SCHOOL OF LAW / TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
VOL.
I I,
N 'U MB ER
AUGUST
1970
First-Year Class To Boost
School Of Law Enrollment
"
160 Freshmen
From 9 States,
44 Universities
By BOB BAKER
Editor-in-Chid
Enrollment figures at the Texas
Tech School of Law will climb dramatically on Friday, August 21, when
approximately 160 first-year students
arrive here to begin the study of law.
The first-year dass of 1970 will have
the distinction of being the first
freshmen to begin an academic school
year in Texas Tech's new $3 million
law complex. The mass,ive structure
was occupied mid-way through the
1969-70 school year amid impressive
dedication ceremonies which featured
such notables as television actor Raymond Burr and Judge John R. Brown
of Houston, chief judge for the Fi!fitJh
Circuirt, U .S. Court of A:ppea}s.
Dean Rkhard B. Amandes said total
enrollment figt!res for all three law
classes is expected to reach about
270 by the opening day of classes on
August 24. ':Dhis figure s'hows a substantial increase over the 183 who
registered for the faU of 1969. 11he
large increase is reflected by the
fact tha1t this year's entering class is
almost double the size of last year's
85-member group.
Attrition Rate Up
In addition to the 160 freshmen,
the student body will be comprised of
about 60 second-year s'tudenls and 50
in the third-year class. The secondyear class will be somewhat smaller
than anticipated due to an une~pected
number of academic failures during
the first year. Starting with approximately 85 students las.t rall, the class
has been trimmed to about 60 due to
14 academic failures and another 12
students who withdrew during the
school year for personal reasons.
A statistica,l profile of the enter-ing
first-year class, prepared by assistant
to the registrar Mrs. Sandy McDonald, reveals representation from
nine states, including six students
from New Mexico, two from Californi'a, two from New York, and one
each from Alahama, Florida, Iowa,
Minnesota and Washington. As expected, the largeslt block of students
are Texans, who represent 67 oities
within the state.
Texans in the first-year class hail
from as near as 11ahoka and Hale
Center and from the more distant
points of Houston and Nacogdoches.
Surprisingly, the number of students
from DaHas (10) is relaltively near
to the 15 who can Lubbock their
hometown.
Large Cities Represented
Other hometown groups of signif.icant size are Amarillo with 5; El
Faso, 6; lY1li dland, 8; and Plainview,
6. In addition to Houston and Dallas,
some of the larger c'itie'S represented
include Austin, Fort Worth, and San
Antonio.
Even more diversity of background
is reflected by the 44 undergraduate
colleges and universities attended
previously in 11 states. Members of
the first-year class hold undergradua;te
degrees from the following Texas
institutions: Angelo Sta'te, Abilene
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SBA lEA'O'E!RS - Guiding the Law School's Student Bar
Association during the coming year will be (tR) Pete Harland, vice president; Jeff Wentworth, president; Jerry Kolander Jr., secretary; and Sam Oatman, treasurer. The
ABA Gives School
Final Approval
On Accreditation
The House of Delegates of the
American Bar Association voted
August 13 to add the Texas Tech
University School of Law to the
ABA final accrediitation Ust.
This last step in the accreditation process followed provis'i onal
approval granted by the Council of
the Section on Legal Education
and Admissions to' the Bar at an
ABA meeting in Atlanta, Qn February 21.
The Texas Tech School of Law
has been .a member of the prestigious Association of Ameriean
Law Schools s'i nce December of
1969, and has been on the final approval list of the Texas Supreme
Court since June of 1968.
Jack Driskill,
Squyres Head
Academic List
J.ack Driskill of Tulia and N ewal
Squyres of Denver City head 1!he
senior and second-year classes, respectively, in class standing based
upon cumulative grade-point averages,
it was announced this summer by the
Dean's Office.
Jess Hall of Fort Worth and Joe
W. Hayes Jr. of PhilHps rank second
in the senior and second-year classes,
respectively.
Driskill, a 1964 graduate of Texas
Tech University wi'th a bachelor of
sdence degree, also led his class at
the end of his freshman year at the
SchOOl of Law. He is the son of Judge
and Mrs. Jack D:r:iskill of Tulia.
Squyres holds a bachelor of arts degree from Texas Tech University with
a major in government. He is the son
of Dr. and Mrs . B. N. Squyres of
Denver City.
Student Bar Association functions similarly to student
councils on the undergraduate level. It coordinates extracurricular functions and serves as a communications link
between student and faculty.
Open Letter To Students
From JEFFREY WENTWORTH
Student Bar President
Because every law student is a
member of the Student Ba,r Association, what we're really talking about
when we discuss what the SBA is
plann~ng to do this year is what you
and I and aJ.il the other law students
here at Tech are going to do as a
group.
And Wihat we have an opportunity
to do this year is really quite extraordinary-on the state and national
levels as well as right here in school.
We have an opportunity to affect
-in a profound and beneficial waylegal education and the judicial process in this state during the coming
year.
This opportunity exists beeause of
our being designated state cooI'diinator of efforts among law students in
Texas to secure adoptivn by the Texas
Supreme Court ,a nd the State Legislature of the Ameriean Bar A'S'sociation's
Model Court Rule. In short, that rule,
when adopted, will allow third-year
law stUdents to praC'tice law in Texas
courts under the supervision of a
licensed attorney.
We a-1so have an opportunity to
help fill a vacuum in the national
leadership of the Law Student Division of the Ameriean Bar Association
and to posi1llvely influence the direction 'Of the Division toward more
service to the individual law schoo-Is
and away from its use by some national officers as a political sounding
board.
On National Level
This opportuni't y 'exists beeause of
the work of several of your dassmates
who served as delegates from the
Tech Law School to the recent annual
convention of the LS[)....ABA in St.
Louis, as well as our eandida,c y for
national o:flfice and fu:ture work in the
organization during the coming year.
And we have an opportunity to
eX'pand our own legal educa't ion right
here in Lubbock tJhroug'han SBA-sponsored program designed to expose law
students from all furee classes -to the
"real world" of law practice in the
offices of the district attorney, county
attorney, 'a nd legal aid society.
As for programs undertaken by the
SBA in past years, it is my intention
to continue all of them-and most of
them on an eX'panded basis. These
include freshman orientation, the getacquainted party, police ride-along
prQgram, student-f'a culty committee,
placement brochure, "Dictum," Goat
Roast, and honors and awards dinner.
Tech Makes 1st
Bid For Office
In ABA Division
It was "history in the making" for
the Texas Tech School of Law earlier
this month when .1. five-man delegation of law stUdents departed for St.
Louis to attend the annual convention of the Law Student Division,
Americ'an Bar Association.
Heading the delegation was Student
Bar Pres,jdent Je,f frey Wentworth who
was selected earlier to run for a
national of1fice of LSD. Wentworth's
candidacy marked the first time a
Tech law student hadente'r ed a
national race in any law student
org aniza'1Ji'On.
He was defeated for the LSD presidency by Ed Weise, a student from
the University of Southern California.
The vote was 50 It o 31.
Other members of the delegation
were Burord Cates, Terry Hagin,
John Stewart and Eric Augesen,
Tech's dMicial :USD representative.
Wentworth was selected as a national .candidate by the Tech Law
School House of Delegates following
the withdrawal of Mike R,i ddle, who
asked that he be relieved of the
candidacy for personal reasons.
Financing for the August 7-12 trip
consisted of a $500 appropriation by
the House of Delegates and an additional $750 provided by Lubbock businessmen and law school suppoflters.
DICTUM - AUGUST, 1970
PAGE TWO
Law Review Off To Fast Start;
New Stall Candidates
RIGHT TO THE TOP - IR. Charles Gentry (rig'ht), recent Q,raduate of the Texas
Tech School of law, went Jlstraight to the topll as a young attorney this summer when he was welcomed to the White House by President Richard M. Nixon.
Gentry was selected one of 17 IIWhite House Fellows" representing various
sections of the nation. The honor is extended to outstanding young Americans
annually to provide them a first-hand look at the inner workings of government.
Gentry will be working in a cabinet-level job during the coming year. He is
one of three attorneys in the glroup of Fellows, the other two coming from
Yale and Stanford. In the center is an unidentified Administration offidal.
,
Within the walls of the new Texas
Tech School OIf Law is a business with
assets of more than $350,000 and a
stclif of 20 dedicated employees. It's
the law library-nucleus OIf the Tech
legal eduC'a:tiOin prog,ram.
With appl'oximately 59,000 volumes
now assembled ,in the nation's newest
law schOiol bUlilding, the law library
is steadily moving toward an eventual
collection of 190,000 volumes, capadty
of the four-level complex.
Guiding this massive undertaking
from its inception in August, 1966, has
been Professor U. V. JOines. At that
time he came to Tech to join Dean
Richard B. Amandes as the first
faculty members of an infant law
school. Since that time the Tech law
library has grown from a small collection first assembled in temporary
Army barracks on the north side of
the Tech clampus to i'ts present home
in a new $3 minion complex.
Serving as assistant law librarian
from 1967 un1:1i1 her recent resignation
this summer was Professor Elizabeth
M. Leeman.
Goal Reached
Although the "building" process for
the library will continue for many
years to come, a significant goal was
reached earlier this year when the
young library was fully approved by
both the American Association of Law
Schools and the American Bar Association. Inadequate libraries often delay accreditation OIf new law schools,
but Tech was fortunate enough to far
exceed their high requirements.
"It is indeed a tribute to our outstanding staff that both of these
accrediting agencies rated us a:bove
the quality requirements for law
libraries," Prof. Jones said. He said
two veteran members of the staJff
were "due a great deal IQf the credit"
for the accomplishment. They are
Mrs. Jewel Chesher and Mrs. Ros'alee
Hardwick who have been with the
staff for about three years.
During the past year, the law library added two professional librarians, Miss Martha Jeanne Morris and
Miss Sarah Wiant. Miss Rebecca
Clapp, another professional librarian,
will join the staff Sept. 1.
The 20-member staff will inelude
10 full-time employees, plus 10 par!ttime workers who each devote about
15 hours per week to their jOibs. The
ary
ess~
10 stUdent workers ilndude seven
members of the law s'chool s'tudent
body.
Growing Rapidly
The law library has been growing
at a rate of about 13,200 volumes per
year. Since moving into the new
buHding, 4,000 volumes have been
removed from storage and added to
the faculty Hbrary. An addi'tional
6,000 volumes, which were also in
s'torage, are now being processed.
Prof. Jones said 10,000 volumes that
were previously in storage were gifts
which have been generously donated
by South Plains residents, "without
whose help our objective would have
been much more difficult to accomplish."
The 59,000 vo[umes now on hand
compares f-avorahly wooh the 84,000
volumes reported in 1970 by the University of California at Davis where
considerably more funds were m-ade
available for staff and for the purchase of books. The Da vis IiJbrary
was begun about -a year earlier than
the Tech facHity.
The volume count has 'already surpassed 1970 figures reported by several other Texas law schools. They
include St. Mary's, with 42,000 volumes; Texas SlOuthern, 29,920, and
South Texas College of Law, 42,000.
"Although quantity is an essential
requirement for any law library, our
goal is more toward quality 'than
quantity. From the very beginning,
emphasis has been on selecting books
which represent the great and timely
legal pUblications. We are here to
serve the students, rraculty, and
lawyers of West Texas, and we think
this quali'ty approach to selectionrather
than
sheer
volume-wi!l1
accomplish this goal," Prof. Jones
said.-BOB BAKER.
D'I!CTUf.\I is published periodically by the
Texas Tech School of ILa,w in co-operation
with the school's Student Bar Association.
Views expressed by the editor, staff or
guest columnists do not necessarily reflect
the opinions of either the university or
school administrations or the 'Student
Association. 'Composition for this publication is by Tech Press, Texas Tech University. Photos courtesy of Texas Tech Information Of1fice.
Editor-in-'Chief
Robert W. Baker
Associate Editor
Bruce ~Iagness
Staff .... JerrY Kolander, J~k Driskill,
Jeff Wentworth, Mary !Bobbitt, Phil
LaIn, Jim [Budd, Jeff Baynham,
Eddie T. Smith. John Hutchison,
Pete Harland
Faculty Advisor
W. 'Rood QuilUa,m
been suceess:ful are e,levated to membership.
The curre:rrt editoral staff as ele>eted
by the Jaw I"eview membe:rs in April,
1970, ,is as folllQws: Jack Driskill,
~ditor-in-chielf; Duane Neill, rrl'anaging
editor; Bob Burnett, leadaI'\1Jicle edi[Or; Tom Womble, bU!S'iness manageif';
and Reggie Reeves, note editor. Professor Martin A. Frey is faculty advislOr fur the Law Reviiew.
As of ,the July 29 meeting of the
Law Review Board of Editors, the f'Ollowing second-year s.tudents were
listed as ,candidates Ifor ,admission to
the staff in late August: J'ames
Shackelford, Paul Smith, Mike Rdddle,
ROibert W. Baker, Ja:ne Edmiston,
Benny Lowe, Suzan Riddil:e, Newal
Squyres, Phiil Wylie, Ty Sparks, Milton Walker, Mark Laney, Kent 'Sims
and HoUis Webb. Senior Bruce Magness was OIf1iiciall'Y 'admitted tOi rthe
Board of EditoI"s 'rut the July 29 meeting. Senior Marvin Marshall is an
August candidate.
The Texas Tech Law Review is
currently working on Vol. 2, No.1.
Included in Ithis >issue, wlhich wHl be
published in tile fall of 1970, wiH be
lead articles by the Honorable John
Brown, chief justice OIf the Fifth
Circuit United States Court of Appeals,
and Reed QuHliam, professor of law,
Texas Tech University School of Law.
Alsoinc111ded ,in the ,issue wiN be
approximately Ifour 'student notes and
12 case commen'ts, aH written by
student membeDs of the Texas Tech
Law Rev;iew.
By JACK DRISKILL
Dictum Staff
What ,is Law Review?
"Law Rev:ieiWls :are by far the best
training ifjhat ,any iAmelI"ican law school
can OIf1fer," sums up Yale's Eugene V.
Rostow. "Their educationa:l v'alue :is
unmatched Iby anything in the law
schools ,themselves."
More spedficall1y, Ithe Texas Tech
Law Review is a student organization
which aHows the law student to do
independent research and pubHsh his
findings as to what the law is, or
should be, in a g,iv,en area.
Volume 1, NOI. 1 was published lin
the Fall oIf 1969, and was given an
overwhe,lming la'c'cerptance by the legal
community. Over 600 subscI"iptions
have been sold, W:ith new subscriptions
coming in daily.
Qualifications High
New candidates 'are selected by the
edItorial board on the basis of class
rank at the end of the freshman year.
All students with a cumulative average of 80 or above aI"e ,invited to
accept eandidacy. Upon Icomple,'fjiOln
of a publishable ar!tide,1lhey are
elev:ated to membership. This year,
competition for -candidacy was opened
to students with a cumulative aver,age
between 77 and 80. These students
compete with each other through the
summer for mem1beI"shirp on Law Review by writing ,a oase comment under
the superviSiion of the editoral board.
At the end of the summer the work
is evaluated, and students who (have
A sizable gathering of facility members, students and their spouses, and
visitors attended the first annual Texas Tech Law School Awards and Honors
Banquet held May 16 in Hillcrest Country Olub. Awards and honors presented
at the affair:
GEORGE H. AND SARAH DUPREE AWARD - Richard Maxwell, as the
"third-year student who best exemplifies the qualities of one soon to enter the
law profession."
NELSON, McCLESKEY &; HARRIGER AWARD - David Bourland, for
service as presidenJt of the Student Bar.
LAW REVIEW AWARDS - Richard Maxwell, Ronald D. Nickum, Ruth
Kirby, John A. Weber, Hershel'l L. Barnes Jr., Marwin B. BI"akebill, C. Rodger
Byrd, Ernest R. Finney Jr., R. Charles Gentry, Michaell B. McKinney, .David
H. Segrest, William G. Shaw, Ralph E. Belter, and LelOta H. Alexander.
FORUM AWARDS - Leota H. Alexander, Marwin B. Brakebill, R. Charles
Gentry, Ruth Kirby and William G. Shaw (forerunner to what is hoped wiH
become membership in the ODder of the Coif).
SBA SERVICE AWARDS - BI"uce Magness, for services as editor-in-chief
of "Dictum;" and Ed Craighead, chairman of the SIBA Election Committee
(awards sponsored by Richard Haynes, Houston attorney).
McWHORTER, COBB &; JOHNSON AWARD - Pe1te Harland, chairman
of the honors and awards cOimmittee.
MOOT COURT AWARDS - Je,1if Baynham, John Skogland, HOillis Webb and
Jim Dallas (awards sponsored by Dallas law firm of Geary, Brice, Barron
and Stahl).
BEST AVERAGE - Mrs. Ruth KiiI1by, for highest academic average over
three years of law school.
DEAN'S LIST - Ruth Kirby, R. Charles Gentry, E:mest R. Finney, John
A. Weber, Marwin B. Brakebill, David H. Segrest, Richard W. Maxwell,
Michael B. McKinney, Alan L. Murray, HersheH L. Barnes, Buford C.
Terrell, Ronald D. Nickum, C. Rodger Byrd, John M. McDivitt, Michael L.
FlOstel, R. Timothy Evans, William C. Terry, Jack B. Cowley, William Shaw,
John L. Shepherd, Charles W. Adams, W. Thomas Martin, Jack P. Martin,
Ralph E. Belter, Leota H. Alexander, John P. Abbott, Jack Driskill, Bobby
D. Burnett, Jess H. Hall Jr., Allfred D. Neill, JIQhn M. Sanders, William T.
Womble, Ernest R. Reeves, Phil L. Adams, Macon D. Strother and Marvin
F. Marshall.
I{APPA BETA PI AWARD - PrOifessor Elizabeth Leeman for service in
establishing the first sorodty at the school of law.
PHT "Putting Hubby Through") DEGREES - All spouses of graduating
seniors.
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*
A new OppoDtunity for legaJl training will be afforded advanced law stUdents
at Texas Tech this fall when the SchoOil OIf Law initiatels a new PROSECUTOR·
LAW STUDENT CLINIOAL PROGRAM. The new program, which will be directed by ProfesslOr MUDI A. Larkin, will involve tra:ining in the offices of
County Attorney Tom Purdom and Dist. Atty. Blair Cherry. StUdents will be
assigned to specific eases being handled by the two offices and will be involved
in all phases of trial work with the exception of exa,mining witnesses in contested felony prosecutions. Fall semester class will be open only to third-year
students, with the spring semester course available to some second-year students who have completed necessary prerequisite courses. The program will
be supported by a $16,900 gra:nt from the Council on Leg,al Educat,ion for
Professional Responsibmty, Inc., headquartered in New York City.
*
Legal fireworks began at
Tech
School when tw:o of the topranking third-year students, Duane Neill and Jack Dr-is'ki~ll, filed a suit in mid
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DICTUM - AUGUST, 1970
PAGE THR'EIE
Moot Court Brief
•
Ins 2nd In tate
By JOHN HUTCHISON
HEAD GREEK CHAPTE'RS - Getting together for a friendly chat during summer
school were the three leaders of Texas Tech law School fraternal organizations.
From left are Mary Bobbitt, representing Kappa Beta Pi legal sorority; Alan
justice of Phi Alpha Delta; and loyd Jones, dean of Delta Theta Phi.
The two fraternities have planned an ambitious year of activities, and the
will be launching its first year of existence with concentration on new
Of Delfs;
By JIM RUDD
Dictum Staff
Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity
elected officers for the liaU semester
of 1970 on April 15. The outgoing
dean, Tom Edwards, handed the gavel
to Loyd Jones illl the dosing ceremony of the school year as the
incoming officers assumed direction
of the f,rate["nity.
In addition to Jones, other new
officers are Mark Laney, vice dean;
Allen Nasits, derk of the rolils; Paul
Smith, clerk af the exchequer; Pat
Campbell, tribune; Merlin Harris,
bailiff; and Mike Ivish, master of the
ritual.
Twenty new members initiated in
March were R. C. Augesen, Sam
Chase, Richard Crews, Mike DeGeurin, Jack Edwards, Merlin Harris,
Bill Habern, Tom Hill, Mike Irish,
W. B. Jones, Mark Laney, John
Mann, Randy Reese, Steve Scott,
Paul Smith, Mark Thomas, Mike
Thomas, Don Tucker, Je':f1f Warren
and Jim Wright.
Graduating
fraternity
members
were Ti,m Evans, Ron Jackson, Neal
Marsih, Mike McKinney, Gerard Miller, Ron Nkkum and Bill Shaw.
Former faculty representative to
Delta Theta Phi, Professor EJWin
EUas, res-tgned from the Tech faculty
to accept the position of assistant dean
a!t !the Baylor School of Law. Faculty
representatives now include professors
Richard Hemingway and Anthony
Palizzi.
Delta The'ta Phi has established a
bookstore in the fraternity office for
incoming students. Books can be obtained on a consignment basis for the
upcoming year. AJ.:l interested firsltyear s,tudents should contact one Q1f
the fraternity officers within the near
future as the supply is limited.
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May with the LAW SCHOOL'S JUDICIAL COUNCIL seeking an injunction to
enjoin Jeff Wentworth from taking office as president of the Student Bar Association. Wentworth defeated his sole opponent, Tom Edwards, in the April
1 SBA ellections.
The plaintiffs contended that Wentwortih was not quaHfied to take office
under a provision of the Situ dent Bar Constitution which requires that the
president be a "third-year student." Since the Constitution fails to define a
"third-year student," the plaintiffs urged that the Law School's "Program of
Study" should be used in arriving at the definition. The "Program or Study,"
which was published by the Law School Administration, provides that a thirdyear student is one with 57 or more alC,ademic hours.
Although Wentworth had completed something less than 57 hours at the
close of the 1970 spring semes!ter, the court helld that the "Program of Study"
definition of "third-year student" could not have been express,ive df the intent
of cons,titutional framers since the appHcable provision was published long
after ratification of the situdent constitution.
A tempor,ary restraining order Q1btained by the plaJintiffs in late May was
dissolved following a June 3 hearing on the merits of the case. Wentworth
immediately took office and has been functioning in that capacity throughout
the summer session.
Professor GEORGE NEFF
was one of two TeXJas Tech University
professors appointed Horn Professors recently by the Board of Regents. The
Horn Professorship, established in recognition of scholarly achievement and
performance, was named in honor of Tech's first president, the late Paul
Whitfield Horn.
*
Professor GLEN W.
began his full-time law teaching
career at the University of Wyoming in 1963, was named "Outstanding FirstYear Professor of the Year" for 1!he school year 1968-69 by memibers of that
first-year class (now the senior class) in a:n elelcluion in Arpdl.
Dic'tum Staff
Texas Tech School oif Law was
well represented in the whirlwind of
activities at the Texas State Bar Convention held in San Antonio July 1-3.
Among those representing Tech
were the Moot Court Team, the Law
School Placement Service and several
of the school's professors.
The 1970 Moot Court Team consisted of first-year students Jeff Baynham, John Skogland, Hollis Webb,
and alternate Jlim DaHas. Moot court
competition included a written brie,f
and Dral arguments based IOn a hypothetical case situation given to the
eight TeXJas law schools in early
spring.
In oral arguments, Tech had the
misfortune of drawing the ultimate
winner, the University olf Houston,
for the first round. Team member
John Skogland said the Tech-Hous.ton
argument was '1Jhe moslt cIoselymatched of any in the competition.
In brief..writing ,competition, however, the Tech team finished with an
excellent second-place ranking.
Involved Eminent Domain
The moot court problem itself bad
been submitted to the various Texas
law schools in February. At Tech,
legal researeh students were given a
choice of several problems, one of
waich was the moot court case. The
case concerned the vrulue to be placed
on ranchland taken by a water authority through its power ()if eminent
domain. A majority or ,the first-year
class chose the moot court problem.
Elimination :tlinal's were necessary to
narrow the field to those who wDuld
eventually represent the school at the
Bar Convention finals. The competitive spirit already present was
heightened by a $50 prize awarded
each winner by the DalLas law firm
of Geary, Brice, Barron and Staihl.
~he Placement Service sponsored a
hospitaJIity room at the Hilton Palacio
del Rio in San Antonio, which was
open to aN convention delegates.
Despite its official-sounding name,
the Placement Service was acrtuaUy a
By PHIL LAM
Dictum Staff
With a new slate of ojjfkers a't tne
helm, Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity
plans a rull slate of prDjeets and
activities during the coming school
year, all aimed at benefitting the
school and the chapter.
Leading the fmternity in 1970-71 are
Alan Johnson, justice; Bob Baker,
vice-justice; Jerry Kolander, clerk;
JetEf Baynham, treasurer; Jim MuUin,
marshall; and Bill Weems, social
chairman.
Chapter to Graduate 26
Twenty-six members of the local
Sam T. Rayburn chapter of PAD will
be graduating during the coming year.
They ,include David Casey, Jack Drisl\lill, Gene Gaines, Ralph GaHini, Keno
Henderson, Alan Johnson, Jerry Kolander, Phil Lam, Bruce Magness,
Marvin MarshaJll, Mike Miller, DUane
Neill, Reggie Reeves, Preston Stephens, Bill Wee'ms, Jeff Wentworth,
Tom Womble, John Weir, Craig
Brummett, Don Conley and Bill Stroman.
Initiates Number 22
New members of PAD initiated in
1970 include J €Iff Baynham, Bob
Baker, Ken Branum, Charles Hume,
Randy Livingslton, John Mason, Stan
McWilliams, J ames Mullin, Lynn
NichQlls,
Sam
Oatman,
Richard
Palmer, Quay Parker, Mike Riddlle,
"grass roots" effort by students to
acquaint the State Bar with what the
law school has to offer prospective
employers. Loyd Jones, Mike Sanders,
and Paul Smith headed the orgarnizatiDn. AlthDUgh no students were hired
on the spot, Jones said Ithe effDrt was
cDnsidered "very successful." He said
some of the main points stressed in
hosritality-roDm conversations were
the quality of the law faculty and
Tech's excellent physical plant.
Law Wives
Ambitious Slate
For Fall Term
A full slalte of activities, designed
prinClipally to extend a friendly welcome to the wives df incoming firstyear students, has been planned for
the faH semester by the Texas Tech
Law Wives.
The first social event of the semester is planned liDr Sunday afternoon, August 30, in the home of Mrs.
Richard Am andes , wife of the Law
School Dean. The wives of faculty
membeI1s wHl host a "get acquainted"
tea in the Amandes home for the
wives at ,all entening freshmen.
'J1he :tli,rst ,regular meeting will be
at 7 :30 p.m. Monday, September 14
in the Law School Forum. Club
otficers said the September meeting
would feature an orientation and "get
acquainted" program. Plans for October and November call for programs
on "the role of a law wife" as seen
through the eyes of both a male
attorney and ,an attorney's wife. Major
e,mphasis fDr December will be Dn the
annual Christmas dance tentatively
scheduled for Decemher 19.
Officers elected during the spring
include Mrs. Pete (Jackie) Harland,
president; Mrs. Tom (Mary Jane)
Womble, viC'e president; Mrs. Mark
(Jeanette) Laney, secretary; and Mrs.
Sam (Susan) Oatman, treasurer.
Bruce Roberson, Kent Sims, John
Skogland, Newa:J. Squyres, John S'tewart, Milton Walker, Mike Watson,
Hollis Webb and Phillip Wylie.
PAD Honol'!ed
PAD members hanored at the AllSChODl Awards Banquet held at the
close of the spring semester were R.
Charles Gentry, "Nationall Outsltanding Local PAID Member;" David BDurland, "Chapter OUitstanding PAD
Membe,r;" Richard MaxweU, "Dupree
Award" f.or attributes mast fitted to
the legal p["ofession 'at its best, as
voted
by
his
classmates,
and
Bruce Magness, "Richard (Racehorse)
Haynes Service Award" for outstanding ,contrbUitions as editDr-in-chief of
the law school newspaper.
PA[) members who were recently
elected to offices in !1'he Student Bar
Association include Jeff Wentworth,
president; Jerry Kol'ander, secretary;
and Sam Oatman, treasurer.
In the academic category, PAD also
claims the top students in the midyear 'and senior classes. Ja'ck Driskill
finished the las't school year with
the higlbest average in the secondyear class, and Newal Squyres finished at the head (~ the firs't-year
class. The fraternity is a,lso proud of
the fact thataH editors of the "Dictum" have been PA[) members, and
three of the fuur Student Bar presidents also hold memberships in the
fraternity .
PAGE FOUR
DI'CTUM -
AUGUST, 1970
In tram urals Provide Break In Grind
By JERRY KOLANDER
Dictum Staff
TOURNEY CHAMP - Reed lockhoof
grins with approval following presentation of an attractive plaque
bearing his name as tournament winner in the first annual Texas Tech law
School Golf Classic.
The fortunes of Texas Tech Law
School intramural teams flanged from
the height of prosperity to 'the depths
of despair during the 1969-70 academic
term.
The Law School f.ielded a pair of
intramural 'foo'tba'hl. squads, and Law
School Blue team took the GraduateFaculty league title in a playoff tilt.
The basketball season brought forth
four teams, but hopes for another
championship fell as only one of the
squads finished with a winning mark.
The 1968-69 Law School Four squad
had lost .a spine-ting1l1ng thriller to the
Ma1!h Club by a two-point margin, and
players hoped to avenge the loss and
at the same time make a clean sweep
of the intramural championships for
the 1969-70 season. However Law
Four finished at 2-3.
L OCKHOOF ARES 71-
Golfers Brave Cold
In 1st Law Classic
Reed Lockhoof carted off top honors in the First Annual Tech Law
Sohool Golf Cl:ass1,c last spring amidst
3O-degree temperatures and freezing
rain.
LockhoOif fought otlf fuechallenges
of 27 competitors and the weather as
he shot a low raw score of 81 on the
froze n links at Pine Hills Country
ClUlb. The banker's handilcap system
was used to equalize the scores of
Enrollme'n t Up(Continued from P 'a ge 1)
Christi'an, Austtin Colle:ge, Baylor, East
Texas State, Hardin-S1,m mons, Lamar,
Mc;M urry, North Texas, Rice, Texas
A&I, Texas A&M, Texas Christian,
Southern Methodist, Southwestern,
Stephen F. Austin, Southwest Texas,
Texas Tech, Trinity, University of
Houston, University of Tex,as (lit Austin, UT at Arlington, UT at EI Paso
and Wayland Baptist.
The most sizahle undergraduate
delegations in the firslt -year class are
Texas Tech, 51; University of Texas at
Austin, 9; UT at Arlington, 10; UT at
EI Paso, 6; and North Texas, Texas
A&M, Texas Christian, and West
Texoas State, 5 ea'c h.
Dean Amandes pointed out that at
least 13 of the out-of-.s tate schools are
new to the admission list this year,
and six Texas colleges are reqlresented ~or the first time in the law
school's t!hree-year hi's tory.
Age 23 Moslt Common
An age profile of the freshman
class shows age 23 to be the most common (45 students), with age 22 running a close second (41 stUdents).
Seven Sltudents are above 30 and one
is listed at age 43. Youngest student
in the class is 21.
In the marital category, the group
is fairly evenly div~ded , with 84 married stUdents and the remainder
s.ingle. Nine members of the class are
women, six of them single.
Dean Amandes reports a substantial increase in the number of
applicants for admission to the Tech
School of Law. "We had been hoping
for a 75 percent increase in applicants this y ear, but to our surprise
the number has increased by almost
90 percent and is still growing," he
said.
The 160 members of the first-year
class were selected from approXlimately 575 applicants, while the 1969
class of 85 students was chosen from
a group of 303 applicants.
Another indicator of the improving
academic qualtty of incoming Texas
Tech law students is the Law School
Admissions Test (LSAT). Dean Amandes said the new fkst-year dass
averaged about 20 points higher on the
LSAT than the previous class.
the shotmakers, and Lockhoof's adjusted score read 71 ,t o give him a
one-stroke advantage over Lynn
Nichol'S and BiI!l Weems. Weems and
Nichols checked ,i n with 101's but finished M1!h 72 after the handicap adjustment.
Others T.ake Awards
E. Je,flfrey Wentworth set a mark
to shoot at in future eveIllts, ,a s he
carded an 83-over..par score of 165. He
edged out Lynn McClelloan by 10
strokes for the tournament's highest
s'c ore. Wentworth also took an 11 on
the par f.ive, no. 18, to cop another
coveted tOOpihy for hi,ghes.t score Dn
one hole.
Long-hirfltirng Keno Henderson c'a me
out on top in the longest drive contest
as he boomed a drive 268 yards to
edge his nearest competitors by at
least 30 yards. One stipulation on t!he
contest was that the drive must remain ,in the jjalirway, so accura,c y
played a big part in Henderson's victory.
Lockhoof Takes Third Award
Lockhoof took home a third award,
that beilllg for the shot closest to the
hole on number 14, a par three. He
neatly placed his iron shot to the
green a mere seven feet away from
the flag to win.
The se'c ond-best raw s'c ores on 1Jhe
blustery day were turned in by J elf[
Baynham and Jerry I{olander. They
each recorded 86's on the Pine !Hills
layout.
The law school usually fields a team
in each Oif the intramural sports
which works with the intention of
"playing to win" and another team
which plays "just for tun." ]f 1!he
number of playe,r s permits, the number of ,t eams entered in competition
wihl. be expanded, as evidenced by
the basketball season last year.
Coaches are appointed by the SEA
Athletic Director, Jerry Kolander, to
handle the personnel chDres and
practices. It is often the pmctice that
the coach also be a player.
Overall Reco,rds
The football sq uads which ha ve
played in the championsh~p division
boast a two-year mark of 9-4, with the
1969 championship under their belts.
Trhe Blue squad finished with a 6-1
mark whhle taking the tiNe.
Football Ahead
The sdledule for intramurals this
coming year is still tentative, but
according to the Intr.amural Department, the date for the g.r ,i diron teams
to be signed up is Sept. 15. The
basketball rosters should be completed by the second week in the
spring semester Mth play beginning
s'o on thereafter. Tohose interested in
competing should watch fur notices
posted on the bulletin board in the
Law School Commons.
Also on tap is the Second Arumal
Law School Golf Classic, s'Cheduled
tentatively for late September or
early October.
Three New Professors
Added To Law Faculty
By EDDIE T. SMITH
Dictum Staff
The addition of three new professors for the upcoming school year
bI'lings the School of Law faculty to
a total of 16, it was announced
recently
by
Dean
Richard B.
Amandes.
The three new professors are
Frederick T. Ohen, formeI"ly ()If The
Catholic Un1vers i,t y of America law
faculty; David C. Cummins, recent
member of the University of Idaho
law faculty; and John C. Paulus, veteran professor of law at Willamette
University who jDins the Tech faculty
as a visiting profe's sor.
The three new professors will result
in a net gain of one for the faculty in
light of the recent resignations df
Professors Erwin Elias and Elizabeth
M. Leeman. Elias returned to Baylor
University to become assistant dean
of the School of Law, and Professor
Leeman left Texas to return to her
home in Florida.
From China
Professor Chen, one of the new
professors, holds the LL.B from
Soochow University in Taiwatn, China,
LL.M from Yale University, and J .D.
from the University ()If Chicago. Four
years of tea'c hing eX'peI'lience has
taken Professor Chen to Drake University, Ohio Northern Universi't y and
most re'c ently to CathoHc University
of America. He has Sp€lnrt: the last
year in Chicago qualifying for the
J.D. deg.r ee. He is accompanied to
Lubbock by his wife.
~tes
The first Texas Tech Law graduates, those finishing school in December, 1969, took the State Bar examination in Aus'tin in March . Toheir
grades on the state exam were unusually higih....Jhigh enough to. cause
considerable comment and some surprise among law school circles. Trhe
records show that the 12 who passed
the examination were among ilie top
30 who took the examination. The
average grade of .the 12 was slightly
more than 81, wilth Rod Byrd and
Robin Green having the highest grades
among the Tech group.
May graduates took the state ex amination in June, some taking it in Luibbock and others in Austin. Students
and alumni of the School Df Law were
watching witJh considerable interest
the results OIf this ,e xaminatiDn. Several of the top srtudents of the entire
first class were among those taking
the examination in June.
As soon as the ,g rades were announced, the entire alumni was to be
The basketball teams in the cbampionship division also boas.t a winning two-year mark. They recorded
an 8-1 mark in 1968-69 but fell to a
2-3 ledger in 1969-70 to give 'them an
overall reading of 10-4.
contacted again for information COOlcerning employment. The December
graduates have already turned in an
impres.sive list of employment and
some of the May graduates have reported their employment.
Bill Shaw is associ'ated with Ralph
William .scoggins, an attorney in EI
Paso and State Representative of
District 67.
Martin Cude reports that he will be
associated witfh First Continental
Mortga:ge CD. as an attorney in Dallas. Cecil Puryear is working in the
SmaU Business AdministratJion's disaster loan department in Lubbock.
The first annual meeting of the
Texas Tech University School of Law
Alumni AssDciation was held at noon
on May 16, 1970. Fifteen members
were pr esent at the luncheon at Furr' s
Cafeteria in Lubbock. The group approved the proposed constitution,
elected officers and set dues at $5
per year. It was dec'i ded to hold the
annual meeting of the Alumni Asso-
Professor Cumm'ins holds a B .S .
from the University of Idaho, magna
cum laude; J.D.f.rom the University
of Washington, cum laude ; and LL.M.
from New York University. He wa,s
as sis,t ant attorney general for the
state of Washington during 1961-62,
is a fODmer municipal oourt judge in
Lake Forest Park, Washington, and
was in pI'livate practice in Seattle
from 1963-68. He was a varsity tennis
player during undergraduate college
days and sUli likes to spend spa,r e
time on the courts. Professor Cummins and his wi,fe are the parents of
two children, ages 3 and 5.
V'e teran Professor
Professor Paulus, who holds B.A.
and J.D. degrees from St(llte University of Iowa, has been on the Willamette Universi.ty law facU'lty since 1949.
He served as a membe.r of the Oregon
Statute Revision Council from 1949-55,
is a member of Order of The Coif,
holds bar membership in Iowa and
California, and is authorized to pr.actice before the United States Supreme
Court and U.S. Courlt of MHitary Alppeals. He is a member Df Delta Theta
Phi leg'al fraterni:ty and a tennis enthusiast. Professor Paulus and his wife
are parents of three chiildren, ages 22,
20 and 18.
Boh Baker Succeeds
Magness As E ditor
Of Law Newspaper
Robert W. (Bob) Baker, a secondyear S'tudent f.rom Fort Stockton, was
named editor-in-chief of the Texas
Tech University School of Law student
newspaper, Dictum, in an announcement by Student Bar President Jeff
Wentworth this summer.
Baker, a veteran ()If more than five
years' experience in the fields of
photo-journa1lism, news reporting and
edit~ng and former editor of the twiceweekly Fort Stockton Pioneer, becomes the third to hold the position
of editor-in-chief of the s·t udent publication.
Errol N . Friedman served as editorin-chief for the fall semester of 1969,
and was responsible for design and
format of the publication for the first
issue. Bruce Magness headed t he
news staff during the spring of 1970
and is currently serv,i ng as associate
editor.
ciation in conjunction with the State
Bar Convention each year.
Officers elected were Charles W.
Ada ms, president; Buford C. Terrell,
vice presiden t; and Dennis Fullingim,
secretary. ~he three officer s wi:H
serve until the 1971 meeting. Ronald
M. Jackson was elected marshall of
the 1970 class, to. serve until 1972.OHARLES W. ADAMS.