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Vol. 5, No. 2
ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA
April, 1962
Alumni Breakfast At Diplomat Hotel, April 27
STETSON LAWYERS WILL
HONOR JUSTICE THOMAS
Alumni of the College of Law will
gather in the Mezzanine Theater of
the Diplomat Hotel, Hollywood, on
Friday, April 27, at 8:00 A.M. for
the traditional Stetson Lawyers Breakfast, held annually in conjunction with
the Florida Bar Convention.
Speaker for the occasion will be the
Honorable Elwyn Thomas, '15, Florida
Supreme Court Justice. Justice Thomas
will be especially honored as a distinguished alumnus with a long record
of meritorious service to the Bench
and Bar of Florida.
Law School Represented
J. Ben Watkins, '49, President of the
Association, will preside. Attending
from the College will be Dean Seb-
ring, Business Manager H. F. Archibald, and Professors Calvin Kuenzel
and Everett Cushman.
Stetson graduates at the Convention
will have an opportunity to listen to
the moot court teams representing the
College of Law in competition with
Florida's other law schools. This program is sponsored by the Junior Bar.
In the first round, Thursday morning,
Stetson will meet Florida A. & M.
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The following students will represent Stetson College of Law in interscholastic Moot Court competition
at the Florida Bar Convention: (Left to Right) Carrol J. Abernathy, Gerald C. Surfus, James W. Geiger,
Russell K. Peavyhouse, and Charles D. McClure, Student Moot Court Chairman.
St. Petersburg Woman Wills College of Law
$250,000 for Purchase of Library Books
Stetson College of Law will receive approximately $250,000 from the estate
of Sarah E. Armstrong, 1140 - 22nd Avenue, North, St. Petersburg, who died
February 27.
Mrs. Armstrong's gift, in memory of her late husband, William W. Armstrong,
is in the form of corporate stocks included in two trusts created by her last will.
Upon the death of life beneficiaries, these trusts become the property of Stetson
University "to be used exclusively for the purchase of books for the Stetson
University College of Law in St. Petersburg."
thus made it possible for us to move
rapidly forward with our program. It
is through such tangible expressions
of faith in our future that solid and
enduring progress will be made.
"Mrs. Armstrong's magnificent bequest will now enable us to build, in
due time, a library collection that will
rank with most of the finer law-library
collections in the Southeastern States.
"The enlargement of our law library
holdings will redound immeasure-
ably to the benefit of the Suncoast
area where we are located and must
look for a large portion of our
support. It will give us the added
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Mrs. Armstrong was for many years
treasurer of the State Federation of
Women's Clubs and also treasurer of
the St. Petersburg Woman's Club. Her
husband was a former New York state
senator and a prominent member of
the New York bar. After his retirement in 1932, the Armstrongs came
to St. Petersburg to reside. Mr.
Armstrong died here in 1944.
Statement by Dean
In announcing the gift, Dean Seb-
ring had this to say:
"We cannot begin to express the
depth of our appreciation for the
generosity of the great soul who has
JUSTICE ELWYN THOMAS
