27th Commencement, Kansas City School of Law , Jackson County, Missouri Twenty-Seventh Annual Commencement of the Kansas City School of Law Grand Avenue Temple Wednesday, June Third, Nineteen-Twenty-Five Faculty OLIVER H. DEAN SANFORD B. LADD WILLARD P. HALL EDWARD D. ELLISON ELMER N. POWELL FRANCIS H. TRIMBLE M. A. FYKE James M. JOHNSON A. L. COOPER THOMAS H. REYNOLDS HENRY L. JO5T ALBERT L. BEROER JOHN G. PARK ROY B. THOMSON JOHN B. PEW THEODORE C. SPARKS SAMUEL A. DEW W. H. MCCAMISH PATRICK CARR JOHN B. GAGE S. 0. HARGUS FRANK LEE WILKINSON WILLIAM E. BYERS THOMAS A. COSTOLOW A. P. LEACY DAVID P. DABBS LUDWICK GRAVES EDMUND M. FIELD HOMER A. COPE ARTHUR J. MELLOTT VIVIAN E. PHILLIPS H. G. LEEDY STANLEY BASSETT JOHN H. PATTRICK HAROLD P. RAGLAND CHARLES L. CARR GLEN A. WISDOM ARTHUR D. SCARRITT JOHN GRIFFITH MADDEN Special Lecturers JUDGE SHEPARD BARCLAY JUDGE WALLER W. GRAVES JUDGE KIMBROUGH STONE JUDGE ALBERT L. REEVES JUDGE MERRILL E. OTIS JUDGE JOHN C. POLLOCK JUDGE E. E. PORTERFIELD JUDGE ARBA S. VAN VALKENBURGH JUDGE RALPH S. LATSHAW HON. JOSEPH A. GUTHRIE JUDGE J. E. GUINOTTE JUDGE JAMES E. GOODRICH Mr. ARTHUR C. BROWN EDWARD H. SKINNER. M. D. PROGRAM Organ Recital - by Miss Lila Steele, Organist Hon. Edward D. Ellison, Dean, Presiding Invocation - Dr. C. A. Riley, Pastor of First Congregational Church, Kansas City, Kansas Duet - Mrs. George Cowden, Soprano Mrs. Arthur D. Brookfield, Contralto Oration - The Average American Citizen" Paul E. Vardeman of the Graduating Class Presentation of Prizes GRADUATE RECEIVING summa cum laude MISS MILDRED ALICE CONNOR "Randall on Instructions" (five volumes) Offered by Vernon Law Book Company FIRST JUNIOR PRIZE WILLIAM A. BYSEL Scholarship in Senior Class SECOND JUNIOR PRIZE JOHN JOSEPH BURKE "Black on Rescission and Cancellation" Offered by Vernon Law Book Company THIRD JUNIOR PRIZE DAN JOSEPH CAMPBELLE "McQuillin on Instructions to Juries" Offered by Vernon Law Book Company FOURTH JUNIOR PRIZE Miss MARY RYAN Callaghan & Company, Law Publishers, Chicago Prize consisting of "Cyclopedic Law Dictionary" FRANCIS M. BLACK HONOR (Sophomore) WALTER II. GOUGH "Bispham on Equity" THE GEORGE MOWNY WAYLAND PRIZE (Sophomore) Miss RUTH ALEXANDER "Brandenburg on Bankruptcy" Offered by Mr. John Wayland of the Kansas City Bar CODE PLEADING PRIZE (Sophomore) ARTHUR E. JOHNSON "The Revised Statutes of Missouri" Offered by Mr. Patrick Carr of the Faculty FIRST FRESHMAN PRIZE EARL I. VAUGHAN Set of "Greenleaf on Evidence" SECOND FRESHMAN PRIZE ROY MCNALLY Cooley on "Constitutional Limitations" THIRD FRESHMAN PRIZE MRS. IRENE WILLIAMS Pattison's "Missouri Code Pleading" Offered by the Vernon Law Book Company THE MRS. MARY A. POWELL HONOR (Freshman) EARL I. VAUGHAN "Black's Law Dictionary" Offered by Hon. Elmer N. Powell of the Faculty THE BEN F. TODD PRIZE (Freshman) JOHN W. LEE "Tiedeman on Real Property" THE WILLIAM P. BORLAND PRIZE (Freshman) EARL I. VAUGHAN "Borland on Wills" ORATION-"QUR NATIONAL PROBLEM WITHIN-TRANSPORTATION" - - - ARTHUR B. TAYLOR of the Graduating Class DUET COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS JUDGE FRANK E. ATWOOD of the Supreme Court of Missouri DUET Presentation of Diplomas and Conferring of Degree of LL. B. and Honors - - HON. OLIVER H. DEAN, President of the Faculty Receiving Degree of LL. B. HARRY LEE AKER BRYAN ALLEN WILLIAM MATTHEW ANDERSON HOMER RAYMOND BALSBAUGH ROBERT JEPP BENSON WALTER INGRAM BIDDLE THOMAS JEFFERSON BOMAR CLOY CHESTER BREWER ALLAN ROLAND BROWNE HOWARD S. BRYANT EDWIN G. BUSH JAMES CAIRNS *RUBY RENDL CAMPBELL HENRY DWIGHT CARPENTER JOSEPH COHEN **MILDRED ALICE CONNOR JOHN FOREST COOK DONALD HARLEY CORSON JOSEPH ALEXANDER CRESSLER SAMUEL CROSS GARNET STEPHEN CUDDY GEORGE BURYL CUMMINS HUGHES C. CUNNINGHAM * ANDREW LEIGHTON DARBY JASPER DEMARIA RICHARD PARKE DODDS ALBERT LLOYD DYE THEODORE DEMUTH EASTON AUBREY BRITZ ENGLAND WILLIAM CLARENCE FINNELL KENNETH IRVING FLIGG EDWARD JOSEPH FLYNN CLARENCE Louis GERSHON WILLARD NEWTON GRABILL JOHN FAY GRIFFICE RUSSELL WALTER GUNN AUSTIN DARWIN HADSELL JOHN P. HANCOCK CLAYTON P. HOLMES *ANNE HOOLEY HARRY EMIL JAMES JOHN PAUL JAMES CHARLES BURTON JONES KATHARINE LEE JONES THOMAS EDWARD JOYCE VIRGIL A. JULIAN CARL CLAYTON KELLER JAMES DODD LAUGHLIN BERT RAWLEIGH LOOP RUBY KASHNEU LORING EUGENE MATFHEW LYNN *ALBERT WILLIAM MCWHORTER T. RUSSELL MALONEY LOUIS JOSEPH MAZUCH JOSEF VLADIMIR MATOUSEK LAWRENCE PHILLIP MILLER STEPHEN JOSEPH MORANDI JOSEPH MICHAEL MORRISSEY RALPH LEWIS MORSE HARRY FRANCIS MURPHY *DONALD EDGAR O'HARA ROLAND RAYMOND OLSON GEORGE BANKER OWENS JOSEPH B. PATITO CECIL ASHLEY PAYNTER JOHN CHARLES POHLMANN LLOYD GEORGE POOLE JAMES LEO QUINN EVERETT MONROE RAYBOIIN LOUIS ALBERT REALE JOHN EDWARD REDMOND ROSE URSULA REDMOND WILLIAM STEWART REED ALBERT A. RIDGE CARMEL RENO RITTMAN HARRY STANLEY SAUNDERS URBAN ALOIS SCHICK JACK SCHULTZ MILTON CROMER SIEGFRIED CHARLES OSWOLD SMITH CHESTER A. SMITH LESLIE WILLIARD SMITH JO ZELMA SMITH JOSEPH RICHARD STEWART FRANCES E. SUBLETTE ARTHUR B. TAYLOR ELMER F. THOMPSON ARTHUR BERGER TOBIAS DALE FRANCIS TOURTELOT PAUL E. VARDEMAN FRANK LUTHER WADE GEORGE FREDRIC WESTON WILLIAM J. WHITE EDWARD C. WOODARD IDA MAY WOODWARD WILLIAM BRUCE WRIGHT **Summa cum laude * Cum lande Ushers JUNIORS W. A. BYSEL, President D. J. CAMPBELLE JOHN H. BURKE JOSEPH N. 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