"LAW SCHOOL NEWS"
Though many of you have left the Law School some time ago, we have not
forgotten you and many of you have written to us telling us of your activities in
the Armed Services. Our "Fan M.ail 11 has increased rapidly and in order to keep up
with every one we decided it would be a good idea to put out a News Letter, inserting
excerpts from each one that has written. We do not know, by any means,
where every one is but we hope we may through this News Letter r each every one from
the graduating class of 1940 to the present date. So if you want your friends to
know about your activities write me at the Law School and I'l~ try to get the News
Letter out about every two months or so. Now for the 11News" that we have on hand.
THE FACULTY
Major J. N. Lott (to us, Dean Lott)
is l ocat ed atH'ill Fie ld, (Air Force )
Ogden, Utah.
Mr. Dobie, now Lieutenant writes that
:tle has 11learned to push his way with
ths most aggressive Washington commuters,
being polite only for Generals, Colonels,
Cabinet members, Supreme Court Just ices,
and exceptionally pretty stenographers,
of whic h l ast , there are quite a few
around, under the law of avera ges."
Prof. King has r e ceived his Commission
as Ensign i n the Navy and will start
traini ng on Nov. 2 at Quonsett, Rhode
Island.
Prof. Jeanblanc has recently been appointed
as Director of Business of our
Unive r sity. He wi l l continue to teach
part -time in our Law School.
:(ID-. Fahey was in t he F'. B.I. but has r et
urned to Louisville a gain and will
teach part-time in our Law School.
Mr. Schultz who is pract icing taw with
Bulli tt and Middleton will also t each
part-t i me thi s Semest er for us.
Andr ew Duncan, we understand i s with
the Navy.
Our Law School building has been taken
over by about everybody, The Navy, the
Pre sident, Mr. Drui en and the Alumni
Secret ary have all moved in on us, but
we still have the Second fl oor of our
buil ding and we are operating and will
for the duration of the War. The Fall
Seme ster begins Nov.l,l943.
is having a hard time ke eping
but he i s fa i t hfully sticking
and deserves much cr edit.
(
Mr. Russell
us together
with us
Miss Virginia Cowherd has been with the
Mengel Companyj but on October 18th she
came back on the Campus to be Secretary
to Mr~ Jeanblanc, Director of Business.
That accounts for our Faculty and Secretary
so now for our Alumni:
Cla·ss of 1940:
I understand that Wallis M. Bailey
is practicing Law in Lexington; that
George Effinger was recently practicing
Law at -Faducah-but now is in the Army;
that August Winkenhofer, and Charles
Zirkle are Ensiens in the Navy and may be
Lt. Junior Grades by now; that Josephine
Hughett is still with the Air Corps at
Bowman Field, Louisville; that William
Biggs is in the Army; and that Lucian
Johnson is back a gain in town as a
civilian; which leave s Jordan'Antle, Bernard
Chizner, William A. Johnson and
Richard Drye to be accounted for in the
class of 1940.
Class of 1941:
The following are practicing Law in
Louisville: David Cates, John Davis,
William Miller, 1~rvi n Snyder, and Hudson
Milner. Henry ~nn is working in one of
the De f ense p la~t s here in Louisv i lle ;
William Stephenson and Athol Lee Taylor
are with Insurance Companies in Louisville
but are practicing Law on the side. I am
told that Fred Buchhold. is practicing Law
in Harlan, Ky., and that Howard Sandusky
is Claim Agent for t he Amer. Surety Co.
in Evansville. S~t. Sam He lman was in to
see us this summer; he was headed f or
desert maneuvers. We understand t hat J.
Linwood Kenner is a Lieutenant ( j . g.) and
that Dale Major is an Ensign in t he Navy.
Edgar Lee Robbins, our F. B.I. man · i n San
Francisco will be happy to meet any Law
Al umni or students i n his of fice any time.
or·. •
Lt. (j. g.) Jame s Me nefee is at
Communications School, Ha rvard. He
and Ensign Plunkett have had t he
~rivile ge of getting together once in
awhil.e and talking over "old time s".
Capt. Ben Morris has received the Air
Medal for flying Paratroopers into
Sicily . This was a very dangerous
mission. John Williams (Jack ) now
Captain Wds in to see us this l&st
week. He looks well in s pite of
the fact that he has had malaria.
He has been decorated with so many
medals t hat we can't keep up with ·
him. Lt. Ed ~;ar Simo.1 wrote to Mr.
Russell that he is in India.
Clarence McCarroll and Jesse G.
Moore are the only ones we have not
heard from directly or indirectly.
Class of 1942:
Our Navy men are as follows:
Robert Davenport, William Trusty,
William Harvin, Lor en Plunkett, Shad
Boaz, Royden Peabody--all EnsignsJ
Ensign Harvin wr ote to Mr. Ki ng :
"You have no doubt heard about our
operations in Sicily. I wa s Gl1e of
the first men, first 500 to touch the
island, but I didn't stay any longer
than necessary to put the soldiers on
the beach." He is now recorder of summary
court martial. Ensign Plunkett
writes from Harvard that he is in
Naval Communication School and that he
is a line officer. He had the pri vi.o.
lege of being within 10 or 20 feet
of Mr. Churchill when Hr. Churchill
received his honorary degree from
Harvard. Shad Boaz writes that 11 t hey ·
just exist, not live, from day to day .
However, you become accustomed to it
and don't mind it too much."
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Our Army men ares Carl Henry and
Kennedy Helm are in the Army Intelligence
Department. The l ast we heard
from S ~ t. John Cechini was that he was
an :~thletic Instructor. Walter Chyle,
(Air Force), Lieutenant Chyle writes
that"Army Life is a great life and I
have en joyed it. I have learned a lot
I could not have otherwise learned; but
when this vva.r is over, I yfill remember
a profession for 1Nhich I once trained
prior to entering the Army , which I
shall a g&in take up; and it's not riding
a motorcycle eithe r." The l ast tin,e
we heard, Edwin "Butch" l;nmb .was practicing
law in Princeton, -KYT Allie
Watkins was in the Army but was dismissed
from VOC and is now waiting for the
draft to get him. Ira Ray is also in the
Army but we haven't heard from him for
such a long time. Henry Denzer is an
attorney in the Ky. Home LifelBldg. in
Louisville. George Heffner works at the
Post Office and practices law on the side.
We understand that Al Krie ger is also in
the Army, overseas s omewhere. Robert .
Schroader and Sam Cannon are somewhere,
but where'?
Clas s of 1943:
s. Russell Smith, in the Infantry is 1
waiting for OCS at Camp Wolters, Texas.
He writes, "I always thought I liked
candy until I ate the Arll"y' s l'D" re. tion,
but I never t hou ght that I would be eating
candy and candy only for my dinner meals."
Harry Neal is in the Air Corps. George
Howard writes that he is being sent to
College 11a gain11 (Gainesville, Fla. Air
Aviation School). He writes: "Isn't that
a laugh? But you can't ar gue with the
Army. 11 Richard Logan, our only Sea be1e
is Librarian at Camp Peary. He writes:
11I see that my Library gets all the new
books that comes in and then .. naturally
I have to read them in order to be able
to te l l my ''custorrers 11 about them. Why
don't you, Pearl, read all the reports
you get? I mean, really, why don't you?"
Some suggestions for a Law LibrarianJ
Raymond Harmon has just been sent to
Paducah to take over the office of Boehl,
Davis, Viser and Marcus. James Henry,
works at the Courier Journal and praetices
Law on the side. Steve McCoy is with
Seagram's and Belvard Prichard went back
to his West Virginia home to practice law.
Martha Perkins Ellis's husband is over-seas
and she is here in Louisville, I think. ·
Now to tell you about the boys that did
not get to graduate, but boys whom we still
'~nt to remember as Law School boys, and
we hope they will get to come back and fi nish
up - take their bar, or fi nish a
semester, or get their degrees.
Charles Lutz we understand is a
Captain rn-the Air Force. Whitney
O'Bannon# still a golf player, but a
Lieutenant now. Richard Oldham, is
a Lieutenant in the Army. Capt.
Williams tells me that he waw Lt. L.
T. Peniston in New Guinea. Peniston
was one of the two men that Jack saw
overseas from his home town. Jesse
Williams is in the Army and may be
overseas now. Ernest Woodward is in
the Air Force. Joe Boland, Army.
Stanley Conrad is a Lt. i n the Army.
John Goehr~ng has been over s ea s for
wuiye a long time. Charle s Hough had
a bad knee and was back on furlough
from the Army but we haven't heard
from him since. Joe Marcucilli is an
Ensign; also Robert :tvieUSle.'Ei:isign
Measle is teaching at Great Lakes.
Herbert Ho are seems to be a go od pilot.
in the Air Force. Kenneth Schoen is
our only Coast guardsman. Charles
Avery l e ft us to work in a bank
Richard Daivs on left schoo l because of
his health. Our twins# Ralph and
Rodney Kessinger, Army Air Force, are
whiling away their time in Oklahoma.
Jo Robinson left without getting his
degree; perhaps he 1 ll come back some
day to get it. Harold Saunders was
in the ~ir Corps. but we haven't heard
from him for such a long time that
we'r e sure he is i n some other branch
of the service. Edwin Cohen is in
the Army . Chester Hart is on active
duty in the Signal Corps. Hyman Gumer
v~s in the other day to tell us that
he was waiting for OCS in the Infantry.
Raymond Sales is in the Army. Sid
Hanish was discharged physically from
the Arrey and is planning to come buck
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to L&w School this Fall Semester. Roger
Hart, Military Police, has been in
San Francisco. Ralph Mayna rd# an Army
student has been at the-tf.~iv. of
Chicago studying Psycho lo gy. Philip
Muldoon is in the Army. Robert He rtzman
was home on furlough and he told us
that he hoped to get into OCS. Charles
Isenberg went to V-7 Navy program but
came back and then was rejected from the
Army because .of his hay fever. He is
now p racticing Law with Denzer in the
Ky. Home Li fe Bldg . He pluns to come
ba ck and get his de gree. Jane Hammill
received her combined Arts-Law Degree.
She is nww working at Seagrams.
Stuart (Sleepy) Alexander is at Maxwell
Field, Alabama, flying a~d studying.
Donald Armstrong was in the hospital in
Colorado but he finally got out of there
and is now at Army Air Corps school.
Robert Bensing6 parachute wrapper was
home on furlough some time ago and may
be overseas by now. Harlan Heilman, th~
luckiest guy in our school is located
at Ft• Knox. James Hubbs has been
travelling the country (expenses paid
by Army Air Force) and has finally
settled at Vermont. Burlyn Pike is in
the Me dical Regiment, at Camp Berkeley#
Texas. He v~s home on furlough and got
here in time to pass around the cigars
for the birth of his baby daughter.
Hilburn Peers has been in the V-12,
Navy program here at U. of L. John
Stiles after going to college again is
now training for a pilot in Texas.
Ma urice schy who was with us a ser.1oster
is now al:Gliicago work ing with the Air
Port Truffice De pt. Jack Reid and Elmer
Hume are Mi dshipmen at Columbia Unive rsity
und it won't be but a few vreeks until
they are Ensigns. John salyer (zonm-zoom)
is also on his way to being a n Ensign.
Our new graduates of 1943 will be Charles
Allen and William Mene fee, both gra duating
on October 23, 1943.
That about a cc ounts for everybody and
now that this is v~itten, it's up to
you all to keep me informed about yours
elves, your new addresses, etc. and
i f you w::-,nt this News Letter to be a
regular t hing - keep writing.
Most Sincere ly,
Pe arl,
Your Law Librarian.
NEWS FLASH: Zoom-Zoom came by to tell
us that he is on his way to Br o oklyn,N.Y.
to go to Navy Supply School. Also,
Harlan Hei lma n was in; he has been moved
to the gunnery division.
