Editor's Message

• Publication year: 2013
• Pages: 7
• Citation: Vol. 26 No. 6 Pg. 7

Editor's Message Vol. 26 No. 6 Pg. 7 Utah Bar Journal December, 2013

November, 2013

CELEBRATING 40 YEARS ^[1]

William D. Holyoak

With this issue, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Utah Bar Journal. While there had been Bar publications prior to 1973, there had not been any for some time. Dean Samuel D. Thurman of the University of Utah College of Law, one of the organizers of the new Utah Bar Journal, noted in the inaugural issue:

A professional Bar Journal for the State of Utah is long overdue. The earlier ft»" Bulletin, published during a period of some thirty years.. .had given promise of developing into a publication that would meet the needs of the lawyers of the state but was discontinued in 1963 due largely to increased costs. [The intervening] years have seen only occasional newsletters and other less formal communications with members of the Bar. A publication more effective and more in keeping with professional objectives is clearly needed.

D. Ray Owen was the original editor, serving until the mid-1980s when Cal Thorpe took over. Cal labored until 1999 when he and his wife died in a car accident returning from the Bar's mid-year meeting in St. George. I have been the Editor since then. During my years as Editor, there have been many excellent members of the Editorial Board. Todd Zagorec, Judge Gregory K. Orme, Judge Catherine Roberts, and J. Craig Smith have all served ably for more than ten years.

But no one has equaled the sustained contribution of Randy Romrell. Randy was on the original task force charged with the responsibility of creating the new journal. Randy undertook a comprehensive study of bar journals from virtually all the other states and wrote a "white paper" that served as a resource and guide for the task force. His recommendations for the Utah Bar Journal continue to be followed. Other than for a period in the 1980s, Randy has served as an editor of the...