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SUMMER, 1978 SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

VOL, 11 No. 2 - HONORING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY Of' THE CLASS Of' 1928 THE F'IRST GRADUATING CLASS Of' THE SCHOOL Of' LAW, the brief OF THE SCHOOL OF LAW

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL Of" LAW SUMMER, 1978

Cover, The Closs of 1928

Pictured left to right- top row: Paul L. Williams, James F. Gray, Edgar H. Selec­ man, and John W. Randall; middle row: Hubert 0. Wills, DeWitt Horry, Erin Bain Jones, Harry S. Pollard, and J. Harold Goode; bottom row: Ellis P. House, Euell Moseley, W. Autry Norton, and Ely Straus (photo courtesy of J. Harold Goode)

Reminiscences of the Dean 3 A Short History of the School of Law 4 Professor Joseph W. McKnight Fifty Classes 6 Michael H. Hoffman International Friend 6 Continuing Legal Education 7 Ted Reiner CLE Program Schedule 8 News Briefs 9 Title History of the SMU Law Quadrangle 10 Professor Lennart V. Larson Faculty Notes 11 The SBA: A Year of Accomplishment 12 David M. Prichard Roy R. Ray Lecture 13 Gift Honoring Paul Carrington 14 Alumni Milestones 15

President, Law Alumni Association 77-78 William D. Powell Dean Charles 0. Galvin Assistant Dean Edward 0. Coultas Director of the Law School Fund James I. Soule Editor Michael H. Hoffman

A publication of the SMU Law Alumni Association. SMU School of Law, Storey Hall, Doi/as, Texas 75275. The Early Years

of the

School of Law

Reminiscences of the Dean

My recollections of the School of school was located in the east wing In going over some old papers of Law go back many years. From of the third floor of Dallas Hall and Dean Potts of the middle 1930's, it 1929 to 1946, when I married, I lived from 1925 until the late 1930's, the was interesting to read his letters to on McFarlin Boulevard,just a short entire library, all offices and class­ then SMU President Selecman urg­ distance from the University. At room facilities were accommo­ ing an increase in support for the that time, many of the University dated in that area. One of the School of Law. The total student faculty lived on University legends is that law students would body, of course, was considerably Boulevard, McFarlin Boulevard stand around the balcony of the less than 100, including the day and and Haynie A venue. These were rotunda on the third floor of Dallas evening divisions. Dean Potts was members of the original faculty or Hall and heat coins with a match, proposing a budget of approxi­ those who came shortly after the throwing them down on the floor to mately $25,000 to support full-time University was founded and pur­ watch unsuspecting victims pick up professors, library, the dean, the chased property around the Univer­ hot coins from the floor. dean's office and incidental ex­ sity even before the city of Univer­ When Fondren Library was com­ penses necessary for the operation sity Park was incorporated. Dean pleted in the late 1930's the School of the school. Today, the direct ex­ Potts, who was Dean of the School of Law was moved and the east penses are approximately $2 mil­ of Law from 1927 to 1947, lived on wing of the basement of Dallas Hall lion. Haynie and Professor William became the library with faculty I graduated from SMU with a Alexander Rhea lived on McFarlin. offices at the extreme east end of the Bachelor of Science in Commerce I knew the Potts family well and library in the small semicircular degree in 1940 and was awarded a spoke to Dean Potts when I was in area. The main floor of the east wing fellowship to Northwestern Uni­ high school about the SMU School of Dallas Hall was divided by a cor­ versity to obtain a Master of Busi­ of Law. ridor. The School of Business Ad­ ness Administration degree, which I I came to know Judge William ministration offices were on the accomplished by the spring of 1941. Alexander Rhea who joined Dean north side while the classroom Because of the imminence of being Potts when the School of Law was facilities on the south side were drafted, I returned to Dallas and just starting. Indeed, it was largely shared by the School of Law and the began law school in the fall of 1941 because of the intense respect for School of Business Administration. with professors whose names are scholarship and research on the part The School of Business Ad­ still familiar around the school­ of both Dean Potts and Judge Rhea ministration had been for many Professors Clyde Emery and Roy R. that the SMU Law Library is as years housed in a shack (quite liter­ Ray. good a library as it is today. They ally a shack) which had been built With the declaration of war in believed in a good library and good during World War I and remained December of 1941, people began to facilities and urged lawyers in the just north of Dallas Hall to accom­ withdraw from the school for vari­ community to support the law lib­ modate what was then called the ous training programs so that when rary from the very beginning. School of Commerce. Another the war was fully underway the total When the School of Law first shack accommodated the Art De­ number of law students was proba­ opened in 1925, a dean was not ap­ partment. During the 1920's and bly well under fifty. During this time pointed. Instead, Mr. Joseph E. 1930's these were affectionately re­ professors left for various govern­ Cockrell was designated as the ferred to as the '' Art Shack'' and the ment agency appointments leaving Chairman of the Faculty. The "Commerce Shack." (continued on page 9) 3 A Short History of the School of Law

by Joseph W. McKnight Professor of Law

Introduction - In the fall of 1978 sociation, the State Bar of Texas, Faculty minutes of those early Southern Methodist University will and SMU, the representatives of the days are replete with instances of embark upon its sixty-fourth groups concerned agreed that the the serious concern for scholarship academic year, and the School of University would operate an even­ and the quality of professional train­ Law will begin its fifty-fourth. The ing division on the campus and that ing. In this regard what now may School of Law was established by all unapproved law schools would seem an amusing incident is re­ resolution of the University's Board cease operation. By the time of the corded in the minutes of November of Trustees in February 1925 and scheduled amalgamation only one 2, 1931, in which the Law Students was essentially the realization of the such school remained, the Dallas Association, represented by four vision of Judge Joseph E. Cockrell, School of Law, which met in the students who went on to become who served as Chairman of the YMCA. It was merged with the distinguished members of the bench Board of Trustees of the University SMU School of Law in 1938 with and bar, formally apologized to the in 1925 and was a past-President of the understanding that classes faculty for their unprofessional the Dallas Bar Association. Judge would continue to be held at the conduct in declaring a holiday on Cockrell convinced the Board that YMCA for two years; and after that Saturday, October 31, 1931, begin­ no university could attain first rank period, all classes would be held on ning at eleven o'clock and extend­ without a school of law. the SMU campus. Phasing out of ing through the balance of the day in The Formative Years - When these substandard schools resulted anticipation of the SMU-Texas the first law school class enrolled in in a marked upgrading of the quality football game (N. B. - Classes were the fall of 1925, Judge Cockrell was of legal education in Dallas, for at then held on Saturday until 1:00 serving as Chairman of the Faculty SMU the same standards were p.m. - the game results were and continued in this role until maintained for day and evening stu­ SMU-9; Texas-7). Charles Shirley Potts assumed the dents and both divisions were Following the Depression came deanship in 1927. Much of the work taught by full-time faculty. the onset of World War II, and again of organization of the school was Potts's deanship was a period of the School of Law was dealt a se­ accomplished by William Alexan­ establishing a new and struggling vere blow. Although Potts was 70 in der Rhea, who was the first Profes­ law school. Budgets were tight dur­ 1942, he agreed to stay on for the sor of Law, having come- to SMU ing the Great Depression, and stu­ difficult years of the war while from the faculty of the University of dents were hard pressed to afford awaiting the appointment of his Texas. even $50 a semester for tuition. successor. Enrollment dropped to By 1927 the school had a com­ Many students were in arrears with thirty-five students; yet the school plete three-year course of study and their tuition, and grades had to be was maintained intact and was pre­ was put on the approved list of the withheld and registration for the pared for the deluge of applicants at American Bar Association; and two next semester prohibited until tu­ the war's end. years later, it was admitted to mem­ ition was paid. Dean Potts, without The Law Quadrangle Begun -A bership in the Association of the knowledge of the students af­ new era for the School of Law came American Law Schools. fected, frequently acted as surety with the succession of Robert G. Potts was dean from 1927 to 1947. for loans to enable students to con­ Storey to the deanship in 1947. The During the early years of his dean­ tinue their legal education. School had been housed originally ship he worked to effect an orderly Despite these difficulties the on the third floor of the east wing of phasing out of various proprietary Dean and faculty were dedicated to Dallas Hall and later on the ground and unapproved law schools in Dal­ maintaining from the outset the in­ floor and part of the first floor. Mr. las. A leader in these developments tegrity and quality of education. In­ Storey envisioned a truly great was Robert G. Storey, who in 1937 deed, the magnificent library collec­ school with fine buildings of its own. had been elected Chairman of the tion which the School of Law has The Southwestern Legal Founda­ Committee on Legal Education of today is attributable to the unstint­ tion was organized in 1947 as a the American Bar Association. ing devotion to the development of means of sponsoring the develop­ After extensive negotiations be­ an excellent library from the very ment of a major legal center. A tween the ABA, the Dallas Bar As- beginning. building campaign was undertaken

4 with the splendid cooperation of the terns. Many graduates of these Finally, on vote of the faculty, it lawyers and businessmen of Dallas. programs have returned to their na­ was gradually phased out by 1969. By 1951 two new buildings were tive countries to work in the im­ At the same time a large number of completed - Storey Hall, housing provement of legal education and practitioners were attracted to library, faculty and administration, the administration of justice. They teach courses in specialized areas as and Lawyers Inn, a residence hall are a credit to the United States, to a means of significantly enriching for law students. In addition, Kirby Dallas, and to SMU. the curriculum for the day division. Hall, which had formerly housed The School ofLaw-Southwestern A chapter of the Order of the Coif the School of Theology, was refur­ Legal Foundation differences - was installed in 1967. Furthermore, bished as a law classroom building Dean Storey also served in the in that year the Southwestern Law and renamed Florence Hall. capacity of President of the South­ Journal reinstituted its annual sur­ An impressive dedication cere­ western Legal Foundation. With re­ vey of Texas law, a valuable service mony was staged in the spring of spect to relationships both internal to the bench and bar. In 1968 the 1951 and featured Dean Arthur T. to the University and with the pub­ prestigious Hatton W. Sumners Vanderbilt of the New York Uni­ lic at large, the identities of the Scholarship program was begun. versity School of Law and many School of Law and the Foundation Each year five to seven outstanding distinguished representatives from were blurred because Dean Storey scholars are selected by the Sum­ the bench, bar and legal education. was an effective advocate for both ners Foundation out of a group of In the period immediately follow­ organizations and was indistin­ candidates nominated by the ing World War II, the faculty per­ guishably identified with both. school. The Sumners Scholar re­ ceived the need for a publication When he retired in 1949, his Assis­ ceives full tuition, board and room, which would be devoted primarily tant Dean, John W. Riehm was ap­ books, and traveling expenses. This to developments in Texas law and pointed dean. Dean Riehm wanted program offers one of the most would offer the opportunity for law to establish the identity of the generous fellowships in any law review training for qualified stu­ School of Law separate from the school. dents. The journal, Texas Law and Foundation and sought to have rep­ In 1970 Webster and Laura Legislation, was inaugurated in the resentatives of each organization Burgher Atwell endowed the Wil­ spring of 1947 and in the second articulate a modus vivendi. Al­ liam Hawley Atwell Chair in Con­ year of publication its name was though every effort was made to stitutional Law, and Professor A. J. changed to Southwestern Law reach a harmonious arrangement, Thomas was designated as the first Journal, which is now in volume there was no real success, so that by recipient. thirty-two. In its early issues, the 1974 The Southwestern Legal Working closely with the Law Journal published a survey of im­ Foundation moved to the campus of Alumni Association, Dean Galvin portant recent developments in the University of Texas at Dallas. has succeeded in substantially in­ Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Dean Riehm expanded the faculty creasing the Annual Law School Oklahoma. Currently, it publishes a and with faculty approval under­ Fund and has developed endow­ special fifth issue each year contain­ took to offer a program leading to ments for the library, scholarships, ing a survey ofrecent developments the Doctor of the Science of Law and other purposes. In 1971 he en­ in Texas law. (S.J.D.) degree. With faculty ap­ listed the support of his long-time In 1961 the School of Law be­ proval he also broadened the cur­ friend, George M. Underwood, Jr., came the permanent home of the riculum to offer a greater variety of real estate developer and financier, Journal of Air Law and Commerce, electives for students. to build the Underwood Library. then in its twenty-eighth volume. Dean Riehm resigned effective The Underwood gift and gifts from The Journal is the only scholarly September 30, 1963, to become as­ other friends and organizations in periodical in the English language sociated with Matthew Bender & Dallas matched a grant and loan devoted primarily to the legal and Co., publishers of law and other from the Department of Health, economic problems of aviation and academic texts. Professor Arthur L. Education and Welfare to enable space. It is now in its forty-third Harding was made Chairman of the the School to remodel Florence Hall volume and is published quarterly. Faculty until the appointment of into a first rate classroom building Dean Storey expanded the hori­ Dean Charles 0. Galvin in and to complete a magnificent li­ zons of the school to include November, 1963. brary, second in size only to the graduate legal education of foreign Solidification of Program Harvard Law Library and approxi­ lawyers, first with the founding of Dean Galvin initiated the third great mately twenty-third in number of the Law Institute of the Americas, a era of the School of Law. He has holdings among 165 ABA approved program designed primarily for been responsible for better utiliza­ public and private law schools. lawyers in Latin America, and the tion of resources and the prompting Curriculum - The School of Law Academy of American Law, a pro­ of greater scholarly activity on the offers a diverse curriculum that has gram designed primarily for lawyers part of faculty. A series of important changed in significant respects over in the Middle East, Far East, and developments have marked these the fifty-three years though a con­ some countries of Europe. These years. One of Dean Galvin's initial tinuity of purpose has been main­ programs continue to bring about problems was the question of what tained to train skillful practitioners thirty students each year to SMU to do about the evening division. with a strong sense of public re­ for a year's study in specially pre­ Enrollment had declined to the sponsibility. From the first years pared courses surveying the whole point that evening education was of the Anglo-American legal sys- causing a serious financial drain. (continued on page 14)

5 Faculty and students of the School of Law - 1928. Fifty Classes by Michael H. Hoffman

Fifty years ago they posed for the available to law students, and what open to your discretion. Your photo on our cover, and a scant year did prospective employers em­ stories are important. later they were struggling through phasize when they interviewed new the Great Depression. It was not an graduates? easy time for the class of '28 but These questions can be multiplied An International Friend they persevered, and after the crisis many times over, and when the years of the Depression were be­ cumulative answers are finally Few American law schools are hind them, our graduates went on to given they will provide a wealth of privileged to have as many foreign build successful careers in the legal information for a future historian. lawyers in attendance as does profession. However, official documents only SMU. Through contact with these The class of '28 was the first to tell a small part of the story. Some­ attorneys from overseas, American graduate from the SMU School of day a history of our school will be students gain a broad international Law, and as a member of the class written and by preserving your perspective of their profession. A of '78, I look forward to seeing the stories in print we can assure that recent letter to Professor Thomas contributions our graduates will the class of2028 will know about the from a Swiss lawyer and SMU Law make to the legal profession during more personal aspects of twentieth graduate indicates that foreign stu­ the next half century. We are half­ century law school life. The stories dents think highly of their experi­ way to our one hundredth anniver­ will give those of us just embarking ence at the School of Law. sary, and it is time to begin chroni­ on our careers a more personal view Martin Forster '68, has written cling the accomplishments and of the senior alumni as well. It that his overall education at the memoirs of the alumni of the School would be nice to know what your School of Law has been very helpful of Law. experiences were like in earlier to him in his work as a commercial Some of the articles in this issue years. lawyer in Zurich. He also gave the provide a beginning. In future is­ We welcome contributions from annual law school fund drive a boost sues, The Brief will assume respon­ all American and International with a generous contribution of sibility for publishing stories and alumni. Stories ranging from single $500. It is a pleasure to hear anecdotes from alumni who wish to paragraphs to full length articles are confirmation that the School of Law share their reminiscences. What needed. Tell us about your experi­ effectively serves the international were the most notable features of a ences at the School of Law and dur­ legal community, and to know we law student's life in earlier decades? ing the early days of your profes­ have loyal international alumni like What kind of part-time work was sional careers. The subject matter is Mr. Forster.

6 CLE The Interdisciplinary Side of Legal Education by Ted Reiner

The School of Law recently fectively without the help, aid and sponsored a program on Texas assistance of a team of specialists? Family Law and Community Prop­ Who can recall an anti-trust suit in erty. Among the lecturers at this which there was no economist pre­ Convenient conference were Dr. Robert Gor­ sent? All of us can think of personal don, a psychologist, and Mr. David injury attorneys who have a know­ Lajoie, a CPA. ALI-ABA, in a re­ ledge of anatomy equal to that of CLE Book cent program entitled "Represent­ most general practitioners. ing the Dying Client,'' included At this point in time in order to Service among its faculty a Rabbi, a Roman serve one's client well, knowing Catholic monsignor and a protes­ Lawyers may make an absolutely only the law is not enough. The at­ painless gift to the SMU School of tant minister. They were joined by a torney must not only be aware of psychiatrist, a medical doctor, a Law through the SMU Center for other disciplines, but also of how to Advanced Professional Develop­ bank trust officer, a CLU and five bring and meld together the many practicing attorneys. The Univer­ ment. Thirty percent of the gross non-lawyer specialists who may be price of any book ordered from PLI sity of Washington School of Law needed to implement solutions to sponsors the Pacific Coast Labor comes directly back to the School of those problems uncovered by the Law as its sales commission. Law conference, the faculty of attorney. which regularly includes eco­ Attorneys calling the Center's nomists, non-lawyer corporate The complexity of man and his office in Dallas at 692-2639 will have labor negotiators, union representa­ work requires us, in the legal pro­ their order placed the same day. tives and other non-legal personnel. fession, to adopt a holistic view of Those desiring copies of the current We are seeing more and more each client as opposed to the frag­ PLI book catalogue may call or CLE programs having interdis­ mented, narrow views being taken write the office and they will be pro­ ciplinary faculties. If three pro­ by some other professionals in dif­ vided with one immediately. grams can be recalled quickly, there ferent disciplines. Though we may In addition to all PLI publica­ probably have been a dozen or tend to gain more expertise in one tions, outlines from CLE programs more. This trend is a logical out­ area of law over another, we deal offered by the SMU School of Law growth of the fact that birth and with the whole client, the whole are available. Titles and prices of death, and everything that goes be­ person-not just a piece of that per­ these publications are as follows: tween have become enormously son. We deal with the whole client Appellate Practice Clinic (Dallas complex. Practicing attorneys have complete with expressed or unex­ Bar Association & SMU), 1976, become increasingly aware of this pressed desires, needs, hurts, and $10.00. fact. We have found, to our dismay, hang-ups. We all know that dealing Bankruptcy Clinic (Dallas Bar that commercial transactions previ­ with a client from this point of view Association & SMU), 1976, $10.00. ously considered routine are any­ can be trying and enervating but Deceptive Trade Practice Law, thing but routine. We must now also rewarding. 1978, $20.00. consider the environmental impact The attorney has been trained to Due Process in State Licensing, of certain decisions, which neces­ recognize the ultimate limitations of 1976, $10.00. sarily involves the attorney with his own knowledge and also to think Federal Procedure Clinic (Dallas geologists, demographers, ar­ in interdisciplinary terms. To Bar Association & SMU), 1977, cheologists and a myriad of other further this training, we in post­ $30.00. "ologists." professional education at the SMU Government Contract Adminis­ The attorney who drafts a pro­ School of Law will strive to present tration, 1977, $50.00. spectus must have an economist programs that will enhance and Public Employee Labor Rela­ and an accountant at his elbow. Can broaden the attorney's effective­ tions, 1976, $15.00. the estate planner really function ef- ness. (continued on page 8)

7 SMU SCHOOL OF LAW CENTER FOR ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CLE PROGRAM SCHEDULE MARCH l, 1978-SUMMER, 1979

June 20 May 16, 17, 18 September 25-29 - 14th Antitrust Tax and Legal Problems ansmg Symposium on Corporate Tax Short Course - Dallas Planning from Investments in Energy October 4-5 - 25th Labor Law In­ Businesses stitute - Dallas June September Seminar with Dallas Bar Associa­ Seminar with Dallas Bar Associa­ tion State Bar of Texas tion Legal Malpractice Series: July September 27, 28, 29 Summer Short Course September 21, 1978 Symposium on Federal Tax Plan­ Lubbock (Hilton Inn) ning These are programs currently on September 22, 1978 the CLE schedule. Future programs El Paso (Holiday Inn Downtown) October 24-27 will be announced in later issues of September 28, 1978 Government Contracts Short The Brief. Further information can Dallas (Adolphus Hotel) Course also be obtained by calling the CLE office. September 29, 1978 November 2, 3, 4 Fort Worth (Sheraton Inn) Symposium on Estate Planning Additional CLE Programs October 5, 1978 I will from time to time list pro­ San Antonio (El Tropicana) November 15-17 grams sponsored by other CLE Energy-Natural Resource Law & organizations which may be of in­ October 5, 1978 Taxation terest to professionals. Houston (South Texas College of Ted Reiner Law) November 29-December 1 Symposium on Employee Benefits October 20, 1978 University c,f Texas School of Law Austin (Texas Law Center) December September 21-22 Annual Seminar with Dallas Bar Associa­ Mortgage Lending Institute - Aus­ Inquiries about any of these pro­ tion tin grams will be forwarded to the ap­ October 2-3 - Immigration and propriate organization. February 15-16, 1979 Naturalization Conference - San Annual Institute on Government Antonio Contracting October 16-17 - Conference on March 14 Energy Law - Austin BOOKS Collective Bargaining Workshop (continued from page 7) Practising Law Institute Securities Law and Antitrust March Litigation (SMU & Dallas Associa­ Seminar with Dallas Bar Associa­ September 21-22 - Warranties in the Sale of Goods - Dallas tion of Legal Assistants), 1977, tion $10.00. October 26-27 - Practical Will Texas Civil Practice, 1977, March 29-30 Drafting - Dallas $30.00. 6th Annual Institute on Family January 19-20- Federal Civil Prac­ Practice tice - Dallas Texas Family Law and Commu­ nity Property, 1978, $35.00. April 25-27 Texas Family Law and Commu­ Doing Business in Mexico (Mexico Southwestern Legal Foundation nity Property, 1977, $30.00. City) September 6-7 - 13th Oil & Gas Texas Family Law and Commu­ May 3-4 Accounting Institute - Dallas nity Property, 1975, $20.00. Annual Symposium on Develop­ September 11-12 - Selected Prob­ Trial Practice Clinic (Dallas Bar ments in Texas Law lems in Urban Planning - Dallas Association & SMU), 1975, $10.00.

8 parative law for the SMU Under­ (continued from page 3) Memorial Fund wood Law Library. Organizers of DEAN only the Dean and Professor Emery the Fund hope that $20,000 can be Established and some part-time faculty to carry raised. For those interested in con­ on the educational program. These With the death of Joseph T. tributing please write or call Frank were tough years for the University Nance on January 9, 1977, the Dal­ Norton, Hillcrest Bank Building, as a whole. The women students las Bar lost one of its distinguished Dallas, Texas 75205. (214) 750-9400. members. Mr. Nance had been ac­ and a Navy V-5 program operating tively engaged in the practice oflaw Alumnus to Author at the University kept it going dur­ ing those difficult times. since his graduation from the SMU New Treatise School of Law in 1953. He was as­ In my own case, I enlisted in the sociated with a Dallas law firm from The importance of municipal Navy, went to Officers' Training 1953 to 1967, served for several problems is underscored by the School and served four years. Fol­ years as Vice-President and Gen­ availability of several multi-volume lowing discharge, I obtained my eral Counsel in Europe for Holiday treatises on local government law. Juris Doctor degree from North­ Inns International, and from 1973 to However, there is no single volume western University. 1977 was an attorney for First Inter­ work available on local government Following World War II, Mr. national Bancshares, Inc. of Dallas. law but this situation will soon be Robert G. Storey, a distinguished Dallas lawyer, was appointed to Mr. Nance was a member of the remedied by Professor Osborne M. State Bar of Texas, Dallas and Reynolds, Jr. '68. succeed Dean Potts. He undertook American Bar Associations, Professor Reynolds, a member of a major building campaign and what American Judicature Society, the faculty of the University of Ok­ is now the Storey Administration American Society of International lahoma Law School, is working on a Building and Lawyers' Inn were Law, Texas Association of Bank local government law handbook to built and Kirby Hall was remodeled Counsel and the Southwestern be published by West Publishing into what is now Florence Hall. Legal Foundation. In 1975-76, he Company. This text, which will in­ In 1968 I was successful in obtain­ was President of the Dallas Interna­ clude approximately thirty-three ing a grant from the Department of tional Law Association. chapters and cover a myriad of fun­ Health, Education and Welfare to renovate Florence Hall and to build In honor of Mr. Nance, the Dallas damental principles of local gov­ Underwood Library. Matching pri­ International Law Association has ernment law, is intended to provide vate funds, and in particular a $1 established the Joseph T. Nance law students and attorneys with a million gift from Mr. and Mrs. Memorial Fund. Contributions to convenient overview of the exten­ George M. Underwood, Jr., made the Fund will be used to purchase sive body of law existing in this possible the completion of the Law books on international and com- area. Quadrangle as we know it today. Total tuition at the SMU School of Law in the period before World Ms. LANA BRADBERRY PLEASE ORDER THE War II and immediately following FOLLOWING BOOK FOR was about $125 a semester. This Center for Advanced was not too different from the tu­ Professional Development ME: ition at the University of Texas Law SMU School of Law PLI #·------­ School which was perhaps $50 to Dallas, Texas 75275 (Book Number, if known) $75 a semester. Therefore, at that PLI#______time, the differential in cost to at­ tend the SMU School of Law or the (Book Number, if known) state supported law school was not PLI#______too great in terms of dollar values. (Total Purchase Price) Of course, as educational costs have increased the tuition at SMU now runs far in excess of that at any (Title of SMU Publication) of the state schools. I hope you have enjoyed some of my reminiscences about the early (Title of SMU Publication) years of the School of Law. Moreover, I urge all those who at­ (Your name) tended the School of Law at earlier times to make available to The Brief your own reminiscences of inci­ (Street Ad Ires~ or P.O. l.lo.x l dents and people recalled from an earlier day. Also, recollections of (City) (State) (ZIP Code) some of the problems encountered when entering into law practice in For PLI publications please make checks payable to PLI. For SMU earlier days as well as the level of publications please make checks payable to SMU. If you are unsure of compensation for a beginning attor­ the price, phone (214) 692-2639. ney may be of interest to our more recent graduates. 9 Title History of the SMU Law Quadrangle

by Lennart V. Larson Professor of Law

It is probably unnecessary to Colony set about using the rectan­ bounded by what are now Lovers reassure alumni and friends that the gular system of survey (the same as Lane and McFarlin Boulevard (ex­ SMU School of Law rightfully oc­ the U.S. Government System). The tended) on the north and south and cupies the grounds on which it intersection of the First Principal Greenville and Hillcrest A venues stands. Nevertheless, it is of in­ Meridian and Base Line was a point on the east and west. The survey terest to trace the title and to under­ near the confluence of the Elm and and description of the half section stand its beginnings. West Forks of the Trinity River, took as the beginning point the NE The Southern Methodist Univer­ southwest of what is now the corner of Section 22, which had sity Law Quadrangle lies in the NW Southwestern Medical Center. The been surveyed earlier. corner of a thirty-three acre tract Commissioners had authority to Section 22 was known as the John which constitutes the north end of issue certificates for land to immi­ Scurlock Survey. This section was the University campus. The thirty­ grants, who eventually got patents bounded by what are now Lovers three acre tract was a part of the (deeds) from the Republic or State Lane and Mockingbird Lane on the Jefferson Tilley Survey. It was ac­ after satisfying conditions of sur­ north and south and by Hillcrest quired by the United Methodist vey, use and occupation. A venue and Preston Road on the Church through a chain of con­ On March 15, 1850, Jefferson Til­ east and west. On April 24, 1855, veyances which was separate from ley executed a bond for deed to the Governor E. M. Pease conveyed by the conveyances by which the rest north half of Section 23 of Township patent to John Scurlock Section 22 of the campus was acquired. The 1 North, Range 1 East of the First as it had been located on the ground. tract is bounded by Airline Road Meridian and Base Line of the sur­ John M. and Frances Daniel were and Hillcrest A venue on the east veys of the Colony of W. S. Peters early settlers in Dallas County. By and west and by Daniels A venue in favor of Alexander Cockrell. Til­ 1850 they owned or had rights to and Mc Farlin Boulevard (extended) ley covenanted to convey the land almost 1800 acres ofland, most ofit on the north and south. The Law when he received a patent, and the located north of Section 23. They Quadrangle covers six acres and is consideration was $300. On May 7, operated a dairy farm. Frances died bounded by Daniels A venue and 1850, Tilley was awarded Certifi­ without a will in November, 1853. University Boulevard (extended) cate No. 485 for 640 acres by At the time, her husband was on the north and south and by Thomas W. Ward, Commissioner confined to an insane asylum in Athens Street (extended) and Hill­ for the W. S. Peters Colony. The Alabama. He was 70 or 80 years of crest A venue on the east and west. type of certificate (3d class) indi­ age and probably died soon thereaf­ A narrative statement follows of cated that Tilley came to Texas be­ ter. Frances and members of her the chain of conveyances affecting tween 1837 and 1840. On the same family are buried in the private the title to the thirty-three acre day Tilley executed a power of at­ cemetery located on Airline Road tract. This is a condensation of a torney to Cockrell to locate and between Rosedale and Milton Av­ somewhat longer paper which is on survey the N 1/2 of Section 23, to get enues. The family homestead was file in the Underwood Law Library. a patent from the State, and to con­ probably located some distance to The Republic of Texas passed vey to Frances Daniel. On the pre­ the east. legislation in 1841 for the purpose of vious day Cockrell had executed a On February 18, 1854, Governor encouraging immigration. Under bond for title in favor of Frances E. M. Pease executed a patent this legislation W. S. Peters and Daniel. Cockrell covenanted to granting to Tilley the N 1/2 of Sec­ nineteen associates entered into convey when he received a patent tion 23. The description was defec­ agreements (four contracts in all) or otherwise acquired the land. The tive, omitting the first call of 950.4 with the Republic (later the State) to recited consideration for the power varas (½ mile) to the south of the bring settlers to North Texas, in­ of attorney and Cockrell's bond was NE corner of Section 22. On April 5, cluding most of Dallas County. The $275. 1854, Tilley by his attorney in fact Commissioners for the W. S. Peters The N 1/2 of Section 23 was (Cockrell) conveyed the Nl/2 of

10 Section 23 to the heirs of Frances dren. Lots 2 and 3 were set apart to SMU, a Texas corporation, their in­ Daniel. On June 4, 1914, a patent sons Francis R. and Jesse L. Daniel, terests (the whole title) in the part of was issued to Tilley by Governor 0. respectively. Lot 2 was bounded by Lot 3 which lay in the John Scurlock B. Colquitt, correcting the defective what are now Lovers Lane and Survey (73 acres). description and confirming the ear­ Daniels A venue on the north and lier grant. south and Airline Road and the On the same day, McNeny and On September 9, 1855, Scurlock center line of the East Prong of Tur­ Rozelle conveyed to the Trustees of conveyed to Frances Daniel that tle Creek on the east and west. Lot 3 the Methodist Episcopal Church part of the Nl/2 of Section 22 which was directly below Lot 2 with the South in the State of Texas their lay east of the center line of the East same east and west lines and interests in the rest of Lot 3. That is, Prong of Turtle Creek. The area was bounded by Daniels A venue and they conveyed the whole title to the 157½ acres, the consideration was Mc Farlin Boulevard (extended) on thirty-three acres on the east side of $315, and now Frances owned 4 77½ the north and south. Hillcrest Avenue which now consti­ tutes the north end of the SMU acres between what are now Lovers In 1867 or 1868 Francis R. planted Lane and McFatlin Boulevard (ex­ campus. In 1914 the liens were re­ a Bois d' Arc hedge on the north side leased and the Trustees of the tended). The attentive reader will of a fence dividing Lots 2 and 3. He note that on the date of Scurlock's Church had an unencumbered title and Jesse L. agreed that the hedge to the thirty-three acres. deed, Frances Daniel was dead. should mark the line between the Presumably her heirs took under the lots. The hedge actually extended In more recent times the title to deed and any difficulties in this re­ along the south side of what is now the thirty-three acres has come to gard were cured by the passing of Daniels Avenue. rest in the Trustees named by the time. United Methodist Church (succes­ The administration of Frances Jesse L. died intestate in 1903, sor to the Methodist Episcopal Daniel's estate took place between survived by six children. By virtue Church South). It is to be noted that 1853 and 1859. An inventory was of conveyances and succession in the irregularity of John Scurlock's filed listing separate and community the period 1903-1911, F. L. deed to Frances Daniel in 1855 property, including fourteen slaves. McNeny became owner of an undi­ (when she was dead) does not affect Partition and final distribution oc­ vided 11/15 of Lot 3, subject to the thirty-three acres, which lie en­ curred in 1858 and 1859. The partit­ liens. A. V. Rozelle became owner tirely within the Jefferson Tilley ion decree divided the Jefferson Til­ of the other 4/15 interest by virtue of Survey. One may conclude that the ley Survey plus the 157½ acres in a 1911 conveyance by one ofJesse's title is clear and without defect and the John Scurlock Survey into four daughters. On May 10, 1911, that we teachers, students and vis­ lots. The deceased had eight chil- McN eny and Rozelle conveyed to itors are lawfully on the premises.

Faculty Notes

Alan Bromberg discussed the Proposed also addressed the Texas State Historical and Legal Handbook published by ALI Federal Securities Code while at the Association in Austin on "The Spanish Ele­ Prentice-Hall. Law & Economics Center of the University ments in Modern Texas Law." On April 27th of Miami as a Visiting Lecturer in April. He he spoke on "Recent Developments in the Howard Tauben£eld delivered a lecture in later attended a meeting of the Educational Law of Texas Matrimonial Property" at the March in Oklahoma City on the "Law of Publications Advisory Board of Matthew Southwestern Law Journal 3rd Annual Sym­ Weather Modification," and later chaired a Bender & Co. in Naples, Florida, to plan law posium of Recent Developments in· Texas meeting of the Advisory Committee on school publications of the company. Law held at the School of Law. Professor Weather Modification to the Texas Water McKnight is President of the Texas Old Mis­ Resources Board in Austin. In April he ad­ Regis Campfield discussed "Planning sion and Fort Restoration Association and dressed the International Studies Associa­ Suggestions for the Migrant Client" at the 5th presided at the annual meeting held in May. tion of Dallas on "Namibia, International Annual Family Law Program held at the Law and the International Community." School of Law in late March. In early April Charles Morris has been appointed to the he served as a member of the ABA Inspec­ Federal Service Impasses Panel by President tion Team to Western New England College Vincent Walkowiak has been appointed Carter. This panel recommends solutions of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts. Co-Chairman of the American Bar Associa­ when other negotiating services are unable to tion Manufacturer's Liability Litigation resolve a labor negotiation impasse. William Dorsaneo's 5th volume entitled Committee, Subcommittee on Pending Texas Legal Guide - Civil Trial Procedures Legislation. was released by Matthew Bender & Co. Thomas Pelham received funding from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cam­ Dean Charles O. Galvin is contributing a bridge, Massachusetts, to prepare a paper on Peter Winship delivered a talk entitled "De­ chapter on "Priorities Among Lien Cred­ recently enacted state land use laws. He pre­ ceptive Trade Practices: An Overview" at itors" for the State Bar of Texas book on sented the paper entitled "Governmental In­ the joint School of Law-Dallas Bar Associa­ Creditors' Rights. tervention in the Land Market" at the Lin­ tion Program on Deceptive Trade Practice Joseph McKnight addressed the Workshop coln Institute Symposium in early April. Law. He also delivered a speech on "Com­ of the Dallas Genealogical Society on mercial Transactions" at the Southwestern "Exploring and Evaluating Legal Records in William Streng has just had his book enti­ Law Journal 3rd Annual Symposium of Re­ Genealogical Research" in February. He tled International Business Transactions Tax cent Developments in Texas Law.

11 The SBA: A Year of Aecom pl ishment

David M. Prichard President, Student Bar Association 1977-1978

Introduction-A recent Ameri­ degrees also have a representative. tivities Governor Dolph Briscoe can Bar Association publication ran The SBA Executive Council for­ and U.S. Senatorial hopefuls Bob a cover story insisting that in to­ mulates student policies in the in­ Krueger and Joe Christie spoke to day's society many lawyers have terest of its constituency, approp­ enthusiastic law student audiences. problems simply being "people." riates and administers an annual New Programs-Several new The article suggests that to some budget in excess of $20,000, plans programs and activities were in­ extent this problem begins in law speakers and programs of interest to itiated during the most recent school where students face intense students and schedules social func­ academic year. The SBA made two competition for high grades and a tions. The Student Bar Association significant financial contributions to position on the law review while is also extremely active in Underwood Law Library and was struggling to graduate and secure University-wide student gover­ instrumental in having the library the best paying and most prestigious nance affairs. Further, the SMU­ hours extended during final exams. employment. It is not difficult to see SBA contributes time and financial A law student check cashing service why lawyers may have a problem resources to state and national bar was established which allows law being "people." organizations that in turn aid in the students to cash checks without Each fall, during the orientation personal development of the indi­ service charge. Additionally, many of incoming first year law students, vidual law student at SMU. law students took advantage of the the President of the Student Bar As­ Speakers on campus-This new program sponsored by the SBA sociation is afforded the opportun­ year's Student Bar Association has which allows students to ride in ity to address that group. My visit compiled an impressive list of ser­ squad cars with Dallas Police with the "1-L's" centered on the vices and activities that fellow SBA Officers during an evening beat. importance of remaining a person Presidents around the country have and keeping a sense of humor while claimed to be among the nation's An academic pre-registration being introduced to the challenges best. Perhaps the SBA's most visi­ procedure was initiated with the and perplexities of the legal system. ble program is our outstanding combined effort of the SBA and the It was my personal goal as Student speaker series. The SBA has, on administration of the School of Law Bar Association President to ensure several occasions this year, joined while the SBA continued its effec­ that the SBA did all it could to help forces with an undergraduate or­ tive program of orienting new first­ law students remain "people". ganization to sponsor speeches by year law students to the experience SBA Organization-Every law outstanding individuals like Bar­ of law school and the excitement, student at SMU is a member of the bara Jordan, Leon Jaworski, Wil­ agonies and questions that it pre­ Student Bar Association. During liam F. Buckley, Sam Ervin, John sents. The 1977-78 Student Bar As­ the spring semester, the entire stu­ Connally and Harold Wilson. In ad­ sociation was also privileged to dent body of the School of Law dition, the SBA helped to bring IRS honor Professor Emeritus Clyde elects members of their constit­ Commissioner Jerome Kurtz, CBS Emery by renovating and dedicat­ uency to serve on the SBA 's Execu­ legal correspondent Fred Graham, ing the student lounge area at the tive Council. The Council consists and U.S. Senator and energy expert School of Law to a man who has of the President, Vice-President, Dale Bumpers to the School of Law. been a teacher and friend to decades Secretary, Treasurer and SMU' s The SBA was proud to assist in of SMU law students. representative to the Law Student making the first Roy R. Ray Lec­ Involved Students-The student Division of the American Bar As­ tureship program a tremendous body was fortunate to have several sociation. Additionally, each law success. Harvard Professor and As­ students working with state and na­ school class selects three members sociate Dean Robert Keeton spoke tional bar organizations. SMU was to represent the interests of the to a full Karcher Auditorium crowd host last fall to several ABA/LSD class in executive committee meet­ on advancements in the area of tort representatives from law schools in ings. Candidates for advanced law law. Later, during Law Week ac- Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas.

12 Barbara Houser, a third year law student at SMU, was appointed Director of the National Appellate Advocacy Program sponsored by the ABA. At the spring ABA Circuit meeting in New Orleans, Jimmy Golden, a second year law student at SMU, was elected Governor of the 13th Circuit. SMU's fine moot court teams finished first and second in regional competition and thus earned a trip to the final round of competition to be held this summer in New York City during the ABA's annual meet­ ing. The Texas Young Lawyers As­ sociation also received the benefit of the enthusiasm of SMU law stu­ dents when Paul Dalton, a second year law student, was chosen to serve on the TYLA Board of Direc­ tors. Paul also helped secure posi­ tions for three SMU law students on various TYLA committees. SMU also hosted the regional mock trial competition co-sponsored by the Listening to Robert E. Keeton at the Roy R. Ray Lecture are, pictured left to Texas Young Lawyers Association. right: Professor Neil Cogan, Professor Emeritus Roy R. Ray and Professor I had the pleasure to serve on a Page Keeton. committee sponsored by the Texas Bar Association to amend and re­ commend changes in the bar exam Roy R. Ray Lecture application form and the intent to study law form. The SBA worked closely with Courts should be realistic when only audience in Karcher Au­ other active law student organiza­ reading statutes and constitutional ditorium. This lecture was made tions to provide meaningful oppor­ provisions. If the problem has al­ possible through the generosity of tunities for all interested students. ready been addressed, the court Professor Emeritus Roy R. Ray of The Association of Women Law should follow the guidelines set the SMU School of Law. Students, the International Law down by the legislature. Ifit has not Students, and the Criminal Law been addressed, the courts should Students Association all made sig­ candidly acknowledge that they are nificant contributions to this year's making decisions which will fill activities. Mention should be made statutory gaps. This was the main of the fine law school student news­ thesis of the first annual Roy R. Ray paper · 'The Advocate'' which won Lecture delivered by Robert E. two ABA awards for journalistic Keeton, Langdell Professor of Law excellence in the last three years. and Associate Dean at Harvard Conclusion-The SBA at SMU Law School. would not be the strong institution it Professor Keeton spoke on the is today without three special future of the law of torts, and groups. First, the faculty of the suggested that the courts are mak­ School of Law is generally support­ ing choices in this area which are ive of the Student Bar's ideas and not value free. It was suggested that activities. Also, the administration this decision making process should of the School of Law is genuinely be openly acknowledged, so that interested and enthusiastic about when such policy choices must be the student body. made to fill in statutory gaps these However, the most important choices will result from careful, in­ support the SBA gets is from the law formed reasoning as to the con­ students themselves. With the sup­ sequences. port given by our fellow students, the SBA has fewer problems in as­ The lecture was well received, sisting law students to tackle the and its timeliness demonstrated by Robert E. Keeton delivering the first problem of just being "people" the presence of a standing room Roy R. Ray Lecture.

13 imposed. But this approach proved to be administratively burdensome without significant educational gains to justify it. The majority of students tend to take those basic courses which best prepare them for modern practice. With 650 Juris Doctor candidates and another 65 graduate students, however, it is nonetheless neces­ sary to structure the curriculum with fixed requirements in order to utilize time and space for the most effective educational results. The present curriculum of 90 semester hours required for graduation is well balanced with 42 required hours and 48 elective hours. The core subjects in which common-law thinking is ...... rooted are mastered in the first year. Pictured left to right: Dean Charles 0. Galvin, Paul Carrington, James E. Though the number of required Coleman, Jr., Gene L. McCoy and Mrs. Paul Carrington. courses after the first year varied from time to time, students have Gift Honors Paul Carrington great latitude of choice among elec­ In honor of Paul Carrington's sociate Dean for Clinical Educa- tive courses and can thereby many contributions to the legal pro- tion, stated: " This marvelous gift is specialize in a particular area during fession during his years of private the ideal way to recognize the ac- their final two years of instruction. practice in Dallas, the firm of Car- complishments of Mr. Carrington The Law School Today - In rington, Coleman, Sloman, Johnson who has dedicated his professional fifty-three years, a school of great & Blumenthal purchased video life to improving the legal profes- strength and diversity has been equipment for the School of Law. sion for the betterment of both its built. The faculty prides itself on The new Sony equipment has been practitioners and the public. Yid- maintaining a fine balance between installed in the conference room of eotapes are proving to be a lasting, high scholarly productivity and ex­ the Law Library and will be used in yet adaptable modality for provid- cellence in instruction. The student clinical training and the legal writing ing law students with insights not body is carefully selected, hard­ program. normally available from the class- working and cohesive. All this is On April 4, 1978, Mr. Carrington room approach, and we are very achieved in a physical setting of and members of the firm were hon- proud and pleased to have this great convenience and efficiency ored with a reception at the Law equipment available. It will enhance with a library of 240,000 volumes Library where the new equipment both our clinical and our legal writ- which serves both the academic was demonstrated. A plaque and ing programs. Both Mr. Carrington community and the legal profession portrait of Mr. Carrington were also and the firm can be assured that of Texas and the Southwest. placed in the conference room. their gift will be put to maximum use Our great strengths in specializa­ Professor Walter Steele, As- for many years to come." tion have been developed and widely recognized in the last thirty HISTORY In 1949 the whole of the first two years. Though the school is perhaps ( continued from page 5) years of study was required, with best known for in-depth training further requirements in the third offered in the corporate-tax­ through most of the 1940s, SMU year. Students entering in 1950 were commercial area, our excellence in had the traditional curriculum then also required to be in residence for the field of international and com­ prevailing in American legal educa­ one summer session in addition to parative law is also widely known. tion. The first year of study con­ three academic years. The required Our third area of excellence is in the sisted of required courses in summer session was not dropped field of practice, procedure and clin­ agency, contracts, criminal law, until 1963 when a somewhat diff­ ical training. Few, if any, other pleading, real and personal prop­ erent approach to the curriculum schools offer so much carefully erty, torts and legal bibliography. was adopted: all first year courses supervised training in interviewing Additional courses in civil proce­ were still required but only two techniques, negotiation, trial tactics dure, constitutional law, equity, courses were required during the and advocacy. corporations and evidence were re­ final two years, thereby allowing The vitality of Dallas as a center quired during the second and third students a choice from an ever­ of business and governmental activ­ years of study. The student chose widening variety of elective ity adds immeasurably to the scope the rest of his curriculum from a courses. In place of specific course of these academic offerings and very standard, but fairly limited, list requirements fixed hourly require­ provides the fullest professional of elective courses. ments, in certain subject-areas were opportunity for our graduates. 14 ALUMNI MILESTONES- Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Area. 1939 tor and shareholder in the Dallas firm of Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney & Neely, P.C. Mark Galloway recently became an assistant Mrs. Maxwell Clampitt continues to be active district attorney in Navarro County, Texas. in the Dallas Historical Society, Historical 1970 Gregory A. Klein is an attorney with Abbott Preservation League, and Dallas County Laboratories located in North Chicago. Historical Commission. Joe B. Henderson, Jr. has been appointed Judge of the Walker County, Texas, Court at Kim D. Krahenbuhl has become a partner in Law. His third child, a boy, was born in the law firm of Fearer and Nye of Oregon, 1943 August, 1977. Illinois. Paul Tackett, retired Justice of the Supreme Byron Rubin has opened his office for the Court of New Mexico, is now Of Counsel to practice of business law in El Paso. the law firm ofMarchiondo and Berry, P.A., 1972 Thomas Wuntch of Dallas gave a speech on William Frank Carroll became a partner in Albuquerque. "Possible Metabolic Roles of Lactate De­ the Dallas firm of Clark, West, Keller, San­ hydrogenase Isozymes" to the Department ders & Butler in 1977. He taught the Ad­ of Hematology at the Center for Disease 1950 vanced Antitrust Seminar at SMU this spring Control in Atlanta. He recently received a Francis W. Faris, Jr. has been appointed at­ and is serving as Treasurer of the Dallas As­ patent for his invention of a watch-winder. torney for the village of Villa Park, Illinois, sociation of Young Lawyers. and has recently moved to a new office lo­ cated in Elmhurst, Illinois. 1976 1973 Larry D. George completed an LL.M. in tax Richard L. Allen of Dallas is an Assistant at Georgetown University in August 1977, 1954 Vice-President & Trust Officer in charge of and is now with the tax department of Ernst the Tax Division for the Republic National Joseph A. Devany of Dallas has been named & Ernst in Houston. Bank Trust Department. the 1977 winner of the Robert C. DeLellis Edward C. Hertenstein is Master Commis­ Distinguished Service A ward. William D. Elliott has become a partner in the sioner of the Ohio Supreme Court in Colum­ Dallas firm of Ray, Anderson, Shields, Trotti bus and is also engaged in the private practice & Hemphill. of law. 1959 Josephine Jenkins and her husband are the Edwin T. Freeman, II is Vice-President and Jay Garrett has become a partner in the Fort proud parents of a daughter, Kristina, born Branch Manager for Guardian Savings and Worth firm of Law, Snakard, Brown & Gam­ on March 25, 1977. Loan Association, Dallas. bill. Michael R. Johnson is working for the De­ partment of Energy, Office of Special Coun­ George D. Neal of Dallas has been named Geoffrey White has been admitted to practice sel, in Houston. General Attorney for Sun Production Co., an as an English Solicitor, and is with the Lon­ operating unit of Sun Company, Inc. don firm of Clifford-Turner. At present, he is working at the Nakagawa Law Office in 1977 Tokyo. Marcy Leachman is an associate with the Dal­ 1961 las firm of Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney & Charles A. Joplin of Roswell is the 1977-78 Neely, P.C. President of the New Mexico Bankers As­ 1974 Perry H. Martineau has transferred from the sociation. William P. Bivins, Jr. is with the Products Reserves Acquisition Department to the Liability Litigation Section of the General Legal Department of the Sun Production Motors Legal Staff in Detroit. He has super­ 1966 Company in Dallas. visory responsibility for products liability Ronald C. Mills has been appointed General John E. McFall is returning to Dallas from litigation in nine states, Canada and Puerto Counsel of Lomarco, Inc. He is also the city New Orleans as a partner in the firm of Rico. attorney for Jacksonville, Arkansas and a Hewett, Johnson, Swanson & Barbee. Rene Gonzalez is serving as an Assistant U.S. partner in the law firm of Wilson, Dougherty Attorney in Alaska. He was the recipient of & Mills, P.A., Jacksonville. an award for outstanding performance from 1967 the Department of Justice for his work in the Gerald W. Livingston is now a partner in the DECEASED Southern District of Texas during 1977. His Dallas firm of Bean, Francis, Ford, Wills & third son, Paul, was born on December 30, Livingston, P.C. 1936 1977. Chandler Lloyd, d . March, 1978. James P. Lewis of Dallas was promoted to 1968 Assistant General Counsel of Southland Life 1937 Brian Eberstein has relocated his law offices Insurance Company in 1977. Howard E. Moore, d. March, 1978 . Lloyd W. Perkins has been appointed first to 1341 W. Mockingbird, Suite 718-E, Dallas. 1939 W. J. Morris '71 and Bill Kinder '74 are as­ judge of the newly created County Court at Leeves R. Akridge, d. October, 1977. sociated with his office. Law No. 2 in Grayson County, Texas. Michael L. Williams is in private practice in 1940 John P. Knouse and his wife, Carolyn, are the El Paso. proud parents of a daughter, Jennifer, born Ray A. Pittman, Jr., d. October, 1977. Jerome T. Ragsdale, d. April , 1978. February 10, 1977, in Dallas. 1975 1955 Bill Alley, Jr. is Chief Legal and Financial 1969 Ernest Ralph Gismant, d. January, 1978. Officer for Clark/Bardes Organization, a na­ Carey Mack Lavender is director of the Cam­ tional management consulting firm in Cincin­ pus Crusade for Christ at Cal Poly University 1961 nati. in Pomona, California. J. Robert Keegan, d. May, 1977. Peter W. Foster of Houston is with the Frederick W. Marsh, Jr. is engaged in genera Wainoco Oil & Gas Company, and has bee1 1969 corporate and securities practice as a direc- working on oil and gas legal matters in the Theodore Gross, d. April, 1978.

15 Southern Methodist University Non-Profit Org. Law Alumni Association U. S. Postage Box 116 PA ID Dallas, Texas 7S27S Dallas, Texas Permit No, 856

"History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last; not always by the chief offenders, but paid by someone. Justice and truth alone endure and live. Injustice and falsehood may be long-lived, but doomsday comes at last to them, in French Revolutions and other terrible ways." James Anthony Froude