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Chapter 8: Experiences at Law School
Practising Profession as Part-time Teachers, part 2
Frederick "Pappy" Read By singular good luck, word reached MacKenzie that Mr. Frederick Read, who taught at Manitoba for years and now was at a loose end with his war-time position at Ottawa finished, would be willing to join us. Despite being at retirement age, Mr. Read did signal service for us. He became a great favourite of the students as his nick-name "Pappy" indicates. A good student of the law, of old-fashioned gentlemanly bearing and manner, he covered off his subjects faithfully and competently. He cheerfully accepted the extra hours of instruction which he and I had to assume that beginning year. Frederick Read, professor of law at University of Manitoba for 20 years . . . was for some time editor of the Manitoba Bar News and, from 1935–1942 edited the Manitoba Law Reports. He is author and co-author of several books and pamphlets on law and, in addition, has contributed many monographs and articles to the Canadian Bar Review and other legal journals. |
George McAllister [I]n that summer of ‘46, two members of faculty joined us. Two absolutely outstanding members of faculty. One was George McAllister who was from New Brunswick and whom I’d encountered when I was at Dalhousie. He was doing work in the Institute of Public Administration at Dalhousie . . . He went off to Columbia and did his graduate degree . . . George was an expert in labour law which was a new subject in Canadian law schools . . . Property and labour law were his two great fields and he was a very able person indeed.—Dean George Curtis |
Gilbert D. Kennedy Gilbert, of course, was the son of the famous Dean, W. P. M. Kennedy, of the University of Toronto. Gilbert had done some part-time teaching at Toronto, was a graduate of Toronto and Osgoode, a member of the Bar, and was in practice in Toronto but thought he’d like to take up academic work." My, what a worker! And what an able scholar he was. There wasn’t anything around the law school that needed doing that he would not just pitch right in. He took charge of the library when he came and he’s so largely responsible for the building-up of the library. He was very involved in . . . writing articles for the Canadian Bar Review in those days and the men in our class got so they called it the "Kennedian Bar Review". |
Malcolm MacIntyre [In 1948 UBC hired] the great Dr. MacIntyre. [Harvard Law Dean] Griswold had written me. [He] and MacIntyre had been classmates in the LL.B., the LL.M. and the S.J.D. of Harvard and there weren’t that many three degree Harvard men in those days. . . . Griswold wrote and said, "‘MacIntyre’s written me and I don’t think he’s altogether happy in practice; he’s kind of hankering to get back to teaching." So I immediately wrote MacIntyre . . . Dr. Mac arrived . . . the product of the LL.B. Harvard in the days of Williston, Ames . . . and he knew how to handle the case system. A great acquisition and, of course, above all else, a man who had a sensitivity toward students that was remarkable. . . . What an asset to have as my senior professor . . . he was the link with the faculty and students. |
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