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With the honoring of Judge Barbara Jones at the 2013 Judges Dinner fresh in our minds, it may be useful to reflect on another judicial honoree of an earlier era in order to reinforce our awareness of our Associa­tion’s long-standing tradition of honoring judges.

The honoree at the 1933 Judges Dinner was Hon. Arthur Carter Denison. Judge Denison sat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for two decades running from 1911 until 1931.

In 1933, the Waldorf hotel complex was essentially brand new. It was widely considered to be the leading hotel in the world. It must have been quite a sight to behold at the time, particularly as a counter-point to the gloom and doom of the Great Depression that had settled in across the nation then. The “old” Waldorf, which had been located on Fifth Avenue, was torn down to make way for the construction of the Empire State Building.