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Alumni Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin Law School Vol. 11 No..4

Summer 1980

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EDITORS NOTE: One of the treasures of this Law School is a marvelous collection of photographs. I have been using these pictures for front and back covers of the Gargoyle apparently to the enjoyment of alumni who often write for copies. Since the final story in the last issue related to athlete-lawyers, I chose a "filler" picture showing a Law School baseball team from the past.

Never did I guess the amount of interest this picture would generate. Calls and letters came from across the country protesting the absense of a caption or proposing their own. While I do apologize for any annoyance I may have caused, it does seem that I have hit on a high interest feature for the magazine. Whenever possible I intend to fill the back page with a mystery photo. Sometimes they will come from the pile with no captions, sometimes from the pile with a few hints as to origin. I invite you to help us fill in the blanks; your contributions will be reported in succeeding issues. The picture on this issue's back cover has no caption although the location is clearly the old Law Building.

The correct caption for the now famous picture from Vol. 11, No.3

TABLE OF CONTENTS Dean's Annual Report

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1979-80 Fund Drive Report

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Scenes from 1980 Spring Program

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On the Lighter Side

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Faculty Bar Memberships .. " 14 Carter Taps Jones

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NY Area Reception

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Actions of the Boards

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UWAlUMNI DIRECTORY The UW Alumni Association is currently selling an alumni directory. The directory includes all persons receiving any degree from the University and is not to be confused with the "Law Alumni Directory" published by WLAA in 1977. Anyone interested in ordering a directory can contact the UW Alumni Association, 605 N. Lake St., Madison 53706.

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(left to right) Al Gausewitz, Dick Campbell, Lloyd Garrison, Wade Boardman, John Stedman, Nate Feinsinger.t and Fred Doar (from the Supreme Court staff) Back row: Oliver Rundell, Don Heide, A rthur McLeod, Roy Tulane, Howard Hall, Erick Smith, Charles Bu n n , "Dean" Harris (custodian), Frank Boessel, and Jake Beuscher.

BlJlletin of the lk1iversity of Wisconsin Law School, published Quarterly,

Vol. II No.4 Edward

Summer 1980

J.

Reisner, editor

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Cover Photo: Phi Delta Phi Reading Room 2

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DEAN'S ANNUAL

This is a slightly revised version of the report given orally by Dean Helstad at the Spring Program luncheon on Saturday, April 19.

Ed. Last year when I reported to you at this time, I said that the general state of the Law School can be described as healthy. That statement remains true today, but I hasten to add that that does not mean we do not have any problems.

With regard to finances, for example, inflation continues to take its toll with us as with most everyone else. Funds for purchase of books for the Law Library were depleted well before the end of the fiscal year even though we had not accelerated our rate of book purchasing. And shortly before this issue of the Gargoyle went to press, the Governor was considering imposing a cut of two to four percent in the budget of all state agencies because of the slowness of the economy and the consequent decline in state tax revenue.

These fiscal stringencies obviously pose serious problems for the Law School as well as for many others.

With regard to Law School personnel, I reported to you last year that we had lost two faculty members through retirement and two through transfer to other jobs or schools. We hired one new faculty member last year (Kathryn Powers) and have hired one so far this year. He is Thomas Palay, a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, who will be teaching Torts next fall and Property in the spring. We will have two visiting professors on board next year, and we still

REPORT

have an offer out to one person for a permanent position. We give high priority to our goal of assembling a faculty which is second to none in terms of a combination of teaching and research excellence, and I am sure I will have further developments to report to you next year.

In the area of administration, I am pleased to report that Professor Stuart Gullickson has agreed to serve full time as Associate Dean and that Joan Rundle, a recent graduate of the Law School with prior experience in counseling work was appointed last August as Assistant Dean for student affairs.

Faculty members continue to engage in a variety of scholarly pursuits in addition to their teaching. Three conferences co-hosted by the Law School last spring will serve to illustrate this point.

On April 10-12, the Law School and the Institute for Research in the Humanities cosponsored the Second Burdick-Vary Symposium.

The subject this year was "The Formation of States in History and Theory". Professor Warren Lehman of the Law School played a leading role in organizing the symposium.

On May 23 and 24, the Law School helped sponsor a conference on Law and Psychiatry.

Professor Leonard Kaplan was responsible for organizing this conference.

On June 5-8, the Law and Society Association held its an-

nual meeting in Madison. Scholars from all over the world with an interest in research on law and its relationship to society attended the meeting. Professor Stewart Macaulay of the Law School had a major role in organizing this meeting and its program. Several other law faculty members also participated.

The student body continues to be a diverse group but almost uniformly a group with very high academic qualifications. The median undergraduate grade point average of entering classes continues to range around 3.5 and the median Law School Admission Test Score around 650. These figures no doubt would be somewhat higher except for the fact that our admissions standards deliberately emphasize other factors such as diversity of experience and various indicators of probable motivation apart from grade point average.

The diversity of the student body is apparent from a variety of standpoints. At least 25% of the students range in age from 28 years and up. It is apparent that many of them have had experiences which will enrich not only their own educational experience in law school but also that of many of the other law students and perhaps also of the law faculty. About 40% of the law students now are women, and about 6 or 7% are from racial minority groups.

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For all practical purposes, there has been no slackening of the demand for legal education. For next fall, we have 1,565 applicants for about 285 places in the entering class, an increase of somewhat over 100 applicants from last year.

The time may come when we will need to worry about having ep.ough qualified applicants, but ftom the standpoint of this Law School that time does not seem to be just around the corner.

The excess of well qualified applicants we have faced during recent years has not been an unmixed blessing from our perspective.

Personally, I have always valued my opportunity to attend law school so highly that I have strong empathy for any qualified person who is denied the opportunity.

Quite apart from that personal reaction, it is clear that difficult institutional problems also stem at least in part from the fact that we had to deny admission to so many well qualified applicants during the past decade. It is almost bound to have had an adverse effect on our relations with our alumni, the bar and the public generally. I believe it also has something to do with recent expressions of concern on the part of the Legislature about part-time and evening program opportunities. Of course, part-time or evening program opportunities are not going to solve this prob-

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lem; only substantial increases in the capacity of this Law School or the creation of another Law School in the state would begin to meet the problem.

As many of you know, the Wisconsin Legislature last summer adopted a law which would have required the Law School to institute a full scale evening program. Through a vigorous effort on the part of the Law School faculty and administration and with important support from a number of our alumni, we managed to persuade the Governor to partially veto this law so that we would not have to go into a full scale evening program without some rather firm indication of need for it and assurance of financing to maintain quality in our programs. The law as adopted does, however, require us to offer part-time opportunities and evening courses to those admitted students who want them, thus enabling us to test the interest in part-time and evening opportunities. In each semester of this year, we have scheduled some first-year courses in the late afternoon and evening hours as well as early in the morning and at noon.

We are doing the same for 1980-81. All persons offered admission, and indeed all applicants for admission, were advised of the part-time opportunities. To date,

the expression of interest has not been great, but it is too soon to draw any firm conclusions about the extent of interest in the program.

Despite the large number of law school graduates (about 30,000 each year on a national basis), our graduates continue to find law related jobs. The average starting salary is close to $18,000 a year.

About 40 to 45% of our graduates continue to take jobs in private practice. This has been the pattern for many years. Another 35% typically will go into a variety of government funded practice jobs, including district attorneys' offices and public defender offices.

Probably 10%will end up working for business organizations. Job opportunities in this latter area seem to be increasing.

About 70% of our graduates locate within Wisconsin. Our graduates plus the graduates of Marquette Law School and successful bar exam candidates from out-ofstate law schools increase the number of active lawyers in this state by about 6.5% annually.

Although this means that the Wisconsin bar is increasing in size quite rapidly, it is well below the California growth rate of about 10%or the national growth rate of 8.5%

Let me now make a few remarks about what happens between the time a student is admitted to Law School and the time he or she graduates and takes a job.

During that time the student will have earned a total of at least 90 credits. The first year is devoted almost entirely to required courses designed to introduce the student to basic concepts of legal analysis. The student takes courses in Civil Procedure, Criminal Law and Procedure, Torts, Contracts and Property, in addition to a course we call Legal Writing. The student will have the opportunity to be in one small section of 15 to 20 students in which he or she will be exposed to some legal writing exercises as well as to the substantive or procedural law of the particular course. Other classes, as in the old days, are likely to have 70 to 125 students enrolled.

In the second and third years, students have almost unlimited freedom to choose the courses they wish and in the order they wish to take them. It is true that the state Supreme Court about 10 years ago imposed certain course requirements on those students who wish to avail themselves of the diploma privilege (which means almost all students). In the second and third years, these include Constitutional Law, Evidence, Trusts and Estates, Jurisdiction of Courts and Professional Responsibilities. I think there is a consensus, both among faculty and students, that most all of these are basic courses. Other courses which, according to a recent survey, our faculty considers to be basic are Corporations, Taxation, Administrative Law, and Commercial Law. These also are courses in which students enroll in great numbers.

About one third of the credit hours offered each semester in the second and third year courses can be considered to be clinical courses in the broad sense. In addition to seven or eight different clinical programs where the student is involved in client service, there are the simulation courses such as Trial Advocacy, Appellate

Advocacy, Client Counseling and General Practice. One might also include such practice oriented seminars as Estate Planning and Business Planning.

In addition to the basic courses and the clinical courses, a wide variety of seminars and courses in more specialized aspects of the law are offered each semester.

Altogether, about 30 courses and 15 seminars are offered in a typical semester for second and third year students. Thus, it seems clear that we offer a rich and varied curriculum. I think it is also a reasonably well balanced one. The bar is not monolithic, and it seems desirable to afford students the opportunity to sample a wide variety of offerings and obtain at least preliminary training for a wide variety of lawyering roles.

However, that issue, among others, is one which the faculty will have an opportunity to re-examine in our forthcoming selfstudy.

Every six years or so, law schools are required by accreditation agencies to undertake a socalled self-study to examine basic objectives, methods to achieve them and allocation of resources for achieving them. Our Law School is about to embark upon such a study. I anticipate that the background papers will be completed this summer and that the study will be completed in a concentrated period of two to three months next fall. Some work already has been done. For example, we have had a committee studying our Legal Writing Program for the past couple of months, and on May 1 and 2 a Task Force of experts from other Universities and from practice came to the Law School to help us make a preliminary evaluation of our continuing legal education programs.

Students and alumni, as well as faculty, win be represented on the self-study committee. Among the questions which will ultimately be examined are: What are our basic objectives and what ought they to be? Where do we need more resources in order to do an effective job? How can we better utilize the resources we have? More

specifically, we probably will be asking ourselves such questions as: Are we路 getting our money's worth out of the first year small section program? Do we need more structure in the second and third year curriculum? Should we be devoting more resources to clinical courses? or less? Can the skills training goals of clinical education be achieved as effectively through the simulation courses as through the usually more expensive client service courses? These are the kinds of questions which should get us "back to basics", I am sure they will generate spirited debate and, I hope, some consensus. At the same time, I do not expect any revolutionary changes in our programs to result from the study.

Perhaps former President, Chancellor and Dean Edwin Young was right when he said recently in a speech: As a dean, I encouraged the college to have a curriculum review committee that went into exhaustive arguments whether it is three courses in French or two courses in Spanish and what equals mathematics. They came out with a new curriculum. It wasn't any better than the old one; maybe by my lights, not quite as good. But by the process 30 to 40 faculty members renewed their interest in teaching and what they had been doing.

Although Ed Young was making the major point to a group of University administrators that they ought not be hesitant to involve faculty in university governance, the narrower point of renewed enthusiasm for teaching resulting from such involvement also is important. College teaching, including law school teaching, often is a lonely occupation, and it is important to periodically involve faculty members in studies focusing on the broader objectives of the educational enterprise. I am confident, however, that this will not be the only benefit derived from the self-study. I look forward to giving you a further report on this matter next year at this time.

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1979¡80 FUND DRIVE REPORT Like the Greek god of the theater this year's Alumni Fund Drive report both smiles and frowns. The good news is in fact two-fold: the total amount of contributions increased for the second year in a row and reached the second highest total in the eleven year history of the Drive. The average contribution jumped to an all time high of almost $250 per contributor, a truly remarkable amount. Readers with mathematical minds can see in these two facts our cause for concern. Continuing a four year slump, the number of alumni showing their support for this Law School declined to 461 this year, or about 7%of all alumni. Our largest number of contributors, in 1966, was

666, or about 12%.While that rate of participation is itself not partieularily impressive, it was almost twice the current rate. If more gave a little, a few would not have to give so much.

Many private law schools, with well established traditions of voluntary giving, achieve four or five times our rate of participation. A few public law schools consistantly do that well. In a time of inflation and reduced governmental funding, all law schools are being forced to place more emphasis on voluntary support programs. As we reexamine our Alumni Fund Drive and other fund raising efforts, you, our alumni, are going to hear more from us concerning our needs and

the ways you can help.

One other note about this year's results: we are encouraged by the help received from our younger alumni. The number of givers out of school ten years or less matches any other lO-year group despite the fact that they have lower average incomes and higher debts. These younger alumni have also demonstrated their continued interest in their School in other ways. The Class of 1975 held a lively 5th reunion at this year's Spring Program and raised a class gift for the school.

With such help and with our own rededication of effort in fund raising the future may be as bright as the past has been.

Thank you for your assistance.

- Edward J. Reisner WLAA Executive Director

WISCONSIN LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ANNUAL REPORT Of LAW ALUMNI fUND April 1, 1979 • March 31, 1980 Annual Giving (alumni and non-alumni) Law Alumni Fund Restricted Unrestricted Benchers Endowment Gifts to WLAA WLAA Memberships and J.D. revenue

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$ 24,296.51 20,114.50 16,625.00 975.00 22,020.50

Gifts to the U.W. foundation for the benefit of the Law School James Shaw Scholarship .

Lloyd K. Garrison Fund .

For general Law School use .

800.00 500.00 29,303.31

30.603.31

GRAND TOTAL $114,634.82 Deferred Endowments through Insurance Program 40 participants (1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1979) at $5,000 ($200,000)* "This figure represents the ultimate commitment to the Fund, based on $5,000 per participant. It does not represent income received.

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NOTE: Included in the WLAA totals of the following analyses are contributions Wisconsin Foundation by Alumni for the benefit of the Law School.

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WLAA AND U.W. FOUNDATION COMBINED BREAKDOWN OF ALUMNI GIFTS BY REGION April 1, 1979 - March 31, 1980 Wisconsin Regions No. of Contributors

County Region Region Region Region Region

No.1· No.2· No.3· No.4· No.5·

Milwaukee " Kenosha and Racine Dane Walworth, Rock, Green Dodge, Jefferson, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington Region No.6· Calumet, Winnebago, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Manitowoc, Sheboygan Region No.7· Forest, Florence, Oconto, Marinette, Brown Door, Kewaunee, Langlade, Outagamie Region No.8· Columbia, Marquette, Sauk, Waushara, Lincoln, Marathon, Oneida, Vilas, Portage, Waupaca, Wood Region No. 9 - Crawford, Grant, Iowa, Lafayette, Richland, LaCrosse, Monroe, Vernon, Adams, Clark, Jackson, Juneau Region No. 10 - Buffalo, Dunn, Pepin, Pierce, Trempealeau, St. Croix, Rusk, Sawyer, Chippewa, Eau Claire Region No. 11 - Ashland, Bayfield, Iron, Price, Taylor, Barron, Burnett, Douglas, Polk, Washburn Wisconsin regions total Other States Region No. 12 Region No. 13 Region No. 14

(contributors total 149) - Chicago (Illinois, Indiana, Missouri) . Minneapolis (Iowa, Minn., N. Dakota, S. Dak.) . New York City (Conn., Maine, Mass., New Jersey, New Hampshire, N.Y., Pa., Rhode Island, Ver.) Region No. 15 - Wash., D.C. (Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Va. and W. Va.) Region No. 16 . Detroit, (Kentucky, Mich., Ohio) Region No. 17 . Atlanta or Miami (Alabama, Arkansas, Fla. Ga. La., Miss., S. Carolina) Region No. 18 . Denver (Colo., Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Neb., Utah, Wyoming) ....•............................

Region No. 19 . Phoenix (Arizona, N. Mex., Texas) Region No. 20· San Francisco (Alaska, Ca., Nev., Ore., Wash.)

Region No. 21 . Hawaii (Hawaii only) Region No. 22 . Foreign Total Contributors and amount (alumni) J.D. certificate revenue Total alumni revenue

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93 11 101 14

$ 14,215.50 865.00 23,584.05 1,535.00

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1,167.50

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16

1,470.00

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17

1,735.00

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1,640.00

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185.00

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2,300.00 462.50

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4,677.32 1,410.00

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461

$ 63,983.87 130.00

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$ 64,113.87

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ANALYSIS OF ANNUAL GIFTS OF ALUMNI BY REGION Comparison -

1970-1979

Number of contributors and amount Dane

Milwaukee 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

61 -$ 9,608.00 92· 13,974.66 71 - 19,572.65 88 - 9,765.69 90 - 9,082.45 163 13,141.70 110 - 20,713.77 98 - 13,123.86 90 - 13,481.86 101 - 23,584.05

82 - $10,907.00 113 - 14,242.00 106 - 12,414.70 123 - 14,948.33 110 - 16,082.00 112 - 12,830.15 135 - 16,123.50 119 - 14,352.30 106 - 14,691.75 93 14,215.50

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Wis. outside Dane & Milw. Ctys.

133 - $13,941.00 165 - 14,381.95 175 - 12,107.94 188 - 13,557.41 175 - 12,253.00 198 - 13,602.50 181 - 14,519.50 147 - 11,820.43 136 - 11,044.00 130 - 11,089.50

Other States 121 - $10,078.00 160 - 10,560.00 146 - 8,716.00 198 - 8,760.50 168· 9,468.70 192 - 11,448.12 240· 14,700.50 171· 10,429.22 149 - 10,573.63 137· 15,094.82

ANALYSIS OF ANNUAL GIFTS BY ALUMNI

BY SIZE OF GIFTS Comparison -

1970-1979

Number of contributors and amount

unu 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

$ 0-99 213 - $ 5,559.00 326 8,388.30 322 7,297.44 412· 11,054.41 371 - 10,142.20 482 - 11,892.70 411 - 10,589.50 326 .

8,730.63 278 7,796.69 256 7,396.01

$100-199 118 - $12,836.00 133 - 14,316.74 113 - 12,156.20 122 - 14,630.33 111 - 14,176.00 120 - 15,359.44 122 - 15,765.00 146 - 18,443.42 147 - 19,510.31 146 - 20,630.00

1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

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$200-499 51 - $13,039.00 57 - 14,374.50 52 - 13,493.00 52 - 14,218.10 52 - 14,417.01 53 - 15,570.55 57 - 16,437.50 53 - 15,164.27 45 - 13,433.34 43 - 12,410.19

$500-999 8 - $3,600.00 6 - 3,420.00 5 - 2,900.00 9 - 4,565.40 6 - 3,140.40 7 - 4,199.92 8 - 4,252.50 8 - 5,196.44 9 - 4,699.98 11 - 6,168.05

Alumni Amount Contributors 397 $44,534.00 53,158.61 530 52,811.29 498 47,031.93 597 46,886.15 543 665 51,022.47 666 66,057.27 49,725.81 535 49,791.24· 481 63,983.87 461

$1,000 & over 7 - $ 9,500.00 8 - 12,659.07 6 . 16,982.65 2 - 2,563.69 3 - 5,010.54 3 - 3,999.86 6· 6,850.27 2 - 2,191.05 2 - 4,350.92 5 - 17,379.62

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS BY CLASS TO THE LAW ALUMNI FUND April 1, 1979 • March 31, 1980 1905 Chris Steinmetz

1912 Ralph Hoyt

1913 LeRoy Lorenz

Allan Edgarton James Martineau Eleanore Roe Leslie Smith Bernard Soref Vernon Swanson

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1932

Robert Peters

Frank Hamilton George Kroncke Robert B. L. Murphy Marvin Silver Jerome Slechta Ernst von Briesen

1921 Dorothy Walker

1922 Ray McCann

1923 C. H. Bonnin Frank Kuehl Ernest Pett

1925 Ralph Axley Lucius Chase Sheldon Vance

1926 Lester Clemons Eugene Williams

1927 Laurence Gram

1928 Berthold Berkwich Frederick Clapp W. Roy Kopp Warren Resh R. Worth Vaughan

1929 Melvin Bonn Lewis Charles Warren Harris Harry Schuck William Voss Gustav Winter

1930 John Best W. Wade Boardman Alfred Goldberg C. H. Herlache Edwin Larkin Raymond Wearing Ervin Weinke

1931 Norman Baker Carroll Callahan

1933 M. P. Frank George Laikin Floyd McBurney Gordon Sinykin John Stedman John Tonjes

1934 Ernest Agnew Charles Jagow Mac McKichan Roger Minahan Norman Stoll Thomas Stone Richard Teschner

1935 Olga Bennett William Churchill John Conway George Evans Raymond Geraldson David Previant Frederick Suhr

1938

1946

John Byrnes Rudolph Schwartz Herbert Terwilliger Gerard Van Hoof John Whitney

Richard Bardwell Eugene. Hanson Robert Howard Peter Pappas John Petrus

1939

1947

Max Bassewitz John DeWolfe Conrad Frantz Richard Johnson Wirth Koenig Frederick Schwertfeger Willard Stafford Alex Temkin

John Bosshard James Brody James Clark Arthur DeBardeleben Thomas Fifield Robert Goodman Harold Greiveldinger Kenneth J oanis Arden Muchin Norman Quale Bruce Rasmussen John Vergeron t

1940 Patrick Cotter Andrew Fadness J ames Geisler Alexander Georges Rodney Kittelsen Loren Olson Karl Peplau Conrad Shearer Joseph Sullivan John Varda Marlin Volz

1941 Malcolm Andresen Joseph Berry Robben Fleming Edward Knight Charles Luce Carl Mortensen Eldon Mueller Willard Schwenn Edward Weinberg George Young

1936 Richard Blakey Robert Fulton Joseph Fishelson Carl Gerold Francis Laurent Rudolph Regez

1937 Walter Bjork Donald Bonk Thomas Fairchild Leon Feingold Bernard Hankin Stanley Fruits Arthur Snyder

1942 William Collins Louis Croy Jack DeWitt Frederick Griffith Rollin Johnson Marvin Klitsner

1943 Frederick Hertz

1945

1948 George Affeldt Joseph Barnett John Bruemmer Fred Fink Charlotte Higbee Dale Ihlenfeldt Robert Johnson Leon Katz Trayton Lathrop Martin Lucente William Mantyh Sterling Schwenn Mordella Shearer Warren Stolper Robert Voss

1949 John Ahlgrimm Jacob Bernheim Melvin Bieber Irvin Charne Glenn Coates Daniel Flaherty George Hardy Hans Helland Henry Hillard Edward Jacobs John Loughlin John Palmer George Papageorge Frank Remington John Seeger Leonard Zubrensky

Lloyd LaFave Ruth LaFave 9

1950

1955

1962

Edmund Arpin Donald Droegkamp Stuart Gullickson Orrin Helstad Gerald Kahn Jerome Klos Joseph Melli Marygold Melli William Rosenbaum Charles Seibold George Steil

F. Anthony Brewster Robert Consigny Laurence Hammond, Jr. Maurice Miller Bernard Kubale Milton Neshek Robert Tehan

Shirley Abrahamson Joseph Bernstein Barbara Crabb James Cummings Leonard! Dubin Allan Joseph Mac McKichan, Jr. Edward Setzler Roy Traynor Stephen Zwicky

1951 Jerome Bomier Richard Cates James Congdon John Fetzner Leon Fieldman Ralph Geffen Robert Lutz Edward Rudolph Theodore Schuster Robert Smith Clifford Thomas Ray Tomlinson Robert Waldo Charles White

1952 David Beckwith Kenneth Brost David Collins Henry Field William Giese Don Herrling Corliss Jensen James Karch Edward Levine Richard Murphy Arthur Nelson Lyman Precourt Eugene Sawall William Willis

1953 Frank Bixby Jules Brown Francis Croak Robert Curry P.J.C. Lindfors Milton Lorman Richard McKenzie Paul Meissner Richard Moen Dale Sorden Royal Taxman David Uelmen Allan Wheeler

1954 William Fechner Burton Strnad

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1956 Kenneth Ehlenbach James E. Jones, Jr. David MacGregor Carl Pieper Stanton Smith, Jr.

1951 Kenneth Benson James Davis James Fetek Bruce Gillman Patrick Lloyd

1958 Eugene Jume Philip Levy Kenneth McCormick Paul McKenzie Peter Nelson Richard Olson Daniel Shneidman George Stephan James Vance James Van Egeren Frank Woodworth Zigurds Zile

1959 David Brodhead Frank Covey, Jr. Wayne LaFave Paul Lynts Carl Meissner

1960 Darryl Boyer Arlen Christenson Aubrey Fowler John Merriman

1961 Edward Callan Gilbert Church William Coffey James Drill A. C. Murphy Stuart Okrent Thomas Ragatz Nelson Wild Thomas Zilavy

1963 Bernard Fredrickson James Huber Edward Kelly David Wexler

Douglas Reich Michael Reiter James Roethe Michael St. Peter Stephen Sewell

1968 James Baird Jeffrey Bartell Mary Bowman Keith Christiansen John Forester Daniel Rinzel Ronald Spielman John Thomas Christopher Wilcox

1964

1969

Richard Baumann Thomas Combs Jerry Friedland Daniel Hildebrand Bradway Liddle Thomas Sobota John Stevens

Patrick Colloton Gerald Davis Conrad Goodkind Paul Hahn George McCord Paul Root John Skilton

1965

1910

Gerald Conklin George Douglas Clarice Feldman David Hase Keith Johnston Patrick Juneau Daniel Milligan Edward Pronley James Schernecker Thomas Travers G. Lane Ware George Whyte

J ames Carlson John Ebbot Rebecca Erhardt Stephen Glynn William Hotz Arth ur Kroos James Miles David Rice John Stiska Paul Wallig

1966

Janice Baldwin Angela Bartell Thomas Bell Bryan Borman James Clark Hector de la Mora David Diercks Howard Eisenberg David Grams Earl Hazeltine Terrence Knudsen William Leege Robert Meyeroff John Mitby William Schulz Gregory Smith

Susan Brachtl Timothy Condon Peter Fetzer David Kinnamon Robert Moberly James Pease, Jr. John Roethe Joseph Skupniewitz Geritt Van Wagenen Fred Wileman

1961 Stanley Adelman Wayne Babler Henry Brachtl Richard Clinton Lawrence Cofar Kay Ellen Consolver John Crossetto Aaron Goodstein Thomas Herlache William Mundt Virginia Parkinson

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1972 Peter Ambelang Aldo Busot Claude Covelli George Curry James Feddersen Donald Goldsworthy

Thomas Hornig John Knight J ames Lorimer Paul McElwee John Palenz Alan Post Norman Prance Edward Reisner David Schwarz Delton Thorson

1973 Gordon Bakken Mark Bonady Kirby Bouthilet Mark Frankel Daniel Goelzer Stephen Katz Bruce Loring Julie Mitby Edward Moersfelder Karel Lee Moersfelder Christopher Rissetto John Webster

Alvin Whitaker Susan Wiesner-Hawley

1974John DiMotto, Jr. William Disney Dennis Lynch Joseph Quinn Michael Sher LeRoy Thilly Daniel Vogel

1975 Michael Auen Daniel Bernstine Kathleen Felton Tom Grant J ames Haberstroh Ann Hannon Erica Jacobson Scott Jennings Charles Kahn, Jr. Maureen Kinney Marie Stan ton

1976 Pamela Baker John Evans Lise Lotte Gammeltoft John Kaiser Barbara Maier David McFarlane Carol Medaris Kathleen Miller Mary Lou Munts Thomas Osman John Schmolesky Thomas Solheim Robert Weigend

1977 Lawrence Bechler Robert Buesing Roger Buffett Peter Christianson Mathew Dew Roger Einerson John Higgins

CLASS CONTRIBUTIONS

Walter Hodynsky Kirbie Knutson Susan Manning David Nelson Mary Ruhl Kathleen Ryan Mitzi 'I'ousman Nancy Wheeler 1978 David Boschwitz Marianne Durkin William Fisher Judith Hunter William Komisar Mark Kutschenreuter Pierce McNany Tony Press Leonard Wang William Westerlund Gary Young

1979 Stephen Lythcott

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Scenes from 1980 Spring Program

Distinguished Schoiastic Achievement Award Winners 12

30th Reunion for the Class of 1950

Distinguished Service Award Winners Catherine Cleary ( '43 ) and Ray McCann ('21), with plaque presenters Patrick Cotter and Stuart Gullickson, and WlAA President Irv Chame look on.

Patricia Nelson Colloton (right) presents WlAA service award to Ruth Doyle.

- Spring Program photos

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ON THE liGHTER SIDE Finding a job can be a troubling task for a law student. Those who are successful are usually those who best keep a sense of humor about the process. Believe it or not there are things to laugh about in placement, no matter what your perspective. One interviewer reported an incident several years ago where a candidate entered the room, dropped to his knees and asked, "Wouldit help if! begged?"

That applicant might have received the followingletter which originally appeared in an ABA Law Student Division publication: Smith, Anderson, Milton & Jones Plaza Building Washington, DC 20000 Mr. William L. Fang The Law School Somewhere, US Dear Mr. Fang: I was glad to have met with you recently to discuss the possibility of a summer clerkship with our firm. We appreciate your interest but regret that we are not able to ask you to continue the interview process.

As I am sure you realize, an attorney's time is extremely valuable and a member of a firm has a responsibility both to himself and his associates to be frugal in its expenditure. The immense expense of interviewing the large number of job applicants we see each year, therefore, must be justified in some way. As to those students whose grades, extracurricular activities and personalities make them attractive prospective employees, we tend to view the expense as an investment in the firm's future, whether we eventually hire a particular individual or not.

Others give us invaluable insight into the changing nature of legal education and

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the profession as a whole.

Still others present us with an opportunity for invigorating and refreshing dialogue, the value of which we feel should not be discounted.

However, on the rare occasion when we interview a student whose credentials, demeanor, conversation, appearance and background can in no way justify the amount of time expended on his behalf, we are certain that you will agree that it is only fair that student be billed for the reasonable value of that time.

Therefore, please find enclosed our bill for $24.68 (twenty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents), figured at an hourly rate of $50 (fifty dollars) and including secretarial, mailing and other costs.

Best wishes for your future professional success.

BAR

MEMBERSHIPS In a recent survey of faculty memberships in various state bars, 41 members responded including one non-lawyer. The results are as follows: Wisconsin Dist. of Columbia California Illinois New Jersey Ohio Minnesota Flordia Massachusetts Iowa none non-lawyer

Prof. James E. Jones, Jr. has been selected by President Carter to chair a special panel designed to resolve disputes between the Merit Systems Protection Board, which guards the rights of persons under the civil service system, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which investigates employment discrimination cases. The panel was created by the recently enacted Civil Service Reform Act. Professor Jones, who graduated from UW Law School in 1956, joined its faculty in 1969. He currently teaches courses in the labor and discrimination area at the Law School and related courses in the Industrial Relations Research Institute.

NEW YORK AREA

RECEPTION

Sincerely yours, Fred R. Milton

FACULTY

CARTER TAPS JONES

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Eight professors belong to more than one bar, accounting for the total of fifty responses. The forty lawyer-professors indicate a total of 223 years of practice experience, an average of 5.5 years each, before joining our faculty.

Thursday, May 15, 1980 found a small but enthusiastic group of New York area alumni meeting for lunch at the Wall Street Club.

Organized by Edward L. Levine (' 52), the group heard Dean Helstad report on the status of the Law School. Eighteen alumni attended and another 27 indicated their interest in future functions.

There are about two hundred alumni in the greater New York area.

A few senior alumni reported that such gatherings, often on an informal basis, were more common in years past. R. Worth Vaughan ('28) remembers that a group used to gather for lunch every Monday. "Sometimes there were as few as two, sometimes six or eight," he recalls.

One of those who could not attend would have won the prize for coming the farthest if he had.

John N. Kramer, Jr. ('68) wrote from his firm's office in Abu Dhabi that he hopes to join the group after he is rotated back to New York. We all hope he returns with a few barrels of oil.

ACTIONS OF THE BOARDS The combined Boards of Directors and Visitors of the Wisconsin Law Alumni Association held a business meeting during the Spring Program in April. At that time the date for this year's Visitation was set for October 19-20. Members considered the investment report and recommended reconsideration by the Investment Committee of our present allocation of funds. Budgets for the various alumni accounts were approved as presented by the Dean. A general discussion of fund raising activities and plans was begun. This discussion is expected to continue as the effort in this area is reexamined and revised.

The report of the nominating committee was presented and approved later by the general membership. The report was as follows: For the Board of Vistors Kirby Bouthilet ('73), Green Bay Peter Christianson ('77), Milwaukee Sue Wiesner-Hawley ('73), Fennimore Tom Anderson ('73), Milwaukee, Chairman For Board of Directors Jeffrey Bartell ('68), Madison Mark Bonady ('73), Milwaukee George Curry ('72), Platteville For President-elect Roy Stewart ('51), Racine

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