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THE UNIVERSITY of MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL VOLUME 29, NUMBER 3, SPRING 1985 Law Quadrangle- Notes the UNIVERSITY of MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL VOLUME 29, NUMBER 3, SPRING 1985 THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL VOLUME 29, NUMBER 3, SPRING 1985 Law Quadrangle- Notes THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL VOLUME 29, NUMBER 3, SPRING 1985 CONTENTS 1 Reading.. .Between the Sheets 18 Tops Among Classes Roy F. Proffitt 18 Tops in Percentage of Participation 4 National Chairmen 19 Law School Fund Contributors 4 National Committee 37 Special Donor Groups 5 Regional Reports 43 Matching Gift Program 13 1983-84 Comparisons by Region 45 In Memoriam 14 Annual Growth Charts 46 Class Notes 16 Class Summary of Gifts Law Quadrangle Notes (USPS 893-460), is issued quarterly by the University of Michigan Law School. Second-class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Office of publication, Law Quadrangle Notes, Law School, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1215. POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to: Editor, Law Quadrangle Notes, Law School, The Univer- sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1215. This issue of the Law Quadrange Notes is the twenty-fourth annual report of the Law School Fund. The Fund is under the direction of Professor Roy F. Proffitt; Mrs. Lois A. Richards is supervisor of the Fund and is responsible for gathering the data used in this report. Editorial and design responsibilities are handled by the University of Michigan Office of Development and Marketing Communication. CAMPAIGN MMARY best research libraries providing our Reading.. .Between the Sheets students, faculty, and visiting scholars with an exceptional worlung tool; schol- arship and loan funds that have permit- by Roy F. Proffitt ted Michigan to attract and accept the very best students regardless of their Hurrah! The purpose of the fund continues as financial means; support for three top- flight student publications which pro- We had a very good year in 1984. it began-to provide the extras of excel- vide outlets for student research and Some comments about the results later lence. Financial support for the Law writing, as well as for members of the in this report, but for the moment: School has long been a partnership. The Michigan legslature (and taxpayers) bar and academicians; funds for re- Total dollars received . $1,481,961.58 through appropriations to the Univer- leased time to faculty for major research (up 5.83%) sity, and University administrators, projects; the ability to bring distin- guished visitors to the campus; support Total gifts . .7,977 from the appropriations and other (up 9.0%) monies available to them, have pro- for innovative practice course and Total alumni donors . .6,191 vided the basis for a good law school. clinical law programs; and much, much (up 1.1%) But so many of the things that dis- more. Percent of alumni tinguish Michigan from other good law Sometimes the "extras" are relatively participation. .43.4% schools, and assure its position as one unglamorous, but they are essential to (down 0.6%) of the world leaders in legal education, the operation of the school in its lead- have resulted from generous alumni ership position. These may include ad- It will be hard to top these impressive support. ditional secretarial assistance, staff for figures in 1985, but we look forward to Visibly obvious, of course, are the the library, office equipment, repairs the challenge. With your help we shall magnificent buildings that constitute and improvements to some of the facili- do it. the Law Quadrangle. These provide a ties; personnel and equipment for the working and living environment second placement and admissions offices; seed to none. Less obvious, but equally money for our all-alumni spring experi- Law School Fund and ence-the Law Alumni Reunion and The Campaign for Michigan important have been the resources to build and maintain one of the world's Law Forum, etc. I think it is time, although the Cam- paign is still gathering momentum at a measured pace, to call your attention to the Campaign for Michigan, and to ex- plain the relationship between the Law School's participation in that undertak- ing and our Law School Fund that most of you know so well. Since we recently detailed the history of the Fund in this report I shall remind you only that the Fund started in 1961 and during 1985 we shall conduct its twenty-fifth anriual campaign. As shown on graphs near the center of this report, growth in both dollars and par- ticipants has been steady. The Law School Fund has been a mar- velous demonstration of the importance and effectiveness of alumni support and involvement. Although the school has necessarily provided the logistical sup- port (brochures, printing of letters, ac- cepting and receipting for gifts, etc.) and continuity, the leadership, and vir- tually all of the "fund raising" has been the work of alumni volunteers-the na- tional officers and committee members, regional and state chairpersons, local solicitors, and the class representatives. And the results, which we proudly re- port have come almost entirely from or through you. T' Sandaluw and Sid Kleinrnan CAMPAIGN - ---- SUMMARY--- The Law School Fund, a cash on the barrelhead operation, has been an important source for all of these extras, and its importance in view of relatively less support from the state legislature continues to increase. Thus, when you are told that your dollars are important to the strength and excellence of your school, and you are asked to contribute to the current Law School Fund you can be certain that your help is needed and will be well used to continue providing the extras of excellence. At the same time the University and the Law School realize that a major in- stitution cannot plan intelligently and operate efficiently on a purely short- term cash basis, and the tremendous cost of new physical facilities and mod- ernization of existing buildings are too great to be absorbed within the annual budget for operations. Thus in October 1983 the University announced to the public a University-wide capital cam- paign-The Campaign for Michigan- to run for four years through 1987. The goal of this campaign is to increase the University's endowment at least $80 mil- Sha yl and Alan Ackerman lion, plus a similar sum for priority con- struction and renovation throughout the University. case club arguments, audience par- The Law School is, of course, actively ticipation programs, etc., but it could be involved in this major campaign. We transformed into a fine auditorium for have some specific needs on which I about $500,000. When the new under- shall expand in a moment, but before I ground addition to the library was built, do that I want to underscore that we 5,000 square feet of floor space on each shall continue to conduct the annual of three levels was left unfinished. Soon Law School Fund campaigns much as we shall need to complete those areas. we have with no lessening of intensity Idation has already weakened our or need. In short, there are two distinct endowed accounts for such things as financial aid for students, an assured campaigns. Our fondest hope is that source of funds for library acquisitions, you will support both. and for the general needs of the school In spite of our own successful drive in the years ahead. We need new funds for major commitments between 1973 Ben Safir and Dick Elconin for new accounts or for addition to the and 1979, we do have some unmet existing ones for these and other pur- needs within the purposes of the Cam- poses. No law school without an out- paign for Michigan. I shall list a few, nors were added to the endowed and standing faculty can become or remain a other permanent accounts, and not and I expect you can think of others. leader. It is imperative that we have ad- In the area of construction and reno- counting the otherwise available gifts to ditional endowments for chairs and specific uses, we still showed a balance vation several of our classrooms need professorships to retain the outstanding updating. Room 116 in Hutchins Hall is of $800,000 as available and unrestricted faculty members that we have, and to in the Law School Fund account. What, an example of what can be done. Serni- attract others with similar credentials. nars with small groups have become an he asked, did we do with that? If you have questions about any of No two years are alike, of course, and important part of our teaching, but our this, please call or write. rooms for seminars, all planned more there are problems in reporting for even than 50 years ago, are pretty bad and a single year. But his was a legtimate could be greatly improved. Room 100 in Fan Mail-Where Do the Dollars Go? question, and I would like to share with Hutchins Hall is too large to be a useful After our report of the 1983 Fund an you a somewhat shortened version of classroom, and with fixed benches and alumnus noted that even after eliminat- my reply. With the exception of the ex- chairs not a good place for speeches, ing the gifts that at the request of the do- penses directly associated with the Law CAMPAIGN SUMMARY computer terminals to a variety of other libraries. Speaking of computers, a very major expenditure of the Law School Fund money last year was to help with the cost of providing most of the professors with personal computers and in many cases word processors, and often their secretaries with similar equipment. Through these computers many of the professors have a direct line into LEXIS and WESTLAW, and, for all I know, into other computer networks.
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