Ex-Law Dean At Loyola Antonio Papale Is Dead Times Picayune 11-20-1996 ************************************************* Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Also was N.O. voter registrar Antonio E. Papale Sr., former dean of the Loyola University School of Law and Orleans Parish registrar of voters, died Sunday at Rapides General Hospital in Alexandria after suffering a heart attack at his Marksville home. He was 91. He had lived in Marksville since retiring from his City Hall job in the late 1980s. Mr. Papale's governmental job, which began in May 1970, amounted to a second career. He had been dean of the Loyola Law School since 1951 and, before that, a faculty member since 1931. The City Council unanimously named him registrar of voters the day after a banquet saluting him upon his retirement as law dean. The council that picked him included three of his former students: Councilmen Joseph DiRosa, Eddie Sapir and John Lambert Jr. Mr. Papale also had taught then-Mayor Moon Landrieu. He didn't have a chance to turn down the job, Mr. Papale said at the time. "They said it was my civic duty." Mr. Papale was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Italian immigrants who moved a few years later to Camden, N.J. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and earned a law degree from Catholic University of America. Catholic University's law dean recommended Mr. Papale for a teaching job at Loyola. He spent nearly four decades at the Uptown school, except for a 1942- 43 leave of absence as a visiting lecturer and graduate fellow at Catholic University, where he earned a doctorate in law. He later received an honorary degree from Xavier University. Mr. Papale was a former board member of the Legal Aid Bureau, a member of the New Orleans Civil Service Commission and a member of the Special Committee on Racial Discrimination in Law Schools of the Association of American Law Schools. He also was on the association's executive committee. Survivors include his wife, Eugenia Gaupp Papale; four sons, George M., Thomas E., John F. and Antonio E. Papale Jr.; and nine grandchildren. A Mass was said Monday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Marksville. Burial was in St. Joseph Cemetery No. 2 in Marksville. Hixson Bros. Funeral Home in Marksville handled arrangements.