[Annual] Report of the Dean of the School of Law, 1957-1983

Report of the Dean of the School of Law for the Year 1979-1980

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By the time this 1979-80 Report of the Dean is published, a new and permanent Dean, Jeswald W. Salacuse, will have taken the helm of the SMU Law School.
A significant gift of books and personal papers was made by Mrs. Arthur L. Harding, to establish in the Library the Arthur L. Harding Memorial Collection of Jurisprudence.
Gene W. Francis was Chairman of the 1979-80 Law School Fund. In addition to a solicitation by mail, Mr. Francis headed a telefund at the Law School which ran for ten nights in the fall, and involved 74 alumni as solicitors. Under his direction, gifts to the Law School Fund totaled $157,292.50. All contributions to the Law School Fund, unleSs otherwise designated by the donor, are restricted to provide financial assistance to students in the form of tuition grants.
All law firms and solo practitioners in Dallas were asked to support voluntarily the Law Library on the basis of $50 per lawyer (the approximate cost of one book). Dallas attorneys responded with gifts totaling $18,270.00.

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