---m THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL VOLUME 35, NUMBER 4 JJjlVJc QUADRANGLE ! NOTES : Law School Campaign 1992 - 1997 DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS ANNUAL REPORT Cover is a rendition of the Law School Campaign poster (photograph by Batthazar Korab). To obtain a commemorative poster (14 x 24) please contact die University of Michipn Law School, Development and Alumni Relations, 721 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-307 1,3 13/998-6132. The University of Michigan $75 Million Law School Campaign 19921997 2 The Lazt~School Campnign The Law School Campaign n the weekend of September 17-19, The Law School is proud to an- THE CAMPAIGN GOALS 01992, the Law School celebrated nounce this Campaign in which all the public announcement of the $75 alumni, faculty, and friends are invited to Enhum' Faculty Support.. $1 5 M~lliun million Law School Campaign. The Law participate. The leadership gifts featured Erdcwvd Studrnr Support ................... .. $15 Million School Campaign constitutes part of the in the pages that follow illustrate the University of Michigan's $1 billion extraordinary generosity of Law School Endowed Progmm Suppm t . $15 M111lon Campaign for Michigan, the largest fund- graduates and friends who have contrib- raising effort ever undertaken by a public uted to the Campaign's two-year advance Lnw School F~cndUnresmct~.d G~ia . $15 blilLoti university. Nucleus Fund effort. In addition to hkw Beqtcest Comm~mena. $15 Million The Law Quadrangle, resplendent responding to reunion, bequest, and with a large blue and white tent, was the other special giving programs, all setting for the reception and announce- graduates have the opportunity to ment dinner on Thursday evening, support the Campaign through their September 17. Dean Lee Bollinger annual unrestricted gifts to the Law welcomed alumni and friends present and School Fund. All gifts and pledges acknowledged those whose generous received by the Law School between leadership gifts not only helped bring the July 1, 1990 and June 30, 1997 will count two-year advance Nucleus Fund gift-and- toward the $75 million goal and will pledge total to nearly $20 million, but also receive both Law School Campaign and gave the Law School confidence to University Campaign for Michigan credit undertake the $75 million fund-raising and recognition. challenge. After further words of welcome With your help we will meet the from University of Michigan President Campaign's ambitious goals. James J. Duderstadt and Provost Gilbert R Whitaker, Law School Campaign Na- tional Chair Terrence A. Elkes, '58, spoke about the reasons for his own involvement as a volunteer and a donor in the Law Anne Percy Knott School Campaign. Patricia M. Curtner, Assistant Dean '78, Law School Fund National Chair, Director of Development and reminded guests of the important part all Alumni Relations graduates play in supporting the Univer- sity of Michigan Law School through annual giving and issued a challenge to all graduates to "Add another zero to your check!" This issue of Law Quadrangle Notes consti- A highlight of the evening was the premiere of the Law School Campaign tutes the Ofice of Development and Alumni video, which vividly recalled the experi- Relations 1992 annual report. It announces ences of generations of Michigan Law the Law School Campaign and celebrates the School students and featured the Law Quadrangle in all its magnificence. success of its Nucleus Fund that garnered William R. Jentes, '56, Chicago Major nearly $20 million in gifts and pledges. It Gifts Chair, closed the dinner program incorporates the Law School Fund report for with a toast recognizing the efforts of volunteers and wishing the Campaign 1991-92.The Law School wishes to acknowl- success. A trumpet recital in the Law edge the volunteers who helpedraise more than Library Reading Room brought the evening to a rousing conclusion. $4,725,000 in this fiscal year. The bur Schonl Campaip ? From the Dean s a memher of the University of Law School preeminent in interdiscipli- A Michigan Law School faculty for nary legal studies. And at this moment, nearly two decades now, I have seen the next generation is already formed what makes an institution such as this and ready to succeed. great. It is not simply the large number Seeing this succession makes one of enormously talented people among conscious not only of being part of a both the faculty and the student body, stream of extraordinary achievement but though that is undeniably important. also of holding the institution in trust for It is rather the desire inside so many of those before and for those to follow. As these individuals to excel-to be a better Dean I have come to understand that the teacher, to write a more creative book or intellectual house of the Law School- article, or, in the case of students, to im- which, in contrast to other law schools, prove in understanding and performance has many rooms and a familial atmos- in the next class. In this kind of envi- phere-rests on a financial foundation. ronment, in which the best teachers pre- Today that foundation needs shoring pare most, the most creative minds work up-and the roof needs to he raised. To Lee C. Bollinger hardest to discover new perspectives, and this end, the Law School has undertaken Dean the most talented among the students a major fund-raising initiative. strive to improve, virtually everyone is The Law School Campaign is a $75 affected, and the whole is greater than million endeavor to secure the future ex- the sum of its parts. cellence of this institution of which we When you are part of an institution are all custodians. Many graduates and for a long time, you also have the experi- friends are responding by giving of their ence of seeing generation succeed gener- time, energy, and financial resources. ation. I remember vividly my first sight With nearlv $20 million in gifts and of Paul Kauper, whom I had read in pledges in hand, we are encouraged in college, stretched out across a sofa, his announcing the five-year, public phase of presence visually dominating the faculty this effort. Our goal is ambitious, but the room. As Dean, I now hear regularly dedication of a strong team of volunteers from graduates about the power of his and the ready generosity of a devoted intellect and of others on the faculty alumni body will ensure our success in during his generation. meeting the challenge. My glimpse of Paul Kauper is my All graduates, past donors, faculty, only access into that period of the and other friends will be asked to partici- School's history. But I do know, because pate in the Campaign. Our message is they were among the senior faculty when simple: please assist us as generously as I began teaching, those who followed- you can, because we do, in fact, all share notably Allan Smith, Frank Allen, and in the accomplishments of this great Hart Wright, the only faculty member I institution, and we all hold it in trust. have ever known who hy some custom We are grateful for your endorse- had acquired his own special chair at fac- ment and support. ulty meetings, from which he would regu- larly lecture the Dean on policy matters. The generation of St. Antoine, Sandalow, Kamisar, Sax, and others followed, and they in turn brought in 1 yet another group during the 1970s and Lee C. Bollinger 1980s-scholars and teachers of enor- mous intellectual range, who made the 4 The Lou! School Compn~qn From the National Campaign Chair here are two kinds of learning. My three vears at the School were T One fills our minds with facts, an exhilarating educational experience. figures, and procedures. With any luck, But their full value was not obvious when we eventually understand something I graduated in 1958. Since then, year about what the world is and how it after year, my University of Michigan works. Law School education has paid extraordi- This is not as simple as it sounds. nary long-term dividends in every aspect In fact, it is so complex that, despite of my life and work. their best efforts, schools and colleges are If you feel the same sense of appreci- still unable to deliver a complete basic ation and gratitude, I hope that after you education to every young person in have applied our common heritage of America. Some students lose interest at critical analysis to the Law School's an early age, and it is often hard to statement of its case, you will generously reignite their curiosity. Others struggle support its Campaign. The profession, Terrence A. Elks agalnst difficult odds: dysfunctional and the world, will need the traditional National Campaip Chair families, economic hardship, discrimina- skills of Michigan Law graduates for a tion, and social indifference if not long time to come. hostility. I invite you to join me in investing When it is effective, basic education in the future of the University of Michi- supplies the skills required for survival in gan Law School and urge each of you to an increasingly competitive society. But respond in the fullest way possible to the it does not produce citizens who can challenge of the Law School Campaign. solve society's most intractable problems, or build productive enterprises that gen- erate opportunity. That requires people who have experienced the second kind of learning-how to think. Terrence A. Elkes Every problem, every opportunity- J.D. 1958 in the law, business, and everyday life- Managing Director, Apollo Partners, Ltd. is unique. But problems and opportuni- ties do not exist in isolation.