 17-19 1987 Quinquennial Reunion Phonothon, The Faculty Club (lentative)

Wednesday, March 25 Law Alumni Society Cocktail Reception, Chicago, Illinois

The Firm Reception Program

This Program was successful during the year 1985-86 as a vehicle for bringing the Law School to Alumni. Receptions held at the New York City frrm of Sullivan

&

Cromwell and at the Philadelphia frrm of Montgomery, McCracken, Wilker

&

Rhoads were attended by Alumni frrm members, Dean Robert H.

Mundheim and Law School representatives.

Other such receptions are planned for the forthcoming year with an emphasis on Faculty involvement.

PENN LAW PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

This journal feature highlights members of the Law School Community (Alumni, Faculty, Overseers, Students, etc.) whose appearances in the news media have come to our attention primarily through the University news- clipping service.

The Honorable Arlin M. Adams,'47, who was a guest at Skidmore College in March as a \1\bodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting Fellow, was the subject of the March 11, 1986

Glen Falls, NY Post-Star

article entitled, "Inmates Question Judge on Laws.''

Professor Stephen B. Burbank was quoted extensively in

The National Law journal

arti- cle ''Five-Year-Old System Being Revamped:

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Michael M. Coleman,'66, was featured in the July 14-20, 1986

Philadelphia Business journal

article entitled, ."Salary Shock

Reaching Philadelphia" under the "Legal Briefs" section.

Mr.

Coleman also wrote the article, "Money V\bn't Stop the Exodus"

which appeared in the May 26, 1986 issue of

The National Law journal.

Michael P. Doss,'86, was mentioned in the July 14 , 1986

National Law journal article titled ''U. 5. Court Clerkships Still Luring Editors-in-Chief of Law Reviews.''

Professor Douglas N. Frenkel, '72, ap- peared in the March, 1986 article in Arbitra- tion Times

titled "Education '!ask Force Spon- sored for Second Year.''

William

F.

Hyland,'49, of the New Jersey firm of Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland

&

Per- retti, was featured in

The National Law jour- nal

cover story of July 28, 1986 entitled ''N.J.

Firm Basks in Area's Glow.'' Also in the arti- cle was a photograph of Mr. Hyland playing clarinet with his friend, the late Benny Goodman.

Bernard J. Konnan,'55, President of Mediq, Inc., Pennsauken, NJ, was the subject of the article, "Mediq's Handling of Health- care Market Mix Draws Kudos From Analysts.''

Richard G. Lonsdorf, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry in Law, was cited in

The Philadelphia Inquirer

article of March 28, 1986, entitled ''Portrait of a Lonely Drug 'Iamperer.''

Margaret D.McGaughey,'73, was featured in the November, 1985 issue of

The Maine Lawyer's Review

in a full-length profJ.le en- titled "Margaret McGaughey and Paula Silsby - Assistant U.S. Attorneys.''

Ellsworth McMeen,III,'72, was the subject of a newspaper article, ' ' Hot Streak for Lawyer Who Writes Folk Music.' ' (See Alumni Briefs in this issue of

The journal).

Anthony S. Minisi,'52, was quoted exten- sively in the March , 1986

Corporate Monthly

article, "Merit Selection: Should Politics Con- tinue to Control the Appointment of Our Judges in Pennsylvania?''

Dean Robert H. Mundheim was featured in the July-August, 1986,

Lawyers Digest

cover article entitled "Where Lawyering Begins.''

Charles Lee Nutt,'53, was featured in the article, ' 'Even After Precedent-Setting Case, Employee Rights.''

Professor David G. Owen,' 71, of the University of South Carolina School of Law, was the subject of the April 28 , 1986

Business Meek

highlight, "The Man Who Wrote the Gospel on Punitive Damages Preaches Restraint'' - part of the Legal Affairs Liability feature.

Alan J. Pogarsky,'62, was profJ.led in the article, "1986-87 State Bar Officers Named,"

which appeared in the June issue of

The Advocate.

Visiting Associate Professor David Rudovsky was the subject of

The

Philadelphia Inquirer

article of July 15, 1986 entitled, ' 'Four With Philadelphia Ties are Among Winners of ' Genius Awards '.'' (See The Faculty in this issue of

The journal.)

The Honorable Nonna L. Shapiro,' 51, was quoted in the June 16, 1986

National Law journal

article entitled "Five-Year-Old System Being Revamped: Disciplinary Feud Brews Among U.S. Judges.''

Professor Edward B. Shils ,' 86, former

Director of the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial

Center at the Wharton School of the Univer-

sity of Pennsylvania, was featured in

The Philadelphia Inquirer

article in June, 1986 en-

titled, "Starting Afresh at Age 70."

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Ballard, Spahr, Andrews and Ingersoll

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A Message Dean Robert H. Mundheim

I t gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Biddle Law Library's Centennial Celebration this evening, June 7, 1986.

A one-hundredth anniversary is an historic occasion and deserves a written record.

This souvenir program serves as that and will be one ofthe mementos of this birthday party; in its pages, we can look back over the last century with Mark Lloyd and Libby Harwitz as they review the histories of the Library and the Law School.

You'll find we've come a long way since 1886 when the idea of a Library took hold and slowly began to build. By 1890, the Biddle Law Library had its own specially designed section of the brand new building at 3400 Chestnut Street Every modem facility had been thought of and was available. The 1900 Library had "a desk for each student which provided a lock closet for notes, and an electric bell to call a boy who carried the book slip to the desk and brought back the wanted volumes".

Librarian Elizabeth Kelly will tell you in these pages how 86 years later, computer, tele- communications, and video technology are making the gathering, storage and dis- semination oflegal information miraculously fast and efficient She will also sketch the Biddle Law Library of the future and our commitment to make this the finest resource of its kind, both for the Law School and for the legal community.

The extraordinary support you have shown gives me great confidence that the growth and expansion of services during the second century of the Biddle Law Library will be even more remarkable than the first. Thank you for joining in this 100th anniversary party this evening.

Your enthusiastic participation tonight and throughout the year is a real cause for celebration!

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EARLY HISTORY OF THE BIDDLE LAW LmRARY

Mark Frazier Lloyd University Archivist

T he Biddle Law Library was originally known as the Biddle Memorial Library for it was the death of George Biddle on 6 April1886 which set in motion the events which led to the establishment of the Law School's library. George Biddle was the eldest son of George Washington Biddle, who was perhaps Philadelphia's most influential lawyer ofhis day. The son had followed his father's career in the profession oflaw. He had "read law" in his father's office, attended the law lectures offered by the Law Department of the University for the school year 1865-6, and been admitted to the bar on 17 November 1866. His death at the age of 4.3was a great loss to the father and entire family.

George Washington Biddle had been counsel to the University and in 1882 the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Laws. Since 1880 he had been chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association (then known as the Law Association of Philadelphia). In addition to his professional honors he had what must have been the enormous personal satisfaction of seeing all three of his sons - George, Algernon Sydney and Arthur emulate his career and become successful lawyers. Little did he realize that he would outlive all three and little did anyone know that the Biddle Law Library would be his tribute to them.

University records do not make clear when George Washington Biddle first offered the Law Department a large private collection of legal reports as the nucleus of a memorial library. What is known is that negotiations were under way, but not completed in August 1887. In that month the Provost, William Pepper, informed the Secretary of the Law Faculty, C. Stuart Patterson, that the proposed gift had not yet been finalized. Provost Pepper instructed the deletion from the 1887-8 Law Department catalogue of a paragraph announcing the new library. Pepper was perhaps being overly cautious for the gift was soon there- after formally made and in October accepted by the University's Board of Trustees.

It was still another year, however, before the "George Biddle Memorial Library" came into use. The struggle between those who wanted the Law Department located near the courts and law offices downtown and those who wanted it on campus had been resolved in favor of downtown. In the 1888-9 school year the Law Department was located in City Hall, using the Pennsylvania Supreme Court room as its lecture hall. The memorial library, some 5,.350

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volumes in all, was delivered to these quarters and a librarian hired in December 1888. By the summer of 1889 now Dean Patterson could report that "a book catalogue has been com- pleted during the year and a card catalogue will shortly be completed." Organizing the new library must have been a formidable task, however, as the first year law student who had been employed as Librarian resigned his job in May 1889 and withdrew from the Law Department never to return to the field again. What is fascinating, of course, is that this man was Lightner Witmer who went on to earn a Masters degree in Philosophy from the University, a Doctorate in

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Psychology from the University of Leipzig and in 1896, at the University, founded this country's first psychological clinic. By the time of his retirement in 1937 Professor Witmer was one of Pennsylvania's most honored sons. Had it not been for the Biddle Law Library Lightner Witmer may never have found his life's calling.

In May of 1887 George Washington Biddle's second son, Algernon Sydney, was elected Professor of Law by the University Trustees. His fields were "Practice, Pleading and Evidence at Law" and "Criminal Law." Though just thirty-nine years old the younger Biddle had developed a large law practice and was preceptor to many of the students who attended the lectures of the Law Department It was he who introduced the seminar or case method of teaching in the

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school and popularized it to such an extent that by 1900 almost all the courses used that teaching technique. What a shock it must have been to all when he died suddenly on 8 April 1891. He left a widow and four sons, one of whom, Francis Biddle, eventually enjoyed a distinguished legal career of his own, including the Attorney Generalship of the United States during World War II.

George Washington Biddle wished to memorialize his second son as he had done his first and in November 1891 offered to endow a Chair in the Law Department. The offer was accepted and in June 1893 George Wharton Pepper, student and protege of Professor Biddle, was elected the first Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law. At the same time the name of the Law Library was changed to 'The George Biddle and Algernon Sydney Biddle Library." By this time the Library had grown substantially. It had moved with the Law Department from City Hall to the Sixth Floor of the Girard Life Insurance Building at Broad and Chestnut Streets in 1890. Solomon Stanger Iszard, a graduate of the Law Class of 1889, had been appointed Librarian in 1890 and was assisted by several law students. He managed the Library's affairs for six years as its size grew to over 10,000 volumes. In 1895 he supervised the move of the Library from Broad and Chestnut Streets to Sixth and Chestnut, where the Law Department occupied buildings immediately adjacent to Independence Hall. Here the Department and its Library stayed for five years before moving to their present quarters in the spring of 1900. In 1896 Edmund Jones was made Librarian, but he resigned after just one year. It was in 1897 that Margaret Center Klingelsmith, a name still familiar to some of the older graduates today, was appointed Librarian. It was she who literally and figuratively brought the Biddle Law Library to 34th and Chestnut Streets and into the twentieth century.

George Washington Biddle lived to see his only surviving son, Arthur, die on 8 March 1897.

By that time the elder Biddle too was in failing health. He died on 29 April1897. The Biddle family, however, paid tribute to the third son just as it had his brothers. This time the gift to the Library was the personal collectionof Arthur Biddle. It numbered nearly 4,000 volumes and represented the accumulation of two generations and four members of the family. Shortly before the Law Department moved to its new building at 34th and Chestnut, the name of the Library was changed for the second and last time. It became "The Biddle Law Library'' and so has remained to the present day.

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