Hastings Alumni Bulletin Vol. XX, No.1 (Autumn 1975)

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1 UC Hastings Scholarship Repository Hastings Alumni Publications Hastings Alumni Bulletin Vol. XX, No.1 (Autumn 1975) Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: Recommended Citation Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association, "Hastings Alumni Bulletin Vol. XX, No.1 (Autumn 1975)" (1975). Hastings Alumni Publications 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.

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3 Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association ALBERT R. ABRAMSON, '54 President JEROME MARKS, '64 President-elect PHILLIP L WHITEHORN, '68 Secretary KURT H. PYLE,'65 Treasurer HENRY C. KRIVETSKY, '60 Vice President KENNETH A. KUNEY,'49 Vice President JAMES K. SMITH, '65 Vice President Board of Governors PHILIPW. BARTENETTI, '70 BRUCE W. BELDING, '63 BETTY J. BROWNER, 9 HON. DONALD B. CONSTINE, '48 ORLY. DAVIS,'3 6 JAMES C. HAGEDORN, '63 HON. JOHN D. JELLETICH,'52 MELVIN C. KERWIN, '61 WYMAN C. KNAPP'39 CAROLE R. KORNBLUM, '66 LESLIE G. MacGOWAN,'53 HON. OLLIE M. MARIE-VICTOIRE, ' HON. ROBERT W. MERRILL,'52 HIAWATHA T. ROBERTS, '53 LAURA ROCKWOOD,'76 CHARLES A. RUMMEL,'31 DWIGHT M. RUSH, '53 JAMES D. SALO,'70 WAYNE 0. VEATCH,'35 Board of Directors HON. DONALD R. WRIGHT Ex-Ott icio President HON. A. F. BRAY Chairman HON. DANIEL R. SHOEMAKER Vice Chairman LEONARD A. WORTHINGTON MAX K. JAMISON WILLIAM C. SANFORD HAROLDS.DOBBS HARRY H. HASTINGS RAYMOND L. HANSON MORGAN DOYLE Editor ANDREA WEISBROD Graphic Design MYRL NORTHWAY Research CAROL FINNEGAN Classnotes MARK RENNIE, MORGAN DOYLE Photography CAROLYN HAMMOCK Production Art MARVIN J. ANDERSON Dean ELOISE L. HELWIG Law School Relations ELIZABETH A. STROUBE Assistant Alumni Director H ASI NGS 16ELL~~iLU ~U4L~JLLDVL Volume XX, Number 1 Autumn Dean's Message, Alumni Officers and the Award of the Year 2 The Swedish Parliament Comes to Learn Sweden's lawmakers visit on a study tour of the U.S. legal system years of Law Professorship George Osborne and Roscoe Steffen. 4 News of the Faculty Distinguished Visitors and New Faculty. 6 The 1975 College of Advocacy 8 The Judge of Hastings Part 1. Graduates of classes '10 to '70 serve throughout the judiciary. The first of two parts includes a federal bench, the California Court of Appeal, Bay Area superior courts and the Supreme Court of Alaska. 13 The 1066 Foundation 14 Hastings Alumni Gathering at the State Bar 15 Chapter Activities Alumni have organized three new chapters. 16 Moot Court 17 Rugby Anyone? 18 Classnotes The Hastings Calendar O OF The Alumni Bulletin is published three times annually by the Alumni Association and the Office of Public Affairs, Hastings College of the Law, 305 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, CA

4 Dean Marvin J. Anderson Dean's Message As we celebrate the bicentennial birthday of the founding of this nation, I think we should remind ourselves of the role the lawyer has played in the history of this country. The American revolution is said to be the only revolution ever led by lawyers. Throughout U.S. history, and increasingly in the past decade, the legal profession has played an important role by addressing itself to problems of our society. Hastings graduates have figured prominently in this work for almost 100 years. This is the 98th year in the history of the law school; in two years we will celebrate our centennial anniversary. Hastings has played a significant role in the history of this state, of this nation, for nearly half the period of time this country has been a nation. Academically, in the past year we have been very fortunate in adding several distinguished members to the faculty. I can say with a great deal of confidence after spending the summer at Harvard that Hastings' faculty is comparable to any faculty of any leading law school in the nation, and that it is definitely superior to most. The community of Hastings, of which you are such a significant part, consists of faculty, administrators, students and alumni, all of them integral parts. The increasing involvement of the alumni, of every one of you, in the many facets of the College operation is a tremendous strength to the law school. I say this very bluntly; no leading legal institution, or any institution of higher education, can survive and assume a position of leadership without the strong and active support of its alumni. So, you are a very, very important part of the Hastings community, and we are extremely Cont. on page 21. Albert R. Abramson, '54 has assumed the presidency of the Alumni Association. Partner in the firm of Abramson and Bianco, he practices aviation and personal injury law and is a winner of air races. Al is a member of the Hastings 1066 Foundation, as well as several international and American professional trial lawyers' associations. He resides in Hillsborough and practices in San Francisco. Twenty-one of the Alumni Association's Board of Governors. A total of forty-six serve on the Board, including officers, past presidents and now the president of the Associated Students of Hastings. Row 1 Hon. Charles A. Loring, '38, Los Angeles; John J. Vlahos '61, San Francisco; Raymond L. Hanson '36, San Francisco; Myron E. Etienne '52, Salinas; Homer L. McCormick, Jr. '61, Santa Ana. Row 2 Wyman C. Knapp '39, Los Angeles; Charles A. Rummel'31, Berkeley; Kneeland H. Lobner '44, Sacramento; Orly 0. Davis '33, Visalja; Henry C. Krivetsky '60, San Francisco. Row 3 Jerome Marks '64, San Francisco; Phillip L. Whitehorn '68, Hayward; Betty J. Browner '68, Hayward; Dwight M. Rush '53, Honolulu; Hon. John Jelletich '52, Bakersfield; Laura Rockwood '76, San Francisco; Kenneth A. Kuney '49, Tulare; Melvin C. Kerwin '61, Redwood City. Row 4 James K. Smith '65, San Diego; Bruce Belding '63, San Francisco; Wayne Veatch '35, Los Angeles; Kurt Pyle '65, Santa Barbara. Alumni Governors And New Officers Alumni at the annual luncheon and general membership meeting voted in two new Board members, Hon. Robert Merrill '52 and Philip Bartenetti '70. Judge Merrill sits on the San Francisco Superior Court bench and serves on the Hastings Board of Visitors. Mr. Bartenetti is past president of the Los Angeles alumni chapter and is with the firm of Gibson & Palmer. Laura Rockwood '76, also a new governor of the alumni association is a third year student at Hastings. Award of the Year; Raymond Hanson Raymond L. Hanson (right), recipient of the Hastings Award of the Year is pictured here with outgoing Alumni Association President John Vlahos '61. Both men serve Hastings in numerous ways; for some they receive titles and plaques, for many more they do not. They are now both trustees of the 1066 Foundation and past presidents of the Alumni Association. "Ray has invested a great deal of his time and talent in Hastings. He is a man dedicated to community service and to the support of the education of his profession," said Dean Marvin Anderson. Ray Hanson is an Overseer and Director of the College and works with many church, civic and professional organizations. He is a noted columnist and lecturer on Trusts and Estate Planning and works on the executive council of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. He is currently at work on the Attorney General's task force to study and recommend on charitable legislation. John Vlahos' presidency saw the founding of two new alumni chapters At their quarterly meeting following the general membership meeting, the governors elected officers for the year: Albert Abramson '54, San Francisco, President; Jerome Marks '66, San Francisco, President Elect; Philip Whitehorn '68, Hayward, Secretary; Kurt Pyle '65, Santa Barbara, and Henry C. Krivetsky '60, San Francisco, Kenneth A. Kuney '49, Tulare, and James K. Smith '65, San Diego, Vice-Presidents. and two more are on the way. The Alumni Association has had steadily increasing membership and enjoys greater participation from its members. First elected by alumni to be a governor of the Association in 1971, John was for a two year term chairman of the student relations committee. He has had an excellent rapport with students; after a discussion with new students at orientation this year he was surrounded by students asking him questions about the career they have begun. John won't be allowed to lay his talents to rest. As a newly appointed 1066 Foundation trustee, his first task will be to direct a revival of the late Professor William Prosser's musical, "Over the Hill to Hastings" for the 1066 black tie dinner at the Bohemian Club in April. Hastings Alumni Bulletin

5 Sweden's Parliamentary Committee on Laws Comes to Learn by Morgan Doyle The Swedish Parliament's Committee on Laws took a look at a foreign legal system on a study tour of the United States in September. As part of their tour, the entire Committee of 15 Scandinavian lawmakers came to Hastings to learn about legal education in the United States, and thereby to gain insight into U.S. law and those who administer it. While touring San Francisco courts and the United States Attorney's office, the Parliamentarians, whose Committee must approve all laws enacted in Sweden, "particularly wanted to come to Hastings to learn and gather information on legal education in the United States," said Hans Skold, San Francisco's Swedish Consul General. Learn they did, with an inquisitiveness matched only by the pleasure with which Professor Hall answered their questions about Hastings and American jurisprudence. The Swedish Parliamentarians asked numerous questions in English and through their interpreter, questions which became progressively more specific on matters of costs to students, financial aid, Hastings' budget relationship to the state, courses on legislation, and the stages of training lawyers must undergo in the United States. Dean Anderson explained the concept of Hastings' proposed Community Legal Services Center, which will combine Hastings' academic program with the delivery of legal services to the public, to government, and to private institutions. The Dean explained the Moot Court and trial practice programs to an interested audience and told of Hastings students' participation in clinical programs as well as the use of the case method. A representative of the Center Party, Sonja Fredgardh, a journalist on leave from her newspaper while serving in Parliament, told us, "We are very interested in the way that laws are made in this country. We are finding that several things are very different here." Among the things she found different was the role of the prosecutor, who in Sweden is appointed and whose job is almost exclusively "to determine whether a defendant has committed a crime, and if so, to prove it." Concerned about what might be considered political aspects of the prosecutor's job in the United States, Rune Torwald, who works also as a personnel manager in the Swedish Postal Service, asked, "What do the students think about elected prosecutors?" Professor O'Brian said, "Students think it's a pretty good system. I think most of them would like to be elected themselves." As the Swedish politicians (to whom the English term applies only loosely) introduced themselves as schoolteacher, farmer, shop steward, banker (Farmer's Cooperative Bank), machinist, and trucking firm owner, the most fundamental difference between Swedish and American lawmaking became clear: few Swedish parliamentarians are lawyers. In fact, out of 300 elected representatives in Stockholm, only 15 have received the Bachelor of Law degree. Only four held law degrees on the Committee on Laws itself, and even long standing members of parliament remain employed at least part time in a variety of common jobs. Above, Ivan Svanstrom, chairman of the Swedish parliament's Committee on Laws, presents Dean Anderson with a book on Swedish jurisprudence and art work from the Dean's ancestral home town. Swedish Consul General Hans Skold sits to the Dean's left. Professor Hall, pictured here, and De Capriles, Barrow, O'Brien, Green, Lind, Lockhart and Justice Traynor met with Swedish lawmakers on their study tour. 2 Hastings Alumni Bulletin

6 105 Years of Law Professorship Roscoe Steffen, retired after 14 years on the faculty at Hastings, was appointed to the Sixty-Five Club during the era of Dean David Snodgrass, in Prior to joining the Hastings faculty he had taught at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years and before that at Yale for twenty-four. Professor Steffen's retirement, at the age of 82, culminates 50 years of teaching, publishing, and remarkable accomplishments in the practice of antitrust law. For him, retirement has meant having a chance to complete a nutshell edition of Agency-Partnership in his Hastings office. At Hastings he has taught Commercial Paper, Agency-Partnership, Trade Regulation and Securities Regulation, and loved it. His students sensed his love for teaching: Hastings Professor James Cox, formerly one of Steffen's students at Hastings, said, " 'Challenging' and 'stimulating' were words most often used by my fellow students in Professor Steffen's courses. He kept the material alive, no easy task for Commercial Paper or Agency, by his gifted ability to examine the barest material from an infinite number of perspectives." Professor Steffen gave his teaching methods a great deal of thought, keeping in mind the thinking processes lawyers must learn. "I gave open-book exams. I didn't want the students cluttered up with a lot of irrelevant information. I wanted to show them what a lawyer has to do. A lawyer doesn't say 'Iremember...' He must learn a process by which he can assimilate material and reach a sound conclusion.' Professor Steffen's experience with the law was extensive, making him a well-rounded legal scholar. While at Yale in the late 1920s he was a judge in the Hamden Town Court; on sabbatical from Yale in 1934 he became special assistant to the United States Attorney General and tried the Gypsum case (which more or less opened the way for the formation of Kaiser Cement & Gypsum). He reports, "I like practice, but it certainly ties you up. In the Gypsum case the government won; the case came up again last year, and the government won again: same defendants. I don't know how much good it's doing. They may have learned by now that to sit down and fix prices is unlawful under the Sherman Act. I spent the whole summer of 1947 writing the brief and preparing to argue the case before the Supreme Court." On the high court Steffen knew both justices Frankfurter and Douglas. He knew Douglas as a legal scholar at Yale; "He worked hard all his life. He worked day and night in his office next to mine on a casebook on business units while I worked on a casebook on agency. Back in '32 we were experimenting. I argued that the best combination of the two subjects would be Agency-Partnership, combining the partnership aspect of business units with agency. When I sent him my 3rd edition of Agency- Partnership a few years ago Douglas wrote me a letter finally agreeing with me that Agency-Partnership is probably the best combination." After his latest book is completed, Professor Steffen is planning either to write another book for West or, perhaps, return again to the classroom. One long-time associate, Roger Noree of West Publishing, put it this way: "Roscoe Steffen is one of the most amazingly interesting personalities with whom I associate in my editorial work, and his vigor and intellect have certainly not diminished with his years." George E. Osborne has retired from professorship at Hastings after 55 years of teaching the law. Impressive in number, the years are even more astonishing for what he did with them. His sixteen years at Hastings have made him a legend here, and more than that, he remains a warm friend to his students, colleagues and to the college. George's education began at the University of Denver while he was running the Denver Western Union Office. After a year he took the train to University of California, Berkeley, and became active in campus affairs and several honor societies while earning money reporting for the Oakland Tribune. Always one to engage in the excitement of his day, he invited Jack London to an evening of discussion with his English Club. After London downed four beers he began asking for Gibsons. In awe and fascination George counted 23 Gibsons for which, as treasurer, George had to pay. George reports that London lost none of his reputation as a raconteur that evening. His passion for football crystallized at Cal, but began when his Los Angeles High School used to beat U.S.C. regularly. His interest in football continued through 35 years of Big Games at Stanford, at which he always rooted for Cal. When football was once temporarily suspended at Cal he turned to rugby; so continued on following page Hastings Alumni Bulletin 3

7 New Faculty Professor Arthur Sherry has joined the Sixty-Five Club at Hastings. Professor Sherry was Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law and Criminology at Boalt Hall from 1953 to Prior to 1953 he was in private practice, served as deputy district attorney of Alameda County, and as chief assistant attorney general of California. He has written numerous law review articles, and among other activities he was chairman of the California Crime Study Commission on Insanity and Criminal Offenders and was project director of the California Penal Code Revision Project. A graduate of St. Marys College, Professor Sherry received his J.D. degree from U.C. Berkeley, and is a member of the Hastings 1066 Foundation. At Hastings this semester he is teaching Criminal Procedure and Special Problems in Criminal Law. Professor Stefan Riesenfeld, formerly a visiting professor at Hastings, has also joined the Sixty-Five Club from the Berkeley Faculty. Professor John W. Whelan has joined the Hastings faculty, coming from University of California at Davis where he has taught since He will be teaching Remedies, Administrative Law, Government Contracts and Insurance. Professor Whelan is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Contract Management Foundation and edits their George Osborne Cont. when 60 years later Hastings started a Rugby Club he was immediately interested. He said it gave him great personal satisfaction to see the George E. Osborne Perpetual Trophy for the most inspirational player given to Michael King last year, the grandson of one of George's Harvard Law School classmates. While at Harvard he was president of the Harvard Law Review and helped found the "Harvard Citator." He worked his first year, 1917, in the Boston Legal Aid Society, while keeping up his Phi Beta Kappa standards. When his brilliance was remarked, he denied he could be a genius. "Why, I was only third in my class in Berkeley." One of Professor Osborne's classmates at Harvard, and also an undergraduate at Berkeley, was David Snodgrass, a man later to become Hastings' fabled dean. They remained friends throughout George's career of teaching law at Stanford, Columbia, University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, Duke, and Boalt Hall of Berkeley. During the war George administered a number of industries under the Fair Labor Standards Act, then distinguished himself as an publication. During his career he has spent periods of leave in England, teaching at Cambridge as a visiting professor. A native of Ohio, Mr. Wheland has studied under Ford fellowships and has taught at Columbus University, Army J.A.G. School, University of Virginia and Wisconsin. Professor William Lockhart, formerly dean of Minnesota Law School, is a visiting professor in the Sixty-Five Club for this academic year. Professor Lockhart's specialty is Constitutional Law; he co-authored Constitutional Law with Jesse Choper and Yale Kamisar, now in its 4th edition and being used at Hastings this year. A graduate of Drake University, Professor Lockhart received his M.A., LL.B., and S.J.D. degrees from Harvard, where he also was a Teaching Fellow. For a number of years he was a member of the Stanford Law School faculty, and most recently since his retirement from Minnesota he has been a visiting professor at Arizona State. In Professor Lockhart was chairman of the United States Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. Hastings has gained a new Associate Dean, David A. Concepci6n, who has swiftly taken charge of institutional services and business affairs since his July arrival. Dean Concepci6n comes from the Berkeley campus where he headed a Management Analysis Group for Chancellor Albert Bowker. arbitrator in labor and commercial disputes. George helped Dean Snodgrass during the World War II years when law professors were in scarce supply by suggesting Emeritus Professor Cathcart as a man who had "some good teaching years left." Cathcart became the first professor in Hastings' 65 Club. Then, when Osborne retired from Stanford in 1958 Dean Snodgrass was on the phone: "George, at a lakeside talk at the Bohemian Grove I bragged you were joining the Sixty-Five Club. Will you?" At Hastings Osborne taught Trusts, Suretyship and Mortgages. Before coming to Hastings, Osborne had authored a number of legal books. While at Hastings he published a casebook on Secured Transactions and a second edition of his hornbook on Mortgages. At the present time he is working to update his Mortgage volume in the American Law of Property. The George E. Osborne Distinguished Visiting Professorship Award has been established in his honor. Professor Osborne took a strong interest in the careers of his students at Hastings, several of whom now teach at Hastings. With the number of his Steven A. Lind Professor Stephen A. Lind is Visiting Professor of Law for the academic year from the Spessard L. Holland Law Center at the University of Florida. A native of Petaluma, California, Professor Lind is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he also received his J.D., after which he earned an LL.M. degree in Tax Law from N.Y.U. His special interest lies in the field of taxation, and he is currently teaching Federal Income Taxation and Federal Estate and Gift Tax. He is a member of the Hastings 1066 Foundation. Professor Lind co-authored with Stephens and Maxfield Federal Estate and Gift Taxation, published by Warren, Gorham & LaMont in attorney and student editions. He assisted in writing Freeland and Stephens casebook on Fundamentals of Federal Income Taxation published by Foundation Press and has authored both a supplement and teacher's manual to that publication. Hastings graduates coming on to the bench he has said, "It is only a question of time until one of my Hastings students reaches the Supreme Court." His rigorous attention to his students' legal training has been the source of complaints and blunt criticism by students, though by their third year a kind of affection brought students to make gifts demonstrating their appreciation, albeit ambivalent; Mortgages Class of 1967 presented him with a stainless steel hatchet on which is engraved: "Professor Osborne, to make your job easier use in event some future student should find himself out on a limb." The Class of 1969 gave him a bullwhip inscribed, "Thanks for the legal flagellation received." All cannot be told about George Osborne in so few lines as these, but many more could not tell the fondness held for him by so many. Hastings, and legal education, is permanently improved for his teaching and his many contributions. So, on Hastings' behalf, we hope he continues his relationship to the law school. 4 Hastings Aumni Bulletin

8 Faculty News George Shipley Prugh '48 has joined the Hastings faculty as an assistant professor. For the last four years he has been responsible for the country's oldest and largest law firm as Judge Advocate General, U.S. Army, from which he recently retired as a major general. For the spring semester he will be teaching courses in Criminal Procedure and Special Problems in Criminal Law and Procedure. During his military career he was stationed both in the Pacific and European theaters at various times. He taught courses on International Law for the University of Maryland while stationed in Korea and in Paris. Graduated from the Command and General Staff School and also the War College, he received in addition his M.A. from George Washington University. He has been a member of the Hastings 1066 Foundation for several years. Prugh served in Southeast Asia as staff judge advocate during years described by General Westmoreland as "the year of crisis," 1964, the "year of military commitment," 1965, and the "year of development," His book Law at War, written last year to describe the role of law in the U.S. military presence in Vietnam, has recently been published by the Government Printing Office. At the 1975 ABA Convention in Montreal he gave an address on My Lai. George Prugh, retired Judge Advocate General for the U.S. Army, here about to speak for the U.S. at the Geneva conference on the Law of War. Behind him sits Phillip K. Jessup, distinguished international lawyer and Judge, International Court of Justice. Professor Ray Henson from Wayne State University will be a visiting professor at Hastings for this academic year. He teaches Commercial Paper, Secured Transactions and Creditors' Rights. He authored Landmarks of Law, published in 1960, Secured Transactions -II, with Davenport, and in 1973 a Handbook on Secured Transactions under the UCC. The International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, also known as the World Congress of Legal Philosophy, met for the first time in the United States August Professor Jerome Hall, member of the Congress Program and Organizing Committee for the past two years, handled the invitations to Asian and Latin American scholars. The Hastings Faculty now consists of 82 members, of which approximately one-third are members of the Sixty-Five Club, one-third are regular professors, and one-third are adjunct faculty. During the past summer, Professor Barrow traveled to Europe as a part of his research on broadcast regulation in Great Britain and France. He conducted interviews with the B.B.C. and I.B.A. in Great Britain and Radio Tele-Diffusion France. He also consulted with various institutions in Great Britain and France dealing with public service broadcasting. His research lays the basis for comparative analysis of broadcast programming regulation between the United States and Western European countries. The project was funded by the Walter E. Meyer Institute of Law. Articles by Professor Barrow on cable television were published this past summer in the Virginia Law Review and the Journal of the Producers Guild of America, treating issues raised in the development of cable television. Professor Roger Traynor has returned to the Sixty-Five Club after a year's leave of absence in London at Cambridge University, where he was Sir Arthur Goodhart visiting professor of Legal Science. In February at the University of London he participated in the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and there prepared a discussion on the following: "Too easy a drift to non-retroactive ruling?" and "Too guarded a lag on the use of statutes?" Former California Supreme Court Chief Justice Traynor has received the American Judicature Society Justice Award for Professor Leo Kanowitz, authority on sex-based legal discrimination, has published several new articles, among them an analysis of Edwards v. Healy for Supreme Court Previews, published by AALS, and a review of La Nationalite de la Femme Mariee for the American Journal of Comparative Law. Professor Kanowitz completed video tapes on Women and the Law in cooperation with the annual conference on Woman in the Law. The conference was held at Stanford last spring. Professor Grodin, on one year's leave while serving as one of five gubernatorial appointees on California's new farm labor board, has seen the action he sought as a pioneer administering the nation's first collective bargaining statute covering farm workers. "In our first two months under the Act we have had approximately three-fourths as many elections as the NLRB did in the entire United States during the first year of its operation, and the NLRB had a two-year crank-up period prior to its first election," Joe said. His work has been not only intense, but also dramatic. "It was estimated that objections would be filed in 25% of the elections. In fact, objections have been filed in 98%/." The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act requires that hearings be held on each contested election. At 110 hearings each month, this means that each member of the board must write an opinion a day. How is it working as an experiment in regulating farm labor disputes? "The general principle of the statute is sound. You don't instantly bring order out of chaos. We've had chaos in the fields in California for many years." Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg will return this January as Distinguished Visiting Professor to again teach seminars on questions in Constitutional Law. Professor Miguel de Capriles served as chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee's Legislation and Restructuring committees that drafted a number of major amendments adopted during the past year in response to criticisms of the U.S. Olympic Committee in the press and in Congress. He also has been serving as special counsel to the Chancellor of New York University, where he was formerly Dean of the law school and Chancellor himself. Professor Guy Kornblum '66 founder of Hastings College of Advocacy and a pioneer in the use of video technology in the law moderated a seminar in the Pre-Trial Uses of Videotape in September for the Oklahoma Bar and Oklahoma's law schools. Richard Van Alstine Carpenter Teaching at Hastings from 1965 until 1975, Richard Carpenter was known to his students in Conflicts, Taxation and Estate Planning as a fine scholar and gentleman, receptive to student contacts and keenly interested in all aspects of the Hastings community. He retired from teaching at the end of spring semester 1975, moved to a newly purchased home in Corona Del Mar for his retirement years, and a month later died of a heart attack. Professor Carpenter received his A.B. at Marquette, his M.A. at Chicago, his LL.B. at Chicago and a J.D. at Columbia. He practiced law in New York City and became a partner of Satterlee and Warfield until 1946 when he became Dean at St. Louis University. Later he taught at Loyola, Chicago, and came to Hastings as a visiting professor in 1965, returning a year later to join the Sixty-Five Club. A memorial fund has been established in the professor's name. Donations may be directed to the Professor Richard Carpenter Memorial Fund. Hastings Alumni Bulletin 5

9 THE 1975 COLLEGE OF ADVOCACY The Hastings Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy presented its fifth annual College of Advocacy this summer from July 20 through 26, drawing 392 participants from 45 states, Guam and the Virgin Islands. The 1975 curriculum and faculty has earned the college another year of acclaim for its continued excellence and everexpanding treatment of all phases of civil trial practice. This year the College held individualized workshops in business litigation as well as in personal injury litigation and again presented demonstrations and lectures on eight phases of trial practice from planning and interviewing to settlement and closing statements. The College has received praise from participating attorneys for the 150 distinguished jurists, private practitioners and legal scholars across the nation who came to Hastings and shared their nationally recognized skills in the field of civil trial advocacy. Special Guests Former United States Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark opened the 1975 College with an address on legal ethics. Brooks Hays, noted orator and former congressman from Arkansas, spoke at the College banquet at the Stanford Court. Both addresses brought enthusiastic responses from participants and newsmen. Use of Video Each participant was videotaped several times to review his progress himself as he went through intensive workshop sessions, criticized demonstrations, and heard leading practitioners speak. A man in the personal injury. workshop writes that the College is "showing that it is possible to learn trial techniques as a skill rather than acquiring them as some sort of gift." Videotapes bring Hastings' College of Advocacy to national audiences through law schools, continuing education programs and organizations of the bar. Students at Hastings view the tapes in the Hastings Television Office. 6 Hastings Alumni Bulletin e. robert (bob) wallach, Chairman of the 1975 College. Howard Downs, Hastings Professor, was in charge of this year's Business Litigation Workshops. Kay Holley 1975 Student Coordinators Bernie Lahde Leading Litigator, Hastings Professor and Founder of the College of Advocacy, Guy 0. Kornblum. Justice Kobayashi of the Hawaii Supreme Court, presiding over demonstration of trial technique. The Justice is newly appointed to the Advisory Board. He enrolled to refresh his trial skills. "It has given me a great sense of humility to realize that the easiest job is held by someone like me, on the Supreme Court, in the judicial hierarchy. As a student in the workshops, I come to the realization-what a difficult, difficult job a trial advocate has!"

10 "Examination of Witnesses," a tape from the 1974 College, has won the 1975 Ohio State award for "Excellence in Educational Broadcasting." Planning and coordination of the College of Advocacy is a valuable experience for student coordinators who work during their second year to insure the program's complete preparation. Rose Bodnar, administrative director since the program's inception, supervises the efforts of the four student coordinators and of fifty more Hastings students who go to work on the program for the summer. Hastings gives special thanks to the American Board of Trial Advocates and to President Donald Black for ABOTA's contributions as co-sponsor of the 1975 College of Advocacy. Plans for next summer's program are now being formulated. The Executive Committee welcomes its new chairman Henry Woods, of Little Rock, Arkansas, and its new members, Vice-Chairman Leroy Hersh of San Francisco and Hastings Professor Howard Downs. The 1976 College will be held August 1 through 7. Additional information may be obtained by writing Hastings College of the Law, 305 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 256, San Francisco, Ca , or by calling (415) The College has available its 1975 edition of the Civil Advocates Manual used by participants at the College. The 400- page volume is used as a practical reference by lawyers, law schools and legal associations. Additional copies are available at $25 each Student Coordinators Justice Clark, Honorary President of the Fred Furth of San Francisco listens 1975 College of Advocacy Chairman skeptically to a testifying witness. Henry Woods sits with ABOTA President Ronald Black on his right, and, to the right, Administrative Director Rose Bodnar. TV Cameraman Catches the Action. Orator Brooks Hays. The Mock Trial. Leroy Hersh, speaking, demonstrates trial technique. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles Loring, '38, presiding. University of California's Paul Rush, Producer of the College of Advocacy video programs. Hastings Alumni Bulletin 7

11 The Judges of Hastings California was the first state to codify its laws, and it now has 1,164 judges to define, administer and remake them. Hastings is the oldest law school in the West. Its tradition covers 98 years of California history, and over the years many of California's judges learned the law at Hastings. Over 170 of Hastings graduates are now sitting on the bench. Twenty-one of them graduated in the class of '49, and fifteen from each of the classes of 1951 and '52. Keeping track of them all in California, in other state courts and in the federal judiciary is not an easy task. As quickly as they retire (which often means that they continue to serve on an assignment basis) new appointments are made among more recent graduates. The representation of women on the bench is less than proportionate, to say the least, but with women now one-third of the student body, it will only be a matter of time before women out of Hastings will break through, in numbers, to all levels of the judiciary. Since the Alumni Directory came out in the summer of 1974 there have been over a score of new appointments and elevations within the judicial section in the back of the book. The directory is, however, an excellent way to keep track of classmates throughout the judiciary. (An updated directory will be published this coming summer.) As cautious and time-consuming a task as it has been to assure that not one judge has been left out of these few pages, or prematurely retired here, we are sure that oversights of this sort must have occurred. In that case, and always, we say, write us, and keep all of us up to date. To attempt an article of any scope on Hastings graduates on the bench is an ambitious project, not only because they are numerous but also because in every case there is much to be said. It has been a delight to interview so many experienced, thoughtful individuals so concerned about problems and vicissitudes of society, and a disappointment to discover that space and time require that only a small fraction of what we have discovered about Hastings' many jurists can be shared in these pages. It is hoped that there is here at least a glimmer of what we have sensed from looking quickly into this aspect of the Hastings alumni community. Perhaps in future issues and with the help of alumni we will begin to build a notion of the scope and depth of the entire Hastings alumni community. In the next issue of the Bulletin part two of The Judges of Hastings will include alumni who serve on the bench in other states and those who sit in superior and municipal courts in the California counties not included here. Judges in these categories who were not able to send the Bulletin a picture or current information on their activities may still do so. These are the Hastings judges who attended the alumni association's annual luncheon meeting at the State Bar convention in Los Angeles. These gentlemen (none of Hastings' women judges could attend) represent one-sixth of the Hastings graduates currently sitting on the bench. U.S. District Court It is Judge Oliver J. Carter's twenty-fifth year on the bench, and, in the way that judges' names sometimes do, his is on its way to becoming a household word. Chief federal district judge of the Northern District of California for the last five of those twenty-five years, Oliver Carter, Class of '35, was a state senator from Shasta for eight years, director of Harry Truman's California campaign, and the state Democracy party chairman in 1950 who reorganized his party and placed it behind a candidate for attorney general by the name of Edmund G. Brown. The pressures and the press that have surrounded him recently, in Case No , are not new to him. Judge Carter is the man who announced in court that this case was "not special," and who, the New York Times reports, speaks knowingly of the unusual "pressures" of the case, and remains undaunted. Judge Carter was educated in the public schools in Redding and came to Hastings after receiving his B.A. from Stanford. Admitted to the bar in 1936, he practiced law in Redding with his father Jesse Carter, became assistant district attorney, then when his father was appointed associate justice of the California Supreme Court, Oliver in 1939 was elected to fill the vacancy his father left as a state senator from Shasta and Trinity counties. As a legislator Judge Carter was active in the field of natural resources, having been a member of the committees which revised the laws relating to forestry, fish and game, and water resources. In the Senate he was regarded as an authority on the Constitution and an advocate of public development and distribution of Central Valleys Project power. Judge Carter served on the Hastings Alumni Association Board of Governors and was president. "I have great respect and admiration for Hastings. It gave me the grasp on what it was I wanted to do," said the judge. "A course I had with Robert Harrison, chief assistant attorney general, was of inestimable value when I went into the legislature. I've always related my work with the Constitution to the training I received in his course on Government." In October Judge Carter's former law clerks held a party for him, coming from as far as Thailand, Hawaii, New York and Washington, D.C. Several of them have become judges themselves. On the subject of becoming a judge, Oliver Carter says, "I don't think judicial opportunity is something you seek; it seeks you." Phillip C. Wilkins '39, federal district judge of the Eastern District, lived in the same house with Judge Carter while he studied at Hastings. Judge Wilkins, now a district judge for several years, has been active in the organizing efforts of the Sacramento alumni. U.S. District Judge Robert H. Schnake '38, also of the Northern District, is not at present trying a headline-making case. Chief Justice Burger recently appointed him to serve as one of five members of the Federal Judicial Center located in Washington, D.C. He has served for five years as a district judge, and before that two years on the San Francisco Superior Court. Judge Schnake enjoys foreign travel whenever his duties allow him to get away. U.S. Magistrates Thomas H. Rothwell '51, professor and director of Clinical Programs at Hastings was earlier this year chosen to be a U.S. Magistrate for the Oakland area. He has been the chief executive of both the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County and of San Francisco as well as staff attorney to the Society in San Francisco, and was a former president and a long-time board member of the Public Defender and Legal Aid Association of California. He presently serves on the management committee of the San Francisco Consortium of Institutions of Higher Learning. Also recently appointed to Magistrate's court, Willard W. McEwen, a graduate of the class of 1960, is serving in the Central District, in Santa Barbara. 8 Hastings Alumni Bulletin

12 Bankruptcy Court At present two of California's bankruptcy judges are Hastings graduates, Robert L. Hughes '57, for the Northern District of California, and Conley S. Brown '52, who serves in an exclusive jurisdiction within the Northern District encompassing seven countries in the Redwood Empire; Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma, Marin, Lake and Napa. When Conley Brown was first appointed in 1959 he had an eighteen-county jurisdiction and held hearings in four cities. As the case load grew and the US District Courts split he assumed his present jurisdiction, and he now hears in Eureka, Santa Rosa and San Rafael. Upon leaving Hastings he practiced in San Francisco, then moved to Eureka and engaged in business until Robert Hughes was appointed to his position in 1968 by the Federal District Court in San Francisco. He is a member of the faculty of the national seminar for new bankruptcy judges and governor for the Ninth Circuit of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. Pleased to be in the field because of significant legislation currently being drafted, Judge Hughes says it is time of progressive improvement for the 1973 Bankruptcy Act. New legislation on the act is before both houses of Congress. California Court of Appeal Though A. Frank Bray '10 is officially listed as "retired" presiding justice for the First Appellate District, Division One, he is in his office a minimum of four days a week, and when he is not writing opinions for the overburdened court, he assumes leadership at Hastings and in more official and community functions that only a full biography could include. When that biography is written, it would do well to let him tell his own story in original A. Frank Bray wit. At age 86 Justice Bray does not even have a plan to retire. As a director and vice president of Hastings, trustee and member of the Honor Court of the 1066 Foundation, he is well known as a concerned and generous alumnus as well as a lawyer widely noted for his vigorous and imaginative combination of social service and profession practice. Asked recently about retirement, he answered with characteristic wit, "My wife said she married me for better or worse but not for lunch." Justice Bray was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 1947 by Governor Merriam and elevated to presiding justice in 1959 by Governor Brown. Prior to that he was a Contra Costa Superior Court judge for 12 years and city attorney for Concord, Pinole and Martinez going back to He is a beloved resident of Contra Costa County for innumerable reasons, two of them being his principal role in building the Carquinez Bridge and his appellate court decision keeping Frank's Tract in the Delta open to fishermen when the island flooded (in the latter he ruled that though the island was privately owned, the public could fish in the water above it, which was owned by the state). The bridge was built when he talked a client (the owner of the ferry) into building the bridge when the client came to enlist Bray's help in blocking any bridge project. A year and a half out of law school Justice Bray nearly embarked on an acting career before being taken into the J.E. Rodgers firm in Martinez. He was performing in amateur dramatics when his temporary job with a San Francisco firm ended, and he was offered a stage job with the Belasco Stock Company. In classic understatement and with a twinkle of the eye, Bray puts it this way: "Martinez got a poor lawyer but the stage missed probably one of its greatest actors." A simple statement by Wakefield Taylor, presiding justice of Division Two, may serve to summarize this caption on Justice Bray: "His public contributions have been tremendous." In the Third District Edwin J. Regan represents the class of He was appointed to associate justice by Governor Brown in 1964 while serving his fifth term as state senator for Shasta and Trinity counties. Justice Regan serves as chairman of the Advisory Board to the Joint Legislative Committee for Revision of the Penal Code, having worked while a senator as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee of the Joint Legislative Committee for the Revision of the Penal Code, and of the Joint Judiciary Committee on the Administration of Justice. He was also a member of the committees on Governmental Efficiency, Local Government and Water Resources. Justice Regan was Trinity County district attorney for 16 years and kept a law practice in Weaverville from the time of his graduation to his appointment to the Court of Appeal in Daniel Shoemaker '28 was presiding justice in the First District, Division Two for eight years until his retirement in 1971, and an associate justice for three years prior to that. The 1968 recipient of the Hastings Award of the Year, Justice Shoemaker serves on the Board of Directors, is a past president of the Alumni Association and is a member of the 1066 Foundation. He practiced law in San Francisco until 1943, when he was appointed to the Municipal Court in San Francisco. After three years he was appointed to the Superior Court, where he worked for thirteen years until his elevation in 1960 to the Court of Appeal. Associate justice of the Fifth Appellate District, Donald R. Franson '51, has been on that bench since 1972 when he was appointed by Govenor Reagan. He was for five years a Fresno Superior Court judge and had two years on the federal judiciary with the Eastern District Bankruptcy Court. Justice Franson was a member of the Judicial Council from 1971 to After his graduation from Hastings he A. Frank Bray '10 Donald R. Franson '51 Hugh A. Evans '52 Hastings Alumni Bulletin 9

13 William J. Hayes '34 Lewis E. Lercara '28 Robert J. Cooney "49 began as deputy district attorney in Fresno and then entered into private practice for eleven years until being appointed to the Bankruptcy Court in He is a member of the 1066 Foundation. Two Hastings classmates were elevated to the Court of Appeal last year by Governor Reagan, Hugh A. Evans and James B. Scott, both of the Class ol1952. Justice Scott, appointed to the First District, Division Three, was previously elected Superior Court judge in Santa Clara County, and originally appointed by Governor Brown to the Sunnyvale Municipal Court where he had been mayor. Justice Evans was six months into a Sacramento Superior Court judgeship when he was appointed by Governor Reagan to be an associate justice in the Third Appellate District. Before Governor Reagan appointed him to the Superior Court he had been in private practice in Sacramento for eighteen years. After leaving Hastings Justice Evans became a research attorney for the Court of Appeal and subsequently joined the office of the district attorney in Sacramento. Superior Court, City and County of San Francisco Currently eight Hastings graduates serve on San Francisco's Superior Court benches. Beginning with the Class of 1931, Raymond J. Arata has been on the court for 19 years. He was first a Municipal Court judge, appointed by Governor Warren in Engaged in private practice up until that time, Judge Arata was on the State Board of Education for four years until 1952, during which time he was president of the San Francisco Republican Assembly and vice-president of the California Republic Assembly. Francis McCarty, of the Class of 1933, was appointed by Governor Brown in 1960 after serving as president of the Board of Supervisors and as a prominent member of the Board since Judge McCarty initiated the drive to obtain a major league franchise for San Francisco, which led to the Giants coming to San Francisco. Active in professional and civic affairs, he is a past president of the Barristers Club and past director of the San Francisco Bar, and was elected Trial Judge of the Year in 1971 by the California Trial Lawyers Association. He has been active in the Police Athletic League and is a director of the Italian Welfare Society. He is a recipient of the Columbus Civic Club Award. Charles Peery '40 has been on the Superior Court for 15 years and was ten years on the Municipal Court. Prior to that he was an assistant district attorney. Donald Constine '48 was appointed in 1969 by Governor Reagan, before which he had been on the Municipal Court, appointed by Governor Brown. A member of the Judicial Council in , Judge Constine served from 1951 to 1964 first as assistant U.S. attorney and then as the U.S. commissioner for Northern California. He is a faculty advisor to the California College of Trial Judges. Classmates of 1949, Morton R. Colvin and Joseph Kennedy serve on the court together, Kennedy elected in 1972 from the Municipal Court and Colvin appointed to a newly created position in During his time in office Judge Colvin has been presiding judge of the Criminal Division and of Domestic Relations. Judge Kennedy received the Hastings Award of the Year in 1973 for outstanding community service. He is chairman of the San Francisco Economic Opportunity Council. Recently Judge Kennedy has been taking cases in rural areas to lighten the local case load for attorney judges since Gordon v. Justice Court. "It is very interesting," he said. "In many of these areas they have never seen a black judge." Elected last year to Superior Court, Judge Edward L. Cragen '52 had the opportunity to interpret the U.S. Supreme Court case of Faretta v. California, which held that a criminal defendant has the constitutional right to defend himself. Judge Cragen held that it should not be applied retroactively. His ruling came in the case of People v. Ferguson, and has special significance since the nation's high court was silent as to whether the Faretta case should have retroactive or prospective application. In response to an announcement that a local bar association will poll attorneys to rate S.F. judges as to temperament, intellect, knowledge of the law and trial management, Judge Cragen was invited to a Criminal Trial Lawyers Association luncheon to rate attorneys. Robert Merrill'52 is in his eighth year on the San Francisco bench, his sixth oii the Superior Court. Merrill has served on the faculty of the College of Advocacy and regularly presides in Moot Court and in trial demonstrations. He services on Hastings 1975 Board of Visitors. From 1953 to 1967 he was in private practice in San Francisco. Judge Merrill is a director of the S.F. Bar Association and a past president of the Barristers Club. Eugene Lynch '58 was elevated to the Superior Court last year by Governor Reagan, and first appointed to the Municipal Court In Judge Lynch engaged in private practice prior to his appointments. Superior Court Alameda County Robert F. Barber '48 has been a member of the Alameda Superior Court for nine years and formerly sat as judge in the Piedmont District of the Oakland Municipal Court. Judge Barber's judicial background began when he was research clerk to former California Chief Justice Phil S. Gibson. He has also lectured for CEB and at one time served as economist for the National War Labor Board and National Labor Relations Board. Robert L. Bostick '49 was elected judge in Prior to that time he was in private practice in Oakland when Governor Brown in 1961 appointed him to be judge of Oakland Municipal Court, Piedmont District. Leonard J. Dieden '40 had been a member of the California Law Revision Commission when Governor Brown appointed him to the Alameda County Superior Court in Prior to that time he had been in private practice in Oakland. Lionel Wilson '49 has served on the Alameda Superior Court since his appointment in 1964 by former Governor Brown. He had for four years prior to that time served as judge of the Municipal Court of Oakland, Piedmont District. Judge Wilson takes a prominent part in the civic affairs of Oakland, including Oak Center, Inc. which honored him recently at a dinner for his work in its behalf. He is vitally interested in rehabilitation of (1) criminals and (2) residential neighborhoods. Redmond C. Staats '38 served in the Alameda County Superior Court from 1961 until his retirement in September He has engaged in many civic activities through the years, having been educated in the Berkeley schools and taken part in Berkeley Municipal Court and Board of Education before his years on the Superior Court bench. William J. Hayes '34 is the most recently appointed (1971) of the Hastings alumni in Alameda County. He began private practice in Oakland in 1935 where he continued until his appointment by Governor Reagan. 10 Hastings Alumni Bulletin

14 Cnaries K. test 6U Lewis E. Lercara '28, since his retirement from the Alameda Superior Court in 1974, has been handling many cases as an arbitrator upon mutual request of counsel. Very active in civic affairs, Judge Lercara is also a member of many organizations including Kiwanis, West of Market Boys of San Francisco, Circle "C" Society of U.C., and has been honored in the past as Oakland Man of the Year. Judge Lercara served on the Municipal Court for one year and the Superior Court for 14 years. Also retired from the Alameda Superior Court is Donald Quayle '28 who served on the bench from 1948 until this year. He was elected five times to six-year terms and left his office last spring due to physical disability before the end of his term. He was formerly an Alameda justice of the peace until Governor Warren elevated him to the Superior Court. Neighboring Contra Costa County has two Hastings alumni serving on the Superior bench, Robert J. Cooney '49 and Thomas F. McBride '39. Judge Cooney, who is the father of eight, appropriately sits in Department 8. He was formerly city attorney of El Cerrito and was appointed to the Superior Court in Among many civic interests, he is active in the Contra Costa County Association for the Mentally Retarded. Judge McBride had been city attorney of Concord and deputy district attorney of Contra Costa County before being appointed to the Superior Court in He was taught legal subjects, been in private practice and has written numerous articles for legal publications on the subject of probation. Superior Court Marin County Charles R. Best graduated from Hastings in 1960 and became a faculty assistant for one year until striking out as a sole practitioner in San Francisco and thep in Marin counties. In 1972 he was elected to ihe Marin Superior Court. He returns to Hastings to participate in Moot Court. Judge Best is a trustee of the Marin Community College District and a director of the College of Marin Foundation, and served on the 1965 festival committee for the San Francisco International film festival. He has been president of the Kiwanis and of the SF Muscular Dystrophy Association, and was for three years chairman of the March of Dimes campaign in San Rafael. Thomas Keating '31 served on the bench in San Rafael for twenty-two years until his retirement in Prior to that he was a state senator for thirteen years, and served on the San Rafael City Planning Commission while engaged in private practice. Superior Court San Mateo County There are three Hastings alumni on the San Mateo Superior Court. Speaking for his class (1949), Robert D. Miller, on the bench since 1971, commented, "It's been quite a class. We were pushed, having to make up for three or four years we spent in the war. When we came back we were ready to go." He had been in private practice until 1969 when he served as Municipal Court judge for two years. His son Cameron is a first-year Hastings student. G. Brooks Ice '51, elevated in 1970 from the Municipal Court to the Superior, following many years of private practice as well as serving as deputy district attorney, has been listed by San Jose State University as one of the top ten of living graduates out of 100,000 students in its 118 year history. He is a member of the 1066 Foundation. Retired Judge Joseph A. Branson '36 was appointed in 1959 and served until the expiration of his term in Previously he had been judge of both municipal and city courts. Superior Court Santa Clara County Three Superior Court judges (one retired) on the Santa Clara bench are Hastings alumni. Although James D. Duvaras, Jr. '54 has now retired, his former law partner, John T. Racanelli'52, still serves on the court. Duvaras was elevated from the Sunnyvale-Cupertino Municipal Court in Before that he was active on the Sunnyvale Board of Education and was chairman of the Personnel Board in Sunnyvale. John Racanelli has been re-elected for two successive terms following his appointment in 1964 by Governor Brown. He is past president of the California Conference of Judges and is on the Advisory Committee of the Judicial Council. Before his appointment in 1967 Judge John E. Longinotti '38 had been in private practice in San Jose. Hastings Alumni Bulletin 11

15 Frank Gt-.Finnegan 'JU William M. Gallagher '49 Superior Court Sacramento County In Sacramento County there are seven Hastings Superior Court judges, three of whom are now retired. Robert W. Cole '50 was elected in 1964, having previously been judge of the Sacramento Municipal Court, public defender and assistant district attorney. He taught at one time at McGeorge Law School. William Gallagher '49 was elected in 1964 after having served three years as Sacramento Municipal judge, nine years as city prosecutor, and before that was in private practice in Sacramento. Retired Judge Frank G. Finnegan '30 was appointed to the court in 1963 after having practiced law in San Francisco and having been city attorney of Nevada City for six years. Retired Judge Gordon A. Fleury '39 served on the bench from 1955 until Previously he had been an assemblyman for six years, and at one time was assistant district attorney in Sacramento. Lloyd A. Phillips, Jr. '52 was appointed in 1969, following many years of private practice in Sacramento. Mamoru Sakuma '49 was a Municipal Court judge in Sacramento for two years before being elected in 1964 to the Superior Court. Before that time he had been in private practice in Sacramento. Retired Judge Murle Shreck '27 will continue to assist the Superior bench with its caseload until the end of this year. Supreme Court of Alaska Edmond W. Burke, Class of '64, was selected for the Alaskan Supreme Court in April. He is the eleventh justice of the court since Alaska's statehood, and at age 40 he is the youngest of the five high court justices. Prior to his appointment Justice Burke was a trial court judge for four years and one of the most highly regarded in the state. He has been in Alaska for only eight years, during which time he has been with the attorney general and the Anchorage office of the district attorney (both unified within the Alaskan Department of Law) and in private practice. With his appointment to the Supreme Court Burke says he still loves trial work. He describes his departure from the trial court as "leaving the arena," but he said he sought Supreme Court appointment as a logical extension of a judicial career, for it allows him the opportunity to take part in an important decision-making process. He said also that the appointment is an opportunity to "get back to the scholarship of the practice of law." After he left Hastings he engaged in private practice in Santa Rosa, but kept looking for a different position. In 1966 he learned that the attorney general in Alaska was looking for assistant attorney generals; he applied and was accepted. However, the outcome of the year's elections meant he had to apply again. He was again accepted, and arrived in Juneau in January In 1968 he entered private practice for a brief period, but, missing trial work, he returned to the Anchorage district attorney's office until his appointment to the Superior Court. Born in Ukiah, Justice Burke is the son of Wayne P. Burke, also a Hastings graduate (Class of 1927) and also a judge. Wayne Burke was a distinguished Superior Court judge for eleven years in Mendocino County. But Alaska's new Supreme Court justice says his father did not influence his decision to go into the judiciary, or even to go into law. Edmond first earned a master's degree in botany and education and taught science in a Sonoma junior high school. He then became interested in law and gave it a try; after a year at Hastings he decided to continue. When he arrived in Alaska in 1967, the legal community was neither large nor growing very fast, but Justice Burke says it is now growing "at an alarming rate." He estimates 700 lawyers in Alaska, and there are 400 in Anchorage. He was chosen for the high court under Alaska's Missouri style of selection plan. "When there is a vacancy anyone who is qualified, who has practiced for a number of years, etc., can apply. All applicants are screened by a six person committee of three laymen, the attorneys and the chief justice. The bar polls the membership on the qualifications of the candidates. The seven man group submits two names to the governor, and he decides. The theory is that you take some of the politics out of the selection. Then in the election the voters decide whether to retain you." Justice Burke said he hopes to continue enjoying the judiciary while he gets a handle on the pace and the approach of the appellate courts. At the same time, he is active in the Alaska wilderness, an appreciation for which he no doubt acquired in Northern California. He said he still has a chance "to chase a rainbow around once in a while." This is the first of two parts of the Judges of Hastings. Part two will be in the winter Bulletin. 12 Hastings Alumni Bulletin

16 Trustees of the 1066 Foundation Kneeland Lobner '44, Sacramento; Homer McCormick, Jr. '61, Santa Ana, President of the Board; Kenneth Kuney '49, Tulare: *John Stumbos, Jr. '53, Sacramento; Charles Rummel'31, Berkeley; Raymond Hanson '36, San Francisco; *Ivan Halperin '71, Los Angeles; *Horace Coil'57, Riverside; *William Began, '52, Long Beach; *Timothy McMahon '53, Santa Barbara. Other new trustees not shown are *William K. Carr '73, San Jose; *Howard Downs, San Francisco; *Ferdinand Fletcher '35, San Diego; *Wallace Fujiyama, Honolulu; *William Hair '59, Oxnard; *Henry Todd '37, San Francisco; and *John Vlahos '61, San Francisco. Already serving as trustees of the 1066 Foundation: James Archer '33, San Diego; Hon. A. Frank Bray '10, San Francisco; Myron Etienne, Jr. '52, Salinas; and Max Jamison '45, Los Angeles. (*New trustees.) the 1066 FOUNtIATION hastings COLLEGE OF The LAW Beginning its fifth year, the Hastings 1066 Foundation has become a valued member of the Hastings community, and is now about to enter a new phase of development. So far, the Foundation has made grants to the school in the form of new library acquisitions, scholarships to Law Journal and Constitutional Law Quarterly editors and in founding a 1066 Distinguished Professorship. Funds from 1066 sent last year's moot court team to the Jessup International finals in Washington. The 1066 Foundation has performed a valuable support function and has fed the dream for Hastings' future. The number of 1066 members has grown. They are both alumni and friends, lawyers and nonlawyers. They are prominent in the law, in government, business and the arts members are people who are aware of how legal education affects the day to day practice of law and how it shapes those who will inherit the responsibility for the preservation-and development-of our legal system. They know that the response the law will make to the unforeseeable demands of tomorrow cannot be framed by even the wisest of today's jurists-the job will be put in the hands of the men and women now studying at Hastings. Now with over 250 regular and honor court members and receiving new members at an increasing pace, the foundation named twelve new trustees in September to take an important part in the development of the foundation. The trustees now number 21 and represent 14 metropolitan areas in California and Hawaii. Through their efforts and the work of Homer McCormick, Jr. '61, Kneeland Lobner '44 and Myron Etienne, Jr. '52, the Hastings 1066 Foundation hopes to build 1066 membership to 1,066 by Hastings' Centennial year, Homer McCormick, President of the Board, discusses how it is to be done: "This year the 1066 Foundation will be holding planning and organizational meetings in eight cities, from San Diego to Sacramento and Hawaii Trustees in every part of the state will be making personal contacts in their areas. Small meetings will be arranged to share the purposes of the 1066 Foundation, and to provide organization for increasing membership and participation." A superb reception honoring the new trustees was held at the Halperin home in Los Angeles September 22 during the State Bar Convention members were treated to fine hospitality by the Halperin family. Hastings 1066 Foundation Trustees will be contacting people in their local areas to attend the meetings listed on The Hastings Calendar (inside back cover) for the year throughout California and Hawaii. In each city Hastings' programs and plans will be discussed by the Trustees, Dean Anderson, and present and prospective 1066'ers. The black-tie dinner this year is scheduled for April 2 at the Bohemian Club in San Francisco. Further information about the 1066 Foundation is available from the Development Office, Hastings College of the Law, 305 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco Your participation is most welcome. Hastings Alumni Bulletin 13

17 The Hastings Community Gathers The Annual Luncheon The annual meeting of alumni September 23 at the State Bar convention brought over 270 to a luncheon in the grand ballroom of the Beverly Hilton. Raymond L. Hanson received the Hastings Award of the Year and outgoing Alumni Association president John J. Vlahos was given well-deserved praise for his services. The year has brought together three active new chapters of Hastings alumni and a healthy increase in membership. A new chapter is currently under formation in Washington, D.C. Student to Serve on the Board of Governors By unanimous vote at the alumni meeting the current ASH president will serve ex-officio on the Board of Governors of the Alumni Association. The Board, seeking more contact with the current student body, proposed the by-law amendment to give students a voting position on the Board. Previously, the position was held by the most recent past president of the student body. The change has resulted in positive action; at the afternoon Board meeting, Board member Laura Rockwood '76 conveyed several requests from the student body to the other Governors. She also expressed ASH support and appreciation for the Association's Career Counseling and Law Practice programs, and gave thanks for alumni assistance in the placement of new Hastings graduates. Will the Court please rise... and Hastings' judges are on their feet. Hastings' newest alumni complete the 1975 annual luncheon. ASH president Laura Rockwood '76,. one of the new members of the Board of Governors. The Hastings Alumni Association began its drive two years ago to help enthusiastic alumni meet and form chapters in their areas. So far the cause to promote the mutual acquaintance and good fellowship among all members of the Association has made good progress, and not only in local areas. As a result of chapter activities, school functions, academic programs and the 1066 Foundation have enjoyed increasing participation of Hastings' alumni and friends. Inquiries about formation of new chapters or chapter activities should be directed to Libby Stroube, assistant alumni director. 14 Hastings Alumni Bulletin

18 Chapter Activities November Dinner Los Angeles Elects New Officers and Plans the New Year The Los Angeles Chapter wound up a busy year with its first dinner in Orange County last June. Professor Milton Green, a popular member of the 65 Club, addressed sixty alumni and friends at the Airporter Inn in Irvine on June 6, when new chapter officers were installed. Officers for this year are David P. Christianson '67, president; Wayne 0. Veatch '35, executive vice-president; Stewart R. Suchman '69, vice-president; Hon. Steven Burtnett '67, vice-president; Kristian D. Whitten '73, secretary/ treasurer. This year's alumni activities in the greater Los Angeles area include a luncheon in November, the traditional New Admittee Party in December, January luncheons or dinners in Ventura and Riverside/San Bernadino, and the annual chapter dinner in February. The second annual Alumni Golf Tournament will be in Las Vegas in March, and there will be another Orange County dinner in June. Hawaii Honors Its Own More than half of the Hastings alumni in Hawaii gathered in September for a teahouse dinner honoring three outstanding alumni prominent in Hawaii's legal community. Ronald Amemiya '67, Hawaii's attorney general, Gordon Wong '66, Director of the Department of Taxation, and Walter Yamashiro '68, Director of Consumer Protection for Hawaii were the guests of honor at the dinner. Chapter president Dwight Rush '53, enthusiastic about the turnout, said the chapter is making plans to host the Association's Board of Governors next June for their quarterly meeting. East Bay First Out of Four The fourth Alumni chapter to be organized was founded in Alameda/Contra Costa counties last April. It was the first to form of the four new chapters being organized this year. Over 40 local alumni met in Oakland to ratify by-laws and a constitution and to elect officers. For the first year the officers are David A. Mulford '69, president; Madeline G. McLaughlin '71, executive vice-president; Michael E. Klingler '73, vice-president; Ralph Yanello '72, vice-president; Robert G. Allen '70, secretary-treasurer. The chapter also elected a board of advisors, Hon. William R. Channell'49, Robert C. Field '60, Hon. Donald K. Quayle '28, Charles A. Rummel '31, and Charles A. Wood, Jr. '51. The new chapter hosted the Board of Governors at a banquet May 16 at the Emerville Marriott Inn. Charles Bates, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's San Francisco Office, was the guest speaker. San Mateo County Organizes Although it was formed only last April, the Alameda/Contra Costa Alumni Chapter was not Hastings' newest for very long-the San Mateo Chapter formed October 3rd at a luncheon in honor of the county's five Hastings judges, the Hon. Charles Becker '39, Hon. Joseph Branson '36, Hon. Alan Haverty '62, Hon. G. Brooks Ice '51, and Hon. Robert Miller '49. Dean Anderson related news of the school's activities and plans to the newly-gathered alums in San Mateo. The chapter constitution and by-laws were ratified, and the founding officers were chosen. Melvin C. Kerwin '61 was chosen to be the chapter's first president, William D. Esselstein '68, executive vice-president, Robert Bishop '63, first vice-president, Robert Bishop '63, first vice-president, Charles A. Dyer, Jr. '70, second vice-president, and William R. Morris '73, secretary-treasurer. The Greater Sacramento Area Chapter The Sacramento Area Chapter Steering Committee has announced the Sacramento Chapter's inaugural dinner. Chairman Michael V. Ubaldi'74, Susan Baisden '74, Alison Colgan '74, Rodney Davis '74 and Philip Laird '73 have planned the chapter kickoff dinner for Friday, January 23, in Sacramento. Advisors for the new chapter will be Archie Hefner '49, Kneeland Lobner '44, Arnold Overoye '65, Hon. Lloyd Phillips '52 and Kenneth Wells '51. Sacramento Alumni who do not receive further details by mail and who would like to attend should contact the Alumni Office. At this year's November dinner the College will honor all of the Alumni Association's former presidents. Each quarterly meeting of the Board of Governors coincides with a banquet for the alumni in the area in which the meeting is held, and at San Francisco's meeting and banquet this November the Governors will honor all of the past twenty-two presidents of the Association at the Clift Hotel. The November dinner traditionally honors the immediate past president, but for 1975, and every five years thereafter, the immediate past president will share the distinction with all those who have served the College and Hastings alumni as president. Outgoing president John Vlahos and his distinguished predecessors will be cited for their efforts on behalf of Hastings on November 21 at the Clift. A special evening of entertainment is planned in thanks to John and all those who have served Hastings in this way. All alumni who wish to attend are most welcome. Those in the Bay Area who have received the Bulletin but who have not received an invitation, please contact the Alumni Office for further details. Class of '64 Reunion The Class met in very good form for its ten-year (plus one) reunion at the Joe Cotchett home in Hillsborough. Sixty-five members of the class and their families gathered for an afternoon of swimming, tennis and new stories, only to work up a fantastic appetite for a fine steak barbeque. "Overall a smashing success. We had people come from all over the state, 133 in all, of whom I think 40 were children.... Everyone was glad to get together," said Jerry Marks, one of those who made it happen. The Ad Hoc Committee that organized the pleasurable event deserves good thanks, especially co-chairmen Jerry Marks and Paul Alvarado, Jerry Ackeret, Terry Callan, Armon Cooper, Joe Cotchett, Bob Courshon, Bob Dunne, Willie Gordon, Bob Hobson, Don Humphreys, Clif Jeffers, Art Kurteff, Bob Luft, Bob Martin, Tony Morales, Mike Nave, Art Pollock, Bill Spain, Stan Tuccori, Tom Uniack, Jim Walsh and Al Wohl. Hastings Alumni Bulletin 15

19 Moot Court by Nancy Steidtmann Progressive change in the Moot Court program has transformed a required course into a valuable early experience in appellate practice for the second year students who enroll in it each year. The two unit course now offers Hastings students a shot at actual appellate advocacy, a chance to develop their skills briefing and arguing live cases in a courtroom situation before participating trial and appellate court judges. The new program is run as a team teaching seminar, each of 14 groups directed by third year students. Students submit written drafts of every stage of preparation of their briefs and meet in several individual conferences with third year Moot Court Board members. Topical outlines and treatment of an issue are required in order to sharpen the student's grasp on legal writing. Program Director Jerome Marks and the program's students and staff recognized the need for change, and are responsible for the improved format. Himself an overall Moot Court winner in '63, Marks participated in a very different type of program at Hastings, one which offered no academic credit and in which the arguments were held in the classroom. Currently the program makes use of three San Francisco Superior Court rooms four nights a week in January and February. The presiding judge and volunteer attorney for each session of the court question the opposing counsel as they would in a live case on appeal, and it's said the questioning ranges naturally from the subtle to the aggressive, and sometimes to the adverse. The program culminates in an awards banquet at Four Seas in Chinatown attended by participating alumni, judges, faculty, attorneys and students. Attorney Paul Alvarado, '64, who sat as a judge in the 1974 Moot Court Competition, commends the use of actual cases on appeal and the trial court transcripts. In fact, the case he heard was a homicide in Alameda County in which he had been counsel for the defense! Alvarado said his own experience in '64 hadn't prepared him adequately for practice because there was too little instruction on how to look at a case, how to present it, or how to convince the appellate courts. Now he says "the trial practice class, along with Moot Court, is like a trial lawyer's internship." While requirements say that all second year students must complete Moot Court (with the exception of those on the Law Journal or the Constitutional Law Quarterly), the move for academic credit, which was the impetus for expansion, and the high caliber of the program have attracted students who forego participation on the Law Journal and the Constitutional Law Quarterly in order to practice in Moot Court. Among the cases students are enthusiastic about this year is the Fresno Bee newsman's privilege case. In fact, one of the appellate court justices who decided the case at the appellate level will be sitting to hear the students argue it. Dean McPhee, '74, Chairman of the Moot Court Board, said improvements have made the program an excellent opportunity for the student body to write persuasively and argue orally-practice seldom achieved on exams. While at most schools Moot Court is a first year experience, McPhee said the first year students don't have enough background to deal with cases. The new concept of Moot Court has provided solutions to an old problemthe difficulty of judging presentations using a variety of skills on different cases with the same set of criteria. The solution: Three awards are given to those who excel in oral argument, briefing the problem, and in overall excellence. Jim Mantell was the first place oral award winner in last year's competition, and through his participation on the winning Jessup International Moot Court team and in the upcoming Nationals, he is solidly on his way to trial practice. Moot Court is an example of how a progressive element is manifesting itself in courses at Hastings and how this attitude is helping to better prepare Hastings students to start practice. The overall effect of Moot Court and the David E. Snodgrass competition has been to expose judges and practicing attorneys to the quality of work done at Hastings while giving students early exposure to the methods of trial and appellate practice. Judge Robert Miller, '49, Presiding Judge of the Superior Court in San Mateo County and a participating judge, summed up the unique experience Moot Court offers the Hastings student, "It's a practical experience which when I was in school we didn't have, let alone any other practical experience. We were given the information and that was it, then we had to go out and practice law. It's invaluable. You need to get on your feet and start speaking." The Moot Court program begins looking in late spring and summer for live trial records on appeal in new areas of law currently under development. The DeFunis case, dealing with reverse discrimination, was used two years before the Supreme Court heard it, and this year the students will be arguing the record in Backke v. Regen ts, involving a medical student applicant at UC Davis currently posing the same issues undecided in DeFunis to the California Supreme Court. Anyone having transcripts of cases raising new issues in such developing areas of the law is encouraged to contact the Moot Court office by writing the College. Career Counseling Program Last year the Alumni Board of Governors developed a new program to serve Hastings students. The Career Counseling Program was started in the East Bay by Betty Browner '68 who saw the need for individual counseling for students by practicing attorneys. The pilot program was so successful that this year the Association hopes to expand to San Francisco. The program needs volunteer attorneys willing to spend time with a studentonly several hours per month-to show an attorney's daily schedule of office operations. Students who do not work at clerking jobs have found it extremely valuable. Student requests for this program have been overwhelming, and attorneys are needed, especially in San Francisco. If you are interested, contact Assistant Alumni Director Libby Stroube. 16 Hastings Alumni Bulletin

20 Moot Court Team Builds Its Case Law Practice Forum This year Jim Hagedorn '63 again brought together an excellent alumni panel for the Fourth Annual Law Practice Forum. During the all-afternoon session, two hundred students heard seven alumni discuss employment opportunities, interviewing and the economics of establishing and running a new law office. In addition to Hagedorn from Sacramento, speakers were: Peggy Bush '74 of San Francisco, Peter DuBois '63 of San Francisco, William Holliman '62 of Los Angeles, Jamie Sutton '71 of San Francisco, Tom Tusan '72 of Fresno and Ralph Yanello '72 of Oakland. Student reaction has been so positive that a supplementary program detailing the different aspects of public practice has been scheduled for January. Rugby Anyone? Remember the P.E. coaches who used to say that if you played a sport you would do better at school? Well, Hastings' Rugby Club has proven-conclusivelythat if you play rugby at Hastings you'll do better at-rugby. Having won the Northern California B Division championship, the Club has begun practice for a new season in a new league. Students and alums on the team have set their sights on the A Division Monterey Tournament. Hastings' only athletic organization, the Rugby Club members assert that the sport provides law students with the perfect Saturday afternoon outlet-and keeps brawling in the classroom to a minimum. Reports have it that once involved in a scrum the newcomer knows the ineffable answer to the question, "Why do you do that?" Ever-increasing doses of the game are then said to be necessary. Alumni and friends are invited, enthusiastically, to the games held in the Polo Field and to the traditional postgame fest. The first game is January 10 with a full schedule to follow. Alas, the brewery that sponsored last year's good show has left the city, and the ruggers' dues assessment remains the club's only means of support. All interested in the Rugby Club, Hastings' self-organized athletic department, may write: Rugby Club, Hastings College of the Law, Box 131, 198 McAllister St., San Francisco, Ca After only two years as an entrant in the National Moot Court Competition, Hastings is being rated as a top contender in the November regionals being held here the 5th, 6th and 7th. Hastings' Jessup International Moot Court team last year placed second against the nation's law schools in oral advocacy on an international topic last year, missing first place by only one point. One of the top advocates from that team, James Mantell, is now in his third year and working rigorously with David Bent and Michael Johnson to see if Hastings can win an antitrust case against California's 15 participating law schools and then go on to the finals in New York. The program is sponsored by the New York City Bar. The antitrust case, which they have briefed and sent copies to all contenders, invokes Sections I of Sherman and IV of Clayton against four banks. As usual, the facts are such that both sides can be argued successfully, and the arguments can be attacked on closely related but heretofore unapplied doctrines. Hastings' National team members concede on one major issue-"it's fun." Says Mantell, "We love standing up there and pinning the case down. Theoretically, you can win an Oscar by doing a stunning performance with a lousy part. It never happens. You're never any better than your material." James Mantell, David Bent and Michael Johnson have been in daily preparation since August 1 for the upcoming National Moot Court Competition. Hastings Alumni Bulletin 17

21 Classnotes 3 Edward G. Benard, formerly assistant attorney-general in charge of the Sacramento office of the attorney-general, is now retired and has opened offices for general practice in the Capitol Mall. 33 Alvin P. Jackson, after nearly 17 years in Mexico as a consultant in US law, admitted in September to full membership in the Mexican Bar. 34Charles L. King has retired from the Forbes-town law firm of King-Harris & McCake-Gridley. Marshall E. Leahy of San Francisco, general counsel and a founder in 1946 of the Farmers Rice Cooperative was named Rice Man of the Year by the California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation. Paul Speegle, the Bohemian Club president, has given up the editorship of The Recorder, San Francisco daily legal newspaper, to become an investment consultant with Carter & Schuler. 35 Burress Karmel, while devoting fulltime to his private probate practice, was selected as Burlingame's Citizen of the Year. Clyde H. Larimer, Glenn County Superior Court Judge said he has retired from the bench due to health reasons. Appointed to the bench in 1966, Judge Larimer previously served 24 years as Glenn County district attorney. 27 Cyril M. Saroyan, attorney on the legal staff of the Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco, has been appointed to the position of principal counsel. Saroyan is well-known on the Monterey Peninsula, where he has represented the PUC staff in a series of water hearings concerning California American Water Company. He's been with the PUC since Philip Adams has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Northern California Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. 3 Superior Court Judge Joseph A. Sprankle, Jr. has retired after serving more than 26 years as a judge for Los Angeles County. He now plans full time employment with Hydrothermal Power Company, a company formed by his son, Roger. Engaged in promoting patents on a new power system conceived by Roger Sprankle, the company develops electricity from geothermal hot water. Reginald M. Watt has been named by Governor Brown to the third Butte County Superior Court bench, a new post created by the legislature last year. 40Speio Court Judge Denver C. Peckinpah, after serving nine years on the Fresno County bench in a law career that covered 35 years, has now retired due to health reasons. 18 Hastings Alumni Bulletin 43 Winifred "Wendy" L. Hepperle has left her job as public information attorney for the California Supreme Court and Judicial Council to accept a position with the National Center for State Courts at its headquarters in Denver, Colorado. She will be directing the responses to inquiries for research and resource material. 44Robert L. Ward has been taking part in bankruptcy workshop panels and courses, for members of the Mount Diablo Legal Secretaries' Association, attorneys and those interested in expanding their knowledge of legal procedures. 48 Mrs. Ruth Church Gupta was elected secretary of the San Francisco Lung Association at its 67th annual meeting, held in April. She will also serve as treasurer of the Christmas Seal agency's state organization, the California Lung Association. 49 Superior Court Judge Lionel J. Wilson was guest of honor at a dinner last March sponsored by the neighborhood Oak Cultural Center at the Kaiser Center in Oakland. 50 Myrtle M. Burgess was the member featured at the last "Focus" program of the year put on by Reedley City's Business and Professional Women. The programs are for club members to learn more about the careers and backgrounds of all members. James M. Edmunds, a private attorney in the San Diego area since 1951 has been appointed to the San Diego Municipal Court, South Bay District. Karl David Lyon and his wife Gloria were honored at the annual Israel Bonds event, sponsored by Congregation Ner Tamid in April. A citation was presented by Kamal Mansour, a Druze and advisor on Minority Affairs to the president of Israel. Karl and Gloria are immigrants from Germany and Czechoslovakia. Karl, a practicing attorney, is serving Ner Tamid as president for a fifth term. Involved in other groups, he has been president of the Zionist Organization of America; and is also one of the Founders and vice-president of Brandeis Day School, a founder and secretary of the Multi-Culture Institute. 51 John B. Clausen has been elected president of the California County Counsel Association for William P. Beko, serving as president of th eaastate Bar Association and chairman of the Nevada Crime Commission, will be ending his sixth term as district attorney. He has been appointed district judge to succeed the late Pat Mann in the Fifth Judicial District, composed of Nye, Esmeralda and Mineral counties in Nevada. Merrill Steinberg has been elected treasurer of the Northern California Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Wayne Wylie, judge of the Auburn Justice Court since 1964, has been elevated to circuit court judge, one of the positions established recently as a temporary means of providing assistance to more than 120 California justice courts that do not have attorney judges. 54 Albert R. Abramson, new Hastings Alumni Association president for , addressed a breakfast meeting of the Committee on Aviation and Space Law at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association's Section of Insurance, Negligence and Compensation Law in August at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Edward Kim, former Tulare County public defender and long-time Dinuba attorney, has been appointed by county supervisors as judge of the Dinuba Justice Court. 57Earl Ben Gilliam, San Diego Municipal Court judge, has been elevated to Superior Court. Luther Goodwin, blinded in 1973 by a rare diabetic-related condition, has returned from East Africa after serving as legal secretary for mining interests and is now an aide to Representative George Brown in the Riverside field office. George Hinoki, a practitioner in San Jose who occasionally sits as judge pro-tem in the San Jose and Santa Clara Municipal courts, has been appointed to the Santa Clara County Planning Commission. Representative John Krebs, new member of Congress representing most of Tulare, Kings and part of Fresno county, was the featured speaker in May for the College of the Sequoias Commencement in the Visalia Convention Center. Theodore H. Stokes, president of the law firm of Stokes & Eck, Ltd. of Carson City, is now serving as district governor for Rotary International District Assemblyman Willie Brown has been honored at the University of Santa Clara's first annual Black Awards Banquet co-sponsored by the University's Black Students Union and the Black Affairs Office, last April at the LeBaron Hotel in Palo Alto. Recently Willie was the keynote speaker at the 16th annual NAACP banquet, sponsored by the San Jose Branch. George King, partner in the Oakland law firm of Boornazian, King and Schulze and member of the State Bar Committee and the Commercial Code Committee, recently had his article, "Legal Malpractice-The Coming Storm," go to print in the California State Bar Journal, Sept./Oct issue. City attorney John Woodhead has been chosen to be acting city manager for the city of Riverside. 59KingsCounty Justice Court Judge Carlos P. Baker has announced his elevation to the Circuit Court of California. John Stanton, in private practice in Tehachapi and deputy county counsel for eleven years, has been appointed judge of the Tehachapi Judicial District in Kern County. William H. Wingfield, 1974 Democrat of the Year for the

22 49th Assembly District, was presented with an American flag flown over the nation's capitol. Congressman Jim Lloyd commended Wingfield for "outstanding service in journalism and community affairs." Wingfield has also been named bicentennial chairman for southern California and Arizona by the Pacific Southwest District of the Unitarian-Universalist Association. 60 Stephen H. Kaufmann, legal adviser to the Strawberry Recreation District and the Unitarian Fellowship of Marin, has been elected chairman of the board of the Legal Aid Society of Marin. 61 Melvin C. Kerwin is the new inheritance tax referee for San Mateo County. Mel was also chosen to be Alumni Chapter president in San Mateo at the chapters inauguration October 3, Richard S. Gimblin, former district attorney and public administrator for Mariposa County, hosted a formal opening of his offices for private practice in the Bardini Building, at Highways 49 and 140, Mariposa, North. Neil B. Van Winkle, mayor of Los Banos and practicing attorney, with offices in Merced and Los Banos, married Judy A. Carroll of Sacramento. The couple, together with their six children, will maintain homes in Merced, Los Banos and Mariposa. Robert List '62, attorney general for the state of Nevada, is now serving his second term. He was re-elected to the post this past fall. In addition to his duties as attorney general, Robert also serves on the State Crime Commission, the State Prison Board, the Parole and Probation Board, the State Highway Board, the Board of Examiners and as chairman of the Private Investigators Licensing Board. On the Executive Committee of the National Association of Attorneys General, he is also a presidential appointee on the National Gambling Commission. 63 Charles L. Gladson became general counsel of the Agency for International Development last April. He will be providing legal services to AID through his Washington, D.C. headquarters and to attorneys in 14 regional offices located in developing countries. Victor G. Kyriakis, Daly City's new mayor, was appointed to the Daly City City Council in December 1972, elected to a four-year term in 1974 and became mayor in March of this year. Roland Purnell, ex-fbi agent and deputy district attorney for Ventura County since 1967, has become one of the two senior trial deputies in the District Attorney's Office of Ventura County. Bruce W. Schwab has become a member of the San Francisco law firm of Townsend and Townsend and has also been elected to be an officer for of the Patent Law Association. 6 Paul H. Alvarado received his promotion to the rank of major in the Judge Advocate Corps in July as a member of the 73rd JAG DET, US Army Reserve, and has joined the San Francisco law firm of Shirley, Alvarado and Shirley. W. C. Bornemeier, II, now vice-president and general counsel of Planned Estate Investment Service, Inc., has a new son, Bradley Edward Bornemeier, born April 24th. Joseph W. Cotchett, vice-president of the State Bar of California, was a participating speaker in the two-day "Bridging the Gap Program," held at Hastings and sponsored by the Barristers clubs of San Francisco and Alameda, to help the new bar admittees bridge the gap between law theory and practice. Rosalie W. Green, a deputy district attorney in Solano County for the past seven years, last spring instructed a Solano Community College Adult Education class on the legal rights of women. Robert L. Hobson is now vice-president of the Trust Department, Bank of America in San Francisco. Edmond W. Burke, graduated from Hastings in 1964, passed the California Bar and then went to Alaska. After eight years there he has become the youngest justice of the Supreme Court of Alaska. He was appointed to Alaska's highest court by Governor Hammond, at the age of 39. He served as an assistant attorney general and assistant district attorney, and for the last five years as a Superior Court judge. "Trial lawyers are disappointed that he was picked because he was such a good trial judge. They hated to lose him," said a law clerk of the high court. The justice said he was very sorry to have to miss the Class of '64 reunion. Robert List Bill Simmons William Simmons '64 has been appointed director of the Department of Air Pollution Control for San Diego County. Simmons, former executive officer of the California Air Resources Board, says of his new position, "I'm looking forward to working with the people of San Diego to revise their land use and transportation plans to mitigate their impact on air quality." He is also a member of the Air Pollution Control Association and the National Air Pollution Control Techniques Advisory Committee to the Environmental Protection Agency. He belongs to the Sierra Club and to the Nature Conservancy. 65 Yvonne Merga Hannon was chosen to be city attorney by the Fort Bragg City Council. 66 Guy O. Kornblum, a founding director of the Hastings Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy and its national college, and recently recipient of the 1975 Ohio state award for excellence in educational broadcasting, took part as moderator in a two-day videotape seminar entitled "Pre-trial and Trial Uses of Videotape," sponsored Tulsa and the Oklahoma Theater Center. John W. Parker, supervising district attorney for Sacramento County, was sworn in as San Joaquin County's Juvenile Court referee by Juvenile Court Judge James P. Darrah in August. Robert Waldo, Camarillo attorney associated with the law firm of Hadden, Waldo & Malley, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the United Way of Ventura County. 6 Joel Carash, senior felony trial attorney with the San Joaquin Public Defender's Office, has taken on a new association with the law firm of Simonelli and Simonelli in Stockton, California. David Goyne, attorney in the Salinas law firm of Powell, Barelli & Goyne, has become the state inheritance-tax appraiser for the Monterey peninsula. 6 8 Arthur W. Ruthenbeck, from the office of the Federal Public Defender in San Francisco, was one of a number of S. F. attorneys who participated as instructors in the legal writing and research program held at Hastings last April. Jeffrey J. Wong has been admitted to the partnership of Dinkelspiel and Dinkelspiel in San Francisco. 69 L. Lawrence Bernheim I, associated with the law firm of Spridgen, Barrett, Achor, Luckhardt, Anderson & James, was recently named "Boss of the Year" by the Sonoma County Legal Secretaries Association. David M. Van Atta is pleased to announce his new partnership in the law firm of Miller, Starr & Regalis in Oakland. 7John L. Anderson is pleased to announce his new law partnership, Neyhart, Anderson & Freitas, located at 100 Bush Street in San Francisco. James S. Armstrong, Jr., this year's president of the Nevada County Bar Association, with a law practice established in the historical building on Main Street and his Red Dog Productions Company bringing guest artists to the Nevada Theater, still finds time for a "photographic safari" to Africa. He recently won two awards in the Nevada County Fair, one for his wife Marcia's photo of a lion, and the other for his view of Machu Picchu. Kenneth S. Gaines, only one of the learned property authors whom Hastings is producing, is pleased to announce the Hastings Alumni Bulletin 19

23 publication of his book entitled, How to Sell (and Buy) Your Home Without a Broker, published by Coward, McCann and Geoghegan of New York. George Wright Quick, after spending four-and-one-half years in the office of the county counsel of Kern County, has opened his own law office at 1430 Truxton Avenue in Bakersfield. 71 Jeffrey Forster, member of the San Francisco law firm of Severson, Werson, Berke & Melchoir, was married in July to Lorraine Ann Sugarman of Boston. Robert M. Holly is at present doing public defender's legal work out of Sacramento. Jay Adams Knight, a lawyer associated with the office of R. Craig McManigal, has just been inducted into presidency of the Claremont Kiwanis Club. Mark M. Landes, an attorney with Landes Construction, was married in August to Joyce Rochelle Aron of Los Altos. Madeline McLaughlin was named executive vicepresident of the Alameda-Contra Costa chapter of Hastings Alumni Association. Craig Needham, formerly of Hoberg, Finger, Brown & Abramson, and Jamie Hepburn Sutton, formerly of the District Attorney's Office in San Francisco, have opened their law offices under the name of Sutton and Needham, located at 785 Market St., San Francisco. Roger Rubin, Joseph Morehead '69 and Judd Riley Scott '70, have formed the Noe Valley Law Office in San Francisco. Edward A. Schulman announces the opening of his law office in the American Savings Building, 690 Market Street, San Francisco. Richard N. Snyder, professor of law (adjunct faculty) at Hastings, is teaching comparative law and legal history, has become a member of the Rockefeller Foundation Committee on Unity of Law, and is on the Hastings Board of Overseers. Sharon Streicher, corporate counsel and assistant secretary of Sonesta International Hotels Corporation, has been elected assistant vice-president. 72 William D. Anderson was off to Hawaii with his new bride, Robyn Jennel Paresa of San Carlos, in late August. Clifford Ross Chernick and Katherine Koch Horpel are also newlyweds, now residing in Mountain View. Lee A. Chilcote, member of Thompson, Hine & Flory of Cleveland, Ohio, is responsible for getting federal and state funds for staging a hot-lunch nutrition system at a housing project for the elderly there. Gail Coney is working in the Richmond Public Defender's Office. Judith L. Edson, an advocate of women's rights, is teaching courses in that field both at College of the Redwoods and Humboldt State University. Donald R. Fischbach, member of the Fresno law firm of Baker, Manock & Jensen, was recently elected president of the Fresno County Barristers Association and has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Fresno County Bar Association. Joseph A. Igoa is pleased to announce an association for the practice of law under the name of Culy, Schneider & Ioga in Fresno. Charles Michael Dramners and Linda Marie Dold were married in September and now reside in Campbell. James C. "Buzz" Person, long-time Newport Beach resident and skipper, was recently elected to the Board of Governors for the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association and has his own law practice at 632 Lido Park Drive, Newport Beach. Andrew C. Sigal is now associated with Robert L. Moray, a law corporation in Beverly Hills. Thomas Tusan of the law firm of Ferrari & Cole in Fresno, has been elected vice-president of the Fresno County Barristers Association. Cathy Valenta- Weise of Washoe Valley has been appointed to the Office of the Attorney General in Nevada. Daniel Whitehurst was elected this spring to the Fresno City Council. Dennis Wishnie and Judith Wishnie '74 take pleasure in announcing their partnership under the name of Wishnie and Wishnie, 2020 Union St. in San Francisco. Ralph Yanello is pleased to announce his new partnership with Peter Stanwyck, under the name of Yanello & Stanwyck, with offices located in the Ordway Building in Oakland. Stephen Payne Wiman and Benjamin R. Winslow both participated in the legal writing and research program at Hastings last April. 7 Penn A. Butler is now the senior trial associate with the San Francisco law firm of Cowans, Poppin & Murphy. Richard Y. S. Lee recently passed the CPA exam and has joined the law firm of Wooddell, Mukai & Ichiki in Honolulu. Scott Martin was married this August to Gail Russell from Kensington and is now employed by the law firm of Hillsinger & Costanzo in Los Angeles. Randall Simpson, Peace Corps volunteer in Libya and Niger ( ), is now serving in Addis Ababa as editor of the African Law Digest. Robert Scribner, Alan A. Dressler, and William B. Smith all participated as instructors in the legal writing and research program at Hastings. 74 Judy M. Copeland has joined the office of the San Diego County Counsel as a deputy county counsel. Ann Grogan, lawyer on the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee and coordinator of its administration of Justice Project West, recently spoke at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship; her speech was entitled: "The Criminal Justice System is the Only Railroad in America That Works." Charles Henry and Karen Dunlap '76 were married last April and now reside in San Francisco; she is labor relations coordinator for the Affiliated Hospitals of San Francisco, and he is a practicing attorney. Robert D. Harding is now doing business and insurance litigation for the Bakersfield law firm of Noreiga, Clifford, Jenkins & Brown. John E. Kalin is now associated with the law firm of Belli, Ashe & Choulos in San Francisco. Shirles Luehring Kirby is working as a deputy city attorney in Santa Monica. Ann Miller Ravel has joined the law firm of Morgan, Beauzay, Hammer, Ezgar, Bledsoe & Rucka in San Jose. Kenneth W. Ruthenberg, Jr. is employed as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County. John Sapplington and Margo Farnam, a former Brawley resident, were married this July in Chula Vista. He is associated with Bodkin, Breslin and Luddy Law Firm in Los Angeles. Gary C. Sheppard, in the DA's Office in Oakland, was a participant in Hastings' legal writing and research program last April. 75 Allen R. Erickson is employed at 'Robinson & Hawkins, 58 Sutter Street in San Francisco. Don Paul Garber has taken a position with the Federal Power Commission in Washington, DC. Robert G. Gottschalk is with Crocker National Bank in San Francisco. Theodore Griffinger, Jr., has begun work with the corporate firm of Pettit, Evers & Martin. Kenneth Dean Halperin has joined his brother, Ivan '71, in corporate practice in Los Angeles, concentrating in the entertainment industry. Thomas H. Jamison is at work in Salem, Oregon, in a clerkship for the Supreme Court of Oregon. Paul L. Knight went on to further law study at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, where he is a candidate for the LL.M. Kirk E. Koning has taken a position with Coopers & Lybrand of San Francisco. Robert W. Lambert has taken up with the Contra Costa district attorney, in Martinez. Stephen A. Kronick has gone with Kronick, Moskowitz, Tiedemann & Girard of Sacramento, for obvious reasons. John P. Murphy began a California Supreme Court clerkship two months ago, for Justice William P. Clark. "It's a lot of work, but quite enjoyable," he says. Larry C. Prince has gone with Longroise, Sullivan & Smylie in Boise, Idaho. Palmer Robinson has gone to Seattle for a position with Richards, Schumm & Rossano. Billie A. Rosen has taken up with the US Dept. of Justice, Criminal Division, in Washington, DC Robert T. Russell is now clerking for Presiding Justice Thomas Caldecott of the Court of Appeal, First District, Division Four. Renard F. Sheppard has begun working in the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office. B. Scott Silverman is clerking for USDC Judge Thomas McBride '39 in Sacramento. Margot Wenger is with the EEOC in San Francisco in the Litigation Center. Jan A. Werner is working in a clerkship with the Superior Court of San Francisco. Ellen York '75 has set an impressive family record with her recent graduation: she becomes the third generation and fourth member of the York family to graduate from Hastings. Her sister Jane, in her third year at Hastings, is the fifth member of the family to attend Hastings. The York family tradition at Hastings began with their grandfather, John T. York, a member of the Class of 1890, who was city attorney of Napa for many years. Their father, David L. York, graduated in 1940 and has served as district attorney of Napa County. At present, he is judge of the St. Helena Judicial District. The third York to graduate from Hastings was Ellen's uncle, Daniel K. York, of the Class of He was county counsel of Napa County until his death in In Memoriam William C. Tupper '16, former Fresno County district attorney, April 19, He was active in the California State Bar, Native Sons of the Golden West, University of California Alumni Association and the American Bar. Philip Barr Bradford '34, a descendant of pioneer California families, at his Greenbrae home on March 23, He retired from his position as comptroller in the Navy at Treasure Island in Paul Faulkner Byrne '63, June 10, He was a past chairman of the Butte County Republican Central Committee, president of the Butte County Barristers, active in the Mt. Lassen Area Boy Scouts, and on the Chico State University Campus Planning Committee. 20 Hastings Alumni Bulletin

24 Dean's Message, Cont. grateful for what you have done in your participation in the alumni association, in the 1066 Foundation and in the many programs at Hastings, including the national College of Advocacy, the Law Practice Forum, Career Counseling, Hastings Research Services and many others. At the College we have seen expansion, refinement and a rise in student involvement in academic programs. Hastings is now planning an international law review. We have instituted concurrent degree programs with the Berkeley campus, and we are supporting a joint University of California campus effort to create a new publication, the "California Review", a publishing endeavor designed to provide Californians with knowledgeable dialogue and information on professional services. Most recently we hosted Justice Shigemitsu Dando of the Japanese Supreme Court, the Swedish Parliament's Committee on Laws and Professor Irving Younger, Professor of Trial Advocacy at Cornell Law School, for a dramatic telling and videotaping of his view of the legal history of the Whittaker Chambers v. Alger Hiss confrontations of the 1950's. In a very small capsule, this is a report of the Hastings community, It includes 1548 students, 82 faculty, and over 100 administrative and staff people. It is a large community: It also includes every one of you, more than 6,300 alumni. With your encouragement and cooperation we have every assurance that the spirit of '76, which was so dynamic in creating a new nation and a significant society, is also the spirit of '76, two hundred years later, which will bring an equally happy result for those that follow us. Philip Bancroft '05, a leading California agriculturist and long a stalwart of the Republican party in California, August 11, He practiced law in San Francisco 12 years before accepting an appointment as an examiner for the State Railroad Commission. He retired from law practice after World War I, returning to his Walnut Creek ranch to work as an agriculturist. He was a delegate to the Bull Moose Convention in 1912 and to the Republican conventions in 1908, 1912 and Twice he ran for the US Senate on the Republican ticket and lost both times to Democrat Sheridan Downey. He was the son of Hubert Howe Bancroft, who founded the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Surviving Mr. Bancroft are two children, Philip, Jr. and Anne Bancroft, six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He leaves a sister, Lucy Bancroft, in Ventura. Memorial contributions may be made to the University of California Bancroft Library. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June The Hastings Calendar National Moot Court Competition regionals 5, 6, 7 at Hastings 7-10 PM Alumni Association past presidents' dinner and Board 21 of Governors meeting, Clift Hotel, San Francisco 18 Los Angeles Bar admittee party (tentative) San Diego chapter annual meeting (tentative) Foundation breakfast, San Diego organizational meeting, Riverside Alumni Association executive committee 16 meeting (tentative) organizational meeting, Santa Barbara 1066 organizational meeting, Fresno 23 Sacramento chapter inaugural dinner 30 Visitors Day at Hastings organizational meeting, Sacramento organizational meeting, San Francisco organizational meeting, San Jose U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Rhenquist, first speaker 12 in the IHastings Centennial Lecture Series (tentative) 16 Washington's Birthday holiday Board of Governor's retreat weekend meeting 11 Los Angeles Chapter annual meeting (tentative) black tie dinner, Bohemian Club, San Francisco Alumni Association Executive committee meeting, 7 San Francisco (tentative) Alameda/Contra Costs counties annual meeting, 8 Oakland (tentative) 3-21 Final examinations 22 Commencement Alumni Association Board of Governors meeting, Hawaii 1066 organizational meeting, Hawaii

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