Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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BLAKENEY STAFFORD Blake was born to William and Dorothy Stafford in Somerville, New jersey, on April 25, 1942. The family moved to Martinsville, New jersey, and he attended Bound Brook High School. Blake grad- uated from Princeton University in 1964. While at Princeton he majored in history, won three varsity letters in baseball, and was a member of Cannon Club. His permanent address is Ridge Road, Martinsville, New jersey. THOMAS M. STANTON Tom is the son of james T. and Ruth Stanton. He was born and raised in Bakersfield, California where his parents currently re- side. He attended Bakersfield High School where he participated in tennis and track. The University of California at Berkeley was his choice for undergraduate training. There he was a member of Beta Theta Pi, participated in intramural athletics, and was on the staff of the school paper, The Daily Californian. Tom's major at Cal was Political Science with International Relations as a field of emphasis. He received his A.B. degree in 1964. Tom spent the first two years of his law school career living in Atherton and his third in Woodside. He has participated in law school intramurals, Legal Aid, Serjeants at Law and is Financial Manager of this year's yearbook. His legal interests are in com- mercial law which he hopes to practice with a California firm. IAMES EDWARD SULLIVAN, IR. jim was born on August 27, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Wayland High School in Wayland, Massachusetts and Harvard College where he majored in Economics and minored in Literature. Sports were of major interest to jim in college as well as high school with his enthusiasm centered around football and weight-lifting. He also took an avid interest in politics and the West. His first year at Stanford was spent in Crothers Hall where he met jack Kussmaul, Phil Fisher and Dan Spangler. His next two years of law school were spent off campus with these students. After taking a wide range of courses and serving on criminal legal aid, jim decided his major interest was corporate law. This decision was confirmed after spending a summer working for the Los Angeles firm of Belcher, Henzie and Biegenzahn. After graduation jim plans to fulfill his military obligation and then hopes to begin his legal career with a corporation or law firm.

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CHARLES HENRY TRAEGER Hank was born in September, 1942. He has lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, his whole life. He attended the College of William and Mary majoring in government. He graduated with honors and Phi Beta Kappa and was active in intramural wrestling and swim- ming and band. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. At Stanford Hank spent two years on the Law Review and played center for its glorious football team. He was also a member of Phi Delta Phi, and his special interest in the law is taxation. RONALD GEORGE TRAYNER Ron was born to George A. and Margaret Trayner on December 6, 1942 in Los Angeles, California. His family settled in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra where he spent most of his childhood, graduating from Alhambra High School in 1960. After attending the University of Southern California for one year, Ron transferred to Occidental College in Los Angeles where he majored in Economics and received his A.B. degree in 1964. His years at Stanford complete what has been a sampling of va- rious colleges and universities in California. While at Stanford, Ron was a member of the Moot Court Board. He will begin the practice of law with the Los Angeles firm of Musick, Peeler and Garrett and pursue his special interest in the field of taxation. His permanent address is 848 E. Hermosa Drive, San Gabriel, California. SARA ELIZABETH TWADDLE Sara was born and reared in Connecticut. She attended Wethers- field High School in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Her undergraduate work was done at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she majored in political science. After graduating from col- lege, Sara went to Washington, D.C., and spent several months in mundane employ at the World Bank. From that perspective, law school seemed like a good idea, hence, her matriculation at Stan- ford. During the 1965 summer recess, she worked for the N .A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, and in the summer of 1966, she was a legal in- tern at the Zuni Indian Reservation in New Mexico.