Stetson
Vol. 9 No. 4 (USPS 990-560)
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March 1981
Jacob Named Law Dean
Bruce R. Jacob, dean and professor
of the Walter F. George School of Law
at Mercer University, will be the new
dean of Stetson's College of Law
beginning June 1, 1981, according to
an announcement by President
Pope A. Duncan. Richard T. Dillon,
present dean, had previously
announced his plans to retire
May 31.
The announcement ended a
six-month search for a new dean.
"We're pleased to have such a
qualified and gifted man as Dr. Jacob
to lead our College of Law in building
upon the strong tradition of excellence
which Dean Dillon leaves with us,"
President Duncan remarked.
Jacob, 45, distinguished himself at
Stetson's College of Law as president
of the Student Bar Association,
president of the second-year class and
was listed in Who "s Who in American
Universities and Colleges. He received
a full-tuition Highbaugh Foundation
scholarship and graduated second in
his class in 1959.
He has served as dean and professor
of the Mercer law school since
February 1978. Prior to that
appointment, he was professor of law
and director of clinical programs for
The Ohio State University College of
Law for five years, having taught at
that school since 1971.
Jacob was appointed by the United
States Supreme Court as counsel for
petitioner in Kaufman v. United
States, represented the respondent,
Wainwright, before that court in
Gideon v. Wainwright, and wrote
briefs for each case. He has handled or
assisted in numerous cases before
appellate courts, including the United
States Courts of Appeal for the Fifth
and Sixth Circuits, the Supreme Court
of Florida, the Supreme Court of Ohio,
Florida District Courts of Appeal and
the Ohio Courts of Appeal.
A former staff attorney for the
Community Legal Assistance Office in
Cambridge, Mass., he assisted law
students in establishing the Harvard
Prison Legal Assistance Project and
served as a research associate for the
Center for the Advancement of
Criminal Justice at Harvard Law
School.
While teaching at Emory University
School of Law for four years, Jacob
established and served as faculty
supervisor of the Emory Legal
Assistance for Inmates Program, a
project funded by the National
Defender Project of the National Legal
Aid and Defender Association.
A graduate of Florida State
University, he had received a Danforth
Foundation award as an outstanding
leader in his senior class at Sarasota
High School and attended college on
academic, music and athletic
scholarships. He played in the first
violin section of the Florida State
Symphony Orchestra, and was on the
varsity track and basketball teams.
Jacob served as an assistant and
special assistant attorney general of
Florida for two years in Tallahassee
where he also was a lecturer in
business law at Florida State
University.
He was associated with the law firm
Holland and Knight in Polk County
and received a Ford Foundation
Fellowship to attend Northwestern
University School of Law where he
received a master's degree in 1965.
Last year he was awarded a
doctorate from Harvard Law School
where he had studied on a graduate
fellowship.
He has been a guest speaker and
participant at numerous professional
conferences and meetings, and is the
author of a book, Restitution in
Criminal Justice, published by
Lexington Books in 1977.
Jacob is a member of The Florida
Bar, American Bar Association,
American Judicature Society, and a
trustee of the Institute of Continuing
Legal Education in Georgia (serving as
vice-chairman in 1980).
He was appointed in 1971 by the
National Legal Aid and Defender
Association to the National Advisory
Board for the establishment of a
National Defender College.
STETSON/$50,000,000 Update
Campaign Tops
$14 Million
"Gifts and pledges to the
STETSON/$50,000,000 campaign
have now exceeded $14 million and we
■expect to surpass $15 million by May
30."
With that good news, Doyle E.
Carlton, Jr., chairman of the
STETSON/$50,000,000 campaign,
began his report to the board of
trustees during their annual meeting
in February.
Carlton attributed the campaign's
success to the outstanding response of
trustees, alumni and friends. He
added that the Phase I campaign goal
of $20 million should be reached
during the 1982-83 academic year, a
full year ahead of schedule.
In explaining his report, Carlton
noted that the University had secured
another endowed professorship
through a grant of $500,000. The
donor, who chooses to remain
anonymous, will pay out the pledge
within a two-year period. Carlton also
pointed out that the Capital Gifts
division for the campaign had
surpassed $7 million and that the
Deferred Gifts division had exceeded
$6 million.
"Our alumni and friends are finding
that creative gifts to Stetson can
literally save tax dollars and,
ironically, in some cases increase cash
flow," he said.
The 1980-81 Annual Operating Gifts
Campaign has received over $900,000
in contributions toward the $1.4
million goal. The program's success
has been largely due to $432,000
contributed through the special gifts
programs, designed to give special
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