| NO. |
PHOTO |
CAPTION |
DATE |
| 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 |
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