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

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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

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