1950s

JOSEPH J. SAVITZ L’51, Of Counsel to Rosenn, Jenkins & Greenwald, was reelected in February as vice chairman of the Board of Directors of the John Heinz Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Savitz has been a board member of this 94-bed rehab institution for more than 10 years. He is also a trustee emeritus of Wilkes University, having served on that university’s board since 1958 and as its board chairman from 1975 to 1978.

MORRIS M. SHUSTER W’51 L’54 received the Pennsylvania Legal Services Excellence Award at a ceremony in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in March. The award recognizes Shuster’s long support of public interest law and his establishment of the fellowship fund at the Philadelphia Bar Foundation. Shuster has also been a generous contributor to the Law School, supporting the Public Interest Scholars Program, the Shuster Moot Trial Court Room, and the Colin S. Diver Distinguished Chair in Leadership. Shuster is Of Counsel at Chimicles & Tikellis LLP, concentrating his practice in consumer class actions against banks and insurance companies. He has served as a full-time faculty member at Penn Law, and now serves as an adjunct professor. He has also served as president of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers’ Association.