Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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ROBERT L. BOUCHIER Bob received his B.A. in English in 1967 and his J.D. in 1970, both from Stanford. !?747 MICHAEL I. BEVIER I dropped out running free smack dab in the middle of ten thousand hogs and a million acres of corn, my life is devoted to fulfilling the inscrutable promise of my birth. Bibidie, bobidie boo, just like you, I wonder exactly who's in the zoo. Go far? If you can find me a fast car! MICHAEL L. BURACK Raoul Berger decided to become a lawyer when, at the age of 26, he realized he would never be among the very best violin virtuosig I decided to become a lawyer when, at the age of 25, Irealized I would not win a Nobel Prize in physics within 10 years. The realization was of course belated, even though in the meantime I had been a Summa graduate of Wesleyan University in physics, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in physics at Caltech, a graduate student in applied physics at Stanford, and author of an article in the Journal of Physical Chemisbjv. But law has proven more fun and more rewarding than physics, and the horizons are broader ones. As for my intervening years in physics, a sufficiently puritanical ethic can make almost any kind of hard work tolerable, and my quantum of puritanism has not fallen short of suf- ficiency. Indeed, had it been any less than sufficient, I could never have endured a year as Managing Editor of the Law Review. Recent summers provided some variation: I studied Soviet foreign policy and Russian as well as law, and I worked for Covington 84 Burling in Washington, D.C. My long-run plans tend to focus on the international arena and include teaching and, perhaps, a short stint in the Government. The more immediate future encompasses a clerkship with Judge Ben Duniway of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco and work with a firm, probably in Washington - a wildly materialistic interlude before I settle down to a more scholarly existence. Ultimate ambitions are two: to be Secretary of State in the Cabinet on which James Atwood is Secretary of Defense, and to own a St. Bernard. C2fv6,5a..f 5759

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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

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HALSEY B. COLLINS Born in New York City and now a resident of Chevy Chase, Maryland, Halsey attended Amherst College in Massachusetts. At Amherst he majored in psychology, minored in classical literature, and rowed for the varsity crew. After a year at Columbia Law School, Halsey was drawn to Stanford by a certain young lady. Stanford hasn't been all that bad and she is now Mrs. Collins, so the move is generally looked upon with favor. At Stanford, Halsey's primary interests lie in income tax and estate planning. Last year he won the Stanford competition for the First National Bank of Chicago's Estate Planning Competition. And, by the way, is anybody out there interested in buying a Fuller Brush to help a young student work his way through school? ff: f,514' TRIGG T. DAVIS Mix one half gallon Tanqueray, three quarts quinine water, a few ounces of lime juice and forty ice cubes and we are ready to begin another evening in the life of the Bald Man from Burlingame. Much of Trigg's time at Law School was spent in folksy conversations generally devoted to his three passions: foreign sports cars, boxer dogs, apd a certain beautiful brunette from Tacoma, rarely seen sans potato cups. Trigg prepared himself for a few lively years in a cosmopolitan Fresno law practice by getting involved in water: first as a skierg later as a sewer inspectorg and finally under the tutelage of Charlie Meyers. Trigg has served for two years on the Journal of International Studies: first as an editor of the volume on Ocean Resources fwater, water everywherej and then as Articles Editor for the issue on 'Telecommunicationsf' cqafgafwffw Budapest, Hungary, 1938. caught up in the Big War as a child, and was on the wrong side when it ended. fdidn't then know what that meant - was to learn later, in 19562. grade and high school years followed, untainted by the anglo-saxon traditiong wondered instead about things like whether coca-cola had alcohol in it. that question settled in andau, austria on a cold november morning in '56, the quest began for other interesting aspects of the Land Across the Water where no national boundaries were to be found for miles. after some years, aided by fortuity, returned to academe where finally was overtaken by donne, locke, twain, f scott and mike wright's dad. and eventually by the secty of navy. having often ascertained the length and width fsans a continuum to terra firma thru a plankj of a destroyer, decided that even law school had to be better. indeed, there, reward came! john kaplan was coerced falbeit, at the usurious price of a- in crimproj into the pronouncing of the name that chilled the hearts and numbed the tongues of the temerarious. after that, all is anti-climatic. 4-ffnif X772