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The Alumni Magazine of Boston University School of Law<br />

<strong>the</strong><br />

Record<br />

Fall 2009<br />

The Man Who Would Be Mayor:<br />

Michael Flaherty (’94)<br />

Helping Madoff’s Victims:<br />

Irving H. Picard (’66)<br />

Voices For Veterans:<br />

Kirk Bauer (’78)<br />

Nathaniel Dalton (’91)<br />

Peter McCausland (’74)<br />

Anna Schleelein (’08)<br />

Giving Back:<br />

Michael Schell (’76)<br />

<strong>Climbing</strong><br />

<strong>Above</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>Culture</strong> <strong>Clash</strong><br />

Gary Locke (’75)


Inside<br />

Cover Story<br />

16 <strong>Climbing</strong> <strong>Above</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Culture</strong> <strong>Clash</strong>:<br />

Gary Locke (’75)<br />

4<br />

4 Voices For Veterans<br />

7 The Man Who Would Be Mayor<br />

9-15 BU Law Looks at <strong>the</strong> Economy<br />

9 America’s Future Trust-Brokers<br />

11 Leading From <strong>the</strong> Outside: Con Hurley<br />

13<br />

13 Helping Madoff’s Victims: Irving H. Picard (’66)<br />

20 New Faculty: Stacey Dogan and Abigail Moncrieff<br />

21 Professors Brodley and Baram Announce Retirement<br />

22 Professor Fran Miller Is Honored<br />

23 School Mourns Loss of Passing of Margaret der Hagopian<br />

25<br />

25 Q&A With Professors McClain and Silbaugh About Their<br />

Gender, Law & Public Policy Class<br />

28 Public Interest Project Celebrates 25 Years<br />

30 Howard Dean Delivers 2009 Commencement Speech<br />

31 Michael Schell (’76) Talks About Giving Back<br />

33 Silver Shingle Awards<br />

36 Class Notes<br />

43 Annual Report of Giving<br />

On <strong>the</strong> cover: Gary Locke (’75)<br />

Maureen A. O’Rourke<br />

Dean, Michaels Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law<br />

Office of Development & Alumni Relations<br />

Cornell Stinson, Assistant Dean<br />

Anthony Barbuto, Executive Director<br />

Office of Communications & Marketing<br />

Mary K. Gallagher, Director<br />

Sandra Miller, Publications Manager<br />

Johanna Jackson, Design Specialist<br />

Contributors<br />

Sara Gelston<br />

Bill Ibelle<br />

Elizabeth Ress<br />

Jordan Smock<br />

Jane Whitehead<br />

Photography<br />

BU Photography<br />

Mark Ostow, Ostow Photography<br />

Joel Sage<br />

Printing<br />

Cranberry Printing and Graphics


Dear Alumni and Friends,<br />

You’ll find many timely stories in this year’s edition of The Record. We interviewed Irving Picard (’66), <strong>the</strong> trustee appointed to liquidate<br />

<strong>the</strong> estate of Bernard Madoff, engineer of <strong>the</strong> largest Ponzi scheme ever conducted. We profiled Professor Tamar Frankel, whose<br />

prescient 2006 book Trust and Honesty: America’s Business <strong>Culture</strong> at a Crossroad suggested that <strong>the</strong> growing fraud and abuse of trust in<br />

this country could have a widespread impact on America’s economy and prosperity. We also asked Con Hurley, director of <strong>the</strong> Morin<br />

Center for Banking and Financial Law, and a frequent commentator on <strong>the</strong> financial crisis that has gripped U.S. and world markets, to<br />

share his observations on <strong>the</strong> economy with The Record. We talked with Michael Flaherty (’94) about his campaign to become mayor<br />

of Boston, and with alumni who are assisting veterans returning from <strong>the</strong> Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Gary Locke (’75), <strong>the</strong> son of<br />

immigrant shopkeepers, also spoke with us about his remarkable journey to become our country’s first Asian-American governor and<br />

U.S. secretary of commerce.<br />

Clearly, <strong>the</strong> past year has been a tumultuous one. The recession has affected almost everyone, and alumni donations have been adversely<br />

affected at a time when our students need financial support more than ever. I encourage all of you to support <strong>the</strong> School in any way you<br />

can. If you can hire a BU Law student or graduate, I urge you to do so. If you can make a donation to <strong>the</strong> annual fund, whe<strong>the</strong>r you’re a<br />

regular contributor like Mike Schell (’76), whom we profile in <strong>the</strong>se pages, or someone who has never given before, now is <strong>the</strong> time to help<br />

out. Your contribution will make a difference in <strong>the</strong> lives of our students, who are facing unprecedented challenges as <strong>the</strong>y prepare to enter<br />

<strong>the</strong> legal profession.<br />

BU Law continues to be recognized as a top-tier school in legal circles, both nationally and internationally. U.S. News & World Report<br />

ranked our health law program #4, our tax law program #6, our intellectual property law program #11 and <strong>the</strong> law school overall #20<br />

out of 184 accredited law schools nationwide. Our faculty is widely and consistently acclaimed for its teaching and scholarship, giving<br />

<strong>the</strong> School added prestige and helping to attract highly qualified applicants. In fact, applications to BU Law were up 29 percent this year<br />

(nationally, applications to law school were up 6.5 percent). We received more than 7,600 applications for 265 slots, allowing us to be<br />

even more selective in <strong>the</strong> admissions process.<br />

If you’d like to meet some of our students online, get in touch with old friends or network<br />

with o<strong>the</strong>r alumni, you can join <strong>the</strong> BU Law Connection. We’ve created this site to help<br />

you connect more easily with members of <strong>the</strong> BU Law community. You can also submit<br />

a class note through <strong>the</strong> Connection and let your fellow alumni know what you are<br />

doing. To take advantage of all <strong>the</strong> Connection has to offer, just go to our Web site,<br />

www.bu.edu/law, click on BU Law Connection and follow <strong>the</strong> prompts to register.<br />

It’s quick and easy.<br />

As always, we appreciate your feedback. Tell us what you’re thinking and give us your<br />

suggestions for stories. You may contact <strong>the</strong> Alumni Office by phone at 617.353.3118 or by<br />

e-mail at lawalum@bu.edu. Thank you for your continued support; we look forward to<br />

hearing from you.<br />

Sincerely,<br />

Maureen A. O’Rourke, Dean


Voices For Veterans<br />

Members of <strong>the</strong> BU Law community work in every corner of <strong>the</strong> public interest world — and <strong>the</strong>ir stories continue to<br />

inspire us. These alums from four generations have pioneered programs championing <strong>the</strong> rights of military veterans<br />

to receive effective rehabilitation, community support, adequate benefits and employment opportunities.<br />

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The Veterans’ Veteran:<br />

Kirk Bauer (’78)<br />

Executive Director,<br />

Disabled Sports USA<br />

www.dsusa.org<br />

Kirk Bauer knows first-hand that sports<br />

can help people rebuild lives. After losing a<br />

leg to a grenade injury during <strong>the</strong> Vietnam<br />

War at age 21, he found a steep downhill<br />

path to recovery when fellow veterans<br />

introduced him to a skiing program run<br />

by Disabled Sports USA (DS/USA).<br />

Bauer reinvented himself as a competitive<br />

ski racer and one of <strong>the</strong> first fully certified<br />

disabled ski instructors in <strong>the</strong> country.<br />

Today he is a nationally recognized<br />

advocate for disabled sports, and serves as<br />

vice chair of <strong>the</strong> President’s Council on<br />

Physical Fitness and Sports. Since 1982<br />

he has spearheaded <strong>the</strong> growth of DS/<br />

USA into <strong>the</strong> country’s largest sports and<br />

recreation organization for physically disabled<br />

people, with 100 chapters nationwide.<br />

“I saw <strong>the</strong> issue of disabled rights as parallel<br />

to civil rights,” said Bauer in a recent<br />

telephone conversation. His training at BU<br />

Law played a key role in his effectiveness<br />

as an advocate and strategist. “I felt that<br />

with a legal education, I could help people<br />

with disabilities move forward,” he said.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> winter of 2002–03, as <strong>the</strong> U.S.<br />

invasion of Iraq loomed, Bauer and<br />

colleagues at DS/USA devised a strategy to<br />

offer wounded returning soldiers <strong>the</strong> same<br />

rehabilitation through sport that had helped<br />

<strong>the</strong>m find new hope in lives torn apart by<br />

injury. Since <strong>the</strong>n, <strong>the</strong> Wounded Warrior<br />

Disabled Sports Project has served more than<br />

2,500 seriously wounded veterans, providing<br />

free individualized training in many winter<br />

and summer sports, with transportation,<br />

lodging and adaptive equipment.<br />

“The results have even surprised me,” said<br />

Bauer, citing a February 2009 survey by<br />

HarrisInteractive, commissioned by DS/USA,<br />

showing that program participants are twice<br />

as likely to be employed than <strong>the</strong> general<br />

population of adults with disabilities. “They<br />

are really getting on with life,” he said, adding<br />

that <strong>the</strong>ir courage and capacities remind us<br />

that “people with disabilities are people first.”<br />

The Guardsman’s<br />

Neighbor:<br />

Nathaniel Dalton (’91)<br />

Executive Vice President and<br />

Chief Operating Officer,<br />

Affiliated Managers Group<br />

Co-founder and Executive<br />

Board Member,<br />

Guard Support of Massachusetts<br />

www.guardsupport.org<br />

What happens to <strong>the</strong> families, jobs and<br />

businesses of National Guardsmen and<br />

women when <strong>the</strong>y leave for active service<br />

Nate Dalton, a top executive for <strong>the</strong> asset<br />

management company Affiliated Managers<br />

Group, had not given <strong>the</strong> question much<br />

thought until a conversation in 2007 with<br />

his Swampscott neighbor, Michael Finer.<br />

Finer explained to Dalton <strong>the</strong> challenges<br />

he faced as he prepared to deploy to<br />

Iraq for a year as a lieutenant colonel in<br />

<strong>the</strong> Massachusetts National Guard.<br />

As president of a financial planning group,<br />

Finer was better placed than many National<br />

Guard colleagues to wea<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> time<br />

away from his business. But for many selfemployed<br />

workers and small business owners,<br />

deployment can have drastic economic<br />

results, he told Dalton. “These are people<br />

who put <strong>the</strong>ir lives on hold to serve us,”<br />

Dalton said. He felt <strong>the</strong> private sector had a<br />

responsibility to step up and serve <strong>the</strong>m back.<br />

In August 2007, with Finer and o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

friends in <strong>the</strong> legal and business community,<br />

Dalton launched Guard Support, a<br />

nonprofit dedicated to boosting support<br />

services for Massachusetts National<br />

Guard soldiers and <strong>the</strong>ir families.<br />

Guard Support aims to plug gaps in<br />

government-provided support, by setting up<br />

a range of services such as giving emergency<br />

cash for child care, housing and utility bills;<br />

setting up Internet connections between<br />

overseas troops and families at home; and<br />

supporting groups that organize moraleboosting<br />

send-off and homecoming events.<br />

A major focus is linking entrepreneurial<br />

veterans with business planning, training<br />

and access to capital to help <strong>the</strong>m<br />

launch or re-launch small businesses.<br />

For Dalton, <strong>the</strong> most touching aspect of<br />

this homegrown response to a national<br />

emergency is “<strong>the</strong> level of gratitude from<br />

people to whom we should be grateful.”<br />

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The Corporate Supporter:<br />

Peter McCausland (’74)<br />

Chairman and CEO, Airgas Inc.<br />

Supporter of Operation Homefront<br />

www.operationhomefront.net<br />

and Operation Home and Healing<br />

www.operationhomeandhealing.org<br />

As a fa<strong>the</strong>r whose son was deployed to Iraq<br />

in 2002 during <strong>the</strong> run-up to Operation<br />

Iraqi Freedom, Peter McCausland knows<br />

that having loved ones in harm’s way “wreaks<br />

havoc on families and individuals.” So when<br />

a poll of more than 14,000 of his Airgas Inc.<br />

employees showed company-wide support for<br />

backing Operation Homefront, a nonprofit<br />

that provides emergency help for military<br />

families and wounded veterans, McCausland<br />

welcomed <strong>the</strong> call to corporate action.<br />

In 2008, Airgas pledged $300,000 to<br />

Operation Homefront, to be paid over<br />

three years. The company also aimed to hire<br />

100 veterans of <strong>the</strong> conflicts in Iraq and<br />

Afghanistan. In addition, Airgas offered a<br />

“Welding 101” course to any veteran of Iraq<br />

and Afghanistan service who was interested<br />

in a career in welding. So far, Airgas has hired<br />

25 veterans and trained about 10 welders,<br />

numbers that McCausland is confident<br />

will rise quickly as <strong>the</strong> programs become<br />

established. Airgas associates in 830 locations<br />

across <strong>the</strong> country work with local chapters<br />

of Operation Homefront on service projects<br />

that include planning fundraisers, providing<br />

back-to-school supplies for schoolchildren<br />

with parents on active service, and sending<br />

care packages to servicemen and women.<br />

After McCausland and his wife, Bonnie,<br />

welcomed <strong>the</strong>ir son home from Iraq, Bonnie<br />

decided to found Operation Home and<br />

Healing (OHH), to be offered through <strong>the</strong><br />

long-established Council For Relationships.<br />

Funded through <strong>the</strong> McCausland<br />

Foundation, a private family foundation,<br />

OHH aids veterans living in Pennsylvania<br />

and sou<strong>the</strong>rn New Jersey. It offers counseling<br />

and <strong>the</strong>rapeutic services to veterans of<br />

Iraq and Afghanistan who suffer from <strong>the</strong><br />

emotional after-effects of combat, including<br />

post-traumatic stress disorder. OHH also<br />

provides counseling to family members of<br />

service personnel involved in those conflicts.<br />

“My whole family is involved in this. We<br />

all see this as a pressing need that has gone<br />

unaddressed for too long,” said McCausland.<br />

The Accidental<br />

Advocate:<br />

Anna Schleelein (’08)<br />

Staff Attorney at Shelter<br />

Legal Services<br />

Co-founder, Veterans’<br />

Advocacy Network<br />

Phone: 617.338.0572<br />

Anna Schleelein was a first-year law student<br />

when her boyfriend, now fiancé, retired from<br />

<strong>the</strong> U.S. Marine Corps in 2005 on medical<br />

grounds. His application for health care and<br />

disability allowances from <strong>the</strong> Department<br />

of Veterans Affairs (VA) ended in what he<br />

considered an inappropriately low appraisal<br />

of his level of disability.<br />

With Schleelein’s help, he decided to appeal<br />

<strong>the</strong> decision. “We didn’t know where to<br />

start,” said Schleelein, now a staff attorney<br />

at Newton-based Shelter Legal Services.<br />

But BU Law librarians helped with research<br />

and bought books on veterans’ benefits for<br />

<strong>the</strong> library, and Schleelein built a case that<br />

resulted in <strong>the</strong> VA’s reassessing her fiancé’s<br />

disabled status, with a corresponding rise in<br />

benefits.<br />

Their success encouraged Schleelein to see<br />

fellow law students as “a great untapped<br />

resource” for supporting veterans seeking<br />

benefits. With guidance from Maura Kelly,<br />

<strong>the</strong>n director of <strong>the</strong> Pro Bono Program<br />

at BU Law, and Susan Prosnitz of Suffolk<br />

Law School’s Rappaport Center for Law<br />

and Public Service, <strong>the</strong> Veterans Advocacy<br />

Network phone line opened in June 2008,<br />

in partnership with <strong>the</strong> Massachusetts Bar<br />

Association (MBA). Students who are trained<br />

in basic veterans’ benefits law now staff <strong>the</strong><br />

MBA’s phone lines on Mondays from 3<br />

to 5 p.m., and refer veterans to sources of<br />

legal assistance, including a network of 50<br />

volunteer attorneys accredited by <strong>the</strong> VA.<br />

“You really have to realize that this is<br />

something we owe <strong>the</strong>m,” said Schleelein.<br />

What most strikes her about <strong>the</strong> service’s<br />

clients, she said, is “<strong>the</strong> tenacity of <strong>the</strong>se<br />

veterans in <strong>the</strong> face of tremendous adversity.” •<br />

[Ed. Note: See related story on Schleelein on page 28.]<br />

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The Man Who Would Be Mayor:<br />

Michael Flaherty’s (’94) Bid to Lead <strong>the</strong> City of Boston<br />

Running against an incumbent is<br />

always difficult. Challenging Boston’s<br />

longest-serving mayor is an even more<br />

formidable task. But Boston City<br />

Councilor-at-Large Michael Flaherty<br />

(’94) decided to take <strong>the</strong> challenge and<br />

try to derail Mayor Thomas Menino’s<br />

bid for a record fifth term in office.<br />

Flaherty, whose fa<strong>the</strong>r, Michael<br />

Flaherty Sr., was a 12-term state<br />

representative for South Boston, inhaled<br />

local politics as a child, holding signs<br />

for his dad, passing out campaign<br />

pamphlets, attending political events<br />

and fielding telephone calls from<br />

constituents. But it was his experience<br />

as an assistant district attorney, with<br />

its street-level view of <strong>the</strong> fallout from<br />

underperforming schools, substandard<br />

housing and inadequate social services,<br />

that became a major driver behind<br />

his decision to run for public office.<br />

Flaherty served from 1996 to 1998 as<br />

an assistant district attorney for <strong>the</strong><br />

Suffolk County District Attorney’s<br />

office, trying cases in East Boston,<br />

Charlestown and Roxbury district courts.<br />

As a prosecutor, Flaherty recalled, “You<br />

see a lot, some of it very taxing, very<br />

disturbing.” On assignment to Roxbury<br />

District Court, with its many repeat<br />

offenders, he assessed <strong>the</strong> system and<br />

concluded: “When it comes to public<br />

safety, especially youth violent crime,<br />

we’re not going to be able to arrest and<br />

prosecute our way out of <strong>the</strong> problem.”<br />

So he decided to approach this problem<br />

from a different angle. He left <strong>the</strong> DA’s<br />

office to join J. Albert Johnson (later<br />

Johnson, Hassett & Hanley). In 1999,<br />

Flaherty won a seat on <strong>the</strong> Boston City<br />

Council and has been continuously reelected<br />

since <strong>the</strong>n, serving as council<br />

president from 2002 to 2006. He has<br />

been <strong>the</strong> top vote-getter in <strong>the</strong> last three<br />

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municipal elections, demonstrating<br />

broad popularity beyond his Irish<br />

roots to appeal to constituencies as<br />

diverse as <strong>the</strong> Vietnamese and Russian<br />

communities. Through his “Kitchen<br />

Table Conversations Tour,” Flaherty<br />

has met with Boston residents to<br />

hear <strong>the</strong>ir ideas to improve <strong>the</strong> city.<br />

make <strong>the</strong> city government’s budgeting,<br />

record-keeping and planning accessible<br />

to <strong>the</strong> public; and a data tracking<br />

and analysis system called CitiStats,<br />

already in use within several U.S.<br />

cities, including Somerville.<br />

Ano<strong>the</strong>r important campaign <strong>the</strong>me<br />

is keeping families in Boston, with<br />

“<br />

When it comes to public safety, especially<br />

youth violent crime, we’re not going to be<br />

able to arrest and prosecute our way out of<br />

<strong>the</strong> problem.<br />

”<br />

working people, and <strong>the</strong> role of unions<br />

in securing those conditions. He also<br />

stayed active in his old neighborhood,<br />

coaching Little League and youth<br />

hockey and serving as director of <strong>the</strong><br />

South Boston Citizens Association.<br />

Flaherty credited Professor Robert Volk,<br />

director of BU Law’s Legal Research<br />

and Writing Program, with teaching<br />

him to research and write like a lawyer<br />

in that first year, as well as keeping an<br />

eye on his extracurricular activities.<br />

“Professor Volk was always looking<br />

on, making sure I was doing what I<br />

was supposed to be doing,” he said.<br />

He reached out to <strong>the</strong> city’s expanding<br />

gay and lesbian population, becoming<br />

<strong>the</strong> first citywide elected official to<br />

endorse same-sex marriage in 2001.<br />

He later helped push through <strong>the</strong><br />

council an ordinance known as <strong>the</strong><br />

transgender protection law, which bans<br />

discrimination against people based on<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir gender identity or expression.<br />

Flaherty also draws upon his personal<br />

experiences to inspire his political<br />

views. His pitch for mayor sounds<br />

<strong>the</strong>mes that have preoccupied him<br />

since his ADA days: turning around<br />

<strong>the</strong> public schools, reducing youth<br />

violent crime, decentralizing policing<br />

to give more power to district<br />

police captains, and streamlining<br />

government spending by making<br />

decisions based on real-time data.<br />

One of his major priorities is to bring<br />

greater transparency and accountability<br />

to government operations, which he<br />

says will help <strong>the</strong> city identify areas<br />

of wasteful spending. He advocates<br />

using such tools as <strong>the</strong> Internet to<br />

such proposals as increasing affordable,<br />

family-sized housing and expanding<br />

neighborhood crime watches.<br />

“I’m a city kid. I was born and raised in<br />

<strong>the</strong> city,” said Flaherty, 40, who grew<br />

up in Boston and still lives in his old<br />

neighborhood with his wife, Laurene,<br />

and <strong>the</strong>ir four children, three of whom<br />

attend <strong>the</strong> Murphy School in Dorchester.<br />

Flaherty’s own education took him<br />

from Boston College High School<br />

to Boston College and <strong>the</strong>n to BU<br />

Law. The first year of law school was<br />

tough, he said, not least because he<br />

continued to work as a driver for<br />

Airborne Express Company, a job<br />

he’d had since leaving high school.<br />

While learning torts, contracts and<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r 1L subjects, he was working as a<br />

courier, delivering freight to warehouses<br />

citywide, and loading and unloading<br />

airplanes at Logan Airport. As a member<br />

of Teamsters Local Union 25, he<br />

gained a first-hand understanding of<br />

<strong>the</strong> importance of “good wages, good<br />

benefits and good safety conditions” for<br />

In his ambitious campaign, Flaherty<br />

said he refrains from ugly politics. He<br />

conceded that Tom Menino was good<br />

for <strong>the</strong> city when he first took office in<br />

1993, but also said he believes that a new<br />

generation needs a new kind of politics<br />

— with a new politician to lead <strong>the</strong> way.<br />

Flaherty’s hope is that his approach<br />

to politics and governing, coupled<br />

with his longtime love for <strong>the</strong> city,<br />

will persuade Boston voters that it’s<br />

time for a change — and that he is<br />

<strong>the</strong> best candidate for <strong>the</strong> job.<br />

So far, his hard work has paid off —<br />

Flaherty took second place in <strong>the</strong><br />

September primary, and will face off<br />

against Menino in November. In The<br />

Boston Globe, Flaherty told his followers<br />

on primary night, “If everyone in this<br />

room stands with me, rolls up <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

sleeves, and helps me throw a shoulder<br />

into this effort, we will change Boston.” •<br />

For more information on how Flaherty does in November,<br />

go to www.cityofboston.gov/elections/results.<br />

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America’s Future Trust-Brokers:<br />

BU Law Looks at <strong>the</strong> Economy<br />

Professor Tamar Frankel on <strong>the</strong> Financial Crisis<br />

and <strong>the</strong> New Course It Has Inspired<br />

Trust.<br />

It’s a concept that’s on shaky ground<br />

in <strong>the</strong> financial world <strong>the</strong>se days. But<br />

according to BU Law Professor Tamar<br />

Frankel, it remains <strong>the</strong> cornerstone<br />

of our entire economic system.<br />

Frankel has devoted much of her storied<br />

legal career to <strong>the</strong> concept of trust,<br />

teaching and writing extensively on<br />

corporations, mutual fund regulation<br />

and fiduciary law, serving at <strong>the</strong><br />

Securities and Exchange Commission<br />

(SEC) and visiting at <strong>the</strong> Brookings<br />

Institution. Earlier this year, she testified<br />

before Congress about Bernard Madoff’s<br />

$65 billion Ponzi scheme, and offered<br />

recommendations on how to reform<br />

our beleaguered regulatory system.<br />

Reform is essential, Frankel told<br />

Congress, because no investment<br />

system can flourish in <strong>the</strong> absence<br />

of trust between investors and<br />

financial institutions. She expanded<br />

on <strong>the</strong>se thoughts in a recent<br />

interview with The Record.<br />

“Over <strong>the</strong> last 30 years, <strong>the</strong>re has been<br />

a shift away from a reliance on law<br />

and morality toward self-protection<br />

as a way to regulate <strong>the</strong> system,” she<br />

said. “The assumption is that people<br />

should protect <strong>the</strong>mselves in financial<br />

matters by educating <strong>the</strong>mselves.”<br />

But this simply won’t work, argued<br />

Frankel, noting that <strong>the</strong> investors who<br />

lost <strong>the</strong>ir shirts in <strong>the</strong> Madoff scandal<br />

included many of <strong>the</strong> most sophisticated<br />

individuals and institutions.<br />

“We live in a specialized society, so some<br />

services cannot be adequately supervised<br />

by <strong>the</strong> recipient,” she said. “I cannot<br />

supervise <strong>the</strong> work of my surgeon when<br />

he performs heart surgery, nor can a<br />

person supervise <strong>the</strong> work of his lawyer,<br />

or <strong>the</strong> services of <strong>the</strong>ir financial advisers.<br />

In order for <strong>the</strong> system to work, we have<br />

to entrust our money to our financial<br />

advisers, just as we have to give our<br />

surgeon authority over our body.”<br />

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Frankel attributes <strong>the</strong> erosion of trust<br />

to a fundamental shift in business<br />

culture that began with <strong>the</strong> deregulation<br />

frenzy of <strong>the</strong> 1980s, which was<br />

based on <strong>the</strong> faulty assumption that<br />

markets can regulate <strong>the</strong>mselves.<br />

“There was a growing hostility toward<br />

<strong>the</strong> law and a growing admiration<br />

for innovation, regardless of what<br />

that innovation was aimed at,” said<br />

Frankel. “So <strong>the</strong> business world became<br />

increasingly focused on innovating<br />

loopholes — actions that would be<br />

considered immoral in ano<strong>the</strong>r climate,<br />

but do not violate <strong>the</strong> precise letter<br />

of <strong>the</strong> law. In our current financial<br />

culture, morality is considered stupid:<br />

‘If you have an opportunity to grab<br />

and you don’t, you’re a fool.’”<br />

Over time, even <strong>the</strong> regulators got<br />

drawn into this culture, adopting an<br />

“everybody’s doing it” attitude, which led<br />

<strong>the</strong>m to overlook minor irregularities.<br />

As a result, understandings of what<br />

constituted actionable dishonesty<br />

became elastic and, as we are now<br />

painfully aware, that elasticity ultimately<br />

stretched beyond <strong>the</strong> breaking point.<br />

“We have created a culture based on<br />

<strong>the</strong> belief that ‘Whatever is good for<br />

private persons who hold power over<br />

o<strong>the</strong>rs is good for <strong>the</strong> country,’” said<br />

Frankel. “Yet power over o<strong>the</strong>rs, whe<strong>the</strong>r<br />

by <strong>the</strong> government or by <strong>the</strong> private<br />

sector, must be balanced. That culture of<br />

‘freedom for power-holders’ is still here.<br />

You don’t create a culture in one day, and<br />

you don’t change a culture in one day.”<br />

Frankel states that private powerholders<br />

are very important to balance<br />

government power. And so is <strong>the</strong> reverse.<br />

Her prescription for change is to create<br />

a regulatory system that will enable<br />

regulators to know more about <strong>the</strong><br />

markets, and <strong>the</strong>n act before <strong>the</strong> system<br />

is threatened. According to Frankel, <strong>the</strong><br />

SEC should shift its resources to teams<br />

of specialized financial examiners who<br />

have <strong>the</strong> expertise required to catch<br />

dishonest behavior before it becomes<br />

pervasive. The activity of <strong>the</strong>se examiners<br />

should be most intense during times of<br />

rapid growth, when innovative abuses<br />

are more likely to occur, ra<strong>the</strong>r than<br />

reacting after major institutions crash.<br />

Frankel recalled that during her year<br />

and a half at <strong>the</strong> SEC she was struck<br />

by how little <strong>the</strong> agency knew about<br />

developments in <strong>the</strong> financial markets,<br />

where <strong>the</strong> innovations were coming<br />

from and where <strong>the</strong>y were heading.<br />

“The way to change <strong>the</strong> current<br />

culture is to closely follow what <strong>the</strong><br />

market is doing, and find out what <strong>the</strong><br />

real problems are,” she explained.<br />

Now in her 80s, Frankel shows no signs<br />

of slowing down. Over <strong>the</strong> years she<br />

has published more than 60 articles<br />

and book chapters, including two<br />

books in <strong>the</strong> past two years: a teaching<br />

book on Fiduciary Law and a case law<br />

companion to her prophetic 2006 book,<br />

Trust and Honesty: America’s Business<br />

<strong>Culture</strong> at a Crossroad. She is currently<br />

at work on a case-based teaching book<br />

on securitization with co-author Mark<br />

Fagan, a short book on con artists and<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir victims, a book on <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ory of<br />

fiduciary duties for Oxford University<br />

Press, and an article on fiduciary duties<br />

of financial brokers. She is regularly<br />

quoted in <strong>the</strong> national media.<br />

But Frankel’s proudest accomplishment<br />

of late has been <strong>the</strong> creation of a<br />

multidisciplinary course that exposes<br />

BU Law students to real ethical<br />

dilemmas in <strong>the</strong> business world. The<br />

class is designed to show how fraud<br />

and dishonesty evolve, even among<br />

those who don’t necessarily set out to<br />

become con artists. Students study <strong>the</strong><br />

unfolding of <strong>the</strong> Enron and WorldCom<br />

scandals; <strong>the</strong> fall of accounting giant<br />

E.F. Hutton; and <strong>the</strong> life of <strong>the</strong> man<br />

whose name has become synonymous<br />

with large-scale fraud, Charles Ponzi.<br />

Ponzi is a particularly powerful teaching<br />

case because, as Frankel’s students<br />

discover, <strong>the</strong> legendary swindler actually<br />

started out with a legitimate strategy to<br />

profit legally from unstable exchange<br />

rates between countries. It wasn’t<br />

until his get-rich-quick plan failed<br />

that he developed his now-infamous<br />

pyramid scheme. Frankel uses <strong>the</strong> case<br />

study to demonstrate that <strong>the</strong>re is no<br />

bright line between a Ponzi scheme<br />

and a legitimate business model.<br />

“American corporations pay dividends<br />

on one hand, while borrowing money<br />

or refinancing to pay those dividends.<br />

It’s a model that is very close to a Ponzi<br />

scheme,” she said. “It’s a slippery slope.<br />

It’s not black and white. Through<br />

our discussions and role plays, <strong>the</strong><br />

students begin to understand that.”<br />

Frankel said that student responses to<br />

<strong>the</strong> course have been overwhelmingly<br />

positive, especially about <strong>the</strong> realworld<br />

applications it offers. Said<br />

Frankel, “Students wrote that <strong>the</strong>y<br />

valued <strong>the</strong> course highly because<br />

<strong>the</strong>y learned <strong>the</strong> relationship between<br />

<strong>the</strong> law and <strong>the</strong> outside world in<br />

which <strong>the</strong>y will practice.” •<br />

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BU Law Looks at <strong>the</strong> Economy<br />

Leading From <strong>the</strong> Outside:<br />

Ivory Tower Offers Objective View of Economic Crisis, Says Hurley<br />

Four years ago, Cornelius “Con”<br />

Hurley arrived at BU with a vision.<br />

As <strong>the</strong> new director of <strong>the</strong> Morin Center<br />

for Banking and Financial Law, he<br />

wanted to make <strong>the</strong> 30-year-old graduate<br />

program into more than just an academic<br />

training ground for lawyers. He also<br />

wanted it to be a player on <strong>the</strong> national<br />

scene — a thought leader in <strong>the</strong> world<br />

of national and international finance.<br />

“The graduate program was already<br />

very successful,” said Hurley. “But <strong>the</strong>re<br />

was greater potential, and we made a<br />

conscious decision that it would be<br />

better for <strong>the</strong> Morin Center and for <strong>the</strong><br />

law school in general if we did more<br />

things that addressed <strong>the</strong> practical world.<br />

It’s fine to run a graduate program,<br />

but making a real contribution to <strong>the</strong><br />

ongoing debate is where it’s at.”<br />

His timing couldn’t have been better.<br />

Two years into his tenure, <strong>the</strong> bottom<br />

fell out of <strong>the</strong> world’s financial<br />

markets; several of <strong>the</strong> nation’s largest<br />

banks were poised to sink under <strong>the</strong><br />

weight of bad loans, threatening<br />

to pull <strong>the</strong> rest of <strong>the</strong> nation’s<br />

financial system down with <strong>the</strong>m.<br />

Suddenly banking law and regulation<br />

was no longer <strong>the</strong> esoteric concern of an<br />

elite club of experts, but of vital interest<br />

to every American. It was, and still is,<br />

<strong>the</strong> biggest economic plight facing <strong>the</strong><br />

United States since <strong>the</strong> Great Depression.<br />

With two years of preparation under<br />

Hurley’s leadership, <strong>the</strong> Morin Center<br />

was ideally positioned to step into<br />

<strong>the</strong> tumult. Hurley himself — a<br />

plainspoken man with a flair for<br />

cutting to <strong>the</strong> bones of an issue with<br />

an air of insightful congeniality — has<br />

become one of <strong>the</strong> go-to experts for<br />

media outlets around <strong>the</strong> country.<br />

Hurley said his position at <strong>the</strong> Morin<br />

Center puts him in a unique position<br />

to provide unbiased commentary,<br />

because he has no client interests to<br />

advocate for or political administrations<br />

to satisfy — yet he has decades<br />

of experience in <strong>the</strong> industry.<br />

Hurley sits with more than a dozen<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r lawyers on <strong>the</strong> American Bar<br />

Association’s task force on financial<br />

regulatory reform. It is this task force<br />

that will weigh in on reform issues<br />

on behalf of <strong>the</strong> legal profession and<br />

<strong>the</strong> ABA. According to Hurley, “Not<br />

having <strong>the</strong> ‘burden’ of client interests is<br />

quite useful as we consider <strong>the</strong> shape of<br />

<strong>the</strong> financial industry going forward.”<br />

Hurley brings this same approach to<br />

his service as an “independent director”<br />

of <strong>the</strong> Federal Home Loan Bank of<br />

Boston. One of his colleagues on that<br />

board, Arthur Connelly, chairman of<br />

<strong>the</strong> American Bankers Association,<br />

said, “We can count on Con to<br />

move <strong>the</strong> discussion in a positive and<br />

strategically helpful direction.”<br />

Said Hurley, “The ‘Ivory Tower’<br />

has become a pejorative term <strong>the</strong>se<br />

days, but <strong>the</strong> Ivory Tower is not<br />

such a bad perch for assessing what<br />

we’re going through right now.”<br />

The Morin Center oversees <strong>the</strong><br />

publication of <strong>the</strong> Review of Banking and<br />

Financial Law twice a year, co-sponsors<br />

a series of three-day financial CLE<br />

programs in partnership with <strong>the</strong> ABA,<br />

and hosts a lecture series that has featured<br />

some of <strong>the</strong> most powerful individuals<br />

in <strong>the</strong> financial world, including <strong>the</strong> vice<br />

chairman of Citigroup, <strong>the</strong> chairman<br />

of <strong>the</strong> New York Stock Exchange, and<br />

Congressman Barney Frank, chairman of<br />

<strong>the</strong> House Financial Services Committee.<br />

But without a doubt, <strong>the</strong> Morin Center’s<br />

most popular and timely program is<br />

“The Buck Starts Here,” a twice-amonth<br />

luncheon forum for lawyers,<br />

regulators and business leaders that uses<br />

a fast-paced and innovative format to<br />

stimulate insightful discussion of <strong>the</strong><br />

hottest financial topics of <strong>the</strong> moment.<br />

The two-hour program begins with a<br />

summary of <strong>the</strong> developments since<br />

<strong>the</strong> last session, followed by a “drill<br />

down” session on a particular hotbutton<br />

issue. It concludes with a Q&A<br />

session with panelists who include law<br />

firm partners, regulatory officials and<br />

business CEOs. Topics have ranged<br />

from Ponzi schemes to hedge fund<br />

regulation to <strong>the</strong> future of securitization.<br />

“Each session is videotaped and posted<br />

on <strong>the</strong> Morin Center’s Web site for <strong>the</strong><br />

whole world to see,” noted Hurley.<br />

One recent program focused on<br />

President Obama’s proposed Consumer<br />

Financial Protection Agency, specifically<br />

on a proposal to eliminate federal<br />

pre-emption laws so states could<br />

enact <strong>the</strong>ir own stricter regulations.<br />

The topic elicited a lively debate as<br />

to whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> plan would improve<br />

regulation — or create utter chaos.<br />

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“Eighty people signed up in August,<br />

on <strong>the</strong> hottest day of <strong>the</strong> year with a<br />

hurricane brewing off <strong>the</strong> coast,” said<br />

Hurley. “That tells you something<br />

about <strong>the</strong> need for this. This is our<br />

effort to put <strong>the</strong> crisis in perspective.<br />

We do it, not here in <strong>the</strong> Ivory<br />

Tower, but at downtown law firms<br />

where this will all play out.”<br />

While Hurley’s plethora of outreach<br />

programs hits its stride, <strong>the</strong> center’s<br />

graduate program continues to thrive<br />

with more than 70 students and two<br />

dozen adjunct faculty — each one<br />

of whom is an active practitioner in<br />

his or her field of expertise. Hurley<br />

said this adjunct arrangement is in<br />

keeping with <strong>the</strong> school’s philosophy of<br />

providing a practical legal education.<br />

“That’s where <strong>the</strong> expertise is — in<br />

<strong>the</strong> marketplace,” said Hurley, who<br />

previously served as general counsel<br />

for Shawmut Bank, as a partner in a<br />

financial services consulting group,<br />

and as assistant general counsel<br />

to <strong>the</strong> Federal Reserve Board in<br />

Washington, D.C., as it was crafting <strong>the</strong><br />

International Banking Act of 1978.<br />

“The J.D. program is superb at<br />

teaching <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ory of law, but as you<br />

become more focused <strong>the</strong> need for<br />

practitioners increases. The graduate<br />

program’s faculty consists of law<br />

partners, leaders in key government<br />

agencies, and senior corporate counsel.<br />

With obvious pride, Hurley observes,<br />

“They are in <strong>the</strong> real world dealing with<br />

<strong>the</strong> issues as <strong>the</strong>y come up and share<br />

that experience with our students.”<br />

The stakes couldn’t be higher,<br />

according to Hurley.<br />

“I think we are in <strong>the</strong> process of<br />

fundamentally changing capitalism,”<br />

he said. “How we play this out will say<br />

a lot about ourselves. This goes beyond<br />

beleaguered banks. We have thrown a<br />

federal safety net under <strong>the</strong> entire system.<br />

As we remove elements of that safety<br />

net, it will determine what we become.”<br />

Hurley is hopeful but not optimistic,<br />

based on what he has seen so far.<br />

“The Fed has said quite explicitly that 19<br />

banks — those with assets of more than<br />

$100 billion — will not fail,” he said. “I<br />

think that <strong>the</strong> safety net just puts off <strong>the</strong><br />

day of reckoning. I don’t think we can<br />

afford NOT to let some of <strong>the</strong>m fail.”<br />

“<br />

The ‘Ivory Tower’ has become a pejorative<br />

term <strong>the</strong>se days, but <strong>the</strong> Ivory Tower is not<br />

such a bad perch for assessing what we’re<br />

going through right now.<br />

”<br />

The savings and loan crisis of <strong>the</strong><br />

1980s provides an excellent illustration,<br />

according to Hurley. The government<br />

propped up those dysfunctional<br />

institutions for years based on <strong>the</strong> belief<br />

that, with some help, <strong>the</strong>y would be able<br />

to work <strong>the</strong>mselves out of trouble.”<br />

“But <strong>the</strong>y just got <strong>the</strong>mselves<br />

into deeper trouble,” he said.<br />

The reason is that <strong>the</strong> bailout gave<br />

<strong>the</strong> banks no incentive to change<br />

<strong>the</strong> behavior that got <strong>the</strong>m in<br />

trouble in <strong>the</strong> first place — and<br />

Hurley sees no indication that this<br />

bailout will be any different.<br />

“These 19 banks are hampering <strong>the</strong><br />

economic recovery,” he said. “They<br />

have been reluctant to lend, <strong>the</strong>y have<br />

not changed <strong>the</strong>ir risk management<br />

practices in any significant way, and<br />

we know now that <strong>the</strong>y are back to<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir old compensation practices.”<br />

“My concern is that three years down<br />

<strong>the</strong> road, we will think that things<br />

are better — but nothing will have<br />

changed. We will be just as susceptible<br />

to systemic collapse as we were a year<br />

ago when AIG almost went under.”<br />

As <strong>the</strong> crisis continues, Hurley<br />

is constantly on <strong>the</strong> lookout for<br />

ways to bolster <strong>the</strong> Morin Center’s<br />

position as a thought leader.<br />

“Boston University is a big place,<br />

so in addition to reaching out to<br />

external resources, we need to tap into<br />

<strong>the</strong> wealth of University resources<br />

we haven’t leveraged yet,” he said,<br />

adding that finding <strong>the</strong> solution will<br />

require a cross-disciplinary approach.<br />

For example, <strong>the</strong> issue of outrageous<br />

executive compensation packages is<br />

one of organizational development<br />

and governance — so he would like<br />

to call upon James Post, an expert<br />

on corporate governance at <strong>the</strong> BU<br />

School of Management. He also<br />

hopes to tap such people as Laurence<br />

Kotlikoff in <strong>the</strong> Economics Department<br />

and Zvi Bodie, also of <strong>the</strong> School<br />

of Management, who are nationally<br />

recognized figures in <strong>the</strong> areas of<br />

retirement and investment management.<br />

“If we only come at this problem with<br />

lawyers, it will be like <strong>the</strong> old saying,<br />

‘To a man with a hammer, every<br />

problem looks like a nail,” said Hurley.<br />

University President Robert Brown has<br />

articulated a vision that encourages<br />

multidisciplinary activities at all levels<br />

of <strong>the</strong> University. Hurley and <strong>the</strong><br />

Morin Center are realizing that vision<br />

and enhancing <strong>the</strong> law school and <strong>the</strong><br />

University experience in <strong>the</strong> process. •<br />

For a schedule of upcoming “The Buck Starts Here”<br />

lectures, go to www.bu.edu/law/morincenter. The sessions<br />

are open to <strong>the</strong> public, but preregistration is required.<br />

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BU Law Looks at <strong>the</strong> Economy<br />

Picard’s Unenviable Task:<br />

To Help Madoff’s Victims Recover Whatever They Can<br />

Bernard Madoff’s 150-year sentence<br />

may ensure he spends <strong>the</strong> rest of<br />

his life in prison, but it does nothing<br />

to heal <strong>the</strong> gaping financial wounds<br />

suffered by more than 14,000 victims<br />

of <strong>the</strong> largest Ponzi scheme in history.<br />

That daunting task has fallen on <strong>the</strong><br />

shoulders of Irving H. Picard (’66),<br />

<strong>the</strong> court-appointed trustee who is<br />

overseeing <strong>the</strong> Madoff bankruptcy.<br />

Picard is <strong>the</strong> man responsible for<br />

recovering as much money as possible<br />

for <strong>the</strong> victims, and devising a plan<br />

to divide it up fairly among <strong>the</strong>m.<br />

One would think this Robin Hood role<br />

would make Picard a hero among <strong>the</strong><br />

victims, but he is already <strong>the</strong> subject<br />

of four lawsuits, including one class<br />

action, filed by <strong>the</strong> very people he has<br />

been hired to help. The problem is<br />

that even if Picard is wildly successful<br />

in his quest, <strong>the</strong>re won’t be nearly<br />

enough money to go around.<br />

The painful fact is that <strong>the</strong> spectacular<br />

“earnings” Madoff engineered on his<br />

customers’ behalf never existed, and<br />

most of <strong>the</strong> staggering $18 billion<br />

<strong>the</strong>y gave him to invest is long gone.<br />

As Picard wrote in his first interim<br />

report on June 30, Madoff “shrouded<br />

himself in an unapproachable Wizard<br />

of Oz–like aura,” creating an illusion<br />

of fantastic returns when, in fact, not<br />

a dime of his clients’ money was ever<br />

invested. Instead, Madoff pocketed<br />

his clients’ money to support his own<br />

lavish lifestyle, while paying out enough<br />

to early investors to keep <strong>the</strong> fraud<br />

going and <strong>the</strong> money rolling in.<br />

Not surprisingly, many of <strong>the</strong><br />

victims are apoplectic.<br />

“The wrongdoer is now in jail, so<br />

<strong>the</strong>y have to vent <strong>the</strong>ir venom on<br />

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someone — and I’m it,” said Picard.<br />

“You’ve got to have a thick skin; you’ve<br />

got to be made of shoe lea<strong>the</strong>r.”<br />

The central issue in <strong>the</strong> lawsuits is<br />

Picard’s “money-in/money-out” policy<br />

for dividing up <strong>the</strong> money he is able to<br />

recover. Under this plan, anyone who<br />

money comes out of <strong>the</strong> money that<br />

should go to <strong>the</strong> net losers,” said Picard.<br />

“To me, that’s not fair. My personal<br />

view is that if we simply use <strong>the</strong> [latest]<br />

statements, we would be continuing<br />

<strong>the</strong> Ponzi scheme. We would be<br />

continuing to let Bernie Madoff decide<br />

who gets paid and who gets [burnt].”<br />

art expert to appraise <strong>the</strong> hundreds of<br />

thousands of dollars of art in Madoff’s<br />

offices. Picard’s favorite piece — one<br />

that embodies <strong>the</strong> whole case — was<br />

a Claes Oldenburg sculpture of an<br />

ordinary screw. Madoff kept <strong>the</strong><br />

four-foot-tall sculpture, titled “The<br />

Soft Screw,” behind his desk.<br />

“<br />

This case is like an octopus, and <strong>the</strong><br />

tentacles keep growing longer.<br />

”<br />

is a “net loser” — that is, anyone who<br />

invested more money than <strong>the</strong>y withdrew<br />

— is eligible to claim <strong>the</strong> amount<br />

<strong>the</strong>y lost. So a person who invested $2<br />

million but only withdrew $500,000 is<br />

eligible to claim a $1.5 million loss. But<br />

anyone who is a “net winner” — those<br />

who withdrew more money than <strong>the</strong>y<br />

invested — cannot claim anything.<br />

As a result, several net winners have<br />

sued Picard, arguing that victims should<br />

be eligible to claim <strong>the</strong> amount shown<br />

on <strong>the</strong>ir final investment statements.<br />

The problem with that, said Picard,<br />

is that <strong>the</strong> money reflected in those<br />

statements — a total of $65 billion<br />

— never existed. It was pure fiction.<br />

“If you go with <strong>the</strong> [latest] statements,<br />

people who already took out more than<br />

<strong>the</strong>y put in continue to get money. That<br />

No matter which plan is ultimately used<br />

to divide up <strong>the</strong> money, investors will<br />

only receive a fraction of <strong>the</strong> money <strong>the</strong>y<br />

thought <strong>the</strong>y had earned. It is Picard’s job<br />

to make that fraction as large as possible.<br />

It is a daunting task.<br />

The number and variety of<br />

responsibilities that fall on Picard’s<br />

shoulders is enough to make anyone’s<br />

legs buckle. To begin with, Picard was<br />

immediately responsible for taking over<br />

Madoff’s business and overseeing it<br />

until its legitimate portions sold. This<br />

required him to manage Madoff’s 140<br />

employees, deal with <strong>the</strong>ir health benefits<br />

and 401(k) plans, and gradually lay <strong>the</strong>m<br />

off so <strong>the</strong> business could be closed down.<br />

To do this, he hired a team of<br />

consultants, attorneys and even an<br />

“So anyone talking to Madoff would<br />

be looking at this screw,” said Picard.<br />

“It’s kind of ironic, don’t you think”<br />

In order to liquidate Madoff’s business<br />

assets, Picard first had to find <strong>the</strong>m.<br />

This hasn’t been easy, given <strong>the</strong> fact that<br />

Madoff was an extraordinarily wealthy<br />

crook who was well aware that <strong>the</strong> feds<br />

were going to catch up with him sooner<br />

or later. So Picard also manages a team<br />

of legal, financial and forensic experts<br />

who have been combing <strong>the</strong> world’s<br />

financial markets to find <strong>the</strong>se assets.<br />

“This case is like an octopus,<br />

and <strong>the</strong> tentacles keep growing<br />

longer,” said Picard.<br />

Meanwhile, Picard has issued more<br />

than 230 subpoenas and 90 letters of<br />

warning in his effort to track down and<br />

litigate <strong>the</strong> recovery of all of <strong>the</strong> investor<br />

money that was paid out to preferred<br />

investors to prop up <strong>the</strong> Ponzi scheme.<br />

According to Picard’s June 30 progress<br />

report, <strong>the</strong>se efforts have “unear<strong>the</strong>d a<br />

labyrinth of interrelated international<br />

About Irving H. Picard<br />

Firm: Baker & Hostetler LLP’s New York City office,<br />

where he is a partner and noted expert in bankruptcy and<br />

restructuring. He serves as <strong>the</strong> court-appointed trustee<br />

under <strong>the</strong> Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA) in <strong>the</strong><br />

liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC.<br />

Background: Picard has extensive litigation experience<br />

including investigating <strong>the</strong> financial affairs of debtors and<br />

seeking to recover property, objections to confirmation<br />

of Chapter 11 plans, substantive consolidation and<br />

preference and fraudulent transfer issues. He has<br />

counseled clients with respect to transactional matters,<br />

such as acquisitions of assets from debtors, proposing<br />

Chapter 11 plans and drafting disclosure statements, nonsubstantive<br />

consolidation and true sale opinions; and<br />

provided advice regarding bankruptcy remote entities.<br />

Associations: New York and American Bar Associations (ABA<br />

Business Law and Litigation Sections, Business Bankruptcy<br />

Committee), <strong>the</strong> American Bankruptcy Institute, Commercial<br />

Law League of America (Bankruptcy Section), Federal Bar<br />

Council, Registry of Mediators for <strong>the</strong> U.S. Bankruptcy Court<br />

(SDNY), <strong>the</strong> Turnaround Management Association. Associate<br />

member of <strong>the</strong> National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees<br />

and <strong>the</strong> Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors.<br />

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funds, institutions and entities of<br />

almost unparalleled complexity and<br />

breadth. … The relationships between<br />

<strong>the</strong> involved entities are tangled and<br />

frequently involve many nations, various<br />

funds and complicated corporate<br />

structures and jurisdictional issues.”<br />

These recovery efforts fall into two main<br />

categories: “preferential transfer” claims<br />

and “fraudulent transfer” claims. The<br />

preferential transfer claims are based on<br />

<strong>the</strong> contention that much of <strong>the</strong> money<br />

withdrawn in <strong>the</strong> 90 days before federal<br />

authorities seized Madoff’s business was<br />

based on insider tips that <strong>the</strong> axe was<br />

about to fall. The numbers tell <strong>the</strong> story.<br />

“We’re looking at something like<br />

$6 billion that went out <strong>the</strong> door<br />

in <strong>the</strong> 90 days before Madoff’s<br />

company was seized,” said Picard.<br />

For example, in July Picard filed a<br />

$44.8 million suit against Madoff’s<br />

wife, Ruth, claiming that in <strong>the</strong> last two<br />

years alone she withdrew a staggering<br />

$23.7 million from <strong>the</strong> company<br />

to “support her lavish lifestyle.”<br />

Of course, not all of <strong>the</strong> recent<br />

withdrawals were shady. Some investors<br />

were making routine withdrawals to<br />

pay taxes, college tuition or medical<br />

bills. So it is Picard’s responsibility to<br />

determine which of <strong>the</strong>se withdrawals<br />

to go after and which to leave alone.<br />

“We’re following <strong>the</strong> money,” he said.<br />

“One of <strong>the</strong> things I always marvel<br />

at when I do <strong>the</strong>se cases is how much<br />

paper <strong>the</strong>se people maintain.”<br />

Picard is also going after <strong>the</strong> so-called<br />

“fraudulent transfers” — returns paid<br />

to certain investors that were clearly out<br />

of line with what any investor could<br />

reasonably expect. These actions don’t<br />

require Picard to prove <strong>the</strong> defendant<br />

was a co-conspirator, only that <strong>the</strong>y<br />

“knew or should have known” that no<br />

legitimate investment could produce <strong>the</strong><br />

kinds of returns <strong>the</strong>y were receiving.<br />

For example, while most investors were<br />

receiving paper “earnings” of 10 to 12<br />

percent, o<strong>the</strong>rs were reaping profits that<br />

were truly extraordinary. Picard filed a<br />

$6.7 billion suit against Jeffry Picower<br />

on May 12, claiming <strong>the</strong> former lawyer,<br />

his hedge fund and his philanthropic<br />

organization “claimed annual rates of<br />

return that were more than 100 percent,<br />

with some annual returns as high as 500<br />

percent or even 950 percent per year.”<br />

The complaint alleges that Picower<br />

withdrew $12 billion from Madoff’s firm<br />

in 2008, including $6 billion in <strong>the</strong> 90<br />

days prior to seizure of <strong>the</strong> business.<br />

“Picower and <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r defendants<br />

were among <strong>the</strong> primary beneficiaries<br />

of this scheme, reaping billions of<br />

dollars of o<strong>the</strong>r people’s money,”<br />

Picard said in <strong>the</strong> complaint.<br />

Picower has filed a motion to dismiss <strong>the</strong><br />

complaint, a move that indicates this is<br />

likely to become protracted litigation.<br />

So far, Picard has recovered $1.25<br />

billion and has filed litigation (including<br />

<strong>the</strong> Picower suit) to recover up to<br />

$14 billion more. In addition, he is<br />

in separate out-of-court settlement<br />

negotiations with a number of o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

individuals and institutions.<br />

Ano<strong>the</strong>r avenue of recovery available<br />

to Picard would be to file suit against<br />

those individuals and entities he<br />

believes actively conspired with<br />

Madoff to perpetuate <strong>the</strong> fraud.<br />

These would be suits against feeder<br />

funds that were knowingly funneling<br />

clients into <strong>the</strong> Ponzi scheme in<br />

return for preferred treatment.<br />

As if all this weren’t enough, Picard also<br />

managed a massive public information<br />

operation geared toward ensuring<br />

that everyone who was eligible to file<br />

a claim did so by <strong>the</strong> July 2 deadline,<br />

and he continues this operation to keep<br />

claimants informed of his progress. In<br />

addition to a steady stream of press<br />

releases, Picard has held an in-person<br />

informational meeting with creditors,<br />

established 1,000 phone lines for those<br />

who couldn’t attend <strong>the</strong> meeting,<br />

posted a video of <strong>the</strong> meeting on <strong>the</strong><br />

Internet, established a toll-free hotline<br />

that has fielded more than 6,000<br />

calls, and set up a Web site (www.<br />

madofftrustee.com) with up-to-<strong>the</strong>minute<br />

information on his recovery.<br />

He has also set up a hardship program<br />

geared toward getting money<br />

quickly to <strong>the</strong> people who were<br />

hardest hit by <strong>the</strong> Madoff scam.<br />

“There are parents caring for disabled<br />

children, elderly people with serious<br />

medical problems, people who are<br />

potentially losing <strong>the</strong>ir homes,” said<br />

Picard. “Some retired early because<br />

<strong>the</strong>y believed <strong>the</strong>y had a lot of money,<br />

<strong>the</strong>n woke up one morning and found<br />

out <strong>the</strong>y had nothing. And this is<br />

happening at a stage in <strong>the</strong>ir lives,<br />

especially in this economy, when<br />

<strong>the</strong>y’re not going to find a job.”<br />

“I know a lot of people don’t<br />

think I stay up at night thinking<br />

about <strong>the</strong>m. But I do.”<br />

Picard is 68 years old, so this is<br />

likely to be <strong>the</strong> last case of his career<br />

of such magnitude, one that could<br />

very well define his legacy. What<br />

is his ultimate goal in <strong>the</strong> case<br />

“To recover as much money for <strong>the</strong><br />

victims as possible, of course,” he said.<br />

“I would also like to be remembered<br />

as a lawyer who was thoughtful, did<br />

what he believed was right, did his<br />

work to <strong>the</strong> best of his ability, and<br />

had compassion for <strong>the</strong> victims.” •<br />

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<strong>Climbing</strong> <strong>Above</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>Culture</strong> <strong>Clash</strong><br />

An Interview With<br />

U.S. Secretary of Commerce<br />

Gary Locke (’75)<br />

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On Aug. 5, 2008, Gary Locke (’75)<br />

could be found dashing through <strong>the</strong><br />

streets of Chengdu, China, carrying <strong>the</strong><br />

Olympic torch that, in just three days,<br />

would launch <strong>the</strong> 2008 games in Beijing.<br />

Locke is not an athlete. In fact, while<br />

growing up in Seattle, his Chinese-<br />

American parents didn’t allow him to<br />

play sports so he’d have more time to<br />

devote to his studies. Yet <strong>the</strong>re he was,<br />

decked out in a red and white Chinese<br />

running uniform, sprinting through<br />

<strong>the</strong> streets of his ancestral homeland as<br />

part of a relay that began four months<br />

earlier in Olympia, Greece, and traveled<br />

85,000 miles across six continents.<br />

What brought Locke this unusual honor<br />

was his unlikely rise from humble roots<br />

as <strong>the</strong> son of immigrant shopkeepers<br />

to become <strong>the</strong> first Asian-American<br />

governor in U.S. history. As governor<br />

of Washington state, he presided over<br />

an economy that is more dependent<br />

on foreign trade than any o<strong>the</strong>r state<br />

in <strong>the</strong> nation, courting high-level<br />

Chinese contacts in his efforts to<br />

promote <strong>the</strong> state’s manufacturing,<br />

high-tech and service industries.<br />

When he left office eight years later, he<br />

built upon <strong>the</strong>se contacts as a partner<br />

in <strong>the</strong> international practice group at<br />

Davis Wright and Tremaine in Seattle.<br />

His diligent efforts were rewarded in<br />

July 2006 when he was granted a rare<br />

private meeting with Chinese Premier<br />

Wen Jibao in Beijing, and again<br />

that same year when he convinced<br />

Chinese President Hu Jintao to begin<br />

his U.S. tour in Washington state.<br />

Locke’s stunning career trajectory<br />

took ano<strong>the</strong>r leap forward in March<br />

when President Barack Obama<br />

chose him to become <strong>the</strong> 36th U.S.<br />

secretary of commerce, entrusting<br />

him with a key role in guiding <strong>the</strong><br />

nation’s economic recovery.<br />

The magnitude of Locke’s journey<br />

was driven home to him soon after he<br />

“<br />

I loved BU Law. It was intellectually<br />

stimulating and I had some great professors.<br />

I always tell people that even if you never<br />

practice law, a legal education sharpens<br />

your analytical skills and critical thinking.<br />

”<br />

was elected governor, when his family<br />

made a pilgrimage to <strong>the</strong>ir ancestral<br />

village of Jilong in sou<strong>the</strong>rn China.<br />

“It was like stepping back into <strong>the</strong><br />

1800s,” said Locke. “We took <strong>the</strong><br />

hydrofoil from Hong Kong up <strong>the</strong> Pearl<br />

River to our family village, and visited<br />

<strong>the</strong> house my grandfa<strong>the</strong>r was born in.<br />

My parents hadn’t been back since <strong>the</strong>y<br />

were married 50 years earlier. The house<br />

is in a village of 150 people, which is less<br />

than a half-mile from a city of 2 million<br />

— and <strong>the</strong>re are still no flush toilets.”<br />

This was not <strong>the</strong> first time Locke<br />

had experienced such a cultural<br />

jolt. When he was 10 years old, his<br />

fa<strong>the</strong>r took him to Hong Kong to<br />

visit his paternal grandmo<strong>the</strong>r.<br />

“She was living in a compound that<br />

was like a refugee camp on <strong>the</strong> hillside<br />

of Hong Kong,” said Locke. The floors<br />

of her six-by-six room were dirt, she<br />

slept on a bench and had no plumbing.<br />

“It was a complete culture shock, and<br />

I was very homesick for <strong>the</strong> U.S.,”<br />

he recalled. “It helped me appreciate<br />

<strong>the</strong> incredible life I had <strong>the</strong>re.”<br />

But when Locke returned home, he<br />

experienced ano<strong>the</strong>r kind of culture<br />

clash. His parents, like many immigrant<br />

couples, wanted <strong>the</strong>ir children to<br />

retain <strong>the</strong> values and traditions passed<br />

down from <strong>the</strong>ir ancestors. But this<br />

was 1950s America, and cultural<br />

conformity was <strong>the</strong> order of <strong>the</strong> day.<br />

“We were bombarded by television<br />

shows like ‘Fa<strong>the</strong>r Knows Best’ and ‘The<br />

Donna Reed Show,’ where mo<strong>the</strong>rs<br />

vacuumed <strong>the</strong> house in high heels<br />

and pearls. I had a third-grade teacher<br />

who would ask every student what<br />

we had for breakfast, and if it wasn’t<br />

a traditional American breakfast, we<br />

got our hands slapped with a ruler.<br />

[Our family] usually ate a kind of<br />

rice porridge with fish and vegetables,<br />

so I got my hands slapped a lot.”<br />

As a result, Locke grew up believing he<br />

had to choose between being Chinese<br />

and being American. It was not until<br />

<strong>the</strong> Civil Rights Movement of <strong>the</strong> 1960s<br />

that he learned to reconcile <strong>the</strong> two.<br />

In spite of his adolescent struggles,<br />

Locke ultimately fulfilled his parents’<br />

dreams, attending Yale University on<br />

scholarship and later graduating from<br />

Boston University School of Law. He<br />

chose law as a career path believing<br />

he would probably work in Asian-<br />

American legal services after graduation.<br />

“I was in college during <strong>the</strong> Civil<br />

Rights Movement and <strong>the</strong> Vietnam<br />

War protests, and decided that <strong>the</strong> best<br />

way to make change was by using <strong>the</strong><br />

law ra<strong>the</strong>r than burning buildings,”<br />

he said. “I loved BU Law. It was<br />

intellectually stimulating and I had<br />

some great professors. I always tell<br />

people that even if you never practice<br />

law, a legal education sharpens your<br />

analytical skills and critical thinking.”<br />

Locke’s initial plans for his legal career<br />

took an unexpected turn after his<br />

second year of law school when he won<br />

a Rule 9 internship, a Washington state<br />

program that allows law students to<br />

represent misdemeanor cases. A year<br />

later, he landed a job in <strong>the</strong> Washington<br />

District Attorney’s office prosecuting<br />

major felonies, including capital murder<br />

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cases. His transition into politics was<br />

a steady upward climb, from state<br />

representative to county executive to<br />

<strong>the</strong> governor’s mansion in 1997.<br />

As governor, Locke quickly developed<br />

a reputation as a “New Democrat”:<br />

socially liberal but fiscally conservative.<br />

Calling education “<strong>the</strong> great equalizer,”<br />

he reduced class size and created a<br />

scholarship program for workingclass<br />

families that reached 15 percent<br />

of every graduating class in <strong>the</strong><br />

state. He also increased funding for<br />

public colleges, which increased<br />

faculty salaries and enrollment.<br />

When <strong>the</strong> recession hit following<br />

<strong>the</strong> 9/11 attacks, Locke had to freeze<br />

many of <strong>the</strong>se programs; but he<br />

emphasizes that he never resorted to<br />

laying off teachers, increasing class<br />

size or cutting scholarship funding.<br />

“I’m very proud of what we were able to<br />

do in tough economic times,” he said.<br />

During that same period Locke<br />

instituted a subsidy program for<br />

working people who could not get<br />

health insurance from <strong>the</strong>ir employers,<br />

and created a state-run food stamp<br />

program when <strong>the</strong> federal government<br />

slashed <strong>the</strong> national program. He<br />

also earmarked $40 million to build<br />

housing for migrant farm workers.<br />

“I saw <strong>the</strong> conditions farm workers<br />

and <strong>the</strong>ir families lived under and<br />

realized that <strong>the</strong>y are feeding <strong>the</strong><br />

United States and <strong>the</strong> world,” he<br />

said. “The conditions reminded me<br />

of my grandmo<strong>the</strong>r in Hong Kong,<br />

and it just didn’t seem right.”<br />

too. But his most lasting legacy may<br />

be his dedication to opening foreign<br />

markets for <strong>the</strong> state’s technology,<br />

agriculture and service industries.<br />

These skills, coupled with his reputation<br />

as a detail-oriented manager, are what<br />

prompted President Obama to make him<br />

a part of his economic recovery team.<br />

As U.S. secretary of commerce,<br />

Locke has several short-term goals<br />

which, although administrative in<br />

nature, will have a long-term impact:<br />

conducting an accurate 2010 U.S.<br />

Census; cutting <strong>the</strong> four-year wait<br />

for patent approvals to one year; and<br />

launching new wea<strong>the</strong>r satellites to<br />

be operated by <strong>the</strong> National Oceanic<br />

and Atmospheric Administration.<br />

Among his top long-term goals is to<br />

improve trade relations with China,<br />

which he believes will have <strong>the</strong><br />

added benefit of giving <strong>the</strong> United<br />

States more leverage in influencing<br />

Chinese foreign policy and human<br />

rights policies. To do this, he would<br />

like to loosen several of <strong>the</strong> trade<br />

restrictions that are currently in place.<br />

Germany and Latin America. Many<br />

of <strong>the</strong>se restrictions simply deprive<br />

<strong>the</strong> United States of sales and hurt job<br />

creation in this country. We should<br />

focus on streng<strong>the</strong>ning restrictions on<br />

those items that would have a clear<br />

impact on national security and loosen<br />

<strong>the</strong> restrictions on those products that<br />

are readily sold in o<strong>the</strong>r countries.”<br />

He added, “My position is that <strong>the</strong><br />

U.S. offers China highly valued<br />

goods and services that can raise<br />

<strong>the</strong> standard of living in China,<br />

while creating jobs in America.<br />

We can export technology for food<br />

production, medical care, engineering<br />

and education, as well as technologies<br />

to reduce <strong>the</strong> carbon emissions that<br />

contribute to global warming.”<br />

Locke’s story is a decidedly American<br />

one. It is tempting to wonder what<br />

his grandfa<strong>the</strong>r would think — a<br />

man who came to America briefly in<br />

<strong>the</strong> late 1800s to work as a houseboy<br />

a mile from <strong>the</strong> governor’s mansion<br />

his grandson would one day inhabit.<br />

Following his historic victory to become<br />

governor of Washington in 1997,<br />

“<br />

I saw <strong>the</strong> conditions farm workers and<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir families lived under and realized that<br />

<strong>the</strong>y are feeding <strong>the</strong> United States and <strong>the</strong><br />

world. The conditions reminded me of my<br />

grandmo<strong>the</strong>r in Hong Kong, and it just didn’t<br />

seem right.<br />

”<br />

During his eight years in office, Locke<br />

developed a reputation as one of <strong>the</strong><br />

state’s most business-friendly governors.<br />

Against <strong>the</strong> odds, he persuaded<br />

Boeing, <strong>the</strong> state’s largest employer,<br />

to manufacture its new 787 jetliner in<br />

Washington, after <strong>the</strong> company had<br />

put <strong>the</strong> project out to bid in o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

states. And he prevented <strong>the</strong> Seattle<br />

Seahawks from pulling up stakes,<br />

“The Chinese recognize that <strong>the</strong> trade<br />

imbalance is unhealthy; <strong>the</strong>y want to<br />

buy more U.S. products,” he said. “But<br />

<strong>the</strong>re are currently barriers to some of<br />

what <strong>the</strong>y want to buy. The National<br />

Academy of Sciences has concluded that<br />

some of <strong>the</strong>se restrictions are counter<br />

to U.S. interests because <strong>the</strong>se items<br />

can be easily bought from Canada,<br />

Locke was fond of saying, “It took my<br />

family 100 years to go one mile.”<br />

But that one mile was just <strong>the</strong><br />

first step in a steady upward climb<br />

that continues to this day. •<br />

For more information on what Locke is accomplishing as<br />

commerce secretary, see www.commerce.gov.<br />

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BU Law Welcomes New Faculty<br />

At <strong>the</strong> core of any law school is its faculty. BU Law professors are nationally acclaimed for <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

teaching skills as well as <strong>the</strong>ir scholarship, and <strong>the</strong>y are frequently consulted for advice by<br />

both <strong>the</strong> public and private sectors. We are proud to welcome <strong>the</strong> following two members to our<br />

faculty: Stacey L. Dogan and Abigail R. Moncrieff.<br />

Stacey L. Dogan<br />

Professor of Law<br />

Professor Dogan, who joins <strong>the</strong> BU faculty from Nor<strong>the</strong>astern<br />

University School of Law, is a leading scholar in intellectual<br />

property law. She has written many articles on <strong>the</strong> application<br />

of trademark and copyright law to <strong>the</strong> online environment,<br />

with a particular emphasis on <strong>the</strong> role of intermediaries, such<br />

as Napster and Google. Her most recent article, co-authored<br />

with Mark Lemley of Stanford, considers <strong>the</strong> role of antitrust<br />

law in regulated industries, and contends that antitrust courts<br />

have an important role to play in curbing “regulatory games.”<br />

Professor Dogan has presented her research at numerous<br />

national and international conferences, and her writings have<br />

appeared in publications including <strong>the</strong> Stanford Law Review,<br />

Emory Law Journal, Iowa Law Review, and Texas Law Review.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> fall of 2008, she became <strong>the</strong> co-editor-in-chief of <strong>the</strong><br />

Journal of <strong>the</strong> Copyright Society, a peer-reviewed copyright<br />

journal. She is also <strong>the</strong> incoming chair of <strong>the</strong> intellectual<br />

property section of <strong>the</strong> Association of American Law Schools.<br />

She is an active participant in educational programs with <strong>the</strong><br />

local bar, leading seminars and discussions for <strong>the</strong> Boston Bar<br />

Association, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and<br />

<strong>the</strong> Massachusetts Volunteer Lawyers for <strong>the</strong> Arts. She also<br />

has participated in executive training sessions through <strong>the</strong><br />

Nor<strong>the</strong>astern University high-technology M.B.A. program.<br />

Before Professor Dogan went into teaching,<br />

she practiced for several years with <strong>the</strong><br />

Washington, D.C., law firm of Covington<br />

& Burling, where she specialized in<br />

trademark, copyright and antitrust law.<br />

She also served as a law clerk to Judge<br />

Judith Rogers of <strong>the</strong> U.S. Court of Appeals<br />

for <strong>the</strong> District of Columbia Circuit.<br />

Abigail R. Moncrieff<br />

Associate Professor of Law<br />

Peter Paul Development Professor<br />

Abigail Moncrieff joins <strong>the</strong> BU Law faculty from Harvard<br />

Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy,<br />

Biotechnology and Bioethics, where she was an academic<br />

fellow. While at <strong>the</strong> Petrie-Flom Center, Professor Moncrieff<br />

argued for federalization of medical malpractice policy<br />

in an article published in <strong>the</strong> Columbia Law Review.<br />

Moncrieff’s academic interests include healthcare law,<br />

healthcare law & economics, structural constitutional law,<br />

and legislation. In 2002, Professor Moncrieff was awarded a<br />

Fulbright scholarship to study comparative healthcare policy<br />

in Switzerland (one of <strong>the</strong> only countries in Europe that still<br />

relies on private insurance to finance healthcare delivery).<br />

She received her J.D. from <strong>the</strong> University of Chicago,<br />

and clerked on <strong>the</strong> Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for<br />

Judge Sidney R. Thomas. At BU Law, Professor Moncrieff<br />

teaches <strong>the</strong> first-year legislation course as well as a seminar<br />

on healthcare law & <strong>the</strong> Constitution. In her writing,<br />

she continues to tackle structural governmental barriers<br />

to efficient healthcare delivery in <strong>the</strong> United States.<br />

BU recently awarded Prof. Moncrieff <strong>the</strong> Peter Paul Development<br />

Professorship. The award was established in 2006 by a gift from<br />

BU alum and trustee Peter Paul to recognize<br />

<strong>the</strong> “very best young faculty” who<br />

are within <strong>the</strong> first two years of<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir appointments to Boston<br />

University. The competition<br />

is University-wide; recipients<br />

are supported for three<br />

years in <strong>the</strong>ir research<br />

and scholarly pursuits.<br />

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Professors Brodley and Baram Announce Retirements<br />

We are grateful to Professors Michael Baram and Joseph Brodley for <strong>the</strong>ir many contributions to<br />

<strong>the</strong> School and wish <strong>the</strong>m a healthy and happy retirement.<br />

Professor Joseph Brodley, after a long and distinguished<br />

career as an antitrust scholar, retired at <strong>the</strong> end of <strong>the</strong> Spring<br />

2009 semester. Boston University Law School hosted a<br />

symposium honoring Professor Brodley’s contributions<br />

to antitrust law on September 18, and <strong>the</strong> Boston<br />

University Law Review will publish <strong>the</strong> contributions.<br />

Professor Brodley, The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished<br />

Scholar in Law, joined BU Law in 1979 and taught courses<br />

in antitrust law and economic regulation. He is recognized<br />

internationally for his experience in antitrust issues. In addition<br />

to lecturing in <strong>the</strong> United States and Europe, he has served<br />

as a consultant to many organizations including <strong>the</strong> Federal<br />

Trade Commission and <strong>the</strong> Ford Motor Company, and<br />

testified before numerous congressional committees. In 2001,<br />

Professor Brodley served as visiting scholar at <strong>the</strong> Federal Trade<br />

Commission and earlier as a visiting fellow at Oxford and<br />

Cambridge universities. Professor Brodley served as a member<br />

of <strong>the</strong> Board of Advisors of <strong>the</strong> American Antitrust Institute<br />

in Washington. In addition, he served as interim dean of BU<br />

Law and as associate dean for research for many years.<br />

Professor Brodley’s most recent articles are “Predatory Pricing:<br />

Strategic Theory and Legal Policy” and “Predatory Pricing:<br />

Response to Critique and Fur<strong>the</strong>r Elaboration,” both published<br />

in <strong>the</strong> Georgetown Law Journal and “Patent Settlement<br />

Agreements: Preliminary Views” (with Dean Maureen<br />

O’Rourke) in Antitrust Magazine. His work was also published<br />

in such journals as Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal,<br />

Stanford Law Review and Boston University Law Review.<br />

Professor Michael Baram came to BU Law in 1981 and<br />

has taught environmental law, occupational health law,<br />

biotechnology law, corporate risk management and products<br />

liability. He also held faculty appointments at <strong>the</strong> School<br />

of Public Health and <strong>the</strong> Bioinformatics Department.<br />

“I am officially retired from BU but will be quite active,” Professor<br />

Baram said. He’ll be working with some international colleagues to<br />

finish a book on regulating risks of genetically modified agriculture,<br />

continuing as a pro bono legal volunteer at <strong>the</strong> Boston office of <strong>the</strong><br />

Conservation Law Foundation, and developing environmental and<br />

safety regulations for energy projects with a team of experts from<br />

Norway. “I’m writing on social control of hazardous technologies,”<br />

he added. “It has been my main concern since my days as a<br />

professor at MIT many years ago.” More importantly, he said he’ll<br />

not only be using <strong>the</strong> time to enjoy his grandchildren and relax,<br />

but to also reflect. “I’m trying to discern what real wisdom I have<br />

gained from all <strong>the</strong> legal and o<strong>the</strong>r knowledge I have acquired.”<br />

He was previously a professor and dean at MIT and partner in <strong>the</strong><br />

Boston law firm of Bracken and Baram. He has provided consulting<br />

and legal services to numerous public and private organizations.<br />

His publications include seven books, including Managing<br />

Chemical Risks, Safety Management, Alternatives to Regulation and<br />

Corporate Disclosure of Environmental Risks. His studies have been<br />

published by <strong>the</strong> Congressional Office of Technology Assessment,<br />

<strong>the</strong> Administrative Conference of <strong>the</strong> United States and o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

organizations, and more than 110 of his articles have been<br />

published in legal, professional and academic journals, books and<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r media including various law reviews, Science, The New York<br />

Times, Environmental Health Perspectives and Safety Science Journal.<br />

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Professor Fran Miller is Honored<br />

for 40 Years of Dedication to <strong>the</strong> School<br />

The majority of alumni who have<br />

passed through BU Law’s doors<br />

over <strong>the</strong> past 40 years have benefited<br />

from Professor Frances Miller’s devotion<br />

to <strong>the</strong> School and her enthusiasm<br />

for teaching. She reshaped <strong>the</strong> way<br />

health law was taught, shifting our<br />

focus from medical malpractice to a<br />

more complex exploration of health<br />

care organization, finance and delivery.<br />

She was also instrumental in building<br />

<strong>the</strong> University’s health law program,<br />

a collaborative effort of <strong>the</strong> Schools<br />

of Law and Public Health. She holds<br />

appointments at each of those Schools<br />

as well as <strong>the</strong> School of Management.<br />

Over <strong>the</strong> past 40 years, most students<br />

have learned health law or trusts and<br />

estates or both from her. She is widely<br />

acclaimed for her substantive expertise,<br />

sense of humor and gift for teaching.<br />

In recognition of her outstanding<br />

ability, Boston University awarded her<br />

its highest honor, <strong>the</strong> Metcalf Cup and<br />

Prize for teaching excellence, in 1989.<br />

Fran, as she is known to most alumni,<br />

will retire from Boston University in<br />

December. A large number of her<br />

former students joined to honor her at<br />

an October 23, 2009, dinner during<br />

Reunion Week festivities. Many who<br />

attended spoke of her zest for knowledge,<br />

which has led her to become one of <strong>the</strong><br />

foremost experts on American health<br />

care law and policy, and a specialist<br />

on comparative health systems.<br />

In 1993, she served as a consultant<br />

to <strong>the</strong> White House Task Force on<br />

Health Care Reform. She was awarded<br />

two Fulbright scholarships to research<br />

<strong>the</strong> effects of competition on British<br />

health systems, as well as a Kellogg<br />

Foundation National Fellowship to<br />

study <strong>the</strong> delivery of healthcare in<br />

Europe, Africa, South America, <strong>the</strong><br />

Middle East and China. Also known for<br />

her expertise in trusts and estates, she<br />

was a major contributor to and starred<br />

in two PBS television series on estate<br />

and financial planning in <strong>the</strong> 1980s.<br />

Over <strong>the</strong> course of her career, Fran has<br />

been a dedicated scholar, writing a book<br />

and publishing more than 85 articles and<br />

book chapters. She has also served as <strong>the</strong><br />

faculty editor of <strong>the</strong> American Journal of<br />

Law and Medicine at <strong>the</strong> School and as<br />

a trustee of <strong>the</strong> Joslin Diabetes Center<br />

and of Mount Holyoke College.<br />

The enduring relationships Fran<br />

formed with students and alumni, as<br />

well as <strong>the</strong> countless contributions<br />

she has made to BU Law, <strong>the</strong> School<br />

of Management, and <strong>the</strong> School of<br />

Public Health, have earned her <strong>the</strong><br />

community’s deep gratitude and respect.<br />

As to <strong>the</strong> next chapter of her life (Fran<br />

doesn’t use <strong>the</strong> word retirement), she is<br />

looking forward to teaching in Hawaii<br />

this spring, writing short stories and<br />

spending time with her family. She even<br />

plans to teach a trusts and estates class at<br />

BU Law next fall, giving our community<br />

a little more time to say goodbye. •<br />

If you would like to celebrate Fran Miller’s legacy and her<br />

contributions to <strong>the</strong> BU Law community, you may make a<br />

donation to <strong>the</strong> BU Law Annual Fund in her honor by visiting<br />

www.bu.edu/law/alumni/giving/gift/franmiller.html<br />

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School Mourns Passing of Margaret der Hagopian<br />

Boston University School of Law<br />

mourns <strong>the</strong> passing of Margaret<br />

“Margo” Der Hagopian, who passed<br />

away in Winchester on July 22, 2009.<br />

She is survived by her bro<strong>the</strong>r Robert<br />

Hagopian and her nephew, Andrew<br />

Hagopian, and his family. She was 82.<br />

Her memorial at Marsh Chapel<br />

and in <strong>the</strong> BU Law School was well<br />

attended by many who loved her.<br />

“We just want to thank everyone for <strong>the</strong><br />

wonderful tribute that BU School of Law<br />

had for Margo,” said Andrew Hagopian.<br />

“It was wonderful to hear of how she<br />

has touched everyone. Margo would be<br />

very honored to know <strong>the</strong> impact she has<br />

had on not only <strong>the</strong> students and faculty<br />

but also <strong>the</strong> history of <strong>the</strong> school.”<br />

After joining <strong>the</strong> staff of BU Law 62<br />

years ago in 1947, Margo became <strong>the</strong><br />

heart and soul of <strong>the</strong> School through<br />

her dedication to excellence and her<br />

unwavering kindness to all students,<br />

faculty and staff who were fortunate<br />

enough to know her. Even after her<br />

retirement in 2006, Margo continued<br />

to serve <strong>the</strong> School as its historian,<br />

and she never lost touch with those<br />

members of <strong>the</strong> BU Law community<br />

about whom she deeply cared.<br />

“Margo was a rare and delightful<br />

person,” said Dean Maureen O’Rourke.<br />

“She nurtured and supported our law<br />

students and alumni for more than<br />

half a century. Long after she earned<br />

a relaxing retirement, she chose to<br />

remain a vibrant contributor to <strong>the</strong><br />

School. Few people have been as<br />

dedicated to <strong>the</strong> School and as loved by<br />

faculty, staff, students and alumni.”<br />

The daughter of Armenian immigrants,<br />

Margo was a lifelong resident of<br />

Newburyport. She earned an associate’s<br />

degree in commercial science from<br />

Boston University’s College of Practical<br />

Arts and Letters in 1947. That same<br />

year, she began working in <strong>the</strong> law<br />

school as a secretary to <strong>the</strong> faculty. She<br />

was hardworking and personable, and<br />

she was quickly promoted several times,<br />

eventually becoming assistant to <strong>the</strong><br />

dean. In her long relationship with <strong>the</strong><br />

law school, Margo worked under nine<br />

deans. Her meticulous documentation<br />

of <strong>the</strong> School’s history has preserved<br />

<strong>the</strong> chronicle of BU Law for future<br />

generations. Almost every corridor of <strong>the</strong><br />

law school contains framed photos of<br />

distinguished alumni, thanks to Margo’s<br />

tireless efforts to preserve <strong>the</strong>ir stories.<br />

“Margo was a presence not only in<br />

<strong>the</strong> alumni community, but also<br />

throughout <strong>the</strong> entire law school. She<br />

was strongly involved in organizing<br />

alumni events, and she often attended<br />

<strong>the</strong> board of trustees and <strong>the</strong> board<br />

of visitors meetings,” said Professor<br />

Stanley Fisher, who met Margo when<br />

he joined <strong>the</strong> BU Law faculty in 1968.<br />

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Professor Robert Volk (’78) recalled<br />

Margo’s dedication. “I first met Margo<br />

when I was a student at BU Law,<br />

working in <strong>the</strong> law library. From time<br />

to time, I would be sent to <strong>the</strong> Dean’s<br />

Office to make deliveries and run errands<br />

for Margo. She seemed to run <strong>the</strong> law<br />

school. When I joined <strong>the</strong> law school<br />

in 1980, first with <strong>the</strong> Morin Center,<br />

and <strong>the</strong>n as director of <strong>the</strong> Writing<br />

Program, I learned that Margo really did<br />

run <strong>the</strong> law school! Her hard work and<br />

dedication to <strong>the</strong> law school cannot be<br />

overstated, and we will all miss her.”<br />

Margo was witness to great<br />

transformations at BU Law. She<br />

made <strong>the</strong> move from <strong>the</strong> School’s<br />

former location on Beacon Hill at<br />

11 Ashburton Place to its current<br />

site at 765 Commonwealth Avenue.<br />

At <strong>the</strong> start of her career, BU Law<br />

graduated around 90 people each year.<br />

Today, <strong>the</strong> School graduates nearly<br />

500 J.D. and LL.M. students.<br />

“We’ve become quite a different law<br />

school in <strong>the</strong> years Margo has been here.<br />

And Margo reminds us that we were<br />

just a little downtown law school,” said<br />

Professor David Seipp, who worked<br />

with Margo in her efforts to preserve<br />

and document BU Law’s history.<br />

Through all <strong>the</strong> changes, her dedication<br />

to <strong>the</strong> School’s community never<br />

faltered. It was <strong>the</strong> connections she<br />

made over <strong>the</strong> years that she valued<br />

most about her experience at BU Law.<br />

“For her, it wasn’t just, ‘Oh, I met<br />

you; hello, goodbye,’” said Irene<br />

Moustakas, director of Personnel<br />

Services at BU Law and a close friend<br />

of Margo’s since Margo hired her in<br />

1951. “It meant a great deal to her<br />

to have that contact with students.<br />

She liked it, and <strong>the</strong>y appreciated it.<br />

They appreciated that someone cared<br />

about <strong>the</strong>m enough to stay in touch.<br />

She went out of her way to be nice to<br />

<strong>the</strong>m and ask about <strong>the</strong>ir families.”<br />

BU Law and Boston University honored<br />

Margo many times for her unwavering<br />

support. She was <strong>the</strong> first recipient<br />

of <strong>the</strong> Student Bar Association award<br />

honoring outstanding service and<br />

contribution to <strong>the</strong> student body in<br />

“<br />

Margo was a rare and delightful person,”<br />

said Dean Maureen O’Rourke. “She nurtured<br />

and supported our law students and alumni<br />

for more than half a century.<br />

”<br />

1987. Later that year, she received <strong>the</strong><br />

John S. Perkins Distinguished Service<br />

Award. This award is presented annually<br />

by <strong>the</strong> Boston University Faculty<br />

Council for those who have “served <strong>the</strong><br />

University with great distinction and<br />

have made important contributions<br />

toward <strong>the</strong> goals of <strong>the</strong> University.”<br />

In 1988, Margo received <strong>the</strong> Silver<br />

Shingle Award, <strong>the</strong> highest honor given<br />

by <strong>the</strong> law school, for Distinguished<br />

Service to <strong>the</strong> School of Law. She<br />

received <strong>the</strong> Gerard H. Cohen<br />

Award in 1995. At <strong>the</strong> reception<br />

for <strong>the</strong> latter honor, a description of<br />

Margo’s accomplishments stated, “By<br />

1983, she had total responsibility for<br />

<strong>the</strong> operational budget, personnel<br />

and payroll, faculty appointments,<br />

accreditation reports and countless o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

administrative duties. She was literally a<br />

one-woman administration.” Professor<br />

Seipp noted, “We’ve essentially been<br />

replacing Margo with whole staffs.”<br />

At <strong>the</strong> 125th anniversary of Boston<br />

University School of Law in 1997, <strong>the</strong><br />

Annual Alumni Gala was held in honor<br />

of Margo for her 50 years of service to<br />

<strong>the</strong> School. Margo told BU Today, “I<br />

can’t imagine anyone having a better<br />

time anywhere than I’ve had here….<br />

I’ve enjoyed my years here so much<br />

that <strong>the</strong>y haven’t seemed like work.”<br />

Robert Kent (’49) said in his speech<br />

honoring Margo during this event, “It is<br />

often said that no one is indispensable.<br />

Maybe so, but this woman came close.”<br />

“The larger part of Margo’s effect has<br />

not come from her ability to administer,<br />

advise and direct <strong>the</strong> life of <strong>the</strong> School,”<br />

said <strong>the</strong>n-Dean Ronald A. Cass in a<br />

letter announcing <strong>the</strong> event. “It has<br />

been a simple and rare quality: she<br />

loves people so readily and fully that we<br />

cannot help falling in love with her.”<br />

This seemed especially true for <strong>the</strong> law<br />

students at <strong>the</strong> School whom Margo<br />

cared for long past <strong>the</strong>ir graduations.<br />

“I first met Margo 53 years ago when<br />

I was a first-year law student,” said<br />

Morton Aronson (’59). “She had great<br />

empathy and understanding of <strong>the</strong> trials<br />

and tribulations of law students. Margo<br />

always went <strong>the</strong> extra mile to be helpful.”<br />

In many cases, her service to <strong>the</strong> students<br />

is what alumni remember best about<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir experience at BU Law. “She stayed<br />

in touch with graduates throughout<br />

<strong>the</strong> country — and <strong>the</strong> world, for that<br />

matter. To <strong>the</strong> students, although she<br />

never admitted or acknowledged it, she<br />

really functioned as <strong>the</strong> School’s ‘go<br />

to’ person. She was <strong>the</strong> one a student<br />

would turn to in <strong>the</strong> event of a problem<br />

or question,” said Paul Sugarman<br />

(’54). “Margo is synonymous with <strong>the</strong><br />

Boston University School of Law.”<br />

It was clear that Margo loved <strong>the</strong><br />

law school, and <strong>the</strong> School of Law<br />

was fortunate to have been her<br />

second home for so many years.<br />

“Margo Hagopian is one of a<br />

kind,” said Sugarman. “There is<br />

no mold, and I doubt that <strong>the</strong>re<br />

will ever be ano<strong>the</strong>r Margo.” •<br />

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Q&A with Professors Linda McClain<br />

and Katharine Silbaugh<br />

Professors Offer Course on Gender, Law & Public Policy This Fall<br />

Over <strong>the</strong> past few decades, <strong>the</strong><br />

conversation about gender and <strong>the</strong><br />

law has expanded beyond feminist<br />

legal <strong>the</strong>ory to include a much broader<br />

discussion of social and political equality<br />

across a wide spectrum of situations.<br />

Ending gender discrimination and<br />

securing women’s rights has become a<br />

priority for some policymakers, including<br />

President Obama, who appointed a new<br />

White House Council on Women and<br />

Girls. An August 17, 2009, article in<br />

The New York Times Magazine titled<br />

“The Women’s Crusade” asserted that<br />

<strong>the</strong> oppression of women and girls<br />

worldwide has become <strong>the</strong> human rights<br />

cause of our time. Family definition,<br />

same-sex marriage, lesbian, gay, bisexual<br />

and transgender (LGBT) rights, black<br />

masculinity issues, reproductive rights,<br />

freedom from domestic violence, and<br />

work-life balance are just a few of <strong>the</strong><br />

topics encompassed within <strong>the</strong> broad<br />

category of gender today. This past<br />

spring, Professors Linda McClain and<br />

Katharine Silbaugh pioneered <strong>the</strong> new<br />

BU Law colloquium “Research on<br />

Gender, Law & Public Policy.” The<br />

course allowed second- and third-year<br />

students at BU Law — along with BU<br />

professors and political science graduate<br />

students — <strong>the</strong> opportunity to meet<br />

with experts in <strong>the</strong> field to discuss <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

works in progress. Using gender as a lens<br />

through which to view many different<br />

topics in law and policy, Silbaugh and<br />

McClain capitalized on <strong>the</strong> wealth of<br />

experts at BU and in <strong>the</strong> region.<br />

In structuring <strong>the</strong> course, McClain<br />

and Silbaugh chose to expose students<br />

to a range of different methodologies<br />

and perspectives, enlisting experts in<br />

law, history, political science, social<br />

policy and literature who are exploring<br />

issues of gender, law and public policy.<br />

Students were asked to examine<br />

scholarly work, think critically about<br />

it and become familiar with some<br />

of <strong>the</strong> varied approaches scholars<br />

may take when examining a topic.<br />

McClain and Silbaugh answer<br />

questions about <strong>the</strong> Gender, Law<br />

& Public Policy course, which<br />

McClain will teach this fall.<br />

Pnina Lahav. And <strong>the</strong>re was student interest<br />

in bringing in high-level scholars who have<br />

developed expertise across different areas that<br />

touch on gender.<br />

Linda McClain: I think that a lot of pressing<br />

issues of law and policy involve gender in<br />

some way. By that, I don’t mean simply<br />

questions of women’s basic equality, but also<br />

issues about things like family definition,<br />

<strong>the</strong> rights of gay men and lesbians and of<br />

transgendered persons, just to name a few.<br />

Q: What did you hope to accomplish<br />

with this course<br />

LM: [We hoped to give] students a chance<br />

to see how very significant law and policy<br />

issues involve gender questions, and also to<br />

give <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong> chance to meet and interact<br />

with leading scholars who make gender a<br />

focus of <strong>the</strong>ir scholarly work — not just law<br />

professors, but also people in some o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

disciplines as well.<br />

Q: What was your primary<br />

motivation for developing an upperlevel<br />

course on law and gender<br />

Kate Silbaugh: We wanted to capitalize<br />

on expertise that Linda and I share, as well<br />

as [BU Law professors] Kristin Collins and<br />

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KS: The students were happy with it, and<br />

I thought it was a great success. We had a<br />

great line-up of speakers, and <strong>the</strong> students<br />

worked incredibly hard. They gained<br />

an understanding of a scholar’s process,<br />

something traditional courses can’t deliver.<br />

This is what we had hoped to accomplish.<br />

Q: Who participated in last<br />

semester’s course<br />

LM: We had 15 students, including one<br />

graduate student in political science. It was<br />

mostly female students, but we had two male<br />

students. Any professors who wanted to<br />

attend were also welcome; we probably had<br />

anywhere from two to five professors come to<br />

each session.<br />

Q: What was <strong>the</strong> format of <strong>the</strong><br />

colloquium<br />

KS: We met with students <strong>the</strong> week before<br />

<strong>the</strong> speaker would come, and we would<br />

talk about <strong>the</strong> paper that was going to be<br />

presented. Students were encouraged to think<br />

about <strong>the</strong> author’s decision-making: both<br />

decisions about focus, coverage and scope,<br />

as well as how <strong>the</strong> particular paper fit into<br />

<strong>the</strong> larger research agenda. During class,<br />

students could engage <strong>the</strong> speaker about those<br />

decisions.<br />

LM: We would put <strong>the</strong> work in context, if<br />

necessary — for example, we would explain<br />

its connection to certain gender and law<br />

debates or issues. We would give students a<br />

chance to discuss <strong>the</strong> points <strong>the</strong>y raised in<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir weekly reaction papers. If we saw certain<br />

common <strong>the</strong>mes in <strong>the</strong> reaction papers, we<br />

would invite <strong>the</strong> students to discuss <strong>the</strong>m.<br />

Q: How does this seminar add to<br />

someone’s understanding of <strong>the</strong> law<br />

LM: Examining <strong>the</strong> underlying assumptions<br />

being made helps people better understand<br />

<strong>the</strong> law and policy arguments. For example,<br />

one of our speakers, Professor Elizabeth<br />

Emens of Columbia University, was looking<br />

at how people use arguments about nature,<br />

ei<strong>the</strong>r as a reason why we can’t really change<br />

things or as a reason why we have to change<br />

things. She explored disability, sexual<br />

orientation, gender, race and aging. And I<br />

think once students read that paper, it gave<br />

<strong>the</strong>m some new tools for thinking about how<br />

people have certain assumptions about what<br />

<strong>the</strong> proper role of law is.<br />

Q: Who are some of <strong>the</strong> outside<br />

speakers who have served as experts<br />

for this colloquium, and how were<br />

<strong>the</strong>y selected<br />

LM: We tried in <strong>the</strong> first instance to go with<br />

some local people. We have a large number<br />

of law schools in <strong>the</strong> Boston area, and we<br />

also have some wonderful people here at<br />

<strong>the</strong> University. We had <strong>the</strong> dean of <strong>the</strong><br />

College of Arts and Sciences, Gina Sapiro,<br />

[who presented her paper “The Gender<br />

Basis of American Social Policy.”] O<strong>the</strong>r<br />

speakers included Harvard Law School<br />

Professor Jeannie Suk, who analyzed how<br />

gender, privacy and <strong>the</strong> home feature in <strong>the</strong><br />

Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment cases,<br />

and Nor<strong>the</strong>astern Professor Martha Davis,<br />

who presented her paper “Welfare, Work<br />

and Education.” We also took advantage of<br />

opportunities where a well-known scholar<br />

was coming to <strong>the</strong> law school for ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />

reason and was willing to participate in<br />

our colloquium. We will do that again this<br />

semester when Professors Anita Allen [of<br />

<strong>the</strong> University of Pennsylvania] and Kim<br />

Scheppele [of Princeton] visit BU. Last<br />

semester, we had Professor Reva Siegel, a<br />

leading legal historian at Yale, present recent<br />

work on how opponents of abortion have<br />

adopted pro-choice rhetoric about women’s<br />

rights to argue that abortion harms women.<br />

[She also presented] a work in progress on<br />

recovering <strong>the</strong> history of <strong>the</strong> early abortion<br />

rights movement.<br />

KS: We were trying to make sure that we<br />

invited speakers with a range of different<br />

expertise, so we looked for history, political<br />

science, social policy and literature, for<br />

example. We also wanted a variety of topic<br />

coverage, so <strong>the</strong>re were some scholars who<br />

spoke about <strong>the</strong> lives of low-income women,<br />

some about reproductive rights, some about<br />

marriage, some about disability, some about<br />

transgendered issues. … [Wellesley Professor]<br />

Diana Williams talked about interracial<br />

marriage during <strong>the</strong> Reconstruction period in<br />

New Orleans and <strong>the</strong> laws addressing it.<br />

Q: What is your background in <strong>the</strong><br />

subject area<br />

KS: I have taught a Women & Law class and<br />

a Women, Work & Families class for many<br />

years. I have a longstanding interest in <strong>the</strong><br />

way law perceives women’s roles, and <strong>the</strong> way<br />

cultural understandings of women’s roles are<br />

reflected in <strong>the</strong> law.<br />

I have written at length about <strong>the</strong> way<br />

law captures and fails to capture <strong>the</strong> value<br />

generated by women’s domestic labor. I also<br />

have written about <strong>the</strong> ways urban planning,<br />

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which is reflected in land use regulation,<br />

reflects particular ideas about women in<br />

homes as <strong>the</strong>y interact with workplaces. I’ve<br />

written about work-family policy generally.<br />

I also just published a book with a colleague<br />

from ano<strong>the</strong>r law school called The Essentials<br />

of Family Law.<br />

LM: I went into law teaching with a strong<br />

interest in doing work in gender and law<br />

and feminist legal <strong>the</strong>ory. When I started at<br />

Hofstra University, I designed <strong>the</strong> feminist<br />

legal <strong>the</strong>ory class. Toward <strong>the</strong> end of my time<br />

at Hofstra, I designed a gender colloquium<br />

with a colleague [Joanna Grossman], who<br />

is <strong>the</strong> co-editor of my new book, Gender<br />

Equality. So I had done it one time before I<br />

came to BU.<br />

I have always had an interest in gender as a<br />

category of analysis. When I went into law<br />

teaching, one of my big goals was to be able<br />

to do more with that interest, to write and<br />

teach in that area.<br />

Q: How does <strong>the</strong> Gender, Law &<br />

Public Policy colloquium differ from<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r gender-related courses at BU<br />

Law<br />

LM: Ra<strong>the</strong>r than have a whole course devoted<br />

to a study, say, of feminist legal <strong>the</strong>ory, you’re<br />

really looking at gender as a very big category.<br />

And you are looking at an array of speakers,<br />

not all of whom may approach <strong>the</strong> topic from<br />

a feminist <strong>the</strong>ory perspective. For example,<br />

this fall one of our speakers from Suffolk<br />

[Frank Rudy Cooper] has done a lot of work<br />

on black masculinity. And so he’s going to be<br />

looking at <strong>the</strong> recent arrest of Professor Gates<br />

through <strong>the</strong> lens of black masculinity <strong>the</strong>ory.<br />

It’s not a systematic course, where a student<br />

would go in and come out knowing seven<br />

different schools of feminist thought and<br />

15 current debates among feminists. It’s<br />

more like, if we try to focus on gender and<br />

how questions of gender are at <strong>the</strong> heart of<br />

a lot of law and policy debates, what can we<br />

learn And it changes semester to semester.<br />

This semester we’re going to have a session<br />

on rights of women in Islam and Judaism to<br />

public prayer. We didn’t really discuss women<br />

and religion last time.<br />

And I think that students also like <strong>the</strong><br />

opportunity to be able to engage with each<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r in a relatively small class where <strong>the</strong>y<br />

are challenged to express <strong>the</strong>ir reaction to a<br />

piece and to try to assess <strong>the</strong> strengths and<br />

weaknesses of it. In o<strong>the</strong>r words, it’s not<br />

passive learning. •<br />

Editor’s note: BU Law Professors Kristin Collins,<br />

Pnina Lahav, Linda McClain and Katharine<br />

Silbaugh each specialize in aspects of gender<br />

and <strong>the</strong> law, along with many o<strong>the</strong>r academic<br />

interests. McClain will teach this course again<br />

in <strong>the</strong> fall with a new lineup of scholars that<br />

includes Collins and Lahav.<br />

Professor McClain’s latest book, Gender<br />

Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal<br />

Citizenship (Cambridge University Press<br />

2009), looks at <strong>the</strong> discrepancy between<br />

nations’ formal commitments to gender<br />

equality and <strong>the</strong> experiential reality of<br />

women’s lives. McClain co-edited <strong>the</strong><br />

book with a former colleague at Hofstra<br />

University, Professor Joanna Grossman.<br />

The book brings toge<strong>the</strong>r 21 experts from different disciplines<br />

to look at gender equality through <strong>the</strong> lens of citizenship,<br />

covering topics ranging from “Stem Cells, Disability and<br />

Abortion: A Feminist Approach to Equal Citizenship” to<br />

“Gender and Human Rights: Between Morals and Politics.”<br />

The collection of articles covers constitutional citizenship,<br />

political citizenship, social citizenship, sexual and reproductive<br />

citizenship and global citizenship — all in exploration of <strong>the</strong><br />

gap between <strong>the</strong> ideal of gender equality and <strong>the</strong> current reality,<br />

and what it would take for <strong>the</strong> ideal to be realized.<br />

On October 23, 2009, McClain moderated a panel at <strong>the</strong><br />

daylong symposium at BU Law, “Courting Change: Legal<br />

Perspectives on Contemporary LGBT Issues,” which examined<br />

legal issues surrounding LGBT rights.<br />

On October 27, 2009, BU Law hosted a panel on <strong>the</strong> book,<br />

moderated by Professor Pnina Lahav, and a reception. Panelists<br />

included BU College of Arts and Sciences Dean Gina Sapiro,<br />

BU Women’s Studies Director Diane Balser and Harvard<br />

Kennedy School of Government Professor Jane Mansbridge.<br />

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Public Interest Project<br />

Celebrating 25 years at BU Law<br />

Suffering Kaudwane natives,<br />

disabled war veterans and distraught<br />

homeowners are just a few examples<br />

of <strong>the</strong> clientele assisted by BU Law<br />

students. These students are spending<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir entire summers providing pro bono<br />

legal services to clients traditionally<br />

underrepresented by <strong>the</strong> law.<br />

But without funding from <strong>the</strong> law<br />

school, summers spent working<br />

at nonprofits would be financially<br />

impossible for many students. Since<br />

1984, <strong>the</strong> law school’s Public Interest<br />

Project (PIP) has raised funds in order<br />

to allocate grants to BU Law students<br />

pursuing unpaid public sector work.<br />

Now <strong>the</strong> largest student-run organization<br />

on campus, PIP is celebrating its 25th<br />

anniversary. Over <strong>the</strong> years, PIP has<br />

grown into more than just a fundraising<br />

organization; it creates opportunities<br />

that bond students with underprivileged<br />

communities throughout <strong>the</strong> world.<br />

Resources for students working<br />

with nonprofit, public-interest and<br />

government organizations are even<br />

more crucial during an uncertain<br />

economy. Now more than ever,<br />

nonprofits providing legal services<br />

are facing shrinking budgets and<br />

corresponding layoffs. PIP grant<br />

recipients are invaluable to <strong>the</strong>se firms.<br />

BU Law alumna Anna Schleelein (’08)<br />

[see story on Schleelein, page 6] is<br />

grateful for <strong>the</strong> number of PIP grant<br />

recipients able to assist with her work<br />

at Boston’s Shelter Legal Services (SLS).<br />

Due to limited resources, SLS, which<br />

provides services to homeless or lowincome<br />

women and veterans through<br />

onsite clinics throughout Boston, relies<br />

on law student volunteers to staff its<br />

clinics. “We currently have 17 BU Law<br />

students who are volunteering with our<br />

organization, which is more than any of<br />

<strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r Boston-area law schools,” said<br />

Schleelein. “Without <strong>the</strong>ir assistance,<br />

we would not be able to serve nearly<br />

as many clients as we have this year.”<br />

In 2008, PIP provided grants to more<br />

than 60 students, nearly one-third of<br />

<strong>the</strong> law school’s 1L class. All students<br />

are eligible for a maximum of $4,000,<br />

equal to working 40 hours per week<br />

for 10 weeks. Recipients report<br />

weekly work hours, and are paid each<br />

week via grants processed through<br />

Boston University’s payroll system.<br />

Though sending a weekly timesheet<br />

to Boston from Africa was a bit of a<br />

hassle for Andrew Novak (’09), he<br />

describes his Botswana experience as<br />

amazing. “I spent most of my time<br />

working on indigenous rights issues<br />

and Zimbabwean refugee issues,” said<br />

Novak, who worked for a grassroots<br />

NGO, <strong>the</strong> Ditshwanelo Botswana<br />

Centre for Human Rights in Gaborone.<br />

Life-affirming experiences are in no<br />

shortage among past PIP grant recipients.<br />

Margaret Barusch (’09) said her 2007<br />

and 2008 PIP grants jump-started her<br />

career. Her PIP grants allowed her to<br />

spend her summers working for <strong>the</strong><br />

Committee for Public Counsel Services,<br />

a 15-member body appointed by <strong>the</strong><br />

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.<br />

The Committee oversees <strong>the</strong> provision<br />

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Public Interest Project Auction 2009<br />

of legal representation to indigent<br />

persons in criminal and civil court<br />

cases and administrative proceedings<br />

in which <strong>the</strong>re is a right to counsel.<br />

“When I entered law school, I knew I<br />

wanted to become a public defender,”<br />

said Barusch. “At <strong>the</strong> Committee for<br />

Public Counsel Services, I was able to<br />

spend time in court representing clients,<br />

visiting clients in local jails, researching<br />

criminal law issues and writing memos<br />

and motions. Because of my PIP grant,<br />

I was able to work with dozens of<br />

fascinating clients, and at <strong>the</strong> same time<br />

get experience that will help me get<br />

my dream job as a public defender.”<br />

While many students only apply<br />

for grants for <strong>the</strong>ir 1L summers,<br />

grant recipients often stay involved<br />

with PIP’s board, helping to raise<br />

financial support for <strong>the</strong> next wave<br />

of 1Ls. Almost immediately after <strong>the</strong><br />

spring semester comes to a close, new<br />

board members start working on <strong>the</strong><br />

upcoming year’s fundraising initiatives.<br />

“I think <strong>the</strong> organization has a lot to<br />

offer,” said Adrienne Bossi (’10), a<br />

PIP student director. “I like <strong>the</strong> idea<br />

that each year, a new board helps PIP<br />

evolve a little more. We’re constantly<br />

growing with each new board’s<br />

unique background and creativity.”<br />

With ideas such as book sales, finalsweek<br />

moustache contests, and “Men<br />

of BU” calendars, PIP students are<br />

constantly inventing new opportunities<br />

for fundraising. “We do <strong>the</strong> ‘Beantown<br />

Shootout’ basketball game against<br />

Boston College every fall, raise money<br />

from our spring and fall phone-a-thons,<br />

and host events like a private showing<br />

of <strong>the</strong> most recent James Bond movie<br />

at <strong>the</strong> Fenway cinema,” said Bossi.<br />

The organization’s main source of<br />

income, however, is its annual auction<br />

gala, which draws generous donations<br />

from students, faculty, alumni and<br />

<strong>the</strong> Boston community for both its<br />

live and silent auctions. While <strong>the</strong>re<br />

are high-value items like Cape Cod<br />

getaways and signed movie scripts up<br />

for bid, <strong>the</strong> law school’s tight sense of<br />

community and camaraderie is reflected<br />

in <strong>the</strong> most-coveted faculty-<strong>the</strong>med<br />

donations, such as <strong>the</strong> dean’s parking<br />

spot and dinners with professors. Hefty<br />

financial donations from Goodwin<br />

Procter, Lexis Nexis, Westlaw and Barbri<br />

also help to augment <strong>the</strong> PIP fund.<br />

Over <strong>the</strong> years, PIP has become more<br />

than a fundraising organization.<br />

For BU Law students and alumni,<br />

<strong>the</strong> organization’s efforts have led to<br />

priceless experiences. “From a personal<br />

perspective, working with my clients<br />

was <strong>the</strong> best part of <strong>the</strong> summer,”<br />

said Barusch. “From a professional<br />

perspective, <strong>the</strong> opportunity to sit in<br />

on a variety of lawyers’ meetings with<br />

clients and witnesses was <strong>the</strong> best part.”<br />

In <strong>the</strong> future, PIP directors hope <strong>the</strong><br />

organization will not only be a great<br />

“<br />

Without [PIP’s] assistance, we would not<br />

be able to serve nearly as many clients as<br />

we have this year.<br />

” —Anna Schleelein (’08)<br />

professional resource, but also a valuable<br />

networking opportunity. “We tried<br />

this year to be more of a social group<br />

than just a funding organization,” said<br />

Bossi. “I hope that has taken root.” •<br />

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Gov. Howard Dean<br />

Delivers 2009<br />

Commencement Speech<br />

After nearly three decades of<br />

political, professional and grassroots<br />

involvement, former Vermont Governor<br />

and Democratic National Committee<br />

Chair Howard Dean is ready to pass <strong>the</strong><br />

torch. In his commencement address to<br />

BU Law’s Class of 2009, he talked about<br />

his years of experience being used as a<br />

benchmark for change, and cited <strong>the</strong><br />

newly minted graduates as an example of<br />

what <strong>the</strong> face of change looks like today.<br />

“You are <strong>the</strong> first multicultural<br />

generation that sees yourselves how you<br />

really are, and so <strong>the</strong> very first thing<br />

you do when you’re in your 20s is to<br />

elect a multicultural president, which<br />

is extraordinary,” said Dean. “We are<br />

witnessing a change, a transfer of power<br />

to a new generation of Americans.”<br />

And Howard Dean knows change<br />

when he sees it. As <strong>the</strong> longest-serving<br />

governor in Vermont history, from<br />

1991 to 2003, as well as a physician, he<br />

was <strong>the</strong> momentum behind <strong>the</strong> state’s<br />

Dr. Dynasaur Program, an initiative<br />

that provides near-universal healthcare<br />

coverage for pregnant women and<br />

children. The program, <strong>the</strong> first of<br />

its kind in <strong>the</strong> United States, thrust<br />

Vermont into <strong>the</strong> spotlight as a national<br />

leader in healthcare. In 2000 he signed<br />

<strong>the</strong> nation’s first civil union legislation<br />

into law.<br />

During his campaign to be nominated as<br />

<strong>the</strong> Democratic Party’s 2004 presidential<br />

candidate, Dean used <strong>the</strong> Internet to<br />

gain financial and voter backing. Despite<br />

his failed run for <strong>the</strong> nomination, his<br />

grassroots tactics served as a model for<br />

future elections. Barack Obama followed<br />

Dean’s lead, harnessing technology to<br />

galvanize younger voters and to help<br />

secure <strong>the</strong> presidential nomination in<br />

2008.<br />

Despite Dean’s pioneering history,<br />

he is quick to attribute <strong>the</strong> success of<br />

<strong>the</strong> recent election to <strong>the</strong> graduates in<br />

<strong>the</strong> audience. “My generation could<br />

put a million people on <strong>the</strong> streets of<br />

Washington, D.C., but your generation<br />

sends a million e-mails to Congress and<br />

shuts down <strong>the</strong> congressional e-mail<br />

system for three days. You are smarter<br />

and more pragmatic, and you believe in<br />

talking to each o<strong>the</strong>r,” said Dean. “That<br />

is <strong>the</strong> hallmark of your generation — to<br />

set aside <strong>the</strong> things we fight over and<br />

focus on <strong>the</strong> things we agree on.”<br />

One of <strong>the</strong> hallmarks of Dean’s career<br />

emerged when he became chairman of<br />

<strong>the</strong> Democratic National Committee,<br />

and set as a goal <strong>the</strong> idea to smash <strong>the</strong><br />

long-held belief that traditionally red<br />

and blue states could not meet in <strong>the</strong><br />

middle. With his “50-State Strategy,”<br />

Dean aimed to create a Democratic Party<br />

presence in Republican strongholds.<br />

Obama’s adaptation of this strategy in<br />

<strong>the</strong> 2008 presidential race earned votes<br />

in regions once considered Democratunfriendly.<br />

While comparing <strong>the</strong> 2008 voter turnout<br />

rate to “an earthquake for everybody in<br />

my generation and for everybody in <strong>the</strong><br />

past two or three generations in politics,”<br />

Dean was quick to caution that <strong>the</strong> work<br />

is far from over.<br />

“Politics is not all about running<br />

for office,” said Dean. “It’s also<br />

community organizing, belonging<br />

to your community library, working<br />

in your church or your synagogue or<br />

your mosque to find ways to help less<br />

fortunate people have a chance. It is<br />

anything that organizes human beings.<br />

We need you to be involved.”<br />

Dean added, “This is an extraordinary<br />

country, but democracy is like every<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r invention of human beings: If<br />

you don’t nurture it, it dies. You have<br />

changed <strong>the</strong> culture of America to reflect<br />

what America really is. Don’t blow it.” •<br />

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“<br />

You’re kidding yourself<br />

if you think that what you<br />

paid in tuition is a fair<br />

trade for what you got<br />

back,” said Schell. “If you<br />

want to have a school <strong>the</strong><br />

quality of BU Law — and<br />

that’s important to me —<br />

<strong>the</strong>n you need alumni and<br />

parents who are willing<br />

to contribute, not just<br />

financially but also with<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir time.<br />

”<br />

Michael Schell (’76) talks about giving back<br />

When Michael Schell graduated from<br />

Columbia University in 1969 with a<br />

degree in English, he concluded that<br />

he was qualified to do one thing —<br />

teach high school. The problem was he<br />

couldn’t find a job.<br />

He worked in construction, taught sixth<br />

grade, and after four years decided it was<br />

time to get some career training that was<br />

a little more practical than his in-depth<br />

knowledge of <strong>the</strong> Romantic poets. So<br />

Schell enrolled at BU Law, graduated in<br />

1976, and eventually became executive<br />

vice president for <strong>the</strong> Alcoa Corporation,<br />

in charge of <strong>the</strong> company’s international<br />

business development.<br />

It goes to show what a good law school<br />

education can do for a person.<br />

Schell is a firm believer that alumni have<br />

a responsibility to give back to <strong>the</strong> school<br />

that provided <strong>the</strong>m with such a huge leg<br />

up in life.<br />

“You’re kidding yourself if you think that<br />

what you paid in tuition is a fair trade<br />

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for what you got back,” said Schell. “If<br />

you want to have a school <strong>the</strong> quality<br />

of BU Law — and that’s important to<br />

me — <strong>the</strong>n you need alumni and parents<br />

who are willing to contribute, not just<br />

financially but also with <strong>the</strong>ir time.”<br />

Throughout Schell’s long and successful<br />

career, he has continued to foster strong<br />

ties to his law school alma mater. As one<br />

of his many contributions, he serves as a<br />

member of <strong>the</strong> Dean’s Advisory Board, an<br />

activity he sees both as a way to give back<br />

to <strong>the</strong> school and to enrich his own life.<br />

“Being a lawyer is, among o<strong>the</strong>r things,<br />

about developing networks around <strong>the</strong><br />

country,” he said, noting that <strong>the</strong> board is<br />

made up of “highly successful, intelligent<br />

and diverse” graduates of <strong>the</strong> school.<br />

In addition to his board work, Schell<br />

has volunteered his time to help secure<br />

graduation speakers, meet with firstyear<br />

students to talk about his career,<br />

and even teach a class or two along <strong>the</strong><br />

way. He believes this type of personal<br />

participation is an excellent way for<br />

alumni to help <strong>the</strong> current generation of<br />

students find <strong>the</strong>ir niche in such a wideranging<br />

profession.<br />

“As you get older, you realize that things<br />

come to you by dint of hard work and<br />

talent, but also because o<strong>the</strong>r people<br />

have made sacrifices and contributions,”<br />

he said. “All of <strong>the</strong> selfless contributions<br />

from <strong>the</strong> alumni and board members are<br />

what make it possible for BU to continue<br />

as one of <strong>the</strong> top law schools nationally.<br />

If I can be useful by re-contributing some<br />

of <strong>the</strong> benefit that came my way, I believe<br />

that it is a good thing to do.”<br />

“The things that I have done through<br />

BU have been interesting, enjoyable<br />

and enriching,” he concluded. “I believe<br />

that participating in your school is a<br />

combination of obligation, interest and<br />

old-fashioned fun.” •<br />

Schell Cites BU Law as <strong>the</strong> Catalyst for His Career<br />

Michael Schell’s career trajectory since graduating from BU<br />

School of Law in 1976 has been a steady upward flight.<br />

Based on an internship following his first year, Schell landed<br />

a position in <strong>the</strong> corporate law department of Cadwalader,<br />

Wickersham & Taft for two years, moved on to <strong>the</strong> mergers<br />

and acquisitions department at Skadden Arps, and became a<br />

partner in 1984.<br />

“Coming out of BU, I found that I was well equipped wherever<br />

I went and whatever challenges I had to deal with as a young<br />

lawyer,” he said. “I had great teachers, particularly in my<br />

first year. Every teacher I had that year made an enormous<br />

intellectual impact on me. They showed me a new way to think<br />

about things and approach problems that I still use to this day.”<br />

After 19 years as a Wall Street lawyer, Schell decided to try his<br />

hand at investment banking, serving as vice chairman of Global<br />

Banking for Citigroup. Last year Alcoa, one of his long-term<br />

clients at Skadden Arps, persuaded him to come aboard to run<br />

<strong>the</strong> aluminum giant’s business development efforts.<br />

“My job is to survey industries worldwide to identify business<br />

opportunities for Alcoa,” said Schell. The scope of his search<br />

is enormous, since aluminum is used in a wide range of items,<br />

from commercial airplane wings and armored personnel<br />

carriers for <strong>the</strong> military to automobile engines and litho plates<br />

for printing newspapers and magazines — and of course, <strong>the</strong><br />

production of beverage cans.<br />

With <strong>the</strong> recent economic downturn, much of Schell’s efforts<br />

have focused on improving <strong>the</strong> efficiency and environmental<br />

sustainability of aluminum production. He noted that it takes a<br />

great deal of energy to extract aluminum from <strong>the</strong> ground and<br />

refine it into a useable form.<br />

“Because a large chunk of <strong>the</strong> industry is energy, we have<br />

to face up to <strong>the</strong> whole carbon footprint issue,” he said. “A<br />

large part of my business development efforts is looking for<br />

green energy opportunities. The cleanest source of energy is<br />

hydroelectric, and we have a number of smelters around <strong>the</strong><br />

world that run on hydro. The newest one is in Iceland. We are<br />

also investing in substantial hydro operations in Greenland,<br />

Brazil and Western China.”<br />

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BU Law Honors<br />

2009 Silver Shingle Award Winners<br />

The Silver Shingle Awards are presented each year to outstanding alumni and friends of Boston<br />

University School of Law. Recognizing remarkable members of our community, awards are given in<br />

<strong>the</strong> categories of “Distinguished Service to <strong>the</strong> Profession,” “Distinguished Service to <strong>the</strong> School of<br />

Law,” “Distinguished Service to <strong>the</strong> Community” and “The Young Lawyer’s Chair.” A separate honor<br />

is presented to a Boston University School of Law administrative staff member, <strong>the</strong> “Gerard H. Cohen<br />

Award for Distinguished Service to <strong>the</strong> School.” In celebration of <strong>the</strong>se accomplished individuals,<br />

Boston University School of Law is proud to announce <strong>the</strong> 2009 recipients of <strong>the</strong> Silver Shingle and<br />

Gerard H. Cohen awards.<br />

Cheryl Constantine<br />

The Gerard H. Cohen Award<br />

for Distinguished Service to <strong>the</strong> School<br />

Cheryl Constantine joined BU Law in 1996 as <strong>the</strong> assistant director<br />

of financial aid, and in 2001 was promoted to associate director.<br />

Constantine is active in state, regional and national financial<br />

aid associations, including as a member of <strong>the</strong> Graduate and<br />

Professional Concerns Committee for both <strong>the</strong> state and eastern<br />

regional associations. On <strong>the</strong> state level she served as co-chair for this<br />

committee. In 2009, she was elected to <strong>the</strong> executive council for <strong>the</strong><br />

Massachusetts Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.<br />

Prior to BU Law, Constantine worked for Knight College Resource<br />

Group (now Key Education Resources, a division of Key Bank), an<br />

education loan provider. She spent five years at Knight, becoming <strong>the</strong><br />

supervisor for <strong>the</strong> department that originated <strong>the</strong> federal and private<br />

loans for medical and dental students. Constantine received her B.A.<br />

from Trinity College and her M.P.A. from Suffolk University.<br />

Carolina Trujillo (’01)<br />

Young Lawyer’s Chair<br />

Carolina Trujillo serves as <strong>the</strong> director of homeownership counseling<br />

for <strong>the</strong> Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH), located<br />

in East Boston. NOAH is a community development corporation<br />

structured to collaborate with and support residents and communities<br />

in <strong>the</strong>ir pursuit of affordable housing strategies, environmental<br />

justice, community planning, leadership development and economic<br />

development opportunities. At NOAH, she teaches first-time<br />

homebuyer classes and works individually with customers in <strong>the</strong><br />

areas of credit, financial fitness and mortgage counseling. In 2007,<br />

she started a foreclosure prevention unit that helped more than 700<br />

families negotiate with <strong>the</strong>ir lenders to retain <strong>the</strong>ir homes.<br />

Trujillo is also on <strong>the</strong> board of directors of <strong>the</strong> Hispanic-American<br />

Chamber of Commerce and <strong>the</strong> advisory board of Veritas Bank (<strong>the</strong><br />

first Latino bank of New England).<br />

Prior to coming to <strong>the</strong> United States, <strong>the</strong> Venezuelan native worked<br />

in corporate and banking law for a private law firm, but also<br />

volunteered her time as a legal counselor in government and nonprofit<br />

organizations, focusing her efforts on abandoned and abused children.<br />

In 1999, Trujillo received her law degree at Universidad Católica<br />

Andrés Bello in Venezuela and her LL.M. in banking and financial law<br />

from BU Law in 2001. She is pursuing a Master’s Degree in finance<br />

and economics at Boston University.<br />

Jacqueline Jacobs Caster (’83)<br />

For Distinguished Service to <strong>the</strong> Community<br />

Jacqueline Jacobs Caster is <strong>the</strong> founder and president of <strong>the</strong> Everychild<br />

Foundation, a women’s nonprofit organization dedicated to combating<br />

childhood disease, abuse, neglect, poverty and disability in <strong>the</strong> Los<br />

Angeles area. This organization is comprised of approximately 200<br />

Los Angeles–based women who, in lieu of fundraisers, each annually<br />

donate $5,000 in dues. With this money, <strong>the</strong> organization makes a<br />

single $1 million community grant each year to a project serving a<br />

critical unmet need of local children.<br />

In 2004, <strong>the</strong> Association of Fundraising Professionals selected<br />

Everychild Foundation as <strong>the</strong> Outstanding Private Foundation in Los<br />

Angeles. To date, Everychild Foundation has served as <strong>the</strong> template<br />

for at least six new charitable groups in <strong>the</strong> United States. Prior to<br />

founding <strong>the</strong> nonprofit, Caster practiced real estate law with Loeb<br />

& Loeb in Los Angeles in <strong>the</strong> mid-1980s, and later left <strong>the</strong> field of<br />

law for a career in urban redevelopment. After several years with<br />

Disney Development Company, she headed her own consulting firm<br />

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Howard Zhang (’93)<br />

For Distinguished Service to <strong>the</strong> Profession<br />

Dean Maureen O’Rourke, Jacqueline Jacobs Caster (’83), Howard Zhang (’93),<br />

Carolina Trujillo (’01), Thomas Farrell (’91) and Cheryl Constantine<br />

for more than a decade, performing economic feasibility studies for<br />

large-scale urban renovation and cultural projects. Caster was given<br />

<strong>the</strong> Humanitarian Award for three organizations: First Star in 2004,<br />

The Optimist Youth Home in 2005, and Shane’s Inspiration in 2006.<br />

She was also named Santa Monica/Westside YWCA Woman of <strong>the</strong><br />

Year for 2005. Caster received her B.A. from Pomona College, her<br />

master’s in city and regional planning from <strong>the</strong> Kennedy School of<br />

Government at Harvard University, and her J.D. from BU Law.<br />

Thomas Farrell (’91)<br />

For Distinguished Service to <strong>the</strong> School<br />

Thomas Farrell has served for more than 14 years as a member of <strong>the</strong><br />

BU Law Alumni Association’s Executive Committee, including a term<br />

as its president. He also helped found <strong>the</strong> Law Student Ethics Awards<br />

Initiative, which is now entering its fifth year. The Initiative honors<br />

students from 11 area law schools for <strong>the</strong>ir exceptional commitment<br />

to ethics. Farrell remains active in helping Boston University School<br />

of Management develop and market an innovative executive business<br />

education training program for lawyers. He received <strong>the</strong> 2007<br />

Corporate Counsel Excellence Award from <strong>the</strong> area’s in-house bar, and<br />

served as a member of <strong>the</strong> board of editors of New England In-House,<br />

an affiliate of Lawyers Weekly. He regularly meets with and assists<br />

younger lawyers who are in transition or considering a professional<br />

change.<br />

Farrell is <strong>the</strong> founder and principal of Farrell & Associates, PC, a<br />

solo practice law firm specializing in corporate transactional work.<br />

Since its founding in 2006, he has handled more than $400 million<br />

in transactions. Previously, he was associate general counsel of<br />

Tyco International, where he served under Tyco’s new management<br />

as co-lead attorney of <strong>the</strong> company’s merger, acquisition and<br />

divestiture function, and had served as <strong>the</strong> deputy general counsel of<br />

SimplexGrinnell, a Tyco operating company. Farrell received his B.A.<br />

from Middlebury College and his J.D. from BU Law.<br />

Howard Zhang is a resident partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s<br />

Beijing office and a member of <strong>the</strong> firm’s corporate department.<br />

Zhang represents leading private equity firms, venture capital funds,<br />

investment banks, multinational companies and entrepreneurial<br />

growth companies in complex cross-border transactions and financing<br />

activities. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, including<br />

private equity portfolio investments, buyouts, joint ventures and<br />

strategic investment transactions. He is listed in many legal industry<br />

publications, including The Legal Media Group: Guide to <strong>the</strong> World’s<br />

Leading Private Equity Lawyers; Practical Law Company’s Cross-border<br />

Private Equity Handbook; International Who’s Who of Professionals; and,<br />

as a leading lawyer in corporate finance, AsiaLaw (2004). He is also a<br />

member of <strong>the</strong> Dean’s Advisory Board at BU Law. Zhang graduated<br />

from Shanghai International Studies University in 1981, and in 1982<br />

received his post-graduate certificate from <strong>the</strong> United Nations Training<br />

Course at Beijing Foreign Studies University. In 1993, he received<br />

his J.D. from BU Law, where he was a recipient of <strong>the</strong> American<br />

Jurisprudence Award and <strong>the</strong> topics editor of <strong>the</strong> Boston University<br />

International Law Journal.<br />

Alan R. Stern (’09)<br />

For Distinguished Service to <strong>the</strong> School<br />

Alan Stern entered BU Law in <strong>the</strong> fall of 2006 with a B.A. from<br />

New York University, graduating on <strong>the</strong> Dean’s List and magna cum<br />

laude. He gained experience at <strong>the</strong> Brooklyn Legal Aid Society, where<br />

he assisted victims of domestic violence, as an aide to New York<br />

State Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli, and at <strong>the</strong> Brooklyn District<br />

Attorney’s Office.<br />

After his first year at BU Law, Stern was designated a G. Joseph Tauro<br />

Scholar, a recognition given to <strong>the</strong> top 10 percent of his section. As a<br />

tribute to his exemplary work and dedication, he earned membership<br />

on <strong>the</strong> Review of Banking and Financial Law, and he was elected to<br />

serve as an articles editor. In <strong>the</strong> summer of 2007, he was selected as<br />

a judicial intern for <strong>the</strong> Honorable Michael Dolinger, U.S. District<br />

Court for <strong>the</strong> Sou<strong>the</strong>rn District of New York.<br />

BU Law professors said that Stern stood out with his love of learning,<br />

breadth of interests and valuable contributions to class discussions. His<br />

academic achievement and his devotion to friends and service were all<br />

<strong>the</strong> more remarkable given his struggle with illness. Stern temporarily<br />

left school to deal with his illness, but he stayed in touch with <strong>the</strong> BU<br />

Law community.<br />

He passed away in 2008. Although <strong>the</strong> length of his life was too<br />

short, <strong>the</strong> impact he had on <strong>the</strong> law school and larger communities is<br />

powerful and lasting. BU Law is honored to have known him, if for<br />

only a short while. •<br />

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J.D. Program<br />

1951<br />

Marion R. Fremont-Smith received <strong>the</strong><br />

Vanguard/Lifetime Achievement Award<br />

for distinguished lifetime achievement in<br />

<strong>the</strong> nonprofit sector from <strong>the</strong> Nonprofit<br />

Organizations Committee of <strong>the</strong> American Bar<br />

Association Section of Business Law.<br />

1958<br />

Bernard Fielding is in South Carolina, where<br />

he lives with his wife and has practiced law for<br />

51 years. He has served as general counsel for<br />

<strong>the</strong> South Carolina Morticians Association,<br />

<strong>the</strong> National Funeral Directors and Morticians<br />

Association, and <strong>the</strong> National Hampton Alumni<br />

Association.<br />

1959<br />

Mort Aronson, at Federal & Hasson and<br />

adjunct professor at Emory University Law<br />

School, received <strong>the</strong> American Association<br />

of Franchising and Dealers Total Quality<br />

Franchising Award for Lifetime Achievement.<br />

1961<br />

Judge Armand Arabian was appointed <strong>the</strong><br />

commissioner of <strong>the</strong> Industrial Development<br />

Authority Board of Los Angeles.<br />

1962<br />

Edward McCarthy published The Malpractice Cure:<br />

How to Avoid <strong>the</strong> Legal Mistakes that Doctors Make.<br />

Robert L. Spangenberg joined George Mason<br />

University as research professor, and founded<br />

The Spangenberg Project at <strong>the</strong> school’s Center<br />

for Justice, Law and Society. He also received<br />

<strong>the</strong> Champion of Indigent Defense Award from<br />

<strong>the</strong> National Association of Criminal Defense<br />

Lawyers (NACDL).<br />

1963<br />

Theodore Carter was appointed to <strong>the</strong><br />

international projects advisory board for <strong>the</strong><br />

National Center for State Courts in Arlington, Va.<br />

1965<br />

Frank N. Fleischer was named in Super Lawyer’s<br />

2009 “Florida Super Lawyer” list.<br />

Martin Lobel was appointed by Maryland<br />

Governor O’Malley to <strong>the</strong> Maryland Business<br />

Tax Reform Commission. Lobel’s article “What<br />

next, after outrage” was published by www.<br />

NiemanWatchDog.org; “Territorial Taxation:<br />

An Invitation to Tax Avoidance and Evasion”<br />

appeared in Tax Notes.<br />

D.M. Moschos was named chair of <strong>the</strong><br />

Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce.<br />

Neil Sugarman, principal of Sugarman<br />

& Sugarman, received <strong>the</strong> American Bar<br />

Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice<br />

Section’s Pursuit of Justice Award.<br />

1968<br />

Helen Gillmor is chief judge of <strong>the</strong> District Court<br />

of <strong>the</strong> District of Hawaii. She lives in Hawaii with<br />

her husband, John Gillmor (’68). John Gillmor<br />

is employed by <strong>the</strong> state Attorney General’s<br />

Office, concentrating in land matters.<br />

Jordan Krasnow, a director at Goulston<br />

& Storrs, received <strong>the</strong> Robert S. Swain Jr.<br />

Distinguished Service Award at <strong>the</strong> Real Estate<br />

Finance Association’s annual gala in October.<br />

Pamela Rehlen and her husband live in<br />

Castleton, Vt., where <strong>the</strong>y own and manage<br />

several businesses, including <strong>the</strong> Castleton<br />

Village Store, <strong>the</strong> Benson Village Store, <strong>the</strong><br />

Birdseye Diner, <strong>the</strong> Castleton Pizza Place and<br />

Deli, and <strong>the</strong> Blue Cat Bistro. She’s just finished<br />

a book, The Blue Cat and <strong>the</strong> River’s Song.<br />

1969<br />

Norm Gross’ second edition of America’s<br />

Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office,<br />

was published by Northwestern University<br />

Press. He lives in Sedona, Ariz.<br />

1970<br />

Alan Parness, counsel to Cadwalader,<br />

Wickersham & Taft LLP, was installed as <strong>the</strong><br />

chair of <strong>the</strong> Committee on State Regulation of<br />

Securities of <strong>the</strong> American Bar Association’s<br />

Section of Business Law. He has been with<br />

Cadwalader since 1973.<br />

Richard Soden received <strong>the</strong> American Bar<br />

Association’s Spirit of Excellence Award.<br />

1971<br />

Jay D. Roth was awarded <strong>the</strong> French Legion of<br />

Honor by President Nicolas Sarkozy for his work<br />

creating and promoting <strong>the</strong> Franco American<br />

Cultural Fund (FACF).<br />

1972<br />

Judith Koffler received her second Fulbright<br />

Award, and is a faculty member at <strong>the</strong><br />

University of Botswana in Gaborone.<br />

1973<br />

Clark Evans Downs retired from Jones Day,<br />

where he practiced energy law for more than<br />

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20 years, and is now a middler at Yale Divinity<br />

School, due for his master’s in May.<br />

Robert Holloway Jr., shareholder and president<br />

of MacLean, Holloway, Doherty, Ardiff & Morse<br />

PC, was elected treasurer of <strong>the</strong> Massachusetts<br />

Bar Association for <strong>the</strong> 2009–2010 year.<br />

Michael Kreidman has been practicing solo for<br />

more than 15 years in Manhattan, specializing in<br />

sports-related and entertainment transactional<br />

work.<br />

1974<br />

Claudia Damon, of <strong>the</strong> Manchester, N.H., firm<br />

McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton PA was<br />

selected by <strong>the</strong> N.H. Bar Foundation as a 2009<br />

honorary fellow. She was commended for<br />

her outstanding commitment during <strong>the</strong> two<br />

five-year terms she served (1998–2008) on its<br />

IOLTA Grants Committee.<br />

Judge Shelvin Louise Marie Hall of <strong>the</strong> Illinois<br />

First District Appellate Court, First Division,<br />

received <strong>the</strong> 2009 Liberty Achievement Award<br />

from <strong>the</strong> American Bar Association’s Tort Trial &<br />

Insurance Practice Section.<br />

Steven W. Hanscom joined <strong>the</strong> Pen Bay<br />

Healthcare Board of Trustees.<br />

Emily S. Starr, of Ciota, Starr & Vander Linden<br />

LLP, received an MCLE Scholar-Mentor Award.<br />

1975<br />

Bruce Blaisdell was named executive director<br />

of <strong>the</strong> Vietnamese-American Initiative for<br />

Development in Dorchester.<br />

Meg Cheever received <strong>the</strong> Distinguished<br />

Daughter of Pennsylvania Award for her<br />

dedication to <strong>the</strong> Pittsburgh-area parks.<br />

Philip J. Moss, of Fisher & Philips’ office in<br />

Portland, Maine, was named in The Best Lawyers<br />

in America 2010.<br />

Michael Oestreicher was elected chair of <strong>the</strong><br />

Cincinnati State Board of Trustees.<br />

1976<br />

Charles “Chip” Babcock, partner at Jackson<br />

Walker LLP, was named in The Best Lawyers in<br />

America 2010.<br />

Carolyn Jacoby Gabbay, a partner at Nixon<br />

Peabody LLP in Massachusetts, was recognized<br />

in <strong>the</strong> 2009 edition of Chambers USA: America’s<br />

Leading Lawyers for Business.<br />

Ka<strong>the</strong>rine Hess received <strong>the</strong> Excellence in<br />

Leadership Award from <strong>the</strong> Woodward School<br />

for Girls in Quincy.<br />

1978<br />

Gary Bockweg, chief of <strong>the</strong> Office of Court<br />

Administration Technology, led an effort<br />

to design, develop and implement a case<br />

management/electronic case files system to be<br />

implemented at all federal courts.<br />

1979<br />

Lois Herzeca joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher<br />

LLP as partner.<br />

Robert W. Lavoie, of Devine Millimet in<br />

Andover, was reappointed to a second term<br />

on <strong>the</strong> Massachusetts Access to Justice<br />

Commission.<br />

Craig D. Mills, a partner at Nixon Peabody LLP,<br />

was recently recognized in <strong>the</strong> 2009 edition<br />

of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for<br />

Business.<br />

1980<br />

Bonnie Glatzer joined Nixon Peabody LLP as<br />

partner in <strong>the</strong> Labor & Employment Division.<br />

H. Peter Haveles Jr. joined Kaye Scholer LLP as<br />

partner.<br />

Douglas Humes is in solo practice doing real<br />

estate, small business and estate planning in<br />

Bryn Mawr, Pa. He writes for his local retirement<br />

community newsletter, is president of <strong>the</strong> local<br />

historical society, and is involved in <strong>the</strong> affairs of<br />

his Quaker Meeting.<br />

Daniel Kimmel celebrated 25 years as a<br />

professional film critic with <strong>the</strong> publication of<br />

his fourth book, I’ll Have What She’s Having:<br />

Behind <strong>the</strong> Scenes of <strong>the</strong> Great Romantic Comedies.<br />

He writes for <strong>the</strong> Worcester Telegram, <strong>the</strong><br />

Gazette, <strong>the</strong> Jewish Advocate, Variety, and <strong>the</strong><br />

Internet Review of Science Fiction. He also teaches<br />

film at Suffolk University.<br />

David Szabo was appointed to <strong>the</strong><br />

Massachusetts Health Information Technology<br />

Council.<br />

1982<br />

Timothy S. Hollister of Shipman & Goodwin in<br />

West Hartford, Conn., will be featured in The<br />

Best Lawyers in America 2010.<br />

Stephen Keller recently passed <strong>the</strong> 20-year<br />

mark with <strong>the</strong> National Treasury Employees<br />

Union, where he is senior counsel for<br />

compensation negotiations.<br />

1983:<br />

Steven Fischbach has held public interest<br />

positions at Rhode Island Legal Services, where<br />

he has worked on a variety of racial justice<br />

issues. Last spring he accompanied a group<br />

of law students from BU to New Orleans, and<br />

has supervised o<strong>the</strong>r BU Law students working<br />

on appeals of rental assistance benefits from<br />

FEMA.<br />

Robert Khuzami joined <strong>the</strong> Securities and<br />

Exchange Commission as director of <strong>the</strong><br />

Division of Enforcement.<br />

David Kratz was appointed president of <strong>the</strong><br />

New York Academy of Arts.<br />

1984<br />

Michael D. Fricklas, executive vice president<br />

and general counsel of Viacom, was honored<br />

with <strong>the</strong> World Recognition of Distinguished<br />

General Counsel Award.<br />

Robert Whitney joined White and Williams<br />

LLP’s Boston office as counsel in <strong>the</strong> commercial<br />

litigation department, and as member of <strong>the</strong><br />

insurance coverage and bad faith practice group.<br />

Gregory Woodworth was named general<br />

counsel of National Life Group.<br />

1985<br />

Ricardo Casellas is a named partner in <strong>the</strong> eightlawyer<br />

commercial litigation boutique of Casellas<br />

Alcover & Burgos PSC, and president of <strong>the</strong> Puerto<br />

Rico Chapter of <strong>the</strong> Federal Bar Association.<br />

Thomas Cohn is of counsel to <strong>the</strong> Venable LLP<br />

New York office.<br />

Benjamin Feder joined Kelly Drye as bankruptcy<br />

and restructuring special counsel.<br />

1986<br />

Gregory Chafee is of counsel to Morris,<br />

Manning & Martin LLP.<br />

James C. Fox was named president of<br />

<strong>the</strong> Nor<strong>the</strong>ast Chapter of <strong>the</strong> Turnaround<br />

Management Association.<br />

Eileen F. Morrison was elected president of<br />

<strong>the</strong> board at The Second Step, which provides<br />

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services for survivors of domestic violence and<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir children.<br />

William Rogers joined Day Pitney LLP as<br />

partner.<br />

Eric Werner joined Schnader Harrison Segal &<br />

Lewis LLP.<br />

1987<br />

Thomas Gunning, vice president and general<br />

counsel of EMD Serono, was chosen as one of<br />

PharmaVOICE Magazine’s 100 most inspiring<br />

leaders of 2009.<br />

Kenneth Parsigian, a partner in Goodwin<br />

Procter’s litigation department and chair of<br />

its pro bono committee, was honored by <strong>the</strong><br />

American Bar Association with <strong>the</strong> John Minor<br />

Wisdom Public Service and Professionalism<br />

Award.<br />

1988<br />

Douglas S. Brown, senior vice president<br />

and general counsel of UMass Memorial<br />

Healthcare, received <strong>the</strong> Outstanding In-House<br />

Counsel Award for distinguished service as an<br />

attorney employed in a legal role at a nonprofit<br />

organization from <strong>the</strong> Nonprofit Organizations<br />

Committee of <strong>the</strong> American Bar Association<br />

Section of Business Law.<br />

Risa (Kane) Gold wrote New York Civil Appellate<br />

Practice, 2d, a guide on taking and perfecting<br />

an appeal in New York state. She has served<br />

as a principal court attorney at <strong>the</strong> Appellate<br />

Division, First Judicial Department since 1990.<br />

Ilan S. Nissan was named O’Melveny & Myers<br />

LLP’s M&A practice group co-chair.<br />

Jeffrey Skerry practices in a small Boston office<br />

representing small businesses, lenders, trusts<br />

and individuals.<br />

Steven Slutsky has spent more than a decade<br />

advising boards of directors and C-suite<br />

executives on executive and directors’<br />

compensation.<br />

Susan Stenger is a partner at Burns & Levinson<br />

LLP in Boston, which covers appellate practice,<br />

probate litigation and entertainment litigation.<br />

1989<br />

Michael Conley was named <strong>the</strong> deputy solicitor in<br />

<strong>the</strong> appellate group of <strong>the</strong> Securities and Exchange<br />

Commission’s Office of <strong>the</strong> General Counsel.<br />

Steven Meyer became board-certified in<br />

business litigation by <strong>the</strong> Florida Bar. He is also<br />

board-certified as a civil trial advocate by <strong>the</strong><br />

National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a sole<br />

practitioner in Boca Raton.<br />

1990<br />

Richard Fabian was promoted to senior vice<br />

president, general counsel and director of<br />

litigation at RiverStone Resources.<br />

1989<br />

Dan Offner was selected to lead Nixon Peabody<br />

LLP’s newly launched intellectual property<br />

transactions group.<br />

1991<br />

Edward J. Kelly joined <strong>the</strong> firm of United<br />

Trademark & Patent Services as its chief<br />

international operations officer.<br />

Anu Mullikin (’96 Tax, ’91 J.D.), of Devine,<br />

Millimet & Branch PA in Manchester, N.H.,<br />

was elected by The New Hampshire Charitable<br />

Foundation to its statewide board of directors.<br />

Lizette Pérez-Deisboeck has joined Battery<br />

Ventures, a venture capital and private equity<br />

firm focused on investing in technology and<br />

innovation worldwide, as general counsel in <strong>the</strong><br />

firm’s Waltham office.<br />

1992<br />

Michael Dana Rosen joined Boston firm<br />

Ruberto, Israel & Weiner as a shareholder.<br />

1993<br />

Sarah (Clark) Baskin practices employment and<br />

employee benefits litigation with <strong>the</strong> law firm<br />

Jackson Lewis LLP.<br />

Patricia Dilley received <strong>the</strong> Rockefeller<br />

Innovation Award for her proposals on Social<br />

Security.<br />

Chance Patterson was appointed vice president<br />

of International Communications of Discovery<br />

Networks International.<br />

David P. Spada married Claudia DiNitto in<br />

Positano, Italy; <strong>the</strong>y live in Auburndale, and are<br />

expecting <strong>the</strong>ir first child.<br />

Elaine Waterhouse Wilson, partner at Quarles<br />

& Brady LLP in Chicago, was named in The Best<br />

Lawyers in America 2010.<br />

1994<br />

Jay Heimbach joined President Obama’s<br />

Legislative Affairs Team.<br />

Melanie Jacobs was awarded tenure at MSU<br />

College of Law. She also spent three weeks in<br />

Shanghai and Beijing and lectured at Fudan<br />

University in Shanghai. While in China, her<br />

boyfriend, Shane Broyles, proposed to her while<br />

<strong>the</strong>y were at <strong>the</strong> Great Wall. They will marry<br />

March 14 in New York City.<br />

Ted Lustig was named partner at Seyfarth Shaw<br />

LLP.<br />

1995<br />

Alka Bahal, partner and co-chair of <strong>the</strong><br />

corporate immigration practice group at Fox<br />

Rothschild LLP in Roseland, N.J., was named in<br />

<strong>the</strong> 2009 “40 Under 40” list by New Jersey Law<br />

Journal.<br />

Greg Ewing published “Court Awards<br />

$400,000 to Patient for Physician’s Refusal<br />

to Provide Sign Language Interpreter” in <strong>the</strong><br />

May 2009 Healthcare Litigation and Liability, a<br />

publication of <strong>the</strong> American Health Lawyers<br />

Association.<br />

Annapoorni Sankaran, a shareholder in <strong>the</strong><br />

Boston office of <strong>the</strong> international law firm<br />

Greenberg Traurig LLP, was honored with <strong>the</strong><br />

AD Club of Boston’s Rosoff Mentor Award<br />

for her promotion of diversity within <strong>the</strong> law<br />

community at large.<br />

1996<br />

Grant Buerstetta joined Blank Rome LLP as<br />

partner.<br />

David Runck was named partner at Fafinski<br />

Mark & Johnson PA, a Minnesota-based law<br />

firm.<br />

Joe Salama runs his own mediation practice,<br />

specializing in facilitative mediation. He was<br />

recently featured on Comcast community<br />

television in San Jose, and does speaking<br />

engagements on mediation and conflict<br />

management throughout Nor<strong>the</strong>rn California.<br />

1997<br />

Christopher Joralemon joined Gibson, Dunn &<br />

Crutcher LLP as partner.<br />

Liana Moore was named in <strong>the</strong> 2009 “40 Under<br />

40” list by <strong>the</strong> Worcester Business Journal Online.<br />

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1998<br />

Kimberly Atkins received her Master’s Degree<br />

in journalism from Columbia University, and<br />

is a journalist in <strong>the</strong> Washington, D.C., bureau<br />

of Lawyers USA, where she covers <strong>the</strong> U.S.<br />

Supreme Court, Congress and federal agencies.<br />

Benjamin Bejar and Mary (Osterbauer)<br />

Bejar recently celebrated <strong>the</strong>ir 7th wedding<br />

anniversary. Benjamin is assistant county<br />

attorney with <strong>the</strong> Rice County Attorney’s Office<br />

in Faribault, Minn. Mary continues her legal<br />

consulting work from home while caring for<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir three boys: Jacob, Samuel and <strong>the</strong>ir newest<br />

addition, Maxwell Eliot.<br />

Gregory Iskander is with Littler Mendelson in<br />

California, where in addition to employment<br />

discrimination and wage and hour litigation,<br />

Greg continues to focus on privacy and<br />

information security, as well as corporate and<br />

government investigations.<br />

Erica McCregor was named counsel at Tucker<br />

Ellis & West LLP in <strong>the</strong> firm’s Cleveland office.<br />

Jung H. Park was promoted to partner at Ropers<br />

Majeski Kohn & Bentley, a Redwood City, Calif.,<br />

firm.<br />

William L. Ryan was named in New Jersey<br />

Monthly’s 2008 “Super Lawyers and Rising<br />

Stars” list. Ryan, a partner in <strong>the</strong> Haddonfield,<br />

N.J., office of Archer & Greiner PC, was<br />

recognized in <strong>the</strong> practice area of construction<br />

litigation.<br />

1999<br />

Joshua Bish was named partner at Reed Smith LLP.<br />

Eric Hurwitz was named partner at Stradley<br />

Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP.<br />

Douglas Marrano was named partner at<br />

Donovan Hatem LLP in Boston and New York<br />

City, and is relocating to New York to become<br />

resident partner. New England Super Lawyers &<br />

Rising Stars Magazine named him to its 2008<br />

“New England Rising Stars” list.<br />

David Morris is group corporate counsel at<br />

TripAdvisor LLC in Newton.<br />

Courtney Worcester was elected of counsel at<br />

Pepper Hamilton.<br />

2000<br />

Aaron Adams was named partner at Barnes &<br />

Thornburg.<br />

Oral Katz was named partner at Sheppard,<br />

Mullin, Richter and Hampton LLP.<br />

Ethan Kominsky was elected to <strong>the</strong> board of<br />

directors of <strong>the</strong> Palm Beach County Justice<br />

Association, of which he has been a member for<br />

more than three years.<br />

2002<br />

Kathryn Colson joined TitleVest as managing<br />

director of business development.<br />

Taruna Garg, an associate at Murtha Cullina<br />

LLP, was named 2009 “Unsung Heroine for<br />

Brookline” by <strong>the</strong> Massachusetts Commission<br />

on <strong>the</strong> Status of Women.<br />

Ruth Miller is with <strong>the</strong> Drug Enforcement<br />

Administration, USDOJ, in Arlington, Va., as<br />

attorney in <strong>the</strong> Diversion and Regulatory Policy<br />

Section, Office of Chief Counsel. She married<br />

Stephen Clermont last year in a celebration<br />

joined by Ruth’s classmates Laura Maechtlen<br />

and Kathleen Romanow.<br />

2003<br />

John J. Quick, an associate of <strong>the</strong> law firm<br />

of Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole &<br />

Boniske P.L. in Miami, was selected for <strong>the</strong><br />

second consecutive year as a “Top Up and<br />

Comer” in Florida Trend’s annual “Legal Elite”<br />

publication. He was also appointed chair of<br />

<strong>the</strong> Historical Museum of Sou<strong>the</strong>rn Florida’s<br />

young professional group, <strong>the</strong> Tropical Pioneers<br />

(Tropees).<br />

2004<br />

Brandy Karl and Tom O’Grady welcomed<br />

Allegra Faye O’Grady in Santa Clara, Calif.<br />

2005<br />

Dana R. Bucin was named in <strong>the</strong> “Hartford 40<br />

Under 40” list by <strong>the</strong> Hartford Business Journal.<br />

2006<br />

Dena D. Fazio, an associate at Hinckley,<br />

Allen & Snyder LLP, earned <strong>the</strong> U.S. Green<br />

Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy<br />

and Environmental Design) professional<br />

accreditation.<br />

2007<br />

Shane Kiggen (Tax ’08, J.D. ’07) is in Ernst &<br />

Young’s transaction advisory services in Boston.<br />

2008<br />

Tal Dibner was named business group associate<br />

at Bowditch Dewey LLP.<br />

American Law<br />

Program<br />

1999<br />

Pascal Marmier has been appointed director<br />

and consul of Swissnex in Boston.<br />

2000<br />

Ping Chiang is with NVIDIA Corporation in<br />

Taipei.<br />

2001<br />

Stephanie Chalberg and her husband, Tom,<br />

welcomed Annika.<br />

Chen Chi Huang is in Taipei with L&P Attorneysat-Law.<br />

Cynthia Kalathas is head of <strong>the</strong> New York<br />

representative office of Arendt & Medernach<br />

LLC.<br />

Tobias Wintermantel and his wife, Aila,<br />

welcomed Julias Gerhard. Tobias is an associate<br />

with Allen & Overy in Frankfurt.<br />

2002<br />

Vera Caimo is an associate with Claeys & Engels<br />

in Brussels.<br />

Juliana Calil was promoted to attorney in <strong>the</strong><br />

Internet group at Disney, where she will work<br />

with <strong>the</strong> U.S. technology and international<br />

teams.<br />

Divya George is with <strong>the</strong> legal department at<br />

AT&T.<br />

Julio Quiroga is president of his own sports<br />

business company in Buenos Aires, TMC<br />

(Talent Management Co. S.A.). He and his wife,<br />

Magdalena, welcomed Belisario.<br />

2003<br />

David Quinke is an associate with Gleiss Lutz in<br />

Stuttgart.<br />

Veronica Rojas is litigation coordinator with<br />

Knoblock & Coxhead in Miami and has begun<br />

her M.B.A. studies in international business.<br />

Daniela Stagel is living in Duesseldorf and is<br />

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with <strong>the</strong> intellectual property department of<br />

Lovells.<br />

Minoru Takana is a senior manager with<br />

<strong>the</strong> intellectual property alliance & licensing<br />

department and intellectual property division<br />

of Sony.<br />

2004<br />

Natasha Aljalian welcomed Gabriel. She is<br />

an associate in Goodwin Procter’s litigation<br />

department.<br />

Yuan-Yi Fang returned to Taiwan and is<br />

assistant professor of law at Ale<strong>the</strong>ia University.<br />

Joachim Knoll is partner at dispute resolution<br />

firm Brown & Page in Geneva.<br />

Caroline Ming is with International Legal<br />

Counsel at SGS Group in Geneva.<br />

2005<br />

Eiji Hagio is an advisor with <strong>the</strong> investment<br />

management & advisory group of Tokyo Electric<br />

Power Company. He and his new fiancée plan to<br />

marry by year’s end.<br />

Makiko Harigai is with Cisco Systems Japan in<br />

Tokyo.<br />

Pauline Loiseleur des Longchamps is an intern<br />

with Veolia in Milwaukee.<br />

Giorgio Recine is a partner with Agnoli Bernardi<br />

and Associati in Milan.<br />

Joerg Struempe is at Quinn Emanuel LLP in<br />

Silicon Valley.<br />

2006<br />

Mathilde Cabanettes is junior in-house<br />

counsel for Atos Origin, a French software and<br />

computing services company.<br />

Santiago Lynch and his family welcomed<br />

Gonzalo.<br />

Stefan Rath is with Bank Vontobel in Munich.<br />

2007<br />

Xun Feng and his wife, Wei-Wu, welcomed Nancy.<br />

Qiqi Huang and her husband are living in<br />

Chicago and welcomed Nelson.<br />

Vera Martinez was mentioned in October’s<br />

LatinLawyer. Vera was one of <strong>the</strong> lawyers who<br />

negotiated <strong>the</strong> acquisition of Aeropuertos<br />

Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom), for <strong>the</strong><br />

global private equity firm Advent International.<br />

The transaction marks <strong>the</strong> first Dominican<br />

leveraged buyout and <strong>the</strong> largest Caribbean<br />

infrastructure financing in recent years.<br />

Thanarak Naowarat is a presiding judge of <strong>the</strong><br />

Central Intellectual Property and International<br />

Trade Court in Thailand.<br />

Shizuka Sayama welcomed a baby daughter.<br />

Florian von Eyb and his wife, Stephanie,<br />

celebrated <strong>the</strong>ir wedding last year.<br />

2008<br />

Andrea Armelin da Cunha is <strong>the</strong> Angola project<br />

coordinator at <strong>the</strong> World Bank.<br />

Georgios Kazas is an associate attorney at<br />

Zisis Constantinou and Partners, specializing in<br />

criminal law.<br />

Mayalen Lacabarats is at Dechert LLP in Paris.<br />

Sara Mahboob is a project/research manager<br />

for <strong>the</strong> Center for Economic Research in<br />

Pakistan.<br />

Francesco Spreafico and his wife, Manú, were<br />

married last year and are in New York, where he<br />

is at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.<br />

Sawako Yasuda is in-house counsel at Daikin<br />

Industries.<br />

Helen Yost and her husband, Bill, welcomed<br />

Edward James.<br />

Xiaoxiao Zhou is an associate with Fangda<br />

Partners.<br />

Carolina Rossini received a grant from <strong>the</strong><br />

Open Society Institute for strategy building and<br />

awareness-raising related to open educational<br />

resources in Brazil. She is with <strong>the</strong> Harvard<br />

Berkman Center and FGV Law School in Sao Paolo.<br />

Graduate Program<br />

in Banking and<br />

Financial Law<br />

1989<br />

Ricardo Charvel has worked for <strong>the</strong> past four<br />

years for CEMEX in Monterrey, Mexico, as VP<br />

of institutional relations and communication<br />

in Mexico, responsible for government affairs,<br />

community relations, media relations and<br />

corporate social responsibility. He is also<br />

affiliated with Patrimonio Hoy, a microfinance<br />

firm geared for home improvement for very lowincome<br />

families.<br />

1991<br />

Andres Lapadula (Caracas, Venezuela) won<br />

LatinLawyer’s Deal of <strong>the</strong> Year 2008 Award for<br />

<strong>the</strong> restructuring of <strong>the</strong> Orinoco oil projects. He<br />

also led <strong>the</strong> team that represented Venezolano<br />

de Credito S.A., Banco Universal, Venezuelan<br />

trustee in <strong>the</strong> refinancing of <strong>the</strong> HAMACA<br />

(PDVSA, Chevron and ConocoPhillips) and<br />

SINCOR (PDVSA, French oil company Total, and<br />

Norway’s StatoilHydro) heavy oil projects in <strong>the</strong><br />

Orinoco belt.<br />

1994<br />

Dave Morganelli was appointed chair of <strong>the</strong><br />

federal and state tax committee of <strong>the</strong> Rhode<br />

Island Society of CPAs. Dave chairs <strong>the</strong> tax<br />

practice at Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP in<br />

Providence. He is a member of <strong>the</strong> Alumni<br />

Association Board of Governors of Providence<br />

College and is chairman of <strong>the</strong> Town of Milford<br />

Finance Committee.<br />

1995<br />

Paul Johnson was appointed a member of <strong>the</strong><br />

board of directors of American Capital Partners.<br />

Paul has conducted a national and international<br />

securities and corporate legal practice since<br />

1992. He is a member of <strong>the</strong> Policy & Economics<br />

Council of Gerson Lehrman Group, an<br />

investment research firm.<br />

1997<br />

Michael Spivey is vice president of global<br />

compliance for Wal-Mart International. Since<br />

joining Wal-Mart in 2003, he has advised<br />

multiple business segments, including serving<br />

as Patriot Act compliance officer.<br />

1998<br />

Ramiro Barbosa launched a law firm, Barbosa<br />

Abogados, in Buenos Aires, where his main<br />

practice areas are banking and financial<br />

law, loan restructuring, capital markets and<br />

mergers and acquisitions. He is featured in The<br />

International Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers.<br />

1999<br />

Ricardo Calderon became partner of Ritch<br />

Mueller, SC.<br />

Andrew Morganti is with Sutts Strosberg LLP<br />

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and will open <strong>the</strong> Toronto office. He continues<br />

to practice capital markets and shareholders’<br />

rights litigation.<br />

2004<br />

Petros Fatouros and his law firm, Fatouros<br />

Lampropoulos & Associates, organized an<br />

economic forum “The Young Generation and<br />

<strong>the</strong> Global Economic Crisis” at <strong>the</strong> Hellenic-<br />

American School of A<strong>the</strong>ns College in May.<br />

2005 and 2007<br />

Ernesto Bournigal (’05) and Vitelio Mejia (’07)<br />

also negotiated <strong>the</strong> acquisition of Aeropuertos<br />

Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom), for <strong>the</strong><br />

global private equity firm Advent International.<br />

The transaction marks <strong>the</strong> first Dominican<br />

leveraged buyout and <strong>the</strong> largest Caribbean<br />

infrastructure financing in recent years. They<br />

were also mentioned in October’s LatinLawyer.<br />

2006<br />

Samuel Mirkin is practicing exclusively in <strong>the</strong><br />

distressed-debt trading group at Katten Muchin<br />

Rosenman LLP.<br />

Antoine Narmino founded a legal advisor<br />

office in Monaco, Branado Consulting, with two<br />

partners, and also founded Monaco Intellectual<br />

Property.<br />

2008<br />

Daniel Alarcon is in Colombia working in <strong>the</strong><br />

Ministry of Finance, in charge of developing<br />

regulations for <strong>the</strong> Colombian microfinance<br />

industry.<br />

Colin Darke joined <strong>the</strong> debtor-creditor rights<br />

& bankruptcy group of <strong>the</strong> Detroit law firm<br />

Bodman LLP. The Norton Journal of Bankruptcy<br />

Law and Practice 17, no. 3, published Darke’s<br />

article, “What Is In a Trustee’s Arsenal for<br />

Objecting to Proofs of Claim An Analysis of In<br />

re Kirkland.”<br />

2009<br />

Roy Dias of Miami is practicing at Diaz Rues<br />

LLP.<br />

Cristián Casanova Dominguez of Santiago is<br />

practicing at Carey and Allende.<br />

Hung-Ming Hsieh is interning with <strong>the</strong> SEC in<br />

Washington, D.C.<br />

Arsala Kidwai was awarded <strong>the</strong> IDLO<br />

Fellowship, and will be working in Rome.<br />

Romuald Kpade of Rhode Island is practicing at<br />

Citizens Financial Group.<br />

Carlos Mainero Ruiz is practicing at White and<br />

Case in New York.<br />

Bernardo Massella of Rome is practicing at<br />

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.<br />

Beatriz Spiess of Buenos Aires is practicing at<br />

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.<br />

INTELLECTUAL<br />

PROPERTY<br />

1973<br />

Robert Barr is <strong>the</strong> executive director of <strong>the</strong><br />

Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at <strong>the</strong><br />

University of California–Berkeley School of Law.<br />

Barr joined <strong>the</strong> Board of Directors for ThinkFire,<br />

an intellectual property advisory, brokerage and<br />

licensing firm. The UC Berkeley School of Law<br />

recently created a scholarship in his honor.<br />

1982<br />

Eileen Herlihy is an associate professor of law<br />

at New England Law Boston, where she teaches<br />

patent law, current issues in patent law, and<br />

property, and is co-director of <strong>the</strong> school’s<br />

Intellectual Property Institute. She is co-chair of<br />

<strong>the</strong> Intellectual Property Litigation Committee<br />

of <strong>the</strong> Boston Bar Association. She recently<br />

published her paper “Appellate Review of Patent<br />

Claim Construction: Should <strong>the</strong> Federal Circuit<br />

Be Its Own Lexicographer In Matters Related<br />

to The Seventh Amendment” in <strong>the</strong> Michigan<br />

Telecommunications and Technology Law Review.<br />

1999<br />

Val Gurvits is a corporate attorney and founding<br />

partner of <strong>the</strong> Boston Law Group LLP. His<br />

practice focuses on software, including software<br />

license negotiation, copyrights and trade-secret<br />

protection. He teaches e-commerce law at BU<br />

Law as a lecturer.<br />

2004<br />

Brandy Karl is a residential fellow at Stanford<br />

Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.<br />

While <strong>the</strong>re, she litigated with <strong>the</strong> Fair Use<br />

Project in a variety of cases, including Rowling<br />

v. RDR and Lennon v. Premise. As a fellow, she<br />

litigates copyright fair-use cases and researches<br />

issues at <strong>the</strong> intersection of technology and<br />

intellectual property law.<br />

Barbara Lauriat is <strong>the</strong> career development<br />

fellow in intellectual property law at St.<br />

Ca<strong>the</strong>rine’s College, Oxford. She is working<br />

toward a doctorate in <strong>the</strong> law faculty with<br />

a dissertation focusing on <strong>the</strong> 1878 Royal<br />

Commission on Copyright. At Oxford Law, she<br />

teaches IP law and trademark and copyright law.<br />

2005<br />

Brandon Ress is in <strong>the</strong> trademark practice<br />

at Fulbright & Jaworski in Austin, working<br />

on trademarks, trade secrets and occasional<br />

copyright projects.<br />

Graduate Tax<br />

Program<br />

1978<br />

Alan S. Goldberg was appointed by <strong>the</strong><br />

Chief Justice of <strong>the</strong> Supreme Court of <strong>the</strong><br />

Commonwealth of Virginia to <strong>the</strong> Commonwealth<br />

of Virginia Mandatory Continuing Legal Education<br />

Board for a three-year term.<br />

1985<br />

Michael Cooper is a partner at Looper, Reed &<br />

McGraw in Dallas.<br />

1996<br />

Anu Mullikin, see 1991 J.D. notes.<br />

2000<br />

Andrew Rothstein is an associate in <strong>the</strong> private<br />

client and trust department at Goulston & Storrs<br />

in Boston, which he joined in 2007.<br />

2001<br />

Inna Shestul is at Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus<br />

in Arlington, Va.<br />

2003<br />

Frederico Carvalho practices in <strong>the</strong> M&A<br />

transaction services section of Deloitte &<br />

Touche in Sao Paolo.<br />

2004<br />

Jeremy Johnson and Amy Johnson welcomed<br />

Brynn Annika. Jeremy launched Johnson, Gasink<br />

& Baxter LLP in Williamsburg, Va., as one of<br />

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three partners.<br />

Jinghua Liu was promoted to special counsel at<br />

<strong>the</strong> Beijing office of Baker & McKenzie.<br />

2006<br />

Maryam Assad is practicing at Rafii &<br />

Associates in Los Angeles.<br />

2007<br />

Cory Bilodeau is practicing at Fletcher, Tilton &<br />

Whipple in Worcester.<br />

2008<br />

Steve Goldman’s article “Corporate<br />

Expatriation: A Case Analysis” was published<br />

in <strong>the</strong> Florida Tax Review. He is at Thomson<br />

Reuters.<br />

2008<br />

Linda Fisher opened her own estate planning<br />

practice in Norwood.<br />

Samuel Lee’s paper “A Recommendation, in<br />

Light of <strong>the</strong> Current Economy, for Revising<br />

<strong>the</strong> Way §304 Applies to International<br />

Transactions,” which he wrote with <strong>the</strong> help<br />

of Professor Skip Patton, was published in <strong>the</strong><br />

August Tax Management International Journal.<br />

Pablo Revilla has been in <strong>the</strong> tax area of <strong>the</strong><br />

General Prosecutor’s Office in Buenos Aires<br />

since 2002 and serves as secretary of <strong>the</strong> board<br />

of <strong>the</strong> Argentine Fiscal Association until 2010.<br />

Caren Schindel is a partner at McLaughlin,<br />

Richards, Mahaney, Biller & Woodyshek in<br />

Natick, working with divorce, estate planning,<br />

Medicaid planning, elder and tax law.<br />

Allison F. Tilton opened Tilton Law LLC in<br />

Waltham, practicing in <strong>the</strong> areas of estate<br />

planning, estate administration, and taxation.<br />

Tilton Law LLC serves both Massachusetts and<br />

New Jersey.<br />

Shane Kiggen (Tax ’08, J.D. ’07) see 2007 J.D.<br />

notes.<br />

Adrian Martinez is at KPMG ICS in Silicon<br />

Valley.<br />

Ruth Mattson is an estate, financial and tax<br />

planning associate at Bowditch & Dewey in<br />

Worcester.<br />

Luciana Pires is in international tax at Deloitte &<br />

Touche in San Jose.<br />

Rita Popot is tax counsel at <strong>the</strong> Massachusetts<br />

Department of Revenue in Boston.<br />

Ben Willis finished his first year at<br />

PriceWaterhouseCooper’s M&A section in<br />

Washington, D.C. He also published an article<br />

on <strong>the</strong> effect of debt recharacterization on<br />

worthless securities deductions in <strong>the</strong> July 2009<br />

Tax Adviser.<br />

2009<br />

Steve Gerlach is a third-year associate at<br />

Bernstein Shur in Portland, Maine, and is<br />

practicing in <strong>the</strong> areas of corporate tax, state<br />

and local taxation, taxation of intellectual<br />

property, and employee benefits.<br />

Michael Giles, after sitting for <strong>the</strong> Utah bar<br />

exam this summer, is with <strong>the</strong> estate planning/<br />

tax section of Bennett Tueller Johnson and<br />

Deere in Salt Lake City.<br />

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ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING<br />

FISCAL YEAR 2009


Dear Alumni and Friends,<br />

Like most academic institutions across <strong>the</strong> country dealing with <strong>the</strong> impact of <strong>the</strong> severe recession, Boston University School<br />

of Law faced an array of challenges in <strong>the</strong> fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2009. As we began <strong>the</strong> 2009 fiscal year in <strong>the</strong><br />

summer of 2008, it was not conceivable that in only a few months <strong>the</strong> nation would be gripped by an economic crisis so dire<br />

that it would bring most of our financial institutions to <strong>the</strong> very brink of collapse.<br />

A year later, our financial markets appear to be recovering and beginning a slow climb out of recession. BU Law has also<br />

wea<strong>the</strong>red this financial storm without severe consequences. The fiscal planning that President Brown and Dean O’Rourke put<br />

in place early last fall to counter <strong>the</strong> effects of <strong>the</strong> recession enabled our faculty, students and staff to continue our enterprise<br />

without harsh cutbacks to academic program areas, student services and financial aid, and most importantly without layoffs.<br />

However, even our very sound fiscal planning would not have been as effective without <strong>the</strong> financial support of our generous<br />

alumni and friends.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> 2009 fiscal year (July 1, 2008–June 30, 2009) <strong>the</strong> Law School received cash gifts totaling $1,870,726 from 2,279 alumni<br />

and friends. We thank <strong>the</strong> many of you who maintained or even increased your giving in FY09, notwithstanding your real fear of<br />

what <strong>the</strong> future would hold. Although every single gift in FY09, no matter how small, helped us avoid a more serious financial<br />

picture, a few significant gifts are worthy of special mention.<br />

Paul R. Sugarman (’54), a longtime supporter of BU Law, and his wife, Susan, made a wonderful pledge of $100,000 to<br />

establish <strong>the</strong> Paul R. and Susan J. Sugarman Scholarship Fund. The income from this permanently endowed fund will provide<br />

annual scholarship awards to one or more students enrolled at <strong>the</strong> School of Law. This is a welcome addition to our financial aid<br />

offerings, especially as <strong>the</strong> debt burdens of our students remain a concern.<br />

Also in FY09, <strong>the</strong> School of Law received $167,000 from <strong>the</strong> Marion Kauffman Foundation as part of a new three-year grant in<br />

support of Professor Michael Meurer’s research and work in <strong>the</strong> area of innovation.<br />

Loyal Law School alumni continue to remember us in <strong>the</strong>ir wills and estate plans, and we encourage all alumni to consider a<br />

testamentary provision for <strong>the</strong> School as a way of demonstrating your ultimate support for your alma mater. The estates of<br />

Joseph F. Holman (’50) and Mary G. Sullivan (’49) made gifts of $50,000 and $49,626, respectively. Their gifts will ultimately<br />

support our building facilities and our unrestricted needs.<br />

Notwithstanding <strong>the</strong> current economy and its impact on alumni giving, Dean O’Rourke and I have continued our conversations<br />

with many of our most supportive alumni regarding <strong>the</strong> Law School’s strategic plan and how additional gift revenue will be<br />

needed to make that plan a reality. We are determined to reach out to as many alumni as possible no matter where <strong>the</strong>y reside<br />

and practice geographically as we ramp up our fundraising efforts. Indeed, BU Law alumni are positioned in almost every major<br />

industry and legal market across <strong>the</strong> nation and beyond. Although a significant number of alumni remain in New England, we<br />

have growing numbers of alumni on <strong>the</strong> west coast and abroad.<br />

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Alumni Breakdown by Geographic Region<br />

42.2% New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI and VT)<br />

17.3% New York/New Jersey and U.S. Territories (NJ, NY, PR, VI)<br />

8.6% All International<br />

8.5% Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, PA, VA and WV)<br />

7.8% West Coast (AZ, CA, HI and NV)<br />

5.8% Sou<strong>the</strong>ast (AL, FL, GA, NC, SC and TN)<br />

5.0% Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KY, MI, MN, MO, OH and WI)<br />

2.1% South (AR, LA, MS, NM, OK and TX)<br />

1.5% Northwest (AK, OR and WA)<br />

1.3% Mountain/Plains (CO, ID, KS, MT, ND, NE, SD, UT and WY)<br />

As <strong>the</strong> chart indicates, we have alumni in 49 states, <strong>the</strong> District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and more than<br />

1,700 alumni in countries around <strong>the</strong> globe. If you would like a list of alumni in your state or region, please go to <strong>the</strong> law school’s<br />

website at www.bu.edu/law/alumni and register to use our alumni directory and networking site, <strong>the</strong> BU Law Connection. You<br />

can do any number of searches <strong>the</strong>re for alumni.<br />

Thanks again to all of you who give extraordinary amounts of your time, energy and finances in support of this institution.<br />

Sincerely,<br />

Cornell L. Stinson, J.D.<br />

Assistant Dean, Development and Alumni Relations<br />

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Law Fund & Donor Roll<br />

Unrestricted contributions to <strong>the</strong> Law Fund directly enable Dean O’Rourke to address a wide range of immediate<br />

and important needs. In FY09, more than 50 percent of <strong>the</strong> overall cash gifts received, or $944,418, was given as<br />

unrestricted support to <strong>the</strong> Law Fund. We owe a special thanks to our National Law Fund Co-chairs, Richard Mikels<br />

(’72) and Oscar Wasserman (’59), who began <strong>the</strong>ir roles leading our Annual Fund during this unprecedented year<br />

of financial upheaval. Alumni, students and friends support <strong>the</strong> Law Fund through a variety of ways, including <strong>the</strong><br />

following:<br />

The 2009 3L Class Gift – The class of 2009 held <strong>the</strong>ir class gift drive in <strong>the</strong> spring, raising $2,612 from 75 class<br />

members. Combined with <strong>the</strong> matching gifts of our generous alumni, Gerard (’62) and Sherry Cohen (GRS ’60)<br />

and Oscar (’59) and Elaine Wasserman, <strong>the</strong> total amount raised for <strong>the</strong> 2009 Class Gift was $8,224.24. Section<br />

C led <strong>the</strong> section challenge with a participation rate of 31.4 percent. Thank you to all who participated, especially<br />

<strong>the</strong> 3L Class Gift Committee members, Brenda Carr, Ann Chernicoff, Stephany Collamore, Jeannetta Craigwell-<br />

Graham, Mitchell B. Klein, Claire Koehler, Danielle Nellis and Addie Strumolo.<br />

Reunion Class Giving – On October 10–11, 2008, members of <strong>the</strong> classes of 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983,<br />

1988, 1993, 1998 and 2003 returned to campus to celebrate <strong>the</strong>ir respective reunions. The weekend kicked off<br />

with a cocktail reception for all alumni and <strong>the</strong>ir guests on Friday evening. Saturday provided stimulating alumni<br />

panel sessions followed by a Reunion Class BBQ, <strong>the</strong> annual Golden Circle Celebration for <strong>the</strong> 50th reunion class,<br />

and <strong>the</strong> annual gala dinner and cocktail reception hosted by Dean O’Rourke at <strong>the</strong> Intercontinental Hotel in Boston.<br />

In honor of <strong>the</strong>ir reunions, members of <strong>the</strong>se classes contributed over $290,000 in gifts to <strong>the</strong> School.<br />

2009 Law Firm Challenge – The BU Law Firm Challenge had ano<strong>the</strong>r successful year with more than $508,888<br />

donated by alumni at law firms across <strong>the</strong> country! The Law Firm Challenge is designed to give alumni at law<br />

firms an opportunity to reconnect with <strong>the</strong>ir alma mater, promote giving to <strong>the</strong> Law Fund in a fun and challenging<br />

way, and enhance <strong>the</strong>ir firm’s profile within <strong>the</strong> BU Law community, especially among future firm associates —<br />

current BU Law students. We salute <strong>the</strong> generosity of our loyal alumni at law firms and particularly thank <strong>the</strong><br />

Firm Representatives for <strong>the</strong>ir efforts in FY09. They are: Meg Bailey ’08, Bingham McCutchen LLP; Mark Curiel<br />

’02, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP; Marian Baldwin Fuerst ’91, Chadbourne & Parke LLP; Andrew Heinz<br />

’05, Kirkland & Ellis LLP; Michael J. Kendall ’93, Goodwin Procter LLP; David Loughnot ’05, Bingham McCutchen<br />

LLP; Daniel McCaughey ’04, Ropes & Gray LLP; Anthony Picchione ’04, WilmerHale; Kathryn Piffat ’89, Edwards<br />

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Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP; Elias Schilowitz ’05, Proskauer Rose LLP; Colin Grant Van Dyke ’05, Mintz Levin Cohn<br />

Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, PC; Jenna Ventorino ’08, Goodwin Procter LLP; Sophia Yen ’06, Bingham McCutchen LLP<br />

and; Joseph Zambuto ’02, Covington & Burling LLP.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> donor roll that follows, you will learn <strong>the</strong> names of those who have made an outstanding commitment to<br />

Boston University School of Law and its mission as a world-class law school. It is with great appreciation that <strong>the</strong><br />

School of Law recognizes <strong>the</strong>se generous alumni and friends.<br />

Law Firm Challenge Winners 2008–2009<br />

Firms With 500 or More Attorneys<br />

Highest Alumni Participation:<br />

First Place: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky<br />

and Popeo, P.C. - 61.22%<br />

Second Place: McGuireWoods LLP - 60.00%<br />

Highest Total Dollar Amount:<br />

First Place: Kirkland & Ellis LLP - $238,321.00<br />

Second Place: Proskauer Rose LLP - $15,325.00<br />

Firms With 25–99 Attorneys<br />

Highest Participation:<br />

First Place: Craig and Macauley PC - 83.33%<br />

Second Place: Riemer & Braunstein LLP - 33.33%<br />

Highest Total Dollar Amount:<br />

First Place: Craig and Macauley PC - $12,300.00<br />

Second Place: Riemer & Braunstein LLP - $4,650.00<br />

Firms With 100–499 Attorneys<br />

Highest Participation:<br />

First Place: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP - 66.67%<br />

Second Place: Robinson & Cole LLP - 45.45%<br />

Highest Total Dollar Amount:<br />

First Place: Edwards Angell Palmer<br />

& Dodge LLP - $3,390.01<br />

Second Place: Robinson & Cole LLP - $3,175.00<br />

Firms With 5–24 Attorneys<br />

Highest Participation:<br />

Tied: Corwin & Corwin LLP - 40.00%<br />

Levin & Levin, LLP - 40.00%<br />

Highest Total Dollar Amount:<br />

First Place: Sugarman and Sugarman, PC - $30,380.24<br />

Second Place: Levin & Levin, LLP - $3,550.00<br />

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Donors<br />

F i s cal Year 2009<br />

Giving Categories<br />

President’s Circle - $25,000 and above<br />

President’s Associates - $10,000 - $24,999.99<br />

Dean’s Club - $5,000 - $9,999.99<br />

Fellow - $2,500 - $4,999.99<br />

Barrister - $1,000 - $2,499.99<br />

Friend - $500 - $999.99<br />

Donor - $1 - $499.99<br />

CLASS OF 1930<br />

Donor<br />

Jerome Weinberg<br />

CLASS OF 1935<br />

Donor<br />

Lillian P. Thomas<br />

CLASS OF 1939<br />

Donor<br />

Sarah Smith Friedman<br />

CLASS OF 1940<br />

Donor<br />

Robert L. Cram<br />

S. Harold Skolnick<br />

CLASS OF 1941<br />

Barrister<br />

Louis A. Genovese<br />

Donor<br />

Eunice P. Howe<br />

Robert S. Prince<br />

CLASS OF 1943<br />

Donor<br />

Thomas D. Burns<br />

CLASS OF 1945<br />

Donor<br />

Kathleen Ryan Dacey<br />

CLASS OF 1946<br />

Barrister<br />

Janice H. Wilkins<br />

CLASS OF 1947<br />

Donor<br />

Lola Dickerman<br />

Jay M. Esterkes<br />

Charles A. George<br />

Bette S. Paris<br />

Fred Ross<br />

CLASS OF 1948<br />

President’s Circle<br />

Edward W. Brooke<br />

President’s Associates<br />

George Michaels<br />

Donor<br />

Christine E. Donna<br />

Reynold F. Paris<br />

Glendora McIlwain Putnam<br />

Stella Hackel Sims<br />

Charlotte G. Ventola<br />

CLASS OF 1949<br />

President’s Circle<br />

Mary G. Sullivan*<br />

Barrister<br />

Robert B. Kent<br />

Donor<br />

Jean N. Arlander<br />

Monte G. Basbas<br />

Jason S. Cohen<br />

Charles J. Contas<br />

Bayard T. Crane Jr.<br />

Alan M. Edelstein<br />

Linwood M. Erskine Jr.<br />

Sumner S. Fanger<br />

Irwin P. Garfinkle<br />

Floyd L. Harding<br />

Richard S. Kelley<br />

Harold Kropitzer<br />

Douglas A. Kydd Jr.<br />

William M. Macdonald<br />

Edward P. McDuffee<br />

John Thomas Pappas<br />

Philip B. Prince<br />

Iris A. Shaw<br />

Paul B. Slate<br />

Murray L. Townsend Jr.<br />

William T. Walsh<br />

CLASS OF 1950<br />

President’s Circle<br />

Joseph H. Holman*<br />

Barrister<br />

Nathan M. Silverstein<br />

Donor<br />

Robert S. Amery<br />

James N. Barrett Jr.<br />

Barry D. Berkal<br />

Jere R. Clifford<br />

George T. Costes<br />

Charles E. Holly<br />

Sumner Allen Marcus<br />

Arthur M. Mason<br />

Jerome D. Ogan<br />

Robert F. Preti<br />

Leonard S. Sawyer<br />

Benjamin T. Wright<br />

Edward C. Wynne<br />

Albert J. Zahka<br />

CLASS OF 1951<br />

Barrister<br />

Arthur E. Bean Jr.<br />

Louis A. D’Angio<br />

Allan Green<br />

George L. Greenfield<br />

A. Vincent Harper<br />

Norman M. Shack<br />

William B. Tyler<br />

Donor<br />

Edward J. Bander<br />

George W. Bunyan Jr.<br />

Andrew T. Campoli<br />

Sumner Darman<br />

Harry J. Elam<br />

Richard W. Foss<br />

Alfred F. Glavey<br />

Gerald H. Lepler<br />

Louis G. Mat<strong>the</strong>ws<br />

Charles H. McLaughlin<br />

Dwight N. Vibbert<br />

Samuel A. Wilkinson<br />

Jack L. Wolfson<br />

CLASS OF 1952<br />

Donor<br />

Samuel Simon Anter<br />

Alan S. Flink<br />

P. Louis Johnson Jr.<br />

Joseph T. Little<br />

Frankland W. L. Miles Jr.<br />

Richard S. Milstein<br />

Francis C. Newton Jr.<br />

Thomas D. Pucci<br />

Norman Dion Schwartz<br />

Robert A. Shaines<br />

David E. Stevens<br />

Robert H. Temple<br />

Sidney Weinberg<br />

CLASS OF 1953<br />

Barrister<br />

Donald T. Shire<br />

Donor<br />

Leonard A. Berkal<br />

Albert J. Callahan<br />

William I. Harkaway<br />

Malcolm Jones<br />

Vartkis Paghigian<br />

Henry S. Palau<br />

Eugene G. Panarese<br />

G. Franklin Smith<br />

Joseph Sequeria Vera<br />

CLASS OF 1954<br />

President’s Circle<br />

Paul R. Sugarman<br />

Fellow<br />

Alan Altman<br />

Barrister<br />

Mitchell J. Greb<br />

Friend<br />

Ronald L. Kellam<br />

Donor<br />

George Amos Bustamante<br />

Kenneth J. Dilanian<br />

Lester Edelman<br />

Edward R. Fink<br />

Charles M. Healey III<br />

Lawrence Aaron Kellem<br />

Anthony D. Taliente<br />

Richard W. Wennett<br />

CLASS OF 1955<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Elliott I. Mishara<br />

Barrister<br />

J. Robert Dyment<br />

Allen Rubin<br />

Donor<br />

Walter R. Budney<br />

Martin A. Dworken<br />

Barbara V. Evans<br />

Jules L. Garel<br />

Morris Jay Gordon<br />

Hugh B. Hartwell<br />

John D. McLellan Jr.<br />

CLASS OF 1956<br />

Barrister<br />

Jack B. Middleton<br />

Donor<br />

Jules W. Breslow<br />

Norman F. Burke<br />

William H. Clifford Jr.<br />

John P. Liberty<br />

Robert S. Linnell<br />

Richard S. Miller<br />

Frank E. Pollard Jr.<br />

Domenic J.F. Russo<br />

Bernard R. Silva Jr.<br />

CLASS OF 1957<br />

Friend<br />

Joseph C. Sweeney<br />

Donor<br />

Paul K. Arsenian<br />

H. Alfred Casassa<br />

Raymond A. Cox<br />

Joseph Chester Cressy<br />

Frank H. Handy Jr.<br />

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Emilio D. Iannuccillo<br />

Robert A. Kaloosdian<br />

Alfred Legelis<br />

Herbert Lemelman<br />

Charles N. Miller<br />

Alan C. Pease<br />

Bernard Poliner<br />

Nicholas Sarris<br />

Albert J. Savastano<br />

John A. Wickstrom<br />

CLASS OF 1958 -<br />

50th Reunion<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Jason A. Gottlieb<br />

Barrister<br />

Wallace F. Ashnault<br />

Allan J. Landau<br />

David Lee Turner<br />

Arnold I. Zaltas<br />

Friend<br />

Edward H. Torgen<br />

Donor<br />

Sidney J. Dockser<br />

Bernard R. Fielding<br />

Earle Groper<br />

Marvin W. Kushner<br />

Frank D. Marden<br />

Robert Taft<br />

Stephen R. Weidman<br />

CLASS OF 1959<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Oscar A. Wasserman<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

William Landau<br />

Fellow<br />

John J. Norton<br />

Barrister<br />

Morton H. Aronson<br />

Donor<br />

Karnig Boyajian<br />

Henry N. Frenette<br />

James W. Killam III<br />

Martin S. Malinou<br />

Bertram S. Patkin<br />

Emanuel N. Psarakis<br />

Michael A. Silverstein<br />

Richard O. Staff<br />

Philip S. Sternstein<br />

Lewis L. Whitman<br />

CLASS OF 1960<br />

Fellow<br />

Henry S. Levin<br />

Barrister<br />

Richard S. Hanki<br />

Nancy Troy Lovett<br />

Friend<br />

Mitchell Samuelson<br />

Donor<br />

Robert J. Bagdasarian<br />

Ronald Bean<br />

Myron R. Bernstein<br />

Frederick C. Cohen<br />

Ka<strong>the</strong>rine Liacos Izzo<br />

Richard Murray<br />

R. Joseph O’Rourke<br />

Julie Rate Perkins<br />

Donald M. Robbins<br />

David A. Shrair<br />

Robert P. Weintraub<br />

CLASS OF 1961<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Stephen V. Dubin<br />

Fellow<br />

Allan van Gestel<br />

Barrister<br />

Morton E. Marvin<br />

Evandro R. Radoccia Jr.<br />

Eugene L. Rubin<br />

Friend<br />

Leonard I. Shapiro<br />

Donor<br />

Ralph Cianflone Jr.<br />

Joel Gary Cohen<br />

E. Whitney Drake<br />

Bert L. Gusrae<br />

Douglas S. Hatfield<br />

Morton Holliday<br />

Sanford A. Kowal<br />

Robert M. Schacht<br />

Philip Tierney<br />

Stanley C. Urban<br />

CLASS OF 1962<br />

President’s Circle<br />

Gerard H. Cohen<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Edward D. McCarthy<br />

Barrister<br />

Darald R. Libby<br />

Friend<br />

Robert J. Ferranty<br />

Levon Kasarjian Jr.<br />

Richard S. Scipione<br />

Donor<br />

Richard S. Barton<br />

Roland J. Caserta<br />

John J. DaPonte Jr.<br />

John J. Dumphy<br />

William M. Finn<br />

Alan Bernard Fodeman<br />

Irving David Labovitz<br />

John R. D. McClintock<br />

Gordon C. Mulligan<br />

Robert D. Myers<br />

Wallace H. Myers<br />

Joseph P. Nadeau<br />

Edmund R. Sledzik<br />

Richard D. Stapleton<br />

Arthur L. Stevenson<br />

Dale G. Stoodley<br />

CLASS OF 1963 -<br />

45th Reunion<br />

Barrister<br />

George Findell Jr.<br />

John J. Murphy<br />

Donor<br />

John F. Atwood<br />

Avram N. Cohen<br />

Frank S. Ganak<br />

Mat<strong>the</strong>w S. Goldfarb<br />

Kenneth S. Green Jr.<br />

Frederick A. Griffen<br />

Bert Levine<br />

Louis P. Massaro Jr.<br />

John J. McCarthy<br />

Elwynn J. Miller<br />

Joseph J. Parrilla<br />

M. Robert Queler<br />

CLASS OF 1964<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Harry J. Riskin<br />

Barrister<br />

Ernest M. Haddad<br />

John R. Robinson<br />

Friend<br />

Frank J. Santangelo<br />

Donor<br />

James P. Carty<br />

James M. Geary Jr.<br />

John E. Higgins Jr.<br />

Paul A. Lietar<br />

Carl B. Lisa<br />

Charles E. Olney<br />

David M. Prolman<br />

Gordon P. Ramsey<br />

George R. Sprague<br />

CLASS OF 1965<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Neil Sugarman<br />

Fellow<br />

Robert M. Cohen<br />

Stephen A. Kolodny<br />

Edward S. Snyder<br />

Barrister<br />

Lawrence S. Cohen<br />

Charles B. Curtis<br />

Victor J. Garo<br />

Martin Lobel<br />

Gerald J. Phillips<br />

Robert S. Toyofuku<br />

Friend<br />

Robert Belton<br />

Charles M. Burnim<br />

Paul R. Devin<br />

John S. Goodnow<br />

Stephen M. Kass<br />

Frances H. Miller<br />

Peter B. Sang<br />

Edward A. Shapiro<br />

Donor<br />

Saul D. Behr<br />

Paul B. Carroll<br />

Edward L. Colby Jr.<br />

Peter M. Collins<br />

Sean M. Dunphy<br />

Lloyd S. French<br />

Douglas H. Haley<br />

Arthur W. Havey<br />

Paul A. Heller<br />

Ronald J. McDougald<br />

Maurice McWalter Jr.<br />

Richard S. Mittleman<br />

Demitrios M. Moschos<br />

Michael C. Moschos<br />

Herbert Pitta Jr.<br />

Richard G. Ross<br />

John J. Ryan III<br />

Howard Scheinblum<br />

J. Howard Solomon<br />

George H. Stephenson<br />

Cornelius P. Sullivan<br />

Michael L. Widland<br />

Christopher R. Wood<br />

CLASS OF 1966<br />

Barrister<br />

Irving H. Picard<br />

Friend<br />

Lawrence T. Holden Jr.<br />

Barry Y. Weiner<br />

Donor<br />

Gregory R. Baler<br />

Stanley A. Bleecker<br />

Peter T. Dawson<br />

John M. Downer<br />

Michael R. Garfield<br />

Lynne Hans<br />

Ronald Jacobs<br />

Arthur L. Lappen<br />

Mary E. McCabe<br />

Willard R. Pope<br />

Kenneth S. Robbins<br />

Paul R. Salvage<br />

Jerome D. Sekula<br />

Sheldron Seplowitz<br />

Sherwood R. Spelke<br />

Stephen C. Steinberg<br />

William Wells Willard<br />

CLASS OF 1967<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Robert B. Goldfarb<br />

Gerald L. Nissenbaum<br />

Barrister<br />

Richard J. Talbot<br />

Jeffrey R. Whieldon<br />

Friend<br />

John L. Vecchiolla<br />

Donor<br />

Anthony J. Aftuck<br />

Joseph S. Alen<br />

Michaele Snyder Battles<br />

David M. Blumenthal<br />

Mark N. Busch<br />

Robert B. Dalton<br />

Stephen L. Dashoff<br />

Margaret H. Douglas-<br />

Hamilton<br />

Ernest E. Falbo Jr.<br />

Lloyd A. Fisk<br />

Arthur G. Greene<br />

Karl L. Halperin<br />

Arthur W. Hughes III<br />

William H. Hyatt Jr.<br />

Patrick J. King<br />

Stanley J. Krieger<br />

James D. Latham<br />

Michael Magruder<br />

Edward Colquitt Minor<br />

Michael Popowski<br />

Donald E. Quigley<br />

Jean L. Rehbock<br />

Ca<strong>the</strong>rine L. Salisbury<br />

William J. Salisbury<br />

William W. Southworth<br />

Charles J. Speleotis<br />

Joseph R. Tutalo<br />

Alan I. Weinberg<br />

Patrick K. S. L. Yim<br />

CLASS OF 1968 -<br />

40th Reunion<br />

Barrister<br />

Robert G. Anderson<br />

Mortimer B. Fuller III<br />

Kernan F. King<br />

Samuel S. Perlman<br />

Peter W. Segal<br />

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Friend<br />

Lawrence E. Kaplan<br />

Richard D. Mondre<br />

Donor<br />

S. Reid Alsop<br />

Jeffrey S. Cates<br />

Robert L. Cullinane<br />

Jerry H. Dolchin<br />

Robert Droker<br />

Malvin B. Eisenberg<br />

Ellen Flatley<br />

Morton E. Grosz<br />

Richard S. Hackel<br />

Douglas G. Hyde<br />

John A. Karpinski<br />

Michael A. Laurano<br />

William F. Malloy<br />

Richard F. McCarthy<br />

Robert G. McSweeney<br />

Richard A. Millstein<br />

Judith Hale Norris<br />

Andrew Radding<br />

Lawrence Rosenbluth<br />

Robert E. Sapir<br />

David Sholes<br />

Elliott L. Zide<br />

CLASS OF 1969<br />

President’s Associates<br />

William Macauley<br />

James C. Pizzagalli<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Barbara B. Creed<br />

Marvin M. Goldstein<br />

Barrister<br />

Gerald C. Miller<br />

Richard E. Talmadge<br />

Bruce J. Wein<br />

Friend<br />

Arthur H. Bill<br />

Thomas E. Cimeno Jr.<br />

Beth Ann F. Gentile<br />

Donor<br />

David Allen<br />

Stephen B. Angel<br />

Phillip N. Armentano<br />

Richard G. Asoian<br />

Ronald G. Busconi<br />

Anthony John Catalano<br />

Michael E. Faden<br />

Marvin H. Glazier<br />

Roland Gray III<br />

Norman Gross<br />

George R. Halsey<br />

Neil F. Hulbert<br />

Julie A. Koppenheffer<br />

Michael S. Krout<br />

Stephen H. Lewis<br />

Michael A. Meyers<br />

Martin S. Needelman<br />

Kenneth M. Nelson<br />

James M. Oathout<br />

John Ralston Pate Jr.<br />

Brainard L. Patton<br />

James M. Pool<br />

David E. Putnam<br />

Joseph S. Radovsky<br />

Martin A. Rosenman<br />

Elliot Savitz<br />

David M. Singer<br />

James W. Tello<br />

Allan P. Weeks<br />

Michael A. Wheeler<br />

Henry W. Winkleman<br />

CLASS OF 1970<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Bettina B. Plevan<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Alfred J. Egenhofer<br />

Jay M. Forgotson<br />

Fellow<br />

James N. Esdaile Jr.<br />

Friend<br />

Peter J. Herrick<br />

Dean A. Stiffle<br />

Frank J. Williams<br />

Donor<br />

Cornelia C. Adams<br />

Karen McAndrew Allen<br />

Craig W. Barry Jr.<br />

Kenneth A. Behar<br />

Bruce W. Bergen<br />

Paul L. Black<br />

William R. Blane<br />

Michael D. Brockelman<br />

Susan M. Cooke<br />

Roy P. Creedon<br />

Dennis M. Cronin<br />

Michael M. Davis<br />

Paul J. Drucker<br />

Marshall I. Etra<br />

Robert Bunten Field Jr.<br />

Richard E. Galway Jr.<br />

Elizabeth H. Gemmill<br />

Lawrence T. Graham<br />

Clayton F. Harrington Jr.<br />

Robert L. Hollingshead<br />

Peter A. Janus<br />

Mary Susan Leahy<br />

Elliott C. Miller<br />

Walter L. Mitchell III<br />

Isabelle Katz Pinzler<br />

Robert H. Segersten<br />

Thomas Royall Smith<br />

David L. Taylor<br />

John Andrew Tierney<br />

Paul H. Waldman<br />

Allen Whitestone<br />

Willard Prodgers Yeats<br />

CLASS OF 1971<br />

President’s Circle<br />

William H. Kleh<br />

Fellow<br />

Sandra L. Lynch<br />

Peter H. Sutton<br />

Barristers<br />

Ralph A. Ford<br />

Friend<br />

Herbert Myles Jacobs<br />

Richard H. Saxe<br />

William S. Botwick<br />

Richard C. MacKenzie<br />

Donor<br />

Robert David Abrams<br />

Peter B. Benfield<br />

Carol C. Conrad<br />

James J. Cotter III<br />

William C. Decas<br />

Charles W. Deuser II<br />

Melvin Foster<br />

Roger J. Geller<br />

Richard M. Gibbons<br />

Richard W. Grant<br />

Jeffrey B. Gray<br />

Richard H. Greenstein<br />

Mark R. Haflich<br />

Julian T. Houston<br />

Martha J. Koster<br />

Thomas R. Lebach<br />

Robert D. Lewin<br />

Claude L. Lowen<br />

Russell I. Lynn<br />

Kenneth F. MacIver Jr.<br />

Michael R. Miller<br />

Pliny Norcross III<br />

Lansing R. Palmer<br />

Harry P. Photopoulos<br />

William M. Pinzler<br />

Erica L. Powers<br />

Paul H. Rothschild<br />

Edward M. Silverstein<br />

Mary L. Z. Sanderson<br />

Jane Wolf Waterman<br />

Steven L. Zimmerman<br />

CLASS OF 1972<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Samuel Marvin Fineman<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Richard E. Mikels<br />

Barrister<br />

Roger A. Nelson<br />

Friend<br />

William A. Lewis Jr.<br />

Donor<br />

Robert Gregory Burdick Jr.<br />

Charles Larry Carpenter Jr.<br />

Barbara Brower Conover<br />

Linda Scholle Cowan<br />

Kathleen Kirk David<br />

Michael Charles Denny<br />

Douglas J. Dok Jr.<br />

Andrew D. Epstein<br />

Victor Michael Ferrante<br />

Paul V. Freeman Jr.<br />

David F. Grunebaum<br />

Christopher H. Hartenau<br />

Ca<strong>the</strong>rine L. Heron<br />

F. Robert Houlihan<br />

Arthur Harold Johnson<br />

Thomas Lawrence Knaphle<br />

Dane Roger Kostin<br />

Michele G. Kostin<br />

Winfield Watson Major Jr.<br />

William F. Manley<br />

Stephen M. Marcusa<br />

Arkley Lawrence Mastro Jr.<br />

Sandra Lee Moody<br />

Andrew Joseph Mullen<br />

Anna Sue Rominger<br />

George Russell Sparling<br />

John Roderick Staffier<br />

Allen W. Stokes Jr.<br />

Arthur C. Sullivan Jr.<br />

Mark L. Sullivan<br />

Mary Morrissey Sullivan<br />

Patricia Ann Sullivan<br />

Lawrence Alan Weiner<br />

Robert Lowell Weiss Jr.<br />

Richard B. Weitzen<br />

Thomas F. Williams<br />

Kenneth Isaac Wirfel<br />

Myrth York<br />

CLASS OF 1973 -<br />

35th Reunion<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Hugh R. McCombs<br />

Fellow<br />

Clark Evans Downs<br />

Barrister<br />

Wayne B. Bardsley<br />

Thomas Robert Kiley<br />

Paul Allan Schott<br />

Joseph John Sweeney<br />

Laura A. Kaster<br />

David H. Lee<br />

Jane Michaels<br />

Anthony F. Muri<br />

Kristen C. Nelson<br />

William J. Novak<br />

Kenneth H. Tatarian<br />

Lawrence E. Uchill<br />

Donor<br />

Robert Henry Beck<br />

David W. Brown<br />

Joan W. Cavanagh<br />

Thomas A. Cloutier<br />

Hilary J. Dalin<br />

David J. DeMoss<br />

David Jeffrey Dorne<br />

Lawrence S. Elswit<br />

Mark D. Engel<br />

Carolyn N. Famiglietti<br />

Howard L. Felsenfeld<br />

Norman J. Fine<br />

Warner S. Fletcher<br />

Franklin Fruchtman<br />

Peter Van Keuren Funk Jr.<br />

Dennis I. Greene<br />

Joel P. Greene<br />

Leora Harpaz<br />

Anne Hoffman<br />

Ka<strong>the</strong>rine Walker Keane<br />

Craig M. Keats<br />

David C. King<br />

Ann-Louise Kleper<br />

John Henry Kohring<br />

Phillip C. Koutsogiane<br />

Elliott N. Kramsky<br />

Brian W. LeClair<br />

Kathleen Gill Miller<br />

Howard P. Newton<br />

Theodore S. Novak<br />

Stephen Patrick Nugent<br />

Richard Bradford Osterberg<br />

Jonathan Tyler Parkhurst<br />

Charles F. Shaw III<br />

Larry L. Simms<br />

William J. Snell III<br />

Roger C. Stanford<br />

Daniel J. Steininger<br />

Marcus Samuel Weiss<br />

Anna Christina Wolfe<br />

CLASS OF 1974<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Richard A. Karelitz<br />

Peter McCausland<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Daniel J. Rea Jr.<br />

Barrister<br />

Arnold P. Hanson Jr.<br />

Jeffrey D. Woolf<br />

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Friend<br />

Jane C. von der Heyde<br />

Ken W. Shulman<br />

Stephen D. Tom<br />

Donor<br />

Howard S. Altarescu<br />

Benjamin S. Bilus<br />

Steven H. Bowen<br />

Elsa Kircher Cole<br />

David M. Covey<br />

Henry H. Dearing III<br />

Judith Nelson Dilday<br />

David C. Elliott<br />

David W. Faunce<br />

Anthony M. Feeherry<br />

Robert J. Gordon<br />

C. Lawrence Grubman<br />

Lloyd J. Heller<br />

Richard P. Jaffe<br />

Stanley D. Katz<br />

Glenn Lau-Kee<br />

Warren R. Leiden<br />

Philip Lerner<br />

Stephen T. Lindo<br />

Leon J. Lombardi<br />

Bradford S. Lovette<br />

Stephen M. Mason<br />

James E. McGuire<br />

Robert S. Moog<br />

Garland F. Pinkston Jr.<br />

Robert H. Ratcliffe<br />

Rhoda E. Schneider<br />

Melinda S. Sherer<br />

Drew Spalding<br />

Susan E. Stein<br />

Allan W. Ziman<br />

CLASS OF 1975<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Paul E. Heimberg<br />

Fellow<br />

David W. Carpenter<br />

Barrister<br />

Jeffrey H. Lane<br />

Andrew James Ley<br />

Roger M. Ritt<br />

James Manly Sack<br />

Paul Sherman Samson<br />

Friend<br />

Richard Driansky<br />

Charles Wilbur Lamar III<br />

Richard J. Levin<br />

Susan P. MacEachron<br />

Eric M. Reuben<br />

Meredith B. Reuben<br />

Steven James Weinstein<br />

Donor<br />

George W. Adams III<br />

Felix Von Baxter<br />

Kenneth J. Berk<br />

Michael E. Chubrich<br />

Della R. Cohen<br />

Richard F. Collier Jr.<br />

John Nicholas Datesh Jr.<br />

B. Andrew Dutcher<br />

Richard D. Eisenberg<br />

Barry A. Friedman<br />

Marc B. Friedman<br />

Andrew A. Glickson<br />

Steven Jay Goldstein<br />

Jules S. Goodman<br />

Laurence Eric Hardoon<br />

Michael Cleland Harvell<br />

Harold Michael King<br />

Linda K. Lager<br />

Howard Chin Lem<br />

Leslie Waters Lewkow<br />

Carol Bensinger Liebman<br />

Gary F. Locke<br />

George P. Lordan Jr.<br />

Kathryn R. Lunney<br />

John H. MacMaster<br />

Marianne McGettigan<br />

James Arthur McGraw<br />

James I. Murray<br />

David M. Neubauer<br />

John L. Norton III<br />

Charles A. Pillsbury<br />

Robert M. Pu<br />

Stephanie J. Racin<br />

Richard C. Sammis<br />

Harris J. Samuels<br />

Nancy A. Su<strong>the</strong>rland<br />

Jeffrey Martin Winik<br />

Hope Brock Winthrop<br />

CLASS OF 1976<br />

President’s Circle<br />

Philip S. Beck<br />

Joel G. Chefitz<br />

Linda S. Peterson<br />

J. Michael Schell<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Nancy E. Barton<br />

Harry J. Weiss<br />

Barrister<br />

Carolyn Jacoby Gabbay<br />

Gary H. Glaser<br />

Robert J. Glovsky<br />

Irving L. Gornstein<br />

Mark S. Granger<br />

Walter E. Hanley Jr.<br />

Marc J. Lust<br />

Denzil D. McKenzie<br />

O. Rogeriee Thompson<br />

Danielle E. Wuchenich<br />

Friend<br />

Thomas J. Engellenner<br />

Peter I. Mason<br />

Donor<br />

Michael S. Albert<br />

David I. Altman<br />

Anne Mitchell A<strong>the</strong>rton<br />

George A. Bachrach<br />

Frank W. Barrie<br />

Virginia D. Benjamin<br />

William J. Bloomer<br />

Jan Alan Brody<br />

Lynda G. Christian<br />

John C. Cuddy<br />

Linda J. Dreeben<br />

Ross N. Driver<br />

John K. Dunleavy<br />

John E. Edison<br />

John W. Fieldsteel<br />

Janet B. Fierman<br />

Scott A. Forsyth<br />

Gregory L. Foster<br />

Greg S. Friedman<br />

Mary K. Gallagher<br />

Myra Miller Gordon<br />

Charles F. Grimes<br />

Leonard Gross<br />

Richard D. Hawke<br />

Ka<strong>the</strong>rine A. Hesse<br />

Nancy M. Highbarger<br />

Sandra Jean Holman<br />

Scott M. Huiras<br />

Dale R. Johnson<br />

Mary Louise Kennedy<br />

Francis D. Landrey<br />

Richard M. Lipsman<br />

Anne Hewitt McAndrews<br />

Samuel P. Moulthrop<br />

Marjorie R. Perlman<br />

Michael L. Prigoff<br />

Eugene A. Reilly<br />

Rebecca A. Schenk<br />

Louis Jon Schepp<br />

Michael O. Sheehan<br />

James E. Sheldon<br />

L. Seth Stadfeld<br />

Oliver W. Stalter<br />

John C. Sullivan<br />

Elbert Tuttle<br />

Jerome F. Weihs<br />

Alexander Whiteside<br />

Byron E. Woodman Jr.<br />

Gary D. Zanercik<br />

Marianne G. Zurn<br />

CLASS OF 1977<br />

Barrister<br />

Thomas G. Robinson<br />

Friend<br />

James L. Alberg<br />

Robert C. Barber<br />

Gaylen Kemp Baxter<br />

Robin Beth Matlin<br />

Donor<br />

Walter J. Boldys<br />

Stephen R. Bosworth<br />

Harris B. Brown<br />

Frank Campbell Jr.<br />

James F. Crowley Jr.<br />

Allen N. David<br />

John F. DeBartolo<br />

Edmonde P. DeGregorio<br />

Guy Richard Eigenbrode<br />

John J. Finn<br />

David J. Fischer<br />

Scott L. Fredericksen<br />

Marshall A. Gallop<br />

Stanley Greenberg<br />

Roberta A. Grimes<br />

Barbara Guss<br />

Norman S. Heller<br />

Kay Hideko Hodge<br />

Eric H. Karp<br />

David L. Kay<br />

Peter L. Knox<br />

Kenneth Albert Krems<br />

Jeffrey A. Lester<br />

Sybil L. Levisohn<br />

Sharen Litwin<br />

John B. Miller<br />

Judith Ann Moldover<br />

Amy L. Mower<br />

Susan Hall Mygatt<br />

Stuart A. Offner<br />

Ross Collins Owens III<br />

Kirk C. Rascoe<br />

Toby Kamens Rodman<br />

David H. Sempert<br />

Michael T. Shutterly<br />

Richard J. Sims<br />

Michael S. Sophocles<br />

Russell J. Speidel<br />

Richard W. Stern<br />

Ellen Davis Sullivan<br />

Mark D. Swanson<br />

Steven H. Talkovsky<br />

Penelope Wells<br />

Judith S. Yogman<br />

CLASS OF 1978 -<br />

30th Reunion<br />

Fellow<br />

Ellen J. Flannery<br />

Russel T. Hamilton<br />

Barrister<br />

Joan B. Chamberlain<br />

Michael J. Kliegman<br />

Joseph A. Levitt<br />

Nancy E. Yanofsky<br />

Friend<br />

David R. Gellman<br />

Gary E. Hicks<br />

Donor<br />

Miriam H. Babin<br />

Jeffrey Baxter<br />

William M. Berenson<br />

Wendy M. Bittner<br />

James Blakey<br />

David E. Dryer<br />

Susan H. Fischer<br />

Daniel M. Freedman<br />

Clyde R. Garrigan<br />

Michael H. Gurchin<br />

Joe Hegel<br />

Shepard A. Hoffman<br />

N. Landon Hoyt<br />

Martin R. Jenkins<br />

George C. Jones<br />

David B. Kamm<br />

Vickery Hall Kehlenbeck<br />

Robin E. Keller<br />

Bruce A. Langer<br />

Allan L. Lockspieser<br />

Kenneth R. Luttinger<br />

Scott L. Machanic<br />

Mary Ellen McMeekin<br />

David G. Nation<br />

Leslie S. Newman<br />

Robert E. Paul<br />

Gail Pennington<br />

Kathleen J. Phillips<br />

Marc S. Plonskier<br />

Michael S. Popkin<br />

Dean Richlin<br />

John S. Rodman<br />

David E. Shellenberger<br />

Nancy S. Shilepsky<br />

Alan R. Skupp<br />

Pamela R. Stirrat<br />

John R. Stopa<br />

Hollis G. Swift<br />

Robert Volk<br />

Debra Ann Weiner<br />

Judith M. White<br />

Suzan E. Willcox<br />

Stuart J. Yasgoor<br />

CLASS OF 1979<br />

President’s Circle<br />

Richard Cartier Godfrey<br />

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President’s Associates<br />

Craig S. Thompson<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Mary A. Akerson<br />

Fellow<br />

Michael D. Gayda<br />

Sue Schmutter Tebor<br />

Barrister<br />

Randall A. Constantine<br />

Caroline D. Davis<br />

Richards Huff Ford<br />

Lois F. Herzeca<br />

Amy N. Lipton<br />

Loretta M. Smith †<br />

Friend<br />

Jeffrey L. Berkowitz<br />

Eliza W. Fraser<br />

James D. Masterman<br />

Dean Steven Travalino<br />

Donor<br />

Samuel Abloeser<br />

Robert Allan Axelrod<br />

Susan T. Bailey<br />

Andrew B. Belfer<br />

James M. Beslity<br />

Bruce T. Block<br />

James H. Broderick Jr.<br />

David S. Brown<br />

Meade G. Burrows<br />

Gary K. Feldbaum<br />

Virginia M. Fettig<br />

Scott A. Fisher<br />

Anne H. Foley<br />

Garry G. Fujita<br />

Erick J. Genser<br />

Margaret M. Gilligan<br />

Steven M. Glovsky<br />

Elin H. Graydon<br />

Kenneth Ingber<br />

Susan F. Kelley<br />

Betty L. Krikorian<br />

Robert W. Lavoie<br />

Craig D. Mills<br />

Paul E. Nemser<br />

Paul O’Connor<br />

Martha Osborne<br />

Thomas J. Roccio<br />

John J. Rosenberg<br />

Roger M. Ross<br />

Robert G. Rowe<br />

Stephen E. Socha<br />

Jacqueline F. Stein<br />

Robert Lee Swanson<br />

Michael N. Vaporis<br />

T. Kirk Ware<br />

Jeffrey M. Werthan<br />

Susan M. Werthan<br />

CLASS OF 1980<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Robert F. Grondine<br />

Fellow<br />

H. Peter Haveles Jr.<br />

Barrister<br />

Claudia O. Crowley<br />

Leo T. Crowley<br />

John J. Finn<br />

Barry J. Swidler<br />

Friend<br />

Scott E. Cooper<br />

William H. Groner<br />

Eve T. Horwitz<br />

James A. Normand<br />

John F. O’Brien<br />

David B. Picker<br />

Kathryn L. Roseen<br />

Dawn C. Ryan<br />

Donor<br />

Christopher N. Ames<br />

Daniel V. Bakinowski<br />

Jason R. Baron<br />

Marcy A. Bass<br />

Ellen S. Bass-Tripp<br />

Arnold Baum<br />

Diane Giles Berliner<br />

Judith A. Clark<br />

Emily J. Cooke<br />

Jeffrey M. Cooper<br />

Jeffry A. Davis<br />

Floralynn Einesman<br />

Marshall D. Feiring<br />

Arthur H. Forman<br />

Maria Joy Frank<br />

Susan G.L. Glovsky<br />

Scott M. Green<br />

Bonnie Spaccarelli Hannon<br />

Mary D. Harrington<br />

Melissa A. Jad<br />

Joseph E. Kaidanow<br />

Barbara R. Kapnick<br />

Kenneth S. Kasper<br />

Michael A. Kehoe<br />

Stefanie J. Kessler<br />

Jeffrey S. Leonard<br />

Karen J. Levitt<br />

P. Ann Lomeli<br />

Emily A. Maitin<br />

Margaret C. Mazzone<br />

Cary A. Metz<br />

Rosemary C. Meyers<br />

Carol Miller<br />

Robert J. Molloy<br />

Maura K. Moran<br />

Henry I. Morgenbesser<br />

Robert F. Moriarty<br />

John A. Neale<br />

David N. Neusner<br />

Timothy A. Ngau<br />

Nancy J. Nitikman<br />

Robert O. O’Bannon<br />

Susan M. Orr<br />

Richard H. Otto<br />

Deborah A. Porder<br />

Jennifer S. D. Roberts<br />

Scott D. Rubin<br />

Elizabeth D. Schrero<br />

Harvey C. Silverstein<br />

Kay S. Slonim<br />

Nancy Ellen Spence<br />

David S. Szabo<br />

Laura E. Udis<br />

Angel A. Vazquez<br />

Melodie A. Wing<br />

Philip C. Worden<br />

Glen S. Yanco<br />

CLASS OF 1981<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Susan H. Alexander<br />

Barrister<br />

Stephen B. Feder<br />

Sarah A. Ro<strong>the</strong>rmel<br />

Michael A. Tanenbaum<br />

David C. Wright<br />

Friend<br />

Stacey Channing<br />

Ronald M. Davids<br />

H. Joseph Hameline<br />

Ilisa Hurowitz<br />

Ina Plotsky Kupferberg<br />

Robert P. Suglia<br />

Diana L. Wainrib<br />

Donor<br />

Carol Boorstein<br />

William M. Brainard<br />

Robert A. Carpentier<br />

Martin J. Clifford<br />

David H. Colburn<br />

Richard Keith Colman<br />

Paul A. Cote Jr.<br />

Leonard M. Davidson<br />

Jacqueline Doig<br />

Richard R. Downey<br />

Lynne M. Durbin<br />

Martin A. Edelstein<br />

Lynne E. Elfland<br />

Jane W. Gumble<br />

Mark Graham Hanson<br />

Brian S. Harnik<br />

Elizabeth Palmer Higgins<br />

Steven B. Kutscheid<br />

Karen Mathiasen<br />

James T. McCormick<br />

Barry Michael Okun<br />

James J. Rigos<br />

Kenneth J. Rose<br />

David S. Rosenthal<br />

Donald B. Shanin<br />

Amy L. Shapiro<br />

Norma J. Silverman-<br />

Kurman<br />

Wendy H. Smith<br />

Gerri Lynn Sperling<br />

Robert E. Ward<br />

Richard J. Wasserman<br />

Carl N. Weiner<br />

Paul M. Weiser<br />

Christine Schwab Werner<br />

Johnny J. Williams<br />

CLASS OF 1982<br />

Fellow<br />

Ira L. Herman<br />

Keith F. Higgins<br />

John K. Skrypak<br />

Kevin T. Van Wart<br />

Barrister<br />

Eileen M. Herlihy<br />

Lawrence J. Reilly<br />

Friend<br />

Neil S. Witkes<br />

Donor<br />

Philip Blumstein<br />

Joe Boynton<br />

E. Drew Cheney<br />

Paul Cherecwich Jr.<br />

Joseph A. Colagiovanni<br />

Trudy Weiss Craig<br />

Jeffrey M. Dvorin<br />

John G. Fioretta<br />

Mark J. Gentile<br />

Joan B. Gross<br />

Abbey Handelsman-Chill<br />

Robert G. Holdway<br />

Michael H. Hurwitz<br />

Paul V. Jabour<br />

Anne M. Johnson<br />

Milburn D. Kight<br />

Scott A. Kobler<br />

Debra A. Lewis<br />

Paula L. Liang<br />

Brant K. Maller<br />

Eleanor R. Miller<br />

Jordan H. Mintz<br />

Mary Lee Moore<br />

Philip D. Murphy<br />

Lynn S. Okin<br />

Deborah Zider Read<br />

Carmin C. Reiss<br />

Joseph A. Rotella<br />

Rebecca J. Scheier<br />

Robert G. Stewart<br />

Joseph S. Tesoriero<br />

Donna K. Thiel<br />

Neil D. Wheelwright<br />

CLASS OF 1983 -<br />

25th Reunion<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Kenneth P. Morrison<br />

Barrister<br />

Jacqueline Jacobs Caster<br />

Sharon G. Coghlan<br />

William T. Whelan<br />

Friend<br />

Jack M. Farris<br />

Bruce E. Rogoff<br />

Donor<br />

Anthony M. Brizzolara<br />

Anthony Cefalogli<br />

John D. Craven<br />

Timothy S. Egan<br />

Jonathan D. Fink<br />

Lawrence E. Fleder<br />

Aida Abboud Gennis<br />

Howard S. Goldman<br />

Franklin B. Haaz<br />

James C. Hasenfus<br />

Paul S. Horn<br />

Robert P. Landau<br />

Timothy J. Langella<br />

Nancy E. Little<br />

Adrienne S. Masters<br />

F. Graham McSwiney<br />

Brian W. Mellor<br />

Forrest D. Milder<br />

Ruth A. Moore<br />

Mark L. Morris<br />

Garrick R. Mullins<br />

Elizabeth Carlson O’Neil<br />

Peter A. Pizzani Jr.<br />

Michael Bruce Pollack<br />

Robin R. Pruitt<br />

Kathleen A. Quinlan<br />

Leslie D. Rosenthal<br />

Thomas E. Schwab<br />

Alan E. Sorcher<br />

Wayne E. Southward<br />

Peter H. Swartz<br />

Philip Tabas<br />

Sandra L. Tanen<br />

Martha A. Toll<br />

Susan B. Tuchman<br />

Sally A. Vanderweele<br />

John V. Veech<br />

Carol P. Wessling<br />

David E. Wilson<br />

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CLASS OF 1984<br />

Barrister<br />

Howard M. Cooper<br />

Jonathan W. Haddon<br />

Jonathan N. Halpern<br />

Karen E. Minton<br />

Michael A. Schlesinger<br />

David Scott Zimble<br />

Donor<br />

Mat<strong>the</strong>w J. Anderton<br />

Charles A. Baker III<br />

Susan M. Banks<br />

Jeffrey C. Brown<br />

Francis J. Browne<br />

Marie P. Buckley<br />

William Contente<br />

Paul R. Cortes-Rexach<br />

Charles W. Eager III<br />

Deborah P. Fawcett<br />

Pamela C. Gilman<br />

I. Andrew Goldberg<br />

Lisa B. Goldstein<br />

Kathryn S. Gutowski<br />

Steven J. Hurwitz<br />

Joseph K. Juster<br />

Anthony C. LaPlaca<br />

Richard K. Lichtman<br />

John T. Lu<br />

Mat<strong>the</strong>w H. Lynch<br />

George John Markos<br />

Terry Marvin<br />

Jeanne M. Ma<strong>the</strong>ws<br />

Stacey McConnell<br />

Charles Scott Nierman<br />

Daniel W. Nye<br />

Robert C. Pasciuto<br />

Gregory G. Peters<br />

Susan W. Peters<br />

Thomas K. Pierce<br />

Lawrence J. Profeta<br />

Harold W. Pskowski<br />

Allison Rock<br />

Adrian N. Roe<br />

Susan P. Sprung<br />

Melissa E. Stimell<br />

Philip Sweeney<br />

Robert B. Teitelman<br />

Edward Waldman<br />

Barbara Marie Watson<br />

Chris R. Zentgraf<br />

CLASS OF 1985<br />

Fellow<br />

Steven V. Napolitano<br />

Paul Saltzman<br />

Barrister<br />

Jonathan L. Awner<br />

A. William Caporizzo<br />

Charles Brian Deull<br />

Robert Evans III<br />

Edward M. Fox<br />

David M. Henkoff<br />

Evan K. Kaplan<br />

Michael Elan Katzenstein<br />

Gail P. Sinai<br />

Friend<br />

Michael David Trager<br />

Donor<br />

Paul Justin Alfano<br />

Lawrence L. Athan Jr.<br />

Peter Bennett<br />

Elise K. Butowsky<br />

Thomas Andrew Cohn<br />

Steven Mark Curwin<br />

Amanda D. Darwin<br />

Kimberly S. Davis<br />

Simon Dixon<br />

Raymond Francis Dolen<br />

Bruce F. Dravis<br />

Anita J. Drew<br />

Susan Elman<br />

Stacey Orr Gallant<br />

Jay Steven Geller<br />

Rachel Goldberg<br />

Bruce Goldman<br />

Ronald M. Gootzeit<br />

David Mark Greenbaum<br />

Howard B. Haas<br />

Bonna Lynn Horovitz<br />

Carole Annette Jeandheur<br />

William Wade Kannel<br />

Ronald J. Katter<br />

Dennis L. Kern<br />

Debra Beth Korman<br />

James John Lang<br />

Aurelle S. Locke<br />

Thomas J. Luz<br />

Michelle Marie Marchant<br />

Christopher Howard<br />

McCormick<br />

Jeffrey Alan McCurdy<br />

Michaela Shea McInnis<br />

John Joseph Monaghan<br />

Andrew Grimes Neal<br />

Paul Vilaro Nelms<br />

Deborah Robin Novick<br />

Debra C. Price<br />

Joel E. Rappoport<br />

Craig Alan Roeder<br />

Meryl Litner Rosen<br />

Seth H. Ross<br />

Timothy F. Ryan<br />

James Andrew Schragger<br />

Michael Robert Stern<br />

Catalina Jean Sugayan<br />

Deborah Miller Tate<br />

George W. Tetler III<br />

Daniel Van Doren<br />

Lawrence H. Wer<strong>the</strong>im<br />

Kenneth Williams<br />

Joseph D. Zaks<br />

CLASS OF 1986<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Wayne E. Smith<br />

Stephen M. Zide<br />

Barrister<br />

Timothy Charles Blank<br />

James C. Fox<br />

Mark E. Langfan<br />

Henry M. Rosen<br />

Friend<br />

Daniel W. Halston<br />

John M. Harpootian<br />

Andrew C. MacLachlan<br />

Suzanne Elizabeth Palmer<br />

Gay L. Schreiber<br />

Donor<br />

John E. Arbab<br />

Eileen Paalz Baldwin<br />

William Alexander Bogdan<br />

Paul A. Caimi<br />

Sharon L. Gerstman<br />

Chapman<br />

Kelly Kevin Cline<br />

James Howard Cohen<br />

David G. Curran<br />

C. Leland Davis<br />

Alan Stanford Fanger<br />

Laura Jean Ginett<br />

Jeffrey William Goldman<br />

Howard J. Goldsmith<br />

Michael K. Golub<br />

Ramon Rafael Gonzalez<br />

Alexandra Burling Harvey<br />

Elizabeth Marie Hayashi<br />

Joseph Martin Herlihy<br />

Janine Hea<strong>the</strong>r Idelson<br />

Joe D. Jacobson<br />

James Edward Jones Jr.<br />

Michael J. Kaminsky<br />

Paul B. Kaplan<br />

Felicia Miller Leeman<br />

Richard Oliver Lessard<br />

Stephen Jeffrey Levy<br />

Mark H. Likoff<br />

David Robert Lyle<br />

Mardic A. Marashian<br />

Andrew Lee Matz<br />

Jayne E.M. McLaughlin<br />

Cynthia Mead<br />

William Moorman Jr.<br />

Andrew Murray Morrow<br />

Steven Keith Platt<br />

Marina Rabinovich<br />

Valerie T. Rosenson<br />

Janet M. Sheppard<br />

Carolyn Schwarz Tisdale<br />

Beth Tomasello<br />

Jeffrey Lynn Van Hoosear<br />

Neal S. Winneg<br />

CLASS OF 1987<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Lori Anne Czepiel<br />

Fellow<br />

Joanne S. Gill<br />

Barrister<br />

Mindy Gottlieb Davidson<br />

Martin P. Desmery<br />

Anastasios Parafestas<br />

Michael I. Rothstein<br />

Friend<br />

Edward L. Corbosiero<br />

Dean Graham Bostock<br />

Stephen Howard Kay<br />

Steven D. Schwartz<br />

Timothy Shawn Sinnott<br />

Donor<br />

Frederick Smead<br />

Armstrong<br />

Bruce H. Bagdasarian<br />

Linda G. Bauer<br />

Michael Joseph Betcher<br />

Laurence Robert Bronska<br />

Kim W. Comfort<br />

James T. Curtis<br />

H. Peter DelBianco Jr.<br />

Eugene Feher<br />

David L. Garfinkle<br />

Elizabeth Lee Gibbs<br />

John L. Hackett<br />

Tracey Claire Kammerer<br />

Steven Michael Kornblau<br />

Lawrence S. Levin<br />

Daniel Steven Lubell<br />

Daniel Michael Marposon<br />

Todd Andrew Mayman<br />

Thomas James Phillips<br />

Dana Juan St. James<br />

Perry Marshall Smith<br />

D. Craig Story<br />

Walter G. Van Dorn Jr.<br />

Elahna Strom Weinflash<br />

Gwynne Gorton Zisko<br />

CLASS OF 1988 -<br />

20th Reunion<br />

Barrister<br />

Sonya J. Brouner<br />

Kim M. Rubin<br />

Judith V. Scherzer<br />

Lynne Toshi Toyofuku<br />

Friend<br />

Elizabeth Kagan Cooper<br />

Howard M. Singer<br />

Donor<br />

Peter M. Appleton<br />

James Simmons Armstrong<br />

Wendy Nevett Bazil<br />

Johanna Klip Black<br />

Maria-Elisa Ciampa<br />

Peter J. Dill<br />

Edward Andrew Fallone<br />

Michael Philip Flammia<br />

Cynthia M. Gesner<br />

Monika Krizek Griffis<br />

Patricia M. Hickey<br />

Robert Iannucci<br />

Todd L. Kahn<br />

Jamie Klein Kapel<br />

Peter W. Kronberg<br />

John J. D. McFerrin-Clancy<br />

Ira N. Morris<br />

Rosemarie Mullin<br />

Robert P. Nault<br />

Bradd S. Robbins<br />

Kenneth N. Smolar<br />

Susan Lieberman Smotrich<br />

Edgar Cleveland Snow<br />

Oscar E. Soto<br />

Amy J. Spitofsky<br />

Lynn B. Whalen<br />

Pamela Hope Worstell<br />

Charles C. Zatarain III<br />

Stephen Ziobrowski<br />

CLASS OF 1989<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Lisa G. Beckerman<br />

Barrister<br />

Derek Davis<br />

Gary Domoracki<br />

Christopher J. Panos<br />

Kathryn A. Piffat<br />

Andrew C. Sucoff<br />

Friend<br />

Randy L. Shapiro<br />

Donor<br />

Michael Bailes<br />

Daniel S. Bleck<br />

Aileen Denne Bolton<br />

Anthony A. Bongiorno<br />

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Richard A. Brown<br />

Lisbeth M. Bulmash<br />

Stephen Cesso<br />

Michael J. Chazan<br />

Michael A. Conley<br />

Ann M. Dietrich<br />

Heidi Marie Fallone<br />

John Fulginiti<br />

Jonathan Scott Gaines<br />

Sarianna T. Honkola<br />

Richard D. Kahn<br />

Joshua Katz<br />

Corinne E. Lax<br />

Elizabeth L. Manning<br />

Neal Elan Merker<br />

John G. Nossiff<br />

Andrea Celli Raiti<br />

Andrew N. Raubvogel<br />

Ronald E. Richter<br />

Barbara Lynne Shycoff<br />

Eric L. Stein<br />

Suzanne Schulze Taylor<br />

Alexandra E. Trinkoff<br />

Louis K. Tsiros<br />

Michael Ernest Tucker<br />

Gerri Bro<strong>the</strong>r Weiss<br />

John B. Wholey Jr.<br />

Jonathan C. Wilk<br />

Benjamin Andrew<br />

Zelermyer<br />

CLASS OF 1990<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Mark S. Cheffo<br />

Barrister<br />

Karyn Schwartz Blad<br />

Leiv H. Blad Jr.<br />

Elizabeth S. Kardos<br />

Christopher A. Kenney<br />

Friend<br />

Andrew M. Felner<br />

Donor<br />

James Jeffrey Berriman<br />

David J. Breen<br />

Malcolm L. Burdine<br />

Aline G. Carriere<br />

Ruth Bell Clark<br />

Allyson H. Cohen<br />

Barbara L. Cullen<br />

Andrew M. Cummings<br />

Steven M. Fishman<br />

Mrs. Elizabeth Livesay Fry<br />

Hilary C. Gabrieli<br />

Michael G. Giarrusso<br />

Edward J. Goddard<br />

Lawrence J. Goodman<br />

Jonathan J. Hass<br />

Shannon M. Heilman<br />

Richard William Jensen<br />

Patrice S. Kester<br />

Marie A. Lavalleye<br />

Joan A. Lieberman<br />

Roger R. Lipson<br />

Theodore A. Lund<br />

Derek Bryan Matta<br />

Susan K. McClements<br />

Henry David Megaw<br />

Andrew D. Myers<br />

Patricia L. O’Beirne<br />

Jerrold Panich<br />

Paul William Patten<br />

Gary M. Rosen<br />

David L. Schrader<br />

Julie B. Siminoff<br />

Willis Walker<br />

Allen D. Webster<br />

James S. Whitcomb<br />

Philip B. Ytterberg<br />

CLASS OF 1991<br />

Barrister<br />

Suzanne D.T. Lovett<br />

Joseph L. Faber<br />

Thomas C. Farrell<br />

Anna Therese Green<br />

Steven Sereboff<br />

Friend<br />

John N. Riccardi<br />

Donor<br />

Evan H. Ackiron<br />

Mitchel Appelbaum<br />

David Benfield<br />

Emilie Anne Benoit<br />

Mara D. Calame<br />

Eddirland D. Christel<br />

Maria D. Dwyer<br />

Benjamin S. Frisch<br />

Kenneth James Gordon<br />

Victoria E. Green<br />

Pamela Beth Greene<br />

Debra Ann Grossbaum<br />

Ada Guerrero Guillod<br />

Joseph S. Huttler<br />

Robert Alan Kelly<br />

Harold Kofman<br />

Julie A. Koshgarian<br />

Jeffrey N. Lavine<br />

Paul B. Linn<br />

Laura McKay<br />

Deborah Musiker<br />

Eunhae Park<br />

Kim S. Sawyer<br />

Deborah L. Schenfeld<br />

Ann M. Sheridan<br />

R. Webb Steadman<br />

Andrew W. Stern<br />

George H. Thompson Jr.<br />

Orlando Vidal<br />

Gwendolyn H. Yip<br />

David Gordon Yu<br />

CLASS OF 1992<br />

Fellow<br />

Susan F. DiCicco<br />

Barrister<br />

David H. Pawlik<br />

Friend<br />

Wendy Knudsen-Farrell<br />

Donor<br />

Nikos D. Andreadis<br />

Joanne L. Bauer<br />

Darca L. Boom<br />

Charlsa Sandy Broadus<br />

Kristopher D. Brown<br />

Michael J. Brown<br />

Steven L. Elbaum<br />

Jeffrey M. Frank<br />

Silvia P. Glick<br />

Kenneth B. Goldberg<br />

Jill Gould<br />

Hilary M. Henkind-Plattus<br />

Michael Bennett Kanef<br />

Laura S. Kershner<br />

Jeffrey A. Levinson<br />

Rebeca C. Martinez<br />

Peter F. May<br />

Jeffrey A. Miller<br />

John S. Nitao<br />

Michael S. Perlstein<br />

Kimberly A. Sigler<br />

Pierre N. Simenon<br />

David Scott Simon<br />

Ca<strong>the</strong>rine Watson Koziol<br />

CLASS OF 1993 -<br />

15th Reunion<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Xinhua Howard Zhang<br />

Fellow<br />

Aaron R. Sokol<br />

Barrister<br />

James B. Goldstein<br />

Peter K. Levitt<br />

Ross M. Weisman<br />

Friend<br />

Stephen M. Edwards<br />

Marc J. Rachman<br />

Donor<br />

Lisa A. Bail<br />

Sarah C. Baskin<br />

James T. Bork<br />

Joan E. Cirillo<br />

Harold J. Feld<br />

Tim Futrell<br />

Lisa Greene Heller<br />

Vickie L. Henry<br />

Ron I. Honig<br />

Janet P. Judge<br />

Alexander D. Kisch<br />

Lisa Podewils Korologos<br />

Richard Ira Lefkowitz<br />

Joseph J. Laferrera<br />

James A. MacLeod<br />

David M. McPherson<br />

Simon J. Miller<br />

Joseph P. Patin II<br />

Edwin Huvon Raynor<br />

Douglas D. Robinow<br />

Sheri L. Rosen<br />

Kevin T. Russell<br />

Deborah L. Snyder<br />

Ca<strong>the</strong>rine S. Stempien<br />

Vanessa Tsourides<br />

Seth R. Weissman<br />

Barry Philip Wilensky<br />

Mark F. Williams<br />

CLASS OF 1994<br />

Fellow<br />

Regan P. Remillard<br />

Barrister<br />

Dawn L. Goldstein<br />

Andrew P. Strehle<br />

Friend<br />

Alison T. Bomberg<br />

Donor<br />

Hea<strong>the</strong>r V. Baer<br />

Rita L. Brickman<br />

Carolyn J Campbell<br />

Joseph Robert Ganley<br />

Gary Arthur Gegenheimer<br />

William J. Graham<br />

B. David Hammarstrom<br />

Lauren Simon Irwin<br />

Lance A. Kawesch<br />

Donald Paul Koch Jr.<br />

Robert A. Lawsky<br />

Theodore D. Lustig<br />

Howard Mandelcorn<br />

H. Jefferson Megargel II<br />

Daniel Joseph Morean<br />

Lynn S. Muster<br />

Christine A. Palmieri<br />

Andrew J. Pitts<br />

Ruth H. Silman<br />

Kenneth T. Willis<br />

Steven M. Ziolkowski<br />

CLASS OF 1995<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

David V Wooten<br />

Fellow<br />

Derrick Sean Cort<br />

Eugene Marvin Holmes<br />

Carla Munroe Moynihan<br />

Barrister<br />

Douglas E. Cornelius<br />

Natascha S. George<br />

James J Moynihan<br />

Donor<br />

Christopher R. Bush<br />

Daniel Candee<br />

Kathleen Marie Conlon<br />

Julie A. Dascoli<br />

Jeffrey D. Duby<br />

Sean F Eagan<br />

Michaelanne Ehrenberg<br />

Abigail Hepner Gross<br />

Andrea Platner Hellman<br />

Lauren Panora Houghton<br />

Glenn M. Johnson<br />

Laura Stephens Khoshbin<br />

Stella Pei-Fen Lin<br />

Ca<strong>the</strong>rine E. Long<br />

Colleen A. Murphy<br />

Erin B. Newman<br />

Colleen D. O’Connell<br />

Moyahoena N. Ogilvie<br />

Ian C. Pilarczyk<br />

Thomas F. Poche<br />

William Harry Priestley<br />

Andrew E Seewald<br />

Cynthia M. Selya<br />

Ralph N. Sianni<br />

Ross D. Silverman<br />

Jeffrey Trey<br />

CLASS OF 1996<br />

Donor<br />

Nicole Telecki Berry<br />

Mia S. Blackler<br />

John M. Blumers<br />

Maureen Foley Connolly<br />

David A. Copland<br />

Lauren G. Dome<br />

Lisa Anne Gomez<br />

Charles A. Hope<br />

John J. Kelliher<br />

Mat<strong>the</strong>w T. Levy<br />

Robert A. Maynez<br />

Mark K. Molloy<br />

Jaehong David Park<br />

Shirin Philipp<br />

Clare F. Saperstein<br />

Jon C. Schultze<br />

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Trishka Waterbury<br />

Joshua J. Wells<br />

Mara K. Youdelman<br />

CLASS OF 1997<br />

Donor<br />

Kimberly A. Altschul<br />

Antoinette L. Banks<br />

Michael S. Branley<br />

Sandra L. Cardone<br />

Michael T. Dougherty<br />

James M. Dowd<br />

Charlotte Edelman<br />

Richard Charles Farley Jr.<br />

Mayra L. Garcia<br />

Melissa Annette Juarez<br />

Mat<strong>the</strong>w N. Kane<br />

Robert Gordon Kester<br />

Ronald Mark Leshnower<br />

Laura A. Malouf<br />

David Guigou Martin<br />

Kelly M. Miley<br />

Cornelius Joseph Murray<br />

Helen A. Muskus<br />

David Joseph Orticelli<br />

Elizabeth A. Perl<br />

Ari Brett Pollack<br />

CLASS OF 1998 -<br />

10th Reunion<br />

Barrister<br />

Tracy K. Evans-Moyer<br />

Richard Michael Jones<br />

Friend<br />

William F. Meehan<br />

Eric Rogers<br />

Donor<br />

Theonie J. Alicandro<br />

Lisa Bellanti<br />

Randall P. Berdan<br />

Austin B. Clayton<br />

Sandra K. Davis<br />

Jenny M. Fujii<br />

April L. Gruder<br />

Jennifer Horner<br />

Brian J. Knipe<br />

Eric D. Levin<br />

James C. McCarroll<br />

Ryan A. McDonald<br />

Christopher T. Meier<br />

Brenda A. Moffitt<br />

Milan K. Patel<br />

Michael S. Portnoy<br />

Michael J. Purvis<br />

Christine E. Radice<br />

David F. Schink<br />

CLASS OF 1999<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Ryan K. Roth-Gallo<br />

Fellow<br />

Rebecca A. Galeota<br />

Donor<br />

Nathan T. Bouley<br />

Daniel J. Caffarelli<br />

Carrie E. Carbone<br />

Jeremy A. Colby<br />

James A. Crowell<br />

Anthony G. Di Maria<br />

Thomas R. Dussault<br />

John Paul Floom<br />

Kristen Byrnes Floom<br />

Jennifer E. Greaney<br />

Noah A. Hochstadt<br />

Sharon L. Holden<br />

Edward P. Kelly<br />

Melissa L. Paddock<br />

Gavin James Reardon<br />

Carl J. Ricci<br />

Kathleen J. Sher<br />

Elisabeth Calvert Smith<br />

Juan Manuel Vazquez<br />

CLASS OF 2000<br />

Barrister<br />

Mark E. Bamford<br />

Cindy Zee Michel<br />

Lee K. Michel<br />

Friend<br />

Timothy P. Heaton<br />

Donor<br />

Allison Michele Baker<br />

Franya G. Barnett<br />

Rachel B. Biscardi<br />

Michelle Cirillo<br />

Lynda L. Crews<br />

Marianne I. Geula<br />

Shera Gittleman Golder<br />

Thomas Gray<br />

Brendan J. Greene<br />

Nur-Ul Haq<br />

Jeffrey R. Katz<br />

Andrea Long<br />

Julianna Thomas McCabe<br />

Daniel Avram Miller<br />

Mary-Rachel Rosenfeld<br />

Julian A. Stapleford<br />

Cynthia Su-Lee Tsai<br />

Michael Patrick Twohig<br />

Adam M. Weisberger<br />

Tae-Hoon C. Won<br />

CLASS OF 2001<br />

Barrister<br />

John K. Gross<br />

Leiha Macauley<br />

Donor<br />

Joseph L. Devaney III<br />

Kathleen M. Gabriel<br />

Sarah Elizabeth Hancur<br />

Cynthia Lambert Hardman<br />

Melissa Toner Lozner<br />

Tony R. Maida<br />

Daniel Marinberg<br />

John Maynard<br />

Jesse R. Moore<br />

Sharon Hussong Moscato<br />

Mat<strong>the</strong>w Kayl Smith<br />

Eric B. Tennen<br />

Carolina Trujillo<br />

Alina Bowe Zanetti-Leon<br />

CLASS OF 2002<br />

Barrister<br />

Joseph Zambuto<br />

Julie A. Zovko<br />

Donor<br />

Marianne Fawzi Bechara<br />

Benjamin J. Berger<br />

Anna Maria Carrasquilla<br />

Obert H. Chu<br />

Amber C. Coisman<br />

Mark R. Curiel<br />

Melissa Nott Davis<br />

Edward F. Dombroski Jr.<br />

Timur Feinstein<br />

Tracy A. Hannan<br />

John G. Hofmann<br />

John Christopher Jennings<br />

Sabre B. Kaszynski<br />

Avi Meir Lev<br />

Ritu Madhure Manjunath<br />

Venu M. Manne<br />

Evelina Manukyan<br />

Kelly Ruane Melchiondo<br />

Ruth Kristine Miller<br />

Ca<strong>the</strong>rine Olender<br />

Neijstrom<br />

Lior J. Ohayon<br />

George B. Pauta<br />

Samuel B. Pollack<br />

Tal Simone Sapeika<br />

Toshihiro Ueda<br />

Fernando A. Vicente<br />

Ca<strong>the</strong>rine Mitchell<br />

Wieman<br />

Anne C. Wojewoda<br />

CLASS OF 2003 -<br />

5th Reunion<br />

Barrister<br />

Stephanie L. Ives<br />

Friend<br />

Andrew M. Yang<br />

Donor<br />

Michael S. Arnold<br />

Monique A. Austin<br />

Brian R. Chase<br />

Wendy L. Fritz<br />

Marla Sharyn Grant<br />

Berit H. Huseby<br />

Kristin L. Jenkins<br />

Robert Victor Kanapka<br />

Ca<strong>the</strong>rine B. Kelleher<br />

David A. Kluft<br />

Donna Haber Kornberg<br />

Cristina M. Lopez<br />

Axel Kyrill Makoski<br />

Allison Pearsall Miller<br />

Kendrick D. Nguyen<br />

Sheila Marie Pozon<br />

Elizabeth M.H. Russo<br />

Michael D. Tauer<br />

Sarah Avrick Tauer<br />

Hea<strong>the</strong>r R. Zuzenak<br />

CLASS OF 2004<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Russell Jay Stein<br />

Barrister<br />

Daniel V. McCaughey<br />

Gregory Gallagher Nickson<br />

Anthony Jude Picchione<br />

Friend<br />

Julia Bell Andrus<br />

Mat<strong>the</strong>w J. Andrus<br />

Jun Qi<br />

Nicole J. Williams<br />

Donor<br />

Farhad R. Alavi<br />

Luciana Aquino-Hagedorn<br />

Miller B. Brownstein<br />

Rebecca M. Ginzburg<br />

Hemanth C. Gundavaram<br />

Jason M. Hall<br />

Jennifer M. Kiely<br />

Kaley E. Klanica<br />

Dana Elizabeth Krueger<br />

William S. Norton<br />

Monica N. Sahaf<br />

Leanne Elizabeth Scott<br />

Robert D. Smith<br />

Loly Garcia Tor<br />

Cathryn Elizabeth Vaughn<br />

Brian P. Villarreal<br />

CLASS OF 2005<br />

Fellow<br />

Brian Douglas Eng<br />

Barrister<br />

Brook Leonard Ames<br />

Angela Gomes<br />

Friend<br />

John B. Koss<br />

Christopher D. Strang<br />

Colin Grant Van Dyke<br />

Donor<br />

Laura Barrese-Muller<br />

Rebecca Louise Bell<br />

Nevin Boparai<br />

Erick Ignacio Diaz<br />

Jason W. Georgitis<br />

Elizabeth A. Gross<br />

Andrew G. Heinz<br />

Krietta Kai Bowens Jones<br />

Daniel Kaufman<br />

Bradley W. Micsky<br />

Sherrie Avalon Niles-<br />

Thorne<br />

Rachel D. Oshry<br />

Anita J. Pancholi<br />

Miriam L. Pogach<br />

Gideon Reitblat<br />

Elias L. Schilowitz<br />

Whitney French Seeburg<br />

Alexander F. Speidel<br />

CLASS OF 2006<br />

Donor<br />

Christine Henry Andresen<br />

Wendy Wei-Hsing Chan<br />

Sean Chao<br />

Alexandra D. Diaz-Almaral<br />

Erika Farrell<br />

Michael Paul Franck<br />

David Suk-Bin Hong<br />

Debra M. Koker<br />

G. James Kossuth<br />

Joshua E. Levit<br />

Carly J. Munson<br />

Gladys Nathalia Osorio<br />

Ethan F. Ostrow<br />

Kevin S. Prussia<br />

Melissa S. Rones<br />

Denise R. Rosenhaft<br />

Joshua D. Roth<br />

J. Jordan Scott<br />

Mitchell Leff Stoltz<br />

Michelle L. Wolf-Boze<br />

Sophia K. Yen<br />

Edward Gerald Zacharias<br />

CLASS OF 2007<br />

Friend<br />

Sonia M. Bednarowski<br />

Andrea Tkacikova<br />

Donor<br />

Akintokunbo Akinbajo<br />

Mia M. Antonetti<br />

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Lauren M. Arcoma<br />

Cheryl A. Cappiello Edson<br />

Timothy J. Famulare<br />

Kristen L. Feeley<br />

Jonathan H. Feiler<br />

Xun Feng<br />

Christopher Scott Feudo<br />

Sarah P. Gasper<br />

Peter B. Hadler<br />

Ian N. Jaquette<br />

Diana Jong<br />

James Joseph LaRocca<br />

Nathalie A. Le Ngoc<br />

Joel B. Lofgren<br />

Amy Hartmann Martell<br />

Jon M. Martinez<br />

Vera Rocio Martinez Lopez<br />

Yoshihisa Masaki<br />

Kunal Pasricha<br />

Alynn Cassidy Perl<br />

Lauren E. Reznick<br />

Mat<strong>the</strong>w I. Rymer<br />

Kimberly A. Sexton<br />

Lindsey N. Singeo<br />

David W. Skinner<br />

Jordana Fish Sobey<br />

Amanda H. Stumm<br />

Ena Sungyun Suh<br />

Melissa E. Sydney<br />

Kenneth Nelson Thayer<br />

Anabella Vegas Zubeldia<br />

George J. Webber<br />

Brian K. Yoo<br />

CLASS OF 2008<br />

Fellow<br />

Adam H. Forkner<br />

Barrister<br />

Moowi Kim<br />

Donor<br />

Jeffrey S. Arbeit<br />

Vincent M. Bidez<br />

Tasnin R. Chowdhury<br />

Jesse A. Fecker<br />

Ricardo Ganitsky<br />

Jessica M. Garrett<br />

Christine M. Gealy<br />

Penelope E. Gronbeck<br />

Kelly C. Holden<br />

Tomoko Imakita<br />

Haydon A. Keitner<br />

Geoffrey J. Klimas<br />

Rebecca L. Kurowski<br />

Mayalen Lacabarats<br />

Brandon S. McGathy<br />

Sara K. Mills<br />

Anna M. Schleelein<br />

Daniel Schleifstein<br />

Shanta A. Tewarie<br />

Seth W. Thomson<br />

Claudia F. Torres<br />

CLASS OF 2009<br />

Donor<br />

Jacinta Lynn Alves<br />

Jonathan A. Amar<br />

Julie Seta Babayan<br />

Margaret C. Barusch<br />

Joan M. Bennett<br />

Alexander J. Burakoff<br />

Emily A. Cardy<br />

Brenda C. Carr<br />

Katrina N. Chapman<br />

A<strong>the</strong>na N. Cheng<br />

Ann Chernicoff<br />

Stephany Collamore<br />

Zoe K. Cooper<br />

Jessica Lynn Costa<br />

Mat<strong>the</strong>w S. Cote<br />

Jeannetta K. Craigwell-<br />

Graham<br />

Benjamin P. Damsky<br />

Mary C. Davis<br />

Lindsay Dembner<br />

Rebecca Jean Dent<br />

Kris David Desrosiers<br />

Ruha Therese Devanesan<br />

Carlos E. Duque<br />

Benjamin J. Eichel<br />

Rachel A. Evans<br />

Stephen R. Ferrara<br />

Daniel E. Fierstein<br />

Bret A. Finkelstein<br />

Michael S. Hacker<br />

Sarfraz Hajee<br />

Sara B. Hanson<br />

Marion R. Harris<br />

Yasamine Hashemi<br />

James Hsiao<br />

Erik J. Jensen<br />

Mat<strong>the</strong>w J. Kane<br />

David S. Kantrowitz<br />

Sarah E. Kaskel<br />

Jennifer A. Kennedy<br />

Michelle A. Kick<br />

Mitchell B. Klein<br />

Claire E. Koehler<br />

Arielle B. Kristan<br />

Daniel E. Levin<br />

Devra S. Lobel<br />

Jennifer Anne Lunsford<br />

Anat Maytal<br />

Nicole S. Murray<br />

Amrita K. Nangiana<br />

Priscilla D. Nellis<br />

Yihong Ni<br />

Andrew J. Novak<br />

Kaitlin R. O’Donnell<br />

Adrianne Ortega<br />

Rachel D. Phillips<br />

Robin M. Plachy<br />

Ka<strong>the</strong>rine A. Proctor<br />

Carissa Lynn Rodrigue<br />

Katelyn H. Rood<br />

Carolyn M. Rucci<br />

Gregory E. Santos<br />

Julie Elizabeth Scourfield<br />

Amit Sondhi<br />

Nellie E. Staley<br />

Erik J. Stone<br />

Adaline R. Strumolo<br />

Andrew Peter Sutton<br />

Kelly L. Swanston<br />

Tanna V. Tanlamai<br />

Christopher J. Valente<br />

W. Verlenden<br />

Jeffrey L. Vigliotti<br />

Suzanne M. Young<br />

Tracy S. Zupancis<br />

CLASS OF 2010<br />

Friend<br />

Mary Alice Hiatt<br />

Donor<br />

Courtney E. Hunter<br />

Adrienne Bossi<br />

Lauren M. Turner<br />

Rebecca H. Hicks<br />

CLASS OF 2011<br />

Donor<br />

Olga Yevtukhova<br />

Friends of bu law<br />

President’s Circle<br />

Anne F. Brooke<br />

Sherryl W. Cohen<br />

President’s Associates<br />

Marty Corneel<br />

Richard L. Pearlstone<br />

Albert P. Pettoruto Jr.<br />

Mr. and Mrs. John G.<br />

Snyder<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stern<br />

Kathleen Stern<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Randy Hertz<br />

Jeffrey S. Huang<br />

Sally Mitchell<br />

James M. Molloy<br />

Maureen A. O’Rourke<br />

Fellow<br />

William W. Park<br />

Elias Schonberger<br />

Marjorie W. Sloper<br />

Barrister<br />

Marlene H. Alderman<br />

Ann Chase Allen<br />

Sarah M. Eldridge<br />

Tamar Frankel<br />

Neil Hecht<br />

Pnina Lahav<br />

Laura Ruth Lane-Reticker<br />

William E. Ryckman Jr.<br />

Craig Young<br />

Friend<br />

Michael J. Bohnen<br />

Robert G. Bone<br />

Milton P. Caster<br />

Lawrence A. Cohen<br />

Kristin Collins<br />

Michael C. Harper<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A.<br />

Kals<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald F.<br />

Leonard<br />

Kevin Outterson<br />

Mark Pettit Jr.<br />

David J. Seipp<br />

Cornell L. Stinson<br />

Charles B. Swartwood III<br />

David I. Walker<br />

Larry W. Yackle<br />

Donor<br />

Anonymous<br />

Michael Baram<br />

Paul Bellenoit<br />

Ca<strong>the</strong>rine Butler<br />

Sandra Butler<br />

Joyce E. Cannon<br />

Daniela Caruso<br />

Douglas Campbell<br />

Chamberlain<br />

Frances B. Charles<br />

Michele A. Clopper<br />

Jeremy T. Cohen<br />

Mary Connaughton<br />

Frank J. Connors<br />

Ralph B. D’Amico Jr.<br />

Susan A. Debrigard<br />

Roisin Diamond<br />

Thomas Peter DiNapoli<br />

Marian Dioguardi<br />

Margery E. Duffy<br />

Mary Jane Eaton<br />

Ruth R. Faris<br />

Alan L. Feld<br />

Kristin C. Field<br />

Stanley Z. Fisher<br />

James E. Fleming<br />

Janet Fletcher<br />

Susan M. Forti<br />

Christopher Gabrieli<br />

James Gammill<br />

Bernard S. Gelber<br />

Wendy Jane Gordon<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel B.<br />

Green<br />

Mat<strong>the</strong>w Grieco<br />

Linda Levine Grunebaum<br />

Margaret D. Hagopian †<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Quentin<br />

Holmes<br />

Margaret B. Holton<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C.<br />

Hurley<br />

Nancy Lee Juskin<br />

Wendy Kaplan<br />

Jae & Cyndi Kim<br />

Sarah J. Kitchell<br />

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R.<br />

Klein<br />

Lois H. Knight<br />

Andrew Kull<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Richard G.<br />

Latimer<br />

Gary S. Lawson<br />

Kathryn Levi<br />

Eleanor G. Levine<br />

Karen J. Levit<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Libon<br />

Priscilla Maureen Louie<br />

David B. Lyons<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard<br />

Maletz<br />

Anel Martinez<br />

Loretta Mary McClary<br />

Mary Meenaghan<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Silvio Micali<br />

Kent D. Milligan<br />

Nancy J. Moore<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Nash<br />

Douglas F. Newman<br />

Rebecca Sachs Norris<br />

Elaine B. Ostroff<br />

Lois B. Parker<br />

Peter E. Pochi<br />

Mr. and Mrs. George J.<br />

Power Jr.<br />

Susan Ramsey<br />

Christine Relleva<br />

Marshall A. Ries Jr.<br />

Jennifer E. Roosa<br />

Norman L. Rosin<br />

David B. Rossman<br />

Patrick John Rowland<br />

Anne H. Sawmiller<br />

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Edith B. Schpero<br />

Dr. and Mrs. W. George<br />

Selig<br />

Anne W. Shea<br />

Ka<strong>the</strong>rine B. Silbaugh<br />

Kenneth W. Simons<br />

Joseph W. Singer<br />

Robert D. Sloane<br />

Gay Goslin Smith<br />

Anne C. Smith<br />

Thomas Snoeckx<br />

M. F. Sommerville<br />

Subbiah Subramanian<br />

Ka<strong>the</strong>rine Sullivan<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Paul<br />

Sundquist<br />

Louise Tagliavini<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Jack & Roz<br />

Tarlow<br />

Elizabeth M. Taylor<br />

Carol Tellefsen<br />

Barbara Bowman Tobias<br />

Kathy C. Tomlin<br />

Dr. and Mrs. William D.<br />

Tompkins<br />

Claudia N. Trevor-Wright<br />

David I. Walker<br />

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Walsh<br />

III<br />

John T. Weldon Jr.<br />

Charles Whitehead<br />

Laura Wiesen<br />

Elisabeth M. Wolfish<br />

Corporations<br />

and<br />

Foundations<br />

President’s Circle<br />

Federated Investors, Inc<br />

Fidelity Charitable Gift<br />

Fund<br />

Joseph F. Holman<br />

Irrevocable Trust<br />

Ewing Marion Kauffman<br />

Foundation<br />

Kleh Family Foundation<br />

Public Interest Project<br />

Student Auction<br />

The Estate of Mary G.<br />

Sullivan<br />

WilmerHale<br />

President’s Associates<br />

The C.E. & F.C.A. Foisy<br />

Foundation<br />

Hudson Valley National<br />

Foundation Inc.<br />

The McCausland<br />

Foundation<br />

Nissenbaum Law Offices<br />

Occidental Petroleum<br />

Corporation<br />

Peggy Meyerhoff<br />

Pearlstone Foundation<br />

The Schell Family<br />

Foundation<br />

Dean’s Club<br />

Community Foundation of<br />

New Jersey<br />

Deloitte Foundation<br />

Fineman Realty Pertners<br />

Goodwin Procter LLP<br />

Skadden, Arps, Slate,<br />

Meagher & Flom LLP<br />

The Stein Family<br />

Foundation Inc.<br />

Fellow<br />

Biogen Idec Foundation<br />

Abraham Fuchsberg Family<br />

Foundation Inc.<br />

Schonberger Family<br />

Foundation<br />

The Gayda Family<br />

Foundation<br />

The Estate of Luke F. Kelley<br />

Palace Head Foundation<br />

Inc.<br />

Marjorie W. Sloper<br />

Charitable Foundation<br />

Barrister<br />

120 Wooster LLC<br />

AMG Charitable Gift<br />

Foundation<br />

Choate Hall & Stewart, LLP<br />

Covington & Burling<br />

E. Joseph Evans Trust<br />

Farrell & Associates PC<br />

Adele and William Feder<br />

Private Foundation<br />

FJC<br />

Law Offices Of Victor J.<br />

Garo<br />

Goldman Sachs<br />

Philanthropy Fund<br />

Houghton Mifflin<br />

Company<br />

Jewish Community<br />

Endowment Foundation<br />

Kirkland & Ellis Foundation<br />

The Estate of Samuel H.<br />

Malinow<br />

McKenzie & Company<br />

Michel Family Foundation<br />

National Grid USA Service<br />

Company Inc.<br />

New York Stock Exchange<br />

Foundation<br />

Ryder System Charitable<br />

Foundation<br />

The Charles Schwab<br />

Charitable Fund<br />

Norman M. Shack<br />

Charitable Foundation<br />

Tax Executives Institute,<br />

Inc.<br />

Thompson & Knight<br />

Foundation<br />

United Way of Rhode<br />

Island<br />

West Corporation<br />

The Widgeon Point<br />

Charitable Foundation<br />

Young Family Foundation<br />

Friend<br />

Larry & Judy Cohen<br />

Foundation Inc.<br />

Fidelity Foundation<br />

LyondellBasell<br />

McDermott Will & Emery<br />

Charitable Fund<br />

McGuire Woods<br />

The Nellie Mae Education<br />

Foundation Inc.<br />

Newsweek<br />

Normand & Associates<br />

Ropes & Gray LLP<br />

Ruberto, Israel & Weiner,<br />

P.C.<br />

Peter B. Sang Revocable<br />

Trust<br />

Eugene P. Schwartz Family<br />

Foundation<br />

Seyfarth Shaw LLP<br />

Sprint Foundation<br />

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP<br />

Yoree Inc.<br />

Donor<br />

Aetna Foundation Inc.<br />

American Biltrite, Inc.<br />

Charitable Trust<br />

Amica Companies<br />

Foundation<br />

Appleton & Appleton LLC<br />

Barrett Foundation<br />

Big Tiger Music Inc.<br />

The Law Offices of Wendy<br />

M. Bittner<br />

Blank Rome, LLP<br />

Boeing<br />

William S. Botwick Trust<br />

Braverman and Lester<br />

Bristol-Myers Squibb<br />

Foundation<br />

Brockton Animal Hospital<br />

Bryan Cave LLP<br />

Law Offices of Malcolm L.<br />

Burdine LLP<br />

Cadwalader, Wickersham<br />

& Taft LLP<br />

Cahill Gordon & Reindel<br />

LLP<br />

Law Offices of Frank<br />

Campbell<br />

The Capital Group<br />

Companies Charitable<br />

Foundation<br />

Cianflone & Cianflone,P.C.<br />

Coach<br />

Combined Jewish<br />

Philanthropies<br />

Cooper Sapir and Cohen<br />

PC<br />

Deutsche Bank Americas<br />

Foundation<br />

The Dorsey & Whitney<br />

Foundation<br />

Dow Jones & Company,<br />

Inc<br />

Ernst & Young Foundation<br />

Felos & Felos, P.A.<br />

Fifth Third Bank<br />

Franciscan Hospital For<br />

Children<br />

Gabrieli Family Foundation<br />

Gannett Foundation Inc.<br />

GE Foundation<br />

Genentech Employee<br />

Giving Program<br />

Giving Express Online<br />

Goldman & Pease LLC<br />

Goldman Sachs<br />

Graco Foundation<br />

The Grunebaum Family<br />

Fund<br />

Hardings Law Offices<br />

Hartford Insurance Group<br />

Harvard University<br />

Harvard University<br />

Planning Office<br />

Holland & Knight LLP<br />

IBM Corporation<br />

Law Offices of Paul V.<br />

Jabour<br />

John Hancock Mutual Life<br />

Insurance Company<br />

Johnson & Johnson<br />

Kaplan Inc.<br />

Law Offices of Ronald J.<br />

Katter<br />

Kawesch Law Group LLC<br />

Kaye Scholer LLP<br />

Kee & Lau-Kee PLLC<br />

Kenney & Sams, P.C.<br />

Koletsky, Mancini, Feldman<br />

& Morrow<br />

Levit Law Group<br />

Judith & Lester Lieberman<br />

Foundation<br />

Herman David Luck<br />

Charitable Trust<br />

MacMaster Law Firm, Ltd<br />

Maletz Family Trust<br />

Law Offices of Bruce<br />

Matzkin LLC<br />

McDermott, Will & Emery<br />

LLC<br />

Mediation Resolution<br />

Metropolitan Life<br />

Foundation<br />

Microsoft Giving<br />

Campaign/Matching<br />

Prog.<br />

The Minneapolis<br />

Foundation<br />

MMC<br />

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius<br />

LLP<br />

Nacco Industries<br />

Foundation<br />

Monroe & Florence Nash<br />

Foundation, Inc.<br />

Neighborhood of<br />

Affordable Housing<br />

O’Melveny & Myers<br />

Orrick, Herrington &<br />

Sutcliffe LLP<br />

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &<br />

Walker<br />

The Prudential Foundation<br />

Joseph L. Rome Charitable<br />

Trust<br />

Rosenberg & Giger P.C.<br />

Honorable Angelo G. Rossi<br />

Scholarship Fund<br />

Seward & Kissel LLP<br />

Sid’s Carpet Barn Inc.<br />

Simpson Thacher &<br />

Bartlett<br />

Tappan Management<br />

Company<br />

Lillian P. Thomas Family<br />

Trust<br />

Thomson Financial<br />

Tower Hill School<br />

The Travelers Foundation<br />

UC Physicians Inc.<br />

United eWay<br />

Upton & Hatfield, LLP<br />

Webber & Webber<br />

Weil, Gotshal & Manges<br />

LLP<br />

Wells Fargo Foundation<br />

Thomas F. Williams &<br />

Associates, P.C.<br />

Zurn Sharp & Heyman LLP<br />

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Alumni Volunteers<br />

An integral part of BU Law’s tradition of leadership, alumni volunteers play a key role in ensuring <strong>the</strong> success of <strong>the</strong> School and building<br />

<strong>the</strong> strength of <strong>the</strong> BU Law community. Your time and commitment are essential in achieving our goals as a top-tier law school, and your<br />

involvement serves as an inspiration to o<strong>the</strong>r alumni to join you in promoting and preserving <strong>the</strong> character and quality of <strong>the</strong> BU Law<br />

experience. Thank you to our alumni volunteers and friends.<br />

Alumni Association Executive Committee<br />

2008–2009<br />

Richard Karelitz, ’79 - President<br />

John J. Finn, ’80 – President Elect<br />

Christopher Kenney, ’90 – Vice President<br />

Carla Munroe Moynihan, ’95 – Vice President<br />

James Fox, ’86 – Vice President<br />

Andrew J. Ley, ’75 – Treasurer<br />

Kathryn Piffat, ’89 – Recording Secretary<br />

Leiha Macauley, ’01 – Corresponding Secretary<br />

Erica Mastrangelo, ’04 - Parliamentarian<br />

Christopher Strang, ’05 – Young Alumni Council President<br />

Richard Mikels, ’72 – National Law Fund Co-chair<br />

Oscar Wasserman, ’59 – National Law Fund Co-chair<br />

Joanne Acford, ’80<br />

Susan Alexander, ’81<br />

Peter Bennett, ’85<br />

Timothy Blank, ’86<br />

Leslie Bloomenthal, ’65<br />

David Breen, ’90<br />

Gerard Cohen, ’62<br />

Derek Davis, ’89<br />

Martin Desmery, ’87<br />

Gary Domoracki, ’89<br />

James Esdaile, ’70<br />

Joseph Faber, ’91<br />

Thomas Farrell, ’91<br />

Michael Fondo, ’90<br />

Carolyn Gabbay, ’76<br />

Rebecca Galeota, ’99<br />

Victor Garo, ’65<br />

Celina Gerbic, ’91<br />

Robert Glovsky, ’76<br />

Mark Granger, ’76<br />

Ernest Haddad, ’64<br />

George Herlihy, ’47<br />

Eileen Herlihy, ’82<br />

Kay Hideko Hodge, ’72<br />

Evan Kaplan, ’85<br />

William Landau, ’59<br />

Maureen MacFarlane, ’89<br />

Lisa Martin, ’01<br />

Karen Mathiasen, ’81<br />

Edward McCarthy, ’62<br />

Denzil McKenzie, ’76<br />

Frances Miller, ’65<br />

James J. Moynihan, ’95<br />

James Normand, ’80<br />

Andrea Nuciforo, ’89<br />

Roger Putnam, ’51<br />

Daniel Rea, ’74<br />

Bruce Rogoff, ’83<br />

Eugene Rubin, ’61<br />

Jennifer Serafyn, ’01<br />

Andrew Strehle, ’94<br />

Andrew Sucoff, ’89<br />

Neil Sugarman, ’51<br />

Annabelle Terzian, ’51<br />

William Tyler, ’51<br />

Barry Weiner, ’66<br />

2008 Reunion Committee<br />

Members<br />

Wallace Ashnault, ’58<br />

Bernard Fielding, ’58<br />

Jason Gottlieb, ’58<br />

Harvey Resh, ’58<br />

David Turner, ’58<br />

Murray B. Weil, ’58<br />

Arnold Zaltas, ’58<br />

Jerald D. Burwick, ’63<br />

Jim Fitzgerald, ’63<br />

Karen Hersey, ’63<br />

Richard Snyder, ’63<br />

John Abodeely, ’68<br />

Karin Blake, ’68<br />

Marcus Cohn, ’68<br />

Charles Douglas, ’68<br />

George Gormley, ’68<br />

John P. Gillmor, ’68<br />

Alan Granwell, ’68<br />

Richard Hackel, ’68<br />

Larry Kaplan, ’68<br />

Jordan Krasnow, ’68<br />

Richard McCarthy, ’68<br />

Bruce Ramsey, ’68<br />

Richard Steinkamp, ’68<br />

David Vigoda, ’68<br />

Eliot Zide, ’68<br />

Dennis Greene, ’73<br />

Kathy Greenleaf, ’73<br />

Laura Kaster, ’73<br />

Jane Michaels, ’73<br />

Joan Gozonsky Chamberlain, ’78<br />

Robert Volk, ’78<br />

Gregory Cava, ’83<br />

Steve Gustavson, ’83<br />

Joel Maxman, ’83<br />

Alan Zuckerbrod, ’83<br />

Thomas J. Rechen, ’88<br />

Elizabeth Bertolozzi, ’93<br />

Vickie Henry, ’93<br />

Ron Honig, ’93<br />

Eric Kaplan, ’93<br />

Bill Samers, ’93<br />

Kim Atkins, ’98<br />

Alexander Bopp, ’98<br />

Tracy Evans Moyer, ’98<br />

Kathleen Paralusz, ’98<br />

Michael Portnoy, ’98<br />

Eric Rogers, ’98<br />

Bill Ryan, ’98<br />

Mark Schamel, ’98<br />

Cassandra Aquart, ’03<br />

Deanna Gard, ’03<br />

Debbie Ibrahim, ’03<br />

Judith Jenkins, ’03<br />

Mark Ford, ’03<br />

Zach Smith, ’03<br />

George Soterakis, ’03<br />

3L Gift Committee<br />

Brenda Carr, ’09<br />

Ann Chernicoff, ’09<br />

Stephany Collamore, ’09<br />

Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham, ’09<br />

Mitchell B. Klein, ’09<br />

Claire Koehler, ’09<br />

Danielle Nellis, ’09<br />

Addie Strumolo, ’09<br />

A special note of recognition and thanks goes out to <strong>the</strong> many members of <strong>the</strong> Young Alumni Council and students that helped build<br />

<strong>the</strong> BU Law Community both on and off campus.<br />

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The Esdaile Alumni Center has made every effort possible to ensure <strong>the</strong> accuracy of this donor roll. In <strong>the</strong> event that we have inadvertently<br />

omitted your name or listed you incorrectly, please let us know so that we may correct our records. Please also feel welcome to contact<br />

us with any questions you may have or to discuss a gift.<br />

Anthony Barbuto
<br />

Executive Director of Development<br />

& Alumni Relations
<br />

617.353.7039
<br />

abarbuto@bu.edu<br />

Roisin Diamond<br />

Assistant Director of Annual Giving<br />

617.353.8012<br />

huntr@bu.edu<br />

Erin Elwood
<br />

Alumni Officer
<br />

617.358.4873
<br />

erine@bu.edu<br />

John Nissenbaum
<br />

Leadership Gifts Officer
<br />

617.358.4756
<br />

jnissen@bu.edu<br />

Kassie Tucker
<br />

Senior Staff Coordinator
<br />

617.353.6647
<br />

ktucker@bu.edu<br />

Cornell L. Stinson<br />

Assistant Dean for Development<br />

& Alumni Relations<br />

617.358.5351
<br />

cstinson@bu.edu<br />

Ernest Haddad<br />

Associate Dean of Special Projects<br />

617.353.3154<br />

ehaddad@bu.eu<br />

To give a gift, go to www.bu.edu/law/alumni<br />

Esdaile Alumni Center<br />

Boston University School of Law<br />

765 Commonwealth Avenue<br />

Boston, MA 02215<br />

Phone: 617•353•3118<br />

Fax: 617•353•7744<br />

E-mail: lawalum@bu.edu<br />

Web: www.bu.edu/law<br />

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