Hole, Richard 1871-1943 W. John Singer Sargent's Richard W Hale Page 1 of 2 John Singer Sargent's Richard W. Hale (Frontpage) (What's New) (Thumbnails Index) (Refer This Site) http://jssgallery.org/Paintings/Mugs/Richard_W_Hale.ht 2/16/2010 John Singer Sargent's Richard W Hale Page 2 of 2 Richard W. Hale John Singer Sargent -- American painter 1917 Private collection Charcoal 24 X 17 3/4 in. Jpg: local Notes: See the year in review 1917 IS Virtual Not: In the correspondence that Gallery follows, Richard W. Haleis a JSSGallery.org follow Hancoch County Trustee By: Natasha Wallace of Public Reservations member- Copyright 1998-2003 all rights reserved offerent odds with G.B. DORR- Created 3/24/2003 but also a legal courael he utilized. http://jssgallery.org/Paintings/Mugs/Richard_W_Hale.htm 2/16/2010 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Park March 13, 1939. Dear Richard: [W. Hale] I am setting down certain memoranda concerning the Park and the Trustees of Public Reservations. Won't you tell me a few things I want to know regarding the Black House and Mr. Black, so far as you may be able to do so? When was the house at Ellsworth built and by whom? Was it our Mr. Black's father or his grandfather who built it? And what WEL this first of the family who appears, personally and from the business point of view? Does he come into view as a man of property which lod to his selection as a ent for the Bingham lands? And at what date was he appointed a, ;ent? Did he at any time hold a State appointment or was he throughout a private citizen only? What was the source of the younger Mr. Black's fortune, the Mr. Black who 1Wft U.S the bequest? Did he inherit it from his father or make it himself? And if fro his father, how did his father make it -- by holdings in lumber which would seem to have been the only conside able tr de of Ellsworth in early days? /hen did Mr. Black take up his residence in Boston and whose house was it on Beacon Street that he bought? What was it that he left to the Boston Art Museum-- his house in Bos- tor and its contents or its contents only? And did he leave any bequest, inde condently of the house and contents, to the Museum? Was he in business at any time in Boston or did his fortune come wholly from Maine? Can you tell me the ori ;in of the Black family whence they came to Maine and when? One thin; more: If Alexander Baring purchased the lands in Maine and not his father-in-law or his wife, how is that the lands in the trust come to be called the Bingham or Bingham heir lends and not the Baring lands? Also, how extensive were these lands originally and did they all center in this region? 2 Hale, March 13/37/ Further: Whe did purchasing begin, from whom was it made and how long did it go on? Who was entrusted with the selection of the lands and what, if anything, remains to show the average price per acre? Were any of them cropped by the agency for lumber or al/1 sold as they stood, as forest? Forall and any information you can give me to satisfy my inquiring mind, I shall be duly grateful and am, with best regar is to your wife, Sincerely yours, [6. B.DORR] GBD-0 HALE AND DORR TELEPHONE HUBBARD 3300 SAMUEL WILLISTON, COUNSEL CABLE ADDRESS "HAFIS" RICHARD W.HALE DUDLEY H. DORR GEORGE D. BURRAGE GEORGE W.WIGHTMAN FRANK W. GRINNELL VIRGIL C. BRINK ROGER D. SWAIM JOSEPH N.WELCH WOODBURY RAND DANIEL L. BROWN JOHN M. .MAGUIRE GRAFTON L.WILSON REGINALD H. SMITH LAWRENCE E.GREEN LUCIUS E.THAYER GEORGE H.B.GREEN DAVID BURSTEIN 60 STATE STREET, BOSTON EDWARD J. KEELAN, JR. ANTHONY BRAYTON RAYMOND B. ROBERTS EDMUND BURKE HORACE G. CROCKETT, JR. A.FREDERICK RICHARD ALBERT H. BARCLAY, JR. March 16, 1939 J.LINDSAY WARE GEORGE C.ABERNATHY, JR. SAMUEL S. DENNIS, 3D George B. Dorr, Esquire Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine Dear George: Your letter of March 13th and this answer go in my Black House sub-division of MY Hancock C.T.R. file. Bingham, or somebody representing him, saw in the Baring office in London, young John Black and imported him. That was entirely the first appearance of a Black, and the cause for it. The Bingham senior agent was General Cobb, and Black married Cobb's. daughter. The children of that marriage were born at the Couldsboro headquarters of the Bingham estate, about which consult Fletcher Webb the President of the Robert Abbe Museum. The real estate in Ellsworth was probably acquired in 1804, which is given as the date for the house. I do not want to make myself unpopular by con- tradicting that. But it conflicts with the birth records of the Black childron. Black at once became a aort of king east of HALE AND DORR George B. Dorr, Esquire -2- the Penobscot. He was, I think, a Colonel in the War of 1812 and appears constanding in some of the incidents which happened locally. But practically he was a private citizen. The source of the fortune is obvious. As the Baring lands were being sold to be farmed, one of the perquisites of the agent was the privilege of free stump- age. Indeed, stumpage was unlimited. So the agent made a great lumber fortune. Just prior to the panic of 1337 no sold out, terms 100,000. down and a mortgage or like security. IIe foreclosed and after the panic had every- thing he had before plus the down payment. George Nickerson Black I guess inherited everything. As to the next paragraph in your letter, write Harold A. Pitman, 53 State Street, Boston, or John A. Peters, United States Court, Portland, Maine. Peters was the executor. So far as I know there never was a Baring purchase in Maine. There was a story, which I cannot prove or endorse, that the mortgage on the de Gregoires held by somebody in Boston, was owned by a Baring. But what of it? HALE AND DORR George 3: Dorr, Esquire -3- Bingham, with his privateering fortune, put his money into the operation of buying land at wholesale and selling it at retail. Hence Binghamton, New York. Hence large holdings in Coal and other areas in Penn- sylvania. Likewise the holding, now sold out, up some- where west of the Penobscot. But the big,shot purchase was (a) The half of Mt. Desert Island. (b) From the State of Massachusetts practically all of Hancock and Washington Counties back of the coastal fringe. Indeed, in the old map of Maine before the boundary dispute was settled, the map-maker got ahead of the facts and showed Bingham owning up to within three miles of the St. Lawrence. That map hangs on the walls of my Dalton house. Answering your last paragraph of inquiry, I cannot help very much. When I took the job of being Chairman of the Black House, the other people present in the meeting agreed to go out and double the endowment. If that had been done, I could have had a systematic investigation of the Bingham manuscripts and the Black manuscripts. Nothing happened. HALE AND DORR George B. Dorr, Esquire -4- At one time Rockefeller agreed to buy the Bingham manuscripts or to make an offer. But he and Hannibal Hamlin were two mules about it, and that will never happen. Very truly yours, Reebelloblode Richard W. Ilale HALE AND DORR TELEPHONE HUBBARD 3300 SAMUEL WILLISTON, COUNSEL CABLE ADDRESS "HAFIS" RICHARD W.HALE DUDLEY H.DORR FRANK W. GRINNELL JOSEPH N.WELCH ROGER D. SWAIM DANIEL L.BROWN JOHN M.MAGUIRE GRAFTON L.WILSON - REGINALD H.SMITH LAWRENCE E.GREEN GEORGE W.WIGHTMAN LUCIUS E.THAYER VIRGIL C. BRINK EDWARD J. KEELAN, JR. GEORGE H.B.GREEN DAVID BURSTEIN 60 STATE STREET, BOSTON EDMUND BURKE ANTHONY BRAYTON LINDSLEY LORING,JR A.FREDERICK RICHARD GEORGE C.ABERNATHY, JR. C.KEEFE HURLEY SAMUEL S.DENNIS,3D Box 688 RAYMOND B. ROBERTS RICHARD G. DORR Bar Harbor, Maine August 22, 1942 George B. Dorr, Esq. Old Farm Bar Harbor, Maine Dear George: My recent letter of the 21st to you dealt with two subjects. First, as to Southwest Harbor, your answer of the 22nd is clear and satisfactory to me. If I could do anything in the nature of labouring in your vineyard, I would do so, although I think the grapes will be sour. I assume that you will consider and perhaps answer the separate subdivision of my letter about the many tracts now remaining to you in this town which you call the few tracts. Those can be classified into three. Salsbury Cove is one. The lots which should be offered to Thorndike for real money make another. The remaining many lots make a third class which divides itself into two -- the acreage in the gorge and the Ledgelawn Avenue situation. If I follow your thought correctly, this letter re- quires no answer except pleasant conversation with you later. Yours sincerely, Richlube Richard W. Hale Oldfarm, July 28, 1942. Dear Richard, [w. Hale] I like your young secretary; she is all I could ask in quickness and expertness and in herself most attractive, as I felt and as they who can see tell me. But when I set out to dictate I found my thoughts simply would not flow. Hands and head must go together in the kind of work that I would like to do and I must give up the hope of reaching out into the new field I see opening before me and would gladly enter on if I could. In all this is quite apart from any question of my not having anyone to send on either trip and the fact that I realize that old friends, to whom I cannot deny myself, take the later afternoon to come to see me, as Mrs. Parkman's daughter, Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, whom I much wished to see, did yesterday. I must accept the limitations that have come upon me these later years, though I find it hard. Will you kindly convey to Miss Shalloo the regret I feel at finding myself unable to do the work I had in mind and my appreciation of her coming yesterday? With warm regard, Sincerely yours, o [GB.DORR] HALE AND DORR TELEPHONE HUBBARD 3300 SAMUEL WILLISTON, COUNSEL CABLE ADDRESS "HAFIS" RICHARD W. HALE DUDLEY H. DORR FRANK W. GRINNELL JOSEPH N. WELCH ROGER D. SWAIM DANIEL L. BROWN JOHN M.MAGUIRE GRAFTON L.WILSON REGINALD H.SMITH LAWRENCE E.GREEN GEORGE W.WIGHTMAN LUCIUS E.THAYER VIRGIL C. .BRINK EDWARD J. KEELAN, JR. GEORGE H.B.GREEN DAVID BURSTEIN 60 STATE STREET, BOSTON EDMUND BURKE ANTHONY BRAYTON LINDSLEY LORING, JR. A.FREDERICK RICHARD GEORGE C.ABERNATHY, JR. Box 688 C.KEEFE HURLEY SAMUEL S. DENNIS, 3D RAYMOND B. ROBERTS RICHARD G. DORR Bar Harbor, Maine August 21, 1942 George B. Dorr, Esq. Old Farm Bar Harbor, Maine Dear George: Today is Friday, and the Annual Meeting of the Hancock County Trustees is next Tuesday. After careful consideration of the matter, I don't want to work on the idea of making the Southwest Harbor gift if there be conditions and burdensome work in connection therewith. I would like to put it through Land mention it at this meeting ) if you could give up the idea of the conditions. The same is true with regard to the gifts in the Town of Bar Harbor. After reserving the lots which might humanly speaking be salable to Amory Thorndike or otherwise and the Salsbury Cove land, I would like to put that gift through without conditions. There is nothing secret about the meeting of the Trustees as a corporation. The executive committee could accept later. The momentous date is the next tax year beginning April 1, 1943. But if I were you, I would like to get the thing done while I could see for myself what I was doing. SACRED Yours very truly, Richardbe Richard W. Hale Dudley Huntington Dorr first (1882-1961) Partner of Richard W. Hale on light t UK (see neut HP). His I 1917 Richard Hale was at a crossroads. His partners Roger Swaim and John Maguire were on leave of absence: Swaim serving in the Field Artillery in France, Maguire at the Department of Justice in Washington. partner Frank Grinnell was then, in Richard's words, "largely withdrawn from the commercial practice of the law" and devoting "a large part of his time to outside matters." Richard knew that it was about time for him to make some basic changes in the ways he was practicing law. On the eve of his fiftieth birthday, his working years were slipping too quickly away. after World War I: Some observations of Reginald H. Smith give us a feel for Hale's thinking During and after World War I all legal circles agreed that Boston did not need and could not stand another large law firm. Richard disagreed; he believed that what Boston needed was a different kind of a firm. His instinct was right, his vision was clear, but for the life of him, he could not have given you a blueprint of what he contemplated. In one of his moments of greatest clairvoyance, he realized that his first need was to find a man whose characteristics and talents were the opposite of and yet complementary to his own. His first step showed his genius, he took as a partner, Dudley Huntington Dorr, who was the personification of common sense and possessed a warm personality which attracted everyone to him. ', Background + Styles Hale Dar, 1993. Limple occcii Apparently Smith did not see Hale as a man of common sense or of Dorr's educational background was strikingly different from that of any warm personality or of the sort that attracted everyone to him. Smith did, other lawyer who has been, is, or ever will be connected with Hale and Dorr. however, see that Hale himself understood the need for the balance of a Of his preparation for college, Dudley wrote: partner with strengths fundamentally different from his. Was in charge of a governess, confined in doors much of On another occasion Smith perceptively wrote of the contrast between the time owing to an apparently delicate constitution and Mr. Hale and Mr. Dorr: because of my mother's fear of contagious disease Until I entered college, I was tutored privately receiving a training Whatever brought together such diverse personalities as as nearly parallel to the public school education as possible. Richard Hale and Dudley Dorr is hard to say. The best My tutors were selected with much care and were for the explanation is that Richard was a genius and in those most part past masters or submasters of high school. moments when egotism did not blind him, he had acute vision. To build a firm, Dudley was his perfect counterpart. Dudley had never been in a classroom before entering Harvard College as a freshman in 1903, at the age of twenty-one, as a member of the Class of 1907. We have seen in the 1918 Professional Announcement that the name of the Hale firm was changed to Hale and Dorr on July 1, 1918, the day Dudley As a child, Dudley had been given many amazing toys by his father. H. Dorr became a member of that Firm. Dudley had agreed to become There was an article in the Boston Globe of January 30, 1899 entitled "East Richard's partner in early 1918. At the time Hale had been practicing law for Boston Boy's Playthings" about the two Dudley Dorrs, Dudley A. the father twenty-one years, Dorr for eight. Hale was then forty-seven years old, Dorr and Dudley H. the son. The Globe reporter wrote: thirty-six. We do not have much detail on how they in fact got together but, again, Reg Smith is a helpful, even if a bit dramatic, source: "Dud," as he is called by those who know him best, enjoys and has had more original and costly playthings than most boys ever have the good fortune to possess. It is one of The legend is that Richard Hale strode into Dudley Mr. Dorr's whims to secure for his son original and unique Dorr's office one day, slammed the door, leaned back against playthings, and because of this the lad's good fortune is it and said "I want you to be my partner." envied by all of the other boys of the district. Richard Hale saw Dudley Dorr as of good stock. Dudley was a member Above the text of the Globe story, there were three sketches called "The of the Massachusetts Society of Sons of the American Revolution. His ancestor Nursery," "A Corner of The Nursery" and "Night lunch Cart." The Globe Edward Dorr had come from England to the Massachusetts Colony in 1670. artist drew plaything by plaything, clever representations of the surprising Later another ancestor Joseph Dudley had been a Governor in Colonial number and variety of toys of the boy- model trains, dolls, books, all sorts of New England. Ebenezer Dorr, another ancestor who lived from 1739 to 1809, children's furniture, a toy house two or three feet tall, a toy ferry station- had been a member of the Sons of Liberty in Boston, had served on the even taller, a substantial toy train station and a child size lunch cart. Committee of Correspondence at the time of the Revolution and had been a soldier in the Revolutionary Army. Dudley's grandfather Theodore H. Dorr The Night Lunch Cart appears to be about six feet long, six feet tall and had been a Congregational Minister in Lexington and Sherborn, His father, more than three feet wide. The cart was drawn by a pony which Dud called Dudley A. Dorr, had practiced law in Boston from 1871 until his death on Cricket. The words "White House Cafe" were painted on the sides of the car January 6, 1912. in large white and gold letters. We are told the cart was fully equipped with everything found in regulation street wagons: cups, saucers, knives, forks Dudley Huntington Dorr was born on June 17, 1882. His father and tea and coffee urns and a boiler for frankfurters. Young Dudley H. was mother resided at Meridian Street in East Boston. They were both concerned quoted by the Globe reporter as saying: about the health of their son during his early years. 14 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine August 22nd, 1942. Dear Richard, [W. Hale] I have your letter of the 21st concerning my dis- position of the land I have retained so long looking down on Great Pond -- the one sight of it we get from any public way -- planning to develop it, with others' aid, but which I am willing now to give the Park on the one condition I have set forth in the paper, of which you have copy - that of the Government's cooper- ating with me and my trustees in giving publicity to incoming visitors concerning the Park and Island through the papers I have been at work on now so long and what these may lead to from others. But in doing this I wish to make my gift direct to the United States in connection with Senator Brewster's bill if it shall see fit to ac- cept it, with no intervening corporation, whether the Trustees of Public Reservations or any other. I tell in my book how valuable the Trustees were to me in the creation of the Park; but, the Park created, my relation since has always been direct with the Govern- ment and it. There is much work, important work, now as ever, for the Trustees of Public Reservations to accom- plish under its present organization but, greatly as I regret not to see eye to eye with you in the matter, reviewing it all -- the past and present together as a single whole -- I strongly desire my direct relationship with the Park Service and the Government to continue still. Mr. Hale. Page 2. This relates not only to the property within the Town of Southwest Harbor but to the few tracts now remaining to me in this Town and elsewhere, plans for which are in the making. with much appreciation of the kind and friendly help you have so generously given me in this and other matters, believe me indeed to be Sincerely yours, Richard W. Hale, Esq. Schooner Head, Bar Harbor, Maine. John A. Dolan. Hale and Dorr Bachground and Styles, Boston: Hale } Dorr. 1993. Richard Walden Hale (1871-1943) NotE: Conflict c Interior Secretary H.Iekes exphasized by RHE. R ichard Hale had died before I joined the Firm in 1948. From all reports he was an imposing and impressive man. His facial expression marks him as serious, self confident and solemn. We see him as long faced with a somewhat cleft chin and penetrating eyes below bushy brows.* In his Fiftieth Harvard Class Report of 1942, Richard Walden Hale wrote that he "had been brought up in the Back Bay of Boston in its prime of New England parents who had moved to Boston around 1850." He described his two grandfathers: "As - on his mother's side the Mayflower descendent country storekeeper, Colonel of Militia, who sold Daniel Webster his rum in Plymouth County, Massachusetts; and on his father's side the New England Puritan politician and lawyer whom Daniel licked in the famous Dartmouth College Case." Richard W. Hale was born in Milton, Massachusetts on June 30, 1871. He graduated from Harvard College in 1892 and from Harvard Law School in 1895. Hale practiced law in Boston first in the office of his father, George Hale, as a member of his firm of Hale & Fiske and then, after his father's death in July of 1897, as a sole practitioner. In 1900 he formed a partnership with Frank W. Grinnell under the firm name of Hale & Grinnell. Grinnell and he took into their partnership Roger D. Swaim in 1903 and John M. Maguire in 1911. The firm name of that partnership was Hale, Grinnell & Swaim. * In an after-dinner talk on the early history of the Firm, which I gave to the partners a few years ago, as an attention catcher in describing Hale, I referred to his passport which I said indicated his height at 6 feet and 11 3/4 inches. I misread his height; my statement was incorrect. For the record, I have determined that Richard Hale was 6 feet and 13/4 inches tall. 105 Chapter Six On May 14, 1903 Richard married Mary Newbold Patterson, the daughter of a New York City Judge. Always conscious of family, he described his wife's background as "pure Dutch-Irish-Colonial-Quaker with no Puritan or Pilgrim about it." In 1900 Hale moved from Boston to Dover to what he called "a large country place needing constant attention" of approximately 70 acres on Strawberry Hill. He was proud of his estate and moved a small building onto his land which had served as the East School in Dover from 1850 to 1910. In 1926 he and his wife invited the "old scholars" and former teachers of that School, as well as the School Committee Members then living, to a party at the "good old country school" which the Hales had converted into their family library. The printed invitation could not have been more firm, straight out clear and precise. A few teachers and fifty "old scholars" and their families came to the party: STRAWBERRY HILL, DOVER, MASSACHUSETTS Post Office, Needham Mr. and Mrs. Richard Walden Hale request the pleasure of your company, including that of your family, at the old East Schoolhouse on Strawberry Hill Street in Dover, now their library, on Saturday, November 20, 1926, at eight o'clock P.M. If you know of any old scholar of the East School, or any old resident of the Strawberry Hill School District, not invited, please inform Mrs. Hale on the enclosed postal card. In any case, please reply on card promptly to assist Mrs. Hale in planning about the number to be provided for. Park beyond the barn in the open field, turning north. The front entrance will be one way going in and the lane or back road one way out, both from the house and from the parking place. Please be in the schoolhouse before 8:15 P.M., when Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Gideon and Mrs. Marjorie Patten Weaver will give some music of Old New England. The detailed article about the party in the Dedham Transcript of November 26, which was headlined "A Schoolhouse Redivivus," could only have been done with the benefit of a "press release" memo from Richard W.: 106 Richard W. Hale :he The old East Schoolhouse was bought by Mr. Richard Walden Hale of Strawberry Hill Street, SO the journey to its new surroundings was short. And later came its restoration to even more than its original beauty. The exterior of the old East Schoolhouse as well as the interior -- the arched ceiling, walls and fine old on doors -- returned to their first beautiful simplicity under Mr. Hale's artistic treatment. A stove, counterpart of the one of old, was discovered and put in use; several of the nd desks and many of the recitation benches returned to their nd old abiding place, turkey-red shades relieved the whiteness as of the walls, bookcases inhabited by volumes galore wheeled ry into place SO naturally that they became a part of the ed admirable whole; a marvelous picture of an ancestor of the man who had wrought the wonderful change in the fortune W of the old house, in ermine trimmed gown and wig, looked benignly down from his vantage point on the side wall, while at the end of the long room hung another picture almost equally interesting. Then, for the Strawberry Hill School House, fully restored to the dignity of a New England School House of ye last century, plus the ineffable charm of many books, the hour had struck and in the estimation of its owner the time for its christening was at hand. "Strawberry Hill" and Dover meant a great deal to Hale. He served as a Representative in the Massachusetts Legislature of 1910. For many years he was the Moderator of the Dover Town Meetings. Hale wanted more of the "right people" to come to Dover and kept his ear to the ground for prospects. His letter to Roger Conant shows Hale trying his hand at the light touch: July 16, 1937 Dear Mr. Conant: I think I have correctly learned that you are distinctly interested in the idea of having 100 acres or SO on the south side of Powisset Street in Dover. But further that your interest would distinctly fade if somebody quoted $100 an acre for the run of the stuff. From this I drew the conclusion that if you really wanted to live in our locality you would arrive at some other piece of land. Only guessing from your specifications, I think that I could get you up to 150 acres in one piece in northwest Walpole, practically as near Boston as Powisset Street. I should surmise that it would cost you $10 an acre to the owners and $10 an acre to the lawyer, the surveyor, and 107 Richard W. Hale I do not think that Richard Hale had a political bone in his body. Often on national and international issues his judgments simply were not based on existing realities. Prior to Pearl Harbor, when Europe was in the earlier stages of the war against Hitler's Germany, Hale's measure of the American political situation and international policy was naive and generally incorrect. He had become completely disenchanted with Roosevelt and was actively writing his friends in England: "Don't make the same mistake again. In World War I you had listened to 'The 14 points," etc. of President Woodrow Wilson and accepted them as American policy. You failed to realize that he and his party were in the process of losing their power." In general terms Richard Hale wrote his English friends before the 1940 national election that the rising star in the USA political picture was Wendell Willkie and that Roosevelt's policies from the English viewpoint were negative and, in any event, of no importance because Roosevelt would not win the election in 1940. Hale had inherited a large home from his father at Bar Harbor, Maine. He found his neighbors intellectually and socially much to his liking. But the peace and quiet of the insular and exclusive area was invaded in 1937 by Harold Ickes, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior, and in 1938 by Thomas Corcoran, a legal advisor to the President. On March 8, 1939 Hale, a staunch and life-long Republican, wrote a letter to Secretary Ickes, to which an assistant of Ickes provided a perfunctory response on March 15. Hale was incensed at what he considered a brush-off, a "wipe-off," and a "side-step" to his important communication. Believing that the pen is mightier than the sword, Hale wrote a long letter to Secretary Ickes. He was SO proud of his effort that he had it printed under the title "TWO LETTERS Bearing on Two Subjects." He sent printed copies of his TWO LETTERS to newspapers, magazines and friends (professional and personal). No magazine or newspaper chose to print Hale's material. The Ickes-Corcoran-Bar Harbor correspondence is presented in full to illustrate how deeply felt Hale's political convictions were and how he could, at times, lose more than a bit of his control: 127 Chapter Six TWO LETTERS Bearing on Two Subjects * I. - The Honorable Harold L. Ickes and II. - Public Office is a Public Trust UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Office of the Secretary Washington March 15, 1939 Mr. Richard W. Hale 60 State Street Boston, Massachusetts Dear Sir: This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of March 8 to Secretary Ickes. I have been instructed to say that your letter deals with a matter which he considers closed. Very truly yours, /s/ W.H. McCrillis Special Assistant to the Secretary 128 Richard W. Hale 60 STATE STREET, BOSTON June 16, 1939 Hon. Harold L. Ickes Secretary of the Interior Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Ickes: In the matter of the Homans House and surrounding acres all in Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, the charges against you for misuse thereof are recapitulated in this letter. These are charges which you cannot wipe off your record by telling a secretary, as in your letter of March 15th, to declare "the correspondence closed." In your correspondence you have admitted the whole story directly and by side-stepping. It is far from closed but rather placed to your credit or discredit, as the case may be, and now before I make further use of it I ask you: Do you desire to do more denying or explaining or side-stepping? Here is a summary of what the correspondence between us establishes. The tale begins with your letting out a blast of publicity along the lines provided by the book about the "Sixty Families." You thought it right and good politics to be critical of their wealth and their possessions. Now the Homans House happened to be a part of the many contributions to "free public use" by Family No. 2 of the Sixty. They had subscribed generously and made this house, its surrounding acreage and the Anemone Cave public property held upon a public trust for public use. This acreage is on the East shore of Mount Desert Island. On it there is a public parking space from which the public reach Anemone Cave; and also the Homans House. The cave was the attraction which led private generosity to donate the property. Free public use to reach the cave was the keynote of the gift. In 1937 you moved into this property for your summer vacation and you marked your occupation by special efforts directed on the one hand toward the privacy of your enjoyment and on the other to the exclusion of the public. It should be admitted either by you or by me or by both of us that you were the Secretary of the Interior, entitled to 129 Chapter Six visit Acadia National Park as head of a Department. If the Secretary had come there on business to occupy the house in connection therewith a different incident might have arisen, although not necessarily a creditable one. But your actions on the spot made it plain that your dominant motive in occupying the house was private enjoyment, including the exclusion of the public. If you had been there primarily as a public servant in the discharge of your public duty you would never have excluded the public from Anemone Cave or closed the parking space. If the motorcycle policeman who was then stationed on the location had been performing park service he would not have kept out the public to maintain your exclusiveness. But that was the way it was happening, quite obvious under your eye. The crowning incident probably took place when you drove out the entrance to lunch at the exclusive Pot and Kettle Club with representatives of the Sixty Families. You certainly turned to the right and immediately passed the barred off parking space, with obvious closing bars locked in place. You probably saw the park policeman there to keep the public off their own property. Then as Fate would have it the very Mr. Ickes who made the Sixty Family attack upon the very benefactor of wealth who helped to buy the Homans House went to a Sixty Family kind of club to lunch privately with the Sixty Family kind of people, while the motorcycle policeman stood guard SO that even in the absence of Mr. Ickes, head of Family No. 2 of the Sixty Bureaucrats, the public was excluded from their own. It is a minor misfortune that you did not turn to the left. For a short distance away in that direction, Mr. Ickes would have found the public enjoying Sand Beach through the private beneficence of Family No. 2 among the Sixty Families, at the very moment when neither Mr. Ickes nor the public was enjoying Anemone Cave. That was how you misused the public property in the summer of 1937. In 1938 you took a further step toward impropriety which was to "accord the use" of the Homans House to Mr. Thomas Corcoran for his private vacation and residence. Your subordinate told the water company to certify that Mr. Corcoran's water was supplied to the Government for Park use, payable out of the Park appropriation, and you will obviously agree that your state of mind leads you to think that proper. 130 Richard W. Hale Observe now what the charge is about your state of mind. It was made in these words earlier in the correspondence and you did not deny it or give any relevant answer about it. The charge is that you are capable of doing, and actually did, these things in good faith. The road you traveled is paved with a dense and Tarvia-like coating of good intentions. You believe in a right to these perquisites out of the public property for yourself and for Mr. Corcoran. Surely on neither of these occasions did the occupant obey the Treasury Department Regulation and include as a part of his taxable income the value of the perquisite enjoyed. But you prefer to believe that these are not perquisites. Still that preference is merely a part of your good intentions and does not in itself prove anything. The distinction between the Sixty Bureaucrats and the Sixty Families now becomes precise and apparent. It is sufficient to illustrate it by the two fine houses next door to each other. Each has a natural object to which the public resort. Family No. 2 of the Sixty Families keeps Sand Beach open to the public. You as a candidate for Family No. 2 of the Sixty Bureaucrats in 1937 close Anemone Cave to the public for your private use, and in 1938 you "accord the use" of the Homans House to Thomas G. Corcoran, Esq. and his family. Shall we consider them No. 3? This is all because you believe in good faith that Government Officials have a right to exclude the public from its own property in order to use it for personal and private vacations. And whether or not that belief would be tolerable from a Secretary who merely believed that public office entitled him to private perquisites it is intolerable from a man who having attacked the Sixty Families, crowns his endeavors by his own private use of the very wealth they have given to the public. I gave you in the correspondence which this letter sums up an opportunity to deny this point but you have never availed yourself of it. Nevertheless I can see that, if you had not preferred to side-step the issues about your character by abusing me, you would have somehow denied it. But all your denial could have meant would have been a claim to interpret in your own favor facts about which there can be no denial. Mere interpretation of the foregoing facts cannot whitewash you. Yours very truly, /s/ Richard W. Hale From Box 688 Bar Harbor, Maine 131 BHT 7/16/42 VOL. XXIX. $2.00 YEAR (Editorial) COUNTY CHAPTE O.P.O. ANNUAL MEETIN OFFICE OF PUBLIC OPINION Bar Harbor, Maine WEDNESDAY E July 16, 1942 Harold L. Ickes Washington, D. C. R: Amory Thorndike of Dear Mr. Ickes: Harbor Re-elected You, of course, don't know us from Adam, Chairman but we have had our attention drawn to you, from time to time, by your periodic outbursts criticising The annual meeting of th the various Government Departments and their offi- cock Chapter, American cials. We have even agreed with you in several Cross, was held in Ellswort cases. such as the need and urgency of collecting Hall on Wednesday evenin; scrap rubber. The stunt of taking the rubber mat lowing the business meeting. from the White House steps certainly got a lot of man R. Amory Thorndike duced D. Albert Hoffman, publicity and was considered pretty good until the ger of the State Office in A fact that your own offices contained probably more who spoke in a very inte rubber than was possessed by the entire White manner. House, was revealed. The principal speaker, It is our understanding that as Secretary of S. Eaton, who has recent the Interior you have charge of all of the National appointed the director Parks Now here on Mount Desert is situated Acadia North Atlantic area wit} National Park and until recently two C. C. C. quarters in New York, ad camps were in operation here. Since Congress de- the meeting and told of cided that these camps should be discontinued, ious projects which the R is carrying on as its cont trucks and other equipment have been returned to to humanity during War til the Park, thus to the Department of the Interior. Following the meeting, In this equipment there is a small item of about four ectors met and elected off tons of used rubber. You probably know that regu- the ensuing year: Chair ons made by your department call for this rub- Amory Thorndike; Vice-c) to be put out to public bid. Philip R. Lovell; Secretar For some weeks now the people of our country Masterman and Treasure have been gathering rubber, taking it to the filling dore E. Closs. stations and in most cases giving it to the Govern- ment. Today, we learn that the Government MRS. PARKMA through its Department of the Interior, insists on selling its rubber to a junk dealer, who, no doubt, will sell it back to another Government agency DIED TUESD at a higher price. We would not be so concerned if some other AT N. E. HA department carried on its work in such a ridiculous manner, but your department, Mr. Ickes! We shud- der to think of what might happen if you discerned Had Been Summer 4 such nonsensical procedure in some department Of Mt. Desert Islar other than your own. Over Fifty Ye If this letter reaches your attention we hope it will be in time for you to take the steps that are necessary to stop this leak and gather the tons and Mrs. Mary Frances tons of scrap rubber which must be available in for over fifty years a su sident of Northeast Ha your many National Parks, for if four tons have ac- at her summer home or cumulated in Acadia National Park, there must be after an illness of tv hundreds of tons in the others. Born in Newark, New We sincerely hope that the next picture of you June 20, 1855, she was in the papers will show you signing an order direct- ter of the late Mr. and ing the Department of the Interior personnel to cease land Parker. During selling scrap rubber which the government already months, she made her Boston. owns. Yours truly, She leaves to mourn three daughters, Mrs. M Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Public Peabody, wife of the Bv the Editor. Malcolm E. Peabody of New York; Mrs. William ans of Canton, Mass Griswold of Brookline THE BEGGING RACKET two sons, Henry Parkma ector of the Massachuse of Price Administration The letter below is self-explanatory and we Francis Parkman of can only add our protest against the practice of States Army Air Corps not in nood prev brothers Charles W October 21, 1939. Hale and Dorr Staff Outing at the Hale estate on Strawberry Hill in Dover Massachusetts. Richard Hale is seated in the front row left apparently calming down his black dog. Seated immediately to the right is his wife Mary. 141 WOODLAWN M u S E u M 1929 The Black House 2004 MAINE'S , PREMIER HISTORIC ESTATE Summer 2004 vol. | no. 3 Woodlawn Museum's First 75 Years by Joshua Campbell Torrance, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR On August, 20th 1929, the 1900 will, he left the estate to the City was on Mount Desert Island. These Woodlawn estate was officially of Ellsworth. For reasons that are not acquired lands were to become what opened to the public as a historic house entirely clear, Black changed his will we know now as Acadia National Park. museum and public park. Since that in 1911 entrusting Woodlawn to the George Nixon Black Jr. died in day, Woodlawn has been preserved Hancock County Trustees of Public October of 1928, at the age of 86. and cared for by a remarkable group Reservations. Formed in 1901, the His will included gifts of furniture of people, and its important story has group was organized to "acquire, hold, and decorative art objects to the reached a national audience. This Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and column, which usually focuses on the bequests to various friends, family and history of Colonel John Black and his charitable institutions. But his beloved family, or on the wonderful artifacts in Woodlawn and its historic contents the museum, will review the history were left to the Trustees, who formally of Woodlawn Museum's first 75 years voted to accept the property. On and the extraordinary volunteers who August 20, 1929 Woodlawn opened to have participated in its preservation. the public as a museum, with the first George Nixon Black Jr. set the visitor being Governor William Tudor stage for Woodlawn to emerge as Gardner. And SO the curtain rose. a premiere historic house museum. The Trustees selected Mr. Richard Born in 1842, the grandson of Colonel W. Hale as the first Chairperson John Black, George Nixon Black Jr. of the newly formed Black House lived a long and well-traveled life. Committee. Hale, a principle in the After the death of his father, Black prestigious Boston law firm Hale inherited his grandfather's Ellsworth Richard W. Hale, first Chairperson of and Dorr, led the early efforts to estate. An enthusiastic collector and the Black House Committee preserve Woodlawn and organize it participant in the Colonial Revival as a public museum. Throughout movement, which emerged after and maintain and improve for free the Great Depression of the 1930s, the 1876 Centennial celebrations, public use, lands in Hancock County, Hale's biggest problem was a shortage Black added an eclectic assortment which by reason of scenic beauty, of funds. Although George Nixon of furniture and decorative items to historical interest, sanitary advantage Black Jr. had left an invested capital the furnishings already in place from or for other reasons may be available endowment of $50,000, the yearly previous generations. He decided to for the purpose." For the most part, income from the investments was not preserve Woodlawn and its contents by the Trustees had been acquiring bequeathing it to the public, and in his parcels of coastal land, much of which Continued on page 3 Woodlawn Museum The Director's Desk Board of Trustees Joshua Campbell Torrance, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Stephen Shea, PRESIDENT Douglas Endicott, VICE-PRESIDENT The "Stage" is Set at Woodlawn Jeffrey Dow, TREASURER Laurie Williams, SECRETARY The Hancock County Trustees of campaign is not a matter of can we do Nancy Payne Alexander Public Reservations have launched it but, rather, that we have to do it as Sandra Hylander Collier the Preservation Campaign with an detailed in this newsletter. James M. Day ambitious goal of $1 million to both With the assistance of Turk, Tracey Karen Dickes Linda Grindle preserve Woodlawn and increase the and Larry Architects in Portland, Elisabeth Heyward size of the Museum's endowment. As one of Maine's leading Preservation Jerry Kaufman of the publishing of this newsletter, we Architectural firms, and under the Natalie Knox Peter Lindquist are pleased to announce that we are watchful eye of the Museum's John Lynch now 1/3 of the way to the goal. And Buildings and Grounds Committee, Emma Remick we are particularly excited to report the restoration has begun. However, Jane Shea Herbert Silsby that staging has been erected and the it cannot be completed without our Teresa Sargent Smith much-needed repair is underway. raising the rest of the campaign goal Lowell Thomas, Jr. To date, fully 15% of all funds. Please consider making a tax- Richard Will Dale Worthen money raised has been contributed deductible contribution. Be part of the by donations and pledges from effort to not only preserve Woodlawn Trustees, Emeriti Woodlawn's Board of Trustees. The for now, but for future generations Margaret Cunningham Kenneth Jordan museum has also received a $20,000 as well. To make a donation to the Richard Teele grant from the Maine Historic Preservation Campaign, please use the Preservation Commission Staff (New pledge form provided on page 8 of this Joshua Campbell Torrance, Century Grant Program), a $5,000 newsletter. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR grant from the Kellogg Foundation Keith Williams, of Battle Creek, Michigan, and also a CARETAKER $5,000 grant from the Fisher Fund in Portland, Maine. Rosamond Rea, COLLECTIONS MANAGER 2004 marks Woodlawn Museum's 75th anniversary of being open to the Rick Honaker, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT public as a historic house museum. It opened to the public on August 20, 1929 with the Governor William Tudor Gardner being the first visitor to the Museum. This event will be observed WOODLAWN exactly 75 years to the date, on Friday, Executive Director Joshua Campbell M S E u M August 20, 2004 with a Gala Dinner- Torrance and Collection Manager The Black House Dance. As well as the regularly Rosamond Rea consult with Scott scheduled events, the Museum is Archer and Ernie Butler of Bond P.O. Box 1478, Route 172 Ellsworth, Maine 04605 holding a special lecture series. Yet, Builders Inc. whom will be completing 207-667-8671 the main focus of the 75th Anniversary the first phase of the restoration that E-mail: info@woodlawnmuseum.com year is the successful completion concentrates on the bathroom and sun www.woodlawnmuseum.com of the Preservation Campaign. This porch blocks of the mansion. 2 First 75 years (cont 'd from page 1) enough to cover annual expenses. It was decided at that time, that although the estate was being kept for public use, an admission fee had to be 1000 charged to help pay the salaries of the caretakers, and to help defray some of the never-ending costs of maintaining the historic house and outbuildings. Hale's larger vision was for Woodlawn to become the center of education and research for the history of Downeast Maine. He understood that to achieve this goal a significant endowment to keep the estate in good repair and strong annual support from the region's population was needed. Interestingly, Hale's vision included the construction of a building capable 66666 of housing the collection's significant archives and providing exhibition space. Under the direction of Beatrix Farrand, Mr. Arthur McFarland drew plans for such a building (at right). That dream was delayed, however, as Woodlawn needed immediate REAR ELEVATION repairs. The so-called "paper roof", put on to replace the original wood Sawtelle delivered a series of lectures successive generations? One has the shingles, was now in advanced decay titled "The Historic Background of feeling while roaming about the place, as were the balustrades and porch Eastern Maine," and "What the Old that one is in reality a visitor just railings. Eventually, funds were Highboy Could Tell." According to waiting for the family to return and gathered to pay for a new roof made articles in the Bangor Daily News consummate the cordial welcome of of black slate from Monson, Maine. and other area newspapers, these talks which the old place SO well intimates." Under direction of E.L. Shea, the roof were given to Lions' Clubs, women's In the 1940's, Ernest T. Paine was installed. As Executive Committee groups and Chambers of Commerce assumed leadership of the committee. member Clarence C. Stetson all along the coast of Maine, as Although the number of visitors remarked in 1934, Black Monson well as being broadcast on WLBZ. was very low, the House Committee slate was the best choice because, "We have a history," said he, managed to make necessary repairs "Maine needs the business, and there "which ought to be better known. and improvements, partially paid for is no better roof for this climate." What are we doing to call attention by wood cut from the Black estate. Another original member of the to it not only for the benefit of our In 1948, much to Chairman Paine's House Committee, Professor William summer visitors but of our own people regret, it was decided to tear down the Otis Sawtelle, became the expert at as well? Where will you find a place old stables that used to extend behind telling the story of the Black family in which the visitor sees spread before the current carriage barns. "It would and of Woodlawn. After exploring him furniture and belongings which be splendid if we could maintain the the house and purportedly finding exhibit what may be termed a review whole estate in its original condition. documents hidden in the attic, of decorative art undisturbed for three One would love to see the barn filled 3 restored during this period, and placed inside the carriage house protected from the weather. The decade ended iiiiiiff with Woodlawn entered on the National Register of Historic Sites. The 1970s issued in other changes. Modern toilets for public use were installed behind the barn. When a severe snow load one winter caused major water leakage inside the main house, and caretakers were compelled to move furnishings to drier parts of the house. The kitchen ell was found to be resting on rotten sills, and a great campaign to "Save the Ell" ensued. A great outpouring of generosity allowed the repair and repainting of the ell in 1978, under the leadership of President Ruth Foster. Afternoon teas have long been a tradition at Woodlawn. In the 1980's, there was an effort to expand the research into the with hay; fine horses munching oats in from the estate of Harold Pitman that collections and to bring in experts their stall; sheep grazing in the fields; was added to the endowment, more from the Museum field. The most peacocks displaying their plumage as than doubling its size. Harold Pitman, notable visit was from Mr. Robert of old on the garden trellis." Paine a beneficiary of Black's will in 1928, Mussey, formerly Chief Conservator cited a lack of funds to repair the and his brother, Charles, had been close with the Society for the Preservation structures as the main reason for their friends of George Nixon Black Jr. of New England Antiquities. He wrote removal. Defending the principle Successive years brought a detailed report on the condition of of change, he went on to say, "We additional improvements and changes. the furniture in the collection that is trustees have in charge the house that In 1953, the Ellsworth American still referenced by the Museum's staff. Colonel Black built 125 years ago. reported on the installation of a new In the 1990's, the long postponed It is the same house and yet it is not water main and hydrant at the Black task of rewriting the Trustees' by-laws the same. Alterations were made. House. According to Ellsworth Fire was accomplished. More materially, Furnishings were added, withdrawn Chief E. Robert Jordan, the water the front porch was repaired and and rearranged by three generations pressure was exceeding expectations. restorations were made to the famous of occupants. What a pity that the Also noted was the new Black House Dutch Bed Chair. Over 150 area good Colonel could not have seen fire call number, #18. New sills were students cleared, raked and smoothed Woodlawn as we see it today, with constructed under the office and a fire the first part of the horse track, as part its noble elms, which presumably he suppression system was installed inside of the Serve America Project. Later planted, grown to full stature." The the house to safeguard the collection. in the decade, the Museum created its "noble elms" went the way of the In the late 1960's a small cape, first Long Range and Strategic Plan, stables a few decades later, as Dutch called the "White House" and based largely on an extensive survey Elm disease ravaged most of the mature originally intended as a residence for a of public opinion and a thorough trees in North America. Three years caretaker, was built. The large nautical internal review of the Museum's need. after the stables were demolished, stern plate that had hung outside over Research has always played a Woodlawn received a monetary gift one of the doors to the barn was major role at Woodlawn. Noted 4 historians Wallace Nutting, Dr. first visiting Woodlawn to skate on the spruce were to be cut out. Many of the Richard G. Wood, Dr. David Smith, pond and then being treated to Mrs. large pines were infected with Pine and Mr. Earle Shettleworth, have Eliason's cookies and a mug of hot Rust. Hundreds of gooseberry bushes, used the rich collections and objects cocoa at the door of the Black House which act as vectors for the disease, had at Woodlawn to tell the broader ell. Other caretakers, custodians to be grubbed out. Where trees were history of the State of Maine. In the and maintenance supervisors have cut out, young spruce and pine trees early 1970s, the Woodlawn archives carried on the tradition of service were planted. Farrand recommended were microfilmed by the Maine State and care modeled by the Eliasons. replanting horse chestnuts by the Archives thus enabling more scholars The work of the caretakers has family tomb to replace those that to access the information contained had been lost, and she warned that in these unique records. Even after the seedling pines growing up in the 75 years, research at Woodlawn half-mile horse track would soon continues to expose important new obscure the view unless cut out at that information for the interpretation time. The track clearing was deemed and understanding of Maine history. to be of secondary importance, and George Nixon Black's gift to the Farrand's prediction about the pines people of Ellsworth was a curiosity in proved to be true. Today the area 1928; today it is recognized as a major inside the first horse-track loop is tool for the teaching of Maine history. shaded by towering 80 year-old trees. While the Trustees, Executive The formal garden, first laid out Committee, and Black House in 1903, was in need of attention by Committee, have been busy attending 1940 and Richard W. Hale attempted to short term emergencies and long to entice the Ellsworth Garden Club range goals, the museum visitor is to adopt it as a special project. The more likely to be impacted by meeting club declined the offer. Instead, the caretakers, or one of the seasonal Axel and Irma Eliason, long-time individuals stepped forward to refresh tour guides. The most legendary caretakers at Woodlawn. the beauty of the garden beds of caretakers were Axel and Irma Eliason. Woodlawn. In 1946, Ernst T. Paine While Axel took extraordinary care been augmented by an army of noted the especially generous gift of the grounds and buildings, Irma volunteers who have generously from Mrs. Cornelis and the Misses was famous for her immaculate donated countless thousands of hours Wing writing, "These ladies did much housekeeping, her warm hospitality in service to Woodlawn. Many of more than underwrite the garden. and her wonderful baking. It was these local people involved themselves They made sundry trips from Camden Mrs. Eliason who began the public primarily with the care of the grounds and Bangor with gardeners, tools, teas that have become such a beloved including the gardens, trails and forests roots and seedlings and personally Woodlawn tradition. While some that together form Ellsworth's largest transformed the jungle of tiger-lilies, visitors remembered the Eliason's public park. Of early concern was the golden glow and magenta phlox into a merely as polite hosts at the Black prevention of fire, and the cleaning up tasteful and colorful array of blooms." House, others recall what wonderful and thinning of the woodlands, which Other ideas that became reality neighbors the Eliasons were for over was carried out in part by CCC workers included immortalizing the house in 40 years. Hope McNally, who grew up from the Eagle Lake Camp. In 1933, art, and bringing music to the estate. on nearby Court Street, nostalgically Beatrix Farrand, a landscape architect While many photographers have remembered Axel Eliason calling his from Bar Harbor and Solon D. Conner, captured views of the house on film, Swedishaccent. John Superintendent of the Eagle Lake CCC Carroll Thayer Berry's famous print of Raymond, who served as President Camp, made a survey of the estate to it was produced in the 1930's. Copies of the Trustees in the 1960s, recalled determine a course of action. Firs and may still be had at the Museum Store. 5 In 1974, noted conductor, musician and a renewed sense of excitement Woodlawn. With this celebration, teacher Pierre Monteux, founder of the and enthusiasm for Woodlawn. the Hancock County Trustees of Domaine School of Music in Hancock, The Trustee's have also instigated Public Reservations honor the Black Maine offered to bring a group of a comprehensive Preservation family who created Woodlawn musicians to play at Woodlawn. Campaign aimed at correcting the and all those who have dedicated The performance was held Tuesday continual need for ad hoc maintenance themselves to the preservation of afternoon, July 30th. Classical music at and hurried repairs to the Museum's the estate ever since its opening. Woodlawn continues into the present buildings. To implement this project, In many ways, the 75th Anniversary with performances of chamber music the Trustees have launched a $1 million Gala and the Preservation Campaign by young musicians from Kneisel Hall. fundraising campaign (the details of is a rekindling of Richard W. Hale's In the year 2000, President which are included in this newsletter). passionate vision for Woodlawn, to Stephen C. Shea and a dedicated The successful completion of this be more than a quiet house on a hill. board of Trustees skillfully guided campaign will ensure Woodlawn's The Hancock County Trustees of Woodlawn during the transition from existence well into the future. Public Reservations are committed volunteer management to fulltime On August 20th, 2004, we invite to expanding the role that Woodlawn professional management. This all friends of Woodlawn, old and Museum plays in broadening our included the hiring of the Museum's new, to celebrate the 75th Anniversary understanding of Maine history and first Executive Director and a part-time of the opening of the museum. to seeing that this vital educational Collections Manager. Since then new Governor and First Lady Baldacci resource is always accessible to educational programs, a cataloging will lead the ceremonies and recreate scholars and visitors from near and far. of the collection, clear management the opening day 75 years ago when policies, the pursuit and acquisition on August 20th, 1929, Governor Special thanks to Stephen C. Shea, of grants, and the creation of special William Tudor Gardner was the Rosamond Rea, and Helen York for public events have stimulated first visitor to cross the threshold at their help in preparing this article. Historic Game Library at Woodlawn Museum With funding from the Maine Ms. Betsy Arntzen was hired by Community Foundation's Hancock the Museum to develop the Historic County Fund, the Woodlawn Museum Game Library. Since the summer of is pleased to announce the development 2003, Ms. Arntzen has researched of its Historic Game Library, a family the history of families, games, and oriented hands-on history space. The children's entertainment in Downeast game library is located in the Museum's Maine. All of the games picked for former potting shed. In the shed are Woodlawn's Historic Game Library reproductions of classic children's were actually played in Downeast games, such as hoops, graces, marbles, Maine in the 19th century, as based on and jump rope, that families can use, her research. playing and learning together. Each game is in a handsome wooden box For more information on the that includes instructions on how to Museum's new Historic Game Library, play the game and a description of the please call 667-8671. game's history. 6 Woodlawn Museum Preservation Campaign Case Statement "Woodlawn, including the land, buildings, furniture, and pictures therein shall be kept as a public park" -George Nixon Black, Jr. As I read this issue of our diamond anniversary. The Anniversary The entire brick façade is being newsletter, I am reminded that Committee has organized a number of cleaned and repointed. As this work Woodlawn is indeed a unique asset of wonderful events such as the Lecture has progressed, serious unexpected immeasurable historic and social value and Tour Series. There is something problems have been uncovered. It is to the residents of Eastern Maine. I feel of interest for everyone. The highlight now obvious that further delay is not confident you will be inspired, too. We, event will be Governor Baldacci's visit an option. This work must be done as friends of Woodlawn, know of the on August 20, a reenactment of the first now or Woodlawn could soon become many opportunities the architecture, visit of the Governor of Maine, August irreparable. collections, archives and grounds 20, 1929. Please attend one or more of Later this summer, the public provide for cultural and educational these events and bring someone with phase of the Woodlawn Preservation enrichment. There are many reasons you who has never been to Woodlawn. Campaign will begin. At this time that I am passionate about the value Expanding public awareness is one we need help from all the members of Woodlawn to our community, but of the simplest and most effective and friends of Woodlawn Museum. most importantly I believe Woodlawn ways you can contribute to our future Please take the time to read about helps young people develop a sense success. the Campaign in this newsletter. You of community and stewardship. This, Second, actively participate in the may also want to go to our website, in turn, encourages them to make this Woodlawn Preservation Campaign. http://www.woodlawnmuseum.com/to area their home. One year ago, the Board of Trustees review the full Project Case statement. The newsletter also reminds us that embarked on this campaign, the I think you will find it to be surprisingly since 1929, this incredible treasure has purpose of which is to raise one million interesting and informative. The Board been preserved by the tireless efforts dollars for the restoration of the exterior of Trustees and I will continue to take of hundreds of dedicated volunteers. of the mansion and carriage house, and an active role in this effort to preserve It is to these people that we owe an further, to establish an endowment, our remarkable treasure. We ask you immense debt of gratitude as we the income of which will fund future to partner with us in this important prepare to celebrate Woodlawn's 75th maintenance. I am happy to report to endeavor. anniversary as a public museum and you the progress the campaign has I look forward to seeing you at park. However, it is for our children made to date. We have reached one- Woodlawn this summer. that we have the responsibility to take third of the goal. All members of the actions now that will guarantee that Board of Trustees have made financial Best regards, Woodlawn will be here for them and contributions. In addition, the future generations. With these things Campaign has been awarded several in mind I am asking two favors of grants; others are now pending. The you: first phase of the restoration work is Stephen C. Shea, PRESIDENT First, come to Woodlawn this well underway. The summer porch and summer for the celebration of our north ell are currently being restored. 7 Campaign Goals To avoid this possibility, the Woodlawn Museum is undertaking a Woodlawn Museum is at a critical Preservation Campaign to raise at least junction between past and present. $1 million with the following goals: A recent Conservation Assessment Report makes clear that the main house Raise $600,000 to fund a and carriage barn are succumbing to comprehensive preservation project the ravages of moisture, accentuated by and improve handicap accessibility many years of deferred maintenance. This is destroying the original fabric Raise $400,000 to increase the size of the buildings and placing their of the endowment to fund a pro- original collections in grave danger. active maintenance plan for the If preventative actions are not taken, historic structures the buildings could reach a point of deterioration where it would be Woodlawn Museum must work to financially impossible for the Museum raise these funds to preserve the estate to correct them. Public and scholarly as it is now. Once this is accomplished, these most pressing preservation access would be severely limited we can begin to execute the long-term needs, we will not be able to expand and possibly denied. The collections educational goals that the Trustees our educational programs, build new would have to be removed, and future have planned to enhance the public's spaces for community and educational expansion of educational services enjoyment and use of the museum use or develop advanced storage space would be unthinkable. in the future. If we do not address needed for the collection. Every Gift is a Welcome Gift! Woodlawn holds a special place in our shared past and we must plan for its continuing place in our future. No matter how large or small, every gift, which can be made as a five-year pledge, is welcome in this community-wide effort to preserve and protect Woodlawn for generations to come. I/We pledge to give $ over the next year(s) to the Woodlawn Museum Preservation Campaign. The final payment will be paid on or before Payment schedule as follows: $ on (date) $ on (date) $ on (date) $ on (date) $ on (date) Name (individual, foundation, corporation) WOODLAWN M S E u M Corporate or Foundation Contact The Black House Address City/State/Zip Code Please mail completed form to: Telephone Fax Woodlawn Museum Signature Date / / P.O. Box 1478 Ellsworth, Maine 04605 It is the Museum intent to recognize all donors in a manner appropriate to the ambiance of Woodlawn. Please make checks payable to the I/We grant permission for my/our name to be listed in various campaign reports and Woodlawn Museum. acknowledgment publications and wish to be listed officially as: Your contribution is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Thank you! For information on donations of stocks, bonds, real-estate or other assets, call the Museum at 667-8671. 8 Project Description To correct these problems we have developed a major preservation Woodlawn Museum, which has not project consisting of 5 areas: undergone a large-scale preservation project since the 1930s, is in serious Stop moisture from penetrating condition. Moisture is penetrating the buildings and causing damage windows, doors, roof and gutters of I. Roof Drainage Systems the main house and the siding of the carriage barn. This moisture is rotting Correct existing damage structural and decorative details and II. Exterior Architectural and causing paint flaking on the exterior. Structural Elements It is also causing isolated damage to III. Interior Paint and Plaster the interior walls. Additionally, the where doing or not doing this project site has poor water drainage that is means the difference between major Correct the site drainage elevating humidity levels in the main replacement of building elements, IV. Site Drainage house and causing the foundation of the both decorative and structural, and carriage barn to crumble. The present merely being able to implement a more Improve handicap accessibility condition of the house puts it at a point normal routine maintenance program. V. Handicap Accessibility Long Range Plan The Trustees seek to use Woodlawn Museum, its grounds and collections, as well as the Black family archives, to teach the history of the development of Ellsworth and Eastern Maine. Our objectives in emphasizing the importance of this history are to: 1. Increase public knowledge of Maine history, especially the settlement and commercial development of To achieve this vision Woodlawn 3. Build an education/event center to Eastern Maine and its relevance to Museum must undertake to: protect, present, and enhance the our national history. assets of the estate. 1. Ensure continuing and effective 2. Inspire a deeper sense of place and preservation, interpretation and 4. Develop co-operative relationships pride in the community. presentation of the house and with related historic, cultural and grounds of the Woodlawn estate civic organizations. 3. Promote, in the tradition of the and the Black family archives. Black family, balanced economic 5. Develop sustaining sources of development for Ellsworth, 2. Establish a place of scholarship and income and a more substantial partnered with responsible research on the primary sources endowment to allow Woodlawn stewardship of the area's natural within the Woodlawn collection Museum to carry out its mission. and cultural resources. and Black family archives. 9 Professional Advisory Committee "Woodlawn relates to people on many levels. To the Woodlawn's Professional Advisory Committee will historian and scholarly community it is an unparalleled advise the Board of Trustees and staff during the treasure house of superb historical objects and decorative project. arts as well as being an architectural masterpiece and touchstone to Maine's "eastern lands" frontier history. Arlene Palmer Schwind, Portland To the casual visitor, it illuminates the sophistication Laura F. Sprague, Portland available to its upper classes in the relative far reaches of Thomas B. Johnson, York Maine in the early 19th century. As a public reservation, Sally W. Rand, Pownal its woods and landscaped grounds offer contemplative Christopher P. Monkhouse, Minneapolis/East Machias and recreational opportunities. Although it exists as such Jared I. Edwards, Hartford/Mount Desert already, further care and work in behalf of its staff, board Herbert Silsby, Ellsworth and volunteers will ensure its role as a cultural magnet to the Ellsworth/Mount Desert area." - Thomas B. Johnson Martha McNamara, Orono Eleanor G. Ames, Portland "Woodlawn is a rare historic resource of the highest Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Augusta quality which survives in relatively good condition with Carl Little, Ellsworth many irreplaceable historic artifacts and features still in William J. Murtagh, Penobscot/Sarasota place. It deserves our greatest care to preserve and protect it from unwarranted changes." - Jared I. Edwards A Spot of Tea: Woodlawn Develops It's Own Tea Blends Ever since Woodlawn's caretaker, list including the renowned Waldorf Irma Eliason, served a hot cup to a Astoria Hotel and the restaurants group of this local museum's visitors, Daniel and Chez Panisse. tea has been a tradition at the Black For Woodlawn, Harney & Sons House. Entries in the guest books has provided four exquisite teas. The praised Irma's baking skills, and many house blend, know as the Woodlawn is the visitor who recalls a warm teapot blend, is a mellow Orange Pekoe resting on the cast iron kitchen stove, variety. Marianne's blend, named or a refreshment taken in the beautiful after John Black's granddaughter is flower-lined gardens outside. a decaffeinated version of the same who conceived and executed the In celebration of this tradition, and blend. The patriarch, John Black, lends project. Each is labeled with color in honor of Woodlawn's first 75 years his name to a sumptuous Earl Grey portraits of the family members, as as a historic house, the museum has enlivened with the rare silver tips of the well as a history of the Woodlawn collaborated with Harney & Sons Tea tea plant, while his grandson George estate, and tea brewing instructions. Company to produce a group of teas Nixon Black, who left Woodlawn to They make fabulous gifts for friends that are Woodlawn's own. the public, is represented by a luscious or family. As one of the largest and most fruit-favored tea. respected firms in the tea blending and The blends are packed in four Tins of Woodlawn tea can be importing business, Harney & Sons stunning, rich-colored tins, designed purchased at the Museum Store. is still a family-owned New England by Jane Goodrich, an award winning company and has an impressive client product designer from Saturn Press 10 Woodlawn Museum 2004 Schedule of Events August 16 (5:30-7 PM) - Garden Lecture: Defining Flower Garden Spaces in the Larger Landscape Dr. Lois Stack Free lecture presented in conjunction with the Hancock County Extension Office. August 20 - 75th Anniversary Gala Event Celebrate Woodlawn's 75th Anniversary on the actual anniversary date of August 20 with a reenactment of opening ceremonies and a dinner and dance on the lawn. Please join us for this very special evening! September 9 (4 PM & 7 PM) - 75th Anniversary Lecture and Tour Series: The Tables are Set: Tablewares & Entertaining in Federal Maine Laura Fecych Sprague, INDEPENDENT MUSEUM CURATOR, PORTLAND 4 PM Free Lecture open to the Public 7 PM Private tour of Woodlawn led by Ms. Sprague with a small reception to follow. $25 per person ($20 per member). Reservations required, space limited. September I I - Family Game Day at Woodlawn Historic games, special tours of the Black House for families, and a lot of fun. Details to come! September I I - Appraisal Day (details TBA) October 9 (10 AM- 4 PM) - Autumn Festival Celebrate Autumn with fun activities for all ages. Some activities ticketed, many are free. November 6 (8 AM)- Fall Clean Up Day Help prepare Woodlawn for the long winter season and enjoy a free picnic lunch! December I I (4-7 PM)- 5th Annual Candlelight Evening Horse-drawn wagon rides, a bon fire, and lots of holiday cheer add to this free holiday event that features the lighting of the Ellsworth Community Christmas Tree and 500 luminaries! 11 WOODLAWN M u S E u M 1929 The Black House 2004 George Nixon Black, Jr., 1842-1928 Woodlawn Museum benefactor. Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage P A I D WOODLAWN Ellsworth, ME 04605 M u S E u M Permit No. 300 The Black House P.O. Box 1478 ROUTE 172 ELLSWORTH, ME 04605 **AUTO* MIXED ADC 040P#10*T#4 DR. RONALD H. EPP 47 PONDVIEW DR MERRIMACK NH 03054-4162 1/5/2016 Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Richard Walden Hale papers concerning Review of the news, 1918: Guide. Harvard University Library View OASIS: Online Archival Search HOLLIS Record Frames Version Information System Questions or Comments Copyright Statement MS Am 2458 Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Richard Walden Hale papers concerning Review of the news, 1918: Guide. Houghton Library, Harvard College Library VE TAS Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA C 2014 The President and Fellows of Harvard College Last update on 2014 April 2 Descriptive Summary Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University Location: b Call No.: MS Am 2458 Creator: Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Title: Richard Walden Hale papers concerning Review of the news, Date(s): 1918. Quantity: .25 linear feet (1 box) Language of materials: Collection materials are in English. Abstract: Letters, newsletters, and other materials concerning Hale's Review of the News sent to Richard Clarke Cabot while he was stationed with an American medical corps in France during World War I. Processing Information: Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt Acquisition Information: No accession number; Gift of Richard Walden Hale; received: 1929 June 24. Recataloged from H796.18F* http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou02496 1/4 1/5/2016 Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Richard Walden Hale papers concerning Review of the news, 1918: Guide. Access Restrictions: There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research. Preferred Citation for Publication: Richard Walden Hale Papers Concerning Review of the News, 1918 (MS Am 2458). Houghton Library, Harvard University. Historical Note Richard Walden Hale (1871-1943) was a Boston lawyer. Together with Dudley Huntington Dorr, he was a founder in 1918 of the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr. Richard Clarke Cabot was an American physician who advanced clinical hematology, was an innovator in teaching methods, and was a pioneer in social work. In 1917 Cabot took up a position in the Medical Reserve Corps for a year, and was stationed in Bordeaux, France. Arrangement Arranged alphabetically by author. Scope and Content Includes: correspondence between Richard Walden Hale and Ella Lyman Cabot and Richard Clarke Cabot concerning Hale's writing and sending the Review of the news to Cabot in France, while Cabot was with the medical corps (Massachusetts General Hospital unit) during World War I; typescript carbon copies of newsletters from 1918 May - December, and duplicate copies; 1929 letter of donation from Hale to Widener Library, Harvard University; and a 1918 letter from Hale to Henry Cabot Lodge concerning war reports he needed. Container List (1) Cabot, Ella Lyman. Letter to Richard Walden Hale; Waltham, 1918 May 15. 1 folder. Letter asking Hale to write newsletters and send them to Richard Clarke Cabot SO he can read them to the Massachusetts General Hospital Unit. (2) Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939. Postcards sent to Richard Walden Hale; Bordeaux, France, 1918. 1 folder. 10 postcards signed by Cabot and returned to Hale showing the current event weekly was received. Some includes brief comments by Cabot. (3) Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939. France invents - America organizes : printed clipping, 1918 September 7. 1 folder. Printed in Collier's. (4) Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Letter to Ella Lyman Cabot; Boston, 1918 May 18. 1 folder. He agrees to take on the newsletter task. http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/-hou02496 2/4 1/5/2016 Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Richard Walden Hale papers concerning Review of the news, 1918: Guide. (5) Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Letter to Richard C. (Richard Clarke) Cabot; Boston, 1918 May 22. 1 folder. Letter describing in detail how the "review of events" will be carried out. (6) Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Letter to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge; Boston, 1918 September 20. 1 folder. Requests copies of Senate airplane report and of the "important testimony." (7) Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Letter to Widener Library, Harvard University; Boston, 1929 June 24. 1 folder. Letter of donation of this set of papers. Hale explains that: "Professor Richard C. Cabot in June 1918 was in charge of a hospital at Bordeaux in France and was conducting weekly lectures on current news. By agreement with him I wrote him a news letter such as would have been written in the 18th or 17th Century from London to the country." (8) Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Review of the news : typescript carbon; Boston, 1918 May 18 - August 7. 1 folder. Some include annotations. Includes the following issues, covering these dates: 1918 May 18 1918 May 29 1918 June 5 1918 June 12 1918 June 19 1918 June 26 1918 July 3 1918 July 10 1918 July 13-17 1918 July 20-24 1918 July 25-29 1918 July 27-31 1918 August 3-7 (9) Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Review of the news : typescript carbon; Boston, 1918 August 14 - December 12. 1 folder. Some include annotations. Includes the following issues, covering these dates: 1918 August 14 1918 August 23 1918 August 28 1918 September 4 1918 September 7-11 1918 September 14-25 1918 October 11 1918 October 12-23 1918 October 5 - November 2 1918 November 9-16 1918 December 12 (10) Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Review of the news [duplicates] : typescript carbon; http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou02496 3/4 1/5/2016 Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Richard Walden Hale papers concerning Review of the news, 1918: Guide. - Boston, 1918. 1 folder. (11) Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943. Review of the news mailing accounts, 1918. 1 folder. Details postage spent on mailings. hou02496 http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/-hou02496 4/4 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 1 of 5 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (known as WilmerHale) is an American law firm with 14 offices across the Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr United States, Europe and Asia. It was created in 2004 through the LLP merger of the Boston-based firm Hale and Dorr and the Washington-based firm Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, and employs WILMERHALE WH a more than 1,000 attorneys worldwide. [1][2] The firm is recognized as one of the top law firms in the United States. [3] Headquarters Washington, D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts No. of offices 14 Contents No. of attorneys 1031 (2013) No. of employees approximately 2,500 1 History Major practice General Practice 2 Reputation areas 3 Clients 3.1 Clients Key people William F. Lee, William J. 3.2 A Civil Action Perlstein, Robert T. Novick, 3.3 Enron and WorldCom reports Susan W. Murley 3.4 Other notable and controversial clients Revenue A US$1.076b (2012) 4 Pro bono Date founded Boston, Massachusetts (1918); 4.1 Guantanamo controversy Washington, D.C. (1962) 5 Attorneys and lawyers 6 References Founder multiple 7 External links Company type Limited liability partnership Website www.wilmerhale.com History (http://www.wilmerhale.com) Hale and Dorr was founded in Boston in 1918 by Richard Hale, Dudley Huntington Dorr, Frank Grinnell, Roger Swaim and John Maguire. Reginald Heber Smith, author of the seminal work Justice and the Poor and a pioneer in the American legal aid movement, joined the firm in 1919 and served as managing partner for thirty years. Hale and Dorr gained national recognition in 1954 when partner Joseph Welch, assisted by associate James St. Clair and John Kimball, Jr., represented the U.S. Army on a pro bono basis during the historic Army-McCarthy hearings. In 1988, partner Paul Brountas chaired the presidential campaign of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, and in 1990, senior partner William Weld was elected governor. The firm has had a long and mutually profitable relationship with nearby Harvard Law School, alma mater of more than a fifth of WilmerHale's current lawyers, and home of the WilmerHale Legal Services Center. [4] Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering was founded in Washington in 1962 by former Cravath attorneys Lloyd Cutler and John Pickering, along with a senior lawyer, Richard H. Wilmer. Cutler, who later served as White House Counsel to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, founded the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in 1962, and served on its executive committee until 1987. In the 1980s, Cutler led the founding of the Southern Africa Legal Services and Legal Education Project, to aid South African lawyers who fought to implement the rule of law during apartheid. From 1981 to 1993, partner C. Boyden Gray left the firm to serve as White House Counsel to Vice President and President George H.W. Bush. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmer_Cutler_Pickering_Hale_and_Dorr 8/22/2015 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 2 of 5 In 1988, the law firm established a subsidiary as a registered investment adviser. Initially known as Haldor Investment Advisors, L.P., and then Hale Dorr Wealth Advisers. In 2008 Hale Dorr Wealth Advisors became Silver Bridge. [5] In 2003, partner Jamie Gorelick began serving as a member of the 9/11 Commission. The two firms merged to form Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in 2004. [2][1] In 2010, the law firm relocated its administrative support base to a new campus in Dayton, Ohio as it sought to streamline internal business operations across its many offices. [1] The office houses more than 200 employees from existing WilmerHale offices and new employees from the Dayton area. Individuals in the Business Services Center include administrative support staff, bringing together services such as finance, human resources, information technology services, operations, document review and management, and practice management, which will provide improved efficiencies for administrative teams and the firm, and reduce significant operational expenses. [6] On March 24, 2014, the firm announced that former FBI Director Robert Mueller has joined the firm. Reputation WilmerHale has ranked in the top 20 in the popular Vault "prestige" ranking of the top hundred American law firms and on the American Lawyer "A-List" of the nation's twenty leading law firms based on revenue per lawyer, pro bono work, associate satisfaction, and diversity. ¹ [3] According to the British magazine Legal Week, the firm ranked 14th among American law firms in terms of total revenue in 2006. [7] Clients Clients Among the companies that have recently been represented by WilmerHale attorneys include: Apple, Akamai Technologies, Amdocs, Analog Devices, AT&T, Avid, Bayer, Becton Dickinson, Biogen Idec, BJ's Wholesale Club, Boeing, Bose, Boston Scientific, Broadcom, Cephalon, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Chrysler LLC, Danaher, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Educational Testing Service, EMC, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, The Hartford Financial Group, Honda, HSBC Finance, John Hancock, JPMorgan Chase, Kodak, Lufthansa, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Monsanto, Morgan Stanley, Novartis, Oracle, Panera Bread, PerkinElmer, Pfizer, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Red Hat, Sepracor, Staples, Statoil, Sun Life Financial, Thermo Fisher Scientific, UBS, Varian Semiconductor, WebMD, Wyeth, and Yankee Candle. A Civil Action In the late 1980s, Hale and Dorr partner Jerome Facher represented Beatrice Foods in a suit by eight families from Woburn, Massachusetts who claimed that Beatrice, along with W.R. Grace, had polluted the town's water supply, resulting in an elevated number of leukemia cases and immune-system disorders. The case was memorialized in the book A Civil Action, by Jonathan Harr, and in a movie of the same name starring Robert Duvall as Facher and John Travolta as plaintiffs' lawyer Jan Schlichtmann. [8] Upon further discovery, the EPA took the case on and W.R. Grace was successfully indicted for making false statements. Both W. R. Grace and Beatrice Foods paid a total $64.9M to clean up the contaminated sites in Woburn, Massachusetts. Enron and WorldCom reports In the wake of news articles raising concerns about transactions between Enron and its CFO, Andy Fastow, lawyers from Wilmer Cutler & Pickering represented a special investigative committee of Enron's board of directors in an internal investigation into those transactions. The resulting report, known as the "Powers Report," laid out the facts that have been the predicate for much of the public discussion of Enron since that time. [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmer_Cutler_Pickering_Hale_and_Dor 8/22/2015 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 3 of 5 Similarly, after WorldCom's announcement that it would have to restate financial statements, the firm represented a special investigative committee of WorldCom's board of directors in performing an internal investigation into the accounting irregularities. The investigation resulted in a widely covered written report that detailed a variety of accounting issues as well as the role of management and the board of directors. [10] Other notable and controversial clients In 1986, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering represented corporate raider Ivan Boesky in high-profile Department of Justice and SEC proceedings, as well as multiple class actions based on his participation in insider trading violations. Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering represented Swiss banks accused of profiting from the Holocaust in their settlement negotiations with plaintiffs. The firm also represented Siemens AG, Krupp AG, and other German companies accused of exploiting forced laborers during the Nazi era. [11] Since 2005, WilmerHale has represented Senator William Frist in regard to an SEC insider trading investigation. [12] Pro bono Both Hale and Dorr and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering have a long history of involvement in pro bono work. WilmerHale has ranked at or near the top of The American Lawyer's pro bono ranking since the merger. In recent years, the firm has been involved in several high-profile cases. Among other things, it has: Successfully contended that the Eighth Amendment forbids the death penalty for persons under the age of eighteen in the United States Supreme Court case of Roper V. Simmons. This case was argued by former United States Solicitor General Seth Waxman. Represented Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold and other sponsors of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (known popularly as "McCain-Feingold") in defending the Act's constitutionality. Again, Seth Waxman argued the case in front of the Supreme Court, which upheld all of the core provisions of the Act. Represented the University of Michigan for six years, after its affirmative action policy was challenged as unconstitutional. The lawyers argued the cases in the Sixth Circuit and in the Supreme Court, which held, in Grutter V. Bollinger, that universities have a compelling interest in achieving the educational benefits of a racially diverse student body. Guantanamo controversy Main article: Guantanamo Bay attorneys A team of WilmerHale attorneys currently represents the "Algerian Six", a group of men who fell under suspicion of planning to attack the US embassy in Bosnia and who are now held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. [13] In 2006, attorney Melissa Hoffer, then part of the team with WilmerHale, delivered a speech in Caen, France, critical of U.S. detainee policy. [14] Other WilmerHale lawyers participating in the case include Stephen Oleskey, [15] Rob Kirsch,4 [16] Mark C. Fleming, Lynne Campbell Soutter, Jeffrey Gleason, Lauren Brunswick, and Adam Gershenson. In January 2007, Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, criticized WilmerHale and other major law firms for representing "the very terrorists who hit their bottom line back in 2001," and questioned whether such work was really being done pro bono or might actually receive funding from shadowy sources. [17] In a Wall Street Journal editorial criticizing Stimson, Harvard Law School professor (and former United States Solicitor General under President Reagan) Charles Fried wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmer_Cutler_Pickering_Hale_and_Dorr 8/22/2015 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 4 of 5 "It is no surprise that firms like Wilmer Hale (which represents both Big Pharma and Tobacco Free " Kids), Covington & Burling (which represents both Big Tobacco and Guantanamo detainees), and the other firms on Mr. Stimson's hit list, are among the most sought-after by law school graduates, and retain the loyalty and enthusiasm of their partners. They offer their lawyers the profession at its best, and help assure that the rule of law is not just a slogan but a satisfying way of life. "[18] In December 2007, Seth Waxman made the oral argument to the Supreme Court in Boumediene V. Bush which upheld habeas corpus rights for detainees at Guantanamo Bay. [19] Attorneys and lawyers Notable attorneys and lawyers, past and present: Hale and Dorr Wilmer Cutler & Pickering WilmerHale Fred Fisher John Bellinger III Charlene Barshefsky Robert Mueller Manuel Cohen Paul Brountas Reginald Heber Smith Lloyd Cutler Stephen Cutler James St. Clair Stavros Lambrinidis Jerome Facher Joseph Welch Paul A. Engelmayer Jamie Gorelick William Weld Timothy Dyk C. Boyden Gray Sally Katzen Robert Kimmitt John Pickering William F. Lee Barbara Olson William McLucas James Robertson Michelle Miller Alison J. Nathan William J. Perlstein Seth P. Waxman Steve Charnovitz David W. Ogden Gary Born References 1. Amanda Becker (May 3, 2010). "WilmerHale moving support staff to Ohio" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2010/04/30/AR2010043002684.html). The Washington Post. Retrieved May 7, 2013. 2. Anthony Lin (April 20, 2004). "Wilmer Cutler Joins Forces With Hale and Dorr" (http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp? d=1082131900146&slreturn=20130407152720). New York Law Journal. 3. "Recognition" http://www.wilmerhale.com/about/recognition/).About. WilmerHale. Retrieved May 7, 2013. 4. "WilmerHale Legal Services Center" http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/lsc/). Harvard Law School. Retrieved May 7, 2013. 5. The Boston Globe, "Hale and Dorr launches "Silver Bridge Advisors", September 29, 2008 6. "Dayton - Business Services Center" (http://www.wilmerhale.com/pages/officedetails.aspx?officeId=11555).Offices. WilmerHale. Retrieved May 7, 2013. 7. "Top 50 US Firms 2006" http://wsj.com/public/resources/documents/legalweekl.pdf)( (PDF). Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 7, 2013. 8. Dead link May 7, 2013 (http://home.earthlink.net/~dkennedy56/woburn_harr.html) 9. Dead link May 7, 3013(http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/enron/1771735.html)/ Houston Chronicle 10. Larry Schlesinger (June 10, 2003). "WorldCom report: Sullivan masterminded fraud"(http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/news/1752398/worldcom-report-sullivan-masterminded-fraud).Accountancy Age. Retrieved May 7, 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmer_Cutler_Pickering_Hale_and_Dorr 8/22/2015 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 5 of 5 11. Michael J. Bazyler (Fall 2004). "Suing Hitler's Willing Business Partners: American Justice and Holocaust Morality" (http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-bazyler-f04.htm). Jewish Political Studies Review (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) 16 (3-4). 12. Dead link NBC News as of May 8, 2013 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9558504/site/newsweek/ 13. Melissa Hoffer (April 20, 2006). "Torture in Guantánamo" (http://old.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=13493) Cageprisoners Ltd. Retrieved May 8, 2013. 14. Melissa Hoffer. "La leçon de Guantanamo" (http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/plaidoiries/pop_plaid.php?plaid=7)(video and transcript text and pdf) (in video in English and transcript in French). TV5Monde. Retrieved May 8, 2013. 15. "Top Pentagon Official Calls for Boycott of Law Firms Representing Guantanamo Prisoners"(http://www.democracynow.org/2007/1/17/top_pentagon_official_calls_for_boycott).Democracy Now!. January 17, 2007. Retrieved May 8, 2013. 16. "The folks who brought us Brainwashing and ECT try to clean up (http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/news/americas/us/us_psychologists_doctors_medics_and_torture.htm):Psychologists, Guantanamo and Torture" article by Stephen Soldz on Counterpunch August 1, 2006, accessed May 8, 2013 17. "Bush Lawyer Blasts Law Firms For Representing Detainees" (http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/01/12/bush-lawyer-blasts- corporate-law-firms-for-representing-detainees/) post by Peter Lattman on Law Blog [Wall Street Journal] on the cases, trends and personalities of interest to the business community, January 12, 2007 18. "Stimson Under Fire" (http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/01/16/stimson-under-fire/) post by Peter Lattman on Law Blog [Wall Street Journal] on the cases, trends and personalities of interest to the business community, January 16, 2007 19. "Supreme Court Rules that Guantanamo Detainees Have Constitutional Right to Habeas Corpus" (http://www.wilmerhale.com/about/news/newsDetail.aspx?news=1169 Wilmer Hale press release, June 12, 2008, retrieved on June 13, 2008 External links WilmerHale (http://www.wilmerhale.com) WilmerHale History (http://www.wilmerhale.com/about/history/) "Long, Long Law Firm Names Grow Short and Snappy http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/09/28/those_long_long_law_firm_names_grow_shortsnappy/)", from The Boston Globe "WilmerHale: A Merger's Tale (http://www.masslawyersweekly.com/wilmer_hale.cfm)", from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Wilmer_Cutler_Pickering_Hale_and_Dorr&oldid=664073831" Categories: Intellectual property law firms I Biopharmaceutical law firms Law firms established in 2004 Law firms based in Washington, D.C. | Law firms based in Boston, Massachusetts This page was last modified on 26 May 2015, at 06:02. 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