Volume XXI

University of Wisconsin Law School Forum

ARGOYLNumber 2. Fall 1990

12th Dean Looks ForwardDean Daniel 0. Bernstine

Farewell, Dean ThompsonAssociate Dean Gerald ThainProfessor John Kidwell

6th Annual Opening Convocation:On Being a Corporate lawyerRussell G. Cleary {'57/

Badger Village, The Great Housing ExperimentTimothy R. Verhoff

Featured Alumni:Clark Byse ('38), Arnold Weiss ('52),Judith Lichtman ('65)Timothy R. Verhoff

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Faculty Notes

Editor's Note

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Cover photo: Russell G. Cleary {'57/ speaksat the Class of 1993 convocation.

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Dean's NoteDean Daniel O. Bernstine

Iwelcome this opportunity to write to you in my newcapacity as Dean of the Law School. I am honored tohave been selected as the 12th Law School dean and

look forward to many years of service to my alma mater.First, I want to thank my predecessor, Dean Cliff

Thompson, who served as dean for 7 years and to wishhim the very best on his sabbatical year at the Universityof London.

These first few weeks of my tenure have been bothhectic and exciting, as I have traveled around the stateand the country, meeting with fellow alumni to discussthe status of the Law School and our objectives for thefuture. Over forty alumni gatherings have been plannedfor this year, and I hope that through these events I willhave a chance to see as many of you as possible.

I am very excited about the future of the Law School.We are currently ranked in the top twenty academically,but, more importantly, we have the ingredients and com-mitment to be even greater. My major objective duringmy tenure will be to increase the Law School's overallranking. In order to achieve this objective, we will con-tinue to pursue academic excellence while at the sametime enhancing our academic reputation even further.We already have an outstanding faculty, and we mustremain competitive in terms of salaries and research sup-port for the faculty so that we can retain them as well asrecruit new faculty.

The student body continues to be outstanding. Themedian LSATfor this year's entering class is 40 which isin the 90th percentile. The median undergraduate gradepoint average is 3.4. I am committed to a strong studentrecruitment program and, in addition to alumni events,I will be traveling around the state and the countryrecruiting potential applicants to the Law School.

One primary goal in our faculty and student recruit-ment efforts will be to further enhance diversity here atthe Law School. As most of you know, in 1989the LawSchool received a well-deserved award from the Societyof American Law Teachers in recognition of our hiringfour minority faculty members in one year. Our currentstudent body is composed of 9 percent minority studentscompared to about 4 percent on the rest of the campus.Furthermore, this year's entering class is about 48 per-cent female. These figures represent significant strideson the Law School's part to maintain excellence throughdiversity and we are all committed to capitalizing on ourmomentum.

Another major ingredient in enhancing the LawSchool's overall reputation and strength involves evenfurther support to our Law Library. In recent years, theLibrary has taken extraordinary steps toward halting thedecline that the library experienced during the 1970's.

The Law School is currently part of the Campaign forWisconsin, the University's capital endowment cam-paign; our goal is $3.5 million. Twomillion dollars will be

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used to endow competitive grants for faculty so that theycan become more involved in special projects which willadd to the quality and distinction of the School. One mil-lion dollars will be used to support students who willwork with faculty on these projects. The remaining halfmillion dollars will be used to build an endowment forthe Law Library.

This current capital campaign will go a long waytoward improving the quality of our already stronginstitution and will help us to become more competitivewith our peer institutions. I encourage you to supportthis campaign.

Finally, one of my major commitments as dean is towitness the construction of the long-awaited and muchneeded addition to the current building. Our existingfacility, which was designed for 650 students, nowhouses nearly 900 students. Our library also needs roomfor growth. We need more space to house clinical pro-grams, student activities, a new simulation courtroomand a host of other projects. Moreover, a major portionof the existing building will be renovated-allowingenhancements to the present courtroom and other build-ing improvements which are consistent with a law schoolof the first rank. In short, the Law School must have aphysical plant which can adequately and competitivelyprepare lawyers for the 21st Century. I will be in touchwith you later about how you can support us in this veryimportant initiative, and I look forward to and expectyour vigorous support.

Again, I am honored to serve you in my new roleas dean.

It feels good to be back home.

Remarks on the Occasion of theEnd of Cliff Thompson's DeanshipAssociate Dean Gerald Thain

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This is not a faculty meeting (for whichundoubtedly all of us are grateful) butrather a gathering of faculty members tohonor the deanship of Cliff Thompsonover the last seven years and some of thesignificant accomplishments of ourschool, under his leadership.

Although the accomplishments ofwhich we take note today are not listedin a formal order of significance, it isprobably accurate that, for most of thefaculty, raising faculty salaries to a com-petitive level is the achievement thatcomes first to our minds. When youbegan your tour of duty as dean, the gen-erallevel of faculty compensation at Wis-consin had descended to the point wherewe were ranked 92nd among accreditedlaw schools. Your commitment to endingthis abysmal situation bore fruit and wewere ultimately raised to a much morecompetitive position, ranking among thetop thirty law schools in terms of dollarcompensation per academic year. It tookconsiderable time and lobbying withinthe University by you to carry the dayand convince people that the concernwas not simply a matter of our desiringto be competitive with a few "elite" lawschools, mostly private and all wealthy,but a vital need to preserve our positionin the world of legal academia. Had younot been successful, the consequenceswould have been disastrous-many ofour best people would have left and thosewho remained would have been severelydisgruntled. In conjunction with raisingthe overall salary level, you provided theleadership that allowed us to fend offattempted raids on our faculty by suchlaw schools as Columbia, UCLA, Miamiand others.

A major feature of your administrationwas the tremendous improvement inalumni relations. The usual measures ofsuccess in financial terms, such as a capi-tal campaign which exceeded its goal, afour fold increase in annual giving duringyour time as dean, and even the obtain-ing of a significant number of named pro-fessorships to provide important "perks"to faculty are inadequate to indicate thetrue improvement in this area. Your con-tinuing and tireless efforts to establishcontact with our alumni throughout thestate and in every area of the country in

which we have significant numbers hasbrought about a significant surge of prideand involvement with the Law School byour alumni. A major role of a law schooldean is to represent the institution.to thealumni and you have done that for ussuperbly!

Another major achievement of yourtenure as dean was getting the buildingrenovation project safely underway. Thebureaucratic mazes of the UW-Madison,the University system and the legislature,in conjunction with the past changingmoods of the law faculty concerning thebest way to address its needs for morespace presented a tremendous challengewhich you met successfully. We nowhave a very well-received plan that willnot only address our internal needs forclassroom and office space, but will bringthe entire law school community, includ-ing its clinical and outreach programs,together under one roof. By somehowfinding the time to attend meetings of thecampus planning commission, the build-ing committee, and other groups, you'veinsured that this plan will go forward inthe proper form and with the properpriority.

It was during your deanship that theLaw School received several awards forits success in increasing the diversity ofits faculty, most of them stemming fromthe four minority faculty members hiredunder the Madison Plan two years ago.This success which, among other things,won the Law School an award from theSociety for American Law Teachers, wascertainly notable, but the attention givento it should not detract from other signifi-cant achievements concerning diversity.The Hastie Fellowship program, whichcan safely be said to be the principalincubator of minority law faculty since itwas installed here under the leadershipof Professor James Jones, was doubledduring your tenure, so we now have twoHastie Fellows per year, rather than one.Moreover, after nearly 20 years of failureto respond to Wisconsin Law School'surging of other schools to adopt similarprograms, it appears that at least a fewother "elite" school have now seen thelight and are willing to follow our leadfrom past decades. Again, your promo-tion and highlighting of this program and

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Dean Thompson was presented with a 250 pound concrete replica of the real Gargoyle, here shown with theDean's face. We assume he did not take it along to England on his sabbatical, however.

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our achievements under it had much todo with the ultimate acceptance by otherschools of similar programs.

Our library, for so many years the tail-ender in funding (although a leader inservice) of law libraries in Big Ten Uni-versities and comparable institutions,received a tremendous upgrading underyour leadership. The probably unprece-dented situation of a law school studentbody voting to increase its tuition so thatthe funds from that increase could beused to improve the library, occurredonly because of your diligence in explain-ing the situation to the students. (And, asmatters ultimately developed, this stu-dent support proved vital in obtaininglegislative approval of the proposal.) Thelibrary is also an expected beneficiaryof our next capital campaign but theachievement of a truly modern, state-of-the-art library for which our librarydirector, Blair Kauffman, is aiming, couldnot be achieved without the resourcesobtained from the tuition increase.

Finally, since time is short and I amdwelling only on a few highlights fromthe past seven years, it should be notedthat you have used the office of dean toimprove the morale and productivity ofthe law school community in a myriad ofways, many of which may have goneunnoticed by some of us. Despite themodest resources available to you, therearrangement and upgrading of the fac-ulty/staff lounge has improved the entireatmosphere of the law school. Your crea-tiveness in finding ways to put facultysummer research grants on a more per-manent financial footing and your will-ingness to support internally funded sab-baticals for deserving law faculty, haveincreased the productivity, as well as thepsyche of our faculty. Your sponsorshipof our periodic works-in-progress lunch-eon, at which ongoing research is dis-cussed with faculty and staff and our"afternoon chats" at which non-researchmatters of significance are taken up colle-gially, have improved our knowledge ofeach other's activities and our overallesprit de corps.

Although "faculty governance" is awell-known fact of life at this institutionand not merely a slogan, leadership isvital for success, even in such a jointlygoverned enterprise. The abbreviated listof significant achievements during yourtenure as dean that 1 have noted in the

past few minutes constitutes no smalltribute to your ability to lead an institu-tion composed of "governors" as diverseand as fiercely independent as the mem-bers of this faculty. The list of achieve-ments under your stewardship as deanattests to that and will serve as a chal-lenge to our next dean to build on theprogress made by the law school underyou. In recognition of your true dedica-tion to public services the law faculty has

begun the process of establishing a CliffThompson Lectureship Fund, which willbring speakers to the Law School, toaddress matters of public policy, as a last-ing memorial to your deanship.

We will shortly present you a some-what more tangible indication of ourappreciation for your service, but at thistime, we simply wanted to note themfor the record and to say to you,"well done!"

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Remarks Upon the Occasion of theClose of Cliff Thompson's DeanshipProf John Kidwell

My first impulse upon being asked tomake some remarks today was to turn forinspiration to my standard referencework for such occasions. AmbroseBierce, as it happens, said nothing explic-itly about the leave-taking of Law Schooldeans. I thought, however, that a thor-ough search of his writing might reveal asuitable adage. Bierce defined "adage" as"boned wisdom for weak teeth." As someof you may know, Cliff will be away fromthe Law School for much of the timebetween now and a year from now. Thishas led to some fear of a decanal inter-rugnum. Bierce did address the inter-regnum:

Interregnum, N. The period duringwhich a monarchical country is gov-erned by a warm spot on the cushion ofthe throne. The experiment of lettingthe spot grow cold has commonly beenattended by most unhappy results fromthe zeal of many worthy persons tomake it warm again.

I finally found, in Bierce's definitionof physician, some words of wisdom forus all. Bierce's definition for physicianmight in a way serve as well for a dean."Physician, n. One upon whom we setour hopes when ill and our dogs whenwell."

I've learned a lot from Cliff over thelast seven years, and Cliff, I think, haslearned from us. I noticed on the wallbehind his desk a small sign, probablyonly visible to him, which I surmisedhe might often turn to for inspiration.It said:

Cliff's Law: It is unfair to assumethat faculty won't get reports in on time... but is seldom a mistake.

I also learned that when Cliff told me,"1'11think it over and let you know."-I knew!

Many, in the course of any deansearch comment on the fact that a deanshould be a diplomat-and I agree. I'vealways found Cliff to be a diplomat. Butwhat, more precisely, does that mean?Now some people think that a diplomat

is a person who thinks twice before say-ing nothing. That's not what I mean.What I mean by a diplomat is a personwho can tell you to go to Hell in such away that you actually look forward tothe trip.

I don't know whether the followingstory reveals Cliff as a diplomat, but itdoes show his negotiating skills. Itappears that Cliff was in England andhad decided that he wanted to try hishand at the game of golf. He decided tostart at the top, and so he went into theclubhouse at Sandringham, one of Eng-land's finest golf clubs, and inquired atthe desk if he might play. The Club Stew-ard looked up and asked, "Member?"

"Guest of a member?"

,Tm sorry sir."Cliff, disappointed, turned to leave

when he noticed Lord Portly, father of aformer classmate, sitting reading thepaper. Cliff approached, and said, "LordPortly, I'm Cliff Thompson, a classmateof your son's. I wonder if I might playaround of golf as your guest?"

Lord Portly looked up, and asked,"Education, sir?"

"Shawnee Mission High School,Kansas. Harvard College, sir. MagdalenCollege, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar.Harvard Law School."

"Academic Awards?""National Honor Society, Rhodes

Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, DistinguishedSenior Fulbright Scholar."

"Languages?""Colloquial Arabic, reading knowl-

edge in French and Latin.""Family?""Married since 1957, sir. Four

children.""Sports?""Tennis, All Ivy League Fencing,

and Chess.""International experience?""Ford Foundation Assistant Program

Office in the Near East and Africa, Lec-turer in Law in the Sudan, Director of theSudan Law Project, Senior Lecturer in

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Law and Co-Founder of the Faculty ofLaw, University of Zambia, Professor andDean of Haille Sallassie University inEthiopia; consultant to universities inSudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania andZambia."

"Other jobs?""Professor of Law, Southern Metho-

dist University, Dean and Professor ofLaw, University of Hawaii; Dean andProfessor of Law, University of Idaho;Dean and Professor of Law, Universityof Wisconsin."

"Courses?' '"Property, Jurisprudence, Contracts,

Negotiable Instruments, Legal Profes-sion, Comparative Law, Law andSociety."

"Numerous publications, I suppose?""Yes, sir."Lord Portly paused a moment, looked

at the Club Steward, and nodded, "Nineholes."

Well, Cliff, I've circulated a ballot tothe faculty, and by majority vote we'veconcluded that we would have let youplay all IS.

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On Being a Corporate LawyerIntroduction by Dean Daniel O. Bernstine

Russell G. Cleary speaks to the Class of 1993 and Law School Faculty.

It is my pleasure to introduce our convoca-tion speaker, Mr. Russell G. Cleary. Mr.Cleary was born in Chippewa Falls, Wiscon-sin, but moved to La Crosse at an early ageand considers himself a native of La Crosse,Wisconsin. He attended the University ofWisconsin-La Crosse for three years andthen transferred to the University of Wis-consin Law School, graduating from theLaw School in 1957. He practiced law andmanaged La Crosse's largest real estate bro-kerage company from 1957 to 1960, and in1960 he joined the Heileman Brewing Com-pany as House Counsel and Assistant to thePresident. In 1971 he was elected President,Chairman of the Board and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of the Heileman Brewing Companyand served in that capacity until 1989.

Mr. Cleary has a very long and distin-guished list of service to various corpora-tions as a member of the Board of Directors.In addition, he has been recognized both inLa Crosse and around the country as a dis-tinguished citizen and businessman. In 1979he was named the Number One Citizen ofLa Crosse by the Mayor and the City Coun-cil. In 1980 he was named Executive of theYear by Corporate Report Magazine. In1986 he was named Entrepreneur of theYear by Arthur Young. In 1987 he receivedthe CEO of the Year-Beverage Industrybronze award from Financial World Maga-zine, and the list goes on. Mr. Cleary is oneof our most distinguished graduates. It istruly a pleasure and an honor to have himspeak to you this evening. Without furtherado, I present to you our convocationspeaker, Mr. Russell G. Cleary.

Russell G. Cleary ('57)On Being A Corporate LawyerIt's a real pleasure for me to be a part ofthis convocation program this year. Iunderstand that Tommy Thompson didthe job last year, and he's a tough act tofollow. Tommy is an excellent speaker, agreat Governor, and a great credit to thisLaw School.

I noticed that the ceremonies todayare a lot lighter than when I was in yourseat 36 years ago. There was more terrorin the message that was delivered then.

Frankly, I didn't think 36 years ago,when I was sitting where you're sitting,that I would be up here trying to give youthe benefit of my experience as a corpo-rate lawyer. I have lived in the corporate

jungles and fought the corporate wars forthe last 30-odd years and will try to giveyou a corporate eye view of how to applyyour law training in your career. Frankly,over the course of my career, I never hadto apologize for the fact that I was a grad-uate of the University of Wisconsin LawSchool, although some of my legal col-leagues like to brag about their easternschool ties.

I am sure that many of you are askingyourselves the kind of questions that Iwas asking myself 36 years ago: "Whatam I doing here, and what's going to hap-pen to me? Where is this all going tolead?" When I sat there, I had the sameconcerns and the same feelings.

Our orientation was, of course, in theold law building. It was like an old for-tress, like a medieval castle. We sat in around classroom with Gargoyles in thecorners. Dean John Ritchie, the dean atthat time, looked down upon us verysternly and asked us to stand up andshake hands with the person on the leftand the person on the right. He asked usto remember all the names because twoof the three of us weren't going to makeit. That was very discouraging and didleave a little terror in our hearts andminds. He was about right. Out of a classof about 190, 80 of us graduated. I under-stand the current system of eliminatingstudents is a bit more humane. They do

the job before you get here, saving someof the pain and anguish.

I believe the real benefit of a legaleducation in terms of the corporate worldis, basically, you have almost limitlessopportunities. In other words, a legaleducation is the kind of a backgroundthat opens doors for you that other edu-cational backgrounds don't do.

From my perspective, the most impor-tant aspect of a legal education is that itdoes create an almost unlimited spec-trum in terms of job possibilities beyondthe corporate world. Practicing law maybe one of your ultimate destinations, butnot for the majority of lawyers today. Inour complex world, our society and regu-latory environment create job opportuni-ties for those with broad legal training. Idid not want to go to law school, becauseI had any predetermined idea of what Iwanted to do in life. Rather I went with astrong belief that it was the best educa-tion that I could get for a wide variety ofcareer choices. No one in my family hadever gone to law school, so, I didn't reallyknow what to expect. But I had thestrong support of my family and a beliefthat somehow this was the best educa-tion, one that would serve me well interms of my career and throughoutmy life.

As Dean Bernstine indicated, I gradu-ated in 1957. I practiced law for a brief

period of time and then managed a realtyfirm in La Crosse. In 1960, I accepted theopportunity to go with Heileman asHouse Counsel. Heileman, at the time,was a very small firm, about $12millionin sales, a small but growing regionalbrewer. In the course of the next 11years,I did just about everything in the com-pany, from labor negotiations to acquisi-tions to keeping marketing people out oftrouble-which was almost a full-timejob. I really got a good post-graduate edu-cation. Moving from the legal bar to thebeer bar was most interesting and chal-lenging. In addition, I spent a lot of timein the sales and marketing area.

Contrary to appearances, my careerpath was not unique. At one time in themid-70's, three of the top five CEOs inthe United States in the brewing industrywere lawyers-John Murphy of Miller;Frank DeGuire, who you probably knowis the Dean of the Marquette Law School,at Pabst; and myself at Heileman. Wefound a bit of humor at brewer CEOmeetings saying that we had double barassociation meetings. Unfortunately,today there are no lawyers running thetop five breweries. Sales are going flat todown. Maybe we lawyers are better atstimulating consumption. Maybe thatsays something about the industry.

I thoroughly enjoyed my years atHeileman, as I enjoyed my years in lawschool (I enjoyed them more after I gotout as a matter of fact], Heileman grewvery rapidly over the course of my yearsas CEO from 15th place to fourth place inthe brewing industry, to fifth place in thebaking industry, and we ultimatelybecame the third largest publicly heldindustrial corporation in Wisconsin priorto the takeover that occurred in Octoberof 1987.

I can honestly say that I could nothave functioned as effectively orachieved what I have achieved in my life-time without having had the benefit of alegal education. In working in a worldwith 10,000employees, 20,000 sharehold-ers and 2,000 wholesalers, along with allof the other problems of state and federalregulations, there was no better educa-tion that I could have had to meet myresponsibilities. I have met with, and Iknow personally, many, many other attor-neys who were either in the CEO, COOor CFO role. I think the majority of them

would echo those comments. They couldnot function nearly as well had they nothad the benefit of a broad based, solidlegal education as a basis for their careermoves.

Our society is getting increasinglymore complex in terms of environmentalproblems, intergovernmental relations,conflicts of jurisdiction, and the interna-tionalization of our corporate businesscommunities. All of these complex trans-actions require well-balanced, disciplinedlegal input in order to find solutions toour problems and stay out of the minefields. I think there isn't any better edu-cation an individual can have today forfacing the future in an increasingly com-plex society.

Until 15or 20 years ago, the corpora-tion president or CEOwas responsibleprimarily to the shareholders. That hasall changed dramatically. Today there is agreater balance between the responsibil-ity of a corporate leadership group, notonly to the shareholders but also toemployees (both union and non-union),consumers who are increasingly demand-ing accountability from corporations thatdo abuse them, and certainly suppliersand wholesalers. All of these are verybasic relationships that have legal impli-cations and require real talent to avoidproblems that otherwise might have seri-ous adverse consequences for the busi-ness. I came through the legal ranks. Iwas House Counsel, General Counsel,ultimately CEO, and I frankly feel thatthere was no better way to move up thecorporate ladder. We used many special-ist law firms to guide our way throughthe corporate battlefield. I found thatthe increasing role of attorneys wasextremely important in becoming moreaware of and more responsive to the everchanging constituencies of a corporation.

I know that lawyers and accountantsare sometimes criticized as contributingto the complexity of our society. Maybein some instances that's true. However,when you look at the truly destructiveproblems of our society today-the S& Lscandal and junk bond disasters-you canview with some degree of pride what thebar associations and law schools havedone to increase awareness of the ethi-cal responsibility and accountabilityrequired of attorneys. The legal profes-sion stands out as one of the best exam-

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ples of a profession that has seriouslytried to police itself. This certainly isn'ttrue of the investment community, thejunk bond industry or the regulators ofour S & L industry, which has created atremendous financial disaster of yetunknown proportions. There is, unfortu-nately, a certain element of our societythat has a very negative attitude towardthe legal profession. They believe thateither lawyers aren't necessary, or we aresome sort of parasitic life that should beeliminated. It reminds me of the famousShakespearean quote, "First, let's kill allthe lawyers." I have coffee cups, T-shirtsand the statues business associates havegiven me featuring this quotation. If youread the whole play, you find that thereal meaning is, if you want to destabilizesociety, you first kill all the lawyers. Thisis a classic example of how taking a quo-tation out of context makes it totallymisleading.

The greatest challenge today in corpo-rate America, as we wade through theS& L, junk bond and banking industry'sproblems, is the demand for greateraccountability from people in responsiblepositions. Again, the legal profession is inthe best position to provide leaders whounderstand what accountability meansand the responsibility for negligence, dis-honesty and incompetence to the variousconstituencies. That's going to be increas-ingly difficult. Media events over theyears, like Watergate and other politicalscandals that have brought down somany of our top leaders (many of whomwere lawyers), have created a higherstandard of responsibility that societyexpects to achieve. No profession is bet-ter able to gain positions of responsibilityin such a society than the legal profes-sion. It's up to each of us to justify andearn the respect of a society that hasplaced us in positions of great respon-sibility.

I'd like to end by saying that I'mproud to be a graduate of the Universityof Wisconsin. I think it's been the great-est asset in my career in terms of what Ihave been able to achieve. After graduat-ing, you're going to gain an endless seriesof career opportunities.

Best of luck in what I know will be avery challenging and interesting part ofyour life.

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Badger Village,The Great Housing ExperimentTimothy R. Verhoff

Throughout World War II the BadgerOrdnance Works, nestled between lushfarmland and the striking beauty of theBaraboo Bluffs, would spew smoke intothe sky as it churned out ammunition tobe used in the war. However, at the endof the War the University was in a panic.There was a colossal shortage of housing.In a bold maneuver, the University con-structed emergency housing throughoutMadison. One community sprang up inthe army barrack style dormitories whichhoused the factory workers. The commu-nity was dubbed Badger Village, andmany of the Law School's finest studentscalled it home.

In 1946the war ended. Due to the G.!.Bill, which paid the veteran's books, tui-tion, and $90 a month, many servicemenreturned to college when they arrivedback in the United States. Before the war,there were approximately 500 marriedmale students at the University of Wis-consin. By 1948 that number had grownto 3,833, and in 1947, of the 23,000 stu-dents attending school, 11,000of themwere veterans.

In an attempt to accommodate morestudents, the University constructedhousing facilities throughout the city. AtTruax Field, 1,100single vets and 96 cou-ples moved into temporary housing. TheUniversity also created trailer parks andcabin camps to house students. At theUniversity Avenue Cabin Camp, vetsoccupied 17 cabins, 24 trailers, and 4makeshift houses. Another 100veteranslived at Hill Farms Trailer Park. Even theplaying fields at Camp Randall were com-mandeered, and 191couples moved intotrailer homes there. Despite this extralodging, there was still a need for morehousing. As a last resort, the Universityopened The Badger Village housingproject about 35 miles from campus.

Judge John Reynolds ('481:"I lived there for one year during my secondyear in law school. At the time, I thoughtthat the conditions there were lovely; every-thing is relative. We didn't have any childrenso we had two rooms in the apartment. Wehad a kitchen, a kitchen table, and a stove.We had a living room where we would sleep.

Dormitory Building

I went to China in 1976, and the peasant'shomes in China reminded me of the apart-ments in Badger Village. The apartments,however, were very pleasant. I did not feeldeprived at all. They were decorated attrac-tively. The students decorated the apart-ments as they wanted to, and some apart-ments were decorated very cleverly. In fact,they were pretty cheerful. After being in thearmy for four years, it was like living in thearmy barracks, except you had a wife.

The walls were very thin though. Eventhough I mentioned that we didn't have anychildren, we did have a neighbor who had ababy. We could hear it every time it cried.

We had communal showers; one was forboys and one was for girls. Then some cleverstudents decided that it was unfriendly tohave separate showers, and they took thesigns off of the doors so that the girls andboys could shower together.

There was a strong sense of communityat Badger Village. We were all students thatwere anxious to finish school. There were somany of us that if we all voted in the town-ship elections, we could elect whomever wewanted.

The main inconvenience was riding thebus {to Madison]. It wasn't that bad; in fact,I always enjoyed the bus because it gave ustime to read our cases before class. I hadmany companions on the bus like Lee Drey-fus, Nat Heffernan, and John Bossard. Thebest thing about Badger Village was thefriendships that I made there. I maintainedthose friendships all my life."

The first veteran moved into theshacks known as Badger Village, onDecember 7, 1945. By 1947 there was a150 family waiting list for housing. Therewere two clusters of one story houseswhich comprised Badger Village. Thenorthern set of houses, known as NorthBadger, were apartments converted fromthe barracks-like dormitories, used by thefactory workers. Each apartment wasequipped with a sink, a stove, an ice box,and cupboards. Most of the apartmentswere partitioned into two rooms; how-ever, the members of each wing of NorthBadger were forced to share a bathroom.

The other set of apartments, calledSouth Badger, was a set of row-houses.

These apartments consisted of a livingroom, kitchenette, bedrooms, and a bath-room. Because the walls were thin anduninsulated, the happenings in a neigh-bor's apartment could be heard in bothadjoining apartments. There were also afew cases of roofs being blown off theshoddy apartments in severe windstorms, as well as many broken pipes dueto poor plumbing. It often became so coldin the apartments in the winter that par-ents had to bundle their children insnowsuits to protect them from the bittercold and snow that sneaked in from thecracks in the windows.

Harry Franke ('49):"I remember in our kitchen, we had an icebox not a refrigerator. If you left for a coupleof days, you had to make arrangements forsomeone to get in there before the wateroverflowed. We thought the apartment wasa good deal because the basic equipmentwas supplied too. There were a couple ofarmy cots and a stove.

Everybody who lived at Badger Villagewas in the same boat. You had to be a vet-eran to get into the place, newly married,and some people had kids. In our own build-ing, there were twenty units, we becameclose knit and got to know everybody.Because you are sharing the same bathroomfacilities, you got to know your neighbors.We used to have parties in our barracks. Iremember one party in particular. We got acouple of barrels of Fauerbach Beer. It wasgreen, and people were in great distressthroughout the rest of the night. Prom abouttwo until six in the morning, the latrineswere very busy. I don't think that the beerwas quite ready to be imbibed, but weimbibed it anyway.

The only bad memory was the bitter coldas you walked out to the bus in the morning.They would drop us off at the foot of Bas-com Hill and we would walk up to the LawSchool. The buses ran frequently: aboutevery half hour in the morning. The last buswent back to the village at 9:00 at night.

It was an old yellow school bus, and theride was pretty bumpy. It wasn't what youwould normally think of as going to college.If I sound like I am complaining. I'm not.We felt that we were fortunate to have thatopportunity. With the G.I. bill and theseaccommodations, it was possible for me togo to college."

The cost of an apartment was between$17.50 and $29.50. During the period of1945-1952, 699 families were placed into451 of the row-houses in South Badger.The remaining families were housed inthe 248 apartments that were constructedby converting the ten barracks-style dor-mitories into apartments.

Because the University was about 35miles away from Badger Village, studentswho lived there took buses to classeseach day. The buses ran at several timesand cost twenty-five cents.

Each day the men would get on thebus, often before daylight, and huddletogether in order to battle the bone chill-ing winter air. When the weather waswarm, the men would chat about school,sports, or memories from the war. Somemen would catch up on their studies, oth-ers would play cards, and others wouldsleep. One could often tell when thebuses were returning from campusbecause there was often a blackout in thevillage. Most of the students used hotplates to cook their meals. When thebuses returned at night, each familyturned on their hot plate for dinner andblew the fuses, often waiting up to anhour for the lights to return.

Paul Myerson ('48):"I lived in the village from 1947-1948. Welived in an H type army barracks. I waspresident of the community for a while. Aspresident, the council and I worhed with theUniversity to develop security for the area.We got the University to put in police pro-tection. We had one police car out there.Not that we needed any protection, but itwas in case of emergencies. We didn't havetelephones in the apartments; there was acommunity telephone.

The property was built on probably themost fertile soil in the area. We had a com-munity garden because the property had notbeen farmed or plowed. We got together andhired a farmer to plow the soil. Then wesubdivided off, in some democratic process,the farm area. We all grew corn, tomatoes,cucumbers, beets, pic hies and the usualthings grown in gardens. We all had agreat garden.

Everybody out there was a veteran tryingto go to college. We were all glad that wehad a chance to go to school while living atBadger Village. We used to johe around alot; we didn't call it Badger Village, wecalled it Rabbit Village because the popula-tion grew so fast.

I still see some people that I knew inBadger Village. I get to see John Reynoldsevery once and a while. Generally though, Ididn't heep any really close friendships. Likeeverything that happens, we grew apart as Iwent out of state, and we had less opportu-nity to stay in touch. But it was fun. Therewere days that we didn't think we wouldmahe it on those ten cent army buses thatwe took to school in the morning.

Of all the best and worst memories Ihave about Badger Village, I really remem-ber the distance being a problem. When youwanted to stay at night and worh at the Law

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School, you had to make sure you caughtthat last bus. Your life was controlled by thefirst bus in the morning and the last busat night.

The best memory was living togetherwith all those other kids. We were families,just starting out, who found a place to livewhich we could afford. Because we were allon a very low budget, we appreciated theopportunity we had from the University,offering us a place where we could afford tolive as veterans. That was the key; that'swhy we were all there.

When they did close Badger Village forgood, we were sorry that it closed. It justseemed a shame. It was the housing thatmade it possible for many of the marriedstudents to go to school. It was somethingthat universities should do now: make hous-ing affordable for married students."

Badger Village was more than tempo-rary housing. It was a unique communitycomprised of families all of similar agewith a military background, in pursuit ofan education. Many aspects of BadgerVillage resemble those of a typical town.The village had a community center, postoffice, primary school, shopping center,barber shop, drug store, police force, atown council, and a branch of the studentunion. The community center consistedof a large auditorium, two lounges, a din-ing room, kitchen, and a bar. The barroom was filled with pool tables and cardtables. It was decorated with Badgers andPogocomic strip characters. Manyactivi-ties went on at the community center.Each week a featured guest speakerwould give a lecture, many dances wereheld there, concerts performed by theUniversity Music School, and plays andvariety shows were frequent occurrencesat the community center. It was also usedfor elections for the township.

Although the police protection beganwhen the Sauk County police wouldswing by Badger Village, the Universitysoon employed a police officer namedPaul Genna. In addition to Genna, whosemajor duties ended up as a chauffeur,taking expectant mothers to hospitals, themembers of the village hired six residentsto act as constables, including formergovernor Lee S. Dreyfus.

One of the most important organiza-tions in Badger Village was the towncouncil. The town council, comprised of29 elected members, not only acted asthe city's governing body by implement-ing a set of rules and regulations, but italso acted as a liaison between the villageand the University. It also gave the resi-dents an outlet for any grievances whichthey might have.

Chief Justice Nathan Heffernan ('481"I had one semester of Law School beforethe war. I started living there in june 1946and stayed there until January 1948. Welived on the west side and had an absolutelybeautiful view of the Baraboo Bluffs. It wasprobably the most beautiful spot that I haveever lived. We lived in the row-houses ofSouth Badger. We had one room which wasa living room, a dining room, and a kitchen.It was just an elongated room that wasabout sixteen or seventeen feet long andabout eight feet wide. There was a separatebathroom which was very tiny, and therewas a bedroom.

We had no hot water, and in order to gethot water, we would strap electric hot platesto a water tank. If you wanted hot water,you would turn on the hot plates so youcould take a shower. The hot plates burnedout transformers about once a week. Veryoften, there were no lights.

The only thing that was furnished forheat was a pot bellied stove. We stoked itwith coal from the coal bin in back. It wassurprising how well that worked. For cook-ing, we had a wood stove, which we did notuse. We used hot plates for cooking. It wasa very interesting and congenial time. Mostof us had been in the service where we hadtough living. so this didn't seem so bad. Wehad an ice box instead of a refrigerator. Theice man came with chunks of ice, and themelted ice just drained under the building.There was no basement on them. They wereflimsily built; yet, they were far better livingthan the trailer parks at Camp Randall.

We had a branch of the student unionthere. They showed movies, and they tried todo the same things as the Memorial Union.We had a law library in which we had theWisconsin Reports and a number of stan-dard treatises. My wife was teaching schoolat the Badger School, and in her time off,she would go to the law library and briefcases for me. The student clinic also had abranch out there with a doctor and nursewho were permanently available.

I remember the buses that we took intoMadison for class. I remember that theydidn't start very well when the temperaturewas below zero. Sometimes, in order to getthem going, they'd have them' run all nightlong. It was at least a half hour trip in toMadison along Highway 12, but I rememberthose bus rides rather fondly because it gaveus a chance to swap war stories, tell storiesof our adventures in the preceding fouryears, and if you wanted to, you could study.

It was an interesting place; we were allveterans; we all had our education inter-rupted for four years. We had not had a lotof fun in a long time. However, we had a lotof fun and did a lot of hell-raising while we

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lived there. We were all serious students too.I never really appreciated it until later, butthe law school faculty worked very hard.The faculty taught five semesters of classesin eighteen months. As J recall we had a dayoff for Christmas; I'm not so sure we had aday off for New Year. The break betweensemesters was at most a week. They reallycrammed things in; I remember taking fourfinal exams in two days. Everybody wantedto make up for lost time.

I have fond memories of Badger Village.I had just been married, and this was ourhoneymoon cottage. Because my wife was aschool teacher at Badger Village, we werefinancially well off compared to most peo-ple. There was an incredible feeling of cam-araderie. Hell, we were all optimistic. Wewere the guys who won the war. We feltthere were other worlds to conquer. Therewas an air of hope. We had beaten Hirohitoand Hitler. We felt we could beat anything.I have no horrible memories of Badger Vil-lage. It's all a good memory."

The University ended its affiliationwith Badger village on June 30, 1952afterthe need for emergency housing hadpassed. When the Korean War began, theBadger Ordnance Works began belchingsmoke from its stacks again. The apart-ments and dormitories were again filled,but this time they were filled with fac-tory workers. The Badger Village wasalive again until the war ended. Whenthe Korean War did end, there weremany vacancies in the apartments atBadger Village. The children whoremained often played in the emptyapartments; some kids vandalized anddestroyed these dwellings.

Badger Village was soon abandonedby everyone. Grass and weeds grewwildly over the forgotten streets, housesand lawns. Nothing remained in theshops except for a few boxes and papersthat no one cared to move. This changedon March 10, 1960, when Badger Villagewas sold for $52,500 dollars to localentrepreneurs who cleaned up the area.They planted trees, re-established electri-cal service, dug a new well, installed alagoon to take care of sewage disposal,dismantled South Badger, renovated theunits of North Badger, and changed thename to Bluffview Courts. The area isnow used as a retirement village.

Professor Frank Remington ('49J"J lived at Badger Village from August 1946to January 1949. My wife and I had childrenat the time. It was a good place to raise afamily; everybody was the same age. Therewere a lot of other kids, and there wasplenty of things to do. From the family pointof view, living at Badger Village was noproblem at all.

We lived in the row-houses, and to saythey were modest probably exaggerates theirvalue. They had a pot bellied stove, and nohot water, unless you strapped hot plates tothe water tank. I guess they would bedescribed as primitive by most people. Buthaving just come out of the service, wethought that they were nice.

Badger Village was populated entirelyby returning veterans. We all received anincome under the Veteran Educational Ben-efit Program. Costs and rent were very low,and the situation was such that you didn'tdo things like going out for dinner or goingout to see a movie. There were a lot of recre-ational activities such as basketball, soft-ball, and group parties of various kinds atBadger Village. Entertainment wasn't aproblem, but everybody was going to schoolso the time for entertainment was limited.There were other things to do: study forexample.

You got to know people fairly well. Inthose days we had class on Saturdays andwent to school twelve months a year. I spenta lot of time with those people on the bus,especially the law students. The people wholived in Badger Village were very compati-ble. We were all the same age and going toschool. Most of the people where J lived hadchildren; so, we had the opportunity tobecome friends with a broad group of peo-ple. That was the high point of living inBadger Village. The worst part was ridingthe school buses in the dark, often withoutheat. It was primitive transportation espe-cially in the winter time when the tempera-ture on the bus often fell below freezing.

Also, meals were often interrupted by anoutage of electricity. When this happened,you were unable to cook unless you cookedon a coal or wood stove.

Primitive would be the best word for thehouses, but they were well kept and pleasingin appearance, in a very modest way. Theywere not well insulated, and you could oftenfeel the wind blowing inside the house. Butlike I said, everything is relative, and afterbeing in the army these houses, when com-pared with a tent, were a lot better."

Badger Village was one of the mostunique housing projects in the history ofthe University of Wisconsin-Madison.Badger Village gave those who had beenoverseas fighting for America a sense ofcommunity when they returned. It wasmore than a housing project. It was a citywith features that were found in any city:government, friendship, neighbors, chil-dren, police, an A & P food store, andeven a bar. If Badger Village and theother housing projects like it did notexist, many of these men would havenever been able to afford to raise a familywhile they went to school. Many of thethousands of veterans would not havebeen able to get an education.

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Featured Alumni:Clark Byse ('38)Timothy R. Verhoff

In The High Citadel: The Influence of theHarvard Law School, Joel Seligman beginshis description of a Contracts class taughtby Clark Byse, a 1938 graduate of theUniversity of Wisconsin Law School, cur-rently Byrne Professor of AdministrativeLaw, Emeritus, at Harvard University,with the following paragraph:

Above the professor's Langdell Halloffice desk is a gift from an earlier class,a papier-mache rabbit popping out of apapier-mache hat. The figure has a sin-gle-word caption: "Why, Miss __ 7"Byse starts hundreds of questions dur-ing a school year. Sometimes the vehe-mence of Byse's "Why" causes him torise up on his toes like a carnival-goertrying to gain leverage before slammingthe weighted hammer down and ringingthe far-off bell. "Why" is the conceptthat trails the students home after class;"Why" surfaces in their minds as theyread cases alone; and as examinationsapproach, "Why" nags at their sleep. InProfessor Byse's control, "Why" is theessence of legal reasoning, the force thatpushes a class from comprehending lawas particular rules applied to particularfacts to a glimpse of an entire socialorder. "Why" is skepticism, "Why" isargument, "Why" is doubt, and ulti-mately, "Why" is the basis of courtroomlogic: comparison and generalization.

Byse is one of the alleged models forthe character of Professor Kingsfield inthe novel The Paper Chase. Byse com-mented, "The movie was shown at Har-vard Law School and afterwards a pollwas conducted to determine whetherKingsfield was patterned after anypresent member of the faculty. I wonhands down." One of the students wasreported to have said, "It's Byse all right,but Byse isn't sadistic. Besides, Byse is abetter actor.' "

Byse also described an incident thatoccurred a few years ago. "I came out ofclass and there was a man sitting in theback row. He came up to me and intro-duced himself as a reporter for the BostonHerald who was doing a story on ThePaper Chase. When he asked if he couldinterview me I replied, 'I'll not be inter-viewed about that book. It presents acompletely false view of how I have

ordered my life. I resent the wholedamned thing. In my courses I makedemands and consider it no kindness notto do so. But I try to stimulate andencourage students which he doesn't do.He explains too much instead of requir-ing the students to develop their ownthoughts. Worst of all, he does not appearto care about his students.' About a weeklater, the "Paper Chase" story was pub-lished in the Boston Herald with contrast-ing pictures of Kingsfield and Byse andin the accompanying text appeared my'non-interview' statement."

"The trouble with Kingsfield," Bysecontinued, "is that he is sadistic. I resentanyone saying that he was patterned afterme. I have a reputation, I do makedemands, and often I have been criticalof student comments. Osborn, who wrotethe book, never had me for a professor.He had Lon Fuller for Contracts, and Lonwas a very mild and gentle man. Some ofthe stories may be based upon the leg-endary 'Bull' Warren who, by all reports,was a terror. In my view, a teacher ismuch like a parent. You just can't give into whatever 'demands' children or stu-dents advance."

In 1935 Clark Byse received a Bache-lors of Education degree from The Wis-consin State Teachers College inOshkosh, Wisconsin. Although hewanted to teach immediately followinghis graduation, the country was still inthe throes of the depression, and hecouldn't find work. "The head of thedepartment of history at the TeachersCollege said that she thought I should goget an advanced degree. Of course, Ineeded some money, so I spoke to myfather. His reaction was that he would bedamned if he was going to spend moneyfor a school teacher. However, he said,that if I wanted to be a lawyer, like thelocal district attorney, that would be adifferent thing. It really came down togoing to work at whatever or going to lawschool. I chose the latter course, went toMadison, got a job for my board androom and enrolled in the Law School inthe fall of 1935."

Byse recalls that when in law school,he was particularly impressed with theteaching style of Professor Herbie Page.

"Herbie Pagecertainly was someone whoeach member of our class would remem-ber with more vividness than anyoneelse. He had an impact. I teach Contractsand so did he. Sometimes, I use some ofhis stories or stories about him to illus-trate a point. I recall an early experienceI had with Herbie. It was the second orthird day of Contracts class. Herbie hadbeen pressing students to answer thequestion 'What is a promise?' Since hecalled on students in alphabetical pro-gression, I knew my turn was coming.When the fateful hour arrived, he said,'What's a promise, Mr. Byse?', I repliedby reading the definition of a promisethat I had secured from Black's Law Dic-tionary. Clearly, Herbie was not ready forsuch a definitive reply at that stage of thediscussion. 'Where did you get that defi-nition?' said Page. 'From Black's Law Dic-tionary, sir: I replied. 'Well, you shouldhave gotten it from Bouvier!' and heimmediately pounced on the next alpha-betical victim, 'What is a promise, Mr.Carroll.' "

"In a different and much more mean-ingful way, the teacher who mostimpressed me was Dean Lloyd Garrison.Garrison believed that law should beused to do good, to help those peoplewho were not as fortunate as those of uswho were going to be lawyers. Heshowed us that we had a social responsi-bility. He fed into that idealism that I hadwhen I first entered the teaching profes-sion. He stirred the idealism that I hadwhen I came to law school. He was a rolemodel that I looked up to and whosefriendship I very much treasured."

A very special person to Byse, Garri-son helped Byse land a clerkship with aprominent Oshkosh firm. "I was going todo my summer law clerkship with a solopractitioner in Oshkosh. He immediatelysuggested that it might be better if I wereexposed to a broader range of legal prob-lems than likely would result from myassociation with a single individual. Thenhe got in touch with the two largest firmsin Oshkosh and as a result, I served myclerkship with one of them. Also heapproved of my desire to become a lawteacher and urged me to 'go East, youngman, and broaden your horizons' bydoing graduate work at Harvard, Yale,orColumbia."

Adhering to Garrison's suggestions,Byse entered Columbia University wherehe received his LL.M. in 1939 and anS.J.D. in 1952. The first job Byse acceptedafter graduation was as an Instructor atthe University of Iowa College of Law.

He took a leave of absence two yearslater in 1941 because, "I was teachingAdministrative Law, and I felt that Ineeded some hands-on participation inthe field of government-having had nosuch experience because I had gonedirectly from Columbia to teaching atIowa." From 1941-1943 and from 1945-1946 Byse served as an attorney for theSecurities and Exchange Commission, theBoard of Economic Warfare, and theDepartment of Commerce. He alsoserved from 1943-1945 as a Lieutenant inthe United States Navy.

After working for the government,Bysejoined the faculty of the Pennsylva-nia Law School in 1946. He taught thereuntil 1958 when he was invited by Har-vard Law School to become part of itsfaculty. In 1970Byse was named BusseyProfessor of Law and eventually desig-nated Byrne Professor of AdministrativeLaw. Byse often has been a Visiting Pro-fessor throughout his career, instructingat Stanford, Texas,Wisconsin, Minnesota,and Puget Sound. He has also been amember of the Boston University Schoolof Law since 1983.

Due to his considerable experiencewith several schools, Byse has been ableto evaluate the quality of the educationat competing institutions. "The differ-ence in the quality of schools is steadilydiminishing. Any student can get a first-rate legal education at a large number oflaw schools. In terms of the objectiveindices, such as the LSATor grade pointaverage, the upstream schools do have ahigher quality student body. But the verytop students at a large number of schoolsare fungible. The difference is that theupstream schools have more top stu-dents. I can say that I do not teach anydifferently when I teach at differentschools."

Byse has also seen several changes inlegal education over the past half century."The education that today's law studentis getting is different than the educationalexperience of the past. In 1935 teachingmaterials were almost exclusively appel-late opinions. Today,course books typi-cally contain other materials: textualnotes, hypotheticals, questions, prob-lems, excerpts from law review articles,treatises, statutes, legislative committeehearings, and reports. Secondly, there isless Socratic demand than fifty years ago.Teaching styles in the thirties emphasizedthe interrogative-logical method, that is,the instructor asked questions andemphasized the methodology of a majorpremise, minor premise, conclusion.

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Today that method is used much less.""Athird feature of my first year expe-

rience is that all of my classes werelarge-approximately 130 students-while currently students take coursesin classes of far fewer students. Also,throughout American legal education,second and third year students now maywrite and edit articles to be published inthe plethora of newly established studentrun legal periodicals, or they may writepapers under the supervision of facultymembers. It is apparent that the opportu-nities for more personal, individualizedinstruction are vastly greater now thanfifty years ago. A fourth difference is thattoday's law schools are much more openand student oriented. In my day the fac-ulty was the faculty, students were stu-dents and except in the classroom, rarelydid the twain meet. Today, incoming stu-dents are greeted with orientation pro-grams, the faculty proclaims an 'opendoor' policy, and students regularly eval-uate their teachers and otherwise com-municate their views with considerablevigor."

During his lifetime, Byse was veryactive in the fields of civil rights and aca-demic freedom. He was president of thePhiladelphia ACLUand a member of theMassachusetts Advisory Commission tothe U.S. Commission for Civil Rights. Hehas also been General Counsel and Presi-dent of the American Association of Uni-versity Professors. He also penned a bookand several articles on tenure, academicfreedom and civil rights.

Byse is co-editor of a widely usedAdministrative law casebook, now in itseighth edition, has served as consultantto several public policy organizations andhas been active in promoting legislativeand administrative reform of the admin-istrative process.

Asked what he was most proud of inhis lifetime, he replied, "The answer is,my children. I am immensely lucky tohave two such caring supportive and ablechildren They are clearly what is mostimportant to me. I also feel good that onoccasion I've touched some student orhelped troubled people who have cometo me for aid. I'm pleased that I hadsomething to do with making our legalsystem a little bit better. I feel good aboutmy law reform activities. When you getto be two years short of fourscore, youare fortunate to be able to get up and goto work in the morning. I enjoy teachingand I plan to continue as a visiting pro-fessor as long as Boston UniversitySchool of Law will have me."

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Featured Alumni:Judith Lichtman ('65)Timothy R. Verhoff

What do the names Elizabeth Dole, SarahBrady, Sandra Day O'Connor, and JudithLichtman have in common? Each one ofthese women was selected by the Wash-ingtonian magazine as one of the 100mostpowerful women. Lichtman, who is cur-rently the president of the Women's LegalDefense Fund, was a 1962graduate of theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, andshe received her LLBfrom the Universityof Wisconsin Law School in 1965.

Based on her work with the WLDF,a lobbying group in Washington, D.C.,which focuses on women's issues such asfamily and medical leave, wage discrimi-nation, and sexual harassment, Lichtmanwas also chosen by the Sarah Lee Corpo-ration as one of four women to receivethe 1989 Frontrunners Award. Thisaward honors those women who displayoutstanding achievements in the fields ofgovernment, business, the arts and thehumanities.

It was her interest in Civil Rights thatinspired Lichtman to enter law school,along with some persuasion by ProfessorShirley Abrahamson. "She single-handedly talked me into considering lawas a career. She said law would provideme with more realistic tools (than aca-demia). She had to talk long and hard,however. There were not many womenin law school then." Lichtman maintainsthat, "I never wanted to be a corporatelawyer. For me being a lawyer meanthaving a license to be an activist."

Lichtman pursued her desire tobecome a political activist following hergraduation from law school. She beganwork with the U.S. Department ofHealth, Education, and Welfare and jour-neyed to Mississippi to investigate theenforcement of the 1964Civil Rights Act.In 1968, Lichtman began teaching classesat Jackson State College, an all-black col-lege in Mississippi. "It was not that diffi-cult. I had many wonderful colleagues,and although I was one of the fewwhites, we all shared a feeling of cama-raderie."

In 1969, Lichtman and her husband, apracticing attorney, returned to Washing-ton, where she worked with the U.S.Commission on Civil Rights. Then, in1973, she became a legal advisor to

Puerto Rico. Lichtman, who had a twoyear old daughter by this time, decidedto take the summer off because her workincluded, "a lot of traveling back andforth between the U.S. and Puerto Rico.It was very stressful as a career and as amom." During that summer, Lichtmanwas approached with the idea of workingfor the Women's Legal Defense Fund.

The organization acts as both anational lobbying association and anorganization to help local women withlegal problems. The WLDF,along withother civil rights groups such as the Alli-ance and the Leadership Conference onCivil Rights, was instrumental in thecampaign to lobby against the SupremeCourt nomination of Robert Bork.

The Women's Legal Defense Fund'slobbying also led to the adoption of theCivil Rights Restoration Act, overturningthe 1984 Supreme Court's Grove City Col-lege vs. Bell decision, which narrowed thereach of laws that provide antidiscrimina-tion protection for women, minorities,elderly, and handicapped.

While the WLDF has made greatstrides in its attempts to bring legalequality between men and women, Licht-man feels that there is still a lot of prog-ress that must be made. "Social change isincremental. We have come a long wayfrom the 1960's and the birth of theNational Organization of Women. Inthose days the laws treated men andwomen differently. Although I can sitemany victories that we have had, wehave very far to go. It is an ongoing pro-cess which must be attended to. Evenissues that have been hard fought andwon must be re-fought to keep secure."

Since taking the helm at the Women'sLegal Defense Fund, Lichtman hashelped transform it from a volunteerorganization with an annual budget of$30,000 to a national association thatemploys 20 staff members and has abudget of over $1.17million dollars.

Lichtman has not only receivednational recognition as one of the mostpowerful women in the United States,but she has many other accomplishmentsas well. For example, Lichtman is a mem-ber of the D.C. Judicial Nominating Com-mission, a member of the ACLUWom-

en's Rights Project Advisory Committee,a member of the selection committee ofthe German Marshall Fund of the U.S., amember of the Bar in Wisconsin, NewYork, and D.C., the winner of the Ameri-can Bar Association's Silver Gavel Awardfor 1985, and the list goes on. Lichtmanbestows most of the recognition that shereceives on her staff at WLDF.

"We are lucky that we have been rec-ognized. The accolades I received belongto the staff. All these people are the soul.I've been blessed to work on issueswhich I care about that affect people'slives. Many of the original founders arestill here today and give generously. Weare blessed with dedicated people."

Lichtman is especially grateful to herfamily, she and her husband have twodaughters ages 13 and 17, for their sup-port and understanding in her busycareer. "I think it is difficult to be botha responsible family member andworker. I've been lucky that my family isunderstanding. They are like partners inmy career."

Above all, Lichtman maintains that,"I am both a feminist and an advocate ofhuman rights and proud of it. I care thatgender bias is eradicated so people willbe judged on their abilities and not theirgender both in public and private fulfill-ment. I try to live it out."

Featured Alumni:Arnold Weiss ('52)Timothy R. Verhoff

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In 1938, Arnold Weiss left his home inNuremberg, Germany in an effort toescape the threat of Hitler and his Naziforces; Weiss was a fourteen year old boyat the time. "My father was a newspaperwriter, and he was in a concentrationcamp. I was in a Jewish orphanage. Icame over alone in a children's trans-port." He came to Janesville, where hewas taken in by the Wexler family. Later,he and his foster brother, the late JayWexler, were classmates at the LawSchool. Weiss managed to bring hisyounger sister to Milwaukee in 1941through the underground. His motherand oldest sister escaped to England dur-ing the war and came to Wisconsin at alater time.

After joining the United States Armyin 1942, Weiss, who received a BA fromthe University of Wisconsin in 1951 anda JD from the University of WisconsinLaw School in 1952, was shipped toEurope. "I started out as a gunner on aB-17, but was transferred to the Office ofStrategic Services. I finally ended up withthe Counter Intelligence Corps when thewar ended." With his loyalty devoted tohis adopted country, Weiss was pleasedto fight against his native country, Ger-many, in the war. "In fact," said Weiss,"I was with the division that took myhome town. I really didn't give a damnat that junction anymore; I just wantedto stay alive."

Weiss was decorated with a BronzeStar after he captured an important Nazifigure. "I captured an SS brigadier gen-eral named Zander. His claim to famewas that he was in the bunker whenHitler killed himself; he carried Hitler'slast will and testament out of thebunker .. ."

Recently, the topic of German reuni-fication grabs the headlines in manypapers. Weiss is not against Germanreunification. Instead, he fears it's eco-nomic aspects. "I have some worriesabout it. I think that anybody who livedthroughout that era, as I did, has theright to worry. I'm more worried aboutthe economic, social and democraticinstitutions that will be created in Ger-many. I wonder if they will be able tosurvive an economic downturn."

Following his tour with the U.S. Army,

Weiss returned to Janesville, Wisconsin,and, after a year, decided to pursue hisundergraduate and law degrees. How-ever, he remained active in the Army,serving in the U.S. Army Reserves as partof the Intelligence Corps. Weiss stayed inthe Reserves, retiring from the JudgeAdvocate General Corps in 1962 as a lieu-tenant colonel. He decided to enter lawschool after his experience overseas."One of the things I was doing in Ger-many after the war was over, was investi-gating and tracing enemy assets on behalfof the U.S. Treasury Department. I ranone of the major investigations of theGerman insurance industry. That con-vinced me that it was a good way tomake a living. The Treasury had said thatif I was ever looking for a position, Ishould come and see them, and the day Igraduated from Law School, I came outto Washington and started working forthe Treasury as a lawyer in internationalfinance. It was the same group of peoplethat I had worked for during the war."

In addition to financial matters, Weissserved as the Congressional liaison forthe Department, from 1954-1960. Whileworking with the Treasury, Weiss did alot of work with Mexico. Through hisdealings with Mexico, he was chosen toparticipate in the United States delega-tion which drafted the charter for theInter-American Development Bank,which functions to promote economicand social development of developingLatin American member countries."When it was created, I became its firstemployee," Weiss noted.

"I had been Deputy General Counseland then General Counsel at the Inter-American Development Bank for seven-teen years. When my oldest son startedcollege, I decided that I better go into pri-vate practice so that I could send him tothe colleges that he wanted to go to."Therefore, in 1977, Weiss left the Inter-American Development Bank to workwith Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin, andKahn, one of the larger firms in Washing-ton, D.C. "It's a 250 lawyer firm whichdoes a general commercial practice. Ithas a very sizable international depart-ment, about forty lawyers, and I'm oneof the senior partners in that group. Ihandle mainly the public international

organizations, but much of my work iswith Mexico."

For Weiss, working in a large firm hasdiffered from working with the TreasuryDepartment or the Inter-American Devel-opment Bank. He also feels that theatmosphere within a large firm, such ashis, greatly varies from that in a smallerone. "It's less collegial than a smallerfirm. It's more structured; it has more ofa bureaucracy to it. On the other hand,you can turn matters over to your col-leagues, or work with them, whichreduces the pressure. When you are asolo practitioner, or in a small firm, youhave to be a jack-of-all-trades. Here youcan follow your specialization."

Weiss' main interest lies in the eco-nomic development of the lesser devel-oped world. "I am counsel to the AfricanDevelopment Bank. I know it soundsnaive, but my interest began after thewar. I really felt that I wanted to dosomething creative rather than destruc-tive. It became clear to me that unless wecan make the world more interdepen-dent, we would be forced to make warsforever."

At age 66, Weiss plans to remain atArent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn."I plan to stay where I am. I enjoy ithere, and my work is very satisfying sothere is no reason to change."

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Alumni NotesMelvin Wiviott ('53), a professor at theAir Force Institute of Technology, is co-chairman of the Legal Colloquium heldat that university. Attendees representedprivate practice, corporations and govern-ment agencies.

Warren A. Sturm 1'54) has opened anintellectual property practice in Minne-apolis, Strum & Associates.

Peter N. Davis ('63) of the Universityof Missouri-Columbia Law Schoolrecently traveled to China giving a seriesof lectures on American environmentallaw. Lectures were given in Wuhan andXi'an to students and governmentofficers.

James Huber ('63!, a partner in theMilwaukee office of Foley& Lardner, hasbeen named to the Board of Directors ofthe Wisconsin Alumni Association.

Richard Baumann ('64), a partner inthe Los Angeles firm of Sulmeyer,Kupetz, Baumann & Rothman, waselected president of the 6,000 memberCommercial Law League of America.League members are experts in the fieldof credit and finance.

San W. Orr, Jr. 1'66), Wausau, Wis-consin, has been named to the ExecutiveCommittee of the Wisconsin AlumniAssociation and will serve as its AssistantSecretary. Mr. Orr practices law andserves on a number of corporate boards.

Thomas H. Tongue ('68), managingpartner of the Portland, Oregon firm ofDunn, Carney, Allen, Higgins & Tongue,has received the Multnomah Bar Associa-tion Professionalism Award. The Awardrecognizes "highest ethical standards"and "exemplary conduct in the practiceof law."

Ellen M. Kozak ('69), Milwaukee,Wisconsin, has published another book.Author of two novels and over 250 pub-lished articles, Kozak's latest work is"From Pen to Print: The Secrets of Get-ting Published Successfully."

John C. Stiska ('70) has been electedpresident of Triton Group Ltd. and Inter-mark, Inc., both located in La Jolla, Cali-fornia. Mr. Stiska had been a partner inthe San Francisco law firm of Brobeck,Phleger & Harrison.

Paul H. Dawes ('70) has joined theSan Francisco office of Latham &Watkins. Mr. Dawes specializes in com-plex business litigation.

Claude R. Moulton ('71)has joinedthe Tampa, Florida, office of Holland &Knight and will practice financial institu-tion law and administrative law. Moulton

had been in banking in Florida and Wis-consin.

JohnJ. DiMotto ('74) has beenelected Circuit Court Judge in Milwau-kee, Wisconsin. He previously served asSenior Assistant District Attorney andDirector of the Sensitive Crimes Unit.

James Alexander ('74) has beennamed Executive Director of the Wiscon-sin Judicial Commission. The Commis-sion investigates possible misconductand disability of state judges. He previ-ously worked asa trial lawyer in theMadison area.

Randolph N. Stone ('75), CookCounty Public Defender in Chicago, hasbeen appointed a Lecturer in Law at theUniversity of Chicago Law School. Mr.Stone was a Clinical Fellow at the Schoolfrom 1977-80.

Roy L. Prange, Jr. ('75) has joined theMadison office of Quarles & Brady. Hewill specialize in bankruptcy, creditorsrights and commercial litigation.

Judge Charles B. Schudson ('751 ofthe Milwaukee Circuit Court, is the co-author of "On Trial: America's Courtsand Their Treatment of Sexually AbusedChildren." The book, in its third hard-cover printing, is now scheduled for asecond paperback printing next spring.

James L. Possin ('76) has become apartner of Grant Thornton in its Madi-son, Wisconsin, office. Grant Thornton isan international accounting and manage-ment consulting firm.

Barbara Arnold ('76) has joined thein-house staff of Toyota Motor Sales,USA, in Torrance, California, as SeniorCounsel. She will be responsible for war-ranty, "lemon law," consumer protectionand antitrust matters.

Elena A. Cappella ('79), former Exec-utive Director of the Wisconsin JudicialCommission, has become the Deputy tothe Executive Vice President of theAmerican Law Institute in Philadelphia.

Randall N. Arnold ('801 has becomea partner of the Milwaukee office of Klu-win, Dunphy, Hinshaw, Culbertson.Arnold practices in the areas of medicalmalpractice, pharmaceutical product lia-bility and legal malpractice.

Terry W. Frazier ('81)has joined thefaculty of the Mississippi College Schoolof Law in Jackson, Mississippi. He willteach property, worker' compensationand real estate finance law. Frazier pre-vious practiced with Quarles & Brady inMilwaukee, Wisconsin.

David W. Wood ('81) has becomeGeneral Counsel of Safelite Glas Corp.,in Columbus, Ohio. Safelite is the nationslargest retailer of replacement auto glass.

Deborah Strigenz Figge ('81) hasbeen named Assistant Dean-Director ofCareer Services at Creighton Universityin Omaha, Nebraska. Figge had served insimilar positions at Southwestern Univer-sity School of Law, the University ofWashington School of Law and DrakeUniversity School of Law.

LaurieJ. Levin ('81)has beenappointed Chair-elect of the ABA'sMedi-cine and Law Committee for the Tort andInsurance Practice Section. She is Assis-tant General Counsel for the HarvardCommunity Health Plan in Boston, Mas-sachusetts.

Jonathan H. Stein ('82), formerlywith Chapman and Cutler in Chicago,has joined the Chicago Regional Office ofthe Securities and Exchange Commissionin the Bureau of Enforcement.

Marlene ]. McGregor ('82) hasbecome a shareholder of Johnson &Gibbs, a national firm based in Dallas,Texas. McGregor is a member of theFinancial Services Department in theDallas office.

Mark Cammack ('83) has joined thefaculty of Southwestern University Col-lege of Law. He will teach comparativelaw, criminal law and procedure and evi-dence. Cammack clerked for Justice Dayof the Wisconsin Supreme Court, was anassistant district attorney in New YorkCounty, and a Fulbright Scholar in Indo-nesia in 1984-5. He is currently an S.J.D.candidate at Columbia Law School.

Debra Winiarski ('85) has associatedwith the Chicago office of Sedgwick,Detert, Moran & Arnold. Winiarski con-centrates in the defense of professionalmalpractice and commercial litigation.

Helen Marks Dicks ('85) has beenhonored by the State Bar of Wisconsinwith its 1990 Pro Bono Award. Dicks isan attorney with the Center for PublicRepresentation in Madison and super-vises law students in the UnemploymentCompensation Appeals Clinic.

M. Patricia Field ('87), prisoner prese judicial clerk for the Dane County Cir-cuit Court, has been chosen as the 1990recipient of the Outstanding YoungAlumna Award by Saint Mary's College,Notre Dame, Indiana, where she gradu-ated in 1980.

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Professor Shirley Abrahamson recentlywas presented the Torch of LearningAward by the Law Associates of the Wis-consin Chapter of American Friends ofthe Hebrew University.

In early June Professor Gordon Bald-win attended a week-long National Secu-rity Seminar at the Army War College,Carlisle, PA. Gordon reports that he wasimpressed with the intellectual climate,and by the quality of the officers, manyof whom hold graduate degrees. One ofthe colonels holds a Ph.D. in AmericanHistory from Wisconsin. Professor Bald-win completed his assignment for theConstitutional Convention of the Repub-lic of the Marshall Islands. Severalamendments now before the voters of theIsland were the product of his recom-mendations in Majuro. His role was torecommend changes in their "bill ofrights," which originally includeddetailed rules of criminal procedure.Among the Marshall Islands' lawyers isScott Stege, class of 1970. He is generalcounsel for the Kwajalein DevelopmentAuthority. His wife, Biram, was amongthe two dozen delegates to the Constitu-tional Convention. Proceedings of theConvention were broadcast throughoutthe islands.

Professor R. Alta Charo, with Ray-mond Kessel of the Genetics Department,offered a 40 hour intensive course in"Genetics, Ethics and Public Policy" to25 high school biology teachers. Thecourse was sponsored by the NationalScience Foundation and the Departmentof Education. Professor Carin Clausswas one of the featured guest lecturers,talking on workplace teratagens and fetalprotection policy. The course also cov-ered topics in eugenics, mass geneticscreening, new reproductive technologiesand biotechnology. In June, Alta Charopresented a paper, "The Phantom Fetus,"at the Annual Meeting of Health LawProfessors in Cleveland. She also partici-pated in the Second Annual BioethicsRetreat in Lutsen, Minnesota.

Professor William Clune became theco- Director of the new Wisconsin Centerfor Educational Policy (WICEP), aresearch center funded by the La FolletteInstitute of Public Affairs, where Cluneserves as a faculty member and memberof the Executive Committee. WICEP isdesigned to bridge the gap between aca-demic research and educational policy inWisconsin. Clune also gave a seminar atStanford University to education special-

ists of the World Bank from all over theworld on the strengths and weaknessesof various approaches to educational pol-icy and governance.

Professor Ken Davis was a speaker atthe 1990 State Bar of Wisconsin AnnualConvention in Oshkosh. He addressedthe Business Section on the Revised Wis-consin Business Corporation Law. Profes-sor Davis and Associate Dean GeraldThain were reappointed to their positionsas co-editors of the Business Law SectionNewsletter of the State Bar. This newslet-ter has been cited by the State Bar as anoutstanding work of its kind. Througharrangements of Professors Davis andThain, the Business Law Section officersalso heard a presentation by officers ofUW Law School's recently formed Busi-ness and Tax Law student association, ontheir activities and plans.

Professor Walter Dickey announcesthe following additions to the ClinicalSupervisor staff at LAIP: Ken Streit, agraduate of Northwestern Law School,comes to LAIP from the Department ofHealth and Social Services where he wasa policy analyst in the area of delin-quency; Kate Kruse Livermore, 1989Wisconsin grad and former clerk forJudge Barbara Crabb; Clarence Belue,SJD candidate, and law school lecturer(American Indian Law) for fall, 1990, alsohas 20 years of law practice in Montana;and Meredith Ross, Law School Class of'90, former Executive Director of the Dis-trict Attorney's Association of DaneCounty. Professor Walter Dickey pre-sented a paper at a jointly sponsored con-ference of the University of California-Berkeley and the California Departmentof Justice in June. The conferencereviewed prison problems in California.Walter's contribution was a paper oncommunity based alternatives to prison.The Legal Assistance to InstitutionalizedPersons Program reports that over 50 full-time students are enrolled in LAIP thissummer. Students work with inmates ofthe state prisons, the federal prison atOxford, and the state mental health insti-tutions, under the direction of WalterDickey, Frank Remington, Dave Schultzand several supervising attorneys. BenKempinen is supervising the ProsecutorsProgram, which has fifteen studentinternships in prosecutor's offices aroundthe state. These students enrolled in apreparatory seminar last spring, and willbe part of a seminar in the fall, bothrelating to the prosecution of criminal

cases. Kempinen was invited to be amember of the faculty of the RockyMountain Regional of the National Insti-tute of Trial Advocacy. He chaired thetrial ethics program and also instructed atrial advocacy section at the NITA pro-gram in Denver, Colorado.

The Feminism and Legal Theory Con-ference was held at the Memorial Unionon June 18-22. This is the fifth year Pro-fessor Martha Fineman has directedthis conference. Thirty participants metfor five days in which they explored thetopic of motherhood as it is socially andlegally constructed in society today.Abortion regulation, surrogacy, childabuse, and infanticide were a few of theissues discussed during the week of pre-sentations and roundtable discussions.Professor Fineman has two new bookspublished this Spring. At the Boundariesof Law: Feminism and Legal Theory is anedited edition of papers that have beenpresented at previous Feminism andLegal Theory Conferences at UW- Madi-son. The Illusion of Equality: Rhetoric andReality in Divorce Reform exemplifies Pro-fessor Fineman's work in the area of fam-ily law and divorce discourse.

Professor Dirk Hartog has been onextended research leave, funded by theAmerican Council of Learned Societies,the Smongeski Fund of the Law Schooland the Guggenheim Foundation, tobegin research for a book on the legal his-tory of marriage. In January he wrote ashort piece for an ABA humanities news-letter on "Partial Readings," and attendedan ALI session on Family law. In Febru-ary, he chaired a panel on constitutional-ism and the French Revolution at anannual meeting of the American Societyfor Legal History, and in April gave aMellon Lecture at Amherst College, enti-tled "Abigail Bailey's Coverture; Law in aMarried Woman's Consciousness," aspart of a continuing symposium on lawin everyday life. Professor Patricia Wil-liams was also a contributor to the sym-posium. At the Law and Society meetingsin May, Dirk organized a panel on "mar-riage and power:' and chaired a sessionon imperialism and legal identity. At theBerkshire Women's History Meetings inJune, Dirk gave a comment on women'scitizenship in nineteenth centuryAmerica.

In June, Professor Charles Irishdelivered a series of lectures on interna-tional taxation and the role of tax treaties

WLAAPresident Jeffrey Bartell wishes outgoing Dean Thompson farewell during Annual Spring Program.

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in the development process to representa-tives of thirteen governments and severalinternational organizations in Bridge-town, Barbados.

Professor Len Kaplan serves as Secre-tary-General of the International Acad-emy of Law and Mental Health that spon-sored the recent XVI InternationalCongress on Law and Mental Health inToronto. Professors Bernstine, Carsten-sen, Lehman and Melli, Clinical Direc-tor Krista Ralston, Attorney CARLRAS-MUSSEN, and ANDREW SIEGEL,alsoparticipated at the conference. MicheleLavigne, Supervisor at LAIP,presented apaper at the Congress, "The HiddenInmate: Legal Services for the MentallyImpaired Prisoner" which was based onher work at LAIP.

Professor Blair Kauffman, LawLibrary Director, taught a three credit"Law Library Administration" course inthe summer intersession for the UWSchool of Library and InformationStudies. He also co-directed a one dayworkshop on "Managing In-house Data-bases" and moderated a program on"Microcomputer Networks" as a part ofthe American Association of Librariesannual meeting, in Minneapolis, in June.He has completed a short article on"Networking CD-ROMs,"which will bepublished in Law Library Trends and Tech-nology, and in July he will completeanother article on "The History of LawLibraries" for the Encyclopedia of LibraryHistory. Prof. Kauffman was appointed tothe Editorial Advisory Board of OceanaPublications, an international legal pub-lisher. The Board is made up of 12 lead-ing directors of law libraries. Blair is theyoungest appointee of this prestigiousBoard. The Board provides guidance inproduct development and new technol-ogy and assists in formulating editorialand marketing policy. Kauffman wasrecently appointed to Mead Data Corpo-ration's newly formed Academic Advi-sory Committee.

Professor John Kidwell recentlyattended a three-day workshop in Chi-cago sponsored by the National Confer-ence of Bar Examiners. In August heattended a session, also sponsored byNCBE in Chicago, devoted to the Multi-state Essay Examination. Kidwell repre-sented the UW Law School at a meetingof the Law School Admissions Confer-ence in Naples, Florida, June 6-9.

Mary Ann Polewski and MaryBarnard Ray made presentations at thefour-day July conference of the nationalLegal Writing Institute. Mary AnnPolewski spoke about the effective train-ing of teaching assistants. Mary BarnardRay spoke about designing and imple-

menting advanced legal writing coursesand chaired the panel on that topic. Inaddition, they both attended a wide vari-ety of sessions concerning currentresearch in the field, information fromrelated disciplines, and legal writing pro-gram administration. Mary Ray was amember of the program committee forthe conference and prepared the confer-ence schedule.

Professor Frank Remington was apanel member at the Future and theCourts Conference in San Antonio, May18-22. The Conference was sponsored bythe American Judicature Society and theState Justice Institute.

Associate Dean Gerald Thain spokeon "The Role of the Section Newsletter"at the State Bar of Wisconsin SectionLeadership Conference at Pewaukee,Wisconsin on July 26. Professor Thainwas also named to the American LawInstitute Members Consultation Groupon Review of Article 9 (Secured Transac-tions) of the Uniform Commercial Code.Thain reviewed recommendations of theState Bar Committee on Professionalismpertaining to legal education and notedthe response of the Law School to this, ina presentation to the State Bar Legal Edu-cation and Bar Admission Committee atthe 1990Annual Meeting of the State Barin Oshkosh. Thain was also reappointed

to a position on the State Bar Communi-cation Committee. Among other tasks,this committee serves as the editorialboard for The Wisconsin Lawyer.

Professor Joe Thome was in Equato-rial Guinea, Africa, working as a consul-tant for the World Bank on a land tenurestudy from August 11-23. From July 14-22, Professor Thome was in Recife, Bra-zil, participating in a workshop on "LegalServices Activities for the Rural Poor inLatin America," sponsored by the U.S.Interamerican Legal Services Association.

Citing Professor David Trubek's"successful record as the administratorof a broad-based research program in theLaw School," and his many other accom-plishments, Vice-Chancellor David Wardannounced that Trubek will be the Uni-versity's new Dean of InternationalStudies and Programs. David assumedhis new position in July. Professor MarkGalanter will be the new Director of theInstitute for Legal Research. Cathy Mes-chievitz has been appointed AssistantDean in the International StudiesDepartment.

Professor Bill Whitford addressed theNational Association of Chapter 13Trust-ees at their annual meeting in Baltimoreon August 8. His speech was based on hisrecent article, "Has the Time Come toRepeal Chapter 137"

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Another school year has begun, the firstunder new Dean Dan Bernstine. As wehave begun an ambitious schedule oftrips around the state and around thecountry, the excitement within the Schoolhas begun to spread. From the base pre-pared by Deans Thompson and Helstad,our alumni are being encouraged toremember their School as the great insti-tution it was, is and will continue to be.

While the plans for the major additionand remodeling project are slowly pro-gressing through the system, a fewsmaller projects have jumped ahead. Asyou approach the main entrance to theLaw Library, on the 5th floor, you arenow greeted by an all-new look. Gone arethe scarred wooden doors with the tinyglass "portholes." In their place is a set ofnew glass doors that not only dress-upthe entryway but also invite you into thenew reading room area. Security changeswill come next summer to make use ofthe library collection more efficientwhile, at the same time, making sure thatneeded books remain accounted for.

Two other projects will soon affect theLibrary. The microcomputer lab, pres-ently crammed into a small room in thebottom corner of the building, will berelocated into more spacious and func-tional quarters behind the circulationdesk. Computer use in the Law School,for research as well as for writing, hasboomed. Purchased and donated com-puter equipment is extremely useful butalso requires space, wiring and air condi-tioning. The new lab will have all theseamenities.

Along the same lines, 40 "hot" carrelshave been funded for addition to theLibrary. Each carrel will be wired into alocal area network allowing access toWestlaw, Lexis, the computerized cardcatalog and other computer-based ser-vices. These carrels will also supplementexisting carrels that are assigned to grad-

Mystery Picture

uate students, faculty research assistantsand other students with the need forsecure personal study locations. We haveanother request in for an additional 20"hot" carrels which would fill currentlyavailable space.

In the last Gargoyle, this columnincluded a picture of National Guardtroops in the Law School in 1969. DonaldD. Miller ('53) wrote to say, "It's abouttime [we give] credit to the fellows in theNational Guard who in their civilian lifelive paycheck to paycheck and then getcalled away ... during that crucial timeof their lives." Mr. Miller wrote this inJuly, just a week before the recent prob-lems began in the Middle East, problemswhich have once again disrupted thelives of National Guard troops across the

country, troops that certainly includegraduates of this Law School.

The last mystery picture showed anattentive audience at a Board of Visitorsprogram. Alumni who volunteered infor-mation included: John Sobotik ('85), BobVoss 1'48), Paul Tilleman ('78) and BobCurry ('53). They identified the correctyear (1977) and the persons pictured:Arnon Allen, Dick Trembath, Mac McKi-chan, Stu Gullickson, Bob Voss, GeorgeBunn, Lea VanderVelde, Paul Tilleman,Robert B.L. Murphy and Ron Tikalsky.

This issue's mystery picture may bemore challenging. From the clothes, Iwould put it in the late 1960' s or early1970's. Yes, the person in the middle isBrownie the Gargoyle, but who are thetwo students flanking Brownie?