For The Defense, December 2011 - DRI Today
For The Defense, December 2011 - DRI Today
For The Defense, December 2011 - DRI Today
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A young guest gets hands-on reporting<br />
experience at the Newseum.<br />
As always, the Annual Meeting<br />
featured evening entertainment,<br />
beginning on Wednesday<br />
with the First-Time Attendees<br />
and <strong>DRI</strong> New Member Reception<br />
in the Exhibit Showcase, which<br />
was followed by the never- to-<br />
be- missed Welcome Reception—<br />
D.C. Style! Thursday highlights<br />
included the very popular Diversity<br />
Reception and the off-site<br />
networking reception at the Newseum,<br />
the world’s most interactive<br />
museum, where attendees<br />
were treated to live music and<br />
great food in a place where five<br />
centuries of news history meets<br />
up- to- the- second technology.<br />
Never to be outdone, the Young Lawyers<br />
Committee once again hosted a terrific<br />
networking reception on Friday evening.<br />
<strong>The</strong> meeting concluded on Saturday<br />
evening with the annual President’s<br />
Gala—an evening devoted to excellent<br />
food, wine, and stimulating conversation.<br />
Along with the announcement of the new<br />
<strong>DRI</strong> leadership, this year’s gala featured<br />
the conclusion of <strong>DRI</strong>’s silent auction, and<br />
the drawing of raffle winners. Both the<br />
auction and the raffle raised money for<br />
this year’s beneficiary, the National Foundation<br />
for Judicial Excellence. Heartfelt<br />
thanks to all of the raffle participants, auction<br />
winners and bidders, and especially<br />
to the auction item donors, as the auction<br />
raised $35,000 and the raffle $4,500!<br />
<strong>The</strong> Thursday evening reception’s setting in the Newseum.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Newseum houses a broadcast antenna that stood<br />
atop the World Trade Center’s North Tower.<br />
Attendees meet at the Newseum’s historic<br />
section of the Berlin Wall.<br />
Attendees browse the<br />
selections available<br />
at the Silent Auction.<br />
Images of American presidents, including<br />
John F. Kennedy, set the mood at<br />
Wednesday evening’s<br />
Welcome<br />
Reception—<br />
D.C. Style!<br />
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