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Memorial Service for James S. Mofsky

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University of Miami Law SchoolInstitutional RepositoryUniversity of Miami Law Review9-1-1990Memorial Service for James S. MofskyMary DoyleUniversity of Miami School of LawFollow this and additional works at: http://repository.law.miami.edu/umlrPart of the Law CommonsThis James S. Mofsky: A Tribute is brought to you for free and open access by Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Universityof Miami Law Review by an authorized editor of Institutional Repository. For more information, please contact library@law.miami.edu.Recommended CitationMary Doyle, Memorial Service for James S. Mofsky, 45 U. Miami L. Rev. 1 (1990)Available at: http://repository.law.miami.edu/umlr/vol45/iss1/2University of Miami Law ReviewVOLUME 45 SEPTEMBER 1990 NUMBER 1Memorial Service for James S. Mofsky*MARY DOYLE**The cause that brings us together this afternoon is one of griev-ous sadness and regret. But even so, I welcome you with a feeling ofpride in our common memories and optimism for the future-as JimMofsky would bid me welcome you.As he welcomed Bernie Oxman and me when we visited threeshort weeks before his death, "Barbara, if you please, bring some ofthat delicious cake for Bernie and Mary." Barbara graciously headedout to the kitchen. "She's the best," he said to us. And of course weagreed, because she is.So I presume to greet you today on Jim's behalf, and to offersome sweet recollections of a talented and generous teacher, a lawyerof the finest calibre, a deeply loving and beloved husband and father,and a surpassingly fine friend, amply graced with compassion, withunderstanding, and, as my Dad would say, with the "spirit of jokes."Emily Dickinson has a haunting poem in which she describes adeath in the family, the passing itself, the comings and goings thatfollow, and the tasks that have to be done putting things to right. Thelast line of the poem catches the sorrowful family and friends as theytry finally to return to ordinary life:Then an awful leisure was belief to regulate.All of us are struggling with disbelief at Jim's death, and that "awfulleisure" is likely to be with us for a long, long time.* On September 9, 1990, the University of Miami School of Law held a memorial servicefor Professor James S. Mofsky. The following tributes contain excerpts from that service.** Mary Doyle is Dean of the University of Miami School of Law.

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