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Guide To Ac006 - Annual Announcements & Bulletins, Jona Whipple

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The Annual Announcements of the Kent Law School and Chicago College of Law were intended to inform prospective students. The announcements were mailed to alumni as well as disseminated to prospective students, as evidenced by the notification included in some annual announcements that “The Faculty of the Chicago-Kent College of Law desires to place a copy of each Annual Catalogue in the hands of every genuine graduate.” These notifications also included instructions to send any corrections to names or addresses for the completion of an alumni catalogue on a future date. They include program information and calendars for the upcoming …

Guide To Ac007 - The Record, Jona Whipple

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The Record, 1974-1999

The Record is the source for “news and announcements for the Chicago-Kent community” and has been since its first printing, c. 1974. Originating from the Assistant Dean’s office, issues of The Record include notes on student activities, deadlines for grades and graduation applications, policy changes, add/drop guidelines, schedules, academic calendars, and announcements of student and faculty achievements. The Record is published weekly.

Current issues of the publication are available on the Chicago-Kent website, archives of the web version dating from 2000 are also available in reverse chronological order.

Guide To Ac002 - Records Of The Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, Jona Whipple

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Records of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, 1968

Founded in 1902, Phi Alpha Delta is the largest co-ed professional law fraternity in the United States with over 300,000 initiated members to date, approximately one in every six attorneys in the U.S. It was the first law fraternity to admit members of all races, creeds, colors, religions and national origins, as well as the first fraternity to admit women, which took place in September of 1970 with the admission of Anna Carolyn Fox Hinds of McReynolds Chapter.

Phi Alpha Delta was founded due to the Supreme Court’s November 4, 1897 …

Guide To Ac004 - Records Of The Phi Delta Phi Law Fraternity, Jona Whipple

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Records of the Phi Delta Phi Law Fraternity, 1947-1955

Founded in 1869, Phi Delta Phi is the oldest legal honorary association in North America. The Territorial Government of Michigan passed an act on August 26, 1817 to establish the “Catholepistemiad,” or University of Michigania, to be located in Detroit. Dissatisfied with the administration of the university, the Territorial Legislature repealed the act and established the University of Michigan as a successor corporation with full rights. The campus was moved from Detroit to Ann Arbor and the establishment of a law school was planned in 1837, the same year Michigan officially …

Guide To Ac005 - Records Of The Kappa Beta Pi Legal Sorority, Jona Whipple

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Records of the Kappa Beta Pi Legal Sorority, 1908-1958

Kappa Beta Pi, the first legal sorority in the U.S., was founded on December 15, 1908 at the Chicago-Kent College of Law to promote high professional standards among women law students and lawyers. In 1916, the publication of Kappa Beta Pi Quarterly began, and members used these publications to share both serious and lighthearted news, announce professional appointments, office openings, address changes, and accomplishments. In 1924, it also reprinted the article “Indian Country,” the first article written by a woman to be printed in the Journal of the American Bar Association …

Guide To Ac003 - Records Of The Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity, Jona Whipple

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Records of the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity, 1930-1973

Delta Theta Phi was founded at the Cleveland Law School of Baldwin-Wallace College (now Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University) in Ohio in 1900 and became a national fraternity in 1904. In September of 1913, the fraternity amalgamated three other fraternities, Alpha Kappa Phi (begun in Chicago, 1902), Theta Lambda Phi (Pennsylvania, 1903) and Sigma Nu Phi (National University Law School, 1903). In 1969, the fraternity became international with the first two senates chartered outside of the United States. In 1989 Delta Theta Phi merged with Sigma Nu Phi, …

Guide To Mc001 - The Walter L. Oblinger, Jr. Papers, Jona Whipple

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The Walter L. Oblinger Jr. Papers, 1935-1990

Walter L. Oblinger (July 5, 1914-April 11,1990) graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1939 with an LL.B. At Chicago-Kent he met Josephine Kneidle Harrington (February 14, 1913-September 27, 1998) and the two were married in 1940. Upon graduation, Walter entered the FBI. He was appointed to Pittsburgh, then San Antonio, Washington D.C, and Detroit. At the beginning of World War II, Walter was put in charge of the FBI division on German spies in the Detroit area. During his tenure with the FBI, Walter was involved in several infamous cases, including the …

Guide To Ac001 - Records Of The Library Of International Relations, Jona Whipple

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Records of the Library of International Relations, 1933-2002

The Library of International Relations was established in 1932 on the basis of documents provided by the League of Nations Association. The original LIR was hosted in a room provided by the John Crerar Library, staffed by Miss Eloise G. ReQua, founder and first director of the Library of International Relations. Miss ReQua’s intent was to encourage the study of international affairs.

During the 1934 and 1935 seasons of the World’s Fair, the Library maintained an exhibit known as the Story Cove on the Enchanted Island, a reading-room, library, and storytelling center. …