Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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.noi THOMAS W. PULLIAM September, 1949, Roselle Avenue School, Pleasantville, New York: commenced formal education with youthful enthusiasm, thirsty for knowledge. June, 1969, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California: formal education brought to a grinding halt . . . thirst quenched. ALAN RADER - Lawyers are all right, I guess - but it doesn't appeal to me. Imean they're all right if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if youire a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides. Even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you realbf wanted to do was to be a terrific lawyer, with everyone slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is, you wouldn 't. H.C. RICHARD A. RAGSDALE Dick was born in Vancouver, Washmgton, February 22, 1943, and grew up in Medford, Oregon. He entered Stanford in 1961 where he played football and rugby for three years. He participated in the Volunteers In Asia summer work project in Hong Kong, and was a freshman sponsor in Wilbur Hall. After receiving a B.A. in history, Dick studied for a year at Hong Kong University on a Rotary Scholarship. While in law school he has continued to play rugby for the Big Red Machine and was an assistant freshman football coach for one year. His legal interests include the Santa Clara County Public Defenders program. Dick plans to practice law in Portland, Oregon. The U.S. Army will occupy the next two years, however.

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JEFFREY BRUCE PLATT Jeff was born on July 30, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York. He attended P.S. 235, Walt Whitman Junior High School, Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn College and other educational institutions in New York. None of them has influenced Jeffs life as much as Stanford Law School. He will remember his years at Stanford. PERRY D. POPOVICH A.B. Stanford University 1966 CHARLES F. PREUSS . i Born in Santa Barbara, California, in 1941, Santa Barbara High School, 1958 g Dartmough College, 1962, U.S. Marine Corps, 1966.

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ALEXANDER B. REISMAN A.B. University of Michigan 1966. RONALD F. ROMINES Well, then what shall I . . .What can I say? why it seems like only JAMES C. ROBERTSON Jim was born on February 26, 1940 in Owatonna, Minnesota. He was raised primarily in the Washington, D.C. area, but his father's position as a Foreign Service officer necessitated periodic changes of scenery, and Jim spent two of his junior-high school years in Warsaw, Poland. After graduating in 1957 from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland, Jim attended Yale University, where he graduated in 1961 with a B.A. in Politics and Economics. He subsequently spent four years as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps, during which time he saw duty in Southern California, the Caribbean, and the F ar East, and attained the rank of Captain. While at Stanford Jim was a Resident Assistant in Phi Gamma Delta and a member of the Law Review. After graduation he will practice with Pillsbury, Madison 84 Sutro in San Francisco. yesterday that we were welcomed, sat wide-eyed and wondering in the first-floor circus rnaximus, we the Christians being intimidated by he the lion of legal education exhorting us to laser-intense glacier-paced pursuit of greater heights for Stanford Law! or didn't we know? and now here we are a short shrift interminable time later, most of us long since Henry-Harted into submission, well almost most of us, unwillingly eager to join the minions of militant middleclassdom, unconfidently convinced that we are the soon-to-be indispensible architects of order preservers of the social weal, generally generalists and specifically wondering when we get contingent feeid costs awarded and second highest professionally paid . . . been questioned, cross-examined, tested graded, sorted, categorized, labeled and put forth on platter: here we are, the 1969 Stanford model, Socratically succored, masters of lawyer- think, sui juris and zz fortiori ready for immediate delivery. groovy.