University of Virginia Library

Board Honors Sen. Stennis
With Chair In Law School

By JOHN EPPS

CD/Larry Mann

Atty. Gen. Miller, Former Gov. and University President Darden, and Liet. Gov. Howell Attend The Law Alumni Luncheon

The Board of Visitors has
established a chair in the Law
School in honor of Sen. John
Stennis (D-Miss), Law Dean
Monrad Paulsen announced
Saturday at a Law alumni
luncheon in Newcomb Hall.

Mr. Stennis, who was
making one of his few public
appearances since he suffered
bullet wounds outside his
Washington, D.C., home last
January, was received by an
enthusiastic crowd of about
500 alumni and friends.

Mr. Stennis – was also
presented with a large framed
picture of the Grounds by
Virginia Supreme Court Justice
George M. Cochran at the end
of the program.

"I have worn the honor of
honors," Mr. Stennis said after
receiving the picture, "I
graduated from the University
of Virginia."

Alumni Attended

The luncheon was attended
by alumni from classes dating
back to 1923. Among the few
notables in attendance were
former Gov. Albertis S.
Harrison, and former Gov. and
former University President
Colgate W. Darden. Mr. Darden
was the featured speaker.

In his speech, Mr. Darden
criticized the United States for
its policy of deficit spending.
Sounding much like Harry F.
Byrd and Mr. Byrd's
"pay-as-you-go" financial
theory, Mr. Darden said the

continually increasing deficit
of the U. will eventually lead
to "violence and misery and
deep trouble."

Libel Show Cast

Former Law School
President Linda Howard led a
small group of Libel Show cast
members in a brief
entertainment session at the
opening of the meeting.

Mr. Darden also threw a
few stones at the electioneering
practices of many American
politicians. He said politics
forces politicians to try and
promise more to the people
than his opponents.

"Unless we can change
that," he said, "our children
will live under a different form
of government than we have
now."

Mr. Darden spent most of
his speech relating humorous
anecdotes of his tenure as
University President. "I
wouldn't trade those 12 years
for any other 12 years of my
life," he said.

He told President Edgar F.
Shannon that he would be able
to look back with joy at his
years here after his resignation.

He said Mr. Shannon is
returning to the "only job at a
University that amounts to
anything– he's going back to
teach and will not be running a
plumbing and heating business
and a fund raising
establishment on the side."