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and “The bull fight” by F. Gonzalez
Gamarra. Conservator Joel M. Burki
is restoring the paintings and the more
than 90-year-old wooden frames.
Raphael Steinhardt
Judge Steinhardt also donated funds to run the Veterans Law
Institute and to the Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library at
Stetson. He previously served more than 25 years on Stetson
Law’s Board of Overseers. He has endowed several scholarships
and awards at Stetson Law including the Judge Raphael Steinhardt
Public Interest Scholarship, the Judge Raphael Steinhardt
Public Interest Wage & Salary Supplement Scholarship, and
the Judge Raphael Steinhardt Veterans Scholarship. He is the
recipient of Stetson’s Ben C. Willard Alumnus of the Year Award
and the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
ALUMNUS SENIOR JUDGE
RAPHAEL STEINHARDT
FUNDS RESTORATION OF
HISTORIC PAINTINGS AT
STETSON LAW
B Y B R A N D I PALMER
Stetson Law alumnus Senior Judge Raphael Steinhardt
J.D. ’63, a 2013 Stetson Law Hall of Fame inductee and
namesake of the Judge Raphael Steinhardt Building that
houses the Veterans Law Institute at Stetson, has recently
made a donation to restore five large historic oil paintings on
Stetson’s Gulfport campus. The campus was previously the home
of the Florida Military Academy and was built originally as the
Rolyat Hotel in the 1920s.
The paintings include figurative works depicting scenes from
beaches to bull fights and include “Gypsy girl,” “Interior figural
scene,” and “La serenata,” by Victor Robbian and “After the bath”
WIL FLORIN J.D. ’80 JOINS BOARD OF TRUSTEES
B Y J U L I E M C H A F F I E
Florin | Roebig partner Wil Florin J.D.
’80 has been selected to join Stetson
University’s Board of Trustees. Florin has
served as an adjunct professor in trial practice as
well as a host and keynote speaker for the annual
Friends and Family Day event at Stetson Law.
Along with the appointment to the Board of
Trustees, Florin will continue to serve his second
three-year term as an active member of the
Stetson Law Board of Overseers.
As an alumnus of Stetson Law, Florin has
remained actively involved with the law school. In 1993, the
firm of Florin | Roebig constructed a large and technologically
advanced teaching courtroom on the Gulfport
campus. The firm also has sponsored the
law school’s annual traveling Civil Rights
Movement course since 2003. Research from
the Civil Rights Movement course is featured
in the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Due
to their continued support of the College
of Law, Florin and Tommy Roebig J.D. ’86
were awarded the Paul M. May Meritorious
Service Award by the Stetson Lawyers Alumni
Association in 2007.
Florin will serve a four-year term on the Stetson University
Board of Trustees.
Wil Florin
Conservator Joel Burki explains the
restoration process.