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Ha stings BulletinVolume XXI, Number 1 Fall 1976

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

HON. DONALD R. WRIGHTEx-Officio President

HON. A. F. BRAYChairman

HON. DANIEL R. SHOEMAKERVice Chairman

LEONARD A. WORTHINGTONMAX K. JAMISONWILLIAM C. SANFORDHAROLD S. DOBBSHARRY H. HASTINGSRAYMOND L. HANSON

MARVIN J. ANDERSONDean

FRANCIS SEIDLERAssociate Dean for Development

ELOISE L. HELWIGDirector Law School Relations

ELIZABETH STROUBEAlumni Director

FRANCIS SEIDLEREditor

MYRL NORTHWAYAssistant Editor

MARK RENNIEPhotography Editor

DAVIE ULIBARRILISA ISHIKAWAContributors

Table of Contents

2 The New Hastings Law CenterFrom the architect's drafting board is emerging an exciting new con-cept in legal education combined with service to the community.

4 The Law Center Foundation TrusteesEighteen business and legal leaders are dedicating their talents to imple-menting the plans for a new Law Center.

8 The "Right to Die"Professor Laurence Eldredge casts a trained legal eye on a topic oftenmisinterpreted by the media.

11 George Shipley PrughA Hastings graduate and a former Judge Advocate General has joinedthe Administration at Hastings.

13 1976 Campus LifeAn up-to-date cartoon description contributed by an anonymous mem-ber of the Hastings Community.

14 Transportation is TerrificTwo faculty members find relief from the pace of life today. ProfessorRothwell drives a 1910 Horseless Carriage. Professor Niles cuts across thewaves in his sailboat from New York to Maine.

15 Attorneys at WorkFirst in a series of articles about the offices of Hastings graduates.

20 John H. ConveryAn alumnus with a flair for gourmet cooking and wine, practices law aswell as running a gourmet club for subscribers.

23 1066 Foundation Honors Jerome Hall

25 Alumni Chapter News

29 - Class Notes

31 In Memoriam

Cover Drawing by Scott Danielson

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THE NEWHASTINGS LAW

CENTERBy Francis Seidler

Our cover shows an artist's impressionof the new Hastings Law Center, whichin the words of Dean Marvin J. Andersonwill "combine the resources of a greatnational law school with those of the or-ganized bar and the broader civic andbusiness communities."

The need for this innovative Law Cen-ter was discussed in great detail by theparticipants at the Quail Lodge Week-end for Institutional Planning last Febru-ary. Since then Directors of HastingsCollege of the Law and Trustees of theU.C./Hastings Law Center Foundationhave enthusiastically endorsed the con-cept of the proposed Law Center to belocated on a full city block adjoining theCollege and fronted by Hyde, McAllister,and Larkin Streets and Golden Gate Ave-nue. Designed for 800 to 1,000 studentsand a faculty of 34, the present Collegebuildings, both permanent and tempo-rary, now house over 1,500 students and88 faculty members. Faculty and ad-ministrative offices are located all overthe area, from the building at 305 GoldenGate Avenue to the Madonna Hotel. Theover-crowded library, built for 130,000volumes, is at present 15,000 volumesover its capacity. To serve a student bodyof 1,500 adequately, a library of 300,000volumes is needed.

These crowded conditions also make itdifficult to implement new programs toadvance the specialization and continu-ing education of attorneys and other vi-tally needed additions to the law schoolcurriculum.

Hastings College of the Law is not onlythe oldest law school in the West and thesecond largest in the Nation, but it ranksacademically among the finest lawschools in the country. Its tradition of ex-cellence qualifies it to undertake thebold step of establishing a law center thatwill be an innovation in its field and will

be vital to the future of the College andthe community.

From the day of its founding in 1878,Hastings College of the Law has been anintegral part not only of the Civic Centerbut of the whole City and County of SanFrancisco. Among all law schools in thenation, it enjoys the unique location ofbeing a stone's throw from all courts,Federal, State and Municipal. Hastingsstudents have the opportunity, denied tostudents at other law schools, to familiar-ize themselves with the operation ofcourts of all levels in the immediateneighborhood. As a leading San Fran-

Dean Marvin J. Anderson

cisco Judge puts it, "In court I can im-mediately tell if a young lawyer is aHastings graduate, because he knowshow to handle himself in court and is freeof the fear so often found in other lawschool graduates."

Throughout its first century HastingsCollege of the Law has lived up to thevision of Serranus Clinton Hastings,founder and first Dean, who spoke of aninstitution of individuals from divergent

backgrounds, trained together in the law,who would "qualify themselves for everysecular avocation in civilized life, and tothis end provide for an enlightened andconservative judiciary and for wise legis-lation, as well as for the restoration of theprofession of law to its ancient RomanPatrician dignity. . . ."

From the days of its founding in a stillyoung Far West through 75 years of mi-gration from one San Francisco locationto another until finally settling in 1953 inits present home at McAllister and Hyde,Hastings College of the Law adhered tothe highest standards of teaching whichcaused the late Dean Roscoe Pound ofthe Harvard Law School to term its fac-ulty the strongest in the Nation.

Today Hastings stands at the thresholdof an entirely novel concept of legal edu-cation and intertwining community rela-tions embodied in the idea of the newHastings Law Center. This unique com-plex of buildings will enhance the beautyof the San Francisco Civic Center andwill strengthen immeasurably the specialposition of Hastings in the heart of theCity's legal and community life. No otherlaw school in the nation or in the worldwill enjoy the same facilities for studentsto acquire practical knowledge of allkinds of legal and community problems.Tradition and innovation are joiningforces in building the Law Center of thefuture.

To be designed by a leading architec-tural firm, the new Law Center will forman outstanding addition to the Civic Cen-ter. It will consist of several buildingsgrouped around a landscaped centralplaza with connecting arcades to the Civ-ic Center and Federal Courts Building.Its modern architecture will blend withthe style of the surrounding buildingsand reflect the exciting new concept of ameeting place for legal educators of thehighest standing and the community atlarge. The full potential of this law centerof the future is as difficult to grasp as the

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present law school would have beenbeyond the vision of the great John Nor-ton Pomeroy, the first Hastings professorand later dean, who created the "case-method" of legal instruction at the sametime as Professor Langdell of Harvard.

The most urgent need is to extend theeducational programs at the Collegebeyond the courses for the first law de-gree. There is a growing need for post-graduate programs to help practicinglawyers to achieve competence in vari-ous specialties. There should be oppor-tunities for advanced study for academiccredit in the areas of taxation, labor law,criminal law, procedure, corporation andcommercial law. Hastings could bring toits new facilities lawyers from many na-tions. Courses and seminars in new anddeveloping areas of the law would stimu-late the faculty, enrich legal education,and render an important service to thepracticing bar.

The academic facility, housed in itsown building, will offer the frameworkfor all these activities. It will accommo-date seminar rooms, faculty offices, and anew library providing study area andstack space for 300,000 volumes. It willalso house audio-visual services, officesfor financial aid and placement, space foran advanced degree legal education pro-gram, and a student health clinic.

The Legal Affairs Building is the heartof the Law Center and represents thebridge between the law school and thecommunity. Here you will find mutuallycomplementary organizations and serv-ices, like the National Center for StateCourts; Public Advocates; Medical-LegalClinical Programs; Hastings ResearchServices; a Legal Aid Clinic; an Environ-

mental Law Program; the College of Tri-al and Appellate Advocacy, which willtrain attorneys from all over the nation togive better service in the courtroom; andthe National Center for Television andthe Law, which will expand Hastings'current videotape program, already to-day the most comprehensive in thewhole country.

In line with its mission as a bridge tothe profession and the whole communityof San Francisco the building will alsoprovide facilities for public service meet-ings and programs sponsored by commu-nity organizations not directly connectedwith the College curriculum. Officespace for lease to members of the legalcommunity will also be available here atthe hub of the City's legal activities.

Since its founding, Hastings has lackedthe traditional campus environmentwhich helps informal contacts betweenstudents and faculty. The new Law Cen-ter will have as one of its main features anattractive outdoor landscaped plaza com-plex and student commons where stu-dents, faculty and visitors will be able tomeet casually in beautiful surroundings.

The third building in the Law Centercomplex, the Service Facility, will includ-ing meeting and dining areas as well asrecreational space, thereby contributingfurther to after-class contacts and a moreintimate relationship between facultyand students. Here the Hastings ChildCare Center, so lovingly depicted inTony Patino's documentary, "ThreeCenturies at Hastings," will be housed

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and qualified educational training will beavailable for the children of Hastings stu-dents.

Other facets of the Service Facility willbe a faculty-students common, a kitchenand dining room, a small gymnasium, aswimming pool, and two handball-squashcourts with showers and dressing rooms.There also will be an underground au-tomobile and bicycle parking area.

Finally, a 700-seat auditorium will belocated at the Law Center entrance andwill make it possible to hold large schoolassemblies as well as public functions.Thus Hastings for the first time in thecentury since its founding will incorpo-rate a true "campus" with all that entailsin the building of a strong esprit-de-corpsamong students and faculty.

This will help to make the words ofJustice J. B. Crockett of the California Su-preme Court, spoken at the first com-mencement of the young law school,become even more of a reality than inthe past. Predicting great success forHastings, Justice Crockett spoke of "thenoble mission to furnish the best oppor-tunity for students to become thoroughlyinstructed in the learnings of the law, and. . . become imbued with those princi-

ples of morality, and with the sense ofprofessional honor, which should be thecrowning grace of every lawyer."

Under the leadership of Dean MarvinJ. Anderson Hastings College of the Lawis preparing to build the world's mostmodern and unique law center, whichwill fill the hearts of everyone connectedwith Hastings, students, faculty and ad-ministrators, with great pride at the be-ginning of the second century of theoldest law school in the West.

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U. C./HASTINGS LAWCENTER FOUNDATION

To create the new Law Center which we have described in the foregoing pages will require $15,000,000 from the private sectorand $20,000,000 from the State of California. Hastings alumni, parents and friends, along with foundations and corporations, are beingasked to support this venture which will bring the physical plant into equality with a faculty which is second to none.

The U. C./ Hastings Law Center Foundation has been formed for the purpose of raising funds from the private sector. It is chairedby Walter H. Shorenstein, Chairman of the Board of Milton Meyer & Co. and President of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.President of the Foundation is John B. Huntington '67, and Fund-Steering Committee Chairman is Harold S. Dobbs '42.

MARVIN J. ANDERSON, Dean of Hast-ings College of the Law, has been withthe administration of Hastings since 1964becoming Dean in 1970. He is a Directorof the Fromm Foundation, Dodge & Cox,Inc., Public Advocates, Northern Califor-nia Presbyterian Homes, Services forSeniors and Western Women's Bank anda Trustee of Whitworth College. In addi-tion, he is on the San Francisco RegionalCommission on White House Fellowsand is Co-Chairman of the College of Ad-vocacy.

WILLIAM BLACKFIELD, a 1938graduate of Hastings, is now headquar-tered in Honolulu where he heads therecently created Department of Housingand Community Development whosemajor task is development of entirelynew satellite cities within the County ofHonolulu for moderate income levels.Mr. Blackfield is Chairman of BlackfieldConstruction Co., Western MortgageInvestors, Rex Development Co., andMortgage Advisors, Inc., all of San Fran-cisco. He is Chairman of Blackfield Ha-waii Corp., Blackfield Enterprises,Leeward Development Corp., LeewardShopping Center, Ltd., Realty MortgageCo., Realty Sales Corp. and Waical De-velopment Co., all of Honolulu. He is alsoa Director of United Title InsuranceAgency of Honolulu.

HONORABLE A. FRANK BRAY is a jus-tice of the California Court of Appeal anda 1910 alumnus of Hastings. Justice Brayhas been prominently identified with theCollege in many capacities ever since hisgraduation. He currently is Chairman ofthe Board of Directors of the College,and he is a Past President of the Board ofGovernors of the Hastings Alumni As-sociation. His civic interests are many:Director, Martinez Boys Club; Trustee,California Historical Society; Director,California Heritage Council; President,John Marsh Memorial Association; VicePresident, John Muir Memorial; formermember, Board of Directors of Common-wealth Club; and has maintained a life-long interest in the Boy Scouts.

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JOHN BROOKS, Chairman of the Boardof Fremont Bancorporation, is also Re-gent of Santa Clara University; PastPresident, Singer Housing Co. (formerlyBesco, Inc.); President, Brooks-MathewsFoundation; Member, Housing and Con-struction Task Force, California Commis-sion for Economic Development; Direc-tor, Bank of Fremont; Member, AlamedaCounty Airport Land Use commission;Vice President, William MathewsAgency; Director, Boys' Clubs of Ameri-ca in San Leandro; and Past Member,American Arbitration Association (Na-tional Panelist Member).

E. MORRIS COX is Chairman of theBoard of Dodge & Cox, investmentmanagers. He has been on the Board ofDirectors of Community Chest, SanFrancisco Museum of Art, University ofCalifornia Alumni Federation, Educa-tional Television Station KQED, the Cali-fornia Academy of Sciences, and aGovernor of Investment Counselors As-sociation of America. He was also a mem-ber of the Delinquency PreventionCommission and Vice Chairman of theCitizens Advisory Committee to the Cali-fornia Attorney General on Crime Pre-vention.

ROBERT CAHILL, is a partner in thefirm of Cahill Construction Company.He graduated in Civil Engineering fromStanford University in 1937. He served asan officer in the Civil Engineering Corpsof the United States Navy for three yearsduring World War II. Mr. Cahill is a na-tive of San Francisco and has been activein various cultural, educational andcharitable enterprises within the City fora number of years, including Director ofthe Chamber of Commerce, Director ofthe San Francisco Chapter of the RedCross, Trustee of the Patrons of Art andMusic, Trustee of the San Francisco Mu-seum of Modern Art and Trustee of St.Elizabeth's Hospital. He is Director of anumber of corporations including theBank of California. His son is a third yearstudent at Hastings.

HAROLD S. DOBBS, a partner in theSan Francisco law firm of Dobbs, Doyle& Nielsen, is a 1942 graduate of Hastings,a Director of the College and a memberof the 1066 Foundation. He served threefour-year terms on the San FranciscoBoard of Supervisors, during which timehe was President of the Board and ActingMayor on numerous occasions. A leaderin civic affairs, Mr. Dobbs is a Director ofthe San Francisco Marine Exchange, Mt.Zion Hospital, San Francisco Chamber ofCommerce, San Francisco Boys' Cluband St. Elizabeth's Maternity Home.

HOWARD DOWNS is Professor of Lawat Hastings, teaching Civil Procedureand Pre-Trial Practice, while remainingOf Counsel to the San Francisco lawfirm of Petty, Andrews, Tufts & Jacksonand a Partner of Carter & Schuler Associ-ates, which involves him in substantialinternational transactions. He is aTrustee of the Hastings 1066 Foundationand has been on the Hastings facultysince 1972. He is an internationallyknown consultant, author and lecturer inthe fields of anti-trust and civil proce-dure and has been selected by the fed-eral courts to represent the truckingcontractors and retail grocers industriesin recent anti-trust litigation.

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MYRON E. ETIENNE, JR. A partner inthe Salinas law firm of Noland, Hamerly,Etienne and Hoss, Mr. Etienne is a 1952graduate of Hastings. He is Past Presi-dent of the Hastings Alumni Associationand a member of and Past President ofthe 1066 Foundation. He was Chairmanof the 1976 Retreat for Institutional Plan-ning of Hastings. Mr. Etienne is a Direc-tor of Northern California Savings &Loan Association, General Counsel forHacienda Carmel Community Associa-tion, Executive Committee Member ofthe University of California Alumni As-sociation, General Counsel for the Mon-terey Jazz Festival and Chairman of theBoard of the Rodeo Cowboys Associationof America.

JOHN B. HUNTINGTON, a 1967 gradu-ate of Hastings, is a sole practitioner inSan Francisco. He is a Fellow of the Hun-tington Library and Art Gallery of SanMarino, Commissioner of the CaliforniaState Arts Commission, Member of Ha-rold Brunn Society for Medical Researchand Director of the following: Nob HillAssociation, San Francisco Ballet Associa-tion, Institutes of Medical Sciences of SanFrancisco and San Francisco Grid Club.

HARRY HASTINGS, great-grandson ofthe founder of the College, SerranusClinton Hastings, serves on the Board ofDirectors of Hastings College. He is amember of the San Francisco Board ofRealtors, Director of Santa MargaritaLand & Cattle Co. and of Reis Estate Co.He is an Honor Court member of the1066 Foundation and an honorary mem-ber of the Hastings Alumni Association.He resides in Hillsborough and PalmSprings.

RAYMOND HANSON, a partner in theSan Francisco law firm of Hanson, Brid-gett, Marcus & Jenkins, also serves as aDirector of Hastings and a Trustee of the1066 Foundation as well as President ofthe Hastings Service Foundation. Agraduate in the 1936 Class, Mr. Hanson isPast President of the Hastings AlumniAssociation Board of Governors and re-cipient of the Hastings Award of theYear. A partial list of his civic member-ships is as follows: Chairman of the Boardof San Francisco Theological Seminary,Past President of Pacific Medical Center,Past President of Northern CaliforniaPresbyterian Homes, Past President ofGoodwill Industries, Past Chairman ofY.M.C.A., and Member of San FranciscoBoy Scout Council. He is also a columnistand lecturer on Trusts and Estate Plan-ning.

MAX K. JAMISON, a 1945 graduate ofHastings, practices law in Los Angeles asa partner in the firm of McCutchen,Black, Verlager and Shea. He is a Direc-tor of Hastings College of the Law, a Fel-low of the American College of TrialLawyers and of the L.S.B. Leakey Foun-dation. He is Past President of the Boardof Governors of the Hastings Alumni As-sociation, Past Advisor of the Los AngelesZoo Association, and Past Chairman ofthe Boy Scouts Council.

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JAMES KNAPP, a 1961 graduate of Hast-ings, is Group Vice President of PacificLighting Corporation with headquartersin Santa Ana. Mr. Knapp also serves onthe Board of Overseers of Hastings and isa member of the 1066 Foundation. Hisnumerous business interests include thefollowing: Co-Owner and Co-Director ofBlue Goose Growers, Inc., and VicePresident of Blackfield Hawaii Corpora-tion.

JAMES E. STRETCH, Senior Vice Presi-dent of the Western Region of Metropoli-tan Life Insurance Company is alsoactive in civic affairs. He is a Trustee ofthe United Way (formerly United BayArea Crusade), Past President and life-time Director of San Francisco Chamberof Commerce and a member of the SanFrancisco Business & Advisory Commit-tee to the San Francisco Economic De-velopment Office. Four members of hisfamily received J.D. degrees in the Hast-ings 1976 Commencement exercises, histwo sons and their wives.

PETER K. MAIER, a partner in the SanFrancisco law firm of Taylor, Winokur,Schoenberg & Maier, has been since 1966on the faculty at Hastings specializing inTax. Professor Maier acts on the AdvisoryCommittee of The Hastings Law Journaland is a member of the 1066 Foundation.He has served on California State Barcommittees on taxation, has taught in theCalifornia Continuing Education of theBar program, and has written books onTaxation and Corporate Tax.

WALTER H. SHORENSTEIN, Chair-man of the Board of Milton Meyer Co., aleading San Francisco real estate firm, isalso President of the San FranciscoChamber of Commerce. He is past Di-rector of Mt. Zion Hospital and theDowntown Association. President Lyn-don Johnson appointed him to the Presi-dent's Task Force on Suburban Problemsand to the Public Advisors' Committee

on United States Trade Policy. He hasbeen the recipient of many honors in-cluding being named by Time Magazineas one of the Leaders of Tomorrow anda Presidential Award for participation inBangkok as representative and advisor tothe United States Delegation to theUnited Nations Economic Conferencefor Asia and the Far East. In 1975 he waschairman of the Orphans' Airlift fromViet Nam.

JOHN A. SUTRO, a partner in the SanFrancisco law firm of Pillsbury, Madison& Sutro, is State Chairman of Californi-ans for Progress in Education and a Di-rector of San Francisco Law Library,California Academy of Sciences, St.Luke's Hospital and the San FranciscoUnified School District School BuildingCorporation. He is past president of boththe State Bar of California and the SanFrancisco Bar Association. He serves onthe Board of Visitors of Hastings, Univer-sity of Santa Clara Law School and Uni-versity of Southern California LawSchool.

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THE "RIGHT TODIE"

By Professor Laurence H. Eldredge

One night in the fall of 1924 when I wasa first year law student and also a re-porter for the Philadelphia PublicLedger, the city editor assigned me tocover a three alarm fire in a large stablein south Philadelphia. As I passedthrough the police lines I could hear thescreams of the burning horses. It was nota pleasant sound, and after half a centuryI can still hear it. Later that night Iwatched S.P.C.A. agents move into thesmoking stable, place large muzzles ofspecial pistols on the horses' heads, pullthe trigger and put them out of their mis-ery. The screams stopped. It was a merci-ful and humane act.

But if the agent had placed the muzzleagainst the head of a screaming stableboy who was dying of his burns andpulled the trigger, people would havedenounced it as "murder." It doesn'tmake sense.

In the United States in recent yearssome courts have recognized that a per-son has a "right to die," at least to theextent of a right to refuse medical carewhich is essential to preserve and pro-long life. I deal with cases of competentadults who understand the facts and areable to make judgment decisions. Casesof comatose or mentally deficient adultsand of young children involve differentproblems and are not within the scope ofthis article, except for the Karen Quinlancase.

The first reported case arose in 1962when a Nassau County, New York, hospi-tal superintendent asked Supreme CourtJudge Bernard S. Meyer, Jr., to sign anorder authorizing the hospital to admin-ister a blood transfusion to a competentadult who had agreed to an operation tocorrect upper gastrointestinal bleedingbut refused to have a blood transfusion.The medical judgment was that the pa-tient would have little opportunity torecover without the blood. Judge Meyer

refused to sign the order and said, "It isthe individual who has the final sayand this must necessarily be so in a sys-tem of government which gives thegreatest possible protection to the indi-vidual in the furtherance of his owndesires." Judge Meyer rejected the argu-ment that suicide is a crime in New Yorkand the patient's decision "is just aboutthe taking of his own life."

There is no reference in this opinion toany religious objections to the transfusionand the decision was not based on anyconstitutional ground of freedom of reli-gion. However, the record of the caseshows that the patient was a Jehovah'sWitness.

Most of the cases involved Jehovah'sWitnesses. One of their fundamental reli-gious beliefs is that God has prohibitedblood transfusions and that a person whoreceives a blood transfusion is eternallydamned. In 1964 Mr. Jones brought his25-year-old wife to Georgetown Univer-sity Hospital for emergency care. Shehad lost two-thirds of her blood supplyfrom a ruptured ulcer. They were bothdedicated Jehovah's Witnesses and theyrefused permission for blood transfu-sions. A United States District Court

Judge denied the Hospital's request foran order authorizing transfusions to saveMrs. Jones' life. The hospital lawyer thenvisited Circuit Judge J. Skelly Wright inhis chambers. He went to the hospitaland that afternoon signed an order in thehospital allowing "such transfusions asthe doctors should determine werenecessary to save her life." The transfu-sions were given, but subsequently theother eight judges of the United StatesCourt of Appeals were sharply dividedconcerning the propriety of this bedsideorder.

The following year a Federal DistrictCourt Judge in Connecticut signed an or-der in a hospital late at night authorizingblood transfusions to save the life of aJehovah's Witness who needed five pintsof blood. He told Judge Robert C. Zam-pano that he would rather die than agreeto a transfusion, but if the court made anorder "it would be the court's will andnot his own."

In the same year (1965) the SupremeCourt of Illinois unanimously held that itwas a violation of a Jehovah's Witness'basic constitutional rights under the Firstand Fourteenth Amendments to compelher to accept blood transfusions. The Su-preme Court said, "No overt or affirma-tive act [of the patient and her husband]offers any clear and present danger tosociety-we have only a governmentalagency compelling conduct offensive to[the patient's] religious principles. . .We may not permit interference there-with . . in the waning hours of her lifefor the sole purpose of compelling her toaccept medical treatment forbidden byher religious principles, and previously

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refused by her with full knowledge of theprobable consequences. In the final anal-ysis, what has happened here involves ajudicial attempt to decide what course ofaction is best for a particular individual,notwithstanding that individual's con-trary views based on religious convic-tions. Such action cannot beconstitutionally countenanced."

But in 1971 the Supreme Court of NewJersey, speaking by Chief Justice JosephWeintraub, unanimously held that"there is no constitutional right to chooseto die." He added that when the hos-pital's interests "are pitted against thebelief of the patient, we think it reason-able to resolve the problem by permit-ting the hospital and its staff to pursuetheir functions according to their profes-sional standards. The solution sides withlife, the conservation of which is, wethink, a matter of state interest."

This language is "Big Brother KnowsBest," with a vengeance. It appears togive a hospital medical staff carteblanche to ignore a competent adult pa-tient's violent protests and perform anymedical procedure on the patient whichit believes is necessary to save his life. Yetthe fundamental American tort law isthat any unpermitted intentional medi-cal invasion of a competent adult pa-tient's bodily integrity is the tort of"battery."

In 1972 the District of Columbia Courtof Appeals refused to follow the 1971

New Jersey decision and said: "The no-tion that the individual exists for thegood of the state is, of course, quite anti-thetical to our fundamental thesis thatthe role of the state is to ensure a max-imum of individual freedom of choiceand conduct." Judge J. Walter Yeagley, inhis concurring opinion, emphasized thatthe decision refusing to order a bloodtransfusion is not "based solely on reli-gious freedom, but also on the broaderbased freedom of choice whether found-ed on religious beliefs or otherwise."

The United States Court of Appeals forthe Second Circuit held in 1971 that forc-ing medication on a Christian Scientistover her objections, based on religiousgrounds, violated her constitutionalrights under the federal civil rights stat-utes. The court approved the Illinois(rather than the New Jersey) decision.This Illinois decision was also "persua-sive" to Federal District Judge HerbertL. Will of Chicago in a 1972 case in whichhe held that the patient's federal civilrights had been violated. The patient hadrefused a blood transfusion on religiousgrounds. After he became unconsciousthe hospital got a state court authoriza-tion for the transfusion.

To many people there are values moreprecious than life. We need only recallJoan of Arc at the stake and the Christianmartyrs facing the lions in the Colos-seum. Another example is found in Dick-ens' Tale of Two Cities in which SydneyCarton, when he is to be guillotined, says"it is a far, far better thing that I do thanI have ever done." He died to saveCharles Darnay. It was an act of supremenobility.

In the Georgetown University Hospi-tal case, in 1964, Judge Warren E. Burger

(who is now Chief Justice of the UnitedStates) speaking for three members ofhis Court of Appeals, thought that hisBrother Wright had no judicial power toorder the blood transfusion. But he said,"But we should heed Cardozo's counselof restraint and reconcile ourselves to theidea that there are myriads of problemsand troubles which judges are powerlessto solve; and this is as it should be. Somematters of essentially private concernand others of enormous public concern,are beyond the reach of judges."

This language of Chief Justice Burgercritized a judicial order to invade a per-son's bodily integrity. In considering thisproblem, I emphasize that in the UnitedStates we recoil from the idea that "BigBrother Knows Best." Part of the dignityof every adult and mentally competent-person is the right to make the final deci-sion concerning what is to be done to orwith his or her body, where that decisionwill not cause harm to other persons. Re-cently courts have approached this prob-lem from the viewpoint of theindividual's "right of privacy." In 1973the Supreme Court of the United Statesspecifically held, in Roe v. Wade, that aright of personal privacy does exist underthe constitution, and that this right of pri-vacy "is broad enough to encompass awoman's decision whether or not to ter-

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minate her pregnancy" and that this con-stitutional right is not unqualified.

Although seven of the nine justices soheld, I realize that this is a controversialand emotion-filled question. However,there is no doubt that this decision is atpresent the law of the land. In 1974 anOklahoma appellate court held that awife has the legal power to consent to ahysterectomy despite her husband's ob-jections. The court said, "The right of aperson who is capable of competent con-sent to control his own body is para-mount." That case was followed in theSuperior Court of New Jersey in 1975 ina decision that a wife has a constitutionalright to be sterilized without her hus-band's consent.

And that brings me to the Karen Quin-lan case, because she was not capable ofcompetent consent to discontinue the ex-traordinary medical procedures beingused to prevent her from dying. In theopinion of Chief Justice Richard J.Hughes of the Supreme Court of NewJersey, filed on March 31, 1976, he spokeof the medical consensus that Karen's"removal from the respirator would notconform to medical practices, standardsand traditions." Chief Justice Hughesposed these questions: "When does theinstitution of life-sustaining procedures,ordinarily mandatory, become the sub-ject of medical discretion in the contextof administration to persons in extremis?And when does the withdrawal of such

procedures, from such persons alreadysupported by them, come within the or-bit of medical discretion?"

He said that determinations of thesequestions must "be responsive not onlyto the concepts of medicine but also tothe common moral judgment of the com-munity at large. In the latter respect theCourt has a non-delegable judicial re-sponsibility" and could not be bound orcontrolled by medical standards andpractices.

The Chief Justice based the Court'sunanimous decision on Karen's constitu-tional right of privacy. He said, "We haveno doubt . . . that if Karen were herselfmiraculously lucid for an interval . .and perceptive of her irreversible condi-tion, she could effectively decide upondiscontinuance of the life support appa-ratus, even if it meant the prospect ofnatural death." He continued, "We haveconcluded that Karen's right of privacymay be asserted on her behalf by herguardian under the peculiar circum-stances here present." He added this im-portant dictum: "We perceive no threadof logic distinguishing between such achoice on Karen's part and a similarchoice which, under the evidence in this

case, could be made by a competent pa-tient terminally ill, riddled by cancer andsuffering great pain; such a patient . .would not be kept against his will on arespirator." This language of Chief Jus-tice Hughes, speaking for a unanimouscourt in 1976, is quite different from thatof Chief Justice Weintraub, speaking forthe same court in 1971.

The Chief Justice also said that theState's power to punish the taking of hu-man life "does not encompass individualsterminating medical treatment pursuantto their right of privacy."

The court authorized Karen's father, asher guardian, to retain other physiciansand declared that if the "responsible at-tending physicians conclude that there isno reasonable possibility of Karen's everemerging from her present comatosecondition to a cognitive, sapient state andthat the life-support apparatus .should be discontinued, they shall con-sult with the hospital 'Ethics Commit-tee.' . . If that consultative bodyagrees that there is no reasonable possi-bility of Karen's ever emerging from herpresent comatose condition to a cogni-tive, sapient state, the present life-sup-port system may be withdrawn and saidaction shall be without any civil or crimi-nal liability therefor on the part of anyparticipant."

From nationwide reactions to theQuinlan case and the great interest creat-ed in legal circles everywhere it wouldappear that the "right to die" will be ac-cepted generally, at least to the extentdiscussed in this article, in the not toodistant future.

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GEORGE SHIPLEYPRUGH

The first Hastings graduate and attor-ney from the West to serve as Judge Ad-vocate General of the United StatesArmy is now Professor of Criminal Proce-dure and the General Counsel of Hast-ings College of the Law.

"I am proud of having been able tocontribute, at least in some small way, toeasing the burdens of victims of war,especially prisoners of war," says Profes-sor Prugh, while reminiscing about his 31year career in the Army, the last 27 ofthem in the Judge Advocate General'sCorps. His Army service culminated inhis appointment in 1971 to a four-yearterm as the Judge Advocate General, apost which traces its origins back to theContinental Army when, on July 29,1775,before appointment of the AttorneyGeneral and the creation of the UnitedStates Supreme Court and the Declara-tion of Independence, the ContinentalCongress established the Judge Advocateas the country's first law officer.

Asked about some of the highlights ofhis duties as Judge Advocate General, a

job he characterizes as "hyperactive,"the former Major General remarked thatcertainly one had to be the creation ofthe position of Military Magistrate. Whileon duty in Germany as Judge Advocatefor the United States Army and SeventhArmy, General Prugh had occasion tovisit the Mannheim stockade, an Armyconfinement facility, where a violent in-cident had just occurred in which twoyoung first time offenders who were be-ing held in pre-trial confinement for aminor offense were brutally attacked bythirty tough inmates being held for seri-ous crimes, the incident cried out for re-form, prompting development of moreeffective legal controls over pre-trial con-finement.

The Military Magistrate, first appoint-ed by General Prugh to solve these prob-lems in Germany, has similar duties to aCivilian Magistrate. Within three days ofthe new prisoner's arrival in jail the Mili-tary Magistrate examines the question ofcontinued detention, habeas corpus mat-ters, permits the prisoner to have readyaccess to an investigating judge, advisesthe prisoner of his rights, assures the ef-fective appointment of defense counseland prevents the prisoner being disad-vantaged by unreasonable delay of trial.

Within a month from the introductionof General Prugh's new Magistrate the

number of Army prisoners in Germanyhad been reduced by half and no seriousviolent incidents in those confinementfacilities have been repeated since theMilitary Magistrate first began as a test in1970. Today Army Magistrates operate atall thirty Army bases world-wide whereconfinement facilities exist.

Possibly less dramatic but certainly noless important was Professor Prugh's ac-tivity in trying to help the victims ofarmed conflict. His interest was firstaroused when commencing in 1954,while serving at the Pentagon, he wasinvolved in trials of "brainwashed" Pris-oners of War returned from Korea. TheKorean War was an early instance whenthe battlefield was extended to includePrisoner of War Camps, and hostilitiesinvolved them both physically and psy-chologically. Traditionally, under theRules of Land Warfare, Prisoners of Warwere removed from the fight and underenlightened international law givensome basic protections. The captors wereexpected to refrain from trying to pres-sure the prisoners to come over to theirideological side. The Korean Wardemonstrated the basic protections,especially for Prisoners of War, but alsofor other war victims had changed. InViet Nam the trends seen in the KoreanWar were, if anything, even more appar-ent. Professor Prugh served in 1964-1966as General Westmoreland's legal advisor.

While he admits that he could do littleto help the plight of the Americans, Aus-tralians and South Koreans held by theNorth Vietnamese, General Prugh be-lieved that the efforts to involve theSouth Vietnamese in applying the pro-tections required by the Geneva Con-vention materially affected treatmentgiven to their prisoners. In time, some sixPrisoner of War Camps were established,each operated by the South Vietnamesewith close American association. In

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marked contrast to the various claims,whether or not supported, about treat-ment in the civilian prisons, no mistreat-ment of Prisoners of War was allegedagainst any of the military camps.

Professor Prugh believed that one ofthe most satisfying tasks was to involveAmerican military lawyers in contribut-ing to keeping at least part of that unhap-py conflict within bounds of humanity.To him, these successful efforts to lightenthe fate of unfortunate prisoners in ourown Army stockades or in the Prisoner ofWar Camps of Allies are particularlyheartwarming.

There is another field of internationalmilitary law where General Prugh hasbeen deeply involved. While serving inKorea in 1957-1958 he participated in apreliminary draft leading to the first Sta-tus of Forces Agreement between theUnited States and Korea, governing thelegal status of allied forces serving eitherin another country's territory. This draft,born out of the necessity of regulatingthe legal status of the many servicemenand their dependents serving abroad isone among the network of agreementsthat have developed since World War II.These agreements cover all facets of civiland criminal law. Following troubles inGermany, Poland and Hungary, the So-viet Union established somewhat similaragreements with its Warsaw Pact allies,governing the legal obligations of RedArmy members in those countries. Theseagreements were the subject of a thesisby Professor Prugh, but he believes thatthe whole subject of Status of ForcesAgreements and their practical effectswarrant much deeper study and com-ment. Particularly intriguing to him arethe non-criminal provisions, neglectedby the publicists.

In spite of all such agreements, at timessituations arise like a case ProfessorPrugh has referred to in his Criminal Ju-risdiction class. It was a case he had todeal with in Europe in 1969. Due for dis-charge in the United States, an Americanenlisted man, on the eve of his departure

from Germany, murdered another sol-dier. The murder was discovered by theGerman police the day after the subjecthad been discharged by the UnitedStates Army in New Jersey. The suspectbeing no longer in the Army, he couldnot be prosecuted under United Statesmilitary law. Since he was no longer inGermany, he had escaped prosecutionunder Federal German Law. He wouldnot be subject to any United States civil-ian criminal jurisdiction, since the crimehad been committed outside the UnitedStates and was not one of the few inwhich Federal jurisdiction is retained.Furthermore, the extradition treatybetween the United States and Germanydid not apply to this suspect. The onlyaction that could be taken was a visit byGerman officials who tried to persuadethe suspect to return to Germany tostand trial there. Quite understandably,the suspect refused to do this. Literally,this was a case of "getting away withmurder." The Judge Advocate General,Professor Prugh, urged the closing of thisloophole by Congress, but it has yet totake final action to do so.

The United States Supreme Court's de-cision of March 24, 1976, in Greer v.Spock (96 S. Ct. 1211), to prohibitspeeches by political candidates or officeholders at United States Army, Navy andAir bases was the outcome of efforts ofmilitary lawyers in which ProfessorPrugh had a hand. The situation arosewhen the Commanding General of FortDix, New Jersey, several years agorefused to permit Dr. Benjamin Spock, at

that time a presidential candidate, tomake a campaign speech inside thatArmy camp. Over the Army's objections,Dr. Spock obtained an injunction fromthe local District Judge and actuallyspoke at the Army post. The Army urgedappeal of this decision, but the CircuitCourt declined relief. General Prughpersonally urged the Solicitor General topetition the Supreme Court, he did so,and in the early spring, after ProfessorPrugh had joined the Hastings faculty,the Supreme Court issued a decision, sixto two, favorable to the Army's position.

On June 30, 1975, General Prughretired as The Judge Advocate Generaland accepted Dean Marvin J. Anderson'soffer to join the Hastings faculty. Heteaches courses in Criminal Procedureand Criminal Jurisdiction. The lattercourse was designed by Professor Prughespecially to cover a variety of proce-dural problems involving two or morecriminal jurisdictions. It touches on Con-flicts, International Law, Criminal Lawand Criminal Procedure, Federal-Stateand State-to-State transjurisdictionalmatters. Some of these ideas, he admitsstem from his earlier teaching for theUniversity of Maryland in its overseasprogram. Professor Prugh taught inNorth Korea and Germany courses inBusiness Law, International Law and In-ternational Associations.

In summing up his reaction in return-ing to Hastings as Professor he says: "Asan old San Franciscan and Hastingsgraduate I am particularly happy to beback home. The students are a lively andintelligent group. It is a fast pace they setfor any professor. My one regret so far isthat in my crowded program there seemsto be too little time for the individualstudent. I want to get a chance to knowthe students better."

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1976 CAMPUS LIFE

YOU MEAN TO TELL ME, YOUR FATHERSTILL TEACHES AT HASTINGS?

SLIPPING THRU BUREAUCRACY WITH THEASSISTANCE OF A COMPUTER

THEREFORE, IN CONCLUSION...

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Transportation Is Terrific

Two members of the Hastings faculty have transportation hobbies which are so photogenic the Bulletin is sharing with its readerspictures of the sailboat of Professor Russell Niles and the Horseless Carriage of Professor Thomas Rothwell.

With spinnaker unfurled, the Gulfstream 36 of Professor and Mrs. Niles glides across the Atlantic Ocean. They make an annualjourney from their Westchester County home to Maine, spending about a month in transit. Although the boat is equipped so thatthey occasionally sleep aboard, most nights they go ashore, visiting friends along the way. At one time their son formed part of thecrew, but in recent years the two of them have been sailing it alone. They prefer cruising to racing.

Professor Rothwell, dressed to match his E.M.F. built by the Studebaker Company in 1910, poses at the Presidio of San Franciscoduring a recent rally of the Horseless Carriage Club. He is president of the Bay Area Chapter. He and Mrs. Rothwell prefer touringtheir car to showing it, which means that Professor Rothwell has to "get out and get under" in order to keep it functioning. Attestingto his mechanical success is the achievement of having driven it to the top of Mt. Hood, accompanied by Mrs. Rothwell. Thehandsome brass fittings are no longer obtainable, so when he restores a car he relies on his library of owners' manuals and the interestof fellow club members to reconstruct broken parts in an authentic manner.

Photo by Mark Rennie.Photo by Peter Barlow

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ATTORNEYS ATWORK

By Myrl NorthwayPhotographs by Mark Rennie

First of a Series

Signs proclaiming "men at work"abound in San Francisco where the normis workmen tearing up streets. But whonotices where attorneys work? Some-times they are buried behind books inlaw libraries, sometimes they are lunch-ing at a prestigious restaurant with a cli-ent, or even brownbagging it, but most ofthe time attorneys work in their own of-fices. Armed with a photographer, the

Bulletin set forth to record Hastingsalumni in varied San Francisco locations.

Trending toward the traditional in ar-chitecture, two Hastings 1968 graduates,Ronald Mullin and Richard Moran, suc-cessfully have "fought City Hall," re-scued the Edward Coleman mansionfrom demolition in favor of a high rise,had landmark status declared, andchanged zoning laws so that a conditionaluse permit enables the 1895 Victorianstructure to become three floors of lawoffices for the firm of Kutsko, Moran andMullin. On the corner of Franklin and

California the partners have found theexperience has enriched their lives, if nottheir pocketbooks.

Two towers, one rounded and the otherhexagonal, as well as intricate gables andmoldings give the structure its QueenAnne Colonial Revival style. Some of theexterior molding, a frieze of garlands,torches and wreaths, had to be recast inthe restoration.

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Immersing themselves in details of decor of the peri-od, the firm members have restored where possibleand otherwise have recreated authentic chandeliers,hardware and friezes. Hardwood floors lend them-selves to Oriental rugs.

Photographs of the mansion taken while a formal ballwas in progress were housewarming gifts to the firmfrom a neighbor, a survivor of the Coleman family.Framed as wall decorations, they lend authenticity tothe restoration.

The upstairs rental offices have a charm of their own.

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To prevent spreading of fire in 1906following the earthquake, dynamitingjust across the street bent the lead of thepastel stained glass window and somepieces were broken. These have been re-placed with period glass, not modern.

Their goal, "to recapture the flavor ofthe golden era of San Francisco's Victo-rian elegance and harmonizing this her-itage with the traditions of today'spracticing lawyers," has been achieved.

An ancient typewriter sets the mood in the foyer.However, there is a highly functional officeequipped with magentic tape electric typewritersand the latest office equipment out of sight.

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Richard Moran '68 enjoys the marble fire place in hisoffice. The wood trim differs in each of the spaciousrooms.

The parquetry of mahogany, ash and oak floor-ing needed refinishing, but the depredations ofuncaring intervening owners did no damage tothe structure itself, firmly anchored on brown-stone and solid concrete.

Ronald Mullin '68 for his private officehas chosen one of the rooms that has au-thentic period chandeliers. Color wasadded to the ceiling for a brightening ef-fect. San Francisco Victorians of thatperiod featured dark and gloomy interi-ors.

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Now zoned for law offices, the building needs no kitchen. Thishas been converted to a functional law library.

The main stairway forms a background for thereception desk. The stained glass window is il-luminated from within at night.

Seen from the spacious side garden, the stained glass window

stands out handsomely. A palm tree blew down in a storm, butwhen it is replaced the exterior restoration will be complete.

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Gourmet ExtraordinaireJOHN H. CONVERY

Attorney at Law

Through the centuries many lawyershave been among the world's leadinggourmets, but John H. Convery, HastingsClass of 1960, and his wife, Susanna, of thesame Hastings vintage and also a practi-tioner of the law, have developed theirgourmet hobbies into a nation-wide foodcounseling service, the Le CampionGourmet Club, 1200 Mount Diablo Bou-levard, Walnut Creek. The name derivesfrom Campione, an Italian enclave inSwiss territory on Lake Lugano, whichthey discovered when their daughter at-tended school in Lugano.

The Converys first fell in love withFrench cooking on a European trip in1969. John started that fall to study thehaute cuisine with Paul Meyer, JimBeard and John Larios. On his next trip toParis he took the full Cordon Bleu course.After all this culinary erudition John felthe would like to communicate his talentsto a wider sphere of gourmets.

To achieve this purpose he set up LeCampion Gourmet Club which by nowlists members all over the nation. TheClub issues a monthly newsletter with aseries of gourmet menus accompaniedby the right selection of wines. All thedishes on the menus have been cookedby John and the newsletter contains allthe practical advice needed to make thepreparation easier.

One unique aid to total cooking effi-ciency is a series of check lists for thetime required for each dish and for thestaples needed to operate a gourmetkitchen effectively. "I have a highly or-ganized mind and use a legal approach togourmet cooking," remarks John Con-very modestly. One of his most interest-ing discoveries is the preservation ofpoached eggs which he keeps in iced wa-ter in the refrigerator, warming them upjust before serving them.

Most of his recipes are based on a din-ner party for six, which is a number youcan handle without help. When he gave

Surrounded by cookbooks and equipment, John Convery checks over his own check-list prepared for the subscribers to his Le Campion Gourmet Club

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Gourmet Extraordinaire(CONTINUED)

John H. Convery '60 applies techniques in the kitchen that he learned in Paris atCordon Bleu.

his last dinner party for twelve-a chari-ty effort-he had two helpers, one ofthem Paolo Landi, Marketing Director ofLe Campion Gourmet Club and in hismore prosaic moments a Bechtel execu-tive, who acted as the maitre d'. Theevening produced over $1,000 for theKQED subscription fund.

Besides Paolo Landi as Marketing Di-rector, the Campion Club has Henry M.Rubin as Wine Consultant. Henry used toown the famous Bon Ton Restaurant in

Berkeley and writes for Gourmet andBon Appetit magazines. He is also theSan Francisco Chronicle wine editor.The other gourmet genius on the Cam-pion masthead is Annie-May de Bresson,who teaches French culture and cookingat University of California Extension inBerkeley. At this moment John's daugh-ter, Cynthia, is in New York selling thegourmet club on the Big Apple market tostores like Bloomingdale's and othergourmet food outlets.

Preparing a beautiful Chateaubriandwith broiled mushrooms while glancing

from time to time out of the windows ofhis gleaming kitchen to the nearbyAlamo hills, the master gourmet talks ofhis having loved cooking all his life. Butonly seven years ago, in France, did hehave his road to Damascus experiencewhich changed his life. His eyes openedand he discovered French cooking in allits glory. His main ambition henceforthbecame the deepening of his newly dis-covered knowledge and the sharing of itwith thousands of Americans desirous tolearn as much as possible about that ar-cane French art of producing culinarymiracles in the inner sanctum of thekitchen.

Being a well organized man with aHastings trained legal mind, John Con-very takes a practical approach. Not onlydoes he do all his own shopping, but hegives practical shopping advice, fre-quently including prices, in his newslet-ter. He explains which dishes can beprepared on the previous day and re-heated prior to the meal and the timetable he provides with each newsletterallows the working reader to prepare aLucullian meal without disrupting thenormal daily schedule.

When we left, after tasting some deli-cious samples of John's haute cuisine, welooked back at the house in its countryclub setting, which would be much moreconducive to a barbecue than a selectionof dishes from Le Campion GourmetClub accompanied by the correct wines.Any Frenchman's heart would beat high-er at discovering this oasis of Frenchcooking at its best in the California hills.

Hastings graduates are versatile andthe trained legal mind comes in veryhandy under all kinds of circumstances,even in a French-inspired kitchen.

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Ribbon Cutting

Dean Anderson cuts Ribbon for thrift shop opening, organized by the Hastings Volunteer Ass'n on Aug. 20, 1976

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1066 FoundationHonors Jerome Hall

By Eloise Helwig

Professor Jerome Hall has been namedthe first recipient of the 1066 FoundationDistinguished Professorship Award.Homer L. McCormick, Jr. '61, Presidentof the 1066 Foundation, in making thisannouncement commented: "The pri-mary goal of the Trustees in establishingthe 1066 Foundation was to acquirevoluntary financial support from alumniand friends in order to assist the lawschool in its professorship program. Weare pleased that we have achieved ourfirst professorship and are delighted toname Professor Hall, one of the nation'sforemost authorities on Jurisprudenceand Criminal Law, to head the list oftruly distinguished Hastings professors toreceive this annual award.

Professor Hall, who came to Hastingsin 1970 as a member of the prestigiousSixty Five Club, was a professor of law atIndiana University since 1937 and a dis-tinguished service professor of law since1958. He received his Ph.B. and J.D. from

the University of Chicago, his S.J.D. fromHarvard, his Jur.Sc.D. from Columbiaand his LL.D. from the University ofNorth Dakota. In addition to Hastingsand Indiana University School of Law,Professor Hall has been on the facultiesof the Universities of North Dakota,Louisiana, Minnesota, Seton Hall, Chica-go, London (King's College), and Frei-burg, Germany. Professor Hall estimatesthat he has studied and lectured in overfifty institutions throughout the world.Recognized internationally, he hasgained world renown through his manylectures, books and articles in the field ofCriminal Law and Jurisprudence. Hispublications include: Theft, Law and So-ciety, Readings in Jurisprudence, Gen-era] Principles of Criminal Law, Casesand Readings in Criminal La w and Pro-cedure, Living Law in Democratic Soci-

ety, Studies in Jurisprudence andCriminal Theory, Comparative Law andSocial Theory, and Foundations offuris-prudence.

In a recent essay on his thoughts andimpressions on legal education, writtenfor script material on the new color docu-mentary "Three Centuries at Hastings,"Professor Hall sums up his philosophy inteaching, especially the teaching of law:

As to law teaching, let me say direct-ly that I think teaching is the greatestof all professions. Certainly, we admirethe great artists and the great scien-tists, great generals and industrialists,but if we cast a reflective eye over his-tory, I think most of us would agreethat the greatest heroes of the humanrace have been the great moral teach-ers.

We are all teachers in one relation-ship or another. But those who havededicated themselves to that profes-sion have dedicated themselves to thecultivation of what is best in humannature. As far as teaching law is con-cerned, all of this is accentuated by thefact that legal education is concernedwith the preservation and progress ofcivilization. Without law, there isanarchy and chaos.

Within the law, the whole panoramaof human interests is included. Everyemotion, thought, and aspiration findsits place within the legal system andthe practice of law. It represents thebasic values of the race and the highestideals on earth in perpetuation ofpeace and order and justice and thewelfare of people.

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1066 FoundationHonors Jerome Hall

(CONTINUED)

The Trustees of the Hastings 1066 Foundation ended the 1975-76 fiscal year with grants to the Law School totaling $28,500. HomerL. McCormick, Jr. '61, President, congratulated the over 300 members of 1066 for their continued support of the various enrichmentprograms of the Foundation.

A grant of $12,500 to the 1066 Distinguished Professorship Fund enabled the Trustees to complete their commitment to fully fundthe 1066 Distinguished Professorship of Law. Professor Jerome Hall was named the first recipient of this award. An additional $16,000was presented to the College to be used for scholarship to students who work on the scholarly publications-the Hastings Law Journaland the Constitutional Law Quarterly. During the past four years over 65 students have received assistance from this 1066 fund.

President McCormick and his Trustees anticipate a substantial growth year for the 1066 Foundation. Special emphasis will beplaced on the cultivation of parents of students, past and present, to join the growing numbers of alumni and friends who supportHastings College of the Law through 1066. For the first time in the Law School's history, the Hastings Bulletin will be sent to theparents of current students, compliments of the 1066 Foundation. The Bulletin is the official news publication of the College andthe major source of communication within the college community.

Membership in 1066 is on an annual basis. A gift of $106.60 qualifies the donor for a regular membership. The Honor Court levelis $1,066.00 and all members are given special recognition by the Law School.

Gifts to 1066 may be either restricted or unrestricted. All gifts are deductible for income tax purposes and should be made in thename of the Hastings 1066 Foundation.

Further information about the 1066 Foundation is available through the Hastings Development Office or by using the couponwhich is attached. Your participation is most welcome.

Homer L. McCormick, Jr. '61, PresidentHastings 1066 Foundation305 Golden Gate AvenueSan Francisco, California 94102

Dear Mr. McCormick:I am interested in joining the 1066 Foundation. Please have a 1066 membership application sent to me.

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ALUMNICHAPTER

ACTIVITIES

Board of GovernorsMeet in Hawaii

Host Wallace Fujiyama, chairman of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents greets Dean Marvin J.Anderson.

During their five day visit in Honolulu,the members of the Board of Governorsheld their final quarterly meeting of theyear and had a chance to meet many ofthe 130 Hastings alumni in Hawaii.

The pictures on these pages capture asmall part of the activities enjoyed by the

members of the group from a receptionby Dwight Rush '53, to a genuine Japa-nese Tea House dinner hosted by Wal-lace Fujiyama, to a banquet with thelocal alumni.

The highlight of the trip was the June19 banquet attended by 165 persons atthe Sheraton Waikiki Hotel. Following adelicious meal, Association President AlAbramson presented Dwight Rush with acertificate of appreciation for his serviceto the Association and the College. Mr.

Rush has just "retired" from the Board ofGovernors and as Hawaii Chapter presi-dent, a position he has held since found-ing the chapter in 1972. As an addedattraction, "Three Centuries at Hast-ings" was screened after dinner and en-joyed by all.

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Hawaii host Dwight Rush '53 enjoying a conversation with Eda Anderson and Hawaii Attorney GeneralRonald Amemiya '67.

Hawaii Chapter Elects NewOfficers

WAIK IKIAfter serving four years as president of

the Hawaii chapter, Dwight Rush turnedthe gavel over to new president Bert T.Kobayashi, Jr. '65 at a meeting held onJune 3 in Honolulu. The other new offi-cers are Alfred Wong '64, Leland Spenc-er '66 and Gerald Sekiya '68.

President Abramson '54 presents certificate of appreciation to Dwight Rush '53 for outstanding service tothe Association.

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FRANK BRAY TO BEHONORED

The Grand Ballroom of the FairmontHotel will be the site of the highest honorever bestowed by Hastings. On Friday,November 12, the University of Califor-nia Centennial Medal will be given toHonorable A. Frank Bray '10 as the Out-standing Hastings Alumnus.

Each of the University's professionalschools was asked to select its outstand-ing living alumnus, and a special commit-tee of the Alumni Association Board ofGovernors unanimously selected JusticeBray, who is Chairman of the Board ofDirectors of the College, Past Presidentof the Alumni Association, and RetiredJustice of the California Court of Appeal,to mention a few of his noteworthy ac-tivities.

In addition to the presentation of thisaward to Justice Bray tribute will be paidto all Hastings alumni who are membersof the judiciary. Invitations will be sent toBay Area alumni. Alumni from otherareas who are interested in attending aremost welcome and are encouraged tocontact the Alumni Office for details.

Central Valley ChapterForming

Alumni in the Central Valley haveformed a steering committee headed byHoward K. Watkins '72 to organize anAssociation chapter in the five countiesof Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings andTulare. Other members of the steeringcommittee are Robert S. Crossland '35,James F. Thaxter '59, David J. St. Louis'67 and Donald R. Fischbach '72. Thecommittee had its first meeting onWednesday, August 18, and is planning tohold the first Central Valley chapterfunction during the last week of October.Those in the area interested in workingon the chapter formation should contactany of the above.

Washington, D.C. Becomesthe Sixth Incorporated

Chapter

Our last Bulletin deadline preventedan official notice of the formation of thesixth Association chapter. On May 4, at ameeting hosted by Congressmen EdMezvinsky '65 and James Santini '62, theWashington, D.C. chapter elected its firstofficers. James R. Arnold '71 is the newchapter president. Other officers areLuther (Griff) Jones, III '71, vice presi-dent; Margot J. Champagne '72, treas-urer, and Jack E. Perkins '72, secretary.

By-laws call for an annual meeting tobe held during the third full week in No-vember, and other chapter activities arebeing planned also. If you have changedyour address in any way, please notifyJim Arnold at his new telephone number(202) 739-2810.

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Alumni-Student Activities

Two student programs, one new andone revived, will be added to the grow-ing number of programs presented thisyear under the guidance of Paul Al-varado '64, Chairman of the San Fran-cisco Placement Committee, and JamesC. Hagedorn '63, Chairman of the Alum-ni-Student Relations Committee.

The newest offering for second andthird year students is the InterviewingForum in which a panel of alumni whoserve on their firm or company hiringcommittees will speak to students aboutthe various aspects of "the interview."Mr. Alvarado's Placement Committeehas been working diligently all summerto present this valuable program. Amongthe topics of discussion will be TheResumb and Cover Letter, Pre-Inter-view Preparation, Getting an Interview,Conducting an Interview, and the Fol-low Up.

In conjunction with the AlamedaCounty Bar Association, the CourseCounseling Program will be revived thisyear. Chuck Dell'Ario '74 is the Bar As-sociation liaison and is recruiting attor-neys in the East Bay area who areinterested in participating in this pro-gram designed to allow students to seethe inner workings of a law office and tofind out how an attorney spends his orher time. Students and attorneys will bepaired on a one-to-one buddy systemworking out their own time schedules.

The purpose of the program is not tosecure clerking positions but to give stu-dents a chance to meet an attorney on apersonal basis and to discover what thepractice of law is like on a day to daybasis, without a financial commitment oneither side. Interested alumni shouldcontact Chuck Dell'Ario at 834-6600.

Class of 1966 Reunion

Members of the Class of 1966 are re-minded to reserve the weekend of Octo-ber 22-24 for a gala ten year reunion inSan Francisco. The committee has dili-gently been working for six months toput together a weekend package to beenjoyed by all. Among the events to beincluded are a Friday night cocktailparty, the Cal./U.C.L.A. football game onSaturday and a banquet that evening,plus a Sunday brunch.

Members of the Committee are:

Bernie Nebenzahl, ChairmanGary AndersonCarine ArcherRichard CarlsonPaul GoorjianHope GreenhillWilliam Horton

Guy KornblumJohn McGlynn

John Minoletti

Stephen Player

Joanne RabinJerome Sapiro

Merrit Sher

Dave Van Dam

Alan Vogl

If you haven't received announce-ments, contact a committee member(and update your address with the Alum-ni Office) .

Los Angeles Chapter Set forNew Year

The Greater Los Angeles Area Chap-ter elected its new officers on June 26 ata dinner at the Los Angeles AthleticClub. The Honorable Steven Burtnett '67will serve as chapter president for thecoming year and will be ably assisted byexecutive vice president Daniel Hyde'74, vice president Michael Miller '67,vice president William Tan '74 and secre-tary/treasurer Kristen Whitten '73.

Honored guests at the dinner were the23 Hastings alumni members of the judi-ciary who practice in the four countychapter area. The guest speaker for theevening was George S. Prugh '48, formerJudge Advocate General of the UnitedStates Army who is currently Professorand Legal Counsel at the College. Also onthe program was Marcia Moulton '76 whoassured the alumni that law school is asrigorous now as it was when they were inschool.

Numerous chapter activities are beingplanned for the year including a fallbreakfast meeting, the December Ad-mittee Party and an Orange County din-ner in the spring.

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ATTENTION JOBSEEKERS

The Alumni and Placement Offices areoften sources of current addresses for po-tential employers. If we don't have a cur-rent address, we can't give one and youmay miss out on a good opportunity.

Women graduates additionally are re-minded to let us know if you change yourname. If we don't know who you are(were), we can't give a current address.(Don't scoff, this happens all the time.)

CLASS NOTES

'38 Redmond C. Staats, Jr., former Ala-meda County Superior Court Judge, hasbeen appointed dean of Empire CollegeSchool of Law. Staats was appointedJudge of Berkeley Justice Court in 1952and to Alameda Superior Court in 1961,serving until retirement in 1974. PhilipAdams and Stephen Adams have dis-solved partnership of Adams & Adamsand are now practicing law separately.

'39 Hon. Henry M. Busch co-author of abench-book guide for Judicial Educationand Research and formerly generalcounsel for the Chino Basin MunicipalWater District has been elected to serveas presiding judge for fiscal year 1976-77in San Bernardino County. Vincent JohnMullins has formed the firm of Mullins,Wise & Dickman in San Francisco.

'40 John Jay Ferdon former San Fran-cisco District Attorney recently becamepresident of the San Francisco LawSchool's Board of Directors. Ferdon hasbeen a director of the school since 1965and was a course instructor in wills for 17years.

'43 William M. Bennett has been electedchairman of the California State Board ofEqualization to serve through '76. Ben-nett was vice-chairman through most of1975, and replaces John W. Lynch, whodied in December.

'46 Harold J. Willis has been elected tothe Board of Directors of San JoaquinFirst Federal Savings & Loan Associa-tion. He is also a director of DameronHospital, treasurer of the Stockton Sym-phony Association and Stockton OperaAssociation.

'48 Myron A. Martin, Oakland MunicipalJudge, has been elevated to the AlamedaCounty Superior Court Bench.

'49 Woodrow W. (Woody) Denny, for-merly Vice President and Manager ofUnited California Bank, San FranciscoTrust Office, has become Of Counsel tothe San Francisco firm of Frolik, Filley &Schey. Mr. Denny is past President of theNorthern California Trust CompaniesAssociation, and is a member of the Inter-national Academy of Estate and Law.

Charles W. Jennings of Lemoore hasbeen appointed by Governor Brown tothe Kings County Superior Court. Jen-nings has practiced law since 1950, in-cluding two years in the Kings Countydistrict attorney's office. Wilbur F. Little-field has been named the new Public De-fender by the Board of Supervisors.Littlefield has served as chief of the pub-lic defender's branch and area offices di-vision since 1968. Byron Morton, DistrictAttorney of Riverside County, was in-stalled as President of the California Dis-trict Attorneys Association in June attheir Summer Conference at South LakeTahoe. Superior Court Judge Thomas M.Jenkins of San Carlos has been selectedchairman of the San Carlos Chamber ofCommerce Congress for CommunityProgress.

'52 Frank L. Hannig has been electedpresident of the San Mateo County BarAssociation. He practices with the Red-wood City law firm of Currie, Lebsack &Hannig. Gordon D. Schaber, Dean of theMcGeorge School of Law of University ofthe Pacific, was elected to the Air Califor-nia board of directors at its annual share-holders meeting in Newport Beach.Frederick J. Whisman, Assistant DistrictAttorney was unanimously chosen by thejudges of San Francisco Superior Court tosucceed Bernard J. Ward as the courts'Executive Officer. Hon. John T. Racanel-li of the Santa Clara County SuperiorCourt was named by Governor EdmundG. Brown, Jr. to the vacancy on theAgriculture Labor Relations Board.

'53 Wiley W. Manuel, chief of the StateAttorney General's San Francisco office,has been named to the Alameda CountySuperior Court by Governor Brown, Jr.Manuel 48, is also chief of the attorneygeneral's civil law division. While attend-ing Hastings College of the Law he edit-ed the law journal and graduated withhonors.

'54 Superior Court Judge James Duvaras,Jr. has been elected to the 21-memberExecutive Board of the CONFERENCEOF CALIFORNIA JUDGES.

'58 Suzie Thorn is the new treasurer ofQueen's Bench.

'60 Benjamin Travis was named by Gov-ernor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. to an Oak-land-Piedmont Judicial judgeship.

'61 Taketsugu Takei of Cupertino, theState Director of Consumer Affairs, wasappointed by Governor Brown as a SantaClara County Superior Court Judge.

'61 Steven J. Stone of Romney, StoneSmith & Drescher has recently been ap-pointed by Governor Brown to the Su-perior Court of Ventura County.

'62 Presiding Judge Mason L. Fenton ofthe North Orange County MunicipalCourt has been elected to the OrangeCounty Law Library Board of Trustees.Charles Mannon is now president of theSavings Bank of Mendocino County.Mannon comes from a long line of bank-ers and attorneys. His great-grandfatherwas a judge of the Superior Court ofMendocino County in 1903. Alan W. Hay-erty was sworn in as the 28th man toserve as a superior court judge in SanMateo County.

'63 Hugh Rose III has taken his oath asthe youngest judge of the Modesto Mu-nicipal Court. Rose is 37. Glendale CityAttorney Richard Marston has becomeCity Attorney of Beverly Hills. CalvinMoorad is now president of the StanislausCounty Bar Association. Moorad, a part-ner in the law firm of Moorad and Boynewas formerly a deputy district attorneyin the Stanislaus County District Attor-neys' office and has practiced in Modestosince 1964.

'64 Lou Ann Watson has been chosen"Woman of the Year" by the AmericanBusiness Women's Association. GregoryArchbald is the new Executive VicePresident for the Trust for Public Land,San Francisco. A. Grant Macomber isnow Chief Deputy County Counsel ofPlacer County.

'65 Lawrence M. Nagin, Assistant City At-torney, has been named as the new headof the City Attorney's Airport Divisionby City Attorney Burt Pines.

'67 George Nicholson, Senior Trial Dep-uty with the Alameda County DistrictAttorney's Office, was appointed Execu-tive Director of the California DistrictAttorneys Association at their SummerConference held last week at South LakeTahoe. The California District AttorneysAssociation represents in excess of 1,100prosecutors throughout the state and isbased in Sacramento. Duane L. Nelsonformerly an associate of the firm Damrell& Damrell has become a partner. Thenew firm name is Damrell, Damrell &Nelson. Attorney Ann R. Houghton ofChico was named by Governor Brown tothe Chico Municipal Court Bench. Shehas served on the Chico Commission forWomen and on the Chico Unified SchoolDistrict's Personnel Board.

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'68 Paul R. Malone announced the open-ing of his office for the general practiceof law in San Francisco. Ina Levin Gye-mant is one of the new directors ofQueens Bench.

'69 George C. Thacher 32, Assistant CityAttorney at Palo Alto has accepted thepost of full-time Chico City Attorney.Robert B. Hutchinson, who is vice presi-dent of the California Trial Lawyers As-sociation, was recently appointed to theFarm Labor Board by Governor Brown,Jr. Browning E. Marean III has become amember of the firm Gray, Cary, Ames &Frye of San Diego.

'70 Robert W. Bell, Jr. has become amember of the firm of Gray, Cary, Ames& Frye of San Diego.

'73 Norbert Joseph Dickman has formedthe firm of Mullins, Wise & Dickman inSan Francisco.

'70 Robert G. Allen recently became apartner in the Oakland firm of Knox,Ricksen, Snook, Anthony & Robbins.White, Price, Peterson & Robinson inSan Diego announce that Lawrence S.Branton has become a senior member ofthe firm, specializing in Taxation. NancyL. Parent, legislation chairperson of thePeninsula District Business and Profes-sional Women's Clubs, recently spoke infavor of the Equal Rights Amendment ina debate sponsored by the San Jose Busi-ness and Professional Women's Club andthe Willow Glen Business and Profes-sional Women's Club in San Jose. Darci P.Reid has joined the law offices of theFresno County Legal Services, Inc. as astaff attorney. Darrell J. Salomon, aformer member of the Human RightsCommission and a faculty member of theCollege of Advocacy, was elected presi-dent of the San Francisco Civil ServiceCommission for a one year term, begin-ning July 5, 1976. The law firm ofSchramm, Raddue & Seed in Santa Bar-bara and Washington, D.C. announcesthat Frederick W. Montgomery hasbecome a partner as of January 1, 1976.Robert 0. Appleton, Jr. has opened hisoffices for the General Practice of Law inSt. Louis (Clayton), Missouri.

'71 John Allen, a former student of Lyn-wood High School, recently returnedthere to discuss career planning beforean Ethnic Studies class. Mr. Allen is cur-rently with the Orange County PublicDefender's Office and also does civilrights work with the Board of Registra-tion. Jeffrey M. Forster is an associate ofthe firm of Severson, Werson, Berke &Melchior in San Francisco. McCarthy,Johnson and Miller of San Francisco an-nounces that William R. Shepard hasbecome a partner of the firm. EffectiveJanuary, 1976 Robert C. Wright hasbecome a member of the firm of Sullivan,Jones and Archer, located in San Diegoand San Francisco.

'72 Alan Bruce Currie is an associate inthe firm of Cotton, Seligman and Ray inSan Francisco. Howard K. Watkins hasbeen promoted from staff attorney to Ex-ecutive Director of Fresno County LegalServices. He is also in the process of orga-nizing the Fresno Chapter of the Hast-ings Alumni Association.

'72 James McDonald Purvis has beentransferred for two years to the Bank ofAmerica's Legal Department in London,where he will be engaged in preparingand reviewing intended loan documen-tation.

'72 Edwin J. Zinman, former periodontistand presently an attorney with the LawOffices of Robert S. Gottesman, recentlycontributed articles on dental malprac-tice to the California Dental AssociationJournal and the American Dental As-sociation Journal. He is also contributingauthor on two dental textbooks on dentalmalpractice and is preparing a modeldental malpractice trial for Am. Jur. Tri-als, to be published in 1977.

'73 The Law Offices of the FresnoCounty Legal Services, Inc. have madesome recent changes in their officewhich include, Elaine Harris as thesupervising attorney of the Legal Aid forSeniors Program; and William Leifer andCharles Kahill as senior attorneys in theoffice. John D. Gage has been promotedto a trust officer in Wells Fargo Bank'sSan Francisco-based estate department.Robert Levy is a recent appointment tothe Novato City Park and RecreationCommission. Alicia Navar Noyola was re-

cently elected secretary of the Barristers'Club of San Francisco. She had served aschairperson of the Barristers' Club ChildCare Center Committee, and as a partici-pant in the work of the Lawyers Commit-tee for Urban Affairs and the ChicanoLaw Students Association. On February25, a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.John Birney Weldon, Jr. Carl Louis Wil-liams was the guest speaker in June at theannual men's day service at Hays CMEChurch in Seaside. Reno attorney Rich-ard Young, was named the legal counselfor the Nevada Dairy Commission; hisappointment was effective April 1. Stev-en Zimmer was selected as fulltime CityAttorney by the El Centro City Councilin May. He was previously in privatepractice in San Francisco.

'74 Charles Bond is currently associatedwith the San Francisco firm of Hassard,Bonnington, Rogers and Huber, special-izing on problems of medical law. In ad-dition to working in malpracticelitigation and appeals, Mr. Bond has au-thored several articles and monographson the malpractice crisis. The Bakersfieldlaw firm of Mack, Bianco, Means, Mackand Stuart has announced the associationof Richard G. McBurnie with the firm.He will be concentrating in the areas ofinterest, probate and estate planning.Napa County District Attorneys Officeopened its first consumer fraud bureaurecently with the appointment of JohnThomas Swan, who assumed trial dutiesin local justice and superior courts.

'75 Martha Radcliffe, Carolyn Phillipsand Ann Wagner opened their law prac-tice in Rodeo in January. Norman F. Box-ley has become associated with the LosAngeles and Newport Beach firm of Rob-ert E. Brimberry, Inc. John J. Davis, Jr. isan associate of the firm McCarthy, John-son and Miller in San Francisco. Susan F.Dewey has joined the firm of Hatch andParent, located in Santa Barbara.Thomas S. Gatlin is a recent member ofCorbitt and Corbitt in El Cajon. ShermanKassof has opened his own practice inSan Francisco. In March, Tobin and Tob-in announced that Edward A. Lawsonhad become an associate of the firm.Nancy A. Regan is engaged in the gen-eral practice of law with offices in Au-burn. Lillian Kwok Sing is a member ofthe newly formed partnership of Sim-mons, Ungar and Pohlman, specializingin immigration and citizenship. Their of-fices are located in San Francisco.

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IN MEMORIAM

JUDGE OLIVER CARTER1911-1976

Oliver J. Carter '35 died June 14, 1976,after 26 years as District Judge for North-ern District of California. He was ChiefJudge for six years until, shortly beforehis death, he took senior status.

Judge Carter was the youngest federaljudge in the United States at the time ofhis appointment, and he never lost hisyouthful attitude. Indeed, he had abouthim a kind of casual boyishness that wasboth charming and disarming. It madehim a formidable opponent during hisyears of practice in Redding, and it wasevident in the casual, but effective con-trol he maintained while presiding overthe Hearst trial, the last, and probablymost widely publicized, case of his ca-reer.

He was proud of his heritage. His anec-dotes were sprinkled with references to

the example and the advice his fathergave him. His father, of course, was a Jus-tice of the California Supreme Court. Itwas plain that Judge Carter's conductwas motivated by a desire to honor Jus-tice Carter. None can doubt that he suc-ceeded.

Before he came to the bench, his keeninterest in public affairs led him tobecome a significant factor in political af-fairs of California and the Nation. He waschairman of the state Democratic Cen-tral Committee, and, for nine years, wasState Senator for Shasta County.

He had a keen sense of justice and hisyears on the bench were marked by adeep concern for human rights. He hadan almost instinctive ability to cutthrough legal verbiage to the central is-sue and to base his decisions upon sound,underlying principles. He was not im-pressed by florid language, and he dis-dained to use it in his opinions.

He was a good man, in the old fash-ioned sense, devoted to his family, activein his church, and well balanced in hisconduct.

He was proud of his association withHastings College of the Law. His fund ofstories included many about his studentdays. He was obviously delighted to havebeen chosen President of the Board ofGovernors of the Hastings Alumni As-sociation.

He will be missed by his colleagues,over whom he presided with humor anda light hand, and by all of the bench andbar, who will recall his warm humanity,his sense of fairness, and, most of all, hisenthusiasm for life.

We will not soon again see his like.

Robert H. Schnacke '38United States District Judge

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ROSCOE TURNER STEFFEN

Professor Roscoe Turner Steffen, June8, 1976. A member of the Hastings SixtyFive Club since 1961, Professor Steffenretired in the spring of 1975. He had beenteaching law for fifty years, many ofthem at Yale (1925-1959) and Universityof Chicago (1949-1961). Generations oflaw students were familiar with his wit,understanding and searching questions.He was a well-known author on legal sub-jects, including casebooks on Agency-Partnership and Commercial and Invest-ment Paper. He left on his desk a com-pleted manuscript of his Nutshell onAgency-Partnership soon to be pub-lished. He is survived by three children,Roscoe, Jr., Eleanor and David, twograndchildren, three sisters and threebrothers.

Charles De Young Elkus, Jr. on May 25,1976. Mr. Elkus was a partner in the lawfirm Bacigalupi, Elkus, Salinger andRosenberg until 1973, when he became apartner in the firm of Dinkelspiel, Pela-vin, Steefel and Levitt. He was a memberof the pioneer San Francisco De Youngfamily and a grand-nephew of thefounder of the San Francisco Chronicle.From his father, also a San Francisco at-torney before his death in 1963, Mr. Elkusdrew his lifelong interest in the Indiansof the Southwest and his love of the out-doors. He was a director of the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Association ofGallup, New Mexico, and a member ofthe California Academy of Sciences, andthe California Historical Society. Mr. Elk-us is survived by his wife, Alta; twodaughters, Laurel Anne and NancyDianne; two brothers, Ben and Robert;and a sister, Ruth Prosser.

William B. Somers on March 9, 1976. Dur-ing his lengthy career, Mr. Somersworked primarily in civil cases, and wasa partner in the law firm of Burnett, Bur-nett and Sommers in San Jose. Amongthose surviving are his daughter, SusanSomers; two sons, Bill and James; and twobrothers, John and Frank.

Clyde H. Larimer '35 on May 7, 1976. For-merly Superior Court Judge of GlennCounty, he served for ten years until ill-ness forced his retirement in 1975. Priorto that, for many years he was districtattorney and also practiced law in Orlandand Willows. When he became districtattorney he was the youngest in the state,and when he resigned he was the oldestdistrict attorney in the state and servedat one time as president of the CaliforniaDistrict Attorney's Association. Whenthe office of County Counsel was createdin Glenn County, he became the firstholder of the office. Survivors are his wid-ow, Marian, a son and two daughters.

Professor Stephen R. Curtis, a memberof the Sixty Five Club faculty from 1964to 1971, died on June 29 at the age of 83.Professor Curtis was educated at the Uni-versity of Chicago and had taught in andbeen dean of several law schools includ-ing William Mitchell College, OhioNorthern and John Marshall. He prac-ticed law both in Chicago and Coloradoprivately before going into teaching. Hissubjects were Agency, Jurisprudence,Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure, Eq-uity, Suretyship, Air Law, Legal Bibliog-raphy, Legal Ethics, Domestic Relations,Business Associations and Introduction toLaw. He was the author of Sales, Credi-tors' Rights, Damages, Agency and Part-nership. During World War I he servedas a Lieutenant in the Field Artillery. Heis survived by three sons, Walter of Cal-gary, Stephen, Jr. of St. Louis, and Rich-ard of Hacienda Heights, California.

STEPHEN R. CURTIS

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