Journal article
LEGAL HISTORY SYMPOSIUM HONORING PROFESSOR WYTHE HOLT: A SWINGER OF BIRCHES: A VIEW OF WYTHE FROM WITHOUT
Alabama Law Review, Vol.58, pp.953-1215
01 Jan 2007
Abstract
Readers familiar with Tilt, 1 an utterly perfect small gem of an article, know from whence half this tribute's title comes, 2 but here the view from without comes from a friend, colleague, and an observer of Wythe in his natural habitat of academe. I come, unabashedly, to praise him. I've known Wythe for almost a quarter century, and although Wythe is about everything but centrism, I want to start with a story that occurred right around the middle of that quarter century. The story begins with the University of Alabama Faculty Senate where Wythe has the still and probably always unique distinction of having held all five of its offices (President, Vice President, Secretary, Parliamentarian, and Historian). The Faculty Senate, which Wythe sometimes referred to as student council for grownups, has in fact been an important force on campus in all the ways that faculty voice can contribute to the idea of a university community. The Senate occasionally and far from annually confers on a member of the university community its highest honor, the Faculty Senate Distinguished Service Award. (The Senate has awarded this honor eight times in its thirty-five-year history, to six faculty members, one dean, and one university president.) A committee to consider nominees is formed only when there is a nomination. I was chair of the committee when Wythe was nominated. The initial letter nominating Wythe came from Salli Davis, a then member and later chair of the English faculty. The ...
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- Title
- LEGAL HISTORY SYMPOSIUM HONORING PROFESSOR WYTHE HOLT: A SWINGER OF BIRCHES: A VIEW OF WYTHE FROM WITHOUT
- Creators
- Norman Stein
- Publication Details
- Alabama Law Review, Vol.58, pp.953-1215
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Alabama Law Review
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991021867258404721