VOL. VII, NUMBER 1 JULY 1976
While the country celebrates its bicentennial year the Texas Tech University School of Law will be marking its own milestone as it begins its tenth anniversary year in September, 1976.
And what will the setting be for those entering first-year students of the coming fall as compared to their counterparts of nearly a decade ago? The differences almost defy comparison.
The 72 freshmen of 1967 launched their student careers in three discarded air force barracks buildings, two remodeled into classroom-office space and one into a law library building. They were met by a full-time faculty of six, two of whom doubled as administrators.
The sc hoo l was unaccredited by either the Amer i c a n Bar Association or the
Associ a tion of American Law Schools, as is the case with all new law schools.
There were no traditions, student organizations, or even established procedures.
There were no alumni of the school to assist with financial support or with placement of graduates. And of course no Texas Tech law graduate had eve r passed the bar examination of Texas or any other state.
The approximately 165 students who will enter the Law School in September will attend their classes, do their studying and pursue their activities in one of the finest law school physical plants in the nation, completed in 1969. Their instruction will come from a full-time faculty of 25, including some of the nation's distinguished scholars and teachers in their fields . Full accreditation, achieved in the minimum possible time from all accrediting agencies, has been in existence since 1969. Nearly 700 graduates represent the school with firms, companies, governmental units and agencies throughout the United States and abroad, and their willingness to assist the Law School in placement, in scholarships and other financial endeavors, and in planning for further improvement, marks them as one of the most active alumni groups anywhere.
The first-time success record of Texas
Tech law graduates on the Texas bar examination is better than 98 %, and although exact statistics from other state examinaticns is not avail~ble the records elsewhere are comparable. Alumni have achieved remarkable success in private practice, in governmental positions and in business, as a perusal of the
Alumni Notes column found elsewhere in this issue will confirm. A widelyacclaimed curriculum has been established and tested. A growing program of scholarship assistance has been initiated.
The Texas Tech Law School Foundation, founded soon after the school's opening in 1967, has proved to be a continuing source of support and guidance in the quest for excellence. Outstanding Law
Review and Moot Court programs have been long established, and a chapter of the prestigious Order of the Coif installed. Student Bar Association which strives to serve the needs of students continues to function effectively, and a wide range of student activities and organizations is available for almost every student interest. The school's law
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Ruth Forbis Kirby of Littlefield was appointed to fill an unexpired term as Lamb
County Judge in January, and overwhelmingly won re-election to a new term in May.
William G. Shaw of Brownwood is President of the Brown County Bar Association, while John L. Shepherd of Seminole and Jimmy A. Ashby of Mineral Wells preside over the Gaines and Palo Pinto County Bar Associations respectively.
Boyd Richie of Graham is District Attorney elect for the 90th Judicial District.
Errol Friedman of Texarkana is a Director of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association.
He won the largest personal injury judgment in' the history of Bowie County during
1975 .
Marwin W. Brakebill and Richard Maxwell returned to their alma mater as Visiting Assistant Professors of Law during 1975-76. Brakebill taught Texas Procedure and
Marital Property, noted novelist Maxwell taught Legal Research and Writing.
Preston V. Stevens of Shamrock has been re-elected Wheeler County Attorney.
Hershell L. Barnes, Jr . and Ernest R. Finney, Jr. were among the first Texas lawyers certified under the new specialty certification program, the former in Labor Law and the latter in Family Law.
Wayne Emmons was a member of the first entering class at the Texas Tech Law
School in 1967, although he later transferred to and graduated from Memphis State.
After 4 1/2 years with the Tennessee Attorney General's office, he has formed the partnership of Emmons and Chandler, P. O. Box 18592, Memphis, TN 38118.
Although Dictum's press deadline prevented full coverage of the 1976
Texas State Bar Convention activities by alumni, we were able to stop the presses and insert this brief report. More than
100 Law School alumni and faculty members, together with their spouses and friends, took part in Texas Tech functions, including the 2-day hospitality room hosted by the Austin area alumni and the cocktail-buffet on July 3. An outstanding job in making arrangements for the activities was performed by outgoing Alumni Association President
Joe V. Crawford, who was ably assisted by his charming wife, Betty, and by other
Austin area al umni.
The Texas Tech Moot Court team reached the semi-final round where it lost to eventual champion Baylor. New
Alumni Association officers elected at the annual meeting are: Tom Edwards,
Houston, President; Frank Sullivan,
Fort Worth, President-Elect; Mike Irish,
Lubbock, Secretary; Tom Akins,
Sherman, Charles Hurd, Houston, and
Jo Ben Whittenburg, Beaumont,
Directors.
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Random Notes: Jack Cowley is Secretary-Treasurer of the Dallas Trial Lawyers
Association ... Leota Alexander of Lubbock made the traditional alumni remarks to new grads at the December Hooding Ceremony ... Alan L. Murray, who just completed a term as President of the Dallas Junior Bar, has become Secretary and General
Counsel of TG I Friday's, Inc ... Dennis Fullingim of Lubbock was a speaker at a re cent workshop for Women in Business, sponsored by the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce and the SBA ... John Weber is Sales Manager and Treasurer of Tony Lama
Leather Products, Inc ., Fort Worth ..
. J. David Bourland has become Executive Assistant District Attorney in Baton Rouge, La.
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DICTUM-JUL V, 1976
"How the 64th (1975) Legislature Affected Lawyers and the Law" was the topic for the well-attended Stay Abreast '75 Law Seminar, held at the Law School on October 11. Fort Worth attorney Harold D. Hammett discussed the pros and cons of the then-proposed (but subsequently defeated) new Texas Constitution, Marshall attorney
Franklin Jones, Jr. outlined the workings of the open prepaid legal services plan authorized by the Legislature, and a pair of distinguished attorney-legislators joined with members of the law faculty to examine other legislative changes.
Senators Max R. Sherman of Amarillo and Kent R. Hance of Lubbock spoke on the new Texas Administrative Procedure Act and on amendments to the Family Code, respectively, while Law School Professors Charles P. Bubany, Hal M. Bateman and
Marilyn E. Phelan discussed legislative changes in the areas of criminal law, business and corporation law, and estate planning-probate. State Bar Director Joe H. Nagy of
Lubbock was the guest speaker at the seminar luncheon.
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Distinguished speakers at the Law School during 1975-76 have included The Honorable Joe R. Greenhill, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, The Honorable
John Onion, Chief Justice of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Texas Attorney
General John Hill, and Page Keeton, long-time Dean of the University of Texas School of Law. The first three were sponsored by the SBA, while Keeton was presented by the
Phi Delta Phi Speakers Series.
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1975 electees to the prestigeous Order of the Coif were Phillip S. Brown, Earnest
C. Casstevens, Erwin D. Davenport, William B. Dawson, John W. Dayton, Daniel C.
Garner, Richard L. Hanna, John R. Henderson, M. Charles Jennings, Charles E. King,
David R. McClure, Calvin L. Raup, and Michael G. Sawaya.
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Three students from the Law School were selected for inclusion in the 1975-76 edition of Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges. Carter L. Ferguson, Eileen
Hall and Polly A. Kinnibrugh were among the honorees selected on the basis of academic achievement, leadership, extra-curricular activities and community service.
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Student Bar Association officers serving during 1975-76 have been William H. Hoffman; President, William D. Campbell, Vice-President; Michael L. Wilson, Secretary; and Patrick A. Pirtle, Treasurer. The Judicial Council consisted of John R. Ker, Chief
Justice, and Associate Justices James W. Collins and Cynthia K. McDowell. Karen P.
Tandy was ABA/LSD Representative.
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The Fellowship of Christian Law Students completed a busy and fruitful year (its second) in May, continuing its mission to fulfill the spiritual needs of students within the structure of law study. Guest speakers during the year included Law School alumni
Hollis Webb of Lubbock and Lanny Voss of Plainview, as well as El Paso attorney
Orba Lee Malone. The Fellowship met weekly for bible study wherein comparison and contrasts were drawn between the law given at Mount Sinai and the law of today.
Michael L. Wilson is President of the group.
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Named to Order of the Barristers from the classes of 1975 and 1976, respectively, were Mickey J. Blanks, David C. Caylor, Jonathan D. Nelson and James R. Mardis from the former, and Carter L. Ferguson, Polly A. Kinnibrugh and Diana Dowd Ulrich from the latter. Honorees are selected by the national Board of Governors of the organization for excellence and attainment of high honors in the art of appellate advocacy, and trophies are presented to those selected by the Lubbock law firm of Key,
Carr, Evans and Fouts.
We have two Honors and Awards programs to report on in this issue, since the
1975 affair was held after we went to press last year, and the 1976 gathering was held in April, well before this issue's press time. The winners of major awards for the two years were: Phi Alpha Delta Outstanding Professor Award (for classroom teaching excellence)-Dellas W. Lee (1975)/ John E. Krahmer (1976). George W. and Sarah
H. Dupree Award (to the graduate best exemplifying the qualities desired in one soon to enter the legal profession)-M. Charles Jennings (1975)/ Eileen Hall (1976). Judge
Meade F. Griffin Award (to the student who has best utilized the law school experience to prepare himself or herself for distinguished service to the profession and to mankind)-William B. Dawson (1975)/Byron A. Thomas (1976). Law Review Service
Award (for outstanding service to the Law Review, presented by the Lubbock firm of
McWhorter, Cobb & Johnson)-M. Charles Jennings (1975)/ Eileen Hall (1976). Highest Cumulative Scholastic Average Award (highest average for three years of law school)-William B. Dawson (1975/ Byron A. Thomas (1976). Nelson, McCleskey,
Harriger & Brazill Award (for outstanding service to the SBA and the Law School, presented by the Lubbock firm)-David Loutrel (1975)/William H. Hoffman, Jr. (1976).
Geary, Stahl, Koons, Rohde & Spencer Moot Court Award (for winning the first year moot court competition)-Betty Little and Charles R. Watson (1975)/Jay Cantrell and Roderick Patterson (1976). U.S. Law Week Award (for the most satisfactory scholastic progress in the final year of law school)-Roy D. Salome (1975)/Gregory D.
Pitts (1976). Prentice Hall Outstanding Student in Taxation Award (for the highest cumulative grades in taxation courses)-John R. Henderson (1975)/Deborah D. Brown
(1976). Trial Advocacy Awards (separate awards presented by the South Plains Trial
Lawyers Association, Lubbock attorney William R. Moss, and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers)-Danny M. Needham, Jonathan D. Nelson (1975)/H. Michael
Bartley, Randy J. Hall (1976).
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The Law School's first Law Career Conference was held in April under the joint sponsorship of the SBA and the Law School administration, and a distinguished group of panelists explored with students such topics as types of private practice, career opportunities outside of private practice, selection of a city and firm in which to practice, and problems of minorities in job-seeking. Panelists included John Griffin from the
Texas Attorney General's Office, Robert Wilson, Assistant United States Attorney in
Lubbock, Denver attorney Charles L. Casteel, and Law School alumni Sharon Cannon
Jobe and Hershell L. Barnes, Jr., both of Dallas, Lanny R. Voss of Plainview, and Loyd
N. Jones, W. Hollis Webb, Karl Clifford, Mike Thomas, Albert Perez and Leota H.
Alexander, all of Lubbock. SBA placement chairman George D. (Jody) Gilles and
Associate Dean W. Reed Quilliam, Jr. coordinated the program.
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Second-year students Richard Robins and Michael Davis set the pace for Texas
Tech Law School in intercollegiate competition during the year past, as they defeated twelve other law schools to take the Region 6 title and finished third nationally in the American Bar Association Client Counseling Competition.
Coached by Professor Charles P.
Bubany, who was assisted by alumnus
Phil Brown, the Texas Tech team beat against eight other regional winners at the Notre Dame Law School, including
Wisconsin, Brooklyn, Maryland, Capital, North Carolina, California Western,
Nova, and Iowa. California Western,
Wisconsin and Texas Tech grabbed the gold, silver and bronze, respectively, in that competition.
The topic for the 1975-76 competition was "Contract Litigation-Its Alternatives." Teams from ninety-two law
REGIONAL CHAMPS ROBINS AND DAVIS
Tulane and L.S. U. in the final round of the regional competition held at the
University of Tulsa Law School in
March.
Robins and Davis then competed schools took part in the ABA/LSD sponsored event.
Robins and Davis are both from EI
Paso and intend to practice law in that city.
Phi Delta Phi
The Earl Warren Inn of Phi Delta Phi has maintained its past programs and expanded into new areas designed to benefit both Inn members and the Law School as a whole.
The academic counseling service for first year students was continued and the past year included lectures on course outlining and preparation for final exams.
The Phi Delta Phi Speakers Series presented Page Keeton, who spoke on the medical malpractice problem in Texas. Keeton, former Dean at The University of Texas Law
School and a renown authority in the torts field, is currently head of the state's Medical
Professional Liability Study Commission.
The Inn continues to publish its Law Lines informational pamphlet for incoming students, and this year published and mailed its first alumni directory. In addition, a job placement service was initiated for members of the Inn, the program of providing speakers to local high school classes on various legal topics was continued, and an active social calendar was maintained.
Current officers of the fraternity are: Tim Blakeley, Magister; Tim Lobstein, Vice-
Magister; Carol Leach, Exchequer; Bill Robinson, Clerk; and Kathy Teague, Historian.
Professor David C. Cummins is Faculty Advisor and Professor J. Hadley Edgar is Province President.
Delta Theta Phi
The Victor H. Lindsey Senate of Delta Theta Phi has continued to stress a full program of social activities for its members and other law students, including its annual
Casino Party preceding the annual Delt Golf Tournament, the Spring Barbecue, and various other gatherings. Individual members of the chapter continue to make their marks in scholastic and extracurricular endeavors.
Current officers are: Bob Jones, Dean; Mike Parsons, Vice Dean; Richard Robbins,
Tribune; Woody Glenn, Master of the Exchequer; David Brown, Master of the Rolls;
Dub Stocker, Master of the Ritual; and Dan Hurley, Bailiff.
Phi Alpha Delta
The Sam Rayburn Chapter continued to stress the nationally lauded Drug Education
Program as the chapter's major project. Bonner Smith, project chairman, reported that the program remains in great demand by area schools and civic groups.
Six faculty members were inducted into the fraternity during the spring semester, including professors Daniel M. Benson, James R. Eissinger, Bruce M. Kramer, Murl
A. Larkin, Annette W. Marple and Marilyn E. Phelan.
Travis Shelton, President-Elect of the State Bar of Texas is the Sam Rayburn Chapter
Alumni Advisor and Professor Rodric Schoen is the Faculty Advisor.
Current officers are: Douglas R. Hill, Justice; Jay A. Cantrell, Vice-Justice; Beverly
A. Bass, Clerk; Robert D. Lybrand, Treasurer; and Jack L. McGowen, Marshall.

DICTUM-JULY, 1976
by
The Texas Tech team 'Of PQlly Kinnibrugh, James Schutza and Barbara HQffman WQn the regiQnal meeting 'Of the
NatiQnal MQQt CQurt CQmpetitiQn, highlighting 'One 'Of the Law SchQQl's mQst successful years in intercQllegiate mQQt
CQurt participatiQn.
The regiQnal champiQns vanquished ten 'Other teams, defeating Tulsa University in the finals tQ emerge the 'Only undefeated team in the competitiQn, held in Dallas in late OctQber. CQm-
Walter Huffman-Sam BQyd team went tQ the quarter-finals in the 22 team CQmpetitiQn befQre tasting defeat.
Dictum's press deadline prevents it from repQrting the results 'Of the 1976
Texas State MQQt CQurt CQmpetitiQn at the Austin Bar CQnventiQn. James
Schutza, Brenda MQrris and David Hammer will represent the Law SchQQl at the July tQurnament.
Carter L. FergusQn, Chairman, Diana
DQwd Ulrich, Vice-Chairman, Stephen
Pictured above are David Hammer, Brenda Morris, and James Schutza, who were members of the Texas Tech team in the Texas State Moot Court Competition held at the Bar Convention in Austin in July. peting with 'Other regiQnal winners in
New YQrk in December, the Texas Tech team IQst a narrQW decisiQn tQ Maryland in the single eliminatiQn meet.
In the Texas State MQQt CQurt CQmpetitiQn, held annually at the State Bar
CQnventiQn, the Texas Tech team lQst a
4-3 decisiQn in the finals tQ The University 'Of Texas, finishing secQnd amQng the seven law schQQls entered. Kinnibrugh,
Carter FergusQn and JQhn JacQbs made up Tech's strong entry in the Dallas cQmpetitiQn.
AnQther runner-up team was that 'Of
Mike WilsQn, Cecilia Hufstedler and
Gary Terrell (Qralists), Dean Greer and BQnner Smith (brief writers), which tied fQr secQnd amQng eight teams entered in the regiQnal meeting 'Of the J essup InternatiQnal Law CQmpetitiQn held at Tulsa in March. The 3-1 mark CQmpiled by Texas Tech trailed 'Only champiQn University 'Of HQustQn's 4-0 recQrd.
Two teams represented the Law SchQQl in the State JuniQr Bar MQck Trial CQmpetitiQn held at Austin in January. The luck 'Of the draw went against DQn
Dennis and Gene HagQQd, whQ lQst tQ the eventual champiQns from The University 'Of Texas in the first round. The
E. Ulrich, Secretary, and Michael S.
YQung, Treasurer, served as 'Officers 'Of the MQQt CQurt BQard during 1975-76.
Other members 'Of the BQard were Susan
Lee CQleman, RQbert G. CrQss, Jim
Darnell, Gary G. Grimmer, Jim Jacks,
JQhn RaymQnd JacQbs, JQn R. Ker,
PQlly A. Kinnibrugh, Kyle Lewis,
Richard Schleier, Sue Schleier, Max R.
TarbQx and William R. TaylQr.
Named winner 'Of the Geary, Stahl,
KQQns, RQhde & Spencer SchQlarship
Award was Carter FergusQn. It is presented annually tQ a "student whQ has distinguished himself and brought credit tQ the SchQQl 'Of Law through participatiQn in intercQllegiate mQQt CQurt cQmpetitiQn." Students presented law bQQks by the FQundatiQn Press fQr 'Outstanding cQntributiQns tQ mQQt CQurt teams were Barbara HQffman, Cecilia
Hufstedler, PQlIy Kinnibrugh and James
Schutza.
LubbQck attQrney and adjunct faculty member DQnald M. Hunt is cQach 'Of the
Texas Tech mQQt CQurt teams. Hunt is
EditQr 'Of the Texas Appellate Practice
Manual, published by the State Bar 'Of
Texas, a prQject 'On which he was assisted by members 'Of the MQQt CQurt BQard
'Over a periQd 'Of several years.
In SQme ways that date ten years agQ seems as if it were in anQther life, and in 'Others as thQugh it were yesterday. That was the day I repQrted tQ Texas Tech and was tempQrarily assigned a CQrner 'Office in the AdministratiQn Building, even befQre the fQrmer Shephard Field barracks which hQused the SchQQl 'Of
Law fQr three and a half years were cQmpleted.
Much has happened in the intervening periQd as 'Our current
Alumni DirectQry recently distributed by Reed Quilliam WQuid attest: fQrty-seven pages including almQst 600 alumni, graduates through December, 1975. The geQgraphical spread (excluding thQse in military service) includes individuals in 24 states frQm
CQnnecticut and FlQrida in the east tQ WashingtQn and Alaska in the west, and fQr that matter 'On tQ Guam and Taiwan. CQnsiderDEAN AMANDES ing the legislatively impQsed 10% nQnresident limitatiQn fQr admissiQn tQ law schQQls in Texas yQur geQgraphical spread is quite remarkable. CQnsidering yQur mQbility it is a tribute tQ Dean Quilliam and his staff that we are able tQ keep as current with yQur addresses as 'Our recent directQry WQuid indicate. It is an annual pleasure fQr me tQ peruse the directQry with SQme care and ascertain whQ is dQing what where.
If I may address a matter 'Of CQncern tQ all lawyers these days fQr a mQment, it appears that the demand fQr legal educatiQn has peaked at least tempQrarily. NatiQnally, last year there was a 3 % decline in the number 'Of takings 'Of the Law SchQQl AdmissiQn
Test, and it appears that there will be an equivalent decline this year when the final figures are in after next mQnth. There may be an even greater decline in the number 'Of individuals applying tQ law schQQls than these figures WQuid suggest, fQr there are still mQre applicants than available seats and an increasing number 'Of individuals repeat the test in an attempt tQ find 'One 'Of thQse elusive seats. But fQr the mQment the peak seems tQ have been reached. Our applicatiQns increased approximately 8% last year but this year have decreased apprQximately 4% suggesting that the situatiQn in Texas is nQt dissimilar from that natiQnally. During the past two years we have accepted slightly 'Over
400 applicants tQ fill 'Our entering class 'Of apprQximately 165-70 students, a percentage
'Of registrants nQt dissimilar from that of gOQd schQQls elsewhere in the cQuntry. This year SQ far we have accepted approximately 350 students tQ fill a similarly sized class.
While we shall approve SQme additiQnal applicatiQns between nQW and registratiQn in
August it appears unlikely that we shall reach the 400 level in total acceptances this year.
A number 'Of you write tQ us 'On behalf 'Of applicants periQdically. We appreciate yQur wQrds and dQ 'Our best by all yQur requests but QbviQusly with 'Over 1400 applicants we are in a PQsitiQn tQ approve 'Only a limited number.
On a mQre pleasant nQte 'Our bar results cQntinue tQ lead the way. Even last summer when we lQst three applicants, the largest number ever on 'One examinatiQn, 96.5 percent 'Of 'Our applicants were successful. Since that time, as I'm sure is detailed elsewhere in this issue, bQth 'Of our OctQber applicants were successful as were all our February 1976 candidates. One interesting item however: whereas the top grades statewide in recent years have cQnsistently been at or 'Over the 90 level, in February the tQP grades were only a shade 'Over 86.
We cQntinue tQ be pleased with yQur effQrts in the practice and 'Otherwise as representatives 'Of the Texas Tech SchQQl 'Of Law. YQur emplQyers cQntinue tQ return and hire 'Others whQ have fQllQwed yQU through schQQI. A few mQre 'Of 'Our recent students have had an QPPQrtunity fQr exposure tQ the Law Review as a result 'Of 'Our nQW regularly scheduled three, rather than tWQ, issues per year. MQre current students alsQ are participating in interschQQl cQmpetitiQns now that we have added the Philip Jessup
Internatienal MeQt CQurt CempetitiQn, the MQck Trial cQmpetitien, and Client Ceunseling te the 'Original State JuniQr Bar CempetitiQn in July and the RegiQnals leading te the N atiQnals in the fall.
Lest this be unduly duplicative 'Of items which appear elsewhere in this issue I'll clese with 'One further werd. During 'Our ten years 'Of existence 'One man has served as
President 'Of the University, Dr. Grever E. Murray. It has indeed been a pleasure serving under him. It is in large part due te his interest and belief in and suppert fQr the
Scheel 'Of Law that we have been able tQ achieve, with the help 'Of yQU all, the pesition which we new hQld in the State and in the natiQn. We leek ferward with hQpe and anticipatiQn that his succeSSQr, SQQn te be named, will be as interested and suppertive.
Whenever your travels cause yeu te cross paths with GrQver Murray I'm sure he'd appreciate a favQrable wQrd from yeu. He has been a true friend and cQntributer tQ yQur success.
We very much appreciate yQur cQntinuing interest and SUPPQrt 'Of 'Our endeavQrs.
If at any time any 'Of us may be 'Of assistance tQ YQU, den't hesitate tQ call, write, 'Or ceme by.
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A tQtal 'Of fQrty-six firms, cQmpanies and agencies sent 'One 'Or mQre representatives tQ the Law SchQQl during
1975-76 tQ interview prQspective graduates fQr permanent emplQyment, accQrding tQ statistics cQmpiled by Mrs.
CarQlyn CIQud, newly named Administrative Assistant fQr Placement whQ administers the placement prQgram in cQnjunctiQn with AssQciate Dean
Quilliam.
And, repQrts Mrs. CIQud, requests fQr interview schedules fQr next year indicate that the tQtal will cQntinue tQ climb rapidly. "MQre and mQre graduates 'Of the Law SchQQI are 'Obtaining their jQbs through 'On-campus interviews priQr tQ graduatiQn," nQted Mrs. CIQud. "We enCQurage firms tQ schedule interviews here at the schQQl, since this procedure gives them the widest PQssible chQice 'Of prQspective emplQyees and alsQ permits them tQ 'Observe the high caliber 'Of law students that we have here, which they almQst always CQmment 'On I am pleased tQ say."
Lawyers, firms, cQmpanies and agencies wishing tQ arrange interviews fQr the cQming year are urged tQ CQntact Mrs.
CIQud 'Or Quilliam at their earliest cQnvenience.
There's a new kid en the bleck, as the saying gQes, and Dictum is ne IQnger the Texas Tech Law SchQQl's 'Only newspaper. On February 23, 1976, the new student newspaper, Quo, came 'Off the press fer the first time, and additiQnal issues were published in March and
April.
Feunded in the fall 'Of 1969 as a student written and edited newspaper,
Dictum centinued under that fermat fer feur years until student interest in publicatiQn waned. Subsequently it has CQntinued its existence as a Law Scheel
"hQuse 'Organ," designed principally tQ recQrd the histQry 'Of the scheQI and its graduates and tQ keep alumni, students and friends infermed 'Of impQrtant geings-Qn relating tQ the schQQl, its students, the faculty, and 'Other alumni.
Quo has stepped intQ the VQid and views the scheQI and its activities from strictly a student perspective. Much mQre the critic and advQcate than
Dictum ever SQught tQ be, the new newspaper's cQlumns are substantially devQted tQ matters 'Of cQntrQversy invQlving administratien, faculty and student activities.
Steve Dial (EditQrials), Rebert Lybrand (Business), Dianne ThQmpsen
(SBA), Cliff Avery and Jim Gersuch
(Sperts), CarQl Leach, Pat MQseley, Rick
RQbins and Penny Rhude (PhetQs), and
Steve Schiwetz made up the editerial staff
'Of Que fQr its 1975-76 issues. Avery will succeed Dial as Editer during the fQrthcQming year.
DICTUM is published periodically by the
Texas Tech University School of Law.
Composition for this publication is by Tech
Press, Texas Tech University. University photos are courtesy of Texas Tech University Information Office. Editor is W. Reed
Quilliam, Jr., Associate Dean of the School of Law, assisted by Law School staff members Carolyn Cloud, Paula Hatfield, Jeanie
Bumpass Stotts and law student Lenda
Wheeler. DICTUM will not solicit advertising but will accept such if it reasonably relates to the law school and the legal profession. All tendered advertising must be camera ready.

It has become a tradition for highly distinguished visiting professors to teach at the
Law School during the summer term, and recent guests have added lustre to that tradition. Visiting this summer has been Don W. Sears, Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law and Dean at that school from 1968-73, who taught Professional
Responsibility during the first summer term.
Visiting in the 1975 summer was
Richard C. Maxwell, Professor at the
UCLA School of Law and Dean at that
California school from 1958-69. Prior visitors have included Allan D. Vestal
(1974), Carver Professor of Law at the
University of Iowa College of Law,
Frank R. Strong (1973), Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law and former Dean at Ohio State, Frank
E. Maloney (1971), Dean Emeritus and
Professor, University of Florida Law
Center, John W. Wade (1969), Distinguished Professor and former Dean,
Vanderbilt University School of Law, and W. Ray Forrester, Professor at
Cornell University School of Law and former Dean at both Cornell and Tulane.
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The faculty lost one of its most valued long-time members in June when Professor Martin A. Frey resigned to take a professorship at Tulsa University School of Law. Frey was one of the original six faculty members at the Law School and during his nine years at Texas Tech taught more different courses in the curriculum than any other faculty member. A former chairman of the Curriculum Committee, Frey was a major
DON W. SEARS force in shaping the school's curriculum, was the first Faculty Advisor to the Law
Review, and played an active role in forming the first Moot Court team. He will be sorely missed.
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Two alumni of the Law School, both
BRAKEBILL MAXWELL members of its first graduating class, returned to their alma mater as Visiting Assistant Professors during the past year.
Marwin W. Brakebill, an honors graduate who tied for the top grade on the Texas
Bar examination following his graduation, taught Texas Procedure and Marital Property. Richard W. Maxwell, first Editor of the Law Review and author of the widelyacclaimed novel The Minus Man, taught several sections of Legal Research and Writing.
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Newest addition to the faculty is Robert E. Wood, Jr., who will become an Assistant
Professor in September. Wood, whose undergraduate degree is from Texas Tech, is a
1968 graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law where he was a member of the
Editorial Board of that school's Law Review and President of the Honor Council.
He formerly practiced with with the Dallas firm of Carrington, Coleman, Sloman,
Johnson & Blumenthal and, more recently, with his own Dallas firm.
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Professor Robert P. Davidow will return to the Law School in September following a two-year leave of absence, the first of which was spent working on his J.S.D. at Columbia University School of Law. During the past year Davidow has been a Visiting
Senior Lecturer at Queen's University of Belfast, Ireland.
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Miscellaneous Notes
Professor Marilyn Phelan has completed the manuscript for West Publishing's Fed- eral Income Tax Course, Volume II (Advanced Federal Income Taxation), scheduled for publication next fall. A prolific writer for legal publications and frequent speaker at tax institutes, Phelan has recently been appointed to a task force on agricultural taxation, Subchapter S corporations, and simplification of tax laws within the Taxation Division of the American Bar Association .... Professor Bruce M. Kramer will have an article on the Clean Air Amendments of 1970 in a forthcoming issue of the
Ecology Law Quarterly, published by the University of California School of Law. He has also been named to an interdisciplinary study team which will research environmental controls over feedlot operations throughout the country, funded by the United
States Environmental Protection Agency ..
.
. An article by Professor Robert Weninger entitled "Criminal Discovery and Omnibus Procedure in a Federal Court: A Defense
View," appears in a recent issue of the Southern California Law Review (Vol. 49, page
514) and he will have a legal essay appearing in the forthcoming The Unity of Law published in Brussels, Belgium .... Professor Daniel H. Benson was a faculty member this summer at the Summer Institute Program on Law in a Changing Society, sponsored by the State Bar of Texas and Law Focused Education, Inc. He was the author of two articles published during the year, one entitled "A Proposal to Make Courts-Martial
Courts: The Removal of Commanders from Military Justice" (8 Texas Tech L. Rev.
559), and the other on "Sex and Race as Factors Affecting the Attribution of Insanity in a Murder Trial" (1976 The Journal of Psychology 93) .... Professor John E. Krahmer spoke at the Consumer Protection Institute held at The University of Texas Law School in October. Krahmer is Vice-Chairman of the Section on Creditors Rights of the AALS.
... Dean Richard B. Amandes was recently elected President of the Texas Tech chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, honorary scholarship fraternity, and is also serving as President of the New York University School of Law Law Teachers Alumni Association. In one of his areas of primary interest, Juvenile Law, he is a member of the Law School Advisory Committee to the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges, and is on the
Lubbock County Child Abuse Evaluation Team .... "Franchise Terminations Under the Sherman Act: Populism and Relational Power" is the subject of Professor William
B. Bohling's recent article in 53 Texas L. Rev. 1180. Professors Bohling and Kramer will be in attendance at the Seventh Economics Institute for Law Professors in San
Diego most of the month of August.
Students and former students of Professor J. Hadley Edgar, Jr. would agree that he is one of the best teachers on the law faculty, and also that he is one of the toughest taskmasters in the classroom.
And that is no Aggie joke.
When asked by Dictum to comment on his reputation for being demanding of his students, the 1949 graduate of
Texas A&M University indicated he thought that his reputation in this respect might be overblown. "I only have two requirements of my students," he stated,
"that they be prepared and that they be punctual. In order to represent the public in a professional manner a lawyer must have these characteristics, and the way one begins to develop them starts the first day in law school. If they are not developed in law school it is likely that they never will be, and a client has the right to expect them of his lawyer.
"I don't intentionally try to intimidate or embarrass any student. However, a student must learn early in his law school career that the law is neither black nor white, but shades of gray, and sometimes my abruptness is due to the fact that a student is off on the wrong track and I am trying to get him back on the right one by using the Socratic method to bring out the gray areas for a more incisive analysis.
'Too, if a student is not prepared to the extent I would expect we simply don't have the time in law school to afford him the luxury of wasting it .
.. his time, his classmates' time and mine. We must move on to more productive matters . I also feel very strongly that the student who is not prepared should not be allowed to take advantage of the knowledge of the student who is. The practice of law is a highly competitive and adversary process, and one should learn to develop his talent on his own merit rather than on the work of another."
Professor Edgar's background establishes that he has lived by the rules laid down for his students. After his graduation from A&M and four years with
Procter & Gamble in Dallas, he enrolled in The University of Texas Law School where he earned membership in Order of the Coif and Chancellors, was Articles Editor of the Texas Law Review, and was named Outstanding Senior Law
Student before rece i ving his J.D. degree with honors in 1956.
After graduation he joined a leading
Amarillo firm, with which he practiced for fifteen years before resigning his partnership to become a member of the
Texas Tech Law School faculty in 1971.
During his early years with the firm he
"handled a little bit of everything," although he subsequently gravitated to an almost exclusively civil trial practice .
He estimates that probablY 50% of that practice was insurance defense.
Professor Edgar teaches Torts, Texas
Civil Procedure and Products Liability at the Law School, and has also taught
Trial Advocacy in most recent years.
He was the principal force in the Law
School's successful application for a
J. HADLEY EDGAR, JR. chapter of Order of the Coif, and is President of that organization's local chapter.
Continuing his Bar Association work after moving to Lubbock (he was President-Elect of the Amarillo Bar at the time of his move), he is a Director of the Lubbock County Bar Association and served as chairman of the committee to draft new local practice rules recently recommended by the Lubbock Bar to the courts.
Edgar is extremely pleased with the reception Texas Tech Law School graduates have been accorded by the practici ng bar, and the diligence with which those graduates are working to become top ranking professionals. "The thing that has made, and is making, our student body and graduates what they are is their hard-working attitude," he said.
As province President of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, Professor Edgar has frequent opportunity to observe students at other law schools, and notes that "ours work harder, develop better work habits while in school, and carry those habits with them when they leave."
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Winning the Scribes Award presented to the graduating senior who has demonstrated ability to do outstanding legal writing and editing, was John W. Dayton in 1975 and. David E. Kithcart in 1976. Winners receive membership in Scribes, The American
Society of Writers on Legal Subjects. The M. Penn L. Award for the best researched and sum,?ated law review article went to Eileen Hall in 1975 and Adair Melinsky
Buckner I~ 1976: A number of other law students won coveted writing awards during the year, mcludmg James E. Cook for his paper on "Common Law Copyright for
Teachers" (Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition sponsored by ASCAP), Michael
D. Petty for his casenote in Volume 6 of the Law Review on Goldfarb v. Virginia State
Bar (?est publish~d casenote, presented by State Bar of Texas Section on Corporation,
Bank.mg and Busmess Law), and Cecil C. Kuhne, III and Vincent A. Sikora, III, winners m 197.5 and 1976, respectively of the Environmental Law Essay Contest sponsored by the EnVironmental Law Section of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
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~he Wo~en's Law Caucus has received a grant from the ABA/LSD for production of a ftlm entitled "True Story of Legal Abortion" to be produced next year. Members have travel~d t? a number of Texas colleges during the past year to encourage law school applIcations from women, with special emphasis on minority women. Carla
Crisford is President of the group for 1976-77.
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Class officers for 1975 76, with the President, Vice-President, two Representatives to the Board of Governors, and two Representatives to the Student-Faculty Committee named in that order are: 3L Randy J. Hall, George D. (Jody) Gilles, Richard C.
Bruse, David R. Seidler, Mike A. Smiddy, and Cynthia K. McDowell; 2L James R.
Moore, James R. Leeton, Jr., Patrick L. Quinn, James L. Schutza, Theresa R. Hebert,
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1976
The Texas Tech Law Review's second annual Fifth Circuit Survey and work on updating the 1974 Family Code Symposium, together with publication of the
Review's regular issues, marked a busy and productive year for the Review staff in 1975-76.
The Fifth Circuit symposium, which features survey articles and case notes written by staff members and introductory comments by distinguished lawyers and judges, has proved to be in great demand by the legal profession, and since its appeal extends well beyond Texas the
Review staff is in the process of making its publication more widely known.
The popular Texas Family Code Symposium, now in its third reprint, will be updated by a supplement which will deal with the extensive amendments to the
Code enacted by the 1975 Legislature.
It will also feature commentary on the amendments by the same writers who provided commentary in the original issue, including Professors Joseph
McKnight (SMU), Eugene Smith (Houston) and Robert Dawson (Texas), and an article by Professor John Sampson (Texas) on the new long arm statutes, perhaps the most significant product of the
1975 amendments . Publication date for the supplement is scheduled for early fall.
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1970-71
Brownfield attorney Jim Rmld defeated a 4-term incumbent for State Representa tive in the Demo primary and is unopposed in the general election. He made the alumni remarks at the May, 1976 Hooding Ceremony.
Lloyd N. Jones was named Outstanding Young Lawyer of Lubbock County for
1975. He spoke on behalf of the alumni at the May, 1975 Hooding Ceremony.
Mike Sanders withdrew from the law partnership of Hance, Sanders, Thompson and
Thomas to become Director of Public Affairs for Texas Tech University in September,
1975.
Marvin F. Marshall of Plainview is the District Attorney of the 64th Judicial District.
Natalyn Collins of Lubbock has been promoted to Regional Attorney for the State
Department of Public Welfare.
Random Notes : W. T. (Tom) Womble, formerly with Baker & Botts in Houston, has formed a partnership with Alan Johnson in Tyler under the firm name of Johnson
& Womble. Johnson is a Director of the Smith County Bar Association .
.
.. Herbert A.
Becker has joined the Department of Justice in Washington, where he will try Indian cases on behalf of tribes and individual Indians .
.
.. Claude W. (Pete) Harland, who has become a partner in the firm of Bowers, Cotton & Harland, is Secretary-elect of the Lub b o ck County Bar Association .... Lovington, N .
M . attorney Ralph W. (Gus)
Gallini is Vi c e-President of the Lea County Bar Association .... Jerry M. Kolander,
Jr. is Vice President of the Lubbock County Junior Bar. .
.
. Michael R. Miller, Assistant County Attorney in Amarillo, is a newly licensed amateur radio operator with call sign WN5RUK.
The Review's regular issues contained articles on such diverse topics as military law, product picketing, pesticides, promissory notes, criminal procedure, guardians ad litem and Title VII of the
Civil Rights Act, together with a wide array of case notes.
Elections in the spring named Walter
Huffman as Editor-in-Chief for 1976-77 and Sam Boyd as Managing Editor.
Other new officers are Betty Little, Sum posium Editor; Michael Boyle and
Deborah Brown, Case Note Editors;
Michael Crowley and Robert Teuton,
Comments Editors; Robert Bieck, Lead
Articles{fopics Editor; Jim Collins,
Citations Editor; and Don Dennis, Business Manager. Associate Editors include
Ray Allen, Tim Blakeley, Luis Chavez,
Bob Doty, Carol Eppich, Gene Hagood,
Doug Perrin and Debbie Welch, and other Editorial Board staff members include John Douglas and Charles (Skip)
Watson.
They replace the fine 1975-76 Board consisting of Eileen Hall, Editor in-Chief;
Byron Thomas, Managing Editor; David
Hassler, Symposium Editor; David Kithcart and Michael Petty, Case Notes Editors; Adair Melinsky Buckner, Comments Editor; Stephen Baskind, Lead Articles Editor; Stephen Ulrich, Family
Code Symposium Supplement Editor;
William Taylor, Citations Editor;
Michael Stoltz, Business Manager; and
Associate Editors C. Ray Allen, Luis
Chavez, Fred N. Diem, William F. Keeling, Benton J. Poole, Sue C. Schleier,
Julia K. Swisher, and all of the newly elected officers who served as Associate
Editors during the past year.
Professor Frank Skillern is Faculty
Advisor to the Review, and Sally Barfield is Administrative Assistant. 1976-77 will mark the eighth year of the Law Review's publication.
1971-72
Texas Tech Law School dominates the representation from the Western districts of the state on the Board of Directors of the State Junior. Mike Irish (Lubbock), Benny
Lowe (Odessa) and Ty Sparks (Amarillo) are the Directors from their respective districts. Sparks also serves as Secretary Treasurer of the Amarillo Bar Association.
Don E. Williams, who now practices in Midland, has been named United States
Magistrate for the Western District of Texas.
McKinney attorney Stan McWilliams was President of the North Texas Bar Association for 1975-76. He succeeded another ex, Eddie T. Smith of Bonham.
John A. Stewart won the Democratic primary for State Representative (District
33A, Dallas) in May, and faces the Republican incumbent in November.
Jeff Wentworth defeated two opponents without a runoff for the Republican nomination for Bexar County (San Antonio) Commissioner, Precinct 3, and faces former
State Representative Bill Finck, the Demo nominee, in November. Wentworth is also
President of the San Antonio Young Lawyers Association.
Air Force Captain Jeff Baynham has been serving as Circuit Defense Counsel for the Seventh Circuit, which embraces the entire Pacific area. He has been stationed at Clark Air Base in the Phillipines, and plans to return to civilian practice when his current tour ends this year.
Random Notes: Robert W. Baker is a Director of his Lions Club in Fort Stockton, active in the Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the District Grievance Committee, among other activities .
.
.. Sam J. Chase is a Director of the Abilene Jaycees, and was named Jaycee of the Month in March .... Richard Crews is a Director of the
Nueces County Junior Bar, and recently became a partner in his firm .... M. Kent
Sims, who practices in Wheeler with fellow alumnus Lowell Lasley, also serves as City
Attorney for that city .
1972-73
Steve Bunch became the first grad of the Law School to argue a case before the
United States Supreme Court this spring in the case styled The Northern Cheyenne
Tribe, Petitioner vs. William Hollowbreast, et aI., Respondents.
Weatherford attorney Mac Smith was elected District Attorney of the 43rd Judicia l
District in the Democratic runoff election in June. Mac, who led the 3-candidate ticket in the first primary, is unopposed in the general election .
B. Reid Haltom of Albuquerque has been elected to the Board of Directors of the
Young Lawyers Section of the New Mexico Bar Association . He also i s representative from the Section to the New Mexico Board of Bar Commissioners.
Joe Thigpen of Haskell defeated a 24-year incumbent for District Attorney of the
4-county 39th Judicial District in the Democratic Primary. He is unopposed in the general election.
Dallas attorney Bruce Turner co-authored "How to Correctly Compute Taxpayer's
Basis in Property," which appeared in the March-April issue of Taxation for Lawyers.
Hunt County Attorney Richard W. Carter narrowly lost his bid to step up to Dis trict Attorney in May, receiving better than 46% of the vote.
John H. Morris was appointed to an unexpired term as Fannin County Attorney in February and is unopposed for re-election to a new 4-year term. He is also President of the Fannin County Bar Association.
John B. Noble has been named Director of Law for the Center for Natural Areas, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. He is also a guest lecturer at
George Washington University Law School.
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He feels that the Law School has probably done as much as possible, or more, within the financial limitations imposed, to strike a reasonable balance between substantive classroom courses and clinical experience offerings. He also thinks that the public is served well by the sub stantial required curriculum of the school.
Edgar thinks the demand for lawyers is going to continue to increase with the growing complexities of society, and that the strong demand for legal education will thus also continue. He notes that the Law School's present enrollment of about 450 students could be increased by about 200 without overburdening the physical space available, and believes that pressure will grow to increase the size of the student body and faculty to more fully utilize the facilities.
The increase in enrollment (and as a corrollary thereof, of faculty) would not, in his opinion, substantially affect the personal relationship with faculty now available to students .
Professor Edgar feels that alumni of the school must be made aware that state-supported law schools do not have the financial wherewithal to attract and hold an outstanding faculty without substantial alumni support, and that while it requires a number of years for alumni to attain sufficient financial success to contribute substantial support for chairs and professorships, our alumni need to start thinki~g in these directions.
An avid jogger (2-3 miles daily), Professor Edgar also enjoys "occasional tennis and not so occasional beer drinking," and, with his wife, Helen, entertaining and traveling . Not a bad routine for an Aggie.
Thirty-four December graduates and ninety-two May graduates of the Law
School heard Lubbock attorney Travis
Shelton, President-Elect of the State Bar of Texas, and Judge Thomas Gee of the
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth
Circuit, at their respective hooding ceremonies during the year.
Graduates hooded before family members and friends at the December ceremony in the Law School Forum were
Agnes L. Adams; Schalan Alexandria
Atkinson; John Lynn Barnhill, Jr.; H.
Michael Bartley; W. C. Bratcher; Gary L.
Bridges; Richard L. Bufkin; Mark N.
Buzzard; Robert W. Caston; Johnny
Lynn Collier; Donald Lex Curry; Jimmie
Ronald Duvall; Nolan Ernest Greak;
Goodwin Hale; William Stephen Hernsberger; Floyd D. Holder, Jr.; Larry J.
Hysinger; Gerald Lee Johnson and James
Richard Keen.
Also Rolando Luis Leon; Franklin
Howard McCallum, Jr.; Raymond Morris
Meeks; Randal M. Patterson; Halcyon
Hunter Pearson; Max Houston Proctor;
Stephen Hartwell Ramsey; Randall Lyle
Rouse; Robert B. Somers; Terry Neal
Sterling; Robert Edwin Teel; T. Daniel
Tompkins; Frederick X. Walker; Gary
Ardus Ward and James Lawrence
Wharton.
An overflow crowd attended the May
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(Continued from Page 1) library has grown to more than 100,000 volumes, valuable clinical programs have been instituted and expanded to supplement classroom instruction, and representatives of the school have · experienced marked success in various intercollegiate competitions.
So does the Texas Tech University
School of Law have it made? Are continued progress and high esteem a certainty? For those who share the goal of making Texas Tech one of the better law schools in its part of the country, the answer is a resounding no.
It may come as a distinct shock to many to learn that in neither median nor average faculty salaries does the
Law School rank in the top four among the eight law schools in the State of
Texas, according to latest available statistics. In the category of library volumes the school barely squeezes into the top half of the state's law schools.
Scholarship funds for attracting and aiding outstanding, deserving and needy students is still extremely limited. Budget limitations have necessitated that less that two full-time faculty equivalencies be allocated to administration of the
Law School, despite the fact that the school handles a great many administrative functions not within the responsibility of other schools of the University complex, including admissions, placement, and many alumni relations activities.
In short, there is much left to be done.
At last count twenty-three members of
The University of Texas law faculty held chairs or professorships endowed through that law school's foundation. The count at Texas Tech was none. While the half million or so to endow a chair, or even the $40-50 thousand to endow a professorship is unquestionably out of reach at present for the Law School's young alumni on an individual basis, the collective financial strength of the growing alumni rolls should bring a few of the latter within the realm of the possible.
What better time than the Law School's tenth anniversary year to begin a three or five year plan to establish several
Alumni Professorships? What better way to help assure quality education at the
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Floyd D. Holder, Jr. of Greenville finished with the third highest grade among all candidates taking the February, 1976 Texas Bar examination as
Texas Tech Law School graduates again achieved 100 % success on the exam.
Holder, who enrolled in the Law School following his retirement as an Air Force colonel, has established practice in the
Panhandle city of Canadian.
Donald Lex Curry; William Terrell
Deane; Jimmie Ronald Duvall; William
David Falls; Nolan Ernest Greak; David
C. Greenhaw; David Wayne Hajek; William Stephen Hernsberger; Floyd D.
Holder, Jr.; Larry Jim Hysinger; Gerald
Lee Johnson; James Richard Keen and
Rolando Luis Leon.
Also L. Bradley Marling; Franklin
Howard McCallum, Jr.; Raymond M.
W
The national trend toward an inChristian University (3), Abilene creasing number of women law students Christian College (2) Howard Payne holds true at Texas Tech, a profile of the 1975-76 first year law class would indicate. Thirty-two women were among the 169 class members, or nearly 20%, providing an interesting comparison with the school's first entering class which was 93 % male.
The class presented a composite undergraduate GPA of 3.22, a composite LSA T score of nearly 100 points higher than nine years ago, and claims representatives from 47 undergraduate institutions throughout the United States.
Again Texas Tech University and
The University of Texas at Austin had the most representatives in the entering class, with 56 and 24 respectively. Other
Texas schools represented are: West
Texas State University (6), Southern
Methodist University (5), The University of Texas at Arlington (5), Midwestern
University (4), North Texas State University (4), Texas A&M University (4),
The University of Texas at EI Paso (4),
Angelo State University (3), Austin
College (3), East Texas State University
(3), Lubbock Christian College (3), Texas
College (2), Sam Houston State University (2), Stephen F. Austin State University (2), Tarleton State College (2)
Texas A&I University (2), Dallas Baptist
College, Rice University, Southwest
Texas State University, Southwestern
University, SuI Ross State University,
Texas Wesleyan College, Trinity University, University of Houston and Wayland Baptist College.
Among out-of-state colleges, only the
University of New Mexico (3) and
Columbia University (2) were represented by more than one student.
Others include Brigham Young University, Colorado State University, Emory
University (Ga.), Georgia Institute of
Technology, Indiana University, Loyola-
Marymount University (Ca.),
Mississippi State University, New Mexico State University, Pennsylvania State
University, Saint Olaf College (Mn.),
University of Maine, University of
Wisconsin, Utah State University, Washington & Lee University (Va.), Washington State University and Western Illinois
University.
Being congratulated by Chief .Justice .Joe R. Greenhill of the Texas Supreme Court is
Floyd D. Holder, .Jr., who was selected to respond on behalf of new lawyers to greetings from State Bar President .John M. Lawrence III, right, at the swearing-in ceremony. At left is Beverly Tarpley of the Board of Law Examiners.
Forty-one other graduates of the Law
School passed the examination and were admitted to the Bar, most with grades substantially above the passing level.
They are Agnes Lue Adams; Winifred
Earline Akins; Schalan Alexandria Atkinson; John
Richard L.
L. Barnhill, Jr.; H. Michael
Bartley; W. C. Bratcher; Gary L. Bridges;
Bufkin; Mark N. Buzzard;
Robert W. Caston; John Lynn Collier;
Meeks; Randal M. Patterson; Halcyon
Hunter Pearson; Max Houston Proctor;
Thomas L. Gabriel Ross; Randall Lyle
Rouse; Robert B. Somers; Terry Neal
Sterling; Robert Edwin Teel; T. Daniels
Tompkins; Frederick X. Walker; Gary
Ardus Ward; Troy Owen Welch; B. Belle
King Weninger; James Lawrence Wharton and Mary Elizabeth Wynne.
Annette L. Marple (,73) became the first alumnus to be named to an administrative post at the Texas Tech
School of Law when she became Assistant Dean in September, 1975.
Mrs. Marple, who holds the AB. from the University of Rochester and the
M.A from the University of Illinois in addition to her J.D. from Texas Tech,
DEAN MARPLE joined the Law School faculty the year following her graduation. Recently promoted to Associate Professor, she continues to teach Marital Property and
Legal Research and Writing in addition to her administrative duties.
As a student Dean Marple won election to Order of the Coif, and in her senior year was winner of the George
W. and Sarah H. Dupree Award for best
Student Bar Association officers for
1976-77 were named in late April student elections, with Karen P. Tandy of
Fort Worth selected to succeed Bill
Hoffman as SBA President.
Other officers elected included: Alfred
A Pandolfi, Glens Falls, N.Y., Vice-
President; Brenda F. Morris, Midland,
Secretary; William R. Garrett, San
Antonio, Treasurer; Richard C. Robins,
EI Paso, ABA/LSD Representative;
Michael L. Davis, Vidor, Chief Justice;
Terry W. Rippy, Lubbock, and William
W. Clifton, Lubbock, Associate Justices.
Very close balloting required runoff elections in five of the eight races as a strong array of candidates vied for the leadership positions.
The updated Texas Tech Law School
Alumni Directory, containing current addresses of 578 alumni through the
December, 1975 graduating class, was mailed to all alumni in late June, and anyone not receiving his or her copy should contact the Law School for a replacement.
Forty-seven pages in length, the Directory again contains a geographical index of all alumni in addition to the alphabetical listing of names and addresses. exemplifying the qualities desired in one soon to enter the legal profession. Her husband, Hugo, is a Professor in the
Music Department at Texas Tech.
Dean Marple's duties principally involve internal administration of the Law
School, including admissions, counseling, scheduling and student organizations.
(Continued from Page 4) and John Keeton Grubbs, Jr.; lL-James L. Gorsuch, Dianne Thompson, Curtis E.
Boswell, M. Lea Brownfield, Barbara D. Prince, and Patricia Moseley.
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Some traditions live on and on, and so it is with the annual SBA Goat Roast which was held on April 3 at Lake Ransom Canyon.
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Thirteen new members were elected to membership in Order of the Coif in early
July. Those elected from the 1975-76 graduating class were Harry M. Bartley, Stephen
L. Baskind, Charles D. Bombach, Adair R. Buckner, Fred N. Diem, Jimmie R. Duvall,
Nolan E. Greak, Eileen Hall, Floyd D. Holder, Jr., David E. Kithcart, Kenneth M.
Niesman, Sue C. Schleier, and Byron A Thomas. To be eligible for election a student must have ranked in the top ten percent of his graduating class, have made significant contributions to legal scholarship, and be of high moral character.
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Byron A Thomas, of Longview, a member of the May, 1976 graduating class, compiled the highest cumulative scholastic average ever recorded at the Texas Tech University School of Law. The previous high cumulative average belonged to Ruth Forbis
Kirby, a member of the first graduating class in 1970. Thomas will practice with the
Houston firm of Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp.
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Members of the 1975-76 first year class recently extended invitations to become members of the Texas Tech Law Review include Shelly J. Cashion, James O. Collins,
Cooper G. Dibrell, Deane W. Glenn, David W. Hammer, Kenric R. Hevron, Jon A
Hutnyek, Tim S. Leonard, Robert D. Lybrand, Donald W. Mills, Linda J. Norris,
Michael D. Parsons, Carol Leach, Rodney M. Patterson, Timothy R. Ploch, Gerald D.
Quast, James R. Raup, Susan E. Sanders, Alex F. Sears, Robert C. Severson, Marian R.
Smith, John H. Sowell, Frank E. Weathered, Glenn D. West, and Pamela S. Wiese. The students were selected on the basis of their academic performance during their first year of law school, and must meet prescribed requirements of writing and work on the
Review to become members of the Editorial Board.
(Continued from Page 5) ceremony at the University Center Ballroom. Graduates hooded included Winifred Earline Akins; Ricardo Rafael Alvarado; Lane Paige Arthur; Nancy
Firebaugh Arthur; James Edward Baker;
Stephen L. Baskind; Kathleen Knox
Berry; Charles David Bombach; Richard
Carl Bruse; Carroll John Bryla; Adair
Melinsky Buckner; Robert Neal Carter;
Susan Lee Coleman; James Edward
Cook; Robert Gordon Cross; William
Allen Cunningham; J. Lamar Curry, Jr.;
Jim B. Darnell; William Terrell Deane;
Fred N. Diem; Patrick S. Duffy; James
H. Elliott and Carter L. Ferguson.
Also Deanna Ruth Fitzgerald; John
Arthur Freels; A Gene Gaines; John
Philip Gamble; George David Gilles;
Gary G. Grimmer; Eileen Hall; Randy
Jarvis Hall; Don A. Harper; David Paul
Hassler; Edward D. Hellewell; William
Ray Hibbs, II; William Hilton Hoffman,
Jr.; Daniel Joseph Hollmann; Eric John
Hopkinson; Charles William Imke;
J ames Thomas Jacks; John Raymond
Jacobs; William F. Keeling, Jr.; Steven
Wayne Keng; Jon R. Ker; Charles L.
Kessie and Roger Alan Key.
Also William Hatton Kincaid; Polly
Kinnibrugh; David Eldon Kithcart; Mark
Edward Krugler; David Patrick Lashford; Kyle Richard Lewis; Cynthia Kathleen McDowell; R. Leonadis McKinney,
III; James Robert McM illon; Eric Scott
McPherson; Frank Lee Melton; Stephen
J. Menezes; Barkley Thomson Miller;
James E. Nelson; Kenneth M. Niesman;
James F. Parker; Gergory Duane Pitts;
Benton Jarmon Poole; Ann Lynn Postma; David Whitney Prehn; Vann Duerant Pressley; Gary C. Riley and Thomas
C. Roepke.
Also Terry Hugh Schaberg; Richard
Lee Schleier, Jr.; Sue Cato Schleier;
David Richard Seidler; Gary Howard
Shahan; Mark Howard Shapiro; Jim
Sheets; Michael John Shelton; Mike Alan
Smiddy; William Dwight Smith; John
True Smithee; Michael R. Stoltz; Julia
Katherine Swisher; Max Ralph Tarbox;
William Reece Taylor; Byron A.
Thomas; Lawrence V. Thomas; Diana
Dowd Ulrich; Stephen Emil Ulrich; Lily
Jean Wallace; Rebecca Dale Westfall;
Tom Heatly Whiteside and Michael
Steven Young.

$3,825
The results were a mixture of good and bad from the Second Annual
Alumni Giving Program, which was brought to a close on the last day of calendar 1975. A total of 100 alumni donors (up from 75 the previous year) made gifts totalling $3,825 (up from
$2,845), yet the percentage of alumni participating dropped to 22.5% (from
23.9%) and the average gift per alumnus of the school was only $8.61 (compared to $9.03 last year). The average gift per donor was up slightly to $38.25 (from
$37.80) .
Area 4 alumni again led in total gifts with $1,075, although the percentage participation in this area was down nearly ten points to 22.5 %. The out-ofstaters (Area 8) led in percentage participation, as nearly one-third (32.7%) contributed to the program . Area 2 led in the important category of average gift per alumnus in the area ($14.28), although credit for this achievement belongs to a small group of alumni who averaged gifts of $80 per person.
The class of 1972-73 became the first to break the $1,000 mark with gifts totalling $1,120, but they were closely followed in this category by the 1973-74 class ($980), which also had the most donors (32), a fine showing for a class so r~cently graduated. The class of 1971-72 replaced the 1969-70 class as the leader in percentage participation, while the
1970-71 class remained an enigma: the lowest percentage participation yet the highest average gift per class member thanks to the generosity of seven class members whose gifts averaged $71.43.
Alan O. Johnson (,71), Tyler, and
John V. Hayslip (,74), Texas City, gave scholarships during the year. Taking part in the Participating Scholarship Program were Robert W. Baker (,72), Fort Stockton, Jack B. Cowley (Dec . '69), Dallas,
Michael L. Fostel (,70), Kermit, Harley
S . Huff (,73), Lubbock, Jonathan
Michael Irish (,72), Lubbock, Edelmira
M. Navarro (Dec. '72), El Paso, William
G. Shaw (,70), Brownwood, Mac Smith
(,73), Weatherford, and Joseph Emmit
Thigpen (Dec. '72), Haskell. Alumni
Scholarships awarded through this program were increased from two to three.
"A great deal of work remains to be done to get our alumni giving up to the level that it should be," pointed out
Associate Dean Reed Quilliam, who heads the giving program. "I know that most of our alumni have strong loyalty to the school, and are anxious to see it progress as it should. Those alumni who have participated in the giving program have been most generous, and we greatly appreciate the help they have given to the Law School. Yet it concerns me that more than three-fourths of our alumni are not participating in the program, and their help is essential to our progress.
"We recognize that there are many other demands on the resources of our graduates," Quilliam continued,
"but I think that most of them direct some portion of those resources into charitable or civic giving and we hope that our alumni will place us high on their list of priorities in this respect. Not only do their gifts to the Foundation directly help the Texas Tech Law School, but they also represent an investment in
Patrick A. Abeyta (D ec . '74), Lubbock
James R. A l exander (Dec. '73), Lubbock
Leota H . Alexander (,70), Lubbock
Albert E. And res (Dec. '72), Dallas
Jimmy A. Ash by (,70), Mineral Wells
R. C. (Eric) Augesen (Dec. '71), Odessa
Robert W. Baker (,72), Fort Stockton*
John M . Ballenger (Dec . '74), Alexandria,
Va.
Capt. Thomas J. Baynham (,72), San
Francisco, Ca.
Joan Blanscet (Dec . '69), Dallas
Carey B. Boethel (,70), Giddings
Marwin B. Brakebill (,70), Ralls
James C. Brummett (,71), Lubbock
Steven L. Bunch (Dec. '72), Helena,
Mont.
Clifton R. Byrd (Dec. '69), Fort Worth
Sam J. Chase (,72), Abilene
Karl N . Clifford (Dec. '72), Lubbock
D. Bruce Cochran (,74), Agana, Guam
Jack B. Cowley (Dec . '69), Dallas*
Joseph V. Crawford (,73), Austin
Harry L. Cure, Jr. (Dec . '74), Fort Worth
Richard A. Danna (,74), Dallas
Mitchell Grant Davenport (Dec. '73),
Jacksboro
John M. Davis, Jr. (Dec . '72), Port
Orchard, WA
George Michael DeGeurin (,72), Houston
Tom F . Duren (Dec . '72), Goldthwaite
Robert N. Eames (Dec. '70) , Denton
Thomas Leon Edmons (Dec. '73), Borger
Tom Edwards (,71), Houston
Capt. Billy T. Elder (Dec. 72), Sheppard
AFB
Cam L. Fannin, Jr . (Dec. '70), Lubbock
Guy N . Fields III (,74), El Paso
John H. Fostel (Dec. '73), Decatur
Michael L. Fostel (,70), Kermit*
Capt. Paul E. Fulbright (Dec. '73),
Maxwell AFB
Charles Gentry (Dec. '69), Washington,
D .
C.
B. Reid Haltom (Dec. '72), Albuquerque,
NM
Mackey K. Hancock (,74), Lubbock
Grover Hart III (,73), Dallas
John V. Hayslip (,74), Texas City**
Capt. Maurice D. Healy (,73), Ft. Hood
Wynette J. Hewett (,74), Washington, DC
Richard C. Hile (,74), Jasper
W . David Holliday ('74), Dallas
John R. Hollums (Dec. '73), Floydada
Harley S. Huff (,73), Lubbock*
John T. Huffaker (,74), Amarillo
Charles W. Hurd (Dec. 72), Houston
John Lucian Hutchison (Dec. '71),
Spearman
Jonathan Michael Irish (,72), Lubbock*
Alan O. Johnson (,71), Tyler**
Karen Johnson (,73), Canyon
Morgan A. Jones (,74), Corpus Christi
The Honorable Ruth Kirby ('70),
Littlefield
Mark W. Laney (,72), Plainview
William E . Lee (Dec. '72), Ralls
Paul E. Lietz (,73), Orange
John A. Mann (,72), Lubbock
Professor Annette Marple ('73), Lubbock
Betty Waller Martin (,73), Dallas
David L. Martindale (,74), Pampa
Capt. James W . Maxfield (,73), Fort
Bliss
Ronald P. McCluskey (Dec. '73), Washington, DC
Frank E. Murchison III (,74), Lubbock
Edelmira M . Navarro (Dec. '72), El
Paso*
John B. Noble (,73), Washington, D.C.
Capt. Dennis O . Olson (,74), Quantico,
Va.
Harry A . Osborne (,74), Jonesboro, Ga.
William G. L. Owens (,73) , Nacogdoches
Richard L. Palmer (,72), Big Spring
Bob B . Pearson (Dec. '73), Spearman
Rothwell B. Pool (,73), Terrell
M. E. Rake, Jr. (Dec. '72), Phoenix, AZ
John E. Rapier (,72), Dallas
William L. Rivers (Dec . '73), Perryton
Jim D . Rudd (Dec. '70), Brownfield
Barbara K. Runge (Dec. '73), Houston
Mike Sanders (Dec. '70), Lubbock
John T. Sears (,73), Dallas
William G . Shaw (,70), Brownwood*
Joel B. Sheffield (,74), Sulphur Springs
Marilyn S. Shell (Dec. '73), San
Francisco, CA
John Edmond Skogland, Jr. (Dec. '71),
San Antonio
Mac Smith (,73), Weatherford*
Charles C. Snuggs (,73), Lubbock
Berry Newal Squyres (,72), Boise, Idaho
Daniel Joseph Taber (,72), Schulenberg
Joseph Emmit Thigpen (Dec. '72),
Haskell *
Mike Thomas (,72), Lubbock
Bruce E. Turner (,73), Dallas
Jess Newton Turner, III (Dec. '73),
Graham
Robert E. Vint (,74), Dallas
W. Burgess Wade (,73), Midland
John A. Weber (,70), Fort Worth
Jo Ben Whittenburg (Dec. '73),
Beaumont
Larry C. Wiese (,74), Washington, D.C.
Donald E. Williams (,72), Midland
Donald V. W. Wills (,74) Farmington,
NM
Stephen J. Wren (Dec. '74), Decatur
William D. Wright (,74), Washington,
D.C.
* Participating Scholarship Donor
**Scholarship Donor
AREA 1
A m a r i ll o
ALUMNI GIVING BY AREA, 1975
Are ..
(See Map)
1
Total
Alumni in Area·
140
Total
Donors in Area
2
3
28
34
32
5
5
4
5
6
7
8
102
24
32
26
58
444
23
5
9
2
19
100
ALUMNI GIVING BY CLASS, 1975
Total Total
Class
1969-70
1970-71
1971-72
Members of Class
51
46
58
Donors in Class
12
7
16
1972-73
1973 74
1974 75*
120
131
38 (133)
444
29
32
4
100
Total
Alumni in
Area Giving
22 .
9%
17.9%
14 .
7%
22.5%
20.8%
28 .
1%
7 .
7{)"f ,
32 .
7%
22.5%
Percent of
Class
Giving
23 .
5%
15 .
2%
27.6%
24.2%
24.4%
10 .
5%
22.5% the Improvement of the legal profession as a whole."
As is customary, the Third Annual
Alumni Giving Program gets underway with this issue of Dictum (although a few gifts have already been received). A coupon for use in transmitting gifts to the
Foundation may be found on page one.
How about a minimum goal of $10,000 for 1976?
Three secretaries at the Law School have been promoted to other staff positions, it was announced recently by
Assistant Dean Annette Marple.
Carolyn Cloud was named Administrative Assistant for Placement and will work in that program and in other external administrative functions. Jossie
Lethridge was designated Records
Assistant, where w he will continue to assist Registrar Ann Burbridge. Becky
Brown was named Admissions Assistant, and will assist Assistant Dean Marple in the administration of the new student admissions program.
AREA 8
O u t of State
Percent of
Total
Gifts
$990
400
260
1,075
155
430
50
465
$3,825
Total
Gifts
$ 535
500
590
1,120
980
100
$3,825
Average
Gift per
Donor
$30.94
80.00
52.00
46.74
31.00
47 .
77
25.00
24.47
$38 .
25
Average Gift per Alumni in Area
$ 7.07
14 .
28
7.65
10 .
54
6.46
13.44
1.92
8.02
$ 8.61
*Includes graduates only thro u gh December, 1974, since no later graduates were solicited .
Average
Gift per
Donor
$44 .
58
71.43
36 .
88
38 .
62
30 .
62
25.00
$38 .
25
Average
Gift per
Class Member
$10.49
15.53
10.17
9 .
33
7 .
48
2.63
$ 8.61
*Only the 38 members of the class graduating i n December were solicited, and percentages are based upon that number. Total class size was 133.

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Bridgeport, Conn. attorney Dan Peck is State Counsel for the Connecticut Young
Republicans and a member of the Westport Representative Town Meeting.
Rothwell B. Pool of Terrell is President of the Kaufman County Bar, Vice Presi dent of the North Texas Bar, and President of the Terrell Jaycees.
Bill Rivers of Perryton was nominated as Ochiltree County Attorney in the May
Demo primary and has no opposition in the general election.
Dallas lawyer Grover Hartt, III will have an article in a forthcoming issue of the
Texas Bar Journal on "Ad Valorem Tax Exemptions for Non-Profit Health Care
Facilities."
Lanny Voss of Plainview, who served as President of the Hale County Bar Association in 1974-75, is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central Plains Community Action Program.
Stephenville attorney John Terrill was elected Erath County Attorney in May.
The first known confrontation between Texas Tech Law School grads for political office will occur in the Amarillo general election for State Representative. Danny Hill defeated the incumbent in the Demo primary and faces Republican John Smithee (,76) in November.
Kerry Armstrong recently completed a tour as a Vice-President of the Texas Jaycees.
Johnny W. Actkinson, County Attorney of Parmer County, was named to Out- standing Young Men of America. He recently added a CPA to his credentials.
Random Notes: Arliss Marvin Champlin is a Director of the Fort Worth-Tarrant
County Young Lawyers Association .... Tom Akins, who formerly held the same position in San Marcos, is the new City Attorney in Sherman ..
.. Tom Bacus of Wichita
Falls is Treasurer of the Wichita County Bar Association and Secretary of the North
Texas Estate Planning Council. ..
. Dennis R. Burrows of Lubbock is a Director of the
South Plains Trial Lawyers ..
.
. Thad Floyd is Secretary Treasurer of the Nacogdoches
County Bar Association .... John Gilmartin recently completed a term as Secretary-
Treasurer of the Hood County Bar Association .
.
.
. Nathan P. Hoffman of Victoria was named among the Outstanding Young Men of America by the U.S. Jaycees in 1976 ....
Myrtle McDonald, formerly First Assistant Criminal District Attorney in Lubbock, has entered private practice in that city with J. R. Blumrosen. She is a Director of the
Lubbock County Junior Bar. ... Craig Leslie of Kerrville is Vice President of the Hill
Country Bar Association .... Carlos Villa serves on the Boards of Directors of both the
EI Paso Bar Association and the EI Paso Junior Bar. He also is a member of the Board of Equalization for that city .
... Karen L. Johnson, University Legal Counsel for
West Texas State University, has been named to Outstanding Young Women of America 1976 .
. John Sears of Dallas served during 1975 as Chairman of the Law Students Admissions Committee of the State Junior Bar .... Kevin Shannon is a Director of the EI Paso County Young Lawyers Association .
..
. Charlie Snuggs emceed the
Lubbock Bar's Bosses' Night Out this spring .... Rick Graham played a key role in the campaign organization of successful Dallas mayor candidate Bob Folsom .... Fort
Worth City Judge Jerry Hennigan and City Tax Attorney Jack Wilemon have left their municipal jobs to join a Fort Worth firm .... Kip Boyd is Chairman of the East Dallas
Chamber of Commerce Governmental Affairs Committee .... David L. Posey of Payette, Idaho, is an officer in both his bar association and the Payette Lions Club.
1973-74
William D. (Big Bill) Wright earned his LL.M in Taxation from N .
Y.U. in 1975, and is Attorney-Advisor to Judge Featherston on the United States Tax Court in Washington.
Barry Blackwell of Dalhart is District Attorney for the 69th Judicial District.
Marine Corps Captain Dennis O. Olson is now sitting as a military judge in Quantico, Virginia, and has been nominated to serve on the Board of Directors of the Judge
Advocates Association.
John R. Hollums of Floydada was appointed in January to serve an unexpired term as District Attorney of the 110th Judicial District. He is unopposed for re-election.
Larry Wiese represented the United States at a London meeting of the legal committee for the International Maritime Consultive Organization. Larry is an attorney in the Coast Guard Chief Counsel's office, and his wife, Sissy, was formerly an aide to
Congressman George Mahon of Lubbock.
Jo Ben Whittenburg of Beaumont is serving on the Board of Directors of the Jefferson County Junior Bar. Jo Ben teamed with his partner to win the Championship
Division of the tennis doubles competition at the State Bar Convention in Dallas.
Former Texas Supreme Court briefing attorney Don Wills authored an article in the November, 1975 Texas Bar Journal on proof of fear as an element of damage in condemnation cases. He recently joined a firm in Farmington, N.M.
Richard Clark is the unopposed Democratic nominee for Yoakum County Attorney.
Ron McCluskey, who is staff director and counsel for a key Congressional subcommittee, was guest speaker at the National Convention of Psychoanalysis in Baltimore.
John W. McGregor of Ballenger was unopposed in his bid for Runnels County
Attorney and will take office in January.
Nevill Manning of Littlefield is President of the 154th Judicial District Bar Association.
David L. Martindale of Pampa is the unopposed Demo nominee for Gray County
Attorney .
When Randall L. Rogers moved to Waco to join the District Attorney's staff it was necessary that he resign as a member of the Forest Hill City Council and as Vice Presi dent of the Forest Hill Jaycees.
Mitch Davenport, who practices in Jacksboro and is City Attorney there, served as
President of that city's Chamber of Commerce during the past year.
Guy Fields' LL.M
. in taxation was earned in May, 1975 at Boston University (rather than at N.Y.U., as erroneously reported in the last issue). He joined the EI Paso firm of Scott, Hulse, Marshall & Feuille.
Random Notes: John W. Weeks is serving as Secretary-Treasurer of the Abilene
Junior Bar. ... Cecil R. Biggers, who practices in Spearman, also serves as Municipal
Judge for that city .... Jon P. (Pat) Bond has been broadly engaged in arbitration activities since graduation, and teaches Labor Relations at Austin Community College.
He has also been serving on the issues and speech writing staff of Presidential candidate
Jimmy Carter. ... Peggy Butler, who is Deputy Court Administrator for the 187th District Court in San Antonio, is working on a M.A. in Latin American Studies at the
University of Mexico .... Bob Callaway, who is a Special Legal Assistant to the Nevada
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Austin area alumni who co-hosted the hospitality room in the Stephen F.
Austin Hotel, in addition to Crawford, were Earnest Casstevens, Michael
Fjetland, William Gibson, Charles
Grigson, Maurice D. Healy, David
Williams, Tom Akins, Tom Duren, Joe
Preston, Anita Ashton, Scott Crissman,
Richard Mock, and Jim Wright. A continuing flow of alumni and friends of the
Law School enjoyed their hospitality and the renewal of old friendships.
The 1977 Texas Bar Convention will be held at Houston at its usual early-
July date, and new President Edwards and his staff of officers and directors will begin soon to make plans for the Texas
Tech functions at that event. Anticipating large participation, particularly in light of the Law School's tenth anniversary,
Edwards invites comments and suggestions from alumni concerning the
1977 alumni functions .
Errol N. Friedman, of Texarkana, was the first Editor of Dictum. He was succeeded, in subsequent years, by W.
Bruce Magness (Amarillo), Robert W.
Baker (Fort Stockton), Nathan P. Hoffman (Victoria), and Kerry M. Armstrong (Fort Worth). The newspaper was written and edited by students at the
Law School through the 1972-73 school year.
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Supreme Court and an advisor to the State Commission on Crime, recently was a delegate to that state's Republican Convention .... Bruce Childers has recently been named
Director of Student Advisement for the College of Business at Arizona State University. A faculty member there since graduation, he has authored several articles in scholarly publications .... Bruce Cochran is Secretary of the Federal Bar Association,
Guam Chapter. ... Tom Edmonds of Borger was recently named to Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans 1975-76 .... John Fostel, who divides his time between private practice in Decatur and prosecuting on the District Attorney's staff, is Secretary of the Wise County Bar Association .... Rick Frazier, who practices in Dallas, is also teaching Real Estate Law at EI Centro College .... Lee Haag chairs the Dallas Junior
Bar Committee on the Future of Legal Specialization ...
. Jonesboro, Georgia lawyer Harry A. Osborne teaches Business Law part-time at Clayton Junior College in
Morrow ..
.
. Albert Perez is a member of the Lubbock Legal Aid Board of Directors .... Cliff Preslar is a Director of both the EI Paso Trial Lawyers Association and the EI Paso Young Lawyers Association .
.
.. Lubbock lawyer Wayne Reaud is a Director of the South Plains Trial Lawyers Association.
1974-75
Hippolito Canales and H. Wayne Campbell, both Assistant Criminal District Attorneys in San Antonio, have made their marks with that office. Canales recently was presented with the Ponder Award, presented annually to the first-year prosecutor who exhibits a high degree of organization and professionalism. Runner-up was Campbell.
Stephen J. Wren of Decatur won the Democratic nomination for Wise County
Attorney in May, defeating the incumbent by taking 75% of the vote . He is unopposed in November.
James L. Bowen and Joe D. Lemay, who formed a partnership in Coleman following graduation, won their respective races for County Democratic Chairman and
County Attorney in May.
Phillip S. Brown formed a partnership with his father in Lubbock following graduation. Phil served as traveling coach of the Law School's highly successfully client counseling team, and the firm established an annual award for achievement in that competition.
Talk about getting one's feet wet in a hurry, Little Rock attorney Rus se ll Gunter's first case was before the Arkansas Supreme Court. He won, the court adopting his argument in its opinion.
Andrew J. Kupper, Jr. of Levelland is President of the Hockley County Junior
Bar and recently won election as Democratic County Chairman.
James D. Weems of Levelland was named Hockley County's Outstanding Young
Attorney of 1975 by the Hockley County Junior Bar.
Donald A. Parks of Greenville is the unopposed Demo nominee for County Attorney of Hunt County .
Random Notes: Stephen R. Pendleton has been assigned to Reese AFB in Lubbock as an Assistant Staff Judge Advocate .... L. Everett Young is chief prosecutor for the City of Fort Worth ...
. Bruce Gryting recently passed the Minnesota Bar and was admitted to practice there in April. .
.. Yu Ying-fu will reestablish his firm in Taipei,
Taiwan in September.
1975-76
Air Force Captain H. Michael Bartley authored an article in the Winter edition of the Air Force Law Review entitled "Military Law in the 1970's: The Effects of
Schlesinger v. Councilman" .
Miscellaneous
The young Texas Tech Law School is beginning to make its mark on the Texas political scene, as testified to by the fact that come January no less than 7 alumni will be district attorneys in the state, 15 will be county attorneys, 3 will be county judges , and either 2 or 3 will be state representatives. And it is possible that our tally is not complete.
Recent graduates who have been serving judicial clerkships during the past year include E. Link Beck (U.S. District Judge Hal Woodward, Lubbock), Chuck Grigson
(U.S. District Judge Jack Roberts, Austin), Anita Ashton (Court of Criminal Appeals,
Austin), Ralph H. Brock (Court of Civil Appeals, Amarillo), Steven L. Guerra (Court of Civil Appeals, EI Paso), Don F. Russell (Court of Civil Appeals, Beaumont), G .
Michael Fjetland (Court of Civil Appeals, Austin), and the aforementioned William D.
Wright (U.S. Tax Court Judge Moxley Featherston, Washington, D.C.) .
Congregations of two or three alumni with a single firm or legal department are getting too numerous to mention, but we know of two firms in which there are five
Tech Law grads. Gibson, Ochsner, Adkins, Harlan & Hankins of Amarillo (Professor
Edgar's old firm) has signed on John Huffaker (,74), Tom Lockhart (Dec. '74), and '75 graduates Charles King, Larry C. Meyer and Danny Needham. 1976 grad Ken Niesman will become associated with the Dallas firm of Gardere, Porter & DeHay in August, where he will join David Segrest (,70), Suzan Riddle (Dec. '71), Paul L. Smith (,72), and Chris Inabnett (,73).