C o l l e g e o f L a w A l u m n i A s s o c i a t i o n • O h i o S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y

OHM STATEVolume III, No. 1 February, 1961

O h io S ta te T e a m W in s R e g io n a l a n d N a t io n a l

M o o t C o u r t C o m p e ti t io n s . . . .Victorious in the Regional Competition of the Sixth

Circuit, the team of Shelby Hutchins and John Mc­Donald, Law seniors, was the first ever to achieve a “repeat’’,in the Regionals for this Circuit. As juniors, they had won the Regional in 1959, thus qualifying them for the New York National Competition where in the quarter-finals they suffered defeat at the hands of an able University of Oklahoma team composed

j of James D. Batchelor and Eugene T. Bonner.But 1960 was kinder. Drawing a first-round bye, the

Ohio State Team went on to defeat teams of the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, and Western Re-

| serve (runner-up in the Regional of this Circuit, thereby also eligible for the New York National). This placed Hutchins and McDonald in the final round —against the same University of Oklahoma team they had faced in 1959. A distinguished Bench heard the

Shelby V. Hutchins, Hon. Stanley H. Fuld, John C. McDonald.

final Argument. Judge Stanley H. Fuld of the New York Court of Appeals presided; also among the seven were Whitney North Seymour, President of the American Bar Association, and Professor Archi­bald Cox of Harvard Law School, the new Solicitor General of the United States. The unanimous judg­ment of the Bench, announced by Judge Fuld, was sweet music to John McDonald and Shelby Hutchins, to Assistant Professor William Van Alstyne, their able Adviser, and to Dean Strong who “made” the final Argument en route from Columbus to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

To the victors belong the spoils! The team won the John C. Knox Award, established by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the John W. Davis Award, presented by the American College of Trial Lawyers. These coveted awards take the form of silver cups which the winning School holds for one year. For presenting the best oral argument in the National Competition, John McDonald received, for his very own, a beautiful engraved silver tray, the gift of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and a complete set of American Jurisprudence, given by its publishers. Corbin on Contracts (8 vol.), American Law of Property (8 vol.), Pound on Jurisprudence (5 vol.), and prized single volumes were divided be­tween Hutchins and McDonald. As observed by Arthur A. Charpentier, Librarian of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, in a letter pre­ceding the arrival of these many items, “Aside from a few pieces of furniture and our library there is not

’ much left we can send you.” Lastly, the Moot Court Governing Board receives the Frankfurter Award of $500 for support of the School’s Moot Court pro­gram.

The trip expenses of team members of both Ohio State and Western Reserve were defrayed by the Ohio State Bar Foundation. For this generous action the two Schools and the participating students are most grateful. On January 26 the Ohio State Student Bar Association held in the Ohio Union a Luncheon honoring Hutchins and McDonald. Clarence D. Laylin, distinguished alumnus of the Class of 1906. graced the occasion with a most appropriate informal talk.

V e rd ic ts o f th e V o te rs . . . .

United States CongressJohn M. Ashbrook, ’55, of Johnstown, Congressman

from the Seventeenth District.Thomas L. Ashley, ’51, of Watersville, Congressman

from the Ninth District.William M. McCulloch, ’25, of Piqua, Congressman

from the Fourth District.

General Assembly of Ohio Kline L. Roberts, ’40, Senator, Tenth District Wray Bevins, ’32, Representative, Pike County Michael Blischak, ’51, Representative, Jefferson

County

Richard M. Christiansen, ’51, Representative, Rich- ■ land County

James D. Hapner, ’51, Representative, Highland County

Thomas M. Herbert, ’57, Representative, Franklin County

Robert E. Holmes, ’49, Representative, Franklin County

Edmund G. James, ’51, Representative, Noble County Lloyd G. Kerns, ’50, Representative, Union County Charles E. Kurfess, ’57, Representative, Wood County A. G. Lancione, ’29, Representative, Belmont County James A. Lantz, ’47, Representative, Fairfield County Keith McNamara, ’53, Representative, Franklin

County

Supreme Court o£ OhioJames F. Bell, ’39 C. William O ’Neill, ’42

Courts of Appeals of OhioPaul W. Brown, ’39, Seventh District William C. Bryant, ’32, Tenth District Richard H. Hildebrant, ’22, First District Leland Rutherford, ’35, Fifth District Raymond A. Younger, ’22, Third District

Courts of Common Pleas of OhioW. Vernon Archer, ’27, Noble County W. W. Badger, ’25, Holmes County Floyd A. Coller, ’30, Wood County Fred B. Cramer, ’26, Butler County Warren S. Earhart, ’39, Lawrence County Donald M. Gibbs, ’26, Champaign County Joseph M. Harter, ’28, Franklin County J. Gareth Hitchcock, ’39, Paulding County Carl D. Kessler, ’49, Montgomery County Harold S. Rickert, ’54, Mahoning County Robert G. Tague, ’40, Perry County Don R. Thomas, ’24, Montgomery County Russell W. Thomas, ’25, Summit County Herman J. Weber, ’51, Greene County O. W. Whitney, Jr., ’39, Delaware County

Probate Courts of OhioEmmett Abel, ’31, Morgan County Paul W. Barrett, ’37, Delaware County Rudolph E. Battista, ’50, Carroll County Rhea Bangert Brown, ’29, Hocking County Guy G. Cline, ’41, Pickaway County Glenn E. Detling, ’40, Clark County Paul E. Fowler, ’52, Scioto County Robert U. Hastings, ’48, Fairfield County Raymond E. Ladd, ’16, Wood County Emmett M. Morrow, ’10, Jefferson County Edgar W. Norris, ’25, Lucas County Edward J. Ruzzo, ’37, Marion County Margaretta B. Schuck, ’39, Hancock County Kenneth T. Stevens, ’22, Ross County Louis Tobin, ’32, Columbiana County John W. Winn, ’23, Defiance County Clifford M. Woodside, ’14, Mahoning County

M e rs h o n D is t in g u is h e d P ro fe s s o r . . . .The College is privileged to have as Mershon Dis- I

tinguished Professor for Winter Quarter, Dr. Otto B r Kahn-Freund, Professor of Law in the University of B : London (London School of Economics and Political I Science). Professor Kahn-Freund’s major education I was received in Germany, the country of his birth; I he studied at the Universities of Frankfurt (from B * which he holds the LL.D.), Heidelberg, and Leipsig. I Leaving Germany in 1933, he took a Master of Laws I degree at the University of London in 1935, became I in 1936 a Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple, I and for the next fifteen years served the Middle I Temple as a Lecturer and Reader in Law.

Professor Kahn-Freund is the author or editor of I several volumes in law and related fields. He has I become one of the two or three most renowned B ; European scholars in labor relations law. Because of I his preeminence in this subject, he was chosen to act I as one of the four Reporters at the Second World I Congress on Social Legislation, held in Brussels in I 1958, and now serves as the President of the Inter- I national Society of Labor Law and Social Legislation. I

In great demand as a teacher and lecturer, both on I the Continent and in the United States, Dr. Kahn- I Freund has been in this country frequently during I the past decade. He has taught at Michigan and I several times at Yale. This academic year he spent the I Autumn at the University of Pennsylvania, and will I again be at Yale during the Spring. During his Winter I Quarter stay at Ohio State, he is teaching Domestic I Relations and joining with Professor Mathews in I conducting a Research Seminar in Comparative Labor I Law.

Mrs. Kahn-Freund and their daughter, Sylvia, are I with him on this visit. Sylvia is attending University I School; the family is living in a beautiful ravine area I north of Worthington, somewhat reminiscent of their I home in Hazlemere, southwest of London, where Dean I and Mrs. Strong visited them in the late Summer of I 1959 on their return from the Salzburg Seminar.

Still C o m in g , th e 1 9 6 0 A lu m n i D ire c to ry . . . . IThe 1960 edition of the Alumni Directory will be I

mailed out this month; we did not quite make the I promised date of year’s end. For the many hours of I effort invested in it we are indebted to Miss Olive I Busick, Assistant to the Deans, who oversaw the I entire project, to Miss Barbara Baker, College Office I receptionist, who checked the alumni files, to Mrs. I Paula Gruber who did so well the painstaking work I of typing, and to Mr. Harry Damme of the University I Print Shop. Alumni response to the Record’s request I for assistance with publication costs has been gratify- I ing. For those for whom “seeing is believing,” a de- I tachable Contribution Form is available at the bottom I of next page.

A lu m n i P e r s o n a ls . . . .The Record notes with regret the passing of Judge I

Aaron B. Cohn, ’10, of Toledo; of Hubert G. Heinisch, I ’09, of Huntington, West Virginia; of Louis J. Leet, I

’05, of Jackson, Michigan; and of Albert Krumm, ’44, of Columbus . . . David Cox, Jr., ’55, and Frank E. Kane, ’51, have been admitted to partnership in the Toledo firm of Eastman, Stichter & Smith . . . RobertE. McGinnis, ’54, is now associated in the practice with Luce, Forward, Kunzel & Scripps, 1220 San Diego Trust & Savings Bldg., San Diego 1, California . . . Lawrence P. Stich, ’55, formerly with the A.E.C., has just taken a position as Plant Counsel for I.B.M. in its new plant at Owego, New York . . . Gerald F. Lorig, ’60, is City Prosecutor of Springfield, Ohio . . . Col. Dane O. Sprankle, ’31, now with the Defense Communication Agency in Washington, D. C., resides at 5100 - 37th Street, N., Arlington, Va. . . . Robert L. Hammond, Jr., ’58, is a trainee with Union Carbide and Chemical Corp., Charleston, West Va. . . .E. Steven Wald, ’57, is Executive Director of Park Synagogue, Cleveland . . . William E. Ranee, ’51, is now in partnership with R. Theodore Boehm, ’38, as Boehm & Ranee, 1200 West Fifth Avenue, Columbus

. . David W. Hart, ’50, formerly with General Elec­tric, is now a member of the Legal Department of White Motor Co., Cleveland . . . Kenneth E. Krouse, ’54, is a member of the law firm of Conn, Krouse & Bowman, 422 Libby-Owens-Ford Building, Toledo, Ohio . . . John M. Kistler, ’58, practices in Lancaster, Ohio . . . Donald C. Power, ’26, is this year’s National Chairman of the Heart Fund Campaign. Don con­tinues as senior partner of Power, Griffith & Jones, Columbus, while also serving as Chairman of the Board of General Telephone & Electronics Corp. . . . William J. Reidenbach, ’54, Columbus, is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Consumer Fraud of the State Bar Association Committee on Criminal Law, which is chaired by Danny D. Johnson, ’49, New Philadelphia . . . Norman Skeens, ’59, is located in the practice in Phoenix, Arizona . . . Wade L. Hopping, ’55, is now associated with M. F. Baugher in the practice of law at 324 Royal Palm Way, Palm Beach, Florida . . . Franklin G. Allen, ’52, has his own law office at 200 South Michigan Ave., Chicago 4, Illinois . . . John A. Dunkel, ’56 (LL.M. New York University, 1960), is an associate in the Columbus law firm of Porter, Stanley, Treffinger & Platt . . . G. Edward Smart, ’38, is retired from the F.B.I. and now responds to mail at P.O. Box 7, Craig, Colorado . . . William A. Woodyard, ’56, is a member of the Industrial Relations Depart­ment of Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc.; his home address is 221 Mall Way, Anaheim, California . . . Ralph N. Mahaffey, ’50, is an attorney on the legal

staff of the Ohio Fuel Gas Co. in Columbus . . . Mary Jo Cusack, ’59, is an Attorney Examiner with the Industrial Commission of Ohio; she is living in Colum­bus . . . Harold C. Meier, ’54, is a member of the Co­lumbus law firm of Thompson, Meier & Wachtel . . .

F u tu re A lu m n i?John Mark Rosenbloom, born September 26, 1960,

to Joseph L. Rosenbloom, ’59, and Mrs. Rosenbloom of Columbus, Ohio. Joe is an Ohio Assistant Attorney General with the Claims Department.

Erik Lowell Moore, born August 16, 1960, to LloydE. Moore, ’58, and Mrs. Moore of Ironton, Ohio. Lloyd is a member of the firm of Pratt, Kennedy & Moore of Ironton.

William Richard Norling, born October 2, 1960, to Richard Norling, ’59, and Mrs. Norling of Phoenix, Arizona. Dick is now a member of the Arizona (as well as the Ohio) Bar and is in practice with Shimmel, Hill & Kleindeinst.

Samuel R. Hutchinson, ’50, practices in Cody, Wyoming; address, P. O. Box 380 . . . Merrill C. Cross, ’25, has retired from his position with the Colorado Public Service Co. but continues to live in Denver at 2845 Cherry Street . . . Theodore R. Treffinger, ’50, also lives in Denver, at 1601 South Birch Street; he is associated with the Martin Company . . . L. Orin Slagle, Jr., ’57, will return to the United States in May after service with the Air Force in England as a Captain . . . William J. Abraham, ’57, and Edward Stanley, ’57, are now in practice together in Columbus, with offices at 16 East Broad Street . . . George R. Walker, ’52, continues in the practice in Monterey, California . . . John G. Broadbent, ’59, is associated with Sullivan & Cromwell, 48 Wall Street, New York City . . . John D. Hartman, ’29, is Trust Officer and Vice President of the Poudre Valley National Bank of Ft. Collins, Colorado . . . Bruce D. Oliver, ’59, has associated with the Oakland, California, firm of Stark & Champlin . . . Fred W. Booth, ’57, is in practice in Springfield, Ohio, with James N. Gorman, ’39 . . . Robert E. Stebens, ’60, is with Mahoney, Miller & Rambo, Columbus . . . Paul D. Yager, ’49, has been transferred to the Pasadena, California, office of the accounting firm of Lybrand, Ross Brothers & Mont­gomery . . . James L. Black, ’46, has left the Hamilton, Ohio, firm of Fitton, Pierce & Black, to make his

CONTRIBUTION FORM I960 ALUMNI DIRECTORY

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home in Santa Barbara, California. He is now associ­ated there with the law firm of Griffith & Thornburgh, 7 West Figueroa . . . Fred D. Puckett, ’51, has left the practice in Delaware, Ohio, to join the Editors of Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, Rochester, New York.

W h e re th e N e w e s t A lu m n i A re G o in g :Graduates in the December, 1960, Class are study­

ing for the March Bar Exam, but many are already placed. As is to be expected, a number will be going to service with Uncle Sam: William R. Alban, William A. Crane and Joseph Reeves have made arrangements to take reserve commissions in the Army or Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Three of the men will return home to enter practices or businesses al­ready established by members of their families: Michael F. Adler, to Springfield to become active in Tru-Foto Finishing, Inc.; Gerald P. Flagel, to join his father in the accounting practice in Dayton; and John Skomp, to Nelsonville to join his wife, Nancy Kreig Skomp, ’52, in the practice of law. Karl R. Aughen- baugh and Kenneth R. Millisor will become associates of the Akron firm of Wise, Roetzel, Maxon, Kelly & Andress. Paul R. Martin will be a member of the Patent Department of Proctor & Gamble in Cincin­nati, Ohio. Paul J. Stergios will associate with Herschel F. Kriger in Canton, and Chauncy Tuttle, Jr., will enter the General Counsel’s Office, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D.C.

F re s h m a n L aw C la s s , 1 9 6 0 -6 1 . . . .This year’s freshman class is the first to enter under

the new requirement of an undergraduate bachelor’s degree. All Ohio law schools adopted such a require­ment upon the Ohio Supreme Court’s revision of Rule XIV to require the degree before law study as a pre­requisite to sitting for the Ohio Bar Examination. The immediate effect of the degree requirement was to cut freshman enrollment to 114 from the 145-160 of the last decade.

“Vital” statistics on the entering class show:

Academic Performance College Average Point Hour Ratio 2.71College Median Point Hour Ratio 2.63Average Law School Admission Test Score 491 Median Law School Admission Test Score 501

Distribution of Law School Admission Test Scores: 600 or above 16 400-449 14550-599 11 350-399 14

500-549450-499

3123

Below 349 5

Personal Data Average Age Single MarriedMilitary Service No Military Service National Guard

College Distribution

2378%2 2 %2 2%76.3%1.7%

Akron __ ___ 2 Michigan __ 4Albion - ___ 1 Mount Union _. .... 1Allegheny ___ ___ 1 Muskingum . 2Bowling Green ___ 3 Notre Dame 2Capital __ ___ 1 Ohio qJohn Carroll ___ 2 Ohio Northern 1Cincinnati _ ■ 1 Ohio State 37Citadel ... .__ 1 Ohio Wesleyan ... 3Dartmouth ___ 1 Princeton 3Dayton __ ___ 4 Purdue __ __ 3Denison __ . ..... 3 St. Bonaventure 1Earlham __ ....... 1 Steubenville 1Georgia Tech. ._ ___ 1 Toledo __ 1Harvard . ___ 2 Tulane 1Jacksonville 1 Western Reserve ..... 3Kent State . ~__ 3 Wheaton .. .... 1Kenyon ___ -... 1 Wittenberg ...... 2Long Island ... _ .... 1 Xavier __ 1Miami __ ....... 6 Yale ____ 1

Primary College Majors Political Science History Economics AccountingBusiness Administration

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C o m in g C o lle g e E v e n ts . . . .April 4-5-6. Law Forum Lectures. This year’s

lecturer will be Professor George E. Palmer, Uni­v e r s ity of M ichigan Law S ch oo l. H is subject: Remedies for Mistake in Contract: A Restitutionary

Approach.”April 29. Law Day, 1961. A day of events planned

by a Committee of the Student Bar Association, with the welcome mat out to alumni. Mr. Justice Stewart will be with us for the day, which will include the unveiling of his portrait, gift of Isadore Topper, ’27, and the painter, David Wilson of Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

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