Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Thelton Henderson is new this year to Stanford. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1933, he grew up in Los Angeles and received his B.A. in political science from Berkeley in 1956. He then spent two years in the army as a clinical psychology technician and one year working as a research scientist and as a professional musician in order to earn the money to go to law school. In 1962 he received his J .D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley. After one year of working in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Justice Department, he practiced law in Oakland, and then in 1966 he became the directing attorney of the East Bayshore Neighborhood Legal Center in Menlo Park. Dean Henderson spends half of his time working for the law school as the Coordinator of Legal Opportunities Program, the minority recruitment program, the Stanford Legal Aid Program, and the Civil Rights Research Council, among others. He also assists in teaching the course in trial advocacy. The other half of his day is devoted to the East Palo Alto Neighborhood Center. The scope and responsibilities of his duties give Dean Henderson, in effect, two full time positions rather than the official part timew positions. Dean Henderson somehow is able to find time to devote to a number of outside activities, such as Herbert Hoover Boys' Club of Menlo Park, the Volunteer Bureau of Alameda County, the Berkeley and Menlo Park branches of the NAACP, and the Green Power Foundation, Inc. He also is a consultant for the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Rumor has it that he also plays a very good folk and blues guitar. THELTON E. HENDERSON A ssistant Dean

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THOMAS E. ROBINSON Assistant Dean Thomas Robinson was born in Nebraska in 1933. He attended Yale University and received his B.A. in politics and economics in 1957 and his LL.B. in 1961. He fulfilled his military obligation as an officer in the United States Coast Guard from 1959 to 1960, assigned to sea duty in the North Atlantic. After practicing law in Washington, D.C. from 1961 to 1963, he left private practice to become a legislative assistant to the Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1964 he came to Stanford as assistant to the dean, and he became Assistant Dean in January, 1967. As Assistant Dean, Mr. Robinson directs the law school admission program and also administers financial aids. He and his wife, Alice, live in Sharon Heights.

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BRUCE H. HASENKAMP A ssistant Dean Bruce Hasenkamp, one of the two recent additions to the administration of the law school, comes to Stanford this year from New York, where he was practicing law. Born in New York, he received an A.B. in history in 1960 from Dartmouth and an LL.B. in 1963 from Stanford, where he ran the mock trials for the Moot Court Board. After law school he practiced law in New York for six months before going into the army as an officer. He was stationed primarily in Korea, where he worked as a Personnel Management Officer, Adjutant, Company Commander, and Legal Assistance Officer of the 8th U.S. Army Support Command. In December 1966 he returned to New York to practice law until May 1968, when he came to Stanford. At Stanford Dean Hasenkamp's duties include coordinating between the law school and the students, Director of Placement, liaison with bar associations, and assisting in the admissions program. His deep involvement in the many aspects of student life at the law school enables better communicationfbetweene students and the administration and faculty. Dean Hasenkampis personal interests include travel, music, and art. Upon completion of his military service he traveled extensively in Europe and Russia. He finds Stanford close enough to San Francisco to enable his attending the opera regularly. His Korean ceramics collection is said to be one of the two or three best private collections in the country. Two factors indicate a long stay for Dean Hasenkamp at Stanford. First, he has recently purchased a beautiful home in the hills behind Stanford, and, second, it is rumored that Marjorie Manning is designing a beard for him. Although the beard may simply serve to make him even more acceptable to the students, one cannot rule out the possibility that the beard will have an adverse affect on the number of new job offers made to Dean Hasenkamp.