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

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EDWARD WELDON BAILEY Professor of Law Mr. Bailey began practice with Calloway and Reed of Dallas in 1928, after having received his B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Texas. He became Associate Professor of Law in 1930. and has been Professor of Law since 1936. In 1942 he received his S.J.D. from Harvard University. Mr. Bailey assisted in drafting the new Corporation Code, and is a member of the Texas State Bar Committe on Revision of Corporation Law. His subjects at the University are: Private Corporations, Trusts. Future Interests, Wills and Administration. LEO G. BLACKSTOCK Profossor of Law Mr. Blackstock taught Business Administration at Trinity University, (1924-1925), after receiving his B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Texas. He also taught at Sam Houston State College from 1925 until 1927. In 1927 he became a Professor of Business Law at the University of Texas. A member of the Texas Bar since 1933, he was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1952 and the United States Court of Military Appeals in 1955. He was Chief Examiner, Gas Utilities Division, Railroad Commission of Texas, 1937-1938. In 1953 he became Visiting Professor of Law. Being a Colonel in the Judge Advocate General Corps, U. S. Army, Mr. Blackstock teaches Military Law and Legal Accounting. FRANK W. ELLIOTT Associate Professor of Low Mr. Elliott received his B.A. degree from the University of Texas in 1951 and his LL.B. in 1957 from the University of Texas School of Law. After graduation. Mr. Elliott worked for the Attorney General of Texas, and then did research on points of law for the Supreme Court of Texas. While in Law School he was a Quizmaster, Chancellor, Comment Editor for the Texas Law Review, and a member of the Order of the Coif. Mr. Elliott is a professor in Admiralty Law and also in the law of Torts. 12

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Dean Gibson was born February 7, 1918, at Winnsboro, Wood County, Texas. It was from Winnsboro that he received his high school diploma and in 1939 he obtained his B.A. degree in English from the University of Texas. He went back to East Texas where he taught for two years at Mt. Pleasant before being colled into the Navy. He served with distinction in the Aleutions. Africa, New Guinea and China, being discharged os a Lieutenant in 1945. Dean Gibson entered Law School in 1946 and received his LL.B. in 1948. He remained at the law school in the position of Assistant Librarian until 1956 except for a two year period when he served as State Librarian. In 1956, he was named as assistant to Dean Keeton, the position he holds today. This position placed him where he is nee ded —in personal contact with the students. The law school is indeed fortunate in having such a man. THOMAS J. GIBSON, III Assistant Dean 11

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JULIUS F. FRANKI Profcisor of Law Mr. Frank! received his B.A. from the University of Texas and his LL.B. from the Law School in 1932. He was Assistant Attorney Genera! of Texas from 1934 until 1935. and then entered private practice. He became a part-time lecturer at the College of Business Administration at the Uni-University of Texas in 1947, and a part-time lecturer in law at the School of Law in 1948. He has been Special Assistant to the United States Ambassador, Santiago, Chile, and spent 1945 with the United States Department of State. He is also author of VERNON S TEXAS RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE. His subjects are Civil Procedure and Practice and Practice Court. WILLIAM F. FRITZ Protossor of Law Mr. Fritz received his B.A. degree and his M.A. degree from the University of Texas, the latter having been received in 1938. Soon after having received his LL.B. in 1946 from the University of Texas, Mr. Fritz began his career of teaching. He was Assistant Professor of Law at the Law School for three years, and in 1949 he became an Associate Professor of Law, and has been a Professor of Law since 1956. He was a Sterling Fellow at Yale Law School in 1949. His subjects are Marital Rights, Real Property, and Damages. He is also a co-author of the book, CASES AND MATERIALS ON PROPERTY, with Mr. Corwin W. Johnson of the School of Law, and Mr. John E. Cribbet, Professor of Law, University of Illinois. W. ST. JOHN GARWOOD Visiting Professor of Low Judge Garwood received his A.B. degree in 1917 from Georgetown College and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He practiced in New York until 1924 when he moved to Houston to practice with the firm of Baker, Botts, Parker, and Garwood (now Baker, Botts. Andrews and Sheppard). From 1929-1934, he was Resident American Counsel for Standard Oil of New Jersey in Buenos Aires and from 1935-1941 he again returned to practice in this country. From 1941 to 1945 he was with the United States Navy in the Office of Naval Intelligence, rising to the position of' head of the South American Division. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas in 1948. He was re-elected and served as an Associate Justice on that court until December. 1958. Judge Garwood's subject is International Law. 13