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rather than missing as we did twoyears ago and three years ago,when we overshot the mark by35-45 students. If our aim is good,the total enrollment should godown slightly to around 900 ora little above.

We have, of course, also beenattempting to increase the numberof faculty. But, we have beenlosing faculty members to otherschools and to retirements almostas fast as we could hire newpeople.

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Vol. 4, No.4 Summer, 1973Ruth B. Doyle, editor

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Distinguished Faculty-Alumni Awards toBunn and Boardman . P. 16

Students Honor GoodTeaching ... . P. IS

New Officers forWlAA . . . . . . . . .. P. 15

Nate Feinsinger ClosesOut One Career-WillDevote Full Time toAnother One P. 9

Institutional librariansWorkshop P. 12

The Guard Changes-Nellie Davidsonleaves the lawSchool. . . . . . . P. 8

Dean Bunn Reports ..

The Gargoyle CorrectsIts Mistakes .

Students Honored ForAchievements ....

Next fall we aim to admit about290 students, as we did this pastfall. We hope to hit this target withthe same accuracy as this past fall,

Your school is now burstingat the seams. Last fall we had950 students-in a building whichwas crowded at 750-and with afaculty which was insufficient for600. Our classrooms are socrowded we have had to turn awaystudents from some of our mostimportant courses-ConstitutionalLaw, Corporations, Evidence, RealEstate Transactions, and the Gen-eral Practice Course. Our largestclasses range from 150 to 190students. We have so many stu-dents compared with the studyspace in the library that we do noteven meet accreditation standards.

There were obviously two waysto solve this problem: one was toreduce the student body, and theother was to increase the faculty.

Reducing the student body sub-stantially did not seem feasible inthe face of the very high demandfor admission into the Law School-unless another law school couldaccept at least the Wisconsin stu-dents we did not take. The facultyrecommended creation of a secondstate-supported law school. But, asyou know, that recommendationwas turned down-at least for thetime being-on the ground that ithad not been shown that there wereenough jobs for law graduates tojustify another school.

an accreditation standard callingfor a faculty of suitable size for then u m be r of students. The LawSchool's own Board of Visitorsconcluded last year that the "big-gest need of the law school at thistime is for additional funds to en-able the law school to improve itsstudent-faculty ratio." In the sameyear, Spencer Kimball resigned,and a number of prospects for thedeanship visited the campus. Eachof them protested that the facultywas too small for the number ofstudents.

DEAN BUNN REPORTSTo The Annual Law School

Alumni Luncheon

He described the three greatestdifficulties which he thought facedthe school: (1) the small size ofthe faculty for the large numberof students, (2) the low level offaculty salaries as compared withthose at competitive law schools,and (3) the inadequacy of thelibrary budget.

I can report substantialimprovement in only one of theseareas: the library budget. Whilethe library has been spending lessper student on books, and has asmaller total number of books,than any other Big Ten law schoollibrary, its book budget was in-creased substantially last year anda request for another substantialincrease is before the Legislaturethis year.

This is the first time that I havereported to the alumni. I wouldlike to start where Dean Kimballleft off in his report to you lastyear.

In the other two problem areas,there have been only minorimprovements.

First, the sma 11 size of thefaculty for the large numbers ofstudents.

With the growing demand forlegal education, the student bodyincreased 60 percent in five yearswith no increase in the total num-ber of faculty until last year. Atthat time, an accreditation inspec-tion team, formed by the AmericanBar Association and the Associa-tion of American Law Schools,concluded that the School did notappear to be in compliance with

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Dean, Continued THE GARGOYLE CORRECTS ITS MISTAKES

counted over 160 members of thebar who were participating inteaching this year: 30 as lecturers,44 working in the General Prac-tice Course, 45 helping out inTrial Advocacy, 32 in the ClinicalProgram, and 7 in the two newlaw office training courses- ad-vanced legal drafting and the cli-ent counselling competition.· Mostof these attorneys were teachingpractice skills-giving students thebenefit of their experience at thebar-providing a kind of trainingwhich practicing lawyers can dofar better than most reg u 1a rfaculty.

It looks as if we will haveabout one tenth the money nextyear whi ch we had this yearfor such purposes unless theLegislature increases the budgetsubstantially. So our practiceskills training courses will haveto be curtailed. But I wanted youto know how much assistance wehad received from the bar thisyear, and especially to say thankyou to those in the audience whohave helped out.

JUDGESIn one way, it is discouraging

to be caught in error, particularlywhen great efforts have been madeto avoid it. In another, it is en-couraging to the Gargoyle to dis-cover how many of its readers arecareful and discerning.

Anyway, we are pleased tomake add it ion s to the lists ofalumni judges and alumni profes-sors published in our last issue(Volume 4, No.3).

For instance:

1928-Circuit JudgeW. M. Jackman,Madison.

1948-County JudgeWilliam G. Callow,Waukesha.

1950-Circuit JudgeWilliam L. Walker,St. Petersburg, Florida.

Also, Judge Howard H.Schmidt, Los Angeles (Class of1939), was listed as a CaliforniaSupreme Court Justice, when heis in fact a Superior Court Judge,Los Angeles County.

PROFESSORS1957 -Arnon Allen, Extension

Law Department,University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1967-Richard von Briesen,Queens University,Kingston, Ontario.

1969-Myron Erickson,University of Missouri-Columbia, School ofBusiness.

1971- Volker Knoppke- Wetzel,Extension Law Depart-ment, University ofWisconsin-Madison.

Finally, you will be interestedto know that we have five splen-did young faculty members join-ing us in the fall. They come froma variety of backgrounds-teach-ing, practice, clerkships. It is re-assuring to know that we continueto attract young teachers of dis-tinction in Wisconsin.

George Bunn, Dean

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STUDENTS HONORED fOR ACHIEVEMENTS

An important part of eachSpring Program in recent yearshas been the Awards Convocation,during which annual prizes foracademic excellence are presented,the newly elected Editors of theLaw Review are presented, andthe members of COIF are in-stalled. Families and friends ofthe recipients are guests. The LawStudent Wives have been host-esses at a reception following theConvocation.

The. awards presented on April7, 1973 are as follows:

Lawrence Salibra Charles Hanson

u.s. Law Week Award James BrindleyFor the most satisfactory progress during 3rd year

University of Wisconsin Foundation Award . . . . . . .. Lawrence A. SalibraTo student most improved from first to third semester

Mathys Memorial Award for Appellate AdvocacySelectedat the close of arguments, April 7, 1973

William Gansner

Milwaukee Bar Foundation Moot Court Prizes ..Selected at the close of arguments, April 7, 1973

William Gansner, John Buckley, Barbara Britt,Andrew Brignone, James Klenk, John Cook

Order of Coif

Honorary Initiate

International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award Charles E. HansonFor excellence in trial and appellate advocacy The Honorable Horace W. Wilkie

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

For Comment: Rule of Reason in Wisconsin Annexations1972 Wis. LR Vol. 1122

William Herbert Page Award . . . . . . . . . . .. . Stephen KnowlesFor outstanding contribution to the Law Review

Daniel Grady Prize ...........•....................... Daniel GoelzerTo the graduating student with highest standing

West Publishing Co. Book Award Edward MoersfelderFor scholarly contribution to the Law School Frank W. Bastian

Haney H. BellLaurie E. BierBarbara L. Foster BirdJohn L. BuckleyJames A. CarneyDavid B. GaeblerHelen E. GibsonDaniel 1. GoelzerDouglas B. GordonMari M. GurskyJames T. HafermanCharles E. HansonStephen W. KleinmaierJerome D. KringsJoseph L. LieglBruce D. LoringWilliam A. MannJulie Kampen MitbyEdward M. MoersfelderMark A. NordenbergAndrew J. OgilvieJohn L. PeetersMichael J. RemingtonJohn M. RileyPaul W. SchmidtRonald A. SuppaStanley A. TarkowPaul R. TruebenbachKaren I. Ward

Pauline Tesler

Pauline Tesler

Daniel GoelzerLaurie Bier

. . John Thilly

......... John A. McCay

Second ranking student after 45 credits

For Comment: Essential of Corporate Stock Redemptionunder Sec. 303. 1972 Wis. LR Vol. 1153

Joseph Davies Prize .To outstanding member of the second year class

Wisconsin Law Alumni Association PrizesFirst ranking student after 45 credits . .

George J. Laikin Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William C. NiemannFor outstanding Comment in the Law Review in special fields

Wisconsin Land Title AssociationJacob Beuscher Award

Salmon Dalberg Prize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .To outstanding members of the graduating class

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AWARDS CONVOCATION, 1973

Helen E. Gibson, Daniel Goelzer James Haferman, Stephen Kleinmaier

James Brindley

William Niemann,Edward Moersfelder

I.eon feingold, John McCay

Laurie Bier

Daniel Goelzer

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DISTINGUISHED FACULTY-ALUMNI AWARDS TO

BUNN AND BOARDMAN

The 1973 Alumni Associationawards to an honored Law SchoolFaculty member and an honoredalumnus were presented this yearto the late Professor Charles Bunnand Wade Boardman, Class of1930, at the reunion luncheon onApril 7.

Professor Willard Hurst pre-sented the award to the Bunn fami-ly, which includes the present Deanof the Law School. Walter Bjork(Class of 1937), General Counselof the Dairyland Mutual InsuranceCompany, made the presentationon behalf of the alumni to Mr.Boardman.

Bob Bunn was a fine and learn-ed teacher. But he taught nothingmore important than the workingattitudes he conveyed to his stu-dents by his own bearing and ap-proach to problems. One thing thatstands out to me is the effectivenesswith which he demonstrated thatlearning and acuteness of mind

Bob Bunn conveyed to studentsand to colleagues the deep earnest"ness with which he sought to get ahold on reality. This was an atti-tude directed not only at the client-caretaking role. It was a concernas a man of law about the capaci-ties and defects of the legal order.Salient here was his focus on theeconomy, as the aspect of the struc-ture and workings of society withwhich law is most pervasively in-volved. "It is hard for a lawyer tobe an amateur economist, but it isa necessary task." That we needto learn more in order to havemore to teach was a precept atthe heart of his idea of his job.

The strength of the law schoolmust come from the contributedstrength of the individuals whogive it continuing life. To CharlesBunn this school owes debts whichcannot be repaid, but which canbe matched by devotion such ashe gave the school. That is thetestimony of this award.

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Mr. Bjork: (in part)

Anyone who has practiced lawin Wisconsin in the last severalyears knows Wade Boardman,either personally or by reputation.And simply to name him, is toknow why the award is beingmade. But since the record mustbe protected, may I quickly reviewsome of the achievements andcontributions of this man.

Wade has been in the activepractice of law in Wisconsin sincehis graduation from the Univer-sity of Wisconsin Law School in1930. At that time he joined thefirm of La Follette, Rogers andRoberts. He is today senior part-

vice I know is to make it a dis-cussion, not a monologue. Then,it is often possible, by carefullistening, to detect where the otherperson has misunderstood whatyou have said. This is one of thereasons why, in teaching, a dis-cussion is so often more fruitfulthan a lecture."

Lawyers advise, they negotiate,they persuade, they record agree-ments. What Bob Bunn hammeredat in regard to all these roles, aswell as that of the teacher, was theimportance of knowing what oneis about, and then communicatingit accurately and without fancyimpediments. "Whatever the law-yer's professional use of speech,the essential thing is that it reach,in the sense intended by the speak-er, not only the eardrum of thehearer, but his mind. This canbest be done by talking about con-crete things and actions wheneverthat is possible, and avoiding theabstractions. How many kinds of'democracy' exist in people'sminds? Beyond that, the best de-

come across best with unpreten-tious simplicity and directness ofanalysis. A good deal of his flavorcomes through in some things hewrote about the everyday flow of alawyer's work. "No one not a law-yer can imagine how much time alawyer must put in getting infor-mation:, he wrote. "I do not meaninformation about the law. Ofcourse he must get that, but hewill get it out of books. I meaninformation about the client'sproblems and the facts connectedwith them. A lawyer's work is veryseldom about law. Once in a bluemoon he may serve on some com-mittee to improve some statute orthe like. (As, indeed, Bob Bunnhimself did on many occasions,notably in helping shape the Uni-form Commercial Code.) Most ofhis work, though, starts with hisclient's problem, which may con-cern anything. Whatever it is, hisfirst job is to learn about it; notonly the specific thing his client isconcerned about, but the wholefactual background. And by factu-al I mean everything bearing onthe problem except law. When mygrandfather was praeticing in up-state New York more than 100years ago, the situation as he re-ported it much later, was that al-most all litigation was about horsetrades. The lawyer needed, princi-pally, one book, 'The Points ofthe Horse' • . . "

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Professor Hurst: (in part)

Charles Bunn-who to a gen-eration of students and colleaguesat this law school was "Bob" Bunn-gave his strength, wisdom andhumanity to the school from 1934to 1961. To a generation of stu-dents he conveyed a full dimen-sioned demonstration of the manof law at his best-as a man think-ing; but, too, as a man feeling forthe other, while holding such de-tachment as would let him servethe other man's need; as a mankeeping his legal learning in work-ing balance to concerns that lawserve life.

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ner in the firm of Boardman, Suhr,Curry and Field, a fum of 17lawyers. Shortly thereafter Wadebegan teaching a practice courseat the law school which he contin-ued for 12 or 13 years, preparinghis own case book materials. Itwas as a teacher that I first knewhim, and I still remember seeinghim occasionally gulp a tablet atthe end of class to ease the painof his ulcer. I think we gave himthat ulcer with which he was tosuffer for a number of years. Hewas then, as he is today, a well-dressed man. He wore double-breasted suits which, with the thenpopularity of the vest, was an un-mistakable badge of modesty fora COllman.

Blork, Boardman, Hurst, G. Bunn

SUPPORT THE LAW SCHOOL FUND

During the forties and fiftiesWade served on the JudicialCouncil, the Law School Board ofVisitors and as President of theDane County Bar Association. Ofcourse, he is also a good duespaying member to all of the vari-ous Bar associations. He beganhis extended service on the StateBoard of Bar Commissioners in1946. Last year the WisconsinBar Association presented Wadewith a plaque as a tribute to themore than 25 years that Wadehas served on the Board of BarCommissioners. He still serves onthat Board and has been its presi-dent since 1953. Knowing the timeWade devotes to Board activities,I believe this is an unprecedentedrecord of service to the Bar. Theaward of special merit presentedto Wade read: "In recognition ofhis inspiring leadership and dedi-cated services to the professionand the public." I should mentionhe is also a charter member ofthe Benchers Society.

Wade's talents have also beenrecognized nationally by his officeof Regent of the American Collegeof Probate Counsel and his selec-tion as a Fellow of the AmericanBar Foundation.

So much for the record. As im-pressive as is this r ecor d ofachievement and service, it is amost inc 0 m p l e t e description ofWade Boardman. Like others thatI see in this audience, I had thegood fortune to start out in theprivate practice of law with Wadeand came to k now the greatwarmth of this man. As busy ashe was and is, he has alwaysfound time to concern himself withthe problems of others. I, for one,shall always be in his debt forthe guidance and counseling hegave to me not only in the earlyformative years, but throughoutour association. He is, in myopinion, the ideal practitioner. Aman of integrity and a perfectblend of the scholar and a man ofaction. He likes people and peoplecan't help but like him. He is amod est, unassuming man. Henever tries to impress anyone withhis knowledge. He has never hadto. He has always demonstratedthe quality of his intellect and hischaracter as a gentleman.

He is a most dedicated individ-ual and places almost unreason-able demands on the time he de-votes to his practice, leaving littletime for diversion. Up to a coupleof years ago he would find timeon Sundays to visit his farm inMineral Point. Wade raised white-faced Herefords, and typical of theman, became an expert in the fieldof Hereford genetics. He probablyknows by name every importantHereford bull in the country, itsowner, ancestry and descendants.I know that for a while he carriedin his wallet a picture of one ofhis own prize bulls, right alongwith the pictures of his grand-children.

With the little change of pacehe gets, I marvel at how he keepsthe great sense of humor that hehas. A great deal of the credit hasto go to a very tolerant, under-standing and devoted wife. I ampleased that Beth can be with ustoday.

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SPRING SPLASH-OLD GRADS

WINNING MOOT COURT TEAMS

Class of '48

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NEW GRADS-STUDENTS GATHER

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Professor Large

STUDENTS HONORGOOD TEACHING

Professors Donald Large andAllan Redlich have been selectedas Teachers of the Year by a mem-bership poll of the Student BarAssociation. Presenting the awardsat the Spring Splash on April 7,was Stanley Miller, New York,newly elected president of the Stu-dent Bar Association. He notedthat the criteria for selection in-cluded the ability to convey ideasclearly and to stimulate students'interest. He emphasized that re-search and publication were notconsidered qua l ifi c a ti 0 n s forTeacher of the Year.

Also honored by the StudentBar for their services to the stu-dent body were the following mem-bers of the Class of 1973: JaneBloom, James Brindley, StephenBrown, Roger Deffner, Helen E.Gibson, Thomas- Terrizzi, Alvin E.Whitaker and John W. Wiley.Brown served as Student BarPresident during 1972-73.

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Professor Redlich

WHERE ARE YOU?

Last we heard, you were atplaces listed below. How are you?

Arnold J. Ansfield-1924-Milwaukee

Everett H. Aspenson-1957-Oxnard, California

Joan T. Berr:y-1957-Cincinnati,Ohio

William J. Bethune-1969-Washington, D.C.

Alan S. Brostoff-1968-Washington, D.C.

Michael A. Burke-1967-Fort Hood, Texas

John L. Burley-1967-San Francisco, Cal.

William J. Campbell-1967-Milwaukee, Wis.

Edward G. Chambers-1946-St. Paul, Minn.

James R. Cohen-1963-Los Angeles, Cal.

John T. Coyne-1955-Gays Mills, Wis.

Thomas M. Cromartie-1956-Chicago, Ill.

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NEW OFFICERS FOR WLAA

Judge Thomas H. Barland,Eau Claire, was elected Presidentof the Wisconsin Law AlumniAssociation to succeed the lateGlen Campbell at the meeting ofthe Board of Directors which washeld as part of the Spring Programon April 7. Judge Barland hadserved as Vice-President and hadassumed the Acting Presidency inDecember, 1972.

Elected Directors for three yearterms at the Association's annualmeeting, also held on April 7 wereJudge B arland; John Tonjes,Fond du Lac, and Thomas D.Zilavy, Madison. Ms. BarbaraCrabb, U.S. Magistrate, Madison,was elected to a two-year term onthe Board of Directors.

Appointed to the Board of Visi-tors by the President were JusticeNathan Heffernan, Madison;HoI' ace Harris, Madison, andState Rep res en t a t ive LouiseTesmer, St. Francis. Justice Heffer-nan was elected Chairman andTim 0 thy Fr autschl, Milwaukee,Vice Chairman.

.IIudge Thomas H. Sarland

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NATE FEINSINGER CLOSES OUT ONE CAREER-Will DEVOTE FULL TIME TO ANOTHER ONE

For over forty years, it hasbeen Nate Feinsinger-the Teach-er, along with Nate Feinsinger theDeputy Sheriff, the Mediator, theUmpire, the Troubleshooter. Thisyear ends his teaching career. Hewill continue, along with his col-league, Eleanore Roe, to direct theCenter for Teaching and Researchin Disputes Settlements.

The definitive work on the Lifeof Nathan P. Feinsinger is yet tobe written, and is clearly beyondthe scope of the Gargoyle. Evenhis teaching is so various that itcannot be easily described-allaspects of labor relations: laborlaw, mediation, arbitration; plusfamily law, bills and notes, ad-miralty. He has been an admiredteacher in each, largely because ofhis broad and profound prepara-tion in each course. His textbooksinclude Suretyship, Labor Law,Partnerships. His articles are nu-merous and varied. He has taughtand pub l ishe d, and performedenough public service to fill sever-al useful lifetimes, all the whileadding luster and distinction tohis academic home.

Incidentally, the alma mater ofhis youth, the University of Michi-gan, awarded him an honoraryLLD on May 5,1973.

Gargoyle readers will rememberProfessor Willard Hurst's fullsometribute to Nate Feinsinger, at thetime of the Alumni Award in 1972,and published here a year ago.

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Brief recollections by three ofProfessor Feinsinger's admirersfollow:

Chancellor H. Edwin Young:

Then Governor Gaylord Nelsonasked Nate, Arvid Anderson andme to mediate a very serious dis-pute between the J. 1. Case Com-pany and the Auto Workers. Eachside had an absolutely firm posi-tion with no give whatsoever, andArvid and I were convinced thatthere was nothing we could do.But Nate kept working at it. Heasked each side endlessly abouttheir positions-and they had aposition on everything-and final-ly he thought of something thatnobody had a position on andsaid "With this broad area (actu-ally about as broad as yourfinger) not discussed, we must getdown to work and get on with thenegotiations." I have a nice ashtray from the Governor as a tokenof our success.

In another dispute I recall Iused to play straight man forNate. I'd tell whichever party wasin the room that the public wasn'tgoing to stand for this any longer,that their behavior was outrageousand could no longer be tolerated.Each party thought I was a parti-san for the other side, and aftermy strong statements Nate wouldcome in and say to whicheverparty was present, "I know you'renot as bad as Young says butafter all he does have a sense ofthe public feeling," and this wouldfrequently break the ice and wewould get down to cases. Needlessto say, it didn't make me verypopular with either managementor labor at the time.

In quite a different context, Iremember Nate's being at the the-sis examination of a student whohad written in labor economics.The thesis waf? about 560 pageslong, Nate was busy arbitratingfor General Motors, teaching inthe Law School, and flying allover the country, and so everyoneassumed that he probably hadn'tread the thesis. When it came histurn to ask a question, he said tothe candidate, "I think there is amisspelling in the footnote on page337." We all opened our copies,and there was a misspelling in thefootnote on page 337.

Anthony DeLorenzo, vice-presi-dent, GeneralMotors Corporation:

Mr. Feinsinger's record as aGeneral Motors-UAW umpirespeaks for itself, and although yousaid you were not seeking tributes,I think his record is one.

As you may know, under theGM-UAW umpire procedure, theumpire is selected by both partiesto serve as the final arbitratorof disputes arising through themanagement-union g r i e van c eprocedure.

Mr. Feinsinger was the seventhof nine GM-UAW umpires In the33 years that the umpire systemhas been in effect. He served asan umpire from June 1, 1954,until September 30, 1966. Hismore than _12 year tenure was thelongest of any umpire in the his-tory of the GM-UAW umpire sys-tem and truly attested to his abilityand imp artiality in renderingdecisions.

The task was not an easy one,and travel was a necessary part ofhis life. The UAW in those yearsrepresented some 400,000 GMhourly employes in more than 120plants in about 60 cities in theUnited States. During his yearsas an umpire, he rendered 377separate decisions totaling 944pages.

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF

President and Emergency Board in Railroad dispute involving firemen on Diesellocomotives.International Conference on I,.abor Economics, Hawaii, 1963.With HSTand Wage Stabilization Board, 1951.All-night session on the eve of the steel strike, 1952.Settlement of dispute in Pacific Maritime industry, 1946.Investigation of safety conditions on ships and docks, West Coast, 1947.

NATHAN P. FEINSINGER

PROCL::..l.1i1.Tlon

'HH:~::.AS, a c ont rover-ey of lone standing has existed

between the I.1.W.U. (C.I.O.) Local No. 152 and the Hawaiian Pd no •..

apple Producers' As soo te t t on ; and

WHERE.&S,all efforts for a settlement through negotiation,

mediation and conciliation previous to July 8th, 1947. had failed; and

WHEREAS. a strike was begun on Thursday, Juk y lOth, which,

if continued indefinitely, would result in the Leas of a sixty

million dollar {$60,aOO,OOO) crop and thus seriously impair the

economic structure of this Territory, interfere with such government

functions as education, health, public welfare, public institutions,

and road construction; and

'NHERE.A.S, Dr. Nathan P. Feinsinger came to Hawaii on July

8th, 1947. at the request of tho Secretary of' t.hev En te r-Lo r-, the Secre-

tary of Labor and the aeo r-e te rv of' A£;ricu1ture, to take over nego-

tiations; and

WHEREAS, a settlement of the strike we e effected as of

midnight July 15th, 1947. thus e s eur mg the continued e oo Lc.I and economic

growth of Hawai i; now,

THEREFORE, I, OREN 'E. LONG, Acting Governor of Hawa f I , do

hereby proclaim wednesdev , July 16th, 1947, NAT!:IANI'.FEINSINGERDhY in

Hawaii and in behalf of the people I expr eae to him our deep r-ospe c t

and appreciation and extend to him the warmest Aloha of the r-e at de.nt.e

and citizens or this American community.

DONEat Iolani Palace, Honor.ut.u ,

Territory of HewuH , tJlis

16th day of' JulS, 1947.

Quarter mile, Michigan vs, Illinois, 1927.With Greathouse (UAW.CIO), and Ohrman (Allis Chalmers), settlement of strike,1959.Always - a Professor.Big Ten Championship relay team, University of Michigan, 1926.Governor's Proclamation, Nathan P. Feinsinger Day. Hawaii, 1947.

DeLorenzo Continued

course I never asked them directlyabout him-this was another thinga Dean was not supposed to do-but I'd hear comments and theywere always glowing.

Nate Feinsinger as I do, I knowthat he so rewarded those whowere fortunate enough to take hiscourses.

I might point out that his abili-ties sometimes caused GM and theVAW to agree to requests that heserve as an arbitrator or mediatorin disputes outside of our industryduring the years that he servedas an umpire.

Among our labor relations peo-ple, Mr. Feinsinger was respectedfor many abilities, including afantastic sense of humor. Hisunusual wit gave him an abilityto relax a difficult hearing eventh 0 ugh both sides were underintense pressure.

This, of course, imposed a tre-mendous work burden on him.Our labor relations people recallan occasion when he was holdinga GM-VAW umpire hearing inKansas City while an airplanewaited-irrespective of the time ofday or night-to take him toWashington to serve as a mediatorin an important case involvingthe public welfare.

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Moreover, in addition to laborlaw, partnerships and agency, hetaught a big four-credit course inBills and Notes, and he managedto make it interesting, which in myopinion (having groaned underits dullness at Harvard) was aremarkable feat. He accomplishedthis not by oratorical acts or byhis ever-present wit-one couldn'tbe either dramatic or funny inexpounding Bills and Notes-butby the sheer mastery of his subjectand the pleasure he took-andconveyed-in making the studentscome to grips with its maddeningintricacies. He had that rare com-bination of a sparkling personalityand a scholar's conscience andlove of law in all its twistings andturnings. To him the law was anintensely human process, evolvedout of experience and felt needs,and since he was so intenselyhuman himself he made it all comealive.

The second thing I wanted tosay was that he was a teacher notonly of law students but of themultitude of laymen who battledbefore him in the turbulent arenaof labor disputes. As mediator andas arbitrator he taught them, slow-ly but surely, and without seemingto do so, the need of moderationand honesty in dealing with oneanother, and the courage to con-fess error as well as to assertrights. And he thus taught notonly the participants but all thosewho observed him in this process,as I did in our War Labor Boarddays. For this and much else Ishall never cease to be gratefulto him.

INSTITUTIONALLIBRARIANSWORKSHOP

Lloyd K. Garrison, New Yorklawyer, former Dean, formerChairman of the War LaborBoard.

I don't know anything at first-hand about Nate Feinsinger as ateacher because I never visited hisclasses. Law School Deans aren'tsupposed to listen in on professors.I only know of one who did. Hewas the head and owner of a pro-prietary night law school, at thattime the largest law school in thecountry and, I dare say, in theworld. He had a pipe-line to everyclassroom and he would sit in hisoffice, listen to his teachers teach,and fire any who didn't suit him.But though I never heard NateFeinsinger teach, I knew from thestudents that he was tops. Of

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There are only two other thingsI can say about his teaching. First,Justice Holmes once remarkedthat the highest function of educa-tion was not intellectual but moral.If, he said, you can make someonesee that another way of looking atthings is truer and more profound-if you can really make him seeand feel this to be so-the verynature of man is such that he willembrace it. This observation ispeculiarly relevant to law teaching.For law is not merely a practicaltool but an ethical system distilledfrom a myriad of judgments aboutright and wrong, "between whoseendless jars," as Ulysses said inTroilus and Cressida, "justice re-sides." He whose sense of justiceis the most delicately attuned willbest convey that sense to his stu-dents, and this is the highest gifthe can confer on them. Knowing

A workshop on the provisionof legal research materials forprison inmates was conductedat the Law School under thesponsorship of the state Divi-sion of Corrections, the stateDivision of Library Servicesand the Law School on April 6,1973. Ten librarians from theprison at Waupun, the GreenBay Reformatory, the Fox LakeCorrectional Ins t itu tion andthe Home for Women at Tay-cheedah participated. ProfessorMaurice Leon, Law Schoollibrarian, lectured on legalbibliography and legal citation.Professor Volker Knoppke-Wetzel of the Extension Lawdepartment, and Martin Mil-grim, Class of 1972, discussedcriminal justice procedures andlegal help available to inmates.

TH'E GARGOYLE

THE GUARD CHANGES-

NELLIEDAVIDSON LEAVES THE LAW SCHOOL

After many years of observingthe University scene from a num-ber of vantage points, the Gar-goyle is convinced that a smallgroup of crucial employees (per-haps less than 20) have the powerof life and death over the Institu-tion. All of them are women. If,for any reasons of dissatisfactionwith their hours, wages, conditionsof employment-or for any otherreasons-they were to decide col-lectively to withhold their services,the University would cease to func-tion almost immediately. No pick-ets. No threats. No leaflets. Justquiet refusal would do the trick.

Their indispensability is due, ofcourse, to the fact that they wouldnever and have never withheldtheir services. As a result they areexperts in all non-academic areasof university administration. Theyknow the short cuts and the longcuts, the people and the sources ofpower. While they don't make de-cisions about the budget, they al-locate funds and know who writesthe checks. They hold varioustitles-Administrative Ass i s tan t,Secretary to the Dean, OfficeMan-ager, what have you. Deans,Chancellors, Presidents come andgo; these people stay on throughturmoil, staff change, expansion,contraction, development.

Nellie Davidson is one of thisselect group. This year the LawSchool will be put to the ultimatetest. Mrs. D is retiring. Will theSchool survive? Will it maintainits connections with the rest of theUniversity: Stores, the Bursar, theRegistrar?

Who knows?This recollection leads her to

recall her observation of the dupli-cating revolution which has oc-curred during her tenure in theLaw School. From typing stencils(which were delivered to the oldadministration building for mim-eographing)to Verifax and Xerox.The Verifax was particularly in-

She has admitted students in thedays when the only criterion foradmission was a 2.5 average afterthree years, or a 2.0 and aBachelor's degree. In those days,she recalls no one knew until thefirst day of classes how many werecoming and who they were.

Many middle-aged alumni willrecall the days after the secondWorld War when the Law Schoolenrollment exceeded 800, with ateaching staff only slightly biggerthan its pre-war size. Part-timetea chers helped fill the gaps,classes were huge, and three fullsemesters a year were provided totake care of the crowd.

teresting; the material to be dupli-cated was produced on a plasticmaster. Each sheet to be repro-duced was placed under a heatlamp and baked 15 minutes. Abell announced the passage of 15minutes. The heat was so intensethat on occasions the heat lampsburst and shattered all over theroom.

A modern duplicating room,providing a variety of services,was installed as part of the newLaw School in 1965. It receivedspecial praise from the evaluatingteams of the Association of Ameri-can Law Schools and the Ameri-can Bar Association during theirvisit to the Law School in Novem-ber, 1971. Ruth Saaf, the managerof the duplicating room, is Mrs.D's daughter, the mother of threeof her six grandchildren.

She has served continuously fulltime under Deans Rundell, Ritchie,Young, Kimball and Bunn-a"nice crowd to work for", she says.With Deans Rundell and Ritchieshe was secretary as well as ad-ministrator, registrar and admis-sions officer. It was during DeanRitchie's tenure that she gave upher secretarial duties and assumedher other tasks full time.

She has, she thinks, done every-thing in the Law School excepttea ch . She has prepared classschedules-now the responsibilityof the Associate Deans.

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began in 1941, half days. Sheserved as secretary and typist forProfessors Rice, Bunn, Gausewitzand Campbell, then located in the"new" wing. Miss Aline Merz wasthe Dean's secretary. The officestaff consisted of Miss Merz,Helene Wheeler, Mrs. D, a 1/2time employee on the 3rd floor,and another 1/2 time typist in theDean's office.

Civil Service calls her an Edu-cational Services Assistant, yet sheis no one's assistant. Recently, shehas been designated by the LawSchool administration as Regis-trar of the Law School, althoughstudent registration and recordsare only a small part of the totalresponsibility of her office. She isself-described perhaps mostaccurately as Jack of All Trades.

As with the others in her elitecompany, her job has grownaround her. Hence, her power andinfluence.

Early in the war, another taskwith another boss was added toher duties. By 1943 she was work-ing full time all the time. Her ad-ditional duty was to prepare dailyfor Professor Page's course in WarContracts. There was no text onthe subject. Mrs. D's job was tokeep three cases ahead of the class,typing and mimeographing moun-tains of material.

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Guard Changes, Continued

The old building, which hadbeen considered inadequate for atleast 30 years, g r 0 an ed androcked with the weight.

The sudden upsurge required amajor adjustment. During theWar, she recalls-somewhat nos-talgically-the Law School had 49students and 4 full-time Facultymembers. Afternoon coffee in theLibrary brought everyone togeth-er. (Coffee for the expanding facul-ty is another of her continuingduties). Many of the students wereearly returnees from the war, andtheir reminiscences added a dimen-sion to the life of those left behind.

As the years have gone by, Mrs.D has continued to supervise thesecretarial services to the Faculty.She puzzles a little at the changes.Few Faculty members dictate tosecretaries any more. Some ofthem, who have special grants,provide their own secretarial serv-ice. Some seldom use typing assist-ance. All these changes have freedthe staff under her supervision forthe burgeoning administrative du-ties required to keep a large LawSchool in operation.

Her associations with studentshave been constant-and constant-ly pleasant, she reports. The Stu-dent Bar Association has entrustedher with the administration of anemergency small loan fund-inter-est-free,short-term, $50 maximum,few questions asked. She providesrecords and transcripts, documentsrequired for admission to the Bar,and answers to hundreds of ques-tions. Students appreciate her cour-tesy and care; this year's crophonored her for themselves andthe hundreds who came before, attheir spring dinner on April 7.

She has enjoyed the changingscene. Although she recalls fondlyher more than 20 years of servicein the old building, she has notmissed for a moment the draftychill, the falling plaster, the ricketystairs, the crowded offices in themidst of wasted corridor space.

Mrs. D

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so that the dead of the Wisconsinwinter will find them elsewhere.They will keep their home inMadison, because their family ishere. Their lives are full of autoraces, card games, church andmany activities. It will be a busy,happy time for them.

***Will the Law School survive?

Of course. It has an institutionaldynamism for which Mrs. D her-self is largely responsible. A wholeacademic year has been devotedto providing transition time andtraining to the staff.

It will survive, but it will bedifferent.

Charles T. Duvall-Arlington,Virginia

John F. Ebbott-1970-Milwaukee, Wis.

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick J. Erhardt-1970-Selfridge, Michigan

Dale F. Fuller-1963-SantaClara, Cal.

Arthur F. Gausewitz-1965-Chicago, Ill.

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Joseph W. Denissen-1953-Dayton, Ohio

Peter R. Dennis-1964-Wauwatosa, Wis.

Philip R. Dougherty-1961-San Francisco, Cal.

Richard E. Downing-1958-San Francisco, Cal.

Nancy C. Simonsen-1967-(nowDreher) San Francisco, Cal.

Lawrence B. Dunn-1923-McLean, Virginia

Where, continued from p, 15

For all her long service to theLaw School, her career in the Uni-versity, which began in 1931, in-cludes five years' service in theMedical School and several yearsin the University Registrar's office,followed by retirement. She had in-tended to be a full-time housewife,and then briefly (in 1941) a part-time housewife.

Nevertheless, she is a youngretiree. She and her husband,Vearl, are retiring together. Theirplans are well-laid. Their cottageat Buffalo Lake has been fullyequipped and winterized so thatthey can spend a substantial partof each year there. They are ex-perienced motor home travellers,

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