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

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CHANCELLORS Now members of Chancellors arc rudely tapped in the various classrooms in one of the most impressive ceremonial traditions of the Texas Law School. The new initiates are then hooded, laden with heavy books, and paraded throughout Townes Hall and even over a large part of the main campus of the University. Chancellors are the traditional keej crs of the Peregrin us, which is brought out of its secret hiding place only on rare and sf ccial occasions. The Chancellors also escort the Portia in the annual Round-Up Parade. Chancellors enjoy 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 Martin dale-Hubbcll Law Directory. WILLIAM L. GARWOOD Grand Chancellor, Fall 1954 WILLIAM D. NEARY Vice-Chancellor, Fall 1954 JOEL H. PULLEN Clerk, Fall 1954 DAVID SPENCER KIDDER Keeper of the Peregrinus, Fall 1954 RICHARD WARREN YARBROUGH STANLEY DAVID ROSENBERG PAGE 15

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CHANCELLORS WILLIAM INGO MARSCHALL, JR. Grand Chancellor, Spring 1954 Chancellors is a legal honorary society found only at our own Texas Law School, having been organized in 1912 for the purpose of honoring and rewarding by election to membership those law students most likely to succeed and to become a credit to their profession. A combination of consistent scholarship, achievements, and personality, as exemplified by class standing and work on the Texas Law Review are requisites for election to membership. Six students are tapped each semester, adding their numbers to the hundreds of outstanding members of the Texas bar who have received this high honor. JOHN KEIL MEYER Vice-Chancellor, Spring 1954 JOHN GLENN PEW WINSTON LAMAR ADKINS Clerk, Spring 1954 Keeper of the Perecrinus, Spring 1954 JAMES M. O'LEARY ROBERT LEE DONALSON PAGE 14

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ORDER OF THE COIF The American Order of the Coif is the outgrowth of an earlier society known as Theta Kappa Nu, founded at the Univcrity of Illinois in 1902 for the purpose of promoting scholarship among American law students. The first national convention of Theta Kappa Nu met on February 18, 1911, at the Hotel La Salle, Chicago, and decided to submit to the chapters for adoption not only a thoroughly revised national constitution, but also a recommendation 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 chapter of the Order. Flection to membership in all cases is restricted by the national constitution to the 10 per cent of the Senior Class who have attained the highest rank in their law school work. The I niversity of Texas chapter has an additional requirement that the student must have completed six units of Texas Law Review work. Pal Sterling Holloway Harold Fred Kleinman Rollins Miller Koppcl Robert Dell Lemon James Daniel McKeithan Robert Page Smith Wayne Phillip Sturdivant Jack Manly Yates MAY, 1954 COIF ELECTEES JANUARY, 1955 COIF ELECTEES John Ballard Bennett F.dmund L. Cogburn Robert Joel Hearon, Jr. Robert Lee Donalson John Keil Meyer Janies Maditon 0’I.earv WITH HONOKS MAY, 1954 AUGUST. 1954 JANUARY. 1955 Clarence Allen A bra mm n Stanley David RoW'nbrrg Patrick Allen Flynn I wev Jude Goniouhn