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178 HOUSTON LAW REVIEW
the Computer Law Institute in 1985 and merging it into IPIL in
1999.138 And in 2012, during the final year of his second
deanship, Nimmer decided to throw Houston Law Review a party
for 550 to celebrate the publication’s 50th Anniversary. It was—
how to say?—a very excellent party.

      The Greatest Generation. Back to where it all began: with
the long-ago students, now distinguished practitioners with
estimable resumes, who made it all happen in the first place. We
saw them last at the conclusion of Driven,139 the story of their
decade.

      John O’Quinn,140 the personification of Decade 1’s
drivenness, lived a life full of triumph and tragedy and died too
early. But not without, at his very last meeting as a member of
HLR’s Board of Directors (and as he had so many times over the
years), scaring the living daylights out of young Review editors
with a typically fierce cross-examination of their report
concerning his publication’s current operations and finances.141
He left the institution of Houston Law Review immeasurably
better by his contributions.

      Concluding observations by other living members of the
Driven generation follow.142

      Marvin Nathan, UHLC Class of 1966:143 “Over the last
almost 20 years, I have had the good fortune to be involved with
the Frankel Family Foundation and the Frankel Lecture Series.
During that time, I’ve seen the Law Review editors and I’m so
impressed with them, with the leadership that these young
people have displayed to me. It’s hard to see how you can get
any better or how you can achieve more than what they’ve done,
but they have absolutely continued to get better and better and
better. I only look for more of that to come.”

      Lawrence (Larry) Pirtle, UHLC Class of 1966:144 “The
publication history, timeliness and quality of this Review, I
think, stand with any. There’s a deep legacy here. I was the
incoming President of the Law Foundation in 2001, and I
remember seeing the devastation to our law school and the Law
Review after Allison. But the Law Review, those editors, just
marched forward, and how they did it, I don’t know. That type
of drive and that type of excellence and commitment to what
you’re doing is something I don’t think is going to be lost. What
the Review 25 years from now will have had to deal with or
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