" Ninteenth Annual Report Alumni News Note Feature Vdlume 24, Number 4, Summer 1980 QuadrangleLaw Notes Vol. 24, No. 4 Summer 1980 contents Reading Between 1 the Sheets by Roy F. Proffitt Letter of Transmittal 1 Letter of Acceptance 1 I Regional Summaries I I 1978-1979 Comparisons 9 by Regions Tops in Percentage 10 of Participation Thousand Dollar Cities lo 1 Law School 11 Fund Contributors Annual Growth Chart 20 Law Quadrangle Notes (USPS 893- 460), issued quarterly by the Uni- Class Summary of Gifts 26 versity of Michigan Law School. Second class postage paid at Ann Special Donor Groups 28 Arbor, Michigan. Office of publica- tion, 409 E. Jefferson, Ann Arbor, Corporate Matching 32 Michigan 48109. Gift Program POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to: Law Quadrangle Notes, Law School, In Memoriam 3 3 The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Alumni News Notes 3 4 This issue of the Law Quadrangle Deceased 3 8 Notes is the nineteenth annual report of the Law School Fund. The Fund is About the Cover: The photography of Michigan Special 4 1 under the direction of Professor Roy John Elam, Law School student F. Proffitt; Mrs. Lois A. Richards is photographer, is of a model of the new Donor Groups supervisor of the Fund and is construction-at least that part which responsible for gathering the names will be a connectingpoint between the and data used in this report. Editorial old and the new. The stairs will lead and design responsibilities were out of the south wall of the library handled by the University of reading room down to the new three- Michigan Publications Office. story underground addition. Reading. The very fact that each year our stu- We thank each one of you who Between the Sheets dents come to us from 200 other helped to make 1979 a good year. And schools throughout the world means our special thanks go to all who that most of our alumni will also be helped with the solicitation because it asked each year to help those schools. is this help that we receive at the grass Our alumni who live and work in the roots level that makes the Fund go and less populated states have limited grow. opportunity for either social or pro- fessional contact with other Law School alumni. The life styles and in- comes of some of our graduates living Japan and Europe and working in some of the major cities in the world are dramatically Two different but equally important developments took place in Japan and different from those of alumni in in Europe during the past year. In smaller cities or engaged in public Japan the 51 graduates of the Law service work. There is no income School, and many others who have tax incentive for any of our foreign worked in Ann Arbor as research graduates or .scholars, and in many scholars or have taught at the Law foreign countries there is no tradition School without becoming candidates of contributing to educational institu- A National Law School- for degrees, organized the Japan tions. There could be more, but. Michigan Law School Alumni Associa- An International Law Happily, most of you know (to School Fund tion. One purpose of the association repeat the title of a speech by one of was to encourage financial support for In this column we bring to your our alumni a few years ago) "There the Law School. The association was attention some things about the Fund Ain't No Such Thing As A Free organized in 1978, but the first gifts that might otherwise go unnoticed. Lunch," and there are more good rea- through it were sent tb the Law School This year we want to emphasize that sons why you should support the Law in 1979. Because of the success it had the Michigan Law School Fund is truly School than why you should not. The in 1978-1979, the association has now a national fund, and in fact more than results of each past campaign has undertaken to solicit support in Japan that-an international fund. shown this to be true, but 1979 was a on an annual basis, and Japan has That doesn't impress you? You've very special year. On the next page we become Region XXV on our organiza- known for years that the Law School is have printed some comparative tional chart. Professor Makoto an international school, with students figures that are usually found else- Yazawa, of the University of Tokyo each year from virtually every state in where in the report. From these Faculty of Law was the first president the Union and several foreign figures you can see that we have just of the association. At its last meeting, countries, and from approximately 200 completed the best year yet! This ex- citing result was not just the conse- Professor Ryuichi Hirano, also on the other schools and colleges. And it's University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, common knowledge that Michigan quence of a few very large gifts during the year or a larger than usual cluster succeeded Professor Yazawa in that graduates are living and working vir- position. Yoichiro Yamakawa, MCL tually everywhere in the world. So of gifts from one or two regions, but is 1969, serves as the Secretary and in why shouldn't the Fund be inter- the consequence of a very broad based feeling by a very large number that capacity has ably supported his national? Isn't that just what you fellow officers on behalf of the Law would expect? Maybe. of people that it is important that they help to assure that Michigan continues School Fund. Your expectation is justified to some Europe became Region XXX in a extent, of course, and the Fund, and to be one of the world leaders in legal education. quite different way. Walter Kbnig, through it the School, has always MCL 1969, worked in Chicago for two received broad-based support for During 1979 there was an increase in the number of gifts or the dollars years after receiving his degree which we are very grateful. before returning to Zurich, and saw at But have you ever stopped to think contributed-and usually both-in every geographic region but one. This close range the importance of the local of all the reasons why this should not "team" effort to the success of the be so? (Through our mail and the widespread support is all the more impressive when we consider that the Fund. He agreed to head a team in feedback from our solicitors we have Europe and the Mid-East, and Region heard a fine assortment of argu- "team" responsible for this record XXX was born. There are 208 Mich- ments.) For example: "As a non- result consisted of several hundred solicitors under the direction of seven- igan degree holders in this European resident student I have already paid Region, but in Europe as in Japan, for all that I received from Michigan teen widely separated regional leaders, each doing his or her "thing" there is a substantial number of through higher tuition"; or "I'm a resi- former research scholars and pro- dent of Michigan and a part of my in his or her own way, and 55 class agents who operated independently of fessors who worked or taught in Ann taxes already support the Uni- Arbor without being candidates for versity"; or "I practice in a rural com- each other. WONDERFUL! degrees, but who nevertheless have munity, and I can't hire a Michigan close ties with the Law School. This graduate to work with me"; or "I'm in latter group, which for convenience business, not practicing law, so why How Good Was 1979? we shall call "foreign scholars," as should I support the Law School?" This report is filled with details, but well as degree holders will be invited And, of course, (if one lives outside of a few important figures which under- to participate in the Fund. Michigan) "You take too many score the Fund's continued good The early results from these new Michigan kids, and even a good stu- health: regions are encouraging, and we wish dent [sometimes my niece, my son, or them well in the years ahead. my partner's child] from [Ohio, Total dollars-$687,473.58 (up 19.8%) Nebraska, Alaska, etc.] wasn't admit- Total gifts-5,887 (up 6.2%) ted." Or (if one lives in Michigan] Total alumni donors-5,227 (up 3.3%) "You take all those non-resident kids, Per cent of alumni and even a good student from participation-41.4% (up 0.5%) Michigan . etc. doesn't have a chance." Costs of the Campaign highest requirements for which the 3) In a special category, since We are pleased that from time to person qualifies. For example, even previously there had been no time some of you ask about the costs of though the person's gift for 1979 was at organized efforts abroad, the number our campaigns, because we try to keep least S500, the lower limit for The Uni- of gifts from outside the United States down the cost of each dollar raised. In versitv Deans Club, if that person is jumped 137.8% in one year, and the 1979, in spite of increased costs for our already a Benefactor or a member of total dollars increased 53.570. three largest expenses-salaries, the Presidents Club his or her name 4) Chairperson Joyce Bihary and printing, and postage-we reduced would not be included in the Deans her team in the state of Georgia ob- the total cost of the campaign to 15.5 Club list.