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Show First U. Law Dean Honored at Lunch The first dean of the University Univer-sity of Utah's Law School, Frank E. Holman, was honored at an invitational luncheon Friday at the U. of U. Union Bldg. At that time, an oil portrait of Mr. Holman was presented to the university, according to Dr. D. J. Dykstra, present dean of the College of Law. A native of Sandy, Mr. Holman was graduated from the University Univer-sity of Utah in 1908 and that year was appointed a Utah Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England. Hereceived a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Jurisprudence at Oxford in 1910 and Master of Arts Degree from Oxford, in absentia, ab-sentia, in 1914. Mr. Holman was admitted to the Washington Bar in 1911 on settling in Seattle. The next year he returned to Utah and was admitted ad-mitted to the Utah Bar. After serving as U. of U. instructor in law, Mr. Holman was dean of the Law School from 1913 to 1915, during which time he reorganized reorgan-ized the school, includnig transfer trans-fer of the school from its downtown down-town location to the campus and establishment of a law library. He returned to Seattle in 1924 and now is senior partner in the firm of Holman, Mickelwait, Marion, Black and Perkins. He has held offices in the Utah and Washington state bar associations associa-tions and in 1948 was elected as president of the American Bar Assn. He also has served on vari-i vari-i ous committees and boards. |