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28 Or. St. B. Bull. 1 (1967-1968)

handle is hein.barjournals/osbb0028 and id is 1 raw text is: OREGON STATE BAR BULLETIN Vol. XXVIII OCTOBER, 1967 No. 1 RECORD ATTENDANCE AT GEARHART BAR SESSION With the largest attendance in the history of the Oregon State Bar, the 33rd annual meeting at Gearhart September 27 to 30 was an outstanding success. Not only were the business sessions better attended than in some prior years, but the continuing legal education program on estate planning drew overflow crowds both Thursday and Friday afternoons. After calling the meeting to order Thurs- day morning, President John E. Jaqua, Eu- gene, turned the gavel over to Wendell E. Gronso, Burns, vice-president of the bar, who presided during the morning session. The committee heard Morris J. Galen, Portland, treasurer, report that the bar was in sound financial condition and called atten- tion to the report of the board and John H. Holloway, secretary, which included a finan- cial statement. Herbert H. Anderson, Portland, Oregon State Bar delegate to the House of Dele- gates of the American Bar Association, re- ported on the mid-year and annual meeting of the ABA. Among actions taken at these meetings which were of particular interest, he re- ported, was the recommendation that the United States Constitution be amended to provide for the election of the president and vice-president by direct nationwide popular vote. Among items from the annual meeting in Honolulu, Anderson mentioned amendment of the ABA constitution to provide for student membership in the ABA, recommendation for the addition of four additional judges on the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in principle the formation of a national bar-re- lated title insurance corporation, legislation to provide for random selection of jurors, per- mitting senior law school students to appear in court under supervision of members of the bar. A number of other items were mentioned by Anderson including the discussion by the assembly of the problem of civil disorders. The officers nominated at the mid-year meet- ing were elected at the Honolulu session. They included William T. Gossett, Detroit, president-elect; William Reece Smith, Tampa, Fla., secretary, and Joseph H. Gordon, Ta- coma, Wash., treasurer. Chief Justice William C. Perry of the Su- preme Court made a short report on the status of dockets and praised the judges and members of the bar for their cooperation and active support of the effort to keep dock- ets up to date. After Holloway made a brief report and re- ferred to the printed committee reports for details, President Jaqua gave his report cover- ing his stewardship over the past year. The assembly then moved into action on committee reports. There were a series of law school break- fasts on Friday morning. The one held by the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College was of particular interest as President John R. Howard of the College, Dean George Ness Stevens of the law school and Lowell Steen outlined the plans for the school and the program which is being initi- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) PRESIDENT REPORTS ON ACHIEVEMENTS OF YEAR John E. Jaqua, Eugene, retiring president of the Oregon State Bar, presented an ac- count of his stewardship for the past year when he presented his report at the opening session of the 33rd annual meeting of the Bar at Gearhart. In his report, President Jaqua said, in part: Our membership has boasted a steady growth with the admission of new attorneys and our bar now numbers in excess of twen- ty-eight hundred active members. The work of the Board of Bar Examiners proceeds with its usual attention to insuring that the educa- tional and moral qualifications of applicants for examination are in keeping with the need for professional competence in our ranks. This committee's effort and interest is the starting place of the bar's program of pro- tecting the public's right to fair and able legal representation. Discipline has taken a lurge part of the time of the Board of Bar Governors, despite the increase in questions of general policy. Little value would be had from a review of the statistics of discipline. However, I think that a reflection should be made on the dual aspects of the Board's work-those of disci- pline and those of policy. Matters of policy and discipline are both parts of the Board's duty. The great amount of time devoted to the latter limits the at- tention that can be given to policy. California has seen fit to separate these duties and es- tablish a special committee on discipline. Whether such a suggestion would be of use if followed in Oregon is one of the areas of study now assigned to the newly established Committee on the Oregon State Bar. I am pleased to report that the newly ac- quired Oregon State Bar Building has fully proved its usefulness. Since our last conven- tion it has been the site of 132 board and committee meetings and trials. The enlarge- ment of parking facilities and improvements have been accomplished economically and sat- isfactorily. During the past year bringing the board to the meetings of the county bars through- out the state was a conscious attempt by the members to learn more of the local problems of the county bars and to widen our personal relationships. The officers and committees of the local bars have in this past year responded to the request that they act to establish or enlarge their plans for legal service to the poor and legal aid. Without the existence of organized and responsive groups such as these, the suc- cessful establishment and expansion of pro- grams for the legal services to the poor could not have been accomplished. The mandate of the Oregon State Bar Convention at Medford in 1966 to develop and implement programs to expand the availabil- ity of legal services to the poor has to a large degree been achieved. It makes the Oregon State Bar outstanding in the nation in filling this need. The assessment of the need for creating the offices to so serve the public has been wisely left to the local bars. This was done in recognition of the superior insight into (Continued on Page 9, Column 1) JOHANSEN SELECTED AS PRESIDENT FOR 1967-68 Wallace A. Johansen, senior member of the Board of Governors from Coos Bay, was elect- ed president of the Oregon State Bar by the board at the meeting at Gearhart on Sep- tember 28. He succeeds John E. Jaqua, Eu- gene, retiring member of the board. Roy Kilpatrick, Canyon City, was elected vice-president and Wendell Gray, Portland, is the bar's new treasurer. John H. Holloway, Portland, veteran secretary of the bar, was re-elected. In addition to Jaqua, other members of the board who attended their last meeting on September 27 and 28 were Carrell F. Bradley, Hillsboro; John D. Ryan, Portland, and Wen- dell E. Gronso, Burns. Three of the four newly elected board members, Robert C. Macdonald, Astoria; Pat- rick E. Dooley, Portland, and John L. Luvaas, Eugene, sat in as observers at the business session of the board on September 27, and took office as the final order of business at the recessed meeting on the 28th. Lawrence L. Morley, Lebanon, was unable to be pres- ent. Resolutions of appreciation for the se'-vlces rendered by the four retiring board members were adopted. A special commendation was voted retiring president Jaqua for his year In office. Two committees to serve during the up- coming year were named as one of the first items of business under the new regime. John U. Yerkovich, Portland, was named chair- man of the Committee on Committees. Serv- ing with him will be Carl M. Brophy, Med- ford; Dooley, Morley and Macdonald. John B. Fenner, Corvallis, was named chairman of the Committee on Budget for 1968. Other members of this committee were Burl L. Green, Portland; William E. Hanzen, Pendle- ton, and Luvaas. The one-day business session of the board was largely devoted to routine business with the usual agenda of disciplinary matters and there were also some reputed unauthorized pratice matters considered. The board heard a report on the case of Peet v. Harwell Enter- prises Inc. Committee appointments as submitted by the Committee on Committees were reviewed and ratified. The list will be published In the November Bulletin. A number of Items were referred to committees for consideration and report back to the board. The matter of waiver of fees for members of the bar who are in military service was again before the board. Board policy was ex- pressed in a resolution which was adopted. The resolution follows: Payment of the annual membership fee by any member engaged in the active military service of the United States in time of war or declared national emergency will be waived, pursuant to ORS 9.190, for the year such ac- tive military service commences prior to Feb- ruary 1, and for subsequent consecutive years during which such service continues uninter- ruptedly; except that: (a) Entrance into such service must be involuntary. Such service shall be involun- tary, within the meaning of this resolution, if (1) the member is drafted and, pursuant (Continued on Page 4, Column 3)

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