Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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CARL BERNHARDT SPAETH William Nelson Cromwell Pro essor of Law Carl Bernhardt Spaeth, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Stanford, has been on sabbatical leave during the past academic year. 1-Ie spent the first part of the year working with the Ford Foundation administering an international studies grant for the University, the second half was spent with his wife, Shiela, traveling in Europe. Born in Ohio in 1907, Professor Spaeth received an A.B. in political science from Dartmouth College in 1929. As a Rhodes Scholar, he received a B.A. in jurisprudence C1931j and a B.C.L. 119325 from Oxford University. In 1932-33 he was a Sterling Fellow at Yale Law School, he taught at Temple in 1933-34, at Northwestern from 1934 until 1939, at Yale in 1939-40, and at the Foreign Service Educational Founda- tion from 1944 until 1946. Professor Spaeth served as assistant coordinator and gen- eral counsel for the Office of Inter-American Affairs from 1940 until 1942, as United States member, Political Defense Committee, Montevideo, Uruguay, from 1942 until 1944, and as special assistant in the Department of State from 1944 until 1946. In 1946 he came to Stanford as dean of the Law School and professor of law, he served as dean until 1962. On leave from the Law School in 1952-53, he was director of the Division of Overseas Activities of the Ford Foundation. lVlr. Spaeth was consult- ant to the India Law Institute, New Delhi, in 1959-60 and is currently chairman of the Stanford Committee on International Studies.

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IGSEPH T. SNEED Pro essor of Law joseph Sneed's roots go deep into Texas soil. He was born in that state in 1920, pursued his education through Southwestern University and the University of Texas Law School, graduating with an LL.B. in 1947, and stayed on as a fac- ulty member until l954. He practiced law in Aus- tin from 1955 until 1957, when he joined the law faculty at Cornell University, In 1958 Professor Sneed received a j.S.D. from I-Iarvard. In 1960 he spent a year as visiting professor at Yale, then, forsaking both Texas and the East, he came to Stanford in 1962. Most students are well aware of Professor Sneed's facility' with the Internal Revenue Code, but do not know that he also possesses the skill to concoct what he describes as a mean banana split'-a talent acquired during his college days when he worked behind a drug store soda foun- tain. In addition, both before and during college, he spent summers riding the Texas range as a full-fledged cowboy. Now he has turned to some- what more scholarly pursuits-although he still goes horseback riding and plays some tennis in the summer. His wife, Madelon, is learning to play tennis, but claims greater proficiency with a paint brush than with a tennis racquet. The Sneeds have three children: Clara is 14 and has a flair for writing, Cara is 12 and enjoys playing the piano, the youngest is joseph T. Sneed, IV, who is so tall for his age that he is affectionately known as the Wilt Chamberlain of the fourth grade. In addition to his manifold responsibilities within that law school, Professor Sneed is pres- ently serving as the President of the Association of American Law Schools. In addition he is a member of the American Law Institute, consult- ing with that group on its Estate and Gift Tax Project, he has just completed a textbook on basic income taxation. In the university at large Pro- fessor Sneed serves as Chairman of the Stanford Interim judicial Body and is a member of the Committee on University Publications.

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In his sixth year as a lecturer in Income Tax Problems at Stanford, Marvin T. Tepperman de- votes most of his time to the practice of corporate and tax law with the San Francisco firm of Stein- hart, Goldberg, Fergenbaum 81 Ladar. He is a past president of the Bay Area Section on Tax- ation and of the San Francisco Tax Club and a past member of the State Bar Committee on Tax- ation. He is presently a member of the American Bar Association Section on Taxation and lec- turer on tax matters for the California State Bar's Continuing Education of the Bar program. He is a visiting lecturer at Boalt Hall and has taught Business Law at San Francisco State Col- lege and at the University of California Exten- MARVIN T. TEPPERMAN Lecturer in Law sion Division in San Francisco. Mr. Tepperman was born in New York in 1925. After serving in the United States Navy from 1943 until 1946, he attended the Univer- sity of Chicago, where he earned a I.D. in 1948 and served as an associate editor of the Univer- sity of Chicago Law Review, He was a research assistant to Professor Stanley Surrey, now As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy, at the University of California in 1949-50. At that time he worked on the American Law In- stitute Tax Project. His Wife is currently studying for a Ph.D. in political science at Stanford. The Teppermans have two teenaged children.