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By Val Van Brocklin
On Oct. 28, 1972, events at the
Embers, a club at Fifth Avenue and
B Street in Anchorage, would scorch
pages of the Anchorage Daily News,
launch protests, unfurl the Consti-
tution, and ultimately be decided, as
countless human conflicts are, in a
court of law.
At 9:30 p.m. that Saturday
night, a city policeman entered the
club and saw 19-year-old Sheila
Dane Bell dancing nude on stage (to
the score from the musical Hair).
He arrested Ms. Bell for violating a
city ordinance that prohibited nude
dancing in a licensed premise where
alcohol was sold or consumed. A bar-
tender and the owner of the Embers,
Darion Powell, were also charged
under a provision of the ordinance
that prohibited the licensee or an
employee from permitting such
dancing.
Powell told the ADN that the
musical Hair had been performed
in a local high school - including the
nude scene. He added,
This was not being done for nu-
dity alone. It was done with talent
and taste. If they can show this in a
high school, I don't see why we can't
show it in a night club.
Powell noted that clubs in the
borough outside city limits were
able to have nude dancing. If they
can do it in the borough, the city has
the same right.
Sign-carrying protesters took to
the street. Among the calls for jus-
tice were, Nudes vs. Prudes, Eve
was Nude, and Nudity is Natural
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Scholarship recipient seeks current scholarship support
By Darrel Gardner
I was first elected to the Bar's
Board of Governors in 2014. In May
of 2017, I was president-elect and I
started thinking about my upcoming
year as president, and what I wanted
to try to accomplish during my term.
After much pondering, I sent the fol-
lowing email to (then) Executive Di-
rector Deborah O'Regan: Thirty-six
years ago I received a $1,000 schol-
arship from the [Alaska] Bar Associ-
ation. That's about $2,700 in today's
dollars. I remember how excited and
grateful I was, and it really helped
me out (San Francisco was a rela-
tively expensive city to live in even
back then). I have even kept, for all
these years, a copy of the letter that
I received from the Bar. One thing
that's clear from the bar leaders'
conferences I've attended is that law
students today face a much larger fi-
nancial burden than we did. Even if
we only offered a few scholarships, I
think it'd be money well spent. This
program probably ended with the
late 80's oil crash, but I for one won-
der if maybe we shouldn't look at a
possible resurrection.
At the time I received the let-
ter from the Bar, I was a first-year
law student at Hastings College
of the Law. San Francisco was a
West Coast hotspot for New Wave
music, with live performances by
bands like U2, Simple Minds, and
Talking Heads. The city's culinary
scene spanned everything from in-
expensive Mission District taque-
rias and North Beach trattorias to
world-class French and seafood fine-
dining restaurants. As a struggling
student putting myself through law
school, however, I didn't have the
money for exploring much beyond
the city's inexpensive options such
as lunch in a park or a student pass
to a museum. The Bar's scholarship
gave me enough extra money that I
was able to enjoy some of San Fran-
Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.
cisco's cultural and culinary offer-
ings, which was just as valuable as
learning about remedies for breach
of contract.
I proposed my idea to the Board
of Governors, and they approved
my request to form a subcommit-
tee to consider the creation of a new
Alaska Bar Association scholarship
program. Deborah conducted some
research and determined that a
number of other state bars offered
law student scholarships, including
Idaho, Virgin Islands, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, Wisconsin, Kansas
and Arizona, plus several local bars.
The scholarship funds were typical-
ly handled through the bar associa-
tion's non-profit foundation, in order
to allow 501(c)(3) tax deductions to
be claimed by contributors. The
scholarship subcommittee decided
in favor of re-establishing a law stu-
dent scholarship program and, in
2018, the Board of Governors unani-
mously approved the creation of the
Alaska Bar Association Law Stu-
dent Scholarship Program. The first
scholarships were awarded in 2019.
The scholarship program works
as follows: The Bar Association so-
licits funds from donors, including
current Bar members, who contrib-
ute to a special fund managed by
the Alaska Bar Foundation. The
Foundation maintains the funds un-
til the Bar makes an annual award
and distributes 100% of all of the
funds collected during the preced-
ing year. The awards are announced
in the late spring, in time for the
award winners to be named at the
annual Bar Convention. The Bar
does not use bar dues. for the pay-
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