Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Assistant Dean Robert A. Keller, a member of the California bar, practiced law from 1958 to 1965 in San Francisco before accepting the responsibility within the administration for the Law School's fiscal policy and alumni relations. Although kept busy with fund raising activities for the new law school Dean Keller finds time to be a member of the Palo Alto Human Relations Council, Board of Directors of the Northern California Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, and even for a little tennis and skiing on the side. After receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from the University of Oklahoma, in his native state, HRAKM served with the Navy from 1951 to 1955. In 1958 he earned a J.D. from Stanford where he was a member of the board of editors of the Stanford Law Review. ROBERT A. KELLER Assistant Dean

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THELTON E. HENDERSON Assistan t Dean 7 fi., ' 1 it it rr W , . 1, , lata. 1 lim'-rr' 1 at Q ,H , tm it ,, ,,W. 1 isa 5 M. it ru it it it it ester B'- Thelton Henderson is now in his second year as Assistant Dean at the Law School. 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 assistant and as a professional musician in order to earn the money for law school. In 1962 he received his J .D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley. He then worked for one year in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Justice Department, practiced law for three years in Oakland, and in 1966 became the directing attorney of the East Bayshore Neighborhood Legal Center in Menlo Park. At Stanford, Dean Henderson Works primarily as Coordinator of the Legal Opportunities Program, as head of the minority recruitment program, and on the Civil Rights Research Council, in addition to the myriad of other duties that deans tend to have to cope with. He also assists in teaching the course in Trial Advocacy. Dean Henderson somehow is able to find time to devote to a number of outside activities, such as the 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 is also a consultant for the United States Commission on Civil Rights. And it is known that he plays a very good folk and blues guitar.

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WILLIAM T. KEOGH A ssistant Dean Returning this year as Assistant Dean in charge of admissions is William T. Keogh, who has been in private practice for the past two years. Dean Keogh, who took a B.S. degree in chemical engineering in 1942 from Kansas State University and an LL.B. in 1952 from Stanford Law School, was born in New York in 1916. From 1941 until 1946 he served with the anti-aircraft artillery and the infantry in the United States Army. After a period as a member of the chemistry faculty at Kansas State, he received a commission in the regular United States Army, serving with the Philippine Scouts until 1949, when he entered Stanford Law School. After receiving his LL.B. in 1952, he served as a judge advocate until 1955, when he became Chief of International Law at Headquarters, United States Army, Europe, serving in that capacity until 1957. He was Judicial Officer, Ninth Judicial Circuit, United States Army, from 1959 until 1961. He was then appointed assistant dean at Stanford. During his years at Stanford, Dean Keogh served on the Educational Testing Service executive committee for the law school aptitude tests. Last year he assisted in the law school seminar on draft law problems and this year, in addition to his numerous administrative duties, he is assisting inthe teaching of the course in trial advocacy. w