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UC Hastings Scholarship Repository Hastings Alumni Publications 9-1-1991 Hastings Community (Fall 1991) 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 (Fall 1991)" (1991). Hastings Alumni Publications. 78. http://repository.uchastings.edu/alumni_mag/78 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. IN al IN, HASTINGS- CAMPUS NEWS FACULTY NEWS AND NOTES ALUMNI NEWS 13 18 Exploring Ideas for New Curriculum 'Rugby Team' isAlive and Winning Academic Dean Mary Kay Kane talks about The regular team the College once fielded may be ways in which Hastings is moving ahead in gone, but alumni stalwarts are making sure 1 broadening its curricular offerings and discusses Hastings' rugby wont soon be forgotten as an questions that deserve further exploration in the alumni group calling itself the "Hastings Old Boys' A New Class, A Big Welcome broader alumni community. takes top honors at the prestigious Santa Barbara Rugby Tournament. Students in the Class of 1994 arrive from forty states and seven nations, receiving a summer-long welcome 14 from alumni, faculty, staff, and fellow students. "You are here, each of you, to become great Hastings' New Faculty lawyers," Dean Tom Read tells them. "We welcome The five new professors who arrived on campus this you with great enthusiasm." fall are introduced to the Hastings alumni family - with a brief outline of the diverse scholarship they 7 bring to current students. 20 New Leaders at Hastings 'John T. Knox Freeway,' Governor Wilson appoints Lois Haight Herrington Other Alumni Honors ('65) to the Board of Directors. John A. Sproul is Former California Assemblyman and Hastings leading Hastings' Board as chair. Sproul has been a Board Member John T. Knox ('52) is feted with member of the Board since 1986. the naming of a new link of Interstate 80 in his honor. The honor was one of several for Hastings alumni in recent months. 16 21 In the News Chapter Events and Class Notes 8 A new feature to provide a roundup of items of Carl Leonard Chairs Annual Fund potential interest to alumni from reports in the news media that feature faculty, students and alumni. Carl A. Leonard ('68) is serving as National Chair of Hastings' Annual Fund Campaign for 1991-92, noting that continuing support for the Annual Fund is one of the ways earlier generations "'pay back" the people of California. 24 Annual Report of Gifts 10 Giving to Hastings is up 25 Percent Sixty-Five Club in its 51st Year Merle C. Chambers ('77), National Chair for History is coming alive through Sixty-Five Club Hastings' 1990-91 Annual Fund Campaign, memoirs as archivist Dorothy Mackay-Collins presents her final report for the recently completed gathers and preserves the collections of Sixty-Five campaign, noting overall giving to the College was Club faculty members. up nearly 25 percent. On the Cover: From the Editor boasted its very own rugby team or nearly two decades, Hastings Your Hastings Community is changing. and, though it may be gone, stouthearted The Summer 1991 issue featured a switch to headline and body type we hope you are alumni still play. The Hastings Old Boys - finding easier to read. Those changes were coupled with a new design, as well as a blue as they call themselves - took the Masters and gold color scheme that will be consistent from issue to issue. Division title at the prestigious Santa Barbara This Fall 1991 issue brings the second phase of redesign with a new, smaller size, Rugby Tournament. See story and which we hope you will find easier to handle. Economies achieved in the redesign and photograph, page 18. (Photo: Mike Eliason/ printing will permit the occasional use of full color on the cover. Santa Barbara News-Press. Reprinted by With these changes in place, the focus of future issues will be refining of the content permission.) to meet alumni information needs. To that end, we invite your comments, criticism, and ideas. Address them to: Tom Debley, Editor, Hastings Community, Hastings College of the Law, 200 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. HASTINGS A New Year, A New Class, A Big Welcome "And just last Monday (Aug. 19)," the sevencame nations, from fortyand receivedstates and a Dean continued, even as events were still Theysummer-long welcome from unfolding during the week that saw 74 years alumni, faculty, staff, and fellow of Communist rule topple in Moscow, "hard- students. They are the members of the Class liners in the Soviet Union deposed President of 1994 - 459 strong to bring Hastings' Gorbachev. total enrollment to 1,271 this academic year. "And no one knows the implications that Hastings was the first choice of virtually will have," he concluded in reference to the half of this new class. myriad events that have unfolded since. Entering students arrived on Aug. 23 for Despite starting law school in the midst of two days of orientation prior to classes be- such a swirl of global change, the students ginning on Aug. 26 for the 1991-92 aca- were introduced to something more stable demic year. in the form of the larger Hastings family. "As entering Hastings law students, you Their enthusiastic welcome began over will be joining one of the most diverse law the summer as alumni hosted "hometown" student bodies in the land," Dean Tom Read get-togethers for members of the Class of told a room full of eager - if apprehensive 1994 in Fresno, Los Angeles, Oakland, Or- - new students during orientation. ange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, "However, despite your diversity, there is San Diego, and New York City. one common thread that unites all of you," Alumni hosted the events both in their he added. "You are here, each of you, to homes and at their law offices to introduce become great lawyers. I want you to know new students to what Hastings Alumni As- that all of us on the faculty and staff are sociation President John Wamlof ('72) de- deeply proud of you. We welcome you with scribes as the "continuing friendships" of great enthusiasm." law school - the fact that "our school is not Dean Read told the new class members to just a place we went to in order to get a law be prepared to study law "during one of the degree." most interesting times imaginable. Hosts were Matthew Davis ('89) at his "Great issues of the day will be debated firm, Landels, Ripley & Diamond in San and their solutions molded," he explained. Francisco; Peter Davis ('69) at his firm, "You will hear the arguments pro and con Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, in Oakland; for abortion, grounded on whether one agrees Marianne S. Johnson ('88) at her firm, with or disputes the holding of Roe vs. Thorsnes, Bartolotta, McGuire & Padilla, in Wade. I predict we'll see the issues sur- San Diego; the Hon. Edward Y. Kakita rounding affirmative action take center stage ('65) at his home in La Canada; Todd during the upcoming presidential election Landgren ('75) at his home in Newport year. Beach; the Hon. Annette LaRue ('52) at her "Internationally, the world is changing home in Fresno; Ken Malovos ('69) at his before our very eyes. In less than a year, the Sacramento firm of Weintraub, Genshlea & Iron Curtain crumbled, and Central and Sproul; and J. Martin Obten ('66) at his Eastern European counties emerged from Manhattan law office. 45 years of Communist domination, declar- Cont. on page 2 ing themselves market economies. We fought a war in the Middle East, rearranging traditional power blocs in that area. noingl st m V :d< ad tlan from th Clas of 1994 inI oentanon in the formal pro rams t u mu tour 1db eond and third yeir students, and at social cvents which1meluded the Class of 1994's irt pinic on the beach" anda Friday ni ght cception attendcd by Dean Rad. Among thc loria 1Aveint eeral faculty memIbers prescintd mock classS as a way to intro- ducc the students to the academic rigors they will face. Most members of thC new class-419of DeanlTomrRead grets them - comc from California.1Thrty-nine incomin mmb rIo other states also are represented The inter- 0 tatior ay Clas 994 at an natiora background includes men and the women trom Canada Ecuador, Guatemala, onetainn session Hong Korg Japan, the Netherlands, Po- laId and Russia. Women represcnt almost half the class. Ihe average age of the newx class is 26, with an age range from 21 to 54. Reflecting the new demography of Califor nia, 25 percent o the class comes from minority groups. The average LSAT scoie is 41(91st per centile), with an average grade point aver- age of 3.4. More than 10 percent of the students have graduate degrees from some 35 post-graduate schools. Among120 un- dergraduate schools repre ented, the top f eder kchools wcre thc University of Cali- fornia at Berkeley wxith 69 graduates, and UCLA with 53. Overall, U.C. cwa puses graduaied almost half of Hastings' Class of 1994. One in five hold degrees in political sciencc vwith a slightly smaller percentage grad iatin in the ihuma ntieI and social sci nce. Next is a cluster in economics busi- necs and managemert, combining to reore- ecnt about one ir four stdients. TheSci- enices are not to be left out, with almost one i10 tudent holding degrecs ir one of the natural rcenes.