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|Townes Hall Notes, Winter 1981
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|University of Texas alumni newsletter
|University of Texas School of Law
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|WINTER 1981 Townes Hall Notes A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL The new library won't be dedicated until January. But thanks to an eclectic group of antiques lent by Ft. Worth alumnus Elton Hyder, Jr., it already has TOP: A two-tier Chinese basket on display in the lobby of the new library. RIGHT: In the library's main entrance stands a Burmese rosewood table from the mid-19th century. On the table is a blue and white Japanese Hibachi from the same period. ABOVE: An engraved brass lock from a Korean elmwood storage chest. All photos by Xavier Garza except brass lock photo by Ralph Barrera. At the entrance to the new Tarlton Law Li- brary is a 19th century blue and white Japanese Hibachi resting on a Burmese rosewood table, also dating from the 19th century. These and other valuable antiques displayed in the library are on loan from Fort Worth at-torney Elton M. Hyder, Jr. Hyder, who was graduated from the law school in 1943, also assembled the distinguished legal art collection which graces walls throughout Townes Hall. The Hyder Collection—second in size only to Harvard University's legal art collection—is the largest legal art collection ever compiled by a single donor. It includes pictures of early courts and inns of court, portraits of Lord Chancellors and Lord Chief Justices, engravings, royal warrants, and other legal documents dating from as early as the 1200's. continued inside back cover Inside VOL. 3, NO. 1 WINTER 1981 2 LAW SCHOOL News Library receives Supreme Court papers of Justice Clark; Placement Office sees its busiest fall interview season yet. 4 FACULTY News Dawson and Powe share Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence; other new chairs get their first appointments. 6 New Faces ON THE Faculty Three new professors join the law school; another returns from a 7-year leave. 8 Room To Grow The new addition to Townes Hall will be dedicated January 6, easing the growing pains for the law school. 14 The Decline of the American Law School Law faculties may no longer be able to afford the best legal scholars. So suggests Jonathan Landers in this piece reprinted from the Harvard Law School Bulletin. 18 Playing the Numbers Game When you ask "how good is the Texas Law School?" it's hard to avoid comparisons and rankings. How do we fare? 23 GIVING Report Alumni support for the law school continues to grow with more supporters than ever before this year. 31 Association Activities E. T. Manning takes office as president; Directors set three-year goals in November meeting. 33 DISTINGUISHED Alumni Two law school graduates are among the alumni honored by the UT Ex-Students Association. 34 ALUMNI Notes Keeping up with graduates. Kraft EIDMAN Foundation President John F. SUTTON, Jr. Dean of the Law School Preston Shirley Foundation Vice President David Anderson Editorial Committee Chairman Brooke F. Dudley Foundation Executive Director Dennis McClendon Townes Hall Notes Editor Townes Hall Notes is published twice a year as a service of The University of Texas Law School Foundation. The publication takes its name from Townes Hall, where the law school has been housed since 1953. Comments from readers are welcomed. Please send them to Townes Hall Notes editor, The University of Texas Law School Foundation, 2500 Red River, Austin, Texas 78705. The contents of the magazine do not necessarily represent the views of the foundation, its officers or trustees, or of the law school administration. Special Thanks to the University News and Information Service for assistance with photographs. About The Cover: Construction on the addition to Townes Hall is finally complete, and the extra space was welcomed eagerly by the Tarlton Law Library which occupies five floors of the new building. New faculty offices are on the second floor. Law School News Justice Clark's papers given to school The University of Texas School of Law this summer received the U.S. Supreme Court papers of the late Tom C. Clark, who served as an Associate Justice on the Court from 1949 to 1967. Justice Clark held two degrees from UT Aus- tin—BA 1921, and LLB, 1922. He is the only Texan and UT graduate ever to have been appointed to the Supreme Court. He died in 1977. His papers dealing with his Supreme Court years will be housed in the Tom Clark Man- uscript Reading Room of the Tarlton Law Li- brary, which has just moved into a $12-million addition to Townes Hall. Filling about 375 boxes, the thousands of Clark papers consist of drafts of his Court opin- ions, bench memos made during hearings, con- ference notes of Court deliberations, various briefs and speech texts, as well as correspon- dence and other items. "These papers cover an extraordinary 18'year period in the Court's history, says Dean John F. Sutton Jr. of the law school, "and their avail- ability will allow legal scholars and librarians to Former TLR editor will clerk for Rehnquist UT Law School graduate Parker Folse III, who graduated last May, will be clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehn- quist next year. Folse will clerk for a one-year period begin- ning next July 1. He is currently clerking for Judge Joseph T. Sneed of the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. Folse was Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Law Review last year. He applied for the Supreme Court clerkship in May, interviewed in Sep- tember, and was called three days later by Rehnquist. obtain a fuller understanding of that time, the Court and the man." "It is appropriate that the University of Texas Law School Library should be the place where scholars come to examine the Supreme Court papers of Mr. Justice Tom Clark. He is the only Texan ever appointed to the Court and one of our distinguished graduates." Once described as the "sturdy linchpin" of Photo: Lon Cooper The hand-corrected draft of a dissenting opin- ion written by the late U.S. Supreme Court Jus- tice Tom C. Clark is among many of the Clark papers, which are now a part of The University of Texas Tarlton Law Library. Justice Tom Clark was an alumnus of the UT Law School. the Supreme Court, Justice Clark was known widely as an advocate for modernizing judicial administration, particularly at the state level. After he retired from the Court, he became first director of the Federal Judicial Center, which pioneered judicial training programs. He also was a prime mover in creating the National College of the State Judiciary to help state court judges become better judges. At a Supreme Court memorial for Justice Clark, he was cited as "a roving ambassador of justice dedicated to improving the American legal system." Justice Clark's tenure on the Court came at a time of social upheaval in the country. Many of the papers in his collection reflect the issues with which the Court was faced. The main judicial questions Justice Clark dealt with involved the relations between gov- ernment power and individual liberty. Among the most famous opinions he wrote were those dealing with the Court's prohibition of mandatory prayer or Bible reading in the schools and the Court's forbidding state crimi- nal prosecutors from using evidence seized during illegal searches. Prof. Charles Alan Wright of the UT law faculty has described Justice Clark's opinion in the Bible-reading case as "the definitive author- ity on religious exercise in the schools." Law student honored with memorial fund The Chicano Law Students Association (ChLSA) in conjunction with the University of Texas Law School Foundation recently estab- lished a memorial loan fund in honor of a former law student who was unable to complete her studies because of her untimely death. The memorial fund honors Janie V. Villarreal of Beeville, who began her studies at the law school in the fall of 1975. That summer she was afflicted with leukemia and died as a result of her illness in April 1977. The law student reportedly tried to continue with her studies even after her confinement in the M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston. Primary funding for the Villarreal memorium was raised during the fall 1979 ChLSA Fajitas Fundraiser. Contributions are tax deductible and may be made to the Janie V. Villarreal Me- morial Loan Fund and sent to the UT Law School Foundation, 2500 Red River, Austin, Texas 78705. Alumni invited for library dedication All law school alumni and friends are invited to be present when the addition to Townes Hall, which houses the new Tarlton Law Library and faculty offices, is dedicated January 6. Ceremonies begin at 4 p.m., but guided tours will be offered from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Speakers had not been confirmed at press time for the ceremony, which will be held in the foyer of the new building. The Law School Foundation Board of Trustees will host a reception immediately following the ceremony. Busiest fall ever for placement office Over 500 legal employers interviewed at the law school this fall, and 70 or 80 or more will visit this spring. The result is a record year for the law school's Placement Office, according to Acting Placement Director Adrienne Diehr. In addition to the firms, government agen- cies, corporations, legal aid organizations and other employers interviewing on campus, over 300 non-interviewing employers from nearly every state have asked to be sent the resumes of interested students. The year was a record in other ways, too, says Diehr. "We had more comment this year than ever before about the high caliber of UT students: both their academic records and their professionalism—the way they present Establishment of the Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Business Law in the School of Law at The University of Texas at Austin was approved in July by the UT System Board of Regents. The chair was endowed by a gift of stock with a value in excess of $500,000 from Schmidt, a UT law alumnus who is managing partner of J. H. Whitney and Company, a private venture capital investment firm. A native of Abilene, he now lives in New York. The gift was made to the Law School Foun- dation. Income from the endowment will pro- vide a salary supplement for the Schmidt Pro- fessor. The donor said he was creating the chair as a repayment for his "enormous debt" to the university and its law school. With this gift, the law school now has seven fully or partially funded chairs, by far the largest number of any of the component institutions of The University of Texas. Purpose of the Schmidt Chair is to promote teaching, research and publication in areas re- lated to business law and the conduct of busi- ness in the private sector. The holder will be selected for distinction in the field of business law and for outstanding classroom teaching. The Schmidt Professor will teach courses in subjects such as contracts, corporate finance, business association, government regulation of business, and taxation. Schmidt, named a "distinguished alumnus" by UT Austin in 1969, received BA and LLB degrees from UT in 1936. While in law school, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Law Re- view and was head of Chancellors, the highest honorary society of the UT Law School. He also was a member of Order of the Coif, na- tional honorary legal society; and Phi Delta Phi, law fraternity. He was on the UT law faculty from 1936 to 1946, and then was a Thayer Teaching Fellow themselves." Despite the general economic outlook for the country, job prospects look good for UT law graduates. Last year's placement survey found 97% of the year's graduates employed six months after graduation. The overwhelming majority—78%—found jobs in Texas. The next largest group—10%— went to the Northeast, mostly to New York and Washington. Only two other law schools in the nation have more graduates practicing law: Harvard and Michigan. George Fee and Associates of Chicago reports that Texas ranks seventh in the number of partners in law firms having over 40 attorneys in 25 U.S. cities surveyed. for a year at Harvard Law School. He has been with J. H. Whitney and Company since 1946. In addition, he serves as board chairman of Freeport Minerals and is a director of such corporations as Schlumberger, CBS, Memorex and Merichem, among others. When the Law School Association met in mid- November, Dean John F. Sutton, Jr. introduced lst-year student Mark Metts of Houston as the official representative of the law school's Cen- tennial class: those who will graduate in 1983. The job of orchestrating the hectic fall inter- view season fell to Diehr after Associate Dean Gary Munneke left in August for the University of Delaware Law School. She will continue to act as Placement Director while a replacement is sought for Munneke. Publication of a mammoth Directory of In- terviewing Employers was one of the biggest changes in the fall program. Special job fairs were held for Austin employers and for Legal Aid/Public Interest employers. The placement office also moved into larger quarters while awaiting completion of new offices in the Townes Hall renovation project. The success of the special-interest job fairs now has Diehr considering something similar for smaller firms—especially those not in major cities. According to Diehr, those firms sometimes have trouble luring graduates away from large big-city firms. Last year, for example, over 90% of graduates settled in cities of over 100,000. Of the graduates going into private practice, 47% went into firms with 25 or more lawyers. The national average is 28%—a difference attributed to UT's ranking as a "national" law school. Metts will help plan the Centennial celebration, ending in 1983. Left to right: Associate Dean Mark G. Yudof, Sutton, Association President E. T. Manning, Metts, Associate Dean W. W. Gibson, Jr. Schmidt funds chair in Business Law Photo: Ralph Barrera Centennial Planners Faculty Dawson, Powe share excellence post Two University of Texas law professors will be co-holders for 1980-81 of the James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence in the UT Law School. The recipients are Prof. Robert O. Dawson, a specialist in criminal law, and Prof. Lucas A. (Scot) Powe, Jr., whose fields are constitutional law and broadcasting law. Their appointments to the chair were ap- proved in September by the UT System Board of Regents. The Dougherty Chair, which rotates among the law faculty, recognizes teaching excellence on the part of legal scholars. It is named for the late James R. Dougherty, a prominent Beeville Bobbitt in draft study group Professor Philip Bobbit is among 15 scholars who have been convened to study moral issues involved in policies for staffing the U.S. mili- tary services. Bobbitt is currently on leave from the law faculty, and is on the staff of President Carter's chief counsel, Lloyd Cutler. The group was formed by the Center for Phi- losophy and Public Policy of the University of Maryland to look at moral and philosophical is- sues of military policy, as a return to the draft is considered. Bobbitt participated recently in a Hoover In- stitute conference on the all-volunteer force. Mersky becomes NLA President UT Law Librarian Professor Roy Mersky was elected Vice-President and President-Elect of the National Librarian Association. He will become president of the 1000-member group at the meeting next summer in San Francisco. Mersky was also invited to the University of Chile in Santiago in early September, where he discussed computerized legal research. Baade studying escribano files Hans W. Baade is currently engaged in re- constructing and studying the protocols, or no- tarial files, of Francisco Joseph de Arocha, the first (and only) Spanish escribano, or notary, of Texas, who lived in San Antonio from 1731 to 1758. This study will form part of a work on the legal history of Spanish and Mexican Texas, which has been in progress for some time. attorney. Income from the endowment provides research assistance and other forms of support of law teachers, beyond their salaries. Dawson will apply his share of the Dougherty Chair to research. He is working on a revision of his casebook on Texas criminal procedure and on the second edition of Cases and Materi- als on Criminal Justice Administration, of Faculty recruiting gamers 5 The results of the law school's faculty recruiting were summarized in a June report by Professor Charles Alan Wright, chairman of the Faculty Appointments Committee. The report notes that 21 potential faculty members were seen at the AALS convention in Chicago last year, and five of those were inter- viewed in Austin. All in all, seven offers were made, five of which were accepted. The report notes that four professors left the law school in 1979-80. Eight faculty members from The University of Texas Law School recently were sworn in by Joe R. Greenhill, chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, as new members of the State Bar of Texas. It is believed to be the largest group of law professors ever sworn in at one time to the which he is co-editor. Powe, who has a University Research Institute grant this fall, is working on a casebook, The Evaluation of the Modern First Amendment, and will be co-author of a paper on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Wickard v. Fillburn. Dawson will retain his faculty position as the William Benjamin Wynne Professor. A member of the UT law faculty since 1968, he directs the Law School's Criminal Justice Project. He has been a reporter for the Texas Penal Code Revision Project and adviser to the Texas Family Code Project. Powe, a former law clerk to the late Justice William O. Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court, has taught at Texas since 1971. In re- cent years he has testified before Congress on matters concerning the diversity of citizenship jurisdiction and the power of Congress to dispose of U.S. property. Texas bar. The professors, from left, include William C. Powers Jr., Joseph M. Dodge II, David B. Filvaroff, Bernard J. Ward, John J. Sampson, Russell J. Weintraub, Lucas A. Powe Jr., and Mark G. Yudof. Photo: Larry Murphy First appointments made to new chairs Charles Alan Wright, one of the nation's pre-eminent scholars of the Federal courts and constitutional law at the University of Texas, has been appointed first holder of the new William B. Bates Chair for the Administration of Justice. His appointment is one of several made this fall involving endowed chairs and professor- ships in the law school. Professor Wright previously held the Charles T. McCormick Professorship of Constitutional Law. The Bates Chair was endowed by a bequest from the late Benjamin Clayton of Houston and from Hinshaw's Department Stores Inc. of Los Angeles. The chair is named for a late prominent Houston attorney, who was Clayton's attorney and also a founder of Hinshaw's. Other appointments include: • Russell Weintraub, first appointment to the Bryant Smith Chair. • Edward Sherman to be first holder of the new Angus G. Wynne Professorship in Civil Jurisprudence. • John F. Sutton Jr., dean, to the William Stamps Farish Fund Professorship. • Mark Yudof, associate dean, to the Marrs McLean Professorship. • Ernest Smith, former dean, to the Joseph C. Hutcheson Professorship. • Michael Rosenthal to the Baker & Botts Professorship. • George Dix to the Charles T. McCormick Professorship. • James Treece to the Charles I. Francis Pro- Gibson joins Real Estate groups Associate Dean W. W. Gibson was recently selected to be a member in the American Col- lege of Real Estate Lawyers. He was also re- appointed to the Texas Real Estate Broker- Lawyer Joint Committee of the State Bar and the Texas Real Estate Commission. Published: Woodward and Means Professor Ken Woodward's book, Probate and Administration of Estates, was published in September. It is Volume 12 of West's Texas Forms. In October, the University of North Carolina Press published Underdevelopment and the De- velopment of Law, by Professor Bob Means. fessorship, formerly held by George Schat- zki, who now is dean at the University of Washington. In addition, two one-year appointments were made to endowed positions. They include Leon Lebowitz to the Fulbright & Jaworski Professor- ship, left vacant by the resignation of Thomas Buergenthal to become dean of the American University law school, and Millard Ruud to the John Redditt Professorship in State and Local Government. Ruud has returned to the faculty after an absence of several years to serve as ex- ecutive director of the Association of American Law Schools. Professor Weintraub, former holder of the Marrs McLean Professorship, is a foremost expert on conflict of laws. The Smith Chair was established in honor of a late legal educator who taught on the UT law faculty in the 1920's and 1930's. He died in 1973. Professor Sherman is an authority on civil procedure and military law. The Wynne pro- fesorship he holds was named for the late Angus G. Wynne Sr. of Dallas, who was a prominent attorney, former president of the State Bar of Texas and UT alumnus. Funds for the endow- ment came from Wynne's late son, Angus Jr., also of Dallas. Dean Sutton, who has held the Joseph C. Hutcheson Professorship, assumes the Farish Professorship previously occupied by Prof. Keith Morrison, who retired in August. The dean, whose specialties include evidence and legal ethics, has headed the law school since 1979. Associate Dean Yudof formerly held the Red- ditt Professorship. His specialties include law and educational policy, constitutional law, contracts and local government law. Departures Four faculty members left the law school last year: Professor Thomas Buergenthal left to become Dean at American University College of Law in Washington, D.C. David W. Robertson resigned to go into pri- vate practice in Louisiana. Gary J. Simson left to take a position as pro- fessor at Cornell. Jerre S. Williams resigned from the faculty when he was named to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Professor Smith is an authority on oil and gas law and on real property. He served as dean from 1974 to 1979 and has been on the law faculty since 1963. Professor Rosenthal fills the Baker & Botts Professorship, formerly held by David Robert- son, who resigned from the faculty to enter pri- vate practice. Rosenthal is an authority on criminal law and on child and drug abuse. Professor Dix will hold the McCormick Professorship once held by Professor Wright. Dix's fields of interest are criminal procedure, and law and psychology. Professor Treece takes over the Francis Professorship, which was held by Professor Schatzki prior to his leaving UT Austin. Treece is a specialist in contracts and torts. The various appointments were approved as part of the Law School 1980-81 budget. Funds for the endowed positions are channeled through the Law School Foundation. Powe moderates media seminar A Media Law Conference held in Austin in September included Professor Lucas A. (Scot) Powe, Jr., who moderated one session of the Socratic method seminar. About 30 persons attended the conference, which was co-sponsored by the State Bar and a number of press organizations. Graglia debates busing in forum Professor Lino Graglia, an opponent of Su- preme Court decisions that have led to forced busing, participated in a debate on that subject in an honors forum at the University of Dela- ware. The series focused on "The Nature of Law in America." Graglia is author of Disaster by Decree: The Supreme Court Decisions on Race and the Schools. He debated Gary Orfield, University of Illinois political scientist, who is author of Must We Bus? Segregated Schools and Na- tional Policy. Dodge heads AALS Tax Sector Professor J. M. Dodge, who teaches Tax at the law school, is chairperson of the Associa- tion of American Law Schools (AALS) Tax Sector for this year. The AALS convention will be in San Antonio in early January, and the Tax Section program will focus on Income Tax Pol- icy and the Family. New Faces ON THE FACULTY Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr. A thick brown portfolio on one side of Assis- tant Professor Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr's desk is stuffed with several months' correspondence with the U.S. Patent Office. And the corre- spondence is stuffed with the polysyllabic tech- nical language needed to convince the Office that a new invention is really new. Goffney calls it his "fun project." He's been prosecuting his own patent—a small scalp-massaging device that fits on a per- son's finger—that he co-invented with a mem- ber of his family. The patent examiner found a finger toothbrush and Goffney has had to prove that his device is different. The result, he says, is that he's been forced to come up with "some pretty sophisticated arguments," arguments that he's "had a lot of fun playing with." The project has drawn on the engineering background which he had made into a career before deciding to go to law school. While at the University of Detroit Law School, he was encouraged to consider teaching, and he applied for a fellowship at Columbia, where he received his LLM. After teaching at Detroit for a couple of years, Goffney was invited to be a Harvard Fellow in Law and the Humanities, an opportunity he used to study the interaction of law and philosophy, and legal history. At Detroit, he taught in a special program for students who had trouble getting into law school because of low LSAT scores. The students were accepted for a rigorous 6-hour torts course, and those who made it were admitted. Goffney says the program was quite successful—with some of the students later making law review. Goffney had visited at the University of Wisconsin and had been invited by the University of Zambia last year when conflict broke out in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Goffney accepted an invitation to visit at Texas last year instead, and was asked to join the permanent faculty. Goffney is working on research in the area of Remedies. His main interest there, he says, "is trying to develop a jurisprudence of Remedies —a means of cutting across the traditional ter- minology." His research is the basis of the course he teaches in Remedies. Thomas O. McGarity Tacked to the wall behind Thomas O. Mc- Garity's chair is an empty Mirex bag. The new law school professor refers to it as his "trophy." McGarity was an attorney in the Office of General Counsel for two years at the U.S. En- vironmental Protection Agency, and while there negotiated the settlement that resulted in phase- out of EPA approval for manufacture and use of Mirex. The insecticide had been widely used to control fire ants in the South, but was found to be carcinogenic in lab animals—and was begin- ning to show up in human tissues. After he got his BA from Rice, McGarity went to law school at Texas, graduating in 1974 with high honors. He was Articles Editor of the Texas Law Review, and a Chancellor. He spent the next year in Denver, clerking for Judge William E. Doyle, of the Tenth Circuit, before joining the EPA as an adviser in pesticides and toxic substances. A physics major as an undergraduate, he also did some advising to the agency on radiation regulation. McGarity knew all along that he enjoyed legal writing and probably wanted to teach. After registering with the Association of American Law Schools, he was hired by the University of Kansas. At UT, McGarity will teach Environmental Law, Administrative Law and Torts. His re- search interests are also in those fields, and he is working on a set of materials for teaching en- vironmental law with John Bonine of the Uni- versity of Oregon Law School. An upcoming Pennsylvania Law Review article by McGarity will be on "Forum Shopping for Review of Ad- ministrative Regulations." Millard H. Ruud High over the top bookshelf in Professor Millard H. Ruud's office is a collage of Texana made by his Washington, D.C. office staff and updated each March 2 for Texas Independence Day. Ruud will be able to celebrate in Texas this year. He has returned to the law school faculty after spending seven years as Executive Director of the Association of American Law Schools. "Austin is our home," he says, "and we al ways looked forward to returning." He also noted that he believes in limited tenure in administrative positions, and overcame what he called "Potomac fever" to return home. Ruud had been a professor at the law school since 1948 when he left for Washington. He was Associate Dean from 1966 to 1968. He received his LLB from the University of Minnesota in 1947, where he was President and Recent Case Editor of the Minnesota Law Re- view. After teaching at the University of Kan- sas for a year, he came to Texas in 1948. While on the faculty he visited at Pennsylvania, Utah, Illinois, UCLA and Arkansas. Commercial law and legislation are Ruud's areas of specialization, and he has served on many committees in those areas. He served as Assistant Director of the Texas Legislative Council from 1950 to 1952, during the Council's formative years. While co-chairman of the Uniform Commercial Code Subcommittee of the Uniform State Laws Committee he prepared the UCC bill adopted in Texas in 1965 and played a large part in explaining the bill to the Legislature. He is one of six Texas representatives on the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and is chairman of the Texas Commission on Uniform State Laws. In the early 1960's Ruud visited Denmark to research the use by Scandinavian governments of university-based experts for policy formulation. He later co-wrote an article on the UCC in Danish for a Norwegian journal. Among Ruud's publications is the Texas UCC Formbook, which he jointly authored with former faculty member Frank W. Elliott before leaving for Washington. He became involved in national legal education affairs first through work with the Law School Admissions Council, which he chaired in 1966-69. In the five years before he went to Washington he was the Consultant on Legal Education to the American Bar Association, where he had responsibility, among other things, for its law school accreditation program. Having represented legal education to policy makers and professional societies while Executive Director of the AALS, Ruud expects to write in the field of legal education in the near future. And he's glad to be back in Texas. Lawrence J. Goffney Louise Weinberg Louise Weinberg Among the books and framed certificates lin- ing Professor Louise Weinberg's office are 8- by-10 color photos of fishing boats in Boston Harbor. The pictures are reminders of some of Weinberg's first cases as a trial lawyer with the Boston firm of Bingham, Dana and Gould. She has never given up admiralty as her "sideline," and has taught the subject every year since the beginning of her teaching career. A summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa gradu- ate of Cornell, Weinberg received both her JD and Master of Laws degrees at the Harvard Law School. She turned down offers of judicial clerkships to enter Bingham, Dana's litigation Thomas O. McGarity Millard H. Ruud department, but later received an offer "she could not refuse" to clerk with Hon. Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., the distinguished jurist, then Chief Judge of the Federal District Court for Massachusetts. Weinberg is a specialist in the conflict of laws, the dual court system, and problems of federalism, and most of her published writing is in those areas. She has been teaching since 1972, when she held a Teaching Fellowship at the Harvard Law School. In 1974 she was made Associate Professor of Law at Suffolk Univer- sity; in 1975 she also was Lecturer on Law at Brandeis. She was Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford in 1976, and was named Professor of Law at Suffolk in 1978. She visited UT in 1979, and joined the permanent faculty in the fall of 1980. Weinberg was persuaded to come to UT partly because of the reputation of the school, partly because of the friendliness and collegiali- ty of the faculty, but also because of "the recep- tivity and intellectual curiosity of the students." Student comments on her 1979 admiralty course gratified her, but the comment she recalls as giving her the greatest kick was, "Not bad for a Yankee." Professor Weinberg believes student interest in admiralty is justified in a state with a thorn sand miles of coastline, several major ports, and the most active admiralty litigation in the country. She points out that about a third of a federal trial court's civil docket in any port area will be in admiralty cases. "All those floating oil rigs offshore . . ." she notes, ". . . they're all in the admiralty jurisdiction." Visiting faculty Four visiting faculty members added their ex- pertise to the faculty this fall: Erica Grubb was a part-time adjunct pro- fessor teaching Employees Rights. She has worked with the Texas Legal Services Center in Austin and with other public-interest law groups. She earned her JD at Harvard cum laude, where she was editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. John A. Robertson visited last spring from the University of Wisconsin and continued this fall, teaching in the field of Law and Medicine. He has written extensively in this field, includ- ing a new book: The Rights of the Critically III. He has written two other books: Rough Justice, about lower criminal courts; and Drugs and the Public, which he co-authored. A cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, Robertson was also on the faculty of the Program in Medi- cal Ethics at Wisconsin's medical school. UT law school graduate (1978) Kenneth D. Schubb is back as a part-time Adjunct Pro- fessor, working with the Criminal Defense Clinical Program. Schubb was briefing attorney last year for Judge W. T. Phillips of the Court of Criminal Appeals. He is now working with Ed Sherman of the law school faculty and Professor Hans Zeisel of the University of Chicago Law School on a law review article reporting the re- suits of research into the administration of the death penalty in Texas. Larry W. Yackle is a Visiting Associate Pro- fessor from the University of Alabama School of Law teaching Criminal Procedure. He re- ceived his JD from Kansas, and his LLM from Harvard. He taught at Boston University before going to Alabama, and received the Alabama National Alumni Association Outstanding Com- mitment to Teaching Award. He has written a number of law review articles in various fields of constitutional law, and a forthcoming book: Postconviction Remedies. ion to Townes Hall ically changes the silhouette of the law school The new building is joined to the west end of Townes Hall by a curving two-story lobby with an all-glass facade. The theme is carried through to the land- scaping which leads to a new grand entrance. 8 The new addition to Townes Hall almost doubles the size of the building— and gives the Tarlton Law Library 5 times the space it had in its old quarters. As the library continues to rise in national , finally there's ROOM TO GROW by Marie Dempsey The long-awaited and much-needed addition to Townes Hall will be officially opened and dedicated in a ceremony January 6. The dedication will also begin the law school's centennial celebration, and a special invitation is being extended to all law school alumni and friends. The $12 million addition, opened last June, more than doubles the space available to the law school and provides about five times as much space as the law library had previously. The facility itself is the largest academic law library in the world. Five of the six floors in the Townes Hall addition house the new library. Spacious new offices for the law school's 53 full-time faculty members and the 35,000-volume Ireland Graves Faculty library are located on the third floor. The most important aspect of the new facility, says Dean John Sutton, is that it provides adequate study space for students. Dean Sutton says that Townes Hall before the addition "might have been adequate for 700-800 students," but UT's current law enrollment is now second largest in the U.S. (be- hind Harvard). Associate Dean William W. Gibson says he All photos by Xavier Garza Below: The main stairway in the library is open all the way to the skylight at the top, six floors above. Right: An empty chair was rare in the old library, but this fresh- law has plenty of room to spread out the materials when he works on his memo-to-the-file problem for Legal Research and Writing. Study spaces in the new library—1200 of them—include carrels, large tables, sofas and chairs of every kind, and conference rooms. hopes the new library facilities will become an attractive inducement for students to do most of their studying at the school rather than in off-campus meetings "in somebody's apart-ment.'' Conditions had become so overcrowded in the old library, he reports, that students have had to sit on the stairs or in the hallways to study or confer with one another. Rumor has had it that fisticuffs would almost break out between students over the shortage of seats in the old library space. The old library space in Townes Hall could only seat 300 of the more than 1,500 law students. The new library can seat 1,200. As far as physical volume, with approx- imately 460,500 law and law-related books, the Tarlton Library's collection is ranked as fifth largest in the United States. Law Librarian Roy Mersky says the law li- brary's collection has moved up from sixth place in a year's time. Within the past dozen years or so it has moved up from 20th place. Now that more space is available, Mersky anticipates that UT's ranking will continue to improve. Larger than the Tarlton collection are the law library collections at Harvard, Columbia, Yale and Michigan. Library resources are a significant factor in the recruitment of outstanding faculty and stu-dents, according to Mersky. In addition, they play a major role in ranking law schools na- tionally for overall quality. Among the facilities in the new library is a computer room with communication access to the LEXIS and Westlaw systems, and non-legal bibliographic data bases such as SDC and Lockheed. Computer research instruction now has be- come part of the law school curriculum through the Legal Research and Writing course. As a reflection of the training now reaching the full student body, demand has become heavy enough that students must sign up to use the systems well in advance. Behind the scenes, computers have increased the efficiency of library operations. The Tarlton library staff has two terminals to use for catalog- ing, acquisitions, reference and interlibrary loans. The law library finally has a separate room for its Rare Book collection. Besides rare books, the room provides space for the storage and study of archival material concerned with the Below: Atria which extend into the second floor, which is devoted to faculty offices, give a bird's eye view of the card catalog below on the library's first floor. history of the law school, faculty writings, and the papers and files of the late Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark. On the fifth level of the new addition is a large separate area for the law library's extensive Government Documents collection. Since Tarl- ton is a Selective Government Depository, stu- dents have access to Congressional documents and statutory and administrative regulations published by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Almost 2,000 printed volumes are re- ceived each month. The Government Docu- ments Librarians control circulation and assist students in locating specific items efficiently. Other facilities in the new library include the David T. Searles Reserve Reading Room, where most reserve items are on open stacks and need How do you move 460,000 volumes in only 4 days? Months of planning made it easy when the time came for THE BIG MOVE. Photo: Lon Cooper Opening of the new building was originally planned for September 1979. Later it was rescheduled to December 1979, and finally, the opening date was adjusted to June 1980. Nevertheless, Ann Beardsley Hambleton, Assistant Librarian for Administra- tion, began preparations for the big move from the old library as early as September 1978. At that time, only the frame of the new building was complete. Ann worked closely with the architects and university planners to acquaint herself with the floor plans. With the assistance of Mrs. Elton Hyder, furniture was selected to meet the various needs of faculty, students and the library staff. But that was only the beginning. Ann met with staff members in all depart- ments of the library to discuss space needs, placement of furniture, and traffic flow. Shelves were measured, books and other materials were organized for the move, and a timetable was established. By the end of the spring semester last year, staff members, in a sometimes heated series of conferences, had designated a place for every section of books. Some parts of the collection were reorganized and each reporter volume was color-coded so it could be quickly shuttled to its new location. As soon as school was out, one hallway was closed off for move traffic and the library's 460,000 volumes were shuttled into the new building. The library was closed for only four days for the move, including one weekend, and all the planning paid off. The move was completed in early June, almost a week ahead of schedule. Below: Red "hot line" phones throughout the library are connected to these stations at the main desk so that patrons can get quick advice from reference librarians on where to find materials, without having to return to the first floor. Bottom: Two theft-detection systems were in- stalled in the library: one at the main entrance, and one to prevent reserve books from being taken from the Reserve Room. Special tabs in- serted in the books' bindings trigger the alarm if they are not desensitized at the checkout desk. Right: Late afternoon sunlight streaming through a large skylight in the foyer casts long diagonal shadows on the office windows overlooking the interior space. The most prominent feature in the foyer is the free-standing stairway to the second floor. Natural wood trim, earth- tone tiles and deep orange furnishings give the large lobby a warm feeling. The light fixtures are concealed behind a gold gridwork which gives even the ceiling a warm, rich look. not be checked out, and a Popular Reading Room, where students enjoy access to numer- ous state and national newspapers, magazines, novels and non-fiction books. Each level of the library has a large, open- stack reading area, conference rooms, typing rooms, individual study rooms, and photocopy- ing machines. In addition, red "hot line" phones to the library staff are available through- out the building so students can get assistance locating materials without making trips to the first level. Furnishings vary from floor to floor, but within each floor students can choose among a variety of study arrangements, ranging from lighted study carrels to luxurious leather or pigskin couches. (The couches, admittedly, are occasionally used for quick naps.) The building is fully carpeted. Large windows on the upper three levels of the new building look out over spectacular views of Austin to both the north and the south. From the sixth level, one can almost see the football field at Memorial Stadium. Remodeling of the old Tarlton Library space began in early September. The three-year project, estimated to cost $7.7 million, will create a model courtroom, new classrooms, a cafeteria and dining room, and office space for several student organizations, and the Law School Foundation and Association. An enlarged placement office, interview rooms and a large student lounge will also be constructed. Left: Two computer rooms provide space for future expansion of the library's computer research facilities. Both the Lexis and Westlaw legal research systems are available, as well as non-legal data bases. All law students are now trained in the use of Lexis, and future Legal Research and Writing students will use computer-aided research even more extensively. Bottom left: The library includes a new Rare Book Room, with proper storage and preservation facilities for antique books and legal materials. The room is protected by a special fire suppression system which blankets the room with gas within seconds in case of a fire to protect the rare volumes from water damage as well as fire. Below: Second-year law student Rod Sands studies on the fifth floor, with the UT Tower visible behind him. Windows on the south side of the library offer a spectacular view of the campus and the Austin skyline while studying. "Perhaps the strongest evidence of such a decline is found in the large number of faculty positions at the nation's leading law schools which have gone unfilled for a number of years..." The Decline of the American Law School by Jonathan Landers ning (and experienced) lawyers, there has been an un-noticed casualty—the future law teacher. There is, admittedly, little hard evidence of a decline in the quality of persons entering law teaching. What evidence there is surely lacks mathematical precision, and law schools cer- tainly do not make public announcements that they have lowered standards for appointments or that they cannot at- tract persons who meet the "old" standard. Nevertheless, the signs are there, and the future is ominous indeed. Perhaps, the strongest evidence of such a decline is found in the large number of faculty positions at the na- tion's leading law schools which have gone unfilled for a number of years, despite energetic and persistent recruiting efforts. For example, a number of major Ivy-League and Big Ten law schools have had 10 to 20% of their authorized This article originally appeared in the Harvard Law School Bulletin. Several UT faculty members were impressed by its accuracy and thoughtfulness, and the Bulletin graciously allowed it to be reprinted here. Copyright 1980 by the Presi- dent and Fellows of Harvard College. Jonathan M. Landers is a 1965 graduate of the Harvard Law School. He has been a professor of law at the University of Illinois in Champaign since 1976. positions vacant for two or more years. In other cases, law schools have turned to extremely heavy use of visiting pro- fessors from other law schools. To take just one example, last year Harvard had more than 20 visiting professors. While some of these are associated with specialized pro- grams, the number still suggests a substantial use of visiting professors in lieu of permanent faculty members. These facts are important because law schools (indeed, all educational institutions) do not like to have unfilled faculty positions. Most law schools fear that faculty posi- tions which are left vacant for too long may be lost to other university units; this danger is especially great given infla- tionary budgetary pressures and declining enrollments faced by many universities. Moreover, law schools often hope to expand the number of faculty positions to lower the faculty-student ratios and support new programs. It is obviously difficult to justify a need for new positions when existing positions remain unfilled over time. A second piece of evidence looks to the number of persons who have clerked for the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, other "prestige" judges, or who were in the top five to ten percent of the law school classes, who are entering teaching.1 A decade ago, as many as half of a given group of Supreme Court clerks might enter teaching, but for the past decade, the number seems to have been reduced considerably. The results appear to be comparable for the other groups. Still another indication of a quality decline is the number of persons who move from the nation's leading law firms into law teaching. While it must be emphasized again that there is no hard evidence, law school faculty recruiters suggest that the number of persons entering law teaching after five or fewer years of practice with one of the top 100 law firms in the country (however one defines which firms these are) seems to be substantially less. Such firms tend to have the most rigorous hiring procedures, and to seek the kind of intellectual and professional competence most akin to that of law schools. Thus, a decline in teaching entrants from this source tends to indicate a decline in quality. The major villain in this situation is money: while private law salaries have roughly kept pace with inflation over "The major villain in this situation is money . . . the beginning law teacher often must take a salary cut of between $10-$20,000 to enter the profession." the last decade, law teaching salaries have not. The result is that the beginning law teacher (out of law school 1 to 2 years) can, at best, hope to earn $25,000-$30,000, and perhaps a bit more with three or more years of experience. In contrast, starting salaries of $35,000-$40,000 are common in the leading New York, Washington and Los Angeles firms, and lawyers with four years of experience may earn $50,000. the practical result of this salary differential is that the beginning law teacher often must take a salary cut of between $10-$20,000 to enter the profession. This contrasts with a situation a decade ago when many schools could offer a beginning teacher a comparable salary to that earned in private practice although, of course, the new teacher would have to give up the prospects of substantially higher earnings in the future. Indeed, the salary differentials are so striking that there has been a slow but steady exodus of experienced law teachers who announce that they are leaving teaching for private practice. ". . . there has been a slow but steady exodus of experienced law teachers who announce they are leaving teaching for private practice." ]The assumption here is, of course, that it is important for law schools to attract such persons as law teachers. While some may debate this premise, it has widely been a fundamental tenet of the faculty appointments process. There are, to be sure, other partial explanations for the decline in quality of law teachers. One seems to be the general decline in the prestige of law teaching vis-a-vis other opportunities available to today's top law students. Whether this decline in prestige is a consequence of the turmoil of the sixties and seventies and the perception that professors did not cover themselves with glory during that period, or more subtle changes in public attitudes, is some- "Some of our favorite law teachers may soon be at the law firm downtown, or in the office next door." what beside the point if such a view is as widely held as it appears to be. The best illustration is the number of per- sons with distinguished law school records who take rela- tively low level jobs in the legislative or administrative branches of government. Presumably, such persons want more "action oriented" positions and do not perceive the law professor as in a position to influence the course of public policy. Still another explanation for the decline is the number of two-career families and the concomitant de- "Such private firms and corporations have the greatest stake in the continued excellence of legal education." crease in mobility. It is difficult enough for persons in such a position to move from one large city to another, let alone to the many law schools which are located in smaller communities. Nevertheless, I am convinced that the finan- cial pressures are most significant, and that their effect on legal education is already being felt in a number of ways. For one, in an effort to combat persistent salary problems, many schools have taken to "cannibalizing" faculty lines to generate salary money. To explain, assume that Professor A, then earning $45,000, leaves X Law School. Rather than fill Professor A's position with another senior person, the school may fill it with a junior and less experienced person earning $25,000, and spread the $20,000 difference among existing faculty in the form of salary increases. Or, the school may cannibalize the position entirely by not filling it at all, and using the full $45,000 to augment present salaries. Such a course becomes especially attractive if, as noted earlier, the vacant positions cannot be filled anyway. While students are obviously hurt by this practice, it can be rationalized as a necessity to keep those quality professors a school already has. A second discernible impact is equally detrimental. In order to minimize the salary problem at hiring, schools tend to look more for persons who are very recent law school graduates; they come directly from law school, from short clerkships, or from graduate programs. For such persons, the salary comparisons are not a strong deterrent, and may even be a plus. Excluded, of course, are persons with any substantial reservoir of law practice experience. Ideally, a law school might have a balance between persons with and without substantial experience, but the balance has necessarily shifted. One cannot be too critical of the absence of practical skills of lawyers who will be educated under such a system. Still another result has been the increasing willingness of scholarly and imaginative law professors to prepare outlines, nutshells, and study aids, and to ride the bar review circuit—all of which produce considerable income relative to the time expended. At the same time, one sees a decrease in scholarly efforts, and a signficiant decline in the number of substantial treatises written on a high intellectual plane. While the immediate impact on either the law or law students from a general lowering of the intellectual endeavors of law professors may be less than clear, the contributions of professors such as Wigmore, Williston, Scott, Corbin, Moore, Gilmore, Wright, Prosser, Hart and McCormick speak for themselves. hat then does the future hold in store? One can, of course, yearn for those days when, as one of my colleagues describes it, a law professor might live on a golf course and have a few servants. More realistically, law schools are going to face * increased pressure on the salary front, and the trends men- tioned here are likely to accelerate. Professors are likely to be younger. They are likely to be less numerous as schools sacrifice faculty-student ratios to keep salaries at reasonable levels. We will see an increasing use of adjunct professors teaching basic courses, since course coverage can be ob- tained for 1/4 or 1/3 of the cost of a full-time teacher. And some of our favorite law teachers may soon be at the law firm down the street, or in the office next door. We are also likely to find law professors turning increasingly to consultation to supplement their income. Here, though, a distinction must be made: Law professors have always engaged in advisory functions to both public agencies and private firms. But such consultation has often been in more or less a public service capacity, and compensation was often (although not always) minimal or nonexistent. The new kind of consultation will be, unabashedly, for the purpose of producing income. And, it is likely to require substantial time commitments which will come, unfortunately, at the expense of the students. Indeed, the future is already with us in reports that several big-city law schools consider potential consultation income a part of an overall compensation package. Such schools offer new faculty members assistance, if necessary, in establishing consulting relationships. Is it possible to reverse these trends? Probably not in conventional terms. Most law schools are funded largely as part of a university system, and universities simply do not have the funds—especially in this period of inflation and declining enrollments—to provide substantial incremental support for law schools. Indeed, it is ironic that even though salaries of law professors are already 50% higher than those of other non-law professors, the differential must be greater to continue to attract the highest quality faculty. University administrators will be hard pressed to increase the differential above the present levels. M the kinds of adverse consequences noted above, there is going to have to be a substantial influx of new funds into legal education in the next decade. The only realistic available source of such funding is the bar, and especially, those private firms and corporations who employ large numbers of new lawyers. Such private firms and corporations have the greatest stake in the continued excellence of legal education, and the resources with which to make a dramatic impact on legal education. Such support may, of course, come in different ways, it may be part of an overall program supported by the organized bar. It may be in the form of alumni contributions, or grants from private firms and corporations to schools which provide a source of new talent. It may be in the form of capital contributions to fund such items as word "It would be a shame to see the American law school go by default." processing equipment (to reduce secretarial costs and free salary money) or endowments to professors. Or, it may be in the form of greatly increased regular contributions, so that such contributions provide an important source of ongoing funding for salaries and other operating expenses. The funds may come in an organized fashion, or as is more likely, in a parallel effort by different parties and groups. nd what if it does not come? Then, I suspect, we are going to see a slow but steady decline in the American law school as we have known it. Most likely, the institution of the year 2000 will be one in which the full-time professor is the exception, and the larger number of teachers are essentially practicing lawyers. This is, incidentally, the model in many European and Latin American universities. Also, those who employ lawyers may find it necessary to provide an in-house kind of educational experience similar to that now provided by the law schools. We are thus, in a sense, at a crossroads. Which way we go will depend on decisions made by numerous lawyers and bar groups over the next few years. As noted, however, the effects of the persistent salary problem are already being felt, and given the time it takes to build a quality law faculty, the time for doing something constructive may be getting short. It would be a shame to see the American law school go by default. It's a touchy question, and it demands a careful answer. But when you ask "how good is the law school?" you can't avoid Playing THE NUMBERS GAME. How good is the Texas law school? The question comes up often. It may be over coffee with a fellow attorney. It may arise after dinner with a faculty member. The prospective student poring over the catalog may ask it. For such a simple question, there ought to be a good answer. Instead, the answer is the same as for virtually every legal question: It depends. It depends on who's asking, who's answering, and why they want to know. There are some objective criteria to judge and rank law schools, but subjective qualities play a very large part— and someone has to choose what objective data are to be considered. Ranking, rating and comparison do occur in more formal set- tings and are given a lot of at- tention. Prospective students ponder Barron's Guide, deans look at the ABA Annual Questionaire and a survey in Juris Doctor mag- R, before its demise, provoked a great deal of comment. Responses are sometimes extreme. One dean wrote in response to the Juris Doctor survey, "This is a completely meaningless and highly misleading exercise." Even Barron's cautions that "determining the 'top' law schools, when ABA-approved law schools already have ex- tremely high standards is, at best, a touchy sub- ject." Touchy, perhaps, but certainly inevitable. The evaluations do have a purpose. To the school itself comparisons to others in its class can be a useful measure of strengths and weak- nesses. They can provide an objective basis for progress or tell the school where it needs to allocate additional financial and educational resources. They can give the school's admin- 11 JURIS DOCTOR SURVEY OF DEANS 24th 1 LSAT SCORES/GPA's Registration something to refer to during budget hearings, since many scales use faculty salary, physical facilities and faculty/student ratios as a measure of comparison. Texas has done well in some of the best-known rankings. The 1976 survey for Juris Doctor— the one that provoked so much comment—was conducted in two parts. The magazine sent a questionnaire to the deans of 167 American law schools, asking them to list the top dozen law schools "in order of their academic quality" and "in terms of value in landing good jobs." The responses were anonymous, and 58 usable re- sponses were received. The same questions were asked of the magazine's readers, and 1300 responses were received. Texas was 11th on the deans' list for aca- demic quality, virtually tied with tenth-ranked Virginia. It was also 11th for employment value, in a tier with Pennsylvania, Virginia and New York University. On the readers' list, Texas did not appear in the top group. The magazine noted that it was given high rankings, but did not have enough mentions. This may in part be due to the maga- zine's circulation patterns. Fifteen other schools had more alumni readers of the magazine than Texas. The Juris Doctor poll contained several ca- veats. How much, for example, did the readers know about the academic quality of law schools across the nation? The magazine also noted that some schools not particularly prominent in national rankings—especially on the jobs ques- tion—stood out in certain regions, and specifi- cally mentioned Texas in the South. And, the magazine noted, the survey does quality of the schools. The survey is an indicator only of the relative reputations of law schools in the legal community—a most elusive concept. Another well-known ranking was called the Cartter Report, prepared in 1977 as part of a study for the California Board of Regents. Practicing scholars were questioned about 91 schools, and Texas again did well. The UT law school was ranked 10th in faculty quality, 13th in educational attractiveness, and 12th in a combined score. The report also listed the top 10 law schools in two categories: public and private. Texas was fifth on the public list, behind Michigan, California (Berkeley), Virginia and UCLA. and the Cartter Report were noted in a study done by the Texas Law Review Association (TLRA), under the direction of George Whittenburg of Amarillo. Whittenburg, who is also a former president of the Law School Association alumni organization, believes the relative position of Texas as one of the top ten law schools in the nation is important. He also feels the school can do better. "It's amazing how uniform the national ranking are for the top eight schools," he says, and he lists Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, California (Berkeley), and Pennsylvania. Whittenburg rounds out his top ten with Virginia and Texas, "and we should be able to beat out Virginia," he adds. Whittenburg thinks the law school should rank higher, and that there are definite ways to do that. Texas ranked 24th among law schools in average student performance on the Law School Admissions Test and undergraduate grade-point averages: LSAT 656; GPA 3.49. Whittenburg thinks they should be higher. "We are very low compared to the other schools," he says. The solution he sees is to increase out-of-state recruitment of top students and increase efforts to get the best Texas undergraduates. Raising the median LSAT and GPA levels would make the school even more attractive to the best students and faculty and would complement the efforts to raise the rankings. Whittenburg is also troubled by the existing limitation on admission of non-residents, who by Regents Rule can make up no more than 10% of the entering class. "It's protectionist, and probably a false pro- tectionism at that," he says. "This state wasn't built on protectionism, and I don't think the people need it or want it. What was the limita- tion at the Alamo?" Whittenburg is also concerned that Texas students may be missing something by a lessened national perspective in the student body. He admits that the difference may be subtle, but adds: "Subtle differences are the differences between good schools and great schools." not pretend to measure the actual academic_____For example, the TLRA survey found that indeed, most differences be- tween the top schools are gen- erally slight. A ranking by LSAT scores and GPA, for ex- ample, may separate schools by only a tenth of a point. As Pennsylvania professor Louis Schwartz wrote in Juris Doctor, "The slope of excellence between 'the best' schools and the next twenty is sur- prisingly flat. The 'second best' are very good indeed." Where statistically significant differences do 12th THE CARTTER REPORT appear they can indicate opportunities for im- provement. The largest single accumulation of such data is found in the ABA Annual Ques- tionaire, which consists largely of information supplied by the schools' deans. It provides only a quantitative ranking; no in-depth qualitative analysis is provided. In reports for 1976-1977 and 1979-1980 Texas ranked lower in several categories than its national standing would sug-gest. The most noteworthy are the areas of fac- ulty salaries and the student-faculty ratio. In 1976-1977, the Law School ranked 22nd in median faculty salaries, with a median salary of $31,916. This figure included the supple- ments provided by the UT Law School Founda- tion. Using the same combined figure, Texas had failed to 28th last year. In 1976-1977 fringe benefits for faculty members were $2,695, placing Texas well behind 60 other law schools. By 1979-1980, Texas fringe benefits had jumped to $6,187, 25th in the group of 30 schools with the highest median base salaries. When median base salary and fringe benefits are combined, Texas ranks second in Texas, behind Baylor. Even with these relatively low figures, Texas ranked third in 1976-1977 in terms of total teaching hours and second in percentage of hours taught by full-time faculty members among the schools with 1,100+ students. By last year, Texas was second in number of total teaching hours and had dropped to fourth in percentage of hours taught by full-time faculty. This reflects the law school's emphasis on employing qualified practitioners to meet pressing curricular needs. The faculty salary picture has improved recently. Dean John F. Sutton, Jr. has been suc- cessful in convincing the State Coordinating Board of the necessity for raising faculty salaries if the law school is to have any hope of compet- ing with law firms and other schools for top legal scholars. The dean recently reported to the alumni association that after Law School Foundation supplements are added, the median salary at Texas has risen to 11th among 12 top schools that exchange such information. The student-faculty ratio at the Law School remained almost the same for the two time peri- ods, 32.46 to one in 1976-1977 and 32.5 to one in 1979-1980. That's near the bottom of all reporting law schools. Among the relatively few (25) law schools with more than 1100 stu- dents, Texas does better. Among such schools, Texas ranked 9th in 1976-1977 and 15th last year. Reducing the student-faculty ratio may be one of the stick- iest problems the law school faces—and there are only two solutions: more faculty or fewer students. It is difficult to in- crease faculty when money is tight and faculty salaries are already too low to compete with pri- vate practice. And how can student numbers be reduced with increased enrollment pressures? The Cartter Report: the top law schools Faculty Quality Educational Attractiveness Combined Score 1. Harvard 1. Yale 1. Harvard 2. Yale 2. Stanford 2. Yale 3. Stanford 3. Harvard 3. Stanford 4. Michigan 4. Michigan 4. Michigan 5. Chicago 5. Berkeley 5. Chicago 6. Columbia 6. Chicago 6. Berkeley 7. Berkeley 7. Pennsylvania 7. Columbia 8. Pennsylvania 8. Columbia 8. Pennsylvania 9. Virginia 9. Virginia 9. Virginia 10. Texas 10. UCLA 10. UCLA 11. UCLA 11. Cornell 11. Cornell 12. Cornell 12. Duke 12. Texas 13. NYU 13. Texas 13. Duke 14. Northwestern 14. Northwestern 14. Northwestern 15. Duke 15. Minnesota 15. NYU 32:1 STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO RATIO Over 3500 applications were received for the 500 places in this year's entering class, and pres- sure to increase minority enrollment continues. Raising faculty salaries and reducing the stu- dent-faculty ratio is dependent upon increased budget support from the state and additional private support. Since they can be changed only by increased financial support for the law school, they are not easily accomplished. Un- like changes in the admissions process, they can't be solved administratively. Another so-called objective ranking is the Resource Index printed in Barron's Guide to the Law Schools, perhaps best-known to prospec- tive students. This listing uses criteria such as number of students, library volumes and fac- ulty/student ratio. The law schools are then placed in groups according to their scores. The results are very surprising. Texas appears in the 9th group, with 23 schools having higher rankings. But among those 23 are names which do not even appear on any of the other ranking lists: Iowa, Ohio State, Brigham Young, Georgia, SUNY-Buffalo, Kansas, New Mexico and Utah. And New York University, which appears in most top lists, does not show up until well after Texas. Incidentally, Northwestern stands alone in the first group, and Harvard is in the fourth. Both Harvard and Texas suffer in the Index because of high faculty-student ratio. The disclaimers accompanying this listing seem well noted: because the Resource Index measures only amounts and proportions, it should not be interpreted as a measure of quality. outside evaluations are not the only measures taken of the law school's condition. Periodi- cally, the law school under- takes a self-study; one is cur- rently under way as part of the Centennial assessment of achievements and goals. Dean Sutton has also reactivated the Board of Visitors, a group of distinguished alumni, attorneys, professors from other schools, and judges. The Board, as the name implies, visits the law school and makes findings and recommendations about educational programs. The Board of Visitors' 1978 report, for example, recommended changes in the legal writing programs and dean selection process, and commended the Admissions Committee for its success in attracting minority students. The Board's report also expressed concern about a potential problem with using private contributions to make up shortfalls in areas such as faculty salaries: "Success in obtaining funding from private sources should not militate to any extent against the School receiving its fair share of funding as a principal component of the University System." That concern is echoed by Whittenburg: "We can't get shortchanged by the University System," he cautions. "Don't penalize the law school for working hard. That just removes the The Juris Doctor survey: law school rankings Academic Quality: Academic Quality survey of 58 deans survey of 1300 readers 1. Harvard 1. Harvard 2. Yale 2. Yale 3. Chicago 3. Stanford 4. Columbia 4. Michigan 5. Stanford 5. Chicago 6. Michigan 6. Columbia 7. Berkeley 7. Berkeley 8. Pennsylvania 8. Pennsylvania 9. NYU 9. Virginia 10. Virginia 10. NYU 11. Texas 11. Georgetown 12. Duke 5th THE CARTTER REPORT LIST OF PUBLIC LAW SCHOOLS incentive." Two recent evaluations of the law school have been made by members of the faculty: one in 1976 by Professor Russell Weintraub and a 1978 survey by Professor George Schatzki. Both reports note the same weaknesses: an under- staffed library, poor faculty research oppor- tunities, lack of support staff, large classes and an inadequate physical plant. Weintraub's report encourages more inter- disciplinary and clinical courses and relaxation of the limitation on out-of-State students. The Schatzki study also notes additional equipment needs and relatively small financial aid offerings to attract top students. One of Weintraub's conclusions is that the law school can take pride in the faculty it has built. The report notes that not only have many of the faculty achieved national—and in- ternational—eminence, but the vast majority are also perceived by the students as excellent teachers. An overview of the annual faculty evaluations conducted by the Student Bar As- sociation leads to the same conclusion—in ah most the same words. One of the most important evalutions is the inspection every seven years by the American Bar Association and the Association of Ameri- can Law Schools. The 1976 report from the ac- crediting bodies noted the now-familiar blem- ishes: the student-faculty ratio, low secretarial and research budgets, and low state faculty salary funding—in the committee's words: "for a school with the distinction and aspirations of Texas." n 1983, when the ABA and AALS next visit, they will find a dramatically improved physi- cal plant. The new library fa- cilities are among the nation's finest and the renovation of Townes Hall should be completed by then, re- lieving some of the school's other growing pains. There are signs that the committees will find improvements in other areas as well. One of Dean Sutton's top priorities con- tinues to be working with the State Coordinat- ing Board to raise faculty salaries to more realis- tic figures—and he has already had some success. Alumni have become actively involved in re- evaluating the curriculum. An alumni commit- tee is working closely with the faculty curricu- lum committee, and one of the first priorities is to find ways to improve student legal writing. A thorough examination of the entire curriculum, including advanced business offerings, Texas procedure and energy law courses, is expected before the effort is finished. A nationally- known expert on curriculum reform, former Dean Roger Cramton of Cornell, recently spoke with the group. Other groups have begun working on problems such as inadequate equip- ment and staff support—and the funds to im- prove those situations. The Law School Foundation and Association will continue to strengthen their development programs and efforts to raise funds from private sources. The Association recently committed itself to double alumni support by the law school's Centennial year of 1983. valuations will continue at the law school. The reconstituted Board of Visitors is expected to visit and evaluate the school this year. An assessment of publications—particularly stu- dent journals—is also expected soon. Addi- tional evaluations will look at the administra- tive structure of the law school, at personnel classifications for support staff, at placement services, and at clinical program requirements. The law school will need these and other evaluations in any pursuit of excellence. Be they objective or subjective, quantitative or qualitative, they provide a yardstick to measure progress. They also help to tell where support of alumni and friends can be best directed to build the school even stronger. Continuing evaluation . . . and work to con rect any flaws . . . only by that effort can Texas reach and maintain a standing among the na-tion's best law schools. The University of Texas Law School Foundation Dear Friends; It is always gratifying to report about a year in which our alumni increased their support to new levels. In the following pages, you will see that for the fifth consecutive year, a record number of alumni have made contributions to the Foundation to benefit the Law School. More and more, you have understood our message that the only way The University of Texas Law School will remain strong and dynamic is with alumni and other private contributions. More and more, you have realized that state funds are not available for many of the programs your gifts have supported. In the report that follows, we outline some of these programs. They are vital to a strong leading law school. With them, we can compete for the most outstanding faculty and students. Without them, we run the risk of sliding back toward mediocrity. We are tremendously encouraged by what you are doing for our law school. much. We appreciate you all and thank you very Sincerely yours, Brooke F. Dudley Executive Director - " "more alumni made gifts to annual giving than ever before." REVIEW OF THE YEAR Some of the outstanding gifts that were made to the Law School Foundation this year are outlined below. It is appropriate to honor those donors for their extraordinary interest. However, there are many more stories to tell about this year and its effect on the well- being on our law school. Most important was the fact that more alumni made gifts to annual giving than ever before. There is no way to tell you adequately how important this is. You literally build the base for our future. Your interest and loyalty mean far more to us than the amount of your gift. To be sure, however, annual giving is one vital way for you to show that interest, and for that reason, we are trying to find new ways to show our appreciation. This past year, we established a Benefactors designation to recognize our alumni who have made a commitment of $1,000 or more to the Law School. This year we are adding an Advocates group for donors of $500. These are some of the ways that we can add a little extra thanks for your loyalty. The core of our an- nual program still is the Dean's Council, however, and a record number of alumni joined last year. The funds appropriated by the legislature are sufficient to make us only an average law school. Your support is what makes it possible for us to be a leader. Your contributions supplement state funds; they do not supplant them. Without you, we simply could not provide these essential services to our faculty and students. To those of you who gave to support spe- cial programs, we owe every bit as much. You com-pleted one Chair (Page Keeton) and established another (Benno Schmidt). You funded scholar- ships, research, student organizations, faculty sal- ary supplements and administrative programs. Es- sentially, we have entered into a partnership with many of the state's leading law firms, corporations and foundations to strengthen and perpetuate the quality of legal education at The University of Texas. To those of you who have helped build this partnership, we are very grateful. We are increasingly optimistic about our future because of your greater awareness of the need for private support of our law school. Outstanding gifts this year: Bruner Foundation of New York made a grant of $10,000 to assist former UT Professor Thomas Buergenthal on a Human Rights Re- search project he conducted while serving on the Inter-American Court on Human Rights in Costa Rica. Joseph C. Hutcheson, III continued his magnificent support of the J. C. Hutcheson, Jr. Endowed Scholarship with gifts of stock valued at $12,619. Shell Companies Foundation, Inc. renewed its $7,500 commitment to support faculty and student professional development. Select Minority Trust in Tyler established a $10,000 general scholarship. Elton M. Hyder, Jr. made a gift of $10,000 to the Elton M. Hyder, Jr. Endowed Scholarship Fund. Fiji Foundation in Houston donated $24,000 for general support with emphasis on Board of Advocates programs such as the Patent Law Moot Court Competition. M.D. Anderson Foundation renewed its $20,000 commitment to faculty support. Mrs. Earl E. Sheffield made a $5,000 gift to finish funding the Page Keeton Chair in Torts Law. This gift will be matched 2 for 1 by Gulf Oil Corporation Foundation. Sewell and Riggs made a $20,000 payment on its pledge to fund the $100,000 Ben Gardner Sewell Professorship in Civil Trial Advocacy. The Chicano Law Students Society established the Janie Villarreal Memorial Loan Fund to be used by members of the Chicano Law Students Society. Brooke F. Dudley, Executive Director Law School Foundation "we established a designation to recognize our alumni who have made a commitment of $1,000 or more to the Law School." BEN EFACTORS Baker, Rex G., Jr. Douglass, Frank Phillips, Thomas M. Barbee, Linton E. Geren, Preston M. Sapp, Charles Barnett, E. W. Lambdin, Griffith D. Seureau, G. E. Cowan, Finis E. Ligon, M. R. Watson, Jack D. Crain, Rogers Lacy Luton, Jesse P., Jr. White, A. Ben FIRMS Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones Koppel, Ezell & Jackson Arnold, White & Durkee Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Brown & LaBoon Atlas & Hall Frank Maloney & Associates Baker & Botts Mandell & Wright Brice & Barron McGown, Godfrey, Decker, McMackin, Shipman & McClane Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp Byrd, Davis & Eisenberg O'Melveny & Myers Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal Orgain, Bell & Tucker Childs, Fortenbach, Beck & Guyton Passman, Jones, Andrews & Holley & Co. Finley & Scogin Potash, Bernat, Sipes & Bernat Flahive & Ogden Rain, Harrell, Emery, Young & Doke Fulbright & Jaworski Robinson, Felts, Meyers, Starnes & Latting Gardere, Wynne & Jaffe Schlanger, Cook, Cohn, Mills & Grossberg Geary, Stahl & Spencer Sewell & Riggs Grambling, Mounce, Sims, Galatzan & Harris Sneed, Vine, Wilkerson, Selman & Perry Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody Strasburger & Price Hughes & Hill Thompson & Knight Jackson, Walker, Winstead, Cantwell & Miller Underwood, Wilson, Sutton, Berry, Stein & Johnson Jenkens & Gilchrist Whittenburg, Whittenburg & Schachter Johnson Swanson & Barbee Wood, Lucksinger & Epstein Kidd, Whitehurst & Harkness Vinson & Elkins CORPORATIONS Conoco, Inc. Crum & Forster Insurance Companies Firestone Tire & Rubber Gulf Oil Corporation Phillips Petroleum Company Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Corp. "we have entered into a partnership with many of the state's leading law firms, corporations and foundations to strengthen and perpetuate the quality of legal education at the University of Texas." FOUNDATIONS Alcoa Foundation M. D. Anderson Foundation Bruner Foundation, Inc. Raymond C. Dickson Foundation Exxon Education Foundation Exxon USA Foundation LBJ Family Foundation Fiji Foundation of Texas Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Foundation Halliburton Education Foundation, Inc. Select Minority Trust Mervin G. Hansbro Trust The Shell Companies Foundation TRW Foundation ASSOCIATIONS Austin Lawyers' Wives' Club Society of FBI Texas Trial Lawyers Association MATCHING GIFTS Cabot Corp. Covington & Burling Exxon USA Foundation Federal National Mortgage Assn. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Getty Oil Co. Gulf Oil Corp. Foundation Gulf States Utilities Co. IBM Marathon Oil Company Foundation Morgan, Lewis & Bockius O'Melveny & Myers Teepak, Inc. Texasgulf Inc. Transcontinental Pipeline Co. Union Oil Co. of California Union Pacific Corp. United Energy Resources, Inc. Wilmer & Pickering F R I E N D S Aldave, Barbara Goldsum, John Olsen, Mr. & Mrs. James Baade, Hans Hamilton, Robert Rau, Alan S. Bobbitt, Phillip Hazel, J. Patrick Robertson, David Brown, The Hon. John Hickman, Mrs. J. E. Sampson, John Cain, Pat Hopper, Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Seay, Charles E. Churgin, M. J. Hunt, Stuart Sharlot, Michael Clark, Celinda Johanson, Stanley Sherman, Edward Clark, Ramsey Johnson, Corwin Sinclair, Robert Clendenin, Mrs. Tom Jurow, Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Smith, Ernest E. Cohen, Edward Means, Robert Treece, James Dady, Mr. & Mrs. Gordon L. Mersky, Roy Voight, Roland Dawson, Robert Morehead, Betty Weintraub, Russell Filvaroff, David Morehead, Rhetta Kay White, Margaret Ford, Joseph O'Connor, L. J. Jr. Williams, Jerre Goldstein, E. Ernest Wright, Charles A. "The core of our annual program still is the Dean's Council, and a record number of alumni joined last year." DEANS COUNCIL Abrams, Barry Berry, Mark Acers, Maurice W. Berry, Thomas E. Agnor, Thomas ]., Jr. Beyer, Stanley C. Allison, James E., Jr. Bible, Kathy J. Anderson, John T. Biggers, Dallas C. Anderson, Sunya N. Bird, Richard D. Armstrong, J. Gaylord Bird, Steven R. Arnold, Daniel C. Birkeland, B. C. Arnold, Tom Blakeney, M. Robert Ashworth, Glen M. Block, Gus Atlas, Morris Bluestein, Edwin A., Jr. Atlas, Scott J. Blumenthal, Robert L. Baade, Hans W. Bohlmann, John R Bagley, Taffy D. Borchers, Marion J. Baker, Celeste Borgfeld, Walter L. Baker, Don L. Boston, Charles D. Baker, Rex G., Ill Bounds, Scott Baldwin, Scott Bowers, James M. Balter, Robert S. Brady, John A. Banister, Charles T. Branch, E. B. Barbour, Larry Brandimarte, A. Paul, Jr. Barghols, Steven L. Brenner, Carl Barlow, James B. Brenscheidt, Michael H. Barr, Andrew Brill, James E. Barrow, Charles L. Britain, B. M. Barrow, George T. Broesche, Travis C. Baskerville, Michael S. Broocks, John H. Batla, Raymond J., Jr. Brown, Earl A., Jr. Baumgartner, James H., Jr. Brown, Earnest, H. Bayern, Arthur H. Brown, Joseph C. Beall, Alex Brown, R. Michael Beck, David J. Brown, William R. Belk, Bates Bullion, J. Waddy Benbow, Daniel B. Burch, V. R., Jr. Bennett, David Burroughs, F. R. Benson, Gerald W. Cabaniss, John T. Berkel, John W. Cain, C. Joseph Bernal, David V. Caldwell, J. Wiley Bernat, Julian Calvert, Robert W. Bernat, Marc Campbell, John R. Berry, Charles L. Campbell, Winfield M. Cannon, Joe Cowling, David E. Carlock, David Cox, Richard D., Jr. Carrette, Edward H, Jr. Crain, James C. Carroll, James V., III Crooker, John H., Jr. Carroll, Mary Joe Crotty, Robert Casey, Martin F. Crouch, Robert C. Cashman, John G. Crow, Dan C. Cassin, William B. Culpepper, John C. Castle, John R., Jr. Cummings, B. Michael Cauthorn, Drew Curry, Doyle Caven, Walter Curry, Robert A. Chalk, John Allen Curtis, John D. Chambers, Dudley Davis, Carleton A. Chapman, Geroge C. Davis, Jerry L. Chapman, Jack T. Davis, M. G. Chapoton, O. Don Davis, Paul R., Jr. Christian, Betty Jo Davis, Platt W., III Church, William C. Davis, Tom M. Clark, Edward Day, George Clements, Jamie H. Day, Jonathan Clore, Lawrence H. Dean, Beale Clyburn, Lee C. DeBerry, Henry D. Coates, John Henry Deffebach, William T. Coatney, Doyle L. Denius, Franklin W. Cochran, John R., Jr. Denman, Leroy G., Jr. Coffee, James R. Dillon, C. Brien Coffee, Jon N. Dittert, J. Lee, Jr. Cohan, Robert M. Dooley, Richard M. Collie, Key Dougherty, J. Chrys Collie, Marvin K. Doyle, Stephen P. Collins, Whitfield J. Dreyer, Ralph Connally, Tom Driver, Temple Conner, Terry W. Duggan, F. Lee, Jr. Conover, William V., II Duke, Charles W. Converse, Robert G. Dunbar, Edward W. Cope, John R. Duncan, Charles M. Copeland, Morgan L. Duncan, David T. Cotten, Mike Du Vall, J. Kyle Courtney, Maston C. Dwyer, William G. Courtney, William R. Dyer, W. Robert Cowden, Thomas B. Eastland, Donald "Your support is what makes it possible for us to be a leader." Eastland, Seaborn, Jr. Eaton, Lauren Ebersole, C. R. Eckel, John E. Eidman, Kraft W. Eidson, Joe H. Elliott, J. W. Ellis, James A., Jr. Elston, Jay W. Espy, Kip McKinney Esquivel, Ed H. Estes, Carl, II Estes, Joe E. Estes, John L. Fainter, John W., Jr. Feldman, Robert C. Ferguson, Hugh Fielder, Parker C. Figari, Ernest E. Finkle, Yale S. Flanagan, Christie S. Forbis, James E. Fox, Paul W. Freling, Richard A. Fullerton, John G. Furgeson, William R., Jr. Gardner, Anne Gardner, Pat H. Gardner, Terry Garwood, William L. Gary, James W. Gates, Philip Gee, Harry, Jr. George, Dane George, R. James, Jr. Gibbins, Bob Gibbons, Mark L. Gibbs, Lawrence B. Gibbs, Robin C. Gibson, W. W., Jr. Gilchrist, Henry Gill, Lee S. Glesby, Gary S. Glickman, David G. Godfrey, H. Lee Goldberg, Daniel J. Golden, Eugene Goldston, Donald N. Golemon, Kinnan Gonsoulin, Dewey J. Gooch, R. Gordon Goodwin, Ben Gorham, Charles B. Gragg, Billy H. Grainger, Richard Gray, Richard E., Jr. Green, Carl Green, Leighton, Jr. Greenwood, James, III Gregory, Charles H. Griffis, Don W. Griggs, Charles R. Grinstead, S. Tevis Grossberg, Marc E. Grossman, Gary S. Gump, Richard A. Gurwitz, Gary Guyton, Dewuse, Jr. Haas, Samuel D. Haight, William H. Haile, Lawrence B. Hall, Wendell E. Hamilton, Arthur E. Hamilton, James A. Hamilton, William N. Harkness, Thomas R. Harlan, Joe Harris, Herbert S., III Hart, Mark L., Jr. Hartman, Malcolm T. Hartman, Merrill L. Harvin, David T. Harvin, William C. Hawkins, Jack W. Haworth, Charles R. Head, Hayden W. Heaney, J. David Hearon, R. J., Jr. Heatherly, Glenn Hedges, Daniel K. Helman, S. J. Henderson, W. E. Henry, R. Paul Herrmann, James A. Hester, W. D. Heyser, Estill S., Jr. Hicks, M. Lawrence, Jr. Hight, R. L. Hilgers, David Hilgers, William Hill, Thomas E. Hill, Yerger, III Hilliard, C. P. Hoffman, Harold Holcomb, Kevin Holland, Robert B. Hollyfield, J. S. Honea, Floyd F., II Hopkins, George Horwitz, Julian V. Hough, Sam A., Jr. Houghton, Thomas W. Houser, Franklin D. Howell, Donald L. Howell, Edward S. Howell, Mark F. Hughes, Robert G. Hughston, Richard L. Hunter, Morgan Hutcheson, Thad T. Hutcheson, Thad T., Jr. Hutchison, Kay Bailey Illig, Carl Ingram, Denny O. Jackson, John N. Jackson, Randall C. Jacks, Tommy Jamail, Joseph D. James, Gerald D. Jameson, Gene L. Jeffers, John Jennings, Frank Jett, Lois Johnson, Hubert Dee Johnson, James C. Johnson, Jerome W. Johnson, William E., Jr. Johnston, Charles M. Johnston, D. H., Jr. Johnston, Murray L., Jr. Jones, Richard L. Jones, W. Franklin, Jr. Jones, Franklin, Sr. Jones, J. P. Joplin, Mike Jordan, William D. Joseph, L. Anthony, Jr. Kaplan, Lee L. Kazen, Barbara A. Keeble, Charles C. Keeton, Robert E. Keeton, W. Page Kelson, Winchester, Jr. Kendall, Gaynor Kerr, Baine P. Kerr, Crawford S., Jr. Kidd, Mack King, John L. Kirk, William T., Jr. Kleinman, Harold F. Knapp, Marcial A. Knight, Barney L. Knight, Reuben B. Knippa, Larry D. Korioth, Tony Krebs, Arno W., Jr. Kress, Alexander Krist, Ronald Kultgen, David B. Lancaster, John L., III Lang, William A. Langdon, Jim C., Jr. Lange, B. John, III LaSalle, LeRoy Latchford, David R. Lefler, M. L., Jr. Lehtonen, Alfred Leighton, Leonard Lemen, William L. Lemon, R. D. Lents, Ann Lerner, I. A. Lewis, John Furman Little, Jack M. Little, Tracy L. Littleton, Larry O. Locke, J. R. Locke, John R., Jr. Loeffler, Thomas G. Love, Jeff B. Lucksinger, Thomas S. Lykos, Thomas J. Lyne, Fritz Mahon, James S. Maley, Robert C., Jr. Manford, Thomas D., III Mann, Phillip L. Manning, E. T., Jr. Marinis, Thomas P., Jr. Marsh, Gwendolyn Martin, C. D. Martin, James N. Martin, Lloyd C. Martin, Mark Martinez, Mario J. "Without you, we simply could not provide these essential services." Matheson, Dan N. Matthews, Wright Mauzy, Oscar H. Mayer, Randolph A. Maynard, Charles D., Jr. Meaders, Paul L. Meeker, Charles R., III Meer, Julian M. Methvin, Gaynell C. Metts, Harold Milam, James H. Milam, Tom S. Mills, Jack Mills, Thomas W., Jr. Minks, Merle E. Mitchell, John R. Mitchell, Thomas J. Montemayor, Jesus Mario Montgomery, Elton M. Moody, John S. Moody, Nancy P. Moore, Hardy Moore, Harvin C., Jr. Morgan, Richard G. Morris, Carloss Morris, S. Tom Morrison, Lonny D. Morrison, Walter J. Morriss, Will A. Moser, William B., Jr. Moss, William R. Moursund, Travis M. Munneke, Gary A. Munson, William B., IV Munzinger, Richard Murdock, Mark L. Murphree, John D. Murphy, Ewell E., Jr. Murphy, Michael D. McCalla, Dudley D. McCamish, John N., Jr. McClane, John B. McCollum, James H. McCoy, Charles W. McCray, Jean McCulley, Catherine C. McCulley, Hugh L. McCullough, John T. McCullough, Marvin E. McDaniel, Charles B. McDonald, John B. McDonald, Mary G. McEachern, Frank P. McElroy, B. Thomas McGarr, Janie S. McGee, Henry L., Jr. McGee, The Hon. Sears McGinnis, Daryle D. McGloin, J. Patrick McKetta, JohnJ. (Mike), III McKool, Mike, Jr. McLaughlin, J. Mark McMicken, Jack L. McNeill, Alan McQueen, Michael D. McRae, Hamilton E. Nance, James K. Naranjo, Dan A. Neves, Kerry L. Newton, Charles T., Jr. Nichols, Nick C. Nichols, Rex A. Nicolas, Toufic Nielsen, Paul F. Nolan, Arthur J. Norris, J. Robert, Jr. Norton, Gary Null, M. L. Nunnally, Knox D. O'Brien, Chilton Oldham, D. Dudley O'Neill, Brian E. Orgain, B. D. Owsley, Alvin M. Oxford, Hubert, III Oxford, Patrick Paine, Stephen C. Parker, James A. Parse, M. W., Jr. Patman, William N. Patterson, Hugh M. Patton, John J. Pearce, Ray Pearson, Paul C., Ill Peavy, Robert A. Pennington, Oliver Perel, Stephen Perini, Vincent W. Perkins, Denver E. Perrin, Michael W. Pew, Jack, Jr. Pickering, Michael R. Plattsmier, Don C. Ponsford, Terrence V. Pope, F. Starr, Jr. Porter, Charles R., Jr. Post, Charles W., Jr. Powell, Charles D. Powers, Pike, Jr. Pressler, Herman P. Provost, David A. Pruitt, Warren Pulis, James E., Jr. Pullen, Joel H. Rain, J. Talbot Ramey, Tom, Jr. Ramsey, George E., III Ratliff, Debora D. Reasoner, Harry M. Record, Christopher S. Rector, Donald R. Redford, Cecil D. Rees-Jones, Trevor Wm. "We are increasingly optimistic about our future because of your greater awareness of the need for private support of our law school." Reynolds, Ben L. Shivers, Allan Rhodes, A. L. Simpson, Gordon Ringle, Brett A. Small, Clint, Jr. Roberts, Sue B. Smith, Bea Ann Robinson, Phillip Smith, Bruce Dixie Rogers, Henry H. Smith, David P. Rogers, James F. Smith, Eugene R. Rogers, Norman R. Smith, George F., Jr. Rohne, Wayne A. Smith, J. Burleson Rose, Howard V. Smith, Killough K., Jr. Rosenberg, Stanley D. Smith, Paul H. Roth, Carl Smith, Paula Rutland, J. W., Jr. Smith, Robert H. Sales, James B. Smith, Wayne V. R. Sanders, Barefoot Snakard, Robert F. Sarrouf, Camille F. Sorrell, Bob, Jr. Saunders, Charles A. Solomon, Jay I. Schechter, Arthur L. Soules, Luther H., III Schenker, Cecil Sparkman, Allen Schoenbrun, Larry Sparks, Sam Schulze, Miles Sparks, William C. Scott, Robert Spencer, Ken G. Scott, Tom R. Spiller, James M. Scott, Wallace H., Jr. Spilman, Wade F. Sealy, Tom Spivey, Rex J. Seamster, Don N. Spoor, David C. Sebesta, Henry W., Jr. Squibb, J. Donald, Jr. Seikel, David P. Stallings, Paul E. Sellingsloh, J. S. Steger, Hugh L. Sewell, Ben G. Steinbach, F. Ward Shaffer, Deon K. Stephens, Grover L. Shapiro, Sander W. Stephens, W. Michael Sharman, John L. Stevenson, David R. Sharp, Thomas H., Jr. Steves, Sterling W. Sharpe, Nelson R. Stone, Sam Sharpe, R. M., Jr. Sturdivant, Wayne Shearn, Michael J. Suhr, Dr. Knut Sheets, Jody G. Summers, Alfred H. Sheffield, Mrs. E. E. Susman, Stephen D. Shepherd, Robert A. Sutton, John E. Shirley, W. John Swearingen, Patrick H., Jr. Tallichet, George S. Watson, Jim A. Tarpley, Beverly P. Weber, James L. Tarpley, Charles A. Weber, Wayne T. Tate, Milton Y., Jr. Webster, Dan G., III Tatum, Stephen L. Weinert, Herf M. Taylor, Boyd D. Weiss, T. F., Jr. Temple, Larry Werlein, Ewing, Jr. Thompson, Raybourne Wessler, Jack C. Tighe, Charles L. West, Ben B. Tigner, H. G. West, Milton H., Jr. Tinsman, Richard Wheat, Joe F. Tottenham, Terry O. White, W. D. Totz, Jon D. White, William B. Trabulsi, Richard J., Jr. Whitehurst, William O., Jr. Tracy, J. David Wilde, Carlton Travis, Robert S. Wilk, Michael Trost, J. Ronald Willett, H. L. Truitt, James L. Williams, James A. Truitt, Robert R., Jr. Williams, J. Stockton, Jr. Turner, Martin E. Williams, Troy D. Underhill, John G., III Wilson, Abe S. Vance, Estil A., Jr. Wilson, Carl W. Vance, Roy C. Wilson, Newton W., III Vaughan, Ben F., III Wilson, T. Michael Venable, Robert A. Winstead, Pete Veselka, Larry Winters, J. Sam Vine, Harry, III Witt, Willis Vogt, Carl W. Wolfe, John J. Voight, Roland B. Wolfram, Charles W. Volk, William R. Womble, Bill R. Voss, J. M. Wood, Michael W. Wade, Henry Woodruff, E. P., Jr. Wade, William J. Workman, Walter E. Wakefield, Stephen A. Wright, Joel E. Walker, A. W., Jr. Wulff, F. Bart Walker, Jerry V. Wynne, Anne S. Wallace, Robert P. Yeakel, Earl L. Waters, King Young, Barney T. Watkins, Joe B. Young, Donald D. Watkins, Tom Younger, John F., Jr. Watson, Alto V. Zaboroski, Robert B. Manning takes office at alumni meeting Amarillo attorney E. T. Manning became president of The University of Texas Law School Association at the June meeting, during the State Bar Convention in Dallas. The Asso- ciation is the law alumni group of UT Austin. In addition, the association awarded its 1980 outstanding alumnus honor to Kraft Eidman, attorney and new president of the Law School Foundation. Manning, who has been president-elect of the association for the past year, is a partner in the firm of Underwood, Wilson, Sutton, Berry, Stein and Johnson. A 1967 law graduate of UT Austin, he succeeded Linton Barbee of Dallas as the association president. Chosen as president-elect at the Dallas meet-ing was John McCamish of the San Antonio firm of Soules and McCamish. He is a 1966 UT law graduate. Eidman, a 1935 law graduate, is a senior partner with the firm of Fulbright and Jaworski in Houston. He has long been active in the affairs of the Law School Foundation, which works to provide private support for programs of the UT Law School. Eidman, who also is a previous recipient of the "distinguished alumnus" award given by the UT Ex-Students' Association, is a former presi- dent of the American College of Trial Lawyers, International Association of Insurance Counsel and UT Law School Association. The Association set up a hospitality suite during the convention to serve as a meeting place for alumni, and hosted a luncheon for alumni, with reunion tables set up for selected classes. A reception was held for Deans Council members, donors of $100 or more; and a special reception was held for Benefactors, a new designation honoring donors of $1000 or more. The Benefactors were also recognized and presented with plaques at the alumni luncheon. The dean's annual report to the alumni at the luncheon included the introduction of new faculty members. New president E. T. Manning presented Bar- bee with a cowboy hat at the luncheon on be- half of the association, joking that he wanted to make sure Barbee's Texas affiliations were well known on his trips to New York. Also during the convention, Association Di- rector of Alumni Relations Judy Amis demon- strated her fleet-footedness. Braving the heat wave in Dallas, she placed third in a 3.1-mile fun run around Bachman Lake, sponsored by the State Bar. TOP LEFT: Outgoing President Lin Barbee presents the 1980 Law School Association Distinguished Alumnus Award to Kraft Eidman, President of the Law School Foundation. TOP RIGHT: Barbee himself was presented with a hat for his New York trips by new President E. T. Manning. BOTTOM LEFT: Dean John F. Sutton, Jr. reported on changes at the law school for the annual alumni luncheon, held in Dallas during the State Bar Convention. BOTTOM RIGHT: A special table was set aside to honor Benefactors, a new designation for donors of $1000 or more. Association directors set 3-year goals Goals which will substantially increase alum- ni contributions to the law school through the Law School Association were announced at the group's Directors Meeting in mid-November. President E.T. Manning asked for endorsement of the officers' commitment to a three year goal: to double alumni support for the law school by the Centennial year of 1983. The goal for 1981 is over a 25% increase from this year: $151,700 from 1275 alumni. Director of Alumni Relations Judith M. Amis announced that the 1980 goal for alumni giving was reached. The final accounting for the year showed that 953 donors contributed $116,986 in unrestricted funds. The university will soon begin its Centennial celebration, and the first event will be the dedication of the new law school library on January 6. Associate Dean W. W. Gibson, Jr. introduced Mark Metts, a lst-year student from Houston who has been chosen as the official representative of the Centennial class—those entering this year who will graduate in 1983. Richard Freling, chairman of the Alumni Curriculum Planning Committee also reported on the alumni group's continuing evaluation of the curriculum, in which they have worked closely with the faculty. The committee has been giving intensive Celebration for Williams Former professor Jerre S. Williams, now a judge on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, had the chance to visit with former colleagues, students and other friends at a dinner given in his honor in mid-November. Williams was praised from the dais by former Dean Page Keeton, Dean John F. Sutton, Jr. and former Dean Roger Cramton of Cornell. He was presented with a watch by Professor Corwin Johnson on behalf of the law school faculty. Photo: Ralph Barrera study to improving students' legal writing skills and is now working on a project to evaluate writing samples taken from entering students. The committee will also be examining the rest of the curriculum. Dean John F. Sutton, Jr. reported to the group that his efforts to upgrade law school faculty salaries to more realistic levels had met with some success. Median salaries at Texas— including supplementation by the Law School Foundation—have risen from 28th in the nation to 11th. But Sutton tempered his report by noting how inflation has ravaged the income that endowed chairs and professorships pro- Directors of the Law School Foundation met in mid-November and were briefed on the goals and plans of the law school as it approaches its Centennial year. Left to right, front row: Presi- dent-elect John McCamish, San Antonio; Barry Chasnoff, San Antonio. Back Row: Fred Loh- meyer, Bryan; Duke Ligon, Washington, D.C.; Dick Morgan, Washington, D.C. Association directors for this year: Texas: Abilene: John Allen Chalk Amarillo: Robert H. Smith Austin: J. Gaylord Armstrong, John H. Coates, Frank R. Douglass, John W. Fainter, Jr., George E. Ramsey, III Beaumont: Hubert Oxford, III Bryan: O. Fred Lohmeyer Corpus Christi: James W. Gary Dallas: John R. Castle, Jr., Hugh W. Ferguson, Lawrence B. Gibbs, Jack M. Little, Larry O. Littleton, Bryan J. Maedgen, Carl W. Wilson Denison: Wm. Benjamin Munson, IV El Paso: Marc P. Bernat, Edward W. Dunbar Fort Worth: Anne L. Gardner, Harold D. Hammett, Estil A. Vance, Jr. duce. Sutton's report also included notes on the higher qualifications of incoming students, the need for adequate equipment at the law school, success in faculty recruiting, and planned changes in the admissions process. The directors were taken on a tour of the new library, during which Manning pointed out that much university funding is restricted to buildings and capital needs, and cannot be used for faculty salaries, student support, or other important needs. That, he told the Directors, is why their work with the Association is vital. Galveston: John E. Eckel, Jr. Houston: David J. Beck, James V. Carroll, III, O. Don Chapoton, Robin C. Gibbs, Marc E. Grossberg, Ann Lents, Catherine McCulley, Richard J. Trabulsi, Jr. Lubbock: William J. Wade McAllen: Gary R. Gurwitz Midland: C. D. "Bud" Martin Palestine: Billy H. Gragg San Angelo: Philip R. Lane San Antonio: T. Drew Cauthorn, Barry M. Chasnoff, Kip McKinney Espy, Dan A. Naranjo, Thomas H. Sharp, Jr. Temple: William R. Courtney Texarkana: H. Howard Waldrop Tyler: Tom B. Ramey, Jr. Wichita Falls: Lonny D. Morrison At Large: Central: Charles W. Wolfram, Minneapolis District of Columbia: Betty Jo Christian, Duke R. Ligon, Richard G. Morgan, Thomas M. Susman Southeast: Jay I. Solomon, Atlanta Southwest: Dennis R. Neill, Tulsa, James A. Parker, Albuquerque West: Eugene Golden, Beverly Hills, Calif.; Adrian C. Smith, Phoenix Photo: Ralph Barrera Bentsen, Martin given alumni honor The highest honor awarded to ex-students of the University of Texas was given to two law school alumni this fall: Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Dallas Attorney Mark Martin. The two were among four ex-students pre- sented with the awards at a presentation in late October. Distinguished Alumnus Awards are made annually to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in their business and professional fields and have continued an active interest in and concern for their alma mater. Lloyd Bentsen Lloyd Bentsen's involvement with the University of Texas predates World War II. He received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University, earning the latter in 1942. Bentsen soon traded the halls of academia for war-torn Europe. He enlisted in the Army and subsequently flew 50 bomber missions. A major and B-24 squadron commander at age 23, Bentsen was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with three oak leaf clusters for his combat record. Military service completed, Bentsen returned to the Rio Grande Valley in his native Texas. In 1946, he entered politics and was elected Hi- dalgo County Judge at the age of 25. Bentsen was then the youngest county judge in the state, and he soon broke another age record. In 1948 he was elected to the U.S. House of Represen- tatives and was its youngest member. Bentsen served three terms. He declined to run for a fourth and instead moved to Houston to enter business. During the next 16 years he led Lincoln Consolidated, a financial holding company, from its place as a new insurance company paying no dividends to new heights of business activity. Bentsen later rose to the company's presidency, and under his leadership the enterprise paid over $5 million in dividends. In 1970 Bentsen re-entered the political arena, when he decided to run for the U.S. Senate. Bentsen defeated incumbent Ralph Yarborough in the Democratic primary and Re- publican George Bush in the general election. Re-elected in 1976, Bentsen is currently chair- man of the Joint Economic Committee and is a member of the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works. Bentsen's political success has not severed his ties with the university. He has continued to play an active role and tried to imbue UT with his own brand of "commitment to progress." Along with duties in many civic organizations Senator Lloyd Bentsen Mark Martin such as the Salvation Army and the Boy Scouts, the senator serves as a member of the UT Development Board. Bentsen was honored last spring with the es- tablishment of the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair in Governmental/Business Relations in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin. Mark Martin Mark Martin also received both his under- graduate and law degrees at U.T. Austin. He earned a BBA in 1935 and an LLB in 1937. Immediately upon graduation Martin went to work for the prestigious Dallas firm of Stras- burger and Price. Specializing in civil law, he has over the years established a reputation as a respected practitioner. According to fellow at- torneys, Martin combines legal scholarship with a style of advocacy that is forceful without being overwhelming. The UT grad has put that rare mix of talents to use in a number of celebrated and divergent cases. For example, he represented the plaintiffs in a suit concerning fraudulent financing for fertilizer tanks against Billie Sol Estes, and, more recently, argued the side of the Dallas Independent School District in a suit over federally-mandated school desegregation. Martin's legal achievements have made him a leader in his profession. His former posts include the presidencies of the Dallas Bar Association and the Texas Association of Defense Counsel and chairmanships of the State Bar Board and the Board of the Defense Research Institute. Currently Martin serves as the 5th Circuit member of the ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary and as a Fellow and Member of the Board of the Regents of the American College of Trial Lawyers. In addition, throughout his career Martin has maintained close contact with his alma mater and other schools in the UT system. His work for their advancement has earned him several high positions. He currently holds posts on the Executive Committee of the UT Law School Foundation, the Development Board of the University of Texas at Dallas, and the Executive Committee of the Chancellor's Council of the UT system. He also is a life member of the Ex-Students Association. Martin is aware of the heavy responsibility these posts place upon him. "Dedication," he told a writer for Alcalde, the Ex-Students' Association magazine, "is risky. But dedication is my business." Alumni Notes to 1949 Maurice Hirsch (1914), president of the Houston Symphony Society for 14 years, was honored with a gala tribute by the orchestra on his 90th birthday in June. Thurman Adkins (1930) was honored with a reception in appreciation of 50 years of service in the legal profession in Shamrock and Wheeler Counties. Maurice W. Acers (1934) received the Medal of Honor from the Congress of the Interna- tional Real Estate Federation. Lanier Cox (1937), UT professor of educa- tional administration and general business, was honored by the UT Board of Regents as an Ashbel Smith Professor. Henry M. Wade (1938) was one of the three men honored as Dallas Fathers of the Year. E. Stuart Watson (1947), of Richardson, was promoted to vice president-land for Arco Oil and Gas Company. 50s Tom Creighton (1950) Mineral Wells, retired after 20 years of service in the Texas Senate rep' resenting the 22nd district. Dan M. Fergus (1950) is the 1980-81 presi- dent of the Abilene Bar Association. J. Fred Jones (1950) is Chief Corporate Coun- sel for Oglethorpe Power Corp., a wholesale supplier of electric power headquartered in At- lanta, Ga. Thomas K. Bamford (1951), Dallas, received the Air Force Commendation for Meritorious Service on his retirement following 39 years of active and reserve Air Force service. Charles W. Post, Jr. (1952) has taken early re- tirement from Union Oil Co. of California, where he had been Manager of Oil Shale Lands and Manager of Lands, Union Energy Mining Division. He plans to move to Corpus Christi. Fort Worth attorney John B. Garrett (1953) became commanding general of the 49th Ar- mored Division in recent ceremonies. He holds the rank of major general. Charles M. Johnston (1953), Washington, D.C., was honored in the US House of Repre- sentatives as he retired after 38 years in mili- tary, state and federal service. Jamie H. Clements (1955) was recently elected President of the National Health Lawyers Asso- ciation for a two year term. The Association is for attorneys practicing in the health care field. Clements is General Counsel of the Scott and White Medical Center in Temple. Gene Fondren (1955) was presented the first Star Award from the Austin Town Lake Chap- ter of the American Business Women Associa- tion in recognition of his loyalty and support of the chapter. Former Dean of Texas Tech School of Law Frank W. Elliott, Jr. (1957) Elliott has assumed the presidency of the Southwestern Legal Foun- dation. L. Bruce Fryburger (1958) was a principal speaker at the recent Federal Bar Association Houston attorney James A. Baker III (1957) will be White House chief of staff when Presi- dent-elect Ronald Reagan takes office, accord- ing to Reagan aides. Baker will handle congressional and press re- lations and White House staff and general ad- ministration. He was Undersecretary of Commerce in 1975-76 under the Ford administration, and later was national chairman for Ford's election campaign. He directed Vice President-elect George Bush's campaign during the primaries and only became part of the Reagan team after the Republican convention. But he soon impressed Reagan with his han- dling of the campaign. He was responsible for convention in San Antonio on "Current De- velopments in Administrative Law." Morgan K. Williams (1958) was elected presi- dent of the Tarrant County Bar Association. 60s S. Edward Hale, Jr. (1960) was elected first vice chairman of the Texas Credit Union League. Edward J. Landry (1960) was appointed judge of the Harris County Civil Court at Law No. 2. William E. Hall, Jr. (1961) was named Out- standing Citizen of the Year by the Conroe Knights of Columbus. Robert D. Jones (1964) assumed office as presi-dent of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association in June. UT regent Jon Newton (1965) is one of the Outstanding Young Texas Exes recently named by the UT Ex-Students Association. He will be honored in March. Rex G. Spivey (1965) has been named General Tax Counsel for Exxon USA. He assumed day-to-day operations and helped to fashion Reagan's policy statements. He was also re- garded as instrumental in engineering the one- on-one debate with President Carter, which was credited with helping Reagan in the closing days of the campaign. In addition to working for Bush and Ford, Baker managed the 1972 re-election campaign of President Richard M. Nixon in the Gulf Coast region. He was also finance chairman of the state Republican Party in 1971-72. In 1978 he ran for Attorney General, but lost to Mark White in the general election. Baker is a partner in the Houston law firm of Andrews, Kurth, Campbell and Jones and has a variety of banking and real estate interests. Baker on Reagan staff those duties July 1. Spivey had previously been chief tax attorney in Exxon's tax department. David Carlock (1967) was elected Chair of the Dallas County Democratic Party. Carlock is in practice in Dallas, specializing in Family Law. Charles C. Foster (1967), a partner in the Houston firm of Tindall & Foster, was elected National 1st Vice President of the Association of Immigration and Nationality Lawyers. Ben F. Vaughan, III (1967) was appointed to the board of directors of the Commercial Na-tional Bank of Beeville. Major Michael L. Feighny (1968) is assigned to the U.S. Army Trial Defense Service in Falls Church, Virginia. George A. Whittenburg (1968), Amarillo, is chairman of the Texas Law Review Association. Resolution honors Erwin A resolution honoring Frank C. Erwin, Jr. was passed by the UT Board of Regents at their meeting October 24. In honoring the former chairman of the Board of Regents, the resolu- tion notes that Erwin "did much during his life to make the University of Texas truly a Univer- sity of the First Class." Erwin died October 1. Erwin became special counsel to the Board of Regents in 1975, after completing 12 years as a member of the board. He was first appointed in 1963 by then-Governor John Connally. Reap- pointed to a second six-year term in 1969, he served as chairman from December, 1966 to March, 1971. Erwin was a 1948 graduate of the law school. In 1979 he was honored by the UT Ex-Students Association, which named him a Distinguished Alumnus. A strong-willed man, Erwin often took controversial positions in his term on the Board of Regents. As enrollment of the university nearly doubled, Erwin left his imprint on expansion of the campus and scores of building projects. In recent years he had been devoted to ensuring that the state Permanent University Fund remained available for UT. At funeral services October 3, Erwin was de- scribed by Chancellor E.D. Walker of the UT System as "the best friend the University of Texas ever had." President Peter Flawn con- cluded that "the university will miss his coun- sel, his presence and his unflagging support." Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert W. Calvert swears in Frank Erwin, Jr. for his first term on the UT Board of Regents in 1963. Gov- ernor John Connally, who appointed Erwin to the Board, looks on. John A. McLaren (1969) joined Southwest Texas State University's faculty in the criminal justice department. Edward F. Rodriguez, Jr. (1969) has become a member of the firm of Boothe, Prichard & Dud- ley, with offices in Alexandria and Fairfax, Va. Robert M. Warner (1968) was elected president of the board of trustees for the Richardson Independent School District. 70s Bill Campion (1970) is associated with Wood Enterprises, Inc., an oil exploration and development firm in Abilene. John Emerson (1970) has joined the staff of U.S. Attorney Jamie Boyd and will be based in San Antonio. He comes from the San Francisco Justice Dept, field office. Lawrence A. Hammond (1970) was honored as "Employee of the Year" by Atty. Gen. Ben- jamin Civiletti. It is the first time the award has been given to an attorney who has practiced less than 20 years. Hammond is Assistant Dep- uty Attorney General. Richard Kardys (1970) has been appointed Ex- ecutive Trust Officer and Senior Vice President of the Frost National Bank Trust Department in San Antonio. Jane Macon (1970) was elected Treasurer of the Texas Young Lawyers Association and took of- fice in June. Michael D. Wims (1970), Montgomery, Ala., was appointed to the USAF Judiciary, Second Circuit, and will preside as military judge over courts-martial in the southeastern U.S. Tieman H. Dippel, Jr. (1971) of Brenham was featured as one of Texas Business magazine's "Rising Stars of Texas." Mike Holmes (1971) was recently elected Dis- trict Attorney for Ector County, Texas. He will remain in private practice until the first of the year. Michael R. Levy (1971), publisher of Texas Monthly magazine was elected to membership in the Young Presidents' Organization, Inc., an association of young chief executives. Jones heads State Bar Franklin Jones, Jr. (1954) took office in June as President of the State Bar of Texas. A partner in the Marshall firm of Jones, Jones Baldwin, he served as State Bar vice-presi- dent during 1970-71. For three years prior to that, he served on the State Bar Board of Direc- tors. In 1976, he was one of two attorneys hon- ored with the Award of Achievement by a com-mittee of past Bar presidents. Alumni Notes continued Phillip M. Renfro (1971) of Houston was named vice president and general counsel for Weatherford International. New Executive Director of the Texas Board of Law Examiners is Wayne E. Denton (1972). J. Mark Evans (1972) has been appointed assis- tant general counsel of AMF Incorporated, in White Plains, N.Y. Evans had previously been corporate counsel for AMF. Donald F. Micks (1972) of Galveston is one of six Texas lawyers named to the House Bar Asso- ciation. John D. Roberts (1972) joined the State Bar of Texas staff in April as Executive Director of the Legal Specialization Dept. Elected Vice-President of the Texas Young Law- UT toasts Nowotny About 150 students, faculty and friends toasted former UT Dean of Students Arno "Shorty" Nowotny (1925) at a dinner in his honor in September. The dinner was high-lighted by the announcement that Nowotny has been named Dean of Student Life Emeritus by the University. The special designation was announced by UT Regent Jane Blumberg, who said the first- of-its-kind designation matched Nowotny's style—"as individual as a thumbprint." Nowotny was dean of student life at UT from 1942 to 1964. After he retired he was a consultant to the UT Development Board, and he retired again last May. He was named a distinguished alumnus by the Ex-Students Association in 1974. Among those student groups honoring No- wotny was the UT chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, a national service organization that he was national president of; and Phi Eta Sigma, a freshman scholastic honor organization. No- wotny was given a plaque for his service to stu- dents by another scholastic honor society, the Friars, along with the Texas Cowboys, a spirit and service organization that he founded in 1922 while a student at UT. Association was Richard "Rocky" L. Schwartz (1973). New Director of Programs for the State Bar of Texas is Valinda Hathcox (1974). Associated with the Washington, D.C. office of McDermott, Will & Emery is Douglas F. John (1974). He specializes in energy law. Wendy M. John (1974) represents the Forest Service as a staff attorney in the Office of the General Counsel, Department of Agriculture. Scott Bounds (1975) is the first full-time city attorney for Huntsville. Lauren Eaton (1975) has left the Law Depart- ment of Gulf Oil Corp. to become a partner in the Houston firm of Dunnan & Strong. Robert Lewis (Bob) Thompson (1975) re- cently left the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department to join the Washington, D.C. law firm of Steptoe & Johnson. Kenneth G. Anderson (1976), Georgetown, is an assistant district attorney. Louis F. Linden (1976) has been named in- terim executive director of the National Asso- ciation of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is an attorney in San Antonio. Ellen Maland (1976) was recently promoted to Section Chief in the Division of Consumer and Community Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. Richard W. Wiseman (1976) is the new presi- dent of the Fort Worth-Tarrant Co. Young Law- yers Association. A number of law school alumni were elected to statewide office in the November general election. New office-holders include: William N. Patman (1953) of Ganado, U.S. House of Representatives (District 14). James E. "Buster" Brown (1967) of Lake Jackson, Texas Senate (District 17). Bernard J. Buecker (1977) was presented a Fulbright Grant for study at the University of Heidelberg School of Law. Guy S. Herman (1977) was appointed Precinct 5 justice of the peace, Travis Co. Commissioners Court. Roderick E. Wetsel (1977) is a partner in the Sweetwater firm of Ponder & Pearson. Carolena Houze (1979) was invited to speak at the centennial dinner for Le Rosey, a pres- tigious private school in Switzerland. J. Thomas Slaughter (1979) was named assistant vice president and assistant trust officer of First Bank and Trust Company of Booker. 80s John F. Berry (1980) was selected one of the Outstanding Young Men of America for 1980. He lives in Austin. Isaac M. Castro (1980) was appointed Stonewall County district attorney. News about law school alumni is always welcomed. Please send information to Townes Hall Notes at the Law School Foundation, 2500 Red River; Austin, TX 78705 Bob Glasgow (1970) of Stephenville, Texas Senate (District 22). Jim Turner (1971) of Crockett, Texas House (District 15). Terral R. Smith (1973) of Austin, Texas House (District 37-B). Jack Vowell (1919) of El Paso, Texas House (District 72-A). Alumni legislators continued from inside front cover BELOW: Detail of a large Italian walnut- framed mirror dating from the mid-19th cen- tury, carved in the French Regency style. RIGHT: This roughly-carved Spanish baroque- era bench is in the main stairway on the first floor. BOTTOM: One corner of the oriental rug in the Popular Reading Room. Rug photo by Ralph Barrera; others by Xavier Garza. In addition to the Hibachi and Burmese table, an Italian walnut-framed mid-nineteenth century mirror is on display in the library foyer. Dubbed the "interview mirror" by students catching one last look before meeting potential employers, the mirror is nine feet high and ah most six feet wide. The mirror frame's delicate carving is done in the French Regency style and features chimera, acanthus leaves, garlands of fruits and flowers, and birds. Other recent additions to the Hyder Collec- tion include 200 prints purchased from Harvard University and a Sir Godfrey Kneller portrait of George I. Exactly how the Hyder collection has been assembled is vague, according to curator Custis Wright, primarily because Hyder—who is still building a rare personal collection—is reluc- tant to reveal his contacts in the art world. Wherever they come from, they add a great deal of character to the new building functional interiors. "Without the Hyder pieces," says Wright, "this would be just another modern building." Non-Profit Org. U.S.POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 1839 Austin, Texas THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION 2500 Red River Austin, Texas 78705
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