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The future of The Dickinson School of Law is exceptionally bright. During the past fewyears, applications for admission to the Law School have increased almost 100 percent,the diversity of our student body has more than tripled, and the average academic cre-dentials of our students continue to improve dramatically. We have established a new,

semester-long Washington, D.C., externship program, the Children’s Advocacy Clinic, the AsylumClinic, and the Institute of Arbitration Law and Practice that is quickly gaining world renown.(You can read more about these initiatives in this issue of the Lawyer.)

Additionally, our recent faculty appointments include several of the world’s top scholars intheir respective fields. William Butler, the world's preeminent authority on the law of Russia andCIS nations, joined us from the University of London, as did Takis Tridimas, a leading financialinstitutions scholar who served recently as counsel to the presidency of the European Union. This

year we also will welcome Professor Ellen Dannin, an experienced andinternationally prominent labor law and civil procedure scholar and for-mer law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Cornelia Kennedy; Pro-fessor Jeffrey Kahn, a tax scholar and co-author with University ofMichigan Law School Professor Douglas Kahn of two of the nation'sleading tax textbooks; Professor Kit Kinports, a former law clerk toUnited States Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun and U.S.Court of Appeals Judge Abner Mikva and one of the nation’s leadingscholars of feminist jurisprudence, criminal law and federalism; Profes-sor John Lopatka, one of the nation’s top antitrust scholars who is theformer Solomon Blatt Professor of Law at the University of South Car-olina School of Law and a former senior official of the Federal TradeCommission; Professor Marie Reilly, a prominent bankruptcy and com-

mercial law scholar who has significant practice experience with Williams & Connelly; and Profes-sor Stephen Ross, one of the nation’s leading sports law, antitrust, and comparative Canadian lawscholars and a former law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (while on the Court of Appeals).

Together with our existing excellent faculty and academic offerings, these new programs andfaculty promise a legal education for our students as practical, creative and excellent as any in theUnited States and a future for The Dickinson School of Law as important and distinguished as ourpast.

I also am confident that, as a result of the approximately $100 million investment we areundertaking in new facilities for the Law School, we soon will enjoy new signature buildings inCarlisle and University Park that will attract the attention of people worldwide and simultaneouslyexpress the dignity of the legal profession and of The Dickinson School of Law. After months ofconsultations, research and planning, Polshek Partnership Architects has drafted stunning prelimi-nary designs for the facilities. In Carlisle, Trickett Hall will undergo extensive renovations butremain the centerpiece of our construction project. Both structures will feature state-of-the-artcourtrooms, classrooms, conferencing facilities, hearing rooms, reading rooms, gathering spaces,and an auditorium designed for law school as well as public use, and the buildings will be perva-sively interconnected to enable the real-time delivery to each location of the classes and programs of the other. I encourage you to visit our Building News Update Web site at www.dsl.psu.edu tomonitor progress, view emerging building plans, and submit your input on the Law School designs.

As word of our project and programmatic enhancements spreads, we will continue to enjoymany additional milestones and achievements. I look forward to sharing exciting news and updateswith you as we move forward with our plans over the coming months and years. Thank you foryour ongoing support and interest in the mission of your alma mater.

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This publication is available in alternativemedia on request.

The Pennsylvania State University is com-mitted to the policy that all persons shallhave equal access to programs, facilities,admission, and employment without regardto personal characteristics not related toability, performance, or qualifications asdetermined by University policy or by stateor federal authorities. It is the policy of theUniversity to maintain an academic andwork environment free of discrimination,including harassment. The PennsylvaniaState University prohibits discriminationand harassment against any personbecause of age, ancestry, color, disabilityor handicap, national origin, race, religiouscreed, sex, sexual orientation, or veteranstatus. Discrimination or harassmentagainst faculty, staff, or students will notbe tolerated at The Pennsylvania State Uni-versity. Direct all inquiries regarding thenondiscrimination policy to Doris Orner,Human Resources Officer, The DickinsonSchool of Law, 150 South College Street,Carlisle, PA 17013-2899; tel 717-240-5284U.Ed. DSL 06-75

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F E AT U R E S

D E PA R T M E N T S

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Time to Move on for Professor Jane Rigler

One of the first women hired as a member of the full-time faculty retires

Professor Haughney RetiresAfter seventy years of combined service to the militaryand the law, Professor Haughney retires from teaching

Penn State Dickinson IntroducesNew Program in Washington, D.C.

Penn State Dickinson students get hands-on training in semester-long program

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Remembering Donald C. TaylorLaw School history would be entirely different without

the dedicated service of Donald C. Taylor

Law School Hosts SymposiumDistinguished scholars gathered at DSL to discussNeutrality and Impartiality in Alternative Justice

Law School Steps into the Fightfor Children’s Rights

New clinic devoted to advocating for and protecting children

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Asylum Clinic OffersHope for Refugees

DSL students represent refugees seeking safety in the United States

Alumni & Reunion Weekend 2005GAA honors former professor and four alumni

during the weekend festivities

The Honorable John E. Jones IIIIssues Ruling in Landmark ID Case

Decides intelligent design inclassroom unconstitutional

Judge JonesMeet the alumnus who presided over

the intelligent design trial

Reaching Out to Alumni in Public Interest

Loan Repayment and Assistance Program (LRAP)supports alumni dedicated to public service

Commencement 2006Hundreds of family members and friends gathered

to celebrate the graduating class

2 / In BriefLaw School Ranking Moves Up

2005 Graduate Overseas for Advanced Degree

Penn State Dickinson Student Wins Golden Pen Award

Institute Advances Arbitration Law and Practice

Woolsack Honor Society

Marathon Man

Enron Whistleblower Speaks at Law School

Thomas Tang Moot Court Team Earns Second-Place Finish

Law School Celebrates the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Philadelphia Eagles Tight End Visits Law School

Cortés Receives Penn State Alumni Fellow Award

8 / Faculty & Staff NewsScholarship, Activities and Achievements

32 / Listening PostAlumni Class Notes, In Memorium

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LAW SC H O O L RA N K I N G MOV E S UP

The Penn State Dickinson School ofLaw’s position in the 2007 U.S. News andWorld Report ranking of all ABA-approvedlaw schools remained in the Top 100 andimproved from 90 to 87. Additionally, theLaw School was named one of “The MostDiverse Law Schools” in the United States,and our Dispute Resolution Programretained its ranking as one of the Top Tenin the United States. Notably, the LawSchool’s reputation score among lawyersand judges was higher this year than Tem-ple’s, Pitt’s and Villanova’s and was secondamong Pennsylvania law schools only tothe University of Pennsylvania Law School(ranked number 7).

Here are a few of the reasons weexpect the Law School’s national standingto continue to rise significantly in thefuture:

• This year almost 3,300 studentsapplied for admission to The DickinsonSchool of Law. This represents nearly a100 percent increase in the number ofapplicants since 2002.

• Today DSL is one of the only lawschools in the United States at whichapplications are increasing. Nationally,applications are down approximately 10percent in comparison to last year; applica-tions to The Dickinson School of Law areup approximately 30 percent over last year.

• Today DSL is one of the mostdiverse law schools in the United Statesand in the top half of the Big Ten. Studentbody diversity at our law school has morethan tripled since 2002, from under 8 per-cent to approximately 25 percent. At thesame time, the average academic creden-tials of our student body have improveddramatically.

• The academic credentials of nextyear’s entering class will be higher than atany time in the last fifteen years.

• In addition to these trends, thirteeninternationally renowned scholars havejoined our already-terrific faculty duringthe last four years; our recent senior staffappointments have included top profes-

sionals from counterpart positions at theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School,Yale Law School, Penn State, and the Uni-versity of Michigan; and Penn State, theCommonwealth of Pennsylvania and sev-eral incredibly generous DSL alumni areinvesting more than $100 million in newfacilities and programs for the Law School.

2005 GR A D UAT E OV E R S E A S

FO R ADVA N C E D DE G R E E

During her third year of law school,Jennifer Young ’05 was overcome by theextent of post-graduate opportunities,including jobs, clerkships and advancedstudy. Unlike the majority of her classmates,Young decided to hold off on the coverletters and resumes to pursue a master’sdegree in international public policy at theLondon School of Economics & PoliticalScience (LSE) in England after graduation.

Having lived in Washington, D.C.,and worked in varying capacities for thefederal government, Young developed anunderstanding and interest in policy for-mation from a U.S. perspective that shewould like to build upon and apply in thefuture. “For me,” Young said, “study at theLSE will provide this opportunity becauseI will be able to learn about public policyformation in an international context andchallenge myself on issues in a broader,more global setting.”

The organizations that Young internedwith both prior to and during her law schoolstudy include Amnesty International; theU.S. Department of State’s Bureau ofDemocracy, Human Rights and Labor; theU.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Officefor Immigration Review; the Center forStrategic and International Studies; the U.S.Department of State at the U.S. Embassyin London; the U.S. Department of Defensein Heidelberg, Germany; and the U.S. Depart-ment of Defense, via the U.S. Army JAG Corps.

“Such experiences,” Young explained,“exposed me to competing policy interestsin the area of human rights protection, aswell as the value of developing regional

and global mechanisms to promote humanrights concerns.”

While attending law school, Youngconcentrated on taking international lawcourses as part of the Certificate in Inter-national, Foreign and Comparative Lawprogram. In addition, Young attended asummer study abroad program in interna-tional human rights law at Oxford Univer-sity in England where she completedcoursework on the fundamentals ofhuman rights law and the internationalrights of women.

Young chose Penn State Dickinsonbecause of the school’s reputation as aclose-knit community and Penn State’snationally recognized name. “I hope to usethe foundational understanding of publicpolicy analysis that I developed at the LawSchool to pursue study in other, more spe-cialized areas of public policy as a studentat LSE,” Young explained.

What Young ultimately hopes toachieve with both her degrees is to work ina capacity, either public or private, whereshe can combine and actively apply herknowledge of international law and policy.“I would welcome work that involves col-laborating with people from diverse back-grounds to contribute to discourse on cross-border issues, and someday, I would like toteach in a university setting,” Young said.

PENN STATE DICKINSON STUDENT

WI N S GO L D E N PE N AWA R D

Charece Collins ’07 won first place inthe inaugural Golden Pen student writingcompetition sponsored by the Plain Eng-lish Committee of the Pennsylvania BarAssociation (PBA), established in 1998 “toimprove the general public’s access to thelaw by removing the barriers of ‘legalese.’”

The competition required entrants torewrite jury instructions into plain Englishand to provide commentary explaining therevisions. It was open to Pennsylvania resi-dents attending law school, studentsenrolled in Pennsylvania law schools andstudents enrolled in Rutgers-Camden andWidener-Wilmington.

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Richard B. Klein, Pennsylvania Supe-rior Court judge and co-chair of the PlainEnglish Committee, presented Collinswith the Golden Pen Award and a cash prizeof $1,000 on June 10, 2005, during thePBA’s semi-annual meeting. In addition topresenting Collins with the official award,Judge Klein offered her a position as hislaw clerk in Philadelphia during summer2006, which she subsequently accepted.

Collins obtained her undergraduatedegree in English from Millersville Universitywhere she tutored fellow students to helpthem gain a better grasp of the Englishlanguage. “Entering the competition was agood exercise that allowed me to combinemy undergraduate degree with my under-standing of legal concepts and terminologylearned during my first year as a law studentat Penn State Dickinson,” commented Collins.

When asked what she would say toencourage students in the future to partici-pate in the competition, Collins responded,“Definitely do it. It was a great experience.Until you actually sit down and go throughthe process, you don’t really know howtough it is to complete the task.”

In addition to pursuing her law degree,Collins is working toward her master’sdegree in public administration from PennState Harrisburg through one of PennState Dickinson’s many joint degreeopportunities. She serves in a variety ofcapacities throughout the Law School,including as a student attorney in theFamily Law Clinic, an SBA Honor CodeRepresentative, secretary of the Minority

Law Students Association, an SBA studentmentor, a PSU Law Lion Ambassador andas an IIT lab assistant. Collins is also amember of the Faculty Hiring Committee,the Search Committee for the Dean ofStudent Affairs, the Loan RepaymentAssistance Committee, Christian LegalSociety, Black Law Students Association,Latino/Latina Law Students Associationand the student divisions of the AmericanBar Association and Pennsylvania BarAssociation. During the summer of 2005,she clerked for Judge Raymond Means atthe Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia.

INSTITUTE ADVANCES ARBITRATION

LAW A N D PR AC T I C E

Established in August 2005, the LawSchool’s Institute of Arbitration Law andPractice is quickly gaining world renown.The Institute currently publishes the WorldArbitration and Mediation Report, theJournal of American Arbitration, the Smit-Carbonneau Guides to International Com-mercial Arbitration and ADR and the Law.In addition, the Stockholm International

WO O L S AC K HO N O R SO C I E T Y

The following members of the Class of2006 were ranked in the top 15 percentof their class and inducted into theWoolsack Honor Society: Jonathan D.

Andrews, Lindi R. Barton-Brobst, Rachel

Danielle Bashore, Jennifer L. Beidel, Jeremy

S. Blocher, Burgess C. Bradshaw, Brenda T.

Coppede, Jonathan W. Cox, Scott B. Czer-

wonka, Audrey J. Daly, Christina M. Davis,

Gerald M. Feige, Dayna C. Finkelstein,

Michael I. Kaplan, Sarah M. Markwood,

John R. Martin, Marcy L. McCullough,

Branwen M. McNabb, Ryan J. Murphy,

Candie L. Myers, Joshua G. Parsons, Joshua

S. Pasker, Eric B. Rubin, Jason E. Ruff,

Douglas A. Snyder, Bradley N. Sprout,

Brian D. Torresi, Jenny A. Urquhart,

Melanie L. Vanderau and Jessica M. Willey.

Klein and Collins

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Arbitration Review is an affiliated publica-tion of the Institute published jointly withthe Stockholm Chamber of CommerceInstitute of International Arbitration.

Under the guidance of Faculty Direc-tor Thomas E. Carbonneau, ExecutiveDirector Crystal Stryker ’04, and an advi-sory board of distinguished national andinternational scholars, the Institute pro-motes the study and scholarship of arbitra-tion law and practice in domestic andinternational contexts and prepares stu-dents to excel in this emerging field of law.

Penn State Dickinson faculty associat-ed with the Institute include William E.Butler, John Edward Fowler Professor ofLaw and member of the Russian Interna-tional Court of Commercial Arbitration;Tiyanjana Maluwa, H. Laddie and Linda P.Montague Professor of Law; Philip J.McConnaughay, dean and Donald J.Farage Professor of Law; and PanagiotisTakis Tridimas, professor of law and SirJohn Lubbock Professor of Banking Law atQueen Mary College, University of London.

The Institute’s Advisory Boardincludes John J. Barcelo III, The WilliamNelson Cromwell Professor of Internation-al and Comparative Law at Cornell LawSchool; Frédéric Bachand, professor of lawat McGill University Faculty of Law;George A. Bermann, Jean Monnet Profes-sor of EU Law and The Walter GellhornProfessor of Law at Columbia UniversitySchool of Law; Christopher Drahozal, pro-fessor of law at the University of KansasSchool of Law; Emmanuel Gaillard, pro-fessor of law at the University of Paris;Loukas Mistelis, recently chaired professorof law and Clive M. Schmittoff Reader inInternational Commercial Law at QueenMary College, University of London;William W. Park, R. Gordon Butler Pro-fessor of International Law at Boston Uni-versity School of Law; and CatherineRogers, Richard C. Cadwallader AssociateProfessor of Law at the Paul M. HerbertLaw Center of Louisiana State University.

MA R AT H O N MA N

“Know thy strengths” is a motto DaneRauschenberg takes to heart. His newlyformed organization and Web site, Fiddy2,outlines his quest to run fifty-two fullmarathons in 2006 for charity. Rauschenbergsaid, “I may not be able to run the fastestmarathon in the world, but I am very goodat running distances with little recovery time.”

Rauschenberg ’02 will be donating allthe proceeds from Fiddy2 to the organiza-tion L’Arche Mobile. “What began as hap-penstance ended as fate,” Rauschenberg said.

While contacting marathon directors in2005 to see when or if their marathonswould be run in 2006, Rauschenbergcrossed paths with L’Arche Mobile, aninternational federation of communities inwhich people with mental handicaps andthose who help them can live, work andshare their lives together. In discussionswith the director, Rauschenberg realizedthat L’Arche Mobile would be the perfectorganization for which to run.

Rauschenberg has worked firsthandwith the Duvall Home in Florida, whichserves the needs of developmentally dis-abled children and adults, and he has closefriends whose siblings are challenged.“Giving your time and money to charita-ble organizations is wonderful, but youfeel more involved and therefore morewilling to give that extra effort when youpick a charity that has special meaning toyou personally,” Rauschenberg explained.

Running many full and half marathons,as well as an ultra marathon to build upendurance, Rauschenberg trained all lastyear for this enormous undertaking. Whenasked if anyone could do this, he respond-ed, “That is one of my goals—to showpeople that you can do just about any-thing if you try hard enough.”

And Rauschenberg is definitely givingit his all. Not only will this Arlington, Vir-ginia, resident attempt to conduct the entireFiddy2 quest this year, he plans to do sowhile continuing his normal fifty-hour perweek job at MPEG LA as a patent licensingassociate. As for when Rauschenberg findstime, “I make time…you run when you

can and make time for those who matter,and the rest will fall into place,” he said.

Following law school, Rauschenbergclerked for The Honorable Judge John J.Trucilla in the 6th Judicial District of theCommonwealth of Pennsylvania until join-ing MPEG LA in the Greater D.C. area.

When not running, working or pur-chasing new sneakers, Rauschenberg canbe found amateur boxing, painting andtaking trapeze lessons. When it comes totrying new things, he shares this piece ofadvice: “There are many things that we areincapable of doing in this world. Trying isnot one of them.”

For additional information on DaneRauschenberg and L’Arche Mobile, or ifyou would like to make a contribution toFiddy2, please visit www.fiddy2.org.

EN RO N WH I S T L E B LOW E R SPE A K S AT

LAW SC H O O L

At age 42, Sherron Watkins had cometo a “crossroads” in her life and decided toput her family first by seeking a back-officeaccounting position at Enron Corporationwith more regular work hours and lesstravel. It was during this juncture in herlife when Watkins stumbled across the $300million spreadsheet difference—a “not sominor” miscalculation—in Enron’s accounting.

Watkins, the former Enron vice presi-dent credited with drawing attention toaccounting problems prior to the compa-ny’s collapse, presented “Ethics afterEnron” at the Law School on November23, 2005. More than 125 people attendedthe event including students, professorsand members of the local community. Thepresentation was sponsored by the LawSchool’s Speakers Trust, DickinsonDemocrats, Jewish Law Students Associa-tion, Penn State Law Review, RepublicanCouncil, Sports, Entertainment and Art LawSociety and the Women’s Law Caucus.

Watkins, who was recognized for heractions as the co-recipient of Time maga-zine’s 2002 Person of the Year award,began by telling the audience that herdecision to put her family first “is what

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paved the way for being on the cover ofTime magazine.” Upon finding the suspi-cious spreadsheets, her first reaction was to“get out,” so she began looking for employmentelsewhere. However, she continued toquestion Enron’s accounting practices andbecame enraged when Jeff Skilling resigned aschief executive officer amid the corpora-tion’s stock plummeting from approxi-mately $80 to $40 a share over the courseof a year. Watkins likened Skilling’s holi-day-season resignation to him “abandon-ing ship,” which, in turn, led to her moreaggressive questioning of the accountingpractices and ultimate confrontation of chair-man Kenneth Lay. Watkins went on to testifybefore House and Senate congressionalcommittees investigating the internalworkings, and subsequent demise, of Enron.

Watkins explained that Enron, like somany other corporations, had a greathonor code on paper. So how did this nat-ural gas company morph into a morallybankrupt company? Watkins contends thatthe “slippery slope” effect of unethicalbehavior began with the tone of executivesat the top who had the opportunity to “setthe right tone” and adopt a zero-tolerancepolicy for unethical practices, but insteadopted for an internal control system thatmerely reprimanded unethical actions.According to Watkins, Enron is not alonein this type of practice. Frequently corpo-rations send the wrong message by choosing

internal control structures based on reprimandsystems rather than no-tolerance systems.

Watkins believes that the key compo-nent to white-collar crime is the increasedrationalization that borderline ethicalactions are justifiable and not wrong; oursociety has pushed our value system to theside allowing too many excuses for ques-tionable behavior. According to Watkins,the sixty-five lawyers at Enron “gotcaught-up in representing the executives” andwhen confronted about a questionableaction, she said the typical response was,“Technically, this is not illegal in a court oflaw.” Watkins warned the audience to beaware of this response because it is a clearindicator of being on “shaky ground.”

Additionally, Watkins cited employeediffusion of responsibility as a primarycomponent leading to the downfall of eth-ical behavior in corporate society. “Manyemployees choose to hide behind the cor-porate mask justifying their actions byembracing the ‘I’m just a small cog in thewheel’ attitude or ‘I’m not on the board.Someone else has to stop it,’” Watkins said.

When asked what a single employeecan do when tempted by an unethicalpractice or faced with exposing a shakycorporate custom, Watkins urged themembers of the audience to think individ-ually, as a single person standing alone.When confronted with a difficult ethicalsituation, Watkins suggested taking the 3-M Test: 1) Would you be embarrassedabout the behavior in the presence of yourmentor? 2) Would you want the actiondisclosed to the media? and 3) Would youwant your mother to find out? As a finalnote on individual morality, Watkinsadvised that if an employee is consistentlybeing morally challenged, then he or sheshould get out of that organization.

Watkins concluded with her views onnecessary steps needed for effective changeto occur in corporate America. Primarily,she feels that our society has to becomemorally outraged regarding unethical cor-porate behavior, sky-rocketing executivesalaries and the corporate board mentality.“Our society accepts too many excuses for

unethical behavior, and if a person cannotbe responsible for a corporation, he or sheshould not run it,” she said.

Watkins is the recipient of numerousawards for her efforts to uphold ethics inthe workplace and co-author, along withprize-winning journalist Mimi Swartz, ofPower Failure: The Inside Story of the Col-lapse of Enron published in March 2003.

THOMAS TANG MOOT COURT TEAM

EA R N S SE C O N D-PL AC E FI N I S H

A team of two students from PennState Dickinson finished second in theThomas Tang Northeast Regional MootCourt Competition held September 29-October 2, 2005, in Boston.

Penn State Dickinson team membersNicole Lobaugh, a third-year student, andIsadora Velazquez Rivas, a second-year stu-dent, competed against ten teams repre-senting Northeastern University School ofLaw, Fordham University School of Law,St. John’s University School of Law, Ben-jamin N. Cardozo School of Law, BostonCollege of Law, Syracuse University Col-lege of Law, New York University Schoolof Law, and Touro Law Center. Lobaughand Rivas, along with the winning teamfrom Syracuse, advanced to the nationalcompetition, which took place in ChicagoOctober 20-23.

The Thomas Tang competition,administered by the National Asian PacificAmerican Bar Association (NAPABA) LawFoundation and the NAPABA JudicialCouncil, aims to develop legal approachesrelevant to the Asian Pacific community.Teams are evaluated on the basis of legalwriting and oral advocacy skills and competefor $10,000 in scholarship prizes spon-sored by Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.

“Isa and I worked well together asfriends and teammates, and this opportu-nity has been invaluable for both of us,”said Lobaugh. “Our legal education hasbeen significantly enriched through thisexperience, and we were both honored torepresent Penn State Dickinson at theregional competition.”

Watkins

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Competitors were required to prepareoral arguments for the petitioner andrespondent in a case involving 4th and 5thAmendment issues. Each team also sub-mitted a written brief for either the peti-tioner or the respondent in the case,depending upon assignment.

Lobaugh and Rivas competed in aseries of mock oral arguments and werejudged on their written brief for therespondent. The team was scored on thequality of the oral argument for the peti-tioner, the oral argument for the respon-dent and the written brief, with each areacounting for a third of the overall score. Inall, seventy-nine teams from across thecountry competed in six regional competi-tions. Two teams from each region werechosen to advance to the national round.

“The regional competition was highlycompetitive and exhausting, but all of ourhard work paid off,” said Lobaugh.

To prepare, the pair worked closelywith Penn State Dickinson professorsLance Cole, Harvey Feldman, JefferyKnight and Katherine Pearson. Larry Nor-ton, a local practitioner, also helped theteam by judging oral argument practicesessions. Professor Knight accompanied

the team to Boston, and Professor Coleattended the final round in Chicago.

“I’m very pleased to see the hardwork of our students pay off again. Isadoraand Nicole are continuing a traditionstarted by recent graduates Alice Song andIshmael Alejo, who found the ThomasTang Moot Court program to be a terrificopportunity to advance their advocacyskills while also recognizing importantlegal issues common to the Asian Pacificcommunity at large,” said Pearson.

Pearson added that 2005 graduatesSong and Alejo, who participated in lastyear’s competition, were instrumental inorganizing Penn State Dickinson’s teamparticipation this year.

The Thomas Tang Competition wasintroduced in 1993 by the Asian PacificAmerican Law Student Association of theSouth Texas College of Law in Houston,Texas. The competition honors the lateJudge Thomas Tang, who served on theUnited States Ninth Circuit Court ofAppeals from 1977 until his passing in1995. For more information on the com-petition, visit www.napaba.org.

LAW SCHOOL CELEBRATES THE LIFE

O F DR. MA RT I N LU T H E R KI N G JR.On January 16, the Law School cele-

brated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Daywith a reception featuring civil rightsactivist Ann Durr Lyon of Mechanicsburg,Pennsylvania. During her presentation,Lyon shared the events leading up to andfollowing Rosa Parks’ arrest for violatingthe segregation ordinance in Montgomery,Alabama, by refusing to give up her busseat. She explained how her parents, Clif-ford and Virginia Durr, joined NationalAssociation for the Advancement of Col-ored People (NAACP) political leaderE.D. Nixon to help Parks after her arrest.

Lyon credits Nixon as the “father”behind the modern civil rights movementand said he was responsible for organizingthe Montgomery Bus Boycott that beganfour days after Parks’ arrest. She explainedthat for several years prior to the bus boy-cott, Nixon had been campaigning forcivil rights, particularly voting rights, andby the time Parks was arrested on Decem-ber 1, 1955, he already had the infrastruc-ture in place to carry out the boycott. “Heknew everyone in town and had the ear ofthe government. He was a great organizer,”commented Lyon.

Lyon continued the story by explain-ing how Nixon arranged for her father, awhite Montgomery lawyer, to representParks and then called several local minis-ters to organize support for the boycott.Among the group of ministers was King,whom Nixon had asked to deliver thekeynote address on the evening before theboycott. Sunday evening, people pouredinto the church to hear King deliver hisaddress. After 381 days of protesting, sig-nificant loss of revenue and the U.S.Supreme Court’s decision holding that thesegregation policy was unlawful, the boycottended successfully on December 20, 1956.

Lyon concluded her story of RosaParks and the Montgomery Bus Boycottby saying, “Mr. Nixon was a remarkableman who gave King the opportunity to bethe spokesperson for the civil rights move-ment.” She emphasized that when we cele-

Left to Right: Julie Lu, Brian LeClair (Syracuse University, College of Law), Jeffrey Hsi, Esq.(president, Asian-American Lawyers Association), Isadora Velazquez Rivas and Nicole Lobaugh

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brate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.and the fight for civil rights, we must alsocelebrate the life of E.D. Nixon, a greatdriving force behind the movement.

PH I L A D E L PH I A EAG L E S TI G H T EN D

VI S I TS LAW SC H O O L

On January 25, Philadelphia Eagles ProBowl tight end Chad Lewis visited the LawSchool and made an inspirational presen-tation “Surround Yourself with Greatness,”during which he shared his thoughts onchoosing associations and developing habitsthat foster personal and professional success.

Lewis began by recognizing his mother’snever-ending love and his father’s persist-ence to overcome challenges caused by astroke as driving forces that helped himget to where he is today with the Eagles.He also cited Larry Harmer, a fellow mis-sionary from the Mormon Church ofLater Day Saints, as a motivating factorbehind his success. It was Harmer whoconvinced Lewis to take a chance and walkonto the Brigham Young University foot-ball field to try out for the team, a movethat eventually led to his career in the NFL.

Ultimately, it was the head of theMormon Church, Gordon Hinkley, whoLewis credits with giving him some of thebest advice he has ever received in his life:“Surround yourself with greatness!” Lewisexplained that those four words went “straightto his heart,” and from that day forward,he has carried a card bearing the phrase. Itserves as a constant reminder to embracegreat things in life like music, family, friendsand religion. Lewis attributes his adherence tothis simple principle as helping him becomesuccessful both personally and professionally.

Lewis also told the audience to “neverbe afraid of hard work.” “As Thomas Edi-son once said, ‘Opportunity is missed bymost people because it is dressed in overallsand looks like work.’ Make hard work yourbest friend. Take off the suit, put on yourblue jeans and get to work,” Lewis quipped.

He concluded with these words ofencouragement: “Be the best that you canbe. When someone tells you that you can’tdo something, don’t believe them. Smileand do it anyway.”

Lewis’ visit was sponsored by the LawSchool’s J. Reuben Clark Law Society, astudent organization dedicated to affirmingthe strength brought to the law by a lawyer’spersonal religious conviction. Throughpublic service and professional excellence,the group works to promote fairness andvirtue founded upon the rule of law.

“We invited Chad because, althoughnot a lawyer, he has exemplified thesestandards in his personal and professionallife. He has stood up for his own religiousconvictions in an environment–amongprofessional athletes and celebrities–whereit is not always easy to do so,” said TerrellLee, vice president of the J. Reuben ClarkLaw Society.

Lewis’ exemplary character is recognizedthroughout the NFL, and, in 2005, he washonored with the Ed Block Courage Award,which annually recognizes those NFL playerswho display and uphold the highest stan-dards of sportsmanship and courage. Lewisalso received the NFL Alumni Association’sHelping Hands Award in 2001.

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Penn State President Graham B. Spanierpresented Pennsylvania Secretary of StatePedro A. Cortés with the Penn StateAlumni Fellow Award, the highest honorbestowed by the Penn State Alumni Asso-ciation, during a ceremony held October19, 2005, at University Park. Cortés grad-uated from the Law School in 1999, and,as a participant in the joint juris doctorate/master of public administration program,earned his master’s degree from Penn StateHarrisburg in 2000.

In his acceptance address, Cortés thankedLaw School Dean Philip J. McConnaughay,Penn State Harrisburg Chancellor MadlynJ. Hanes, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Ren-dell and members of his staff at theDepartment of State for their support.“Without the support and instruction ofPenn State,” said Cortés, “I would nothave received the opportunities I have had.”

Instituted in 1973, the Alumni FellowAward recognizes alumni who are leadersin their professional fields. McConnaughayand Hanes nominated Cortés for the award.

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Professor Larry Catá

Backer is the chair-elect of the AALSMinority GroupsSection. Herecently published“MultinationalCorporations,TransnationalLaw: CorporateSocial Responsi-bility as Interna-

tional Law,” Columbia Human Rights LawReview (2006) and “Director Indepen-dence and the Duty of Care: Race, Gen-der, Class and the Disney Ovitz Litiga-tion,” St. John’s Law Review (2005).

Professor Backer has also recentlygiven several presentations including “Chi-nese Constitutionalism, Sange Daibiao(“Three Represents”) and the Rule of Law”while visiting China; “Law, Finance andSecurity,” at the University of Iowa Col-lege of Law; and “God Over Constitution:Religiously Based Foundations and Mod-ern Constitution-Making in the 21st Cen-tury” at Temple University.

In November 2005, Professor Backerparticipated in the roundtable discussion“Presidential War Powers from Lincoln toBush” at Dickinson College. Later thatmonth he served as a moderator on thepanel “On Scholarship: What to Write,How to Finish,” during the Third AnnualLatCrit-SALT Junior Faculty DevelopmentWorkshop.

In October 2005, Professor Backertraveled to Brazil where he deliverednumerous presentations in Spanish includ-ing “Universalidade do Globalisacao; Prin-cipio Teritorial das Empresas Multina-cionais,” Participação na SemanaAcadêmica do Curso de Dereito, PontifíciaUniversidade Católica do Paraná, São Josédos Pinhais, Paraná, Brasil. He also servedas a panelist for the discussion “EconomicGlobalization Ascendant and the Crisis ofthe State” at the Tenth Annual LatCritConference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, andparticipated in an on-line symposium(available at www.nyujll.org/blog) on the

topic of “Sarbanes-Oxley and the Federal-ization of Corporate Law,” sponsored bythe New York University Journal of Law &Liberty.

Professor William B.

Barker has beenawarded an AtaxResearch Fellowshipfor summer 2006to examine whethernew and expansivetheories of statutoryinterpretation canbe useful in accom-plishing the purpos-es of general anti-avoidance legislation.

Professor Barker recently publishedtwo works: “The Concept of Tax: A Nor-mative Approach,” The Concept of Tax, P.Bruno & K. van Raad, InternationalBureau of Fiscal Documentation (2006)and “Expanding the Study of ComparativeTax Law to Promote Democratic Policy:The Example of the Move to CapitalGains Taxation in Post Apartheid SouthAfrica,” Penn State Law Review (2005).

In 2005, Professor Barker was an aca-demic visitor at the University of Queens-land Faculty of Law in Brisbane, Australia.He gave a seminar on international taxa-tion and tax sparing at the University ofSouth Queensland in Toowoomba and aseminar on statutory interpretation andtax avoidance at the University of Queens-land. Also in 2005, he was awarded a Ful-bright Senior Specialist grant to teach andconsult on taxation in transitional economiesat the Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga,Latvia. In May of 2005, he presented a paperat the European Association of Tax LawProfessors annual conference in Caserta, Italy.

Professor William Butler was the honoree of areception at the Cosmos Club and theconference “From Revolution to Reform:Law and its Practice in Russia and theCIS,” arranged by the American Universi-ty School of International Service to markthe 45th anniversary of his graduation

from the school asvaledictorian. Morethan sixty Russianand Western lawyerscontributed to aFestschrift for theoccasion, Forging aCommon Destiny,and a bibliographyof Professor Butler’spublished writings.

Professor Butler is a consulting editorof the Journal of Comparative Law, issuedtwice yearly by the Association of Com-parative Legal Studies in London. The firstissue contains a review article and a bookreview of his authorship.

In February, Professor Butler delivereda public lecture “Russian Foreign RelationsLaw and Legal Culture” at St Antony’sCollege, Oxford, where he is a seniormember of the Common Room. InNovember 2005, he delivered his paper“The Right to Life” at a conference heldby Tiumen State University in WesternSiberia. The Russian publishing houseZertsalo has published his edition of V. E.Grabar’s The History of International Lawin Russia 1647-1917 (2005), first issued bythe Oxford University Press in 1990, in arevised Russian edition.

Professor Thomas E. Carbonneau is working ona mini-treatise on international litigationand arbitration as well as the fourth edi-tion of his book The Law and Practice ofArbitration for Thomson West. He recent-ly completed an article entitled “At theCrossroad of Legitimacy and ArbitralAutonomy.”

The secondedition of Profes-sor Carbonneau’sbook EmploymentArbitration wasreleased in May,as well as threeedited books pub-lished through thePenn State Insti-tute for Arbitra-

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tion Law and Practice for the AmericanArbitration Association. The books weredone with Jeanette Jaeggi, former execu-tive director of the Institute, and SandraPartridge, a graduate of the Class of2006.

At the end of May, Professor Car-bonneau delivered a lecture at a confer-ence at Fordham Law School. In April,he addressed a seminar on globalizationat Yale Law School on the topic of theenforcement of international anddomestic arbitral awards.

Professor Susan Beth Farmer attended theannual Loyola Antitrust Colloquium atthe Institute for Consumer AntitrustStudies at Loyola University ChicagoSchool of Law in April. She was also themoderator of a panel entitled “EmpiricalApproaches to Antitrust” presented bythe AALS Liaison Committee at theABA Antitrust Section spring meetingin Washington, D.C., in March.

Professor Farmer’s article on globalcompetition will be published in a forth-coming book on international legal issuesedited by Professor Larry Backer.

Professor Stephanie Farrior’s latest bookchapter, “International Human RightsTreaties and the Rights of Female Refugeesand Asylum Seekers” has been published inHuman Rights and Refugees, Internally Dis-placed Persons, and Migrant Workers: Essaysin Honour of Joan Fitzpatrick and ArthurHelton, Anne Bayefsky, ed., MartinusNijhoff Publishers. She also completed aninvited encyclopedia entry, “UnitedNations Commission on the Status ofWomen,” which will be published in theRoutledge Encyclopedia of Human Rights,David P. Forsythe, ed. At the request ofAspen Publishing, Professor Farrior wrote adetailed review and assessment of a bookproposal for a new text on internationallaw and was subsequently asked by themto evaluate and advise on a new book oninternational criminal law.

In March, Professor Farrior spoke atthe United Nations in New York at the

invitation of the U.N. Office of the HighCommissioner for Human Rights(OHCHR) and the Canadian Departmentof Foreign Affairs on “Eliminating Vio-lence Against Women: Where Does DueDiligence Fit In?” Her co-panelists at thisevent, held during the 50th session of theU.N. Commission on the Status ofWomen, were the U.N. Special Rappor-teur on Violence Against Women, Dr.Yakin Erturk, and Craig Mokhiber, deputydirector of the OHCHR.

Professor Robert

Gatter wasappointed associ-ate dean for aca-demic affairs onJanuary 1. Herecently was aninvited speaker atBoston UniversitySchool of Law'sconference“Globalization ofPharmaceuticals: International Regulato-ry Issues,” where he presented a paperentitled “Conflicts of Interest in Interna-tional Human Drug Research and theInsufficiency of International Protections,”published in a symposium issue of theAmerican Journal of Law and Medicine.

In March, Professor Gary Gildin gave a pres-entation entitled “Enforcing Our Liber-ties: Choosing the Right Constitution”at the 19th Annual Robert Cover PublicInterest Law Retreat, hosted by Yale LawSchool and coordinated by Penn StateDickinson students. In February, he pre-sented “The Sanctity of Religious Liber-ty of Minority Faiths under State Con-stitutions” to the Marquette UniversityLaw School faculty.

Professor Gildin’s article “The Riseof State Law Sanctuary for MinorityReligious Liberty in the Wake of the Fallof Federal Constitutional Protection ofNon-Mainstream Faiths,” was includedin the book Democracy and Religion: FreeExercise and Diverse Visions. The book

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Professors Laurel S. Terry and Nancy A. Welsh

were selected as recipients of Fulbright Scholargrants for the 2005-2006 academic year.

As a Fulbright Scholar in Cologne, Ger-many, Professor Terry researched the basis for,and response to, the European Union’s (EU)Commission Report that concluded some regula-tion of lawyers in the EU (including Germany) isanticompetitive. Her project will contribute to animportant policy debate that is currently underway in the EU and Germany by comparing theregulatory principles that govern U.S. and Ger-man lawyers, particularly by antitrust authorities.While the U.S. antitrust authorities do not cur-rently have a study comparable to the EuropeanCommission study, it is likely that in the futurethe U.S. will have to determine the proper inter-section of antitrust law and lawyer regulation.

By examining the line between state andfederal regulation of lawyers and analyzing theboundaries of acceptable regulation, ProfessorTerry’s research will be fundamental in under-standing issues that the U.S. will likely confrontin the future.

Professor Welsh conducted her work in theNetherlands, where the government is preparingto launch a significant initiative to offer media-tion in all of the nation’s courts and legal adviceservices. Under her grant, she researched thedesign, implementation and outcomes of theNetherlands mediation project, the needs it ismeant to address and the civil law context withinwhich it fits. She also lectured to law studentsand researchers on how the U.S. has institutional-ized mediation in state and federal courts andvarious agencies. Professor Welsh hopes thatthrough her efforts, key players in the Nether-lands will learn from the U.S. experience, and, inturn, that the U.S. courts will improve theirmanagement of mediation through considerationof the Netherlands’ experience.

Professors Terry and Welsh are two ofapproximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionalswho traveled abroad to some 140 countries forthe 2005-2006 academic year through the Ful-bright Scholar Program. Established in 1946under legislation introduced by the late Senator J.William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’spurpose is to build mutual understandingbetween the people of the United States andother countries.

The Fulbright Program, America’s flagshipinternational educational exchange activity, issponsored by the U.S. Department of State,Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are select-ed on the basis of academic or professionalachievement and because they have demonstratedextraordinary leadership potential in their fields.

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was declared an Outstanding AcademicTitle, 2005 by the journal Choice: CurrentReviews for Academic Libraries.

Professor Eileen Kane's article “Splitting theGene: DNA Patents and the GeneticCode," Tennessee Law Review (2004) wascited in several amicus curiae briefs sub-mitted in a recent U.S. Supreme Courtcase Labcorp v. Metabolite, which addressesthe patentability of fundamental scientificknowledge.

Professor Jane Muller-Peterson served on thepanel “Blueprint for a Multi-LateralApproach to Involving Law Students inPro Bono” at the 2006 Equal Justice Con-ference in Philadelphia, PA. The event was

sponsored by the American Bar Associa-tion and the National Legal Aid &Defender Association. Following the paneldiscussion, she led a breakout sessionfocusing on what law schools can do tohelp create successful pro bono programsand training for students.

As part of her continuing advocacy andresearch into avenues for protection ofolder persons from abuse and exploitation,Professor Katherine Pearson joined forces withTemple University professor Dr. RonaldCosten at the Pennsylvania Institute onProtective Services to work with a team ofinterested law students to analyze potentiallegislation supporting the creation of apublic fiduciary or public guardian. In

addition, ProfessorPearson recentlyaccepted an invita-tion to serve on theDauphin CountyElder Abuse andNeglect Task Force.

In April, Pro-fessor Pearson pre-sented “LessonsLearned about theFuture of Elder Law from Clinical Experi-ences” as a panelist at the National Agingand the Law Conference in Washington,D.C., and spoke to the CumberlandCounty Bar Association about the role ofattorneys in fighting financial exploitationof the elderly. She also worked with Profes-

sor Nancy Welsh and California attorney EdPhelps to co-author course materials“Mediation Advocacy: Is this an Oxy-moron or a Less Stressful, More SuccessfulWay to Practice Law?” for the NationalAcademy of Elder Law Attorneys Sympo-sium held in April in Washington, D.C.

In March, Professor Pearson served ona panel at the 19th Annual Robert CoverPublic Interest Law Retreat, hosted by YaleLaw School and coordinated by Penn StateDickinson students, discussing alternativeroles for attorneys in fighting againstexploitation and abuse of the elderly.

In January, Professor Pearson made aposter presentation on “Rethinking FilialSupport Laws in a Time of Medicaid-Cut-backs: Should Adult Children be Liable foran Indigent Parent’s Long Term Care,” aspart of the AALS Annual Meeting, Sectionon Law and Aging, in Washington, D.C.

Her related article “Re-thinking FilialSupport Laws in a Time of Medicaid Cut-backs— Effect of Pennsylvania's Recodifica-tion of Colonial-Era Poor Laws,” appearedin the Pennsylvania Bar Quarterly in October2005.

In September, Associate Law Librarian Mark

Podvia spoke at the 2005 Annual Confer-ence of the Pennsylvania Library Associa-tion on “Researching, Writing and Pub-lishing Institutional History.”

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In October 2005, Professor Stephanie Farrior

was an invited participant in the Asia PacificRegional Consultation with U.N. SpecialRapporteur on Violence Against Women Dr.Yakin Erturk on “Access to Justice: Holdingthe State Accountable for Violence AgainstWomen by Non-State Actors,” held October4-6 in Bangkok, Thailand. Professor Farriorwas invited to serve as legal expert duringthe consultation and to conduct a workshopfor women’s rights advocates from the region

on the international legal standards underwhich states may be responsible for violenceagainst women perpetrated by non-stateactors. One focus of her workshop addressedhow culture is used to legitimize violenceagainst women and how it creates barriersfor women in holding the perpetratorsaccountable. The materials distributed forthe consultation included Professor Farrior’sarticle “The Due Diligence Standard andViolence Against Women.”

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Professor VictorRomero has beennamed the LawSchool’s first MaureenB. CavanaughResearch Professor.The award was estab-lished to honor Pro-fessor Maureen B.Cavanaugh, whopassed away in April

2005 and recognizes “exceptional scholarlyaccomplishment, creativity and promise of afaculty member of Penn State University’sDickinson School of Law.” The endowmentfor the award was created by Maureen’s hus-band, Chris Plum, and several of her friends,colleagues and admirers to honor her “giftedscholarship, teaching and outstanding serv-ice to her students, to the legal professionand to The Pennsylvania State University.”

“It is especially fitting that Maureen’sclose friend, Victor Romero, will be the firstmember of our faculty to hold this distin-guished title,” said Dean Philip J.McConnaughay. “Professor Romero’s work andcontributions to the Law School have beenoutstanding. He is a first-rate classroomteacher who enjoys the great respect and affec-tion of our students.”

Romero joined the faculty of PennState Dickinson in 1995 and teaches or hastaught Immigration Law; ConstitutionalLaw; Constitutional Theory, Equal Protec-tion and Civil Rights; Criminal Procedure;Torts; and Race, Racism and American Law.He writes in the areas of immigrant andminority rights and recently authored Alien-ated: Immigrant Rights, the Constitution andEquality in America, published in 2005 asthe 55th book in the New York UniversityPress Critical America series. He has signed acontract for another book, Everyday Law forImmigrants and Foreign Nationals, which willbe part of a new series edited by leading crit-ical race scholars Richard Delgado and JeanStefancic and published by Paradigm Press.

Tiyanjana Maluwa, theH. Laddie and Linda P.Montague Professor ofLaw at Penn StateDickinson, was invitedto join the inauguralinternational jury estab-lished to select the win-ner of the StockholmInternational Prize inCriminology. The juryis composed of leading scholars from Australia,Germany, Hungary, Japan, Sweden, the UnitedStates, the United Kingdom and Venezuela.

The role of the jury is, inter alia, toprovide expert advice on, and proposals for,the nomination and prize-awarding process-es, including the rules of procedure of thejury and criteria for the selection process.The formal announcement of the prize wasannounced August 11, 2005, at the 14thWorld Congress of the International Societyof Criminology in Philadelphia. The firstprize was awarded at a ceremony on June 16in the Stockholm City Hall. The prize isawarded for “outstanding achievements incriminological research or for the applicationof research results by practitioners for thereduction of crime and the advancement ofhuman rights.”

The idea for an international prize rec-ognizing achievements in the field of crimi-nology was developed by a group of interest-ed institutions that gathered at a meeting inStockholm on July 23, 2004. Their proposalreceived support from the Swedish Govern-ment, which offered to provide a secretariatand handle all administrative and legal issuespertaining to the prize.

Professor Maluwa is the former legaladvisor to the Office of the United NationsHigh Commissioner for Human Rights andserved as the first legal counsel of the Organi-zation of African Unity (now the AfricanUnion). In 1997, he was asked by the Unit-ed Nations to serve as the Special Rappor-teur for Human Rights in Nigeria followingthe execution of poet-activist Ken Saro Wiwa,and he has recently undertaken assignmentsas a special consultant to the United Nations.Prior to joining Penn State Dickinson, hewas a professor of law at the University ofCape Town, South Africa, and an Extraordi-nary Professor of Law at the University ofPretoria, South Africa.

Professor Robert Rain’s article “Disability andFamily Relationships: Marriage Penaltiesand Support Anomalies” will appear in theGeorgia State University Law Review. Anedited version of the article entitled “Mar-riage Penalties Affecting Disabled Personsin the United States” will be published inFamily Law: Balancing Interests and Pursu-ing Priorities, the book of selected paperspresented at the 12th World Conference ofthe International Society of Family Law.His legal fables, “The Wife Who Shrankand Disappeared” and “The Gambler andthe Garland” were published in theDecember 2005 issue of the PennsylvaniaFamily Lawyer.

Professor Rains presented “LegalRecognition of Gender Change in Trans-sexual Persons: a Comparative Analysis” atthe Buckingham Law School in Englandin March. He also gave three lectures inMarch at the Anglia Polytechnic Institutein Cambridge, England, at a workshop onthe “Law of Children and the Vulnerable.”In January, Professor Rains, along withClinic Supervising Attorney Lucy Johnston-Walsh,talked to seniors at Carlisle High Schoolon topics including marriage, divorce, sup-port, custody and domestic violence as partof the Cumberland County Bar Association’sPartners Program.

Professor Victor Romero’s essay “Asians, GayMarriage, and Immigration: Family Unifi-cation at a Crossroads” was selected forrepublication in Immigration and National-ity Law Review, an annual volume of note-worthy publications in the field of immi-gration law. His essay “RethinkingMinority Coalition Building & ValuingSelf-Sacrifice, Stewardship, and Anti-Sub-ordination,” was published in December2005 by the Villanova Law Review as partof its LatCrit symposium issue.

In January, Professor Romero, whowas a visiting professor at Howard Univer-sity School of Law this past year, presentedhis paper on community responses toimmigration as part of the “Citizenship,Criminal Justice and Race” panel at theannual Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal

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Scholarship Conference held at the Ameri-can University. At the request of the AsianPacific American Law Students Association,he presented “Migrants in Our Midst: OnCrimes, Centers and Community Responses,”at the Law School in November 2005.

In April, Professor Richard Storrow, associatedean for academic affairs, presented aninvited paper on adoption law models inthe international regulation of assistedreproduction at Capital University Schoolof Law’s annual Wells Conference on adop-tion law and policy. He also recently present-ed “The Bioethics of Parenthood: In Pur-suit of the Proper Standard for GateKeeping in the Clinical Setting” at theSociety for Reproductive and Infant Psy-chology’s annual meeting in Amsterdamand the American Society for Reproduc-tive Medicine’s annual meeting in Montréal.

Professor Storrow’s article “Quests forConception: Fertility Tourists, Globaliza-tion, and Feminist Legal Theory” was pub-lished in a recent issue of the Hastings LawJournal, and “Rescuing Children from theMarriage Movement: The Case againstMarital-Status Discrimination in Adoptionand Assisted Reproduction” appeared in arecent issue of the U.C. Davis Law Review.His article “Parenthood by Pure Intention:Assisted Reproduction and the FunctionalApproach to Parentage” is cited in therecent case of Wakeman v. Dixon (2006).

During the March 2006 Fulbright BerlinSeminar, Professor Laurel Terry was one oftwo U.S. professors invited to speak aboutthe “Bologna Process” at a workshop forFulbright senior scholars and German Uni-versity liaison professors. Professor Terryalso was one of twenty-five Fulbrightgrantees selected to present her researchresults to approximately three hundred andfifty attendees. In February, Professor Terryand several other members of the Interna-tional Bar Association (IBA) and WorkingGroup were invited to meet with govern-ment representatives of the countries that aremembers of the World Trade Organization’s“Friends of Legal Services” group. In October

2005, Professor Terry spoke at a conferenceentitled “Going Global—Addressing Glob-alization Challenges in Legal Services” thatwas jointly sponsored by the George Wash-ington University Center for the Study ofGlobalization and The Hildebrandt Institute.

In February, Professor Terry’s article“Current Developments Regarding theGATS and Legal Services: The Hong KongMinisterial Conference and the AustralianDisciplines Paper” was published by theBar Examiner. Her article “U.S. Legal Ethics:The Coming of Age of Global and Compar-ative Perspectives” was published in theWashington University Global Studies Law Review(2005), and is available at www.ssrn.com.

Professor Nancy Welsh recently accepted aninvitation to become a member of theMediation Advisory Board of the FederalDistrict Court of the Middle District ofPennsylvania.

While in the Netherlands as a Ful-bright Scholar, Professor Welsh was on a

small panel for the “Bargaining in theShadow of Law” seminar. In April, Profes-sor Welsh presented a workshop, “TheValue of Mediation for ‘One-Time’ and‘Repeat’ Disputants,” at the Advocacy andMediation program sponsored by theNetherlands Bar Association and theCourt-Connected Mediation Program. Shealso presented workshops for faculty at theUniversity of Tilburg’s law school and gavepresentations at the annual conference ofthe Dispute Resolution Section of the ABA.

In late 2005, Professor Welsh present-ed a work-in-progress entitled “EmbeddedNeutrals, the Appearance of Impartialityand Unacknowledged Normative Choices”at Marquette University Law School andat the Quinnipiac University School ofLaw. In November 2005, Professor Welshparticipated and presented in the by-invi-tation conference on court ADR research,hosted by the Federal Judicial Center andthe Moritz College of Law of the OhioState University.


In April, Janice Austin, assistant dean foradmissions and financial aid, spoke at theMinnesota State Bar Association CLE Pro-gram entitled “From the Classroom to theCourtroom: Creating a Diversity Pipeline.”She was also the keynote speaker at theCheney University Honors College KeystoneDinner and Awards Night in March.

After twenty-seven years of service to the fac-ulty, staff, students and alumni of The Dickin-son School of Law, Joan Kamowski retired asadministrative assistant to the dean in March2005. During her years at the Law School,Joan served in a number of capacities includ-ing accounting clerk, secretary, cashier, bursar,and assistant treasurer and assistant secretaryfor the Board of Trustees. Although she neverofficially held the title of human resourcesrepresentative, she served the school in thatcapacity for many years.

In early April, Public Interest Law Fellow Kate

Cramer Lawrence served on the panel “Blueprintfor a Multi-Lateral Approach to InvolvingLaw Students in Pro Bono” at the 2006 EqualJustice Conference in Philadelphia, PA.

The event was sponsored by the Ameri-can Bar Association and the National LegalAid & Defender Association and took place inconjunction with the 23rd Annual Edward V.Sparer Symposium “Civil Gideon: Making theCase.”

After more than eighteen years of service tothe Law School, of which the last fourteenhave been spent tirelessly serving the studentsin her role as registrar, Alice Peet retired onJune 30, 2006. Alice and her husband, Geof,plan to travel across the U.S. enjoying land-scapes that they have yet had the chance tosee. They also plan to spend more time withtheir five grandchildren.

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rofessor Jane Rigler, one of the first women hired as a member of the full-time faculty, retired from The Dickinson School of Law at the end of the 2004-2005 academicyear. She joined the faculty in August of

1978, and during her twenty-seven year career at at the Law School, she taught courses in trial advocacy,

arbitration, civil procedure, UCC (sales, negotiable instruments, bank deposits and collections), criminallaw and labor law. She also served as faculty advisor

to the Robert Wagner Labor and Employment Law Moot CourtTeam.

Rigler received a B.A. in political science from the Universityof Iowa in 1972, a J.D. from Florida State University in 1975,and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 1978.Prior to joining the Law School faculty, Rigler interned in theOffice of the State Attorney in Florida, was a research aide in theOffice of the General Counsel to the governor of Florida and astaff attorney at the Florida Public Employees Relations Committee.

Often an active member in the community, Rigler has spo-ken to the Carlisle chapter of the League of Women Voters oncollective bargaining for public employees; participated in theNational Organization for Women missionary ERA project inPensacola, Florida; and served on the Board of Directors of theCarlisle Domestic Crisis Project.

Reflecting on her years of teaching, Rigler said, “My time atthe Law School was a fabulous opportunity. Life was really goodas a teacher, but it was just time to move on and do something else.”

That’s exactly what she’s doing. “It’s great. I have a lot moretime for reading, gardening and golfing. I had given up on golf along time ago, but I have thoroughly enjoyed dusting off my clubsand walking the courses, especially Eagles’ Crossing,” Rigler said.

When asked if the students she has come in contact with overthe years taught her anything, Rigler replied, “They have taughtme that practicing law is about making good arguments.” Sheadded that countless times over the years, a student would presentan argument to her that she had not yet considered. For Rigler,the classroom was the most fun, and she still wishes that studentswould take more advantage of the law professors’ open door poli-cies by talking with them more often throughout the semester.

Even though she has retired from teaching, Rigler continuesto be professionally active by serving as a mediator and arbitrator

in labor and employment disputes. Rigler also remains involvedwith the American Arbitration Association, the PennsylvaniaLabor Relations Board, the Pennsylvania Board of Mediation,Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and Pro Bono Media-tion. She also continues to practice before the U.S. District Courtfor the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Although no longer in the classroom, Rigler remains a famil-iar face. She maintains an office at the Law School in Carlisle andcan be caught every morning in the mailroom picking up hercopy of the Wall Street Journal after her morning run.

Time to move on for

PROFESSOR JANE RIGLER

P— Jonathan Bach ’05

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Long-time law professor Edward Haughney retired fromThe Dickinson School of Law in July 2005 after thir-ty-three years of dedicated service to the school,administration, students and the local community.

Haughney’s career at the Law School began in1972 after retiring as a colonel from the U.S. Army. Over the years,he taught courses in federal practice, administrative law, agencyand partnership, labor law and military law.

Haughney said that he will miss teaching and interacting withstudents and lunches with his colleagues, “irregardless of theirpolitics.” Recalling the “long and tiresome days” of grading 175 CivilProcedures papers, he said that he will not miss grading papers.

“Being unemployed for the first time in seventy years isstrange, but I intend to make the most of it,” Haughney said.

Haughney has been devoting his extra time to his family,traveling, golfing and gardening. He is also an active member ofthe Faculty Club of Dickinson College, and he continues to par-ticipate in faculty events at the Law School. Additionally, Haughneyplans to get involved with The Army Heritage Museum in Carlisle,where he can share some of his insight and experiences fromWorld War II. He was invited to speak at the Army Judge Advo-cate General’s School in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as partic-ipate in its Judge Advocate Oral History Program, where he willbe interviewed about his experiences as an Army Judge AdvocateGeneral (JAG) so that his recollections can become a permanentpart of the library at the Army JAG School.

Haughney said his time at Penn State Dickinson was wonderful,and he is very grateful for all of the opportunities that came hisway through the years. He offered some sage advice for future lawstudents and lawyers: “Don’t fall behind, get rid of your television,and try to learn the lesson from the homework reading assignment.”

Haughney’s path to The Dickinson School of Law covered alot of territory and many missions. Haughney said he decided tobecome a lawyer when he was still in high school after reading aboutAbraham Lincoln and other famous lawyers. He received his under-graduate degree from Brooklyn College and was enrolled as a studentat the St. John’s University School of Law on December 7, 1941,when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Four days later, he wasdrafted. By mid-June 1944, Haughney was in combat in France as alieutenant and a forward observer with the 687th F.A. Battalion.

Haughney’s early military career presented him with interest-ing, if not unusual, assignments. In a 2000 interview with MattMiller of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Patriot-News, Haughney

shed light on one of his more memorable tours of duty. Haugh-ney told Miller that as World War II was winding down, hearrived in Weimar, Germany, a city approximately five miles fromthe concentration camp in Buchenwald. He was captain then, buthis commander gave him another duty: mayor of Weimar.Haughney made the pre-Nazi mayor of Weimar his deputy andarmed the German police to help keep order in the town. Hisreign as mayor lasted a little more than a week, and he stayed inthe city’s best hotel, the Elephant Haus, and spent one night in aroom that had been on permanent reserve for Hitler.

Most of Haughney’s military service was spent as a lawyer inthe Army’s JAG Corps. His JAG assignments included courts-martial prosecutor; chief of the International Affairs Branch inthe Judge Advocate Division at the headquarters in Heidelberg,Germany; chief of the International Affairs Division in the Officeof the Judge Advocate General, Department of the Army, inWashington, D.C.; staff judge advocate of the Military AssistanceCommand in Vietnam; and legal advisor for the U.S. EuropeanCommand in Stuttgart, Germany. Among Haughney’s militaryawards and decorations are a Bronze Star for Valor, two Legion ofMerit medals and three Army Commendation medals. While onactive duty, Haughney received his master’s degree in internation-al relations from the George Washington University.

Admitted to the New York Bar, Haughney previously taughtcourses at the Army War College in Carlisle and was a guest lec-turer at the U.S. Military Academy and the Naval War College.He also served as an advisor to the Pennsylvania Public UtilityCommission.

PROFESSOR HAUGHNEY RETIRESAfter seventy years of combined service to the military and the law

— Jonathan Bach ’05

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In January, third-year law studentsaccepted to Penn State Dickinson Schoolof Law’s inaugural Semester in Washing-ton, D.C. Program kicked off their finalsemester of law school working for govern-ment agencies and nonprofit organizationsin the D.C. area.

Seven Penn State Dickinson studentsspent the spring semester in Washingtonearning academic credit for conductinglegal work as unpaid interns for approvedfederal agencies or nonprofit groups. Stu-dent Kristy Roberts interned with the U.S.Attorney’s Office for the District ofColumbia, the nation’s largest federal pros-ecutor’s office, and was very excited andenthusiastic about the opportunities itpresents. Roberts, who plans to specializein criminal law, says the timing of thisopportunity could not have been more per-fect and saw her semester in D.C. as an“opportunity not only to learn, but also tonetwork.”

Participating students also earned aca-demic credit for a required seminar courseon separation of powers law. The seminarwas taught by Stanley M. Brand, a promi-nent Washington attorney who previouslyserved as general counsel to the U.S. Houseof Representatives and who has taught lawcourses at the Georgetown UniversitySchool of Law. Brand praised the programas “a great opportunity for law students toget real world experience in Washington,”and stated that he was happy to be able toshare with the students the insights he hasgained from his many years of experienceworking in high-level staff positions in

Congress and on high-profile cases in pri-vate practice.

The program is directed by PennState Dickinson professors Lance Cole andCamille Marion. Professor Cole served as alegal consultant to the 9-11 Commissionand as special counsel in the U.S. Senate.Professor Marion directs the Law School’sField Placement program, which offersPenn State Dickinson students the oppor-tunity to earn academic credit while work-ing part-time as unpaid interns at a widevariety of state and local government officesin the Greater Harrisburg area and at PennState’s main campus in University Park.

“This new Washington program willexpand the many opportunities alreadyavailable to our students here in Pennsyl-vania by permitting students to spend anentire semester in Washington focusing ona particular area of law,” Cole explained.“The practice of law is becoming moreand more specialized, and this programallows students to gain valuable expertiseat the federal level while they are still inlaw school.”

For this year’s program, studentscould choose from internships at the U.S.Attorney’s Office for the District ofColumbia, the U.S. Department of theTreasury, the U.S.-China Economic andSecurity Review Commission, the U.S.Department of Health and Human Ser-vices, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor-tunity Commission, the U.S. Securitiesand Exchange Commission, and commit-tees of the U.S. House of Representatives.Professors Cole and Marion expect to

expand the program to meet studentdemand and to offer more internshipopportunities, particularly at nonprofitpublic interest organizations in D.C.

Roberts said she expects that herinternship with the U.S. Attorney’s Officewill allow her to gain more practical expe-rience and build on what she’s alreadylearned from her clerkship with recentlyretired Cumberland County Court ofCommon Pleas President Judge GeorgeHoffer. She also believes that her fellowlaw students should take advantage of themany opportunities that Dickinson offersto gain practical legal experience duringlaw school, in addition to classroominstruction, and advises first- and second-year law students to “plan ahead” so thatthey can participate in the Semester inWashington, D.C. Program during theirlast semester of law school if it will furthertheir career goals.

Penn State Dickinson

INTRODUCES

NEW PROGRAM IN

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Nicole Lobaugh spent her semester in the D.C. programas a Legal Research Fellow for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

— Dyanna Stupar

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R e m e m b e r i n gD o n a l d C .TAYLOR

he history of The Dickinson School of Law wouldbe entirely different without the dedicated

service of Donald C. Taylor ’54, who passed away on May 6, 2005, in Wilmington,

Delaware, at age 75. Taylor’s Law School service, first asa trustee and later as the first chair of the Board of Gov-ernors, spanned more than twenty years.

“We will always remember Don as an extremelygenerous friend whose warmth and kindness inspired usall,” said Dean Phil McConnaughay. “Don was tirelessin his efforts to promote the Law School by meetingwith students and attending alumni functions aroundthe country.”

Taylor joined the Law School’s Board of Trustees in1985, and in 1998, he became the first president fromoutside Pennsylvania in the Law School’s 172-year his-tory. He presided over the affiliation with Penn State,later becoming the first chair of The Dickinson Schoolof Law Board of Governors. In discussing the merger,Taylor said, “It’s a wonderful challenge to be part of theexciting things that are going on and to carry forwardthe good work that others have started. I want to makesure we carry out our goals for the benefit of the stu-dents.” Upon stepping down from the chairmanship,Taylor served as an emeritus member of the board untilhis death.

Taylor began his legal career while enrolled atDickinson College, from which he graduated in 1952.As part of a “3+3 program,” Taylor spent his senior yearof college at the Law School, earning his law degree in1954. He chose The Dickinson School of Law becauseof its strong, quality reputation in Delaware. “InDelaware, Dickinson was considered an outstanding lawschool…Almost one-third of the Delaware Bar wereDSL graduates when I was admitted,” Taylor said.

Following military service in Korea, Taylor openeda law office, and, in 1960, co-founded the law firm ofCooch and Taylor, where he practiced until his death. Awell-respected author and lecturer, he taught real estate

“Without the LawSchool and the greateducation I receivedhere, my life would be entirely different and for the worse.”

—From a 1998 Dickinson Lawyer interviewupon becoming president of the DSL Board.

T— Ed Savage

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law courses for more than forty years andwas co-author of the book Delaware Fun-damentals of Real Estate Law. From 1960to 2005, Taylor was listed in each editionof “The Best Lawyers in America” as oneof the best real estate lawyers in Delaware.

An instrumental figure in raisingfinancial support for the Law School, Tay-lor was a key committee member in thesuccessful completion of the Law School’s$16 million capital campaign, the largestin school history. In 2000, Taylor and hiswife, Dorcas, established the Donald C.and Dorcas Taylor Scholarship Fund.“Don was very proud of this scholarship,”said McConnaughay, “and the assistance itprovides students from Delaware.” Taylorwas a member of Penn State’s Mount Nit-tany and George W. Atherton societies andThe Dickinson School of Law’s John ReedSociety.

In addition to serving on the LawSchool board, Taylor was chancellor of theEpiscopal Diocese of Delaware, chairmanof the Delaware Chapter of the AmericanRed Cross, trustee of Christiana Care andon the Executive Committee of Artisan’sBank. He received many awards for hisoutstanding service to the community,including a special Delaware State BarAssociation award given to only eightother Delaware attorneys. In 1996, Taylorreceived the Law School General AlumniAssociation’s Outstanding Alumni Award.

Taylor served the Law School to helprepay a debt of gratitude. Upon assumingthe board presidency in 1998, Taylor com-mented on a commencement speech madeby Dr. Ed Polisher ’22: “He said that his

many contributions were small paymentson a debt he owed to the Law School. Ialso owe a debt to the Law School. Here’sa chance to pay back a little of that debt.”

Taylor is survived by his wife of fifty-three years; three children, Mark,Andrew ’82 and Lois; three grandchildren;and his brother, Arthur. Contributions inDon’s memory may be made to The Dickinson School of Law, Donald andDorcas Taylor Scholarship Fund, 150South College Street, Carlisle, PA 17013.

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On September 9 and 10, 2005, attor-neys, mediators, arbitrators, ombudsmen,public officials, law professors, studentsand members of the business communitygathered at the Penn State DickinsonSchool of Law for the “Neutrality andImpartiality in Alternative Justice” sympo-sium to discuss cutting-edge issues in arbi-tration law. The event featured prominentU.S. and Canadian scholars and practi-tioners in the fields of mediation and arbi-tration, including Penn State Dickinsonprofessors Thomas Carbonneau, NancyWelsh and Robert Ackerman.

“The symposium covered topics thatwill have an impact on lawyers practicingtoday,” said Carbonneau, faculty directorof the Law School’s recently establishedInstitute of Arbitration Law and Practiceand the Elsie de Renzo and Samuel P.Orlando Distinguished Professor of Law.“Discussions centered on how parties canuse allegations of partiality to attempt tonullify or vacate the effects of arbitrationdecisions, which have traditionally beenviewed as final under the law.”

According to Welsh, the symposiumhighlighted the need to understand impar-tiality as existing on a continuum, withlawyers and “party-appointed neutrals”playing important intermediary functions.“U.S. lawyers have been trained to providezealous advocacy, while mediators, arbitra-tors and judges are expected to furnishpure neutrality or impartiality,” Welsh said.“The symposium revealed that there is aneed for lawyers and neutrals to embraceroles that exist somewhere between purepartisanship and pure impartiality.”

“Today’s lawyers should embrace theirrole as a ‘lawyer/coach,’ helping clients to

examine their value system,processing options with theclient, apprising them oftheir options and servingas the client’s friend in thetruest sense of that word,”Ackerman added.

Symposium lectureswill be published in anupcoming issue of theInstitute of ArbitrationLaw and Practice’s Journalof American Arbitration andincluded “The Institution-al Perspective on ArbitratorIndependence: Practical Examples fromthe ICC Experience,” given by LorraineBrennan, ICC director for arbitration andADR in North America; “The Role of theParty-Appointed Arbitrator in CommercialDisputes,” by Richard Chernick, profes-sional arbitrator, mediator and dispute res-olution consultant with the AmericanArbitration Association; and “Faith-BasedArbitration,” by Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens, associate professor at the Univer-sity of Toronto Faculty of Law.

“When distinguished scholars andpractitioners, including attendees who arenot formal presenters, participate in anevent like this, you are left with real andengaging dialogue,” Ackerman said. “Bythe time that Bernie Mayer (author of theacclaimed book Beyond Neutrality),reached the halfway point in his openingpresentation, I knew the event wouldmake an important contribution to scholars’and practitioners’ understanding of neu-trality,” Ackerman added.

Welsh noted, “This very exciting,high-quality symposium never would have

happened without the involvement ofJeanette Jaeggi (former executive directorof the Institute of Arbitration Law andPractice) and Sandra Partridge, GregoryAlvarez, and Jason Reimer, the student edi-tors of the Journal of American Arbitration. Weare so lucky to have an energetic and thought-ful core of people at this school who believein ADR but who also are ready to examinethe field in a critical way,” Welsh said.

Welsh, who spent the 2005-2006 aca-demic year researching in the Netherlandsas a Fulbright Scholar, believes the nextfrontier in ADR involves exploring theinteraction between ADR and the legal pro-fession. She added that Penn State Dickin-son, currently ranked in the top ten in thenation in the field of dispute resolution, isperfectly placed to lead lawyers’ and policymakers’ exploration of the evolution ofthese roles due to the Law School’s partic-ular strengths in dispute resolution, advocacyand international/comparative law.

For a complete list of symposiumspeakers and topics, visit www.dsl.psu.edu/special/symposia3.cfm.

Law School Hosts Symposium

NEUTRALITY andIMPARTIALITY in ALTERNATIVE JUSTICE

— Jonathan Bach ’05 and Pam Knowlton

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Whether on the front page of thelocal newspaper or running as a headlineon the national news, stories of child abuseare reported across the country every day.In Pennsylvania alone, the Department ofPublic Welfare reported that forty childrendied in 2005 as a result of abuse.

Protecting our most vulnerable popu-lation from these tragedies requires thecollaboration of all partners involved inthe child welfare system and the commu-nity. Now, Penn State Dickinson studentswill have the opportunity to play a part inthis network by representing childrenthrough the Law School’s new Children’sAdvocacy Clinic.

The launch of the clinic was spurredby Penn State Clinical Professor LucyJohnston-Walsh’s passion for protectingchildren’s rights. Johnston-Walsh, a formerstate and federal lobbyist for a child advo-cacy organization and past chair of thePennsylvania Bar Association Children’sRights Committee, directs the clinic’soperations and supports its mission toserve children and advocate for policyissues related to children in the welfare sys-tem. Under her supervision, clinic studentsrepresent abused and neglected children, aswell as children involved in matters ofcontested adoptions and custody actions.Children are represented in one of twoways – either as legal counsel in caseswhere the client, most often a teenager, iscapable of expressing his or her desires oras a guardian ad litem, who is appointedby the court to represent the child’s bestinterests.

Johnston-Walsh, who was a schoolsocial worker for several years before earn-ing her J.D. degree from the Law Schoolin 1997, hopes that eventually the Chil-dren’s Advocacy Clinic will grow into amulti-disciplinary center where children’svarious needs can be addressed in onebuilding. She envisions that ultimately thecenter staff would include a social workerand/or psychologist specialized in the wel-fare of children.

“Having enough time to get every-thing done is one of the biggest challengesin representing children,” Johnston-Walshsaid.

According to Johnston-Walsh, provid-ing the best possible representation is verytime consuming since it requires meetingwith various parties including the child,the parents and teachers. But more oftenthan not, cases come to the clinic as emer-gency situations where immediate action isneeded.

“We get done what needs to be doneon a daily basis. Frequently that involvestemporarily putting aside non-emergencycases so that we can interview and prepparties for the most immediate and urgenthearings,” Johnston-Walsh said.

A weekly, one-hour classroom compo-nent of the clinic offers specialized trainingto address the unique issues students mayface when representing children who rangein ages from infancy to teenagers. Theclinic plans to team up with other unitswithin the University, including educationand psychology departments and HersheyMedical Center, to provide interdiscipli-nary instruction on topics such as the

developmental stages of children, how toidentify and treat abuse and special inter-viewing skills related to communicationwith children as clients.

“Whether or not the law studentsultimately represent children as theircareer, they will learn valuable legal skillsthat easily translate to other areas of thelaw,” Johnston-Walsh stated.

Johnston-Walsh is working to buildan even more meaningful collaborativeprogram by exploring relationships withadditional disciplines as well as with otherclinical programs at the Law School. Forexample, she has joined forces with Profes-sor Katherine Pearson, supervisor of theElder Law Clinic, who has a similarapproach to clinical education and advoca-cy. In October, Pearson and Johnston-Walsh will present a program entitled“Hear Our Voices! Advocacy for the Oldand Young through University Based Clin-ics” at the two-day 2006 Outreach Schol-arship Conference sponsored by GeorgiaState, Ohio State University, Penn StateUniversity and the University of Wisconsin.

For additional information regardingthe Penn State Dickinson School of LawChildren’s Advocacy Clinic, please contactLucy Johnston-Walsh at (717) 240-5257or e-mail [email protected].

Law School steps into the fight for

CHILDREN’SRIGHTS

— Pam Knowlton

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ASYLUM CLINICOffers Hope for Refugees


Every year, thousands of refugeesfrom across the world make their wayto the United States seeking asylum,the protection from persecution or thefear of persecution in their own coun-tries because of their race, religion,nationality, membership in a particularsocial group or political opinion. As aresult of the 1996 immigration lawsmandating the detention of asylumseekers and immigrants, the number ofimmigrant detainees in the UnitedStates has reached catastrophic propor-tions. Whether they are survivors ofcrimes against humanity or humanrights activists, they come to the “landof the free” looking to find a safehaven.

Upon their arrival, an enormousburden is placed upon the refugees toestablish that they meet the legal crite-ria under U.S. immigration law requiredto obtain asylum status. In addition tobeing confused by the complexity ofthe asylum process, most refugees haveno means to pay for effective legal rep-resentation. There are currently no gov-ernment-funded legal representation pro-grams, so asylum seekers depend almostentirely upon non-governmental organ-izations, pro bono law firm representa-tion programs and refugee clinics at lawschools for assistance.

Recently, Penn State Dickinsonopened its doors to help representrefugees seeking safety by establishingits Asylum Clinic. The idea of the clin-ic was proposed by Ethiopian nativeWon Kidane, who currently is a visitingassistant professor of law at Penn StateDickinson. The refugee clinic will com-plement Penn State Dickinson’s well-established clinical programs. “In gener-

al, clinical education brings remarkableresponsibilities of decision-making withactual clients and is often regarded as agreat supplement to doctrinal and proce-dural learning,” said Kidane.

There are two components to theclinic — classroom instruction andactual client representation. Immigra-tion law expert and Penn State Dickin-son Professor Victor Romero leads theclass with assistance from ProfessorKidane. During class, students areintroduced to the basics of substantiveand procedural laws of obtaining asy-lum, thus preparing them to representactual clients seeking asylum in theUnited States. Students are also expect-ed to discuss issues they encounterwhile researching, preparing and repre-senting the clients’ cases.

“Whenever a team of students hasa trial to prepare for or a client inter-view to conduct, the team will be givenan opportunity to demonstrate theintended role in class while other studentswill be given the chance to observe andprovide feedback,” said Kidane.

The second component to theclinic involves the actual representationof clients at various stages of the asylumproceedings. The student attorneys arethe primary representatives of theirclients and are responsible for manag-ing all aspects of their caseload. All stu-dents are required to meet with theirsupervising professor at least once aweek for advice and feedback on theircaseload.

Most clients are aliens in immigra-tion detention centers seeking relieffrom deportation. They are referred tothe clinic by the Pennsylvania Immigra-tion Resource Center, a non-profit

ASYLUM CLINIC WINS FIRST CASE

During the Penn State Dickinson Schoolof Law Asylum Clinic’s first semester of opera-tion, second-year law students Alison Babichand Ryan Navarra worked closely with WonKidane, professor of law and supervisor of theclinic’s operations, on a case for a client seek-ing asylum after being detained by an immi-gration officer in December 2005 when hetried to enter the country without proper doc-umentation. Their client is from the highlyunstable Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC), where human rights violations occurregularly and often go unpunished. Prior to hisarrival in the United States, the client was asocially active, hardworking man who opposedthe arbitrary rule of the DRC government.Because of his political beliefs, he sufferedsevere torture at the hands of the government andbecame so fearful for his life that he left theCongo to avoid further persecution.

On April 14, Babich and Navarra, super-vised by Kidane, presented their client’s case, andafter nearly five hours in court, secured a rarevictory with the immigration judge granting asylum.

Detainees with limited education andEnglish skills frequently are pitted againstaccomplished government attorneys, and,because they are not entitled to government-appointed counsel, most detainees go unrepre-sented. Unlike thousands of refugees whocome to America looking for safety only toface deportation, this particular refugee’s fateturned out differently, no doubt in partbecause he had legal representation by the Asy-lum Clinic.

According to immigration law expert Pro-fessor Victor Romero, “The current law andpractice in immigration/asylum proceedings gives

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immigrant rights organization in York,Pennsylvania, or the Board of Immigra-tion Appeals pro bono program in Vir-ginia. Depending on the circumstances,student involvement will vary from caseto case ranging from fact finding, todevelopment of legal strategies, to finalpresentation before an immigrationcourt. Typical student responsibilitiesmay include the initial screening andinterviewing of refugees in the YorkCounty immigration detention center,preparing factual affidavits and legalbriefs and representing clients before animmigration court, the Board of Immi-gration Appeals or circuit courts ofappeals.

“It is not very common for asylumseekers to have representation, but it isextremely special because the successrate is just amazing. Asylum seekerswho have representation have a signifi-cantly higher rate of approval,” said Kidane.

During the spring 2006 semester,three law students began representingclients through the clinic. Kidane’s goalis to eventually have eight studentsenrolled in the clinic per semester withtwo students assigned per client. “Theclinic should be fully operating by thefall semester,” said Kidane.

Students earn three credits persemester and may enroll for a maxi-mum of two semesters.

Kidane said the advantages of hav-ing an established refugee clinic at theLaw School are numerous, and that inaddition to providing invaluable hands-on learning for students, the AsylumClinic will enhance the Law School’sstrong commitment to public interestand community service. In addition,students will work closely with non-governmental organizations, public

interest groups, various foreignembassies, the U.S. State Departmentand other U.S. government agencies,thereby broadening their career choices,and interested members of the facultycan enjoy the opportunity to conductpro bono work as supervisors of theclinic’s student attorneys.

Kidane envisions that the cliniccould serve as the foundation forgrowth into a human rights andhumanitarian law center which wouldhost conferences, symposia and guestspeakers in the areas of refugee, humanrights and humanitarian law.

Before his current appointment atPenn State Dickinson, Professor Kidanepracticed law in Washington, D.C.,with Piper Rudnick and later Hunton& Williams, where his practice focusedon international arbitration and litiga-tion matters.

Prior to his legal practice in Wash-ington, D.C., Professor Kidane workedas a legal officer in association with theRegional Office of the United NationsHigh Commissioner for Refugees inAfrica. His duties included refugee sta-tus determination and protection ofrights of refugees from various parts ofAfrica. Professor Kidane also taughtcriminal procedure and law of evidenceas an adjunct faculty member in AddisAbaba, Ethiopia.

For additional information regard-ing the Penn State Dickinson School ofLaw Asylum Clinic, please contact Pro-fessor Won Kidane at (814) 863-3730or e-mail [email protected].

Kidane

little protection to the non-citizen and muchadvantage to the government. It is not uncom-mon for Immigration and Customs Enforce-ment attorneys to act quite brazenly, takingfull advantage of the informality of the admin-istrative proceedings to get the immigrationjudges to consider evidence that would likely notbe admissible in federal courts.

“Sadly, much of immigration law is morelike contract law than it is human rights law;the U.S. government gets to decide whether anon-citizen is permitted to enter, and under whatconditions she is allowed to stay; should thenon-citizen appear unconvincing, she hasfailed to meet the terms of the contract and isnot allowed the privilege of being in the U.S,”Romero explained.

Romero added that Kidane, Babich andNavarra prevailed in “that very difficult con-text” and should be congratulated for theirefforts and success.

When asked about the atmosphere in thecourtroom, Navarra replied, “It was cordial atfirst, but it quickly became adversarial innature because it was clear that the only waythe government could win their case was toimpeach our client.”

Navarra described his overall experience inthe clinic as “one of my most enlighteningexperiences in law school.” Comparing his class-room reading assignments to the case at hand,he said, “Our client’s situation is very muchlike the cases I’ve read in the refugee law semi-nar that I’ve been taking with Professor Maluwa thissemester, so it’s interesting learning the law andpracticing it concurrently. Not only have I putthe skills I’ve learned in the classroom to prac-tical use, but I’ve seen the end result of onehuman being helping another at his or hermost vulnerable time.”

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A L U M N I andR E U N I O N

Lynval Gray ’06, recipient of the Arnell-Nurick-McIntosh-Marshall Scholarship,and Kristi Johnson ’06, recipient of theAdele and Leonard Blumberg Scholar-ship and the Professor William H. andMary A. Dodd Scholarship, spoke at theSaturday afternoon Scholarship Lun-cheon, sponsored by Sandor Yelen ’56,Michael Yelen ’95 and Jeffrey Yelen ’97.Both students echoed similar senti-ments—deep, heartfelt gratitude for thegracious support of donors that has helpedthem to make their dreams of becominglawyers come true.

The pair also emphasized the far-reaching impact of scholarship assistance,sharing stories of how their achievementshave impacted those close to them andeven inspired family and friends to reachfor their goals.

“…my attendance has influencedothers around me,” Johnson said. “Forinstance, my younger sister will graduatefrom my alma mater, Old Dominion Uni-versity, this December. My other sisters are

also preparing for college…one of my sis-ter’s friends, who is graduating fromODU also, has told my sister that I amher inspiration to go to law school andbecome a lawyer.

“I am mindful that this would not bepossible without the help of the facultyand staff here at Penn State Dickinson, orwithout the generosity of the Dodd andBlumberg families.”

Gray, who is the first in his family tograduate from high school and college andto attend law school, said, “I had to helpraise my other siblings and currently havephysical and financial custody over my lit-tle sister. Law school does not stop thatresponsibility.

“This scholarship has really helped inalleviating, to a large extent, my financialburden during law school. I am trulygrateful to the donors and encouragethem to keep on giving because their gen-erosity is helping me to realize my long-held dream of becoming an attorney.”

The spirits of alumni and friends who celebrated Alumni & Reunion Weekend 2005

were high despite the soggy weather and consequent cancellation of the annual golf

tournament (a first in recent memory!). Traveling from areas as distant as Hawaii and

representing classes from 1938 to 2005, alumni and friends returned to Carlisle and

spent the first weekend in October catching up on recent events and sharing fond

memories of earlier days. The weekend’s activities included a Welcome Reception on

Friday evening, the Scholarship Luncheon, the traditional Keg-in-the-Curtilage, the

General Alumni Association (GAA) Awards Ceremony and the Saturday night dinners.

The weekend was a special celebration for graduates who returned to celebrate mile-

stone reunion years.

Kristi Johnson and Lynval Gray

Dr. Leonard and Adele Blumberg

Professor Harvey Feldman

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The Penn State Dickinson School ofLaw General Alumni Association (GAA)honored a former professor of law and four lawschool alumni during the weekend’s festivities.

The GAA bestowed honorary alumnihonors to Peter C. Alexander, an activemember of the Penn State Dickinson fac-ulty for eleven years before leaving in 2003to become dean at the Southern IllinoisUniversity School of Law in Carbondale,Illinois. Alexander teaches in the areas ofbankruptcy law, evidence and trial prac-tice. He is a member of the American BarAssociation and the Illinois State Bar Asso-ciation, a 2002 inductee into the Ameri-can College of Bankruptcy and a memberof the Advisory Board of the AmericanBankruptcy Institute Law Review.

Harvey A. Feldman, class of 1969,was honored with the Outstanding Alum-ni Award in recognition of his tirelesscommitment to the Law School as a pro-fessor of law since 1970. Regarded as oneof the school’s most challenging and effec-tive teachers, he focuses on the fields ofappellate practice, property and real estatetransactions. Feldman served as associatedean for academic affairs from 1977through 2003, one of the longest tenuresin the nation, and was instrumental inmerging the school’s academic reportingfunction into the University’s systems.Feldman is also beloved for his leadershipof the Law School’s annual entry in theUniversity of Virginia’s Law School Invita-tional Softball Tournament. He and histeammates won that tournament in 2001and finished second in 2000 and 2002.

United States Third Circuit Court ofAppeals Judge D. Brooks Smith, class of

1976, and regional director of the UnitedStates Securities and Exchange Commis-sion’s (SEC) Midwest Regional OfficeMerri Jo Gillette, class of 1982, bothreceived the GAA’s Career AchievementAward in honor of their distinguished pro-fessional accomplishments. Smith wasnominated for the Third Circuit Court ofAppeals by President George W. Bush andconfirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 31,2002. He previously served as chief judgeof the United States District Court for theWestern District of Pennsylvania, as ajudge of the Blair County Court of Com-mon Pleas and as Blair County districtattorney. Judge Smith is a member of theAmerican Law Institute, the Federal JudgesAssociation and the American JudicatureSociety. He has served on the Board ofTrustees of Saint Francis University, as wellas on the boards of the Salvation Army, BlairCounty Legal Services Corporation andFamily and Children’s Service of Blair County.

As regional director of SEC’s MidwestRegional Office, Gillette oversees enforce-ment and examination programs in a ninestate area. Prior to being named regionaldirector, Gillette was the associate districtadministrator for enforcement in theSEC’s PhiladelphiaDistrict Office(PDO). She joinedthe SEC in 1986 as astaff attorney in thePDO and served asbranch chief from1989 to 1990, chieftrial counsel from1990 to 1994, assis-tant director from

1994 to 1998 and district trial counselfrom 1998 to 2003. Gillette’s enforcementgroup in Philadelphia participated in theCommission’s initiative to clamp down onundisclosed revenue sharing arrangementsin connection with the distribution andsales of mutual funds.

The GAA also recognized class of1978 graduate Walter T. Grabowski asthe recipient of the Distinguished ServiceAward. Grabowski, who graduated fromPenn State in 1975, has provided out-standing leadership and service to TheDickinson School of Law for many yearsand is a member of the prestigious JohnReed Society of donors. A former LawSchool trustee, Grabowski has served onthe Alumni Association Board of Directorsfor approximately fifteen years, has co-chaired the Alumni Weekend Committeefor five years, participated in the school’smentoring program, and co-chaired theNortheast Alumni Chapter dinner. He is apartner with Holland, Brady & Grabows-ki, P.C. of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, andconcentrates his practice in commercialand business litigation, employment andreal estate.

WEEKEND 2005Sandor Yelen and Dean Peter Alexander Dean Philip McConnaughay, Hon. D. Brooks Smith,

Sandor Yelen and Luci Jankowski McClureWalter Grabowski and Philip Rutledge

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On December 14, 2004, eleven parents filed suit against theDover Area (PA) School District charging that the school board’spolicy requiring that intelligent design (ID) be introduced as analternative to evolution violated the church and state separationclause of the United States Constitution. The policy in questionstipulated that teachers would read the following statement tostudents in ninth grade biology class at Dover High School:

The Pennsylvania Academic Standards require students to learn about Darwin’s Theory of Evolution and eventually to take a standardized test of which evolution is a part.

Because Darwin’s theory is a theory, it continues to be tested as new evidence is discovered. The theory is not a fact. Gaps in the theory exist for which there is no evidence. A theory is defined asa well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations.

Intelligent Design is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin’s view. The reference book Of Pandas andPeople is available for students who might be interested in gainingan understanding of what intelligent design actually involves.

With respect to any theory, students are encouraged to keep an open mind. The school leaves discussion of the origins of life to individual students and their families. As a standards-driven district, class instruction focuses upon preparing students to achieve proficiency on standards-based assessments.

Judge John E. Jones III ’80, United States District CourtJudge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, wasleaving the visiting chambers in Harrisburg,Pennsylvania, the day the suit was filed andheard the announcement on a local radiostation. Knowing it was in the MiddleDistrict, Jones wondered if hewould be assigned to the case.

“When I got back to mychambers in Williamsport thenext day, I looked on mycomputer and I saw the initials‘JEJ’ after the caption ofthe case. I was certainlyexcited and pleased to havethe opportunity…,” Jones said.

He knew from the onset that the constitutional challengewas a sort of ‘ballyhoo’ claim, but wasn’t sure how far it would go.“Most cases settle, and cases don’t frequently end up being whatthey’re designated to be by the filers in the lawsuits,” he said.“But this one kept getting bigger and bigger after it was filed.”

The case of course did go to trial, and, on December 20, 2005,Jones issued his ruling that ID was a religious theory, not a scien-tific alternative to evolution, and that the board’s policy clearlyviolated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to theConstitution of the United States. In making his decision, Jonesapplied the endorsement test to determine whether or not thepolicy promoted religion and the three-part Lemon test, originat-ing from the 1971 Lemon v. Kurtzman decision, to determinewhether or not the policy violated the Establishment Clause.

“Suffice it to say, both sides had ample opportunity to putout all the testimony they wanted to…I was simply left with the

opinion that intelligent design is an interesting the-ological argument, but it is not science. To

make ID into something scientific, youhave to change the definition

of science to include thesupernatural,” Jones said.

He explained that,according to the 1993Daubert ruling, federaljudges must act as gate-keepers with the respectto the admission of experttestimony. He said that in

those determinations,judges consider whether the

scientific method to be presented

THE HONORABLE JOHN E. JONES III ’80

ISSUES RULING IN LANDMARK

INTELLIGENT DESIGN CASE

“The proper application of both the

endorsement and Lemon tests to the

facts of this case makes it abundantly clear

that the Board’s ID Policy

violates the Establishment Clause.”

— Kelly Jones Tammy Kitzmiller, et. al. v. Dover Area School District, et. al

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The following excerpt is from the conclusion of Judge Jones’ ruling on the

Dover intelligent design trial. Text of the full opinion can be found at

http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/opinions/jones/04v2688d.pdf.

has been peer-reviewed and whetherit’s been recognized in courts as anaccepted method.

“Among other things, the testimonyin this case established that ID and thework of ID proponents had not beenaccepted through the peer review processand there was not one national scientificorganization that was favorably disposedtoward ID, and that was notable in thecontext of this case,” Jones said.

According to the judge, part of thedefense was that it was “just a state-ment.” But he was convinced that it wasmuch more than that.

“You had a progression on theschool board where, starting several yearsbefore the statement was introduced,there was a clear intention to inject cre-ationism into the classroom. It just sohappened that in 2004, they grabbedthis notion of ID... In my mind at least,they used (the statement) as a stalkinghorse to get quasi-creationism into theclassroom,” Jones said.

Jones also pointed out that thestatement directed students to the bookOf Pandas and People as the text in sup-port of ID. According to Jones, thebook’s original references to creation-ism were replaced with ID followingthe 1987 U.S. Supreme Court caseEdwards v. Aguillard, which bannedLouisiana’s Creationism Act (requiringcreation-science to be taught withevolution) and prohibited teachingcreation-science in public schools.“Students were being led to creationisttext, and that violates the Establish-ment Clause,” Jones said.

Because he determined that IDwas not science, and because it hadsuch strong religious antecedents, Jonesfound that it was a clear constitutionalviolation to include the statement inpublic classroom instruction.

In his conclusion, excerpted on thispage, Jones outlined his most heartfeltexpressions. “I wanted to telegraph thedistress that I felt over this ill-advisedpolicy and my chagrin that the taxpay-ers and citizens of Dover had been sub-jected to this...,” he lamented.

“It was a constitutional challenge,”Jones said, “and I think the system worked.”

“The proper application of both theendorsement and Lemon tests to the factsof this case makes it abundantly clear thatthe Board’s ID Policy violates the Establish-ment Clause. In making this determina-tion, we have addressed the seminal ques-tion of whether ID is science. We haveconcluded that it is not, and moreover thatID cannot uncouple itself from its creation-ist, and thus religious, antecedents.

Both Defendants and many of theleading proponents of ID make a bedrockassumption which is utterly false. Theirpresupposition is that evolutionary theoryis antithetical to a belief in the existence ofa supreme being and to religion in general.Repeatedly in this trial, Plaintiffs’ scientificexperts testified that the theory of evolu-tion represents good science, is overwhelm-ingly accepted by the scientific community,and that it in no way conflicts with, nordoes it deny, the existence of a divine creator.

To be sure, Darwin’s theory of evolu-tion is imperfect. However, the fact that ascientific theory cannot yet render anexplanation on every point should not beused as a pretext to thrust an untestablealternative hypothesis grounded in religioninto the science classroom or to misrepre-sent well-established scientific propositions.

The citizens of the Dover area werepoorly served by the members of the Boardwho voted for the ID Policy. It is ironicthat several of these individuals, who sostaunchly and proudly touted their religiousconvictions in public, would time andagain lie to cover their tracks and disguise thereal purpose behind the ID Policy.

With that said, we do not questionthat many of the leading advocates of IDhave bona fide and deeply held beliefswhich drive their scholarly endeavors. Nordo we controvert that ID should continueto be studied, debated, and discussed. Asstated, our conclusion today is that it isunconstitutional to teach ID as an alterna-tive to evolution in a public school scienceclassroom.

Those who disagree with our holdingwill likely mark it as the product of anactivist judge. If so, they will have erred asthis is manifestly not an activist Court.Rather, this case came to us as the result ofthe activism of an ill-informed faction on aschool board, aided by a national publicinterest law firm eager to find a constitu-tional test case on ID, who in combinationdrove the Board to adopt an imprudentand ultimately unconstitutional policy. Thebreathtaking inanity of the Board’s decisionis evident when considered against the fac-tual backdrop which has now been fullyrevealed through this trial. The students,parents, and teachers of the Dover AreaSchool District deserved better than to bedragged into this legal maelstrom, with itsresulting utter waste of monetary and per-sonal resources.

To preserve the separation of churchand state mandated by the EstablishmentClause of the First Amendment to theUnited States Constitution, and Art. I, § 3of the Pennsylvania Constitution, we willenter an order permanently enjoiningDefendants from maintaining the ID Poli-cy in any school within the Dover AreaSchool District, from requiring teachers todenigrate or disparage the scientific theoryof evolution, and from requiring teachersto refer to a religious, alternative theoryknown as ID. We will also issue a declara-tory judgment that Plaintiffs’ rights underthe Constitutions of the United States andthe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania havebeen violated by Defendants’ actions.Defendants’ actions in violation of Plain-tiffs’ civil rights as guaranteed to them bythe Constitution of the United States and42 U.S.C. § 1983 subject Defendants toliability with respect to injunctive anddeclaratory relief, but also for nominaldamages and the reasonable value of Plain-tiffs’ attorneys’ services and costs incurredin vindicating Plaintiffs’ constitutionalrights.”

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JUDGE

JONES...

In anticipation of the coverage Tammy Kitzmiller, et.al. v. Dover Area School District, et. al. was likely to gener-ate, Judge John E. Jones III ’80 of the United States Dis-trict Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania andGary Hollinger, chief deputy for the district’s Harrisburgdivision, were diligent in their preparations leading up tothe trial. Opting not to open the court to television cam-eras, the pair allocated a jury box for the media, madeprovisions for an overflow room with live audio feed, andset up a dedicated Web site where decisions relative to thecase could be posted and easily accessed by the media andother interested parties.

“But on the first day of trial, knowing all of this andunderstanding the probable media attention, we didn’tknow what we would actually get...It was astonishing,”Jones recalled.

On that opening day, Jones arrived at the FederalBuilding & U.S. Courthouse in Harrisburg to find the

building encircled by satellite trucks. Inside, the court-room was lined with sketch artists, high-tech equipmentand countless media representatives. “When I took thebench I was so taken aback by what I saw that it actuallytook me a half a minute to settle myself down; I hadnever seen anything like it,” Jones said.

He remembers looking to the back of the courtroom,seeing Robert Bazell, NBC News chief science and healthcorrespondent, and Jake Trapper, ABC News correspondent,and thinking, “Well, we really did attract a lot of attention.”

Considering what transpired over the next six weeks,and what continues today, that was probably an under-statement.

Months after issuing his ruling on the controversialDover intelligent design (ID) case, Jones is still in themidst of the whirlwind surrounding the trial. Time maga-zine just featured him in its “Time 100: The People WhoShape Our World” issue, recognizing Jones as one of the

Appointed to a seat on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania by President George W. Bush in

2002, Judge John E. Jones III ’80 presided over the country’s first trial to test the constitutionality of teaching intelligent design

as an alternative to evolution. In a recent interview, Judge Jones shared his reflections on the monumental case that sparked a

national and international debate and attracted the attention of media outlets from around the world. He also discussed the path

that led him to a career on the bench.

and the extraordinary trial thatthrust him into the spotlight

— Kelly Jones

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most influential people in the world. He’sbeen profiled in the New York Times andthe Philadelphia Inquirer, among others.Fast Company magazine recognized him asnumber five on its “Fast 50 of 2006” list –just one spot below Bill Clinton and sever-al places above Bill Gates – and VanityFair’s counterpart television program inItaly interviewed him for a special seg-ment. His schedule is packed with speak-ing engagements and special appearancesacross the country. Recently, Charles Dar-win’s great-great grandson invited him ona tour of the Darwin exhibit at the Ameri-can Museum of Natural History in NewYork City (the exhibit now concludes witha mention of the Dover case). And Para-mount Pictures has announced that they’llbe producing a movie chronicling the trial.

His life these days seems more likethat of a rock star than a federal courtjudge. But it’s not the glitz of the mediathat has left the greatest impression on thejudge; it’s the skill and integrity of thelawyers who, day after day, lived up to thehighest standards of practice.

“I think that the lawyering was asgood of lawyering as maybe I’ll ever see ina case,” Jones commented. “I would bedelighted to see lawyering that equals it,but I’m not sure that I’ll ever see anythingthat surpasses it. It was that good.

“I don’t know how this case in ten,fifteen or twenty years from now will holdup because history is judged well after thefact, but I really believe that in advocacyclasses, and when people begin to breakdown what happened, some of the cross-examination of the defendants’ witnessesby the plaintiffs’ council will be excerptedand studied and utilized as a model forcross-examination,” he said.

In a trial largely driven by expert testi-mony from paleontologists, biologists andtheologians, Jones anticipitated highlycomplex and scientific testimony thatcould be difficult to follow, but his con-cerns were allayed. “Particularly the plain-tiffs worked hard to make out their case,by way of their experts, in a way that a lay

person could understand,” Judge Jones said.“I felt that I got it at the end of the day.”

Despite the media frenzy surroundingthe case, Jones described the courtroomand its cast of attorneys, plaintiffs anddefendants as maintaining an air of dignityand earnestness. “There was a certainsolemnity and obvious understanding onthe part of both the lawyers and the par-ties involved that this was something thatpossibly had historical consequences andthey needed to act in a way that was con-sistent with that,” he said.

“Counsel got along…in the finestspirit and tradition of the profession,” Jonesadded. “We didn’t have the sniping andback biting or attorneys attacking eachother. They really were strong advocatesbut were able to do it in a very civilized way.”

It’s this professionalism, respect andcollegiality that Jones fears is being lost intoday’s courtroom. “I think (the lack ofcivility) adds to the stress load of thelawyers. It’s a drag on the system, and it’sjust debilitating. When I see lawyerslaunching unprovoked attacks on oppos-ing counsel, I really nip that in the bud. Iwon’t hesitate to admonish a lawyer whoengages in that type of behavior,” Jones said.

Jones attributes the trend to the com-petitive nature of the legal business. “Somelawyers have this belief that to show a dis-agreeable, intemperate and, I think, absolute-ly rude nature is a way to demonstrate toyour client that you’re an appropriateadvocate, and it’s not. And it certainlydoesn’t help you with the tribunals thatyou practice before,” he said. “I’m on aquest…to enforce some civility in the pro-fession, and Dover was only a part of it.”

At the close of trial, Jones and AdeleMcDonald Neiburg ’04, the clerk assignedto the case, were left to sort through volumesof testimony. But instead of tackling thedecision immediately, Jones turned hisattention to the docket that had beenawaiting him.

“We were so steeped in (the trial) thatI said, ‘Let’s think about this and walk awayfrom it for a week.’ And then we returned

to it in earnest.” The judge and Neiburg(whose work the judge described as “bril-liant”) went through multiple drafts beforereleasing the opinion on December 20.

In his decision, Jones anticipated thathe would be criticized and referred to asan activist judge. “But in actuality, I wasn’tan activist judge. I had followed precedentvery closely, and if I had ruled another way, Iwould have had to reject precedent. ThenI would have been an activist judge,” Jonessaid.

“It was a constitutional challenge, andI think the system worked,” he added.

Across the country, school districtsand state legislatures have grappled withwhether or not to challenge the theory ofevolution by incorporating religious-basedconcepts into lessons on the origins of life.The results have been mixed.

“If you look at polls, most Americansthink it’s OK to teach creationism…Ithink that, justifiably, there are a lot ofpeople in the country concerned aboutissues of morality and the proper place forreligion,” Jones said. “It’s a laudable desireto have increased morality and responsibil-ity, but I go back to what the foundingfathers intended.

“(Thomas) Jefferson’s view was thepredominant view of the founding fathers,and they believed very firmly that thereneeded to be that separation (of churchand state). I think that’s the basis of theEstablishment Clause of the First Amend-ment,” Jones opined. “If you begin to injectforms of religion into our public schools,where do you draw the line? There are otherissues at stake beyond the mere injectionof religion into a biology curriculum.”

The debate isn’t likely to subside anytime soon. But for his part, Jones is thank-ful to have had the opportunity to con-tribute to the dialogue. “Most judges willtell you that they got on the bench to havethe opportunity to decide important cases,so I kind of hoped that I’d have a crack at(this case).”

Jones’ close friend Thomas J. Ridge,72,former Pennsylvania governor and the first

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secretary of the U.S. Department ofHomeland Security, feels strongly thatJones was the perfect candidate for the job.“There is no doubt in my mind, given thecomplexity and controversy surround-ing the intelligent design case,that his assignment as pre-siding judge was one ofthe most important andappropriate decisions theDistrict Court evermade,” Ridge commented.“His ability, knowledge,temperament, humor – histotal judicial presence and per-son – made him the ideal judgefor this case,” Ridge said.

Ridge said that he has talkedto observers of the case whowere impressed with Jones’style, substance, courtesy and“command presence in thecourtroom.” He added thathe believes that Jones’ love ofhistory and literature, and hisability to connect both sourceswith the law, are factors that help tomake him an exceptional judge.

But what was it that led Jones to thejudiciary and, ultimately, to his role in thenation’s first legal inquiry into the consti-tutionality of teaching ID as science?

Jones said he first considered a futureon the bench while clerking for SchuylkillCounty President Judge Guy A. Bowe ’42from 1980 to 1983. “I was the first lawyerin my family, so I thought that wasenough,” Jones explained. “Suddenly, I’mclerking for a judge and… thinking that Iwould love to do this someday.”

But Jones set aside his judicial ambi-tions to practice law, first with the firm ofDolbin & Cori, later Dolbin, Cori &Jones, from 1980 to 1986 and then as aprivate practitioner with John Jones &Associates from 1986 to 2002. Whilepracticing, Jones also served as SchuylkillCounty’s assistant public defender from1983 to 1995 and as solicitor for the Cityof Pottsville from 1994 to 1996.

Undeterred by an unsuccessful run forCongress in 1992 (he lost by a mere per-centage point), Jones was active with Ridge’s1994 gubernatorial campaign and laterserved as co-chair for Ridge’s Labor andIndustry transition team. In 1995, Joneswas appointed by Ridge, and confirmed bythe Pennsylvania Senate, as chair of thePennsylvania Liquor Control Board(PLCB). Highly lauded and regarded forhis work and contributions as chair of thePLCB, he held the post until he wasappointed to the U.S. Middle DistrictCourt by President George W. Bush in2002.

Jones credits Ridge, whom he firstmet while running for Congress, as beinga guiding factor in his life and career.

“I think the world of him,” Jonessaid. “I think we all need mentors in ourlives, people we can look up to and emulate

and who can provideinspiration to us, andthere’s been nobodygreater in my lifethan Tom Ridge. He’sa great booster and aninspiration, and I learnmore than I can say

from him and the wayhe conducts his life.

“I give him abundantthanks. I would not be a federal

judge today without the guidanceand support that he has lent to me

over the last fifteen years.”Ridge, however, thinks it’s the other

way around. “I’m a huge fan, a greatadmirer. He has multiple skill sets…and

a standard of excellence that he reachesand exceeds,” Ridge said. “He’s like amodern day renaissance man, given thedepth of knowledge and interests he has.He’s a fascinating guy and a great friend.”

When asked whether or not a run forgovernor was in his future, Jones said thatalthough he won’t preclude things in hislife, he’s not leaning toward that option atthis time. “I have a life commission, and asI sit here, I can’t imagine circumstancesthat would make me want to give upsomething that I’ve worked so hard in mylife to achieve. But you never know wherelife is going to take you.

“I’ve had such a myriad of experiences…I wouldn’t trade any of it for anything,”Jones said. “It’s been a great run, and I stillget excited about coming to work everyday. There are so many people who live inquiet agony because they don’t like whatthey do day to day, and I never do. I lovewhat I do.”

Noting author Joseph Campbell’sadvice to “follow your bliss,” Jones said, “Ithink of that often, and I’ve done that inmy life. I’ve pursued the things that makeme happy...I consider myself to be veryblessed to be a United States DistrictCourt judge.”

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R E A C H I N GOUT T O A L U M N I I N

PUBLIC INTEREST

The number of law schools withLoan Repayment and Assistance Programs(LRAP) is growing dramatically, and TheDickinson School of Law is proud to beone of the progressive schools with anLRAP well under way. We are excited toannounce that another name has beenadded to the growing list of former stu-dents whose careers serving the public arebeing facilitated by loan repayment assis-tance. One of the most recent recipients isan alumna from the class of 2004 who isdedicating her professional time to pro-viding legal services to some of society’smost disadvantaged populations.

Recipient Valerie Burch is the manag-ing attorney at the Pennsylvania Immigra-tion Resource Center (PIRC). She repre-sents clients through the Detained TortureSurvivors Project and presents weekly“Know Your Rights” seminars to thedetained immigrant population in YorkCounty. Burch is quickly becoming a well-known and respected attorney in her field.

“Less than four months after I gradu-ated from the Law School, I found myselfalone in one of the largest immigrationdetention facilities in the country sur-rounded by some twenty hopeful non-citi-zens detained by the U.S. Department ofHomeland Security, all without the abilityto hire an attorney and all with scores ofquestions coming at me in languages fromall over the world,” said Burch.

While she is hesitant to move thefocus of any conversation from thoseclients to a discussion of money, Burchrecognizes the role that the LRAP plays inher life. “Believe me, the LRAP fundsmake a difference,” she said. “I probablywould have been forced to take a second

job on the side to continue working atPIRC were it not for the LRAP funds.”

Established in 2003, Penn State Dick-inson’s LRAP is designed to encouragecareers in public interest law by assistinggraduates with their educational loan repay-ment obligations, and, for those who con-tinue in public interest employment forfive consecutive years, forgiving theirrepayment obligation. The impoverishedin our country face many challenges tofinding justice through our legal system.The rising costs of legal education and theincreasing amounts of educational debt thatmany young attorneys face further frustratesattempts to provide an equal administrationof justice. LRAP enables recent graduatesto enter the field of public interest law despiteits dramatically lower salary rates and topursue their goals of seeking social justice.

Lucy Johnston-Walsh, a 1997 gradu-ate of the Law School who served as presi-dent of the Public Interest Law Fund stu-dent organization, was instrumental inspearheading the LRAP at the Law School.“I am thrilled that the program has beenable to give out loan assistance for twoyears now. To date, five graduates havereceived assistance from this program,”said Johnston-Walsh. “The program makesa big difference in the lives of these gradu-ates, assisting them as they practice in vari-ous areas of public interest law.”

Applications for LRAP are consideredtwice each academic year and must be sub-mitted by June 1 or December 1. Gradu-ates who meet the program’s eligibilityrequirements are entitled to apply forLRAP in their third year of law school orin the two-year period following graduation.

Penn State made an initial gift of$250,000 to the LRAP, which continues togrow as a successful program thanks to donationsfrom alumni and friends of the Law School.More information on how to apply for ordonate to the LRAP program is availableonline at www.dsl.psu.edu/alumni/giving.cfm.

If you are a Dickinson Schoolof Law graduate pursuing a

career in public interest law,or if you know of former

classmates who are employedin the public service field,please contact the school’s

Public Interest Fellow, KateCramer Lawrence, [email protected]. This

information will be added toour growing database of

graduates pursuing publicinterest careers.

Burch

— Kate Cramer Lawrence

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2 0 0 6COMMENCEMENT

Hundreds of family members andfriends convened on Saturday, May13 to celebrate the 2006 graduatingclass of Penn State’s DickinsonSchool of Law. The Law School

awarded 201 juris doctorate degrees and 9 master oflaws degrees as well as recognized numerous studentsfor their activities and achievements.

The ceremonies were led by Dean PhilMcConnaughay and Associate Dean for AcademicAffairs Robert Gatter, and Dr. Robert M. Frey ’53,emeriti trustee of The Pennsylvania State UniversityBoard of Trustees, was on-hand to confer thedegrees. Professor Louis F. Del Duca, who celebratedfifty years of teaching at the Law School at the closeof this academic year, recognized the master of lawsrecipients.

In the opening address, Joshua Parsons, StudentBar Association president and graduate of the class,thanked the Law School faculty for continuing thelong tradition of an open door policy, the staff fortheir everyday help and family members who servedas constant “support systems” over the past threeyears.

Parsons told the audience that practicing law isabout three things – “service, service and service.”“We see people when their whole world is crashingdown,” he said. “The essence of being a great lawyeris protecting those who cannot protect themselves.”

The Honorable D. Brooks Smith, a FederalCourt of Appeals judge for the Third Circuit andgraduate of the class of 1976, was the keynote speak-er for the event. Smith told the class that “nothingshould matter more to you in your life in the lawthan the human relationships you will develop in thecourse of your career.”

“I am not talking about spouses or family. Ileave such discussions to the likes of Dr. Phil,Oprah…,” Smith said. “It is probably true that ourculture is more fractured and contentious than it waswhen I graduated from this law school. There is

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plenty of evidence to make that case. We see it inpartisan politics. We see it in the academy. And Ihave observed it as a trend in the practice of law andthe work of the courts during my years in the profes-sion.

“To suggest that people ought to be nicer to oneanother is, no doubt, a breathtakingly banal proposi-tion to lay on a class of graduating law students...ButI have to admit that it is integral to my suggestionthat relationships really matter,” Smith said.

In his conclusion, Smith told the graduates thattheir profession would lead them to many rewards,“material and otherwise.” “But, all we really have isone another – those relationships we forge as wemake our way through life. I hope that the profes-sional and workplace relationships you develop willnourish and sustain you. I hope they will contributeto fuller, richer professional lives for each of you. Ihope they will make you better lawyers,” he said.

After the awarding of degrees, Dorothy Deng ofthe graduating class delivered the closing remarks,thanking her classmates and faculty and staff of theLaw School for helping her earn her degree. WhenDeng came to Carlisle from Taiwan just over threeyears ago, she spoke little English.

“Without your support and encouragement,there is just no way for someone like me, who comesfrom overseas, not feeling comfortable speaking Eng-lish, not knowing much about the American society,to make it this far in law school and be standinghere right now,” Deng said.

“The most important thing I’ve learned here atPenn State Dickinson is that we can all get anythingwe want, but the degree of how desperate we want itwill determine who gets the best. And, of course, Ilearned this from my experiences of getting a carrelin the library,” she quipped.

Professor Harvey Feldman closed the convoca-tion, which was followed by a picnic for graduatesand their friends and family.

The Honorable D. Brooks Smith holds a seat

on the United States Third Circuit Court ofAppeals and hears appeals from federal cases aris-ing in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and theU.S. Virgin Islands. Smith was nominated to hiscurrent position by President George W. Bush inSeptember 2001 and confirmed by the U.S. Sen-ate on July 31, 2002.

Prior to his appointment to the Third Cir-cuit, Judge Smith spent fourteen years as a UnitedStates District Court judge for the Western Dis-trict of Pennsylvania. Nominated to the seat byPresident Ronald Reagan in October 1988, Smithwas one of the youngest federal judges in thecountry when he was appointed to the positionlater that year. From February 2001 until hisdeparture in 2002, he served as chief judge for thedistrict.

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being a member of the HACC

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from the first meeting of the

Board of Trustees on March 2,

1964, until his 2004 retirement.

Through his role on the Halifax

Area School Board and his civic

leadership in Northern Dauphin

County, he was among a group

of HACC founders who gathered

support to create Pennsylvania’s

first community college.

11 99 44 88The Pennsylvania School

Boards Association (PSBA)

solicitors presented JJoohhnn RR.. MMiilllleerr

JJrr.. with a Distinguished Life-

time Achievement in School

Law award. John was also hon-

ored by the State College (PA)

Area School District and the

Bellefonte (PA) Area School

Board and Teachers Association.

11 99 55 11In March 2005, The Harrisburg

Area Community College

Foundation elected DDrr.. HHoowweellll CC..

MMeettttee to its board. Howell is a

senior partner with Mette Evans

& Woodside, Harrisburg, PA.

11 99 55 44The York Daily Record (PA) profiled

TThhee HHoonnoorraabbllee JJaannee MM.. AAlleexxaannddeerr

for her role as a mentor to

female attorneys.

WWiilllliiaamm MM.. HHiillll JJrr.. was named to

the University of Pittsburgh at

Bradford’s Advisory Board.

William is with the firm of Hill

& Schoenborn in Warren, PA.

The Carbon County (PA) Bar

Association honored RRooggeerr NN..

NNaannoovviicc at a dinner to celebrate

his 50th year as a bar member.

Roger and his wife, Geraldine,

have six children, five of whom

are practicing attorneys.

11 99 55 66The Delaware State Bar Associ-

ation’s First State Distin-

guished Service Award was pre-

sented to SSiiddnneeyy BBaalliicckk at the

Bench and Bar Conference on

June 9, 2005.

11 99 55 77The New Jersey Commission

on Professionalism in the Law

presented SSaammuueell JJ.. SSeerraattaa with a

Professional Lawyer of the Year

award. Samuel’s Bridgeton, NJ,

practice includes the represen-

tation of numerous municipali-

ties, school districts and county

agencies.

11 99 55 99LLeeRRooyy SS.. ZZiimmmmeerrmmaann will serve aschairman of the Hershey TrustCompany Board of Directors forthe next three years. Roy willalso serve as chairman of theBoard of Managers for MiltonHershey School.

11 99 66 00RRoobbeerrtt BB.. SSuurrrriicckk came out of

retirement for the third time to

consult with and become exec-

utive director of the Politically

Active Physicians Association.

He has formed Doctor's Advo-

cate to protect doctors from

frivolous lawsuits.

Clearfield County (PA) PPrreessiiddeenntt

JJuuddggee JJoohhnn KK.. RReeiillllyy JJrr.. retired

after thirty years of service on

the bench.

11 99 66 11JJaammeess GG.. HHoorrnn was appointed by

the governor as a judge in the

Justice of the Peace Court in

Delaware. He is assigned to the

criminal court in Georgetown, DE.

MMaarrkk EE.. WWeeaanndd JJrr.. was recognized

for thirty-five years of continu-

ous service as solicitor by the

Telford (PA) Borough Council

and the Telford Borough Water

and Sewer Authority. Mark is a

senior partner at Timoney

Knox, LLP in Fort Washington.

11 99 66 22DDaavviidd JJ.. HHuummpphhrreeyyss is the Ward 3

Commissioner of Mount

Lebanon Municipality in Pitts-

burgh, PA.

BBeerrnneerrdd AA.. BBuuzzggoonn was elected

president of the Lebanon Coun-

ty (PA) Division of the Ameri-

can Heart Association.

11 99 66 33TThhee HHoonnoorraabbllee JJoohhnn CC.. PPeettttiitt was

honored by the Washington

County (PA) Bar Association for

forty years of service. John has

been serving as a senior judge

since his 1997 retirement.

11 99 66 66WWiilllliiaamm RR.. CCaarroosseellllii was recog-

nized as a Top 50 Pittsburgh

Super Lawyer.

11 99 66 77WWiilllliiaamm EE.. MMiilllleerr JJrr.. is a director of

Sterling Financial Corporation,

chairman of the Board of the

Pennsylvania State Banking

Company and president of

Miller and Associates, PC in

Camp Hill, PA.

11 99 66 88GGeerraalldd JJ.. BBrriinnsseerr is a senior part-

ner at Brinser, Wagner and Zim-

merman and practices in the

area of estate planning. He is

also an ordained minister in the

United Christian Church.

TThhee HHoonnoorraabbllee LLoouuiiss JJ.. FFaarriinnaa is

president judge of the Lancaster

County (PA) Court.

11 99 66 99GG.. RRoobbeerrtt MMaarrccuuss is included in

the Corporate, Mergers &

Acquisitions and Securities Law

section of The Best Lawyers inAmerica 2005-2006 edition, and

the August 1, 2005, issue of NewYork Magazine named him to its

“New York Area’s Best Lawyers”

list. Robert is chairman of the

Management Committee in the

Somerville, NJ, firm of Norris

McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. He

practices in the Corporate and

Tax departments and heads the

Mergers and Acquisitions Practice.

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BBaarrrryy JJ.. NNaaccee is president of the

National Board of Trial Advocacy

and was elected to serve on the

Washington, D.C., City Council’s

Medical Malpractice Commission.

11 99 77 00PPaauull VV.. CCaarrlliinn was profiled in the

March/April 2005 issue of the

Maryland Bar Journal. In March

2005, Paul celebrated twenty

years as the executive director

of the Maryland State Bar Asso-

ciation. Paul lives in Baltimore

with his wife, Hildegard, and

daughters Katarina and Kristana.

TThhoommaass JJ.. CCaarrllyyoonn was the keynote

speaker for the Survivor Cele-

bration at the 2005 American

Cancer Society Relay for Life

held in Hazleton, PA.

WWaalltteerr GG.. RReeiinnhhaarrdd was included

in the Public Utility Law section

of The Best Lawyers in America2005-2006 edition. Walter is a

member of the Somerville, NJ,

law firm Norris McLaughlin &

Marcus, P.A., where he focuses

on administrative, environmen-

tal and regulatory law.

TThhee HHoonnoorraabbllee GGeeoorrggee HH.. SSttaannggeerr JJrr..

retired as assignment judge for

Vicinage 15 (NJ) in May 2005.

Buchanan Ingersoll extended

TThhoommaass LL.. VVaannKKiirrkk’’ss term as chief

executive officer through at

least April 30, 2007.

11 99 77 22Harris Corporation named

EEuuggeennee SS.. CCaavvaalllluuccccii vice presi-

dent-general counsel with

responsibility for legal affairs in

Harris' Government Communi-

cations Systems and RF Com-

munications divisions.

SStteevveenn JJ.. FFiisshhmmaann was appointed

to serve as chief counsel of the

Pennsylvania Department of

Community and Economic

Development. Steve has served

as Carlisle Borough Council

president and was solicitor to

several communities. An adjunct

instructor at Dickinson College,

he also previously served as

legal counsel for the Pennsylva-

nia House of Representatives.

In November 2005, Cumberland

County Court of Common Pleas

JJuuddggee KKeevviinn HHeessss won a third, ten-

year term in a retention vote.

TThhee HHoonnoorraabbllee RRiicchhaarrdd AA.. LLeewwiiss,

president judge of the Dauphin

County (PA) Court of Common

Pleas, is chairman of the Rules

of Evidence Committee of the

Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

In April 2005, MMaaggiisstteerriiaall DDiissttrriicctt

JJuuddggee TThhoommaass EE.. MMaarrttiinn JJrr.. pre-

sented a Newton Center Public

Lecture entitled “Christian

Participation in Abolition of the

Atlantic Slave Trade,” examin-

ing the effects of the evangeli-

cal awakening in England and

its effect on social injustice.

WWiilllliiaamm TT.. RReennzz was admitted to

the Georgia Bar.

TThhee HHoonnoorraabbllee TThhoommaass RRiiddggee is

chairman of the National Orga-

nization on Disability’s Board

of Directors.

MMiicchhaaeell LL.. RRoosseennffiieelldd is a staff

lawyer with the Capital Crimes

Unit of the New Mexico Public

Defender's Office in Albuquerque.

LLaarrrryy BB.. SSeellkkoowwiittzz, a shareholder

in the Harrisburg, PA, office of

Stevens & Lee’s Health Care

and Litigation departments, has

been appointed a Hearing

Committee Member serving

the Disciplinary Board of the

Supreme Court of Pennsylva-

nia. His three-year appointment

began July 1, 2005.

In March 2005, the Superior

Court held a special session of

argument court in the Lack-

awanna County (PA) Court-

house chaired by SSuuppeerriioorr CCoouurrtt

JJuuddggee CCoorrrreeaallee FF.. SStteevveennss. Judge

Stevens also chaired a special

session of the court at Villano-

va’s Law School in April 2005.

He is on the Legislation and

Technology committees of the

court and was appointed to a

special tribunal which heard

the appeal of a former Supreme

Court justice.

MMaarrtthhaa ““MMaarrttyy”” BBaauumm WWaallkkeerr is the

only attorney in Franklin Coun-

ty to be named to the 2005

Pennsylvania Super Lawyer list

and the first woman in Franklin

County to achieve Super

Lawyer status. Marty was also

appointed a director of Menno

Haven Penn Hall Retirement

Communities and named advi-

sory council vice president of

the Shippensburg University

Performing Arts Center.

11 99 77 33TTeerrrryy RR.. BBoosssseerrtt

is a partner in

Post &

Schell’s Har-

risburg, PA,

office and

chair of the

firm’s Envi-

ronmental Regulation & Litiga-

tion Group.

WWiilllliiaamm CC.. RRooeeggeerr was a featured

speaker at the Pennsylvania

Trial Lawyers Association spon-

sored seminar “Auto Law Prac-

tice Tips” held December 15,

2005, in Philadelphia. William

is a partner in the law firm of

Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin,

Maxwell & Lupin. His areas of

emphasis include personal

injury and commercial litiga-

tion.

11 99 77 44DDaavviidd EE.. WWaaggeennsseelllleerr IIIIII joined the

law firm of Reese, Pugh, Sam-

ley, Wagenseller & Mecum,

P.C., in Lancaster, PA.

11 99 77 55TThhoommaass MM.. BBaarrrroonn is the twenty-

seventh president of the

Burlington County Bar Founda-

tion, the charitable division of

the bar association.

DDeennnniiss SS.. DDeeuuttsscchh is a partner

with Kaufman, Bern & Deutsch,

LLP. Dennis heads the firm’s

Litigation Department with a

concentration on civil litigation,

employment law, technology

law and personal injury.

TThhee HHoonnoorraabbllee JJ.. MMiicchhaaeell EEaakkiinn was

the commencement speaker at

the May 22, 2005, Widener

School of Law graduation.

DDaavviidd FF.. HHeennsscchheell is an associate

with Porr & Devine, LLC where

he focuses on securities, merg-

ers and acquisitions, joint ven-

tures and shareholder relations.

TThhoommaass WW.. KKiinngg IIIIII has become a

Fellow of the American College

of Trial Lawyers. He is a part-

ner in the firm of Dillon

McCandless King Coulter &

Graham, LLP in Butler, PA.

RRoobbeerrtt CC.. SSaaiiddiiss,

a founding

partner of the

firm of Saidis,

Shuff, Flower

& Lindsay,

was reappoint-

ed to a second,

three-year term on the Discipli-

nary Board of the Supreme

Court of Pennsylvania. Robert

has also been reappointed as

chair of the board’s Communi-

cations Committee. Robert

oversees the Real Estate Law

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Division of his practice and

provides counsel and represen-

tation to various financial insti-

tutions and businesses regard-

ing corporate, financial and

business planning requirements.

The Herald Journal (Spartan-

burg, SC) and the New YorkTimes profiled RReeiidd HH.. WWeeiinnggaarrtteenn

for his work as defense counsel

for several high profile clients

in cases involving WorldCom,

Rite Aid, Tyco International, and

Enron. In addition, Reid was

featured on the PBS program

Charlie Rose on July 26, 2005.

11 99 77 66JJoohhnn FF.. ((JJooee)) PPeerrrryy left the firm of

Springer Bush & Perry P.C.

after twenty-eight years and is

retired from the practice of law.

Joe would love to hear from

you; he can be reached at

[email protected].

JJoohhnn FF.. SSttoovviiaakk

was recog-

nized for legal

excellence in

The BestLawyers inAmerica. John

concentrates

his practice in environmental

law in Saul Ewing LLP’s

Philadelphia, PA, office.

JJaannee LLeewwiiss VVoollkk joined the law

firm of Gefsky & Lehman, P.C.

in Pittsburgh, PA. Jane’s prac-

tice includes employment law,

general commercial law and

construction claims. She is a

member of the Pennsylvania

Bar Association, Federal Bar

Association, Constructors Asso-

ciation of Western Pennsylvania

and the Small Manufacturers’

Council.

JJaammeess CC.. WWaallkkeerr was elected

president of the Children’s

Developmental Program, a non-

profit program

in Quaker-

town, PA, for

special needs

and typically

developing

children. He

also accepted a

proclamation from the Quaker-

town Board Council celebrating

April 3 through April 9, 2005, as

the week of the Young Child.

James is an associate at Ham-

burg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell

& Lupin in Lansdale, PA. His

areas of emphasis include estate

planning, commercial law and

real estate.

11 99 77 77The Greater Pittston Friendly

Sons of Saint Patrick named

WWiilllliiaamm FF.. AAnnzzaalloonnee as general

chairman of their annual Saint

Patrick’s Day event.

TThhoommaass WW.. BBeerrggeenn is a member of

the Fulton (PA) Opera House

Board. Thomas is a partner with

the law firm of Harman Under-

hill & Brubaker, Lancaster, PA.

JJoosseepphh RR.. FFeerrddiinnaanndd was elected

president of the Kiwanis Club

of Hazelton, PA. Joseph is a

partner in the Gillespie, Ferdi-

nand, Miscavige, Baranko and

O’Donnell law firm in Hazelton.

MMiicchhaaeell WW.. GGaanngg is a partner with

Post & Schell PC in Harrisburg,

PA, where he co-chairs the

firm’s Energy Practice Group.

LLoouuiissee RRuusssseellll KKnniigghhtt was profiled

in the March 14, 2005, Philadel-

phia, PA, Legal Intelligencer.

Louise is a partner in the Har-

risburg, PA, office of Saul Ewing

and concentrates her practice in

the areas of utility law, environ-

mental law, telecommunications

law and energy law.

JJoosseepphh AA.. LLaacchh is a principal in

the firm of Koff, Mangan, Vullo,

Gartley & Lach in Kingston

and Scranton, PA. Joseph’s prac-

tice includes medical negligence,

products liability, commercial

litigation and automobile acci-

dent claims.

The Columbus Day Association

honored Lackawanna County

(PA) JJuuddggee CCaarrmmeenn DD.. MMiinnoorraa as its

Man of the Year. Judge Minora

was elected to the bench in

1995 and serves on the Toby-

hanna Blue Ribbon Task Force.

JJuuddiitthh LLyyttllee NNoocciittoo was elected by

the Board of Directors of Alcoa

Inc. to the position of assistant

general counsel in January

2005. She serves as group coun-

sel to the Automotive, Aero-

space and Commercial Products

Group and the Rigid Packag-

ing, Foil and Asia Group.

RRaannddaallll JJ.. RRoollllss appeared in the

Fredericktowne Players’ pro-

duction of “It’s a Wonderful

Life,” playing the part of Mr.

Gower, the druggist. In real life,

Randy is an assistant vice presi-

dent and agency counsel for

Chicago Title Insurance Com-

pany in Baltimore, MD.

CCrraaiigg MM.. TTeerrkkoowwiittzz is managing

attorney for Hanover Insurance

New Jersey house counsel.

TThhee HHoonnoorraabbllee JJoohhnn CC.. TTyyllwwaallkk was

featured in the PennsylvaniaLaw Weekly in September 2005.

11 99 77 88EErriicc LL.. BBrroossssmmaann,

a partner in

Saul Ewing’s

(Harrisburg,

PA) Business

and Bankrupt-

cy depart-

ments, was a

member of the faculty panel for

a Pennsylvania Bar Institute

seminar “Structuring and Draft-

ing Commercial Loan Docu-

ments” in March 2005. He was

profiled in the March 14, 2005,

Philadelphia, PA, Legal Intelligencer.

TTiimmootthhyy AA.. CCaasseeyy of the Wilming-

ton, DE, office of Marshall,

Dennehey, Warner, Coleman &

Goggin was selected to be

included in The Best Lawyers inAmerica 2005-2006 edition.

Timothy is a shareholder and a

supervising attorney in the

firm's Workers' Compensation

Department.

RRaallpphh KK.. DDuurrsstteeiinn was named by

the Delaware attorney general

to head the Major Litigation Unit

in the Civil Division of the

Delaware Department of Justice.

KKaarrll FF.. LLoonnggeennbbaacchh was the 2005

president of the Northampton

County (PA) Bar Association.

He has a private law practice in

Bethlehem, PA, and serves as

conflicts counsel for the county.

JJoohhnn SScchhmmeehhll was featured in

Philadelphia’s Legal Intelligencerfor his pro bono work on behalf

of the Milton Hershey School

Alumni Association in seeking

reform for the School Trust for

the benefit of needy children.

On April 19, 2005, DDoonnaalldd FF.. SSmmiitthh

JJrr. received the Leroy Hyman

Award for outstanding service

to the Berks County (PA) Bar.

Donald is on the boards of the

Pennsylvania Bar Foundation

and MidPenn Legal Services.

JJeerrrryy LL.. SSppaanngglleerr, Somerset Coun-

ty (PA) district attorney and

president of the Pennsylvania

District Attorneys Association,

was re-elected to a second six-

year term as chairman of Cali-

fornia University of Pennsylva-

nia’s Council of Trustees.

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Albright Care Services of

Lewisburg, PA, named HHaarrrryy

((RRoonn)) SSwwiifftt to its board. Ron is

general counsel and executive

vice president of PeoplesBank

as well as president of SYC

Insurance Services, Inc. and

SYC Settlement Services, Inc.

11 99 77 99RRiicchhaarrdd EE.. FFeehhlliinngg, shareholder

and general counsel of Stevens

& Lee, has been appointed as a

judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy

Court for the Eastern District

of PA in the Reading Division.

HHuubbeerrtt XX.. GGiillrrooyy coached the Law

School’s National Trial Moot

Court team to a berth in the

30th Annual National Trial

Competition in San Antonio,

TX. Hubert has coached the

team for seven years. This was

the first time since 1986 that

the Law School has won the

regional championship.

DDuussttyy EElliiaass KKiirrkk,

a partner in

the Pittsburgh,

PA, office of

Pepper Hamil-

ton LLP, was

named co-chair

of the firm’s

Real Estate Practice Group.

She is a member of the Board

of Governors of the Allegheny

County Bar Association (ACBA)

and assistant treasurer of the

council for the Real Property

Section of the ACBA. Dusty also

serves as chair of Family Link;

chair of the Board of Directors

of Planned Parenthood of West-

ern Pennsylvania; and secretary

of the Board of the Juvenile

Diabetes Research Foundation

of Western Pennsylvania.

DDaavviidd CC.. KKlleemmeennttiikk was inducted

into the Benton Area School

District’s Hall of Fame.

The North Central Geriatric

Interest Network hosted JJoosseepphh

PP.. MMccGGoowwaann, Pennsylvania’s sen-

ior deputy attorney general, at

their quarterly breakfast meet-

ing held at the Williamsport

Hospital in February 2005. J.P.

identified the current scams

that are being perpetrated upon

the elderly population and dis-

cussed ways for elders to pro-

tect themselves from such scams.

PPaauull DD.. RRooyy joined Time Warner

Cable’s Law Department as

director of finance. Working in

Stamford, CT, he will monitor

and control spending on legal

services, lead the budgeting

process and coordinate with the

finance department.

11 99 88 00On May 14, 2005, KKeeiitthh AA.. BBllaannkk

graduated magna cum laude

with a master’s in divinity from

the Evangelical School of The-

ology in Myerstown, PA. Keith

is now the full-time director of

youth and family ministry at

Faith Presbyterian Church,

Harrisburg, PA. He and his wife,

Danette, and son, Benjamin,

live in Linglestown.

RRoonnaalldd RR.. CCoolllliinnss is a member of

the Cabinet of the Mayor of the

District of Columbia as director

of the Office of Boards and

Commissions.

TTeerreessaa LL.. CCoonnaawwaayy is the head of

reference and instruction at the

Texas Tech University School

of Law Library.

IIrrwwiinn HH.. SSiieeggeell received the Mas-

ter Teacher Award, the highest

level of recognition given to a

Pennsylvania College of Tech-

nology faculty member. Irwin is

an associate professor of busi-

ness administration and business

law in the School of Business

and Computer Technologies.

11 99 88 11In January 2005, Pearson/Pren-

tice Hall published AAnnnniikkeenn ((HHoorr--

ttoonn)) DDaavveennppoorrtt’’ss first textbook,

Basic Criminal Law, the U.S.Constitution, Procedures, andCrimes, which is aimed at

undergraduate students in

criminal justice and legal studies/

paralegal programs.

PPeennnnssyyllvvaanniiaa SSttaattee RReepprreesseennttaattiivvee

GGlleenn RR.. GGrreellll (R-87) was appoint-

ed to the House Judiciary,

Aging and Older Adult Services,

Consumer Affairs, and Intergov-

ernmental Affairs Committees for

the 2005-2006 legislative session.

FFrreedd HH.. HHaaiitt is of counsel to

Smigel, Anderson & Sacks,

LLP, Harrisburg, PA.

BBrryyaann JJ.. SSiimmmmoonnss was a judge in

the Junior High Earth Science

category of the fifty-second

Lancaster Newspapers Science

and Engineering Fair held in

March 2005 at Franklin and

Marshall College, Lancaster,

PA. Bryan is senior counsel with

Hershey Foods Corp.

RRoonnaalldd LL.. HHeerrsshhnneerr was elected

president of the York County

Estate Planning Council.

Ronald is a partner with the

York-based firm Stock and

Leader and chairman of its

Business and Employment

Practice.

CCrraaiigg JJ.. SSttaauuddeennmmaaiieerr, a partner in

the Harrisburg, PA, law firm

Nauman, Smith, Shissler and

Hall, LLP, participated in a

three-person panel discussion

for Central Penn College stu-

dents and faculty entitled “The

Seven Deadly Sins of Broad-

casters.” The discussion

focused on the Broadcast

Decency Enforcement Act.

11 99 88 22MMeerrrrii JJoo GGiilllleettttee received North-

western University’s Alumni

Merit Award. Merri Jo, a 1979

graduate of Northwestern Uni-

versity, is regional director of

the United States Securities

and Exchange Commission’s

(SEC) Midwest Regional Office.

After fifteen

years of service

to the Com-

monwealth,

Pennsylvania

Workers’ Com-

pensation JJuuddggee

WWiilllliiaamm JJ.. HHaallll

retired to return to private practice

and to establish Hall Mediation

Services, a statewide dispute

resolution firm headquartered

in Scranton, PA.

CChhrriissttoopphheerr HHoouussttoonn was profiled

in the Carlisle, PA, Sentinel. He

works for the Cumberland

County (PA) Redevelopment

and Housing Authority and

serves as president of the Board

of the Sadler Caring Center,

which provides health care to

the poor. He is also on the His-

toric Carlisle, Inc. Board, a

member of the Carlisle Rotary

Club and a member of Muskets

of the Crown, a group of

French and Indian War and

Revolutionary War re-enactors.

American Home Bank of West

Hempfield Township (PA)

named JJoohhnn CC.. OOsszzuussttoowwiicczz to its

Carlisle Advisory Council. He

specializes in financial and

business matters and is a direc-

tor of American Construction

Mortgage, Inc.

SStteepphheenn WW.. SScchhwwaabb represented

the International Bar Association

in the 20th Session of The Hague

Conference on Private Interna-

tional Law in Holland June 14-

30, 2005. Stephen is also chair-

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elect of the ABA’s Excess, Sur-

plus Lines and Reinsurance

Committee in the Tort Trial

and Insurance Practice Section.

11 99 88 33LLuutthheerr GG.. AAnnddeerrssoonn, who serves as

vice president of legal affairs

for the Eastern Division of Har-

rah’s Entertainment, Inc. has

been assigned responsibility for

the legal function for Harrah’s

Chester Downs Racetrack in

Chester, PA.

The Keystone Area Council of

Boy Scouts of America elected

AAllaann RR.. BBooyynnttoonn JJrr.. as council

president. He has been a mem-

ber of the Council Executive

Board since 1987, legal counsel

since 1997, and became a vice

president in 2001. Alan prac-

tices with the Harrisburg, PA,

firm of McNees Wallace &

Nurick LLC.

On January 1, 2005, GGeeoorrggee EE..

CCoorrnneelliiuuss became president and

chief executive officer of Arke-

ma Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of

French oil and gas company

Total S.A.

TThhoommaass PP.. CCuummmmiinnggss JJrr.. was

appointed to the Lackawanna

College’s Board of Trustees.

Thomas is in private practice in

Dunmore, PA.

SShhaauunn RR.. EEiisseennhhaauueerr was profiled



Shaun is a member of the Har-

risburg, PA, office of McNees

Wallace & Nurick LLC and

concentrates his practice in the

areas of business counseling,

financial services and real

estate law.

DDiiaannee ((NNeeffff)) FFllaaaaeenn was named

Arizona State Counsel for the

Richmond, VA, LandAmerica

Financial Group, Inc. and vice

president of the company’s sub-

sidiaries Commonwealth Land

Title Insurance Company,

Transnation Title Insurance

Company and Lawyers Title

Insurance Corporation. Diane

and her husband, Peder, are the

parents of Alex and Eric, both

adopted from Russia.

SSaammuueell WW.. HHeeeedd was selected as

Boy’s Coach of the Year by the

Pennsylvania Independent

School Cross Country Coaches

Association. Samuel is a history

teacher and cross country coach

at Haverford School.

HH.. DDaanniieell HHiillll IIIIII was unanimously

confirmed by the State Senate

for an appointment to the

Pennsylvania Game Commission.

LLiissaa AA.. HHooookk has

joined Covad

Communica-

tions Group,

Inc.’s Board of

Directors. Lisa

was the com-

mencement

speaker at the 2005 Law School

graduation ceremony held May

14, 2005.

EElliizzaabbeetthh DDoouugghheerrttyy MMaagguusscchhaakk

received the 2005 Greater

Hazleton (PA) Chamber of Com-

merce Athena Award and the

2005 PEARL Award of the YWCC

of Greater Hazleton. Elizabeth

is chair of the Board of Directors

for the United Way of Greater

Hazleton, a member of the

Greater Hazleton Chamber of

Commerce Board of Directors

and the Hazleton Kiwanis Club,

and a lector in the Church of St.

Gabriel. She resides in Hazleton

with her husband, Mark, and

children, Joseph and Molly.

In July 2005, JJoosseepphh CC.. PPeetteerrss joined

Dilworth Paxson in Philadelphia,

PA. He is of counsel for the

White Collar Litigation Group.

DDaanniieell AA.. PPoollaannsskkii is an agency

attorney with Northampton

County Children and Youth,

Easton, PA.

MMiicchhaaeell EE.. SSccuulllliinn was appointed

to the Alliance Francaise de

Philadelphie’s Board of Direc-

tors. He was also awarded the

Medal of Honor of the French

region of Rhone-Alpes in recog-

nition of his work developing

relations between the region

and Philadelphia and of his role

in the development of the Sis-

ter Program and attorney

exchange between the bar asso-

ciations of Philadelphia and

Lyon, France. Michael is of

counsel to Monteverde,

McAlee & Hurd and a business

consultant to firms and non-

profits, advising on global

expansion initiatives. He is also

a member of the Board of the

French American Chamber of

Commerce in Philadelphia,

CEO of Breast Health Institute

and an adjunct professor at

Temple University.

JJaammeess MM.. SShheeeehhaann was named to

the new U.S. Department of

Homeland Security Data Priva-

cy and Integrity Committee.

Jim is general counsel to Milton

Hershey School (PA) and its

Trust Board of Directors.

JJeeffffeerryy HH.. SSuunnddaayy served as parade

marshal for the Wyoming Valley

Veterans Day Parade held in

Wilkes-Barre, PA. He is a cap-

tain in the U.S. Naval Reserve

and house counsel/assistant sec-

retary for PG Energy.

DDoouuggllaass RR.. WWiiddiinn joined Reed

Smith’s Philadelphia, PA, office

as counsel in the firm’s Insur-

ance Recovery Practice Group.

He represents corporate policy-

holders in insurance coverage

matters and disputes with their

insurers.

11 99 88 44EEllyyssee EE.. RRooggeerrss was elected a Fel-

low in the American College of

Trust and Estate Counsel. She

is with the law firm of Keefer

Wood Allen & Rahal, LLP in

Camp Hill, PA.

RRoobbiinn LL.. HHaarrlleeyy is an associate

with the firm of Zane, Zane &

Rossi in Schuylkill Haven and

Pine Grove, PA. Robin is a

member of the Board of Trustees

of the Orwigsburg Area Free

Public Library. She lives with

her husband, Philip, and their

children, Caitlin and Brendan.

In May 2005, the Mine Safety

Appliances (MSA) Board of

Directors elected DDoouuggllaass KK..

MMccCCllaaiinnee as a vice president. He

continues his present responsi-

bilities as secretary and general

counsel. Douglas worked on

the SEC registration statement

for a secondary offering of MSA

stock and moved the company

from the AMEX to the New

York Stock Exchange. He was

present at the bell ringing cere-

mony which marked MSA’s first

day of trading on the exchange.

Douglas credited Dickinson Law

“for the excellent education

that I received which enabled

me to accomplish these tasks.”

CCaatthheerriinnee EE.. WWaalltteerrss was profiled



Catherine is a partner in the

Harrisburg, PA, office of Saul

Ewing and concentrates her

practice in the areas of labor

and employment law, adminis-

trative law, education law and

construction law.

11 99 88 55RRoobbeerrtt JJ.. DDeeSSoouussaa is the chief

executive officer, secretary and

general counsel of the Vartan

Group, Inc. Robert was

appointed to the National

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Executive

Committee of

the Federal

Bar Association

and named to

the National

Civil War

Museum (Har-

risburg, PA) Board of Directors.

In March 2005, Robert, who is a

major in the Pennsylvania Army

National Guard 28th Infantry

Division and serves as a judge

advocate general, chief of admin-

istrative claims, was awarded

the Pennsylvania Commenda-

tion Medal in recognition of his

performance on significant dis-

ciplinary cases affecting the

Division. He was also named to

the West Hanover Township,

Dauphin County, PA, Zoning

Hearing Board as an alternate

member by the Board of Super-

visors for a five-year term.

JJaammeess AA.. DDiiaammoonndd was named a

member of the Business Divi-

sion at Eckert Seamans Cherin

& Mellott, where his practice

focuses on employment, labor

and employee benefits law,

commercial law and real estate.

MMiicchhaaeell AA.. GGeenneelllloo was elected

vice president of the Lackawan-

na (PA) Bar Association. Michael

is a member of Murphy, Piazza

and Genello, Scranton, PA.

JJoohhnn SSttaattlleerr is a shareholder of

the Lemoyne, PA, firm of John-

son Duffie. John concentrates

his practice in the defense of

trucking, automobile, commer-

cial and product liability claims.

He is also an adjunct professor

of trial advocacy at The Dickin-

son School of Law.

CCaarroolliinnee HH.. WWeesstt was appointed

senior vice president and chief

compliance officer for Shire

Pharmaceuticals, a UK compa-

ny with offices in Wayne, PA.

11 99 88 66ZZeellllaa SSmmiitthh AAnnddeerrssoonn was selected

by the Pinnacle Health Sys-

tems Board of Directors as one

of twelve “Women of Strength”

for 2006. The honor is based

upon professional and personal

accomplishments. In addition

to her role as senior litigator for

the Pennsylvania Insurance

Department of the Governor’s

Office of General Counsel,

Zella is the founder and direc-

tor of the Central Pennsylvania

Animal Alliance (CPAA), a

501(c)(3) charitable organiza-

tion comprised of individuals

and more than thirty-five shel-

ter and rescue groups commit-

ted to ending euthanasia as the

means of animal population

control. For more information

on CPAA, visit www.cpaa.info.

SSccootttt AA.. BBeeaavveerrssoonn was profiled in

the York Sunday News (PA). Scott

handles a broad spectrum of

cases such as adoption, divorce,

wills, real estate settlements and

bankruptcy.

JJoohhnn KK.. GGoorrddoonn was elected presi-

dent of the Fairmount Commu-

nity Development Corporation

of Philadelphia, PA.

FF.. LLiissaa MMuurrtthhaa is the managing

director of the Higher Education

Practice of Huron Consulting

Group’s New York office. She

assists academic medical center

and research institution clients

with compliance issues. Lisa is

a founding member and current

board member of the Health

Care Compliance Association.

PPeetteerr EE.. RRiiccccoobbeennee and his firm

Teschon, Riccobene & Siss,

P.A. were profiled in the May

18, 2005, issue of the Midland

Park, NJ, Villadom Times. Peter

specializes in estate tax plan-

ning, estate administration,

commercial real estate transac-

tions and financing. He is a

trustee for the Franklin Lakes

Borough Education Foundation

and a member of the Lakeland

Bank Advisory Board.

DDiinnoo AA.. RRoossss was profiled in the

March 14, 2005, Philadelphia,

PA, Legal Intelligencer. He is a

member of the Harrisburg, PA,

office of Wolf Block and con-

centrates his practice in the

areas of bankruptcy and com-

mercial litigation.

UU..SS.. SSeennaattoorr RRiicchhaarrdd JJ.. SSaannttoorruumm ((RR--

PPAA)) was featured with Pennsyl-

vania Governor Ed Rendell in a

March 2005 Harrisburg, PA,

Sunday Patriot News article,

which recognized the pair as

“Pennsylvania’s Powerbrokers.”

AAlliiccee ((TTaannkk)) VVaann DDyykkee and her hus-

band, Peter, had a third child

on November 16, 2003. He

joined his brother, Jackson, and

sister, Grace.

11 99 88 77SSttaattee SSeennaattoorr JJoohhnn RR.. GGoorrddnneerr was

inducted into the Berwick (PA)

Area School District’s Academic

Hall of Fame.

11 99 88 88SShhaarroonn GGrreeeelliisshh CCooddyy is the execu-

tive director of the Lancaster

Osteopathic Health Foundation.

MMiicchhaaeell GG.. FFiittzzppaattrriicckk was elected

as a United States Representative

for Pennsylvania’s Eighth District.

JJ.. PPaauull HHeellvvyy

joined McNees

Wallace &

Nurick’s Harris-

burg, PA, office.

Paul chairs the

Family Law

Group.

JJoosseepphh DD.. KKeerrwwiinn is a member of

the Halifax National Bank

Board of Directors. Joseph is a

partner in the Lykens, PA, firm

of Kerwin and Kerwin. He lives

in Lykens with his wife, Lora,

and their four children.

RRoobbeerrtt DD.. MMaaccMMaahhoonn is a partner

with the Philadelphia, PA, firm

of Weber Gallagher Simpson

Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP.

His practice focuses on general

liability and transport litigation.

MMiicchhaaeell AA.. OO’’PPaakkee opened a sec-

ond office in Pottsville, PA. He

continues to have a location in

Mahanoy, PA. Michael concen-

trates his practice in family law,

real estate, municipal and

school district representation,

bankruptcy and civil litigation.

11 99 88 99LLaarrrryy DD.. GGaasstteeiiggeerr is a senior legal

advisor to The Honorable

Joseph T. Kelliher, chair of the

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission in Washington,

D.C. Larry advises the chair on

legal and policy matters involv-

ing electric, natural gas and

hydroelectric power.

SSaammuueell CC.. SSllaayymmaakkeerr is the execu-

tive director of Rock Ford Plan-

tation, the home of Revolution-

ary War General Edward Hand,

located in Lancaster County

(PA). He opened Slaymaker

Heritage Law and devotes his

practice to preservation law,

advising on rehabilitating and

protecting historic buildings

and preserving farmland.

SStteepphheenn PP.. SSllooaannee, a Centre

County (PA) assistant district

attorney, was selected as the

winner of the first installment

of “Centre County’s Story,” a

short-story contest sponsored

by the Centre Daily Times.

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MMiicchhaaeell KK.. SSuulllliivvaann was profiled in

the February 21, 2005, New JerseyLaw Journal. Michael is a member

of the Philadelphia, PA, office

of Blank Rome and concentrates

his practice in corporate litigation.

In May 2005, FFrraanncciiss GG.. TTrrooyyaann

was profiled in the Warren, PA,

Times Observer. Fran is the head

coach of the women’s softball

team at Lehigh University.

11 99 99 00MMiicchhaaeell RR.. BBrraammnniicckk is assistant

general counsel of litigation for

NRG Energy.

SSeeaann PP.. CCllaarrkk opened the general

practice firm of Zito & Clark,

LLP in Wethersfield, CT. He

practices in the areas of credi-

tors’ rights, bankruptcy, foreclo-

sure, water rights and title claims.

SSuussaann JJiinn DDaavviiss was promoted to

vice president of external

affairs and investor relations of

Covad Communications Com-

pany. In addition to her current

responsibility over government

affairs, which includes regulato-

ry and legislative strategy, advo-

cacy, and lobbying with the

Bush administration on Capitol

Hill and at the FCC, Susan is

responsible for developing and

strengthening Covad’s institu-

tional investment relationships

and establishing a strong presence

for the company on Wall Street.

KKiimmbbeerrllyy KK.. HHuuddssoonn is an attorney

advisor with the Office of Chief

Law Judge—Social Security

Administration. She is also an

anti-racism trainer and minister.

SStteepphheenn RR..

PPeellcchheerr and his

wife, Heather,

announced the

birth of a 7 lb.,

13 oz. baby

girl, Shelby

Anne, born April 19, 2005, in

Summerville, SC. Shelby Anne is

the couple’s fourth child and

will join their other children

Stephen, Emily and Elizabeth.

Cunningham and Chernicoff in

Harrisburg, PA, named BBrruuccee JJ..

WWaarrsshhaawwsskkyy a senior attorney.

Bruce will practice in the areas

of commercial law, estates and

estate planning.

KKeevviinn LL.. WWeellsshh relocated to Singa-

pore where he provides legal

advice to Caterpillar, Inc. and

its various subsidiaries through-

out the Asia Pacific regions.

Giant Food Stores named LLaauurraa

((HHaaffeerr)) WWiilllliiaammss vice president

and general counsel.

11 99 99 11AAnnddrreeww AAlllliissoonn

is a partner in

the Business

Law and Liti-

gation Depart-

ment and

chair of Post

& Schell’s

Trade Secret & Non-Compete

Law Group.

Northeast Pennsylvania BusinessJournal profiled TThhoommaass VV.. CCaassaallee,

the legal/human resources

director of Resorts U.S.A. He is

a member of the Pocono Envi-

ronmental Education Center

Board of Trustees, an organiza-

tion dedicated to exposing

inner-city children to nature.

TTeerrrreennccee EE.. DDeemmppsseeyy was elected

to the Board of the Lackawan-

na (PA) Bar Association. He is a

partner with Lenahan &

Dempsey, P.C., Scranton, PA.

AAmmaannddaa EE.. MMyyeerrss--CCaammppbbeellll is

assisting with the operation of

husband David’s Lancaster, PA,

law firm, which he opened in

January 2005. The firm special-

izes in health care law and com-

pliance and general corporate

law. Amanda’s full-time job is as

a stay-at-home mom with their

daughter, Julia.

SSaannddrraa ((BBeeiinn)) KKaalllliiss is a contract

manager with Waukesha Electric

Systems, Inc.

KKiimmbbeerrlleeyy AAnnnn KKaarrddeelliiss is the

owner of K.A. Kardelis, Coun-

selor at Law, Barnegat, NJ.

II.. CChhaarrlleess MMccCCuulllloouugghh IIIIII was

appointed to the Defense Intel-

ligence Senior Executive Ser-

vice. He is the chief of the

Office of Investigations and

Special Inquiries, Office of the

Inspector General, National

Security Agency. Charles previ-

ously served as the senior coun-

sel for law enforcement and

intelligence for the United

States Treasury Department,

where he was a member of the

White House team that estab-

lished the Department of

Homeland Security. He has also

served as a special agent and

supervisory special agent with

the Federal Bureau of Investi-

gation.

FFrraannkk SS.. RRaavviittcchh, professor of law

at the Michigan State Universi-

ty College of Law, presented

“When Religious Subjects

Become Legal Objects” to stu-

dents at The Dickinson School

of Law. Professor Ravitch wrote

an amicus brief to the United

States Supreme Court on

behalf of the Interfaith Alliance

and the Horace Mann League

in support of the petition for

writ of certiorari in Chandler v.Siegelman, a school prayer case

from Alabama. He regularly

speaks on topics related to

church/state and civil rights law

to a wide range of national and

local organizations.

WWeennddyy PP.. ((GGoooodd--

ssppeeeedd)) WWiitttt co-

founder of Witt

Burkett, LLC of

O’Hara Town-

ship, Pittsburgh,

PA, co-present-

ed a seminar to

a national gathering of estate

planning attorneys, financial

advisors and certified public

accountants in Dallas, Texas.

JJoohhnn ZZoohhllmmaann announced the for-

mation of a new general prac-

tice law firm with partner

Thomas Hagner. The firm,

based in Cherry Hill, NJ, spe-

cializes in commercial litiga-

tion, real estate, municipal

court, and disability and injury

claims. Zohlman is a member of

the Board of Governors Associ-

ation of Trial Lawyers of Ameri-

ca, New Jersey Chapter, the

Burlington County Bar Associa-

tion and New Jersey State Bar.

He was appointed to the Dis-

trict IIIB Ethics Board for

Burlington County by the New

Jersey Supreme Court and also

appointed chairman of the

2005-2006 Camden County

(NJ) Bar Association’s Personal

Injury Committee.

11 99 99 22RRaammoonnaa CCaattaallddii is an associate in

the Harrisburg, PA, office of

Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling.

She is a member of the Energy

and Utility and International

Business Law practice groups.

BBeennjjaammiinn CC.. DDuunnllaapp JJrr.. is a mem-

ber of the Harrisburg (PA)

Regional Chamber’s Business

Diversity Advisory Council,

which focuses on enhancing

opportunities for women and

minority entrepreneurs. Ben-

jamin is also co-chair of the

Greater Harrisburg Founda-

tion’s Equity for Gays and Les-

bians Advisory Committee and

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a board member and counsel

for PenOwl Productions theater

company in Harrisburg. He is

with the Harrisburg law firm of

Nauman, Smith, Shissler and

Hall, LLC where his primary

practice areas are public utility,

administrative, business and

employment law.

MMaarrttiinn AA.. FFrriittzz is the chief infor-

mation officer at Equitable

Resources in Pittsburgh, PA.

RRiicchhaarrdd LL.. GGrruubbbb is a shareholder

of the Harrisburg, PA, office of

Stevens & Lee where he con-

centrates his practice in the

areas of corporate law and real

estate. He was profiled in the


PA, Legal Intelligencer.

On June 3, 2005, JJoosseepphh CC.. HHuuttttee--

mmaannnn served as faculty for the

Bucks County (PA) Bar Associa-

tion’s Workers’ Compensation

Section seminar “How to Prove

and Disprove Earning Power.”

Joseph, a member of Martin,

Banks, Pond, Lehocky & Wil-

son, Philadelphia, PA, limits his

practice to Pennsylvania work-

ers’ compensation.

MMaauurraa KKiinngg GGiibb--

ssoonn--ZZaallcc and

husband, Jef-

frey, welcomed

their first

child, daugh-

ter Beatrice

Mary Zalc, on January 24, 2005.

TThhoommaass PP.. MMccGGoonniiggllee is the man-

aging partner with Wolf Block

Schorr & Solis-Cohen’s Wilm-

ington, DE, office, where he

primarily handles commercial

litigation. He also has a govern-

ment relations practice.

DDaavviidd MM.. PPeeiissoonn is a member of

the Board of Directors of

Conolog Corporation, an engi-

neering and design company.

David has been with Deutsche

Bank’s Global Markets Division

in New York City since 2002.

MMaatttthheeww EE.. PPrrzzyywwoozznnyy is managing

partner of Strugatz & Przywozny,

LLC in East Brunswick, NJ.

JJoosseepphh FF.. RRooddkkeeyy was profiled in

the March 14, 2005, Philadel-


Joseph is a member of the

Pittsburgh, PA, office of Reed

Smith LLP.

PPhhiilliipp HH.. SSppaarree is

a partner with

Stock and

Leader. His

areas of prac-

tice include

school law,

municipal law

and employment matters.

KKeevviinn RR.. SStteeeellee is the Law

School’s reprentative on Penn

State’s Graduate School Alumni

Society’s Board of Directors.

MMiicchhaaeell JJ.. SStteerrnnbbeerrgg is a partner

with Hoffman, Michels &

Sternberg, LLC, where he has

practiced since graduating in

1992. Michael concentrates his

practice in plaintiff’s personal

injury work. He and his wife,

Janet, have three children:

Nicole, Brett and Victoria.

11 99 99 33KK.. RRoobbeerrtt BBeerrttrraamm is a shareholder

of the Harrisburg, PA, office of

Stevens & Lee. Rob concen-

trates his practice in the areas

of corporate, security and tech-

nology law and real estate. He

was profiled in the March 14,

2005, Philadelphia, PA, LegalIntelligencer.

DDaanniieell EE.. CCuummmmiinnss, his wife, Anne,

and son Daniel celebrated the

birth of Michael Jeffrey on April 14,

2005. Daniel and his family reside

in Scranton, PA, where he is a

partner in the civil litigation firm

of Foley, Cognetti, Comerford,

Cimini & Cummins. Daniel was

recognized as a 2005 “Lawyer

on the Fast Track” by the edi-

torial board of the American LawMedia. Additionally, The Pennsyl-vania Law Weekly asked Daniel

to be a regularly contributing

columnist, analyzing emerging

trends in civil litigation law and

practice.

MMiicchhaaeell AA..

HHaammiillttoonn was a

co-chair and

speaker at the

Insurance

Coverage and

Claims Insti-

tute Confer-

ence in Chicago. Michael’s

presentation, “General Liability

Coverage Considerations in

Copyright, Trademark and

Trade Secret Litigation,”

focused on recent trends and

developments in advertising

law. He also gave the presenta-

tion at the Intellectual Property

Litigation and Insurance Semi-

nar in San Diego, CA.

JJoosseepphh GG.. LLeewwiiss is assistant general

counsel at EnerSys Delaware,

Inc., in Reading, PA.

MM.. JJeeffffrreeyy NNoooonnaann is a vice president

at SunTrust Bank,Wilmington, NC.

RRoocchheellllee DD.. QQuuiiggggllee of Krasno,

Krasno & Onwudinjo was part

of the firm’s recent business

profile in the Republican & Her-ald (PA). Rochelle concentrates

her practice in workers’ com-

pensation. She is a member of

the Schuylkill County (PA)

Women’s Law Caucus, Big

Brothers/Big Sisters, the

Pottsville Business and Profes-

sional Women’s Club and the

YWCA. She lives in North

Manheim Township with her

husband, James P. Wallbillich,

and their son, Thaddeus.

AAnnddrreeww DD.. HH.. RRaauu was elected

president of the Chester Coun-

ty (PA) Bar Foundation, which

funds initiatives to help citizens

understand and gain access to

the legal system. Andrew is a

shareholder in the firm of

Unruh, Turner, Burke & Frees

in West Chester, PA.

MMaarrcc AA.. RRoossss founded Rock the

Earth, a non-profit environmental

advocacy group in Denver, CO.

VViirrggiinniiaa RRyykkeerr moved back from

Norway and joined the mar-

itime practice of Lochner and

Scwhenk in Annapolis, MD.

11 99 99 44RRooggeerr WW.. FFoolleeyy JJrr.. is a partner at

Adams and Foley LLC, Pitts-

burgh, PA.

KKiimmbbeerrllyy SS.. GGrraayy,

chief privacy

officer for High-

mark, Inc., was

appointed to

the Board of

Directors of the

International

Association of Privacy Profes-

sionals. Kimberly is the co-chair

of the Health Care Law Com-

mittee of the Pennsylvania Bar

Association and is an active

member of the Dauphin County

(PA) Bar Association, the Amer-

ican Bar Association and Ameri-

can Health Lawyers Association.

CChheerryyll LL.. ((RReeggaann)) KKoovvaallyy is a partner

with Lavery, Faherty, Young &

Patterson, P.C., Harrisburg, PA.

Cheryl concentrates her prac-

tice in the areas of civil rights,

municipal liability, labor and

employment law, professional

liability, premises liability and

personal injury matters.

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MMiicchhaaeell JJ.. KKoowwaallsskkii was reap-

pointed to a one-year term on

the Board of Governors of the

Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers

Association. He is an attorney

with Hourigan, Kluger and

Quinn.

SSaannddyy LLuuiicckk is happy to announce

that his 2004 marriage to Svit-

lana was blessed with Elizabeth

Marie on May 4, 2005. Sandy,

who founded HANDYANDY

ten years ago, reports it is now

the largest residential repair

and remodeling company in

metro Atlanta, GA.

CChhrriissttiinnee HHuurrsstt PPeerrrruuccccii and her

husband, Michael, welcomed

the birth of their son, John “Jack”

Simon, on November 18, 2004.

CChhrriissttoopphheerr JJ.. RReedddd published a

two-part article on the treat-

ment of securities and deriva-

tives transactions in bankrupt-

cy, which appeared in the

July/August and September

2005 issues of the AmericanBankruptcy Institute Journal.Christopher is a partner in the

Philadelphia, PA, office of

Duane Morris, LLP practicing

in the areas of commercial

finance, business and debt

restructuring, Chapter 11 bank-

ruptcy, and back-end mergers

and acquisitions.

DDiinnaa ((EElllliiss)) RRoocchhkkiinndd is senior

counsel to the Financial Ser-

vices Committee in the U.S.

House of Representatives. In

that role, she is designee to

Congressman Spencer Bachus

(R-AL) chair of the Subcom-

mittee on Financial Institutions

and Consumer Credit.

VViiccttoorriiaa GGaalllleenn SScchhuutttt and husband,

Steven, announced the May

2005 birth of John Daniel. Vic-

toria also received a Master of

Laws in Taxation degree from

Villanova University in May 2005.

TToodddd CC.. SSiimmmmeennss and his wife,

Michele, welcomed daughter

Ella Jane on December 19, 2004.

She joins big brother Alex. Todd

is a member of the National

Tax Practice of Ernst & Young

LLP, working out of Washing-

ton, D.C., and Metropark, NJ. He

was also elected to a three-year

term on the East Brunswick

(NJ) Board of Education which

began May 5, 2005.

AAnnddrreeww KK.. SSttuuttzz--

mmaann is a part-

ner in the

Philadelphia,

PA, office of

Stradley

Ronon

Stevens &

Young, LLP. Andrew is a mem-

ber of the Litigation Depart-

ment. He was profiled in the


PA, Legal Intelligencer.

GGlleenn TThhoommaass is a partner with

Blank Rome LLP in Philadel-

phia, PA, and a principal in Blank

Rome Government Relations

LLC. Using his experience as

the former chair of the Pennsyl-

vania Public Utility Commis-

sion (PUC), Glen started an

Energy Practice at the firm.

11 99 99 55VViinncceenntt JJ.. CCaannddeelloorraa and family

welcomed daughter Ava Marie

on March 11, 2005. She joins

her brothers Christopher and

Thomas.

TThhoommaass GG.. CCoolllliinnss was profiled in

the March 14, 2005, Philadelphia,

PA, Legal Intelligencer. Thomas is

a member of the Harrisburg

office of Buchanan Ingersoll

PC. He concentrates his prac-

tice in the areas of employment

law and litigation, ERISA litiga-

tion and employee benefits and

commercial litigation.

Montgomery County (PA) elder

law attorney RRoobbeerrtt CC.. GGeerrhhaarrdd IIIIII

wrote a treatise on Pennsylvania

Medicaid and nursing home care.

JJeennnniiffeerr ((HHaannnn)) HHaarrrriissoonn of Crew &

Buchanan was elected partner

effective January 1, 2006. Jen-

nifer lives in Kettering, OH,

with her husband, Rol.

LL.. TToodddd KKeellllyy is a partner at the

Houston, TX, firm of Haskins

Gregan and Kelly. Additionally,

he was admitted to the Million

Dollar Advocate’s Forum and

selected for the 2005 “Texas’

Top Lawyers for the People” by

H-Houston Magazine.

AAaarroonn DD.. MMaarrttiinn and his wife,

Katie, welcomed daughter Tea-

gan Hope Anastasia Martin on

March 11, 2005. Teagan joins

older siblings Kyle, Rhiannon

and Iain.

KKaatthhlleeeenn MM.. MMccCCaauulleeyy is a partner

in the Richmond, VA, office of

Goodman,Allen & Filetti, PLLC,

an adjunct assistant professor of

law at the University of Rich-

mond, T.C. Williams School of

Law, and chair of the Medical

Malpractice Section of the Virginia

Association of Defense Attorneys.

MMaarryy--JJoo MMuulllleenn, CPA is executive

director of the Pennsylvania

District Attorneys Association.

MMaatttthheeww JJ.. PPaarrkkeerr of the elder law

firm of Marshall & Associates

was awarded the status of certi-

fied elder law attorney by the

National Elder Law Foundation.

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional

High School hosted PPaaiiggee RRoossiinnii

as the guest speaker at a National

Honor Society induction ceremony.

TTrraaccyy LL.. SStteeeellee of the Philadelphia,

PA, office of Morgan, Lewis &

Bockius LLP was elected part-

ner effective October 1, 2005.

Tracy was also named the 2005

Outstanding Alumni Council

Member by the Penn State

Alumni Association.

MMaarrggaa TToorrrreennccee married Dr. Paul

Mikulecky on October 9, 2004,

in Telluride, CO. Marga is a

project director with the Educa-

tion Commission of the States

and Paul is an internist with

Swedish Medical Center. The

couple resides in Denver, CO.

MMaarrkk MM.. WWaallll joined the law firm

of Hill, Ward & Henderson,

P.A. in Tampa, FL, where he

practices in the areas of com-

plex commercial litigation and

real estate litigation. Mark and

his wife have two children.

11 99 99 66In a March 2005 York DailyRecord (PA) article and April

2005 Sunday Patriot-News (Har-

risburg, PA ) article, RRoobbeerrtt JJ.. BBeeiinn

discussed proposed legislation

before Congress that would

amend bankruptcy laws. Robert

is with the Harrisburg, PA,

office of Saul Ewing LLC.

TTwwiillaa ((MMyynnhhiieerr)) BBrrooookkss is an associate

with Bowles Rice McDavid Graff

& Love LLP, Lexington, KY.

JJaammeess JJ.. CCoonnaabbooyy was certified as

a civil trial advocate by the

National Board of Trial Advocacy.

He is an associate with Abra-

hamsen, Moran & Conaboy, P.C.,

in Scranton, PA.

SStteepphhaanniiee LL.. GGiillll is a shareholder

of Buchanan Ingersoll PC.

Stephanie is a member of the

Pittsburgh, PA, office’s Corpo-

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rate Finance & Technology

Section.

JJeennnniiffeerr GGoorrnnaallll--RRoouucchh was award-

ed a 2005 Generation-E Lead-

ership Award from Young Erie

(PA) Professionals. Jennifer is

an attorney at Knox, McLaugh-

lin, Gornall and Sennett. She

concentrates her practice in

education and governmental law.

AAnnggeellaa LL.. HHeeiimm is division chief of

strategic management with the

Department of Homeland

Security - TSA in Arlington, VA.

MMeelliissssaa ((CCaall--

hhoooonn)) JJoonneess is

an associate in

the Business

Department

with Tydings

& Rosenberg,

Baltimore,

MD. Melissa’s practice focuses

on all aspects of labor and

employment law.

DDeennnniiss RR.. MMaarriioonn is administrator

of the Cumberland/Perry (PA)

Mental Health and Mental

Retardation Program. Dennis is

active with Carlisle Summer-

fair, North Middleton Parks and

Recreation, St. Patrick’s School

and the Carlisle Health and

Wellness Foundation. He lives

in Carlisle with his wife, Camille,

a Dickinson School of Law pro-

fessor, and daughter, Anna.

MMaarrkk AA.. MMaatteeyyaa represents the

County Commissioners Associ-

ation of Pennsylvania in a num-

ber of cases with state-wide sig-

nificance.

RRoobbeerrtt MMiinnnniicchh earned an LL.M.

in estate planning from the

University of Miami School of

Law.

MMiicchhaaeell DD..

OO’’MMaarraa is a

partner in the

Philadelphia,

PA, office of

Stradly Ronon

Stevens &

Young, LLP,

and a member of the firm’s Lit-

igation Department. Michael

was profiled in the March 14,

2005, Philadelphia, PA, LegalIntelligencer.

GGrreeggoorryy SS.. SSkkiibbiittsskkyy JJrr.. and his

wife, Christine, announced the

birth of their daughter, Paige

Lauren, on October 21, 2004.

MMiicchhaaeell JJ.. WWoolltteerr is an attorney-

advisor in the Office of Hear-

ings, U.S. Department of Trans-

portation. Michael and his wife,

Hyonye, live in Clifton, VA, with

their German Shepherd, George.

11 99 99 77SStteepphhaanniiee NNoollaann DDeevviinneeyy and her

husband, Jimmy, announced

the birth of their son, Seamus

Hugh, born on December 12,

2004.

DDaavviidd NN.. FFaarrssiioouu married Wendy

N. Kelley in May 2004. Mem-

bers of the wedding party

included groomsmen JJeeffffrreeyy AA..

YYeelleenn and WWiieellaanndd ((LLaannii)) DD.. CChhoonngg

JJrr.. Other 1997 classmates in

attendance included NNiiccoollee RRaayy--

mmoonndd CChhoonngg,, EErriicc BB.. SSmmiitthh and

SStteepphhaanniiee NNoollaann DDeevviinneeyy. David

was recently named partner at

Woodcock Washburn LLP and

is a member of the firm’s Liti-

gation Practice Group. He con-

centrates his practice on patent

litigation and procurement, par-

ticularly in the chemical arts.

He lives in Yardley, PA.

DDeenniissee RR.. FFoosstteerr is a regulatory

manager with Exelon Power

Team. Denise lives in Down-

ingtown, PA, with her husband,

James Warta, and daughter,

Marena.

TToodddd AA.. JJoohhnnss served as campaign

manager in Thomas J. Munley’s

successful run for judge in the

Lackawanna County (PA)

Court of Common Pleas. Todd

currently has offices in Scran-

ton and Wilkes-Barre, PA, and

is an instructor of history, politi-

cal science and law at Keystone

College, La Plume, PA.

CCaassssaannddrraa ((PPeettttiiss)) KKaarraammaannooss and

her husband, Nicholas,

announced the birth of their

second daughter, Amelia

Nicole, on August 25, 2005.

AAsshhlleeyy ((HHiimmeess)) KKrraanniicchh practies in

the Asset Planning and Federal

Taxation Group in the State

College, PA, office of McNees

Wallace & Nurick.

EEddwwaarrdd GG.. LLaannzzaa is an associate in

the Business Department of


Saul Ewing, LLP.

KKaarreenn HHeennnnoonn MMccCCoonnnneellll and hus-

band, Robert, had twin sons,

Jacob Alexander and Nathaniel

Robert, on August 4, 2004.

SSuussaann JJ.. MMaaccDDoonnaalldd is the execu-

tive director of the Washington

County (MD) Commission on

Aging. She lives in Shepherd-

stown, WV, with her husband,

Randolph, and daughter, Caitlin.

TTeerrrrii ((CCoolllliinnss)) MMuurrrraayy started

Avabriggs.com, an online bou-

tique offering unique, personal-

ized, and handmade nursery

and gift items for infants and

toddlers. Terri is also the proud

mother of son Briggs.

EErriicc BB.. SSmmiitthh is a

partner with

High, Swartz,

Roberts & Sei-

del LLP of

Norristown,

PA. Eric prac-

tices in the

areas of real estate, municipal

law and commercial litigation.

FFlloorriinnee LLoorrii WWiinnggeerr received an

M.B.A. from Penn State. Lori is

a Lancaster County (PA) Court

of Common Pleas judicial law

clerk for The Honorable Henry

S. Kenderdine Jr.

AmericanLawyer Mediaselected DDaavviidd

PP.. ZZaammbbiittoo as

one of Penn-

sylvania’s

Lawyers on

the Fast

Track. He was also profiled by

the Pennsylvania Law Weekly. He

is a Business Department asso-

ciate in Saul Ewing’s Harris-

burg, PA, office, concentrating

his practice in regulatory and

commercial issues involving

utilities.

11 99 99 88MMeerrrriicckk JJ.. BBeennnn and his wife,

Rachel, welcomed their first

child, Ashton Reese, on March

11, 2005. Additionally, Merrick

joined the Finance, Financial

Services and Bankruptcy Ser-

vices Practice Group of Piper

Rudnick’s Baltimore, MD, office.

On April 6, 2005, AAnnddrreeww DD..

BBuullggiinn and wife, Jen Keyser,

welcomed their first child,

Jacob Andrew. Andrew was

elected to membership in the

Baltimore, MD, firm Gordon,

Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger

& Hollander, LLC.

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JJaammeess FF.. CCaassaallee was profiled on

Philly.com. He and his brother-

in-law run Knit With, a yarn

store in Chestnut Hill, PA.

RRoonn SS.. CChhiimmaa is an employment

law attorney with Rite Aid Cor-

poration at its headquarters in

Camp Hill, PA. On August 29,

2005, Ron, his wife, Rina, and

their daughter, Karina, wel-

comed the birth of baby boy

Rajbi S. Chima.

PPiieettrroo ((PPeetteerr)) LL.. LLeeoonnee is land

acquisition manager for Triple

Crown Corporation.

EEmmiillyy MM.. NNaazzaarroovv is a director of

the Board of the Multnomah

Bar Association Young Lawyers

Section. Emily is a judicial

clerk for The Honorable Don-

ald Ashmanskas, a member of

the Gus J. Solomon Inns of

Court, a volunteer attorney for

Sponsors Organized to Assist

Refugees, and a co-leader of a

legal professionals team for

Stand for Children.

RRaacchheell ((CCaassttiilllloo)) RRoosssseerr and hus-

band, Andrew, welcomed son

Kai Joseph on January 5, 2005.

Big sister, Sophia, turned 3 on

January 12, 2006.

On December 6, 2003, in

Chicago, IL, KKaatthheerriinnee AA.. SSiiddddoonn

married Douglas S. O’Brien.

BBrriiaann JJ.. WWaallsshh and his wife, Lori,


son, Brian Patrick.

11 99 99 99RRiicchhaarrdd TT.. BBoobbbbee IIIIII joined Wisler

Pearlstine Talone Craig Garrity

& Potash LLP’s Litigation

Group. He focuses his practice

in the areas of construction law

and commercial litigation.

Richard, his wife, Anne, and son,

Aidan, announced the arrival of

William Jack on June 11, 2005.

SSeeccrreettaarryy ooff tthhee CCoommmmoonnwweeaalltthh

PPeeddrroo AA.. CCoorrtt’’eess was reappointed

as Eastern Region vice presi-

dent of the National Associa-

tion of Secretaries of State. He

was profiled in a June 2005 arti-

cle in the Puerto Rico Heraldand Caribbean Business regarding

the growing impact of Latinos.

BBrryyaann WW.. DDiilllloonn is a partner with

Singler, Napell & Dillon, LLP.

Located just north of San Fran-

cisco, CA, the firm exclusively

represents franchisees with

regard to franchise matters.

GGrreeggoorryy BB.. FFrraanncciiss is a family law

practitioner with the Law

Office of Jane P. Marks in

Chester County (PA).

DDaavviidd SShhaannee GGuunntteerr is an associate

with the Capital Markets Prac-

tice Group of Kilpatrick Stock-

ton LLP in Charlotte, NC.

Shane has significant experi-

ence representing banks and

other financial institutions.

RRaacchheell ((YYaannttooss)) HHuussss married

George W. Huss Jr. on May 1,

2004. They are residing in New

Florence, PA. Rachel is a law

clerk for President Judge Daniel

J. Ackerman of the Westmore-

land County (PA) Court of

Common Pleas and has her

own part-time law practice.

LLeeoo JJaammeess LLeeoo IIIIII is an assistant

United States attorney for the

Southern District of Texas. He

is currently assigned to the

McAllen Division.

JJeessssiiccaa ((GGeennsslleerr)) LLiippppyy and hus-

band, Jonathan, announced the

arrival of their first son, Ethan

Zachary, on September 21, 2004.

In addition to his practice, DDaavviidd

AA.. LLooppeezz is the board president

of Health Share of Cumberland

County, a nonprofit organiza-

tion that helps poor people

with medical expenses.

DDoonnaalldd BB.. LLyynnnn JJrr.. and wife, Amy,


daughter, Ann Sinclair, on Octo-

ber 18, 2004.

DDoonnaalldd FF.. MMaarrttiinnoo is with the firm

of Reiders, Travis, Humphrey,

Harris, Waters and Waffen-

schmidt. Donald concentrates

his practice on criminal law,

state and federal criminal

defense cases, family law and

divorce. He is a member of the

Lycoming Law Association, the

Pennsylvania Bar Association

and the Pennsylvania Association

of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

He serves as a Lycoming County

(PA) pro bono referral attorney

and is on the Board of Directors

of Big Brothers/Big Sisters. He

and wife, Eileen Dgien, reside

in Trout Run, PA.

MMaarreell AA.. RRaauubb is the first full-time

Pennsylvania delegate director

to the Tri-state Chesapeake Bay

Commission.

AAmmyy MMoorrrriisssseeyy TTuurrkk is a member

of the Labor and Employment

Department of McGuireWoods

in Norfolk, VA. Amy and her

husband, Brian, whom she mar-

ried on September 28, 2002,

have two children, Ashlyn and

Brian Jr.

22 00 00 00SShhaannoonn CCaarrssoonn married LLaauurraa PPaarrkkee

on October 2, 2004. Wedding

guests included JJeeffff WWoonngg ’’0000,,

BBrruuccee PPaarrkkee ’’0022,, LLaauurraa KKiilllliiaann ’’0000,,

RRaacchheell SScchhmmiidd VVaann MMuulllleemm ’’0000,, DDaavviidd

CCaattttiiee ’’0000,, BBeennjjaammiinn SSwweeeett ’’0011,,

MMiicchhaaeell BBoogguusshh ’’0000,, JJooeell TToolluubbaa ’’0022,,

GGaabbrriieell CChhoorrnnoo ’’0011,, BBrriiaann PPeennnnyy ’’0000,,

JJoonnaatthhaann MMiilllleerr ’’0011 and HHeeaatthheerr PPaarr--

ssoonnss ’’0000. Shanon has practiced

class action law at Berger &

Montague, P.C. since graduat-

ing from DSL while Laura is

in-house counsel for Kramont

Realty Trust. They live in Cen-

ter City Philadelphia.

SShheelllleeyy LL.. CCeennttiinnii and Jeremy Hrabal

were married on June 19, 2004,

at SS. Peter and Paul Roman

Catholic Church, Hudson, PA.

DDeenniissee MM.. CCoorrddeess is a member of

the Business and Estates and

Trusts departments of Eckell,

Sparks, Levy, Auerbach, Monte,

Rainer & Sloane, P.C.

GGeeoorrggee JJ.. DDaannnneemmaann is an associ-

ate in the real estate group of

Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-

Cohen’s Wilmington, DE, office.

JJuulliiee GG.. DDiiSSaallvviioo is an associate in

the Litigation Department of

Stradley Ronon Stevens &

Young, LLP, in Philadelphia, PA.

RReebbeeccccaa MMiicchhaaeellss married Jared

Klein on October 8, 2005, in

Arlington, VA. Rebecca is

employed as a claims adjudica-

tor for medical providers

throughout the United States.

JJeennnniiffeerr LL.. SSppeeaarrss is an associate

in the Litigation Practice of

Martson Deardorff Williams &

Otto where she focuses on all

aspects of family law. She is a

member of the American,

Pennsylvania and Cumberland

County Bar associations (Fami-

ly Law Sections), and the

Dauphin County Bar Associa-

tion. Jennifer is also a member

of the Independent Collabora-

tive Attorneys of Central Penn-

sylvania.

In May 2005, AAmmyy JJ.. PPhhiilllliippss was

elected to a three-year term as

secretary of the Board of Direc-

tors for the Young Women’s

Christian Association of York, PA.

JJoohhnn DD.. PPuurrddyy married Anna Bain

on June 4, 2005. He practices as

a litigator in the Clifton, VA,

firm of Fullerton & Knowles.

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JJeessssiiccaa ((BBeecckkeerr)) RRhhooaaddeess married

Mark Brewbaker on November

12, 2005. Jessica is a magisterial

district judge in Carlisle, PA.

AAnntthhoonnyy RR.. SSuummmmaa joined Cooch

and Taylor in its Unionville, PA,

office. Tony focuses his practice

on elder law, estate planning

and administration, corporate

law, civil litigation, real estate

and family law. He also serves

as a contract attorney for the

Chester County (PA) Depart-

ment of Aging Services.

JJaayy DDaavviiddssoonn SSuussaanniinn won first

place in a nationwide contest

sponsored by custom picture

frame manufacturer Larson-

Juhl. Designers were shown a

series of household rooms and

were challenged to come up

with a concept for “the next

room” in the series. Jay’s entry,

“The Play Room,” appeared in

trade magazines as well as Tra-ditional Home, Veranda and

Architectural Digest.

22 00 00 11SSccootttt WW.. BBrraaddyy is an assistant

United States attorney in Pitts-

burgh, PA. He serves in the Vio-

lent Crimes and Narcotics

Group of the Criminal Divi-

sion. Scott and his wife, Carrie,

have a son, Aidan Warren Brady.

CChhrriissttoopphheerr JJ.. CCoonnrraadd and his wife,

Jennifer, announced the birth of

their first child, Lindsay Meredith,

on December 17, 2004. Christopher

is an associate with Morris,

Downing & Sherred, LLP in

Newton, NJ, specializing in

commercial litigation.

SSaammaanntthhaa LL.. CCoonnwwaayy is an associ-

ate with Christie, Pabarue,

Mortensen and Young,

Philadelphia, PA.

BBrriiaann JJ.. DDoouugghheerrttyy is an associate

in the Litigation Department of

White and Williams, LLP,

Philadelphia, PA.

BBrrooookkee VV.. EEllvviinnggttoonn worked with

the defense team on the case of

United States v. Sami Al Arian etal., in Tampa, FL. (A federal

jury acquitted Sami al-Arian on

December 7, 2005.) Brooke was

accepted into a graduate program

in criminology at the University

of Oxford in Great Britain.

Brooke also married David

Hatami in February 2005, in

Venice, Italy. Classmate KKaarraa KK..

MMeessssnneerr flew to Italy to attend.

JJeeffff FFeeiirriicckk is general counsel for

Clemens Family Corporation

(CFC), the parent company of

Hatfield Quality Meats, Inc., in

Hatfield, PA. He was appointed

by the Pennsylvania Secretary

of Agriculture to serve on the

Agricultural By-Product Man-

agement Technology Board,

which advises the Department

of Agriculture and the Rendell

Administration on agricultural

alternative energy issues. Jeff

also serves on the Lancaster

Bible College Corporation and

taught a seminar on using con-

flict resolution methods men-

tioned in the Bible as an alter-

native to litigation at the college’s

October 14, 2005, Christian

Business Leader Conference

“Resolving Business Conflict.”

PPaauullaa KK.. KKnnuuddsseenn was the speaker

at the York County (PA) Bar

Foundation’s Law Day Lun-

cheon held May 2, 2005. Paula

is with the American Civil Lib-

erties Union and litigates in

federal and state courts on

behalf of persons whose civil

liberties have been violated.

She was one of the attorneys

who represented the plaintiffs

in the Dover (PA) intelligent

design case, Kitzmiller et al. v.Dover Area School District.

In November 2005, LLiinnddssaayy GGiinn--

ggrriicchh MMaaccllaayy joined the law firm

of Daley, Zucker & Gingrich,

LLC, as an associate. Lindsay’s

practice includes domestic, dis-

ability and trust and estate law

and general litigation.

BBrriiaann KK.. MMaarrsshhaallll is a member of

the Bellefonte, PA, office of

Miller, Kistler, Campbell. Brian

practices in the areas of estate

planning, estate administration,

family law and criminal law.

AAnnnnee SS.. RRaavveerrtt was promoted to

manager of tax research and

planning at Campbell Soup

Company, Camden, NJ.

MMeellaanniiee WWaallzz SSccaarriinnggii and Marc A.

Scaringi have formed Scaringi &

Scaringi, P.C. in Harrisburg, PA.

SSeeaann PP.. VViittrraannoo and his wife,

Gina, announced the birth of

their second child, Anthony

Rosario, on July 29, 2005.

AAlliissaa MM.. WWrraassee

joined the

Commercial

Development

and Real Estate

Investments

Practice Group

of Troutman

Sanders LLP’s Tysons Corner,

VA, office.

22 00 00 22SStteevveenn TT.. BBooeellll is an associate with

Fitzpatrick Lentz & Bubba.

His practice areas include

appellate litigation, administra-

tive law, real estate, zoning,

land use and development.

KKeelllleeyy LL.. BBrreewweerr is senior deputy

prosecutor in the York County

(PA) District Attorney’s Office.

MMaatttthheeww DD.. CCoobbllee has returned to

the Harrisburg, PA, area to take

a position with Eckert Seamans

Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

AArrlleenn RR.. DDaayy IIII is a member of the

Pottsville, PA, firm of Riley and

Fanelli, P.C. Rick focuses his

practice on personal injury,

criminal defense and general

civil litigation.

After completing his judicial

clerkship with TThhee HHoonnoorraabbllee JJaann

RR.. JJuurrddeenn ’’8888 in the Delaware

Superior Court, PPaattrriicckk CCoosstteelllloo

joined the Wilmington, DE,

office of Philadelphia, PA, law

firm Klehr Harrison Harvey

Branzburg & Ellers LLP.

Patrick practices in the Litiga-

tion Department with a focus

on commercial litigation. You

can contact Patrick at pcostello@

alum.bucknell.edu.

JJooeell PP.. DDeennnniissoonn and wife, Stacy,

welcomed their third child,

Haley Marie, on March 30, 2005.

Haley joins big brother, Owen

and big sister, Maren.

EErriinn ((MMiillnnee)) DDrreeww and her hus-

band, Brendan, welcomed the

birth of their daughter, Fiona

Kathleen, on April 17, 2005.

DDoouuggllaass GG.. HHeerroonn is director of

government affairs and legisla-

tive counsel with the North

Carolina Bar Association.

TToodddd CC.. HHoouugghh is an associate with

Lavery, Faherty, Young & Pat-

terson, Harrisburg, PA. He con-

centrates primarily in workers’

compensation defense along

with family law and unemploy-

ment compensation defense.

MMaatttthheeww PP.. HHuugghhssoonn was profiled

in a March 2005 Sunday StarGazette (Elmira, NY) article. Matt

practices bankruptcy and real

estate at Ziff,Weiermiller, Hayden

& Mustico, LLP, Elmira, NY.

He is an avid observed trials

motorcycle competitor and has

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been ranked as high as ninth in

New York. When not working

or cycling, he enjoys skiing

with son, Ryne, and spending

time with his wife, Valerie.

KKaarrll SS.. MMyyeerrss, an

associate in

the Litigation

Department of

Saul Ewing,

Philadelphia,

PA, was unani-

mously appoint-

ed by the Montgomery (PA)

Township Board of Supervisors

to the seven-member Township

Environmental Advisory Com-

mittee on June 13, 2005. His

term will run until January 2008.

JJoohhnn CC.. PPoorrtteerr is the area human

resources representative for

Rawle & Henderson LLP,

Philadelphia, PA.

DDaanniieell DD.. SSaannttooss is an associate in

the Business Department of Saul

Ewing LLP, Harrisburg, PA.

Daniel concentrates his practice

in insurance regulation and general

corporate and finance matters.

On November 17, 2004, DDeebboorraahh

((LLoonnaabbaauugghh)) SShhuuffff and husband,

Brian, welcomed daughter Dar-

rah Lin. Deborah continues to

practice at the Princeton, NJ,

office of Drinker Biddle LLP.

She focuses her practice on

environmental litigation.

SSttaacceeyy AAnnnn SStteepphheennss is with

Christie, Pabarue, Mortensen &

Young, PC, Philadelphia, PA.

AAllffrreedd VViilllloocchh IIIIII is an associate

with the Tampa, FL, and Wilm-

ington, DE, offices of Buchanan

Ingersoll P.C. Alfred practices

commercial litigation and bank-

ruptcy law.

CCaappttaaiinn MMaatttthheeww HH.. WWaatttteerrss was

appointed as the special assis-

tant United States attorney for

the District of Hawaii. Matthew

is responsible for the prosecu-

tion of civilian offenses that

occur on the Army’s seven Pacif-

ic installations.

LLaaMMoonnttee JJ.. WWiilllliiaammss IIII was named

deputy chief counsel for admin-

istration for the new Pennsylva-

nia Gaming Control Board, the

agency that will regulate slot-

machine gambling in the state.

He was the first of the board’s

five member in-house legal

team to be named. LaMonte

oversees employment and

equal opportunity policies for

the agency.

22 00 00 33JJaassoonn LL.. BBuucckknneerr is the legislative

director/military legal assistant

in the office of Congressman

Dan Boren.

FFrraannkk VV.. EEmmeerrssoonn participated in a

panel discussion at the Law

School regarding the effects

that terrorism has had on the

evolution of our newly struc-

tured intelligence community.

Frank is with the Office of

General Counsel of the CIA.

The St. Rocco’s Holy Name

Society has named JJaarrrreetttt JJ..

FFeerreennttiinnoo co-chair of St. Rocco’s

57th Annual Palm Sunday

Smoker. Jarrett is an assistant

district attorney in Luzerne

(PA) County.

KKrriissttii ZZ.. LLaannee is an assistant United

States attorney for the District

of Arizona in the Criminal Division.

MMaannddyy JJ.. LLllooyydd is an associate at

Stetler & Gribbin, York, PA,

specializing in workers’ com-

pensation defense litigation.

RRaacchheell RR.. OObbaallddoo is an associate

with Warner Stevens, LLP, Fort

Worth, TX.

GGrreeggoorryy RRiilleeyy is an associate with

Mintzer, Sarowitz, Zeris, Ledva

& Meyers, Philadelphia, PA.

Greg practices in the areas of

general insurance defense litiga-

tion, motor vehicle liability,

common carrier negligence and

premises liability.

CChhrriissttiinnaa LL.. SSaavveerriiaannoo is an associ-

ate with the New Jersey firm of

Hill Wallack.

SSeeaann MM.. SShhuullttzz is a member of the

Carlisle (PA) Borough Council.

LLaauurraa MM.. TToobbeeyy and LLoouuiiss JJ.. MMaattttiioollii IIIIII

were wed on November 5, 2005.

Both are practicing in Bethle-

hem, PA.

CCrryyssttaall WWiilllliiaammssoonn authored the

article “Employees’ Rights to

Inspect their Own Personnel

Files,” which was published in

Pennsylvania Law Weekly and

Legal Intelligencer. She is an asso-

ciate in the Harrisburg, PA, office

of Thomas Thomas and Hafer.

Crystal focuses her practice in

employment law with a particu-

lar emphasis on Title VII, ADA,

ADEA and FMLA claims.

22 00 00 44BBrraannddoonn JJ.. BBiieeggeennzzaahhnn is an associ-

ate with Sheppard Mullin

Richter & Hampton LLP, Los

Angeles, CA.

VVaalleerriiee AA.. BBuurrcchh is managing

attorney at Pennsylvania Immi-

gration Resource Center.

LLiissaa CCooyyllee was hired by the Lan-

caster (PA) Bar Association to

handle custody cases for Mid-

Penn Legal Services.

CC.. BBrriiaann CCrraannee is a member of the

Columbia/Montour (PA) Bar

Association. He is a member of

Derr, Pursel, Luschas & Norton,

LLP in Bloomsburg, PA.

TT.. MMaatttthheeww CCrreeeecchh and his wife,

Diane, announced the May 28,

2005, birth of their second son,

Kyle Grayson. Grayson joins big

brother Patrick.

HHiillllaarryy AA.. DDeeaann is

an associate in

the Estate

Group of

Martson Dear-

dorff Williams

& Otto in

Carlisle, PA.

Her practice includes municipal

law, real estate, taxation and lit-

igation. She was accepted into

Leadership Cumberland, a civic

group devoted to community

service and leadership.

RRaayy GGhhaanneerr is a member of the

Huntingdon County (PA) Bar

Association. He joined the firm

of Bierbach, McDowell &

Zanic and specializes in bank-

ruptcy law.

MMiicchhaaeell JJoosseepphh HHeeaattoonn is a legisla-

tive assistant for social security,

health care, education, tax poli-

cy, and judiciary committee

issues in the Washington, D.C.,

office of Congressman Michael

R. Turner (OH-3).

AAnnnnaa ((RReebbeeccccaa)) HHuutttt is a staff

attorney for the Texas Court of

Criminal Appeals in Austin.

MMiicchhaaeell MM.. JJeerroommiinnsskkii is a mem-

ber of the Turo Law Offices in

Carlisle, PA. Michael concen-

trates his practice in the areas

of mental health, wills, trusts,

estates, estate planning, probate,

family law and municipal law.

EElliizzaabbeetthh MM.. JJoohhnnssoonn is a member

of the Wisconsin Bar. Since

March 2005, Elizabeth has

been employed as a staff attor-

ney/judicial clerk at the Dane

County Circuit Courts in Madi-

son. She clerks for one civil and

one criminal judge.

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EElliizzaabbeetthh SS.. LLeeBBllaanncc accepted a

position with the Futron Cor-

poration. She is a consultant to

Lockheed Martin on the Inter-

national Space Station Cargo

Mission Contract doing risk

management.

BBrriiaann CC.. LLeeGGrrooww married AAbbiiggaaiill CC..

MMyyeerrss on December 4, 2004, in

Philadelphia, PA. The ceremo-

ny was attended by fellow 2004

classmates JJeerreemmyy MM.. PPeellpphhrreeyy,,

NNhhaammaann PPhhaann,, GGeeooffffrreeyy AA.. SSaawwyyeerr,,

CCaarraa EE.. CCooyynnee,, GGeenneevviieevvee EE.. KKoollaassaa,,

AAnnddrreeww JJ.. TToonneeyy,, EErriicc LLuuppttoonn WWiinn--

nniinngghhaamm,, SShhaawwnn ((CCoorrddeess)) OOssbboorrnnee,,

CChhrriissttoopphheerr CC.. CCaarrvveerr and KKaatthhrryynn

((DDeerriinnggeerr)) SSaalllliiee. Abigail and

Brian reside in Glen Mills, PA.

LLiinnddaa JJ.. OOllsseenn is an associate with

Killian & Gephart, LLP in Har-

risburg, PA. She practices in the

areas of complex litigation, land

use and education law.

JJiinnggjjiinngg PPaann is at Baughman &

Wang, San Francisco, CA.

JJoosshh PP.. PPaarreecckkii and CCoouurrttnneeyy AA..

SSttoouuffff were married September

17, 2005, in Fort Worth, TX.

Josh is a prosecutor for Marico-

pa County (AZ). Courtney is an

associate with Bowman and

Brooke, a large defense firm.

JJeerreemmyy MM.. PPeellpphhrreeyy is a member

of Davis & Campbell LLC,

Peoria, IL. Jeremy practices in

the area of employment benefit

plans, employee stock owner-

ship plans, tax law and corpo-

rate transactions.

HHeeaatthheerr KK.. PPrraatttt

is an associate

in the Busi-

ness Law

Department of

Stradley

Ronon

Stevens &

Young, LLP, Philadelphia, PA.

GGeeoorrggiiaa RReeeedd married Matthew

Stone on August 6, 2004. They

reside in Marietta, PA. Georgia

is a law clerk for Judge David

R. Workman, Lancaster (PA)

Court of Common Pleas.

AAnnnnee NNiiccoollee

((HHaarrttlleeyy)) SSttoovveerr

joined the

Philadelphia,

PA, office of

Stradley

Ronon

Stevens &

Young, LLP as an associate in

the firm’s Litigation Depart-

ment. She focuses her practice

on general litigation, concen-

trating primarily in the areas of

commercial, securities, insurance

and employment.

AAnnnnaa KKrriisstteenn UUhhlleerr is the execu-

tive director of Pennsylvania

Immigration Resource Center.

AAnnggeell MMaaee TT.. WWeebbbbyy is an associ-

ate with the Powell Law

Group, Drums, PA, and prac-

tices in the areas of products

liability, medical malpractice,

personal injury, workers’ com-

pensation and criminal defense.

22 00 00 55IIsshhmmaaeell PP.. AAlleejjoo is a taxes and

benefits researcher with Solu-

tions for Progress, Inc., the

Benefit Bank Project.

EErriinn MM.. CCeeaarrffoossss is a clerk for

Northampton County President

Judge Robert Freedberg, Easton,

PA.

PPhhyylllliiss ((PPiiaatttt)) MMaarrqquuiittzz is the inter-

im director of the Law School’s

Agricultural Law Resource and

Reference Center. She and her

husband, Jason, live in Carlisle.

CChhrriissttiinn MMeehhrrtteennss is employed as

Cumberland County (PA) dis-

trict attorney.

MMaatttthheeww DD.. MMiilllleerr is an associate

with Frank C. Muggia & Asso-

ciates, PLLC, Orchard Park, NY.

MM UU LL TT II PP LL EE YY EE AA RR SS ::EEddwwiinn AA.. AAbbrraahhaammsseenn ’’7766 handles

solicitor duties for Blakely Bor-

ough (PA). He and son EEddwwiinn AA..

AAbbrraahhaammsseenn JJrr.. ’’0044 were profiled

in the Scranton Times-Tribune.Both, along with wife and

mother MMaarryy AAnnnn AAbbrraahhaammsseenn ’’7766

are members of the Scranton,

PA, firm, Abrahamsen, Moran

and Conaboy.

The Sunbury, PA, firm Apfel-

baum, Apfelbaum & Apfel-

baum was profiled in the Sun-bury Daily Item. Members of the

firm include JJeeffffrreeyy CC.. AAppffeellbbaauumm

’’7777,, MMiicchhaaeell MM.. AAppffeellbbaauumm ’’8855 and

BBeennjjaammiinn JJ.. AAppffeellbbaauumm ’’0033.

On April 26, 2005, EErriicc LL.. BBrroossssmmaann

’’7788 and RRoobbeerrtt JJ.. BBeeiinn ’’9966, partners

in the Business Department of


Saul Ewing, participated as

members of the faculty in a

one-day Lorman Education

Services seminar that covered

lending requirements and loan

documentation in Pennsylvania.

In February 2005, the Law

School’s National Trial Moot

Court Team comprised of then

third-year students and now

alums MMiicchhaaeell JJ.. DDaavveeyy ’’0055,, CChhrriissttiinn

JJ.. MMeehhrrtteennss ’’0055 and SSaalleeeemm MM..

MMaawwjjii ’’0055 and coached by HHuubbeerrtt

XX.. GGiillrrooyy ’’7799, brought home cham-

pionship honors from the

Region XII National Trial

Competition held at the Crimi-

nal Justice Center in Philadel-

phia. The team went on to

compete as one of twenty-six

teams at the National Trial

Competition in San Antonio,

TX. The second Penn State

Dickinson trial team consisting

of MMaarrsshhaallll FFaawwlleeyy ’’0055,, PPeetteerr

BBuurrcchheetttt ’’0055 and MMiirriiaamm EEnnrriiqquueezz ’’0055

were Regional semi-finalists.

SSaammuueell TT.. HHiirrzzeell IIII ’’0033 and CChhrriissttiinnee

KKaannee ’’0044 were wed in summer

2005. Christine is a member of

Carpenter McCadden & Lane

in Media, PA. Samuel is an

associate in the Corporate Liti-

gation Department at Morris,

Nichols, Arsht & Tunnel, Wilm-

ington, DE.

MMeelliinnddaa MMaazzaahheerrii JJuussttii ’’8833 and

HHeennrryy MM.. ““TTaacc”” JJuussttii ’’8844 celebrated

their twenty-second wedding

anniversary in the summer of

2005. Tac is the chair/chief

executive officer of Justi

Group, Inc., which owns and

operates four cosmetic, dental

and medical manufacturing

subsidiaries located in Pennsyl-

vania, Florida and the United

Kingdom. He is on the board of

the non-profit Mid-Atlantic

Employers’ Association and

serves on other for-profit boards.

SSttuuaarrtt MM.. KKrreeiinnddlleerr ’’0000 and MMaarrccyy

WWrriigghhtt KKrreeiinnddlleerr ’’0011 announced

the birth of Lily Serena on Sep-

tember 10, 2004.

KKaatthhrryynn ((SSpprruuiillll)) LLiinnggllee ’’9911 and TT..

AAnnddrreeww LLiinnggllee ’’9922 announced the

birth of son Daniel in June

2004. Their other children are

Jacob and Lauren. Andy is a

sole practitioner in Richmond,

VA, and focuses his practice on

business transactions and real

estate. Katy is associated with

the firm of Midkiff, Munci and

Ross, also in Richmond, where

she practices workers’ compen-

sation litigation and counseling.

DDoouuggllaass BB.. MMaarrcceelllloo ''8822 and SSoonnyyaa

KKiivviissttoo ''0044 opened Marcello &

Kivisto, LLC in Carlisle, PA.They

concentrate their practice in the

defense of trucking companies.

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On April 4, 2005, a group of

DSL alums were admitted to

the Bar of the United States

Supreme Court in Washington,

DC, upon the motion of Gener-

al Alumni Association President

LLuuccii JJaannkkoowwsskkii MMccCClluurree ’’9922. Admit-

tees included EErriicc DD.. GGeerrsstt ’’6677,, II..

BBaarrrryy GGuueerrkkee ’’7733 aanndd hhiiss ssoonn,, KKeevviinn AA..

GGuueerrkkee ’’0011,, KKeennnneetthh PP.. WWaallsshh ’’7744,,

SSaannddrraa BBaakkeerr JJuummppeerr ’’8877,, JJoonn WW..

OOllssoonn ’’8888,, CCaarrooll LL.. WWeeiittzzeell ’’8888,, WWiilllliiaamm

MM.. LLaaffffeerrttyy ’’8899,, DDeebbrraa PPhhiilloo FFoouurrllaass

’’9911,, JJaammeess MM.. MMccCCrreeeeddyy ’’9911,, LLiinnddaa SS..

HHoolllliinnggeerr ’’9944,, CChhrriissttoopphheerr MM.. KKaazz--

mmaaiieerr ’’9944,, SSaalliill PP.. PPaatteell ’’9944,, JJeeffffrreeyy DD..

BBuukkoowwsskkii ’’9955,, MMaarrkk DD.. FFeetttteerrmmaann ’’9955,,

TTwwiillaa MMyynnhhiieerr BBrrooookkss ’’9966,, MMiicchhaaeell JJ..

WWoolltteerr ’’9966,, EEddwwaarrdd AA.. PPaasskkeeyy ’’9977,,

HHeeaatthheerr DD.. BBaarrrroonn ’’9988,, JJeessssiiccaa CC.. DDiiaa--

mmoonnddssttoonnee ’’9988,, DDaarrrreenn JJ.. HHoollsstt ’’9988,,

KKaatthheerriinnee SSiiddddoonn OO’’BBrriieenn ’’9988,, KKaarrll EE..

RRoommiinnggeerr ’’9988,, AAnnnnee MMaarriiee HHoowweellllss

’’9999,, CChhrriissttyy MM.. AApppplleebbyy ’’0000,, JJeennnniiffeerr

AA.. EErrmmiilliioo ’’0000,, SSuussaann VV.. MMeettccaallffee ’’0000,,

JJoohhnn DD.. PPuurrddyy ’’0000,, AAnnnn MMaarriiee

SSccaarrppiinnoo ’’0000,, MMaatttthheeww BB.. WWeeiissbbeerrgg

’’0000,, CChhrriissttiinnaa EE.. HHaallee ’’0011 and JJoosseepphh

EE.. DDee RRiittiiss ’’0011. The late Justice

William Rehnquist presided at

the session. Justices O’Connor,

Thomas, Ginsberg and Breyer

were also present. Justices

O’Connor and Thomas read

opinions after the group admis-

sion. The group had a private

buffet breakfast at the Supreme

Court Building prior to the ses-

sion and a private tour of the

courtroom after the session.

Admittees and their guests also

attended a luncheon with Dean

Philip McConnaughay at The

Monocle featuring guest speak-

er FFrraannkk DD.. WWaaggnneerr ’’7700, Reporter

of Decisions for the court.

GG.. PPhhiilliipp RRuuttlleeddggee ’’7788 and CChhrriissttoo--

pphheerr RR.. PPrriioorr ’’9999 collaborated on

Pennsylvania Securities Law:Civil and AdministrativeLiability, a comprehensive

resource for civil and adminis-

trative liability under Pennsyl-

vania securities law.

JJuuddiitthh TT.. WWaallzz ’’6699 and SShhaauubbuutt CC..

WWaallzz IIIIII ’’7711 formed Walz & Walz,

Attorneys at Law, P.C. in New-

port, PA.

JJaann MM.. WWiilleeyy ’’6633, senior partner of

the Wiley Group, moved the

firm’s offices from the town

square in Dillsburg, PA, to the

community’s new business dis-

trict. The firm is comprised of

eight lawyers, including DDaavviidd JJ..

LLeennooxx ’’7788, who specializes in

elder law, real estate and wills,

and BBrraaddlleeyy WWiinnnniicckk ’’9966, who

focuses his practice in the area

of domestic relations and crimi-

nal law.

The Northeastern Pennsylvania

Chapter of the General Alumni

Association held its annual

reception and dinner May 24,

2005, at the Woodlands Inn,

Plains Township, PA. The din-

ner hosted by NNoorrtthheeaasstt CChhaapptteerr

PPrreessiiddeenntt SSaannddoorr YYeelleenn ’’5566 honored

TThhoommaass AA.. MMaarriinnoo ’’8888, United

States Attorney, Middle District

of Pennsylvania. JJaannee TT.. SSmmeeddlleeyy

’’0011 and DDaavviidd EE.. SScchhwwaaggeerr ’’8888 were

co-chairs of the dinner commit-

tee. Other members of the din-

ner committee included ZZyyggmmuunntt

RR.. BBiiaallkkoowwsskkii,, JJrr.. ’’7744,, LLaacckkaawwaannnnaa

CCoouunnttyy JJuuddggee CCaarrmmeenn DD.. MMiinnoorraa ’’7777,,

IIrrwwiinn SScchhnneeiiddeerr ’’5555,, AArrtthhuurr LL.. PPiiccccoonnee

’’5588, and AAnntthhoonnyy CC.. FFaallvveelllloo ’’5533.

II NN MM EE MM OO RR II AA MM ::Carl F. Chronister ’38

Hon. William E. Breene ’42

Doris Spangenburg Wing ’46

Thomas G. Heckel ’48

Harvey H. Heilman Jr. ’48

Hon. Clarence C. Newcomer ’48

Raymond R. Smith ’48

Joseph V. Stevens ’48

Henry Stuart ’48

Joseph Kreder ’50

Catherine Shaeffer Lloyd ’50

Walter W. Shearer ’50

Donald B. Cahoon Jr. ’51

Barris Siegel ’51

Richard W. Cleckner ’52

Stanley M. Evans Jr. ’54

Donald C. Taylor ’54

Richard F. Wehrle ’54 (non-

degree)

Frederick W. Andrews ’55

Robert T. Carey ’56

John S. MacDermid ’58

Frederick R. Taylor ’66

Gerald R. Spall ’68

Francis M. Socha ’78

Oliver W. Horsman ’92

Heather M. Faust ’96

Professor Joseph B. Kelly

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Theodore A. Adler ’72

William B. Anstine ’65

William F. Anzalone ’77

Irwin W. Aronson ’82

Carmen P. Belefonte ’65

Brian W. Bisignani ’90 (LL.M)

Terry R. Bossert ’73

Eric L. Brossman ’78

Bernerd A. Buzgon ’62

Vincent V. Carissimi ’84

William R. Caroselli ’66

Francis John Catania ’84

Brian J. Clark ’85

Keith A. Clark ’70

John J. Connelly Jr. ’72

Reese A. Davis ’61

Robert J. DeSousa ’85

Emmanuel H. Dimitriou ’60

David B. Dowling ’77

Andrew E. Faust ’86

Richard E. Fehling ’79

Charles J. Ferry ’80

Bruce W. Ficken ’73

Michael A. Finio ’83

James R. Flandreau ’83

John W. Frommer ’84

Michael W. Gang ’77

Robert C Gerhard III ’95

Thomas M Golden ’72

J. Richard Gray ’69

Charles E. Gutshall ’83

Joseph M. Harenza ’71

Neil E. Hendershot ’76

Timothy J Holland ’77

William F. Hoffmeyer ’61

John C. Howett ’74

Neil Hurowitz ’58

Daniel B. Huyett ’75

Gary L. James ’78

Edward H. Jordan ’78

Dusty Elias Kirk ’79

Ed Klett ’62

Richard T. Kupersmith ’88

David E. Lehman ’67

Gary M. Lightman ’71

Robert H. Long Jr. ’68

Ronald M. Lucas ’73

Burke McLemore Jr. ’77

Timothy J. McMahon ’88

Sandra L. Meilton ’80

Howell C. Mette ’51

Leslie Anne Miller ’77

John Mirabella ’87

C. Edward Mitchell ’70

H. Laddie Montague Jr. ’63

Gerald K. Morrison ’68

Sherill T. Moyer ’71

Joseph J. Musto ’68

Thomas G. Paese ’82

James D. Pagliaro ’76

John W. Pelino ’59

Joseph A. Quinn Jr. ’66

Elyse E. Rogers ’84

James R. Ronca ’77

Paula G. Sanders ’88

Thomas B. Schmidt III ’74

Michael E. Scullin ’83

LeRoy Smigel ’69

Donald J. Snyder Jr. ’75

Craig A. Stone ’72

John F. Stoviak ’76

Samuel C. Stretton ’73

Lee C. Swartz ’61

David W. Sweet ’81

Karl A. Thallner ’86

James K. Thomas II ’72

James A. Ulsh ’71

Thomas L. VanKirk ’70

Martha Baum Walker ’72

Dean A. Weidner ’69

Ira H. Weinstock ’65

Richard H. Wix ’66

Robert D. Yeager ’66

22 00 00 55 PP EE NN NN SS YY LL VV AA NN II AA SS UU PP EE RR LL AA WW YY EE RR SS

The Dickinson Lawyer has received notification that the following alumni have been honored as Penn-

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Politics performs the polling, research and selection of Super Lawyers in a process designed to identify

lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement…Only 5

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CARLISLE

The former Advantica Building on the

Harrisburg Pike (close to the intersection

of Route 11 and the PA Turnpike) will be

our home in Carlisle while construction is

under way. The stately, four-story office

building is located less than four miles

from our current site and offers ample

on-site parking. We will operate a shuttle

service between our existing location and

the transition space so students can

continue to rent homes in the vicinity

of College and South streets.

UNIVERSITY PARK

The Beam Building, located on Park Avenue

and formerly used by the Smeal College of

Business Administration, will be home to

approximately 100 first-year and 60 sec-

ond- and third-year students studying in

University Park during the upcoming aca-

demic year. Some classes will also be held in

Smeal College of Business’ new $60 million

facility and the Business Administration

Building, both of which are located within

a short walking distance from Beam. Penn

State Dickinson students will have access to

a plethora of study areas, student spaces

and amenities available on the University’s

flagship campus.

THE TRANSITION

Pending completion of our new facilities, students, faculty and staff in

Carlisle and University Park will occupy highly suitable transition space

modified to accommodate the distinct needs of Penn State Dickinson

and our students. Each location will be adequately staffed to provide all

necessary student support services and will offer students a comfortable and inviting

environment in which to pursue their studies. Beginning with the 2006-2007 aca-

demic year, a shuttle service will provide daily transportation between both locations.

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