The Gazette 1976

THE PRESIDENT, MR. BRUCE ST. JOHN BLAKE

Mr. Bruce St. John Blake (40), a Galwayman, has been elected President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. His father, Mr. Henry St. John Blake, was the Society's President in 1946/47. The New President who is a graduate in Arts and Law of the National University of Ireland from University College, Galway, was Auditor, Solicitors' Apprentices Debating Society, 1960/61, and was a founder-member and first Chairman of the Society of Young Solicitors, 1965/67. He was first elected to the Incorporated Law Society's Council in 1966 and was senior vice-President for the past year. Mr. Blake's wife, Mary Grace, is also a solicitor.

Mr. Joseph Laurence Dundon (36), the Senior Vice- President, is a son of the former Law Agent of Limerick Corporation. Mr. Dundon was educated at Clongowes Wood College and University College, Dublin. He qualified as a solicitor in 1962, and was appointed a Notary Public in 1963. He has been practising in Limerick since 1962, and amalgamated with P. E. O'Donnell & Son to form the firm of O'Donnell, Dundon & Co. in 1969. Mr. Dundon was first elected to the Council of the Law Society in 1967 and is President of the Limerick City and County Bar Association for 1976/77.

Mr. Walter Beatty (43), the Junior Vice-President, was educated at Xavier's School, Donnybrook, and obtained a B.A. Degree in University College, Dublin, in 1953. He was admitted in Easter Term, 1955, and has been practising since with the firm of Vincent & Beatty in Dublin. Mr. Beatty was first elected to the Council in 1967.