News Travels to Texas

After Meyer graduated, the local newspaper, The Bridgeport Sunday Herald wrote an article about the newest member of the law firm Shapiro and Shapiro. This article then got picked up by a newspaper in Houston, Texas called the Jewish Herald. They reprinted the article sharing many of Meyer's accolades with readers throughout the Jewish community. Another proud moment for the Shapiro family. Here is the front page of the newspaper, which gives a feeling for the look of the newspapers at that time. It is then followed by the article about Meyer and the transcription of the article.

HIGHEST HONOR THAT YALE COULD BESTOW.
Youthful Jewish Law Student Whose Name Will Be Enrolled with Noted American Jurists
(From the Bridgeport, Conn.,Sunday)
At the recent Yale commencement President Hadley conferred upon Meyer Merwin Shapiro of this city (Bridgeport) the highest honors that have ever been bestowed upon a Jewish student at Yale Law School. Mr. Shapiro was awarded the "Phelps Montgomery" prize for passing the highest examinations and his name will now be inscribed on the "Tablet of Honor" at Yale Law School, where the names of so many noted American jurists are enrolled. He also received the degree of L.L.B. Magna Cum Laude, the highest honor conferred upon any member of this year's graduating class in Yale Law School, for maintaining the highest excellence in all studies during his course. This entitled him to be class marshal at the commencement exercises.
As a result of his high standing in his class he was elected to the "Xi Tau Kappa," the honor fraternity at Yale Law School. Mr. Shapiro was very popular with his classmates, and was voted the hardest worker as well as one of those members of his class most likely to succeed. It is to his credit that he worked his way through Yale after having the misfortune of losing his father while a mere child. He was born in New York City, January 1 1889, of Russian Jewish parents in humble circumstances, and received his education in the public schools of Bridgeport and the New Haven high school, where he was also awarded honors on his graduation.
He has recently passed the Connecticut bar examinations, and intends to take up the practice of law at Bridgeport, Conn., with his brothers, Messrs. Charles H. Shapiro, an honor man in the Yale Law School of 1903, and Joseph G Shapiro, an honor man in the Yale Law School class of 1907, and winner of the first parliamentary law prize awarded a Jewish student at Yale
The Jewish Herald (Houston, Texas), Vol. 3, No. 3, Ed. 1, Friday September 30, 1910

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