SCHOOL OF LAW / TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
VOL.
V,
NUMBER
MARCH
1974
Foundation Launches First
Annual Giving Program
Support Is Sought
From Alums, Friends
The Texas Tech Law School Foundation's first Annual Giving Program is
being launched with this issue of Dictum,
in this seventh year of the Law School's
operation. The response to this annual
program of gifts, particularly from
alumni, will play a large role in the
future of the Law School in its quest for
greatness.
The cornerstone for that greatness
has been laid by the dedication and hard
work of the students, faculty and administration who have shared the early years
of the school's existence. But continued
progress toward
superior academic
quality and national eminence by the
Law School will require the development
of programs fo r which state funds are
not available, and which can be attained
only if support is received from private
sources.
Scholarships and other student assistance is one area in which immediate
help is needed. In this era of sharply
accelerating costs, more and more students are finding it exceedingly difficult
to finance a law school education, and
we are losing an increasing number of
promis ing students to schools which
have the. wherewit.hal to provide scholarship and loan assistance. A scholarship
providi ng only tuition and fees now
runs to $300 or more, and if books are
to be covered by the scholarship $400
is a real istic figure.
Assistance is also needed in a variety
of student programs and activities such
as the Moot Court program, in which
there are now three intercollegiate competitions during the year which require
the expenditure of travel money for the
team. Faculty recruitment and faculty
research support are two other areas
which must be supported by private
funds, and there are many other needs
that arise in the day to day operation of
the school.
Since this is our first annual giving
campaign, we are admittedly feeling our
way as to format, but it is our hope that
the format adopted will permit every
alumnus of the Law School. together
with other of our friends in the legal
profession, to participate to the extent
feasible to his or her situation.
First we urge that each alumnus and
Dean Richard B. Amandes (right) and Acting Associate Dean W. Reed Quilliam, Jr. (left) confer with Lubbock attorneys Claude W.
(Pete) Harland (2nd from left) and Mike Irish, alumni of the Law School, concerning plans for the First Annual Law School Foundation Giving Program. Harland and Irish will be co-chairmen for the campaign in the South Plains-Panhandle area of the state.
friend of the school give a minimum of
$25 to the Foundation for unrestricted
use in implementing the Law School's
programs.
Those
contributing
this
amount or more will be designated Sustaining Members of the Texas Tech Law
School Foundation, and will receive a
certificate appropriately acknowledging
such designation.
Contributions of $ I 00 or more will
(unless otherwise directed by the donor)
be divided $25 to the general foundation
fund and $75 toward a scholarship.
Several of these $75 amounts will then
be combined to provide a scholarship,
probably in the amount of $300-$400,
for a deserving law student. These contributors will receive a certificate designating them Participating Scholarship
Donors of the Foundation.
Finally, for those alumni, friends and
firms who are able to do so, we urge the
donation of a scholarship in the amount
of $300 or more. The scholarship would,
of course, bear the name of the donor
or of a person designated by the donor,
and certificates will be issued designating
such contributors as Scholarship Donors
of the Foundation.
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Grads Continue Fine
Record on Bar Exam
The 65 Texas Tech University Law
School graduates who took the June,
1973, bar examination added additional
lustre to the already magnificent record
compiled by the school's graduates on
the exam, as all 65 passed with the
highest composite average yet achieved
by the school.
Beginning with the first class of graduates in 1970, when (now Professor) Ruth
Kirby and Marwin Brakebill tied for
first place on the exam and three other
Tech grads tied for second, the school
has achieved a record probably unmatched by any other new law school in
history.
The June, 1973, exam marked the
sixth consecutive occasion on which all
graduates of the Law School taking the
examination passed it. Beginning with
the October, 197 I, exam, 170 graduates
have taken the bar and all have passed.
Even more impressive is the fact that the
average grade recorded by these 170
graduates was 81.7. The June class exceeded even this mark, with a composite
average of 83.3.
Robert Don Collier, of Friona, topped
the June graduates on the bar with a
score of 92.25, third highest among all
those taking the exam. Coli ier served as
Editor of the Texas Tech Law Review
while a student. He was closely followed
by J. Thad Floyd, Jr., of Lufkin, whose
score was 92.
Other Texas Tech graduates passing
the June bar included: Johnny Wade
Actkinson, Farwell; Ronald Dale Addison, Fort Worth; Henry Joseph Anderson III, Wichita Falls; Stephen
Robert Anderton, Garland; Anita Ashton, Midland; Thomas Hays Bacus, Big
Spring; Gary Wayne Barnard, Lubbock;
Leon Gray Bean, Lubbock; Robert Truett
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Idllu~ni
~wsletter
1969-70
Leota Alexander is serving as treasurer of the Lubbock County Bar Association
and as president of the Guadalupe Neighborhood Agency (a United Fund Agency). She
recently opened her own law offices in Lubbock.
Carey Boethel, who practices in Giddings, is serving his second term as president
of the Lee County Bar Association.
R. Charles Gentry is Legislative Assistant to U . S. Senator Pete V. Domenici of
New Mexico. Gentry was named a White House Fellow upon his graduation from law
school and subsequently held a key post in the u.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
He and wife Lane, also a former Tech law student, reside in Arlington, Virginia.
Perry Tanner, a member of the firm of Jones, Tanner, & Pace in Livingston, is a
candidate for the Texas House of Representatives.
Cornelius B. Marsh IV, is serving as secretary-treasurer of the Hidalgo County
Junior Bar for the second year. He practices in Edinburg.
Alan L. Murray has been elected secretary of the Dallas Junior Bar. He practices
in that city with Passman, Jones, Andrews, Coplin, Holley & Co.
John L. Shepherd, who has practiced in Seminole since graduation, must be setting
new records for longevity in office. He has been president of the Gaines County Bar
Association since 1971.
Random Notes: John A Weber has been elected a director of Everman National
Bank in Fort Worth .... Dick Whittington is a director of Camp Grady Spruce near
Dallas ... . James Bobo has resigned as Assistant County Attorney of Ector County to
join the Odessa firm of Fugit & Pipes .... Mike McKinney has joined the Big Spring
law firm of Jones & Milstead .
1970-71
Herbert A. Becker was named Director of California Indian Legal Services in
July. As such he supervises a staff of some 20 attorneys.
In the Small World Department, Captains Dan V. Dent, Bruce Magness, and
Dan McNery, all May, 197 I graduates of the Law School, are all serving as prosecutors
at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. They are attached to Army JAG.
Tom Edwards, who practices with the Houston firm of Kronzer, Abraham &
Watkins, was a guest speaker at the Lubbock Legal Secretaries Association Seminar in
October. His topic was comparative negl igence.
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School of Law; Texas Tech University
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( ) $___to go into the General Foundation Fund for unrestricted use
in implementing the Law School's Programs.
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toward a scholarship for a deserving law student.
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law student.
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DICTUM-MARCH
1974
AREA 1
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More than 100 lawyers and judges from across the state registered for the Stay
Abreast '73 Law Seminar held at the Law School on October 12 and 13. The seminar
was staged in three sessions, one on Friday and two on Saturday, and was designed to
inform practicing attorneys and jurists of major changes in the law enacted by the 1973
Texas Legislature.
The Friday session, on the Texas Family Code, featured talks by Lubbock attorneys Roy Bass and Tom Purdom and Professor Eugene L. Smith of the Law School
faculty, past chairman of the Family Law section of the State Bar. The new Texas Penal
Code was the topic Saturday morning, and speakers included attorneys Travis Shelton
and George Gilkerson of Lubbock, and Frank Maloney of Austin. All were prominent
members of the State Bar committee which drafted the new code for submission to the
Legislature. On Saturday afternoon Professor and Assistant Dean John Krahmer of the
Law School faculty and Lubbock attorney David Hughes spoke on changes in the Uniform Commercial Code.
A special highlight of the seminar occurred at a Saturday luncheon, where Justice
Jack Pope of the Texas Supreme Court spoke on amendments to the Texas Rules of
Civil Procedure affecting the submission of civil cases to juries. The seminar program
concluded with a cocktail-buffet at the Red Raider Inn Convention Center on Saturday evening prior to the Texas Tech-Texas A & M football game.
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Nearly 100 alumni of the Law School, together with wives, dates and faculty,
gathered for a cocktail party and reception at the Sheraton Hotel during last summer's
state bar convention in Fort Worth. The event was so successful that plans are being
laid to make the occasion an annual event.
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There is no sex discrimination in Women and the Law, a course being
offered for the first time at the Law School this spring by Professor Rodric Schoen, since
ten women and ten men enrolled for the course. Despite the numerical balance, the
course content is primarily directed toward sex discrimination in various areas of the
law.
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Five law students were among those Texas Tech University students named in
November for listing in Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. Receiving the honor were Charles O. Grigson, Donald V. W. Wills, Wynette
J. Hewett, John E. Westhoff, and Newton T. Painter. Selection is made on the basis of
academic standing, service to the community, leadership in extra-curricular activities
and future potential. The publication includes the names of outstanding students in
more than 1,000 four-year undergraduate and graduate institutions.
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The "Senior Prom", so named because it was sponsored by the senior class
although all law students were invited, was held at the National Guard Armory on
February 9, and was such a rousing success that it has been retitled, after the fact, the
First Annual Senior Prom, in anticipation that it will become a regular event. Highlights of the affair, which gathered an overflow crowd, included the dance contest, won
by Mr. and Mrs. Jon Nelson, and best costume award, which went to Mr. and Mrs.
John Dayton. Jim Luckett was chairman for the party.
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Several members of the May graduating class have already accepted c1erkships at the state or federal level. Among these are David Pittard and Donald Wills,
both of whom will clerk for the Texas Supreme Court, William R. Wright and David
Cobb, who will work for Federal District Judge Hal Woodward, of Lubbock, and
Richard Hile and Rodney Acker, who will clerk for Federal District Judges Joe Fisher
(of Beaumont) and Eldon Mahon (of Fort Worth), respectively.
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Following its success during the fall semester, another Fat Dawg's Film Festival
is scheduled for mid-March. Movies featuring W. C. Fields, the Marx Brothers and
Beep-Beep the Roadrunner have proved the most popular at these functions, for which
beer is provided by the SBA. For those alumni of yesteryear, to whom the name Fat
Dawg's means nothing, it is a Fourth Street pub conceived and operated by an enterprising law student.
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The annual Honors and Awards affair will be a luncheon for the second consecutive year, following several years as an evening event. It is tentatively scheduled for
May 17, at Vann's Catering. The hooding ceremony for May graduates will be held
that night, tentatively at the Texas Tech Theater.
Though the news is no longer timely for students and faculty, alumni and others
on our mailing list may have an interest in some of the major awards presented at the
Honors and Awards Luncheon last May, as about 200 students, wives, professors and
special guests gathered at Vann's Catering. Among these were: Phi Alpha Delta Outstanding Law Professor Award--C. Tom Reese, for classroom teaching excellence.
George W. and Sarah H. DuPree Award--Annette Marple, as best exemplifying the
qualities of one soon to enter the law profession. Nelson, McCleskey, Harriger &
Brazill Award--John Westhoff, for outstanding service to the SBA and the Law School.
Geary, Brice, Barron & Stahl First Year Moot Court Award--Mickey Blanks and James
R. Mardis, for taking top honors in the first year moot court competition. National
Order of the Barristers (with trophies presented by Key, Carr, Evans & Fouts)-Charles O. Grigson, Mark C. Hall, Wynette Hewett, Max Moudy and Frank Sullivan.
Law Review Service Award (presented by McWhorter, Cobb & Johnson)--Don Collier,
for outstanding service to the Law Review. Corpus Juris Secundum Awards--Earnest
Casstevens (1 L), Susan Walker (2L) and Arliss Champlin (3L) for significant contributions to overall legal scholarship. Highest Cumulative Scholastic Average Award-Karl N. Clifford and Robert D. Collier (tie), for accumulating the highest scholastic
average during the three years of law school. Forum (Honorary Scholastic organization
for those in the top 10% of the graduating c1ass)--Karl N. Clifford, Robert D. Collier,
Annette L. Marple, Elgin E. Conner, Charles W. Hurd, John T. Sears, Arliss M.
Champlin, Stephen A. Hines, Grover Hartt III, Stephen R. Anderton, Vince H.
Imbordino, and Daniel D. Peck.
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Brock Smith, chairman of the Goat Roast for 1974, has announced that the
annual event will be held in April. He is looking for a chief executioner to succeed Tom
Schueller and Harley Huff.
Student Bar Association officers for the current year include Richard Hile, president, Brock Smith, secretary, Guy Fields, treasurer, and Dan Garner, LSD/ABA
representative. Pat Bond, vice president, transferred at mid year, and Gale Warren was
elected his successor in a February special election. The Judicial Council is composed
of Don Wills, chief justice, Bob Vint and Ken Larson.
Class officers for 1973-74, 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-James Luckett, David Martindale, Larry Wood, Marilyn
Shell, Mark Hoover, and Don Russell; 2L-Ken Greer, Harry Cure, Richard Howell,
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West, North Texas Popular
With Texas Tech Law Grads
Where do Texas Tech University
School of Law graduates go to practice,
or otherwise earn their keep, following
graduation from law school? A survey
of 259 graduates whose addresses are
known, members of the first five graduating classes, shows that nearly nine
out of ten remain in Texas, with the
heaviest concentration (just over onethird of all graduates) found in the
Panhandle-South Plains area of the
state.
As the map above indicates, 87 graduates are known to live in Area 1, which
includes Lubbock, Amarillo and OdessaMidland. Of this number, 49 are in Lubbock, 10 in Amarillo, and 7 in Odessa,
with the others scattered throughout
various towns and cities in the region.
Area 4 on the map, the North Texas
region which includes Dallas and Fort
Worth, has attracted the second largest
representation, 59. Dallas lists 25 alumni,
second only to Lubbock in numbers,
and Fort Worth is the home of 12
graduates.
Areas 3 (Wichita Falls-Abilene-San
Angelo) and 6 (Houston-Beaumont-East
Texas) rank third and fourth in numbers, claiming 23 and 19 alumni, respectively, but the class of 1973 showed
a marked perference for West Texas,
with 10 members of that class choosing
EI Paso (Area 2). That city now boasts
14 alumni, third largest concentration
in a single city.
Of the 34 alumni residing outside the
state of Texas (including 4 who are pur-
Alumni to Meet
At San Antonio
Plans are being made for the annual
alumni meeting and party to be held in
connection with the State Bar Convention in San Antonio in July, and according to Alumni Association president
Jim R. Wright, the event will be even
bigger and better than last year.
Wright announced that the Association would not attempt to publish a newsletter to alumni since this function is
now being performed by Dictum, but
would cooperate with Dictum in gathering information about and of interest to
alumni. The Association will also cooperate with the Law School in publishing
an updated Alumni Directory later in
the spring.
Wright and Association treasurer
Mike Irish urged that all alumni pay
their $10 annual dues which are now
due. Such dues should be forwarded to
Irish at the Criminal District Attorney's Office, Lubbock County Courthouse, Lubbock.
Officers other than Wright and Irish
who were elected at the annual meeting
in Fort Worth last summer are Cornelius B. Marsh, vice president, and John
Mann, secretary.
suing graduate legal studies and several
others in the military), New Mexico
claims the greatest number, with 9.
The encircled numbers on the map
indicate the number of alumni of the Law
School known to be living in each of the
seven designated areas. The figures include only graduates through the May,
1973 class.
'73 Class Had
Preference for
Smaller Firms
May, 1973 graduates of the Law
School showed a decided preference for
small (5 members or less) law firms,
according to representative but incomplete statistics compiled at the school.
About 54% of the class entered private
practice upon graduation, and exactly
half of those joined firms with five or
fewer members. Approximately 10%
opened their own offices for private
practice, 7% joined medium-sized (6-15
members) firms, and 5 % each joined
large (16-50 members) and very large
(over 50 members) firms.
Other noteworthy categories of employment or activity include local government (district, county and city attorneys
offices), 19%, c1erkships with federal and
state judges, 10%, and graduate law study,
7 %. Among other careers pursued by
1973 graduates are military JAG, law
teaching, corporate counsel, and legal
counsel for a university. One member
of the class is practicing as a certified
publ ic accountant.
A disappointing 45% of the May '73
class answered placement questionnaires
mailed to them during the fall, but the
employment statistics given above represent a more complete sample (80% of
the class), since information on employment status was obtained from other
sources.
In response to an inquiry on the placement questionnaire as to those areas of
the law in which they were actively
engaged, criminal law and general practice were each mentioned by 24% of
those responding. Real estate law (20%),
probate (18 %), domestic relations (18 % ),
personal injury and workmen's compensation litigation from the plaintiffs
side of the docket (12 %), corporations
(12%), general litigation (9%), and wills
and estate planning (9%) were others
receiving frequent mention.
Salary information provided in questionnaire answers was sketchy, but beginning salaries mentioned ranged from
a low of about $7,000 to a high in excess
of $16,000, with a median in the $12,000
range. It should be emphasized that the
salary statistics represent answers from
onl y 28 % of the class, however.
DICTUM-MARCH
1974
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From the Dean's Desk
Sharla Beth Haynie, representing Chi Omega sorority, is pictured as she presents a
copy of Webster's Third New International Dictionary as a gift from the sorority to the
Texas Tech University Law School Library. Accepting the gift on behalf of the school
is Law Librarian and Professor U. V. Jones.
John Hill Addresses
41 December Graduates
John Hill, Attorney General of Texas,
was the principal speaker at the hooding
ceremony on December 22 for the 41
students who completed work for their
J.D. degrees in December. A large crowd
of parents, spouses, students and faculty
attended the ceremonies at the Law
School.
Hill spoke on legal problems of today,
and outl ined a decisive program needed
by the legal profession to meet the needs
of today's society and to increase public
confidence in the profession.
Three members of the December class
graduated
with
honors,
including
Gerald Keith of Havana, Illinois, who
compiled the highest cumulative average
among December graduates for his three
years of law school work. Other honor
graduates were Garry O. Smith, of
Crosbyton, and Joe Ben Whittenburg,
of Odessa.
Others in the December class included:
James R. Alexander, Silverton; Barry
Eugene Blackwell, San Antonio; Gregory
Welch Allen, Dallas; Thomas Michel
Bowman, Los Angeles, Calif.; Dennis
Wayne Bridewell, Glen Rose; James M.
Clark, Canadian; Mitchell Grant Davenport, Midland; Claud Howard Drinnen III, Amarillo; John H. Economidy,
Wichita Falls; Thomas Leon Edmonds,
Borger; William Zerfing Fairbanks, Jr.,
Honolulu, Hawaii; John Henry Fostel,
Irving; James Stuart Frost, Eastland;
Paul Edward Fulbright, Kerrville; James
H. Gill, Dallas; Gary Harrell, Farmington, N.M.; John R. Hollums, Floydada;
and Gerald Holmes, Jr., Nederland.
Also: Patrick Glenn Hubbard, Denver
City; Richard L. Husen, Borger; William
D. Kane, Jr., Arlington; Robert Doyce
Mallett, Perryton; Michael Eads Manning, Dallas; Ronald P. McCluskey, EI
Paso; John W. McGregor, Eldorado;
Bob B. Pearson, Perryton; Joel Roderick
Price, Lubbock; William L. Rivers,
Amarillo; Barbara Kay Runge, Houston;
Tom Roy Sawyer, Plainview; Kenneth
Alan Senn, Wichita Falls; Marilyn S.
Shell, Stephenville; Roger Dale Shipman,
Lubbock; James Hudson Smart, Jr.,
Abilene; Michael Eloyd South, Lovington, N.M., Jess Newton Turner III,
Palo Pinto; John Ethan Westhoff, Weatherford; and David Michael Williams,
San Saba.
49 Universities Represented
AlUong First Year Students
Twenty-three Texas colleges and universities and twenty-five out of state
schools are represented by the 170 students comprising the first-year class of
1973-74. Chosen from more than 1500
applicants, the students collectively
presented outstanding credentials, including a grade point average of better
than a 3-point.
Among the freshmen students is Yu
Ying-Fu, of Taiwan, the first foreign
student to be enrolled at the school. Mr.
Yu holds a law degree from the National
Taiwan University.
The largest number of students in the
class, 56, presented undergraduate degrees from Texas Tech University.
Twenty-three of the students were graduates of The University of Texas at
Austin. Other Texas undergraduate
schools
represented
were
Abilene
Christian College, Angelo State University, East Texas State University, Lamar
University, Mary Hardin-Baylor, North
Texas State University, Prairie View A
& M University, Sam Houston State
University, Southern Methodist University, Southwestern University, South-
west Texas State University, SuI Ross
State University, Tarleton State University, Texas A & M University, Texas
Christian University, Texas Wesleyan
College, Trinity University, University of
Houston, The University of Texas at
Arlington, The University of Texas at
EI Paso, and West Texas State University.
Out of state colleges represented are
Beloit College, Boston University, Brigham Young University, Colorado State
University, Eastern New Mexico University, Eastern Tennessee State University, Ferris State College (Mich.),
Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana
University at Gary, Loretto Heights University (Colo.), Louisiana State University, Morningside College (Iowa), New
Mexico Highlands University, New
Mexico State University, Oklahoma
Panhandle State College, Oklahoma
State University, Pennsylvania State
University, Trinity College (Conn.),
University of Hawaii, University of
Colorado,
University of N ebraskaLincoln, University of New Mexico, University of North Carolina-Charlotte,
and Oklahoma University.
In this first issue of Dictum addressed mainly to Alumni, it
seems appropriate to mention some of the developments since
many of you were here.
Appl ications for admission have increased tremendously in
the recent years. It wasn't until our third class entered in the fall
of 1969 that we reached 300 appl ications. For the fall 1972 entering class we received 1300 applications and had 1435 for the fall
of 1973. Happily most of these applications came from applicants who had applied to one or more other law schools (over a
recent weekend I reviewed files for admission in the fall of 1974
which included an application from an individual who had applied to 42 other law schools). Although we have only approximately 165 to 170 places in our entering classes these days, beDEAN AMANDES
cause of the multiple applications we end up accepting substantially more than that number. For the fall of 1972 we accepted 305 to fill the class. This
past fall we accepted substantially closer to 400 applicants in order to fill the class,
further indication that there is an increasing number of multiple applications.
Because of the increasing pressure for admission and as a result of the continually
rising admissions standards, we instituted a program last summer and fall to accept 20
members of the entering class for a special program in the summer. The prime criteria
for admission to that program was a law school admission test score under 500. As a
number of you who had such scores and yet were eminently successful with us will
recognize, some people just do not test on those aptitude examinations very well. All of
our summer group of 20 in 1973 presented such scores but outstanding grade averages.
With three of those students currently in the top 20 in the first year class and only one
in dire academic trouble, it appears that the summer program was worth-while. We and
the University believe in it to the degree that we plan to repeat the program this summer. Undoubtedly there are others with similar credentials who could do as well, but we
at least are getting 20 into each entering class, which is 20 more than would be admitted
to any other state law school in Texas.
As the student body has increased, so has the faculty, a total of 25 in residence
during 1973-74. Their degrees, their teaching experience and their practice continues
to cover areas from coast to coast and work of great distinction. Some of them in their
endeavors and achievements are mentioned elsewhere in this issue.
The combination of a fine student body and an outstanding faculty have contributed to our continuingly fine bar results--we have had no unsuccessful graduate on
the Texas Bar during the past six examinations--and an almost equivalent record in
all other jurisdictions. The one ingredient which must be added in order for us to keep
pace and maintain our outstanding record is allegience and support of our alumni.
Texas Tech as a new school cannot hope to match the support which older institutions
like SMU and the University of Texas obtain from their alumni, but we do need to
develop the concept of annual giving by our alums in order that we may compete more
effectively in extra-curricular activities, i.e. moot court competitions, to expand our
continuing legal education offerings, and to be able to assist with the hundreds of little
things which are the difference between a good and an outstanding school of law. Acting
Associate Dean W. Reed Quilliam will be in touch with a number of you regarding the
ways in which you can be of assistance to your successors and thereby directly and
indirectly enhance the prestige of your degree from our School of Law. Developing
support from our alums, financial and otherwise, is the next necessary step in the
development of the Texas Tech School of Law. We know we can count on you and
we'll be most receptive to thoughts regarding the ways and means in which we can
most effectively accomplish these ends.
Law Review Slates Three
Issues in Current Year
The 1973-74 school year marks the
fifth year of publication for the Texas
Tech University Law Review, and Volume 5 will consist of three issues of the
Review rather than the two that made
up previous volumes.
In addition to two issues in a standard
format, the Review will this year feature
a one-issue symposium on the new Texas
Family Code. The symposium issue will
contain Titles I, II and III of the Family
Code, with a section-by-section commentary written by the Code's draftsmen.
The issue will also present four essays by
well-known authorities in the field of
Family Law, each dealing with problems
of interpretation likely to be encountered
as the new Code is implemented.
The recently published fall issue of the
Review features a debate on whether the
new Texas Constitution should provide
for the merit plan of judicial selection.
Other articles deal with the right of
corporate directors to inspect company
books, the need for legislative regulation
of historic perservation programs, the
ownership and copyright of government
documents, and the right to recover
punitive damages for securities fraud.
The Law Review's growth is evidenced
by an increase in subscriptions during
the past year of approximately 20%. The
Review staff is composed of 35 second
and third year students. Ted Painter was
Editor-in-Chief during the fall semester,
while John Huffaker, Managing Editor
during the fall, assumed the Editor-inChief duties for the spring.
Other members of the 1973-74 Editorial Board are William R. Allensworth,
Articles Editor; W. R. Wright, Case
Notes Editor; Rodney Acker, Comments Editor; Morgan A. Jones, Symposium Editor; Gerald P. Keith, Business Manager; Virginia E. Cochran, Citation Editor; E. Lee Haag, Topics Editor;
and Senior Staff Members David Pittard,
Kenneth Senn, Donald V. W. Wills, and
Larry C. Wood.
Recent elections by the Board of
Editors named the new Editorial Board
to serve during 1974-75. Those elected
were Chuck Jennings, Editor-in-Chief;
Bill Dawson, Managing Editor; John
Dayton, Symposium Editor; Ron Poole,
Citation Editor; Link Beck, Case Note
Editor;
Erwin
Davenport,
Articles
Editor; Dan Garner, Topics Editor, and
Cal Raup, Comments Editor. Gerry
Holden, earlier elected to serve as
Business Manager for the spring semester
of the current year, was re-elected to this
position for 1974-75.
Professor Frank Skillern is faculty
advisor of the Review.
Foundation Launches
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The state will be divided into seven
regions, for purposes of the campaign, as
shown on the map found elsewhere on
these pages, and out of state contributors
will form an eighth region. A campaign
chairman will be appointed for each
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FACULTY PROFILE
Frey "Old Man" of Faculty
There are several new faces on the Law School faculty during the 1973-74 school
year, bringing to the school a diversity of backgrounds. Among these is William B.
Bohling, who joined the faculty as an assistant professor last fall.
Professor Bohling, who holds B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Utah,
spent three years as a trial attorney with the Antitrust Division of the Department of
Justice, and thereafter was in private practice in Salt Lake City. He taught Contracts in
the fall semester, and is teaching Trade Regulation and Advanced Legal Research and
Writing in the spring.
Bohling has a special interest in the area of antitrust law, and believes that some
students may not be aware of the importance of this course. He feels that any lawyer
who represents a large, publicly-owned corporation or is its house counsel will be confronted with antitrust problems, and needs a background in this area of the law.
Another new assistant professor is Annette W. Marple, who becomes only the
second graduate of the Texas Tech Law School to join the faculty. Professor Marple
received her A.B. degree from the University of Rochester, her M.A. from the University of Illinois, and her J.D. from Texas Tech. While in law school she served as Comments Editor for the Texas Tech U niversity Law Review.
Ms. Marple teaches Advanced Legal
Research and Writing, which has become a
two-hour required course in the second
year. She has expanded the course to give
new emphasis to writing style and form,
substantive elements of legal analysis, and
elements of research.
Marion A. Falwell is a visiting assistant
professor who taught Insurance and Marital Property in the fall, and is teaching the
first year Property course this spring. He
MARPLE
BOHLING
earned his B.A. and LL.B. degrees from
Baylor University, and his LL.M. from the
National Law Center at George Washington University.
He served as Editor-in-Chief of the
Baylor Law Review during his student
days, and has written extensively for that
journal. His professional background includes teaching experience at Stetson University College of Law, and service as
general counsel of USLIFE Title Insurance
Company.
Also joining the faculty this fall as an
assistant professor was Daniel H. Benson,
who is director of the new Defending
Crimes clinical program (see related
FALWELL
BENSON
story in this issue). Professor Benson received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from
the University of Texas at Austin. His experience includes
eight years with the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the
U. S. Army, a tour with the Criminal Division of the Justice
Department, and several years of private practice. He has written
extensively for legal journals, especially in the area of military
law.
Coming to the faculty at the beginning of the spring semester
was visiting associate professor Robert A. Weninger. Professor
Weninger holds the B.B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, and the LL.M. from the University of Chicago. Professor Weninger comes from a position on the faculty
of California Western Law School, where he taught for 21!2
years. Prior to that time he had spent four years as an attorney
WENINGER
with the National Labor Relations Board, and two years in private practice.
Professor Weninger is teaching the first year Procedure course this spring, and
will teach Evidence in the fall.
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Two old familiar faces are missing temporarily from the Law School this spring.
One belongs to Professor and Associate Dean C. Tom Reese, who is spending the 197374 school year on leave of absence. Dean Reese was the recipient of one of the prized
National Council of Education University Administration Internships for the year, and
is working directly under the president of the University of Virginia in his intern program. Dean Reese will return to the faculty for the fall, 1974, semester.
Also missing this spring is Professor Mud A. Larkin, who began a year's leave
of absence in January to take a visiting professor's appointment at the new Franklin
Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire. Professor Larkin, who will teach
Civil Procedure and Evidence at the new school, will return to Texas Tech in January,
1975.
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Horn Professor Richard W. Hemingway, author of the hornbook The Law of Oil
and Gas (West Publishing Co.) continues his busy writing and lecturing schedule. He
is writing another hornbook, under contract with West, entitled Real Estate Transactions, and is preparing the annual pocket parts for Raymond Meyers' two volume
treatise on Pooling and Unitization. Professor Hemingway will also lecture at three
institutes during the spring sponsored by the Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar. His topic for the institutes, to be held in Longview, Wichita Falls
and Laredo, will be Liens on Real Property.
Professor Jerre C. Wicker is author of the volume on Removal in the revision of
Moore's Federal Practice series, a 24-volume treatise published by Matthew Bender.
He is also co-author with Moore of Federal Rules of Evidence, also to be published
soon by Bender.
Miscellaneous Notes
Professor Robert P. Davidow will take a leave of absence next year to work on
his J.S.D. at Columbia University. His area of research and writing will be that of
judicial selection, training and careers .... Professor David E. Sullivan is a candidate
for the Texas House of Representatives on the Republican ticket. He is unopposed in
the Republican primary .... Professor Hal M. Bateman is chairman of the Information
Committee of the Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section of the State Bar,
and thus has principal responsibility for publication of the section's newsletter. Also
a member of the Securities Law Committee of that section, Professor Bateman has
an article on state securities registration forthcoming in an early issue of the Southwestern Law Journal. ... Professor David C. Cummins has coordinated a weekly discussion program at the Law School on the subject of constitutional revision. Each week
one of the major issues presently before the Texas Constitutional Convention is discussed .... In recent months Dean Richard B. Amandes' busy schedule has taken him
to a meeting of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws,
It may come as a shock to some, including him, but Professor Martin A.
Frey, age 34, is now the "old man" of the
teaching faculty, at least in terms of
tenure on the faculty.
Among the 26 faculty members at the
Law School (including two on leave of
absence), only Dean Richard B. Amandes
and Law Librarian U. V. Jones predate Professor Frey in terms of service.
Though Amandes and J ones both teach
courses in addition to their administrative duties, they are principally administrators, and it is Frey who holds seniority
among the full time teaching faculty.
Professor Frey was one of the six
charter members of the faculty (including
Amandes and Jones) when the doors of
the Texas Tech University School of Law
were opened in September, 1967. Since
that time he has taught no less than
twelve courses in the Law School curriculum, and as a member of some of
the key faculty committees has played
a major role in shaping policy and curriculum for the school.
As one who has been here since the
beginning, Frey sees the Law School as
being in the second stage of its development. "The first stage involved getting
organized as a quality law school ...
Making certain that the foundation was
laid properly for future greatness. It also
involved gaining recognition by the appropriate accrediting agencies such as
the ABA and AALS, which was accompl ished in the minimum possible
time."
The second stage, says Frey, "is a
maturing stage. For example, we are
developing areas of greater expertise
among the faculty, we have stronger
research capabilities than formerly, and
we are now in a position to better contribute to the community in the way of
speakers, continuing legal education,
and the I ike. We are now becoming more
of a "law center" rather than just a "law
school," he pointed out.
Asked if he detected any change in the
students since his arrival here, Frey
declined to compare them on the basis
of academic ability, but noted that "we
may be in the process of change in orientation at least as to a portion of the student body." There is, he suggested, "a
trend toward increased student interest
in what I would call 'enrichment courses,'
such as Jurisprudence, Comparative Law,
Environmental Law, Women and the
Law, and Law and Psychiatry, as opposed
to the strictly 'bread and butter' courses."
He considers this a healthy trend, since
he believes that an outstanding law
school must accommodate a variety of
interests.
Professor Frey holds a B.S. degree in
Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University, the J.D. from
Washington University (St. Louis), and
the LL.M. from George Washington
University. He was asked to return to
his alma mater, Washington University,
the past summer in a visiting professor's
role, and was asked what it was like to
teach at the school which he had attended. "It was fun," he replied, "like
going back as a relic. All of the students
wanted to know what it was like when
I went to school there."
He thinks the quality of students at
Texas Tech and Washington are comparable, but notes that Washington is a
private school which draws students
from all over the United States, perhaps
making student outlooks more diverse.
However,
student
problems
and
concerns are much the same at the two
schools, in his opinion, centering on
concern
about
curriculum,
student
government, competition for grades,
clinical education, and the transition
from law school to law practice.
Professor Frey has recently taken on
several
additional
"extracurricular"
assignments which will give him even
more opportunity to influence the future
course of the Law School. He has been
named chairman of the Curriculum Committee, on which he has served since
1970, and is now director of the Legal
Research Center of the school. In addition, he is co-director of the Institute
for Land Resource Management, and
continues to serve on the Personnel
Committee.
Frey feels that he has now settled into
the areas of teaching in which his interests are greatest, teaching Contracts
in the fall and Commercial Law and
Restitution in the spring. He has, however, taught nine other courses since his
arrival here, including Constitutional
Law, Property, Marital Property, Juve(Continued on Page 5)
Faculty Notes
(Continued)
in Hyannis, Mass., at which he was commissioner from Texas, and to the ABA Midwinter Dean's Meeting in Houston, among others .... Professor Charles Bubany is the
author of the criminal law article in the forthcoming annual survey issue of the Southwestern Law Journal. His article deals largely with the new Texas Penal Code ....
Professor J. Hadley Edgar will teach Texas Procedure at The University of Texas Law
School next summer. Visiting Professors at Texas last summer included faculty members
Ruth Kirby and Eugene L. Smith .... Professor Smith was one of the editors for
Texas Family Code Forms and Practice Guide, published by the State Bar of Texas in
1973. A past chairman of the Family Law Section of the State Bar, he has recently been
appointed to the ABA's Committee on Law and Technology .... Professor and Assistant
Dean John Krahmer is the author of an article entitled "Creditors, Consumers and
Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code," 5 U. Tol. L. Rev. 1. He is a member of
the Commercial Code Committee and the Information Committee of the State Bar's
Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section .... Professor Frank Skiilern attended the ABA National Institute on Federal Agencies and the Public Interest in Washington, D.C. in March .... Professors Skiilern and Bubany, who so successfully
conducted the first summer program for first year students, will be the faculty for that
program again the coming summer. Bubany will teach Criminal Procedure and Skillern
will teach Personal Property and Legal Writing to the beginning students .... Articles
by Professors Rodric Schoen and James Eissinger will appear in forthcoming issues of
the North Dakota Law Review. Schoen's article is entitled "Billy Jenkins and Eternal
Verities: the 1973 Obscenity Decisions," while Eissinger's article is "Individual Rights
and the Right to Work Laws." .... Casebooks and teaching materials in preparation by
faculty members include those on Texas Marital Rights (Professor Smith), Texas Criminal Procedure (Professor SChoen), and Estate Planning in Community Property Jurisditions (Professor Quilliam) .... Professor Cummins has two articles forthcoming this
spring in legal journals: an article on complete corporate liquidations in the Texas
Tech Law Review, and one on income tax consequences of personal injury actions in
Taxation for Lawyers .... Professor Edgar has recently been named Province President
of Phi Delta Phi Law Fraternity. The province covers the State of Texas and the country
of Mexico.
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1974
Moot Court
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Team Preps for Spring Meet
Five Texas Tech University law students were scheduled to represent the
school in March at the regional competition of the Phillip C. Jessup Memorial
International' Law Moot Court Competition. /winners at the regional meeting,
which will be held at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, will advance to the
international competition in Washington
in April.
Members of the Texas Tech team are
Rick Howell, Mickey Blanks and Jon
Nelson, who will handle the oral argu-
ments, and David Caylor and Kenneth
Larsen, brief writers. The topic for this
year's competition involves the right to
use of the seas for mining purposes.
The international competition marks
the third moot court competition for
Texas Tech since last summer. In the
state competition last July, held in conjunction with the State Bar Convention
in Fort Worth, the Tech team finished
out of the money, though recording wins
over runner-up SMU, Texas Southern
and South Texas. The team was com-
Alumni Newsletter
(Continued from Page 1)
Jerry Kolander was the recipient of the 1973 Lubbock Downtown Optimist Club
Achievement Award. He has been engaged in a myriad of civic activities in Lubbock,
and practices with the firm of Nelson, McCleskey, Harriger & Brazill.
Charles E. Lance is with Army JAG at Taegu, Korea. He was selected to attend
the University of Virginia's military judges course, and subsequently was appointed
Circuit Court Judge for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, U.S. Army.
Tom Womble has been named to the Board of Young Associates for HardinSimmons University. He practices with Baker & Botts in Houston.
Random Notes: Jim Rudd is in private practice in Brownfield where he also serves
as Assistant County Attorney .... In October John Wheir resigned as First Assistant
District Attorney of Potter County to join the Amarillo firm of Shackelford, Wilcox &
Wheir. ... Reggie Reeves left the Dallas law firm of McKenzie & Baer to form the
firm of Lair, Brown & Reeves in Canyon .... David Casey is now in Fort Worth with
the firm of King & Massey, Inc .... Natalyn Collins is Legislative Chairman for the
Texas Public Employee's Association for 1973-74.
1971-72
Robert W. Baker is coordinator of the "You and the Law" program for the EI Paso
Junior Bar. His firm is Scott, Hulse, Marshall & Feuille.
Sam J. Chase is a director of the Abilene Junior Bar and is vice president of the
Big Country Kiwanis Club. He practices in Abilene with O. Henry Young, Jr.
William T. Habern is a staff attorney in the Inmate Attorney's Office at Huntsville
for the Texas Department of Corrections. He formerly practiced in Houston.
John Mann is treasurer and a director of the South Plains Trial Lawyers Association. He is a partner in the Lubbock firm of West & Mann.
Ty M. Sparks is currently serving as vice-president of the EI Paso Young Lawyers' Association. He practices with the firm of Goodman, Hallmark & Akard.
Jeffrey Wentworth, following a tour as legislative assistant to Congressman Bob
Price, has opened his own office in San Antonio. He is a director of the San Antonio
Junior Bar Association and a candidate for the Texas House of Representatives.
Random Notes: Richard Crews is activity chairman for the Nueces County Junior
Bar. He practices in Corpus Christi .... John Hutchison has opened his own law office
in Spearman, his home town .... Thomas G. Naler has entered private practice in
Fort Worth. He formerly was a staff attorney for Rattikin Title Company .... John
Rapier has resigned as Assistant District Attorney of Dallas County to join the Dallas
firm of Dade & Young .... Bill Stroman is now in private practice in Del Rio. Previously he was Assistant District Attorney in San Angelo .... Milton Walker has
opened offices for private practice in both Irving and Euless .... Jeff Baynham (,72),
who is in Air Force JAG at McGuire AFB, New Jersey, has been appointed an adjunct
professor at Burlington County Community College.
1972-73
Thomas C. Akins was named City Attorney for San Marcos in October. At last
report his golf game was improving.
Robert Don Collier is serving as one of four Graduate Editors of the Tax Law
Review at New York University School of Law. Both Collier and Bruce Turner will
receive Master of Laws degrees in Taxation from NYU in June.
Annette L. Marple became the second graduate of the Texas Tech Law School to
join the school's faculty in September when she was appointed assistant professor. The
first graduate to join the faculty was Ruth Kirby (,70).
The practice of law is a family affair for H. M. (Mickey) Walthall, who joined his
father-in-law and mother-in-law in their Lubbock practice now under the name of
Benson, Benson & Walthall. Ms. Benson is also a graduate of the Texas Tech School
of Law (Dec. '69).
Random Notes: Max Moudy is with the SEC in Houston .... Edelmira M. Navarro
is an attorney with the El Paso Legal Aid Society .... Betty Waller is in the Corporation
Division of the Secretary of State's Office. We'll know who to call now about rushing
charters through .... Lee Schwemer is with IRS (Estate and Gift Tax Division) in Dallas .... Johnny Adkinson has been elected president of the Parmer County Bar Association. He practices with Aldridge, Harding & Aycock in Farwell. ... Karen Johnson
is University Legal Counsel at West Texas State University .... 1973 grads span the
continent, from Buddy Rake (Phoenix) and David Posey (Boise) to Harry Taves
(Wadena, Minn.) and John C. Cernkovich (Granite City, III.) to Dan Peck (Bridgeport,
Conn.) .... Reports from 1972-73 graduates entering private practice in Texas are too
numerous to mention. For their whereabouts please consult the updated Alumni Directory, which will reach alumni later this spring .... Lanny Voss lost his bachelor status in
Lubbock in late December. He practices in Plainview .... Kerry Armstrong is scheduled to direct the major production of the Silsbee Little Theater this spring.
Miscellaneous
Among graduates who are serving judicial clerkships are Newal Squyres ('72)
with the Fifth Circuit, Michael C. Inabnett (,73) with the Supreme Court of Texas,
Grover Hartt III (,73) with the Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin, Michael DeGeurin ('72) with Federal District Judge John V. Singleton, Jr. in Houston, Joe Crawford (,73) and Joe Ben Whittenburg (Dec. '73), both with Federal District Judge Joe
Fisher of Beaumont, Don James (,73) with the Amarillo Court of Civil Appeals, Thad
Floyd (,73) with the EI Paso Court of Civil Appeals, and Kenneth Senn with the Federal
District Court in Denver, Colorado.
Recent graduates serving in military JAG include Duane Neill ('71), Randall
Livingston (Dec. '71), Bill Elder (Dec. '72), Jim Maxfield (,73), and Charles Salomon
(,73), in addition to those mentioned earlier in this column.
Mike Fostel (,70) and Bob Burnett (,71) are the County Attorneys of Winkler and
Knox Counties, respectively.
William C. Terry (,70) and Ed T. Smith ('72) are president and vice-president, respectively, of the Fannin County Bar Association. Both practice in Bonham. Smith is
also president-elect of the North Texas Bar Association.
At last count there were 49 alumni of the Law School situated in Lubbock. Of
these 30 were in private practice, 13 in governmental practice, 3 in related areas
(law teaching, bank trust department), and 3 were pursuing careers not directly related
to the law.
AI umni of the Law School tend to congregate in pairs or more. David Segrest
(,70), Susan Riddle (Dec. '71) and Paul Smith (,72) are all with Gardere, Porter and
posed of Wynette Hewett and Jerry
Sawyer, oral advocates, and Judith Larsen, brief writer.
In the regional rounds of the National
Moot Court Competition, held in Austin
in November, Texas Tech sandwiched a
win over the University of Arkansas
between losses to S.M.U. and the University of Texas in the double elimination
tournament. The Texas Tech brief won
second place among the competing
schools, however. Representing Texas
Tech at this competition were Wynette
Hewett, Hal Upchurch and James
Mardis, all of whom participated in
both brief writing and oral advocacy.
The Moot Court Board has begun its
competitive
selection
process
for
choosing team members for next summer's state competition. The Board has
also continued its work, begun nearly
two years ago, on the Texas Appellate
Procedure Practice Manual, on which
it has cooperated with principal editor
Don M. Hunt, Lubbock attorney, in
preparation for publication. The manual
is scheduled for publication by the State
Bar of Texas this spring.
Peggy Butler, chairman of the Moot
Court Board during the current year,
also reports that more than eighty percent
of the first year class has elected to participate in the competition for the Geary,
Brice, Barron & Stahl first year moot
court award.
Other officers of the Moot Court Board
are: Cliff Preslar, vice-chairman; Celeste
Scott Hoover, secretary; and Cecil Biggers, treasurer. Professor Robert L. Jay is
faculty advisor to the Moot Court Board
and teams.
Frey(Continued from Page 4)
nile Courts, Moot Court, Professional
Responsibility, Student Rights, Criminal
Law, and Constitutional Aspects of
Criminal Procedure. In addition, he has
taught four other courses at Drake University Law School, where he was on
the faculty in 1966-67.
A prolific contributor to scholarly
legal journals, Professor Frey has had
two articles published in recent months
dealing with juvenile courts, one at 9
California Western Law Review 273
and the other at 12 Journal of Family
Law 391 (co-authored with Professor
Charles Bubany). An upcoming article
in the Loyola Consumer Protection
Journal is "A Consumer's Guide to
Unconscionable Sales Contracts." In
addition he has authored Cases and
Materials on Student Rights, course
materials for a 3-hour Student Rights
course which he taught at Washington
University last summer.
Frey's principal interests, in addition
to his students and his research, center
around his family. He and his wife,
Phyllis (a Texas Tech University graduate in Home Economics) became the
parents of a son, David Andrew, on
Christmas eve of 1972, and much of their
spare time is devoted to that young man.
The Freys purchased a home in Lubbock and have completely remodeled
it, and find great pleasure in working
on projects for their home. Frey lists
other hobbies as woodworking and gardening, and says that his present project
is making a hooked rug which takes
33,000 loops of yarn to complete, of
which he has done 19,000.
When the history of the Texas Tech
University School of Law is recorded, it
is clear that Professor Martin A. Frey's
name will occupy a prominent place in
the story.
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Defending Crimes
Clinic Program
Proves Popular
More than 30 students have participated during the current year in the new
Defending Crimes clinical intern program, in which the major part of the
students' activity is field work in the
preparation and trial of felony grade
criminal cases in the state district courts
of Lubbock County.
The students work under the supervision of Professor Daniel Benson, who
is appointed as attorney of record in the
case of indigent defendants by the
cooperating district courts. Professor
Benson, in turn, appoints students to
assist him in each case, and such students participate actively in jail interviews with the client, locating and interviewing witnesses and other investigative work, conferences with the criminal district attorney and his staff, pretrial
conferences with the judges, and all other
phases of preparation for trial. The students are also present and assist Professor Benson, to the maximum extent
permitted by the presiding judge, when
the court hears pretrial motions and
when the case is tried.
Students are given maximum responsibility for the preparation of their assigned cases, and are encouraged to use
their own initiative in investigating the
cases, researching the law, and working
out the best trial strategy under the circumstances of the case. The ultimate
goal of Professor Benson is to convince
the judges to permit the students to
represent the defendants at their trials.
The work of the students now parallels
that of an associate in a larger law firm.
The course is one effort to answer the
urging of many law students for a more
pragmatic approach to the study of law.
Professor Benson hopes that some
day this area of clinical education may be
expanded to parallel the medical intern
idea so that an indigent client could seek
and receive legal counsel and representation from an advanced law student.
Grads Continue(Continued from Page 1)
Bean, Midlothian; Dan Mike Bird,
Crowell; Jim Kavis Boyd, Hale Center;
Carolyn Elaine Boze, Grand Prairie;
Dennis Ray Burrows, Muleshoe; Richard
Wayne Carter, Richardson; Joseph James
Connolly, Lubbock; Joseph Virgil Crawford, Brownfield; John Arthur Gilmartin,
Fort Worth; Rick John Wade Graham,
Fort Worth; Grover Hartt III, Dallas;
George Neal Harwood, Adrian; Maurice
Dixon Healy, Lubbock; Danny Edward
Hill, Amarillo; Nathan Paul Hoffman,
Victoria; Charles Wesley Hurd III,
Wichita Falls; Vince Howard Imbordino,
Corpus Christi; Michael Christian Inabnett, Decatur; and Donald Earl James,
Lubbock.
Also: Karen Lee Johnson, Houston;
John E. Keithly, Lubbock; Vincent
Richard Kirst, Irving; Arthur Benjamin
Lara, Jr., Amarillo; James Charles Lewis,
Lubbock; Paul Edwin Lietz, Orange;
Norman Dale Lubke, Eden; Annette
Louise Marple, Lubbock; James William
Maxfield, Roswell, N.M.; Richard David
Mock, Victoria; John Burns Noble,
Plainview; Lonnie Max Obeidin, Fort
Worth; William Gregg Lee Owens,
Nacogdoches; Michael Ray Patterson,
Jal, N.M.; Louis Avendano Perez, Jr.,
Sonora; David Francis Pickering, LaMarque; Rothwell Benjamin Pool, St.
Louis, Mo.; Charles Leonard Salomon,
Grand Prairie; Roland Dale Saul, Plainview; Thomas William Schueller, Wichita
Falls; and John Thomas Sears, Amarillo.
Alumni Newsletter
(Continued)
DeHay in Dallas .... Mike Riddle (Dec. '71), Rick Graham (,73) and Kip Boyd ('73)
practice with Geary, Brice, Barron and Stahl, also in Dallas .... And Jack B. Cowley
(Dec. '69) and Albert (Pete) Andres (Dec. '72) are both with the Dallas firm of Carter,
Jones, Magee, Rudberg, Moss & Mays .... Ronald Jackson (Dec. '69) and Pat Campbell
(,71) are partners in the lubbock firm of Campbell, Jackson & Montford .... Mike
Sanders (Dec. '70) and Mike Thomas (,72) are members of Hance, Sanders, Thompson
& Thomas in Lubbock. . .. Also associated with Lubbock firms are Charles Snuggs
(,73) and Dennis Burrows (,73), with Wagonseller & Cobb, and Elgin Conner (Dec. '72)
and Karl Clifford (Dec. '72) with Smith & Baker, Inc .... Macon Strother (,71) and
Bill Weems (,71) are partners in San Augustine and Hemphill. .
Likewise for Karl
Prohl (Dec. '72) and Craig Leslie (Dec. '72) in Kerrville .... Janie Edmiston Pendleton
('72) and Andrea Buzzard (Dec. '72) are both Assistant Attorneys General in New
Mexico.
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Football, Basketball Leagues
PAD Wins Top Chapter Award
Highlight Intralnural Prograln
Eight teams, headed by the cofavorite Frogs and Law I fives, have begun play in the Law School Basketball
League. For the second consecutive
year the Law School has such heavy
basketball participation that it has its
own conference rather than being integrated
with
the
Graduate-Faculty
League. The winner of the Law School
League will play the winner of the
Graduate-Faculty League to determine
the overall champion.
The Frogs, relying on several of the
players who guided last year's Law
Hawks to the league crown, are led by
former Red Raider starter Larry Wood,
but they are expected to have strong
competition from Law I. Other teams
participating include the Armadillos
(successor to the Nolo Contendres, according to a usually reliable source),
Rejets, Bandits, SBA, Kirbys and Tigers.
Competition is expected to be on as high
a level as in the past, though there are
gaping holes to be filled on some of the
teams due to the departure of such stellar
performers as R. B. "Hatchman" Poole
and Steve Hines (winner of last year's
Steve
Hines
Good
Sportsmanship
Award), both of whom have gone on to
become professionals (of the legal
variety).
On the football scene the past fall,
the F Jets, led by quarterback Mark
Withrow, receivers Link Beck and Steve
Ramsey, and blocking back Jim Shaw,
took the Law School Conference title
over the First Year, Third Year and
Rejets teams, who finished in that order.
Delts Stress
Social Life
The Victor H. Lindsey Senate of Delta
Theta Phi, one of the largest and fastest
growing Delt chapters in the nation, has
continued its pol icy this year of placing
great emphasis on social functions for
its members.
Numerous back yard gatherings and
informal cocktail parties have been held
during the year, and a ski trip to Red
River is currently being considered for
the winter. In past years the chapter has
made trips to Juarez, Mexico and the
Roaring Springs Rodeo.
Rush activities for the spring culminated with the yearly Delt Casino party.
Informal rush was also carried on in
the fall.
Although socially oriented, the chapter
boasts the academic achievement of
many of its members. During the fall
semester, the Senate awarded Scholarship Keys to seven members, and the
membership roll includes several members of both the Law Review and the
Moot Court Board. Several Delts have
represented the Law School in national
and international Moot Court competition.
The Senate meets twice a month, and
at selected meetings well known attorneys
from area firms are invited as guest
speakers. Officers of the Lindsey Senate
this year are: Kenneth Greer, Dean;
Byrum Lee, Vice-Dean; Jon Nelson,
Master of the Rolls; and Mark Withrow,
Clerk of the Exchequer.
Bill Cunningham quarterbacked the First
Year Team, while former Red Raider
ace Tom Sawyer and Charles Wittenburg
handled the man-under job for the Third
Year and Rejets, respectively.
The fall tennis tournament at the Law
School came to an inconclusive end
when Joe Ben Whittenburg opted for
graduation and a federal clerkship in
lieu of playing his finals matches in
both singles and doubles. The annual
handball tournament, currently underway, will be brought to a final conclusion, it is hoped.
The annual golf tournament, traditionally held in September, was not
scheduled by the students this year.
Could it be that Professor Bubany (winner the past two autumns) has scared off
the opposition?
Phi Delta Phi
Initiates New
Pilot Prograln
The Warren Inn of Phi Delta Phi and
the Lubbock Independent School District
have successfully completed a pilot program designed to provide Lubbock high
school students with exposure to basic
law in many areas. The lectures in the
program provided high school students
with an introduction to the history of
law, marital property, family relationships, criminal law and procedure, torts,
contracts, consumer law, and landlordtenant relationships.
Responses from teachers and students
at Lubbock High School and Coronado
High School were positive and enthusiastic, and Phillip W. Johnson, chairman
of the program for the chapter, is making
plans to continue and expand the series
of lectures.
During the fall semester the fraternity
sponsored the appearance of two
outstanding speakers at the Law School.
Justice Jack Pope, of the Texas Supreme
Court, spoke in October on jury submission under the new Texas Rules
of Civil Procedure. Mr. J. Harris Morgan, Chairman of the Professional Efficiency and Economic Research Committee of the State Bar of Texas, who
prepared a section on client relations for
the ABA Handbook, spoke on that subject, also in October. Roger D. Shipman was chairman of the program committee during the fall.
Another project for the fraternity was
organized this fall by Gale Fjetland. Phi
Delta Phi members made themselves
available in the fraternity office on a
regularly scheduled basis for the purpose
of talking to any first year students about
any problems that they were having.
On the lighter side, the fraternity has
had several beer and barbecue parties
during the fall, and more are planned
for the spring. It is also sponsoring the
second annual Phi Delta Phi Chess
Tournament, which is now in progress.
Warren Inn officers for 1973-74 are:
Bob Scott, Magistrate; Wynette Hewett,
Clerk; Ray Leach, Treasurer; Bill Cain,
Vice-Magistrate; and Steve Hughes,
Historian.
Minority Recruiting Active
The Student Bar Association Minority
Recruitment Committee, operating under
grants from the Texas Tech Student
Association and the ABA Law Student
Division, has been highly active during
the year, with members making recruiting trips to undergraduate institutions in
San Antonio, Austin, EI Paso, Houston,
and the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The committee's first priority is to
encourage minorities and women having
an interest in a legal career to attend law
school, with a secondary objective to
encourage them to make application to
the Texas Tech School of Law. Committee members confer with undergraduate students who are interested in
law school, advising them on admissions
procedures, what they can expect in the
study of law, and on career possibilities
in the law. The committee reports that
their visitation program has been enthusiastically received at the undergraduate institutions visited, and that the
program has been a definite success.
Law students making visitation trips
have included Albert Perez, Carol
Sparks, Mary Whitlock, Emilio Davila,
Carl Gaines and Tom Ross. Faculty
members who have joined the students
on one or more trips include Dean
Richard B. Amandes, Assistant Dean
John Krahmer and Professor Rodric
Schoen. Colleges and universities visited
include Trinity, Our Lady of the Lake,
The University of Texas at Austin, The
University of Texas at EI Paso, Texas
Southern, The University of Houston,
The University of Texas at Arlington,
North Texas State University, Bishop
College, and Texas Women's University.
P AD is also sponsoring a visit by the
National Criminal Defense Lawyers
Association, which will present a program and conduct interviews concerning
summer internships in the areas of criminal prosecution and defense. Plans are
also being made for several "brown bag
luncheons" at which informative speakers
will eat a sack lunch with fraternity
members and discuss legal topics of
interest.
Spring rush, began with an informal
get acquainted social on February 15 at
the Sigma Phi Epsilon lodge. The following night there was a dance at the
Pioneer Hotel ballroom, highlighted by
the second annual PAD dance contest.
Rayburn Chapter officers for the year
are: Dan Garner, Justice; Harry Cure,
Vice-Justice; Richard Hanna, Clerk;
Richard Gallagher, Treasurer; and Gale
Warren, Marshall.
The Sam Rayburn Chapter of Phi
Alpha Delta was honored at the 1973
District Conclave in Dallas during the
fall where it received the Outstanding
Chapter Award for District VII. The
award puts Rayburn Chapter strongly
in the running for the National Outstanding Chapter Award, to be presented
at the fraternity's national convention in
Toronto next summer.
The nationally famous PAD Drug
Program has been updated to reflect the
revised Texas drug laws, and the program
is scheduled for presentation at various
schools in the Lubbock system this
spring. The program also has or will be
presented for the Seminole, Brownfield,
and Ralls school systems, and at a community education program in EarthSpringlake school systems, according to
program coordinators Gale Warren and
Jack Stoffregen.
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Dan Claiborne, Jim Morris, and Jon Nelson; IL-Bill Hoffman, Randy Hall, Bill Bailey,
James Keen, Jim Duvall, and Gary Grimmer.
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A chapter of the national Law Students Civil Rights Research Council has been
established at the Law School, under the sponsorship of Professor Rodric Schoen. The
organization's principal objectives are to place law students in summer jobs in which
the work is primarily for the disadvantaged and those on the lower end of the economic
scale, and to assist local attorneys and groups on civil rights matters. Law student
Emilio Davila is Texas representative for the national organization.
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A local chapter of the International Law Society has been formed at the Law
School during the current year. The goal of the organization is to promote the understanding of international law, and plans are being made to petition for membership in
the national organization. Richard L. Howell is president of the local group, and Professors Charles P. Bubany and James R. Eissinger are faculty advisors.
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A visitation team in connection with the Law School's application for a chapter
of Order of the Coif was at the law school in late January. Members of the team were
Dean Thomas W. Christopher of the University of Alabama Law School, and Professor
Patricia H. Marschall of Duke University Law School.
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3L Bob Vint is a candidate for the Texas House of Representatives on the Democratic ticket. In seeking a Lubbock County seat, he faces several opponents in the
primary, including incumbent Elmer Tarbox.
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United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas is surrounded by admiring
law students at a reception held for him at the Law School on the night of March 6.
Earlier in the evening Justice Douglas had addressed an overflow crowd at Lubbock
Municipal Auditorium as part of the Texas Tech Artists and Speakers Series.
Law Wives Have Varied Program
The Texas Tech Law Wives have continued their varied program of activities
during the 1973-74 school year, providing fellowship and information for the
organization's members as well as service to the Law School and to the community.
Social activities of recent months have
included a swim party arranged by Professor and Mrs. Bubany, a tea for new
members, hosted by Dean and Mrs.
Amandes, the officer installation tea,
hosted by Professor and Mrs. Edgar,
and the annual Christmas dance. Scheduled for the immediate future is a covered dish supper-bingo party.
The club holds monthly meetings, and
programs this year have included a cook-
ing school, book reviews, a program on
the legal aspects of abortion presented by
Professor Schoen of the Law School
faculry, and a discussion of facelifts by
a plastic surgeon.
The organization annually awards a
scholarship to a law student as part of
its service activities. In addition, it has
furnished books and other items to the
library of a local elementary school, and
each year selects a needy family to whom
it provides assistance.
Mrs. John Hayslip was president of
the organization during the fall semester, and Mrs. William D. Ralston is
spring semester president. Mrs. Hadley
Edgar and Mrs. Charles Bubany are
sponsors of the organization.