Hastings Community Vol. XXIII, No.1 (Winter 1978-79) Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association
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UC Hastings Scholarship Repository Hastings Alumni Publications 11-1-1978 Hastings Community Vol. XXIII, No.1 (Winter 1978-79) Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.uchastings.edu/alumni_mag Recommended Citation Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association, "Hastings Community Vol. XXIII, No.1 (Winter 1978-79)" (1978). Hastings Alumni Publications. 55. http://repository.uchastings.edu/alumni_mag/55 This is brought to you for free and open access by UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Alumni Publications by an authorized administrator of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. TH HASTINGS COMMUNITY CENTENNIAL ISSUE WINTER 1978~79 The Hastings Community WINTER 1978-79 VOLUME XXIII NUMBER 1 Editor, Layout: Jacquie Hale Cover Design: Ester Heinsen 1 A Message from the Dean cm Centennial Year Commencement Dean Announces Funding 22 Grace Cathedral Event for Hastings Law Center The Hastings Center for Trial 3 Construction Soon to Begin 23 and Appellate Advocacy on New Academic Facility Historic Empire Hotel to Become 24 1066 Hosts Annual Black-tie Dinner First Student Housing 25 1066 Foundation Scholarship Awards 7 Public Interest Honors Program Established 26 Alumni Activities 9 New Vice Dean Assumes Duties 29 Rugby Club Honors Hastings Centennial 10 Deans Snodgrass and Sammis: The Shapes of Things to Come Special Faculty Notes Section: A Fond Farewell; The Supreme Court of Hastings; 17 The Hastings Child Care Center New Professors Join Faculty; Faculty Notes 21 The Tony Patirio Fellowship: 1978 - A Year of Progress 39 Class Notes The Hastings Community is published for alumni and friends of Hastings College of the Law. Materials for publi- cation and correspondence are welcome and should be sent to the Editor. A Message from the Dean As U.C. Hastings College of Law em- For example, of the $244,000,000 operat- barks upon its second century, it is most ap- ing budget of U.C. Berkeley, only propriate to acknowledge the increasing sig- $121,000,000, or 499/, comes from state ap- nificance of private support in the develop- priation. On the other hand, of the ment of the Hastings Law Center. $417,000,000 which Stanford University re- ceived last year, $124,000,000, or 32r/(, Private financial support has always car- came from public (state and federal) sources. ried special significance at Hastings; it was a The fact of the matter is that for any law gift of $100,000 by Serranus Clinton Hast- school to maintain that margin of excellence, ings, the first Chief Justice of the California it must have an infusion of funds from all Supreme Court, that created the College in sources - private, state and federal. 1878. Since that time, many others have The outlook for increased private support given in continuation of this tradition. The at Hastings is most encouraging. In the past cost of legal education, like the price of oil, year, the College has established a com- has risen dramatically, and private support prehensive fund-raising program which has provides the crucial difference between good included an Annual Giving Fund, the 1066 and excellence in the graduate professional Foundation, corporation/foundation rela- schools. tions program and a major gifts effort for support of the new Hastings Law Center. There still persists in some quarters the The College has just received a $350,000 fallacious assumption that because Hastings grant from the Kresge Foundation toward is a publicly-supported institution, its needs completion of Phase I (Academic/Library are fully met through the legislative budget. Building) which, with the federal grant of This is simply not a fact of life; at best, pub- $4,250,000 and a state appropriation of ap- lic funding can only provide the basic sup- proximately $8,000,000, will enable us to port. In reality, within the context of funding complete the Academic/Library Facility on sources, there is no such thing as a "public" schedule. Responses from each effort have graduate professional school, nor for that been personally gratifying and from last matter, do "private" law schools exist. This year s aggregate performance, the Hastings public/private dichotomy is an enduring edu- Community, students, faculty, alumni and cational fiction which simply is not accurate. friends can look forward to a partnership of The reality is that a significant portion of the participation in an educational institution that operating funds for any public institution has now attained national eminence and come from private sources; semi-conversely, moves toward an increasing margin of excel- public funds constitute a vital part of the pri- lence as it enters its second century of educa- vate school resources. tion and service. Dean- Announces Funding for Hastings Law Center The Kresge Foundation of Troy, Michi- gan, has made a $350,000 "challenge grant" toward Hastings' new school library building, announced Dean Marvin J. Ander- son. Construction of the new building will start this fall as the first phase of the Hastings Law Center development, a project which will encompass an entire city block in the Civic Center of San Francisco. In acknowledging the grant, Justice A. Frank Bray, Chairman of the Board of Direc- tors, and Dean Anderson said: "We are deeply grateful to The Kresge Foundation for this significant challenge gift. It de- monstrates again the dedication of this great Foundation to the importance of the study of law in today's world and the need to house an excellent law school in appropriate facilities." During 1978, The Kresge Foundation made 203 grants, having considered 1,228 qualified applicants. Such grants were gener ally made toward the construction and major renovation of facilities, and almost always required the raising of additional money on a challenge basis. Since its founding in 1924, The Kresge Foundation has appropriated more than $311 million to institutions in the areas of higher education, health services, the arts, social welfare, and the care of young and old. The Foundation was created solely by the per- sonal gifts of the late Sebastian S. Kresge, and is not affiliated or associated with any other corporation or organization. Dean Anderson commented, "The law school is in desperate need of adequate facilities to match the superb quality of its faculty, including the distinguished 'Sixty- five Club,' and a diversified and gifted stu- dent body. This splendid challenge gift is an important step toward achievement of that goal." Construction Soon to Begin on New Academic Facility Demolition work continues on the site of the new Academic Facility in the Hastings Law Center, with construction currently scheduled to begin sometime before the end of 1978. Photos shown here are of the new site model of the Facility, prepared by the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. A structure of contemporary design, with classical proportions compatible with sur- rounding Civic Center architecture, the Academic Facility will stand six stories above McAllister Street. It will employ lib- eral expanses of glass and feature a three- story "colonnade" effect at the entry, a de- sign which has been carefully studied for its relationship to "pedestrian scale," with an eye towards the dramatic. With a steel frame structure and a pre-cast concrete skin, the Academic Facility is being designed to meet state energy-conserving standards for non- residential buildings, including windows of tinted glass which can be opened for ventila- tion in warmer weather. 3 Historic Empire Hotel to Become First Student Housing by jacquie Hale At a press conference held at Hastings on dent and administrative offices, dining and April 20, Secretary of the Department of recreational facilities, and for expansion of Housing and Urban Development Patricia its services to the San Francisco community. Harris announced that Hastings will soon re- Though the Hastings Law Center will go far ceive $5.6 million in Housing and Urban to relieve much of the pressure of the "space Development College Housing Funds for the crunch," its completion is still many months purchase and renovation of the historic Em- away. At present, the College has no space pire Hotel, for use as Hastings' first student capable of seating more than 350 persons, housing. Federal funding for the project will which precludes many students and members help "revitalize a debilitated urban area; it of the community from attending special pre- will provide new low-income housing for the sentations. Hastings has never had any recre- City; it will make available heretofore ational facilities of its own, and the local nonexistent student housing; and it will recy- recreational facilities available are severely cle a valuable, presently dormant resource," limited. "Hastings has always sought to dis- says Dean Anderson. tinguish itself not just in legal education, but in conscientious public service," says the With the receipt of these federal funds, Dean. "For want of space and adequate re- Hastings will soon have the student housing sources, we have been unable to develop the it has long needed. Hastings students have desired legal assistance programs." Happily, traditionally been on their own in search of the answer to Hastings' "space crunch" is low-cost housing close to the school, in an practically next door. Adds Dean Anderson: area that is occupied by the government "The Empire is a tremendous opportunity to buildings of San Francisco's Civic Center recognize the mutual objectives of Hastings and substandard housing in the depressed and the community." Tenderloin/North-of-Market District. They search with countless other San Franciscans, The Empire Hotel is a 27-story structure in a housing market that is one of the most located just down the block from Hastings competitive in the nation, with statistics that main building, at 100 McAllister Street.