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

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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

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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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iiLLORS School. The new initiates are then hooded, laden with heavy law books, and paraded through Townes Hall. Chancellors are the traditional keeners of the Peregrinus, which is brought out of its secret hiding place only on rare and special 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 Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. RICHARD A. FRELING Grand Chancellor, Spring 1955 MELVIN W. PARSE. JR. FINIS E. COWAN, JR. Vice-Chancellor, Spring 1955 Clerk, Spring 1955 CHARLES D. BOSTON RICHARD A. HALL Keeper of the Peregrinus, Spring 1955 17