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Burke Woods Shartel
The Michigan Alumnus 173-185
The Michigan Alumnus 173-185
Burke Shartel comes to Michigan this year from the University of Illinois, where he has been teaching law for the past year. He was born January 9, 1889, in Sedan, Kansas. After three and a half years of undergraduate work at Michigan he spent some time abroad in travel and language study.
Returning to Mich igan he received his A.B. degree in 1911 and J.D. degree in 1913, and in 1919, after a year of graduate law work in Cambridge, the degree of S.J.D. from Harvard. From 1913 to 1917 he practiced law in Oklahoma City, Okla homa, as a member of the firm of Shartel, Dudley and Shartel. From April, 1918, to De cember, 1918, he was stationed at Boston, Mass., with the Intelligence Service.
Mr. Shar tel married Miss Elisabeth Roth, of Okla homa City, June 15, 1920.