Law Centennial » 1910s http://law100.gonzaga.edu Tradition and Transformation at Gonzaga Law School Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:39:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 1918 http://law100.gonzaga.edu/tradition/1918/ http://law100.gonzaga.edu/tradition/1918/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 22:47:06 +0000 aparrish http://blogs.gonzaga.edu/law100/?p=33 The Gonzaga Law class of 1918

Seven students graduate from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1918.

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Nine students graduate from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1916.

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The Washington State legislature passed Bill No. 159, which qualified Gonzaga Law graduates to sit for the state bar exam.

In June, 13 students received their law degrees at the Law School’s first commencement ceremony.

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The first law school social and dinner for faculty and students was held in the East Room of the newly-built Davenport Hotel at the end of the first academic year. This social and dinner was the forerunner of the still-popular Heidelberg.

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On October 1, Gonzaga Law School began classes with 19 students and a faculty of five: Judges William Huneke, George Tuner and J. Stanley Webster, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney R. L. McWilliams, and Attorney Francis Garrecht, state representative from Walla Walla. All faculty volunteered their time and expertise.

Attorneys E. J. Cannon and Ben Kizer were appointed to purchase a complete law library and made arrangements with the Spokane Bar Association to allow students access to the library in the courthouse.

E. J. Cannon was appointed first dean of the law school.

]]> http://law100.gonzaga.edu/tradition/1912/feed/ 0 1911 http://law100.gonzaga.edu/tradition/1911/ http://law100.gonzaga.edu/tradition/1911/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 22:11:46 +0000 aparrish http://blogs.gonzaga.edu/law100/?p=16 Judge J. Stanley Webster and Edward J. Cannon, two prominent members of the legal profession, approached Gonzaga University President, Louis Taelman, S.J., about opening the law school.

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