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DIED. Soia Mentschikoff, 69, Russian-born legal scholar and educator who specialized in commercial law and broke down many professional barriers: in 1947 she became the first woman to teach law at Harvard, in 1951 the first at the University of Chicago; from 1974 until her 1982 retirement, she was dean of the University of Miami law school, one of the first women so appointed at an accredited U.S. institution; of cancer; in Coral Gables...
Troopers' Tongues. At the top of the profession, the law school professorships and law-firm partnerships are still largely closed to women. Yet Lawyer Soia Mentschikoff, 49, has achieved both. She was made a partner in a prominent Wall Street law firm in 1944, taught law at Harvard from 1947 to 1949, since 1950 has been at the University of Chicago Law School, teaching a range of topics from arbitration to an advanced course in "Law in the Behavioral Sciences." Her wise observation is that by acting naturally as a woman, "appealing to the emotional component present...
Women have never before been accepted as students, although a woman--Sola Mentschikoff--has been a visiting professor for the last two years...
George E. Lee 3L and George J. Zazas '47 3L of the Choate Club defeated their opponents, Rhodes J. Lockwood, Jr. 3L and Milton A. Dauber 3L of the Mentschikoff Club, in the final round of the Ames Competition last night...
...Miss Mentschikoff, Columbia Law School '37, is now engaged in active practice in New York City as a partner in the Wall Street firm of Spence, Hotchkiss, Parker, and Duryes...