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NO.	PHOTO	CAPTION	DATE
1.		Sabattus High School portrait of Gleason Archer, who would go on to graduate as valedictorian of the Class of 1902 (1899).	1899
2.		Gleason Archer, the year of Suffolk’s founding (1906).	1906
3.		Gleason Archer inscribed this color postcard of the Boston Court House, “Here is where I became a lawyer at 9:30 this morning G.L. Archer August 21 ‘06” (1906).	1906
4.		The diploma of Roland E. Brown. Brown, a machinist, was a member of the first class and the first Suffolk student to pass the Massachusetts Bar. He accomplished this feat as a junior in 1908.	1909
5.		Evening school freshmen (1911).	1911
6.		This building at 45 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, was the Law School’s home beginning in 1914, the year the school received its degree-granting charter and changed its name to Suffolk Law School. Because Archer had mortgaged his home to purchase the building, he and his family moved into the top floor (1914).	1914
7.		Interior, 45 Mount Vernon Street (1914).	1914
8.		Thomas Vreeland Jones was one of the first African Americans to graduate from Suffolk Law School, in 1915 at age 40. His family and friends established a scholarship in his memory (1915).	1915
9.		Suffolk Law School Register (1915).	1915
10.		Suffolk University grew from humble beginnings in the living room of Gleason Archer’s home in Roxbury. Here, on September 19, 1906, the young lawyer began teaching a handful of workingmen who wished to study law in the evenings (1916).	1916
11.		A chair commemorates the spot where Gleason Archer presented his first lecture (1916).	1916
12.		Suffolk Law’s closing exercises brochure (1918).	1918
13.		Catharine C. Caraher was 17 when Gleason Archer hired her as his secretary in 1919. Eventually she became assistant treasurer and director of the executive staff (1919).	1919
14.		Suffolk Law School’s class photo (1920).	1920
15.		Gleason Archer (1920).	1920
16.		Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge delivers his first public address after being nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. The occasion was the laying of the cornerstone for the Archer Building on August 4, 1920.	1920
17.		SULS day division officers (1920).	1920
18.		The Suffolk Law School Register continues as the students’ news vehicle, under the guidance of an eight-member editorial staff (1920).	1920
19.		Suffolk’s senior banquet at the Boston City Club (1922).	1920
20.		Suffolk Law School’s Class of 1922.	1922
21.		Shichiro Hayashi, member of the Class of 1922.	1922
22.		Suffolk Law School’s Class of 1925.	1925
23.		Gleason Archer installed an enormous electric sign atop the Suffolk Law School Building advertising the school (1926).	1926
24.		The Archer family (1926).	1926
25.		Commencement brochure (1927).	1927
26.		An “admission coupon” used in the Law School from 1921 until World War II. Each time a student attended class he was required to present one of these tickets to a monitor, allowing tuition payment and attendance to be recorded simultaneously (1928).	1928
27.		Harry Hom Dow (1904–1985), who graduated in 1929, became the first Chinese-American admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. He practiced immigration law in Boston and New York and served in World War II and the Korean War. Returning to Boston, he devoted his time to the issues of housing, health care, and legal services for the poor (1929).	1929
28.		Suffolk Law School’s Class of 1931.	1931
29.		Members of the construction gang working on the addition to the University building (1937).	1937
30.		Suffolk University’s Graduate School of Law Class of 1937.	1937
31.		Gleason Archer joins Suffolk Trustee Thomas Jefferson Boynton at the Suffolk University Faculty Club. In addition to being a Trustee, Mr. Boynton served as Massachusetts Attorney General and Mayor of Everett, Massachusetts (1937).	1937
32.		Crooner Rudy Vallee enrolls in Suffolk Law School—a publicity stunt hatched by his friend Gleason Archer (1937).	1937
33.		Marian Archer MacDonald, member of the Class of 1937, was the first female graduate of Suffolk Law School (1937).	1937
34.		Suffolk Law School’s Class of 1937.	1937
35.		Professor Stinchfield teaching Agency Law (1938).	1938
36.		Law students study in Suffolk’s library (1940).	1940
37.		Gleason Archer with students and alumni (1940).	1940
38.		Gleason, Elizabeth, and Hiram Archer (1940).	1940
39.		Dean Frank Simpson, who served as Dean from 1942 to 1952. He added a full-time day program, a summer session, and new electives (1948).	1948
40.		Students study in the Suffolk Law Library (1949).	1949
41.		“In Memoriam Suffolk Alumni Who Died in WW II That We Might Live as Free Men” (1949).	1949
42.		Judge Frank J. Donahue, a University treasurer and longtime Trustee, was known as “Mr. Suffolk” (1950).	1950
43.		Students were once again able to hone their advocacy skills when the Moot Court program was reestablished after the war (1950).	1950
44.		Moot Court (1950).	1950
45.		Bursar Dorothy McNamara and her office staff, including Alice DeRosa on left. "Dottie Mac" was beloved by generations of Suffolk students and alumni, for whom she served as a counselor and advocate during her 47 years at the University (1950)	1950
46.		Red Sox superstar Ted Williams accepts a Suffolk varsity letter from Dick Conway and Don Shea of the Suffolk University Varsity Club (1950).	1950
47.		Dean Archer presents a Suffolk diploma to a graduate (1950).	1950
48.		Dean John F.X. O’Brien, who served as Dean from 1952 to 1956 (1952).	1952
49.		Catherine Judge (JD ’57, LLM ’60) became Suffolk’s first woman law professor in 1966 (right). She joined Suffolk as the Law School Registrar in 1955. Her involvement with the Law School spanned more than half a century. She is shown as registrar in 1955.	1955
50.		Jeanne Hession (LLB ’56), the first woman elected Law School class president. Classmate John Joseph “Joe” Moakley (JD ’56), a master politician who later served in Congress, ran her campaign. Hession serves the University today as a Trustee (1955).	1955
51.		A law classroom (1957).	1957
52.		Senator John Kennedy, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and Senator Sam Ervin receive honorary degrees from Suffolk University Law School (1957).	1957
53.		“The King of Torts,” Attorney Marvin Belli, addresses the Suffolk Law Community (1960).	1960
54.		Dean Frederick A. McDermott, who served as Dean from 1956 to 1964 (1961).	1961
55.		The Briefcase, the Suffolk Law Student Bar Association’s Newsletter (1962).	1962
56.		Senator Ted Kennedy receives an honorary degree (1964).	1964
57.		A new building at 41 Temple Street, dedicated in 1966, housed the Law School. It later was named in honor of Judge Donohue (1966).	1966
58.		Supreme Court Justice Thomas Clark delivers a Commencement address (1966).	1966
59.		House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill receives an honorary degree from Suffolk University President Thomas A. Fulham and Board Chairman John E. Fenton (1967).	1967
60.		Suffolk University Law Review Volume 1, Number 1 (1967).	1967
61.		Temple Street, Beacon Hill (1969).	1983
62.		Dean John Fenton, Jr., and President John Fenton, Sr. (1969).	1969
63.		Dean Donald Simpson, who served as Dean from 1964 to 1972 (1969).	1969
64.		Professor Thomas Lambert, a veteran of the Nuremberg Trials who was noted for his expertise on tort law. An endowed chair has been named in his honor (1970).	1969
65.		A Law Day Dinner (1971).	1970
66.		Ralph Nader addresses a Suffolk University Law School event. SBA President and future Suffolk University Law School Associate Dean John Deliso (JD ’72) is seated at far left (1971).	1971
67.		Presidential candidate George McGovern speaks at Suffolk (1972).	1971
68.		United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, with Dean David Sargent (JD ’54) and Trustee Chairman John Fenton, Sr. (1973).	1972
69.		Dicta, Volume Two, Number 1. Dicta, Suffolk University Law School’s student newspaper, began publication in October, 1972 (1973).	1973
70.		Dean David Sargent, who began teaching at Suffolk in 1956 and served as Dean from 1972 until being appointed President of Suffolk University in 1989 (1973).	1973
71.		The winners of the Jessup Moot Court Competition (1973).	1973
72.		Staff Members of the Suffolk University Law Review (1974).	1973
73.		Dean David Sargent, Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist and Professor Alexander Cella (1976).	1974
74.		Suffolk Transnational Law Journal, Volume One, Number One (1977).	1976
75.		Barbara L. Beccles (JD ’76) receives the Frederick A. McDermott Award. This award is given by the SULS Student Bar Association to an alumnus who has made significant contributions to the law school community (1978).	1977
76.		Attorney and author Louis Nizer (middle) at a Suffolk Law Forum with Suffolk University President Thomas A. Fulham and the Honorable Malcolm Donahue (1978).	1978
77.		The Honorable Charlotte Perretta (JD ’67), Dean David Sargent, and Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis (1978).	1978
78.		Dr. Benjamin Spock visits the law school (1979).	1978
79.		Claudia Billings, Professor Eric Blumenson, Tom Robinson, and Paul Carrigan, of the Suffolk Voluntary Defenders Program (1979).	1979
80.		Professor Catherine Judge teaches a Contracts class (1980).	1979
81.		President Daniel H. Perlman addresses a Law Alumni Dinner. President Perlman served as Suffolk University’s President from 1980 to 1989 (1980).	1980
82.		A discussion sponsored by the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) in 1981. Suffolk is a member of CLEO, which works to promote law school opportunities for minority and low-income students (1981).	1980
83.		The SULS Black Law Student Association’s Alumni Directory (1983).	1981
84.		Dean Paul Sugarman, who served as Dean from 1989 to 1994 (1992).	1992
85.		Interim Dean William T. Corbett (JD ’75), who served as interim Dean from 1998 to 1999 (1994).	1994
86.		David J. Sargent Hall’s construction site (1996).	1996
87.		The Law School celebrates its 90th anniversary (1996).	1996
88.		Dean John E. Fenton, Jr., who served as Dean from 1995 to 1998 (1996).	1996
89.		President David Sargent, Congressman Joseph Moakley, the Honorable Marianne B. Bowler (JD ’76), and the Honorable Marita A. Hopkins (JD ’79) celebrate Sargent Hall’s “top off” ceremony (1997).	1997
90.		Coretta Scott King receives an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from President David Sargent (1997).	1997
91.		David J. Sargent Hall, dedicated in September, 1999.	1999
92.		Suffolk University President David J. Sargent (1999).	1999
93.		Dean Robert Smith, who became Suffolk University Law School’s Dean in 1999.	1999
94.		Adjunct Professor Brian Hurley and students Wendy Lee (JD ’01) and Anthony “Boomer” Dellorfan (JD ’00) re-enact the Boston Massacre Trial (1999).	1999
95.		A class photo from Suffolk’s Summer Law Program in Lund, Sweden (2000).	2000
96.		President David J. Sargent, Dean Paul Sugarman, Dean John E. Fenton, Jr., and Dean Robert Smith (2000).	2000
97.		Students studying in Sargent Hall’s Moakley Law Library. The Moakley Law Library encompasses three floors of Sargent Hall, spanning 96,000 square feet and containing more than 360,000 printed and microfilm volumes (2000).	2000
98.		Students participating in class in one of Sargent Hall’s 18 classrooms (2000).	2000
99.		NBC political analyst and Suffolk University honorary degree recipient Tim Russert moderating a Massachusetts Gubernatorial Debate (2002).	2002
100.		The inaugural class of Suffolk University Law School’s LLM in U.S. Law for International Business Lawyers, held in Budapest, Hungary (2006).	2006

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