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served until 1980. He packed his clothes in a pillowcase every Monday for the weekly trip to Jackson during the legislative session. John authored two books on Missis- sippi trial practice: The Mississippi Jury: Law and Practice and Damages Law for Mississippi Trial Practice. John was a lifelong prodigious reader on eclectic subjects including American history, biographies, and regional literature. He was a passionate sports fan, especially soccer in recent years. He took his family to Europe for the World Cup soccer games in 2006 and was a devoted fan of professional soccer, especially Lionel Messi. He coached each of his children’s soccer, basketball, and softball teams and maintained rela- tionships with many of those young players as they grew up. John loved the practice of law but he considered his greatest achievement his family. His marriage to Lee lasted until his death and together they raised three children who provided five grandchildren.
James Douglas Crawford, ’91, was ninety at his death on June 10, 2022. Jim was an avid supporter of the arts in Philadelphia. He served on the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and was a member of the mu- seum’s Prints, Drawings and Photographs Committee and its photography group Focus. In 1983, Jim and his wife Judith were entered into PMA’s Anne d’Harnoncourt Soci- ety, which celebrates donors of works of art. In 1999, they established the museum’s James Crawford and Judith Dean Fund for Acquisitions. Jim also served as a board member and president of the Samuel A. Fleisher Art Memorial. Jim is survived by Judith, four children and five grandchildren. After graduating Haverford College in 1954, Jim attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was Editor in Chief of the Law Review and became active in the ACLU. He remained active in the ACLU throughout his career, guiding the Greater Philadelphia affiliate and Penn- sylvania affiliate for many years and serving on the ACLU’s National Board. Jim worked as a prosecutor until 1972 for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office under then Dis- trict Attorney Arlen Specter. During his long career, Jim ar- gued before the U.S. Supreme Court three times and helped prepare the lead briefs for parties on two other occasions.
Robert Douglas Dalton, ’74, passed away August 20, 2022 just shy of his ninety-third birthday. Doug was born in 1929 and always dreamed of becoming a lawyer. He would take the trolley from Long Beach up to Los Angeles towatchtrialsatthecourthouseasakid.Douggraduated fromUCLAandenlistedintheNavy,whereheservedfrom
1951-1953; using the GI Bill, he attended law school at the University of Southern California, and then went to work as a prosecutor in the Long Beach City Attorney’s Office. He left to work for Joseph Ball (who would become Chief Counsel to the Warren Commission and President of the ACTL in 1967-68). Doug represented John Ehrlichman when he was charged with conspiracy and burglary in con- nection with the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist, following Ellsberg’s leak of the Penta- gon Papers to the New York Times. He represented John Lennon, Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds and Roman Polanski. [Editor’s Note: I had the pleasure of working with Doug many years ago on the General Dynamics/DIVAD case; I have never known a better lawyer or human being.] Doug is survived by his wife of sixty-nine years, Shirley, and their five children.
Frank Barrett Davis, ’92, was ninety-two when he died on November 28, 2022; and he died without fanfare or an obituary so, sadly, we do not know much about him. We know that he graduated from the University of Texas in 1946 – when he would have been only twenty-one – and that he attended Law School at the University of Texas from 1955-58. We can’t be sure what that six-year gap was between undergrad and law school, but it is a safe bet that military service, and maybe Korea, was involved. In any event, Frank began his career as a Harris County prosecu- tor and evolved into insurance defense work.
John Squire Drendel, ’81, was an even one hundred when he passed on February 15, 2024. Squire was able to attend the University of Notre Dame in the Fall of 1941 with the assistance of then Nevada Governor Ed Carville and loans from community leaders in Squire’s hometown, Minden Nevada. Squire joined the Marine Corps in 1942 and simultaneously continued college and military train- ing, earning an undergraduate degree from Columbia and a commission as an officer in August 1944. Squire
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