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Vol. XXXVI, No. 1]
MAY, 1942
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FOR CIRCULATION
AMONGST MEMBERS
MEETING
OF THE COUNCIL.
16th April, 1942.
Twenty-seven members present.
The late Mr. W. G. Wakely.
A letter from the family of the late Mr. V7.
G. Wakely, acknowledging sympathy and
floral tribute from the Council, was read.
A letter from the Right Hon. Sir Thomas
F. Molony, Bart., late Lord Chief Justice of
Ireland, expressing sympathy and apprecia
tion of our late Secretary was also read.
The appointment of a Secretary to the
Society was considered and it was referred
to a Special Committee
to advertise the
vacancy and deal with applications and
report to the next meeting of the Council.
SECRETARYSHIP.
An advertisement appeared
in various
newspapers in Dublin, Belfast and Cork,
asking for applications for the vacant.post
of Secretary to the Society, replies to be
received by the 30th April, 1942.
NEW SECRETARY.
At its meeting on the 14th May the Council
had before it the report of
the Special
Committee and appointed Mr. Eric A. J.
Plunkett, B.A., to be the new Secretary.
Mr. Plunkett was educated at Belvedere
and Clongowes Wood Colleges and served
his apprenticeship with the late Mr. John
J. McDonald and was admitted a Solicitor
in Easter Sittings 1932. He continued to
practise with Mr. McDonald's firm at 116
Grafton Street after he was qualified.
He is a first-class Honoursman and Ex
hibitioner of
the National University of
Ireland and obtained second place in the
Legal and Political Science Group at the
B.A. Examination held in the Autumn of
1930.
He obtained First Place
in the
Society's Intermediate Examination for Sol
icitors' Apprentices
in
1929 and Second
Place with Silver Medal in the Final Exam
ination in October 1931.
He was Auditor
of
the Solicitors' Apprentices' Debating
Society in 1930-31 and was awarded a Gold
Medal for Impromptu Speaking, Silver Medal
for Legal Debate and Special Certificate
for Oratory in the 1929-30 Session.
Mr. Plunkett will take up his new duties
as Secretary on 1st June.
He received a hearty welcome at the
Half-Yearly General Meeting of the Society
held on the 15th May.