Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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ALAN C. ALHADEFF Originally planning a career serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy, Alan was rejected because of ill health. Coming then to Stanford Law School, he succeeded in maintaining his record of academic excellence. Contemning membership on the Law Review staff, Alan nontheless remained active by authoring numerous articles and comments under his nom de plume. During the summer he worked for the California Law Revision Commission and helped draft the well-known Preventive Detention Act overwhelmingly passed by the Lower House but narrowly defeated in the Senate. Next year Alan intends to act as legal advisor to United Nations Delegate Shirley T. Black and hopes to become involved in international affairs in the near future. RALPH W. BACHMAN, JR. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ralph attended the University of Minnesota, where he graduated Summa cum Laude in 1966 with a B.A. in political Science. With the benefit of a Rhodes Scholarship, he then attended Ex fter College, Oxford University for two years, earning a B.A. in jurisprudence. At Stanford Ralph has participated in the Juvenile Defenders' Program of the Legal Aid Society and has worked as a third year student teaching fellow in the first year writing program. RICHARD MARK BAKER gif gag f770 Born in Gary, Indiana in 1945 within view of the picturesque plumes of red smoke from the steel mills CCough!j, he managed to pass through the Gary Public Schools and go on to the limestone halls of Indiana University a B.S. in accounting in 1967. Determined not to be a pencil pusher wearing a green eyeshade, he was drawn to the Golden West and Stanford Law School to bask in the year-round sun and learn to surf. Older and wiser he is now accustomed to fog and smog and plans to remain in the Bay Area. fMora1, there's no escaping air pollutionj Ziff! Ka., M70

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RICHARD CLARK ABBOTT Richard C. C'Doc,'j Abbott died today of wounds received when an aerosol can of preheated shaving cream allegedly exploded in his face. Born in Mexico City, Dr. Abbott attended St. Grottlesex and Yale University, Where he was Phi Beta Kappa and a member of Skull and Bones. After two years in .England as a Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Abbott enrolled in Stanford's famous Law-Business-Animal Husbandry combined program. Drafted by the Baltimore Colts after a particularly impressive rugby season, Doc is credited with having singlehandedly returned the drop-kick to a position of prominence in the N.F.L. Upon an early retirement due to the revelation of his previous affiliation with the Crothers Pub, he joined the Wall Street investment banking firm of Crosby, Stills, Nash 85 Young, where he acquired inside information. A prolific writer during mating season, Dr. Abbott's classic work on Marsupial Reproduction is still in use in high schools throughout the nation. He is survived by his wife, the former Eleanor Rigby, a debatable number of children, and by most of North Dakota. JOSEPH J. ADAMS, JR. Born in New York, Joe did his undergraduate study at Brown University, where he received his A.B. in political science in 1967. On the strength of his college thesis on the Civil Aeronautics Board and of his general interest in society's transportation problems, Joe received a Bay Area Bridge Authority scholarship to Stanford Law School. Under this scholarship Joe has been required to make numerous trips across the San Mateo and Dumbarton Bridges to study their efficiency, this job being burdensome because the nearest place to make a convenient U-turn is at the Mills College turn-off on Interstate 580. Such duties have not bothered Joe greatly during three years at Stanford because this research fits in well with his major law school interests. Haight ww 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 the age of 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 Department. 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 - part philosopher, part manager - who shape institutions and programs to answer emerging needs. I am speaking of myself.

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JAMES R. BERRY Noting the absence of any valid empirical data on legal education, Professor Friedman began two years ago to conduct a laboratory social study of Stanford Law School. The goal of his study was to measure the effect on the human thought process. Realizing that the validity of the study would turn on his ability to minimize the variables influencing both the control and test groups, and that comparing one group from the real world with another group from the monastic confines of the law school was methodologically unsound, Professor Friedman hired Jim as a placebo. Jimis role for the past two years, unknown to his classmates, has been to cut through the supposed substance of Stanford Law School and follow blindly its underlying procedure. Uniquely qualified by his four years in the Marine Corps, Jim came rather to enjoy such things as blue cards, the lunchroom, checking the bulletin board and emptying his mailbox each day. Jim faithfully occupied his carrel and sat inconspicuously in class, though at no time was he allowed to study or listen. Preliminary results from the study seem to indicate that the probability is greater than .05 that differences between any two groups' ability to think like lawyers can occurb chance y ' 542 X56 .f ffya GILBERT C. BERKELEY A small town product, I prefer verbs to adjectivesinboth speech and PETER A. BELL Peter lived in the East, where he had a criminal record by the age of five, and then came to California for law school. 'The horror of that momentf the King went on, fl shall never, never, forgetf 'You will, though,' the Queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.' He received his scholarship check and a sanity-saving sense of priorities from Dolores. 'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, fwithout pictures or conversation?' He worked harder than he desired to, participated in some organizations, made some friends, who were important to him, and will graduate. O frabjous day! Callooh! Cal1ay! He will work where he feels that he is someway bettering his society and where there is joy and vibrancy. 'There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. KQKAZQF A7762 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 the age of 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 Department. 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, to legal education. I often speak of lawyers as the last of the generalists - part philosopher, part manager - who shape institutions and programs to answer emerging needs. I am speaking of myself. Luz dw M70