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ANNOTATIONS
Vol. V Issue 5
November, 1976
Yount Honored
Alumnus Award Given
Professional Orientation Day Set
To Discuss Legal Specialization
The 1976 "Distinguished
Alumnus Award" is presented
to an outstanding leader whose
choice of Houston as her home
in 1953, and of South Texas
College of Law to provide her
legal education, both proved to
be fortunate for the Community
and the College.
Jane Yount, the first woman
to receive this highest alumni
award, is a 1958 graduate with
honors. She accepted an
exacting position with Con-
tinental Oil Company's
Southern Region while writing
for and serving on the staff of
South Texas Law Journal, and
was twice elected to our Student
Council.
Her local career included pri-
vate practice. She served as a
part of the legal team serving
Continental Oil in its in-
ternational operations in New
York and Connecticut and since
1975, has been part of the legal
division of the intercontinental
petroleum division for ex-
ploration and production
operation, Cities Service
Company in Houston. "The
world is my orbit," she said in a
recent interview.
She has been an active worker
in the Harris County
Republican organization,
serving as chairman of the
Rules Committee and Assistant
General Legal Counsel.
This Oklahoma native,
educated in the Iowa public
schools, received the Bachelor
of Arts degree in History at the
University of Iowa. She has
been one of our most loyal
graduates, assisting with
financial campaigns to raise the
funds for the new Jesse H. Law
Building, and is the only woman
elected to the Board of Direc-
Jane Yount
tors of South Texas Law
Journal, Inc. where she served
as president for a term.
BUSINESS WEEK
recognized her many valuable
contributions to her profession,
her community, her alma
mater, her nation by naming
her as one of the top 100 Cor-
porate Women in America.
On October 17, 1976, in
recognition of National
Business Women's Week, she
was named co-honoree by the
Helen M. Martin Business and
Professional Women's Club of
Houston.
In a recent interview
published in the September 1976
Houston magazine business
feature, the recipient of this
high award was quoted as
saying:
"Women should not expect
any special favors just because
they are women. They've got to
start someplace. They can't
start at the top."
In presenting the award,
Dean Garland Walker said, "in
the 18 years since graduating
from STCL, this is the one lady
who has gone to the top, who
exemplies the finest in charac-
ter, contribution, and
professionalism."
By Michael Sehl
The upcoming First Annual
Professional Orientation Day,
November 6th, promises to be
one of the more interesting
events to be held at South Texas
this year.
Fourteen attorneys will be
speaking to informal groups of
students regarding the
problems and practice of law in
nine areas of specialization.
Many of the speakers are South
Texas graduates.
Topics have been chosen by
the Alumni Committee from
those listed in a survey of South
Texas students. The speakers
have been arranged in sequence
so that there will be the least
conflict for those who wish to
attend three of the four
a group in discussion of family
law. William Allen will speak on
taxes and corporations. These
sessions are expected to last as
late as noon.
Between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Nick Nichols and Mike Saun-
ders will discuss tort law while
Ronald Byrnes will speak with
students on the problems and
practice of oil and gas law.
The noon to 1 p.m. session will
feature Bill Cannon in the
section on wills, trusts and
probate, and Edmund Bard
discussing patents and
trademarks.
Coffee and doughnuts will be
served in the morning to those
who are pre-registered.
Registration will take place in
the first floor lobby during the
week preceding November 6th.
Please register so that the
Alumni Association can
adequately provide space and
refreshments.
Supreme Court Selects Nelson
For Briefing Attorney Position
The program will start at 9
a.m. on Saturday, November 6,
and will deal with two areas of
criminal law. Stu Stewart and
Paul Schiffer of the District
Attorney's office will discuss
prosecution. Will Gray, Phillip
Burleson and Marvin Teague,
all in private practice, will
discuss criminal defense.
Burleson, an STCL graduate, is
a member of the Texas Study
Project on Criminal Justice
Standards and Goals.
Also at 9 a.m., William
Luther, an STCL graduate, will
lead a session on real property
transactions in the practice of
law.
At 10:30 students will have
their choice of attending
sessions on domestic relations
and family law or taxes and
corporations. Nancy Wester-
feld, former director of the
Houston Legal Foundation, and
Rachel Johnson will each head
By Patrick M. Flynn
Karen S. Nelson, an Assistant
Editor in Chief of the South
Texas Law Journal, has been
selected by the Texas Supreme
Court for a briefing attorney
position commencing next
August, working for Justice
Johnson.
The Court interviewed 85
applicants on October 7,8, and 9
for the ten briefing attorney
posts. Nelson was notified of her
selection on October 14. She will
be the first STCL graduate to
participate in the Briefing
Attorney Program since 1969.
Under the Program, the Court
hires ten law school graduates
every year to help the justices
research and write their
opinions.
Dean Garland R. Walker said
he was "very happy to see her
get the job." The Dean noted
that Jay Sprecher was the last
STCL graduate to serve as a
Texas Supreme Court briefing
attorney. Sprecher served in the
position in 1969-70.
Nelson graduated magna cum
laude from Louisiana State
Karen Nelson
University in 1972 and received
a Bachelor of Science Degree in
English. Her honors and ac-
tivities at STCL include: Order
of the Lytae, Delta Theta Phi
Law Fraternity, Women in
Law, Student-Faculty Relations
Committee, Dean's List, and
American Jurisprudence
Awards for Highest Ranking
Student in Real Property I and
Damages.
Jesse Jones: A Salute to "Mr. Houston
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By Tommy Adkisson
To those of us who pass by or
through the entrance at 1303 San
Jacinto it is practically im-
possible to miss the bold black
metal letters which read "Jesse
H. Jones Law Building"
alongside the logo and name of
"South Texas College of Law."
Yet of the many thousands of
passers-by including students
reading the inscription, how
many of us can say we
recognize the name Jesse H.
Jones? And of those of us who
recognize the name, how many
know anything about the
phenomenal role this man
played in the building of present
day Houston?
The connection of South
Texas College of Law with Jesse
Jones is through his trust known
as Houston Endowment
Incorporated, founded in 1937
by Jesse and Mary Gibbs Jpnes.
While not limited in its scope, it
has devoted its funds prin-
cipally to scholarships tor
needy young mm and women in
some fifty colleges including
more than two dozen in Texas
and to the establishment of the
Woodrow Wilson School of
Foreign Affairs at the
University of Virginia. Among
the distinguished Americans
honored by Mr. and Mrs Jones
through these scholarships are
to Woodrow Wilson, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Vice President
John Nance Garner, Generals
Douglas MacArthur, George S.
Patton, George C. Marshall,
and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
If public words and gestures
are any measure of an in-
dividual's worth and value to
the community, Jesse Jones can
weigh in with the heaviest of
community heavyweights.
According to The Chronicle,
Franklin Roosevelt is quoted as
saying: "Jesse Jones is the only
man in Washington who can and
does say 'yes' and 'no' in-
telligently twenty-four hours a
day." In 1935, "in recognition of
his outstanding service to this
state and nation," the Texas
Legislature commissioned a
special portrait of Jones and to
this date the painting still hangs
in the Senate Chamber where it
was placed at its dedication.
A native of Robertson County,
Tennessee, Jones at twenty
years of age moved to Dallas,
Texas, where he worked for his
uncle who owned the M. T.
Jones Lumber Company. By
age twenty-two young Jones
had become manager of the
company. It was in the lumber
and later the building and
construction business that
Jones began to lay a solid
grounding for the financial and
business expertise for which he
was so heavily relied upon by
giants of industry and govern-
ment, including at least three
United States Presidents. In
general, Jones' intense activity
in both the private and public
sector provided the background
of experience necessary for the
many roles he played as
statesman, financier, publisher,
hotelman, banker, and
philanthropist.
Certain names seem to ring a
bell as "distinctively Houston"
to those familiar with the Bayou
City. Among the many names
one might list are those of John
Richardson Harris, Augustus C.
and John K. Allen, Colonel
Edward M. House, James
Stephen Hogg, Ezequiel Cullen,
George H. Hermann, M. D.
Anderson, and William Marsh
Rice. All were key figures in the
building of this city. Regardless
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