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SCHOOL OF LAW / TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY VOL. 1, NUMBER 3 Special Placement Issue APRil 1970 American Bar Council OI(s School of Law Credentials Full Approval To Follow First Graduating Class When the 46 members of the first graduating class at Texas Tech's School of Law off1icially take their J.D. degrees this May, their alma mater should be only three months away from every form of "accreditation" and "approval" to which law schools aspire. Dean Richard B. Amandes has guided the three-year-old law school along a brisk accreditation path which should lead to final and formal American Bar Association approval at the ABA House of Delegates meeting in St. progress toward ABA accreditation Louis, Mo., Aug. 12-13. was that the Council of the Section Already a fully-approved member on Legal Education and Admissions of the prestigious Association of to the Bar granted the Texas Tech American Law Schools as of the Dec. Law School approval at Atlanta, Ga., 28, 1969, AALS meeting in San Fran Feb. 21, and thus the right to go cisco, the Texas Tech Law School before the Board-of Governors and has been on the final approval list House of Delegates for full and final of the Texas Supreme Court since approval in August. June of 1968. Dean Am,:mdes said lack oi. adequ F.actors Considered ate funding for buildings, libraries, Dean Amandes said factors taken and faculty had held up accreditation into consideration along the line of other schools in the past, but that toward final approval by all groups the state funds for Tech have been include "adequate funding," "cali made available in good time. ber of faculty," "admission and re Faculty Important tention standards," and numerous The Dean said the faculty has been other considerations. a very strong point in favor of the Latest announcement concerning (Continued on Page 6) I(irhy~s Shorthand Destroys The Curve By BRUCE MAGNESS class; I have never had to answer a Editor·in·Chief professor's question with an "unpre Unless one of her fellow seniors pared' excuse; and I have never sprouts judicial robes and writes a looked at a 'canned brief" or outline," Brandeisian barrage of final exams she said in a recent i'lliterview. next month, Mrs. Ruth Kirby is a "Somehow, when I get into finals, "shoo-in" as number one. it all seems to pour out." And, if graduating at the head of Shorthand Helps A NEW KIND OF GRAD - lane Gentry, one of the 46 members of Texas the first class at the Texas Tech Mrs. Kirby also thinks her ability Tech University's first law School class, reaches for what will be uppermost University School of Law is not to take shorthand notes of the pro in the minds of seniors immediately upon graduation-the good 01' Bar Review. enough to draw respect, Mrs. Kirby fessors' lectures has helped her con lane's husband, Charles, was one of the 14 who finished degree requirements has several other accomplishments siderably. She types out her notes in December of 1969 but will officially attend commencement exercises in of which she is justifiably proud. each day after classes, and, long May. Six more will complete degree requirements this summer. "I have never missed a law school (Continued on Page 6) Spring Issue Driskill, Neill Head New Features Grads This issue of "Dictum," student newspaper for the TeXias Tech Uni Tech Law Review Team versity School of Law, is dedi cated to the firslt graduating class, By RON NICKUM is a senior from Wichita Falls. whose members are featured on Dictum Staff Students are selected as candidates pages 2, 3, 4, and 5. for Law Review on the basis of Jack DriskiH, a mid-year law stu Serving the purposes of a news superior academic achievement, and paper, yearbook and placement dent and the son of Judge and Mrs. after completing a publishable article Jack Driskill of Tulia, has been brochure is indeed a tall order for the Law Review, they become but perhaps this, the third issue of elected to the position of editor-in board members. chief of the Texas Tech Law Review. the student newspaper, will be of The initial issue of the Texas Tech some service in aiding employers Driskill, who ranks first in his class Law Review was published early this in cumulaltive grade average, holds toward the realization that a new year, with the second planned for source of young, weB-trained law the J. W. Sanders Memoria'l Scholar April. Featured in voiume one, num ship. yers is now functioning on the ber two, will be two articles on South Plains of Texas. Duane Neill was selected for the juvenile proceedings: "The Evolution post of managing editor. Bob Burnett The first graduating dass of law of Juvenile Court Jurisdiction and students from Texas Tech Univer will serve as leading articles editor, Procedure in Texas," by Professor with Tom Womble serving as busi sity numbers 46 . representing Martin A. Frey, professor of law at a selective portion of the 217 who DEDICATION SPEAKER - Chief Judge ness manager. Texas Tech; and "Juvenile Court Pro applied for admission in the first John R. Brown of the Fifth Circuit, All appointments wiU take effect ceedings from the Standpoint of the in May. year, 1967-68. U.S. Court of Appeals, called for Attorney for the State," by Thomas Six more studenJts included in New candidates for the Law Review J. Purdom, Lubbock County Attorney. increased law school education in this issue will comp~ete degree light of mounting social problems in board of editors are Reggie Reeves Also featured will be an article by requirements this summer. and Ralph BeLter. Reeves is a mid Wayne Thode on criminal discovery -The Editors his dedicatory address at Texas Tech. year student from Canyon, and Belter procedures. See "legal Briefs," Page 2. PAGE TViO DICTUM - APRIL, 1970 J. PERRY ABBOTT Perry is thirty-five and married. He received a Bachelor of Science degree, math major, from Texas Tech University in 1959. Perry was discharged from the Army in 1965 and completed his work towards a Master The HON. JOHN R. BROWN delivered what Texas Tech President Grover of Business Administation degree in 1969 at Tech. In Murray termed "one of the most stimulating addresses I have heard" for law school, Perry was a member of Phi Alpha Delta. dedication ceremonies here Feb. 21. He worked as a teaching assistant in the Department Brown, chief judge, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, put the of Accounting at Texas Tech and is experienced in both blame, for what he called his own "dissatisfaction" with today's typical law public and private accounting. Perry is interested in school education, on a lax attitude rather than irrelevant curriculum pro teaching, taxation, estate and probate. cedures. "Good, sound, theoretical training is imperative for today's lawyer," said Judge Brown, "And although there is much said these days about the need for 'practical' courses in law school, I feel that the 'practical' use of form books and the like can be gained very rapidly Dnce a student passes his bar exam." "My dissatisfaction with the legal education of today is based on an atti CHARLES W. ADAMS tude which allows us to turn DUt finely-tuned technicians who turn out work Charlie, a Lubbock native, is fifty-eight and married. without ever knowing what the shouting is all about." He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree Specifically, Brown cited inadequate legal services for the indigent, from Texas Tech University. Charlie has been manager il1Jadequate representaJtion Df the indigent in the criminal courtroom, lawyer of a land title company in Lubbock for several years indifference to the social causes of crime, and an almost totally nDn-existent and plans to continue in the title business after gradua training program for "court administrators." tion. "If ever a group of people needed training in the causes of crime, and exposure to the chill odor of the jail, it must be today's lawyers," he slaid. * * * RAYMOND BURR, of "Perry Mason" fame and now a star in the tele vision series, "Ironside," delivered the keynote address at the Law School Banquet Feb. 20. "There is much talk today of what this generation Df young Americans LEOTA HElL ALEXANDER has called the 'quality of life,' and I praise these young people for stirring us Leota is twenty-eight, married and a resident of Lub toward the alleviation of a very serious pollution problem," said Burr. bock. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathe "But tonight I would speak of what I believe Ix> be an even higher calling matics from the University of Wyoming where she was for us- a calling toward improving the 'quality of our ideals,' " he continued. "I would speak of words such as civility, culture, taste, and refinement a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and she attended the . and above all, serf-knowledge. For these are ideals which seem to be University of Wyoming College of Law for one year losing ground to the 'as-Iong-as-you-don't-harm-anyone-else' way 0If thinking." before transferring to Texas Tech where she is a condi Burr said there is little difference between the latter school of thought date for Law Review. After graduation Leota desires and what older generations have long c'alled "selfish materialism." to engage in a general practice in Lubbock. "My dream for this law school," concluded Burr, "is that you will CDn tinue to believe in what is uniquely of man-dignity, sDul, and the value of sacrifices m ade for others, and in something which is bigger than our selves.

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