Stetson Cupola 1981-9-4

Stetson Vol. 9 No. 4 (USPS 990-560) Inside Around the Brim Homecoming Highlights Alumni News Sports p.2 p.4 p.6 p.8 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 continued pg. 2