Jason Honigman Gets Honorary U. of M.
Doctorate; Acclaimed by Many Leaders
Jason Honigman„ prominent De-
troit attorney, was awarded the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
by the University of Michigan, at
commencement exercises held at
Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor,
Sui.day afternoon.
The citation to Honigman, read
by Prof. Herbert W. Hildebrandt,
secretary of the university, stat-
ed: "Emigrating from Russia at
the age of six, Mr. Honigman
was graduated with distinction
from the Michigan Law School
at twenty-one, and proceeded to
the eminently successful practice
of corporate and financial law.
A landmark in his early career
was his handling of the Deep
Rock Oil Case, which secured
DR. JASON HONIGMAN
new rights for public stockhold-
ers as against controlling groups.
As a leader of the Michigan bar,
he has inspired the successful
movement for both procedural
and substantive reforms of state
law, and has personally advised
courts and judges on legal pro-
cedure. The legal profession, the
schools of law, and the entire
population of the State have ben-
efited from this generous ex-
pense of time and talent. The
University takes cordial satis-
faction in extending to -this gift-
ed and devoted alumnus the de-
gree of Doctor of Laws."
President Robben W. Fleming
of the university then con erred
the degree.
Honorary degrees also were
awarded to Walter Thomas James
Nlordan and Nobel Prize co-winner
George Wells Beadle who deliv-
ered the commencement address.
Complementing the high honor
accorded him by his alma mater,
in recognition of extensive studies
on court rules, Honigman was hon-
ored by many fellow-citizens at a
reception held at the Ambassador
Hotel in Ann Arbor after the com-
mencement exercises.
Born in Russia, Oct. 25, 1909,
Honigman was brought to this
country by his parents in 1911 and
became a citizen by the naturaliza-
tion of his father. Louis. He was
married in 1931 to Edith Horwitz.
They have a son, Daniel M., a
(laughter. Mrs. Edward C. Levy
Jr., and five grandchildren.
He graduated from University
of Michigan Law School in 1926
and commenced practice in De-
troit with a law firm whose sen-
ior partner, Alex J. Groesbeck,
was then Republican governor of
Michigan. He is currently the
senior partner in the law firm
of Honigmau, Miller, Schwartz
and Cohn.
In addition to his law practice,
he has been active in business
affairs in a number of corpora-
tions, both private and publicly
held, including present director-
ships in the following publicly own-
ed corporations: Allied Super-
markets. Inc., Dayco Corporation,
Detroit Bank and Trust Company
and Federal's, Inc. He was for a
time chairman of the board of
Allied Supermarkets, Inc. He
served as a director of Detroit
Board of Commerce from 1962 to
1968.
In 1958. he was the Republican
nominee for State Attorney Gen-
10—Friday, August 15, 1969
was adopted by vote of the people.
Pursuant to that constitutional
amendment, the Judicial Tenure
Commission was created to in-
vestigate and initiate disciplinary
action against judges. In February
1969, in a state-wide vote by mem-
bers of the Bar, he was elected
to the Judicial Tenure Commission
receiving the highest number of
votes among 29 candidates.
In 1967, he received from the
University of Michigan recognition
as 4 distinguished alumnus when
it conferred upon him its
"Sesquicentennial Award" by rea-
son of his achievements as a
`Lawyer, Scholar and Public
Servant".
Honigman, for many years an
active participant in Allied Jew-
ish Campaigns, served on the
board of governors of the Jewish
Welfare Federation and on the
board of the Detroit Service
Group. Be was a member of the
Allied Jewish Campaign cabinet
for a number of years, was
chairman of the campaign's pro-
fessional difivision and an ad-
v•ser to the division.
At the reception, former Judge
Michael D. O'Hara, now associated
with the Honigman law firm. to-
gether with Irwin Cohn, as of coun-
sel, presented to Honigman a shile-
lagh he had just brought for him
as a gift from Ireland, as a tradi-
tional "symbol of the landed
gentry."
eral. At the national level, he has
represented Michigan as a member
of the National Commissioners for
Uniform Laws by appointment of
Governor Romney. He serves cur-
rently as a member of the board
of directors of the American
Judicature Society and as a fellow
of the American Bar Foundation.
Both in law school and since,
he has exhibited a high scholastic
capability. He was number one
man in grades in his graduating
class at the University of Mich-
igan Law School. While in school,
he wrote a lead article for the
Michigan Law Review in 1925,
and in 1926 a major two-part
article in the Michigan State Bar
Journal.
He is author of a book entitled
"Michigan Court Rules Annotated",
which since 1948 has been the
standard text on Michigan court
procedure and may be found in
the library of every judge and trial
lawyer in the State. It contains
commentaries on procedures in the
litigation process, both at the trial
and appellate level. He is currently
co-author of a seven volume
treatise in the same field which
is listed as the second edition of
Michigan Court Rules Annotated, of
which five volumes have already
been printed and two are still in
the process of preparation.
The royalties from his books
have at all times been donated
to the Michigan Bar Foundation
for use in research for improve-
ment in the administration of
justice.
He has lectured to lawyers,
judges and to students of the Uni-
versity of Michigan Law School on
various subjects, including the art
of appellate advocacy.
He has for many years been ac-
tive in the field of improving the
administration of justice and is
widely recognized throughout the
state as having evolved some of
the most significant improvements
in Michigan's present procedural
laws. He was for many years
Chairman of the civil procedure
committee of the State Bar of
Michigan and since 1955 has been
chairman of the civil procedure
Committee of the Judicial Confer-
ence of Michigan. Throughout this
period, he has enjoyed the con-
fidence of the Michigan Supreme
Court and has on numerous oc-
casions sat in conference with that
Court in the creation of programs
for the improvement of the ad-
ministration of justice through the
enactment of court rules governing
procedure within the courts.
In 1966 he was chairman of
the joint committee for district
courts for the creation of a new
lower court system, in order to
replace the justice of the peace
system which by 1963 con-
stitutional mandate was required
to be eliminated. This committee
consisted of some 30 lawyers,
judges, legislators and laymen
and was created under the joint
sponsorship of the State Bar of
Michigan, the Gov e r no r, the
Supreme Court and the Legisla-
ture. As a result of the work of
this committee, a new district
court system was created which
went into effect Jan. 1, 1969.
He has exercised leadership in
programs to improve the caliber
of the judiciary. In 1968, he was
chairman of a citizens committee
to urge a state constitutional
amendment to change the method
for selection of judges. He urged
elimination of the present elective
system and its replacement by a
merit appointment system long ad-
vocated by the American Bar As-
sociation and the A m e r-i c a n
Judicature Society. He also sought
the creation of a disciplinary com-
mission to review the work of
judges, with the right to recom-
mend removal of judges who are
unfit or unable to exercise the
duties of their office. While the
entire program which he urged
was not enacted, a portion of it
Bar-Ilan Creating
Hall of Fame for
Religious Zionists
'
NEW YORK — Rabbi Joseph
Bookstein, chancellor of Bar-Ilan
University announced the establish.
ment of a Hall of Fame for Reli-
gious Zionists at Bar-Ilan.
This announcement was made
at a meeting with 250 delegates,
under the leadership of Rabbi Her-
shel Schachter, president of the
American Mizrachi, visiting Bar-
Ilan.
The chancellor pointed out the
value of the groundwork Religious
Zionists have contributed to Bar-Il-
an University. In particular, he
paid tribute to the memory of the
late Prof. Pinchas Churgin, the
founder and first president of the
university, under whom Dr. Look-
stein served as assistant.
(Detroit Friends of Bar-Ilan
University will hold its annual
dinner Dec. 3 at Cong. Shaarey
Zedek. Former vice president
Hubert H. Humphrey will be
guest speaker.)
Forty educators and teachers
from Jewish schools in the U. S.
are participating in a summer
seminar at Bar-Han under the
sponsorship of the school of educa-
tion and in conjunction with the
Jewish Agency.
The two week seminar offers
intensive courses in the method-
ology of religious education as well
as in Jewish studies.
The participants will meet their
counterparts of different institu-
tions of higher learning.
Brandeis Prof to Research
Causes, Control of Obesity
WALTHAM, Mass.—A three-year
research project on the basic
causes and possible control of
obesity in man is being initiated
at Brandeis University under a
$135,545 grant from the John A.
Hartford Foundation, Inc., New
York City, according to a joint an-
nouncement by the foundation's
president, Harry B. George, and
Brandeis President Morris Abram.
Studies of the biochemical basis
of obesity, to be directed by Dr.
John W. Lowenstein, professor of
biochemistry at Brandeis, will be
conducted in part on a special
strain of mice that suffers from
a hereditary tendency to become
fat. This type of obesity is similar
to one of the major types found
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS in humans.
Tourism Ministry Hopes to Put Israel
on Map as Global Center for Travelers
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Minister of
Tourism Moshe Kol announced
that his ministry would soon
launch a major propaganda cam-
paign in Jewish communities
abroad with the goal of making
Israel a global center for vaca-
tioning youth and students.
"Every young Jew will be faced
with the challenge to spend at
least his vacation in Israel,. work-
ing in a kibutz or in one of Israel's
40 youth villages," said Kol at the
third convention of the Public
Council for the Development of
Youth Services.
He disclosed that 25,000 young
tourists are visiting Israel this
summer, including 16,000 students,
compared to 20,000 youngsters
who visited last year.
Kol cited a recent Gallup poll in
the United States which found that
Europe and the Middle East are
Measures to transform tourism
into a means of promoting better
international understanding and
breaking down the psychological
barriers separating nations were
put forward at the United Na-
tiins Economic and Social Coun-
cil, now meeting in Geneva, by
Dr. Maurice L. Perlzwelg, rep-
resentative of the World Jewish
Congress.
Dr. Perlzweig suggested that
specific arrangements should be
developed which would enable peo-
ple of common interest to come to-
gether, whether it was because
they shared the same cultural heri-
tage or religion, belonged to the
same professions or vocations, or
had some other link which united
them.
He also urged that there should
began at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem Aug. 6. Some 700
students were enrolled, an increase
of 400 per cent over last year.
is one of only two areas in the
United States designated as nation-
al Lakeshore by Congress, according
to the Michigan Tourist Council.
-
be a liberalization to the utmost
extent possible of the formalities,
the main attractions for American sometimes complicated, with which
tourists going overseas. He said visitors were expected to comply.
his ministry was making a major
Michigan's Pictured Rocks Na-
effort to attract a sizeable portion
tional Lakeshore, a 35-mile long
of the traffic to Israel.
The second and final summer strip of age-old standstone, water-
session for students from abroad falls and forest on Lake Superior,
Complying with David Ben-Gurion's
wish, Walter L. Field's Jewish history,
"A People's Epic" was translated into
Hebrew by the formost Israeli poet
Abraham Regdlson under the title
"Derek Ami."
Now available in
deluxe edition
"A People's Epic"
Symphony of Threes
$5.00
5.00
3.95
$13.95
Wolter Field
$9 00
Field's three books
now for
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