STETSON A our Y/curs; APRIL, 1958 STETSON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW VOL. 1, No. 3 GOVERNOR SPEAKS AT DEDICATION OF LAW LIBRARY Governor LeRoy Collins gave the convo­ cation address at the formal dedication March 8 of the Charles A. Dana Library paying high tribute to the Stetson University College of Law which was founded in De- Land in 1901 and which has produced many distinguished members of the bench, bar, and legal education. Guest at the convocation was Charles A. Dana, the New York philanthropist, who gave $250,000 for the new building on con­ dition that it be matched dollar-for-dollar by Florida men and women. Justice E. Harris Drew, who was honorary chairman of the Law Library Campaign fund, presented the building. It was received by Dr. Charles H. Bolton, president of the Board of Trustees of the University. Walter Mann, trustee of the Dana Foun­ dation and president of the Hoard of Over­ Governor Collins was honored in ceremonies at Stetson University College of Law seers of the College of Law, presented a por­ for his accomplishments related to the legal profession. Here, he receives the degree of Doctor of Law. Governor Collins spoke at the dedication of the Charles A. Dana trait by Mr. Dana to hang in the library. Law Library. In center is former Gov. Doyle E. Carlton, who introduced Collins for This was accepted by Justice H. L. Sebring, the degree, and at right is J. Ollie Edmunds, president of this University. (Inde­ dean of the college. pendent photo by Dan Hightower.) Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds awarded the hono- DR. CAMPBELL IS COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER tary degree of doctor of laws to Governor Doak Sheridan Campbell, president emer­ cession. The public is invited. Collins after he had been presented by itus of Florida State University, will deliver Dr. Campbell, who holds an honorary Former Governor Doyle Carlton. the commencement address at the College degree from Stetson, established an enviable In his address, Governor Collins called of Law at noon May 30. reputation during the 10 years he served for public support of the power of the The ceremonies will be held in the as president of Florida State University. Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution Auditorium of Stetson Inn with diplomas When he assumed the presidency in 1941, and challenged the bar on the matter of being presented by Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds, the enrollment was 1,800 and the faculty president of the University. Members of numbered less than 200. When he retired lawyers who are gaining reputations as the graduating class, the faculty, overseers June 30, 1957 the enrollment had exceeded "cunning manipulators" rather than seekers and trustees will be in the academic pro­ (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 5) DR. CAMPBELL I R C CODE CHANGE (Continued from Page I) BENEFITS STETSON 8,000 and the faculty to more than fiOO. President Eisenhower has signed into law Before going to Tallahassee, Dr. Camp­ a bill changing the Internal Revenue Code bell was associated with George Peabody to permit Stetson University to receive tax College in Nashville, Tennessee, for 14 years lice income from the limited partnership —first with the Division of Surveys and in the Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Field Studies and then as Dean of the Grad­ Smith brokerage linn. Congressman A. Syd uate School and Senior College. Herlong advised Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds, pres­ Following his graduation from Ouachita ident of the University, recently. College, Arkadelphia. Arkansas, in 1911. Dr. Stetson, along with Amherst College and Campbell served as superintendent of the Deerlield Acaclemv, were made limited part­ Columbus (Ark.) State High School, then ners in the brokerage firm in his will. The as state secretary for the Baptist Young bill introduced bv Congressman Herlong, Peoples Union and Religious Education As­ and handled in the Senate by Senator George sociation. He has been an outstanding Bap Similiters, pointed out thai the Stetson inter­ tist lay leader in Florida and throughout est is a "limited partnership under which the South for many years. In 1916, he be­ the limited partner has no right to take came vice-president and later (1920) presi­ part in the control of the business." dent of Central College, Conway, Arkansas. The tax-free provision is expected to al­ President Campbell has received national DR. DOAK S. CAMPBELL most double the proceeds received by Stet­ recognition in the academic field for bis son and other educational institutions from work with junior colleges and in curricu­ The FSU President has also devoted a the estate. lum. As a result of his work in converting great deal of time to studies in higher edu­ Before his death, Charles E. Merrill estab­ Central College to an accredited junior col cation. He has conducted and published lished the Merrill Program in American lege, he was elected in 1921 as secretary of numerous surveys of higher institutions in Studies al Stetson. Mr. Merrill was a student the American Association of Junior Col­ the southern states. In 1937 he was chosen al Stetson in the early I900's and in 1946 leges. He held this position for 17 years consultant to President Roosevelt's Advisory received an honorary degree. Mr. Merrill was and has exerted a great influence throughout Committee on Education. He is a past presi­ credited with "taking Wall Street to Main the nation in this as well as other educa­ dent of the Southern Association of Colleges Street" in the brokerage business. tional areas. and .Secondary Schools. While at Peabody he served several years as a member of the forefront of what is now becoming recog­ President Campbell is recognized as one Tennessee Stale Board of Education. He has nized as the most significant development of America's leading curriculum authorities served as a member of the Board of the in higher education in this century—regional and his book Curriculum Development, Florida State Chamber of Commerce for II education, especially Southern regional edu­ under joint authorship with Dr. H. L. years. cation. He has been a member of the South­ Caswell, has been the most widely used book ern Regional Board and of ils Executive on curriculum. President Campbell has also been in the Committee since its beginning. MIAMI'S NEW MAYOR IS STETSON LAW SCHOOL GRADUATE Miami's new mayor, Robert King High, to realize the necessity of a college educa­ enrolling in the Stetson College of Law. who received his bachelor of laws degree tion. He studied at the University of Chat­ He also attended the University of Havana. at Stetson in 1949, has patterned his politi­ tanooga, Colorado State College of Educa­ In the practice of law, High is following cal life and his private practice after two tion and the University of Miami before in the path of Perry Nichols, who has estab­ other Stetson law graduates—Abe Aronovits, lished an outstanding national reputation as LL.B. and Perry Nichols. LL.B. a plaintiff's attorney in personal injury cases. Like Aronovilz who did not solicit cam­ Mayor High's law office has been described paign contributions, antagonized fellow city as one with "a lived-in look, with unusual commissioners, and liked to think he was props. In the corner is a skeleton. On the modeled after Abraham Lincoln. High has table is a plastic spine and pelvis model shown he may leave the Aronovitz pal lent which he used lo demonstrate to jurors at this point and cut one of his own which how badly bis client was hurt in that auto­ will make interesting new contributions on mobile accident which whiplashed his spine." the local scene. "I have been grown up a long lime." 1 ligh Four years ago the young attorney who said recently, recalling the year 1931 when was then city judge of Sweetwater and presi- he was seven years old and peddling papers dcnl of the Flagami Civic Association was in Chattanooga, not far from his birthplace married to Sara Faith Price of Coral Gables, in Tullahoma, Tennessee. in a candle-light ceremony at Flagler Street "The story of the South used to tie me Baptist Church. Mrs. High had attended up," he continued, recalling how he looked Brenati College where she was a member out the window of his Chattanooga home of Alpha Delia Pi and queen of Riverside and fought again the Battle of Missionary Academy. Ridge. Robert E. Lee was his hero. High was president of Lambda Chi Alpha Finishing high school at 15, he was bril­ Fraternity at the University of Miami and liant in history and English, but it took was listed in Who's Who in American Col­ two or three years in the business world MAYOR ROBERT KING HIGH leges. THREE NEW MEMBERS OF BOARD OF OVERSEERS New members of the Hoard of Overseers are, from left, Richard D. Pope, master of Beautiful Cypress Gardens and a student at Stetson in the early 1920's; Charles A. Dana, the New York philanthropist for whom the new law library was named, and B. E. "Beunie" Webb, St. Petersburg businessman and "sparkplug" in the campaign for funds to locate the College of Law in St. Petersburg and to match funds on the library building. The help of alumni and friends is needed the cost will not be great as measured in White, LL.B '52, Titusville, on his ap­ to build a faculty at the College of Law. terms ol results. Approximately $50,000 over pointment as judge of the Brevard Small We do not want a first-rate campus and and above the income we can produce from Claims Court.