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

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THE LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION The Foundation is a private corporation char- tered under the laws of the State of Texas as an educational foundation. Its sole purpose is to assist the Law School by providing extra financial support unavailable through the normal University channels, and since its inception the Foundation has played a vital role in the Law School's steady growth to a position of national ranking in legal education. The Foundation annually provides deserving students with over S135,000 in scholarships, loans and awards. In the judgment of the trustees of the Founda- tion, there is no better way to honor a distinguished man than to use the income from substantial gifts to obtain or maintain the services of distinguished teachers devoted to educating young men and women for seniice in the legal profession. A minimum gift of S100,000 is required to endow a professorship and a minimum gift of S400,000 is required to endow a chair. Sixteen such positions have been created at the School of Law. LIFE MEMBER-TRUSTEES SYLVAN LANG, San Antonio, Chairman W. ST. JOHN GAR- WOOD, Austin ELTON M. HYDER JR., Fort Worth LEROY JEFFERS, Houston THOMAS M. PHILLIPS, Houston TOM SEALY, Midland ALLAN SHIVERS, Austin 16 Wayne Stratton, Director of Development OFFICERS President ........ TOM SEALY, Midland Vice-President ............... KRAFT W. EIDMAN, Houston Secre tary- Treasurer ........... WAYNE R. STRATTON, Austin Assistant Secretary ............ F RANCES ADKI NS, Austin TRUSTEES HINES H. BAKER, Houston EDWARD CLARK, Austin CHARLES W. DUKE, San An- tonio KRAFT W. EIDMAN, Hous- ton WALES H. MADDEN JR., Amarillo MARK MARTIN, Dallas JOHN S. REDDITT, Lufkin CECIL D. REDFORD, Corpus Christi TRUSTEES EMERITUS FRANCIS G. COATES, Houston ANGUS G. WYNNE, Dallas

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PENAL CODE REVISION In 1965 the Texas State Bar authorized the Penal Code Revision Project with Dean Page Keeton as chairman. Beginning in 1967 the Penal Code Revision became a full-time Law School project with Seth Searcy sewing as chief Revisor. The aim of the Revision Project is to modernize the Texas Penal Code. To accomplish this aim, the Revision Project divided the entire Penal Law of Texas into several subject topics. Each topic includes the present State Law, the proposed change, and an explanation of how the proposed change would affect the existing law. The Revision holds extensive changes for the administration of Criminal Justice in 'dsiis state. The final draft of the Revised Code was sub- mitted to the State Legislature during the 1971 term for its consideration. The legislature will now either adopt the entire Revision, which included such far ranging provisions as legalized abortion, or any part thereof that they may choose. PLACEMENT OFFICE Mettie Roots Brown, Administrative Assistant 18 S. Searcy III, Chief Attorney The Placement office in working with students through formal interviews, correspondence, or per- sonal conferences is able to place directly or indi- rectly over 60'X, of the students who use its facilities. For the school year 1969-1970 the Placement office brought to Austin 345 interviewers from 266 different law firms, corporartions, or government agencies. These recruiters held over 3850 interviews with 366 different students. The number of students using the Placement office has been dramatically increasing each year since it instituted its policy of requiring the individual firms to intenliew any student who signs up and not restrict itself to the top 1OtX1. Besides placing graduating students, the Place- ment office assists in finding summer jobs for mid-law students and new jobs for former students.