Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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WILLIAM R. ROBERTSON Here follows as good a description as any of that theatrical genre known as the student skit, the participation in which was, for many of us I fear, the zenith of our careers in legal education: An interesting institutional ceremony, often connected with the annual party and the Christmas celebration, is the institutional theatrical. Typically the players are inmates and the directors of the production are staff, but sometimes 'mixed' casts are found. The writers are usually members of the institution, whether staff or inmate, and hence the production can be full of local references, imparting through the private use of this public form a special sense of the reality of events internal to the institution. Very frequently the offering will consist of satirical skits that lampoon well-known members of the institution, especially high- placed staff members . . . Limits of licence are often tested, the humor being a little more broad than some members of the staff would like to see toleratedf' Erving Goffman, Asylurns: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates. Mr. Goffman, what are you trying to tell us? Q QM! 17-W? THOMAS E. ROHLF Born: Oakland, California Home: Morage, California 1970, Stanford Law School Died: No Cgef,5L. JAMES P. ROWLES Now here I said the Red Queen j it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! -Lewis Carroll Let youth practice filial dulyg let it practice fratemal dulyg let it earnestly give itself to being reliable. As it feels an affection for all, let it be particularly fond of Manhood-at-its-best. Any surplus energy may be used for book learning. -Confucius Law school is like a three-year Rorschach test. The experience is ineffable. Fortunately. Well, let us get on to more basic things. Questions: Who is Jim Rowles? Facts: Born, May 17, 19443 A.B. CI-Iistoryj Stanford, 1967g Future plans: Survival. Held: Remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion. Closing quote: He who is a good German can not be a nationalist. -Willy Brandt Degrees: A.B. in Political Science 1967 Stanford University J D

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DUANE C. QUAINI Department. WILLIAM R. RAPSON Bill was born on November 20, 1944 in Portland, Oregon. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Bill then went on to Occidental College in Los Angeles where he majored in English and minored in economics. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation in June 1967, Bill married Catherine Louise Economos. He is on the Editorial Board of the Stanford Law Review and spent the summer after his second year with the Honolulu law firm of Carlsmith, Carlsmith, Wichman and Case. Bill hopes to clerk or join a San Francisco firm after graduation. JAMES W. ROBERTSON philosopher, part manager - who shape institutions and programs to answer emerging needs. I am speaking of myself. A small town product, I prefer verbs to adjectives in both speech and ideas. I am brisk, lithe and effective, which explains, no doubt, why I am no longer in that small town. Born in Bristow, Oklahoma, I took an economics degree at Yale at age twenty. I translated Chinese for the Signal Corps during the quest for peace in Viet-nam. After serving the country I love so dearly I enrolled at Stanford Law School intending to clerk for Justice Fortas upon my graduation. While in law school I distinguished myself Expecting to enter private practice in Cleveland, I have not dismissed the possibility of receiving a telephone call from Yale or the State A mover behind the newly formed Urban Institute, a Rand-like think tank for the social sciences, I seek to foster social change with the same drive I bring to experimentation, through lack of preparation, in legal education. I often speak of lawyers as the last of the generalists - art News Born in Nashville, Tennessee. Left as soon as I realized what happened. Received B.A. in Philosophy, University of Santa Clara 1967. Originally hoped for a position after graduation with a firm in Alabama, Georgia or Mississippi. Had no luck. fl canit imagine why'j Finally settled with a conservative New York firm which is providing me with a private office fglass on four sidesj, three white secretaries two white shoe-shine boys fone for each shoej, one white valet and 135 white bosses, give or take a few.

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O6 STEPHEN S. RUDD Unfortunately, attempted reform of legal pedagogy is frequently in the hands of the library-law teacher. With the best will in the world, such a teacher often finds it impossible to warp over the old so-called case-system so as to adapt it to the needs of the future practicing lawyer. So long as teachers who know little or nothing except what they learned from books under the case-system control the law school, the actualities of the lawyer's life are there likely to be considered peripheral and of secondary importance .... Many of the law schools are so staffed that they are best fitted, not to train lawyers, but to graduate man able to become book-law teachers who can educate still other students to become book-law teachers-and so aa' infinitum, world without end. Jerome Frank, Courts on Trial H9491 Amen BOB RYCHLIK - The legal profession became my main interest very early in life. It remained so throughout high school in the Chicagoland area, undergraduate life at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio as an accounting major and military service CUSMCD under three presidents. Finally the long awaited opportunity to study law. I am thankful for Stanford. Existentially we are persuaded that life is above all else people, their relationships and their pursuits of higher virtues. As with life so with theory-each providing its own peculiar measure of understanding and fulfillment. When individuals exercise free will their spheres of living coalesce. This ,is our professional raison d'etre Now what of our learning, experience and legal degree? I am reminded that the lack of a personal reference rpoint prompted manis first question in Genesis- Where are you? For the longest time I thought God really wanted to know. How absurd. God knew. Man didn't. Ergo .... RAYMOND L. SARNA It,s fame, fortune and adventure. It s the thrill of a life time and a long sea-voyagef' and it starts right after graduation! Closing twenty years of formal education, Mr. Sarna looks towards intensifying his pursuit of a career in the general area of business ventures? His emphasis will be on financial management and corporate merger, acquisition and securities problems. Capitalistic goals aside, Ray's concern for his natural environment-its exploration, enjoyment, and preservation- will attract him to some quiet town away from sterile cities. Success in his ventures should find him fulfilling his dream, conch counting in the Caribbean. Background: birth on New Fiscal Year's Day, July 1, 1945, growing up blissfully in Los Angeles, four years of intellectual excitement at USC, graduating with Phi Beta Kappa key and degree in economics plus zest for the Stock Market, and three final years of business education in law school. With all this preparation, Ray has been greeted with a business slowdown to give him time to prepare for the Bar Exam. Then, another re-creation retreat to the selvas of Central America or to those certain islands in the West Indies. If Ray returns, then he will embark on his forementioned career. If not . . .