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...Harvard managed to forget Blackmun quickly, Blackmun never forgot Harvard. He contributed biographies of himself to every report of his class. In his Decennial Report, in 1939, he writes that he has served as a law clerk to a Federal Judge in St. Paul, and is now a tax specialist. In addition, he is a junior partner in a law firm in St. Paul, and teaches Real Property at St. Paul College of Law. He is a member of the Tennis Club of St. Paul, and secretary of the Hennepin County Bar Association...
Even after he graduated from the College, Blackmun left little to remember him by. As a law student, he lived in Lowell P-23, and was a mathematics tutor. A professor of Mathematics who was also a Lowell House tutor at that time gave his recollection of Blackmun: "I was aware of his presence. As I recall, he was clean-shaven. That's really all I can remember about him." Elliot Perkins '23, former Master of Lowell House, has no memory of this quiet math student. "I was assistant dean for his class when they were freshmen and sophomores...
...that same Decennial Report, Blackmun and his classmates are subjected to a statistical breakdown. The median income of all the lawyers in his class is $3,000.00. One makes $11,000, another makes $100.00. Blackmun's income is not given, but it was probably at neither extreme. Three hundred and one of his classmates are Republicans, three hundred and thirty-six are Independents, eighty seven are Democrats, and ten are Socialists. They oppose President Roosevelt...
...YEARS later, Blackmun and his class have changed. The atmosphere is more liberal, and Blackmun is more disillusioned. In his biography, he says: This is my sixteenth year in the practice of law with Dorsey, Colman, Barker, Scott and Barber in Minnesota. We feel far removed from the current of Harvard activities in the East, but every now and then some visiting fireman from the class wanders west unexpectedly. The few of us who are out here are always glad to renew acquaintances...
...tone of pessimism in this report is emphasized five years later, in the class of '29's Twenty-Fifth Reunion Report. Amid biographies of his classmates Leroy Anderson, John K. Fairbank, Alwyn Pappenheimer, and others, Blackmun announces that he has given...