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

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ORDER OF THE COIF Hie American Order of the Coif is the outgrowth of an earlier society known as Theta Kappa Nil, 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 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. The revision and recommendations were ratified by the chapters and in February of 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 per cent of the Senior Class who have attained the highest rank in their law school work. The University of Texas chapter has an additional requirement that the student must have completed six units of Texas Law Review work. JUNE, 1955 COIF ELECTEES William Lockhart Carwood William Ingo Marschall. Jr. Mrs. Mary Jo Carroll Patricia Hinds Winston Iaunar Adkins Joel Herbert Pullen John Clenn (Jack) Pew William Denny Neary WITH HONORS JUNE, 1955 Alphonso Ragland, III Mclbcrt Dowlen Schwarz. AUGUST, 1955 William Eugene Townslcy Mrs. Marian Oldfathcr Boner William Arnold Stout Edwin Watson Stock!) Frederick Wadsworth Robinson George White Terry JANUARY, 1956 Finis Ewing Cowan, Jr. Melvin W. Parse, Jr. Richard A. Hall Charles D. Boston Richard Ia e McGraw Towner S. Leeper 15

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LIBRARY STAFF MISS DELLA GEYER Cataloguer MISS MARGARET HODGES Library Assistant JJbrary Student Assistants Left to right: JAMES T. GARRETT BEN WOOD JACK ESTES TEDDY HELBIC HAL PERRY MISS SARA RUMBO Senior Library Assistant 14 MR. H. A. DUNN Building S upcrintcndcnt

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CHANt Chancellors is a legal honorary society found only at the University of Texas, having been organized in 1912 for the purpose of honoring and rewarding by election to membership those law students most likely to succeed and 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. New members of Chancellors arc rudely tapped in the various classrooms in one of the most impressive ceremonial traditions of the Texas Law J. EVANS ATTWELL Grand Chancellor, Fall 1955 JIM HOUSE Vice-Chancellor, Fall 1955 MELVIN NULL Clerk, Fall 1955 WILLIAM WATSON j. HADLEY EDGAR RICHARD L. McGRAW Keeper of the Peregrinus, Fall 1955 16