Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Beginning Ianuary 1, 1967, Thomas Robinson undertook the duties of admissions director and administrator of financial aid. In these capacities he succeeds Associate Dean William Keogh, who left to enter private practice. This year over 1,500 appli- cations were received for the 160 places available in the class of l970g this continues a trend in recent years with both the number and quality of applicants increasing. At one point the number of applicants was running 40 per cent ahead of the class of 1969. It is Dean Robinson's task to work with the Faculty Committee on Admissions to select the most qualified applicants-a task which increases in difficulty each year. Born in Nebraska in 1933, he received a B.A. in politics and economics H9572 and an LL.B. H9615 from Yale University. During 1959-60 he was an officer in the United States Coast Guard assigned to sea duty in the North Atlantic. From 1961 to 1963 he practiced law with the firm of Covington Sz Burling in Washington, D.C., leaving to become legislative assistant to Senator Roman L. Hruska of Nebraska. He remains a consultant to the Subcommittee on the Improvement of Iudicial Machinery of the Senate Iudiciary Committee. In 1964 he came to Stanford as assistant to the dean and has been assistant dean since 1965. He and his wife, Alice, live in Sharon Heights. THOMAS E. ROBINSON Assistant Dean

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Assistant Dean Robert Keller has responsibility within' the administration for alumni relations and the fiscal affairs of the law school. ln this role he is in charge of both fund raising and disbursement, as well as relations between the school and the alumni societies throughout the United States. Aside from these duties at Stanford, Dean Keller is a member of the Palo Alto Human Relations Council and the Bo-ard of Directors of the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. ln 1951 he received a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from the University of Oklahoma in his native state. After serving with the United States Navy from 1951 to 1955, the last two years with the Navy Hydrographic Office in Washington, he earned an LL.B. in 1958 from Stanford. While in law school he was a member of the board of editors of the Stanford Law Review. He practiced law from 1958 until 1965 with the San Francisco firm of Orrick, Dahlquist, Herrington 8: Sutcliffe, concentrating on antitrust and public utilities law and general corporate litigation. He became assistant dean in 1965. On clear mornings vest-clad Dean Keller can be seen striding toward work along Embarcadero and Galvez Streets to ward off the effects of too many alumni society luncheons. He and his wife, Helen, have four children-two boys and two girls rang- ing in age from 8 to 15 . This year they have a high school student from Alabama living with them and attending school in Palo Alto. ROBERT A. KELLER Assistant Dean

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Douglas Ayer is new to the Stanford law faculty this year. I-le was born in Missouri in 1937, and received an A.B. in politics and economics in 1959, and an LL.B. in 1962 from Yale University. While in law school he was an editor of the Yale Law journal. During the following year he served as law clerk to judge Charles E. Clark of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 1963-64, Professor Ayer was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Stockholm, returning to New York to join the law firm of Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons 81 Gates where he remained until he came to Stanford in 1966. ' Professor Ayer's wife, Barbara, is a graduate of Radcliffe College and has an lVl.A. in French Literature from Columbia. She is now spending some time delving into the literature of several other countries. Her husband, meanwhile, has done some research and writing in the field of conscientious objection and the draft, an article by him was published earlier this year in Christianity and Crisis on the subject of The Selective Conscientious Objectorf' In the future he will be participating in a study for the California Law Revision Commission on the subject of eminent domain. DOUGLAS R. AYER Assistant Professor o Law