was once a student, as a member of the university's board of trustees from 1923 to 1966. He was also actively involved in Sigma Pi fraternity throughout his lifetime. He served on the fraternity's grand council four times between 1908 and 1964, including the fraternity's first grand council in 1908. Shake, a devotee of Abraham Lincoln helped to establish a memorial to Lincoln along the Illinois banks of the Wabash River near Vincennes. Honors and tributes The 14,000 square-foot Shake Learning Resources Center, located on the Vincennes University campus, was dedicated in 1960 and named in Shake’s honor. A 5,000-square-foot addition was dedicated in 1967, and a 20,000-square-foot expansion was dedicated on November 16, 1986., with another expansion in 1999 (including the addition of a second floor) and a complete renovation in 2018. In 1975 Shake was elected to the Indiana Academy, an organization honoring people with a Hoosier background who have won national recognition for their contributions to the state and the nation. Sigma Pi fraternity's Curtis G. Shake Scholarship, named in his honor, is awarded to members of his fraternity who excel in legal studies. He was awarded the fraternity's Founders' Award in 1962 and is one of only six men who have been named as an Honorary Grand Sage (President). Shake wrote that he had spent several evenings discussing the Nuremberg trials with Abby Mann, writer of the film Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), a fictionalized version of the Nuremberg trial of German judges. The film did not cover the Farben case. At the end of the film an aide to the presiding judge, who is portrayed by Spencer Tracy, asks if he had heard that the verdict in the Farben case had been announced. Selected published works A History of Vincennes University (1928) The Old Cathedral and Its Environs (1934) A Naval History of Vincennes (1936) Historic Vincennes (1961) Vincennes University: A Brief History 1801–1951 (1951) ''Vincennes, The Old Post on the Wabash: Its Place in American History (1965) Notes References Bellamy, Suzanne S., "Curtis G. Shake" in Further reading 1887 births 1978 deaths Justices of the Indiana Supreme Court Indiana state senators Judges of the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals Vincennes University alumni Indiana University alumni 20th-century American judges Chief Justices of the Indiana Supreme Court 20th-century American politicians