The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 212, Ed. 1 Monday, July 6, 1981 Page: 24 of 28
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Monday, July 6, 1981
{It’s Oldest Law Grad
Hangs Out His Shingle
HOUSTON (AP) - Most
members of the Texas
Young Lawyers Associa-
tion are forced out when
they reach the ripe old age
of 35, But Willie Kocurek of
Austin is an exception to
that rule.
At age 70, he still gets to
be a member because of a
rule that allows lawyers in
the club for three years
after they pass the bar ex-
am.
Kocurek did that two
months ago, and today he is
an inspiration to anyone 40
or older harboring secret
desires of changing
careers.
Kocurek, a former ’ap-
pliance merchant,, is the
oldest person ever to
graduate from the Univer-
sity of Texas law school. He
was ill Houston for this
week's State Bar of Texas
convention.
. "I moved to Austin 52
years ago to become a
lawyer,” Kocurek said.
“There were sidetracks in
the meantime.”
“But that one semester
gave me permission to get
back in,” Kocurek said.
After the war he said he
was unable to arrange a
schedule to allow for both
working and law school,
and with a wife and kids, he
decided his dream of
becoming a lawyer would
have to wait.
Then “three years ago we
said 50 years in one
business Is enough. We are
now in the second 50-year
span business,” Kocurek
said. He said going back to
school was "purely an ego
trip we didn’t want to let
life pass without doing.” .
He said he had no trouble
getting along with younger
professors and students.
Kocurek said he and his
wife ^attended all of the
school’s social functions, in-
cluding an annual even call-
ed “The Fall Drunk.”
, Kocurek says he is open-
ing a law office with two of
his younger classmates, ag-
ed 60 and 50. Both went to
law school after retiring
was Kocurek’s appliance
Store, which he owned in
Austin for 50 years and used
advertising to make the
public familiar with his
slogan “You don’t need
money — just a little bit a
month."
He said he tried once
before to start law school.
10 years after he graduated
in 1933 from UT's business
school. But a war was in
progress, and after one
semester he was drafted in-
to the N avy. * ■
The main “sidetrack” from the military as col-
onels with more than 30
years of service.
He said there were ad-
vantages to being 70 years
old — for one thing you
don't have to pay the $65 an-
nual dues to the State Bar
because lawyers 70 and
older are exempt.
So* when Kocurek and
other attorneys were Sworn
into the bar in May, Chief
Justice Joe Greenhill said
Kocurek was “practicing
his old philosopy ‘you
don’t need money ,’”
Chrysler Won’t Need
All Loan Guarantees
WASHINGTON (AP)
Chrysler Corp. doesn’t need
the remaining $400 million
of the $1.5 billion federal
loan guarantees authorised
by Congress in 1979 to avert
the automaker’s bankrup-
cy, Secretary Treasury
Donald T. Regan says.
"I don’t see it at this time
as being necessary,”
Regan said. ‘Certainly
they haven’t asked for it,
and they told us they don’t
intend to ask for it.”.
Regan predicted that
Chrysler will survive
without further govern-
ment assistance if, as he
assumes, interest rates
decline. High borrowing
costs have been cited as a
reason for the decline in
autosales.
Laurie Spiegel
The People Page
^wmmmm
Composing by computer
By Ann Ferrar
"In the past, people’s only
contact with computers was
through thfflr phone bill The
current movement m home
computers, is changing
that"
Laurie SpiegeL-a-elassicai
eomposefsch^ledatJuil:
liard and Oxford University,
uses a home computer
hooked up to a polyphonic
synthesizer, a keyboard and
a video screen to create
pieces that are at once aural
and visual/*
"I'm probably the only
Juilliard-educated. classical
composer who uses the com-
puter as an instrument so
far. but others will follow,
says Miss Spiegel, who
teaches electronic music at
Cooper Union in New York
City Rock groups will
probably make great use of
thatechnology"
She began experimenting
with electronic music in the
late 1960s. but eventually
found the synthesizer too
limited for her purposes By
1973 she was using the com-
puter to create more com-
plex structures and sound
textures than were possible
before.
The buttons on her com-
puter can simulate up to 22
instruments. Sounds appear
(on the video screen as huh-
i Weds, of thousands of tiny
Vectored dots, which fluctu-
|ap1n patterns according to
the musical notes being
played.,The finished music-
image Compositions are
stored on small magnetic
discs
Miss Spiegel, whose com-
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Johannes . Kepler's "Har
moniea Mundi" is on the
Voyager space probe, sees
the computer as the greatest
innovation In music since
the G-clef. She predicts that
new composing techniques
will be generated, allowing
people unskilled in musical
notation and theory to com-
pose bv simply following the
sights and sounds projected
on their screens People will
even be able to play these
synchronous, audio-visual
pieces to each other over
their phone lines
Miss Spiegel has written
for Computer Music maga-
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 212, Ed. 1 Monday, July 6, 1981, newspaper, July 6, 1981; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1019511/m1/24/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.