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14 Nova L. Rev. 1 (1989-1990)
Karl Krastin: Friend and Colleague

handle is hein.journals/novalr14 and id is 9 raw text is: Dedication to Karl Krastin Karl Krastin: Friend and Colleague This is the second issue of a Law Review dedicated to Karl Kras- tin. The first was a volume of the University of Toledo Law Review, published in the fall of 1976. That occasion was Karl's June 30, 1976, retirement as Dean of the University of Toledo College of Law, a posi- tion he held for thirteen years. Given the historically short tenure of law school deans, Karl's feat made him a law school Lou Gehrig. Had the Ohio University system not required retirement at age sixty-five, Karl might have continued on. But Ohio's rules were Nova's good fortune. Karl called me in the spring of 1976 and wondered, in his raspy voice, whether we might have need of him. Our Law Center was in its infancy. We had opened our doors in the fall of 1974, secured provi- sional accreditation shortly thereafter, and were marching ahead with a young, vigorous faculty. Here was an eminence grise, a disciple of Myres McDougal and Harold Lasswell at Yale, a Yale S.J.D., a for- mer Army Major, a University of Florida Law Professor from 1948 to 1963, a law school dean who, according to a colleague, took Toledo from a small night school located in the attic of the University library to a school of 600 students located in a well-designed new law center. Did we need him? Yes. I knew that Karl would bring to our endeavor more than just his law school experiences. He would bring wisdom, kindness, good judg- ment, decency. I am struck now, upon reading the Toledo Law Review dedications, how often Karl was described in terms that attest to his humanism. The adjectives are telling: honest, warm, open, fair, gra- cious, democratic, compassionate, approachable, kind, decent, friendly. All who have known Karl (at least those who have written about him) praise him for being a good person. In any life that would be enough, but there is more. Karl was a mentor to many. Lester Brickman, whose comments follow these, is one of many beneficiaries of Karl's forty law school years in New Haven, Gainesville, Toledo, and Fort Lauderdale. As I travel, I am always asked by judges, lawyers, and professors whom he taught, and touched, How's Karl?

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