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if he needed support for any initiative at the College of Law, and in response to
Blakely’s reply made a sizeable donation to help fund the start-up of the Review.
Belasco reports, however, that the benefactor insisted that the donation be
anonymous, and thus Frankel’s name does not appear (although those of Belasco and
Charles I. Francis, see Joyce, Driven, supra, at 22 n.30, do) in the initial listing of the
members of The Houston Law Review, Inc., HLR’s early equivalent to its current
funding support organization, the Houston Law Review Alumni Association.
Telephone Interview by Craig Joyce with Sybil Balasco (Apr. 3, 2013). The
recollections cited above are not inconsistent and probably both contain major
strands of the truth concerning one of the enduring mysteries of the Review’s first
decade. The Frankel Family went on to assist generously with funding for the Law
Center’s Rare Books Room and HLR’s annual Frankel Lectures. All’s well that ends
well.

109. Newell H. Blakely, Past Recollection Recorded: Restrictions on Use as
Exhibit and Proposals for Change, 17 HOUS. L. REV. 441 (1980).

110. See Joyce & Hoffman, Boldly, supra, at 51.
111. Id. at 43–44.
112. Newell Blakely et al., Texas Rules of Evidence Handbook, 20 HOUS. L. REV.
1 (1983).
113. See Joyce & Hoffman, Boldly, supra, at 52–53; Joyce & Hoffman, Centered,
supra, at 93–94.
114. G. Sidney Buchanan, The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination; To What
Extent Should It Protect a State Employee or Professional Licensee Against the Loss of
His State-Created Status?, 7 HOUS. L. REV. 297 (1970).
115. G. Sidney Buchanan, The Quest for Freedom: A Legal History of the Thirteenth
Amendment, 12 HOUS. L. REV. 1 (1974). This quasi-book by Professor Buchanan was
published in nine installments and cited in McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail Transp. Co., 427
U.S. 273, 288 n.18 (1976).
116. G. Sidney Buchanan, No Connecticut Yankee in the Texas Supreme Court, 40
HOUS. L. REV. 931 (2003).
117. Sidney Buchanan, A Tribute to John Mixon, 42 HOUS. L. REV. 1206 (2006).
118. See Joyce, Driven, supra, at 7–8.
119. See Joyce & Hoffman, Boldly, supra, at 43–44.
120. For the information in the remainder of this paragraph, see generally Joyce &
Hoffman, Centered, supra, at 93–94.
121. Id. at 101 n.88.
122. Id. at 100 n.86.
123. Id. at 80–81.
124. Id. at 82.
125. Id. at 82–84; Joyce & Hoffman, Leap, supra, at 116–17.
126. That would be Craig Joyce and Paul M. Janicke. See Joyce & Hoffman, Leap,
supra, at 117–19.
127. Craig Joyce, Robert J. Sergesketter, D’Andra Millsap (Shu), and Raymond T.
Nimmer. See id. at 119–22.
128. See id. at 119.
129. Craig Joyce, Paul M. Janicke, and Raymond T. Nimmer. See id. at 118–19.
130. See id. at 119–22.
131. See Joyce & Hoffman, Centered, supra, at 101 n.87.
132. See Joyce & Hoffman, Leap, supra, at 123–25.
133. See Joyce & Hoffman, Boldly, supra, at 41–42.
134. See Joyce & Hoffman, Leap, supra, at 126–28, 133–37.
135. See Joyce & Hoffman, Boldly, supra, at 43–44.
136. Id. at 45.
137. See Joyce & Hoffman, Leap, supra, at 120–22.