Annotations of the South Texas College of Law (Houston, Tex.), Fall, 1967 Page: 4 of 4
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ACTIVITIES OF PHI ALPHA DELTA
by Rob Evans
Nineteen students and a U. S. Dis-
trict Court Judge received the PAD
ritual last month to climax a successful
Fall rush program.
Initiated with the students was Judge
John V. Singleton, Jr., a former presi-
dent of the Houston Junior Bar and for-
mer vice-president of the Houston Bar
Association.
Other newPADs are William B.Allen,
University of Texas, John Badger, Uni-
versity of Houston, Jack R. Bailey, Rice
University, James Cole, North Texas
State University, Richard Cross, Okla-
homa State University, Rob Evans, Uni-
versity of Florida, Sumpter Frazier,
University of Texas, George 0. Jacobs,
Lamar Tech College, James Jongebloed,
University of Texas, James L. Lander,
University of Kansas at Wichita, Billy
J. Langston, Baylor University, Gary
A. Leissner, University of Texas at
Arlington, Raymond E. McGlothin, South-
west Texas State University, James P.
Murphey, Marquette University.
Also Calvin C. Otte, North Texas
State University, Carl Pendergrass,
Texas A & M, John L. Pierce III, Uni-
versity of Texas, Robert W. Reynolds,
Louisiana State University, and David
Weaver, Southern Methodist University.
PADs dominated the recipients of
the annual E. E. Townes, "Top 25%"
award, announced recently by the South
Texas administration. Named for the
June award were James Shelton, Stan
Krist, Marvin Peterson, and Tom
Pritchard.
Taking the laurels for the August
awards were William Beard, Charles
Berman, and L. E. (Buddy) Lawrence.
The staff of the South Texas Law
Journal this year is almost exclusively
PAD. Heading the review is Sam J.
Brown, assisted by Gene Jones, Ed
Hardin, Jack Bailey, Rob Evans, Karl
Stewart, John Hoft, John Pierce, Darby
Suiter, and Lew Blood.
And PADs took all four spots in the
Outstanding Student awards, given by
South Texas for academic excellence in
the preceding year. Named were Tom
Pritchard, senior class; Sam J. Brown,
junior class; Darby Suiter and Richard
Cross, freshman class.
The PAD professional seminar pro-
gram got off to a healthy start for the
year, with Harris County District At-
torney Carroll Vance and defense attor-
ney Carl Dalley speaking on modern
criminal law practice Saturday morning.
Stu ("Stew") Stewart, chairman of the
seminar committee says that future pro-
grams will include Phillip Thomas,
President of the Texas Bar Association;
a three-judge convocation of beginning
a law practice; a tour of the Texas
Penal System at Huntsville; and other
tentative events.
The PAD social calendar opened in
September with a successful western
party at Braeburn Village.
Leo Kissner and Roger Williams are
currently taking reservations for a New
Year's Eve outing slated for Ramada
Inn.
A release from the Dean's Office
dated November 9, revealed that the
following PADs topped courses during
the Summer Semester: Edgar P. Hardin,
Gene Jones, Richard Cross, Sam J.
Brown, John W. Hoft, Pleas B. Dover,
Jr., John P. Matthews, and John M.
Badger.
TIME FOR A CHANGE
A newspaper is often expected to
give leadership in the drive for re-
form which from time to time makes
an appearance in every community.
So it is with the ANNOTATIONS.
We believe that there are certain
matters which should be brought
forth for the consideration of the
students, faculty and administration
of the law school.
Those things which trouble most
students of the law are concerned
primarily with academic matters.
While it is most certainly true that
South Texas offers the law students
an excellent training in the *4 aca-
demics' ' of the law, as achieved
through the case method, we find
almost no training in the practical
arts which make up so large a por-
tion of the practice of law.
For example, in Civil Procedure
the student learns about service of
process, res judicata and the like.
He even learns how the courts have
been forced to expand and mold
their applications of long standing
legal theories. All of this is quite
good. On the other hand, how many
of these same students have any
idea of the steps which a lawyer
must go through to begin a cause of
action in a local court?
How many of them would be able
to take a deposition, draw up a will,
or even a simple contract? These
are but a few of the things which
are not adequately covered in la>
school. In the past the course on
Legal Research and Writing has
been merely an introduction to ai
very limited number of these
Moot Court, Law Review, and pro-
grams such as practice court greatly
improve our contacts with the prac-
tical arts, but these are limited pro-
grams. Moreover, they are in large
part detached from the specifics of
any course offered in the law school.
The law school must extend the
scope of the courses it offers. It
will not do merely to offer more
courses of the same variety. We
must insist that new methods be
explored.
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Davidge, Miller. Annotations of the South Texas College of Law (Houston, Tex.), Fall, 1967, newspaper, 1967; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth144316/m1/4/: accessed May 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Texas College of Law.