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VOLUME 9, NO. 3
ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA
JUNE, 1966
DIRECTOR TAKES "STETSON STORY" ON THE ROAD
Progress Report Reveals
Quarter Million Pledged
The Stetson Lawyers Association has
reached the one-third mark in its drive
to raise $750,000 during the decade
1965-1974, with approximately $250,000
now pledged.
An historic "first" was achieved in
January this year when the graduating
class presented Dean Sebring, as its
"gift" to the school, a certificate showing that its members had pledged,
100%, to support the Association's fund
drive during the next ten years.
History seems about to repeat itself.
Rumors circulating since the last senior
class meeting are that June and August
graduates will make similar pledges as
their class gifts.
This total and continuing support from
younger alumni will provide substantial
operating funds in future years. The
immediate effect is to make the work
of the Director of the Law Center
Foundation easier when he attempts to
interest businessmen and foundations in
the College of Law program. "The first
question they ask me," states Al Hickok,
"is, 'What are your alumni doing?' "
AT LAKE-SUMTER BAR ASSOCIATION LUNCHEON — Seated, left to right: Second Disrtict
Court of Appeal Judges Frank T. Hobson, Jr., '52, Woodie A. Liles (Chief Judge) and William
Pierce. Standing, left to right: Allan Hickok, guest speaker; John Booth '51, County Judge of
Lake County, Charles Seller, President of Lake-Sumter Bar; and W. Troy Hall, Jr. '41, Circuit
Judge, 5th Judicial Circuit.
Second, Fifth and Fourteenth Circuits Visited;
Meetings in Remaining Circuits To Be Scheduled
With an objective by year's end of meeting in each of the 17 judicial circuits in the state at least once, with as many Stetson lawyers as possible, Law
Center Foundation Director Al Hickok finds himself very much "on the road"
these days. During April, for example, Hickok met with and told the "Stetson
Story" to groups of lawyers in the Second, Fifth and Fourteenth Circuits.
Meeting first in Tallahassee at the ama City area. The group met in the
chambers of Circuit Judge Joe Bailey,
'27, who acted as host for the get-together.
On still another journey, Hickok traveled to Tavares for a meeting with the
lawyers of the Fifth Judicial Circuit. At
the invitation of Stetson Lawyers Association Director Judge W. Troy Hall, Jr.,
'41, he was the luncheon speaker in
Tavares the day the Lake-Sumter Bar
honored the visit to Lake County of the
judges from the Second District Court
of Appeal. His subject was The Anatomy of a Law School.
This month, June 15-18, the Director
will be at the Diplomat Hotel, Hollywood Beach, meeting casually with as
many alumni as possible but with no
meetings planned in advance.
home of Stetson Lawyers Association Director Charles McClure, '63, Hickok
spoke to a group of more than 25
alumni in the Tallahassee area. Acting
as co-hosts for this meeting were Justices E. Harris Drew, '23, and Elwyn
Thomas, '15, of the Florida Supreme
Court, State Comptroller Fred O. (Bud)
Dickinson, '48, Commissioner Edwin L.
Mason, 40, and member of the Board
of Overseers J. Ben Watkins, '49.
Assist By Judges
Moving west from Tallahassee, Hickok
spent a fast-moving but enjoyable day
traveling through the Fourteenth Circuit with Stetson Lawyers Association
Director Tom Wilkinson, '60, of Mari-
anna. Highlight of the day was a meeting with Stetson graduates in the Pan-
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AT TALLAHASSEE MEETING—Left to right,
Edwin L. Mason, '40, Public Utilities Commission Chairman; E. Harris Drew, '23, and Elwyn
Thomas, '15, Supreme Court Justices, and Fred
(Bud) Dickinson, '48, State Comptroller.
