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following reminiscences generously provided by Boards 39 and 40. E-mail from Sidney
Gibbs Ballesteros, Board 39 Editor in Chief, to Craig Joyce (Feb. 25, 2013); e-mail from
George F. May, Board 39 Chief Articles Editor, to Craig Joyce (Feb. 25, 2013) (containing
HLR questionnaire response and May’s superb Essay on Allison); e-mail from Joan E.
Beckner, Board 40 Chief Articles Editor, to Craig Joyce (Feb. 26, 2013). All documents are
on file with Houston Law Review.

92. See Joyce, Driven, supra, at 4–9; Joyce & Hoffman, Boldly, supra, at 40–46;
Joyce & Hoffman, Centered, supra, at 78–87.

93. See supra note 62 (noting the generosity of Don Hartsell).
94. See supra text accompanying notes 56–58 for a description of the arrangement
the Law Center’s four floors, half of them located above ground fully and half of them not.
95. E-mail from Sydney Gibbs Ballesteros to Craig Joyce, supra note 91.
96. One advantage of the design of the furnishings: all power lines run within the
moveable walls at a height such that only an Allison II could ever damage them.
97. As reported by Board 39’s Chief Articles Editor:

Even today, the legacy of Allison can be seen in the Houston Law Review.
Spearheaded by Professor Joyce, the Law Review, International Journal, and
other student organizations were given permanent space in the basement of the
library for their offices. The basement having just suffered a catastrophic flood,
some questioned the wisdom of this plan (I admit to being a vocal critic at the
time). But Professor Joyce turned out to not only be right, but carried through
fully on making the new space vastly better than the space the law review had
lost. For Board 39. Of course, Board 38 never got to use the new space, but let’s
not quibble. We had our trailers and a wealth of memories that came with
slogging through adversity.
See e-mail from George F. May to Craig Joyce, supra note 91.
98. See supra note 62. “The name’s Joyce. Craig Joyce.” After Allison, he was
shaken, but not stirred from his duty. Cf. any “James Bond” movie.
99. During Sidney Buchanan’s long run as faculty advisor to Houston Law Review,
he took but one hiatus: in 1985–1987, when he feared that concurrent service as advisor
and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs would be perceived, to HLR’s detriment, as a
conflict of interest that might preclude him from making decisions justified by both the
Law Center’s and the Review’s best interests.
100. Brian Huddleston, A Semester in Exile: Experiences and Lessons Learned
During Loyola University New Orleans School of Law's Fall 2005 Hurricane Katrina
Relocation, 57 J. LEGAL EDUC. 319 (2007).
101. E-mail from Sydney Gibbs Ballesteros to Craig Joyce, supra note 91.