Duke University School of Law - Prolocutor Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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At Publication's Council Meeting, student publication problems are solved, and policies adopted. Left to right, Charlie Hol- loman, Chairman, Cliff Benson, I. A. West, Carlton Fleming, Dick Douglas, and john Coleman. Office through which some law students were very successfully placed. Continued co-operation with this office is contemplated. It is hoped that a separate Law School placement service can be established next year. Sid Smith served as chairman of the Section on Law School Affairs. Members of the section were Silas Williams, Al Page, and Tom Poteat. Their responsibility of promoting professional activities among law students and the faculty was aptly discharged. In addition to coordinating affairs with students and the administration, two very outstanding speakers were brought to Duke University. These speakers were Frank Holman, President of the American Bar'Association, and Harrison Tweed, President of the American Law Institute. A moot court program for third-year students was fostered by the Section on Moot Courts of which Cliff St. Clair was chairman. He and the members of the section, Wally Osborne, Dave Hanlon, Iohn Herrick, E. C. Berg, and George Orr, sponsored Copperhead 11. Cojmmonwealth, which was well attended and which received PAGE 16 much publicity. In this moot court Art Eddy, Duncan Daugherty, Al Page, and Sid Smith argued the constitutionality of the City of Dur- ham Snake Handling Ordinance. Douglas B. Maggs, Professor of Law at Duke, Francis I. Paschal, Research Director of the N. C. Commis- sion for the Improvement of the Administration of Justice, and I. Beverly Lake, Professor of Law at Wake Forest College, were the justices. The Section on Social Affairs was composed of Bill Winders, chairman, lim Wolfe, lim Gregg, and Tom Lawton, members. Informal dances were held after every home football game and at other appropriate times. Except for the Hallo- ween Dance held at the Washington Duke Hotel. all dances were at the Shrine Club. The climax of a good year socially was the Spring Formal on April 25, in honor of Dean Harold Shepherd, at which he was presented with a going away gift from the Duke Bar Association. With the election of Bob Potter, President, Bob Stokes, Vice-President, and Bob Page, Treas- urer, as the new omcers of the D.B.A., we can undoubtedly look forward to another big year.

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L '1 lil Duke Bar Associajon Board of Governors meets to discuss the accomplishments of the year. Left to right: Cliff St. Clair, Sid Smith, Charlie Speth, Clifi' Benson, President, Oren McClean, and lack deliruif. Not pictured: Bill Winders. - The Defendants Organize . . . HE Duke Bar Association was organized in 1931 as a student model of the American Bar Association. Its objects are' to foster legal science, to maintain the honor and dignity of the legal profession among law students, to cultivate professional ethics and social intercourse among its members, and to promote the welfare of the Law School of Duke University. Members of the Association are students in good standing at the Duke Law School and members of tl1e faculty fin an honorary capacityj. Other honorary members may be elected by a majority vote of those present at any meeting of the Association. The D.B.A. story for the school year of 1948- 1949 really 'started with the election of Arbor Gray as Secretary in January of 1948. Arbor served until last Ianuary when he was succeeded by lack de Kruif who will act as Secretary until next year. In May of 1948, Patil Belmont was elected President, Cliff Benson, Vice-President, and Oren McClain, Treasurer. Patil Belmont resigned and Cliff Benson took over to lead the D.B.A. through the most successful year since its founding. Most of the Work done in the D.B.A. is car- ried on by six committees or sections, chairmen of which are appointed by the president. The Section on Publications, headed by Charlie Holloman, is the general supervisory agency in charge of law student publications. During the school year 1948-1949, there were two student publications: The Bar Rag, which is the Weekly newspaper, and the Prolocutor, which is the yearbook. appearing this year for the first time. I. A. West edited the Bar Rag with Dick Doug- las as his assistant. Iohn Coleman edited the Proloczztor. The Section on Grievances and Professional Conduct administers the Duke Law School Honor System. This section, as required by the D.B.A. Constitution, consisted of the mem- bers of the Board of Governors of the Association which consisted of the Association ofhcers and section chairman Sid Smith. Charlie Speth was chairman of the Section on Alumni Affairs and Placement. This section worked closely with the University Appointments PAGE IS

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Ofhcers of the three legal fraternities gather on the Law School steps. Left to right: Bob Clif-ford, President, Bill Winders, Treasurer, Phi Dclm Phi: Larry Hutchins, Secretary, Louis Allen, President, Phi Alpha Delmf and Cliff St. Clair, President, Wade Vannoy, Secretary, Delia Them Phi. The Defendants Fraternize . ITH a duality of purpose rivaling that of Ianus or the average coed, Duke's three legal fraternities purvey the campus scene-one side looking to the professional, the other, to the social. Here the student body is indeed fortunate in having chapters of the top three national legal fraternities to aid in combining and accenting these two Well-recognized phases of Law School student life. Long recognized in this country for superiority in numbers and importance are Phi Delta Phi, Phi Alpha Delta, and Delta Theta Phi. These three fraternities number the nation's foremost lawyers, judges and government officials among their members. As a result, the profes- sional element of contact with older lawyers con- stitutes an important advantage of membership in a legal fraternity. In purpose and in operation, a legal fraternity affords little basis for comparison with an under- graduate social fraternity. There are, of course, no such things as fraternity houses or sections among the legal brethren, or, fortunately enough, those long weekly meetings that so many of us endured in an undergraduate social fraternity. Legal fraternity life centers primarily around luncheons, a happy balancing of the social and the professional. Duke fraternities have for years presented an impressive series of luncheon speak- ers, who, as a rule, speak and then answer ques- tions of general interest concerning some field or problem of law. Strictly on the social side, the fraternities have long supplemented the admirable efforts of the Duke Bar Association with functions of their own. The fraternity calendar includes a goodly sprinkling of both formal and informal affairs. On the formal side are such things as joint initia- tions and joint banquets with the corresponding Carolina and Wake Forest chapters. Less formal are the fraternity smokers held during rushing. Completely informal fand howlj are the cabin parties. The fraternities have gotten together on such things as rushing rules and hands off D.B.A. elections in the past, and even closer co-operation is in prospect. PAGE I7