Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Professor and Mrs. Cappelletti talk with first year students at the Law Association's Annual Beer and Spaghetti Feed. A1ice's Restaurant in the Law Lounge serves students and Law Association alike The Law Association's Christmas Party offers good spirits and entertainment S s MF

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LAW ASSOCIATIO LAW ASSOCIATION: D. Crow Clst Year Rep.J, A. Galustian C2nd Year Rep.J, M. Vidgoff fPresidentj, R. Zimmerman CTreasurerJ, T. Lubeck CVice-Presidentl, T. Hawley QSecretaryJ. The Law Association's activities this year were too extensive for summary. Moreover, they have already been summarized in publications and memoranda issued by the Association itself. However, since there is no alternative use for this space, it is seemly to summarize the Law Association's activities for the year once again. Traditionally, reports on what the Law Association has done in a particular year, appearing in yearbooks and other media, are divided into several categories, e.g., social, academic, idiopathic, etc. But it has also been the case in most years that the Law Association has been relevant only in the area of social things. The reason for noting the other categories in annual summaries has been to make people 'aware that the Law Association is a sleeping giant that can be loosed on dozens of fronts. But none of this really applies to the year now under consideration. That is to say that the Law Association this year was loosed on fronts and did many things that weren't social at all, things which could not, indeed, be done in polite society. So this annual summary will be dedicated exclusively to the Associationas social activities. There were five major incidents, to wit, the spaghetti feed, the Halloween party, the Christmas party, the spring dance, and the softball and beer game. There will be still another - the third-year graduation party. All of these events have or will come off well. Inclement weather, intemperance, and foul humor did not- diminish their radiance, although there was much of each. But the morning after every party, the merry makers awoke to tind a world as grim as the one they had put aside to merrymake the previous evening. It was on such mornings that the Law Association was most active this year.

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SERJEANTS AT LAW. HORIZONTAL: K. Ptakovich. SEATED: S. Stevens, B. Miller, L. Broun, R. McAulay, P. Vinnicof, K. Britton CPresiden0. STANDING: K. Kaye, R. Rogers, M. Greene, G. Buftington, B. Lynch. Witness Britton starts to go topless and the Judge' warily observes the proceedings SERJEANTS AT LAW Under the sterling guidance of ex-cattle rancher Ken Britton the cause of the courtroom lawyer surged ahead this year at Stanford. The Serjcants was established several years ago to give law students some jury trial experience by conducting mock trials. The Seijeants have also campaigned to raise the status of the trial lawyer at Stanford. The organization was successful in adding to the curriculum a course in Trial Advocacy which starred Professor John Kaplan, Professor Thelton Henderson, and advocate Bill Keogh. President Britton along with retired politician and ex-motorcycle racer Rod McAulay and Paul Vinnicof, vice president for jury recruitment, attended a course in autopsy analysis and forensic medicine given by Melvin Belli. This year the Serjeants were extended credit at L'Omelette French Restaurant, gained the active support of the local bench and bar, had their typewriter refurbished and doubled the number of mock trials. Part of the glorious success for the year was due to the passionate participation of ex-jet navigator Roy Broun, vice president for judicial relations, and fearless Ben Miller, chief trial advisor. The real peanut butter between the slabs of bread, however, was none other than the beaautiful Karen Ptak whose long eyelashes and ability to write and act gave the organization a continuity which was the envy of the school.