Holmes Lecture on May 10 To Mark Sesquicentennial Of Dartmouth College Case

A lecture of great prestige by a distinguished jurist next month opens observances of the 150th anniversary of the Dartmouth College Case. Henry J. Friendly of New York, United States Judge, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, will deliver the annual Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture in Spaulding Auditorium on May 10, under the title "The Dartmouth College Case The Public-Private Penumbra."

The distinction of the annual Holmes Lectures attracts great interest in the legal and educational worlds, and invitations from the College have been extended to many lawyers, law professors, and educators. The May 10 audience in Hanover will also be swelled by the Dartmouth alumni class officers, whose annual weekend program has been planned to permit them to attend.

A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, both degrees summa cum laude, Judge Friendly has had an impressive career. He served briefly as a clerk to Mr. Justice Brandeis before becoming an associate and then partner in the New York City firm then known as Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly and Cox. In 1946 he became vice president and general counsel and a director of Pan American Airways, Inc. He was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 1959 by President Eisenhower.

Judge Friendly has served as a member of the advisory committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States on Federal Appellate Rules and has delivered numerous lectures before legal bodies, including the Benjamin N. Cardozo Lecture on the relation of state and federal law before the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

His parallel career in community service is also impressive. He has been a trustee and president of the Jewish Family Service, trustee-at-large of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, chairman of a special committee to study operations and the future role of all Federation agencies, and a director of the Greater New York Fund.

In addition to many activities for Harvard University, of which he is an Overseer, Judge Friendly has been active on several committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Bar Foundation, as well as an executive committee member of the American Law Institute. Judge Friendly was editor-inchief of the Harvard Law Review as a student and later served as president of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Judge Henry J. Friendly