The Cincinnati Post from Cincinnati, Ohio • 19

Vi metro Thu Cincinnati Post Tuesday February 1913 Seasongood: 'giant in his time' By Leonard Panix and Robert White Pott Staff Rtporttn History will remember Murray Season-good principally as a leader of municipal reform movement and as a tireless promoter of the city manager form of government Those who knew him during his 104-year life will remember his warmth His wit His knowledge of the law His devotion to the arts Perhaps more than anything they will remember his highly developed moral sense "THE THING that marks Murray Seasongood Is how well he did so many said Dr William A Baughln a University of Cincinnati history professor whose doctoral dissertation on Mr Season-good Is being revised Into a book was really a charming man He had an extremely forceful Baughln said those who knew Mr Seasongood are fond of saylng that "wherever Murray sits down Is the head of the auafk was In his Hilton said "They all thought he was HILTON SAID death was something Mr Seasongood occasionally Incorporated Into his humor and he was "full of one-line "He would tell me say losing my mind but I don't miss It "He also told me once Hob I remind myself of an old college professor who had the same student In his class for four years but could never remember his name one day the student stood up and told him his name Later the professor met the student at some point In time and called him by his name The student was elated but the professor said to him It means so much to you for me to know your name been calling all of my students by your name so I would be sure and get It right1 Hilton said Mr Seasongood was "an old-fashioned man superbly educated He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and got a master's degree then went on to Harvard Law School was educated In the old-fashioned way He knew Latin French Greek wrote a casebook on municipal government gave speeches at Harvard and argued cases before the US Supreme HIS BIOGRAPHER described Season-good as a 'legal scholar of the first who earned a reputation as a trial lawyer early In his career "He was the oldest living graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School In the whole said Alan Vogeler president of the Cincinnati Bar Association "He was a remarkable scholar and a great lawyer and we will miss him Hilton said was very active In the Clovemook Home and School for the Blind He read to the blind personally many many Baughln said Seasongood was generous but like to brag about It When he and his wife gave the money for the UC Faculty Club the school put their names on It and he demanded the names be taken down was personally brave without question It took a great deal of courage to make the political stand he did Revenge was taken on some men Homes were lost and a couple of attorneys were disbarred -Seasongood was Independently wealthy and be touched that way but there was a time when people feared he was In physical danger Police guarded his home without his Baughln described Seasongood as sucker for Justice of any kind He had great corporations as clients but he paused un- Eald to help a woman dispossessed from er home Another time he dropped everything to help an old lady In a dispute over ownership of a dog "He was tenacious he was persistent and he would win such cases" Another former mayor Ted Berry said of Mr Seasongood "He lived a very full life and contributed a great deal to Cincinnati He was a giant In his time and we need more like him We will miss As a child In 1977 In 1958 In 1938 Mr Seasongood died about 7:15 pm Monday In his Hyde Park home where he had spent most of his time In recent years Dr Robert Smith his personal physl- clan said Mr Seasongood died In his sleep of congestive heart failure "Until the end he led a very active full Baughln said Smith said the death of his wife Agnes last year was a great blow but through his last days Mr Seasongood took great Interest In what was going THAT INTENSE Interest led the well-educated son of German Jewish Immigrants to become Involved In the overthrow of the Republican political machine In the early 1820s Baughln said It wasn't political ambition as much as combativeness and concern for ethics that led Mr Seasongood Into the fray that produced the type of government Cincinnati has today "What Mr Seasongood did was Ignite a lot of public outrage at the kind of corrupt politics that were present In Cincinnati In the said former Mayor Bobble Sterne a member of the Charter Party Mr 1 Seasongood helped form "He was a great orator and developed a tremendous following" ROBERT HILTON a Cincinnati attorney whose aunt was a member of the Inner circle that produced the Charter Party said: "If ever there was a man who taught people how to be morally Indignant he was the one "Cincinnati had the reputation as the worst-governed city In the UJ3 before Mur-' ray made It the best-governed city In the country People would come here to see how this miracle occurred They would be shown the new mayor Murray Season- Mr Seasongood was the oldest member of the 133-year-old Cincinnati Literary Club that Hilton currently heads and was president exactly 50 years ago "I remember him coming here when he Murray Seasongood with his wife Agnes on his 100th birthday in 1978 All-black county schools foreseen hoods and black schools will be In the future DURING THE 1171s blacks moved from the urban core area By Nancy Moncriaf Pott Staff Ptparttr Northwestern Hamilton County will have a number of all-black Standing room only KINGS ISLAND Ohio Daredevils who always wanted to ride a roller coaster standing up will get their chance next year when the first stand-up loop coaster opens at Kings Island "The sensation of weightlessness Is really enhanced by the standing said Walt Davis director of Kings Island park operations He and another Kings Island representative went to Japan last year to ride one of the stand-up coasters "We were pretty pleased with Davis said so Kings Island will be getting a larger version of the ride In 1984 munlty but It has been replicated reasonable school superintendents In older cities across the country" to move toward a metropolitan ap-Manleysald proach to education for reasons of fiscal survival and educational YOUNG BLACK families seek efficiency housing In the suburbs out of the central city "This trend has been FACT THAT our county Is perceivable In the Greater Clncln- In a state of controversy over natl area for the last 20 years and school desegregation may make has accelerated In the last rational discussion of this alterna- Because of the trend Manley nearly Impossible In most clr-and Dale said "it Is reasonable to cleS-" expect we will see the develop- Manley said It will be hard to ment of a number of all-black blame school and governmental neighborhoods and even all-black institutions If predominantly municipalities These will bring black schools develop In northwest with them a concentration of Hamilton County -blacks In all-black the other he said The only way to stop It Is to is more likely than not that nel-develop education on a metropoll- ther the government of the state of tqn basis Manley said Ohio nor of the school districts In my Manley said Hamilton County will do aything to effectively stop the current fiscal problems of schools by the turn of the century into the suburban-llke city nelgh-unless education Is dealt with on a borhoods and Into the county sub-metropolitan basis according to urbs of the northwest quadrant Cincinnati attorney Robert The quadrant Includes the area Manley north of the city of Cincinnati and west of the Mlllcreek Valley ln- ThafS not likely to happen ac- eluding Springfield Township and cording to Manley who was speak- the eastern portion of Coleraln lng at today's Cincinnati Human Township Relations Commission 40th Anniversary Symposium on Institutional Racism Manley and Gregory Dale a city planner with the Manley Jordan ft Fischer law firm analysed Information on the residential movement of blacks and reached certain conclusions about where predominantly black nelghbor- School districts affected by that movement are Greenhllls-Forest Park Mt Healthy North College Hill Flnneytown Wyoming and the Northwest School District The exception Is the Princeton School District Dale said suburbanisation of blacks In Hamilton County Is not a phe- nomena that Is unique to this com- public Institutions would cause i Bars' judicial rating system probed Manufactured by Togo Japan Inc of Tokyo the steel coaster carries riders In an upright standing position rather than In the traditional sitting position ONLY TWO similar coasters are operating both In Japan The Kings Island ride will be larger than either of those said FR Bush vice president and general manager of the park With 2034 feet of track the new coaster will feature a 95-foot lift a 380-degree loop reaching a height of 66 feet and a 545-degree helix over a lake through which the track Is banked 80 degrees It will reach a maximum speed of 50 mph during the two-mlnute ride Bush who also went to Japan to test ride the coaster said It will cost approximately 13 million and will be In the entertainment area of the Wild Animal Safari section and In the adjoining Ok-toberf est area of the park CONSTRUCTION OF the new coaster will begin this spring said Ruth Voss Kings Island about the endorsement procedures from Judges and lawyers across the state MEMBERS of the bar and bench have expressed concern that polls conducted by bar associations are little more than popularity contests dominated by partisan said McGory New York City Bar Association and the Chicago Council of Lawyers have steered clear of polls for this reason and have come up with endorsement systems that are much more In announcing the decision Chief Justice Frank Cele-bresse said he hopes for a strong-independent and elected Judiciary In Ohio 1 Cincinnati bar said today that procedures used locally are not popularity contests "THE JUDICIAL selection committee has produced what we feel are accuarte reflections of the qualifications of the Judicial candidates who are he said ratings are free from political considerations We In the Judicial selection committee what we believe are knowledgeable members of the public non-lawyers addition to the Interviews with candidates we also have a barwide poll of the qualities of members we also Interview attorneys who have handled cases before i By Paul Harasim Pott Staff Ptpontr The Ohio Supreme Court today ordered a study of practices and procedures used by state and local bar associations In evaluating Judicial candidates The study will be made by an 18-member committee named today The committee Includes Hamilton County Prosecutor Simon Lels Jr Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge David Albanese and Cincinnati attorney Nicholas Perrlno John McGory the supreme public Information officer said the committee was appointed because of numerous complaints public and the electorate deserve to be given factual Information during the election process based upon unbiased Judicial Celebrezse said brother James who was elected to the state supreme court In November was listed as "not for the office by the Ohio State Bar Association LOCAL ATTORNEY Perrlno said he looks forward to seeing how the Cincinnati Bar Association and the state bar compare with the practices of other states Lels and Albanese could not be reached for comment The finding will be reported to the state supreme court Alan Vogler president of the She said the coaster features a restraining belt on the waist as well as straps for the arms and Is "extremely Kings Island already has several roller coasters Including The Beast the longest and fastest coaster Davis said The Bat another thrill ride at the park Is expected to reopen this year The Bat was closed much of last year due to mechanical prob lems mmm mmm A Ml.