Title: "36 New Lawyers Are Given Oath," Seattle Times, 2/14/1936, (ddr-densho-56-458)
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36 NEW LAWYERS ARE GIVEN OATH

Thirty-three Seattle men and three Seattle women were accepted today into the Washington State Bar Association and were made full-fledged attorneys by thirteen members of the King County Superior Court, sitting en banc. Judge Chester A. Batchelor presided and administered the oath of allegiance and good conduct to the new attorneys.

In a brief address, Judge Batchelor warned the new attorneys against some of the evils which beset new lawyers, and gave them the benefit of his thirty-three years of experience as a member of the bar.

The women attorneys are Mrs. Sophie Robbins Samuels, mother of two children, who passed the bar examinations with highest honors; Mrs. Mary M. King and Marjorie C. McLaughlin.

The thirty-three men are: Ralph Woodford Allen, Marshall L. Baker, Jr., Condon Vallier Barclay, Fred G. Campbell, Ernest R. Cluck, Carl A. Dahlberg, Francis Mathew Egan, Jr., Paul W. Fetterman, Fred James Hislop, Meyer Horowitz, Jack Elmer Hullin, Kenji Ito, Joseph S. Ivers.

Ford Carleton Knappe, Henry L. Kotkins, Chester A. Leah, R.E. Mansfield, Warren P. Marsden, Calmar M. McCune, Philip R. McIntosh, Thomas Edmund Meade, Pendleton Miller, James Thomas Munro, George T. Nadeau, Edward A. Niemeier, Willard Seward Pedersen, John Joseph Quine.

B. Franklin Reno, Jr., Walter Kane Scott, William C. Taylor, Victor H. Tegarden, Howard J. Thompson and Roy Blaine Thompson.

The candidates' names were called by Bert C. Ross, a member of the board of governors of the Washington State Bar Association.