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Volume 16, No. I
ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA
August, 1973
COLLEGE OF LAW READY FOR NEW ACADEMIC YEAR
Three Faculty Members, One Visiting Professor
Added to Staff; Entering Class of 125 Expected
LEFT TO RIGHT: Professors Don King, William Morris and Ridgeley Scott. Morris, a member of the
Stetson faculty through 1955-1958, returned to the college as a visiting professor this summer from
the University of West Virginia. King and Scott remain to teach in 1973-1974.
Florida's first law school will begin its 74th year of operation—its 20th on the
"new" campus at St. Petersburg, September 5, when its doors will swing open to
welcome an expected entering class of 125 students to a one-day intensive orientation program precedent to the commencement of classes.
Marilyn Harris, Director of Admissions, has released some interesting statistics
concerning the composition of the stu-
have simply moved from the undergraduate campus in DeLand to the law campus in St. Petersburg
It is estimated that the total enrollment for the fall semester will be 450.
If, as now appears to be the case, there
will be 12 women in the freshman class,
the beauty of the campus will be enhanced by the presence of 36 students
who are members of the fairer sex. For
the sake of comparison, and for the benefit of those who wish to draw some
conclusions of their own, fifteen years
ago (1958) there were six women enrolled at the College among a student
body that numbered just slightly less
than half the size of that anticipated
in the fall.
The full-time faculty has been augmented for 1973-1974 by three assistant
professors: Thomas C. Marks, Jr., William H. Namack, III and Ridgeley A.
Scott. Additionally a visiting professor
from St. Louis University School of Law,
Donald King, will teach a full schedule
during the ensuing year and Wm. Smiley,
dent body for 1973-1974, which, of
course, will be subject to some revision
once the actual class lists are prepared.
Gratifying Report
For example, she informs us that the
undergraduate grade point average of
applicants selected for the entering class
is 2.08 on a 3.0 basis and that law school
admission test scores average nearly
600. It appears that at least one student
in the class has emerged from undergraduate school with a 2.96, and that
another's name stands high on the list
of all LSAT takers with a lofty score
in the 700's.
These statistics are gratifying, but
hardly surprising, in view of the fact
that the College this year had approximately 2,450 applications from which
to choose its spring, summer and fall
entering classes of 58, 53, and 125 respectively, or more than ten applications for each one accepted.
Freshmen students will come from 75
colleges and universities, eleven of which
are located in Florida. Several students
Sr., will serve as director of the prosecution clinic. Only Marks and Smiley
(father of Professor Smiley) will be wholly
new to Stetson, Professor Namack having
taught here last semester and the summer session and Professors King and
Scott having taught during the summer
session.
Thomas C. Marks, Jr.
Professor Marks is, in a sense, returning to the College of Law, as he received
his law degree from here in 1963, following undergraduate work at Florida State.
After passing the Florida Bar, Professor
Marks went into practice, but his career
was interrupted after a few months by
a call to military service. He still holds
a captaincy in the Army Reserve, and in
that capacity has taught military justice
in the Judge Advocate General's School
in Charlottesville, Virginia. Returning
from active duty, Professor Marks practiced two years with the firm of Gibbons,
McEwen, Smith and Cofer, Tampa, before deciding to go to the University of
Florida to get a Ph. D. degree and make
teachinn a career. He received his doctorate in 197 I, and since then has taught
at the University of South Alabama,
where he became deeply involved in the
school's criminal justice program. At
Stetson, among other assignments, he
will direct the Public Defender Clinic.
William H. Namack, III
Professor Namack received his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and his law degree from Albany
Law School. After building a lucrative
law practice for himself in the Bradenton-
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