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and Proposals for Change, 17 HOUS. L. REV. 411 (1980).

74. The new Rules became effective on September 1, 1983. Thus, HLR’s publication
of its Evidence Handbook in January and March 1983 (Volume 20’s Issues 1 and 2) proved
to be nothing if not timely.

75. Dedication, supra note 65, at xvi. “This Handbook,” the Foreword to the
publication noted, “began as a gleam in Professor Blakely’s eyes and he has provided us
with invaluable assistance at every stage of the publication process.” Foreword, 20 HOUS.
L. REV. xi, xiii (1983). Among those also thanked specifically by the Editor in Chief,
Edward P. Watt, for her efforts on the project was a 2L member of the Review named
Cathy Herasimchuk, whose contributions to successor editions of the Handbook would in
time exceed even Newell Blakely’s.

76. Id. at xi.

77. Id.

78. MIXON, supra note 5, at 225.

79. A personal recollection by the senior co-author of this essay.

80. The longevity was unexpected. Joining telephonically in an oral history staged
in honor of the Review’s 50th Anniversary, Buchanan and Moderator Robert J.
Sergesketter enjoyed this exchange:

Sergesketter: Did you think it would be a four-decade commitment?

Buchanan: . . . No, I really didn’t. I had assumed that over the course of time,
after I had done it five or six years that that baton would be passed around to
others. I thought that would be fair, that I wouldn’t begrudge someone else’s
opportunity to do it. Because, even though the job involved a lot of time, it really
is a fun job and brings you into the brightest and best of our student body. So, it
is a very interesting and challenging position to hold and I didn’t want to hog it,
so I was always ready after a certain number of years, if somebody . . . if the
Dean said to me, we have another incoming person that we’d very much like to
have the experience of doing this, you know, I would have been able to graciously
step aside. But that never happened.

Decade 2 Oral History, supra note 44, at 4 (colloquy between Robert Sergesketter and
Professor Emeritus Sidney Buchanan). The last two of Buchanan’s years as advisor were,
in fact, served after his retirement from the faculty.

81. Or not just figuratively. Jan Baker, EIC of Board 10, testifies:

I assumed that Professor Buchanan would look at the major articles
published in the first part of the Review and that he would pass over the student
works. I was mistaken; Professor Buchanan did, in fact, read every word that
was published in Volume 10, including articles, comments, and notes.

D.J. Baker, An Appreciation of G. Sidney Buchanan, 41 HOUS. L. REV. 238, 239 (2004).

82. A Tribute to Professor G. Sidney Buchanan, 32 HOUS. L. REV. 1 (1995).

83. Carol E. Dinkins, A Tribute to Professor G. Sidney Buchanan upon His
Retirement, 41 HOUS. L. REV. 237, 238 (2004).

84. Evelyn Keyes, The Sidney Buchanan Rules of Logic and Equity, 41 HOUS. L.
REV. 246, 247–58 (2004).

85. Hunter White, Fond Memories of Law School, 41 HOUS. L. REV. 249 (2004).

86. Tim Moore, A Model Advisor, 41 HOUS. L. REV. 250 (2004). The lyrics reprinted
here sadly are much abridged from the original.

87. Dinkins, supra note 83, at 237.

88. 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 (1967).

89. G. Sidney Buchanan, The Quest for Freedom: A Legal History of the Thirteenth
Amendment, 12 HOUS. L. REV. 1, 2 (1974).

90. McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail Transp. Co., 427 U.S. 273, 288 n.18 (1976) (citations
omitted) (emphasis added to reflect the relevant sentence referencing The Quest for
Freedom).