University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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CHANCELLORS Chancellors, a legal honorary society found only at the University of Texas, was organized at the Law School in 1912. The purpose of Chancellors is to honor and reward by election to membership those law students who have shown themselves most likely to succeed and become a credit to their profession by a combination of consistent scholarship, personality, and achievement, as demonstrated by class standing and work on the Texas Law Review. Six men are tapped each semester, and over a period of years hundreds of the finest and most outstanding members of the Texas bar have received this honor. New members of Chancellors are rudely tapped in the various classrooms in one of the most impressive ceremonial traditions of the Texas Law School. The new initiates are hooded and arc paraded carrying heavy law books through every part of Townes Hall and over a large area of the main campus. The Chancellors are the traditional keepers of the Peregrinus, which is produced from its secret hiding place only on special occasions. They also arc the annual escorts for the Law School Portia in the Round-Up Parade. Chancellors enjoys the hard-won and unique distinction of being the only local legal honorary society which is noted by the name of its members in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. DELMAR L. SROUFE Vice-Chancellor, 1953 Spring Harold fred kleinman Clerk, 1953 Spring PAT STERLING HOLLOWAY Grand Chancellor, 1953 Spring ROBERT J. HEARON Keeper of the Peregrinus, 1953 Spring EDMUND L. COGBURN JAMES D. McKINNEY ROLLINS M. KOPPEL

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I I CARL O. BUE, JR. 1953 Moot Court Winner Vice-Justice, Phi Alpha Delta KATHERINE W. CONTI Dean, Kappa Beta Pi Associate Editor, The Peregrinus F. LEE DUGGAN President, Mid-Law Class Moot Court Semi-Finalist ROBERT J. HEARON Editor, Texas Law Review Moot Ct. Quarter-Finalist ROBERT D. LEMON Justice, Phi Alpha Delta Assoc. Case Note Editor, TLR MORRIS D. McCALL Secretary-Treasurer, Senior Class President, Mid-Law Class 1953 LAW DAY AWARDS Baker, Botts, Andrews U P a r i s h Outstanding Senior Award to Robert L. Steely as the outstanding all-around student in the Senior Class. Baker, Botts, Andrews Parish Mid-Law Student Award to Edwin E. Weiss as the mid-law student who has made the most valuable contribution to the School of Law. Carrington, Gowan, Johnson Walker Award to Charles D. Cabaniss as the first-year student who has the best record with respect to all-around achievement on behalf of the School of Law. Phi Alpha Delta Achievement Award to Robert B. McLeaish as the senior law student who in the estimation of the faculty shows the most promise of a constructive professional contribution to society and the development of the law. Phi Delta Phi Outstanding Graduate of the Year Award to Thomas G. Gee as the graduating member of Phi Delta Phi considered to be the most outstanding student from the standpoint of grades, contribution to the School of Law, community service, and promise of achievement in the legal profession. Delta Theta Phi Sam Houston Award to James W. Mast as the senior member of Sam Houston Senate who has, in the opinion of the other members of the senate, contributed the most to the fraternity. Delta Theta Phi Scholarship Key to Robert L. Steely as a senior member of the fraternity ranking scholastically in the upper ten per cent of his class. Thompson, Knight, Wright 8 Simmons Prize to Carl O. Bue, Jr., and Dudley P. Andrews as the winners in the Hildebrand Moot Court Competition finals. Peregrinus Prize to William C. Martin, Jr., and Ralph L. Alexander as the runners-up in the Moot Court Competition. Assault Flattery Prize to the Faculty for the best skit in the 1953 show.

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WAYNE P. STURDIVANT Grand Chancellor, 1953 Fall ROBERT D. LEMON Vice-Chancellor, 1953 Fall ROBERT P. SMITH Clerk, 1953 Fall JAMES D. McKEITHAN Keeper of the Peregrinus, 1953 Fall JACK M. YATES JOHN P. RITCHIE ORDER OF THE COIF AND HONORS The American Order of the Coif is the outgrowth of an earlier society known as Theta Kappa Nu, founded at the University of Illinois in 1902 for the purpose of promoting scholarship among American law- students. The first national convention of Theta Kappa Nu met on Feb. 18, 1911, at the Hotel LaSalle, Chicago, and decided to submit to the chapters for adoption not only a thoroughly revised national constitution, but also a recommendation that the name be changed to the Order of the Coif. This constitution and change of name were ratified by the chapters and thus in February, 1912, the first national organization of the Order of the Coif was effected. Today there are forty-three chapters of the Order. Election to membership in all cases is restricted by the national constitution to the 10% of the Senior Class who have attained the highest rank in their law school work. The University of Te'xas chapter has an additional requirement that the student must have completed six units of Texas Law Review work. June 1953, Electees Willie Bruce Allen, Jr. Eugene Golden Daniel Calmes Arnold David Jay Kreager, Jr. Robert Louis Blumenthal Jerry Frank Lyons Thomas Gibbs Gee Honor May, 1953 Thomas Gibbs Gee David J. Kreager, Jr. Robert Louis Blumenthal Eugene Golden Willie Bruce Allen, Jr. Daniel Calmes Arnold Jerry Frank Lyons Milas Clyde Bradford, Jr. Billy Don St. Clair Jerry Wix LeMond Raymond T. R. Tatum Graduates August, 1953 Delmar L. Sroufe James Durst McKinney January, 1954 John P. Ritchie Charles Wendell Coffee Warren Ware Shipman III Edwin E. Weiss