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Vol. 10 January, 1960 No. I

President's Message It is good to know that the efforts of your Board of Governors do not go unrewarded. There were 463 in attendance at the Annual Meeting and Luncheon of the Alumni Association, which was held in conjunction with the State Bar Convention on September 24, 1959, in . This was the largest function ever held by the Association. Although 27 alumni who are members of the Judiciary were present as invited guests, there was no deficit. If you have paid your dues for 1959-60, Treasurer Lerer still has them! If you have not, he will be happy to receive your check for $3.00. It is the intention of the Board of Governors to hold regional meetings from time to time, outside of San Francisco. The first of the current year will be held at Sacramento, on March 8, 1960. It will be followed by a Legislative Reception, to which all members of the Legislature and all Hastings Alumni will be invited. The Place: Senator Hotel The Time: 6:00 P. M. The Date: March 8, 1960 Most of you know that we have undertaken to establish a Professor- ship in the name of our former Professor and dear friend, Robert W. Harrison. Our goal is almost in sight; but we need $4,200 in order to achieve it. We intend to complete this most worthwhile undertaking during the present year. When that has been done, we shall honor "Bob" Harrison appropriately at a luncheon given in his honor. Your loyalty to Hastings may best be demonstrated by making a tax deductible contri- bution to the Robert W. Harrison Professorship Fund, remitting the same directly to the College. MAx H. MARGOLIS, President.

EditorialI

This is the time of year when the rolls of the legal profession are augmented by the recent crop of admittees. In each community there is an opportunity for you to offer help to a new Hastings graduate. While the number of attorneys soars, our total population in soars faster, and there is no surplus of . There may be, however, a dislocation which makes it difficult for some to find their start. Your help to a new Hastings graduate will help the Alumni Asso- ciation. If each new graduate is welcomed to this Association by your active assistance in finding a location, or learning the professional techniques, it will pave the way for his awareness of the Alumni Asso- ciation. As he makes his way in the legal profession, he will want to take an active part in Alumni activities. Lend a helping hand to our newest members! ENOS C. REID, '39 . Vice-President WILLIAM C. SANFORD, '43 Vice-President HASTINGS LEONARD A. WORTHINGTON, '32 Vice-President BEN K. LERER, '33 ... Treasurer k'lktiH RUTH CHURCH GUPTA, '48, .. Secretary A/mumni Board of Governors Published by ANTHONY A. CARDOzO, '35 HASTINGS COLLEGE OF LAW HON. OLIVER J. CARTER, '35 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION JOHN M. ENNIS, '33 ALBERT G. EVANS, '32 HON. LESTER J. GENDRON, '52 198 McAllister Street, San Francisco 2, Calif. MARLIN W. HALEY, '34 RAYMOND A. LEONARD, '46 Officers - 1959 - 60 HAROLD L. LEVIN, '10 President JOHN A. PETTIS, JR., '48 MAX H. MARGOLIS, '32 WALTER S. ROUNTREE, '26 INGEMAR E. HOBERG, '28 ..... Vice-President KENNETH L. SAY, '31 MAX K. JAMISON, '45 .... Vice-President PHILIP C. WILKINS, '39 Dean's Message

To MEMBERS OF THE HASTINGS COLLEGE OF Our New Vice-President THE LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: Justice A. Frank Bray has served likely to be surprised by You are not on the Commonwealth Club Board the news that Hastings is substantially larger in 1959-60 than in 1958-59, and for the past 13 months. Previously that with 588 students it is again the a Board member, 1949-51, he has largest approved law school in the West. been Luncheon Program Commit- The Faculty consists cf sixteen full- tee chairman since 1954. He was time Professors, all but one of whom chairman of the Club's Delin- (Registrar Arthur M. Sammis) are mem- quency Section 1947-49, producing bers of the Sixty-five Club. the widely recognized report Three very distinguished legal scholars "Basic Causes of Delinquency," are new to our concrete campus: Elliott E. Cheatham, Professor of Law at Co- and was Quarterly Luncheon lumbia University from 1929 until 1957 Chairman 1947. Professor at Harvard Law and Visiting A Hastings graduate of 1910, Jus- in 1958-59; Lewis M. Simes, who School tice Bray is a director and vice- retired from the Law Faculty of the president of the College and was of Michigan in 1959, after 27 University honored last year as the year's of service; and Calvert Magruder, years alumnus to be elected to the legal retired Chief Judge of the honor society, Order of the Coif. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, After 12 years as a Contra Costa who was a Professor at Harvard Law superior judge, he was appointed School from 1920 until 1939, and again to the California Appellate Court in from 1946 until 1959. 1947 and became Presiding Justice This year's First-Year Class of 322 is year. Justice Bray is the only larger than that of any other year since this judge to have been President of 1949-50. But with space available in the California Parole and Probation First-Year classrooms for only 357 stu- His record includes dents, there is very little room for fur- Association. service on the State's Judicial ther expansion in future years. It is for Bray's notable that reason that the Board of Directors Council. Justice volunteer services to Boy Scouts recently approved a recommendation of Ex- the Faculty that our 2-4 program of legal include: member National Chair- educaticn be discontinued. plorer Committee; Regional Although graduation from an approved man of Camping; member Regional college or university will be required of Board; President-elect, Mt. Diablo Council, B.S.A. He has been given all applicants for admission in 1961-62, Silver annual increases in the size of the Stu- both the Silver Beaver and He lives in Mar- dent Body may almost be taken for Antelope awards. granted. It is indeed fortunate that we tinez. are at liberty to recruit our Faculty from From The Commonwealth, the Emeritus ranks of other law schools. Faithfully yours, November, 1959. DAVID E. SNODGRASS, Dean Antonio G. Bueno, '59, and Carl D. Dressel- haus, '59, have formed a partnership for the NEWS NOTES general practice of law. Their offices are at 356 South Broadway, . Albert R. Abramson, '54, member of the firm of Hoberg, Finger, Brown and Abramson, George Y. Chinn, '53, is a Deputy District has been elected to the Board of Directors Attorney, in the office of San Francisco's of the Barristers' Club of San Francisco. Thomas C. Lynch. * * A new school in Richmond has been named The roster of attorneys practicing in Alpine in honor of Charles Albert Adams, '87, Hon- County, of which Markleeville is the county orary Member of Hastings Chapter, Order of the Coif, and originator of Public School Ob- seat, contains only one name: Gard Chisholm, servance Week. '33. The other lawyers listed are the Judge and the District Attorney. Nat A. Agliano, '59, is a Deputy Attorney * * * General, attached to the Sacramento office, Axel E. Christiansen, '53, who was Assistant where his immediate superior is Assistant City Attorney of Redwood City until Septem- Attorney General Edward G. Benard, '31. ber 30, 1959, has been named as City Attorney of Madera. He is a former Chief Deputy Dis- trict Attorney of Madera County. Kenneth W. Andreen, '51, Fresno , has succeeded Superior Judge Leonard I. Meyers, '41, as a Judge of the Municipal Court. John B. Clausen, '51, has been promoted from Deputy to Assistant District Attorney of Contra Costa County. His office is in the Arthur Atteridge, '39, a member of the Hall of Records, Martinez. thriving firm of Mandl & Atteridge, has been reelected as Mayor of the City of Salinas. Ralph L. Coffman, '59, is newly associated Albert A. Axelrod, '25, has been named as with the dynamic of Schofield, Han- Presiding Judge of the Municipal Court of San son, Bridgett, Marcus & Jenkins, in which Francisco for the year 1960. Raymond L. Hanson, '36, and Thomas M. Jenkins, 49, are partners. His office is in the Balboa Building, San Francisco. Richard M. Barker, '57, is associated with W. W. McCray, in the general practice of law. Their offices are in the North Broadway Law Arthur H. Connolly, Jr., '35, Chairman of the Building, 811 North Broadway, Santa Ana. potent Administration of Justice Committee of the , contributed a 21-page report of its activities to the July- Herbert E. Bartow, '52, Deputy City Attor- August, 1959 issue of the State Bar Journal. ney of Madera, is a law partner of Axel E. Christiansen, '53, City Attorney. Their firm's offices are at 124 South D. Street. Hugo P. Correll, '32, a specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law, is associated with Glen M. Bendixsen, '59, is an Instructor at Wells, Murphey & Coffey, Oakland attorneys. the University of Washington School of Law. Their offices are at 2030 Franklin Street. His colleagues include Richard B. Amandes, '53, Assistant Dean, and Suzie Shapiro Thorn, '58, Assistant Librarian. William W. Coshow, '50, now a member of the Redding Bar, is City Attorney of that Pierre A. Bergerot, '92, Dean of the local thriving metropolis, vice Edwin N. Ness, '54, French Colony and oldest practicing lawyer in resigned. San Francisco, died on November 15, 1959. The French Government awarded him the Hilary H. Crawford, '23, now Vice-President Cross of the Legion of Honor, in 1926. He was of the Commonwealth Club of California, is awarded the rosette of an officer of the Order likely to be President of that organization, of Leopold by the Belgian Government, in in 1962. 1949. Two years ago he was made an Honorary Member of Hastings Chapter, Order of the Coif. He was the father of Edmond P. Robert M. Davis, '37, member of the Oak- Bergerot, '23, Chief Trial Deputy of the City land law firm of Berry, Davis, and Channel, Attorney's office. has been elected as President of the Alameda County Bar Association. Peter J. Crosby, Jr., '33, is his Vice-President; Harold W. Jewett, Former Municipal Judge Joseph A. Branson, x-'50, is a Director. '36, of the Central Judicial District of San Mateo County, has been promoted to the Superior Bench by Hastings' favorite gov- Appointment of Woodrow W. Denney, '49, ernor, . as Vice-President and Trust Officer of First Western and Trust Company's Main A. Frank Bray, '10, Presiding Justice of the Office, in San Francisco, has been officially First District Court of Appeal and former announced. Denney recently was elected as President of the Hastings College of the Law President of the Associated Trust Companies Alumni Association, became Vice-President of of Central California, an organization of trust the Board of Directors of the College on departments of the in San Francisco, November 18, 1959. Oakland, and Stockton. Brantley W. Dobbins, '03, dean of Vallejo Donald F. Gilson, x-'29, is Vice-President lawyers, died on August 27, 1959. A long time of California State Employees Credit Union, member of the Fairfield bar, he served two No. 2. His office is at 333 Golden Gate Avenue, terms there as District Attorney before mov- San Francisco. ing to Vallejo, where he practiced for more than 20 years. Louis E. Goodman, x-'15, Chief Judge of the U. S. District Court for the Northern District Albert M. Dreyer, '28, and Franklin M. of California, was presented with the Federal Smith, '40, were admitted to the State Bar of Bar Association's first annual Certificate for Nevada on December 23, 1959. Both intend to Outstanding Public Service, on October 24, practice law in Las Vegas. 1959. Robert Edward Green, '57, is associated with Thomas G. Duffy, '54, former Associate the San Diego law firm of Sankary and Counsel of Union Title Insurance Company, Sankary. Their offices are in the Bank of is City Attorney of El Cajon. He also is a America Building. partner in the new firm of Linley, Duffy & Smith, which maintains law offices at 118 Rea Street. Ruth Church Gupta, '48, Secretary of Hast- ings College of the Law Alumni Association, Dallas Edgar, '58, is with the Department of has been appointed to the State Regional Investment, Division of Corporations, with an Water Pollution Board. office in the State Building, San Francisco. Guy B. Hayler, '40, who had devoted 17 years to the San Francisco Civil Service Com- Arthur F. Edwards, Jr., '38, prominent mission and two years to travel, took and thespian, was married, on September 5, 1959, passed the Iowa Bar Examination in Septem- to Mrs. Jane Bryan, of Piedmont. ber, 1959. Charles 0. Erbaugh, Jr., '28, who appears Chief Justice Phil S. Gibson has announced never to have availed himself of his right to the appointment of Priscilla H. Haynes, '51, take the California Bar Examination, died in Judge of the Justice Court for the Manteca- November, 1958. Ripon-Escalon Judicial District, as the first woman member of the Judicial Council. She Circuit Judge William Z. Fairbanks, '26, of serves as representative of the Judicial Dis- Honolulu, has been reappointed to the Ha- trict Courts. waiian bench by Governor Quinn. James J. Hickey, '53, who joined Crown Zellerbach Corporation as a mail clerk in 1950 Joseph P. Fallon, '38, has been named as while a first-year law student, has been pro- President of the Immigration Attorneys of moted from attorney, legal department, to San Francisco. assistant resident manager of the company's Western-Waxide division plant in San One of San Francisco's newest law firms is Leandro. that of Field, DeGoff & Rieman. Its members A reception in honor of Percy Hight, '03, are Martin E. Field, '41, Sidney F. DeGoff, and Dean of California Judges, was held by Long Walter R. Rieman, '51. Their offices are in the Beach Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, DeYoung Building Penthouse. on December 3, 1959. Superior Judge Alfred P. Peracca, '35, Past Grand President of the David R. Finch, '58, has opened offices for Order, acted as Master of Ceremonies. the general practice of law, at 1340 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose. Eugene L. Huseman, '57, after two years in the Judge Advocate Department of the U. S. Army, has been appointed to the staff of Joseph L. Fink, '59, is Law Clerk to U. S. Santa Barbara's District Attorney, Verne District Judge Oliver J. Carter, '35. His office Thomas. Now in charge of the Lompoc office, is in the Post Office Building, San Francisco. he is that city's first full-time Deputy District Attorney. Matthew M. Fishgold, '48, has withdrawn from the firm of Delany, Fishgold and Freitas, James S. Hutchinson, '99, who practiced law and has established a law office in the Grant in San Francisco for half a century, died at Building, 1095 Market Street, San Berkeley on October 3, 1959, in his 92nd year. Francisco. A charter member of the Sierra Club, he had climbed all of the highest mountain peaks in California. Superior Judge Thomas M. Foley, x-'24, of San Francisco, died on December 13, 1959. A former Governor E. G. Brown has appointed John State Director of Veterans' Affairs B. Jelletich, '52, to a newly created judgeship and Chairman of the Veterans Welfare Board, he became a Municipal Judge in 1936 and a on the Bakersfield Municipal Court. member of the Superior Court, in 1939. Walter S. Johnson, '14, San Francisco busi- ness and civic leader, has been elected as a There's a new baby in the home of Lester trustee of the California Palace of the Legion J. Gendron, '52, District Attorney of Madera of Honor. County and member of the Alumni Associa- tion's Board of Governors. Born October 23, Noel Kelly, '52, P. G. & E. Attorney, has 1959, Stefanie Jeanne's initial weight was been elected to the Board of Directors of 6 lb., 11 oz. the Barristers Club of San Francisco. Andrew Kopperud, '50, Hastings' most active William R. Mackey, '59, is associated with writer in the Tax Law field, contributed an Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, a premier article on "Depreciation" to the September, San Francisco law firm of which Director 1959 issue of The Brief Case. Sidney M. Ehrman, '98, Jerome B. White, '06, and Samuel S. Stevens, '13, have long been Robert L. LaVine, '59, is associated with the members. Their offices are at 14 Montgomery San Francisco law firm of Bancroft, Avery, Street, San Francisco. and McAllister. James R. Bancroft, '49, and James H. McAllister, '52, are senior partners; Lincoln F. Mahan, '41, heretofore listed as Leo Andrade, Jr., '58, also is an associate of the firm. Their a Municipal Judge, is a Judge of the Superior offices are at 220 Bush Street. Court, in and for the County of Sonoma. His chambers are in the Santa Rosa Court House. George A. Lazar, Jr., '35, long-time member of the San Diego law firm of Lindley, Lazar & Scales, has been appointed as a Judge of John B. Marchant, '55, has announced the the Superior Court by Governor Pat Brown. opening of new law offices, in the Wittich Building, at 2015 Center Street, Berkeley. Marshall E. Leahy, '34, has just completed a very successful year as President of San Francisco's David J. Martin, '53, former Deputy District Olympic Club. Attorney of Alameda County, is a member of the new law firm of Martin, Rigney & Margin. Margaret Leonard, '24, formerly Research Their law offices are in the Bank of America Assistant to the Alameda County Welfare Building, Berkeley. Department, now holds the position of Wel- fare Legal Counsel. Her office is at 420 Broadway, Oakland. Francis W. Mayer, '41, veteran prosecutor, has been promoted to Chief Deputy District Attorney of the City and County of San Ben K. Lerer, '33, Treasurer of the Hast- Francisco. ings College of the Law Alumni Association, is the newly elected Treasurer of the Bar Municipal Judge Francis L. McCarty, '33, Association of San Francisco. whose appointment to the bench was warmly approved by every Giant fan in San Francisco, was a shoo-in for reelection. With no op- Raymond H. Levy, '49, of San Francisco, has ponent, he ran up a total of 168,309 votes. been installed as Master of Pacific Lodge of Masons, which recently celebrated its hun- Word has come from San Ramon of the dredth birthday. death of Paul McDonald, '93.

The Sacramento law firm of Lewis & Lewis, Clarissa Shortall McMahon, '34, John J. of which Clifford R. Lewis, '42, and Jerome Ferdon, '40, and Harold S. Dobbs, '42, were E. Lewis, '48, are members, has announced the reelected to membership in San Francisco's association of Herman E. Lorenz, '58. Their Board of Supervisors on November 3, 1959. offices are at 1023 "H" Street.

James T. Lindsey, '49, has resigned as City Attorney of Madera and moved to Goleta, Class of 19 3 9 Reunion where he has resumed the practice of law. Twenty-five members of Hast- Kneeland H. Lobner, '44, Sacramento attor- ings' Class of 1939 spent an after- ney, was reelected to the City Council on noon together at the Iron Horse, in Nov. 3, 1959. San Francisco, on November 7, 1959. John B. Lonergan, '33, of San Bernardino, Marlin W. Haley, '34, and Anthony A. Cardozo, The only guest was their former '35, are members of the Board of Governors Instructor in Contracts, Sales, and of the State Bar of California. Lonergan holds Suretyship & Mortgages, who is the office of Vice-President. now Dean of the College. Much was made of the fact that Charles A. Loring, '38, former President of although Burke Mitchell, Thomas Hastings College of the law Alumni Associa- tion, is a new Judge of the Superior Court, M. Mullen, and Raymond H. Shone in Los Angeles. A Pat appointment! have four children each, Jerome Sapiro has five and William A. Sul- David L. Luce, '40, is Administrative Direc- livan, six. These statistics are to tor of Courts in the new State of Alaska, now be revised at the next reunion, in the process of organizing its entire Judicial System. which will be held ten years hence. In a burst of loyalty to their alma Karl D. Lyon, '50, former research attorney mater, members of the class sub- for Chief Justice Phil S. Gibson, has opened scribed more than $1,000 to the law offices in the Central Tower Building, San Francisco. He recently was installed as Presi- Robert W. Harrison Professorship dent of the Zionist Organization of America, Fund. Vale! San Francisco District. The jet-propelled baby carriage of Mr. & John C. Ricksen, '59, is associated with Price, Mrs. Timothy F. McMahon, '53, is owned Macdonald, and Knox, in the Financial Center primarily by Steven Patrick McMahon. Weigh- Building, Oakland. ing 5 pounds and 2 ounces, he arrived in Santa Barbara on December 20, 1959. Rupert H. Ricksen, '59, is an associate of Ricksen, Freeman, Hogan, and Vendt, Oakland Robert W. Merrill, '52, of San Francisco, has attorneys. They practice in the Central Office been elected as President of the Conference of Building. Barristers of the State Bar of California. Myron E. Etienne, Jr. '52, of Salinas, is the Elvin L. Riddle, '57, is a partner in the organization's Third Vice President. Granada Hills law firm of Weitkamp & Riddle.

Municipal Judge Leonard I. Meyers, '41, has Aaron Sapiro, '11, died in Los Angeles on been elevated by Governor Pat Brown to the November 23, 1959. A prime mover in the Superior Court of Fresno County. He served organization of farm co-operatives in Cali- for ten years on the lower court, to which fornia, he had drafted co-operative laws in he was elected three times without opposition. 40 states, maintaining law offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, before moving William R. Morse, '50, member of the Las to Los Angeles in 1936. He was a Past Com- Vegas law firm of Morse, Graves & Morse, mander of a New York American Legion Post. is President of the Clark County Bar Asso- ciation. Robert H. Schnacke, '38, former United States Attorney for the Northern District of S.E.C. Commissioner Andrew Downey Or- California, has been re-elected as President rick, '47, contributed articles to the October of Guide Dogs for the Blind. issues of two law reviews: "Non-public Offer- ings of Corporate Securities-Limitations on John G. Selway, '51, is Senior Counsel of the Exemption Under the Federal Securities Utah Construction & Mining Company. For- Act" (21 Univ. of Pittsburgh Law Rev. 1), merly counsel with the Navy Department and "Organization, Procedures and Practices (MSTS) in San Francisco, he joined Utah's of the Securities and Exchange Commission" legal staff in 1955. (28 George Washington Law Rev. 50). Emile A. Serres, '58, is Junior Counsel for Municipal Judge Charles S. Peery, '40, of the State Compensation Insurance Fund, with San Francisco, has been promoted to the an office at 450 McAllister Street, San Superior Court. A former Deputy District Francisco. Attorney, he had served, on the Municipal Court bench for more than ten years. His Wallace Sheehan, '20, is a member of the predecessor in office was the late Thomas M. new San Francisco law firm of Faulkner, Foley, X - '24. Sheehan & Wiseman. Their offices are in the Balfour Building. Governor Brown has named Alfred P. Peracca, '35, to the Superior Court, in and for Daniel R. Shoemaker, '28, is one of three Los Angeles. the County of Judges of the Superior Court of San Francisco who will serve as members of the Appellate John H. Peters, '27, Public Prosecutor of Department of that court for the year 1960. Honolulu, is prideful of the trial record of Frederick J. Titcomb, '56, one of his 12 dep- uties. In three years: 40 jury trials, 40 con- Charles D. Sooy, '32, attorney for San Fran- victions! cisco Federal Savings and Loan Association, has been appointed as a member of the Sav- Miles N. Pike, '28, former United States ings and Loan Committee of the American Attorney and leader of the Reno Bar, is a Bar Association. newly appointed member of the Supreme Court of Nevada. His senior associate is Paul L. Speegle, '34, News-Call-Bulletin Justice Milton B. Badt, '09. Columnist, is President of the San Francisco Press Club. He has held the office on two The Judge Advocate General of the Army previous occasions. has designated Lt. Col. George S. Prugh, '48, to assist the California Judicial Council's '51, San Francisco attor- During Lawrence Speiser, Committee on Criminal Procedure ney, is Washington, D.C., Director of the Periods of Disaster. Now stationed at the American Civil Liberties Union. For five years, Presidio of San Francisco, he is Deputy Staff and 1957, he served as Staff States Army. between 1952 Judge Advocate, Sixth United Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, one of the Paul B. Richard, '52, well known member ACLU's 27 affiliates. His office is at 1612 Eye of the Alameda County Bar, died unexpect- Street, N.W., Washington 6, D.C. edly on December 15, 1959. Joseph L. Spray, '51, of the Los Angeles bar, Harrison L. Richardson, Jr., '59, already a became President of the American Board of member of the Illinois bar, has become an Trial Advocates on November 12, 1959. The associate of Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelman, organization "has been recently active in the and Hoban. The firm's law offices are at One campaign to preserve the jury trial system in North La Salle Street, Chicago. personal injury cases." John Bigham Stanley, Class of '84, became Lionel J. Wilson, '49, Carl B. Metoyer, '52, the son and heir of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stewart and Wilmont Sweeney, '55, have formed a Stanley, '52. Weight = 6 lbs. 83. oz. partnership and have removed their law offices to 6014 Market Street, Oakland. Gerald C. Sterns, '59, is associated with Walkup and Downing, San Francisco lawyers. terminated Their offices are at 340 Market Street. Charles A. Wood, Jr., '51, has his association with the San Francisco law firm of Heller, Ehrman, White, and McAuliffe, Judge Benjamin M. Tashiro, '32, has been and now practices law in partnership with renamed to the Circuit bench at Lihue, Kauai, Edmund S. Barnett, in Walnut Creek. Their in Hawaii. law offices are at 1528 Main Street.

Clarence B. Taylor, '52, who for two aca- The ambitious law firm of Wooten, Waner, demic years had been a research staff member and Solomon consists of Richens L. Wooten, of the University of Michigan Law School '57, John A. Waner, '57, and Edward Solomon, Faculty, has joined the editorial staff of the '57. Their new offices are at 57 Post Street, San State Bar's Continuing Education of the Bar Francisco. Program. He served for four years with the U. S. Army Judge Advocate General's Office, after graduation from Hastings. Leonard A. Worthington, '32, of the San Francisco Bar, was elected to membership in James F. Thaxter, '59, has formed an asso- the Board of Directors of Hastings College of ciation with Hildebrand, Bills, and McLeod, the Law on November 18, 1959. He also serves in the Bank of America Building, Oakland. as a Vice-President and Director of Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association. James B. Thompson, '52, et ux, are the de- lighted parents of twin daughters, Renee Jeanne and Corinne Jan, who arrived in Car- Edward M. Wright, '57, formerly Research michael on October 27, 1959. Assistant to the Third District Court of Ap- peal, has become associated with the firm of Higgs, Fletcher and Mack. Their law offices Thomas J. Thompson, x-'02, Oakland attor- are at 2250 Third Avenue, San Diego. ney and Congressional Medal of Honor win- ner, died on October 13, 1959, at the age of 82. He received the Nation's highest award for Albert M. Zecher, '56, has resigned as De- bravery during the Spanish-American war. puty Counsel of San Joaquin County, to ac- During World War I he represented the De- cept the same rank, but with more take-home partment of Justice with the American Ex- pay, in Santa Clara County. His new office is peditionary Forces. in the Court House, San Jose.

John F. Van De Poel, '59, is Law Secretary to Justice Paul Peek, of the Third District Court of Appeal. His office is in the Library Our New Senator & Courts Building, Sacramento. United States Senator Clair Engle, '33, has been selected as Eugene J. Wait, Jr., '54, Reno lawyer, is a newly appointed member of the Nevada Board "Hastings Man of the Year." The of Bar Examiners. announcement was made by Fed- eral District Judge Oliver J. Carter, Gene G. Walton, '59, became Assistant City '35, President of the Hastings Col- Prosecutor of Sacramento, on January 1, lege of the Law Alumni Associa- 1960. He succeeded Allan B. O'Connor, '57, tion, on September 24, 1959. The who had resigned in order to enter private Selection Committee was headed practice. by Attorney John M. Ennis, '33, of Los Angeles. A special award "Something New Has Been Added" to the family of Edward A. Weiss, '59, Jennifer Ruth emblematic of the honor conferred Weiss (7 lbs. 14 oz.) arrived on September was presented to Senator Engle at 25, 1959, and decided to stay. the annual luncheon meeting of the Association, in the presence of Gary D. Wheatcroft, '58, who for a year has more than 500 Hastings alumni. held the position of Research Assistant to the Engle was elected to the House of Appellate Department of the Los Angeles Representatives in 1943, and was Superior Court, has been transferred to the District Attorney's Office. reelected to Congress seven times before becoming a successful can- didate for the U. S. Senate in 1958. John E. Whiting, '52, has moved from Los Angeles to Oakland, where he now specializes He resides in Red Bluff, Tehama in Patent, Trade-Mark, and Copyright matters. County. His office is in the Bank of America Building, at 1212 Broadway. 9. ilL IExaminr

Reprinted from the issue of December 17, 1959. Hastings Grand Old Man Honored At 87, Prof. Harrison Caps Career With Coif Robert W. Harrison, distinguished San from 1919 to 1942. Prior to that he was Francisco lawyer, was accepted this deputy district attorney in San Fran- week, at the age of 87, into the honorary cisco, and it was he who delivered the Order of the Coif at Hastings College of indictment against Abe Ruef in the graft Law. scandals of 1907. In accepting the certificate of mem- Harrison also has taught law. He lec- bership, he said it marked a fitting way tured at Hastings College of Law from "to wind up my career. This is the 1910 to 1947 and is now a professor crowning benefit I could expect." emeritus. The Order of the Coif, in America, is "Every man should study law at some an honorary legal fraternity which takes time in his life," Harrison said. "It its name from the English order founded teaches him a process of reasoning, which shortly after the Norman conquest. is what law is. That is helpful no matter For hundreds of years, all judges in what he does." the Court of Common Pleas were mem- Harrison, who is considered an expert bers of the order. They wore the cap, in election laws and procedure, didn't go or coif, of white lawn, which could not into private practice until he was forced be taken off, even in the royal presence, to retire from the attorney general's of- except when passing the sentence of fice at age 70. death. He is as keen and questioning today The order stood for the highest princi- as he was when he started practicing ples of justice and counted among its law in 1898 in the office of Garret Mc- members the greatest lawyers and judges Enerney, "probably one of the best law- in English history. The order lost power yers in the country at that time." by the Judicature Act of 1873, which de- Harrison is now president of the Re- creed that a judge need not be a member corder Publishing Company, which he to be appointed to the bench. helped to found in 1903. The standards which it maintained, He was received into the Order of the however, are still preserved in the Amer- Coif together with eight young graduates ican fraternity. Harrison was mindful of of Hastings. The local chapter each year them when he accepted the honor. automatically accepts the top 10 per He has practiced law in California cent of the graduating class into the since 1898, the year he graduated from order, because it is primarily an acade- Harvard Law School. His father was mic honor society. once justice of the California Supreme Harrison was given his certificate by Court. Everett Fraser, president of the Hastings He was chief deputy attorney general Chapter. He was congratulated by David in charge of the San Francisco office Snodgrass, dean of the school.

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