Tuesday, October 22, 2024
1962 US President John F. Kennedy made a live television address about Soviet missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the Cuban Missile Crisis
1978 Pope John Paul II was inaugurated as Pope
2018 A pipe bomb was sent to George Soros' New York home address, first Democrat to receive series of pipe bombs in US
2019 Top US diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, testified President Donald Trump tied aid to Ukraine to demands the country open an investigation into the Biden family
In bed at 9:15, up at 2:20 to let Lilly out. She left the doorway without hesitating this morning but then did her normal look-around on the sidewalk, turned around, and came back into the house without relieving herself. She never stepped onto the grass. I let her out again at 7:00 in the predawn light and she went out willingly. Geri got up a little after 7 and called me to the sunroom to see the colors of the foliage that had changed overnight. I let Lilly out for a third time at 7:25/
Prednisone, day 161, 5 mg., day 12/28. Prednisone at 5 a.m. Two toasted and buttered slices of Dave's Bread with blueberry preserves a little later. Morning meds at 7:15.
Voting Day. Geri and I took our absentee ballots to the Village Hall this afternoon, the first day to submit ballotsin person. There were two clerks accepting ballots and registering people to vote and a line of registrants waiting. We should have a big turnout of Bayside voters by Election Day on November 5.
Marquette Law School Oral History Project. An exchange of emails with Jane Casper.
[October 21, 3:11 p.m.]] Dear Chuck,
Please find attached a list of topics and questions for our Monday, October 28, 11:00 AM Oral History Initiative Zoom interview. As indicated previously, these topics/questions are not written in stone; feel free to add or delete, embellish or ignore as you see fit. The interview is meant to cover your experience as a law student in the late 1960s and your experience as a law professor from the 1970s through the 2000s. You will note that I've tried to balance the questions/topics with each of your law school lives: student and professor. But again, feel free to focus on one or the other if you wish.
I have also attached a summary of the years you were listed among the faculty, at least as far as Jim Mumm could research for me and as far as I could find perusing Law School catalogues from the 1970s.
I have two questions for you as I prepare my introduction for the interview:
1. How would you like to be referred to throughout the interview? Attorney Clausen? Professor Clausen? Chuck?
2. Where will you be physically located during the interview? At a home office? Some other location?
I will email Zoom connection details in the next day or two. In the meantime, please let me know if you have any problem opening the attachment or have questions about the interview itself. Once more, thank you for your participation in the Law School's Oral History Initiative.
Sincerely,
Jane Casper
. . .
[Today, 6:04 a.m.] Hi, Jane (and Chris).
I had no trouble opening the documents you sent me and I thank you for them. I also thank Jim Mumm for compiling the list of courses I taught a total of about 25 years on the faculty, but note that the list is incomplete because faculty teaching assignments were not typically printed in full in the annual catalogs, bulletins, etc..
In my first stint on the regular faculty, from 1970 to 1975, my primary teaching assignments were the three Property courses plus Legal Writing. I was the first MULS faculty member assigned to teach Legal Writing and I had every member of the 1L class as my students, about 120 students. I broke them down into 5 sections and met with them individually in my office every morning Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. It was an oppressive teaching load, grading, correcting, and commenting on so many written assignments and meeting individually with so many students and in subsequent years, the work was spread out among the faculty and eventually to adjuncts and ultimately to the much more developed Legal Writing program that now exists at the law school. In that first year of teaching, I also taught Property I, Property II, Agency and Partnership Law, and Property Security, a hybrid course focused on real estate mortgages and security interests in non-real property. When I returned to the faculty in 1977, I was assigned litigation courses, Civil Procedure and Evidence. After Dean Boden died, I picked up his Legal Ethics/Professional Responsibility course. When Ray Aiken moved on from the Trial Practice course, I picked up that course also. I left the full-time faculty in 1986 and returned in 1993 until 2001, when I retired and became Executive Director of The House of Peace, a community center at 17th and Walnut in the inner city maintained by the Capuchin Franciscans. During the third period on the full-time faculty, I again taught civil litigation courses and supervised judicial and other internships as Director of Clinical Education. In the years befor I retired, I also supervised a legal clinic for the elderly hosted by Gesu Parish. At the House of Peace, I invited the MULS legal clinic to locate there; it had been hosted at St. Francis of Assisi Parish when I was a member of the Parish Council there.
Several years ago I wrote a memoir of my early years for my children. Its penultimate section dealt with the years when I was a law student, 1967 to 1970. Those were challenging years in the nation's, the Catholic Church's, Milwaukee's, the law school's, and my personal history. That section is 27 single-spaced pages. I will try to attach it to this email. If you care to read it, you will see that it contains some very personal reflections on what occurred during those years, reflections that many people did not and do not share, but they were and are my reflections, greatly influenced by my experiences during those turbulent years. I'm in my mid-80s now and was in my late 20s in my law school years, but I confess my values and biases haven't changed much over more than half a century.
Responding to your questions: You can call me whatever you feel comfortable with and whatever suits your purposes, Chuck or Professor Clausen, whatever. And during the interview, I will be at home on my laptop, probably in our den/tv room. If you need to call me, my cell phone is (414) ***-**** and our landline is (414) ***-****..
[11:54 a.m] Thank you for all of this, Chuck. I was pretty sure that Jim and I had just scratched the surface of your teaching assignments. Also thanks for sharing your memoir. I skimmed it this morning over breakfast but look forward to reading it more attentively in the days ahead. I was in high school in the mid-60s and grew up in Oconomowoc. My parents owned a corner grocery store and we lived above it. Oconomowoc was not the bedroom community it is now so we got our Milwaukee news from the papers and TV coverage. We read about curfews and marches but it was not part of our everyday experiences.
BTW: In one of the articles/blogs I found while researching, I saw that you mentioned attorney Harry Peck as having a somewhat busy practice obtaining deferments for draft eligible college students in the late 1960s/early 1970s. I never met Harry Peck but my husband John Casper was related to him (Harry and John's mother were first cousins). I did not know John in 1970 but from stories he has told over the years, he (John) had a relatively high draft number and was being called by recruiters to sign up for the reserves. Harry told him he could get him a deferment if he got braces on his teeth. As much as John didn't want to get drafted, he didn't think it was ethical to falsely obtain a deferment for a condition he didn't have. (He did and still does have perfectly straight teeth.) So he signed up for the Army Reserves and was a medic.
I will be in touch soon with Zoom connection details. /s/ Jane
[12:43 p.m.] Hi, Jane. First, I salute your husband John for serving in the Army reserves as a medic. We Marines and former Marines have nothing but the highest respect and near reverence for medics, or 'corpsmen' as we referred to the Navy hospital corpsmen who tended to wounded Marines. My brother-in-law Jim was an Army medic in the mid-1950s. I was also pleased to learn that your Mom and Dad owned a corner grocery store in Oconomowoc. When I was a boy in Chicago after World War II, our neighborhood 'mom and pop' grocery store was owned by Mr. and Mrs. Kelly who lived across the street from us. My Dad was one of the Marines on Iwo Jima and returned from the war with PTSD that kept him from steady employment for years after the war. I vividly remember going many times to Mr. and Mrs. Kelly's little store and getting food "on the cuff" when we had no money. Mr. Kelly kept our tab on strips of cash register paper he kept in a cigar box. (They didn't have a cash register, only the role of cash register paper.) So in my world, both medics and corpsmen and mom and pop grocery store owners have revered status.
Secondly, after sending you that chapter of my memoir, I read it myself and saw that it got re-formatted in the process of attachment to the email, making it harder to read, especially where the text had included long-ish quotes which lost their indentations. And I was embarrassed to see how many typos and misspellings are in it. You would think that as former law review editor-in-chief and professor would have been a better proofreader. I apologize! It shows how misleading class ranks and fancy titles can be!
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