NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Barron, Jennie L. A Birthday Thought It isn't the number of birthdays you've had That I'm thinking of today But the number of lovely things you've done As you've gone along your way And here is a wish very real and sincere That the best of good things will be yours through the year [Written] With love to a friend whom I am privileged to have Jennie L Barron BIRTHDAY GREETING by WESTERN UNION BAE54 FT=TDB BRIGHTON MASS MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL= 101 MASS AVE CA= OLD FRIENDS LIKE OLD WINE GROW MORE PRECIOUS WITH AGE SO HERES A TOAST TO OUR FRIENDSHIP ON THIS DAY OF YOUR BIRTH.= JENNIE LOITMAN BARRON. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF BOSTON COURT HOUSE, BOSTON JENNIE LOITMAN BARRON JUSTICE Dec. 15, 1951. Mrs. Maud Wood Park, 21 Ashmont St., Melrose 76, Mass. Dear Mrs. Park: It was most thoughtful of you to drop me a note. I had very much hoped to see you long before this, but my program has been busier than ever. In addition my daughter Debbie's baby, Barbara, who was born early in October was very ill. We had eight anxious weeks and the baby passed away on Nov. 29th. It has been a most difficult period and had been unable to carry on as usual. We are leaving on Dec. 22nd for a two weeks vacation and I hope that upon my return you and Edna can visit with me at home. I send my love to you and Edna. Best wishes to you both for a Happy Christmas and healthful New Year. Affectionately yours, Jennie Loitman Bannon BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO YOU IN THE 90'S If everyone could only stay As young in heart as you, Just growing finer year by year And dearer as you do, And gave to others half the joy And happiness you give--- This world would be a finer place--- A better place to live [Written] With affection Jennie Loitman Bannon COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. 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BATCHELDER: ENCLOSED YOU WILL FIND $_______________ FOR WHICH PLEASE SEND ME _____________ TICKETS FOR THE TESTIMONIAL DINNER TO BE GIVEN TO THE THREE HONORED WOMEN MENTIONED IN THE INVITATION WHICH THIS SLIP ACCOMPANIED NAME____________________ ADDRESS_______________________________ ________________________________ Bostonia Reg. U.S. Pat, Off. The Boston University Alumni Magazine Contents Bostonia A group of winter sports enthusiast at the C.P.E.S. camp at Peterborough, New Hampshire, set out for a day of thrills, spills and chills. (Frontispiece) The season of Christmas is upon us and Bostonia takes this opportunity to wish the entire alumni body a MERRY and JOYOUS CHRISTMAS. University . . . Latin-American Institute . . . University Scenes . . . Charles A. Rome . . . Gangware . . . Grace Auburn . . . Professor Oddy . . . Club News . . . Radio . . . . . . 5 Alumni . . . We Salute . . . Judge Jennie Loitman Barron . . . Letters to the Editor . . . We Remember . . . Club News . . . Commons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Alumni in Review . . . Bangkok Editor . . . The Human Venture in Sex, Love and Marriage . . . . . . . . . 16 Sports. . . Review of Sports by Vic Stout . . . . . . . . 18 Classes. . . University. . . Paragraph Pulpit . . . Law . . . Medicine . . . Theology . . . In Memoriam . . . . . . . 21 STAFF: Arthur E. Jenner, A'27, Editor; Paul A. Pollack, SPR'48, Associate Editor; Charles A. Poulson, Jr., SPR'50, Class Notes Editor; Ralph Norman, Staff Photographer. EDITORIAL BOARD: Mrs. Virginia L. Tierney, P'36; Mr. David Brickman, B'31/32; Mr. Clifton Follansbee, B'36' Mr. Judson R. Butler, G'40; Miss Jane Donovan, P'45. PUBLISHING DETAILS: No. 3, Volume XXIII, December, 1949. Published monthly from October through June inclusively by the BOSTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, Member of the American Alumni Council, Editorial offices: 308 Bay State Road, Boston 15, Massachusetts. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Boston, Massachusetts, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, December 1949, by the Boston University Alumni Association. Subscription: $2.00 per year, included in the Annual Alumni Fund Contribution. Single copy 25 cents. Judge Jennie Loitman Barron After perusing the Alumni Office files on Judge Jennie Loitman Barron, we fully expected to meet a woman geared to an atomic energy machine. But she wasn't. She was, however, geared to a human heart and mind that have worked for mankind since she first stepped into public life upon her admittance to the Massachusetts Bar in 1914. We first met Judge Barron early in October for an interview leading to this story. She apologized profusely that she could only give us fifteen minutes that day since an unforeseen legal matter had sprung up. Would we come back another day? We would and did and spent a beneficial two hours with her. Her appearance is amazingly deceiving. About five feet tall, Judge Barron has been on the bench of Boston Municipal Court since December 1937, the first and only full-time woman judge in Massachusetts. To list her civic and philanthropic activities would leave no space for the rest of this story. Be it enough to say that she was graduated from the College of Liberal Arts in 1911, went on to the School of Law to receive her LL.B and LL.M. Following her admission to the Massachusetts Bar, Judge Barron was admitted to practice before the United States Federal District Court and the United States Supreme Court. She is credited with more "firsts" than a Mayflower descendant. Three single spaced, typewritten sheets list her accomplishments. The year 1949 has seen Judge Barron and her husband, Samuel Barron, Jr., a graduate of Harvard Law School, visit 19 foreign countries, which included most of the Caribbean and Central American Republics and most of Western Europe. The trip through Southern American waters taken during our winter months saw the two Bostonians greeted by judicial luminaries in every country, topped off by a reception by the President of Panama. Last summer's trip was to England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Greece and Israel. It was ten-week trip, filled with drama of everyday life, drama that ran from a regimental dinner in the House of Lords in London to witnessing the extinguishing of a forest fire by young Israelis. Mr. Barron insisted that the first side trip in England would be to Oxford. He was entranced by the ancient city that is devoted to education and culture, and by the buildings that lend so much to the learning gained within. The Barrons found that everyone, from coal miner to nobility eats the austerity diet. Naturally they met a great many personalities in the legal profession in England, among whom were Chief Justice of the Juvenile Court, Basil Henriques and Lady Colville, also on the same bench. Contrary to American custom, London Juvenile British judges are not required to be lawyers, Justice Henriques being the head of a famous settlement house, and Lady Colville, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Mother Mary. Slowly they worked south on the continent. Judge Barron told of the many women lawyers in France and how strange it was to see practicing attorneys wearing black robes before the bench, something that is worn only by judges in the United States. They observed the great poverty in Italy and Greece, particularly in Greece where years of occupation by the Germans and civil war have reduced the populace to extremes in poverty. Judge Barron reported that the Italians seem to be slowly recovering from the effects of the war. It was in Israel that the Barrons spent most of the their time and where, according to Judge Barron. "one of the greatest miracles in modern times is taking place." "In Israel," said Judge Barron, "there is real democracy and brotherhood. There is an excellent reason for this; they are practical idealists. Israel was fought for and founded so that Jews all over the world might have a homeland, so that another 6,000,000 Jews would not be forced into the Dachaus and Buchenwalds of the past decade. Despite their fervor to establish their homeland, the Israelis have not forgotten the minorities in their midst. It is not uncommon to see Abyssinians, Yemenites, Arabs and Christians line up at the out-patient department of a Jewish hospital." Materially and spiritually the Jews have rejuvenated the Near East. Spiritually they have brought the word "Shalom," which means peace, to the people in Jerusalem. Peace means a great deal to people who have been persecuted for centuries, whose chants reveal the sorrow that has saddened their lives for centuries. But regardless of their austerity diet, which, according to Judge Barron "makes the English diet seem like a seven-course banquet," they still receive between 500 and 1,000 refugees each day. We asked if Israel would not have to limit this vast influx of people, due to an economic saturation. Judge Barron answered us in this manner: "I met a man about forty years old on the docks one day. He was doing longshoreman's work. Another shipload of refugees was landing. I asked, 'How are you going to feed them all?' He replied, 'See my belt.' It was in its last notch. He said simply, 'I can pull it tighter.'" This, Judge Barron says, is the philosophy that pervades all Israel, the philosophy of sacrifice and suffering for the well-being of all. Materially the Israelis have progressed rapidly. Since 80,000 refugees still live in tents, housing is number one on the priority list of construction in Israel. And after the homes come the schools. Each Israeli is very conscious of the role education will play in this new nation. Education, from the kindergarten level to the university level, is strongly stressed. In the past year over 600,000 books were sold. This is better than one book for each inhabitant. Already Israel has its lecture halls and opera performances. They speak with pride when they point out the Chaim Weizmann Institute of Research, named for the first president of Israel and one of the pioneers in the fight for a national homeland. Infant mortality has been reduced from the highest in the world to the second lowest rate in the world, says Judge Barron, by the untiring work of American women through Hadassah, an agency formed by the late Henrietta Szold (who received an honorary degree from Boston University), to build hospitals in Jerusalem. Over 275,000 American women regularly contribute to this fine charity and the results are shown in the above record. Malaria is under control. The endemic diseases that afflict that part of the world are being conquered by rigid enforcement of strict hygienic standards. When asked if this state of practical idealism would continue, Judge Barron answered with a firm, "Yes." Her reason: excellent child training. She told of a little desert community she visited. Through hard work the settlers had irrigated the surrounding land and had succeeded in raising a number of trees. A fire started up in the midst of the trees one day. The fire-fighting force consisted mostly of children. They were trained for that specific duty. Each one in the community worked, for it was cooperation and only that, that could make Israel succeed. She cited another example. The same children had a lovely swimming pool in the village. It was built entirely by them, though it took seven years. We walked towards the exit of the library of the Boston Municipal Court where our interesting talk had taken place. As we shook hands, the Judge said one thing more: "I want to emphasize," she said, "one thing. We in America, who have given time and money towards the fulfillment of the Zionist movement, have given as Americans. We gave as did the Irish when Ireland was suffering, as the did the Italians during the post-war period. We love America and would not leave it. But we recognize the plight of Jews throughout the world, who have suffered so much, especially since the days of Hitler. It is the duty of every humane person to help Israel, the sole refuge for the remnants of Jewry, who have nowhere else to go. In doing so, we are also strengthening the only democracy in the entire Middle East. Her handshake was firm, this mother of three, this kindly, brown-eyed woman, who has done so much for all race and religions. Contribute to your Alumni Fund now. We Remember: Frieda Eaton Roberts As December will be the second anniversary of the passing of Frieda Eaton Roberts, CLA'34, we wish to think back and remember some of the events that spelled "Frieda." Because to think of Frieda or be with Frieda meant a give and take of laughter. We like to erase from mind her last months of sickness and pain and remember with the happiness and gaiety that were originally hers. Born in 1911, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Eaton of Dedham, Massachusetts, Frieda entered Boston University in 1930. She was one of those energetic, never tiring, collegiately active girls who flash through their college careers with a talking interest in everything and an active interest in many things. During her college life she was class president, president of Panhellenic, president of the YWCA, held office in several other college clubs, was a member of various boards and cabinets, and an active member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Always a girl in a hurry and with too much to do, Frieda could usually take time out for one more thing, doing all cheerfully and with ease. After receiving her A.B. degree in 1934, Freida took a teaching position in her home town, which she held until 1939. During those five years she continued her active life in Dedham and outside. She enjoyed travel and took several trips to New York, to Montreal, a coast to coast trip of our United States, a trip to England, Scotland and the Scandinavian countries. 14 Judge Barron in her judicial robes at Boston Municipal Court Library THE ALUMNI WE SALUTE NICHOLAS E. APALAKIS, or, as he prefers to be known, Nick. This salute is not tendered Nick because he has recently cornered the stock market, written a best seller, or broken the world's record for flagpole sitting. It is given because Nick is one of the most untiring, enthusiastic members of the Alumni body. [image] A native of Stoneham, Nick was active in varsity sports and school activities while attending Stoneham High School, participating in football and hockey, and a member of the debating team. In his senior year he was a class officer. This excellent cooperative school spirit reached into his college life when Nick revived varsity boxing in Boston University. A sport which had lain dormant for eight years gained recognition as an intramural sport in Nick's junior year, and was accepted as a varsity sport the following year with Nick as manager. He was a member of the student House of Representatives and a member of the Rifle Team. Graduating from the College of Business Administration in 1932, Nick went to work as a reporter for the Stoneham Press. From there he went to the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and this, his 16th year of service with the company, finds him a service manager. The outstanding feature in Nick's University activities has been his devotion to the football team. All too clear and bitter in his memory are the defeats, more bitter is the attendance at the games, games where the members of the football squad outnumbered the spectators. Ardor undampened, Nick continued to attend the games, and the past football season is a silent salute to his boosting of the football team. The Alumni Association is indebted to Nick for the spade work he has done in organizing the Boston University Club of Boston. He is second vice-president of the club. Other Alumni activities include director of the Varsity club, the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association representing the College of Business Administration, chairman of the Homecoming Day Committee, and vice-chairman of the Student Union Building drive. All this in addition to innumerable civic activities. During World War II he was a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. If further conclusive evidence need be presented to establish Nick's devotion to the University this detail should be the clincher. Several times, when the football team played away from home, the first person to greet their eyes upon descending from train or bus was not the athletic director of the rival university, but—you guessed it —Nick. News of the various Boston University Clubs throughout the nation will appear regularly in Bostonia. Be sure that your club secretary sends in all coming events; pictures, too, if possible. 11 Bill for 3 Justices in Labor Row Opposed A bill providing that three justices of the Superior Court hear any application for an injunction in a labor dispute was opposed vigorously yesterday by a spokesman for the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. John J. Roddy, legislative counsel to the Chamber, said it would be a "distortion of justice" if employers had to sit around "helplesly" while three justices were assembled to hear their application. _____ New Attempt Monday to End Bus Strike State and federal conciliators will try again Monday to settle the strike of bus drivers and mechanics of the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway. A meeting will be held at 10:30 a.m. in the State House in an effort to end the strike, which began Nov. 17 and affects 300,000 commuters in 78 communities. _____ APPOINTED - Arthur Norris of Newton Center, who has been appointed head of Stop & Shop's new department of quality con- _____ INTOWN SCREEN TIMETABLE ASTOR - "The Inn of The Sixth Happiness," 10:30, 1:20 , 4:10, 6:50. 9:30; Shorts, 10:00 A.M. BEACON HILL - "Gigi," 9:00, 11:05, 1:05, 3:10 5:15, 7:20, 9:30. BOSTON - "Windjammer," One performance today at 8:40 P.M. CAPRI - "Horse's Mouth," 10:05, 12:05, 2:00, 3:55, 5:50, 7:55, 9:55; Short Subjects, 10:00, 11:45, 1:35, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30. CENTER - "Garden of Eden," 11:05, 1:55, 4:45, 7:30: 10:15; "La Parisienne," 9:30, 12:20, 3:10, 5:55, 8:40. EXETER - "Inspector Maigret," 1:50, 4:10, 6:35, 9:00; Shorts, 3:45, 6:10, 8:35. GARY - "Bell, Book & Candle," 10:00, 11:40, 1:25, 3:30, 5:35, 7:40, 9:40; Short Subjects, 7:15, 9:20. KEITH MEMORIAL - "The Perfect Furlough," 9:30, 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 9:45; "Money, Women & Gun," 11:10, 12:15, 5:15, 8:20. KENMORE - "My Uncle," 1:10, 3:15, 5:25, 7:30, 9:40; Shorts, 1:00, 3:05, 5:10, 7:20, 9:25. MAYFLOWER - "Tunnel Of Love," 11:28, 2:50, 6:15, 9:40; "Torpedo Run," 9:40, 1:10, 4:35, 8:00. METROPOLITAN - "Auntie Mame," 10:20, 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25. NEW FENWAY - "Girl In The Bikini," 1:00, 3:55, 7:18, 10:39; "Only The French Can", 2:16, 5:35, 8:58. ORPHEUM - "Some Came Running," 9:30, 11:50, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40. PARAMOUNT - "House On Haunted Hill," 10:50, 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35; "Cosmic Man," 9:30, 12:05, 2:50, 5:30, 8:15. PILGRIM - "Submarine Seahawk," 9:40, 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35; "Paratroop Command," 11:20, 2:15, 5:15, 8:10. SAXON - "South Pacific," One performance today at 8:30 P.M. STATE - "I Want to Live," 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30. TELEPIX - "Gates of Paris," 11:30, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30. TRANS-LUX - "Times of Desire," 9:40, 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55. "Tides of Passion," 11:05, 2:10, 5:00, 8:15. UPTOWN - "Tunnel Of Love," 11:00, 2:30, 6:05, 9:30; "In Love And War," 12:35, 4:10, 7:50. _____ 'SOME CAME RUNNING' Frank Sinatra, Academy Award winner in James Jones'' novel "From Here to Eternity", maintains his top-level ability in Jones' second novel "Some Came Running," now in its 6th week at Loew's Orpheum Theatre. The picture also stars Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine, as well as Arthur Kennedy and Martha Hyer. The story begins with the return of Davi Hirsh (Frank Sinatra) an Ex G.I., to him home-town and depicts what happened to two girls who fell under his spell. "Some Came Running" is filmed in CinemaScope and Metrocolor. _____ 'AUNTIE MAME' "Auntie Mame," Warner Bros. screen version of the New York comedy hit, with Rosalind Russell in the title role repeating the smashing success she scored in the original play, stays for a seventh uproarious week at the Metropolitan Theatre. The elaborate Technirama-Technicolor picturization of the record breaking best selling novel and hit play is being joyfully acclaimed as one of the motion picture screen's most spectacular entertainment delights. _____ Music Aaron Richmond presents Next Wed. Eve. Jordan Hall HAROLD FARBERMAN conducts MEMBERS OF BOSTON SYMPHONY Norma Farber, soprano, soloist Following December Concerts: "One of the most exciting young talents to appear on the Boston musical scene in years." R. Taylor in Herald JACK LEMMON shares the honors with James Stewart and Kim Novak in "Bell, Book and Candle," the new technicolor film currently showing at the Gary theatre. _____ SNEAK PREVIEW A sneak preview of a major English film will be run at the Kenmore Theater Friday night at 8 p.m. The preview, of "a hilarious English comedy," will be followed by the Kenmore's current attraction, "My Uncle," the double award winning film, starring Jacques Tati. _____ Judge Barron is Elevated Appointed by Furcolo to Superior Court Judge Jennie Loitman Barron, in 1937 the first woman to be named as a full-time municipal judge in Massachusetts, last night became the first woman to be appointed an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Distinguished Career Her appointment was announced by Gov. Furcolo, who also submitted to the Executive Council the nomination of Atty, Henry P. Crowley of Brookline as special (Continued on Page Sixteen) Law Books Not Best Solution, Warns Noted Woman Jurist By John O'Connor Every so often there arises in the Boston municipal court a particularly heart-rending episode in the field of domestic dislocation - the type of case in which it is not enough that the trial judge be learned in the law to render a true verdict in every sense of the word. Lately there has been a lamentable upswing in these cases, as you have judged from reports in the newspapers. It is not necessary to identify them by using the names of the principals: a recital of the circumstances is enough. The law either has caught up with a philandering husband, or with an erring wife. Maybe it is a little of both, in which case it usually means a houseful of neglected children. It may (Continued on Page Seventeen) [*BOSTON SUNDAY HE[RALD]*] Law Books Not Best Solution, Warns Noted Woman Jurist (Continued from First Page) be some wild and footloose boy in trouble, or his sister in a different sort of trouble. Whatever it happens to be, Judge Jennie Loitman Barron, the Commonwealth's first and only full-time woman jurist, is convinced that the best solution for all concerned - the principals and society itself - is not to be found in law books alone. Now in her 11th year on the municipal court bench, she becomes even more convinced of this as each year passes. In the past month or two, it has been Judge Barron's assignment to sit as arbiter in some of the more poignant of these family affairs made public. The wise and tactful manner in which she has handled them during patient conferences at the bench, or even in her lobby, has been received with deep satisfaction and respect among the segment of the population which doesn't know much about the law but has its own ideas of how the law should be applied. LOVES FAMILY LIFE Don't get the idea that this judge is any set-up. She is a mother, even a grandmother, who loves family life and wants everybody to be happy at it. She has a lively pair of brown eyes behind those familiar nose-glasses. She has a flashing, ever-present smile, too, and an innate sympathetic nature. But she can throw that book at a real tough and undeserving customer just as unerringly as any of her eight male colleagues on the court. What line of reasoning, then, does this woman follow when the delicate framework of a family is at stake, when moral regeneration is needed on all sides, when soft words and common sense should be used instead of a stern dressing down? "It's a constant process of social engineering," is the way Judge Barron explains it. "Even doctors aren't always successful in treating the human system for some disorder," she says, "and I believe a judge must deal with a far more intricate mechanism in the moral makeup of a man or woman. Just as a doctor must consider a patient's mental aspect, along with his physical condition, a judge is in no position to help cure moral needs unless he knows the physical and mental problems of the person standing before him. "The first consideration is, How can I prevent a crime? Then, I must ask myself: "How can I help to rehabilitate him? Is he hurting only himself, or those dependent on him as well? If I send him to jail will it mean a hardship on someone else? I must not be an isolationist here. MUST THINK TWICE "If I release him will he be a menace to society? If the answer is Yes, then I cannot give him a chance. I must think twice. I must decide whether it is reasonably safe to let him go, and if I do this I must make him realize that further misdeeds or violation of probation will go hard on him. "Above all, I must make him realize that I think there is something good and worthwhile in him. I must make him realize that he has a goal to attain, that he cannot let me down, himself down or his family down. There must be a complete understanding on this." These are some of the factors that are part of the "social engineering" philosophy of Jennie Loitman Barron. And the process is paying off. She has been successful in nine out of 10 cases. If there is any court where this type of justice is necessary, it is the Boston Municipal court, which daily presents a panorama of humanity in action. It is always on the raw, ungarnished side. You find men and women whipped in off the streets only a few hours before. They are often dirty, wearing a bandage over a raw wound. They seldom have lawyers to defend them. They are completely at the mercy of the court, and are strictly on their own. "I, for one, think you can do more with them when they are like that," says Judge Barron. Just recently, the newspapers featured the unfortunate case of the man school teacher who got into all sorts of trouble with a young woman, each of whom had children. Neither defendant went to jail, but each had to agree to stay away from the other and to contribute toward the children's support. Much was written about Judge Barron's effective and sympathetic disposition of this case. The matters that do not get into the papers are those, equally important and tragic, that are settled by Judge Barron outside the courtroom. For instance, nobody has yet read how she recently talked a mother out of attempting to commit suicide, simply by convincing her that it would be an act of selfish cruelty against her own children. "No, the minute a judge shuts himself up with books on law, it is time for him to step down," says Judge Barron. "Of course, he must be guided by these books, but there are certain other things that must be done instinctively." Such as the case where a woman, with one child by the hand and another soon to be born, brought her husband before Judge Barron for assault and battery. "He not only has another woman," she complained, "but he brings her to the house, He hit me when I protested, and he hasn't given me anything for support for three weeks." The judge soon found that this husband was far from the most congenial soul in the world, so she turned to his little boy, and began to ask simple questions that little boys like to answer. It was not long before the surly father warmed up and beamed at the lad's ready answers. Soon the child had his arms around his father's neck and was crying. "Daddy!" Soon the father was just crying. There are certain inflexible rules against talking aloud in court unless the judge invites you to do so, but these rules evidently did not apply at the moment. As the reunited family reached the door to leave, the father turned with a grin and announced: "Say Judge, I'm going out and buy a baby carriage!" Which was all right with Judge Jennie Loitman Barron. Grandchildren Serenade Judge — Judge Jennie Loitman Barron joins in a happy note with daughters and grandchildren last night at her Brookline home. First row at piano, left to right, Dick, Paul, Jean, Sally Blazar and Howard Wernick. Middle row, left to right, Mrs. Emma Wernick, Allen Blazar. Rear row, left to right, Lee and Stanley Wernick, Mrs. Joy Rachlin, holding her daughter, Faye, and Judge Barron, newly named associate Superior justice. Judge Barron Is Elevated (Continued from First Page) justice of the Brookline Municipal Court. The elevation of Judge Barron to the Superior Court bench is a new peak in a career distinguished not only by her service as a jurist but as a leader in community and Jewish organization affairs. In 1925, the State Department appointed her the only woman in this nation’s official delegation to the first United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime in Geneva. She was named to the Boston Municipal bench in 1937 and has served as a former assistant attorney general of Massachusetts. She was graduated from Boston University and took her law degrees, LL.B. and LL.M. from the B.U. Law School. Judge Barron is the wife of Atty. Samuel Barron and mother of three daughters, one now deceased, and nine grandchildren. She and her husband celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary last June. Calls It Great Honor Last night in their home at 30 Clinton Rd., Brookline, Judge Barron managed the roles of both jurist and grandmother at one and the same time as she talked with The Herald. A lady of infinite smiling while she talks, she can sit for an interview and yet keep a grandmother's eye on all nine of the lively grandchildren who were there visiting. She sat in the library which is not that of an over-solemn judge since it has a row of very jolly Spy drawings of judges beneath one of the crowded bookshelves. Judge Barron said her new appointment is not only "a very great honor and great privilege but a tremendous responsibility." Social Clinic A moment later in talking of her years on the bench she said: "I consider the court a social clinic. The disposition of a criminal case is of major importance. What are you going to do with a man convicted, how dispose of it to protect society and in a way to rehabilitate him?" But, she smiled again, "a judge should not live in an ivory tower. A judge should be human, should know people, should mingle with them and with his community insofar as he can." What is the secret of being at once a judge, a mother and a grandmother? This time Judge Barron's smile turned into a warm laugh as she answered: "Love--and a cooperative husband." Boston Traveler, Wednesday, March 21, 1951 (Traveler Staff Photo by Herbert Stier) At Silver Jubilee Luncheon of the Beth Israel Hospital Women's Auxiliary at the Hotel Statler today were (left to right) Judge Jennie Loitman Barron, honorary president of the auxiliary; Mrs. Joseph Kaplan, luncheon chairman; Mrs. George Rabb, production chairman, and Mrs. Joseph Levy, auxiliary president Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.