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chairman of the English Department at Kent State University in Ohio
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- Chicago Tribune Historical Archive
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Source Text: HAROLD MAROVITZ, RETIRED ATTORNEY, BOXING JUDGE
By Jerry Thornton
Services for Harold Marovitz, 86, a retired attorney and former boxing j
udge, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in the chapel at 5206 N. Broadway.
Mr. Marovitz died Tuesday in his North Side home. He retired from law p
ractice last year.
He was a lawyer for 63 years and was a founding partner of the Loop law f
irm of Marovitz & Marovitz, which he began with his brother, Abraham Li
ncoln Marovitz, now a senior U.S. District Court judge. Their younger b
rother, Sydney, who died in April, later became a partner.
`TMHe was really the best all-around lawyer between the three of us,`TM J
udge Marovitz said. `TMHe was the bookman. He did all our brief work and k
ept us abreast of the changing laws.
`TMHe was highly ethical and a great influence on my life and my brother
`s. He was the dean. We were three brothers, but the best part of it wa
s we were three friends.`TM
Mr. Marovitz was a member of the American Bar Association, Illinois Sta
te Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association, where he was on the b
oard of managers and active in committee work.
A lifelong Chicago resident, he garduated from Kent Law School in 1925.
`TMAside from being a lawyer, he was very active with the state boxing c
ommission during the heydays of boxing,`TM said his son, James, a Deerfi
eld village trustee.
`TMHe was a man of great integrity,`TM his son said. `TMHe was known to be v
ery honest and straightforward. You always knew where you stood with hi
m.`TM
A senior boxing judge for the Illinois State Athletic Commission, Mr. M
arovitz judged prizefights from 1933 to 1983. He was ranked one of the t
op five judges in the country in 1954 by Ring Magazine.
Mr. Marovitz was never a boxer himself, but he once escaped being cited f
or contempt of court in 1936 after he and a fellow attorney got into a f
istfight, according to a newspaper account of the incident.
`TMHe was a pretty temperamental guy,`TM said Judge Marovitz, who was a a
mateur boxer himself. `TMWe came out of the Maxwell Street area where so
meone could question your judgment, but not your integrity, because our f
ather always told us not to be afraid to stand up for what we believed i
n.`TM
Along with his fondness for boxing, Mr. Marovitz also was an avid bowle
r and once bowled a 299 game, his brother said.
Survivors also include his wife, Gertrude, and another son, Sanford, ch
airman of the English Department at Kent State University in Ohio.
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