Table of Contents
COVER STORY
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
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January, 1989
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FACULTY NEWS
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STUDENT NEWS
HONORS AND AWARDS
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ALUMNI NEWS
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Volume Seven
Number Two
Fall 1989
The name Cornerstone was derived from the
relationship between the law school and its
alumni: the Tech Law School serves as the
cornerstone for a successful career in law; and
the alumni, through their support, serve as the
cornerstone for developing excellence in the law
school.
Comments from readers are welcome. Please
send them to Cornerstone, Texas Tech
University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas
79409. The contents of the Cornerstone do not
necessarily represent the views of the
foundation, its officers or trustees, the law
school administration, or Texas Tech
University.
Dear Alumni and Friends of the Texas Tech Law School:
Our 1989-1990 school year is off to a flying start. This report will highlight some of the major
developments which have already taken place.
In this issue we report on the retirement of Professor Mud A. Larkin. Mud is a legend at this law school
school and I know all of you will enjoy reading about his distinguished career. We will all miss having
Mud here at the Texas Tech Law School but we will all enjoy the fruits of his past labors for many years
to come.
There is also an article in this issue on the appointment of W. Reed Quilliam, Jr. as the George Herman
Mahon Professor of Law. We are fortunate to be able to add new endowed professorships. We salute
Professor Quilliam on his appointment to this new professorship.
All of our staff and faculty worked long hours during the latter part of the summer and the first part of
this fall term in preparing for our joint American Bar Association and American Association of Law
Schools Sabbatical Reinspection. Every seven years each approved American law school is evaluated. This
permits schools an opportunity for self-study and objective peer review. Of course we all think that we
have an outstanding law school. I am happy to report that our site inspection team agrees that we have a
very sound program. And while we are always relieved to hear favorable peer reviews, we are primarily
anxious to reach a consensus on what we can do to strengthen our program even more. Our first priority
will be to strengthen our library. Budget constraints throughout Texas in the past several years have taken
a toll on university libraries generally. Law school libraries have not been spared. Happily President Robert
W. Lawless and Executive Vice President and Provost Donald Haragan have committed University
resources to address this weakness. With this help we expect to rapidly improve our library. We are also
committed to continuing to strengthen the diversity of our faculty and to review our curriculum for
possible improvements. Finally, the time has come to consider capital improvements to the law school
building. Our very fine facility was completed in 1969. It is time to install custom storm windows, add
additional student offices (which can also serve as interview rooms), replace carpeting and furniture which
has worn out after twenty years, and add some 10,000 square feet to the law library. We are currently
working with University leaders, our Texas Tech Law School Foundation and our Texas Tech Law Alumni
Association to further define our needs and to prepare specific plans to satisfy those needs.
I close by reporting on a very positive development. We received more applications this year than we did
last year. Even though we accepted 10070 fewer students, we had 10070 more students enroll. This is a 20070
swing in our favor. At the same time our median LSAT and GP A went up. We are convinced that our
scholarship program is working. We take great pride in the continuing strength of our student body. They
characterize the Texas Tech School of Law today and they will serve the people of Texas and the United
States tomorrow.
Cornerstone editor: Kay Patton Fletcher
Sincerely,
W. Frank Newton
Dean
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COVER STORY
Reared in Hominy, Oklahoma, Lark graduated
from high school in the midst of the Great
Depression. At age 17 he took a job with the
General Accounting Office in Washington and
financed his studies at George Washington
University and Southeastern University Law
School, from which he received his law degree in
1939. He took and passed the District of
Columbia bar examination just prior to his 21st
birthday.
Prof. Murl A. Larkin (left) with good friend and
fellow faculty member, Reed Quilliam.
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Professor Murl A. Larkin
Retires
Most persons would be more than satisfied with
one highly distinguished career. Murl A. Larkin
has had two. Most persons would consider forty
or so years of productive work a sufficient
contribution to our society. Murl Larkin's span
embraces fifty-five years and he's not through
yet.
The first time I met Lark was nearly a decade
before we became colleagues on the faculty of
the Texas Tech University School of Law. The
year was about 1960 and I was a young Lubbock
lawyer taking my annual two weeks of Naval
Reserve training at a Navy Law Seminar in New
Orleans. Captain Larkin, then Assistant Judge
Advocate General of the Navy and head of its
appellate review section, was one of the principal
lecturers at the seminar.
It would not be true to say that Lark and I
became fast friends during this visit to the
Crescent City, although that relationship would
develop in later years. I am certain that we both
did our share of wining and dining in the French
Quarter, but Navy lieutenants and captains
generally travel in different circles after hours. It
would be true, however, to say that I came away
from the meeting highly impressed with Lark as a
man, as a lawyer, and as a teacher of the law. I
have the same feelings about him today.
In the fall of 1968 Captain Larkin retired from
the Navy and became Professor Larkin,
embarking on his second eminent career. He
joined the Texas Tech law faculty in the second
year of the Law School's existence, and has been
a guiding force in its development for 21 years.
He retired from the Law School in May, 1979,
and we will miss him greatly.
Shortly after Pearl Harbor Larkin was
commissioned an ensign in the Naval Reserve and
soon was called to active duty. After a brief tour
as engineering officer aboard a patrol gunship
assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations, he
was ordered to the battleship USS New Jersey,
which was to become his home for the rest of
World War II. As a gunnery officer and
starboard battery director, Larkin participated in
many of the major sea battles of the Pacific
Theater, including Saipan, the Marianas, Iwo
Jima, and the Leyte Gulf, and earned 11 battle
stars.
After his release from active duty Larkin
returned to Washington where he met and won
the hand of his lovely wife, Sue, who has
enhanced his dual careers with her charm and
grace. After working briefly as a civilian lawyer
for the Navy Department, he was commissioned
in the Judge Advocate General Corps of the
regular Navy, in which he spent the next 22
years. The Larkins have one daughter, Barbara,
who lives in Tulsa.
Duty assignments took the Larkins to California,
the Philippines, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and back
to Washington as the Navy's second-ranking JAG
officer. It was while serving as Academic Director
of the Naval Justice School that then-Commander
Larkin got his first taste "of the strong personal
and professional satisfaction that I get from law
teaching," which lead to his second career. As
Fleet Legal Officer, Pacific Fleet, Larkin made
inspection tours in virtually every far eastern
country in which United States military interests
were present. In his last and most prestigious
assignment, as Assistant Judge Advocate General,
he was awarded the Legion of Merit.
Some of Professor Larkin's most vivid memories
involve the earliest years of the Law School,
especially those in the old barracks buildings near
the football stadium. "The soundproofing in
those classrooms was atrocious," he recalls. "I
remember trying to teach Corporations while
Justin Smith was teaching Torts next door. Justin
was a classroom wit, and every few minutes his
students would break out in riotous laughter. It
was hard to get my class back on track again."
He also recalls Smith showing his class some
extremely gruesome photographs from an
autopsy. "One woman student fainted. He had
her picked up and went on with his class."
The very first graduating class at the Law School
is the one that Professor Larkin remembers best.
"They were second-year students when I got
here, but we only had about 110 enrolled in the
Law School at that time and I got to know most
of them personally. They were a somewhat older
group, and many of them had had successful
careers in other fields. The faculty and students
were very close-knit and those students worked as
hard as any I have ever seen. They were largely
responsible for getting this Law School off on
the right footing." (Note: That first class, of 56
students, produced a Presidential Scholar,
Charles Gentry, and the five highest grades on
the Texas bar examination, the only time in
history that the top five grades have come from
one law school.)
Professor Larkin has served under all four deans
that the Law School has had, and thinks that
each made a special contribution to the
development of the school. "Dick Amandes was
fantastic in recruiting faculty and was
administratively outstanding. Frank Elliott
contributed to the school through his stature as
an author and a scholar. Byron Fullerton was
very likeable and we benefitted from his wide
contacts in the legal profession and his closeness
with the University administration. Frank Newton
combines many of these qualities and may be the
best all-around dean that we have had."
Professor Larkin recalls many pleasant contacts
with Al Allison, Levelland attorney, former
Texas Tech regent, and the man most responsible
for the founding of the Texas Tech Law School.
"I met him right after I came here." Larkin
remembers. "He was our greatest fan. He would
go overboard for the Law School in everything,
including his money and his time."
Three brief leaves of absence have punctuated
Professor Larkin's 21 years at Texas Tech. In
1974 he was a visiting professor at Franklin
Pierce Law Center in New Hampshire. In
1978-79 he served as Senior Legislative Attorney
in the Congressional Research Service, Library of
Congress. In 1984 he was the Ben J. Altheimer
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the
University of Arkansas-Little Rock.
Larkin's primary teaching areas have been
Evidence, Procedure (both civil and criminal) and
Trial Advocacy. I remember going into the law
library soon after the new law school building
was completed in 1970, and encountering law
student (now State Representative) Jim Rudd,
who was shaking his head in amazement. He had
just come from a Larkin class, and his comment
was: "That guy (Professor Larkin) sure knows
his Evidence and he really lays it out. If you
can't learn Evidence from Larkin you just can't
learn it." His feelings have been shared by many
over the years.
A prolific author (several books and numerous
scholarly articles) in the Evidence area, Larkin
was a key member of the State Bar committee
that developed, recommended, and continues to
monitor, the present Texas Rules of Evidence.
He was named Jack F. Maddox Professor of
Law at the Texas Tech University Law School in
1985, in recognition of his achievements in
teaching, writing and public service.
One would think that after completing two
careers Lark would really retire. That will not
happen, however, for this man of immense
mental energy. He and Sue will move to Tulsa,
where they have a home, and he will maintain a
law office and keep up the supplements for five
of the books that he has authored. He also is
finalizng plans to be an adjunct professor at the
University of Tulsa Law School.
I arrived on the law faculty one semester after
Lark did, and have had the privilege of having
him as a colleague for more than two decades.
One could not ask for a better one. He has been
a good friend, a fine teacher and scholar, and an
important contributor to the governance of the
school. He should be remembered as one of the
major blocks upon which the Law School was
built.
The esteem in which Professor Larkin is held by
the students was much in evidence at the 1989
May hooding ceremony. When a speaker noted
Larkin's retirement from the faculty the
graduating seniors spontaneously rose as one and
accorded him a prolonged ovation. It was a
fitting tribute to a fine man.
by Reed Quilliam
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
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FACULTY NEWS
The Right Place
At the Right Time
Krahmer Continues
Computing & CLE
Any law school placement director can confirm
that finding a job after law school is a
combination of perseverance and being in the
right place at the right time. Ted Brabham ('89)
will tell you that certainly is true for him. Ted is
joining the largest law firm in Florida as a result
of just such a combination. His story begins with
one of Dean Frank Newton's plane rides in the
fall of 1987. Dean Newton was assigned a seat
next to Joe Klock, Managing Partner of Steel,
Hector & Davis of Miami, Florida. The firm,
headquartered in Miami, has branch offices in
Boca Raton, Tallahassee, Palm Beach and West
Palm Beach. Dean Newton, never shy to promote
the Texas Tech School of Law, convinced Mr.
Klock to add Texas Tech to his recruiting tour of
Texas law schools. Arrangements were made and
the Florida firm interviewed on campus.
During the spring, Professor John Krahmer was
active in various Continuing Legal Education
programs around the state. He participated in the
2nd Annual EI Paso DTP A/Consumer Law
Institute in February and planned and moderated
the 12th Annual Banking Law Institute held this
year in San Antonio at the end of March. He
also spoke at the Annual Corpus Christi Bar
Association CLE Program at the end of April
and at the State Bar of Texas Advanced
DTP A/Consumer Law Institute in San Antonio
at the end of May.
Ted, however, had not signed up to interview
and was playing dominoes in the Commons when
he heard about Steel, Hector and Davis. Rushing
home to shower and shave, Ted's wife read the
firm resume to him while he dressed.
The rest, they say, is history. Ted interviewed
and was one of two Texas law students selected
for a flyback interview. (The other Texas student
was also from Texas Tech. None of the other
schools had students receiving second interviews.)
Ted accepted a full summer clerkship with Steel,
Hector & Davis in 1988 and joined the West
Palm Beach office as an associate in June, 1989.
This is not the first time Ted has been in the
right place at the right time. While a student at
Southern Methodist University, Ted was Dean of
the Student Senate when a petition to have a gay
student organization funded by the university was
presented. Ted's well-publicized stand opposing
university funding for the organization resulted in
a 1982 appearance on the Merv Griffin show, a
1983 hour-long appearance on the Phil Donahue
show and an HBO documentary in 1984. Noted
lecturer Zig Ziglar helped Ted prepare for the
Donahue show.
Ted served on the Texas Juvenile Justice
Commission from 1982 to 1985, making him (at
the age of 21) the youngest person ever to serve
on a state-wide commission. The commission
administered an $8,000,000 budget and allocated
funds for the various programs such as the Texas
War on Drugs program, the Crime Stoppers
Program and the Interschool Suspension
Program.
Raised by grandparents in Atlanta, Texas, Ted
has always wanted to be a lawyer. He is quick to
point out that his legal education easily matched
the 33 other Steel, Hector & Davis clerks who
represent every "major" law school on both
coasts. While at Tech, Ted participated in Moot
Court, Mock Trial and was on the 1988 National
Championship Client Counseling Team.
Married during law school to the former Penny
Gilmore, Ted added add fatherhood to his list of
accomplishments. The Brabhams had their first
child in early June, a boy named Vasco Ted
Brabham III.
Despite an active speaking schedule, Professor
Krahmer has also continued his writing in the
area of commercial law with the publication of
supplements to Vernon's Texas Code Forms
Annotated and to Texas Practice - Methods of
Practice. He was once again the author of the
Commercial Transactions Survey in the
Southwestern Law Journal and has also been the
editor of the monthly "Texas Bank Lawyer".
published by the Texas Association of Bank
Counsel.
Along with former Professor Bob Wood,
Professor Krahmer is an active member of the
Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the
State Bar Business Law Section which is engaged
in a study of a newly proposed Uniform
Commercial Code Article 2A governing Lease
Transactions. He is also a member of the
Consumer Law Council of the State Bar
Consumer Law Section.
Professor Krahmer has continued his interest in
computers and associated electronic gadgetry and
may now be the easiest member of the faculty to
contact by day or night with telephone numbers
at 806-742-3920 (Voice), 806-742-3888
(Modem), or 806-742-1629 (FAX). He does not
yet have a cellular phone, but has been heard to
mutter that he could teach his classes from
Hawaii if he could get a proper satellite link.
Professor John Krahmer
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Baker Selected
For TV Appearance
Professor Tom Baker has been selected to
participate in C-SPAN'S Second Annual Seminar
for Professors.
He is one of only 30 university professors
selected nationally. The invited attendees will
spend two days in Washington, D.C., learning
effective methods of integrating C-SP AN into
coursework and related issues such as copyrights,
videotape editing and programming. The
attendees also will participate in a live nationallytelevised call-in show. A reception and banquet
will be held at the Library of Congress. The
Seminar is funded by the Benton Foundation.
Professor Baker says, "I am looking forward to
learning more about the potential for using CSPAN programming. C-SPAN broadcasts
programs on the judiciary, congressional
committee hearings (like the Bork confirmation
hearing), and speeches by jurists and others that
might be edited down for in-class use or placed
on reserve for out of class viewing in the first
year Constitutional Law course. Students in my
Constitutional Law Seminar could view interviews
and commentary on the cases they are 'mooting'
in that course."
STUDENT NEWS
Quilliam Named
Mahon Professor of Law
Tech Students Win
Essay Contest
Texas Tech University School of Law Professor
W. Reed Quilliam Jr . has been selected as the
school's George Herman Mahon Professor of
Law.
Mark E. Lish, a 1989 graduate of the Texas Tech
University School of Law, has placed first in the
1988-89 Consumer Law Writing Competition
sponsored by the Consumer Law Section of the
State Bar of Texas.
The endowed professorship is named after the
longtime West Texas congressman who died in
1985. Mahon represented the 19th Congressional
District in the U.S. House of Representatives
from the district's creation in 1933 until his
retirement in 1978.
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Quilliam joined the law school faculty in 1969,
following 12 years of private practice in
Lubbock. He served as associate dean of the
school from 1973-77. Given the school's annual
outstanding law professor award five times by
popular student vote. Quilliam also received the
Texas Tech President's Excellence in Teaching
Award in 1988.
Quilliam received bachelor's degrees in
government and business administration and a
doctor of jurisprudence degree from the
University of Texas. He also earned a master of
laws degree from Harvard University.
During university leaves of absence, the
Beaumont native served as executive director of
the State Bar of Texas in 1981-82 and as a
distinguished visiting professor at Pepperdine
University Law School in 1981 and at Southern
Methodist University in 1987.
Quilliam, while in private practice, served four
terms in the Texas House of Representatives
from 1961 to 1968. He was named Outstanding
First Term Member of the House by a pool of
capitol correspondents. He currently is an
Academic Fellow in the American College of
Probate Counsel.
Lish was awarded a $400 cash prize and received
an additional $100 as the best entry from the
Texas Tech Law School. His winning entry was
titled "The Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act:
Vicarious Liability Under the 'Inextricably
Intertwined' Standard."
Professor W. Reed Quil1iam
Quilliam has also been elected a Fellow of the
American Bar Foundation, the research affiliate
of the American Bar Association. Membership in
the Foundation is limited to one-third of one
percent of the lawyers in each State, the District
of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Quilliam joins
Dean W. Frank Newton and Professor J. Hadley
Edgar as recipients of the prestigious honor.
At Texas Tech, Lish was a published member of
the Law Review where he served as casenote
editor this past year. The Midlothian native is
scheduled to begin work in the fall with the
corporate and real estate section of Vial,
Hamilton, Koch and Knox in Dallas.
Lish '89 (left) is congratulated by John Dwyre '80
(right). Dwyre is the Secretary of the Consumer Law
Section of the State Bar of Texas .
Texas Tech law student Brian Cocke is the
winner at Texas Tech in the State Bar of Texas
Health Law Section annual writing competition.
The Section Council of the State Bar of Texas
sponsors an annual writing competition for
students with an interest in health law who are
currently enrolled in an ABA-accredited law
school. Mr. Cocke's submission paper is entitled
"Expanding the Scope of the Physician's Duty to
Disclose: Make Way for 'Informed Refusal'."
His paper was evaluated by a committee of three
faculty members who are involved in teaching
and practice in the field of health law. The
committee selected Mr. Cocke's paper as Texas
Tech's submission in the statewide contest. For
this selection, Mr . Cocke received an award of
$200. The statewide winner will receive $500 and
the award-winning paper will be published in the
1989 Health Law issue of the Houston Law
Review.
Dean Newton (right) presents Brian Cocke '89 (left)
with a check for his award-winning article.
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HONORS AND AWARDS
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Warlick Carr (far left), presents '89 grads, Gary
Harger, Rick Fletcher and Tommy LaFon (left to
right) with the Order of Barristers tropies and
certificates.
Members of the Editorhl Board of the Texas Bank
Lawyer recognized at Honors & Awards Day are (left
to right) Mark Ensign '90, Dwight Moody '90, David
Duncan '90, Lynn Ashley '90 and Chris Duggan '89.
Elizabeth Mitchell '90 received the Moot Court
Scholarship A ward which is presented to a student
who has distinguished herself and brought credit to the
Law School through participation in intercollegiate
moot court competition.
PAD President John Lawson '90 (left) presents the
Outstanding Law Professor Award to Professor Tom
Baker (right). Professor Baker also received the award
in 1988.
The William R. Moss Trial Advocacy A ward was
presented to Robin Workman '89 (left) and Gary
Harger '89 (right).
Dwight Moody '90 (left) and Thomas Brocato '89
(right) received the Texas Association of Bank Counsel
Scholarships.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Award was presented to
Sam Medrano, Jr. '89 (right) by Lubbock attorney
Emilio Abeyta '87 (left).
Richard and Susan Blackwell '89 received the Judge
Ken G. Spencer Award.
Professor Chuck Bubany (right) received the Omega
Lambda Phi Ethics In Teaching Award. Gary Harger
'89 (left) presented the award.
First year students Brian Heinrich '91, David Strickler
'91, and Rayne Rasty '91 (left to right) received the
Bankston, Wright and Greenhill A ward which is
presented to students who have distinguished
themselves in each of the Torts sections.
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ALUMNI NEWS
University. Judge Hicks has achieved several
"firsts", including being the first black female
district court judge in Tarrant County and the
first black graduate of the Texas Tech University
School of Law.
DENNIS OLSON merged his practice and is now
a shareholder in Godwin, Carlton & Maxwell,
P.C., 3300 NCNB Plaza, 901 Main, Dallas,
Texas 75202.
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Jefferson County Young Lawyer's Association Officers
and Board of Directors with five Tech graduates
serving currently - Shown front row, left to right are:
Vice-President, Everett Sanderson; President, Paula H.
Dunham; President Elect James D. Hulett (Tech, '83);
and Director, Chris Gilmore. Back row, left to right:
Secretary, Craig Clendenin (Tech, '84); Director, Regi
Martin; Director, David Starnes (Tech, '84); past
President, Magistrate J. Michael Bradford; Director,
Sandra Sparr Carrington (Tech, '83); Director, Mike
Bridwell; Treasurer, Steve Williams (Tech, '84); and
Director, Rick Lewis.
Class of 1976
GARY G. GRIMMER was appointed to the first
United States District Court, District of Hawaii
Judicial Conference as a lawyer participant.
Gary's address is 1001 Bishop Street, Suite 2200,
Pacific Tower, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813.
Class of 1977
Class of 1971
CHARLES E. LANCE is now District Judge for
the 20th Judicial District, Cameron, Texas 76520.
Judge Lance may be contacted at P.O. Box 728,
Cameron, Texas 76520.
WELDON S. COPELAND, JR. was appointed
and subsequently elected as judge of Collin
County Court at Law, No. One. Judge
Copeland's address is Collin County Courthouse,
McKinney, Texas 75069.
Class of 1978
Class of 1973
TOM BACUS was elected President of the Texas
County Court at Law Judges Association in
1988. He also serves on the Board of the Texas
Center for the Judiciary and on the Legislative
Committee of the Judicial Section of the State
Bar of Texas.
Class of 1974
MARY ELLEN HICKS, Judge of the 231st
District Court in Tarrant County, was named a
Distinguished Alumnae of Texas Woman's
CAROL HAMMOND has been certified by the
Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Criminal
Law. Carol practices law in Paris, Texas.
KERWIN B. STEPHENS has received Board
Certification in Civil Trial Law. He and another
Tech graduate, STEPHEN O. CRAWFORD ('82)
have a partnership for the practice of law in
Graham, Texas, at Suite 308, First National
Bank BUilding.
FRANK WEATHERED is now of counsel for
Brin & Brin, Corpus Christi.
Class of 1979
The office of Gov. Bill Clements has announced
the appointment of MARY CHAPMAN
BROADDUS, of EI Paso, to the Governor's
Committee for Women. The 28 member
committee was sworn in office at a luncheon in
the Governor's Mansion on April 24, 1989. Mary
has moved from Paso Tex Corp. to private
practice and international trading. Her new
address is 501 Executive Center Blvd., Suite 100,
EI Paso, Texas 79902.
WADE B. SHELTON has opened a solo law
practice in San Antonio. His firm is Law Offices
of Wade B. Shelton, 8620 N. New Braunfels,
Suite 317, San Antonio, Texas 78217.
SHAREN WILSON is now associated with
Simon, Anisman, Doby, Wilson & Skillern, 400
Professional Building, 303 West Tenth, Ft.
Worth, Texas 76102-7071.
MICHAEL WISS is now Board Certified in
Consumer Bankruptcy. He proudly announces
that he has a daughter, Amanda Teresa, born
June 15, 1988.
STEVE WALLACE has been selected to appear
in the next edition of "Who's Who In American
Law." Steve has moved his law office to 1300
Summit Ave., Suite 410, Ft. Worth, Texas 76102.
Class of 1982
Class of 1980
DAVID KITE recently accepted a position as
Assistant General Counsel for American Capital
Asset Management, Inc. The new address is P.O.
Box 3121, Houston, Texas 77253-3121.
CAROL CRABTREE DONOVAN is with the
firm of Sherman & Yaquinto, 509 N. Montclair,
Dallas, Texas 75208.
JAY B. GOSS is now Board Certified in Civil
Trial Law. Jay practices law in Bryan, Texas.
KAREN A. VANDIVER was elected to the
Board of the Family Law Section of the State
Bar of New Mexico. Board members are selected
in a state-wide election. Karen can be contacted
at 1600 Mountain Road, N.W., Albuquerque,
New Mexico 87104. Her phone number is (505)
242-1907.
Class of 1981
DINAH CRAWFORD LEWIS has become
associated with the Law Offices of James E.
Butler, 1001 Pine Drive, Dickinson, Texas 77539.
DAVID SARGENT has accepted a position with
the Dallas firm of Cowles and Thompson, 4000
NCNB Plaza, 901 Main Street, Dallas, Texas
75202.
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NANCY B. DeLONG has been promoted to
Supervising Attorney of the Corpus Christi Law
Center of Coastal Bend Legal Services, 901
Leopard, Room 105, Corpus Christi, Texas
78401.
Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest & Minick, 910
Travis Street, Suite 1700, Houston, Texas
77002-5895 is pleased to announce that
THOMAS W. MYERS has become a shareholder
of the firm, practicing primarily construction
law.
J. ANDREW ROGERS has been named Director
and shareholder of Kelly, Hart & Hallman, P.C.,
201 Main Street, Suite 2500, Ft. Worth, Texas
76102.
WAYNE B. WHITHAM has joined the law firm
of Kelly, Hart & Hallman, 2500 First City Bank
Tower, 201 Main Street, Ft. Worth, Texas 76102.
His phone number is (817) 878-3554.
Class of 1983
JON L. ANDERSON and wife, Karla, are proud
parents of a second son, Lucas Jackson
Anderson, born May 17.
KARL L. BAUMGARDNER is associated with
Whittenburg, Whittenburg & Schachter, P.O.
Box 31718, Amarillo, Texas 79120-1718.
BO BROWN has been named partner in the
McKinney firm of Abernathy, Roeder, Robertson
& Joplin.
MICHELLE BENNETT has moved to
Anchorage, Alaska and is employed with the law
firm of Patterson, Van Abel, and Lindeman, as a
research and briefing attorney. She also teaches
Pre-Law and Paralegal classes at the University
of Alaska and at Charter College. Her address is
221 E. 7th Ave., #111, Anchorage, Alaska 99501.
The Texas Bar Association has elected KEM
THOMPSON FROST as a Bar Foundation
Fellow. Kern practices law with Winstead,
McGuire, Sechrest & Minick in Houston, Texas.
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Class of 1984
JOHN R. FUNK's new address is P.O. Box
1231, Las Cruces, N.M. 88004. He practices with
the firm of Miller ,Stratvert, Torgerson &
Schlenker, P .A.
PAUL K. HUTSON has moved to California
and can be reached at 1133 S. Spaulding Ave.,
Los Angeles, California 90019.
Class of 1985
In January 1989, ALAN RHODES became a
partner in the law firm of Underwood, Wilson,
Berry, Stein & Johnson, P.C. in Amarillo.
JUDA A. HELLMANN announces that she has
relpcated her law office to: Lyndon Professional
Building, 1313 Lyndon Lane, Suite 208,
Louisville, Kentucky 40222. Her phone is (502)
423-0694.
MITCHELL A. TOUPS· is Board Certified in
Personal Injury Trial Law. He may be
congratulated at P.O. Box 350, Beaumont, Texas
77704.
JAMIE STEPHEN VANDIVERE was named a
partner in the law firm of Miller & Herring, P.O.
Box 2330, Amarillo, Texas 79105.
The law office of STEVEN L. WOOLARD has
moved to the Grey Mule Saloon, 219 South Main
Street, Fort Stockton, Texas. The Grey Mule,
built in the 1880's, is entered in the National
Register of historic places.
M. SUE KURITA is now a Municipal Court
Judge in El Paso after winning the city-wide
election. She recently married Karl O. Wyler
('87).
CHRIS D. PRENTICE has married Martha
Whitten, a dental hygienist from Big Spring.
Chris has also recently been appointed to a 6
year term on the Governing Board of the Texas
School for the Blind.
Class of 1987
STEPHEN ROTHBURN DARLING is now with
the law firm of Hirsch, Glover & Robinson, 917
Franklin at Main, Houston, Texas 77002.
MARK HOOPER has attained partner status in
the firm of Lummus, Hallman, Pritchard and
Baker in Cleburne as of January 1, 1979.
G. DAVID SMITH is now associated with the
Law Offices of James C. Barber, 4310 Gaston
Ave., Dallas, Texas 75246. He may be reached at
(214) 821-8840.
PAUL E. VON DONOP's addres is 1524 12th
St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.
JOE and RONDA "Bopeep" LUCE are proud
parents of their first child, a boy named Jacob
(Jake) Colton Luce. Jake was born June 8, 1989.
KENNETH MOTT has a new address in
McKinney of 509 Turner Street. The zip code is
76069.
Class of 1986
SUZANNE CALDWELL EKVALL married Erik
Edward Ekvall on May 6, 1989. Suzanne still
practices with Bailey & Williams, 3500 1st
Republic Bank Plaza, Dallas, Texas 75202-3714.
CLAUDIA CLINTON has been promoted to
First Assistant Attorney for the City of Abilene.
She is the first female to hold this position for
the City of Abilene.
THOMAS L. (TOM) MURPHY has accepted a
position teaching communication at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. On July 29,
Tom and Melinda Riding were married at New
Harmony, Utah. Tom's work address is Dept. of
Communicatjon Studies, University of Nevada,
Las Vegas, Nevada 89154. The phone number is
(702) 739-3325.
KERRY F. PIPER has opened an office at 818
Main, Lubbock, Texas 79401. Kerry's phone
number is (806) 744-7715.
L. CHARLES (Chuck) SLAUGHTER is an
Assistant District Attorney with the 47th District
Attorney's Office, Amarillo, Potter County,
Texas. He can be reached at the County Courts
Building, Suite lA, Amarillo, Texas 79101.
Class of 1988
Now Associated with Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam
of Lubbock is MARK BLANKENSHIP.
JEFFREY CLAY HARTSELL is Assistant
Criminal Attorney for Smith County, Texas. His
address is Smith County District Attorney Office,
Tyler, Texas 75702.
FLOYD LAMROUEX has moved from Lubbock
to 2603 Blue Quail, Arlington, Texas 76107.
M.L. NIEHAUS is now living in Colorado. Her
address is 115 West Cheyenne Road, Apt. 311,
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80906.
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