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Digital Commons @ Georgia Law News @ UGA School of Law Archives 10-1-1998 Advocate, Fall 1998, Vol. 33, No. 1 Office ofomm C unications and Public Relations Repository Citation Office of Communications and Public Relations, "Advocate, Fall 1998, Vol. 33, No. 1" (1998). News @ UGA School of Law. 41. https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_archives_advocate/41 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives at Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in News @ UGA School of Law by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. Please share how you have benefited from this access For more information, please contact [email protected]. lumni Jff~ce F292.G4 1\")3 .3 ADVOCATE Georgia advocate Received on: 12-10-98 University of Georgia Law Library Editor's Note: The Ge~ Advocate is published twice a year by the University of Geotgia Sebool of Law for alumni, friends and members of the School of Law com- munity. Contact the Communications Office at (706) 542-5172 if you have any comments or suggestions. GEORGIA DEAN David E. Shipley ADVOCATE ASSOCIATE DEANS Paul M. Kurtz, Gabriel M. Wilner FALL 1998 VOL. 33, NO.1 DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS Giles W. Kennedy FEATURES DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI PROGRAMS Jill Coveny Birch 2 A Conversation with Dean David Shipley DIRECTOR OF BUDGET & PERSONNEL Elaine K. Mitchell Get to know the new dean's opinions on a host DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS & of issues through an interview conducted by PUBLIC RELATIONS the Georgia Advocate. Kathy Rogers Pharr DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT 12 Heeding the Profession's Inherent Call to Service Charles G. Wurst III DIRECTOR OF THE LAW LIBRARY The motivation is not self-promotion, so you may be unaware of just how much the E. Ann Puckett law school does for the community. Caldwell Professor Milner Ball 0.0.'71) explores DIRECTOR OF LEGAL CAREER SERVICES the quiet ways the entire law school community-faculty, staff and students-work Beth Shackleford Kirch to better society. DIRECTOR OF STUDENT AFFAIRS/REGISTRAR Marc A. Galvin 14 Around the Peach State in 120 Days ASST. DIRECTOR OF STUDENT AFFAIRS Gregory L. Roseboro Dean Shipley has spent much of his first four months on the road meeting alumni and hearing their concerns. Check his jam-packed travel log. E-mail departmental inquiries to: [email protected] 20 The Homecoming/Reunion Weekend Photo Album [email protected] [email protected] More than 850 people attended the annual "Barbeque, Bluegrass and Bulldogs [email protected] Celebration." Catch the highlights. [email protected] [email protected] 26 Scenes from Commencement 1998 [email protected] A pictorial reviewof the culmination of three years of blood, sweat and tears by the Class [email protected] of 1998. Visit our homepage at http://www.lawsch.ugaedu ** Report of Annual Giving BOARD OF VISITORS 24-page insert found in the center of the Georgia Advocate. Marcus B. Calhoun,Jr.; Harold G. Clarke; CheSler C. Davenport; Kerry M. Harike; Cathy Harris Helms; John S. Noell,Jr.; A1bett M. Pickett DEPARTMENTS LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION COUNCIL 1 Headlines Robert D. Goldsmith, President; C. Randall Nuckolls, President-Elect;James P. Smirh, Treasurer, Dana 13.Miles, UGA in the News. Secretary; Gary B. Blasingame, Immediate Past President; Verner F. Chaffin, Secretary Emeritus; Paul W. Painter, 5 Hirsch Hall Highlights Jr., District 1; James C. Whelchel, District 2;Julia Willcox Introductions and Departures. Entering Class Stats. Georgia Supreme Court in Lumpkin, District 3; Robert L. Shannon, Jr., District 5; Session at UGA. Roe v. Wade Attorney Sarah Weddington's Edith House Lecture. Arthur B. "Skin" Edge IV, District 6; S. Lark Ingram, District 7; W. Seaborn Ashley,Jr., District 8; William G. Accreditation Site Visit. Marine Environmental Research Grant. Resetting of Tanner, District 9;John C. Bell,Jr., District 10; Joel O. Doomsday Clock. Wooten, Jr., At-Large State Representative; Valerie Caproni, At-Large Out-of State Representative 9 Faculty Accomplishments Faculty Notes. Pulitzer Prize Kudos. About the Cover: Dean David Shipley says his manage- ment style is open, and he's spent a lot of time getting to 16 Alumni Activities know students, alumni, farulty and staff. For more on the Presentation of Distinguished Service Scrolls and Harold Clarke's 0.0.'50) Portrait. new dean, see related stories on pages 2-4 and 14-15. Photo by Terry Allen. Letter from LSAPresident. YLACUpdate. 22 Student Briefs Kathy R. Pharr, Editor and Writer; Tracy Curlee, UGA Student Accomplishments. King's Inns Moot Court Competition. Profiles of Ryan Communications, Designer; Kathy R. Pharr, Paul Efland and Rick O'Quinn, Photographers;Jill C. 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I HEADLINES UGA IN THE NEWS On the Newsstands injapan Princeton Review Kudos t The Kobe Daily News, the largest t The University of Georgia School of newspaper in the Kansai region of Law once again received rave reviews tories abour the Universityof Geor- Japan, ran an extensive account in May from the Princeton Review's report, The gia School of Law,its professors or of a public lecture presented by Rusk Best Law Schools.In addition to praising alumni appeared nearly 400 times in S Center Director Tom Schoenbaum: the school's "top-notch faculty and 1997-98, promoting recognition of the "Oil Spills: Prevention and Compensa- facilities" and low tuition, the Review school on a national level.Placements in- tion Under International Law." 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