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A R G L E Volume 4 Number 1 Autumn, 1972 ALUMNI BUllETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCH L Return address: Second Class Postage Paid at :Jhe gargoyle Waterloo, Wis. 53594 Law School University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Dear Alumni and Friends of the Law School: It is with a mixture of sadness and anticipation that I write you this final letter as Dean' of the University of Wisconsin Law School. The sadness is a result of the impending attenuation of re- lationships with faculty and alum- ni whom I have come to know well and to enjoy immensely. Both Kathryn and I have very close attachments to the Law School and Spencer L. Kimball Wisconsin and we shall miss you. Because we will not be far away, We hope to be able to continue our relationships to some extent. The sense of anticipation is, of course, the consequence of a very challenging job to which I now go. tanced its financial position among American law schools. As the har- ried administrator who for several years has tried desperately to TABLE OF CONTENTS I earnestly hope that the friend- make the dollars go far enough to ship and support that the Wiscon- run the school during a period of Letter from the Dean . 2 sin alumni have given to me during rapidly increasing burdens and my tenure as Dean will quickly be only slowly increasing resources, Meet the New Dean. 3 t ran s fer red to my sue c e s s 0 r. I speak feelingly to this point. George Bunn is a valued colleague The Young Lawyers: with whom I have gladly worked Then and Now .. 4 for the past several years and into Even if one ignores the relation- whose hands I confidently transfer ship of benefits and costs, while Faculty Changes Continue 8 responsibility for the Wisconsin Wisconsin may no longer claim Law School. to be first among all American Faculty Notes. 9 law schools it would still rank high. For generations it has pro- WLAA Board of Directors, Board duced excellent graduates and has of Visitors At this point of time I should managed to maintain, despite rela- Support Proposal of Chancel- like to express some- thoughts tively low faculty salary schedules, lor's Committee to Establish An- about the Law School and its fu- a distinguished and able faculty. other Law School-But Not Un- ture. There is no question in my animously . 9 mind that this deserves to be num- bered among the great law schools The future of the school is diffi- Search for Shares in PAD Building of America. In at least one respect cult to predict. We are in an era of Corporation Continues ... 12 I am confident it is entitled to be rapidly inc rea sin g budget con- placed first among all American straints. How these problems will Activist Lawyer Bridges Genera- law schools. That is in the cost- tion Gap . 13 \ eventually affect us no one knows. benefit relationship. The school has given exceptionally good ser- We face financial problems of ser- ious magnitude but we hope to The Year Begins Early. 14 vice to its students and to the com- solve them. It is certainly to be munity at large, for very modest Cover by Richard S. Klipsic cost. It has never been a well- funded school, but the quality of its performance has far out-dis- II THE GARGOYLE Dear Alumni and Friends of the Law School: It is with a mixture of sadness and anticipation that I write you this final letter as Dean' of the University of Wisconsin Law School. The sadness is a result of the impending attenuation of re- lationships with faculty and alum- ni whom I have come to know well and to enjoy immensely. Both Kathryn and I have very close attachments to the Law School and Spencer L. Kimball Wisconsin and we shall miss you. Because we will not be far away, We hope to be able to continue our relationships to some extent. The sense of anticipation is, of course, the consequence of a very challenging job to which I now go. tanced its financial position among American law schools. As the har- ried administrator who for several years has tried desperately to TABLE OF CONTENTS I earnestly hope that the friend- make the dollars go far enough to ship and support that the Wiscon- run the school during a period of Letter from the Dean . 2 sin alumni have given to me during rapidly increasing burdens and my tenure as Dean will quickly be only slowly increasing resources, Meet the New Dean. 3 t ran s fer red to my sue c e s s 0 r. I speak feelingly to this point. George Bunn is a valued colleague The Young Lawyers: with whom I have gladly worked Then and Now .. 4 for the past several years and into Even if one ignores the relation- whose hands I confidently transfer ship of benefits and costs, while Faculty Changes Continue 8 responsibility for the Wisconsin Wisconsin may no longer claim Law School. to be first among all American Faculty Notes. 9 law schools it would still rank high. For generations it has pro- WLAA Board of Directors, Board duced excellent graduates and has of Visitors At this point of time I should managed to maintain, despite rela- Support Proposal of Chancel- like to express some- thoughts tively low faculty salary schedules, lor's Committee to Establish An- about the Law School and its fu- a distinguished and able faculty. other Law School-But Not Un- ture. There is no question in my animously . 9 mind that this deserves to be num- bered among the great law schools The future of the school is diffi- Search for Shares in PAD Building of America. In at least one respect cult to predict. We are in an era of Corporation Continues ... 12 I am confident it is entitled to be rapidly inc rea sin g budget con- placed first among all American straints. How these problems will Activist Lawyer Bridges Genera- law schools. That is in the cost- tion Gap . 13 \ eventually affect us no one knows. benefit relationship. The school has given exceptionally good ser- We face financial problems of ser- ious magnitude but we hope to The Year Begins Early. 14 vice to its students and to the com- solve them. It is certainly to be munity at large, for very modest Cover by Richard S. Klipsic cost. It has never been a well- funded school, but the quality of its performance has far out-dis- II THE GARGOYLE WlAA Board of Directors, Board of Visitors Support Proposal of Chancellor's Committee to Establish Another law School- But Not Unanimously Meeting"' during the June meet- ing of the State Bar of Wisconsin at Lakelawn Lodge, Delavan, the Nathan Feinsinger Board of Directors and Board of Visitors of the Wisconsin Law Alumni Association expressed sup- port for the proposal of the Chan- cellor's Committee on Legal Ed- ucation for the establishment of a second publicly-supported law school in Wisconsin. Theodore Schneyer FACULTY NOTES Feinsinger honored After extensive discussion, tne At its annual convention ban- Board of Directors voted 4-3 to support the proposal, which is now Theodore Schneyer is the son- quet in Saratoga Springs, New under consideration by the Uni- in-law of Willard Stafford (Class York on June 29, the Association versity Board of Regents. The of 1939). After graduation from of Labor Mediation Agencies pre- Board of Visitors supported the Johns Hopkins (1965) and Har- sented a "peacemaker" award to proposal by a vote of 5-1. vard Law School (1968), he was Prof. Nathan P. Feinsinger, who a Fulbright Scholar in Stockholm in addition to his many years as for a year. He was a Teaching a teaching member of the faculty, Fellow at Stanford, and during is a world-renowned mediator of this past year has been Assistant labor disputes. Professor at the University of Ne- braska. He will teach Torts. In recent months, Prof. Feinslng- From the Dean er, in conjunction with Prof. Elea- A n u m b e r of practicing at- nore Roe, has drafted a system of (Continued from page 2) torneys will assist the Faculty by conciliation, including both media- teaching single sections of required tion and arbitration procedures, courses. for certain disputes within the Arch- hoped that the state and the alum- diocese of Milwaukee. ni of the school will support us in a measure that will permit contin- uance of a high quality institution, * * * worthy of the traditions of this great state. Prof James B. MacDonald has been selected by Madison campus I wish you all well, both profes- Chancellor H. Edwin Young to be sionally and personally, and hope a Leonardo Scholar for the second that you will continue to support semester of the academic year, our law school. It needs your help 1972-73. Five senior Facultymem- to continue to be the fine institu- bers, representing the departments tion that it now is. I hope it will of nuclear engineering, political achieve even higher standing in the science, oncology and anthropol- future, under the leadership of my ogy as wen as law, have been se- successor. lected to participate in an intensive Yours sincerely, seminar on the identification of national resource policy needs and Spencer L. Kimball James B. Mac Donald alternative resource goals. Dean THE GARGOYLE IX to the Geneva Disarmament Conference. MEET THE NEW DEAN During his years on the Faculty, George Bunn-Front and Center he has acted as Advisor to the Chancellor and the President on matters relating to student dis- orders.