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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 />
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Contributors<br />
Sara Gelston<br />
Bill Ibelle<br />
Elizabeth Ress<br />
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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 />
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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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