Barrister News, Volume 15, Number 1, Summer, 1967 Page: 4
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the assembly, which in addition to the Law School
faculty and student body and their guests, included
such dignitaries as St. Mary's University President
The Very Reverend Louis J. Blume; Earnest A.
Raba, Dean of the Law School; The Very Reverend
James Young, President of the Board of
Trustees of St. Mary's University; Chief Justice
Robert W. Calvert of the Supreme Court of Texas;
and Associate Justices James R. Norvell, Zollie
Steakley, Meade Griffin, Jack Pope, Ruel Walker,
and Joe Greenhill, all of the Supreme Court; and
Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals K. p. Woodley, and Justice Charles Barrow
of the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals.
In his address, Dr. McCall said that the United
States is a country made up of minorities which dis-
agree among themselves in many ways and upon
many premises. "However," said Dr. McCall, "the
one thing upon which we all agree is our established
system of law. Due process is the basis upon which
we proceed to reach our goals-by following our
judicial system of procedure. Today, we have groups
of people who do not want to follow these established
procedures."
Dr. McCall designated these groups as some of
the deadliest enemies of our country, for a break-
down of our established procedures would, he said,
bring about a destruction of not only our system
of law, but our way of life: "our advocacy system is
representative of our American system-that is an
airing of conflicting opinions and a resulting dis-
covery of a solution."
"These groups," continued Dr. McCall, "want
to aborgate our system of peacably airing conflic-
ing opinions, and substitute a system by which they
shout down opinions opposed to their own. And
by denying persons with opposing views the right
to be heard, these groups, which strangely enough
seem to come from college campuses, are doing more
to destroy our system than any other force. We
need not fear those who blatently assert that they
will cause the downfall of the system, for all good
men will rise to put them down. But these groups
that wear fine lables and parade ostensibly for in-
dividual rights or worldwide peace, threaten to
destroy our American ideals centered around the
proposition that a peaceful discussion of conflicting
opinions gives rise to an amicable agreement."
In conclusion, Dr. McCall added, "From law
America derived a sense of procedure and a willing-
ness to abide by it. It is not a procedure which gov-
erns disagreements, but one which governs what
methods we should use to disagree-the arriving at
truths by harmonious debate and dialogue, without
force or violence."THE AWARDS
ABOVE, Dean of the Law School Earnest A. Raba is
shown holding the awards which were presented at
the Law Day Banquet. The St. Thomas More Award,
a bronze plaque, is an annual award which is pre-
sented upon the recommendation of the Law School
Executive Council to the University Administration to
an outstanding citizen of the nation for his or her
outstanding achievement during the academic year in
the field of law or in his or her contribution to the
legal profession. The award is restricted to judges,
lawyers, law teachers, and laymen who have made
exceptional contributions to legal education, the
profession, or to government.
Some of the former recipients of the St. Thomas More
Award include James R. Norvell, Associate Justice of
the Texas Supreme Court; Judge K. K. Woodley, Pre-
siding Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, and
W. Page Keeton, Dean of Texas University Law School.
Some of the past recipients of the Rosewood Gavel
Award, which is presented by the Law School each
year to an outstanding jurist of the state or nation in
recognition of his contribution to the democratic
process, are Robert W. Calvert, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Texas, James R. Norvell, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas; and J. E.
Hichman, past Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Texas.~~~ : ;
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The Barristers Student Bar Association, St. Mary's University School of Law. Barrister News, Volume 15, Number 1, Summer, 1967, periodical, 1967; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth426971/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting St. Mary’s University School of Law.