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CN700696_0121-2019 LETTER TO THE EDITOR INSIDE THIS ISSUE “Glory Days” Response 5 | President's Perspective: The Power of Association: To Be Thank you for your feature (“Glory Days”) in the recent NCBA What We Want To Be As Lawyers publication (NC Lawyer, November 2019 Issue) about (Steve By LeAnn Nease Brown Coggins, Chip Gibbons and Judge Bill Farris) and the Fike Cyclones of Wilson during the years 1967-1969. Carlester 6 | From The Executive Director: Crumpler was a name even those of us in the land of Satan Celebrating The Foundation's (Mecklenburg County) knew well during those years. I am 60th Anniversary originally from the town of Wake Forest, so I know there is By Jason M. Hensley no ketchup in barbeque, but what I did not know until I read your article was the role those three individuals played in the 8 | Writing That Works: Cyclones’ outstanding record. In Defense Of The Singular They By Maria Mangano I came to know Messrs. Farris and Gibbons at UNC Law School and I met Steve before law school after his “over-marriage” to 9 | Center For Practice Management: Louise, who is briefly referenced in your article as Rocky Mount’s Publish Or Perish: How To Get head cheerleader. Farris and Gibbons were a class ahead of me. Published (And Why) I remember Gibbons as a bright, friendly, wild-haired and good By Catherine Sanders Reach man willing to say “hello” to a 2nd-year student. At the same time, if you had told me in 1977 (or thereafter) that he had singlehandedly won a first-round state playoff with a reception 11 | YLD Column: that led to the winning touchdown and a later interception, 2020: The Perfect Time For Lawyers To I would have said “Yeah, and I am the lead dancer with Recommit To Engagement, Leadership Chippendales.” Unfortunately you no doubt have witnesses and a By M. Cabell Clay grainy photo to prove it. How can a football hero go on to NYU and practice arcane corporate tax law for a big firm? Impossible. 13 | North Carolina Bar Foundation Holds Maybe he played flag football with some actuaries, but he could Winter Dedication Ceremony: Kennon, not have been on the same field with Crumpler. Narron, Quick and Morgan Honored Farris looked like an athlete to me in the hallways. He too did 17 | Supreme Court Of North Carolina not swagger like a football hero and was a bright and good man. Exhibit Commemorates At the same time there are no photos, no affidavits, no game- 200th Anniversary winning anecdotes, and as a Chief District Court Judge we will never know the truth until he joins the rest of us who labor with 20 | Neither Time Nor Foul Weather Can non-paying clients. Coggins, I know the best of this group. Yes, Disrupt Robeson County's Annual he still looks like he did when he was in high school (but without Buck Harris Dinner the slicked back hair). Also a bright and good man since the day he got his license but again (as far as I know) no 100-yard punt 22 | New Book Compares Exum-Led State return, no sack of a QB with two seconds left. Supreme Court To U.S. Supreme Court Era Under Warren Of course, history (and sports) are replete with stories of the “little men and little women” who make it happen, but I worry 24 | The Good And The Ugly: What North that your article has opened the door for the rest of us. I played Carolina Attorneys Are Saying About basketball until the coach pointed out to me that going to my left had nothing to do with Communism, and I was captain of Their Practices And Their Lives the soccer team at Myers Park my senior year in 1971, when you were permitted to dribble with your hands up and down the field. 26 | NC Lawyers Seeking Statewide Office There was no Crumpler. I was not the wind beneath anyone’s wings. Now our voices can be heard. My best to the four of you. 27 | CRR Section Honors Williams Raymond E. Owens, Jr. 28 | Recognition Higgins & Owens, PLLC Charlotte 29 | In Memoriam 3 North Carolina Lawyer www.ncbar.org NCBA MISSION STATEMENT: To serve the public and the legal profession by promoting the admin- istration of justice and encouraging the highest standards of integrity, competence, civility and well-being of all members of the profession. 2019-20 PRESIDENT LeAnn Nease Brown 101 N. Columbia Street Chapel Hill, NC 27514 PRESIDENT-ELECT & TREASURER C. Mark Holt PO Box 10430 Raleigh, NC 27605 IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Jacqueline D. Grant, Asheville VICE PRESIDENTS The NCBA Minorities in the Profession Committee presented ¡Adelante! Moving Justice Mark A. Davis, Raleigh Forward on Nov. 2 at the N.C. Bar Center. The program is designed to empower Judge R. Allen Baddour Jr., Pittsboro minority law students as they navigate law school and enter the legal profession. Judge Regina R. Parker, Williamston ¡Adelante! leadership and presenters included, front from left: Tawanda Foster Professor Andrew H.