David B Pittard
I met Robin while we both were on KP duty during a summer encampment of the Army Reserves. He was a practicing lawyer, a graduate of Texas Tech School of Law and I was a first year law student there. We enjoyed talking about who knows what now, but with mutual enjoyment enough so that a few years later, after I had graduated and was living in Austin, he looked me up on a trip to Austin for purposes of an appeal of a case he was involved in.
Through him on that visit, I met his cousin, John Miller Morris, Jr., who became a long-time friend. He and John were regularly in contact as they were both interest holders in a family corporation set up by their grandfather that owned property in the panhandle used for farming.
As a result of these circumstances, I had many opportunities to communicate with Robin, with topics usually ranging into politics, society at large and in Lubbock, and sometimes about personal matters. I admired him for his intellect, his humanity which influenced his liberal political beliefs, his sense of humor, honesty and kindness. He lived with both awareness of the cruel reality of the human condition and the idealism of one who could envision a better and kinder society and could, by individual action, he sought to promote.
He influenced me, by his example, and by encouraging me in that same path. I am sure in many ways he also made his mark upon society, both by his practice of law and by sharing his concerns and hopes for society with others as he did with me.
David B. Pittard
